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THE    DIAL 


c/7  Semi- Monthly  Journal  of 


Literary  Criticism,  Discussion,  and  Information 


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VOLUME  LIII. 
JULY  1  TO  DECEMBER  16,  1912 


CHICAGO 
THE  DIAL  COMPANY,  PUBLISHERS 

1912 


INDEX  TO  VOLUME  LIIL 

PAGE 

AMERICA,  MR.  BENNETT  VISITS Edith  Kellogg  Dunton   ....  435 

AMERICAN  PUBLISHING  HOUSE,  FOUNDER  OF  A  GREAT     .     Percy  F.  Bicknell 237 

AMERICAN  TRAITS,  A  NEW  STUDY  OF Norman  Foerster 378 

AMERICAN  TROPICS,  TRAVELS  IN  THE T.  D.  A,  Cocker  ell 44 

ANONYMITY  AND  PSEUDONYMITY 87 

ASSISI,  THE  SAINT  OF Norman  M.  Trenholme  ....  490 

ATHENS  IN  DECLINE Josiah  Renick  Smith      ....  98 

BEAUTY  AND  UGLINESS,  THE  How  AND  WHY  OF  .     .     .     .     F.  B.  R.  Hellems 335 

BOOKS  OF  THE  FALL  SEASON,  1912 179 

BRONTE,  THE  HOUSE  OF W.  E.  Simonds 329 

CALIFORNIA  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR William  E.  Dodd 73 

CANADA'S  REMOTE  FRONTIERS Lawrence  J.  Burpee 95 

CART  WRIGHT  OF  LABRADOR Lawrence  J.  Burpee 17 

CAUSE,  THE 275 

CHAUCER  IN  PROSE Clark  S.  Northup 436 

CHILD,  THE,  AND  SOCIAL  REFORM Alvin  S.  Johnson 380 

CLASSICAL  RUBBISH • 229 

CONFEDERACY,  LAST  DAYS  OF  THE Charles  Leonard  Moore  ....  486 

CONVENTION  MUSINGS • 5 

CRIMINALITY,  THE  CONFLICT  WITH Charles  Richmond  Henderson      .  195 

ENGLAND  AND  THE  AMERICAN  REVOLUTION Laurence  M.  Larson 292 

ENGLAND,  THE  SOCIAL  REVOLUTION  IN Charles  Richmond  Henderson      .  71 

ENGLISH  CATHEDRALS,  NEW  MEMORIALS  OF  THE     .     .     .     Josiah  Renick  Smith      ....  492 

ENGLISH  JOURNALISM,  MODERN,  CERTAIN  DEVELOPMENTS  IN     E.  H.  Lacon  Watson      .     .     .     .  124 

ENGLISH  POETRY,  A  SURVEY  OF Raymond  Macdonald  Alden     ,     ,  46 

ENGLISH  POLITICS  AND  ENGLISH  LITERATURE     .     .     .     .     E.  H.  Lacon  Watson      ....  234 

EVOLUTION,  PROBLEMS  OF Raymond  Pearl 136 

EXPLORATIONS  IN  THE  VASTY  DEEP Charles  Atwood  Kofoid 330 

EXTERNALISM,   THE   PERIL   OF 321 

FAR  NORTH,  LURE  OF  THE Charles  Atwood  Kofoid  ....  70 

FEDERAL  CONVENTION,  RECORDS  OF  THE St.  George  L.  Sioussat   ....  192 

FICTION,  RECENT William  Morton  Payne    74,  243,  383 

FORT  DEARBORN  AND  ITS  STORY Milo  Milton  Quaife 129 

FURNESS,  HORACE  HOWARD 119 

FURNITURE,  HISTORY  AND  ROMANCE  OF Arthur  Howard  Noll      ....  137 

GODS,  THE  RETURN  OF  THE Charles  Leonard  Moore      .     .     .  371 

GRANT  WHITE  SHAKESPEARE,  THE  NEW Alphonso  Gerald  Newcomer     .     .  332 

GREEK  AND  ROMAN  DAYS,  AN  ALBUM  FROM Fred  B.  R.  Hellems 439 

HISTORY,  THE  NEW Carl  Becker 19 

HOLIDAY  BOOK  FLOOD,  CURRENTS  AND  EDDIES  IN  THE     .     Percy  F.  Bicknell 429 

HOLIDAY  PUBLICATIONS,  1912 446,  495 

HUMANITY,  REGENERATING Waldo  R.  Browne 287 

HUMBLE-BEE,  THE,  AS  A  HOBBY-HORSE T.  D.  A.  Cockerell 377 

INSECTS,  DOMESTIC  ECONOMY  OF T.  D.  A.  Cockerell 242 

JAPAN,  OUR  RELATIONS  WITH Payson  J.  Treat 239 

JUDICIARY,  REGENERATING  OUR David  Y.  Thomas 336 

LANDSCAPE,  A  POET  IN Edward  E.  Hale 488 

LITERARY  MARE'S-NEST,  ANOTHER Charles  Leonard  Moore  ....  277 

LITERATURE  AND  THOUGHT • 63 

Louis  NAPOLEON,  RECOLLECTIONS    OF Roy  Temple  House 376 

LYRIC,  THE,  IN  ENGLISH  POETRY Martha  Hale  Shackford     .     .     .  131 

MAN  AND  CIVILIZATION Llewellyn  Jones 293 

MAN'S  EVOLUTION,  CONTROLLING Raymond  Pearl 49 

MASSACHUSETTS,  ONE  OF  THE  MAKERS  OF Percy  F.  Bicknell 93 

MATHEMATICO-PROCRUSTEAN  ART Raymond  Pearl 380 


IV. 


INDEX 


PAGE 

MEREDITH,  GEORGE,  HIMSELF George  Roy  Elliott 284 

MOODY,  WILLIAM  VAUGHN William  Morton  Payne  ....  484 

NIETZSCHE,  FRIEDRICH,  THE  YOUNGER  LIFE  OF  ....     James  Taft  Hatfield 127 

NOMAD,  THE,  IN  LITERATURE Charles  Leonard  Moore  ....  181 

PAINTER,  A  GREAT,  AN  INTIMATE  VIEW  OF Edward  E.  Hale 42 

PATER,  A  DISCIPLE  OF Charles  H.  A.  Wager     ....  442 

"PEOPLE'S  ATTORNEY,  THE" Percy  F.  Bicknell 11 

POETRY,  RECENT William  Morton  Payne  ....  100 

POETRY,  THE  CASE  OF 477 

REALM  OF  FAERIE,  RESEARCHES  IN  THE Arthur  C.  L.  Brown 194 

SCHOLAR  IN  POLITICS,  THE 35 

SCOTCHMAN,  A  VERSATILE,  THE  LITERARY  ACTIVITIES  OF 64 

SHAKESPEARE  IN  RELIEF Alphonso  Gerald  Newcomer     .     .  68 

SINGAPORE,  Two  MERCHANT  MARINERS  OF 0.  D.  Wannamaker 97 

SOCIALISM,  PRESENT-DAY,  IDEALS  AND  TENDENCIES  IN     .     Ira  B,  Cross 190 

SOUTH  AMERICA,  ASPECTS  OF Julian  Park 444 

SPIRITUAL  HEALTH,  OUR , 369 

STATE  GOVERNMENT,  THE  "NEW  IDEA"  IN     ...'..     David  Y.  Thomas 134 

STERNE  AS  A  LETTER- WRITER James  W.  Tupper 51 

TEACHER  OF  THE  SPIRIT,  A      . 427 

TROPICAL  AMERICA,  IN  THE  JUNGLES  OF Charles  A.  Kofoid 99 

TWAIN,  MARK Percy  F.  Bicknell 290 

WAR  VETERAN,  RETROSPECTS  OF  A  RETIRED Percy  F.  Bicknell 188 

WHISTLER  THE  ARTIST Frederick  W.  Gookin     ....  241 

WHITMAN,  WALT Louis  I.  Bredvold 323 

WILDE,  OSCAR,  CRITICALLY  STUDIED Lewis  Piaget  Shanks     ....  13 

WOMAN  AND  ECONOMICS Alvin  S.  Johnson 15 

WORLD'S  PEACE,  A  WOULD-BE  DISTURBER  OF  THE    .     .     .     Edward  B.  Krehbiel 334 

ANNOUNCEMENTS  OF  FALL  BOOKS  — 1912 202,  253 

SEASON'S  BOOKS  FOR  THE  YOUNG  — 1912 456 

CASUAL  COMMENT 7,  37,  65,  89,  121  ,.183,  231,  278,  325,  372,  430,  479 

BRIEFS  ON  NEW  BOOKS 22,  52,  77,  105,  139,  197,  246,  295,  339,  386 

BRIEFER  MENTION 26,  56,  143,  201,  249,  298,  342,  390 

NOTES 27,  57,  80,  108,  144,  201,  251,  299,  343,  391,  461,  505 

TOPICS  IN  LEADING  PERIODICALS 28,  81,  144,  252,  344,  462 

LISTS  OF  NEW  BOOKS 29,  57,  82,  109,  145,  257,  300,  345,  391,  463,  506 


CASUAL  COMMENT 


Academic  Honors  to   Men   of  Letters 10 

Albemarle   Street  Centenary,  An 67 

American  Fiction,  The  Cleanness  of 

American    Literature,    The    Flippant    Note    in...  281 

American  Pageantry,  A  Notable  Addition  to..  326 

Anonymity,  Emerging  from  the  Shelter  of 66 

Appeal,  A  Moving    

"Arabian    Nights,"   A   Warning   from   the 185 

Artistic  Detachment   121 

Australia's   Literary   Likings    282 

Author,  A  Plucky  Young   67 

Authors,  Great — What  They  Pride  Themselves 

on     431 

Baccalaureate,    Dwindling   of  the 

Bacon,    Whitewashing     67 

Baroda,    A    Library    Movement    in 372 

Bibliography,   A   Notable    231 

Biographer  to  Erratic  Genius,  The  Post  of...  327 
Book-Buyers,    Book-Borrowers,    and    the    Par- 
cels Post   233 

Book-Buying,  Co-operative,  An  Experiment  in 

Book  Catalogue,  A  Sumptuous 373 

Bookless   People,    Bringing   Books    to 

Book-Publisher,    The    Calumniated     37 

Book-Swindler,  The,  in  the  Toils 481 

Books  of  Moderate  Price,  Demand  for 40 

Books,    The   Gender   of    7 

Books   and   the   Weather    233 


Cervantes    Museum,    A    432 

Chinese   Sensational   Fiction    233 

Chinese  Tradesman,   Poetry  in   the  Soul  of 281 

"Classical  Foundation"  as  a  "Practical  Equip- 
ment for  Life's  Journey"    123 

Colvin,    Sir    Sidney,    Work    of,    at    British    Mu- 
seum        39 

Congress    of    the    History    of    Art,    Tenth    In- 
ternational        122 

Contemporary  Greatness,  The  Appraisal  of.  ...  90 

Country  Life,   Improving  the   Conditions  of...  232 

Culture   in   the   South,   The  Cause  of 8 

"Debrett,"   Our   American    40 

Dofobs,   Latest  Publication  of  the 92 

"Education,  A  Fundamental  Paradox  of" 234 

Education,  the  Future  of,  High  Hopes  for 66 

Educational  Institution,   An,   Launched    with  a 

Warning    9 

English    Authors,    Foggy    Impressions    of 430 

English  Lake   District.    To   Lovers   of   the 183 

Fiction,    Machine-Made     183 

First    Editions,    High    Quotations   on 374 

Foreigner,     Friendliness    to    the 234 

French  Academicians,   The  Two  Latest 433 

Friendship,  A  Memorable   480 

Futurist   Literature,   The   Technique   of 280 

Genius,   The  Puerilities   of 89 

Genius  and  Personality   431 


INDEX 


v. 


PAGE 

Goethe  Museum  at  Weimar,  Growth  of  the.  . . .  374 

Goldwin  Smith  Lectures,  The,  at  Cornell 185 

Greek    Manuscript,    An    Important    281 

Greek   Play,   A,    in   the   Open  Air 9 

Harvard,    A   New   Library    Building    for 124 

Harvard's  Promised   Library,   Details   of 231 

Hauptmann's   Variety   in   Unity    430 

He   Who    Rides  May    Read    280 

Hero,  A,  and  His  Valet  38 

Hint,   A  Tactful    282 

Hoe    Library,    Final    Sale    of    the 184 

"Homer   of   the  Insects,"   The   Shy 9 

Howe,  Mrs.,  Memorial  Portrait  of 328 

"Ibid,"    The    Amazingly   Prolific 123 

Index,    A   Monumental    184 

Information,  The  Desire  for    183 

Intellectual  Life,  The 328 

Language,  Our,  "Guide-Post"  Reformers  of...  37 

Letters,  The  Primrose  Path  of 38 

Librarian,  Human   Side  of  the    279 

Librarian's   Natural   Ally,   The    281 

Librarians,  Worn-Out,  Pensioning  of 90 

Librarianship,    Mysteries    of    8 

Librarianship,    Supposed    Qualifications    for...  232 

Library,  A,    in   a   Water-Tank    39 

Library,  A  Proposed,  of  Peculiar  Character...  373 

Library,   A  Public,   with  no   Dead  Books 185 

Library,    Discovering    the    66 

Library,  One  Way  to  Advertise  a  10 

Library,  Public,  Those  Who  Know  not  the...  480 

Library,   Reorganizing  a   233 

Library,  The,  as  an  Educational  Force 37 

Library   Building,   Demolition    of  a   Famous...  432 

Library  Burglary  Extraordinary,  A 91 

Library    Catalogues,    The    Vigorous    Growth    of.  .  433 

Library  Growth,   A  Decade  of 326 

Library    of    Congress,    A    Noteworthy    Gift    to 

the     482 

Library  Planning  from  the  Inside 91 

Library    Rivalry     92 

Library  Training,  A  Normal  Course  in 10 

Library  Trustee,    The    Dormant 184 

Library's  Growth,  Cumulative  Rate  of  a 481 

Linguistic  Mystery,  Possible  Solution  of  a. ...  480 


PAGE 

Literary  Companionship,  A  Year's 278 

Literary    Effort,   Incentives   to    183 

Literary  Event,  A   8 

Literary  Property,  Respect  for    431 

Literary  Treasure,  A  Possible  Unearthing  of..  326 

Literary  Weekly,   The  Appeal  of  the 232 

Literature,  The  Artistic  Attitude  toward 91 

Loafing,    The    Economic    Value    of 374 

Loti's    Orientalism     280 

"Lucas,  Mr.,  Lambing  with"    327 

Manuscripts,    The    Sifting    of 66 

Meredith  and  His  Muse   122 

Muse,   The,    in   Bonds    279 

Noise  and  the  Book-Trade   479 

Novels — Why  They  Multiply 327 

Philippine    Library,   The    481 

Poetry  by  Linear  Measurement   328 

Poet's    Emotions    in    the    Face    of    Impending 

Death    373 

Prints,   The  First  Professorship   of 328 

Pros  and    Cons    325 

Pseudo-Latin,    Spoken    and    Written 481 

Publisher,  A,  of  the  Old  School 480 

Publishers    in    Petticoats    234 

Quintilian,   A    Hint   from    433 

Reader,  An  Enviable    123 

Realism,    Stevenson's    Conception    of 373 

Sanborn,   Mr.,   at  Eighty-One    185 

Schleyer,    Johann    Martin,    Death    of 124 

Scholar's  Conscience,  The   9 

Schoolbooks,  A  Use  for  Old    432 

Servian     Poetry,     Ancient 432 

Shakespeare  Scholar,  A  Great   121 

Shaw's   Conquest   of    Gaul    65 

Stationers'  Hall   in  London,  Fame  of 92 

"Tolstoy   of  Germany,   The"    232 

Toxins,   Inspirational    89 

Transcendentalism,  The  Perennial  Appeal  of..  282 

Translation,  A  Problem   in    123 

"Trifling,   An  Epoch   of   Solemn  and  Insane"..  124 

Turkey,    A   Roseate   View   of    374 

Unproclaimed  Achievement,  Acknowledging  the  328 

Vagabondage  and  the  Literary  Temperament.  279 

Veteran    Literary   Worker,   Last   Labors   of  a.  231 


AUTHORS  AND  TITLES  OF  BOOKS  REVIEWED 


Acorn,  George.     One  of  the  Multitude 297 

Adams,  W.  Dacres.     A  Book  of  Beggars 504 

Adcock,    Frederick.      Famous   Houses    of   Lon- 
don       200 

Addison,     Albert     C.      Story     of     the     Puritan 

Fathers    449 

Addison,  Julia  de  Wolf.     Spell  of  England 199 

Alden,    Edward    C.      Fifty    Water-Color   Draw- 
ings  of   Oxford    497 

Alden,    Percy.      Democratic    England 73 

Aldrich,  T.  B.     The  Shadow  of  the  Flowers 500 

Allen,  Percy.     Burgundy,   the  Splendid  Duchy.  448 
Allen,   Phoebe.     The  Last  Legitimate  King  of 

France    386 

Amsden,  Dora,  and  Happer,  J.  S.     Heritage  of 

Hiroshige     248 

Aspinall,   Algernon   E.      The    British    West   In- 
dies      54 

Atkinson,    Thomas    D.       English     and    Welsh 

Cathedrals     492 

Bacon,  Edwin  M.,  and  Wyman,  Morrill.    Direct 

Elections  and  Law-Making  by  Popular  Vote  246 
Balch,  William  M.     Christianity  and  the  Labor 

Movement    143 

Bangs,  John   Kendrick.     Echoes  of  Cheer 105 

Barbour,   Ralph  Henry.     Harbor  of  Love 456 

Barclay,    Florence    L.      The    Following    of    the 

Star,  illus.  by  F.  H.   Townsend 501 

Bashkirtseff,    Marie,    New   Journal    of 341 

Bates,  Lindon,  Jr.     Path  of  the  Conquistadores  446 
Baum,    Julius.      Romanesque    Architecture    in 

France    26 

Bax,    Ernest    B.      Last    Episode    of   the    French 

Revolution 142 

Beesley,  Lawrence.     Loss  of  the  SS.  Titanic.  . .  77 

Bennett,  Arnold.     Your  United  States 435 

Benson,  Arthur  C.     The  Child  of  the  Dawn.  ...  22 

Bertram,  Paul.     The  Shadow  of  Power 76 

Betham-Edwards,   M.      In     the    Heart    of    the 

Vosges    26 

Betz,  Frederik.     Deutscher  Humor 57 

Bibliographical    Society    of    America    Papers, 

Vol.  VI 201 

Bikie,  Lucy  L.   C.     The  Voice  of  the  Garden..  504 
"Birmingham,    G.    A."      Lighter    Side    of   Irish 

Life     ,  502 


"Birmingham,  G.  A."    Priscilla's  Spies 384 

Blok,    Petrus    J.      People    of    the    Netherlands, 

Vol.  V 23 

Bond,    Francis.      Cathedrals    of    England    and 

Wales,    fourth    revised   edition 493 

Bowne,  Borden  Parker.     Kant  and  Spencer...  25 

Bradley,  A.  G.     The  Gateway  of  Scotland 448 

Breckinridge,  Sophonisba  P.     The  Child  in  the 

City 382 

Breckinridge,      Sophonisba     P.,      and      Abbott, 

Edith.    The  Delinquent  Child  and  the  Home  381 

Brett-Smith,  H.  F.     Poems  of  the  North 102 

Brockway,  Z.  R.     Fifty  Years  of  Prison  Serv- 
ice      196 

Bronson,  Walter  C.     American  Poems 250 

Bryan,  George  S.     Poems  of  Country  Life....  505 

Bryant,   Edward  A.     Yuletide   Cheer 454 

Bryce,  James.     South  America 444 

Bullard,      F.      Lauriston.        Historic      Summer 

Haunts    446 

"Burlington  Library"    453 

Burroughs,   John.      Time   and   Change 388 

Butler,  Elizabeth  B.     Saleswomen   in  Mercan- 
tile Stores 17 

Cabot,   William   Brooks.      In   Northern   Labra- 
dor      .- 96 

CafBn,  Mr.  and  Mrs.   Charles  H.     Dancing  and 

Dancers    of    Today    451 

Cain,   Georges.     Byways  of  Paris 55 

"Cambridge    Manuals    of    Science    and    Litera- 
ture"  27,  137 

Campbell,   Douglas  H.     Plant  Life  and  Evolu- 
tion      136 

"Canuck,   Janey."     Open   Trails 25 

Carpenter,      Edward.        Towards      Democracy, 

American   edition    298 

Carr,  Mrs.   Lucien.     Harriet  Hosmer    106 

Cazamian,   Louis.     Modern  England 71 

Chambers,    Robert.     Traditions    of   Edinburgh, 

illus.  by  James  Riddell 495 

Chambers,  Robert  W.     Blue-Bird  Weather 501 

Champney,     Elizabeth    W.       Romance     of    the 

French  Chateaux,  new  edition 449 

"Chance    Medley,    A"    79 

Chatterton,    E.    Keble.      Through    Holland    in 

the    Vivette    448 


VI. 


INDEX 


PAGE 

Chautauqua  Books  for  1912    250 

City  of  Sweet-Do-Nothing    200 

Clark,    Sue   Ainslie,    and    Wyatt,    Edith.      Mak- 
ing-   Both    Ends    Meet 17 

Clopper,  E.  N.     Child  Labor  in  City  Streets...  382 
Colman,  Samuel.     Nature's  Harmonic  Unity.  .  .  380 
Conway,  John  J.     Footprints  of  Famous  Amer- 
icans   in    Paris     298 

Cook,   Albert   S.     Sir   Eglamour 27 

Coriat,  Isador  H.     Hysteria  of  Lady  Macbeth.  339 
Cotterill,    H.    B.      Homer's    Odyssey,    illus.    by 

Patten    Wilson    499 

Courthope,  W.  J.     A  History  of  English  Poetry  46 

Craig,  Charles  F.     Parasitic  Amoebae  of  Man..  107 
Crawford,    Mary    C.      Romantic    Days    in    the 

Early    Republic     449 

Croly,    Herbert.      Marcus    Alonzo    Hanna 54 

Currier,  A.  H.     Present-Day  Problem  of  Crime  196 

Daingerfleld,    Elliott.      George    Innes 42 

D'Ambes,    Baron.      Intimate    Memoirs    of    Na- 
poleon  III 376 

D'Auvergne,    E.    B.      Switzerland    in    Sunshine 

and    Snow    448 

Davenport,     C.     B.       Heredity    in    Relation     to 

Eugenics    49 

Davey,  Richard.     Sisters  of  Lady  Jane  Grey..  199 
Davis,    F.    Hadland.      Myths    and    Legends    of 

Japan    455 

Davis,  William  S.  The  Friar  of  Wittenberg.  . .  75 

Day,  Holman.     The  Red  Lane 244 

"Dehan,   Richard."      Between  Two   Thieves....  243 
Delage,  Yves,  and  Goldsmith,  Marie.    Theories 

of    Evolution    137 

Denison,   Elsa.     Helping  School  Children 382 

Devon,    James.      The    Criminal    and    the    Com- 
munity      195 

Dick,   Stewart.     Master  Painters    499 

Dier,  J.  C.     A  Book  of  Winter  Sports 501 

Dinan,  W.     The  Celts  in  Antiquity 342 

Doren,   Carl  van.     Life   of   Thomas  Love   Pea- 

cock  139 

Doyle,    Arthur   Conan.      The    Lost   World! 384 

Du  Bose,  John  W.     General  Joseph  Wheeler. . .  80 

Earle,   Ferdinand.     The   Lyric   Year 477 

Eberlein,  Harold  D.,  and  Lippincott,  Horace  M. 

Colonial   Homes    of   Philadelphia 502 

Edwards,    Albert.      A   Man's    World 385 

Edwards,  George  W.     Marken  and  Its  People.  447 

Egan,  Maurice  F.     Everybody's  Saint  Francis.  492 

Ellis,  Havelock.     The  Task  of  Social  Hygiene.  287 

Elmendorf,  Dwight  L.    A  Camera  Crusade 496 

Emerson,  Edward  W.,  and  Harris,  William  F. 

Charles   Eliot   Norton    427 

English,  Douglas.     Tales  of  the  Untamed 502 

"English   Readings    for   Schools". 57 

Eucken,    Rudolf.       Main    Currents    of    Modern 

Thought     293 

"Everyman's   Library"    56 

Fabre,  J.  H.     Social  Life  in  the  Insect  World.  .  242 

Fairchild,  Arthur.     The  Making  of  Poetry....  140 
Farnol,    Jeffery.      The    Broad    Highway,    illus. 

by   C.    E,    Brock    453 

Farrand,   Max.     Records   of   the   Federal   Con- 
vention       192 

Faxon,  Frederick  W.     Dramatic  Index  for  1911  27 
Ferguson,    William    S.      The    Hellenistic    Com- 
monwealth      98 

Figgis,   Darrell.      Shakespeare:   A   Study 68 

Flagg,  James  M.    Adventures  of  Kitty  Cobb. . .  503 
Fleming,   W.   T.     General  Sherman  as  College 

President  389 

Flemwell,  G.  Flower-Fields  of  Switzerland...  455 
Flitch,  J.  E.  C.  Modern  Dancing  and  Dancers  450 
Foley,  Edwin.  Book  of  Decorative  Furniture.  138 
Forbush,  William  B.  The  Coming  Generation.  382 
Forrest,  A.  S.,  and  Koebel,  W.  H.  South  Amer- 
ica    495 

Fowler,  Henry  T.     Literature  of  Ancient  Israel  340 
France,    Anatole.      At    the    Sign   of    the    Reine 

Pedauque  .« 390 

Fraprie,    Frank    R.      The    Raphael    Book 451 

Freeman,  A.  Martin.     Thomas  Love  Peacock..  139 

Fullerton,  G.  Stuart.     The  World  We  Live  In.  .  249 

Gale,  Zona.     Christmas    501 

Galsworthy,    John.      Moods,    Songs,    and    Dog- 
gerels      101 

Garner,  James  W.    Government  in  the  United 

States    143 

Gaskell,    Mrs.      Cranford,    illus.    by    H.    M.    Brock  500 

Gautier,  Theophile,  Works  of,  pocket  edition.  .  .  453 
George,   Wm.   R.,   and    Stowe,   Lyman  Beecher. 

Citizens    Made    and    Remade 382 

Goddard,  H.  H.     The   Kallikak  Family 247 

Goldmark,  Josephine.     Fatigue  and  Efficiency.  15 
Goldsmith's    "She    Stoops    to    Conquer,"    illus. 

by   Hugh   Thomson    499 

Goodman,  Maud  Wilder,  and  Others.     Historic 

New   York   During  Two    Centuries 450 

Gosse,  Edmund.     Two  Visits  to  Denmark 249 


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Grant,  Robert.  Convictions  of  a  Grandfather.  108 
Grant,  W.  L.  Lescarbot's  History  of  New 

France,   Vol.   II 250 

Greenlaw,   E.   A.     Syllabus   of  English   Litera- 
ture         138 

Gribble,    Francis.      Comedy    of    Catherine    the 

Great     26 

Guerber,  H.  A.     Shakespeare's  English  History 

Plays     390 

Guthrie,  Anna  L.     Library  Work   55 

Haggard,  H.  Rider.     Red  Eve   75 

Haines,  Jennie  D.     A  Book  of  Happiness 454 

Hale,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Walter.     Motor  Journeys.  .  .      447 

Hale,    William    B.      Woodrow    Wilson 22 

Hall,  Eliza  Calvert.     Hand-woven  Coverlets...      450 
Hall,    G.    Stanley.      Founders    of    Modern  .Psy- 
chology           388 

Hallock,  Ella  B.  Introduction  to  Browning...  343 
Halsey,  Rosalie  V.  Forgotten  Books  of  the 

American    Nursery     25 

"Handasyde."      The    Four    Gardens 503 

Hard,  William.  The  Women  of  To-morrow...  17 
Hare,  Maurice  E.  Chatterton's  Rowley  Poems  250 
"Harland,  Marion."  Colonial  Homesteads,  new 

edition    450 

Hay,    John.      Pike    County    Ballads,    illus.    by 

N.   C.    Wyeth    453 

Hekler,  Anton.     Greek  and  Roman  Portraits..      439 
Henderson,    Helen.      Art    Treasures    of    Wash- 
ington           499 

Herter,    C.    A.      Biological    Aspects    of    Human 

Problems    49 

Heyl,  Charles  C.     Art  of  the  Uffizi  Palace 498 

Hilton-Simpson,   M.    W.     Land   and    Peoples    of 

the  Kasai    448 

Hinsdale,  Mary  L.     History  of  the  President's 

Cabinet    107 

Holbach,  Maude  M.     In  the  Footsteps  of  Rich- 
ard  Coeur  de  Lion    387 

Holme,  Charles.  Village  Homes  of  England.  .  201 
Holmes,  Arthur.  Conservation  of  the  Child..  380 

"Home   University   Library"    57,      495 

Honey,    Samuel    R.      Referendum    among    the 

English     246 

Hosford,  Hester  E.     Life  of  Governor  Wilson, 

revised   edition    109 

Howe,  Frederic  C.     Wisconsin 135 

Howell,  C.  F.  Around  the  Clock  in  Europe..  447 
Hume,  H.  W.  L.  Three  Comedies  by  Holberg.  .  27 

Hunter,    George   L.      Tapestries    498 

Hutchinson,  Frances  K.     Our  Country  Life....      454 

Hutchison,  Percy  A.     British  Poems   250 

Hutton,   Edward.      Cities   of   Lombardy 497 

Hutton,  S.  K.  Among  Eskimos  of  Labrador.  .  96 
Hyatt,  Alfred  H.  The  Charm  of  London,  illus. 

by  Yoshio  Markino    453 

Hyatt,  Alfred  H.     The  Charm  of  Venice,  illus. 

by  Harald  Sund 453 

Jackson,  Charles  Tenney.  The  Midlanders.  . .  .  245 
James,  William.  On  Some  of  Life's  Ideals...  201 

Jenkins,    Stephens.      Story   of   the    Bronx 449 

Johnson,    Burges.      Childhood    455 

Johnson,  Clifton.    Artemus  Ward's  Best  Stories     441 

Johnson,    Lionel.       Post    Liminium 442 

Jordan,  Humfrey.     The  Joyous  Wayfarer 74 

Jorgensen,  Johannes.  Saint  Francis  of  Assisi.  490 
Jourdain,  M.  English  Secular  Embroidery...  53 

Judd,  John  W.     The  Coming  of  Evolution 137 

Kawakami,     Kiyoshi     K.      American-Japanese 

Relations   239 

Kellicott,   W.   E.      Social   Direction    of  Human 

Evolution     

Kennedy,  Elijah  R.      Contest  for  California   in 

1861    

Kennedy,    J.    Wilmer.      Newark    in    the    Public 

Schools  of  Newark    

Kennedy,    Sidney    R.,    and     Noble,     Alden     C. 

White    Ashes    

Kenngott,   George  F.     Lowell:   The  Record   of 

a    City 

Kester,  Vaughan.     Fortunes   of  the  Landrays. 

King,    Basil.      The   Street   Called   Straight 

Kingsley,  J.  S.     Comparative  Anatomy  of  Ver- 
tebrates     

Kipling,  Rudyard.     Kim,  illus.  by  J.  Lockwood 

Kipling     

Lacy,  Mary   E.      With  Dante  in   Modern   Flor- 
ence      

La    Farge,    John.     One    Hundred    Masterpieces 

of   Painting    

Lahee,  H.  C.  Grand  Opera  Singers  of  To-day. 
Lang,  Andrew.  History  of  English  Literature 
Lang,  Andrew.  History  of  Scotland,  abridged 

edition    

Lange,  Algot.     In  the  Amazon  Jungle 

Lamed,  J.  N.  William  Pryor  Letchworth.  . .  . 
Lawson,  W.  A.  Shakespeare's  Wit  and  Humor 

Lea,  Homer.     The  Day  of  the  Saxon 

Learned,  Henry  B.     The  President's  Cabinet.  . . 


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Lee,   Charles.     Our   Little   Town 105 

Lee,  Charles.     Paul   Carah,   Cornishman 105 

Lee,   Charles.     The  Widow  Woman 105 

Lee,      Vernon,      and      Anstruther-Thomson      C. 

Beauty   and   Ugliness    335 

Le  Gallienne,  Richard.     Maker  of  Rainbows...  501 
Lincoln,    C.    H.      Correspondence    of    William 

Shirley    93 

Lincoln,  Jennette  E.  C.     The  Festival  Book.  .  . .  143 

Lloyd,  Caro.     Henry  Demarest  Lloyd 11 

London,    Jack.      Call    of    the    Wild,    illus.    by 

Paul  Bransom    501 

Lowe,     Percy     R.       A     Naturalist     on     Desert 

Islands    45 

Lucas,   E.  V.     A  Little  of  Everything 504 

Lucas,  E.  V.     A  Wanderer  in  Florence 496 

Luchaire,  Achille.     Social  France  at  the  Time 

of  Philip  Augustus    247 

"Lyric    Year,    The"    477 

Maartens,   Maarten.     Eve    383 

McCabe,  Joseph.     The  Story  of  Evolution 137 

McCarthy,   Charles.      The  Wisconsin   Idea 134 

McCauley,  Clarice  V.     The  Garden  of  Dreams.  .  456 
McConnell,    Ray    M.       Criminal    Responsibility 

and   Social    Constraint    196 

McCurdy,  Edward.     Roses  of  Psestum 505 

McCutcheon,    John   T.      Dawson,    '11 504 

Mcllwaine,    H.    R.      Journals    of   the    House    of 

Burgesses  of  Virginia    56 

Mackail,  J.  W.     Life  of  William  Morris,  pocket 

edition    343 

Mackellar,  C.  D.     Scented  Isles  and  Coral  Gar- 
dens       142 

Mackereth,     James.       In     the     Wake     of     the 

Phoenix 103 

Mackie,   Gascoigne.      Charmides 102 

McLaughlin,    A.   C.      Courts,    Constitution,   and 

Parties    337 

McLaughlin,  Robert  W.     Washington  and  Lin- 
coln      390 

MacMillan,  Donald.     Short  History  of  the  Scot- 
tish People   54 

McSpadden,  J.  Walker.     The  Alps  as  Seen  by 

the   Poets    454 

Maeterlinck,    M.      Life    of    the    Bee,    illus.    by 

E.  J.  Detmold    452 

Makower,  Stanley  V.,  and  Blackwell,  Basil  W. 

A    Book    of    English    Essays 201 

Mann,  Francis  O.     Works  of  Thomas  Deloney.  26 

Marden,  Philip   S.     Egyptian  Days 446 

Marks,  Jeannette.     Gallant  Little  Wales 341 

Masefleld,   John.     Multitude  and   Solitude 75 

Masefleld,  John.     The  Everlasting  Mercy 100 

Mason,   A.    E.    W.     The   Turnstile    75 

Mather,  Frank  Jewett,  Jr.     Homer  Martin....  488 
May,    Thomas    E.      Constitutional    History    of 

England     57 

Melville,  Lewis.     Life  and  Letters  of  Sterne.  . .  51 

Meneval,  Baron  de.     The  Empress  Josephine. ..  296 

Meredith,   George,   Letters   of 284 

Meredith's  Poems,   revised   one-volume  edition  504 
Merejkowski,  Dmitri.     Leonardo  da  Vinci,  holi- 
day   edition    452 

Merwin,   Samuel.     The  Citadel    244 

Moir,    David   M.      Mansie    Wauch,    illus.    by    C. 

M.  Hardie    452 

Moody,    William   Vaughn.      Poems   and    Plays, 

collected  edition    484 

Morgan,  C.   Lloyd.     Instinct  and  Experience. .  341 
Morley,  Henry.  First  Sketch  of  English  Litera- 
ture, revised  edition   •  343 

Morris,    Harrison    S.      William   T.    Richards...  452 
Morse,  Edwin  W.    Causes  and  Effects  in  Amer- 
ican   History     342 

Mortimer,    F.    G.      Photograms    for    1912 499 

Mosher,   Thomas   .rf.     Amphora    503 

Munro,    W.    B.      Initiative,    Referendum,    and 

Recall     246 

Murray,   John.     The  Depths   of  the  Ocean....  330 

Musgrove,  Eugene  R.     White  Hills  in  Poetry.  56 
Myers,  Cortland.     Where  Heaven  Touched  the 

Earth     498 

Myers,    Gustavus.      History     of     the     Supreme 

Court    337 

Nansen,  Fridtjof.     In  Northern  Mists 70 

Needham,    Mary    M.      Folk    Festivals 108 

Neihardt,  J.  G.     The  Stranger  at  the  Gate 103 

Nicholson,    Meredith.      The    Provincial    Ameri- 
can       339 

Nicolay,  Helen.     Personal  Traits  of  Lincoln..  390 

Nietzsche,   Frau    Forster.     Life   of  Nietzsche..  127 

Northend,    Mary    H.      Colonial    Homes 451 

Norton,  Clara,  and  Others.    Modern  DraTna  and 

Opera    143 

Ogburn,    William   F.     Child-Labor   Legislation  381 

Osborne,  Albert  B.     Picture  Towns  of  Europe.  497 

Packard,  Winthrop.     White  Mountain  Trails..  105 

Paine,  Albert  Bigelow.     Mark  Twain 290 

Palmer,    Frederick.      Over    the    Pass 76 


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Parrish,  Randall.     Molly  McDonald 77 

Parry,  Hubert.     Style  in  Musical  Art 389 

Parsons,  Albert  R.     Road  Map  of  the  Stars.  ...  27 

Patten,  William.     Evolution  of  the  Vertebrates  136 

Patterson,  J.  G.     A  Zola  Dictionary 250 

Pawlowska,  Yoi.     A  Year  of  Strangers 140 

Peabody,    R.    E.      Merchant    Venturers    of    Old 

Salem    296 

Pennell,    Elizabeth    R.      Our    House,    illus.    by 

Joseph    Pennell     456 

Pennell,  Joseph.     The  Panama  Canal 451 

Perry,    Bliss.      The    American    Mind 378 

Poe's  The   Bells,   illus.   by  Edmund   Dulac 500 

Porter,  Charlotte,  and  Clarke,  Helen*  A.  Brown- 
ing's   Works,    pocket    edition 343 

Porter,  Charlotte,  and  Clarke,  Helen  A.    "First 

Folio"    Shakespeare    505 

Porter,    E.    C.,    and    Warner,    F.    L.      A    Mount 

Holyoke  Book   250 

Pugh,  Edwin.     Charles  Dickens  Originals 502 

Purdy,    Helen    T.      San    Francisco 497 

Putnam,    George   Haven.      A   Prisoner    of   War 

in  Virginia,  1864-5   198 

Putnam,   George  Haven.     George  Palmer  Put- 
nam     237 

Rabelais's   Works,  illus,   by  W.   Heath   Robin- 
son       453 

Randall,  J.  Herman.     Culture  of  Personality..  343 
Ransom,    W.    L.      Majority    Rule   and    the    Ju- 
diciary      338 

Ransome,  Arthur.     Oscar  Wilde  13 

"Redfleld,  Martin."     My  Love  and  I   385 

Reed,  Edward  Bliss.     English  Lyrical  Poetry. .  131 

Repplier,  Agnes.     The  Cat 504 

Ricci,     Corrado.       Baroque     Architecture     and 

Sculpture  in  Italy    26 

Robertson,  J.   G.     Outlines   of  German  Litera- 
ture      297 

Robinson,    James    H.      The    New    History 19 

Robinson,  W.  Heath.     Bill  the  Minder 454 

Rodin,   Auguste.     Venus    504 

Rodway,  James.     In  the  Guiana  Forest 44 

Roe,  Gilbert  E.     Our  Judicial  Oligarchy 336 

Rogers,  John.     Sport  in  Vancouver 95 

Rogers,  R.  W.     Cuneiform  Parallels  to  the  Old 

Testament  '  142 

Root,  Jean  Christie.     Edward  Irving 198 

Ross,  John  D.     Sixty  Years  in  the  Far  East.  .  .  97 

Royce,   Josiah.     Sources  of  Religious  Insight.  140 

Russell,  George  W.  E.     One  Look  Back 106 

Sale,  Edith  T.     Old  Time  Belles  and  Cavaliers.  501 

Sangster,   Margaret.      The   Mother   Book 504 

Schaff,   Morris.     Sunset  of  the  Confederacy...  486 

Schauffler,  Robert  H.     Scum  o'  the  Earth 104 

Scott,   Mrs.   Maxwell.     Marquise  de    la   Roche- 

jaquelin    200 

Scribner,  Frank  K.    The  Secret  of  Frontellac.  .  386 

Scudder,  Vida  D.     Socialism  and  Character...  190 

Sears,   Lorenzo.     John   Hancock 248 

Sermon    on    the    Mount,    decorated    by   Alberto 

Sangorski    500 

Seton,      Ernest      Thompson.      The      Forester's 

Manual     56 

Seymour,  Currey  J.     Story  of  Old  Fort  Dear- 
born     129 

Shakespeare's  Romeo  and  Juliet,  illus.  by  W. 

Hatherell 500 

Sharp,  William.     Studies  and  Appreciations...  141 

Shaylor,   Joseph.     The  Fascination   of  Books..  295 

Shuster,  W.  Morgan.     Strangling  of  Persia....  139 

Sibree,   James.     Our  English   Cathedrals 494 

Simpson,  Harold.     Rambles  in  Norway 496 

Sinclair,  May.     The  Three   Brontes 329 

Singleton,   Esther.      Furniture    137 

Singleton,  Esther.     How  to  Visit  the  English 

Cathedrals     26 

Sladen,  F.  W.  L.     The  Humble-Bee 377 

Smalley,   George   W.      Anglo-American   Memo- 
ries      78 

Smith,  Adolphe.    Monaco  and  Monte  Carlo 497 

Smith,  C.  Alphonso.     The  Short  Story 143 

Snaith,  J.   C.     The   Principal  Girl    244 

Sneath,  Anna  S.  C.     Poet's  Song  of  Poets 143 

Soule,   C.    C.     How   to    Plan   a   Library   Build- 
ing     78 

Spargo,  John.     Applied  Socialism   192 

Spargo,  John,  and  Arner,  George  L.     Elements 

of    Socialism    191 

Squire,  Jack  Collings.     William  the  Silent 53 

Steele,    Robert.     The   Revival    of   Printing 55 

Steiner,  Rudolf.     The  Gates  of  Knowledge....  298 

Stephens,   James.      The   Hill  of  Vision 103 

Stewart,  Martha  M.     Greyhound  Fanny 108 

Stratton -Porter,   Gene.     Moths  of  the  Limber- 
lost    143 

Straus,  Ralph.     The  Prison  without  a  Wall...  74 

Swettenham,  Frank.     Also  and  Perhaps 340 

Swift,    Edgar  J.      Youth   and    the    Race 382 

Talbot,  L.  Raymond.    Le  Frangais  et  Sa  Patrie  26 


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INDEX 


PAGE 

Talmage,  T..   De   "Witt  As  I   Knew   Him 339 

Tatlock,   J.   S.   P.,   and   MacKaye,   Percy.      Mod- 
ern   Reader's   Chaucer    436 

Temple,  Oliver  P.     Notable  Men  of  Tennessee.        80 

"Temple    Primers"    57 

Thaddeus,  H.  Jones.     Recollections  of  a  Court 

Painter   24 

Thurston,  E.  Temple.     The  "Flower  of  Gloster"     447 
Thurston,  Edgar.     Omens  and  Superstitions  of 

Southern     India     388 

Tollemache,    Stratford.      Reminiscences    of   the 

Yukon     95 

Townsend,   Charles    W.      Captain   Cartwright.  .        17 
Train,    Arthur.      "C.    Q";    or,    In    the    Wireless 

House    245 

Train,     Arthur.       Courts,     Criminals,     and     the 

Camorra     341 

Trent,  W.  P.,  and  Erskine,  John.     Great  Amer- 
ican   Writers    495 

Trent,    W.    P.,    Wells,    B.    W.,    and    Henneman, 

J.  B.     The  New  Grant  White  Shakespeare.  .      332 
Trevelyan,    George    Otto.       George    the    Third 

and  Charles  James  Fox,  Vol.  1 292 

Tweedie,  Mrs.  Alec.     Thirteen  Years  of  a  Busy 

Woman's  Life    389 

Tyndale,  Walter.     An  Artist  in  Egypt 496 

Urlin,    Ethel    L.      Dancing,    Ancient    and    Mod- 
ern         450 

Van   Dyke,   Harry   W.     Through   South   Amer- 
ica          446 

Van  Dyke,  Henry.     The  Unknown  Quantity.  .  .  .      500 
Vedder,    Henry    C.      Socialism    and    the    Ethics 

of    Jesus    190 

Viereck,  G.  S.     The  Candle  and  the  Flame 104 

Vizetelly,  Ernest  A.     The   Anarchists 141 

Voltaire's  Toleration  and  Other  Essays,  trans- 
lated   by   Joseph    McCabe    342 

Wace,    A.    J.    B.,    and    Thompson,    M.    S.      Pre- 
historic Thessaly    107 

Wallls,  Louis.    Sociological  Study  of  the  Bible.        79 
Washington,    Booker    T.      The    Man    Farthest 

Down     .  387 


PAGE 

Watt,  Francis.     Edinburgh  and  the  Lothians..  496 

Way,  T.  R.     Memories  of  Whistler  the  Artist..  241 

Weekley,  Ernest.     The  Romance  of  Words....  198 

Weitenkampf,  Frank.     American  Graphic  Art.  498 

Wells,    H.    G.      Marriage    383 

Wells,    H.    G.,   and   Others.     Socialism    and    the 

Great    State    191 

Wentz,    W.    Y.    Evans.      Fairy-Faith    in    Celtic 

Countries    194 

Westermann,    W.     L.       Story     of    the     Ancient 

Nations     250 

Whibley,    Charles.      Studies    in    Frankness 197 

White,   Arnold.     The  Views  of   "Vanoc" 23 

White,    Bouck.      Call    of    the    Carpenter,    holi- 
day   edition     503 

Whipple,    E.    P.      Dickens:    The    Man    and    His 

Work,    Riverside    Press    edition    56 

Whitin,    E.    Stagg.      Penal    Servitude 196 

Whitman,  Walt.     Memories  of  Lincoln,  Mosher 

edition     503 

Whitney,   Caspar.      The    Flowing  Road 445 

Wilcox,     Delos     F.       Government     by    All     the 

People     246 

Williams,  Orlo.     Life  of  John  Rickman 246 

Wilson,  James  Harrison.     Under  the  Old  Flag.  188 
Wood,  Walter.     North  Sea  Fishers  and  Fight- 
ers      55 

Wood,    Walter.      The    Battleship    503 

Woodruff,   C.   Eveleigh.     Memorials  of   Canter- 
bury Cathedral    494 

"World's    Romances"     504 

Wormeley,  Katharine  P.     Illustrious  Dames  of 

the  Court  of  the  Valois  Kings,   new  edition  455 
Wormeley,   Katharine   P.      Ruin   of  a  Princess, 

new    edition    455 

Wrench,  G.   T.     The  Mastery  of  Life 296 

Wright,    C.    H.    C.      History    of   French    Litera- 
ture      24 

Wright,  Kate  A.     Sweet  Songs  of  Many  Voices.  505 
Wyneken,  F.  A.     Rousseau's  Einfluss  auf  Klin- 

ger     342 

Young,  Martha.     Behind  the  Dark  Pines 504 


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"Bedrock,"  a  New  English   Quarterly 330 

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Boston  Public  Library,  Completion  of  the 80 

Browne,    F.    G.,    &    Co.,    The    New    Publishing 

House  of    505 

Brumbach   Library   of  Van  Wert  County,   Ohio, 

Annual  Report  of  the    56 

Business    and    Agricultural    Research,    A    Pro- 
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Jenkins,   Herbert,   a  New   London   Publisher...  57 

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Kuhnemann,  Eugen — Carl  Schurz  Professor  at 

the  University  of  Wisconsin    252 

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Newberry  Library,   Publications  of,   No.    2 56 

"New  York  Art,"   a  New   Monthly   Magazine.  ...  391 
Phi    Beta    Kappa    Address,    Professor    Alvin    S. 

Johnson's    250 

Phrases,    Hackneyed.     G.    M.    G 375 

"Poetry,"    a    New   Monthly    Magazine 300 


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Poincare,    Jules    Henri,    Death    of 

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San    Francisco    Public    Library,     Mr.     Carnegie's 
Gift  to  the   

Scott,   Frank    Hall,    Death   of    

Seattle   Public   Library,    Twenty-first  Annual   Re- 
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CONVENTION  MUSINGS 5 

CASUAL  COMMENT 7 

The  gender  of  books.  —  Bringing  books  to  bookless 
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BRIEFS  ON  NEW  BOOKS 22 

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— The  literary  development  of  France. — Saunterings 
in  Saskatchewan  and  elsewhere. — Kant  and  Spencer 
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BRIEFER  MENTION 26 

NOTES 27 

TOPICS  IN  JULY  PERIODICALS 28 

LIST  OF  NEW  BOOKS     ,  .  29 


CONVENTION  MUSINGS. 

The  political  doings  of  the  past  fortnight 
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few  reflections  upon  the  relation  between  lit- 
erature and  life,  or  upon  the  revelations  of 
national  character  which  are  made  during  sea- 
sons of  excitement  —  both  of  which  subjects 
come  within  the  scope  of  a  journal  like  ours. 
From  a  literary  point  of  view,  one  of  the  two 
opposing  chieftains  in  the  factional  republican 
struggle  now  happily  past  its  first  crisis  may 
be  regarded  as  a  negligible  quantity,  whose 
writings  are  likely  to  be  preserved  only  in  some 
future  edition  of  "  Messages  of  the  Presidents  " 
— preserved  and  entombed,  as  is  the  fate  of 
such  compositions.  But  with  the  other  the  case 
is  different.  Not  only  is  he  the  "  contributing 
editor  '*  to  a  popular  organ  of  sterilized  culture, 
but  he  is  also  an  author  of  respectable  rank, 
whose  dozen  or  more  volumes  have  rightfully 
earned  for  him  the  distinction  of  election  to 
the  American  Academy  of  Arts  and  Letters, 
making  him  one  of  the  Fifty  whose  names  are 
(more  or  less)  household  words  in  circles  where 
intellectual  and  artistic  interests  are  held  to  be 
of  importance.  He  illustrates,  among  other 
things,  the  danger,  which  ever  lurks  in  the  path 
of  the  politician,  of  expressing  views  in  print 
which  it  is  afterwards  most  inconvenient  to  have 
tactless  persons  recall  for  the  purpose  of  refuting 
his  latest  set  of  opinions  out  of  his  own  mouth. 
It  must  be  indeed  galling  to  a  candidate  for 
popular  favor,  after  he  has  formulated  and  ex- 
pressed the  life-long  convictions  that  are  clearly 
demanded  by  the  exigencies  of  his  immediate 
political  situation,  to  be  confronted  with  quota- 
tions from  his  own  books,  in  which  diametrically 
opposite  convictions  are  voiced  with  the  same 
apparent  fervor  and  sincerity. 

Mr.  Roosevelt  has  experienced  this  sort  of 
discomfiture  on  many  occasions,  and  has  be- 
come an  adept  in  the  art  of  defending  his  own 
reversals  of  judgment,  and  making  the  worse 
appear  the  better  reason  when  expediency  coun- 
sels such  a  logical  masquerade.  A  correspon- 
dent of  the  New  York  "  Nation  "  has  recently 
given  him  a  fairly  hard  nut  to  crack,  shaken 
from  the  tree  of  his  earlier  writings.  The  pas- 
sage is  from  the  life  of  Gouverneur  Morris,  who, 
we  are  told, 
"  Denounced  with  a  fierce  scorn  that  they  richly  merit, 


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the  despicable  demagogues  and  witless  fools  who 
teach  that  in  all  cases  the  voice  of  the  majority  must 
be  implicitly  obeyed,  and  that  public  men  have  only 
to  carry  out  its  will,  and  thus  '  acknowledge  themselves 
the  willing  instruments  of  folly  and  vice.  They  declare 
that,  in  order  to  please  the  people,  they  will,  regard- 
less alike  of  what  conscience  may  dictate  or  reason 
approve,  make  the  profligate  sacrifice  of  public  right  on 
the  altar  of  private  interest.  What  more  can  be  asked 
by  the  sternest  tyrant  of  the  most  despicable  slave  ? 
Creatures  of  this  sort  are  the  tools  which  usurpers  em- 
ploy in  building  despotism.'  Sounder  and  truer  maxims 
never  were  uttered.  " 

The  appeal  from  Philip  drunk  to  Philip  sober 
which  this  citation  prompts  has  now,  however, 
to  reckon  with  a  conscience  so  elastic  and  a 
sophistry  so  barefaced  that  they  dare  attempt 
to  justify  such  a  shameless  act  as  the  rape  of 
Colombia  in  defiance  of  every  dictate  of  inter- 
national good  faith.  The  only  plea  ever  made 
by  the  author  of  that  outrage  in  its  extenuation 
is  that  it  was  committed  "  to  please  the  people." 
Those  who  are  not  satisfied  with  this  plea  or  with 
its  author's  attempts  to  justify  many  another  in- 
defensible act  or  tortuous  policy,  have  no  need  to 
echo  the  wish  "  that  mine  adversary  had  written 
a  book."  The  books  are  there,  for  anyone  to 
read,  and  they  throw  a  most  revealing  light 
upon  the  workings  of  the  opportunist  mind  to 
which  principles  are  but  playthings,  or  pretexts 
for  the  exercise  of  ingenious  casuistry.  The 
game  is  too  easy  in  this  case,  for  their  author 
has  himself  furnished  a  running  ironical  com- 
mentary upon  most  of  the  incidents  of  his  later 
career. 

Literature  provides  many  suggestive  parallels 
to  the  words  and  acts  of  the  now  discomfited 
leader.  The  Homeric  student  will  be  reminded, 
here  of  Achilles  sulking  in  his  tent,  there  of 
Thersites  and  his  railings.  The  satire  of  Juvenal 
and  the  indignation  of  Tacitus  find  in  him  a 
predestined  mark.  Milton  supplies  many  apt 
texts,  such  as 

"  The  strongest  and  the  fiercest  spirit 
That  fought  in  heaven,  now  fiercer  by  despair," 

and 

"  His  form  had  not  yet  lost 
All  her  original  brightness,  nor  appeared 
Less  than  archangel  ruined," 

which  seems  to  fit  the  leader's  case;  or  these 
that  might  be  applied  to  his  frenzied  supporters 
in  the  Convention : 

"  The  universal  host  upsent 
A  shout  that  tore  hell's  concave,  and  beyond 
Frighted  the  reign  of  Chaos  and  old  Night," 

and 

"  When  night 

Darkens  the  street,  then  wander  forth  the  sons 
Of  Belial,  flown  with  insolence  and  wine." 


In  the  mouthings  of  Jack  Cade,  Shakespeare  has 
limned  the  demagogue  for  all  times,  and  Cade's 
declared  purpose  to  hang  all  the  lawyers  is  only  a 
blunt  way  of  stating  the  hatred  of  legal  restraint 
which  has  been  so  ominous  a  feature  of  the  recent 
agitation  against  the  constitutional  safeguards 
of  order.  Shelley's  "  Mask  of  Anarchy  "  yields 
the  following  stanza,  which  is  not  without  its 
suggestiveness : 

"And  he  wore  a  kingly  crown; 

And  in  his  grasp  a  sceptre  shone ; 

On  his  brow  this  mark  I  saw  — 
1 1  am  God,  and  King,  and  Law ! '  " 

Perhaps  the  most  apposite  of  all  these  literary 
parallels  is  that  to  be  found  in  Dante's  "  Para- 
diso,"  where  the  poet  is  informed  by  Cacciaguida 
of  the  evil  company  into  which  he  is  destined  to 
fall,  and  is  told  that  he  will  be  well-advised  to 
become  his  own  political  party.  "  Of  its  besti- 
ality, its  own  procedure  will  give  the  proof;  so 
that  it  will  be  seemly  for  thee  to  have  made 
thyself  a  party  by  thyself." 

Turning  from  the  aggressive  personality  which 
has  been  so  conspicuously  to  the  fore  of  late,  and 
looking  at  the  Convention  turbulence  as  a  reve- 
lation of  national  character,  we  are  prompted  to 
some  grave  reflections.  After  making  a  liberal 
allowance  for  the  exuberance  of  youth  and  the 
ebullition  of  party  feeling,  after  indulgently  ac- 
counting for  many  distasteful  happenings  on 
the  ground  that  a  large  section  of  the  American 
public  regards  politics  as  a  form  of  sport,  and 
has  no  inclination  to  deal  with  it  in  a  serious 
and  sober  fashion,  there  nevertheless  remains  a 
condition  which  should  give  pause  to  our  optim- 
ism and  lead  us  to  a  searching  self-examination. 
Is  it  really  necessary,  even  in  a  presidential  yearr 
that  reason  should  abdicate  almost  altogether  in 
favor  of  impulse  and  emotion?  If  we  let  our- 
selves go  in  this  fashion  too  often,  may  we  not 
some  time  be  carried  so  far  that  our  balance  will 
be  regained  only  at  the  terrible  cost  of  bloodshed 
and  the  overthrow  of  social  order?  We  got  into 
that  position  half  a  century  ago,  and  the  results 
were  appalling.  Civilization  at  best  is  but  a 
thin  crust  beneath  which  the  primal  forces  of 
human  nature — greed  and  passion — are  seeth- 
ing in  the  effort  to  find  vent.  Whoever  seeks 
to  weaken  that  restraining  shell  has  small  appre- 
ciation of  the  forces  that  may  be  unloosed  if  it 
once  breaks.  We  are  at  all  times  nearer  than 
we  think  to 

"  Red  ruin,  and  the  breaking  up  of  laws." 

The  Anglo-Saxon  peoples  have  ever  prided 
themselves  on  their  self-restraint  upon  critical 
occasions,  and  in  their  devotion  to  the  principle 


1912.] 


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of  "  laws,  not  men  "  in  the  ordering  of  their 
political  life.  But  the  English  people  were 
rudely  aroused  from  their  pharisaical  self- 
sufficiency  by  the  ugly  demonstrations  of 
"  mafficking,"  and  who  can  say  that,  under  a 
similar  excitement,  the  American  people  would 
not  lose  their  heads  to  even  more  disastrous 
effect  ?  That  "  added  drop  of  nervous  fluid  " 
which  Colonel  Higginson  used  to  talk  about  as 
differentiating  us  from  our  English  cousins  may 
sometime  prove  a  menace  to  our  social  stability. 
We  already  enjoy  the  international  reputation 
of  being  a  strikingly  lawless  community,  and 
our  statistics  of  homicide  are  so  appalling  that 
we  cannot  comtemplate  them  without  hiding 
our  heads  in  shame.  The  frenzied  passions, 
the  charges  and  counter-charges,  and  the  con- 
tempt for  law,  that  have  characterized  this 
Convention  period  have  been  deeply  humiliating 
to  all  sober-minded  Americans,  who  have  felt 
like  exclaiming  "  A  plague  on  both  your 
houses!"  to  the  two  political  parties  and  to 
the  two  warring  factions  in  each  of  them.  The 
spectacle  has  not  only  been  humiliating  but 
ominous,  and  few  can  have  failed  to  be  reminded 
of  the  resemblance  to  the  situation  which  a 
quarter  of  a  century  ago  came  near  to  over- 
throwing the  French  Republic  in  the  interests 
of  General  Boulanger,  and  which  sixty  years 
ago  witnessed  its  actual  overthrow  by  a  self- 
acclaimed  "  savior  of  society."  Not  a  few  of  us 
have  trembled  at  the  possibility  that  this  chap- 
ter of  French  history  might  be  provided  with 
a  parallel  in  the  history  of  our  own  republic. 


CASUAL  COMMENT. 


THE  GENDER  OF  BOOKS  is  sometimes  as  marked 
as  the  gender  of  human  beings.  Some  books  have  a 
masculine  strength,  and  some  a  feminine  grace  and 
tenderness.  "  Daniel  Deronda  "  and  "  Felix  Holt " 
and  "Jane  Eyre,"  though  written  by  women,  are 
marked  by  virility  rather  than  by  femininity.  "  The 
Essays  of  Elia"  and  "Marius  the  Epicurean  "  do 
not  fall  in  the  class  of  rugged  masculine  books;  no 
one  would  place  them  beside  Borrow's  "Lavengro," 
Burton's  "Pilgrimage  to  Al-Madinah  and  Meccah," 
or  Scott's  Waverley  novels*  Certain  studies,  too,  have 
the  softness  of  the  gentle  sex  rather  than  the  hardness 
of  the  sterner  one.  Professor  Earl  Barnes,  discours- 
ing in  the  June  "Atlantic"  on  "The  Feminization  of 
Culture,"  finds  what  seems  to  him  rather  disquieting 
evidence  that  our  system  of  education  is  losing  its 
virile  qualities  and  becoming  unduly  feminine  in 
character.  He  considers  it  "taken  for  granted 
that,  in  education,  feminization  means  emphasis  on 
languages,  literature,  and  history,  as  opposed  to 


mathematics,  physics,  chemistry,  and  civics."  In 
general,  the  abstract  presents  itself  to  him  in  female 
garb,  the  concrete  in  male  attire.  The  fine  arts  are, 
of  course,  feminine,  the  sciences  masculine.  Sta- 
tistics from  high  schools  and  seminaries  for  the  last 
two  decades  are  examined  by  the  writer,  and  he 
finds  that  the  study  of  Latin,  for  example,  has  in 
that  time  increased  fifteen  per  cent,  French  four  per 
cent,  German  thirteen  per  cent,  European  history 
twenty-seven  per  cent,  and  English  literature  (since 
1901)  seven  per  cent.  Physics,  chemistry,  physical 
geography,  physiology,  and  civics  have  all  fallen  off 
at  rates  varying  from  three  to  fifteen  per  cent.  "A 
careful  study  of  these  figures,"  he  maintains,  "must 
convince  any  fair-minded  person  that  our  school  cur- 
riculum, even  in  the  secondary  field  where  women's 
control  is  least  complete,  is  moving  rapidly  in  the 
direction  of  what  we  have  called  feminization." 
Nevertheless,  it  is  probable  that  not  all  his  readers 
will  allow  their  slumbers  to  be  disturbed  by  this 
demonstration  of  tendencies  in  current  culture. 
There  is  a  grain  of  comfort  in  the  fact  that  not 
even  the  difficulties  of  Latin  have  caused  a  decline 
in  its  vogue,  nor  the  easiness  of  French  greatly 
increased  the  popularity  of  Moliere's  tongue.  Latin 
has  gained  fifteen  per  cent,  and  the  rugged  Teutonic 
tongue  has  gained  thirteen.  English  literature,  the 
"softest  snap"  of  all,  has  advanced  only  four  per 
cent  in  ten  years.  And  even  if  the  whole  statistical 
showing  were  much  more  impressive  than  it  is,  can- 
not the  finer  qualities  of  manhood  as  well  as  the  more 
admirable  qualities  of  womanhood  be  nurtured  on 
gentle  studies  ?  Must  one  study  bridge-building  and 
mining  engineering  in  order  to  escape  becoming  a 
milksop  or  a  mollycoddle  ?  But  perhaps  the  best  reply 
to  the  alarmist  is  now  being  made  by  Minnesota, 
where  more  than  fifty  thousand  persons  are  taking 
university  extension  courses,  in  which  such  mascu- 
line studies  as  sociology  and  economics  are  enjoying 
the  highest  favor. 

BRINGING  BOOKS  TO  BOOKLESS  PEOPLE — to  the 
dwellers  in  rural  communities  whose  remoteness 
from  public  libraries  deprives  them  almost  wholly  of 
library  advantages  —  is  just  now  a  subject  of  very 
lively  interest  in  the  library  world.  It  was  the  dom- 
inant theme  at  the  Convention  of  County  Librarians 
held  in  connection  with  the  June  meeting  of  the 
California  State  Library  Association  at  Lake  Tahoe. 
California  has  recently  enacted  some  very  good  laws 
for  systematic  "library  extension"  work  in  that  State 
through  the  agency  of  County  Free  Libraries,  under 
whose  direction  books  are  sent  to  remote  commu- 
nities, very  much  as  letters  are  sent  there  by  the 
Rural  Free  Delivery.  This  system  has  now  been  on 
trial  long  enough  to  make  the  detailed  reports  of  its 
practical  operation,  such  as  were  presented  at  the 
Lake  Tahoe  conference,  of  special  significance.  The 
system  is  of  course  still  in  its  experimental  stages  as 
to  details  and  methods,  but  the  intelligent  and  often 
enthusiastic  reports  of  those  who  have  been  engaged 
in  the  work  leave  no  room  for  doubt  as  to  its  gen- 


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[July  1, 


eral  success  and  its  future  importance  as  a  branch  of 
the  general  system  of  popular  education  in  this  coun- 
try. Particularly  telling,  and  often  touching,  were 
the  instances  related  of  the  joy  and  gratitude  of 
people  living  in  remote  mountain  regions,  to  whom 
the  arrival  of  a  dozen  books  is  an  event  in  the  life  of 
a  community  whose  hunger  for  books  could  hardly 
be  met  in  any  other  way  than  by  these  periodical  dis- 
pensations from  the  county  library.  It  was  noticeable 
at  the  Tahoe  meeting,  as  at  other  recent  gatherings 
of  librarians,  that  problems  of  library  administration 
received  but  scant  attention,  matters  relating  to  the 
widening  of  the  library's  sphere  and  the  extension 
of  its  benefits  being  clearly  in  the  foreground.  This 
was  illustrated  throughout  the  reports  and  discus- 
sions, and  was  the  key-note  of  an  excellent  talk  on 
the  influence  of  museums  and  art-galleries  as  auxil- 
iaries of  the  public  library,  by  Mr.  C.  S.  Greene,  of 
the  Free  Public  Library  at  Oakland. 
•  •  • 

A  LITERARY  EVENT  of  an  unusual  nature,  and,  in 
strict  accuracy,  more  an  athletic  than  a  purely  liter- 
ary event,  was  the  spirited  contest,  on  Lincoln  Field 
at  Providence,  between  the  forces  of  "The  Brown 
Herald"  and  "The  Brunonian,"  in  a  game  of  base- 
ball, umpired  by  the  president-elect  of  Amherst  Col- 
lege, Dr.  Alexander  Meiklejohn,  who  with  the  close 
of  the  present  academic  year  relinquishes  his  office 
of  Dean  at  Brown  University  to  assume  the  larger 
duties  awaiting  him  at  the  sister  institution  in  the 
Connecticut  valley.  His  election  to  the  Amherst 
presidency  may  itself  be  regarded  as  an  event  in  the 
world  of  letters,  so  ardent  a  zeal  has  he  shown  for 
that  form  of  learning  which  is  something  more  than 
a  mere  vocational  training  or  specialist's  grind.  Dis- 
approving the  increasing  latitude  of  the  elective  sys- 
tem, which,  he  is  said  to  have  declared,  has  brought 
with  it  "educational  chaos,"  he  cannot  but  find  him- 
self heartily  in  accord  with  Amherst's  spirit  of  reac- 
tion and  of  reversion  to  the  older  ideals  of  liberal 
culture.  It  was  Dr.  Meiklejohn  who  took  the  initia- 
tive in  shaping  the  new  course  at  Brown  leading  to 
the  degree  of  bachelor  of  philosophy,  a  course  which 
he  tersely  described  as  "  a  vigorous  attempt  to  single 
out  and  to  require  the  most  significant  and  funda- 
mental elements  of  human  culture."  Another  quo- 
table utterance  from  the  same  source,  delivered  in  an 
address  before  the  Brown  alumni  of  Boston  last  year, 
will  here  be  not  out  of  order.  "I  have  lately  heard 
a  correction  of  an  old  saying, '  You  can  drive  a  horse 
to  water,  but  you  can't  make  him  drink.'  'No,'  it 
was  added,  'but  you  can  make  him  thirsty.'  Just  so 
you  can't  force  boys  into  learning,  but  if  your  zeal 
be  hot  enough  you  can  develop  a  thirst.  To  do  that 
is  to  win."  ... 

THE     MYSTERIES    OF    LIBRARIANSHIP let    the 

word  "mysteries"  be  here  understood  in  its  Greek 
sense  —  are  probably  mysteries  indeed  to.  the  great 
general  public,  no  large  fraction  of  whom  ever  gets 
so  far  toward  an  initiation  into  them  as  to  give  them 
even  a  passing  thought.  Library  administration, 


systems  of  cataloguing,  shelf-listing,  accessions-lists, 
charging  systems,  fixed  location,  decimal  classifica- 
tion, all  these  and  many  other  terms  familiar  to  the 
initiated  are  vague  or  meaningless  technicalities  to 
those  unversed  in  library  science.  Consequently  a 
sentence  or  two  from  the  current  "  Circular  of  Infor- 
mation "  issued  by  the  Library  Training  School  of  the 
Carnegie  Library  of  Atlanta  —  one  of  our  most  ac- 
tive and  enterprising  institutions  of  the  sort,  despite 
its  location  in  the  sultry  South  —  may  have  for  the 
casual  reader  the  charm  at  least  of  novelty.  Under 
"Course  of  Study"  it  is  announced  that  "especial 
attention  is  given  to  administrative  work,  including 
the  study  of  plans  for  small  buildings  and  the  details 
of  organization  of  new  libraries  continually  springing 
up  in  this  section."  Also,  "  In  addition  to  the  strictly 
technical  subjects  the  course  includes  the  study  of  the 
English  novel,  tracing  its  sources;  the  appraisal  of 
fiction,  English  and  foreign;  the  survey  of  the  li- 
braiy  field,  enabling  the  students  to  keep  pace  with 
the  leading  movements  of  the  library  world;  field 
work,  consisting  of  visits  of  observation  to  other 
libraries;  and  the  history  of  printing."  Almost  a 
liberal  education  is  here  outlined,  one  would  say, 
and  not  simply  a  narrow  technical  training  out  of 
touch  with  the  warm  and  living  interests  of  hu- 
manity at  large. 

THE  CAUSE  OF  CULTURE  IN  THE  SOUTH  has  of 
late  received  much  encouraging  support,  both  moral 
and  material.  Conspicuous  among  recent  gifts  of 
money  is  the  fund  of  a  quarter-million  dollars  voted 
by  the  General  Education  Board  to  the  George 
Peabody  College  for  Teachers,  at  Nashville,  in 
memory  of  the  life  and  work  of  the  late  Dr.  Seaman 
A.  Knapp,  the  organizer  of  cooperative  demonstra- 
tion work,  the  promoter  of  boys'  corn  clubs  and 
girls'  canning  clubs,  the  successful  fighter  against 
the  boll  weevil,  and  the  advocate  of  diversified 
farming,  deeper  ploughing,  and  increased  stock- 
raising.  This  same  Teachers'  College,  which  is 
the  successor  to  the  Peabody  Normal  College,  but 
planned  on  a  larger  scale,  has  lately  received  one 
million  dollars  from  the  Peabody  Educational  Fund, 
and  other  considerable  gifts  from  the  state,  the 
county,  and  the  city  in  which  it  is  situated.  Also, 
the  trustees  of  the  Peabody  Fund,  who  have  voted 
"to  close  the  Trust  and  to  distribute  the  moneys 
remaining  in  their  hands,"  have  offered  to  endow  the 
College  with  an  additional  gift  of  half  a  million 
dollars,  provided  that  before  November  1, 1913,  the 
College  raise  the  further  sum  of  one  million  dollars. 
The  graduates  themselves*,  teachers  earning  salaries 
that  average  not  over  four  hundred  dollars  a  year, 
have  pledged  themselves  to  raise  a  fifth  part  of  this 
required  million,  but  for  the  remaining  four-fifths 
the  wealthier  friends  of  Southern  education  are 
asked  and  expected  to  open  their  purses.  A  "  State- 
ment and  Appeal,"  signed  by  the  Hon.  Joseph  H. 
Choate  and  the  Hon.  Samuel  A.  Green  for  the 
Trustees  of  the  Peabody  Educational  Fund,  invites 
subscriptions,  and  requests  that  all  communications 


1912.] 


THE    DIAL 


be  addressed  to  James  C.  Bradford,  Chairman 
Executive  Committee,  George  Peabody  School  for 
Teachers,  Nashville,  Tennessee. 

THE  SCHOLAR'S  CONSCIENCE  ought  to  be  pecul- 
iarly sensitive,  inasmuch  as  he,  far  more  than  the  un- 
thinking, uncritical,  carelessly  observing  person,  has 
abundant  opportunity  to  learn  from  his  studies  how 
futile  and  foolish  in  the  long  run  are  all  evasions  of 
either  intellectual  or  moral  truth,  all  dishonorable  sub- 
terfuges, all  attempted  short-cuts  to  the  good  things 
of  life.  And  yet  we  who  use  public  libraries  know 
that  we  have  among  us  not  a  few  book-thieves  who 
pass  in  the  world  as  persons  of  liberal  culture.  Even 
the  highly-educated  and  intellectually-accomplished 
biblioklept  is  not  unknown.  On  the  open  shelves 
near  the  centre  desk  in  Bates  Hall,  at  the  Boston 
Public  Library,  are  temporarily  displayed  the  more 
recent  accessions  in  literature  of  a  more  serious  and 
scholarly  character  than  the  average  reader  is  inter- 
ested in;  and  to  these  shelves  resort  each  day  the 
serious  and  the  bespectacled  students  whom  such  a 
display  naturally  attracts.  But,  as  is  regretfully 
recorded  in  the  library's  latest  Report,  "the  loss  of 
books  by  theft  from  these  shelves,  affecting  as  it  does 
new  books,  just  published  and  in  active  demand,  has 
become  so  great  that,  in  the  public  interest,  a  new 
arrangement  with  some  limitation  upon  freedom  of 
access  is  required.  It  is  proposed  to  place  such 
books  upon  guarded  shelving  in  the  delivery  room, 
immediately  under  the  control  of  an  attendant,  to 
permit  anyone  to  examine  them  upon  request,  but 
to  require  the  use  of  a  call  slip  before  they  can  be  re- 
moved to  the  reading  tables."  Not  even  the  soothing 
conjecture  that  these  thefts  have  been  mostly  effected 
by  the  unscholarly  for  purposes  of  pecuniary  gain  is 
tenable,  since  the  perforated  stamp  and  other  marks 
of  ownership  make  the  books  difficult  of  sale.  It 
must  be  sadly  admitted  that  a  love  of  good  literature 
is  not  incompatible  with  schemes  for  its  unlawful 
acquisition.  ... 

AN  EDUCATIONAL  INSTITUTION  LAUNCHED  WITH 

A  WARNING  to  the  public  to  think  twice  before  pat- 
ronizing it  would  seem  destined,  according  to  the 
theories  of  our  modern  promoters,  to  a  short  and 
circumscribed  career.  Yet  Mount  Holyoke  Col- 
lege, which  plans  to  celebrate  in  October  next  the 
seventy-fifth  anniversary  of  its  founding,  was  first 
advertised  on  a  strictly  look-before-you-leap  basis. 
In  a  pink-covered  pamphlet  that  bears  the  imprint 
of  South  Hadley,  1835,  Mary  Lyon  wrote:  "It  is 
very  desirable  that  friends  of  this  cause  should 
carefully  consider  the  real  design  of  founding  this 
institution  before  they  use  their  influence  to  induce 
any  of  their  friends  and  acquaintances  to  avail 
themselves  of  its  privileges."  "  Harmless  cumberers 
of  the  ground"  were  notified  that  they  would  be 
persona  non  grata,  in  the  new  type  of  woman's 
school.  It  was  "to  meet  public,  not  private,  wants"; 
to  send  forth  women  "to  exert  power  over  society 
which  cannot  be  exerted  by  mere  goodness  without 
intellectual  strength."  Such  a  type  of  school  ap- 


pears to  have  required  a  good  deal  of  explanation  to 
make  the  idea  of  it  intelligible  to  the  public  of  1837. 
So  perhaps  its  hard-headed  builder  did  well  to  fling 
out  warning  rather  than  inducement.  Otherwise  the 
young  Mount  Holyoke  might  have  been  swamped 
under  a  rush  of  utterly  unfit  students ;  and  the  edu- 
cational world,  instead  of  gathering  in  October  to 
honor  this  first  small  beginning  of  colleges  for 
women,  would  pass  heedlessly  over  the  grave  of 
another  idea  born  too  soon. 

THE  SHY  "  HOMER  OF  THE  INSECTS,"  as  the  au- 
thor of  "  The  Life  of  the  Bee  "  and  "  The  Blue  Bird  " 
has  called  the  nonagenarian  French  naturalist,  M.  J. 
Henri  Fabre,  whom  Mr.  Frank  Harris  has  styled 
"the  wisest  man  and  certainly  the  best  read  in  the 
books  of  nature  of  whom  the  centuries  have  left  us 
any  record,"  is  likely  soon  to  become  better  known 
than  at  present  to  the  English-reading  world  through 
the  issue  of  a  complete  edition,  in  our  language,  of 
his  fascinating  "  Entomological  Memories."  A  nona- 
genarian he  is  not  quite  yet,  to  be  accurate,  for  he 
was  born  in  1823,  but  the  indications  point  encour- 
agingly to  his  attainment  of  that  and  even  of  a  riper 
age.  The  story  of  his  lowly  birth,  of  his  long  strug- 
gle with  poverty  before  he  could  devote  himself  to 
his  beloved  insects,  of  his  shyness  and  his  panic-fear 
of  public  recognition,  and  of  his  warm  attachment 
to  his  native  Provence,  rivals  in  interest  anything 
that  his  own  gifted  pen  has  produced.  His  life, 
like  all  great  and  noble  lives,  has  had  its  keen  dis- 
appointments, its  crushing  sorrows.  In  his  struggle 
to  win  the  independence  that  should  leave  him  at 
liberty  to  pursue  his  chosen  studies,  he  was  once  on 
the  verge  of  an  important  invention  that  promised 
him  a  handsome  fortune.  He  had  perfected  a 
process  for  extracting  dye  from  the  madder,  a  fac- 
tory was  being  built,  and  an  assured  income  seemed 
all  but  within  his  grasp,  when  a  heartless  chemist 
discovered  a  cheap  artificial  substitute  for  the  nat- 
ural dye,  and  all  the  high  hopes  of  the  entomologist 
fell  to  the  ground  —  and  thus  was  wrought,  it  may 
be,  a  fortunate  deliverance  from  the  clutch  of  com- 
merce. .  .  . 

A  GREEK  PLAT  IN  THE  OPEN  AIR,  after  the  man- 
ner of  the  ancients,  was  one  of  the  commencement 
events  of  the  season.  The  young  ladies  of  Rose- 
mary Hall,  at  Greenwich,  Connecticut,  presented  the 
"Alcestis"  of  Euripides,  in  Mr.  Arthur  S.  Way's 
excellent  metrical  version,  under  the  trees  of  the 
school  orchard,  and,  let  us  imagine,  to  the  accom- 
paniment of  the  feathered  musicians  there  having 
their  abode.  Not  the  least  interesting  feature  of 
the  entertainment  was  the  devotion  of  the  pecuniary 
proceeds  'to  the  newly-planned  Connecticut  College 
for  Women.  The  recent  exclusion  of  women  from 
Wesleyan  University  (at  Middletown)  has  made  it 
necessary  for  Connecticut  girls  desiring  a  college  edu- 
cation to  seek  it  beyond  the  borders  of  the  Nutmeg 
State.  Agitation  for  a  girls'  college  within  these 
borders  was  started  by  certain  Hartford  women  of 
light  and  leading,  and  ere  long  the  movement  spread 


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over  the  commonwealth  until  New  London  felt 
prompted  to  offer  a  site  for  such  a  college,  with  a 
grant  of  fifty  thousand  dollars.  Acceptance  of  this 
generosity  was  not  slow  to  follow,  and  then  Mr. 
Morton  F.  Plant  contributed  a  handsome  endowment 
fund  of  a  million  dollars.  A  commensurate  building 
fund  is  now  the  crying  need,  and  it  was  to  help  raise 
this  that  the  Greek  play  was  presented  by  the  stu- 
dents of  Rosemary  Hall. 

•          •          • 

WELL-EARNED  ACADEMIC  HONORS  TO  MEN  OF 
LETTERS  are  to  be  noted  as  one  glances  over  the  sea- 
son's list  of  degrees  conferred ;  and  no  one  has  more 
richly  deserved  the  decorative  letters  indicating  such 
honors  than  Mr.  Howells,  who  is  now  entitled  to  write 
"L.H.D.  (Princeton)"  after  his  name.  "The  dean 
of  the  guild  of  belles-lettres  in  America  "  is  Prince- 
ton's appropriate  designation  of  the  distinguished 
author.  No  less  appropriately  it  characterizes  Dr. 
James  Ford  Rhodes  as  "our  first  living  American 
political  historian,"  and  emphasizes  the  characteri- 
zation by  making  him  a  doctor  of  laws.  Of  course  in 
both  these  instances  this  is  a  betitling  of  the  already 
much-betitled,  and  one  is  reminded  of  the  witty  re- 
joinder of  another  eminent  man  of  letters  (our  fore- 
most Shakespeare  scholar,  to  be  more  definite)  who, 
on  having  his  attention  called  to  the  fact  that  he 
was  decorated  with  about  all  the  coveted  academic 
initials  in  vogue,  but  was  not  yet  a  D.D.,  instantly 

replied:  "Oh,  I  am  that  too;  I'm  d d  deaf" — a 

rejoinder  to  which  the  ear-trumpet,  carried  now  for 
some  weary  decades  by  the  speaker,  gave  manifest 
point.  .  .  . 

A    NORMAL     COURSE     IN    LIBRARY    TRAINING    is 

announced  as  a  new  departure  at  the  Pratt  Institute 
School  of  Library  Science.  The  purpose  of  the 
course,  which  will  first  be  offered  in  1912-13,  is 
"to  prepare  students  to  teach  in  library  schools,  to 
take  charge  of  training  classes  or  school  depart- 
ments in  public  library  systems,  and  for  librarianship 
in  normal  schools  or  other  educational  institutions 
where  courses  in  library  science  are  given.  The 
experience  of  those  who  have  had  to  seek  trained 
library  workers  who  are  also  qualified  to  teach 
library  science  shows  that  the  required  combination 
of  qualifications  is  extremely  difficult  to  find  among 
the  members  of  the  profession.  Furthermore,  there 
is  an  increasing  number  of  positions  to  be  filled  due 
to  the  development  of  library  schools  and  the  grow- 
ing demand  for  trained  service  in  all  libraries." 
A  descriptive  outline  of  the  course  is  issued  by  the 
school.  ... 

ONE  WAY  TO  ADVERTISE  A  PUBLIC  LIBRARY,  a  Way 

that  will  not  have  occurred  to  all  librarians,  comes 
to  our  attention  in  turning  the  interesting  pages  of 
the  "  Minnesota  Library  Commission  Library  Notes 
and  News."  In  the  June  number  a  news  item  from 
Owatonna  reports  that  "the  librarian  has  been 
doing  some  effective  work  in  advertising  the  library 
throughout  the  county.  One  of  the  ministers  at 
Deerfield  devoted  a  Sunday  sermon  to  the  Library 
and  its  work,  and  distributed  the  leaflets  'Don't  be  a 


quitter.'"  The  library  and  the  school  are  becoming 
every  day  more  closely  and  usefully  affiliated ;  why, 
then,  may  not  the  library  and  the  church  join 
forces,  wherever  practicable  and  as  opportunity  pre- 
sents itself,  in  the  work  of  mental  and  moral  uplift  ? 


COMMUNICA  TION. 


SHAKESPEARE  IN  JAPANESE. 
(To  the  Editor  of  THE  DIAL.) 

One  evidence  of  the  universality  of  the  genius  of 
Shakespeare  is  to  be  found  in  the  fact  that  his  dramas 
are  translated  into  so  many  different  languages  all  over 
the  world.  This  is  true  not  only  of  the  Indo-European 
tongues  that  are  so  nearly  related  to  the  English,  but 
also  of  Semitic  and  Turanian  languages  that  are  not  thus 
closely  related  to  our  own.  It  seems  to  be  an  axiom 
that  Shakespeare  put  into  expression  the  common  uni- 
versal human  feelings,  which  can  be  translated  from 
one  language  to  another  without  great  difficulty. 

This  is  not  saying  that  literal  translation  is  possible. 
It  is,  of  course,  necessary  to  adapt  more  or  less,  accord- 
ing to  circumstances, —  to  cut  out,  to  add,  to  explain. 
Absolutely  literal  word-for-word  translations  are  much 
less  in  vogue  than  formerly;  it  is  not  the  form,  but  the 
spirit,  that  is  important.  "  The  letter  killeth,  but  the 
spirit  giveth  life." 

This  is  the  sort  of  translation  of  Shakespeare  that  Dr. 
Tsubouchi  is  giving  to  the  Japanese.  He  is  himself  a 
fine  Shakespearean  scholar,  sensitive  and  appreciative; 
and  he  seems  to  know  how  to  interest  others,  for  his 
lectures  on  Shakespeare  at  Waseda  University  are  so 
popular  that  students  scarcely  have  standing  room. 

Dr.  Tsubouchi  has  recently  published  his  fourth  trans- 
lation of  a  Shakespearean  drama.  The  first  three  were 
"  Hamlet,"  "  Othello,"  and  "  Romeo  and  Juliet " ;  and  the 
fourth  is  "  King  Lear."  He  has  also  translated  portions 
of  other  plays,  such  as  "The  Tempest,"  "  The  Merchant 
of  Venice,"  etc.  We  have  often  thought  that  the  Japa- 
nese would  take  naturally  to  "  King  Lear,"  because  the 
motive  of  filial  piety  is  so  strong  in  Japan  and  other 
countries  of  the  Orient.  We  have  doubted  whether 
"  Romeo  and  Juliet "  would  be  successful  here,  unless 
the  sentimental  love-scenes  were  toned  down  and  modi- 
fied considerably  on  the  stage. 

It  has  been  suggested,  not  without  reason,  that,  "  as 
Japan  has  so  recently  emerged  from  the  feudal  age," 
"  the  modern  Japanese  can  understand  the  spirit  of 
Elizabeth's  time  better  even  than  the  present-day  peo- 
ple of  England."  The  same  writer  also  says:  "That 
Shakespeare  has  taken  deep  root  in  the  dramatic  soil  of 
Japan  is  evidenced  by  the  remarkable  interest  that  has 
recently  been  shown  in  the  great  English  dramatist." 
The  court  scene  in  "  The  Merchant  of  Venice  "  is  one  in 
which  Japanese  actors  feel  not  a  little  at  home,  partly 
on  account  of  the  formalities  demanded  by  the  occasion. 
And  a  man  in  Portia's  part  as  a  lawyer  is  not  out  of 
place ! 

It  is  pleasant  to  be  able  to  add,  in  conclusion,  that 
the  work  of  Dr.  Tsubouchi  meets  with  suitable  recogni- 
tion. The  newly  organized  Institute  of  Literature  and 
Arts  made  its  very  first  award,  in  the  forms  of  a  diploma, 
a  bronze  medal,  and  the  sum  of  2,200  yen  ($1,100),  to 
this  great  Shakespearean  scholar. 

ERNEST  W.  CLEMENT. 
Tokyo,  Japan,  June  4, 1912. 


1912.] 


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ll 


Clxe  |teto 


"THE  PEOPLE'S  ATTORNEY."* 

But  for  the  fact  that  Henry  Demarest  Lloyd 
was  not  yet  born  when  the  words  were  uttered, 
Emerson  might  have  had  him  in  mind  when  he 
said:  "The  face  which  character  wears  to  me 
is  self -sufficingn ess.  I  revere  the  person  who  has 
riches ;  so  that  I  cannot  think  of  him  as  alone, 
or  poor,  or  exiled,  or  unhappy,  or  a  client,  but 
as  perpetual  patron,  benefactor,  and  beatified 
man." 

In  her  life  of  her  brother,  now,  nearly  nine 
years  after  his  too- early  death,  issued  in  two 
handsome  volumes,  a  beautifully  appreciative 
and  in  every  way  worthy  tribute  to  his  memory, 
his  sister  draws  with  the  hand  of  sympathy  and 
affection  the  noble  outlines  and  the  lovable  traits 
of  a  character  such  as  might  well  prompt  one  to 
exclaim,  paraphrasing  the  old  poet,  "He  had  his 
faults,  perhaps ;  I  wish  I  had  them  too ! "  In  his 
biographer's  words,  "  his  personality  was  happily 
so  proper  an  expression  of  his  spirit  that  men 
and  women  loved  him  at  first  sight.  Some  who 
saw  him  only  once  spoke  of  him  ever  after  with 
a  kind  of  exaltation.  Many  loved  him  who  never 
saw  him,  as  one  who  said,  '  I  never  had  the  un- 
speakable joy  of  looking  upon  his  face.' " 

Mr.  Lloyd  was  born  May  1,  1847,  the  first 
child  of  Aaron  Lloyd,  minister  of  the  Dutch  Re- 
formed Church,  and  Maria  Christie  Demarest. 
It  was  at  the  home  of  his  mother's  father,  David 
Demarest,  in  Sixth  Avenue,  New  York,  that  he 
achieved  his  entrance  into  the  world,  and  in  that 
city  most  of  his  early  life  was  passed.  There  he 
went  to  school  and  college,  and  there  he  prepared 
himself  for  the  practice  of  the  law.  His  father, 
having  no  pulpit  at  the  time,  had  tried  to  make  a 
living  as  a  bookseller,  starting  an  "  Olde  Booke 
Store"  in  Nassau  Street,  and  afterward  remov- 
ing to  busier  Broadway.  But  it  was  a  hard  fight, 
and  the  boys  of  the  family  had  to  work  their 
own  way  in  large  part.  The  Mercantile  Library 
gave  them  employment  out  of  school-hours,  and 
at  the  same  time  ministered  to  their  love  of  read- 
ing. A  scholarship  at  Columbia,  with  the  earn- 
ings of  his  hours  snatched  from  study,  enabled 
Henry  to  finish  his  academic  and  his  legal  edu- 
cation, after  which  journalism,  book- writing,  re- 
form movements,  and  other  interests  of  a  nature 
to  appeal  to  one  so  generously  devoted  to  the 

*HENBY  DEMAKEST  LLOYD,  1847-1903.  A  Biography. 
By  Caro  Lloyd.  With  an  Introduction  by  Charles  Edward 
Russell.  In  two  volumes.  Illustrated.  New  York:  G.  P. 
Putnam's  Sons. 


good  of  humanity,  engrossed  his  attention  and 
left  him  little  time  or  inclination  for  the  narrower 
field  of  the  law.  In  fact,  his  "  first  case,"  as  he 
called  it,  did  not  come  to  him  until  1902,  when 
the  anthracite  coal  miners'  strike  enlisted  his 
sympathies  and  he  took  part  in  the  proceedings 
of  the  arbitration  court  at  Scranton.  His  work 
as  a  journalist,  largely  as  a  writer  of  editorials 
on  questions  of  the  day,  began  in  New  York, 
but  was  continued  in  Chicago  from  the  autumn 
of  1872,  when  he  formed  a  connection  with  the 
"Tribune"of  that  city,  beginning  as  a  paragraph- 
writer,  then  being  placed  in  charge  of  the  liter- 
ary department,  and  before  many  years  rising 
to  the  dignity  of  leader-writer. 

But  the  things  for  which  he  will  long  be 
remembered  are  the  unpaid  and  at  the  time  too 
little  appreciated  services  rendered  to  his  fellow- 
men  wherever  they  were  seen  to  be  in  need  of  an 
eloquent  and  fearless  advocate  and  champion. 
The  Pullman  strikers,  the  Spring  Valley  miners, 
the  so-called  anarchists  of  the  Haymarket  trag- 
edy of  1886,  the  struggling  People's  Party  of  a 
few  years  later,  the  workers  for  municipal  own- 
ership of  public  utilities,  these  and  other  fighters 
found  in  him  a  valiant  leader  whose  utter  disre- 
gard of  his  own  personal  interests  is  illustrated 
by  his  cheerfully  risking  the  loss  of  fortune  and 
the  estrangement  of  friends  which  did  not  fail 
to  follow  upon  his  defense  of  the  unfortunate 
men  who  suffered  capital  punishment  because 
of  the  explosion  of  a  bomb  thrown  by  an  un- 
known hand.  It  was  impossible  for  him  not  to 
take  sides  with  the  under  dog  ;  and -Mrs.  Lloyd 
was  always  with  him,  heart  and  soul.  When 
the  probability  of  her  father's  extreme  displeas- 
ure at  her  husband's  course  was  pointed  out  to 
her,  she  replied :  "  Do  you  suppose  that  any 
such  consideration  will  stop  Henry  Lloyd  from 
doing  what  he  believes  is  right?"  The  warn- 
ing, as  appeared  later,  was  no  idle  one. 

"In  conseqence  of  their  course,  the  Lloyds  suffered 
the  loss  of  fortune.  Between  Henry  Lloyd  and  his 
father-in-law  there  had  always  existed  sincere  respect 
and  affection  which  made  this  honest  difference  all  the 
more  painful.  Mr.  Bross  declared  that  Mr.  Lloyd  had 
disgraced  the  family.  The  ample  fortune  was  entailed 
to  the  grandchildren,  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lloyd  were  not 
entrusted  with  the  guardianship  nor  the  care  of  the 
property  of  their  children,  a  sting  even  more  keen  than 
the  financial  loss." 

In  connection  with  Mr.  Lloyd's  early  and 
ardent  espousal  of  the  cause  of  labor,  of  the 
right  of  laborers  to  organize  for  mutual  defense, 
it  is  worth  while  to  quote  here  a  few  words 
defining  his  position  as  a  peaceful  but  uncom- 
promising trades-unionist,  or  labor-unionist.  To 


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him,  says  his  biographer,  "  the  labor  movement 
was  not  a  movement  of  hate,  but  of  love."  In 
his  own  words : 

"  It  pities  the  man  who  can  stand  at  the  helm  of  any 
of  the  great  concerns  of  modern  industrial  life,  made 
possible  only  by  the  countless  efforts,  loyalty,  and  genius 
of  thousands  of  his  fellow  men  living  and  dead,  and  say, 
'  This  is  my  business.'  It  says  to  him,  '  This  is  not  your 
business,  not  my  business.  It  is  our  business.'  ...  It 
pities  him  as  robbing  himself  of  the  greatest  joys  and 
triumphs  of  leadership.  It  seeks  to  lift  him  from  the  low 
level  of  selfish  and  cruel  milliouairism  to  that  of  a  gen- 
eral of  great  cooperative  hosts  of  industrial  brothers." 

Probably  there  are  many  among  Mr.  Lloyd's 
warmest  admirers  who  would  hesitate  to  go  all 
the  way  with  him  in  his  enthusiastic  champion- 
ship of  the  cause  of  labor.  In  defending  the 
sympathetic  strike  he  draws  illustrations,  or 
analogies,  from  history,  and  puts  the  case  thus : 

"Americans  cannot  forget  that  America  is  free  from 
Great  Britain  because  France  ordered  a  sympathetic 
strike.  The  negro  is  free  because  of  the  sympathetic 
strike  of  the  North.  What  greater  love  hath  any  man 
than  this,  that  he  lay  down  his  life  for  his  friend?  The 
sympathetic  strike  in  a  good  cause  is  orthodox  Christian- 
ity in  action." 

Following  the  successive  events  in  Mr. 
Lloyd's  strenuous  advocacy  of  the  people's 
rights,  an  advocacy  that  earned  him  his  self- 
bestowed  title  of  "  the  people's  attorney,"  one 
is  likely  to  receive  the  impression  that  he  lived 
in  an  unusually  troubled  time.  The  financial 
panic  of  1873  was  followed  by  distress  and 
unrest  among  the  laboring  classes.  The  year 
1877  was  so  marked  by  the  occurrence  of 
strikes  that  at  one  time  no  fewer  than  ten 
governors  were  calling  for  national  troops  to 
suppress  disorder.  We  are  inclined  to  regard 
the  present  period  as  one  of  unprecedented  dis- 
content and  turmoil,  and  unquestionably  there 
is  reason  for  grave  apprehension  unless  the 
growing  antagonism  between  capital  and  labor 
can  be  softened  and  the  selfish  greed  of  million- 
airedom  be  made  to  listen  to  reason  ;  but  even 
in  the  "  good  old  days  "  there  were  problems 
of  this  sort  in  plenty,  as  the  book  under  review 
makes  abundantly  evident.  From  a  chapter 
devoted  to  the  late  Governor  Altgeld,  a  cordial 
friend  and  admirer  of  Mr.  Lloyd,  a  short  passage 
of  the  latter's  writing  calls  for  insertion  here. 

"I  was  an  eye-witness  of  Governor  Altgeld's  conduct 
during  the  great  Pullman  strike  of  1894.  ...  I  spent 
a  number  of  hours  with  him  at  the  most  critical  point 
of  those  eventful  July  days.  Almost  universally  the 
American  desires  to  treat  even  a  political  opponent  with 
fairness  and  trust,  however  sharply  he  may  criticise  his 
opinions  and  actions.  Not  one  of  those  who  are  so  volu- 
bly joining  in  the  fashionable  denunciation  of  Governor 
Altgeld  on  account  of  what  they  believe,  upon  informa- 


tion at  second  hand,  to  have  been  his  attitude  and  be- 
havior at  that  time  would  indulge  in  this  hue  and  cry  if 
they  knew  the  facts." 

The  facts  which  the  writer  of  the  foregoing  is 
able  to  cite  in  refutation  of  the  familiar  charges 
against  Altgeld  are  nothing  short  of  convincing, 
and  they  cannot  but  leave  the  reader  with  a  deep 
sense  of  the  injustice  suffered  by  one  placed  in 
a  difficult  public  position,  and  with  a  feeling  of 
admiration  for  the  staunch  friend  who  hastened 
to  his  defense. 

Concerning  Mr.  Lloyd's  best-known  piece  of 
writing,  the  fraud-exposing,  greed-condemning 
"  Wealth  against  Commonwealth,"  there  is  here 
but  little  space  to  write.  The  sensation  its 
appearance  made  is  partly  described  in  the  fol- 
lowing : 

"  From  all  parts  of  the  land  there  now  came  to  him 
the  warm  response  from  an  unknown  host  whose  eyes 
had  never  looked  into  his.  Into  the  study  where  he  had 
wrestled  with  his  task,  there  came  words  of  blessing, 
gratitude,  courage  from  men  whose  ideals  rose  to  meet 
his  own.  He  began  to  feel  the  beat  of  the  people's 
hearts.  He  woke  to  find  his  self-controlled  method  of 
recital  producing  the  most  startling  effects.  Men  read 
the  book  with  the  same  absorbing  interest  which  as  boys 
they  gave  to  pirate  stories.  So  exciting  was  it  that  they 
could  read  only  a  little  at  a  time.  .  .  .  On  all  sides 
was  echoed  Edward  Everett  Hale's  verdict,  that  it  was 
an  epoch-making  book,  an  '  Uncle  Tom's  Cabin  '  of  the 
labor  movement.  ...  It  startled  many  Americans  out 
of  that  comfortable  assurance  that,  having  the  franchise, 
their  liberties  were  secure.  To  lawyers  it  was  partic- 
ularly convincing.  Ministers  and  writers  preached  and 
wrote  upon  it,  thrilled  with  a  sense  of  the  peril  before 
the  Republic.  Robert  Louis  Stevenson  decided  to  found 
a  novel  upon  its  disclosures.  John  Burroughs  said  that 
after  an  hour's  reading  he  was  so  angry  that  he  '  had  to 
go  out  and  kick  stumps.'  Those  indeed  were  days  when 
good  men  swore  and  even  a  minister  confessed  that  he 
threw  down  the  book  and  cried,  <  Damn  those  rascals.'" 

In  illustration  of  the  personal  charm  of  this 
noble  champion  of  the  right  who  wore  himself 
out  at  the  age  of  fifty-six,  and  whose  full  tale 
of  good  works  cannot  here  be  even  epitomized, 
many  passages  might  be  quoted  from  the  biog- 
raphy; but  one  must  suffice. 

"  He  himself,  free  from  the  restraint  of  the  public  ear, 
lavishly  gave  his  thought  however  radical  and  his  hopes 
however  lofty  or  shy.  His  talk  was  brilliant  and  fasci- 
nating, full  of  startling  prophecy,  firm  in  its  convictions ; 
it  was  now  hard  as  steel,  and  now  tender.  It  seethed 
with  indignation.  It  touched  earth,  firm-footed,  and 
again  it  soared,  in  a  creative  flight,  far  off  into  theory. 
It  was  interesting  to  see  him  throw  out  the  line  of  a 
theory  tentatively,  so  that  he  might  watch  its  impression 
on  various  minds,  testing  its  value,  even  prankishly  see- 
ing how  near  he  could  come  to  the  quick  of  his  hearer's 
prejudices, tickling  the  talk,  as  it  were.  All  was  moreover 
touched  with  wit  and  suffused  with  grace  and  courtesy. 
Like  Emerson's  wise  man  he  went  to  this  game  of  conver- 
sation '  to  play  upon  others  and  to  be  played  upon.' " 


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The  vehemence  and  ardor  of  the  man  are  re- 
flected, in  a  curiously  interesting  way,  in  certain 
verbal  short-cuts  that  arrest  the  attention  in 
reading  such  passages  from  his  writings  as  the 
book  contains.  The  verb  "re volute"  is  expedi- 
tiously  formed  by  him  from  the  noun  "  revolu- 
tion," and  he  uses  the  very  convenient  and 
self-explanatory  "ambiguity." 

The  biographer  has  done  her  work  well,  draw- 
ing upon  many  and  sometimes  not  easily  acces- 
sible sources  for  her  rich  store  of  information 
concerning  the  varied  activities  of  her  gifted 
brother.  The  illustrations  are  numerous  and 
always  closely  related  to  the  reading  matter.  Mr. 
Charles  Edward  Russell's  introductory  words 
help  to  illuminate  the  character  portrayed  in  the 
chapters  that  follow.  Appended  matter,  includ- 
ing a  chronological  list,  necessarily  incomplete 
but  of  surprising  length,  of  Mr.  Lloyd's  writ- 
ings, fills  nearly  forty  pages,  and  is  followed  by 
a  full  index.  PERCY  F.  BICKNELL. 


OSCAR,  WILDE  CRITICALLY  STUDIED.* 

Modern  literary  criticism  loves  the  exception. 
It  delights  in  types  like  Wilde  and  Verlaine ;  it 
is  fond  of  flaunting  its  romantic  individualism 
in  a  large  contempt  of  prejudice.  And  being 
individualistic,  it  devotes  itself  all  the  more 
willingly  to  subjects  in  which  a  truly  impartial 
attitude  is  to-day  quite  beyond  our  grasp. 

Thus  Mr.  Arthur  Ransome  follows  up  his 
work  on  Poe  with  "a  critical  study"  of  Oscar 
Wilde.  The  book  is  really  an  essay  in  biograph- 
ical interpretation.  No  man's  work,  as  Mr. 
Ransome  reminds  us  in  his  introductory  chapter, 
can  be  treated  as  a  mere  disembodied  result;  and, 
in  the  case  of  Wilde,  "whose  books  are  the  by- 
products of  a  life  more  important  than  they  in 
his  own  eyes,"  a  biographical  criticism  is  "not 
only  legitimate  but  necessary."  The  method  is 
none  the  less  most  discreetly  employed :  a  spirit 
of  moderation  characterizes,  in  the  main,  this 
study  of  one  who,  in  spite  of  his  life,  has  a  cer- 
tain importance  in  the  history  of  contemporary 
literature. 

For  the  present  influence  of  Wilde  is  beyond 
question.  "He  has  been  translated  into  French, 
German,  Italian,  Spanish,  Swedish,  Yiddish, 
Polish,  and  Russian."  (The  statement  prob- 
ably refers  to  separate  works,  possibly  only  to 
"Salome.")  In  his  own  country,  says  Mr. 
Ransome,  "  he  left  no  form  of  literature  exactly 

*  OSCAR  WILDE.  A  Critical  Study.  By  Arthur  Ransome. 
With  portrait.  New  York  :  Mitchell  Kennerley. 


as  he  found  it.  He  brought  back  to  the  English 
stage  a  spirit  of  comedy  that  had  been  for  many 
years  in  mourning.  He  showed  both  in  practice 
and  in  theory  the  possibilities  of  creation  open 
to  the  critic.  He  found  a  new  use  for  dialogue, 
and  brought  to  England  a  new  variety  of  the 
novel."  And  so  the  volume  takes  up,  one  after 
the  other,  Wilde's  various  phases  of  literary 
activity,  interpreting  them  by  such  reference  to 
his  life  as  the  subject  demands. 

The  Poems  receive  a  rather  extended  treat- 
ment. To  be  sure  they  constitute  a  literary  debut, 
and  every  critic  must  take  account  of  origins. 
Wilde's  origins  were  numerous:  his  verses 
echo  nearly  every  poet  whose  note  impressed  his 
ear.  Mere  lyric  exercises  these,  according  to 
Mr.  Ransome, — a  parodic  imitation  which  is  in 
itself  a  form  of  criticism.  But  he  overlooks 
the  deeper  significance  of  all  this  open  plagiary, 
which  makes  Wilde's  poetry  a  summary  of  the 
poetic  tendencies  of  his  age.  Beneath  all  this 
epiphytic  verse  we  see  no  mere  literary  disci- 
pline, but  a  real  inability  to  derive  poetic  impulse 
or  inspiration  from  life  untouched  by  art. 

An  unemotional  temperament,  I  believe,  we 
must  surely  call  Wilde,  in  spite  of  his  sensuous- 
ness  and  his  sensuality.  Possibly  the  latter  was 
the  direct  result  of  his  frenzied  search  for  emo- 
tion, which  we  may  note,  even  in  these  early 
poems,  turning  him  from  the  delights  of  the 
pagan  world  to  the  no  less  sensuous  mysticism 
of  his  Catholic  verses.  However  that  may  be, 
we  shall  all  agree  with  Mr.  Ransome  that  this 
"youthful"  volume  of  poems  is  "too  immediate 
an  attempt  to  turn  life  into  literature."  It  has 
suggested  to  others,  as  to  him,  that  its  author 
has  now  and  again  "tried  to  make  life  simply 
for  the  purpose  of  transcribing  it."  But  did  he 
ever  quite  outlive  this  characteristic? 

Those  who  doubt  it  may  point  to  his  "aes- 
thetic" period.  Shades  of  John  Ruskin!  It 
appears  that  Wilde  was  sent  to  America,  not 
primarily  to  lecture,  but  to  ensure  the  success 
of  "  Patience  "  by  giving  the  Americans  a  speci- 
men of  the  genus  a3sthete  to  illustrate-  the  satire 
of  the  opera.  Like  Gautier  in  the  thirties,  Wilde 
at  this  time  was  already  famous  for  his  eccen- 
tricities of  dress  —  his  velveteen  knee-breeches 
and  his  lace- trimmed  shirts.  So  he  came  to 
America,  and  filled  thereby  his  ever-gaping 
pockets.  That  accomplished,  "  tired  of  prophecy 
and  ready  to  take  a  part  in  a  new  play,"  he  went 
to  Paris,  where  he  imitated  Balzac  down  to  his 
dressing-gown  and  jewel-set  cane.  The  result 
of  this  visit  was  that  Elizabethan  pastiche, "  The 
Duchess  of  Padua,"  and  "The  Sphinx,"  a  "rare 


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incantation,"  perhaps,  but  one  which  certainly 
contains  a  deal  of  Romantic  rigmarole. 

Was  it  Flaubert,  Heredia,  or  Huysmans  who 
inspired  this  curious  production,  wherein  one  can 
scarcely  see  the  poem  for  the  words?  Mr.  Ran- 
some  does  not  tell  us.  So  we  must  leave  "  The 
Sphinx"  and  follow  Wilde  back  to  London  — 
an  unintentional  expatriate  to  whom  Provi- 
dence had  denied  the  boon  of  a  Gallic  nativity. 
Brought  home  by  an  empty  purse,  he  resumes 
his  lecturing,  marries,  becomes  a  book-reviewer, 
and  edits  "The  Woman's  World,"  gaining  from 
all  this  journalistic  work  a  lighter  touch  and  a 
number  of  good  paragraphs  for  which  he  will  find 
a  further  use  in  his  later  books.  He  writes  a 
few  rather  mediocre  stories,  imitates  Hans  Chris- 
tian Andersen  in  "The  Happy  Prince"  and  "A 
House  of  Pomegranates,"  but  imitates  him  with 
pen  tempered  in  the  far  richer  diction  of  Gautier 
and  Flaubert.  Decorative  prose  —  that  is  his 
new  experiment,  just  as  in  "The  Sphinx"  he 
had  anglicized  decorative  verse.  And  when, 
several  years  later,  Wilde  wrote  "  The  Picture 
of  Dorian  Gray,"  he  calls  it  frankly  "an  essay 
on  decorative  art,"  a  book  which  "  reacts  against 
the  brutality  of  plain  realism." 

Certainly  "Dorian  Gray"  is  not  realistic. 
Yet  it  is  modelled  upon  a  Gallic  type,  probably 
"  A  Rebours,"  and  constitutes  "the  first  French 
novel  to  be  written  in  the  English  language." 
We  can  allow  this,  if  the  phrase  be  limited  to 
a  certain  kind  of  modern  novel.  Not  all  of  our 
contemporary  French  fiction,  however,  is  of  the 
type  of  "  Dorian  Gray." 

But  we  have  outstripped  our  chronology. 
We  must  turn  from  this  curious  book,  disre- 
garding, as  our  critic  does,  its  pathological  sig- 
nificance, and  take  up  Wilde's  work  in  literary 
criticism,  which  also  derived  much  from  his 
journalistic  period.  Half  story,  half  essay, 
"  The  Portrait  of  Mr.  W.  H."  may  serve  as  a 
transition.  And,  like  "  Dorian  Gray,"  the  story 
has  its  biographical  value  ;  in  none  of  his  work 
can  Wilde  keep  from  self -portrayal.  In  another 
essay  he  defends  Wainewright  the  murderer, 
perhaps  with  a  prophetic  intuition  of  his  own 
destiny;  and  then,  in  "The  Decay  of  Lying" 
and  "The  Critic  as  Artist,"  he  brings  together 
his  decadent  Socrates  and  Alcibiades,  the  bril- 
liant sophist  and  the  languid  disciple  of  these 
essays  in  dialogue. 

Here,  says  Mr.  Ransome,  we  find  "the  domi- 
nant mood  of  his  life";  herein  best  of  all  may 
we  taste  "that  elixir  of  intellectual  vitality  that 
he  royally  spilled  over  his  conversation."  This 
is  probably  true;  at  any  rate  these  essays  give 


us  his  whole  aesthetic  and  literary  theory.  Criti- 
cism, for  Wilde,  means  "the  delicate  adven- 
tures of  the  intellect,"  precisely  the  attitude  of 
Monsieur  Anatole  France,  whose  charming  essays 
in  dilettanteism  had  already  begun  to  appear  in 
"Le  Temps"  two  years  before.  The  fact  might 
well  be  added  to  Mr.  Ransome's  enumeration 
of  Wilde's  French  models.  Furthermore,  not 
only  did  Anatole  France  provide  Wilde  the  critic 
with  a  theory,  but  his  "Thai's  "  gave  Wilde  the 
dramatist  the  plot  of  "  La  Sainte  Courtisane." 

For  in  the  drama,  as  elsewhere,  this  genius 
was  not  "  unready  to  work  with  bouts-rimes" 
He  knew  the  favorite  characters  of  the  French 
stage  as  well  as  the  British,  and  he  used  them. 
Wilde  was  no  respecter  of  dramatis  personce. 
Of  these  characters  he  made  mouth-pieces  for 
his  epigrams ;  once  more  he  finds  a  use  for  the 
puns  that  rose  so  readily  to  his  Irish  lips.  Into 
these  stage  dialogues  go  all  the  paradoxes  of  his 
other  works  ;  and  when  one  notes  the  frequency 
of  these  repetitions,  one  is  tempted  to  doubt  the 
vitality  of  that  conversational  "  elixir."  Cer- 
tainly "  The  Importance  of  Being  Earnest  "  has 
little  of  the  intellectual  element  in  its  laughter. 
Best  of  the  comedies,  because  of  its  consistent 
triviality,  across  the  footlights  it  produces  the 
aching  cheeks  of  farce. 

All  this  makes  it  hard  to  place  "  Salome." 
Mr.  Ransome  connects  the  play  with  the  two 
early  tragedies ;  and  reminds  us  that  if  Wilde 
was  a  jester  for  love  of  money  and  popularity, 
he  always  preferred  to  think  of  himself  as  "a 
person  with  magnificent  dreams."  Maeterlinck, 
too,  was  dreaming  in  drama  just  then,  and  many 
of  the  qualities  of  that  expression  passed  by  some 
mysterious  influence  into  Wilde's  production. 
That  fact  may  even  account  for  its  being  written 
in  French,  as  the  most  immediate  vehicle  of  its 
morbid  symbolism.  In  any  case,  "  Salome  " 
was  not  written  in  that  language  for  Bernhardt, 
but  only  offered  to  the  divine  Sarah  when  she 
asked  Wilde  for  a  play.  Three  French  authors, 
it  appears,  had  a  hand  in  the  revision  of  the 
text,  the  final  touches  being  given  by  Pierre 
Louys. 

But  before  "  Salome  "  was  presented,  Wilde's 
own  life-drama  had  reached  its  climax,  and  he 
was  serving  a  two-year  sentence  in  Reading  Gaol. 
Here  he  came  into  contact  with  physical  pain, 
rebelled,  and  then  yielded  to  its  teaching,  casting 
up  accounts  with  himself  in  the  introspective 
pages  of  "  De  Profundis."  Not  that  the  book 
had  any  continuous  practical  relation  to  his 
life  afterwards.  No,  it  is  a  pure  piece  of  artistic 
feeling,  vivified  by  the  emotional  unity  that  pain 


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alone  can  give  a  nature  such  as  Wilde's.  "Re- 
pentance like  that  in  '  De  Profundis,' "  observes 
Mr.  Ransome,  "  is  a  guarantee  of  a  moment  of 
humility,  but  not  of  a  life  of  reform."  And 
once  out  of  prison,  he  soon  became  a  mere  straw 
in  the  current  of  events,  having  lost  once  and  for- 
ever "his  power  of  turning  life  into  tapestry." 

It  is  a  different  Wilde  that  we  have  now,  not 
a  reformed  one.  The  difference  appears  in  the 
"Ballad  of  Reading  Gaol."'  Within  the  prison 
walls  he  could  still  dream,  as  he  did  in  "  De 
Profundis,"  of  what  his  life  to  come  might  be; 
now  at  last  he  knew  what  it  was.  It  was  a  rude 
awakening,  and  the  violence  of  the  ballad  does 
but  reflect  it.  This  delicate  artist,  this  dilettante 
of  emotion,  has  come  into  contact  with  pain,  with 
a  reality  so  harsh  as  to  tear  from  him  the  cry 
of  Marsyas.  And  so  the  decorative  mood  gives 
way  to  realism,  a  realism  which  is  only  partially 
obscured  by  the  completion  of  the  ballad  in  a 
more  "  artistic  "  mood.  The  result  is  interesting, 
because  it  shows  Wilde's  art  for  once  deficient 
in  unity.  Thoroughly  artificial  in  his  conception 
of  literature,  a  real  emotion  has  almost  shattered 
his  lyre. 

Mr.  Ransome,  it  must  be  said,  does  not  go 
so  far  as  this.  He  is  quite  impressed  with  the 
"  Ballad  of  Reading  Gaol,"  and  pursues  a  long 
digression  on  what  he  calls  "kinetic"  and  "po- 
tential" literature,  which  those  interested  in  es- 
thetic theory  may  best  peruse  in  his  own  words. 
They  may  also  read  his  "After  Thought,"  with 
its  discussion  of  Wilde's  prose,  of  his  love  of 
admiration,  and  his  virtuosity.  "He  leaves 
three  things  behind  him,"  says  Mr.  Ransome, 
"  his  legend,  his  conversation,  and  his  works. 
.  .  .  Much  of  his  work  fails;  much  of  it  has 
already  faded,  but  '  Intentions,'  '  The  Sphinx,' 
'The  Ballad  of  Reading  Gaol,'  'Salome,'  'The 
Importance  of  Being  Earnest,'  one  or  two  of 
the  fairy  tales,  and  '  De  Profundis,'  are  surely 
enough  with  which  to  challenge  the  attention 
of  posterity." 

The  attention  of  posterity!  Perhaps,  if  we 
take  the  word  in  its  most  immediate  connotation. 
But  for  all  but  the  greatest  art  there  is  no  pos- 
terity, unless  we  consider  the  handful  of  scholars 
and  writers  of  doctors'  theses  who  alone  concern 
themselves  with  the  secondary  works  of  a  bygone 
age.  Wilde  has  his  part  in  literary  history  as 
a  precursor,  but  to  believe  that  another  century 
will  occupy  itself  with  him  requires  strong  faith. 
He  has  no  message  for  which  he  will  be  remem- 
bered, unless  it  be  the  one  essay  which  is  so  ex- 
ploited by  advancing  socialism.  He  has  artistic 
qualities,  indeed ;  he  has  beauties  of  style,  but 


no  style  fades  more  quickly  than  one  which  is 
inspired  by  a  pure  love  of  decoration. 

The  man,  of  course,  will  continue  to  have  his 
interest  for  the  pathologist,  for  the  student  of 
literary  types,  for  the  morbidly  romantic  person. 
"  Some  day  it  will  be  possible  to  write  of  him," 
asserts  Mr.  Ransome,  "with  the  ecstatic  acquies- 
cence that  Nietzsche  calls  Amor  Fati,  as  we 
write  of  Csesar  Borgia  sinning  in  purple, 
Cleopatra  sinning  in  gold,  and  Roberto  Greene 
hastening  his  end  by  drab  iniquity  and  gray 
repentance."  The  gods  preserve  us  from  all 
such  ecstasy,  no  matter  what  the  color-scheme! 
Various  and  changeable  as  moral  codes  have 
been  and  may  be,  the  virtue  of  self-control  must 
always  remain  at  least  a  distinction. 

Possibly  this  is  a  narrow  attitude.  I  have 
said  that  it  is  altogether  too  soon  to  claim  impar- 
tiality ;  one  can  only  state  one's  personal  view. 
But  as  a  critic  of  life  and  an  exponent  of  a  new 
"  philosophy  "  of  conduct,  we  have  the  right  to 
adopt  a  personal  standpoint  toward  Wilde.  As 
a  representative  of  the  last  phase  of  a  decadent 
Romanticism,  its  cult  of  sentiment  transformed 
to  a  mere  worship  of  sense  and  sense-impressions 
in  themselves,  we  have  the  right  to  confront 
his  theories  with  his  life.  As  a  socialist,  an 
individualist,  an  intellectual  dilettante  without 
a  concept  of  the  social  function  of  art,  we  have 
every  right  to  judge  him.  And  however  a  sen- 
timental or  "  aesthetic  "  liberal  may  bring  him- 
self to  disregard  the  life  of  this  gifted  degener- 
ate, he  cannot  obscure  the  fact  that  Oscar  Wilde, 
with  his  poses  and  his  follies,  has  done  more  than 
any  other  writer  to  degrade  the  adjective  "  artis- 
tic," and  to  further  the  growing  contempt  of  the 
workaday  world  for  art. 

LEWIS  PIAGET  SHANKS. 


WOMAN  AND  ECONOMICS.* 


If,  by  some  miracle,  we  were  suddenly  to 
become  alive  to  the  fact  that  ours  is  an  organic 
society,  pervaded  by  organic  needs  and  common 
purposes, — if  our  phrases,  "  the  public  interest " 
and  "  the  social  welfare,"  were  suddenly  to  be- 
come imbued  with  real  meaning, — an  extraordi- 


*  FATIGUE  AND  EFFICIENCY.  By  Josephine  Goldmark. 
Russell  Sage  Foundation  Publications.  New  York :  Char- 
ities Publication  Committee. 

MAKING  BOTH  ENDS  MEET.  By  Sue  Ainslie  Clark  and 
Edith  Wyatt.  Illustrated.  New  York :  The  Macmillan  Co. 

SALESWOMEN  IN  MERCANTILE  STOKES.  By  Elizabeth 
Beardsley  Butler.  Russell  Sage  Foundation  Publications. 
New  York  :  Charities  Publication  Committee. 

THE  WOMEN  OF  TO-MORROW.  By  William  Hard.  Illus- 
trated. New  York :  Doubleday,  Page  &  Co. 


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nary  shifting  would  no  doubt  take  place  among 
the  objects  at  the  focus  of  our  attention.  It  is 
needless  to  specify  the  public  issues  that  would 
be  crowded  toward  the  extreme  margin  of  our 
field  of  vision ;  among  those  that  would  continue 
to  force  themselves  upon  us  insistently  and  pain- 
fully is  that  of  the  conservation  of  our  human 
resources.  Are  we  certain  that  our  human  re- 
sources are  not  going  the  way  of  our  forests,  the 
native  fertility  of  our  soils,  our  mineral  wealth, — 
exploited  in  haste  and  waste  ?  It  is  obvious 
enough  that  our  industrial  system  draws  largely 
upon  human  energy  stored  up  under  different 
conditions  of  life.  Our  own  farms  and  villages, 
the  rural  districts  of  European  countries,  have 
provided  us  with  an  indispensable  part  of  our 
industrial  labor  supply.  How  are  we  using  this 
source  of  our  power  ? 

We  know  that  among  the  waste  products  of 
our  industry  —  along  with  tailings,  slag,  and 
culm  heaps — are  great  numbers  of  men,  women, 
and  children  with  warped  bodies  and  shattered 
nerves,  with  dulled  intelligence  and  blunted 
morals,  victims  of  the  racking  strain  of  the 
machine  process.  We  know  that  great  numbers 
are  chronically  underfed,  wretchedly  housed  and 
clad.  We  know  that  the  overstrain  and  the  un- 
derpayment rest  especially  heavily  upon  women, 
to  whom,  we  are  wont  gallantly  to  assert,  is 
entrusted  the  destiny  of  the  next  generation. 
These  things  we  all  know,  but  our  knowledge  is 
of  a  vague  and  abstract  character,  ill  calculated 
to  arouse  us  to  action.  Fortunately  there  is 
now  a  group  of  valiant  men  and  women  who 
have  undertaken  the  gigantic  task  of  making 
concrete  our  knowledge  of  the  human  aspect  of 
industrialism.  Of  this  group  the  writers  whose 
books  are  here  under  review  deserve  to  rank  as 
honored  members. 

The  point  upon  which  Miss  Goldmark  lays 
chief  emphasis  in  her  work  on  "  Fatigue  and 
Efficiency  "  is  the  fatigue  from  which  industrial 
workers  suffer.  Everyone  who  has  lived  in  a 
factory  town  has  observed  that  large  classes  qf 
workers,  especially  women  and  girls,  appear 
excessively  weary,  not  merely  at  the  end  of  the 
day,  but  often  at  its  beginning.  Observers  of 
optimistic  temperament  usually  assume  that  this 
is  merely  an  incident  to  adjustment  to  the  work, 
or  a  result  of  the  strain  of  seasonal  labor,  soon 
to  be  relaxed  by  the  approach  of  dull  seasons. 
Miss  Goldmark  places  the  facts  of  overwork  and 
overstrain  in  a  new  light  through  an  analysis  of 
laboratory  studies  in  the  problem  of  fatigue. 
The  phenomena  of  fatigue,  the  physiologists  tell 
us,  are  phenomena  of  poisoning.  Long  continued 


exertion  produces  various  toxins  that  must  be  re- 
moved by  complete  rest,  on  pain  of  serious  dis- 
turbance of  all  organic  functions.  A  working 
population  whose  periods  of  rest  are  insufficient 
to  remove  the  toxins  of  fatigue  generated  in  its 
working  periods  is  a  population  suffering  under 
chronic  poisoning.  The  resistance  of  such  a 
population  to  general  infections  is  lowered  in  a 
marked  degree.  Such  evidence  as  we  have, 
though  fragmentary,  indicates  pretty  clearly 
that  the  morbidity  rate  is  higher  among  indus- 
trial workers  than  among  other  classes  of  the 
same  age-groups.  It  also  indicates  that  the 
morbidity  rate  is  especially  high  among  women 
engaged  in  industry.  It  is  no  doubt  the  deterior- 
ation of  the  general  health  of  women  industrial 
workers  that  is  largely  responsible  for  the  fright- 
ful infant  mortality  of  some  of  our  textile  towns. 
In  Lowell,  for  example,  out  of  1000  children 
born,  231  die  under  one  year  of  age.  New  York 
City,  not  over-merciful  to  its  children,  destroys 
only  125. 

We  cannot  return  to  the  simpler  and  more 
wholesome  conditions  of  an  earlier  age.  Our 
machines  will  continue  to  increase  their  speed; 
labor  will  be  further  subdivided,  and  grow  still 
more  monotonous.  We  cannot  expel  women 
from  industry :  our  society  needs  the  services  of 
the  millions  of  women  and  girls  in  its  stores  and 
factories  and  workshops,  and  these  millions  of 
women  and  girls  need  their  opportunities  for 
employment.  We  can,  however,  reduce  the 
working  day  to  a  reasonable  length  ;  we  can  pro- 
hibit night  work  and  restrict  overtime  to  narrow 
limits.  To  judge  from  past  experience  in  the 
reduction  of  working  hours,  these  reforms  would 
not  involve  even  an  immediate  loss  in  productive 
power.  They  would  force  a  readjiistment  of 
work,  and  more  careful  planning  on  the  part  of 
employers.  They  would  eliminate  a  few  em- 
ployers too  incompetent  to  adapt  themselves  to 
a  new  situation.  In  the  long  run,  without  doubt, 
their  influence  would  be  wholly  salutary. 

Miss  Goldmark  recognizes  that  fatigue  is  not 
the  only  evil  afflicting  the  working  class.  But 
the  evil  of  fatigue  is,  in  her  view,  fundamental. 
As  long  as  the  worker  remains,  in  effect,  a  vic- 
tim of  chronic  poisoning,  better  wages,  greater 
security  of  employment,  and  improved  housing 
can  avail  him  little. 

As  the  purpose  of  the  writer  is  purely  prac- 
tical, she  does  not  confine  herself  narrowly  to 
her  main  theme,  but  introduces  whatever  mate- 
rial she  conceives  may  prove  useful  to  the  re- 
former. Much  of  the  space  of  the  book  is  given 
to  an  analysis  of  existing  labor  laws  and  a  criti- 


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cism  of  the  methods  employed  in  their  enforce- 
ment. The  book  contains,  in  addition  to  its 
three  hundred  pages  of  text,  the  substance  of 
the  briefs  submitted  to  the  courts  by  Mr.  Louis 
D.  Brandeis  and  Miss  Goldmark  in  defense  of 
the  ten-hour  laws  of  Oregon  and  Illinois  and 
the  fifty-four-hour  law  of  Ohio.  This  material 
is  excellent;  it  gives  ready  access  to  the  best 
expert  opinion,  both  American  and  foreign,  on 
the  physical  effects  of  industrial  labor.  Miss 
Goldmark's  book  may  justly  be  appraised  as  the 
most  important  recent  contribution  to  the  litera- 
ture of  the  labor  problem. 

"  Making  Both  Ends  Meet "  also  deals  with 
the  strain  and  weariness  of  women's  labor,  the 
waste  of  women's  strength  and  life  in  the  fac- 
tories and  workshops  of  the  modern  city.  Chief 
emphasis,  however,  is  laid  upon  the  question  of 
wages.  The  method  employed  by  Mrs.  Clark 
and  Miss  Wyatt  differs  radically  from  that  of 
Miss  Goldmark.  The  latter  works,  by  pref- 
erence, with  statistics,  laboratory  tests,  expert 
opinion ;  the  authors  of  "  Making  Both  Ends 
Meet"  describe  the  life  of  the  workers  as  it  has 
fallen  under  their  direct  observation,  and  narrate 
the  histories,  more  or  less  typical,  of  workers 
whose  confidence  they  have  gained.  The  au- 
thors enable  us  to  see  exactly  what  these  workers 
earn  and  how  they  spend  their  earnings ;  what 
is  their  home  life, —  if  we  may  thus  distort  the 
meaning  of  that  phrase;  what  opportunities 
they  have  for  recreation  and  enjoyment ;  what 
chances  offer  of  substantial  improvement  in  their 
lot.  At  best  the  story  is  one  of  barely  making 
both  ends  meet ;  at  worst,  it  is  a  story  no  one 
will  read  with  pleasure.  The  book  gives  evi- 
dence of  much  patient  and  courageous  work  on 
the  part  of  the  authors  and  their  collaborators. 
Its  intensely  personal  note  makes  it  an  excellent 
complement  of  the  work  of  Miss  Goldmark. 

Miss  Butler's  "  Saleswomen  in  Mercantile 
Stores  "  is  a  detailed  study  of  the  conditions  of 
work  and  pay  in  the  mercantile  establishments 
in  Baltimore.  The  author's  work  is  thorough 
and  systematic ;  and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  similar 
investigations  will  be  made  in  other  cities.  The 
saleswomen  of  Baltimore  work  56.9  hours  a 
week  (70.7  hours  the  week  before  Christmas). 
Half  of  them  earn  five  dollars  a  week  or  less ;  not 
one-fifth  of  them  earn  above  six  dollars  a  week. 
Overwork  and  underpay, — these  form  the  com- 
mon lot  of  women  in  "gainful  occupations." 

In  "  The  Women  of  To-morrow,"  Mr.  William 
Hard  addresses  himself  to  another  aspect  of  the 
modern  industrial  situation :  the  assumption  by 
industry  of  manifold  functions  formerly  exercised 


by  the  household,  and  the  consequent  acquisition 
of  leisure  by  women  of  the  middle  class.  That 
this  problem  is  a  serious  one,  Mrs.  Schreiner 
and  Mrs.  Gilman  have  already  convinced  us. 
Half  the  women  of  the  middle  class  do  not  marry; 
those  who  do  marry  have  few  children,  as  a  rule, 
and  consequently  find  difficulties  in  occupying 
themselves  fully — difficulties  possibly  somewhat 
exaggerated  by  our  sociological  writers.  Mr. 
Hard  sees  in  present-day  educational  tendencies 
the  promise  of  a  solution  of  the  problem.  The 
women  of  to-morrow  will  be  trained  for  an  inde- 
pendent part  in  economic  life;  they  will  be 
trained  in  the  art  of  spending ;  they  will  be 
trained  for  the  assumption  of  civic  duties  Mr. 
Hard  is,  however,  no  dealer  in  solutions;  he  is 
an  enthusiastic  inquirer  with  an  optimistic  trend, 
and  his  book  is  so  attractively  written  that  the 
reader  himself  is  almost  constrained  to  assume 
an  attitude  of  enthusiastic  optimism.  Who 
knows?  Possibly  the  well-trained  women  of 
to-morrow  will  solve  the  problems  of  industrial 
labor  now  so  hopelessly  bungled  by  the  men  of 
to-day.  ALVIN  S.  JOHNSON. 


CARTWRIGHT 


LABRADOR.* 


Toward  the  close  of  the  eighteenth  century 
there  appeared  a  formidable  narrative,  in  three 
volumes,  bearing  in  the  manner  of  the  period 
this  comprehensive  title:  "Journal  of  Transac- 
tions and  Events  during  a  Residence  of  nearly 
Sixteen  Years  on  the  Coast  of  Labrador;  con- 
taining Many  Interesting  Particulars  both  of  the 
Country  and  its  Inhabitants  not  hitherto  Known; 
Illustrated  with  Proper  Charts."  The  Journal 
of  Captain  George  Cartwright  now  ranks  among 
the  rare  Americana,  and  is  seldom  found  even 
in  the  larger  libraries.  It  has  always  seemed 
matter  for  regret  that  someone  had  not  under- 
taken a  reprint  of  this  valuable  narrative ;  for  it 
is  such  from  several  points  of  view.  Cartwright 
was  a  man  of  untiring  energy  and  wide  observa- 
tion. During  his  long  residence  on  the  Labrador 
coast  he  was  almost  constantly  on  the  move, 
hunting,  trapping,  fishing,  visiting  Indian  and 
Eskimo  encampments,  exploring  the  country; 
wherever  he  went  he  found  something  new  to 
interest  him,  and  whatever  he  saw  he  made  a 
note  of,  for  his  own  sake  in  the  first  instance, 
and  ultimately  for  ours.  What  he  tells  us  is 
well  worth  the  telling,  and  it  gains  double  value 

*  CAPTAIN  CARTWRIGHT  AND  His  LABRADOR  JOURNAL. 
Edited  by  Charles  Wendell  Townsend,  M.D.  With  an  Intro- 
duction by  Dr.  Wilfred  T.  Grenf  ell.  Boston:  Dana  Estes  &  Co. 


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from  the  simple  and  graphic  frankness  of  the 
author's  style.  The  Journal  in  its  original  form 
is  a  delightfully  entertaining  narrative,  with  only 
two  faults — its  inaccessibility  and  its  inordinate 
length.  Thanks  to  Dr.  Townsend,  to  whom  we 
were  already  indebted  for  several  books  on  Lab- 
rador, both  these  faults  have  now  been  elimi- 
nated. He  has  not  only  given  us  a  reprint  of 
Cartwright's  Journal,  but  he  has  succeeded  in 
reducing  it  to  the  compass  of  a  single  volume 
without  destroying  any  of  the  charm  of  the  ori- 
ginal. 

In  his  own  Preface  and  Introduction,  Dr. 
Townsend  presents  an  interesting  account  of 
Cartwright  as  he  appeared  to  his  contemporaries, 
and  of  his  life  before  and  after  he  engaged  in 
the  Labrador  fur-trade.  Southey's  picture  of 
this  Robinson  Crusoe  of  the  north,  as  he  ap- 
peared in  1791,  is  too  good  to  pass  by. 

"I  was  visiting  with  the  Lambs,  at  Hampstead,  in 
Kent,  at  the  house  of  Hodges,  his  brother-in-law;  we 
had  nearly  finished  dinner  when  he  came  in.  He  de- 
sired the  servant  to  cut  him  a  plate  of  beef  from  the 
sideboard.  I  thought  the  footman  meant  to  insult  him: 
the  plate  was  piled  to  a  height  which  no  ploughboy  after 
a  hard  day's  fasting  could  have  levelled ;  but  the  moment 
he  took  up  his  knife  and  fork  and  arranged  the  plate,  I 
saw  this  was  no  common  man.  A  second  and  third  sup- 
ply soon  vanished.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lamb,  who  had  never 
before  seen  him,  glanced  at  each  other;  but  Tom  and  I, 
with  schoolboys'  privilege,  kept  our  eyes  riveted  upon 
him  with  what  Doctor  Butt  would  have  called  the  gaze 
of  admiration.  '  I  see  you  have  been  looking  at  me,' 
(said  he,  when  he  had  done).  'I  have  a  very  great 
appetite.  I  once  fell  in  with  a  stranger  in  the  shooting 
season,  and  we  dined  together  at  an  inn.  There  was  a 
leg  of  mutton,  v/hich  he  did  not  touch.  I  never  make 
more  than  two  cuts  off  a  leg  of  mutton;  the  first  takes 
all  one  side,  the  second  all  the  other;  and  when  I  had 
done  this,  I  laid  the  bone  across  my  knife  for  the  mar- 
row. The  stranger  could  refrain  no  longer.  '  By  God, 
sir,'  said  he,  ' I  never  saw  a  man  eat  like  you!'" 

It  is  difficult  to  give  an  adequate  idea  of  the 
range  of  subjects  that  engaged  Cartwright's  rest- 
less curiosity  and  found  a  place  in  his  Journal. 
Nothing  was  too  trivial  to  escape  his  notice.  He 
gives  many  pages  to  a  minute  and  remarkably 
accurate  account  of  the  beaver;  and  elsewhere 
he  gravely  describes  the  adventure  of  the  ship's 
goat  with  a  bucket  of  rum.  She  got  through 
nearly  a  gallon  of  that  insidious  beverage,  it  ap- 
pears, "and  has  continued  ever  since  in  so  com- 
plete a  state  of  intoxication  as  to  be  unable  to 
get  upon  her  legs."  His  description  of  a  mid- 
winter camp  will  appeal  to  some  of  us  who  have 
tried  that  sort  of  thing. 

"At  midnight  the  frost  increased;  the  wind  blew  the 
fire  about,  and  made  it  smoke  most  intolerably.  The 
fuel  was  not  of  a  good  kind  for  burning,  and  the  trees  in 
the  wood  being  small  and  rather  thinly  scattered,  those 
parts  of  us  which  were  not  immediately  next  to  the  fire 


were  ready  to  freeze;  we  were  therefore  obliged  to  turn 
ourselves  continually;  during  which  time  I  often  wished 
to  be  lashed  to  a  spit,  and  turned  like  a  roasting  goose, 
without  the  trouble  of  doing  it  myself." 

One  gets  some  idea  of  the  profits  of  the 
fur-trade  in  its  palmy  days  from  Cartwright's 
narrative. 

"  Shuglawina  (an  Eskimo)  made  me  a  present  of  a 
very  fine  silver  fox  skin;  but  he  insisted  on  having  the 
same  price  for  the  brush  of  it  as  I  had  just  paid  for  an 
entire  skin.  However,  as  he  only  demanded  a  small 
ivory  comb,  which  cost  me  no  more  than  twopence  half- 
penny, and  the  skin  was  worth  four  guineas,  I  made  no 
scruple  in  completing  the  purchase." 

After  what  Southey  tells  us,  it  is  not  sur- 
prising to  find  frequent  mention  of  meals  in  the 
Journal,  and  some  of  them  were  odd  enough. 
Traders  wintering  on  the  Labrador  could  not 
afford  to  be  squeamish.  "  I  had  a  loin  of  white 
bear  roasted  for  dinner,"  he  says  in  one  place, 
"  which  proved  very  good  ;  although,  to  say  the 
truth,  it  was  much  like  beef  basted  with  seal 
oil ;  however,  for  want  of  the  beef  without  the 
oil,  I  ate  near  two  pounds  of  it."  On  another 
occasion  he  and  his  men  were  reduced  to  a 
fore-quarter  of  wolf,  which  proved  so  hard, 
dry,  tough,  and  rank,  that  at  first  he  could  not 
swallow  it.  A  day  or  two  later,  he  mentions 
that  he  had  finished  the  wolf,  and  adds,  with  an 
air  of  sly  triumph,  that  he  has  at  last  got  the 
better  of  his  squeamish  stomach.  But  as  a 
trencherman  he  has  to  admit  that  he  is  not  in 
the  same  class  with  the  average  Eskimo.  He 
entertained  a  party  of  them  at  his  camp.  "  Nine 
salmon  were  boiled  for  them,  and,  although  the 
fish  were  fifteen  pounds  weight  each,  on  an 
average,  they  ate  the  whole  at  a  meal.  I  can  eat 
pretty  well  myself ;  but  my  performances  in  that 
way  are  not  worth  recording  in  the  history  of  men 
of  such  superior  talents." 

In  addition  to  a  very  complete  account  of  the 
Eskimo,  and  the  Indians  of  Labrador,  Cart- 
wright  gives  from  personal  knowledge  a  de- 
scription of  the  since  extinct  Beothuk  tribe  of 
Newfoundland.  So  little  is  known  of  this  unfor- 
tunate race  that  this  record,  based  on  personal 
observation,  is  exceedingly  valuable.  He  de- 
scribes them  as  "  the  most  forlorn  of  any  of  the 
human  species  which  have  yet  come  to  my  knowl- 
edge, the  Indians  of  Terra  del  Fuego  excepted." 

Of  his  many  adventures  by  land  and  sea, 
none  is  perhaps  more  exciting  than  a  raid  which 
he  suffered  in  August,  1778,  at  the  hands  of  a 
Boston  privateer,  commanded  by  one  John 
Grimes.  Grimes  swooped  down  on  the  Labra- 
dor settlement,  took  possession  of  Cartwright's 
vessels,  loaded  them  with  his  furs  and  stores, 
and  sailed  away  to  the  south.  "  May  the  devil 


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go  with  them!"  feelingly  exclaims  poor  Cart- 
wright. 

On  his  last  voyage  home,  Cartwright  had  as 
cabin-mate  no  less  a  personage  than  Benedict 
Arnold,  of  whom  he  gives  no  very  flattering  ac- 
count. The  voyage  was  a  long  one,  and  before 
they  reached  England  passengers  and  crew  were 
on  short  allowance.  Water  was  particularly 
scarce,  and  the  passengers  were  only  allowed  a 
pint  a  day.  When  the  ship  came  into  port, 
Cartwright  examined  the  lockers  in  his  cabin 
and  found  a  number  of  bottles  of  wine  missing. 
"I  was  informed  by  the  mate,"  he  says,  "that 
at  such  times  as  I  was  upon  deck,  General 
Arnold,  through  the  medium  of  his  servant,  had 
stolen  most  of  the  wine,  which  belonged  to  us 
both,  and  had  sold  it  to  the  sailors  for  water, 
which  he  kept  for  his  own  use." 

LAWRENCE  J.  BURPEE. 


THE  NEW  HISTORY.* 

Every  now  and  then  the  omniscient  reviewer 
pronounces  some  historical  work  to  be  "definitive." 
I  confess  to  an  entire  lack  of  interest  in  all  such 
works,  —  if  they  really  are  definitive.  Why  study 
a  subject  about  which  nothing  more  can  be  learned? 
It  is  a  desolating  thought  that  a  period  once  impor- 
tant, such  as  the  Reformation,  or  a  great  movement 
as  fascinating  as  it  is  elusive,  like  the  French  Revo- 
lution, has  been  put  on  the  shelf  finally:  quite  fin- 
ished and  done  with,  and  done  for;  nothing  more 
to  be  said  about  it, — henceforth  useless  except  to  be 
conned  by  rote.  Who  cares  to  open  a  book  that  is 
without  defect  or  amiable  weakness?  The  impec- 
cable thing  paralyzes  the  will  and  makes  pedants  of 
us  all. 

Fortunately,  the  definitive  book  in  history  is 
never  definitive  for  more  than  a  short  while.  The 
appearance  of  many  definitive  works,  the  flourishing 
of  "standard"  histories,  is  most  usually  an  indica- 
tion, not  that  history  is  exhausted,  but  that  a  certain 
method  of  treating  it  is  about  played  out.  Sooner 
or  later  some  disturbing  genius  takes  a  new  point  of 
view,  some  heretic  comes  along  with  a  novel  method 
of  treatment,  and  everything  has  to  be  done  over 
again.  The  "new  history  "  is  announced  before  the 
old  has  become  fairly  complacent. 

"The  present,"  says  Professor  Robinson  in  his 
volume  entitled  "The  New  History,"  "has  hitherto 
been  the  willing  victim  of  the  past ;  the  time  has  now 
come  when  it  should  turn  on  the  past  and  exploit  it 
in  the  interest  of  advance."  In  one  sense  it  might 
be  maintained  that  the  present  has  never  been  the 
victim  of  the  past,  but  that  its  instinct  has  always 

*THE  NEW  HISTORY.  Essays  Illustrating  the  Modern 
Historical  Outlook.  By  James  Harvey  Robinson,  Professor 
of  History  in  Columbia  University.  New  York :  The  Mac- 
millan  Co. 


been  to  exploit  the  past  for  its  own  purposes.  In 
some  periods  the  interest  of  the  present  has  seemed 
to  lie  in  sustaining  existing  social  arrangements,  in 
justifying  certain  prevailing  theories  of  life;  and  in 
such  periods  history  has  been  a  conservative  force. 
At  other  times  the  interest  of  the  present  has  seemed 
to  lie  in  transforming  existing  institutions,  in  de- 
stroying certain  prevailing  conceptions;  and  then 
men  have  turned  to  the  past  and  have  found  in  it 
arguments  suited  to  revolution.  History,  when  it 
has  not  been  merely  edifying,  has  usually  served 
primarily  either  as  a  justification  or  as  a  criticism 
of  the  existing  regime. 

Thus  Saint  Augustine  exploited  the  past  to  dis- 
credit Paganism  and  to  propagate  Christian  doctrine ; 
and  his  conception  of  history,  after  Christianity 
almost  destroyed  Paganism,  was  for  many  centuries 
a  powerful  conservative  force,  an  instrument  for 
maintaining  the  supremacy  of  the  Church.  But  the 
Protestants  appealed  to  history  to  justify  their  revolt 
from  that  same  Church, — quite  definitely  and  con- 
sciously they  "  exploited  the  past  in  the  interest  of 
advance."  Quite  as  definitely,  though  perhaps  less 
consciously,  the  erudite  scholars  of  the  seventeenth 
and  eighteenth  centuries  contributed  an  intellectual 
prop  for  the  absolutist  system  of  that  age.  But 
when  the  main  currents  of  social  life  in  France  set 
in  the  direction  of  reform  the  patient  Benedictine 
engaged  in  collecting  documents  for  the  history  of  his 
order,  or  the  learned  layman,  a  Fre'ret  for  example, 
with  his  twenty  volumes  of  impartial  and  disinter- 
ested scholarship,  suffered  eclipse.  It  was  about 
the  middle  of  the  eighteenth  century  that  the  "  Phi- 
losophers" announced  a  "new  history,"  a  history 
which  was  to  tell  the  average  man,  not  what  actually 
happened,  but  what  he  ought  to  think  about  what 
had  happened,  and  especially  about  what  might 
happen;  and  this  new  history  did  indeed  exploit 
the  past  most  effectively  in  the  interest  of  advance, 
or  what  was  supposed  to  be  advance. 

But  what  of  the  nineteenth  century,  with  its  de- 
tachment and  scientific  method  ?  Have  we  not  been 
assured  that  the  writing  of  history  has  at  last  been 
put  on  a  sound  and  permanent  foundation  ?  Un- 
doubtedly we  have,  but  that  is  an  old  story.  Every 
generation  is  disposed  to  think  "we  are  the  people 
and  wisdom  will  die  with  us."  Still  one  may  hope 
that  historical  wisdom  will  survive  Leopold  von 
Ranke,  and  even  Mr.  Round.  The  future  student 
of  the  intellectual  life  of  our  day  will  doubtless  see 
shat  the  historical  writing  of  the  nineteenth  century, 
ike  the  historical  writing  of  other  times,  has  been 
shaped  by  the  pressure  of  social  needs;  will  point 
out  how  it  has  served  a  certain  social  purpose;  will 
perhaps  admit,  from  his  superior  vantage,  that  much 
rood  work  was  done  in  spite  of  inadequate  knowl- 
dge  and  an  imperfect  criticism.  Perhaps  it  will  then 
>e  seen  that  the  method  inaugurated  by  Savigny,  and 
>rought  to  some  sort  of  perfection  by  Ranke  and  his 
disciples,  was  one  of  the  forms  assumed  by  the  intel- 
ectual  reaction  from  the  philosophy  of  the  French 
devolution ;  that  the  historical  school  was  in  the  in  • 


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tellectual  life  of  the  century  what  the  Historic  Rights 
party  was  in  political  life, — a  most  effective  bulwark 
against  those  insurgent  principles  that  were  regarded 
as  having  played  havoc  with  Europe  for  a  generation. 
Convinced  by  sharp  experience  that  conscious  at- 
tempts at  radical  social  reconstruction  were  danger- 
ous, the  nineteenth  century  wished  to  exploit  the  past 
to  disprove  the  doctrine  of  natural  rights  and  to  con- 
demn the  methods  of  the  French  Revolution.  And 
so,  working  in  such  an  atmosphere,  historians  nat- 
urally enough  became  interested  in  historic  rights 
rather  than  in  natural  rights ;  preoccupied  with  what 
happened,  they  were  studiously  non-commital  about 
what  ought  to  have  happened;  disposed  to  make 
much  of  changes  that  came  very  slowly  and  little  of 
changes  that  came  suddenly;  inclined  to  belittle  con- 
scious purpose  as  an  influence  in  shaping  institutions ; 
well  content  if  it  turned  out  that  some  great  affair 
could  be  traced  to  an  obscure  origin, —  as,  for  exam- 
ple, the  expense  involved  in  equipping  a  cavalry 
service.  And  after  much  patient  investigation  along 
the  lines  of  these  initial  preconceptions,  it  was  discov- 
ered that  in  fact  there  were  no  natural  rights ;  that 
what  happened  was  nearly  if  not  quite  the  thing  that 
had  to  happen,  so  that  it  was  useless  to  inquire  what 
ought  to  have  happened ;  that  change  in  institutions 
and  ideas  was,  to  be  sure,  the  fundamental  thing  in 
history;  but  that  change  was  most  fruitful  if  it  came 
slowly  without  anyone's  wishing  for  it,  and  least 
fruitful  if  it  came  quite  suddenly  as  the  result  of 
everybody's  wishing  for  it  very  much,  and  working 
to  bring  it  about.  For  purposes  of  illustration,  the 
history  of  England  was  found,  rather  providentially, 
to  be  wonderfully  well  adapted.  And  so,  by  a  most 
happy  chance,  history  itself,  scientifically  conceived 
and  impartially  studied,  proved  that  the  French 
Revolution  was  undoubtedly  a  necessary  mistake, — 
an  historical  event  which  had  done  a  certain  amount 
of  good  surely,  but  which,  by  virtue  of  having  de- 
parted from  the  most  approved  precedents,  had  done 
it  in  a  very  bad  way. 

But  the  shadow  which  the  Reign  of  Terror  cast 
over  Europe  for  a  century  is  passing,  while  at  the 
same  time  it  is  perfectly  certain  that  neither  the 
formulas  of  the  Manchester  school,  nor  the  resound- 
ing phrases  of  Liberalism,  nor  reliance  upon  the 
Manifest  Destiny  of  Historic  Rights,  is  ushering  in 
any  millenium.  At  present  there  are  signs  of  a  re- 
turn to  earlier  ideas,  a  disposition,  in  certain  quar- 
ters, to  rehabilitate  the  "rags  and  tags  and  paltry 
blurred  shreds  of  paper  about  the  rights  of  man." 
The  resplendent  vision  of  Perfectibility,  although  it 
has  doubtless  taken  on  some  neutral  litmus  paper 
tints,  has  never  been  quite  lost;  transformed  into  the 
idea  of  Progress — the  belief  that  society  can  by  its 
own  efforts  indefinitely  increase  the  happiness  and 
welfare  of  all  men  —  it  is  perhaps  the  one  really  vital 
faith  of  our  day.  It  is  not  impossible,  therefore,  that 
the  great  task  of  the  present  century  will  centre  in 
a  second  attempt  to  bring  to  fruition  those  splendid 
ideals  of  social  justice  which  the  generous  minds  of 
the  eighteenth  century  conceived,  and  which  the  men 


of  the  Revolution,  with  the  courage  of  their  emotions, 
embodied  in  "  glittering  generalities  "  for  the  edifica- 
tion of  mankind.  As  the  problem  of  "  social  better- 
ment" becomes  more  insistent,  discontent  with  the  ex- 
isting regime  gathers  force.  It  is  not  unreasonable  to 
suppose  that  in  the  next  half  century  intellectual  inter- 
ests will  be  somewhat  withdrawn  from  the  past  and 
concentrated  somewhat  more  in  the  future,  less  con- 
cerned about  what  actually  happened  and  rather  more 
concerned  about  what  ought  to  happen.  That  this 
change  of  emphasis  will  profoundly  affect  the  study 
and  writing  of  history,  is  a  prediction  which  may  be 
safely  ventured. 

The  purpose  of  Professor  Robinson's  little  volume 
(which  is  only  a  collection  of  essays  and  addresses 
prepared  for  different  occasions  during  the  last  ten 
years,  and  which,  for  that  reason,  lacks  something  of 
the  definiteness,  consistency,  and  structural  coordi- 
nation which  the  title  might  lead  one  to  expect)  is  to 
venture  just  that  prediction,  to  suggest  that  the  time 
is  ripe  for  historians  to  ask  themselves  whether  the 
aims  and  methods  by  which  so  much  has  been  achieved 
in  the  last  sixty  years  are  precisely  those  which  will 
serve  best  for  the  future.  Professor  Robinson  is  con- 
vinced that  they  are  not ;  and,  without  professing  to 
formulate  any  definite  programme,  he  wishes  to  em- 
phasize the  fact  "  that  history  should  not  be  regarded 
as  a  stationary  subject  which  can  only  progress  by 
refining  its  methods  and  accumulating,  criticizing, 
and  assimilating  new  material,  but  that  it  is  bound 
to  alter  its  ideals  and  aims  with  the  general  progress 
of  society  and  of  the  social  sciences,  and  that  it  should 
ultimately  play  an  infinitely  more  important  role  in 
our  intellectual  life  than  it  has  hitherto  done."  Not 
unnaturally,  therefore,  one  characteristic  note  of  the 
book  is  discontent;  and  in  this  it  voices  the  feeling 
of  many  historical  students,  especially  of  the  younger 
generation.  What  is  the  use,  they  are  asking  them- 
selves, of  so  many  learned  volumes  which  nobody 
reads?  What  is  the  use  of  so  much  erudition  that 
contributes  so  little  to  "the  instant  need  of  things"? 
In  reading  these  essays  one  often  wonders  if  Profes- 
sor Robinson  does  not  regret  that  Fate  made  him  an 
historian  at  all,  and  not  a  real  scientist, —  an  anthro- 
pologist perhaps,  or  comparative  psychologist.  In  the 
end,  however,  one  is  convinced  that  such  is  not  the 
case ;  for  if  he  sees  the  "plight  in  which  history  finds 
itself  "  just  now,  he  is  confident  that  there  is  a  bril- 
liant future  in  store  for  it ;  and  this  note  of  confidence 
in  the  future  of  history  is  only  less  marked  than  the 
note  of  dissatisfaction  with  its  present  condition. 

In  both  respects  Professor  Robinson's  attitude 
inevitably  recalls  the  point  of  view  of  the  eighteenth 
century  Philosophe.  "All  the  weighty  substance 
of  our  historians,"  said  Grimm  in  1755,  "consists  in 
a  tedious  and  pedantic  discussion  of  facts  which  are 
ordinarily  as  indifferent  as  they  are  uncertain." 
Professor  Robinson,  in  like  manner,  employs  his  dry 
humor  at  the  expense  of  a  certain  type  of  historian 
solemnly  engaged  in  determining  "whether  Charles 
the  Fat  was  in  Ingelheim  or  Lustnau  on  July  1, 887," 
or  in  pointing  out  "the  spot  where  Nehemiah 


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Abbot's  ox  met  an  untimely  and  suspicious  end  by 
choking  on  a  turnip."  With  the  dull  chronicle,  how- 
ever adequately  "documented,"  Professor  Robinson 
is  dissatisfied,  not  because  it  is  dull,  but  because  it 
so  often  does  not  help  us  in  the  least  to  understand 
the  present,  and  so  does  not  help  us  to  deal  with  its 
problems  intelligently.  This  was  also  the  point  of 
view  of  the  eighteenth  century  reformer.  "Other 
historians,"  Diderot  told  Voltaire,  "relate  facts  to 
inform  us  of  facts.  You  relate  them  in  order  to 
excite  in  us  an  intense  hatred  of  lying,  ignorance, 
hypocrisy,  superstition,  fanaticism,  tyranny ;  and  this 
anger  remains,  even  after  the  memory  of  the  facts 
has  passed  away."  Professor  Robinson  is  as  far  as 
possible  from  wishing  the  historian  to  relate  facts 
in  order  to  excite  hatred  and  anger.  The  point  of 
resemblance  is  that  he,  like  Grimm  and  Diderot, 
wishes  to  exploit  the  past  in  the  interest  of  advance. 
Now,  in  the  eighteenth  century  the  histories  which 
exploited  the  past  in  the  interest  of  advance  were 
precisely  those  which  aroused  discontent  with  the 
existing  regime.  It  is  perhaps  a  fair  question 
whether  histories  written  in  the  twentieth  century, 
if  they  are  consciously  to  exploit  the  past  in  the 
interest  of  advance,  will  do  it  in  the  same  way, — 
by  arousing  discontent  with  the  existing  regime. 

Yes,  Professor  Robinson  would  reply;  provided 
it  arouses  an  intelligent  discontent,  that  is  precisely 
the  best  thing  history  can  possibly  do.  The  business 
of  history  is  to  arouse  an  intelligent  discontent,  to 
foster  a  fruitful  radicalism;  but  it  should  do  this, 
not  by  becoming  less  scientific  than  it  is  now,  but 
by  becoming  more  scientific.  And  this,  again,  is 
the  attitude  of  the  eighteenth  century  philosophers. 
Diderot  and  Grimm  and  their  fellows  were  con- 
vinced that  history  could  be  properly  written  only 
"by  Philosophers,"  —  by  men,  that  is,  who  were 
thoroughly  familiar  with  the  scientific  knowledge 
of  the  day.  Now,  the  most  definite  contention  in 
Professor  Robinson's  book,  the  one  which  he  would 
doubtless  consider  most  important,  is  precisely  that 
historians  have  hitherto  failed  to  make  use  of  the 
results  of  what  he  calls  the  newer  sciences  of  man- 
kind,—  "Anthropology,  in  a  comprehensive  sense, 
Prehistoric  Archaeology,  Social  and  Animal  Psy- 
chology, and  the  Comparative  Study  of  Religions." 
History,  professing  to  deal  with  man  in  the  past, 
has  concerned  itself  much  with  the  past  but  very 
little  with  man.  In  the  future,  "if  history  is  to 
reach  its  highest  development,  it  must  confess  that 
it  is  based  on  sister  sciences,  that  it  can  progress 
only  with  them,  must  lean  largely  on  them  for 
support,  and  in  return  should  repay  its  debt  by  the 
contributions  it  makes  to  our  understanding  of  our 
species."  The  most  vital  concern  of  our  day  is  the 
progress  of  the  race  through  conscious  effort.  Such 
progress  will  be  permanent  and  real  only  if  based 
upon  a  genuine  scientific  knowledge  of  man;  and 
only  by  assimilating  thoroughly  this  scientific  knowl- 
edge of  man  can  the  historian  point  out  to  us  how 
real  progress  has  been  made  in  the  past  and  so  help 
us  to  proceed  aright  in  the  future.  It  is  in  this  way 


that  history  will  arouse  an  intelligent  discontent  and 
foster  a  fruitful  radicalism. 

I  have  insisted,  perhaps  unduly,  upon  the  analogy 
between  Professor  Robinson's  point  of  view  and  that 
of  the  eighteenth  century  reformers,  because  it  seems 
to  me  that  his  conception  of  history  raises  a  funda- 
mental difficulty,  a  difficulty  which  also  confronted 
them.  This  difficulty  is  in  respect  to  the  idea  of 
progress.  What,  after  all,  is  progress  ?  What  is  the 
test,  the  standard  of  value,  which  is  to  determine  the 
direction  of  conscious  effort  towards  social  recon- 
struction? Professor  Robinson's  only  reply  to  this 
question  is  that  "  no  one  who  realizes  the  relative 
barbarism  of  our  whole  civilization  .  .  .  will  have 
the  patience  to  formulate  any  definition  of  progress 
when  the  most  bewildering  opportunities  for  social 
betterment  summon  us  on  every  side."  This  is  very 
well  if  it  is  only  a  matter  of  doing  what  our  hands 
find  to  do:  one  may  venture  to  feed  the  starving 
before  formulating  a  definition  of  progress.  But  if 
one  wishes  to  remove  the  causes  of  poverty,  a  defi- 
nition of  progress  might  prove  most  useful.  And 
certainly  if  the  historian  is  to  renounce  his  present 
aims  and  methods,  and  to  set  himself  the  task  of 
"  exploiting  the  past  in  the  interest  of  advance,"  he 
needs  a  far  more  definite  notion  of  what  advance  is 
than  can  be  found  in  the  statement  that  "the  most 
bewildering  opportunities  for  betterment  summon  us 
on  every  side  ";  he  needs,  in  fact,  a  genuinely  scien- 
tific definition  of  progress. 

It  need  hardly  be  said  that  present-day  ideas  of 
progress  are  most  intangible.  A  profound  faith  in 
progress,  we  have ;  a  world  of  light  talk  about  it, — 
that  we  have  also;  but  the  truth  is  we  never  know 
what  form  progress  will  take  until  after  the  event. 
Opposing  principles  are  reconciled  by  falling  into 
chronological  sequence,  and  socialism,  for  example, 
acquires  virtue  by  the  mere  passing  of  liberalism 
into  the  limbo  of  yesterday.  And  this  would  seem 
to  be  the  necessary  result  of  a  philosophy  which 
identifies  man  and  nature,  thus  reducing  all  values 
to  the  relative  test.  The  price  of  not  having  dogmatic 
creeds  is  that  the  content  of  our  faith  is  successively 
unfolded,  as  it  were,  only  in  the  daily  practice  of  it. 
In  the  eighteenth  century  the  conclusions  drawn  from 
the  premises  of  Locke  left  the  reformers  facing  a 
similar  difficulty:  man  is  an  irresponsible  product 
of  uniform  natural  law,  said  the  materialist ;  in  that 
case,  asked  the  reformer,  is  not  society  in  all  its  forms 
necessary  too ;  this  Old  Regime,  which  we  have  con- 
demned, is  it  not  a  very  "state  of  nature  "  after  all? 
The  dilemma  had  been  succinctly  stated  by  Pascal 
long  before.  "Custom,"  he  said,  "is  a  second  nature 
which  destroys  the  first.  But  what  is  this  nature? 
I  fear  that  nature  itself  is  only  a  first  custom."  No 
French  Revolution  could  issue  from  a  dilemma  which 
brought  everything  to  a  stand.  It  was  Rousseau  who 
cut  the  Gordian  knot  by  giving  a  new  form  to  the 
old  dualism  of  man  and  nature :  "  Man  is  naturally 
good,  it  is  society  which  corrupts  him."  The  modern 
social  reformer  is  confronted  by  much  the  same  di- 
lemma; and  if  conscious  effort  towards  social  regen- 


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eration  is  to  issue  in  anything  more  than  temporary 
expedients,  the  distinction  between  what  is  natural 
and  permanent  in  human  society  and  what  is  artificial 
and  temporary  must  be  drawn  again  in  some  manner 
or  other.  But  to  be  in  any  way  effective,  the  distinc- 
tion must  be  based  upon  genuine  scientific  knowledge 
as  well  as  upon  an  emotional  faith.  Perhaps  it  is 
the  task  of  religion  to  furnish  the  latter ;  it  certainly 
rests  with  science  to  furnish  the  former.  Science, 
rather  than  history,  must  discover,  as  Kant  said,  "the 
constant  elements  in  man's  nature,  in  order  to  under- 
stand what  sort  of  perfection  it  is  that  suits  him,  alike 
in  a  state  of  rude  simplicity,  in  a  state  of  wise  simpli- 
city, and  in  a  state  which  transcends  both  of  these." 
It  may  be  that  the  "newer  sciences  of  mankind" 
can  achieve  this.  Who  shall  say  ?  But  until  they  do, 
it  is  infinitely  true,  as  Professor  Robinson  himself 
says,  that  "one  may  find  solace  and  intellectual  re- 
pose in  surrendering  all  attempts  to  define  history, 
and  in  conceding  that  it  is  the  business  of  the  his- 
torian to  find  out  anything  about  mankind  in  the 
past  which  he  believes  to  be  interesting  or  important 
and  about  which  there  are  sources  of  information." 
This  is  a  franchise  which  surely  includes  us  all. 
Meanwhile,  by  all  means  let  the  historian  learn  all 
he  possibly  can  about  the  newer  sciences  of  mankind, 
and  about  the  older  sciences  too,  and  about  philoso- 
phy, about  literature,  about  art,  about  everything 
that  is  under  the  sun :  all  this  knowledge  will  serve, 
"if  judiciously  practised,  greatly  to  strengthen  and 
deepen  the  whole  range  of  historical  study  and 
render  its  results  far  more  valuable  than  they  have 
hitherto  been."  CAKL  BECKER. 


BRIEFS  ON  NEW  BOOKS. 


It  is  a  most  attractive  personality  that 


Hale's  volume  entitled  "Woodrow 
Wilson:  The  Story  of  His  Life"  (Doubleday). 
Whatever  may  be  the  outcome  of  the  present  presi- 
dential campaign,  no  one  who  reads  this  sketch  can 
doubt  that  our  political  life  has  already  received  a 
much-needed  impetus  upward  by  Dr.  Wilson's  en- 
trance from  the  seclusion  of  academic  labor  into  the 
strenuous  activities  of  politics.  Dr.  Wilson  comes 
naturally  by  his  seriousness  of  purpose,  his  strength 
of  conviction,  and  his  devotion  to  the  cause  of  edu- 
cation and  good  government.  He  is  descended  from 
an  ancestry  that  has  always  stood  for  what  is  sturdy 
and  honorable  in  American  history.  The  Wilsons 
were  Scotch-Irish  and  the  Woodrows  (the  mother's 
family)  were  Scotch.  One  fancies  there  must  have 
been  village  dominies  in  the  line  of  the  mother's 
descent,  and  that  one  of  them  was  reincarnated  in  the 
friendly,  sane,  and  vigorous  president  of  Princeton, 
who  fought  so  faithfully  for  sincerity  in  academic 
life  and  work  and  for  democracy  in  the  university. 
Most  interesting  is  the  story  of  this  batttle  of  a 
president  of  one  of  our  greatest  universities  to 


restore  the  preeminence  of  intellectual  concerns  over 
the  shallow  and  abnormal  social  interests  and  the 
baneful  athletic  craze,  which  together  called  forth 
the  remark  of  a  cynical  observer  that  Princeton  was 
the  finest  country  club  in  America.  Dr.  Wilson  was 
not  content  to  alter  radically  the  system  of  election 
of  studies,  so  as  to  secure  better  coordination  in  the 
studies  of  each  student;  but  he  also  introduced  the 
system  of  preceptors,  in  order  that  young  and  imma- 
ture minds  might  have  the  steady  guidance  and 
inspiration  of  trained  intelligence  in  the  pursuit  of 
their  university  careers.  He  went  yet  a  step  further, 
and  proposed  to  cut  through  the  artificial  stratifica- 
tion of  university  society,  to  house  all  students  in 
dormitories  and  to  have  men  from  all  college  classes 
in  the  same  buildings,  and  with  them  young  profes- 
sors. It  was  just  when  this  plan  for  making  uni- 
versity life  democratic,  and  his  allied  plan  for  the 
graduate  school  to  be  erected  on  the  same  campus 
with  the  college,  had  received  a  serious  setback,  and 
seemed  doomed  to  temporary  defeat,  that  Dr.  Wilson 
was  summoned  into  public  life.  No  one  who  had 
observed  his  career  at  Princeton  could  fail  to  foresee 
that  he  would  be  unswerving  in  his  adherence  to 
democracy  and  honesty  in  politics ;  yet  the  bosses  who 
helped  to  seat  him  in  the  governor's  chair  seem  to 
have  estimated  the  sincerity  of  his  campaign  declar- 
ations at  the  same  rate  as  their  own.  When  they 
learned  too  late  that  he  meant  to  keep  every  promise 
he  had  made,  there  was  bitter  denunciation.  He 
had  proved  recalcitrant  and  ungrateful.  In  the  pic- 
turesque language  of  the  campaign,  Dr.  Wilson  had 
warned  all  concerned  that  it  was  plain  that  Provi- 
dence had  not  intended  him  to  be  ornamental  and 
that  he  would  be  a  very  busy  governor.  The  record 
of  what  he  accomplished  for  the  people  of  New 
Jersey  against  the  combined  rings  of  both  the  Dem- 
ocrats and  the  Republicans  is  as  thrilling  as  a  story 
of  knight-errantry.  It  is  a  record  that  harmonizes 
with  the  rare  quality  of  Dr.  Wilson's  stump  oratory 
—  clear,  vivid,  picturesque,  and  yet  always  flavored 
with  the  dignity  that  we  associate  with  scholars- 
whose  culture  has  not  killed  their  humanity. 


The  story  of  J.n  an  allegory  or  fantasy  clothed  in 
a  heavenly  simple  and  beautiful  language  that 

pilgrimage.  occasionally  reminds  one  of  "The 
Pilgrim's  Progress,"  Mr.  Arthur  C.  Benson  relates, 
in  "  The  Child  of  the  Dawn  "  (Putnam) ,  the  supposed 
experiences  of  a  soul  privileged  to  visit  heaven  and 
to  see  God  in  the  timeless  interval  between  two  suc- 
cessive reincarnations.  In  an  interesting  preface 
the  author  says:  "The  fact  that  underlies  the  book 
is  this :  that  in  the  course  of  a  very  sad  and  strange 
experience  —  an  illness  which  lasted  for  some  two 
years,  involving  me  in  a  dark  cloud  of  dejection  — 
I  came  to  believe  practically,  instead  of  merely  theo- 
retically, in  the  personal  immortality  of  the  human 
soul.  I  was  conscious,  during  the  whole  time,  that 
though  the  physical  machinery  of  the  nerves  was  out 
of  gear,  the  soul  and  the  mind  remained,  not  only 


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intact,  but  practically  unaffected  by  the  disease,  im- 
prisoned, like  a  bird  in  a  cage,  but  perfectly  free  in 
themselves,  and  uninjured  by  the  bodily  weakness 
which  enveloped  them."  Nor  was  that  all.  He  was 
led  to  see  that  his  hitherto  accepted  standards  of  value 
were  more  or  less  false,  and  "that  what  really  mat- 
tered to  the  soul  was  the  relation  in  which  it  stood 
to  other  souls ;  that  affection  was  the  native  air 
of  the  spirit;  and  that  anything  which  distracted 
the  heart  from  the  duty  of  love  was  a  kind  of  bodily 
delusion,  and  simply  hindered  the  spirit  in  its  pil- 
grimage." The  picture  presented  in  the  succeeding 
pages  of  the  joys  and  sorrows  of  discarnate  spirits 
is  admirably  drawn,  enriched  with  many  a  stroke  of 
wit  and  wisdom,  of  tenderness  and  humor,  of  insight 
and  sympathy.  The  prospect  of  an  indefinite  series 
of  earthly  lives  for  each  soul,  as  conceived  by  the 
author,  is  of  course  not  new  or  startling,  but  so  for- 
bidding to  most  of  us  that  we  prefer  to  dream  our 
own  dreams  about  the  tremendous  possibilities  of  the 
future.  What  the  book  teaches  most  impressively 
and  acceptably  is  the  supreme  importance  of  love, 
compared  with  which  nothing  else  matters.  To  show 
that  the  book  is  not  unworthy  of  mention  in  the  same 
breath  with  Bunyan's  masterpiece,  let  us  quote,  as 
an  example  of  its  style,  a  paragraph  from  its  closing 
pages.  "Then  I  took  Cynthia's  hand  and  laid  it  in 
the  hand  of  Lucius ;  and  I  left  them  there  upon  the 
peak,  and  turned  no  more.  And  no  more  woeful 
spirit  was  in  the  land  of  heaven  that  day  than  mine 
as  I  stumbled  wearily  down  the  slope,  and  found  the 
valley.  And  then,  for  I  did  not  know  the  way  to  de- 
scend, I  commended  myself  to  God;  and  he  took  me." 


A  history  ^n  1892,  Professor  Petrus  Johannes 

of  the  people  Blok  of  the  University  of  Leyden 
of  Holland.  published  the  first  two  volumes  of  a 
"  History  of  the  People  of  the  Netherlands,"  and  in 
1900  these  volumes  were  translated  into  English  by 
Miss  Ruth  Putnam.  As  subsequent  instalments  ap- 
peared in  Holland,  the  translation  has  been  continued; 
until  now  the  fifth  and  concluding  volume,  translated 
(as  was  the  fourth)  by  Mr.  Oscar  Bierstadt,  is  pre- 
sented to  the  public.  At  the  outset  the  author  asserted 
that  he  desired  to  present  not  so  much  the  evolution 
of  Holland  as  a  State,  but  rather  the  life  of  the  peo- 
ple in  "  civilization,  commerce,  industry,  agriculture, 
navigation,  law,  and  economic  development,"  and  he 
avowedly  modelled  his  work  on  that  of  the  English 
historian,  John  Richard  Green.  In  the  execution  of 
his  plan,  however,  he  failed,  in  the  earlier  volumes,  in 
the  attempt  to  interweave  political  events  and  popu- 
lar reaction  to  those  events ;  and  in  this  last  volume, 
covering  the  eighteenth  and  nineteenth  centuries,  he 
has  largely  altered  his  method.  Political  events  and 
institutional  change  are  here  segregated  in  separate 
chapters,  as  are  intellectual,  industrial,  and  cultural 
topics,  the  result  being  a  distinct  improvement  in 
clarity.  The  work  now  completed  is  an  important 
contribution  to  historical  knowledge,  at  least  for  En- 
glish readers,  since  it  presents  a  continuous  narrative 


of  Dutch  history  not  elsewhere  duplicated,  while 
the  present  volume  offers  a  clear  resume  of  political 
conditions  in  Holland  since  1850,  by  a  careful  and 
scholarly  observer.  The  most  interesting  personality 
of  this  period  is  Thorbecke,  professor  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Leyden,  leader  of  the  liberal  movement  of 
1848,  and  during  three  terms  chief  minister  of  the 
state.  Under  his  guidance,  ministerial  responsibility 
and  direct  election  of  the  popular  branch  of  the 
legislature  were  secured,  and  without  the  strain  of  a 
revolution,  such  as  swept  over  Europe  in  1848.  For 
over  a  quarter  of  a  century  he  exercised  a  tremen- 
dous influence.  Mr.  Blok  tells  us  that  "Thorbecke 
created  the  forms  in  which  the  government  was  to 
move  for  a  long  time ;  his  strong  hand  had  pointed 
out  the  way  to  progress  in  constitutional  development, 
in  material  prosperity,  and  intellectual  emancipation. 
His  name  is  bound  to  the  history  of  this  important 
period ;  his  statue  on  the  Thorbecke  square  in  Am- 
sterdam is  the  memorial  of  a  remarkable  phase  of 
Holland's  national  history."  A  few  good  maps  and 
a  wholly  inadequate  index  conclude  the  volume. 
(Putnam.)  

Observation*  Contributed  originally  to  "The  Ref- 
and  warnings  eree  "  of  London,  the  short  and  timely 
of  a  journalist.  articles  now  collected  by  Mr.  Arnold 
White  under  the  title,  "The  Views  of  'Vanoc'" 
(Dutton),  furnish  considerable  matter  of  interest  to 
the  desultory  reader,-  and  not  a  few  pages  fraught 
with  advice  or  warning  of  an  attention-compelling 
nature  to  any  reader.  The  reason  of  the  pseu- 
donym, "Vanoc,"  is  explained,  or  an  explanation  is 
attempted,  in  a  dedicatory  note  to  the  Editor  of 
"The  Referee."  The  half- hundred  short  chapters 
of  the  book  are  grouped  in  nine  sections,  and  have 
to  do  chiefly  with  political  and  social  questions. 
Already  familiar  to  Mr.  White's  readers  are  his 
views  on  the  necessity  of  an  invincible  navy  for 
England,  and  he  fails  not  to  sound  the  alarmist  note 
in  his  book,  in  an  article  picturing  the  supposed 
eagerness  of  Germany  to  make  a  banquet  on  the 
British  Empire.  "Russia  has  Siberia,"  the  author 
points  out;  "France,  a  rich  soil  and  a  stationary  or 
dwindling  population;  America,  ample  room  to  ex- 
pand ;  Japan,  the  whole  Far  East ;  Britain,  her  own 
Empire.  Germany,  the  greatest  military  Power, 
has  no  place  under  her  own  flag  outside  her  borders 
where  Germans  can  live  and  thrive.  .  .  .  Germany 
wants  that  which  England  possesses."  But  does 
not  all  the  world  know  by  this  time,  what  "The 
Great  Illusion"  has  so  lately  been  reiterating  and 
redemonstrating,  that  trade  and  migration  do  not 
necessarily  or  exclusively  follow  the  flag?  Is  not  the 
Teutonic  portion  of  New  York  one  of  the  largest 
German  cities  in  the  world,  and  are  there  not  countless 
acres  of  new  land  open  to  and  clamoring  for  German 
or  any  other  immigrants  in  the  great  Northwest  of 
America?  Here,  to  change  the  subject,  is  a  suggestive 
passage  from  the  section  devoted  to  eugenics :  "  The 
work  of  the  world  is  mainly  done  by  the  gouty;  to 
speak  by  the  card,  by  the  irritable,  sanguine,  nervy, 


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resolute  people  with  great  engine-driving  power,  not 
by  the  stolid  men  and  women  whose  physical  ma- 
chinery is  perfect.  That  each  of  us  is  among  the 
unfit  is  known  to  every  soul  honest  with  itself."  The 
book  is  already  in  its  second  edition,  or  impression, 
which  speaks  well  for  its  readable  qualities. 

Masterpieces  of  As  with  everything  that  the  late 
art  illustrated  John  La  Farge  wrote,  his  comments 
and  described.  upon  u  One  Hundred  Masterpieces 
of  Painting"  (Doubleday,  Page  &  Co.),  originally 
published  in  "  McClure's  Magazine,"  and  now  put 
together  in  book  form,  bear  the  impress  of  a 
thoughtful  and  well-stored  mind.  The  pictures  — 
one  hundred  and  six  in  all  —  selected  for  repro- 
duction have  been  chosen  to  exemplify  the  point  of 
view  that  art  is  "  the  mirror  of  life,"  and  they  are 
arranged  accordingly,  in  subject  groups.  This 
classification,  though  an  arbitrary  one,  serves  well 
enough,  especially  as  care  has  been  exercised  to 
include  only  works  that  have  enduring  charm  and 
are  free  from  what  the  author  stigmatizes  as  "  the 
bad  taste  of  fashion."  His  descriptions  of  the 
paintings,  though  engagingly  written,  sometimes,  it 
must  be  said,  seem  to  start  nowhere  and  to  lead 
nowhither.  In  a  measure  this  impression  is  attrib- 
utable to  the  way  in  which,  while  advancing  in  an 
apparently  leisurely  manner,  he  touches  lightly  upon 
this  thing  and  that,  and  passes  on  to  another  before 
the  reader  quite  realizes  that  the  transmigration 
has  taken  place ;  but  in  larger  part  it  is  due  to  the 
avoidance  of  technical  explanation.  This  omission, 
however,  necessarily  precludes  an  adequate  expo- 
sition of  the  really  vital  qualities  in  the  works 
described.  Herein  lies  the  futility  of  so-called 
"  popular  "  writing  about  works  of  art.  The  nature 
of  art  forbids  that  the  essential  qualities  can  be 
apprehended  without  some  understanding  of  the 
laws  of  aesthetic  relationship.  Still,  the  other  and 
more  usually  considered  qualities  are  not  unimport- 
ant, and  it  is  instructive  to  note  how  they  impress 
an  artist  of  such  distinction  and  a  man  of  such 
broad  culture  as  John  La  Farge.  The  volume  is 
illustrated  with  excellent  half-tone  reproductions  of 
the  famous  paintings  that  he  has  taken  as  his  text. 
The  range  is  a  wide  one,  extending  from  Botticelli 
and  Memling  to  Puvis  de  Chavannes,  and  even  in- 
cluding one  picture  by  an  early  Japanese  master. 

The  cheerful  ln  a  volume  bearing  the  title  "  Recol- 
"cheerfui  artist's  lections  of  a  Court  Painter"  (Lane), 
experience.  the  genial  Irish  portrait-painter  Mr. 
H.  Jones  Thaddeus  tells  how  he  painted  the  portraits 
of  Pope  Leo  XIII.  and  his  successor  Pius  X.;  how 
he  dined  with  Robert  Browning,  who  looked  "like 
a  portly  shopkeeper"  and  "whose  whole  attention 
was  centered  on  the  good  things  before  him";  how 
he  found  it  possible  to  paint  Gladstone  in  peace 
only  by  agreeing  with  everything  that  the  irascible 
statesman  happened  to  say;  and  how  he  played  the 
part  of  actor  or  spectator  in  a  hundred  other  incidents 
which  were  quite  as  amusing,  even  though  the  par- 


ticipants were  less  celebrated.  Now  and  then  he  is 
too  much  of  an  artist  to  be  followed  patiently  by  the 
lay  reader.  Now  and  then,  also,  he  is  perhaps  a  little 
too  much  of  a  Bohemian  to  please  the  strait-laced 
and  the  orthodox;  but  he  is  so  hearty  and  genuine 
through  it  all  that  it  is  not  difficult  to  overlook  an 
occasional  instance  of  unnecessary  frankness  or  indis- 
creet levity.  In  his  anxiety  to  make  his  book  attract- 
ive he  drags  in  by  the  heels  a  good  many  anecdotes 
which  have  not  the  remotest  connection  either  with 
himself  or  with  his  art, —  certainly  one  of  the  most 
noticeable  of  "the  many  defects  of  this  my  maiden 
effort  to  wield  that  which  is  mightier  than  the  sword." 
The  first  few  chapters  are  filled  with  delightful  ac- 
counts of  youthful  pranks  in  the  art  schools  of  Cork, 
London,  and  Paris.  Mr.  Thaddeus  has  been  an  invet- 
erate traveller,  and  his  impressions  of  Algiers,  Cey- 
lon, and  Australia  are  something  more  than  witty. 
Like  some  other  Britons  of  even  greater  celebrity,  he 
has  little  use  for  America, —  although  a  number  of 
Americans  have  sat  for  him,  and  contributed  gener- 
ously toward  his  princely  income.  Of  the  seventeen 
illustrations  scattered  through  his  book,  the  most 
interesting  is  a  reproduction  of  a  photograph  which 
represents  him  painting  a  portrait  of  Pius  X.  This 
photograph,  he  says,  he  secured  "  partly  from  a  his- 
torical point  of  view,  and  partly  to  disarm  calumny, 
to  which  I  had  been  exposed  while  painting  his 
predecessor."  

A  convenient  yet  comprehensive  his- 
tory of  French  literature  in  English 
has  long  been  a  desideratum.  We 
have,  to  be  sure,  manuals  like  Professor  Dowden's 
and  Mr.  Saintsbury's,  as  well  as  the  somewhat  anti- 
quated longer  work  of  Van  Laun,  but  still  no  one- 
volume  history  to  place  beside  the  admirable  French 
production  of  M.  Lanson.  So  Professor  C.  H.  C. 
Wright  of  Harvard  has  undertaken  to  give  us  "A 
History  of  French  Literature,"  and  his  well-printed 
octavo  of  964  pages  has  just  been  issued  by  the 
Clarendon  Press.  It  is  a  conscientious  piece  of 
work,  this  account  of  the  literary  development  of 
France;  indeed,  it  yields  to  none  of  its  American 
or  English  predecessors  in  soundness  of  scholarship 
or  in  range  of  information.  The  index,  for  exam- 
ple, contains  over  two  thousand  names  —  a  signifi- 
cant number  when  it  is  considered  that  only  in  his 
final  chapter  does  the  author  show  that  inclination 
to  enumerate  minor  writers  which  is  so  frequent  a 
characteristic  of  manuals  of  literature.  Professor 
Wright,  be  it  said,  devotes  his  attention  mainly  to 
the  great  movements  and  the  great  names.  Admir- 
able in  this  respect,  the  book  commends  itself  to  the 
college  student  and  the  general  reader  by  its  pro- 
portion, its  judgment,  and  its  recognition  of  the  lat- 
est discoveries  and  theories  of  scholarship.  The 
advanced  student  and  the  teacher  will  be  grateful 
to  the  author  for  his  bibliographies  and  bibliogra- 
phical hints  —  a  closely-printed  section  of  54  pages. 
And  both  graduate  and  undergraduate  will  recog- 
nize in  this  volume,  as  in  practically  all  the  so-called 


The  literary 
development 
of  France. 


1912.] 


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"literary"  productions  of  our  Germanized  Ameri- 
can scholarship,  the  tone  of  the  class-room.  Clear 
as  the  narrative  is,  it  possesses  neither  grace  of 
phrasing  nor  beauty  of  structure;  its  diction  is 
in  every  sense  commonplace  and  undistinguished. 
There  are,  to  be  sure,  occasional  sentences  or 
epithets  borrowed  from  colloquial  or  journalistic 
sources  —  picturesque  expressions  such  as  "tabloid," 
"swagger,"  "he  has  toned  down,"  "high  priest 
of  nudity,"  etc.  But  defensible  as  these  things 
may  be  in  lectures  to  ennui-laden  seniors,  they 
hardly  seem  well-placed  in  a  "literary  history  of 
France,"  especially  in  one  written  by  an  avowed 
partisan  of  French  classicism  and  the  classic  sim- 
plicity of  style.  

Sauntering  in  From  the  vicinity  .of  Edmonton  in 
Saskatchewan  Alberta  to  Toronto,  twenty-five  hun- 
and  elsewhere.  <jred  miles  to  the  east,  the  sprightly 
chronicler  who  signs  herself  "  Janey  Canuck,"  with 
an  explanatory  "Emily  Ferguson"  added  in  paren- 
theses, made  her  leisurely  and  observant  way  with 
a  single  companion  and  by  various  modes  of  con- 
veyance. Her  account  of  this  journey  she  calls 
"Open  Trails"  (Cassell),  and  it  is  enlivened,  if  it 
needs  further  enlivenment  than  her  own  pen  has 
given  it,  by  a  gorgeously  colored  frontispiece  and  a 
multitude  of  well-executed  smaller  drawings.  The 
story  is  one  that  excels  rather  in  the  telling  of  it 
than  in  the  things  told.  In  other  words,  it  has 
more  manner  than  matter.  So  abundant  is  the 
literary  drapery  clothing  the  body  of  facts  that 
one  can  hardly  discern  the  merest  outlines  of  the 
body.  In  the  matter  of  proper  names  alone  the 
heroine  of  the  adventure,  the  narrator  herself,  is 
"Janey,"  or  "dear  old  girl,"  as  her  companion 
styles  her;  the  travelling  companion  is  for  literary 
purposes  "the  Padre,"  but  in  plain  English,  as  one 
makes  out  at  last,  the  husband  of  the  woman  with 
whom  he  is  on  so  intimate  terms  and  whom  he 
addresses  so  familiarly;  the  author's  birthplace  is 
"X,"  and  she  apparently,  near  the  end  of  the  book, 
almost  falls  a  victim  to  "cholecystitis,"  which  to  most 
readers  will  be  about  the  vaguest  thing  in  the  whole 
narrative.  As  a  specimen  of  the  author's  buoyant 
style,  here  is  what  she  says  of  Alberta :  "  Alberta  has 
no  past  to  speak  of,  but  has  a  future  beyond  com- 
parison. Tut!  I  bite  my  thumb  at  the  past.  A 
past  may  be  as  great  a  detriment  to  a  country 
as  to  a  woman."  The  writer  of  "  Open  Trails  "  is 
already  known  through  her  previous  book  entitled 
"Janey  Canuck  in  the  West,"  and  most  of  her 
readers  will  hope  for  still  further  books  in  the  same 
jaunty  and  spontaneous  manner. 


Kant  and 
Spencer 
critically 
expounded. 


Students  of  the  late  Professor  Borden 
Parker  Bowne  will  welcome  the  post- 
humous work  from  his  pen  entitled 
"Kant  and  Spencer:  A  Critical  Exposition"  (Hough- 
ton  Mifflin  Co.)  which  has  been  edited  from  the  au- 
thor's rough  notes  by  a  number  of  friends  who  were 
sufficiently  familiar  with  his  thought  to  supply  what 


seemed  the  necessary  corrections.  The  book  deals 
with  Kant  and  Spencer  from  the  standpoint  of  Mr. 
Bowne's  own  philosophical  interpretation  of  the  uni- 
verse, which  was  a  spiritual  and  personal  one.  It 
is  therefore  quite  natural  that  Kant,  the  philosopher 
who  criticised  the  intellect  as  a  revealer  of  religious 
truth  only  to  supplant  it  by  the  practical  reason,  and 
who  therefore  placed  the  religious  interpretation  of 
the  universe  on  a  stronger  basis  than  ever  before, 
comes  in  for  sympathetic  treatment..  Kant,  however, 
was  not  final,  and  Mr.  Bowne  criticises  incisively  his 
doctrine  of  the  understanding  and  of  time  and  space. 
He  recognizes,  however,  Kant's  permanent  contribu- 
tions to  thought,  and  points  out  how  pragmatism  has 
its  original  source  in  Kant's  doctrine  of  the  activity 
of  the  mind  and  the  need  for  an  interpretation  of 
the  universe  which  shall  satisfy  the  soul  as  well  as 
the  intellect  of  man.  The  exposition  of  Herbert 
Spencer  is  a  very  thorough  piece  of  destructive  criti- 
cism, dealing  especially  with  the  "First  Principles" 
and  the  "Principles  of  Psychology."  The  author's 
summing  up  of  the  matter  is  that  Spencer's  philoso- 
phy, apart  from  the  suggestions  thrown  out  by  the 
way  throughout  its  course,  has  no  value  as  a  system, 
and  that  it  has  passed  away  with  that  reliance  on 
physical  science  which  was  the  intellectual  feature  of 
its  generation  and  which  gave  it  so  great  a  vogue. 


Early  American  A11  who  are  interested  in  children's 
story-books  story-books,  except  the  children  them- 

for  children.  8elves,  will  find  pleasure  and  profit 
in  Miss  Rosalie  V.  Halsey's  "  Forgotten  Books  of  the 
American  Nursery :  A  History  of  the  Development 
of  the  American  Story-Book,"  published  in  Boston 
by  Messrs.  Charles  E.  Goodspeed  &  Co.  From  John 
Cotton's  "  Milk  for  Babes.  Drawn  out  of  the  Breast 
of  Both  Testaments.  Chiefly  for  the  spiritual  nour- 
ishme.nt  of  Boston  Babes  in  either  England:  But 
may  be  of  like  use  for  any  children,"  to  Peter  Parley's 
and  Jacob  Abbott's  and  Miss  Sedgwick's  little  books 
of  harmless  fiction  for  innocent  children,  the  author 
traces,  in  seven  carefully-written  chapters,  the  genesis 
of  the  American  story-book  for  young  people,  bring- 
ing out  for  the  benefit  of  the  philosophical  student 
of  the  subject  the  influence  exerted  by  the  spirit  of 
each  successive  age  upon  the  character  of  its  juven- 
ile literature.  It  is  this  constant  even  though  grad- 
ual change  of  atmosphere,  in  the  family  life  and  in 
the  nursery  as  well  as  in  the  greater  world,  that 
largely  accounts  for  the  obsoleteness  of  most  of  the 
children's  books  of  the  past ;  but  the  author  puts  it 
too  strongly  when  she  says  that  "there  is  nothing 
more  rare  in  the  fiction  of  any  nation  than  the  pop- 
ular child's  story  that  endures."  What,  pray,  are 
the  favorite  collections  of  fairy-stories  and  nursery 
rhymes  made  up  of  to-day  if  not  of  the  good  old 
tales  and  jingles  that,  in  many  cases,  have  in  sub- 
stance if  not  in  form  come  down  from  a  more  or 
less  remote  past  ?  Does  our  current  adult  fiction 
show  as  many  hoary  survivals  ?  Miss  Halsey's  book, 
besides  being  well  printed  in  a  handsome  limited 


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THE    DIA1L, 


[July  1, 


edition,  is  liberally  provided  with  facsimile  repro- 
ductions of  curious  old  title-pages,  rude  wood-cuts, 
and  other  illustrative  details. 


The  life  of  ^r*  Francis  Gribble,  clever  purveyor 

an  imperial  of  breezy  scandal,  gives  us  in  his 
adventuress.  iatest  voiunie  what  he  calls  "The 

Comedy  of  Catherine  the  Great"  (Putnam).  His 
title  is  a  shrewd  warning  that  he  intends  to  deal, 
not  with  Russian  politics  or  the  serious  side  of 
Catherine's  life,  but  solely  or  principally  with  her 
amours.  Mr.  Gribble  does  not  reprobate  his  heroine, 
and  hold  her  up  as  a  horrible  warning;  he  reminds 
us  again  and  again  that  she  was  more  sinned  against 
than  sinning,  that  her  faults  were  the  faults  of  her 
age  and  position,  and  that  she  was  at  bottom  a  very 
capable  and  very  good-hearted  woman.  The  latter 
quality  he  proves  by  abundant  anecdote,  the  former 
he  contents  himself  with  repeating  earnestly  and 
frequently.  The  substance  of  his  book,  however,  is 
a  sensationally  detailed  account  of  the  woman's  end- 
less series  of  love  affairs.  Such  works  have  not  even 
the  merit  of  historical  trustworthiness.  Mr.  Gribble, 
who  has  undeniably  put  much  labor  into  the  making 
of  his  compilation  and  brought  together  material 
from  a  hundred  different  sources,  conscientiously 
admits  that  many  of  the  salacious  morsels  which  he 
dishes  up  most  carefully  are  only  matters  of  rumor 
and  cannot  be  verified.  His  book  has  little  value 
for  the  historian,  and  in  spite  of  the  ostentation  of  a 
moral  attitude  it  can  scarcely  be  reckoned  a  treatise 
on  morals.  Nevertheless,  it  is  a  breathlessly  inter- 
esting story,  built  of  vigorous  and  rapid  sentences 
and  strewn  from  beginning  to  end  with  examples  of 
witty  phrase-making.  If  Mr.  Gribble  had  chosen 
to  study  Catherine  and  her  reign  from  a  different 
and  less  questionable  point  of  view,  he  might  have 
produced  a  permanently  valuable  book,  instead  of 
merely  a  readable  one. 

TWO  superb  "He  who  runs  mav  read"  mignt  seem 
architectural  to  be  the  best  counsel  to  offer  to  an 
picture-books.  aspiring  student  of  architecture.  Un- 
doubtedly, the  training  of  the  eye  before  the  actual 
masterpieces  of  the  builder's  art  is  the  most  valuable 
apprenticeship.  Yet  for  those  who  cannot  take  such 
a  travel-course,  good  photographs  are  really  not  a 
bad  substitute :  they  afford  an  easy  means  of  making 
an  art-pilgrimage  by  proxy.  And  we  are  all  fond 
of  this  sedentary  kind  of  travel,  made  so  enticing 
recently  by  the  perfecting  of  reproductive  processes 
and  the  zeal  of  the  publishers.  Such  books  as 
Dr.  Julius  Baum's  "Romanesque  Architecture  in 
France  "  and  Signer  Ricci's  "  Baroque  Architecture 
and  Sculpture  in  Italy"  (Button)  offer  the  most 
alluring  opportunities  to  art-student  and  arm-chair 
tourist ;  they  are  perfection  in  their  class.  Made  up 
respectively  of  226  and  274  full-page  plates,  these 
splendid  folios  present  their  subjects  mainly  through 
the  range  and  choice  of  their  illustrations ;  they  are 
practically  art-albums,  prepared  by  experts  and  pro- 
vided with  brief  introductions  and  full  indexes.  Our 


profit  from  such  books  is  dependent,  of  course,  upon 
our  previous  knowledge  ;  but  not  our  pleasure.  Even 
the  most  indolent  arm-chair  traveller  will  not  be 
daunted  by  a  prefatory  essay  which  fills  scarcely  a 
dozen  pages.  He  will  skip  it,  pass  at  once  to  the 
plates,  and  feast  his  eyes  thereon,  his  pleasure  unal- 
loyed except  by  a  possible  consciousness  of  his  ignor- 
ance. He  will  learn  as  the  tourist  learns,  with  or 
without  a  guide-book.  And  if  he  will  not  run,  he  need 
not  even  read!  

How  to  visit  Specialization  being  as  necessary  in 
the  English  sight-seeing  as  in  most  other  mat- 
cathedrais.  tergj  the  English  Cathedral  tour  finds 
much  favor  with  travellers  abroad.  And  since  these 
wonderful  buildings  make  a  many-sided  appeal  — 
through  their  history  and  associations  as  well  as 
through  their  architecture  —  many  handbooks  more 
or  less  satisfactory  have  been  offered  from  time  to 
time  on  the  subject.  The  latest  of  these,  "How 
to  Visit  the  English  Cathedrals"  (Dodd),  by  Miss 
Esther  Singleton,  is  by  no  means  the  least  welcome. 
Those  who  are  familiar  with  the  long  list  of  this 
writer's  other  works  know  her  method.  Frankly 
compiled  from  various  sources  duly  acknowledged, 
the  citations  are  tied  together  with  a  thread  of 
original  matter  which  adds  greatly  both  to  the 
value  and  the  interest.  The  introductory  chapter 
of  thirty-one  pages  deals  with  "Styles  of  English 
Architecture";  the  twenty-nine  chapters  following 
consider  as  many  different  cathedrals,  and  each  is 
illustrated  by  several  charming  photographs.  It  is  a 
book  suitable  for  the  rapid  but  intelligent  traveller 
who  may  not  have  either  time  or  inclination  for  ex- 
haustive study. 


BRIEFER  MENTION. 


The  name  of  Thomas  Deloney  will  not  commonly  be 
found  in  manuals  of  the  history  of  English  literature, 
yet  future  compilers  of  such  books  will  hardly  be  able 
to  escape  giving  some  attention  to  this  Elizabethan 
novelist  and  poet,  now  that  his  complete  works  have 
been  put  forth  by  the  Oxford  Clarendon  Press  in  a 
stout  volume  edited  by  Mr.  Francis  Oscar  Mann. 

"Le  Frangais  et  Sa  Patrie,"  by  Mr.  L.  Raymond 
Talbot  (Sanborn),  is  a  French  reading-book  for  the  first 
or  second  year,  planned  to  put  the  student  into  posses- 
sion of  much  interesting  information  about  French  home 
life,  and  the  history  and  geography  of  the  country.  The 
matter  is  partly  conversational  and  partly  epistolary. 
There  are  also  pictures,  songs,  poems,  notes,  and  a  vocab- 
ulary. It  seems  to  be  a  particularly  praiseworthy  text- 
book. 

If  Miss  Betham-Edwards's  handsomely-illustrated 
volume,  "In  the  Heart  of  the  Vosges"  (McClurg), 
had  been  entitled  "In  Gustave  Dora's  Country,"  with 
the  appended  "  and  other  sketches,"  the  reviewer  would 
have  had  little  occasion  to  find  fault.  One  half  of  the 
book  deals  with  regions  outside  the  Vosges,  while  the 
first  half  has  no  eye  for  anyone  but  Dore".  The  admirer 
of  the  Alsatian  artist  will  find  much  to  interest  and  sat- 
isfy him  in  the  notes  concerning  Dord's  youth  and  his 
world-success ;  and  the  testimony  regarding  the  attitude 


1912.] 


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of  the  Alsatians  toward  the  Prussian  government  is 
valuable.  But  it  is  strange  to  be  led  through  "the 
heart  of  the  Vosges  "  and  hear  no  mention  of  the  fine 
old  Meistersaenger,  Johann  Georg  Wickram,  who  there 
presided  over  the  Meistergesangschule.  And  no  less 
strange  is  it  to  meet  no  reminiscences  of  Walther  und 
Hildegund,  who  made  their  famous  flight  and  fought 
their  valiant  battle  in  these  passes. 

The  Boston  Book  Co.  sends  us  "  The  Dramatic  Index 
for  1911,"  being  the  third  volume  of  an  annual  biblio- 
graphy of  "  articles  and  illustrations  concerning  the 
stage  and  its  players  in  the  periodicals  of  America  and 
England,  with  a  record  of  books  on  the  drama  and  of 
texts  of  plays  published  during  1911."  Mr.  Frederick 
Winthrop  Faxon  is  the  compiler  of  this  useful  book  of 
reference,  which  makes  a  stout  volume  of  about  two 
hundred  and  fifty  pages. 

Messrs.  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons  are  the  American  pub- 
lishers of  "The  Cambridge  Manuals  of  Science  and 
Literature,"  a  useful  enterprise  not  unlike  the  "  Home 
University  Library."  New  volumes  at  hand  are  "  Prehis- 
toric Man,"  by  Mr.  W.  L.  H.  Duckworth ;  "  The  Nat- 
ural History  of  Clay,"  by  Mr.  Alfred  B.  Searle;  "The 
Migration  of  Birds,"  by  Mr.  E.  A.  Coward;  "Earth- 
worms and  Their  Allies,"  by  Mr.  Frank  E.  Beddard; 
and  "The  Modern  Locomotive,"  by  Mr.  C.  Edgar  Allen. 

"  Sir  Eglamour  "  is  not  one  of  the  most  interesting 
of  the  Middle  English  romances ;  but  it  is  simple  and 
brief,  and  hence  well  adapted  to  use  in  college  classes. 
A  carefully-prepared  edition  of  the  poem,  intended  for 
college  use,  has  recently  been  made  by  Prof.  Albert  S. 
Cook  and  published  by  Messrs.  Holt.  The  editor  dis- 
penses with  glossary  and  critical  and  interpretative  notes, 
but  explains  difficult  words  and  lines  on  the  pages  upon 
which  they  occur.  A  brief  introduction  gives  necessary 
information  as  to  the  history  of  the  poem  and  as  to  its 
more  important  analogues. 

A  clear  and  convenient  chart  of  the  heavens  that 
should  find  decided  favor  with  amateur  star-gazers  is 
Mr.  Albert  Ross  Parsons's  "  Road  Map  of  the  Stars  " 
(Kennerley).  It  consists  of  forty-eight  star  maps, 
mounted  on  a  strong  piece  of  linen  and  folded  to  fit  the 
pocket,  showing  in  separate  views  (North,  South,  East, 
and  West)  the  positions  of  the  stars  at  any  hour  of 
any  night  in  the  year.  Unfolded,  as  a  single  sheet,  the 
entire  circle  of  the  constellations  visible  in  the  Northern 
Hemisphere  are  shown.  An  accompanying  volume 
contains  the  same  charts  on  separate  pages,  with  explan- 
atory matter,  tables,  etc. 

It  is  a  singular  fact  that  the  greatest  of  all  Scandi- 
navian authors  is  no  more  than  a  name  to  English  read- 
ers, and  is  not  even  that  to  the  vast  majority  of  them. 
Ludvig  Holberg  was  not  only  the  creator  of  Danish 
literature,  but  he  was  one  of  the  most  illustrious  of  the 
world's  writers  for  the  comic  stage,  making  up,  with 
Moliere  and  Goldoni,  the  great  triad  of  modern  comedy. 
He  was,  besides,  philosopher,  historian,  and  moralist, 
and  altogether  the  embodiment  of  all  the  thought  of 
his  time  to  a  degree  in  which  Voltaire  was  perhaps  his 
only  rival.  His  comedies  have  never  received  any 
effective  translation  into  English,  for  which  reason  we 
welcome  the  "Three  Comedies  by  Ludvig  Holberg" 
(Longmans),  which  Lieut.-Colonel  H.  W.  L.  Hume  has 
just  published.  The  translation  is  a  poor  one,  and  the 
selection  is  almost  the  last  which  we  would  have  thought 
of  making;  but  it  is  something  to  have  any  part  of  Hol- 
berg available  in  our  language. 


KOTXS. 

It  is  announced  that  the  subject  of  Mr.  Bernard  Shaw's 
coming  play  will  be  the  fable  of  Androcles  and  the  Lion. 

Mr.  W.  J.  Henderson,  the  well-known  musical  critic, 
will  publish  through  Messrs.  Holt  next  autumn  a  novel 
entitled  "  The  Soul  of  a  Tenor." 

Mr.  Andrew  Lang  is  now  engaged  upon  a  history  of 
English  literature,  from  the  beginnings  to  Swinburne. 
Messrs.  Longmans  will  publish  the  work  next  autumn. 

Professor  Bliss  Perry  of  Harvard  University  is  com- 
pleting a  new  volume  of  essays  entitled  "  The  American 
Mind,"  which  Houghton  Mifflin  Co.  will  publish  next 
autumn. 

Prince  Kropotkin  is  revising  a  new  edition  of  his  pow- 
erful indictment  of  the  English  land  question,  "  Fields, 
Factories  and  Workshops,"  which  will  appear,  with  many 
additions,  in  a  few  weeks. 

The  two  concluding  volumes  of  the  late  John  Bige- 
low's  "  Retrospections  of  an  Active  Life,"  covering  the 
period  from  1866  to  1879,  will  be  published  during  the 
autumn  by  Messrs.  Doubleday,  Page  &  Co. 

"  John  Forster  and  his  Friendships  "  is  the  title  of  a 
forthcoming  book  by  Mr.  R.  Renton  which  is  likely  to 
present  much  new  material  concerning  the  famous 
biographer  of  Dickens,  Goldsmith,  Landor,  and  Sir 
John  Eliot. 

Mr.  E.  T.  Cook,  author  of  the  recently-published  Life 
of  Ruskin  and  joint  editor  with  Mr.  Wedderburn  of  the 
monumental  "  Library  Edition  "  of  Ruskin's  works,  has 
been  chosen  to  write  the  authorized  biography  of 
Florence  Nightingale. 

"  Religion  and  Thought  in  Ancient  Egypt,"  by  Pro- 
fessor James  H.  Breasted,  is  announced  for  early  pub- 
lication by  Messrs.  Charles  Scribner's  Sons.  Among 
the  immediately  forthcoming  importations  of  this  house 
is  a  volume  on  "  Social  Insurance  in  Germany,"  by 
Mr.  W.  H.  Dawson,  author  of  "  The  Evolution  of  Mod- 
ern Germany." 

A  new  biography  of  William  Morris  by  Mr.  Arthur 
Compton  Rickett  is  announced  by  Messrs.  Dent.  It  will 
contain  a  good  deal  of  unpublished  matter,  and  promises 
to  throw  fresh  light  upon  Morris,  both  as  a  man  and  as 
a  poet.  We  note  that  Messrs.  Longmans  announce  a 
new  and  cheaper  edition  of  Mr.  Mackail's  authorized 
biography,  which  first  appeared  in  1899. 

"  The  Correspondence  of  William  Shirley,"  to  be 
issued  at  once  by  the  Macmillan  Co.,  is  the  third  in  the 
series  of  letters  of  famous  statesmen  prominent  in  the 
colonial  history  of  America  issued  under  the  auspices  of 
the  National  Society  of  Colonial  Dames,  the  previous 
publications  being  "  The  Correspondence  of  William 
Pitt "  and  "  The  Letters  of  Richard  Henry  Lee." 

Among  immediately  forthcoming  Dutton  publications 
are  the  following:  "  Posthumous  Essays  of  John  Churton 
Collins,"  edited  by  his  son,  Mr.  L.  C.  Collins;  "An  In- 
troduction to  the  History  of  Life  Insurance,"  by  Mr.  A. 
Fingland  Jack,  M.  Com. ;  "  The  Good  Girl,"  a  novel  by 
Mr. Vincent  O'Sullivan;  and  "The  Roll-Call  of  Honour," 
a  collection  of  inspiring  biographies  for  younger  readers 
by  Sir  A.  T.  Quiller-Couch. 

Anatole  Leroy-Beaulieu,  the  French  writer  and  pub- 
licist, died  in  Paris  on  June  16.  He  was  the  author  of 
a  long  list  of  books  dealing  with  the  social  and  political 
life  both  of  his  own  country  and  of  Russia.  Among  his 
best-known  works  are  the  following  :  "  L'Antiprotes- 
tantisme,"  "  Etudes  russes  et  europe'ennes,"  "  Les  Con- 


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grdgations  religieuses  et  1'expansion  de  la  France," 
"  Christianisme  et  Socialisme,"  and  "  Les  Juifs  et  1'anti- 
semitisme."  He  was  a  Chevalier  of  the  Legion  of 
Honor  and  director  of  the  Institute.  Several  of  his 
books  have  appeared  in  English  translation. 

A  full  selection  from  Bjornson's  private  correspond- 
ence, edited  by  Professor  Halfdan  Koht,  a  Norwegian 
writer  well  known  as  an  authority  on  Ibsen,  will  before 
long  be  given  to  the  public  in  probably  three  languages. 
The  first  volume,  containing  correspondence  to  the  year 
1871,  is  expected  to  come  from  the  press  simultaneously 
in  Copenhagen  and  Berlin,  in  the  autumn,  while  an 
English  edition  is  also  under  consideration. 

A  third  edition  is  now  issued  of  that  interesting  and 
well-illustrated  pamphlet,  "  The  Work  of  the  Cleveland 
Public  Library  with  the  Children."  Prepared  originally 
at  the  time  of  the  convention  of  the  National  Educational 
Association  in  Cleveland,  four  years  ago,  it  appeared  in 
a  second  edition  two  years  later.  It  contains  thirty-two 
pages  of  descriptive  matter,  a  map  of  Cleveland,  with 
library  districts  and  branches  plainly  indicated,  and  ten 
pages  exhibiting  the  scheme  of  administration  adopted 
by  the  library. 

William  Watson  Goodwin,  known  to  thousands  of 
school  and  college  graduates  by  reason  of  his  widely- 
used  "  Greek  Grammar,"  "  Greek  Moods  and  Tenses," 
and  an  excellent  edition  of  Xenophon's  "  Anabasis,"  died 
June  15,  at  his  home  in  Cambridge.  He  was  born 
at  Concord,  Mass.,  May  9,  1831.  After  taking  his 
bachelor's  degree  at  Harvard  in  1851,  he  studied  at 
three  German  universities,  travelled  in  Italy  and  Greece, 
and  served  four  years  as  tutor  in  the  college  that  had 
given  him  his  academic  training,  and  was  then,  in  1860, 
appointed  to  the  Greek  chair  which  he  held  until  his 
resignation  in  1901,  when  he  professed  to  have  "taught 
himself  out."  That  he  was  no  mere  grammarian  is 
proved  by  the  fact  that  he  was  the  first  Director  of  the 
American  School  of  Classical  Studies  at  Athens,  and 
that  his  lectures  at  Harvard  concerned  themselves  with 
broader  interests  than  the  niceties  of  the  Greek  tongue. 
His  published  version  of  Plutarch's  "  Morals "  also 
shows  him  to  have  been  something  more  than  a  gerund- 
grinder.  In  short,  he  was  a  fine  example  and  exponent 
of  academic  culture  at  its  best. 


TOPICS  IN  LEADING  PERIODICALS. 

July,  1912. 

Aborigine,  The  Last.  A.  L.  Kroeber  .  .  World's  Work. 
Actors,  Educating.  David  Belasco  .  .  .  World's  Work. 
American  Impressions  —  IV.  Arnold  Bennett  .  Harper. 
Arabian  Nights,  Coming  of  the  —  II.  Ameen 

Rihani Bookman. 

Arctic  Mountaineering  by  a  Woman.  Dora  Keen.  Scribner. 
Baseball,  Business  Side  of.  Edward  M.  Woolley.  McClure. 
Bench,  "  Big  Business"  and  the.  C.  P.  Connolly.  Everybody's. 
"  Big  Business  "  and  the  Citizen  —  II.  Holland 

Thompson Review  of  Reviews. 

Caricatures,  Living.  Ell-wood  Hendrick  .  .  .  Atlantic. 
Caveman  as  Artist,  The.  George  G.  MacCurdy  .  Century. 
Columbia,  Dramatic  Museum  at.  D.H.  Miles.  Eev.  of  Revs. 
Competition,  The  New  — in.  A.J.Eddy.  World's  Work. 
Confederacy,  Sunset  of  the  —  V.  Morris  Schaff  .  Atlantic. 
Constitution,  The,  and  Its  Makers.  H.  C.  Lodge.  No.  Amer. 
Cuba  and  the  Cuban  Question.  Sydney  Brooks.  No.  Amer. 
Danish  Heath,  Children  of  the.  Jacob  A.  Riis  .  Century. 

Dewey,  Admiral,  Autobiography  of Hearst's. 

Dinner  Pail,  The  "Full."  F.I.Anderson  .  Everybody's. 
Direct-Primary  Experiment,  The.  Evans  Woollen.  Atlantic. 
Divorce  versus  Democracy.  G.  K.  Chesterton  .  Hearst's. 


Efficiency,  ^Esthetic  Value  of.  Ethel  P.  Howes.  Atlantic. 

Fagan,  James  O.,  Autobiography  of Atlantic. 

Faith,  The  Age  of.  Robert  K.  Root Atlantic. 

Fez,  Within  the  Walls  of.  Sydney  Adamson  .  .  Harper. 
Fools,  A  Scientific  Study  of.  Edwin  T.  Brewster.  McClure. 
French  Bourgeois  Family,  Standards  of  a. 

Elizabeth  S.  Sergeant. Scribner. 

Garden  Cities  of  England,  The.  F.  C.  Howe  .  .  Scribner. 

Gardens  and  Gardens.  H.  G.  Dwight Atlantic. 

Germany  as  a  Sea  Power.  W.  H.  Beehler  .  .  .  Century. 

Gettysburg.  Mary  Johnston Atlantic. 

Glasgow  and  New  York  City :  A  Contrast. 

Frank  I.  Cohen Hearst's. 

Government  and  the  Corporations.  F.  L.  Stetson.  Atlantic. 

Gutter-Babies.  Dorothea  Slade Atlantic. 

Hichens,  Robert.  Frederic  T.  Cooper  ....  Bookman. 

Howard,  Arthur  —  His  Own  Story McClure. 

India's  Social  Advance,  Woman's  Part  in. 

Basanta  K.Roy Review  of  Reviews. 

Judicial  Decisions,  Kecall  of.  K.  T.  Frederick  .  Atlantic. 
Knox  Mission  to  Central  America,  With  the  —  II. 

W.  B.  Hale World's  Work. 

Korea,  Japan's  Task  in.  David  Starr  Jordan.  Rev.  of  Revs. 
Maidstone,  A  Woman  of.  Robert  Shackleton  .  Scribner. 
Methodist  Bishops,  The  New.  F.  C.  Iglehart.  Rev.  of  Revs. 
Milholland,  Inez — The  Spokesman  for  Suffrage 

in  America McClure. 

Militia,  The,  not  a  National  Force.  W.  H.  Carter.  No.  Amer. 
Mission  Pageant,  The,  at  San  Gabriel.  W.  H. 

Wright Bookman. 

Monastery,  In  a.  Louise  C.  Willcox  .  .  North  American. 
Morse,  Samuel,  Letters  of  — 1812.  E.  L.  Morse.  No.  Amer. 
Mountaineering  by  Motor.  Arthur  Train  .  .  Everybody's. 
Museum,  The,  and  the  Teaching  of  Art  in  the 

Public  Schools.  Kenyon  Cox Scribner. 

Naval  War  College,  The.  A.  T.  Mahan  .  North  American. 
New  York,  Picturesque.  F.  Hopkinson  Smith.  World's  Work. 
Nicaragua,  Our  Mission  in.  Charles  A.  Conant.  No.  Amer. 
Ohio,  Making  a  New  Constitution  for.  Henry 

W.  Elson Review  of  Reviews. 

Olympic  Idea,  The.  William  M.  Sloane  ....  Century. 
Pacific  Coast  Suburb,  A  New.  Elmer  Grey  .  .  Scribner. 
Panama,  What  the  West  Expects  from.  Agnes 

C.  Laut Review  of  Reviews. 

Parrish,  Maxfield :  A  Master  of  Make-Believe. 

Christian  Brinton Century. 

Pommerais  Affair,  The.  Marie  B.  Lowndes  .  .  McClure. 
Postal  Savings  Banks.  Frank  P.  Stockbridge  World's  Work. 
Presidential  Press  Bureaus.  George  K.  Turner  .  McClure. 
Public  School,  Dilemma  of  the.  R.  W.  Bruere  .  Harper. 
Russian  Fiction,  Recent.  W.  D.  H.  and  T.  S.  P.  No.  Amer. 
St.  Francis,  Life  of  —  III.  Maurice  F.  Egan  .  .  Century. 
Santa  Fe"  Railroad,  Work  of  the.  Henry  Oyen.  World's  Work. 

Sea,  Safety  at.  Charles  D.  Sigsbee Century. 

Social-ism,  Social  Justice  and.  George  Harvey.  No.  Amer. 
Socialism  in  England.  Samuel  P.  Orth  .  World's  Work. 
Standard  Oil  Letters,  New,  and  Their  Lessons  .  Hearst's. 
Sunday  Evening  Club,  The,  of  Chicago.  Jacob 

Riis World's  Work. 

Syndicalism.  Louis  Levine North  American. 

Tariff  Board,  Need  of  a.  A.  G.  Robinson  .  Rev.  of  Revs. 
Taste,  The  Crisis  in.  Wilbur  M.  Urban  .  .  r  Atlantic. 
Towns,  Model,  in  America.  Grosvenor  4-tterbnry.  Scribner. 
Trees,  Big,  Secret  of  the.  Ellsworth  Huntington.  Harper. 
Twain,  Mark  —  IX.  Albert  Bigelow  Paine  .  .  Harper. 
Unity  Church,  Montclair,  N.  J.  Mary  and 

Lewis  Theiss World's  Work. 

Valladolid,  The  Variety  of.  W.  D.  Howells  .  .  Harper. 
Woman — The  New  and  the  Old.  Guglielmo  Ferrero.  Hearst's. 
Woman,  The  New,  of  China  and  Japan.  Adachi 

Kinnosuke Review  of  Reviews. 

Women  in  Industry.  Earl  Barnes Atlantic. 

Wood  Engraver,  Passing  of  the.  William  A. 

Bradley Bookman. 

Yuan  Shi  Kai,  An  Acquaintance  with.  H.  N. 

Allen North  American. 


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LIST  OF  NEW  BOOKS. 


[The  following  list,   containing  82  titles,  includes  books 
received  by  THE  DIAL  since  its  last  issue.] 

BIOGRAPHY  AND  REMINISCENCES. 

The  Memoirs  of  Francesco  Crlspl.  Translated  by 
Mary  Prichard-Agnetti,  from  documents  col- 
lected and  edited  by  Thomas  Palamenghi  Crispi. 
Volumes  I.  and  II.,  with  portraits,  8vo.  George 
H.  Doran  Co.  $7.  net. 

The  Life  of  Nietzsche.  By  Frau  Foerster-Nietzsche; 
translated  from  the  German  by  Anthony  M.  Lu- 
dovici.  Volume  I.,  The  Young  Nietzsche.  Illus- 
trated, 8vo,  399  pages.  Sturgis  &  Walton  Co. 
$4.  net. 

The  Life,  Lectures,  and  Essays  of  William  Robert- 
son Smith.  By  John  Sutherland  and  George 
Chrystal.  In  2  volumes,  illustrated,  8vo.  Mac- 
millan  Co.  $8.  net. 

The  "World's  Leading  Poets:  Homer,  Virgil,  Dante, 
Shakespeare,  Milton,  Goethe.  By  H.  W.  Boyn- 
ton.  Illustrated,  8vo,  346  pages.  "The  World's 
Leaders."  Henry  Holt  &  Co.  $1.75  net. 

The  World's  Leading  Painters:  Leonardo  da  Vinci, 
Raphael,  Titian,  Rubens,  Velasquez,  and  Rem- 
brandt. By  George  B.  Rose.  Illustrated,  8vo, 
371  pages.  Henry  Holt  &  Co.  $1.75  net. 

Charles  Dickens:  The  Man  and  His  Work.  By  Ed- 
win Percy  Whipple;  with  Introduction  by  Arlo 
Bates.  In  2  volumes,  16mo.  Houghton  Mifflin 
Co.  $7.50  net. 

Christopher  Columbus  and  the  New  World  of  His 
Discovery.  By  Filson  Young.  Third  edition; 
illustrated  in  color,  etc.,  8vo,  464  pages.  Henry 
Holt  &  Co.  $2.50  net. 

HISTORY. 

Mesopotumian  Archaeology:  An  Introduction  to  the 
Archaeology  of  Babylonia  and  Assyria.  By  Percy 
S.  P.  Handcock,  M.A.  Illustrated  in  color,  etc., 
8vo,  423  pages.  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons.  $3.50  net. 

The  History  of  New  France.  By  Marc  Lescarbot; 
with  an  English  translation,  notes,  and  appen- 
dices, by  W.  L.  Grant,  M.A.,  and  an  introduction 
by  H.  P.  Biggar,  B.  Litt.  Volume  II.,  large  8vo, 
584  pages.  Toronto:  The  Champlain  Society. 

Reconstruction  and  Union,  1865-1912.  By  Paul  Le- 
land  Haworth,  Ph.D.  12mo,  255  pages.  "Home 
University  Library."  Henry  Holt  &  Co.  50  cts.net. 

GENERAL   LITERATURE. 

The  Making  of  Poetry:  A  Critical  Study  of  its  Na- 
ture and  Value.  By  Arthur  H.  R.  Fairchild, 
Ph.D.  12mo,  263  pages.  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons. 
$1.50  net. 

Henrik  Ibsen:  Plays  and  Problems.  By  Otto  Heller. 
With  photogravure  frontispiece,  8vo,  356  pages. 
Houghton  Mifflin  Co.  $2.  net. 

Paul  the  Minstrel,  and  Other  Stories.  By  Arthur 
Christopher  Benson.  12mo,  443  pages.  G.  P. 
Putnam's  Sons.  $1.75  net. 

The  Promise  of  the  Christ-Age  In  Recent  Litera- 
ture. By  William  Eugene  Mosher,  Ph.D.  12mo, 
175  pages.  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons.  $1.25  net. 

The  Romance  of  Words.  By  Ernest  Weekley,  M.A. 
12mo,  210  pages.  E.  P.  Dutton  &  Co.  $1.25  net. 

English  Literature:  Medieval.  By  W.  P.  Ker,  M.A. 
12mo,  256  pages.  "Home  University  Library." 
Henry  Holt  &  Co.  50cts.net. 

The  English  Language.  By  Logan  Pearsall  Smith, 
M.A.  12mo,  256  pages.  "Home  University  Li- 
brary." Henry  Holt  &  Co.  50cts.net. 

Sulzer's  Short  Speeches.  Carefully  compiled  from 
the  records  of  Congress,  with  other  official  data 
and  a  brief  biographical  sketch,  by  George  W. 
Blake.  With  portrait,  12mo,  303  pages.  New 
York:  J.  S.  Ogilvie  Publishing  Co.  $1.  net. 

NEW   EDITIONS    OF    STANDARD   LITERATURE. 
The  Brothers   Karnmazov.      By  Fyodor  Dostoevsky; 
translated  from  the  Russian  by  Constance  Gar- 
nett.    12mo,  838  pages.    Macmillan  Co.    $1.50  net. 


Everyman's  Library.  Edited  by  Ernest  Rhys.  New 
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Book,  by  William  Canton;  Arthurian  Chronicles, 
represented  by  Wace  and  Layamon;  Piers  Plow- 
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by  Bolton  King.  Each  12mo.  E.  P.  Dutton  &  Co. 
Per  volume,  35  cts.  net. 

DRAMA   AND   VERSE. 

The  Land  of  Lost  Music,  and  Other  Poems.  By  Rob- 
ert Munger,  12mo,  110  pages.  Dodd,  Mead  &  Co. 

$1.25  net. 
A  Prairie   Prayer,   and  Other  Poems.      By  Hilton   R. 

Greer.    12mo,    65   pages.    Sherman,   French   &   Co. 

$1.  net. 
"Where  It  Listeth."     By  Mary  Norsworthy  Shepard. 

12mo,  77  pages.    Sherman,  French  &  Co.    $1.  net. 
The  Poets'   Song  of  Poets.     By  Anna  Sheldon  Camp 

Sneath.      Illustrated,    12mo,    250    pages.      Boston: 

Richard  G.  Badger.     $1.50  net. 
Lone    Star    Lyrics.      By    Will    P.    Lockhart.      12mo, 

90  pages.     Boston:     Richard  G.   Badger.     $1.  net. 
Songs  before  Birth.    By  Isabelle  Howe  Fiske.    16mo, 

39  pages.     Portland:  The  Mosher  Press.     $1.  net. 
Poems  and  Sonnets.     By  F.  C.  Goldsborough.     12mo, 

89  pages.      London:      David  Nutt. 
Bells:     An  Anthology.    By  Mary  J.  Taber.    12mo,  199 

pages.     Boston:     Richard  G.  Badger.     $1.  net. 
In  Cupid's  Chains,  and  Other  Poems.     By  Benjamin 

F.    Woodcox.      12mo,    64    pages.      Battle    Creek: 

Woodcox  &  Fanner.     50  cts.  net. 
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115  pages.    Boston:  Richard  G.  Badger. 
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12mo,  67  pages.     Boston:  Richard  G.  Badger. 
Madawaska.  By  Thomas  G.  Devine.     12mo,  56  pages. 

Boston:   Richard  G.  Badger. 

FICTION. 

The  Blue  "Wall.  By  Richard  Washburn  Child.  Illus- 
trated, 12mo,  377  pages.  Houghton  Mifflin  Co. 
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Whispers  about  "Women.  By  Leonard  Merrick.  12mo, 
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The  Dewpond.  By  Charles  Marriott.  12mo,  342 
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A  Butterfly  on  the  "Wheel.  By  C.  Ranger  Gull.  Illus- 
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The  Day  of  the  Saxon.     By  Homer  Lea.     12mo,   249 

pages.     Harper  &  Brothers.     $1.80  net. 
The   Standard  Kate  in  American  Trade   Unions.      By 

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"Tin  Soldiers":  The  Organized  Militia  and  What  It 
Really  Is.  By  Walter  Merriam  Pratt;  with  Fore- 
word by  Capt.  George  E.  Thome.  Illustrated, 
12mo,  185  pages.  Boston:  Richard  G.  Badger. 
$1.50  net. 

Womanhood  and  Race-Regreneration.  By  Mary 
Scharlieb,  M.D.  12mo,  54  pages.  "New  Tracts 
for  the  Times."  Moffat,  Yard  &  Co.  50  cts.  net. 

National  Ideal*  and  Race-Regeneration.  By  Rev.  R. 
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for  the  Times."  Moffat.  Yard  &  Co.  50  cts.  net. 

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The  Story  of  Evolution.  By  Joseph  McCabe.  Illus- 
trated, 8vo,  340  pages.  Small,  Maynard  &  Co. 
$3.50  net. 

Astronomy  in  a  Nutshell:  The  Chief  Facts  and  Prin- 
ciples Explained  in  Popular  Language  for  the 
General  Reader  and  for  Schools.  By  Garrett  P. 
Serviss.  Illustrated,  12mo,  261  pages.  G.  P.  Put- 
nam's Sons.  $1.25  net. 

Field  Museum  of  Natural  History  Publications. 
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Archaeology  and  Religion,  by  Berthold  Laufer; 
Mammals  from  Western  Venezuela  and  Eastern 
Colombia,  by  Wilfred  H.  Osgood;  The  Oraibi 
Marau  Ceremony,  by  H.  R.  Voth;  Brief  Miscella- 
neous Hopi  Papers,  by  H.  R.  Voth;  Descriptions 
of  New  Fishes  from  Panama,  by  S.  E.  Meek  and 
S.  F.  Hildebrand.  Each  8vo.  Chicago:  Field 
Museum  of  Natural  History.  Paper. 

Matter  and  Energy.  By  Frederick  Soddy,  F.  R.  S. 
12mo,  255  pages.  "Home  University  Library." 
Henry  Holt  &  Co.  50  cts.  net. 

NATURE   AND    OUTDOOR   LIFE. 

Illustrated  Key  to  the  Wild  and  Commonly  Culti- 
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PAGE 
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THE  SCHOLAR  IN  POLITICS 

CASUAL  COMMENT 37 

The  public  library  as  an  educational  force. — "Guide- 
post  "  reformers  of  our  language.  —  The  calumniated 
book-publisher.  —  The  primrose  path  of  letters.  —  A 
moving  appeal. —  A  hero  and  his  valet. — The  dwind- 
ling of  the  baccalaureate. — An  experiment  in  cooper- 
ative book-buying. — Sir  Sidney  Colvin'swork  at  the 
British  Museum.  — A  library  in  a  water-tank. — The 
demand  for  good  books  of  moderate  price. — Our 
American  "Debrett." 

COMMUNICATION 40 

Research  and  Intercommunication :  A  Partial  Survey 
of  Ways  and  Means.    Eugene  F.  McPike. 

AN  INTIMATE  VIEW  OF  A  GREAT  PAINTER. 

Edward  E.  Hale,  Jr 42 

TRAVELS  IN  THE  AMERICAN  TROPICS.  T.D.A. 

Cockerell 44 

Rodway's  In  the  Guiana  Forest.  —Lowe's  A  Natur- 
alist on  Desert  Islands. 

A   SURVEY    OF   ENGLISH    POETRY.     Raymond 

Macdonald  Alden 46 

CONTROLLING  MAN'S   EVOLUTION.     Raymond 

Pearl 49 

Davenport's  Heredity  in  Relation  to  Eugenics.— 
Herter's  Biological  Aspects  of  Human  Problems. — 
Kellicott's  The  Social  Direction  of  Human  Evolution. 

STERNE    AS    A    LETTER-WRITER.     James    W. 

Tupper 51 

BRIEFS  ON  NEW  BOOKS 52 

A  minister  of  public  benevolence.  —  Chapters  on  the 
broiderer's  art  in  England.  —  A  new  life  of  "Le 
Taciturne." — A  business  man  in  party  politics.— A 
new  outline  of  Scottish  history. — A  handbook  to  the 
British  West  Indies. — Index  and  digest  of  our  period- 
ical library  literature.  —  Fishers  and  fighters  of  the 
North  Sea.  —  Private  presses  in  England.  —  Promen- 
ades through  Paris. 

BRIEFER  MENTION 56 

NOTES 57 

LIST  OF  NEW  BOOKS  57 


THE  SCHOLAR  IN  POLITICS. 

Out  of  the  political  turmoil  of  the  past  month 
one  result  has  emerged  which  is  peculiarly  grat- 
ifying to  all  who  take  a  serious  interest  in  our 
national  life  and  problems.  One  of  the  great 
political  parties  has  chosen  as  its  candidate  for 
the  office  of  chief  magistrate  a  man  who  embodies 
that  ideal  of  the  scholar  in  politics  which  has 
hitherto  seemed  to  be  impossible  of  realization 
in  a  democracy  like  ours,  short-sighted  in  its  vis- 
ion and  deaf  to  the  purely  intellectual  appeal. 
It  is  hard  even  now  to  believe  that  the  incredi- 
ble has  become  fact,  and  equally  hard  to  account 
for  it,  considering  in  what  contempt  the  "  intel- 
lectual" and  the  theorist  are  held  by  most  of 
those  who  think  themselves  practical  politicians. 
In  a  truly  enlightened  community  nothing  could 
be  more  natural  than  the  selection  for  its  leader 
of  a  man  who  had  devoted  his  life  to  the  inves- 
tigation of  the  problems  of  statecraft,  and  spent 
his  days  in  teaching  young  men  to  understand 
them.  Who  should  be  competent  to  lead,  if  not 
one  who  for  many  years  had  given  his  attention 
to  the  questions  for  which  leadership  is  expected 
to  find  answers,  and  who  could  bring  to  bear 
upon  them  a  wide  knowledge  of  the  art  of  gov- 
ernment in  all  countries,  at  all  times,  and  under 
all  conditions  ?  Yet,  plain  as  the  matter  is,  there 
is  a  surprising  number  of  persons  who  fail  to  see 
in  a  man  of  this  type  the  most  essential  of  all 
qualifications  for  high  administrative  office — the 
wide  range  of  knowledge,  the  trained  analytical 
faculty,  and  the  habit  of  forming  disinterested 
judgments  upon  political  issues. 

Although  we  have  been  a  working  democracy 
for  upwards  of  a  hundred  years,  we  have  in  all 
that  time  acquired  only  a  rudimentary  percep- 
tion of  what  constitutes  fitness  for  office.  We 
have  complacently  witnessed  the  placing  of  men 
without  scientific  equipment  in  positions  whose 
duties  involved  the  management  of  observatories 
and  laboratories  and  museums,  we  have  seen  with 
nothing  more  than  a  shrug  of  the  shoulders, 
translated  into  the  words  "another  political  ap- 
pointment," the  selection  of  men  without  expert 
knowledge  for  posts  in  which  such  knowledge 
was  imperative,  we  have  seen  surgeons  trans- 
formed into  generals,  and  politicians  into  judges, 
and  sportsmen  into  civil  service  commissioners, 
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spatched  to  countries  of  which  they  could  not 
even  speak  the  language — we  have  seen  all  these 
grotesque  administrative  misfits,  and,  if  we  have 
felt  anything  like  adequate  indignation,  have 
failed  to  express  it,  and  all  because  of  our  na- 
tional habit  of  viewing  politics  as  a  form  of  sport 
instead  of  as  a  business  to  be  dealt  with  accord- 
ing to  the  dictates  of  reason  and  in  a  spirit  of 
high  seriousness.  When  it  comes  to  choosing 
people  for  office  ourselves,  by  exercising  the 
sacred  privilege  of  the  ballot,  we  do  not,  once 
in  a  score  of  times,  make  a  decent  effort  to  find 
out  whether  the  men  for  whom  we  are  voting 
have  either  the  knowledge  or  the  character  that 
the  offices  require.  As  far  as  knowledge  goes, 
we  pretend  to  believe  that  any  American  citizen 
can  learn  to  do  anything  if  he  is  only  given  an 
opportunity,  and,  as  far  as  character  goes,  we 
take  our  chances,  or  fall  back  upon  a  cynical 
disbelief  in  the  integrity  of  any  man  whose  duties 
are  found  to  conflict  with  his  interests. 

Aside  from  the  suspicion  with  which  the 
scholar  in  politics  is  widely  regarded,  taking 
shape  in  abstract  allegations  barbed  with  such 
.damning  epithets  as  theorist,  visionary,  Utopian, 
dreamer,  idealist,  and  reformer,  his  entrance 
into  the  field  has  to  encounter  the  very  serious 
obstacle  presented  by  the  damaged  reputations 
of  men  who  have  been  supposed  to  be  con- 
spicuous examples  of  the  principle  which  he 
represents.  We  have  undoubtedly  had  scholars 
in  politics  for  whom  the  noblesse  oblige  of  their 
rank  has  had  no  constraining  force,  and  who 
promptly  sold  themselves  to  the  devil  as  soon 
as  they  were  taken  up  on  the  high  mountain. 
Two  of  these  lost  souls  are  particularly  prom- 
inent in  our  national  affairs  because  their  sin 
against  the  light  has  been  more  than  commonly 
flagrant,  but  there  are  many  others  of  lesser 
stature  who,  with  the  scholar's  equipment,  have 
not  had  the  character  needed  to  steel  them  in 
the  hour  of  temptation,  and  so  have  helped  to 
bring  into  disrepute  what  is  nevertheless  the 
unquestionable  truth  that  high  (and  to  a  certain 
extent  specialized)  education  is  above  all  things 
else  to  be  desired  in  a  public  officer.  We  must 
not  be  disheartened  by  the  cases  in  which  intel- 
lect has  been  put  to  shame  by  deed,  but  hold 
fast  to  the  principle  that  education  ought  to 
count  as  a  very  large  percentage  of  the  total  of 
what  we  require  in  a  candidate  for  high  public 
office. 

It  is  amazing  that  this  matter  should  be  even 
arguable  in  a  country  like  the  United  States, 
which  does  more  lip-service  to  education,  and 
goes  down  deeper  into  its  pocket  to  pay  the 


bills,  than  any  other  on  earth.  But  the  fact  is 
that  along  with  our  devotion  to  popular  educa- 
tion we  cherish  as  a  nation  a  certain  distrust  of 
all  education  that  goes  beyond  the  elementary 
stages,  excepting  that  which  is  definitely  shaped 
to  practical  ends.  The  absurd  notion  that  the 
higher  education  somehow  disqualifies  a  man 
for  the  real  work  of  life  is  entertained  by  a  sur- 
prisingly large  number  of  people,  and  urged  by 
them  with  a  zeal  worthy  of  a  better  cause.  It 
is  but  a  step  from  this  general  prejudice  to  the 
more  specific  one  that  would  hold  it  rather 
against  a  candidate  for  high  office  that  his 
education  had  been  of  a  nature  to  win  for  him 
academic  honors,  even  if  they  were  honors  in 
the  very  field  of  scholarship  that  prepares  a 
man  to  deal  with  political  and  economic  prob- 
lems upon  a  basis  of  scientific  knowledge.  We 
take  for  granted  that  expert  chemists  are  needed 
in  the  direction  of  our  industrial  organizations, 
and  trained  electricians  and  mathematicians  in 
the  management  of  our  traction  systems  and 
engineering  enterprises.  But  we  balk  at  the 
idea  that  our  executive  and  legislative  officers 
need  to  be  trained  in  the  niceties  of  interna- 
tional law  or  the  theories  of  the  tariff,  and  scout 
the  notion  that  a  knowledge  of  political  and 
economic  history  can  alone  supply  the  examples 
and  the  warnings  by  which  a  government  may 
learn  what  is  wise  and  do  what  is  right.  We 
prefer  to  do  what  unintelligent  impulse  directs 
and  interested  ignorance  counsels,  disregarding 
the  accumulated  experience  of  mankind  which 
might  so  easily  save  us  from  mistaken  courses 
and  pernicious  policies.  In  the  impending  pres- 
idential campaign,  when  almost  for  the  first 
time  in  our  history  we  have  the  opportunity  of 
placing  a  mind  trained  in  political  science  at  the 
head  of  national  affairs,  we  shall  have  to  contend 
with  a  stout  opposition  whose  chief  "argument" 
will  be  the  multiplication  of  cheap  gibes  about 
misguided  pedagogues  who  foolishly  aspire  to 
become  statesmen. 

Governor  Baldwin,  in  the  last  number  of 
"  The  Yale  Review,"  has  some  pertinent  remarks 
about  placing  educated  men  in  public  office. 

"  The  indirect  consequences  of  any  new  piece  of 
legislation  are  far  more  numerous  and  far  more  import- 
ant than  those  which  are  direct.  Only  well-trained 
minds  can  anticipate  many  of  them.  And  the  highest 
education  can  never  enable  a  man  to  forecast  them  all. 
In  America  one  is  quite  sure  that  well-trained  minds, 
sooner  or  later,  will  trace  out  these  consequences.  This 
falls  to  our  judges.  They  will  be  quick  to  see  how  an 
alteration  in  one  of  the  rules  of  law  may  affect  the 
working  of  others,  because  this  will  tell  in  determining 
whether  the  new  statute  does  or  does  not  square  with 
the  constitutional  guaranties  of  individual  right.  Often 


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its  effect  will  be  found  such  as  to  produce  a  benefit  to 
a  few  at  the  cost  of  injustice  to  the  community.  He 
who  finds  this  out  first,  without  waiting  for  some  law- 
suit to  develop  the  wrong,  has  won  a  place  among 
public  benefactors.  Still  more  of  a  benefactor  is  the 
member  of  a  legislature  who  perceives  the  impractica- 
bility of  some  such  proposition,  before  it  can  take  the 
shape  of  law,  and  see  to  it  that  it  is  rejected." 

All  of  this  illustrates  the  importance  of  Bastiat's 
"Ce  qu'on  voit  et  ce  qu'on  ne  voit  pas.''  It  is 
what  people  do  not  foresee  of  the  consequences 
of  the  legislation  for  which  they  clamor  that 
makes  all  the  mischief.  It  is  the  special  func- 
tion of  the  trained  mind  in  office,  of  the  scholar 
in  politics,  to  trace  out  these  ulterior  conse- 
quences, and,  perceiving  them  to  be  seriously 
dangerous  to  prosperity,  to  justice,  and  even  to 
liberty,  to  stand  firmly  against  them,  no  matter 
at  what  cost  of  immediate  public  favor.  He 
may  suffer  for  his  stand  at  the  time,  but  he  will 
have  his  reward  in  the  end,  if  he  only  have  the 
patience  to  wait.  "  The  huge  world  will  come 
round  to  him"  when  the  clamor  has  died  away. 


CASUAL  COMMENT. 

THE  PUBLIC  LIBRARY  AS  AN  EDUCATIONAL  FORCE 

was  a  subject  of  marked  prominence  at  the  thirty- 
fourth  annual  conference  of  the  American  Library 
Association,  just  held  at  Ottawa,  Canada.  The  con- 
viction was  emphasized  that  the  library  constitutes 
not  only  a  great  civic  force,  but  the  one  educational 
agency  which  must  be  relied  upon  to  reach  the  citi- 
zenship of  the  country,  since  it  is  only  a  small  minor- 
ity who  are  privileged  to  give  up  other  occupations 
in  order  to  attend  academic  institutions.  This  feeling 
was  voiced  especially  in  an  address  by  Mr.  William 
H.  Hatton  of  Wisconsin,  who  said  that  "Society  is 
required  to  educate  the  man  of  forty  just  as  much  as 
the  boy  of  five;  the  training  of  the  school  can  only 
be  a  beginning  in  learning  how  to  assimilate  knowl- 
edge. The  student  should  be  trained  to  find  knowl- 
edge for  himself.  There  is  no  place  more  fitted  to 
accomplish  this  task  than  the  library.  The  public 
library  is  the  university  of  the  people.  It  is  the 
dominant  factor  in  civic  efficiency."  Another  dis- 
tinct impression  received  was  that  it  is  more  than 
ever  the  thought  of  the  library  profession  that  good 
librarianship demands  a  keen  sense  of  society's  needs, 
together  with  a  clear  appreciation  of  literary  values ; 
that  knowledge  of  people  and  books  is  more  import- 
ant than  the  technical  side  of  library  administration. 
That  this  conception  was  so  definitely  impressed 
upon  those  in  attendance  was  in  a  large  measure 
due  to  the  preliminary  work  of  the  first  woman  who 
has  ever  been  president  of  the  A.  L.  A.,  Mrs.  Theresa 
West  Elmendorf  of  Buffalo.  It  was  in  the  main  her 
views  upon  this  subject  which  were  worked  out  upon 
the  programme,  and  her  personality  which  dominated 
the  conference.  Our  Chicago  librarian,  Mr.  Henry 


E.  Legler,  won  merited  recognition  in  the  form  of 
a  unanimous  election  to  the  presidency  of  the  Asso- 
ciation for  the  coming  year.  The  eloquent  and 
progressive  head  of  the  University  of  Minnesota 
bore  to  Ottawa  the  greetings  of  the  National  Edu- 
cation Association,  and  delivered  one  of  the  best 
addresses  of  the  week.  An  especially  enjoyable 
session  was  the  fourth,  for  which  a  Dominion  Day 
programme  had  been  prepared,  in  which  Sir  Wilfrid 
Laurier  and  other  notables  took  part.  On  the  whole, 
this  year's  conference  was  one  of  the  most  interest- 
ing and  stimulating  that  have  been  held.  More  than 
700  members  were  in  attendance,  and  the  bonds 
uniting  library  workers  in  this  country  with  those 
across  the  Canadian  border  were  more  closely  knit. 

"  GUIDE-POST  "  REFORMERS  OF  OUR  LANGUAGE  in 
respect  to  its  spelling  —  or,  in  other  words,  those 
who  cheerfully  consent  to  point  the  doubtful  and 
difficult  road  to  some  imaginary  orthographic  happy 
land,  but  prefer  for  their  own  part  to  stay  where 
they  are  and  bear  those  ills  they  have  rather  than 
fly  to  others  that  they  know  not  of — receive  a  word 
of  reproof  in  the  June  issue  of  that  vivacious  organ 
of  a  doleful  cause,  the  "Simplified  Spelling  Bul- 
letin."   In  an  editorial  paragraph  we  read:  "As  one 
of  our  members  has  put  it,  too  many  reformers  are 
inclined  to  take  the  offis  of  a  gide-post,  and  thus  to 
point  bravely  the  road  of  reform,  while  taking  no 
steps  themselvs.     We  need  gide-posts,  but  if  the 
road  of  reform  is  not  traveld  by  some  more  pedes- 
trians, to  say  nothing  of  those  who  prefer  the  more 
rapid  rate  of  vehicular  progression,  the  grass  will 
grow,  and  the  evening  sun  will  throw  a  tender  but 
fading  light  upon  the  faithful  gide-post,  with  its 
sturdy   motto,  'Here   I   am,   here   I  stay.'"     The 
printed  list  of  the  officers  and  board  of  the  S.S.S. 
(the   official   abbreviation   for  Simplified  Spelling 
Society)  contains  so  many  names  of  writers  and 
others   whom   the  world   in    general   has    had   no 
reason  to  suspect  of  inoculation  with  the  S.  S.  virus, 
that  one  is  inclined  to  believe  there  may  indeed  be 
not  a  few   of  these  "gide-post"  reformers  in  the 
S.  S.  S.  ranks.     The  general  tone  of  this  number  of 
the  "Bulletin"  conveys  a  certain  sense  of  some- 
thing like  despondency  in  the  cause.    Possibly  this 
is  a  false  impression;  certainly  it  need  not  be  the 
one  given  by  the   following  paragraph,  from  the 
department  of  facetice,  contributed  by  a  correspon- 
dent:  "One  man  to  whom  I   had  the  BULLETIN 
sent  was  suffering  from  prejuditis  and  fossilization 
of  the  spelling  bump.     After  taking  three  bottles 
of  your  cure  he  shows  markt  symptoms  [why  not 
simptoms?]  of  improvement,  the  foren  substances 
o,  g  and  h  in  his  through  having  been  painlessly  re- 
moved." .     .     . 

THE  CALUMNIATED  BOOK-PUBLISHER  finds  an 
eloquent  advocate  in  Mr.  Filson  Young,  who  writes 
ably  in  his  defence  in  the  London  "  Eye- Witness." 
Much  has  been  said  and  printed  about  the  sins  of 
publishers,  almost  nothing  about  those  of  authors  in 


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their  dealings  with  these  same  wicked  publishers; 
societies  have  been  formed  for  protecting  the  author 
from  his  hereditary  foe,  the  publisher,  but  no  societies 
exist  for  shielding  the  publisher  from  the  madness 
or  malevolence  or  unreasonableness  of  the  author. 
"  I  have  taken  considerable  interest  in  this  question," 
says  Mr.  Young,  "and  both  as  an  author  and  a  pub- 
lisher's reader  have  had  opportunities  of  examining 
it  from  both  sides.  Since  my  income  is  derived  solely 
from  writing,  and  not  from  publishing,  I  am  naturally 
on  the  author's  side;  but  I  am  bound  to  admit  that 
in  most  of  the  cases  of  discontent  and  jealousy  which 
exist,  the  wrong  is  on  the  side  of  the  author.  It  is 
quite  commonly  supposed  by  the  world  at  large  that 
publishers  are  a  dangerous  set  of  criminals,  who  in 
reality  sell  immense  editions  of  every  book  they  pub- 
lish, but  only  account  for  a  small  number  of  copies 
to  the  author.  And  it  seriously  believes  also  that 
except  for  the  vigilance  of  societies  and  agents,  au- 
thors would  all  be  starving  in  the  gutter  and  publish- 
ers would  all  be  millionaires.  But  I  know  more  rich 
authors  than  publishers."  Most  assuredly  one  half 
of  the  world  does  not  know  how  the  other  half  has 
to  struggle  and  contend  with  all  sorts  of  unimagined 
and  indescribable  difficulties.  Life  is  a  rough  road 
for  most  of  us,  and  not  for  the  publisher  any  more 
than  for  anyone  else  has  it  been  sandpapered  down 
to  a  polished  smoothness. 

•     •     • 

THE  PRIMROSE  PATH  OF  LETTERS  —  or,  rather, 
what  is  imagined  by  the  uninitiated  to  be  the  flower- 
carpeted  road  travelled  by  those  who  earn  their  bread 
by  writing — will  doubtless,  as  a  matter  of  fact,  always 
have  more  thorns  than  roses  for  the  feet  of  the  way- 
farers. But  a  pleasing  fiction  will  survive.  A  rather 
well-known  writer  of  our  acquaintance  received  a 
letter,  such  as  probably  many  other  prominent  writers 
have  received,  asking,  as  if  it  were  the  simplest 
thing  in  the  world,  advice  that  would  enable  the 
ingenuous  correspondent  to  become  a  successful 
author.  Unintentionally  diverting  as  this  letter  was, 
an  even  more  amusing  one,  addressed  likewise  to  a 
person  known  in  the  literary  world,  is  printed  in 
"  Public  Libraries  "  for  June.  "  Pardon  this  intru- 
sion upon  your  time,"  it  begins,  "  but  seeing  your  like- 
ness in  a  magazine  and  reading  some  of  your  articles 
prompts  me  to  ask  a  favor  of  you  and  it  is  if  you  will 
write  me  a  short  article  on  '  The  Novels  of  Maurice 
Hewlett.'  I  know  you  will  think  me  very  presump- 
tuous but  it  will  be  no  exertion  for  you  and  will  be 
granting  a  great  favor."  It  continues,  with  a  mix- 
ture of  frankness  and  flattery :  "  I  do  n't  believe  you 
want  to  be  paid  for  every  article,  do  you,  when  you 
will  be  conferring  such  a  favor?  Your  countenance 
appeals  to  me  and  so  I  write  asking  this  favor.  I 
have  access  to  so  few  of  his  books  and  really  do  not 
care  for  him  as  a  writer,  so  I  find  it  quite  a  task  to 
prepare  a  lengthy  article  for  our  literary  club  on 
the  subject,  especially  as  I  am  a  very  busy  mother 
and  have  had  so  much  sickness  and  have  so  short  a 
time  to  prepare  an  article.  If  you  can  write  me  a 


humorous  statement  or  two  on  the  subject  please  do 
so,  as  long  dry  articles  are  so  tiresome."  What  a  vast 
amount  of  benefit  that  busy  mother  must  get  from 
her  literary  club! 

A  MOVING  APPEAL  to  the  citizens  of  St.  Joseph, 
Missouri,  to  visit  and  use  more  freely  and  frequently 
their  excellent  public  library  has  been  made  in  the 
past  year  through  the  agency  of  a  local  moving- 
picture  theatre,  which,  says  Librarian  Rush  in  his 
unusually  attractive  and  cleverly  illustrated  Report, 
"kindly  exhibited  a  specially  prepared  lantern  slide 
showing  at  each  performance  photographic  repro- 
ductions of  the  Library  buildings,  together  with  the 
following  note:  'Your  Free  Public  Library  has  ar- 
ranged with  this  management  to  select  interesting 
books  and  magazine  articles  upon  the  historical,  lit- 
erary, and  industrial  subjects  treated  in  these  pic- 
tures. It  is  a  bright  idea  to  see  something  good  and 
then  learn  more  about  it.' "  Even  more  moving  than 
this  appeal  would  have  been,  let  us  say,  a  cinemato- 
graphic representation  of  some  of  the  library's  bene- 
ficent activities.  For  instance,  a  worried  club-woman, 
seeking  material  for  a  paper  to  be  read  at  the  next 
meeting  of  the  St.  Joseph  Culture  Club,  might  be 
pictured  in  the  process  of  applying  for  and  promptly 
obtaining  just  the  book  or  books  that  she  needs,  and 
departing  with  smiles  of  gratitude  on  her  face  and 
her  precious  data  under  her  arm.  Or  the  simple 
ceremony  of  applying  for  and  receiving  a  book  at 
the  delivery  desk  might  be  thrown  on  the  screen,  to 
show  how  prompt  and  efficient  is  the  library  service. 
If  all  the  world,  or  at  least  all  the  juvenile  world, 
will  endanger  its  eye-sight  by  visiting  the  moving- 
picture  show,  why  not  give  it  something  well  worth 
seeing,  and  worth  thinking  about  afterward? 
•  •  • 

A  HERO  AND  HIS  VALET  are  not  always  pictured 
in  such  pleasant  relations  to  each  other  as  in  the 
"  Recollections  of  Guy  de  Maupassant,"  by  his  body- 
servant,  Francois  —  a  French  book  that  has  recently 
achieved  the  distinction  of  being  translated  into  En- 
glish. Not  all  valets,  it  is  true,  are  equal  to  the 
task  of  putting  their  reminiscences  of  their  masters 
into  book-form,  else  we  might  have  more  refutations 
of  the  familiar  dictum  ascribed,  with  varying  weight 
of  authority,  to  Madame  de  SeVigne",  to  Madame 
Cornuel,  to  Marshal  Catinat,  and  perhaps  to  others. 
Evidently  Francois  was  a  faithful  servant  and  a 
minute  observer;  and  that,  with  all  this  minuteness 
of  observation  under  the  somewhat  disenchanting 
conditions  of  domestic  service,  he  still  felt  sufficiently 
moved  with  admiration  to  present  the  world  with  a 
portrait  of  his  master  in  undress,  so  to  say,  speaks 
well  for  both  master  and  servant.  In  addition  to 
those  intimate  personal  details  about  which  only  a 
valet  would  be  qualified  to  write  fully  and  accurately, 
there  are  matters  touched  upon  of  far  greater  pith 
and  moment, —  questions  of  literary  taste,  even,  and 
discussions  (somewhat  one-sided,  naturally)  of  Zola 
and  his  writings.  Maupassant,  as  appears  from  his 


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valet's  book,  was  a  veritable  steam  engine  for  work 
when  once  the  creative  impulse  seized  him ;  he  could 
cover  no  fewer  than  thirty-seven  foolscap  pages  in 
a  day.  Those  who  wish  to  know  the  real  Guy  de 
Maupassant,  to  become  better  acquainted  with  the 
man  behind  his  writings,  will  not  fail  to  read  these 
entertaining  recollections  from  the  pen  of  Francois. 
•  •  • 

THE    DWINDLING    OF   THE    BACCALAUREATE,    the 

degree  that  a  few  decades  ago  stood  as  a  symbol  for 
all  that  was  best  in  college  culture  —  for  an  intimate 
and  loving  acquaintance  with  the  humanities,  and  an 
ardent  devotion  to  the  highest  ideals  both  of  scholar- 
ship and  of  conduct,  conduct  being  the  very  art  of 
arts,  and  so  not  to  be  ignored  by  the  holder  of  a  B.  A. 
diploma  —  is  sadly  attested  by  this  year's  record  of 
our  college  and  university  graduates.  In  a  list  of 
thirty-nine  of  our  leading  institutions  of  higher  learn- 
ing, graduating  at  the  recent  commencement  nearly 
thirteen  thousand  students,  there  were  bestowed  not 
quite  four  thousand  degrees  of  bachelor  of  arts,  or 
less  than  thirty-three  per  cent  of  the  total  number  of 
diplomas  awarded.  Only  one  of  these  colleges  and 
universities  is  found  to  confine  itself,  with  commend- 
able restraint,  to  the  B.  A.  degree  as  the  official  attes- 
tation that  the  student  has  successfully  completed  its 
curriculum ;  and  that  one  is,  of  course,  a  New  En- 
gland country  college  —  Williams.  The  sister  insti- 
tution at  Amherst  graduated  ninety-five  students  (to 
Williams's  ninety-three),  but  allowed  twenty  of  these 
to  go  forth  with  some  sort  of  substitute  for  the  time- 
honored  parchment  of  our  ancestors — probably  a  B.  S. 
diploma.  Lehigh  University  makes,  on  the  whole, 
about  the  poorest  showing  in  this  connection,  with 
only  four  B.  A.'s  to  its  credit,  out  of  eighty-five  grad- 
uates ;  and,  sad  to  relate,  the  University  of  Vermont 
sends  forth  this  year  but  five  bachelors  of  arts  in  a 
graduating  class  of  ninety-six  —  afalling-off  of  three 
from  last  year's  B.  A.  record.  At  this  rate,  the  time 
may  come,  within  our  own  lifetime,  when  bachelors  of 
arts  will  constitute  a  smaller  and  more  distinguished 
company  of  scholars  than  doctors  of  philosophy. 
•  •  • 

AN  EXPERIMENT  IN  CO-OPERATIVE  BOOK-BUYING 

forms  the  subject  of  an  interesting  section  in  the 
latest  Report  of  the  John  Crerar  Library,  and  it 
seems  not  unlikely  to  lead  to  still  further  and  larger 
enterprises  of  the  same  sort.  After  a  preliminary 
reference  to  the  matter,  the  librarian  continues: 
"The  purchases  of  the  year  were  greatly  affected 
in  character  by  the  experiment  already  mentioned. 
Four  libraries,  Harvard  University,  Northwestern 
University,  The  University  of  Chicago,  and  The 
John  Crerar,  sent  a  joint  representative  to  Europe. 
They  were  fortunate  in  securing,  through  the  cour- 
tesy of  Northwestern  University,  the  services  of  its 
Librarian,  Dr.  Walter  Lichtenstein,  who  had  very 
special  qualifications  for  the  task.  Dr.  Lichtenstein 
brought  together  for  Harvard  its  Hohenzollern 
Collection,  and  in  so  doing  obtained  an  exceptional 


familiarity  with  the  European  book  trade."  It  is 
understood  that  the  results  of  this  venture  were 
satisfactory  to  all  concerned.  In  the  case  of  the 
library  of  which  we  are  now  speaking,  "the  pur- 
chases cover  all  the  departments  of  the  Library 
and,  indeed,  most  of  the  individual  subjects.  The 
principal  object  of  the  experiment  was  to  obtain 
books  which  could  not  be  obtained  through  the 
regular  channels  of  trade,  but  it  is  pleasant  to  be 
able  to  add  that,  after  allowing  for  all  expenses,  the 
purchases  were  made  at  less  cost  than  they  could 
have  been  made  through  these  channels." 

•          •          • 

SIR  SIDNEY  COLVIN'S  WORK  AT  THE  BRITISH  MU- 
SEUM, as  keeper  of  prints  and  drawings  since  1884, 
draws  to  itself  some  merited  attention  just  now  by 
reason  of  his  recent  retirement  from  the  post.  Though 
best  known  to  the  reading  public  as  editor  of  the  Edin- 
burgh edition  of  Stevenson's  works  and  of  Stevenson's 
letters,  there  are  other  and  greater  achievements  to 
his  credit  than  the  editing  of  R.  L.  S.  Scholar  and 
fellow  of  Trinity  College,  Cambridge,  he  was  elected 
in  1873  Slade  professor  of  fine  art  at  that  university, 
and  was  also  director  of  the  Fitzwilliam  Museum  at 
Cambridge  from  1876  until  he  went  to  the  British 
Museum  in  1884.  The  pre-Raphaelite  movement 
found  in  him  an  eloquent  advocate  in  the  days  of  its 
unpopularity.  His  acquaintance  with  Whistler  and 
his  high  opinion  of  that  eccentric  artist's  work  are 
matters  of  record — as  is  also  Whistler's  characteristic 
treatment  of  his  admirer.  In  every  way  equipped 
for  his  duties  at  the  British  Museum,  Sir  Sidney 
acquired  a  reputation  for  expert  knowledge  of  the 
old  masters  second  to  that  of  few  or  none  in  En- 
gland ;  and  his  diplomacy  and  tact  in  the  discharge 
of  those  duties  secured  for  his  department  valuable 
accessions  that  another  man  might  not  have  secured 
at  all,  or  only  at  a  considerably  greater  cost  in 
money.  The  story  is  current  of  a  dealer  who,  after 
making  a  sale  to  the  keeper  of  prints  and  drawings, 
repented  the  transaction  and  grumbled:  "Colvin  is 
so  [profane  adverb]  pleasant  he  gets  things  for 
nothing." 

A  LIBRARY  IN  A  WATER-TANK,  Occupying   some 

of  the  space  once  devoted  to  water,  enjoys  a  security 
from  fire  (the  tank  being  of  iron)  which  not  every 
library  can  boast.  The  Chicago  Public  Library,  as 
we  now  know  it,  has  grown  from  a  nucleus  of  about 
three  thousand  volumes  given  to  the  city  forty  years 
ago,  just  after  the  great  fire,  by  the  late  Thomas 
Hughes  and  others,  authors  and  publishers  and  lit- 
erary and  scientific  societies  that  he  had  interested 
tin  the  cause,  in  order  that  Chicago  might  no  longer 
suffer  the  reproach  of  having  no  library  in  the  least 
degree  worthy  of  so  large  and  enterprising  a  city; 
and  in  the  old  water-tank  on  the  site  of  the  present 
Rookery  Building  the  books  thus  secured  through 
English  generosity  were  first  shelved  and  made 
accessible  to  the  public.  Since  then  the  growing 
collection,  which  now  numbers  nearly  half  a  mil- 


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lion  volumes,  has  been  four  times  removed  to  new 
and  larger  quarters,  and  to-day  there  are,  in  addi- 
tion to  the  fine  central  library  building  at  Michigan 
Avenue  and  Washington  Street,  twenty-five  branch 
libraries,  one  hundred  and  sixteen  delivery  stations, 
nine  employees'  libraries  in  industrial  and  commer- 
cial establishments,  sixty-six  classroom  libraries  in 
schools,  and  two  travelling  libraries.  These  facts 
and  figures,  with  others  of  interest  and  a  classified 
list  of  recent  accessions,  are  to  be  found  in  the  June 
number  of  the  library's  interesting  "Book  Bulletin." 
•  •  • 

THE    DEMAND    FOR   GOOD    BOOKS    OF   MODERATE 

PRICE  appears  rather  to  grow  than  to  be  satiated 
with  the  increasing  output  of  such  excellent  series  as 
"Everyman's  Library,"  the  "Temple  Classics,"  and 
the  "Home  University  Library."  "Everyman's" 
has  passed  well  beyond  the  half-thousand  mark  in 
the  number  of  its  titles,  and  the  "Home  University 
Library"  of  authoritative  little  manuals  devoted  to 
various  branches  of  learning  is  now  circulating  to  the 
extent  of  half  a  million  copies  of  its  various  issues. 
One  watcher  of  the  book-market  and  critic  of  litera- 
ture attributes  the  present  social  unrest — a  discon- 
tent that  is  the  beginning  of  progress  — largely  to  the 
wide  circulation  of  these  excellent,  thought-provoking 
textbooks  and  reprints.  No  longer,  it  appears,  does 
the  popular  novel  or  the  illustrated  magazine,  or  even 
the  many- paged  and  profusely-pictured  Sunday  news- 
paper, quench  the  public  thirst  for  reading  matter. 
If  this  is  really  so,  and  if  the  inexpensive  reprint 
and  the  low-priced  scientific  or  economic  or  historical 
treatise  are  at  the  same  time  creating  and  respond- 
ing to  a  more  wholesome  craving,  there  is  cause  for 
felicitation.  ... 

OUR  AMERICAN  "  DEBRETT,"  instead  of  being  a 
blue-book  of  the  peerage,  is  a  red-book  of  men  and 
women  of  achievement.  It  lays  emphasis  rather  on 
the  qualities  commonly  associated  with  red  blood 
than  on  those  traditionally  characteristic  of  blue. 
The  current  issue  of  "Who's  Who  in  America" 
(Vol.  VII.,  1 912-1913),  fresh  from  the  hands  of  its 
enterprising  publishers,  contains  nearly  three  thou- 
sand new  names ;  which  means  that  about  eight  times 
a  day,  during  the  period  of  the  book's  compilation, 
fame  has  struck  some  hitherto  obscure  person  and 
made  of  him  or  her  a  Who.  Presumably,  too,  the 
rate  of  mortality  among  the  Whos  must  in  the  long 
run  about  equal  the  birth-rate.  Contemplating  this 
endless  procession  of  the  illustrious  from  the  cradle 
to  the  grave,  with  their  achievement  of  renown 
marked  by  admission  to  "  Who 's  Who,"  one  might  be 
tempted  by  a  sense  of  the  transitoriness  of  all  thingsr 
mundane,  great  as  well  as  small,  to  essay  a  labored 
and  clumsy  parody  of  certain  familiar  lines  of  Ten- 
nyson, somewhat  as  follows: 

Fill  the  cup  and  fill  the  can, 

Have  a  rouse  before  the  morn  ; 
Each  three  hours  a  Who  expires, 

Each  three  hours  a  Who  is  born. 


COMMUNICA  TION. 


RESEARCH  AND  INTERCOMMUNICATION: 

A    PARTIAL    SURVEY    OF    WAYS    AND    MEANS. 

(To  the  Editor  of  THE  DIAL.) 

Of  bibliographical  undertakings,  large  and  small, 
past,  present,  and  future,  there  are  many,  and  they  are 
of  great  utility;  but  it  is  not  the  chief  purpose  of  this 
note  to  deal  therewith.  We  have  in  mind  rather  those 
publications  and  organizations  which  afford  assistance 
in  current  research,  or  through  the  medium  of  which 
investigators  can  be  placed  in  direct  communication 
with  each  other.  It  is  generally  recognized  now  that 
the  serious  student  is  no  longer  content  with  printed 
literature.  He  must  seek,  and,  if  possible,  secure  the 
last  word  on  the  subject  in  point.  He  may  join  some 
one  or  more  of  the  societies,  national  or  international, 
devoted  to  the  matters  or  problems  of  interest  to  him, 
but  he  will  still  find  that  there  is  a  chasm  which  cannot 
be  bridged  over  except  by  some  one  general  clearing- 
house to  which,  in  certain  emergencies,  to  apply. 

With  this  state  of  affairs,  it  was  not  surprising  to  hear 
of  the  creation  of  such  an  institution  as  "  Die  Briicke  " 
(The  Bridge),  under  the  presidency  of  Prof.  Dr.  Wil- 
helm  Ostwald,  of  Leipsic,  and  having  its  headquarters 
at  30,  Schwindstrasse,  Munich.  The  minimum  yearly 
subscription  for  membership  is  only  six  marks  (about 
$1.50).  Dr.  Ostwald  has  already,  according  to  report, 
donated  to  "Die  Briicke  "  the  sum  of  one  hundred  thou- 
sand marks  ($24,000)  from  his  private  fortune.  An 
active  international  propaganda  will,  no  doubt,  soon  be 
commenced  by  "  Die  Briicke,"  which  has  so  far  been 
giving  special  attention  to  the  organization  of  its  work 
in  Germany.  It  will  probably  establish,  in  due  course, 
branch  organizations  in  the  various  countries,  and  will 
begin  the  publication  of  an  official  organ  of  intercom- 
munication. The  scope  of  "  Die  Briicke,"  unlike  that 
of  any  other  previously  existing  body,  is  unlimited  as 
to  subject.  Its  members  will  be  privileged  to  submit 
queries  on  any  imaginable  topic.  It  will  seek  affiliation 
with  all  other  institutions,  societies,  etc.,  throughout  the 
world.  Among  its  first  serious  tasks,  therefore,  will  be 
the  compilation  of  a  complete  list  of  the  almost  innumer- 
able organizations  in  existence,  with  some  indication  of 
their  scope  and  purpose.  True,  this  was  largely  accom- 
plished a  few  years  ago  by  the  Carnegie  Institution,  in 
its  "  Handbook  of  Learned  Societies  in  America,"  and  in 
its  as  yet  unedited  lists  for  foreign  countries;  but  there 
remains  nevertheless  ample  room  for  the  good  work 
undertaken  by  "  Die  Briicke."  Its  ultimately  large  corps 
of  correspondents  throughout  the  civilized  world  will 
form  a  very  strong  working  organization. 

We  have  chosen  to  present  first  this  international  pro- 
ject in  its  latest  form,  before  dealing  with  some  of  the 
national  undertakings,  in  order  to  have  the  broadest 
possible  ground-work  for  that  ultimate  coordination  of 
endeavor  which  is  rapidly  becoming  so  essential. 

In  England,  the  old  London  "Notes  and  Queries," 
which  has  appeared  weekly  since  1849  and  is  rendered 
accessible  by  many  excellent  indexes,  is  an  exceedingly 
useful  means  of  research  and  intercommunication,  par- 
ticularly on  subjects  of  literature,  grammar,  linguistics, 
philology,  history,  biography,  heraldry,  genealogy,  folk- 
lore, bibliography,  and  allied  matters.  There  also  exist 
in  Great  Britain  and  Ireland  numerous  local  "  Notes 
and  Queries  "  magazines,  and  many  societies  of  varied 


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purposes.  Among  those  whose  objects  should  be  of  gen- 
eral interest  is  the  British  Institute  of  Social  Service, 
4  Tavistock  Square,  London,  W.  C.,  which  has  an  offi- 
cial organ,  "  Progress."  In  seeking  a  likely  candidate 
for  appointment  as  the  British  representative  of  "  Die 
Briicke,"  however,  we  would  most  naturally  turn  to  such 
an  organization  as  The  Information  and  Agency  Bureau, 
J.  W.  Shaw,  Director,  24  Hart  Street,  Holborn,  Lon- 
don, W.  C.  Among  Mr.  Shaw's  current  investigations 
is  one  relating  to  the  production  of  crockery,  china, 
earthenware,  etc.,  in  the  various  countries,  in  behalf  of 
a  company  making  a  patented  tunnel  oven  for  firing 
pottery.  This  is  at  least  suggestive  of  the  commercial 
possibilities  of  such  a  clearing-house. 

In  France,  we  have  "  L'Interme'diaire  des  Chercheurs 
et  Curieux,"  appearing  in  Paris  three  times  a  month, 
since  1864.  A  general  index  to  its  contents  to  the  year 
1896  has  been  printed.  A  complete  set  of  this  periodical 
may  be  found  in  the  library  of  the  University  of  Chicago. 
Many  are  the  quaint  and  interesting  contributions  in 
its  columns,  relating  to  French  history  and  art.  We 
must  not  overlook,  in  passing,  the  existence  of  the 
Institut  International  pour  la  diffusion  des  Experiences 
Sociales,  under  the  general  direction  of  Prof.  Dr. 
Rodolphe  Broda,  59  Rue  Claude  Bernard,  Paris.  Its 
official  organ,  "Les  Documents  du  Progres,"  is  inter- 
esting and  useful.  The  French  representation  of  "  Die 
Briicke  "  might,  perhaps,  be  assigned  to  the  Institut 
du  Mois  Scientifique  et  Industriel,  in  Paris,  or  to  the 
Association  de  Bibliographic  et  de  Documentation  Sci- 
entifique, Industrielle  et  Commerciale,  of  which  the 
Directeur  is  M.  Jules  Garc.on,  40  bis  Rue  Fabert,  Paris 
(viie). 

As  to  Germany,  "  Die  Briicke  "  itself,  with  headquar- 
ters in  Munich,  will  doubtless  provide  its  own  national 
bureau.  It  might  receive  valuable  assistance  from  such 
an  organization  as  the  Institut  fiir  Internationale!! 
Austausch  fortschrittlicher  Erfahrungen  (International 
Institute  for  the  interchange  of  progressive  experi- 
ences), of  which  the  official  organ,  "  Dokumente  des 
Fortschritts,"  is  becoming  more  and  more  widely  known. 
The  Secretary  is  Prof.  J.  H.  Epstein,  22  Hermannstrasse, 
Frankfurt-am-Main. 

In  the  United  States,  we  think  first  of  the  Smith- 
sonian Institution,  with  its  efficient  International  Ex- 
change through  which,  indeed,  interrelations  with  "  Die 
Briicke  "  were  established  April  30,  1912,  and  the 
interchange  of  documents  begun.  The  Carnegie  Insti- 
tution, also  richly  endowed,  is,  like  the  Smithsonian, 
carrying  out  a  liberal  policy  for  the  extension  of  use- 
ful knowledge.  The  scope  of  both  those  beneficent 
bodies,  however,  is  restricted,  for  the  most  part,  to 
matters  of  science,  pure  and  applied.  "  The  Scientific 
American "  inaugurated  many  years  ago  a  column 
for  notes  and  queries  which  is  much  patronized  by  its 
readers.  "  The  Publisher  and  Retailer  "  (New  York) 
for  October,  1911  (pages  17-19),  printed  a  useful  list 
of  American  societies  devoted  to  child-welfare  and 
other  subjects,  which  are  willing  to  answer  questions 
within  their  scope.  Something  of  this  kind  was  also 
attempted  by  "Special  Libraries"  for  June,  1911 
(pages  54-58),  but  a  more  nearly  complete  list  appears 
in  the  front  pages  of  the  current  issues  of  "  The  Sur- 
vey." It  remained,  however,  for  Boston  to  establish  the 
first  Co-operative  Information  Bureau  of  unrestricted 
scope,  and  to  form  a  card-index  of  all  its  members,  with 
notes  of  their  special  knowledge.  This  brings  these 
scattering  remarks,  at  last,  to  the  concrete  proposition 


that  there  is  great  need  of  an  American  Co-operative 
Information  Bureau,  with  branches  in  all  the  principal 
libraries,  universities,  colleges,  and  commercial  clubs  of 
the  country,  and  with  its  own  official  organ  of  inter- 
communication to  be  issued  monthly.  Such  an  organi- 
zation, with  headquarters  in  Chicago  as  the  commercial 
and  railroad  centre,  and  where  the  library  facilities  are 
of  the  best,  could  soon  become  of  great  practical  use- 
fulness. It  might  also  act  as  the  American  representa- 
tive of  "  Die  Briicke."  The  present  time  seems  oppor- 
tune for  serious  consideration  of  such  a  project.  In 
this  connection  it  is  well  to  call  attention  to  the  Special 
Libraries  Association,  which  is  the  central  organ  for  a 
number  of  scattering  and,  to  some  extent,  unrelated 
institutions  covering  a  large  field  of  important  work 
which  is  in  great  need  of  organization  and  co-operative 
effort,  a  fertile  field  which  gives  every  promise  of  an 
abundant  harvest. 

To  the  support  of  such  a  banner  might  rally  the 
leading  commercial  and  industrial  bodies  of  the  country, 
provided  that,  at  the  same  time,  adequate  means  are 
established  for  the  necessary  intercommunication  as  to 
current  investigations. 

To  facilitate  discussion  and  definite  action,  the  follow- 
ing rough  draft  of  a  prospectus  is  appended : 

PROSPECTUS  OF  THE  AMERICAN  CO-OPERATIVE 

INFORMATION  BUREAU. 
OBJECTS : 

(a)  To  furnish  a  central  body  or  clearing-house  for  the 
interchange  of  authentic  information  on  all  subjects  of  science, 
technology,  history,  commerce,  transportation,  travel,  and  all 
other  matters  without  restriction. 

(b)  To  encourage  co-operation  in  the  interchange  of  useful 
information  and  for  that  purpose  establish  branches  in  all  the 
principal  libraries,  universities,  and  other  institutions  of  learn- 
ing throughout  the  United  States,  as  well  as  to  seek  affiliation 
with  similar  institutions  and  societies  in  all  parts  of  the  world. 

(c)  To  place  investigators  into  direct  communication  with 
each  other  when  mutually  desired. 

•  (d)    To  make  special  inquiries  for  the  benefit  of  members. 

(e)  To  publish  an  official  organ  "  Intercommunication," 
to  be  issued  monthly  at  a  yearly  subscription  price  of  about 
$3.00,  of  which  a  small  portion,  to  be  determined,  may  be  re- 
tained by  the  local  branch  sending  subscriptions.  (The  con- 
tents of  each  issue  of  the  journal  will  be  arranged  in  order  of 
subject  according  to  the  decimal  system  of  classification, 
thus  bringing  conveniently  together  all  items  of  allied  inter- 
est. Each  yearly  volume  will  be  accompanied  by  a  complete 
analytical  index.) 
PRIVILEGES  : 

All  members  shall  have  the  privilege  of  submitting  briefly 
worded  queries  on  any  subject  without  restriction,  but  each 
separate  query  shall  be  accompanied  by  an  addressed  envel- 
ope duly  stamped  for  return  postage. 
COST,  ETC.  : 

There  shall  be  no  membership  fees  beyond  the  subscription 
price  of  the  official  organ,  but  the  bureau  shall  not  be  expected 
to  undertake  without  charge  special  researches  of  an  expen- 
sive character  for  the  benefit  of  any  single  member  ;  neither 
will  the  bureau  assume  the  responsibility  of  getting  answers 
to  all  queries  nor  guarantee  the  accuracy  of  information  ob- 
tained through  its  medium. 

Comment  and  criticism  will  show  needed  modifica- 
tions and  improvements,  but  something  of  this  char- 
acter is  required  in  our  highly  specialized  and  rapidly 
moving  life.  Will  America  lag  behind  her  sister 
nations  in  this  great  work  ?  Will  Chicago  overlook  this 
excellent  opportunity  to  add  to  her  prestige  and  to  her 
sphere  of  usefulness?  EUGENE  F.  McPiKE. 

Chicago,  July  10,  1912. 


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[July  16, 


|tefo  gooks. 


Ax  INTIMATE  VIEW  OF  A  GREAT 
PAINTER.* 


Mr.  Daingerfield's  book  on  George  Inness 
is  a  great  service  to  all  who  desire  to  know  the 
development  of  American  landscape  painting. 
It  is  not  an  attempt  at  a  biography,  or  even  at 
a  critical  estimate,  but  a  personal  record  —  per- 
sonal not  in  the  gossippy  but  in  the  artistic  sense. 
Mr.  Daingerfield  had  particular  opportunities 
for  knowing  Inness  thoroughly  as  an  artist,  and 
his  essay  gives  us  a  sketch  based  on  intimate 
details.  The  painter's  development  in  power, 
his  effort  first  for  a  command  of  form  and  com- 
position, then  for  color,  atmosphere,  value  ;  his 
technical  theories  of  painting  or  of  composition, 
his  eccentric  doings-over,  his  search  for  obscure 
laws  of  color ;  his  personal  character,  his  inten- 
sity, vigor,  impulsiveness,  courage, — these  things 
are  given  us  by  an  authority,  and  we  must  always 
be  glad  to  have  them. 

We  are  unfortunately  lacking  in  studies  like 
this  on  the  work  of  our  great  painters.  Whoever 
would  understand  their  works  must  either  be 
content  with  the  paintings  themselves  as  he  may 
be  able  to  see  them  in  the  public  galleries  or  in 
occasional  exhibitions,  or  he  must  rely  upon  the 
general  histories  of  American  painting  which, 
however  excellent,  must  lack  whatever  value 
would  come  from  the  authors' being  provided  with 
independent  studies  of  the  painters  with  whom 
they  had  to  deal.  Both  these  methods  leave  a 
good  deal  to  be  desired.  Our  galleries,  as  a  rule, 
do  not  attach  much  importance  to  American 
landscape,  or,  if  they  do,  they  are  unable  to  carry 
out  in  any  systematic  way  such  a  selection  and 
arrangement  as  would  serve  as  a  guide  to  the 
student.  The  Metropolitan  Museum  in  New 
York,  for  instance,  and  the  New  York  Public 
Library  have  a  good  many  pictures  by  American 
landscape  painters,  but  their  examples  are  only 
by  accident  representative  pictures,  and  their 
catalogues  give  very  little  about  them  of  use  to 
the  student.  Our  histories  of  American  paint- 
ing are  generally  based  upon  the  particular 
knowledge  of  the  authors ;  and  although  such  is 
the  very  best  foundation  for  such  works,  yet  it 
is  a  great  advantage  to  be  able  to  correct  or 
modify  one's  own  impression  by  the  studies  and 
opinions  of  others.  Of  such  discussions  there 
are  on  this  subject  very  few. 

*  GEORGE  INNESS:  The  Man  and  His  Art.  By  Elliott 
Daingerfield.  Illustrated.  New  York :  Frederic  Fairchild 
Sherman. 


Of  course  it  may  easily  be  alleged  that  the  his- 
tory of  American  landscape  has  not  been,  until 
recently,  a  matter  of  great  artistic  interest  or 
importance.  The  Hudson  River,  Lake  George, 
or  White  Mountain  School,  it  may  be  pointed 
out,  is  hopelessly  antiquated,  and  its  pictures 
may  be  relegated  to  the  lumber-room  without 
loss.  The  pictures  of  George  Inness,  in  like 
manner,  are  pushed  into  obscurity  by  others  who 
feel  that  American  landscape  painting  began, 
for  the  purposes  of  the  artist,  with  the  followers 
of  Monet.  All  this  may  be  quite  true  from  the 
standpoint  of  the  painter  or  the  art-student 
commonly  so-called.  And  yet  I  feel  sure  that 
an  element  of  national  interest  that  occupied  so 
large  a  place  in  the  mind  of  the  people  as  did 
American  landscape  ought  not  to  be  allowed  to 
fall  into  obscurity,  if  only  from  the  standpoint 
of  American  history.  It  is  true  that  schools  and 
manners  have  succeeded  each  other,  and  that  to 
those  who  love  the  present  manner  that  of  the 
past  may  be  absurd.  But  such  things  have  their 
ebb  and  flow.  In  the  matter  of  subject  only, 
which  an  amateur  may  understand  more  about 
than  of  the  matter  of  technique,  there  have  been 
very  great  changes.  Forty  years  ago  the  pupils 
of  Hunt  sought  out  a  pair  of  fence-bars  to  paint, 
just  as  twenty  years  later  the  disciples  of  Monet 
were  satisfied  with  a  haystack  done  in  a  dozen 
different  lights.  Both  spoke  scornfully  of  the 
"panoramic  "  views  that  had  delighted  the  older 
men.  But  in  the  last  few  years  the  landscapes 
which  one  sees  are  as  likely  as  not  to  exhibit 
wide  stretches  of  country,  while  the  pair  of  bars 
and  the  haystack  seem  rather  dull.  Inness 
himself  reacted  against  the  followers  of  Thomas 
Cole,  who,  Mr.  Daingerfield  thinks,  borrowed  the 
worst  in  the  empty  classicism  of  Europe.  They 
painted  mountains  and  lakes:  Inness  painted  a 
pasture  or  an  apple-orchard.  Yet  the  George 
Inness  medal  was  awarded  this  year  for  a  picture 
of  Lake  Louise  in  the  Canadian  Rockies,  a  sub- 
ject quite  as  romantic  as  the  "  Mount  Corcoran  " 
of  Bierstadt.  There  is  certainly  much  in  the 
painting  of  the  earlier  men,  and  of  Inness  too, 
that  has  merely  gone  out  of  fashion.  Their  real 
character  and  spirit  will  generally  be  found  well 
worth  looking  into  and  studying. 

All  of  this  may  seem  far  too  long  an  introduc- 
tion to  a  comment  on  a  book  on  the  painting  of 
George  Inness.  Indeed,  it  may  be  said  that 
Inness  is  the  one  great  exception  to  the  general 
view  just  remarked.  1  do  not  think  he  is.  It  is 
true  that  Inness  is  at  the  present  day  much  more 
highly  esteemed  by  the  general  picture-lover  than 
any  who  preceded  or  many  who  have  followed 


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him.  Compared  with  Cole,  Durand,  Church, 
Winslow  Homer,  I  presume  Inness  is  to  most 
people  a  sun  among  stars.  There  is  a  good  rep- 
resentation of  his  pictures  in  most  large  galleries 
and  in  the  great  private  collections.  Chicago  is 
especially  fortunate  in  this  respect,  for  the  Butler 
collection  is  the  best  to  be  found  anywhere. 
But  there  is  yet  no  very  thorough  or  satisfac- 
tory study  of  his  work,  nor  is  there  agreement 
as  to  its  value. 

Mr.  Daingerfield's  book  does  not  precisely  try 
to  fill  this  lack.  As  has  been  said,  it  does  not 
pretend  even  to  be  an  estimate ;  it  is  one  of  those 
preliminary  studies  of  so  much  value  to  the  critic. 
Mr.  Daingerfield  tells  us  things  about  Inness 
that  no  one  else  knew — things  that  one  would 
want  to  be  sure  to  take  account  of  in  getting  to 
a  true  appreciation  of  his  noble  and  beautiful 
art.  It  is  a  most  attractive  and  interesting  pic- 
ture of  his  master  that  he  gives  us,  partly  per- 
sonal though  not  too  much  so,  partly  artistic, 
with  detail  of  method  and  ideas  that  must  be  of 
value  to  the  technical  student. 

It  will  not  be  a  very  important  matter  that  I 
should  not  agree  with  Mr.  Daingerfield  in  his 
view  of  Inness.  I  could  not,  of  course,  pretend 
to  an  opinion  of  much  value  in  comparison  with 
his  in  the  matter  of  painting.  Just  the  value  of 
Inness's  technique  in  comparison  with  all  that 
has  come  in  since  his  day  is  something  about 
which  I  should  have  but  the  personal  taste  of 
any  amateur.  But  so  far  as  the  pictures  are 
concerned,  there  are  certain  points  remarked  by 
Mr.  Daingerfield  on  which  one  who  is  not  a 
painter  may  fairly,  I  believe,  desire  to  have  an 
independent  opinion. 

Chief  of  these  matters  is  the  view  that  Inness 
really  had  more  love  and  knowledge  of  Nature 
than  many  a  man  before  him,  or  indeed  beside 
him  or  after  him,  who  could  not  paint  so  well. 
Mr.  Daingerfield  says  "the  frail,  weak  and 
altogether  insipid  effort  of  those  about  him  was 
distasteful;  they  borrowing  the  worst  in  the 
empty  classicism  of  Europe  produced  nothing 
upon  which  such  such  a  nature  could  lean,  nor 
from  which  learn  even  the  rudiments  of  land- 
scape art"  (p.  10).  And  he  further  gives  us  to 
understand  that  the  contemporaries  of  Inness's 
younger  days  were  apostles  of  the  brown  tree 
in  the  foreground  (p.  9),  and  that  their  method 
was  opposed  to  copying  the  landscape  "he  saw 
with  his  own  eyes  "  (p.  11).  This  must  have  been 
between  1845  and  1855.  The  passage  presents 
what  is  to  me  quite  a  new  view  of  the  American 
landscape-painting  of  that  time.  Those  years 
saw  the  last  of  the  paintings  of  Cole,  some  of 


the  best  of  Durand's  and  the  first  of  those  of 
Church.  We  cannot  say  who  were  the  artists 
around  Inness,  but  surely  it  is  not  a  common  idea 
to  believe  that  Cole,  Durand,  and  Church,  men 
fairly  representative  of  the  landscape-painting 
of  that  time,  borrowed  the  worst  in  the  empty 
classicism  of  Europe  or  did  not  believe  in  paint- 
ing the  landscape  that  they  saw.  Of  Cole  some- 
thing of  such  an  idea  might  prevail,  but  even 
he  thought  that  he  was  following  Nature  closely 
and  said  so  over  and  over  again.  Durand  was 
a  Pre-Raphaelite  before  the  P.R.B.:  Mr.  Still- 
man  says  that  he  "first  showed  American  artists 
what  could  be  done  by  faithful  and  unaffected 
study  of  Nature  in  large  studies  carefully  finished 
on  the  spot."  And  as  to  Church,  his  chief  power 
was  his  wonderful  eye  for  seeing  the  detail  of 
Nature,  and  his  still  more  remarkable  hand  for 
rendering  what  he  saw.  Inness,  of  course,  often 
painted  direct  from  Nature ;  but  he  was  not  the 
only  one  to  do  so,  and  I  should  think  myself,  on 
the  ground  of  Mr.  Daingerfield's  accounts  of  his 
later  methods,  that  his  greatest  success  was  ob- 
tained when  he  painted  out  of  his  own  head.  His 
head,  like  Gainsborough's,  was  wonderfully 
stored  with  forms,  but  after  his  early  copyings  of 
Nature  he  very  often  depended  entirely  upon  it. 

I  have  generally  thought  of  Inness,  not  as  a 
leader  in  any  return  to  Nature,  but  as  one  who 
developed  a  new  and  very  beautiful  way  of 
presenting  certain  aspects  of  Nature.  His  con- 
temporaries were  inferior  to  him  there.  Cole 
as  early  as  1825  tried  to  paint  what  he  saw. 
So  he  says  himself,  and  I  see  no  reason  to  doubt 
it,  least  of  all  that  he  often  did  not  do  so.  He 
saw,  for  instance,  that  Nature  in  the  summer 
was  green  rather  than  brown.  His  "  Mount 
Washington  "  (1827)  is  as  green  as  anything  of 
Constable's,  whose  pictures  he  had  never  seen  at 
that  time.  Then  Durand,  who  did  not  have 
Cole's  passion  for  the  "  ideal,"  developed  a  kind 
of  landscape  painting  that  was  nearly  akin  to 
that  propounded  by  Ruskin.  Of  Church  it  is  said 
that  when  Cole,  his  master,  told  him  to  select 
a  subject  one  morning  he  chose  the  valley  of  the 
Hudson  River.  Cole,  looking  at  his  work  in  the 
afternoon,  set  him  another  subject,  namely,  a 
mullein  stalk.  The  story,  if  not  true,  is  signifi- 
cant ;  for  Church  is  as  remarkable  for  his  accu- 
racy of  detail  as  for  his  grasp  of  range.  Now  the 
great  thing  about  Inness  was  that  he  did  not  do 
anything  at  all  like  any  of  those  things,  but 
something  quite  different  —  inspired,  Mr.  Dain- 
gerfield says,  by  Barbizon. 

He  did  not  aim  at  the  particular  facts,  usu- 
ally of  form  and  color,  that  interested  most  of 


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his  contemporaries,  he  more  commonly  saw  in 
Nature  other  facts  — facts  of  light,  atmosphere, 
value.  What  he  saw  in  Nature  is  more  like 
what  later  men  have  seen  than  what  Cole, 
Durand,  and  Church  saw.  But  to  represent 
Inness  as  one  of  the  first  of  those  to  whom  truth 
to  Nature,  in  any  ordinary  sense,  was  the  main 
aim  seems  to  me  to  convey  a  wrong  idea,  at  least 
to  the  non-technical  reader. 

Nor  is  this  a  minor  point.  It  is  the  founda- 
tion of  Inness's  greatness,  the  essence  of  his 
peculiar  quality,  and  the  reason  why  he  was 
not  greater  than  he  was.  It  makes  clear  that 
Inuess,  like  his  predecessors  and  his  successors, 
was  limited  to  his  own  field  of  thought.  He 
saw  in  Nature  something  very  particular ;  and 
to  people  chiefly  interested  in  that  particular 
kind  of  thing  he  is  the  greatest  of  American 
landscape  painters.  But  he  failed  to  see  various 
other  things  of  interest.  During  the  first  part 
of  the  nineteenth  century  the  typical  landscape 
painter  in  American  opinion  was  Salvator  Rosa  ; 
afterward  Theodore  Rousseau  took  that  position ; 
then  Claude  Monet.  At  the  present  day  the 
first  is  commonly  regarded  with  contempt,  the 
second  with  indifference,  the  third  with  devotion. 
But  it  is  a  foregone  conclusion  that  the  love  of 
Monet  will  pass,  because  his  view  of  Nature  is 
as  limited  as  that  of  Salvator  Rosa  or  Rousseau. 
We  like  his  pictures  better  because  his  view  of 
Nature  is  limited  to  things  that  we  have  learned 
to  like.  But  his  vogue  will  certainly  pass.  In 
like  manner  Inness's  view  of  Nature  appears  to 
me  to  be  limited.  There  was  a  time  when  his 
art  seemed  to  me  to  include  the  most  beautiful 
aspects  of  Nature,  and  from  it  I  learned  to 
admire  and  love  much  which  might  otherwise 
be  still  hidden  from  me.  But  with  a  wider 
acquaintance  with  the  work  of  others,  and  of 
Nature  herself,  I  have  thought  that  there  were 
other  aspects  quite  as  beautiful  and  interesting 
as  those  which  Inness  perceived. 

So  one  may  not — probably  will  not — agree 
with  Mr.  Daingerfield  in  his  view  of  George 
Inness.  But  this  makes  little  difference  in  the 
value  of  his  book.  He  has  put  into  these  few 
pages  something  of  great  value,  namely,  George 
Inness's  own  commentary  on  his  own  art,  and 
he  has  been  able  to  illustrate  it  by  beautiful 
reproductions  of  typical  pictures.  No  one  will 
read  the  book  without  an  increase  of  admiration 
for  the  artist.  We  need  not  put  aside  the  work 
of  others  to  make  Inness  seem  great.  His  work 
presents  some  of  the  most  beautiful  aspects  of 
Nature  in  a  very  beautiful  way. 

EDWARD  E.  HALE,  JR. 


TRAVELS  ix  THE  AMERICAN  TROPICS.* 

"Delight  itself  is  a  weak  term  to  express  the  feelings 
of  a  naturalist  who,  for  the  first  time,  has  wandered 
by  himself  in  a  Brazilian  forest.  The  elegance  of  the 
grasses,  the  novelty  of  the  parasitical  plants,  the  beauty 
of  the  flowers,  the  glossy  green  of  the  foliage,  but  above 
all  the  general  luxuriance  of  the  vegetation,  filled  me 
with  admiration.  A  most  paradoxical  mixture  of  sound 
and  silence  pervades  the  shady  parts  of  the  wood.  The 
noise  from  the  insects  is  so  loud,  that  it  may  be  heard 
even  in  a  vessel  anchored  several  hundred  yards  from 
the  shore ;  yet  within  the  recesses  of  the  forest  a  universal 
silence  appears  to  reign.  To  a  person  fond  of  natural 
history,  such  a  day  as  this  brings  with  it  a  deeper  pleasure 
than  he  can  ever  hope  to  experience  again." — Charles 
Darwin. 

We  are  gradually  waking  up  to  the  fact  that 
there  is  a  fairyland  to  the  south  of  us,  readily 
accessible  within  a  week.  The  volume  of  travel 
to  the  American  tropics  accordingly  increases, 
taxing  the  capacity  of  vessels  running  to  Central 
America  and  the  West  Indies.  With  the  open- 
ing of  the  Panama  Canal,  "everybody  "  will  visit 
the  Isthmus ;  and  after  the  excitement  has  died 
down,  it  will  probably  remain  "the  thing"  to 
take  the  tropical  route  to  California.  At  the 
same  time,  now  that  modern  sanitation  is  able 
practically  to  abolish  malaria,  yellow  fever,  and 
other  diseases,  tropical  regions  will  gradually 
become  sufficiently  healthy  to  be  colonized  by 
our  countrymen  in  much  greater  numbers  than 
heretofore.  All  this  will  not  be  without  its  dis- 
advantages, and  if  it  happens  (as  it  has  happened 
in  places)  that  we  are  chiefly  known  to  the  na- 
tives for  our  vulgarity  and  commercial  crooked- 
ness, the  discovery  of  the  tropics  by  the  people 
of  the  United  States  will  seem  to  the  rest  of  the 
world  a  calamity.  Primarily  owing  to  the  intel- 
ligence and  untiring  energy  of  a  small  group  of 
men,  we  have  made  an  excellent  impression  by 
our  work  at  Panama,  and  this  should  stand  as  a 
model  for  the  future,  no  matter  if  it  is  suggest- 
ive of  State  Socialism.  Panama,  however,  illus- 
trates organization,  cooperation,  government;  it 
does  not  closely  touch  the  relation  of  the  indi- 
vidual, as  such,  to  his  environment.  The  Amer- 
ican in  the  tropics,  if  he  is  to  make  the  most  of 
his  opportunities,  must  cultivate  at  least  in  some 
degree  the  faculty  of  intelligent  appreciation; 
something  at  least  of  the  feeling  so  well  expressed 
by  Darwin  in  the  quotation  above.  To  do  this, 
he  must  not  be  wholly  ignorant,  either  of  what 
is  known,  or  of  the  vast  opportunity  still  remain- 

*!N  THE  GUIANA  FOREST.  Studies  of  Nature  in  Relation 
to  the  Struggle  for  Life.  By  James  Rodway.  New  Edition. 
Illustrated.  Chicago :  A.  C.  McClurg  &  Co. 

A  NATURALIST  ON  DESERT  ISLANDS.  By  Percy  R.  Lowe. 
Illustrated.  New  York  :  Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 


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ing  for  increasing  knowledge.  Without  being 
a  professional  naturalist,  he  may  nevertheless 
read  books  of  travel,  and  get  an  idea  of  the  coun- 
tries he  is  to  visit.  If,  in  an  amateur  way,  he 
aspires  to  add  something  to  the  storehouses  of 
science,  so  much  the  better.  Beginning  thus, 
he  is  more  than  likely  presently  to  find  himself 
in  possession  of  a  delightful  hobby.  A  lady  of 
my  acquaintance,  during  the  present  year,  spent 
a  month  in  Guatemala,  and  while  there  discov- 
ered a  large  tree  with  splendid  red  flowers,  more 
than  forty  kinds  of  insects,  and  half  a  dozen 
other  small  animals,  all  wholly  new  to  science. 
With  the  journey  back  and  forth,  she  was  absent 
from  home  just  six  weeks. 

It  is  not  our  purpose  at  the  present  time  to 
enumerate  the  "  best  hundred  books  "  on  the 
American  tropics.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  good 
books  on  tropical  Nature  are  not  numerous ; 
Wallace,  Darwin,  Spruce,  and  Beebe,  on  South 
America,  the  charming  volume  of  P.  H.  Gosse 
on  Jamaica,  Belt  on  Nicaragua,  are  the  ones  that 
first  come  to  mind.  Belt's  famous  little  work 
is  unfortunately  out  of  print,  and  may  only  be 
obtained  with  difficulty,  at  a  fancy  price.  Two 
new  books  now  before  us  are  the  immediate 
cause  of  this  discussion.  James  Rod  way,  long 
resident  in  British  Guiana,  well  known  as  a 
competent  and  enthusiastic  naturalist,  has  en- 
larged and  revised  his  work  on  the  natural 
history  of  that  country,  which  now  comes  to 
us  as  a  volume  of  326  pages,  well  illustrated. 
He  graphically  describes  the  life  of  the  forest, 
where  the  Indian  seems  part  of  the  general 
order  of  things,  one  of  the  animals.  He  explains 
how  the  beauty  and  order  of  nature  comes  out 
of  the  struggle  for  existence ;  and  this  term, 
instead  of  being  a  vague  abstraction,  is  made 
to  stand  for  living  realities,  described  in  detail. 
From  the  account  of  the  Indian  we  quote  a  few 
paragraphs. 

"  The  man  of  the  forest  is  in  almost  perfect  harmony 
with  his  surroundings,  and  if  to  be  so  is  to  be  happy,  as 
some  have  said,  then  the  South  American  Indian  must 
be  one  of  the  happiest  of  men.  .  .  .  Having  lived  iii 
the  forest  for  ages,  the  Indian  can  hardly  be  looked 
upon  as  one  of  the  rulers  of  creation,  but  rather  as  in 
perfect  unison  with  nature.  He  is  as  much  a  part  of  the 
whole  as  the  jaguar,  the  howling  monkey,  or  the  tapir. 
He  does  not  interfere  with  the  constitution  of  things  — 
does  not  clear  great  tracts  of  land  —  builds  no  cities  — 
erects  no  monuments  —  nor  does  he  leave  many  more 
traces  of  his  presence  than  the  other  inhabitants  of  the 
forest.  .  .  .  From  one  point  of  view  he  may  be  consid- 
ered as  having  attained  perfection.  The  balance  of  life 
has  been  kept  up,  and,  apart  from  outside  influences,  he 
does  not  exterminate  a  single  animal.  Nowhere  per- 
haps is  the  fauna  of  such  an  ancient  type  so  well  pro- 


tected and  so  perfectly  fitted  to  its  environment,  and 
nowhere  can  we  study  man  as  an  animal  so  well  as  in 
the  Guiana  forest." 

Here  and  there,  we  may  find  reason  to  debate 
or  dispute  some  of  Mr.  Rodway's  opinions,*  but 
we  always  admire  his  ability  to  see  and  to  de- 
scribe. He  tells  us  that  he  has  studied  tropical 
nature  for  forty  years ;  his  book  is  not  based  on 
the  hasty  impressions  of  a  visitor,  it  is  the  fruit 
of  long  and  persistent  investigation.  Perhaps 
"investigation"  is  not  quite  the  word  to  use 
here,  it  is  too  suggestive  of  technicalities;  we 
may  rather  say  that  Mr.  Rodway  has  made 
himself  at  home  in  the  forest,  has  lived  the  life 
there,  and  describes  what  he  has  felt  and  seen. 
Thus  his  narrative  flows  and  has  no  suggestion 
of  a  catalogue;  there  is  nothing  technical  enough 
to  frighten  any  educated  reader,  and  yet  it  is 
clear  that  the  author  knows  his  subject  from  the 
technical  side  as  well. 

Mr.  P.  R.  Lowe's  "  A  Naturalist  on  Desert 
Islands"  is  a  quite  different  book,  the  author 
having  neither  the  maturity  nor  the  experience 
of  Mr.  Rodway.  Nevertheless,  it  gives  a  read- 
able and  interesting  account  of  the  voyages  of  Sir 
Frederic  Johnstone  and  his  companions  among 
the  islands  of  the  Caribbean  Sea.  The  first  part 
describes  Swan  Islands,  two  small  and  isolated 
bits  of  land  nearly  a  hundred  miles  north  of  the 
coast  of  Honduras.  The  rest  of  the  book  is  de- 
voted to  Blanquilla  and  the  Hermauos  Islands, 
north  of  Venezuela.  Although  the  author  and 
his  companions  made  no  long  stay  at  these  places, 
they  were  able  to  obtain  much  interesting  infor- 
mation and  a  good  series  of  specimens,  especially 
of  birds.  Either  the  collections  had  not  all  been 
worked  out  at  the  time  of  writing,  or  Mr.  Lowe 
did  not  wish  to  burden  his  text  with  too  many 
dry  details,  so  we  are  left  uncertain  as  to  the 
total  results  of  the  expeditions.  We  hear,  how- 
ever, of  a  new  bird  from  Blanquilla  Island,  and 
various  additions  to  our  knowledge  of  the  distri- 
bution of  birds  and  other  animals.  There  is  also 
much  interesting  discussion  of  the  problems  con- 
nected with  island  life,  while  the  human  history 
of  the  places  visited  is  well  described.  The  effect 
upon  the  reader  will  be  to  make  him  wish  to  ex- 
plore some  of  these  fascinating  Caribbean  islands ; 
and  while  few  have  a  yacht  or  other  means  at 
their  command,  one  may  hope  that  some,  at  one 
time  or  another,  will  be  found  to  take  up  the 
evidently  uncompleted  work. 

T.  D.  A.  COCKERELL. 


*  Just  one  statement  of  fact  seems  to  be  wrong.   The  bee  vis- 
iting the  Catasetnm  is  surely  Eulaema,  and  not  a  humble  bee. 


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A  SURVEY  or  ENGLISH  POETRY.* 

The  recent  re-issue  of  Mr.  Courthope's  "  His- 
tory of  English  Poetry,"  which  involves,  besides 
the  reprinting  of  the  last  two  volumes,  some 
revision  of  the  text  of  the  earlier  ones,  makes  it 
fitting  to  consider  the  character  and  value  of 
this  monumental  work.  It  is  the  fulfilment  of 
an  idea  which  in  the  eighteenth  century  was 
dreamed  of  by  Pope  and  Gray,  and  brought  to 
measurable  achievement  by  Thomas  Warton, 
but  which  Mr.  Courthope  was  the  first  of  mod- 
ern scholars  to  realize — the  survey  of  the  whole 
course  of  English  poetry  at  the  hands  of  a  single 
man. 

Such  an  undertaking  gives  rise,  first  of  all, 
to  the  query  whether  any  one  man  can  hope  to 
accomplish  such  a  task  in  accordance  with  the 
standards  of  the  scholarship  of  our  time.  The 
characteristic  historical  work  of  this  generation 
is  of  the  type  represented  by  the  "  Cambridge 
Modern  History"  and  the  "  Cambridge  History 
of  English  Literature,"  works  formed  by  the 
combined  labors  of  a  company  of  scholars,  no 
one  of  whom  would  have  been  able  or  willing  to 
do  the  whole  with  thoroughness.  One  might, 
therefore,  feel  some  misgivings  concerning  the 
efforts  of  a  single  scholar,  whose  previous  studies 
have  been  largely  confined  to  the  modern  period, 
to  survey  a  field  which  has  been  so  thoroughly 
subdivided  by  his  contemporaries.  And  the 
result  to  some  extent  justifies  the  misgivings. 
The  diverse  researches  of  modern  philology 
and  literary  history,  in  the  English  field,  are 
only  partially  represented  by  Mr.  Courthope's 
work. 

From  one  point  of  view  this  deficiency  may 
be  expressed  by  saying  that  the  History  has  too 
few  footnotes.  To  some  readers  this  statement 
will  appear  a  dreadful  example  of  misguided 
academic  pedantry.  But  if  it  is  recalled  that  the 
History  does  not  set  out  to  be  merely  popular, 
but  to  attain  genuine  scholarliness  of  method 
and  result,  it  will  perhaps  be  admitted  that, 
without  abundant  reference  to  authorities,  to 
sources,  to  the  discussion  of  doubtful  matters, 
to  incidental  issues  that  constantly  arise,  queries 
will  often  be  raised  which  cannot  be  answered 
in  the  complacent  ipse-dixit  of  a  smooth-flowing 
text.  Two  books  of  recent  years,  which  added 
respectively  to  the  glory  of  American  and 
British  scholarship,  and  which  are  far  from 
being  pedantic  or  even  merely  learned,  may  be 


*A  HISTORY  OF  ENGLISH  POETRY.  By  William  John 
Courthope.  Revised  edition.  In  six  volumes.  New  York : 
The  Macmillan  Co. 


instanced  as  examples  of  what  footnotes  mean: 
Professor  F.  B.  Gummere's  "  The  Beginnings 
of  Poetry "  and  Professor  A.  C.  Bradley 's 
"  Shakespearean  Tragedy."*  They  mean  that  at 
every  point  the  writer  has  not  merely  set  forth 
the  results  of  individual  study,  but  has  envisaged 
the  problems  suggested  in  all  directions  by  the 
work  of  previous  scholars.  In  this  regard,  then, 
Mr.  Courthope's  work,  while  not  wholly  negli- 
gent, leaves  very  much  to  be  desired.  In  many 
a  difficult  tract  of  his  territory, — the  character 
of  epic  represented  in  "  Beowulf,"  for  example, 
the  authorship  of  "  Piers  Plowman,"  the  mean- 
ing of  Euphuism,  the  authenticity  of  certain 
quasi-Shakespearean  plays,  —  one  may  trace  the 
dangerous  results  of  what  from  another  stand- 
point might  seem  a  really  noble  individualism  or 
self-dependence. 

But  on  the  other  hand,  if  the  detailed  results 
of  modern  philology  are  inadequately  repre- 
sented, the  processes  of  that  form  of  study  which 
has  come  to  be  called  comparative  literature  are 
conspicuous  for  their  presence  and  effectiveness. 
In  his  own  reading  and  thought  Mr.  Courthope 
has  embraced  the  classical  literatures  as  well  as 
those  in  other  modern  languages,  thus  avoiding 
the  insular  standpoint  from  which  the  story  of 
English  literature  has  generally  been  told.  Typi- 
cal results  are  such,  chapters  as  those  on  allegory 
in  Dante  and  in  medisevaJ  England  (vol.  i., 
chap.  6),  on  the  origin  of  Poetical  Wit  (vol.  iii., 
chap.  16),  and  on  the  blended  materials  of  the 
poetry  of  Milton  (vol.  iii.,  chap.  14), — chapters 
which  for  breadth  of  background  it  would  be 
difficult  to  parallel  in  any  similar  work. 

A  second  query  which  naturally  arises  from 
the  character  of  the  undertaking  is  that  which 
concerns  the  possibility  of  defining  the  bound- 
aries of  "English  Poetry"  for  such  a  purpose. 
Mr.  Courthope  started  out  with  a  conspicuously 
simple  and  sensible  definition:  "By  English 
Poetry  I  mean  metrical  compositions  written  in 
our  language."  But  as  he  proceeded  he  did  not 
remain  faithful  to  this.  In  the  drama  he  found, 
as  was  to  be  anticipated,  a  troublesome  problem, 
and  courageously  met  it  by  including  the  whole 
subject  of  English  Drama,  at  least  for  the  earlier 
periods.  Reaching  the  Elizabethan  age,  he 
allowed  himself  to  include  a  chapter  on  Lyly 
and  euphuistic  prose,  because  of  the  undeniable 
relationship  between  these  and  poetical  matters. 
For  less  obvious  reasons,  he  later  included  a  chap- 


*In  the  second  instance,  the  book  being  composed  of  lec- 
tures published  as  delivered  orally,  the  notes  are  relegated 
to  the  back  of  the  volume,  —  a  method  followed  in  the  case 
of  one  or  two  matters  by  Mr.  Courthope. 


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ter  (in  volume  vi.)  on  the  rise  of  the  periodicals, 
and,  still  further  on,  a  chapter  011  the  Waverley 
Novels,  on  the  ground  that  "  a  history  of  En- 
glish poetry  can  hardly  exclude  a  consideration 
of  the  growth  of  romantic  fiction."  It  is  indeed 
pretty  clear  that,  if  poetry  is  viewed  not  as  a  form 
of  art  so  much  as  the  expression  of  national  life 
— always  Mr.  Courthope's  leading  idea  —  its 
separation  from  prose  literature  becomes  often 
difficult  if  not  positively  misleading.  The 
thoughtful  reader  of  these  volumes  will  therefore 
almost  inevitably  come  to  the  conclusion  that  the 
work  should  either  have  been  expanded  to  form 
a  History  of  English  Literature,  or  curtailed  to 
form  a  History  of  Modern  English  Poetry,  the 
drama  and  other  doubtful  forms  excluded. 

But,  setting  aside  these  perhaps  ungenerous 
queries,  what  sort  of  a  history  is  actually  in 
our  hand?  One,  in  the  first  place,  of  undeniable 
and  impressive  unity,  such  as  the  work  of  a  com- 
pany of  scholars  could  never  attain.  This  unity 
is  the  outcome  of  the  central  purpose  of  the  writer, 
which  is  stated  repeatedly  and  consistently  main- 
tained. At  the  outset  he  tells  us  that  his  aim 
is  "to  treat  poetry  as  an  expression  of  the  im- 
agination, not  simply  of  the  individual  poet, 
but  of  the  English  people."  And  at  the  close  his 
hope  is  that  the  completed  work  has  enabled  the 
reader  to  "conceive  more  distinctly  the  gradual 
and  majestic  growth  of  the  British  Empire  out 
of  the  institutions  of  the  Middle  Ages."  This 
method  produces  a  genuine  history,  as  distin- 
guished from  the  succession  of  facts,  biograph- 
ical and  bibliographical,  which  usually  go  under 
that  name  where  literature  is  concerned.  The 
normal  writer  of  " literary  history"  chiefly  asks 
himself:  When  did  Smith  live?  What  books 
did  he  write  ?  What  style  did  he  write  them  in  ? 
Are  they  better  or  worse  than  the  books  of  Jones? 
Mr.  Courthope  always  asks:  What  did  Smith 
say?  Why  did  he  say  it?  Above  all,  why  was 
Smith  ?  And  the  answer  to  the  second  and  third 
questions  is  always  found  in  other  people  than 
Smith  —  commonly  in  the  Whig  party  or  the 
English  nation. 

This  method,  at  its  best  profound  and  illumi- 
nating, sometimes  gives  odd  results.  For  when 
we  seek  to  learn  not  merely  what  but  why,  we 
are  always  in  some  danger  of  weaving  illusory 
webs  of  explanation ;  and  certain  of  Mr.  Court- 
hope's  theories  tempt  the  reader  to  recall  the 
tour  deforce  of  DeQuincey's  in  which  he  proved 
that  the  character  of  Greek  literature  was  de- 
termined by  the  fact  that  the  Greeks  wore  cot- 
ton clothing  (no  linen  rags,  no  paper ;  no  paper, 
no  books ;  no  books,  no  written  style).  It  may 


be  true  that  the  movement  of  poetry  from  sym- 
bolism to  realism  was  produced  by  the  combined 
influence  of  encyclopaedic  education,  feudal  insti- 
tutions, and  the  growth  of  civil  order  (vol.  i.,  chap. 
xii.);  but  it  is  very  difficult  to  prove  it,  and  would 
be  still  more  difficult  to  disprove  any  conflicting 
hypothesis.  It  may  be  true  that  Walter  Scott  is 
to  be  explained  by  the  "happy  mixture  of  Law 
and  Liberty  that  enabled  Scotland  to  play  so 
leading  a  part  in  the  history  of  the  romantic 
movement,"  and  that  the  character  of  the  poetry 
of  the  age  of  Pope  is  due  to  the  Whig  Revolution 
of  1688; — even  if  these  things  are  not  true,  the 
assertion  of  them  is  suggestive  and  enlightening. 
But  one  rubs  one's  eyes  a  bit  at  the  assertion 
that  the  formal  epithets  —  the  dewy  meads  and 
conscious  bosoms  and  all  the  rest — of  the  neo- 
classical poetry  "reflect  the  change  from  the 
feudal  absolutism  of  the  Stuarts  to  the  Parlia- 
mentary system  of  the  eighteenth  century"  (v., 
42),  and  is  perhaps  tempted  to  think,  subse- 
quently, that  Mr.  Courthope  believes  the  peace- 
ful Cumberland  country  and  quiet  waters  of 
Wordsworth's  childhood  home  were  the  result  of 
"  the  general  peace  and  order  which,  since  the 
Revolution  of  1688,  had  settled  upon  the  con- 
stitution of  society"  (vi.,  160),  though  all  that 
he  really  says  is  that  they  reflected  that  peace 
and  order. 

Another  difficulty  with  this  historical  method 
is  that  its  followers  are  in  danger  of  forgetting 
that,  after  all,  there  arises  every  now  and  then 
a  man  who  does  and  says  things  not  in  the  least 
as  a  representative  of  national  forces  and  move- 
ments, but  because  he  happens  to  want  to  do 
and  say  them.  Perhaps  in  the  end  we  shall  be 
forced  to  admit  that  this  is  an  illusion  —  that 
in  the  last  resort  no  poet,  however  free  he  may 
seem,  can  escape  the  Zeitgeist.  But  some  of  the 
most  interesting  phenomena  of  literature  are 
significant  chiefly  from  their  apparent  indepen- 
dence. If  ever  there  was  a  poet  who,  entering 
the  firmament  of  lyrical  expression,  left  on  it  a 
track  of  passionately  personal  utterance,  that 
poet  was  John  Donne.  You  may  explain  the 
peculiarities  of  his  style  by  the  church  fathers 
in  his  Catholic  home,  or  the  decayed  symbolism 
of  Marino,  or  what  you  will ;  the  flaming,  con- 
torted individuality  of  his  work  remains.  Now 
if  we  seek  for  an  account  of  this  in  Mr.  Court- 
hope,  what  has  he  for  us  ?  Why,  we  learn  that 
Donne  as  an  individual  poet  does  not  seem  to 
him  very  important,  but  that  "  to  those  who  see 
in  poetry  a  mirror  of  the  national  life,  .  .  .  the 
work  of  Donne  will  always  be  profoundly  inter- 
esting"! (iii.,  168).  One  might  as  well  say  that 


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Halley's  Comet  was  truly  interesting  only  to 
those  who  had  figured  its  orbit  or  analyzed  its 
spectrum. 

A  final  difficulty  with  this  disregard  of  indi- 
vidualism is  the  slight  opportunity  it  gives  for 
emphasizing  the  most  characteristic  phases  of 
romantic  art.  Here  Mr.  Courthope,  as  has  long 
been  known,  is  finely  consistent ;  and  when  the 
last  volume  of  his  History  drew  near  there  was 
no  little  curiosity  felt  as  to  the  treatment  he 
would  accord  the  romantic  poets  whose  doctrines 
he  had  often  so  vigorously  opposed.  When  it 
was  published,  he  was  seen  to  be  able  to  discuss 
them  with  conspicuous  fairness  of  tone.  With 
Keats,  to  be  sure,  and  his  contempt  for  the 
eighteenth  century,  Mr.  Courthope  finds  it  diffi- 
cult to  be  patient  (how  inartistic,  he  tells  us,  is 
the  "  languid  trickle  "  of  his  couplets  when  com- 
pared with  those  of  Goldsmith,  whom  Keats 
despised !);  but  of  Wordsworth  and  Shelley  there 
are  more  than  respectful  accounts,  and  one  is 
tempted  to  cry  Bravo !  when  the  critic  permits 
himself  so  to  warm  to  the  lines  "To  a  Skylark  " 
as  to  call  them  "  divine."  Two  notes,  notwith- 
standing, are  always  audible  in  Mr.  Courthope's 
story  of  the  romanticists.  In  the  first  place,  it 
is  inevitably  what  they  say  that  interests  him, — 
never  the  mere  charm  of  form,  the  ravishing 
gratuitous  beauty  of  detail, — the  "  mirific  mo- 
ment," as  Mr.  Saintsbury  somewhere  has  it,  — 
which  for  true  lovers  of  romantic  art  is  always 
so  large  a  part  of  the  sum  of  pleasure.  In  the 
second  place,  the  doctrines  of  the  new  school  of 
poetry  are  nowhere  approved,  but,  on  the  con- 
trary, the  poets  are  represented  as  succeeding 
in  spite  of  them.  As  in  his  earlier  writings, 
Mr.  Courthope  is  inexorably  set  to  combat  the 
poetic  movement  inaugurated  by  Wordsworth 
and  Coleridge,  because  of  its  aim  "to  exchange 
the  ancient  method,  consisting  in  the  ideal  imi- 
tation of  external  objects,  for  an  introspective 
analysis  of  the  impressions  of  the  individual 
mind"  (vi.,  192).  And  this  teaching  is  further 
enforced  by  a  new  definition  of  poetry  as  "  the 
art  of  expressing  imaginative  ideas  universally 
existing  in  any  free  society  "  (vi.,  444).  By 
reason  of  this  faith,  the  author  of  the  History 
—  a  classicist  in  an  age  when  classicism  seems 
hopelessly  defeated,  and  a  spiritual  Tory  in  a 
time  when  self-confessed  Tories  are  no  more  — 
views  despondently  the  present  state  of  poetry, 
and  concludes  his  story  by  expressly  declining 
to  continue  it  beyond  the  time  of  Scott,  because 
the  romantic  movement  has  separated  poetry 
"  from  the  organized  course  of  national  life." 
A  strange  mishap  this,  to  have  so  defined  poetry 


that  in  the  Victorian  age  it  disappears  from 
sight ! 

On  the  other  hand,  for  the  classical  age,  the 
"excellent  and  indispensable  eighteenth  cen- 
tury," Mr.  Courthope  remains  our  best  au- 
thority— one  may  almost  say  our  only  authority. 
For  many  a  day  accounts  of  our  eighteenth- 
century  poetry  have  consisted  chiefly  of  two 
parts:  the  explanation  of  why  most  of  it  is 
unreadable,  and  the  recognition  of  exceptions 
in  the  case  of  the  so-called  heralds  of  romanti- 
cism. Wherever  a  writer  exhibited  any  human 
sympathy,  love  of  beauty,  or  sense  of  the  eter- 
nities, or  wrote  in  anything  except  the  heroic 
couplet,  he  was  a  sign  of  the  "romantic  revival." 
The  rest  was  silence.  Thanks  to  Mr.  Courthope, 
we  now  have  the  first  real  account  of  the  most 
characteristic  poetry  of  that  age,  —  what  its 
numerous  half -forgotten  representatives  really 
said,  and  why.  He  can  read  and  interpret, 
without  contempt,  without  even  the  gently  deri- 
sive humor  with  which  Mr.  Gosse,  for  example, 
has  gracefully  described  them,  the  poems  on 
cider,  on  sheep-raising,  on  the  imagination,  on 
morals  and  politics,  of  which  in  general  it  may 
be  said  that  none  have  named  them  but  to  jeer. 
(Nay,  did  not  Mr.  Courthope  himself,  a  year  or 
two  since,  write  an  extremely  interesting  poem, 
reminiscent  of  the  neo-classical  manner,  on  the 
raising  of  hops  and  the  mistakes  of  the  Liberal 
party?)  His  account  of  the  poetical  purposes 
of  Crabbe  (vi.,  365),  of  the  development  of 
"classic  purity"  of  poetical  expression  (v.,  359), 
of  the  style  of  Cowper  (v.,  357),  one  can  hardly 
conceive  as  being  bettered.  In  other  words, 
where  the  course  of  English  poetry  does  run  par- 
allel with  that  of  English  thought  and  society, 
and  can  be  explained  by  national  rather  than 
individual  facts,  our  historian  is  not  only  a 
safe  but  an  illuminating  guide. 

If  some  emphasis  has  been  laid,  then,  on  de- 
fects or  idiosyncrasies  of  method,  it  is  because 
they  seemed  to  be  instructive,  not  to  detract 
from  the  value  of  the  whole.  They  result  from 
the  intense  unity  and  singleness  of  purpose  which 
at  the  same  time  give  this  book  its  power.  They 
can  be  corrected  by  the  intelligent  reader ;  and 
the  History  is  not  meant  for  any  other.  For 
some  of  us  the  continuous  development  of  its  his- 
torical method  seems  so  suggestive  and  enlight- 
ening that  we  may  well  prefer  it  to  works  (like 
the  Cambridge  History,  for  example)  made  on 
the  patchwork  plan,  despite  the  greater  accur- 
acy of  detail  which  in  our  time  only  composite 
scholarship  can  hope  to  give  for  so  large  a  field. 
RAYMOND  MACDONALD  ALDEN. 


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CONTROLLING  MAN'S  EVOLUTION.* 


In  respect  of  material  things  the  progress  of 
the  world  during  the  last  half  century  has  admit- 
tedly been  almost  incomprehensibly  rapid.  It 
is  sometimes  urged,  however,  that  the  advance 
has  been  only  material  —  that  neither  ideas  nor 
ideals  have  even  measurably  kept  pace.  The 
validity  of  such  an  assertion  is  doubtful  on 
many  grounds.  But  certainly  one  of  its  neatest 
refutations  is  to  be  found  in  the  eugenics  move- 
ment. Fifty  years  ago  the  intellectual  world 
was  profoundly  concerned  in  the  discussion  of 
whether  there  was  such  a  process  as  organic 
evolution,  and  whether  man  was  a  product  of 
it,  through  the  operation  of  natural  (as  opposed 
to  supernatural)  causes.  To-day  the  eugenics 
movement  takes  as  its  fundamental  aim  and  pur- 
pose the  conscious  and  deliberate  control  and 
direction  of  human  evolution,  physical,  mental, 
and  moral.  What  a  change  of  outlook  this  im- 
plies! The  aeroplane  and  the  stage-coach  are 
not  more  widely  separated  than  are  the  ideas  of 
eugenics  from  those  held  by  the  majority  of  edu- 
cated men  regarding  evolution  at  the  time  when 
the  "  Origin  of  Species  "  appeared.  And  withal, 
eugenics  is  being  taken  quite  as  a  matter  of 
course;  it  is  "catching  on"  to  an  extraordinary 
degree  with  radical  and  conservative  alike,  as 
something  for  which  the  time  is  quite  ripe. 

The  leader  in  the  study  of  eugenics  in  this 
country  is  Dr.  C.  B.  Davenport,  the  versatile 
Director  of  the  Carnegie  Institution's  Station  for 
Experimental  Evolution  at  Cold  Spring  Harbor, 
and  his  new  book  on  "Heredity  in  Relation  to 
Eugenics"  is  altogether  the  best  introduction  to 
the  new  science  that  has  yet  appeared.  As  the 
title  implies,  the  chief  stress  in  his  treatment 
of  the  subject  is  on  the  side  of  inheritance. 
Following  a  brief  introductory  account  of  the 
elementary  principles  of  heredity  in  general,  a 
mass  of  material  is  presented  to  show  how 
human  traits  are  inherited.  As  some  of  this 
material  is  new,  the  book  makes  a  real  contri- 
bution to  knowledge,  —  an  unusual  thing,  by 
the  way,  for  a  popular  treatise  to  do  even  in  a 
small  degree.  For  these  hitherto  unpublished 
data  the  author  draws  on  the  Archives  of  the 
Eugenics  Record  Office.  This  institution,  which 
has  been  made  possible,  so  the  reader  is  in- 

*  HEREDITY  IN  RELATION  TO  EUGENICS.  By  C.  B.  Daven- 
port. New  York  :  Henry  Holt  &  Co. 

BIOLOGICAL  ASPECTS  OF  HUMAN  PROBLEMS.  By  C.  A. 
Herter.  New  York  :  The  Macmillan  Co. 

THE  SOCIAL  DIRECTION  OP  HUMAN  EVOLUTION.  An 
Outline  of  the  Science  of  Eugenics.  By  W.  E.  Kellicott. 
New  York :  D.  Appleton  &  Co. 


formed,  through  the  generosity  of  Mrs.  E.  H. 
Harriman,  is  collecting  and  preserving  in  a  man- 
ner to  insure  permanency,  pedigree  data  regard- 
ing a  wide  range  of  human  characteristics  and 
their  inheritance.  Besides  this  original  material, 
the  biological,  medical,  and  anthropological  lit- 
erature is  drawn  upon  for  cases  illustrating  the 
inheritance  of  particular  traits. 

In  presenting  the  subject,  free  use  is  made  of 
pedigree  charts,  which  add  greatly  to  the  value 
of  the  book  for  the  more  or  less  casual  reader 
who  is  not  interested  in  minor  details.  These 
charts  enable  one  almost  at  a  glance  to  grasp  the 
main  features  of  a  particular  case  of  inheritance 
of  a  disease,  a  criminal  tendency,  or  some  other 
characteristic.  Data  are  given  respecting  the 
inheritance  of  forty-one  different  human  char- 
acters, including  such  things  as  eye-color,  hair- 
color,  ability,  handwriting,  pauperism,  crimi- 
nality, feeble-mindedness,  insanity,  and  a  series 
of  different  diseases  which  includes  one  or  more 
representatives  of  nearly  all  the  different  classes 
of  afflictions  to  which  flesh  is  heir.  Whether  this 
is  to  be  regarded  as  entertaining  reading  depends 
a  good  deal  on  one's  point  of  view.  Bob  Sawyer 
would  no  doubt  have  found  it  entrancing.  But 
whether  interesting  or  not,  the  array  of  evidence 
cannot  fail  to  be  impressive  to  any  thoughtful 
person.  It  brings  home  to  one  with  really  shock- 
ing force  the  tremendous  importance  of  carefully 
choosing  one's  grandparents.  Since  this  is  not 
an  altogether  easy  thing  for  the  individual  to  do, 
society  for  its  own  good  must  attend  to  it.  Here 
lies  the  keynote  to  the  eugenics  propaganda. 

The  last  quarter  of  the  book  deals  with  some 
general  topics,  of  which  the  most  important  is 
the  eugenic  significance  of  migrations,  in  their 
bearing  upon  the  geographical  distribution  of 
inheritable  human  traits.  A  fairly  extensive 
bibliography  and  an  index  complete  the  volume, 
which  taken  as  a  whole  deserves  high  commen- 
dation as  a  vigorous,  forceful,  and  sane  presen- 
tation of  a  subject  which  must  be  given  serious 
attention  by  everyone  interested  in  the  future  of 
his  race  and  his  nation.  The  book  is  not  with- 
out small  faults :  it  bears  plenty  of  evidence  of 
having  been  produced  under  high  pressure ;  and 
the  biologist  will  find  instances  where  doubtful 
points  are  optimistically  dodged,  and  statements 
made  which  would  scarcely  stand  searching  tech- 
nical criticism.  But  these  are  matters  of  detail, 
and  will  be  freely  excused  by  everyone  in  view 
of  the  excellence  of  the  work  as  a  whole. 

"  Biological  Aspects  of  Human  Problems"  is 
a  posthumous  work  of  the  late  Dr.  C.  A.  Herter, 
in  whose  untimely  death  scientific  medicine 


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suffered  severe  loss.  While  not  strictly  a  contri- 
bution to  the  eugenics  movement,  it  nevertheless 
contains  much  material  bearing  directly  on  the 
problem  with  which  this  science  is  concerned. 
The  standpoint  from  which  the  book  is  written 
is  indicated  in  the  following  statement: 

"  Having  reached  a  time  of  life  when  I  began  to  feel 
confidence  that  the  laws  of  biology  might  often  prove 
reliable  guides  to  the  understanding  of  puzzling  situ- 
ations in  life,  I  experienced  a  desire  to  state  my  views 
to  my  children  in  a  manner  more  definite  than  is  possi- 
ble in  conversation.  I  am  now  led  to  publish  my  inter- 
pretation of  biological  laws  in  their  bearing  on  human 
life  in  the  hope  that  they  may  prove  of  some  service  to 
persons  who  have  faith  that  an  understanding  of  such 
laws  is  frequently  a  help  to  more  intelligent  and  humane 
conduct." 

This  hope  cannot  fail  to  be  realized.  Many  per- 
sons have  wished  that  there  might  be  written 
just  such  a  sane  and  temperate  discussion  of  the 
bearing  of  biological  laws  on  the  problems  of 
everyday  life  as  this  is.  The  first  section  deals 
with  the  animal  body  as  a  mechanism,  showing 
that  everything  we  now  know  of  biology  indi- 
cates that  the  functioning  of  the  body,  including 
every  sort  of  mental  activity,  is  determined  and 
regulated  by  the  operation  of  physical  and 
chemical  laws.  If  one  chooses  to  believe  in 
"vitalism,"  "free-will,"  or  any  form  of  super- 
naturalism  in  respect  to  matters  spiritual,  he  is 
of  course  at  liberty  to  do  so,  but  he  must  base 
his  belief  on  something  other  than  scientific — 
which  is  to  say,  rational — grounds.  The  evi- 
dence in  favor  of  fatalism,  to  which  the  author's 
view  leads,  is  presented  with  quiet  temperateness 
and  unfailing  optimism.  The  discussion  of  this 
doctrine  closes  with  these  words: 

"  It  teaches  that  each  human  being  should  have  the 
best  obtainable  chance  for  self-development,  and  be- 
comes the  enemy  of  social  conditions  which  stand  in  the 
way  of  such  opportunity.  It  teaches  that  an  individual 
should  be  judged  in  relation  to  the  chance  he  has  had  for 
self-improvement,  and  not  by  an  arbitrary  standard. 
But  it  does  not  teach  that  any  two  human  beings  are 
equal  in  potential  for  achievement.  It  expects  many 
failures,  but  it  judges  them  leniently.  It  counts  on  the 
emergence  from  time  to  time  of  human  beings  able  to 
point  out  new  relationships  between  old  materials;  yet 
it  does  not  overpraise  these  successes.  It  looks  hope- 
fully to  the  future  because  it  sees  in  the  human  germ 
plasm  a  tendency  to  improve  in  the  presence  of  reason- 
ably friendly  surroundings.  It  is  the  enemy  of  the 
doctrine  of  laissez  faire,  believing  in  intelligent  interfer- 
ence and  regulation  in  all  directions.  And  finally,  the 
doctrine  of  scientific  fatalism  looks  only  for  results  ex- 
actly proportioned  to  the  factors  which  determine  per- 
sonality —  the  forces  inherent  in  the  germ  plasm  and 
the  external  forces  which  have  been  brought  into  action 
upon  these  primitive  materials." 

The  second  part  of  the  book  deals  with  the 
self-preservative  instinct.  An  examination  of 


the  facts  indicates  that  there  can  be  no  single 
specific  method  whereby  longevity  may  be  cer- 
tainly attained.  The  factors  which  tend  to  cur- 
tail life  are  multifarious,  and  not  less  so  must 
be  any  intelligent  attempt  to  prolong  the  span 
of  human  life.  Belief  in  personal  immortality 
is  regarded  as  a  natural  form  of  egotism  grow- 
ing out  of  the  instinct  of  self-preservation.  The 
author's  discussion  of  the  sex-instinct,  which 
occupies  the  third  part  of  the  book,  may  be 
unreservedly  commended.  The  final  section 
discusses  the  relation  of  the  fundamental  in- 
stincts of  self-preservation  and  of  sex  to  the 
higher  development  of  man  in  respect  of  religion 
and  the  fine  arts.  It  is  not  difficult  to  show  that 
a  combination  or  fusion  of  these  instincts  has  had 
much  to  do  with  such  spiritual  and  idealistic 
activities  of  the  human  mind.  An  extremely 
fair  and  candid  discussion  of  the  vexed  question 
of  the  education  of  the  young  in  regard  to 
matters  of  sex  leads  to  the  conclusion  that  such 
education  is  imperatively  demanded,  not  merely 
on  individualistic  grounds,  but  for  the  good  of 
the  race.  A  final  summarizing  of  the  author's 
whole  philosophy  of  life  brings  to  a  close  a  not- 
able book. 

Professor  Kellicott's  "The  Social  Direction 
of  Human  Evolution"  is  an  expansion  of  a 
series  of  lectures  on  eugenics  presented  to  a  col- 
lege audience.  The  book  stands  in  commend- 
able contrast  to  the  bulk  of  popular  writing  on 
the  subject.  Equipped  with  a  thorough  tech- 
nical knowledge  of  biology,  the  author  discusses 
the  problems  of  race-betterment  with  good  judg- 
ment and  a  keen  appreciation  of  fundamental 
biological  difficulties  and  opportunities.  What 
has  been  accomplished  in  the  study  of  human 
inheritance  is  briefly  reviewed,  with  examples 
of  pedigrees.  A  temperate  outline  is  given  of 
the  possibilities  of  eugenics.  Altogether,  the 
book  furnishes  a  useful  and  trustworthy  survey 
of  the  eugenics  movement,  and  what  it  has  so 
far  accomplished.  The  only  technical  point  on 
which  it  is  possibly  open  to  criticism  is  in  ac- 
cepting perhaps  a  little  too  unreservedly  some  of 
the  results  of  the  statistical  school  of  eugenists. 
The  book  inevitably  challenges  comparison  with 
that  of  Dr.  Davenport  discussed  above,  and,  it 
must  be  said,  suffers  somewhat  in  the  compar- 
ison. It  lacks  the  spontaneity,  and  with  it  the 
compelling  grasp  of  the  reader's  attention, 
which  go  with  immediate  personal  research 
activity  in  the  field  discussed.  Professor 
Kellicott's  book  is  a  compilation  of  the  study, 
carefully  and  thoroughly  done,  but  discussing 
eugenics,  after  all,  as  a  somewhat  academic 


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problem  ;  Dr.  Davenport's  book  is  the  vivid  and 
vigorous  marshalling  of  the  data  he  himself  is 
collecting  and  studying,  in  such  way  as  to  bring 
home  to  you  and  to  me  the  fact  that  eugenics  is 
something  which  deeply  concerns  us  at  this  very 
moment.  EAYMOND  PEARL. 


STERNE  AS  A  LETTER- WHITER.* 

It  seems  as  if  the  neglect  which  Sterne  suf- 
fered for  nearly  a  century  after  his  death  were 
being  avenged  upon  the  present  generation,  for 
within  the  last  fifty  years  no  less  than  seven 
considerable  treatises  more  or  less  biographical 
and  critical  have  appeared  with  him  as  their 
subject.  Professor  Cross's  "Life  and  Times  of 
Laurence  Sterne  "  is  a  scholarly  and  interesting 
piece  of  work,  written  without  pedantry  and  with 
a  lively  sympathy  for  its  very  lively  subject.  As 
a  biography  it  has  assuredly  not  been  surpassed 
by  Mr.  Melville's  work,  now  published.  More- 
over, it  is  confined  to  one  volume  of  moderate 
size,  and  is  sold  at  a  reasonable  price.  Why 
Mr.  Melville  or  his  publishers  should  spread 
his  work  over  two  volumes,  each  bulkier  than 
Professor  Cross's  and  both  containing  only  673 
pages  in  all,  and  then  charge  three  times  as  much, 
passes  comprehension.  Have  book-buyers  sud- 
denly fallen  into  great  wealth,  that  they  choose 
to  pay  for  thick  paper  and  big  type  regardless  of 
the  matter  ?  Or  do  they  want  to  fill  their  shelves 
with  an  imposing  array  of  fat  octavos? 

It  is  this  very  cost  of  the  book  that  militates 
against  its  chief  claim  to  attention.  Sterne's 
letters  are  not  cheaply  and  easily  accessible,  and 
the  "Journal  to  Eliza  "  can  be  had  only  in  Pro- 
fessor Cross's  edition  of  the  works.  It  would 
therefore  be  well  worth  while  to  have  a  "Life 
and  Letters  "  for  a  moderate  sum,  even  though 
the  letters  were  not  complete.  Mr.  Melville  has 
given  us  the  greater  part  of  the  letters  and  all 
the  "Journal,"  and  to  these  he  subordinates 
very  wisely  the  actual  biography.  He  makes 
Sterne  speak  for  himself. 

And  Sterne's  letters  are  more  interesting  as 
biographical  material  than  as  epistolary  litera- 
ture. In  his  letters  we  have  him  as  the  philan- 
derer, who  is  finally  smitten  himself,  as  the 
worldly  ecclesiastic,  and  the  boon  companion  of 
the  notorious  Demoniac,  John  Hall-Stevenson, 
but  very  little  of  him  as  an  author  of  keen  insight 
or  even  of  deep  humor.  The  numerous  objects 
of  his  fickle  affections  pass  over  the  stage  of 

*  THE  LIFE  AND  LETTERS  OF  LAURENCE  STERNE.  By 
Lewis  Melville.  In  two  volumes.  Illustrated.  New  York: 
D.  Appleton  &  Co. 


his  life  with  the  words  of  his  undying  devotion 
sounding  in  their  ears,  till  Eliza  came  and  stayed 
till  death  took  him.   Married,  though  unhappily, 
he  thus  writes  to  Mile,  de  Fourmantelle : 
"  My  dear  Kitty, 

I  beg  you  will  accept  of  the  enclosed 
Sermon,  which  I  do  not  make  you  a  present  of  merely 
because  it  was  wrote  by  myself,  but  because  there  is  a 
beautiful  character  in  it,  of  a  tender  and  compassionate 
mind  in  the  picture  given  of  Elijah.  Road  it,  my  dear 
Kitty,  and  believe  me  when  I  assure  you  that  I  see  some- 
thing of  the  same  kind  and  gentle  disposition  in  your 
heart  which  I  have  painted  in  the  Prophet's,  which  has 
attach'd  me  so  much  to  you  and  your  Interests  that  I 
shall  Live  and  dye  your  affectionate  and  faithful 
Laurence  Sterne." 

It  was  the  same  Kitty  who  obligingly  wrote  to 
Garrick  at  Sterne's  dictation  in  the  following 
modest  fashion : 

"  There  are  two  Volumes  just  published  here,  which 
have  made  a  great  noise,  and  have  had  a  tremendous 
run.  ...  It  is  the  '  Life  and  Opinions  of  Tristram 
Shandy.'  ...  If  you  have  not  seen  it,  pray  get  it  and 
read  it,  because  it  has  a  great  character  as  a  witty  smart 
Book,  and  if  you  think  so,  your  good  word  in  Town  will 
do  the  Author,  I  am  sure,  great  service.  His  name 
is  Sterne,  a  gentleman  of  great  Preferment,  and  a  Pre- 
bendary of  the  Church  of  York,  and  has  a  great  char- 
acter, in  these  parts,  as  a  man  of  Learning  and  Wit ;  the 
graver  people,  however,  say  't  is  not  fit  for  young  Ladies 
to  read  his  Book,  so  perhaps  you  '1  think  it  not  fit  for  a 
young  Lady  to  recommend  it;  however  the  Nobility 
and  Great  Folks  stand  up  mightily  for  it,  and  some  say 
't  is  a  great  Book,  tho'  a  little  tawdry  in  some  places." 

This  was  before  Sterne  really  had  become  a  great 
man,  and  even  Kitty's  services  were  acceptable 
towards  his  realizing  his  ambitions.  And  he  was 
wise  enough  to  know  that  a  tang  of  naughtiness 
will  help  mightily  to  sell  a  book.  Yet  when  he 
was  actually  charged  with  immorality  in  his  book, 
see  how  he  defends  his  spotless  reputation: 

"  But  for  the  chaste  married,  and  chaste  unmarried 
part  of  the  sex — they  must  not  read  my  book  !  Heaven 
forbid  the  stock  of  chastity  should  be  lessened  by  the 
'  Life  and  Opinions  of  Tristram  Shandy ' —  yes,  his  opin- 
ions —  it  would  certainly  debauch  'em.  God  take  them 
under  his  protection  in  the  fiery  trial,  and  send  us  plenty 
of  Duennas  to  watch  the  workings  of  their  humours, 
till  they  have  got  safely  through  the  whole  work." 

After  all,  Sterne  more  truly  expressed  his  intent 
in  writing  when  he  told  Bishop  Warburton  in 
a  somewhat  peppery  letter,  "  I  will,  however,  do 
my  best — though  laugh,  my  Lord,  I  will,  and 
as  loud  as  I  can  too." 

The  last  and  greatest  "  affair  "  of  Sterne's  life 
was  with  Mrs.  Draper,  the  Eliza  of  the  Letters 
and  the  Journal.  Of  his  relation  to  her  he 
makes  a  future  editor  of  the  "  Sentimental  Jour- 
ney "  write  the  following  note : 

"  Her  name  he  will  tell  the  world  was  Draper  —  a 
native  of  India  —  married  there  to  a  gentleman  in  the 


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[July  16, 


India  Service  of  that  Xame  — -who  brought  her  over  to 
England  for  the  recovery  of  her  health  in  the  year  65  — 
where  she  continued  to  April  the  year  1767.  It  was 
about  three  Months  before  her  return  to  India,  That  our 
Author's  acquaintance  and  hers  began.  Mrs.  Draper 
had  a  thirst  for  knowledge  —  was  handsome  —  genteel 
—  engaging  —  and  of  such  gentle  dispositions  and  so 
enlightened  an  understanding, —  That  Yorick  (whether 
he  made  much  Opposition  is  not  known)  from  an  ac- 
quaintance —  soon  became  her  Admirer  —  they  caught 
fire  at  each  other  at  the  same  time  —  and  they  would 
often  say,  without  reserve  to  the  world,  and  without 
any  Idea  of  saying  wrong  in  it,  That  their  affections  for 
each  other  were  unbounded.  —  Mr.  Draper  dying  in  the 
year  *****  —  This  Lady  returned  to  England,  and 
Yorick  the  year  after  becoming  a  widower — They  were 
married — and  returning  to  one  of  his  Livings  in  York- 
shire, where  was  a  most  romantic  situation  —  they  lived 
and  died  happily  and  are  spoke  of  with  honour  in  the 
parish  to  this  day." 

And  the  facts  are  that  Sterne  died  the  follow- 
ing year,  that  Mrs.  Draper  ran  away  from  her 
husband  six  years  later,  and  that  she  died  in 
1778,  ten  years  after  Sterne !  Sterne  knew  well 
enough  that  his  disease  was  incurable  and  that 
he  could  never  marry  Mrs.  Draper,  even  if  her 
husband  were  suddenly  and  obligingly  to  die, 
but  it  does  not  follow  from  his  speaking  of  her 
as  his  second  wife  that  all  his  affection  was  mere 
sentimental  moonshine.  There  is  a  ring  of  sin- 
cerity, one  must  believe,  in  these  words  spoken 
so  near  the  end  of  his  fatal  disease:  "Thou 
shalt  lye  down  and  rise  up  with  me — about  my 
bed  and  about  my  paths,  and  shalt  see  out  all 
my  Ways  —  adieu  —  adieu — and  remember  one 
eternal  truth,  My  dear  Bramine,  wch  is  not  the 
worse,  because  I  have  told  it  thee  a  thousand 
times  before  —  That  I  am  thine  .  .  and  thine 
only  and  forever."  And  again  three  months 
later  he  says :  "  And  now,  Eliza !  Let  me  talk 
to  thee  —  But  what  can  I  say,  what  can  I 
write — but  the  yearnings  of  heart  wasted  with 
looking  and  wishing  for  the  Return — Return — 
Return !  my  dear  Eliza !  May  heaven  smooth  the 
Way  for  thee  safely  to  us,  and  Joy  for  Ever." 

It  is  not  a  pleasant  picture  that  we  get  of 
Sterne  in  this  Journal.  His  particulars  about 
his  ailments  and  their  treatment  by  his  physi- 
cians do  not  exalt  him  in  our  eyes,  and  make  us 
wonder  what  exactly  were  his  relations  to  his 
Eliza.  Compared  with  Swift's  Journal  to  Stella 
it  sinks  into  pitiable  insignificance.  Swift  pre- 
served the  decencies  in  writing  to  Stella ;  Sterne, 
improving  upon  his  own  advice  to  Smollett  in 
the  well  known  incident  in  the  "Sentimental 
Journey,"  tells  his  ailments  to  his  physician  and 
then  repeats  to  Eliza  what  he  had  said. 

If  he  is  coarse  in  the  Journal  and  elsewhere, 
he  is  profane  in  his  letters  to  John  Hall- 


Stevenson.  Thus:  "Remember  me  sometimes 
in  your  potations — bid  Panty  pray  for  me,  when 
he  prays  for  the  Holy  Catholic  Church — pre- 
sent my  compliments  to  Mrs.  Ferguson — and 
be  in  peace ^ and  charity  with  all  mankind  — 
And  the  blessing  of  God  the  Father,  Son,  and 
Holy  Ghost  be  with  you.  Amen"  And  this 
to  the  author  of  the  "  Crazy  Tales,"  as  vile  a 
collection  of  stories  as  were  ever  printed  in 
English ! 

The  best  side  of  the  man  is  seen  in  his  affec- 
tion for  his  daughter  Lydia.  For  her  sake  he 
would  do  anything, — even  be  kind  to  his  im- 
possible wife :  "  But  I  think,  my  Lydia,  that  thy 
mother  will  survive  me  - —  do  not  deject  her 
spirits  with  thy  apprehensiveness  on  my  account. 
I  have  sent  you  a  necklace,  buckles,  and  the 
same  to  your  mother. — My  girl  cannot  form  a 
wish  that  is  in  the  power  of  her  father,  that  he 
will  not  gratify  her  in  —  and  I  cannot  in  justice 
be  less  kind  to  thy  mother." 

One  is  almost  sorry  to  have  read  these  letters. 
They  seem  like  "  Tristram  "  and  the  "  Sentimen- 
tal Journey "  without  the  humor  that  makes 
these  works  unsurpassed  in  their  kind.  Sterne 
could  transmute  into  art  thoughts  and  feelings 
that  are  perilously  near  the  common  and  the 
unclean.  It  is  not  by  the  eccentricity  of  his 
style,  for  that  would  soon  pass  away  into  the 
limbo  of  freaks  and  follies,  but  by  his  surpassing 
humor  and  his  knowledge  of  the  human  heart 
that  he  holds  his  readers  —  at  any  rate  his  mas- 
culine readers;  but  in  these  letters  we  have  no 
distinguished  style,  no  real  humor,  no  convin- 
cingly genuine  feeling  throughout. 

JAMES  W.  TUPPER. 


BRIEFS  oisr  NEW  BOOKS. 


Mr.  J.  N.  Larned's  long  residence 

A  minister  •-!-»«•  •  IT     IM 

of  public  in  Buffalo,  with  whose  public  library 

benevolence.  jjj8  name  is  inseparably  associated, 
brought  him  into  friendly  relations  with  the  man 
whose  biography  he  now  presents  in  "The  Life  and 
Work  of  William  Pryor  Letchworth,  Student  and 
Minister  of  Public  Benevolence  "  (Houghton).  Mr. 
Letchworth's  successful  and  profitable  connection 
with  the  Buffalo  firm  of  Pratt  and  Letchworth,  hard- 
ware dealers,  was  but  preliminary  to  his  far  more  im- 
portant labors  in  the  cause  of  public  charity,  which 
he  entered  upon  when,  in  1873,  at  fifty  years  of  age, 
he  found  himself  pecuniarily  able  to  retire  from  busi- 
ness and  devote  himself  to  benevolence.  It  was  in 
that  year  that  he  was  appointed  by  Governor  Dix 
to  membership  on  the  New  York  State  Board  of 
Charities,  a  position  most  honorably  and  usefully 
filled  by  him  for  twenty-three  years,  after  which  he 


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continued  to  the  end  of  his  life,  in  1910,  to  concern 
himself  with  the  causes  that  had  become  of  such  en- 
grossing interest  to  him  in  the  preceding  decades. 
His  work  and  his  writings  for  the  amelioration  of  the 
lot  of  the  unfortunate  are  widely  known  and  of  course 
form  the  chief  theme  of  Mr.  Larned's  carefully- 
written  chapters.  But  the  glimpses  afforded  of  the 
more  intimate  and  personal  side  of  Mr.  Letchworth's 
character  will  give  the  book  its  chief  charm  to  many 
readers.  Of  Letchworth  the  man  we  read:  "His 
enjoyments  were  of  the  sweeter  and  gentler  sort. 
The  lovelier  sides  of  nature,  the  finer  things  of  art, 
the  generous  exhibitions  of  humanity,  appealed  to 
him  most.  He  was  exceptionally  fond  of  poetry,  and, 
with  a  catholic  taste,  delighted  in  reading  it  and 
having  it  read  to  him,  and  carried  in  memory  a  large 
store  of  it,  which  he  had  begun  to  accumulate  in  his 
youth.  To  know  him  in  this  character,  and  to  have 
acquaintance,  at  the  same  time,  with  the  strenuous 
business  man  that  he  was  for  thirty  years  and  the 
strong  state  official  that  he  was  for  twenty-three 
more, —  vigilant,  decisive,  resolute,  practically  saga- 
cious, successful  beyond  the  common,  in  both  exhibi- 
tions,—  was  to  have  a  revelation  of  character  that  is 
exceedingly  rare  in  its  combination  of  qualities,  and 
exceedingly  fine."  Commendation  of  Mr.  Larned's 
style  and  workmanship  would,  of  course,  be  superflu- 
ous. Illustrations,  a  list  of  Mr.  Letchworth's  writings, 
and  an  index,  are  duly  provided. 

Chapter,  on  the  Zt  ™°uld  Seem  to  the  Student  of  the 
broiderer's  art  broiderer's  art  that  little  could  be 
in  England.  gained  by  the  division  of  the  history 
of  that  art  in  England  into  two  parts  — ecclesiastical 
and  secular.  It  is  not  always  readily  determined  to 
which  class  an  ancient  embroidery  may  be  assigned, 
as  in  the  case  of  the  richly  wrought  palls  or  hearse 
cloths  belonging  to  the  old  City  Companies.  There 
were  times,  furthermore,  when  the  custom  prevailed 
of  converting  wearing  apparel  into  ecclesiastical 
vestments.  Even  in  recent  times  religious  symbols 
have  been  freely  used  in  embroideries  intended  for 
secular  use,  and  in  the  history  of  the  development 
of  needlecraft  no  such  distinction  as  that  above 
referred  to  appears.  The  superiority  of  the  English 
ecclesiastical  embroidery,  about  which  much  has 
been  written,  is  universally  acknowledged:  that  a 
like  excellence  was  attained  in  the  production  of 
embroideries  for  other  purposes  than  for  the  enrich- 
ment of  the  church  and  church  services,  might  have 
been  generally  taken  for  granted.  M.  Jourdain, 
however,  in  the  eleven  chapters  of  his  book  on 
"English  Secular  Embroidery"  (Button),  finds 
much  to  contribute  to  our  knowledge  of  the  history 
and  technique  of  embroidery  in  England  from  a 
study  of  the  embroideries  which  were  not  at  all 
intended  for  ecclesiastical  enrichment,  and  which 
were  produced  in  greater  quantity  than  we  have  been 
wont  to  suppose.  Aside  from  this  interest  to  the 
embroiderer,  these  chapters  throw  valuable  sidelights 
upon  the  domestic  and  economic  life  of  the  peoples 
of  the  Saxon,  Tudor,  and  Stuart  periods  and  of  later 


times.  The  book  is  full  of  information  regarding 
the  different  materials  used  and  the  technique  em- 
ployed at  different  times,  and  regarding  the  various 
styles  or  fashions  having  their  peculiar  vogue  at 
various  periods ;  and  the  wealth  of  illustration  en- 
hances the  value  of  this  information  to  those  who  at 
the  present  day  are  interested  in  needlecraft.  Of 
especial  interest  is  the  final  chapter  on  Samplers. 
Originally  these  were  patterns  of  embroidery  on 
strips  of  linen,  hence  the  name  sampler  — exemplar 
or  ensampler.  Later  they  came  to  be  used  in  the 
instruction  of  the  young  women  of  England,  not 
only  in  needlecraft  but  in  morals  and  religion,  and 
even  in  history  and  geography  —  as  a  number  of 
map  samplers  still  extant  attest. 

There  are  several  good  biographies 
"Le'TaSurne."  of  William  the  Silent  in  English,  but 

Mr.  Jack  Collings  Squire,  late  Scholar 
of  St.  John's  College,  Cambridge,  now  gives  us  a 
"Life"  (Doubleday)  which  makes  use  of  material 
that  Mr.  Frederic  Harrison  and  Miss  Putnam,  not 
to  speak  of  Motley,  were  unable  to  take  advantage 
of.  His  volume  is  thus  richer  by  the  inclusion  of  cer- 
tain minor  details  that  his  predecessors  were  ignorant 
of,  and  is  moreover  interesting  from  beginning  to 
end.  Mr.  Squire's  point  of  view  is  not  a  new  one, 
except  perhaps  in  so  far  as  he  maintains  that  the 
devoted  and  judicious  leader's  life  was  a  continuous 
development,  and  not  a  series  of  separate  and  incon- 
sistent phases.  Though  educated  into  the  Catholic 
Church  in  youth,  every  drop  of  blood  in  his  body 
was  Protestant,  and  it  was  inevitable  that  he  should 
sooner  or  later  come  into  his  own  religiously.  Though 
a  loyal  subject  of  Philip,  if  Philip  had  given  him 
the  slightest  hint  of  a  chance  to  remain  so,  he  was  a 
man  who  could  see  far  into  the  future;  and  whereas 
Motley  asserts  that "  his  treasonable  thoughts  "  began 
with  his  discovery,  in  1 566,  that  Philip  was  secretly 
planning  to  overthrew  his  sister's  "Accord  "  and  root 
out  every  vestige  of  liberty,  Mr.  Squire  has  been  able 
to  show  that  "treasonable  thoughts," — the  suspicion, 
that  is,  that  since  the  Netherlands  were  unalterably 
Protestant  and  Philip  a  tyrant  whose  nature  was 
absolutely  incapable  of  yielding,  violent  resistance 
might  one  day  be  inevitable, — had  been  in  the  back- 
ground of  his  mind  from  his  very  early  manhood. 
Mr.  Squire  characterizes  his  hero  happily  in  the  term, 
"wonderful  opportunist  genius,"  and  dwells  de- 
lightedly on  what  may  well  be  the  most  striking  evi- 
dence of  that  quality  in  his  history.  The  Protestant 
majority  in  Antwerp,  maddened  by  the  disgraceful 
butchering  of  their  co-religionists  in  a  one-sided 
struggle  which  had  occurred  without  the  walls,  were 
in  imminent  danger  of  wreaking  revenge  on  their 
Catholic  fellow-citizens.  Antwerp  was  prevailingly 
Calvinist.  William  "knew  and  regretted  the  enmity 
which  subsisted  between  the  Calvinists  and  the  Luth- 
erans. Since,  however,  it  was  there,  he  determined 
to  make  use  of  it  ...  he  had  conversations  with  the 
leading  Lutherans.  .  .  .  His  own  notions  leaning 
toward  the  Augsburg  Confession  served  him  well 


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...  he  persuaded  the  good  men  that,  for  the  mo- 
ment, the  cause  of  the  Catholics  was  theirs.  .  .  .  The 
Catholics  and  the  Lutherans  were  now  united  on  the 
side  of  the  authorities,"  and  the  Catholics  were  saved. 
It  is  this  sort  of  skilful  choice  of  the  essential  and  the 
strikingly  illustrative  that  makes  the  book  both  read- 
able and  useful.  

Mr.    Herbert    Croly's   faithful   and 

readafte  account  of  "Marcus  Alonzo 

Hanna:  His  Life  and  Work"  (Mac- 
millan)  is  especially  commendable  for  its  frank 
acceptance  of  Mr.  Hanna's  limitations,  its  freedom 
from  hero-worship,  its  truthful  presentation  of  the 
real  Mark  Hanna,  successful  business  man  and 
shrewd  politician.  In  the  following  passage,  for 
instance,  briefly  characterizing  the  able  worker  for 
his  party,  there  is  no  attempt  at  idealization:  "In 
order,  consequently,  to  understand  Mark  Hanna's 
point  of  departure  in  politics  we  must  bear  in  mind 
(1)  that  he  was  an  industrial  pioneer,  and  instinct- 
ively took  to  politics  as  well  as  business;  (2)  that 
in  politics  as  in  business  he  wanted  to  accomplish 
results ;  (3)  that  politics  meant  to  him  active  party 
service;  (4)  that  successful  party  service  meant 
the  acceptance  of  prevailing  political  methods  and 
abuses;  and  (5)  finally  that  he  was  bound  by  the 
instinctive  consistency  of  his  nature  to  represent  in 
politics,  not  merely  his  other  dominant  interest,  but 
the  essential  harmony  between  the  interests  of  busi- 
ness and  those  of  the  whole  community."  He  was 
not,  however,  Mr.  Croly  does  his  best  to  prove  to 
us,  "unscrupulous,  inhumanly  selfish,  the  sweater  of 
his  own  employees,  the  relentless  enemy  of  organized 
labor,  the  besotted  plutocrat,  the  incarnate  dollar- 
mark,"  as  his  enemies  were  fond  of  representing  him. 
The  best  side  of  the  man  shows  itself  in  his  attach- 
ment to  Mr.  McKinley.  "He  had  in  the  first  place 
a  veritable  gift  for  friendship.  His  personal  rela- 
tions with  other  men  constituted  the  very  core  and 
substance  of  his  life.  He  had  served  Mr.  McKinley, 
as  he  had  served  so  many  others,  because  of  disin- 
terested personal  devotion;  but  in  the  case  of  Mr. 
McKinley  the  personal  devotion  was  heightened  by 
feelings  derived  from  another  source.  This  partic- 
ular friendship  had  awakened  his  aspirations.  His 
general  disposition  was  such  that  an  ideal  could 
make  a  peculiarly  strong  appeal  to  him  only  when 
it  was  embodied  in  a  human  being.  Mr.  McKinley's 
finer  qualities  aroused  in  him  the  utmost  admira- 
tion." There  was  a  vast  deal  of  human  nature  in 
Mr.  Hanna,  and  his  biography,  well  written  and  suit- 
ably illustrated,  impresses  that  fact  on  the  reader. 


In  writing  his  "Short  History  of 
the  Scottish  People"  (Hodder  & 
Stoughton),  Dr.  Donald  MacMillan 
has  rendered  a  distinct  service  to  the  history  of  his 
native  land :  he  has  given  us  a  readable  and  reason- 
ably accurate  account  of  Scottish  development,  in  a 
single  volume  of  moderate  compass.  Except  for 
sketchy  compilations  of  the  text-book  type,  our 


historical  literature  has  no  other  treatment  of  this 
subject  in  one  volume.  To  tell  the  story  of  ten 
troubled  centuries  in  fewer  than  five  hundred  pages 
is  a  difficult  undertaking;  but,  everything  consid- 
ered, the  author  has  achieved  a  signal  success.  The 
annals  of  Scotland  are  replete  with  dramatic  inter- 
est; they  are  full  of  thrilling  episodes,  and  teem 
with  striking  personalities.  Dr.  MacMillan  appre- 
ciates this  fact:  he  knows  the  literary  values  of 
certain  classes  of  episodes  and  writes  accordingly. 
In  grouping  the  events  about  certain  dominant 
personalities,  he  has  been  able  to  unify  his  work 
and  to  invest  it  with  an  interest  that  an  impersonal 
story  cannot  have;  but  at  the  same  time  he  fails  to 
do  justice  to  the  great  popular  movements,  which 
are,  after  all,  the  essential  facts  in  the  history  of  a 
"people."  It  would  also  have  been  well  if  the 
author  had  broken  with  the  British  habit  of  telling 
the  story  by  reigns.  Almost  every  chapter  is  headed 
by  the  name  of  the  sovereign;  but  there  are  times 
when  the  sovereign  is  of  small  importance  com- 
pared with  certain  other  chiefs  in  the  kingdom.  An 
attractive  feature  of  the  narrative  is  the  liberal 
spirit  in  which  the  author  treats  the  long  conflict 
with  the  southern  kingdom.  While  truly  patriotic, 
he  realizes  that  the  union  has  been  a  blessing  to 
Scotchmen  as  well  as  to  Englishmen.  His  work  is 
consequently  free  from  such  superfluous  outbursts 
as  are  sometimes  found  in  Mr.  Andrew  Lang's 
history.  The  author  practically  closes  his  account 
with  1745;  a  concluding  chapter  carries  the  story 
on  to  1843,  but  in  the  form  of  a  summary  only. 

A  handbook  "The  British  We.st  Indies,"  by  Mr. 
to  the  British  Algernon  E.  Aspinall,  is  the  fourth 
West  Indies.  volume  in  what  is  known  as  the  "  All 
Red  Series"  (Little,  Brown  &  Co.)  covering  the 
different  parts  of  the  British  Empire.  The  volumes 
already  published  deal  with  Canada,  Australia,  and 
New  Zealand.  As  with  its  predecessors,  this  book 
on  the  West  Indies  is  the  work  of  a  competent  man, 
thoroughly  in  touch  with  his  subject.  Mr.  Aspinall 
is  the  Honorary  Secretary  to  the  West  India  Commit- 
tee, and  has  therefore  had  exceptional  opportunities 
for  informing  himself  as  to  the  political  and  com- 
mercial history  of  the  West  Indies.  Opening  with 
a  chapter  on  the  discovery  of  the  islands,  he  sketches 
rapidly  their  history,  physical  features,  flora  and 
fauna,  the  social  and  industrial  life  of  the  people, 
religion,  education,  local  government,  railways,  bank- 
ing, agriculture,  and  concludes  with  several  very 
interesting  chapters  on  the  future  of  this  important 
group  of  British  colonies, — how  they  may  be  affected 
by  the  opening  of  the  Panama  Canal,  their  relations 
with  Canada  and  the  United  States,  and  the  move- 
ment toward  confederation  into  one  strong  common- 
wealth. There  are  obvious  difficulties  in  the  way 
of  bringing  into  one  political  union  such  scattered 
colonies  as  Jamaica,  the  Bahamas,  Trinidad,  British 
Guiana,  the  Leeward  Islands,  Barbados,  and  British 
Honduras,  not  to  mention  Bermuda;  nevertheless 
the  advantages  would  be  enormous,  both  from  an 


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international  and  an  inter-imperial  point  of  view. 
As  Mr.  Aspinall  points  out,  at  the  last  Imperial  Con- 
ference in  London,  New  Zealand,  with  a  population 
of  1,000,000,  and  Newfoundland,  with  a  population 
of  less  than  250,000,  took  an  active  part  in  every 
discussion,  while  the  West  Indies,  with  a  population 
of  2,000,000,  were  not  represented  at  all,  as  they 
were  not  among  the  self-governing  commonwealths. 

Index  and  digest  What  "  Poole'S  Inde.x  "  is  to  the  gen" 
of  our  periodical  eral  student  searching  the  files  of 
library  literature,  miscellaneous  periodicals  for  matter 
on  any  given  subject,  "Library  Work"  successfully 
strives  to  be  for  the  person  interested  in  the  maga- 
zine literature  of  library  economy  and  library  his- 
tory. In  a  large  octavo  of  four  hundred  and  nine 
double-column  pages,  the  H.  W.  Wilson  Company  of 
Minneapolis  has  brought  together  "  in  one  alphabet 
the  entire  contents  of  'Library  Work'  since  its 
beginning  [as  a  quarterly]  in  1905;  also  new  ma- 
terial bringing  it  to  the  close  of  1911."  Miss  Anna 
Lorraine  Guthrie  has  edited  the  work,  assisted  by 
competent  helpers.  An  important  feature  of  this 
index  is  that  it  is  much  more  than  a  simple  index: 
digests  of  the  more  noteworthy  articles  cited  are 
generously  supplied,  especially  in  the  case  of  foreign 
and  other  less-known  and  less  easily  accessible 
periodicals.  Thirty-two  of  these  periodical  pub- 
lications devoted  to  library  interests  have  been  con- 
sulted in  preparing  the  work,  and  an  alphabetical 
list  of  them  is  given,  showing  that  they  represent 
the  library  activity  of  this  country,  England, 
Spain,  Italy,  Germany,  Holland,  Denmark,  Nor- 
way, and  Sweden;  but  France,  somewhat  to  one's 
surprise,  is  unrepresented,  as  also  is  Belgium, 
two  countries  that  have  contributed  in  later  years 
toward  the  advancement  of  library  science.  The 
sub-title  of  this  useful  work  describes  it  as  "a  biblio- 
graphy and  digest  of  library  literature,"  which  in 
the  full  sense  of  the  words  it  is  not,  since  that  con- 
siderable and  most  important  store  of  such  literature 
to  be  found  in  book  form  is  disregarded.  The 
addition  of  the  two  words  "in  periodicals"  to  the 
sub-title  would  have  made  it  conform,  in  genuine- 
ness and  accuracy,  to  the  character  of  the  book  it 
now  imperfectly  describes. 

Fishers  and  Gray  weather,  fog,  winter  storms, 
fighters  of  and  the  ceaseless  struggle  with  the 

the  North  Sea.  elements  in  their  wildest  moods,  are 
the  lot  of  the  North  Sea  fisherman.  The  reader  of 
Mr.  Walter  Wood's  "North  Sea  Fishers  and  Fight- 
ers" (Button)  finds  himself  at  once  in  this  atmos- 
phere of  "hard  gray  weather  that  breeds  hard 
Englishmen  "  and  discovers  throughout  the  book  that 
ring  of  genuineness  which  comes  only  from  intimate 
knowledge  of  these  turbulent  waters  and  the  hardy 
breed  of  men  who  by  strenuous  toil  reap  a  rich  har- 
vest from  this  sea  and  feed  England's  millions.  Over 
twenty-two  million  hundred-weight  of  fish  (largely 
from  the  North  Sea)  are  landed  annually  in  Great 
Britain,  valued  at  over  ten  million  pounds  sterling. 


Worthy  descendants  of  those  whom  the  Roman  poet 
characterized  as  "  sea- wolves  that  live  on  the  pillage 
of  the  world,"  the  modern  British  sea-rover  gleans 
the  fertile  waters  of  the  North  Sea  with  powerful 
machinery,  reaping  a  profit  undreamed  of  a  few 
decades  past.  The  author's  account  of  the  deep-sea 
trawling,  of  life  on  ships  and  shore,  of  the  fishermen 
and  their  work,  is  intimate,  accurate,  and  illuminat- 
ing. The  illustrations  in  color  and  pencil  by  Mr. 
Frank  H.  Mason  are  both  artistic  and  instructive, 
and  the  photographs  also  enhance  the  value  of  the 
work.  The  account  is  largely  historical,  and  abounds 
in  note  and  anecdote  of  famous  captains,  fights  and 
fighters,  wrecks,  and  heroes  whose  names  add  lustre 
to  Britain's  greatness. 

Collectors    of    finely-printed    books 

have  loBS  felt  the  need  of  a  conven- 
ient check-list,  in  a  single  volume,  to 
the  output  of  the  various  private  presses  established 
during  the  past  quarter-century.  This  need  has  now 
been  well  met  in  a  volume  published  by  Mr.  Philip 
Lee  Warner  for  the  Medical  Society,  London,  and 
entitled :  "  The  Revival  of  Printing :  A  Bibliographi- 
cal Catalogue  of  Works  Issued  by  the  Chief  Modern 
English  Presses."  Detailed  lists  of  the  productions 
of  ten  English  presses  (the  Daniel,  Kelmscott,  Vale, 
Eragny,  Ashendene,  Essex  House,  Doves,  Cuala, 
Florence,  and  Riccardi)  and  one  American  press 
(the  Merrymount)  are  given ;  besides  an  account  of 
the  publications  printed  in  the  Cambridge  type  and 
Mr.  Proctor's  Greek  type.  Eighteen  reproductions 
(half  of  these  being  collotype  facsimiles)  of  the  most 
notable  type  faces  used  by  the  presses  represented  add 
greatly  to  the  interest  of  the  work.  Mr.  Robert  Steele 
contributes  an  extended  introduction,  outlining  the 
history  of  printing  in  England  and  the  general 
characteristics  of  the  best  modern  work,  with  brief 
sketches  of  the  various  Presses  included  in  the  Bibli- 
ography. Along  with  much  that  is  unimpeachable, 
Mr.  Steele  expresses  several  rather  dogmatic  opinions 
that  are  open  to  question.  For  example,  that  "the 
secret  of  the  beautiful  book  was  lost  until  William 
Morris  revived  the  art"  will  seem  to  many  a  state- 
ment of  doubtful  accuracy.  This  volume  is  itself  a 
piece  of  exceptionally  handsome  book-making,  being 
printed  in  the  Riccardi  type  designed  by  Mr.  Herbert 
P.  Home.  The  edition  is  limited  to  350  copies. 

To  each  of  her  admirers  Paris  speaks 

with  a  vari°US  charm>  but  to  n°ne  is 
her  voice  more  eloquent  than  to  the 

student  of  history  and  the  lover  of  the  past.  He  alone 
really  knows  the  city  who  knows  it  as  a  scholar  and 
an  antiquarian,  since  only  such  appreciate  to  the  full 
that  wealth  of  story  and  tradition  which  has  overlaid 
it  like  the  rich  patina  on  a  Roman  bronze.  Hence 
the  fascination  of  a  book  like  M.  Georges  Cain's 
"  Byways  of  Paris  "  (Duffield).  Curator  of  the  Mus^e 
Carnavaletandthe  historical  collections  of  the  French 
capital,  M.  Cain  has  already  given  us  many  delight- 
ful pages  on  the  Old  Paris  that  he  knows  and  loves 


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so  well,  and  his  latest  volume  proves  anew  his  power 
to  unite  erudition  and  literary  qualities.  It  makes 
very  interesting  reading — this  sprightly  combina- 
tion of  history,  antiquarianism,  reminiscence,  and 
actualites,  and  the  hundred  and  thirty-odd  illustra- 
tions, many  of  which  are  taken  from  old  maps  and 
prints,  add  to  the  vividness  of  its  gossippy  learning. 
Anecdotes  of  Prudhon  and  Talma,  the  Mask  of 
Richelieu,  the  old  Vaudeville  Theatre,  Paris  seen 
from  a  halloon,  Paris  at  night,  Balzac's  house, 
the  true  Butte  Montmartre,  the  story  of  the  fourth 
of  September,  the  inundations,  the  dancing  classes 
of  the  Opera  —  these  are  among  the  most  noteworthy 
chapters  in  a  series  of  twenty  cursory  promenades 
through  the  Paris  of  to-day  and  yesterday. 


BRIEFER  MENTION. 


"  Cadillac  and  Early  Detroit "  is  the  name  of  an  at- 
tractive, appropriately-illustrated  pamphlet  devoted  to 
the  bibliography  of  the  founder  of  the  Queen  City  of 
the  Straits  and  the  years  of  its  infant  struggles  with  the 
surrounding  wilderness.  The  Detroit  Public  Library 
issues  the  pamphlet,  and  the  bibliography  is  based  chiefly 
on  the  material  to  be  found  within  its  walls. 

Number  two  of  the  "  Publications  of  the  Newberry 
Library  "  consists  of  a  descriptive  list  of  "  The  Arabic 
and  Turkish  Manuscripts  in  the  Newberry  Library,"  the 
compiler  being  Professor  Duncan  Black  Ma.cdona.ld, 
occupant  of  the  chair  of  Semitic  Languages  in  the 
Hartford  Theological  Seminary.  The  manuscripts 
number  twenty-two,  and  their  titles  and  descriptions 
fill,  with  generous  spacing,  an  eighteen-page  pamphlet. 

"  The  White  Hills  in  Poetry  "  (Houghton),  edited  by 
Mr.  Eugene  R.  Musgrove,  is  an  anthology  which  will 
be  welcome  to  all  New  Englanders,  for  whom  the  White 
Mountains  enshrine  so  many  associations  endeared  to 
memory.  All  the  New  England  poets  sang  of  these 
hills,  and  their  choicest  songs  upon  this  theme  are  gath- 
ered together  into  the  present  volume,  which  has  clearly 
been  a  labor  of  love  to  its  compiler. 

"  The  Forester's  Manual,"  by  Mr.  Ernest  Thompson 
Seton,  is  a  book  prepared  for  the  use  of  boy  scouts.  It 
gives  a  brief  description,  with  illustrative  cuts,  of  every 
forest  tree  at  all  common  in  the  eastern  part  of  the 
United  States.  The  means  of  identification  are  thus  sup- 
plied, as  well  as  the  facts  of  chief  economic  importance. 
The  distribution  of  every  species  is  shown  by  a  shaded 
map,  and  this  is  one  of  the  most  helpful  features  of  the 
book.  Messrs.  Doubleday,  Page  &  Co.  are  the  pub- 
lishers. 

The  Virginia  State  Library  has  sent  out  the  eighth 
and  ninth  volumes  of  the  "  Journals  of  the  House  of 
Burgesses  of  Virginia."  These  volumes  cover  a  period 
from  1712  to  1740;  the  seven  volumes  proceeding 
extend  to  1776.  The  printing  of  the  Journals  has  been 
done  in  the  reverse  chronological  order.  The  eighth 
volume,  covering  the  period  from  1727  to  1740,  is 
based  in  part  upon  the  first  of  the  original  printed 
Journals,  which  began  only  with  1732,  and  in  part 
upon  manuscript  sources  from  the  British  public  record 
office.  Volume  IX.  is  based  entirely  upon  the  manu- 
script journals  which  are  found  only  in  the  British 
public  office.  The  editor  has  made  no  change  of  style, 
but  has  followed  the  manuscripts  exactly,  mistakes  and 


all,  pursuing  the  editorial  policy  adopted  in  the  begin- 
ning of  the  undertaking.  In  the  introduction  to  each 
volume  are  published  lists  of  the  Burgesses  for  each 
assembly,  an  account  of  the  sources  upon  which  the 
present  edition  is  based,  a  brief  historical  setting,  and 
the  history  of  each  assembly  by  sessions.  It  is  not 
necessary  to  say  more  than  has  already  been  said  in 
commendation  of  the  excellent  work  of  both  editor  and 
printer  of  this  series,  which  must  prove  of  great  value 
to  the  historian  of  American  institutions. 

The  series  of  Introductions  supplied  by  E.  P.  Whipple 
to  a  well-known  American  edition  of  Dickens  nearly 
forty  years  ago  have  now  been  brought  together  in  two 
small  and  beautifully-printed  volumes  as  the  latest  title 
in  the  Riverside  Press  Editions  (Houghton  Mifflin  Co.). 
Mr.  Arlo  Bates  contributes  an  excellent  introduction 
dealing  with  Whipple  personally  as  well  as  critically; 
and  each  volume  contains  a  photogravure  portrait  and 
engraved  vignette  title-page.  Devout  Dickensians  every- 
where will  be  glad  to  have  these  brilliant  studies  in  such 
compact  and  handsome  form.  The  edition  to  be  sold 
is  limited  to  five  hundred  copies. 

In  the  new  batch  of  thirty-nine  volumes  just  added 
to  "  Everyman's  Library  "  (Dutton)  we  are  especially 
glad  to  note  the  inclusion  of  Mr.  William  Canton's  ex- 
quisite revelation  of  child-life,  "W.  V.:  Her  Book," 
with  its  companion  pieces,  "  The  Invisible  Playmate  " 
and  "  In  Memory  of  W.  V."  Other  welcome  volumes 
are  Mr.  Bolton  King's  fine  life  of  Mazzini;  a  new  ver- 
sion, for  modern  readers,  of  "  Piers  Plowman,"  made 
by  Mr.  Arthur  Burrell;  and  a  collection  of  "  Arthurian 
Tales  and  Chronicles"  represented  by  Wace  and  Lay- 
amon,  translated  by  Mr.  Eugene  Mason  and  edited  by 
Miss  Lucy  A.  Paton.  With  this  new  instalment, 
"  Everyman's  Library  "  rounds  out  a  total  of  six  hun- 
dred volumes. 

The  twenty-first  annual  Report  of  the  Seattle  Public 
Library  shows  clearly  that  the  library  of  our  fastest- 
growing  city  is  not  itself  standing  still.  Twenty-two 
thousand  volumes  have  been  added  in  the  past  year, 
bringing  the  total  collection  up  to  one  hundred  and  fifty 
thousand;  the  charging  system  and  the  open-shelf  ar- 
rangement have  been  simplified  or  otherwise  improved ; 
the  daily  fine  on  overdue  books  has  been  reduced  from 
two  cents  to  one  cent,  and  the  deposit  required  from 
non-residents  has  been  likewise  diminished,  being  now 
two  instead  of  five  dollars.  In  other  quiet  but  effective 
ways  the  library  is  striving  to  improve  on  its  already 
excellent  system  in  serving,  with  a  minimum  of  red  tape 
and  friction,  the  great  and  growing  public  that  enjoys 
its  facilities. 

A  county  library  in  Ohio,  founded  eleven  years  ago, 
considerably  in  advance  of  the  now  famous  California 
county  library  system,  issues  its  annual  report  in  a  read- 
able pamphlet  entitled  "The  Brumbach  Library  of  Van 
Wert  County."  Especially  notable  in  this  eleventh 
annual  record  of  progress  is  the  largeness  of  result  as 
compared  with  the  smallness  of  outlay.  At  an  expense 
of  only  seven  thousand  dollars  (or  $7,013.64,  to  be 
exact),  the  activities  of  the  central  library  at  Van  Wert 
and  of  its  fifteen  branch  stations  and  twelve  school 
libraries  have  gone  on  for  a  year.  It  is  true  that  the 
entire  county  numbers  less  than  thirty  thousand  inhab- 
itants, but  even  so  the  maintenance  of  so  good  a  library 
service  (including  purchase  of  new  books  and  payment 
of  all  other  expenses)  at  so  small  a  cost  to  those  served 
is  worthy  of  note.  The  Van  Wert  library  workers  de- 
serve, of  course,  more  generous  financial  support. 


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NOTES. 


A  study  of  "  Browning  and  His  Century,"  by  Miss 
Helen  A.  Clarke,  is  in  preparation  for  autumn  publica- 
tion by  Messrs.  Doubleday,  Page  &  Co. 

The  biography  of  George  Frederick  Watts,  upon 
which  his  widow  has  been  engaged  for  some  time  past, 
is  now  practically  finished  and  will  be  published  in  the 
autumn  by  Messrs.  Macmillan. 

Mr.  Thomas  Wright,  author  of  biographies  of  William 
Cowper  and  Edward  FitzGerald,  is  preparing  for  pub- 
lication an  entirely  new  and  exhaustive  Life  of  William 
Blake,  founded  upon  a  quantity  of  hitherto  unpublished 
material. 

Mrs.  Alice  Meynell  is  engaged  upon  a  "  Life  of  the 
Virgin,"  which  will  be  illustrated  from  a  large  number 
of  pictures  in  color  by  Mr.  R.  Anning  Bell.  It  will 
be  published  in  the  autumn  for  the  Medici  Press  by 
Messrs.  Macmillan. 

Two  new  "  Temple  Primers  "  (Button)  resume  the 
issue  of  that  most  acceptable  series  of  scholarly  manuals 
for  the  general  reader.  They  are  "  Our  Weather,"  by 
Messrs.  J.  S.  Fowler  and  W.  Marriott,  and  "The 
Renaissance,"  by  Mr.  J.  Basil  Oldham. 

"  Reminiscences  of  the  South  Seas,"  by  the  late  John 
La  Farge,  is  one  of  the  most  interesting  announcements 
on  Messrs.  Doubleday,  Page  &  Co.'s  autumn  list.  It 
consists  of  the  diary  kept  by  the  artist  during  his  resi- 
dence in  Samoa  and  Fiji,  with  numerous  reproductions 
from  his  paintings. 

"  C.  Q. ;  or,  In  the  Wireless  House  "  is  the  title  of  a 
romance  of  the  high  seas  by  Mr.  Arthur  Train,  which 
the  Century  Co.  will  publish  in  August.  The  same 
publishers  announce  for  issue  in  the  early  autumn  a  new 
story  by  Mrs.  Alice  Hegan  Rice,  entitled  "  A  Romance 
of  Billy-Goat  Hill." 

In  "The  Oregon  System:  The  Story  of  Direct  Leg- 
islation in  Oregon,"  to  be  published  immediately  by 
Messrs.  A.  C.  McClurg  &  Co.,  Mr.  Allen  H.  Eaton,  the 
oldest  member  in  point  of  service  in  the  Oregon  Legis- 
lature, tells  the  story  of  the  growth  and  workings  of 
the  system  from  an  unbiased  standpoint. 

That  standard  work,  "  The  Constitutional  History  of 
England,"  by  Sir  Thomas  Erskine  May,  has  been  repub- 
lished  by  Messrs.  Longmans,  Green  &  Co.,  under  the 
editorship  of  Francis  Holland,  who  has  reproduced  the 
two  original  volumes  practically  unchanged,  and  himself 
written  a  third,  continuing  the  subject  from  1860  to  1911. 

From  a  literary  point  of  view  the  most  noteworthy 
magazine  feature  of  the  year  will  consist  of  the  Meredith 
letters,  several  instalments  of  which  are  to  appear  in 
"  Scribner's,"  beginning  with  the  August  issue.  This 
issue  of  "  Scribner's "  will  also  contain  a  sketch  of 
Southern  life  by  Mr.  John  Galsworthy,  —  the  first  pub- 
lished result  of  his  recent  visit  to  this  country. 

In  the  series  of  "English  Readings  for  Schools" 
(Holt),  we  have  these  new  volumes:  "English  Lyrics 
from  Dryden  to  Burns,"  edited  by  Professor  Morris  W. 
Croll;  "Selections  from  Huxley,"  edited  by  Professor 
C.  Alphonso  Smith;  "Macaulay's  Life  of  Johnson," 
edited  by  Professor  Chester  N.  Greenough;  and  Milton's 
minor  poems,  edited  by  Professor  Martin  W.  Sampson. 

The  latest  recruit  to  the  ranks  of  London  publishers 
is  Mr.  Herbert  Jenkins,  who  for  more  than  ten  years 
was  manager  for  Mr.  John  Lane.  Mr.  Jenkins  is  the 
author  of  a  Life  of  George  Borrow  recently  published 
in  England  and  America.  He  is  also  known  as  a  Blake 


enthusiast  on  original  lines  of  research;  for  it  was  he 
who  discovered  the  State  Papers  relating  to  the  poet's 
trial  for  high  treason,  and  located  his  grave  in  Bunhill 
Fields  Cemetery,  which  in  all  probability  will  result  in 
a  fitting  memorial  being  erected  to  Blake.  Mr.  Jenkins 
has  also  been  a  contributor  to  leading  English  reviews 
and  magazines. 

Mr.  B.  W.  Huebsch  announces  that  he  is  preparing 
an  authorized  edition  of  the  dramas  by  Gerhart  Haupt- 
mann,  under  a  contract  with  Hauptmann  and  the  pub- 
lisher of  his  works  in  the  original.  The  rights  are  for 
Great  Britain  and  the  United  States,  and  include  all  the 
dramas  except  those  for  which  a  translation  has  already 
been  authorized.  The  first  volume  will  appear  in  the  fall. 

Eight  new  volumes  of  the  "  Home  University  Library" 
(Holt)  include  several  works  of  exceptional  value.  The 
most  notable  of  them  is  Professor  W.  P.  Ker's  treatise 
on  "  Mediaeval  English  Literature."  Among  the  others 
are  Dr.  Paul  L.  Haworth's  "  Reconstruction  and  Union, 
1865-1912,"  Mr.  Logan  P.  Smith's  "The  English 
Language,"  and  Mr.  Frederick  Soddy's  "  Matter  and 
Energy." 

A  carefully  selected  list  of  books  dealing  with  the 
industrial  arts,  being  a  revision  of  a  similar  list  issued 
two  years  ago,  is  published  by  the  Detroit  Public  Li- 
brary in  a  pamphlet  of  eighty-six  pages,  one  column  to 
the  page.  The  general  subject  is  divided  into  nineteen 
classes,  and  an  appendix  gives  a  list  of  books  for  boys; 
another  notes  leading  periodicals  and  transactions;  and 
an  author  index  follows. 

Recent  German  texts  published  by  Messrs.  D.  C. 
Heath  &  Co.  are  the  following:  Freytag's  "Das  Nest 
der  Zaunkonige,"  edited  by  Professors  E.  C.  Roedder 
and  C.  H.  Handschin;  Hebbel's  "Agnes  Bernauer," 
edited  by  Professor  M.  Blakemore  Evans;  Wilden- 
bruch's  "  Die  Rabensteinerin,"  edited  by  Professor  R. 
Clyde  Ford;  and  an  anthology  of  "  Deutscher  Humor 
aus  Vier  Jahrhunderten,"  edited  by  Mr.  Frederik  Betz. 
The  selections  in  the  last-named  little  book  are  mostly 
from  old  sources,  such  as  Hans  Sachs  and  the  Volks- 
biicher,  although  there  are  a  few  modern  examples  from 
such  authors  as  Hebel  and  Reuter.  A  particularly 
satisfactory  edition  of  Lessing's  "  Nathan  der  Weise," 
edited  by  Professor  J.  G.  Robertson,  comes  from  the 
Cambridge  University  Press. 


LIST  OF  NEW  BOOKS. 

[The  following  list,  containing  85  titles,  includes  books 
received  by  THE  DIAL  since  its  last  issue.] 

BIOGRAPHY  AND  REMINISCENCES. 

Harriet  Hosme-r:  Letters  and  Memories.  Edited  by 
Cornelia  Carr.  Illustrated  in  photogravure,  etc., 
8vo,  386  pages.  Mbffat,  Yard  &  Co.  $3.  net. 

Recollections  of  Guy  de  Maupassant.  By  his  valet, 
Frangois;  translated  from  the  French  by  Mina 
Round.  Illustrated,  large  8vo,  324  pages.  John 
Lane  Co.  $3.  net. 

My  Life  In  Prison.  By  Donald  Lowrie.  12mo,  422 
pages.  Mitchell  Kennerley.  $1.25  net. 

Johnaonlau  Gleanings.  By  Aleyn  Lyell  Reade.  Part 
II.,  Francis  Barber,  the  Doctor's  Negro  Servant. 
With  frontispiece,  8vo,  132  pages.  London:  Ar- 
den  Press. 

HISTORY. 

Social  France  at  the  Time  of  Philip  Augustus.  By 
Achille  Luchaire.  Authorized  translation,  from 
the  second  edition  of  the  French,  by  Edward  Ben- 
jamin Krehbfel,  Ph.D.  8vo,  441  pages.  Henry 
Holt  &  Co,  $3.  net. 


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British  Radicalism,  1791-1797.  By  Walter  Phelps 
Hall.  8vo,  262  pages.  "Studies  in  History,  Eco- 
nomics, and  Public  Law."  New  York:  Columbia 
University  Press.  Paper,  $2.  net. 

Early  Chapters  in  the  Development  of  the  Potomac 
Route  to  the  West.  By  Mrs.  Corra  Bacon-Foster. 
Illustrated,  8vo,  277  pages.  Washington:  Colum- 
bia Historical  Society. 

GENERAL  LITERATURE. 

English  Lyrical  Poetry  from  Its  Origins  to  the  Pres- 
ent Time.  By  Edward  Bliss  Reed,  Ph.D.  8vo,  616 
pages.  New  Haven:  Yale  University  Press. 
$2.25  net. 

The  Convictions  of  a  Grandfather.  By  Robert  Grant. 
12mo,  289  pages.  Charles  Scribner's  Sons.  $1.25  net. 

Spenser,  the  School  of  the  Fletchers,  and  Milton.  By 
Herbert  E.  Cory.  8vo,  373  pages.  Berkeley:  Uni- 
versity of  California  Press.  Paper,  75  cts.  net. 

Dante  Gabriel  Rossetti  and  German  Literature.  By 
L.  A.  Willoughby,  Ph.D.  8vo,  32  pages.  New 
York:  Oxford  University  Press.  Paper. 

DRAMA  AND  VERSE. 

There  are  Crimes  and  Crimes:  A  Comedy.  By  August 
Strindberg;  translated  from  the  Swedish,  with  an 
introduction,  by  Edwin  Bjorkman.  12mo,  86 
pages.  Charles  Scribner's  Sons.  75  cts.  net. 

The  Tudor  Shakespeare.  Edited  by  William  Allan 
Neilson  and  Ashley  Horace  Thorndike.  New  vol- 
umes: Richard  the  Third,  edited  by  George  B. 
Churchill,  Ph.D.;  Henry  IV.,  Part  II..  edited 
by  Elizabeth  Deering  Hanscom,  Ph.D.  Each  with 
frontispiece,  16mo.  Macmillan  Co.  Per  volume, 
35  cts.  net. 

The  Ban  of  Baldurbane:  An  Epic.  By  Henry  R.  Gib- 
son. 8vo,  495  pages.  Sherman,  French  &  Co. 
$1.25  net. 

Meadow  and  Bush:  A  Book  of  Verses.  By  James 
Hebblethwaite.  12mo,  98  pages.  Sydney:  The 
Bookfellow.  Paper. 

FICTION. 
The  Turnstile.    By  A.  E.  W.  Mason.    12mo,  471  pages. 

Charles  Scribner's  Sons.     $1.30  net. 
The   "White    Waterfall.      By   James    Francis   Dwyer. 

Illustrated,  12mo,  288  pages.     Doubleday,  Page  & 

Co.     $1.20  net. 
The  Principal  Girl.    By  J.  C.  Snaith.     12mo,  308  pages. 

Moffat,  Yard  &  Co.     $1.25  net. 
An    American    Wooing.       By    Florence    Drummond. 

12mo,  301  pages.    Houghton  Mifflin  Co.     $1.25  net. 
George    Wendern    Gave    a    Party.      By    John    Inglis. 

12mo,  301  pages.  Charles  Scribner's  Sons.  $1.25  net. 
A  Bermuda  Lily.     By  Virginia  W.   Johnson.      12mo, 

287  pages.     A.  S.  Barnes  Co. 

The  Triangle  Cupid.  By  Charles  Allen  Seltzer.  Il- 
lustrated, 12mo,  268  pages.  New  York:  Outing 

Publishing  Co.     $1.  net. 

PUBLIC   AFFAIRS. 

Government  by  All  the  People;  or,  The  Initiative, 
the  Referendum,  and  the  Recall  as  Instruments 
of  Democracy.  By  Delos  F.  Wilcox,  Ph.D.  12mo, 
324  pages.  Macmillan  Co.  $1.50  net. 

The  Child  In  the  City:  A  Series  of  Papers  Presented 
at  the  Conferences  Held  during  the  Chicago  Child 
Welfare  Exhibit.  Edited  by  Sophonisba  P.  Breck- 
inridge.  Illustrated,  8vo,  502  pages.  Chicago: 
Chicago  School  of  Civics  and  Philanthropy. 
$1.50  net. 

Direct  Elections  and  Law-Making  by  Popular  Vote: 
The  Initiative,  the  Referendum,  the  Recall,  Com- 
mission Government  for  Cities  and  Preferential 
Voting.  By  Edwin  M.  Bacon  and  Morrill  Wy- 
man.  12mo,  167  pages.  Houghton  Mifflin  Co. 
$1.  net. 

The  Supreme  Court  and  the  Constitution.  By  Charles 
A.  Beard.  12mo,  127  pages.  Macmillan  Co.  $1.  net. 

Provincial  and  Local  Taxation  in  Canada.  By  Solo- 
mon Vineberg,  Ph.D.  8vo,  171  pages.  "Studies 
in  History,  Economics,  and  Public  Law."  New 
York:  Columbia  University  Press,  Paper,  $1,50  net. 


The  Spirit  of  Chinese  Philanthropy:  A  Study  in  Mu- 
tual Aid.  By  Yu-Yue  Tsu,  Ph.D.  8vo,  122  pages. 
"Studies  in  History,  Economics,  and  Public  Law." 
New  York:  Columbia  University  Press.  Paper, 
$1.  net. 

A  Comparative  Study  of  the  Law  of  Corporations. 
By  Arthur  K.  Kuhn,  Ph.D.  8vo,  173  pages.  "Stud- 
ies in  History,  Economics,  and  Public  Law."  New 
York:  Columbia  University  Press.  Paper,  $1.50  net. 

Individualism:  The  Solution  of  our  Economic  Prob- 
lems. By  Joseph  Jordan  Devney.  12mo,  66  pages. 
Cleveland:  Individualist  Publishing  Co.  25  cts.  net. 

NATURE  AND   OUT-DOOR  LIFE. 

Moths  of  the  Limberlost.     By  Gene  Stratton-Porter. 

Illustrated    in    color,    etc.,    large    8vo,    370    pages. 

Doubleday,  Page  &  Co.  $2.50  net. 
Saturday  in  My  Garden:  A  Practical  Guide  to  the 

Cultivation    of    Small    Gardens,    with    Hints    on 

their    Care    and    Management.       By    F.    Hadfleld 

Farthing,     F.R.H.S.   Illustrated,    8vo,     484    pages. 

Doubleday,  Page  &  Co.  $2.50  net. 
Practical  Dry-Fly  Fishing.  By  Emlyn  M.  Gill.  12mo. 

216  pages.    Charles  Scribner's  Sons.    $1.25  net. 

RELIGION  AND  THEOLOGY. 

The  Realm  of  Ends;  or,  Pluralism  and  Theism.  By 
James  Ward.  8vo,  490  pages.  G.  P.  Putnam's 
Sons.  $3.25  net. 

Cuneiform  Parallels  to  the  Old  Testament.  Trans- 
lated and  edited  by  Robert  William  Rogers,  Ph.D. 
Illustrated,  large  8vo,  567  pages.  Eaton  &  Mains. 
$4.50  net. 

The  Meaning  of  God  in  Human  Experience:  A  Philo- 
sophic Study  of  Religion.  By  William  Ernest 
Hocking,  Ph.D.  Large  8vo,  586  pages.  New  Ha- 
ven: Yale  University  Press.  $3.  net. 

The  Rise  of  the  Modern  Spirit  in  Europe:  A  Study 
of  the  Pre-Reformation  Age  in  its  Social,  Scien- 
tific, and  Literary  Aspects.  By  George  S.  Butz, 
Ph.D.  12mo,  293  pages.  Sherman,  French  &  Co. 
$1.25  net. 

Endeavors  after  the  Spirit  of  Religion.  By  Arthur 
G.  Beach.  12mo,  124  pages.  Sherman,  French  & 
Co.  $1.  net. 

The  Sign  above  the  Door.  By  William  W.  Canfield. 
12mo,  325  pages.  Philadelphia:  Jewish  Publica- 
tion Society. 

EDUCATION. 

Festivals  and  Plays  In  Schools  and  Elsewhere.  By 
Percival  Chubb  and  his  Associates.  Illustrated, 
8vo,  403  pages.  Harper  &  Brothers.  $2.  net. 

The  Evolution  of  Educational  Theory.  By  John  Ad- 
ams, LL.D.  8vo,  410  pages.  "Schools  of  Philoso- 
phy." Macmillan  Co.  $2.75  net. 

English  Composition  and  Style:  A  Handbook  for 
College  Students.  By  William  T.  Brewster,  A.M. 
12mo,  512  pages.  Century  Co.  $1.35  net. 

Handbook  of  the  Modern  Greek  Vernacular:  Gram- 
mar, Texts,  Glossary.  By  Albert  Thumb;  trans- 
lated, from  the  second  improved  and  enlarged 
German  edition,  by  S.  Angus,  Ph.D.  8vo,  370 
pages.  Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 

Current  Educational  Activities:  A  Report  upon  Edu- 
cation throughout  the  World.  By  John  Palmer 
Garber,  Ph.D.  12mo,  387  pages.  "Lippincott's 
Educational  Series."  J.  B.  Lippincott  Co.  $1.25  net. 

The  Normal  Child  and  Primary  Education.  By 
Arnold  L.  Gesell  and  Beatrice  Chandler  Gesell. 
Illustrated, 12mo,  342  pages.  Ginn  &  Co.  $1.25  net. 

Commercial  and  Industrial  Geography.  By  Albert 
Galloway  Keller  and  Avard  Longley  Bishop.  Il- 
lustrated in  color,  etc.,  12mo,  357  pages.  Glnn  & 
Co.  $1.  net. 

Inside  Finishing.  By  Charles  A.  King.  Illustrated, 
12mo,  227  pages.  "King's  Series  in  Woodwork 
and  Carpentry."  American  Book  Co.  80  cts.  net. 

Elementary  Physiology  for  Advanced  Grades.  By 
John  Calvin  Willis,  M.D.  Illustrated,  12mo,  394 
pages.  American  Book  Co.  80  cts.  net. 

Winter.  By  Dallas  Lore  Sharp.  Illustrated,  12mo, 
148  pages.  "Dallas  Lore  Sharp  Nature  Series." 
rioughton  Mifflin  Co.  60  cts.  net. 


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MISCELLANEOUS. 

Dictionary  of  National  Biography.  Edited  by  Sir 
Sidney  Lee.  Second  Supplement,  Volume  I.;  large 
8vo,  649  pages.  Macmillan  Co.  $4.50  net. 

Architectural  Styles  for  Country  Houses.  Edited  by 
Henry  H.  Saylor.  Illustrated,  large  8vo,  124 
pages.  McBride,  iNast  &  Co.  $2.  net. 

The  Sexual  Life  of  the  Child.  By  Dr.  Albert  Moll; 
translated  from  the  German  by  Dr.  Eden  Paul, 
with  an  introduction  by  Edward  L.  Thorndike. 
8vo,  339  pages.  Macmillan  Co.  $1.75  net. 

Our  Baby:  A  Concise  and  Practical  Guide  for  the  Use 
of  Mothers  in  the  Care  and  Feeding  of  Infants 
and  Young  Children.  By  Ralph  Oakley  Clock, 
M.D.  Illustrated,  12mo,  193  pages.  D.  Appleton 
&  Co.  $1.25  net. 

Hopson  on  Auctlont  The  New  Count  Royals.  By 
Francis  Johnstone  Hopson.  18mo,  86  pages.  E. 
P.  Dutton  &  Co.  $1.  net. 

Swimming  Scientifically  Taught.  A  Practical  Man- 
ual for  Young  and  Old.  By  Frank  Eugen  Dai- 
ton,  P.  S.  A.  Illustrated,  12mo,  195  pages.  Funk 
&WagnallsCo.  $1.25  net. 

Mind  Cure,  and  Other  Essays.  By  Philip  Zenner, 
M.D.  12mo,  160  pages.  Cincinnati:  Stewart  & 
Kidd  Co.  $1.25  net. 

The  Loss  of  the  SS.  Titanic:  Its  Story  and  Its  Les- 
sons. By  Lawrence  Beesley.  Illustrated,  12mo, 
302  pages.  Houghton  Mifflin  Co.  $1.20  net. 

When  Mother  Lets  Us  Travel  In  Italy.  By  Charlotte 
M.  Martin.  Illustrated.  12mo,  212  pages.  Moffat, 
Yard  &  Co.  $1.  net. 

A  Shopping  Guide  to  Paris  and  London.  By  Frances 
'  Sheafer  Waxman.  Illustrated,  16mo,  108  pages. 
McBride,  Nast  &  Co.  75  cts.  net. 

Making  a  Garden  of  Perennials.  By  W.  C.  Egan. 
Illustrated,  16mo,  52  "ages.  "House  and  Garden 
Making  Books."  McBride,  Nast  &  Co.  50  cts.  net. 

The  Principles  of  Physiology.  By  John  Gray  Mc- 
Kendrick.  12mo,  256  pages.  "Home  University 
Library."  Henry  Holt  &  Co.  50  cts.  net. 

Problem  of  Sex.  By  J.  Arthur  Thompson  and  Pat- 
rick Geddes.  12mo,  52  pages.  "New  Tracts  for 
the  Times."  Moffat,  Yard  &  Co.  50  cts.  net. 

365  Channg-Dlsh  Recipes:  A  Chaflng-Dish  Recipe 
for  Every  Day  in  the  Year.  12mo,  218  pages. 
George  W.  Jacobs  &  Co.  50  cts.  net. 

Medical  Education  In  Europe:  A  Report  to  the  Car- 
negie Foundation  for  the  Advancement  of 
Teaching.  By  Abraham  Flexner;  with  Intro- 
duction by  Henry  S.  Pritchett.  Large  8vo,  357 
pages.  New  York:  The  Carnegie  Foundation. 
Paper. 

The  Story  of  the  Harvard-Yale  Race,  1852 — 1912. 
By  James  Wellman  and  Dr.  Walter  B.  Peet.  Il- 
lustrated, 12mo,  38  pages.  Harper  &  Brothers. 
Paper,  25  cts.  net. 

Cutting  It  Out:  How  to  Get  on  the  Waterwagon  and 
Stay  There.  By  Samuel  G.  Blythe.  16mo,  60 
pages.  Chicago:  Forbes  &  Co.  35  cts.  net. 

Social  Service  Series.  Comprising:  Why  Boys  and 
Girls  Go  Wrong,  by  Allan  Hoben;  The  Function 
of  the  Family,  by  Howland  Hanson,  D.D. ;  What 
Parents  Should  Teach  Their  Children,  by  Rev. 
Sylvanus  Stall.  Each,  12mo.  Philadelphia: 
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Vol.  LIII. 


CONTENTS. 


LITERATURE  AND  THOUGHT 


PAGE 
.      63 


THE  LITERARY  ACTIVITIES  OF  A  VERSATILE 
SCOTCHMAN 64 

CASUAL  COMMENT 65 

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of  the  Bible.  —  Humors  of  the  law.  —  Memories  of 
Gen.  Wheeler's  Confederate  cavalry. — Notable  men 
of  East  Tennessee. 

NOTES 80 

TOPICS  IN  AUGUST  PERIODICALS 81 

LIST  OF  NEW  BOOKS  82 


LITERATURE  AND  THOUGHT. 

"Taking  writers  generally  throughout  the 
world,  what  does  the  literary  mind  contribute 
to  the  world's  thought  now  ?  Can  you  point  to 
any  one  writer,  anywhere  in  the  world,  whose 
thoughts  about  the  world  are  really  worth  read- 
ing?" Thus  questions  one  of  the  characters 
in  Mr.  John  Masefield's  "Multitude  and  Soli- 
tude," and,  although  it  is  not  fair  to  ascribe  to 
a  novelist  the  random  opinions  expressed  by  his 
characters,  there  seems  to  be  something  of  a 
direct  personal  element  in  this  utterance,  the 
voicing  of  at  least  a  temporary  mood.  Another 
of  the  characters  thus  amplifies  the  argument: 
"  I  feel  this  about  modern  artists,  that,  with  a 
few  exceptions,  they  throw  down  no  roots, 
either  into  national  or  private  life.  They  care 
no  more  for  the  State,  in  its  religious  sense, 
than  they  care  (as,  say,  an  Elizabethan  would 
have  cared)  for  conduct.  They  seem  to  me  a 
company  of  men  without  any  common  principle 
or  joint  enthusiasm,  working,  rather  blindly  and 
narrowly,  at  the  bidding  of  personal  idiosyncrasy, 
or  some  aberration  of  taste.  A  few  of  you,  some 
of  the  most  determined,  are  interested  in  social 
reform.  The  rest  of  you  are  merely  photo- 
graphing what  goes  on  for  the  amusement  of 
those  who  cannot  photograph."  These  remarks 
seem  to  us  to  point  a  fundamental  misconception 
of  a  function  of  literature.  The  novelist,  the 
dramatist,  and  the  poet  are  the  last  persons  in 
the  world  whom  we  should  expect  to  "  contribute 
to  the  world's  thought."  That  is  the  business 
of  the  scientific  investigator  and  the  philosopher, 
not  of  the  imaginative  shaper  of  speech  into 
enduring  forms.  The  latter  may  be  a  propa- 
gator of  thought,  its  clarifier  and  expositor,  an 
extractor  of  the  breath  and  finer  spirit  of  all 
knowledge,  but  not  an  originator  of  new  ideas. 
He  is  concerned  with  expression,  and  not  with 
revelation,  except  in  the  sense  that  his  form  of 
statement  may  open  the  eyes  to  the  hitherto 
unapprehended  implications  of  some  truth  that 
has  long  been  in  the  possession  of  mankind. 

To  speak  plainly,  contributions  to  thought 
are  among  the  rarest  things  in  human  expe- 
rience. It  is  a  fertile  century  that  can  boast  of 
two  or  three.  Copernicus  made  one,  and  Adam 
Smith  another,  and  Kant  another,  and  Darwin 
still  another ;  but  the  Greeks  did  not  leave  very 
much  for  the  modern  world  to  do  in  this  direc- 


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tion.  Refinements  and  elaborations  and  special 
applications  of  old  established  principles  are  our 
task,  and  we  are  amazingly  active  in  its  pursuit. 
We  sometimes  almost  convince  ourselves  that  we 
are  on  the  track  of  something  that  is  really  new, 
and  call  it  pragmatism,  or  theosophy,  or  social- 
ism, or  give  it  some  other  pretentious  name,  but 
analysis  always  shows  it  to  be  a  thing  of  shreds 
and  patches,  its  basic  material  fetched  from 
remote  periods  in  the  history  of  culture.  The 
roaring  loom  of  time  weaves  countless  new  in- 
tellectual patterns,  but  the  same  old  fibres  are 
wrought  into  them;  and  the  poet  fashions  the 
fabrics  into  new  living  garments  of  divinity,  but 
they  drape  the  limbs  of  the  same  old  gods. 

We  frequently  hear  a  poet,  a  Wordsworth  or 
a  Browning,  for  example,  spoken  of  as  a  pro- 
found thinker.  But  what  does  it  all  mean  ? 
Who  can  point  to  an  original  thought,  a  "con- 
tribution to  knowledge,"  in  either  of  these  great 
poets  ?  The  former  has  for  us  a  serene  philo- 
sophical wisdom,  the  product  of  intuition  com- 
bined with  ripe  reflection  upon  human  conduct, 
and  the  prophetic  vision — which  does  not  mean, 
as  the  foolish  fancy,  the  power  of  peering  into 
the  future,  but  is  the  power  of  seeing  beneath 
the  surface  of  things  and  illuminating  the  secret 
recesses  of  the  mind.  The  latter  is  probably  one 
of  the  shallowest  thinkers  who  ever  won  fame  as 
a  poet,  and  his  helplessness,  when  he  confronts 
any  real  intellectual  problem,  is  nothing  less 
than  pitiable.  He  champions  with  fervor  the 
validity  of  passion,  and  blurts  out  an  instinctive 
but  unreasoning  optimism.  The  subtle  dra- 
matic power  with  which  he  makes  the  most 
diverse  types  of  character  express  themselves 
is  beyond  praise,  but  this,  while  it  deepens  our 
insight  into  human  nature,  does  not  do  much  of 
anything  to  enlarge  the  sphere  of  the  rational 
life.  As  far  as  the  assimilation  of  the  conquests 
of  human  thought  is  concerned,  the  making  of 
them  a  part  of  the  individual  intellect,  Browning 
is  far  inferior  to  Tennyson,  although  the  latter 
is  frequently  disparaged,  on  the  count  of  intel- 
lectual grasp,  when  brought  into  comparison 
with  Browning,  for  the  sole  reason  that  he  obeys 
the  promptings  of  the  artist,  and  distils  from  the 
raw  material  of  thought  its  purest  essence. 

What  "contributions  to  knowledge"  do  the 
famous  poets  of  the  older  world  bring  us?  They 
may  reflect  the  form  and  vitalize  the  spirit  of  an 
age,  as  Homer  and  Spenser  do ;  they  may  write 
the  epic  of  the  heroic  life,  as  do  Tasso  and 
Camoens,  or  of  the  spiritual  life,  as  do  Dante  and 
Milton.  But  how  is  abstract  thought  the  gainer 
from  all  the  tale  of  Troy  or  of  the  Crusades,  from 


the  grandiose  cosmogonies  of  the  "Divine  Com- 
edy "  or  of  "  Paradise  Lost "  ?  These  men  inter- 
pret the  pageant  of  life  and  the  conflicts  of  the 
soul  in  terms  of  imperishable  beauty,  and  it  is 
doing  them  no  dishonor  to  deny  them  kinship 
with  Aristotle  and  Kant.  Was  Shakespeare  a 
thinker  ?  Only  in  the  sense  that  his  plum  met  went 
deeper  than  any  other  into  human  character,  and 
that  no  human  motive  was  too  intricate  for  his  an- 
alysis. Perhaps  the  only  world-poet  who  was  a 
thinker  in  the  higher  sense  was  Goethe,  in  whom 
poetic  faculty  and  intellectual  power  both  reached 
their  highest  pitch,  and  were  so  fused  in  the  same 
personality  as  to  work  in  mutual  harmony. 

If  anywhere  in  literature,  we  might  reason- 
ably look  to  the  f  ramers  of  Utopias  or  ideal  com- 
monwealths for  an  exhibition  of  original  and 
constructive  thought.  There  is  much  helpful 
counsel  for  the  conduct  of  the  State  and  of  the 
individual  life  in  the  imagined  communities  of 
Plato  and  More,  of  Comenius  and  Campanella, 
of  Hobbes  and  Holberg.  But  they  give  us  no 
new  ethics  or  politics,  but  only  the  old  ones 
inculcated  by  novel  examples.  And  so  with  the 
petty  Utopias  of  the  modern  writers  down  to  the 
ingenious  Mr.  Wells:  they  may  make  fruitful  ap- 
plications of  accepted  moralities,  but  we  should 
search  them  in  vain  for  any  fundamentally  new 
idea.  Those  who  are  looking  for  genuine  novel- 
ties in  thought  are  most  likely  to  find  them  in 
the  writings  of  such  champions  of  the  paradox- 
ical as  Messrs.  Shaw  and  Chesterton,  or  such 
iconoclastic  philosophers  as  Messrs.  James  and 
Bergson ;  but  their  ways  are  those  of  perplexity, 
and  their  methods  those  of  deliberate  mystifica- 
tion, not  to  be  recommended  to  souls  in  search 
of  truth.  A&  for  the  writers  who  provide  us 
from  day  to  day  with  the  staple  of  our  reading, 
they  will  do  well  to  leave  the  work  of  making 
"contributions  to  knowledge"  to  the  scientist 
in  his  laboratory  and  the  university  student  at 
work  upon  his  doctoral  dissertation.  They  still 
have  all  the  material  of  accumulated  human 
thought  to  deal  with,  in  its  infinite  permutations 
and  combinations ;  and  the  setting  forth  of  its 
incidence  upon  human  life,  in  the  everyday 
world,  is  a  big  enough  task  for  any  poet  or  novel- 
ist or  dramatist  that  we  are  likely  to  produce. 


THE  LITERARY  ACTIVITIES  OF  A 
VERSA  TILE  SCOTCHMAN. 

Antisthenes,  as  we  read  in  Plutarch's  life  of 
Pericles,  when  told  that  Ismenias  was  an  excellent 
flute-player,  replied  that  he  could  not  be  good  for 
anything  else;  otherwise  he  would  not  play  so 


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well  on  the  flute.  Anyone  reading  Andrew  Lang's 
fairy  tales  would  be  tempted  to  conclude,  unless  he 
had  further  knowledge  of  the  writer,  that  Mr.  Lang 
could  not  amount  to  much  in  other  walks  of  litera- 
ture, so  whole-heartedly  did  he  throw  himself  into 
the  amusement  of  children  with  his  many-colored 
series  of  fairy-books.  And  on  listening  to  his  flow 
of  brilliant  conversation,  an  unguarded  stranger 
would  have  said  to  himself  that  so  lavish  a  spender 
of  good  things  in  talk  could  not  have  anything  left 
to  put  into  writing.  But  the  books  that  have  made 
Andrew  Lang  famous  in  two  hemispheres  number 
almost  as  many  as  the  years  of  that  amazingly  in- 
dustrious life  now  closed  at  the  age  of  sixty-eight. 

Born  at  Selkirk,  a  short  distance  from  Edin- 
burgh, on  the  last  day  of  March,  1844,  Lang  pre- 
pared for  the  university  at  the  Edinburgh  Academy, 
proceeded  thence  to  St.  Andrews,  and  afterward 
rounded  out  his  education  at  Oxford,  studying  at 
Balliol  College,  winning  an  honorary  fellowship  at 
Merton,  and  especially  distinguishing  himself  in 
the  classics.  An  assured  income  seems  in  his  case 
to  have  been  no  bar  to  early  and  energetic  endeavor 
to  make  for  himself  a  name  in  literature.  From 
the  appearance  of  his  "  Ballads  and  Lyrics  of  Old 
France,"  in  1872,  his  work,  both  prose  and  verse, 
was  in  constant  demand.  Succeeding  William  Black 
as  leader-writer  to  the  London  "Daily  News,"  he 
acquired  the  knack  of  expressing  himself  with  fluency 
and  charm  on  the  most  varied  range  of  subjects, 
from  cricket  and  golf  to  philosophy  and  religion. 
In  illustration  of  the  astonishing  facility  he  devel- 
oped as  a  contributor  of  miscellaneous  articles  to  the 
periodicals,  it  is  said  of  him  that  he  would,  when 
pressed  for  time,  scribble  his  "copy  "  for  the  waiting 
printer  between  the  courses  of  a  dinner  to  which  he 
had  been  invited.  He  certainly  had  a  larger  store 
of  encyclopaedic  learning  to  draw  from  than  almost 
any  other  writer  of  his  time. 

Among  his  favorite  subjects,  on  which  he  wrote 
in  masterly  fashion,  prominent  mention  must  be 
made  of  Homer,  whom  he  never  tired  of  defending 
against  the  attacks  of  those  critics  who  would  per- 
suade us  of  the  conglomerate  authorship  of  the 
"  Iliad  "  and  "  Odyssey."  His  book  on  "  Homer  and 
his  Age"  appeared  only  six  years  ago,  as  the  ripe 
fruit  of  its  author's  Homeric  studies.  His  transla- 
tions of  the  two  epics,  in  collaboration  with  Profes- 
sor Butcher  (on  the  "Odyssey")  and  Mr.  Ernest 
Myers  and  Mr.  Walter  Leaf  (on  the  "  Iliad  ")  long 
ago  established  his  reputation  as  a  Homeric  scholar. 
Another  subject  that  fascinated  him  was  the  tragic 
fate  of  Mary  Queen  of  Scots,  on  which  he  wrote  a 
book,  "The  Mystery  of  Mary  Stuart,"  in  1901.  His 
work  on  "John  Knox  and  the  Reformation"  and  his 
"History  of  Scotland  from  the  Roman  Occupation" 
also  attest  his  lively  interest  in  themes  near  home. 
Walter  Scott,  too,  he  delighted  to  make  the  theme  of 
his  discourse,  whether  oral  or  written.  Such  books 
as  his  "  Custom  and  Myth  "  and  "  Myth,  Ritual,  and 
Religion  "  show  him  in  still  another  light,  as  a  delver 
in  folk-lore  and  an  inquirer  into  the  origin  of  religion. 


No  more  impressive  testimony  to  Mr.  Lang's  ver- 
satility and  industry  can  be  found  than  is  furnished 
by  the  simple  list  of  his  published  works ;  and  even 
that  list  does  not  include  the  miscellaneous  and 
uncollected  newspaper  and  magazine  articles  that 
dropped  from  his  pen  in  a  continuous  shower  for 
many  years.  In  his  early  prime  the  number  of  books 
put  forth  by  him  in  a  single  twelvemonth  was  re- 
markable. For  instance,  in  1884  we  find  credited 
to  his  pen  the  following :  ''  Ballads  and  Verses  Vain," 
"  Rhymes  a  la  Mode,"  "Princess  Nobody,"  and  "Cus- 
tom and  Myth."  In  1886  he  published  "Books  and 
Bookmen,"  "In  the  Wrong  Paradise,"  "Letters  to 
Dead  Authors,"  "The  Mark  of  Cain,"  and  "The 
Politics  of  Aristotle."  At  the  time  of  his  death,  as 
we  learn  from  a  London  news  item  printed  only  a 
few  days  before  the  tidings  of  his  end  reached  us, 
he  was  about  to  undertake  a  "History  of  English 
Literature  from  Beowulf  to  Swinburne."  Possibly 
some  part  or  the  greater  part  of  this  may  already 
have  been  written;  for  Mr.  Lang  was  so  rapid  in 
his  work  that  little  time  intervened  between  the  con- 
ception and  the  execution  of  a  literary  project. 

English  literature  cannot  number  Andrew  Lang 
among  its  immortal  poets  or  historians  or  romancers 
or  essayists;  but  its  roll  contains  few  if  any  names 
that  stand  for  so  wide-ranging,  facile,  and  often  bril- 
liant work  as  made  this  gifted  Scotchman  a  marvel 
and  a  delight  to  those  who  read  him.  Of  late  years 
his  vogue  has  perhaps  suffered  some  decline,  for  he 
seemed  to  be  a  little  out  of  sympathy  (to  his  credit  be 
it  said)  with  certain  passing  tendencies  in  our  litera- 
ture. All  the  more  hope,  therefore,  may  be  cherished 
of  his  survival  as  a  writer  of  varied  learning  and  pecu- 
liar charm. 

CASUAL  COMMENT. 


MB.  SHAW'S  CONQUEST  OF  GAUL  has  thus  far 
been  considerably  less  complete  than  Caesar's,  though 
that,  everyone  now  admits,  was  incomplete  enough. 
Really,  however,  it  was  only  Paris  that  the  redoubt- 
able G.  B.  S.  set  out  to  subdue ;  but  Paris  is  France, 
as  has  been  maintained  from  time  out  of  mind.  It 
was  with  a  characteristic  letter  to  his  translator, 
reproduced  on  yellow  posters  and  placarded  all  over 
the  French  capital,  that  Mr.  Shaw  began  his  recent 
campaign.  "My  dear  Hamon,"  ran  this  noteworthy 
pronouncement,  "  Paris  is  always  the  last  city  in  the 
world  to  discover  and  accept  an  author  or  a  composer 
of  international  reputation.  London  is  twenty-five 
years  behind  the  times,  and  Paris  is  ten  years  behind 
London.  Paris  is  a  marvellous  city.  But  Parisians 
have  not  yet  discovered  Paris.  It  is  not  surprising, 
then,  that  they  have  not  yet  discovered  me.  In  ten 
years  Paris  will  discover  me."  Following  this  pro- 
clamation, hostilities  began  simultaneously  on  both 
banks  of  the  river — "Arms  and  the  Man"  at  the 
largest  theatre  on  the  rive  gauche,  and  "Mrs.  War- 
ren's Profession  "  on  the  most  literary  stage  that  the 
other  side  can  boast,  that  of  the  Thedtre  des  Arts. 
The  invaded  city  seems  to  have  held  out  manfully 


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against  anything  like  unconditional  surrender, 
though  the  Shavian  plays  and  the  Shavian  philosophy 
appear  to  have  made  a  decided  impression,  and  all 
Paris  - —  all  literary  and  artistic  and  critical  Paris  — 
was  set  to  talking  and  writing  about  the  many  won- 
derful ideas  thrust  upon  their  unprepared  minds. 
Possibly  in  the  ten  years  so  generously  allowed  them 
by  Mr.  Shaw  the  Parisians  will  either  have  digested 
them,  or,  whi<5h  is  more  likely,  abandoned  the  at- 
tempt. "Such  plays,"  says  one  of  the  friendliest  of 
their  French  critics,  "  require  the  collaboration  of  the 
audience,  and  this  takes  time  to  cultivate.  He  has 
against  him  the  very  novelty  and  profundity  of  his 
ideas."  .  .  . 

THE  SIFTING  OF  MANUSCRIPTS  that  goes  on  day 
after  day  and  year  after  year  among  editors  and 
publishers'  readers  presents  itself  to  the  imagination 
as  a  task  in  comparison  with  which  the  twelve  labors 
of  Hercules  dwindle  to  insignificant  proportions. 
The  great  mass  of  manuscripts  submitted  must,  in 
mining  phrase,  assay  at  only  a  very  few  dollars' 
worth  of  precious  metal  to  the  ton ;  but  there  is 
always  the  chance  of  finding  a  splendid  nugget, 
and  hence  the  need  of  caution.  Few  who  have  the 
handling  of  this  mountain  of  written  matter  would 
think  it  wise  or  businesslike  to  follow  the  example 
of  the  famous  theatrical  manager  who  has  recently 
excited  the  indignation  of  would-be  playwrights  by 
announcing  that  he  will  henceforth  consign  to  the 
oblivion  of  the  waste-basket  all  unsolicited  manu- 
scripts thrust  upon  him.  One  can  imagine  the  dis- 
appointments and  disgusts  that  have  led  up  to  this 
decision ;  for  disappointments  are  not  all  on  the 
unsuccessful  writer's  side.  If  it  be  true  that  not  a 
hundredth  part  of  the  manuscripts  offered  for  publi- 
cation actually  achieve  that  desired  end,  and  if  the 
complaint  that  our  busy  printing-presses  are  turning 
out  a  deplorable  quantity  of  rubbish  be  not  ill- 
founded,  what  incredible  degrees  of  unreadability 
must  be  attained  by  the  worst  of  the  ninety-nine 
rejected  hundred ths  of  "  unavailable  "  literary  off  er- 
ings!  Undoubtedly  too  many  of  these  manuscript- 
producers  are  more  fired  with  zeal  than  informed 
with  wisdom,  are  lacking  in  years  what  they  so 
abundantly  possess  in  courage  and  confidence.  They 
desire  and  expect  to  arrive  before  they  have  fairly 
started.  It  is  characteristic  of  the  young  writer  to 
imagine  himself  much  nearer  the  goal  of  ideal  excel- 
lence than  he  will  after  he  has,  as  a  matter  of  fact, 
travelled  a  considerable  distance  toward  that  elusive 
end  of  all  his  striving. 

•          »          • 

HlGH  HOPES  FOR  THE  FUTURE  OF  EDUCATION 

were  of  course  voiced  by  more  than  one  speaker  at 
the  late  fiftieth  annual  convention  of  the  National 
Education  Association,  in  session  at  Chicago.  The 
spectacle  of  a  man  ardently  enthusiastic  for  and 
splendidly  confident  in  the  cause  to  which  he  has 
devoted  his  life  is  surely  a  refreshing  and  inspiring 
one.  Mr.  Albert  E.  Winship  of  Boston  attained 
to  something  like  the  sublime  in  an  address  on  the 
final  day  of  the  conference.  "Why  should  not  this 


meeting,"  he  asked,  "in  its  closing  moments  here 
highly  resolve  that  education  shall  become  the  lead- 
ing American  profession  ?  New  times  demand  new 
men  and  new  measures.  The  new  times  are  surely 
here.  The  profession  that  meets  the  demands  of 
these  times  will  be  the  leading  American  profession, 
and  education  can  meet  these  demands  better  than 
law,  medicine,  and  the  ministry.  .  .  .  The  coast  is 
clear.  Education  can  be  the  leading  profession 
of  the  country.  It  is  the  only  profession  that  can 
devote  itself  exclusively  to  childhood  and  youth,  to 
the  making  of  manly  men  and  womanly  women. 
Education  was  the  first  profession.  May  it  not  be 
the  greatest?  It  is  the  only  learned  profession 
whose  leaders  in  scholarship  are  'professors,'  and 
the  one  man  who  met  all  the  needs  of  all  time  was 
the  Great  Teacher."  And  so  on,  in  high-hearted 
strain  and  with  the  impassioned  orator's  proper 
disregard  of  prosaic  exactness  in  statement  of  facts, 
but  with  a  magnificent  conception  of  the  educator's 
mission  and  a  fine  appeal  to  his  hearers  to  show 
themselves  worthy  of  their  high  calling.  The  in- 
spiration of  such  annual  addresses  ought  to  go  far 
toward  carrying  the  hearers  bravely  through  the 
daily  round,  the  common  task,  of  the  ensuing  year. 

•          •          • 

EMERGING  FROM  THE  SHELTER  OF  ANONYMITY, 
the  writers  for  the  "Edinburgh  Review"  will  hence- 
forth, under  its  new  editor,  Mr.  Harold  Cox,  sign 
their  names  to  their  weighty  pronouncements  on  the 
worth  of  current  books  and  on  such  other  questions 
of  public  interest  as  the  "Edinburgh"  has  so  long 
treated  with  distinguished  ability,  and,  now  and 
then,  in  a  tone  of  such  magisterial  authority.  The 
Macaulayesque  style  of  review  and  the  frequent  use 
of  the  editorial  "we"  seemed  almost  to  carry  the 
assumption  that  no  single  pen  of  any  single  fallible 
mortal  was  responsible  for  the  grave  utterances 
marshalled  so  imposingly  in  the  customary  "Edin- 
burgh "  article.  The  august  authority  of  the  mighty 
quarterly  itself  was  back  of  every  word  and  sentence. 
But  the  atmosphere  now  enveloping  the  world  of 
books  and  writers  is  unfavorable  to  the  further  pros- 
perous growth  of  this  assumption.  Too  many  of  our 
best  and  brightest  critics  and  essayists  write  unblush- 
ingly  in  the  first  person  singular,  and  the  august 
personage  behind  the  editorial  "  we  "  is  losing  those 
vague  and  majestic  outlines  that  formerly  inspired 
awe  in  the  timid  reader.  The  change  of  policy  on 
the  part  of  the  ancient  quarterly  is  in  harmony  with 
the  modernity  and  versatility  of  its  new  editor,  whose 
varied  experience  as  member  of  Parliament,  as 
writer  on  economic  and  political  questions,  and  as  a 
man  of  affairs  rather  than  of  the  study  and  the  li- 
brary, promises  well  for  the  revivifica  tion  of  the  ven- 
erable review  under  his  management. 
•  •  • 

DISCOVERING  THE  PUBLIC  LIBRARY,  and  learning 
with  surprise  that  it  is  free  and  for  the  use  of  the 
people,  is  what  some  persons  are  doing  even  now 
in  this  advanced  era  of  enlightenment  and  culture. 
Hence  the  need  of  advertising  itself  which  every 
wide-awake  library  has  for  some  time  recognized.  • 


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The  Dallas  Public  Library  issues  an  attractive 
little  pamphlet  on  "How  Libraries  Advertise;  as 
shown  by  the  library  material  exhibited  as  a  part  of 
the  Display  of  Advertising  at  the  Eighth  Annual 
Convention  of  the  Associated  Advertising  Clubs  of 
America,  held  at  Carnegie  Hall  of  the  Dallas  Pub- 
lic Library,  Dallas,  Texas,  May  19-27, 1912."  In 
this  matter  of  advertising  there  is  an  increasing  num- 
ber of  libraries  that  not  only  advertise  themselves 
but  also  spread  abroad  the  fame  of  their  respective 
cities  and  agitate  for  all  sorts  of  municipal  improve- 
ments and  reforms.  For  instance,  as  the  Dallas 
pamphlet  says,  "  St.  Joseph,  Mo.,  a  city  with  a  bold 
front,  has  an  energetic  and  stentorian  branch  of  li- 
brary publicity  that  makes  an  impression,  and  they 
talk  right  out  about  the  things  they  are  going  to  have. 
Among  these  are  public  baths,  more  boulevards,  a 
greater  St.  Jo  club,  public  playgrounds,  and  other 
examples  of  municipal  attractiveness."  Advertis- 
ing the  helpfulness  of  the  library  to  the  immigrant 
is  made  a  specialty  by  certain  libraries  that  minister 
to  the  needs  of  a  large  alien  population.  The  Provi- 
dence Public  Library  does  notably  good  work  in 
its  capacity  of  "melting-pot,"  and  its  officials  can 
tell  some  interesting  things  about  the  conduct  and 
the  growing  popularity  of  its  foreign-literature  de- 
partment. Not  much  longer,  it  is  to  be  hoped,  will 
it  be  possible  to  assert  with  truthfulness  what  the 
Dallas  librarian  now  makes  bold  to  declare,  that 
"  strange  as  it  may  seem,  there  are  a  lot  of  folk  who 
do  n't  realize  yet  that  libraries  are  free.  They  think 
there  is  a  string  to  it  somewhere." 

WHITEWASHING  BACON,  as  Edward  FitzGerald 
expressed  it,  was  the  task  to  which  his  (FitzGerald's) 
friend  Spedding  devoted  his  best  years  and  energies, 
when  he  might  better,  it  was  thought,  have  given  the 
world  something  of  originality  and  value  in  some 
other  department  of  literature.  Mr.  Balfour  has 
been  again  applying  the  whitewash  brush  to  the 
great  English  philosopher  and  statesman  in  a  eulo- 
gistic speech  at  the  unveiling  of  the  Bacon  statue 
at  Gray's  Inn,  three  hundred  years  after  Bacon's 
admission  to  the  Inn.  As  a  statesman,  he  had,  the 
orator  declared,  a  breadth  of  view  and  a  strength  of 
spirit  that  might  have  altered  the  history  of  his 
own  country  and  of  all  Europe,  had  his  advice  been 
heeded.  In  his  personal  relations  and  his  private 
life  he  was  not,  if  we  are  to  believe  his  eulogist, 
nearly  so  reprehensible  as  it  has  been  the  fashion 
to  represent  him.  But  Mr.  Balfour  did  not  feel 
moved  to  enlarge  on  this  aspect  of  the  man.  More 
congenial  did  he  find  it  to  dwell  on  him  as  a  writer 
and  scholar,  a  historian  and  a  philosopher,  the  mas- 
ter of  a  noble  prose  style,  and  endowed  with  such 
gifts  that  his  writings  may  be  regarded  as  marking 
the  beginning  of  a  new  epoch.  That  he  has  of  late 
been  vulgarized  and  his  name  made  a  mockery  by 
some  of  his  too  ardenjtand  ill-balanced  admirers,  few 
thoughtful  persons  will  dispute.  A  prophet  and  a 
seer,  according  to  Mr.  Balfour,  he  pointed  the  way 
to  true  scientific  research,  and  created  the  atmos- 


phere in  which  alone  it  could  flourish.  Surely  that 
is  glory  enough,  without  the  ascription  to  him  of  an 
impossible  authorship  of  works  quite  outside  of  his 
vein.  .  .  . 

AN  ALBEMARLE  STREET  CENTENARY  of  interest 
to  the  English-reading  book  world  has  just  been 
celebrated  in  the  quiet  and  dignified  manner  befit- 
ting the  celebrants.  One  hundred  years  ago  the 
publishing  house  of  Murray,  already  half  a  century 
old  and  enjoying  an  enviable  repute,  took  possession 
of  its  present  quarters  —  or,  more  accurately,  the 
building  next  to  its  present  quarters,  number  50 
being  now  used  for  domiciliary  purposes  by  Mr. 
John  Murray  the  Fourth  and  his  son,  while  50A, 
next  door,  is  devoted  to  business.  The  aristocrat 
of  English  publishers,  as  he  is  not  unaptly  called, 
Mr.  Murray  by  his  dignified  presence  and  his  con- 
servative business  methods  attracts  authors  who 
know  the  value  of  the  Murray  imprint.  So  wedded 
to  the  good  old  ways  of  doing  business  is  the  house 
of  Murray  that  even  so  time-saving  an  appliance  as 
the  typewriter  was  late  in  effecting  an  entrance  at 
No.  50A.  In  the  drawing-room  of  No.  50  are  to 
be  seen  not  a  few  reminders  of  the  long  connection 
with  famous  authors  enjoyed  by  the  Murrays.  To 
mention  but  one,  there  is  the  silver  loving-cup  sent  a 
century  ago  by  Lord  Byron  from  Greece  to  his  pub- 
lisher, and  containing  some  hemlock  seeds  gathered 
in  Athens  by  the  poet,  who  thus  inscribed  the  gift: 
"Hemlock  gathered  by  me  for  you  under  the  walls 
of  Athens ;  possibly  the  same  from  which  the  leaves 
that  poisoned  Socrates  were  plucked."  Grimly  sug- 
gestive contents  for  a  loving-cup,  surely ;  but  there 
seems  to  be  no  reason  at  present  why  the  descend- 
ants of  the  John  Murray  who  received  the  gift 
should  take  the  suggestion  seriously. 

•          •          • 

A  PLUCKY  YOUNG  AUTHOR  of  Kansas,  a  Mitchell 
County  girl  of  spirit  and  determination  and  perse- 
verance, has  achieved  at  least  local  fame  by  pleading 
and  winning,  in  a  court  of  law,  her  case  against  her 
publishers,  who,  if  report  speaks  truly,  seem  not  to 
have  borne  themselves  with  the  utmost  chivalry 
toward  the  young  lady.  Miss  Lizzie  Wooster,  for 
that  is  the  fair  plaintiff's  name,  fired  with  a  desire 
to  improve  on  the  school  primers  in  general  use, 
prepared  one  which  met  with  the  publishers'  ap- 
proval and  appears  also,  on  publication,  to  have 
enjoyed  a  wide  acceptance.  But  when  she  applied 
for  her  just  share  in  the  pecuniary  proceeds  of  the 
venture,  a  cold  refusal,  on  technical  grounds,  was 
the  response.  Filled  with  indignation  at  this  in- 
justice, and  laying  her  plans  for  revenge  on  a 
broad  and  deep  foundation,  Miss  Wooster  entered  a 
law  school,  pursued  the  course  to  the  end,  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar,  and  then,  with  a  legal  mastery  of 
her  own  case  in  its  every  detail,  brought  suit  against 
her  unkind  publishers,  appearing  in  court  as  her 
own  counsel,  and  procured  a  decision  in  her  favor. 
Little  need,  now  and  henceforth,  has  she  of  the  pro- 
tection of  any  Society  of  Authors.  They  do  some 
things  very  well  in  Kansas. 


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SHAKESPEARE  IN  RELIEF.* 


While  the  patient  diggers  for  facts  continue 
to  add  their  grains  to  the  molehill  of  Shake- 
speare's biography,  it  is  gratifying  to  know  that 
those  who  prefer  to  climb  for  vision  have  not 
been  discouraged.  The  names  of  Professors 
Bradley,  Raleigh,  and  McCallum  are  alone  suffi- 
cient to  remind  us  of  the  advance  that  aesthetic 
and  philosophical  criticism  of  the  dramatist  has 
made  in  the  last  few  years.  Men  like  Kreyssig 
and  Hudson  are  being  steadily  distanced;  and 
if  the  newer  leaders  were  less  gifted  with  the 
scholar's  virtue  of  modesty,  we  could  almost 
imagine  them  ready  to  adopt  a  slogan  from  our 
present  political  campaign  and  boast  of  "  catch- 
ing up  with  Shakespeare."  Mr.  Darrell  Figgis, 
the  young  English  poet,  makes  no  boast  in  the 
volume  which  he  entitles  "  Shakespeare :  A 
Study,"  but  he  has  accepted  the  challenge  which 
lies  implicit  in  certain  late  criticisms  of  Shake- 
speare— conspicuously  Mr.  Bernard  Shaw's  — 
and  has  come  to  the  defense  of  the  dramatist  with 
a  treatise  which  may  reasonably  make  some  pre- 
tensions to  catching  up  with  Coleridge. 

Mr.  Figgis  is  not  disposed  to  attach  great 
importance  to  logical  processes.  He  leans  dis- 
tinctly toward  divination,  a  quality  which  he 
ascribes  to  Fleay  among  biographers  and  denies 
to  Halliwell-Phillipps.  He  begins  by  saying 
that  in  Shakespeare,  as  in  Nature,  we  feel  a 
synthesis,  though  we  cannot  think  it  out.  One 
may  hesitate  to  infer  that  Mr.  Figgis  believes 
himself  to  have  actually  grasped  this  synthesis, 
but  he  has  made  a  bold  and  impressive  attempt. 
"Synthetic"  is  eminently  the  word  to  describe 
his  treatise.  Striking,  as  it  does,  midway  be- 
tween the  methods  of  those  who  are  concerned 
primarily  with  details  of  biography  or  technique, 
and  those  who  devote  themselves  to  analyses  of 
characters  and  plays,  it  gives  a  vivid  picture 
of  a  real  man  —  a  man  disencumbered  of  non- 
essentials,  boldly  outlined  against  his  surround- 
ings, acting  and  reacting  upon  circumstances  that 
time  and  again  synchronized,  by  some  happy 
dispensation,  with  his  own  mental  development, 
and  so  fulfilling  a  life  that  for  completeness  of 
inward  experience  and  outward  artistic  expres- 
sion remains  unparallelled.  It  is  not  a  book  to 
begin  one's  study  of  Shakespeare  with,  but  for 
gathering  into  a  single  fairly  consistent  concep- 
tion the  multifarious  impressions  inevitably 

*  SHAKESPEARE:  A  Study.  By  Darrell  Figgis.  New 
York :  Mitchell  Kennerley. 


created  by  the  myriad-minded  one,  it  would  not 
be  easy  to  name  its  equal.  Whether  that  con- 
ception be  the  true  one  is  another  question,  not 
to  be  settled  here. 

Following  an  Introduction  that  descants 
pleasingly  upon  the  functional  importance  of 
the  lavish  waste  in  Shakespeare's  work,  that 
makes  a  tilt  at  the  dusty  delvers  in  "  archival 
darkness  "  who  have  "  obscured  the  fair  land- 
scape of  his  country  by  chimney-stacks  and  fac- 
tories," and  thrust  him  "like  a  wronged  Deity 
into  buildings  and  technicalities,"  and  that 
gives  Mr.  Shaw,  with  all  his  perversity,  credit 
for  driving  us  back  upon  the  vital  question  and 
reopening  the  discussion  of  what  drama  is,  Mr. 
Figgis  sets  forth  his  argument  in  six  chapters, 
dealing  respectively  with  the  dramatist's  Life, 
Stage,  Craft,  Art,  Thought,  and  Personality. 
The  biographical  chapter  attempts  no  general 
picture  of  the  age,  but  keeps  close  to  the  man 
Shakespeare,  following  him  from  theatre  to 
theatre  and  through  his  more  important  prac- 
tical affairs  with  the  realizing  touch  of  a  quick 
imagination.  Naturally  much  of  this  matter  is 
controversial  or  conjectural.  Mr.  Figgis  thinks 
that  in  1587  Shakespeare  joined  Leicester's 
company  at  Stratford,  and  by  linking  up  the  facts 
into  a  "clear  and  logical  sequence"  he  claims 
to  have  virtually  reconstructed  the  account  of 
the  succeeding  five  years  of  obscurity.  He  con- 
troverts in  particular  Sir  Sidney  Lee's  account ; 
but  it  should  be  noted  that  Mr.  Fleay  long  ago 
wrote  :  "  At  Stratford,  in  my  opinion,  Shake- 
speare joined  them  [Leicester's  players]  ."  The 
most  interesting  feature  of  this  chapter  is  the 
synchrony  traced  between  outward  events  and 
the  dramatist's  maturing  powers — his  removal, 
for  instance,  at  just  the  critical  moment,  from 
the  Theatre,  "  the  resort  of  the  hurly-burly  ap- 
prentices," to  the  Globe  on  the  Bankside,  where 
a  gentler  audience  could  be  counted  on  to  appre- 
ciate subtler  plays  ;  and  the  accession,  also  at  a 
critical  moment,  of  King  James,  with  his  gen- 
uine concern  for  higher  dramatic  art. 

The  student  of  technique  will  find  interesting 
matter  in  the  chapters  on  "  Stage"  and  "  Craft." 
But  it  is  not  until  we  reach  the  chapters  on 
"Art"  and  "Thought"  that  Mr.  Figgis  is 
found  at  his  best.  They  are  replete  with  sug- 
gestive and  illuminating  judgments,  both  upon 
Shakespeare  himself  and  the  nature  of  drama. 
For  example,  Shakespeare's  bombast,  and  his 
rapid  and  violent  metaphor,  often  out  of  char- 
acter, are  defended  as  the  dramatist's  "sub- 
conscious method  of  striking  us  to  emotional 
sympathy  with  the  Action ";  they  are  to  be 


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judged,  not  by  themselves,  but  by  their  service 
in  procuring  the  total  effect.  The  question  of 
verse  and  prose  is  admirably  handled.  As  op- 
posed to  Ben  Jonson's  characters,  whose  speeches 
were  written  in  prose  and  turned  into  verse, — 

"  Shakespeare's  characters  did  not  speak  verse  by  acci- 
dent or  from  discipline :  they  were  conceived  as  speaking 
verse.  .  .  King  Lear,  Hamlet,  and  Macbeth,  Romeo 
and  Juliet,  .  .  in  prose  would  simply  not  be  the  people 
we  now  know  them  to  be.  It  is  a  thing  impossible  to 
define;  but  it  is  a  thing  quite  unmistakably  real  to  the 
imagination.  The  essence  of  the  matter  lies  in  the  con- 
ception of  the  thinking  mind.  Shakespeare  conceived 
poetically  or  in  prose,  as  the  case  may  be;  with  the  result 
that  his  characterization  rings  inevitably,  in  the  main, 
in  the  language  chosen.  .  .  Fat  Sir  John,  Dogberry  and 
Verges,  Sir  Toby  Belch,  the  egregious  Malvolio,  .  . 
are  born  in  prose,  and  live  all  their  lives  in  that  medium. 
In  the  case  of  those  who  have  no  lives  to  live,  but  only 
parts  to  play,  the  servitors,  soldiers,  and  other  such 
accessories,  it  is  easy  to  understand  why  they  should 
stand  so  completely  in  prose.  As  said,  they  have  no 
lives  to  live,  and  therefore  have  never  the  opportunity 
of  springing  to  the  intensity  of  poetry,  whatever  their 
potentialities  be." 

It  is  in  consonance  with  this  view  that  Lady 
Macbeth  on  the  one  hand,  when  deprived  of  her 
real  self  —  her  Will  —  by  sleep  and  delirium, 
should  lapse  into  disjointed,  unrhythmic  utter- 
ance, and  that  Beatrice  and  Benedick  on  the 
other  hand,  when  Love  finally  comes  to  them, 
should  be  drawn  up  into  the  general  plot  of  the 
play  and  "  pass  to  poetry."  Interwoven  with 
this  discussion  is  a  plea  for  the  poetic  drama, 
which,  it  is  virtually  maintained,  is  and  can  be 
the  only  great  drama. 

This,  however,  is  still  but  to  hover  on  the 
outskirts  of  Mr.  Figgis's  far-reaching  inquiry. 
He  closes  at  length  with  the  fundamental  prob- 
lem of  Shakespeare's  dominant  thought.  This 
he  finds  in  his  preoccupation,  not  primarily 
with  men,  but  with  the  workings  of  Destiny  ; 
the  dramatist  became  in  a  high  yet  entirely 
earthly  and  human  sense  one  of  God's  spies,  who 
took  upon  him  the  mystery  of  things.  And  this 
preoccupation  grew  with  his  growing  powers  ; 
so  that  his  characters,  even  as  they  grew  to 
greater  strength  and  richness,  are  seen  to  en- 
tangle themselves  more  and  more  inextricably  in 
the  meshes  of  fate,  because  the  dramatist  who 
sits  behind  them  is  more  and  more  "thinking 
past  men  to  God."  Now  Destiny  is  defined  as 
"  Divinity  in  action,"  and  Shakespeare's  mental 
progress  may  be  traced  by  the  position  that  is 
assigned  to  the  Divinity  in  his  succeeding  plays. 
It  is  a  position  that  advances  steadily  from  that 
of  a  God  in  the  machine — a  Divinity  constantly 
intruding  and  controlling  so  as  to  shape  things, 
after  the  manner  of  comedy  or  melodrama,  to 


a  mechanically  neat  conclusion  —  to  that  of  a 
Divinity  waiting  at  the  end  of  the  play  to  botch 
things  up  with  what  patchwork  he  can,  until 
finally  the  imperious  strength  of  the  characters 
drives  him  "  off  his  post  at  the  end  of  the  five 
acts  to  some  position  in  the  further  Beyond." 
But,  be  it  remembered,  though  in  the  great 
tragedies  the  Divinity  is  driven  by  the  charac- 
ters quite  out  of  the  play,  it  is  still  the  Divinity 
that  is  dominant  in  Shakespeare's  thought,  and 
also  in  ours :  a  Divinity,  too,  that  is  no  longer 
a  mere  deus,  but  the  inscrutably  and  ineffably 
Divine.  And  this  is  the  solution  of  the  strange 
paradox  that  Shakespearean  tragedy,  although 
in  it  Righteousness  is  constantly  baffled,  is  per- 
sistently regarded  as  the  highest  of  morality. 

In  the  working  out  of  this  thesis,  one  may 
demur  to  some  of  the  details.  In  modification, 
for  instance,  of  the  statement  that  in  "Romeo 
and  Juliet"  there  are  no  responsible  beings,  and 
that  accidents  capriciously  directed  from  above 
determine  the  issues,  it  should  be  remembered 
that  Romeo,  after  all,  presumptuously  takes  his 
fate  into  his  own  hands.  And  the  author  needs 
to  correct  his  surprising  impression  that  in 
"Lear"  Goneril  and  Regan  are  left  alive  (p.  229). 
But  the  thesis  as  a  whole  is  well  sustained,  and 
is  presented  with  a  combined  lucidity,  strength, 
and  even  splendor  of  expression,  worthy  of  its 
great  subject. 

It  is  less  easy  to  appraise  the  concluding  chap- 
ter, which  deals  with  Shakespeare's  personality, 
and  enters  again  upon  more  debatable  ground. 
So  admirable  is  the  author's  synthesis  in  its 
main  outlines  that  it  is  to  be  wished  he  had  not 
imperilled  it  by  coveting  perfection.  In  the 
endeavor  to  make  his  wheel  come  full  circle,  he 
resorts  in  the  end  to  paradox,  with  a  distinctly 
disquieting  effect.  Some  distrust,  too,  is  occa- 
sioned by  the  way  in  which  the  Sonnets  are  kept 
out  of  sight  until  the  end  of  the  volume,  though 
the  course  of  the  argument  is  easily  seen  to  be 
shaping  itself  toward  a  final  proof  in  their  nature 
and  contents.  Perhaps  Mr.  Figgis  was  prompted 
to  this  by  his  dramatic  sense,  though  he  could 
easily  put  up  a  logical  defense.  But  to  anyone 
sufficiently  familiar  with  the  Sonnets  to  detect 
what  is  coming,  the  apparent  artifice  tends  to 
defeat  its  purpose,  that  of  producing  a  con- 
vincing argument.  Apart  from  all  questions  of 
method,  one  may  or  may  not  be  convinced. 
However  reluctant  we  may  be  to  think  that  a 
certain  dark  experience  in  Shakespeare's  rela- 
tions with  a  friend  and  a  mistress  not  only  pro- 
foundly affected  his  personal  life,  but  practically 
determined  his  entire  mental  and  dramatic  pro- 


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gress,  through  Romeo  and  Falstaff  to  Hamlet, 
Othello,  and  Lear,  it  is  undeniable  that  various 
threads  of  argument  and  speculation  have  of 
late  been  converging  steadily  toward  this  as  to  a 
focal  point.  It  is  impossible  to  foretell  the  out- 
come. Mr.  Figgis  has  added  his  thread,  ap- 
proaching the  matter  in  his  own  way,  and  with 
a  force  and  dignity  that  are  bound  to  command 
respect  for  his  argument,  though  it  is  not  impos- 
sible to  pick  some  flaws.  For  instance,  dating 
(along  with  Mr.  Frank  Harris)  the  dire  event 
at  1597-8,  Mr.  Figgis  observes  that  "soon  after 
the  unfaithfulness  occurred,  we  find  Jaques." 
Perhaps  it  is  nothing  to  the  point  to  object  that 
we  also  find  Benedick  and  the  Duke  of  Illyria, 
seeing  that  we  have  been  carefully  provided 
beforehand  with  the  clue  that  it  is  Jaques  who 
reflects  Shakespeare  and  not  these  others.  But 
what  shall  be  said  of  this  further  statement,  that 
"  when  Shakespeare's  naturally  reflective  nature 
has  carried  the  mischief  through  his  whole  blood 
in  sheer  disgust,  we  find  Hamlet"?  Five  years 
for  a  moral  cataclysm  like  that  to  breed  disgust 
in  outraged  blood!  Great  indeed,  then,  is  the 
virtue  of  a  "naturally  reflective  nature."  Of 
course  this  does  not  overthrow  the  argument, 
and  Mr.  Figgis  leads  it  to  a  fairly  effective  close. 
But  the  chapter  strikes  a  lower  level  than  those 
just  preceding  it;  and  both  writer  and  reader 
breathe  more  freely  on  the  Coleridgean  heights. 

ALPHONSO  GERALD  NEWCOMER. 


THE  LURE  OP  THE  FAR  NORTH.* 


Six  hundred  years  ago  the  Norse  author  of 
"  The  King's  Mirror  "  answered  the  query,  which 
ever  recurs  at  each  new  sacrifice  of  human  en- 
deavor and  life  claimed  by  the  North  from  those 
who  brave  its  rigors,  as  to  the  reasons  impelling 
men  thus  to  imperil  their  lives.  It  is,  he  says, 
the  three-fold  ambition  of  man  which  draws  him 
thither:  emulation  and  the  desire  of  fame,  the 
desire  of  knowledge,  and  the  desire  of  gain.  The 
history  of  polar  exploration  is  indeed  a  striking 
manifestation  of  the  power  of  the  unknown  over 
the  mind  of  man,  ever  enticing  new  recruits  in 
the  endeavor  to  stretch  once  more  the  limits  of 
the  world  and  to  taste  the  joys  of  discovery. 
But  the  largest  returns  to  humanity  are  in 
ideals. 

"  Ever  since  the  Norsemen's  earliest  voyages  arctic 

*!N  NORTHERN  MISTS.  Arctic  Exploration  in  Early 
Times.  By  Fridtjof  Nansen,  Professor  of  Oceanography  in 
the  University  of  Christiania.  Translated  by  Arthur  G. 
Chater.  In  two  volumes.  Illustrated.  New  York :  Fred- 
erick A.  Stokes  Co. 


expeditions  have  certainly  brought  material  advantages 
to  the  human  race,  such  as  rich  fisheries,  whaling  and 
sealing,  and  so  on;  they  have  produced  scientific  results 
in  the  knowledge  of  hitherto  unknown  regions  and  con- 
ditions ;  but  they  have  given  us  far  more  than  this :  they 
have  tempered  the  human  will  for  the  conquest  of  diffi- 
culties; they  have  furnished  a  school  of  manliness  and 
self-conquest  in  the  midst  of  the  slackness  of  varying 
ages,  and  have  held  up  noble  ideals  before  the  rising 
generation;  they  have  fed  the  imagination,  have  given 
fairy-tales  to  the  child,  and  raised  the  thoughts  of  its 
elders  above  their  daily  toil.  Take  arctic  travel  out  of 
our  history,  and  will  it  not  be  poorer?  Perhaps  we  have 
here  the  greatest  service  it  has  done  humanity." 

.  Fantastic  illusions  of  open  polar  seas,  and  of 
short  cuts  to  the  riches  of  Cathay,  drew  explor- 
ers again  and  again  to  essay  in  vain  the  secrets 
of  the  Arctic.  But  the  idealistic  motives  have 
always  played  a  large  part  in  arctic  exploration. 
A  Pytheas  steers  north  from  the  Pillars  of  Her- 
cules, the  Vikings  with  a  Lief  Erickson  at  their 
head  cross  the  Atlantic  in  undecked  boats  and 
find  a  new  world-  only  to  lose  it  again,  and  a 
Hudson  gains  a  lonely  grave  on  an  uncharted 
and  deserted  shore.  But  bit  by  bit  the  map  of 
the  North  has  been  sketched,  and  in  the  end 
the  Norse  flag  floats  at  the  Antipodes. 

Some  years  age  Professor  Nansen  promised 
his  friend  Dr.  J.  Scott  Keltie  of  London  that  he 
would  contribute  a  volume  about  arctic  explora- 
tion to  Dr.  Keltic's  series  of  books  on  geographi- 
cal exploration.  How  well  this  promise  has  been 
fulfilled  may  be  judged  by  the  two  large  volumes 
now  published,  in  which  the  foundation  has  been 
laid  for  such  a  history.  A  foundation  only, — 
since  Dr.  Nansen 's  treatise  brings  the  subject 
down  only  to  the  time  of  John  Cabot's  voyages 
and  the  ill-fated  ships  of  the  Cortereals  in 
1502, — to  the  point  in  fact  where  the  average 
reader  would  expect  the  history  of  arctic  explo- 
ration really  to  begin !  And  even  then  the  au- 
thor laments  the  fact  that  "  the  majority  of  the 
voyages,  and  those  the  most  important,  on  which 
the  first  knowledge  was  based,  have  left  us  no 
certain  record." 

Ancient  records,  manuscripts,  sagas,  and  the 
earliest  attempts  at  charts  of  the  north  and  the 
new  world,  have  been  assembled  and  passed 
under  critical  inspection,  to  winnow  the  wheat 
from  the  chaff  and  to  trace  wherever  possible 
the  motive  forces  instrumental  in  discovery. 
Professor  Nansen  was  trained  as  a  biologist, 
and  won  his  first  scientific  spurs  in  animal  mor- 
phology. The  scientific  method  acquired  in  this 
and  in  his  later  work  in  oceanography  is  clearly 
seen  in  the  thoroughness  with  which  he  has  taken 
up  the  accumulation  of  materials  (over  250  titles 
appear  in  his  bibliography),  and  in  the  critical 


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sifting  to  which  he  has  subjected  his  data  in  his 
efforts  to  arrive  at  stable  fact. 

The  first  recorded  northern  voyage,  about 
330  B.  c.,  is  that  of  Pytheas,  an  ancient  astrono- 
mer and  geographer  of  the  Phocaean  colony  at 
Massalia, — the  first  person  in  history  to  intro- 
duce astronomical  measurements  and  to  deter- 
mine latitude  by  the  gnomon.  His  interest  in 
astronomy  led  him  to  push  his  expedition  north 
past  Britain,  the  Scottish  islands,  and  Shetland 
to  the  Arctic  Circle,  where  he  found  the  land 
of  Thule.  This  land,  the  author  goes  to  great 
length  to  prove,  was  Norway.  The  jealousy  and 
ignorance  of  later  writers  tend  to  belittle  the 
achievements  of  this,  the  most  intrepid  and  capa- 
ble as  well  as  the  earliest  of  Arctic  explorers. 
From  this  early  voyager  down  through  the  period 
of  Tacitus  and  Ptolemy,  through  the  darkness, 
confusion,  and  uncertainty  of  the  Middle  Ages, 
to  the  period  of  the  Vikings,  the  growth  of  knowl- 
edge of  the  North,  the  evolution  of  the  Viking 
ship,  and  the  voyages  of  the  Norsemen,  are 
traced  with  much  archaeological  detail  and  thor- 
oughness. 

The  decay  of  the  Greenland  settlements,  and 
the  extinction  of  the  connections  between  the 
Norse  colonies  and  the  fatherland,  are  traced 
to  the  decline  of  the  Vikings  and  difficulties  at 
home  with  the  Hanseatic  league.  There  ap- 
pears, however,  to  be  historical  evidence  of  voy- 
ages to  Greenland  as  late  as  the  early  part  of 
the  fifteenth  century.  The  expeditions  of  the 
Norwegians  into  the  Polar  Sea,  and  the  growth 
of  the  whaling  and  sealing  industry,  led  to  great 
advances  in  knowledge  of  the  North ;  but  royal 
monopolies  of  trade  by  southern  nations  laid 
their  paralyzing  hands  upon  private  enterprise, 
and  all  that  the  Norsemen  had  learned  of  the 
secrets  of  the  ice-bound  seas  and  coasts  was  to  a 
great  extent  forgotten  and  had  to  be  re-learned 
at  great  cost. 

The  author  devotes  an  extensive  chapter  to 
cartography  —  to  the  early  maps  of  the  North, 
the  wheel  maps  of  the  Middle  Ages,  the  works 
of  the  Arabs,  and  the  compass  charts  of  later 
centuries,  giving  his  results  not  in  exact  repro- 
ductions of  these  early  works  but  in  interpreta- 
tive maps  relieved  of  the  confusing  networks  of 
compass  lines  which  obscure  the  originals.  In 
the  same  free  manner,  he  presents  translations 
of  his  sources  or  interpretations  of  their  con- 
tents. His  book  is  not,  then,  to  be  regarded  as 
a  collection  of  sources,  but  rather  as  a  free  and 
critical  discussion  of  a  subject  wrapped  in  fogs 
of  obscurity,  approach  to  which  by  the  historian 


is  made  doubly  difficult  by  the  conflicting  cross- 
currents of  evidence. 

"  Through  all  that  is  uncertain,  and  often  apparently 
fortuitous  and  checkered,  we  can  discern  a  line,  leaning 
toward  the  new  age,  that  of  the  great  discoveries,  when 
we  emerge  from  the  dusk  of  the  Middle  Ages  into  fuller 
daylight.  Of  the  new  voyages  we  have,  as  a  rule,  ac- 
counts at  first  hand,  less  and  less  shrouded  in  medie- 
valism and  mist.  From  this  time  the  real  history  of 
polar  exploration  begins." 

Throughout  antiquity  the  North  was  con- 
cealed in  a  twilight  of  legend  and  myth,  and  the 
twilight  thickens  into  darkness  at  the  beginning 
of  the  Middle  Ages.  Then  the  intermingling 
of  the  nations,  the  new  trade  routes,  and  finally 
the  excursions  of  the  Norsemen,  revealed  the 
White  and  Polar  Seas.  Colonies  were  planted 
in  Iceland,  Greenland,  and  North  America; 
then  the  mists  closed  again,  and  the  sons  of  the 
Vikings  forgot  their  achievements.  But  En- 
gland's sailors  had  their  earliest  training  in  the 
Norseman's  school,  and  even  the  distant  Portu- 
guese received  impulses  from  them.  It  is  at 
this  point  that  the  real  history  of  polar  explo- 
ration begins.  Impelled  by  two  great  illusions 
—  the  Northwest  and  Northeast  passages  — 
explorers  for  a  century  sought  trade  routes  to 
the  riches  of  the  Orient,  and  the  sea  power  of 
England  drew  vigor  from  these  dreams.  "To 
riches  men  have  seldom  attained,  to  the  Fortu- 
nate Isles  never:  but  through  all  we  have  won 
knowledge." 

The  volumes  are  freely  illustrated  by  a  num- 
ber of  boldly-drawn  sketches  from  ancient  maps 
and  monuments,  as  well  as  by  other  sketches, 
including  several  rather  sombre  colored  plates 
by  the  author.  A  full  bibliography  and  an 
ample  index  are  included. 

CHARLES  ATWOOD  KOFOID. 


THE  SOCIAL,  REVOLUTION  IN  ENGLAND.* 


No  more  radical  change  of  policy  has  been 
witnessed  in  any  country  in  modern  times  than 
that  manifested  in  the  social  legislation  of  the 
British  Parliament  since  1897.  Several  of  the 
fundamental  economic,  ethical,  and  political  doc- 
trines of  the  nation  were  suddenly  abandoned, 
and  laws  based  on  entirely  different  principles 
were  enacted.  But  this  transformation  was  sud- 
den only  in  appearance ;  long  preparation  had 

*  MODERN  ENGLAND.  By  Louis  Cazamian,  Lecturer  at 
the  Sorbonne.  New  York :  E.  P.  Button  &  Co. 

DEMOCRATIC  ENGLAND.  By  Percy  Alden,  M.P.  With 
Introduction  by  Charles  G.  F.  Master-man.  New  York :  The 
Macmillan  Co. 


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been  made  for  it.  The  story  of  the  incuba- 
tion of  ideas  is  now  told  for  us  by  a  French- 
man looking  on  from  a  safe  distance  across  the 
Channel,  and  by  a  member  of  Parliament  who 
helped  to  shape  public  opinion  and  to  enact  the 
measures. 

M.  Cazamian  traces  the  struggle  between 
traditional  instinct  and  modern  rationalism.  He 
thinks  that  Englishmen  do  not  act  upon  theory, 
but  meet  issues  which  are  forced  upon  them  by 
the  needs  of  the  hour  and  solve  their  problems 
by  practical  common  sense.  The  real  British 
genius  is  best  represented  by  conservatives,  land- 
lords, and  snobs.  The  discussion  closes  with  a 
note  of  skepticism:  "Will  England  consent, 
will  she  be  able,  to  undergo  without  injury  the 
social  and  psychological  transformations  which 
seem  to  be  demanded  by  international  competi- 
tion? Will  her  empiricism  know  how  to  rise 
above  itself,  and  fearlessly  to  enter  the  higher 
sphere  of  meditated  readjustments,  without  los- 
ing the  benefit  of  its  blind  and  groping  infalli- 
bility?" 

This  French  observer  has  examined  the  main 
facts  in  the  development  of  industry,  political 
philosophy  and  legislation  during  the  nineteenth 
century, — the  industrial  revolution  and  its 
effects,  the  creed  of  liberty  and  individualism, 
the  teachings  of  Darwin,  the  ecclesiastical  move- 
ments, the  rise  of  trade  unions,  the  protests  of 
Carlyle  and  Ruskin,  the  development  of  Social- 
ism, and  the  recent  philosophical  tendencies. 

Certainly  England  was  not  without  a  philoso- 
phy, such  as  it  was;  and  she  was  attached  to  a 
theory  as  with  an  obsession.  Her  statesmen 
were  firmly  and  sincerely  convinced  that  indi- 
vidual liberty  and  free  competition  would  give 
to  the  world  all  possible  health,  vigor,  happiness, 
and  virtue.  No  doubt  this  theory  fitted  well 
into  the  assurance  of  the  land-owners  and  great 
capitalists  that  Providence  had  chosen  them  to 
rule  the  vulgar  crowd  in  mills  and  in  Parliament. 
It  was  heresy  to  dispute  this  theory.  Some  of 
the  economists  assumed  this  creed  as  the  founda- 
tion of  their  speculations,  and  they  arranged 
tables  of  statistics  to  give  it  support.  Herbert 
Spencer  evolved  a  philosophy  of  evolution  in 
the  known  universe  which  was  glorified  laissez 
faire.  As  the  shadows  gathered  about  him,  and 
he  dimly  saw  the  modern  world  moving  away 
from  him,  he  prophesied  at  least  temporary  ruin ; 
and  he  believed  himself. 

It  would  be  false  to  assert  that  Great  Britain 
was  inferior  in  its  humane  impulses.  It  was 
the  classic  land  of  the  poor-law  and  endowed 
charities.  The  philanthropist,  John  Bright,  was 


one  of  the  most  powerful  antagonists  of  the  Earl 
of  Shaftesbury;  yet  he  honestly  thought  that 
governmental  legislation  would  be  a  curse  to 
the  wage-earners.  John  Bright  is  a  typical  form 
in  British  life.  Excellent  bishops  stood  on  the 
side  of  the  Quaker  orator,  and  supported  his 
eloquent  pleas  for  the  slaves  of  other  countries, 
though  blind  to  the  thralls  in  their  own  iron 
mills  and  agricultural  laborers'  cottages. 

There  was  abundance  of  literary  protest. 
Mrs.  Browning's  "Cry  of  the  Children,"  Dick- 
ens's  exposure  of  the  misery  in  East  London, 
Thackeray's  keen  thrusts  at  snobbery,  Ruskin's 
passionate  protests  against  current  notions  of 
political  economy,  all  had  a  part  to  play  in 
awakening  the  nation. 

All  these  together,  however,  would  have 
failed  to  destroy  the  ancient  philosophy  had 
they  not  been  supported  and  their  demands 
reinforced  by  medical  and  social  science.  It  is 
true  that  Parliament  was  not  stirred  to  definite 
action  alone  by  morals  and  by  blue  books, 
but  also  by  the  scare  which  Germany  gave  it. 
British  merchants  and  manufacturers  found 
new  competitors  in  their  monopolized  markets, 
and  these  competitors  were  guarded  on  the  high 
seas  by  men-of-war  built  in  German  ports. 
Parliament  sent  men  to  Germany  to  discover 
what  had  happened,  and  the  messengers  came 
back  with  accounts  of  German  chemistry,  scien- 
tific politics,  and  technical  education.  Aroused 
by  the  primitive  passion  of  fear,  the  British 
rulers  of  both  parties  were  made  docile  enough 
to  inquire  of  medical  men  and  social  investi- 
gators as  to  the  facts  in  the  situation.  The 
accepted  systematizers  of  doctrine  had  told 
them  that  the  world  of  free  competition  is  the 
best  and  most  just  of  all  possible  worlds ;  that 
the  British  constitution  was  infallible;  that 
gentlemen  were  the  wisest  and  truest  friends  to 
vote  laws  for  the  ignorant  poor;  that  if  govern- 
ment were  confined  to  simple  police  duties  the 
children  would  grow  up  to  be  healthy  and  useful 
citizens  and  sorrow  would  be  no  more.  But 
when  the  rulers  were  humbled  by  foreign  com- 
petition they  began  to  listen  to  the  recruiting 
officers,  who  informed  them  that  laissez  faire 
had  unfitted  the  lads  of  English  cities  for  soldier 
service ;  that  millions  of  men  and  women  were 
in  revolt  against  the  government,  and  deter- 
mined to  take  matters  into  their  own  hands. 
Scientific  investigations  gave  the  lie  to  the  d 
priori  theories  produced  by  ingenious  specula- 
tors to  justify  hoary  outrages  against  common 
rights.  National  neglect  had  not  done  what 
these  philosophers  had  solemnly  promised  for  it. 


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These  investigations,  however,  were  made  effec- 
tive because  in  the  mean  time  men  had  gained 
a  voice  and  vote  in  Parliament  who  really  knew 
the  situation  of  the  masses  of  people  belonging 
to  the  industrial  groups. 

Let  us  turn  to  the  book  of  the  member  of 
Parliament,  and  read  his  description  and  ex- 
planation of  the  new  movement.  The  author 
of  "  Democratic  England  "  started  with  a  uni- 
versity education,  and  a  life  purpose  to  improve 
the  conditions  of  existence  for  wage-earners. 
He  went  to  share  their  fortunes  in  East 
London,  and  Mansfield  House  Settlement  be- 
came his  training  school.  Quietly  and  ear- 
nestly he  studied  the  needs  of  his  neighbors, 
and  helped  to  build  up  their  institutions, — 
their  schools,  trades  unions,  church,  and  recrea- 
tions. He  won  the  confidence  of  his  constitu- 
ency, and  at  last  found  himself  in  Parliament, 
where  he  has  utilized  his  long  experience  and 
study  for  the  benefit  of  the  people.  His  book  is 
an  interpretation  of  the  creed  and  aims  of  his 
political  associates,  and  an  argument  for  their 
wisdom  and  justice.  It  is  a  statement  also  of 
what  will  soon  be  practical  politics  in  the  United 
States,  where  the  rapid  development  of  industrial 
centres  causes  the  same  difficulties  and  compels 
the  nation  to  revise  its  economic  and  legal  ideas 
to  conform  to  new  demands. 

The  agitators  who  represent  the  wage-earners 
do  not  create  these  urgent  problems ;  they  merely 
make  the  comfortable  ruling  classes  aware  of 
them.  The  happy  possessors  of  land,  privilege, 
places  of  honor  and  gain  and  title,  naturally  op- 
pose resistance  and  prophesy  all  sorts  of  evil  to 
the  nation.  Feudalism  has  still  enough  energy 
in  Great  Britain  to  hold  the  titles  to  3,000,000 
acres  of  deer  forests  in  Scotland  as  sacrosanct, 
while  many  millions  of  men  have  no  claim  to 
daily  bread  which  might  be  grown  on  the  waste 
land.  In  1872  half  the  enclosed  land  of  En- 
gland and  Wales  was  monopolized  by  2250 
persons.  It  is  a  little  better  now,  and  yet  the 
overwhelming  majority  of  the  people  of  England 
possess  no  right  to  their  native  soil.  Mr.  Alden 
estimates  that  from  5000  to  6000  clergymen 
are  appointed  to  their  livings  by  the  great  land- 
owners; and  without  accusing  these  clergymen 
of  being  hypocrites,  we  can  easily  see  that  their 
sermons  would  not  touch  upon  the  iniquities  of 
the  land  monopoly,  however  severe  they  might 
be  on  the  subject  of  foot-binding  in  China. 

It  required  nearly  a  century  to  make  the  rul- 
ing classes  believe  that  the  State  had  any  duty 
toward  children ;  under  the  impulse  of  the  new 


ideas  England  has  developed  a  children's  code 
which  does  it  honor. 

Mr.  Alden  supplies  the  detailed  information 
which  the  French  work  omits.  He  analyzes 
more  fully  the  chief  measures  representing  re- 
cent advance  toward  scientific  legislation  for  the 
welfare  of  the  nation :  the  Children's  Act  of 
1908,  the  Trade  Boards  Act  of  1909,  the  Un- 
employment and  Sickness  Insurance  Acts,  old 
age  pensions,  housing  the  poor,  municipal  owner- 
ship, and  recovery  of  common  land  for  the  land- 
less. But  in  the  main  the  books  corroborate 
each  other. 

CHARLES  RICHMOND  HENDERSON 


CALIFORNIA  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR.* 


It  is  refreshing  to  the  student  now  and  then 
to  read  a  book  whose  author  has  never  been 
disillusioned,  one  whose  faith  in  the  absolute 
righteousness  of  his  side  and  his  party  has  never 
been  shaken,  and  who  is  certain  that  all  those 
who  were  on  the  other  side  from  his  heroes  were 
wicked  and  treacherous,  fit  for  conspicuous 
places  in  Dante's  inferno.  Such  an  author  can 
write  with  certainty,  with  a  conviction  as  to  the 
moral  values  of  past  acts  not  readily  to  be  found 
in  the  writings  of  the  more  skeptical  historians 
of  recent  decades. 

Mr.  Kennedy,  author  of  the  work  on  "The 
Contest  for  Calif ornia  in  1861,"  is  of  the  former 
class,  and  his  book  is  a  frank  spirited  eulogy  of 
his  hero,  Colonel  E.  D.  Baker,  killed  at  the 
battle  of  Ball's  Bluff  in  October,  1861.  There 
are  interesting  chapters  on  early  California  his- 
tory, on  social  and  economic  conditions  on  "the 
Coast "  during  the  years  just  preceding  the  Civil 
War ;  and  there  are  other  valuable  chapters  on 
Senator  Broderick,  who  lost  his  life  in  so  tragic 
a  manner,  on  the  early  life  of  Colonel  Baker 
when  he  was  a  friend  of  Abraham  Lincoln  and 
a  Member  of  Congress  from  Illinois,  and  on  the 
efforts  of  shrewd  Southerners  like  "Jim"  Lane 
and  William  Gwin  to  turn  over  the  Coast  States 
to  the  Confederacy  in  1860-61.  In  all  of  this, 
Mr.  Kennedy  is  but  clearing  the  ground  for  his 
real  work  —  the  portrayal  of  the  truly  noble 
leader  whose  fame  he  intends  to  establish  and 
vindicate;  but  to  the  historical  student  these 
preliminary  chapters  are  quite  as  important  as 
the  main  story. 

The  contention  of  the  book  that  a  large  party 
in  California  and  Oregon  sought  to  deliver  that 

*  THE  CONTEST  FOR  CALIFORNIA  IN  1861.  How  Colonel 
E.  D.  Baker  Saved  the  Pacific  States  to  the  Union.  By 
Elijah  R.  Kennedy.  Boston :  Houghton  Mifflin  Co. 


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region  to  the  Southerners,  and  that  the  election 
of  Colonel  Baker  to  the  Senate  by  the  Oregon 
legislature  in  1860  to  oppose  the  machinations 
of  Lane  and  Gwin  was  the  beginning  of  a 
series  of  services  which  saved  the  region  to  the 
Union,  is  well  maintained,  although  one  is  com- 
pelled to  the  belief  that  the  author  makes  out 
as  bad  a  situation  as  possible  in  1861,  in  order 
to  show  how  great  was  the  work  of  Baker.  No 
Confederate  flag  was  ever  actually  unfurled  in 
California,  and  no  body  of  Confederate  troops 
ever  actually  assembled  in  arms  before  any 
Pacific  Coast  city.  How  could  the  danger  have 
been  so  great  as  it  is  here  made  to  appear? 
When  General  Albert  Sidney  Johnston  re- 
signed the  command  of  the  United  States  Army 
in  California,  in  April,  1861,  it  was  with  very 
considerable  risk  that  he  made  his  way  back  to 
the  South  to  take  command  under  Jefferson 
Davis ;  and  Mr.  Kennedy  thinks  that  no  great 
party  of  sympathizers  followed  him  east — only 
a  few  officers,  some  of  whom  were  in  danger  of 
capture. 

The  figure  of  Baker  —  genial,  able,  and  elo- 
quent ;  a  lawyer  of  the  very  highest  standing 
before  1860,  a  personal  friend  of  Lincoln  and  a 
Republican  of  sturdy  mould — is  well  portrayed, 
and  the  whole  story  is  presented  in  a  manner 
which  holds  the  reader's  attention.  Despite 
some  obvious  limitations,  this  book  is  a  decided 
contribution  to  the  historical  literature  of  "the 
Coast"  about  which  so  many  Easterners  know 
too  little.  WILLIAM  E.  DODD. 


KECENT  FICTION.* 


Mr.  Humfrey  Jordan  is  a  new  writer  to  us,  but 
the  qualities  displayed  in  his  novel,  "The  Joyous 
Wayfarer,"  are  of  a  nature  to  make  us  say,  with 
Bottom,  "  I  shall  desire  you  of  more  acquaintance." 

*  THE  JOYOUS  WAYFARER.  By  Humfrey  Jordan.  New 
York :  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons. 

THE  PRISON  WITHOUT  A  WALL.  By  Ralph  Straus.  New 
York :  Henry  Holt  &  Co. 

THE  TURNSTILE.  By  A.  E.  W.  Mason.  New  York: 
Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 

MULTITUDE  AND  SOLITUDE.  By  John  Masefield.  New 
York :  Mitchell  Kennerley. 

RED  EVE.  By  H.  Rider  Haggard.  New  York :  Donbleday, 
Page  &  Co. 

THE  FRIAR  OF  WITTENBERG.  By  William  Stearns  Davis. 
New  York :  The  Macmillan  Co. 

THE  SHADOW  OF  POWER.  By  Paul  Bertram.  New  York : 
The  John  Lane  Co. 

OVER  THE  PASS.  By  Frederick  Palmer.  New  York: 
Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 

THE  STREET  CALLED  STRAIGHT.  A  Novel.  New  York : 
Harper  &  Brothers. 

WHITE  ASHES.  By  Kennedy-Noble.  New  York:  The 
Macmillan  Co. 

MOLLY  MCDONALD.  A  Tale  of  the  Old  Frontier.  By 
Randall  Parrish.  Chicago:  A.  C.  McClurg  &  Co. 


It  is  a  novel  of  style,  character  interest,  and  stimu- 
lating ideas.  The  ideas  are  found  chiefly  in  the 
speech  of  Massingdale,  the  central  figure,  a  man  of 
amazingly  vital  volubility  of  discourse.  He  wants 
to  be  an  artist,  but  fate  prompted  by  paternal  pres- 
sure has  made  him  a  barrister.  He  finds  an  outlet 
for  his  social  predilections  by  collecting  weekly 
in  his  chambers  an  interesting  crowd  of  unconven- 
tional people,  who  talk  about  everything  under  the 
sun  from  fresh  points  of  view.  Making  the  acquaint- 
ance of  a  nice  girl,  he  is  on  the  point  of  becoming 
domestic  and  rang6,  when  she  throws  him  over  be- 
cause he  indiscreetly  kisses  an  actress  on  a  public 
thoroughfare.  The  act  is  innocent  enough,  in  all 
conscience,  and  prompted  by  altruism  rather  than 
affection,  but  he  is  too  proud  to  explain,  and  becomes 
the  victim  of  his  betrothed's  sensitive  and  offended 
maidenhood.  This  is  the  turning-point,  for  he  there- 
upon chucks  the  respectable  life,  escorts  the  actress 
to  Paris  (still  in  all  innocence),  and  becomes  a  strug- 
gling artist  in  a  Montmartre  garret.  The  scene  pres- 
ently shifts  to  an  artist  colony  in  the  wine  district, 
and  culminates  in  a  riot,  with  the  siege  and  burning 
of  a  chateau,  and  a  narrow  escape  for  its  defenders. 
The  girl  who  has  discarded  him  is  a  guest  at  the 
chateau,  and  her  former  lover  saves  her  from  outrage 
at  the  peril  of  his  life.  Matters  are  thus  smoothed 
for  a  reconciliation,  and  the  now  successful  painter 
gets  the  reward  which  is  even  more  to  him  than  his 
art.  The  word  "joyous"  in  the  title  is  particularly 
apt,  for  joyousness,  in  the  serious  sense,  is  the  dom- 
inant note  of  the  book.  It  is  a  remarkably  interest- 
ing and  unusually  readable  piece  of  fiction. 

Sylvanus  de  Bohun,  who  has  great  possessions, 
and  is  the  head  of  one  of  the  oldest  families  in 
England,  prefers  the  cloistered  life  of  a  scholar 
at  Cambridge  to  the  conspicuous  place  in  society 
which  he  might  claim.  He  has  been  an  impractical 
dreamer  from  his  childhood,  and  the  interests  and 
ambitions  of  most  men  seem  to  him  quite  meaning- 
less. So  his  estates  are  left  in  the  charge  of  agents, 
while  he  devotes  himself  to  writing  the  "  Social 
History  of  the  Roman  People,"  and  thereby  wins  a 
great  reputation  for  scholarship.  Once  he  ventures 
forth  into  the  larger  world,  and  has  some  interesting 
if  disastrous  experiences.  He  kisses  a  woman,  and 
"  suddenly  innumerable  things  became  clear.  He 
understood  now  why  some  people  could  listen  to 
music  and  look  at  pictures.  In  a  flash  he  realized 
why  the  third  volume  had  failed.  It  was  not  alive. 
A  machine  must  have  written  it.  Half  a  dozen 
Latin  poems  came  to  mind:  they  meant  something 
entirely  different  from  what  he  had  supposed. 
Those  poets  had  been  men  like  himself;  they,  too, 
must  have  experienced  this  extraordinary  transfer- 
ence to  the  high  mountains."  The  experience 
changes  his  outlook  upon  life,  and  leads  to  marriage, 
the  assumption  of  his  rights  and  duties  as  a  country 
gentleman,  and  the  old,  old  discovery  about  the 
frailty  of  woman  when  his  wife  deserts  him  one 
fine  morning,  accompanied  by  his  rascally  brother- 
in-law,  who  has  been  bleeding  him  for  years.  After 


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this,  the  scholar's  life  at  Cambridge  is  again  taken 
up,  and  we  leave  him  on  the  eve  of  election  as 
Master  of  his  college.  This  is  the  outline  of  the 
story  told  us  by  Mr.  Ralph  Straus  in  "  The  Prison 
Without  a  Wall."  It  is  a  richly  human  and  whim- 
sically humorous  story  of  the  most  delightful  inter- 
est, reminding  us  in  many  ways  of  the  best  work 
of  Mr.  W.  J.  Locke,  and  inviting  quite  as  close  an 
attention  to  its  details.  It  is  a  work  in  which  the 
characters  are  all  real  and  the  happenings  are  all 
significant. 

Mr.  A.  E.  W.  Mason  is  an  expert  craftsman,  and 
we  open  ''  The  Turnstile  "  with  reasonable  assurance 
of  entertainment.  Our  expectations  are  fully  justi- 
fied until  about  half  way  through  the  book,  when 
the  romantic  material  upon  which  the  earlier  chap- 
ters are  based  gives  way  to  a  dull  and  complicated 
account  of  a  political  struggle  in  England,  having 
for  its  substance  a  hotly  contested  election  and  a 
parliamentary  struggle.  The  hero  is  a  successful 
Antarctic  explorer  who  seeks  and  wins  political 
advancement.  The  heroine  is  a  girl  of  English 
extraction,  who  has  spent  her  early  life  upon  an 
Argentine  estancia,  adopted  by  its  English  owners 
from  a  foundling's  home  in  Buenos  Ayres.  Deserted 
by  her  worthless  father,  she  had  when  an  infant 
been  deposited  in  the  turnstile  of  this  institution  — 
whence  the  title  of  the  novel.  The  reappearance 
of  the  disreputable  father,  threatening  to  make 
trouble,  decides  her  adoptive  parents  to  return  with 
her  to  England,  and  thus  are  we  brought  to  the 
second  stage  of  the  narrative.  Her  marriage  to 
Captain  Ranes  is  a  disappointment,  for  she  has 
idealized  him  in  his  character  as  an  explorer,  and 
he  turns  out  to  be  a  politician  of  the  time-serving  and 
opportunist  type.  Her  ideal  is  in  a  measure  restored, 
when,  at  the  end,  the  call  of  the  pole  decides  him  to 
give  up  politics,  and  reengage  upon  the  quest  which 
has  all  the  time  been  his  sub-conscious  ambition. 

Mr.  John  Masefield,  who  is  one  of  the  most  vital 
and  serious  of  the  younger  English  writers,  has 
taught  us  to  expect  something  unusual  whenever  he 
gives  birth  to  a  book,  be  it  play,  poem,  or  novel. 
He  has  a  curiously  inquiring  and  reflective  mind, 
engaged  usually  in  contemplation  of  the  most  serious 
problems  of  life  and  character,  and  its  output  has 
compelling  significance,  whatever  the  theme  of  its 
preoccupation.  His  "  Multitude  and  Solitude  "  deals 
with  the  sleeping-sickness,  that  scourge  of  the  African 
wilderness,  and  it  affords  him  material  for  a  grim 
and  intensely  vivid  picture  of  life  (and  death)  in  an 
African  village.  The  hero  is  a  London  man  of  let- 
ters, too  conscientious  in  his  art  to  win  popular 
success,  whose  life  is  darkened  by  a  shipwreck  in  the 
Irish  Channel,  which  is  fatal  to  the  woman  whom 
he  loves  and  upon  whom  all  his  hopes  are  built. 
He  becomes  possessed  of  a  commanding  impulse  to 
cut  away  from  literature  and  do  something  which 
may  contribute  more  directly  to  human  service. 
His  attention  is  accidentally  called  to  the  subject  of 
sleeping-sickness,  and  he  prevails  upon  a  young 
scientist  of  his  acquaintance  to  accept  him  as  a 


fellow-worker,  and  to  take  him  to  Africa  upon  his 
next  expedition.  The  book  is  half-finished  when 
this  point  is  reached ;  the  remaining  half  takes  us  to 
the  scene  of  his  new  labors,  and  has  much  to  do  with 
cultures,  and  media,  and  seras,  and  trypanosomes. 
Technically,  the  matter  is  thoroughly  worked  up. 
The  two  men  are  robbed  and  deserted  in  the  jungle 
by  their  native  keepers,  and  are  left  in  a  stricken 
village  deprived  of  their  most  essential  specific 
against  disease.  They  both  nearly  succumb  to  the 
terrible  ailment  which  they  are  engaged  in  fighting, 
but  are  saved  by  discovering  the  secret  of  the  serum 
which  will  cure  it.  The  story  is  told  with  a  force 
and  insight  which  remind  us  strongly  of  the  work 
done  by  Mr.  Conrad  in  this  tropical  field. 

Mr.  Rider  Haggard's  "  Red  Eve  "  represents  a  re- 
version to  the  hopelessly  unreal  ultra-romantic  type 
of  historical  fiction  cultivated  by  the  imitators  of 
Scott.  It  is  one  of  the  misfortunes  of  genius  that  it 
sets  a  shining  example  for  the  emulation  of  third-rate 
followers  in  its  footsteps,  and  the  atrocities  that  have 
been  committed  in  the  name  of  Sir  Walter  are  almost 
enough  to  make  one  wish  that  the  great  romancer 
had  never  lived.  Mr.  Haggard's  romance  is  of  En- 
gland in  the  days  of  the  French  wars  and  the  Black 
Death.  It  takes  us  from  the  Southern  counties  to 
the  field  of  Crecy,  and  thence  to  Venice  and  Avignon. 
The  hero,  whose  affianced  bride  is  tricked  into  a 
sham  marriage  by  a  French  knight  who  is  a  black- 
hearted villain,  pursues  his  enemy  through  Europe 
to  the  papal  court,  and  finally  wreaks  vengeance  upon 
him.  Mr.  Haggard's  predilection  for  the  uncanny 
is  illustrated  by  the  superhuman  figure  personifying 
Death,  who  comes  from  far  Cathay  bearing  with  him 
the  seeds  of  the  pestilence  which  he  scatters  over 
the  Western  world,  and  intervening  at  critical  junc- 
tures in  the  fortunes  of  the  lovers.  It  all  attempts 
to  be  very  impressive,  and  signally  misses  its  aim. 

The  story  of  Martin  Luther  and  the  launching  of 
the  Reformation  has  been  made  into  a  very  accept- 
able historical  novel,  entitled  "  The  Friar  of  Witten- 
berg," by  Mr.  William  Stearns  Davis.  The  narrative 
is  fully  documented,  and  keeps  close  to  historical  fact. 
For  a  reader  whose  knowledge  of  the  subject  has  been 
based  upon  boyhood  reading  of  d'Aubigne*,  which 
knowledge  has  grown  somewhat  hazy  with  the  lapse 
of  years,  it  serves  to  freshen  the  familiar  facts,  and 
give  them  renewed  vitality.  They  are  all  here  — 
Tetzel  and  his  indulgences,  the  nailing  up  of  the 
theses,  the  controversy  with  Eck,  the  Diet  of  Worms, 
and  the  Wartburg.  We  are  also  given  a  vivid  picture 
of  Roman  life,  its  sophisticated  society,  its  pseudo- 
classical  culture,  and  its  Renaissance  morals.  This 
is  needed  to  give  point  to  the  German  revolt,  and 
to  enlist  the  fullest  sympathy  in  behalf  of  the  reform 
movement.  The  private  interest  of  the  story  centres 
about  a  nobleman  —  half-German,  half-Italian  — 
whose  early  nurture  has  been  all  Italian,  but  who 
is  driven  forth  to  make  a  home  upon  his  ancestral 
estates  in  the  Harz  country.  Here  he  comes  under 
the  spell  of  Luther,  is  attracted  to  his  cause  by  the 
Tetzel  affair,  and  becomes  his  ardent  champion  in 


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the  events  which  follow.  A  fair  German  maiden 
becomes  the  object  of  his  adoration,  and  his  passion 
for  her  persists  after  she  has  been  persuaded  to  take 
the  vows  of  the  religious  life.  The  breaking  up  of 
the  old  order  sets  her  free,  and  she  is  in  the  end 
united  to  her  lover.  But  the  private  interest,  al- 
though well  sustained,  is  throughout  subordinated  to 
the  interest  of  the  great  religious  and  political  issues 
that  are  at  stake,  and  Luther  fills  a  larger  part  in 
the  reader's  consciousness  than  the  Graf  von  Regen- 
stein.  Some  of  the  scenes  —  notably  the  one  at 
Worms  —  supported  as  they  are  by  the  historical 
record  of  things  said  and  done,  are  very  impressive, 
as  is  also  the  picture  of  the  decay  of  Christianity  in 
its  ancient  seat.  We  have  often  thought,  during  our 
reading,  of  the  historical  novels  of  Mr.  Winston 
Churchill,  and  the  author  of  "The  Crisis,"  had  he 
taken  up  the  tale  of  the  Reformation,  would  have 
produced  much  the  same  sort  of  a  book.  There  is 
the  same  skilful  weaving  of  a  private  plot  with  affairs 
of  public  import,  the  same  effective  use  of  salient 
historical  episodes,  the  same  wide  knowledge  of  the 
period  concerned.  There  is  also  the  same  lack  of 
finish  in  the  detail  and  the  same  rather  commonplace 
style.  The  matter  of  the  work  is  so  big  that  the  man- 
ner can  do  without  overmuch  of  artistic  elaboration. 
The  author's  attitude  toward  the  controversial  mat- 
ter involved  is,  of  course,  strongly  Protestant,  and 
therefore  biassed  as  compared  with  that  of  the  strictly 
dispassionate  student  of  history,  who  must  needs  take 
into  account,  in  judging  the  Reformation,  of  its  two 
centuries'  legacy  of  religious  warfare,  no  less  than 
of  its  immediate  provocations  and  defences. 

Another  historical  novel  of  marked  excellence  is 
"The  Shadow  of  Power,"  by  Mr.  Paul  Bertram. 
It  has  for  its  theme  the  attempt  to  force  the  Nether- 
lands into  subjection  to  the  Spanish  yoke  under 
Philip  II.  Neither  the  Duke  of  Alva,  leader  of  the 
persecution,  nor  the  spider-king,  weaving  his  webs 
in  the  seclusion  of  the  Escorial,  appears  upon  the 
scene,  but  we  are  all  the  time  conscious  of  their 
sinister  presence  somewhere  in  the  background. 
The  Prince  of  Orange  is  the  only  important  histor- 
ical character  figuring  in  the  narrative,  appearing 
at  the  time  when  the  hero  transfers  his  allegiance 
to  the  Dutch  cause.  This  hero  is  a  noble  Spaniard, 
sent  to  govern  the  town  of  Geertruydenberg;  and 
he  makes  his  entry  just  in  time  to  rescue  a  damsel, 
bound  to  the  stake,  and  about  to  be  burned  on  a 
charge  of  witchcraft.  It  is  a  perilous  act,  for  it 
brings  him  into  disfavor  with  court  and  clergy,  and 
in  its  ultimate  consequence,  leads  to  his  deposition. 
He  has  in  the  meanwhile,  married  the  daughter  of 
a  wealthy  Dutch  burgher,  but  it  has  been  a  con- 
strained union  on  her  part,  and  it  does  not  bring 
him  her  love.  When  the  crisis  comes  in  his  fortunes, 
he  is  unable  to  rescue  her,  because  she  suspects  him 
of  seeking  to  betray  her  and  her  father  as  Protestants. 
Thus  she  passes  out  of  his  life  and  of  the  story  when 
he  joins  forces  with  William  the  Silent.  The  woman 
whom  he  has  saved  from  the  flames  remains  for  the 
author's  use  in  making  the  needed  romantic  settle- 


ment of  the  plot.  In  a  very  general  way,  this  book 
resembles  "The  Friar  of  Wittenberg,"  both  in  the 
fact  that  it  deals  with  the  period  of  religious  perse- 
cutions in  Europe,  and  in  the  further  fact  that  the 
hero  turns  his  back  upon  the  cause  with  which  he 
has  been  allied  by  race  and  circumstance.  He  be- 
comes a  valiant  fighter  for  Dutch  freedom,  and  in 
the  end  wins  the  woman  whom  he  loves.  He  is  a 
strong  figure,  and  a  fine  opportunity  for  psycholog- 
ical study  is  offered  by  the  gradual  alienation  of  his 
sympathies  from  the  Spanish  side  to  that  of  the  em- 
battled Dutchmen.  He  becomes  technically  a  traitor, 
but  he  carries  with  him  our  respect  and  admiration. 
This  is  not  as  partisan  a  story  as  is  usually  written 
upon  the  theme  which  the  author  has  chosen.  He 
is  as  unsparing  of  Protestant  as  of  Catholic  bigotry, 
and  is  not  blind  to  the  faults  of  the  people  whose 
champion  he  becomes.  His  style  is  very  good  — 
almost  distinguished  —  and  the  mastery  of  his  his- 
torical material  is  thorough.  Although  there  are 
considerable  elements  of  introspection  and  analysis 
in  the  book,  the  action  is  on  the  whole  swift  and 
dramatic,  and  the  plot  is  of  pronounced  and  exciting 
interest.  It  is  so  much  more  than  the  ordinary  tale 
of  intrigue  and  adventure  that  it  makes  a  strong  ap- 
peal to  the  intellectual  interests  of  the  reader,  while 
at  the  same  time  gratifying  his  artistic  sense. 

The  theme  of  the  disdainful  maiden,  who  scorns 
the  hero  who  has  rescued  her  from  her  plight,  and 
withholds  for  long  years  the  reward  that  is  roman- 
tically his  due,  meets  us  once  more  in  Mr.  Frederick 
Palmer's  "  Over  the  Pass."  The  agony  is  rather  over- 
done, for  there  is  no  reason  why  the  heroine  should 
have  been  so  stand-offish  when  she  must  have  known 
in  her  heart  that  she  was  destined  to  make  a  full 
surrender.  It  all  happens  in  Arizona,  where  Jasper 
Ewold,  disgusted  with  the  ways  of  civilization,  has 
taken  refuge,  and  becomes  the  founder  of  a  town  of 
which  he  is  the  recognized  leader  and  patriarch.  His 
daughter  Mary  is  the  heroine,  and  her  rescuer  is 
Jack  Wingfield,  once  a  "lunger," but  now  in  vigorous 
health,  who  saves  her  from  the  unwelcome  attentions 
of  the  "bad  man  "  of  the  town.  Jack,  nothing  dis- 
couraged by  the  maiden's  coldness,  determines  to 
become  a  rancher,  and  sets  himself  to  the  cultivation 
of  alfalfa  and  such  truck.  But  he  is  called  to  the 
East,  where  his  father,  the  owner  of  a  large  depart- 
ment store  and  many  times  a  millionaire,  wants  him 
in  his  business,  now  that  he  is  restored  to  health. 
He  makes  a  valiant  effort  to  adapt  himself  to  the 
new  life,  but  Arizona  calls  to  him,  and  for  her  sake 
—  which  is  a  euphemistic  way  of  saying  for  Mary's 
sake  —  he  renounces  position  and  fortune  for  the 
ranch.  In  an  exciting  episode  he  rounds  up  the 
"  bad  man  "  and  his  pals,  and  eliminates  them  from 
the  situation.  After  that,  it  is  easy  work  to  placate 
the  father  —  who  has  borne  a  grudge  against  his 
family — and  bring  the  girl  to  her  senses.  It  is  a 
blithe  story,  told  with  much  animation  and  whim- 
sical humor. 

The  subject  of  fire  insurance  does  not  exactly  ap- 
peal to  the  romantic  imagination,  and  it  is  surpris- 


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ing  to  find  how  interesting  a  novel  has  heen  written 
about  it  by  Messrs.  Kennedy  and  Noble.  The  hero, 
a  young  man  with  the  prosaic  name  of  Smith,  is 
engaged  in  the  business,  and  is  enthusiastically 
devoted  to  his  occupation.  To  him  the  work  of 
underwriting  is  rich  in  dramatic  human  interest, 
besides  leading  into  the  most  delightful  by-ways  of 
scholarship.  The  Conservative  Company  of  which 
he  is  an  officer  is  attacked  by  unscrupulous  rivals 
and  undermined  by  treachery  upon  the  part  of  its 
own  vice-president.  Its  affairs  are  in  a  desperate 
condition,  when  Smith  is  given  charge,  and  energeti- 
cally sets  things  to  rights.  The  final  blow  is  dealt 
the  enemy  by  fate,  when  a  disastrous  conflagration 
sweeps  through  the  business  heart  of  Boston,  creat- 
ing liabilities  which  force  the  rival  organization  to 
retire  from  the  field.  Smith  finds  an  ally  and  sym- 
pathizer in  an  attractive  young  woman  who  wants 
to  learn  about  the  business,  and  applies  to  him  for 
information.  Under  his  tutelage  she  acquires  (and 
incidentally  the  reader)  a  surprising  amount  of 
technical  knowledge  about  agencies,  and  separation 
rules,  and  other  matters,  which  are  plainly  set  forth 
from  a  knowledge  of  the  subject  which  is  both 
intimate  and  intelligent.  "White  Ashes"  is  the 
appropriate  title  of  this  exceptionally  clever  and 
well-written  piece  of  fiction. 

The  author  of  "The  Inner  Shrine"  and  "The 
Wild  Olive"  has  given  us,  in  "The  Street  Called 
Straight,"  a  third  novel  of  ingeniously  contrived 
plot,  incisive  characterization,  and  sustained  interest. 
The  interest  is  essentially  psychological,  and  the 
situation  may  be  thus  outlined:  A  Boston  girl  of 
high  social  standing  and  patrician  instincts  has  be- 
come engaged  to  an  English  army  officer  who  has  a 
record  for  heroic  achievement  and  the  most  brilliant 
prospects  of  advancement.  The  wedding  is  immi- 
nent, awaiting  only  his  arrival  in  Boston,  when  it 
transpires  that  the  girl's  father  has  been  an  em- 
bezzler of  trust  funds  to  the  amount  of  half  a  million, 
and  that  his  exposure  and  disgrace  can  no  longer 
be  averted.  Then  comes  the  intervention  of  a 
Bostonian  whose  suit  the  girl  once  rejected,  and  who 
has  since  "cleaned  up"  half  a  million  by  specu- 
lating in  copper  mines.  He  learns  of  her  predica- 
ment, and,  asking  no  reward,  quixotically  comes  to 
the  rescue  with  his  half  million.  At  first,  the  offer 
is  declined  by  both  father  and  daughter,  but  reflec- 
tion causes  them  to  accept  it  after  some  days  of 
irresolution.  Then  the  Englishman  arrives,  is  ap- 
prised of  the  exact  situation,  refuses  the  girl's  offer 
to  release  him  and  offers  to  assume  the  burden  by  the 
sacrifice  of  his  own  property.  This  the  girl  refuses, 
preferring  to  become  beholden  to  the  American,  in 
the  disinterestedness  of  whose  motive  she  has  come 
to  have  faith.  A  protracted  deadlock  follows,  he 
refusing  to  accept  happiness  at  the  cost  of  a  stranger, 
she  refusing  to  accept  him  at  the  cost  of  his  own 
financial  ruin  and  clouded  prospects.  Then  the 
American  has  a  brilliant  idea.  The  girl  has  a 
wealthy  aunt,  an  expatriate  and  the  widow  of  a 
French  Marquis,  and  to  her  the  American  appeals, 


stating  all  the  facts,  and  urging  her  to  assume  the 
obligation.  She  hastens  to  America,  makes  the  offer, 
and  the  path  to  the  girl's  marriage  seems  to  be 
cleared.  Neither  she  nor  the  Englishman  can  urge 
any  valid  objection  to  aid  that  comes  from  her  own 
family.  Here  is  where  the  psychological  situation 
becomes  intense,  for  when  this  point  is  reached,  the 
extraordinary  generosity  and  self-effacement  of  the 
American  have  made  such  an  impression  on  both  of 
them,  that  she  has  come  to  regard  him  in  a  more  than 
friendly  way,  and  he  finds  himself  incapable  of 
thwarting  the  happiness  of  the  man  who  has  shown 
himself  capable  of  such  devotion.  He  would  feel 
himself  under  a  heavier  burden  of  obligation  than 
before,  when  it  is  a  merely  a  question  of  accepting 
money,  and  his  conscience  finds  it  intolerable.  His 
renunciation  follows,  after  a  struggle,  and  the  way  is 
cleared  for  the  girl's  union  with  the  man  who  had  not 
dared  to  dream  of  such  an  outcome.  The  workings 
of  these  three  people's  minds,  in  the  successive 
stages  of  this  complication,  is  analyzed  with  masterly 
insight,  and  therein  lies  the  strength  of  the  work. 
That  the  Englishman  may  not  go  entirely  unre- 
warded, he  is  given  a  sort  of  consolation  prize  in 
the  rather  colorless  woman  who  is  one  of  the  minor 
figures  in  the  narrative.  This  is  anything  but  con- 
vincing, and  noticeably  weakens  the  story  at  its  close. 
Mr.  Randall  Parrish  always  tells  a  good  story, 
although  he  has  no  gifts  of  style  or  characterization 
to  speak  of.  His  "Molly  McDonald"  is  a  tale  of 
1868  in  the  West,  when  the  Indian  uprisings  en- 
gaged the  attention  of  the  United  States  forces  under 
Sheridan  and  Custer.  The  hero  is  of  the  type  dear 
to  the  romantic  heart  of  youth,  who  accomplishes 
great  deeds  of  daring,  and  rescues  the  heroine  from 
all  sorts  of  perils.  He  is  an  enlisted  soldier,  and 
had  previously  been  an  officer  in  the  Confederate 
army.  He  is  under  a  cloud,  owing  to  the  treachery 
of  a  former  friend,  and  he  gets  revenge  upon  his 
enemy  at  the  same  time  that  the  evidence  turns  up 
that  is  needed  to  clear  his  name.  He  gets  the  girl, 
as  a  matter  of  course. 

WILLIAM  MORTON  PAYNE. 


BRIEFS  ON  NEW  BOOKS. 


,          As  Mr.  Benson  recently  remarked, 
A  survivor's          .  .  *          .  ' 

account  of  the  in  his  essay  on  realism  in  fiction,  the 
great  shipwreck,  things  said  and  done  by  the  actors 
in  a  soul-stirring  drama  of  real  life  are  commonly 
very  different  from  the  things  one  might  have  im- 
agined them  as  saying  and  doing.  The  sensational 
newspaper  reports  of  the  wreck  of  the  Titanic  bear 
but  the  faintest  resemblance  to  the  sober  and  careful 
narrative  of  the  event  from  the  pen  of  Mr.  Lawrence 
Beesley,  one  of  the  survivors  and  a  person  well  quali- 
fied to  treat  the  theme  with  accuracy  and  in  minute 
detail.  "The  Loss  of  the  SS.  Titanic"  not  only  de- 
scribes the  ill-fated  vessel  and  traces  its  short  history 
to  the  untimely  end,  with  first-hand  and  other  au- 
thentic information  on  every  point  of  importance, 


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but  it  dwells  understandingly  and  at  length  on  the 
lessons  taught  by  the  catastrophe,  and  makes  an  intel- 
ligent attempt  to  point  out  the  preventive  measures 
that  should  be  adopted  in  the  future  by  the  steam- 
ship companies.  Mr.  Beesley  is  a  young  English- 
man, a  Cambridge  scholar,  and  has  been  a  teacher 
of  physics,  as  his  narrative  shows ;  so  that  his  powers 
of  observation  and  habit  of  scientific  inference  are 
precisely  those  required  in  one  attempting  a  faithful 
account  of  this  memorable  shipwreck.  The  great 
size  and  many  decks  of  the  Titanic,  the  exceeding 
slightness  of  the  shock  of  collision  with  the  iceberg, 
the  prevalent  belief  in  the  unsinkability  of  the  mon- 
ster vessel,  and  the  comparative  slowness  of  its  actual 
sinking,  these  were  important  factors  in  preventing 
panic  or  confusion  among  the  passengers.  Tales  of 
pistol-firing,  of  suicide  on  the  part  of  officers,  of 
melodramatic  exhortations  from  captain  to  crew  to 
"be  British,"  and  other  newspaper  fabrications,  are 
pronounced  false  by  the  calmly  observant  author.  His 
own  rescue  resulted  from  a  very  matter-of-course  and 
all  but  inevitable  chain  of  events,  and  with  a  rather 
remarkable  unawareness  on  his  part  that  any  loss  of 
life  whatever  was  threatened.  In  this  one  particular 
— in  failing  to  appreciate  the  inadequacy  of  the  ship's 
life-saving  equipment  —  he  falls  below  one's  concep- 
tion of  his  observing  powers.  But  of  course  no  ex- 
pectation of  disaster  had  been  entertained  by  him. 
Of  his  narrative  in  general  it  is  safe  to  say  that  no 
single  survivor  could  have  furnished  a  better  or  more 
trustworthy  history  of  the  stupendous  event;  but  it 
would  be  strange  if  some  few  occurrences  that  went 
to  make  up  the  whole  catastrophe  had  not  been  inad- 
vertently slighted  or  distorted,  minimized  or  exag- 
gerated by  him.  What  one  observant  and  careful 
narrator  could  do,  however,  he  has  admirably  done. 
The  book  is  published,  with  illustrations,  by  Hough- 
ton  Mifflin  Co.  

Expert  advice  "How  to  Plan  a  Library  Building 
about  library  for  Library  Work  "  comes  from  the 

architecture.  pen  of  one  who  to  fae  infectious 
enthusiast  of  an  amateur  joins  the  knowledge  and 
experience  of  the  professional  library  worker.  Mr. 
Charles  C.  Soule  has  been  an  active  member  of  the 
American  Library  Association  almost  from  its  foun- 
dation, was  its  vice-president  in  1890,  a  member  of 
its  Publishing  Board  for  eight  years,  of  its  Council 
for  two  terms  of  three  and  five  years,  a  trustee  of 
its  Endowment  Fund  for  twelve  years,  and  has  been 
a  member  of  the  Institute  since  its  formation. 
Eleven  years  of  service  as  trustee  of  the  Brookline 
Public  Library  are  also  to  be  placed  to  his  credit. 
He  has  made  a  careful  study  of  library  architecture, 
especially  from  the  inside,  from  the  viewpoint  of 
the  working  librarian,  and  he  naturally  and  rightly 
insists  on  the  primary  importance  of  utility.  His 
book,  which  shrinks  not  from  handling  the  prosaic 
details  of  plumbing,  drains,  sewers,  fire-buckets, 
vacuum  cleaners,  and  so  on,  is  divided  into  five  main 
divisions,  with  many  sub-sections.  The  Introduction 
touches  on  the  history  and  literature  and  main  out- 


lines of  the  general  theme ;  then  comes  a  fuller  treat- 
ment of  "Principles";  after  that  a  section  devoted 
to  "Personel";  next  a  consideration  of  "Features"; 
and  finally  a  four-part  discussion  of  "  Departments 
and  Rooms."  An  appendix  containing  "Concrete 
Examples"  and  other  useful  matter  follows,  and 
an  index  completes  the  volume.  The  author  takes 
extraordinary  pains  to  fortify  every  position  with 
corroborative  opinions  from  other  writers.  After 
stating  in  conclusive  terms  the  obvious  desirability 
of  consulting  an  expert  librarian  before  planning 
one's  library  building,  he  hardly  needed  to  quote, 
with  chapter  and  verse,  an  imposing  array  of  au- 
thorities ;  but  perhaps  the  point  cannot  be  too 
strongly  emphasized.  His  disapproval  of  the  com- 
petition method  of  securing  architectural  plans 
seems  a  bit  excessive.  Open  competition  in  compli- 
ance with  expert  specifications,  prepared  beforehand 
in  detail,  sometimes  produces  results  of  value  in  the 
way  of  originality  and  novelty  that  cannot  be  bar- 
gamed  for  from  a  hired  architect  of  even  the  highest 
standing.  The  author  and  his  publishers,  the  Boston 
Book  Company,  invite  a  free  expression  of  opinion 
as  to  the  desirability  of  issuing  a  supplementary 
volume  of  plates.  If  enough  requests  for  such  a 
volume  are  received,  it  will  be  published.  Also  any 
other  criticisms  or  suggestions,  of  a  constructive 
nature,  are  solicited  from  the  public.  So  well- 
considered  and  well-executed  a  treatise  as  Mr. 
Soule's  can  hardly  be  much  improved  upon  except 
by  the  addition  of  illustrative  plates. 


Further  Those  who  are  interested  (and  who 

™f™ noted  IS  not?)  m  tne  personal  peculiarities 

journalist.  and  the  informal  conversation  of  the 

famous,  will  greatly  enjoy  Mr.  George  W.  Smalley's 
second  series  of  "Anglo-American  Memories" 
(Putnam).  Reprinted  chiefly  from  the  New  York 
"  Tribune,"  these  genially  reminiscent  chapters  treat 
of  persons  who  either  now  are  or  lately  have  been 
much  in  public  notice ;  as,  for  example,  Mr.  Winston 
Churchill,  Mr.  Balfour,  Mr.  Chamberlain,  Lord 
Rosebery,  Sir  Edward  Grey,  Count  Witte,  Goldwin 
Smith,  Whistler,  Henry  Irving,  Mme.  Bernhardt, 
and  Mile.  Descle'e,  on  the  other  side  of  the  Atlantic ; 
and  on  this,  Mr.  J.  Pierpont  Morgan,  Mr.  Carnegie, 
Colonel  Roosevelt,  Thomas  B.  Reed,  and  Mr.  White- 
law  Reid.  A  significant  utterance  from  our  strenu- 
ous Colonel  will  attract  attention.  "You  think  I 
am  impulsive,"  said  he,  "and  perhaps  I  am.  But  I 
will  tell  you  one  thing.  Never  yet  have  I  entered 
upon  any  great  policy  till  I  was  satisfied  I  had  be- 
hind me  a  great  body  of  public  opinion."  There 
speaks  the  astute  opportunist.  Recalling  the  earlier 
years  of  his  acquaintance  with  Mr.  Roosevelt,  the 
author  says:  "The  two  or  three  days  I  spent  with 
Governor  Roosevelt  at  Albany  left  me  with  the  im- 
pression that  his  masterful  good  intentions  would 
lead  him  far.  We  all  now  know  that  they  did,  though 
whether  we  have  even  yet  measured  the  whole  dis- 
tance may  be  a  question.  For  the  considered  judg- 


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merit  of  the  community  embodied  in  statutes  he 
seemed  to  have  less  respect  than  for  his  own  indi- 
vidual opinion.  He  had,  I  thought,  less  reverence 
for  law  than  most  Americans  have;  or  once  had." 
And  in  the  eyes  of  Europe  we  have  always  been  an 
awful  example  of  disrespect  for  law.  Concerning  the 
Russo-Japanese  treaty  for  which  such  high  credit  has 
been  accorded  to  the  then  President  of  the  United 
States,  Mr.  Smalley,  who  was  at  Portsmouth  all  the 
time  the  diplomatic  negotiations  were  in  progress, 
has  much  to  say  that  is  well  worth  reading.  "  I  sum 
it  all  up  in  this  way,"  says  he  in  conclusion.  "It 
was  Count  Witte  who,  with  that  'fortunate  astute- 
ness' which  is  Machiavelli's  ideal  in  The  Prince, 
brought  the  American  people  back  to  their  ancient 
friendship  for  Russia,  and  with  them  the  President. 
It  was  Count  Witte  who  formed  that  body  of  Ameri- 
can opinion  without  which  Mr.  Roosevelt,  as  I  have 
elsewhere  related,  never,  he  said,  entered  upon  a 
great  policy.  ...  It  was  therefore  first  of  all  Count 
Witte,  and  perhaps  secondly  the  Russian  Emperor, 
who  were  the  real  authors  of  the  Peace  of  Ports- 
mouth. President  Roosevelt's  intervention  was  use- 
ful and  was  made  with  great  courage  and  judgment 
at  the  right  moment.  But  of  itself  it  would  not  have 
availed."  The  wide  range  of  Mr.  Smalley 's  acquaint- 
ance among  the  great,  his  good  taste  and  excellent 
discretion  in  reporting  their  talk  and  their  actions, 
and  the  pleasing  quality  of  his  style,  make  these 
"Anglo-American  Memories"  most  agreeable  read- 
ing. 

In  a  significant  and  closely-reasoned 
work  entitled  "  The  Sociological 
Study  of  the  Bible  "  (University  of 
Chicago  Press),  Mr.  Louis  Wallis  has  traced  the 
rise  of  the  Christian  religion  from  its  embryonic 
beginnings  among  the  Hebrews,  and  traced  it,  for 
the  first  time,  under  its  sociological  aspects.  The 
rise  of  the  unique  religion  of  Israel  and  its  flowering 
in  Christianity  has  been  interpreted  as  a  develop- 
ment from  the  worship  of  a  purely  tribal  god, 
Yahweh,  to  that  of  a  universal  god  who  set  the 
interests  of  universal  justice  over  all  merely  tribal 
or  national  interests.  When  asked,  however,  why 
the  worship  of  Yahweh  should  thus  develop,  rather 
than  the  worship  of  his  neighboring  and  once  just 
as  powerful  god  Chemosh,  the  higher  critics  have 
had  to  fall  back  on  some  such  explanation  as  "the 
genius  of  the  Hebrew  prophets."  But  even  personal 
genius  cannot  spring  up  out  of  relation  to  the  social 
and  other  environmental  forces  around  it.  It  is, 
then,  in  terms  of  those  forces  that  Mr.  Wallis  seeks 
to  show  how  the  religion  of  the  Bible  grew.  He 
finds  the  explanation  in  the  collision  and  gradual 
amalgamation  of  the  wandering  Canaanitish  clans, 
with  their  mountain  god  Yahweh  and  their  nomadic 
code  of  ethics  which  recognized  the  brotherhood  of 
all  men  in  the  clan,  and  the  settled  Amorites  who 
occupied  Canaan,  lived  in  independent  cities,  and 
had  a  code  of  ethics  which  recognized  class  distinc- 
tions and  regarded  the  serf  classes  as  having  few  or 


The  social 
genesis  of 
the  Bible. 


no  rights.  As  soon  as  the  Hebrews  settled  down 
in  this  land  they  took  over  these  sophisticated  and 
aristocratic  ideas.  The  new  status  of  affairs  natur- 
ally bore  down  heavily  upon  the  poorer  Israelites, 
and  so  their  hill  prophets  came  to  associate  their 
tribal  god  Yahweh  with  their  old  nomadic  ideas  of 
brotherly  justice,  and  to  oppose  that  conception  to 
the  "  Baal  worship  "  of  the  cities  with  its  attendant 
love  of  luxury  and  ceremony.  Hence  arose  the 
fusion  of  the  idea  of  justice  with  that  of  the  Israel- 
itish  god.  Then  came  conquest  and  the  Exile,  a 
national  experience  which  showed  the  greatest  of 
the  prophets  that  their  god's  idea  of  justice  was  not 
confined  to  the  well-being  of  Israel  but  meant  a 
universal  justice  which  Israel  as  well  as  the  other 
nations  of  the  earth  had  to  acknowledge.  Re- 
demption then  became  the  watchword  of  the  Jewish 
religion,  and  the  redemptive  idea  gradually  took  on 
the  characteristics  which  Jesus  and  Paul  found 
ready  to  their  hands  and  of  which  they  made  so 
revolutionary  a  use.  Mr.  Wallis  does  not  confine 
himself  to  the  rise  of  Bible  religion  only,  but 
traces  the  social  factor  in  the  later  growth  of 
Christianity,  through  the  Reformation,  and  on  to 
the  contemporary  situation.  Although  his  book  is 
for  the  layman,  he  writes  in  a  thoroughly  scientific 
manner,  and  the  lesson  he  draws  from  this  great 
development  is  that  the  church  of  to-day  should 
recognize  the  bearings  of  the  social  problem  on 
religion,  and  while  avoiding  all  fixed  programmes 
of  reform,  see  to  it  that  the  church,  made  in  part 
as  it  is  by  social  pressure,  should  react  on  the 
social  situation  and  impress  it  with  the  idealism 
whose  sanctuary  the  church  is  meant  to  be. 


"A  Chance  Medley  of  Legal  Points 
fheTaw.°f  and  Le8al  Stories"  (Little,  Brown, 

&  Co.),  composed  of  extracts  from 
"  Silk  and  Stuff  "  in  the  «  Pall  Mall  Gazette  "  (1893- 
1909),  appears  with  no  indication  as  to  whose 
diligence  in  searching  the  annals  of  English  juris- 
prudence has  placed  us  under  obligations  for  so  en- 
tertaining a  collection  of  not  too  familiar  anecdotes. 
To  be  sure,  we  find  Disraeli's  well-known  saying  — 
if  Disraeli  ever  said  it,  which  the  compiler  gravely 
doubts,  and  he  gives  the  reason  for  his  doubts: 
"Everybody  knows  the  stages  of  a  lawyer's  career: 
he  tries  in  turn  to  get  on,  to  get  honors,  to  get  hon- 
est." But  we  also  find  many  other  equally  good  and 
more  authentic  witticisms  as,  for  example :  "  An  at- 
torney died  so  poor — perhaps  it  was  he  of  whom  it 
was  said  that  he  had  so  few  effects  because  he  had 
so  few  causes  —  that  his  friends  had  to  make  a  shil- 
ling subscription  to  bury  him.  One  of  them  asked 
Curran  for  that  contribution.  'Here's  a  sovereign,' 
was  the  answer ;  '  bury  twenty ! ' "  That  was  an  apt 
reply,  too,  which  Lord  Chief  Justice  Russell  made, 
in  his  pre-judicial  days  when  he  was  only  a  stuff- 
gownsman  and  a  brother  barrister  asked  him  in  court 
what  was  the  extreme  penalty  for  bigamy.  "Two 
mothers-in-law,"  came  the  ready  answer.  The  same 


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kind  of  wit,  but  unintentionally  displayed,  marked 
the  reply  of  a  pi'isoner  who  was  pleading  in  his  own 
defense  but  failed  to  make  himself  distinctly  heard 
by  the  judge.  "  What  was  your  last  sentence  ?  "  asked 
his  honor.  "  Six  months,"  respectfully  returned  the 
prisoner  at  the  bar.  Let  it  not  be  inferred,  however, 
that  the  book  is  wholly  devoted  to  such  tit-bits  of 
humor;  many  incidents  and  cases  are  cited  for  the 
sake  of  their  bearing  on  present-day  events,  and  ap- 
parently to  encourage  the  reader  to  do  a  little  serious 
thinking  for  himself.  Incidentally  the  book  cites 
some  cases  that  might  serve  as  good  illustrations  to 
Mr.  Samuel  B.  Chester's  recent  "Anomalies  of  the 
English  Law."  Possibly  the  anonymous  compiler 
is  Mr.  Chester  himself.  At  all  events,  "A  Chance 
Medley"  is  a  curiously  learned  and  well-edited 
piece  of  work.  

Memories  of         Southern  writers  on  Civil  War  sub- 
Gen.  Wheeler's       .  •,  j        ,    j    ,,     .  .. 
Confederate         jects    have   devoted   their   attention 

cavalrv.  largely   to   the  Army   of  Northern 

Virginia,  somewhat  to  the  neglect  of  the  other 
armies  of  the  Confederacy,  although  the  task  be- 
fore the  armies  of  the  West  was  in  some  respects 
even  greater  than  that  set  for  the  army  of  Lee. 
General  Basil  Duke's  Reminiscences,  published  last 
year,  was  devoted  to  an  account  of  soldier  life  in  the 
Western  army.  Mr.  DuBose's  book  on  "General 
Joseph  Wheeler  and  the  Army  of  Tennessee " 
(Neale)  deals  largely  with  matters  of  tactics  and 
strategy.  The  author,  with  his  four  brothers,  served 
in  Wheeler's  cavalry.  Consequently  the  volume  is, 
to  a  certain  extent  reminiscencial ;  but  the  author 
has  also  made  considerable  use  of  historical  sources, 
and  the  result  is  a  work  of  considerable  value.  Of 
particular  interest  is  the  author's  estimate  of  the 
value  of  the  cavalry  arm  to  the  Confederate  cause. 
It  is  his  theory  that  although  the  Confederate  cavalry 
was  on  the  whole  superior  to  the  Federal  cavalry, 
its  extraordinary  value  was  not  understood  by 
the  Confederate  authorities  during  the  early  years 
of  the  conflict,  and  therefore  the  peculiar  military 
capacity  of  the  Southern  people  was  not  fully  de- 
veloped. Numerous  private  letters  throw  interest- 
ing side-lights  on  many  phases  of  the  conflict.  The 
primary  purpose  of  the  book,  however,  is  to  give 
an  account  of  the  military  career  of  General  Joseph 
Wheeler  as  commander  of  the  cavalry  in  the  Army 
of  Tennesse.  Particularly  clear  is  the  author's  ac- 
count of  the  misfortunes  which  resulted  from  the 
change  of  Confederate  commanders  at  Atlanta.  Mr. 
DuBose  evidently  approves  the  policy  of  General 
Johnston,  not  that  of  General  Hood  and  the  Con- 
federate president. 

Judge  Oliver  Perry  Temple,  of  Knox- 
ville>  Tennessee,  who  died  in  1907, 
had  long  been  devoted  to  the  study 
of  the  history  of  East  Tennessee.  During  his  life- 
time he  published  two  historical  works, — "  The  Cove- 
nanter, the  Cavalier,  and  the  Puritan,"  and  "East 
Tennessee  and  the  Civil  War,"  of  which  the  latter 
especially  was  a  work  of  considerable  merit.  Now 


there  appears  from  the  Cosmopolitan  Press  of  New 
York  a  posthumous  work,  compiled  and  arranged  by 
Judge  Temple's  daughter,  Miss  Mary  B.  Temple, 
which  bears  the  title  "Notable  Men  of  Tennessee 
from  1833  to  1875,  Their  Times  and  Their  Contem- 
poraries." Had  the  words  "East  Tennessee  "  been 
used  instead  of  "Tennessee"  the  title  would  have 
been  a  more  accurate  one;  for,  with  one  exception, 
all  the  leaders  in  politics  (about  thirty  in  number) 
whose  lives  are  sketched  by  Judge  Temple  lived  and 
were  active  in  the  Eastern  section  of  the  State.  It 
should  have  been  indicated,  also,  that  only  Unionist 
"notables"  are  included:  there  is  no  biography,  for 
example,  of  Landon  C.  Haynes.  Some  of  the 
sketches  cover  not  more  than  a  page  or  two,  but 
those  of  William  G.  Brownlow  and  Andrew  Johnson 
are  of  considerable  length.  As  might  be  expected 
from  the  circumstances  of  its  preparation,  the  book 
suffers  from  some  discursiveness  of  style  and  some 
repetition  of  facts.  The  author  was  a  partisan  in 
times  when  feeling  ran  high,  and  his  likes  and  dis- 
likes remained  strong.  But  the  recollections  are 
those  of  an  honest  and  able  observer  and  a  consci- 
entious narrator,  and  the  book,  despite  the  limitations 
suggested,  and  the  absence  of  an  index,  constitutes 
a  valuable  contribution  to  the  history  of  East  Ten- 
nessee. 


NOTES. 


The  very  effective  set  of  drawings  of  the  Panama 
Canal  made  by  Mr.  Joseph  Pennell  for  "  The  Century," 
some  of  which  appear  in  the  August  issue  of  that  mag- 
azine, has  been  purchased  by  the  government  for  the 
print  collection  of  the  Library  of  Congress.  The  his- 
torical value  of  Mr.  Pennell's  pictures  is  increased  by  the 
fact  that  with  the  letting  in  of  the  water  the  picturesque- 
ness  of  this  part  of  the  Canal  work  will  be  largely 
obliterated. 

After  eleven  years  of  deliberation  the  San  Francisco 
Board  of  Supervisors  has  voted  to  accept  the  three- 
quarters  of  a  million  dollars  offered  by  Mr.  Carnegie  as 
a  contribution  toward  a  new  library  building.  No  city 
could  stand  in  much  greater  need  of  such  a  building, 
and,  consequently,  of  the  funds  wherewith  to  erect  it, 
than  San  Francisco.  Thus  one  can  surmise  the  weighti- 
ness  of  the  scruples  so  long  delaying  a  glad  acceptance 
of  the  money. 

A  new  series  of  selections  from  the  letters  and 
diaries  of  Queen  Victoria,  with  an  introduction  by  Lord 
Esher,  has  been  sanctioned  by  King  George.  The  pub- 
lication will  take  the  form  of  two  illustrated  volumes, 
entitled  "The  Girlhood  of  Queen  Victoria,"  and  will 
give  interesting  glimpses  of  the  royal  author  from  her 
thirteenth  year  to  the  time  of  her  marriage  in  1840. 
Mr.  John  Murray,  the  publisher  of  the  first  series,  will 
publish  also  the  second. 

The  recent  unveiling  of  the  allegorical  figures, 
"Science"  and  "Art,"  now  at  last  in  place  on  their 
long-expectant  pedestals  in  front  of  the  Boston  Public 
Library,  marks  the  completion  of  that  fine  building  as 
projected  a  quarter  of  a  century  ago  by  the  architects. 
The  late  Augustus  Saint-Gaudens  had  originally  been 
commissioned  to  furnish  the  statues,  but  his  untimely 


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death  made  necessary  the  engagement  of  another  sculp- 
tor. To  Mr.  Bela  Pratt  the  task  was  finally  assigned, 
and  the  fine  bronze  figures  that  have  now  come  from 
his  hand  give  the  noble  building's  front  that  finishing 
touch  it  has  so  long  wanted. 

Endowment  of  the  Mark  Twain  Memorial  Library,  at 
Redding,  Connecticut,  with  a  sufficient  fund  to  provide 
for  its  support  is  now,  thanks  to  Mr.  Carnegie,  an  ac- 
complished fact.  The  history  of  this  interesting  library 
is  briefly  as  follows.  When  Mr.  Clemens  took  up  his 
abode  at  Redding  he  gave  the  town  a  collection  of  sev- 
eral thousand  volumes  from  his  own  library,  and  placed 
them  in  a  small  vacant  chapel  for  public  use.  These 
temporary  quarters  soon  gave  place  to  a  more  suitable 
building,  erected  by  him  as  a  memorial  to  his  daughter 
Jean;  and  after  his  death  the  greater  part  of  his  own 
remaining  library  was  added  to  the  collection.  Hitherto 
it  has  been  from  voluntary  contributors  that  this  me- 
morial library  has  received  its  support. 

The  untimely  death  of  an  eminent  French  scientist 
and  author  is  reported  from  Paris  in  the  passing  away 
of  Jules  Henri  Poincoire',  a  cousin  of  the  French 
premier,  on  the  seventeenth  of  July,  from  the  bursting 
of  an  artery.  A  serious  surgical  operation  had  been 
undergone  by  him  two  weeks  earlier,  with  every  pros- 
pect of  recovery.  Poincoire'  was  born  at  Nancy  in 
1854,  and  had  devoted  his  life  largely  to  mathematical 
studies,  holding  chairs  in  the  University  of  Paris  and 
the  Polytechnic  School.  One  of  his  earliest  and  most 
popular  books  was  "  La  Science  et  PHypothese,"  which 
soon  reached  a  circulation  of  twenty  thousand  copies  in 
his  own  country  and  was  republished  abroad.  Among 
the  stories  illustrating  the  bent  of  his  genius,  there  is 
an  especially  pleasing  one  which  describes  his  infant 
ecstasies  011  first  viewing  the  starry  heavens.  Astronomy 
became  later  one  of  his  favorite  studies. 

A  long-desired  biography,  that  of  the  late  Walter 
Bagehot,  who  has  been  dead  thirty-five  years  but  is  still 
remembered  as  one  of  the  best  talkers  of  his  day  and 
one  of  the  best  writers  of  any  day,  is  to  be  undertaken 
at  last.  R.  H.  Button,  friend  of  Bagehot  and  editor  of 
"  The  Spectator,"  would  have  been  the  one  best  equip- 
ped for  the  task;  but  as  he  left  the  work  undone,  Mrs. 
Russell  Barrington,  known  for  her  studies  of  Watts  and 
Leighton,  comes  forward  to  supply  the  omission.  The 
author  of  "  Lombard  Street "  and  a  treatise  on  the  En- 
glish Constitution  is  now  best  remembered  for  his  shorter 
pieces,  such  as  his  biographical  studies  of  leading  Vic- 
torian statesmen.  His  brilliance  and  stimulus  as  a  talker 
may  be  surmised  from  the  aptness  and  originality  of 
phrase  that  mark  his  written  style.  "  The  cake  of  cus- 
tom "  is  perhaps  his  most  familiar  contribution  to  our 
phraseology;  "animated  restraint,"  as  the  characteristic 
of  good  writing,  will  also  be  cherished  in  remembrance, 
and  likewise  his  expression  of  regret  that  those  who 
write  have  seldom  done  anything  worth  writing  about, 
while  those  who  do  things  worth  recording  are  com- 
monly disinclined  to  spread  them  on  paper. 


TOPICS 


PERIODICALS. 

August,  1912. 


Alfieri  and  America.  Virginia  Watson.  North  American. 
American  Authors  and  British  Publishers.  .  .  Bookman. 
American  Bureaucracy.  Jona.  Bourne,  Jr.  Rev.  of  Reviews. 
Asphalts,  Trinidad,  and  Bermudez.  Clifford 

Richardson     .........     Popular  Science. 


Babies'  Lives.  Constance  D.  Leupp  ....  McClure. 
Beauty  and  the  Jacobin  —  I.  George  E.  Woodberry.  Harper. 
Bees  which  only  visit  one  Species  of  Flowers.  Pop.  Science. 

Big  Ditch,  The Everybody's. 

Bird  Center,  Some  Aspects  of.  Louis  Baury  .  Bookman. 
Borrower  and  Money  Trust.  Albert  W.  Atwood.  Rev.  of  Revs. 
Brains  versus  Bayonets.  Percy  S.  Grant.  North  American. 

Business,  Blundering  Into World's  Work. 

Canal,  Builder  of  the.  Farnam  Bishop  .  .  World's  Work. 
Central  America,  Our  Danger  in.  William 

Bayard  Hale World's  Work. 

Churches,  Filling  the Atlantic  Monthly. 

Cities,  March  of  the World's  Work. 

Cleveland  and  Civil  Service  Reformers  ....  Century. 
Cold  Storage  Problems.  P.  G.  Heinemann.  Pop.  Sci.  Monthly. 
Confederacy,  Sunset  of  the — VI.  Morris  Schaff.  Atlantic. 
Conservation  Problem.  Stewart  Paton.  Pop.  Sci.  Monthly. 
Cornwall,  Chronicles  of.  Philip  G.  Hubert,  Jr.  Bookman. 
Corruption,  a  Case  of.  Harvey  J.  O'Higgins  .  .  McClure. 
Country  School  of  To-morrow.  F.  T.  Gates.  World's  Work. 

Drug  Habit,  Peril  of.    C.  B.  Towns Century. 

Enough  to  Live  On.    Elizabeth  Gannon    .     .     Everybody's. 

Fans.    Hugh  S.  Fullerton American. 

Farmer  of  To-morrow,  The.  F.  I.  Anderson.  Everybody's 
French  Culture,  The  Rescue  of.  Allan  Ball.  No.  American. 

Friends  Again.     George  L.  Parker Atlantic. 

Gutter-Garten,  In  the.  Dorothea  Slade  .  '  .  Atlantic. 
"  Hit,"The  Long-forgotten.  George  Jay  Smith.  No. American. 
Immortality,  Intimations  of.  H.B.  Marriott  Watson.  No.  Am. 
Individualist,  Autobiography  of  an.  James  0.  Fagin.  Atlantic. 
Investments.  Edward  Sherwood  Meade  .  .  .  Lippincott. 
Italian  Pictures  in  the  Yale  Art  School  ....  Scribner. 

Land,  Forward  to  the World's  Work. 

Lion  in  Africa,  Doom  of  the.  Cyrus  C.  Adams.  Rev.  of  Revs. 
Marshall,  Thomas  R.  Thomas  R.  Shipp  .  Rev.  of  Revs. 
"Master  Builder,"  Message  of.  A.  La  Victoire.  No.  American. 
Medicine,  Research  in.  Richard  M.  Pearce.  Pop.  Science. 

Meredith,  George,  Letters  of Scribner. 

Miracle  Play,  A  Modern.  John  M.  McBryde,  Jr.  Atlantic. 
Morality,  Constitutional.  Win.  D.  Guthrie.  No.  American. 
Mortgage  Bank.  Edward  Sherwood  Meade  .  Lippincott. 
New  Party :  Do  the  People  Want  It  ?  Albert 

Bushnell  Hart Review  of  Reviews. 

New  York,  Picturesque.  F.  H.  Smith  .  .  World's  Work. 
Nominating  Conventions  of  1912  .  .  .  Review  of  Reviews. 
Panama  Canal  Traffic  and  Tolls  .  .  .  North  American. 
Politics,  Present,  Economic  Interpretation  of.  Pop .  Science. 

Prodigal,  The.    Arthur  Howard McClure. 

Reactionary.  What  is  it?  J.  H.  Sedgwick.  No.  American. 
Repartee,  Art  of.  Brander  Matthews  .  . .  .  .  Century. 
Riley,  "Jim" — An  Appreciation.  C.  V.  Tevis.  Bookman. 
Ruby-Throat,  The.  Katherine  E.  Dolbear  .  .  Atlantic. 
Russian  Soul,  Grand  Inquisitor  of.  C.  Palmer.  Bookman. 
St.  Francis  and  the  People.  M.  F.  Egan  ....  Century. 
Socialism  Upon  Us?  Samuel  P.  Orth  .  .  World's  Work. 
Stars,  Fixed,  Motion  of  the.  Benjamin  Boss  .  .  Harper. 
Studying,  Helps  to.  Joseph  W.  Richards  .  Pop.  Science. 
Sunday:  A  Day  for  Man.  George  P.  Atwater  .  Atlantic. 
Surf-Bathing,  First  Lesson  in.  Sigmund  Spaeth.  Lippincott. 
Theatre,  The.  Walter  Prichard  Eaton  .  .'  .  American, 
Theocritus  on  Cape  Cod.  Hamilton  W.  Mabie.  Atlantic. 
Thought,  Modern.  Edward  T.  Williams  .  .  Pop.  Science. 
"Titanic,"  The,  and  the  Literary  Commentator.  Bookman. 
Trade,  Panama  Canal  and.  E.  N.  Vose  .  World's  Work. 
Trans-Continental  Trade  Routes,  Changing.  World's  Work. 
Travel,  Twentieth-Century.  Churchill  Williams.  Lippincott. 
Twain,  Mark  —  X.  Albert  Bigelow  Paine  .  .  .  Harper, 

United  States — V.    Arnold  Bennett Harper. 

Wall  Street,  Greatest  Killing  in.  A.  W.  Atwood.  McClure. 
Wilson,  Woodrow  —  A  Character  Sketch.  Rev.  of  Reviews. 
Wilson,  Woodrow,  Political  Predestination  of  .  No.  Amer. 

Vote,  Wisconsin's  Diminishing Atlantic. 

Woman  and  Her  Raiment,  A.    Ida  M.  Tarbell.    American. 

Woman.    Harriett  Anderson Atlantic. 

Woman,  "  Mission  "  of .  A.  Maurice  Low.  North  American. 
Women,  Economic  Independence  of.  Earl  Barnes.  Atlantic. 


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[August  1, 


IjIST  OF  NEW  BOOKS. 


[The  following  list,   containing  52  titles,  includes  books 
ieived  by  THE  DIAL  since  its  last  issue.] 


THE  DRAMA  — CRITICISM,  ETC. 
Aagrust  Strindberg  Plays:  The  Father:  Countess  Julie ;  The 

Outlaw ;  The  Stronger.     Translated  by  Edith  and  Warner 

Oland.    With  frontispiece,  12mo,  183  pages.    Boston:  John 

W.  Luce  &  Co. 
Mary  Broome:    A  Comedy.    By  Allan  Monkhonse.    12mo,84 

pages.    London:  Sidgwick  &  Jackson,  Ltd.    Paper. 
Poetic  Justice  in  the  Drama:  The  History  of  an  Ethical 

Principle  in  Literary  Criticism.    By  M.  A.  Quinlan,  Ph.D. 

12mo,  236  pages.    Notre  Dame:  University  Press. 
A  Syllabus  of  English  Literature.    By  Edwin  A.  Greenlaw, 

Ph.D.    Large  8vo,  319  pages.    Benjamin  H.  Sanborn  &  Co. 

$1.25  net. 
The  Shifting-  of  Literary  Values.    By  Albert  Mordell.    8vo, 

84  pages.    Philadelphia:  The  International.    Paper. 

FICTION. 
The  House  of  a  Thousand  Welcomes.    By  E.  R.  Lipsatt. 

Illustrated.  12mo.  323  pages.    John  Lane  Co.    $1.30  net. 
Blue  Bonnet's  Ranch  Party.  By  Caroline  Elliott  Jacobs  and 

Edyth  Ellerbeck  Read.    Illustrated,  12mo,  305  pages.     L.  C. 

Page  &  Co.    $1.50. 
The  Tomboy  and  Others.   By  H.  B.  Marriott  Watson.  12mo, 

283  pages.    John  Lane  Co.    $1.  net. 

Miss  Billy's  Decision.   By  Eleanor  H.  Porter.   With  frontis- 
piece in  color,  I2mo,  364  pages.    L.  C.  Page  &  Co.    $1.25  net. 
Greyhound  Fanny.    By  Martha  Morley  Stewart.    Illustrated 

in  color,  12mo,  190  pages.  R.  R.  Donnelley  &  Sons  Co.  $1.50. 
The  Cobweb  Cloak.    By  Helen  Mackay.    With  frontispiece 

in  color,  12mo,  308  pages.    Duffield  &  Co. 
The  Roses  of  Crein.    By  Beryl  Symons.    Illustrated,  I2mo, 

396  pages.    D.  Appleton  &  Co.    $1.30  net. 
Halcyone.    By  Elinor  Glyn.   With  frontispiece  in  color,  12mo, 

348  pages.    D.  Appleton  &  Co.    $1.30  net. 
The  Revenues  of  the  Wicked.   By  Walter  Raymond.   I2mo, 

246  pages.    E.  P.  Button  &  Co.    $1.25  net. 
Davidee  Birot.    By  Rene  Bazin ;  translated  from  the  French 

by  Mary  D.  Frost.    12mo,  324  pages.    Charles  Scribner's 

Sons.    $1.25  net. 

OUT  OF  DOORS. 

The  Spring:  of  the  Tear.  By  Dallas  Lore  Sharp.  Illustrated, 
12mo,  148  pages.  "Dallas  Lore  Sharp  Nature  Series." 
Houghton  Mifflin  Co.  60  cts.  net. 

Making  Paths  and  Driveways.  By  Claude  H.  Miller.  Illus- 
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McBride.  Nast  &  Co.  50  cts.  net. 

Apple  Growing:.  By  M.  C.  Burritt.  12mo,  177  pages.  "Outing 
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HISTORY. 

Correspondence  of  William  Shirley,  Governor  of  Massa- 
chusetts and  Military  Commander  in  America,  1731-1760. 
Edited  under  the  auspices  of  The  National  Society  of  the 
Colonial  Dames  of  America  by  Charles  Henry  Lincoln.  In 
2  volumes,  illustrated  in  photogravure,  8vo.  The  Macmillan 
Co.  $5.  net. 

The  History  of  Pennsylvania.  By  Charles  Morris.  Illus- 
trated, 12mo,  335  pages.  J.  B.  Lippincott  Co. 

Introductory  American  History.  By  Henry  Eldridge 
Bourne  and  Elbert  Jay  Ben  ton.  Illustrated,  I2mo,  264  pages. 
D.  C.  Heath  &  Co.  60  cts.  net. 

SCIENCE. 

Science  of  the  Sea:  An  Elementary  Handbook  of  Practical 
Oceanography  for  Travellers,  Sailors,  and  Yachtsmen. 
Prepared  by  the  Challenger  Society.  Edited  by  G.  Herbert 
Fowler.  Illustrated  with  charts,  12mo,  452  pages.  B.  P, 
Dutton  &  Co.  $2.  net. 

The  Mechanistic  Conception  of  Life.  Biological  Essays. 
By  Jacques  Loeb.  8vo.  232  pages,  University  of  Chicago 
Press.  $1.50  net. 


Comparative  Anatomy  of  Vertebrates.  By  J.  S.  Kingsley, 
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Founders  of  Modern  Fyscholog-y.  By  G.  Stanley  Hall. 
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EDUCATION. 

English  Composition  Teaching:  Preliminary  Report  of  the 
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Teaching.  Ninth  edition,  revised;  8vo,  14  pages.  Lawrence, 
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A  Study  of  the  Paragraph.  By  Helen  Thomas,  A.M.  12mo, 
125  pages.  American  Book  Co.  50  cts.  net. 

The  Expression  Primer.  By  Lilian  E.  Talbert.  Illustrated 
in  color,  12mo,  122  pages.  Ginn  &  Co.  30  cts.  net. 

Old  Testament  Stories.  Edited  for  use  in  secondary  schools, 
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Fine  and  Industrial  Arts  in  Elementary  Schools.  By 
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ix  t/rxii-nl.  ADVKKTIHINO  KATKH  fimiix/ied  on  application.  All  com- 
•iiiiiiiiriitioiix  xhtiultl  In:  aililre.xxetl  to 

T11K  DIAL,  Fine  Arts  Building,  Chicago. 

Kntered  as  Becond-Clasa  Matter  October  K,  l,S!)-2,  at  the  PoHt  Office 
at  Chicago,  lllinoin,  under  Act  of  March  3,  1879. 


No.  628. 


AUGUST  16,  1912.          VolLIII. 


PAGE 
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CONTENTS. 

ANONYMITY  AND  PSEUDONYMITY    .    . 

CASUAL  COMMENT 8!) 

The  puerilities  of  genius.— Inspirational  toxins. — 
The  appraisal  of  contemporary  greatness. — The  pen- 
.  sioning  of  worn-out  librarians.— The  artistic  attitude 
toward  literature.  —  Library  planning  from  the  in- 
side.— A  library  burglary  extraordinary. — The  fame 
of  Stationers'  Hall  in  London . —  The  cleanness  of 
American  fiction.— Library  rivalry  .—The  latest  pub- 
lication of  the  Dofobs. 

ONE  OF  THE  MAKERS   OF   MASSACHUSETTS. 

Percy  F,  Bicknell 93 

ON   CANADA'S  REMOTE   FRONTIER.    Lawrence 

J.  Burpee     . j>5 

Tollernache's  Reminiscences  of  the  Yukon.  — 
Rogers's  Sport  in  Vancouver  and  Newfoundland. — 
Cabot's  In  Northern  Labrador.  —  Button's  Among 
the  Esquimos  of  Labrador. 

THE  MERCHANT  MARINERS  OF  SINGAPORE. 

O.  D.  Wannamaker <)7 

ATHENS  IN  DECLINE.    Josiah  Eenick  Smith    .    .    98 

IN   THE  JUNGLES   OF   TROPICAL    AMERICA. 

Charles  A.   Kofoid <»<) 

RECENT  POETRY.  William  Morton  Payne  .  .  .100 
Masefield's  The  Everlasting  Mercy.  —  Galsworthy's 
Moods,  Songs,  and  Doggerels.— Mackie's  Charmides, 
and  Other  Poems.  —  Brett-Smith's  Poems  of  the 
North.— Mackereth's  In  the  Wake  of  the  Phoanix.— 
Stephens's  The  Hill  of  Vision.  —  Neihardt's  The 
Stranger  at  the  Gate.  — Viereck's  The  Caudle  and 
the  Flame. —  Schauffler's  Scum  o'  the  Earth,  and 
Other  Poems.—  Bangs's  Echoes  of  Cheer. 

BRIEFS  ON  NEW  BOOKS 105 

The  spell  of  the  White  Mountains.— Some  well-told 
tales  of  simple  Cornish  folk. — Letters  and  memories 
of  Harriet  Hosmer.  —  Men  and  manners  of  later  En- 
gland. —  The  Cabinet  as  a  branch  of  Government.  — 
Advances  in  medical  research  in  the  tropics.  —  The 
prehistoric  age  in  Thessaly.  — Married  men,  philoso- 
phers, and  grandfathers.— Folk-festivals  as  national 
pastimes. 

NOTES 108 

LIST  OF  NEW  BOOKS    .  .  109 


ANONYMITY  AND  PSEUDONYMITY. 


Certain  recent  anonymous  or  pseudonymous 
books — "One  Way  Out,"  for  instance,  and 
"The  Corner  of  Harley  Street  "  and  "A  Living 
Without  a  Boss,"  and  a  little  earlier  "The  In- 
ner Shrine,"  and  a  number  of  others — illustrate 
the  ease  and  freedom  and  un-selfconsciousness 
which  a  writer  is  at  liberty  to  enjoy,  if  he  will, 
when  he  gives  expression  to  his  thought  or 
invention,  his  whim  or  his  fancy,  without  being 
saddled  by  that  Old  Man  of  the  Sea,  his  own 
personality  in  the  form  of  an  irrevocably  unal- 
terable name,  with  all  that  that  name  has  come 
to  stand  for  in  his  own  mind,  in  the  mind  of 
others,  and  in  the  mind  of  the  supreme  intelli- 
gence that  knows  him  for  what  he  really  is. 
Like  little  children  who  play  with  the  keenest 
zest  and  the  completest  abandon  when  they 
are  "making  believe"  and  impersonating  other 
characters,  most  imaginative  authors  like  to 
indulge,  now  and  then  if  not  habitually,  in 
just  this  sort  of  innocent  make-believe.  To 
objectify  or  dramatize  oneself  before  putting  pen 
to  paper  seems  to  promote  a  freer  flow  of  words, 
to  bring  a  richer  supply  of  images,  to  fertilize 
the  invention  and  stimulate  the  fancy. 

Charles  Lamb's  most  sympathetic  biographer, 
Mr.  E.  V.  Lucas,  suggests  that  possibly  in  the 
pseudonym  "Elia"  may  be  found  a  reason  for 
the  difference  between  the  comparative  thinness 
of  Lamb's  earlier  or  pre-Elian  productions  and 
the  richness  and  color  of  his  famous  Essays. 
There  are  some  writers,  he  remarks,  who,  para- 
doxical though  it  may  seem,  can  never  express 
themselves  so  freely  as  when,  adopting  a  dra- 
matic standpoint,  they  affect  to  be  some  one 
else.  Goldsmith  is  pointed  to  as  one  who  "was 
always  happier  in  his  work  when  he  imagined 
his  pen  to  be  held  by  another."  The  harmless 
imposture  lends  courage,  emboldens  diffidence, 
and  begets  a  fine  carelessness  of  criticism. 
Under  a  euphonious  and  dignified  name,  who 
could  not  give  better  expression  to  exalted 
sentiments  than  under  one  of  trivial  and  com- 
monplace character  ?  If  a  lover  of  his  country 
burns  with  a  desire  to  deliver  himself  of  an 
eloquent  philippic  against  the  arrogant  pre- 
tensions of  the  Prince  of  Patagonia,  into  how 
much  finer  a  frenzy  will  he  work  himself  as 
"Demosthenes  Philopatris  "  than  as  (let  us  say) 


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Abner  E.  Small !  Or  if  the  ardent  swain  wishes 
to  pen  a  lyric  in  praise  of  his  sweetheart's  blue 
eyes  and  descriptive  of  the  passion  they  inspire 
in  his  breast,  small  headway  will  he  make  until 
he  ceases  to  think  of  himself  as  George  Griggs 
and  assumes  the  character  of  some  imaginary 
Launcelot  or  Alphonso  or  Francesco. 

A  marked  example  of  that  reluctance  often  felt 
by  a  writer  of  imagination  and  wit  to  be  known 
as  the  father  of  his  own  literary  offspring  is 
furnished  by  the  lamented  Edward  Rowland 
Sill,  the  premature  silencing  of  whose  graceful 
and  sprightly  pen  will  ever  be  a  cause  for  keen 
regret.  Near  the  end  of  his  too-short  life,  and 
after  he  had  proved  himself  a  master  in  both 
prose  and  verse,  he  wrote  to  a  friend: 

"When  anything  of  mine  is  to  be  printed  I  have 
often  a  horrid  sense — now  the  fingers  of  the  whole  uni- 
verse will  be  pointing  at  this  fellow  as  an  example  of  a 
wretch  that  has  mistaken  his  vocation.  When  it  is  once 
printed,  I  feel  instantly  relieved,  in  the  knowledge  that 
nobody  reads  things — after  all — or  cares  whether  they 
are  good  or  not.  The  fingers  I  perceive  to  be  all  point- 
ing at  more  conspicuous  objects,  or  being  harmlessly 
sucked  in  the  mouth:  so  I  don't  care  a  bit  —  till  the 
next  thing  is  about  to  be  printed.  .  .  .  You  would  not 
believe  how  I  have  actually  shuddered  internally  each 
month  with  fear  that  now  I  am  going  to  be  stuck  up  on 
a  post  without  a  rag  on  me  at  last,  and  my  nightmare 
was  to  come  true." 

Again  he  writes,  with  something  of  the  same 
amusing  exaggeration  which  self-contemplation 
tends  to  produce  in  many  another  besides  him- 
self: 

"  The  trouble  about  signing  one's  name  to  poems  is, 
that  stupid  people  (and  we  are  all  pretty  stupid  some- 
times) persist  in  thinking  every  word  literally  autobio- 
graphical. I  have  had  enough  annoyance  from  that  to 
sicken  any  one  of  ever  writing  verse  again,  or  anything 
else  but  arithmetics  and  geographies.  Even  then  some 
one  would  hate  you  for  your  view  of  the  Indian  Ocean, 
or  fear  the  worst  about  your  character  because  of  your 
treatment  of  the  Least  Common  Multiple.  People  are 
getting  to  write  anonymously  now  and  then.  (You 
did  n't  write  '  The  Breadwinners,'  did  you  ?  Perhaps 
the  Janitor  at  the  University  did — or  Bacon  the  printer, 
or  Hy.  Ward  Beecher.)" 

Sill's  parenthesized  query  brings  to  mind  in- 
stances of  that  false  or  hypocritical  anonymity 
which  really  seeks  greater  glory  for  the  author, 
through  a  preliminary  mystery  and  its  adroit 
exploitation,  than  would  have  come  to  him  had 
he  simply  and  honestly  avowed  his  authorship 
at  the  outset.  Of  course  the  anonymous  issue 
of  "The  Breadwinners"  is  now  known  to  have 
been  dictated  by  no  such  paltry  motive;  but 
there  is  reason  to  suspect  that  Samuel  Warren 
allowed  the  general  curiosity  aroused  by  the 
anonymity  of  "Ten  Thousand  a  Year"  to  min- 


ister to  its  author's  vanity.  Beginning  its  serial 
appearance  in  "Black wood's  Magazine"  for  Oc- 
tober, 1839,  it  continued  its  anonymous  course 
up  to  August,  1841,  evoking  many  conjectures 
as  to  its  authorship.  Warren  himself  is  said 
to  have  kept  the  conjecturers  busy  by  asking 
everybody  he  met,  "  Who  do  you  suppose  wrote 
'  Ten  Thousand  a  Year  ? ' "'  At  last  one  discern- 
ing person,  upon  being  thus  importuned,  replied 
in  a  confidential  whisper,  "  Well,  my  dear  fellow, 
if  you  won't  let  it  go  any  further,  I  '11  confess  to 
you  in  private  that  I  wrote  it."  Undoubtedly 
the  "Letters  of  Junius"  owe  a  large  part  of 
their  fame  to  the  mystery  enveloping  their  au- 
thorship. Whether  Sir  Philip  Francis  wrote 
them,  and  whether  he  or  whoever  did  write 
them  foresaw  the  vogue  which  their  anonymity 
would  help  to  give  them,  who  shall  say  ?  It  is 
certainly  one  of  the  best-kept  secrets  in  literary 
history. 

In  choosing  a  pseudonym,  as  in  naming  a 
child,  there  is  need  of  wisdom.  To  have  been 
projected  without  one's  consent  into  this  world 
of  sorrow  and  sin  and  strife  is  bad  enough.  To 
be  handicapped  after  one's  arrival  by  being 
tagged  with  an  unprepossessing  or  ridiculous  or 
otherwise  objectionable  label  is  an  addition  of 
insult  to  injury.  Therefore,  since  we  cannot 
choose  our  ancestors  or  our  baptismal  names, 
there  is  all  the  more  reason  why  one  should  pro- 
ceed cautiously  in  selecting  the  pen-name  that 
is  to  help  make  or  mar  the  fortunes  of  one's 
literary  efforts.  It  is  well  known  that  our  fore- 
most humorist  deeply  regretted  in  later  years 
that  he  had  not  chosen  for  himself,  in  addition 
to  the  whimsical  pseudonym  now  forever  asso- 
ciated with  "Innocents  Abroad"  and  "Rough- 
ing It,"  a  second  and  less  oddly  suggestive  name 
for  works  of  serious  thought  and  purpose.  Read- 
ers persisted  in  laughing  over  anything  signed 
"Mark  Twain,"  whether  there  was  anything 
funny  in  it  or  not.  There  is  something  truly 
pathetic  in  the  wail  he  uttered  over  the  re- 
ception accorded  to  his  first  essay  in  a  serious 
vein. 

"Well,  in  due  course  of  time  the  book  ['The  Prince 
and  the  Pauper ']  came  out.  To  me  it  was  a  crucial 
point  in  my  life.  My  anxiety  over  its  reception  at  the 
hands  of  the  literary  critics  was  so  great  that  I  could  n't 
sleep  or  eat.  It  will  not  be  hard  to  imagine  my  chagrin, 
then,  when  they  came  out  with  yards  of  slush  in  which 
they  called  this,  my  first  serious  work,  my  masterpiece 
of  humor  — said  it  was  just  about  the  funniest  thing 
that  had  ever  come  off  a  press.  Mind  you,  this  was  not 
the  verdict  of  one  or  two  or  three  of  these  literary 
know-it-alls  —  it  was  unanimous.  .  .  .  By  the  time  I 
had  been  assaulted  and  battered  in  seven  or  eight  Ian- 


1912.] 


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guages  by  this  literary  riffraff  I  gave  it  up  and  decided 
that  there  was  no  remedy  for  their  kind  of  mania.  The 
only  satisfaction  I  ever  had  out  of  it  is  in  holding  that 
I  was  right  and  they  were  all  wrong.  I  have  never 
altered  that  opinion." 

The  history  of  pseudonymity  is  enlivened  with 
many  anecdotes  illustrating  the  danger  that  a 
pseudonym,  or  any  fictitious  name  used  in  story- 
writing,  however  odd  and  however  carefully 
chosen,  may  prove  to  be  the  name  of  a  real 
living  person  who  will  turn  up  some  day  and 
make  trouble  for  his  literary  namesake.  A 
curious  and  indeed  an  almost  incredible  in- 
stance of  this  nature,  having  to  do  with  the 
assumed  name  of  a  person  and  the  assumed 
name  of  a  town,  is  related  by  Mr.  J.  Henry 
Harper  in  that  recent  treasury  of  literary  his- 
tory and  anecdote,  "The  House  of  Harper," 
which  also  gives  in  full  the  Mark  Twain  incident 
referred  to  above.  One  day  there  came  by  mail 
to  Dr.  Irenaeus  Prime,  in  his  capacity  as  editor 
of  "The  Drawer"  in  "Harper's  Magazine,"  a 
story  containing  a  personal  name  and  a  geo- 
graphical name,  but  of  so  richly  humorous  a 
character  that,  despite  its  indulgence  in  a  per- 
sonality that  might  give  offense,  supposing  it 
to  be  a  true  story,  he  decided  to  publish,  first 
however  changing  both  personal  and  geograph- 
ical names  for  the  sake  of  greater  safety.  To 
his  astonishment  and  chagrin,  after  publication 
there  came  a  letter  to  the  publishers  couched 
in  the  most  abusive  and  threatening  language, 
and  vowing  that  the  house  of  Harper  should  be 
made  to  pay  dearly  for  its  unauthorized  printing 
of  the  incident  in  question.  It  was  afterward 
ascertained  that  the  contributor  of  the  anecdote 
had  himself  substituted  fictitious  for  real  names, 
and  Dr.  Prime,  with  too  great  precaution,  had 
inadvertently,  and  by  something  little  short  of 
a  miracle,  changed  the  fictitious  names  back  to 
the  real  ones. 

But  this  is  a  digression.  The  charm  of  the 
unknown  will  continue,  as  long  as  anonymous 
and  pseudonymous  literature  is  written,  to  ap- 
peal more  or  less  potently  to  the  reader;  while 
the  sense  of  having  created  a  mystery,  of  hav- 
ing erected  a  more  or  less  impenetrable  screen 
between  himself  and  his  public,  will  tickle  the 
author's  fancy.  Of  course  in  many  depart- 
ments of  authorship  the  writer's  real  name 
ought  to  appear  and  in  most  instances  will  ap- 
pear. But  to  the  airy  creation  of  a  poet's  or  a 
romancer's  or  a  humorist's  fancy  it  will  often 
seem  more  appropriate  to  assign  a  fictitious 
authorship,  or  to  leave  the  authorship  entirely 
a  matter  of  conjecture. 


GAS  UAL  COMMENT. 

THE  PUERILITIES  OF  GENIUS  reach  their  limit  in 
the  silly  devices  by  which,  as  the  Baconians  would 
have  us  believe,  the  real  authorship  of  the  Shake- 
speare plays  is  half  concealed  and  half  revealed  in 
the  wording  of  certain  passages,  in  the  arrangement 
of  the  lines  as  printed  in  the  First  Folio,  and  even 
in  the  minutest  details  of  typography  —  sometimes 
so  minute  as  to  require  a  microscope  for  detection. 
That  untiring  advocate  of  the  Baconian  cause, 
Sir  Edwin  Durning- Lawrence,  ingenious  author  of 
"  Bacon  is  Shakespeare,"  has  followed  up  his  larger 
work  (which  did  not  quite  convert  the  world  to  his 
faith)  with  an  entertaining  pamphlet,  "The  Shake- 
speare Myth,"  wherein  if  any  remaining  doubters 
fail  to  find  that  which  shall  forever  remove  their 
lingering  hesitations,  they  are  certainly  beyond 
praying  for  and  deserve  no  further  attention  at  the 
hands  of  Sir  Edwin.  In  speaking  of  the  First 
Folio,  the  writer  says,  among  other  memorable 
things:  "I  must  also  inform  my  readers  that  every 
page  is  divided  into  two  columns,  and  it  is  abso- 
lutely certain  that  the  author  himself  so  arranged 
these  that  he  knew  in  what  column  and  in  what 
line  in  such  column  every  word  would  appear  in 
the  printed  page."  Thus  it  was  by  Bacon's  express 
design  that  in  the  opening  scene  of  "The  Tempest" 
there  was  a  certain  arrangement  of  lines  that  gave, 
by  putting  together  three  initial  letters  and  reading 
them  upward  and  also  using  the  first  word  of  one 
of  these  lines,  "hang'd  hog,"  which,  as  mistress 
Quickly  has  reminded  us  in  "The  Merry  Wives  of 
Windsor,"  is  Latin  for  bacon.  Elsewhere  in  the 
Folio,  Sir  Edwin  discovers  "  hang  sow,"  which  he 
gravely  assures  us  "is  just  as  much  Bacon  as  Hang 
hog."  And  again,  in  "Antony  and  Cleopatra"  three 
words  (Pompey,  in,  and  got)  are  found  in  such  a 
position  as  obviously  to  stand  for  pig,  "which  is  what 
we  were  looking  for,"  triumphantly  declares  Sir 
Edwin  Burning-Lawrence.  Coming  to  graver  issues, 
he  informs  us  that  "  all  writers  are  agreed  that  our 
language  of  to-day  is  founded  upon  the  English 
translation  of  the  Bible  and  upon  the  Plays  of 
Shakespeare.  Every  word  of  each  of  these  was 
undoubtedly  written  by,  or  under  the  direction  of, 
Francis  Bacon."  So  industrious,  inventive,  and  en- 
tertaining a  writer  as  Sir  Edwin  Durning-Lawrence 
deserves  our  gratitude  for  the  amusement  he  fur- 
nishes, and  our  admiration  for  his  zeal  and  perse- 
verance in  the  face  of  a  doubting  and  even  derisive 
public;  but  if  the  author  of  "Hamlet"  and  "Othello" 
was  really  capable  of  all  the  puerilities  he  so  labor- 
iously brings  to  our  attention,  we  prefer,  for  our 
own  enjoyment  of  the  plays  and  poems,  to  remain 
erroneously  persuaded  of  their  Shakespearean  origin. 
•  •  • 

INSPIRATIONAL  TOXINS,  such  as  alcohol,  opium, 
hashish,  and  tobacco,  have  long  been  known  to  and 
more  or  less  used  by  literary  and  other  creative 
artists;  but  probably  few  if  any  of  these  men  of 


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genius  have  been  inclined  to  regard  as  aids  to  in- 
spiration those  natural  toxins  of  the  body  that  are 
generated  by  tuberculosis,  asthma,  gout,  and  other 
diseases.  Nevertheless,  when  one  recalls  the  bril- 
liance and  the  creative  energy  that  have  charac- 
terized many  a  consumptive  writer  —  Stevenson 
and  John  Addington  Symonds,  for  instance  —  the 
asthma  that  accompanied  Macaulay's  prodigious 
accomplishment  as  reader  and  writer,  and  that  was 
powerless  to  impair  the  masterly  statesmanship  of 
William  the  Third,  and  the  gout  that  seemed  but 
to  steady  and  strengthen  the  purpose  of  Gibbon  in 
his  formidable  undertaking,  and  when  one  looks 
back  upon  innumerable  other  instances  of  signal 
achievement,  in  letters  and  in  other  walks  of  life,  in 
the  face  of  pronounced  physical  disability,  one  may 
well  feel  tempted  to  believe  with  Dr.  Charles  B. 
Reed,  whose  thoughtful  and  interesting  article  on 
"Toxemia  as  a  Stimulus  in  Literature"  has  been 
much  discussed,  that  toxins,  both  natural  and  arti- 
ficial, do  play  an  important  part  in  the  work  of 
the  world,  especially  in  the  work  done  by  men  and 
women  of  genius.  One  might  even  go  so  far  as  to 
query  whether  anything  of  brilliance  and  genuine 
originality  and  power  is  to  be  found  in  the  absence 
of  some  inspirational  toxin.  On  the  other  hand, 
however,  there  are  instances  in  plenty  of  genius 
unaccompanied  by  any  apparent  poisoning  or  intox- 
icating affection — Scott  and  Goethe,  for  example. 
But  no  one  knows  exactly  what  help  they  received 
from  artificial  toxins,  or  what  natural  toxins  may 
have  been  generated  in  their  systems.  Perhaps  we 
shall  know  more  about  these  things  some  day,  and 
it  may  be  that  inspirational  toxins,  of  specific  kinds, 
will  be  injected  in  infancy  to  produce  poets,  novel- 
ists, musicians,  sculptors,  and  so  on,  much  as  among 
the  honey  bees  the  queen  is  produced  by  certain 
methods  of  treatment  applied  in  the  earliest  stages 
of  the  insect's  formation. 

•         •         • 

THE  APPRAISAL  OF  CONTEMPORARY  GREATNESS, 

whether  in  literature  or  in  other  departments  of 
worthy  achievement,  is  a  difficult  and  more  or  less 
invidious  task.  Nevertheless  the  Modern  Historic 
Records  Association,  in  undertaking  to  collect  auto- 
graphic utterances  on  parchment  ''from  men  and 
women  of  genius  throughout  the  world,"  has  asked 
its  secretary,  Mr.  W.  T.  Lamed,  to  prepare  "  a  list  of 
names  that  shall  include  all  living  men  and  women 
whose  reputations  are  likely  to  endure,"  as  Mr. 
Lamed  expresses  it  in  a  letter  to  the  New  York 
"Sun"  in  which  he  asks  for  help  in  his  difficult 
task.  A  tentative  list  of  about  two  hundred  names 
is  submitted  by  him,  naturally  "with  considerable 
diffidence,"  and  of  course  it  is  impossible  to  glance 
over  the  list  without  noting  many  surprising  omis- 
sions and  almost  as  many  astonishing  inclusions.  It 
could  not  be  otherwise.  For  example,  though  the 
head  of  the  Salvation  Army  is  on  the  list,  the  name 
of  Abdul  Baha,  the  Persian  religious  reformer  whose 
followers  already  are  counted  by  the  millions,  in  re- 
sponse to  whose  teachings  a  third  of  the  population 


of  Persia  has  renounced  Mohammedanism  for  Baha- 
ism,  and  whose  disciples  are  found  all  over  the  world, 
including  this  country,  which  he  has  recently  visited, 
does  not  appear ;  and  while  Colonel  Henry  Watter- 
son  is  included,  Mr.  Whitelaw  Reid  is  excluded ; 
and  it  seems  strange  to  find  the  name  of  Mr.  George 
Bernard  Shaw  unaccompanied  by  that  other  with 
which  we  are  wont  to  see  it  linked.  In  general  the 
perspective  is  emphatically  that  of  the  Occidental 
rather  than  of  the  Oriental.  Japan,  China,  India, 
and  all  the  rest  of  the  Far  East,  are  ignored;  while 
contrariwise  America  looms  large  and  Europe  (or  at 
least  western  Europe)  suffers  no  very  serious  eclipse. 
It  is  a  pleasant  enough  diversion  that  the  M.  H.  R. 
Association  is  engaged  in,  and  one  wishes  it  every 
success;  but  it  ought  not,  perhaps,  to  be  viewed 
with  quite  the  seriousness  that  Mr.  Larned's  letter 
assumes.  However,  we  are  glad  to  quote  in  conclu- 
sion this  passage  from  his  letter:  "The  attempts  to 
obtain  these  inscriptions,  which  are  meant  to  embody 
a  brief  but  permanent  expression  of  each  man  and 
woman's  preeminent  gift  or  attainment,  is  meeting 
with  some  interesting  responses.  The  opinion  ex- 
pressed by  Ambassador  Bryce  that  the  collection  we 
are  making  'will  be  of  the  greatest  interest  in  years 
to  come '  seems  to  be  shared  more  especially  by  emi- 
nent men  in  Europe.  For  example,  Sir  William 
Ramsay  has  sent  us  a  striking  epitome  of  his  career 
as  a  scientist;  Dr.  Alfred  Russel  Wallace  a  resound- 
ing paragraph  from  one  of  his  most  eloquent  essays ; 
Mr.  Maeterlinck  a  passage  from  his  'La  Vie  des 
Abeilles ';  Sir  Arthur  Wing  Pinero  and  Mr.  George 
Bernard  Shaw  some  characteristic  thoughts  on  dra- 
matic workmanship."  Any  helpful  suggestion,  or 
other  communication,  on  parchment  or  more  perish- 
able paper,  that  the  reader  of  this  may  feel  moved 
to  send  to  Mr.  Lamed,  will  reach  him,  we  doubt  not, 
if  addressed  to  the  Modern  Historic  Records  Asso- 
ciation, 14  Gramercy  Park,  New  York  City. 

THE  PENSIONING  OF  WORN-OUT  LIBRARIANS  has 

certainly  as  much  to  be  said  in  its  favor  as  the 
pensioning  of  retired  college  professors  and  other 
teachers.  It  is  indeed  cause  for  surprise  that  our 
millionaire  benefactor  of  public  libraries  should  have 
established  a  professors'  pension  fund  but  taken  no 
step  to  make  comfortable  the  declining  years  of  those 
who  serve  the  needs  of  the  great  book-reading  and 
book-borrowing  public,  and  preside  over,  or  otherwise 
give  their  best  years  to,  the  institutions  of  that  class 
to  which  he  himself  has  so  generously  contributed. 
As  a  matter  of  fact,  the  library  worker  is  even  less 
liberally  paid  for  his  toil  than  the  teacher,  his  term 
of  daily  service  is  longer,  and  his  vacations  are  very 
much  shorter.  The  trustees  of  the  Boston  Public 
Library  urge  the  necessity  of  some  adequate  pension 
system  for  its  employees.  They  well  say,  in  their 
latest  Report:  "A  large  part  of  library  service  is 
specialized  work.  It  is  very  desirable  that  persons 
who  enter  the  library  profession  should  remain  in 
it,  and  after  they  have  been  in  this  profession  long 
enough  to  be  of  the  best  service  to  it  they  are  prac- 


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tically  unfitted  for  any  other  work.  The  margin 
between  the  salaries  which  can  be  paid  them  within 
the  library  appropriation  and  their  necessary  ex- 
penses for  reasonable  and  decent  living  is  very  small. 
.  .  .  The  necessary  result  of  this  condition  is  that 
persons  are  retained  in  the  library  service  after  they 
cease  to  be  able  to  do  the  best  work,  because  they 
cannot  be  retired  from  it  without  becoming  objects 
of  charity  or  requiring  the  assistance  of  others  for 
their  support.  The  public  service  suffers  from  this 
because  the  worn-out  employee  cannot  do  as  good 
work  as  ought  to  be  done.  The  expense  of  the  pub- 
lic service  is  also  increased  because  it  is  necessary 
to  have  more  employees  if  a  portion  of  them  are 
unable  to  do  the  best  work.  Merited  promotion  is 
also  often  delayed,  and  the  tendency  is  to  weaken 
the  library  service  where  it  should  be  strengthened. 
A  worn-out  tool  is  the  most  expensive  tool  for  use, 
whether  it  be  a  combination  of  merely  material  things 
like  wood  and  metal,  or  a  living  human  being."  And 
so  on.  Legislation  to  meet  the  exigencies  of  the 
case  is  asked  for;  but  legislative  machinery  is  slow, 
and  legislative  grants  for  worthy  causes  are  notably 
small  and  tardy.  Here  is  a  chance  for  some  philan- 
thropic multi-millionaire  to  immortalize  his  name  by 
establishing  a  great  national  Librarians'  Retirement 
Pension  Fund.  ... 

THE  ARTISTIC  ATTITUDE  TOWARD  LITERATURE,  as 

distinguished  from  the  scientific  or  coldly  critical  at- 
titude, is  very  much  what  the  artistic  or  sympathetic 
attitude  toward  life  and  mankind  is  as  distinguished 
from  the  rigidly  dogmatic  or  moralistic  attitude. 
This  is  rather  clumsily  and  inadequately  expressed, 
but  perhaps  a  few  illustrations  and  analogies  may 
make  the  meaning  clearer.  We  have  all  had  experi- 
ence of  the  irritating  self-righteousness  of  those  who 
pride  themselves  on  making  their  conduct  square 
with  a  hard-and-fast  rule,  without  regard  to  the 
claims  or  the  feelings  of  those  about  them.  Their 
morality  is  static,  not  dynamic.  They  are  moral 
pedants  and  mental  sluggards.  They  have  classified 
and  labelled  all  the  objects  of  their  little  world  once 
and  forever,  with  scientific  precision.  In  one's  bear- 
ing toward  literature,  and  toward  art  in  general,  it  is 
not  uncommon  to  fall  into  the  scientific  rather  than 
the  artistic  way  of  looking  at  things.  One  too  easily 
forgets  that  reality  is  always  dying  and  being  re- 
created. Even  the  very  words  with  which  truth  is 
expressed,  or  faintly  adumbrated,  are  continually 
suffering  decay  and  undergoing  revivification.  The 
literary  artist,  the  merest  framer  of  verbal  para- 
doxes, helps  to  keep  the  pulse  of  life  in  our  language 
and  to  save  us  from  the  indolent  use  of  phrases  — 
chunks  of  sound,  as  Stevenson  has  called  them — to 
avoid  the  trouble  of  original  and  sympathetic  thought. 
The  poet  is  the  consummate  literary  artist;  his  mind 
is  cleared  of  cant,  and  he  faces  every  new  situation 
with  fresh  receptivity.  Pater  and  others  have 
warned  us  that  what  is  done  from  habit  is  likely  to  be 
done  mechanically  and  meaninglessly ;  and  habits  of 
speech,  still  more  habits  of  thinking,  are  spiritual 
death.  This  and  other  points  that  might  well  be 


touched  upon  here  are  more  fully  treated  by  Mr. 
E.  F.  Carritt  in  the  current  "Hibbert  Journal,"  in 
an  article  entitled  "The  Artistic  Attitude  in  Con- 
duct," which  closes  with  Dr.  Johnson's  acute  re- 
marks, preserved  by  Fanny  Burney,  on  the  subject 
of  literary  criticism :  "There  are  three  distinct  kinds 
of  judges:  the  first  are  those  who  know  no  rules  but 
pronounce  entirely  from  their  natural  taste  and  feel- 
ings; the  second  are  those  who  know  and  judge  by 
rules;  and  the  third  are  those  who  know  but  are 
above  the  rules.  These  last  are  those  you  should  wish 
to  satisfy.  Next  to  them  rate  the  natural  judges; 
but  ever  despise  those  opinions  that  are  formed  by 
the  rules."  ... 

LIBRARY  PLANNING  FROM  THE  INSIDE,  or  from 
the  experienced  librarian's  standpoint,  rather  than 
from  the  outside  —  that  is,  from  the  ambitious  and 
splendor-loving  architect's  point  of  view — is  one  of 
the  many  topics  intelligently  and  fully  treated  by 
Mr.  Soule  in  his  manual  on  library-building,  already 
noticed  (too  briefly)  by  us.  "The  exterior  should 
not  even  be  considered,"  he  maintains,  ''until  the 
interior  has  been  entirely  mapped  out."  This  advice 
will  be  found  easier  to  follow  than  the  old  rule  for 
the  manufacture  of  cannon  —  first  make  your  hole, 
then  cast  the  metal  around  it ;  and  the  uniting  of 
utility  with  ornament  need  not  necessarily  be  at  the 
expense  of  the  latter.  Indeed,  some  of  the  least 
pleasing  library  buildings,  to  those  who  fail  to  find 
any  satisfying  aesthetic-  effect  where  there  is  unfit- 
ness  of  structure,  are  the  very  ones  that  have  been 
designed  from  the  outside  with  a  view  to  external 
effect.  Therefore  let  the  architect  take  counsel  at 
every  step  with  the  trained  librarian.  But  it  is 
quite  true,  nevertheless,  as  Mrs.  Elmendorff  took 
occasion  to  point  out  at  one  of  the  annual  library 
conferences,  that  "a  very  good  librarian  may  yet 
have  no  great  fitness  for  the  task  of  planning  a 
building,"  and  hence  some  other  than  the  local 
librarian  may  best  be  called  upon  to  advise  with 
the  architect.  Mr.  Soule  utters  a  warning  "  not  to 
take  your  local  librarian  at  his  own  valuation.  He 
is  most  likely  to  assume  the  function  of  an  expert 
in  building  when  he  is  least  fitted.  The  really  ex- 
perienced librarian  is  apt  to  be  modest  and  to  ask 
assistance,  in  the  belief  that  'two  heads  are  better 
than  one.'"  But  let  not  the  "local  librarian" 
whose  eye  may  chance  to  rest  on  this  paragraph 
take  umbrage.  There  are  local  librarians  and  local 
librarians.  In  fact,  when  you  come  to  think  of  it, 
how  many  librarians  are  there  of  any  other  sort  ? 

•          •          • 

A  LIBRARY  BURGLARY  EXTRAORDINARY  Was  re- 
ported, under  conspicuous  scare-lines  ("45,000  Vol- 
umes Missing  from  Library"),  in  a  Los  Angeles 
newspaper  recently.  In  substance,  the  whole  aston- 
ishing affair,  as  printed  —  whether  as  a  deliberate 
hoax,  or  a  misprint,  or  a  piece  of  careless  reporting, 
or  a  fact  having  some  basis  of  truth — reduces  itself 
to  this,  in  the  language  of  the  journal  itself:  "There 
were  190,000  books  in  the  library  three  years  ago, 
according  to  an  inventory  taken  then.  There  were 


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but  145,000  when  the  count  was  completed  yester- 
day." And  yet  this  disappearance  of  forty-five  thou- 
sand volumes  is  not  attributed  to  deliberate  theft, 
but  rather  to  mere  "  carelessness  of  public  property, 
...  in  the  opinion  of  Mr.  Perry,"  the  librarian; 
and  the  good  citizens  are  requested  to  look  through 
their  bookshelves  and  see  whether  any  forgotten 
library  books  are  lurking  there.  No  mention  is  made 
of  the  three  years'  accessions  of  new  books,  as  if 
one  were  to  understand  that  the  collection  had  been 
undergoing  steady  and  rapid  depletion  with  no  re- 
plenishing whatever  —  which  is  much  too  marvel- 
lous, especially  for  the  swiftly  growing  city  of  Los 
Angeles,  to  gain  credence.  To  the  modern  vigilant 
librarian,  an  annual  loss  of  even  a  score  of  volumes 
is  a  scandal  and  a  disgrace;  but  fifteen  thousand  a 
year  for  three  successive  years ! 

"  Obstupui,  steteruntque  comae,  et  vox  faucibus  hcesit." 

THE  FAME  OF  STATIONERS'  HALL  IN  LONDON, 
where  for  more  than  three  hundred  years  registry 
has  been  made  of  books  claiming  copyright  protec- 
tion, will  long  survive  the  cessation  of  that  custom 
which  marks  the  going  into  effect,  this  summer, 
of  the  new  English  copyright  law.  "Entered  at 
Stationers'  Hall  "  is  a  familiar  legend  that  we  shall 
fail  to  find  in  the  printed  works  of  the  future, 
publication  under  the  terms  of  the  statute  sufficing 
henceforth  for  the  publisher's  protection  against 
piracy.  The  invaluable  register  of  English  books, 
from  Elizabethan  times  to  our  own,  will,  it  is  rea- 
sonable to  hope,  be  transferred  now  to  the  manu- 
script room  of  the  British  Museum,  where  it  would 
be  an  object  of  interest  to  all  students  of  English 
literature  and  could  be  more  conveniently  consulted 
than  at  present.  The  Stationers'  Company  itself, 
which  has  a  curiously  interesting  history,  and  for  a 
long  time  enjoyed  a  monopoly  in  the  publication  of 
almanacs  in  addition  to  its  other  rights  and  digni- 
ties, may  now  find  itself  left  with  nothing  to  justify 
its  existence  unless  it  enters  the  regular  publishing 
field,  which  might  not  be  unfitting  in  view  of  its 
position  in  the  neighborhood  of  Paternoster  Row, 
Amen  Corner,  and  Ave  Maria  Lane, —  names  that 
carry  with  them  ancient  associations  of  a  more  or 
less  bookish  and  book-publishing  nature. 

•          *          • 

THE   CLEANNESS   OF  AMERICAN  FICTION  as  COm- 

pared  with  English  is  asserted  by  a  high  Canadian 
authority,  Dr.  George  H.  Locke,  librarian  of  the 
Toronto  Public  Library.  In  an  address  at  the  late 
annnal  meeting  of  the  Ontario  Library  Association, 
Dr.  Locke  said:  "There  is  one  thing  I  have  to  say, 
and  I  am  sorry  to  say  it,  and  that  is  that  you  can 
trust  American  fiction  to  be  clean  rather  than  En- 
glish fiction.  There  is  no  necessity  to  demonstrate 
except  to  step  into  my  office  and  see  the  list  of  En- 
glish fiction  that  is  nasty,  unnecessarily  nasty.  It 
is  hard  to  have  to  say  that.  Certain  publishers  you 
can  rely  on  implicitly.  In  regard  to  your  fiction, 
when  you  find  a  book  is  a  good  book  buy  another 
copy  of  it.  Restrict  your  range,  but  be  careful  that 


the  books  you  have  are  good  books,  books  that  are 
worth  while."  Some  practical  advice  to  librarians 
on  the  purchase  of  new  books  is  worth  quoting  also : 
"Don't  order  fiction  until  the  work  has  been  out 
long  enough  to  have  adequate  reviews  of  it.  It  is 
not  wise  to  trust  the  ordinary  reviews,  or  excerpts 
[of  those  reviews]  published  by  the  ordinary  pub- 
lishers. You  can  take  part  of  a  recommendation 
and  make  a  man  out  of  anything  from  an  angel 
down."  Dr.  Locke's  remarks  in  full  are  to  be  found 
in  "The  Proceedings  of  the  Ontario  Library  Asso- 
ciation, Twelfth  Annual  Meeting,"  issued  by  the 
Association  in  an  illustrated  pamphlet  of  128  pages. 

•          •          • 

LIBRARY  RIVALRY  is  a  good  thing,  so  long  as 
jealousies  and  recriminations  are  not  indulged  in  by 
the  rivals.  Facts  and  figures  to  prove,  ostensibly  at 
least,  the  superior  efficiency  of  the  North  Jonesville 
Public  Library  cannot  be  blamed  for  finding  their 
way  into  the  annual  report  of  that  beneficent  insti- 
tution. From  a  descriptive  pamphlet  just  issued  by 
the  Jersey  City  Public  Library  it  is  our  pleasure  and 
privilege  to  quote  certain  statistical  .facts  of  a  nature 
highly  gratifying  to  the  inhabitants  of  that  city. 
"Cost  per  volume  circulated  is  less  in  Jersey  City 
than  in  any  larger  city.  Efficiency  in  proportion  to 
population:  —  For  each  $1.00  expended  in  Jersey 
City  the  average  expenditure  in  18  cities  is  $1.49. 
For  each  100  volumes  circulated  in  Jersey  City  the 
average  circulation  in  18  cities  is  81  volumes.  In 
proportion  to  circulation : — For  each  $1.00  expended 
in  Jersey  City  the  average  expenditure  in  18  cities 
is  $1.82."  Then  follows  a  list  of  the  eighteen  less 
thrifty  cities.  They  are  the  eighteen  largest  in  the 
country,  Jersey  City  being  the  nineteenth,  according 
to  the  latest  census.  In  these  days,  when  all  the 
world,  or  some  considerable  portion  of  it,  is  having 
its  willing  attention  directed  to  the  Governor  of 
New  Jersey,  this  passing  mention  of  the  prosperity 
and  usefulness  of  one  of  that  State's  leading  libraries 
may  be  not  out  of  place. 

•     •     • 

THE    LATEST    PUBLICATION    OF    THE    DOFOBS    (a 

well-known  Chicago  society  of  bibliophiles  disrespect- 
fully characterized  in  words  of  which  D.  O.  F.  O.  B. 
are  the  initial  letters)  is  in  an  edition  so  strictly 
limited  (fifty-two  copies)  that  the  present  notice  is 
not  written  with  the  book  in  hand,  but  on  the  au- 
thority of  a  fortunate  possessor  of  the  choice  little 
volume.  It  is  a  book  for  Byron-lovers,  containing 
facsimile  reproductions  of  seven  poems,  among  them 
the  four  so-called  Thyrza  poems  and  two  addressed 
to  the  poet's  half-sister  Augusta.  Fourteen  letters 
of  Byron's  are  also  given  —  all  new  to  readers,  it  ap- 
pears, except  a  short  passage  in  one  of  them.  The 
book  also  contains  a  list  of  the  books  Byron  is  thought 
to  have  taken  with  him  when  he  made  his  last  jour- 
ney to  Greece,  and  reproductions  of  five  portraits  of 
the  poet,  two  being  from  drawings  by  George  Henry 
Harlow.  Preface  and  notes  are  supplied  by  Mr.  W. 
N.  C.  Carlton,  librarian  of  the  Newberry  Library. 


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ONE  OF  THE  MAKERS  OF 
MASSACHUSETTS.* 

In  the  list  of  Massachusetts  colonial  govern- 
ors, many  of  whom  were  able  and  forceful  men 
and  interesting  characters,  there  is  none  that 
appeals  more  strongly  to  the  imagination  or  ex- 
cites a  greater  admiration  than  the  lawyer-soldier 
who  came  over  from  England  in  1731  to  throw 
in  his  lot  with  the  young  colony,  who  three  years 
later  became  the  "King's  only  Advocate- General 
in  America,"  was  appointed  Governor  in  1741, 
wrested  the  fortress  of  Louisburg  from  the 
French  in  1745,  reestablished  the  finances  of 
his  colony  by  redeeming  its  paper  money  in  En- 
glish coin  in  1749,  thus  giving  Massachusetts 
an  enviable  reputation  as  "the  hard-money  col- 
ony," exerted  himself  strenuously  in  the  face  of 
insurmountable  obstacles  for  the  entire  expulsion 
of  the  French  from  Canada,  only  relinquished 
the  post  he  had  so  creditably  held  when  the 
home  government  recalled  him  in  1756,  and 
finally  returned  to  die  in  the  land  of  his  adop- 
tion fifteen  years  later. 

This  eminently  successful  man  of  action  — 
who,  by  the  way,  was  helped  in  his  rise  to  dis- 
tinction by  a  clever  and  appreciative  wife — has 
not  unnaturally  made  romantic  appeal  to  the 
Colonial  Dames  of  America,  and  under  their 
auspices  his  correspondence,  to  the  extent  at 
least  of  two  substantial  volumes,  has  been  pre- 
pared for  publication  by  Dr.  Charles  Henry 
Lincoln,  whose  previous  studies  in  our  Revolu- 
tionary and  pre-Revolutionary  history  give  as- 
surance of  fitness  for  the  task.  The  hitherto 
unpublished  Shirley  correspondence,  in  the  keep- 
ing of  the  Public  Record  Office  and  the  British 
Museum  in  London,  of  the  Massachusetts  His- 
torical Society  and  the  State  Archives  in  Boston, 
of  the  Library  of  Congress  in  Washington,  of 
the  Historical  Societies  of  Connecticut,  Penn- 
sylvania, and  Maryland,  and  of  other  less  im- 
portant depositories,  is  of  generous  bulk,  and 
generous  has  been  the  editor's  selection  there- 
from, his  two  volumes  containing  more  than 
eleven  hundred  pages  of  reading  matter.  Con- 
temporary maps,  a  portrait  of  Shirley,  and  other 
illustrative  plates,  together  with  a  useful  intro- 

*  CORBESPONDENCE   OF   WlLLIAM  SHIRLEY,    Governor  of 

Massachusetts  and  Military  Commander  in  America.  1731- 
1760.  Edited  under  the  auspices  of  the  National  Society  of 
the  Colonial  Dames  of  America.  By  Charles  Henry  Lin- 
coln, Ph.D.  In  two  volumes.  Illustrated.  New  York :  The 
Macmillan  Co. 


duction,  frequent  footnotes,  and  a  fourteen-page 
index,  are  added. 

What  is  most  striking  in  a  general  survey  of 
Shirley's  life  is  the  generous  breadth,  the  all- 
roundness,  so  to  speak,  the  open-mindedness 
and  many-sidedness,  of  the  man.  Above  all,  he 
seems  to  have  preserved  his  name  untarnished 
amid  all  the  inevitable  jealousies  and  contentions 
inseparable  from  high  public  office.  His  sense 
of  honor  appears  in  his  refusal,  in  1733,  of  the 
post  of  Judge  of  Admiralty,  an  office  that  he  felt 
he  could  not  accept  because  its  incumbency  de- 
pended on  the  good  will  of  the  local  legislative 
assembly,  and  he  therefore  feared  he  could  not 
impartially  maintain  the  rights  of  the  Crown. 
"  So  that,"  he  says  in  his  letter  of  declination  to 
the  Duke  of  Newcastle,  "to  have  accepted  this 
post  in  it's  present  situation,  would  have  reduc'd 
me  to  the  hard  Choice  of  sacrificing  the  Court 
to  a  mean  popularity,  or  making  a  sacrifice  of 
myself  in  the  defence  of  it ;  the  first  neither  hon- 
ourable nor  honest,  and  the  last  not  prudent." 

The  letters  selected  for  publication  cover  the 
period  from  1731  to  1760,  and  are  written  to 
and  from  the  Duke  of  Newcastle,  the  Lords  of 
Trade,  the  General  Court  of  Massachusetts,  Sir 
William  Pepperrell,  Governor  William  Greene 
of  Rhode  Island,  Sir  William  Johnson,  and 
many  others.  There  are  also  letters  between  Mrs. 
Shirley  and  the  Duke  of  Newcastle  in  reference 
to  the  advancement  of  Shirley's  fortunes  in  the 
administration  of  the  colony.  Under  date  of 
August  23,  1741,  we  find  a  letter  of  acknowl- 
edgment from  the  newly  appointed  Governor  to 
the  English  minister  whose  influence  with  the 
Crown  had  secured  him  the  post.  After  express- 
ing his  sense  of  obligation  to  Newcastle,  the 
writer  continues  in  a  strain  that  gives  some  idea 
of  the  difficulties  and  vexations  he  had  to  en- 
counter in  accepting  the  proffered  position.  In 
one  sentence  of  portentous  length,  and  in  the 
epistolary  style  of  his  time,  Shirley  thus  depicts 
the  situation: 

"  I  am  sensible,  My  Lord  Duke,  that  I  am  now  ent- 
ring  upon  the  Governmt  of  a  province,  where  Col. 
Shute  quitted  the  Chair,  &  Mr.  Burnett  broke  his  heart 
thro  the  Temper  and  Opposition  of  the  people ;  &  Mr. 
Belcher  in  the  midst  of  his  Countrymen  fail'd  of  carry- 
ing any  one  of  those  points  for  the  Crown,  wch  might 
have  been  expected  from  him;  and  that  I  enter  upon  it 
at  a  time,  when  an  empty  Treasury,  an  Aversion  in  the 
House  of  Representatives  to  supply  it  conformably  to 
his  Majy's  last  Instructions;  a  weak  and  Ruinous  Con- 
dition of  their  Fortifications,  a  bad  Spirit  rais'd  through- 
out the  Country  by  the  Land  Bank  Scheme,  by  means 
of  it's  being  conniv'd  at  here  in  it's  first  rise,  remaining 
uncheck'd  so  long,  that  the  imprudt  manner  of  endeav- 
ouring to  check  it  here  afterwards  by  those  who  were 


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at  the  same  time  endeavouring  to  support  &  countenance 
it  at  home  thro  Mr.  Partridge,  only  inflamed  it;  &  Mr. 
Belcher's  constant  acceptance  from  year  to  year  of  a 
Diminished  Salary,  after  he  had  obtained  leave  to  take 
it  without  insisting  upon  his  Majesty's  Instruction  on 
that  head,  the  value  of  wch  is  by  that  means  sunk  from 
abt  1000  1.  Sterl.  wch  had  been  allow'd  by  the  Genl 
Court  to  Governr  Burnett  and  himself  with  a  promise  to 
the  former  of  'em  to  continue  as  ample  an  Allowance, 
down  to  the  Value  of  650  1.  Sterl.  wch  seems  to  have 
been  done  by  him  with  some  particular  View  of  his  own, 
to  secure  his  station  by  the  smallness  of  his  Salary;  are 
what  make  up  the  present  Scene  of  Affairs  in  the  pro- 
vince, whereupon  the  House  of  Representatives  tell  me 
in  their  Address,  that  they  are  concern'd  my  Accession 
to  the  Chair  should  be  attended  with  such  Difficulties." 

The  next  event  of  supreme  importance 
touched  upon  in  the  letters  is  the  capture  of 
Louisburg,  a  difficult  military  operation  in 
which  little  aid  was  received  or  indeed  ex- 
pected from  the  mother  country,  and  which 
owed  its  success  chiefly  to  Shirley's  ability  in 
arousing  the  martial  enthusiasm  of  New  En- 
gland, in  adjusting  the  differences  between 
Admiral  Sir  Peter  Warren  and  Sir  William 
Pepperrell,  and  in  conceiving  and  causing  to 
be  executed  a  bold  and  brilliant  plan  of  attack. 
"Probably  every  prudent  strategist  would  have 
deemed  the  scheme  foolhardy,"  says  Mr.  J.  A. 
Doyle  in  his  sketch  of  Shirley's  life ;  and  Shirley 
himself  allows  his  sense  of  the  splendid  success 
achieved  in  the  face  of  formidable  obstacles  to 
appear  underneath  the  modesty  and  restraint 
of  his  language  in  communicating  the  event  to 
the  Lords  of  Trade.  He  says,  in  concluding 
his  brief  account  of  the  action: 

"  Upon  the  whole,  I  hope  when  it  is  considered  that 
3,600  raw  New  England  Troops,  supported  by  His 
Majesty's  Ships  to  the  seaward,  have  reduc'd  one  of 
the  French  King's  strongest  and  most  important  Fort- 
resses, having  in  it  a  Garrison  of  near  600  regular 
Troops,  and  about  1400  Effective  Men  under  Arms 
besides,  with  the  Loss  of  not  quite  100  men  on  our 
side,  and  killing  near  the  same  number  of  the  Enemy 
within  the  Walls  during  the  Siege  (many  of  them  with 
their  Small  Arms)  I  may  be  permitted  to  say  in  Justice 
to  His  Majesty's  New  England  Subjects  that  their  be- 
haviour has  done  no  dishonour  to  his  Arms." 

In  far  more  self -applausive  vein,  knowing  the 
temper  of  those  he  is  addressing,  does  Gov- 
ernor Shirley  proclaim  to  the  Penobscot  and 
Norridgewock  Indians  the  signal  victory  of  the 
English  and  colonial  forces  over  the  perfidious 
French,  and  the  expectations  entertained  as  to 
the  future  policy  of  the  red  men.  He  thus  con- 
cludes : 

"This  Intelligence  we  Send  you  that  you  may  not 
be  deluded  by  the  French  or  St.  Johns  &  Nova  Scotia 
Indians  that  may  Sollicit  you  to  break  your  Friendship 
with  us  to  your  own  ruin.  We  have  been  your  faithful 
Friends,  and  your  Traffick  with  us  has  been  much  more 


for  your  Advantage  than  your  Trade  with  the  French 
and  you  may  still  live  easy  with  us,  &  free  from  the 
distress  &  danger  of  War  if  you  please  but  if  not,  & 
you  will  let  the  French  &  the  Indians  in  their  Interest 
deceive  &  Seduce  you  &  you  will  perfidiously  break 
your  Solemn  League  with  us,  we  doubt  not  but  the 
Great  God  who  is  the  Avenger  of  all  such  Wickedness 
and  has  so  remarkably  punished  our  Treacherous 
Enemys  the  French  will  stand  by  us  &  give  us  Success 
for  the  punishing  your  perfidiousness,  but  if  you  are 
willing  to  Enjoy  the  Benefits  of  peace  with  us,  we  Shall 
Expect  that  you  will  Send  two  or  three  of  your  chief 
Captains  to  Confirm  the  Friendship  between  Us,  and  if 
any  of  your  people  stand  in  fear  of  the  French  and 
therefore  want  protection  for  themselves  and  their 
Familys  and  will  come  to  Boston,  we  will  take  care  of 
them,  I  Expect  that  you  Send  me  your  answer  without 
delay." 

After  General  Braddock's  untimely  end,  the 
command  of  all  the  British  forces  in  America 
devolved  upon  Shirley,  who  just  then  was  per- 
sonally engaged  in  leading  the  unsuccessful 
expedition  against  Fort  Niagara.  He  seems 
to  have  had  friction  in  his  relations  with  the 
masterful  Sir  William  Johnson,  and  as  even  a 
jaundiced  view  of  our  hero  may  help  to  a  better 
knowledge  of  his  character,  let  us  quote  a  few 
lines,  here  and  there,  from  Johnson's  indignant 
appeal  to  the  Lords  of  Trade. 

"  Govr.  Shirleys  conduct  not  only  shook  the  system 
of  Indian  affairs,  gave  me  fresh  vexation  and  perplexity, 
but  occasioned  considerable  and  additional  Expenses 
which  would  otherwise  have  been  saved;  .  .  .  From 
Govr.  Shirley's  late  Behaviour  and  his  Letters  to  me 
I  am  under  no  doubt  that  he  is  become  my  inveterate 
enemy  and  that  the  whole  weight  of  his  Powers  and 
abilities  will  be  exerted  to  blast  if  he  can  my  Character 
—  here  and  here  only  am  I  anxious.  Gross  Falsehoods 
(such  as  he  has  already  asserted  in  his  letters  to  me,) 
artful  misrepresentations,  Deliberate  malice,  Resent- 
ment worked  up  by  People  in  his  confidence,  whose 
Interest,  nay  whose  very  livelihood  depends  upon  their 
inflaming  him  —  these  my  Lords  are  circumstances 
which  I  own  disturb  me.  .  .  .  From  Govr.  Shirley's 
ill  grounded  resentment,  from  the  imperious  stile  he 
writes  to  me  since  Genl.  Braddock's  death,  from  his 
threatning  intimations  and  his  temper,  I  am  confirmed 
in  this  lesson,  that  a  subordinate  power  here  with  regard 
to  Indian  Affairs  .  .  .  will  be  incompatible  with  my 
abilities  and  inclinations  to  conduct  them." 

Evidently  there  was  not  room  on  the  same  con- 
tinent for  both  Shirley  and  Johnson,  although 
Shirley's  relations  with  other  prominent  men 
and  high  officials  in  the  colonies  were  remark- 
ably harmonious.  His  requests  for  advice  from 
Franklin  and  the  latter's  high  opinion  of  him 
help  to  establish  his  reputation  as  a  wise  and 
just  administrator.  The  circumstances  of  his 
recall  and  his  attitude  toward  both  his  successor 
and  the  home  government  also  go  far  to  confirm 
our  favorable  opinion  of  him  as  one  who  con- 
trolled his  passions  and  nursed  no  ignoble  resent- 


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merits.  His  subsequent  governorship  of  the 
Bahamas,  and  his  return  to  Massachusetts  to 
pass  the  last  year  of  his  life  in  the  then  rural 
seclusion  of  Roxbury,  are  matters  not  touched 
upon  in  Mr.  Lincoln's  volumes,  except  that  one 
short  letter  from  the  Bahamas  is  printed  at  the 
very  end,  and  brief  mention  of  Shirley's  last 
years  is  made  in  the  Introduction. 

That  portion  of  the  public  whom  the  Colonial 
Dames  and  Mr.  Lincoln  seek  to  interest  in  this 
conspicuously  able  and  energetic  colonial  gov- 
ernor will  not  be  disappointed  in  the  manner 
his  letters  have  been  presented  for  their  enter- 
tainment and  instruction  ;  and  the  volumes  will 
be  the  more  welcome  since,  apart  from  his 
own  correspondence,  no  extended  account  of 
Shirley's  life  and  public  services  is  to  be  found 
in  print.  The  preparation  of  a  formal  biography 
has  been  greatly  facilitated  by  Mr.  Lincoln's 


labors. 


PERCY  F.  BICKNELL. 


Ox  CANADA'S  REMOTE  FRONTIERS.* 


In  four  recent  volumes  of  travels  we  are 
taken  from  the  extreme  northwest  to  the  extreme 
northeast  of  Canada;  from  the  valley  of  the 
Yukon  to  Cape  Chidley  at  the  entrance  to 
Hudson  Straits.  Though  they  vary  greatly  in 
everything  else  that  goes  to  make  up  the  real 
value  of  a  book,  they  all  possess  at  least  the 
merit  of  being  first-hand  narratives.  Mr. 
Tollemache's  book  describes  his  hunting  and 
trapping  experiences  on  the  upper  waters  of  the 
Yukon ;  Sir  John  Rogers  tells  us  of  his  sporting 
adventures  on  Vancouver  Island  and  Newfound- 
land; Mr.  Cabot  gives  an  account  of  several  at- 
tempts to  penetrate  the  interior  of  the  Labrador 
peninsula ;  and  Dr.  Hutton  reveals  the  life  of  a 
doctor  among  the  Eskimo.  Taken  as  contribu- 
tions to  literature,  the  first  may  be  described  as 
poor ;  the  second  as  mediocre ;  the  third  as  good ; 
and  the  last  as  a  book  in  a  thousand.  All  four 
writers  have  chosen  fields  that  had  been  already 
visited  and  described  by  others,  but  the  results 
are  vastly  different.  It  may  be  taken  as  an 
axiom  that  no  man  is  justified  in  imposing  upon 
a  long-suffering  public  his  experiences  in  a 
familiar  region  unless  those  experiences  add 

*  REMINISCENCES  OF  THE  YUKON.  By  Stratford  Tollem- 
ache.  Illustrated.  New  York :  Longmans,  Green  &  Co. 

SPORT  IN  VANCOUVER  AND  NEWFOUNDLAND.  By  Sir 
John  Rogers.  Illustrated.  New  York :  E.  P.  Button  «fe  Co. 

IN  NORTHERN  LABRADOR.  By  William  Brooks  Cabot. 
Illustrated.  Boston :  Richard  G.  Badger. 

AMONG  THE  ESKIMOS  OF  LABRADOR.  By  Dr.  S.  K. 
Hutton.  Illustrated.  Philadelphia:  J.  B.  Lippincott  Co. 


something  new,  and  worth  while,  to  the  sum  of 
human  knowledge. 

Mr.  Tollemache  admits  that  many  books  on 
the  Yukon  had  appeared  previous  to  his  own, 
and  that  the  subject  had  become  somewhat 
hackneyed ;  but  he  urges,  modestly  enough,  that 
he  had  become  acquainted  with  incidents  and 
methods  of  life  in  that  remote  region  which  he 
had  not  seen  printed  in  other  volumes.  His 
narrative  hardly  bears  out  the  promise.  It  is 
for  the  most  part  an  account  of  trapping  adven- 
tures, fur-trading  and  travelling  on  the  Pelly, 
McMillan,  and  other  upper  waters  of  the  Yukon, 
which  have  been  at  least  as  well  described  by 
other  travellers.  His  account  of  the  Klondyke 
boom,  the  mining  camps,  the  dance-halls  in 
Dawson,  and  other  features  of  Yukon  life  a  few 
years  ago,  has  of  course  been  covered  by  a  score 
of  earlier  writers.  Finally,  when  he  deals  with 
facts  outside  his  own  particular  line  of  vision, 
Mr.  Tollemache  is  all  at  sea.  He  expresses 
amazement  at  the  sale  of  Alaska  by  Russia  for 
"such  an  absurdly  small  figure,"  evidently  alto- 
gether ignorant  of  the  history  of  that  interest- 
ing transaction.  He  tells  us  that  "the  term 
'  capitalist '  is  a  common  denomination  in  Canada 
and  the  United  States,  and  may  include  anyone 
possessing  $100  or  more  in  ready  cash."  Fi- 
nally, he  affords  the  interesting  bit  of  informa- 
tion that  "Quebec,  in  Eastern  Canada,  forms  the 
principal  resort  of  the  French  Canadians." 

"Sport  in  Vancouver  and  Newfoundland"  is 
essentially  the  narrative  of  an  enthusiastic  fisher- 
man. To  anyone  interested  in  sporting  adven- 
tures in  out-of-the-way  corners  of  the  earth,  Sir 
John  Rogers's  book  cannot  prove  otherwise  than 
entertaining.  He  is  not  only  a  keen  sportsman, 
with  all  the  true  sportsman's  relish  for  the  de- 
tails of  fishing-tackle,  weather  conditions,  camp 
equipment,  and  weight  of  fish,  but  he  has  also  a 
thorough  appreciation  of  scenery.  This  passage, 
written  after  an  unsuccessful  day  with  the  sal- 
mon, is  a  good  example  of  his  descriptive  style. 

"  The  row  home  that  evening  compensated  for  every- 
thing. The  sun  was  setting  behind  the  snow-covered 
peaks  of  the  Vancouver  Mountains,  bare  and  cold  below 
the  snow-line,  but  gradually  clothed  with  foliage  down 
the  slopes  until  the  dense  pine  forest  of  the  plain  be- 
tween the  mountains  and  the  sea  was  reached,  from 
which  the  evening  mists  were  beginning  to  rise.  In 
the  foreground,  the  sea,  like  molten  glass,  reflected  the 
exquisite  colouring  of  the  northern  sunset,  its  surface 
broken  by  the  eddies  of  the  making  tide,  or  the  occa- 
sional splash  of  a  leaping  salmon.  Across  the  straits  on 
the  Mainland,  the  tops  of  the  great  mountains  clothed 
with  eternal  snow  were  lit  up  a  rose-pink  by  the  rays  of 
the  setting  sun.  I  have  seldom  seen  a  more  beautiful 
scene,  or  one  which  gave  such  a  deep  sense  of  peace." 


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"It  has  been  said  by  someone,"  says  Mr. 
William  Brooks  Cabot,  "that  all  the  places 
now  unexplored  were  so  miserably  bad  that  no 
one  would  care  to  have  anything  to  do  with 
them."  Mr.  Cabot  found  the  caribou  country 
of  northeastern  Labrador  not  a  bad  region  to 
wander  in,  and  the  natives  well  worth  visiting. 
These  two  motives — the  call  of  the  wilderness, 
and  especially  the  unexplored  wilderness,  and 
the  fascinating  study  of  a  race  still  in  almost  its 
primitive  state — drew  Mr.  Cabot  to  Labrador 
year  after  year  between  1904  and  1910,  and 
furnished  the  very  interesting  material  which 
he  has  embodied  in  his  book.  He  has  not  only 
given  us  a  great  deal  of  really  valuable  infor- 
mation as  to  the  geography  of  a  little-known 
region,  but  he  has  brought  together  much  that 
was  new  as  to  the  character  and  customs  of  the 
Indians  of  Labrador,  "  a  little  group  of  a  race 
high  in  personality,  yet  living  substantially  in 
the  pre-Columbian  age  of  the  continent,"  and 
he  has  added  materially  to  what  was  known  of 
the  fauna  of  that  region.  Incidentally,  he 
speaks  feelingly  and  eloquently  of  the  numbers, 
enterprise,  and  penetrating  qualities  of  the 
Labrador  mosquito.  But  perhaps  more  than 
all  else  he  is  filled  with  the  lure,  the  charm  of 
wild  places,  and  he  is  able  to  bring  much  of  it 
home  to  his  readers.  In  taking  leave  of  the 
bleak,  inhospitable  land,  which  nevertheless  he 
had  found  so  full  of  interest  and  fascination,  he 
says: 

"  It  was  a  time  of  reckoning  for  me,  the  turning  over 
of  what  had  been  in  my  Labrador  years  the  stringing 
of  beads  that  should  always  a  little  shine.  Some  of 
these  had  seemed  clouded  in  the  gathering,  but  in 
the  reverie  of  those  final  days  they  were  lighted  all. 
Though  never  the  world  again  were  young,  there  had 
been  days.  Coast  and  inland  —  inland  and  coast.  The 
early  hard  days  on  the  mainland,  the  hills  and  valleys 
alone,  the  calm  of  the  noble  bays;  their  silence,  broken 
only  by  the  rise  of  wings;  Tuh-pungiuk  and  Un'sekat 
and  Opetik;  and  the  strong  opposing  sea.  The  rolling 
barrens,  the  hills  of  the  height  of  land.  The  tall,  grave 
people  there,  the  smiling  strong  ones  here;  the  aurora 
and  the  bergs  and  the  innumerable  insect  foe.  Long 
days  and  twilight  nights,  dark  nights  and  stormy  days ; 
the  sunshine  on  the  sea  and  the  white-backed  eiders' 
charge.  So  my  string  was  strung.  Always  for  me  now 
would  return  the  gray  barrens,  stretching  far  and  on, 
always  the  lakes  and  the  lodge-smokes  on  their  shores. 
Always  would  the  people  watch  the  deer,  always  stand 
silent  at  the  shore,  as  friends  would  wave  as  they  go; 
the  land  be  ever  theirs.  The  light  that  has  been  never 
quite  fails  the  wilderness  traveller;  his  feet  may  remain 
afar,  but  his  mind  returns 

'  Where  the  caribou  are  standing: 
On  the  gilded  hills  of  morning, 
Where  the  white  moss  meets  the  footstep 
And  the  way  is  long  before.'" 


Dr.  Hutton's  book,  "  Among  the  Eskimos  of 
Labrador,"  is  a  rare  interpretation  of  a  most 
interesting  type  of  mankind  —  the  Eskimo  of 
the  Moravian  Missions.  One  feels  instinct- 
ively, without  knowing  anything  more  of  him 
than  is  revealed  in  his  book,  that  Dr.  Hutton 
is  very  much  such  a  man  as  Dr.  Grenfell  — 
strong,  manly,  sympathetic,  gifted  with  plenty 
of  common-sense,  with  the  elusive  quality  that 
wins  confidence  everywhere,  and  with  that  salt 
that  adds  a  savor  to  every  character,  redeeming 
the  mean  or  poor,  enriching  the  good,  human- 
izing the  great  —  the  saving  gift  of  humor. 
That  he  can  also  write  a  book  that  is  worth 
while,  we  now  have  evidence.  He  has  indeed 
given  us  something  that  will  live  when  thou- 
sands of  contemporary  books  have  been  for- 
gotten. And  this  is  not  because  his  book  has 
any  marked  literary  charm,  or  elaborates  any 
particular  theory  of  human  conduct ;  but  rather 
because  it  is  a  true,  simple,  and  direct  narrative 
of  the  life  of  a  good  and  strong  man,  and  of  the 
child-like  people  to  whom  he  ministered.  Dr. 
Hutton  has  shown  us  the  inner  life  of  the 
Eskimo,  and  his  real  personality — the  life  and 
personality  which  are  hidden  from  the  casual  vis- 
itor to  the  Labrador ;  he  has  shown  us  his  home, 
his  family,  the  things  that  are  vital  to  him,  his 
outlook  upon  his  own  small  world  and  the  mys- 
terious beyond ;  and  he  has  succeeded  in  making 
the  Eskimo  of  Hebron  and  Nain  and  Raman 
and  Okak  an  altogether  likable  personality. 

Dr.  Hutton's  book  is  one  that  lends  itself 
peculiarly  to  quotation.  In  fact,  it  is  in  this 
respect  embarrassing  to  the  reviewer.  One  finds 
so  much  that  would  bear  repeating,  that  it  is 
difficult  to  pick  and  choose.  The  building  of 
the  hospital  was  a  great  event  at  Okak,  and 
brought  a  curious  medley  of  patients.  Says 
Dr.  Hutton: 

"  I  remember  how  old  Rebekah  came  one  day,  nurs- 
ing a  wounded  hand.  She  is  one  of  the  stateliest  of  the 
village  grandmothers,  an  active  old  woman  of  sixty-five, 
with  her  teeth  nearly  worn  to  the  gums;  but,  old  as  she 
is,  she  is  well  able  to  take  an  oar  in  a  boat  —  or  a  pair, 
for  the  matter  of  that  —  and  thinks  nothing  of  trudging 
to  and  from  the  woods,  five  miles  away,  to  fetch  broken 
branches  to  replenish  her  stove.  With  proper  Eskimo 
dignity  she  came  in  and  sat  down,  and  composed  herself 
to  tell  her  tale;  and  all  the  while  she  was  hugging  her 
left  hand,  swathed  in  a  red  bandanna  handkerchief. 

"'I  was  making  boots  just  now,'  she  said,  'and  the 
leather-knife  slipped  and  cut  my  thumb.  Ai-ai,  it 
bled  very  much,  and  it  was  nearly  cut  off;  but  I  had 
my  boot-needle  threaded  with  isalo  (reindeer-sinew), 
and  I  sewed  my  thumb  with  that,  so  that  it  no  longer 
bleeds;  and  now  I  have  come  to  let  you  bind  it  up.'  And 
there  and  then  the  old  woman  unwrapped  her  handker- 


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chief  and  displayed  her  hand,  with  a  long  wound  neatly 
sewed  up,  stitch  upon  stitch,  in  proper  bootmaker's  style. 
"  This  serves  to  illustrate  the  native  indifference  to 
pain;  and  even  in  the  worst  of  sufferings  their  attitude 
is  the  same.  I  have  seen  them,  men  and  women,  in 
dingy  little  huts  and  in  leaky  calico  tents,  lying  on  rough 
beds  of  moss  and  reindeer  skins,  silent  and  uncomplain- 
ing, though  their  faces  were  blanched  and  the  beads  of 
perspiration  stood  out  under  the  strain  of  physical  suf- 
fering. The  very  thought  calls  forth  one's  sympathy; 
and  the  pictures  that  crowd  before  me  as  I  write  —  pic- 
tures of  people  toiling  up  the  steps  of  the  new  hospital, 
with  the  marks  of  pain  on  their  faces  and  a  dumb  and 
eager  hopefulness  shining  in  their  eyes — has  left  an 
impression  on  my  mind  that  time  will  never  efface.  A 
strangely  attractive  folk:  with  children's  fears  and  child- 
hood's quaint  ideas,  and  childhood's  whims  and  fancies 
and  unreasoning  demands,  but  with  a  manly  bravery  in 
the  face  of  pain  or  danger,  and  a  manly  mastery  of  the 
terrible  rigours  of  their  daily  work,  that  call  for  admir- 
ation." 

On  another  occasion,  Dr.  Hutton  was  in 
Nain,  and  an  urgent  message  came  from  Okak 
that  a  boy  had  been  brought  in  to  the  hospital 
with  a  compound  fracture.  It  was  important  to 
go  at  once,  but  the  dogs  were  out  of  condition, 
and  a  bad  storm  was  coming  up.  The  old 
Eskimo  schoolmaster  urged  him  not  to  attempt 
the  journey.  "You  will  all  be  lost,"  he  said. 

"  His  concern  was  real,  so  I  called  my  drivers.  'What 
do  you  say?'  I  asked  them.  'Are  you  willing  to  go?' 

" ' Illale '  (of  course),  they  said.  '  Ready,'  said  I,  ' go 
ahead.'  The  dogs  slowly  raised  themselves  on  their 
legs,  and  whined  as  they  trotted  along  the  bumpy  path 
toward  the  sea-ice;  and  the  heavy  wrack  of  the  north- 
ern storm  came  bowling  along  to  meet  us.  <  Aksuse! ' 
shouted  the  people, '  be  strong ' ;  and  we  waved  our  hands 
and  shouted  back.  Then  they  began  to  sing. 

"  There  is  a  lump  in  my  throat  and  a  mist  in  my  eyes 
even  now,  when  I  think  of  that  scene :  just  a  crowd  of 
rough  Eskimos,  people  whose  grandfathers  had  been 
heathen  and  wild,  singing  a  hymn  of 'God-speed  as  we 
set  out  on  our  dangerous  errand. 

" '  Takkotigelfirminiptingnut 
Gude  illagilisetSk,' 

they  sang,  and  the  charmingly  balanced  harmony  came 
fainter  and  ever  fainter  as  the  wind  began  to  sigh  about 
us  and  the  snow  to  beat  on  our  faces.  '  God  be  with 
you  till  we  meet  again,'- — -and  we  settled  confidently 
to  our  task." 

It  is  one  of  many  interesting  points  brought 
out  in  Dr.  Hutton's  narrative,  that  the  Eskimos, 
although  they  have  no  native  music,  no  tradi- 
tional tunes,  no  folk-songs  of  their  own,  have  a 
natural  taste  for  music,  with  good  voices  and 
an  instinctive  feeling  for  harmony.  Jerry  the 
native  Okak  organist,  is  described  as  a  really 
clever  musician,  with  a  remarkable  command  of 
several  instruments  besides  his  organ;  while 
Nathaniel,  the  Nain  schoolmaster,  one  of  the 
most  cultured  of  the  Eskimos,  has  composed 
an  anthem  in  four  parts,  which  was  sung  by  the 
Eskimo  choir.  Dr.  Hutton  concludes : 


"  I  lay  my  pen  aside  with  my  mind  still  full  of  the 
memories  that  are  so  vivid  to  me.  Brown,  smiling 
faces  pass  before  me;  familiar  names  sound  in  my  ears; 
bright  eyes  look  into  mine;  musical  voices  sing  outside 
my  window;  gruff  shouts  echo  as  the  boys  come  sliding 
down  the  hill;  Jerry  and  his  bandsmen  march  along, 
waking  the  village  with  their  trumpet  notes;  the  poor 
girl  on  the  bed  of  reindeer  skins  whispers  her  '  Nako- 
mek '  (how  thankful) ;  the  crowd  on  the  slope  of  the 
frozen  beach  sings  me  off  into  the  storm;  the  voice  of 
little  Johannes  calls  aboye  the  whining  of  the  dog ;  and 
as  I  bid  adieu  to  my  neighbours  the  Eskimos,  I  pass  on 
to  my  reader  the  noble  old  greeting  that  I  heard  so 
often  — '  Aksunai.'" 

One  or  two  quotations  such  as  these  can  give 
but  a  very  inadequate  idea  of  what  is  really  a 
remarkable  narrative;  but  they  may  at  least 
serve  to  suggest  the  character  of  the  author,  and 
of  the  curious  little  community  clinging  so  ten- 
aciously to  its  rocky  and  desolate-looking  home 
on  the  extreme  north-eastern  coast  of  America. 

LAWRENCE  J.  BURPEE. 


Two  MERCHANT  MARINERS  OF 
SINGAPORE.* 


May  a  kindly  fate  deliver  our  descendants 
from  stale  and  flat  uniformity  of  language, 
dress,  and  manners,  in  all  regions  of  the  earth. 
Though  few  nooks  and  corners  of  the  world  are 
still  unvisited  by  the  prying  eyes  of  the  explorer 
and  the  glob-trotter,  we  are  yet  free  from  that 
uniformity  which  seems  to  threaten  the  twenty- 
first  century.  The  polar  regions  are  to-day 
sternly  alluring  to  bold  hearts.  There  are  re- 
gions of  Asia  and  Africa  still  unexplored.  And 
the  perennial  fascination  of  the  peculiar  and  the 
picturesque  still  inheres  in  the  less  forward  na- 
tions of  the  world.  That  special  sort  of  romance 
belonging  to  the  story  of  the  adventurous  trader 
in  far  seas  and  remote  lands  bids  fair  soon  to 
vanish  in  the  presence  of  steamship,  railway, 
and  other  universal  levellers,  but  it  has  thus  far 
not  quite  disappeared.  Just  because  it  is  about 
to  die  out  of  the  world,  we  take  added  delight 
in  present-day  instances  of  merchant-mariner's 
romance. 

A  most  interesting  example  is  the  life-story 
of  John  Dill  Ross  and  his  son  and  namesake, 
traders  in  the  Indian  Ocean  from  the  early 
decades  of  the  nineteenth  century  almost  until 
the  present.  "Sixty  Years'  Life  and  Adven- 
ture in  the  Orient"  professes  to  be  an  account 
of  the  life  of  Captain  John  Dillon  Northwood 
and  of  that  of  his  son  up  to  his  retirement  from 

*  SIXTY  YEARS'  LIFE  AND  ADVENTURE  IN  THE  FAR  EAST. 
By  John  Dill  Ross.  In  two  volumes.  Illustrated.  New  York: 
E.  P.  Button  &  Co. 


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the  oriental  trade ;  but  the  modest  disguise  does 
not  conceal  the  true  persons,  Captain  Ross  and 
the  author,  Mr.  John  Dill  Ross,  now  of  London. 
Beginning  with  a  history  of  the  British  influence 
in  Borneo  in  the  person  of  that  remarkable 
Rajah  Brooke,  the  book  relates  in  vivid  and 
always  entertaining  manner  the  life-story  of 
Captain  Northwood  from  his  birth  on  an  island 
in  the  China  Sea,  his  schooling  in  the  home  of 
a  clergyman  in  Australia,  his  marriage  and  first 
romantic  sea-venture — a  voyage  in  a  diminutive 
sailing  vessel  from  the  China  Sea  to  Australia — 
through  his  merchant  career  as  trader  and  ship- 
owner doing  business  between  Borneo,  the  Moluc- 
cas, and  Singapore.  After  the  death  of  Captain 
Northwood  the  son  continued  his  father's  career 
through  a  number  of  years  filled  with  pictur- 
esque experiences,  until  he  was  stricken  down  by 
deadly  tropical  fever  and  invalided  home.  The 
story  of  the  elder  North  wood's  career  never  flags 
in  entertainment.  He  was  a  man  fit  to  have 
sailed  with  Drake  in  pursuit  of  Spanish  gal- 
leons,— bold,  quick-witted,  ready  in  emergency, 
persistent  always  till  he  gained  his  prize.  But 
his  personality  is  delightful  not  because  of  these 
traits  alone,  but  by  reason  of  their  constant  asso- 
ciation with  generosity,  fair-mindedness,  and  the 
manners  of  a  gentleman.  The  story  is  replete 
with  episodes  of  keen  interest  or  amusement,  and 
the  shrewd  and  magnanimous  Captain  always 
proves  equal  to  the  occasion,  whether  it  be  fight- 
ing pirates — without  killing  any  if  he  could 
avoid  it — or  gracefully  getting  rid  of  the  viva- 
cious wife  of  a  Dutch  planter  and  capitalist 
after  Captain  Northwood  had  sailed  away  from 
Borneo,  unaware  that  the  lady  had  been  rendered 
drowsy  by  wine,  and,  instead  of  accompanying 
her  lord  and  his  party  off  the  ship,  had  remained 
asleep  on  a  lounge  in  the  saloon.  The  Captain 
develops,  as  the  story  proceeds,  into  an  admir- 
able personification  of  the  best  British  virtues, 
and  the  biographer  wins  the  sympathy  of  the 
reader  for  the  tough  and  yet  tender  old  sea- 
man when  his  large  fortune  is  suddenly  lost, 
and  holds  an  ever  deepening  interest  to  the  end 
of  his  heroic  and  honorable  struggle  to  restore 
the  loss. 

The  story  of  the  author's  own  career  in  the 
Orient  is  also  entertaining,  but  it  lacks  the  two 
elements  of  interest  inhering  in  that  of  the 
father — remoteness  in  time  and  picturesque 
character.  Indeed,  it  might  have  been  wiser  to 
make  two  books  instead  of  two  volumes.  The 
unity  of  each  would  have  been  more  satisfac- 
tory, and  the  antique  nature  of  the  first  would 
not  have  detracted  from  the  modern  quality  of 


the  second.  As  the  two  volumes,  however,  are 
easy  reading,  one  can  heartily  commend  the 
story  to  summer  readers  in  the  mountains,  and 
especially  by  the  sea,  with  which  it  is  so  intim- 
ately concerned.  O<  D>  WANNAMAKER. 


ATHENS  IN  DECLINE.* 


Historians  of  Greece  usually  close  their  nar- 
rative with  the  death  of  Alexander  the  Great 
(323  B.C.),  the  date  from  which  foreign  influ- 
ence began  to  work  more  and  more  powerfully 
in  Hellas  until  the  over-lordship  of  Rome  was 
clinched  by  the  capture  of  Corinth  by  the  con- 
sul Mummius  (146  B.  c.)  and  the  sack  of  Athens 
by  Sulla  (86  B.C.).  This  intervening  period  of 
nearly  two  centuries  was,  for  Athens  particu- 
larly, marked  by  a  steady  decline  in  military  and 
political  prestige.  We  see  the  once  imperial  city 
coquetting  with  the  various  successors  of  Alex- 
ander, surrendering  item  after  item  of  her  ma- 
terial strength,  and  retaining  only  the  intellectual 
and  artistic  primacy  of  which  neither  Antioch  nor 
Alexandria  nor  Pergamon  could  deprive  her. 

In  Professor  Ferguson's  substantial  volume  on 
"  The  Hellenistic  Commonwealth,"  this  transfor- 
mation of  the  city-state  Athens  into  a  municipal- 
ity under  tyrannical  and  imperial  rule  is  traced 
with  much  industry  and  learning,  and  with 
great  minuteness  of  detail.  He  objects  to  the 
dictum  of  Freeman  that  "we  owe  it  to  the  great- 
ness of  Athens  to  study  the  story  of  her  miser- 
able fall,"  and  insists  that  "  no  one  would  now 
think  of  approaching  a  book  on  Hellenistic 
Athens  to  discover  the  secret  of  Athenian  de- 
cline. .  .  that  the  fate  of  Athens  was  settled 
by  the  Peloponnesian  war.  .  .  and  that  who- 
ever believes  with  Freeman  that  history  is  first 
of  all  past  politics  must  no  longer  look  for  the 
supreme  crisis  in  Athenian  affairs  after  Alexan- 
der's time."  Hence  the  compelling  interest  of 
the  Hellenistic  period  will  attach  to  the  above- 
mentioned  transformation  and  to  the  social 
and  economic  conditions  which  grew  out  of  it. 
Athens  was  still,  and  increasingly,  the  centre 
of  culture  ;  but  with  politics  reduced  to  a  futil- 
ity, our  attention  is  fastened  on  the  changes  in 
thought  and  life  which  now  became  manifest. 
The  revelations  of  the  New  Comedy  —  the 
comedy  of  manners  —  show  with  painful  mon- 
otony how  latent  or  subterranean  features  of 
Athenian  life  were  brought  to  the  surface  with 
tropical  rapidity  under  the  tyrannies  of  the  two 

*The  Hellenistic  Commonwealth.  By  William  Scott 
Ferguson.  New  York  :  The  Macmillan  Company. 


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Demetrii  (of  Phalerum  and  Poliorcetes).  In- 
stead of  a  Xenophon  or  a  Thucydides  we  have 
the  plays  of  Menander  or  the  '  Characters '  of 
Theophrastus  as  our  guides  through  the  "far- 
rago of  Attic  life." 

But  the  nobler  side  of  the  Attic  genius  is  not 
neglected  ;  and  to  Professor  Ferguson  we  owe 
a  luminous  description  of  the  four  great  schools 
of  philosophic  thought  —  Plato's  Academy, 
Aristotle's  Peripatos,  Epicurus's  Garden,  and 
Zeno's  Porch;  as  well  as  of  their  successive 
periods  of  influence,  when  philosophers  like 
Xenocrates  andCarneades  (the  "pragmatist/>ar 
excellence  ")  were  placed  at  the  head  of  dip- 
lomatic embassies,  and  ideal  systems  of  thought 
were  appealed  to  for  practical  guidance.. 

A  vivid  though  somewhat  sketchy  picture  of 
the  Athens  of  200  B.  c.  is  afforded  in  an  extract 
from  the  "Notes  on  Greek  Cities"  of  Hera- 
cleides  the  Critic,  cited  at  some  length  by  Profes- 
sor Ferguson,  but  too  long  for  the  reproduction 
of  more  than  a  sentence  or  two. 

"  The  Athenians  are  great-souled,  simple  in  their  man- 
ners, reliable  custodians  of  friendship.  Some  informers 
run  about  in  the  city,  harassing  wealthy  visitors;  but 
should  the  people  catch  them,  theirs  would  be  a  hard 
fate.  The  genuine  Athenians  are  keen  art  critics,  and 
unwearying  patrons  of  plays,  concerts,  and  lectures.  In 
a  word,  Athens  surpasses  other  cities  in  all  that  makes 
for  the  enjoyment  and  betterment  of  life,  by  as  much 
as  other  cities  surpass  the  country." 

Professor  Ferguson's  summary  of  the  whole  pas- 
sage is  suggestive. 

"Athens  is  neither  lawless,  provincial,  nor  romantic. 
She  has  high-minded  gentlemen  and  a  waspish  populace ; 
a  constant  round  of  gaiety  and  ever- threatening  hunger; 
mean,  dusty  streets  and  noble  public  buildings;  good 
taste  and  critical  acumen;  crowds  of  foreigners,  busy 
schools  of  philosophers,  and,  implicit  in  all  else,  the 
blessings  of  peace." 

Most  informing,  perhaps,  is  the  chapter  on 
the  relations  of  Athens  and  Delos.  The  famous 
little  island,  home  of  the  worship  of  Apollo  and 
Artemis,  was  secured  to  Athens  by  the  estab- 
lishment, in  166  B.  c.,  of  an  Athenian  cleruchy, 
or  colony.  To  the  islet's  religious  importance 
was  now  added  commercial  prosperity;  but  the 
masterful  Romans  soon  interfered,  dissolved  the 
Athenian  cleruchy,  and  took  over  the  adminis- 
tration of  Delian  affairs.  The  result  was  to 
make  Delos  entirely  cosmopolitan.  Then  was 
seen,  in  greater  measure  than  ever,  that  curious 
intrusion  of  strange  Oriental  cults  on  the  "pure" 
Hellenic  faiths.  On  the  little  area  of  about 
three  square  miles,  Apollo  and  Artemis  found 
themselves  crowded  by  Sabazius,  Osiris,  Astarte, 
Serapis,  and  Isis.  In  the  elucidation  of  these 


matters  Professor  Ferguson  has  been  greatly 
aided  by  the  work  of  the  French  scholars  who 
have  been  working  at  Delos  for  the  past  forty 
years. 

The  author  has  made  excellent  use  of  the  orig- 
inal and  secondary  sources  —  the  great  corpora 
of  inscriptions,  the  writings  of  Menander,  Poly- 
bius,  Plutarch,  and  Pausanias,  as  well  as  of  all 
modern  scholars  who  have  dealt  with  Hellenistic 
themes.  Citations  occupy  a  portion  of  almost 
every  page,  and  make  the  book  an  admirable 
directory  for  students  of  the  period.  There  is  a 
general  bibliography,  an  excursus  on  the  instru- 
ments of  Athenian  government,  and  a  satisfac- 
tory index.  The  latter  affords  an  opportunity 
for  correcting  a  twice-repeated  misprint ;  others 
might  be  mentioned  on  pages  63,  328,  414, 

and  438. 

JOSIAH  RENICK  SMITH. 


IM  THE  JUNGLES  OF  TROPICAL, 
AMERICA.* 


The  rapid  increase  of  automobiles  in  civilized 
countries  in  the  last  decade  has  tremendously  en- 
larged the  consumption  of  rubber,  advanced  its 
price,  and  stimulated  the  search  for  new  sources 
of  the  crude  gum  and  the  fuller  exploitation  of 
known  fields  of  production.  The  effort  to  find 
by  synthetic  chemistry  an  adequate  substitute 
which  is  commercially  available  has  thus  far 
failed. 

As  a  pebble  thrown  into  a  pond  creates  rip- 
ples which  in  ever- widening  circles  press  toward 
the  remoter  parts  and  reach  finally  every  nook 
and  corner,  so  the  demand  for  rubber  has  carried 
the  civilization  of  today  into  the  most  distant 
parts  of  the  tropics,  diluted,  weakened,  distorted, 
but  still  effective  in  shaping  the  activities  and 
directing  the  daily  life  of  the  remotest  savage 
tribe,  and  taking  here,  as  in  furnace  and  factory, 
its  toll  of  human  lives. 

To  what  an  extent  the  demand  for  rubber  has 
developed  commerce,  opened  the  jungle,  carried 
men  of  force  and  education  as  well  as  the  trader 
and  the  half-civilized  native  into  the  tropical 
wilderness  of  the  head-waters  of  the  Amazon, 
may  be  gathered  from  a  perusal  of  Mr.  Algot 
Lange's  "In  the  Amazon  Jungle."  Through 
steamers  run  from  Iquitos  in  Peru  down  the 
Amazon  to  New  York  and  during  the  rainy 

*!N  THE  AMAZON  JUNGLE.  Adventures  in  the  Remote 
Parts  of  the  Upper  Amazon  River,  including  a  Sojourn  among 
Cannibal  Indians.  By  Algot  Lange.  Edited  in  part  by  J. 
Odell  Hauser,  with  an  Introduction  by  Frederick  S.  Dellen- 
baugh.  Illustrated.  New  York :  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons. 


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season  Mr.  Lange  assures  us  that  the  "  Maure- 
tania"  could  sail  up  this  great  river  to  Remate 
de  Males  at  the  Peruvian  frontier.  During  this 
season  immense  tracts  of  the  tropical  jungle  are 
under  water,  and  fevers,  the  omnipresent  mala- 
ria, the  fatal  yellow  fever,  and  the  mysterious 
beri-beri,  rule  the  land. 

In  common  with  frontier  towns  in  our  own 
land,  Remate  de  Males  ("Culmination  of  Evils") 
and  its  Peruvian  neighbor,  Nazareth,  are  deco- 
rated, when  not  submerged,  with  a  motley  array 
of  tin  cans  of  American  origin  and  empty  bot- 
tles from  all  nations.  The  rubber  gatherer  is 
handsomely  paid,  even  by  our  standards,  and 
the  jungle  traders  see  to  it  that  his  wages  are 
quickly  spent.  With  American  foods  go  some 
of  our  modern  inventions,  the  inevitable  gramo- 
phone, and  even,  on  remote  jungle  paths  in  the 
native  huts  perched  high  in  the  trees,  the  Amer- 
ican sewing  machine! 

The  author  penetrated  the  remote  jungle,  with 
an  exploring  party  sent  out  by  one  of  the  larger 
rubber  "estates  "  in  search  of  new  forests  to  tap, 
or  to  ruthlessly  fell,  as  is  sometimes  done.  The 
expedition  was  a  fatal  one,  fever,  beri-beri,  and 
deadly  snakes  claiming  their  victims,  till  alone 
in  his  delirium  the  author  fell  in  with  a  commu- 
nity of  the  savage  Mangeroma  cannibals  who 
nursed  him  back  to  health,  taught  him  their  lan- 
guage and  customs,  and  even  took  him  with  them 
on  an  ambush  for  a  party  of  raiding  Peruvian 
rubber  gatherers  who  furnished  the  piece  de 
resistance  at  the  feast  which  folio  wed  the  victory. 
Armed  only  with  poison  darts  and  blow  guns, 
war  clubs  and  spears,  they  overcame  and  com- 
pletely destroyed  the  party  armed  with  firearms. 
This  novel  experience  convinced  our  author  that 
"our  earth  has  not  been  reduced  to  a  dead  level 
of  drab  and  commonplace  existence,  and  that 
somewhere  in  the  remote  parts  of  the  world  are 
still  to  be  found  people  who  have  never  seen  or 
heard  of  white  men." 

It  is  an  extremely  interesting  picture  which  is 
here  portrayed  of  the  life  in  the  frontier  rubber 
trading-post  and  in  the  tambos  of  the  darkened 
trails  through  the  dense  tropical  jungle,  of  the 
life  of  stream  and  forests,  of  pungent  rubber 
smudges,  and  of  gold  to  be  picked  up  till  all 
the  negative  boxes  are  rilled,  only  to  be  thrown 
away  again  in  the  delirious  race  with  hunger  and 
fever  back  toward  the  outposts  of  civilization. 

The  book  is  well  written  and  handsomely  illus- 
trated with  unique  photographs  of  the  Amazon 
jungle. 

CHARLES  A.  KOFOID. 


RECENT  POETRY.* 


A  noteworthy  literary  phenomenon  is  that  pro- 
vided by  the  novelists  who  have  turned  poets — or,  to 
speak  more  exactly,  by  the  writers  who,  after  achiev- 
ing success  as  novelists,  have  surprised  their  readers 
by  the  revelation  of  a  marked  poetic  faculty.  That 
one  must  have  something  of  this  faculty  to  be  a 
writer  of  enduring  fiction  is  a  thesis  that  has  often 
been  maintained ;  and  it  is  not  surprising,  when  we 
come  to  think  of  it,  that  so  many  novelists  have  won 
no  mean  measure  of  success  in  the  production  of 
verse.  Scott  and  Meredith  are  the  striking  exam- 
ples in  English  literature,  although  in  their  cases  the 
poetic  gift  was  the  first  to  be  revealed.  Both  Thack- 
eray and  Dickens  were  poets,  of  a  sort;  and  even 
more  distinctly  so  were  George  Eliot,  Bulwer,  the 
Bronte*  Sisters,  Kingsley,  and  Blackmore.  In  more 
recent  years,  Mr.  Thomas  Hardy  has  provided  con- 
firmation of  the  thesis  in  question,  both  by  assert- 
ing the  principle  and  by  illustrating  it  in  practice. 
"The  Dynasts"  will,  we  firmly  believe,  come  to  be 
regarded  as  one  of  his  most  significant  works,  and 
many  of  his  shorter  poems  have  a  grip  and  a  vitality 
that  will  prevent  them  from  being  forgotten.  Amer- 
ican examples  are  Poe,  Harte,  Mr.  Howells,  and  Mr. 

A.  S.  Hardy.   The  Germans  and  Scandinavians  rec- 
ognize the  principle  instinctively  by  failing  to  pro- 
vide in  their  vocabularies  words  which  are  restricted 
in  their  meaning  to  compositions  metrical  in  form. 
Dichtung  and  Digtning  mean  imaginative  writing 
of  any  sort,  prose  or  verse;  the  name  Dlchter  be- 
longs as  fully  to  Hauptman  and  Sudermann  as  it 
does  to  Goethe  and  Schiller;  and   both  BjOrnson 
and  Ibsen  would  be  known  as  Digter  if  they  had 
never  written  a  page  in  measure  and  rhyme. 

Quite  a  number  of  present-day  English  novelists 
are  now  essaying  the  poetical  form.  Mr.  Maurice 
Hewlett  and  Sir  Arthur  Doyle  have  recently  en- 
gaged our  attention,  and  now  come  Mr.  John  Mase- 
field  and  Mr.  John  Galsworthy  with  volumes  of 
poetry  in  the  restricted  sense  which  the  English  lan- 
guage attaches  to  the  word.  Mr.  Masefield's  offering 

*  THE  EVERLASTING  MERCY,  AND  THE  WIDOW  IN  THK 
BYE  STREET.  By  John  Masefield.  New  York :  The  Mac- 
millan  Co. 

MOODS,  SONGS,  AND  DOGGERELS.  By  John  Galsworthy. 
New  York :  Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 

CHARMIDES,  AND  OTHER  POEMS.  Chiefly  Relating  to 
Oxford.  By  Gascoigne  Mackie.  Oxford:  B.  H.  Blackwell. 

POEMS  OP  THE  NORTH.    By  II.  F.  Brett-Smith.   Oxford : 

B.  H.  Blackwell. 

IN  THE  WAKE  OF  THE  PH<ENIX.  By  James  Mackereth. 
New  York :  Longmans,  Green,  &  Co. 

THE  HILL  OF  VISION.  By  James  Stephens.  New  York : 
The  Macmillan  Co. 

THE  STRANGER  AT  THE  GATE.  By  John  G.  Neihardt. 
New  York :  Mitchell  Kennerley. 

THE  CANDLE  AND  THE  FLAME.  Poems  by  George 
Sylvester  Viereck.  New  York  :  Moffat,  Yard  &  Co. 

SCUM  o'  THE  EARTH,  AND  OTHER  POEMS.  By  Robert 
Haven  Sehauffler.  Boston  :  The  Houghton  Mifflin  Co. 

ECHOES  OF  CHEER.  By  John  Kendrick  Bangs.  Boston : 
Sherman,  French  &  Co. 


1912.] 


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consists  of  two  narrative  rhymed  poems  of  arresting 
quality,  "The  Everlasting  Mercy"  and  "The  Widow 
in  the  Bye  Street."  We  must  admit  that  they  are 
tracts  as  well  as  poems,  and  that  their  obtrusively 
didactic  quality  is  against  them  as  literary  produc- 
tions. One  is  the  tale  of  a  drunken  ruffian  who  gets 
evangelistic  religion  by  the  process  of  "conversion" 
made  familiar  by  "revivalist"  meetings  and  other 
illustrations  of  "  corybantic  Christianity."  The  other 
is  a  brutal  tale  of  lust  and  crime,  telling  how  an 
English  peasant  lad  is  ensnared  by  a  light  woman, 
and  is  impelled  by  jealousy  to  commit  a  murder  for 
which  he  is  quite  properly  hanged.  Mr.  Masefield 
enlists  our  sympathy  for  both  of  these  degenerates, 
and  would  seemingly  have  us  believe  that  they  are 
not  beyond  the  pale  of  either  human  or  divine  for- 
giveness. He  enforces  this  teaching  by  making  both 
poems  reek  with  sentimentality,  and  by  a  rather 
nauseous  blend  of  religious  symbolism  with  plain 
speech.  Saul  Kane,  the  ruffian  of  "The  Everlasting 
Mercy,"  has  been  marking  his  carousings  with  such 
discourse  as  this: 

"  Come  on,  drinks  round,  salue,  drink  hearty, 
Now,  Jane,  the  punch-bowl  for  the  party. 
If  any  here  won't  drink  with  me 
I  '11  knock  his  bloody  eyes  out.     See  ? 
Come  on,  cigars  round,  rum  for  mine, 
Sing  us  a  smutty  song,  some  swine," 

which  is  a  comparatively  restrained  specimen  of  his 
reported  speech,  when  the  reproaches  of  a  Quaker 
missionary  sink  into  his  soul,  and  he  rushes  out  into 
the  night  filled  with  such  thoughts  as  these : 

"  0  glory  of  the  lighted  mind, 
How  dead  I  'd  been,  how  dumb,  how  blind. 
The  station  brook,  to  my  new  eyes, 
Was  babbling  out  of  Paradise, 
The  waters  rushing  from  the  rain 
Were  singing  Christ  has  risen  again. 
I  thought  all  earthly  creatures  knelt 
From  rapture  of  the  joy  I  felt. 
The  narrow  station-wall's  brick  ledge, 
The  wild  hop  withering  in  the  hedge, 
The  light  in  huntsman's  upper  storey 
Were  parts  of  an  eternal  glory, 
Were  God's  eternal  garden  flowers. 
I  stood  in  bliss  at  this  for  hours.'' 

It  is  sentimentally  and  even  dramatically  effective, 
but  we  are  afraid  that  it  is  not  good  psychology. 
Before  his  "conversion,"  Saul  has  a  colloquy  with 
the  parson,  which  might  have  come  straight  from 
Ibsen's  "  Brand,"  so  exactly  does  it  reproduce  the 
terse  rhythm,  the  argumentative  manner,  and  the 
fiery  indignation  of  that  great  poem.  Says  Saul: 

"  The  English  church  both  is  and  was 
A  subsidy  of  Caiaphas. 
I  do  n't  believe  in  Prayer  nor  Bible, 
They  're  all  lies  through,  and  you  've  a  libel, 
A  libel  on  the  Devil's  plan 
When  first  he  miscreated  man. 
You  mumble  through  a  formal  code 
To  get  which  martyrs  burned  and  glowed. 
I  look  on  martyrs  as  mistakes, 
But  still  they  burned  for  it  at  stakes ; 
Your  only  fire 's  the  jolly  fire 
Where  you  can  guzzle  port  with  Squire, 
And  back  and  praise  his  damned  opinions, 
About  his  temporal  dominions." 


The  parson's  rejoinder  is  in  the  following  strain: 

"  States  are  not  made,  nor  patched ;  they  grow, 
Grow  slow  through  centuries  of  pain 
And  grow  correctly  in  the  main, 
But  only  grow  by  certain  laws 
Of  certain  bits  in  certain  jaws. 
You  want  to  doctor  that.     Let  be 
You  cannot  patch  a  growing  tree. 
Put  these  two  words  beneath  your  hat, 
These  two:  securus  judicat. 

To  get  the  whole  world  out  of  bed, 

And  washed,  and  dressed,  and  warmed,  and  fed, 

To  work,  and  back  to  bed  again, 

Believe  me,  Saul,  costs  worlds  of  pain. 

Then  as  to  whether  true  or  sham 

That  book  of  Christ,  whose  priest  I  am ; 

The  Bible  is  a  lie,  say  you, 

Where  do  you  stand,  suppose  it  true  ? 

Good-bye.     But  if  you  've  more  to  say, 

My  doors  are  open  night  and  day. 

Meanwhile,  my  friend,  't  would  be  no  sin 

To  mix  more  water  in  your  gin. 

We  're  neither  saints  nor  Philip  Sidneys, 

But  mortal  men  with  mortal  kidneys." 

It  sounds  like  a  parody  of  the  dialogues  between 
Brand  and  the  mayor.  These  narratives  by  Mr. 
Masefield  are  virile,  slapdash  stuff,  but  it  is  only  in 
spots  that  they  deserve  to  be  glorified  with  the  name 
of  poetry,  and  the  streaks  of  deep  feeling  and  im- 
aginative power  do  not  fuse  with  the  sordid  matrix 
of  realism. 

Mr.  Galsworthy  speaks  to  us  with  the  accent  of 
the  authentic  poet,  albeit  he  chooses  the  modest 
style  of  "  Moods,  Songs,  and  Doggerels  "  for  his 
title.  Now  a  large  part  of  Mr.  Masefield's  volume 
must  be  described  as  doggerel,  but  this  seems  too 
harsh  a  term  even  for  Mr.  Galsworthy's  trifles. 
Such  lines  as  these,  surely,  deserve  a  gentler  name : 

"Life?     What  is  Life? 
The  leaping  up  of  level  wave ; 
The  flaring  of  an  ashy  fire  ; 
The  living  wind  in  airless  grave ! 

"  Death  ?     What  is  Death  ? 
The  dying  of  immortal  sun ; 
The  sleeping  of  the  sleepless  moon ; 
The  end  of  story  not  begun !" 

"Love"  is  the  title  of  the  following  poignant  distillate 
from  the  alembic  of  experience: 

"  0  Love !  that  love  which  comes  so  stealthily, 
And  takes  us  up,  and  twists  us  as  it  will  — 
What  fever'd  hours  of  agony  you  bring  I 
How  oft  we  wake  and  cry :  '  God  set  me  free 
Of  love  —  to  never  love  again ! '     And  still 
We  fall,  and  clutch  you  by  the  knees,  and  cling 
And  press  our  lips — and  so,  once  more  are  glad ! 

"  And  if  you  go,  or  if  you  never  come, 
Through  what  a  grieving  wilderness  of  pain 
We  travel  on !     In  prisons  stripped  of  light 
We  blindly  grope,  and  wander  without  home. 
The  friendless  winds  that  sweep  across  the  plain  — 
The  beggars  meeting  us  at  silent  night  — 
Than  we,  are  not  more  desolate  and  sad!" 

The  lines  called  "Errantry"  give  voice  to  an  ideal- 
ism which  never  fails  the  poet  who  has  the  true 


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conception  of  his  mission  as  an  inspiring  interpreter 
of  life. 

"  Come !     Let  us  lay  a  crazy  lance  in  rest, 
And  tilt  at  windmills  under  a  wild  sky ! 
For  who  would  live  so  petty  and  unblest 
That  dare  not  tilt  at  something  ere  he  die 
Rather  than,  screened  by  safe  majority, 
Preserve  his  little  life  to  little  ends, 
And  never  raise  a  rebel  battle-cry ! 

"  Ah  !  for  the  weapon  wistful  and  sublime, 
Whose  lifted  point  recks  naught  of  woe  or  weal, 
Since  Fate  demands  it  shivered  every  time ! 
When  in  the  wildness  of  our  charge  we  reel 
Men  laugh  indeed  —  the  sweeter  heavens  smile, 
For  all  the  world  of  fat  prosperity 
Has  not  the  value  of  that  broken  steel!" 

One  thinks  of  innumerable  parallels  to  th,is  expres- 
sion of  lofty  thought  —  from  Lowell,  Sill,  Arnold, 
Dobson,  and  many  others  —  but  of  none  more  per- 
suasive and  sincere.  Mr.  Galsworthy  is  not  alone 
a  poet  of  abstract  ideas,  as  the  indignant  lines  en- 
titled "Persia  —  Moritura  "  may  testify. 

"  Home  of  the  free !     Protector  of  the  weak ! 
Shall  We  and  this  Great  Grey  Ally  make  sand 
Of  all  a  nation's  budding  green,  and  wreak 
Our  winter  will  on  that  unhappy  land  ? 
Is  all  our  steel  of  soul  disolved  and  flown  ? 
Have  fumes  of  fear  encased  our  heart  of  flame  ? 
Are  we  with  panic  so  deep-rotted  down 
In  self,  that  we  can  feel  no  longer  shame 
To  league,  and  steal  a  nation's  hope  of  youth  ? 
Oh !  Sirs !  Is  our  Star  merely  cynical  ? 
Is  God  reduced  ?  That  we  must  darken  truth, 
And  break  our  honour  with  this  creeping  fall  ? 

"  Is  Freedom  but  a  word  —  a  flaring  boast  ? 
Is  Self-Concern  horizon's  utter  sun  ? 
If  so  —  To-day  let  England  die,  and  ghost 
Through  all  her  godless  history  to  come ! 
If,  Sirs,  the  faith  of  men  be  Force  alone, 
Let  us  ring  down  —  The  farce  is  nothing  worth. 
If  Life  be  only  prayer  to  things  of  stone, 
Come  Death !    And  let  us,  friends,  go  mocking  forth  ! 
But  if  there's  aught,  in  all  Time's  bloody  hours, 
Of  Justice,  if  the  herbs  of  Pity  grow  — 
O  Native  Land,  let  not  those  only  flowers 
Of  God  be  desert-strewn  and  withered  now!" 

If  the  crime  against  Persia  be  finally  consummated 
by  England's  connivance  with  the  monstrous  des- 
potism of  the  Muscovite,  these  lines  at  least  will 
remain  to  show  that  the  hideous  wrong  was  not  ac- 
complished without  a  protest. 

"Charmides  and  Other  Poems  Chiefly  Relating 
to  Oxford"  is  an  exquisite  volume  of  verse  by  Mr. 
Gascoigne  Mackie.  The  titular  piece,  pictorial  and 
elegiac,  consists  of  sixteen  verse  sections,  in  three 
groups  of  sixteen  each,  invoking  the  spirit  of  "Char- 
,  mides  "  with  an  appeal  to  old-time  memories.  We 
quote  one  of  the  most  beautiful  of  these  sections. 

"Long  gaps  of  lingering  splendour  —  but  no  sun  — 
Now  from  the  heights  the  hieratic  tints 
Fade  slowly,  like  the  fervour  from  life's  dream : 
And  every  valley  veiled  in  violet  bloom 
Lies  hushed ;  till  lo,  from  out  her  vestal  shrine  — 
Heaven's  inmost  penetralia  of  peace  — 
Upon  the  bosom  of  maternal  night 
Passionless  Hesper,  like  a  kneeling  child, 
Glimmers :  and  soft  as  dew,  the  far  off  hills 


Drop  down  divine  nostalgia  on  my  soul 
That  homeward  turns  at  last. 

Dear  Charmides, 

Still  be  thou  near  me,  wheresoe'er  I  walk, 
The  motive  and  the  charm  of  solitude  : 
Close  as  a  shadow  let  thy  memory  cling 
And  deepen  round  me ;  till  the  shadows  break 
And  on  the  golden  bough  the  thrush  begins." 

An  earlier  version  of  this  poem  was  published  in 
1898,  but  it  has  now  been  re-written.  The  same 
subdued  strain  of  reflection  characterizes  the  other 
poems  of  this  collection.  These  stanzas  come  from 
"  Oxford  at  Night." 

"  Austere  she  stood  in  ancient  times, 

A  refuge  for  the  pure  in  heart, 
And  still  the  music  of  her  chimes 
Peals  from  a  world  apart. 

"  And  when  we  hear  those  cloister'd  bells 

After  long  years,  or  absence  long, 
With  what  high  hopes  and  proud  farewells 
Their  haunting  echoes  throng ! 

"  Until  it  seems  as  if  she  brings 

(To  mock  the  pride  of  lonely  men), 
Only  the  tears  of  mortal  things 

That  cloud  our  mortal  ken." 

Mr.  Mackie  has  both  technical  skill  and  the  gift  of 
subtle  harmonies  of  word  and  thought.  His  work 
is  the  expression  of  a  temperament  finely  attuned 
to  spiritual  beauty. 

These  little  books  of  verse  that  so  frequently  come 
to  us  from  Oxford  are  apt  to  be  pleasant  surprises, 
revealing  talents  deserving  of  a  wider  fame  than 
they  are  likely  ever  to  win.  We  always  open  them 
with  pleasant  anticipations,  and  are  rarely  disap- 
pointed. Mr.  Brett-Smith's  "  Poems  of  the  North  " 
are  not,  for  the  most  part,  upon  Oxonian  themes, 
but  reveal  instead  a  spirit  that  ventures  far  afield, 
notably  into  the  realm  of  Scandinavian  legend  and 
mythology.  This  is  "The  Steering  Song  of  Olaf 
Tryggvason." 

"  Kinar.  see : 
Rush  of  waves  in  the  sloping  sea 

Flying,  flying  swift  and  free ! 
Oegir's  daughters,  lest  they  charm 

To  their  harm. 

Hearts  of  all  the  men  who  roam 
On  the  swan's  path  of  the  deep 
Down  from  rugged  lands  and  steep, 
Veil  their  heads  in  white  sea  foam. 

"  Einar,  hear : 
Storm  winds  gathering  far  and  near 

Sweep  the  spume  from  the  fretting  mere ! 
Through  the  shrouds  the  breezes  ring, 

Whirr  and  sing, 
Like  the  hiss  of  an  arrow's  flight 

When  the  quivering  bows  are  bent  afar 
And  through  the  hush  of  the  breaking  war 
Warriors'  eyes  are  dimmed  in  night." 

These  lines  on  "The  Death  of  Colonel  Brett,"  an 
Elizabethan  seaman  slain  in  Portugal,  and  presum- 
ably one  of  the  author's  ancestors,  are  singularly 
impressive. 

"  Nay,  lad,  'tis  mortal :  do  not  weep,  but  mark, 
I  will  not  lie  among  these  Portingales 
The  sea  being  ours ;  take  me  a  fishing  barque  — 


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103 


The  fleet  rides  anchored  under  Cascais  •walls  — 

Bid  Drake  remember  when  we  both  were  hale : 

He  shall  not  grudge  for  old  felicity, 

A  pair  of  shot  and  some  poor  yards  of  sail. 

Ah,  vesperascit !  like  a  spreading  tree 

The  dusk  surrounds  me  with  a  thousand  leaves 

And  some  red  berries,  which  are  bright  with  pain : 

My  God !  I  shall  not  see  the  yellow  sheaves 

In  England,  nor  hear  ousel  sing  again  — 

Only  the  seamen  crying,  as  she  cleaves 

Far  overhead  the  shadowy  restless  main." 

The  opening  lines  of  "Peace"  may  be  taken  to 
illustrate  the  somewhat  abstract  and  cloudy  versi- 
fying of  Mr.  James  Mackereth,  as  exhibited  in  the 
volume  entitled  "In  the  Wake  of  the  Phoenix." 

"  Mute  spouse  of  God,  upon  whose  bosom  lies 
Time  like  a  child,  time  of  the  fevered  heart, 
Out  of  this  moment  of  mortality 
Toward  thee,  O  mild  Unchangeable,  we  lift 
Our  hands,  our  faces  rmitable  uplift, 
Like  waves  that  turn  their  pallor  to  the  moon, 
And  plead  in  passing  for  thy  kiss,  0  Peace. 

Sage  dweller  on  the  sacred  frontiers 

Of  realms  the  armoured  years  shall  enter  not, 

Aloof  from  all  the  clangorous  march  of  time, 

From  riot,  and  the  ravishments  of  men, — 

0,  patient  listener  to  the  Innermost, 

Flow  from  the  noiseless  places  of  the  world  I 

From  the  deep  valleys  'mid  a  thousand  hills  — 

Where  silence  sits  forever  'mong  her  rocks 

Poring  upon  impermanence,  flow  thence, 

Flow  from  all  haunted  places  where  abides 

The  hush  primeval." 

And  so  on,  for  some  two  hundred  lines. 

This  Emersonian  jingle  introduces  "  The  Hill  of 
Vision,"  by  Mr.  James  Stephens  : 

"  Everything  that  I  can  spy 
Through  the  circle  of  my  eye, 
Everything  that  I  can  see 
Has  been  woven  out  of  me  ; 
I  have  sown  the  stars,  and  threw 
Clouds  of  morning  and  of  eve 
Up  into  the  vacant  blue  ; 
Everything  that  I  perceive, 
Sun  and  sea  and  mountain  high, 
All  are  moulded  by  my  eye : 
Closing  it,  what  shall  I  find  ? 
—  Darkness,  and  a  little  wind." 

It  is  spiritual  and  imaginative  vision,  rather  than 
physical,  that  Mr.  Stephens  prefers  to  impart. 
This  is  his  view  of  what  shall  be  in  "The  Fulness 
of  Time." 

"  On  a  rusty  iron  throne 
Past  the  furthest  star  of  space 
I  saw  Satan  sit  alone, 
Old  and  haggard  was  his  face 
For  his  work  was  done  and  he 
Rested  in  eternity. 

"  And  to  him  from  out  the  sun 
Came  his  father  and  his  friend 
Saying,  now  the  work  is  done 
Enmity  is  at  an  end : 
And  he  guided  Satan  to 
Paradises  that  he  knew. 

"  Gabriel  without  a  frown, 
Uriel  without  a  spear, 
Raphael  came  singing  down 


Welcoming  their  ancient  peer. 
And  they  seated  him  beside 
One  who  had  been  crucified.'' 

Mr.  John  G.  Neihardt  is  master  of  a  rugged  dic- 
tion, marked  by  forceful  metaphors  and  a  somewhat 
recondite  allusiveness.  His  meaning  is  not  always 
clear,  and  seems  to  be  expressive  of  an  emotional 
state  rather  than  of  an  imaginative  vision.  Many 
of  the  pieces  in  "The  Stranger  at  the  Gate"  are 
nature  lyrics,  not  so  much  descriptive  as  interpreta- 
tive in  a  spiritual  sense.  This,  for  example: 

"  Over  the  steep  cloud-crags 
The  marching  day  went  down  — 
Bickering  spears  and  flags, 
Slant  in  a  wind  of  Doom  ! 
Blear  in  the  huddled  shadows 
Glimmer  the  lights  of  the  town  ; 
Black  pools  mottle  the  meadows, 
Swamped  in  a  purple  gloom. 

"  Is  it  the  night  wind  sobbing 
Over  the  wheat  in  head  ? 
Is  it  the  world-heart  throbbing 
Sad  with  the  coming  years  ? 
Is  it  the  lifeward  creeping 
Ghosts  of  the  myriad  dead, 
Livid  with  wounds  and  weeping 
Wild,  uncleansing  tears  ?  " 

Of  course  it  is  not  any  of  these  things,  but  the  poet 
is  licensed  to  suggest  them,  for  his  revelation  is  not 
of  nature,  but  of  his  own  soul.  We  are  much  im- 
pressed with  "The  Poet's  Town,"  describing  the 
boy  who  is  at  heart  a  poet,  living  his  own  life  amid 
commonplace  surroundings. 

"  Rich  with  the  dreamer's  pillage, 
An  idle  and  worthless  lad, 
Least  in  a  prosy  village, 
And  prince  in  Allahabad ; 

"  Lover  of  golden  apples, 
Munching  a  daily  crust ; 
Haunter  of  dream-built  chapels, 
Worshipping  in  the  dust ; 

"  Dull  to  the  worldly  duty, 
Less  to  the  town  he  grew, 
And  more  to  the  God  of  Beauty 
Than  even  the  grocer  knew !" 

Indignation  at  the  present  scheme  of  things  in 
America,  and  the  cry  for  social  justice,  are  voiced 
in  the  poems  at  the  close  of  the  volume. 

"  No  longer  blindfold  Justice  reigns ;  but  leers 
A  barefaced,  venal  strumpet  in  her  stead ! 
The  stolen  harvests  of  a  hundred  years 
Are  lighter  than  a  stolen  loaf  of  bread ! 

"  0  pious  Nation,  holding  God  in  awe, 
Where  sacred  human  rights  are  duly  priced ! 
Where  men  are  beggared  in  the  name  of  Law, 
Where  alms  are  given  in  the  name  of  Christ ! 

"  The  Country  of  the  Free !  —  0  wretched  lie  I 
The  Country  of  the  Brave  —Yea,  let  it  be  1 
One  more  good  fight,  O  Brothers,  ere  we  die 
And  this  shall  be  the  Country  of  the  Free!" 

The  freedom  here  invoked  seems  to  be  freedom  to 
pillage  the  possessors  under  the  mob-banner  of 
socialism.  "The  Red  Wind  Comes,"  from  which  we 
have  quoted,  and  the  "  Cry  of  the  People,"  which 
follows  it,  are  quite  in  the  vein  of  William  Morris. 


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[August  16, 


"  I  am  in  poetry  what  Strauss  is  in  music,  Rodin 
in  sculpture,  and  Stuck  in  painting  —  a  cerebral 
impressionist."  "I  have  found  myself  as  a  poet." 
"  My  own  emotions  are  too  elusive  and  too  complex 
to  be  capable  of  expression  or  understanding  beyond 
where  I  have  gone.  If  I  lived  in  Europe,  if  mine 
were  the  freedom  of  Wedekind  and  the  audience 
that  hails  him  and  goads  him,  I  might  still  go  on. 
But  I  realize  that  I  am  too  far  ahead  of  the  pageant 
of  American  life  to  go  one  step  further."  "The 
torch  of  our  lyric  fire  still  burns  and  will  continue 
to  burn  when  it  has  passed  from  my  hands  into 
those  of  a  younger  poet."  "  I  have  given  a  new  lyric 
impetus  to  my  country.  I  have  loosened  the  tongue 
of  the  young  American  poets."  "I  may  safely  say 
that  I  am  one  of  the  leaders  of  the  lyric  insurgents 
who,  inheriting  the  technique  of  Poe  and  the  social 
conscience  of  Whitman,  have  added  the  new  note  of 
passion."  "  I  am  perhaps  the  only  American  poet 
whose  book  of  lyric  verse  made  money  for  himself 
and  his  publishers." — These  are  excerpts  from  the 
lengthy  introduction  to  "The  Candle  and  the  Flame," 
Mr.  George  Sylvester  Viereck's  new  book  of  poems. 
Their  incredible  egotism  is  very  amusing  when  we 
realize  upon  how  slight  a  foundation  of  achievement 
it  is  based.  For  the  author  is  a  very  minor  poet, 
distinguished  chiefly  by  an  erotic  mania  and  a  pre- 
dilection for  toying  with  unclean  themes,  and  his 
poetical  output  thus  far  includes,  besides  the  present 
volume,  "  Nineveh  and  Other  Poems  "  and  a  slender 
sheaf  of  "Gedichte."  He  is  the  avowed  enemy  of 
the  "Puritans"  among  our  poets,  among  whom  he 
includes  most  of  our  shining  names,  from  Emerson, 
Longfellow,  and  Lowell  to  Gilder,  Stedman,  and 
Moody.  This  attitude  he  puts  into  a  neat  epigram : 
"Phryne  is  preferable  to  a  New  England  spinster, 
but  Aspasia  is  more  desirable  than  Phryne."  Mr. 
Viereck's  quality  as  a  singer  may  be  illustrated  by 
the  closing  stanzas  of  the  poem  which  gives  this  col- 
lection a  title. 

"  Perhaps  the  passions  of  mankind 

Are  but  the  torches  mystical 
Lit  by  some  spirit-hand  to  find 
The  dwelling  of  the  Master-Mind 

That  knows  the  secret  of  it  all, 
In  the  great  darkness  and  the  wind. 

"  We  are  the  Candle,  Love  the  Flame, 

Each  little  life-light  flickers  out, 
Love  bides,  immortally  the  same : 
When  of  life's  fever  we  shall  tire 
He  will  desert  us,  and  the  fire 
Rekindle  new  in  prince  or  lout. 

"  Twin-born  of  knowledge  and  of  lust, 
He  was  before  us,  he  shall  be 
Indifferent  still  of  thee  and  me, 
When  shattered  is  life's  golden  cup, 
When  thy  young  limbs  are  shrivelled  up, 
And  when  my  heart  is  turned  to  dust. 

"  Nay,  sweet,  smile  not  to  know  at  last 
That  thou  and  I,  or  knave,  or  fool, 
Are  but  the  involitient  tool 
Of  some  world-purpose  vague  and  vast. 


No  bar  to  passion's  fury  set, 

With  monstrous  poppies  spice  the  wine  : 
For  only  drunk  are  we  divine, 

And  only  mad  shall  we  forget." 

These  verses  represent  Mr.  Viereck  at  his  best,  and 
be  has  many  more  of  stimulating  quality  and  pas- 
sionate appeal.  His  thought  is  often  far  from  clear 
— and  indeed  some  of  his  ideas  have  to  be  discreetly 
veiled  —  but  he  is  thoughtful  enough  to  provide  for 
us  a  marginal  commentary  which  is  quite  as  good 
reading  as  the  poems  themselves.  As  he  says,  "  We 
may  give  a  clue  now  and  then  which  can  direct  the 
mind  of  the  reader  and  perhaps  prevent  critics  yet 
unborn  from  wasting  marvellously  ingenious  devices 
upon  the  erection  of  spurious  pyramids  on  the  base  of 
a  fatal  misprint  or  a  mistaken  assumption.  Neither 
Goethe,  nor  Shakespeare,  it  may  be  urged,  was  his 
own  commentator.  The  resultant  loss,  however,  was 
both  theirs  and  the  world's."  Mr.  Viereck  sees  to  it 
that  the  world  shall  suffer  no  such  loss  in  the  case 
of  his  own  immortal  works.  A  single  quotation 
from  the  "  Marginalia  "  will  exemplify  their  galvanic 
character:  "I  once  made  the  reckless  remark  that 
the  three  men  I  most  admired  were  Christ,  Napoleon, 
and  Oscar  Wilde,  each  a  martyr  to  his  creed,  the 
ethical,  the  dynamic,  and  the  aesthetic.  After  calm 
reflection  I  cannot  find  three  men  who  typify  more 
perfectly  the  great  intellectual  and  temperamental 
world-currents.  Recently  in  Paris  I  visited  the 
graves  of  Napoleon  and  Oscar  Wilde.  As  Jerusalem 
was  too  far  away,  I  paid  my  devotion  to  the  founder 
of  Christianity,  not  at  Notre  Dame,  but  at  the 
tomb  of  another  intellectual  of  the  race  of  Christ  — 
Heinrich  Heine." 

Mr.  Robert  Haven  Schauffler  is  the  author  of  a 
striking  poem  called  "Scum  o'  the  Earth,"  suggested 
by  the  hordes  of  immigrants  landing  at  Castle 
Garden.  As  they  pass  in  procession  before  him,  the 
various  nationalities  suggest  to  the  poet's  vision  their 
racial  potentialities  for  the  enrichment  of  our  nat- 
ional life.  An  Italian  boy,  for  example,  suggests 
these  lines: 

"  Genoese  boy  of  the  level  brow, 
Lad  of  the  lustrous,  dreamy  eyes 
Astare  at  Manhattan's  pinnacles  now 
In  the  first,  sweet  shock  of  a  hushed  surprise : 
Within  yoiir  far-rapt  seer's  eyes 
I  catch  the  glow  of  the  wild  surmise 
That  played  on  the  Santa  Maria's  prow 
In  that  still  gray  dawn, 
Four  centuries  gone, 

When  a  world  from  the  wave  began  to  rise. 
Oh,  it 's  hard  to  foretell  what  high  emprise 
Is  the  goal  that  gleams 
When  Italy's  dreams 
Spread  wing  and  sweep  into  the  skies. 
Caesar  dreamed  him  a  world  ruled  well ; 
Dante  dreamed  Heaven  out  of  Hell ; 
Angelo  brought  us  there  to  dwell ; 
And  you,  are  you  of  a  different  birth  ?  — 
You  're  only  a  '  dago,' — and  '  scum  o'  the  earth ' ! " 

So  he  takes  them,  Greeks  and  Poles  and  Czechs  and 
Jews,  and  urges  that  the  dreams  they  bring  with 
them  constitute  their  real  value  to  us,  far  more  than 


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offsetting  their  ragged  habiliments  and  pitiful  store 
of  worldly  goods.  The  broad  humanity  of  this  view 
is  very  appealing,  no  doubt,  yet  the  poet  who  wrote 
"Unguarded  Gates"  represented  a  point  of  view 
that  needs  to  be  considered  also.  As  becomes  a 
musician,  Mr.  Schauffler  finds  in  his  own  special 
art  the  inspiration  for  some  of  his  finest  verses. 

"  Is  music  '  love  in  search  of  words '  ?     Not  so. 
For  love  well  knows  he  never  may  express 
In  words  a  tithe  of  all  his  tenderness, 
Nor  paint  in  human  speech  a  passion's  glow 
Lit  by  his  flame.     Too  deep  and  still,  too  low 
Even  for  angels'  ears,  the  saeredness 
Of  meaning  when  two  hearts  together  press 
And  feel  from  eye  to  eye  love's  secret  flow. 

"  But  music  is  a  house  not  made  with  hands, 
Built  by  love's  Father,  where  a  little  space 

The  soul  may  dwell ;  a  royal  palace  fit 
To  meet  the  majesty  of  its  demands. 

The  place  where  man's  two  lives  unite ;  the  place 
To  hold  communion  with  the  infinite." 

Most  of  Mr.  John  Kendrick  Bangs's  verses  prove 
their  right  to  be  called  "Echoes  of  Cheer,"  and  none 
more  so  than  this  pair  of  stanzas  on  "The  Optimist." 

"  Care  came  first  and  laid  his  siege, 

Laid  his  siege  at  my  front-door ; 
Then  the  Wolf,  the  Lord  and  Liege 

Of  all  Trouble,  brought  his  score. 
Well,  I  '  sicked '  the  Wolf  on  Care  — 

Wolf  was  hungry  past  all  doubt ; 
Chewed  old  Care  up  hide  and  hair, 

Left  no  sign  of  him  about. 

"  Then  I  took  my  faithful  gun, 

Cheerfulness,  from  off  the  rack ; 
Loaded  it  with  Wholesome  Fun, 

Let  Wolf  have  it  front  and  back.  .  .  . 
Made  a  fur  coat  of  his  hide  — 

He  was  quite  a  shaggy  beast  — 
And  the  rest  of  him  we  fried 

For  our  glad  Thanksgiving  Feast." 

We  best  know  Mr.  Bangs  as  a  professional  jester ; 
but  this  book  of  his  verses  reveals  the  serious  vein 
that  lies  beneath  his  merriment,  expressing  the 
simple  faith  and  trust  of  a  man  at  peace  with  him- 
self and  the  scheme  of  things  entire. 

WILLIAM  MORTON  PAYNE. 


The  spell  of 
the  White 
Mountains. 


BRIEFS  ON  NEW  BOOKS. 

Although  no  book  has  yet  caught  the 
White  Mountains  wholly  in  its  toils 
(and  it  is  to  be  hoped  none  ever  will), 
there  comes  occasionally  a  book  with  power  to  raise 
the  image  of  them  before  the  mind's  eye,  and  to 
satisfy  somewhat  the  mountain-lover's  perpetual 
longing.  Such  a  book  is  Mr.  Winthrop  Packard's 
"  White  Mountain  Trails"  (Small,  Maynard  &  Co.), 
with  its  rather  desultory  but  always  delightful  text, 
and  its  many  wonderful  illustrations.  The  writer 
takes  his  leisurely  way  over  the  best-known  trails, 
apparently  with  no  time-card  but  the  sun,  no  map 
but  the  peaks  and  gullies  of  the  mountains  them- 
selves, and  no  set  purpose  but  enjoyment.  When 
a  white  admiral  butterfly  "politely  shows  the  wrong 


road  as  a  start  for  the  trail  up  Bartlett,"  and  then 
"  leaves  him  in  a  wild  tangle  of  slash  to  get  up  the 
mountain  the  way  the  bear  does,  on  all  fours,"  he 
does  not  even  feel  himself  under  obligation  to  learn 
wisdom  from  experience.  Instead,  he  trusts  a 
mountain  brook  to  show  him  the  way  down,  only 
to  find  that  though  "mountain  brooks  do  not  run 
away  from  you  as  mountain  paths  do,  it  is  as  well 
not  to  trust  them  too  much,  after  dark."  But  Mr. 
Packard's  wandering  is  not  aimless,  for  in  the 
course  of  it  he  accomplishes  Carter  Notch  and 
Crawford  Notch,  sees  the  world  from  the  peaks  of 
Chocorua,  Iron  Mountain,  Kearsarge,  Carragain, 
Madison,  Mount  Jackson,  and  several  others,  and 
has  four  clear  days  on  the  top  of  Mount  Wash- 
ington, "such  as  the  fates  in  kindly  mood  sometimes 
deal  out  to  fortunate  mortals."  He  knows  each  of 
the  mountains  by  itself,  for  "they  have  personality 
and  grow  to  be  individual  friends,  as  well  loved 
and  ardently  longed  for  when  absent  as  any  human 
neighbor  or  associate."  Indeed,  the  aim  of  his  ap- 
parent aimlessness  is  to  catch  each  "  individual "  off 
guard,  to  surprise  it  from  every  angle,  to  come 
upon  it  if  possible  unexpectedly  to  himself  and  so 
to  get  at  the  very  secret  of  its  character.  Be- 
cause he  often  succeeds,  his  book  is  worthy  of  its 
subject.  Besides,  it  is  to  be  doubted  if  any  other 
writer  about  the  White  Mountains  has  seen  so 
much  by  the  way.  The  reader  must  be  a  very  wise 
person  indeed  who  does  not  envy  Mr.  Packard 
his  ability  to  enjoy  with  full  knowledge  all  the 
flowers  and  ferns,  birds  and  trees,  butterflies  and 
mosses,  and  even  the  frogs  and  hedgehogs,  he  finds 
in  each  day's  climbing.  As  a  final  excellence,  the 
volume  has  some  forty  reproductions  of  skilfully- 
taken  photographs,  showing  not  only  the  looming 
grandeur  of  the  mountains  both  in  clear  air  and 
shrouded  in  mist  or  cloud,  but  much  of  the  cher- 
ished detail  of  nearer  views. 


Some  well-told  Not  since  th.e  English-reading  world 
tales  of  simple  was  filled  with  delight  by  the  scenes 
Cornish  folk.  of  humble  Scottish  life  depicted  by 
the  Rev.  John  Watson  has  it  been  treated  to  any- 
thing of  so  marked  excellence  and  striking  original- 
ity in  the  same  domain  of  realistic  reproduction  of 
the  humors  of  the  lowly  as  in  Mr.  Charles  Lee's 
Cornish  tales  now  introduced  to  the  American  public 
by  Messrs.  E.  P.  Dutton  &  Co.,  in  three  volumes  with 
the  title,  "Our  Little  Town,"  "Paul  Carah,  Cornish- 
man,"  and  "The  Widow  Woman."  The  first  vol- 
ume takes  the  form  of  separate  sketches  and  stories, 
the  other  two  of  continuous  narrative;  but  so  little 
does  Mr.  Lee's  art  depend  upon  plot,  upon  the  mere 
machinery  or  frame-work  of  story-building,  that  he 
is  equally  enjoyable  in  either  manner.  Cornishnaan 
to  the  very  heart  of  him  he  must  be,  to  write  so 
sympathetically  of  the  Cornish  fisherfolk,  and  with 
so  keen  a  relish  for  all  their  oddities  of  tempera- 
ment and  peculiarities  of  speech.  Dialect  he  cannot 
avoid  using  in  letting  his  characters  play  their 
several  parts,  but  it  is  nowhere  overdone,  nowhere 


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beyond  the  ready  comprehension  of  the  reader. 
Let  us  quote  from  a  dialogue  between  "Bessie's 
Tom"  and  "stuttering  Orlando"  in  '"Our  Little 
Town."  Orlando,  in  an  unguarded  hour,  has  been 
beguiled  into  matrimony,  and  his  wife  proves  to  be 
such  a  talker  that  he  himself  hardly  gets  a  chance 
to  open  his  mouth.  "  Haven't  spit  out  a  c-clean  word 
for  weeks,"  he  moans.  "Don't  get  t-time."  Tom 
tries  to  comfort  him,  and  asks:  "Have  'e  tried 
swearing  ?  If  I  mind  right,  your  dees  were  always 
better  gressed,  like,  than  your  Christian  speech." 
"T-true,"  replies  the  other,  mournfully.  "So  they 
were.  But  now  they'm  like  the  rest — snails  crawl- 
ing through  t-tar."  Here  is  a  bit  of  shrewd  wisdom 
from  "Uncle  Hannibal"  in  "  The  Widow  Woman." 
He  stands,  pipe  in  hand,  in  his  doorway,  filling  the 
space  with  his  generous  bulk  and  watching  the  dis- 
comfiture of  John  Trelill  at  the  hands  of  a  coquet- 
tish young  woman.  "  When  a  chap  an'  a  maid  do 
come  together,"  comments  Uncle  Hannibal,  "chap 
shuts  his  eyes  tight :  maid  aupens  hers  a  bit  wider. 
How  should  chap  look  to  have  a  chanst?  Man's 
human,  but  woman's  woman  —  'at's  what  I  d'  say  in 
my  smart  way."  But  John  wins  the  maid  in  the 
end,  and  the  story  of  the  courtship,  with  its  very 
unusual  complications,  is  admirably  told.  Another 
original  and  amusing  love  story,  contained  in  "  Our 
Little  Town,"  has  to  do  with  two  maiden  ladies  in 
their  fifties  and  a  sixty-year-old  suitor  to  the  twain. 
Impartial  in  his  affections,  he  begs  them  to  decide 
between  themselves  which  of  the  two  shall  be  the 
one  to  accept  him.  The  outcome  is  a  little  unex 
pected.  "  Paul  Carah  "  is  the  story  of  a  good-natured 
and  amusing  braggart  who  has  lived  some  years  in 
"the  States"  and  returns  to  astonish  the  natives. 
As  in  the  other  books,  both  scenes  and  characters 
are  drawn  by  the  hand  of  a  master.  There  are 
hours  of  solid  enjoyment  in  these  three  volumes. 
Excellent  line-drawings  and  a  colored  frontispiece 
are  provided  by  Mr.  Charles  E.  Brock  for  "The 
Widow  Woman."  Mr.  Gordon'  Browne  illustrates 
"Paul  Carah." 

Four  years  have  passed  since  Harriet 
Letters  and  J  r 

Memories  of  Hosmer  s  death,  at  the  age  or  seventy- 
Harriet  Hosmer.  8even ;  and  the  interval  has  sufficed 
for  collecting  her  more  important  correspondence 
and  preparing  therefrom  and  from  other  sources  a 
good  account  of  her  life  and  work.  "  Harriet  Hos- 
mer:  Letters  and  Memories"  (Moffat,  Yard  &  Co.), 
edited  by  her  friend  Mrs.  Lucien  Carr  (Cornelia 
Carr),  forms  a  substantial  volume  of  nearly  four 
hundred  pages,  well-printed,  well-illustrated,  and 
teeming  with  matter  of  interest  to  all  who  take  pleas- 
ure and  pride  in  the  achievements  of  this  brilliant 
American  woman  and  famous  sculptor.  It  is  true 
that  she  seemed  to  make  herself,  by  expatriation  for 
her  art's  sake,  almost  more  of  a  European  than  an 
American.  How  she  impressed  the  world  abroad 
is  partly  shown  in  Frances  Power  Cobbe's  descrip- 
tion of  her :  "  She  was  in  those  days  the  most  be- 
witching sprite  that  the  world  ever  saw.  Never 


have  I  laughed  so  helplessly  as  at  the  infinite  fun 
of  that  bright  Yankee  girl.  Even  in  later  years, 
when  we  perforce  grew  a  little  graver,  she  needed 
only  to  begin  one  of  her  descriptive  stories  to  make 
us  all  young  again.  I  have  not  seen  her  since  her 
return  to  America,  nor  yet  anyone  in  the  least  like 
her.  It  is  vain  to  hope  to  convey  to  any  reader  the 
contagion  of  her  merriment.  Oh!  what  a  gift  be- 
yond rubies  are  such  spirits !  "  Mrs.  Carr  gives  us 
some  admirable  specimens  of  Miss  Hosmer's  fun, 
and  among  them  a  few  stanzas  of  delicious  French 
doggerel  composed  at  Mrs.  Sedgwick's  school  at 
Lenox,  where  Fanny  Kemble  made  friends  with  her 
and  used  to  say  to  her  of  an  evening,  "Come,  Hatty, 
do  give  us  some  fun  to-night."  Most  numerous  and 
most  characteristic  are  the  letters  to  her  old  friend 
and  patron,  Mr.  Wayman  Crow,  of  St.  Louis,  father 
of  her  favorite  classmate,  and  greatly  helpful  to  her 
in  procuring  her  admission  to  the  course  in  anatomy 
at  the  medical  school  of  the  State  University  of 
Missouri.  Miss  Hosmer's  Italian  years  fell  in  the 
time  of  the  Brownings,  and  of  course  they  and  a 
host  of  other  notables  figure  in  her  letters.  The  editor 
has  done  well  to  let  her  sculptor  friend  tell  her  own 
story,  in  large  part ;  and  it  is  one  well  worth  reading. 


Born  in  1853,  the  Right  Hon.  George 
W.  E.  Russell  lays  early  claim  to  the 
privilege  of  age  in  writing  his  remi- 
niscences. "One  Look  Back"  (Doubleday)  traces 
in  highly  agreeable  fashion  the  first  half-century  or 
so  of  the  life  of  one  who,  near  the  close  of  his  book, 
declares  himself  ignorant  of  the  sensation  of  dul- 
ness.  Already,  in  his  two  series  of  "  Collections 
and  Recollections"  published  in  1898,  and  in  his 
"Pocketful  of  Sixpences"  and  "Sketches  and 
Snapshots,"  Mr.  Russell  has  shown  his  talent  as  a 
raconteur;  and  the  present  volume  will  certainly 
do  nothing  to  lessen  his  reputation.  Proudly  trac- 
ing his  descent  from  that  of  William  Lord  Russell 
who  laid  down  his  life  in  the  cause  of  constitu- 
tional liberty  in  1683,  the  author  gives  us  pleasing 
glimpses  of  his  boyhood  home,  his  school  and  uni- 
versity days,  his  life  in  London  society,  his  jour- 
nalistic and  public  activities,  and  his  labors  of  love 
as  a  zealous  Churchman.  Eulogizing  the  past  with 
a  pessimistic  contemplation  of  the  present  that 
strangely  contrasts  with  the  general  cheery  tone  of 
his  book,  he  occasionally  indulges  in  such  strains 
as  the  following  concerning  his  degenerate  fellow- 
countrymen:  "They  do  not  care  for  the  country  in 
itself;  they  have  no  eye  for  its  beauty,  no  sense  of 
its  atmosphere,  no  memory  for  its  traditions.  It  is 
only  made  endurable  to  them  by  sport  and  gambling 
and  boisterous  house-parties;  and,  when  from  one 
cause  or  another  these  resources  fail,  they  are 
frankly  bored  and  long  for  London.  They  are  no 
longer  content,  as  our  fathers  were,  to  entertain 
their  friends  with  hospitable  simplicity.  So  pro- 
foundly has  all  society  been  vulgarized  by  the  wor- 
ship of  the  Golden  Calf  that,  unless  people  can  vie 


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with  alien  millionaires  in  the  sumptuousness  with 
which  they  'do  you' — delightful  phrase, —  they 
prefer  not  to  entertain  at  all.  An  emulous  osten- 
tation has  killed  hospitality.  All  this  is  treason  to 
a  high  ideal."  Among  the  author's  many  friend- 
ships he  notes  with  especial  gratitude  his  obligations 
to  the  brilliantly  gifted  James  Payn,  whose  love  of 
anecdote  called  forth,  first  orally  and  then  in  literary 
form  in  the  columns  of  the  Manchester  "Guardian," 
the  "Collections  and  Recollections  "mentioned  above. 
There  is  also  related  the  course  of  events  leading  up 
to  Mr.  Russell's  connection  with  this  "  best  news- 
paper in  Great  Britain,"  as  he  calls  it.  To  that  for- 
tunate connection  we  owe,  humanly  speaking,  these 
subsequent  anecdotal  and  autobiographic  chapters. 
A  few  appropriate  illustrations  accompany  the  read- 
ing matter.  . . 

The  Cabinet  Professor  Henry  Barrett  Learned's 
as  a  branch  of  book  on  "The  President's  Cabinet" 
Government.  and  Dr  Mary  L  Hinsdale's  "His- 
tory of  the  President's  Cabinet"  treat  of  the  same 
subject,  but  in  different  ways.  Professor  Learned's 
book  begins  with  a  chapter  on  the  Cabinet  in  En- 
gland, and  proceeds  to  elaborate  at  some  length 
the  evolution  of  the  Cabinet  in  the  United  States, 
from  the  days  of  the  Continental  Congress  through 
the  period  of  the  Confederation  to  the  establishment 
of  presidential  government  under  the  Constitution. 
After  a  careful  account  of  the  creation,  in  Washing- 
ton's time,  of  the  first  and  more  important  secretary- 
ships, and  after  an  essay  on  the  term  "Cabinet"  as 
used  in  the  United  States,  Professor  Learned  passes 
to  a  discussion  of  the  offices  of  Attorney  General, 
Secretary  of  the  Navy,  Postmaster  General,  Secre- 
tary of  the  Interior,  Secretary  of  Agriculture,  and 
Secretary  of  Commerce  and  Labor.  A  concluding 
chapter  gives  an  historical  summary  and  a  brief 
analysis  of  the  relations  between  the  different  cab- 
inet officers  and  the  President.  This  volume,  we 
are  told,  is  intended  to  cover  only  the  formation  and 
structure  of  the  Cabinet;  but  Professor  Learned 
promises  a  second  part  of  the  work  which  is  to  treat 
of  the  "Practices  and  Personnel"  of  that  body.  It 
is  this  element,  the  personal,  which  characterizes 
the  book  of  Dr.  Hinsdale.  This  is  deliberately  ar- 
ranged upon  an  annalistic  plan.  The  origin  of  the 
Cabinet  is  here  very  briefly  treated,  and  the  author 
proceeds  to  an  account  of  the  Cabinet  of  each  ad- 
ministration, from  Washington's  first  term  in  1789 
to  the  presidency  of  Mr.  Taft  in  1909.  Each  of  these 
chapter  is  accompanied  by  a  valuable  table  showing 
the  original  make-up  of  the  Cabinet,  and  the  changes 
which  took  place  in  its  membership.  Around  this 
personal  framework,  Dr.  Hinsdale  builds  her  account 
of  the  activities  of  the  Cabinet, —  treating  from  this 
view-point  many  of  the  events  and  problems  which 
are  discussed  topically  in  Professor  Learned's  book. 
At  the  close  of  the  volume  Dr.  Hinsdale  adds  three 
analytical  chapters, —  on  the  general  principles  of 
cabinet  making,  the  relation  of  the  Cabinet  to  Con- 
gress, and  the  relation  of  the  Cabinet  to  the  Presi- 


dent. The  two  works  admirably  supplement  each 
other.  Each  is  scholarly  in  execution,  each  is  ade- 
quately equipped  with  bibliographical  material  and 
an  index.  Both  appeal  especially  to  the  student  of 
American  history  and  government ;  but,  particularly 
in  this  "presidential  year,"  both  should  also  win  the 
attention  of  the  "general  reader." 

Advances  A.  significant  indication  of  the  ever- 

tn  medical  >  j  <•  .1       « 

research  in          widening  consequences  of  the  Amer- 

the  tropics.  ican   occupation  of  the  Philippines 

and  other  tropical  possessions  of  Spain,  and  of  the 
sanitary  developments  in  the  Canal  Zone,  is  to  be 
seen  in  the  recent  work  of  Captain  Charles  F.  Craig, 
of  the  Medical  Corps  of  the  United  States  Army, 
entitled  "The  Parasitic  Amrebae  of  Man"  (Lip- 
pincott).  Time  was  when  an  army  billet  was  a  sine- 
cure not  sought  for  purposes  of  medical  research, 
though  not  a  few  illustrious  names  of  army  and  navy 
physicians  are  to  be  found  in  the  annals  of  natural 
history.  To-day,  in  England,  France,  and  Germany, 
and  also  in  our  own  land,  the  advances  in  tropical 
medicine  are  largely  made  by  physicians  who  find 
both  opportunity  and  stimulus  for  research  in  the 
contact  with  disease,  epidemics,  plagues  and  para- 
sites of  tropical  peoples.  Dr.  Craig's  contributions 
in  this  field  have  long  been  known  to  specialists, 
and  are  now  made  readily  accessible  to  all  in  his 
illustrated  monograph  on  the  parasitic  amosbse  which 
worked  such  dread  havoc  on  our  soldiers  in  the 
Philippines  and  threaten  all  who  travel  in  tropical 
lands.  The  ease  of  transportation  to  and  from  the 
south  and  the  Orient  brings  their  plagues  to  our 
doors,  and  too  often  within  them ;  so  that  the  infec- 
tions here  treated  have  become  of  widest  general 
interest  both  to  our  own  practitioners  and  to  all 
who  are  concerned  with  the  protection  of  public  and 
private  water-supplies  against  pollution.  The  book 
is  replete  with  the  latest  discoveries  of  investigators 
in  this  field,  in  all  lands;  and  discusses  fully  the 
distinctions  between  the  abundant  but  innocuous 
amoebae  of  streams  and  reservoirs  and  the  so-called 
"benign"  parasites  and  the  pathogenic  ones.  Abun- 
dant illustrations  and  a  full  bibliography  of  the 
widely  scattered  literature  of  the  subject  add  to  the 
value  of  this  representative  work  of  American 
scholarship  and  the  only  monographic  work  in  En- 
glish upon  the  subject. 

In  a  stately  quarto  of  278  pages  en- 
agefnnes°saiv.  titled  "  Prehistoric Thessaly  "  Messrs. 

A.  J.  B.  Wace  and  M.  S.  Thompson 
have  published  through  the  Cambridge  University 
Press  (New  York:  Putnam)  an  account  of  recent  ex- 
cavations and  explorations  in  Northeastern  Greece, 
from  Lake  Kopais  to  the  borders  of  Macedonia.  The 
volume  is  an  expansion  of  previous  reports  by  the 
same  authors;  and  presents  in  a  convenient  form  all 
the  ai\  Ideological  evidence  as  yet  available  for  the 
prehistoric  age  in  Thessaly.  It  is  thus  a  contribution 
to  the  constantly-growing  structure  of  our  knowledge 
of  ^Egean  civilization.  By  obvious  cleavage  the  book 


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falls  into  two  divisions :  the  first  ten  chapters  describ- 
ing exhaustively  the  excavations  by  the  authors, 
together  with  summaries  of  other  men's  work.  The 
concluding  seven  chapters  contain  the  theories  and 
conclusions  based  on  their  finds,  to  be  modified  or 
verified  by  future  discoveries.  As  was  to  be  ex- 
pected, the  pottery,  found  in  great  abundance,  was 
their  chief  and  safest  guide:  "the  history  of  any  site 
which  has  a  deep  undisturbed  deposit  can  be  read 
in  its  pottery."  Comparative  archaeologists  will  fol- 
low these  elaborate  lists  of  sherds,  vases,  jugs,  and 
other  ware  with  keen  interest,  and  will  note  the  paral- 
lelism between  the  Thessalian  decorated  work  and 
that  from  Crete,  the  JEgean  islands,  and  Mycenaean 
sites  generally.  The  chapter  on  the  "prehistoric 
history"  of  Northeastern  Greece  is  an  interesting 
example  of  the  archaeological  method.  Using  only 
the  evidence  dug  out  of  the  earth,  and  rigorously  ex- 
cluding all  racial  and  legendary  names,  the  authors 
have  reconstructed  a  Thessalian  culture  which  they 
divide  into  four  periods.  None  of  these  is  marked  by 
any  splendor ;  the  decorated  ware  adheres  to  simple 
geometric  patterns,  while  the  statuettes  and  figurini 
are  highly  grotesque.  "  Only  at  the  end  of  the  pre- 
historic age  did  Mycenaean  culture  really  reach 
Northern  Greece;  but  before  it  could  supplant  the 
older  cultures  and  gain  a  firm  hold  on  Thessaly,  it 
was  itself  swept  away  by  the  northern  invasions  that 
mark  the  dawn  of  historic  Greece."  The  book  is 
profusely  illustrated  from  photographs  and  drawings 
in  the  body  of  the  text,  and  by  half-a-dozen  fine  col- 
ored plates.  The  matter  of  transliteration  has  been 
carefully  attended  to,  and  every  needful  help  pro- 
vided in  index,  appendix,  and  references  to  the  works 
of  other  authors.  

Married  mm.  In  the  ^  same  genial  vein  as  "The 
philosophers.  Reflections  of  a  Married  Man  "  and 

and  grandfathers,  u  The  Opinions  of   a  Philosopher," 

Mr.  Robert  Grant's  "Convictions  of  a  Grandfather" 
is  written  with  the  added  advantage  of  some  years 
more  of  accumulated  wisdom  and  mellowness  and 
kindly  tolerance  of  the  world's  faults  and  foibles. 
It  is  inevitable  that  such  books  as  these  three 
should  call  to  mind  and  invite  comparison  with  Dr. 
Holmes's  "  Breakfast  Table  "  series ;  for  there  is  not 
a  little  of  the  same  whimsical  humor  in  the  obser- 
vations and  meditations  of  each  of  these  Bostonians 
— professional  men,  both  of  them,  and  writers  by 
avocation.  The  opening  of  Judge  Grant's  second 
chapter  ('"But  what  do  you  regard  as  inordinate 
possessions?'  asked  Josephine,  with  whom  I  was 
discussing  the  subject")  has  in  it  the  same  abrupt 
challenge  to  one's  interest  that  is  familiar  to  the 
Autocrat's  readers.  "Convictions"  is  rather  too 
strong  a  word  to  apply  to  the  views  of  this  grand- 
father ;  he  is  by  no  means  dogmatic  or  opinionated, 
and  one  of  the  charms  of  his  book  is  that  it  leaves 
so  many  questions  open  for  further  debate.  The 
questions  themselves  are  not  abstruse,  but  deal 
chiefly  with  such  topics  as  automobiles  and  the 
increasing  cost  of  living,  old-age  pensions,  the  mod- 


as national 
pastimes. 


ern  woman,  present-day  culture  and  conversation, 
European  travel,  the  contesting  of  wills,  and  certain 
other  matters  of  not  too  severely  legal  a  nature. 
The  grace  and  fluency  and  charm  of  the  author's 
style  hardly  need  our  commendation,  at  this  late  day. 

To  those  who  have  begun  to  make  a 
serious  study  of  pastimes,  and  are 
trying  to  put  play  into  its  proper  rela- 
tion to  the  affairs  of  life,  Mrs.  Mary  Master  Need- 
ham's  "Folk  Festivals"  (Huebsch)  will  come  as  an 
inspiration,  a  guide,  and  a  help.  The  book  is  based 
upon  the  author's  personal  experiences  in  utilizing  the 
almost  universal  love  of  the  people  for  self-expression 
and  correlating  it  with  the  work  of  the  school  in  the 
teaching  of  history  ;  and  it  not  only  tells  what  folk- 
festivals  are,  and  by  way  of  illustration  describes 
the  more  important  Old  World  festivals  and  some 
successful  experiments  in  America,  but  it  shows  how 
folk  festivals  may  be  given  in  this  country,  and  how 
we  may  thereby  revive  an  interest  in  festal  days 
which  are  ours  by  inheritance,  infuse  some  life  and 
enthusiasm  into  our  so-called  national  holidays,  and 
learn  how  to  celebrate  them  in  a  sane  and  appropri- 
ate manner  so  that  their  meaning  may  not  be  lost. 
Emphasis  throughout  the  book  is  laid  on  the  folk 
character  —  the  self-expression  of  the  people  in  their 
celebrations  of  festival  days.  The  book  is  written  in 
an  entertaining  manner,  but  is  thorough  and  com- 
plete; and  for  those  who  desire  to  pursue  the  sub- 
ject further,  an  exceedingly  helpful  bibliography  is 
appended. 


NOTES. 


Admiral  Mahan's  book  on  "  Sea  Power  "  is  said,  on 
the  authority  of  a  British  naval  officer,  to  he  the  most 
generally  read  book  in  the  libraries  of  war  vessels  in 
the  British  navy. 

"The  Sign  at  Six,"  Mr.  Stewart  Edward  White's 
new  story,  is  published  this  month  by  the  Bobbs- 
Merrill  Co.  It  is  a  story  of  New  York  life,  and  is 
illustrated  by  M.  Leone  Bracker. 

A  collected  edition — said  to  be  the  first  made  in  En- 
glish —  of  the  political  writings  of  Rousseau  is  soon  to 
appear  from  the  Cambridge  University  Press,  repre- 
sented in  this  country  by  Messrs.  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons. 

Mrs.  Martha  Morley  Stewart's  story  entitled  "  Grey- 
hound Fanny  "  (R.  R.  Donnelly  &  Sons  Co.)  is  a  strong 
appeal  for  a  more  humane  and  sympathetic  treatment 
of  animals.  The  book  is  a  worthy  contribution  to  the 
cause  of  humane  education,  especially  of  the  young. 

Incidental  to  the  Browning  centenary  is  a  new  "  thin 
paper  "  edition  of  his  works  in  twelve  volumes,  pocket 
size,  issued  by  the  T.  Y.  Crowell  Co.  The  volumes  are 
printed  from  new  plates,  with  large  type,  and  are  pro- 
vided with  new  portraits  in  photogravure  and  other 
decorations. 

An  essay  —  sometimes  called  a  "  prose-poem  " —  by 
the  French  sculptor  Rodin,  addressed  to  the  Venus  of 
Milo  and  embodying  an  expression  of  the  sculptor's 
artistic  principles,  has  been  translated  into  English  by 
Miss  Dorothy  Dudley,  and  will  be  published  at  an  early 
date  by  B.  W.  Huebsch. 


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Campaign  lives  of  the  would-be  Presidents  are  prom- 
ised abundantly.  First  in  the  field  is  that  of  Governor 
Wilson,  which  Messrs.  Putnam's  Sons  have  already 
issued.  It  is,  in  effect,  a  new  edition  of  Miss  Hosford's 
life  of  Wilson,  which  has  been  highly  commended  in 
its  earlier  form,  and  now  appears  revised  and  enlarged. 

An  early  contribution  to  the  literature  of  the  Presi- 
dential campaign  is  "  The  Democratic  Mistake,"  by  Mr. 
A.  G.  Sedgwick,  which  Messrs.  Scribner  publish  this 
month.  Another  timely  book  from  the  same  house  is 
"  Majority  Rule  and  the  Judiciary,"  by  Mr.  W.  L.  Ran- 
som, a  New  York  lawyer,  with  an  introduction  by  Mr. 
Roosevelt. 

The  reproduction  of  English  and  continental  litera- 
ture in  Japan  is  steadily  increasing.  Among  works 
recently  translated  into  Japanese  are  Shaw's  "  Man 
and  Superman,"  Hauptmann's  "  Weavers,"  Flaubert's 
"Salambo,"  Daudet's  "Sapho,"  Tolstoy's  "Kreutzer 
Sonata,"  Maeterlinck's  "Life  of  the  Bee,"  and  Cervantes' 
"  Don  Quixote." 

Some  remarkably  successful  cloud  pictures,  by  the 
well-known  artist-photographer  A.  L.  Coburn,  will  be  re- 
produced in  platinum  prints  as  illustrations  for  Shelley's 
poem  of  "  The  Cloud,"  in  a  quarto  prepared  under  the 
direction  of  the  artist  and  published  by  Mr.  C.  C.  Parker 
of  Los  Angeles,  Cal.  The  edition  is  limited  to  sixty 
copies,  at  twenty-five  dollars  each. 

A  new  novel  by  a  new  writer  —Mrs.  Dell  H.  Munger, 
of  Palo  Alto,  Cal.  —  is  to  be  published  this  month  by 
Messrs.  Doubleday,  Page  &  Co.  Its  scenes  are  laid  in 
Kansas,  and  it  has  the  striking  title  "  The  Wind  Before 
the  Dawn."  The  same  firm  have  nearly  ready  a  new 
story  by  Mrs.  Mary  Austin,  "  A  Woman  of  Genius," 
dealing  chiefly  with  the  stage  and  stage  people. 

The  hundredth  anniversary  of  the  "  Fort  Dearborn 
Massacre,"  August  15,  fitly  commemorated  by  the 
Chicago  Historical  Society  with  appropriate  ceremonies, 
is  the  occasion  also  of  a  new  popular  account  of  that 
historic  tragedy  —  "  The  Story  of  Old  Fort  Dearborn," 
written  by  Mr.  Seymour  Currey  and  published  by  Messrs. 
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CONTENTS. 


PAGE 
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HORACE  HOWARD  FURNESS 

CASUAL  COMMENT 121 

The  genial  manner  of  a  great  Shakespeare  scholar. — 
Artistic  detachment. — Meredith  and  his  muse. — The 
Tenth  International  Congress  of  the  History  of  Art. 

—  The   amazingly  prolific   "Ibid." — An  enviable 
reader. —  A  "classical  foundation"  as  a  "practical 
equipment  for  life's  journey." — A  problem  in  trans- 
lation.—  "An  epoch  of  solemn  and  insane  trifling." 

—  A  new  library  building  for  Harvard. —  The  death 
of  Johann  Martin  Schleyer. 

CERTAIN  DEVELOPMENTS  IN  MODERN  EN- 
GLISH JOURNALISM.  (Special  London  Corres- 
pondence.) E.  H.  Lacon  Watson 124 

COMMUNICATIONS 126 

Librarians'  Pensions:  A  Librarian's  View.  J.C.B. 
A   Library  in  a  Powder  Magazine.     Walter  L. 
Fleming. 

THE  YOUNGER   LIFE   OF   FRIEDRICH  NIETZ- 
SCHE.   James  Taft  Hatfield 127 

FORT  DEARBORN  AND  ITS  STORY.    Milo  Milton 

Quaife 129 

THE  LYRIC  IN  ENGLISH  POETRY.    Martha  Hale 

Shackford 131 

THE  "NEW  IDEA"  INSTATE  GOVERNMENT. 

David  Y.  Thomas 134 

PROBLEMS  OF  EVOLUTION.  Raymond  Pearl  .  .  136 
Patten's  The  Evolution  of  the  Vertebrates  and  their 
Kin. — Campbell's  Plant  Life  and  Evolution. — Judd's 
The  Coming  of  Evolution. —  Delage  and  Goldsmith's 
The  Theories  of  Evolution.  —  McCabe's  The  Story 
of  Evolution. 

THE   HISTORY   AND   ROMANCE   OF   FURNI- 
TURE.   Arthur  Howard  Noll 137 

BRIEFS  ON  NEW  BOOKS 139 

A  plea  for  the  Persian  patriot.  —  Two  books  on  a 
little-read  author.  —  Some  chance  acquaintances 
deftly  portrayed.  —  Sources  of  religious  insight  and 
inspiration.  —  The  meaning  and  mystery  of  poetry. 

—  Chronicles  of  Anarchism.  —  A  sheaf  of  William 
Sharp's  literary  papers.  —  A  socialist  of  the  French 
Revolution.  —  Old  Testament  resemblances  in  other 
literatures.  —  Spicy  breezes    from  scented  isles.  — 
Revels  of  a  moth-lover. 

BRIEFER  MENTION 143 

NOTES 144 

TOPICS  IN  SEPTEMBER  PERIODICALS  ....  144 
LIST  OF  NEW  BOOKS    .  .  145 


HORACE  HOWARD  FURNESS. 


The  tie  that  binds  into  one  people  the  various 
sections  of  the  English-speaking  world,  creating 
a  fundamental  spiritual  unity  out  of  many 
diverse  manifestations  of  thought  and  conduct, 
is  their  common  speech,  and  the  common  litera- 
ture in  which  their  racial  ideals  have  found  ex- 
pression. This  it  is  which  has  set  them  in  the 
vanguard  of  modern  civilization,  and  made  them 
the  fount  of  vivifying  and  compelling  ideas  upon 
the  highest  of  human  concerns,  the  leaders  of  the 
world's  thought  in  matters  of  religion,  ethics, 
and  political  contrivance.  It  is  one  aspect  of 
this  general  truth  which  Wordsworth  so  finely 
expressed  in  the  lines  : 

"  We  must  be  free  or  die,  who  speak  the  tongue 
That  Shakespeare  spake;  the  faith  and  morals  hold 
Which  Milton  held," 

and  other  aspects  of  the  same  truth  will  readily 
suggest  themselves  to  the  reflective  mind.  In 
the  plays  of  Shakespeare  and  the  Authorized 
Version  of  the  Bible  we  who  are  of  English 
origin  can  boast  possessions  of  richer  value  than 
are  to  be  found  in  the  literature  of  any  other 
modern  people,  and  should  any  branch  of  the 
English  race  forget  to  prize  them  at  their  true 
worth,  or  cease  to  hold  them  as  inestimable  trea- 
sures, such  a  lapse  would  be  an  ominous  mark 
of  spiritual  decline,  and  of  the  breaking  up  of 
a  solidarity  as  significant  for  the  modern  world 
as  that  of  the  .Roman  genius  was  for  the  world 
of  antiquity. 

There  are  signs  that  in  this  country  we  are 
losing  our  hold  upon  the  English  Bible,  but 
Shakespeare  seems  still  to  keep  a  secure  place 
in  our  thought.  Speaking  of  educational  pro- 
grammes, Sir  Sidney  Lee  the  other  day  urged 
the  paramount  importance  of  teaching  Shake- 
speare in  every  school  and  college,  no  matter 
what  else  might  or  might  not  be  taught.  We 
are  still  reasonably  faithful  in  following  this  pre- 
scription, although  our  schools  show  an  alarming 
drift  away  from  humanism  into  the  bog  of  prac- 
ticality in  their  chase  of  the  "  vocational  "  will 
o'  the  wisp.  Our  national  record  of  devotion  to 
Shakespeare  is  fairly  creditable,  all  things  con- 
sidered. The  puritan  blight  prevented  his 
benign  influence  from  making  itself  felt  in  our 
consciousness  until  something  like  a  century  ago, 
but  when  we  found  our  way  to  him  we  took  him 


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to  our  heart.  The  accomplished  scholarship  of 
Verplanck,  Hudson,  and  Richard  Grant  White 
was  applied  to  his  exposition  and  elucidation, 
and  such  men  as  Emerson  and  Lowell  paid  him 
their  tribute  of  belletristic  appreciation.  The 
greenest  laurels  of  the  American  stage  are  those 
which  have  graced  the  brows  of  his  interpreters. 
On  the  other  side  of  the  shield  (but  equally 
showing  the  extent  to  which  he  has  occupied  our 
minds),  we  may  instance  Whitman's  rejection 
of  him  as  the  poet  of  "  feudalism,"  and  the  per- 
verse ingenuity  of  the  adherents  of  the  Bacon- 
ian delusion  (cradled  in  this  country), — of  all 
mare's-nests  surely  the  most  extraordinary  to  be 
found  in  the  annals  of  human  aberration.  At 
the  present  day,  the  world  of  Shakespeare  is 
busily  explored  by  many  thousands  of  school 
children  and  college  students,  and  edition  after 
edition  of  the  plays  come  from  the  American 
press.  Finally,  it  is  to  the  researches  of  the 
American  Professor  Wallace  that  we  owe  the 
most  important  of  recent  contributions  to  our 
knowledge  of  the  poet's  life. 

These  reflections  are  occasioned  by  the  neces- 
sity for  recording  the  death  of  our  most  distin- 
guished Shakespearean  scholar,  Dr.  Horace 
Howard  Furness,  who  passed  away  on  the  thir- 
teenth of  August,  at  the  age  of  seventy-eight. 
A  son  of  William  Henry  Furness,  the  famous 
Unitarian  divine,  Emerson's  contemporary  and 
friend,  he  was  born  in  Philadelphia  November 
2, 1833.  Graduated  from  Harvard  in  1854,  he 
numbered  among  his  classmates  Charles  Russell 
Lowell,  General  John  W.  Ames,  Bishop  W.  S. 
Perry,  Professor  Truman  H.  Safford,  and  many 
other  distinguished  men.  A  period  of  European 
travel  followed,  and  then  he  returned  to  take 
up  the  study  of  law  in  his  native  city.  He  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1859,  and  the  next  year 
opened  an  office  for  the  practice  of  law.  He 
was  eager  to  enter  the  army,  but  was  prevented 
by  the  deafness  which  was  to  cut  him  off  in 
such  large  measure  from  human  intercourse  for 
the  rest  of  his  life,  and  to  make  possible  that 
concentration  upon  scholarly  pursuits  to  which 
he  was  to  owe  his  fame.  He  was  by  no  means 
wholly  removed  from  the  affairs  of  men,  and 
took  a  leading  part  in  the  relief  work  of  the 
army  and  in  the  organization  of  the  sanitary 
commission,  besides  carrying  on  his  law  busi- 
ness for  some  years.  He  was  married  in  1860, 
and  became  the  father  of  three  children,  all  of 
whom  have  become  distinguished.  In  his  later 
years,  he  was  the  recipient  of  many  honors, 
American  and  foreign,  including  the  presidency 
of  the  German  Shakespeare  Society,  and  mem- 


bership in  the  American  Academy  of  Arts  and 
Letters.  For  the  last  half  century,  his  life  has 
been  typically  that  of  the  scholar,  tempered  by 
sufficient  outside  interests  to  give  it  a  pleasing 
variety ;  and  working  quietly  in  his  library,  he 
has  accomplished  the  monumental  work  to 
which  he  owes  his  fame. 

"  I  've  acted  merely  as  a  pair  of  scissors  "  was 
his  own  modest  description  of  that  work,  of 
which  he  further  spoke  as  "  serving  excellently 
to  keep  an  old  fellow  out  of  mischief."  The 
world  has  taken  it  more  seriously  than  that,  and 
America  points  to  it  with  pride  as  one  of  her 
greatest  contributions  to  culture.  His  love  of 
Shakespeare  dated  from  his  childhood.  "  I  was 
a  boy  in  my  teens,"  he  said,  "  when  I  first  heard 
Mrs.  Kemble  read  Shakespeare,  and  from  that 
moment  I  belonged  to  Shakespeare."  As  early 
as  1850,  he  made  a  special  study  of  "Hamlet," 
collecting  and  collating  for  his  own  use  the  views 
of  the  earlier  commentators,  thus  f oreshadowmg 
the  plan  which  he  was  later  to  apply  to  the  pro- 
duction of  the  great  "  Variorum  "  Shakespeare. 
The  work  gradually  took  shape  in  his  mind,  but 
he  spent  a  score  of  years  in  study  and  the  collec- 
tion of  materials  before  he  was  ready  to  publish 
his  first  volume.  That  volume  was  the  "  Romeo- 
and  Juliet  "  of  1871,  foUowed  by  "  Macbeth  " 
in  1873,  "  Hamlet "  in  1877,  "  King  Lear  "  in 
1880,  "  Othello  "  in  1886,  «  The  Merchant  of 
Venice  "  in  1888,  "As  You  Like  It  "  in  1890, 
"The  Tempest"  in  1892,  "A  Midsummer 
Night's  Dream"  in  1895,  " The  Winter's  Tale  '* 
'  in  1898,  "  Much  Ado  about  Nothing  "  in  1899, 
"Twelfth  Night"  in  1901,  "Love's  Labour's. 
Lost,"  in  1904,  and  "  Anthony  and  Cleopatra  'r 
in  1907.  The  "  Variorum  "  Shakespeare,  as  it 
now  stands,  consists  of  these  fourteen  plays,  to- 
gether with  the  "  Richard  III."  of  1908,  edited 
by  Mr.  H.  H.  Furness,  Jr.  The  son,  for  some 
years  past  trained  to  collaborate  with  the  father, 
may  be  trusted  to  carry  on  the  work  upon  the 
same  plan  and  in  the  same  spirit.  Let  us  trust 
that  a  descendant  in  the  third  generation  will  be 
ready  to  complete  it  fifty  years  from  now.  The 
volumes  which  we  already  have  are  marvels  of 
exhaustive  scholarship  and  models  of  conserva- 
tive critical  judgment.  The  task  of  reading  all 
that  has  been  written  about  even  a  single  play 
of  Shakespeare,  of  weighing  it  all  and  selecting 
what  is  worth  preserving,  and  then  presenting 
this  sifted  residuum  in  orderly  arrangement, 
would  seem  to  be  a  fair  work  for  a  lifetime.  But 
Dr.  Furness  did  this  fourteen  times  over,  and 
with  an  intelligence,  an  authority,  and  a  nicety 
of  judgment  that  are  likely  to  be  the  despair  of 


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generations  of  scholars  to  come.  It  was  a  colos- 
sal achievement,  and  is  not  matched  by  many, 
either  in  this  country  or  in  any  other. 

Dr.  Felix  Schelling,  who  knew  him  well,  thus 
writes  of  him  in  "The  Nation": 

"  Horace  Howard  Furness  was  an  old-fashioned 
scholar,  and  an  old-fashioned  man.  He  recalled  at  all 
times  that  leisure  is  an  essential  of  sound  scholarship, 
not  leisure  to  dawdle,  but  leisure  to  do  what  is  to  be 
done  wholly  and  completely  no  matter  what  the  time 
involved,  leisure  to  read,  to  know,  to  be  infinitely  more 
than  the  narrow  specialist,  digging  one  ditch  in  oblivion 
of  the  world  about  and  the  sky  above.  His  was  the 
old-fashioned  courtesy  that  has  time  to  remember  trifles 
and  to  be  kindly  to  unconsidered  persons.  ...  I  have 
never  seen  him  angry  save  where  some  act  of  oppression 
or  ungenerosity  was  in  question  and  then  his  indignation 
knew  no  bounds.  For  the  arrogance  of  petty  scholar- 
ships he  had  an  amused  smile ;  for  even  small,  if  genuine, 
accomplishment  an  ungrudging  and  instant  recognition. 
His  affections  were  always  on  the  side  of  justice." 

This  personal  tribute  fitly  supplements  the  esti- 
mate of  Dr.  Furness's  scholarship ;  for  those  who 
were  privileged  to  know  him,  or  even  to  hear 
him  upon  the  rare  occasions  when  he  was  per- 
suaded to  read  in  public  from  his  beloved  poet, 
got  an  impression  of  a  personality  which  over- 
shadowed even  his  immense  reputation  for  learn- 
ing—  the  personality  of  a  kindly,  genial,  and 
benignant  spirit. 


CASUAL  COMMENT. 


THE  GENIAL  MANNER  OF  A  GREAT  SHAKESPEARE 

SCHOLAR  may  do  more  to  promote  the  study  of 
"Hamlet"  and  "Othello"  and  all  the  rest  of  the 
imperishable  thirty-seven  plays  (if  that  is  the  exact 
number)  than  will  be  accomplished  by  any  amount 
of  learning  and  critical  acumen  displayed  in  editorial 
prefaces  and  notes.  But  Dr.  Horace  Howard  Fur- 
ness,  whose  recent  death  in  his  seventy-ninth  year  is 
cause  for  deep  regret,  had  both  erudition  and  charm. 
Those  who  were  privileged  to  know  him  in  life  can 
never  forget  the  cheer  and  inspiration  of  his  pres- 
ence; those  who  have  heard  his  public  readings  of 
his  favorite  poet  will  bear  witness  that  they  have 
carried  thence  a  wonderfully  quickened  appreciation 
of  Shakespeare's  genius;  and  those  who  have  read 
his  commentaries  (or  any  random  passages  of  them) 
on  the  fourteen  plays  that  came  from  his  editorial 
hand  in  the  great  Variorum  Edition  now  left  in 
charge  of  the  son,  cannot  have  failed  to  find  a  new 
and  perhaps  unexpected  delight  in  those  bugbears 
of  the  impatient,  introductions  and  footnotes.  Un- 
fortunately, the  price  of  the  Variorum  volumes  is 
such  as  to  have  rendered  their  popular  purchase 
impossible,  and  not  even  all  public  libraries  possess 
them;  and  where  the  library  does  own  them  they 
are  not  seldom  withheld  from  free  circulation.  Con- 
sequently many  readers  who  would  have  enjoyed 


them  have  not  yet  had  a  taste  of  their  fine  quality. 
This  may  be  a  fitting  occasion  for  giving  a  specimen 
of  Dr.  Furness's  art  as  Shakespeare-interpreter  — 
chosen  from  the  last  volume  that  bore  his  name  as 
editor,  the  "Antony  and  Cleopatra."  Commenting 
upon  the  excessive  ingenuity  of  some  Shakespeare 
scholars,  he  exclaims,  "Much  learning  has  made  us 
mad!  " — and  then  continues:  "Even  with  more  rea- 
son than  in  Caesar's  character,  is  it  necessary  that 
we  should  accept  Cleopatra,  at  Shakespeare's  hands, 
with  minds  unbiased  by  history.  We  should  know 
no  more  of  her  than  we  hear  on  the  stage.  Of  her 
past,  of  her  salad  days,  we  should  know  nothing  but 
what  we  are  told.  The  first  words  that  she  and  An- 
thony utter  tell  of  boundless,  illimitable  love,  and 
this  love  is  maintained  to  the  last  throb  of  life  in 
each  of  them.  .  .  .  Even  in  the  scene  with  Caesar's 
ambassador,  Thidias,  who  comes  to  Cleopatra  with 
overtures  of  peace  and  favour  on  condition  that  she 
will  give  up  Anthony,  we  knowing  ones,  crammed 
with  history  as  pigeons  are  with  peas,  tip  each  other 
the  wink  and  lay  our  fingers  on  our  shrewd  noses  at 
Cleopatra's  evident  treachery  when  she  sends  word 
that  she  kisses  Caesar's  conquering  hand,  and  kneels, 
with  her  crown,  at  his  feet.  But  those  who  read  the 
Queen  only  by  the  light  thrown  by  Shakespeare,  see 
clearly  enough  that  at  this  lowest  ebb  of  Anthony's 
fortunes  this  was  the  only  course  she  could  prudently 
take ;  to  gain  time  for  him  she  must  temporise  with 
Caesar."  Has  it  ever  before  been  Shakespeare's  lot 
to  fall  into  the  hands  of  so  richly  appreciative  an  edi- 
tor, an  editor  so  gifted  with  insight  and  humor  and 
interpretative  skill? 

ARTISTIC  DETACHMENT,  or  sufficient  severance 
of  self  from  the  product  of  one's  pen  (or  brush,  or 
chisel,  as  the  case  may  be)  to  enable  one  to  attain 
the  impersonal  standpoint  and  to  view  with  equal 
calm  both  praise  and  censure  of  one's  work,  can 
only  come  with  entire  and  unselfish  devotion  to  art. 
In  literary  squabbles,  of  which  the  history  of  litera- 
ture is  full,  are  to  be  found  many  striking  examples 
of  the  inartistic  attitude,  the  grievous  lack  of  artistic 
detachment.  When  Poggio  Fiorentino  and  Georgios 
Trapezuntios  fell  out  (as  we  read  of  their  doing  in 
Symonds's  "Renaissance  in  Italy")  over  Poggio's 
translations  from  Diodorus  and  Xenophon,  the  two 
mighty  scholars  allowed  their  personal  feelings  to 
get  terribly  tangled  up  with  what  was  at  first  a  purely 
literary  question.  The  Florentine  seems  first  to 
have  lost  his  temper.  "You  lie  in  your  throat!  "  he 
shrieked  in  an  apoplexy  of  passion,  whereupon  the 
Greek  boxed  his  ears;  then  Poggio  caught  Georgios 
by  the  hair,  and  the  two  learned  professors  fell  to 
pommelling  each  other  until  they  were  separated  by 
their  respective  pupils.  In  what  delightful  contrast 
to  this  stands,  for  example,  Mr.  A.  C.  Benson's 
urbane  attitude  toward  certain  outrageously  harsh 
critics  of  his  "  Beside  Still  Waters  " !  It  is  in  a  later 
book  ("At  Large")  that  he  ventures  to  offer  a  few 
remarks  in  reply.  His  unfailing  good  humor,  even 
when  he  indulges  in  a  little  gentle  sarcasm,  is  admir- 


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able.  The  passage  is  no  longer  brand- new,  but  is  still 
worth  quoting,  even  at  some  length.  "The  book  was 
carefully  enough  written,"  says  Mr.  Benson,  "  and  I 
have  been  a  good  deal  surprised  to  find  that  it  has  met 
with  considerable  disapproval,  and  even  derision,  on 
the  part  of  many  reviewers.  It  has  been  called  mor- 
bid and  indolent,  and  decadent,  and  half-a-hundred 
more  ugly  adjectives.  Now  I  do  not  for  an  instant 
question  the  right  of  a  single  one  of  these  conscien- 
tious persons  to  form  whatever  opinion  they  like 
about  my  book,  and  to  express  it  in  any  terms  they 
like.  ...  I  do  not  dispute  the  possibility  of  their 
being  perfectly  right.  An  artist  who  exhibits  his 
paintings,  or  a  writer  who  publishes  his  books,  chal- 
lenges the  criticism  of  the  public;  and  I  am  quite 
sure  that  the  reviewers  who  frankly  dislike  my  book, 
and  said  so  plainly,  thought  they  were  doing  their 
duty  to  the  public,  and  warning  them  against  teach- 
ing which  they  believed  to  be  insidious  and  even 
immoral.  I  honour  them  for  doing  this,  and  I  ap- 
plaud them,  especially  if  they  did  violence  to  their 
own  feelings  of  courtesy  and  urbanity  in  doing  so." 
And  after  another  half-page  in  similar  vein,  he  con- 
cludes: "I  have  no  intention  of  trying  to  refute  or 
convince  my  critics,  and  I  beg  them  with  all  my 
heart  to  say  what  they  think  about  my  books,  be- 
cause only  by  the  frank  interchange  of  ideas  can  we 
arrive  at  the  truth."  On  paper,  this  sort  of  thing 
may  look  easy  enough;  but  when  it  is  one's  own 
skin  that  is  pricked  the  situation  assumes  a  different 
complexion  and  one  is  more  inclined  to  play  the  part 
of  a  Poggio  than  of  a  dispassionate  lover  of  truth. 

.     •     • 

MEREDITH  AND  HIS  MUSE,  or,  better,  Meredith's 
attitude  toward  his  muse,  will  engage  the  interest  of 
those  readers  of  his  letters  (now  appearing,  in  selec- 
tions, in  "  Scribner's  Magazine  ")  who  care  for  some- 
thing besides  mere  personalities  in  literature  of  this 
sort.  His  first  love,  poetry,  was  for  obvious  reasons 
often  forced  to  give  place  to  prose.  In  a  letter  of 
1861  to  the  Rev.  Augustus  Jessopp  he  says  :  "  As 
to  my  love  for  the  Muse,  I  really  think  that  is  ear- 
nest enough.  I  have  all  my  life  done  battle  in  her 
behalf,  and  should,  at  one  time,  have  felt  no  blessing 
to  be  equal  to  the  liberty  to  serve  her.  Praise  sings 
strangely  in  my  ears.  I  have  been  virtually  propelled 
into  a  practical  turn,  by  the  lack  of  encouragement 
for  any  other  save  practical  work."  And  a  few  years 
later  to  the  same  confidant:  "As  to  the  Poems:  I 
don't  think  the  age  prosaic  for  not  buying  them.  A 
man  who  hopes  to  be  popular,  must  think  from  the 
mass,  and  as  the  heart  of  the  mass.  If  he  follows 
out  vagaries  of  his  own  brain,  he  cannot  hope  for 
general  esteem  ;  and  he  does  smaller  work."  Fur- 
ther on  in  the  same  letter  :  "  Between  realism  and 
idealism  there  is  no  natural  conflict.  This  completes 
that.  Realism  is  the  basis  of  good  composition :  it 
implies  study,  observation,  artistic  power,  and  (in 
those  who  can  do  more)  humility.  Little  writers 
should  be  realistic.  They  would  then  at  least  do  solid 
work.  They  afflict  the  world  because  they  will  at- 
tempt what  it  is  given  to  none  but  noble  workmen 


to  achieve.  A  great  genius  must  necessarily  employ 
ideal  means,  for  a  vast  conception  cannot  be  placed 
bodily  before  the  eye,  and  remains  to  be  suggested. 
Idealism  is  an  atmosphere  whose  effects  of  grandeur 
are  wrought  out  through  a  series  of  illusions,  that  are 
illusions  to  the  sense  within  us  only  when  divorced 
from  the  groundwork  of  the  real.  Need  there  be 
exclusion,  the  one  of  the  other  ?  The  artist  is  incom- 
plete who  does  this.  Men  to  whom  I  bow  my  head 
(Shakespeare,  Goethe;  and  in  their  way,  Moliere, 
Cervantes)  are  Realists  au  fond.  But  they  have  the 
broad  arms  of  Idealism  at  command.  They  give  us 
earth,  but  it  is  earth  with  an  atmosphere.  One  may 
find  as  much  amusement  in  a  Kaleidoscope  as  in  a 
merely  idealistic  writer ;  and,  just  as  sound  prose  is 
of  more  worth  than  pretentious  poetry,  I  hold  the 
man  who  gives  a  plain  wall  of  fact  higher  'in  esteem 
than  one  who  is  constantly  shuffling  the  clouds  and 
dealing  with  airy,  delicate  sentimentalities,  headless 
and  tailless  imaginings,  despising  our  good,  plain 
strength."  ... 

THE  TENTH  INTERNATIONAL  CONGRESS  OF  THE 
.HISTORY  OF  ART  will  be  held  this  autumn — some 
time  in  October,  one  infers  from  published  announce- 
ments—  in  the  halls  of  the  Royal  Accademia  de' 
Lincei  in  the  Palazzo  Corsini,  Rome.  It  is  expected 
that  the  papers  to  be  read  will  interest  not  only  art- 
ists and  students  of  art  history,  but  also  those  who 
concern  themselves  with  the  spread  of  art  instruc- 
tion in  universities  and  schools  generally.  Papers 
and  discussions  will  be  grouped  under  four  heads: 
1.  The  history  of  early  Christian  and  mediaeval 
art  to  the  end  of  the  fourteenth  century.  2.  The 
fifteenth  century.  3.  The  history  of  art  from  the 
sixteenth  century  to  the  present  time.  4.  Historico- 
artistic  methodology;  care  of  works  of  art;  historical 
researches  in  technical  methods;  general  organiza- 
tion of  the  work  of  the  congresses.  In  languages 
allowed,  it  will  be  a  penteglot  conference,  Italian, 
French,  German,  English,  and  Spanish  being  the 
permitted  tongues.  Of  especial  interest  to  librarians, 
and  to  others  who  give  their  attention  to  the  litera- 
ture of  art,  will  be  four  expositions  to  be  held  in 
connection  with  the  Congress, —  of  photographic 
reproductions  in  one  or  more  colors  for  the  illustra- 
tion of  works  on  art  history;  of  Italian  periodicals, 
whether  in  course  of  publication  or  not,  on  the  his- 
tory of  art;  of  publications  not  on  the  market,  such 
as  catalogues  of  private  collections  and  sale  cata- 
logues; and,  finally,  of  kinds  of  paper  adapted  for 
use  in  histories  of  art,  such  as  insure,  that  is,  dura- 
bility and  neatness  of  photographic  reproductions. 
Reductions  in  railway  fares  and  free  entrance  to  all 
government  and  municipal  museums  and  galleries 
for  the  whole  month  of  October  are  promised  to 
members  of  the  Congress,  subscription  to  which  is 
twenty-five  francs,  or,  to  ladies  accompanying  a  mem- 
ber, ten  francs.  Communications  from  those  desiring 
to  read  papers,  and  from  other  would-be  attendants, 
are  invited  by  the  executive  committee,  whose  secre- 
tary is  Signor  Roberto  Papini,  Via  Fabio  Massimo 
60,  Rome. 


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THE  AMAZINGLY  PROLIFIC  "  IBID,"  to  whom  we 
see  more  works  attributed  (in  the  footnotes  of  every 
third  book  we  take  up)  than  are  now  ascribed  to 
Bacon  by  even  the  most  zealous  Baconian,  has  caused 
one  of  our  correspondents  so  much  bewilderment  and 
such  fruitless  searching  of  biographical  dictionaries 
and  histories  of  literature  that  she  appeals  through 
us  for  any  information  concerning  him  that  any  of 
our  readers  may  be  able  to  furnish.  She  says  in  her 
letter  :  "  Some  one  told  me  one  day,  with  a  quizzical 
look  which  I  could  not  understand,  that  Ibid  was  a 
half-brother  to  the  Vide  sisters  —  Vide  Supra  and 
Vide  Infra;  but  that  didn't  help  me  much,  since 
these  same  Misses  Vide  have  caused  me  hardly  less 
perplexity  than  has  Ibid  himself.  Another  informant 
assured  me  that '  Ibid  '  was  not  a  real  name,  but  the 
pseudonym  of  Op  Cit,  who  was  a  Chinese  (or  was 
it  Siamese?)  sage  of  the  fortieth  century  B.C.,  and 
great-grandfather  of  the  almost  equally  famous  Loc 
Cit.  But  why  don't  the  reference  books  tell  us  some- 
thing about  him?  Can  you  tell  me  whether  there 
is  any  uniform  and  not  too  expensive  edition  of  his 
works,  and  if  so  by  whom  it  is  published  ?  "  Pending 
more  definite  information,  our  correspondent  will 
perhaps  be  glad  to  learn  that  she  has  companions  in 
her  perplexity.  Not  long  ago  a  Columbia  student 
approached  Miss  Mendenhall,  of  the  New  York 
Public  Library,  with  just  the  same  wrinkle  in  his 
forehead  that  ruffles  our  fair  correspondent's  brow. 
Miss  Mendenhall  relates  the  incident  in  "  New  York 
Libraries."  She  says  :  "  The  other  day  a  student 
from  Columbia  came  into  the  library  for  help  on  a 
list  of  references  in  history  which  he  was  to  read 
before  writing  a  thesis  [for  a  doctor's  degree  ?].  He 
said,  '  I  have  found  most  of  the  books  in  the  Colum- 
bia library,  but  there  is  one  author  I  can't  find  any- 
where, and  I  have  spent  a  good  deal  of  time  looking. 
He  has  a  strange  name  and  I  have  never  heard  of 
him  as  a  historian,  but  he  has  written  a  good  many 
of  the  books  on  my  list ;  his  name  is  "  Ibid." ' 
Strange  that  there  should  be  such  a  conspiracy  of 
silence  concerning  this  able  and  eminent  author. 

•          •          • 

AN  ENVIABLE  READER,  a  reader  with  vision  so 
quick,  with  retina  of  the  eye  so  receptive,  as  to  be 
able  to  take  in  a  whole  page  at  a  glance,  and  with 
a  memory  capable  of  holding  and  repeating  all  that 
is  read,  is  made  the  subject  of  an  article  in  the 
"Journal  of  the  American  Medical  Association"  by 
Dr.  George  M.  Gould,  whose  writings  on  eye-strain, 
as  well  as  on  Lafcadio  Hearn  and  other  topics,  have 
made  him  well  known  in  the  book-world.  The  reader 
he  now  describes  is  certainly  of  the  sort  to  which 
most  of  us  would  like  to  belong  in  this  age  of  more 
books,  more  really  good  books,  than  one  can  find 
time  to  do  more  than  glance  at.  But  that  glance 
would  suffice  if  one  were  like  Dr.  Gould's  "Mr.  C.," 
who  is  said  to  be  able  to  read  several  books  at  a 
sitting  and  to  repeat  without  error  all  that  he  has 
read.  Fond  of  poetry  and  novels,  what  a  banquet 
of  books  he  must  have  as  he  sits  before  his  cheerful 
fire  —  or  steam  radiator  —  of  a  winter's  evening! 


As  to  Mr.  C.'s  peculiar  eye-structure,  it  appears  that 
some  time  in  middle  life  he  suffered  a  destruction 
of  the  central  or  "  macular  "  portion  of  the  retina  of 
the  right  eye  from  inflammation  due  to  eye-strain. 
The  "fixing"  part,  that  is,  of  the  retina  was  obliter- 
ated, and  a  round  blind  space  was  left.  The  other 
eye  remained  unaffected,  and  the  patient  continued 
to  enjoy  something  like  normal  vision,  until  "by 
long,  unconscious  and  forced  exercise,  the  healthy 
zone  of  the  right  retina  surrounding  the  macular 
was  educated  to  such  a  degree  that  it  could,  when 
unmoved,  receive  and  transmit  to  the  brain  the  im- 
age of  the  entire  page,  except  that  part  falling  upon 
the  central  portion,  which  had  been  destroyed,"  but 
which,  of  course,  was  helped  out  by  the  undiseased 
left  eye.  Here,  then,  is  indicated  a  means  whereby 
anyone  might,  perhaps,  become  a  reader  of  more 
than  Macaulayesque  rapidity  —  if  he  chooses  to  sub- 
mit to  a  little  doctoring"  of  one  eye  and  to  educate 
that  eye  in  the  proper  manner  afterward. 
•  •  • 

A  "CLASSICAL  FOUNDATION"  AS  A  "PRACTICAL 
EQUIPMENT  FOR  LIFE'S  JOURNEY"  may  to  the  "prac- 
tical "  man  sound  too  absurd  even  to  laugh  at.  And 
yet  so  strenuously  active  and  wide-awake  and  un- 
visionary  a  person  as  Mr.  James  O.  Fagan,  railroad 
man,  telegraph  operator,  traveller  in  two  hemi- 
spheres, and  "self-made"  (as  the  saying  goes)  from 
boyhood,  deliberately  acknowledges  his  supreme  in- 
debtedness to  classical  study  as  the  groundwork  of 
his  training  for  the  work  he  was  to  find  to  do  in  the 
world.  In  the  August  instalment  of  his  "  Auto- 
biography of  an  Individualist"  in  "The  Atlantic 
Monthly,"  dwelling  on  that  part  of  his  storm-and- 
stress  period  that  was  passed  at  East  Deerfield, 
Massachusetts,  he  says :  "  In  presenting  an  argument, 
stating  a  case,  or  pleading  a  cause,  other  things  being 
equal,  I  always  attributed  my  intellectual  advantage 
to  the  fact  that  in  my  youth  I  had  received  a  thorough 
drilling  in  Latin  and  Greek,  while  my  companions 
as  a  rule,  in  my  line  of  life,  had  not.  As  a  simple 
practical  equipment  for  life's  journey,  what  may  be 
called  my  classical  foundation  seems  to  me  now  to 
be  worth  all  the  other  features  of  my  school  educa- 
tion put  together."  Readers  of  Mr.  Fagan 's  variously 
interesting  and  color-abounding  chapters  may  thank 
fortune  that  his  boyhood  antedated  the  vocational 
school  and  the  era  of  industrial  training. 

•          •          • 

A  PROBLEM  IN  TRANSLATION  that  in  all  likelihood 
will  never  be  satisfactorily  solved  has  been  attacked 
afresh  by  an  English  aspirant  to  honors  in  the  field 
of  Bible  literature.  Sir  Edward  Clarke,  an  eminent 
barrister  whose  serious  hours  have  been  spent  "in 
endeavouring  to  put  logical  thought  into  clear,  forci- 
ble, and  harmonious  language,"  regards  this  training 
as  one  qualifying  him  to  render  with  precision  and 
grace  the  Epistles  of  St.  Paul.  Retaining,  as  he  has 
tried  to,  the  virtues  of  both  the  Authorized  Version 
of  1611  and  the  Revised  Version  of  1881,  and  avoid- 
ing their  vices,  he  has  produced  a  hybrid  that  can 
hardly  fail  to  displease  both  those  who  cling  fondly 


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to  the  familiar  King  James  phraseology  and  those 
few  who  ask  for  a  thoroughly  modern  style  in  their 
English  Bible.  Meanwhile  the  whole  question  at 
issue  is  well  discussed  by  Mr.  Ernest  E.  Kellett,  a 
schoolmaster  and  a  student  of  literature,  in  a  "  Lon- 
don Quarterly  Review"  article  entitled  "The  Trans- 
lation of  the  New  Testament,"  which  scores  a  good 
point  in  calling  attention  to  the  substantial  inaccuracy 
that  often  accompanies  a  slavishly  literal  rendering 
of  a  work  in  an  alien  tongue,  and  that  does  in  many 
instances  mar  both  the  Authorized  Version  of  our 
Bible  and  all  versions  that,  like  the  Revised,  are 
based  upon  it.  Another  point  of  Mr.  Kellett's  is 
that  the  archaic  style  of  both  these  versions,  while 
generally  appropriate  to  the  Old  Testament,  is  not 
the  manner  suited  to  the  New,  which  is  written  in  a 
dialect  of  Greek  that  was  the  vernacular  of  the  time 
and  place  of  writing  —  as,  it  is  claimed,  certain  re- 
cently discovered  Egyptian  papyri  have  proved. 
Yet,  after  all  is  said,  it  will  be  long  before  the  ear 
will  receive  willingly  any  conspicuously  modern  idi- 
oms in  the  Gospels,  or,  indeed,  elsewhere  in  the  Bible. 
A  modernized  version  of  Shakespeare  would  not 
elicit  more  vehement  protest. 
•  •  • 

"  AN  EPOCH  OF  SOLEMN  AND  INSANE  TRIFLING  " 

is  what  ours  is  declared  to  be  by  the  diverting  and 
fertile  author  of  "Tremendous  Trifles,"  "The  Man 
Who  was  Thursday,"  "All  Things  Considered,"  and 
sundry  other  books.  In  this  epoch,  to  which  our 
brilliant  paradoxologist  must,  chronologically  at  least, 
be  said  to  belong,  the  late  Andrew  Lang,  he  goes  on 
to  remark  (in  his  Lang  obituary  in  "The  Illustrated 
London  News  "),  labored  under  three  disadvantages : 
he  was  universal,  he  was  amusing,  and  he  was  lucid. 
As  to  universality,  a  quality  less  valued  and  under- 
stood now  than  in  Queen  Elizabeth's  time,  he  pro- 
ceeds to  say,  in  true  Chestertonian  vein :  "It  would 
be  useless,  I  suppose,  to  tell  the  modern  critics  that 
a  man  cannot  really  be  interested  in  Homer  without 
being  a  little  interested  in  Chinese  teapots.  It  would 
be  called  paradoxical  to  say  that  every  man  who 
really  thinks  about  the  Stuarts  must  sometimes  think 
about  Spiritualism.  .  .  .  Folklore  and  fishing  are 
really  very  near  each  other,  both  in  the  deeper  mys- 
teries of  nature  and  the  superficial  developments  of 
lying."  What  a  quantity  of  hitherto  unsuspected 
resemblances  and  differences  we  should  have  gone  to 
our  graves  without  knowing  anything  about,  had  not 
Mr.  Chesterton  been  sent  in  the  nick  of  time  to  point 
them  out!  After  reading  him,  who  is  there  but  must 
feel,  with  Stevenson,  that  in  a  world  so  full  of  a 
number  of  things  we  all  of  us  ought  to  be  happy  as 
kings?  .  .  . 

A  NEW  LIBRARY  BUILDING  FOR  HARVARD  has  at 

last  been  provided  through  the  generosity  of  Mrs. 
George  D.  Widener  of  Philadelphia,  mother  of  the 
late  Henry  E.  Widener  who  with  his  father  went 
down  in  the  sinking  of  the  Titanic  last  April,  and 
whose  bequest  of  his  valuable  library  to  the  univer- 
sity from  which  he  was  graduated  five  years  ago  is 


already  well  known.  One  of  the  conditions  of  that 
bequest,  it  will  be  recalled,  was  that  proper  housing 
and  care  of  the  bequeathed  library  should  not  be 
lacking ;  and  this  condition  is  now  fulfilled  by  the 
testator's  mother,  who  will  make  the  long-needed 
building  a  worthy  memorial  to  her  son  by  expending 
two  million  dollars,  if  necessary,  in  its  erection. 
Already  the  architects  and  the  university  authorities 
have  consulted  together  over  the  location  and  general 
plan  of  the  new  building,  and  a  site  has  been  fixed 
upon  extending  from  the  present  library  southward. 
Mr.  Horace  Trumbauer,  architect  to  the  Widener 
family,  is  said  to  have  been  commissioned  to  draw 
the  plans.  And  thus  Harvard's  most  urgent  need  — 
in  fact,  the  most  urgent  need  one  could  point  to  in 
the  whole  library  world  —  after  years  of  weary  wait- 
ing is  to  be  adequately,  even  magnificently,  met. 

•          •          • 

THE  DEATH    OF    JOHANN    MARTIN    SCHLEYER  is 

announced  by  recent  despatches  from  Constance; 
and  so  from  this  Babel  of  multitudinous  tongues  is 
removed  the  enthusiastic  linguist  who,  a  third  of  a 
century  ago,  conceived  in  one  sleepless  night  the 
general  outlines  of  what  he  hoped  would  prove  a  uni- 
versal medium  of  communication,  binding  all  nations 
in  a  linguistic  brotherhood.  And,  indeed,  Volapiik 
did  make  rather  astonishing  headway  at  first,  its 
grammar  being  translated  into  thirty-five  languages, 
and  its  literary  use  extending  into  the  magazine  field 
until  twenty-five  periodicals  could  be  pointed  to  as 
printed  in  this  wonderful  Weltsprache.  ButSchleyer 
was  not  allowed  to  enjoy  a  monopoly  in  this  tempting 
domain  of  world-language-making,  and  to-day  the 
most  vigorous  rival  of  Volaptik,  Esperanto,  seems  to 
have  far  outdistanced  its  senior  competitor,  and 
indeed  all  its  competitors.  Schleyer  was  a  German 
of  the  Germans,  an  ardent  philologist,  the  master  of 
an  incredible  number  of  languages,  and  the  trans- 
lator of  his  own  grammar  into  most  if  not  all  of  the 
thirty-five  in  which  it  was  printed.  That  all  his  work 
should  have  turned  out  to  be  as  the  digging  of  holes 
in  the  sand  on  the  seashore,  is  little  short  of  pathetic. 


CERTAIN  DEVELOPMENTS  IN  MOD- 
ERN ENGLISH  JOURNALISM. 

(Special  Correspondence  of  THE  DIAL.) 

London,  August  14,  1912. 

Since  I  first  began  to  write  for  a  living  (it  is 
more  years  ago  now  than  I  care  to  set  down  in 
print),  a  good  many  changes  have  overtaken  the 
London  journalist.  Time  was,  in  the  early  nineties, 
when  the  editor  of  a  big  daily  made  something  of  a 
figure  in  the  land.  He  was  the  Editor:  that  was 
enoug'*.  When  the  brilliant  amateur  (myself  for 
example)  had  an  idea  for  a  series  of  bright  and 
epoch-making  articles,  it  was  into  the  Editor's  more 
or  less  receptive  ear  that  he  poured  his  tale.  True, 
that  gentleman  was  not  always  very  accessible: 
even  now,  with  his  glory  so  sadly  shorn,  he  occa- 
sionally thinks  it  good  for  the  aspirant's  health  to 


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keep  him  waiting  half  an  hour  or  more  in  an  outer 
room  before  admitting  him  into  the  majesty  of  the 
Presence ;  but  at  all  events,  in  those  days,  he  was  in 
command.  He  could  do  things  on  his  own  respon- 
sibility. 

I  forget  who  it  was  who  made  the  astounding 
discovery  that  the  important  man  on  a  daily  paper 
was  not  the  editor  but  the  business  manager.  Pos- 
sibly the  business  manager  discovered  it  himself; 
no  doubt  he  had  long  suspected  it,  and  doubt  be- 
came certainty  when  he  beheld  the  remarkable 
influence  wielded  by  the  late  Mr.  Moberley  Bell, 
then  manager  of  "The  Times."  For  many  years 
that  remarkable  man  controlled  the  destinies  of 
what  we  used  to  consider  the  first  newspaper  in  the 
world ;  and  seeing  the  success  with  which  he  con- 
ducted its  affairs  it  was  not  surprising  that  several 
owners  of  other  journals  began  to  dream  of  the 
simple  economy  of  discharging  their  editor  and 
appointing  in  his  place  the  gentleman  who  looked 
after  the  advertisements.  The  natural  result  was  a 
certain  decentralization,  a  delegation  of  power  to 
subordinates.  The  Sports  Editor,  the  Literary 
Editor,  the  Art  Editor,  the  Society  Editor,  all 
assumed  an  importance  that  they  had  not  possessed 
before.  With  their  rise  the  glory  of  the  Editor- 
in-Chief  has  somewhat  faded. 

And  then,  too,  there  were  the  leader-writers, 
now  a  decaying  race.  Time  was  when  the  young 
man,  fresh  from  the  university,  looked  toward 
journalism  as  a  possible  profession,  or  at  the  worst 
as  a  support  while  he  was  making  his  way  to  fame 
and  fortune  with  the  novels  and  poems  that  he 
wrote  to  please  himself  and  posterity.  The  position 
of  leader-writer  on  a  big  morning  paper  was  one  of 
the  prizes  of  the  profession ;  grave  and  reverend 
elders  were  pointed  out  to  him  as  having  attained 
to  this  Olympian  height,  drawing  handsome  salaries 
for  the  privilege  of  instructing  some  thousands  of 
breakfast-tables  three  mornings  in  the  week.  The 
good  journalist  then  was  the  man  who  could  be 
trusted  to  write  on  any  given  subject  with  an  air  of 
omniscience,  an  occasional  touch  of  scholarship,  and 
a  graceful  turn  of  wit, —  all  in  three  paragraphs  of 
approximately  equal  length. 

The  leading  article  was  heavy,  and  heaviness  is 
now  the  unforgivable  sin.  Compulsory  education 
and  the  cheap  press  have  produced  between  them  a 
class  of  reader  who  is  incapable  of  assimilating  a 
paragraph  containing  more  than  a  single  sentence. 
The  old  style  of  leader  still  drags  on  a  precarious 
existence  in  one  or  two  papers  like  "The  Times" 
or  "The  Morning  Post";  the  other  papers  have  pro- 
duced a  different  and  much  shorter  substitute,  under 
a  head-line  that  catches  the  eye  of  the  most  careless 
reader.  For  the  morning  journalist  has  had  to  find 
a  form  that  would  appeal  not  only  to  the  leisurely 
citizen  who  can  afford  to  give  an  hour  to  his  paper 
after  breakfast,  but  to  the  far  more  common  case  of 
the  man  of  business  who  wants  to  learn  as  much  as 
possible  in  the  twenty  minutes  journey  underground 
to  his  city  office.  And  before  this  gentleman  ap- 


pears upon  the  scene,  there  is  the  crowd  of  working- 
men  who  board  the  early  trains,  the  throng  of  clerks 
and  office-boys  and  shop-girls  who  have  a  halfpenny 
to  spare  for  amusement  and  information.  All  of 
these  want  something  that  they  can  understand,  and 
at  a  glance.  The  direct  and  simple  appeal  to  them ; 
they  are  not  yet  capable  of  appreciating  a  closely 
reasoned  argument. 

And  one  consequence  of  this  is,  that  modern  jour- 
nalism no  longer  affords  a  field  for  the  accomplished 
writer.  It  is  a  commonplace  that  the  man  with  uni- 
versity training  is  at  a  discount  on  the  daily  press  of 
to-day.  Literature  is  not  wanted,  but  a  well-known 
name  at  the  head  of  a  few  disjointed  notes  is  worth 
money.  And  this  is  how  the  Expert  came  into  his 
own.  Your  well-equipped  journal  now  must  have 
its  staff  of  Experts,  qualified  by  actual  experience  to 
criticize  the  daily  performances  of  golfers,  cricketers, 
football-players,  and  other  gentlemen  who  are  in  the 
public  eye  at  the  moment.  Obviously  it  is  far  more 
interesting  to  the  general  public  to  know  that  the  ac- 
count of  the  Test  Match  against  Australia  or  South 
Africa  is  from  the  pen  of  some  brilliant  professional 
or  amateur  who  has  himself  taken  part  in  similar 
contests  than  to  read  some  anonymous  description, 
even  by  a  master  of  the  reporting  art.  But  some  of 
the  players  who  have  been  dragged  into  the  service 
of  the  cheap  press  for  this  purpose  find  considerable 
difficulty  in  stringing  together  the  few  simple  sen- 
tences that  are  required.  It  is  not  unamusing  to  note 
the  air  of  relief  with  which  they  employ,  now  and 
again,  some  outworn  journalistic  tag  that  has  stuck 
in  their  memory. 

As  to  the  golf  expert,  his  name  is  legion.  Mr. 
H.  H.  Hilton,  winner  of  championships  at  home  and 
abroad,  must  be  one  of  the  busiest  journalists  alive, 
if  we  are  to  judge  by  the  number  of  articles  bearing 
his  name  that  appear  day  by  day  in  various  papers. 
Yet  it  may  be  said  for  some  of  these  golfing  writers, 
at  least,  that  they  do  not  disgrace  their  new  profes- 
sion. Some  of  them  can  handle  the  pen  as  well  as 
the  putter,  or  nearly.  Indeed,  Mr.  Horace  Hutch- 
inson,  the  first  of  the  tribe  to  adopt  the  journalistic 
habit,  has  written  novels  of  some  merit.  He  is  a 
writer  who  happens  also  to  be  a  prominent  player 
of  the  game ;  it  is  probable  that  in  any  case  he  would 
have  produced  books  on  something.  But  the  editing 
of  the  Badminton  book  on  golf  was  placed  in  his 
hands,  and  from  that  day  his  career  was  made.  Golf 
had  become  an  obsession ;  golfers  all  over  the  coun- 
try demanded  reams  of  gossip  about  their  favorite 
pursuit;  to  many,  the  name  of  Horace  Hutchinson 
stood  for  more  in  the  world  of  letters  than  that  of 
George  Meredith  or  of  Thomas  Hardy. 

It  must  be  confessed  that  the  lot  of  the  golf  ex- 
pert is  not  an  easy  one.  However  well  a  man  may 
know  the  game,  however  often  he  may  visit  new 
courses  and  play  with  local  cracks,  there  must  come 
a  time  when  the  task  of  turning  out  a  column  a  week 
in  two  or  three  different  papers  begins  to  pall.  He 
must  long  for  a  change  of  subject.  Yet  many  of 
these  gallant  fellows  carry  on  their  business  week 


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by  week  without  a  break  for  years.  It  is  a  making 
of  bricks  without  straw, — or,  let  us  say,  of  soup 
without  stock.  For  their  business  is  not  the  mere 
reporting  of  games,  but  the  collecting  of  gossip; 
they  have  to  start  the  golfing  world  talking  on  some 
new  topic ;  it  is  theirs  to  provide  conversation  for 
the  club-houses  of  the  kingdom.  We  need  not  be 
surprised  that  they  occasionally  take  up  curious 
theories.  In  a  sort  of  despair,  as  the  fateful  day 
comes  round,  they  will  clutch  eagerly  at  anything 
to  fill  out  a  paragraph. 

From  the  realms  of  sport,  the  Expert  gradually 
made  his  way  into  other  journalistic  fields.  About 
the  beginning  of  this  century,  when  the  South 
African  war  was  on,  the  craze  for  military  experts 
on  all  the  papers  became  ridiculous.  Every  little 
periodical  must  needs  have  its  War  Editor;  never 
before  in  the  history  of  the  world  had  there  been 
so  great  a  demand  for  military  writers.  Naturally, 
most  of  the  officers  in  the  regular  army  being  away 
on  service  or  on  duty  at  home,  the  demand  consid- 
erably outran  the  supply,  and  the  strangest  specimens 
were  employed  as  military  experts, —  men  who  had 
been  in  the  ranks,  or  had  held  a  commission  in  the 
volunteers,  or  perhaps  had  joined  the  college  cadet 
corps  when  they  were  at  school.  The  few  real  sol- 
diers who  were  about  could  almost  command  their 
own  price.  Those  were  great  days  for  the  man  who 
had  once  been  through  a  course  of  drill. 

I  suppose  it  is  much  the  same  in  all  professions 
and  in  all  countries.  The  general  practitioner  must 
give  way  to  the  specialist,  and  the  man  who  intends 
to  succeed  in  modern  journalism  does  well  to  select 
some  subject  as  early  as  possible  and  make  it  his 
own.  Let  him  travel  to  Asia  Minor  or  to  the  islands 
of  the  Pacific,  to  Siberia  or  the  Argentine  (for  it  is 
useful  to  have  that  touch  of  authority  that  comes 
alone  from  personal  experience),  choose  his  district, 
and  set  to  work  to  become  the  recognized  oracle  on 
his  little  portion  of  the  earth's  surface.  Or  again,  let 
him  specialize  on  some  such  subject  of  general  inter- 
est as  airships  or  volcanic  eruptions.  He  has  but  to 
read  some  standard  work,  to  subscribe  to  a  press- 
cutting  agency,  and  to  file  his  information  neatly :  in 
due  course  he  will  find  his  opportunity  of  enlighten- 
ing the  world.  Some  day  he  may  even  write  a  book 
on  his  pet  subject,  and  put  up  his  prices  accordingly. 
Most  of  the  golf  experts  have  done  so  already. 

That  the  trained  writer  should  specialize,  is  well 
enough;  but  I  have  some  little  grudge  against  the 
journalist  who  cannot  string  together  a  couple  of 
sentences  without  some  blunder  in  the  elements  of 
construction.  Modern  journalism,  I  think,  employs 
too  many  men  who  have  nothing  to  recommend 
them  but  a  certain  proficiency  at  other  pursuits.  And 
these  find  their  way  not  only  into  the  daily  press, 
but  into  monthly  periodicals;  they  even  invade  the 
domain  of  printed  books.  A  cricketer  takes  out  a 
team  to  Australia  or  the  Cape,  and  on  his  return 
must  needs  publish  a  fat  volume  to  celebrate  the 
occurrence.  There  is  enough  bad  writing  in  the 
world  already,  from  various  causes ;  book-buyers  are 


a  steadily  diminishing  class;  they  should  be  pro- 
tected from  the  assault  of  the  incompetent  amateur. 
Or  perhaps  it  would  serve  if  the  Expert  were  taught 
the  main  principles  of  syntax.  He  has,  in  general, 
something  to  say,  if  he  could  say  it  without  harrow- 
ing the  soul  of  the  grammarian.  I  am  inclined  to 
think,  sometimes,  that  a  standard  should  be  set 
for  all  who  aspire  to  see  themselves  in  print;  there 
should  be  examinations  held  annually  at  local  cen- 
tres, and  no  journalist  or  author  should  be  permitted 
to  practise  without  a  diploma.  The  dentist,  in  this 
country,  must  have  his  license:  the  writer  may  set  the 
teeth  of  the  whole  nation  on  edge  without  hindrance. 
E.  H.  LACON  WATSON. 


COMMUNICATIONS. 


LIBRAKIANS'  PENSIONS— A  LIBRARIAN'S  VIEW. 
(To  the  Editor  of  THE  DIAL.) 

Permit  me  to  offer  a  few  remarks  on  the  subject  of 
pensions  for  superannuated  librarians,  as  discussed  in 
your  "  Casual  Comment "  of  August  16. 

Neither  legislative  enactments  nor  the  philanthropy 
of  the  millionaires  offers  even  a  flicker  of  expectation 
to  librarians  in  need  of  pensions.  In  ihe  case  of  legis- 
lation, the  Public  will  see  no  reason  why  librarians, 
before  other  public  servants,  should  be  pensioned  out 
of  public  funds.  It  would  be  very  difficult  to  prove 
that  librarians  occupy  a  position  that  renders  them 
sufficiently  distinctive,  whether  qua  invalids  from  stress 
and  strain  or  in  the  role  of  martyrs  to  a  system  of 
insufficient  remuneration,  to  deserve  a  benefit  not  gen- 
erally enjoyed  by  other  educational  workers.  As  for 
the  philanthropy  of  the  millionaires,  let  me  say  that 
while  we  librarians  choose  to  be  servants — servants  to 
our  great  cause,  servants  to  the  Public,  servants  even 
to  the  individuals  amongst  the  Public  —  we  also  hope  to 
prove  ourselves  free  men  and  women;  and  to  such  the 
acceptance  of  personal  charity  is  quite  as  painful  as  is 
the  deprivation  of  opportunities  for  a  full  enjoyment  of 
legitimate  earnings. 

Most  of  us  are  plain  persons  with  scant  claims  for 
distinction  of  any  kind.  Few  among  us  possess  a 
degree  of  scholarship  equal  to  that  of  the  average 
member  of  the  learned  or  literary  republic.  But  what- 
ever we  are,  is  it  not  evident  that  we  choose  our 
vocation,  and  like  it,  and  submit  to  the  conditions  that 
surround  it  ?  Every  calling  has  its  own  joys  and  sor- 
rows. We  do  not  expect  to  have  the  former  sharpened, 
or  to  have  the  latter  blunted,  through  the  spasmodic 
leniency  of  a  moneyed  power.  I  sincerely  believe  that 
the  greater  number  of  us  will  not  await  the  maturation 
of  a  pecuniary  endowment  before  undertaking  some 
useful  but  unremunerative  work.  I  likewise  hope  we 
shall  not  be  found  lingering  at  the  door  of  men  who 
are  responsible  for  the  very  social  conditions  through 
which  our  wages,  otherwise  a  fair  recompense,  are  ren- 
dered insufficient  for  our  decent  wants. 

The  problem  of  pensions  for  librarians  had  best  be 
solved  in  the  natural  manner  of  cooperation.  So  much 
is  known  on  the  subject  of  old-age  pensions  and  in- 
surance against  invalidism,  that  a  single  and  efficient 
system  could  easily  be  found.  Libraries  as  institutions, 
and  librarians  as  individuals,  could  by  their  own  efforts 


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build  up  a  pensioning  agency  which  would  accoinodate 
us  all  in  a  business  way,  on  the  evil  day  when  we  are 
graciously  classed  with  "  worn-out  tools  "  —  a  term  that 
we  may  properly  recognize  by  reminding  its  users  of 
the  fact  that  our  toleration,  through  long  exercise,  has 
grown  quite  unlimited.  The  details  of  such  a  pension- 
ing system  do  not  pertain  here ;  only  let  me  say  that 
they  include  a  fund  preferably  formed  by  initiation  fees, 
an  institutional  membership  contributing  in  proportion 
to  number  of  employees,  a  personal  membership  con- 
tributing in  proportion  to  salary.  Some  compulsory 
features  might  attach  to  these  memberships,  and  the 
business  organization  of  the  system  might  be  vested 
with  our  very  efficient  national  Library  Association. 

In  some  such  way  we  might  obtain  what  is  admitted 
to  be  a  dire  necessity  as  long  as  the  rule  of  millionaires 
prevails  and  our  insane  social  conditions  prevent  us  from 
personally  providing  for  a  care-free  old  age.  It  remains 
to  be  seen  whether  the  necessity  is  strong  enough  to 
impel  action.  I  freely  admit  that  some  of  us  are  tired 
of  awaiting  remote  possibilities,  and  are  ready  to  apply 
business  principles  where  tears  and  hopes  hitherto  have 
been  idly  wasted.  j  Q  g 

August  17,  1912. 

A  LIBRARY  IN  A  POWDER  MAGAZINE. 

(To  the  Editor  of  THE  DIAL.) 

The  curious  beginning  of  the  Chicago  Public  Library, 
which,  according  to  an  interesting  note  in  THE  DIAL  of 
July  16,  was  once  housed  in  an  abandoned  water-tank, 
is  matched  by  the  Library  of  the  Louisiana  State  Uni- 
versity, which  had  its  first  quarters  in  an  old  powder- 
magazine.  The  State  University  occupies  the  buildings 
and  grounds  of  the  old  army  post  at  Baton  Rouge, 
which  was  abandoned  as  a  result  of  the  electoral  contro- 
versy of  1876-1877.  The  following  extract  from  Fay's 
"  History  of  Education  in  Louisiana"  gives  a  description 
of  the  library  as  it  was  from  1886  to  1903. 

"  Far  off  to  the  northeastern  corner  of  the  garrison  inclos- 
ure  is  a  long,  low  building,  entirely  without  windows,  save 
for  two  small  grated  apertures  at  each  of  the  narrow  ends, 
while  for  entrance  a  heavy  iron  door  is  swung  in  the  center 
of  the  southern  front,  a  place  more  like  a  prison-house  than 
a  scholar's  quiet  domicile  among  books.  Few  have  ever  seen 
such  a  building ;  and  as  you  enter  for  the  first  time  it  fairly 
oppresses  you  to  observe  that  you  pass  through  a  doorway 
whose  walls  are  five  or  six  feet  thick.  Within,  the  room 
represents  an  equally  strange  sight.  Along  the  walls  book- 
shelves extend  around  the  whole  parallelogram,  save  for  the 
trifling  space  of  the  small  windows.  The  ceiling  is  so  low 
that  you  can  almost  touch  it  at  the  bookcases,  but  it  rises  in 
low  heavy  arches,  only  to  sink  again  archwise  on  massive 
square  pillars  in  the  center  of  the  room.  Thus  are  formed  two 
long  corridors  with  low  arches  that  fall  into  a  succession  of 
vaults  down  the  passage.  The  central  pillars  are  girt  around 
with  square  bookshelves,  all  with  their  burden  of  volumes. 
"  The  building  was  the  old  powder-magazine  of  the  bar- 
racks when  soldiers,  and  not  scholars,  were  stationed  there. 
You  would  think  it  dark  ;  but  the  whiteness  of  the  ceiling 
counteracts  in  some  measure  the  deficiency  of  appertures  for 
light,  and  on  fair  days,  at  least,  one  reads  without  difficulty 
until  after  sunset.  So  thick  are  the  walls  that  it  is  cool  there 
on  hot  summer  days,  and  never  very  cold  on  the  rawest  days 
the  Southern  winter  affords." 

Since  the  books  have  been  removed  to  a  more  modern 
structure,  the  old  powder  magazine  has  been  used  as 
a  storage  place  for  agricultural  implements,  farm  pro- 
duce, and  Experiment  Station  publications. 

WALTER  L.  FLEMING. 

Baton  Bouge,  La.,  August  22,  1912. 


tfa  $00ks. 


THE  YOUNGER  LIFE  OF  FKIEDKICH 
NIETZSCHE.* 


From  the  all-alive  and  handsomely  presented 
record  of  Nietzsche's  first  thirty-two  years,  as 
given  by  his  sister  Frau  Forster- Nietzsche,  many 
will  gain  a  new  impression  of  a  figure  which 
popular  imagination  has  vested  with  a  somewhat 
sinister  cloud.  Everyone  must  be  grateful  for 
this  proud  and  lofty  nature,  that  "  never  fell 
into  the  clutches  of  a  great  passion  or  of  a  vul- 
gar love,"  that  gave  the  impression,  at  the  time 
of  its  fullest  maturity,  of  "  a  being  who  had 
come  direct  from  God's  hands,  and  was  not  yet 
soiled  by  the  dust  of  the  world." 

Elizabeth  Nietzsche,  well  known  as  the  most 
consistent  advocate  and  furtherer  of  her 
brother's  mission,  is  at  her  very  best  in  this 
intimate  story  of  the  life  she  knew  so  well ;  she 
unites  a  sweetness  and  vivacity  of  temper  to 
frank  reasonableness,  and  if  she  idealizes  at 
times  in  showing  too  ample  a  belief  in  the 
plenary  sufficiency  of  Friedrich's  message,  it 
must  also  be  noted  that  she  nowhere  intrudes 
her  own  personality  into  the  well-proportioned 
portrait  of  the  philosopher. 

In  all  that  touches  birth  and  breeding, 
Nietzsche  was  a  Brahmin  of  the  Brahmins : 
his  family  record  showed  a  long  line  of  gifted, 
high-minded,  cultured  ancestors,  loyal  and  con- 
servative; his  earliest  years  were  spent  in  an 
"ideal  parsonage''  at  Eocken.  The  humbly- 
proud  traditions  of  a  family  which  "  found  its 
pleasure  in  its  own  resources,"  which  held  its 
stock  "too  good  to  lie,"  were  fully  sustained, 
in  all  their  unpretentious  aloofness  from  vul- 
garity, in  the  home  of  the  widowed  mother, 
who  never  spoiled  her  son  by  a  blind  maternal 
love.  There  were  no  peremptory  commands  laid 
upon  the  boy,  whose  innate  purity,  nobility, 
and  profundity  kept  him  from  cheapening  the 
family  ideals.  The  household  was  completely 
dominated  by  a  religious  spirit,  and  at  the  close 
of  his  career  Nietzsche  could  say,  "The  most 
earnest  Christians  have  always  been  kindly 
disposed  to  me."  It  was  the  boy's  intention  to 
become,  like  his  ancestors,  a  Protestant  pastor. 

His  childhood  was  indeed  enviable,  rich  in 
affection,  responsiveness,  variety.  A  certain 
melancholy  and  love  of  solitude  was  funda- 
mental to  his  nature,  and  a  serious-mindedness 
in  his  studies  which  did  not  lead  to  priggishness. 


THE  LIFE  OF  NIETZSCHE.  By  Frau  Fb'rster-Nietzsche. 
Translated  by  Anthony  M.  Ludovici.  Illustrated.  Volume  I., 
The  Young  Nietzsche.  New  York  :  Sturgis  &  Walton  Co. 


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Nowhere  is  there  the  record  of  more  beauti- 
ful human  relations  than  the  perfect  companion- 
ship always  existing  between  Friedrich  and  his 
sprightly  and  gifted  sister,  two  years  younger 
than  himself, —  a  partnership  in  plans,  thoughts, 
and  interests,  passing  the  comradery  between 
Goethe  and  Cornelia,  or  of  Tom  and  Maggie 
in  "The  Mill  on  the  Floss." 

At  the  age  of  ten,  Nietzsche  was  already  a 
boy  of  extraordinary  gifts,  a  composer  of  plays 
and  of  serious  music ;  at  a  very  early  period  we 
find  the  works  of  Goethe  being  used  by  his  wise 
guardian  to  give  him  a  feeling  for  what  is  high- 
est in  language  and  rhythm  —  an  element  in 
Nietzsche's  subsequent  power  which  can  hardly 
be  overestimated.  At  fourteen  comes  a  distinct 
change  in  his  course  of  life,  in  his  departure 
for  Pforta,  the  Rugby  of  North  Germany.  The 
educational  ideals  of  this  manly  institution  may 
well  excite  the  envy  of  those  who  have  at  heart 
the  education  of  American  boys.  About  the  time 
that  young  Nietzsche  entered,  the  Rector  wrote : 

"Every  Pforta  boy  leaves  the  institution  with  the 
definite  stamp  of  a  certain  sound  efficiency  which  lasts 
him  throughout  life.  .  .  .  Its  pupils  become  complete 
men;  they  are  taught  to  obey  the  command  and  the  will 
of  their  superiors,  and  are  used  to  the  severe  and  punc- 
tual fulfilment  of  duty,  to  self-control,  to  earnest  work, 
to  original  personal  initiative,  as  a  result  of  individual 
choice  in  their  work  and  their  love  of  it.  They  are  ac- 
customed to  thoroughness  and  method  in  their  studies, 
to  rules  in  the  division  of  the  time  at  their  disposal,  and 
to  a  certain  self-confident  tact  and  fairness  in  intercourse 
with  their  equals." 

It  need  scarcely  be  added,  in  the  words  of  Nietz- 
sche's sister,  that  "Pforta  was  not  a  school  for 
softness,  and  under  no  circumstances  flattered 
its  gifted  scholars."  As  in  the  English  colleges, 
a  wide  independent  reading  of  the  classics  was 
considered  "the  thing  "  by  the  pupils  themselves. 
Many  years  after  leaving  the  place,  Nietzsche 
wrote  of  it: 

"  The  most  desirable  thing  of  all  is  to  have  severe 
discipline  at  the  age  when  it  makes  us  proud  that  peo- 
ple should  expect  great  things  of  us.  ...  The  same 
discipline  makes  the  soldier  and  the  scholar  efficient; 
and,  looked  at  more  closely,  there  is  no  true  scholar 
who  has  not  the  instincts  of  a  true  soldier  in  his  veins." 

With  what  avidity  the  boy  craved  after  uni- 
versality is  plain  from  the  interests  of  which  he 
writes :  nature,  art,  languages,  classical  antiq- 
uity, natural  sciences,  and  religion  appeal  to 
him,  for  he  was  "a  reverent  animal."  Before  he 
was  seventeen  years  old,  he  thus  records  his  re- 
pugnance to  attacking  the  foundations  of  current 
belief : 

"Oh!  destruction  is  easy,  but  construction!  and  even 
destruction  seems  a  lighter  task  than  it  really  is.  ... 
Force  of  habit,  the  need  of  striving  after  a  lofty  goal, 


the  breach  with  every  existing  institution,  the  dissolution 
of  every  form  of  society,  the  suspicion  of  the  possibility 
of  having  been  misled  for  two  thousand  years  by  a  mir- 
age, the  sense  of  one's  own  arrogance  and  audacity  — 
all  these  considerations  fight  a  determined  battle  within 
us,  until  at  last  painful  experiences  and  sad  occurrences 
lead  our  hearts  back  to  the  old  beliefs  of  our  childhood." 

A  few  years  later  he  puts  the  tragic  modern 
crisis  before  his  sister  : 

"  Is  it  really  so  difficult  simply  to  accept  everything 
to  which  one  has  been  brought  up,  everything  which  has 
gradually  struck  deep  roots  into  one's  being,  which  passes 
for  truth  not  only  amongst  one's  relatives  but  also  iu  the 
minds  of  many  good  men,  and  in  addition  to  this,  really 
comforts  and  elevates  man?  .  .  .  It  is  here  then  that  man 
comes  to  the  cross-roads.  Do  you  desire  spiritual  peace 
and  happiness  ?  —  very  well,  then,  believe  !  Do  you  wish 
to  be  a  disciple  of  truth?  —  so  be  it  ;  investigate!  " 

The  most  important  elements  which  came  into 
young  Nietzsche's  life  at  Pforta  were  his  friend- 
ships for  gifted  and  serious  boys,  and  his  pas- 
sion for  Greek  philology,  for  poetry  and  music ; 
he  leaves  the  royal  school  in  1864,  un  jeune 
homme  bien  eleve. 

His  first  university  year,  eagerly  pursued  in 
Bonn,  showed  an  interesting  attempt  to  iden- 
tify himself  with  the  typical  student-life,  and  a 
resultant  moral  recoil  from  the  coarseness  and 
"beer-materialism"  of  the  group.  At  the  Uni- 
versity of  Leipzig,  which  he  entered  in  the  fall 
of  1865,  his  rich  temperament  came  into  posses- 
sion of  its  own  under  the  nourishing  influence 
of  congenial  professors  and  students.  Two  of 
the  notable  forces  which  wrought  here  were  the 
play-house  and  the  writings  of  Schopenhauer, 
the  prophet  of  sensibility  and  subjective  emotion. 
During  the  intolerable  months  of  service  in  the 
Horse  Artillery,  and  while  doing  the  hardest 
work  of  the  stable,  he  writes :  "  Concealed  be- 
neath the  belly  of  my  steed,  I  whisper, '  Schopen- 
hauer, help ! ' ' 

At  twenty-four  years  of  age  the  professorship 
of  classical  philology  at  Basel  is  thrust  at  him, 
so  to  speak,  and  the  authorities  at  Leipzig  award 
their  brilliant  pupil  his  Doctor's  degree  without 
thesis  or  oral  examination, —  on  lui  donneralt 
le  bon  Dieu  sans  confession/ 

The  productive  and  enthusiastic  first  years  at 
Basel  are  adequately  shown,  with  full  indications 
as  to  Nietzsche's  devoted  activity.  As  a  scholar 
he  was  intensely  serious,  but  devoid  of  the  slight- 
est vein  of  ponderousness ;  he  "detested  every 
kind  of  pose."  We  have  a  vivid  picture  of  his 
service  as  attendant  upon  a  military  ambulance 
during  the  French  war,  with  a  significant  experi- 
ence which  throws  a  flash-light  upon  his  later 
development : 

"At  last  came  the  infantry,  advancing  at  the  double! 
The  men's  eyes  were  aflame,  and  their  feet  struck  the 


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hard  road  like  mighty  harnmer-strokes.  '  Then,'  said 
he,  'I  felt  for  the  first  time,  dear  sister,  that  the  strong- 
est and  highest  Will  to  Life  does  not  find  expression  in 
a  miserable  struggle  for  existence,  but  in  a  Will  to  War, 
a  Will  to  Power,  a  Will  to  Overpower!'" 

Until  his  health  began  to  fail  (about  1875), 
these  were  full  and  most  happy  years;  it  is 
pleasant  to  know  that  during  the  latter  part  of 
this  professorship  his  devoted  sister  was  able  to 
provide  him  a  thoroughly  comfortable  home, 
which  was  a  hearth-side  for  the  sprightly  inner 
circle  of  friends, — a  group,  by  the  way,  which 
significantly  enough  got  endless  entertainment 
from  Mark  Twain:  something  which  the  body 
of  professional  "scholars"  could  not  understand 
at  all  (Emerson,  it  might  be  added,  had  stood 
first  on  Nietzsche's  reading-list  at  Pforta,  and  we 
find  occasional  mention  of  Longfellow).  With- 
out fuller  discussion  of  the  details  of  his  work, 
it  should  be  noted  that  his  science,  classical 
philology,  was  to  him  "the  serious  aim  of  a  life, 
pursued  with  ardor  and  devotion  ";  more  partic- 
ularly was  it  his  life-work  to  evolve  the  total 
ultimate  significance  of  Hellenism  for  the  race, 
when  brought  into  vital  relation  to  "the  true  and 
pressing  problems  of  life";  he  had  an  insuper- 
able hatred  for  all  "philological"  pedantry.  His 
first  book  ("The  Birth  of  Tragedy")  bitterly 
opposed  by  many  of  the  leaders  of  classical  stu- 
dies, was  an  attempt  to  re-appreciate  the  entire 
Greek  soul.  Another  of  his  most  trenchant 
" Thoughts  out  of  Season"  "called  down"  Ger- 
man inflation  at  the  close  of  the  war. 

Through  these  happiest  years  of  his  life  his 
crown  of  rejoicing  was  his  friendship  for  Richard 
Wagner.  The  gradual  breach  is  well  accounted 
for,  and  makes  some  sad  chapters :  not  to  speak 
of  the  contemptible  professional  jealousies  of 
Wagner  (Nietzsche  dared  not  accept  a  congenial 
invitation  to  travel  with  a  son  of  Felix  Mendels- 
sohn !),  his  demand  was  for  a  complete  absorption 
of  Nietzsche's  personality.  The  great  disillusion 
came  during  the  rehearsals  at  Bayreuth  in  1876 : 
he  found  the  Ring  des  Nibelungen  "simply 
exalted  intoxication  with  no  suggestion  of  ex- 
uberant Dionysian  vitality";  he  was  thoroughly 
repelled  by  "the  preponderance  of  ugliness, 
grotesqueness,  and  strong  pepper."  With  this 
great  disappointment  the  first  volume  closes. 

The  whole  document  impresses  us  with  its 
truth,  freshness,  and  immediateness  of  effect. 
The  "ruthless"  Nietzsche  appears  always  full 
of  delicate  consideration  for  those  about  him, 
always  insistent  in  his  demand  for  whole-hearted 
friendship ;  most  characteristic  and  ingratiating 
is  his  almost  miraculous  gift  of  piano-playing — 
a  deeper  index  of  his  soul,  perhaps,  than  many 


printed  books.  It  is  true  that  we  see  him  be- 
coming the  prophet  of  the  glorification  of  self- 
sufficiency,  protesting  against  "smug  routine 
and  things  allowed,"  impatient  of  any  confu- 
sion of  Immortals  and  groundlings.  If  we  com- 
pare the  bitter  class-consciousness  of  socialistic 
labor-organs  with  the  proud  Will-to-Power  of 
Nietzsche,  we  may  be  terrorized  at  the  prospect 
of  an  Armageddon  which  is  to  try  out  these 
colliding  principles.  But  it  is  not  necessary  to 
take  Nietzsche's  gospel  too  seriously;  it  is  sus- 
piciously akin  to  his  "intuition"  of  an  untamed 
strain  of  noble  Polish  blood  in  his  veins ;  it  may 
better  be  thought  of  as  the  fling  indulged  in  by 
the  highly-wrought  scion  of  a  long  strain  of 
blameless  pastors  and  model  citizens.  As  a  mat- 
ter of  fact,  our  ruddy  drop  of  common  humanity 
far  outweighs  all  the  surging  sea  of  social  dif- 
ferences and  contentions. 

Nietzsche  was,  in  a  word,  a  sensitive  impres- 
sionist from  the  womb:  impressionist  in  his 
idealizing  of  friendships,  even  in  his  reaction 
under  the  stimulus  of  a  German  corps-fest! 
He  took  over  from  here  and  there  much  more 
than  he  created  out  of  his  own  vitals;  he  is  a 
sensitive  recorder  of  fleeting  moods, — but  none 
of  these  facts  obscures  the  moving  sadness  of 
this  man's  place  in  modern  thought : 

"  —  between  two  worlds,  one  dead, 
The  other  powerless  to  be  born." 

The  translation  is  to  be  commended  for  its 
freshness  and  the  movement  of  its  style,  though 
it  now  and  then  condescends  to  trivialities  in 
diction,  is  somewhat  uncertain  in  its  English 
idiom,  and  often  exhibits  the  British  dislocation 
of  the  adverb  "only."  Those  trite  stumbling- 
blocks  pathetisch  and  genial  appear  serenely  as 
"pathetic"  and  "genial" — wie  gebrduchlich  ; 
on  page  209  Burckhardt's  name  is  spelled 
wrongly;  at  the  close  of  page  252  the  unrecog- 
nized quotation  from  Goethe's  Hqffnung  is 
grotesquely  mistranslated. 

JAMES  TAFT  HATFIELD. 


FORT  DEARBORN  AND  ITS  STORY.* 

A  hundred  years  have  passed  since  the  Fort 
Dearborn  garrison  set  forth  upon  the  march 
which  ended  so  disastrously  among  the  sand- 
dunes  below  the  river's  mouth,  and  nearly  eighty 
years  since  the  rush  of  immigration  to  Chicago 
began  which  marks  the  birth  of  the  modern 
city.  From  civilization's  remotest  outpost,  far 
engulfed  in  the  wilderness,  Chicago  has  become, 

*  THE  STOKY  OF  OLD  FORT  DEAKBORN.  By  Currey  J. 
Seymour.  Illustrated.  Chicago :  A.  C.  McClurg  &  Co. 


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in  that  time,  the  industrial  heart  of  the  nation 
and  the  fifth  metropolis  of  the  world.  Some 
there  are  still  with  us  who  recall  vividly  how 
in  1832  the  inhabitants  of  the  little  settlement 
fled  in  terror  to  the  sheltering  walls  of  Fort 
Dearborn  before  the  threatened  attack  of  the 
Indian,  and  then  fled  forth  again  in  even  wilder 
alarm  before  the  deadlier  peril  of  the  Asiatic 
cholera. 

Red  man  and  cholera  alike  have  vanished  in 
a  transformation  as  astonishing  as  any  in  all 
world's  history.  Probably  no  other  event  in 
the  city's  past  so  appeals  to  the  imagination  of 
the  Chicagoan  of  the  present  as  does  the  Fort 
Dearborn  massacre.  The  force  of  this  appeal  is 
due  to  the  fact  that  no  other  event  so  visualizes 
the  gulf  which  lies  between  the  conditions  of  the 
present  and  those  of  the  past,  so  near  in  point 
of  time,  so  remote  in  all  other  respects. 

To  the  many  narratives  of  the  massacre 
already  in  print  has  now  been  added  another ; 
for  approximately  two-thirds  of  Mr.  Seymour's 
"Story  of  Old  Fort  Dearborn"  is  devoted  to 
the  story  of  the  massacre  and  of  the  conditions 
attendant  upon  it.  It  may  be  pertinent  to  con- 
sider, therefore,  whether  the  progress  which  has 
been  made  in  other  ways  since  the  occurrence 
of  the  tragedy  is  reflected  in  the  accounts  which 
have  been  written  of  it.  Aside  from  brief  con- 
temporary notices,  the  first  of  these  to  see  the 
light  was  the  narrative  of  Mrs.  John  H.  Kinzie, 
which  appeared  anonymously  in  pamphlet  form 
in  1844,  and  was  incorporated  a  dozen  years 
later  in  the  author's  more  ambitious  literary  ven- 
ture, the  book  "  Wau-Bun."  For  a  variety  of 
reasons  this  narrative  soon  acquired  an  unusual 
prestige.  By  the  massacre,  the  Chicago  of  1812 
had  been  blotted  out ;  the  gulf  between  it  and 
the  bustling  young  city  of  the  mid-century  was 
bridged  only  by  the  representatives  of  the  family 
into  which  the  author  had  married.  Socially 
prominent,  her  husband  a  charter  member  of 
the  Chicago  Historical  Society,  not  backward 
about  pressing  the  family  claims  to  recognition, 
wielder  of  a  captivating  pen,  claiming  as  no  other 
could  to  speak  upon  the  authority  of  participants 
in  the  massacre,  there  was  none  to  rival  her 
narrative.  It  was  frequently  paraphrased  and 
quoted  by  other  writers,  and  seems  to  have  been 
regarded  as  containing  all  that  could  be  known 
on  the  subject. 

For  a  generation  after  its  first  appearance  its 
validity  was  not  publicly  challenged,  although 
it  is  worthy  of  note  that  the  indefatigable  Lyman 
C.  Draper  procured  for  preservation  in  his  col- 
lection the  judgment  of  the  wife  of  Captain 


Heald,  who  died  in  1857,  that  Mrs.  Kinzie's 
account  was  "  exaggerated  and  incorrect  in  its 
relation  of  the  Chicago  massacre."  At  length, 
however,  some  dissent  from  the  general  chorus 
of  approval  of  its  validity  was  manifested.  In 
his  quaint  "  Chicago  Antiquities,"  Hurlbut 
some  thirty  years  ago  wrote  himself  down  as  a 
heretic  in  the  matter  in  question,  and  a  dozen 
years  later  Kirkland's  "Chicago  Massacre  "  ex- 
pressed the  conviction  that  Mrs.  Kinzie's  narra- 
tive "  reads  like  a  romance  and  was  meant  so  to 
be  read."  Since  then  no  other  historian  has 
entered  the  lists  in  support  of  these  two,  and  the 
vogue  of  the  "Wau-Bun  "  narrative  still  per- 
sists. No  one  who  would  understand  the  lit- 
erature of  the  Chicago  massacre,  including  the 
present  work,  can  ignore  it,  for  it  is  the  fountain- 
head  from  which  practically  all  other  accounts 
have  proceeded ;  while  locally  the  public  mind 
has  become  obsessed  with  it,  as  formerly  on  a 
national  scale  with  the  stories  of  the  youthful 
Washington  told  by  Mason  Locke  Weems.  Yet 
from  the  serious  historical  viewpoint,  the  defects 
of  the  work  are  numerous  and  glaring.  The 
perspective  is  distorted,  the  language  extrava- 
gant, the  antipathies  displayed  are  violent. 
Motives  are  explained,  orders  reported,  and  con- 
versations retailed,  which  if  they  ever  had  a  basis 
in  fact  could  not  possibly  have  been  known  to 
the  author,  in  a  way  which  might  well  excite  the 
envy  of  the  sober  historian  whose  activities  are 
limited  by  the  necessity  of  finding  an  authority 
for  his  statements. 

To  estimate  "Wau-Bun"  is  to  estimate  the 
present  work,  for,  the  introductory  portion  aside, 
it  is  for  the  most  part  but  a  paraphrase  of  the 
earlier  account.  Rarely  does  the  author's  con- 
fidence in  his  leader  falter.  In  many  instances 
even  errors  of  detail,  which  might  readily  have 
been  corrected  by  reference  to  well-known 
sources,  are  repeated.  He  finds  a  qualified 
justification  for  the  course  of  Captain  Heald 
(pp.  55-56,  105-106),  but  there  is  no  more 
basis  for  the  judgment  expressed  of  him  than 
for  the  sweeping  condemnation  by  Mrs.  Kinzie. 
Even  the  most  fanciful  portions  of  the  earlier 
narrative  cause  the  author  no  hesitation.  He 
repeats  the  grotesque  story  of  the  experiences  of 
Sergeant  Griffith  (pp.  161-162),  and  defends 
the  cruel  and  incredible  tale  of  the  death  of  Doc- 
tor Van  Voorhis  (pp.  143-145).  His  mental  atti- 
tude is  perhaps  best  illustrated  by  his  treatment 
of  the  evacuation  order.  If  it  be  conceded  that 
his  excuse  of  ignorance  of  the  character  of  the 
order  offered  in  behalf  of  the  mistatements  of 
Mrs.  Kinzie  which  are  based  upon  it  is  a  valid 


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one,  no  such  defense  can  be  advanced  for  the 
author  himself,  who,  in  the  face  of  full  knowl- 
edge of  the  wording  of  the  order,  persists  in  re- 
peating a  number  of  these  misstatements.  Since 
the  order  enjoined  the  destruction  of  the  arms 
and  ammunition,  it  is  obvious  that  the  story 
that  Heald  promised  to  distribute  the  latter  to 
the  Indians,  from  which  piece  of  folly  he  was 
diverted  only  by  the  remonstrances  of  Kinzie 
(pp.  110-111),  together  with  the  statements 
concerning  the  resentment  of  the  Indians  over 
Heald 's  "deception"  when  they  discovered  that 
they  were  not  to  receive  the  ammunition  (pp. 
118-119),  are  inventions. 

The  book  abounds  in  errors  of  detail.  La 
Salle  reached  the  mouth  of  the  Mississippi  on 
April  9  instead  of  April  7,  1682  (p.  9) ;  Fort 
St.  Joseph  was  within  the  limits  of  the  modern 
town  of  Niles  instead  of  at  the  mouth  of  the  St. 
Joseph  River  (p.  21);  the  construction  of  thefirst 
Fort  Dearborn  did  not  begin  on  July  4  (p.  22), 
for  the  troops  arrived  at  Chicago  only  on  Aug- 
ust 17;  nor  was  the  fort  ready  for  occupancy 
"later"  in  the  summer  (p.  25).  On  the  con- 
trary, in  December  the  soldiers  were  still  living 
in  temporary  huts,  and  the  fort  was  reported  as 
"not  much  advanced."  John  Whistler  did  not 
remain  in  America  at  the  close  of  the  Revolution 
and  marry  in  Maryland  (p.  34) ;  rather,  he  re- 
turned to  England  on  his  release  from  captivity, 
where  he  eloped  with  a  neighbor's  daughter  and 
came  again  to  America.  After  leaving  Fort 
Dearborn  in  1810  he  was  transferred  not  to 
Fort  Wayne  (p.  34)  but  to  Fort  Detroit.  The 
services  of  General  Dearborn  on  the  Niagara 
frontier  were  doubtless  "distinguished"  (p.  50), 
but  hardly  so  in  the  sense  intended  by  the  au- 
thor. The  battle  of  the  Thames  occurred  Octo- 
ber 5  instead  of  October  6  (p.  67);  the  murders 
at  the  Lee  farm  were  on  April  6  instead  of 
April  7  (p.  75) ;  and  the  name  of  the  Frenchman 
who  was  killed  there  was  not  Debou  but  John  B. 
Cardin.  The  news  of  the  declaration  of  war 
reached  Fort  Dearborn  some  time  before  August 
7  (p.  102),  and  Winnemeg  did  not  arrive  with 
the  evacuation  order  until  August  9.  Instead 
of  being  nearly  as  old  as  Captain  Wells  (p.  141), 
Mrs.  Heald  was  but  twenty-two  in  1812.  Mrs. 
Helm  does  not  mention  any  fighting  done  by  Van 
Voorhis  (pp.  143-144),  whether  "gallantly"  or 
otherwise.  Lieutenant  Helm  was  not  a  prisoner 
prior  to  the  general  surrender  (p.  147).  Surgeon 
John  Cooper  was  not  accompanied  "  by  his  wife 
and  two  young  daughters,"  nor  was  he  among 
the  slain  (p.  153) ;  on  the  contrary  he  was  un- 
married, he  had  resigned  the  service  and  left 


Fort  Dearborn  over  a  year  before,  and  he  died 
peacefully  in  Poughkeepsie,  New  York,  fifty-two 
years  later. 

Let  it  be  understood,  however,  that  our  gen- 
eral estimate  of  the  book  is  not  determined  by 
these  and  other  errors  of  detail  which  space 
fails  us  to  mention ;  rather  it  is  conditioned  by 
the  author's  attitude  toward  his  subject,  which 
reveals  no  evidence  of  the  exercise  of  a  critical 
faculty.  It  can  hardly  be  supposed  that  the 
last  word  on  the  Fort  Dearborn  massacre  was 
spoken  by  the  first  person  who  undertook  to 
narrate  its  story.  Handicapped  as  she  was  by 
the  absence  of  libraries  and  the  collections  of 
historical  societies,  without  access  to  government 
archives,  relying  for  her  information  upon  the 
recollections  and  traditions  current  in  a  single 
family,  herself  in  no  sense  a  trained  investigator, 
it  would  be  remarkable  indeed  if  such  were  the 
case.  The  historian  who  to-day  assumes  the 
attitude  that  it  was,  may  perhaps  entertain,  but 
he  can  hardly  instruct,  his  readers. 

MILO  MILTON  QUAIPE. 


THE  LYRIC  IN  ENGLISH  POETRY.* 


,  Professor  Edward  Bliss  Reed  is  the  first  critic 
to  attempt  to  give  an  account  of  the  history  of 
the  English  lyric.  We  have  volumes  dealing 
with  one  aspect  or  another  of  the  subject  — 
Sharp's  study  of  the  sonnet,  Professor  Schelling's 
Introduction  to  "  Elizabethan  Lyrics,"  Mr. 
Chambers's  "  Essay  on  the  Mediaeval  Lyric  "; 
but  almost  all  such  essays  are  prefaces  to  collec- 
tions of  poetry,  not  historical  studies.  A  certain 
trial  has  already  been  made  of  Professor  Reed's 
volume, for  it  is  a  working-over  of  lectures  given, 
for  a  series  of  years,  to  college  seniors.  The 
arrangement  of  topics  in  the  ten  chapters  is 
according  to  the  periods  of  literary  history —  Old 
English,  Middle  English,  Tudor,  Elizabethan, 
and  on  to  "  The  Lyric  of  To-day,"  where  Steven- 
son, Henley,  Francis  Thompson,  John  David- 
son, Mr.  Watson,  Mr.  Kipling,  and  other  poets, 
receive  discriminating  tribute. 

One  is  impressed  immediately  by  the  orderly 
arrangement  of  the  volume.  No  personal  enthu- 
siasms have  led  Prof essor  Reed  to  over-emphasize 
any  of  the  poets ;  he  has  shown  an  admirable 
sense  of  proportion.  Only  in  a  few  cases  is  a 
reader  likely  to  take  issue  with  the  critic's  judg- 
ments, for  time-honored  favorites  are  given  ap- 

*  ENGLISH  LYRICAL  POETRY.  From  Its  Origins  to  the 
Present  Time.  By  Edward  Bliss  Reed.  New  Haven  :  Yale 
University  Press. 


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preciative  comment  in  a  way  which  assures  us 
that  he  has  a  keen  and  sensitive  enjoyment  of 
lyric  poetry.  Many  passages  there  are  which 
reveal  his  intuitive  penetration,  whether  he  is 
discussing  "The  Seafarer"  or  Herrick's  master- 
pieces, Blake's  mysticism  or  Landor's  lonely 
classicism.  Both  for  breadth  of  sympathy  and 
for  depth  of  knowledge  of  literature,  Professor 
Reed  has  the  right  to  our  most  respectful  atten- 
tion. He  writes  in  an  easy  conversational  man- 
ner, sometimes  rising  to  passages  of  intensely 
interesting  appreciation.  One  feels  constantly 
that  he  knows  his  subject,  that  his  observations 
are  based  upon  long  study  of  the  poets  as  well  as 
upon  the  judgment  of  other  critics.  At  the  pres- 
ent time,  when  there  is  such  a  decline  in  the  pro- 
duction of  the  genuine  lyric,  it  is  pleasant  to 
think  that  a  book  like  this  must  of  necessity 
quicken-appreciation  of  poetry  and  serve  as  guide 
to  finer  standards  of  taste.  There  is  undoubted 
place  for  this  history,  not  only  in  colleges  but  in 
the  larger  world. 

Anyone  who  publishes  a  work  on  the  lyric 
must  face  the  difficult  task  of  so  defining  the 
type  as  to  silence  envious  tongues.  It  is  agreed 
that  the  lyric  is  our  most  perfect  poetry.  Pro- 
fessor Reed's  definition,  as  he  summarizes  it,  is 
this  : 

"All  songs;  all  poems  following  classic  lyric  forms; 
all  short  poems  expressing  the  writer's  moods  and  feel- 
ings in  a  rhythm  that  suggests  music,  are  to  be  considered 
lyrics.  This  threefold  statement  is  not  free  from  ambi- 
guity, and  does  not  remove  all  the  difficulties  that  arise 
in  determining  whether  or  not  a  given  poem  is  to  be  con- 
sidered a  lyric." 

And  further : 

"  To  sing  with  the  infinite  harmonies  of  rhythm  and 
the  melodies  of  rhyme ;  to  move  by  dim  suggestion  or  to 
appeal  with  overpowering  passion  directly  to  the.  feel- 
ings; to  present  thoughts  suffused  with  emotion  or  ideas 
that  concern  the  reason  chiefly;  to  summon  before  the 
reader's  mind,  by  '  the  magic  incantation  of  a  verse,'  ex- 
quisite colors  and  forms ;  to  touch  the  memory  and  stir 
the  imagination  —  this  is  but  a  faint  description  of  the 
art  of  the  lyric  poet." 

In  this  charmingly  phrased  definition  it  is 
evident  that  the  critic  narrows  his  subject,  em- 
phasizing the  song  quality  overmuch;  and  one 
is  not  surprised  to  find  that  he  rules  out  of  con- 
sideration such  poems  as  "Adonais"  and  "In 
Memoriam."  Of  course  this  has  long  been  a 
debated  question ;  but  if  the  lyric  is  an  expres- 
sion, primarily,  of  emotion,  can  we  classify  these 
two  poems  as  epic  ?  Length  is  no  final  criterion 
of  the  lyric.  Regarding  "  In  Memoriam  "  as  a 
series  of  lyrics,  do  we  not  more  fully  grasp  its 
true  significance  as  a  musical  outpouring  of 
Tennyson's  enduring  feeling?  Grief  as  well  as 


joy  is  the  true  matter  of  a  lyric,  and  when  we 
have  love,  grief,  self-hate,  a  slowly  dawning 
sense  of  brotherhood,  and  hope,  all  expressed  in 
musical  stanzas,  with  the  aid  of  imagery  subdued 
but  always  immediately  effective,  have  we  not 
lyric  poetry?  And  can  those  magnificent  lines  in 
"Adonais"  that  soar  into  the  empyrean  of  im- 
aginative passion,  be  anything  but  lyric,  as  they 
set  the  reader  quivering  in  an  emotional  response 
which  transcends  any  effect  known  to  the  epic? 
Depth  and  intensity  belong  to  the  lyric,  and  a 
strong  note  of  ardent  complex  life  often  destroys 
the  extreme  clarity  which  to  many  people  is  an 
essential  to  true  lyric  poetry. 

Inasmuch  as  the  lyric  is  personal,  individual, 
temperamental,  we  cannot  hope  for  a  philosophy 
of  its  evolution.  Only  here  and  there  can  we 
trace  obligations  such  as  that  of  Herrick  to  Ben 
Jonson,  or  Keats  to  Shakespeare,  or  Arnold  to 
Wordsworth;  or  such  influences  as  appear  at 
times  when  certain  conventions  are  dominant  in 
an  age.  The  interdependences  of  the  religious 
lyric  in  the  Middle  Ages,  the  vogue  of  the  son- 
net in  Shakespeare's  day,  or  the  triumph  of  the 
ode  in  the  eighteenth  century,  may  receive  atten- 
tion ;  but  there  is  absolutely  no  way  of  finding 
one  central  underlying  principle  of  literary  evo- 
lution in  the  lyric.  A  book  dealing  with  that 
theme  must  be  more  or  less  mechanical,  moving 
by  decades  rather  than  by  analysis  of  the  develop- 
ment and  growth  of  a  stated  form.  The  sonnet, 
the  ode,  may  be  treated  with  close  investigation 
of  shaping  artistic  process ;  but  in  the  general 
subject  of  lyric  it  must  be  a  study  of  men,  iso- 
lated, more  or  less  unrelated. 

It  is  in  this  biographical,  historical  side  of 
criticism  that  Professor  Reed  excels,  rather  than 
in  the  more  aesthetic  examination  of  art-impulse 
and  of  art-product.  Although  he  continually 
refers  to  the  external  art-form,  he  does  not,  in 
many  places,  give  us  exact  analysis  of  the  sources 
of  our  enjoyment  of  this  special  beauty.  Idea, 
feeling,  rather  more  than  expression,  is  his  con- 
cern, and  one  cannot  fail  to  be  somewhat  dis- 
appointed that  so  little  is  done  to  reveal  this 
mystery  of  creation  where  the  imagination  is 
supreme.  The  typical  creative  process,  through 
the  medium  of  the  concrete,  be  it  by  simile, 
metaphor,  personification,  or  by  simple  allusion, 
should  be  expounded  if  we  are  to  understand 
the  real  significance  of  the  lyric.  Close  study, 
at  the  outset,  of  a  few  representative  poems 
would  have  illustrated  the  fundamental  truths 
of  the  lyric  impulse  and  its  expression,  and  the 
reader  would  have  been  quickened  to  appreciate 
the  illumination  of  spiritual  experience  through 


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sensuous  appeals.  As  it  is,  these  things  are 
taken  too  much  for  granted,  so  that  the  reader 
really  zealous  for  understanding  must  work  out 
his  own  salvation,  if  he  is  to  gain  a  right  con- 
ception of  the  quick,  passionate,  imaginative 
beauty  of  lyric  poetry.  Some  critical  training 
must  be  the  prelude  to  the  deeper  enjoyment  of 
any  art ;  and  as  knowledge  of  technique  of  line, 
color,  grouping,  increases  the  pleasure  in  a  paint- 
ing, so  a  knowledge  of  how  to  read,  with  the 
imagination  trained  and  alert,  is  a  preparation 
for  keener  perception  of  poetic  form. 

It  occasionally  appears  that  the  critic  himself 
fails,  in  this  book,  to  respond  to  the  appeals  to 
eye  and  ear,  and  for  this  reason  expresses  opin- 
ions which  may  arouse  dissent.  In  discussing 
Donne,  Herbert,  and  Wither,  there  is  too  little 
said  about  the  kind  of  imagery  employed,  too 
little  effort  to  vitalize  the  wayward  and  pictur- 
esque beauty  of  the  "Metaphysical  School." 
Undoubtedly  it  does  err  on  the  side  of  the  gro- 
tesque, but  there  is  a  richness  of  sensuous  per- 
ception and  a  lofty  spirit  of  symbolic  meaning 
which  we  should  cherish.  George  Herbert's 
poems  are  more  full  of  keen  and  suggestive 
metaphor  than  the  critic  would  lead  one  to  sup- 
pose, and  the  conventional  quotations  from  his 
work  are  not  enough  to  illustrate  his  delight  in 
symbolism,  as  in 

"  Man  is  no  star,  but  a  quick  coal 

Of  mortal  fire; 
Who  blows  it  not,  nor  doth  control 

A  faint  desire, 
Lets  his  own  ashes  choke  his  soul." 

Wither,  too,  is  treated  rather  unkindly,  for 
his  work  has  constant  surprises  of  challenging 
figure;  even  when  he  pictures  love  he  gives  a 
"metaphysical"  addition, — 

"  Great  men  have  helps  to  gain 
Those  favors  they  implore; 
Which,  though  I  win  with  pain, 
I  find  my  joys  the  more. 

Each  clown  may  rise, 

And  climb  the  skies, 
When  he  hath  found  a  stair; 

But  joy  to  him 

That  dares  to  climb, 
And  hath  no  help  but  air." 

When  we  read  that  Shelley's 
"  Driving  sweet  buds  like  flocks  to  feed  in  air  " 

is  "  an  immortal  line  "  and  "  one  of  the  treasures 
of  English  literature,"  there  is  justification  for 
irritated  denial.  The  line  is  one  of  Shelley's 
weakest,  offending  the  imagination  by  its  ludi- 
crous personification  of  feeding  buds,  a  figure 
which  degrades  nature.  Mr.  Reed  regards  the 


musical  element  as  predominant,  and  does  not 
give  due  importance  to  the  fact  that  there  must 
be  the  appeal  of  visible  and  tangible  as  well  as 
of  audible  in  poetry.  This  lack  of  visualization 
is  apparent  when  he  quotes, 

"  When  yellow  leaves,  or  none,  or  few,  do  hang," 

and  then  refers  to  "  the  grays  and  blacks  "  of 
the  poem. 

In  placing  Keats's  "  Ode  to  Sorrow  "  above 
the  "  Grecian  Urn,"  he  exalts  an  abstract 
eighteenth-century  manner  and  a  jingling 
rhythm  above  a  singularly  poignant  and  imag- 
inative lyric,  where  a  remarkable  power  of  in- 
terpretative vision  is  allied  with  a  serene  and 
haunting  music.  So  too,  in  the  discussion  of  the 
sonnets  of  Sidney  and  of  Rossetti, — the  extracts 
quoted  are  all  too  often  the  less  tremendous 
instances  of  a  power  of  lyric  expression  which 
seized  hold  upon  concrete  images  and  gave  them 
matchless  music.  Sidney's  sonnet  on  the  Moon, 
will  by  some  critics  not  be  considered  "  his  fin- 
est," but  because  of  its  artificial  sentiment  will 
be  placed  below  that  nobler  one,  — 

"  Leave  me,  O  Love,  which  reachest  but  to  dust." 

In  the  case  of  Rossetti,  a  somewhat  unfair  esti- 
mate is  made  of  his  art  when  the  critic  writes  : 
"  Browning's  lovers  meet  under  the  open  sky, 
but  Rossetti  takes  us  to  a  dim  room,  where  we 
are  overpowered  by  the  incense  burning  at  a 
shrine  to  Venus  Victrix."  It  is  true  that  the 
fervid  Italian  temperament  of  Rossetti  enjoyed 
a  certain  richness  of  effect,  but  in  the  "  House 
of  Life  "  the  majority  of  the  figures  used  refer 
to  nature,  and  keep  the  reader  surrounded  by 
the  appeal  of  sun  and  wind  and  wave.  What 
could  be  more  powerful  and  more  dominated  by 
the  finest  spiritual  truth  of  love  than  the  lines 
in  "The  Dark  Glass,"— 
"  Shall  birth  and  death,  and  all  dark  names  that  be 

As  doors  and  windows  bared  to  some  loud  sea, 

Lash  deaf  mine  ears  and  blind  my  face  with  spray ; 
And  shall  my  sense  pierce  love,  —  the  last  relay 

And  ultimate  outpost  of  eternity  ?  " 

It  is  inexplicable  that  no  mention  is  made  of 
"  The  Monochord  "  or  of  "The  Portrait,"  where 
the  mystic  yearning  of  Rossetti's  love  is  revealed 
in  utmost  sensitiveness.  It  is  odd,  too,  that  in 
the  account  of  Christina  Rossetti,  giving  warm 
tribute  to  her  superiority  over  Mrs.  Browning, 
the  most  musical  of  her  lyrics  is  not  quoted, 
those  stanzas  full  of  concrete  appeal  and  of  deep 
elemental  feeling,— 

"  When  I  am  dead,  my  dearest, 

Sing  no  sad  songs  for  me ; 
Plant  thou  no  roses  at  my  head, 

Nor  shady  cypress  tree: 


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Be  the  green  grass  above  me, 

With  showers  and  dew-drops  wet; 

And,  if  thou  wilt,  remember, 
And,  if  thou  wilt,  forget. 

"  I  shall  not  see  the  shadows, 

I  shall  not  feel  the  rain; 
I  shall  not  hear  the  nightingale 

Sing  on,  as  if  in  pain; 
And  dreaming  through  the  twilight 

That  doth  not  rise  nor  set, 
Haply  I  may  remember, 

And  haply  may  forget." 

There  are  destined  to  be  omissions  in  a  work 
as  brief  as  this,  and  if  Emily  Bronte  is  neglected 
while  Stevenson's  "  Child's  Garden  of  Verses  " 
receives  a  surprisingly  ample  notice,  one  must 
be  content.  The  vogue  of  Ernest  Dowson's  facile 
verses  hardly  warrants  including  his  name  in  a 
work  which  omits  Eugene  Lee-Hamilton  and 
Mr.  Stephen  Phillips,  who  have  a  genuine  hold 
on  life.  The  rigid  exclusion  of  Irish  authors  robs 
the  history  of  what  would  have  been  particularly 
important,  the  interpretation  of  the  grave  preci- 
sion of  Lionel  Johnson's  work  and  an  account 
of  the  symbolic,  impetuous  beauty  in  the  poems 
of  Mr.  William  Butler  Yeats.  These  poets  are 
partly  English,  by  traditions  of  lyric  art. 

Even  if  the  epic  manner  has  been  too  frequent 
in  this  book  on  the  lyric,  readers  will  find  it 
both  stimulating  and  steadying.  Every  lover  of 
lyric  poetry  ought  to  read  it,  and  meditate  over 
it,  for  it  is  a  loyal  voicing  of  faith  that  the  beauty 
of  the  English  lyric  is  imperishable,  despite 
"  The  wreckful  siege  of  battering  days." 

MARTHA  HALE  SHACKFORD. 


THE  "  NEW  IDEA  "  IN  STATE 
GOVERNMENT.* 


Something  more  than  a  hundred  years  ago, 
the  government  of  the  United  States  was  set 
up  by  the  privileged  classes.  Its  constitutions 
were  consciously  and  purposely  shaped  for  the 
restraint  of  excessive  democracy.  Although 
they  did  this  while  talking  of  the  right  to  life, 
liberty,  and  the  pursuit  of  happiness,  it  is  not 
fair  to  assume  that  the  Fathers  were  outright 
thieves  or  canting  hypocrites.  Probably  the 
majority  of  them  honestly  believed  that  such  an 
arrangement  was  for  the  best  interest  of  all  the 
people.  Did  they  not  say  that  every  man  should 
have  a  chance?  And  did  they  not  give  every 
man — at  least  most  white  men  —  a  chance,  by 


*THE  WISCONSIN  IDEA.  By  Charles  McCarthy.  New 
York :  The  Macmillan  Co. 

WISCONSIN  :  AN  EXPERIMENT  IN  DEMOCRACY.  By  Fred- 
erick C.  Howe,  Ph.D.  New  York  :  Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 


the  absence  of  a  caste  system  ?  Land-ownership 
and  all  industries  were  open,  and  political  power 
was  neither  hereditary  nor  subject  to  any  reli- 
gious test.  What  more  could  the  laissezfaire 
philosophy  do?  It  had  taken  away  the  legal 
right  of  the  government  to  hold  a  man  down  by 
Force  and  by  the  hereditary  claim  of  some  to 
ride  on  the  shoulders  of  others.  That  one  man 
might,  through  the  possession  of  Force  (economic 
power),  mount  on  the  shoulders  of  others  was 
no  concern  of  the  government.  It  had  given 
them  the  legal  right  to  dismount  him  and  rise 
by  the  same  Force  —  if  only  they  could  get  it. 

The  great  expanse  of  open  land  and  the  ap- 
parently unlimited  resources  of  our  country  en- 
abled men  to  escape  in  part  from  this  Force  for 
a  time.  But  with  the  ever-narrowing  frontier, 
and  the  rapid  strides  of  inventions  which  were 
protected  by  government  patent  and  increased 
the  Force  of  the  few,  escape  became  more  and 
more  difficult.  After  the  Civil  War,  the  gov- 
ernment became  still  more  closely  allied  with 
privilege.  Indeed,  Big  Business  stepped  in  and 
took  charge,  arrogating  to  itself  special  favors 
through  the  tariff,  land  grants,  and  banking 
privileges.  Our  government  became,  more  dis- 
tinctly than  ever,  one  of  the  people  by  and  for 
the  privileged  few  who  wield  the  economic  Force 
of  the  land. 

At  last  the  people  began  to  realize  that  they 
were  not  getting  a  square  deal,  and  to  demand 
that  their  governments,  both  state  and  national, 
be  wrested  from  the  hands  of  the  privileged  few. 
Many  problems  were  thought  to  be  beyond  the 
competence  of  the  states,  and  more  and  more 
was  demanded  of  the  national  government.  But 
some  still  had  confidence  in  the  states,  and  boldly 
struck  out  to  obtain  at  least  partial  relief  through 
them.  Noteworthy  achievements  have  been  ac- 
complished in  several  states ;  but  nowhere  have 
the  results  been  more  remarkable  than  in  Wis- 
consin. That  state  has  become  an  experimental 
laboratory,  and  the  nation  is  looking  on  to  see 
the  process  and  obtain  the  results  of  the  work- 
ing out  of  the  Wisconsin  Idea.  So  great  is  the 
interest  in  this  that  two  books  have  appeared 
almost  simultaneously  with  the  design  of  par- 
tially satisfying  the  desire  of  the  nation  to  know 
about  this  new  Idea  in  government. 

What  the  Wisconsin  Idea  is,  Mr.  Charles 
McCarthy,  the  author  of  one  of  these  books, 
tells  us  in  a  few  sentences.  It  is,  in  effect,  that 
there  should  be  no  drones  living  off  the  toil  of 
the  many ;  that  "prosperity  exists  for  the  benefit 
of  the  human  being,  and  for  no  other  purpose." 
"If  prosperity  does  not  uplift  the  mass  of  hu- 


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man  beings,  it  is  not  true  prosperity,  however 
it  may  be  counterfeited  by  a  grand  show  of  fair 
cities  or  the  glory  of  its  riches."  Our  civiliza- 
tion, he  thinks,  must  be  made  to  serve  the  wel- 
fare of  each  individual.  The  way  to  do  this  is 
to  drive  out  the  cheating  rascals  who  have  acted 
as  judges ;  protect  the  weak  against  the  wielders 
of  Force ;  provide  honest  markets  and  exchanges 
and  means  of  transportation;  and,  finally,  to 
teach  the  Man  his  rights  as  well  as  his  duties 
as  a  citizen. 

Only  a  few  of  the  things  undertaken  by 
Wisconsin  for  the  realization  of  this  end  can  be 
as  much  as  named  here.  It  has  regulated  the 
railroads  and  other  public  utility  corporations 
so  as  to  make  them  the  servants  and  not  the 
masters  of  the  people.  It  has  done  this,  not  by 
prescribing  in  rigid  law  minute  rules  and  regu- 
lations that  all  must  follow  whether  applicable 
to  them  or  not,  but  by  creating  a  commission 
and  empowering  and  requiring  it  to  see  that  the 
corporations  furnish  adequate  service  at  reason- 
able rates  and  without  discrimination.  Seventy- 
five  years  ago,  in  the  Priestly  case,  the  courts 
of  England  established  the  doctrine  of  assumed 
risks  in  industrial  accidents,  and  this  doctrine 
was  quickly  introduced  by  our  courts  into  this 
country  and  by  them  was  widely  extended .  At 
last  Wisconsin  created  a  commission  to  investi- 
gate the  whole  subject  of  personal  injury,  indus- 
trial insurance,  and  workmen's  compensation. 
After  a  painstaking  study,  it  presented  a  report 
which  resulted  in  laws  shifting  the  cost  of  in- 
jury and  pioneering  the  way  for  State  Insurance 
in  America.  New  York  enacted  a  Workmen's 
Compensation  act,  only  to  have  it  declared 
unconstitutional  on  antiquated  grounds.  Wis- 
consin avoided  the  shoals  of  constitutionality  by 
making  it  voluntary  for  employers  to  operate 
under  the  law,  though  virtually  putting  a  pen- 
alty on  them  for  not  doing  so.  Her  law  stands, 
and  has  been  copied  by  nine  other  states.  Mr. 
McCarthy  thinks  the  Employer's  Liability  Law 
the  "greatest  piece  of  legislation  yet  put  forth 
in  Wisconsin,  and  one  which  may  be  a  long 
stride  toward  the  solution  of  the  whole  indus- 
trial accident  problem  in  America."  Through 
the  tax  commission,  and  responsive  legislation, 
tax  burdens  have  been  equalized  with  astonish- 
ing boldness  and  surprising  justice.  The  latest 
experiment  in  taxation  is  the  Income  Tax  law 
of  1911,  the  outcome  of  which  will  be  awaited 
with  interest,  since  our  state  income  tax  laws 
have  been  failures  almost  without  exception. 
To  be  awarded  a  gold  medal  by  the  International 
Anti- Tuberculosis  Association  for  the  best  law 


for  the  prevention  or  control  of  tuberculosis  is 
an  achievement  worth  while. 

Much  of  this  has  been  accomplished  by 
"calling  in  the  expert,"  as  Mr.  Howe  says. 
The  experts  have  come  mainly  from  the  Uni- 
versity, which  has  become  the  "  nerve  centre  " 
of  the  state,  impelling  it  to  intelligent  action 
in  many  fields.  It  does  this  in  two  ways:  by 
sending  out  graduates  indoctrinated  with  the 
principles  of  good  government,  and  filled  with 
enthusiasm  for  it  and  by  furnishing  men  for  ex- 
pert administrative  work.  In  1910-11,  seven 
members  of  the  instructional  force  were  giving 
a  part  of  their  time  to  public  service,  and  were 
being  paid  for  both;  twenty-three  others  had 
definite  official  positions  without  any  definite 
combination  arrangement ;  thirteen  others,  be- 
sides various  members  of  the  medical  faculty, 
were  serving  the  state  bureaus  in  various  ways 
when  called  upon;  and  four  state  officers  were 
serving  on  the  University  staff  without  further 
compensation.  Except  from  the  members  of 
the  "  old  guard,"  who  do  not  like  to  see  them- 
selves displaced,  the  chief  complaint  seems  to  be, 
not  that  these  men  are  grafting,  but  that  the 
stranger  never  knows  where  to  find  them  — 
whether  at  the  statehouse  or  the  University. 

But  the  greatest  service  of  the  University  has 
been  in  the  democratization  of  learning  and  its 
application  to  the  needs  of  everyday  life.  Its 
theory  is  that  if  the  boy  is  to  become  a  brick- 
layer he  should  be  taught  something  more  than 
how  to  lay  bricks  ;  he  should  be  taught  buying, 
architecture,  and  the  essentials  which  will  pre- 
pare him  for  service  in  the  civic  body.  After 
enumerating  a  dozen  or  more  things — such  as 
improving  seed-corn,  grasses,  orchards,  the  breed 
of  horses  and  cattle,  and  giving  a  great  impulse 
to  the  dairy  industry  —  Mr.  McCarthy  says: 
"The  question  arises  at  once, '  But  isn't  all  this 
materialistic?  Doesn't  the  University  of  Wis- 
consin spell  'cow'?"  With  refreshing  frank- 
ness, he  answers:  "And  what  of  it?"  He  is 
fully  convinced  that  all  this  is  worth  while  in 
itself,  but  that  mere  learning  will  be  the  gainer 
from  it  also. 

One  of  the  remarkable  things  about  the 
matter  is  that  all  of  this  has  been  accomplished 
without  any  such  devices  as  the  initiative,  refer- 
endum, and  recall,  on  which  so  much  emphasis 
is  laid  in  other  progressive  states,  particularly 
Oregon,  California,  and  Oklahoma.  Not  until 
last  year  was  an  initiative  and  referendum 
amendment  passed  for  submission  to  the  people, 
and  its  form  shows  that  it  was  designed  merely 
to  supplement,  not  to  supplant,  the  legislature. 


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Through  the  efforts  of  Mr.  La  Follette  and  his 
co-workers,  and  by  means  of  a  primary-election 
law,  the  people  recovered  their  state  government 
several  years  ago.  Now  they  have  confidence 
in  their  legislature,  because  it  goes  about  legis- 
lation in  a  scientific  way  and  has  accomplished 
good  results.  Both  Mr.  McCarthy  and  Mr. 
Howe  attribute  this  to  the  large  German  ele- 
ment in  the  state.  These  people  fled  from  op- 
pression, and  brought  with  them  the  scientific 
spirit.  They  saw  that  the  great  private  interests 
won,  not  so  much  because  of  bribery  as  through 
the  employment  of  experts  who  used  skill  in 
drafting  bills  and  then  backed  them  up  with 
arguments  which  the  ordinary  legislator  could 
not  refute.  The  legislator  was  not  hopelessly 
bad ;  no  one  was  there  to  answer  specious  argu- 
ments, or  to  point  out  the  vicious  features  of 
bad  bills.  So  the  expert  was  called  in  against 
the  expert,  and  a  legislative  reference  library 
was  created,  where  bills  can  be  drafted  with 
care,  and  information  supplied  on  all  sides. 
Probably  more  credit  is  due  to  this  bureau  than 
Mr.  McCarthy,  who  has  had  charge  of  it  since 
its  creation,  modestly  claims. 

Both  Mr.  McCarthy  and  Mr.  Howe  are  filled 
with  enthusiasm  for  their  subject,  and  they  have 
given  us  a  very  roseate  picture  of  the  results 
achieved.  It  does  not  appear  that  they  have 
overdrawn  the  results  in  any  case,  but  they  have 
said  very  little  about  what  yet  remains  to  be 
accomplished.  Both  books  furnish  stimulative 
reading,  and  will  be  helpful  to  the  serious  stu- 
dent. Because  he  goes  more  into  detail,  and 
quotes  more  freely  from  statutes  and  reports, 
Mr.  McCarthy's  work  will  be  more  helpful  to 
the  legislator  seeking  precedents ;  but  the  latter 
will  do  well  to  have  both  books  close  at  hand. 
DAVID  Y.  THOMAS. 


PROBLEMS  OF  EVOLUTION.* 


Among  recent  notable  books  on  Evolution 
Professor  William  Patten's  "Evolution  of  the 
Vertebrates  and  their  Kin"  stands  forth  in  a 

*THE  EVOLUTION  OF  THE  VERTEBRATES  AND  THEIR 
KIN.  By  William  Patten.  Philadelphia:  P.  Blakiston's 
Son  &  Co. 

PLANT  LIFE  AND  EVOLUTION.  By  Douglas  Houghton 
Campbell.  New  York  :  Henry  Holt  &  Co. 

THE  COMING  OF  EVOLUTION.  The  Story  of  a  Great 
Revolution  in  Science.  By  John  W.  Judd.  Cambridge 
University  Press.  New  York :  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons. 

THE  THEORIES  OF  EVOLUTION.  By  Yves  Delage  and 
Marie  Goldsmith.  Translated  by  Andr4  Tridon.  New  York : 
B.  W.  Huebsch. 

THE  STORY  OF  EVOLUTION.  By  Joseph  McCabe.  Boston : 
Small,  Maynard  &  Co. 


class  by  itself.  Since  Haeckel's  early  essays  in 
this  direction,  no  one  has  had  the  temerity  to 
undertake  the  working  out  of  so  elaborate  and 
comprehensive  a  family  tree  for  the  animal 
kingdom  as  is  here  set  forth.  While  the  main 
problem  of  this  magnum,  opus  is  the  phylogeny 
of  the  vertebrates,  the  author  finds  it  necessary 
—  or  at  least  advisable — before  he  finishes,  to 
bring  into  the  purview  of  his  theory  the  whole 
animal  world  from  the  lowest  to  the  highest 
forms.  Briefly  stated,  Dr.  Patten's  thesis,  to 
the  elaboration  and  support  of  which  he  has 
given  the  best  part  of  his  working  life,  is  that 
those  animals  characterized  by  a  backbone,  or 
vertebral  column,  are  the  direct  descendants, 
in  the  process  of  evolution,  of  the  class  of 
animals  known  as  arachnids,  which  include  such 
creatures  as  spiders,  scorpions,  and  the  horse- 
shoe crab.  Now  if  one  accepts  the  doctrine  of 
evolution  at  all,  as  most  people  do,  it  is  pefectly 
certain  that  the  vertebrates  must  at  some  time 
have  evolved  from  a  preexisting  invertebrate 
form.  Various  theories  have  been  advanced 
from  time  to  time  in  regard  to  which  particular 
invertebrate  class  was  thus  distinguished  in  the 
evolutionary  process.  No  one  of  these  theories 
has  ever  found  universal  acceptance  among 
zoologists,  and  Dr.  Patten's  is  not  likely  to  be 
more  fortunate  than  its  predecessors, —  though 
it  must  be  said  that  never  has  so  cogent,  com- 
prehensive, and  well-sustained  an  argument 
been  brought  forward  in  favor  of  any  particular 
invertebrate  ancestor  as  that  presented  in  this 
book.  The  difficulty  confronting  acceptance 
lies  not  in  the  argument  so  much  as  in  the 
premises  on  which  it  is  built.  While  Dr.  Patten 
argues  vigorously,  even  at  times  warmly,  in  sup- 
port of  the  method  of  comparative  morphology 
as  a  means  of  arriving  at  the  truth  respecting 
the  course  of  phylogeny,  it  nevertheless  remains 
a  fact  that  biology  gave  this  method  a  thorough 
and  fair  trial  over  a  long  period  of  years  and 
found  it  essentially  weak  so  far  as  concerns 
this  particular  point  of  phylogenetic  synthesis. 
In  the  language  of  the  bench,  the  data  of  com- 
parative morphology  lack  "probative  value." 
No  biologist  can  fail  to  admire  the  patient, 
careful,  and  painstaking  toil  which  has  gone  into 
the  researches  on  which  this  book  is  based,  nor 
the  brilliant  genius  for  morphological  investi- 
gation which  is  displayed  on  nearly  every  page  ; 
yet  the  final  verdict  on  the  main  thesis,  in  spite 
of  all  this,  must  be  "  not  proven." 

"Plant  Life  and  Evolution,"  by  Professor 
Douglas  Houghton  Campbell,  forms  one  of  the 
volumes  on  "The  Philosophy  of  Nature"  in  the 


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"American  Nature  Series."  The  book  is  essen- 
tially an  attempt  to  illustrate  the  general  prin- 
ciples of  organic  evolution  by  reference  to  plants 
rather  than  animals.  No  American  botanist  is 
better  qualified  to  undertake  such  a  task  than 
the  author.  The  result  is  a  valuable  addition  to 
the  elementary  popular  literature  on  evolution. 
Following  the  introductory  chapters  on  elemen- 
tary biological  matters  and  the  factors  of  evolu- 
tion, a  rather  detailed  account  is  given  of  the 
course  of  evolution  in  the  plant  kingdom.  In 
these  chapters  the  author  is  at  his  best.  A  chap- 
ter on  Adaptation  gives  an  excellent  review  of 
the  rich  material  offered  by  plants  for  the  illus- 
tration of  this  fundamental  characteristic  of  liv- 
ing things.  This  leads  up  to  an  account  of  the 
distribution  of  plants  on  the  earth,  and  the  fac- 
tors which  have  influenced  it.  The  part  which 
man  has  played,  through  his  practise  of  the  art 
of  agriculture,  in  controlling  the  evolution  of  do- 
mesticated plants,  is  discussed.  The  final  chap- 
ter deals  in  general  terms,  and  very  briefly,  with 
the  various  general  theories  of  evolution. 

To  the  series  of  "Cambridge  Manuals  of 
Science  and  Literature  "  a  volume  entitled  "The 
Coming  of  Evolution"  is  contributed  by  the  dis- 
tinguished geologist,  Professor  John  W.  Judd. 
The  story  of  the  part  played  by  the  geologists, 
particularly  Lyell,  in  laying  the  solid  founda- 
tion for  the  idea  of  organic  evolution,  by  demon- 
strating the  fact  of  evolution  in  the  inorganic 
world,  is  told  in  a  very  genial  and  entertaining 
manner.  The  last  chapters  review  Darwin's  life 
and  give  a  critical  estimate  of  the  significance 
of  his  work. 

"The  Theories  of  Evolution,"  by  Professor 
Yves  Delage  and  Mile.  Marie  Goldsmith,  is  an 
English  translation  of  a  work  which  has  been 
very  popular  in  France  in  the  original  Flam- 
marian  edition,  and  rather  widely  read  elsewhere. 
The  chief  claim  of  the  work  to  distinction  rests 
on  its  detailed  presentation  of  the  Lamarckian 
viewpoint.  This  doctrine,  which  Darwin  once 
called  "nonsense"  (though  he  afterward  appar- 
ently came  to  look  more  graciously  upon  it), 
contends  essentially  that  the  direct  effects  of 
the  environment  on  organisms  not  only  may  be 
inherited,  but  are  inherited,  and  that  in  such 
inheritance  is  to  be  found  a  vera  causa,  if  not 
indeed  the  chief  cause,  of  organic  evolution.  It 
is  to  the  French  that  we  have  long  been  accus- 
tomed to  look  for  the  most  ardent  advocacy  of 
this  viewpoint.  All  biologically  inclined  French- 
men appear  to  regard  it  a  fundamental  patri- 
otic duty  to  inherit  their  acquired  characters. 
No  more  forceful  presentation  of  the  Lamarck- 


ian arguments  has  ever  been  made  than  that 
contained  in  this  book,  of  which  one  of  the  most 
distinguished  of  French  zoologists  is  the  senior 
author.  But  still  the  case  is  just  as  weak  as 
ever  at  the  essential  point — namely,  in  concrete 
experimental  demonstrations  that  acquired  char- 
acters (in  the  technical  sense)  are  really  inherited. 
The  evidence  that  they  are  has  never  yet  been 
able  to  withstand  completely  and  satisfactorily 
the  searching  criticism  which  has  been  brought 
to  bear  upon  it. 

Mr.  Joseph  McCabe,  the  well-known  writer 
of  popular  treatises  on  evolution,  and  the  trans- 
lator of  Haeckel,  has  produced  another  volume, 
"The  Story  of  Evolution,"  which  has  a  strong 
family  resemblance  to  his  previous  output.  This 
book  aims  to  tell  the  story  of  evolution  "from 
the  ground  up."  It  begins,  like  Genesis,  with 
primitive  chaos,  and  ends  with  the  future  of  man- 
kind. Like  the  traditional  German  definition 
of  English  philosophy,  it  has  length  and  breadth. 
Written  with  a  good  deal  of  literary  skill,  it  is 
"easy"  reading.  The  field  covered,  however, 
is  so  wide — including  physical  and  geological 
evolution  as  well  as  organic — that  the  treatment 
cannot  be,  of  necessity,  anything  but  extremely 
superficial.  The  objectionable  feature  of  this 
type  of  "popular"  science  is  the  altogether  false 
perspective  in  regard  to  the  method  of  science 
which  it  tends  to  emphasize. 

RAYMOND  PEARL. 


THE  HISTORY  AND  ROMANCE  OF 
FURNITURE.* 


Furniture,  as  the  term  is  employed  by  mod- 
ern writers,  is  applied  to  those  movable  articles 
used  in  the  home  for  personal  rest,  work,  and 
pleasure,  or  for  the  storing  of  household  requi- 
sites and  ornament.  These  articles  are  almost 
invariably  of  wood,  because  of  all  the  materials 
applicable  to  the  interior  construction  and 
adornment  of  the  home  wood  has  been  and 
still  is  man's"  first  favourite  and  proven  friend." 
The  history  of  furniture  is  therefore  largely  the 
history  of  man's  adaptation  of  wood  to  his  home 
needs  and  adornments.  This  history  begins  with 
his  initial  step  in  the  direction  of  civilization, 
and  has  developed  with  his  home-making  in- 
stinct. It  has  been  influenced  by  climate,  and 


*  FURNITURE.    By  Esther  Singleton.    Illustrated.    New 
York :  Duffield  &  Co. 

THE  BOOK  OF  DECORATIVE  FURNITURE:   ITS  FORM, 
COLOUR,  AND  HISTORY.    By  Edwin  Foley,  Fellow  of  the 
Institute  of  Decorative  Designers.     In  two  volumes.     Illus- 
rated.    New  York  :  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons. 


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thus  Europe  rather  than  the  Orient  presents 
the  chief  field  for  its  study.  The  Oriental  still 
seeks  rest  upon  rugs  spread  upon  the  floor  ;  and 
while  floor  coverings  have  been  brought  to  the 
highest  state  of  perfection  in  the  East,  little  is 
to  be  found  there  in  the  way  of  furniture. 

Because  of  its  close  human  association,  fur- 
niture has  become  invested  with  a  romance  as 
well  as  a  history.  And  because  in  its  evolution 
it  has  engaged  the  attention  of  those  skilled  in 
the  art  of  design,  an  added  interest  has  been 
given  to  it,  and  thus  it  has  become  the  object 
of  the  art  student's  and  connoisseur's  and  col- 
lector's zeal.  So  it  has  come  to  pass  that  of 
late  years  a  literature  of  the  subject  has  been 
developed,  closely  related  to  books  on  arts  and 
crafts,  though  the  sumptuousness  of  the  volumes 
places  them  more  in  the  category  of  art  books. 

The  two  works  now  before  us  contain  the 
latest  word,  full  and  complete,  on  the  subject 
of  historic  furniture.  Miss  Singleton  is  an 
acknowledged  expert  in  this  field.  Of  the 
numerous  art  guides  she  has  written,  five  are 
upon  furniture.  Her  present  volume  seems  to 
be  largely  a  compilation  from  her  former  books, 
intended  to  summarize  and  present  a  comprehen- 
sive view  of  the  subject ;  and  she  does  this  in  a 
systematic  and  scientific  manner.  She  is  chiefly 
concerned  with  the  classification  of  furniture 
by  styles  and  schools  ;  and  her  first  chapter,  on 
that  division  of  the  subject,  is  as  long  as  any  two 
of  the  subsequent  chapters.  She  finds  furniture 
divisible,  as  architecture  might  be,  into  national 
styles, —  Egyptian,  Greek,  Roman,  Byzantine, 
Romanesque,  and  Gothic  ;  and  the  French  and 
English  styles  are  further  capable  of  subdivis- 
ion by  the  political  epochs  in  those  countries. 
She  also  brings  to  notice  a  style  called  genre 
auriculaire,  from  the  ear-shaped  ornament  em- 
ployed. The  most  interesting  "  schools  "  are 
named  after  the  great  eighteenth-century  de- 
signers, Adam,  Heppelwhite,  Sheraton,  and  the 
three  Chippendales.  Her  subsequent  chapters 
are  more  specifically  devoted  to  the  development 
of  the  different  articles  of  furniture,  showing  the 
evolution  of  one  style  out  of  its  predecessor ;  and 
the  foreign  influences,  Chinese  at  one  time, 
affecting  the  design  of  English  furniture.  Her 
final  chapter,  upon  mirrors,  screens,  and  clocks, 
exhibits  the  wide  range  of  her  subject.  One 
hundred  and  nineteen  full-page  half-tones  from 
photographs  of  furniture  in  the  Metropolitan 
Museum  and  in  the  chief  museums  in  Europe, 
and  sixty-one  text  illustrations,  help  to  make 
her  volume  a  very  satisfactory  guide  to  a  knowl- 
edge of  the  history  of  furniture. 


Mr.  Edwin  Foley  covers  the  same  broad  field, 
but  in  a  different  way,  and  apparently  with  a 
different  object  in  view.  He  is  an  artist  to 
whom  the  picturesque  features  of  furniture  make 
the  strongest  appeal,  and  emphasis  is  laid  on  the 
word  "Decorative"  in  the  title  he  has  chosen  for 
his  two  large  volumes.  Pie  regards  furniture 
chiefly  as  a  manifestation  of  the  art  of  the  wood- 
worker, and  aims  to  give  a  survey  of  the  world's 
beautiful  woodwork.  He  gives  an  account  of 
British  domestic  woodwork  from  the  time  of  the 
introduction  of  printing  into  England  and  the 
building  up  of  the  home  life,  to  the  beginning 
of  the  nineteenth  century;  with  subordinate 
accounts  of  French,  Italian,  German,  Flemish, 
Spanish,  and  Oriental  furniture.  His  enthusi- 
asm for  the  English  woodwork  is  manifest  from 
his  frequent  reference  to  the  eras  of  oak  and 
walnut  and  mahogany  in  England,  and  the  ex- 
tent to  which  he  illustrates  the  different  kinds 
of  wood  used  in  the  construction  and  decoration 
of  furniture.  He  scarcely  refers  to  upholstery, 
or  recognizes  it  as  essential  to  furniture.  The 
hundred  full-page  illustrations  are  from  the  au- 
thor's own  paintings,  reproduced  in  color  and 
mounted  on  gray  cartridge  paper ;  and  included 
among  them  are  illustrations  of  different  varieties 
of  wood  employed  by  the  cabinet-makers,  show- 
ing most  accurately  the  peculiarities  of  their 
grain  and  color.  The  thousand  text  drawings 
are  admirably  illustrative  of  the  different  kinds 
of  ornament  and  carving  used.  Further  aids  to 
a  right  understanding  of  the  history  of  furniture 
are  furnished  in  charts,  tables,  and  diagrams, 
which  show  the  evolution  of  the  different  articles 
of  furniture,  the  different  styles,  the  era  in  which 
each  flourished,  the  different  kinds  of  ornament 
employed,  together  with  a  glossary  of  terms 
and  a  bibliography.  Altogether  the  volumes 
are  made  upon  a  very  generous  plan,  with  large 
pages,  large  type,  and  profuse  illustrations.  The 
lover  of  pictures,  the  connoisseur,  the  art  stu- 
dent will  find  here  much  to  interest  and  instruct. 
As  reference  volumes  upon  all  matters  connected 
with  furniture,  there  can  be  no  question  of  their 
ARTHUR  HOWARD  NOLL. 


DR.  EDWIN  A.  GREENLAW  is  the  compiler  of  "A 
Syllabus  of  English  Literature "  (Sanborn)  designed 
for  college  students.  It  is  a  work  planned  to  be  used 
in  connection  with  one  or  more  of  the  comprehensive 
anthologies  with  which  recent  years  have  provided  us.  It 
seeks  "  to  aid  the  instructor  by  presenting  in  convenient 
form  the  facts  that  must  accompany  the  reading  and  to 
suggest  to  the  pupil  some  of  the  things  he  should  look 
for  in  the  work  assigned  him  for  study."  The  alternate 
pages  are  left  blank  for  notes. 


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BRIEFS  ox  NEW  BOOKS. 

"The  Strangling  of  Persia"  (Cen- 

.  tuT  Co')  is  a  title  th^t  well  describes 
the  remorseless  doing -to -death  of 
constitutional  government  which  Mr.  W.  Morgan 
Shuster  witnessed  in  the  short  term  of  his  service 
as  Treasurer- General  at  Teheran.  Invited  by  the 
Persian  Cabinet,  through  its  Minister  of  Foreign 
Affairs,  to  undertake  the  straightening-out  of  that 
country's  tangled  revenue  system,  Mr.  Shuster,  who 
had  already  had  some  years'  experience  in  the  cus- 
toms departments  of  Cuba  and  the  Philippines,  pro- 
ceeded to  Persia  in  the  spring  of  last  year,  and  with 
his  assistants  struggled  against  all  sorts  of  vexatious 
and  largely  unforeseen  obstacles  until  the  combined 
opposition  of  the  two  European  powers  chiefly  inter- 
ested in  keeping  Persia  bankrupt  and  feeble  com- 
pelled him  to  relinquish  his  hopeless  task  and  return 
home.  Eight  months  of  intelligent  and  courageous 
striving  against  overpowering  odds  are  to  be  placed 
to  his  credit,  and  his  highly  readable  and  apparently 
full  and  frank  account  of  his  peculiar  experiences 
amid  the  jealousies  and  intrigues  and  multitudinous 
knaveries  of  an  oriental  capital  shows  him  to  be 
skilled  in  writing  as  well  as  in  finance.  In  the  story 
he  has  to  tell,  Russia  is  of  course  the  double-dyed 
villain;  England  is  the  guilty  accomplice,  weak- 
kneed  and  thoroughly  unheroic  in  every  situation 
depicted;  and  the  liberty -loving  constitutional  party 
in  Persia  is  the  foully-wronged  heroine  calling  in 
helpless  agony  for  some  hero  to  rush  to  her  rescue. 
Five  years  of  creditable  effort  at  self-government 
preceded  the  tragic  end;  but,  as  the  author  says, 
"five  years  is  nothing  in  the  life  of  a  nation;  it  is 
not  even  long  as  a  period  for  individual  reform;  yet, 
after  a  bare  five  years  of  effort,  during  which  the 
Persian  people,  with  all  their  difficulties  and  har- 
assed by  the  so-called  friendly  powers,  succeeded  in 
thwarting  a  despot's  well-planned  effort  to  wrest 
from  them  their  hard-earned  liberties,  the  world  is 
told  by  two  European  nations  that  these  men  were 
unfit,  degenerate,  and  incapable  of  producing  a  stable 
and  orderly  form  of  government.  With  a  knowl- 
edge of  the  facts  of  Persia's  downfall,  the  scales 
drop  from  the  eyes  of  the  most  incredulous,  and  it 
becomes  clear  that  she  was  the  helpless  victim  of 
the  wretched  game  of  cards  which  a  few  European 
powers,  with  the  skill  of  centuries  of  practice,  still 
play  with  weaker  nations  as  the  stake,  and  the  lives, 
honor,  and  progress  of  whole  races  as  the  forfeit." 
Mr.  Shuster  prefaces  his  narrative  with  such  brief 
outline  of  recent  Persian  history  as  its  better  under- 
standing requires,  and  appends  various  documents 
and  other  matter  of  a  pertinent  and  interesting 
nature.  Illustrations  from  photographs  are  lavishly 
supplied.  To  most  readers  the  book  will  be  an  eye- 
opener,  and  it  is  hardly  possible  that  its  disclosures 
will  not  contribute  in  some  measure  to  the  right- 
ing of  the  grievous  wrongs  it  so  admirably,  because 
tersely  and  without  sensationalism,  and  with  here 
and  there  a  touch  of  grim  humor,  describes. 


Two  books  on 
a  little-read 
author. 


Thomas  Love  Peacock  has  a  certain 
claim  to  immortality  since  his  poems 
have  been  published  among  the  cheap 
classics  of  the  "Muses  Library,"  and  two  of  his 
novels  in  "Everyman's  Library";  but  perhaps  his 
especial  glory  is  that  reflected  from  his  contribution 
to  Shelley's  biography  and  to  his  being  pilloried 
in  the  latter's  amusing  letter  to  Harriet,  after  the 
poet  had  run  off  with  Mary  Godwin,  as  "  expensive, 
inconsiderate,  and  cold."  Very  few  to-day  read 
Peacock's  novels,  and  whoever  went  through  his 
long  poem  "Rhododaphne "?  It  is  accordingly 
rather  remarkable  that  two  considerable  books  on 
his  life  and  work  should  appear  independently  of 
each  other  at  the  same  time,  one  entitled  "  The  Life 
of  Thomas  Love  Peacock  "  by  Mr.  Carl  van  Doren 
(Button), the  other  "Thomas  Love  Peacock :  A  Crit- 
ical Study  "  by  Mr.  A.  Martin  Freeman  (Kennerley). 
As  their  titles  indicate,  the  former  is  more  especially 
a  biography,  the  latter  a  literary  appreciation.  The 
former  is  much  fuller  in  biographical  detail,  is  more 
specific  and  more  complete  in  its  references  to  au- 
thorities, and  it  has  a  good  bibliography;  the  latter  is 
more  concerned  with  Peacock's  literary  development 
through  the  phases  of  pseudo-classicism,  satire,  and 
romanticism,  and  shows  less  familiarity  with  the  crit- 
ical work  of  his  predecessors.  The  divergencies  in 
matters  of  fact  are  comparatively  slight.  Both 
authors  agree  in  regarding  the  two  leading  female 
characters  of  "  Nightmare  Abbey  "  as  Shelley's  two 
wives,  and  not,  as  a  writer  in  the  "  Modern  Lan- 
guage Notes"  (vol.  xxv.)  argues,  as  Harriet  and 
Miss  Kitchener.  Characteristically,  Mr.  Freeman 
apparently  does  not  know  of  this  argument;  but  his 
case  in  support  of  his  interpretation  is  made  more 
convincing  than  is  Mr.  van  Doren's  for  the  same 
conclusion.  The  man  Peacock  stands  out  more 
prominently  in  Mr.  van  Doren's  "  Life,"  and  an 
exceedingly  interesting  character  he  is.  "Two 
neighbours  were  rowing  by  the  house  one  evening, 
and  .  .  .  one  of  them,  not  quite  sure  of  their  local- 
ity, asked  the  other  in  a  tone  of  voice  which  should 
have  been  modified,  'Is  this  old  Peacock's?'  Before 
his  companion  could  reply,  a  strong  voice  called 
from  the  garden, '  Yes,  this  is  old  Peacock's,  and  this 
is  old  Peacock,'  and  'old  Peacock'  stepped  irately 
out  of  the  shadow."  Mr.  Freeman,  on  the  other 
hand,  gives  an  excellent  analysis  of  the  significance 
in  English  literature  of  Peacock's  novels.  "'Head- 
long Hall,'  as  it  marked  the  author's  final  stage 
from  bondage  to  liberty,  proclaimed  at  the  same 
time  the  appearance  of  something  absolutely  new  in 
English  literature.  ...  In  style  and  manner,  in  the 
more  restricted  sense  of  the  words,  he  still  belongs 
to  the  eighteenth  century,  Fielding  being  his  most 
obvious  influence,  especially  noticeable  in  his  careful 
and  lucid  accounts  of  unheroic  events,  in  the  epic 
style.  .  .  .  He  belongs,  in  style  and  language,  to  a 
school;  but  he  borrows  from  no  master.  He  lived 
intellectually,  and,  it  is  not  too  much  to  say,  emotion- 
ally in  ancient  Greece  and  Rome  and  in  England 
of  the  'classical'  period." 


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[Sept.  1, 


Some  chance  Traveller  in  divers  lands,  artist, 
acquaintances  dreamer,  lover  of  nature  and  of  the 
de/«t/por*mi/ed.naturai  an(j  unSpOilt,  passionately 

fond  of  Italy,  yet  not  disloyal  to  her  Slavic  antece- 
dents, Miss  Yoi  Pawlowska  records,  in  "  A  Year  of 
Strangers"  (Duffield),  some  of  the  experiences  and 
especially  some  of  the  friendships,  that  made  memor- 
able a  twelve  months'  wandering  and  sojourning  in 
Italy,  Flanders,  Russia,  and  Persia.  She  seems  to 
be  one  of  those  "tramp-souls,"  as  she  calls  them,  that 
"  have  no  home  but  the  land  which  they  never  reach," 
although  elsewhere  she  takes  pleasure  in  regarding 
Rome  as  her  abiding-place.  Even  the  fatigues  of 
travel  in  Persia,  with  its  primitive  modes  of  convey- 
ance and  its  still  ruder  hostelries,  do  but  add  zest  to 
her  adventures.  Heat,  cold,  thirst,  starvation,  she 
says,  fight  with  the  body,  but  they  are  not  enemies 
to  the  soul  —  the  spirit  is  free.  One  admires  her 
stout  heart  and  feels  the  warm  human  quality  of  the 
woman  behind  her  gracefully-written  chapters.  Sor- 
row and  suffering  have  been  her  schoolmasters,  it 
appears,  and  have  taught  the  lessons  no  others  can 
teach.  "Fate  has  taken  from  me  everything,"  she 
writes,  but  with  some  manifest  exaggeration,  "every- 
thing that  a  human  being  can  lose,  and  I  can  still  say, 
'  Joy  is  mine,'  because  I  see  the  mountains  around 
us  are  blue,  .  .  ."  The  "  strangers  "  with  whom  she 
makes  acquaintance  in  her  year  of  wandering,  and 
with  whom  her  pages  make  us  acquainted,  are  of 
humble  station  and  unbereft  of  charm  and  piquancy 
by  any  smoothing-out  process  of  civilization.  In  fact, 
one  of  her  chosen  characters  is  a  dog,  and  for  the 
patient  camels  of  the  desert  she  cherishes  a  warm 
affection.  Admirably  executed  are  her  brief  impres- 
sionist sketches  of  all  these  personalities,  and  animal- 
ities,  that  appeal  to  her  love  of  the  distinctive,  the 
picturesque,  the  unconventional.  Entertaining,  too, 
in  a  different  way,  are  some  of  her  passing  reflec- 
tions. The  unsettled  and  precarious  condition  of  the 
Persian  government  strikes  her  as  natural  and  salu- 
tary ;  for  "  governments,  if  allowed  to  keep  in  power 
too  long,  begin  to  take  themselves  seriously,  to  the 
detriment  of  the  people.  How  wise  the  nations  are 
who  change  them  continually.  How  wise  the  Per- 
sians are ! "  By  this  token,  then,  the  Latin  Americans 
must  be  among  the  very  wisest  of  the  world's  nations. 
The  author's  perfect  command  of  English  may  be 
attributed  to  residence  in  England,  which  is  referred 
to  in  her  book.  Her  tasteful  volume  is  a  little  mas- 
terpiece, in  its  way. 


Sources  of 
religious 
insight  and 
inspiration. 


The  Bross  Lectures  delivered  every 
ten  years  at  Lake  Forest  University, 
and  which  have  to  deal  with  aspects 
of  the  philosophy  and  evidences  of  the  Christian 
religion,  were  given  last  year  by  Professor  Josiah 
Royce  of  Harvard,  and  they  are  now  published 
under  the  title  "The  Sources  of  Religious  Insight" 
(Scribner).  By  insight,  Professor  Royce  means 
"knowledge  that  makes  us  aware  of  the  unity  of 
many  facts  in  one  whole,  and  that  at  the  same  time 
brings  us  into  intimate  personal  contact  with  these 


facts  and  with  the  whole  wherein  they  are  united." 
By  religion  he  means  recognition  of  and  reaction 
toward  the  fact  that  man  needs  to  be  saved.  By 
salvation,  however,  the  author  does  not  mean  escape 
from  total  depravity,  but  simply  the  gaining  by  man 
of  "some  end  or  aim  of  human  life  which  is  more 
important  than  all  other  aims,  so  that,  by  comparison 
with  this  aim  all  else  is  secondary  and  subsidiary,  or 
even  vain  and  empty."  As  exploited  in  the  pages 
of  this  book,  this  aim  of  life  is  loyalty  to  the  uni- 
verse as  the  universe  is  conceived  by  the  philosophy 
of  idealism.  Professor  Royce  criticizes  pragmatism 
at  some  length.  While  he  acknowledges  that  all 
truth  must  "work,"  or  make  some  difference  to  our 
conduct,  as  the  pragmatists  assert,  and  that  there  are 
no  pure  operations  of  the  intellect  divorced  from 
reference  to  action  by  the  thinker,  he  claims  that  all 
these  truths  which  do  work  do  so  in  virtue  of  their 
agreement  with  a  realm  which  is  superhuman,  above 
the  level  of  individual  caprice, —  the  life,  in  short, 
of  the  world.  And  "unless  this  life  is  more  than 
merely  human  in  its  rational  wealth  of  concrete 
meaning,  we  mortals  have  no  meaning  whatever." 
The  problem  of  religion,  then,  is  to  come  into  the 
richest  relations  with  this  life  of  the  whole.  The 
path  to  such  connection  the  author  finds  in  the  con- 
ception of  loyalty.  For  loyalty  is  the  one  virtue  which 
implies  making  the  very  best  of  one's  own  powers, 
seeking  all  the  self-perfection  one  can  accomplish, 
and  then  using  all  one's  perfected  self  in  the  service 
of  a  power  which  is  vast  enough  to  claim  the  free 
allegiance  of  the  whole  soul.  But  temporal  loyalties 
may  conflict ;  and  so  the  further  principle  is  deduced 
of  loyalty  to  the  cause  of  loyalty.  Here,  says  Mr. 
Royce,  is  a  principle  fit  to  be  made  the  basis  of  a 
universal  moral  code.  For  through  every  special 
cause  which  claims  the  loyalty  of  the  individual,  his 
true  cause  comes  to  light  as  "the  spiritual  unity  of 
all  the  world  of  reasonable  beings."  While,  of 
course,  much  of  the  work  is  conditioned  by  the  au- 
thor's philosophy — which  is  by  no  means  universally 
accepted  —  the  concrete  character  of  much  of  it,  and 
the  spiritual  fervor  of  nearly  all  of  it,  will  commend 
it  as  a  source  of  spiritual  inspiration  even  to  those 
who  do  not  agree  with  its  intellectual  premises. 
Especially  is  this  true  of  his  chapter  on  Sorrow  as 
a  means  of  religious  insight. 

The  meaning  Since  Aristotle's  "  Poetics."  defining 
and  mystery  poetry  has  been  one  of  the  pastimes 
of  poetry.  of  the  ages.  Those  who  have  written 

on  the  essence  of  poetry  fall  into  three  groups: 
valorous  critics  who  think  they  have  at  last  captured 
the  volatile  spirit  of  poetry ;  critics  who  utter  what 
in  them  lies,  without  insisting  that  they  have  solved 
the  mystery;  and,  finally,  critics  who  begin  by 
maintaining  that  poetry  can  never  be  satisfactorily 
defined.  Professor  Arthur  Fairchild,  in  his  "The 
Making  of  Poetry"  (Putnam),  clearly  belongs  to 
the  last  of  these  three  groups.  Setting  aside  the 
attempt  to  define  poetry,  on  the  ground  that  poetry 
"begins  and  ends  in  feeling"  and  that  the  nature 


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of  feeling  forbids  definition,  Mr.  Fairchild  proceeds 
to  analyze  the  material  and  the  processes  of  poetry. 
The  material,  he  finds,  is  "the  mental  image."  Of 
the  processes,  the  first  is  "personalising,"  a  self- 
projection  which  puts  the  poet,  as  it  were,  into  the 
things  and  persons  that  environ  him,  this  self- 
projection  being  manifested  by  the  images  he  uses. 
The  second  process  is  the  combining  of  these  im- 
ages. The  third  process  is  versifying,  which,  in  the 
last  analysis,  has  an  "enforcing  effect  upon  the 
groupings  of  images."  The  three  chapters  devoted  to 
these  processes  are  the  longest  and  most  important 
in  the  book.  They  are  followed  by  "  The  Nature  of 
Poetry,"  which  does  not  improve  upon  what  has 
been  said  on  the  theme;  "The  Need  and  Value  of 
Poetry,"  poetry  being  "a  biological  necessity,"  or, 
as  Professor  Mackail  would  put  it,  "a  function  of 
life,"  and  having  its  value  mainly  in  the  fact  that  it 
contributes  "to  the  continuity  and  unity  of  con- 
sciousness"; and  lastly,  "Some  Forms  of  Poetry 
Examined,"  an  indirect  repetition  of  all  that  has 
preceded.  From  the  foregoing  bald  summary  one 
may  at  least  discern  Mr.  Fairchild's  method  —  that 
of  the  abstract  system.  The  strength  of  the  method 
lies  in  its  strict  logic  and  clear  outlines.  The 
author  has  evolved  a  system  that  is  undeniably  self- 
consistent  and  everywhere  luminous ;  in  particular, 
the  chapter  on  "personalising"  and  the  chapter  on 
versifying  are  admirably  done.  The  weakness  of  the 
abstract  system,  when  applied  to  poetry,  lies  in  its 
antipathy  to  the  spiritual  qualities  of  high  poesy. 
In  his  preface  the  author  trusts  that  he  may  make 
us  see  more  clearly  the  "morning  radiance"  that  a 
good  poem  casts  over  life ;  but  too  often,  in  the 
pages  that  follow,  the  morning  radiance  resembles 
the  hard  blue  flame  of  the  bunsen-burner.  Poetry 
in  a  test-tube  proves  to  be  "a  biological  necessity" 
rather  than  "the  breath  and  finer  spirit  of  all 
knowledge."  We  watch  the  "raw  material,"  the 
mental  image,  subjected  to  various  processes  until 
it  is  poured  out  upon  a  sheet  of  paper  in  the  form 
of  a  genuine  poem,  Hence  the  formula,  x  +y  +  z 
=  poem.  That  .the  formula  is  correct  is  a  fact  that 
does  not,  somehow,  enable  us  to  read  poetry  with 
the  "joyous  yet  discriminating  "  attitude  which  our 
author  holds  to  be  proper.  The  value  of  the  book, 
indeed,  resides,  not  in  the  lucid  exposition  of  the 
mysteries  of  poetry,  but  in  the  thoughtful  frame  of 
mind  that  it  induces  in  the  reader.  Too  rarely  do 
we  think  about  poetry. 

In  the  preface  to  his  book  entitled 
"The  Anarchists"  (Lane),  Mr. 
Ernest  Alfred  Vizetelly  claims  the 
unique  merit  of  supplying  "a  history  of  their  doings 
from  the  days  of  Baktinin."  The  history  of  a  move- 
ment cannot  well  be  written  until  the  movement  is 
past,  and  well  past.  This,  Mr.  Vizetelly  argues,  is 
clearly  the  case  with  Anarchism,  or  at  any  rate  with 
that  militant  anarchism  which  pushed  what  was 
called  "the  Propaganda  by  Deed,"  and  which  was 
responsible  for  the  deaths  of  Carnot  and  McKinley, 


King  Humbert  and  the  Empress  Elizabeth,  the  last 
of  which  outrages  occurred  more  than  a  decade  ago. 
The  assassination  of  the  King  of  Portugal  and  his  son 
was  not  due  to  Anarchists,  the  author  is  sure,  but  to 
Republicans.  The  long  struggle  between  Socialism 
and  Anarchism  for  the  favor  of  the  dissatisfied  lower 
strata  of  society  has  already  resulted  decisively  in 
favor  of  the  former,  and  the  world  is  to  be  saved 
not  by  abolishing  government  but  by  repressing  the 
individual.  The  sub-title  announces  the  author's  in- 
tention of  dealing  both  with  the  Anarchists'  faith  and 
with  their  record.  The  former  is  treated  in  a  lumi- 
nous Introduction  of  twenty  pages.  The  remainder 
of  the  book  is  a  painstaking  chronological  account, 
carefully  indexed,  of  all  important  and  many  unim- 
portant Anarchist  manifestations,  from  the  begin- 
nings of  Bakiinin,  who  by  a  lifetime  campaign  in 
favor  of  violence  earned  the  title  of  "the  Father  of 
Modern  Anarchism."  Everything  is  done  with  edi- 
fying detail :  if  the  student  wishes  to  know  how  much 
Meunier  paid  for  rum  at  M.  Vdry's  restaurant  in 
the  Boulevard  Magenta,  or  what  Czolgosz  had  for 
breakfast  on  the  day  he  paid  the  penalty  for  assas- 
sinating McKinley,  this  book  has  the  information 
ready.  There  is,  in  fact,  so  much  of  detail  and  so 
little  of  generalization  that  it  might  be  better  to 
ignore  the  author's  own  classification  and  place  it 
among  the  reference  books, — although  there  are 
pages  which  are  breathlessly,  if  unpleasantly,  inter- 
esting. Mr.  Vizetelly,  a  great  traveller  with  con- 
nections all  over  Europe,  actually  witnessed  the 
killing  of  Carnot,  as  well  as  a  number  of  the  other 
incidents  mentioned;  and  being,  moreover,  a  man 
of  catholic  interests  and  unusual  powers  of  observa- 
tion and  retention,  he  furnishes  an  amazing  amount 
of  evidently  first-hand  information  on  the  most  vari- 
ous subjects  related  to  his  main  theme.  Anarchism 
might  have  found  a  more  sympathetic  historian,  but 
scarcely  a  better  informed  one. 

A  sheaf  of  The  second  volume  of  Mrs.  William 

William  Sharp's  Sharp's  uniform  edition  of  her  hus- 
uterarv papers.  band's  "Selected  Writings"  (Duf- 
field)  bears  the  title  "  Studies  and  Appreciations," 
and  is  made  up  of  nine  critical  essays  —  on  the  son- 
net, on  Shakespeare's  sonnets,  on  great  odes,  Sainte- 
Beuve,  some  plays  of  Signor  d'Annunzio,  certain 
contemporary  Italian  poets,  the  modern  troubadours, 
Brittany's  heroic  and  legendary  literature,  and  "  la 
jeune  Belgique" — that  have  appeared  as  introduc- 
tions to  or  parts  of  other  works,  or  in  magazines. 
There  is  also  a  fragmentary  outline  sketch  of  a  pro- 
jected treatise  on  "The  Sevenfold  Need  in  Litera- 
ture." These  various  papers  date  from  the  author's 
thirtieth  to  his  forty-seventh  year  (1885  to  1902), 
and  therefore  may  be  said  to  represent  the  best  of 
his  scholarly  and  critical  work,  work  which  suffered 
some  interruption  from  the  intrusion,  in  1894,  of 
that  secondary  personality  now  known  as  "  Fiona 
Macleod,"  and  which  was  cut  short  by  the  author's 
death  in  1905,  in  his  fiftieth  year.  The  scholarship, 
appreciation,  and  taste  shown  in  these  attractively 


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A  socialist  of 
the  French 
Revolution. 


presented  literary  studies  have  probably  won  him 
more  readers  than  have  his  romances,  exquisite 
"prose  poems"  though  these  products  of  his  other 
self  are  acknowledged  to  be.  The  spirit  of  his  criti- 
cism is  well  indicated  in  a  few  words  of  his  own, 
prefixed  to  the  present  volume  :  "  When  I  speak  of 
Criticism  I  have  in  mind  not  merely  the  more  or  less 
deft  use  of  commentary  or  indication,  but  one  of  the 
several  ways  of  literature,  and  in  itself  a  rare  and 
fine  art :  the  marriage  of  science  that  knows  and  of 
spirit  that  discerns.  The  basis  of  Criticism  is  imag- 
ination, its  spiritual  quality  is  simplicity,  its  intellec- 
tual distinction  is  balance."  In  turning  his  pages 
one  cannot  but  note  his  partiality  to  the  more  melo- 
dious or  sensuous  element  in  poetry,  and  his  conse- 
quent fondness  for  Rossetti  and  Swinburne,  the 
latter  of  whom  he  praises  for  his  "  magnificence  of 
music  and  splendour  of  imagery."  One  might  per- 
haps pardonably  comment  in  passing  on  certain  occa- 
sional mannerisms  of  Sharp's ;  for  instance,  his  use 
of  the  cumbrous  circumlocutions  "  anterior  to  "  and 
"posterior  to,"  when  he  simply  means  "before" 
and  "after,"  lacks  the  quality  of  "  simplicity  "which 
he  himself  so  highly  commends.  The  book  supplies 
a  need  in  gathering  together  in  suitable  form  these 
excellent  critical  essays. 

"  The  Last  Episode  of  the  French 
Revolution  "  (Small,  Maynard  &  Co.) 
is  the  somewhat  questionable  title 
which  Mr.  Ernest  Belford  Bax  gives  to  his  history 
of  "  Gracchus  "  Babeuf  and  the  "  Conspiracy  of  the 
Equals  ";  an  ungrateful  subject  even  for  a  radical 
writer,  because  the  socialistic  schemes  of  Babeuf  were 
crude  and  his  personality  uninteresting.  Mr.  Bax 
undertook  the  task  to  carry  out  a  wish  expressed  by 
the  late  William  Morris  that  there  might  be  in  En- 
glish a  reliable  biography  of  Babeuf  and  a  statement 
of  his  theories.  Babeuf 's  sole  claim  to  distinction  is 
as  a  precursor  of  the  nineteenth-century  socialists  of 
the  Blanquist  type.  Like  some  of  the  militant  syndi- 
calists of  the  present  day,  he  proposed  to  seize  power 
and  transform  society  by  one  great  act  of  revolu- 
tionary violence,  accompanied  by  a  holocaust  of  the 
minions  of  the  existing  order.  The  Directory  and 
the  two  Councils  were  to  be  "  immediately  judged 
by  the  people,"  and  any  official,  high  or  low,  who 
attempted  any  action  whatever,  should  be  slain,  as 
well  as  foreigners  found  in  the  streets.  Mr.  Bax 
transcribes  this  from  the  "Act  of  Insurrection,"  but 
finds  the  informer  Grisel's  description  of  Babeuf  as 
a  "  blood-thirsty  tiger  "  unjustifiable  ;  as  perhaps  it 
was,  for  Babeuf  seems  to  have  been  suffering  from 
lack  of  imagination  rather  that  from  natural  ferocity. 
Mr.  Bax,  however,  takes  a  critical  attitude  toward 
his  hero's  notions  of  social  reorganization, — "as  if," 
he  says,  "  society  could  be  voluntarily  built  up  over- 
night, based  on  abstract  concepts,  and  finished  off 
in  its  details  by  the  artistic  sense  of  a  few  capable 
leaders."  The  conclusions  of  this  book  are  based 
especially  upon  the  journals  and  pronunciamentos  of 
Babeuf  and  the  narrative  of  Buonarroti,  a  fellow- 


conspirator.  In  the  study  of  contemporary  public 
opinion,  Mr.  Bax  might  well  have  used  Professor 
Aulard's  excerpts  from  the  reports  of  the  secret 
police,  which  would  have  guarded  him  against  ac- 
cepting Babeuf's  estimate  of  the  strength  of  his 
following.  The  conspiracy  seems  to  have  collapsed 
amid  public  indifference. 

Old  Testament  That  the  Old  Testament  possesses 
resemblances  in  many  characteristics  in  common  with 
other  literatures.  other  ancient  oriental  literature  is 
clearly  evident  to  any  reader  of  Mr.  R.  W.  Rogers's 
"  Cuneiform  Parallels  to  the  Old  Testament "  (Eaton 
&  Mains).  The  wide  range  of  its  mythological, 
literary,  and  historical  material  is  paralleled  in  a 
marvellous  manner  by  some  of  the  choicest  bits  of 
ancient  Sumerian,  Assyrian,  and  Babylonian  liter- 
ature. The  creation  of  man  and  animals,  the  clash 
of  good  and  evil,  the  stories  of  the  deluge,  have 
their  counterpart  in  the  mythology  of  the  early 
inhabitants  of  Babylonia.  Some  of  the  far-famed 
mythologies  of  Greece  and  Rome  are  tame  and  com- 
monplace by  the  side  of  the  Babylonian  myths  of 
Adapa,  of  Gilgamesh,  of  Ishtar's  descent  into  Hades, 
and  of  Nergal  and  Ereshkigal.  The  hymns  and 
prayers  of  those  old  Mesopotamean  worthies  and 
monarchs  rank  high  in  comparison  with  the  psalms 
and  wisdom  elements  of  the  Old  Testament.  They 
addressed  the  numerous  deities  of  their  pantheon, 
and  have  embodied  in  their  prayers  the  chief  attri- 
butes and  powers  of  each  deity.  The  chronological 
material  supplied  in  the  Babylonian  and  Assyrian 
lists  is  among  the  most  useful  in  fixing  some  of  the 
hitherto  aggravating  chronology  of  the  Old  Testa- 
ment. But  the  real  wealth  of  the  cuneiform  literature 
for  the  Old  Testament  is  found  in  the  numerous  his- 
torical texts  reaching  from  Hammurabi  of  the  first 
dynasty  of  Babylon,  about  2000  B.  c.,  down  to  Cyrus, 
538s.  c. —  a  period  of  nearly  1500  years.  Of  nearly 
all  the  translations,  done  anew  in  this  volume,  we 
have  the  transliterations  in  footnotes,  and  full  refer- 
ences, to  other  treatments  of  the  same  text.  Forty- 
eight  half-tone  plates  and  a  map  decorate  and  vivify 
the  text,  and  help  make  this  an  indispensable  new 
tool  for  students  of  the  Old  Testament. 


Rambling  letters  from  a  wayfarer 
^^  "Scented  Isles  and  Coral  Gar- 
dens,"  of  Torres  Straits,  German 
NewGuinea,  and  the  Dutch  East  Indies,  are  combined 
by  Mr.  C.  D.  Mackellar  with  accounts  of  travel  along 
the  Great  Barrier  Reef  of  Australia,  and  sojourns  in 
Singapore,  Macao,  Hong-Kong,  Canton,  Shanghai, 
and  Yokahoma.  It  is  the  traveller's  Orient,  with  its 
more  or  less  familiar  stories,  gathered  afloat  and 
ashore,  which  is  here  revealed.  The  picture  of  life 
aboard  a  coasting  steamer  flying  the  German  flag  is 
a  more  intimate  account,  as  is  also  the  portrayal  of 
Conditions  in  German  New  Guinea  in  1900,  when  the 
colonies  were  making  their  first  considerable  inroads 
upon  the  jungle  and  its  head-hunters.  The  author 
is  evidently  a  keenly  observant  traveller,  quick  to 


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detect  the  whims  and  foibles  of  his  fellow  tourists,  to 
criticize  the  political  and  industrial  policy  of  Great 
Britain  —  or,  rather,  of  the  English,  for  the  writer 
never  forgets  that  he  is  a  Scot, — to  commend  German 
enterprise,  and  to  pass  his  casual  comment  upon  the 
industrial,  commercial,  social,  and  political  condi- 
tions and  prospects  of  the  communities  and  races 
with  whom  he  came  in  contact.  A  considerable 
amount  of  guide-book  information  finds  its  way  into 
the  book,  but  this  is  everywhere  enlivened  by  the 
colloquial  style,  or  by  anecdote,  verse,  or  jest,  so 
that  the  reader  is  loth  to  leave  the  tale.  The  illus- 
trations are  abundant,  and,  barring  the  crudely 
colored  plates,  well  executed ;  but  the  type  face  and 
often  over-crowded  lines  detract  from  the  reader's 
pleasure  in  the  use  of  the  book.  (Dutton.) 

No  insects  exhibit  more  beautiful  col- 
moSoii"  ors  and  color  patterns  than  the  moths, 

especially  the  large  night-flying  ones ; 
and  few  animals  offer  so  entrancing  a  field  for  the 
amateur  naturalist  to  pry  into  the  secrets  of  nature 
and  not  only  to  bring  to  light  worlds  of  hidden  and 
unsuspected  beauty  but  also  to  add  to  the  sum  of 
human  knowledge.  Mrs.  Gene  Stratton-Porter,  in 
her  "Moths  of  the  Limberlost"  (Doubleday),  has 
rendered  both  services  for  these  too  little-known  but 
very  interesting  creatures.  No  one  can  read  her  full 
accounts  of  her  experiences  with  them,  in  egg,  cat- 
erpillar, pupa,  and  full-blown  moth  stages,  without 
catching  her  enthusiasm  and  straightway  wishing  for 
a  swamp  equalling  the  Limberlost  in  its  treasures. 
The  illustrations  are  abundant,  though  some  of  the 
plates  of  scenery  are  scarcely  germane  to  the  work. 
The  coloration  in  most  of  the  reproductions  of  the 
moths  and  caterpillars  is  excellent,  although  in 
some  instances  a  certain  haziness,  due  to  technique, 
obscures  details.  Some  crudities  should  have  been 
eliminated  in  editing, — as,  for  example,  the  use  of 
"organism"  for  organ,  of  "close "for  close  to, — as 
well  as  certain  grammatical  inaccuracies.  The  au- 
thor exhibits  a  fine  scorn  for  the  scientist  and  his 
shortcomings,  and  holds  a  brief  for  the  nature-lover. 
Her  observations  are  scientifically  valuable,  however, 
her  narrative  is  entertaining,  her  enthusiasm  catch- 
ing, and  her  revelations  so  stimulating  that  one 
readily  forgives  some  minor  defects  in  bookmaking. 


BRIEFER  MENTION. 

Professor  James  W.  Garner's  "  Government  in  the 
United  States,  National,  State,  and  Local "  (American 
Book  Co.)  is  a  high-school  text  book  of  the  typical  sort. 
It  emphasizes  the  actual  workings  of  government,  and 
in  its  "  research  questions  "  puts  a  good  many  subjects 
for  discussion  and  argument  up  to  the  student. 

Before  one  begins  a  serious  and  systematic  study  of 
social  science  he  may  be  helped  on  his  way  by  a  concise 
sketch  which  will  indicate  the  general  direction  he  must 
take  and  the  value  of  the  study  in  relation  to  his  own 
activities  and  interests.  But  such  a  sketch  is  by  no 
means  a  substitute  for  scientific  investigation  of  the 


fundamental  principles  of  economics,  sociology,  and  law. 
The  experience  of  Mr.  William  M.  Balch,  author  of 
"Christianity  and  the  Labor  Movement"  (Sherman, 
French  &  Co.),  has  enabled  him  to  interpret  the  subject 
to  religious  persons  who  have  not  studied  it  in  a  sys- 
tematic way,  and  he  has  done  his  work  in  a  clear  and 
forcible  style. 

"  Modern  Drama  and  Opera  "  is  a  reference  reading 
list  piiblished  by  the  Boston  Book  Co.,  and  prepared  by 
Mrs.  Clara  Norton,  Mr.  Frank  K.  Walter,  and  Miss 
Fanny  Elsie  Marquand.  Texts  and  critical  reviews  are 
listed  upon  the  following  authors:  D'Annunzio,  Haupt- 
mann,  Ibsen,  Jones,  Maeterlinck,  Phillips,  Pinero,  Ros- 
tand, Shaw,  Sudermann,  Debussy,  Puccini,  and  Richard 
Strauss. 

In  a  volume  styled  "The  Poet's  Song  of  Poets" 
(Badger),  Mrs.  Anna  Sheldon  Camp  Sneath  does  once 
more  what  has  been  done  several  times  already  — 
collects  into  an  anthology  the  best-known  pieces  "in 
which  the  poets  express  their  appreciation  and  estimate 
of  their  fellow  poets."  The  subjects  of  these  estimates 
range  through  English  literature  from  Chaucer  to 
Browning. 

The  sixteenth  chapter  of  Dr.  C.  Alphonso  Smith's 
Amerikanische  Literatur  (already  fully  reviewed  in  these 
columns)  is  perhaps  the  most  interesting  in  the  entire 
book.  It  is  a  luminous  discussion  of  the  structure, 
philosophy,  and  history  of  the  American  short  story. 
A  translation  of  this  chapter  into  English  has  been  pub- 
lished separately  by  Messrs.  Ginn  &  Co.,  and  should 
find  a  welcome  both  with  general  readers  and  in  the 
college  classroom. 

Andrew  Lang's  last  book,  the  history  of  English  lit- 
erature announced  a  few  days  before  his  death,  was  for- 
tunately finished  before  the  pen  fell  from  his  hand,  and 
proves  to  be  a  volume  of  700  pages  (Longmans), 
written  with  the  author's  characteristic  lightness  of 
touch  and  easy  command  of  his  theme,  but  also  with 
those  occasional  slight  misstatements  and  questionable 
judgments  which  could  hardly  fail  to  appear  in  the 
pages  of  so  rapid  and  prolific  a  writer.  His  assertion 
that  Emerson  is  now  a  dead  factor  in  American  litera- 
ture will  evoke  quick  contradiction  from  not  a  few  of 
his  readers;  and  his  passing  misquotation  from  Long- 
fellow's "  Psalm  of  Life  "  will  be  noted,  with  other  slips 
of  a  similar  sort,  as  justifying  the  "  Athenaeum  "  in  its 
recent  reference  to  the  demon  of  inaccuracy  that  so 
often  sat  at  his  side.  But  any  Dryasdust  can  give  us 
accuracy  of  detail ;  only  here  and  there  a  writer  can 
charm  us  into  indifference  toward  such  small  matters. 

Miss  Jennette  E.  C.  Lincoln's  researches  in  the  open- 
air  revels  and  games  of  Old  England,  and  the  application 
of  the  results  of  her  researches  to  her  work  as  instructor 
in  physical  culture,  have  well  prepared  her  for  the  pro- 
duction of  "The  Festival  Book,  May- Day  Pastimes, 
and  the  May  Pole  "  (A.  S.  Barnes  Co.),  which  will  be 
found  exceedingly  helpful  by  all  who  are  trying  to 
make  the  out-door  life  of  the  young  healthful  and  beau- 
tiful. The  brief  introductory  chapter  gives  enough  of  a 
historical  setting  to  stimulate  interest  in  this  form  of 
pastime;  and  to  the  materials  derived  from  England  in 
its  pleasure-loving  days  have  been  added  accounts  of 
some  folk  dances  from  Sweden,  Scotland,  and  elsewhere. 
By  means  of  illustrations,  diagrams,  music,  and  minute 
instructions  as  to  costumes,  etc.,  the  beauties  and  plea- 
sures of  the  open-air  pageant  and  festival  are  brought 
within  the  possibilities  of  all. 


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NOTES. 


A  study  of  "Modern  Italian  Literature,"  by  Mr. 
Lacy  Collison-Morley,  appears  on  Messrs.  Little,  Brown, 
&  Co.'s  autumn  list. 

New  volumes  of  essays  by  Samuel  McChord  Crothers, 
Bliss  Perry,  Agnes  Repplier,  John  Burroughs,  and 
Meredith  Nicholson  are  an  attractive  feature  of  Hough- 
ton  Mifflin  Co.'s  autumn  list. 

Mr.  Charles  H.  Caffin,  author  of  "  How  to  Study  Pic- 
tures," etc.,  has  been  abroad  gathering  material  for  his 
book  on  "  The  Story  of  British  Painting,"  which  will  be 
one  of  the  Century  Co.'s  fall  issues. 

Yoshio  Markino,  the  author  of  "  A  Japanese  Artist 
in  London,"  is  writing  another  volume,  "  When  I  Was 
a  Child,"  which  describes  his  youth  in  his  native  coun- 
try and  dwells  on  the  training  and  education  of  Jap- 
anese children. 

Two  literary  biographies  of  exceptional  interest,  to 
be  issued  shortly  by  Houghton  Mifflin  Co.,  are  "  The 
Three  Brontes,"  by  Miss  May  Sinclair;  and  the  Life 
and  Letters  of  John  Bickman,  friend  of  Charles  Lamb, 
by  Mr.  Orlo  Williams. 

Mr.  Clayton  Sedgwick  Cooper  has  put  the  fruit  of 
much  travel  among  educational  institutions,  both  in  this 
country  and  abroad,  and  of  study  of  college  conditions, 
into  a  book  entitled  "  Why  Go  to  College,"  which  the 
Century  Co.  will  issue  during  the  fall. 

"  London  Lavender  "  is  the  title  of  a  new  novel  by 
Mr.  E.  V.  Lucas,  which  the  Macmillan  Co.  will  publish 
during  the  autumn.  The  same  house  also  announces 
another  of  Mr.  Lucas's  well-known  "  Wanderer  "  books 
—  this  time  "  A  Wanderer  in  Florence." 

A  pocket  edition  of  the  romances  of  The'ophile 
Gautier,  as  translated  and  edited  by  Professor  F.  C.  de 
Sumichrast,  will  be  published  in  ten  volumes  by  Messrs. 
Little,  Brown,  &  Co.  Uniform  with  this  set  will  appear 
Gautier's  books  of  travel,  in  seven  volumes. 

A  volume  of  hitherto  unpublished  letters  by  Ulysses 
S.  Grant  will  be  issued  during  the  autumn  by  Messrs. 
G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons.  They  were  written  by  Grant  to 
his  father  and  his  youngest  sister  during  the  months 
preceding  the  Civil  War  and  during  the  years  of  cam- 
paigning. 

A  new  novel  by  Gerhardt  Hauptmann,  entitled 
"  Atlantis,"  is  announced  for  early  publication  by  Mr. 
B.  W.  Huebsch.  At  the  same  time  there  will  be  issued 
by  the  same  publisher  Volume  I.  of  an  authorized 
complete  edition  of  Hauptmann's  plays,  edited  by  Mr. 
Ludwig  Lewisohn. 

To  his  excellent  series  of  critical  studies  of  modern 
authors,  Mr.  Mitchell  Kennerley  will  add  five  new  vol- 
umes during  the  next  few  months,  the  subjects  and  au- 
thors being  as  follows:  Thomas  Hardy,  by  Lascelles 
Abercrombie;  Walter  Pater,  by  Edward  Thomas;  Wil- 
liam Morris,  by  John  Drinkwater;  A.  C.  Swinburne, 
by  Edward  Thomas;  George  Gissing,  by  Frank  Swin- 
nerton. 

A  record  of  American  publishing  that  should  rival  in 
interest  Mr.  J.  Henry  Harper's  account  of  "  The  House 
of  Harper "  is  announced  for  autumn  issue  in  "  A 
Memoir  of  George  Palmer  Putnam;  together  with  a 
Record  of  the  Earlier  Years  of  the  Publishing  House 
Founded  by  Him."  The  author  of  the  work  is  Mr. 
George  Haven  Putnam,  the  present  head  of  the  house 
of  Putnam. 


A  gift-book  possessing  something  more  than  transient 
value  and  interest  is  "  The  Modern  Reader's  Chaucer," 
which  the  Macmillan  Co.  has  in  active  preparation.  The 
volume  will  comprise  Chaucer's  complete  poetical  works, 
newly  rendered  into  modern  English  by  Messrs.  John 
S.  P.  Tatlock  and  Percy  MacKaye.  A  series  of  thirty- 
two  full-page  illustrations  in  color  will  be  contributed 
by  Mr.  Warwick  Goble. 

"My  Friends  at  Brook  Farm,"  an  illustrated  volume 
of  memories  by  Mr.  John  Van  Der  Zee  Sears,  will  be 
issued  this  month  by  Desmond  FitzGerald,  Inc.  The 
author,  one  of  the  few  survivors  of  the  Brook  Farm 
Association,  gives  his  personal  recollections  of  his  asso- 
ciates in  this  movement,  including  such  celebrities  as 
Emerson,  Hawthorne,  Horace  Greeley,  Margaret  Fuller, 
George  Ripley,  Charles  A.  Dana,  and  many  others. 

What  will  undoubtedly  prove  "  the  book  of  the  sea- 
son" is  announced  by  Messrs.  Seribner  in  "The  Letters 
of  George  Meredith,"  edited  by  his  son.  These  letters 
extend  over  some  fifty  years,  beginning  —  except  for  a 
few  scattered  notes  from  his  boyhood  —  about  1858, 
when  Meredith  was  thirty  years  old,  and  after  his  first 
marriage.  Among  his  correspondents  are  included  his 
life-long  friends,  John  Morley  and  Admiral  Maxse, 
besides  Frederick  Greenwood,  Chapman  the  publisher, 
Leslie  Stephen,  Robert  Louis  Stevenson,  Trevelyan,  and 
many  others,  besides  a  group  of  family  friends  and  some 
of  the  members  of  his  own  household. 


TOPICS  IN  LEADING  PERIODICALS. 

September,  1912. 

American  Forum,  The.  French  Strother  .  World's  Work 
American  Impressions  —  VI.  Arnold  Bennett  .  Harper. 
Anglo-American  Memories,  Some.  C.  M.  Francis.  Bookman. 
Art  Schools,  Some,  and  Art  Students.  Dorothy 

Furniss Bookman. 

Bryan,  Mr.  Ellery  Sedgwick Atlantic. 

Chicago  and  Baltimore American. 

Citizen,  The  Automatic.  T.  R.  Marshall  .  .  .  Atlantic. 
College  Life  To-Day.  R.  S.  Bourne  .  .  North  American. 
Commission  Government,  Real  Problem  of. 

Oswald  Ryan Popular  Science. 

Community  Control  in  Canada.  E.  E.  Ferris.  World's  Work. 
Compiegne,  Enchanting  Forest  of .  Lillie  H.French.  Century. 
Confederacy.  Sunset  of  the— VII.  Morris  Schaff.  Atlantic. 
Continental  Visits,  Some.  Madame  de  Hegermann- 

Lindencrone Harper. 

Conventions,  The  Two,  at  Chicago.  R.  H.  Davis.  Seribner. 
Cooperator's  Big  Dollar.  F.  P.  Stockbridge.  World's  Work. 
Cosmopolitanism  and  Catholicism.  R.H.Benson.  No.  Amer. 
Democracy  in  Europe.  S.  P.  Orth  .  .  .  North  American. 
Dreams,  New  Interpretation  of.  Samuel  McComb.  Century. 
Economic  Orthodoxy,  Revival  of.  S.  M.  Patten.  Pop.  Sci. 

Fagan,  James  O.,  Autobiography  of Atlantic. 

French,  The,  in  the  Heart  of  America.  JohnFinley.  Seribner. 
Hawaii,  Holidays  in.  John  Burroughs  ....  Century. 
High  Cost  of  Living.  B.  F.  Yoakum  .  .  World's  Work. 
Homes,  American.  Ida  M.  Tarbell  ....  American. 
Hookworm  and  Civilization.  W.  H.  Page.  World's  Work. 
Hunger,  The  Nature  of.  W.  B.  Cannon.  Popular  Science. 
Ibsen  and  Company  on  the  Japanese  Stage.  Yone 

Noguchi Bookman. 

Imagination  in  Business,  Uses  of.  T.  S.  Knowlson.  Century. 
Italian  Gardens,  Two.  M.  D.  Armstrong  .  .  .  Atlantic. 

Japanese,  The.  Arthur  M.  Knapp Atlantic. 

Japan's  Late  Emperor  and  His  Successor.  Adachi 

Kinnosuke Review  of  Beviews. 

Johnson,  Hiram,  Political  Revivalist  .  Review  of  Reviews. 
Labor,  The  Efficiency  of.  C.  B.  Going.  Review  of  Reviews. 
Lang,  Andrew.  Stuart  Henry Bookman, 


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Lang,  Andrew,  and  His  Work.  J.  R.  Foster.  Rev.  of  Revs. 
Lincoln,  Anecdotes  of.  Helen  Nicolay  ....  Century. 
Lion-Hunting.  Stewart  Edward  White  .  .  .  American. 
Marcgrave,  George.  E.  W.  Gudger  .  .  Popular  Science. 
Medicine,  Research  in.  R.  M.  Pearce.  .  Popular  Science. 
Memories,  Some  Early.  Henry  Cabot  Lodge  .  .  Scribner. 

Meredith,  George,  Letters  of  —  II Scribner. 

Meses,  Wind-Graved,  and  Their  Message.  C.  R. 

Keyes Popular  Science. 

Munich,  Literary.  Amelia  Von  Ende  ....  Bookman. 
Mutsuhito  the  Great.  W.  E.  Griffis  .  .  North  American. 
National  Contribution,  A.  Edith  Wyatt.  North  American. 
New  York,  Picturesque  —  III.  F.  Hopkinson 

Smith World's  Work. 

Orinoco,  Upper,  Adventuring  along  the.  Caspar 

Whitney Harper. 

Painter-Etching,  American.  F.  Weitenkampf  .  Scribner. 
Panama  Canal,  The  Family  and  the.  Mary  G. 

Humphreys Scribner. 

Party  Alignment,  Logic  of  the  Coming.  Jesse 

Macy Review  of  Reviews. 

Peace-Education  and  Peace.  Sir  Francis  Vane.  American. 
Phantoms  behind  Us.  John  Burroughs.  North  American. 
Play,  a  Good  —  What  It  Is.  Walter  P.  Eaton  .  American. 
Poe,  Poet  of  the  Night.  La  Salle  C.  Pickett  .  Lippincott. 
Political  Situation,  The.  George  Harvey.  North  American. 
Progressives  at  Chicago.  William  Menkel  .  Rev.  of  Revs. 
Publicity  and  Trusts.  Robert  Luce  .  Review  of  Reviews. 
Railroads,  Regulation  of.  J.  S.  Pardee  ....  American. 
Rhodesia :  The  Last  Frontier.  E.  A.  Powell  .  .  Scribner. 
Rome,  Contemporaneousness  of.  S.  M.  Crothers.  Atlantic. 
Roosevelt's  Character,  Keynote  of .  B.  Gilman.  Rev.  of  Revs. 
Rural  Problem,  The,  and  the  Country  Minister. 

J.  W.  Strout  .  , Atlantic. 

Saranac  Lake,  Sanitary.  Stephen  Chalmers.  World's  Work. 
Science,  In  the  Noon  of.  John  Burroughs  .  .  .  Atlantic. 
Scientific  Management,  Moral  Value  of.  W.  C.  Redfield.  Ail. 
Securities  of  Public  Service  Corporations.  E.  S. 

Meade Lippincott. 

Shakespeare  and  Others,  Translations  of.  Arthur 

Benington North  American. 

Socialism  and  the  American  Farmer.  Charles 

Johnston North  American. 

Spirals,  Story  of  the.  Edward  A.  Fath  ....  Century. 
Sun-Storms  and  the  Earth.  E.  W.  Maunder  .  .  Harper. 
Teacher  of  Politics,  A  Great  ....  Review  of  Reviews . 
Telepathy  —  Is  It  a  Fact  or  a  Delusion  ?  J.  B. 

Quackenbos North  American. 

Tennessee  Mountains,  Literary  Life  in  the. 

Montrose  J.  Moses Bookman. 

Trouville  —  A  Paris  by  the  Sea.  Harrison  Rhodes.  Harper. 
Turgenief  :  The  Man.  P.  S.  Moxom  .  .  North  American. 
Twain,  Mark  —  XI.  Albert  Bigelow  Paine  .  .  .  Harper. 
Vocational  Schools.  John  Mills  ....  Popular  Science. 
Wage-Earners  and  the  Tariff.  W.  Jett  Lauck  .  Atlantic. 
West  Point,  A  Plebe's  Life  at.  W.  S.  Sample.  Lippincott. 

Wilson— Taft  — Roosevelt World's  Work. 

Working  One's  Way  through  College.  Joseph 

Ellner Review  of  Reviews. 


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BIOGRAPHY  AND  REMINISCENCES. 

Fifty  Years  of  Prison  Service:  An  Autobiography.  By 
Zebulon  Reed  Brockway.  Illustrated,  12mo,  437  pages.  New 
York :  Charities  Publication  Committee.  $2.  net. 

The  Ruin  of  a  Princess  as  Told  by  the  Duchess  d'Angouleme, 
Madame  Elizabeth,  Sister  of  Louis  XVI.,  and  Clery,  the 
King's  Valet  de  Chambre;  literally  translated  by  Katharine 
Prescott  Wormeley.  Illustrated  in  photogravure,  8vo,  329 
pages.  New  York :  Lamb  Publishing  Co.  $3.  net. 


Illustrious  Dames  of  the  Court  of  the  Valois  Kings.  By 
Pierre  de  Bourdeille  and  C.  A.  Sainte-Beuve ;  literally  trans- 
lated by  Katharine  Prescott  Wormeley.  Illustrated  in  pho- 
gravure,  8vo,  308  pages.  New  York:  Lamb  Publishing  Co. 

The  Life  and  Speeches  of  Charles  Brant  ley  Ay  cock.  By 
R.  D.  W.  Connor  and  Clarence  Poe.  Illustrated,  12mo,  369 
pages.  Doubleday,  Page  &  Co. 

HISTORY. 

In  Old  South  Hadley.  By  Sophie  E.Eastman.  Illustrated,  8vo, 
221  pages.  Springfield :  H.  R.  Huntting  Co.,  Inc.  $2.50  net. 

The  Leading-  Facts  of  New  Mexican  History.  By  Ralph 
Emerson  Twitchell,  Esq.  Volume  II. ;  illustrated  in  photo- 
gravure, etc.,  large  8vo,  631  pages.  Cedar  Rapids:  Torch 
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Ancient  Assyria.  By  C.  H.  W.  Johns,  Litt.  D.  Illustrated, 
12mo,  175  pages.  "  Cambridge  Manuals  of  Science  and  Lit- 
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GENERAL  LITERATURE. 

A  Mount  Holyoke  Book  of  Prose  and  Verse.  Edited  by 
Elizabeth  Crane  Porter,  1909,  and  Frances  Lester  Warner, 
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Outlines  of  the  History  of  German  Literature.  By  J.  G. 
Robertson.  12mo,  320  pages.  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons.  $1.35  net. 

The  Hamlet  Problem  and  Its  Solution.  By  Emerson  Ven- 
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Shakespeare's  Richard  the  Second.  Edited,  with  Introduc- 
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Oxford  University  Press. 

VERSE. 
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63  pages.  London :  David  Nutt. 
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120  pages.    Mitchell  Kennerley.    $1.25  net. 

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By  ADELE  FERGUSON  KNIGHT 

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Piebald,  King  of  Bronchos 

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A  Man's  World       By  ALBERT  EDWARDS 

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Don't  Give  Up  the  Ship  "     By  c.  S.  WOOD 

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The  Next  Religion      By  ISRAEL  ZANGWILL  [_ 

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Lights  and  Shadows  of  a  Long  Episcopate  I       BIOGRAPHY 

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The  New  Immigration      By  PETER  ROBERTS 

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Social  Progress  in  Contemporary  Europe     By  FREDERIC  A.  OGG 

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Just  Before  the  Dawn      By  ROBERT  C.  ARMSTRONG 

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No.  630.        SEPTEMBER  16,  1912.       Vol.  LIII. 


CONTENTS. 


BOOKS  OF  THE  COMING  YEAR 179 

THE  NOMAD  IN  LITERATURE.    Charles  Leonard 

Moore 181 

CASUAL  COMMENT 183 

Incentives  to  literary  eff ort. — The  desire  for  informa- 
tion on  a  great  variety  of  subjects.  —  To  lovers  of 
the  English  Lake  District. — Machine-made  fiction. — 
The  dormant  library  trustee. — A  monumental  in- 
dex. —  The  final  fall  of  the  auctioneer's  hammer  011 
the  Hoe  Library.  —  A  warning  from  the  "Arabian 
Nights."  —  Mr.  Sanborn  at  eighty-one. — A  public 
library  with  no  dead  books.  —  The  Goldwin  Smith 
lectures  at  Cornell. 

COMMUNICATIONS 186 

The  Appraisal  of  Contemporary  Greatness.     W.  T. 

Lamed. 
Some   Disputed  Points  in  the  Story  of  Old  Fort 

Dearborn.    J.  Seymour  Currey. 
RETROSPECTS  OF  A  RETIRED  WAR  VETERAN. 

Percy  F.  Bicknell 188 

IDEALS  AND  TENDENCIES  IN  PRESENT-DAY 

SOCIALISM.    Ira  B.  Cross 190 

Miss  Scudder's  Socialism  and  Character. — Vedder's 
Socialism  and  the  Ethics  of  Jesus.  —  Spargo  and 
Arner's  Elements  of  Socialism. — Socialism  and  the 
Great  State.  — Spargo's  Applied  Socialism. 
THE  RECORDS   OF   THE    FEDERAL   CONVEN- 
TION.   St.  George  L.  Sioussat 192 

RESEARCHES    IN    THE    REALM    OF   FAERIE. 

Arthur  C.  L.  Brown 194 

THE  CONFLICT  WITH  CRIMINALITY.     Charles 

Richmond  Henderson 195 

Devon's  The  Criminal  and  the  Community.  — 
McConnell's  Criminal  Responsibility  and  Social 
Constraint. — Whitin's  Penal  Servitude. —  Currier's 
The  Present-Day  Problem  of  Crime.  —  Brockway's 
Fifty  Years  of  Prison  Service. 

BRIEFS  ON  NEW  BOOKS 197 

Studies  of  frankness  in  literature. — The  story  of  a 
prophet  and  his  reward.  —  A  prisoner  of  war  in  Vir- 
ginia.— The  ways  of  words.  —  The  undying  charm 
of  old  England.  —  Records  of  two  Elizabethan  prin- 
cesses. —  Social  conditions  in  a  New  England  factory 
town.  —  Literary  landmarks  of  London  in  pen  and 
pencil. — A  noblewoman  of  the  French  Revolution. — 
Ecstatic  letters  from  the  land  of  dolcefar  niente. 

BRIEFER  MENTION 201 

NOTES 201 

ANNOUNCEMENTS  OF  FALL  BOOKS 202 

(A  classified  list  of  the  new  books  planned  for  publi- 
cation during  the  coming  Fall  and  Winter  season.) 


BOOKS  OF  THE  COMING  YEAR. 

Following  a  custom  of  many  years,  we  pub- 
lish in  this  issue  of  THE  DIAL  a  classified  list 
of  the  fall  announcements  of  the  chief  American 
publishing  houses,  to  serve  as  a  guide  for  libra- 
rians and  booksellers,  and  to  whet  the  appetites 
of  individual  book  lovers  in  anticipation  of  the 
literary  feast  which  the  coming  months  have  in 
store  for  them.  Likewise  in  accordance  with 
our  custom,  we  take  this  occasion  to  select  from 
the  thousands  of  titles  offered  a  few  of  those 
that  seem  worthy  of  special  mention  for  their 
promise  of  entertainment  or  instruction,  restrict- 
ing our  selection,  however,  to  the  categories  of 
biography,  history,  general  belletristic  litera- 
ture, and  fiction. 

It  is  a  venturesome  thing  to  guess  at  what  is 
likely  to  prove  "the  book  of  the  year,"  but  we 
shall  probably  not  go  far  wrong  in  naming  the 
"Letters  of  George  Meredith"  for  that  distinc- 
tion. The  collection  has  been  edited  by  the  son 
of  the  poet-novelist,  and  extends  over  a  full  half- 
century.  Among  those  to  whom  the  letters  are 
addressed  are  Lord  Morley,  Leslie  Stephen, 
Frederick  Green  wood,  and  Robert  Louis  Steven- 
son, and  we  may  well  believe  that  such  corres- 
pondents brought  out  the  best  that  Meredith 
had  to  give.  A  few  examples  already  published 
make  it  clear  that  he  by  no  means  kept  all  his 
good  things  for  his  books.  An  important  work 
of  American  biography  will  be  "  The  Personal 
and  Literary  Life  of  Samuel  Langhorne  Clem- 
ens," by  Mr.  Albert  Bigelow  Paine,  the  literary 
executor  of  the  great  humorist.  "The  New 
Life  of  Byron,"  by  Miss  Ethel  Colburn  Mayne, 
promises  to  discuss  the  ugly  scandal  first  raised 
by  Mrs.  Harriet  Beecher  Stowe,  and  revived  by 
Lord  Lovelace's  "  Astarte"  in  1905.  We  hope 
that  the  author  does  not  treat  this  unsavory 
matter  seriously.  John  Bigelow's  "  Retrospec- 
tions of  an  Active  Life  "  will  be  completed  with 
the  publication  of  two  new  volumes,  making 
five  in  all.  Miss  May  Sinclair's  study  of  "  The 
Three  Brontes"  will,  we  fancy,  be  chiefly  inter- 
esting as  a  revelation  of  the  writer's  own  tempera- 
ment. A  singularly  interesting  and  readable 
volume  of  reminiscences  will  vbe  Mr.  James 
Kendall  Hosmer's  "  The  Last  Leaf,"  being  "  ob- 
servations during  seventy-five  years  of  men  and 
events  in  America  and  England."  Mr.  Hos- 
mer's association  with  the  political  and  in  tell  ec- 


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tual  movements  of  the  past  half -century  has  been 
intimate,  and  his  memoirs  cannot  fail  to  be  illumi- 
nating. The  "  Memoir  of  George  Palmer  Put- 
nam," by  his  son  Mr.  George  Haven  Putnam,  will 
doubtless  form  a  contribution  to  American  pub- 
lishing annals  of  permanent  value  and  interest. 
The  department  of  history  does  not  offer  any 
work  of  forthstanding  importance,  but  there  are 
many  special  studies  in  restricted  fields  that 
promise  to  be  of  value.  We  note  in  particular 
the  "New  France  and  New  England"  of  Mr. 
James  Douglas,  the  "Italy  in  the  Thirteenth 
Century"  of  Mr.  Henry  D.  Sedgwick,  and 
"The  Grandeur  That  Was  Rome"  by  Mr.  J. 
C.  Stobart.  We  note  also  that  the  eighth  vol- 
ume of  Mr.  J.  B.  McMaster's  "  History  of  the 
People  of  the  United  States,"  completing  the 
work  as  planned  over  thirty  years  ago,  and 
bringing  it  down  to  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil 
War,  is  now  ready  for  publication. 

The  category  of  general  literature  is  mainly 
remarkable  for  its  profusion  of  volumes  of  col- 
lected essays.  Dr.  S.  M.  Crothers,  Mr.  Mere- 
dith Nicholson,  Mr.  Brander  Matthews,  Mr. 
John  Burroughs,  Miss  Agnes  Repplier,  Mr. 
G.  K.  Chesterton,  Mr.  John  Galsworthy,  Mr. 
Hilaire  Belloc,  Mr.  Frederic  Harrison,  Mr. 
Austin  Dobson,  "  Vernon  Lee,"  the  late  Lionel 
Johnson,  and  M.  Maeterlinck  are  all  to  be 
represented  this  year.  This  is  a  list  to  justify 
one  in  saying  with  Mr.  Squeers:  "Here's 
richness !  "  We  shall  await  with  much  interest 
such  books  as  Mr.  Irving  Babbitt's  "  Masters 
of  Modern  French  Criticism,"  and  "  Some  En- 
glish Story  Tellers"  by  Mr.  Frederic  Tabor 
Cooper.  A  very  attractive  announcement  is  that 
of  a  series  of  critical  studies  in  separate  volumes 
of  substantial  size,  of  modern  English  writers. 
The  forthcoming  volumes  have  for  their  subjects 
Hardy,  Pater,  Swinburne,  William  Morris,  and 
George  Gissing. 

Books  about  the  theatre  and  books  of  plays 
fill  a  large  place  among  our  announcements.  The 
most  important  is  "  The  Wallet  of  Time,"  by 
Mr.  William  Winter,  in  which  our  veteran  dra- 
matic critic  reviews  the  history  of  the  American 
stage  from  the  time  of  Junius  Brutus  Booth  to 
the  present  day.  This  is  likely  to  prove  the 
crowning  work  of  Mr.  Winter's  life-long  devo- 
tion to  whatsoever  things  are  lovely  and  of  good 
report  in  our  theatrical  life.  "  The  Present 
State  of  the  English  Theatre,"  by  Mr.  George 
Calderon,  is  another  interesting  announcement. 
The  new  translations  promised  from  Strindberg 
and  Tchekoff  will  be  welcome  additions  to  the 
shelf  of  foreign  dramatic  literature.  The  plays 


of  Hauptmann  are  also  being  prepared  for  pub- 
lication in  English. 

In  poetry,  by  far  the  most  important  an- 
nouncement is  that  of  the  collected  works  of 
William  Vaughn  Moody,  with  a  biographical 
introduction  by  Mr.  John  M.  Manly.  Moody's 
great  dramatic  trilogy,  of  which  "  The  Fire- 
Bringer "  and  "  The  Masque  of  Judgment  " 
were  published  during  his  lifetime,  was  left  un- 
finished at  his  untimely  death,  but  a  considerable 
fragment  of  the  closing  section  had  been  written, 
and  this,  together  with  a  number  of  unpublished 
poems,  will  be  included  in  the  new  edition,  which 
will  also  include  Moody's  two  plays,  "  The  Great 
Divide"  and  "The  Faith  Healer."  The  two 
volumes  of  this  edition  will  thus  contain  the 
practically  complete  work  of  the  most  remark- 
able poet  given  to  English  literature  during  the 
last  score  or  more  of  years.  Next  in  importance 
to  this  announcement  is  probably  that  of  a  new 
volume  of  poetic  dramas  by  Mrs.  Olive  Tilford 
Dargan,  who  is  well  known  to  the  elect  (although 
not  to  the  general  public)  as  one  of  the  most 
remarkable  poetical  personalities  of  our  day. 
The  forthcoming  volume  will  contain  three  plays 
in  three  distinct  fields  of  imaginative  interest. 
Two  anthologies  are  promised  which  are  likely 
to  attract  much  attention.  One  is  "  The  Golden 
Treasury  of  American  Songs  and  Lyrics  ''  upon 
which  Mr.  Curtis  Hidden  Page  has  been  engaged 
for  several  years,  and  which  is  announced  under 
exactly  the  same  title  as  was  given  to  a  similar 
collection  by  Mr.  Frederic  Lawrence  Knowles 
some  fifteen  years  ago.  The  other  anthology  is 
"  The  Lyric  Year,"  which  is  to  represent  one 
hundred  living  American  poets  by  pieces  entered 
in  a  sort  of  prize  competition.  The  outcome  of 
this  experiment  will  be  well  worth  observing. 

The  fiction  list  is,  as  usual,  of  appalling 
length.  Miss  Mary  Johnston  is  to  give  us,  in 
"  Cease  Firing,"  the  concluding  section  of  her 
masterly  study  of  the  military  operations  of 
Stonewall  Jackson.  A  new  novel  by  Mrs.  Mary 
S.  Watts  is  promised,  to  be  entitled  "Van 
Cleve."  The  late  David  Graham  Phillips,  whose 
works  go  on  forever,  is  represented  by  "George 
Helm,"  one  of  a  numerous  posthumous  progeny. 
"  The  Joyous  Adventures  of  Aristide  Pujol " 
is  to  be  Mr.  William  J.  Locke's  vehicle  of 
whimsical  entertainment.  Mr.  Maarten  Maar- 
tens's  "Eve  "  will  be  a  welcome  offering  from 
an  author  whom  we  would  gladly  read  more  fre- 
quently. In  "  Marriage,"  we  presume  that  Mr. 
H.  G.  Wells  is  to  make  another  of  his  audacious 
contributions  to  sociological  literature.  A  few 
more  titles  that  seem  promising  are  the  follow- 


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ing:  "The  Antagonists,"  by  Mr.  E.  Temple 
Thurston;  "The  Ghost  Girl,"  by  Mr.  Henry 
Kitchell  Webster;  "The  Ordeal,"  by  Miss 
Murfree;  "The  Soul  of  a  Tenor,"  by  Mr. 
W.  J.  Henderson ;  "  The  Strong  Hand,"  by  Mr. 
Warwick  Deeping;  "Mrs.  Lancelot,"  by  Mr. 
Maurice  Hewlett ;  "The  Reef,"  by  Mrs.  Edith 
Wharton  ;  "  The  Lovers,"  by  Mr.  Eden  Phill- 
potts ;  and  "  Atlantis,"  by  Herr  Gerhart  Haupt- 
mann. 

THE  NOMAD  IN  LITERATURE. 


The  recent  publication  of  a  biography  of  George 
Borrow  and  of  his  Letters  to  the  Bible  Society 
reveals  the  permanence  of  his  fame  and  the  interest 
the  world  takes  in  the  Nomad  in  Literature.  Hardly 
anybody  needs  a  biography  less.  He  lives  in  his 
own  works  as  the  victor  over  the  Flaming  Tinman, 
the  unsatisfactory  lover  of  Isopel  Berners,  and  the 
perfectly  satisfactory  Bible  missionary  to  the  gypsies 
and  bandits  and  Jews  of  Spain.  His  first  literary 
work  was  a  compilation,  in  six  volumes,  of  "Cele- 
brated Criminal  Trials,"  for  which  he  received  fifty 
pounds.  His  richer  reward,  probably,  was  the  turn 
this  work  gave  him  for  low  life,  picturesque  adven- 
tures, and  racy  language.  It  is  almost  a  disappoint- 
ment to  learn  that  he  settled  down  at  forty  and  lived 
for  forty  more  years  as  a  country  gentleman  and  au- 
thor, with  no  more  vivid  happenings  in  his  life  than 
quarrels  with  his  neighbors  and  the  critics.  But  he 
had  his  fling,  and  he  endures,  —  one  of  the  classic 
wanderers  of  the  world. 

The  primal  instinct  of  every  healthy  boy  is  to  be 
a  highwayman,  a  pirate,  a  hunter, —  anything  which 
will  take  him  away  along  the  road  that  stretches 
before  his  door,  over  the  waves  that  beat  before  his 
home.  As  he  grows  up,  this  instinct  is  crushed  or 
stifled  in  him,  and  he  becomes  a  tethered  thing,  a 
city  dweller  or  a  serf  of  the  soil.  In  a  few,  the 
longing  for  the  distant,  the  unknown,  persists,  and 
these  develop  into  sailors,  adventurers,  explorers, 
tramps.  Perhaps  it  is  the  nobler  part  to  stay  in  one 
spot,  to  build  up  a  home,  to  sink  roots  into  the  land, 
to  become  a  citizen  in  all  senses  of  that  word.  But 
to  seek  change  and  adventure  and  danger  is  certainly 
not  ignoble :  they  who  do  it  are  the  imaginative  and 
poetical  souls.  For  the  things  we  see  all  the  time 
we  do  not  see  at  all.  Revelation  comes  with  the  first 
look.  It  is  true  that  familiarity  breeds  contempt. 
Things  show  most  greatly  by  glimpses.  Out  of  the 
haze  of  the  unfamiliar  leap  appearances  of  beauty 
and  power  and  strangeness  that  thrill  the  soul.  The 
wanderer  alone  can  be  experienced  and  educated. 
His  mind  becomes  a  storehouse  of  inestimable  treas- 
ures, a  picture-gallery  of  impressions,  a  library  of 
epics  and  dramas  and  lyrics  which  are  all  his  own. 

What  a  splendid  historic  and  literary  ancestry  has 
the  common  tramp,  who  skulks  along  the  highway 
and  bivouacs  in  the  coppice  beside  his  fire  of  dry 
twigs  and  his  tin-can  cooking  utensil!  There  is 


Ulysses,  whose  vicissitudes  and  adventures  go  to 
form  the  typal  song  of  the  great  open  way.  He,  it 
is  true,  was  not  born  to  the  trade  of  wandering.  He 
was  prudent,  cautious,  a  getter  of  wealth,  an  accum- 
ulator of  honors  —  the  Benjamin  Franklin  of  anti- 
quity. But  the  anger  of  the  heavens  drives  him  forth, 
and  he  drifts  over  the  face  of  the  known  world.  What 
change,  what  variety,  what  experience!  To  be  the 
companion  of  Circe's  herds,  to  recline  beside  Calypso 
in  her  island  grot,  to  be  cast  up  naked  on  the  shores 
of  King  Alcinoils'  kingdom,  and  to  sit  at  banquet 
and  tell  of  his  wars  and  wanderings  while  the  most 
glorious  girl  in  Greek  literature  watches  him  from 
a  shadowed  doorway  and  wishes  like  Desdemona 
that  heaven  had  made  her  such  a  man!  And  then 
the  long  delayed  home-coming,  the  slaughter  of  the 
Suitors,  and  Penelope's  welcome.  Here  Homer 
leaves  him;  but  the  wiser  Dante  (and  Tennyson  in 
splendid  paraphrase)  looks  deeper  into  the  heart  of 
the  much  enduring,  much  experienced  man,  and 
doubting  whether  he  who  had  known  danger  in  a 
thousand  forms,  to  whom  nearly  every  new  sun  had 
brought  a  new  difficulty  or  a  new  joy,  who  had  felt 
the  embraces  of  Calypso  and  the  maidenly  regard  of 
Nausicaa's  eyes, —  doubting  whether  such  a  one 
could  rest  in  tranquil  content  with  a  wife  grown  old 
and  an  insipidly  pious  son,  sets  him  to  call  his 
companions  about  him,  hoist  the  sail  on  his  galley, 
and  steer  out  into  the  sunset  sea. 

Then  there  is  the  Wandering  Jew,  who  certainly 
ought  to  be  elected  patron  saint  of  the  tramping 
profession.  He  too,  like  Ulysses,  was  pitchforked 
into  the  business  —  driven  forth  under  curse  or 
doom.  It  would  seem  that  the  divine  powers  held 
homekeeping  to  be  the  normal  state  of  man,  and 
travelling  a  punishment.  It  is  the  tragic  note,  too, 
of  Ahasuerus's  career  which  has  been  exploited  by 
every  writer  who  has  handled  the  theme.  But 
surely  he  must  have  got  a  great  deal  of  enjoyment 
out  of  his  never-ending  experiences.  For  one  thing, 
he  has  had  time  to  exhaust  the  possibilities  of  life. 
For  it  is  the  deepest  thing  in  the  true  nomad's 
nature  that  he  is  avid  of  novel  adventure.  He  is 
no  sooner  plunged  into  one  experience  than  a  better 
one  seems  to  rise  before  him.  There  is  a  fairer 
valley  on  the  other  side  of  the  hill,  a  fresh  enchant- 
ment a  little  farther  down  the  road.  In  his  nine- 
teen hundred  years  of  touring  (if  he  is  still  afoot 
and  faring  on),  the  Wandering  Jew  can  easily  have 
seen  all  that  may  be  seen  and  done  all  that  may  be 
done  on  this  earth.  There  is  another  feature  of  his 
career  in  which  he  is  peculiarly  typical,  and  that  is 
his  loneliness.  Your  true  nomad  always,  at  least 
where  the  thing  is  possible,  goes  alone.  He  needs 
detachment;  he  needs  to  be  eternally  the  stranger, 
really  to  know  the  novelty  of  life  that  rises  around 
him.  If  he  travels  with  companions,  in  companies, 
he  carries  his  home-life  with  him;  he  is  protected 
against  the  new  and  the  unknown. 

But  it  was  in  the  Middle  Ages,  the  time  of 
Chivalry,  that  the  nomadic  cult  was  the  most  wide- 
spread. The  books  that  composed  Don  Quixote's 


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library  —  Amadis  of  Gaul,  Palmerin  of  England, 
Tirante,  the  White  Knight,  and  all  their  companions, 
books  which  were  the  popular  reading  of  Europe  — 
testify  to  this,  as  do  the  great  romantic  poems  of 
Tasso  and  Ariosto  and  the  epics  of  Charlemagne 
and  Arthur.  It  was  part  of  the  education  of  a 
young  knight  to  mount  his  steed  and  with  his  trusty 
sword  and  lance  leave  his  home  and  wander  far  and 
wide,  seeking  adventures.  And  it  was  not  only  an 
unmapped  but  largely  a  roadless  world  he  had  to 
traverse.  Through  forest,  over  plain  and  mountain, 
he  had  to  find  his  way  —  a  moving  court  of  justice 
fighting  wrongs,  redressing  grievances,  encountering 
inimical  giants  or  rival  knights;  glad  indeed  if  the 
legitimate  spells  he  bore  with  him  were  sufficient  to 
overcome  the  might  of  evil  enchanters  and  magi- 
cians. And  all  the  while  his  only  correspondence 
with  home  and  the  lady  of  his  fealty  was  the  trains 
of  prisoners  he  sent  to  bow  before  her  feet.  If  his 
quest  were  the  Holy  Grail,  he  became  a  still  nobler 
and  higher  figure.  The  Holy  Grail!  That  it  is, 
in  fact,  which  all  the  nomads  of  the  world  are  in 
search  of.  It  may  mask  under  a  score  of  names  — 
the  Passage  to  India,  the  North  Pole,  Eldorado, — 
but  ever  there  is  the  idea  of  something  worthy  the 
devotion  of  a  man's  life,  something  whose  winning 
shall  be  a  crown  to  him  forever. 

We  may  pass  by  those  professional  nomads,  the 
gypsies,  whose  migrations  thread  through  the  ages, 
because  they  travel  in  companies  and  groups,  and 
are  therefore  outside  the  pale  of  the  true  nomadic 
tribe.  They  have  doubtless  done  the  world  good 
by  letting  a  little  mystery  and  a  sense  for  the 
strange  and  remote  into  dull  and  settled  communi- 
ties. And  they  have  also  done  good  by  proving  to 
the  peoples  of  the  roof-tree  that  fresh  air  is  not 
exactly  deadly. 

This  last  is  the  great  merit  of  Rousseau.  That 
he  upset  the  thrones  of  Europe  is  a  little  matter  in 
comparison  with  his  revival  of  the  lost  art  of  pedes- 
trianism,  his  teaching  mankind  that  nature  furnishes 
better  employment  for  nose  and  eyes  than  the  per- 
fumed and  decorated  apartments  of  the  grand 
siecle.  He  also  taught  his  fellows  the  cheapness  of 
the  most  delicious  pleasures  —  the  march  along  the 
tree-shadowed  highway  or  through  the  flower- 
adorned  wood,  the  halt  by  the  spring  or  rivulet 
to  bathe  his  feet  and  eat  his  morsel  of  bread,  the 
talk  with  peasants  or  the  picnic  with  damsels  simi- 
larly astray,  the  bivouac  under  the  stars.  It  is 
asserted,  falsely  enough,  that  nature  came  into  liter- 
ature through  Rousseau.  No  age  has  been  without 
its  devotees  of  the  open,  and  all  that  Rousseau 
gives,  and  more,  is  in  Homer  and  Dante  and  Shake- 
speare. But  he  did  for  a  time  turn  men's  thoughts 
almost  exclusively  natureward.  Chateaubriand  and 
Goethe  and  Wordsworth  and  Byron  are  his  pupils. 
Childe  Harold  would  hardly  have  left  his  ances- 
tral home  if  it  had  not  been  for  the  Swiss  peasant. 

The  greatest  of  modern  knights-errant  are  the 
explorers  and  discoverers.  The  North  Pole,  Africa, 
Asia,  South  America,  the  Pacific  Islands,  all  have 


furnished  their  quota  of  redoubtable  spirits  lured 
forth  to  seek  danger  and  difficulty,  the  novel  and 
the  unknown.  It  is  true  that  these  have  usually  had 
companions;  but  there  is  a  loneliness  of  leadership, 
and  Stanley  and  Burton  in  Africa,  Nansen  and 
Melville  and  Peary  in  the  Arctic,  are  true  to  the 
most  heroic  nomad  type.  The  mass  of  this  litera- 
ture of  exploration  is  great,  and  it  would  almost 
seem  that  to  wander  and  adventure  is  the  natural 
and  primal  instinct  in  man, —  that  all  settling  down, 
building  of  homes  and  cities,  the  raising  of  families, 
the  gathering  together  of  material  things,  are  repug- 
nant to  the  best  of  the  spirit  that  is  in  him. 

This  feeling  is  still  more  forced  upon  us  when  we 
consider  the  vast  imaginative  literature  which  may 
be  classed  as  the  wandering  genre.  Nearly  all  the 
great  epics  of  the  world  are  stories  of  travel  and  ad- 
venture. The  "Ramayana,"  the  "Mahabharata," 
the  "Shah  Nameh,"  the  "Iliad,"  the  "Odyssey," 
the  "^Eneid,"  "Jerusalem  Delivered,"  "Orlando," 
"Paradise  Lost,"  and  others  too  numerous  to  be 
named,  are  dominated  by  the  nomad  star.  The 
dramas  of  the  world  are  more  static ;  they  demand  a 
fixed  framework  and  a  unity  of  scene  which  are  in- 
imical to  the  peregrinating  spirit.  Yet  even  in  the 
drama  there  are  plenty  of  outlets  for  the  nomad  type. 
It  is  rather  curious  that^Eschylus  brings  into  contrast 
and  contact  the  most  permanently  fixed  of  all  tragic 
sufferers,  Prometheus,  and  the  madly-driven  world- 
circling  lo.  CEdipus  is  a  wanderer,  both  when  he 
commits  his  crime  and  when  he  expiates  it.  Shake- 
speare is  never  happier  than  when  he  can  free  his 
people  from  the  bonds  of  home  and  society,  and 
set  them  to  wandering  in  the  fields  and  woods, — as 
witness  the  "Midsummer  Night's  Dream,"  "The 
Tempest,"  "Cymbeline,"  "The  Winter's  Tale,"  and 
"  As  You  Like  It."  As  for  novels  and  romances,  they 
are  of  adventure  and  wandering  all  compact.  From 
the  earliest  one —  the  "Golden  Ass"  —  to  the  latest 
best-seller,  it  is  scarcely  too  much  to  say  that  nine- 
tenths  of  them  turn  that  way.  Run  over  the  names  of 
the  great  novels  of  the  world  —  "Don  Quixote," 
"Wilhelm  Meister,"  "The  Three  Guardsmen," 
"Tom  Jones,"  one-half  of  Scott,  the  best  of  Dickens, 
—  all  are  treatments  of  the  wandering  theme.  If 
novels  represent  life,  it  would  seem  that  we  are  a  race 
of  nomads.  The  wanderer  at  least  is  the  hero  of  liter- 
ature, even  if  he  is  ineffectual  and  more  or  less  of  an 
outcast  in  real  existence. 

Of  course  the  centralizing  and  concentrating  influ- 
ences of  life  are  really  the  most  powerful.  They  are 
necessities  of  our  state ;  the  expansive  and  diverging 
forces  are  in  comparison  luxuries.  In  particular, 
woman  is  the  type  of  home  and  society.  Wherever 
she  appears  she  is  a  centre  around  which  a  frame- 
work and  a  barrier  are  speedily  erected. 

In  conclusion  it  may  be  said  that  wide  wander- 
ings are  not  absolutely  necessary  for  the  display  of 
nomadic  instinct.  We  may  make  discoveries  at 
home.  Each  of  us  may  be  a  Columbus  to  the  con- 
tinent of  Ourself . 

CHARLES  LEONARD  MOORE. 


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CASUAL  COMMENT. 


INCENTIVES  TO  LITERARY  EFFORT,  as  to  exertion 
of  whatever  kind,  must  be  candidly  confessed  to  be 
largely  of  an  unheroic  and  unromantic  nature.  It 
is  the  res  angusta  domi  that  is  ultimately  answer- 
able for  the  great  bulk  of  the  world's  noteworthy 
achievement.  Whether  churches  would  thrive  on 
an  income  derived  wholly  from  endowment,  whether 
poets  would  sing  if  subsidized  by  the  State,  whether 
publishing  houses  would  raise  the  standard  of  litera- 
ture to  dizzy  heights  if  relieved  from  all  concern 
as  to  book-sales,  whether  magazines  and  newspapers 
would  attain  to  an  unimagined  excellence  if  perma- 
nently endowed,  these  are  questions  that  will  prob- 
ably for  all  time  be  open  to  debate,  with  strong 
presumptions  in  favor  of  the  negative.  Nevertheless, 
Mr.  Hamilton  Holt,  in  an  address  before  the  recent 
national  convention  of  newspaper  men,  allowed 
himself  to  take  a  roseate  view  of  the  possibilities  of 
endowed  journalism.  He  maintains:  "If  a  journal 
is  to  perform  the  two  essential  duties  of  careful 
news-gathering  and  competent  comment,  it  must 
have  an  assured  income  of  sufficient  amount  at  the 
start  to  enable  it  to  stand  the  stress  of  sensational 
and  commercialized  competitors  and  to  demonstrate 
its  usefulness  to  a  large  circle  of  readers  all  over 
the  country.  Once  established  and  recognized  as  a 
truthful  and  important  medium,  it  would  have  an 
enormous  educational  value.  Though  it  might  not 
be  read  by  the  millions,  it  would  be  indispensable 
to  all  libraries,  journalists,  preachers,  teachers,  the 
most  intelligent  professional  and  business  men,  and 
the  leaders  at  least  of  the  wage-earning  class.  It 
would  also  exert  a  great  influence  for  good  on  other 
papers  by  forcing  them  to  raise  their  standards  of 
accuracy  and  fairness."  After  all,  that  is  not  a  hope- 
lessly idealistic  view  of  the  possibilities  of  endowed 

journalism. 

**  •     •     • 

THE    DESIRE    FOR    INFORMATION    ON    A    GREAT 

VARIETY  OF  SUBJECTS,  on  the  part  of  those  whose 
indolence  or  inexperience  makes  them  quite  willing 
that  others  should  do  their  research  work  for  them, 
is  probably  manifest  nowhere  more  than  in  the 
"  Questions  and  Answers  "  department  of  a  literary 
newspaper  or  the  Reference  department  of  a  public 
library.  In  some  of  these  journals,  columns  in  each 
issue  are  given  to  such  inquiries,  suggesting  the 
probable  desire  for  material  for  essays,  club  papers, 
school  themes,  etc.,  whjch  can  be  obtained  in  this  free 
and  easy  way.  The  questions  that  come,  modestly 
but  profusely,  to  the  Reference  department  of  pub- 
lic libraries  are  of  wider  range  and  usually  of  more 
curious  interest  than  those  that  aspire  to  the  promi- 
nence of  print.  The  Annual  Report  of  the  librarian 
of  the  public  library  at  Santa  Barbara,  Cal.,  gives 
the  following  list  of  topics  among  those  on  which 
information  was  sought  at  that  library  in  a  single 
day:  Date-palm  culture;  open-air  schools;  natural 
gas ;  folding  napkins  at  table ;  spirit  mediums ;  the 


Yosemite ;  heroism  of  Jack  Binns ;  legends  and  super- 
stitions of  precious  stones;  steam  boilers;  Roman 
home-life ;  parcels  post ;  High  Jinks  of  the  Bohemian 
Club;  carriage  painting;  the  Pentateuch;  canoes; 
camels ;  George  Washington ;  author  of  the  poem 
"There  is  no  death,"  etc.  "  Many  of  these  questions," 
says  the  librarian,  "are  answered  with  the  aid  of 
the  standard  reference  books  and  the  indexes  to  peri- 
odical literature ;  others  involve  search  in  out-of-the- 
way  places."  We  should  think  they  would  !  But  in 
any  case,  the  Reference  department  of  a  properly 
equipped  public  library  cheerfully  and  eagerly  opens 
its  doors  to  just  such  inquirers  as  these,  and  the 
librarian  stands  ready  to  greet  them  with  smiling 
mien  and  to  lend  a  helping  hand  in  their  researches. 
•  •  • 

To   LOVERS    OF   THE    ENGLISH    LAKE    DISTRICT, 

with  all  its  precious  associations,  an  appeal  is  made 
for  help  in  preserving  the  region  from  disfigurement 
at  the  hands  of  builders.  Canon  H.  D.  Rawnsley 
writes  from  Crosthwaite  Vicarage,  Keswick,  in  part 
as  follows  :  "  The  head  of  Windermere,  comprising 
the  meadow  land  between  the  mouth  of  the  river 
Rotha  and  Waterhead,  and  including  within  its  area 
the  important  Roman  camp  in  the  Borrans  Field, 
was  just  about  to  be  built  upon  ;  indeed,  the  turf  was 
off  and  foundations  of  two  lodging-houses  were  laid, 
when  the  neighborhood  woke  up  to  the  fact  that  un- 
less these  twenty  acres  could  be  secured  and  handed 
to  the  custody  of  the  National  Trust,  there  was  an 
end  for  all  time  of  the  peculiar  charm  and  beauty 
of  the  head  of  Windermere.  Your  readers  will 
remember  how  attractive  that  beauty  is  as  they  ap- 
proach Waterhead  near  Ambleside  by  steamer  from 
the  south.  They  will  call  to  mind  the  exquisite  set- 
ting of  the  verdurous  level  with  its  background  of 
Loughrigg  Fell,  and  the  blue  hollow  of  the  circling 
wall  of  Fairfield  with  its  gray  scars  and  dark  woods 
above  Rydal  Hall.  They  will  understand  how,  quite 
apart  from  the  historic  interest  of  securing  the  as  yet 
unexcavated  Roman  camp,  it  is  essential  that  the 
pastoral  loveliness  of  that  approach  to  the  Ambleside 
valley  should  be  preserved,  and  will  not,  I  trust,  be 
surprised  that  I  urge  America  to  help  the  old  country 
for  Wordsworth's  sake  to  preserve  its  ancient  heri- 
tage of  calm  and  beauty  to  succeeding  generations." 
The  writer  of  this  letter,  who  signs  himself  as  "Hon. 
Secretary  to  the  National  Trust,"  adds  that  twenty- 
four  hundred  pounds,  of  the  four  thousand  needed  to 
purchase  the  threatened  piece  of  ground,  has  already 
been  raised,  the  immediate  vicinity  contributing  from 
its  slender  means  three-quarters  of  the  amount.  Any 
Americans  who  "  have  known  the  restf ulness  of  the 
as  yet  unspoiled  parts  of  the  English  lake  district," 
and  feel  prompted  to  aid  in  preserving  that  restful- 
ness,  will  earn  the  gratitude  of  all  future  tourists  and 
sojourners  in  that  peculiarly  beautiful  region  of  rural 
England.  .  .  . 

MACHINE-MADE  FICTION  has  its  ready  market 
and  its  eager  readers,  as  all  the  world  knows,  and  as 
is  made  evident  by  the  confessions  of  a  plot-builder 


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who  tells  some  of  the  tricks  of  his  trade  to  readers 
of  the  London  "  Answers."  His  brain  produces  plots 
with  ease  and  abundance,  but  he  himself  cannot  so 
clothe  them  as  to  render  them  acceptable  to  editors 
and  publishers.  Therefore  he  sells  these  skeletons 
of  stories  and  novels  to  writers  of  more  skill  with 
their  pens,  and  his  earnings  amount  to  four  or  five 
pounds  a  week,  the  day's  work  being  often  com- 
pleted before  breakfast  by  this  dextrous  framer  of 
plots  at  prices  ranging  from  ten  to  twenty  shillings, 
according  to  complexity.  "My  principal  client," 
says  this  ingenious  craftsman,  "  gets  rid  of  about 
one  hundred  and  fifty  stories  a  year.  He  has  a 
splendid  style,  and,  singularly  enough,  although  he 
possesses  a  vivid  imagination,  he  is  a  bad  hand  at 
evolving  plots.  Give  him  the  plot,  and  he  will  go 
along  like  a  steam  engine.  .  .  .  My  clients  number 
fewer  than  half  a  dozen,  and  if  a  plot  does  not  suit 
one  of  them  it  will  probaby  appeal  strongly  to 
another,  who  makes  a  good  story  of  it.  So  that  a 
plot  is  seldom,  if  ever,  wasted.  What  is  more,  it  is 
possible  to  get  at  least  four  different  plots  out  of  one 
central  idea.  It  can  be  twisted  and  turned  about, 
given  a  different  ending  or  development,  and  new 
names  bestowed  on  the  characters,  and  the  trick  is 
done."  How  beautiful!  Perhaps  some  day  there 
will  be  invented  a  mechanical  contrivance  for  pro- 
ducing all  the  possible  combinations  of  all  the  known 
elements  of  plot-construction ;  then,  with  an  adequate 
supply  of  phonographs,  type-writers,  and  similar 
appliances,  a  fiction-factory  ought  to  turn  out  hun- 
dreds of  stories,  all  of  standard  grade  and  finish, 
every  working  day  of  the  year. 

•         •         • 

THE  DORMANT  LIBRARY  TRUSTEE  may  be  less 
worrisome  to  the  librarian  than  the  rampant  or 
officiously  meddlesome,  fussy,  and  bustling  trustee. 
For  we  have  all  kinds,  including  an  increasing  num- 
ber of  intelligently  active  and  helpful  trustees ;  but 
that  they  have  more  of  this  latter  sort  across  the 
Canadian  border  than  south  of  it  seems  to  some 
observers  to  have  been  indicated  by  the  quality  of 
the  attendance  at  the  late  Ottawa  conference  of 
library  workers.  "The  Library  Journal"  says,  in  its 
"Ottawa  Conference  Number"  (August)  :  "One  of 
the  most  interesting  features  of  the  Ottawa  meeting 
was  the  large  attendance  of  trustees,  particularly  from 
Canad#.  Over  the  border,  the  trustee  has  been  quite 
as  important  as  the  librarian  in  developing  the  pub- 
lic library,  and  there  has  indeed  been  some  question 
whether  the  librarian,  as  such,  had  not  been  too  much 
subordinated  by  this  fact.  The  contrary  is  true  in 
the  States,  for  here  trustees  are  apt  to  confine  them- 
selves to  the  finances  of  the  library  and  not  even 
support  the  librarian  as  they  should  by  informing 
themselves  of  the  practical  work  and  giving  it  the 
strength  of  their  well-informed  support."  The  sad 
truth  is  that,  on  this  side  the  boundary  at  least, 
politics  plays  havoc  with  too  many  a  board  of  library 
trustees,  as  also  with  too  many  a  school  committee, 
and  with  other  public  offices  of  trust  and  importance. 
These  positions  are  often  sought  as  stepping-stones 


to  something  higher  —  that  is,  more  lucrative, —  and 
usually  they  are  in  part  filled  by  ex-officio  members 
with  no  especial  qualifications  for  the  work  to  be 
done.  In  general,  smaller  library  boards  of  picked 
men  (and  women)  are  desirable. 

•          •          • 

A  MONUMENTAL  INDEX  to  a  monumental  edition 
is  that  comprised  in  the  final  volume  (the  thirty- 
ninth)  of  the  complete  "Library  Edition"  of  Rus- 
kin,  edited  by  Sir  E.  T.  Cook  and  Mr.  Alexander 
Wedderburn.  The  index  comprises  seven  hundred 
double-columned  octavo  pages  of  fine  type,  the  num- 
ber of  references  exceeding  150,000.  Every  topic 
treated  or  mentioned  by  Ruskin,  and  every  proper 
name  mentioned  in  his  works,  are  included.  And 
this  is  by  no  means  all.  The  topical  references  are 
so  grouped  as  to  form  a  practical  analysis  of  Rus- 
kin's  teaching  on  whatever  subject.  "  I  have  left  the 
system  of  my  teaching  widely  scattered  and  broken, 
hoping  always  to  bind  it  together,"  Ruskin  once  said ; 
but  there  was  no  time  in  his  heroically  busy  life 
that  could  be  spared  for  such  a  project.  Now  at  last 
it  has  been  carried  through  by  his  devoted  editors, 
and  in  a  way  that  could  not  be  bettered.  The  tangled 
tropical  forest  of  Ruskin's  writings  has  here  been 
tracked  and  charted  for  all  time.  As  an  instance 
of  the  appalling  amount  of  labor  expended  in  the 
making  of  this  volume,  it  may  be  noted  that  of  the 
thousands  of  quotations  and  allusions  scattered 
through  Ruskin's  books,  all  but  sixteen  are  here 
traced  and  recorded !  A  supplementary  volume  (the 
thirty-eighth)  contains,  besides  a  complete  anno- 
tated catalogue  of  Ruskin's  drawings,  a  Bibliography 
which  for  inclusiveness  and  exactness  is  not  likely 
ever  to  be  superseded.  Thus  is  brought  to  a  fitting 
conclusion  one  of  the  noblest  memorials  ever  dedi- 
cated to  a  great  writer, — a  labor  of  love  on  the  part 
of  editors  and  publishers  not  easily  to  be  paralleled 
in  modern  literary  annals. 

THE  FINAL  FALL  OF  THE  AUCTIONEER'S  HAMMER 

ON  THE  HOE  LIBRARY  is  announced  by  the  Ander- 
son Company  for  the  fortnight  beginning  November 
11.  Thus  will  end,  after  four  memorable  sales,  the 
dispersal  of  the  richest  private  collection  of  books 
and  manuscripts  ever  sold  in  this  country.  From 
the  day  of  the  opening  sale,  when  a  copy  of  the 
Gutenberg  Bible  brought  fifty  thousand  dollars,  the 
highest  recorded  price  for  a  single  item  at  a  book- 
auction,  the  amounts  bid  for  these  literary  rarities 
have  been  unprecedentedly  large,  so  that  the  total 
sum  realized  by  the  completed  sale  is  likely  to  exceed 
two  million  dollars.  Probably  to  most  readers  it 
would  be  but  a  tantalizing  kindness  to  name  here 
any  of  the  choice  items  enumerated  in  the  catalogue 
of  this  fourth  and  final  section  of  Robert  Hoe's  re- 
markable library.  Forty-six  manuscripts,  many  of 
them  illuminated,  are  on  the  list;  also  books  from 
the  libraries  of  Jean  Grolier,  Henry  the  Second  and 
Henry  the  Third,  Louis  the  Fourteenth,  Louis  the 
Fifteenth,  and  Louis  the  Eighteenth,  Madame  de 
Maintenon,  Madame  du  Barry,  Marie  Antoinette, 


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and  Charles  the  Second  of  England,  many  of  the 
volumes  being  magnificently  bound.  Noteworthy 
Americana  and  Shakespeariana,  and  some  rare  early 
English  books  are  also  named.  With  both  the  Hoe 
and  the  Huth  sales  in  progress,  millionaire  collectors 
have  ample  opportunity  to  ease  the  congestion  of 
their  bank  accounts.  .  .  . 

A  WARNING  FROM  THE   "ARABIAN  NlGHTS,"  to 

be  found  in  "The  Story  of  the  Grecian  King  and 
the  Physician  Douban,"  needs  to  be  occasionally 
repeated  for  the  benefit  of  those  unthinking  readers 
who  indulge  in  the  practice  of  turning  the  leaves  of 
books  with  fingers  moistened  by  the  tongue.  The 
first  part  of  this  story,  down  to  the  King's  death 
(caused  by  his  thus  turning  the  leaves  of  the  poi- 
soned folio),  might  profitably  be  posted  in  libraries, 
especially  in  reading-rooms,  perhaps  side  by  side 
with  the  now  familiar  verses  about  the  untidy  Goops 
whose  bad  habits  with  books  are  held  up  to  the  rep- 
robation of  all  well-bred  children  and  as  a  horrible 
example  to  the  ill-bred.  A  lecture  dealing  in  part 
with  the  perils  lurking  in  the  slovenly  practice  here 
referred  to  was  recently  delivered  at  the  University 
of  Pennsylvania  by  Mr.  William  R.  Reinick,  and 
has  been  published  in  "The  American  Journal  of 
Pharmacy."  Although  we  moderns  may  be  yielding 
to  a  tendency  to  make  too  much  of  a  bogy  of  bacteria 
and  microbes  and  germs  (all  undreamt-of  by  our 
hale  and  hearty  ancestors),  still  there  is  good  sense 
in  Mr.  Reinick's  counsel  to  librarians  to  give  due 
attention  to  the  physical  condition  of  each  volume 
passing  to  and  from  the  public.  Frequent  hand- 
washing  on  the  part  of  library  employees  is  advised ; 
and  even  a  compulsory  ceremony  of  this  sort  on  the 
visitor's  part,  before  using  the  reference  books,  is 
suggested.  The  spread  of  tuberculosis  is  what  is 
especially  to  be  feared  as  a  result  of  untidy  habits 
with  books.  ... 

MR.  SANBORN  AT  EIGHTY-ONE,  or  close  to  it,  and 
with  his  vigor  renewed,  as  is  to  be  hoped,  by  the  re- 
cent celebration  of  his  golden  wedding,  presents  a 
pleasing  appearance  to  the  mind's  eye  in  his  Concord 
home,  where  he  enjoys  the  distinction  (not  quite  free 
from  melancholy,  it  is  true)  of  being  the  last  sur- 
vivor of  that  illustrious  company  whose  names  are 
now  mostly  to  be  read  on  the  grave-stones  of  Sleepy 
Hollow.  He  still  continues  his  connection  with  the 
Springfield  "  Republican,"  which  he  first  served  as 
associate  editor  forty-four  years  ago,  afterward  be- 
coming its  regular  contributor  from  Boston  and  Con- 
cord. The  "  Boston  Literary  Letter,"  furnished  by 
him  once  a  week,  has  long  been  a  prominent  feature 
of  the  journal.  In  it  he  allows  himself  the  privilege 
of  his  years  and  writes  in  a  genially  discursive  vein, 
with  splendid  disregard  of  the  ephemeral  favorites 
of  the  book-world,  and  with  a  fine  harking-back  to 
whatsoever  things  are  imperishable  in  literature. 
Those  who  visit  him  find  him  still  reading  the  Greek 
classics  as  the  rest  of  us  read  novels  and  contempo- 
rary memoirs.  Turning  the  leaves  of  his  two  sub- 
stantial volumes  of  reminiscences,  a  rich  store  of 


unusually  interesting  memories,  there  come  to  one 
the  words  put  by  Cicero  into  the  mouth  of  the  elder 
Cato  :  "  Fructus  autem  senectutis  est,  ut  saepe  dixi, 
ante  partorum  bonorum  memoria  et  copia." 

•          •          • 

A  PUBLIC  LIBRARY  WITH  NO  DEAD  BOOKS,  that  IS, 

with  no  books  that  have  ceased  to  circulate,  might 
seem,  from  all  the  recent  criticism  of  the  staleness 
and  uselessness  of  much  of  the  material  that  cum- 
bers the  shelves  of  so  many  libraries,  to  be  as  rare 
as,  for  example,  a  city  with  no  idle  inhabitants,  or 
a  swarm  of  bees  with  no  drones.  But  Redlands, 
California,  appears  to  be  blessed  with  such  a  library. 
The  collection  numbers  more  than  twenty  thousand 
volumes,  and  its  accumulation  covers  nearly  a  score 
of  years ;  yet  we  read  in  the  "  Eighteenth  Annual 
Report"  of  the  library  : 

"  In  making  out  the  annual  budget  at  the  beginning  of  the 
calendar  year,  it  was  thought  that  the  expense  of  a  new  book 
case  might  be  avoided  this  year  by  the  removal  of  some  of  the 
books  which  had  not  been  used,  to  the  basement.  It  was  esti- 
mated that  about  1000  books  might  thus  be  transferred,  and 
by  marking  the  catalogue  cards,  they  could  easily  be  found 
in  case  they  were  called  for.  But  on  looking  over  the  shelves 
in  order  to  weed  out  the  dead  material  it  was  found  that  so 
few  books  could  be  spared  from  the  shelves  that  almost  none 
were  suitable  for  the  basement.  This  does  not  mean  that  all 
the  books  had  been  circulated,  for  it  would  have  been  com- 
paratively easy  to  find  a  thousand  books  on  the  shelves  which 
had  not  been  loaned  for  two  years  or  more,  but  the  condition 
of  the  books  and  the  requests  made  at  the  delivery  desk 
showed  that  they  were  very  generally  in  use  at  the  library. 
This  seems  to  be  an  unusual  condition  of  affairs,  if  we  may 
judge  from  some  of  the  criticisms  reported  through  the  press 
of  the  country  that  a  fair  proportion  of  the  shelves  of  public 
libraries  are  loaded  down  with  dead  material.  It  also  speaks 
most  highly  of  the  careful  selection  which  has  been  made  by 
the  Book  Committee." 

THE  GOLDWIN  SMITH  LECTURES  AT  CORNELL 
will  be  inaugurated  under  favorable  auspices  in  the 
course  of  the  coming  college  year.  Professor  Albert 
Frederick  Pollard,  who  occupies  the  chair  of  English 
history  at  London  University,  has  been  invited  to 
deliver  the  first  series.  An  Oxford  "  first-class  " 
scholar  and  a  winner  of  various  academic  prizes,  he 
has  devoted  his  talents  to  the  service  of  one  of  the 
people's  universities  and  has  also  made  a  name  for 
himself  as  a  well-equipped  historical  writer.  In 
addition  to  his  lives  of  Thomas  Cranmer  and  Henry 
the  Eighth,  and  his  "  Factors  in  Modern  History," 
and  other  kindred  works,  he  has  contributed  some 
fifty  articles  to  the  new  "  Encyclopaedia  Britannica  " 
and  what  would  amount  to  an  entire  volume  to  the 
"  Dictionary  of  National  Biography,"  of  which  he 
was  assistant  editor  from  1893  to  1901.  Six  chap- 
ters of  the  "  Cambridge  Modern  History  "  are  also 
from  his  pen,  and  volume  six  of  the  "  Political  His- 
tory of  England."  One  marvels  at  the  extent  and 
the  substantial  quality  of  his  literary  work  —  work 
that,  in  a  sense,  must  be  regarded  as  executed  with 
the  left  hand  while  the  energy  of  his  right  is  given 
to  his  professorship  and  to  his  duties  as  member  of 
the  University  Senate.  Truly,  it  would  seem  that 
Professor  Pollard  has  learned  the  art  of  living  on 
twenty-four  hours  a  day. 


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COMMUNICA  TIONS. 


THE  APPRAISAL  OF  CONTEMPORARY 
GREATNESS. 

(To  the  Editor  of  THE  DIAL.) 

As  your  readers  probably  include  many  persons  who 
might  be  interested  in  a  project  like  the  Modern  His- 
toric Records  Association,  will  you  permit  me  to  make 
in  your  columns  a  mild  protest  against  the  note  of  flip- 
pancy that  crops  out  in  your  otherwise  pleasant  comment 
(in  your  issue  of  August  16)  on  my  letter  to  the  New 
York  "Sun,"  and  to  correct  some  small  errors  that 
appear  in  your  criticism. 

The  collection  of  autographic  utterances  on  parch- 
ment by  men  and  women  of  genius  is  only  a  minor 
undertaking  of  our  Association.  Its  objects  embrace 
the  use  of  the  photographic  plate  as  the  most  durable 
means  of  preserving  records  and  documents;  of  the 
phonograph,  for  the  preservation  of  the  utterances  of 
celebrities;  of  moving-picture  machines  in  obtaining 
records  of  important  events;  and  the  application  of  all 
other  suitable  means  for  transmitting  to  posterity  a 
vivid  and  comprehensive  record  of  the  life  and  civiliza- 
tion of  the  day. 

The  names  of  our  incorporators  should  be  a  sufficient 
assurance  of  the  worth  and  dignity  of  our  aims.  These 
endeavors  —  including  even  the  "  diversion  "  of  obtain- 
ing autographic  names  —  have  (and  has)  elicited  the 
warm  approval  of  Mr.  Frederic  Harrison,  who  many 
years  ago  conceived  an  enterprise  startlingly  like  our 
own,  and  wrote  of  it  with  eloquence  heightened  by  humor 
in  an  essay  entitled,  "A  Pompeii  for  the  Thirtieth 
Century." 

Respecting  my  list  of  so-called  "immortals,"  the 
attempt  to  compile  it  bears  a  certain  relation  to  the 
estimates,  however  fallible,  we  must  inevitably  make  of 
the  various  products  of  contemporary  civilization  of 
which  we  shall  seek  to  preserve  some  record.  The  list 
of  names  published  in  the  "  Sun  "  was  explicitly  denned 
as  imperfect  and  incomplete.  I  submitted  only  121 
names,  and  not  "  about  two  hundred  "  as  you  say.  I 
should  like  to  make  it  200,  and  that  is  why  I  invited 
suggestions,  and  why  I  am  grateful  for  your  own. 

This  accounts  for  my  "  many  surprising  omissions," 
though  you  overlooked  my  inclusion  of  Sun  Yat  Sen. 
The  Mikado,  moreover,  came  within  the  "  arbitrary 
group  "  of  rulers.  I  have  been  awaiting  competent  ad- 
vice and  suggestion  for  augmenting  the  list  of  Orientals. 

As  for  my  "  astonishing  inclusions,"  I  could  wish  that 
you  had  been  more  specific.  A  few  of  the  names  will, 
on  further  consideration,  doubtless  be  deleted.  A  "  ten- 
tative list  "is  —  a  tentative  list.  Also,  I  would  cite,  in 
extenuation  of  my  avowed  temerity,  the  "  astonishing 
inclusions  "  and  "  surprising  omissions  "  in  every  list  of 
"  best  dead  authors  " —  from  Sir  John  Lubbock's  down 
to  Dr.  Eliot's;  while  the  Hall  of  Fame  committee's  ex- 
clusion of  Poe  and  inclusion  of  —  well,  no  matter  —  are 
probably  fresh  in  your  mind.  Finally,  I  should  like  THE 
DIAL'S  frank  opinion  of  all  the  names  in  the  Nobel 
prize  list,  and  to  hear  its  editor  recite,  without  a 
prompter,  the  names  of  all  the  members  of  the  French 
Academy.  Most  of  all  I  should  cherish  its  views  on 
our  own  American  Academy  of  Immortals  —  crowned 
by  far  more  competent  hands  than  mine.  It  has  fallen 
to  my  lot  to  question,  in  public  print,  this  appraisement 
of  native  reputations.  That  I  have  not  found  it  convinc- 
ing as  a  guide  to  my  own  compilation  is  possibly  a  mani- 


festation of  ignorance  and  narrow-mindedness.  But  at 
least  I  do  not  regard  our  own  "  diversion"  with  the  over- 
seriousness  which  you  somehow  read  into  my  letter  to 
the  "Sun."  W.  T.  LARNED, 

Secretary  of  the  M.  H.  R.  A. 
New  York,  September  5,  1912. 

[If  the  tone  of  our  comment  sounded  flippant,  we 
regret  it ;  but  is  it  not  pardonable  to  feel  at  least  a 
mild  temptation  to  smile  at  the  serious  attempts  of 
either  an  individual  or  a  generation  to  measure  and 
weigh,  grade  and  classify  his  (or  its)  own  excellences  ? 
—  so  often  does  the  verdict  of  posterity  reverse  the 
most  carefully  considered  judgment  of  this  sort.  The 
phrase  "  about  two  hundred  "  was  written  with  the 
writer's  eye  on  that  passage  in  Mr.  Larned's  letter 
which  speaks  of  the  purpose  "  to  assemble  a  list  of, 
say,  two  hundred  names,"  and  without  an  actual 
count  of  his  list.  Surprise  at  certain  inclusions  and 
omissions  would  be  excited,  in  some  quarters,  by  any 
conceivable  list  of  this  kind,  and  we  should  be  the 
last  to  claim  ability  to  frame  one  that  would  not  aston- 
ish all  its  readers  by  some  of  its  items  and  some  of  its 
readers  by  all  its  items.  We  think,  however,  that 
Mr.  Larned's  tentative  roll  of  honor  shows  most  cred- 
itable care  and  judgment. — EDB.  THE  DIAL.] 


SOME  DISPUTED  POINTS  IN  THE  STORY  OF 

OLD  FORT  DEARBORN. 

(To  the  Editor  of  THE  DIAL.) 

Permit  me  to  comment  upon  the  review  of  my  book, 
"  The  Story  of  Old  Fort  Dearborn,"  which  appeared 
in  your  issue  of  the  1st  instant,  signed  by  Milo  Milton 
Quaife. 

In  order  to  understand  the  state  of  mind  of  this  re- 
viewer, when  confronted  with  my  book,  it  will  be  neces- 
sary to  refer  to  his  previous  utterances  on  this  subject. 
About  a  year  ago  Mr.  Quaife  was  invited  to  read  a 
paper  on  the  Chicago  Massacre  before  the  Mississippi 
Valley  Historical  Association,  which  he  did.  It  turned 
out  to  be  a  violent  tirade  against  the  authenticity  of  the 
"  Wau-Bun "  account  of  that  event,  an  account  which 
had  been  accepted  as  a  most  reliable  and  indeed  the 
principal  source  of  our  knowledge  on  the  subject. 

Naturally  considerable  surprise  and  disapproval  were 
manifested  among  those  who  listened  to  the  paper,  and 
on  being  reported  in  the  newspapers  it  occasioned  some 
rather  bitter  controversy.  Regarding  the  incidents  re- 
lated by  Mrs.  Kinzie  in  "  Wau-Bun,"  the  lecturer  held 
them  up  to  scorn,  using  such  expressions  as  "  inherent 
improbability,"  "  incredible  tale,"  "  probably  largely 
fictitious,"  "grotesque,"  and  declaring  the  defects  of 
the  work  were  "  numerous  and  glaring  "  and  the  facts 
distorted.  Indeed,  throughout  the  address  there  was  a 
constant  flow  of  epithets  and  strained  inferences. 

Since  that  time  Mr.  Quaife  has  been  endeavoring, 
through  the  Chicago  Historical  Society,  to  secure  a  fur- 
ther hearing  for  his  radical  views,  but  so  far  he  has  not 
seemed  to  be  very  successful.  In  reviewing  my  book, 
which  is  frankly  based  on  the  "Wau-Bun  "  account,  with 
such  additional  details  as  have  become  available  since 
that  book  was  written,  Mr.  Quaife  has  transferred  his 
denunciations  to  my  work  and  its  author.  He  finds  that 
the  book  "  is  for  the  most  part  a  paraphrase  "  of  "  Wau- 
Bun  "  though  he  fails  to  mention  the  fact  that  it  is  ampli- 


1912.] 


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fied  and  adapted  and  its  order  changed.  Any  complete 
account  of  the  event  described,  it  may  be  said,  could  not 
,  be  written  without  going  back  to  that  indispensable 
source. 

Some  of  the  matters  in  my  book  criticised  by  Mr. 
Quaife  may  be  noticed.  One  of  my  statements  was  to 
the  effect  that  Mrs.  Heald  was  "  nearly  as  old  as  her 
uncle  "  —  Captain  Wells,  who  was  about  forty-two  years 
of  age.  The  reviewer  oracularly  observes  that  she  was 
but  twenty-two  years  old.  In  answer  I  would  refer  to 
Fergus's  Historical  Pamphlet,  No.  16,  in  which  John 
Wentworth  quotes  from  information  obtained  by  him 
that  Mrs.  Heald  died  in  1857,  aged  81  years.  That 
would  make  her  thirty-six  years  old  in  1812.  Perhaps 
Mr.  Quaife  has  better  information  than  this,  but  I 
doubt  it. 

He  declares  that  the  name  of  the  Frenchman  Debou 
was  Cardin.  Kirkland,  in  his  book  on  "  The  Chicago 
Massacre,"  says  it  was  as  I  gave  it. 

The  order  for  the  evacuation,  according  to  Mrs. 
Kinzie,  was  received  August  7,  as  I  gave  it.  Captain 
Heald,  however,  in  his  report  gives  it  as  the  9th,  which 
is  doubtless  the  better  authority,  and  I  will  adopt  it. 

The  date  of  beginning  the  construction  of  Fort  Dear- 
born is  given  in  my  book  as  July  4,  1803.  This  the 
reviewer  roughly  contradicts,  and  declares  that  the 
troops  did  not  arrive  until  some  six  weeks  later.  Hon. 
Isaac  N.  Arnold,  in  an  address  before  the  Chicago  His- 
torical Society  in  July,  1877,  in  speaking  of  the  building 
of  the  fort,  said:  "Some  companies  of  infantry,  under 
command  of  Maj.  [Captain]  John  Whistler,  arrived  at 
the  same  time  —  4th  July  —  and  commenced  the  con- 
struction of  Fort  Dearborn."  This  was  good  authority 
up  to  a  period  as  recent  as  August  11  last,  when  there 
was  printed  in  the  Chicago  "  Record-Herald  "  of  that 
date  an  account,  heretofore  existing  only  in  manuscript 
form,  of  Lieut.  Swearingen's  march  overland  with  the 
troops  who  were  to  build  the  new  fort,  and  who  arrived 
on  August  17.  The  account  thus  printed  was  accom- 
panied by  some  explanatory  remarks  by  Mr.  Quaife,  who 
said  that  the  manuscript  was  in  the  possession  of  the 
Chicago  Historical  Society,  and  had  been  "brought  to 
light  recently."  As  soon  as  I  saw  this  account  I  deter- 
mined to  make  a  corresponding  change  in  a  later  edition 
of  my  book,  which  was  then  already  in  print,  accepting 
this  as  better  authority  for  the  date  of  beginning  the 
work  of  building.  It  is  quite  characteristic  of  this  re- 
viewer, however,  to  give  the  impression  that  I  ought  to 
have  known  what  had  not  yet  come  to  public  knowledge, 
and  thus  disingenuously  make  it  appear  as  an  error 
which  could  have  been  avoided. 

What  reason  Captain  Heald  may  have  had  for  pro- 
posing to  distribute  the  arms  and  ammunition  to  the 
Indians,  in  spite  of  his  orders  from  Gen.  Hull  to  de- 
stroy them,  does  not  appear.  We  only  know  that  he 
promised  them  he  would  do  so.  The  reviewer  says  that 
"  it  is  obvious "  that  this  story,  "  together  with  state- 
ments concerning  the  resentment  of  the  Indians  .  .  . 
are  inventions."  Such  a  remark  is  harsh  and  offensive. 
Mrs.  Kinzie  in  her  book  says  that  at  the  second  council 
with  the  Indians  "murmurs  and  threats  were  every- 
where heard  among  the  savages."  Whatever  estimate 
the  reviewer  may  place  on  my  authority,  it  is  clear  at 
any  rate  that  I  was  not  guilty  of  inventing  anything. 

The  transfer  of  Capt.  Whistler  to  Fort  Wayne,  as  I 
stated  it,  has  the  respectable  authority  of  H.  H.  Hurlbut 
(p.  27),  in  fact  it  is  much  better  authority  in  my  belief 
than  the  off-hand  declarations  of  Mr.  Quaife,  who  ap- 


parently considers  that  his  dictum  "  settles  it "  without 
troubling  to  mention  an  authority.  He  sneeringly  states 
that  Gen.  Dearborn's  services  on  the  Niagara  frontier 
were  "  doubtless  '  distinguished  '  "  (using  my  expres- 
sion), but  that  they  were  "  hardly  so  in  the  sense  intended 
by  the  author."  It  is  enough  to  say  that  just  as  the 
war  of  1812  was  closing  President  Madison  had  deter- 
mined to  appoint  Dearborn  general-in-chief  of  the  whole 
army,  but  was  prevented  by  the  return  of  peace;  and  it 
is  hardly  to  be  supposed  that  this  appointment  could 
have  been  contemplated  unless  Dearborn  had  already 
acquitted  himself  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  president. 

The  reviewer  remarks  with  a  superior  air  that  "  Sur- 
geon John  Cooper"  was  an  unmarried  man,  and  was  not 
killed  at  the  massacre,  as  I  had  stated,  that  "  he  had 
resigned  the  service  and  left  Fort  Dearborn  over  a  year 
before."  I  did  not  say  "  Surgeon  John  Cooper,"  but  I 
did  place  the  words  "  surgeon's  mate  "  after  the  name 
of  John  Cooper, —  quite  a  different  matter.  For  some 
reason  John  Cooper,  the  surgeon's  mate,  did  leave  the 
service  the  year  before,  as  the  reviewer  says.  Now, 
whether  the  astute  reviewer  knew  it  or  not,  he  ought  to 
have  known  that  there  was  a  man  by  the  name  of  Cooper 
(first  name  not  known)  who  was  at  Fort  Dearborn  at 
the  time  of  the  massacre,  that  he  was  killed,  and  that  he 
had  a  wife  and  daughter  who  survived  him.  Previous 
writers  have  confused  these  two  men,  as  I  did.  The 
story  of  the  Cooper  who  was  killed  is  given  in  Fergus's 
Historical  Series,  No.  16,  pp.  54,  56.  The  reviewer  had 
become  aware  of  this  fact  while  rummaging  through  the 
details  of  a  wretched  feud  that  existed  among  the 
officers  and  the  people  of  the  neighborhood  a  year  or 
two  before  the  massacre  (as  appears  in  the  address  re- 
ferred to),  which  gives  him  occasion  to  make  a  partial 
statement  intended  to  be  injurious  to  me. 

The  reviewer  finds  that  my  book  "  reveals  no  evidence 
of  the  exercise  of  a  critical  faculty."  His  review  is 
possibly  a  specimen  of  the  exercise  of  such  a  faculty; 
but  joined  with  a  narrow  and  contentious  disposition, 
such  as  he  exhibits,  I  believe  it  will  strike  the  fair- 
minded  reader  as  a  most  undesirable  accomplishment. 
To  examine  the  minute  merits  of  every  historical  ques- 
tion touched  upon  would  have  defeated  the  purpose  for 
which  my  book  was  written, — :  a  point  that  the  reviewer 
misses  entirely.  If,  for  example,  I  had  entered  upon  a 
discussion  of  the  merits  of  Gen.  Dearborn's  services  on 
the  Niagara  frontier  it  would,  in  my  judgment,  have 
been  regarded  by  most  readers  as  a  needless  digression 
remote  from  the  subject-matter  of  the  book.  In  fact, 
to  have  done  so  would  have  been  to  awaken  the  con- 
troversial activities  of  just  such  men  as  this  reviewer 
shows  himself  to  be.  He  would  have  such  a  story  as  I 
have  written  prepared  in  the  manner  of  a  thesis, —  a 
manner  that  would  only  have  served  to  repel  the  class 
of  readers  such  as  I  intended  to  attract. 

I  will  close  this  letter  with  a  quotation,  which  is  per- 
haps appropriate.  A  certain  wise  old  philosopher,  Sir 
Thomas  Browne,  in  the  course  of  some  general  advice 
to  critics,  wrote  as  follows  : 

"Bring  candid  eyes  unto  the  perusal  of  men's  works, 
and  let  not  Detraction  blast  well-intended  labors.  He  that 
endureth  no  fault  in  man's  writings  must  only  read  his  own. 
.  .  .  Capital  truths  are  to  be  narrowly  eyed,  collateral  lapses 
and  circumstantial  deliveries  not  to  be  too  strictly  sifted. 
And  if  the  substantial  subject  be  well  forged  out,  we  need  not 
examine  the  sparks  which  irregularly  fly  from  it." 

J.  SEYMOUR  CURREY. 

Evanston,  III.,  Sept.  7,  1912. 


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[Sept.  16, 


RETROSPECTS  or  A  RETIRED  WAR 
VETERAN.* 


Those  who  fought  in,  or  lived  through,  or 
even  heard  some  faint  dying  echoes  of  our 
Civil  War,  will  not  soon  tire  of  reading  its 
history  as  told  from  many  points  of  view  by 
those  whose  valor  and  ability  helped  to  bring 
it  to  a  fortunate  termination.  To  the  list  of 
noteworthy  military  memoirs  penned  by  Amer- 
ican soldier-authors  there  is  now  added  General 
James  Harrison  Wilson's  detailed  and  interest- 
ing recollections  of  his  eventful  campaigns  in 
the  great  struggle  of  half  a  century  ago  and 
of  his  less  sanguinary  experiences  in  the  short 
conflict  with  Spain.  "Under  the  Old  Flag" 
traces,  in  two  stout  volumes,  the  course  of  its 
writer's  life  from  boyhood  in  a  small  Illinois 
town  through  the  formative  years  of  a  West 
Point  training,  the  hardening  and  ripening 
years  of  military  service  immediately  afterward, 
at  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War,  the  subse- 
quent campaigns  in  which  promotion  and  in- 
creased responsibilities  were  not  slow  to  follow, 
the  peaceful  interval  of  a  third  of  a  century, 
and  the  parts  played  in  the  war  with  Spain,  the 
reconstruction  of  Cuba,  and  the  suppression  of 
the  Boxers  in  China. 

Only  a  few  of  the  most  prominent  features 
of  so  extensive  a  work  can  be  touched  upon  in 
any  general  survey  of  its  merits.  New  lights 
on  some  of  our  national  heroes,  fresh  views  of 
certain  historic  events,  a  fuller  realization  of 
perils  encountered  and  difficulties  overcome  by 
the  shapers  of  our  country's  destinies  —  these 
are  afforded  by  the  graphic  narrative  before  us. 
To  begin  with  the  school  days  of  the  future 
brigadier  and  division-commander,  here  is  a 
paragraph  from  the  account  of  his  studies  at 
West  Point : 

"  At  the  end  of  the  [first]  year,  although  I  had  started 
next  to  foot,  I  was  in  the  first  or  second  section  in  all 
the  studies.  My  two  terms  at  college  had  been  of  great 
advantage  in  teaching  me  how  to  study.  I  had  no  diffi- 
culty in  any  branch,  and  did  my  daily  task  easily  enough, 
and,  after  a  few  months,  had  plenty  of  time  left  for 
general  reading.  This  was  the  case  to  the  end  of  my 
cadet  life.  The  library  contained  some  twenty  thousand 
volumes,  largely  military,  but  all  fairly  well  selected, 
and,  although  nothing  was  done  to  encourage  its  use,  or 
to  guide  the  cadets  in  the  selection  of  books,  it  was  free 
to  all  who  had  time  or  inclination  to  visit  it  after  study 
hours  or  on  holidays.  I  soon  made  the  acquaintance  of 

*UNDER  THE  OLD  FLAG.  By  James  Harrison  Wilson, 
LL.D.,  late  Major-General,  U.  S.  V.  In  two  volumes.  New 
York :  D.  Appleton  &  Co. 


Fries,  the  curator.  During  my  first  encampment  I  read 
Story's  '  Constitutional  Law '  and  a  general  assortment 
of  romance  and  history,  and  after  that  not  only  became 
a  steady  patron  of  it,  but  close  friends  with  the  kindly 
Fries,  who  had  a  wonderful  memory,  and  was  most  help- 
ful in  introducing  me  to  his  treasures.  As  I  grew  older 
he  became  more  considerate,  and  I  hold  him  in  grateful 
memory  for  his  unfailing  kindness.  The  instructors  came 
and  went,  but  he  remained  at  his  post,  not  only  for  my 
term,  but  for  long  years  afterward,  and  if  1  should  be 
called  upon  to  say  who  did  me  the  most  good  and  helped 
me  most  to  equip  myself  for  the  duties  of  life,  I  should 
unhesitatingly  say  Andrd  Fries,  the  old  librarian." 

In  the  war  that  followed  soon  after  the  cadet's 
graduation  from  West  Point,  he  served  first  in 
the  Port  Royal  expedition,  afterward  in  the 
Antietam  campaign,  and  was  then  assigned  to 
various  duties  in  rather  rapid  succession,  and 
with  equally  rapid  promotion  from  a  lieutenancy 
to  higher  and  higher  offices  until  we  find  him 
commanding  a  division  of  Sheridan's  cavalry, 
afterward  organizing  and  commanding  a  cavalry 
corps  of  the  Military  Division  of  the  Mississippi, 
then  directing  the  assault  upon  and  capture  of 
Selma  and  Montgomery  and  other  positions  in 
the  South,  and,  finally,  effecting  the  pursuit  and 
capture  of  Jefferson  Davis.  Many  famous  gen- 
erals, as  Grant,  Sherman,  McClellan,  Hooker, 
under  or  with  whom  he  fought,  pass  across  the 
writer's  pages  in  an  almost  living  and  breathing 
reality.  Two  peculiar  regrets  in  connection  with 
this  excellent  record  are  felt  by  the  author,  who 
says  in  an  early  chapter : 

"  Looking  back  on  my  military  life,  I  have  only  two 
regrets  in  connection  with  it :  first,  that  I  was  never  an 
enlisted  man  in  the  infantry  or  cavalry,  because,  with 
my  health,  activity,  powers  of  endurance,  and  skill  in 
handling  a  rifle  and  a  horse,  I  always  felt  that  I  would 
have  been  as  good  a  soldier  as  could  be  found  anywhere 
in  the  ranks,  while  I  was  far  from  having  the  same  con- 
fidence in  my  capacity  as  a  commissioned  officer ;  and, 
second,  that  I  was  never  a  prisoner  of  war,  because  I 
felt  that  the  privation  and  ill  treatment  of  that  fate 
would  have  stimulated  me  to  even  greater  determination 
and  services  in  behalf  of  the  Union  cause." 

Like  any  other  full  account  of  our  military 
operations  in  1861-65,  General  Wilson's  narra- 
tive makes  the  reader  vividly  aware  of  the  blun- 
ders committed,  the  disasters  narrowly  escaped, 
the  un  skill  and  unreadiness  displayed,  at  the 
opening  of  the  war,  and  the  seeming  ease  with 
which,  under  wiser  direction,  the  conflict  could 
have  been  brought  to  a  close  long  before  its 
actual  end.  For  example,  had  a  younger  and 
more  alert  man  than  the  veteran  Scott  been  at 
the  head  of  the  army  when  hostilities  began,  how 
different  might  have  been  the  course  of  subse- 
quent events !  But  the  writer  pays  appropriate 
tribute  to  General  Scott's  merits.  In  contrast- 
ing him  with  another  Virginian,  Lee,  he  says : 


1912.J 


THE    DIAI, 


189 


"  In  these  later  days  when  it  is  the  fashion  to  mag- 
nify the  virtues  of  Lee,  not  only  as  a  military  man,  but 
as  a  patriot,  it  seems  to  me  that  the  country  is  in  danger 
of  forgetting  its  immense  debt  of  gratitude  to  General 
Scott,  who  was  fully  Lee's  equal  as  a  soldier  and  far 
greater  than  Lee  as  a  patriot.  His  conquest  of  Mexico 
was  a  performance  of  the  first  rank  and  that  is  more 
than  can  be  said  of  Lee's  best  campaign.  Scott's  patri- 
otism, unlike  Lee's,  was  neither  provincial  nor  bounded 
by  state  lines,  but  was  national  and  all-embracing.  He 
gave  his  services  at  all  times  and  all  places  to  the  whole 
country,  without  hesitation  and  without  question.  Like 
Douglas,  his  example  was  worth  an  army  to  the  Union 
cause.  All  eyes  were,  indeed,  turned  to  the  veteran 
Brevet  Lieutenant  General  Scott,  second  of  that  rank 
in  America,  for  inspiration  and  guidance,  and  no  one 
looked  to  him  with  more  anxiety  than  Lincoln,  the  newly- 
elected  President.  Happily  both  for  him  and  the  cause 
he  upheld,  Lincoln  did  not  look  in  vain.  The  old  soldier, 
staggering  under  the  weight  of  years,  put  behind  him 
all  appeals  to  state  pride  and,  like  an  old  and  seasoned 
oak,  stood  erect  and  unbending  amid  the  raging  storm 
of  secession  and  civil  war." 

The  following  passage  presents  Grant  in  a 
guise  not  too  familiar  to  be  interesting.  It  was 
Grant's  influence  and  favor  that  acted  most 
powerfully  in  securing  the  author's  recognition 
as  an  able  organizer  and  commander,  and  his 
promotion  to  rank  befitting  his  quality.  Of 
the  impression  made  by  the  older  man  on  the 
younger  at  their  first  meeting  we  read : 

"  Putting  on  no  airs  whatever  and  using  nothing  but 
the  mildest  and  cleanest  language,  he  treated  me  from 
the  start  with  cordiality  and  without  the  slightest  as- 
sumption of  personal  or  official  superiority.  As  I  after- 
ward learned,  this  was  always  his  way,  and  while  he 
invited  no  confidences,  he  repelled  none,  and  thus  got  all 
that  were  worth  having.  Snowing  no  sign  whatever  of 
hard  living  or  bad  habits,  he  produced  a  pleasant  but 
by  no  means  striking  impression  at  first.  With  what  I 
heard  from  others,  I  naturally  suspended  judgment,  and 
as  my  first  orders  were  to  join  McPherson  with  the  right 
wing  of  the  army  for  the  movement  about  to  begin, 
instead  of  to  settle  down  at  headquarters  and  organize 
my  branch  of  the  staff  service,  I  naturally  got  the  im- 
pression that  Grant  was  neither  a  great  organizer  nor 
much  of  a  theorist  in  military  matters.  This  opinion 
grew  gradually  into  a  settled  conviction,  and  in  spite  of 
his  great  achievements,  which  were  won  mainly  by  atten- 
tion to  broad  general  principles  rather  than  to  technical 
details,  I  have  never  had  occasion  to  materially  change 
these  earlier  impressions." 

It  appears  from  General  Wilson's  account, 
that  he  and  Major  Eawlins  first  conceived,  or 
first  put  into  words,  the  plan,  later  adopted 
by  Grant,  of  running  the  Vicksburg  batteries 
by  night.  In  a  council  of  war  held  some  time 
before  the  bold  project  was  put  into  execution, 
all  sorts  of  plans  were  discussed.  We  quote  a 
portion  of  the  narrative  at  this  point: 

"Whereupon  Rawlins  explained  my  proposition  to 
run  the  batteries  under  cover  of  darkness  with  the  gun- 
boats and  transports  and  march  the  troops  below  by 
land,  to  the  first  feasible  crossing. 


"  As  Rawlins  had  predicted,  Sherman  at  once  and 
with  emphasis  declared:  'It  can't  be  done.  It  is  im- 
practicable. The  transports  will  be  destroyed.  The 
enemy's  guns  will  sink  them  or  set  them  afire.'  And 
that  settled  it  for  the  time  being,  for  although  Rawlins 
gave  the  reasons  clearly  and  emphatically  for  the  faith 
that  was  in  us,  no  one  came  to  his  support.  Even  Grant 
kept  silent,  though  he  tells  us  clearly  enough  in  his 
memoirs,  written  many  years  afterward,  that  it  was  his 
purpose  from  the  first  to  carry  that  plan  into  effect  if 
the  others  failed." 

To  refer  at  any  length  to  the  rather  absurdly 
inconspicuous  part  assigned  to  General  Wilson 
when  he  offered  his  services  in  the  Spanish- 
American  War,  would  exceed  the  limits  allowed 
to  this  review.  But  he  seems  to  have  accepted 
his  lot  with  the  cheerful  acquiescence  of  a  true 
soldier.  To  gain  a  more  intelligent  appreciation 
of  his  character  and  worth  one  may  turn  to 
Nicolay  and  Hay's  "  Life  of  Lincoln,"  to  which 
the  present  book  makes  pardonable  reference. 
Among  other  notices  of  General  Wilson,  we 
read: 

"The  ride  of  Wilson's  troopers  into  Alabama  was  one 
of  the  most  important  and  fruitful  expeditions  of  the 
war.  ...  If  the  Confederacy  had  not  already  been 
wounded  to  death,  the  loss  of  Selma  would  have  been 
irreparable.  ...  It  justified  by  its  celerity,  boldness, 
and  good  judgment  the  high  encomium  with  which 
Grant  sent  Wilson  to  Thomas." 

If  still  further  aids  are  desired  to  an  esti- 
mation of  General  Wilson's  worth  as  a  soldier, 
they  are  not  far  to  seek.  He  is  one  of  three 
brothers  who  served  with  distinction  in  the 
Civil  War,  and  a  tribute  he  pays  to  his  brother 
Henry's  bravery  enables  one  to  surmise  what 
are  likely  to  have  been  his  own  exhibitions  of 
cool  daring  when  put  to  the  test.  He  writes 
of  Henry: 

"  He  had  early  become  known  to  the  leading  generals 
as  an  active  and  fearless  officer  and  an  excellent  drill- 
master  with  remarkable  presence  of  mind.  He  had  led 
his  company  in  the  successful  charge  against  the  enemy's 
works  at  Donelson,  had  been  shot  through  the  body,  as 
he  thought,  and  paralyzed,  had  been  pulled  to  cover 
under  the  hillside  he  had  just  surmounted,  by  a  comrade 
who  covered  him  with  a  blanket  and  left  him  for  dead, 
had  revived,  cut  a  crutch,  rejoined  his  company,  and 
fought  with  it  till  night  when  the  bullet  was  cut  out  of 
his  back.  Fortunately  it  had  '  gone  around,  not  through ' 
him.  At.  Shiloh  he  distinguished  himself  by  leading  his 
men  to  the  capture  of  a  battery  and  by  turning  it  against 
the  enemy.  Having  been  drilled  for  a  year  at  West 
Point,  he  was  as  much  at  home  in  the  artillery  as  he  was 
with  the  infantry.  While  working  the  captured  guns, 
one  of  his  gunners  thoughtlessly  dropped  an  armful 
of  shrapnel  near  the  muzzle  of  a  piece,  the  flash  from 
which  set  the  wrappings  on  fire.  Fearing  an  explosion, 
my  brother,  without  tremor  or  a  moment's  hesitation, 
seized  the  shell  and  hurled  it  to  the  front  where  its 
explosion  did  no  harm.  It  was  in  allusion  to  this  and 
other  gallant  feats  that  General  Oglesby,  afterward 
senator  and  governor  of  Illinois,  said  with  an  emphatic 


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oath  :  <  Captain  Wilson  was  the  bravest  man  I  ever 
knew!'" 

In  fulness  and  readability,  "  Under  the  Old 
Flag"  is  the  best  work  of  its  kind  that  has 
appeared  since  General  Howard  gave  us  his  two 
volumes  of  autobiography  five  years  ago.  In 
"human  interest,"  which  it  is  the  present  fash- 
ion to  clamor  for,  it  would  be  difficult  to  indicate 
how  the  book  could  be  improved. 

PERCY  F.  BICKNELL. 


IDEAL.S  AND  TENDENCIES  IN  PRESENT- 
DAY  SOCIALISM.* 


There  are  two  very  decided  tendencies  to  be 
noted  in  the  pages  of  the  lately  published  books 
dealing  with  socialism.  First  of  all  one  feels 
that  there  is  a  very  great  desire  on  the  part  of 
the  authors  to  "pull  the  sting"  of  the  socialist 
teachings.  One  seeks  in  vain  for  the  vigorous 
insistence  upon  the  class-conscious,  revolution- 
ary, Marxian  programme  which  until  the  last 
few  years  has  been  so  characteristic  of  socialist 
writers.  In  its  stead  there  appears  a  jumble  of 
Utopian,  ethical,  Christian  socialist,  and  Fabian 
ideas,  with  a  smattering  of  Marxian  principles. 
To  add  to  the  confusion  the  result  is  frequently 
and  falsely  labelled  "scientific"  or  "  Marxian" 
socialism.  While  it  is  admittedly  true  that 
socialism  is  not  a  group  of  fixed  and  unchange- 
able dogmas,  but  primarily  a  growing,  changing 
movement  for  social  betterment,  it  seems  ques- 
tionable under  the  circumstances  for  these  later 
authors  to  classify  their  special  brand  of  ideas 
as  "  Marxian."  Every  chance  remark  or  state- 
ment of  the  founder  of  scientific  socialism  is 
searched  out  and  used  by  them  for  the  purpose 
of  bolstering  up  their  individual  contentions. 
So  widespread  has  this  practice  become  that  to- 
day Marx's  writings  and  those  of  his  co-worker, 
Engels,  are  about  as  frequently  misquoted  and 
misinterpreted  to  fit  the  particular  situation  as 
are  those  of  the  Biblical  authors. 

In  the  second  place  one  notes  that  more 
attention  is  being  given  to  constructive  ideas. 

*  SOCIALISM  AND  CHARACTER.  By  Vida  D.  Scudder. 
Boston :  Houghton  Mifflin  Co. 

SOCIALISM  AND  THE  ETHICS  OF  JESUS.  By  Henry  C. 
Vedder.  New  York :  The  Macmillan  Co. 

ELEMENTS  OF  SOCIALISM.  A  Text-Book.  By  John 
Spargo  and  George  Louis  Arner,  Ph.D.  New  York :  The 
Macmillan  Co. 

SOCIALISM  AND  THE  GREAT  STATE.  Essays  in  Con- 
struction. By  H.  G.  Wells  and  others.  New  York:  Harper 
&  Brothers. 

APPLIED  SOCIALISM.  A  Study  of  the  Application  of 
Socialistic  Principles  to  the  State.  By  John  Spargo.  New 
York :  B.  W.  Huebsch. 


In  former  years  socialists  were  forced  to  con- 
cern themselves  with  critical  and  destructive 
arguments  for  the  purpose  of  forcing  the  people 
to  acknowledge  that  a  change  was  imperative. 
Now  that  they  have  obtained  a  hearing  and  have 
gathered  a  rapidly-growing  following,  they  deem 
it  advisable  to  build  for  the  future.  In  many 
instances  the  propositions  advanced  closely  ap- 
proximate the  Utopian  schemes  of  the  past ;  in 
others  they  smack  greatly  of  the  progressive 
legislation  proposed  by  social  reformers. 

Both  of  these  tendencies  seem  to  have  devel- 
oped out  of  the  over-weening  desire  of  a  very 
large  faction  among  the  socialists  to  "get  votes." 
The  acquisition  of  political  power  appears  to  be 
the  goal  most  desired  at  the  present  time  by  the 
members  of  the  socialist  movement. 

Miss  Scudder's  "Socialism  and  Character" 
is  a  unique  contribution  to  socialist  literature. 
The  author  discusses  with  some  detail  the  prob- 
able moral  and  spiritual  results  of  socialism, 
and  concludes  that  under  such  a  regime  "the 
Beatitudes  will  no  longer  have  to  maintain 
themselves  against  the  trend  of  things,  but  will 
become  as  truly  the  law  for  social  progress  as 
they  are  now  the  law  for  individual  holiness." 
The  book  is  a  beautifully  written  essay  of 
carefully  chosen  words,  with  frequent  allusion 
to  classical  and  modern  literature.  Its  pages 
clearly  disclose  the  extremely  idealistic  and  intel- 
lectual, almost  Christian  socialist,  point  of  view 
of  its  author.  Although  Miss  Scudder  claims  to 
write  as  "a  socialist — a  class-conscious,  revolu- 
tionary socialist,  if  you  will," — she  confesses 
that  her  attitude  toward  this  question  is  that  of 
one  "  to  whom  none  the  less  the  spiritual  harvest, 
the  fruits  of  character,  are  the  only  result  worth 
noting  in  any  economic  order."  Meekness,  re- 
ligion, sympathy,  affection,  morality,  love,  gen- 
erosity, are  words  which  give  the  keynote  of  the 
discussion.  The  thorough-going  socialist  will 
find  much  in  the  work  to  criticize.  The  author 
confesses  that  although  she  accepts  the  material- 
istic conception  of  history  and  the  doctrine  of 
the  class  struggle,  "the  construction  here  put  on 
them  will  be  foolishness  and  irritation  to  many  a 
good  Marxian."  Miss  Scudder's  book  is,  how- 
ever, replete  with  stimulating  and  suggestive 
ideas ;  and  while  it  cannot  appeal  to  the  class- 
conscious,  revolutionary  political  socialist,  it  will 
undoubtedly  supply  the  need  for  just  such  a  dis- 
cussion as  Christian  socialists  and  others  have 
long  felt. 

In  "  Socialism  and  the  Ethics  of  Jesus,"  Pro- 
fessor Vedder  first  clears  the  field  by  defining 
socialism  and  differentiating  it  from  other  be- 


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lief s  with  which  it  is  frequently  confused ;  after 
which  he  gives  us  a  brief  statement  of  the  his- 
tory of  socialist  principles  and  parties  in  Ger- 
many, France,  England,  and  the  United  States. 
Concluding  chapters  are  devoted  to  an  inquiry 
regarding  the  respects  in  which  the  principles  of 
socialism  correspond  to  or  differ  from  the  ethics 
of  Jesus.  Professor  Vedder  writes,  not  as  a 
scientific  socialist,  but  as  a  Christian  socialist. 
This  is  evidenced,  for  example,  by  his  declaration 
that  "  the  real  basis  of  Socialism  is  not  scientific, 
but  ethical"  (p.  135).  In  fact,  the  author  is 
bitter  in  his  denunciation  of  scientific  socialism. 
He  characterizes  the  first  volume  of  "  Capital " 
as  "thoroughly  unscientific  and  misleading" 
(p.  136),  and  declares  the  whole  Marxian  system 
to  be  "  as  unsubstantial  as  moonshine  "  (p.  135). 
He  also  concludes  that  it  is  "time  somebody 
punctured  this  swollen  German  windbag  [Marx] 
and  reduced  it  to  its  natural  proportions" 
(p.  113).  In  discussing  the  labor  theory  of 
value,  he  shows  a  surprising  lack  of  ac- 
quaintance with  the  theories  of  Marx  as  well  as 
with  those  of  modern  economists.  Probably  it 
is  this  that  accounts  for  the  statement  that  the 
Marxian  law  holds  that  "  the  more  unskilful  a 
shoemaker,  the  more  valuable  will  be  the  shoes 
that  he  makes"  (pp.  118-119),  and  that  Marx 
maintained  that  "  wealth  is  produced  by  manual 
labor  alone,  and  therefore  of  right  belongs 
entirely  to  the  manual  laborer"  (p.  125).  The 
chapter  on  "  The  Ideals  of  Socialism  "  is  espe- 
cially good,  and  shows  that  the  author  has  an 
excellent  grasp  of  the  more  popular  arguments 
concerning  conditions  that  may  exist  when  the 
prophesied  stage  of  socialism  becomes  a  reality. 
In  treating  the  relation  of  the  ethics  of  Jesus 
to  socialism,  Professor  Vedder  severely  criticizes 
the  Church  for  what  he  terms  its  "  social  failure," 
and  demands  that  it  become  "  more  socialized  in 
all  its  thinking  and  activities."  He  says  that 
"  The  teachings  of  Jesus  are  utterly  incompatible 
with  the  present  social  order,"  and  can  only  be 
truly  realized  under  a  socialistic  regime.  Social- 
ism and  Christianity,  he  says,  are  not  antago- 
nists but  allies.  They  can  do  each  other  much 
good,  because  Christianity  needs  to  be  socialized, 
and  socialism  needs  to  be  Christianized.  The 
volume  is  excellently  written,  logically  arranged, 
and  makes  a  well-rounded  discussion  from  the 
standpoint  of  a  Christian  socialist.  Its  general 
thoroughness  and  accuracy  are  somewhat  marred 
by  occasional  rash  and  unfounded  statements, 
and  by  a  lack  of  appreciation  of  the  principles 
of  scientific  socialism.  A  short  but  well-chosen 
bibliography  accompanies  each  chapter. 


"  Elements  of  Socialism,"  by  Messrs.  Spargo 
and  Arner,  is  without  doubt  the  best  popular 
exposition  of  socialism  by  two  of  its  advocates 
that  has  thus  far  been  published.  Although 
any  opponent  of  socialist  doctrines  will  find 
much  in  it  with  which  to  disagree,  he  will 
nevertheless  be  forced  to  admit  that  as  a  state- 
ment of  the  theories,  ideals,  history,  and  present 
strength  of  the  socialist  movement,  it  leaves  but 
little  if  anything  to  be  desired.  The  volume 
is  thoroughly  revisionist  in  its  attitude  toward 
socialist  theories  and  tactics,  and  in  point  of 
view  closely  follows  the  previous  writings  of  Mr. 
Spargo.  Its  weakest  parts  are  those  chapters 
that  deal  with  the  theories  of  value  and  surplus 
value.  Although  the  authors  have  presented  a 
clear  statement  of  the  Marxian  theory  of  value, 
they  experience  the  usual  difficulty  in  making  it 
a  workable  proposition.  It  is  impossible  for  one 
to  explain  Marx's  unit  of  value,  "an  hour  of 
socially  necessary  unskilled  labor,"  as  it  is  also 
impossible  for  one  to  reduce  skilled  labor  to 
terms  of  that  unit.  The  authors  are  not  very 
well  grounded  in  the  general  field  of  theory,  as 
is  shown  by  their  statements  that  "wealth  is 
the  product  of  a  union  of  labor  and  the  forces 
of  nature"  (p.  144),  and  that  capital  is  "wealth 
that  is  used  for  the  production  of  new  wealth 
with  a  view  to  the  realization  of  profit  through 
its  exchange"  (p.  145).  The  ideals  of  Utopian 
as  well  as  of  scientific  socialists  are  explained  in 
detail.  There  is  also  a  discussion  of  the  relations 
which  it  is  thought  may  exist  in  the  political, 
social,  and  industrial  spheres  under  socialism. 
A  necessarily  brief  but  generally  satisfactory  de- 
scription is  given  of  the  socialist  movement  in 
various  countries.  Many  of  the  customary  ob- 
jections urged  against  socialism  are  answered. 
A  short  summary,  a  list  of  questions,  and  a 
bibliography  follow  each  chapter.  The  authors 
are  to  be  congratulated  upon  this  book.  It  is 
written  in  an  optimistic  and  kindly  vein,  free 
from  the  bitterness  and  sarcasm  that  usually 
characterize  socialist  works.  Although  intended 
for  use  as  a  text-book,  the  fact  that  it  presents 
but  one  side  of  the  question  will  undoubtedly 
prevent  its  wide  acceptance  for  the  class-room. 

Mr.  H.  G.  Wells,  Lady  Warwick,  Mr.  L.  G. 
Chiozza  Money,  and  several  other  persons  of 
note  have  collaborated  in  publishing  a  volume 
bearing  the  title,  "Socialism  and  the  Great 
State."  The  Great  State,  broadly  speaking, 
is  the  State  of  the  future  towards  which  it  is 
claimed  society  is  evolving.  An  effort  is  made 
to  outline,  but  only  in  very  general  terms,  the 
conditions  which  may  exist  at  that  time.  None 


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of  the  collaborators  are  Marxian  socialists ;  sev- 
eral acknowledge  that  they  are  out-and-out  non- 
socialists.  The  joint  product  is  a  volume  of 
stimulating,  enthusiastic,  and  optimistic  predic- 
tions concerning  the  future.  To  the  reader  who 
possesses  a  progressive  turn  of  mind  there  is 
nothing  that  will  offend,  while  practically  every- 
thing can  be  accepted  in  its  entirety.  Although 
the  authors  condemn  the  Fabian  socialists  in  no 
uncertain  terms,  one  finds  much  in  the  book 
that  "out-Fabians  the  Fabians."  The  volume 
will  appeal  to  members  of  the  middle  class,  but 
it  will  receive  scant  appreciation  at  the  hands 
of  the  Marxian  socialists. 

Mr.  Spargo  in  his  new  book  on  "Applied 
Socialism"  keeps  much  closer  to  the  working- 
class  point  of  view  than  do  the  authors  of 
"Socialism  and  the  Great  State."  He  begins 
by  wisely  warning  the  reader  that  his  statements 
must  not  be  accepted  as  "authoritative";  they 
are  merely  the  ideas  of  a  socialist  who  has  at- 
tempted to  sketch  the  conditions  that  may  come 
to  pass  with  the  inauguration  of  the  prophesied 
socialistic  Cooperative  Commonwealth.  Will 
socialism  result  in  the  confiscation  of  property? 
Will  it  destroy  the  home?  Will  it  be  opposed 
to  religion  ?  How  will  labor  be  compensated  ? 
What  will  be  the  incentive  to  effort  ?  These,  and 
many  other  equally  important  questions,  the 
author  attempts  to  answer  frankly  and  conclu- 
sively. That  he  has  succeeded  in  presenting  the 
best  and  the  most  thorough-going  study  of  the 
application  of  socialistic  principles  to  the  State, 
no  one  can  deny.  But  in  doing  so,  Mr.  Spargo 
has  exercised  great  generalship  in  threading  his 
way  amongst  the  mooted  questions  of  construc- 
tive socialism.  He  has  been  exceptionally  cau- 
tious and  conservative  in  his  presentation  of  the 
subject.  There  are  parts  of  the  volume  that 
will  be  very  severely  criticized  by  the  socialists, 
especially  by  the  more  radical  advocates  of  social 
democracy.  To  the  reviewer  it  seems  that  Mr. 
Spargo  at  one  point  has  argued  himself  into  a 
contradictory  position  by  declaring  that  under 
socialism  both  the  State  and  groups  of  workers 
engaged  in  voluntary  cooperative  industry  may 
manufacture  the  same  things.  This  will  natur- 
ally lead  to  industrial  competition  of  the  very 
same  sort  that  the  socialists  are  so  bitterly  op- 
posed to  in  our  present  system  of  industry.  Mr. 
Spargo  argues  for  socialism  because  it  would 
make  industrial  competition  impossible,  yet  his 
scheme  of  things  would  make  its  retention  pos- 
sible in  a  socialistic  form  of  society.  An  index 
would  have  added  to  the  value  of  the  book. 

IRA  B.  CROSS. 


THE  RECORDS  or  THE  FEDERAL, 
CONVENTION.* 

Upon  the  adjournment,  on  September  17, 
1787,  of  the  Convention  which  framed  the  Con- 
stitution of  the  United  States,  no  record  of  the 
proceedings  of  that  body  was  made  public.  The 
sessions  of  the  Convention  had  been  secret,  and 
the  journal  and  papers  kept  by  the  secretary, 
William  Jackson,  were  now  by  order  turned 
over  for  safe-keeping  to  the  presiding  officer, 
George  Washington.  In  1796,  Washington, 
then  President  of  the  United  States,  deposited 
these  papers  in  the  Department  of  State.  There 
they  remained  until  1818,  when  Congress  by 
joint  resolution  ordered  them  to  be  printed, 
and  President  Monroe  found  a  willing  editor  in 
his  Secretary  of  State,  John  Quincy  Adams. 
Under  Adams's  care,  the  "journal"  was  pub- 
lished at  Boston  in  1819. 

This  "journal"  was  but  a  cold  statement  of 
motions  and  votes,  and  gave  but  a  very  unsatis- 
factory insight  into  the  springs  of  the  Conven- 
tion's actions.  But  records  of  another  form  — 
the  unofficial  —  soon  made  their  appearance. 
These  may  be  divided  into  two  classes:  first, 
notes  made  by  members  of  the  Convention  dur- 
ing the  sittings  in  Philadelphia,  which  have  the 
authority  of  contemporary  evidence ;  and  second, 
productions  formal  or  informal  written  by  mem- 
bers or  by  other  persons  after  the  adjournment 
of  the  Convention,  which  thus  are  dependent 
either  upon  notes  of  the  former  class  or  upon 
mere  recollection,  and  indeed  can  be  called  "  rec- 
ords" only  in  a  qualified  sense.  In  order  of 
time,  the  second  class  just  described  was  the  first 
to  appear  in  print.  Even  before  the  ratification 
of  the  Constitution  by  the  Conventions  of  the 
several  States,  there  had  appeared  such  accounts 
as  Charles  Pinckney's  "  Observations  " — which, 
in  addition  to  some  remarks  which  Pinckney 
may  have  delivered  before  the  Convention,  con- 
tains, it  is  thought,  some  that  he  certainly  did 
not — and  the  partisan  report  of  Luther  Martin 
of  Maryland,  which  he  ingenuously  entitled 
"Genuine  Information,"  while  later,  after  the 
inauguration  of  the  new  government,  this  or 
that  matter  of  constitutional  dispute  brought 
from  the  surviving  "fathers"  statement  after 
statement  of  their  individual  recollections  of 
the  Convention's  work. 

Of  unofficial  records  of  the  contemporary 
type,  the  first  to  be  printed  was  the  "  Secret 
Proceedings  and  Debates"  by  Judge  Yates  of 

*  RECORDS  OF  THE  FEDERAL  CONVENTION  OF  1787.  By 
Max  Farrand.  In  three  volumes.  New  Haven :  Yale  Uni- 
versity Press. 


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New  York.  These  notes,  which  had  already 
been  gleaned  for  partisan  purposes,  were  pub- 
lished in  1821.  Seven  years  later,  some  con- 
temporary notes  taken  by  William  Pierce  of 
Georgia  made  their  appearance  in  a  Savannah 
newspaper.  This  publication  was  known  to 
James  Madison,  but  in  general  Pierce's  notes 
had  probably  a  very  limited  circulation.  Both 
of  these  were  eclipsed,  however,  when,  in  1840, 
after  the  death  of  Madison,  his  papers,  and  more 
especially  the  famous  notes  which  with  skill  and 
assiduity  he  took  down  during  every  day  of  the 
Convention's  sitting,  and  which  in  his  lifetime 
he  jealously  reserved  from  public  view,  were  at 
last  put  into  print  and  rendered  accessible. 
Infelicitously  spoken  of  as  Madison's  "Jour- 
nal" (for  that  word  should  be  reserved  for  the 
official  record),  Madison's  notes,  reprinted  in 
many  forms,  have  ever  since  been  familiar  to  all 
serious  students  of  American  history. 

This  much  of  retrospect  is  necessary  to  under- 
stand fully  the  place  occupied  by  a  work  which 
embodies  a  most  important  accomplishment  of 
external  criticism  in  the  field  of  American  his- 
tory, Professor  Max  Farrand's  "Records  of  the 
Federal  Convention  of  1787,"  recently  published 
in  three  large  and  handsome  volumes  by  the 
Yale  University  Press.  The  title  sufficiently 
indicates  the  general  scope  of  the  work;  but  a 
more  detailed  analysis  of  the  contents  is  de- 
manded for  the  purposes  of  this  review.  In  vol- 
umes one  and  two,  Professor  Farrand  publishes 
for  each  day  of  the  session  of  the  Convention 
of  1787  the  official  "journal  "  and  the  unofficial 
records  that  are  contemporary.  In  appendixes 
in  volume  three  are  printed  some  documents 
that  properly  go  with  the  matter  just  described 
— the  credentials  of  the  delegates  to  the  Conven- 
tion, and  the  textual  reconstruction,  with  criti- 
cal notes,  of  the  various  "plans"  submitted  by 
individuals  or  by  groups  of  individuals  for  the 
consideration  of  the  constituent  body.  We  shall 
discuss  these  factors  in  the  order  in  which  they 
have  been  mentioned. 

The  official  "journal"  of  William  Jackson, 
edited  in  1819  carefully,  but  not  without  some 
errors,  by  John  Quincy  Adams,  is  reprinted  by 
Professor  Farrand  from  Jackson's  manuscript, 
with  indication  of  Adams's  editorial  emendations 
where  such  are  found.  Especially  in  determin- 
ing the  distribution  of  the  votes — the  ayes  and 
noes  upon  particular  questions  —  has  Professor 
Farrand  found  it  necessary  sometimes  to  correct 
Adams's  editorial  work.  Passing  from  this  to 
the  unofficial  records,  and  considering  first  those 
of  the  contemporary  type,  we  find  that  Professor 


Farrand  prints  after  the  "journal"  for  each  day 
the  notes  of  Madison  for  that  day,  and  similarly 
those  of  Yates  and  those  of  Pierce  for  each  day 
concerning  which  either  of  these  has  anything  to 
say.  But  this  is  not  all.  In  recent  years  there 
have  come  to  the  knowledge  of  investigators 
other  groups  of  contemporary  notes,  including 
those  of  Rufus  King  of  Massachusetts,  James 
McHenry  of  Maryland,  William  Paterson  of 
New  Jersey,  Alexander  Hamilton  of  New  York, 
Charles  Pinckney  of  South  Carolina,  and 
George  Mason  of  Virginia ;  while  the  papers  of 
James  Wilson  and  those  of  Benjamin  Franklin 
of  Pennsylvania  also  yield  some  fragments  in 
the  nature  of  records.  These  additions  to  our 
knowledge  of  the  Convention's  work,  most  of 
which  have  been  printed  originally  or  have  been 
immediately  reprinted  in  the  "American  His- 
torical Review,"  are  now  likewise  transferred  by 
Professor  Farrand  to  take  their  place  with  the 
older  "notes  "  in  the  diurnal  account  of  the  Con- 
vention's doings.  This  grouping  in  one  place, 
for  each  day  of  the  Convention's  session,  of  the 
known  contemporary  accounts,  official  and  unof- 
ficial, constitutes  a  boon  to  students  and  greatly 
facilitates  an  intensive  study  of  the  period.  Pro- 
fessor Farrand's  work,  however,  has  not  been 
merely  the  arranging  of  texts,  for  by  a  thor- 
.oughgoing  critical  examination  of  Madison's 
notes  he  shows  that  in  some  cases  Madison  made 
later  emendations  in  his  work,  using  as  bases 
therefor  the  "journal"  and  Yates's  notes,  so  to 
this  extent  weakening  the  value  of  his  own  ac- 
count as  an  independent  authority.  Similarly 
in  his  editing  of  the  "plans"  submitted  to  the 
Convention  by  the  Virginia  delegates,  by  the 
New  Jersey  men,  by  Charles  Pinckney,  and  by 
Alexander  Hamilton,  Professor  Farrand  some- 
times reaches  conclusions  which  differ  from  those 
of  Professor  A.  C.  McLaughlin  and  Dr.  J.  F. 
Jameson,  his  predecessors  in  this  special  field 
of  criticism. 

From  this  analysis  of  the  contemporary  rec- 
ords we  pass  to  the  "  supplementary  materials," 
or  later  accounts  of  the  work  of  the  Convention, 
which  constitute  by  far  the  greater  part  of  Pro- 
fessor Farrand's  third  volume.  The  editor  has 
gleaned  diligently;  and  while  the  matter  in- 
cluded under  this  head  is  of  very  heterogeneous 
character,  and,  as  a  whole,  is  secondary  in  im- 
portance to  the  main  body  of  the  work,  it  is  of 
the  greatest  interest  and  most  helpful  toward 
the  elucidation  of  the  records.  In  this  group 
are  included  the  report  of  Luther  Martin,  and 
that  of  Pinckney  to  which  we  have  already  refer- 
red; letters  of  Washington,  Hamilton,  Madison, 


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and  other  "fathers";  reports  of  the  French 
charge  d'affaires  to  his  home  government;  state- 
ments made  in  State  conventions  or  in  the  Con- 
gress of  the  United  States;  and  other  similar 
materials.  Rigorously  excluded  are  all  theo- 
retical interpretations  of  the  Constitution ;  one 
finds,  therefore,  no  decisions  of  the  Supreme 
Court,  and  from  "  The  Federalist,"  or  other  con- 
troversial pamphlets,  only  a  few  citations  which 
relate  to  matters  of  fact.  The  range  of  the  testi- 
mony is  wide,  extending  from  Madison's  most 
serious  statements  on  constitutional  points  to 
Dr.  Franklin's  unfinished  tale  of  the  two-headed 
snake,  and  to  the  anecdote  of  Gouverneur  Mor- 
ris's familiar  slap  upon  General  Washington's 
shoulder. 

Merely  to  suggest  the  capacity  for  usefulness 
that  arises  from  such  a  compilation  is  to  pay  a 
sufficient  tribute  to  the  painstaking  work  which 
the  editor  has  so  well  performed.  To  the  re- 
viewer there  appears  to  be  ground  for  but  one 
serious  criticism.  In  1894  the  Department  of 
State  of  the  United  States,  through  the  Bureau 
of  Rolls  and  Library,  began  the  publication  of 
a  work  entitled  "  The  Documentary  History  of 
the  Constitution,"  which  in  1901  was  reprinted 
by  Congressional  authority.  To  this  work  the 
thought  of  the  special  student  is  at  once  carried 
back  by  the  contemplation  of  Professor  Far-' 
rand's  volumes.  In  the  "  Documentary  History  " 
were  reprinted  with  scrupulous  care  the  official 
"journal"  and  Madison's  notes,  along  with  the 
records  of  the  earlier  convention  at  Annapolis, 
some  important  selections  from  the  journal  of 
the  Congress  of  the  United  States  under  the 
Articles  of  Confederation,  a  large  number  of 
documents  relating  to  the  history  of  the  amend- 
ments to  the  Constitution,  and  lastly,  in  the 
fourth  and  fifth  volumes  (published  in  1905),  a 
mass  of  supplementary  materials  derived  from 
the  manuscript  collections  then  in  the  Depart- 
ment of  State.  On  this  last  group  of  materials, 
Professor  Farrand  has  drawn  heavily ;  though 
the  fact  that  his  citations  from  the  same  docu- 
ments are  frequently  of  less  length  than  those  of 
the  "Documentary  History"  will  make  careful 
students  prefer,  after  all,  to  consult  the  origin- 
als. For  his  narrower  topic  —  the  work  of  the 
Constitutional  Convention  itself  —  Professor 
Farrand  has  accomplished  far  more  than  the 
"Documentary  History"  accomplished,  and  his 
work  is  in  many  respects  better  done.  But  in 
the  opinion  of  the  reviewer  the  two  productions 
have  so  much  in  common  that  a  clear  statement 
by  Professor  Farrand  as  to  the  relation  of  his 
own  work  to  the  older  one  would  have  been  most 


helpful  to  the  student.     As  it  is,  each  person 
must  make  the  comparison  for  himself. 

The  general  index,  full  in  most  respects, 
omits  a  few  important  topics.  On  the  other 
hand,  an  analytical  index  by  clauses  of  the 
Constitution  promises  a  means  of  assistance 
the  exact  value  of  which  must  be  tested  by  use. 
The  typography  of  the  volumes  is  of  the  highest 
excellence  except  for  a  few  misprints  which  may 
easily  be  corrected  in  another  edition.  The  only 
illustrations  are  two  photographs,  one  showing 
a  page  of  Jackson's  "journal"  and  the  other 
a  page  of  Madison's  notes.  Finally  may  be 
mentioned,  as  a  very  helpful  addition  made  by 
the  editor,  a  table  showing  as  accurately  as  the 
records  permit  the  time  during  which  each  of 
the  delegates  to  the  Convention  was  actually  in 


attendance. 


ST.  GEORGE  L.  SIOUSSAT. 


RESEARCHES  IN  THE  REALM  OF 
FAERIE.* 


In  his  book  on  "The  Fairy-Faith  in  Celtic 
Countries  "  Mr.  Evans  Wentz  has  set  himself 
the  somewhat  startling  task  of  endeavoring  to 
prove  in  broad  daylight  the  solid  basis  of  fancies 
which  have  haunted  most  men  in  some  moment 
of  darkness  or  fear.  All  external  nature,  he 
argues,  is  animated  throughout,  and  controlled 
in  its  phenomena,  by  daemons  acting  by  the  will 
of  gods.  The  fairies  of  Celtic  belief,  along  with 
the  goblins,  spectres,  kobolds,  etc.,  of  all  prim- 
itive folk,  have  a  real  basis  in  these  mighty 
beings  of  the  unseen,  who  may  at  certain  times 
and  places  appear  to  favored  observers.  The 
author  heaps  up  evidence  of  fairy  belief  from 
all  Celtic  lands, —  Ireland,  Scotland,  the  Isle  of 
Man,  Wales,  Cornwall,  and  Brittany;  and  con- 
cludes that  where  there  is  so  much  smoke  there 
must  be  some  fire. 

No  sensible  person  will  reprove  Mr.  Wentz 
for  collecting  and  marshalling  every  possible 
evidence  to  prove  his  hypothesis.  He  is  undeni- 
ably justified  in  keeping  an  open  mind  for  all 
the  truth  that  man  can  gather.  But  one  has  a 
right  to  expect  that  Mr.  Wentz  will  somewhere 
in  his  big  book  call  attention  to  the  trivial  and 
uncertain  character  of  nearly  all  the  facts  that 
he  has  mustered.  He  ought  in  fairness  to  state 
his  case  somewhere  with  calmness  and  caution. 
His  main  argument  that  where  there  is  so  much 
smoke  there  must  be  some  fire,  is  not  very  co- 
gent. Have  we  satisfied  ourselves  that  this  kind 

*  THE  FAIRY-FAITH  IN  CELTIC  COUNTRIES.  By  W.  Y. 
Evans  Wentz.  New  York :  Oxford  University  Press. 


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of  smoke  can  be  occasioned  only  by  real  fire? 
What  if,  after  all,  it  should  prove  to  be  a  cloud 
of  dust? 

Mr.  Wentz's  reasoning  is  not  based  on  clear 
and  rigid  analysis.  He  gives  a  place  of  honor, 
for  example,  to  the  argument  that  all  primitive 
peoples,  who  have  lived  close  to  nature,  have  be- 
lieved in  beings  comparable  to  fairies.  "  Only 
men  in  cities,"  he  says,  "  who  are  removed  from 
the  natural  life  of  the  out-of-door  world,"  dis- 
believe. Mr.  Wentz  plays  upon  the  word  "  nat- 
ural," and  urges  that  life  in  cities  is  abnormal, 
and  that  the  city  man  has  an  unwholesome  and 
probably  an  untrue  conception  of  nature.  This 
argument  rests  upon  a  vague  and  shifting  sig- 
nification of  the  word  "natural."  He  surely 
does  not  mean  that  questions  of  fact  are  settled 
by  popular  vote.  These  are  determined  by  the 
opinion  of  experts,  and  in  the  last  analysis  by 
recourse  to  experiment.  It  is  not  likely  that 
the  existence  of  .ST-rays  would  be  affirmed  by 
popular  vote.  The  assertion  that  our  disbelief 
in  fairies  is  determined  by  the  opinion  of  the 
swarms  of  human  beings  who  live  in  crowded 
and  unnatural  conditions  in  cities,  is  nonsense. 
It  is  not  the  opinion  of  the  multitudes  who  live 
in  slums,  and  in  closely  pent-up  streets,  that 
constitutes  knowledge.  Rather  it  is  the  opinion 
of  experts  who  live  in  highly  natural,  indeed  in 
ideal,  conditions,  in  or  near  cities.  Few  will 
follow  Mr.  Wentz  if  he  means  that  all  life  in 
cities  is  unnatural,  and  all  city  folk  abnormal. 
Man  seems  to  be  by  nature  a  city-making  animal, 
like  the  ant  or  the  bee.  The  knowledge  and 
control  of  the  powers  of  nature  upon  which  our 
civilization  reposes  have  been  initiated  and  car- 
ried forward  by  city  men.  Rather,  one  might 
say  that  to  the  city  man  belongs  the  knowledge 
of  the  world.  Mr.  Wentz's  argument  is  based 
on  a  confusion  of  thought.  If  it  proves  anything 
it  proves  that  all  human  knowledge  is  abnormal. 
Man  is  by  nature  naked  and  superstitious. 

The  utility  of  Mr.  Wentz's  book  for  students 
of  Celtic  custom,  ritual,  and  myth  is  consider- 
able. He  has  collected  much  information  con- 
cerning the  modern  fairy  beliefs  of  Celtic  lands, 
and  has  conveniently  catalogued  it  according  to 
the  locality  where  it  was  obtained.  He  fails, 
however,  to  call  attention  to  many  of  the  valu- 
able conclusions  which  his  researches  tend  to 
establish.  The  persistence  of  Celtic  popular  tra- 
dition is  one  of  these  astonishing  facts.  Irishmen 
in  Connemara  to-day  hold  exactly  the  same  be- 
liefs about  the  fairies  as  were  recorded  in  Irish 
sagas  of  one  thousand  years  ago.  For  example, 
the  Togail  Bruidne  Da  Derga,  which  was  very 


likely  written  down  in  the  eighth  century,  and 
is  preserved  in  an  MS.  of  about  1100,  describes 
hostile  fairies  as  appearing  all  red,  even  to  their 
clothing,  their  hair,  and  their  teeth,  and  riding 
upon  red  horses.  These  hostile  fairies  in  red, 
slightly  disguised  as  mysterious  red  knights, 
appear  again  and  again  in  the  Arthurian  legends, 
which  undoubtedly  rest  upon  a  basis  of  Celtic 
story.  Mr.  Wentz's  informants  in  many  differ- 
ent places  in  Ireland  of  to-day  —  peasants,  un- 
lettered men,  wholly  unfamiliar  with  ancient 
books  —  described  to  him  fairies  who  appeared 
all  in  red,  even  to  their  hair,  and  sometimes 
declared  that  they  had  seen  the  fairies  as  com- 
panies of  little  red  men  in  red  cloaks. 

The  numerous  facts  of  modern  folk-lore  which 
Mr.  Wentz  has  collected,  rather  than  his  conclu- 
sions about  them,  constitute  the  real  value  of  his 
book.  Indeed,  to  any  exacting  reader,  these 
folk-lore  facts  are  by  far  the  most  interesting 
things  which  the  book  contains. 

ARTHUR  C.  L.  BROWN. 


THE  CONFLICT  WITH  CRIMINALITY.* 


It  is  curious  to  note  in  certain  young  admini- 
strators of  the  criminal  law  in  America  an  irri- 
tability which  makes  them  impatient  of  the 
careful  and  slow  processes  of  education.  The 
ancient  retributive  idea  of  justice  was  adapted  to 
simple  and  savage  minds,  and  required  nothing 
but  a  club,  a  noose,  and  a  dungeon.  This  primi- 
tive conception  still  casts  its  dark  shadow  over 
our  courts  and  codes.  The  prosecuting  attorney, 
the  sheriff,  and  the  policeman  are  eager  to  make 
quick  work  with  the  disagreeable  offender,  and 
"  send  him  over  the  road  "  as  soon  as  possible. 
They  are  not  so  much  to  blame,  for  they  have 
legal  traditions  on  their  side,  and  are  bred  to 
prompt  action.  One  trouble  is,  however,  that 
this  swift  emotional  reaction  creates  recidivists  ; 
and  the  repeater  returns  after  a  brief  cooling 
process  to  plague  the  courts  and  the  public.  In 
medical  treatment  of  deep-seated  disease  a  little 
time  spent  on  diagnosis  is  not  wasted.  The  edu- 
cator bases  his  methods  on  psychology,  and,  like 

*THB  CRIMINAL,  AND  THE  COMMUNITY.  By  James 
Devon.  New  York :  John  Lane  Co. 

CRIMINAL  RESPONSIBILITY  AND  SOCIAL  CONSTRAINT.  By 
Ray  M.  McConnell.  New  York :  Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 

PENAL  SERVITUDE.  By  E.  Stagg  Whitin.  New  York : 
The  National  Committee  on  Prison  Labor. 

THE  PRESENT-DAY  PROBLEM  OF  CRIME.  By  Albert  H 
Currier.  Boston :  Richard  G.  Badger. 

FIFTY  YEARS  OF  PRISON  SERVICE.  An  Autobiography. 
By  Zebulon  Reed  Brockway.  Illustrated.  Charities  Pub- 
lication Committee. 


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a  careful  husbandman,  waits  long  years  for  his 
harvest.  Criminal  procedure  usually  aims  to 
be  just,  and  it  often  loses  itself  in  technicalities 
which  favor  the  criminal ;  but  at  bottom  our  pro- 
cedure has  no  reformatory  purpose  or  method : 
it  remains  under  the  spell  of  the  retributive 
aim. 

As  a  corrective  of  this  hasty  and  emotional 
attitude  toward  criminality,  the  studies  of  Dr. 
James  Devon,  physician  in  a  Scotch  prison,  are 
welcome.  His  criticism  of  the  legal  legends  and 
fictions  is  caustic,  but  justified  by  the  facts  cited 
from  his  long  experience.  It  is  amazing  how 
this  shrewd  observer  of  men  can  see  the  weak- 
ness and  wickedness  of  humanity  so  vividly  and 
paint  it  so  realistically,  and  yet  retain  his  calm, 
patient,  and  loving  attitude  toward  everyone  — 
except  the  privileged  classes.  While  he  does 
not  mention  the  American  methods  of  parole, 
probation,  and  indeterminate  sentence,  it  is 
encouraging  to  us  to  find  this  Scottish  doctor 
supporting  our  own  contentions  at  every  point. 

One  moves  into  an  entirely  different  atmo- 
sphere when  passing  from  Dr.  Devon's  prison 
clinic  and  hospital  ward  to  the  scholarly  pre- 
cincts of  Harvard  University  and  the  philo- 
sophic speculations  of  Dr.  Ray  M.  McConnell. 
The  very  title  of  the  latter's  book,  "  Criminal 
Responsibility  and  Social  Constraint,"  smells  of 
the  lamp.  Yet  speculation  has  practical  value, 
and  compels  us  to  go  to  the  foundations  of  our 
legislation  and  our  prison  theories.  We  have 
need  of  profound  reflection  on  the  aims  of  pun- 
ishment, and  ought  to  consider  carefully  what 
we  are  trying  to  accomplish.  Is  it  expiation, 
or  retribution,  or  deterrence,  or  reformation,  or 
social  utility,  or  an  amalgam  of  all  these  ?  It 
is  profitable  also  to  review  our  philosophical 
notions  about  fate,  foreordination,  and  free  will, 
and  the  exact  nature  of  responsibility  for  crime. 
Toward  all  of  these  ends  Dr.  McConnell's  book 
is  an  excellent  means. 

From  the  purely  scholastic  debate  about  deter- 
minism and  responsibility,  we  descend  with  some- 
thing of  shock  to  the  practical  problem  of  prison 
labor.  "  Penal  Servitude  "  is  a  pamphlet  directed 
against  the  prison  contractor,  who  here  figures 
as  a  slave  driver  under  state  authority.  The 
National  Committee  on  Prison  Labor  is  doing 
for  this  subject  what  the  National  Committee 
on  Child  Labor  is  doing  for  childhood  exploited 
by  factory,  mill,  and  mine.  A  strain  of  human 
idealism  runs  through  the  sordid  details  of  prison 
shops  and  disciplinary  punishments,  of  venal 
foremen  and  spoils  politics,  of  coarse  brutality 
and  purchase  of  raw  materials.  One  could  wish 


that  the  discussion  might  be  more  impersonal, 
for  some  prison  contractors  are  honest  men  and 
the  contract  system  is  by  no  means  condemned 
by  all  prison  authorities.  In  his  main  conten- 
tion, however,  the  author  of  this  attack  is  on  the 
right  side.  The  State  should  not  delegate  to 
private  persons  the  process  o^f  correction  and 
punishment,  in  which  labor  is  a  vital  factor.  The 
descriptions  of  conditions  observed  by  the  author 
are  instructive,  and  should  awaken  the  public 
conscience  to  correct  these  gross  abuses. 

In  order  to  make  our  system  of  dealing  with 
criminals  worthy  of  our  modern  civilization, 
thoughtful  and  educated  men  and  women  must 
give  more  attention  to  this  forbidding  theme. 
The  Attorney  General  has  asked  Congress  to 
prosecute  an  investigation  of  the  whole  subject, 
so  far  as  the  federal  authority  extends.  We 
must  strive  to  bring  into  the  service  a  higher 
order  of  officials,  and  a  more  scientific  and 
conscientious  study  of  the  human  beings  with 
whom  they  have  to  deal.  The  criminal  world 
is  not  a  world  apart,  but  near  our  homes,  and 
cannot  be  ignored  as  a  theme  unfit  for  the 
polite.  The  cost  of  crime  is  estimated  by  care- 
ful men  to  be  over  1700,000,000  each  year, 
and  the  fruits  of  this  appalling  expenditure  are 
sorrow,  debasement,  cruelty,  shame,  and  every 
form  of  evil.  In  urging  the  social  duty  of 
attention  to  criminality,  the  author  of  "  The 
Present  Day  Problem  of  Crime  "  touches  the 
more  spiritual  elements  of  the  subject.  In  a 
citation  from  Mr.  F.  H.  Wines,  we  have  the 
central  idea  of  prison  reform  —  the  personality 
of  the  officials.  "The  head  of  a  reformatory 
prison  must  be  an  idealist,  a  consecrated  man, 
a  man  with  a  vocation.  A  truly  reformatory 
prison  is  the  last  and  highest  expression  of 
charity.  It  demands  the  expression  of  charity 
by  the  warden.  It  will  not  work  in  the  hands 
of  a  harsh,  brutal,  incompetent  warden.  It 
needed  the  Christian  heart  and  administrative 
genius  of  a  Maconochie  to  devise  and  work 
out  the  reformatory  method  of  treatment." 
What  is  true  of  wardens  is  true  also  of  police, 
prosecutors,  and  judges:  the  modern  educa- 
tional theory  of  the  treatment  of  crime  breaks 
down  unless  it  is  administered  throughout  by 
competent  and  high-minded  men.  That  is  not 
a  reason  for  abandoning  the  modern  view,  but 
only  for  demanding  the  selection  and  training 
of  a  body  of  officials  who  understand  it  and  are 
competent  to  carry  it  into  effect. 

To  students  of  prison  science,  the  principles 
and  methods  worked  out  at  Elmira  Reformatory 
have  long  been  familiar  through  the  year-books, 


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essays,  and  addresses  of  its  famous  superintend- 
ent, as  well  as  by  discussions  in  various  lan- 
guages by  critical  visitors.  The  autobiography 
of  Mr.  Brockway  now  published  reproduces  cer- 
tain classical  documents  which  summarize  his 
doctrines  in  various  stages  of  development ;  but 
the  new  factor  here  is  the  frank,  clear  story  of 
the  evolution  of  the  great  administrator's  own 
mind.  This  new  light  is  extremely  welcome 
even  to  those  who  have  already  known  him  and 
studied  his  impersonal  statements  of  views  in 
numerous  previous  publications. 

The  world  is  not  even  yet  far  enough  advanced 
fully  to  sympathize  with  the  fundamental  eth- 
ical, legal,  and  administrative  ideas  which  have 
made  Elmira  Reformatory  the  synonym  of  a 
revolution.  Before  he  had  reached  his  majority 
this  innovator,  sturdy  son  of  a  man  of  independ- 
ent spirit  and  New  England  conscience,  entered 
upon  his  apprenticeship.  He  was  fortunate  in 
coming  under  the  influence  of  the  most  famous 
prison  wardens  of  the  previous  generation,  from 
whom  he  learned  much,  but  advanced  steadily 
beyond  them.  Mr.  Brockway  was  stimulated 
in  his  earlier  work  by  a  very  intense,  if  some- 
what narrow,  religious  enthusiasm,  from  which 
he  gradually  turned  away  for  what  he  regards 
as  a  more  rational  faith.  In  this  respect,  as  in 
many  others,  he  has  been  affected  by  the  modes 
of  thinking  current  in  the  last  century,  although 
he  does  not  often  indicate  the  literary  sources 
of  the  new  direction  of  thought.  We  have  to 
do,  not  with  a  man  of  books  so  much  as  a  man 
who  felt  himself  in  contact  with  reality  and  used 
the  ideas  of  others  in  a  very  independent  fash- 
ion, hardly  noting  whence  they  came  to  him. 
With  the  bare  mention  of  Lombroso  and  the 
Irish  prison  reformers  and  a  few  others,  he  moves 
along  quite  unconscious  of  his  literary  obliga- 
tions. We  know  that  he  has  read  a  good  deal, 
but  he  seems  to  have  most  valued  conversation 
and  correspondence  with  the  best  men  of  prac- 
tical experience  in  his  own  profession. 

The  one  principle  which  guided  him  from 
beginning  to  end  was  that  of  social  protection 
against  criminals  by  their  reformation  or  by 
their  segregation.  To  secure  these  ends  he  tried 
all  sorts  of  experiments  with  a  sagacity,  per- 
sistence, and  patience  which  were  crowned  with 
growing  success.  He  never  gave  up  an  ele- 
ment which  he  found  in  any  degree  useful. 
While  he  laid  less  emphasis  on  moral  and  reli- 
gious persuasion  in  later  years,  he  never  wholly 
abandoned  them  and  always  made  use  of  them ; 
always  trying  to  keep  out  sectarianism  and 
fanaticism,  from  which  he  suffered  more  than 


once.  He  is  liberal  and  honest  to  the  extent 
that  he  reprints  his  earlier  views,  with  an  ex- 
planation of  the  changes  in  his  own  philosophy. 
His  autobiography  is  the  account  of  a  growing 
mind.  Down  to  the  very  last  he  is  trying  experi- 
ments and  making  observations ;  for  he  still  lives 
a  noble  intellectual  life,  with  open  mind  and 
keen  criticism  of  methods  and  systems.  His 
enemies  will  be  forgotten;  but  his  work  will 
remain,  an  honor  to  him  and  to  his  country. 

CHARLES  RICHMOND  HENDERSON. 


BRIEFS  ON  NEW  BOOKS. 


studies  of  "There  is  not,  and  there  can  never 

frankness  in  be,  any  legitimate  purpose  in  print 
literature.  save  pleasure  and  delight ;  so  that  he 

who  would  hide  his  art  behind  the  broken  wall  of 
moral  excellence  is  instantly  suspected  of  foul  play. 
When  once  another  intention  is  admitted  than  the 
awakening  of  sense  or  intelligence,  'moral'  or 
1  immoral '  matters  not  a  jot."  These  two  sentences 
maybe  regarded  as  the  text  of  Mr.  Charles  Whibley's 
"  Studies  in  Frankness  "  (Dutton),  a  volume  which 
embraces  appreciations  of  eight  authors  popularly 
banned  as  immoral  either  in  their  lives  or  in  their 
works.  Modern  English  literature  is  represented  by 
Sir  Thomas  Urquhart,  Laurence  Sterne,  and  Edgar 
Allan  Poe ;  the  ancient  classics  by  Petronius,  Heli- 
odorus,  Apuleius,  Herondas,  and  Lucian.  One  won- 
ders what  Poe  is  doing  in  this  unholy  gallery ;  his 
works  are -not  likely  to  corrupt  the  youngest  thing, 
and  his  life  no  longer  biases  people  against  his  works. 
One  might  suppose  from  the  sentences  quoted  above 
that  the  ordinary  moral  distinctions  of  life  were  to 
be  completely  disregarded  in  art,  that  the  obscene 
could  be  transmuted  into  the  artistic,  were  it  not  that 
elsewhere  in  the  volume  Sterne  is  condemned  because 
he  is  "  manifestly  obscene  in  places,"  and  obscenity, 
which  in  life  is  immoral,  is  in  art  "  a  matter  of  taste." 
Well,  if  the  obscene  is  condemned  in  art,  it  makes 
very  little  difference  whether  it  is  called  immoral  or 
in  bad  taste ;  we  do  not  want  it  under  any  name.  If 
Mr.  Whibley  regrets  that  the  Milesian  story  is  denied 
literary  expression  by  our  "  ineradicable  modesty  " 
and  is  forced  to  "  eke  out  a  beggarly  and  formless 
existence  by  the  aid  of  oral  tradition,"  we  cannot 
enter  into  any  very  vital  sympathy  with  him.  The 
"  pleasure  and  delight "  lost  to  the  race  may  well  be 
spared.  Nor  can  one  go  off  into  gales  of  laughter, 
or  be  tickled,  as  one  is  by  Chaucer  at  his  naughtiest, 
when  one  reads  the  tid-bits  selected  from  the  "  frank  " 
dialogues  of  Herondas,  unless  one  supposes  that  the 
asterisks  are  voluble  of  convulsive  mirth.  And  why 
asterisks  in  a  Study  in  Frankness?  On  the  other 
hand,  no  one  to-day  will  object  to  the  picaresque 
novel,  to  the  rascalities  of  the  rogues  and  beggars,. 
"  daggle-tailed  and  out-at- elbows,"  as  they  are,  for 
instance,  depicted  in  Petronius.  As  a  matter  of  fact,, 
the  purpose  of  art  is  not  subjective,  as  Mr.  Whibley 


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(following  Aristotle)  declares ;  but  it  is,  as  Professor 
Butcher  has  already  pointed  out,  objective.  It  is 
the  "  revelation  of  the  beautiful  in  external  form." 
If  what  our  conventions  stamp  as  immoral  can  reveal 
the  beautiful,  it  has  a  place  in  art,  and  only  so.  Criti- 
cism will  not  condemn  "  Holy  Willie's  Prayer,"  what- 
ever the  puritan  may  say ;  but  it  will  condemn  the 
pruriences  of  Sterne  and  the  unblushing  license  of 
Wycherley.  Morality  is  more  than  convention  ;  and 
art,  which  is  founded  on  life,  cannot  ignore  that 
which  penetrates  all  life. 

The  story  of  More  than  three-quarters  of  a  cen- 
a  prophet  and  tury  after  his  sombre  and  pathetic 
Jiis  reward.  passing  from  the  scenes  of  his  spec- 
tacular labors  as  a  preacher  of  astonishing  eloquence 
and  power,  Edward  Irving  is  made  the  subject  of 
as  zealous  a  defense,  of  as  glowing  a  eulogy,  as  any 
martyr  to  his  faith  could  desire.  "Edward  Irving: 
Man,  Preacher,  Prophet,"  by  Jean  Christie  Root, 
is  written  in  an  earnest  endeavor  to  rescue  from 
threatening  oblivion  the  name  of  one  who,  the  author 
finds  reason  to  believe,  "perhaps  more  clearly  fore- 
shadowed the  problems  and  truths  of  to-day  than 
any  other  one  man  in  his  period."  By  "problems 
and  truths  "  must  be  understood  those  of  a  spiritual 
and  religious  nature;  and  the  trial  and  condemna- 
tion of  Irving  for  heresy  do  indeed  stamp  him,  to 
our  view,  as  a  thinker  in  advance  of  his  age  in  that 
liberality  which  comes  with  freedom  from  the  fet- 
ters of  tradition  and  convention.  The  writer  has 
evidently  long  cherished  the  purpose  of  presenting 
the  world  with  a  true  picture  of  Irving,  and  she  has 
amassed  much  valuable  material  for  such  an  under- 
taking. All  the  contemporary  and  other  published 
writings  that  throw  light  on  his  character  and  work 
she  has  faithfully  studied,  and  she  has  also  had  the 
use  of  the  large  store  of  unpublished  material  gath- 
ered together  by  the  late  Rev.  W.  W.  Andrews,  who 
had  made  the  acquaintance  of  some  of  Irving's  asso- 
ciates and  seems  to  have  enjoyed  exceptional  oppor- 
tunities for  learning  the  details  of  his  later  life.  Yet 
the  book  now  offered  is  not  the  exhaustive  biography 
that  might  have  been  expected ;  but  as  we  already 
have  Mrs.  Oliphant's  substantial  performance,  this 
briefer  essay  in  character-study  and  interpretation 
may  better  meet  the  present  need.  What  is  espe- 
cially excellent,  in  it  is  its  plea  for  charity  and  sym- 
pathy in  judging  those  enthusiasms  and  ardors  of 
Irving's  that  his  own  contemporaries  were  prone  to 
condemn.  His  views  on  the  human  qualities  of 
Jesus,  his  faith  in  the  testimony  of  the  "inner 
voice,"  his  belief  in  something  akin  to  our  modern 
psychotherapy,  were  all  in  advance  of  his  day  and 
generation.  At  the  same  time  he  conspicuously 
lacked  balance,  he  had  no  saving  sense  of  humor, 
and  he  laid  himself  open  to  imposture  from  any 
charlatan  that  pretended  to  divine  inspiration.  This 
weaker  side  of  the  man  his  apologist  does  not  turn 
to  the  light.  The  book  does  an  incidental  service  in 
rightly  presenting  Irving's  relations  to  the  Carlyles, 
and  in  asserting,  with  documentary  evidence,  the 


happiness  of  his  marriage.  A  portrait  of  Irving 
and  brief  "appreciations"  of  him  from  Coleridge, 
Carlyle,  Maurice,  and  other  contemporaries,  are 
supplied.  (Sherman,  French  &  Co.) 

A  risoner  Much  has  been  written  about  the 
of  war  in  unspeakable  condition  of  the  various 

Virginia.  Confederate  prisons  in  which  so  many 

northern  soldiers  endured  sufferings  too  cruel  to  bear 
description.  Richmond,  Danville,  and  Salisbury 
were  the  scenes  of  notoriously  heartless  treatment  of 
the  unlucky  captives.  Not  to  dwell  on  this  harsher 
side  of  prison  life,  but  "to  recall  certain  of  the  inci- 
dents which  helped  to  enliven  the  tedious  days  and 
nights  of  confinement,"  is  the  purpose  of  Mr.  George 
Haven  Putnam's  personal  record  entitled  "  A  Pris- 
oner of  War  in  Virginia,  1864-5  "  (Putnam).  It 
is  probably  not  generally  known  that  this  publisher 
and  author,  besides  having  won  with  his  pen  the  title 
of  Doctor  of  Letters,  much  earlier  earned  with  his 
sword  that  of  Adjutant  and  Brevet-Major,  and  that 
it  was  his  lot  to  suffer  four  months'  confinement  in 
Libby  Prison  and  at  Danville.  The  narrative  of  the 
less  harrowing  part  of  this  trying  experience  was 
presented  in  a  paper  read  before  the  New  York 
Commandery  of  the  United  States  Loyal  Legion,  in 
December,  1910.  It  attracted  attention,  and  is  now 
expanded  sufficiently  to  make  a  book  of  a  little  more 
than  a  hundred  pages,  adorned  with  an  interesting 
portrait  of  the  soldier-author  in  his  uniform,  with  a 
sketch  of  the  interior  of  the  Union  officers'  prison  at 
Danville  drawn  by  the  author's  chum,  Captain  Harry 
Vander  Weyde,  and  with  other  appropriate  illustra- 
tions. With  something  of  the  realism  of  a  Dostoieff- 
sky,  but  with  a  lighter  touch  and  with  an  emphasis 
on  the  more  entertaining  or  amusing  features  of  his 
prison  life,  the  author  has  produced  a  book  that  few 
will  open  without  feeling  moved  to  read  from  begin- 
ning to  end.  The  question  of  ultimate  responsi- 
bility for  the  mismanagement  of  southern  military 
prisons  and  for  the  long  delays  in  effecting  exchanges 
of  prisoners  is  instructively  discussed. 

The   instinct    for    etymologizing   is 

Thewav*  well-nigh   universal.     The  etymolo- 

of  words.  °  .  •' 

gist,  however,  has  not  always  borne 

the  best  of  reputations.  In  his  pronouncements  he 
has  not  invariably  been  guided  by  commonsense  and 
a  sound  linguistic  feeling.  Dr.  Johnson,  for  instance, 
was  naive  enough  to  derive  the  adverb  along,  in  the 
collocation  "Come  along,"  from  French  Allans; 
and  Bishop  Trench  blandly  connected  the  word 
saunterer  with  the  Crusading  expeditions  to  the 
Holy  Land,  deriving  the  word  from  the  French 
la  Sainte  Terre.  But  within  the  last  half-century 
English  etymology  has  finally  been  put  on  a  scien- 
tific basis ;  and  in  recent  years  some  most  excellent 
books  on  the  subject  have  appeared.  The  latest 
addition  to  this  list  is  Professor  Ernest  Weekley's 
"The  Romance  of  Words"  (Dutton).  Professor 
Weekley  writes  mainly  of  English  words,  but  he 
shows  his  bias  to  his  own  field  as  teacher  by  the 


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large  number  of  Romance  etymologies  that  he 
introduces.  He  is  concerned  only  incidentally  with 
the  exposition  of  general  principles,  but  avows  as  his 
chief  purpose  the  presentation  of  the  "unexpected 
in  etymology,  'things  not  generally  known,'  such  as 
the  fact  that  Tammany  was  an  Indian  chief,  .  .  . 
that  jilt  is  identical  with  Juliet,  that  parrot  is 
historically  a  diminutive  of  Peter,  and  that  glamor 
is  a  doublet  of  grammar."  He  makes  little  at- 
tempt to  exploit  new  theories,  contenting  himself, 
for  the  most  part,  with  "compiling"  his  materials 
(as  he  modestly  states  it  in  his  preface)  from  other 
sources,  mainly  the  "New  English  Dictionary" — 
with  which  he  has  been  associated  for  a  number 
of  years  in  the  verification  of  etymologies.  Among 
the  dozen  or  more  words  for  which  he  proposes  new 
etymologies  are  cockney  (generally  supposed  to  be 
compounded  of  cock  and  egg},  which  he  would  now 
trace  to  French  acoguine  ("made  into  a  coquin"); 
mulligrubs,  which  he  derives  from  mouldy  grubs  ; 
foil  (for  fencing),  which  he  connects  with  feuille ; 
and  sullen,  which  he  holds  to  be  a  doublet  of  solemn. 
An  extremely  interesting  chapter  is  the  final  one, 
entitled  "Etymological  Fact  and  Fiction,"  in  which 
the  author  brings  together  a  collection  of  anecdotes 
from  the  .earlier  lexicographers,  and  lays  sundry  ety- 
mological ghosts.  Throughout,  Professor  Weekley 
writes  with  admirable  downrightness  and  simplicity, 
and  he  nowhere  displays  anything  of  cocksureness 
or  of  pedantry  —  the  besetting  sins  of  the  etymol- 
ogist. His  book  is,  first  of  all,  scholarly ;  but  it  is 
also  thoroughly  entertaining. 

The  undying  The  "SPeli  Series 'J  (Page)  reaches 
charm  of  its  fourth  number  in  "  The  Spell  of 

old  England.  England,"  by  Mrs.  Daniel  Dulany 
Addison  (or  Julia  de  Wolf  Addison,  as  the  name 
appears  on  the  title-page).  Mrs.  Addison  lived  in 
England  as  a  child,  and  studied  art  there  later,  so 
that  she  writes  with  much  more  than  the  summer 
tourist's  acquaintance  with  the  country.  In  seven- 
teen chapters,  agreeably  conversational  and  anec- 
dotal in  style,  she  takes  her  readers  through  England 
from  end  to  end  and  from  side  to  side.  That  the 
"  spell "  is  not  so  unremitting  and  so  powerful  as  to 
hush  the  traveller's  criticism  and  deaden  all  sense  of 
humor  is  evident  from  many  an  entertaining  passage 
like  the  following :  "  One  might  almost  write  a  whole 
chapter  on  the  signs  and  advertisements  which  one 
meets  in  English  travel.  A  terrible  possibility  is 
suggested  by  the  announcement:  'Old  false  teeth 
bought  and  sold,'  while  'The  Superfine  Cotton  Spin- 
ner's Combine  Limited '  is  almost  as  difficult  to  say 
five  times  as  '  Peter  Piper.'  On  a  shop  in  London 
one  reads  '  Greaves  late  Huggins.'  This  is  a  sermon 
in  itself."  A  good  index  and  two  pages  of  bibli- 
ography add  to  the  usefulness  of  the  book,  while  a 
map  marked  with  the  places  visited  enables  one  to 
follow  the  itinerary  understandingly.  "Tavistock," 
misprinted  "Travistock"  on  the  map,  is  placed,  not 
in  Devonshire,  but  too  far  to  the  west,  in  Cornwall 
—  a  part  of  England,  by  the  way,  to  which  many 


readers  would  doubtless  feel  inclined  to  give  consid- 
erably more  time  than  Mrs.  Addison  has  given,  less 
than  two  pages  being  devoted  to  it  in  her  book.  Also 
the  Lake  District  might  fairly  claim  more  than  the 
dozen  pages  allotted  to  it.  But  England  is  crowded 
with  places  of  interest,  and  to  do  them  all  justice 
would  take  a  lifetime.  The  book's  numerous  illus- 
trations from  photographs  of  buildings,  interiors, 
landscapes,  and  paintings,  are  excellent. 


Records  of  two  Mr-  Richard  Davey,  whose  death 
Elizabethan  has  recently  been  chronicled,  was  a 
princesses.  writer  of  more  than  usual  breadth: 

his  field  embraced  journalism,  history,  travel,  and 
other  sections  not  so  easily  classified.  As  historian 
he  is  best  known  as  the  biographer  of  Lady  Jane 
Grey,  "the  nine  days'  queen."  The  last  years  of  his 
life  were  devoted  to  a  continuation  of  his  studies  in 
the  history  of  the  Brandon  line,  the  results  of  which 
have  lately  been  published  under  the  title  "The 
Sisters  of  Lady  Jane  Grey  and  their  Wicked  Grand- 
father" (Dutton).  The  Greys  were  the  legal  heirs 
to  the  English  throne  after  Elizabeth;  but  as  they 
never  came  into  the  inheritance,  their  history  has 
been  neglected  by  earlier  historians.  Mr.  Davey's 
work  traces  the  career  of  the  two  Grey  sisters, 
Catherine  and  Mary,  with  the  chief  attention  given 
to  Catherine  as  the  older  and  more  important ;  Mary 
was  a  dwarf  and  scarcely  had  what  may  be  called  a 
"  career,"  except  during  her  brief  marriage  to  a  giant 
who  held  a  subordinate  office  at  the  royal  palace. 
As  heir  presumptive  in  a  period  of  much  ferment, 
Lady  Catherine  naturally  found  herself  in  the  centre 
of  a  network  of  intrigue,  as  both  Catholics  and  Pro- 
testants looked  with  favor  on  her  as  a  candidate  for 
the  throne  if  Elizabeth  should  be  displaced.  The 
author  gives  some  attention  to  this  phase  of  his  biog- 
raphy, and  throws  considerable  light  on  the  anti- 
Elizabethan  movements  in  the  early  years  of  the 
reign ;  but  by  far  the  greater  portion  of  the  work  is 
devoted  to  the  love  affairs  of  these  indiscreet  prin- 
cesses, and  Mr.  Davey  narrates  much  gossip  that  is 
of  slight  importance,  though  usually  entertaining. 
The  portraits  which  illustrate  the  volume  are  very 
interesting;  they  are  chiefly  of  members  of  the 
Tudor  family,  but  several  are  from  paintings  that 
are  not  generally  known. 

social  conditions  The  analysis  of  community  life  has 
in  a  New  England  been  developed  far  enough  to  make 
factory  town.  ioca]  studies  more  complete  and 
instructive  than  ever  before.  The  latest  of  such  stu- 
dies is  Mr  George  F.  Kenngott's  "The  Record  of 
a  City :  A  Social  Survey  of  Lowell,  Massachusetts  " 
(Macmillan).  Lowell  is  a  fine  example  of  the  tend- 
encies of  industrial  populations  in  this  country,  and  it 
is  old  enough  to  reveal  contrasts  between  the  present 
and  the  past.  One  must  be  a  stout-hearted  optimist 
to  contemplate  serenely  a  comparison  between  the 
Lowell  of  Lucy  Larcom  and  the  "Lowell  Offering" 
with  the  noisy  and  polyglot  town  of  to-day.  It  is  a 
different  stock,  with  distinctly  lower  standards  and 


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ideals.  If  this  is  what  industry  and  immigrant  labor 
are  going  to  make  of  American  people,  then  success- 
ful manufactures  are  a  national  calamity.  But  we 
have  not  seen  the  end,  and  even  in  this  chaos  one 
may  discern  the  dawn  of  a  more  hopeful  day.  It 
is  well  to  read  Miss  Mary  Antin's  "The  Promised 
Land"  as  a  relief  from  the  depressing  effects  of 
such  a  picture.  If  we  can  react  upon  this  mountain- 
mass  of  alien  material,  we  may  help  to  save  the 
world;  if  we  are  apathetic  and  passive  we  shall  cer- 
tainly lose  our  civilization.  The  following  quotation 
from  the  poet  Lowell  fittingly  closes  this  rather  dole- 
ful description  of  a  factory  town: 

"  'Ti8  ours  to  save  our  brethren, 
With  love  and  peace  to  win 
Their  darkened  hearts  from  error 
Ere  they  harden  into  sin. 
But  if,  before  his  duty, 
Man  with  listless  spirit  stands, 
Ere  long  the  Great  Avenger 
Takes  the  work  from  out  his  hands." 

It  is  significant  that  this  study  was  inspired  and 
directed  by  such  men  as  Professor  Peabody  of  Har- 
vard. The  history  of  the  town  from  Colonial  days 
introduces  a  mass  of  well-arranged  facts,  collected 
with  vast  toil,  about  the  present  population,  the  hous- 
ing of  the  operatives,  health  conditions,  the  standard 
of  living,  industrial  conditions,  social  institutions, 
and  recreations  of  the  people.  The  reader  should 
be  reminded  that  the  budget  included  is  based  on 
only  one  week's  experience,  while  it  is  now  generally 
agreed  that  the  accounts  should  cover  at  least  a 
whole  year.  The  better  method,  however,  is  so  ex- 
pensive that  private  investigators  cannot  use  it  for  an 
entire  city,  and  we  should  be  grateful  for  the  study 
as  it  stands.  Those  to  whom  statistics  are  an  un- 
known language  may  look  at  the  pictures  in  this  vol- 
ume, some  of  which  are  pathetic  even  to  tragedy. 

Literary  Whether  Mr.    Frederick   Adcock's 

landmarks  of        -,         , .»   ,    ,         .  .   ,  .  ,      .      T 

London  in  beautitul  drawings  of  historic  Lon- 

pen  and  pencil,  don  houses  were  made  for  his 
brother's  chapters  describing  them,  or,  as  the 
brother  modestly  intimates,  the  descriptive  matter 
was  furnished  as  complementary  to  the  illustrations, 
the  book,  "  Famous  Houses  and  Literary  Shrines  of 
London"  (Button),  which  Mr.  A.  St.  John  Adcock 
and  Mr.  Frederick  Adcock  have  together  brought 
to  completion,  is  well  planned  and  does  credit  to  all 
concerned  in  its  making.  Seventy-four  houses  and 
other  literary  landmarks  of  London,  covering  the 
three  centuries  from  Shakespeare's  time  to 
Whistler's,  are  gracefully  drawn  by  the  artist, 
while  his  collaborator  turns  to  good  account  the 
abundant  memoirs  and  other  literature  throwing 
light  on  the  inmates  of  these  houses  and  the 
haunters  of  these  scenes.  Not  as  a  mere  compiler, 
however,  has  Mr.  St.  John  Adcock  been  content  to 
perform  his  part.  A  wide  knowledge  of  London 
and  an  intimate  acquaintance  with  the  literature 
relating  to  its  memorable  buildings  are  apparent  in 
his  pages.  Even  our  own  Hawthorne  and  his  visit 
to  Leigh  Hunt  in  Rowan  Road  find  a  place  in  the 


book;  and  the  noteworthy  researches  of  our  Pro- 
fessor Wallace  in  fixing  Shakespeare's  temporary 
abode  with  one  Christopher  Mountjoy,  wig-maker, 
at  the  corner  of  Silver  and  Monkwell  streets,  do  not 
escape  his  generously  appreciative  notice.  Some- 
what surprising  to  most  readers  will  be  the  number 
and  importance  of  the  extant  monuments  of  bygone 
ages  scattered  about  London.  Much  that  is  his- 
toric has  vanished,  but  much  still  survives;  and  a 
more  attractive  or  useful  guide  to  these  cherished 
mementos  of  a  day  that  is  dead  could  hardly  be 
desired.  Sixteen  portraits,  beginning  with  Dr. 
Johnson's  and  ending  with  Robert  Browning's,  add 
to  the  pictorial  richness  of  the  volume. 


A  noblewoman  Mrs-  Maxwell  Scott's  Life  of  the 
of  the  French  Marquise  de  la  Rochejaquelin  (Long- 
Revoiution.  mans)  is  based  mainly  upon  Mme.  de 
la  Rochejaquelin's  Memoirs,  an  English  translation 
of  which  appeared  as  long  ago  as  1827,  with  a  pre- 
face by  Sir  Walter  Scott.  Mrs.  Scott  has  drawn 
also  upon  the  Souvenirs  of  Mme.  de  la  Bouere, 
another  Vendean  heroine.  In  point  of  view  the 
treatment  is  unreservedly  sympathetic  toward  these 
defenders  of  the  throne  and  altar ;  not  merely  toward 
the  women,  who  were  undoubtedly  heroic,  and  the 
peasants  and  their  leaders,  who  were  equally  so,  but 
towards  the  cause.  The  Vendean  revolt  and  its  ruth- 
less suppression  make  up  one  of  the  most  tragic  in- 
cidents of  the  Revolution,  but  wrong  was  not  wholly 
on  the  side  of  the  "  Blues,"  as  the  Republicans  were 
called,  although  the  list  of  their  atrocities  is  longer. 
The  absence  of  shading  mars  Mrs.  Scott's  narrative  ; 
and  the  characters,  which  are  all  courage  and  virtue 
and  self-sacrifice,  give  it  too  much  the  tone  of  a  work 
of  edification.  The  element  of  contrast  might  have 
been  furnished  by  one  personage,  to  whom  she  alludes 
as  a  mystery,  but  whose  secret  has  been  revealed  in 
one  of  M.  Len6tre's  incomparable  essays.  This  is 
the  masquerading  Bishop  of  Agra,  who  gave  himself 
out  as  direct  representative  of  the  Pope  and  was  ac- 
cepted as  such  by  the  Vendean  chiefs.  The  comedy 
ended  in  tragedy,  and  the  motive  (at  least  in  the 
beginning)  seems  to  have  been  the  simple  one  of 
trying  to  extricate  himself  from  the  danger  of  being 
shot.  . 

Ecstatic  letters  So  enraptured  with  the  charms  of 
from  the  land  of  Naples  and  its  neighborhood  is  the 
dolce  far  niente.  anonymOus  author  of  "  City  of  Sweet- 
Do-Nothing  "  (Alice  Harriman  Co.)  that  the  won- 
der is  she  could  have  guided  her  pen  through  the 
"  familiar  letters  of  flitting  'round  Naples  "  which 
fill  her  book  and  give  it  its  more  complete  designa- 
tion on  the  title-page.  "  Has  any  city  "  she  exclaims, 
"  half  the  sublime  loveliness  of  this  Napoli  ?  But 
no  —  it  were  impossible,  that!  Sleep  too  is  impos- 
sible for  wondering  over  her  beauty  —  her  majestic 
glory  —  this  Old  World  Naples  of  mystery  and  en- 
chantment. .  .  .  Ah,  this  enrapturing,  entrancing, 
enchanting  city  !  —  surely  one  might  say  with  all 
ardor  — '  Vedi  Napoli  e  poi  miioriJ ' "  The  letters, 


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vivacious  and  informally  descriptive  and  narrative, 
as  well  as  rapturous,  are  addressed  chiefly  to  either 
"  M  "  or  "  G,"  but  occasionally  to  other  members  of 
the  alphabet ;  and  their  writer,  we  are  told,  is  "  an 
American  girl."  She  shows  a  quick  responsiveness 
to  all  that  is  striking  or  characteristic  or  otherwise 
interesting  in  the  strange  sights  that  greet  her  Amer- 
ican eyes.  Incidentally,  too,  her  book  derives  abun- 
dant "local  color"  from  the  innumerable  native 
words  and  phrases  that  it  contains  for  the  instruc- 
tion or  the  bewilderment  of  its  readers.  In  fact,  we 
have  failed  to  find  a  single  page  unsprinkled  with 
foreign  terms.  But  a  little  more  care  to  have  these 
exotic  gems  free  from  flaw  would  have  been  advis- 
able. A  couplet  quoted  in  the  third  letter  as  "  Tutto 
al  mondo  e  vano  —  Ne  Vamore  agni  dolcezza,"  has 
enough  errors  to  startle  even  a  careless  reader. 
Nevertheless,  one  is  moved  to  envy  this  American 
girl  for  her  ecstatic  winter  on  the  Bay  of  Naples. 


BRIEFER  MENTION. 


Two  of  the  late  William  James's  student  talks,  "  On 
a  Certain  Blindness  in  Human  Beings  "  and  "  What 
Makes  a  Life  Significant,"  have  been  reprinted  by 
Messrs.  Holt  in  a  little  volume  entitled  "  On  Some  of 
Life's  Ideals."  These  essays  are  among  the  most  stim- 
ulating and  helpful  of  the  author's  ethical  writings,  and 
in  the  present  inexpensive  form  it  is  to  be  hoped  that 
they  will  find  the  widest  possible  audience. 

Volume  Six  of  the  "  Bibliographical  Society  of  Amer- 
ica Papers,"  published  by  the  University  of  Chicago 
Press,  is  made  up  of  three  noteworthy  articles :  "  Father 
Kino's  Lost  History,  its  Discovery,  and  its  Value,"  by 
Mr.  Herbert  E.  Bolton;  "A  Bibliography  of  English 
Fiction  in  the  Eighteenth  Century,"  by  Mr.  John  M. 
Clapp;  and  "The  New  Classification  of  Languages  and 
Literatures  by  the  Library  of  Congress,"  by  Mr.  A.  C. 
von  Noe*.  There  is  in  all  these  papers  a  freshness  of 
interest  not  always  to  be  found  in  the  publications  of 
bibliographical  societies. 

The  latest  addition  to  Mr.  Henry  Frowde's  admirable 
series  of  inexpensive  reprints  known  as  the  "  World's 
Classics  "  is  "A  Book  of  English  Essays  (1600-1900)," 
selected  by  Messrs.  Stanley  V.  Makower  and  Basil  W. 
Blackwell.  Here  are  brought  together  more  than  fifty 
brief  essays,  from  some  forty  different  essayists,  rang- 
ing from  Sir  Thomas  Overbury  to  Francis  Thompson. 
The  choice  of  items  is  abundantly  varied,  each  of  the 
several  types  of  essay  (the  informal,  the  didactic,  the 
critical,  and  the  like)  being  fully  represented,  and  is  in 
other  respects  judicious. 

"  The  Village  Homes  of  England  "  is  the  subject  of 
the  latest  special  number  of  "  The  International  Studio  " 
(Lane).  These  "  haunts  of  ancient  peace,"  in  which  En- 
gland is  so  rich,  are  here  dealt  with  as  examples  of  archi- 
tecture rather  than  as  records  or  symbols  of  the  past. 
Mr.  Sydney  H.  Jones,  who  is  responsible  for  the  text, 
supplies  also  a  multitude  of  pen-and-ink  and  color  illus- 
trations; a  few  additional  drawings  in  color  are  con- 
tributed by  Messrs.  Wilfrid  Ball  and  John  Fullwood. 
The  work  as  a  whole  forms  a  competent  and  interesting 
treatment  of  a  fascinating  subject;  while  in  all  external 
details  the  volume  measures  up  to  the  notably  high 
standard  set  by  previous  "  Studio  "  special  numbers. 


.NOTES. 


A  new  novel  by  Mr.  Henry  Sydnor  Harrison,  the  au- 
thor of  "  Queed,"  is  announced  for  publication  in  Janu- 
ary by  Houghton  Mifflin  Co. 

A  life  of  Canute  the  Great,  by  Professor  Laurence 
M.  Larson,  will  be  added  shortly  to  Messrs.  Putnam's 
"  Heroes  of  the  Nations"  series. 

"  The  Oxford  Book  of  Victorian  Verse,"  compiled  by 
Sir  Arthur  Quiller-Couch,  is  an  autumn  announcement 
of  no  little  interest  to  poetry-lovers. 

An  English  publication  of  considerable  importance, 
not  yet  announced  on  this  side,  is  a  biography  of  the 
late  George  Frederick  Watts,  written  by  his  widow,  to 
be  issued  in  three  large  illustrated  volumes. 

Although  nearly  a  decade  has  passed  since  his  death, 
no  biography  of  William  Ernest  Henley  has  yet  appeared. 
We  are  glad  to  note  that  we  are  soon  to  have  such  a 
work,  from  the  pen  of  Mr.  Charles  Whibley. 

Mr.  Gordon  Craig,  author  of  "  On  the  Art  of  the 
Theatre,"  will  soon  publish  a  quarto  volume  of  drawings 
for  scenic  settings,  with  brief  descriptive  text.  The 
book  will  be  entitled  "  Towards  a  New  Theatre." 

An  anthology  of  "Masterpieces  of  the  Southern 
Poets,"  compiled  by  Mr.  Walter  Neale,  is  announced 
by  the  Neale  Publishing  Co.  This  house  will  also  pub- 
lish the  "  Poetical  Works  of  Rose  Hartwick  Thorpe." 

Publication  of  the  late  Professor  Ernest  Fenollosa's 
"  Epochs  of  Chinese  and  Japanese  Art,"  which  was  post- 
poned from  last  autumn,  will  take  place  this  month.  It 
will  comprise  two  elaborately-illustrated  quarto  volumes. 

A  complete  single-volume  edition  of  George  Mere- 
dith's poetical  works,  based  on  the  carefully-revised  text 
of  the  recent  "  Memorial  Edition,"  and  supplied  with 
notes  by  Mr.  G.  M.  Trevelyan,  will  be  published  next 
month  by  Messrs.  Scribner. 

The  series  of  papers  entitled  "  Among  My  Books," 
with  which  Mr.  Frederic  Harrison  has  been  delighting 
readers  of  "  The  English  Review  "  during  the  past  few 
months,  will  be  published  in  book  form,  with  some 
additional  reviews  and  essays,  by  the  Mactnillan  Co. 

That  Louis  Napoleon  was  the  natural  son  of  Napoleon 
I.  is  the  thesis  set  forth  in  a  two-volume  work  entitled 
"  Intimate  Memoirs  of  Napoleon  III.,"  translated  from 
the  private  diary  of  a  lifelong  and  intimate  friend  of 
Louis  Napoleon,  the  late  Baron  D'Ambes,  which  Messrs. 
Little,  Brown,  &  Co.  will  immediately  publish  in  this 
country. 

A  belated  recognition  of  Coleridge,  in  the  form  of  a 
definitive  edition  of  his  poems  and  plays  in  two  volumes, 
is  soon  to  appear  from  the  Oxford  University  Press. 
Mr.  Ernest  Hartley  Coleridge,  grandson  of  the  poet- 
philosopher,  is  the  compiler  and  editor  of  this  first  com- 
plete edition  of  the  writings  that  have  been  waiting  a 
century  (more  or  less)  for  collection  and  publication  in 
fitting  form. 

A  few  additional  announcements  of  Messrs.  G.  P. 
Putnam's  Sons  which  reached  us  too  late  for  inclusion 
in  the  regular  list  of  autumn  announcements  in  this  issue 
are  the  following:  "The  Diaries  of  William  Charles 
Macready,  1833-1851,"  edited  by  Mr.  William  Charles 
Toynbee;  "  Indian  Pages  and  Pictures,"  by  Mr.  Michael 
M.  Shoemaker;  "Greek  and  Roman  Portraits,"  an  art 
study  by  Dr.  Anton  Hekler;  and  "  De  Orbe  Novo:  The 
Eight  Decades  of  Peter  Martyr  D'Anghiera,"  translated 
from  the  Latin  and  edited  by  Mr.  Francis  Augustus 
MacNutt. 


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[Sept.  16, 


ANNOUNCEMENT  LIST  OF  FALL,  BOOKS. 

In  accordance  with  our  custom  of  many  years' 
standing,  we  place  before  our  readers  herewith  a 
carefully-prepared  classified  list  of  the  new  books 
announced  for  issue  during  the  Fall  and  Winter  of 
1912-13  by  the  leading  American  publishing  houses. 
Including  the  two  departments  of  "School  and 
College  Text- books"  and  '-Books  for  the  Young," 
which  considerations  of  space  compel  us  to  carry  over 
to  our  next  issue,  our  list  of  Fall  announcements 
this  year  comprises  over  two  thousand  titles,  repre- 
senting the  output  of  some  sixty  American  publish- 
ers. This  list  has  as  usual  been  prepared  especially 
for  our  pages,  from  the  most  authentic  information 
to  be  obtained;  and  its  interest  and  value  to  every 
bookbuy er  —  whether  librarian,  bookseller,  or  private 
purchaser — will  be  at  once  apparent.  All  the  books 
entered  are  new  books  —  new  editions  not  being  in- 
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CLASSICAL  RUBBISH    . 


PAGE 

.  229 


CASUAL  COMMENT 231 

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eran literary  worker. — Details  of  Harvard's  promised 
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COMMUNICATION 236 

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Milton  Quaife. 

THE  FOUNDER  OF  A  GREAT  AMERICAN  PUB- 
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OUR  RELATIONS  WITH  JAPAN.  Payson  J.  Treat  239 
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Charles  Lamb's  friend  the  census-taker.  —  New 
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world  and  philosophy. — Literary  Denmark  in  the 
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BRIEFER  MENTION 249 

NOTES 251 

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ADDITIONAL  FALL  ANNOUNCEMENTS  ...  253 
LIST  OF  NEW  BOOKS  .  .  257 


CLASSICAL  R  UBBISH. 

The  official  bulletin  of  the  Newark  Public 
Library  devotes  a  page  of  its  current  issue  to 
the  "  great  books  "  superstition.  The  homily 
opens  as  follows : 

"  Much  literary  talk  is  mere  pretense.  We  learn  in 
school  days  who  the  great  writers  are,  according  to  the 
critics  and  the  text-books,  and  we  learn  a  few  phrases 
about  them,  and  perhaps,  because  the  course  prescribes 
it,  we  read  a  few  pages  of  them.  When  we  get  out  of 
school  or  college,  do  we  read  them  any  more  ?  Very 
few  of  us  do.  If  it  strikes  our  fancy  to  have  a  library 
we  buy  these  great  books  and  put  them  on  its  shelves, 
and  look  at  them  with  pride,  and  often  with  a  little 
guilty  feeling.  We  think  we  ought  to  read  them." 

Now  with  all  this  we  have  no  quarrel.  It  is 
plain  truth,  given  a  somewhat  philistine  accent 
in  the  expression.  When  boys  and  girls  leave 
school,  most  of  them  turn  their  backs  upon  lit- 
erature, and  will  have  none  of  it.  This  deplor- 
able fact  is,  we  are  persuaded,  a  consequence  of 
the  way  in  which  pedantic  pedagogues  use  works 
of  literature  as  educational  appliances.  But  the 
fact  is  none  the  less  deplorable,  and  it  behooves 
those  who  have  to  do  with  educational  work  to 
remedy  the  conditions  which  bring  about  such 
a  result.  Our  librarian  mentor  goes  on  to  say 
(and  here  we  most  emphatically  part  company 
with  him)  "We  are  quite  mistaken  —  we  ought 
not  to  read  them  if  we  do  not  really  like  them." 
Which  is  to  say  :  We  ought  not  to  be  virtuous 
if  our  natural  inclinations  are  sinful,  or  we  ought 
not  to  be  sober  if  we  get  more  satisfaction  from 
being  drunk.  For  there  undoubtedly  is  such  a 
thing  as  good  taste  in  reading,  and  if  we  have 
not  acquired  it  we  should  confess  the  defect  in 
a  humble  spirit,  and  not  resort  to  blustering 
denial  after  the  fashion  of  the  philistines  in  all 
ages. 

Humility,  not  hypocrisy,  is  what  we  need  to 
practice  in  such  a  case.  For  a  man  to  pretend 
to  like  books  that  in  reality  bore  him  unspeak- 
ably is  a  grievous  fault,  but  to  assert  that  be- 
cause they  bore  him  they  cannot  be  worth  his 
attention  is  mere  childish  petulance.  We  remem- 
ber the  time  when  we  were  profoundly  convinced 
that  all  this  talk  about  the  beauty  of  Shake- 
speare and  Tennyson  was  sheer  humbug,  and 
scornfully  rejected  it  as  something  not  to  be 
taken  seriously.  But  that  was  at  the  age  of 
twelve  or  thereabouts,  and  when  the  awakening 


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came,  it  bad  all  the  fervor  of  a  religious  conver- 
sion. Speaking  of  the  world's  great  books,  our 
bulletin  further  remarks  :  "  One  may  dare  to 
say  that  save  for  the  very,  very  few  who  care  for 
that  kind  of  book,  they  are  not  worth  the  read- 
ing." From  a  child,  this  utterance  would  be 
merely  amusing,  but  from  an  educational  organ 
which  speaks  for  that  great  agency  of  culture, 
the  public  library,  it  is  simply  shocking.  If 
there  is  any  purpose  for  which  public  libraries 
exist,  and  which  in  any  way  justifies  them  as  a 
charge  upon  the  public  funds,  it  is  that  of  in- 
creasing the  number  of  "  the  very,  very  few  who 
care  for  that  kind  of  book,"  and  of  opening  the 
minds  of  the  many  who  view  good  literature  from 
the  seat  of  the  scornful.  To  encourage  them  in 
their  benighted  self-sufficiency  is  nothing  less 
than  a  crime  against  culture,  and  it  is  atrocious 
for  such  encouragement  to  come  from  an  educa- 
tional agency  which  is  under  bonds  to  be  uplift- 
ing in  its  influence. 

According  to  the  counsel  of  iniquity  which 
has  occasioned  these  reflections,  "the  great, 
vital,  fundamental,  universal  books  of  light  and 
power  .  .  .  have,  most  of  them,  a  message  only 
for  a  very  small  circle,"  which  would  seem  to 
be  a  paradox  quite  incapable  of  solution.  The 
adjectives  used  in  this  characterization  must  be 
taken  ironically  to  give  the  statement  even  a 
semblance  of  truth.  For  if  books  are  in  very 
truth  vital,  fundamental,  and  universal,  they 
must  have  a  message  for  every  intelligent  human 
being,  and  it  is  at  his  own  serious  cost  that  any 
individual  will  close  his  ears  to  the  message,  or 
refrain  from  the  effort  to  decipher  it.  "He 
that  is  filthy,  let  him  be  filthy  still "  is  a  scrip- 
ture that  would  seem  to  apply  in  his  case, 
and  the  worst  service  that  could  be  done  him 
would  be  to  persuade  him  that  the  message 
was  not  meant  for  his  hearing.  To  argue 
thus  is  to  say,  in  effect,  that  no  aspirations 
and  idealisms  are  worth  while,  that  souls  sunk 
in  the  slough  should  make  no  uncomfortable 
effort  to  rise  out  of  it,  that  the  circumscribed 
vision  is  well  enough,  and  the  gleam  of  glories 
beyond  is  a  delusion.  One  cannot  too  often 
recall  Ruskin's  indignant  repudiation  of  the 
debased  gospel  of  culture  which  preaches  that 
the  best  literature  is  too  bright  and  good  for 
human  nature's  daily  food.  "  Will  you  go  and 
gossip  with  your  housemaid,  or  your  stable-boy, 
when  you  may  talk  with  kings  and  queens ;  or 
flatter  yourself  that  it  is  with  any  worthy  con- 
sciousness of  your  own  claims  to  respect,  that 
you  jostle  with  the  hungry  and  common  crowd 
for  entree  here,  and  audience  there,  when  all 


the  while  this  eternal  court  is  open  to  you,  with 
its  society,  wide  as  the  world,  multitudinous  as 
its  days,  the  chosen,  and  the  mighty,  of  every 
place  and  time?" 

That  there  may  be  no  misunderstanding  as  to 
the  nature  of  the  advice  offered  by  the  Newark 
Library  to  its  patrons,  we  are  given  a  list  of  the 
books  against  which  readers  are  warned  as  un- 
profitable. This  list  includes  most  of  the  works 
in  which  genius  has  attained  its  highest  reach, 
and  which  have  most  profoundly  moved  the  souls 
of  men.  The  "Iliad,"  the  "Odyssey"  and  the 
"^Eneid"  are  here,  as  are  also  "The  Divine 
Comedy,"  "Paradise  Lost,"  "Don  Quixote," 
and  "Faust."  ^schylus  and  Euripides  are 
placed  on  the  Index,  although  for  some  un- 
accountable reason  Sophocles  and  Aristophanes 
escape  condemnation.  Aristotle  and  Plato  are, 
of  course,  marked  for  slaughter,  as  are  also 
Cicero,  Epictetus,  and  Marcus  Aurelius.  The 
secondary  classics  of  English  literature  are 
mostly  under  the  ban,  including  "The  Canter- 
bury Tales,"  "The  Faerie  Queene,"  "The  Pil- 
grim's Progress,"  the  "  Morte  d' Arthur,"  "  Tris- 
tram Shandy,"  Burke's  speeches,  and  Gibbon's 
"Decline  and  Fall."  Addison,  Lamb,  and 
Montaigne  are  essayists  who  have  no  message 
for  the  many,  and  even  the  "Imitation"  is  not 
spared.  Mill's  "Political  Economy"  appears 
here  in  bad  eminence,  evidently  as  a  type  of  all  the 
great  works  that  have  clarified  human  thought 
and  advanced  the  intellectual  life.  We  only 
wonder  that  the  list  (of  some  thirty  great  names) 
was  not  made  much  longer,  for  it  does  not  come 
anywhere  near  to  exhausting  the  chief  literary 
sources  of  spiritual  refreshment.  It  does,  how- 
ever, guard  the  unwary  reader  against  the  errors 
into  which  he  is  most  likely  to  fall,  and  assures 
him  that  most  of  what  he  has  been  taught  about 
literature,  either  in  school  or  by  the  masters  of 
criticism,  is  unworthy  of  credence.  Of  course 
this  sort  of  counsel  is  a  most  damnable  perversion 
of  the  function  of  a  public  library,  which,  while  it 
must  recognize  the  deplorable  fact  that  the  best 
books  are  not  called  for  nearly  as  often  as  the 
worst  ones,  should  nevertheless  bend  its  main 
energies  to  the  redress  of  this  bad  balance,  and 
should  take  more  satisfaction  in  the  one  borrower 
who  asks  for  Homer  or  Dante,  for  "Don  Quixote" 
or  "Faust,"  than  in  the  ninety  and  nine  who  swell 
the  statistics  of  circulation  by  bearing  homeward 
the  latest  puerility  of  the  latest  popular  novelist. 
It  is  difficult  to  have  patience  with  the  argument 
that  neglect  of  a  classic  offers  prim  a  facie  evi- 
dence that  tradition  has  overrated  it.  When  the 
best  minds  of  many  generations  are  unanimous 


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in  delaring  the  supreme  excellence  of  a  book,  it 
is  no  counsel  of  perfection  to  recommend  it  to  the 
attention  of  the  most  casual  reader  as  a  source, 
for  him  personally,  of  rich  spiritual  sustenance. 


CASUAL  COMMENT. 


A  NOTABLE  BIBLIOGRAPHY,  now  in  preparation 
by  Professor  John  M.  Clapp,  is  to  be  devoted  to 
English  prose  fiction  of  the  eighteenth  century, 
and  is  expected  to  contain  when  completed  between 
five  thousand  and  fifty-five  hundred  titles.  The 
laborious  but  not  uninteresting  task  was  begun  by 
Mr.  Clapp  eight  years  ago,  and  has  been  prosecuted 
chiefly  at  the  British  Museum,  whose  catalogue 
must  be  the  chief  dependence  of  anyone  engaged 
in  such  an  undertaking  as  this.  An  account  of  his 
labors  was  read  by  Mr.  Clapp  at  the  late  annual 
meeting  of  the  Chicago  Chapter  of  the  Bibliograph- 
ical Society  of  America,  and  is  printed  in  volume 
six  of  that  Society's  "Papers."  To  give  an  idea  of 
the  scope  and  method  of  his  work,  we  quote  a 
passage  from  his  instructive  and  readable  article. 
"To  be  really  useful  such  a  work  must  list  not  only 
the  books  which  we  should  to-day  classify  as  Novels 
or  Short  Stories  (of  these,  according  to  my  own 
list,  there  were  between  2000  and  3000),  but  also 
as  many  as  possible  of  the  great  number  of  other 
works  whose  appeal  was  chiefly,  or  largely,  that  of 
fiction.  These  may  be  grouped,  roughly,  in  four 
classes :  First,  the  narrative  Chap-books.  Second, 
the  works  of  Pseudo-History,  Pseudo-Biography, 
and  Pseudo-Travel,  of  which  there  were  many, 
especially  in  the  first  half  of  the  century.  In  this 
class  would  be  included  the  longer  Criminal  Bio- 
graphies. Third,  the  stream  of  Tracts  and  Pam- 
phlets, cast  into  narrative  form,  discussing  current 
questions — political,  social,  religious,  educational, 
or  personal  —  in  a  persuasive,  polemic,  or  satirical 
way.  These  also  were  very  numerous,  particularly 
at  the  beginning  and  the  end  of  the  century. 
Fourth,  various  miscellaneous  works:  Jest-books; 
'  Miscellanies '  so  called,  made  up  of  both  expository 
and  narrative  matter ;  certain  collections  of  Essays, 
like  those  of  Tom  Brown,  or  Letters,  like  Mrs. 
Elizabeth  Rowe's  Friendship  in  Death,  in  which 
there  is  a  considerable  narrative  element;  and  a  few 
odds  and  ends."  It  is  clear,  as  Mr.  Clapp  points  out, 
that  no  one  bibliographer  can  cover  the  whole  field 
of  English  fiction  in  this  systematic  and  painstaking 
manner.  There  is  room  enough  for  many  workers, 
and  even  in  the  task  that  he  has  set  himself,  one 
would  think  him  in  need  of  helpers. 
•  •  • 

THE    LAST    LABORS    OF    A    VETERAN    LITERARY 

WORKER,  who  has  stuck  to  his  task  for  more  than 
forty  years  and  then  died  pen  in  hand,  figuratively 
speaking,  are  likely  soon  to  see  the  light  in  posthu- 
mous publication.  It  appears  from  a  communica- 
tion of  Mr.  Samuel  C.  Chew,  Jr.,  lately  printed  in 


the  New  York  "Evening  Post,"  that  the  late  Dr. 
Furness's  closing  years  of  Shakespeare  editorship 
had  brought  almost  to  completion  a  fifteenth  play  in 
the  series  whose  beginning  dates  back  to  1871.  In 
a  letter  written  to  Mr.  Chew  only  a  few  days  before 
his  death,  Dr.  Furness  said,  after  referring  to  the 
loss  of  several  dear  friends:  "My  nepenthe,  how- 
ever, is  work,  into  which  it  is  impossible  at  eighty 
to  throw  as  much  energy  as  at  thirty.  If  all  goes 
well  I  hope  to  deliver  '  Cymbeline '  to  the  mercies 
of  the  printers  in  a  month  or  two.  And  then  I 
shall  rest  and  patch  up  my  old  body  for  heaven." 
As  six  years  have  elapsed  since  the  "Antony  and 
Cleopatra"  was  delivered  to  the  mercies  above 
named  —  an  interval  only  equalled,  in  the  history 
of  this  Variorum  edition,  by  that  between  "King 
Lear"  and  "Othello" — there  is  reason  to  hope  the 
"Cymbeline"  may  indeed  be  practically  ready  for 
publication,  and  that  its  early  appearance  may  be 
counted  on.  Further  quotation  from  the  editor's 
correspondence  claims  a  place  here.  Mr.  Chew 
communicates  this  passage  from  an  earlier  letter: 
"To  know  that  fresh,  young,  enthusiastic  spirits  are 
entering  the  world  of  Shakespeare,  wherein  there 
lies  for  them  illimitable  growth,  cannot  but  fill  with 
measureless  content  one  who  is  finishing  the  journey, 
and  to  whom  that  world  is  fast  vanishing  in  the 
lengthening  shadows."  In  referring  to  the  Baconian 
theory,  which  he  said  was  almost  as  prevalent  as 
the  measles,  and  from  which  most  people  recovered 
as  soon,  Dr.  Furness  is  quoted  as  demanding  with 
mock  indignation  that  the  Baconians  should  read 
the  essay  "Of  Gardens  "and  then  follow  it  with  the 
fourth  act  of  "The  Winter's  Tale,"  or  read  the 
essay  "Of  Love"  and  then  the  third  act  of  "Romeo 
and  Juliet."  "If  they  still  believe,"  said  he,  "that 
the  man  who  wrote  the  essays  wrote  those  scenes,  I 
give  them  up ! " 

DETAILS  OF  HARVARD'S  PROMISED  LIBRARY,  the 
magnificent  gift  of  Mrs.  George  D.  Widener,  mother 
of  the  late  Harry  Elkins  Widener,  to  whose  memory 
the  building  is  to  be  dedicated,  have  now  been  made 
public,  and  indicate  that  the  new  structure  will  take 
rank  with  the  world's  largest  and  finest  library 
buildings.  Exceeding  in  dimensions  the  great 
Boston  Public  Library,  it  will  almost  equal  the 
New  York  Public  Library,  and  will  have  a  capacity 
of  nearly  two  and  one- half  million  volumes,  with 
fifty-nine  miles  of  shelving  to  hold  them.  Its  main 
reading-room,  seating  375  persons,  will  be  larger 
than  the  famous  Bates  Hall  of  the  Boston  library, 
while  there  will  be  no  fewer  than  eighty  special  or 
private  reading-rooms  for  Harvard  professors  and 
other  scholars  desiring  seclusion  of  this  sort.  Also 
350  still  smaller  studies  will  be  provided,  so  that 
no  reasonable  request  for  privacy  in  one's  literary 
labors  need  be  refused.  The  Widener  Memorial 
Hall,  on  the  first  floor,  will  be  a  chief  feature  of  the 
interior,  and  will  be  a  room  forty  by  thirty-two  feet 
in  measurement,  with  stack-room  in  the  rear  for  the 
Widener  collection.  The  dimensions  of  the  building 


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as  a  whole  are  given  as  206  by  275  feet;  the  mate- 
rial will  be  brick  and  limestone,  and  the  construction 
will  be  fire-proof  throughout.  Gore  Hall,  the  home, 
since  1841,  of  America's  fourth-largest  library,  will 
be  torn  down  to  make  room,  in  part,  for  the  incom- 
parably more  commodious  new  quarters;  and  until 
the  expected  completion  of  the  memorial  building, 
in  about  two  years,  the  books  will  be  stored  chiefly 
in  Randall  Hall,  where  also  the  card-catalogue  will 
be  placed,  while  reading-room  accommodations  will 
be  provided  in  Massachusetts  Hall.  It  is  hoped 
that  the  dedication  of  the  world's  finest  university 
library  building  may  take  place  in  the  commence- 
ment week  of  1914. 

THE     APPEAL     OF     THE     LITERARY     WEEKLY     to 

popular  favor  has  been  as  successful  with  our 
English  cousins  as  it  has  been  the  contrary  with 
us.  London  hebdomadal  publications  devoted  more 
or  less  conspicuously  to  the  interests  of  literature 
are  numerous  and  of  no  mean  order  of  merit. 
That  so  many  periodicals  like  the  "Nation," 
"Athenaeum,"  "Academy,"  "Spectator,"  "Satur- 
day Review,"  and  "Speaker"  should  flourish  side 
by  side,  while  in  this  country  hardly  more  than  one 
or  two  weekly  publications  of  like  character  can  be 
found  even  by  the  most  kindly-disposed  scrutiny,  is 
rather  remarkable.  And  what  is  more,  the  English 
list  is  now  to  be  lengthened  by  a  notable  addition 
at  the  hands  of  the  enterprising  house  of  Messrs. 
J.  M.  Dent  &  Sons.  On  the  eighteenth  of  October 
there  will  appear,  according  to  announcement,  a 
new  literary  weekly  whose  contributors  will  be  of 
various  countries  and  of  divers  parties  and  creeds. 
For  example,  articles  are  promised  from  such 
writers  as  Mr.  H.  G.  Wells,  who  will  treat  the 
subject  of  industrial  unrest;  Mr.  G.  K.  Chesterton, 
who  will  handle  peasant  proprietorship ;  Professor 
Hans  Delbriick,  who  will  consider  how  to  make 
more  cordial  the  relations  between  England  and 
Germany;  Professor  Cestre  (of  the  University  of 
Bordeaux),  who  will  give  a  Frenchman's  view  of 
Mr.  George  Bernard  Shaw;  Professor  Saintsbury, 
who  will  write  on  Balzac  and  on  Sir  Walter  Scott; 
and  the  Abbe*  Houtin,  whose  pen  will  depict  the 
character  of  Pope  Pius  the  Tenth.  A  periodical  so 
hospitable  to  writers  of  whatever  nation  or  creed 
might  well  choose  for  a  motto,  if  it  had  not  already 
been  preempted,  Tros  Tyriusque  mihi  nullo  dis- 
crimine  agetur.  ... 

SUPPOSED  QUALIFICATIONS  FOR  LIBRARIANSHIP, 

as  that  office  is  viewed  by  the  uninitiated,  who  often 
regard  it  as  a  dignified  sinecure  to  be  obtained  by 
favor  or  influence  of  a  political  or  other  nature,  in- 
clude, first  and  foremost,  a  limitless  capacity  for 
sitting  in  an  easy  chair  and  reading  books  all  day. 
Miss  Hoover,  the  experienced  head  of  the  Galesburg 
Public  Library,  takes  occasion,  in  her  current  Report, 
to  touch  on  this  matter  as  follows  :  "  With  the  ma- 
jority of  people  the  idea  prevails  that  the  duties  of 
a  library  attendant  consist  in  handing  out  the  re- 
quired book  or  furnishing  the  desired  information, 


leaving  the  attendant  ample  time  to  spend  in  the 
enjoyment  of  reading.  The  frequency  with  which 
an  applicant  for  a  library  position  states  as  a  quali- 
fication the  fact  that  he  is  '  very  fond  of  reading ' 
proves  the  popularity  of  the  idea."  But,  as  a  matter 
of  prosaic  fact,  "  each  day  in  a  busy  library  sees  a 
large  amount  of  routine  work  done  aside  from  the 
delivery  of  books,  —  the  compiling  and  recording  of 
statistics,  re-writing  of  book-cards,  issuing  of  bor- 
rowers' cards,  writing  of  notices  of  overdue  and  of 
reserve  books,  the  recovery  of  overdue  books,  the 
business  correspondence,  the  financial  book-keeping, 
the  type-writing  of  book-lists  and  bulletins,  the  me- 
chanical preparation  of  books  for  circulation,  the 
mending  and  repair  of  books,  the  care  of  pamphlets, 
keeping  books  in  order  on  the  shelves,"  and  various 
other  duties  which  are  not  mentioned,  but  which  any 
library  worker  can  easily  add.  In  short,  to  adapt 
an  old  and  familiar  rhyme, 

Though  other  folk's  work  be  from  sun  to  sun, 

The  librarian's  task  is  never  done. 

"THE  TOLSTOY  OF  GERMANY"  is  what  some  of 
Professor  Rudolf  Eucken's  admirers  call  the  famous 
professor  of  philosophy  at  the  University  of  Jena. 
His  acceptance  of  the  exchange  professorship  at 
Harvard  for  the  coming  year  (  at  the  same  time  that 
ProfessorBergson  accepts  a  similar  call  to  Columbia) 
directs  attention  anew  to  his  personality  and  his 
work.  The  feeling  of  attachment  and  enthusiastic 
devotion  with  which  his  many  disciples  regard  him, 
the  deserved  distinction  of  being  awarded  a  Nobel 
prize,  the  increasing  rapidity  with  which  his  books 
sell  both  in  his  own  and  in  foreign  lands,  give  assur- 
ance that  his  lectures  at  Harvard  this  winter  will  be 
well  worth  hearing  and  will  not  be  delivered  before 
empty  benches.  Dr.  Eucken  is  sixty-seven  years 
old,  and  has  held  his  present  chair  at  Jena  since  his 
call  in  1874  from  Basel,  where  he  had  occupied  a 
similar  position  for  three  years.  His  university 
training  was  received  at  Gottingen.  His  best-known 
book,  to  English  readers  at  least,  is  "The  Problem 
of  Human  Life,  as  Viewed  by  the  Great  Thinkers 
from  Plato  to  the  Present  Time."  The  teachings 
of  this  philosopher,  like  those  of  his  eminent  contem- 
poraries, Professors  James  and  Bergson,  emphasize 
the  non-fixedness  of  reality.  Truth  with  them  is 
not  something  forever  finished  and  unalterable,  but 
rather  an  evolution,  a  process  that  continues,  a  drama 
that  unrolls.  The  problem  of  the  universe  can  hope 
for  no  final  solution,  but  must  be  attacked  afresh, 
from  new  points  of  assault,  in  each  succeeding  age. 
Professor  Eucken's  way  of  handling  the  riddle  has 
afforded  stimulus  and  cheer  for  many  a  bewildered 
and  often  pessimistic  student  of  the  baffling  problem. 

IMPROVING  THE  CONDITIONS  OF  COUNTRY  LIFE 
forms  one  of  the  themes  most  frequently  turned  to 
oratorical  uses  by  the  most  volubly  eloquent  of  our 
present  candidates  for  the  highest  public  office  in 
the  land.  And  meanwhile,  it  is  worth  noting,  this 
same  improvement  of  rural  conditions  is  being  made 


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the  subject  of  some  quiet  and,  it  is  already  evident, 
fruitful  study  by  the  combined  intelligence  of  the 
Massachusetts  Library  Commission  and  the  Massa- 
chusetts Library  Club.  An  example  of  what  rural 
library  work  can  accomplish  has  been  recently  fur- 
nished by  the  little  hill  town  of  Pomfret,  Vermont, 
whose  activities  in  this  field  are  so  well  described 
by  Mr.  John  Cotton  Dana  in  a  most  interesting  illus- 
trated pamphlet.  It  was  only  the  other  day  that 
our  attention  was  called  to  the  improved  condition 
of  a  western  Massachusetts  farming  town  of  not 
more  than  five  hundred  inhabitants ;  and  amid  the 
other  signs  of  local  progress  was  the  revived  aspect 
of  the  public  library,  which  had  recently  been  placed 
in  charge  of  a  trained  librarian  and  provided  with 
suitable  quarters.  Books  are  not  the  sole  road  to 
salvation,  and  unassisted  by  other  agencies  they  can 
do  little;  but  in  the  interplay  of  all  the  countless 
elements  of  a  progressive  civilization  the  dissemi- 
nation of  good  reading-matter  probably  counts  for 
much  more  than  is  generally  suspected. 
•  •  • 

BOOK-BUYERS,  BOOK-BORROWERS,  AND  THE  PAR- 
CELS POST  ought  to  have  been  brought  into  a  more 
satisfactory  relationship,  the  two  former  to  the  last- 
named,  than  was  effected  by  Congress  in  the  provis- 
ions of  the  new  postal  regulation  to  take  effect  next 
January.  Books  and  similar  printed  matter  ought 
to  enjoy  the  benefit  of  the  reduced  rates  accorded  to 
merchandise  under  the  new  system.  Librarians, 
publishers,  booksellers,  library-users,  and  all  who 
handle  books  are  interested  in  securing  facilities  less 
expensive  than  those  now  furnished  by  the  mail  and 
the  express  companies,  for  the  carriage  of  books  to 
and  from  libraries  and  bookshops  and  from  friend 
to  friend.  The  approaching  holiday  season  will 
once  more  make  our  people  conscious  that  the  pur- 
chase of  gift  book's  for  Christmas  offerings  by  no 
means  ends  the  outlay  necessary  for  their  presenta- 
tion to  distant  friends.  Though  the  green-grocer 
and  the  drygoods-dealer  may  profit  by  the  new  regu- 
lation, the  book-hungry  backwoods  folk,  dependent 
on  some  form  of  library  extension  for  their  reading 
matter,  must  possess  their  souls  in  patience  until  a 
dilatory  Congress  shall  see  fit  to  frame  and  pass  a 
parcels-post  law  that  is  something  more  than  a  rider 
to  an  appropriation  bill  hurried  through  in  the  last 
days  of  an  unduly  protracted  session. 

•          •          • 

REORGANIZING  A  PUBLIC  LIBRARY,  especially  one 
that  has  reached  a  considerable  size  and  is  nearly 
a  quarter  of  a  century  old,  is  no  holiday  diversion. 
The  new  librarian  of  the  Los  Angeles  Public  Library 
is  now  engaged  in  this  work  of  reorganization,  as 
appears  from  the  current  Report  of  that  energetic 
and  progressive  institution.  In  the  Directors'  Report 
we  read :  "  On  September  8th  [of  last  year]  Mr. 
Everett  R.  Perry,  of  the  New  York  Public  Library, 
was  appointed  librarian.  Through  Mr.  Perry's  tire- 
less efforts  since  that  time,  several  departments  of 
the  Library  have  been  reorganized,  and  the  standards 


of  efficiency  of  the  library  service  very  highly  im- 
proved. This  has  been  attested  by  a  wider  interest 
in  the  Library,  manifested  by  a  very  heavy  increase 
in  circulation."  The  first  of  six  Carnegie  branch 
libraries  is  about  to  be  built,  and  sites  for  five  of  the 
six  have  been  given  and  have  met  with  the  Board's 
approval.  From  the  reports  of  the  various  heads  of 
departments,  as  well  as  from  that  of  the  librarian-in- 
chief,  it  is  clear  that  the  literary  needs  of  the  com- 
munity are  to  suffer  no  neglect,  as  far  as  Mr.  Perry 
and  his  associates  can  prevent  it. 

•          •          • 

CHINESE  SENSATIONAL  FICTION  apparently  re- 
sembles the  same  class  of  literature  elsewhere  in 
its  shameless  appeal  to  the  love  of  all  that  is  hair- 
raising  and  horrible  in  description,  plot,  and 
character-painting.  That  our  "  shilling  shockers  " 
and  "  penny  dreadfuls  "  should  have  their  counter- 
parts wherever  books  are  printed,  is  as  inevitable 
as  that  rivers  should  run  down  to  the  sea.  The 
"  North  China  Herald  "  deplores  the  crude  sensa- 
tionalism of  certain  recent  native  works  of  fiction 
that  seem  to  be  showing  a  tendency  to  supplant  the 
older  classic  romances.  One  of  these  lurid  tales 
bears  the  bloodcurdling  title,  "The  Magistrate's 
Decision  on  the  Dismembered  Corpse  of  a  Rake." 
A  synopsis  of  the  plot  is  given,  but  even  that  is  too 
disagreeable  to  reproduce  here.  One  is  amused, 
however,  by  the  unconscious  humor  displayed  in  the 
last  chapter  of  the  book,  where  the  author  turns 
preacher  and  gravely  points  the  moral  of  his  story 
by  cautioning  his  readers  against  indulging  their 
passions  and  harboring  in  their  bosoms  the  vices 
depicted  in  the  preceding  pages.  Nine-tenths  of 
the  readers  will  skip  the  moral,  and  the  remaining 
tenth  will  give  it  slight  heed  ;  but  the  manufacturer 
of  the  wretched  stuff  has  salved  his  conscience,  or 
thinks  he  has. 

BOOKS  AND  THE  WEATHER  seem  to  stand  in  a 
certain  important  relationship,  the  one  to  the  other, 
that  is  recognized  by  booksellers  and  publishers. 
Without  going  so  far  as  to  say  that  book-sales  are 
"  servile  to  all  the  skyey  influences,"  one  might 
safely  maintain  that,  other  things  being  equal,  a 
rainy  season  will  quicken  the  circulation  of  books, 
and  a  season  of  sunshine  will  retard  it.  Just  now 
the  abundant  and  protracted  rainstorms  in  England 
are  rejoicing  the  English  publishers'  and  booksellers' 
hearts ;  for  the  people,  out  of  sheer  desperation,  if 
from  no  higher  motive,  are  turning  to  literature  and 
swelling  the  receipts  of  those  who  deal  in  printed 
matter,  who  in  their  turn  are  joyfully  making  hay 
while  the  sun  is  obscured.  And  this  may  suggest 
to  the  curious  observer  that  one  great  reason  why 
northern  Europe  reads  more  than  southern,  why 
Scandinavia  buys  more  books  than  Spain,  lies  in  the 
greater  prevalence  of  gloomy  weather  among  the 
hyperboreans.  It  was  confidently  predicted  in 
Copenhagen  not  long  ago  that  as  soon  as  Captain 
Amundsen's  book  on  the  South  Pole  should  appear, 


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three  out  of  every  four  street-car  conductors  and 
motormen  would  be  reading  it.  Could  any  such 
gratifying  spectacle  be  looked  for  in  the  lands  of 
sunshine  and  of  almost  uninterrupted  outdoor  life 
and  of  perpetual  dolce  far  niente  ? 

•  •         • 

FRIENDLINESS  TO  THE  FOREIGNER  is  the  note 
struck  by  the  so-called  Foreign  Reading  Room  of  the 
Broadway  Branch  of  the  Cleveland  Public  Library. 
This  room,  says  an  illustrated  leaflet  issued  by  the 
library,  "  is  very  interesting  to  those  who  do  not  for- 
get the  Fatherland.  It  contains  the  books  in  lan- 
guages other  than  English,  and  also  magazines  from 
Europe.  The  librarian  will  always  be  glad  to  receive 
suggestions  for  new  titles."  Attention  is  given  to 
the  literary  needs  of  Bohemians,  Germans,  Poles, 
Slovenians,  Hungarians,  Finns,  Italians,  Lithua- 
nians —  and  others.  The  English-reading  public  is, 
of  course,  also  abundantly  provided  for.  Small  de- 
scriptive folders  and  book-lists  in  a  number  of  foreign 
languages  are  circulated  by  the  Broadway  Branch, 
which  seems  to  be  in  the  heart  of  the  foreign  quarter 
of  Cleveland,  and  to  be  doing  its  best  to  relieve  the 
immigrant's  homesickness  and  to  open  for  him  the 
way  to  intelligent  citizenship  in  the  land  of  his 
adoption.  ... 

"A   FUNDAMENTAL    PARADOX    OF    EDUCATION," 

which  the  advocates  of  vocational  and  industrial 
training  would  do  well  to  consider,  finds  itself  well 
stated  by  President  Hibben  of  Princeton  in  a 
discussion  of  "True  Conservatism  in  Education," 
in  the  New  York  "Times."  He  calls  attention  to 
the  frequency  with  which  "the  most  immediate  and 
direct  means  of  bringing  about  a  desired  end  for 
that  very  reason  tends  to  neutralize  itself,  and  thus 
to  defeat  its  own  purpose.  In  other  words,  there 
is  no  short  cut  to  knowledge.  The  particular  task 
in  life  must  be  allowed  for  some  time  at  least  to 
remain  in  the  background  of  thought  and  of 
endeavor.  A  thorough  training  of  all  the  powers 
of  the  man  is  the  best  preparation  for  the  particular 
work,  whatever  it  may  be,  which  awaits  him." 
One  is  reminded  by  this  of  the  especial  and  diligent 
attention  bestowed  by  Dr.  Martineau,  in  his  school 
days,  on  the  studies  least  congenial  to  him  and 
least  likely  to  bear  directly  on  his  woi'k  in  after 
life.  The  story  of  the  youth  who,  on  being  asked 
why  he  spent  so  much  time  over  the  dialogues  of 
Plato,  answered,  "  Because  I  am  going  to  be  a  civil 
engineer,"  is  not  without  its  point  and  significance. 

•  •          • 

PUBLISHERS  IN  PETTICOATS  will  not  long  astonish 
by  their  rarity.  In  this  country  we  already  have 
the  Alice  Harriman  Company,  with  a  number  of 
noteworthy  books  to  its  credit;  and  in  London  there 
has  just  been  organized  a  promising  business  house 
under  the  name  of  the  Happy  Publishing  Company 
— conducted  entirely  by  women,  handling  only  books 
written  by  women,  and,  to  a  considerable  extent, 
employing  women  in  their  manufacture.  The  first 
venture  of  the  Happy  Publishing  Company  is  the 


maiden  effort  of  a  new  writer,  Mrs.  M.  M.  Lee,  and 
is  entitled  ''Love's  Victories,"  which  should  appeal 
especially  to  women.  Women  writers  may  like  to 
have  the  address  of  this  new  publishing  house;  it 
is  133  Salisbury  Square,  Fleet  Street,  E.  C. 


ENGLISH  POLITICS  AND  ENGLISH 
LITERATURE. 


(Special  Correspondence  of  THE  DIAL.) 
The  combination  of  politics  and  the  practice  of 
letters  is  becoming  rare  in  England,  and  perhaps 
in  other  countries  as  well.  Or  it  might  be  more 
just  to  say  that  it  is  less  successful:  that  we  fail 
to  produce  now  (for  Lord  Morley's  work,  excellent 
as  it  is,  belongs  rather  to  a  past  age)  men  who  are  at 
once  considerable  politicians  and  in  the  front  rank 
as  authors  —  men  of  the  stamp  of  Lord  Macaulay 
and  Benjamin  Disraeli,  Earl  of  Beaconsfield.  I  say 
this  with  the  full  knowledge  that  we  possess  cer- 
tain members  of  the  Cabinet  at  the  present  moment 
who  have  written  agreeably  in  the  past,  and  may  do 
so  again.  Our  Irish  secretary  is  still  Mr.  Augustine 
Birrell,  who  won  his  literary  spurs  many  years  ago 
with  several  pleasant  volumes  of  light  essays;  our 
secretary  for  Foreign  Affairs,  Sir  Edward  Grey, 
wrote  a  book  on  fly-fishing,  which  has  become  a 
classic  in  its  own  field;  an  ex-prime  minister,  Lord 
Rosebery,  has  produced  more  than  one  biographical 
work  of  interest  and  literary  ability.  But  none  of 
these  men,  not  even  Mr.  Birrell,  can  be  said  to  take 
literature  seriously.  Politics  is  their  chief  occupa- 
tion :  they  turn  to  the  other  (some  of  them)  in  the 
all  too  scanty  moments  of  leisure  snatched  from 
parliamentary  duties;  and  it  is  pretty  safe  to  say 
that  such  immortality  as  they  may  earn  will  be  due 
to  their  deeds  in  the  political  rather  than  in  the 
literary  field.  Nor  can  I  detect  signs  of  any  new 
men  arising  to  take  the  places  of  those  I  have 
mentioned.  Parliament  still  possesses  Sir  Gilbert 
Parker ;  for  a  short  while  he  had  as  companions  in 
the  House  two  tolerably  distinguished  novelists  in 
Mr.  Belloc  and  Mr.  A.  E.  W.  Mason.  They  came, 
and  saw,  and  were  conquered:  the  Mother  of  Par- 
liaments proved  too  much  for  them.  Mr.  Belloc 
has  never  ceased  since  to  declare  his  conviction  that 
the  whole  system  of  party  government  is  rotten  to 
the  core. 

There  has,  in  fact,  been  of  late  years  a  general 
increase  in  the  pace  of  political  life,  —  a  "  speeding- 
up"  process,  as  the  modern  phrase  has  it, — which 
must  necessarily  be  alien  to  the  literary  mind.  Our 
legislators  are  now  paid  for  their  services,  and  ac- 
cordingly they  are  full  of  new-born  zeal:  they  feel 
that  they  must  give  the  country  something  for  its 
money;  and  the  consequence  is  that  they  have 
fallen  into  the  habit  of  passing  new  bills  at  break- 
neck speed  and  after  very  inadequate  consideration. 
Indeed,  the  ordinary  Member  of  Parliament  has  no 
occasion  to  think  matters  over  for  himself:  he  is 


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practically  the  creature  of  his  party,  and  must  obey 
the  dictates  of  the  machine.  Now,  your  man  of 
letters,  at  the  worst,  has  a  sort  of  pride  :  he  believes 
in  his  own  judgment;  he  was  chosen  to  this  respon- 
sible post,  he  imagines,  because  of  his  superiority 
of  intellect,  and  it  would  clearly  be  absurd  not  to 
utilize  this  valuable  quality  in  the  public  interest. 
Consequently,  he  is  apt  to  prove  a  difficult  subject 
for  the  management  of  the  party  authorities,  who 
require  above  all  things  men  who  will  do  what  they 
are  told  and  argue  to  order.  It  is  for  this  reason 
that  we  find  so  large  a  preponderance  of  legal  gen- 
tlemen in  the  House.  And  the  place  that  used  to 
be  filled  by  the  man  of  letters  is  now  commonly  oc- 
cupied by  the  journalist. 

I  perceive  that  Lord  Morley,  in  a  recent  speech 
delivered  at  a  complimentary  dinner  to  a  well-known 
journalist,  remarked  upon  the  number  of  recent  prime 
ministers  who  had  made  their  mark  in  the  realm  of 
books.  If  they  had  been  drawn  by  the  necessities 
of  life  into  journalism,  he,  in  his  editorial  days,  would 
have  guaranteed  any  one  of  the  five  a  very  excellent 
salary.  Perhaps  we  should  not  take  the  words  of 
an  after-dinner  speaker  too  seriously ;  but  it  is  a  little 
remarkable  that  Lord  Morley,  possibly  our  last  sur- 
viving example  of  the  combined  politician  and  man 
of  letters,  should  instinctively  have  appraised  the 
worth  of  these  gentlemen  in  the  light  of  his  experi- 
ence as  editor  rather  than  as  literary  critic.  Disraeli, 
Gladstone,  Rosebery,  Balfour,  the  late  Lord  Salis- 
bury (these,  I  imagine,  were  the  sacred  five  referred 
to)  all  possessed  undoubted  ability  as  writers.  But 
the  majority  of  them  (I  am  inclined  to  except  Mr. 
Balfour,  who  has  written  a  Defence  of  Philosophic 
Doubt)  saw  things  from  the  point  of  view  of  the  poli- 
tical journalist,  a  point  of  view  which  is  proverbi- 
ally one-eyed.  Their  literary  quality  was  apt  to  be 
swamped  in  their  desire  to  prove  a  thesis  :  the  habit 
of  debate  had  gained  possession  of  them.  Thus  it 
was  even  as  long  ago  as  the  days  of  Macaulay,  who 
wrote  his  History  of  England  and  found  it  turn 
under  his  hands  to  a  Defence  of  Whiggery. 

But  the  name  of  Macaulay  remains,  and  will  re- 
main, a  bright  spot  in  the  literary  history  of  his  time. 
We  may  perhaps  attribute  this  to  his  consistently 
independent  attitude.  He  entered  Parliament  as  the 
member  for  Calne,  then  a  "  pocket  borough  "  of  the 
Lord  Lansdowne  of  that  day,  but  with  the  express 
understanding  that  he  was  to  have  complete  freedom 
of  action.  Subsequently,  when  he  took  office,  in  1832, 
he  was  always  prepared  to  sacrifice  his  place  rather 
than  his  convictions.  And,  in  his  days,  it  was  pos- 
sible for  a  Member  of  Parliament  to  speak  his  mind 
in  debate  and  to  record  his  vote  according  to  his  real 
opinions.  The  party  machine  had  not  yet  arrived, 
to  crush  all  the  individuality  out  of  the  private  mem- 
ber, making  of  him  nothing  but  a  single  cog-wheel 
in  the  complicated  apparatus  of  power.  It  was  still 
possible  for  a  man  to  enter  the  House  of  Commons 
and  preserve  his  self-respect.  It  was  not  necessary 
for  him  then  to  keep  his  name  before  his  constituents, 
under  pain  of  being  forced  to  resign  if  he  failed  to 


take  a  share  in  debate,  or  to  make  himself  conspicu- 
ous at  question-time.  He  had  not  the  fear  of  the 
local  paper  before  his  eyes.  Gibbon,  the  historian 
of  the  "  Decline  and  Fall,"  could  sit  seven  years  for 
Liskeard,  recording  none  but  silent  votes.  Pride 
hastened  to  excuse  a  natural  timidity,  and  he  con- 
fessed that  even  "  the  success  of  my  pen  discouraged 
the  trial  of  my  voice."  Yet,  as  his  training  in  the 
Southampton  militia  enabled  him  to  examine  the 
battles  of  antiquity  with  an  intelligent  eye,  so  his 
Parliamentary  experience  was  not  without  value. 
"The  eight  sessions  that  I  sat  in  Parliament,"  he 
wrote,  "  were  a  school  of  civil  prudence,  the  first 
and  most  essential  virtue  of  an  historian." 

The  great  speakers  filled  Gibbon  with  despair :  the 
bad  ones  with  apprehension,  to  use  once  again  his 
inimitable  stateliness  of  phrase.  More  than  half  a 
century  earlier,  the  same  diffidence  made  an  equally 
silent  member  of  Addison,  who  presented  the  curious 
spectacle,  impossible  in  these  strenuous  days,  of  a 
silent  Secretary  of  State.  The  great  essayist  is  re- 
corded, perhaps  apocryphally,  to  have  made  one 
attempt  in  the  direction  of  parliamentary  oratory, 
but  his  shyness  overcame  him,  and  he  sat  down  in 
confusion.  Indeed,  it  must  be  admitted  that  our 
literary  politicians  have  not  invariably  attained  a 
success  as  public  speakers  commensurate  with  the 
command  of  language  they  displayed  in  other  fields. 
Against  Macaulay,  Sheridan,  and  Disraeli  must  be 
set  Addison,  Gibbon,  John  Stuart  Mill,  and  perhaps 
the  late  Mr.  Lecky.  But  Mill,  though  not  an  elo- 
quent debater,  was  heard  with  attention,  and  his 
career  in  Parliament  may  be  said  to  have  extended 
his  influence. 

The  historian  and  the  philosopher,  as  is  only  nat- 
ural, bulk  more  largely  in  active  political  life  than 
the  poet.  Yet  Andrew  Marvell  and  Matthew  Prior 
sat  in  Parliament,  and  the  latter  was  secretary  to  the 
embassy  at  The  Hague  and  afterwards  to  the  pleni- 
potentiaries who  concluded  the  Peace  of  Ryswick. 
A  lighter  strain  in  verse  has  proved  not  incompatible 
with  a  certain  success  in  the  House  of  Commons. 
W.  M.  Praed  and  Richard  Monckton  Milnes  may 
be  cited  as  examples.  Of  novelists  few  can  be  said 
to  have  made  much  mark  in  parliamentary  history, 
with  the  considerable  exceptions  of  Disraeli  and 
Bulwer  Lytton.  Yet  the  life  has  evidently  possessed 
a  fascination  for  them.  Thackeray  stood  for  Oxford 
in  1857,  but  was  defeated,  perhaps  fortunately, 
by  Mr.  Card  well,  afterwards  Secretary  for  War; 
some  ten  years  later  his  biographer,  Anthony  Trol- 
lope,  followed  his  footsteps  in  becoming  candidate 
for  Beverley.  In  more  recent  times  Mr.  Anthony 
Hope  Hawkins,  among  a  host  of  others,  has  tried  his 
fortune  at  the  polls.  But  it  is  doubtful  whether 
modern  parliamentary  life  can  find  much  use  for  the 
peculiar  qualities  of  the  successful  novelist.  Perhaps 
Mr.  H.  G.  Wells,  with  his  remarkably  constructive 
imagination,  might  prove  an  exception. 

Whatever  appeal  politics  may  make  to  literature, 
it  is  clear  that  literature,  in  itself,  makes  but  the 
smallest  appeal  to  the  politician.  The  man  of  let- 


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ters  at  the  present  day  receives  but  little  in  the  shape 
of  honors  or  rewards  from  those  in  power ;  and  what 
little  he  obtains  is  almost  invariably  bestowed  upon 
him  (as  though  of  set  purpose)  for  some  other  rea- 
son than  his  achievements  as  an  author.  Carlyle 
was  offered  a  baronetcy  by  Sir  Robert  Peel ;  Tenny- 
son was  raised  to  the  peerage.  But  since  the  date 
of  his  accession  to  that  high  order  it  is  difficult  to 
think  of  any  author  (with  the  possible  exception  of 
the  late  Sir  Walter  Besant)  who  has  been  included 
in  the  list  of  honors  for  purely  literary  reasons.  We 
have  a  sufficiency  of  military  and  naval  knights,  as 
is  only  just  and  proper:  to  the  lay  mind  it  seems 
that  the  order  of  knighthood  might  reasonably  be 
confined  to  the  two  services.  But  since  the  politician 
and  the  medical  man  have  now  come  to  claim  at  least 
an  equal  share  in  these  honors  we  cannot  but  feel 
that  literature  is  somewhat  neglected.  We  have,  it 
is  true,  a  few  knights  in  our  ranks.  An  editor  or 
two  has  received  the  honor ;  a  newspaper  proprietor 
has  been  raised  to  the  peerage ;  the  other  day  a  pub- 
lisher was  knighted ;  but  these  honors  hardly  belong 
t6  pure  literature.  Among  authors  we  possess  Sir 
Arthur  Conan  Doyle,  who  owes  his  honor  chiefly 
to  his  services  during  the  South  African  War;  Sir 
A.  T.  Quiller  Couch  and  Sir  Gilbert  Parker,  who 
owe  theirs  to  political  work ;  and  Sir  H.  Rider  Hag- 
gard, whose  suggestions  for  a  scheme  of  national 
land  settlement  in  Great  Britain  were  held  to  out- 
weigh his  claims  as  a  writer  of  romance.  A  knight- 
hood is,  I  admit,  but  a  barren  honor ;  but  if  we  may 
no  longer  look  for  embassies  to  The  Hague,  like  Mat 
Prior,  or  even  consulships  such  as  fell  to  the  lot  of 
Charles  Lever,  it  remains,  I  imagine,  the  best  that 
we  can  expect.  It  might  occasionally  be  bestowed 
upon  men  of  real  mark  in  their  profession,  as  a  re- 
ward for  excellence  in  their  own  work  rather  than 
for  a  combination  of  literary  talent  with  political  or 
other  services.  K  H.  LACON  WATSON. 

London,  September  17, 1912. 


COMMUNICATION. 


SOME  POINTS  IN  THE  HISTORY  OF  FORT 

DEARBORN. 
(To  the  Editor  of  THE  DIAL.) 

The  nature  of  Mr.  Currey's  letter  in  THE  DIAL  for 
Sept.  16,  concerning  my  review  of  his  book  on  Fort 
Dearborn,  impels  me  to  submit  the  following  observa- 
tions. 

In  the  review  in  question  I  developed  reasons  for  the 
judgment  expressed  that  from  the  serious  historical 
viewpoint  the  work  is  of  but  slight,  if  any,  value.  The 
author  replies  to  this  with  a  bitter  arraignment  which 
seeks  to  discredit  the  review  by  representing  the  re- 
viewer as  prejudiced  and  dishonest,  and  by  explaining 
away  a  few  of  the  many  errors  to  which  attention  was 
called  in  the  review. 

Did  time  and  inclination  permit,  it  would  be  much 
easier  to  riddle  the  statements  contained  in  the  writer's 
letter  than  it  was  to  establish  the  unsound  character  of 
his  book.  However,  I  have  as  little  inclination  for,  as 


the  public  would  have  interest  in,  a  personal  dispute 
with  Mr.  Currey.  To  enter  upon  such  a  course  would 
only  detract  attention  from  the  sole  issue  of  any  public 
or,  to  me  at  least,  private  interest.  So  far  as  the  pub- 
lic interest  is  concerned,  it  is  immaterial  whether  the 
reviewer  is  in  private  life  habitually  dishonest,  as  Mr. 
Currey  seems  to  think,  or  whether  Mr.  Currey's  passion 
overcame  for  the  time  being  his  sense  of  fairness  and 
his  regard  for  the  truth,  as  the  reviewer  believes.  It 
is  a  matter  of  some  concern  to  the  reading  public,  I  take 
it,  whether  the  truth  of  history  lies  with  Mr.  Currey's 
book  which  was  reviewed,  or  with  the  criticisms  which 
the  reviewer  passed  upon  it. 

Nor  do  I  perceive  the  utility  of  imposing  upon  the 
readers  of  THE  DIAL  a  detailed  discussion  of  the  his- 
torical issues  raised  in  Mr.  Currey's  letter.  It  would 
be  an  easy  thing  to  show  that  all  of  them  are  unsound. 
Mrs.  Heald  was  but  a  young  woman  in  1812,  instead  of 
thirty- six  years  of  age;  it  is  not  true  that  the  public  had 
no  access  to  knowledge  concerning  the  date  of  begin- 
ning the  construction  of  the  first  Fort  Dearborn,  prior  to 
the  reviewer's  "Record-Herald"  article  of  last  month; 
it  is  a  fact  that  "  Surgeon  "  Cooper  was  the  same  indi- 
vidual as  "  surgeon's  mate  "  Cooper,  and  that  neither 
he  nor  another  man  of  this  name  was  killed  in  the 
massacre;  it  is  not  true,  as  any  schoolboy  knows,  that 
General  Dearborn  performed  "  distinguished  "  services 
on  the  Niagara  frontier.  And  so  with  the  other  errors 
which  the  author  committed,  and  now  vainly  seeks  to 
deny.  I  neither  expect  nor  care  to  convince  Mr.  Cur- 
rey of  these  things;  the  casual  reader  can  have  little 
interest  in  a  detailed  discussion  of  them ;  and  other  stu- 
dents who  turn  their  attention  to  the  field  of  local  his- 
tory will  find  little  difficulty  in  deciding  which  of  us  is 
in  the  right. 

In  a  word,  my  only  interest  in  the  whole  matter  is  to 
see  what  I  believe  to  be  the  truth  of  history  prevail. 
The  only  issue  between  us  which  interests  me  pertains 
solely  to  this.  I  believe  the  author's  preparation  for  his 
work  to  have  been  only  superficial;  that  his  methods 
of  work  are  fundamentally  unsound;  and  consequently 
that  the  issue  of  his  labors,  judged  as  history,  is  value- 
less. In  his  resentment  over  the  expression  of  this 
judgment  he  has  resorted  to  a  bitter  ad  hominem  argu- 
ment with  the  design  of  discrediting  it. 

In  this  connection  one  or  two  further  points  demand 
attention.  It  was  furthest  from  my  thought  to  impute 
the  invention  of  the  stories  growing  out  of  Captain 
Heald's  action  with  reference  to  the  arms  and  ammuni- 
tion to  Mr.  Currey,  and  this  a  correct  reading  of  the 
review  will  show.  The  extent  of  his  responsibility  is 
that  he  ignorantly  copied  the  stories  as  though  they  were 
true.  So  far  as  his  statements  concerning  the  paper  I 
read  at  the  meeting  of  the  Mississippi  Valley  Historical 
Association  are  concerned,  he  has  simply  ascribed  to  the 
audience  generally  (and  this  without  any  possible  war- 
rant) what  I  am  quite  willing  to  believe  were  his  own 
private  impressions.  A  letter  of  inquiry  as  to  the  source 
on  which  he  based  his  statement  concerning  the  re- 
viewer's futile  efforts  "  to  secure  a  further  hearing  "  at 
the  hands  of  the  Chicago  Historical  Society,  elicits  the 
explanation  that  he  "  got  the  impression  "  from  a  re- 
porter's article  in  the  "  Tribune  "  recently.  The  truth 
is  that  the  reviewer  is  in  no  way  responsible  for  the 
article  in  question,  which  abounded  in  errors,  and  that 
the  statement  which  Mr.  Currey  based  upon  it  is  quite 
without  foundation  in  fact.  MILO  MILTON  QUAIFE. 

Lewis  Institute,  Chicago,  Sept.  23,  1912. 


1912.] 


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ooks. 


THE  FOUNDER  OF  A  GREAT  AMERICAN 
PUBLISHING  HOUSE.* 

Some  of  the  most  interesting  books  about 
books  and  bookmen  have  in  recent  years  come 
from  the  hands  of  those  engaged  in  the  business 
of  producing  books  and  in  enlisting  in  their  ser- 
vice the  most  distinguished  and  talented  writers 
of  books.  The  reminiscences  of  men  like  Mr. 
Edward  Marston,  the  veteran  London  publisher, 
and  Mr.  J.  Henry  Harper,  the  well-known 
New  York  publisher,  have  a  quality  of  interest 
not  to  be  found  in  memoirs  of  any  other  kind. 
It  is  with  keenest  pleasure  that  lovers  of  such 
intimate  histories  of  literature  in  the  making 
hail  the  appearance  of  Mr.  George  Haven  Put- 
nam's filial  tribute  to  the  memory  of  the  founder 
of  the  House  of  Putnam.  "George  Palmer 
Putnam:  A  Memoir"  is  packed  with  both  lit- 
erary and  human  interest,  the  winning  personal- 
ity of  the  man  holding  the  attention  no  less  than 
the  remarkable  achievements  of  the  publisher. 

George  Palmer  Putnam,  of  good  New  En- 
gland stock  that  traces  its  descent  back  to  the 
Puttenhams,  Puttnams,  and  Putnams  of  Buck- 
inghamshire, was  born  in  1814  at  Brunswick, 
Maine,  where  his  mother,  Catherine  Hunt  Pal- 
mer, of  Dorchester,  had  opened  a  private  school 
in  1808  upon  the  disablement,  from  illness,  of 
her  husband,  Henry  Palmer  of  Boston,  a  lawyer 
by  profession.  In  his  mother's  school  George 
received  his  education,  side  by  side  with  his 
sisters,  and  the  discipline  maintained,  both  on 
weekdays  and  Sundays,  seems  to  have  been  of 
the  good  old  Puritan  sort.  That  the  mother 
was  a  woman  of  strong  character  and  vigorous 
intellect  appears  from  many  facts  and  incidents 
transmitted  through  the  son  to  the  grandson, 
and  notably  from  her  having  written  a  series  of 
Bible  commentaries  which  the  founder  of  the 
Putnam  publishing  house  brought  out  in  two 
octavo  volumes  soon  after  he  had  firmly  estab- 
lished himself  in  New  York.  But  the  breaking- 
away  from  home,  under  the  compulsion  of 
narrowness  of  means,  had  come  much  earlier 
than  that,  in  1825,  when  the  lad's  uncle,  John 
Gulliver,  had  proposed  to  take  him  into  appren- 
ticeship in  his  carpet  business  in  Boston.  There 
he  remained  until  1829,  when,  with  courage 
and  enterprise  not  found  in  every  boy  of  fifteen, 
he  made  his  way  to  the  scene  of  his  subsequent 

*  GEORGE  PALMER  PUTNAM.  A  Memoir.  Together  with 
a  Record  of  the  Earlier  Years  of  the  Publishing  House" 
Founded  by  Him.  By  George  Haven  Putnam,  Litt.D.  With 
portrait.  New  York :  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons. 


labors  and  obtained  employment  with  a  book- 
seller and  stationer,  carrying  on  his  education 
meanwhile  in  late  evening  hours  at  the  Mer- 
cantile Library.  In  certain  "  Eough  Notes  of 
Thirty  Years  in  the  Trade,"  reprinted  from  the 
"American  Publishers'  Circular"  of  1863,  we 
get  a  glimpse  of  the  boy  voraciously  reading 
everything  in  the  way  of  history  that  came  to 
his  hand.  He  writes : 

"It  had  so  happened  that  though  my  father  had 
graduated  at  Harvard,  and  my  home  influences  were  of 
the  educated  and  cultivated  sort,  I  had  not  received 
even  the  ordinary  elementary  'schooling,'  to  say  nothing 
of  a  college  course,  and  further,  1  had  been  permitted 
even  less  than  ordinary  access  to  general  reading.  It 
is,  therefore,  a  pleasure  to  testify,  as  I  can  very  heartily, 
to  the  usefulness  of  the  New  York  Mercantile  Library, 
then  a  few  years  old,  and  just  located  in  the  new  Clinton 
Hall,  in  Beekman  Street,  the  corner-stone  of  which  I  had 
seen  laid  by  that  liberal-minded  citizen,  Philip  Hone. 
In  these  degenerate  days,  boys  in  my  position  of  sixteen 
or  seventeen  are  usually  dismissed  from  the  '  store '  at 
six  or  seven  o'clock.  In  1831-32,  we  were  kept  till 
nine  or  ten;  so  that  it  was  usually  after  nine  when  I 
could  get  to  the  Mercantile  and  take  out  my  book.  It 
chanced  that  my  tastes  rather  turned  from  the  novels 
to  the  more  solid  interest  of  a  course  of  history.  Begin- 
ning with  Father  Herodotus  (in  Beloe's  English)  I 
plodded  on  through  Thucydides,  Xenophon,  Livy, 
Tacitus,  Sal  lust;  then  Gibbon,  Russell's  Modern  Europe, 
several  histories  of  England,  including  Hume,  Lingard, 
Smollett,  and  De  Moleville.  Crammed  with  some  hun- 
dred and  fifty  octavos,  rapidly  mastered  in  succession, 
and  with  no  clear  guide  at  hand,  personal  or  in  book- 
shape,  to  systematise  and  classify  the  stock  of  lore  thus 
acquired,  I  began  to  take  notes  and  make  parallel  tables. 
I  copied  and  recopied,  and  collated  and  revised  until  I 
had  written  over  a  couple  of  reams." 

These  reams  of  notes  took  book-form  in  1832, 
when  their  writer  was  but  eighteen  years  old, 
in  a  work  that  ultimately  became  very  well 
known  as  "  The  World's  Progress."  Jonathan 
Leavitt  was  the  courageous  publisher,  and  he 
evidently  did  not  repent  of  his  confidence  re- 
posed in  the  boy-author,  since  the  edition  soon 
sold  out. 

Thus  in  a  small  way  had  begun  the  book- 
producing  activities  of  one  whose  calling  and 
election  to  the  publishing  business  were  not 
slow  to  make  themselves  manifest.  In  1833 
he  entered  the  employment  of  Wiley  and  Long, 
publishers  and  booksellers;  seven  years  later 
the  firm  of  Wiley  and  Putnam  was  formed; 
from  1841  to  1847  the  junior  member  of  this 
firm  acted  in  London  as  English  representative 
of  the  house ;  in  1848  the  partnership  was  dis- 
solved and  Mr.  Putnam  began  business  on  his 
own  account  at  155  Broadway,  in  the  very 
centre  of  the  commercial  life  of  that  day;  and 
thenceforward  to  the  present  time,  with  some 
financial  reverses  and  one  intermission  in  the 


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sixties,  when  the  founder  of  the  house  held  the 
government  position  of  Collector  of  Revenue, 
the  Putnam  publishing  business  has  continued 
to  grow  in  magnitude  and  in  honorable  repute. 
The  inestimable  service  rendered  to  the  cause 
of  international  copyright  by  both  the  elder  and 
the  younger  Putnam,  in  the  office  of  secretary 
and  inspiring  genius  of  successive  copyright 
leagues  and  associations,  and  by  eloquent  and 
reiterated  word  of  mouth  and  pen,  would  fur- 
nish matter  for  far  more  lengthy  narration  and 
approving  comment  than  can  here  find  space. 
Mr.  George  Haven  Putnam  tells  most  interest- 
ingly the  story  of  his  father's  self-sacrificing 
exertions  to  bring  about  the  desired  legislation, 
and  Mr.  R.  R.  Bowker  has  very  recently,  in  his 
painstaking  history  of  copyright,  chronicled  the 
services  of  both  father  and  son  in  this  field  of 
reform.  It  was  in  1872,  in  a  fifth  vain  attempt 
to  effect  a  correction  of  ancient  abuses,  that  Mr. 
Putnam,  senior,  spent  his  strength  so  lavishly 
and  against  such  discouraging  odds  as  to  under- 
mine his  health  and  hasten  his  death.  After 
going  to  Washington,  at  the  request  of  the 
Publishers'  Association,  to  push  the  pending 
copyright  bill  through  the  Judiciary  Committee, 
he  found  the  measure  opposed  in  the  committee- 
meeting  by  the  attorney  of  a  prominent  New 
York  publishing  house  which  had  been  under- 
stood to  be  not  antagonistic  to  the  proposed 
legislation.  The  narrative  continues : 

"  My  father's  personal  disappointment  and  annoy- 
ance were  naturally  keen.  The  bill  itself  never  got  out 
of  committee.  Senator  Lot  M.  Morrill,  of  Vermont,  the 
Chairman  of  the  Library  Committee,  in  making  an  ad- 
verse report  to  the  consideration  by  Congress  of  any 
international  copyright  bill,  took  the  ground,  naturally 
enough,  that  '  there  was  no  unanimity  of  opinion  among 
those  interested  in  the  measure.'  Fifteen  years  later, 
the  Harpers  who  were  then  directing  the  affairs  of  the 
House  had  convinced  themselves  that  their  interests 
were  not  adverse  to  international  copyright,  and  I  was 
able,  having  succeeded  my  father  as  Secretary  of  the 
Publishers'  Copyright  League,  to  maintain  before  the 
Judiciary  Committee  the  contention  that  the  publishers 
were  united  in  support  of  the  measure  and  had  author- 
ized me  to  speak  for  them ;  and  the  international  copy- 
right for  which  my  father  had  laboured  for  nearly  one 
third  of  a  century  was  at  last  brought  about.  The  fatigue 
of  the  journey  and  the  disappointment,  not  only  at  the 
failure  of  the  undertaking,  but  at  the  annoyance  that 
question  should  have  been  raised  in  the  Committee  con- 
cerning his  right  to  speak  as  a  representative  of  the 
publishers,  had  something  to  do  with  bringing  on  the  fit 
of  exhaustion  that  caused  his  death  a  few  weeks  later." 

In  honorable  endeavor  to  inflict  no  injury  on 
any  foreign  author  introduced  to  his  patrons, 
but  rather  to  promote  to  the  utmost  the  material 
welfare  of  such  authors,  the  founder  of  the 
Putnam  house  distinguished  himself  above  any 


of  his  competitors.  Other  firms  have  shown 
splendid  liberality  to  eminent  authors  who  could 
claim  no  legal  protection  from  piracy;  but  in 
uniformity  of  honest  and  considerate  dealings 
with  all  foreign  writers  whose  works  were  solic- 
ited for  republication  in  this  country,  it  is  safe 
to  assert  that  no  other  publishing  house  can  show 
quite  so  clean  a  record  as  the  one  whose  history 
is  now  offered  to  public  perusal.  The  list  of 
early  Victorian  authors  whose  American  inter- 
ests were  as  far  as  possible  guarded  and  pro- 
moted by  Mr.  Putnam  is  significant  in  this 
connection.  It  includes  the  names  of  Carlyle, 
Thomas  Hood,  William  Howitt,  Leigh  Hunt, 
Coleridge,  Layard,  Kinglake,  and  George  Bor- 
row. Fredrika  Bremer  was  another  whose  books 
he  tried  to  shield  from  piracy ;  but  a  powerful 
rival,  even  after  courteously  receiving  Miss 
Bremer  and  being  made  aware  of  the  close  con- 
nection between  that  lady's  length  of  sojourn  in 
this  country  and  her  receipts  from  the  American 
sale  of  her  books,  refused  to  recede  from  the  posi- 
tion that  courtesy  was  courtesy  and  business  was 
business  ;  and  so  "  the  receipts  from  the  author- 
ised editions  were  necessarily  curtailed,  and  the 
poor  little  lady  returned  to  Stockholm  with  plea- 
sant memories  of  some  American  friends,  but 
not  a  little  disappointed  at  the  final  results  of 
her  invasion  of  the  States."  The  names  of 
native  authors  to  be  found  in  the  early  cata- 
logues of  the  Putnam  house  form  a  brilliant  list 
and  include  those  of  Cooper,  Washington  Irving, 
Bayard  Taylor,  Poe,  Lowell,  Catherine  Sedg- 
wick,  and  Professor  Dana  of  Yale.  If  to  these 
are  added  the  names  of  writers  secured  for  the 
pages  of  the  magazine  started  in  1853  by  Mr. 
Putnam,  the  showing  becomes  still  more  impres- 
sive. He  had  a  decided  genius  for  winning  to 
himself,  in  both  a  business  and  a  friendly  way, 
the  leading  authors  of  his  time.  A  description 
from  his  pen  (originally  published  in  his  maga- 
zine) of  one  of  these  noted  writers  may  be  in 
place  at  this  point. 

"  The  name  of  FENIMORE  COOPER  in  American  author- 
ship was  a  prominent  one  during  his  life.  .  .  .  He  was 
as  conspicuous  in  person  as  in  intellect,  standing  over 
six  feet  in  height  —  strong,  erect,  well  proportioned  — 
with  the  air  and  manner  of  one  who  claimed  the  right 
to  be  listened  to,  and  to  have  his  dictum  respected.  .  .  . 
One  of  his  axioms  appeared  to  be,  that  the  very  posses- 
sion of  office  or  of  popular  favour  in  this  country  was 
prima-facie  evidence  of  incompetency,  superficial  attain- 
ment, or  positive  dishonesty.  (It  is  rather  sad  to  think, 
that  if  he  had  lived  longer,  this  estimate  of  popular  and 
official  success  might  have  been  strengthened  rather 
than  diminished.)  He  loved  to  demonstrate  this  by  ex- 
amples— and  would  even  include  such  names  as  Edward 
Everett  and  others  whose  fame  and  position  were  beyond 
ordinary  question.  His  views  on  personal  rights  were 


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very  decided,  and  often  decidedly  expressed.  Coming 
from  myhouseatStaten  Island,  he  took  occasion — having 
been  brusquely  jostled  by  a  carman  driving  onto  the  ferry- 
boat— to  give  him  a  five-minute  lecture  on  the  inherent 
rights  of  foot  passengers  as  against  all  vehicles  whatso- 
ever. The  dignity  and  force  of  the  argument  evidently 
impressed  both  the  carman  and  the  bystanders." 

The  subjects  of  interest  either  touched  upon 
or  elaborated  in  this  biography  are  so  many  as  to 
preclude  the  possibility  of  doing  the  book  justice 
in  a  review  of  this  length.    The  author's  account 
of  his  father's  London  sojourn  and  European 
travels,  his  picture  of  him  at  the  battle  of  Bull 
Run,  whither  he  had  been  driven  by  a  consum- 
ing desire  to  witness  what  it  was  surmised  might 
be  the  last  as  well  as  the  first  sanguinary  engage- 
ment of  the  war,  his  narration  of  the  varying 
fortunes  of  the  struggling  young  publishing 
house,  his  introduction  of  literary  celebrities 
from  chapter  to  chapter  —  these  are  some  of  the 
features  of  a  work  crowded  with  entertaining  and 
(as  a  part  of  our  literary  history)  important  and 
instructive  matter.    From  the  many  paragraphs 
affording  an  insight  into  the  character  of  a  man 
who  deservedly  commanded  wide  respect  and 
admiration,  we  select  for  final  quotation  the  fol- 
lowing, which  refers  to  the  second  period  of  the 
commercially  unfortunate"Putnam'sMagazine." 
The  pathos  of  the  picture  makes  a  moving  appeal. 
"  The  closing  of  this  second  series  of  the  magazine 
was  a  very  keen  personal  disappointment  to  the  pub- 
lisher whose  name  it  bore.     It  was,  in  fact,  a  shock 
that  really  added  at  once  to  my  father's  age.     The 
feeling  that  he  was  no  longer  in  touch  with  the  reading 
public,  that  his  literary  judgment  could  not  be  depended 
upon  as  trustworthy,  that  his  personal  influence  could 
not  bring  into  his  office,  in  the  face  of  the  competition 
of  other  publishers,  the  best  literary  material  of  the 
day,  the   hampering  restriction  of  want  of  adequate 
resources  with  which  to  carry  out  larger  and  more  per- 
manent literary  plans  —  all  these  things  weighed  upon 
him  in  a  manner  that  would  not  have  been  possible  in 
the  earlier  years  when  he  still  possessed  full  physical 
vigor  and  with  this  maintained  his  natural  elasticity  of 
temperament.     In  years  he  was  still  fairly  young,  but 
it  was  evident  that  in  vitality  or  in  working  strength 
the  corner  had  been  turned." 

The  biography  makes  us  acquainted  with  a 
man  of  invincible  courage  and  optimism,  of  fine 
confidence  (sometimes  misplaced)  in  human  na- 
ture, of  rare  determination  to  succeed  by  none 
but  honorable  means,  in  the  face  of  competition 
not  always  equally  honorable,  of  the  gentleness 
and  strength  that  are  never,  either  of  them,  com- 
plete without  the  other,  and  of  a  personal  charm 
that  speaks  to  us  even  now  in  some  of  his 
recorded  words  and  published  utterances.  The 
portrait  prefixed  to  the  work  helps  one  to  com- 
plete the  mental  image  of  this  strong  and  win- 
some personality.  PERCY  F.  BICKNELL. 


OUR  RELATIONS  WITH  JAPAN.* 

One  of  the  features  of  recent  international 
relations  most  to  be  regretted  has  been  the  sub- 
stitution of  suspicion  and  ill-will  for  the  confi- 
dence and  cordiality  which  for  so  long  existed 
between  Japan  and  the  United  States.  Offi- 
cially, intercourse  is  as  amicable  as  ever.  On 
the  part  of  Americans  and  Japanese  who  really 
understand  the  relations  between  the  two  coun- 
tries there  is  little  tolerance  for  the  fomenters 
of  the  present  unrest.  But  in  the  case  of  the 
great  uninformed  public,  in  both  countries,  it 
must  be  recognized  that,  in  recent  years,  a 
change  in  sentiment  has  taken  place. 

The  traditional  friendship  of  the  United 
States  and  Japan  is  unique  in  the  story  of  the 
contact  of  East  and  West.  During  the  fifty 
years  between  the  opening  of  Japan  by  Perry's 
firm  but  kindly  diplomacy,  and  the  close  of  the 
great  Eusso-Japanese  struggle,  the  diplomatic 
relations  of  the  United  States  and  Japan  were 
notable  for  the  sympathetic  attitude  of  the  vigor- 
ous power  of  the  West  and  for  the  apparent 
appreciation  of  the  rising  nation  of  the  East.  In 
comparison  with  the  conduct  of  the  powers  of 
Europe  the  attitude  of  America  stands  out  in 
sharp  relief.  And  so  in  this  period  when  Japan 
modelled  her  army  on  the  French  and  German 
lines,  and  her  navy  on  those  of  Britain,  she 
turned  to  America  for  suggestions  in  education, 
in  banking,  and  in  other  great  productive  fields 
of  development.  American  missionaries  and 
teachers  performed  services  that  were  most  ap- 
preciated by  the  eager  Japanese.  And  in  Amer- 
ica the  little  that  was  written  about  Japan  and 
her  people  was  almost  without  exception  penned 
in  glowing  terms. 

Then  came  the  war  with  Russia.  American 
public  opinion,  so  far  as  any  might  be  said  to 
exist,  at  once  made  the  cause  of  the  Japanese 
its  own,  and  followed  with  satisfaction  the  un- 
broken record  of  success.  But  with  the  peace 
a  change  was  manifest.  The  press  which  had 
scored  the  Muscovite  so  bitterly  now  found 
words  of  sympathy  for  the  humbled  Christian, 
and  soon  "public  opinion"  became  less  fulsome 
in  its  praise  of  the  new  world-power.  Within  a 
year  the  immigration  problem  had  arisen  and  war 
talk  became  a  matter  of  course,  and  the  past  five 
years  have  at  frequent  intervals  seen  the  name 
of  our  old  friend  and  protege  written  in  scare- 
heads  as  our  adversary  in  an  unavoidable  war. 
Two  years  span  the  change  from  admiration 


*  AMERICAN-JAPANESE  RELATIONS.  An  Inside  View  of 
Japan's  Policies  and  Purposes.  By  Kiyoshi  K.  Kawakami. 
New  York :  Fleming  H.  Revell  Co. 


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to  suspicion.  What  explanation  can  be  given 
for  such  a  phenomenon  ?  Mr.  Kawakami,  whose 
new  volume  entitled  "  American- Japanese  Rela- 
tions" is  a  vigorous  endeavor  to  right  some  of 
the  wrong  already  done,  dismisses  the  idea  of 
jealousy,  or  of  fear,  or  even  of  war-talk  spread 
to  sell  warships  and  guns.  The  explanation 
which  he  offers  is  that  Japan's  commercial  ad- 
vance in  the  Asian  continent  has  alienated  the 
western  world.  This  may  account  for  the  mer- 
cantile interests  and  for  their  representatives  in 
Asia,  but  it  surely  does  not  account  for  the  rapid 
change  of  heart  of  "the  man  in  the  street,"  or 
for  his  willingness  to  read,  even  if  not  with 
entire  conviction,  the  reckless  statements  of  the 
mischief-makers.  No  explanation  so  simple  as 
that  can  really  explain.  Many  factors  were 
present  during  those  critical  years.  The  first 
wave  of  anti-Japanese  feeling  was  probably  due 
to  the  sympathy  which  Americans  always  have 
for  "the  under-dog."  Russia  aggressive  and 
intolerant  was  very  different  from  Russia  hum- 
bled and  contrite.  People  had  time  to  remem- 
ber the  friendship  of  the  Czar  in  1863,  and  to 
realize  that  for  the  first  time  since  the  fall  of 
Constantinople  Asia  had  beaten  back  Europe. 
After  this  period  of  indecision  came  the  San 
Francisco  school-children  incident,  which  was 
magnified  into  an  international  question;  and 
then  the  time  was  ripe  for  articles  inspired  by 
commercial  rivalry,  by  military  expediency, 
and  even  by  missionary  policy.  Many  of  these 
highly-colored  preachments  would  have  aroused 
little  discussion  if  the  reading  public  had  been 
prepared  properly  to  evaluate  the  arguments 
presented.  But,  as  Mr.  Kawakami  remarks: 
"Meanwhile,  belligerent  words  continue  to  be 
spoken,  and  alarmist  notes  continue  to  be 
sounded.  The  average  American,  by  reason  of 
want  of  unbiased  information,  is  apparently 
inclined  to  listen  to  the  counsels  of  jingoes  and 
alarmists.  Thus  the  cloud  of  misunderstanding 
is  growing  thicker  every  day,  casting  its  gloom 
over  American- Japanese  relations." 

It  was  in  an  endeavor  to  clear  up  some  of 
these  misunderstandings  that  the  present  volume 
was  written.  Three  great  questions  are  dis- 
cussed, as  the  source  of  the  more  serious  diffi- 
culties. The  Manchurian  Question  is  treated 
in  seven  chapters,  which  deal  with  the  relative 
interests  of  Japan,  China,  Russia,  and  America 
in  Manchuria.  Ten  chapters  are  devoted  to 
the  Korean  Question,  explaining  why  Japan 
annexed  Korea  and  narrating  the  work  of  the 
Japanese  before  and  after  annexation.  And, 
finally,  six  chapters  deal  with  the  Immigration 


Question  on  our  Pacific  Coast.  As  eleven  of 
the  chapters  originally  appeared  in  American 
and  Japanese  periodicals,  the  treatment  is  sug- 
gestive rather  than  profound,  while  in  its  moder- 
ation and  in  its  endeavor  to  be  fair  it  compares 
very  favorably  with  certain  recent  discussions 
of  some  of  these  topics. 

In  discussing  the  Manchurian  Question,  Mr. 
Kawakami  emphasizes  the  price  in  blood  and 
money  which  Japan  paid  for  her  present  posi- 
tion in  Manchuria,  characterizes  China's  atti- 
tude toward  Japan  as  "  one  of  ingratitude  and 
insincerity,"  criticizes  Mr.Knox's  neutralization 
proposal  and  recent  American  railway  schemes 
in  Manchuria,  explains  the  present  Russo- 
Japanese  rapprochcment^smd  asserts  that  Japan 
has  scrupulously  observed  the  "open  door" 
policy.  So,  too,  in  the  case  of  Korea,  charge 
after  charge  that  has  been  brought  against 
Japan  is  considered  and  explained.  It  would 
be  too  much  to  expect  that  Mr.  Kawakami 
possesses  complete  information  as  to  the  future 
plans  of  his  government,  but  he  is  in  a  position 
satisfactorily  to  refute  many  of  the  criticisms 
which  have  of  late  been  current. 

The  chapters  on  the  Immigration  Question 
do  not  make  pleasant  reading  for  unprejudiced 
Americans.  Japanese  immigration,  before  the 
passport  agreement,  is  discussed,  as  to  its  extent, 
its  nature,  and  its  comparison  with  European 
immigration.  Two  chapters  bear  the  title 
"  Denis  Kearneyism  Once  More."  There  is 
much  truth  in  this  summary,  though  other 
factors  were  present:  "Thus  it  was  that  the 
anti-Japanese  agitation  on  the  Pacific  Coast  of 
a  few  years  ago  began  and  subsided.  It  was 
the  old  story  —  some  one  wanted  to  go  to  the 
Senate  or  the  House,  or  some  one  had  the  guber- 
natorial bee  buzzing  in  his  bonnet,  or  some  one 
wanted  to  sell  his  paper,  or  some  one  wanted  to 
make  a  living  by  levying  upon  the  innocent 
laborers,  or  some  '  interests '  wanted  to  control 
Japanese  labor  for  their  exclusive  benefit."  The 
agitation  began  in  1905,  and  yet  the  next  year 
Japan  subscribed  more  than  half  the  total  for- 
eign subscription  for  the  relief  of  the  fire-swept 
city.  In  October  the  school-children  case  arose, 
and  later  the  assaults  upon  Japanese  business 
men  and  travellers.  If  the  means  employed 
were  wretched  in  the  extreme,  the  end  gained 
was  a  most  desirable  one.  By  the  agreement  of 
1907  Japan  voluntarily  restricts  her  emigra- 
tion to  our  shores  by  means  of  a  rigid  passport 
system.  Mr. Kawakami  asserts  that  "the Japan- 
ese feel  that,  viewed  in  the  light  of  the  real 
status  of  Japanese  immigration,  such  a  drastic 


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measure  of  exclusion  as  was  adopted  by  the  two 
governments  is  not  justified."  This  is  no  doubt 
the  case,  but,  granting  the  existence  of  a  strong 
prejudice  against  the  Japanese  on  our  Pacific 
Coast,  this  endeavor  to  remove  irritation  until 
the  better  understanding,  such  as  Mr.  Kawakami 
seeks  to  bring  about,  has  been  reached,  seems 
eminently  proper.  Finally  a  plea  is  advanced 
for  the  naturalization  of  resident  Japanese. 

Mr.  Kawakami's  book  deserves  a  wide  circu- 
lation. No  doubt  he  over-estimates  the  real 
influence  of  the  "jingoes  and  alarmists,"  for 
their  outcries  at  times  excite  more  consternation 
in  Japan  than  among  our  own  people.  But  his 
efforts,  and  those  of  other  Americans  and  Japan- 
ese, will  do  much  to  restore  the  old  relations 
which  were  so  long  a  credit  to  America  and 

Japan'  PAYSON  J.  TREAT. 


WHISTLER  THE  ARTIST.* 


Mr.  Way  justifies  the  addition  of  another 
volume  to  the  already  formidable  quantity  of 
printed  words  about  Mr.  Whistler  by  the  state- 
ment that  few  of  the  books,  magazines,  and 
newspaper  articles  devoted  to  him  and  his  art 
"  suggest  the  real  charm  of  Whistler  the  crafts- 
man." In  any  just  estimate  of  his  character  this 
phase  of  it  needs  to  be  emphasized  much  more 
strongly  than  commonly  it  has  been  hitherto. 
His  fame  rests  in  quite  disproportionate  measure 
upon  his  idiosyncrasies,  his  wit,  and  his  pugna- 
city. To  those  who  were  privileged  to  know 
Mr.  Whistler  intimately,  these  traits,  though 
they  enlivened  intercourse  with  him,  stood  out 
far  less  prominently  than  those  that  constituted 
him  one  of  the  world's  greatest  artists:  they 
were  only  another  manifestation  of  the  super- 
sensitiveness  that  quickened  his  perception  of 
all  artistic  things,  that  made  him  so  keenly  ap- 
preciative of  the  beauty  of  tone  relations,  and 
enabled  him  to  bring  forth  the  works  in  which 
this  beauty  is  so  exquisitely  presented. 

It  is  of  Whistler  the  artist,  and  more  partic- 
ularly of  Whistler  the  lithographer,  rather  than 
the  painter  or  the  etcher,  that  Mr.  Way  gives 
his  memories.  His  acquaintance  with  Mr. 
Whistler  dates  back  to  the  year  1878,  when 
the  master's  interest  in  lithography  was  first 
awakened  by  Mr.  Way's  father,  a  well-known 
lithographer  and  a  life-long  enthusiast  and 
experimenter  in  all  that  concerns  the  process. 

*MEMOBIKS  OF  JAMES  McNEiLL  WHISTLER  THE  ARTIST. 
By  T.  R.  Way.  Illustrated.  New  York :  John  Lane  Co. 


Then  began  frequent  visits  to  Mr.  Way's  estab- 
lishment, where  the  father  and  son  inducted 
the  distinguished  artist  into  the  practical  details 
of  their  craft.  The  intimacy  formed  while  thus 
working  side  by  side  lasted  until  a  short  time 
before  Mr.  Whistler's  death,  when  it  was  ter- 
minated by  an  unfortunate  misunderstanding. 
The  opportunity  to  follow  the  artist's  mental 
processes  which  these  years  of  close  association 
afforded  appears  to  have  been  accorded  to  no 
one  else  in  such  generous  measure,  and  this  gives 
Mr.  Way's  reminiscences  a  special  value  apart 
from  their  intrinsic  interest. 

Among  the  things  that  stand  forth  most  dis- 
tinctly in  the  book  are  Mr.  Whistler's  industry 
and  his  painstaking  attention  to  every  detail  of 
craftsmanship.  Like  all  great  artists  he  was  a 
master  workman.  He  recognized  clearly  that 
only  through  the  acquisition  of  consummate 
skill  of  hand  could  he  impress  his  drawings  with 
the  subtle  refinements,  the  almost  imperceptible 
nuances  that  enter  into  the  highest  art  and  stamp 
it  as  a  thing  apart.  When  at  work  he  was  so 
absorbed  in  the  effort  to  realize  the  precise  effect 
he  had  in  mind  that  he  was  oblivious  to  every 
other  consideration.  He  disregarded  his  own 
comfort  quite  as  much  as  that  of  his  models.  "  I 
have  never  come  across  any  one,"  says  Mr.  Way, 
"  who  could  exist  upon  so  little  food  as  Whistler 
whilst  he  was  at  work." 

Another  thing  which  Mr.  Way  brings  out  is 
that  instead  of  ignoring  all  criticism  and  sug- 
gestion, as  is  generally  supposed,  Mr.  Whistler 
"  constantly  appealed  to  those  about  him  as  to 
how  they  liked  the  work  he  was  engaged  upon 
and  what  they  thought  of  it."  Though  he  was 
irritated  by  inept  comment  from  people  whose 
education  should  have  taught  them  how  to  look 
at  works  of  art,  he  was  ever  ready  to  welcome 
intelligent  discussion.  In  all  that  he  did  he 
never  failed  to  keep  basic  principles  clearly  in 
mind.  And  when  he  had  occasion  to  criticize 
other  work,  as  that  of  his  pupils,  he  dealt  with 
these  principles  rather  than  with  the  execution, 
which  he  left  almost  alone, "  thus  doing  nothing 
to  interfere  with  the  individuality  of  the  student, 
but  in  the  kindest  way  helping  him  with  advice." 
A  characteristic  incident  is  related  by  Mr.  Way : 
"I  was  painting  a  portrait  of  Dr.  Whistler, 
at  his  Wimpole  Street  house,  in  1883,  and 
Whistler  came  and  advised  me  about  it,  taking 
my  brushes  and  working  on  the  canvas  to  ex- 
plain his  meaning.  I  found  that  whenever  I 
showed  him  anything  I  had  done,  his  criticisms 
were  based  upon  my  point  of  view,  as  it  were." 
It  was  the  same  attitude  of  mind  that  caused 


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him  to  be  horrified  at  the  idea  of  printing 
etchings  in  color.  Rightly  he  felt  this  to 
be  "  utterly  contrary  to  the  principles  of  the 
art." 

Mr.  Way's  reminiscences  are  in  large  part 
devoted  to  Mr.  Whistler's  lithographic  work, 
many  of  his  experiments  and  his  achievements 
being  chronicled  with  considerable  detail.  For 
the  reader  not  having  technical  knowledge  there 
is  a  short  account  of  the  lithographic  process. 
This,  and  also  the  descriptions  of  methods  of 
working  that  occur  here  and  there  throughout 
the  book,  are  exceptionally  clear  in  statement. 
Naturally  Mr.  Way  is  partial  toward  lithog- 
raphy, and  he  expresses  the  opinion  that  "  for 
the  reproductive  side  of  his  art  "  Mr.  Whistler 
"  found  in  it  the  most  sympathetic  and  perfect 
medium  of  all."  To  this  he  adds  : 

"  Great  indeed  as  he  was  as  an  etcher,  I  believe  he 
found  he  could  get  a  far  more  direct  and  personal 
expression  from  lithography  than  on  the  copperplate. 
Tones  and  shadows  which  he  could  obtain  directly  with  a 
stump  or  wash,  or  a  few  strokes  of  the  soft  chalk,  he  could 
only  obtain  in  his  etchings  with  an  infinite  number  of 
lines  with  the  needle  point,  or  by  a  painting  of  ink  upon 
the  plate,  which  latter  he  of  course  needed  to  repeat  for 
each  impression,  and  this  form  of  printing  he  discarded 
before  he  had  finished  printing  the  hundred  sets  of  the 
Venice  plates.  I  know  from  what  he  told  me  that  he 
looked  upon  his  lithographs,  and  especially  his  later  ones, 
as  having  qualities  equal  to  any  of  his  etchings." 

It  is  easy  to  understand  why  Mr.  Whistler 
should  have  had  this  feeling.  His  art  is  in  a 
very  special  and  direct  way  an  art  of  tone  values 
and  tone  relations.  To  emphasize  these  he  sacri- 
ficed other  qualities,  notably  at  times  that  of  exact 
drawing,  though  he  was  a  splendid  draughtsman 
when  he  chose  to  be.  Even  in  his  etchings  it  is 
the  tone  relations  that  charm  the  beholder  and 
evoke  wonder  as  well  as  admiration. 

Although  Mr.  Way  makes  no  attempt  to  deal 
with  Mr.  Whistler's  personality,  he  has  not  been 
able  to  omit  all  reference  to  his  peculiarities. 
Indeed  to  make  no  mention  of  any  of  these  would 
be  to  rob  the  portrait  of  verisimilitude.  In  all 
mention  of  them,  however,  and  in  the  anecdotes 
in  which  they  crop  out,  they  are  treated  most 
tenderly  as  things  of  little  weight  in  our  final 
estimate  of  the  man.  This  attitude  is  main- 
tained even  when  relating  the  incident  of  Mr. 
Whistler's  severance  of  friendly  relations  with 
the  author  and  his  father,  which  is  told  without 
any  trace  of  bitterness  or  of  feeling  other  than 
deep  regret.  Such  magnanimity  is  as  rare  as 
it  is  commendable. 

A  large  number  of  lithographic  illustrations 
add  to  the  interest  of  the  book.  One  of  these, 
"Grand  Rue,  Dieppe,"  is  printed  direct  from 


Mr.  Whistler's  original  work.  The  others  are 
for  the  most  part  reproductions  by  Mr.  Way  of 
sketches  made  by  Mr.  Whistler  in  preparation 
for  his  etchings  and  paintings,  or  of  memory  notes 
of  the  completed  works.  There  is  a  very  much 
reduced  reproduction  in  color  of  the  "  Cremorne 
Gardens"  painting;  and  another  of  Mr.  Way's 
pastel  copy  of  the  project  for  the  "Symphony 
in  White,  No.  4."  Charming  as  the  latter  is,  it 
fails  to  give  an  adequate  impression  of  either 
the  quality  or  the  beauty  of  the  original 
painting,  now  in  the  collection  of  Mr.  Freer ; 
but  that  is  quite  beyond  the  power  of  any 

reproduction.  ^ 

FREDERICK  W.  GOOKIN. 


THE  DOMESTIC  ECONOMY  OF  IXSECTS.* 


We  are  glad  to  welcome  another  volume  of 
translations  from  M.  Fabre.  This  time  we  are 
introduced  to  the  cicada,  the  mantis,  crickets 
and  grasshoppers,  moths,  the  bee-hunting  wasp, 
and  several  different  beetles.  The  insects  are 
in  general  similar  to  those  found  in  this  coun- 
try; they  are  the  common  species  of  southern 
France,  but  common  as  they  are,  M.  Fabre 
has  found  out  new  and  wonderful  things  about 
each  one  of  them.  In  science,  as  in  literature, 
it  is  the  province  of  genius  to  illuminate  the 
ordinary. 

Four  chapters  are  devoted  to  the  cigale.  It  is 
well  that  the  translator  did  not  follow  the  pop- 
ular error  of  this  country,  and  call  it  a  "  locust "; 
but  he  might  have  used  the  word  cicada,  which 
is  surely  by  this  time  part  of  the  English  lan- 
guage. The  name,  however,  matters  little,  since 
very  good  pictures  show  the  reader  what  is  in- 
tended. M.  Fabre  begins  his  account  with  a 
discussion  of  the  fable  about  the  grasshopper 
and  the  ant,  showing  that  La  Fontaine,  know- 
ing nothing  of  the  cicada,  changed  the  old  Greek 
version.  The  Greek  story,  it  appears,  probably 
came  from  India,  and  it  may  be  that  it  was  not 
even  the  cicada  that  begged  the  ant  for  food, 
but  some  other  insect.  However  this  may  have 
been,  M.  Fabre  objects  strongly  to  the  idea  of 
the  cicada  asking  favors  of  the  ant,  showing  that 
as  a  matter  of  fact  it  is  the  ant  which  feasts  at 
the  cicada's  table.  The  cheerful  songster  is  thus 
vindicated,  but  it  is  no  doubt  M.  Fabre's  little 
joke  to  take  La  Fontaine  and  his  predecessors 
so  seriously. 

The  life  history  of  the  cicada  is  graphically 

*  SOCIAL  LIFE  IN  THE  INSECT  WORLD.  By  J.  H.  Fabre. 
Translated  by  Bernard  Miall.  New  York :  The  Century  Co. 


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described,  and  some  of  the  facts  are  surprising. 
As  everyone  knows,  the  males  chant  vociferously 
during  the  short  summer  of  their  maturity. 
We  have  always  supposed  it  a  love  song,  but  M. 
Fabre  gives  reasons  for  seriously  doubting  this : 
reasons,  indeed,  for  suspecting  that  the  cicada  is 
almost  or  quite  deaf !  This  seems  ridiculous,  but 
who  can  prove  otherwise?  Even  a  gunpowder 
explosion,  close  by,  did  not  affect  their  compla- 
cency. Another  astonishing  thing  is  that  the 
great  green  grasshopper  of  Europe,  which  we 
had  imagined  to  be  a  strict  vegetarian,  is  in 
fact  carnivorous,  a  ferocious  enemy  of  the 
cicada. 

The  next  three  chapters  are  devoted  to  the 
mantis,  the  greatest  of  all  hypocrites.  It  is 
this  creature,  credited  from  ancient  times  with 
special  sanctity,  that  shows  the  most  depraved 
appetites  it  is  possible  to  imagine.  The  female, 
after  marriage,  makes  a  regular  practice  of 
devouring  her  unfortunate  mate.  Two  chapters 
now  follow  which  are  headed  by  some  strange 
confusion  on  the  part  of  the  translator,  "The 
Golden  Scarabseus."  The  insect  discussed,  and 
well  figured,  is  no  scaraba3us  at  all,  but  a 
ground  beetle,  —  the  Carabus  auratus.  It  is  sin- 
gular that  the  translator,  who  makes  some  show 
of  learning  in  a  variety  of  footnotes,  should  have 
overlooked  this  error.  Chapter  XX.,  again, 
is  headed  "  The  Gray  Cricket,"  when  the  insect 
concerned  is  not  a  cricket  at  all,  but  a  grass- 
hopper. Genuine  crickets  are  described  in 
another  part  of  the  book.  There  is  also  strange 
confusion  in  the  charming  chapter  on  the  Great 
Peacock  Moth,  which  is  indifferently  called  a 
moth  or  a  butterfly.  Thus:  "Who  does  not 
know  this  superb  moth,  the  largest  of  all  our 
European  butterflies,  with  its  livery  of  chestnut 
velvet  and  its  collar  of  white  fur?"  Papillon, 
in  French,  may  mean  simply  a  lepidopterous 
insect,  as  did  undoubtedly  the  Latin  Papilio; 
but  in  English  a  moth  is  not  a  butterfly.  It 
is  curious  that  we  have  no  common  term  for 
the  whole  tribe,  just  as  we  had  no  common 
term  expressing  fraternal  relationship  independ- 
ent of  sex,  and  Galton  was  obliged  to  invent 
"sib." 

Apart  from  such  matters  as  we  have  com- 
plained of,  which  can  easily  be  corrected  in  a 
second  edition,  the  translation  appears  to  have 
been  very  well  done.  The  book  is  certainly 
delightful  to  read,  and  does  justice  to  the  spirit 
of  the  author.  It  will  take  its  place  among  the 
classics  of  literature  and  of  science. 

T.  D.  A.  COCKERELL. 


RECENT  FICTION.* 


It  seems  that  "Richard  Dehan,"  the  author  of 
that  striking  novel  "The  Dop  Doctor,"  is  the  pen 
name  of  Miss  Clothilde  Graves,  an  Irish  dramatist, 
which  fact  transpires  coincidently  with  the  appear- 
ance of  her  new  novel,  "Between  Two  Thieves." 
This  is  a  book  not  easy  to  characterize.  It  is  a 
"big"  book  in  both  the  literal  and  the  figurative 
sense ;  it  is  an  intensely  emotional  book  and  one  ex- 
traordinarily rich  in  substance ;  it  is.  a  book  in  which 
we  seem  to  see  a  brilliant  light  struggling  to  emerge 
through  a  fog  of  verbiage;  it  is  a  book  loose  in 
structure  and  of  feebly  coherent  interests;  it  is  a 
book  that  begins  with  the  end,  and  then,  taking  a 
fresh  start,  toilsomely  leads  up  to  its  beginning 
(which  is,  to  our  mind,  a  most  detestable  method) ; 
it  is  a  book  which  resorts,  in  one  instance,  to  the 
cheap  device  of  telepathy  for  an  effect,  and  which 
culminates  in  a  chapter  of  supernatural  bathos ;  and 
withal  it  is  a  romance  of  fascinating  interest  and 
impressive  power,  based  essentially  upon  historical 
material  ranging  from  the  period  of  the  great 
Napoleon  to  that  of  the  "saviour  of  society"  who 
later  made  a  mockery  of  the  Napoleonic  name  and 
empire.  It  makes  us  a  participant  in  the  French 
Revolution  of  1848,  in  the  crime  of  December,  and 
in  all  the  heroisms  and  horrors  of  the  Crimean  War. 
The  main  currents  of  nineteenth  century  life  flow 
through  its  pages,  and  an  elaborate  historical  pa- 
geant discloses  itself  to  the  view.  The  figure  that 
gives  to  all  these  matters  whatever  unity  they  possess 
is  that  of  a  man,  the  son  of  one  of  Napoleon's  mar- 
shals, trained  for  the  army,  who  sees  service  at  home 
and  in  Africa,  who  witnesses  the  precipitation  of 
the  Revolution  and  the  accomplishment  of  the  coup 
d'Stat,  who  as  the  agent  of  the  imperial  adventurer 
makes  the  plans  upon  which  the  Crimean  enterprise 
is  founded,  who  learns  the  true  character  of  his  mas- 
ter and  renounces  him  to  his  face,  who  is  imprisoned 
for  his  audacity,  who  when  released  makes  his  way 
to  the  field  of  war  and  toils  devotedly  in  the  inter- 
ests of  humanity,  who  sins  grievously  and  expiates 
nobly,  inspired  by  the  influence  of  an  angel  of  light 
called  Ada  Merling  in  the  book  (who  is  in  reality 
Florence  Nightingale),  who  carries  on  the  blessed 
work  of  the  Red  Cross  and  devotes  his  many  remain- 
ing years  to  the  cause  of  peace,  and  who  dies  in  ex- 
treme old  age  after  receiving  all  the  honors  that  a 
grateful  continent  can  bestow  upon  him.  In  such  a 

*  BETWEEN  Two  THIEVES.  By  Richard  Dehan.  New 
York :  Frederick  A.  Stokes  Co. 

THE  PRINCIPAL,  GIRL.  By  J.  C.  Snaith.  New  York: 
Moffat,  Yard  &  Co. 

THE  CITADEL.  A  Romance  of  Unrest.  By  Samuel 
Merwin.  New  York  :  The  Century  Co. 

THE  RED  LANE.  A  Romance  of  the  Border.  By  Holman 
Day.  New  York :  Harper  &  Brothers. 

THE  MIDLANDERS.  By  Charles  Tenney  Jackson.  Indian- 
apolis :  The  Bobbs-Merrill  Co. 

"C  Q";  OR,  IN  THE  WIRELESS  HOUSE.  By  Arthur 
Train.  New  York  :  The  Century  Co. 


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career  as  this,  there  is  opportunity  in  abundance  for 
creative  romantic  invention,  and  for  the  most  part 
the  author  has  used  her  material  worthily.  She  has 
to  deal  with  black  sin  and  desperate  wickedness  in 
many  phases,  but  she  contrives  to  make  us  feel  that 
the  mantle  of  divine  forgiveness  is  ample  to  cover 
the  deepest  transgression,  save  in  the  one  case  of 
Louis  Napoleon,  for  whom  no  damnation  can  be 
sufficiently  deep.  The  book  has  no  finer  feature 
than  its  blistering  portraiture  of  this  blackest  of  his- 
torical criminals,  and  the  view  which  it  gives  us  of 
that  cesspool  of  social  and  political  corruption  known 
ironically  to  history  as  the  Second  Empire.  It  offers 
a  prose  parallel  to  the  "Chatiments"  of  Hugo  and 
the  "  Dirae  "  of  Swinburne.  Whole  sections  of  the 
work  have  been  left  unhinted  at  in  our  description 
—  the  English  scenes,  including  the  picture  of  gar- 
rison life  and  the  scathing  study  of  the  army  con- 
tractor, and  the  chapters  which  describe  the  hero's 
unsuccessful  attempt  to  claim  the  succession  to  a 
German  principality.  These  and  other  matters  must 
be  left  for  the  reader  to  discover,  for  the  book  is  so 
rich  that  no  review  of  ordinary  length  can  hope  to 
do  more  than  indicate  its  more  important  features. 

Of  the  variety  of  styles  at  his  command,  Mr.  J.  C. 
Snaith  has  chosen  the  frothiest  for  his  service  in 
"The  Principal  Girl."  This  story  of  an  alliance 
between  the  peerage  and  the  theatrical  profession  is 
an  engaging  example  of  light  comedy  in  the  vein  of 
"Araminta."  The  hero  is  a  young  man  for  whom 
his  parents  have  matured  matrimonial  plans,  which 
he  sets  at  naught  by  becoming  infatuated  with  a  most 
charming  Cinderella  of  the  Drury  Lane  pantomime. 
Expostulations  from  the  pompous  father  and  the 
supercilious  mother  are  of  no  avail  to  stay  him  in  his 
mad  career,  and  even  the  objections  of  the  young 
woman's  grandmother — a  fine  representative  of  ' 
theatrical  conservatism  who  holds  the  aristocracy  of 
the  stage  a  far  finer  thing  than  the  mushroom  crea- 
tions of  politics — do  not  prevent  the  young  people 
from  following  the  dictates  of  their  affection.  The 
hero  is  stupid,  but  good,  and  he  knows  exactly  what 
he  wants.  Having  an  independent  fortune,  he  is 
enabled  to  contract  the  mesalliance  in  defiance  of 
all  opposition,  and  it  proves  to  be  the  best  thing  in 
the  world  for  him.  Recognizing  his  wife's  superior 
intelligence,  he  is  sensible  enough  to  let  her  manage 
him,  and  when  she  decides  that  he  shall  go  into 
parliament,  is  content  that  she  should  pull  the  strings 
which  bring  about  his  triumphant  return.  The  fact 
that  he  is  a  famous  hero  of  the  football  field  aids  him 
not  a  little  in  his  campaign,  and  he  wins  the  heart 
of  his  constituency  by  pledging  himself  to  play  with 
the  local  team  upon  critical  occasions.  The  wit  of 
the  story  is  sparkling,  and  the  world  of  society  and 
politics  is  touched  up  with  many  delicious  satirical 
dabs.  When  twins  are  produced,  even  the  flinty- 
hearted  parents  melt,  and  become  reconciled  to  their 
wayward  offspring. 

"  The  Citadel,"  by  Mr.  Samuel  Merwin,  is  called 
"  a  romance  of  unrest."  The  unrest  is  of  the  social 
sort  which  manifests  itself  in  "  progressive  "  politics 


and  the  tendency  to  substitute  impulse  for  principle 
in  the  direction  of  public  affairs.  "  The  Citadel " 
is  the  structure  of  constitutional  government  within 
whose  walls  so  many  forms  of  privileged  corruption 
find  shelter.  Mr.  Merwin  evidently  thinks  that  the 
only  way  to  destroy  these  abuses  is  to  tear  down 
the  walls,  which  is  a  procedure  too  suggestive  of  the 
famous  method  of  getting  roast  pig  to  be  taken  very 
seriously.  John  Garwood,  the  hero  of  this  story,  is 
a  member  of  Congress  from  one  of  the  Illinois  dis- 
tricts. He  has  been  sent  to  Washington  by  the  local 
ring  of  allied  political  and  business  interests,  and  is 
supposed  to  be  a  reliable  man.  He  has  become  en- 
gaged to  the  daughter  of  the  chief  local  magnate, 
thereby  offering  an  important  hostage  to  fortune. 
But  acquaintance  with  the  practical  side  of  political 
life  fills  him  with  such  deep  disgust  that  he  resolves 
to  become  a  champion  of  the  people,  turning  his  back 
upon  all  of  his  former  supporters.  Particularly,  he 
gets  into  a  state  of  mind  about  the  federal  Constitu- 
tion, which  seems  to  him  to  block  every  effort  for 
social  amelioration,  and  he  emphasizes  his  new  stand 
by  making  a  frenzied  attack  upon  that  instrument, 
putting  in  the  forefront  of  his  reform  programme  an 
amendment  designed  to  make  the  Constitution  more 
easily  amendable.  His  ideal  of  popular  government 
seems  to  be  a  system  which  shall  make  it  possible 
for  the  majority,  at  any  time,  without  any  pretense 
of  deliberation,  and  without  any  regard  for  the  ele- 
mentary rights  of  the  minority,  to  upset  any  part  of 
the  law  which  it  does  not  like.  In  thus  defining 
Garwood's  position,  we  are  given  his  measure  so 
clearly  that  he  cannot  command  the  sympathy  of 
the  sober-minded,  although  his  political  conduct  is 
praiseworthy  enough  in  its  secondary  aspects.  He 
returns  home,  severs  all  his  relations  with  the  influ- 
ential men  of  his  district,  and  engages  in  a  campaign 
for  reelection  upon  a  socialist  platform.  It  is  a  lively 
struggle  and  arouses  a  nation-wide  interest,  but  the 
forces  arrayed  against  him  are  too  powerful  to  be 
overcome,  and  he  is  defeated.  But  he  has  found  an 
Egeria  in  one  of  the  departments  at  Washington, 
who  has  stood  at  his  side  during  the  whole  arduous 
campaign,  and  she  saves  him  from  being  absolutely 
disconsolate  in  his  overthrow.  This  book  is  one  of 
many  written  in  similar  strain  of  recent  years,  which 
overshoot  their  mark  because  they  unduly  magnify 
the  evils  at  which  they  are  directed,  and  which,  in 
the  remedies  they  offer,  are  simply  fatuous,  so  utterly 
do  they  disregard  the  lessons  of  history  and  the 
precepts  of  political  wisdom. 

Mr.  Holman  Day  continues  to  draw  material  for 
fiction  from  the  woods  of  northern  Maine,  and  his 
latest  novel,  "The  Red  Lane,"  is  the  best  that  he 
has  written,  having  a  larger  admixture  of  the  roman- 
tic than  is  to  be  found  in  the  studies  of  business  and 
politics  that  he  has  heretofore  given  us.  His  title 
is  explained  in  the  opening  paragraph  of  the  book. 
"The  Red  Lane  is  neither  road  nor  route.  It  is  an 
institution  —  it  is  smuggling.  Its  thousand  avenues 
are  now  here,  now  there."  The  smuggling  that  goes 
on  over  the  border  that  separates  Maine  from  New 


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Brunswick  is  of  food — mutton,  potatoes,  and  oats  — 
a  fact  which  sheds  a  particularly  clear  light  upon 
the  iniquity  of  a  system  which  subjects  these  pro- 
ducts to  a  customs  tax,  and  rather  inclines  us  to 
sympathy  with  Mr.  Day's  chief  law-breaker,  the 
villain  of  the  story.  However,  he  is  bad  enough  in 
other  respects  to  qualify  for  his  position  in  the  tale, 
and  we  cheerfully  witness  the  thwarting  of  his 
schemes  and  his  eventual  overthrow.  When  Evan- 
geline  Beaulieu,  who  has  been  brought  up  in  a  con- 
vent, comes  to  seek  her  father  in  his  home,  she  finds 
him  the  proprietor  of  a  road-house  on  the  border, 
and  hand  in  glove  with  the  smuggling  fraternity. 
She  also  learns  that  she  herself  has  been  promised 
in  marriage  to  the  chief  of  the  smugglers.  Being  an 
independent  and  high-spirited  young  woman,  and 
finding  her  protest  against  these  conditions  of  no 
avail,  she  abandons  the  paternal  roof,  and  starts  out 
to  make  her  own  way  in  the  world.  A  suitable  hero 
is  provided  in  the  person  of  a  United  States  customs 
officer,  who  falls  in  love  with  the  girl,  and  rescues 
her  when  she  has  fallen  into  the  hands  of  her  ene- 
mies, and  is  about  to  be  made  the  victim  of  a  forced 
marriage  with  the  hated  smuggler.  The  story  has, 
however,  a  larger  interest  than  is  provided  by  this 
private  romance.  It  is  essentially  concerned  with 
the  struggle  of  the  simple  Acadian  border-folk  to 
retain  possession  of  their  homes,  from  which  the 
owners  of  the  timber  lands  seek  to  evict  them.  They 
are  squatters,  it  is  true,  and  the  law  is  against  them, 
but  the  author  enlists  our  sympathies  in  their  behalf, 
and  we  rejoice  when  the  legislature  is  moved  to  act 
in  their  favor.  The  author  understands  these  peas- 
ant people,  their  ways  of  speech  and  their  modes  of 
tl  linking,  and  he  is  at  his  best  in  giving  expression 
to  their  character.  A  particularly  delightful  episode 
is  that  which  describes  the  mission  of  the  vagrant 
fiddler  to  the  bishop,  sent  with  a  petition  for  the  res- 
toration of  their  parish  priest,  who  has  been  arbit- 
rarily taken  from  them.  There  are  many  varieties 
of  interest  in  this  narrative,  and  all  are  skilfully 
blended  into  an  organic  structure. 

"  The  Midlanders,"  by  Mr.  Charles  Tenney  Jack- 
son, is  a  narrative  of  an  Iowa  river  town,  with  a 
prologue  in  the  bayous  of  the  lower  Mississippi.  A 
battered  human  derelict  named  "  Uncle  Michigan" 
and  an  equally  battered  veteran  of  the  Confederate 
army  named  "  Captain  Tinkletoes "  (because  he 
wears  a  bell  on  his  wooden  leg)  live  together  on  a 
"  johnboat "  in  the  swamp,  and  one  day  add  to  their 
company  a  little  girl,  kidnapped  by  the  former  of 
these  precious  vagabonds  from  a  parade  of  asylum 
orphans  in  the  streets  of  New  Orleans.  Here  the 
child  lives  for  several  years,  when  the  death  of 
"  Captain  Tinkletoes  "  breaks  up  the  happy  family, 
and  "  Uncle  Michigan,"  unmooring  the  old  boat, 
takes  it  on  an  adventurous  voyage  up  the  river.  It 
finally  becomes  stranded  by  the  Iowa  town  which  is 
the  principal  scene  of  the  story.  From  this  time  on, 
the  book  becomes  a  study  of  the  social  and  political 
life  of  the  town  in  question.  Aurelie  grows  up  to 
be  a  beautiful  young  woman,  and  the  chief  object  of 


the  affections  of  two  men  —  one  the  son  of  a  patri- 
cian family,  and  the  other,  who  is  much  older,  the 
editor  of  the  local  country  newspaper.  As  in  larger 
communities,  there  is  a  good  deal  of  corruption  in 
the  management  of  public  affairs,  and  the  "  leading 
citizens  "  have  matters  pretty  much  in  their  own 
hands.  The  editor,  who  has  been  doddering  along 
in  the  town  for  many  years,  and  is  not  thought  to 
be  of  much  account,  is  pushed  into  the  congressional 
campaign  in  opposition  to  the  "  ring,"  and  the  town 
is  stirred  from  its  sluggishness  in  the  struggle  that 
ensues.  Meanwhile  Aurelie,  whose  photograph  has 
been  sent  by  the  editor  to  a  Chicago  newspaper  for 
entry  in  a  "  beauty  contest,"  becomes  the  surprised 
recipient  of  the  prize  and  the  victim  of  all  the  sensa- 
sional  advertising  that  goes  with  it.  She  is  promptly 
snapped  up  by  the  theatre,  and  wins  a  great  popular 
success  in  that  hybrid  species  of  entertainment  for 
imbeciles  known  as  "musical  comedy."  This  so 
shocks  the  youth  of  patrician  extraction  that  he  tries 
to  put  her  out  of  his  thoughts,  and  enters  heartily 
into  the  political  campaign,  being  a  candidate  for 
the  district  attorneyship.  At  the  critical  moment  it 
transpires  that  Aurelie  is  the  daughter  of  the  editor, 
the  fruit  of  a  marriage  contracted  in  the  days  of  his 
reckless  youth.  The  mother  has  been  long  dead,  and 
of  the  existence  of  the  child  (placed  in  the  New 
Orleans  asylum  after  the  mother's  death)  he  had 
never  known.  His  political  enemies  spring  the  re- 
velation upon  him  on  the  eve  of  the  election,  and 
threaten  him  with  exposure  if  he  refuses  to  with- 
draw. How  they  are  circumvented,  how  Aurelie 
learns  of  her  father,  how  he  is  elected  when  he  be- 
lieves himself  out  of  the  running,  and  how  the  pat- 
rician youth  finds  that  love  is  the  most  important 
thing  in  the  world  —  these  things  provide  the  ma- 
terial for  a  whirlwind  finish  which  leaves  nothing 
to  be  desired  in  the  way  of  excitement. 

The  conquests  of  science  speedily  become  annexed 
to  the  domain  of  the  novel-writer.  Wireless  teleg- 
raphy is  an  invention  which  obviously  lends  itself  to 
the  planning  of  startling  new  situations,  and  its  place 
in  the  literary  workshop  is  secured.  The  best  of 
the  stories  which  have  thus  far  been  based  upon  this 
device  is  Mr.  Arthur  Train's  " '  C  Q ' ;  or,  In  the 
Wireless  House."  In  this  sprightly  tale  the  unities 
of  time  and  space  are  necessarily  observed,  for  the 
entire  story  is  told  within  the  compass  of  a  two 
weeks'  voyage  of  the  Pavonia,  and  the  unity  of  action 
cannot  under  these  conditions  be  very  much  obscured. 
Micky  Fitzpatrick,  the  Marconi  operator,  is  the  chief 
figure  of  the  story,  and  the  messages  that  come  to 
him  in  the  wireless  house  make  him  acquainted  with 
several  interesting  matters.  One  of  them  relates  to 
a  pearl  necklace  which  a  fascinating  young  woman 
is  hoping  to  smuggle  into  New  York,  another  relates 
to  an  embezzler  who  is  sought  by  the  police,  and  still 
another  raises  the  hue  and  cry  on  account  of  the 
fugitive  murderer  of  the  Earl  of  Roakby.  This 
latter  message  Micky  suppresses,  and,  making  the 
acquaintance  of  its  object,  concludes  that  the  mur- 
der was  quite  justifiable.  In  consequence  of  this,  he 


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arranges  for  the  fugitive  to  slip  overboard,  and  seek 
refuge  on  a  French  ship  bound  for  Algiers.  The 
other  fugitive  turns  out  not  to  be  an  embezzler  after 
all,  but  a  noble  youth  who  has  shouldered  his  father- 
in-law's  guilt,  and  we  are  given  the  intimation  that 
he  will  be  cleared  in  due  time.  We  are  left  in  doubt 
about  the  necklace,  but  it  supplies  the  occasion  for 
several  bits  of  comedy.  We  get  a  good  deal  of  the 
technique  of  the  operator's  craft,  and  the  way  in 
which  he  slangs  his  fellows  on  the  other  ships  is 
extremely  amusing.  The  narrative  is  sparkling 
throughout,  and  abounds  in  deft  characterizations 
and  dramatic  situations.  Our  breath  is  fairly  taken 
away  by  one  bit  of  information  which  is  not  dis- 
closed until  the  final  paragraph. 

WILLIAM  MORTON  PAYNE. 


BRIEFS  ON  NEW  BOOKS. 


Charles  Lamb's  J°nn  Rickman,  statistician  and  cen- 
friend  the  sus-taker,  secretary  to  the  speaker  of 

census-taker.  the  Houge  of  Commons  for  twelve 
syears,  clerk  at  the  table  of  the  House  for  twenty- 
i  x,  and  (chief  claim  upon  our  interest  and  friendly 
regard)  valued  friend  of  Charles  Lamb  during 
much  of  the  latter  part  of  Lamb's  life,  is  made  the 
subject  of  a  book  that  will  appeal  strongly  to  all 
lovers  of  Elia,  —  "Life  and  Letters  of  John  Rick- 
man"  (Houghton),  by  Mr.  Orlo  Williams,  with  a 
portrait  of  the  census-taker  and  views  of  the  Parlia- 
ment houses  and  their  neighborhood  as  they  were  in 
Rickman's  time.  It  was  George  Dyer  that  brought 
Lamb  and  Rickman  together,  a  service  to  which  we 
owe,  among  other  things,  the  enthusiastic  letter  from 
Lamb  to  Manning  describing  the  new  friend  as  "the 
finest  fellow  to  drop  in  a'  nights,  about  nine  or  ten 
o'clock  —  cold  bread  and  cheese  time — just  in  the 
wishing  time  of  the  night,  when  you  wish  for  some- 
body to  come  in,  without  a  distinct  idea  of  a  probable 
anybody.  .  .  .  He  is  a  most  pleasant  hand;  a  fine 
rattling  fellow,  has  gone  through  life  laughing  at 
solemn  apes ;  —  himself  hugely  literate,  oppressively 
full  of  information  in  all  stuff  of  conversation,  from 
matter  of  fact  to  Xenophon  and  Plato — can  talk 
Greek  with  Porson, politics  with  Thelwall,  conjecture 
with  George  Dyer,  nonsense  with  me,  and  anything 
with  anybody;  ..."  If  that  is  not  enough  to 
make  anyone  eager  for  a  closer  acquaintance  with 
this  genial  and  accomplished  man,  it  would  be  useless 
to  offer  the  temptation  of  further  bait.  Nevertheless, 
his  letters  cannot  be  said  to  fall  into  the  same  class 
with  those  of  Lamb  and  the  other  accepted  masters 
of  the  epistolary  art.  There  was  in  Rickman  too 
much  of  the  man  of  hard  facts,  of  statistics  and  cur- 
rent politics,  to  admit  of  any  considerable  grace  and 
playfulness  and  airy  fancy  in  his  letter- writing.  A 
mass  of  his  correspondence  has  been  preserved  by  a 
grandson  of  his,  and  other  portions,  published  and 
unpublished,  are  elsewhere  available;  so  that  with 
the  abundant  and  welcome  insertions  of  comment  and 
explanation  which  Mr.  Williams  has  supplied,  a 


substantial  volume  of  interesting  matter  has  been 
produced  that  not  only  gives  fresh  views  of  Lamb 
and  Southey  and  Coleridge  and  others  of  that  period, 
but  also  supplies  here  and  there  a  more  or  less  im- 
portant fact  in  Lamb's  life  or  corrects  a  previous 
error  of  his  biographers.  In  the  ten-page  index, 
which  seems  quite  complete  in  its  references,  though 
not  so  "analytical"  as  might  be  desired,  the  half- 
column  of  Coleridge  items  is  headed  "Coleridge, 
Samuel  Hartley,"  by  some  slip  of  pen  or  type. 
Otherwise  the  marks  of  care  and  thoroughness  on  the 
editor's  part  are  what  might  have  been  expected 
from  a  successor  to  John  Rickman  in  the  exacting 
duties  of  a  House  of  Commons  official,  which  Mr. 
Williams,  on  his  first  page,  proclaims  himself  to  be. 

New  studies  ^our  new  books  dealing  with  direct 
of  direct  legislation  attest  to  the  ever-increas- 

legislation.  ing    interest    Jn    tnat  subject.      Mr. 

Delos  F.  Wilcox,  in  his  volume  entitled  "Govern- 
ment by  All  the  People  "  (Macmillan),  deals  at  length 
in  separate  chapters  with  the  initiative,  referendum, 
and  recall,  explains  what  each  is,  and  gives  the 
arguments  for  and  against  it.  A  simple  list  of  the 
author's  arguments  shows  that  his  treatment  is  not 
exhaustive.  For  example,  to  the  initiative  he  finds 
six  objections, — that  it  would  destroy  constitutional 
stability,  foster  the  tyranny  of  the  majority,  tend  to 
subvert  judicial  authority,  result  in  unscientific  legis- 
lation, lead  to  radical  legislation,  and  be  used  by  the 
special  interests  to  get  the  better  of  the  people.  In 
its  favor  he  finds  four  arguments,  —  that  it  would 
utilize  the  individual  in  politics,  result  in  the  draft- 
ing of  laws  by  those  who  wish  them  to  succeed, 
enable  the  sovereign  to  enforce  its  will  without  the 
consent  of  the  legislature,  and  provide  an  orderly 
means  of  extending  or  restricting  suffrage.  These 
arguments,  and  those  on  the  referendum  and  recall, 
are  very  much  "in  the  air,"  for  rarely  does  Mr. 
Wilcox  base  them  on  citations  of  actual  facts. — 
The  volume  on  the  same  subject  edited  by  Mr. 
William  Bennett  Munro  (Appleton)  is  a  collection 
of  essays  by  some  of  the  most  distinguished  men 
in  America,  prefaced  by  a  long  and  carefully  pre- 
pared introduction  by  the  editor.  This  introduction 
and  the  essays  themselves  are  definite  and  pointed, 
many  references  to  specific  facts  being  cited  in  sup- 
port of  the  positions  taken.  Altogether,  the  book 
possesses  surprisingly  few  of  the  faults  common  to 
collections  of  essays  written  by  various  writers  without 

any  thought  of  their  being  put  together Messrs. 

Edwin  M.  Bacon  and  Morrill  Wyman,  in  their 
volume  entitled  "  Direct  Elections  and  Law- Making 
by  Popular  Vote"  (Houghton),  seek  to  cover  in  one 
hundred  and  fifty  pages  the  whole  field  of  direct 
elections,  popular  law-making,  the  recall,  commission 
government,  and  preferential  voting.  Even  in  this 
brief  compass  the  authors  have  given  some  valuable 
summaries  of  what  has  been  done  in  different  places. 
The  appendix  contains  some  specimen  ballots  and  a 
comprehensive  bibliography.  —  Mr.  Samuel  Robert- 
son Honey's  "Referendum  among  the  English" 


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(Macmillan)  is  somewhat  misleading  in  its  title. 
The  author,  a  native  of  America  residing  in  England, 
has  made  a  rather  unskilful  effort  to  bring  before  the 
British  public  the  application  and  results  of  demo- 
cracy in  America.  The  result  is  a  conglomeration 
consisting  of  an  attempt  to  prove  that  Americans  (or 
rather  the  people  of  New  England)  are  of  English 
descent,  an  explanation  of  democracy  by  quotations 
from  English  statesmen  and  American  constitutions, 
and  a  history  of  the  referendum  in  America.  That 
a  work  on  popular  government  should  be  devoted 
almost  wholly  to  New  England  is  sufficient  proof  of 
its  absurdity.  However,  this  book  contains  some  in- 
teresting facts  in  regard  to  the  history  of  the  refer- 
endum not  elsewhere  easily  accessible,  though  in  a 
few  cases  not  altogether  accurate. 

A  unique  ^r'  ^'  ^'  Goddard's  volume  entitled 

study  in  "  The  Kallikak  Family  "  (Macmillan) 

social  heredity.  js  a  remarkable  human  document. 
It  is  a  scientific  study  in  human  heredity,  a  convinc- 
ing sociological  essay,  a  contribution  to  the  psycho- 
logical bases  of  the  social  structure,  a  tragedy  of 
incompetence,  and  a  sermon  with  a  shocking  exam- 
ple as  a  text.  With  an  endless  patience  sustained 
by  a  scientific  insight  into  the  value  of  principle  and 
detail,  the  history  of  two  branches  of  a  family  has 
been  traced.  A  common  father  in  Colonial  days 
through  an  illegitimate  connection  with  a  nameless 
feeble-minded  girl  becomes  the  progenitor  of  innu- 
merable feeble-minded  progeny;  later  marrying  a 
woman  of  his  own  class,  he  becomes  the  ancestor 
of  men  and  women  of  the  highest  respectability,  of 
social  and  professional  standing,  numbering  among 
them  high  officials, — names  so  worthy  that  care 
must  be  taken  to  prevent  their  recognition  from  the 
descriptions  given.  The  good  and  the  bad  branches 
of  the  family  have  been  subjected  to  about  the  same 
environment,  living  in  the  same  part  of  the  country, 
and  (though  bearing  the  same  name)  quite  igno- 
rant of  their  kinship  until  this  study  was  made. 
No  more  striking  example  of  the  supreme  force  of 
heredity  could  be  desired.  Though  its  interpretation 
in  the  details  of  descent  is  beset  with  uncertainty, 
it  goes  far  to  assimilate  the  hereditary  trend  to  that 
termed  "Mendelian."  Upon  this  issue  Dr.  Goddard 
promises  another  volume  based  on  the  slighter  study 
of  a  larger  number  of  defective  families.  The  story 
found  its  clue  in  Deborah  Kallikak  (all  the  names 
of  course  are  fictitious),  an  illegitimate  and  aban- 
doned child  who  came  to  the  Training  School  for 
the  Feeble-Minded  at  Vineland.  Despite  fourteen 
years  of  teaching  and  care,  she  has,  at  the  age  of 
twenty-two,  the  mentality  of  a  ten-year-old  child, 
though  she  has  the  capacity  to  acquire  a  considerable 
range  of  manual  skill.  Indeed,  placed  in  favorable 
surroundings,  she  and  her  kind  would  not  be  recog- 
nized by  the  public  as  feeble-minded;  for  she  be- 
longs to  the  high-grade  type  of  difficult,  backward, 
but  not  unattractive  folk.  It  is  precisely  in  this  type, 
especially  among  girls,  that  criminality  finds  its  ready 
recruits  or  victims.  Hence  the  imposing  scope  of 


the  single  story,  from  which  so  many  other  stories 
of  degeneracy  receive  a  lurid  illumination.  The  prac- 
tical regulation  and  prevention  of  this  array  of  inca- 
pacity and  worse  is  the  serious  social  problem.  Dr. 
Goddard  and  his  associates  have  added  notably  to 
our  insight  into  its  fundamental  significance,  and 
particularly  by  demonstrating  that  deficient  mental- 
ity—  the  stigma  of  an  unworthy  stock  —  is  the  clue 
to  the  condition,  and  vice  and  crime  and  inefficiency 
and  brutality  its  issues  under  present-day  social 
stress. 

French  society  During  the  cl°sing  years  of  his  lifei 
at  the  height  Professor  Achille  Luchaire,  the  great 
of  medievalism.  French  medievalist  who  died  about 
four  years  ago,  was  engaged  in  a  study  of  French 
society  during  the  reign  of  Philip  Augustus  (1180— 
1223),  in  which  he  doubtless  intended  to  include  all 
the  important  phases  of  civilization  at  the  time  when 
mediaevalism  stood  at  the  zenith  of  its  course.  Death 
prevented  the  complete  realization  of  this  plan,  but 
a  large  part  of  the  work  was  found  in  a  practically 
finished  form  among  his  literary  remains,  and  was 
given  prompt  publication.  Recently  an  English 
translation  of  Professor  Luchaire's  work  has  been 
prepared  by  Professor  E.  B.  Krehbiel  of  Leland 
Stanford  University,  and  has  been  published  under 
the  title  "  Social  France  at  the  Time  of  Philip 
Augustus  "  (Holt).  The  work  of  a  master  is  always 
gladly  received ;  and  in  this  instance  the  master  has 
drawn  an  unusual  picture.  There  has  recently  been 
a  tendency  among  historians  to  deal  more  sympa- 
thetically with  the  middle  ages,  to  dwell  less  on  the 
unlovely  characteristics  of  the  time,  and  to  empha- 
size the  constructive  forces  of  mediaeval  life.  But 
the  great  Frenchman  saw  the  period  in  a  different 
light ;  to  him  the  civilization  of  the  middle  ages  was 
crude  and  inferior,  and  he  proceeded  to  tell  the 
truth  about  it.  Sombre  colors  are  used  throughout 
the  work,  but  particularly  dark  is  the  view  that  he 
gives  of  the  religious  and  spiritual  life  of  the  age ; 
the  religion  of  the  masses  he  finds  to  have  been  relic 
worship  of  the  coarsest  kind.  Naturally  the  age  also 
had  its  attractive  phases,  and  these,  too,  are  faithfully 
presented.  It  may  be  that  the  writer,  who  studied 
and  wrote  during  the  years  of  conflict  between  the 
French  government  and  the  Roman  church,  has  over- 
drawn the  picture  at  times,  but  on  the  whole  the  work 
seems  honest  and  convincing.  He  quotes  freely  from 
the  sources  used,  and  his  conclusions  seem  so  well- 
founded  that  they  will  not  be  easily  shaken.  The 
work  also  discusses  the  various  secular  elements  of 
mediaeval  society,  especially  the  noble  classes;  less 
attention  is  devoted  to  the  peasants  and  the  burghers, 
but  this  is  doubtless  due  to  the  fact  that  the  writers 
of  the  age  showed  but  slight  interest  in  the  lower 
classes  and  have  consequently  left  us  less  information 
concerning  them  than  we  might  desire.  In  his  chap- 
ter on  "  the  noble  dame,"  the  author  takes  occasion 
to  discuss  marriage  and  divorce  in  feudal  times,  and 
concludes  that  the  mediaeval  church  was  utterly  un- 
able to  enforce  its  decrees  as  to  the  indissolubility  of 


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marriage.  That  a  work  of  this  sort  should  have  lit- 
erary blemishes  is  inevitable,  as  the  corrections  and 
changes  of  an  editor  can  never  take  the  place  of  the 
author's  own  final  revision ;  but  even  in  its  some- 
what imperfect  form,  the  volume  does  great  credit 
to  its  author,  whose  works  are  all  of  more  than 
usual  excellence.  

In  its  outward  aspect,  "The  Heritage 
of  Hiroshige"(Paul  Elder&Co.)  is  an 
unusually  successful  attempt  to  give  a 
Japanese  appearance  to  a  book  enclosed  in  substan- 
tial boards  and  put  together  strongly  enough  to  stand 
the  wear  and  tear  of  Western  use.  It  is  printed  on 
Japanese  paper,  on  one  side  of  the  folded  sheets,  and 
Japanese  papers  of  harmonious  tones  are  used  for 
the  binding,  the  result  being  a  very  attractive  vol- 
ume. The  book  is  the  joint  production  of  Mrs.  Dora 
Amsden  and  Mr.  John  Stewart  Happer.  The  sale 
at  Sotheby's  in  1909  of  Mr.  Happer's  fine  collection 
of  Japanese  color-prints  made  his  name  widely  known 
to  collectors  of  these  beautiful  works  of  art.  One 
section  of  Mr.  Happer's  collection  consisted  entirely 
of  prints,  by  Hiroshige,  and  in  the  catalogue  he 
announced  his  discovery  of  the  deciphering  of  the 
"seal-dates"  that  appear  upon  many  of  the  prints. 
This  was  an  important  discovery,  as  it  made  possible 
the  definite  determination  of  the  authorship  of  works 
that  had  theretofore  been  attributed  arbitrarily  to 
the  first  Hiroshige  and  to  his  pupil  who  afterward 
adopted  the  same  "brush  name."  Other  confirma- 
tory evidence  and  biographical  data  made  the  cata- 
logue an  exceptionally  useful  one  for  students.  This 
material,  together  with  some  further  items  gleaned 
from  the  prefaces  to  books  of  drawings  by  Hiroshige, 
forms  the  pith  of  the  present  volume.  There  is  a 
chapter  of  "Biographical  Notes,"  one  upon  a  "Me- 
morial Portrait  of  Hiroshige"  and  the  "seal-dates," 
one  about  the  "Forewords  to  Some  of  Hiroshige's 
Books,"  and  one  of  "Notes  upon  Hiroshige's  Master- 
pieces." These  chapters,  all  of  which  contain  useful 
information,  are,  it  may  be  presumed,  Mr.  Happer's 
contribution  to  the  book.  Besides  editing  it  and 
preparing  it  for  the  press,  Mrs.  Amsden  has  written 
a  short  introduction,  and  four  chapters  of  rhapsody 
over  the  classic  art  of  Japan,  which,  though  well 
meant,  seem  a  bit  irrelevant.  It  is,  for  example,  inter- 
esting to  learn  that  "National  art  with  the  Japan- 
ese is  the  materialization  of  faith,"  but  it  is  not  easy 
to  see  what  this  has  to  do  with  Hiroshige.  The  book 
is  illustrated  with  excellent  half-tone  reproductions 
of  some  of  Hiroshige's  best-known  prints  and  of  the 
memorial  portrait  of  him  by  Kunisada.  In  an  ap- 
pendix some  facsimiles  of  signatures  and  publishers' 
marks  are  given,  also  examples  of  date-seals  and 
several  forms  of  the  zodiacal  characters  that  enter 
into  the  composition  of  the  cycle  cyphers.  There  is, 
besides,  a  short  bibliography  of  books  on  Japanese 
art,  which  would  be  more  useful  did  it  not  include 
the  titles  of  utterly  worthless  books  as  well  as  some 
of  the  best  ones  that  have  as  yet  been  written. 


The Mrring  "John  Hancock,  the  Picturesque 
American  Patriot "  is  the  inviting  title  of  Pro- 

patriot.  fessor  Lorenzo  Sears's  attractively- 

presented  account  of  the  life  and  public  services  of 
him  whose  bold  signature  is  the  first  and  the  best- 
known  of  the  fifty-six  appended  to  the  Declaration  of 
Independence,  and  whose  other  chief  claims  to  re- 
membrance are  thus  summarized  by  the  author :  "  He 
was  the  earliest  considerable  sufferer  from  commer- 
cial oppression ;  the  first  aristocrat  of  Boston  to  join  a 
party  which  had  little  property  to  lose ;  one  of  the 
two  whom  royal  displeasure  excluded  from  pardon  ; 
often  chairman  of  liberty  meetings ;  a  member  of  the 
Great  and  General  Court ;  deputy  to  the  Provincial 
Congresses  and  presiding  officer ;  also  deputy  to  the 
Continental  Congress  and  for  two  and  a  half  years 
its  President ;  the  first  Governor  of  the  Common- 
wealth of  Massachusetts  and  ten  times  re-elected." 
Fourteen  years  ago  some  selections  from  Hancock's 
letter-book  were  edited  with  explanatory  matter  by 
Mr.  Abram  English  Brown ;  and  much  earlier  than 
that  materials  for  a  biography  are  said  to  have  been 
collected,  but  to  have  been  sold  for  a  thousand  dol- 
lars to  some  unnamed  person  interested  in  suppress- 
ing them.  Thus,  for  whatever  mysterious  reason, 
no  formal  biography  of  Hancock  has  hitherto  ap- 
peared, and  Professor  Sears  enters  an  untrodden 
domain  in  his  present  historical  study.  His  volume, 
of  about  the  size  of  those  in  the  "  American  States- 
men" series,  is  written  in  a  style  to  win  popular 
approval,  and  gives  with  sufficient  fulness  (so  far,  at 
least,  as  inadequate  records  permit)  the  main  facts  of 
Hancock's  life.  The  romance  of  his  suit  for  Dorothy 
Quincy's  hand,  in  the  troubled  times  of  outbreaking 
hostilities  between  England  and  her  American  colo- 
nies, is  agreeably  told ;  and  the  puzzling  episode  of  his 
seeming  delinquency  as  treasurer  of  Harvard  Col- 
lege is  unsparingly  related.  But  the  brevity  of  ref- 
erence to  the  Declaration  of  Independence  is  a  little 
surprising,  in  view  of  the  importance  of  its  framing 
and  signing  in  both  the  history  of  the  nation  and  the 
public  life  of  Hancock.  The  closing  words  of  the 
book  couple  the  name  of  John  Hancock  with  the 
names  of  Robert  Morris  and  George  Washington  as 
deserving  of  highest  honors  in  our  tribute  to  the 
heroes  of  the  Revolution.  The  familiar  Copley  por- 
trait is  reproduced  as  appropriate  frontispiece  to  the 
volume,  which  bears  the  imprint  of  Little,  Brown, 
&Co. 

Everybody's  The  Plain  man  haS  always  refused  to 
world  and  venture  far  from  the  bounds  of  com- 

pMiotophy.  mon  8ense  jn  order  to  meet  what  has 
been  offered  to  him  under  the  name  of  divine  phil- 
osophy. That  realm  he  has  left  to  its  professional 
explorers,  and  they  have  too  often  met  his  indif- 
ference with  a  corresponding  degree  of  contempt  for 
his  attainments.  But  every  philospher  is  at  heart  a 
plain  man  himself,  and  whenever  its  speculative 
momentum  carries  philosophy  too  far  from  everyday 
life  there  is  a  reaction,  and  for  a  time  the  plain  man 


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is  courted  in  his  own  territory  of  commonsense. 
We  are  apparently  at  the  beginning  of  such  a  change. 
The  latest  expression  of  the  recurring  romantic 
movement  has  apparently  culminated  in  pragma- 
tism, and  pragmatism  has  wandered  far  from  real- 
ity. Hence  a  brilliant  group  of  men  on  both  sides 
of  the  Atlantic  are  preaching  a  return  to  reality,  to 
the  world  of  every  day.  "The  World  We  Live  In; 
or,  Philosophy  and  Life  in  the  Light  of  Modern 
Thought"  (Macmillan),  by  Professor  G.  Stuart  Ful- 
lerton  of  Columbia,  is  a  general  defence  of  the  new 
phase  of  thought  and  a  criticism  of  both  the  intel- 
lectual idealisms  of  Berkeley,  Bradley,  and  Royce 
and  the  newer  pragmatism  from  the  realistic  stand- 
point. The  world,  says  Professor  Fullerton,  is  not 
existent  only  in  our  or  God's  perception  of  it,  as 
Berkeley  taught,  nor  is  it  a  mere  function  of  an  "abso- 
lute"; but  it  is  an  objective  reality  truly  presented 
to  us — though  with  limitations — by  our  senses. 
Hence  the  philosophy  of  the  New  Realism  keeps 
close  to  facts  and  sane  inductions  from  them.  But 
this  system  of  thought  should  not  be  confused  with 
the  older  naturalism.  It  realizes  that  there  are 
minds  as  well  as  bodies  in  the  universe,  and  it  does 
not  try  to  express  the  reality  and  operation  of  these 
minds  in  terms  of  chemistry  or  molecular  physics  — 
as  is  done  by  such  a  thinker  as  the  biologist  Jacques 
Loeb  in  his  "mechanistic  conception"  of  life.  Pro- 
fessor Fullerton's  outline  of  this  philosophy  is  writ- 
ten in  a  non-technical  manner  and  with  a  great  effort 
to  attain  concreteness  of  exposition  by  the  constant 
use  of  examples  from  everyday  thought  and  life.  In 
fact  he  carries  this  mode  of  exposition  to  such  length 
that  the  philosophical  reader  who  happens  to  hold 
the  conceptions  Mr.  Fullerton  criticises  will  be  irrita- 
ted exceedingly  by  what  he  will  consider  a  rather 
unfair  method  of  exposition.  But  the  book  is  writ- 
ten primarily  for  the  plain  man;  and  the  world  it 
presents,  while  considerably  less  fascinating  than 
either  the  pragmatic  or  idealistic  worlds  seem  to  be 
at  first  blush,  yet  has  an  aspect  of  solid  and  comfort- 
able reality  about  it.  The  New  Realism  seems  re- 
solved to  give  us  a  world  which  is  chary  of  promis- 
ing too  much  to  the  enthusiastic  soul  but  which  keeps 
the  few  promises  man  may  exact  from  it. 

The  function  and  value,  in  the  econ- 
omy of  the  world,  of  small  nations 
depend  upon  the  maintenance  of 
high  standards  of  independent  national  culture. 
Denmark  has  long  been  noted  for  its  unique  demo- 
cratic institutions,  and  no  less  for  the  characteristic- 
ally vigorous  intellectual  and  artistic  life  in  its  capital. 
The  portrayal  of  society  in  the  literary  circles  of 
Copenhagen  in  the  early  seventies  is  of  especial  in- 
terest. It  was  a  brilliant  period,  though  as  a  nation 
Denmark  had  for  the  second  time  been  brutally 
crushed  by  Germany  and  was  smarting  under  the 
defeat.  The  romantic  period  in  literature  and 
art  was  just  drawing  to  a  close,  Hans  Christian 
Andersen  was  writing  his  last  work,  the  tragedies 
of  Oehlenschlager  were  still  in  vogue,  the  verses 


Literary 
Denmark  in 
the  seventies. 


of  Paludan-Mtiller  were  popular,  and  Galeotti's 
tableaux-ballets  continued  to  dominate  the  stage  at 
the  Royal  Theatre.  The  great  national  movement 
for  a  native  poetry,  a  native  drama,  and  a  native  art 
had  reached  fruition.  Bissen's  "  Landessoldat "  had 
succeeded  the  Psyches  and  Hebes  of  the  Icelander 
Thorwaldsen  in  popular  esteem,  and  canvases 
portraying  Danish  home  life  were  in  high  favor. 
But  a  change  was  impending.  BjOrnson's  "Newly 
Married  Couple  "  had  been  enthusiastically  received 
at  the  Royal  Theatre,  though  with  misgivings  in 
conservative  circles.  Ibsen  had  returned  to  the 
North  from  Rome  somewhat  mellowed  by  the  suc- 
cess of  "  Brand,"  and  the  Gyldendalske  Boghandel 
was  entering  upon  its  wider  exploitation  of  Scandi- 
navian literature.  But  Copenhagen's  coming  writer, 
Georg  Brandes,  was  still  ostracized  by  the  orthodox 
for  his  radical  views  and  destructive  criticism. 
Mr.  Edmund  Gosse,  in  his  volume  entitled  "  Two 
Visits  to  Denmark:  1872,  1874"  (Dutton),  draws 
from  his  note-books  the  youthful  impressions  which 
this  cultivated  society  of  Copenhagen  made  upon 
him.  He  wrote  with  enthusiasm  and  fulness  at  the 
time,  and  the  literary  portraits  sketched  in  his  pages 
have  not  lost  in  interest  with  the  passing  years. 

Mirthful  A  &ood  book  with  which  the  youth- 

tcenesfrom  ful  reader  of  Lamb's  "Tales  from 
Shakespeare.  Shakespeare"  might  follow  up  his 
study  of  the  great  dramatist  is  offered  by  Mr. 
William  A.  Lawson  in  his  "  Shakespeare's  Wit  and 
Humour"  (Jacobs),  a  small  volume  collecting  the 
more  enjoyable  mirthful  scenes  that  are  scattered 
through  the  plays.  Enough  of  plot  and  situation  is 
in  each  case  indicated  by  the  compiler  to  give  intelli- 
gibility to  the  extracts.  Also  an  introductory  essay — 
which  young  readers  will  skip,  as  a  rule  —  is  sup- 
plied on  the  general  subject  of  wit  and  humor  as 
illustrated  in  Shakespeare's  pages.  No  table  of  con- 
tents or  index  is  provided,  to  show  what  plays  have 
been  drawn  upon;  but  it  appears  that  not  many 
more  than  half  of  the  whole  number  have  furnished 
quotable  matter.  Curiously  enough,  the  "Comedy 
of  Errors  "  has  contributed  but  a  single  page,  while 
some  of  the  tragedies,  notably  "Hamlet,"  have  been 
found  far  richer  in  wit  and  humor.  If  readers, 
young  or  old,  shrink  from  the  unabridged  form  of 
Shakespeare's  plays,  such  selections  as  this  may  do 
them  a  service  by  opening  their  eyes  to  unsuspected 
treasure.  The  book  is  handy  in  form  and  the  text 
has  not  been  "doctored"  except  in  the  way  of  neces- 
sary omissions,  which  are  indicated  by  dots. 


BRIEFER  MENTION. 


The  current  annual  report  of  the  City  Library  of 
Lincoln  (Nebraska)  gives  indication  of  the  further  ex- 
tension of  the  county  library  system.  "At  the  last  ses- 
sion of  the  legislature  a  measure  was  passed  providing 
for  the  establishment  of  county  libraries,  also  fixing  the 
maximum  levy  for  library  purposes  at  three  mills  on 
the  dollar.  A  number  of  citizens  of  this  county  have 


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taken  the  matter  up  and  are  now  asking  that  the  mat- 
ter be  submitted  to  the  voters  of  the  county  at  the 
next  general  election.  In  the  event  of  its  being  carried 
and  the  county  library  established,  some  proposition 
will  probably  be  made  to  this  board,  looking  toward  co- 
operation in  the  management  of  the  two  organizations." 

One  would  hardly  say  that  "  A  Zola  Dictionary " 
satisfies  a  long-felt  want,  but  for  those  who  need  it 
Mr.  J.  G.  Patterson  has  supplied  it.  The  volume  is 
published  by  the  Messrs.  Dutton,  and  is  uniform  with 
the  dictionaries  of  Dickens,  Thackeray,  Scott,  Meredith, 
Hardy,  and  Kipling. 

Mr.  Henry  Frowde  publishes  an  edition  of  "  The 
Rowley  Poems  of  Thomas  Chatterton,"  reprinted  from 
Tyrwhitt,  and  edited  by  Mr.  Maurice  Evan  Hare.  A 
good  modern  Chatterton  has  long  been  needed,  and  this 
one  (in  type  facsimile)  supplies  the  want.  We  find  in 
the  bibliography  no  mention  of  Mr.  C.  E.  Russell's  work 
—  one  of  the  most  important  of  recent  years. 

The  Chautauqua  books  for  home  reading  during  the 
coming  year  include  a  reprint  of  Mrs.  Alfred  Sidgwick's 
delightful  "Home  Life  in  Germany,"  and  three  new 
books  prepared  for  this  course,  as  follows :  "  Social 
Progress  in  Contemporary  Europe,"  by  Mr.  Frederic 
Austin  Ogg;  "  Mornings  with  Masters  of  Art,"  by  Mr. 
H.  H.  Powers;  and  «  The  Spirit  of  French  Letters,"  by 
Miss  Mabell  S.  C.  Smith. 

"The  Story  of  the  Ancient  Nations,"  by  Professor 
William  L.  Westermann,  is  published  by  the  Messrs. 
Appleton  in  their  series  of  "  Twentieth  Century  Text- 
Books."  A  great  amount  of  new  material  for  the  his- 
tory of  the  ancient  world  has  come  to  light  of  recent 
years  —  probably  more  than  for  any  other  section  of 
history  —  and  this  the  author  has  sought  to  make  avail- 
able for  high  school  uses.  He  has  made  an  admirable 
text-book,  equipped  with  all  the  needful  apparatus. 

To  Professor  Walter  C.  Bronson's  four  volumes  of 
"  English  Poems,"  a  volume  of  "  American  Poems, 
1625-1892  "  is  now  added,  published  by  the  University 
of  Chicago  Press.  The  volume  presents  a  great  quan- 
tity of  material  in  chronological  arrangement,  and  is 
supplied  with  copious  notes  and  bibliographies.  The 
resources  of  the  special  collections  of  Brown  University 
have  supplied  the  editor  with  the  best  authorities  for 
accurate  texts,  and  have  made  possible  the  widest  range 
of  selections. 

"British  Poems',"  (Scribner),  edited  by  Dr.  Percy 
Adams  Hutchison,  is  an  anthology  of  non-dramatic  verse 
from  Chaucer  to  Mr.  Kipling.  It  is  unburdened  by 
notes,  and,  with  few  exceptions,  the  pieces  included  are 
given  in  their  entirety.  The  selection  seems  judicious, 
and  the  amount  of  matter  presented  is  considerable  — 
equalling  perhaps  the  two  series  of  "  The  Golden  Treas- 
ury." Much  pains  have  been  taken  with  the  texts,  and 
the  rich  resources  of  the  Harvard  library  have  been  at 
the  service  of  the  editor. 

A  reaction  from  the  present  sordid  commercialism  in 
industrial  fields  is  foretold  by  Professor  Alvin  S.  John- 
son, of  the  Economics  department  of  Cornell  University, 
in  a  Phi  Beta  Kappa  address  delivered  by  him  at  Stan- 
ford University  last  May,  and  now  issued  by  the  Chapter 
in  pamphlet  form.  It  is  a  hopeful  and  well-reasoned 
paper.  "  Much  of  the  power  of  commercialism,"  he 
says,  "  is  the  product  of  transitory  historical  conditions, 
and  must  pass  away."  Moral  and  aesthetic  values,  no 
less  than  material  ones,  are  essential  to  the  evolution  of 
the  industry  of  the  future ;  and  poetry  and  philosophy 
and  painting  will  "  take  their  place  alongside  of  indus- 


try in  the  every-day  service  of  man."  Workers  in  the 
higher  fields  will  have  a  large  part  in  the  new  industrial 
development,  by  furnishing  it  with  standards  and  ideals. 
"  Architects  and  sculptors,  painters  and  poets,  can  trans- 
form social  man  and  society  into  values  capable  of  dom- 
inating industry."  Professor  Johnson's  paper  is  so 
inspiring  and  suggestive  that  it  might  well  be  elaborated 
into  a  volume. 

In  connection  with  the  seventy-fifth  anniversary  of 
the  founding  of  the  Mount  Holyoke  College  there  has 
been  published  at  the  Riverside  Press  "  A  Mount  Hol- 
yoke Book  of  Prose  and  Verse,"  edited  by  Miss  E.  C. 
Porter  and  Miss  F.  L.  Warner.  It  is  a  selection  from 
undergraduate  manuscript  of  the  past  twenty  odd  years 
and  "  was  undertaken  to  show  the  best  of  what  Mount 
Holyoke  girls  have  written."  The  editors  add:  "Once 
the  manuscript  was  got  together  it  proved  to  be  a  far 
more  interesting  thing,  a  sort  of  footnote  to  college  his- 
tory, alive  with  the  successive  interests  of  the  different 
years  and  shaped  as  the  college  has  been  shaped."  The 
volume  is  pleasant  reading  and  creditable  to  the  methods 
and  ideals  of  the  school  from  which  it  comes. 

A  copy  of  "  Newark  in  the  Public  Schools  of 
Newark,"  by  Mr.  J.  Wilmer  Kennedy,  Assistant  Super- 
intendent of  Schools,  has  come  to  us,  and  deserves  hearty 
commendation  for  its  combined  instructiveness  and  read- 
ability. It  is  described  on  the  title-page  as  "  a  course 
of  study  on  Newark,  its  geography,  civics  and  history, 
with  biographical  sketches  and  a  reference  index."  Nu- 
merous illustrations  are  inserted,  and  the  whole  makes 
an  attractive  volume  of  more  than  two  hundred  pages. 
Especially  interesting  to  general  readers  is  the  section 
devoted  to  "  Literary  Landmarks  of  Newark,"  a  chap- 
ter richer  in  distinguished  names  and  precious  associa- 
tions than  many  would  have  suspected.  Newark  appears 
to  be  the  leader,  and  a  most  energetic  one,  in  introduc- 
ing into  its  public  schools  this  thorough  and  systematic 
study  of  its  own  history,  topography,  and  institutions. 
A  pamphlet  by  the  Newark  librarian,  Mr.  John  Cotton 
Dana,  on  "  The  Study  of  a  City  in  the  Schools  of  that 
City,"  reprinted  from  "  The  Pedagogical  Seminary," 
gives  significant  facts  and  details  regarding  this  praise- 
worthy movement  on  the  part  of  the  Newark  educators, 
a  movement  in  which  we  surmise  Mr.  Dana  himself  has 
played  no  unimportant  part. 

The  second  volume  of  Lescarbot's  "  History  of  New 
France,"  as  reprinted  by  the  Champlain  Society  of 
Toronto,  with  the  original  text,  an  English  translation, 
and  notes  and  appendices  by  Professor  W.  L.  Grant  of 
Queen's  University,  Kingston,  Canada,  contains  Books 
III.  and  IV.  of  the  History,  describing  the  voyages  of 
Jacques  Cartier,  Roberval,  La  Roche,  and  Champlain 
to  the  Gulf  and  River  St.  Lawrence;  and  those  of 
De  Nonts  and  Poutrincourt  to  the  Bay  of  Fundy.  As 
Lescarbot  himself  was  a  member  of  the  expedition  of 
1606,  and  took  an  active  part  in  all  the  affairs  of  the 
little  settlement  at  Port  Royal,  the  Fourth  Book  of  his 
History  is  of  particular  interest.  He  not  only  gives  us, 
from  personal  knowledge,  the  romantic  story  of  this 
pioneer  settlement  in  what  now  constitutes  the  Maritime 
Provinces  of  Canada,  but  he  adds  many  characteristically 
shrewd  and  acute  comments  on  the  character  of  his 
companions,  and  of  Membertou,  sagamore  of  the  Mic- 
macs,  and  his  savage  allies.  Professor  Grant's  discrimi- 
nating editorial  work,  which  formed  so  admirable  a 
feature  of  the  first  volume,  is  equally  praiseworthy  here. 
Volume  III.,  completing  the  History,  is  expected  to  be 
published  before  the  closing  of  the  year. 


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"  Types  of  Men  "  is  the  title  of  Mr.  G.  K.  Chesterton's 
new  volume  of  essays,  soon  to  be  published  by  Messrs. 
Dodd,  Mead  &  Co. 

Another  of  Mr.  Hilaire  Belloc's  entertaining  collec- 
tions of  essays  will  appear  shortly  under  the  title,  "  This 
and  That  and  the  Other." 

"The  Sea  Trader:  His  Friends  and  Enemies,"  by 
Mr.  David  Hannay,  is  a  forthcoming  publication,  not 
previously  announced,  of  Messrs.  Little,  Brown  &  Co.'s. 

Miss  Mary  E.  Waller's  «  A  Daughter  of  the  Rich  " 
will  appear  shortly  in  both  Norwegian  and  Danish  trans- 
lations, from  the  publishing  house  of  Cammermeyers, 
Christiana. 

Miss  Anna  Preston,  a  young  Canadian  writer,  is  the 
author  of  «  The  Record  of  a  Silent  Life,"  purporting  to 
be  the  autobiography  of  a  woman  born  dumb,  which  Mr. 
B.  W.  Huebsch  will  publish  this  month. 

Mrs.  Frances  Kinsley  Hutchinson,  author  of  "  Our 
Country  Home,"  has  written  a  supplementary  volume 
entitled  "  Our  Country  Life,"  to  be  published  shortly 
with  numerous  illustrations  by  Messrs.  A.  C.  McClurg 
&  Co. 

Two  additions  to  Messrs.  Holt's  autumn  list  are  the 
following:  "Trails,  Trappers,  and  Tenderfeet,"  an  ac- 
count of  adventure  in  the  Canadian  Northwest,  by  Mr. 
Stanley  Washburn ;  and  "  My  Dog  and  I,"  written  and 
illustrated  by  Mr.  Gerald  Sidney. 

"  Uriel  and  Other  Poems  of  Commemoration,"  by 
Mr.  Percy  MacKaye,  is  announced  by  Messrs.  Houghton 
Mifflin  Co.  Two  other  volumes  of  verse  to  be  issued 
during  the  autumn  by  the  same  publishers  are  "  Villa 
Mirafiore  "by  Mr.  Frederic  Crowninshield,  and  "Poems 
by  Frederic  and  Mary  Palmer." 

We  are  glad  to  note  that  the  two  fine  addresses  on 
Charles  Eliot  Norton,  by  Dr.  Edward  W.  Emerson  and 
Mr.  William  F.  Harrison,  originally  delivered  before 
the  Archaeological  Institute  of  America  and  later  pub- 
lished in  the  Bulletin  of  that  society,  are  soon  to  be  re- 
printed in  book  form  by  Messrs.  Houghton  Mifflin  Co. 

A  volume  of  poems  of  the  great  Magyar  poet  Alex- 
ander Petofi  will  be  published  immediately  by  the 
Hungarian  Literary  Society  of  New  York  City.  The 
translator  is  Mr.  William  N.  Loew  and  the  proceeds  of 
the  sale  of  the  volume  will  be  dovoted  to  a  fund  for  a 
statue  of  Petofi  to  be  erected  by  the  Hungarians  of 
New  York  City  in  one  of  the  city's  parks. 

A  new  work  by  Mr.  Frederic  Harrison,  on  "  The 
Positive  Evolution  of  Religion,"  will  appear  shortly. 
Mr.  Harrison  here  attempts  a  systematic  study  of  the 
entire  religious  problem.  Beginning  with  Nature  Wor- 
ship, and  going  on  to  Polytheism,  Catholicism,  Protest- 
antism, and  Deism,  he  estimates  the  moral  and  social 
reaction  of  the  various  forms  which  religious  belief  has 
assumed. 

Some  forthcoming  English  biographical  works  of 
importance,  not  yet  announced  on  this  side,  include  a 
Life  of  Walter  Bagehot,  by  Mrs.  Russell  Barrington; 
"  Our  Book  of  Memories,"  by  Mrs.  Campbell  Praed 
and  the  late  Justin  McCarthy;  a  volume  of  "  Further 
Reminiscences  of  H.  M.  Hyndman,"  dealing  with  his 
life  since  1889;  and  "My  Own  Times,"  a  new  volume 
of  Lady  Dorothy  Nevill's  delightful  gossip. 

"  Men,  Women,  and  Minxes  "  is  the  title  of  a  miscel- 
lany of  biographical  and  other  sketches,  written  by 
Mrs.  Andrew  Lang,  and  to  be  published  next  month  by 


Messrs.  Longmans.  The  contents  are  varied  and  attract- 
ive, among  the  topics  being  "The  Fairchild  Family 
and  their  Creator,"  "  Morals  and  Manners  in  Richard- 
son," "Pitfalls  for  Collectors,"  "Two  Centuries  of 
American  Women,"  and  "Poets  as  Landscape  Painters." 

A  monthly  journal  devoted  to  the  cause  of  Philippine 
independence  has  recently  been  established  under  the 
editorship  of  Hon.  Manuel  L.  Quezon,  Resident  Com- 
missioner from  the  Philippines.  "  The  Filipino  People," 
as  the  new  publication  is  called,  will  aim  to  give  the 
American  people  authoritative  information  about  this 
vitally  important  public  question  —  a  question  usually 
ignored  or  misrepresented  in  our  own  press.  Its  pub- 
lication office  is  in  Washington. 

An  important  autumn  publication,  not  previously 
announced,  is  a  translation  from  the  Swedish  of  Gustaf 
Janson's  "  Lognerna,"  to  be  published  by  Messrs.  Little, 
Brown  &  Co.  uuder  the  title,  «  Pride  of  War."  While 
dealing  specifically  with  the  Turko-Italian  war  in  Tripoli, 
it  forms  an  indictment  of  war  in  general  which,  judging 
from  the  comments  and  quotations  of  English  reviewers, 
must  be  even  more  powerful  and  convincing  than  the 
Baroness  von  Suttner's  famous  novel,  "  Ground  Arms  ! " 

Spenser,  Coleridge,  Lowell,  and  Browning's  "The 
Ring  and  the  Book  "  are  about  to  be  added  to  the  Ox- 
ford Poets,  which  will  be  further  enriched  by  a  volume 
of  the  collected  works  of  a  living  poet —  Mr.  Robert 
Bridges.  All  these  will  also  be  issued  in  the  cheaper 
"  Oxford  Standard  Classics,"  and  in  this  series  will  ap- 
pear Kingsley's  "  Hereward  the  Wake,"  Adam  Lindsay 
Gordon's  poems,  and  "  The  Pageant  of  English  Prose," 
edited  with  notes  by  Mr.  R.  M.  Leonard,  who  compiled 
the  companion  volume  — "  The  Pageant  of  English 
Poetry." 

A  notable  group  of  books  dealing  with  various  phases 
of  the  current  feminist  movement  will  constitute  an 
important  feature  of  the  autumn  publishing  season. 
The  titles  and  authors  of  these  books  are  as  follows: 
"  The  Woman  Movement,"  translated  from  the  Swedish 
of  Ellen  Key;  "The  Business  of  Being  a  Woman,"  by 
Miss  Ida  M.  Tarbell;  "  Why  Women  Are  So,"  by  Mrs. 
Mary  Roberts  Coolidge ;  "  Woman  in  the  Making  of 
America,"  by  Mr.  H.  Addington  Bruce;  "Woman  in 
Modern  Society,"  by  Professor  Earl  Barnes;  "The 
Advance  of  Women,"  by  Mrs.  Johnstone  Christie;  and 
"  Women  in  Italy,"  by  Mr.  W.  B.  Boulton. 

The  second  annual  meeting  of  the  National  Council 
of  Teachers  of  English  will  be  held  in  Chicago,  November 
28, 1912.  The  principal  topics  to  be  discussed  are  as 
follows:  Grammatical  Nomenclature,  Types  of  Organi- 
zation of  High  School  English,  Books  for  Voluntary 
Reading,  Dramatic  Work,  Material  Equipment,  Oral 
Composition  in  College,  Relation  of  Public  Speaking  to 
other  Exercises,  Relation  of  Grammar  and  Composition, 
Required  English  Courses  in  Normal  Schools.  Action 
will  be  taken  with  regard  to  a  national  syllabus  and  with 
regard  to  measures  for  relieving  teachers  who  are  over- 
burdened with  written  work.  The  Council  has  eight 
committees  at  work,  all  of  which  are  national  in  scope, 
and  the  meeting  will  bring  together  the  leaders  in 
English  teaching,  in  both  school  and  college,  from  all 
sections. 

"The  Century  Magazine  "  has  in  preparation  a  series 
of  "  after-the-war  "  articles,  dealing  with  great  events 
in  American  progress  during  the  half-century  following 
the  Civil  War.  This  series  will  begin  in  the  Novem- 
ber number  of  the  magazine  with  a  narrative  of  "  The 


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Humor  and  Tragedy  of  the  Greeley  Campaign,"  by 
Colonel  Henry  Watterson,  editor  of  the  Louisville 
"Courier-Journal."  Following  articles  in  the  series 
will  deal  with  the  cause  of  Andrew  Johnson's  impeach- 
ment, Cleveland's  triumph  over  Elaine,  "  the  aftermath 
of  reconstruction,"  "  Uncle  Sam's  bargain  in  Alaska," 
the  return  to  hard  money,  etc.,  etc.,  and  the  contribu- 
tors will  include  General  Harrison  Gray  Otis  of  the  Los 
Angeles  "  Times,"  Mr.  Melville  E.  Stone  of  the  Asso- 
ciated Press,  Mr.  Clark  Howell  of  the  Atlanta  "  Con- 
stitution," Mr.  Charles  A.  Conant,  formerly  of  the  New 
York  "  Journal  of  Commerce,"  and  other  equally  well- 
known  authorities. 

About  the  first  of  this  month  Professor  Eugen  Kiih- 
nemann  of  Breslau,  Carl  Schurz  Professor  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Wisconsin,  will  begin  lecturing  at  Madison, 
holding  two  regular  courses  (one  on  Goethe's  "  Faust," 
the  other  on  "  Modern  German  Drama  "),  and  conduct- 
ing exercises  in  literary  criticism  for  advanced  students. 
Professor  Kiihnemann  has  visited  America  several  times, 
and  has  made  a  particularly  vivid  impression  as  an  elo- 
quent orator,  as  well  as  a  stimulating  thinker.  Occupy- 
ing the  chair  of  philosophy  at  Breslau,  he  has  paid 
especial  attention  to  the  relations  between  philosophy 
and  literature,  and  the  bearing  of  literature  upon  the 
cultural  problems  of  the  race.  His  biography  of  Herder 
and  his  work  upon  Schiller  are  written  from  this  point 
of  view.  During  his  term  of  work  at  Madison  he  will 
lecture  at  Milwaukee  and  elsewhere  in  the  state,  and 
will  also  speak  at  some  of  the  other  important  centres  of 
the  middle  west.  In  February  he  expects  to  visit  the 
Pacific  coast. 

Among  the  works  of  general  interest  appearing  on 
the  revised  announcement  list  of  the  Oxford  Univer- 
sity Press,  besides  those  noted  in  our  last  issue,  are  the 
following:  "Four  Stages  of  Greek  Religion,"  by  Dr. 
Gilbert  Murray ;  "  French  Classical  Drama,"  by  Miss 
Eleanor  Jourdain;  "Keble's  Lectures  on  Poetry,"  trans- 
lated by  Mr.  E.  K.  Francis;  Med win's  Life  of  Shelley, 
edited,  with  introduction  and  notes,  by  Mr.  H.  Buxton 
Forman ;  "  The  Oxford  Book  of  Latin  Verse,"  chosen 
and  edited  by  Mr.  H.  W.  Garrod;  "The  Science  of 
Etymology," by  Dr.  W.  W.  Skeat;  "Essays  and  Studies 
by  Members  of  the  English  Association,"  Vol.  III., 
collected  by  Dr.  W.  P.  Ker;  "A  Companion  to  Roman 
History,"  by  Mr.  H.  Stuart  Jones;  "The  Ability  to 
Converse,"  by  Mr.  S.  M.  Bligh;  "  A  Concordance  to 
Petrarch,"  by  Mr.  K.  Mackenzie ;  "  A  Concordance  to 
Dante's  Latin  Works,"  by  Messrs.  E.  K.  Rand  and  E.  H. 
Wilkins;  "  The  Works  of  George  Savile,  Marquess  of 
Halifax,"  edited  by  Sir  Walter  Raleigh;  "The  Poems 
and  Masks  of  Aurelian  Townshend,"  edited  by  Mr.  E. 
K.  Chambers;  and,  in  the  "  Oxford  Library  of  Prose 
and  Poetry,"  Morgann's  "  Essay  on  the  Character  of 
.Sir  John  Falstaff,"  with  Introduction  by  W.  A.  Gill, 
•"Tosa  Nikki:  The  Diary  of  a  Japanese  Nobleman 
Written  in  935,"  translated  by  W.  N.  Porter,  and  a 
verbatim  reprint  of  the  1842  edition  of  Tennyson's 
Poems. 


TOPICS  IN  LEADING  PERIODICALS. 

October,  1912. 

Bashkirtseff,  Marie.  Gwendolen  Overtoil  .  .  .  Forum. 
Beef.  Frank  Parker  Stockbridge  .  .  .  World's  Work. 
Berliner,  Dr.,  Master  Inventor.  Wells  F. 

Harvey World's  Work. 

Bnsiness,  The  Ethics  of.     Roland  G.  Usher    .     .    Atlantic. 


Business  Man,  The  Tired.  Meredith  Nicholson  .  Atlantic. 
Child,  the  Helpless,  Help  for.  C.  R.  Hender- 
son   World's  Work. 

College,  The  Purpose  of.  Joseph  Schafer.  Rev.  of  Reviews. 
Confederacy,  Sunset  of  the  —  VIII.  M.  Schaff  .  Atlantic. 
Congress,  The  Work  of.  Judson  C.  Welliver.  Rev.  of  Revs. 
Convention,  The  Presidential.  Andrew  D.  White.  McClure. 
Deutsches  Museum,  The,  in  Munich.  H.S.  Williams.  Century. 
Double  Eagles,  The  Mystery  of  the.  A.  B.  Reeve.  McClure. 
Dreams  and  Forgetting.  Edwin  T.  Brewster  .  McClure. 
Drug-Taker,  The,  and  the  Physician.  C.  B.  Towns.  Century. 
Educationand  Art  in  the  United  States.  A.Bennett.  Harper. 
Election  Superstitions  and  Fallacies.  E.  Stanwood.  Atlantic. 
Europe,  The  Unaccustomed  Ears  of.  S.  M.  Crothers.  Atlantic. 

Fagan,  James  0.,  Autobiography  of Atlantic. 

Farmer,  The  Passing  of  the.  Roy  H.  Holmes  .  .  Atlantic. 
Feminism,  A  New  Prophetess  of.  F.  M.  Bjorkman.  Forum. 
Florida,  The  Everglades  of.  Thomas  E.  Will.  Rev.  of  Revs. 
France,  The  Trade  of.  James  D.  Whelpley  .  .  Century. 
French,  The,  in  the  Heart  of  America.  J.  Finley.  Scribner. 
French  Plays  —  Why  They  Seem  Daring.  Madame 

Simone  Casimir-Perier McClure. 

Freshman  Son,  A  Father  to  His.  E.  S.  Martin  .  Atlantic. 
Fur-Harvesters,  The.  F.  E.  Schoonover  ....  Harper. 
Gilbert,  Sir  W.  S.,  author  of  "  Pinafore."  R.  Grey.  Century. 
Good  Old  Times,  The.  Lyman  B.  Stowe.  World's  Work. 
Gregory,  Lady,  and  the  Lore  of  Ireland.  K.  Bre'gy.  Forum. 
Inca  Capital,  A  Search  for  the  Last.  H.  Bingham.  Harper. 
Investors' Viewpoint,  The.  Arthur  H.  Gleason.  Rev.  of  Revs. 
Irish  Question,  A  Glance  at  the.  Sydney  Brooks.  Century. 
Irrigation —  How  It  Is  Making  Good.  Agnes  C. 

Laut Review  of  Reviews. 

Japanese  Color  Prints.  William  L.  Keane  .  .  .  Century. 
Johnson,  Lionel,  The  Art  of.  Milton  Bronner  .  Bookman 
"Kim,"  Across  India  With.  E.  A.  Forbes.  World's  Work. 
Literature,  American,  The  Cowardice  of.  Hanna 

A.  Larsen Forum. 

Loti,  The  Personal.  Stuart  Henry Bookman. 

Man,  A  Defence  of .  May  Sinclair Forum. 

Marshall,  Thomas  Riley.  William  B.  Hale.  World's  Work. 
Memories,  Some  Early — II.  Henry  Cabot  Lodge.  Scribner. 

Meredith,  George,  Letters  of  —  III Scribner. 

Mexico,  The  Prospect  for.  Forbes  Lindsay  .  Lippincott. 

Motherliness.  Ellen  Key Atlantic. 

Novelist's  Choice,  The.  Elisabeth  Woodbridge.  Atlantic. 
Old  Age,  Disappearance  of.  Lillie  H.  French  .  Century. 
Painting,  Two  Ways  of.  Kenyon  Cox  ....  Scribner. 
Panama  and  the  Parallels  of  Latitude.  C.  W. 

Williams Review  of  Reviews. 

Playwright,  The,  and  the  Box  Office.  David  Belasco.  Century. 
Poverty,  The  Abolition  of.  J.  H.  Hollander  .  .  Atlantic. 
President,  Pursuing  the.  George  K.  Turner  .  .  McClure. 
Primary,  The  Direct.  Arthur  W.  Dunn  .  .  Rev.  of  Revs. 
Public  Utilities,  How  the  Investment  Banker 

Investigates.  Edward  S.  Meade  ....  Lippincott. 

Publicity,  Art  in.  Louis  Baury Bookman. 

Railroading,  High  Cost  of.  B.  F.  Yoakum.  World's  Work. 
Reading  Zones  in  the  U.  S.  Grace  I.  Colbron  .  Bookman. 
Roads,  Good,  Profit  of.  L.  W.  Page  .  .  World's  Work. 
Roads,  The  Best,  at  Least  Cost.  J.  E. 

Pennybacker World's  Work. 

Roads  Worth  $35,000,000.  L.  I.  Hewes  .  World's  Work. 
Socialism  and  Its  Menace  :  The  Views  of 

President  Taft Century. 

Stamping  Machine  vs.  Postage  Stamp.  W.  B.  G. 

Wanklyn Review  of  Reviews. 

Terminal,  The  Modern.  W.  S.  Richardson  .  .  Scribner. 
Tunisian  Desert,  In  the.  Louise  C.  Hale  .  .  .  Harper. 
Twain,  Mark  — XII.  Albert  Bigelow  Paine  .  .  Harper. 
Venetian  Nights.  Elizabeth  R.  Pennell  ....  Atlantic. 
Walker,  Tom,  The  Devil  and.  J.  W.  Church 

and  Carlyle  Ellis World's  Work. 

Whistler,  The  Triumph  of.  Joseph  Pennell  .  Bookman. 
Whittier  Poems,  The  New.  Walter  Jen-old  .  .  Bookman. 
Woman  and  the  State.  Anna  G.  Spencer  ....  Forum. 
Women  — I.  Mabel  P.  Daggett  ....  Worlds'  Work. 


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ANNOUNCEMENTS  OF  FALL,  BOOKS. 


The  length  of  THE  DIAL'S  annual  list  of  books 
announced  for  Fall  publication,  contained  in  our  last 
(Sept.  16)  issue,  made  it  necessary  to  carry  over  to 
the  present  number  the  following  entries,  comprising 
the  full  list  of  Text-Books  and  Juvenile  announce- 
ments of  the  season. 

BOOKS  FOB  SCHOOL  AND  COLLEGE. 

The  Calculus,  by  Ellery  William  Davis,  assisted  by 
William  Charles  Brenke,  with  the  editorial  coopera- 
tion of  Earle  Raymond  Hedrick. — Mineralogy,  by 
Alexander  Hamilton  Phillips. — A  College  Textbook 
of  Quantitative  Analysis,  by  Herbert  R.  Moody. — 
A  Laboratory  Manual  for  Dietetics,  by  Mrs.  M.  S. 
Rose. — Electric  Lighting,  by  William  Suddards 
Franklin,  $2.50. — The  Essentials  of  International 
Public  Law,  by  Amos  Shartle  Hershey. — Public 
Speaking,  Principles  and  Practice,  by  I.  L.  Winter. 
— Thought  Building  in  Composition,  by  Robert  W. 
Neal. — The  Art  and  Business  of  Story  Writing,  by 
W.  B.  Pitkin. — Representative  English  Comedies, 
Vol.  II.,  The  Later  Contemporaries  of  Shakespeare, 
by  Charles  Mills  Gayley. — Teachers'  Manual  of  Bi- 
ology, by  M.  A.  and  A.  N.  Bigelow. — Alternating 
Currents  and  Alternating  Current  Machinery,  by 
Dugald  C.  Jackson  and  John  Price  Jackson,  new 
editi6n. — Elementary  Biology,  by  James.  Edward 
Peabody  and  Arthur  Ellsworth  Hunt,  Part  L, 
Plants,  Part  II.,  Animals  and  Human. — Manual  of 
Chemistry,  by  William  Conger  Morgan  and  James 
A.  Lyman. — Applied  Arithmetic,  by  E.  L.  Thurs- 
ton. — A  First  Book  in  German,  by  E.  W.  Bagster- 
Collins. — A  Source  Book  in  Ancient  History,  by 
George  Willis  Botsford  and  Lillie  Shaw  Botsford. — 
The  Elements  of  Musical  Theory,  arranged  and 
compiled  by  Edward  J.  A.  Zeiner. — A  Song  Gar- 
land, compiled  by  J.  S.  Joannes. — The  Golden  Rule 
Series,  a  series  of  supplementary  readers,  by  E. 
Hershey  Sneath,  George  Hodges,  and  Edward  Law- 
rence Stevens. — Principles  of  Agriculture,  by  C.  A. 
Stebbins. — The  Continents  and  Their  People,  by 
James  Franklin  Chamberlain  and  Arthur  Henry 
Chamberlain,  new  vol.:  Asia. — European  Founda- 
tions of  American  History,  by  William  L.  Nida. — 
Stories  of  Greek  and  Roman  Gods  and  Heroes,  by 
Emilie  Kip  Baker. — Everychild's  Series,  new  vols.: 
A  Fairy  Book,  by  Kate  Forest  Oswell;  Stories 
Grandmother  Told,  by  Kate  Forest  Oswell. — When 
We  Were  Wee,  by  Martha  Young. — Great  Opera 
Stories,  by  Mrs.  Millicent  S.  Bender. — Historical 
Plays,  by  Grace  E.  Bird  and  Maud  Starling. — Non- 
sense Dialogues,  by  Mrs.  E.  E.  K.  Warner.  (Mac- 
millan  Co.) 

Capitalization,  a  book  on  corporation  finance,  by 
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Readings  in  American  Constitutional  History,  se- 
lected and  edited  by  Allen  Johnson. — Word  Mas- 
tery, a  course  in  phonetics  for  primary  grades,  by 
Florence  Akin,  illus. — English  for  Foreigners,  book 
II.,  by  Sara  R.  O'Brien,  illus. — The  Riverside  Read- 
ers, edited  by  James  H.  Van  Sickle  and  Wilhel- 
mina  Seegmiller,  assisted  by  Frances  Jenkins: 
Primer,  illus.  by  Ruth  Mary  Hallock,  30  cts.  net; 
First  Reader,  illus.  by  Maginel  Wright  Enright,  35 
cts.  net;  Second  Reader,  illus.  by  Clara  E.  Atwood, 
40  cts.  net;  Third  Reader,  illus.  by  Ruth  Mary  Hal- 
lock,  50  cts.  net;  Fourth  Reader,  illus.  by  Lucy 
Fitch  Perkins,  55  cts.  net;  Fifth  Reader,  illus.  by 
Lucy  Fitch  Perkins,  55  cts.  net. — The  Woods 
Hutchinson  Health  Series,  by  Woods  Hutchinson, 
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net;  Book  II.,  A  Handbook  of  Health,  illus.,  65  cts. 
net. — Riverside  Literature  Series,  new  vols.:  Ralph 
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cts.  net. — Speeches  by  Macaulay  and  Lincoln,  ed- 
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arranged  by  Charles  S.  Thomas;  Selections  from 
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(Houghton  Mifflin  Co.) 

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cient World,  by  George  S.  Goodspeed,  revised  by 
W.  S.  Ferguson  and  S.  P.  R.  Chadwick.  (Charles 
Scribner's  Sons.) 

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and  American  Eloquence,  by  Robert  I.  Fulton  and 
Thomas  C.  Trueblood. — A  Dramatic  Version  of 
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Professors  Duncan,  Beck,  and  Graves. — Middle  Eng- 
lish Humorous  Tales  in  Verse,  edited  by  George  H. 
McKnight. — Selected  Speeches  and  Addresses  of 


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Grammar. — Ingraham-Edgren  Spanish  Grammar, 
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They  Grow,  by  Ellen  Torelle.— Stories  of  Plant 
Life,  for  second  year  classes,  by  Florence  Bass,  re- 
vised and  newly  illus.— Anglo-Saxon  Riddles,  edited 
by  A.  J.  Wyatt.  (D.  C.  Heath  &  Co.) 

Questions  on  Shakespeare,  a  plan  of  study  in- 
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Teacher's  Companion  to  the  School  History  of  Eng- 
land, by  C.  R.  L.  Fletcher.  (Oxford  University 
Press.) 

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'Twas  the  Night  before  Christmas,  by  Clement  C. 
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BIOGRAPHY  AND  REMINISCENCES. 

Intimate  Memoirs  of  Napoleon  III.:  Personal  Remi- 
niscences of  the  Man  and  the  Emperor.  By 
Baron  D'Ambes;  edited  and  translated  by  A.  R. 
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$6.  net. 

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Life  and  Letters  of  John  Rlckman,  Lamb's  Friend, 
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trated, 8vo,  330  pages.  Houghton  Mifflin  Co. 
$3. 50  net. 

Footprints  of  Famous  Americans  in  Paris.  By  John 
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Fourteen  Years  of  Diplomatic  Life  in  Japan:  Leaves 
from  the  Diary  of  Baroness  Albert  d'Anethan; 
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trated in  photogravure,  etc.,  large  8vo,  471  pages. 
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The  Three  Brontes.  By  May  Sinclair.  Illustrated  in 
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Co.  $3.  net. 

General  W.  T.  Sherman  as  College  President:  A  Col- 
lection of  Letters,  Documents,  and  Other  Mate- 
rial, Chiefly  from  Private  Sources.  Collected  and 
edited  by  Walter  L.  Fleming,  Ph.D.  Illustrated, 
large  8vo,  399  pages.  Cleveland:  Arthur  H.  Clark 
Co.  $5.  net. 

The  Last  Legitimate  King  of  France,  Louis  XVII. 
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A  Polish  Exile  with  Napoleon:  Embodying  the  Let- 
ters of  Captain  Piontkowski  to  General  Sir  Rob- 
ert Wilson  and  Many  Documents  from  the  Lowe 
Papers,  etc.  By  G.  L.  de  St.  M.  Watson.  Illus- 
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Saint  Gregory  the  Great.  By  Sir  Henry  H.  Ho- 
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Lords  and  Ladles  of  the  Italian  Lakes.  By  Edg- 
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The  Empress  Josephine.  By  the  Baron  de  Meneval; 
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Lippincott  Co.  $2.50  net. 

Chelro's  Memoirs:  The  Reminiscences  of  a  Society 
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John  llniH-ock.  the  Picturesque  Patriot.  By  Lorenzo 
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Sun  Yat  Sen,  and  the  Awakening  of  China.  By 
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Just  Before  the  Dawn:  The  Life  and  Work  of  Nino- 
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Pilgrim  Life  in  the  Middle  Ages.  By  Sidney  Heath. 
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The  Crime  of  1812  and  Its  Retribution.  Translated 
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The  Posthumous  Essays  of  John  Churton  Collins. 
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The  Heroic  Age.  By  H.  Munro  Chadwick.  Illus- 
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History  of  English  Literature  from  "Beowulf"  to 
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The  Works  of  Mr.  Francis  Rabelais,  Doctor  in  Phys- 
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SORDELLO. 


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CONTENTS. 


THE  CAUSE 275 

ANOTHER    LITERARY    MARE'S-NEST.     Charles 

Leonard  Moore 277 

CASUAL  COMMENT 278 

A  year's  literary  companionship.  —  The  librarian's 
human  side. — Vagabondage  and  the  literary  tem- 
perament.— The  Muse  in  bonds.  —  The  technique  of 
Futurist  literature.  —  He  who  rides  may  read. — 
Pierre  Loti's  orientalism.  —  An  important  Greek 
manuscript. — The  librarian's  natural  ally.  —  The 
flippant  note  in  American  literature. — Poetry  in  the 
soul  of  the  Chinese  tradesman. — Australia's  literary 
likings.  —  A  tactful  hint.  —  The  perennial  praise  of 
transcendentalism. 

COMMUNICATIONS 282 

More  about  the  Story  of  Old  Fort  Dearborn.    J.  Sey- 
mour Currey. 
Early  Prejudices  against  Great  Literature.    Gilmore 

Iden. 
The  Uses  of  "  Classical  Rubbish."  James  P.  Kelley. 

GEORGE    MEREDITH     HIMSELF.       George    Eoy 

Elliott 284 

REGENERATING  HUMANITY.     Waldo  E.  Browne  287 
MARK  TWAIN.    Percy  F.  Bicknell 290 

ENGLAND  AND  THE  AMERICAN  REVOLUTION. 

Laurence  M.  Larson 292 

MAN  AND  CIVILIZATION.    Llewellyn  Jones  .     .    .293 

BRIEFS  ON  NEW  BOOKS 295 

The  lure  of  literature  from  a  bookseller's  stand- 
point.—  The  latest  Life  of  Napoleon's  first  wife. — 
Some  Salem  ship-owners  of  the  olden  time.  —  A 
Nietzschean  conception  of  Paternalism  in  govern- 
ment.—  An  English  outline  of  German  literature. 
—  Up  from  the  slums.  —  A  treatise  on  Comparative 
Anatomy.  —  American  associations  in  Paris. 

BRIEFER  MENTION 298 

NOTES 299 

LIST  OF  NEW  BOOKS  .  300 


THE  CAUSE. 
11  It  is  the  cause,  it  is  the  cause,  my  soul." 

The  Cause  is  looking  up.  It  is  being  advo- 
cated in  the  Fiji  Islands,  and  has  won  the 
adherence  of  Mr.  R.  H.  Williams  of  Beacon 
(significant  name!),  Iowa,  of  Mr.  D.  W.  La 
Rue  of  East  Stroudsberg,  Pennsylvania,  and  of 
several  other  doubtless  equally  estimable  per- 
sons. We  gather  these  interesting  and  hopeful 
facts  from  the  last  number  of  the  "  Simplified 
Spelling  Bulletin,"  which  is  the  official  organ 
of  the  Cause,  and  which  will  be  sent  regularly 
to  any  address  for  an  annual  subscription  of  ten 
cents.  Another  cheering  announcement  is  that 
the  Chicago  Numismatic  Society  has  seen  the 
light — a  flash-light,  in  this  case,  which  took  a 
"fotograf  "  of  the  numismatists  assembled  at  a 
banquet,  where  the  menu  provided  them  with 
roast  spring  "lam"  and  "mince  sauce."  Of 
even  more  thrilling  interest  is  the  announcement 
that  a  student  at  Columbia  University  in  the 
department  of  chemistry  has  published  his  doc- 
toral dissertation  in  simplified  spelling.  His 
subject  is  "Derivativs  of  4-Hydroxy-5-Nitro- 
Quinazoline,"  which  seems  to  us  a  fairly  harm- 
less application  of  the  reform. 

The  author  of  the  above  diverting  essay  may 
be  as  yet  unknown  to  fame,  but  that  cannot  be 
said  of  Sir  William  Ramsay,  who  is,  we  believe, 
now  in  Texas  as  a  foreign  representative  of 
"siens"  at  the  inaugural  ceremonies  of  the  Rice 
Institute.  He  has  recently,  it  seems,  addressed 
himself  to  the  readers  of  an  English  educational 
journal  in  the  following  cabalistic  terms :  "Let 
every  teecher  hu  reedz  theez  lienz  ov  mien  tri 
and  convins  herself  hou  eezy  iz  this  nyu  speling. 
...  It  is  the  jeneraishonz  ov  children  tu  cum 
hu  apeel  tu  us  tu  saiv  them  from  the  aflicshon 
which  we  hav  endyuerd  and  forgoten."  We  like 
particularly  that  weird  word  "jeneraishonz," 
which  must  be  a  joy  forever  to  anyone  who  can 
remember  how  to  spell  it.  But  as  we  scan  this 
brief  quotation  of  forty-three  words,  of  which 
nearly  two- thirds  are  unknown  to  the  dictionary, 
and  try  to  read  it  aloud,  giving  the  letters  the 
values  that  we  instinctively  attach  to  them,  we 
discover  that  just  one-half  of  the  deformed 
spellings  indicate  a  pronunciation  which  is  dis- 
tinctly not  that  of  the  cultivated  user  of  the 
English  language.  For  example,  how  does 


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the  writer  reconcile  his  "siens,"  "lienz,"  and 
"mien"?  And  how  are  his  readers  to  know 
that  the  initial  vowels  in  "apeel"  and  "aflic- 
shon"  are  short?  The  Cause  is  welcome  to 
these  phonetic  vagaries,  but  they  do  not  exactly 
commend  it  to  the  judicious. 

Elsewhere,  Sir  William  Ramsay  is  quoted  as 
saying  :  "  It  is  objected  that  with  the  new  sys- 
tem people  would  not  all  spell  the  same  way. 
But  does  it  really  matter  so  long  as  what  is 
written  is  understandable  ?  "  We  should  think 
"decipherable"  a  better  adjective,  but  let  that 
pass.  The  result  at  which  Sir  William  hints 
is  amplified  in  the  leading  article  of  the  "  Bul- 
letin," which  opens  as  follows :  "  One  of  the 
delites  of  a  modernized  English  spelling  will  be 
the  new  era  of  discovery  that  it  will  open  to  the 
readers  of  letters  and  books.  They  will  often 
find  out,  for  the  first  time  in  their  lives,  how 
the  writers  whose  books  they  read,  and  how 
their  correspondents  whose  voices  they  have 
not  heard,  pronounce  their  words.  At  present 
readers  have  to  (jess  how  the  authors  pronounce. 
No  doubt  they  gess  correctly,  in-  most  cases  ;  but 
they  do  not  know"  The  writer  of  this  aston- 
ishing plea  says  truly,  later  on,  that  "  a  vista 
is  opend."  "  O,  vistas  infinite  unfold  !  "  says 
Brand  to  the  Dean,  who  is  expounding  to  him 
the  true  philosophy  of  religion.  Hitherto,  we 
have  left  this  sort  of  license  to  the  amateurs  of 
dialect,  who  have  alternately  bored  and  puzzled 
us  to  the  limit  of  endurance,  but  we  have  not 
had  to  read  them.  In  the  good  time  coming,  it 
seems,  everybody  who  writes  will  devise  for  his 
words  spellings  ad  hoc,  in  accordance  with  some 
occult  phonetic  system  of  his  own.  By  way  of 
illustrating  the  nice  derangement  of  epitaphs 
which  will  follow  from  this  practice,  we  are  given 
the  following  examples  :  "  isyu  (ishu,  ishyu)," 
and  "  tordz  (toewerdz,  toerdz)."  We  should 
doubtless  also  get "  ishoe,"  "  toardz,"  and  many 
others,  wondering  all  the  time  what  the  writer 
was  trying  to  say.  The  example  of  the  ingen- 
ious person  who  showed  that  "  scimitar  "  might 
be  spelled  in  we  forget  how  many  ways  stands 
as  a  solemn  warning  against  indulgence  in  this 
happy-go-lucky  practice,  which  is  gravely  recom- 
mended to  us  as  a  saver  of  time  for  school  chil- 
dren and  an  economizer  of  energy  for  the  adult 
brain. 

In  an  unguarded  moment,  the  Bulletin  ad- 
mits that  the  Cause  "  invites  humor,  and  indeed 
makes  it  inevitable."  Its  sponsors,  we  are  told, 
"  have  more  fun  with  spelling,  simplified  and 
unsimplified,  than  any  other  class  of  human 


beings."  An  exhibit  of  this  playful  spirit  is 
made  in  several  instances.  Does  the  man  who 
issued  the  Edict  of  Oyster  Bay  six  years  ago 
need  to  be  defended  from  criticism  as  a  back- 
slider because  his  "African  Game  Trails"  is 
written  in  dictionary  words,  the  defence  is 
found  in  obedience  to  the  scriptural  injunction, 
"Authors,  obey  your  publishers  in  the  Lord, 
lest  they  turn  again  and  rend  you."  This  is 
fairly  side-splitting.  The  word  "manoeuvres" 
provides  an  opportunity  for  much  merry  jest- 
ing. "If  ten  thousand  American  soldiers  were 
opposed  by  twenty  French  soldiers,  and  if  the 
victory  of  the  American  soldiers  depended 
on  their  pronouncing  manoeuvres  just  as  the 
twenty  Frenchmen  would,  the  whole  ten  thou- 
sand would  be  left  gloriously  ded  on  the  field  of 
battle,  while  the  twenty  heroic  Frenchmen  would 
roll  their  tungs  in  triumf."  It  seems  that  even 
Webster  does  not  take  enough  liberties  with  this 
word,  because  he  feebly  compromises  on  "man- 
euver," whereas  the  free-born  American  calls  it 
"  manoover."  If  this  be  so,  it  is  a  grievous  fault, 
paralleled  only  by  the  awful  example  of  the  New 
York  "  Evening  Post "  when  it  lapsed  from  grace 
in  the  spelling  of  "  pronunciamiento "  shortly 
after  Mr.  Godkin's  death.  To  the  charge  that  the 
spelling  reformers  are  only  "  an  unauthorized 
group  of  persons,"  we  have  a  crushing  rejoinder 
in  the  shape  of  a  quotation  from  an  English 
scholar  anent  Julius  Caesar:  "The  oldest  part 
of  the  Tower  is  said  to  have  been  built  by  Julius 
Caesar  without  any  authority."  Also  the  Pilgrim 
Fathers  and  the  Signers  and  the  Abolitionists 
were  "unauthorized"  groups  of  reformers. 
More  than  usually  ponderous  is  the  sarcasm 
expended  upon  a  university  teacher  of  English 
who,  when  asked  if  he  had  read  the  literature 
of  the  Simplified  Spelling  Board,  replied  irrele- 
vantly :  "  No,  I  would  rather  read  '  Cymbeline.' " 
This  leads  to  an  array  of  quotations  from  the 
play,  all  in  the  lawless  orthography  of  1600, 
such  as  the  following: 

"  When  shall  I  hear  all  through  ?     This  fierce 
abridgment "  [thru], 

or  as  this : 

"  Our  very  eyes, 
Are  sometimes  like  our  Judgements,  blinde." 

Another  quotation  from  "  Cymbeline  "  seems  to 
us  more  apt,  as  a  suggestive  commentary  upon 
the  Cause  as  a  whole,  than  any  of  those  given. 
It  is  brief  and  to  the  point :  "  The  game  is  up." 
But  it  is  perhaps  too  much  to  suppose  that  the 
game  will  be  really  "up"  as  long  as  the  subsidy 
holds  out. 


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ANOTHER  LITERARY  MARE'S-NEST. 

Alas  for  the  ingenuity  of  man  !  Simple  truth, 
plain  fact,  recorded  history  do  not  please  him.  He 
must  go  behind  the  returns.  He  must  suspect,  sur- 
mise, invent,  and  out  of  the  accepted  data  of  the  past 
weave  himself  a  crazy-quilt  pattern  of  his  own.  He 
is  not  going  to  be  deceived  by  the  disinterested  liars 
of  old  times.  He  knows  their  business  a  great  deal 
better  than  they  did  themselves.  He  can  see  through 
the  millstones  or  milestones  of  the  past,  and  they  are 
not  what  they  are  supposed  to  be. 

The  standard,  the  paragon,  of  critical  delusions 
woven  by  over-smartness,  —  the  most  prodigious 
fabric  ever  built  without  foundation, — is  the  theory 
of  the  Baconian  authorship  of  Shakespeare.  Against 
probability,  against  evidence,  against  certainty,  it 
persists.  James  Spedding,  who  gave  thirty  years 
to  the  study  of  Bacon's  life  and  works,  for  the  sole 
purpose  of  rehabilitating  and  aggrandizing  his  hero, 
said  of  this  theory :  "  I  see  no  reason  to  suppose  that 
Shakespeare  did  not  write  the  plays.  But  if  some- 
body else  did,  then  I  think  I  am  in  a  position  to  say 
that  it  was  not  Lord  Bacon."  I  have  often  thought 
that  the  French  have  wasted  a  good  chance  for  a 
similar  controversy  in  regard  to  Moliere.  Why  do 
they  not  pool  their  issues,  as  it  were,  —  form  an 
intellectual  Trust  and  put  forth  the  claim  to  an  all- 
accomplished  genius  in  the  person  of  Pascal  ?  Pascal 
was  the  most  learned  and  the  most  variously  gifted 
man  of  his  time  in  Europe.  He  was  a  metaphysician, 
mathematician,  inventor,  master  of  polite  letters, 
and  pupil  of  polite  society.  His  father  was  a  Judge, 
and  he  was  brought  up  in  ease  and  in  the  company 
of  the  best  minds  of  his  period.  What  is  more  likely 
than  that  he  wrote  the  Molieresque  comedies  ?  That 
he  had  the  power  to  do  so  is  evident ;  for,  while  there 
is  nothing  to  show  that  Lord  Bacon  could  have  writ- 
ten a  single  page  of  Shakespeare,  the  author  of  the 
"Provincial  Letters"  and  the  "Pense'es"  had  the 
wit,  the  perception  of  character,  the  creative  gift, 
the  profound  philosophy  necessary  to  have  written 
the  plays  ascribed  to  Moliere.  And  the  latter, — 
how  does  it  stand  with  him  ?  How  is  it  possible  that 
the  son  of  a  vulgar  upholsterer,  a  strolling  actor 
battered  and  beaten  about  the  provinces  for  fifteen 
years, — how  is  it  possible  that  he  could  have  ac- 
quired the  learning,  the  knowledge  of  society,  the 
nobility  of  thought,  and  the  depth  of  philosophy 
which  the  comedies  display?  It  is  true  that  Pascal 
died  at  a  time  when  only  two  of  Moliere's  Parisian 
successes  had  been  produced;  but  it  is  easy  to  get 
around  that  difficulty.  We  have  only  to  suppose 
that  Pascal  wrote  the  rest  of  the  plays  before  and 
after  his  retirement  to  Port-Royal,  and  handed 
them  over  in  bulk  to  Moliere  to  be  brought  out  as 
occasion  required,  and  our  theory  is  right  and  tight 
enough.  That  the  French  have  not  allowed  such  a 
theory  to  form  and  get  headway,  while  the  English 
have  looked  on  stupified  at  the  Baconian  folly, 
would  seem  to  prove  that  the  former,  beneath  their 
surface  extravagances,  are  entirely  sane,  while  the 


latter  under  their  veneer  of  common  sense  are  es- 
sentially eccentric.  And  one  form  of  English,  and 
still  more  American,  eccentricity  is  the  excessive 
reverence  paid  to  learning,  and  the  disposition  to  rely 
upon  the  acquirer  of  information  for  all  other  good 
things.  If  we  could  only  realize  that,  as  far  as  lit- 
erature at  least  is  concerned,  mere  learning  is  the 
iron  pyrites,  the  fool's  gold,  and  natural  parts  are  the 
true  metal,  then  there  would  be  an  end  of  such  delu- 
sions as  the  Baconian  theory. 

But  let  us  leave  the  tormentors  of  Shakespeare 
to  their  fate,  and  turn  to  another  "question"  which 
seems  to  be  looming  up.  Emily  Bronte  is  the 
Sphinx  of  literature.  A  spirit  so  removedly  re- 
served, so  profoundly  proud,  yet  so  touched  with 
tenderness, — her  like  can  scarcely  be  found  among 
the  daughters  of  men.  She  was  brave  to  temerity ; 
she  stood  up  to  meet  her  death.  And  her  work  is 
not  merely  Amazon  work  —  it  is  man's  work.  Every 
epithet  which  Matthew  Arnold  instinctively  applied 
to  her  when  he  said  that  her  soul 

"  Knew  no  fellow  for  might, 
Passion,  vehemence,  grief, 
Daring,  since  Byron  died," 

testifies  to  this  male  quality  in  her. 

Accordingly,  some  years  ago  a  Mr.  Leyland  put 
forth  a  book  advocating  the  claim  of  Branwell 
Bronte  to  the  authorship  of  "Wuthering  Heights." 
Undoubtedly  there  is  a  good  deal  of  Branwell  in 
the  book.  His  experiences,  his  letters,  and  recorded 
ravings  all  show  that  he  was,  or  thought  he  was,  a 
close  kinsman  to  Heathcliff e,  for  whom  he  must  have 
served  as  a  partial  model.  But  there  is  absolutely 
nothing  to  prove  that  he  had  any  real  literary  power. 
And  his  boastfulness  was  such  that  if  he  had  had 
any  direct  hand  in  the  book,  he  would  have  made 
the  welkin  ring  with  his  claims.  So  Mr.  Leyland's 
revelations  obtained  no  credence. 

A  book  rather  portentously  entitled  "The  Key  to 
the  Bronte  Works,"  by  Mr.  John  Malham-Dembleby, 
has  recently  appeared.  In  it,  with  a  great  show  of 
parallel  citations  and  of  labelled  "Critical  Methods," 
Mr.  Malham-Dembleby  seeks  to  show  that  Charlotte 
Bronte  was  the  real  author  of  "  Wuthering  Heights." 
We  hardly  think  that  Mr.  Malham-Dembleby 's 
"critical  methods"  would  require  notice,  were  it 
not  that  his  book  displays  some  real  discoveries  as 
the  results  of  his  investigation.  One  of  the  most 
interesting  of  these  discoveries  is  the  unearthing  of 
a  romance  by  Eugene  Sue,  published  in  1850-51, 
apparently  founded  on  the  occurrences  in  the  He"ger 
household  in  Brussels,  and  showing  that  the  relations 
of  M.  He*ger,  Madame  He*ger,  and  Charlotte  Bronte 
must  have  been  public  property  on  the  continent 
at  that  date.  This  work  of  gossip,  however,  has  no 
bearing  on  the  authorship  of  "Wuthering  Heights." 
The  other  discovery  may  have  some  such  bearing. 
This  is  in  the  shape  of  a  tourist's  guide-book  to  York- 
shire written  by  Frederick  Montagu,  in  which  Mr. 
Malham-Dembleby  professes  to  find  the  germs  of 
some  of  the  scenes  and  characters  of  both  "  Wuther- 
ing Heights"  and  "Jane  Eyre."  Granting  the 


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similarities,  it  is  possible  to  reason  quite  differently 
than  he  does  about  them.  Books  were  scarce  in 
that  Haworth  parsonage,  and  it  would  seem  prob- 
able that  the  home-loving  Emily,  who  pined  in 
spirit  when  away  from  the  moors,  should  have  been 
the  one  to  pore  over  this  Yorkshire  guide,  rather 
than  the  errant  and  city-loving  Charlotte.  And  as 
"Wuthering  Heights"  was  unquestionably  written 
before  "Jane  Eyre,"  Charlotte  may  have  merely 
followed  her  sister's  lead  and  taken  Montagu's  data 
at  second  hand. 

Apart  from  external  evidence,  of  which  there  is 
plenty,  there  are  four  great  reasons  which  must  neg- 
ative Charlotte  Bronte's  authorship  of  "  Wuthering 
Heights."  The  first  of  these  is  the  character  of 
Emily  Bronte,  which  we  have  glanced  at  above. 
Was  she  the  being  to  descend  to  the  level  of  a  com- 
mon cheat,  to  deck  herself  in  borrowed  plumes,  to 
go  forth  to  the  world  as  an  impostor  ?  The  thing  is 
incredible.  And  if  she  had  done  so,  would  Charlotte, 
herself  a  scorner  of  meanness  and  deception,  have 
kept  on  loving  and  revering  her  during  her  life  ? 
Would  she,  after  Emily's  death,  have  reared  for  her 
a  monument  in  the  noble  and  spirited  figure  of 
Shirley  Keeldar  ?  Human  nature  is  not  built  in  that 
way.  Charlotte  Bronte  was  not  wanting  in  self- 
assurance.  She  could  hold  her  opinion  of  herself 
against  others.  She  retorted  sharply  on  Lewes  when 
he  implied  that  she  had  a  great  deal  to  learn  from 
Jane  Austen.  But  every  line  that  she  wrote  about 
Emily  testifies  not  merely  to  a  sisterly  affection  but 
to  an  admiration  of  almost  startled  wonder.  She 
never  wrote  about  Anne  Bronte  in  any  such  terms. 

The  poems  constitute  a  second  obstacle  to  Char- 
lotte's assumption  of  the  novel.  Mr.  Malham- 
Dembleby  does  not  pretend  to  claim  Emily's  for 
her  sister,  —  which,  in  view  of  the  tame,  ladylike, 
colorless  character  of  Charlotte's  verse,  is  prudent. 
Nearly  all  of  Emily's  pieces  are  at  least  touched  with 
the  divine  fire,  and  four  or  five  of  them  stand  by 
themselves  in  literature.  They  are  and  will  be  a 
part  of  all  anthologies,  and  are  so  great  that  were 
Emily  really  robbed  of  "  Wuthering  Heights  "  it 
would  not  seriously  lower  her  intellectual  place.  Of 
course  it  is  a  matter  for  critical  opinion,  how  far  the 
authorship  of  the  poems  makes  valid  the  authorship 
of  the  novel.  To  me  they  seem  to  bear  the  same 
stamp.  They  are  bone  and  flesh  and  blood  of  one 
being.  At  the  very  least,  they  indicate  that  Emily 
could  have  written  the  novel.  Now  there  is  a  cloud 
of  witnesses  to  prove  that  all  three  of  the  girls  were 
busy  writing  stories  from  their  childhood  up.  And 
M.  Heger  thought  that  Emily's  prose  themes  were 
superior  to  Charlotte's.  Anne  Bronte,  though  she 
had  considerably  less  leisure  than  Emily,  left  two 
fair-sized  novels.  If  "  Wuthering  Heights  "  is  taken 
from  Emily,  what  did  she  write  ? 

The  characters  of  Heathcliffe  and  Rochester  are 
enough  in  themselves  to  proclaim  the  separate 
authorship  of  the  two  novels.  If  Charlotte  Bronte, 
with  her  prentice  hand,  carved  the  black  statue  of 
Heathcliffe,  faultless  in  design,  unflawed  in  execu- 


tion, and  then  in  full  practice  put  together  the  sham- 
bling, uncertain  workmanship  of  Rochester,  she  made 
a  more  sudden  fall  than  any  other  known  artist. 
Heathcliffe  is  all  of  a  piece,  —  tragic,  intense,  true 
to  the  conception  from  first  word  to  the  last.  He 
might  have  stepped  out  of  a  great  Elizabethan  play. 
Rochester  is  mostly  melodramatic,  and  at  times  he 
is  almost  comic.  He  is  a  woman's  conception  of  a 
strong  man.  In  fact,  the  petticoat  is  not  far  away 
from  any  of  Charlotte's  male  characters.  It  peeps 
out  in  Mr.  Helstone  and  the  Moores,  and  Paul 
Emanuel  is  entirely  wrapped  up  in  it.  Charlotte  was 
as  intensely  womanly  as  her  sister  was  male.  All 
her  novels  are  saved  by  the  depth  and  splendor  of 
her  female  characters.  On  the  contrary,  the  women 
in  "  Wuthering  Heights  "  are  hardly  more  than 
despicable. 

Lastly,  Emily  and  Charlotte  set  the  seal  of  their 
respective  natures  on  the  prose  style  of  their  books. 
Emily's  prose  is  bare,  naked  of  ornament,  interpos- 
ing no  veil  of  words  between  her  meaning  and  the 
reader's  mind.  Even  her  descriptive  passages  are 
of  the  shortest,  —  a  sentence  or  two,  a  hint  or  sug- 
gestion rather  than  a  deliberate  piece  of  painting. 
Charlotte,  on  the  contrary,  is  rich  and  full  and  vari- 
ous. Her  books  are  strewn  over  with  purple  patches. 
In  their  rich  efflorescence  they  are  like  the  Brazilian 
woods  where,  it  is  said,  if  you  twitch  a  liana  on  the 
borders  of  Bolivia,  the  President  at  Rio  will  feel  the 
movement.  She  loves  words  and  images  for  their 
own  sake,  and  she  deals  with  them  superbly.  Now 
it  is  not  impossible  that  one  and  the  same  author 
should  command  these  two  styles;  but  where  this 
has  been  so,  it  has  been  at  the  extremes  of  a  long 
life.  And  the  instinct  for  wreaking  the  thought  on 
expression  has  always  corne  first.  If  Charlotte 
wrote  "  Wuthering  Heights  "  she  must  have  been 
dowered  with  austerity  and  restraint  in  the  begin- 
ning, and  then  very  quickly  forgot  these  qualities. 

In  spite  of  "  The  Key  to  the  Bronte  Works  "  we 
fancy  that  the  picture,  which  has  so  impressed  the 
imagination  of  the  world,  of  the  three  girls  of  genius, 
"  mewing  their  mighty  youth  "  in  the  lonely  York- 
shire parsonage,  from  whence  two  of  them,  at  least, 
were  to  rise  in  eagle  wheelings  visible  to  all  the 
world,  will  long  remain  unaltered  and  unobscured. 
CHARLES  LEONARD  MOORE. 


CASUAL  COMMENT. 


A  YEAR'S  LITERARY  COMPANIONSHIP,  the  devo- 
tion of  at  least  a  part  of  one's  daily  reading  time 
for  twelve  months  to  one  great  book,  or  to  one  great 
author,  will  not  be  without  permanent  results  to 
the  reader.  A  man  is  known  by  the  company  he 
keeps.  The  president  of  Columbia  University  the 
other  day  gave  this  advice  to  an  audience  of  under- 
graduates: "Resolve  to  pass  the  year  in  company 
with  some  high  and  noble  character."  Then  fol- 
lowed suggestions  as  to  the  different  works  of  lit- 
erature likely  to  suit  different  temperaments  and 


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moods,  ranging  over  some  of  the  classics  of  a  more 
or  less  distant  past.  But  not  every  one  can  prevail 
on  himself  to  cut  loose  from  the  fascinations  of  cur- 
rent thought  and  its  manifold  expression  in  literary 
form.  The  volumes  of  Gibbon's  'k  Rome  "  are  pushed 
impatiently  aside  in  favor  of  Professor  McMaster's 
or  Dr.  Rhodes's  latest  continuation  of  our  own 
history;  Masson's  "Milton,"  Carlyle's  "Frederick," 
and  even  Boswell's  "Johnson"  prove  less  imme- 
diately inviting  than  the  lives  and  letters  and  rem- 
iniscences of  those  modern  celebrities  whom  one 
has  either  actually  seen  and  known  or  at  least  felt 
keenly  interested  in.  The  reader,  unwilling  to 
follow  President  Butler's  advice  exactly  as  given, 
may  yet  find  in  current  literature,  in  the  books  of 
this  present  season,  not  a  few  "high  and  noble 
characters"  in  whose  company  to  pass  the  year. 
The  two  substantial  posthumous  volumes  of  John 
Bigelow's  "Retrospections"  will  furnish  inspiring 
reading  matter  for  one's  spare  moments  through 
the  coming  winter  and  beyond.  Mark  Twain,  too,  is 
one  with  whom  a  year's  leisure  hours  can  profitably 
be  passed  —  in  the  three  rich  volumes  of  Mr.  Paine's 
admirable  biography.  George  Meredith's  letters, 
also,  offer  opportunity  for  many  half-hours  of  com- 
munion with  a  master-mind.  And,  without  going 
outside  this  deservedly  popular  class  of  books,  one 
can  en  joy  ably  and  profitably  linger  for  months  over 
such  works  as  Mr.  George  Haven  Putnam's  biog- 
raphy of  his  father,  and  Mr.  James  K.  Hosmer's 
"Last  Leaf"  —  a  few  pages  at  a  time.  The  em- 
barrassment is  one  of  riches,  in  respect  to  books  for 
companionship,  and  of  poverty,  with  most  of  us,  in 
respect  to  available  half-hours  or  quarter-hours  to 
give  to  that  companionship. 

•          •          • 

THE  LIBRARIAN'S  HUMAN  SIDE  is  the  side  that 
probably  stands  most  in  need  of  development.  The 
professional,  bibliographic,  bibliothecal  side  will 
commonly  take  care  of  itself,  and  do  it  so  well  that 
the  librarian,  unless  he  be  on  his  guard,  will  soon 
become  conspicuously  "  lop-sided."  Some  sensible 
remarks  on  this  head  are  reported  in  the  current 
"Library  Notes  and  News  "  of  the  Minnesota  Public 
Library  Commission,  from  Miss  Flora  B.  Roberts, 
presiding  genius  of  the  Superior  (Wis.)  Public 
Library.  Always  timely,  and  seldom  sufficiently 
heeded,  are  such  reminders  and  counsels  as  these  to 
library  workers:  ''Our  work  is  not  automatic;  a 
book  read  enters  into  the  life  of  the  reader,  whether 
it  be  the  heart  life,  the  intellectual  life,  or  the  play 
life.  The  book  itself  has  come  from  the  author,  pul- 
sating with  his  life.  We  are  the  go-betweens,  and 
in  order  to  give  the  right  book  to  the  right  person, 
we  must  be  human,  with  keenness  of  mind,  and  much 
sympathy  and  charity  of  spirit.  Were  we  to  reduce 
our  circulation  of  books  to  the  automatic  stamping 
of  certain  dates  in  certain  places,  and  certain  schemes 
of  filing  the  cards,  we  might  better  invent  a  slot  ma- 
chine for  the  work  ;  it  would  be  cheaper.  But  we 
are  dealing  in  human  stuff,  and  we  cannot  truly 
know  our  public  without  becoming  a  part  of  that 


public.  Therefore  I  say,  join  clubs,  accept  social 
invitations,  pay  calls,  join  a  church  if  your  religious 
convictions  are  in  sympathy  with  church  organiza- 
tions, serve  on  committees,  make  addresses  when 
asked  —  get  asked  sometimes.  If  you  see  a  need  of 
some  certain  work  in  the  town,  take  the  initiative 
yourself,  even  if  it  has  nothing  to  do  with  the 
library."  Clearly,  this  librarian  is  convinced  that 
though  nickel-in-the-slot  restaurants  and  weighing- 
machines  and  music-boxes  may  serve  a  useful  office, 
the  nickel-in-the-slot  library  has  no  place  in  this 
world  of  living  and  breathing  and  loving  and  hating 

human  beings. 

•     •     • 

VAGABONDAGE  AND  THE  LITERARY  TEMPERA- 
MENT find  themselves  not  seldom  united  in  the  same 
person,  perhaps  on  somewhat  the  same  principle 
that  causes  extremes  to  meet.  Casanova  and  George 
Borrow  and  Sir  Richard  Burton  and  Josiah  Flynt, 
born  tramps,  all  of  them,  each  in  his  own  kind,  were 
as  skilled  in  the  narration  of  their  wandering  adven- 
tures as  they  were  happy  in  the  knack  of  encounter- 
ing them.  But  when  a  man  of  books  and  studies, 
like  the  late  Professor  Walter  Wyckoff,  takes  to 
tramping  (in  an  episodical  way)  for  the  sake  of  the 
material  it  may  offer  for  literary  or  social-study  pur- 
poses, rather  than  from  an  inborn  love  of  the  open 
road,  the  telling  of  the  story  afterward  is  likely  to 
lack  some  of  the  zest  that  animates  the  pages  of  the 
tramp-author,  as  distinguished  from  the  author- 
tramp.  This  difference  in  style  between  the  two  is 
well  pointed  out  by  an  anonymous  tramp  printer 
who  narrates  his  adventures  in  "The  Saturday 
Evening  Post."  He  says:  "That  winter  I  read 
some  articles  in  a  magazine  written  by  a  college 
professor  who  had  gone  tramping  to  find  out  how 
it  really  felt  to  be  a  laboring  man.  His  narra- 
tive struck  me  as  odd,  for  he  never  knew  where  to 
turn  his  hand  for  a  bite  to  eat  when  he  was  hungry ; 
and  he  made  a  sort  of  world-problem  of  the  simple 
question  of  where  to  lie  down  and  sleep,  with  empty 
freight  cars  and  warm  roundhouses  and  convenient 
toolboxes  all  round  him!  In  the  light  of  my  own 
practical  experience  it  seemed  to  me  as  though  he 
was  an  academic  child  who  should  not  have  been 
permitted  to  go  out  into  the  world  alone.  One  other 
writer  I  read  with  a  different  interest.  He  was  a 
man  who  called  himself  Josiah  Flynt;  and  in  his 
description  of  hobo  life  I  found  no  room  for  criti- 
cism, for  he  knew  far  more  about  it  than  I  did.  He 
was  the  real  article  —  a  tramp  who  turned  writer 
rather  than  a  writer  who  experimented  in  being  a 
tramp.'' 

THE  MUSE  IN  BONDS,  whether  in  the  person  of  a 
Cervantes  in  durance  vile,  or  a  John  Bunyan  impris- 
oned for  unlicenced  preaching,  or  an  Oscar  Wilde 
pining  away  in  Reading  Gaol,  must  always  excite 
sympathy.  The  poem  (a  spontaneous  outpouring 
innocent  of  rhyme  and  metre)  that  has  lately  found 
its  way  into  print  from  the  pen  of  Mr.  Arthur 
Giovannitti,  thrown  into  jail  as  accessory  to  murder 


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in  connection  with  the  Lawrence  (Mass.)  mill  strike, 
shows  the  accused  to  be  a  man  of  fine  feeling  and 
strengthens  the  presumption  of  his  innocence  of  the 
crime  charged  against  him,  and  inclines  the  reader 
to  range  himself  on  the  side  of  Professors  Taussig 
and  Loeb  and  the  other  persons  of  prominence  and 
influence  who  have  protested  against  the  treatment 
to  which  he  and  his  companion  have  been  subjected, 
Of  course  the  poetic  gift  is  no  sufficient  warrant  of 
blameless  moral  character,  and  the  following  few 
lines  from  "The  Walker"  are  here  quoted  merely 
for  their  poignant,  pathetic  quality,  their  haunting 
appeal,  their  touching  picture  of  one  shut  out  from 
the  "sunlit  highways  of  life." 
"  I  hear  footsteps  over  my  head  all  night. 
They  come  and  they  go.  Again  they  come  and  again  they 

go  all  night. 

They  come  one  eternity  in  four  paces  and  they  go  one 
eternity  in  four  paces,  and  between  the  coming  and  the 
going  there  are  Silence  and  the  Night  and  the  Infinite. 
For  infinite  are  the  nine  feet  of  a  prison  cell,  and  endless 
is  the  march  of  him  who  walks  between  the  yellow 
brick  wall  and  the  red  iron  gate,  thinking  things  that 
cannot  be  chained  and  cannot  be  locked,  but  wander 
far  away  in  the  sunlit  world,  each  in  its  wild  pilgrimage 
after  its  destined  goal. 

"  I  have  heard  the  stifled  sobs  of  the  one  who  prays  with 
his  head  under  the  coarse  blanket  and  the  whisperings 
of  the  one  who  prays  with  his  forehead  on  the  hard, 
cold  stone  of  the  floor. 

"  And  I  have  heard,  most  terrible  of  all,  the  silence  of  two 
hundred  brains  all  possessed  by  one  single,  relentless, 
unforgiving,  desperate  thought. 

"  I  implore  you,  my  brother,  for  I  am  weary  of  the  long  vigil, 

weary  of  counting  your  steps,  and  heavy  with  sleep, 
Stop,  rest,  sleep,  my  brother,  for  the  dawn  is  well  nigh 
and  it  is  not  the  key  alone  that  can  throw  open  the  door." 

•     •     • 

THE   TECHNIQUE    OF    FUTURIST    LITERATURE,   as 

Signer  Marinetti  informs  the  waiting  world  through 
a  recent  manifesto,  will  be  distinguished  by  its  sim- 
plicity, its  elemental  strength,  its  primitive  natural- 
ness. Verbal  expression  will  be  reduced  to  its  lowest 
terms.  "It  is  undeniable,"  explains  this  ardent 
iconoclast,  "that  in  abolishing  the  adjective  and  the 
adverb  the  noun  will  regain  its  essential,  complete, 
and  characteristic  value."  The  devices  of  rhetoric 
are  an  abomination  to  him.  "For  that  reason,"  as 
the  London  "Chronicle"  quotes  him,  "I  have  re- 
course to  the  abstract  severity  of  mathematical  signs, 
which  are  useful  in  expressing  quantity  and  quality 
of  emotion  by  condensing  all  unnecessary  explana- 
tions and  avoiding  the  dangerous  folly  of  losing 
time  in  phraseological  corners  and  in  the  finicking 
works  of  the  tailor,  the  jeweler,  and  the  bootblack. 
Words  delivered  from  the  fetters  of  punctuation 
will  flash  against  one  another,  will  interlace  their 
various  forms  of  magnetism,  and  follow  the  uninter- 
rupted dynamics  of  force.  A  white  space  of  vary- 
ing length  will  indicate  to  the  reader  the  moments, 
also  of  varying  length,  when  intuition  rests  or  sleeps." 
Here  let  us  give,  from  the  Futurist's  pen,  an  example 
of  these  interlacing  forms  of  magnetism,  all  unfet- 


tered, of  course,  by  punctuation.  The  passage  de- 
scribes an  assault  on  a  Turkish  fort.  "  Towers  guns 
virility  flights  erection  telemetre  exstasy  toumbtoumb 
3  seconds  toumbtoumb  waves  smiles  laughs  plaff 
poaff  glouglouglouglou  hide-and-seek  crystals  vir- 
gins flesh  jewels  pearls  iodine  salts  bromide  skirts 
gas  liqueurs  bubbles  3  seconds  toumbtoumb  officer 
whiteness  telemetre  cross-fire  megaphone  sight-at- 
thousand-metres  all-men-to-left  enough  every-man- 
to-his-post  incline-7-degrees  splendour  jet  pierce 
immensity  azure  deflowering  onslaught 

alleys  cries  labyrinth  mattress  sobs  ploughing  desert 
bed  precision  telemetre  monoplane  cackling  theatre 
applause  monoplane  equals  balcony  rose  wheel  drum 
trepan  gad-fly  rout  Arabs  oxen  blood-colour  shambles 
wounds  refuge  oasis."  Who,  after  this,  will  ever 
care  to  read  those  effete  and  finicking  compositions, 
"The  Charge  of  the  Light  Brigade,"  or  "The  Siege 
of  Corinth,"  or  the  account,  in  "Childe  Harold,"  of 
the  battle  of  Waterloo,  or  any  similar  effusions  of 
the  anaemic  poets  of  the  past? 

HE  WHO  RIDES  MAY  READ — that  is,  if  he  rides  in 
a  street-car.  The  importance  of  this  obvious  truth 
so  impressed  itself  upon  a  speaker  at  the  late  meet- 
ing of  the  Wisconsin  Library  Association  that  he 
urged  the  placing  of  library  advertising  cards  in 
some  of  those  oblong  spaces  now  so  eagerly  bought 
up  by  business  men  who  are  convinced  of  the  expe- 
diency of  keeping  their  names  and  descriptions  or 
pictures  of  their  wares  before  the  eyes  of  the  trolley- 
travelling  public.  At  Menominee,  Michigan,  the  sug- 
gestion took  speedy  root  and  blossomed  in  the  shape 
of  sundry  inviting  placards  inserted  temporarily  and 
by  glad  permission  in  the  spaces  paid  for  by  certain 
commercial  houses  for  their  own  behoof  and  profit. 
And  the  profit  in  this  instance  was  expected  to  come 
from  the  mention  of  their  courtesy  on  the  library 
placards,  in  the  assurance  that  their  complaisance  in 
furthering  a  worthy  cause  would  work  them  no  harm 
in  the  public  estimation.  The  whole  of  this  inter- 
esting experiment  is  well  told  by  Miss  Lois  Amelia 
Spencer  of  the  Menominee  Public  Library  in  the 
"  Wisconsin  Library  Bulletin  "  of  July— August.  It 
is  too  early  to  give  results  of  the  experiment;  but, 
as  Miss  Spencer  says  in  conclusion,  "People  un- 
doubtedly read  the  advertisements  in  the  street-cars. 
If  they  need  to  be  reminded  of  the  public  library, 
isn't  it  the  ideal  time  and  place  to  do  it  when  they 
are  more  or  less  unoccupied  and  possibly  on  their 
way  to  its  part  of  the  town?  Because  it  seems  so 
logical  we  are  expecting  discernible  results." 

•          •          • 

PIERRE  LOTI'S  ORIENTALISM,  his  passion  for  and 
sympathy  with  the  Far  East,  colors  and  even,  one 
might  say,  with  a  change  of  metaphor,  saturates 
much  that  he  has  written.  In  the  course  of  his 
recent  New  York  visit  M.  Viaud  (Captain  Louis 
Marie  Julian  Viaud  will  be  recalled  as  the  name 
and  title  in  real  life  of  this  popular  author)  took 
occasion  to  say  :  "  My  enthusiasm  for  the  Orient  is 
inherent  within  me.  It  is  a  part  of  my  very  nature. 


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It  is  not  enough  that  I  can  see  what  Oriental  life  is, 
each  and  every  factor  of  it  strikes  an  answering 
chord  within  my  soul.  I  am  all  that  the  Oriental 
is,  and  I  am  it  by  nature,  just  as  he  is.  I  am  a 
mystic,  a  dreamer.  I  love  to  sit  and  contemplate, 
as  does  the  Oriental.  I  have  the  Oriental  sense  of 
the  beautiful  in  nature,  for  the  Oriental  spends  hours 
in  peaceful  communion  with  the  landscape  about 
him,  that  speaks  to  him  in  a  language  he  under- 
stands." Of  interest  was  the  visiting  Frenchman's 
assertion  that  "  the  literature  of  Japan  has  had 
practically  no  effect  on  the  literature  of  the  Occi- 
dent, because  we  can  not  fully  grasp  its  significance." 
In  perfect  accord  with  what  might  be  called  the 
upside-downness  of  things  in  the  antipodes  is  the 
common  people's  preference  for  poetry  to  prose. 
They  "  love  poetry,"  says  this  authority,  "  and  so 
the  native  literature  expresses  itself  in  verse  "  —  as 
it  always  has  where  primitive  simplicity  has  not  yet 
yielded  to  sophistication. 

•     •     • 

AN  IMPORTANT  GREEK  MANUSCRIPT,  an  illumi- 
nated transcript,  on  vellum,  of  the  four  Gospels,  has 
been  presented  to  the  library  of  the  General  Theo- 
logical Seminary,  whose  librarian  thus  describes  the 
gift  in  his  latest  yearly  Report:  "In  the  summer  of 
1911  a  Greek  manuscript  of  the  four  Gospels  was 
offered  us  for  purchase.  Its  price  was  entirely 
prohibitive  as  far  as  our  own  funds  were  concerned. 
Through  the  generosity  of  Mr.  S.  V.  Hoffman, 
however,  whose  father,  Dean  Hoffman,  gave  us  our 
Gutenberg  Bible,  it  was  acquired  and  presented  to 
us  in  perpetuity,  to  be  a  treasured  possession  of  the 
Library  and  an  adornment  of  our  Seminary.  The 
manuscript  itself,  hitherto  unlisted  and  unrecorded, 
was  examined  during  April  of  this  year  by  Professor 
Caspar  Rene*  Gregory,  of  the  University  of  Leipzig, 
while  here  at  the  Seminary,  by  him  listed  and  as- 
signed a  number  in  his  list  of  all  the  Greek  New 
Testament  manuscripts  known  to  exist.  It  has  been 
ascribed  without  doubt  to  the  tenth  century  and  is 
probably  of  Georgian  origin.  Written  on  vellum 
of  small  size  and  in  a  minute  but  careful  hand,  the 
manuscript  is  in  excellent  condition,  contains  six 
interesting  and  still  brilliant  illuminations,  and  is 
bound  in  velvet  and  metal.  .  .  .  By  this  addition 
we  have  one  of  the  few  New  Testament  manuscripts 
in  America  of  value  and  importance  —  a  manuscript 
which  must  be  a  source  of  pride  not  only  to  ourselves, 
but  to  American  Biblical  scholars  generally." 

THE  LIBRARIAN'S  NATURAL  ALLY  in  the  cam- 
paign of  culture  against  illiteracy  in  its  more  or  less 
pronounced  forms,  is  of  course  the  schoolteacher. 
Perhaps  the  teacher  would  state  the  proposition  the 
other  way  about,  but  the  effect  is  much  the  same. 
The  schoolhouse,  too,  js  the  natural  and  logical 
branch  of  the  library.  At  Pomfret,  Vermont  (our 
oft-cited  model  in  these  matters  of  rural  public- 
library  management)  each  schoolhouse  serves  as  a 
branch  library,  and  as  such  is  designated  by  the  num- 


ber borne  by  the  school  district.  At  Bristol,  Con- 
necticut, also,  as  may  be  noted  in  the  current  annual 
Report  of  its  public  library,  even  the  one-room 
schools  have  been  pressed  into  service  by  the  ener- 
getic librarian,  Mr.  Charles  L.  Wooding.  He  writes 
in  his  record  of  yearly  progress :  "  Last  winter 
'  traveling  libraries  '  of  about  50  volumes  each  were 
placed  in  each  of  the  one-room  schools  of  the  city, 
under  the  charge  of  the  teachers,  for  the  benefit  of 
the  adults  living  near  the  schools  and  remote  from 
the  central  library.  The  books  were  exchanged  at 
Easter  for  new  collections.  As  a  result  932  volumes 
were  issued,  and  thirty-nine  people  who  had  not  pre- 
viously used  the  Library  were  enrolled  as  borrowers. 
I  wish  to  record  my  appreciation  of  the  willing  co- 
operation of  the  teachers,  who  gladly  assumed  the 
extra  care  of  the  books  and  their  circulation." 

THE  FLIPPANT  NOTE  IN  AMERICAN  LITERATURE 

has  much  to  answer  for  if  what  Miss  Hanna  Astrup 
Larsen  writes  in  the  October  "  Forum  "  is  true.  At 
the  end  of  a  rather  rousing  dissertation  on  "  The 
Cowardice  of  American  Literature "  she  writes : 
"  Puritanism  is  not  so  fatal  to  art  as  is  the  Ameri- 
can flippancy,  which  we  flatter  ourselves  by  calling 
the  national  sense  of  humor.  It  is  a  corrosive, 
beneath  which  neither  poetry  nor  oratory,  neither 
enthusiasm  nor  earnestness  can  live.  We  deny  the 
spiritual  forces  even  while  we  are  moved  by  them, 
and  acknowledge  only  the  seen  and  the  tangible. 
But  the  time  is  coming  when  the  greater  writers  of 
the  country  will  give  us  literature,  and  not  levity; 
when  life  will  no  longer  be  caricatured,  or  truth 
distorted."  A  heavy  charge,  this ;  but  it  may  be 
that  Miss  Larsen,  with  an  excess  of  seriousness  trace- 
able to  her  Norwegian  extraction,  over-emphasizes 
the  banefulness  of  the  American  jocosity.  Every 
literature,  every  literary  masterpiece,  has  the  defects 
of  its  qualities  ;  and  if  we  sacrificed  our  love  of  fun 
because  of  the  occasional  pranks  it  plays  on  us,  might 
we  not  fall  victims  to  far  worse  proclivities  ?  No 
antidote  to  moroseness  can  be  a  very  harmful  dose. 

•          •          • 

POETRY  IN  THE  SOUL  OF  THE  CHINESE  TRADES- 
MAN finds  expression  in  sign-boards  of  wonderful 
wording.  A  Pekin  coal  merchant,  as  a  recent  ob- 
server has  noted,  euphemistically  styles  his  stock-in- 
trade  "heavenly  embroidery,"  and  a  dealer  in  oil 
and  wine  calls  his  establishment  the  "Neighborhood 
of  Chief  Beauty."  Other  signboards  contain  such 
inscriptions  as  "Shop  of  Heaven-sent  Luck,"  "The 
Nine  Felicities  Prolonged,"  "  The  Shop  of  Celestial 
Principles,"  "Mutton  Shop  of  Morning  Twilight," 
"  The  Ten  Virtues  all  Complete,"  and  "  Flowers 
Rise  to  the  Milky  Way."  Now  and  then  the  shop- 
man makes  his  signboard  proclaim  in  choice  phrase 
his  own  virtues,  as  "The  Thrice  Righteous"  and 
"  The  Honest  Pen  Shop  of  Li,"  or  some  personal 
peculiarity,  as  "  The  Steel  Shop  of  the  Pockmarked 
Wang."  The  height  of  the  poetic  is  attained  by  a 
charcoal  shop  which  calls  itself  the  "  Fountain  of 


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Beauty."  The  Dean  of  Gloucester  remarked,  a  cen- 
tury and  a  half  ago,  that  "what  is  true  of  a  shop- 
keeper is  true  of  a  shopkeeping  nation."  If  that  is 
•correct,  then  China,  as  far  as  it  is  a  country  of  retail 
buying  and  selling,  should  be  a  country  fond  of  the 
felicities  of  figurative  and  picturesque  language, 
which,  in  fact,  it  is  to  a  noted  degree. 

•  •     • 

AUSTRALIA'S  LITERARY  LIKINGS  manifest  them- 
selves in  favor  of  American  books,  especially  novels 
and  works  having  to  do  with  actual  experience  and 
adventure,  sport,  travel,  and  the  like.  The  editor 
of  the  London  "  Book  Monthly"  calls  attention  to 
this  popularity  of  the  American  book  in  Australia, 
a  popularity  not  yet  enjoyed  by  its  English  rival ; 
for  that  far-distant  continent  (if  the  geographies 
now  call  it  such)  is  a  new  land,  newer  even  than 
America,  and  its  affinities  are  for  the  literature  of 
new  rather  than  of  old  and  conventionalized  coun- 
tries. One  recalls  the  enthusiastic  welcome  given 
to  Mark  Twain  in  his  world-encircling  lecture  tour. 
The  stories  of  a  Mark  Twain  or  a  Bret  Harte 
naturally  suit  the  popular  taste  in  Australia  as  those 
of  no  English  novelist  can.  The  increasing  market 
for  American  books  there  is  noted  by  the  above- 
named  writer,  who  advises  English  publishers  to 
bestir  themselves  in  that  quarter. 

•  •         • 

A  TACTFUL  HINT  from  a  courteous  foreign  visitor 
takes  the  following  form:  "Have  you  not  perhaps 
paid  and  are  you  not  perhaps  paying  too  dearly  for 
your  material  progress  ?  It  is  ill  to  lose  the  faculty 
of  contemplation  and  the  conditions  of  life  that 
encourage  it."  The  timely  warning  is  from  him 
whom  all  the  world  knows  by  his  pseudonym, 
"  Pierre  Loti."  It  is  not  very  many  years  ago 
that  another  distinguished  Frenchman  was  with  us, 
preaching  the  gospel  of  the  simple  life  and  calling  us 
back  to  the  things  of  the  spirit.  But  what  heed  was 
paid  to  the  friendly  advice  of  M.  Charles  Wagner, 
and  what  heed  will  be  paid  to  that  of  this  later 
admonitor?  Perhaps  after  the  present  strenuous 
few  weeks  are  past  we  shall  have  time  to  sober 
down  and  reflect,  and  to  read  "The  Home  of  the 
Soul"  and  "The  Simple  Life." 

•         •         • 

THE  PERENNIAL  APPEAL  OF  TRANSCENDENTAL- 
ISM—  an  appeal  which,  it  is  true,  evokes  response 
quite  as  often  in  the  unscholarly  and  the  credulous 
as  in  the  educated  and  the  thoughtful  —  seems  just 
now  to  be  making  itself  heard  with  remarkable  suc- 
cess in  St.  Louis,  if  credit  is  to  be  given  to  the  report 
from  that  city  to  the  effect  that  the  public  library 
records  there  show  Emerson's  essays  to  be  among 
the  most  sought-f  or  literature  of  the  non-fiction  class. 
This  rumor  is  highly  creditable  to  St.  Louis,  and 
helps  to  disprove  the  late  Andrew  Lang's  too  hasty 
assertion  that  Emerson  is  now  an  inoperative  factor 
in  the  literary  world.  Meanwhile,  in  visible  refu- 
tation of  this  charge,  the  publication  of  the  Emerson 
"Journals"  goes  steadily  forward,  volumes  seven 
and  eight  being  announced  for  November. 


COMMUNICATIONS. 


MORE  ABOUT  THE  STORY  OF  OLD  FORT 

DEARBORN. 
(To  the  Editor  of  THE  DIAL.) 

Referring  to  Mr.  Quaife's  letter  in  the  last  issue  of 
THE  DIAL,  I  note  that  he  "  does  not  desire  to  engage 
in  a  personal  dispute"  with  me;  to  which  I  may  reply 
that  I  do  not  particularly  enjoy  a  controversy  of  this 
kind  myself.  But  as  Mr.  Quaife  is  concerned  about  the 
"  truth  of  history,"  it  will  be  worth  while  to  notice  one 
or  two  things  he  has  to  say. 

For  example,  he  says  that  no  man  by  the  name  of 
Cooper  was  killed  at  the  Fort  Dearborn  Massacre. 
How  is  it  possible  to  account  for  the  fact  that  a  man  of 
that  name  is  mentioned  in  the  letters  of  A.  H.  Edwards, 
printed  in  Fergus's  Historical  Pamphlet  (No.  16,  pp. 
54,  56)?  Mr.  Quaife's  waiving  of  Cooper  out  of  exist- 
ence suggests  the  countryman  who  remarked  to  his  wife, 
while  they  were  gazing  upon  a  strange  specimen  at  the 
Zoo,  "  Come  along  Maria,  there  ain't  no  such  animal." 

Mr.  Quaife  returns  to  the  subject  of  Gen.  Dearborn's 
"distinguished  services  on  the  Niagara  frontier"  (this 
sentence  being  quoted  from  my  book),  and  remarks  that 
any  schoolboy  knows  that  these  services  were  not  "  dis- 
tinguished "  in  the  sense  in  which  I  used  the  word.  In 
Winsor's  "  Narrative  and  Critical  History  of  America  " 
(Vol  3,  p.  389),  it  is  stated  that  the  expedition  directed 
by  Dearborn  on  the  Canadian  town  of  York  "  was  suc- 
cessful, the  enemy  was  driven  off  with  the  loss  of  over 
half  their  numbers,  the  town  was  taken,"  etc.  This 
movement,  it  is  said,  "met  with  greater  success  than  any 
which  had  hitherto  been  undertaken  on  the  frontier." 

Regarding  access  to  the  Swearingen  narrative,  the 
manuscript  of  which  is  preserved  in  the  collections  of 
the  Chicago  Historical  Society,  Mr.  Quaife  says  that  "  it 
is  not  true  that  the  public  had  no  access  to  knowledge 
concerning  the  date  of  beginning  the  construction  of 
the  first  Fort  Dearborn  prior  to  the  reviewer's  '  Record- 
Herald  '  article  of  last  month."  His  own  words  in  the 
article  referred  to  were  that  the  manuscript  had  been 
"brought  to  light  recently."  Thus  his  contradiction 
applies  to  his  own  statement  much  more  than  to  mine, 
which  was  merely  based  on  what  he  himself  had  said. 

I  would  not  be  so  foolish  as  to  claim  that  there  are 
no  errors  in  my  book;  and  under  ordinary  circumstances 
I  should  feel  grateful  for  such  corrections  and  criticisms 
as  might  be  suggested.  A  knowledge  of  the  minute 
details  connected  with  our  early  history  is  creditable 
to  anyone  who  searches  for  it,  but  united  with  a  bitter 
censoriousness  of  the  work  of  others  it  is  of  but  dimin- 
ished and  minor  value. 

It  seems  strange  that  out  of  the  dozen  or  so  reviews 
of  my  book  which  I  have  seen,  some  of  them  written 
by  reviewers  of  great  reputation,  and  all  of  which  were 
favorable,  it  remained  for  a  fellow  worker  in  the  field 
of  local  history  to  find  my  book  utterly  without  merit, 
with  not  a  single  word  of  commendation  for  any  feature 
of  the  work. 

There  may  be  different  views  as  to  the  reliability  of 
my  authorities,  but  such  as  they  are  they  can  be  referred 
to  precisely.  My  views  as  to  their  value  may  be  fairly 
challenged,  but  I  deny  the  charge  that  my  methods 
are  "  unsound  "  or  that  my  work  is  "  superficial."  The 
many  years  I  have  devoted  to  a  careful  collection  of 
the  sources  of  out-  local  history,  and  the  visible  results 
thereof,  are  a  sufficient  testimony  to  the  thoroughness 


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of  my  methods.  This  will  be  corroborated,  I  am  sure, 
by  a  "  cloud  of  witnesses  "  in  every  historical  society  and 
in  every  library  and  university  of  the  state  who  know 
me  and  know  of  my  work  in  this  field.  The  important 
collections  of  the  Evanston  Historical  Society,  which  I 
have  gathered,  without  thought  of  pecuniary  reward, 
and  primarily  for  the  purpose  of  assisting  students  in 
historical  research,  may  be  pointed  out  in  evidence.  I 
have,  indeed,  received  compensation  for  some  of  my 
writings,  but  that  was  long  after  I  had  devoted  myself 
to  a  task  pursued  under  immense  difficulties  and  at 
great  personal  sacrifices. 

It  would  seem  but  natural  that  those  engaged  in  the 
same  fields  of  investigation  should  cultivate  a  friendly 
feeling  towards  one  another.  They  might  differ  as  to 
methods  and  values,  but  they  should  at  least  be  fair. 
My  effort  was  submitted  with  diffidence,  and  only  after 
much  urging  was  it  undertaken.  I  have  never  presumed 
to  class  myself  with  professional  historians,  and  have 
constantly  suggested  to  publishers  that  they  should 
employ  such  men  as  professors  of  history  in  our  great 
institutions  rather  than  myself.  But  having  undertaken 
the  task,  I  may  be  allowed  to  say  that  my  writings  on 
the  subject  of  Chicago  history  and  North  Shore  history 
are  a  readable  and  reasonably  accurate  presentation,  as 
has  been  testified  to  by  a  great  number  of  readers  and 
fair-minded  reviewers.  j.  SEYMOUR  CURBEY. 

Evanston,  III.,  October  7, 1912. 


EARLY  PREJUDICES  AGAINST  GREAT 

LITERATURE. 
(To  the  Editor  of  THE  DIAL.) 

The  editorial  in  your  October  1  issue,  on  "  Classical 
Rubbish,"  has  impressed  upon  me  a  little  personal  inci- 
dent that  may  interest  your  readers  in  the  recounting. 

I  have  a  very  dear  friend,  an  old  lady  of  about  seventy 
years  of  age, —  my  mother.  Her  father  was  a  great 
lover  of  books,  and  I  have  been  told  that  the  library  on 
his  old  Southern  plantation  was  stocked  with  some  of 
the  richest  stores  that  could  be  found.  It  was  burned 
during  the  war  between  the  States,  and,  like  the  remain- 
der of  the  wealth  of  the  plantation,  has  faded  away  in 
that  great  strife. 

It  would  be  impossible  to  understand  exactly  how  my 
mother  gained  her  attitude  toward  literature,  without 
knowing  the  conditions  that  surrounded  her  childhood. 
In  the  matter  of  reading  she  seems  to  have  been  per- 
mitted to  do  very  much  as  she  chose.  Her  education 
was  left  to  the  care  of  a  Northern  woman — a  spy — who 
conducted  a  school  in  the  heart  of  the  South  during  the 
war.  It  was  the  general  belief  of  the  community  that 
it  was  unwise  to  give  females  too  much  education,  as 
husbands  did  not  like  intellectual  equals.  In  this  atmos- 
phere she  developed  a  love  for  the  sort  of  literature  of 
which  we  hear  so  much  from  the  average  boarding- 
school  girl.  She  read  those  books  which  girls  sigh  over 
in  nooks  and  corners.  Possibly  it  would  be  unfair  to 
give  any  of  the  titles,  but  they  were  bound  in  paper 
covers  and  might  be  bought  for  ten  or  twenty-five  cents 
apiece. 

"  Why  do  n't  you  read  this,  and  this  ?  "  I  have  often 
asked  her,  mentioning  certain  books  by  the  best  writers. 
"I'm  too  old  to  change  my  ways,"  she  would  always 
reply.  "You  read  them,  and  let  me  read  what  I  like." 

I  hope  I  was  never  snobbish  about  my  views  on  the 
subject,  yet  it  worried  me  a  great  deal.  One  day  I 
dropped  into  her  room  with  a  well-known  volume  of 
Victor  Hugo.  I  begged  her  to  read  it.  She  took  the 


book  from  me  with  a  smile  and,  in  her  patronizing  way, 
said  she  would. 

The  next  day,  upon  inquiring  how  she  was  enjoying 
the  book,  I  was  greeted  with  the  response  that  she  had 
read  nearly  half  of  it  and  had  found  it  stupid.  Upon 
closer  inquiry  I  found  she  had  but  an  indistinct  idea  of 
the  plot.  Thereupon  I  sat  down  and  read  aloud  to  her 
the  opening  chapters.  Thus  encouraged  she  began  again, 
with  the  volume,  and  read  slowly  and  carefully.  Day 
by  day  she  would  sit  at  her  window  in  the  warm  sun  of 
the  autumn,  at  times  with  tears  streaming  down  her  face 
with  sorrow  for  Jean,  and  then  with  eyes  twinkling  with 
smiles  for  the  little  waif.  She  would  recount  to  me 
each  evening  what  she  had  read.  Naturally  the  roman- 
tic sections  of  the  book  at  first  appealed  to  her,  then  she 
became  deeply  interested  in  its  sociological  aspects.  I 
believe  that  what  she  got  out  of  that  book  amounted  to 
more  than  she  had  ever  gained  from  all  her  previous- 
reading. 

She  told  me  later  that  she  had  always  been  preju- 
diced against  books  that  bore  the  stamp  of  literature, 
and  for  this  reason  she  had  refused  to  read  the  recog- 
nized classics.  Is  not  that  the  basic  reason  why  we  have 
such  a  large  reading  public  for  the  enormous  output  of 
commonplace  novels?  Is  it  not  because  so  many  of  us 
are  prejudiced,  —  because  so  many  of  us  have  never 
taken  the  trouble  to  find  out  how  to  enjoy  good  reading? 

GILMORE  IDEN. 

Washington,  D.C.,  October  4, 1912. 


THE  USES  OF  "CLASSICAL  RUBBISH." 
(To  the  Editor  of  THE  DIAL.) 

Allow  one  appreciative  reader  to  thank  you  for 
your  editorial  of  October  1,  on  "  Classical  Rubbish." 
Religious  scruples  perhaps  deterred  the  writer  to  whom 
you  refer  from  putting  the  Bible  in  his  list,  where  I 
suppose  it  would  logically  belong  if  it  were  judged 
simply  by  its  literary  merit. 

I  remember  coaching  a  young  fellow  years  ago  for 
the  university  examinations  in  English,  and  being 
surprised  by  his  almost  total  lack  of  response  to  the 
Scriptural  quotations  or  allusions  in  Burke's  speech  on 
Conciliation  with  America.  The  boy  was  Boston-born, 
clever,  studious,  knew  his  Paris  and  Berlin  —  and 
passed  all  his  examinations;  but  I  greatly  fear  that  he 
will  never  be  either  a  good  American  or  a  cosmopolitan 
of  broad  human  sympathies. 

A  man  may  be  a  dilettante,  a  diner-out,  a  class- 
conscious  elegant  idler,  with  very  little  knowledge  of 
the  great  books;  but  for  a  broad,  sane  spirit  of  democ- 
racy, a  hearty  acceptance  of  one's  place  and  function 
in  the  great  world,  a  sense  of  hunior  that  cries  out 
against  snobbery,  send  a  boy  or  a  girl  to  the  literature 
that  is  "  not  of  an  age,  but  for  all  time." 

The  world  is  no  kindergarten  for  mere  pleasure  and 
play.  If  I  like  to  read  "  Lear  "  and  "  Cymbeline,"  so 
much  the  better  —  and  far  better;  but  I  shall  certainly 
read  them.  If  I  have  a  healthy  appetite  for  the  strong 
meat  of  the  Bible,  that  is  as  it  should  be;  but  I  will 
read  the  Bible  whether  or  no.  If  I  were  responsible 
for  the  breeding  of  a  boy,  he  should  take  for  granted 
the  old  discipline  of  obedience  and  make  early  acquaint- 
ance, willy-nilly,  with  the  best  books. 

You  do  well,  Mr.  Editor,  in  these  days  of  journalism 
gone  daft,  to  stand  for  something  better  than  irrespon- 
sible, ephemeral,  slipshod,  best-selling  "literature" 
made  to  sell.  JAMES  P.  KELLEY. 

Chicago,  October  5,  1912. 


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GEORGE  MEREDITH  HIMSELF.* 


Much  more  unanimity  of  opinion  is  likely  to 
obtain  in  regard  to  George  Meredith's  excel- 
lence as  a  letter- writer  than  has  existed  in  regard 
to  his  significance  as  novelist  and  poet.  For 
the  qualities  which  tended  to  obscure  his  art 
are  scarcely  an  obstacle  in  his  correspondence  ; 
and  certain  attractive  personal  qualities  which 
tended  to  be  obscured  by  his  art  lend  the  Let- 
ters a  singular  fascination. 

Of  chief  importance  to  the  general  reader, 
no  doubt,  will  be  the  fact  that  Meredith  is  a 
fellow  of  infinite  faculty  for  being  interesting 
in  detail.  It  is  not  improbable,  therefore,  that 
the  Letters  will  have  a  fate  the  reverse  of  that 
which  fell  upon  the  author's  early  works, — the 
fate  of  considerable  popularity,  attended,  per- 
haps, by  considerable  over-estimation  of  the 
book's  ultimate  value.  Consideration  of  that 
value  will  be  incidental,  in  the  present  review, 
to  an  examination  of  the  autobiographic  aspect 
of  the  Letters ;  since,  whatever  else  may  be  said 
of  them,  they  are  bound  to  have  an  exceptional 
present  significance  as  a  revelation  of  an  unique 
personality. 

This  revelation  has  been  in  no  degree  fore- 
stalled :  a  straight  road  lies  before  the  Letters 
across  the  somewhat  meandering  ways  of  Mere- 
dithian  biography  (if  the  term  be  at  all  perti- 
nent) and  interpretative  criticism.  These,  to  be 
sure,  have  widely  traversed  the  country  of  our 
author's  personality ;  but  they  have  been  sing- 
ularly unsuccessful  in  opening  up  the  central 
region  of  it.  Nor  has  the  reason  for  that  failure 
been  properly  stated  in  Mr.  Hammerton's 
"  George  Meredith  in  Anecdote  and  Criticism," 
which  has  hitherto  been  our  chief  authority  on 
the  subject:  "His  personality  is  mountainous; 
and  who  has  ever  read  a  description  of  Mont 
Blanc  or  Vesuvius  that  would  serve  for  all  the 
seasons  or  all  its  phases  of  one  day,  one  hour 
even?"  Rather  is  it  true  that  the  several  brilliant 
surfaces  of  that  personality  have  been  peculiarly 
reflective  of  certain  present-day  lights,  and  the 
resultant  dazzle  has  obscured  its  clear  outlines. 
Meredithian  "biography"  has  therefore  been 
unusually  vivid  and  external;  typical  of  it  is 
Mr.  Hammerton's  bulky  scrap-book,  in  which 
our  author  is  sufficiently  sung,  drawn,  and 
"newspapered."  Criticism,  at  the  same  time, 

*THE  LETTERS  OF  GEORGE  MEREDITH.  Collected  and 
edited  by  his  son.  'In  two  volumes.  With  portraits.  New 
York  :  Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 


has  been  too  busy  estimating  the  good,  or  evil, 
significance  of  Meredith's  various  reflections  of 
our  age  to  lay  bare  his  entity.  So  that  while 
a  fairly  definite  conception  has  arisen  of  the 
central  purport  of  Meredith's  younger  contem- 
poraries—  Swinburne,  Stevenson,  Hardy — his 
own  remains  hazy.  From  the  numerous  articles 
about  him,  even  from  the  different  chapters  of 
single  books,  one  may  derive  quite  divergent 
notions.  These,  very  roughly  speaking,  may  be 
reduced  to  two  general  impressions.  According 
to  the  one,  Meredith  is  something  of  a  Mont 
Blanc  —  if  one  may  thus  twist  Mr.  Hammerton's 
handy  imagery;  and  according  to  the  second, 
something  of  a  Vesuvius.  In  the  one  picture, 
our  author  wears  an  appearance  of  almost  classic 
calm, —  at  the  least,  he  towers  considerably 
above  the  swift  complexity  of  nineteenth  cen- 
tury life;  whatever  of  this  quality  appears  in 
his  mode  of  expression  is  but  a  cloud  border, 
beyond  which  a  smooth  front  is  opposed  to  the 
heavens,  glowing  with  ripe  intellectual  discern- 
ment. In  the  other  picture,  the  subject  is  quite 
volcanically  restless  with  his  burden  of  leading 
thought-tendencies  of  the  time ;  above,  the  hea- 
vens are  somewhat  obscured,  and  yet  what 
an  admirable  mouthpiece, — what  a  "spiritual" 
mouthpiece,  if  one's  fancy  can  compass  the 
image, — our  sturdy  Vesuvius  is  of  Her  on  whom 
we  should  chiefly  rest  our  hopes,  Mother  Earth 

"  that  cannot  stop, 
Where  ever  upward  is  the  visible  aim." 

These  two  impressions,  if  traced  to  their 
original  sources,  are  seen  to  derive — again  very 
roughly  speaking  —  from  two  corresponding 
divisions  of  Meredith's  works,  dealing  respect- 
ively with  man  in  relation  to  society  and  with 
man  in  relation  to  nature.  The  first  group 
includes  of  course  the  novels,  but  also  a  large 
number  of  the  poems ;  its  ground-tone  is  sounded 
by  the  "Ode  to  the  Comic  Spirit."  The  other 
comprises  the  nature  poetry,  typical  of  which 
is  the  greater  part  of  "A  Reading  of  Earth." 
In  the  Letters,  the  two  pictures  merge.  Mont 
Blanc,  ceasing  to  be  "  mountainous,"  becomes 
the  nucleus  of  a  singularly  gifted  and  effective 
personality;  the  other  appears  simply  as  an 
active  mode  of  this. 

Probably  no  previous  author's  letters  have 
been  more  constantly  related  to  his  works  than 
are  Meredith's  to  his  novels.  To  be  sure,  as 
his  editor  admits, "  many  of  his  intimate  friends, 
and  a  large  number  of  his  letters  to  them,  do 
not  for  various  reasons  appear  here  at  all";  and 
one  must  hope  that  certain  important  links  will 
be  supplied  in  time.  Yet  not  only  is  the  cor- 


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respondence  in  its  present  form  comprehensive, 
covering  practically  all  of  the  author's  produc- 
tive years,  but  it  involves  an  interesting  series 
of  persons,  places,  and  events  made  use  of  in 
the  novels.  The  fact  that  the  novels  were  re- 
solutely allusive  to  contemporary  social  condi- 
tions has  thus  worked  to  the  advantage  of  the 
Letters:  the  writer  has  constantly  an  artistic 
and  philosophic  interest,  as  well  as  a  personal 
one,  in  his  correspondents  and  his  topics.  In 
the  letters  to  Janet  Duff  Gordon  (later  Mrs. 
Ross),  to  Frederick  Maxse,  and  to  William 
Hardman  we  find  much  of  that  range  of  obser- 
vation which  stimulated  the  creation  not  merely 
of  Rose  Jocelyn,  Nevil  Beauchamp,  and  Black- 
burn Tuckham  but  of  three  general  character- 
types  prominent  in  the  novels  as  a  whole  and 
holding  keystone  positions  in  Meredith's  social 
theory.  At  the  same  time  we  are  shown,  in 
the  concrete,  the  temperamental  affiliations  and 
contrasts  between  those  types  of  character  and 
our  author  himself.  To  each  of  the  three  friends 
he  turns  a  distinct  and  important  side  of  his 
nature.  To  Janet  he  is  always  "your  poet," 
humorously  admitting  the  larger  admixture  of 
air  and  fire  in  his  own  constitution.  The  con- 
trast, which  reminds  the  reader  vaguely  of  that 
between  Rose  Jocelyn  and  Evan  Harrington, 
crops  out  in  connection  with  many  topics — for 
instance,  the  Royal  Academy  exhibit: 

"Leighton  has  a  'Paola  and  Francesca';  painted 
just  as  the  book  has  dropped  and  they  are  in  no  state 
to  read  more.  You  would  scorn  it;  but  our  friendship 
never  rested  on  common  sentiments  in  art.  I  greatly 
admire  it.  I  think  it  the  sole  English  picture  exhibiting 
passion  that  I  have  seen." 

The  fact  that  comparatively  few  letters  to 
Mrs.  Ross  and  other  of  his  women  friends  appear 
in  the  collection  will  be  regretted  by  those  who 
think  of  Meredith  chiefly  as  the  creator  of  Rose, 
Diana,  and  all  the  others  in  whom  blood  and 
judgment  are  so  well  commingled — or  get  them- 
selves commingled  through  hard  experience. 
Apropos  of  Diana,  one  is  interested  to  find  an 
already  known  circumstance  phrased  as  follows : 

"  I  am  just  finishing  at  a  great  pace  a  two- volume 
novel,  to  be  called  '  Diana  of  the  Crossways  ' —  partly 
modelled  upon  Mrs.  Norton.  But  this  is  between  our- 
selves. I  have  had  to  endow  her  with  brains  and  make 
them  eviderfce  to  the  discerning.  I  think  she  lives." 
This  was  written  on  March  24,  1884;  and  the 
reader  who  has  ground  his  teeth  over  the  close 
of  that  novel,  will  experience  some  malicious 
joy  when  he  comes  across  the  following  sequel, 
written  just  five  months  later: 

"  My  '  Diana  '  still  holds  me;  only  by  the  last  chap- 
ter; but  the  coupling  of  such  a  woman  and  her  man  is 
a  delicate  business.  She  has  no  puppet-pliancy.  The 


truth  being,  that  she  is  a  mother  of  Experience,  and 
gives  that  dreadful  baby  suck  to  brains.  I  have  there- 
fore a  feeble  hold  of  her;  none  of  the  novelist's  winding- 
up  arts  avail;  it  is  she  who  leads  me." 

The  numerous  letters  to  Maxse  are  in  several 
ways  at  once  the  most  appealing  and  the  most 
illuminating  in  the  collection.  They  are  enliv- 
ened by  Meredith's  brusque,  incisive  criticisms 
of  his  friend  when  the  two  differ  in  opinion  on 
such  various  matters  as  art,  the  liquor  question, 
or  the  government  of  Ireland, —  on  one  occasion, 
"The  hero  of  Beauchamp 's  Career  just  bears 
with  me,  so  stiffly  have  his  bristles  been  rubbed 
up  by  the  Irish."  Always,  however,  Meredith's 
deep-seated  affection  for  the  other  is  apparent, 
especially  when  he  is  concerned  about  the  pos- 
sible effects  of  Maxse's  impetuosity.  Such  a 
condition  arose  when,  near  the  beginning  of 
their  intercourse,  Maxse  fell  in  love,  informed 
Meredith,  and  received  in  reply  just  such  a 
letter  of  advice  as  one  can  imagine  Nevil  Beau- 
champ,  mad  for  Renee,  receiving  from  our  au- 
thor. That  Meredith  had  Maxse  in  mind  also 
when  creating  Harry  Richmond  is  intimated  in 
the  following : 

"  I  have  just  finished  the  History  of  the  inextinguish- 
able Sir  Harry  Firebrand  of  the  Beacon,  Knight  Errant 
of  the  19th  century,  in  which  mirror  you  may  look  and 
see; — My  dear  Fred  and  his  loving  friend, 

GEORGE  MEREDITH." 

But  the  type  of  the  extremist,  who  is  likely  to 
run  unwittingly  into  egoism,  embraces  both  of 
these  characters  and  is  of  cardinal  importance  in 
the  majority  of  the  novels.  With  the  attempt, 
into  which  his  social  insight  led  him,  to  isolate 
that  egoism  in  a  single  character,  Meredith  was 
dissatisfied, — he  says  of  "The  Egoist":  "It  is 
a  Comedy  with  only  half  of  me  in  it,  unlikely 
therefore  to  take  either  the  public  or  my  friends. 
This  is  true  truth,  but  I  warned  you  that  I  am 
cursed  with  a  croak." 

A  perfect  complement  to  the  Maxse  letters  is 
provided  by  those  to  Hardman,  dubbed  "  Tuck  " 
by  Meredith  in  allusion  to  the  friar  of  earthly 
disposition,  and  characterized  as  follows :  "  A 
dangerous  man,  Sir,  for  he  tempteth  us  to  love 
this  life  and  esteems  it  a  cherishable  thing  :  yet, 
withal,  one  whom  to  know  once  is  to  desire  ever. 
For  indeed  such  a  one  is  seldom  seen."  The 
writer's  comments  on  Hardman  send  our 
thoughts  not  only  to  Blackburn  Tuckham  but 
to  Red  worth,  Matey  Weyburn,  and  other  all- 
round,  commonsense  personages  who  frequent 
the  novels.  In  outline  these  characters  loom  up, 
indeed,  behind  the  glowing  haze  of  the  nature 
poems  ;  for  surely  they  are  the  favorite  "  sons  " 
framed  by  Earth  to  "  read  "  her,  and  successful 


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in  doing  so  if  they  acquire  the  requisite  infusion 
of  "  spirit  "  —  a  quality  which,  when  one  turns 
a  prosaic  eye  on  the  poems,  appears  a  somewhat 
vague  by-product.  This  quality  is  of  only  occa- 
sional significance  in  the  Letters  ;  certainly,  it 
was  not  essential  to  Tuck's  attractiveness  for 
Meredith. 

"  Tuck,  Sweet  Charmer,  tell  me  why 

I  'm  at  ease  when  you  are  by  ? 

Have  you  had  '  a  round '  with  Care, 

Left  him  smoshen,  stript  him  bare, 

That  he  never  more  can  try 

Falls  with  me  when  you  are  by? 

Ah,  but  when  from  me  you  're  screened, 

Attrobiliad  glows  the  fiend: 

Fire  is  wet  and  water  dry : 

Candles  burn  cocked  hats  awry: 

Hope  her  diamond  portal  shuts, 

Grim  dyspepsia  haunts  my  —  Ahem! " 

Beneath  the  surface  of  these  verses,  and  of  many 
scattered  passages  in  the  Letters,  one  catches 
glimpses  of  inward  battles,  not  merely  with 
dyspepsia  but  with  the  universe  —  with  the 
universe,  our  author  himself  would  phrase  it, 
as  seen  through  the  eyes  of  "  that  old  dragon, 
self."  And  one  is  enabled  to  realize  the  extent 
to  which  self-experience  was  the  ground  where 
grew  that  doctrine  of  self-repression  and  anti- 
sentimentalism  so  central  in  Meredith's  works. 
The  reader  of  those  works  would  scarcely  sus- 
pect the  existence  of  the  tendency  referred  to  in 
the  following  passage,  contained  in  a  letter  to 
Maxse  and  sounding,  for  his  benefit,  the  char- 
acteristic note  of  admonishment  previously 
mentioned : 

"  As  regards  Hawthorne,  little  Meredith  admits  that 
your  strokes  have  truth.  I  strive  by  study  of  human- 
ity to  represent  it:  not  its  morbid  action.  I  have  a 
tendency  to  do  that,  which  I  repress:  for,  in  delineat- 
ing it,  there  is  no  gain.  In  all  my,  truly,  very  faulty 
works,  there  is  this  aim.  Much  of  my  strength  lies  in 
painting  morbid  emotion  and  exceptional  positions;  but 
my  conscience  will  not  let  me  so  waste  my  time." 

This  conscience  of  Meredith's,  potentially  be- 
neficent in  an  age  in  which  sentiment  born  of 
romance  had  become  the  foster-sister  of  science, 
was  what  primarily  drew  him  to  the  like  of 
Hardman.  Incidentally,  the  letters  to  "  Tuck  " 
overflow  with  the  rich  joviality  and  rollicking 
nonsense  which  made  Box  Hill  the  resort  of 
the  so-called  "  Sunday  Tramps,"  captained  by 
Leslie  Stephen.  Concerning  his  reproduction 
of  Stephen  in  Vernon  Whitford  —  another  of 
Earth's  favorite  sons  —  Meredith's  own  words 
are  :  "  It  is  a  sketch  of  L.  Stephen,  but  merely 
a  sketch,  not  doing  him  full  justice,  though  the 
strokes  without  and  within  are  correct." 

Such,  briefly  indicated,  are  the  main  high- 
ways on  which  our  author  gathered  the  stuff  of 


his  novels.  Also  numerous  side-paths,  many  of 
them  leading  to  illuminating  discoveries,  will 
tempt  the  reader  of  the  Letters.  Another  chap- 
ter, the  one  most  stimulative  of  thoughtful 
laughter,  is  the  series  of  epigrammatic  judg- 
ments passed  by  the  writer  on  contemporary 
authors.  It  is  safe  to  say  that  no  other  one  of 
them  had  at  once  such  a  real  sympathy  for  his 
fellow-craftsmen  and  such  a  shrewdly  critical 
perception  of  the  net  significance  of  their  works. 
Over-boisterous,  indeed,  becomes  the  critique  of 
the  "Idylls  of  the  King";  but  then,  two  poets 
have  seldom  been  temperamentally  more  antipa- 
thetic than  were  the  Poet  Laureate  and  Meredith. 
It  almost  exhausts  one  of  the  letters  to  Maxse, 
and  evinces,  incidentally,  the  characteristic  dif- 
ference of  outlook  between  the  two  friends. 
Briefer,  and  often  better,  are  the  remarks  on 
Carlyle,  Mill,  Ruskin,  Swinburne,  Rossetti, 
Morris,  Stevenson,  Hugo,  and  several  writers 
of  lesser  note.  One  may  at  first  wonder  at  his 
keen  championship  of  Carlyle,  considering  that, 
in  regard  to  their  fundamental  attitudes  toward 
life,  they  stand  at  opposite  poles.  Carlyle,  as 
Meredith  puts  it  in  a  sonnet  on  the  occasion  of 
the  seer's  eightieth  birthday,  "bared  the  roots 
of  life  with  sight  piercing";  but,  as  Meredith 
writes  elsewhere,  "when  he  descends  to  our 
common  pavement — he  is  no  more  sagacious 
nor  useful  nor  temperate  than  a  flash  of  light- 
ning in  a  grocer's  shop."  On  the  other  hand, 
it  is  exactly  on  the  surface  of  "our  common 
pavement,"  with  its  fringe  of  nature,  that 
Meredith  himself  is  most  sagacious  and  tem- 
perate; for  him,  surely,  the  pavement  was  all 
too  solid,  and  the  "roots  of  life"  which  he  cele- 
brates, often  intemperately,  in  his  nature  poems 
have  on  the  whole  been  dragged  in  from  the 
fringe  and  not  dug  up  from  below.  In  short, 
if  Carlyle  partly  aspired  to  become  a  critic  of 
society  and  remained  a  seer,  Meredith  more 
fully  aspired  to  become  a  seer  and  remained  a 
critic  of  society :  the  course  of  his  development 
in  this  respect  may  be  followed  through  numer- 
ous instances  in  the  Letters,  especially  when 
these  are  placed  side  by  side  with  his  nature 
poetry.  This  very  aspiration  of  Meredith's, 
however,  was  undoubtedly  what  made  him  feel 
an  affinity  with  Carlyle.  The  same  extraordi- 
nary range  and  keenness  of  intellectual  vision 
which  enabled  him  to  steer  free  of  most  nine- 
teenth century  excesses  except  the  scientific  one, 
and  to  survey  this  more  fruitfully  than  could 
the  romantic  Tennyson  and  Browning  on  the 
one  hand,  or  his  humanitarian  younger  contem- 
poraries on  the  other — the  same  vision  caught 


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glimpses   of   spiritual  heights  which  "Earth" 
had  not  framed  him  for  climbing. 

His  somewhat  Vesuvian  attempts,  in  his  na- 
ture poems,  to  mix  those  heights  with  Earth  — 
both  by  pouring  them  molten  upon  her  bosom 
and  by  heaving  her  skyward  to  meet  them  half- 
way— are  accountable  for  that  secondary  picture 
of  him,  mentioned  near  the  beginning,  which 
one  finds  in  biography  and  criticism.  It  has 
been  the  aim  of  this  review  to  indicate  how  that 
portrait  blends  with  the  other  "  too  too  solid  " 
one,  also  previously  described,  in  the  pages  of  the 
Letters.  And  the  student  of  these  will  be  able 
to  trace  the  true  picture  through  many  details 
more  intimately  autobiographic  than  those  which 
have  here  been  dealt  with.  For  in  spite  of  the 
editor's  modest  assurance  that  "the  collection 
is  not  meant  to  form  a  narrative  of  Meredith's 
life,"  it  fulfills  that  function  in  a  very  large 
degree.  And  Meredith's  reticence,  though  it 
has  robbed  curiosity  of  many  palatable  partic- 
ulars, has  been  by  no  means  sufficiently  stoical 
to  cloak  those  larger  effects  of  the  chief  happen- 
ings in  his  life  which  are  most  vital  for  the  study 
of  his  personality.  One  discerns,  for  instance, 
that  his  unfortunate  first  marriage  was  much 
more  important  than  has  been  surmised,  not 
only  for  the  composition  of  "Modern  Love" 
but  for  the  whole  course  of  his  thought  and  art. 
One  notes,  in  fairly  numerous  passages,  the  sig- 
nificant combination  in  his  attitude  towards 
nature  of  healthy  animalism  with  intellectual 
interest ;  and  the  lack  of  what  have  been  gen- 
erally considered  the  deepest  emotions  in  regard 
to  her.  On  the  other  hand,  one  finds  in  his 
letters  to  his  oldest  son  an  unexpected  revela- 
tion of  tenderness,  —  the  Spartan  cloak  falls 
quite  away,  perhaps  primarily  because  the  boy 
was  saved  to  him  from  the  wreck  of  the  first 
marriage.  One  watches  the  recuperation  of  his 
emotional,  and  the  revivifying  of  his  artistic, 
powers  when,  several  years  after  his  first  wife's 
death,  he  meets  the  woman  who  is  to  be  his  sec- 
ond wife.  And  one  perceives  that  "A  Reading 
of  Earth,"  composed  after  her  death,  records 
the  effects  not  merely  of  this  event  but  of  their 
whole  life  together. 

With  the  mood  of  this  poem- cycle  strong 
upon  him,  Meredith  writes  on  March  16,  1888  : 

"  If  a  man's  work  is  to  be  of  value,  the  best  of  him 
must  be  in  it.  I  have  written  always  with  the  percep- 
tion that  there  is  no  life  but  of  the  spirit;  that  the  con- 
crete is  really  the  shadowy ;  yet  that  the  way  to  spiritual 
life  lies  in  the  complete  unfolding  of  the  creature,  not 
in  the  nipping  of  his  passions.  An  outrage  to  Nature 
helps  to  extinguish  his  light.  To  the  flourishing  of  the 
spirit,  then,  through  the  healthy  exercise  of  the  senses." 


In  this  definitive  statement  of  his  position, 
one  notes  the  strangely  Carlylean  opening  and 
then  the  almost  comic  descent  toward  the  Mere- 
dithian  close.  If  some  future  student  of  our 
author's  works  should  run  across  this  passage  — 
let  us  say,  in  the  coming  "  age  of  concentration  " 
when  the  outlines  of  the  concept  "  spirit  "  shall 
have  become  fairly  distinct  again  —  he  would 
no  doubt  rub  his  eyes.  He  would  then  perhaps 
review  his  net  impression  of  Meredith's  poems 
and  novels  with  the  aim  of  discovering  in  it "  the 
perception  that  there  is  no  life  but  of  the  spirit ; 
that  the  concrete  is  really  the  shadowy."  One's 
net  impression  of  Meredith's  works,  and  now  of 
his  letters  also,  has  in  the  centre  of  it,  not  spirit, 
but  "Tuck" — a  composite,  social  figure  sym- 
bolic of  things  much  larger  than  itself.  At  least, 
when  the  present  reviewer  had  laid  aside  the  two 
volumes  of  the  Letters,  he  found  that  the  follow- 
ing final  sentences  of  an  early  note  to  Hardman 
remained  most  vivid  in  his  mind :  "  I  want 
restoration.  Tuck  being  absent,  I  go  to 
Nature,  in  her  sublimest.  Your  loving,  George 
Meredith."  GEORGE  ROY  ELLIOTT. 


REGENERATING  HUMANITY.* 


The  hope  of  a  regenerated  humanity,  and  a 
world  made  fit  to  live  in  for  all  its  inhabitants, 
is  one  that  will  not  be  subdued.  It  has  haunted 
the  imagination  of  the  world's  finest  intellects, 
from  Plato  to  Ruskin ;  it  has  obsessed  the 
thoughts  of  numberless  thousands  of  plain  men 
and  women.  Heroism  and  devotion  have  flowed 
without  stint  in  its  service;  renunciation  and 
sacrifice  have  been  heaped  upon  its  altar.  And 
yet  it  may  scarcely  be  said  that  we  have  ap- 
proached in  any  conspicuous  degree  toward  a 
fulfillment  of  the  dream.  Is  the  problem  insol- 
uble? Is  the  world's  long-battered  fort  indeed 
unbreachable  ?  Must  the  hopes  of  men  for  their 
highest  good  continue  forever  to  move  fatuously 
about  in  worlds  unrealized  ? 

Mr.  Havelock  Ellis  thinks  not;  and  in  his 
new  book,  "The  Task  of  Social  Hygiene,"  he 
unfolds  what  will  seem  to  many  the  first  con- 
structive scheme  of  social  reform  that  carries 
with  it  the  possibilities  of  even  approximate 
realization.  Here  at  last  we  are  given  a  pro- 
gramme of  social  regeneration  that  is  grounded 
not  upon  emotionalism  or  doctrinaire  assump- 
tions, but  upon  the  calm  definite  word  of  science, 
-a  hope  for  the  future  that  seems  to  bear  the 


*THE  TASK  OF  SOCIAL  HYGIENE.    By  Havelock  Ellis. 
Boston:  Houghton  Mifflin  Co. 


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sanction  of  Mother  Nature  herself.  It  is  a  plan 
of  all-embracing  comprehensiveness,  dealing 
with  function  no  less  than  with  structure,  with 
character  no  less  than  with  environment,  with 
men's  souls  no  less  than  with  their  bodies. 

"  All  social  hygiene,  in  its  fullest  sense,  is  but  an 
increasingly  complex  and  extended  method  of  purifica- 
tion —  the  purification  of  the  conditions  of  life  by  sound 
legislation,  the  purification  of  our  own  minds  by  better 
knowledge,  the  purification  of  our  hearts  by  a  growing 
sense  of  responsibility,  the  purification  of  the  race  itself 
by  an  enlightened  eugenics,  consciously  aiding  Nature 
in  her  manifest  effort  to  embody  new  ideals  of  life.  .  .  . 
The  questions  of  social  hygiene,  as  here  understood,  go 
to  the  heart  of  life.  It  is  the  task  of  this  hygiene  not 
only  to  make  sewers,  but  to  re-make  love,  and  to  do 
both  in  the  same  large  spirit  of  human  fellowship,  to 
ensure  finer  individual  development  and  a  larger  social 
organization.  At  the  one  end  social  hygiene  may  be 
regarded  as  simply  the  extension  of  an  elementary  san- 
itary code;  at  the  other  end  it  seems  to  some  to  have 
in  it  the  glorious  freedom  of  a  new  religion." 

Here,  then,  is  a  gospel  of  the  purification  and 
ennoblement  of  life  from  within, — an  endeavor 
to  attain  a  new  joy  and  a  new  freedom  for  the 
individual  based  on  social  health  and  social  order. 
Indeed  so  comprehensive  is  this  plan  of  social 
hygiene  that  it  practically  supersedes  what  has 
hitherto  been  known  as  social  reform,  embracing 
not  only  the  conditions  of  life  but  life  itself,  and 
dealing  with  its  subject  not  in  the  old  haphazard 
spirit  of  social  reform  but  with  the  organized 
and  systematic  methods  of  modern  biological 
science.  Just  as  philanthropy  has  gradually 
evolved  from  the  idea  of  alms-giving  and  amel- 
ioration to  the  modern  spirit  of  prevention,  so 
has  social  hygiene  developed  from  the  primitive 
notions  of  scavenging,  drainage,  etc.,  to  the 
present-day  conception  of  eugenics.  The  social 
and  physical  and  biological  sciences  are  to-day 
working  hand  in  hand  for  the  redemption  of  hu- 
manity ;  and  it  is  in  the  reaction  of  these  forces 
upon  the  will  and  intelligence  and  sense  of  re- 
sponsibility of  the  individual  that  the  spirit  of 
social  hygiene  becomes  operative. 

Mr.  Ellis's  book  consists  of  eleven  separate 
essays,  nearly  all  of  which  have,  we  imagine, 
seen  the  light  in  one  place  or  another  during 
the  past  few  years.  But  however  seemingly 
detached  in  form  and  diverse  in  subject,  they 
are  yet  bound  together  by  a  singular  unity  of 
spirit.  An  extended  introduction  traces  the 
course  of  social  reform  during  the  past  century, 
and  summarizes  the  factors  that  enter  into  the 
new  task  of  social  hygiene. 

Believing,  as  every  eugenist  must,  that  the 
destiny  of  the  race  rests  with  woman,  and  that 
"  the  most  vital  problem  before  our  civilization 


to-day  is  the  problem  of  motherhood,"  Mr.  Ellis 
naturally  gives  the  foremost  place  in  his  volume 
to  a  detailed  consideration  of  the  part  women 
will  have  to  bear  in  social  hygiene.  In  three 
chapters,  constituting  nearly  a  fourth  of  the  en- 
tire book,  he  discusses  "  The  Changing  Status 
of  Women,"  "The  New  Aspect  of  the  Woman's 
Movement,"  and  "The  Emancipation  of  Women 
in  Relation  to  Romantic  -Love."  While  criti- 
cizing unsparingly  the  follies  and  mistakes  that 
have  characterized  the  suffrage  movement  in 
England,  he  yet  affirms  that  the  success  of  the 
cause  is  essential  to  a  realization  of  our  highest 
social  aspirations.  But  the  enforcing  of  woman's 
claims  as  a  human  being  rather  than  as  a  woman 
is  to  him  only  half  the  task  of  the  woman's  move- 
ment, and  perhaps  not  the  most  essential  half. 
"  The  full  fruition  of  that  movement  means  that 
women  .  .  .  shall  take  their  proper  share  in 
legislation  for  life,  not  as  mere  sexless  human 
beings,  but  as  women,  and  in  accordance  with 
the  essential  laws  of  their  own  nature  as 
women." 

The  following  chapter,  entitled  "  The  Signi- 
ficance of  a  Falling  Birth-Rate,"  deals  with  a 
subject  familiar  to  us  in  America  under  the 
flashy  designation  of  "  race-suicide."  It  is  a 
subject  which,  as  Mr.  Ellis  says,  has  been 
usually  left  "  to  the  ignorant  preachers  of  the 
gospel  of  brute  force,  would-be  patriots  who 
desire  their  own  country  to  increase  at  the  cost 
of  all  other  countries,  not  merely  in  ignorance 
of  the  fact  that  the  crude  birth-rate  is  not  the 
index  of  increase,  but  reckless  of  the  effect  their 
desire,  if  fulfilled,  would  have  upon  all  the 
higher  and  finer  ends  of  living."  With  con- 
vincing logic,  reinforced  at  every  turn  by  the 
statistics  and  conclusions  of  unimpeachable 
authorities,  Mr.  Ellis  proves  that  a  falling  birth- 
rate, instead  of  indicating  degeneration  and  dis- 
aster, is  in  reality  one  of  the  most  propitious 
signs  of  social  progress,  one  of  the  most  reassur- 
ing evidences  of  "  that  calculated  forethought, 
that  deliberate  self-restraint  for  the  attainment 
of  ever  more  manifold  ends,  which  in  its  outcome 
we  term  '  civilization.'  " 

"  <  Increase  and  multiply,'  was  the  legendary  injunc- 
tion uttered  on  the  threshold  of  an  empty  world.  It  is 
singularly  out  of  place  in  an  age  in  which  the  earth  and 
the  sea,  if  not  indeed  the  very  air,  swarin  with  countless 
myriads  of  undistinguished  and  indistinguishable  human 
creatures,  until  the  beauty  of  the  world  is  befouled  and 
the  glory  of  the  Heavens  bedimmed.  To  stem  back  that 
tide  is  the  task  now  imposed  on  our  heroism,  to  elevate 
and  purify  and  refine  the  race,  to  introduce  the  ideal  of 
quality  in  place  of  the  ideal  of  quantity  which  has  run 
riot  so  long,  with  the  results  we  see." 


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In  "  Eugenics  and  Love  "  and  "  The  Problem 
of  Sexual  Hygiene"  are  considered  some  of 
the  more  specific  features  of  the  eugenic  pro- 
gramme. The  problem  of  sexual  hygiene  seems 
to  Mr.  Ellis  largely  the  problem  of  sexual  en- 
lightenment for  the  young.  It  is  pointed  out 
that  the  greatest  difficulty  and  danger  in  such 
enlightenment  lie  in  the  fact  that  those  whom 
we  most  depend  upon  as  teachers  are  themselves 
untaught.  But  notwithstanding  this  and  other 
serious  obstacles,  sexual  hygiene  must  be  under- 
taken, and  it  will,  "if  wisely  carried  out,  effect 
far  more  for  public  morals  than  all  the  legisla- 
tion in  the  world." 

There  is  no  more  valuable  chapter  in  the  vol- 
ume than  that  on  "Immorality  and  the  Law." 
Americans,  particularly,  are  prone  to  believe  in 
legislative  short-cuts  to  the  kingdom  of  heaven. 
But  it  is  a  matter  of  almost  universal  experience 
that  attempts  at  moralization  by  law  not  only 
fail  dismally  to  cure  the  evils  aimed  at,  but 
actually  tend  to  dignify  and  fortify  those  evils, 
and  often  result  in  furthering  other  evils  far 
worse  than  those  attacked.  The  spiritual  evil 
of  immorality,  Mr.  Ellis  tells  us,  can  never  be 
suppressed  by  physical  means,  —  only  by  oppos- 
ing spiritual  force  to  spiritual  force  may  vic- 
tory be  hoped  for.  In  the  moral  sphere,  "the 
generalizing  hand  of  law  can  only  injure  and 
stain." 

A  masterly  statement  of  the  forces  now  work- 
ing for  international  peace  is  contained  in  the 
chapter  entitled,  "  The  War  against  War."  It  is 
doubtful  if  a  more  sane  and  searching  analysis 
of  the  subject  was  ever  before  given  in  the  same 
limited  space.  Throwing  sentimentalism  over- 
board at  the  outset  by  stating  that  "the  influ- 
ence of  the  Religion  of  Peace  has  in  this  matter 
been  less  than  nil,"  Mr.  Ellis  goes  on  to  sum- 
marize the  various  social  and  economic  factors 
that  are  now  warring  so  powerfully  against  war, 
and  which  are  bound  to  triumph  in  the  end. 

"The  only  question  that  remains — and  it  is  a  question 
the  future  alone  will  solve  —  is  the  particular  point  at 
which  this  ancient  and  overgrown  stronghold  of  war, 
now  being  invested  so  vigorously  from  so  many  sides, 
will  finally  be  overthrown,  whether  from  within  or  from 
without,  whether  by  its  own  inherent  weakness,  by  the 
persuasive  reasonableness  of  developing  civilization,  by 
the  self-interest  of  the  commercial  and  financial  classes, 
or  by  the  ruthless  indignation  of  the  proletariat.  That 
is  a  problem  still  insoluble,  but  it  is  not  impossible  that 
some  already  living  may  witness  its  solution." 

Such  subjects  as  "Religion  and  the  Child" 
and  "The  Problem  of  an  International  Lan- 
guage "  will  seem  at  first  blush  rather  unrelated 
to  the  general  theme  of  the  book.  Yet  in  reality 


they  bear  a  close  connection.  "  Social  Hygiene 
renders  education  a  far  larger  and  more  delicate 
task  than  it  has  ever  been  before";  and  "the 
organization  of  international  methods  of  social 
intercourse  between  peoples  of  different  tongues 
and  unlike  traditions"  is  one  of  "the  tasks, 
difficult  but  imperative,  which  Social  Hygiene 
presents  and  the  course  of  modern  civilization 
renders  insistent." 

The  old  controversy  between  Individualism 
and  Socialism  is  dealt  with  in  the  final  chapter. 
After  clearly  and  fairly  stating  the  case  for 
each  camp,  Mr.  Ellis  concludes  that  not  only 
are  both  absolutely  right,  but  that  in  reality 
they  are  scarcely  opposed.  "  We  have  only  to 
remember  that  the  field  of  each  is  distinct.  No 
one  needs  Individualism  in  his  water  supply, 
and  no  one  needs  Socialism  in  his  religion." 
Each  is  complementary  and  indispensable  to  the 
other.  "  We  socialize  what  we  call  our  physical 
life  in  order  that  we  may  attain  greater  freedom 
for  what  we  call  our  spiritual  life."  Thus  the 
divergencies  of  the  two  schools  are  essential  to 
the  purposes  of  social  hygiene.  "  The  separate 
initiative  and  promulgation  of  the  two  tendencies 
encourages  a  much  more  effective  action,  and 
best  promotes  that  final  harmony  of  the  two 
extremes  which  the  finest  human  development 
needs." 

The  foregoing  is  but  a  feeble  summary  of 
Mr.  Ellis's  volume,  but  it  may  serve  to  indicate 
something  of  the  scope  and  significance  and 
value  of  the  book's  substance.  Of  its  splendid 
spirit, — its  sanity  and  insight,  its  liberality 
and  flexibility  of  thought,  its  large  sympathy, 
its  comprehensive  scientific  and  philosophical 
groundwork,  its  masterly  interpretation  of  the 
past  as  a  basis  for  speculations  about  the  future, 
its  convincing  reasonableness,  —  of  all  this  we 
can  give  no  adequate  notion  here,  but  must  leave 
for  the  reader  himself  to  discover  and  enjoy. 
It  is  an  inspiring  and  reassuring  volume,  which 
deserves  not  one  but  several  readings  from 
everyone  who  takes  anything  more  than  a  pre- 
datory interest  in  the  social  organism.  More 
than  any  other  book  that  we  know  of,  it  arouses 
in  the  reader  an  enthusiastic  faith  that  the 
world  may  yet  see  a  realization  of  the  prayer 
of  Paracelsus: 

"Make  no  more  giants,  God, 
But  elevate  the  race  at  once !     We  ask 
To  put  forth  just  our  strength,  our  human  strength, 
All  starting  fairly,  all  equipped  alike, 
Gifted  alike,  all  eagle-eyed,  true-hearted  — 
See  if  we  cannot  beat  thine  angels  yet !  " 

WALDO  R.  BROWNE. 


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MARK  TWAIN.* 


"When  I  was  younger,"  said  Mark  Twain  in 
later  life,  "  I  could  remember  anything,  whether 
it  happened  or  not ;  but  I  am  getting  old,  and 
soon  I  shall  remember  only  the  latter." 

Hence  the  need  of  a  more  accurate  and  de- 
tailed account  of  his  life  than  is  furnished  in  the 
autobiographical  chapters  he  himself  wrote  in 
his  last  years  for  the  benefit  of  posterity.  This 
need  has  been  met  by  the  elaborate  three- volume 
biography  prepared  with  infinite  care  by  his  au- 
thorized biographer,  Mr.  Albert  Bigelow  Paine, 
who  has  devoted  six  years  to  the  work,  journey- 
ing half-way  around  the  world  to  trace  the  great 
humorist's  footsteps  and  visit  the  haunts  fre- 
quented by  him  in  different  lands,  and  for  four 
years  of  the  six  living  in  close  daily  intercourse 
with  him.  The  result  is  a  book  so  filled  with 
the  spirit  of  Mark  Twain  as  to  vie  in  interest 
with  his  own  works  and  to  furnish  an  extent  and 
variety  of  entertainment  hardly  to  be  found  in 
any  other  recent  biography.  It  is  certainly  one 
of  the  notable  books  of  its  class. 

It  was  over  the  billiard-table  that  our  Boswell 
became  best  acquainted  with  his  Johnson ;  here, 
as  he  says,  "the  disparity  of  ages  no  longer 
existed,  other  discrepancies  no  longer  mattered. 
The  pleasant  land  of  play  is  a  democracy  where 
such  things  do  not  count."  And  further: 

"To  recall  all  the  humors  and  interesting  happenings 
of  those  early  billiard-days  would  be  to  fill  a  large  vol- 
ume. I  can  preserve  no  more  than  a  few  characteristic 
phases. 

"  He  was  not  an  even-tempered  player.  When  the 
balls  were  perverse  in  their  movements  and  his  aim  un- 
steady, he  was  likely  to  become  short  with  his  opponents 
—  critical  and  even  fault-finding.  Then  presently  a 
reaction  would  set  in,  and  he  would  be  seized  with 
remorse.  He  would  become  unnecessarily  gentle  and 
kindly — even  attentive — placing  the  balls  as  I  knocked 
them  into  the  pockets,  hurrying  from  one  end  of  the 
table  to  render  this  service,  endeavoring  to  show  in 
every  way  except  by  actual  confession  in  words  that  he 
was  sorry  for  what  seemed  to  him,  no  doubt,  an  unworthy 
display  of  temper,  unjustified  irritation. 

"  Naturally  this  was  a  mood  that  I  enjoyed  less  than 
that  which  had  induced  it.  I  did  not  wish  him  to 
humble  himself;  I  was  willing  that  he  should  be  severe, 
even  harsh,  if  he  felt  so  inclined;  his  age,  his  position, 
his  genius  entitled  him  to  special  privileges;  yet  I  am 
glad,  as  I  remember  it  now,  that  the  other  side  revealed 
itself,  for  it  completes  the  sum  of  his  great  humanity. 

"  Indeed,  he  was  always  not  only  human,  but  super- 
human; not  only  a  man,  but  superman.  Nor  does  this 
term  apply  only  to  his  psychology.  In  no  other  human 


*  MARK  TWAIN.  A  Biography.  The  Personal  and  Liter- 
ary Life  of  Samuel  Langhorne  Clemens.  By  Albert  Bigelow 
Paine.  With  letters,  comments,  and  incidental  writings 
hitherto  unpublished  ;  also  new  episodes,  anecdotes,  etc.  In 
three  volumes.  Illustrated.  New  York :  Harper  &  Brothers. 


being  have  I  ever  seen  such  physical  endurance.  I  was 
comparatively  a  young  man,  and  by  no  means  an  invalid ; 
but  many  a  time,  far  in  the  night,  when  i  was  ready  to 
drop  with  exhaustion,  he  was  still  as  fresh  and  buoyant 
and  eager  for  the  game  as  at  the  moment  of  beginning. 
He  smoked  and  smoked  continually,  and  followed  the 
endless  track  around  the  billiard-table  with  the  light 
step  of  youth.  At  three  or  four  o'clock  in  the  morning 
he  would  urge  just  one  more  game,  and  would  taunt 
me  for  my  weariness." 

This  intimate  personal  relation  between  the 
two  it  was  worth  while  to  illustrate  even  by  a 
somewhat  extended  quotation.  To  the  biog- 
rapher "  the  association  was  invaluable ;  it  drew 
from  him  a  thousand  long-forgotten  incidents; 
it  invited  a  stream  of  picturesque  comments  and 
philosophies;  it  furnished  the  most  intimate 
insight  into  his  character."  It  has  been  said 
by  those  who  knew  Mark  Twain  well  that  the 
culmination  of  his  genius  was  reached  only  in 
these  unpremeditated  bursts  of  oral  discourse, 
as  splendid  in  their  combination  of  imagery  and 
poetry  and  philosophy,  of  humor  and  pathos  and 
deep  human  feeling,  as  they  were  impossible  to 
reproduce  afterward  on  paper.  This  rich  hu- 
manity of  the  man  his  biographer  has  fully 
recognized  and  has,  to  a  marked  degree,  put 
into  the  pages  that  picture  his  life. 

The  main  outlines  of  Mark  Twain's  life- 
history  are  by  this  time  known  to  all  the  world, 
and  need  not  here  be  sketched.  Space  can 
better  be  utilized  in  conveying,  by  allusion  and 
quotation,  some  idea  of  the  wealth  of  variously 
interesting  matter  that  goes  to  fill  Mr.  Paine's 
three  ample  volumes.  Some  specimen  chapters 
have  already  seen  the  light,  in  serial  publication, 
but  they  hardly  skim  even  the  cream  of  the  work 
as  a  whole.  In  the  flashes  of  light  thrown  by 
the  biographer's  pen  on  certain  less  familiar 
sides  of  the  many-sided  humorist  and  philoso- 
pher, one  cannot  fail  to  note  his  emphatic  likes 
and  dislikes  in  literature.  That  this  master  of 
luminous  prose  should  have  kindled  with  enthu- 
siasm over  the  tortuous  poetry  of  Browning  is 
rather  surprising ;  but  having  accepted  the  f act,, 
one  is  prepared  to  hear  that  he  was  equally  fond 
of  Meredith,  when,  disappointing  expectation 
again,  he  shows  himself  quite  the  reverse.  The 
Meredithian  characters  were  to  him  ingeniously 
contrived  puppets,  not  human  beings ;  and  when 
"Diana  of  the  Crossways"  was  read  aloud  to 
him  he  was  likely  to  say:  "It  doesn't  seem  to 
me  that  Diana  lives  up  to  her  reputation.  The 
author  keeps  telling  us  how  smart  she  is,  how 
brilliant,  but  I  never  seem  to  hear  her  say 
anything  smart  or  brilliant.  Read  me  some  of 
Diana's  smart  utterances."  Most  noteworthy 


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and  most  surprising  of  all  was  his  passionate 
embrace  of  the  Baconian  craze.  One  would  sup- 
pose that  the  barefoot  scapegrace  of  those  early 
Missouri  days  which  he  has  so  well  depicted  in 
"Tom  Sawyer"  would  have  been  the  last  to 
deny,  on  coming  into  his  own,  the  possibility  of 
the  Stratford  poacher's  developing  into  a  great 
poet  and  dramatist.  And  yet,  in  conversation 
with  Mr.  Paine  he  declared  that  Shakespeare 
could  not  have  written  the  plays  bearing  his 
name.  "  There 's  evidence  that  he  couldn't,"  he 
said.  "It  required  a  man  with  the  fullest  legal 
equipment  to  have  written  them.  When  you 
have  read  Greenwood's  book  you  will  see  how 
untenable  is  any  argument  for  Shakespeare's 
authorship."  But  we  have  Mark  Twain's  little 
volume,  "Is  Shakespeare  Dead?"  and  it  is 
enough  to  enjoy  the  literary  charm  of  it  without 
puzzling  further  over  the  reason  of  its  author's 
heresy.  Let  us  pass  to  things  more  truly  char- 
acteristic of  the  man.  Here  is  a  letter  writ- 
ten by  him  to  his  lecture-manager,  Redpath,  in 
the  days  when  the  author  of  "  The  Innocents 
Abroad  "  was  achieving  his  first  great  popularity 
as  a  public  entertainer  on  the  platform : 

"  DEAR  RED, — I  am  different  from  other  women ;  my 
mind  changes  oftener.  People  who  have  no  mind  can 
easily  be  steadfast  and  firm,  but  when  a  man  is  loaded 
down  to  the  guards  with  it,  as  I  am,  every  heavy  sea  of 
foreboding  or  inclination,  maybe  of  indolence,  shifts 
the  cargo.  See?  Therefore,  if  you  will  notice,  one 
week  I  am  likely  to  give  rigid  instructions  to  confine 
me  to  New  England;  the  next  week  send  me  to  Arizona; 
the  next  week  withdraw  my  name ;  the  next  week  give 
you  full,  untrammeled  swing;  and  the  week  following 
modify  it.  You  must  try  to  keep  the  run  of  my  mind, 
Redpath ;  it  is  your  business,  being  the  agent,  and  it  was 
always  too  many  for  me.  .  .  .  Yours,  MARK." 

The  interesting  though  somewhat  distressing 
story  of  Mark  Twain's  stupefying  oratorical 
effort  at  the  Whittier  dinner  in  Boston,  Decem- 
ber 17, 1877,  is  told  more  fully  than  it  has  ever 
been  told  before,  with  letters  to  and  from  the 
chief  actors  in  that  little  tragedy  —  or  tragi- 
comedy, as  at  this  distance  of  time  we  can  regard 
it.  The  good  humor  shown  and  evidently  felt 
by  the  Olympian  trinity  whom  the  tactless 
speech  was  supposed  to  have  affronted  helped 
to  rescue  the  penitent  speaker  from  despair.  It 
appears,  also,  that  the  most  revered  of  that 
trinity,  Emerson,  failed  to  take  in  a  single  syl- 
lable of  the  speech,  having  lapsed  temporarily 
into  that  happy  oblivion  which  more  and  more 
held  him  in  unconsciousness  of  outer  happen- 
ings toward  the  end  of  his  life.  A  kind  letter 
from  his  daughter  Ellen  to  Mrs.  Clemens,  in  in- 
direct response  to  one  from  Clemens  to  Emerson, 
is  made  public  in  the  book.  It  must  have  greatly 


soothed  the  whole  family.  Concerning  the  un- 
fortunate speech  itself  and  Mark  Twain's  later 
alternating  opinions  of  it,  Mr.  Paine  well  says : 
"  Of  course  the  first  of  these  impressions,  the  verdict 
of  the  fresh  mind  uninfluenced  by  the  old  conception, 
was  the  more  correct  one.  The  speech  was  decidedly 
out  of  place  in  that  company.  The  skit  was  harmless 
enough,  but  it  was  of  the  Comstock  grain.  It  lacked 
refinement,  and,  what  was  still  worse,  it  lacked  humor, 
at  least  the  humor  of  a  kind  suited  to  that  long-ago 
company  of  listeners.  It  was  another  of  those  grievous 
mistakes  which  genius  (and  not  talent)  can  make,  for 
genius  is  assort  of  possession..  The  individual  is  per- 
vaded, dominated  for  a  time  by  an  angel  or  an  imp,  and 
he  seldom,  of  himself,  is  able  to  discriminate  between 
his  controls.  A  literary  imp  was  always  lying  in  wait 
for  Mark  Twain  ;  the  imp  of  the  burlesque,  tempting 
him  to  do  the  outre,  the  outlandish,  the  shocking  thing. 
It  was  this  that  Olivia  Clemens  had  to  labor  hardest 
against:  the  cheapening  of  his  own  high  purpose  with 
an  extravagant  false  note,  at  which  sincerity,  conviction, 
and  artistic  harmony  took  wings  and  fled  away.  Notably 
he  did  a  good  burlesque  now  and  then,  but  his  fame 
would  not  have  suffered  if  he  had  been  delivered  alto- 
gether from  his  besetting  temptations." 

The  debt  that  both  his  public  and  his  fame 
owe  to  his  faithful  censor,  Mrs.  Clemens,  is  lar- 
ger than  many  persons  have  ever  suspected.  The 
piles  of  manuscript  that  he  uncomplainingly 
threw  aside  at  her  bidding,  must  have  far  ex- 
ceeded in  bulk  those  other  piles  that  went  to 
the  printer  and  contributed  to  the  world's  lasting 
entertainment.  One  other  brief  selection  from 
the  biographer's  few  critical  comments  on  Mark 
Twain's  books  is  worth  giving  to  call  renewed 
attention  to  that  exquisite  creation  of  the 
author's  finer  genius,  the  nobly  conceived  "  Joan 
of  Arc." 

"  But  this  is  just  the  wonder  of  Mark  Twain's  Joan. 
She  is  a  saint ;  she  is  rare,  she  is  exquisite,  she  is  all  that 
is  lovely,  and  she  is  a  human  being  besides.  Considered 
from  every  point  of  view,  Joan  of  Arc  is  Mark  Twain's 
supreme  literary  expression,  the  loftiest,  the  most  deli- 
cate, the  most  luminous  example  of  his  work.  It  is  so 
from  the  first  word  of  its  beginning,  that  wonderful 
'  Translator's  Preface,'  to  the  last  word  of  the  last  chap- 
ter, where  he  declares  that  the  figure  of  Joan  with  the 
martyr's  crown  upon  her  head  shall  stand  for  patriotism 
through  all  time." 

The  drama  of  the  strange  and  yet  always 
intensely  real  and  human  life  unrolled  in  Mr. 
Paine's  three  volumes  must  be  read  as  a  con- 
nected whole  to  be  best  enjoyed.  Snatches  and 
fragments  seem  to  do  it  injustice.  Yet  it  may 
be  not  out  of  place  here  to  quote  from  the 
author's  own  account  of  his  memorable  meeting 
with  the  subject  of  his  book  when  the  writing 
of  that  book  was  first  proposed  to  him.  The 
occasion  was  a  dinner  given  to  Mark  Twain  in 
New  York. 

"The  night  of  January  5,  1906,  remains  a  memory 
apart  from  other  dinners.  Brander  Matthews  presided, 


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and  Gilder  was  there,  and  Frank  Millet  and  Willard 
Metcalf  and  Robert  Reid,  and  a  score  of  others;  some 
of  them  are  dead  now,  David  Munro  among  them.  It 
so  happened  that  my  seat  was  nearly  facing  the  guest 
of  the  evening,  who,  by  custom  of  The  Players,  is 
placed  at  the  side  and  not  at  the  end  of  the  long  table. 
He  was  no  longer  frail  and  thin,  as  when  I  had  first 
met  him.  He  had  a  robust,  rested  look ;  his  complexion 
had  the  tints  of  a  miniature  painting.  Lit  by  the  glow 
of  the  shaded  candles,  relieved  against  the  dusky 
richness  of  the  walls,  he  made  a  picture  of  striking 
beauty.  One  could  not  take  his  eyes  from  it,  and  to 
one  guest  at  least  it  stirred  the  farthest  memories.  I 
suddenly  saw  the  interior  of  a  farm-house  sitting-room 
in  the  Middle  West,  where  I  had  first  heard  uttered 
the  name  of  Mark  Twain,  and  where  night  after  night 
a  group  gathered  around  the  evening  lamp  to  hear  the 
tale  of  the  first  pilgrimage,  which,  to  a  boy  of  eight, 
had  seemed  only  a  wonderful  poem  and  fairy  tale.  To 
Charles  Harvey  Genung,  who  sat  next  to  me,  I  whis- 
pered something  of  this,  and  how,  during  the  thirty-six 
years  since  then,  no  other  human  being  to  me  had 
meant  what  Mark  Twain  had  meant  —  in  literature, 
in  life,  in  the  ineffable  thing  which  means  more  than 
either,  and  which  we  call  '  inspiration,'  for  lack  of  a 
truer  word.  Now  here  he  was,  just  across  the  table. 
It  was  the  fairy  tale  come  true.  Genung  said:  'You 
should  write  his  life.'" 

And  so  in  the  end  it  came  about  that  this 
writer  from  the  Middle  West  wrote  the  life  of 
that  other  writer  from  the  Middle  West,  and 
he  has  written  it  so  fully  and  satisfactorily  that 
no  one  need  in  the  future  go  over  the  same 
ground  again.  Mark  Twain  will  of  course  con- 
tinue to  be  written  about  and  talked  about, 
and  his  books  will  form  the  subjects  of  critical 
comment  and  expert  appreciation,  to  which  the 
present  biography  happily  does  not  pretend  to 
devote  itself ;  but  the  authoritative  life  of  the 
great  humorist  has  been  written,  and  in  a  way 
to  insure  a  reading  hardly  less  wide  than  that 
which  Mark  Twain's  own  books  receive.  In 
wealth  of  illustration  and  other  details  of  its 
make-up,  the  book  will  not  disappoint. 

PERCY  F.  BICKNELL. 


ENGLAND  AND  THE  AMERICAN 
REVOLUTION.* 


Among  the  many  English  men  of  affairs 
who  have  found  time  and  leisure  to  satisfy  a 
passion  for  historic  research,  Sir  George  Otto 
Trevelyan  holds  an  honored  place.  Sir  George 
was  for  many  years  an  influential  member  of 
Parliament.  He  has  also  held  ministerial  offices 
of  high  rank,  and  was  at  one  time  a  leader  in 
the  councils  of  the  Liberal  party.  When  the 

*  GEORGE  THE  THIRD  AND  CHARLES  JAMES  Fox.  Being 
the  Concluding  Part  of  "The  American  Revolution."  By 
the  Right  Hon.  Sir  George  Otto  Trevelyan,  Bart.,  O.M.  In 
two  volumes.  Volume  I.  New  York:  Longmans,  Green,  &  Co. 


party  split  in  1886  on  the  question  of  Irish 
home  rule,  Mr.  Trevelyan  was  one  of  the  chiefs 
among  the  Liberal -Unionist  seceders.  Since 
then  he  has  gradually  withdrawn  from  public 
activities  and  has  given  his  time  to  literary 
pursuits,  especially  to  the  study  of  history  in 
the  eighteenth  century. 

In  our  own  country  he  is,  perhaps,  best 
known  as  the  author  of  a  history  of  the  Amer- 
ican Revolution,  three  volumes  of  which  have 
appeared  under  that  title.  But  still  earlier,  as 
long  ago  as  1880,  he  had  published  "The  Early 
History  of  Charles  James  Fox."  He  now  gives 
us  a  continuation  of  both  these  ventures  in  a 
work  entitled  "  George  the  Third  and  Charles 
James  Fox."  It  is  planned  to  publish  this  in 
two  volumes,  the  first  of  which  has  appeared. 

It  happens  frequently  that  a  title  does  not 
accurately  describe  the  contents  of  a  book,  and 
such  is  the  case  in  the  present  instance.  Fox 
is  not  unusually  prominent  in  the  narrative ;  his 
relationship  with  George  III.  is  discussed  only 
incidentally;  and  the  American  Revolution  is- 
only  one  of  the  many  subjects  discussed.  The 
volume  is  a  military  and  political  history  of 
England  during  the  years  1778  to  1780,  a 
period  when  England  stood  alone  against  nearly 
all  Europe,  facing  hostility,  active  or  passive,, 
commercial  or  military,  almost  everywhere. 

The  author's  position  with  respect  to  the  war 
in  America  is  well  known:  the  fight  for  self- 
government  in  England  was  won  in  America; 
the  system  of  personal  government  that  George 
III.  strove  to  fasten  upon  the  English  nation 
was  discredited  by  his  failure  to  conquer  the 
Americans  and  his  purposes  were  defeated- 
The  effort  to  coerce  the  colonies  was  not  only 
unwise  but  unjust,  and  the  government  should 
not  have  forced  matters  to  the  issue  of  war. 
But  after  hostilities  had  become  a  fact,  the  war 
should  have  been  fought  in  a  different  spirit. 
It  was  carried  on  by  a  group  of  corrupt  and 
incapable  men  whose  inefficiency  and  stupid 
carelessness  stir  the  author  almost  to  the  point 
of  anger.  Especially  does  he  find  incompetence 
in  the  admiralty ;  and  as  a  former  secretary  in 
that  department,  Sir  George  must  be  presumed 
to  know  what  an  efficient  management  of  the 
navy  should  imply.  Lord  Sandwich  is  charac- 
terized as  "the  most  negligent  administrator 
who  ever  sat  at  the  head  of  the  table  in  the 
admiralty  Board-room."  "  When  Keppel's  mes- 
senger arrived  in  the  last  days  of  June  of  1778, 
bringing  the  momentous  intelligence  that  the 
British  fleet  had  retired  from  before  Brest  and 
had  got  back  to  Portsmouth,  neither  the  First 


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Lord  nor  the  Secretary  of  the  Admiralty  could 
be  found  to  unseal  the  dispatches."  And  this 
was  in  a  department  where  watchfulness  never 
ceases,  and  sleep  is  almost  unknown. 

Against  this  negligence  and  corruption 
Charles  James  Fox  raised  his  voice  again  and 
again,  and  a  marvellously  effective  voice  it  was. 
The  picture  that  is  given  of  the  mighty  debater 
is  sympathetic  in  every  line.  Fox  was  no  longer 
the  young  profligate ;  the  period  of  his  reforma- 
tion had  begun. 

"  He  ceased  to  gamble.  He  lived  contented  within 
his  slender  means.  His  home-life  with  the  woman 
whom  he  loved  .  .  .  was  admired  by  his  uncensorious 
contemporaries  as  a  model  of  domestic  affection,  and 
mutual  sympathy  in  the  insatiable  enjoyment  of  good 
literature  and  quiet  rural  pleasures.  Nothing  at  last 
remained  of  the  old  Charles  James  Fox  except  the 
frankness  and  friendliness,  the  inexhaustible  good  na- 
ture, the  indescribable  charm  of  manner,  and  the  utter 
absence  of  self-importance  and  self-consciousness,  which 
combined  to  make  him,  at  every  period  of  his  existence, 
the  best  fellow  in  the  world." 

The  author  also  describes  the  great  triumphs  of 
Fox  in  the  House  of  Commons ;  but  they  were 
personal  triumphs  and  meant  little  for  the  cause 
that  he  represented,  for  the  majority  had  sold 
its  conscience  to  the  king. 

Of  the  Earl  of  Chatham  we  have  the  conven- 
tional picture.  In  the  intellectual  make-up  of 
George  III.,  the  author  finds  a  few  admirable 
qualities,  but  very  few.  Much  attention  is  given 
to  the  king's  absolutist  ideas  and  to  the  venal 
methods  that  he  employed  to  secure  his  author- 
ity. For  Burke,  Sir  George  professes  the  great- 
est admiration.  "  So  full  and  cultured  a  mind 
as  Burke's, —  so  vivid  an  imagination  and  so 
intense  and  catholic  an  interest  in  all  human 
affairs,  past  and  present, —  have  never  been 
placed  at  the  service  of  the  state  by  anyone  ex- 
cept Cicero."  The  author  also  bears  testimony 
to  the  abilities  of  Admiral  Howe  and  by  way  of 
contrast  to  the  incompetence  of  the  French  ad- 
mirals, particularly  D'Estaing.  But  the  only 
man  whose  greatness  was  unalloyed,  whose  deeds 
were  above  criticism,  was  George  Washington. 

The  closing  chapter  in  the  volume,  in  which 
is  discussed  the  treason  of  Arnold  and  the  death 
of  Andre,  is  one  of  great  interest.  Without 
showing  any  sympathy  for  the  traitor,  Mr. 
Trevelyan  fully  appreciates  Benedict  Arnold's 
great  abilities  in  the  field,  and  has  hard  words 
for  the  American  Congress  which  unjustly 
wounded  the  general's  over-sensitive  pride  and 
thus  strengthened  him  in  his  disloyal  purposes. 
Full  justice  is  done  to  the  traitor's  estimable 
and  innocent  wife. 

"  Arnold  was  the  waster;  and  his  wife,  during  a  hard 


and  life-long  struggle  with  adversity,  showed  herself  a 
notable  saver  and  manager  for  the  protection  of  her  hus- 
band's financial  credit,  and  of  her  children's  future.  And 
the  beginning  and  end  of  Margaret  Arnold's  reputed  dis- 
affection to  the  American  cause  was  that  as  a  girl  she 
had  danced  minuets  with  royal  officers,  and  that  as  a 
married  woman  she  had  refused  to  exclude  from  her 
ball-room  the  wives  and  daughters  of  Loyalists  and 
Tories." 

The  importance  of  Arnold's  defection,  for  the 
American  cause,  is  clearly  brought  out.  "  The 
revelation  of  Arnold's  treachery  created  a  power- 
ful and  lasting  reaction  in  American  opinion." 
The  results  were  not  despair  but  horror,  indig- 
nation, and  patriotic  fervor.  The  author  is  also 
careful  to  bring  out  the  fact  that  while  Arnold 
after  the  war  apparently  enjoyed  the  favor  of 
the  English  court,  "  London  society  set  its  face 
sternly  and  inexorably  against  him.  .  .  .  In  poli- 
tical and  fashionable  circles  he  was  shunned  by 
most  of  the  Whigs,  and  by  many  Tories." 

Much  has  been  written  in  recent  years  about 
the  American  war  and  the  conditions  that  gave 
birth  to  revolution ;  but  this  literature  is  appar- 
ently unknown  to  the  present  author,  —  at  least 
he  ignores  its  conclusions.  We  are,  for  instance, 
told  once  more  that  the  king  dismissed  Pitt  to 
make  room  for  Bute,  —  an  old  view  that  Von 
Ruville  in  his  great  biography  of  Pitt  has 
clearly  shown  to  be  erroneous.  Mr.  Trevelyan 
cannot  be  ignorant  of  the  fact  that  recent  En- 
glish students  who  look  at  history  from  the  view- 
point of  the  modern  imperialist  have  come  to 
regard  the  struggle  in  America  as  the  result  of 
an  effort  to  organize  the  British  empire,  which 
successful  warfare  had  given  almost  magical 
growth ;  but  he  seems  not  to  have  accepted  these 
views.  And  perhaps  it  is  too  much  to  expect 
that  the  nephew  of  Lord  Macaulay  should  accept 
and  exploit  the  opinions  of  the  imperialistic 
Tories.  LAURENCE  M.  LARSON. 


MAN  AND  CIVILIZATION.* 


It  is,  perhaps,  by  this  time,  a  commonplace 
thought  that  we  are  passing  through  a  period 
of  social  and  cultural  change  in  comparison 
with  which  the  French  Revolution  was  a  simple 
and  easily  accomplished  transition.  Certainly 
we  lack  the  faith  and  optimism  with  which  the 
sanguine  spirits  of  that  day  regarded  their 
reconstructive  programmes.  In  fact  the  more 
reflective  spirits  of  to-day  are  apt,  as  they  survey 

*MAIN  CURRENTS  OF  MODERN  THOUGHT.  A  Study  of 
the  Spiritual  and  Intellectual  Movements  of  the  Present 
Day.  Translated  from  the  German  of  Rudolf  Eucken,  by 
Meyrick  Booth.  New  York :  Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 


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the  present  course  of  civilization,  to  cry  with  the 
late  William  Vaughn  Moody : 

"...  Does  she  know  her  port, 
Though  she  goes  so  far  about? 
Or  blind  astray,  does  she  make  her  sport 
To  brazen  and  chance  it  out. 
I  watfhed  her  when  her  captains  passed: 
She  were  better  captainless. 
Men  in  the  cabin,  before  the  mast, 
But  some  were  reckless  and  some  aghast, 
And  some  sat  gorged  at  mess." 

Such  an  extremity  as  this  should  be  philoso- 
phy's opportunity,  and  the  extremity  has  come 
home  in  an  unique  measure  to  one  present-day 
philosopher,  Rudolf  Eucken  of  Jena.  He  is 
known  to  English  readers  already  by  some  half 
dozen  books,  notably  "  The  Problem  of  Human 
Life,"  "Life's  Basis  and  Life's  Ideal,"  and 
"The  Truth  of  Religion,"  all  of  which  have 
very  recently  been  translated  into  English,  and 
for  the  writing  of  which  the  author  has  been 
awarded  a  Nobel  Prize  for  Literature.  Eucken 
is  not  a  system  builder,  not  a  philosopher  of  the 
old  argumentative  and  intellectualistic  type,  but 
a  passionate  and  powerful  preacher,  a  theologian 
in  one  sense,  and  a  deeply  religious  spirit. 
Withal,  he  has  the  historic  sense  and  the  critical 
sense  both  highly  developed.  Consequently  we 
may  expect  to  find  in  his  work  valuable  estima- 
tions of  past  and  present  tendencies,  thorough 
destructive  analyses  of  the  attempted  solutions 
of  our  world  riddles  and  life  riddles,  a  strenuous 
insistence  on  the  rights  of  the  spirit ;  and  we  find 
all  this  in  greater  measure  than  any  explicit  and 
reasoned  world  view  ready  to  be  assimilated  by 
the  understanding  of  the  seeker. 

The  situation  of  human  life  at  the  present 
day  as  Eucken  sees  it  is  almost  as  gloomy  as 
that  portrayed  in  Moody 's  lines.  He  sees  the 
ship  of  life  advancing,  indeed,  but  into  danger- 
ous seas.  The  situation  which  he  sketches  is 
briefly  as  follows.  The  great  scientific  and 
technological  advances  of  recent  years  have  given 
man  an  unprecedented  mastery  over  the  world 
without.  His  experiences  have  been  multiplied 
a  hundred  fold.  His  powers  over  nature  have 
increased  to  the  point  of  practical  mastery.  But 
that  mastery  has  been  gained  at  the  expense  of 
the  old  idea  that  man  was  central  in  the  universe. 
The  laws  that  he  discovers  are  immediately  seen 
to  cover  himself  and  his  activities.  Particularly 
the  idea  of  evolution  exhibits  man  as  the  product 
of  a  material  environment,  struggling  with  it 
and  his  fellows  for  material  goods.  Nature  be- 
comes, in  the  words  of  Schwegler,  an  uuspirit- 
ualized  mass,  and  an  object  for  man  only  as  it 
is  subservient  to  his  sensuous  greeds  and  needs. 


This  situation  may  be  met  in  various  ways. 
The  most  logical  way,  and  the  one  which  has 
been  most  energetically  pushed,  is  the  socialistic 
doctrine  of  work.  If  we  accept  this  doctrine, 
"  Morality  becomes  altruism,  a  working  for  the 
good  of  society ;  art  finds  no  higher  task  than 
the  sympathetic  and  accurate  representation  of 
social  conditions ;  education  endeavors  rather  to 
elevate  the  general  level  of  culture  than  to  de- 
velop anything  individual."  But  is  there  any 
reason  in  things  for  the  individual  willingly  to 
allow  himself  thus  to  be  used  for  the  good  of  the 
whole,  as  means  and  not  end?  Certainly  not 
on  the  naturalistic  hypothesis.  Briefly,  Eucken 
condemns  all  merely  socialistic  solutions  of  the 
life  problem  because  they  first  in  theory  reduce 
man  to  an  animal  (not  to  put  too  fine  a  point 
upon  it)  and  then  call  upon  him  in  practice  to 
act  as  a  man  and  a  "soldier  of  the  common 
good."  No,  the  more  logical  way  of  meeting  a 
life  situation  which  is  condemned  to  the  realm 
of  nature  is  to  refuse  to  do  other  than  make  the 
best  of  things  for  one's  self.  This  position  has 
also  been  pretty  thoroughly  exploited  under 
various  forms  of  aesthetic  individualism.  In 
this  scheme  of  life,  art  is  divorced  from  morality 
and  made  supreme.  In  this  view  the  content  of 
art  is  set  aside  as  being  irrelevant,  and  form  is 
hailed  as  its  all  in  all.  But  form  in  itself  only 
appeals  to  the  senses,  and  confers  no  inner  free- 
dom. "  Genuine  independence  is  to  be  found 
only  when  the  creative  work  proceeds  solely  from 
an  inner  necessity  of  the  artist's  own  nature. 
But  this  cannot  take  place  unless  there  is  some- 
thing to  say,  nay,  to  reveal.  Mere  virtuosity 
knows  no  such  necessity." 

Let  us  glance  at  one  more  tendency  of  the 
day  before  passing  to  the  constructive  contribu- 
tion which  Eucken  makes  to  the  solution  of  the 
world  problem.  That  tendency  is  the  pragmatic 
movement  which  is  at  one  with  Eucken  in  its 
reaction  against  intellectualism,  materialism, 
and  mere  aestheticism.  Pragmatism,  of  course, 
would  estimate  truth  by  its  service  to  humanity. 
Does  the  god  idea  seem  to  function  well  in 
society?  If  it  does,  then  a  god  let  us  have. 
In  his  criticism  of  this  movement  Eucken  best 
exhibits  his  own  position.  With  its  insistence 
upon  action  as  against  thought  as  the  primary 
concern  of  life,  Eucken  is  in  agreement.  But 
obviously  pragmatism  is  humanistic.  It  cannot 
go  beyond  man  even  when  it  reaches  out  to  god. 

"  When  the  good  of  the  individual  and  humanity 
becomes  the  highest  aim  and  the  guiding  principle,  truth 
sinks  to  the  level  of  a  merely  utilitarian  opinion.  This 
is  destructive  of  inner  life.  All  the  power  of  conviction 
that  truth  can  possess  must  disappear  the  moment  it  is 


1912.] 


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seen  to  be  a  mere  means.  .  .  .  Finally,  the  chief  aim 
and  end  of  pragmatism  —  the  success  and  enrichment 
of  human  life  —  is  as  an  end  by  no  means  free  from 
objection.  By  human  life  is  here  meant  civilized  life  on 
the  broad  scale;  but  in  order  to  regard  this  life  as  so 
surely  good,  one  must  be  inspired  by  the  optimistic 
enthusiasm  for  human  culture  which  was  more  character- 
istic of  earlier  ages  than  it  is  of  our  own.  Is  this  life, 
when  taken  as  in  itself  the  final  thing,  really  worth  all 
the  trouble  and  excitement,  all  the  work  and  effort,  all 
the  sufferings  and  sacrifices  that  it  costs  ?  " 

Life  can  only  be  worth  while,  thinks  Eucken, 
if  there  is  more  in  it  than  pragmatism  can 
guarantee, — only  if  the  life  of  man  be  taken 
up  into  a  realm  of  reality  which  transcends  the 
human  and  is  independent  of  it.  This  realm  is 
no  merely  human  affair,  but  represents  a  new 
stage  in  reality  into  which  man  who  is,  under 
one  aspect,  a  being  of  nature,  enters  and  thereby 
becomes  more  than  a  being  of  nature, — becomes 
a  being  having  his  dependence  on,  and  suste- 
nance from,  the  eternal  itself. 

This  is  the  conception  which  dictates  Eucken's 
stalwart  individualism.  As  against  those  think 
ers  who  claim  that  man  can  only  enter  into  spiri- 
tual life  as  a  member  of  society, — who  claim 
that  the  emotional  lift  which  the  presence  of  a 
similarly  minded  and  intentioned  crowd  gives  to 
each  member  of  it  is  at  once  the  basis  and  the 
end  of  religion, — Eucken  holds  that  for  the 
individual  to  lean  on  crowd  or  on  State  is  to 
impoverish  himself.  Eucken  is  not  an  advocate 
of  what  he  calls  "  mere  individual  freedom,"  as 
he  has  for  man  as  a  mere  "specimen  of  a  spe- 
cies "  nothing  but  contempt.  But  the  mutual 
relationships  of  individuals  "must  proceed  from 
their  own  personal  decision  and  free  agreement." 
And,  "failing  this  free  unity  the  tendency  is 
more  and  more  for  men  to  fall  back  on  the  State." 
The  reason  for  this  is  "because  the  individual, 
on  account  of  the  breaking  down  of  traditional 
relationships  and  the  thorough  insecurity  of  his 
own  position,  yearns  after  some  sort  of  firm 
hold,  because  he  wishes  to  see  his  existence  in 
some  way  valued  and  protected  by  the  whole." 
And  "what  shaping  of  human  conditions  will 
result  therefrom  lies  for  the  time  being  in  pro- 
found obscurity."  With  the  cry  of  democracy 
for  this  security,  and  also  for  a  share  in  culture, 
Eucken  sympathizes,  but  in  the  ability  of  a 
democracy  to  operate  in  anything  but  a  "vul- 
garizing, shallowing,  narrowing,  and  negating 
fashion"  unless  it  be  led  by  strong  individual- 
ities,— themselves  the  fruits  of  spiritual  culture, 
—  he  has  little  faith.  He  sees  such  a  democracy 
degenerate  into  a  sleek,  materialistic  type  of  life 
which  shall  be  destructive  of  all  spiritual  values 
and  hence  self-destructive. 


We  may  well  admit  with  Eucken  that  human- 
istic culture  as  it  exhibits  itself  before  us 
to-day  is  nothing  to  boast  about.  We  may  agree 
with  his  denunciations  of  unmoral  art,  unspiri- 
tual  work,  and  uninspired  might  of  numbers,  as 
means  and  methods  of  solving  the  problems  of 
life.  If  we  do  this  we  must  either  admit  hu- 
manity's defeat  in  its  struggle  for  spiritual  ex- 
istence, or  we  must  accept  some  such  solution 
of  the  question  as  Eucken  offers  us  in  his  idea 
of  the  independent  spiritual  life.  But  the 
reader  who  reaches  this  point  in  agreement 
with  him  will  be  disappointed  with  the  working 
out  of  that  conception  itself.  He  will  wander 
from  volume  to  volume  of  Eucken's  works 
looking  for  a  really  clear  and  understandable 
statement  of  this  life.  He  will  read  that  it  is 
achievable  by  man  but  not  created  by  him,  that 
it  is  a  personal  inner  world  and  yet  that  it  is 
cosmic.  The  transition  to  it  he  will  not  be  able 
to  see.  He  will  probably  conclude  that  Eucken 
takes  it  for  granted  because  he  feels  that  we 
need  it.  But  if  the  reader  is  content  to  give 
his  own  interpretation  to  Eucken's  phrase,  and 
to  enter  rather  into  Eucken's  spirit  in  uttering 
it,  he  will  find  him  not  only  an  efficient  guide 
to  the  maze  of  modern  life  but  one  who  on  the 
whole  enables  us  to  transcend  the  disillusion- 
ments  to  which  he  exposes  us  in  his  critique  of 
our  cultural  limitations. 

LLEWELLYN  JONES. 


BRIEFS  ON  NEW  BOOKS. 


The  lure  of          «  Written  from  a  life-long  knowledge 

literature  from  •,  •.  c  ,,       -r,      .       •,,.        T<      j     » 

a  bookseller's       and  love  of  the  Bookselling  Trade, 
standpoint.  Mr.  Joseph  Shaylor's   collection  of 

articles  entitled  "The  Fascination  of  Books,  with 
Other  Papers  on  Books  and  Bookselling"  (Putnam) 
has  a  certain  practical,  observational,  time-tested 
quality  that  commands  the  reader's  respectful  atten- 
tion and  gives  him  the  comfortable  feeling  of  having 
both  feet  always  on  the  solid  ground.  The  eighteen 
chapters  deal  with  questions  interesting  to  book- 
publishers,  book-sellers,  and  book-readers  alike,  and 
are  at  least  partly  collected  from  leading  English 
magazines  and  reviews  and  the  "Encyclopaedia 
Britannica."  The  glimpses  that  the  author  gives  of 
book-publishing  customs  in  the  pre-copyright  past 
(before  1710)  impress  one  with  the  number  and 
magnitude  of  the  abuses  formerly  flourishing  for 
the  enrichment  of  the  unscrupulous.  A  popular 
writer's  name  became  common  property,  a  label 
affixed  by  the  bookseller  at  pleasure  to  any  produc- 
tion in  order  to  expedite  its  sale.  The  book-trade  is 
not  even  yet  blamelessly  conducted,  but  its  progress 
toward  high  ethical  standards  is  seen  to  have  been 
considerable.  Mr.  Shaylor  gives  the  bookseller  no 


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[Oct.  16, 


mean  rank.  He  says:  "Booksellers  may  console 
themselves  by  being  classed  with  those  who  follow 
literature  as  a  profession,  and  of  whom  Froude  has 
said, '  It  happens  to  be  the  only  occupation  in  which 
wages  are  not  given  in  proportion  to  the  goodness 
of  the  work  done.' "  His  paper  on  "  Some  Old  Li- 
braries" might  at  first  glance  mislead  by  its  title; 
it  discusses,  not  libraries  as  the  word  is  commonly 
understood,  but  certain  early  Victorian  series  of 
books,  such  as  the  Parlour  Library,  the  Railway 
Library,  the  Popular  Library  of  Modern  Authors, 
and  others.  In  a  timely  chapter  on  "The  Use  and 
Abuse  of  Book  Titles"  the  author  fails  to  set  the 
seal  of  his  disapproval  on  that  too  common  abuse 
whereby  the  same  English  or  American  book  appears 
under  different  names  on  the  two  sides  of  the  Atlantic 
—  a  source  of  vexation  to  booksellers,  as  well  as  to 
librarians  and  others,  which  he  doubtless  deplores. 
Another  cause  of  bewilderment  to  the  trade  is  the 
heedless  ordering  of  a  book  by  the  heading  prefixed 
to  a  critic's  review  of  it — an  inadvertence  for  which 
Mr.  Shaylor  does  not  blame  the  reviewer,  though 
he  regrets  its  frequency  and  the  trouble  and  loss  of 
time  it  occasions  to  the  busy  bookseller.  A  pleasing 
portrait  of  this  cultured  and  courteous  English  book- 
connoisseur  faces  the  title-page  of  his  informing 
and  entertaining  volume. 

The  latent  Life  The  perennial  interest  which  has 
of  Napoleon's  always  surrounded  everything  per- 
taining to  Napoleon  clings  in  no 
small  degree  to  the  name  of  his  first  wife,  the 
Empress  Josephine,  whose  career  was  so  closely 
bound  up  with  his  down  to  1810,  the  year  of  their 
divorce.  The  latest  narrative  of  her  life  is  from  the 
pen  of  Baron  de  Me*neval,  published  in  an  English 
translation  by  Messrs.  Lippincott.  It  curiously  pur- 
ports to  be  an  "autobiography,"  and  the  publishers' 
announcement  states  that  "the  author  has  set  him- 
self the  task  of  justifying,  by  means  of  authentic 
documents  in  his  possession,  the  evidences  of  respect 
and  esteem  rendered  to  the  memory  of  the  Empress 
Josephine  by  the  Duke  of  Reichstadt"  (Napoleon's 
son  by  Marie  Louise  of  Austria).  Notwithstanding 
the  fact  that  Mdneval's  sources  include  many  letters 
and  other  documents  hitherto  unpublished,  it  cannot 
be  said  that  he  has  greatly  increased  the  store  of 
information  already  available  and  utilized  in  such 
popular  sketches  as  those  by  Miss  Ida  Tarbell 
and  Miss  Harriet  A.  Guerber,  and  especially  in  the 
standard  Life  of  Josephine  by  Aubenas  (1859). 
These  facts,  however,  he  has  re-assembled  and  added 
to ;  and  from  them  he  has  painted  a  pleasing  picture 
of  the  graceful  and  affectionate  woman  who  held 
for  so  long  the  heart  of  the  world's  conqueror.  He 
admits  her  extravagance  and  her  occasional  indis- 
cretions ;  but  he  gives  her  the  benefit  of  every  doubt, 
and  reserves  his  invectives,  naturally  enough,  for 
Marie  Louise,  who  supplanted  her,  and  for  Fouch^, 
the  treacherous  minister  of  police,  who  probably 
deserves  all  the  odium  that  has  been  heaped  upon 
him.  Napoleon  is  treated  with  great  consideration 


and  respect,  and  is  deprived  of  none  of  the  halo 
with  which  most  Frenchmen  have  invested  him. 
The  English  version,  by  Mr.  D.  D.  Fraser,  is  gener- 
ally smooth  and  idiomatic  ;  but  the  proof-reading  has 
been,  in  some  places,  very  carelessly  done.  "Anti- 
podes," on  page  18,  should  probably  be  "  Antilles  "; 
and  some  especially  unfortunate  slips  are  found  in 
the  first  two  sentences  of  the  book,  in  which  the 
heroine  is  twice  referred  to  by  the  masculine  pro- 
noun, and  Louis  XVI.  is  made  to  do  duty  for  his 
predecessor.  _ 


Some  Salem  days  when  the  old  wooden 

ship-owners  of  whalers  and  merchantmen  are  be- 
the  olden  time,  coming  more  and  more  of  a  rarity 
in  our  New  England  ports,  such  a  book  as  Mr. 
Robert  E.  Peabody's  "Merchant  Venturers  of  Old 
Salem  "  (Houghton)  serves  as  a  welcome  reminder 
of  that  vanished  era  of  American  ship-building  and 
ocean-voyaging  before  the  whole  habitable  globe  and 
navigable  sea  had  been  made  an  open  and  familiar 
book  to  every  school-boy.  In  his  volume,  which  is 
described  in  its  sub-title  as  "  A  History  of  the  Com- 
mercial Voyages  of  a  New  England  Family  to  the 
Indies  and  Elsewhere  in  the  XVIII  Century,"  the 
author  traces  the  business  fortunes  of  the  historic 
Derby  family  of  Salem,  and  incidentally  brings  in 
other  shipmasters  and  navigators,  notably  Captain 
Nathaniel  Silsbee,  Nathaniel  Bowditch,  and  Richard 
Cleveland,  grandfather  of  President  Cleveland.  It 
was  Elias  Hasket  Derby  who  raised  the  family  name 
to  preeminence  in  Salem  by  his  mastery  of  the  busi- 
ness of  ocean  trading,  and  a  picture  of  the  mansion 
he  built  for  the  enjoyment  of  his  later  opulent  years, 
after  the  vexations  and  losses  of  Revolutionary  times 
were  well  in  the  past,  shows  him  to  have  been  a 
grandee  of  more  than  parochial  prominence.  Atten- 
tion is  called,  in  the  closing  pages,  to  the  debt  which 
our  country's  growth  and  prosperity  owe  to  these 
early  ship-owners  who  pushed  their  commerce  into 
all  parts  of  the  world  and  made  the  new  nation 
widely  known  and  respected.  A  still  greater  debt, 
it  might  have  been  added,  do  we  owe  these  enter- 
prising traders  for  the  new  thought  and  wider  out- 
look which  they  brought  into  the  narrow  intellectual 
life  of  Puritan  New  England  —  a  stimulus  that  had 
a  direct  bearing  on  the  educational  and  religious 
development  of  that  corner  of  our  country.  Mr. 
Peabody's  preface  is  written  at  Marblehead,  and 
from  this  and  other  indications  the  book  appears  to 
have  come  into  being  in  the  very  atmosphere  of 
those  traditions  it  so  agreeably  hands  down  to  future 
readers.  Its  portraits  and  other  illustrations  are  of 
peculiar  interest.  _ 
A  Nietzschean  Dr.  Q.  T.  Wrench,  a  London  physi- 
S£5£Kf  cian,  in  a  large  book  of  over  five  hun- 
in  government,  dred  pages  entitled  "The  Mastery  of 
Life  "  (Kennerley)  has  written  a  "  review  of  the 
history  of  civilization  "  with  the  aim  of  showing  that 
the  conditions  under  which  man  has  always  shown 
the  most  positive  attitude  toward  life  have  always 
been  the  conditions  of  paternalism  (which  word  with 


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297 


Dr.  Wrench  is  synonymous  with  Nietzschean  aristoc- 
racy), and  that  democracy  is  a  perversion  of  the 
civilized  mind  from  which  the  consciousness  of  all 
our  men  who  are  fitted  to  rule  must  he  purged  before 
further  progress  —  or  rather  before  any  progress  — 
can  be  made.  Dr.  Wrench  first  gives  reviews  of  the 
histories  and  social  psychologies  of  Egypt,  Greece, 
Rome,  the  Romanesque  period,  Gothic  influences, 
Germany  and  England,  the  Renaissance,  the  Roman 
Renaissance,  and  Dutch  and  Saxon  Art.  Presum- 
ably, in  these  historic  sketches,  the  author  resists 
any  temptation  to  be  guided  in  his  necessarily  partial 
selection  of  facts  and  aspects  by  his  preconceived 
thesis.  Coming  down  to  later  times,  he  character- 
izes our  progress  since  the  industrial  revolution  of 
the  early  nineteenth  century  as  a  "  Gadarene  prog- 
ress "  and  devotes  a  chapter  to  showing  it  up  as  such. 
In  many  ways,  it  has  been  just  that ;  but  unfor- 
tunately Dr.  Wrench  seems  unable  to  separate  the 
Gadarene  from  the  divine  elements  in  this  imme- 
diately past  and  contemporary  drama.  Pragmatism, 
for  instance,  he  attacks  as  a  "  dollar  philosophy," 
and  he  accuses  Professor  James  of  "naively"  saying 
that  every  idea  has  a  dollar  value.  Of  course,  James 
never  said  this,  and  the  expression  he  did  use,  "  cash 
value,"  was  very  carefully  guarded  and  explicitly 
limited  to  values  which  were  of  the  spirit.  The  fact 
that  so  much  of  Dr.  Wrench's  indictment  of  democ- 
racy is  true,  is  simply  due  to  the  fact  that  the  in- 
dustrial revolution  threw  the  government  of  things 
into  the  people's  hands  before  any  system  of  philos- 
ophy had  succeeded  in  giving  us  a  new  set  of  moral 
values.  To  turn  away  from  democracy  at  this  date, 
and  especially  to  turn  to  a  crude  interpretation  of 
what  Nietzsche  may  or  may  not  have  meant  —  for 
Nietzsche  was  a  mystic  who  spoke  in  parables  —  is 
impossible.  The  hope  of  the  future  lies  in  clearly 
thinking  out  the  problems  of  democracy  and  embrac- 
ing them  in  a  consistent  world-view  which  will  again 
exhibit  moral  values  in  a  supreme  light.  This,  of 
course,  is  just  what  Dr.  Wrench  tries  to  do,  except 
that  he  begins  by  denying  democracy.  Pragmatism, 
on  the  other  hand,  is  an  attempt  to  do  this,  by  medi- 
ating spiritual  values  to  democracy.  If  this  can  be 
done  democracy  is  safe.  But  if  there  is  no  basis  in 
reality  for  spiritual  values  but  only  merely  subjective 
and  aesthetic  base,  then  we  are  not  sure  but  that  Dr. 
Wrench  has  made  good  his  case  against  democracy. 
But  in  this  latter  case,  his  criterion  of  aristocracy, 
abjuring  as  it  does  mere  fitness  to  survive  as  being 
a  criterion  of  good,  may  be  found  difficult  to 
establish.  


An  English 
outline  of 
German 
literature. 


When  Professor  J.  G.  Robertson  con- 
densed his  "  History  of  German  Lit- 
erature" (Blackwood,  1902)  of  fifty 
chapters  and  635  pages  into  the  present  ''Outlines 
of  the  History  of  German  Literature"  (Putnam)  of 
twenty-five  chapters  and  320  pages,  he  gave  irre- 
futable testimony  to  the  wisdom  of  Goethe's  verse: 
"In  der  Beschrankung  zeigt  sich  erst  der  Meister." 
The  index  of  the  original  work  tabulates  eight  hun- 


dred proper  names  and  260  topics  and  authorless 
works;  that  of  the  abridgment  tabulates  five  hun- 
dred of  the  former  and  160  of  the  latter.  But 
Professor  Robertson  has  not  simply  deleted ;  he 
has  rearranged,  abridged  his  remarks  on  the  great 
writers,  omitted  some  of  the  lesser  ones  entirely, 
eliminated  quotations  and  notes,  added  chronological 
tables  of  important  events  and  works  from  the 
consecration  of  Wulfilas  as  Bishop  of  the  Visigoths 
(341)  to  the  death  of  Nietzsche  (1900),  and,  what 
is  very  pleasing  to  the  reader,  completely  reworded 
the  whole.  The  tables,  to  be  sure,  add  but  little 
to  those  of  Professor  Nollen  in  the  "Lake  German 
Series,"  but  their  connection  with  the  preceding 
text  greatly  increases  their  value.  Barring  a  few 
instances  of  incorrect  syllabification  at  the  end  of 
lines  (pages  244,  251,  256),  there  are  no  faith- 
shaking  misprints.  The  book  abounds  in  first  in- 
stances and  superlatives:  " Ludwigslied "  (881)  is 
the  first  German  ballad,  "Ruodlieb"  (1030)  the 
first  German  romance,  Dietmar  von  Aist  has  given 
us  the  first  German  "  Tagelied ";  "  Der  arme  Hein- 
rich"is  one  of  the  most  charming  idylls  in  mediaeval 
literature,  Gyburg  is  the  finest  of  all  Wolfram's 
women,  Murner  is  the  most  unscrupulous  satirist 
in  the  whole  range  of  German  literature,  Annette 
von  Droste  has  written  the  finest  German  religious 
poetry  of  the  nineteenth  century,  Nietzsche  was  the 
most  gifted  writer  of  the  last  generation,  and  so  on 
through  a  very  long  list.  The  recapitulations  and 
transitions  are  presented  with  really  artistic  skill. 
The  language,  generally  clear,  is  at  times  queer, — 
there  are  readers  who  do  not  like  such  expressions 
as  "led  to  them  being  considered."  The  critical 
opinions  are,  on  the  whole,  the  result  of  sympathetic 
scholarship.  

In  a  tone  of  simple  sincerity  that 
holds  the  attention  from  the  start, 
the  author  of  "  One  of  the  Multitude  " 
(Dodd)  tells  the  story  of  his  painful  struggle  upward 
from  slum  life  in  East-End  London  to  respectability 
and  comparative  prosperity.  Absolute  truth  in  every 
detail  except  proper  names  is  vouched  for  by  the 
writer,  who  calls  himself  George  Acorn,  and  by  his 
literary  sponsor,  Mr.  Arthur  Christopher  Benson, 
who  contributes  a  thoughtful  introduction  touching 
on  some  of  the  social  problems  suggested  by  the  nar- 
rative. It  is  just  such  a  heart-stirring  and  thought- 
evoking  chronicle  as  that  with  which  Mr.  George 
Meek,  under  the  sponsorship  of  Mr.  H.  G.  Wells, 
arrested  the  attention  of  the  English-reading  world 
two  years  ago.  The  confessions  of  a  cockney  Owen 
Kildare,  the  publishers  not  unfitly  call  the  book,  — 
"  a  human  document  that  compels  attention  from  its 
grim  fidelity  to  the  life  it  describes."  The  wonder 
of  it  all  is  that  one  born  and  reared  amid  such  de- 
grading surroundings  could  have  not  only  conceived 
the  possibility  of  things  so  much  higher  and  better, 
but  remained  true  to  that  early  vision  until  it  began 
to  assume  some  sort  of  blessed  reality.  The  heart- 
breaking struggle  to  attain  to  this  reality  is  told  with 


Up  front, 
the  slums. 


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an  unconscious  art  that  makes  the  book  a  veritable 
work  of  literature.  A  high  ideal,  a  firm  will,  and 
a  sense  of  humor  seem  to  have  been  important  factors 
in  the  ultimate  working-out  of  the  writer's  salvation 
through  his  own  independent  efforts.  Much  also  he 
must  have  owed  to  his  love  of  reading :  Dickens 
and  George  Eliot  he  especially  mentions  among  those 
whose  books  furnished  him  a  refuge  from  the  hate- 
ful realities  of  his  material  environment.  Cabinet- 
making,  chosen  by  him  as  his  trade  in  early  youth 
and  followed  with  industry  and  skill,  was  the  ladder 
by  which  he  climbed  at  last  to  the  possession  of  a 
pleasant  home  and  family,  with  cheering  hopes  for 
the  future.  Again  we  have  illustrated  in  this  unpre- 
tentious history  the  familiar  truth  that  no  human 
life,  if  faithfully  related,  can  prove  devoid  of  very 
real  and  living  interest. 

A  treatise  on  The  presentation  of  comparative 
Comparative  anatomy  is  a  task  demanding  an 
Anatomy.  extensive  and  lucid  terminology  of 

technical  terms,  great  skill  in  graphic  presentation 
of  the  complicated  structural  interrelations  of  parts, 
and  a  logical  marshalling  of  the  seemingly  endless 
array  of  data  so  that  the  reader  is  conscious  of  his 
progress  through  the  subject.  These  requirements 
of  a  clear-cut  terminology,  of  illustrations  which 
really  portray  relations,  and  of  logical  presentation 
characterize  Professor  J.  S.  Kingsley's  "Compara- 
tive Anatomy  of  Vertebrates"  (Blakiston).  The 
illustrations  are  unusually  numerous,  clear,  and  well- 
labelled;  they  are  mainly  original,  and  specially 
devised  to  illustrate  the  text.  Many  stereograms 
are  employed,  with  excellent  results,  to  express  in 
contour  the  relations  of  organs.  A  little  more  ac- 
cent and  contrast,  bolder  utilization  of  heavy  lines, 
and  more  care  in  the  use  of  the  blender  upon  shaded 
surfaces  would  have  greatly  improved  some  of  these 
otherwise  excellent  drawings.  The  author  pays 
especial  attention  to  the  vertebrate  skull,  an  excel- 
lent motif  horn  the  standpoint  either  of  comparative 
anatomy  or  of  pedagogy.  The  use  of  bold-face  type 
for  technical  terms  will  greatly  enhance  the  value 
of  the  book  as  a  work  of  reference,  as  will  also  the 
exceptionally  complete  index  and  extensive  bibli- 
ography. The  volume  is  a  welcome  and  excellent 
addition  to  the  list  of  American  biological  text-books 
and  works  of  reference. 


American  ^ne  reniark  of  M.  Carnot,  late  Pres- 

assodations  ident  of  the  French  Republic,  that 
in  Paris.  «  Chaque  homme  a  deux  pays,  le  sein 

et  la  France,"  indicates  a  frame  of  mind  which  is 
very  general  and  which  has  given  rise  to  a  multitude 
of  books  dealing  with  things  French.  Some  of  these 
volumes  have  been  solid  contributions  to  the  subject, 
some  have  been  entertaining,  some  have  been  both 
solid  and  entertaining ;  but  Mr.  John  Joseph  Con- 
way's  "  Footprints  of  Famous  Americans  in  Paris  " 
(Lane)  is,  candidly,  neither  the  one  nor  the  other. 
One  derives  the  impression  that  a  host  of  Americans 
have  left  traces  in  Paris,  but  that  they  made  no  foot- 


prints distinct  enough  to  be  worth  recording  in  a 
sumptuously  bound,  printed,  and  illustrated  volume. 
A  painstaking  search  among  standard  biographies 
and  a  few  somewhat  more  esoteric  sources  reveals 
little  that  is  significant  or  even  diverting,  Love 
affairs,  when  Americans  were  so  obliging  as  to  in- 
volve themselves  in  more  or  less  harmless  liaisons, 
are  utilized  to  the  full ;  so  are  the  bristling  idiosyn- 
cracies  of  Whistler.  But.  in  general,  distinguished 
Americans  seem  to  have  gone  soberly  about  their 
business  in  Paris,  and  there  is  consequently  little 
material  for  the  book.  As  a  result,  the  author  is 
driven  to  include  not  only  divers  Americans  who  are 
so  far  from  famous  that  a  normally  intelligent  reader 
has  never  heard  of  them,  but  such  "  Americans  "  as 
Tom  Paine  and  La  Fayette,  who  are  lugged  in  willy- 
nilly.  Moreover,  even  when  the  man  under  consider- 
ation is  undeniably  famous  and  an  American,  the 
writing  is  often  irrelevant,  —  as  when  we  are  told 
that  Longfellow  died  of  peritonitis  in  Craigie  House, 
Cambridge.  Irrelevancies  and  small  talk  abound, 
varied  by  pages  of  quotation,  or  by  passages  of  dull 
record  and  unsavory  anecdote.  The  book  cannot  be 
called  a  contribution  to  anything ;  nor  is  it  interest- 
ing, save  in  the  sense  that  a  vaudeville  performance 
is  interesting. 

BRIEFER  MENTION. 


The  attempt  to  reinstate  the  lore,  or  resurrect  the 
lure,  of  an  earlier  or  a  foreign  mysticism  in  the  language 
or  the  thought  or  the  environment  of  a  modern  time 
and  clime  is  a  vain  and  not  wholly  innocent  pursuit. 
This  is  particularly  the  case  with  such  a  work  as  Dr. 
Rudolf  Steiner's  "The  Gates  of  Knowledge"  (Putnam). 
The  "  gates  "  seem  futile  either  to  exclude  or  to  inclose, 
for  the  admittance  is  to  a  realm  of  subjective  vacuity, 
with  stage  directions  that  but  emphasize  the  unreality. 
To  what  manner  of  stranded  soul  or  detached  spirit 
such  immersion  in  an  artificial  compound  of  the  volatile 
deposits  of  occult  procedures  brings  satisfaction  or  con- 
viction, it  is  difficult  to  conjecture.  Nevertheless,  that 
those  who  like  it  take  to  it  is  evident  to  the  esoteric  as 
well  as  to  the  practical  mind. 

It  is  strange  that  we  bave  had  to  wait  so  long  for  an 
American  edition  of  Mr.  Edward  Carpenter's  volume  of 
poems,  "Towards  Democracy."  This  work,  first  pub- 
lished (in  England)  in  1883,  has  long  exercised  a  power- 
ful influence  with  an  ever-widening  circle  of  American 
readers.  In  form  it  inevitably  suggests  Whitman,  and 
there  is  a  marked  resemblance  in  spirit  also, —  the 
younger  poet  has  more  than  a  little  of  the  elder's  cosmic 
comprehensiveness,  his  imperturbable  faith  in  nature 
and  humanity,  his  wide  unhampered  vision.  But,  as 
Carpenter  himself  says,  "  Towards  Democracy  "  shines 
with  a  milder  radiance  than  "  Leaves  of  Grass," — "  as  of 
the  moon  compared  with  the  sun."  It  is  more  subdued 
and  reflective,  and  associates  itself  far  more  intimately 
with  the  actual  social  conditions  of  to-day.  The  worst 
thing  about  the  book  is  its  title,  which  has  doubtless 
misled  and  deterred  many  readers.  The  American  edi- 
tion now  published  by  Mr.  Mitchell  Kennerley  is  attract- 
ive in  form, —  though  we  think  many  readers  will  prefer 
the  compact  little  English  volume  on  thin  paper.  Two 
photogravure  portraits  of  the  author  are  included. 


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"  Rhymes  of  a  Rolling  Stone,"  by  Mr.  Robert  W. 
Service,  author  of  "  The  Spell  of  the  Yukon,"  will  be 
published  soon  by  Messrs.  Dodd,  Mead  &  Co. 

One  of  the  most  important  publications  of  the  present 
month  will  be  Senator  La  Follette's  Autobiography, 
which  Messrs.  Doubleday,  Page  &  Co.  are  issuing. 

"The  Financier,"  by  Mr.  Theodore  Dreiser,  and 
"  The  Net "  by  Mr.  Rex  Beach,  are  two  novels  of 
especial  interest  on  Messrs.  Harper's  October  list. 

Dr.  Francis  Rolt- Wheeler,  author  of  several  boys' 
books  and  scientific  works,  has  in  press  with  Lothrop, 
Lee  &  Shepard  Co.  a  poetic  drama  entitled  "Nimrod." 

Mr.  John  Stuart  Thomson,  author  of  "  The  Chinese," 
has  recently  completed  a  new  work  entitled  "  Revolu- 
tionized China,"  which  will  appear  toward  the  end  of 
this  year. 

A  new  story  by  Mr.  E.  M.  Dell,  author  of  "  The 
Way  of  an  Eagle,"  will  be  published  next  year  by 
Messrs.  Putnam  under  the  title,  "  The  Knave  of 
Diamonds." 

Mrs.  Frances  Hodgson  Burnett  has  written  a  new 
novel,  which  "  The  Century  Magazine  "  will  publish 
serially  this  year.  Mrs.  Burnett  has  named  her  story 
«  T.  Tembarom." 

In  "  A  Book  of  Discovery,"  which  Messrs.  Putnam 
will  publish  shortly,  Mr.  M.  B.  Synge,  F.R.Hist.S.,  gives 
an  account  of  exploration  from  the  earliest  times  to  the 
finding  of  the  South  Pole. 

An  extended  biography  of  James  Fenimore  Cooper, 
based  in  part  on  material  never  before  utilized,  has 
been  prepared  by  Miss  Mary  E.  Phillips,  and  will  soon 
be  published  by  John  Lane  Co. 

It  is  reported  that  M.  Remain  Holland  has  just  com- 
pleted the  tenth  and  concluding  volume  of  his  novel, 
"  Jean  Christophe,"  and  that  it  will  appear  shortly  in 
Paris  under  the  title  of  "  Nouvelle  Journe'e." 

"  The  Union  of  South  Africa,"  by  Mr.  W.  Basil  Wors- 
fold,  formerly  editor  of  the  Johannesburg  "  Star,"  will 
appear  shortly  in  the  "  All  Red  British  Empire  Series," 
published  in  this  country  by  Messrs.  Little,  Brown,  &  Co. 

The  series  of  articles  on  "Making  a  Business 
Woman,"  by  Anne  Shannon  Monroe,  which  have  been 
appearing  in  the  "  Saturday  Evening  Post,"  will  be  pub- 
lished this  month  in  book  form,  with  some  added  matter, 
by  Messrs.  Holt. 

"  Plays  and  Players  of  Modern  Italy,"  by  Mr.  Addison 
McLeod,  is  announced  by  Messrs.  Charles  H.  Sergei  & 
Co.  A  new  volume  by  Mr.  William  Norman  Guthrie, 
"  The  Vital  Study  of  Literature,  and  Other  Essays,"  will 
be  published  by  the  same  firm. 

The  collected  works  of  Richard  Middleton,  a  young 
English  writer  of  considerable  promise  whose  recent 
tragic  death  has  been  widely  commented  upon,  will  be 
published  shortly  by  Mr.  Mitchell  Kennerley  in  two  vol- 
umes, one  of  poems  and  another  of  stories. 

M.  Pierre  Loti,  who  is  now  in  New  York  directing 
the  production  of  his  new  play,  "  The  Daughter  of 
Heaven,"  has  engaged  to  contribute  to  the  "  Century  " 
a  record  of  his  impressions  of  New  York,  and  they  will 
appear  in  an  early  number  of  the  magazine. 

The  authorized  translation,  prepared  by  Mr.  T.  E. 
Hulme,  of  M.  Henri  Bergson's  "  Introduction  to 
Metaphysics  "  is  announced  by  Messrs.  Putnam.  In 
this  little  volume  the  author  explains  with  a  thorough- 


ness not  attempted  in  his  other  books  the  precise  mean- 
ing he  wishes  to  convey  by  the  word  "  intuition."  The 
present  edition  has  been  prepared  under  the  supervision 
of  M.  Bergson,  and  contains  additions  made  by  him. 

A  fresh  collection  of  Lady  Gregory's  Irish  plays  is 
announced  by  Messrs.  Putnam.  Its  title  is  "  New  Come- 
dies," and  the  names  of  the  five  plays  to  be  included 
are  "The  Bogie  Man,"  "The  Full  Moon,"  "Coats," 
"Darner's  Gold,"  and  "  McDonough's  Wife." 

Professor  Philip  Van  Ness  Myers,  whose  textbooks 
on  ancient  history  have  long  been  standard,  has  recently 
devoted  himself  to  the  ethical  aspects  of  history  and  now 
has  in  preparation  a  volume  entitled  "  History  as  Past 
Ethics,"  which  Messrs.  Ginn  &  Co.  will  publish  soon. 

A  volume  of  "  German  Memoirs "  by  Mr.  Sidney 
Whitman,  a  prominent  English  journalist,  will  be  issued 
at  once  by  Messrs.  Scribner.  Mr.  Whitman's  recollec- 
tions of  German  personalities  and  affairs  cover  a  period 
beginning  in  1859  and  coming  down  nearly  to  the 
present  day. 

Publication  in  book  form  of  Miss  Mary  S.  Watts's 
new  novel,  "  Van  Cleve  and  his  Friends,"  which  was 
announced  for  this  Fall  by  the  Macmillan  Co.,  has  been 
postponed  for  at  least  a  year  to  permit  of  its  serial 
appearance  in  "The  Atlantic  Monthly,"  beginning  in 
the  December  issue. 

General  Morris  Schaff's  vivid  papers  on  "The  Sunset 
of  the  Confederacy,"  which  have  been  appearing  in 
"  The  Atlantic  Monthly  "  during  the  past  few  months, 
are  soon  to  be  published  in  book  form  by  Messrs.  John 
W.  Luce  &  Co.  This  firm  also  announces  "  Nietzsche 
and  Art,"  by  Mr.  Anthony  M.  Ludovici. 

Miss  Agnes  C.  Laut,  author  of  "  Canada,  the  Empire 
of  the  North,"  etc.,  is  about  to  publish  a  volume  on  the 
Southwest  of  the  United  States.  It  will  be  called 
"  Through  Our  Unknown  Southwest,"  and  will  include 
a  discussion  of  the  influence  upon  trade  development 
likely  to  be  effected  by  the  Panama  Canal. 

"  The  Girlhood  of  Queen  Victoria,"  being  extracts 
from  her  private  diary  from  1832  to  1840,  edited  by 
Viscount  Esher,  is  announced  by  Messrs.  Longmans, 
Green,  &  Co.  This  firm  will  also  publish  a  volume  on 
"  Railway  Rates  and  Regulations  "  by  Dr.  William  Z. 
Ripley,  and  a  new  edition  of  Robert  Louis  Stevenson's 
Memoir  of  Fleeming  Jenkin. 

Among  the  books  to  he  published  by  Messrs.  Harper 
this  mouth  are  the  following:  "Armaments  and  Arbit- 
ration," by  Rear-Admiral  A.  T.  Mahan;  "  In  the  Courts 
of  Memory,"  the  Parisian  recollections  of  an  American 
woman,  Madame  L.  de  Hegermann-Lindenerone ; "  Your 
United  States,"  by  Mr.  Arnold  Bennett;  and  "The 
Ways  of  the  Planets,"  by  Martha  Evans  Martin. 

Two  travel  books  of  especial  interest,  to  appear 
before  long,  are  Captain  Roald  Amundsen's  "  The  Con- 
quest of  the  South  Pole,"  and  Dr.  Sven  Hedin's  "  From 
Pole  to  Pole."  Captain  Amundsen  gives  a  full  account 
of  his  successful  attempt  to  reach  the  South  Pole  in  the 
"  Fram,"  while  Dr.  Sven  Hedin  not  only  deals  with  his 
own  journeys  of  exploration,  but  also  records  those  of 
Livingstone,  Stanley,  and  Gordon. 

Bradford  Torrey,  a  popular  writer  about  birds  and 
flowers,  and  the  author  of  many  books  of  nature- 
studies,  died  October  7  at  Santa  Barbara,  California, 
within  two  days  of  his  sixty-ninth  birthday.  He  was 
born  in  1843  in  Weymouth,  Massachusetts.  Of  late 
years,  he  has  been  one  of  the  editors  of  "  The  Youth's 
Companion."  Among  his  books  are  "  Birds  in  the 


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Bush,"  "  A  Rambler's  Lease,"  "  The  Foot-path  Way," 
"A  Florida  Sketch-book,"  "Spring  Notes  from  Ten- 
nessee," "  A  World  of  Green  Hills,"  and  "  Friends  on 
the  Shelf." 

At  the  time  of  his  death,  Mr.  Andrew  Lang  was  pre- 
paring for  press  a  book  entitled  "  Shakespeare,  Bacon, 
and  the  Great  Unknown."  Mr.  Lang  having  observed 
"  with  pain,  that  the  controversy  has  hitherto  been  pas- 
sionate and  acrimonious,  endeavours  to  treat  the  problem 
with  sweet  reasonableness,  and  if  possible,  with  persua- 
sive urbanity."  He  believes  he  has  been  able  to  demon- 
strate "  that  neither  Bacon  nor  Bungay,  but  William 
Shakespeare,  of  Stratford-on-Avon,  was  the  unassisted 
author  of  the  plays  ascribed  to  him."  Messrs.  Long- 
mans hope  to  publish  Mr.  Lang's  book  during  the  com- 
ing month. 

The  Reverend  Walter  William  Skeat,  the  famous 
philologist  of  Cambridge,  died  in  London  on  the 
seventh  of  October.  Born  in  1835,  and  educated  at 
Cambridge,  he  occupied  a  curacy  for  a  time  before  he 
took  up  the  work  of  teaching  in  his  alma  mater.  His 
first  work  in  editing  was  done  for  Furnivall's  Early 
English  Text  Society,  and  was  concerned  with  "  Lance- 
lot of  the  Laik,"  "Piers  Plowman,"  "The  Bruce," 
Chaucer,  and  the  manuscripts  of  the  Anglo-Saxon  and 
Northumbrian  Gospels.  In  1873,  he  founded  the  En- 
glish Dialect  Society,  and  became  its  president.  Numer- 
ous publications  on  the  subject  of  English  phonetics  and 
philology  made  him  one  of  the  foremost  authorities  in 
those  fields.  In  his  late  years,  he  associated  himself 
with  the  company  of  those  who  chase  the  will-o'-the- 
wisp  of  spelling  reform. 

The  other  arts  have  their  palaces  and  their  periodicals; 
poetry  alone  "  has  been  left  to  shift  for  herself  in  a 
world  unaware  of  its  immediate  and  desperate  need  of 
her."  These  words  of  Miss  Harriet  Monroe's  indicate 
the  motive  which  has  impelled  her  to  plead  Cinderella's 
cause,  and  act  as  fairy  godmother  to  the  neglected 
child.  The  coach-and-four  provided  for  her  triumphant 
progress  takes  the  form  of  a  little  monthly  magazine 
entitled  "  Poetry,"  the  contents  being  chiefly  original 
verse,  although  space  is  found  for  a  few  pages  of  appo- 
site prose  in  the  form  of  editorial  comment  and  critical 
appraisement.  The  venture  is  supported  by  a  hundred 
persons  who  have  enough  faith  in  it  to  pledge  subscrip- 
tions of  fifty  dollars  each  annually  for  five  years,  in  con- 
sequence whereof  its  existence  for  that  period  seems 
assured.  "  We  hope,"  says  Miss  Monroe,  "to  offer  our 
subscribers  a  place  of  refuge,  a  green  isle  in  the  sea, 
where  Beauty  may  plant  her  gardens,  and  Truth,  austere 
reveal  er  of  joy  and  sorrow,  of  hidden  delights  and  des- 
pairs, may  follow  her  brave  quest  unafraid."  Prizes 
are  offered  for  the  best  poem  and  the  best  epigram 
printed  during  the  first  year,  and  an  offer  has  been 
made  by  an  amateur  organization  to  produce  the  best 
play  in  verse  submitted  during  that  period.  The  thirty- 
two  pages  of  the  first  issue  give  us  contributions  from 
four  living  poets,  not  noticeably  better  than  the  verse 
printed  in  the  general  magazines  of  the  better  sort.  The 
issue  is  given  distinction,  however,  by  a  long  poem,  "  I 
Am  the  Woman,"  printed  in  advance  from  the  forth- 
coming edition  of  the  works  of  William  Vaughn  Moody 
(whose  name  is  here  consistently  misspelled  every  time 
it  is  used).  Such  a  poem  as  this  would  justify  any 
magazine  venture.  Although  good  poetry  rarely  finds 
any  difficulty  in  getting  printed,  we  will  confess  to  a 
certain  satisfaction  in  the  fact  that  it  now  has  an  organ 
of  its  own. 


LIST  OF  NEW  BOOKS. 


[TTie  following  list,  containing  22 4.  titles,  includes  books 
received  by  THE  DIAL  since  its  last  issue.'] 

BIOGRAPHY  AND  REMINISCENCES. 

George  Palmer  Putnam:  A  Memoir.  By  George 
Haven  Putnam,  Litt.D.  With  photogravure  por- 
trait, large  8vo,  476  pages.  G.  P.  Putnam's 
Sons.  $2.50  net. 

In  the  Courts  of  Memory,  1858-1875:  From  Contem- 
porary Letters.  Illustrated,  8vo,  450  pages. 
Harper  &  Brothers.  $2.  net. 

T.  De  Witt  Talmage  as  I  Knew  Him.  By  T.  De  Witt 
Talmage,  D.D.,  with  concluding  chapters  by 
Mrs.  T.  De  Witt  Talmage.  Illustrated,  8vo,  439 
pages.  E.  P.  Button  &  Co.  $3.  net. 

Vii.soii  Burlingame,  and  the  First  Chinese  Mission  to 
Foreign  Powers.  By  Frederick  Wells  Williams. 
With  photogravure  portrait,  8vo,  370  pages. 
Charles  Scribner's  Sons.  $2.  net. 

Peter  Ramus,  and  the  Educational  Reformation  of 
the  Sixteenth  Century.  By  Frank  Pierrepont 
Graves.  With  portrait,  12mo,  226  pages.  Mac- 
millan  Co.  $1.25  net. 

Lights  and  Shadows  of  a  Long  Episcopate:  Being 
Reminiscences  and  Recollections  of  the  Right 
Reverend  Henry  Benjamin  Whipple,  D.D.  Illus- 
trated, 12mo,  576  pages.  Macmillan  Co.  $2.  net. 

William  Makepeace  Thackeray.  By  Sidney  Dark. 
Illustrated  in  color,  18mo,  71  pages.  "Little 
Books  on  Great  Writers."  Cassell  &  Co.,  Ltd. 

HISTORY. 

Causes  and  Effects  In  American  History:  The  Story 
of  the  Origin  and  Development  of  the  Nation.  By 
Edwin  W.  Morse.  Illustrated,  12mo,  302  pages. 
Charles  Scribner's  Sons.  $1.25  net. 

The  Beginnings  of  San  Francisco,  from  the  Expedi- 
tion of  Anza,  1774,  to  the  City  Charter  of  April 
15,  1850.  By  Zoeth  Skinner  Eldredge.  In  2  vol- 
umes; illustrated,  8vo.  Published  by  the  author. 
$7.  net. 

The  Old  Irish  World.  By  Alice  Stopford  Green. 
8vo,  197  pages.  Macmillan  Co.  $1.60  net. 

History  of  London.  By  Helen  Douglas-Irvine.  Il- 
lustrated, large  8vo,  396  pages.  James  Pott  &  Co. 
$3.  net. 

Washington  and  Lincoln:  Leaders  of  the  Nation  in 
the  Constitutional  Eras  of  American  History.  By 
Robert  W.  McLaughlin.  With  photogravure  por- 
traits, 8vo,  278  pages.  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons. 
$1.35  net. 

The  Campaign  In  Manchuria,  1904  to  1905:  Second 
Period,  The  Decisive  Battles,  22nd  Aug.  to  17th 
Oct.,  1904.  By  Captain  F.  R.  Sedgwick.  With 
maps  in  pockets,  12mo,  347  pages.  "Special  Cam- 
paign Series."  Macmillan  Co. 

The  Real  Authorship  of  the  Constitution  of  the 
United  States  Explained.  4to,  87  pages.  Wash- 
ington: Government  Printing  Office.  Paper. 

GENERAL    LITERATURE. 
J.    M.    Synge:    A    Critical    Study.      By    P.    P.    Howe. 

With     photogravure     portrait,     8vo,     215     pages. 

Mitchell  Kennerley.     $2.50  net. 
The   Fascination    of   Books,    with    Other    Papers    on 

Books    and    Bookselling.       By    Joseph     Shaylor. 

With  photogravure  portrait,  12mo,  357  pages.     G. 

P.  Putnam's  Sons.     $1.50  net. 
Post    Llmlnium:    Essays    and    Critical    Papers.      By 

Lionel  Johnson;  edited  by  Thomas  Whittemore. 

12mo,  307  pages.     Mitchell  Kennerley.     $2.  net. 
Gateways    to    Literature,    and     Other    Essays.       By 

Brander    Matthews.      12mo,    296    pages.      Charles 

Scribner's  Sons.     $1.25  net. 
A   History  of   English   Prose    Rhythm.      By    George 

Saintsbury.      Large    8vo,    489    pages.      Macmillan 

Co.     $4.50  net. 
The    Verse    of    Greek    Comedy.      By   John    Williams 

White.     8vo,  479  pages.     Macmillan  Co.     $4.  net. 
The  Spirit  of  French  Letters.     By  Mabell  S.  C.  Smith. 

12mo,  374  pages.     Macmillan  Co.     $1.50  net. 


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A  Tragedy  in  Stone,  and  Other  Papers.  By  Lord 
Redesdale.  8vo,  344  pages.  John  Lane  Co. 
$2.50  net. 

Literary  Hearthstones  of  Dixie.  By  La  Salle  Corbell 
Pickett.  Illustrated,  Svo,  305  pages.  J.  B.  Lip- 
pincott  Co.  $1.50  net. 

Spenser's  Shepherd's  Calender  in  Relation  to  Con- 
temporary Affairs.  By  James  Jackson  Higgin- 
son,  Ph.D.  8vo,  364  pages.  Columbia  University 
Press.  $1.50  net. 

Lord  Byron  as  a  Satirist  in  Verse.  By  Claude  M. 
Fuess,  Ph.D.  12mo,  228  pages.  Columbia  Uni- 
versity Press.  $1.25  net. 

Stories  of  Shakespeare's  English  History  Plays.  By 
H.  A.  Guerber.  Illustrated,  12mo,  315  pages. 
Dodd,  Mead  &  Co.  $1.25  net. 

The  History  of  the  Chorus  in  the  German  Drama. 
By  Elsie  Winifred  *Helmrich,  Ph.D.  Svo,  95 
pages.  Columbia  University  Press.  $1.  net. 

Arteimis  Ward's  Best  Stories.  Edited  by  Clifton 
Johnson;  with  Introduction  by  W.  D.  Howells. 
Illustrated  by  Frank  A.  Nankivell.  Svo,  275 
pages.  Harper  &  Brothers.  $1.40  net. 

A  Study  of  Francis  Thompson's  "Hound  of  Heaven." 
By  Rev.  J.  F.  X.  O'Conor,  S.J.  12mo,  39  pages. 
John  Lane  Co.  50  cts.  net. 

Polk  Tales  of  East  and  West.  By  John  Harrington 
Cox,  A.M.  12mo,  190  pages.  Little,  Brown  &  Co. 
$1.  net. 

Noted  Speeches  of  Daniel  "Webster,  Henry  Clay,  and 
John  C.  Calhoun.  Edited,  with  biographical 
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traits, 16mo,  213  pages.  "American  History  in 
Literature."  Moffat,  Yard  &  Co.  75  cts.  net. 

That  Reminds  Me  Again:  A  Second  Collection  of 
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Hello  Bill!  A  Book  of  After-Dinner  Stories.     12mo, 

96  pages.     H.  M.  Caldwell  Co.     50  cts.  net. 
Shakespearean  Studies.     By  William  Rader.      12mo, 

97  pages.     Richard  G.  Badger.     $1.  net. 

NEW  EDITIONS   OF   STANDARD  LITERATURE. 

The  Romances  of  Theophile  Gautier.  Translated 
and  edited  by  F.  C.  de  Sumichrast.  In  10  vol- 
umes; each  illustrated  in  photogravure,  16mo. 
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(Sold  only  in  sets.) 

The  Travels  of  Theophile  Gautier.  Translated  and 
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each  illustrated  in  photogravure,  16mo.  "Pocket 
Edition."  Little,  Brown  &  Co.  Per  volume, 
$1.50  net;  per  set,  $10.50  net. 

Toleration,  and  Other  Essays.  By  Voltaire;  trans- 
lated, with  Introduction,  by  Joseph  McCabe. 
12mo,  263  pages.  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons.  $1.25  net. 

The  Anglo-Saxon  Chronicle.  Edited,  from  the  trans- 
lation in  Monumenta  Historica  Britannica  and 
other  versions,  by  J.  A.  Giles,  D.C.L.  New  edi- 
tion; 12mo,  211  pages.  "Bohn's  Library."  Mac- 
millan  Co.  $1.  net. 

DRAMA  AND   VERSE. 

Plays.  By  Anton  Tchekoff;  translated  from  the 
Russian,  with  Introduction,  by  Marian  Fell.  With 
portrait,  12mo,  233  pages.  Charles  Scribner's 
Sons.  $1.50  net. 

Milestones:  A  Play  in  Three  Acts.  By  Arnold  Ben- 
nett and  Edward  Knoblauch.  12mo,  122  pages. 
George  H.  Doran  Co.  $1.  net. 

The  Honeymoon:  A  Comedy  in  Three  Acts.  By  Ar- 
nold Bennett.  12mo,  111  pages.  George  H.  Doran 
Co.  $1.  net. 

Oxford  Poems.  By  H.  W.  Garrod.  16mo,  96  pages. 
John  Lane  Co.  $1.  net. 

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With  Introduction  by  Louis  Frechette,  and  Ap- 
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Belshazzar.  By  W.  C.  Dumas.  12mo,  120  pages. 
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Towards  Democracy.  By  Edward  Carpenter.  With 
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The  Vaunt  of  Man,  and  Other  Poems.  By  William 
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Surf  Lines  of  a  Wayfarer's  Mind.  With  frontis- 
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Richard  G.  Badger.  $1.25  net. 

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Hang  Up  Philosophy,  and  Other  Poems.  By  W.  B. 
Arvine.  Revised  edition;  12mo,  99  pages.  Bos- 
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Chinese  Poems.  Translated  by  Charles  Budd.  12mo, 
174  pages.  Oxford  University  Press. 

Songs  of  a  Syrian  Lover.  By  Clinton  Scollard.  12mo, 
54  pages.  London:  Elkin  Mathews. 

Salvage.  By  Elizabeth  C.  Cardozo.  12mo,  48  pages. 
Richard  G.  Badger.  $1.  net. 

The  Forest:  An  Idyll  of  the  Woods.  By  Edwine 
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The  Loom  of  Life.  By  Cotton  Noe.  Illustrated, 
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God,  and  Other  Poems.  Compiled  by  Margaret  S. 
Linn  Parr;  translated  by  Sir  John  Bowring. 
12mo,  96  pages.  Richard  G.  Badger.  $1.  net. 

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field  &  Co.     $1.35  net. 
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THE  PERIL  OF  EXTERNALISM 


PAGE 
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WALT  WHITMAN.    Louis  I.  Bredvold 323 

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BRIEFER  MENTION   . 342 

NOTES , ...  343 

TOPICS  IN  NOVEMBER  PERIODICALS    ....  344 
LIST  OF  NEW  BOOKS    .  .  345 


THE  PERIL  OF  EXTERNALISM. 

By  externalism  is  meant  the  control  from 
without  of  any  body  of  people,  banded  together 
for  spiritual  or  intellectual  endeavor,  or  for  the 
realization  of  any  political  or  social  ideal.  The 
history  of  the  American  people,  in  its  broader 
aspects,  is  a  record  of  effective  protest  against 
externalism  in  religious  and  civil  government. 
It  was  resentment  against  externalism  that  im- 
pelled the  puritan  colonists  of  New  England  to 
depart  from  the  theory  of  a  state-established 
church  (in  which  belief  they  had  been  born  and 
bred)  and  create  instead  the  typical  American 
system  of  churches  considered  as  independent 
congregational  units,  each  church  a  democracy 
governing  itself  by  the  common  consent  of  its 
members,  making  its  own  rules  and  choosing  its 
own  leaders,  and  not  for  a  moment  admitting 
the  claims  of  any  external  authority.  It  was 
resentment  against  externalism  in  political  mat- 
ters that  brought  about  the  independence  of  the 
thirteen  commonwealths  that  in  1776  made  com- 
mon cause  against  the  pretensions  of  a  foreign 
legislature  respecting  taxation,  and  gained  their 
cause  by  the  arbitrament  of  the  sword.  It  is 
resentment  against  externalism  which  is  to-day 
actuating  those  commonwealths,  now  grown  in 
number  from  thirteen  to  forty-eight,  in  resisting 
the  efforts  of  ill-advised  doctrinaires  to  impair 
their  several  authorities,  and  magnify  at  their 
expense  the  powers  of  a  federal  government 
that  has  already  gone  dangerously  far  along 
the  perilous  path  of  centralization. 

The  specific  illustration  of  the  peril  of  exter- 
nalism to  which  we  would  now  direct  attention  is 
that  which  is  offered  in  the  field  of  higher  edu- 
cation in  this  country.  "The  Administrative 
Peril  in  Education "  Professor  Joseph  Jastrow 
calls  it  in  an  article  which  he  has  contributed 
to  the  November  "Popular  Science  Monthly." 
It  is  an  old  subject,  both  for  him  and  for  us,  and 
one  which  we  have  both  had  occasion  to  discuss 
upon  several  former  occasions.  It  presents  one 
of  the  most  puzzling  antinomies  in  our  national 
life,  for  while  we  should  naturally  expect  the 
democracy  which  is  the  fundamental  element 
in  our  national  character  to  appear  in  its  finest 
flower  in  our  educational  institutions,  we  find 
instead  that  they  tend  to  embody  the  autocratic 
idea,  and  that  their  systems  of  administration, 


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instead  of  encouraging  a  cordial  spirit  of  coopera- 
tion, tend  to  become  hierarchical,  bestowing  as 
privileges  upon  their  subordinate  individual 
units  such  limited  measure  of  what  should  inher- 
ently be  their  unassailable  rights  as  seems  good 
to  the  men  vested  with  the  ultimate  authority. 
The  reason  for  these  tendencies  is  perfectly  ob- 
vious. The  exaggerated  commercialism  of  our 
civilization  has  achieved  such  splendid  results 
in  the  economic  sphere  that  it  is  difficult  to  per- 
suade our  statesmen  and  our  captains  of  industry 
that  their  methods  have  no  place  in  the  quite  dis- 
parate spheres  of  education  and  art  and  religion. 
It  is  to  their  manifest  hurt  that  we  liken  churches 
and  theatres  to  factories,  or  libraries,  museums, 
and  universities  to  department  stores.  The  dif- 
ference between  these  activities  and  those  of  the 
industrial  life  is  a  consequence  of  the  funda- 
mental difference  between  professions  and  trades. 
Motives  from  within  are  the  actuating  forces  of 
the  professional  life ;  control  and  direction  from 
without  are  the  secret  of  efficiency  in  organized 
business.  We  once  put  the  matter  in  these 
words,  which  Professor  Jastrow  quotes  in  sup- 
port of  his  thesis :  "  The  idea  of  professionalism 
lies  at  the  very  core  of  educational  endeavor, 
and  whoever  engages  in  educational  work  fails 
of  his  purpose  in  just  so  far  as  he  fails  to  assert 
the  inherent  prerogatives  of  his  calling.  He 
becomes  a  hireling  in  fact,  if  not  in  name,  when 
he  suffers,  unprotesting,  the  deprivation  of  all 
initiative,  and  contentedly  plays  the  part  of  a 
cog  in  a  mechanism  whose  motions  are  all  con- 
trolled from  without." 

This  citation  is  one  of  a  great  number  ad- 
duced by  our  author  in  behalf  of  his  plea  for 
an  educational  democracy.  We  quote  a  few 
of  the  most  striking.  "  Elsewhere  throughout 
the  world  the  university  is  a  republic  of  scholars, 
administered  by  them.  Here  it  is  a  business 
corporation."  "  The  American  university  has 
become  an  autocracy,  wholly  foreign  in  spirit 
and  plan  to  our  political  ideals,  and  little  short 
of  amazing  to  those  marvels  of  thoroughgoing 
democracy,  the  German  universities."  "  The 
administration  imposed  on  universities,  colleges, 
and  school  systems  is  not  needed  by  them,  but 
simply  represents  an  inconsiderate  carrying  over 
of  methods  current  in  commerce  and  politics." 
"  No  single  thing  has  done  more  harm  in  higher 
education  in  America  during  the  past  quarter- 
century  than  the  steady  aggrandizement  of  the 
presidential  office  and  the  modelling  of  univer- 
sity administration  upon  the  methods  and  ideals 
of  the  factory  and  the  department  store."  "  The 
very  idea  of  a  university  as  the  home  of  inde- 


pendent scholars  has  been  obscured  by  the  pres- 
ent system."  "The  prevailing  system  does  not 
attract  strong  men  to  the  profession  of  teaching, 
nor  does  it  foster  a  vigorous  intellectual  life  in 
the  universities.  And  occasionally  a  gross  and 
tyrannical  abuse  of  authority  reminds  the  world 
how  far  America  is  behind  Germany  in  the  free- 
dom of  its  university  life."  These  are  typical 
extracts  from  the  testimony  of  the  cloud  of 
witnesses  who  have  lately  joined  in  the  protest 
against  the  stifling  of  the  academic  spirit  be- 
neath the  wet  blanket  of  externalism.  Professor 
Cattell's  recent  questionnaire  upon  the  subject 
has  shown  astonishing  results.  It  was  addressed 
to  practically  all  the  faculty  members  of  our 
important  universities,  of  whom  no  less  than 
eighty-five  per  cent  registered  decided  objections 
to  the  prevailing  administrative  system.  Such 
a  protest  cannot  safely  be  ignored,  and  there  are 
signs  that  the  authorities  are  taking  heed. 

The  most  striking  illustration  of  the  inability 
of  the  commercial  mind  to  understand  the  claims 
and  obligations  of  professionalism  is  the  recent 
suggestion  that  educational  efficiency  is  measur- 
able in  the  terms  of  the  factory  or  the  building 
trades.  It  may  be  granted  that  the  administra- 
tive efficiency  that  swells  endowments,  and  en- 
larges plant,  and  multiplies  students  is  exactly 
measurable,  but  a  true  computation  of  the  subtle 
efficiency  of  the  master-mind  in  its  dealings  with 
aspiring  souls  will  forever  elude  exact  reckoning. 
On  the  other  hand,  as  Professor  Jastrow  remarks, 
"there  are  efficient  fools  and  knaves  and  meddlers 
and  weather  vanes  and  apologists  and  dissemblers, 
and  most  hopelessly  the  class  whose  costly  effi- 
ciency is  an  eruption  of  their  callous  in  sensibility . ; ' 
Of  the  test  of  efficiency  supplied  by  figures  stand- 
ing for  numbers  and  dollars,  these  caustic  obser- 
vations seem  to  afford  a  fair  characterization  : 

"Prosperity  is  statistically  measured;  hence  the  desire 
for  more  buildings  and  costly  ones ;  for  more  instructors, 
many  of  them  occupied  in  work  that  the  college  should 
require  and  not  provide;  and  more  and  more  students 
who  must  be  attracted  toward  the  local  Athenopolis  and 
away  from  the  rival  one;  accordingly  the  hills  are  all 
reduced  to  easy  grades  and  new  democratic  (not  royal) 
roads  to  learning  are  laid  out  for  those  who  do  not  like 
the  old  ones.  Requirements  are  set  not  to  what  collegians 
should  learn  but  to  what  they  will;  as  at  the  circus  the 
strip  of  bunting  is  held  ostentatiously  high  until  the  horse 
with  its  fair  burden  is  about  to  jump,  when  it  is  incon- 
spicuously accommodated  to  the  possible  performance." 

The  consequences  of  this  pandering  to  our 
pleasure-loving  and  toil-abhorring  youth  are 
such  as  to  make  possible  such  a  description  of 
the  student-body  as  this  : 

"  Students  have  no  intellectual  interests,  no  applica- 
tions, no  knowledge  of  essentials,  no  ability  to  apply 


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what  they  assimilate;  they  are  flabby,  they  dawdle, 
they  fritter  and  frivol,  they  contemn  the  grind,  they 
seek  proficiency  in  stunts,  they  drift  to  the  soft  and  cir- 
cumvent the  hard;  undertrained  and  overtaught,  they 
are  coddled  and  spoon-fed  and  served  where  they  should 
be  serving;  and  they  get  their  degrees  for  a  quality  of 
work  which  in  an  office  would  cost  them  their  jobs." 
The  arraignment  is  severe,  but  not  undeserved. 
It  represents  the  college  idea  of  preparation  for 
life,  when  the  college  administration  is  obsessed 
with  the  notion  that  it  must  prove  its  efficiency 
by  a  brave  statistical  showing.  A  policy  directed 
by  educators  for  the  legitimate  purposes  of  edu- 
cation would  not  bear  these  pitiful  fruits. 

In  his  summing-up  Professor  Jastrow  points 
his  protest  against  the  ideals  of  externalism, 
which  are  efficiency  of  the  baser  sort  and  the 
shaping  of  diverse  natures  in  a  common  mould, 
by  quoting  from  William  James,  who  once  said 
at  Harvard  that  "the  university  most  worthy 
of  rational  admiration  is  that  one  in  which  your 
lonely  thinker  can  feel  himself  least  lonely,  most 
positively  furthered,  and  most  richly  fed,"  add- 
ing that "  our  undisciplinables  are  our  proudest 
product."  Whereupon  our  author  goes  on  to  say: 
"The  administrative  temper  breeds  an  atmosphere 
peculiarly  noxious  to  the  finer,  freer  issues  of  learning. 
The  inner  quality  so  precious  to  the  function  of  leader- 
ship in  intellectual  callings,  dependent  as  they  are  on 
the  delicate  nurture  of  the  creative  gift,  is  precisely 
that  which  recedes  at  the  first  harsh  touch  of  imposed 
restraint.  There  is  a  temperamental  disposition  in- 
volved, fraught  with  difficulty  of  adjustment  under  the 
most  favorable  circumstances,  beset  with  hazard  through- 
out its  uncertain  maturing  at  all  levels.  Unless  the 
academic  life  is  made  helpful  to  its  purpose,  the  course 
of  which  it  must  so  largely  be  free  to  set  for  itself, 
the  ships  that  bear  our  most  valued  cargoes  will  be 
storm-tossed  and  needlessly  discouraged  in  their  efforts 
to  reach  their  sighted  harbors,  and  some  of  them  will 
mutely  and  ingloriously  go  down  at  sea.  It  is  because 
the  present  administrative  system  is  so  deadly  to  '  our 
proudest  product '  that  it  appears  to  me,  through  the 
vista  of  a  quarter-century,  as  the  supreme  peril  of  the 
educational  seas." 


WALT  WHITMAN 

We  are  indebted  to  Mr.  Watts-Dunton  for  the 
distinction  between  poets  of  energy  and  poets  of  art. 
The  one  type  attaches  primary  importance  to  its 
message,  the  other  to  its  expression.  Perhaps  among 
the  poets  of  energy  another  distinction  might  be 
made  between  those  whose  message  is  a  "  criticism  " 
of  life  and  those  who  merely  vivify  our  experience. 
This  distinction  is  apparent  in  contrasting,  for  in- 
stance, both  verse  and  prose  of  Meredith  and  Scott. 

Walt  Whitman  obviously  belongs  with  the  poets 
of  energy.  His  message  overbalances  his  art  so 
much,  indeed,  that  he  is  hardly  thought  of  as  a  man 
of  letters.  He  is  a  prophet ;  tbe  appreciation  of  his 
poetry  is  a  "  cause  "  to  which  converts  are  eagerly 


sought.  He  is  no  doubt  receiving  a  fair  hearing. 
His  name  is  already  one  of  distinction ;  his  audience 
has  grown  to  proportions  which  make  it  more  than 
a  cult ;  cosmopolitan  critics  have  admitted  his  pre- 
cedence. But  whether  he  is  to  become  a  recognized 
force  in  our  intellectual  and  spiritual  life  we  must 
leave  to  the  future  to  decide.  That,  however,  is  the 
final  and  surest  test.  "The  proof  of  a  poet,"  he 
says  himself,  "should  be  sternly  deferred  till  his 
country  absorbs  him  as  affectionately  as  he  has 
absorbed  it." 

But  no  prophet  has  appeared  among  us  whose 
message  is  in  such  need  of  clarifying.  He  has  been 
enveloped  by  his  disciples  in  an  atmosphere  of  appre- 
ciative comment  which,  while  making  our  approach 
to  him  easy,  has  stupefied  our  critical  faculties.  Those 
who  cannot  bear  the  thick  incense  of  the  inner  shrine 
have  come  away  disgusted,  ready  to  deny  the  author- 
ity of  ehe  prophet  as  well  as  the  vitality  of  his  mes- 
sage. Perspective  is  sadly  needed  on  both  sides. 
But  to  place  Walt  Whitman  we  must  have  a  body 
of  doctrine  which  will  relate  him  to  our  previous 
spiritual  forces ;  we  must  have  an  analysis  of  his 
work  which  will  reveal  what  Whitman  has  added 
to  the  sum  of  human  thought  or  how  he  has  changed 
human  aspiration.  To  sketch  the  poetical  achieve- 
ment of  Walt  Whitman  from  this  point  of  view  is 
the  aim  of  this  essay. 

I. 

Walt  Whitman  was  the  avowed  poet  of  a  spiritual 
democracy.  It  was  his  aim  to  express  in  poetry  a 
composite  individual,  a  personality  inclusive  of  all 
traits  found  among  men.  He  would  exclude  neither 
high  nor  low,  virtuous  nor  vicious. 

"  I  am  of  old  and  young,  of  the  foolish  as  much  as  the  wise  ; 
Regardless  of  others,  ever  regardful  of  others, 
Maternal  as  well  as  paternal,  a  child  as  well  as  a  man, 
Stuff'd  with  the  stuff  that  is  coarse,  and  stuff'd  with  the 

stuff  that  is  fine." 

It  was  a  daring  and  original  task ;  and  it  is  hardly  to 
be  expected  that  Walt  Whitman  more  than  any  other 
brave  pioneer  should  be  completely  successful.  To 
reconcile  irreconcilables,  to  make  inconsistencies 
consistent,  is  the  unpromising  task  which  Whitman 
nevertheless  did  accomplish  to  a  degree ;  the  ap- 
parent miracle  being  wrought  in  the  one  manner 
possible:  by  fusing  all  the  elements  in  the  glow  of 
emotion.  The  world  is  complex  to  the  analysing 
intellect;  the  uncritical  emotions  easily  simplify  and 
unify  it.  Walt  Whitman  was  therefore  a  poet  pri- 
marily of  emotion  and  energy,  that  he  might  unify 
the  contradictory  elements  in  the  unique  personality 
he  sought  to  express. 

In  the  conception  as  well  as  in  the  execution  of 
his  task  Whitman  gave  evidence  of  a  high  and  noble 
seriousness,  an  assuredness  of  temper,  an  intensity 
of  creative  passion,  which  prove  him  a  man  of  very 
high  order.  He  had  the  poise  and  balance,  the  sense 
of  contact  with  primal  power,  which  belong  only  to 
the  masters.  Although  he  professed  to  be  the  poet 
of  democracy,  of  the  lowly  and  vulgar  as  well  as  of 
the  refined,  yet  one  feels  the  force  of  a  profound  cul- 


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ture  behind  his  written  work.  The  naive  poetry  of 
democracy  which  Burns  left  behind  him  is  supported 
by  neither  such  force  of  intellect  nor  such  depth  of 
vision  as  that  of  "  the  good  grey  poet." 

II. 

But,  although  a  great  culture  has  entered  into  the 
poetry  of  Whitman,  reason  and  taste,  the  faculties 
of  culture,  must  be  laid  aside  by  the  reader.  For 
with  this  poet  emotion  is  supreme,  an  emotion  which 
is  unguided  and  unrestrained  except  as  it  is  "  a  law 
unto  itself."  Reason  and  taste  are  critical  and 
directive;  they  estimate,  balance,  discard.  Culture 
therefore  means  discrimination  and  selection;  it  is 
exclusive.  Its  ideals  tend  to  become  narrow,  its 
standards  high.  In  its  extreme  form  it  becomes 
pure  aestheticism,  intellectual  or  emotional.  Obvi- 
ously, only  a  leisure  class  can  give  to  the  ideal 
of  cultivation  its  highest  expression  in  life;  and 
Whitman,  with  many  others,  assumes  that  culture 
is  theoretically  impracticable  in  a  democracy.  In 
America,  Whitman  believed,  we  have  no  place  for  it. 

"  The  greatest  poems,  Shakespeare  included,  are  poison- 
ous to  the  idea  of  the  pride  and  dignity  of  the  common 
people,  the  life-blood  of  democracy.  The  models  of  our 
literature,  as  we  get  it  from  other  lands,  ultra-marine,  have 
had  their  birth  in  courts,  and  bask'd  and  grown  in  castle 
sunshine;  all  smells  of  princes'  favors.  Of  workers  of  a 
certain  sort,  we  have,  indeed,  plenty,  contributing  after  their 
kind ;  many  elegant,  many  learn'd,  all  complacent.  But 
touch'd  by  the  national  test,  or  tried  by  the  standards  of 
democratic  personality,  they  wither  to  ashes." 

The  American  people  must  be  energized  by  an  ideal 
which  is  democratic  both  in  its  appeal  and  in  its  pos- 
sibility of  expression.  Such  he  believed  his  vision 
of  a  religious  democracy  to  be;  for  it  appealed  to 
the  emotions,  and  in  them  is  to  be  found  most  easily 
our  common  humanity. 

The  exclusion  of  the  directive  powers  of  reason 
and  taste,  and  the  freedom  given  to  unguided  emo- 
tion, explain  the  demand  made  upon  us  by  the  dis- 
ciples of  Whitman  that  we  accept  him  whole  or  not 
at  all.  "  Unless  we  allow  Whitman  to  be  a  law  unto 
himself,"  says  Mr.  Burroughs,  "we  can  make  little 
of  him;  unless  we  place  ourselves  at  his  absolute 
point  of  view,  his  work  is  an  offense  and  without 
meaning."  We  must  not  clip  his  wings.  To  criti- 
cize, to  limit,  to  weigh,  is  to  exercise  reason  or  taste, 
and  hence  to  assert  their  ultimate  right  to  supremacy ; 
but  this  is  a  fundamental  contradiction  to  the  spirit 
of  Whitman,  and  one  which  if  accepted  would  seem 
almost  fatal  to  his  claim  to  a  representative  position. 

Whitman's  most  obvious  loss  in  his  rejection  of 
culture  was  a  sense  of  distinction  and  evaluation. 
His  purely  emotional  appreciation  of  the  panorama 
of  life  was  too  immediate  an  experience  to  leave 
room  for  reflection.  Detachment  appeared  cold  to 
him.  But  it  is  an  absolute  requisite  for  preserving 
proportion  in  literature  and  life;  no  true  criticism 
is  possible  without  it.  And  the  very  subordinate 
position  accorded  to  the  spirit  of  criticism,  of  evalu- 
ation, in  Whitman's  poetry  accounts  for  that  chaos 
of  standards  and  monotony  of  tone  which  is  appar- 
ent to  even  the  casual  reader. 


Our  emotional  reaction  to  the  world  must,  indeed, 
be  various  both  in  degree  and  kind  to  be  satisfying. 
The  rose,  the  clod,  the  stars,  the  throbbing  city 
street,  speak  to  us  in  accents  by  no  means  similar  or 
of  equal  force.  Whitman  boasted  that  he  included 
all,  as  perhaps  he  did ;  but  he  certainly  had  not  the 
pliability  of  spirit,  he  was  too  great  an  egoist,  to 
interpret  all.  His  point  of  view  was  not  one  that 
tolerates  a  variety  of  experience.  He  did  not  draw 
near  to  life  in  all  its  phases  and  attempt  to  catch 
its  spirit.  His  own  personality,  his  u cosmic"  self, 
was  too  predominating.  The  procession  of  animate 
and  inanimate  creation  through  his  pages  have  a 
value  not  in  their  own  right,  but  derived  from  the 
poet's  transforming  vision.  And  the  emotion  which 
unifies  the  strange  variety  of  his  poetical  work,  which 
breathes  into  it  the  cogent  spirit  of  personality,  has 
been  accurately  called  "cosmic  emotion";  it  is  a 
translation  into  feeling  of  intellectual  monism. 
Whitman  was  an  emotional  mystic,  and  regarded 
the  multiform  variety  of  the  world  only  as  an  ex- 
pression of  its  essential  unity. 

III. 

But  it  was  with  the  vision  of  a  spiritual  democracy 
that  the  profound  creative  energy  of  Whitman  ex- 
ercised itself ;  and  our  judgment  of  him  as  a  religious 
poet  must  form  the  basis  of  our  final  estimate.  He 
has  himself  explained  the  purpose  of  his  poetry  in  a 
passage  of  irresistible  power  in  one  of  his  prefaces : 
"  I  will  see  (said  I  to  myself)  whether  there  is  not,  for  my 
purposes  as  a  poet,  a  religion,  and  a  sound  religious  germen- 
ancy  in  the  average  human  race,  at  least  in  their  modern 
development  in  the  United  States,  and  in  the  hardy  common 
fibre  and  native  yearnings  and  elements,  deeper  and  larger, 
and  affording  more  profitable  returns,  than  all  mere  sects  or 
churches  —  as  boundless,  joyous,  and  vital  as  Nature  itself — 
a  germenancy  that  has  too  long  been  unencouraged,  unsung, 
almost  unknown." 

Religion  is  too  large  and  too  important  a  factor  to 
be  left  to  an  institution.  "It  must  be  consigned 
henceforth  to  democracy  en  masse,  and  to  literature. 
It  must  enter  into  the  poems  of  the  nation.  It 
must  make  the  nation." 

As  thus  stated  the  ideal  has  self-evident  value. 
Has  Whitman,  however,  been  successful  in  the  ex- 
ecution of  his  task?  Is  the  imagined  personality  of 
"  Leaves  of  Grass  "  truly  religious  ?  Does  that  book 
contain  in  it  the  enthralling  vision  which  can  energize 
the  mass  of  average  men? 

"  Leaves  of  Grass  "  is  a  monistic  chant.    It  cele- 
brates the  universe  as  a  whole,  and  not  any  one  part 
alone.     It  expresses  not  a  personal  but  a  "  cosmic  " 
emotion.     Its  view  is  not  that  of  a  struggling  mem- 
ber, but  of  an  idle  spectator  of  the  cosmic  process. 
"  Apart  from  the  pulling  and  hauling  stands  what  I  am  ; 
Stands  amused,  complacent,  compassionating, idle, unitary." 

And  because  he  has  made  monism  the  basis  of  his 
poetry,  Whitman  is  able  to  be  inclusive,  to  be  the 
poet  of  wickedness  as  well  as  of  goodness;  for  him 
there  is  no  wickedness  and  no  goodness,  as  such,  but 
merely  a  cosmic  process. 

This  may  indeed  seem  like  ultimate  spiritual 
democracy.  But  in  reality  it  is  the  very  opposite ;  it 


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is  the  expression  of  a  spiritual  "special  privilege." 
The  average  man  cannot  indulge  much  in  k' cosmic 
emotion";  he  is  forced  to  concern  himself  with  his 
immediate  interests  as  a  part  of  the  process.  His  life 
will  consequently  be  justified  to  him  on  vastly  other 
grounds  than  those  Whitman  has  suggested.  He 
would  not  be  able  to  understand  "Leaves  of  Grass" 
because  it  is  remote  from  anything  he  has  ever  expe- 
rienced. And  so  Whitman,  although  democratic 
with  a  vengeance  in  his  inclusiveness,  can  never  be 
democratic  in  his  appeal. 

The  religion  of  the  average  man  must  obviously 
recognize  the  dualism  which  is  his  daily  experience. 
The  average  man  is  ever  looking  forward  into  an 
uncertain  future  ;  the  situation  calls  for  activity  and 
self-direction.  Life  is  strenuous  if  it  is  at  all  moral 
or  religious,  and  its  struggle  develops  better  than 
anything  else  the  "  religious  germenancy "  which 
Whitman  believed  was  in  all  men.  But  Whitman 
was  composed,  satisfied  with  himself  and  the  world  ; 
the  future  did  not  invite  him  to  effort,  nor  the  present 
to  discriminate. 
"  Showing  the  best,  and  dividing  it  from  the  worst,  age 

vexes  age  ; 
Knowing  the  perfect  fitness   and  equanimity  of   things, 

while  they  discuss  I   am  silent,  and  go  bathe  and 

admire  myself.'' 

While  Whitman  thus  seems  to  occupy  a  position 
beyond  good  and  evil,  he  has  as  a  matter  of  fact  yet 
to  arrive  at  that  parting  of  the  ways  where  the  moral 
realm  begins  and  ethical  distinctions  have  sway. 
He  was  a  spectator  of  the  panorama  of  life,  not  an 
actor  in  its  drama.  Even  in  his  profoundly  religious 
spirit  there  is  a  pervading  Bohemianism  which  viti- 
ates his  work.  In  no  place  is  this  more  evident  than 
in  his  attitude  towards  woman.  Whitman  never 
understood  the  distinctively  feminine,  in  which  the 
ethical  appears  upon  this  planet  in  its  fairest  and 
finest  form.  His  love  poetry  is  primal  and  instinctive, 
with  an  occasional  approach  to  Oriental  voluptuous- 
ness and  brutality.  "  Cosmic  "  emotion  does  not, 
indeed,  blend  well  with  love, —  the  subtlest,  most 
delicate,  and  most  personal  of  human  feelings. 

In  his  intense  belief  in  the  goodness  of  the  uni- 
verse, Whitman  was  thus  too  ready  to  compromise 
with  the  spirits  of  darkness.  We  may  have  to  admit 
that,  in  the  final  scheme  of  things,  evil  will  appear 
to  have  been  as  necessary  as  the  good ;  but  we  can- 
not afford  now  to  accept  evil  as  readily  as  the  good. 
The  modern  man  believes,  too,  in  the  autonomy  of 
the  spiritual  nature  of  humanity.  But  he  need  not 
and  cannot  leave  this  nature  unnurtured  or  the  vic- 
tim of  aimless  drift.  Monistic  optimism  is  therefore 
to  him  an  impossible  faith ;  in  its  stead  experience 
sternly  thrusts  upon  him  a  dualism,  and  dualism 
means  guidance  by  norms.  Reason  and  taste  must  in- 
evitably function  to  systematize  experience,determine 
standards,  and  act  as  a  corrective  and  directive  force 
in  the  relations  of  man  to  the  world  about  him. 

IV- 

Thus  we  are  brought  back  again  from  the  weird- 
ness  of  "Leaves  of  Grass"  to  life  in  its  familiar 


aspect,  with  all  the  old  pressing  problems  still  un- 
solved. But  every  reader  of  Whitman  must  recognize 
that  something  has  been  gained,  even  though  it  be 
not  the  expected  solution  to  the  persistent  riddle. 
What  is  the  secret  of  Whitman's  power?  To  what 
can  we  attribute  the  exhilarating  and  strengthening 
qualities  of  his  poetry? 

The  famous  confession  of  John  Addington 
Symonds  is  illustrative,  although  a  little  extreme  to 
be  typical,  of  the  experience  of  men  of  culture  in 
contact  with  Whitman : 

" '  Leaves  of  Grass,'  which  I  first  read  at  the  age  of 
twenty-five,  influenced  me  more  perhaps  than  any  other 
book  has  done,  except  the  Bible ;  more  than  Plato,  more 
than  Goethe.  .  .  .  My  academical  prejudices,  the  literary 
instincts  trained  by  two  decades  of  Greek  and  Latin  studies, 
the  refinements  ef  culture,  and  the  exclusiveness  of  aristo- 
cratic breeding,  revolted  against  the  uncouthness,  roughness, 
irregularity,  coarseness  of  the  poet  and  his  style.  But,  in 
course  of  a  short  time,  Whitman  delivered  my  soul  of  these 
debilities." 

Symonds  did  not,  however,  as  everyone  knows,  give 
up  his  academic  interests  when  on  the  threshold  of 
manhood,  to  become  a  "natural  and  non-chalant" 
loafer.  His  whole  life  was  devoted  to  such  matters 
as  appeal  only  to  the  cultivated.  Whitman  did  not 
replace  his  culture,  but  broadened  it. 

This  is  the  distinctive  service  which  the  poetry 
of  Whitman  is  able  to  render  us.  It  is  a  liberator 
from  academic  narrowness,  enlarging  as  it  does  the 
basis  of  culture.  The  subtle  and  intricate  thought 
and  feeling  of  the  highly  developed  man,  he  does 
not  express ;  his  spirit  reached  back  into  a  primeval, 
chaotic  state,  where  the  elemental  was  the  most  ob- 
vious. His  universe  is  in  need  of  evolution.  This 
partly  explains  its  fascination  for  us;  in  the  midst  of 
the  complexities  of  civilization  we  hear  and  respond 
to  the  call  of  the  wild.  Perhaps  at  times  our  habit- 
ual refinement  would  like  to  exclude  some  of  the 
rawness  we  find  there;  but,  when  the  shock  is  once 
overcome,  the  experience  becomes  satisfying,  our 
outlook  and  sympathies  are  broadened,  our  culture 
itself  becomes  intenser  and  deeper  because  it  draws 
power  from  the  uncultivated,  the  primitive,  the 
elemental. 

In  the  poetry  of  Whitman,  then,  we  do  not  find 
a  trustworthy  constructive  criticism  of  life,  but 
rather  the  chaotic,  unevolved  elements  of  life  itself. 
His  poetry  serves  not  as  a  guide,  but  as  a  point  of 
departure.  His  creative  energy  aimed,  not  at  culti- 
vation, but  at  expansion.  Louis  I.  BBEDVOLD. 


CASUAL  COMMENT. 


PROS  AND  CONS  on  any  question  of  wide  interest 
are  usually  so  many,  and  each,  taken  alone,  so  con- 
vincing, that  it  is  not  surprising  if  there  rises  to  the 
lips  the  old  cry,  What  is  truth  ?  A  person  of  judicial 
habit  of  mind,  and  not  a  violent  partisan  by  tempera- 
ment, is  torn  by  this  conflict  of  arguments.  In  child- 
hood all  things  are  either  black  or  white  ;  there  are 
no  grays.  All  men  are  good  or  bad,  all  actions  either 


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right  or  wrong,  and  the  line  of  division  is  as  sharp 
as  that  separating  the  mathematician's  plus  and 
minus  quantities.  But  the  years  that  bring  the 
philosophic  mind  take  away  this  comfortable  cer- 
tainty and  leave  us  floundering  in  a  sea  of  doubts. 
In  illustration  of  the  inevitable  two-sidedness  (and 
sometimes  many-sidedness)  of  every  question,  the 
double-column  pages  of  an  excellent  and  useful  pub- 
lication ("  Pros  and  Cons,"  by  Mr.  John  Bertram 
Askew)  set  forth  with  clearness  and  sufficient  brevity 
the  arguments  for  and  against  a  great  number  of 
proposed  reforms  and  legislative  acts.  The  book  is 
by  this  time  no  novelty  to  the  reading  world,  being 
now  in  its  fifth  edition  (re- written  and  enlarged)  and 
the  sixteenth  year  of  its  life.  But  as  it  is  an  English 
work  it  may  not  be  very  familiar  to  American 
readers.  As  an  example  of  the  impartial  author's 
manner  of  setting  up  a  thesis  with  one  hand  and 
knocking  it  down  with  the  other,  let  us  quote  from 
the  section  headed  "  A  Censorship  of  Fiction."  It 
begins,  in  the  left-hand  column :  "  The  evil  of  per- 
nicious literature  is  a  grave  and  dangerous  one,  and 
deeply  affects  the  principles  and  lives  of  the  young 
people  of  the  nation.  The  steady  increase  in  crime 
may  be  to  a  considerable  degree  laid  at  the  door  of 
fiction."  This  is  rebutted  in  the  parallel  column, 
thus  :  "  The  responsibility  of  fiction  for  the  increase 
in  crime  is  greatly  exaggerated.  The  '  young  person ' 
who  will  be  led  astray  by  fiction  is  so  weak  that  he 
will  go  wrong,  fiction  or  no  fiction.  Fiction  repro- 
duces the  spirit  of  the  age  rather  than  creates  it." 
And  so  the  argumentative  see-saw  goes  agreeably  on 
through  one  subject  after  another.  It  is  a  contro- 
versial teeter- board  of  infinite  diversion  —  and  also 

of  much  sound  sense. 

•     •     • 

A  NOTABLE  ADDITION  TO  AMERICAN  PAGEANTRY 

was  the  festival  procession  which  formed  the  great 
outdoor  spectacle  on  the  occasion  of  last  month's 
celebration  of  the  seventy-fifth  anniversary  of  the 
founding  of  Mount  Holyoke  College.  In  a  setting  of 
wonderful  autumn  splendor,  by  means  of  pantomime 
and  symbolic  tableaux,  the  academic  departments  of 
the  college  depicted  the  liberal  arts  and  sciences, 
while  alumnae,  in  the  fashions  of  three-quarters  of 
a  century,  presented  the  seventy-five  years  of  the 
life  of  Mount  Holyoke.  From  the  first  gay  fiddling 
of  mediaeval  minstrels,  as,  crossing  a  rustic  bridge 
and  winding  through  brilliant  trees,  they  led  the 
head  of  the  great  procession  out  on  the  grassy  stage 
under  the  eyes  of  more  than  three  thousand  specta- 
tors, to  the  last  rushing  together  of  all  the  companies 
of  heralds  and  color-bearers  on  the  wide  green  of 
the  South  Campus,  scene  after  scene  unfolded  in 
significant  and  arresting  beauty.  Augustus  and 
Agrippa  celebrated  the  Ludi  Saeculares  in  the  year 
17  B.C.  The  chemical  element  paced  through  its 
chequered  history,  ending  in  an  ingenious  setting 
forth  of  Mendele'eff's  "Periodic  Law."  Geology, 
botany,  and  zoology  united  to  depict  evolution  in 
nature,  even  to  Mendel's  law  of  heredity.  Portrait 
figures  presented  masterpieces  of  the  world's  art. 


In  the  presence  of  Louis  XIV.,  Moliere  conducted 
rehearsals  of  his  plays.  Economics  unfolded  in  five 
groups  the  evolution  of  industrial  society.  Twenty 
departments,  with  an  ingenuity  and  comprehensive- 
ness which  can  only  be  hinted  at,  thus  developed 
each  a  single  subject  chosen  from  its  own  special 
field  of  knowledge.  This  is  something  new  in  page- 
antry. By  its  originality  of  conception,  spontaneity 
of  execution,  variety  and  freedom  of  design,  its  beauty 
of  color,  and  continuity  of  thought,  Mount  Holyoke's 
"Festival  Procession"  made  that  provocative  appeal 
to  the  imagination  which  is  the  final  test  of  all  art. 
That  this  expression  of  the  life  of  an  academic  com- 
munity was  entirely  the  product  of  that  community 
itself  is  still  more  suggestive.  The  seven  hundred 
undergraduates  who  participated  received  no  "pro- 
fessional" training.  The  historic  accuracy  of  their 
costuming  derived  from  no  imported  brains.  To- 
Professor  Jewett,  creator  of  the  pageant,  and  her 
able  assistants  is  due  this  fresh  insight  into  the  art 
impulses  of  twentieth-century  life. 

•  •     • 

A  DECADE  OF  LIBRARY  GROWTH  forms  the  subject 
of  Mr.  John  Cotton  Dana's  current  report  to  the 
people  of  Newark  (N.  J.)  concerning  his  adminis- 
tration of  their  great  and  rapidly  growing  public 
library.  The  decade  began  with  the  removal  from 
old  to  new  quarters,  from  the  outgrown  building  in 
West  Park  Street  to  the  splendid  new  structure 
which,  including  land,  cost  not  far  from  half  a  mil- 
lion dollars  and  is  one  of  our  notable  examples  of 
library  architecture.  Also  coincident,  or  nearly 
coincident  with  the  beginning  of  the  decade,  if  we 
mistake  not,  was  Mr.  Dana's  assumption  of  his  pres- 
ent position ;  and  in  that  time  he  has  had  the  grati- 
fication of  seeing  the  institution  under  his  direction 
grow  marvellously  in  all  its  departments.  From 
approximately  seventy-eight  thousand  volumes  ten 
years  ago,  the  book-collection  has  increased  to  nearly 
two  hundred  thousand;  the  annual  circulation  has 
grown  from  less  than  a  third  of  a  million  to  more 
than  a  million  volumes;  six  branch  libraries  have 
been  established,  and  the  eight  delivery  stations  of 
ten  years  ago  have  become  magnified  and  trans- 
formed into  thirteen  deposit  stations ;  and  the  library 
staff  has  undergone  enlargement,  from  sixteen  per- 
sons to  forty-four,  not  including  messengers,  janitors, 
elevator  men,  engineers,  and  firemen.  But  all  these 
figures  are,  of  course,  merely  the  crude  symbols  of 
that  growth  and  ramification  in  the  library's  educa- 
tional activities,  that  increased  power  of  ministering 
to  the  deeper  needs  of  its  patrons,  which  have  come 
as  the  result  of  ten  years'  well-directed  effort. 

•  •     • 

A  POSSIBLE  UNEARTHING  OF  LITERARY  TREASURE 

possessing  value  beyond  the  dreams  of  bibliophilism 
may  be  regarded  as  a  not  very  remote  contingency. 
If  the  present  disturbances  in  the  Balkan  peninsula 
should  prove  to  mean  that  Turkey's  hour  of  doom 
has  struck,  there  would  be  reasonable  hope  that  the 
thousands  of  precious  manuscripts  known  to  be  stored 
in  the  vaults  of  St.  Sophia  might  at  last  see  the  light. 


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Tradition  avers  that  at  the  time  of  the  Turkish  con- 
quest of  Constantinople  more  than  a  million  manu- 
scripts were  hastily  consigned  for  safe  keeping  to 
the  crypts  heneath  the  sacred  edifice;  and  though 
Ottoman  arrogance,  which  forbids  Christians  to  visit 
what  was  once  the  chief  shrine  of  their  faith,  has 
stubbornly  refused  to  let  these  literary  relics  be  ex- 
amined, a  very  few  favored  persons  have  been  allowed 
to  get  a  tantalizing  peep  at  the  piles  of  dusty  rolls 
mouldering  in  subterranean  darkness.  One  of  these 
grudgingly-privileged  ones  was  the  late  Moberly 
Bell,  of  the  London  "Times,"  who  left  a  description 
of  what  was  revealed  to  his  hurried  glance.  In  its 
pre-Mohammedan  prime  the  Byzantine  capital  num- 
bered a  million  and  more  inhabitants,  and  boasted 
many  fine  churches,  famous  monasteries,  and  flour- 
ishing schools,  while  its  leading  citizens  had  each 
his  private  library  of  considerable  value.  Conse- 
quently the  possibilities  awaiting  realization  when 
the  accumulated  treasures  of  St.  Sophia's  crypts 
shall  be  unlocked  are  such  as  no  scholar  can  con- 
template in  imagination  with  unquickened  pulse. 
Who  knows  but,  among  other  priceless  legacies  of 
classical  antiquity,  there  may  be  discovered  the  lost 
books  of  Livy,  and  the  missing  tragedies  of  ^schy- 
lus  and  Sophocles,  and  the  poems  of  Anacreon  and 
Alcaeus  and  Sappho? 

WHY  NOVELS  MULTIPLY,  especially  in  the  English 
book- world,  is  explained  by  London  publishers  —  or 
at  least  an  explanation  is  attempted  —  somewhat  as 
follows.  A  great  many  women  have  in  recent  years 
entered  the  ranks  of  journalism,  but  have  found 
themselves  somewhat  handicapped  for  that  strenuous 
calling  by  "  sex  disability."  Therefore,  unwilling  to 
abandon  the  pen  for  the  needle  or  the  egg-beater, 
or  other  implement  of  female  industry,  they  have 
turned  to  the  writing  of  romances  for  the  entertain- 
ment of  other  women,  and  some  men,  and  have  found 
on  the  whole  a  hospitable  market  for  their  wares. 
Indeed  the  publishers  (Messrs.  William  Heinemann 
and  Arthur  Waugh  are  quoted  on  this  head)  are  said 
to  show  a  certain  partiality  for  women's  work  in  this 
field  of  literature.  The  manuscripts  submitted  by 
women  novelists  far  outnumber  those  offered  by  men, 
and  commonly  prove  fully  as  acceptable,  though  in 
point  of  literary  finish,  attention  to  the  rules  of 
sentence-construction,  and  so  on,  the  average  edu- 
cated woman  shows  herself  inferior  to  the  average 
educated  man.  Apropos  of  this,  one  might  observe, 
parenthetically,  it  is  curious  to  note  the  carelessness 
in  such  subordinate  details  of  even  so  gifted  and 
scholarly  a  woman  novelist  as  Mrs.  Humphry  Ward. 
Her  paragraphing  and  punctuation,  for  example,  seem 
at  times  to  be  dictated  by  pure  caprice.  In  further 
evidence  of  the  inherent  attractions  of  novel-writing 
for  our  "  sex-disabled  "  women  journalists,  attention 
is  called  to  the  smallness  of  remuneration  that  awaits 
their  labors.  The  pecuniary  return  for  a  work  of 
fiction  does  not  average  more  than  two  hundred  dol- 
lars, while  the  labor  of  writing  may  have  extended 
over  six  months  or  a  year,  with  no  certainty  of  accept- 


ance even  at  the  end  of  that  time.  Froude's  remark 
is  an  often-quoted  one,  that  the  literary  calling  is 
"  the  only  occupation  in  which  wages  are  not  given 
in  proportion  to  the  goodness  of  the  work  done." 

"LAMBING  WITH  MR.  LUCAS"  is  an  admirable 
and  easily  understood  phrase  attributed  by  Mr. 
Henry  C.  Shelley  to  an  American  friend  of  his  who, 
in  the  course  of  a  visit  to  England,  assured  Mr. 
Shelley  that  her  dearest  desire  was  to  go  Lambing 
through  London  with  Mr.  E.  V.  Lucas.  No  better 
guide  to  Lamb's  London  could  be  found  than  Elia's 
genial  biographer,  who  doubtless  could  dilate  on  the 
charms  of  the  metropolis  with  something  of  the  same 
eloquence  as  did  Lamb  himself  in  that  letter  to  his 
friend  Manning  wherein  he  glows  with  enthusiasm 
over  the  "  shops  sparkling  with  pretty  faces  of  indus- 
trious milliners,  neat  sempstresses,  ladies  cheapen- 
ing, gentlemen  behind  counters  lying,  authors  in  the 
street  with  spectacles,  George  Dyers  (you  may  know 
them  by  their  gait),  lamps  lit  at  night,  pastry-cooks' 
and  silver-smiths'  shops,  beautiful  Quakers  of  Pen- 
tonville,  noise  of  coaches,  drowsy  cry  of  mechanic 
watchmen  at  night,  with  bucks  reeling  home  drunk ; 
if  you  happen  to  wake  at  midnight,  cries  of  Fire 
and  Stop  thief;  inns  of  court,  with  their  learned  airs, 
and  halls,  and  butteries,  just  like  Cambridge  colleges ; 
old  book-stalls,  Jeremy  Taylors,  Burtons  on  Melan- 
choly, and  Religio  Medicis  on  every  stall.  These 
are  thy  pleasures,  0  London  with-the-many-sins." 
In  a  sense,  we  can  all,  fortunately,  go  Lambing 
through  London  with  Mr.  Lucas :  we  can  do  it  in  his 
books ;  and  we  can  also  go  Lucasing  through  London, 
not  only  in  some  of  his  earlier  volumes,  but  also,  and 
most  enjoyably,  in  his  new  novel,  "London  Laven- 
der," which  will  be  found  none  the  worse  for  the 
occasional  reappearance  of  some  of  the  familiar 
characters  from  its  predecessors. 

THE  POST   OF   BIOGRAPHER   TO   ERRATIC  GENIUS 

is  not  the  easiest  in  the  world  to  fill,  as  must  be 
evident  to  every  reader  of  Mr.  Albert  Bigelow 
Paine's  account  (in  the  November  "Harper")  of 
some  of  his  experiences  in  trying  to  gather  from 
Mark  Twain's  flow  of  varied  and  extremely  enter- 
taining personal  reminiscence  such  trustworthy  data 
as  were  needed  for  his  prospective  work.  Unfor- 
tunately for  the  biographer,  Mark  Twain's  imagina- 
tion eclipsed  his  memory  in  so  many  instances  that 
his  autobiographic  outpourings  had  to  be  carefully 
checked  and  corrected  with  the  help  of  such  other 
sources  of  information  as  were  available  —  if  there 
were  any  such,  as  doubtless  was  not  always  the  case. 
"  If  you  wanted  to  know  the  worst  of  Mark  Twain," 
says  his  biographer,  "  you  had  only  to  ask  him  for  it. 
He  would  give  it,  to  the  last  syllable  —  worse  than 
the  worst,  for  his  imagination  would  magnify  it  and 
adorn  it  with  new  iniquities,  and  if  he  gave  it  again, 
or  a  dozen  times,  he  would  improve  upon  it  each 
time,  until  the  thread  of  history  was  almost  impos- 
sible to  trace  through  the  marvel  of  that  fabric  ;  and 
he  would  do  the  same  for  another  person  just  a& 


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willingly."  Painfully  conscientious  and  unsparing 
as  Mark  Twain  is  well-known  to  have  been  in  his 
self-revelations,  he  simply  could  not  cure  himself  of 
his  growing  habit  of  remembering  quantities  of 
things  that  never  happened.  "  When  I  was 
younger,"  he  once  quaintly  remarked,  "  I  could 
remember  anything,  whether  it  happened  or  not ; 
but  I  am  getting  old,  and  soon  I  shall  remember 
only  the  latter."  ... 

ACKNOWLEDGING  THE  UNPROCLAIMED  ACHIEVE- 
MENT,—  welcoming  the  literary  angel  that  comes  to 
us  unawares, —  is  a  task  of  peculiar  pleasure  which 
presents  itself  all  too  infrequently.  Such  a  pleasure, 
however,  we  now  indulge  ourselves  in  by  advising 
the  discriminating  to  possess  themselves  at  once  of  a 
little  volume  called  "  The  Children  of  Light,"  which 
has  just  come  unheralded  from  the  press.  It  is  the 
work  of  Miss  Florence  Converse,  whose  "  Long  Will " 
was  recently  accorded  the  honor  of  inclusion  in 
"Everyman's  Library."  But  unlike  that  romance, 
"The  Children  of  Light"  is  a  tale  of  to-day  — of  the 
mighty  movement  for  social  regeneration  which  is 
slowly  spreading  over  the  world.  It  is  a  narrative 
of  much  interest,  told  with  rare  distinction  of  style : 
but  its  chief  charm  resides  in  the  fine  breath  of 
idealism  which  animates  the  whole.  Something  is 
here  of  the  spiritual  glow  and  fervor  of  Ruskin  and 
Morris — the  Ruskin  of  "  Fors,"  the  Morris  of  "  News 
from  Nowhere."  Especially  to  generous-hearted 
young  people,  eager  to  bear  their  part  in  the  strug- 
gle for  social  righteousness  yet  bewildered  by  the 
complexities  of  the  problem,  will  this  book  bring  joy 
and  enlightenment.  If  a  few  such  readers  find  their 
way  to  the  volume  through  this  brief  paragraph,  its 

purpose  will  have  been  fulfilled. 

... 

POETRY  BY  LINEAR  MEASUREMENT  appears  to 
form  one  of  the  subjects  of  study  to  be  pursued  at  a 
certain  leading  school  of  journalism.  A  press  notice 
announces  that  this  school  "will  offer  this  year  a 
number  of  new  courses  in  magazine  writing  and 
editing,  magazine  advertising  and  circulation,  and 
magazine  and  newspaper  verse."  Wherein  magazine 
and  newspaper  verse  differs  conspicuously  from 
other  verse  seems  to  be  the  neat  space-filling  quality 
that  commands  the  reader's  admiration  as  he  reaches 
the  end  of  a  prose  article  not  quite  able  to  stretch 
itself  to  the  bottom  of  the  page  or  column.  Here 
the  couplet,  the  quatrain,  or  in  rare  instances  the 
poem  of  six  or  eight  lines,  is  in  requisition ;  and  the 
practical  journalist  who  can  assist  at  the  make-up 
of  the  pages  and  fill  in  the  gaps  with  appropriate 
verse,  should  command  a  good  weekly  wage. 

•          •          • 

THE  FIRST  PROFESSORSHIP  OF  PRINTS  known  to 
exist  in  the  educational  or  art  world  will  be  estab- 
lished at  Harvard  as  soon  as  an  endowment  of  one 
hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars  is  assured,  two- 
thirds  of  it  being  already  pledged  by  seven  New 
York  and  Boston  art-lovers.  The  occupant  of  the 
new  chair  will  also  act  as  curator  of  prints  at  the 
Boston  Museum  of  Fine  Arts ;  and  the  person  already 


selected  for  this  double  office  is  said  to  be  Mr.  Fitz- 
Roy  Carrington,  who  for  the  past  fifteen  years  has 
been  a  partner  in  the  well-known  New  York  art 
firm  of  Frederick  Keppel  &  Co.,  and  is  reputed  one 
of  the  foremost  print-connoisseurs  in  the  country. 
In  this  connection  it  is  also  announced  that  "The 
Print-Collector's  Quarterly,"  the  only  American 
periodical  devoted  wholly  to  engravings  and  etch- 
ings, will  be  taken  over  by  the  Museum.  Mr. 
Carrington  has  been  editor  of  the  "  Quarterly  "  from 
its  beginning  nearly  two  years  ago.  A  considerable 
enlargement  of  the  present  collections  of  prints  in 
the  Boston  Art  Museum  and  in  the  Fogg  Museum  at 
Cambridge,  and  the  organizing  of  a  national  society 
of  print-lovers,  are  among  the  things  Mr.  Carrington 
hopes  to  accomplish.  .  .  . 

THE  INTELLECTUAL  LIFE,  long  before  and  ever 
since  Hamerton  wrote  so  convincingly  about  it,  has 
been  to  thousands  the  only  life  worth  living.  This 
conviction  is  voiced  again  by  the  new  president  of 
Amherst  in  his  inaugural  address.  Dr.  Meiklejohn 
began  his  talk  to  the  assembled  college  thus :  "  What- 
ever others  may  say,  the  teacher  knows  that  the 
primary  business  of  the  college  is  intellectual  rather 
than  technical  or  professional.  The  college  is  pri- 
marily not  a  place  of  the  body,  nor  of  the  feelings, 
nor  of  the  will.  First  of  all,  it  is  a  place  of  the 
mind.  And  the  justification  of  intellectual  training 
is,  first,  that  thinking  is  one  of  the  most  wholesome, 
most  captivating,  most  satisfying  of  human  pursuits. 
And  second,  more  important  still,  that  thinking  is 
good  because  of  its  contribution  to  life.  Our  funda- 
mental educational  principle  is  that  if  a  human  life 
has  been  translated  from  forms  of  feeling  to  those  of 
ideas,  life  has  become  more  successful."  It  is  safe 
to  predict  that  the  importance  which  at  Amherst 
has  ever  been  attached  to  the  things  of  the  mind 
will  suffer  no  diminution  at  President  Meiklejohn's 
hands.  .  .  . 

MRS.  HOWE'S  MEMORIALTPORTRAIT,  the  gift  of 
those  many  admirers  of  hers  who  have  delighted  to 
contribute  toward  this  testimonial  which  is  now 
formally  presented  to  the  Bostonian  Society,  was 
unveiled  the  other  day  in  the  council  chamber  of 
the  Old  State  House,  no  room  for  it  having  been 
found  in  Faneuil  Hall  or  the  Old  South  Meeting 
House  where  attempts  were  made  to  have  it  hung. 
Mrs.  Howe's  son-in-law,  Mr.  John  Elliott,  was  the 
artist  naturally  and  fittingly  chosen  to  paint  the 
portrait,  and  he  is  thought  to  have  achieved  a  re- 
markable likeness.  Mr.  Edwin  D.  Mead,  one  of 
the  speakers  of  the  occasion,  expressed  his  satisfac- 
tion at  seeing  the  portrait  hung  in  the  historic  old 
building,  and  added:  "One  would  have  to  weld 
together  two  women  of  the  colonial  period  to  match 
Mrs.  Howe,  and  those  two  women  would  be  Anne 
Hutchinson  and  Anne  Bradstreet."  Of  Dr.  and 
Mrs.  Howe's  old  friends,  it  was  pleasing  to  note  the 
attendance  of  Mr.  Frank  B.  Sanborn,  who  made  a 
short  address.  Of  course  the  "Battle  Hymn"  was 
sung,  to  make  the  occasion  complete. 


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THE  HOUSE  OF  BRONTE. 

A  veritable  House  of  Usher  that  lonely  par- 
sonage at  Haworth  must  have  been,  at  least  it 
so  stands  forth  in  one's  mental  picture  of  it — 
blank,  bare,  bleak,  and  ominous,  at  the  very 
end  of  the  steep  and  narrow  street  that  climbs 
between  its  double  row  of  gray  stone  houses  to 
the  apex  of  the  hill.  The  ancient  gray  stone 
church  with  its  square  and  solid  tower  stands 
opposite,  and  from  the  gray  front  of  the  little 
house  its  five  upper  windows  stare  down  upon 
the  mouldering  tombstones  of  the  parish  grave- 
yard—  an  accompaniment  as  symbolic  as  that 
of  the  dark  and  stagnant  tarn.  This  picture 
of  the  house  is  insistently  suggested  when  one 
recalls  the  history  of  the  Brontes.  It  has  evi- 
dently impressed  Miss  Sinclair,  the  author  of 
this  latest  study  of  the  three  remarkable  sisters 
whose  literary  achievement  has  brought  such 
fame  to  this  strange  family.  Miss  Sinclair 
says  : 

"  It  is  the  genius  of  the  Brontes  that  made  their  place 
immortal;  but  it  is  the  soul  of  the  place  that  made  their 
genius  what  it  is.  You  cannot  exaggerate  its  import- 
ance. They  drank  and  were  saturated  with  Haworth. 
.  .  .  Haworth  is  saturated  with  them.  Their  souls  are 
henceforth  no  more  to  be  disentangled  from  its  soul  than 
their  bodies  from  its  earth." 

The  pathetic  drama  of  Patrick  Bronte's  house- 
hold loses  none  of  its  significance  in  Miss  Sin- 
clair's narrative.  The  shadow  of  death  hovers 
over  the  family  from  the  beginning  to  the  end. 
Eighteen  months  after  their  advent  at  Haworth 
the  mother  was  buried  in  the  vault  of  the  gray 
stone  church,  and  on  the  flat  stone  above  her 
grave  was  carved  the  text  "Be  ye  also  ready." 
The  five  little  Bronte  girls  were  sent  away  to  a 
school, — the  Clergy  Daughter's  School,  which 
happened  to  be  situated  "in  an  unwholesome 
valley."  Then  Marie,  aged  twelve,  was  brought 
home  to  die ;  Elizabeth,  aged  eleven,  followed 
her  sister.  Charlotte,  Emily,  and  Anne  were 
now  at  Haworth  again,  and  there  they  lived 
undisturbed  by  further  tragedy  for  seven  years. 
Their  activities  were  in  part  domestic,  but  by  no 
means  limited  by  the  gray  walls  of  the  parsonage, 
the  old  stone  church,  or  the  sombre  cemetery. 
The  freedom  of  the  moors  was  theirs,  —  the  dun 
and  purple  moors  surrounded,  as  Mrs.  Gaskell 
describes  them,  by  the  sinuous,  wave-like  hills — 
grand  from  the  ideas  of  solitude  and  loneliness 
that  they  suggest.  And  now  they  entered  another 

*  THE  THREE  BRONTES.  By  May  Sinclair.  Illustrated. 
Boston :  Houghton  Mifflin  Co. 


world,  the  one  created  by  their  own  imagination, 
which  gave  the  childhood  of  these  three  sisters 
and  their  brother,  Branwell,  a  coloring  as  unique 
as  it  was  intense.  It  is  not  uncommon  for  chil- 
dren to  live  in  a  playland  of  strange  fancies,  but 
here  was  something  different  from  the  experience 
of  normal  childhood.  "  For  a  considerable  num- 
ber of  years  they  were  the  '  Islanders.'  "  *'  It 
was  in  1827  [Charlotte,  at  thirteen,  records  the 
date]  that  our  plays  were  established  :  Young 
Men,  June,  1826  ;  Our  Fellows,  July,  1827  ; 
The  Islanders,  December,  1827.  These  are  our 
three  great  plays  that  are  not  kept  secret." 
And  then  there  were  the  secret  plays,  Emily's 
and  Charlotte's, — "  shy  and  solitary  flights  of 
Emily's  and  Charlotte's  genius,"  Miss  Sinclair 
terms  them.  They  had  begun  to  write.  "  They 
seem  to  have  required  absolutely  no  impulsion 
from  without,"  she  says.  "  The  difficult  thing 
for  these  small  children  was  to  stop  writing." 
And  from  this  singular  school  of  authorship 
came  in  due  time  that  astonishing  group  of 
novels  which  has  served  for  wonderment  and 
comment  ever  since. 

As  was  to  have  been  expected,  Miss  Sinclair's 
study  of  the  Brontes  is  vivacious,  dramatic, 
frank,  and  unconventional.  She  apologizes  for 
her  book  on  the  ground  that  too  much  has  been 
said  already  about  Charlotte  and  her  family, — 
so  much,  indeed,  that  the  truth  itself  is  buried 
under  a  confused  tangle  of  distorted  facts.  She 
does  not  spare  the  biographers.  Mrs.  Gaskell 
is  censured  for  injustice  to  Patrick  Bronte,  the 
eccentric  head  of  the  house,  whom  Miss  Sinclair 
describes  as  "  a  poor,  unhappy  and  innocent 
old  man."  George  Henry  Lewes  is  "  gross  and 
flippant ";  and  as  for  Mrs.  Oliphant,  "  there  is 
nothing  from  her  fame  downward"  that  she  did 
not  grudge  Charlotte. 

In  1846  appeared  the  volume  of  "Poems  by 
Currer,  Ellis  and  Acton  Bell";  in  1847  the 
novel,  "Agnes  Grey,"  by  Anne,  "Jane  Eyre," 
by  Charlotte,  and  "Wuthering  Heights,"  by 
Emily.  In  the  next  year  came  Branwell's  tragic 
end,  in  September;  in  December  Emily  died, 
aged  twenty-nine;  and  five  months  later  Anne 
too,  at  twenty-seven,  succumbed  to  the  same  dis- 
ease (tuberculosis)  which  had  claimed  her  sister. 
In  September  of  that  year,  1849,  Charlotte  com- 
pleted "  Shirley."  She  did  not  lack  apprecia- 
tion; Mrs.  Gaskell,  Harriet  Martineau,  and 
Thackeray  were  her  admiring  friends,  but  her 
celebrity  did  not  destroy  her  shyness  or  wean 
her  from  her  attachment  to  Haworth.  "  Villette  " 
was  published  in  1853,  and  in  that  year  Char- 
lotte was  married  to  Arthur  Nicholls,  her  father's 


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curate.  "The  Professor"  was  not  published 
until  1857.  In  March,  1855,  Charlotte  Bronte 
died  —  then  in  her  thirty-ninth  year.  Her 
mother's  death  had  occurred  at  the  same  age, 
and  Branwell,  too,  had  died  at  thirty-nine. 

Miss  Sinclair's  book  will  interest  all  who  are 
interested  in  the  Brontes ;  it  is  a  study  that  has 
unusual  value.  The  passion,  the  spirit  of  revolt, 
the  elemental  in  the  work  of  Charlotte  and 
Emily,  are  here  given  sympathetic  emphasis. 
To  Emily  the  biographer  gives  a  leading  place ; 
"Wuthering  Heights"  is  in  her  estimation 
superior  to  "Jane  Eyre,"  and  Emily's  poems 
receive  highest  praise.  It  is  the  figure  of  Emily 
Bronte,  tall,  strong,  and  unconquerable,  solitary 
and  unique,  that  dominates  Miss  Sinclair's  im- 
agination at  the  conclusion  of  the  story  she  has 
so  vividly  retold.  But  once  again,  in  her  con- 
cluding chapter,  she  harks  back  to  that  gray 
stone  house  on  the  hill — as  she  found  it,  when 
a  child,  in  the  vivid  pages  of  Mrs.  Gaskell's 
wonderful  life: 

"  I  knew  every  corner  of  that  house.  I  have  an  im- 
pression (it  is  probably  a  wrong  one)  of  a  flagged  path 
going  right  down  from  the  Parsonage  door  through 
another  door  and  plunging  among  the  tombs.  I  saw  six 
little  white  and  wistful  faces  looking  out  of  an  upper 
window;  I  saw  six  little  children  going  up  and  up  a  lane, 
and  I  wondered  how  the  tiny  feet  of  babies  ever  got  so 
far.  I  saw  six  little  Bronte  babies  lost  in  the  spaces  of 
the  illimitable  moors.  They  went  over  rough  stones 
and  walls  and  mountain  torrents;  their  absurd  petticoats 
were  blown  upwards  by  the  wind,  and  their  feet  were 
tangled  in  the  heather.  They  struggled  and  struggled, 
and  yet  were  in  an  ecstacy  that  I  could  well  understand. 
.  .  .  And,  all  through,  an  invisible,  intangible  presence, 
something  mysterious,  but  omnipotently  alive;  some- 
thing that  excited  these  three  sisters;  something  that 
atoned,  that  not  only  consoled  for  suffering  and  solitude 
and  bereavement,  but  that  drew  its  strength  from  these 
things;  something  that  moved  in  this  book  like  the  soul 
of  it;  something  that  they  called  'genius.'" 

There  is  no  question  of  the  genius  of  Char- 
lotte and  Emily  Bronte.  But  genius  commonly 
arrives  by  the  broad  highway  of  worldly  knowl- 
edge; so  still  the  wonder  grows  —  how  the  tiny 
feet  of  babies  ever  got  so  far. 

W.  E.  SIMONDS. 


"BEDROCK"  (Constable  &  Co.)  is  a  new  English 
quarterly  which  aims  to  do  in  the  field  of  scientific  and 
secular  thought  about  what  "  The  Hibbert  Journal "  is 
doing  in  the  field  of  philosophy.  To  the  layman  the 
most  interesting  articles  in  the  October  number  will 
be  those  on  "  Mistaken  Identity  "  by  Dr.  Clifford  Sully, 
showing  the  untrustworthiuess  of  the  ordinary  testi- 
mony as  to  personal  identity;  and  "More  'Daylight 
Saving ' "  by  Professor  Hubrecht,  in  which  arguments 
are  offered  for  a  readjustment  of  meridian  time  to  make 
the  working  day  correspond  more  closely  with  the  light 
and  less  with  the  darker  hours  of  the  twenty-four. 


EXPLORATIONS  IN  THE  VASTY  DEEP.* 

The  great  incentives  toward  exploration 
which  have  spurred  adventurous  spirits  in  the 
past  to  hazardous  endeavor  are  rapidly  disap- 
pearing. Flags  fly  at  both  the  poles.  The  inte- 
riors of  the  continents  have  been  charted,  the 
culture  of  even  the  remotest  tribes  of  men 
has  been  described  and  their  folk-lore  recorded, 
and  the  big  game  of  the  jungles  and  plains  is 
fast  disappearing  forever.  The  explorer  of ,the 
future  must  turn  to  ultra-mundane  spheres  for 
novelty,  or  perchance  must  seek  laboriously  to 
unravel  the  secrets  beneath  the  surface  of  our 
own  little  planet. 

Much  remains  to  be  done  in  the  mapping  of 
the  ocean  floor ;  in  determining  temperatures, 
salinities,  and  currents  in  the  sea  ;  in  detecting 
the  fate  of  the  immense  quantities  of  nitrogenous 
matter  washed  from  the  continents  yearly  into 
the  sea ;  in  analysing  the  slowly  accumulated 
deposits  which  make  up  the  soft  ooze  of  the 
ocean  bottom  ;  and,  above  all,  in  determining  the 
kind,  extent,  distribution,  and  natural  history 
(or  oecology,  to  use  a  more  modern  term)  of  the 
plant  and  animal  life  of  the  sea,  and  enabling 
man  fully  and  safely  to  reap  the  harvests  of  the 
sea.  Here  is  work  which  demands  not  only 
the  knowledge  and  training  of  the  scientific 
specialist  as  well  as  the  perseverance  and  self- 
abnegation  of  the  saint,  but  also  all  those 
qualities  of  hardihood,  enthusiasm,  daring,  im- 
agination, and  ingenuity  which  the  successful 
explorer  of  unknown  polar  or  tropical  regions 
must  possess. 

It  is  not  without  significance  that  the  three 
authors  of  the  works  here  reviewed  and  all  of 
their  collaborators  live  on  the  borders  of  the 
storm-tossed  but  fertile  North  Sea,  and  that  a 
Scotchman,  a  Norwegian,  and  an  Englishman 
should  write  of  the  sea  and  its  problems.  Indeed, 
Murray  and  Hjort's  "Depths  of  the  Ocean" 
is  the  direct  result  of  an  international  coopera- 
tive scientific  enterprise  on  the  part  of  all  the 

*  THE  DEPTHS  OF  THE  OCEAN.  A  General  Account  of 
the  Modern  Science  of  Oceanography,  based  largely  on  the 
Scientific  Researches  of  the  Norwegian  Steamer  "Michael 
Sars"  in  the  North  Atlantic.  By  Sir  John  Murray,  K.C.B., 
F.R.S.,  etc.,  of  the  "  Challenger  "  Expedition,  and  Dr.  Johan 
Hjort,  Director  of  Norwegian  fisheries.  With  contributions 
from  Professor  A.  Appellof ,  Professor  H.  H.  Gran,  and  Dr.  B. 
Helland-Hansen.  Illustrated.  New  York :  The  Macmillan  Co. 

SCIENCE  OF  THE  SEA.  An  Elementary  Handbook  of 
Practical  Oceanography  for  Travellers,  Sailors,  and  Yachts- 
men. Prepared  by  the  Challenger  Society  for  the  Promotion 
of  the  Study  of  Oceanography.  Edited  by  G.  Herbert  Fowler, 
B.A.,  Ph.D.,  F.L.S.,  etc.,  sometime  Assistant  Professor  of 
Zoology,  University  College,  London.  Illustrated.  New 
York :  E.  P.  Dutton  &  Co. 


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nations  of  Northern  Europe  (except  France) 
looking  towards  an  adequate  scientific  analysis 
of  the  results  of  modern  fishing  by  machinery 
and  endeavoring  adequately  to  determine  the 
productivity  of  the  sea  and  to  measure  the  fac- 
tors which  condition  it. 

The  Norwegian  section  of  the  "  International 
Commission  for  the  Investigation  of  the  Sea" 
had  for  its  leader  Dr.  Johan  Hjort,  and  its  ten 
years  of  explorations  in  northern  waters  were 
carried  on  in  the  "Michael  Sars,"  a  staunch 
little  steamer  built  on  the  main  lines  of  a  com- 
mercial trawler  and  named  for  one  of  Norway's 
illustrious  zoologists.  Sir  John  Murray,  joint 
author  of  "The  Depths  of  the  Ocean"  and  the 
patron  of  the  expedition,  was  a  member  of  the 
scientific  staff  of  the  famous  Challenger  Expedi- 
tion of  1872-1876  and  later  the  director  of  the 
researches  carried  on  upon  its  collections.  He 
was  also  editor  of  the  fifty  quarto  volumes  of 
"Reports"  and  author  of  the  "Summary  of 
Results"  of  this  expedition,  forming  the  most 
adequate  account  of  the  life  of  the  sea  as  yet 
published.  Such  leadership  at  once  made  the 
cruise  of  the  "Michael  Sars"  in  the  summer  of 
1910,  in  the  tropical  and  northern  Atlantic, 
noteworthy  in  the  annals  of  marine  exploration. 
It  made  possible  an  attack  upon  the  problems 
of  the  sea  with  the  most  modern  fully-tested 
equipment,  elaborated  by  the  International 
Commission,  in  experienced  hands  and  under 
expert  guidance  of  the  highest  order.  Brief 
though  this  expedition  was,  its  results  are  of 
far  more  significance  than  those  of  any  other 
since  that  of  the  Challenger. 

Some  of  the  discoveries  recorded  are  the  detec- 
tion of  tidal  currents  in  the  deep  sea  far  from 
land,  running  a  clock-wise  course  throughout 
the  day ;  the  accurate  measurement  and  analysis, 
by  means  of  the  centrifuge,  of  the  very  minute 
life  in  ocean  waters  which  has  usually  escaped 
detection  even  with  the  finest  silk  nets ;  the  de- 
termination by  photographic  plates  of  the  depth 
to  which  light  of  different  parts  of  the  spectrum 
penetrates  the  ocean  waters,  and  a  new  concep- 
tion of  this  "light  floor"  of  the  sea  and  its 
relation  to  the  coloration,  distribution,  and  move- 
ments of  the  denizens  of  the  deep.  The  collec- 
tions brought  up  by  the  vastly  more  efficient 
types  of  collecting  apparatus  used  by  the 
"Michael  Sars"  afforded  not  only  many  inter- 
esting and  bizarre  types  of  fishes  and  other 
animals  new  to  science,  but  also  more  accurate 
determinations  of  the  vertical  distribution  and 
relative  abundance  of  the  various  elements  in 
the  population  of  the  open  sea. 


Throughout  the  work  there  is  constant  corre- 
lation of  the  results  with  the  discoveries  of  earlier 
workers  in  the  same  field,  and  many  suggestions 
as  to  the  problems  requiring  further  work  for 
their  solution.  The  book  is  written  for  the  intel- 
ligent reader,  and  is  an  authoritative  epitome 
of  our  present  knowledge  of  the  sea,  its  physical 
constants,  environmental  features,  of  the  struc- 
ture and  composition  of  the  ocean  floor,  and  of 
the  varied  life  of  the  sea  and  the  factors  which 
condition  its  occurrence  and  distribution.  Not- 
withstanding its  composite  authorship,  the  work 
is  uniformly  well  written,  and  is  never  lacking 
in  interest.  It  is  superbly  illustrated  with  many 
original  drawings  and  colored  plates,  as  well  as 
with  maps  revised  in  accordance  with  the  latest 
data. 

The  Challenger  Society  for  the  Promotion 
of  the  Study  of  Oceanography  has  prepared, 
under  the  able  editorship  of  its  secretary,  Dr. 
G.  Herbert  Fowler,  a  useful  work  on  "  The 
Science  of  the  Sea,"  intended  to  serve  as  a  hand- 
book of  practical  oceanography  for  both  profes- 
sional and  amateur  scientists  interested  in  the 
ocean.  It  is  a  scientific  treatise,  compiled  by 
eminent  authorities,  on  the  various  phases  of  the 
exploration  of  the  marine  world.  It  is  authori- 
tative, up  to  date,  and  comprehensive  in  its  scope. 
Technicalities  are  so  reduced  or  eliminated  that 
one  need  not  be  a  specialist  in  order  to  use  the 
work  intelligently.  The  questions  that  arise 
whenever  a  scientific  cruise  of  even  slight  pro- 
portions is  undertaken  are  numerous  and  per- 
plexing. The  results  of  practical  experience  in 
matters  of  outfit,  equipment,  collecting  methods 
for  plants  and  animals,  instruments  for  oceano- 
graphic  work  with  soundings,  salinities,  temper- 
atures, and  currents,  are  here  assembled  in 
convenient  form  for  reference.  The  exploration 
of  the  air,  water,  shore,  sea  bottom,  the  plants 
and  animals  of  the  sea,  details  of  yacht  equip- 
ment, etc.,  are  dealt  with,  and  there  are  useful 
directions  for  dredging  and  trawling,  for  fishing 
at  sea,  and  for  the  preservation  of  marine  organ- 
isms. A  chapter  on  whales  and  seals  discusses 
also  the  scientific  bases  for  the  reported  existence 
of  sea  serpents.  Valuable  suggestions  for  record- 
ing scientific  data  are  added  by  the  editor. 
The  pages  include  conversion  tables  of  nautical 
measurements  in  English  and  metric  units,  a 
classified  list  of  manufacturers  and  dealers  sup- 
plying equipment  for  marine  expeditions,  a  list 
of  important  books  on  the  subject,  and  a  list  of 
the  marine  biological  stations  of  the  world.  The 
volume  will  not  only  be  of  great  assistance  to  all 
scientists  concerned  in  those  fields  which  have  to 


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do  with  the  ocean,  but  should  also  serve  to  in- 
crease popular  interest  in  the  life  of  the  sea  and 
in  the  exploration  of  its  secrets  on  the  part  of 
amateurs  whose  facilities  to  render  service  to 
science  in  this  direction  are  often  excellent,  and 
whose  aid  is  so  often  gladly  given  when  adequate 
direction  is  available. 

CHARLES  ATWOOD  KOFOID. 


THE  3STEW  GRAXT  WHITE 
SHAKESPEARE.* 


Were  it  only  as  a  tribute  to  American  schol- 
arship, this  new  edition  of  Shakespeare  should 
be  welcome.  Though  Verplanck  and  Hudson 
may  not  be  forgotten,  Richard  Grant  White 
was  as  surely  the  first  notable  American  Shake- 
spearean editor  as  Dr.  Furness,  lately  passed 
away,  was  the  second.  White  was  many  things 
besides — dramatic  and  musical  critic,  journal- 
ist, linguist,  and  novelist;  but  it  is  mainly  his 
work  in  the  Shakespearean  field  that  has  kept 
his  name  alive.  We  are  carried  back  more 
than  fifty  years  to  a  time  when  scholarship  and 
literature,  and  literature  and  journalism,  were 
not  yet  divorced  in  our  land,  when  professors 
wrote  poetry  unashamed,  and  newspaper  corre- 
spondents might  quote  Virgil  with  full  editorial 
approval.  White  was  a  product  of  those  condi- 
tions, neither  debarred  by  his  inbred  culture  from 
an  influential  active  career  nor  yet  estranged  by 
the  distractions  of  such  a  career  from  scholarly 
pursuits.  His  edition  of  Shakespeare  was  pre- 
pared during  the  most  tumultuous  years  of  our 
history,  when  White  himself  was  doing  much  by 
his  "Yankee  Letters!'  to  the  London  "Specta- 
tor" to  set  the  cause  of  the  North  in  a  clearer 
light  before  the  British  public. 

White's  critical  interest  in  Shakespeare  was 
aroused  by  the  publication  of  Collier's  notorious 
"discoveries"  of  marginal  corrections  in  an  old 
Folio  copy,  the  claim  of  which  to  any  special 
deference  he  vigorously  denied,  publishing  his 
arguments  at  considerable  length.  He  then  set 
about  editing  Shakespeare  himself,  completing 
the  work  in  twelve  volumes.  We  are  informed 
by  Jaggard's  "  Shakespeare  Bibliography  "  that 
the  undertaking  was  financed  by  T.  P.  Barton, 
founder  of  the  Boston  Shakespeare  Library. 
Lowell,  then  editor  of  the  newly-launched  "At- 
lantic Monthly,"  reviewed  the  early  volumes  in 
1859,  and  deliberately  pronounced  the  edition 

*THE  NEW  RICHARD  GRANT  WHITE  SHAKESPEARE. 
Revised,  supplemented,  and  annotated  by  William  P.  Trent, 
Benjamin  W.  Wells,  and  John  B.  Henneman.  In  twelve 
volumes.  Illustrated.  Boston :  Little,  Brown,  &  Co. 


"the  best  hitherto  published."  This  was  in  the 
generation  of  Knight,  Collier,  Dyce,  and  Staun- 
ton,  all  of  whom  preceded  the  Cambridge  editors. 
White's  text  was  characterized  by  a  regard  for 
the  general  superiority  of  the  First  Folio,  duly 
tempered  with  a  sense  of  its  defects ;  by  great 
acuteness  in  eliciting  the  meaning  of  obscure 
passages;  and  by  occasional  boldness  in  emen- 
dation. He  was  really  a  pioneer  in  his  deter- 
mined restoration  of  Elizabethan  forms  and 
spellings  whenever  modernization  threatened  to 
impair  either  sense  or  beauty.  He  was  the  first, 
for  example,  to  restore  the  possessive  it,  and  to 
reduce  to  regularity  the  manifest  intention  of 
the  Folio  printers  in  respect  to  the  pronunciation 
or  elision  of  e  in  the  termination  —  ed.  Not 
always  of  course,  was  his  judgment  sure.  In  so 
characteristic  a  Shakespearean  phrase  as  "  Now 
is  he  turned  orthography  "  (Much  Ado,  ii. 3. 2 1), 
he  deserted  both  Quarto  and  Folio  for  Rowe's 
emendation,  "orthographer."  And  in  the  equally 
characteristic  "It  were  an  alms  to  hang  him" 
(Ibid.  164),  he  followed  Collier's  folio,  printing 
"It  were  an  alms[-deed]  to  hang  him."  It 
may  be  said  in  passing  that  he  adopted  more 
than  a  hundred  readings  from  Collier's  folio 
marginalia,  a  sufficient  evidence  that  he  was 
willing  to  accept  that  critic's  emendations  on 
their  own  merits.  The  volumes  were  pro- 
vided with  introductions  and  notes,  a  memoir  of 
Shakespeare,  an  essay  on  his  genius,  and  a  his- 
torical sketch  of  the  text;  and  all  this  matter 
has  been  faithfully  retained  in  the  present  new 
edition,  with  only  such  editing  as  the  additional 
light  of  fifty  years  seems  to  require.  The  "  Me- 
moirs" read  a  little  oddly  in  this  day  of  cold 
documentary  biography: 

"To  the  now  childless  couple  there  came  consolation 
and  a  welcome  care  in  their  first-born  son,  whom,  on  the 
26th  of  April,  1564,  they  christened  and  called  William. 
.  .  .  Of  the  day  of  his  birth,  there  exists,  and  probably 
there  was  made,  no  record.  Why  should  it  have  been 
otherwise  ?  He  was  only  the  son  of  a  Warwickshire 
yeoman,"  etc. 

Yet  the  very  slight  annotation  that  has  been 
called  for  on  the  part  of  the  revisers  testifies 
alike  to  White's  thoroughness  and  accuracy, 
and  to  the  meagreness  of  later  additions  to  our 
knowledge. 

Before  examining  the  editorial  work  of  this 
new  edition,  it  should  be  noted  that  White,  late 
in  life,  agreed  with  another  publisher  to  apply 
his  ripened  scholarship  to  the  task  of  revision, 
the  result  of  which  was  the  Riverside  edition 
of  1883.  The  text  of  the  "Riverside"  shows 
countless  variations  from  his  earlier  text  in  the 
minor  details  of  punctuation,  etc.,  and  appears 


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to  have  been  set  up  from  the  Globe  edition  of 
the  Cambridge  editors,  with  which  it  tallies 
closely  in  these  details.  At  the  same  time,  it  pre- 
serves the  more  distinctive  features  of  White's 
first  text,  and  there  is  abundant  evidence  to  sup- 
port his  statement  that  the  revision  had  received 
"in  the  most  minute  particulars  his  careful 
attention."  Though  stoutly  asserting  his  dis- 
trust of  all  conjecture,  he  ventured  upon  several 
emendations  bolder  than  any  in  his  first  text. 
Thus,  the  famous  "dram  of  eale"  which  "Doth 
all  the  noble  substance  of  a  doubt  To  his  owne 
scandle"  (Hamlet,  i.4.36)  becomes 

"  The  dram  of  evil 

Doth  all  the  noble  substance  oft  adulter 
To  his  own  scandal." 

And  any  one  familiar  with  Prince  Hal's  rebuke 
to  Falstaff,  "  Peace,  chewet,  peace  !  "  (1  Henry 
IV.,  v.  1.  29),  will  experience  some  conflict  of 
emotions  when  he  reads  — 

"  Peace,  suet,  peace  !  " 

Likewise,  to  Celia's  question,  "  But  is  all  of 
this  for  your  father?"  (As  You  Like  It,  i.  3. 
10),  Rosalind  is  not  permitted  to  give  the  tra- 
ditional answer,  "  No,  some  of  it  is  for  my  child's 
father,"  but  —  * "t 

"  No,  some  of  it  is  for  my  father's  child." 
This  change,  he  declared,  was  not  made  on  any 
ground  of  Rosalind's  delicacy,  but  solely  because 
the  text  does  not  give  the  fitting  spontaneous 
reply.  It  is  very  certain  that  White's  judgment 
in  these  matters  was  never  warped  by  sentiment, 
as  Dr.  Furness's  sometimes  was.  For  prosaic 
passages,  at  least,  the  more  prosaic  interpreta- 
tion was  likely  to  meet  his  approval.  When 
Benedick  suspects  Claudio  of  being  in  love,  be- 
cause, forsooth,  "  When  was  he  wont  to  wash  his 
face  ? ' '  White  accepted  the  words  quite  literally, 
remarking  that  in  Shakespeare's  time  our  race 
had  not  yet  abandoned  itself  to  a  reckless  use 
of  water.  Lowell,  never  over-reverent  himself 
when  there  was  any  opportunity  for  a  jest, 
protested  against  this  vulgarizing  of  Benedick's 
meaning,  maintaining  that  "  wash  "  referred  to 
cosmetics.  But  there  is  no  evidence  that  White 
ever  heeded  the  protest.  And  the  present  writer 
feels  that  if  he  could  have  submitted  to  White 
a  very  simple  interpretation  of  one  of  Lear's 
mad  utterances,  "  We  '11  go  to  supper  i'  the 
morning  " — the  interpretation,  namely,  that  the 
neglect  of  Lear's  daughters  in  not  having  din- 
ner ready  for  him  on  time  is  still  rankling  in 
his  mind,  —  he  would  have  found  one  sym- 
pathetic listener. 

Turning   now  to   the   new   edition  —  which 
bears  the  imprint  of  the  same  house  that  issued 


the  first,  fifty  years  ago —  we  find  it  to  be  sub- 
stantially a  reprint  of  that  first  edition,  with 
occasional  slight  variations  in  the  text,  and  with 
the  original  notes  edited  and  often  abridged  to 
make  room  for  others  added  by  the  revisers.  As 
for  the  text  itself,  it  is  hard  to  see  wherein  it 
has  gained  by  this  revision,  since  the  work  ap- 
pears to  have  been  done  with  either  too  little 
care,  or  too  much  caution,  to  justify  its  being 
done  at  all.  For  example,  the  opportunity  was 
not  taken  to  throw  out  the  disfiguring  "alms 
[-deed]  "  mentioned  above,  though  White  him- 
self discarded  it  in  his  own  revision.  We  still 
have  White's  earlier  punctuation  in  "moving, 
delicate,"  and  "  mannerly,  modest,"  though  he 
later  agreed  with  the  Cambridge  editors  in  think- 
ing that  "  moving-delicate  "  and  "  mannerly- 
modest"  better  express  Shakespeare's  intention. 
We  still  have  the  nonsense  of  "  Doth  not  the 
gentleman  Deserve  as  full,  as  fortunate  a  bed, 
As  ever  Beatrice  shall  couch  upon  ?  "  though 
here  again  White,  along  with  the  Cambridge 
editors,  reverted  to  the  correct  original  texts, 
expelling  the  intruded  first  comma.  And  we 
still  have  the  old  spellings  in  "  Full  fadom  five 
thy  father  lies,"  and  "  With  twenty  mortal  mur- 
thers  on  their  crowns,"  which  White  (very  un- 
reasonably, we  think,  even  in  his  day)  insisted 
on  retaining.  The  textual  variations  that  have 
been  admitted  are  faithfully  indicated,  but 
usually  with  nothing  to  tell  whether  they  are 
alterations  adopted  by  White  himself  in  his 
second  edition,  or  new  alterations  made  by  the 
revisers.  Indeed,  the  second,  or  Riverside 
edition,  gets  rather  scant  courtesy ;  there  is 
even,  for  example,  no  hint  of  White's  emenda- 
tion of  the  famous  "  dram  of  eale "  passage 
mentioned  above. 

The  revisers'  own  notes  are  marked  by  great 
caution.  As  gleanings  from  the  contributions 
of  modern  editors,  they  are  useful,  but  there  is 
seldom  a  note  of  independent  value.  Modesty, 
of  course,  was  to  be  preserved,  in  deference  to 
the  scholar  whose  merit  they  have  so  handsomely 
acknowledged.  Yet  it  seems,  for  instance,  a  little 
naive  to  remark,  upon  Hamlet's  "  too  too  solid 
flesh,"  that  "White  collected  several  passages  in 
which  adverbs  were  used  in  this  way '  with  inten- 
sifying iteration,'  "  when  every  reader  of  Eliza- 
bethan literature  knows  that  these  reduplications 
were  plentiful  as  blackberries,  and  that  it  is 
rather  our  modern  ears  that  find  a  peculiar  inten- 
sification in  them.  Again,  when  Shakespeare 
writes  (Sonnet  II.),  "This  fair  child  of  mine 
Shall  sum  my  count,  and  make  my  old  excuse," 
we  are  told  in  a  note  that  "  old  is  obscure,  pos- 


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sibly  it  means '  complete,'  see  Wyndham."  But 
"my  old  excuse"  means  simply  "  excuse  for  my 
age,"  an  elliptical  form  of  expression  that  can  be 
paralleled  in  Shakespeare  a  hundred  times  over. 
There  appears  to  be  a  change  in  the  character 
of  the  notes  in  the  last  few  volumes,  beginning 
with  "  Hamlet,"  which  may  be  due  to  the  unfor- 
tunate death  of  Professor  Henneman  while  the 
work  was  in  progress.  Of  course,  the  purpose 
of  the  revisers  was  merely  to  bring  the  work  up 
to  date,  without  making  any  profession  of  afford- 
ing new  light.  The  sum  of  the  matter  is  that 
for  the  Shakespearean  student  who  has  access 
to  White's  own  editions,  this  new  edition,  how- 
ever scholarly  and  accurate  in  the  main,  is 
negligible. 

But  for  the  Shakespearean  reader  and  book- 
lover,  it  is  quite  otherwise.  The  publishers  have 
cooperated  in  producing  a  charming  set  of 
books.  The  type  is  very  large,  the  lines  are 
unobtrusively  numbered,  and  the  more  import- 
ant notes  are  set  at  the  bottom  of  the  page. 
There  are  forty-eight  illustrations,  mostly  Gou- 
pil  photogravures  from  paintings, — for  example, 
Carl  von  Haff  ten's  "  Elsinore  "  and  Ford  Madox 
Brown's  "  Cordelia's  Portion."  The  set  has 
been  prepared  in  various  forms,  to  suit  various 
tastes  and  purposes ;  but  for  the  buyer  of  mod- 
erate means  and  for  actual  use,  the  "  pocket 
edition,"  in  full  limp  leather,  would  appear  to 
be  very  near  perfection.  The  volumes  differ 
from  those  of  many  such  editions  in  possessing 
the  dignity  of  real  books,  being  large  enough 
to  look  well  on  the  shelf,  though  still  small 
enough  to  be  slipped  conveniently  into  the 
pocket.  It  is  the  sort  of  edition  that  invites 
intimacy  and  begets  a  lifelong  attachment. 

ALPHONSO  GERALD  NEWCOMER. 


A  WOULD-BE  DISTURBER  or  THE 
WORLD'S  PEACE.* 


In  the  course  of  history  the  Saxon  race  came 
to  power  and  greatness.  It  still  possesses  its 
greatness,  but  has  lost  its  power.  This  loss  of 
power  is  to  be  attributed  to  several  circum- 
stances, chief  among  which  are  the  entrance  of 
new  powers  into  the  international  arena,  the  de- 
velopment of  land-transportation  making  these 
newer  nations  independent  of  sea- transportation, 
and  the  decline  of  militancy  among  the  Saxons 
themselves.  This  condition  of  things  promises 
to  end  the  greatness  of  the  Saxon,  and  to  give 

*  THE  DAY  OF  THE  SAXON.  By  Homer  Lea.  New  York: 
Harper  &  Brothers. 


the  dominance  in  world  affairs  to  others.  If 
the  Saxon  race  is  to  survive,  it  must  abandon 
its  foolish  complacency,  it  must  revive  its  mili- 
tancy through  universal  compulsory  service  im- 
posed by  the  government,  and,  finally,  it  must 
establish  the  military  and  naval  unity  of  the 
Empire  and  the  complete  separation  of  the  mili- 
tary and  naval  systems  from  the  civil  govern- 
ment of  the  dominions  and  the  colonies. 

Thus  runs  the  argument  of  "  General "  Homer 
Lea's  "  The  Day  of  the  Saxon."  That  it  is  not 
a  new  argument  will  be  instantly  obvious.  But 
simple  as  the  proposition  is,  these  pages,  which 
overflow  with  clever  epigrams  and  other  evi- 
dences of  literary  skill,  befuddle  rather  than 
elucidate  it  by  endless  repetition  and  especially 
by  the  cocksure  manner  in  which  the  author's 
views  are  stated.  This  assurance  does  not  con- 
fine itself  to  interpreting  the  past  or  construing 
the  present  in  a  definitive  way ;  the  author  even 
presumes  to  look  into  the  future,  and  with  the 
same  finality  of  judgment. 

"Japan's  maritime  frontiers  must  extend  eastward 
of  the  Hawaiian  Islands  and  southward  of  the  Philip- 
pines. .  .  .  Because  of  this  Japan  draws  near  to  her 
next  war  —  a  »war  with  America.  .  .  .  The  nation's 
[meaning  the  United  States]  vain  and  tragic  scorn  of 
the  soldier,  predetermines  the  consummation  of  this 
fatal  combat.  .  .  .  Subsequent  to  this  war  the  strategic 
position  of  the  British  Empire  in  the  Pacific  becomes 
so  vulnerable  as  to  be  subject  to  the  will  of  Japan." 
(Pp.  92-3.) 

In  these  days  of  deliberation  and  scientific 
reflection  a  mere  assertion  is  not  convincing, 
however  categorically  it  may  be  made ;  and 
hence  the  axiomatic  way  in  which  this  believer 
in  war  and  the  inevitability  of  conflict  asserts 
his  opinions  will  not  in  the  least  impose  upon 
cool  and  well-informed  men.  If  this  book  came 
only  into  the  hands  of  such  it  could  simply  be 
ignored.  In  the  hands  of  others  it  may  do  real 
harm,  for  it  bristles  with  a  show  of  learning  and 
scientific  understanding  of  world  affairs  that 
will  catch  the  unlearned  with  consequences  none 
the  less  dire  because  of  its  flamboyant  preten- 
sions. The  author,  though  never  affiliated  with 
any  recognized  military  organization,  has  in 
other  connections  posed  as  a  "  lieutenant- 
general,"  and  speaks  as  though  he  were  an  au- 
thority on  military  and  naval  matters.  Phrases 
such  as  "  strategic  triangles,"  "  arcs  of  invasion," 
"  angles  of  convergence,"  "  military  spheres," 
"specific  arcs  of  the  British  circle,"  and  for- 
midable explanatory  charts  constructed  on  prin- 
ciples which  themselves  need  explanation,  help 
to  give  a  show  of  learning.  "  General  laws," 
"  elemental  principles,"  and  "  fundamental  con- 


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ditions  "  tread  on  each  other's  heels.  The  au- 
thor deducts  laws  from  the  course  of  history 
that  would  startle  even  Buckle  or  Taine.  "  The 
political  relationship  that  exists  among  nations, 
far  from  being  complex,  is  reducible  to  two 
general  principles  "  (p.  25).  "The  expansion 
of  nations  is  not  an  erratic  progress,  but  is  con- 
trolled and  directed  by  known  laws"  (p.  91).  If 
all  the  claims  made  by  "General"  Lea  were  true, 
if  all  laws  governing  human  relationships  were 
to  be  ascertained  so  positively,  this  book  would 
be  one  of  the  greatest  helps  known  to  man  for 
obtaining  universal  peace  ;  for  we  should  know 
exactly  what  not  to  do  to  avoid  war. 

The  prescient  author  gives  a  simple  prescrip- 
tion by  which  the  Saxon  may  yet  save  himself 
ere  it  be  too  late  (p.  239) .  Just  how  "  General  " 
Lea  knows  so  surely  the  way  to  save  the  Saxon 
is  of  the  highest  interest,  considering  that  "  in 
this  epoch  of  war  upon  which  the  Empire  is 
about  to  enter,  hopes  of  peace  are  futile,  con- 
stitutions and  kings  and  gods  are  without  avail " 
(p.  24).  Would  that  he  had  also  told  us  why 
the  Saxon  should  be  saved ;  and  what  is  to  be 
done  if  some  Teutonic  or  Slavic  Homer  Lea 
teaches  his  race  how  to  overthrow  the  Saxon. 

We  find  another  inconsistency.  The  Saxon 
has  loudly  boasted  of  the  benefits  he  has  con- 
ferred upon  society  by  developing  and  protect- 
ing liberal  institutions ;  and,  indeed,  this  is  one 
of  his  chief  titles  to  fame.  Yet  our  author,  who 
would  save  the  Saxon,  states  categorically  that 
"  a  nation  retrogrades  in  universal  political  intel- 
ligence in  proportion  as  its  international  affairs 
are  controlled  by  popular  prejudice"  (p.  26). 
That  he  should  consistently  oppose  democracy 
is  natural,  for  he  realizes,  as  have  others,  that 
war  and  democracy  are  incompatible.  Since 
there  must  be  a  choice,  let  us  keep  democracy 

and  abolish  war.       ^  ™  T^ 

EDWARD  B.  KREHBIEL. 


THE  How  AND  WHY  OF  BEAUTY 
UGLINESS.* 


"  Why  should  the  perception  of  form  be  ac- 
companied by  pleasure  or  displeasure,  and  what 
determines  the  pleasure  in  one  case  and  the 
displeasure  in  another?" 

In  some  form  or  other  this  question  has  been 
asked  by  every  intelligent  owner  of  a  pair  of 
eyes;  and  he  who  cares  to  seek  in  books  will 
find  a  thousand  answers.  ^Esthetic  apprecia- 
tion has  been  described  as  everything  from  a 

*  BEAUTY  AND  UGLINESS.  By  Vernon  Lee  and  C. 
Anstruther-Thomson.  New  York :  John  Lane  Co. 


direct  gift  of  God,  or  a  seduction  of  the  devil, 
to  a  phenomenon  of  the  larger  viscera.  To-day 
the  tide  is  setting  strongly  toward  the  physio- 
logical side.  We  may  feel  an  irresistible  glow 
before  Plato's  peerless  and  golden  periods  on 
the  meaning  of  beauty;  but  for  a  reasoned 
explanation  we  turn  to  the  applied  results  of 
individual  observation  or  laboratory  research, 
although  not  a  few  conservatives  still  resent 
what  Bosanquet  calls  "  analytical  intermeddling 
with  the  most  beautiful  things  we  enjoy." 

Our  present  volume  embodies  many  experi- 
ences and  a  few  conclusions  of  two  talented 
observers,  who  have  enjoyed  admirable  opportu- 
nities for  the  leisurely  appreciation  of  European 
galleries  and  are  also  familiar  with  the  litera- 
ture of  the  subject  and  the  methods  of  aesthetic 
investigation  in  German  and  American  labora- 
tories. Furthermore,  the  well-known  personal- 
ity of  "Vernon  Lee"  (Miss  Violet  Paget,  who 
is  the  senior  editor,  so  to  speak)  inclines  one  to 
turn  a  ready  ear  to  any  of  her  views  on  art  or 
literature. 

The  nucleus  of  the  book  is  an  essay  printed 
in  1897  under  the  caption,  "Beauty  and 
Ugliness."  To  this  have  been  added  chapters 
on  "Anthropomorphic  ^Esthetics,"  "^Esthetic 
Empathy,"  "The  Central  Problem  of  Esthet- 
ics," and  "  ^Esthetic  .Responsiveness,  its  Varia- 
tions and  Accompaniments."  This  last,  which 
is  the  longest  chapter,  consists  of  extracts  from 
gallery  diaries  of  "Vernon  Lee,"  giving  the 
"rough  material  of  personal  experience"  that 
has  gone  to  mould  her  view. 

From  the  foregoing  it  will  be  clear  that  any 
serious  discussion  of  differences  of  opinion 
would  imply  a  treatise  equal  in  length  to  the 
376  pages  of  the  text,  so  we  must  limit  ourselves 
to  a  very  brief  summary.  The  three  central 
points  examined  by  the  authors  are  as  follows: 

1.  ^Esthetic  perception  of  visible  shapes  is 
agreeable  or  disagreeable  because  it  involves 
alterations  in  great  organic  functions,  princi- 
pally respiratory  and  equilibratory.     Such  is 
Miss  Paget's  wording  of  the  aesthetic  application 
of  the  Lange- James  theory  of  bodily  emotion. 

2.  The  phenomenon  of  aesthetic  Einjuhlung 
(Lipps),  or,  as  Professor  Titchener  has  trans- 
lated it,  Empathy.     "  In  looking  at  the  Doric 
column,  for  instance,  and  its  entablature,  we 
are  attributing  to  the  lines  and  surfaces,  to  the 
spatial  forms,  those  dynamic  experiences  which 
we  should  have  were  we  to  put  our  bodies  into 
similar  conditions." 

3.  The  Inner 'e  Nachahmung  of  Karl  Groos, 
or  something  analagous  thereto.     " '  The  exist- 


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ence  of  muscular  adjustments  more  considerable 
than  those  of  the  eye,'  resulting  in  a  sense  of 
direction  and  velocity  to  the  lines  thus  per- 
ceived." 

Of  course  the  three  theories  implied  by  these 
headings  have  been  the  subject  of  no  little 
discussion  for  many  years ;  but  the  interesting 
feature  is  that  our  authors  before  publishing 
the  original  essay  on  "Beauty  and  Ugliness" 
had  arrived  at  their  conclusions  quite  independ- 
ently, not  from  oral  information  or  from  publi- 
cations, but  "by  accidental  self -observation  in 
the  course  of  art  historical  and  practical  artistic 
studies." 

As  to  the  validity  and  relative  importance  of 
the  three  lines  of  explanation,  our  two  observers 
have  manifestly  experienced  no  little  fluctuation 
of  opinion.  In  the  final  chapter,  however,  Miss 
Paget  concludes  that  the  dynamic-emphatic  in- 
terpretation is  to  be  emphasized,  but  that  "  for- 
mal dynamic  empathy"  is  due,  "  not  to  actually 
present  movements  and  muscular-organic  sen- 
sations, but  to  the  extremely  abstract  ideas  of 
movement  and  its  modes  residual  from  count- 
less individual  and  possibly  racial  experiences." 
Yet  she  still  attributes  importance  to  imitative 
movements  and  mimetic-organic  sensations,  be- 
cause they  may  "  possibly  afford  a  clue  to  the 
origin  of  the  odd  fact  of  our  associating  move- 
ment and  energy  with  objects  and  patterns." 
And,  finally,  the  aesthetic  pleasantness  or  un- 
pleasantness of  shapes  is  not  due  to  eye  move- 
ment or  any  movements  connected  therewith, 
but  to  "  the  mental  process  of  formal  dynamic 
empathy,  to  the  interplay  of  forces  suggested 
by  those  shapes,  and  to  the  pleasantness  or 
unpleasantness  of  such  inner  dramas  of  abstract 
movement-and-energy  associations." 

At  this  point,  assuming  it  is  ever  reached,  the 
clear-sighted  reader  will  conclude  either  that  the 
reviewer  is  impatient  or  that  we  are  discussing 
one  of  the  books  that  are  the  despair  of  all 
honest  critics.  There  is  more  truth  in  the  latter 
alternative.  The  volume  contains  a  wealth  of 
material,  with  a  number  of  important  conclu- 
sions, and  it  is  better  to  have  it  in  this  form 
than  not  to  have  it  at  all;  but  the  reader  has 
to  mine  most  gropingly  for  the  gold,  and  the 
friendliest  of  reviewers  cannot  blink  the  fact 
that  the  whole  series  of  essays  should  have  been 
recast  and  given  to  us  in  a  finished  form. 
After  all,  the  student  of  aesthetics  and  the  gen- 
eral reader  alike  have  a  right  to  demand  that 
even  the  most  capable  authors  shall  make  their 
presentation  as  clear  and  helpful  as  a  difficult 
subject  will  allow. 


The  book  is  in  the  main  well  printed,  although 
there  is  an  unusual  number  of  errors  in  the  Ger- 
man quotations.     It  is  sparingly  but  adequately 
illustrated,  and  provided  with  a  good  index. 
F.  B.  R.  HELLEMS. 


REGENERATING  OUR  JUDICIARY.* 

When  the  American  Colonies  separated  from 
England  they  named  among  their  grievances  a 
tyrannical  executive  and  an  insecure  judiciary.  In 
setting  up  state  governments  for  themselves,  the 
Americans  sought  to  guard  against  the  former  evil 
by  reducing  the  executive  to  little  more  than  a  mere 
figure-head,  while  making  the  legislature  almost 
omnipotent.  The  real  grievance  in  the  case  of  the 
judiciary  was  that  it  was  subservient  to  a  power 
over  which  they  had  no  control,  and  whose  interests 
were  different  from  those  of  the  Americans.  Failing 
to  discern  this,  they  took  the  control  of  the  judiciary 
entirely  away  from  the  executive  and  made  it  almost 
independent  of  the  legislature  and  of  the  people. 

The  mistake  of  a  weak  executive  soon  became 
apparent,  and  was  avoided  in  defining  the  position 
and  power  of  the  President  of  the  United  States. 
Gradually  the  state  executives  were  also  elevated 
in  position  and  power,  while  the  tendency  ever  since 
has  been  to  limit  the  power  of  the  legislatures. 
Within  recent  years  popular  distrust  of  the  law- 
making  bodies  has  become  very  general.  In  some 
states  this  distrust  has  become  so  acute  as  to  lead  to 
the  adoption  of  the  Initiative  and  the  Referendum, 
the  professed  object  of  which  is  to  recover  for  the 
people  the  power  of  government. 

Of  late  the  third  division  of  our  government,  the 
judiciary,  has  also  been  subjected  to  searching  criti- 
cism. This  criticism  has  been  general,  ranging  all 
the  way  from  our  most  conservative  citizens  to  the 
most  radical  agitators.  Even  President  Taft  has 
suggested  that  a  reform  in  procedure  is  needed. 
Practically  all  the  party  platforms  have  had  some- 
thing to  say  on  the  subject.  Labor  leaders  have  made 
their  complaints,  the  state  executives  have  gone  so 
far  as  to  appoint  a  committee  to  voice  their  protest, 
and  even  dissenting  judges  have  joined  the  army  of 
the  discontented. 

The  existence  of  the  distrust  of  the  judiciary 
cannot  be  denied.  Mr.  Gilbert  E.  Roe,  in  his  book 
entitled  "  Our  Judicial  Oligarchy,"  explains  it  as  due 
to  (1)  the  usurpation  of  the  power  to  declare  laws 

*  OUB  JUDICIAL  OLIGARCHY.  By  Gilbert  E.  Roe.  With 
an  Introduction  by  Robert  M.  La  Follette.  New  York : 
B.  W.  Huebsch. 

HISTORY  OP  THE  SUPREME  COURT  OF  THE  UNITED 
STATES.  By  Gustavus  Myers.  Chicago :  Charles  H.  Kerr 
&Co. 

THE  COURTS,  THE  CONSTITUTION,  AND  PARTIES.  By 
Andrew  C.  HcLanghlin.  Chicago:  The  University  of 
Chicago  Press. 

MAJORITY  RULE  AND  THE  JUDICIARY.  By  William  L. 
Ransom.  With  an  Introduction  by  Theodore  Roosevelt. 
New  York :  Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 


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null  and  void ;  (2)  the  growing  practice  of  declaring 
laws  void  simply  because  the  judges  disapprove  of 
them;  (3)  the  fact  that  judges  have  become  law- 
makers through  the  power  of  interpretation ;  and  (4) 
the  fact  that  the  poor  man  is  not  on  an  equality  with 
the  rich  man  in  the  courts. 

That  the  power  to  void  laws  is  a  usurpation  is  in 
the  main  the  view  of  Mr.  Gustavus  Myers  also, 
though  he  does  not  hold  without  qualification  that 
it  is  a  usurpation  on  the  part  of  the  United  States 
courts,  but  that  it  was  a  clear  case  of  usurpation  in 
case  of  the  state  courts,  which  had  pretty  well  estab- 
lished the  practice  before  the  Constitution  was  drawn 
up.  Taking  advantage  of  that  fact,  he  thinks,  the 
f  ramers  of  the  Constitution  so  constructed  that  instru- 
ment that  the  judiciary,  which  they  expected  to  be 
the  bulwark  of  protection  for  property  against  democ- 
racy, must  inevitably  exercise  the  power. 

That  this  power  is  not  a  usurpation  was  clearly 
pointed  out  by  Professor  Charles  A.  Beard  in  the 
"Political  Science  Quarterly"  for  March,  1912,  and 
his  work  has  been  greatly  supplemented  and  strength- 
ened by  Professor  Andrew  C.  McLaughlin.  After 
citing  numerous  cases  of  the  exercise  of  the  power 
by  the  state  courts  prior  to  1787  and  giving  quota- 
tions from  contemporaries  in  support  of  it  and  ex- 
plaining the  origin  of  the  practice  in  the  Supreme 
Court  of  the  United  States,  he  gives  the  most  rational 
explanation  of  the  custom  which  the  present  reviewer 
has  yet  seen.  "They  [the  courts]  asserted  this 
power,"  he  says,  "  not  because  they  were  superior 
to  the  legislature,  but  because  they  were  independ- 
ent." This  makes  it  a  natural  consequence  of  put- 
ting into  practice  the  theory  of  the  separation  of 
power.  He  might  have  continued  and  pointed  out 
that  the  present  exalted  position  of  the  judiciary  is 
largely  due  to  the  tendency  toward  supine  submis- 
sion on  the  part  of  the  executive  and  the  legislature. 
At  least  one  executive  declared  that  he  had  as  much 
right  to  his  opinion  of  the  Constitution  as  the  Chief 
Justice  did  to  his,  and  refused  to  enforce  the  court's 
decree. 

It  cannot  be  denied  that  the  courts  have  often 
strained  the  constitutional  point  in  order  to  declare 
void  a  law  of  which  the  judges  disapproved.  Such  is 
the  only  rational  explanation  of  decisions  upholding 
laws  regulating  the  hours  and  conditions  of  labor 
for  women  and  children,  and  overturning  similar 
laws  when  designed  to  protect  adult  males.  The 
courts  say  that  the  rule  of  reason  must  govern  such 
laws,  and  by  these  decisions  they  have  arrogated  to 
themselves  the  sole  power  to  exercise  reason  in  such 
cases. 

The  next  step  is  to  legislation  by  judicial  decision. 
Many  cases  are  cited  by  Mr.  Roe  and  Mr.  Myers, 
but  the  most  notorious  is  that  of  the  Standard  Oil 
case.  In  1897  the  Supreme  Court,  speaking  through 
Mr.  Justice  Peckham,  said  that  they  were  "asked 
to  read  into  the  [Sherman]  act  by  way  of  judicial 
legislation  an  exception  that  is  not  placed  there  by 
the  lawmaking  branch  of  the  government,"  that  is, 


insert  the  word  "  unreasonable  ";  but  this  they  re- 
fused to  do.  Mr.  Justice  White  dissented.  Some 
years  later,  when  Mr.  Justice  Peckham  and  his  sup- 
porters of  1897  were  gone,  Mr.  Justice  White  was 
elevated  to  the  position  of  Chief  Justice  and  made 
glad  the  hearts  of  the  corporations  by  reading  in  the 
word  "  unreasonable"  by  way  of  judicial  legislation. 

The  poor  man  is  not  on  an  equality  with  the  rich 
in  the  courts,  not  because  he  has  no  money  to  employ 
an  attorney  or  bribe  the  judges — for  outright  bribery 
is  very  rare,  —  but  because  the  judges,  having  for- 
merly served  as  corporation  attorneys,  naturally  lean 
toward  the  interests  and  think  in  terms  of  vested 
rights.  With  them  whatever  has  been  still  is  right, 
and  they  continue  to  draw  upon  precedents  hoary 
with  age.  Our  own  courts  still  cite  English  prece- 
dents long  since  outlawed  there, — for  example,  the 
Priestly  Case,  which  is  not  yet  fully  abandoned  here. 
Well  may  the  people  exclaim,  "  Who  shall  deliver 
us  from  this  body  of  death  ?  " —  the  dead  hand  of  an 
unjust  past.  It  will  not  be  surprising  at  no  distant 
day  to  hear  the  lawyers  themselves  praying  for  a 
second  Alexandrian  fire  to  consume  the  court  re- 
ports, and  for  legislation  to  prohibit,  or  at  least 
greatly  limit,  their  future  publication. 

Those  who  suppose  that  judges  formerly  lived  in 
the  clear  empyrean,  above  politics  and  the  thought 
of  sordid  wealth,  will  be  surprised,  not  to  say  shocked, 
at  the  revelations  made  by  Mr.  Myers  in  his  "  His- 
tory of  the  Supreme  Court."  The  main  purpose  of 
his  book  is  to  show  the  close  relationship  that  has 
always  existed  between  the  judiciary  and  the  inter- 
ests. Some  of  his  statements  are  not  altogether  con- 
vincing, but  many  others  are.  In  consequence,  many 
of  our  heroes  begin  to  lose  some  of  that  sanctity  with 
which  they  have  hitherto  been  enshrined.  Hamilton, 
James  Wilson,  the  Morrises,  Livingstons,  Schuylers, 
Gorham,  Dayton,  and  others  become  ordinary  mor- 
tals following  the  devious  ways  of  gain,  some  of 
them  through  fraud  and  deceit.  The  most  common 
avenues  of  wealth  in  those  days  were  the  acquire- 
ment of  vast  tracts  of  land,  trade,  and  banking.  The 
very  first  justices  of  the  Supreme  Court, — Wilson, 
Gushing,  Blair,  Iredell,  Johnson,  Paterson,  and 
Chase,  —  are  shown  to  have  been  allied  directly  or 
indirectly  with  the  men  following  these  paths  of 
wealth.  Even  Jay,  hitherto  regarded  as  no  less 
immaculate  than  the  ermine  which  fell  upon  his 
shoulders,  was  so  intimately  connected  by  inherit- 
ance, marriage,  and  business  alliance  with  the  land- 
grabbers  that  one  may  be  pardoned  for  having  some 
doubts  about  his  disinterestedness.  As  for  James 
Wilson,  lately  praised  by  Mr.  Roosevelt  as  a  learned 
jurist,  he  is  found  to  have  been  a  shrewd  Scotchman 
concerned  in  almost  every  questionable  land  deal  of 
any  magnitude,  from  that  of  the  half-million  acre 
deal  in  the  Connecticut  Reserve  and  the  three- 
million  acre  transactions  of  the  Holland  Company 
in  New  York,  to  the  stupendous  fraud  of  thirty-five 
million  acres  in  the  Yazoo  Land  Company.  His 
banking  experience  in  Pennsylvania,  when  the  legis- 


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lature  repealed  the  charter  of  his  bank,  taught  him 
a  lesson,  hence  the  clause  in  the  Constitution  forbid- 
ding laws  impairing  the  obligations  of  a  contract,  of 
which  he  was  the  author. 

As  for  John  Marshall,  Mr.  Myers  has  left  prec- 
ious little  of  that  halo  which  so  long  surrounded  his 
head  and  which  Mr.  Jesse  F.  Orton  did  so  much  to 
destroy  a  few  years  ago.  It  is  impossible  even  to 
outline  here  the  story  of  his  questionable  acts.  From 
one  or  two  we  may  learn  the  character  of  the  rest. 
Shortly  after  the  Yazoo  grant  was  secured  from 
the  Georgia  legislature  by  corrupt  methods,  Wilson 
and  his  associates  hurriedly  transferred  several  mil- 
lion acres  to  a  group  of  New  England  capitalists. 
When  the  next  legislature  wrathfully  rescinded  the 
grant,  these  purchasers  set  up  the  defense  that  it 
was  impairing  a  contract  and  was  injuring  innocent 
purchasers.  It  is  a  well-settled  principle  of  law  that 
fraud  vitiates  a  contract,  and  that  there  is  no  such 
thing  as  an  innocent  receiver  of  stolen  goods.  If  a 
man  buys  stolen  goods  in  ignorance  of  the  theft  he 
not  only  secures  no  title,  but  must  suffer  the  loss. 
But  Marshall  complacently  passed  over  the  bribery 
as  a  mere  fiction,  and  protected  the  "innocent  pur- 
chasers" by  declaring  the  original  grant  a  contract 
and  therefore  irrepealable.  An  individual  who  has 
had  his  horse  stolen  may  have  a  right  to  recover  it 
even  from  an  "  innocent  purchaser  "  but,  by  some  sort 
of  legerdemain,  when  the  government,  that  is,  the 
people,  has  been  robbed  of  land,  the  innocent  pur- 
chaser gets  a  vested  right  and  the  public  must  lose. 

At  this  time  Marshall  had  his  heart  set  upon  ac- 
quiring "Leeds  Manor,"  on  some  of  Lord  Fairfax's 
stealings,  the  claim  to  which  he  had  bought.  When 
Marshall's  case  came  up  he  absented  himself  while 
Story,  who  had  recently  lobbied  some  bank  charters 
through  the  Massachusetts  legislature  for  himself 
and  others,  rendered  the  decision.  Virginia  had 
confiscated  the  property  of  British  subjects  and  did 
not  allow  aliens  to  hold  land  in  her  borders.  Yet 
Story  held  that  the  Fairfax  claim  was  valid.  When 
the  Virginia  Supreme  Court  denounced  the  decision 
and  defied  the  court,  Story  calmly  reaffirmed  his 
own  decision  and  Marshall  got  his  manor.  One 
good  turn  deserves  another.  These  decisions  about 
the  impairment  of  contracts  and  the  innocent  pur- 
chasers opened  the  floodgates  of  fraud  which  have 
not  yet  been  closed.  A  few  years  after  the  Fairfax 
case  one  of  Lord  Baltimore's  heirs  was  suing  Charles 
Carroll  for  quit  rents.  After  the  foregoing  decision 
one  may  reasonably  be  astonished  to  find  Story 
upholding  the  Maryland  law  which  abolished  quit 
rents. 

Having  been  true  to  the  land-grabbers,  the  cor- 
porations, and  the  slaveholders,  Marshall  was  fol- 
lowed by  Taney,  the  special  tool  of  the  last  class. 
Then  came  Chase,  put  in  to  validate  the  anti-slavery 
legislation  and  to  uphold  the  interests  of  his  clients, 
the  bankers.  Such  is  the  meaning  of  the  first  legal 
tender  case.  But  the  railroads  did  not  like  this 
decision,  and  they  had  their  attorneys,  Bradly  and 


Strong,  appointed  to  reverse  it.  And  ever  since,  the 
corporate  interests  have  generally  managed  to  keep 
on  the  bench  a  majority  favorable  to  them. 

Mr.  Myers  nowhere  charges  the  Supreme  Court 
judges  with  venal  corruption.  On  the  contrary  he 
says  that,  on  the  whole,  they  have  been  peculiarly 
free  from  it  when  it  was  all  too  common  elsewhere. 
But  he  does  charge  that  they  have  been  dominated 
by  the  ever-expanding  capitalist  class,  which  has 
worked  its  will  by  ceaseless  fraud  and  bribery.  In 
many  instances  they  have  been  the  paid  attorneys 
of  the  interests  before  going  on  the  bench,  and  they 
have  naturally  leaned  to  them  rather  than  to  the 
common  man. 

No  wonder,  then,  that  the  courts  have,  in  many 
cases,  blocked  the  wheels  of  progressive  legislation. 
What  is  the  remedy?  The  recall  of  judicial  deci- 
sions, say  Mr.  William  L.  Ransom  and  Mr.  Theo- 
dore Roosevelt.  When  Mr.  Roosevelt  first  made 
this  proposal  it  was  received  by  many  with  derision 
and  denunciation.  But  of  the  many  propositions 
he  has  hurled  at  the  American  people  of  late,  the 
recall  of  judicial  decisions  rightly  understood  seems 
by  all  odds  the  best. 

To  set  this  proposition  before  the  people  in  its 
true  light  is  the  object  of  Mr.  Ransom's  book  on 
"Majority  Rule  and  the  Judiciary."  Mr.  Roosevelt 
never  has  advocated,  as  many  have  assumed  without 
investigation,  the  indiscriminate  recall  of  decisions. 
Suits  at  law  and  criminal  cases  are  entirely  out  of 
consideration;  but  when  the  courts  set  themselves 
in  opposition  to  the  will  of  the  people  as  expressed 
in  a  law  by  declaring  the  law  unconstitutional,  then 
the  people  should  have  the  right,  after  due  delibera- 
tion, of  saying  whether  the  court's  decision  shall 
remain,  the  law  of  the  land.  This,  Mr.  Ransom 
declares,  is  far  less  revolutionary  than  the  recall  of 
judges,  which  is  rapidly  growing  in  favor.  To  re- 
call the  judge  would  not  recall  his  decision,  the 
real  end  in  view.  Often  there  is  no  real  occasion 
to  recall  the  judge,  for  he  may  be  an  honorable  and 
upright  man,  who  honestly  believes  the  law  uncon- 
stitutional. Many  laws  are  overturned  by  a  divided 
court.  Then  may  not  the  people  at  least  decide 
between  the  majority  and  the  minority? 

The  trouble  with  Mr.  Roosevelt's  proposition  is, 
not  that  it  is  too  revolutionary,  but  that  it  does  not  go 
far  enough.  He  would  apply  it  only  to  state  courts. 
Why  should  even  the  Supreme  Court  be  exempt?  No 
court  capable  of  rendering  so  foolish  a  decision  as 
was  handed  down  last  spring  in  the  mimeograph  case 
(A.  B.  Dick  Company)  deserves  any  immunity.  So 
outraged  was  the  country  that  Congress  at  once  took 
steps  to  recall  this  decision  as  far  as  applicable  to 
future  cases  by  amending  the  patent  law  on  which 
the  court  claimed  to  have  based  its  action. 

The  recall  of  judges  and  of  decisions  will  help  to 
remedy  matters ;  but  we  need  most  of  all  to  reclaim 
our  courts  from  the  control  of  corporation  attorneys, 
who  naturally  think  in  terms  of  corporate  interests. 

DAVID  Y.  THOMAS. 


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BRIEFS  OK  NEW  BOOKS. 

The  typical  That  the  informal  essay  is  once 
American  and  more  in  high  favor  is  indicated  by 
some  others.  j.jie  jarge  number  of  collections  of 
essays  now  being  published.  Even  our  novelists  are 
turning  to  this  gracious  form  of  literature;  among 
them,  Mr.  Meredith  Nicholson,  whose  collection  of 
reprinted  "Atlantic"  papers  bears  the  title,  "The 
Provincial  American"  (Houghton  Mifflin  Co.). 
Three  of  these  essays  —  "The  Provincial  American," 
"  Edward  Eggleston,"  and  "A  Provincial  Capital " — 
are  concerned  with  the  ideals  and  achievements  of 
the  Hoosier  State,  where,  according  to  the  author, 
one  finds,  if  anywhere,  "  typical  Americans."  The 
typical  American  is  provincial,  for  "  we  have  no 
national  political,  social,  or  intellectual  centre,"  and 
every  county  is  a  unit,  with  its  own  courthouse,  town 
hall,  churches,  school-houses.  The  typical  American 
is,  therefore,  self-sufficient,  —  so  self-sufficient,  in- 
deed, that  the  metropolitan  tendencies  of  the  rail- 
way, the  telegraph,  etc.,  are  not  likely  to  disturb  our 
romantic  variety.  The  typical  American  is  also  ex- 
tremely curious,  eager  to  know  what  he  can  know 
of  art,  of  politics,  of  other  phases  of  human  activity. 
He  is  fond  of  brooding  and  discussion,  and  is  in- 
creasingly conscious  of  his  own  importance  in  our 
democratic  society ;  the  sense  of  the  mass  —  the 
"  fatalism  of  the  multitude,"  in  Mr.  Bryce's  phrase 
— is  virtually  a  danger  that  has  been  averted.  He 
has  instinctive  common  sense,  and,  despite  the  mis- 
givings of  Matthew  Arnold,  can  be  relied  upon  to  do 
the  right  thing.  All  of  which  is  perhaps  mainly 
another  and  illuminating  version  of  the  frequent  re- 
mark that  our  farmers  are  the  foundation  of  Amer- 
ican excellence.  From  that  city  of  estimable  men 
and  women,  twentieth-century  Indianapolis,  with  its 
background  of  "Hoosier  Olympians"  (of  whom  Mr. 
Nicholson  writes  entertainingly  in  the  initial  essay), 
come  these  cheering  and,  we  believe  as  well  as  hope, 
true  views  of  the  modern  American.  In  only  one  re- 
spect is  the  author  on  decidedly  uncertain  ground,  — 
when  he  tells  us  that  "  the  most  appalling  thing  about 
us  Americans  is  our  complete  sophistication  ";  com- 
pared with  us,  he  asserts,  the  English,  the  French, 
the  Italians  are  simply  children.  His  evidence  is 
our  insistence  on  "  bigness,"  our  farmers'  languidly 
ready  adjustment  to  the  automobile,  our  children's 
cool  condescension  in  the  use  of  the  telephone.  This 
evidence,  though  pertinent,  is  insufficient.  If  it  is 
true  that  we  are  sophisticated  in  our  attitude  to  auto- 
mobiles, skyscrapers,  and  other  insignia  of  our  ma- 
terial development,  it  is  likewise  true  that  we  are 
little  more  than  "children"  in  our  attitude  to  lit- 
erature, music,  painting,  and  the  other  tokens  of 
intellectual  and  spiritual  activity.  The  English 
reviews  still  refer,  justly  if  unpleasantly,  to  "that 
quaint  nawete  which,  since  Dickens  wrote  '  Martin 
Chuzzlewit,'  has  never  ceased  to  astound  the  inhabit- 
ants of  older  countries."  Compared  with  the  French, 
the  English  are  naive  in  the  world  of  ideas ;  how 
far  are  we,  then,  from  the  humane  sophistication  of 


the  French!  Aside  from  this  unconscious  outcrop- 
ping, on  Mr.  Nicholson's  part,  of  "the  American 
brag,"  his  views  on  American  life  are  both  wisely 
reasoned  and  agreeably  presented ;  he  is,  indeed, 
unmistakably  one  of  our  foremost  essayists.  "  Should 
Smith  Go  to  Church  ? "  is  perhaps  the  most  pene- 
trating of  the  essays ;  when  it  first  appeared  in  print 
it  evoked  so  much  discussion  that  no  more  need  be 
said  of  it  here.  "  Experience  and  the  Calendar  " 
and  "The  Spirit  of  Mischief"  are  delightful  but 
too  fragile.  The  "Confessions  of  a  'Best-Seller'" 
is  disappointing,  and,  one  might  add,  typically 
American  in  its  nawete. 

Dr.  Isador  H.  Coriat  analyzes  "The 
Hysteria  of  Lady  Macbeth"  (Moffat, 
Yard  &  Co.)  in  terms  of  the  modern 
study  of  the  abnormal  mind.  Hers  is  a  case  of  hys- 
teria involving  alternating  personalities  and  attacks 
of  somnambulism,  in  which  the  central  inciting 
theme  of  the  disorder  breaks  through  to  expression. 
The  sleep-walking  scene  is  but  the  culmination  of 
the  psychopathic  state,  the  genesis  and  progress  of 
which  the  drama  discloses.  Unsatisfied  longing 
finds  a  substitute  in  ambition,  and  is  reenforced  by 
the  suggestion  of  supernormal,  mystic,  and  prophetic 
agencies.  Macbeth  is  thus  affected,  and  contagiously 
induces  a  yet  more  marked  abnormality  in  his  pre- 
disposed spouse.  In  her  case  the  childlessness  plays 
a  direct  part  in  the  complex.  The  climax  is  but  the 
inevitable  issue  of  the  slowly  incubating  psycho- 
pathic invasion;  and  the  stages  thereof  give  evi- 
dence of  the  growing  abnormalities,  the  unsuccessful 
repressions,  the  increasing  dissociation  of  mental 
states.  Hallucination  of  sight  and  smell  in  both  sub- 
jects, the  automatic  washing  of  the  hands  in  Lady 
Macbeth,  the  recurrent  troubled  dreams,  the  rein- 
statement of  the  guilty  scenes  in  momentary  alarms, 
are  realistic  details  true  to  the  diagnosis.  In  all 
this  the  insight  of  Shakespeare  receives  an  unusual 
tribute,  though  the  view  is  anticipated  in  other  lan- 
guage by  one  not  unacquainted  with  the  darker  side 
of  the  mind, —  Coleridge.  It  is  not  at  all  implied 
that  the  dramatist  followed  consciously  the  sequence 
of  episodes  in  the  elaboration  of  his  "case,"  but  only 
that  the  same  laws  that  dominate  the  unfoldment 
itself  are  reflected  in  the  dramatic  sense  that  guides 
the  creative  impulse  of  literary  portraiture.  And  at 
this  point  critics  will  differ  in  their  preferences  of 
interpretation, —  some  doubting  whether  the  psycho- 
analysis replaces  the  interpretation  on  the  level  of 
motives  weighed  in  the  every-day  balance,  others 
finding  a  corroboration  of  such  insight  by  the  nicer 
instruments  of  science.  The  study  is  interesting 
in  either  light;  and  the  evidence  is  set  forth  with 
conviction.  

A  great  ^  *s  now  ^en  vears  since  Dr.  Tal- 

evangeiist  mage,  one  of  the  world's  most  popu- 

seif-portraved.  jar  preachers,  was  rather  suddenly 
cut  off,  at  the  height  of  his  fame  and  in  the  fulness 
of  his  remarkable  powers,  and  his  voice,  which  had 
won  the  attention  of  a  world-wide  audience,  was. 


340 


THE    DIAL 


[Nov.  1, 


heard  no  more.  He  was  seventy  years  old  at  the 
time  of  his  death,  but  neither  mind  nor  body  had, 
until  the  very  last,  shown  symptoms  of  senescence. 
Fortunately  his  own  hand  had  prepared  an  account 
of  his  life  up  to  his  sixty-seventh  year,  and  he  had 
left  notes  and  papers  from  which  it  was  easily  pos- 
sible for  another  to  continue  the  record  to  the  end. 
This  final  chapter  has  now  been  written  by  Mrs. 
Talmage,  and  the  completed  work,  "T.  De  Witt 
Talmage  as  I  Knew  Him  "  (the  "  I "  being  of  course 
the  autobiographer  himself),  is  issued  in  attractive 
octavo  form  by  Messrs.  E.  P.  Button  &  Co.  Thomas 
De  Witt  Talmage  was  born  at  Middlebrook,  New 
Jersey,  being  the  youngest  of  twelve  children,  and 
not  too  heartily  welcomed  by  parents  already  hard- 
pressed  to  provide  for  his  numerous  brothers  and 
sisters.  After  leaving  school  he  fancied  his  talent 
to  lie  in  the  direction  of  the  law,  and  accordingly 
studied  for  that  profession,  but  soon  discovered  his 
true  bent  and  was  early  started  in  the  calling  which 
he  did  so  much  to  distinguish.  His  autobiography 
is  written  in  that  straightforward,  vigorous,  heart- 
to-heart  style  which  won  him  such  popularity  as  a 
speaker  and  writer.  Shrewdness  and  humor,  warm 
human  feeling,  and  an  abounding  vitality  speak  in 
its  pages.  An  exultant  sense  of  his  own  unusual 
endowments  shows  itself,  not  in  a  way  to  offend, 
here  and  there.  "In  the  face  of  trial,"  he  says  in 
one  place,  "  God  has  always  given  me  all  but  super- 
human strength."  And  elsewhere:  ''My  Gospel 
field  was  a  big  one.  The  whole  world  accepted  the 
Gospel  as  I  preached  it,  and  I  concluded  that  it  did 
not  make  much  difference  where  the  pulpit  was  in 
which  I  preached."  The  burning  of  three  successive 
buildings  (each  known  as  the  Brooklyn  Tabernacle) 
erected  for  his  vast  congregation  in  Brooklyn,  seemed 
indeed  to  indicate  that  his  pulpit  was  to  be  no  sta- 
tionary one.  Mrs.  Talmage's  portion  of  the  book, 
amounting  to  a  quarter  of  the  whole,  is  by  no  means 
the  least  interesting  one.  It  presents  the  man  as  she 
and  others  of  his  intimates  saw  him,  with  apt  selec- 
tions from  his  notes  and  other  material.  Good  por- 
traits and  an  index  are  furnished. 


Under  the  curiosity-provoking  title 
.  °f  "Also  and  Perhaps"  (Lane)  Sir 

Frank  Swettenham  has  gathered  a 
number  of  bright  and  readable  sketches,  some  of 
them  airy  trifles  from  the  society  world,  others 
glimpses  of  the  author's  personal  experiences,  and 
still  others  more  or  less  impersonal  discussions  of 
abstract  questions.  A  few  far-eastern  descriptive 
sketches,  such  as  one  might  look  for  in  a  book  by  a 
writer  who  has  served  as  Resident-General  of  the 
Federated  Malay  States,  and  as  Governor  of  the 
Straits  Settlements,  and  who  is,  moreover,  the  author 
of  previous  works  entitled  "British  Malaya,"  "The 
Real  Malay,"  and  "Malay  Sketches,"  are  to  be 
found  in  the  volume.  Versatility  and  a  considerable 
experience  of  life  in  various  climes  and  among  all 
sorts  of  people  are  among  the  characteristics  illus- 
trated by  these  entertaining  chapters.  The  two 


under  the  headings  "Also"  and  "Perhaps"  are  in 
the  form  of  sprightly  dialogues  between  expert  con- 
versationalists. Another,  entitled  "  Some  Proverbs," 
which  begins  with  a  familiar  Anglicism  ("Every  one 
who  thinks  of  what  they  say,  either  before  or  after 
they  say  it "  .  .  .  ),  turns  on  the  mutual  contra- 
diction of  certain  popular  aphorisms,  as  "absence 
makes  the  heart  grow  fonder''  and  "out  of  sight 
out  of  mind,"  and  also  exposes  the  fallacy  of  certain 
other  wise  saws  —  somewhat  as  Lamb  has  discoursed 
in  his  humorous  and  sprightly  fashion  on  sundry 
popular  fallacies  of  the  same  sort.  In  a  more  serious 
vein,  and  with  insight  into  the  deeper  realities,  the 
author  discusses  "first  and  last  love,"  distinguishing 
between  that  first  devouring  but  evanescent  passion 
which  represents  "the  concentrated  desires  of  mil- 
lions of  ancestors  striving  through  our  poor  bodies  to 
indulge  their  special  predilections  for  light  hair  or 
dark,  brown  eyes  or  blue,"  and  the  later  and  more 
lasting  attachment  in  which,  as  he  says,  "  Never  to 
misunderstand,  that  is  the  great  secret.  It  covers 
so  much.  Not  to  expect  the  unreasonable,  not  to 
be  disappointed  with  the  obviously  natural;  not  to 
forget  that  however  close  in  sympathy  a  man  and 
woman  may  be,  they  are  differently  constituted  and 
cannot  have  identical  inclinations  at  every  moment 
of  their  lives.  .  .  .  Not  to  misunderstand,  that  is 
almost  everything."  The  book  is  not  only  clever, 
in  the  best  sense  of  the  word ;  it  is  also  marked  by 
sincerity  and  earnestness. 

The  ancient  Jt  is  positively  refreshing  to  discover 
literature  of  that  we  have  reached  a  stage  in  the 
Israel.  discussion  of  the  dry  critical  prob- 

lems of  the  Old  Testament  represented  by  such  a 
volume  as  Dr.  Henry  T.  Fowler's  "History  of  the 
Literature  of  Ancient  Israel"  (Macmillan).  For 
scores  of  years  scholars  have  been  wholly  absorbed 
in  the  technique  of  biblical  criticism,  in  the  minutiae 
of  Israel's  ancient  literature.  This  shop-work  had 
to  be  done  before  any  large  discussion  of  the  litera- 
ture could  be  presented.  Dr.  Fowler  has  utilized 
the  best  results  of  years  of  study  and  experience  of 
a  long  line  of  scholars.  The  analysis  of  the  pro- 
gressive school  of  biblical  criticism  forms  the  woof 
of  his  fabric.  He  has  likewise  rightfully  assumed 
among  the  Israelites  a  common  Semitic  inheritance 
for  an  explanation  of  many  of  the  traditions,  cus- 
toms, and  rites  of  religion  found  mentioned  in  the 
fragment  of  the  literature  of  the  Old  Testament. 
Israel  was  simply  one  of  the  smaller  Semitic  peo- 
ples of  antiquity,  whose  relations  with  its  neighbors 
were  close  and  often  intimate.  Granting  these 
conditions,  the  author  then  proceeds  to  arrange  the 
fragments  of  Hebrew  poetry,  prophecy,  and  narra- 
tion into  chronological  order.  As  prefatory  to  each 
section  he  presents  briefly  what  he  considers  to  have 
been  the  historical  subsoil  out  of  which  the  present 
product  sprang,  and  even  introduces  such  specimens 
of  other  literature  as  the  Babylonian  deluge  story, 
to  vivify  his  text.  Such  a  background  to  each  kind 
of  literature  is  important  and  necessary.  But  even 


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341 


all  of  this  splendid  presentation  does  not  properly 
constitute  a  history  of  the  literature  of  those  times. 
Our  conception  of  such  a  history  would  include  a 
discussion  in  clear  and  succinct  language  of  the  rise, 
growth,  and  perpetuation  of  the  thought,  religious 
and  otherwise,  in  ancient  Israel.  We  should  expect 
to  find  a  coordination  and  articulation  of  the  thought- 
life  of  Israel  stretching  throughout  the  entire  period 
of  its  literary  activity.  Dr.  Fowler  has  not  quite 
reached  this  ideal. 

Professor  C.  Lloyd  Morgan,  in  a 
experience  t  volume  entitled  "  Instinct  and  Expe- 
rience" (Macmillan),  returns  to  the 
insistent  problem  of  the  nature  of  the  lower  and  the 
higher  guidance  of  conduct,  and  the  interpretation 
thereof  as  favoring  the  hypothesis  of  a  system  of 
ends  or  of  mechanisms.  Are  instinct  and  intelli- 
gence separated  by  a  chasm  or  united  by  an  evolu- 
tionary bridge?  Is  the  verdict  of  science  decisive 
for  philosophy  ?  Or  must  science  await  and  reflect 
the  judgment  of  philosophic  interpretation?  The 
controversy  has  long  ceased  to  be  one  of  terms  or 
usage;  the  dissensions,  though  critical  and  at  times 
minute,  are  real.  The  significance  of  observation 
and  of  the  lower  end  of  the  biological  scale  is  con- 
ceded. Shall  we  carry  back  to  the  simple  beginnings 
the  concepts  demanded  by  the  higher  issues  in  which 
we  move,  shaping  them  to  the  lowlier  order  of 
events;  or  shall  we  find  our  clue  in  the  lower,  and 
in  such,  terms  interpret  the  reconstruction  of  the 
higher?  For  those  prepared  to  follow  the  more 
detailed  ramifications  of  this  problem  as  it  presents 
itself  to  the  critical  minds  of  the  day,  Professor 
Morgan's  book  may  be  cordially  recommended. 
Biologists  have  always  had  a  taste  for  philosophy ; 
and  in  latter  days  philosophers  have  acquired  an  ear 
for  the  biological  message.  Yet  the  camps  are  dif- 
ferently organized.  Romanticism  has  given  way  to 
realism  in  both;  but  the  new  allegiance  reflects  the 
persistent  diversity  of  temperamental  predilection. 
M.  Bergson's  "vital  impulse"  affects  the  biologist  as 
a  poetic  intrusion  rather  than  as  a  scientific  concept. 
The  man  of  science  still  clings  to  the  study  of  pro- 
cess, and  declines  to  take  his  interpretation  from  the 
study  of  sources,  even  though  he  may  remove  them 
from  the  region  of  the  unknowable.  Professor  Mor- 
gan's valuable  contributions  to  the  analytic  phases 
of  animal  behavior  give  special  interest  and  weight 
to  the  probabilities  that  appeal  to  his  philosophical 
judgment.  

A  criminal  ^    *8    8a^e   to  Predict   that    no  detec- 

latuver's  studies  tive  story  of  the  season  will  prove 
of  crime.  more  absorbingly  interesting  than 

the  group  of  essays  on  criminal  subjects  by  Mr. 
Arthur  Train,  formerly  Assistant  District  Attorney 
of  New  York  County,  published  under  the  general 
caption,  "  Courts,  Criminals,  and  the  Camorra " 
(Scribner).  Mr.  Train  has  a  peculiarly  breezy  and 
vigorous  style,  which  sometimes  narrowly  escapes 
vulgarity,  and  which  for  his  present  purpose  is  too 
strongly  flavored  with  paradox ;  but  every  page  of 


the  book  is  readable,  and  in  its  general  conclusions 
it  bears  the  stamp  of  authority.  A  chapter  piquantly 
entitled  "The  Pleasant  Fiction  of  the  Presumption 
of  Innocence"  maintains,  with  some  success,  that 
the  natural  and  reasonable  thing  to  do,  and  the 
thing  which  as  a  matter  of  fact  is  always  done,  is 
to  assume  the  prisoner  to  be  guilty;  in  a  later  essay 
in  this  same  volume  Mr.  Train  maintains  the  op- 
posite thesis  with  equal  success.  There  is  a  curious 
chapter  on  "  Preparing  a  Criminal  Case  for  Trial "; 
two  statistical  studies  entitled,  respectively,  "  Sensa- 
tionalism and  Jury  Trials"  and  "Why  Do  Men 
Kill?";  two  exciting  chapters  on  the  work  of  detec- 
tives ;  and  a  final  series  on  the  Camorra,  the  Viterbo 
trials,  the  Mafia,  and  the  criminal  Italian  element 
in  America.  The  author  attended  a  part  of  the 
Viterbo  session  in  person,  and  his  decidedly  favora- 
ble account  of  Italian  criminal  procedure  is  probably 
much  more  trustworthy  than  the  lurid  newspaper 
"stories"  which  have  hitherto  provided  most  of  our 
information  on  this  subject. 

The  earlier  "*  have  alwavs  spoken  of  myself  as 
journal  of  Marie  if  I  were  talking  of  some  one  else," 
Bashkirtseff.  writes  Marie  Bashkirtseff  in  her 
"New  Journal"  (Dodd,  Mead  &  Co.).  If  she  had 
been  able  to  do  this,  as  she  asserted  and  perhaps 
believed  she  had  done,  her  journal  might  have  been 
valuable  as  well  as  curious ;  but  the  unfortunate  child 
had  been  promenaded  from  one  end  of  Europe  to 
the  other,  and  kept  so  constantly  on  exhibition  in 
hotels  and  at  fashionable  resorts,  that  every  phrase 
she  uttered,  still  more  every  sentence  she  wrote,  was 
planned  with  a  startling  effect  in  view.  It  is  not 
truth  but  extravagance  that  this  morbid  twelve-year- 
old  feminine  Rousseau  is  seeking  when  she  pens  her 
Confessions.  "I  have  determined  to  end  this  book," 
she  writes,  "for  extravagant  ideas  rarely  come  to 
me  in  these  days."  This  group  of  letters  extends 
from  January,  1873,  to  February,  1876,  and  deals 
with  several  more  or  less  genuine  love-affairs,  the 
development  of  a  singing  voice  whose  defects  had 
not  yet  been  discovered,  and  dreary  wanderings  from 
Paris  to  Nice  and  from  Nice  to  Paris,  with  a  pur- 
poseless sojourn  in  Rome.  These  earlier  letters  have 
little  value  in  themselves,  although  of  course  anything 
from  so  brilliant  and  poignant  a  writer  as  Marie 
Bashkirtseff  later  came  to  be  has  a  certain  interest. 
This  part  of  the  "Journal"  appeared  in  a  French 
magazine  two  years  ago,  and  Miss  Safford's  transla- 
tion is  probably  no  more  vague  and  stilted  than  the 
original,  although  she  is  once  or  twice  clearly  inac- 
curate and  now  and  then  entirely  unintelligible. 

It  takes  a  sprightly  woman  with  a 
human  interest  in  everything  that  is 
beautiful,  and  with  a  facile  pen  to 
sketch  it,  to  produce  such  an  entertaining  little  vol- 
ume as  Miss  Jeannette  Marks's  "Gallant  Little 
Wales"  (Houghton  Miffltn  Co.).  The  author's  in- 
terests are  concentrated  for  the  present  in  North 
Wales.  She  adopts  the  only  sane  method  of  study- 


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ing  a  people, —  she  lives  among  them,  observes  their 
chief  interests,  their  customs,  their  superstitions, 
their  religious  zeal,  and  their  artistic  temperament. 
She  finds  a  fascination  in  the  arrangements  of  their 
homes,  the  architecture  of  their  hill-top  churches, 
and  the  superb  strength  and  character  of  their  won- 
derful castles,  such  as  Carnarvon,  Beau  Maris,  and 
Conway.  Her  enthusiasm  for  Wales  seems  to  have 
been  either  created  or  mightily  stimulated  by  reading 
and  pondering  on  the  "  Mabinogion  ";  many  of  her 
reflections  and  comparisons  are  based  on  the  state- 
ments made  in  that  famous  collection  of  history 
and  folklore.  The  history,  both  ancient  and  modern, 
of  the  little  commonwealth  is  a  quarry  for  her  nar- 
rative. Dr.  Samuel  Johnson's  trip  through  North 
Wales  gives  her  an  opportunity  which  she  eagerly 
utilizes  to  sketch  some  of  the  most  disagreeable  traits 
of  that  otherwise  great  man.  She  pays  her  tribute 
to  the  marvellous  nationalism  of  the  Welsh  people  as 
seen  in  their  annual  musical  festival,  the  Eisteddfod. 
Musicians,  poets,  and  artists  by  nature,  their  patriot- 
ism for  their  own  people  shines  out  with  greatest 
brilliancy  in  any  Welsh  event  that  appeals  to  their 
artistic  or  musical  nature.  The  author  intends  to 
produce  a  companion  volume  dealing  with  South 
Wales.  

American  T°  Put  the  whole  8toI7  of  tnf  origin 

history  in  and  development  of  our  nation  into 

outline.  ]es8    than   three   hundred  pages   of 

moderate  size,  and  at  the  same  time  to  make  the 
story  thoroughly  readable,  is  not  an  easy  thing  to 
do.  This  Mr.  Edwin  W.  Morse  has  undertaken 
in  his  "  Causes  and  Effects  in  American  History " 
(Scribner),  and  the  verdict  must  be  that  he  has  suc- 
ceeded in  his  undertaking.  Of  course  the  details 
have  been  left  out.  The  Civil  War  occupies  but 
twenty  pages,  and  the  Revolution  but  twelve;  yet 
the  author  has  made  these  chapters  interesting  in 
manner  and  complete  in  outline  from  the  side  of 
•cause  and  effect.  Not  everyone  will  agree  with  him 
in  his  interpretations,  as  he  has  had  to  touch  many 
sharply  controverted  questions ;  but  he  is  fair  in  his 
treatment  and  in  his  judgments.  The  book  is  not 
confined  to  our  political  development,  but  traces 
also  our  industrial,  commercial,  and  literary  history 
down  to  the  present  year.  It  will  hardly  serve,  as 
the  author  hopes,  to  interest  young  people  in  the 
subject,  but  it  will  be  useful  in  interpreting  our 
history  to  students  and  to  readers  who  may  have 
lost  themselves  in  the  details  of  the  larger  books. 

Records  of  the  "The  Celts  in  Antiquity,"  by  Mr. 
Celts  in  Greek  -m-  -rv.  .  ,.  , ,  i  .  i 

and  Latin  "•  Dinan,  is  one  of  the  latest  pub- 

literature.  lications    of  the    honored   house   of 

Nutt,  which  under  the  wise  inspiration  of  the  late 
savant,  Alfred  Nutt,  has  done  more  than  any  other 
to  make  accessible  the  documents  relating  to  Celtic 
and  mediaeval  romance.  It  is  the  first  of  three  vol- 
umes which  will  present  in  convenient  form  all  ac- 
counts of  the  Celts  which  are  found  in  ancient  Greek 
and  Latin  writers.  An  accompanying  English  trans- 
lation, though  it  does  not  always  adequately  repro- 


duce the  original,  will  be  of  service  to  the  general 
reader.  Persons  competent  to  use  the  book  for  in- 
dependent researches  will  consult  the  original  Greek 
or  Latin,  which  is  always  printed  in  full.  The  book 
will  save  investigators  of  Celtic  antiquities  much 
arduous  toil  in  searching  for  the  texts  they  want 
among  numerous  scattered  and  often  rather  inacces- 
sible volumes.  It  is  interesting  to  observe  that  the 
accounts  of  the  Celts  handed  down  by  Greeks  and 
Romans  agree  with  the  life  pictured  in  the  oldest 
Irish  sagas,  not  only  in  general  outline,  but  even  in 
rather  minute  details.  One  is  not  surprised  to  find 
that  both  describe  in  similar  terms  the  method  of 
fighting  from  the  war  chariot.  But  it  is  a  note- 
worthy testimony,  both  to  the  authenticity  of  the 
Irish  sagas,  and  to  the  solidarity  of  the  ancient  Celtic 
race,  to  find  the  Greek  and  Latin  writers  telling  of 
the  habit  of  Celtic  warriors  to  strive  for  the  "  hero's 
portion  "  at  feasts,  and  of  their  tendency  to  resort  to 
blood-shed  in  order  to  settle  questions  of  precedence 
at  the  banquet, — peculiarities  which  are  related  in 

the  Irish  sagas.       

Mr  I  ana's  Perhaps  the  most  important  work  of 
brie/  history  Andrew  Lang's  declining  years  was 
of  Scotland.  ^is  "History  of  Scotland  from  the 
Roman  Conquest."  An  abridgment  of  this  has  now 
been  published  in  a  single  volume  entitled  "A  Short 
History  of  Scotland  "  (Dodd,  Mead  &  Co.).  To  con- 
dense so  large  a  work  into  a  brief  account  of  about 
three  hundred  pages  must  have  been  a  difficult  task ; 
but  the  result  is  fairly  satisfactory.  The  chapters 
devoted  to  the  middle  ages  are  not  all  that  might 
be  desired ;  but  the  author  was  not  interested  in  the 
earlier  period.  His  interest  lay  in  the  struggles  of 
the  Stuarts  against  grasping  Englishmen  and  narrow- 
minded  Presbyterian  "preachers,"  and  his  treatment 
of  the  sixteenth  and  seventeenth  centuries  (which 
make  up  the  bulk  of  the  volume)  have  all  the  excel- 
lencies and  defects  that  characterize  the  historical 
writings  of  this  great  Scotchman.  It  has  been  nec- 
essary to  omit  details,  but  the  author's  viewpoint  is 
apparent  on  every  page,  and  his  chief  conclusions 
have  been  included.  Readers  who  are  interested  in 
Scottish  history  but  do  not  feel  equal  to  the  more 
extended  works  will  find  Mr.  Lang's  "Short  His- 
tory" an  informing  and  entertaining  book. 


BRIEFER  MENTION. 


"  Rousseau's  Einfluss  auf  Kliuger,"  by  Mr.  F.  A. 
Wyneken,  is  a  recent  monograph  issued  from  the  Uni- 
versity of  California  Press.  Klinger  was  one  of  the 
most  interesting  among  the  literary  friends  of  Goethe's 
youth,  although  he  has  been  well-nigh  forgotten  by  all 
except  professional  students  of  literary  history. 

Mr.  Joseph  McCabe,  believing  that  Voltaire  is  neg- 
lected by  the  modern  reader,  who  naturally  shrinks 
appalled  from  the  immense  volume  of  his  work,  has 
translated  a  selection  of  his  prose  writings  which  should 
help  the  modern  world  to  become  familiar  with  his  essen- 
tial thought.  The  volume  is  entitled  "  Toleration  and 
Other  Essays,"  and  is  published  by  the  Messrs.  Putnam. 


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Mr.  J.  W.  Mackail's  "  Life  of  William  Morris,"  one 
of  the  best  of  literary  biographies,  is  reprinted  by 
Messrs.  Longmans,  Green  &  Co.  in  their  "  Pocket  Li- 
brary," of  which  it  makes  two  volumes.  Morris's 
"  News  from  Nowhere  "  and  Andrew  Lang's  "  Books  and 
Bookmen  "  are  other  reprints  in  the  same  handy  series. 

Henry  Morley's  "  A  First  Sketch  of  English  Litera- 
ture," originally  published  in  1873,  has  gone  through 
many  editions,  the  latest  of  which,  including  a  supple- 
ment bringing  the  history  down  to  the  deaths  of  Swin- 
burne and  Meredith,  the  work  of  Mr.  E.  W.  Edmunds, 
has  just  been  published  by  Messrs.  Cassell  &  Co.  In  its 
present  form,  the  work  runs  to  twelve  hundred  pages, 
which  makes  it  possible  to  present  an  immense  amount 
of  detail.  The  supplement  will  be  found  very  useful 
for  reference,  aside  from  its  considerable  critical  value. 

Preparatory  school  teachers  with  Browning  on  their 
list  of  poets  for  classroom  study  will  doubtless  be  very 
glad  of  the  help  offered  them  by  Miss  Ella  B.  Hallock 
in  her  "  Introduction  to  Browning "  (Macmillan). 
Eleven  poems,  followed  in  each  case  by  two  or  three 
pages  of  suggestive  questions  designed  to  quicken  the 
student's  attention  to  the  special  meaning  or  charm  of 
the  poem  in  hand,  make  up  a  small  volume  of  130  pages. 
The  selections  are,  for  the  most  part,  of  the  narrative 
type.  Although  Browning  is  not  at  his  best  in  this 
form,  this  is  perhaps  the  easiest  way  of  approach  for 
the  juvenile  mind. 

Mr.  J.  Herman  Randall's  "The  Culture  of  Person- 
ality "  (Caldwell)  is  divided  into  fourteen  thoughtful 
chapters  on  various  aspects  of  personality,  on  the  train- 
ing of  the  mind,  the  mastery  of  the  affections,  the  edu- 
cation of  the  will,  and  kindred  themes.  The  general 
tone  and  purpose  of  the  work  may  be  indicated  by  a 
passage  from  the  "  Foreword."  After  quoting  a  page 
or  two  from  John  Fiske's  "  Destiny  of  Man  "  the  author 
continues:  "What  is  this,  in  other  words,  but  simply 
the  statement  that  the  ultimate  goal  of  this  stupendous 
evolutionary  process,  which  has  been  at  work  in  the 
Universe  from  the  beginning,  is  the  development  of  the 
whole  man,  the  true  and  deeper  self,  the  human-divine 
personality  ?  It  cannot  be  read  otherwise.  The  total  re- 
sult of  all  the  scientific  research,  of  all  the  wonderful  dis- 
coveries of  the  last  hundred  years  respecting  Man  and 
his  life  here  upon  the  earth,  reveals  as  the  goal  and  end 
of  all  evolution, the  perfectingof  the  human  personality." 

The  first  casual  impression  gained  from  Messrs. 
Crowell's  new  edition  of  Browning  is  one  of  pleasure  in 
the  large  type  and  open  page.  So  accustomed  have  we 
become  by  long  usage  to  associate  Browning  with 
cramped  and  minute  typography  that  the  contrast  af- 
forded by  the  present  edition  is  as  delightful  as  it  was 
unexpected.  In  these  twelve  volumes,  of  little  more 
than  ordinary  pocket  size,  the  whole  of  Browning's 
poetical  work  (with  two  of  his  essays  in  prose)  is  pre- 
sented in  a  type  as  large  and  a  page  as  generously  open 
as  are  generally  found  in  the  most  cumbrous  of  editions 
de  luxe.  This  fact  alone  is  sufficient  to  make  the  edi- 
tion a  favorite  one,  but  it  is  not  lacking  in  other  merits. 
A  full  editorial  apparatus  of  critical  introductions  and 
explanatory  notes  is  supplied  by  Miss  Charlotte  Porter 
and  Miss  Helen  A.  Clarke,  whose  capabilities  for  a  task 
of  this  sort  were  long  ago  demonstrated.  Professor 
William  Lyon  Phelps  contributes  a  brief  general  intro- 
duction, which  the  beginner  in  Browning  will  find  of 
value.  A  photogravure  frontispiece  is  included  in  each 
volume.  Altogether,  this  seems  to  us  by  far  the  most 
desirable  edition  of  Browning  yet  published. 


NOTES. 


A  volume  of  "  Portraits  and  Studies  "  by  Mr.  Edmund 
Gosse  is  announced  for  early  publication. 

Three  one-act  plays  by  Mr.  Eden  Phillpotts  will  soon 
be  published  in  a  volume  entitled  "  Curtain  Raisers." 

"Norman  Angell,"  author  of  "The  Great  Illusion," 
has  in  press  for  early  issue  a  work  on  "  International 
Finance  and  International  Polity." 

"  Adnam's  Orchard  "  by  Sarah  Grand  and  "  Where 
Are  You  Going  To?  "  by  Miss  Elizabeth  Robins  are  two 
forthcoming  novels  of  some  importance. 

Mrs.  Reginald  Wright  Kauffman  and  her  husband 
have  recently  completed  an  elaborate  work  to  be  entitled 
"The  Latter-Day  Saints:  A  Study  of  the  Mormons." 

Mr.  Booth  Tarkington  is  just  completing  a  new  novel 
of  American  life,  which  is  to  be  published  next  spring 
by  Messrs.  Doubleday,  Page  &  Co.  under  the  title  of 
"The  Flirt." 

A  study  of  "  The  Influence  of  Baudelaire  in  France 
and  England  "  has  been  made  by  Mr.  G.  Turquet-Milnes, 
and  will  be  published  in  this  country  by  Messrs.  E.  P. 
Dutton  &  Co. 

Publication  of  the  two  concluding  volumes  of  John 
Bigelow's  "  Retrospections  of  an  Active  Life  "  has  been 
considerably  delayed,  and  they  are  not  now  likely  to 
appear  until  Spring. 

It  is  good  news  that  Sir  E.  T.  Cook,  the  biographer 
and  editor  of  Ruskin,  has  prepared  a  volume  on  "  The 
Homes  and  Haunts  of  Ruskin,"  which  will  be  published 
in  a  large  volume  with  colored  illustrations. 

Two  forthcoming  volumes  of  essays,  by  English 
writers,  that  will  undoubtedly  prove  worth  while  are 
Mr.  Arthur  Ransome's  "  Portraits  and  Speculations  " 
and  Mr.  Francis  Grierson's  "  The  New  Era." 

In  view  of  tke  Home  Rule  Bill  now  impending  in 
Parliament,  especial  timeliness  and  interest  attach  to 
a  volume  on  "  Aspects  of  the  Irish  Question  "  by  Mr. 
Sidney  Brooks,  to  be  published  at  once  by  Messrs.  John 
W.  Luce  &  Co. 

The  exclusive  rights  in  English  translation  to  a  series 
of  M.  Fabre's  wonderful  insect  stories  have  been  acquired 
by  "  The  English  Review."  The  first  of  these  stories, 
entitled  "  The  Banded  Spider,"  will  appear  in  the  No- 
vember number. 

In  "  Immigration  and  Labor,"  which  Messrs.  Putnam 
will  publish  about  the  middle  of  November,  Mr.  Isaac 
A.  Hourwich,  Ph.D.,  traces  the  causes  of  immigration 
to  the  United  States  and  its  effect  upon  the  condition 
of  American  labor. 

An  authorized  translation  of  M.  Edouard  Le  Roy's 
"  Une  Philosophie  Nouvelle:  Henri  Bergson"  is  an- 
nounced by  Messrs.  Henry  Holt  &  Co.  This  house  will 
also  publish  before  long  a  satirical  tale  entitled  "  John 
of  Jingalo  "  by  Mr.  Laurence  Housman. 

A  new  edition  of  St.  John  de  Crevecreur's  "  Letters 
from  an  American  Farmer,"  with  a  complete  biograph- 
ical introduction  containing  hitherto  undiscovered  ma- 
terial by  Miss  Julia  P.  Mitchell  of  Barnard  College,  will 
be  issued  in  the  spring  by  Messrs.  Duffield  &  Co. 

Mrs.  William  O  Brien's  "  Unseen  Friends,"  just  an- 
nounced by  Messrs.  Longmans,  will  contain  studies  of 
women  who  have  played  a  noble  part  in  the  world's 
history.  Among  the  well-known  authors  dealt  with  are 
Christina  Rossetti,  Mrs.  Oliphant,  and  Charlotte  Bronte. 

Robert  Barr,  the  novelist  and  editor  of  the  London 
"Idler,"  died  at  his  home  in  Surrey  on  October  21> 


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Although  born  in  Glasgow,  Mr.  Barr  was  educated  in 
Canada,  and  for  a  time  was  on  the  editorial  staff  of  the 
"Detroit  Free  Press."  Since  1881  he  has  lived  in 
England. 

It  is  reported  that  Gerhart  Hauptmann  is  at  work  on  a 
new  drama  dealing  with  Homer  and  his  times.  The  first 
two  volumes  of  Hauptmann's  collected  dramatic  works, 
in  English,  and  also  a  translation  of  his  novel "  Atlantis," 
will  be  issued  at  once  by  Mr.  B.  W.  Huebsch. 

Adrian  Hoffman  Joline,  an  enthusiastic  book  collector 
and  the  author  of  several  entertaining  books  about  books, 
died  in  New  York  City  on  October  15.  He  was  the 
author  of  "  Meditations  of  an  Autograph  Collector," 
"  Diversions  of  a  Book  Collector,"  "  At  the  Library 
Table,"  and  several  other  similar  works. 

Publication  of  a  new  novel  by  Mr.  James  Lane  Allen 
is  always  an  event  of  literary  importance.  We  learn 
that  the  Macmillan  Co.  will  issue  at  once  Mr.  Allen's 
latest  work,  "  The  Heroine  in  Bronze."  It  is  said  to 
be  the  love  story  of  an  American  college  girl  and  a 
college  man,  the  scene  of  which  is  laid  in  New  York. 

Notwithstanding  Meredith's  threat  that  he  would 
"  most  horribly  haunt "  anyone  who  wrote  a  biography 
of  him,  several  industrious  persons  are  already  engaged 
upon  the  task.  The  first  result  will  probably  be  the 
volume  now  being  prepared  by  Mr.  Thomas  Seccombe 
for  the  series  of  "  Literary  Lives,"  published  in  this 
country  by  Messrs.  Scribner. 

The  first  volumes  of  the  eagerly-awaited  "Loeb 
Classical  Library"  will  be  published  immediately  by 
the  Macmillan  Co.  They  include  "St.  Augustine's 
Confessions,"  "Euripides,"  "Terence,"  and  "The 
Apostolic  Fathers,"  each  in  two  volumes,  and  "  Proper- 
tius,"  in  one.  Other  authors  are  to  be  added  during 
the  next  few  weeks,  twenty  volumes  in  all  having  been 
scheduled  for  the  first  year. 

The  important  announcement  is  made  by  Messrs. 
Lippincott  that  "Julius  Csesar,"  the  seventeenth  volume 
in  the  "  New  Variorum  Edition  "  of  the  works  of  Shake- 
speare, is  in  press  for  publication  early  in  1913.  The 
preparation  of  this  monumental  edition  was  the  life 
work  of  Dr.  Horace  Howard  Furness.  For  the  past 
few  years  he  has  been  assisted  by  his  son,  Mr.  Horace 
Howard  Furness,  Jr.,  who  has  contributed  two  volumes 
to  the  work,  and  to  whom  now  falls  the  task  of  editing 
the  remaining  plays. 

Among  the  most  interesting  features  of  the  "Atlantic" 
for  the  coming  year  will  be  a  selection  from  Charles 
Eliot  Norton's  letters  to  Lowell  and  George  William 
Curtis;  "  My  Boyhood  and  Youth,"  by  Mr.  John  Muir; 
"Tales  of  My  People,"  by  Miss  Mary  Antin;  and 
"  Confederate  Portraits,"  by  Mr.  Gamaliel  Bradford, 
Jr.  To  a  series  of  articles  on  modern  business  affairs, 
Mr.  George  P.  Brett,  President  of  the  Macmillan  Co., 
will  contribute  a  paper  entitled  "  The  Policies  of 
Present-Day  Publishing." 

The  leading  article  in  the  October  "  Hibbert  Journal " 
(Sherman,  French  &  Co.)  is  "  Democracy  and  Disci- 
pline," by  the  editor,  Mr.  L.  P.  Jacks.  It  points  out 
the  perhaps  impossible  standards  of  public  obedience 
and  flexibility  necessary  for  the  success  of  such  social 
legislation  as  Lloyd-George  is  putting  through  in  En- 
gland and  as  the  Progressive  party  hopes  to  put  through 
in  America.  With  the  exception  of  a  paper  on  the 
American  political  and  religious  situation  by  a  Massa- 
chusetts clergyman,  the  Rev.  Frank  Ilsley  Paradise, 
the  other  articles  in  this  number  are  theological  or 
technically  philosophic  in  their  interest. 


TOPICS  IK  LEADING  PERIODICALS. 

November,  1912. 

Africa,  Northern,  Trade  of.  J.  D.  Whelpley  .  .  Century. 
America's  Human  Citizens.  Arnold  Bennett  .  .  Harper. 
Balkan  Union  against  Turkey.  E.  A.  Powell.  Rev.  of  Revs. 
Balkan  War,  The.  George  Freeman.  Review  of  Reviews. 
Book  Collecting.  Joseph  Jackson  .  .  .  World's  Work. 

Boyhood,  My.  John  Muir Atlantic. 

Camera,  Through  Infinite  Space  with  a.  H.  W. 

Hurt Everybody's. 

Canada's  Government  Railway.  A.  J.  Beveridge.  Rev.of  Rtvs. 

Chesterton,  G  K.  O.  W.  Firkins Forum. 

City  and  Civilization.  Brand  Whitlock  ....  Scribner. 
City  Poor,  Life  among  the.  Miriam  F.  Scott.  Everybody's. 
College  Life.  Paul  van  Dyke  .......  Scribner. 

Contagion,  Reservoirs  of.  Carl  Snyder Forum. 

Corporation,  Public  Service,  and  City.  E.  S. 

Meade Lippincott. 

Country  Problem,  Discovery  of  the.  H.  S. 

Gilbertson Review  of  Reviews. 

Crime,  Magnates  of.  Joseph  E.  Corrigan  .  .  .  McClure. 
Curtis,  G.  W.,  C.  E.  Norton's  Wai-Time  Letters  to.  Atlantic. 
Deafness,  Fatigue  of.  Clarence  J.  Blake  .  .  .  Atlantic. 
Dream  Analysis,  Marvels  of.  H.  A.  Bruce  .  .  McClure. 
Education,  Our  Remedy  for.  W.  McAndrew.  World' 's  Work. 
Electoral  College,  The.  J.  W.  Holcombe  .  .  .  Forum. 
Express  Bonanza,  The.  Albert  W.  Atwood  .  American. 
Farmer  of  To-Morrow,  The — III.  F.I.  Anderson.  Everybody's, 
Feminist  of  France,  The.  Ethel  D.  Rockwell  .  .  Century. 
Fiction,  Some  Recent.  Margaret  Sherwood  .  .  Atlantic. 
Films, Fortunes  in.  BennetMusson  and  Robert  Grau.  McClure. 
Fraternity  Idea  among  College  Women.  Edith 

Rickert Century. 

French,  Daniel  C.,  and  His  Later  Work.  W.  Walton.  Scribner. 
French,  The,  in  the  Heart  of  America.  J.  Finley.  Scribner. 
Furness,  Horace  Howard.  Agnes  Repplier  .  .  .  Atlantic. 
Furness,  Horace  Howard.  Talcott  Williams  .  .  Century. 
Germany  and  the  Germans  —  I.  Price  Collier  .  Scribner. 
Greeley  Campaign,  The.  Henry  Watterson  .  .  Century. 
Hygiene,  World's  Congress  on.  G.  E.  Mitchell.  Rev.  of  Revs. 

Industrial  War.  Hugh  H.  Lusk Forum. 

Irish  Poets,  A  Group  of.  Michael  Monahan  .  .  .  Forum. 
Johnston,  Joseph  E.  Gamaliel  Bradford,  Jr.  .  Atlantic. 
Labor,  Battle  Line  of.  Samuel  P.  Orth  .  World's  Work. 
Land  Movement,  The  Little.  Forbes  Lindsay.  Lippincott. 
Lloyd-George's  England.  Clarence  Poe  .  World's  Work. 
Madrid,  Phases  of.  William  Dean  Howells  .  .  No.  Amer. 
Measures,  Not  Men.  Peter  C.  Macfarlane  .  Everybody's. 
Memories,  Some  Early — HI.  Henry  Cabot  Lodge.  Scribner. 
Mexico,  The  Situation  in.  Dolores  Butterfield.  No.  Amer. 
Middleman,  The.  Albert  W.  Atwood.  Review  of  Reviews. 
Montessori  Method  and  American  Kindergartens. 

Ellen  Stevens McClure. 

Moving  Pictures  in  Schools.  Helen  L.  Coffin.  Everybody's. 
Municipal  University,  A.  C.  H.  Levermore.  North  Amer. 
Negro,  The,  and  His  Chance.  B.  T.  Washington.  Century. 
New  York  Public  Service  Commissions.  J.  IS. 

Kennedy Forum. 

North  America  and  France.  Gabriel  Hanotaux.  No.  Amer. 
North  Dakota  Man  Crop.  F.  P.  Stockbridge.  World's  Work. 

Odessa.  Sydney  Adamson Harper. 

Panama :  City  of  Madmen.  J.  F.  Wilson  .  .  .  Lippincott. 

Parisian  CafiSs.  Frances  W.  Huard Scribner. 

Patent  System,  The  American.  G.  H.  Montague.  No.  Amer. 
Philippine  Neutrality.  Cyrus  F.  Wicker  .  .  .  Atlantic. 
Poetry,  English,  and  the  Greek.  Gilbert  Murray.  Atlantic. 
Population,  Earning  Power  of.  A.  J.  Nock  .  .  American. 
Prayer,  Morning,  The  Order  of.  Emily  C.  Wight.  Atlantic. 

President,  Our  Next.  E.  C.  Pomeroy Forum. 

Progressive  Delegate,  My  Experiences  as  a.  Jane 

Addams McClure. 

Progressive  Party,  The.  Albert  W.  Atwood  .  American. 
Pronoun,  Conflicts  of  Usage  in  the.  T.R.Lounsbury.  Harper. 
Prosperity,  The  Coming.  Edward  N.  Vose.  World's  Work. 
Protection,  Fallacies  of.  Henry  Herzberg.  North  American. 


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Remedy,  The,  for  the  High  Cost  of  Living. 

Thomas  W.  Lawson Everybody's. 

Rhino,  The  Rambunctious.     Stewart  E.  White.    American. 

Saddle-Horses,  Thoroughbreds  and  Trotters  as. 

E.  S.  Nadal Century. 

Sanitation,  Modern.    Alvah  H.  Doty   .     .    North  American. 

Schnitzler,  Arthur.     Archibald  Henderson    .     .    No.  Amer. 

Secret  Writing.    J.  H.  Haswell Century. 

Shakespeare  Played  by  Peasants.     V.  L.  White- 
church    World' sWork. 

Socialism  in  the  Ohio  Constitution.    D.J.Ryan.    No.  Amer. 

Stevensoniana.    Sir  Sidney  Colvin Scribner. 

Suffrage  Movement,  Violence  in  the.   M.  Fawcett.     Century. 

Tax,  The  Tariff.    Charles  J.  Post Everybody's. 

Theatrical  Stock  Company,  The.    W.  P.  Eaton.    American. 

Tuberculosis  and  the  Schools.    A.  T.  Cabot     .     .    Atlantic. 

Travelers,  Toryism  of.  Samuel  McChord  Crothers.  Atlantic. 

Twain,  Mark  —  XIII.     Albert  Bigelow  Paine    .     .   Harper. 

Wage-Earner,  The  Vanishing  American.     W.  J. 

Lauck Atlantic. 

Wages,  The  Drama  of.    Mary  Field American. 

Water  Conservation  by  Cities.    E.  W.  Bemis.    Rev.  of  Revs. 

Water- Waste  Detection.    H.  T.  Wade.    Review  of  Reviews. 

Women,  Honor  among.    Elisabeth  Woodbridge    .    Atlantic. 

Words.    Harriet  Mason  Kilburn American. 


ILIST  OF  NEW  BOOKS. 


[The  following  list,  containing  293  titles,  includes  books 
received  by  THE  DIAL  since  its  last  issue.] 

BIOGRAPHY  AND  REMINISCENCES. 

Under  the  Old  Flag:  Recollections  of  Military  Oper- 
ations in  the  War  for  the  Union,  the  Spanish 
War,  the  Boxer  Rebellion,  etc.  By  James  Harri- 
son Wilson.  In  2  volumes;  with  portraits,  8vo. 
D.  Appleton  &  Co.  $6.  net. 

Everybody's  St.  Francis.  By  Maurice  Francis  Egan. 
Illustrated  in  color  by  M.  Boutet  de  Monvel,  8vo, 
191  pages.  Century  Co.  $2.50  net. 

Personal  Traits  of  Abraham  Lincoln.  By  Helen  Nic- 
olay.  12mo,  387  pages.  Century  Co.  $1.80  net. 

The  Romance  of  Sandro  Botticelli.  By  A.  J.  Ander- 
son. Illustrated  in  photogravure,  etc.,  8vo^  323 
pages.  Dodd,  Mead  &  Co.  $3.  net. 

Henrietta  Maria.  By  Henrietta  Haynes.  Illustrated 
in  photogravure,  etc.,  large  8vo,  335  pages.  G.  P. 
Putnam's  Sons.  $3.50  net. 

In  the  Footsteps  of  Richard  Coeur  de  Lion.  By 
Maude  M.  Holbach.  Illustrated  in  photogravure, 
etc.,  large  8vo,  357  pages.  Little,  Brown  &  Co. 
$4.  net. 

The  Romance  of  a  Favourite.  By  Frederic  Lolige; 
translated  by  William  Morton  Fullerton.  Illus- 
trated in  photogravure,  8vo,  290  pages.  D.  Apple- 
ton  &  Co.  $3.50  net. 

Roger  of  Sicily,  and  the  Normans  in  Lower  Italy, 
1016-1154.  By  Edmund  Curtis,  M.A.  Illustrated, 
12mo,  483  pages.  "Heroes  of  the  Nations."  G.  P. 
Putnam's  Sons.  $1.50  net. 

Canute  the  Great,  995  (circ.) — 1035,  and  the  Rise  of 
Danish  Imperialism  during  the  Viking  Age.  By 
Laurence  Marcellus  Larson,  Ph.  D.  Illustrated, 
12mo,  375  pages.  "Heroes  of  the  Nations."  G.  P. 
Putnam's  Sons.  $1.50  net. 

Little-Known  Sisters  of  Well-Known  Men.  By  Sarah 
G.  Pomeroy.  With  portraits,  12mo,  304  pages. 
Dana  Estes  &  Co.  $1.25  net. 

\Mlliiini  T.  Richards:  A  Brief  Outline  of  His  Life 
and  Art.  By  Harrison  S.  Morris.  Illustrated,  8vo, 
61  pages.  J.  B.  Lippincott  Co.  $1.  net. 

Charles  Eliot  Norton:  Two  Addresses.  By  Edward 
Waldo  Emerson  and  William  Fenwick  Harris. 
With  portrait,  8vo,  53  pages.  Houghton  Mifflin 
Co.  75  cts.  net. 

A  Prisoner  of  War  in  Virginia,  1864-5.  By  George 
Haven  Putnam.  Second  edition,  with  appendix 
presenting  statistics  of  Northern  prisons  from 
the  Report  of  Thomas  Sturgis.  Illustrated,  8vo, 
127  pages.  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons.  $1.  net. 


Mary  Sidney,  Countess  of  Pembroke.  By  Frances 
Berkeley  Young.  Illustrated,  8vo,  237  pages.  Lon- 
don: David  Nutt. 

The  Political  Career  of  Richard  Brinsley  Sheridan: 

The  Stanhope  Essay  for  1912.  By  Michael  T.  H. 
Sadler.  12mo,  87  pages.  Oxford:  B.  H.  Blackwell. 

Coke  of  Norfolk  and  His  Friends.  By  A.  M.  W.  Stir- 
ling. New  edition;  illustrated  in  photogravure, 
etc.,  large  8vo,  619  pages.  John  Lane  Co.  $4.  net. 

Prisoners  of  War,  1861-65:  A  Record  of  Personal 
Experiences,  and  a  Study  of  the  Condition  and 
Treatment  of  Prisoners  on  Both  Sides  during  the 
War  of  the  Rebellion.  By  Thomas  Sturgis.  Illus- 
trated, 8vo.  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons.  75  cts.  net. 

HISTORY. 
Economic    Beginnings    of    the    Far    West:    How    We 

Won  the  Land  beyond  the  Mississippi.  By  Kath- 
arine Coma.n.  In  2  volumes;  illustrated,  8vo. 
Macmillan  Co.  $4.  net. 

Romantic  Days  in  the  Early  Republic.  By  Mary 
Caroline  Crawford.  Illustrated,  8vo,  438  pages. 
Little,  Brown  &  Co.  $2.50  net. 

The  Union  of  South  Africa:  With  Chapters  on  Rho- 
desia and  the  Native  Territories  of  the  High  Com- 
mission. By  W.  Basil  Worsfold.  Illustrated, 
large  8vo,  530  pages.  Little,  Brown  &  Co.  $3.  net. 

Kings  and  Gods  of  Egypt.  By  Alexandre  Moret; 
translated  by  Madame  Moret.  Illustrated;  8vo, 
290  pages.  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons.  $2.  net. 

King's  Cutters  and  Smugglers,  1700-1855.  By  E. 
Keble  Chatterton.  Illustrated  in  color,  etc.,  8vo, 
425  pages.  J.  B.  Lippincott  Co.  $2.  net. 

A  History  of  the  Presidency  from  1897  to  1909.  By 
Edward  Stanwood,  Litt.D.  8vo,  298  pages.  Hough- 
ton  Mifflin  Co.  $1.75  net. 

Village  Life  in  America,  1852-1872:  Including  the  Pe- 
riod of  the  American  Civil  War,  as  Told  in  the 
Diary  of  a  School-Girl.  By  Caroline  Cowles  Rich- 
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Illustrated,  12mo,  207  pages.  Henry  Holt  &  Co. 
$1.30  net. 

The  Story  of  the  Renaissance.  By  William  Henry 
Hudson.  Illustrated,  8vo,  268  pages.  Cassell  & 
Co.,  Ltd.  $1.50  net. 

GENERAL  LITERATURE. 

Letters  of  George  Meredith.  Collected  and  Edited  by 
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Letters  of  Ulysses  S.  Grant  to  his  Father  and  his 
Youngest  Sister,  1857-78.  Edited  by  his  nephew, 
Jesse  Grant  Cramer.  Illustrated  in  photogravure, 
etc.,  large  8vo,  182  pages.  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons. 
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Time  and  Change.  By  John  Burroughs.  With  por- 
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The  American  Mind.  By  Bliss  Perry.  12mo,  249 
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Greek  Literature:  A  Series  of  Lectures  Delivered  at 
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A  Doctor's  Table  Talk.  By  James  Gregory  Mumford, 
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Le  Mollere  du  XXe  Siecle:  Bernard  Shaw.  Par  Au- 
gustin  Hamon.  With  portraits,  8vo,  255  pages. 
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by  H.  J.  Ford,  8vo,  351  pages.  Longmans,  Green 
&  Co.  $1.60  net. 

The  Fairies  and  the  Christmas  Child.  By  Lilian 
Gask.  Illustrated  in  color,  etc.,  8vo,  261  pages. 
Thomas  Y.  Crowell  Co.  $2.  net. 

Bold  Robin  Hood,  and  His  Outlaw  Band:  Their  Fa- 
mous Exploits  in  Sherwood  Forest.  Penned  and 
pictured  by  Louis  Rhead.  8vo,  286  pages.  Har- 
per &  Brothers.  $1.50. 

Frolssart's  Chronicles.  Retold  for  young  people 
from  Lord  Berners'  translation,  by  Madalen  Ed- 
gar. Illustrated  in  photogravure,  8vo,  283  pages. 
Thomas  Y.  Crowell  Co.  $1.50  net. 

Adventures  in  Southern  Seas:  Stirring  Stories  of 
Adventure  among  Savages,  Wild  Beasts,  and  the 
Forces  of  Nature.  By  Richard  Stead,  F.R.  Hist.  S. 
Illustrated,  8vo,  318  pages.  J.  B.  Lippincott  Co. 
$1.50  net. 


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Beat  Stories  to  Tell  to  Children.  By  Sara  Cone 
Bryant.  Illustrated  in  color,  8vo,  181  pages. 
Houghton  Mifflin  Co.  $1.50  net. 

The  Boys'  Nelson.  By  Harold  F.  B.  Wheeler.  Illus- 
trated, 8vo,  256  pages.  Thomas  Y.  Crowell  Co. 
$1.50  net. 

Mrs.  Leicester's  School.  Written  by  Charles  and 
Mary  Lamb,  and  illustrated  by  Winifred  Green. 
Illustrated  in  color,  8vo,  128  pages.  E.  P.  Dutton 
&  Co.  $1.60  net. 

Little  Women.  By  Louisa  M.  Alcott.  Illustrated, 
12mo,  617  pages.  "Players'  Edition."  Little, 
Brown  &  Co.  $1.50  net. 

Mary  "Ware's  Promised  Land.  By  Annie  Fellows 
Johnston.  12mo,  317  pages.  "Little  Colonel  Se- 
ries." L.  C.  Page  &  Co.  $1.50. 

The  Castle  of  Zlon:  Stories  from  the  Old  Testament. 
By  George  Hodges.  Illustrated,  8vo,  200  pages. 
Houghton  Mifflin  Co.  $1.50  net. 

Legends  of  Our  Little  Brothers:  Fairy  Lore  of  Bird 
and  Beast.  Retold  by  Lilian  Gask.  Illustrated, 
12mo,  268  pages.  Thomas  Y.  Crowell  Co.  $1.50. 

The  Young  Mluute-Man  of  1812.  By  Everett  T. 
Tomlinson.  Illustrated,  12mo,  343  pages.  Hough- 
ton  Mifflin  Co.  $1.50. 

With  Carriugton  on  the  Bozemau  Road.  By  Joseph 
Mills  Hanson.  Illustrated,  12mo,  411  pages.  A.  C. 
McClurg  &  Co.  $1.50. 

Shakespeare's  Stories  of  the  English  Kings.  Retold 
by  Thomas  Carter.  Illustrated  in  color,  8vo,  284 
pages.  Thomas  Y.  Crowell  Co.  $1.50  net. 

Campus  Days.  By  Ralph  D.  Paine.  Illustrated, 
12mo,  356  pages.  Charles  Scribner's  Sons.  $1.50. 

The  Young  Crusaders  at  Washington.  By  George  P. 
Atwater.  Illustrated,  12mo,  303  pages.  "Young 
Crusader  Series."  Little,  Brown  &  Co.  $1.50. 

Shaggycoat:  The  Biography  of  a  Beaver.  By  Clar- 
ence Hawkes.  Illustrated,  12mo,  273  pages. 
George  W.  Jacobs  &  Co.  $1.50. 

Henley's  American  Captain.  By  Frank  E.  Channon. 
Illustrated,  12mo,  318  pages.  "Henley  School- 
boys Series."  Little,  Brown  &  Co.  $1.50. 

Four  Boys  on  Pike's  Peak:  Where  They  Went,  What 
They  Did,  What  They  Saw.  By  Everett  T.  Tom- 
linson. Illustrated,  12mo,  401  pages.  Lothrop, 
Lee  &  Shepard  Co.  $1.50  net. 

Piebald,  King  of  Bronchos:  The  Biography  of  a  Wild 
Horse.  By  Clarence  Hawkes.  Illustrated,  12mo, 
297  pages.  George  W.  Jacobs  &  Co.  $1.50. 

Buddie  at  Gray  Buttes  Camp.  By  Anna  Chapin  Ray. 
Illustrated,  12mo,  201  pages.  Little,  Brown  &  Co. 
$1.50. 

Old  Four- Toes;  or,  Hunters  of  the  Peaks.  By  Ed- 
win L.  Sabin.  Illustrated,  12mo,  350  pages. 
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Lieutenant  Ralph  Osborn  aboard  a  Torpedo  Boat 
Destroyer.  By  Commander  E.  L.  Beach,  U.S.N. 
Illustrated,  12mo,  342  pages.  Boston:  W.  A. 
Wilde  Co.  $1.50. 

The  Seashore  Book:  Bob  and  Betty's  Summer  with 
Captain  Hawes.  Stories  and  pictures  by  E. 
Boyd  Smith.  Illustrated  in  color,  8vo.  Hough- 
ton  Mifflin  Co.  $1.50  net. 

Every-Day  Susan.  By  Mary  F.  Leonard.  Illus- 
trated, 12mo,  370  pages.  Thomas  Y.  Crowell  Co. 
$1.50. 

Building  an  Airship  at  Silver  Fox  Farm.  By  James 
Otis.  Illustrated,  12mo,  354  pages.  Thomas  Y. 
Crowell  Co.  $1.50. 

Brave  Deeds  of  American  Sailors.  By  Robert  B. 
Duncan.  Illustrated,  8vo,  311  pages.  George  W. 
Jacobs  Co.  $1.50  net. 

Six  Girls  Grown  Up.  By  Marion  Ames  Taggart.  Il- 
lustrated, 12mo,  343  pages.  Boston:  W.  A.  Wilde 
Co.  $1.50. 

The  Mermaid's  Gift,  and  Other  Stories.  By  Julia 
Brown.  Illustrated  in  color  by  Maginel  Wright 
Enright,  large  8vo,  168  pages.  Rand,  McNally  & 
Co.  $1.25. 

The  Aircraft  Boys  of  Lakeport;  or,  Rivals  of  the 
Clouds.  By  Edward  Stratemeyer.  Illustrated, 
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$1.25. 


Molly  and  Margaret.  By  Pat;  with  Introduction  by 
W.  H.  Hudson.  Illustrated  in  color,  etc.,  12mo, 
155  pages.  Longmans,  Green  &  Co.  $1.25  net. 

The  Boy  Scouts  of  Bob's  Hill.  By  Charles  Pierce 
Burton.  Illustrated,  12mo,  313  pages.  Henry 
Holt  &  Co.  $1.25  net. 

A  Dixie  Rose  in  Bloom.  By  Augusta  Kortrecht. 
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When  Margaret  Was  a  Sophomore.  Ey  Elizabeth 
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The  Little  King  and  the  Princess  True.  By  Mary 
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McNally  &  Co.  $1.25. 

Hester's  Wage-Earning.  By  Jean  K.  Baird.  Illus- 
trated, 12mo,  327  pages.  Lothrop,  Lee  &  Shepard 
Co.  $1.25. 

"Pewee"  Clinton,  Plebe:  A  Story  of  Annapolis.  By 
William  O.  Stevens.  Illustrated,  12mo,  311  pages. 
J.  B.  Lippincott  Co.  $1.25  net. 

WTith  Carson  and  Fremont.  By  Edwin  L.  Sabin.  Il- 
lustrated in  color,  etc.,  302  pages.  J.  B.  Lippin- 
cott Co.  $1.25  net. 

Ken  Ward  In  the  Jungle:  Thrilling  Adventures  in 
Tropical  Wilds.  By  Zane  Grey.  Illustrated, 
12mo,  309  pages.  Harper  &  Brothers.  $1.25. 

The  Children's  Own  Longfellow.  Illustrated  in  color, 
8vo,  103  pages.  Houghton  Mifflin  Co.  $1.25  net. 

The  Dragon  and  the  Cross.  By  Ralph  D.  Paine.  Il- 
lustrated, 12mo,  241  pages.  Charles  Scribner's 
S*ons.  $1.25. 

Mother  Goose  in  Holland.  Illustrated  in  color,  etc., 
by  May  Audubon  Post.  4to,  90  pages.  George 
W.  Jacobs  &  Co.  $1.25. 

Betty-Blde-at-Home.  By  Beulah  Marie  Dix.  Illus- 
trated, 12mo,  236  pages.  Henry  Holt  &  Co. 
$1.25  net. 

At  Seneca  Castle.  By  William  W.  Canfleld.  Illus- 
trated, 12mo,  274  pages.  E.  P.  Dutton  &  Co. 
$1.25  net. 

Partners  for  Fair.  By  Alice  Calhoun  Haines.  Illus- 
trated, 12mo,  232  pages.  Henry  Holt  &  Co. 
$1.25  net. 

The  Boy  Electricians  as  Detectives.  By  Edwin  J. 
Houston,  Ph.D.  Illustrated,  12mo,  314  pages.  J. 
B.  Lippincott  Co.  $1.25  net. 

The  Camp  at  Sea  Duck  Cove.  By  Ellery  H.  Clark. 
Illustrated,  12mo,  277  pages.^  Houghton  Mifflin 
Co.  $1.25  net. 

Dave  Morrell's  Battery.  By  Hollis  Godfrey.  Illus- 
trated, 12mo,  289  pages.  Little,  Brown  &  Co. 
$1.25. 

Uncle  Peter  Heathen.  By  Emilie  Blackmore  Stapp. 
Illustrated  in  color,  12mo,  285  pages.  Philadel- 
phia: David  McKay.  $1.25. 

The  Mountain  Divide.  By  Frank  H.  Spearman.  Il- 
lustrated, 12mo,  319  pages.  Charles  Scribner's 
Sons.  $1.25  net. 

The  Lady  of  the  Lane.  By  Frederick  Orin  Bartlett. 
Illustrated,  12mo,  336  pages.  Century  Co. 
$1.25  net. 

With  the  Indians  In  the  Rockies.  By  James  Wil- 
lard  Schultz.  Illustrated,  8vo,  227  pages.  Hough- 
ton  Mifflin  Co.  $1.25  net. 

Along  the  Mohawk  Trail;  or,  Boy  Scouts  on  Lake 
Champlain.  By  Percy  K.  Fitzhugh.  Illustrated, 
12mo,  394  pages.  Thomas  Y.  Crowell  Co.  $1.25. 

Crofton  Chums.  By  Ralph  Henry  Barbour.  Illus- 
trated, 12mo,  338  pages.  Century  Co.  $1.25  net. 

The  Son  of  Columbus.  By  Molly  Elliot  Seawell.  Il- 
lustrated, 12mo,  237  pages.  Harper  &  Brothers. 
$1.25. 

The  Lucky  Sixpence.  By  Emilie  Benson  Knipe  and 
Alden  Arthur  Knipe.  Illustrated,  12mo,  408 
pages.  Century  Co.  $1.25  net. 

"Don't  Give  Up  the  Ship!"  By  Charles  S.  Wood.  Il- 
lustrated in  color,  etc.,  12mo,  314  pages.  Mac- 
millan  Co.  $1.25  net. 

The  Land  of  Ice  and  Snow;  or,  Adventures  in 
Alaska.  By  Edwin  J.  Houston,  Ph.D.  Illus- 
trated, 12mo,  412  pages.  Griffith  &  Rowland 
Press.  $1.25. 


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Two  Young:  Americans — Philip  and  Molly.  By  Bar- 
bara Yechton.  Illustrated,  12mo,  307  pages. 
Dodd,  Mead  &  Co.  $1.50. 

Dorothy  Brooke  at  Ridgemore.  By  Prances  C. 
Sparhawk.  Illustrated,  12mo,  409  pages.  Thomas 
Y.  CrowellCo.  $1.50. 

The  Four  Corners  in  Japan.  By  Amy  E.  Blanch- 
ard.  Illustrated,  12mo,  377  pages.  George  W. 
Jacobs  &  Co.  $1.50. 

Sue  Jane.  By  Maria  Thompson  Daviess.  Illustrated, 
12mo,  223  pages.  Century  Co.  $1.25  net. 

Pluck  on  the  Long  Trull;  or,  Boy  Scouts  in  the 
Rockies.  By  Edwin  L.  Sabin.  Illustrated,  12mo, 
321  pages.  Thomas  Y.  Crowell  Co.  $1.25. 

John  and  Betty's  Scotch  History  Visit.  By  Mar- 
garet Williamson.  Illustrated,  12mo,  306  pages. 
Lothrop,  Lee  &  Shepard  Co.  $1.25. 

Once  Upon  a  Time  Tales.  By  Mary  Stewart;  with 
Introduction  by  Henry  van  Dyke.  Illustrated, 
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For  Old  Donchester;  or,  Archie  Hartley  and  His 
Schoolmates.  By  Arthur  Duffey.  Illustrated, 
12mo,  350  pages.  Lothrop,  Lee  &  Shepard  Co. 
$1.25. 

The  Knights  of  the  Golden  Spur.  By  Rupert  Sar- 
gent Holland.  Illustrated,  12mo,  313  pages.  Cen- 
tury Co.  $1.25  net. 

The  Mystery  of  the  Grey  Oak  Inn:  A  Story  for 
Boys.  By  Louise  Godfrey  Irwin.  Illustrated, 
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Caldwell's  Boys'  and  Girls'  at  Home.  Illustrated  in 
color,  etc.,  4to,  192  pages.  H.  M.  Caldwell  Co 
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Barry  Wynn.  By  George  Barton.  Illustrated,  12mo, 
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The  Young;  Woodsman;  or,  Running  Down  the 
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The  Mary  Frances  Cook  Book;  or,  Adventures 
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John  C.  Winston  Co.  $1.20  net. 

Chats  with  Children  of  the  Church.  By  James  M. 
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Fred  Spencer,  Reporter.  By  Henry  M.  Neely.  Illus- 
trated, 12mo,  358  pag<*s.  Small,  Maynard  &  Co. 
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Little  Queen  Esther.  By  Nina  Rhoades.  Illustrated, 
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Old  Rhymes  with  New  Tunes.  Composed  by  Rich- 
ard Runciman  Terry.  Illustrated  by  Gabriel 
Pippet,  4to,  32  pages.  Longmans,  Green  &  Co. 
80  cts.  net. 

Training;  the  Little  Home  Maker  by  Kindergarten 
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Next-Night  Stories.  By  Clarence  Johnson  Messer. 
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Their  City  Christmas:  A  Story  for  Boys  and  Girls. 
By  Abbie  Farwell  Brown.  Illustrated,  12mo,  87 
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A  Christmas  Party  for  Santa  Claus.  By  Ida  M.  Hunt- 
ington.  Illustrated  in  color,  etc.,  large  8vo,  102 
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The  Wonder-Workers.  By  Mary  H.  Wade.  Illus- 
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The  Scout  Master  of  Troop  5.  By  I.  T.  Thurston. 
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The  Boys'  Parkman:  Selections  from  the  Historical 
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tle, Brown  &  Co.  $1.  net. 

A  Little  Book  of  Christmas.  By  John  Kendrick 
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A  Life  of  Christ  for  the  Young.  By  George  Luding- 
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Mother  West  Wind's  Animal  Friends.  By  Thornton 
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Nobody's  Rose;  or,  The  Girlhood  of  Rose  Shannon. 
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A  Dear  Little  Girl's  Thanksgiving;  Holidays.  By 
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Mr.  Responsibility,  Partner:  How  Bobby  and  Joe 
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Curiosity  Kate.  By  Florence  Bone.  Illustrated, 
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How  Phoebe  Found  Herself:  A  Story  for  Girls.  By 
Helen  Dawes  Brown.  With  frontispiece,  12mo, 
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'Twas  the  Night  before  Christmas:  A  Visit  from  St. 
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color  by  Jessie  Willcox  Smith,  8vo.  Houghton 
Mifflin  Co.  $1.  net. 

Jataka  Tales.  Re-told  by  Ellen  C.  Babbitt.  Illus- 
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Young  Honesty — Politician:  Being  the  Story  of  how 
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Jean  Cabot  at  Ashton.  By  Gertrude  Fisher  Scott. 
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The  Boy  Scouts  of  Berkshire.  By  Walter  Pritch- 
ard  Eaton.  With  frontispiece  in  color,  12mo, 
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Dorothy  Dainty's  Holidays.  By  Amy  Brooks.  Il- 
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The  Young  Shipper  of  the  Great  Lakes.  By  Hugh 
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Bud  and  Bamboo.  By  John  Stuart  Thomson.  Illus- 
trated, 12mo,  96  pages.  D.  Appleton  &  Co. 

When  Christmas  Came  too  Early.  By  Mabel  Fuller 
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The  Turkey  Doll.  By  Josephine  Scribner  Gates.  Il- 
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Princess  Rags  and  Tatters.  By  Harriet  T.  Comstock. 
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The  Fortunes  of  Nigel.  Retold  for  boys  and  girls 
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The  English  History  Story-Book.  By  Albert  F. 
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The  Children  of  History:  Early  Times  (B.  C.  800  to 
A.  D.  1000).  By  Mary  S.  Hancock.  Illustrated  in 
color,  etc.,  12mo,  136  pages.  Little,  Brown  &  Co. 
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Redgauntlet.  Retold  for  boys  and  girls  by  Alice  F. 
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Rowena's  Happy  Summer.  By  Celia  Myrover  Rob- 
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The  Children  of  History:  Later  Times  (A.  D.  1000 
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"Wanted,"  and  Other  Stories.  By  James  Otis.  Il- 
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A  History  of  French  Private  Law.  By  Jean  Bris- 
saud;  translated  from  the  second  French  edition 
by  Rapelje  Howell;  with  Introduction  by  W.  S. 
Holdsworth  and  John  H.  Wigmore.  Large  8vo, 
922  pages.  "Continental  Legal  History  Series." 
Little,  Brown  &  Co.  $5.  net. 

Fire  Prevention.  By  Edward  F.  Croker.  Illustrated, 
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The  Party  Book.  By  Winifred  Fales  and  Mary  H. 
Northend.  Illustrated,  8vo,  354  pages.  Little, 
Brown  &  Co.  $2.  net. 

Behind  the  Dark  Pines.  By  Martha  Young.  Illus- 
trated, 12mo,  288  pages.  D.  Appleton  &  Co. 
$1.50  net. 

The  "Wireless  Man:  His  Work  and  Adventures  on 
Land  and  Sea.  By  Francis  A.  Collins.  Illus- 
trated, 12mo,  251  pages.  Century  Co.  $1.20  net. 

The  Care  of  the  Body.  By  R.  S.  Woodworth.  12mo, 
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OUR  SPIRITUAL  HEALTH 

THE  RETURN  OF  THE   GODS.     Charles  Leonard 

Moore 371 

CASUAL  COMMENT 372 

A  library  movement  in  Baroda. —  The  poet's  emo- 
tions in  the  face  of  impending  death. — A  sumptuous 
book  catalogue. — Stevenson's  conception  of  realism. 

—  A  proposed  library  of  peculiar  character. —  The 
economic  value  of  loafing. — A  roseate  view  of  Turkey. 
— High  quotations  on  a  young  author's  first  editions. 

—  The  growth  of  the  Goethe  Museum  at  Weimar. 

COMMUNICATIONS 375 

Hackneyed  Phrases.    G.  M.  G. 

A  Proposed  Institute  of  Business  and  Agricultural 

Research.    Aksel  G.  S.  Josephson. 
RECOLLECTIONS   OF   LOUIS  NAPOLEON.    Boy 

Temple  House 376 

THE  HUMBLE-BEE  AS  A  HOBBY-HORSE.   T.  D. 

A.  Cockerell 377 

A  NEW  STUDY  OF  AMERICAN  TRAITS.    Norman 

Foerster 378 

MATHEMATICO-PROCRUSTEAN  ART.    Raymond 

Pearl 380. 

THE  CHILD  AND  SOCIAL  REFORM.  AlvinS.  Johnson  380 
Holmes's  The  Conservation  of  the  Child. —  Miss 
Breckinridge  and  Miss  Abbott's  The  Delinquent 
Child  and  the  Home. —  Ogburn's  Progress  and 
Uniformity  in  Child-Labor  Legislation. —  Clopper's 
Child  Labor  in  City  Streets. —  George  and  Stowe's 
Citizens  Made  and  Remade.— Swift's  Youth  and  the 
Race. —  Forbush's  The  Coming  Generation. —  Miss 
Breckinridge 's  The  Child  in  the  City.—  Miss  Deni- 
son's  Helping  School  Children. 

RECENT  FICTION.  William  Morton  Payne  ...  383 
Wells's  Marriage. —  Maarten  Maartens's  Eve. — "G. 
A.  Birmingham's"  Priscilla's  Spies. —  Doyle's  The 
Lost  World. — Kester's  The  Fortunes  of  the  Landrays. 
— Edwards's  A  Man's  World.— "  Martin  Redfield's  " 
My  Love  and  I.— Scribner's  The  Secret  of  Frontellac. 

BRIEFS  ON  NEW  BOOKS 386 

"The  Kingwho  never  reigned." — The  "  man  farthest 
down ' '  in  Europe. — Coeur  de  Lion  and  the  landscape. 

—  Reminiscences  of  modern  German  philosophers. — 
Superstitions  and  omens  of  Southern  India. —  "The 
long  road"   of  evolution. —  A  great  military  com- 
mander as  college  president. —  A  treatise  on  style  in 
musical  art. —  Recollections  of  a  busy  author  and 
traveller. —  Washington  and  Lincoln  as  related  lead- 
ers.—  Memorials  of  Dante  in  modern  Florence. 

BRIEFER  MENTION 390 

NOTES 331 

LIST  OF  NEW  BOOKS    .  .  391 


OUli  SPIRITUAL  HEALTH. 


Is  our  culture  in  a  bad  way  ?  Are  the  ideals 
upon  which  the  soul  is  fed  growing  less  urgent 
in  their  appeal  to  the  modern  man?  Do  we  face 
the  prospect  of  a  spiritual  decline  comparable  to 
that  which  darkened  the  world  when  the  ancient 
civilizations  decayed,  and  mankind  groped  for 
centuries  to  rediscover  the  light  that  was  lost? 
These  are  the  questions  raised  by  Dr.  E.  B. 
Andrews  in  "The  International  Journal  of 
Ethics,"  where  he  discusses  "The  Decline  of 
Culture"  in  a  spirit  which  many  will  think  un- 
duly pessimistic,  but  with  a  degree  of  earnest- 
ness which  is  deeply  impressive.  His  diagnosis 
of  our  case  does  not  indicate  the  menace  of  any 
barbarian  invasion  threatening  to  overwhelm 
our  civilization,  but  rather  places  stress  upon  the 
internal  causes  that  seem  already  to  have  gone 
far  toward  the  undermining  of  our  spiritual 
health.  The  culture  which  seems  to  him  to  be 
visibly  declining  is  defined  as  "  the  appreciation, 
not  contemplative  alone  but  active  and  efficient, 
of  the  non-economic  values."  Its  content  is  en- 
lightenment, breadth,  open-mindeiness,  chivalry, 
honor,  generosity,  magnanimity,  justice,  gentle- 
ness, devotion  to  principle,  the  courage  of  one's 
convictions,  power  to  sustain,  without  courting 
it,  loneliness,  resisting  popular  clamors  and  mob 
movements,  whether  plebeian  or  patrician."  It 
will  be  observed  that  this  analysis  has  chiefly  in 
mind  the  ethical  rather  than  the  assthetic  aspect 
of  culture.  But  even  those  of  us  who  have 
framed  our  faith  in  accordance  with  the  teach- 
ings of  the  most  persuasive  of  the  apostles  of 
culture  in  our  own  day  must  remember  his 
insistence  upon  the  proposition  that  conduct  is 
three-fourths  of  life. 

At  first  discussing  the  subject  on  some  of  its 
more  general  aspects,  Dr.  Andrews  speaks  of  the 
prevailing  modern  tendency  to  shape  thought 
and  action  into  uniform  moulds.  The  deaden- 
ing influences  of  fashion,  of  what  Huxley  called 
regimentation,  of  industrialism,  bureaucracy, 
and  centralization,  are  everywhere  made  mani- 
fest. "  Science  enables  us  to  multiply  infinitely 
all  the  things  we  invent  and  to  throw  them  upon 
the  market  with  cheapening  profusion."  "Let 
shallow  people  laugh  at  New  England  provincial- 
ism and  berate  the  South  for  being  solid.  The 
wise  rejoice  that  so  much  local  apartness  sur- 


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vives."  "  Centralization  annuls  not  only  the 
baneful  and  narrow  in  particularism  but,  worse 
still,  its  sap  and  vigor."  Its  steam-roller  "flat- 
tens individuals  into  specimens."  Where  in 
such  a  world  can  character,  originality,  the  will 
to  strike  into  new  paths,  get  foothold?  "It  is 
doubtful  whether  what  might  be  called  the  sci- 
entific mind  is  holding  its  own.  Superstition  not 
unlike  belief  in  ghosts  is  still  wide-spread  and 
rank."  "  There  is  wide  remission  of  enthusiasm 
for  humanity.  Few  think  it  articulately ;  fewer 
avow  it."  If  we  have  done  something  to  check 
the  crimes  of  violence,  "the  crimes  of  cunning, 
secret  vices,  tricks,  however  immoral  and  cruel, 
that  can  be  worked  in  accordance  with  law,  and 
especially  offences  against  personal  purity,  are 
everywhere  on  the  increase."  The  enumeration 
of  morbid  conditions  in  our  social  pathology 
is  considerably  more  extended  than  the  above 
array  of  quotations  would  indicate,  and  they  are 
matter  for  much  self-searching. 

More  specifically,  "  the  culture  pyaemia  in 
American  society  may  be  traced,  in  the  main, 
to  four  great  plexuses  of  influences  :  one,  the 
country's  astounding  growth  in  wealth ;  a  second, 
the  spread  of  communistic  socialism  ;  a  third, 
bad  theory  and  practice  in  education ;  and  a 
fourth,  depressing  views  of  the  world,  life,  and 
man."  The  dominance  of  the  American  ideal 
by  the  money-making  spirit  is  so  pronounced  that 
it  everywhere  overshadows  the  higher  values  of 
life  and  the  nobler  objects  of  ambition.  Success 
is  judged  by  the  test  of  the  dollar,  and  the  man 
who  refuses  to  recognize  the  validity  of  this  test 
is  viewed  askance  as  a  freakish  and  abnormal  per- 
son. The  schools  and  the  churches,  the  theatres 
and  the  concert-halls,  must  be  made  to  "pay"; 
if  they  do  not  "  pay,"  they  are  discredited. 
"  Wealth-gaining  is  an  obtrusive,  all-engrossing 
phenomenon,  overshadowing  all  else, —  massive, 
ubiquitous,  obstreperous,  never  out  of  sight  or 
out  of  mind."  If  culture  is  an  "  appreciation  of 
the  non-economic  values,"  it  has  small  chance  of 
growth  in  such  an  environment. 

Socialism,  which  is  everywhere  gaining  upon 
us,  makes  no  attempt  to  conceal  its  levelling 
purpose.  It  is  "a  crusade  against  the  highlands 
of  men's  life  in  the  supposed  interest  of  the  bog." 
It  is  essentially  a  gospel  of  materialism,  and  its 
root  appeal  is  to  greed,  however  that  term  be 
disguised  under  such  high-sounding  names  as 
justice  and  brotherhood.  It  would  "  build  forth 
the  social  body  utterly  without  regard  to  heter- 
ogeneity, allowing  no  place  for  the  genius,  the 
artist,  the  dreamer,  the  mugwump,  the  rebel. 
The  church  in  its  worst  days  never  meditated 


rendering  life  so  insipid."  Coming  to  the  third 
count  of  our  critic's  indictment,  one  of  the  chief 
foes  of  culture  is  education,  which  should  be  its 
agent  and  minister,  but  which  instead,  in  its  cur- 
rent tendencies,  can  see  nothing  for  a  school  to 
do  more  important  than  preparing  its  victims 
for  the  task  of  earning  their  livings.  "  Pesti- 
lential," says  Dr.  Andrews,  —  and  the  word  is 
not  too  strong —  "is  the  cry  for  shorter  courses, 
that  young  people  may  begin  work  earlier  in  life, 
earn  more,  and  be  surer  of  large  families.  There 
is  no  fear  that  our  population  will  be  too  small, 
but  much  that  it  will  be  too  mean."  Rigid  ad- 
ministrative systems  and  the  preference  given 
to  utilitarian  studies  are  draining  our  schools 
and  colleges  of  their  spiritual  life,  and  making 
them  factories  of  automata  rather  than  institu- 
tions for  the  higher  development  of  human 
faculty.  How  can  a  student  whose  education 
has  been  thus  directed  to  narrow  practical  ends 
speak  of  his  school  as  alma  mater,  with  any  sense 
of  the  significance  of  that  beautiful  expression  ? 
Last  of  his  four  specific  causes  for  the  de- 
cline of  culture,  Dr.  Andrews  names  the  phi- 
losophy of  naturalism,  which  makes  a  mechani- 
cal interpretation  of  the  doctrine  of  evolution, 
discerning  no  purpose  at  work  in  the  universe, 
and  finds  in  the  teachings  of  Nietzsche  its  log- 
ical outcome.  "  Naturalism  can  give  no  reason 
why  any  sentiment,  impulse,  or  conviction 
which  in  any  manner  is  of  advantage  to  the 
race  should  be  preferred  to  any  other  impulse 
or  conviction  as  more  worthy  of  consideration 
or  obedience."  "If  naturalism  is  the  truth, 
morality  is  but  a  haphazard  catalogue  of  pru- 
dential regulations;  beauty  is  unsubstantial 
and  accidental,  not  eternal ;  and  even  reason  is 
nothing  else  but  a  habit  by  which  our  thoughts 
chance  to  take  one  course  rather  than  another." 
To  our  thinking,  the  chief  manifestation  of 
declining  culture  is  found  in  the  very  general 
prevalence  of  a  spirit  of  indifferentism,  of  a 
moral  apathy  which  leads  men  to  think  that 
nothing  really  matters  unless  it  affects  their 
own  personal  interests.  This  spirit  can  con- 
template the  social  and  political  issues  of  our 
own  time,  or  the  similar  issues  recorded  in  the 
pages  of  history,  with  hardly  any  other  emotion 
than  curiosity ;  the  reactions  of  enthusiasm  and 
indignation  are  unknown  to  it;  it  does  not 
really  care  whether  a  nation  (even  our  own) 
keeps  or  violates  its  plighted  faith  with  others, 
whether  a  Finland  or  a  Persia  is  strangled  by 
the  brutal  oppressor,  whether  a  German  Em- 
pire ruthlessly  despoils  its  French  and  Danish 
neighbors.  People  ought  to  care  for  such  things 


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as  these  more  than  for  their  daily  bread,  and 
a  culture  which  can  regard  them  with  indiffer- 
ence, perhaps  even  with  cynicism,  is  in  perilous 
need  of  a  physician. 

Although  our  author  takes  anything  but  a 
cheerful  view  of  the  present,  he  is  not  without 
hopes  for  the  future,  believing  that  "the  sources 
of  culture  gush  perennially." 

"  In  what  quarter  of  the  heavens  dawn  will  first  show, 
it  were  rash  to  predict.  Socialism  will  run  a  long  course, 
so  will  perverse  education.  There  are  happy  signs  that 
wealth-seekers  are  beginning  to  distinguish  between 
wealth  as  a  means  and  wealth  as  an  end.  Hardest  to 
reform  will  doubtless  be  man's  faith.  Perhaps  another 
Messiah  will  have  to  be  awaited.  Meantime,  every  child 
of  the  day  may  do  somewhat  to  widen  the  skirts  of  light. 
As  Emerson  exhorts :  '  Bend  to  the  persuasion  which  is 
flowing  to  you  from  every  highest  prompting  of  human 
nature  to  be  its  tongue  to  the  heart  of  man  and  to  show 
the  besotted  world  how  passing  fair  is  wisdom.' " 


THE  RETURN  OF  THE  GODS. 

There  is  no  more  remarkable  occurrence  in  the 
vicissitudes  of  human  thought  than  the  birth,  the 
rise  to  power  as  a  State  religion,  and  the  final  ex- 
pulsion of  Buddhism  from  India.  Before  it  came 
the  gods  of  the  Vedas  reigned,  sacrifice  was  offered 
them,  the  sacred  hearth-fire  was  kept  perpetually 
lighted,  caste  was  rigidly  guarded,  the  twice-born 
were  regularly  initiated  and  endued  with  the  sym- 
bolic cord.  Buddhism,  while  not  a  proselytizing  or 
persecuting  doctrine,  swept  away  all  these  things 
within  its  limits.  It  was  an  agnosticism.  It  said 
that  the  gods  were  unknowable  and  that  the  soul  did 
not  exist.  Buddhism  could  not  shake  oft'  that  cen- 
tral idea  of  Hindoo  thought — transmigration.  But 
it  transferred  it  from  the  soul  to  the  character, — 
Karma.  The  sum  of  a  man's  good  and  bad  quali- 
ties went  on  living  endlessly  until  the  former  extin- 
guished the  latter,  when  Nirvana  was  attained.  How 
character  could  persist  on  through  innumerable  re- 
births without  being  attached  to  a  personality,  is  the 
difficult  point  of  the  doctrine.  Beautiful  and  noble 
as  Buddhism  was  in  its  ethics,  its  charity,  and  its 
democracy,  it  killed  hope  in  the  heart  and  imagina- 
tion in  the  mind.  Humanity,  Aryan  humanity  at 
least,  could  not  stand  it.  After  eight  or  ten  cen- 
turies of  growth  and  domination,  it  dwindled  and 
practically  disappeared  from  the  land  of  its  birth. 
The  gods  of  the  Vedas,  new-incarnated,  came  back  ; 
the  hearth-fire  burned  again,  and  caste  was  renewed. 
And  a  great  system  of  Vedanta  philosophy,  of  which 
Sankara  Acharya  was  the  leading  exponent,  arose  to 
justify  the  change.  Of  course,  with  the  return  of  the 
gods  and  the  belief  in  immortality,  came  back  the 
demons  and  the  punishments  of  hell.  But  the  change 
was  worth  the  cost.  This  new-old  religion  and  philo- 
sophy gave  man  back  his  soul. 

In  a  smaller  way,  perhaps,  it  looks  as  if  something 
of  this  kind  was  about  to  happen  in  Europe  and 


America.  For  fifty  years  or  more  the  Gorgon  head 
of  Evolution  has  turned  the  heart  and  soul  of  man 
to  stone.  Caught  in  a  mechanical  determinism,  man- 
kind has  lost  its  freedom  —  the  fluidity  which  before 
yielded  to  all  impulses  of  religion,  poetry,  and  art. 
If  it  tried  to  escape  in  philosophy,  it  found  that 
philosophy  was  fixed  in  an  iron  system  of  concepts 
which  opened  only  on  nescience  and  nihilism. 

Recently  the  world  has  become  aware  of  two 
great  thinkers,  Eucken  in  Germany  and  Bergson  in 
France,  who  have  certainly  given  a  new  movement 
to  thought,  and  who  may  possibly  herald  a  new  era. 
To  a  large  extent  their  philosophies  run  parallel. 
But  Eucken's  tends  more  in  the  direction  of  religion, 
Bergson's  more  towards  an  underlying  metaphysic. 
The  latter  seems  to  be  the  more  thorough,  and,  if  it 
can  be  established,  ought  to  prove  the  more  liberat- 
ing of  the  two. 

Bergson's  thought,  intensely  difficult  as  it  is  to 
grasp  in  its  full  development,  is  yet  simple  in  its 
leading  principles.  As  Darwinism  became  sum- 
med up  in  a  few  phrases,  "natural  selection,"  "the 
survival  of  the  fittest,"  "the  descent  of  man,"  by 
which  the  man  in  the  street  gained  a  not  inadequate 
idea  of  the  theory,  so  Bergsonism  is  concentrated  in 
a  few  words  or  phrases,  such  as  "intuition,"  "the 
Han  vital,"  "duration, "and  "becoming,"  which  fly 
from  mouth  to  mouth  and  are  easily  understood. 
The  philosophy  is  a  crusade  against  both  intellectual- 
ism  and  naturalism.  It  puts  aside,  or  makes  second- 
ary, the  processes  of  deduction  and  induction,  and 
proposes  a  new  method  whose  organ  is  intuition  and 
whose  purpose  is  to  place  us  in  immediate  contact 
with  life — with  the  6lan  vital.  Movement,  becom- 
ing, is  of  the  essence  of  this  act;  and  as  time  has 
turned  into  a  spatialized  concept,  Bergson  substitutes 
duration  for  it.  Creation  is  original,  continuing,  and 
incalculable. 

It  may  be  interesting  to  trace  a  little  the  genesis 
of  this  new  philosophy.  Again  there  is  a  reminder 
of  Darwinism.  As  Lamarck,  St.  Hilaire,  Goethe, 
the  elder  Darwin,  and  Tennyson  put  forth  Darwin- 
ian ideas  before  the  theory  was  formulated,  so  Berg- 
sonism has  been  in  the  air  for  a  long  time.  The 
first  anticipatory  statement,  as  far  as  I  know,  of 
Bergson's  method  is  in  the  opening  pages  of  Poe's 
"Eureka."  It  is  very  thoroughgoing,  and  consists 
of  a  denunciation  of  the  rival  methods  of  deduction 
and  induction  in  their  boastful  claims  to  be  the  sole 
roads  to  truth,  and  the  suggestion  of  a  third  process, 
intuition,  as  a  short  cut  across  the  fields.  Poe's 
weighty  and  acutely  reasoned  pages  are  marked 
with  a  show  of  burlesque  and  persiflage  which  has 
perhaps  kept  the  philosophic  thought  in  them  from 
being  recognized.  Here  is  a  sentence  describing  the 
effort  to  attain  intuition,  which  might  almost  have 
leaped  out  of  one  of  Bergson's  books :  "  It  seems  to 
me  that  we  require  something  like  a  mental  gyration 
on  the  heel.  We  need  so  rapid  a  revolution  of  all 
things  about  the  point  of  sight,  that  while  the  minutiae 
vanish  altogether,  even  the  more  conspicuous  objects 
blend  into  one."  But  Poe  was  a  poet,  and  thought 


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in  images,  so  he  turned  from  the  metaphysical  de- 
velopment of  his  method  and  attacked  the  problem 
of  the  universe  from  the  physical  side.  Cardinal 
Newman's  "illative  sense,"  the  faculty  which 
recognizes  propositions  before  they  are  stated  and 
resolves  problems  without  logic,  is  only  intuition 
under  another  name.  Schopenhauer's  Will,  under 
some  of  its  aspects,  resembles  intuition,  and  his  con- 
stant preoccupation  all  his  life  with  the  problem  of 
genius  shows  a  bent  towards  an  intuitional  doctrine. 
Nietzsche's  valuable  illumination  of  the  Greek 
Dionysian  myth  is  a  step  in  the  same  direction. 
Von  Hartmann's  "Philosophy  of  the  Unconscious" 
is  a  genuine  basis  for  the  new  method.  It  has  not 
escaped  attention,  of  course,  that  Bergson  is  expound- 
ing and  expanding  the  doctrine  of  Heraclitus, — 
he  who  said  "you  cannot  go  down  into  the  same 
river  twice," — the  prophet  of  Becoming.  There  are 
points  of  contact  with  Plotinus  and  with  the  Vedanta 
philosophers  of  India.  But  Bergson  has  not  only 
gathered  up  all  these  threads  of  thoughts,  —  he  has 
supplied  a  vast  deal  more.  He  has  made  the  theory 
his  own  as  much  as  Darwin  made  his,  and  what  is 
better  he  has  exhibited  it  with  so  much  grace  of  style 
and  richness  of  illustration  that  the  general  reader 
may  be  tempted  for  once  to  say  with  Milton, 
"  How  charming  is  divine  philosophy, 
Not  harsh  and  rugged  as  dull  fools  suppose, 
But  a  perpetual  feast  of  nectared  sweets 
Where  no  crude  surfeit  reigns." 

But  is  Bergson's  philosophy  true  ?  In  the  ver- 
nacular, "  will  it  wash  "  ?  Well,  the  critics  have 
already  begun  their  work  on  it.  Like  most  sys- 
tems, it  is  a  strong  fortress  hanging  in  air.  If  we 
can  only  win  to  it  we  shall  be  safe.  But  it  re- 
quires a  leap.  It  requires  as  strong  an  act  of  faith 
as  Kant  calls  for  after  he  had  broken  down  the 
bridge  between  the  phenomenal  and  the  noumenal. 
Yet  it  is  unquestionably  true  that  life  is  more  than 
mind,  more  than  the  concepts  of  that  mind,  more 
than  the  language  in  which  those  concepts  are 
couched.  We  ought  to  be  able  to  place  ourselves 
in  immediate  contact  with  the  eternal  duration,  the 
continuing  creation,  the  elan  vital.  But  the  trouble 
is,  if  we  do  so  we  have  no  means  of  communicating 
the  fact  to  others.  Intelligible  communication  can 
only  take  effect  by  means  of  concepts  and  language. 
We  might  each  one  of  us  become  isolated  like  a 
Dancing  Dervish  in  our  own  ecstasy.  Perhaps  if 
we  transcend  sensations,  concepts,  the  unit  of  apper- 
ception, the  final  self,  we  may  not  even  know  we 
are  in  ecstasy. 

But  in  spite  of  Bergson's  very  effective  criticism 
of  intellectualism  and  naturalism,  he  does  not  really 
want  to  prorogue  or  abolish  those  ever  hostile  but 
still  confederated  powers  of  existence.  He  simply 
wants  to  introduce  a  third  force  which  will  vitalize 
them.  Every  religious  enthusiast,  every  poet,  every 
artist  knows  that  this  force  —  call  it  intuition,  in- 
spiration, or  intoxication  —  is  the  thing  that  he  must 
rely  on  for  the  best  that  he  can  do.  It  is  the  some- 
thing not  himself,  which,  after  he  has  labored  and 


struggled  and  assembled  his  materials,  comes  in  a 
flash  as  it  were  and  makes  his  work  valuable.  The 
minds  of  poets  have  more  than  any  others  been  the 
paths  for  this  unearthly  influence.  The  "  divine 
phrensy,"  the  "  divine  fire,"  have  always  been  terms 
applied  to  these  seizures.  The  Greeks  in  their  Diony- 
sian myth  tried  to  give  a  wider  effect  to  this  power 
by  a  cult  of  intoxication. 

The  chief  value  of  the  Bergsonian  philosophy 
seems  to  me  to  be  the  liberating  of  the  human  mind 
in  this  direction.  It  is  a  justification  of  religion, 
poetry,  art,  all  the  imaginative  and  emotional  pro- 
ducts of  our  nature.  These  have  been  in  danger 
of  being  killed  off  by  the  general  acceptance  of 
mechanical  naturalism.  If,  as  in  India,  the  gods 
come  back,  they  will  bring  with  them  all  the  fresh 
warm  feelings  and  great  imaginations  from  which 
spring  poetry  and  the  arts.  There  will  be 
"  One  common  wave  of  hope  and  joy 
Lifting  mankind  again." 

In  speaking  above  of  Poe's  contribution  to  the 
new  method  of  knowledge,  I  have  used  the  phrase 
"  a  short  cut  across  the  fields."  In  a  great  measure 
that  is  what  Bergson's  philosophy  really  is.  He 
invites  us  to  leave  the  too  stony,  dusty  roads  of  in- 
tellectualism and  naturalism  and  follow  him  across 
country.  The  grass  is  springy  beneath  us,  flowers 
bloom  around,  the  air  is  fresh  and  sweet,  we  come 
into  the  shade  of  trees  and  seat  ourselves  by  living 
fountains.  It  is  a  delightful  adventure.  Perhaps  our 
short  cut  will  not  lead  us  to  the  City  of  Truth,  but 
certainly  neither  of  the  two  great  highways  which 
mankind  has  tramped  for  so  many  centuries  seems 
to  have  done  that.  We  cannot  be  worse  off  than  we 
were,  and  we  may  gain  much  delight  by  the  way. 
Perhaps  if  we  can  keep  in  sight  of  the  old  routes  we 
may  combine  all  their  advantages  at  once. 

CHARLES  LEONARD  MOORE. 


CASUAL  COMMENT. 


A  LIBRARY  MOVEMENT  IN  BARODA  which  promises 

to  quicken  the  hitherto  sluggish  library  activity  of  all 
India  starts  with  the  formation  of  a  Baroda  Library 
Club  (twenty-five  charter  members)  and  the  estab- 
lishing of  a  "Library  Miscellany,"  or  quarterly  peri- 
odical devoted  to  public-library  interests  in  Baroda 
and  in  India  generally.  Mr.  J.  S.  Kudalkar,  editor 
of  the  magazine,  was  called  from  America  two  years 
ago  by  the  Maharaja  Gaikwad,  pioneer  of  the  mod- 
ern library  movement  in  India,  to  do  for  that  coun- 
try, as  far  as  possible,  what  has  already  been  done 
for  this  in  the  founding  of  free  libraries  for  the 
people.  The  first  number  of  the  "Miscellany"  has 
reached  us,  and  proves  to  be  a  highly  interesting  and 
enterprising  publication,  its  three  sections  (English, 
Gujarati,  and  Marathi)  being  devoted  to  library 
matters  both  domestic  and  foreign,  especially  to 
the  bibliothecal  renaissance  —  or  perhaps  naissance 
would  be  the  better  term  —  now  receiving  attention 
and  encouragement  in  India.  An  elaborate  "Scheme 


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of  Classification  for  Sanskrit  Libraries  "  is  given,  in 
which  the  grand  divisions  of  literature  are  designated 
by  vowels,  gutterals,  palatals,  cerebrals,  dentals,  semi- 
vowels, and  sibilants,  including  the  aspirate.  This 
may  remind  one  of  the  new  classification  adopted 
by  our  Library  of  Congress,  a  classification  in 
which  the  letters  of  the  alphabet  play  the  chief  role, 
with  numbers  as  subordinates.  Not  all  classifiers, 
it  is  evident,  see  literature  in  decimally-divided  sec- 
tions. The  best  wishes  of  American  library  workers 
go  out  to  Mr.  Kudalkar,  to  the  Maharaja  Gaikwad 
who  is  supporting  him,  and  to  all  other  participants 
in  the  movement  to  place  books  in  the  hands  of  the 
toiling  millions  of  India. 

•          •          • 

THE  POET'S  EMOTIONS  IN  THE  FACE  OF  IMPEND- 
ING DEATH  ought  not  to  be  unworthy  of  record 
when  that  poet  happens  to  be  one  of  the  greatest  of 
his  time,  if  not  of  all  time.  In  Mr.  Edmund  Gosse's 
reminiscent  article,  "Swinburne  at  Etretat,"  in  the 
October  "Cornhill,"  he  relates  the  poet's  bathing  ad- 
venture that  nearly  cost  him  his  life,  in  the  late  sum- 
mer of  1868.  The  timely  appearance  of  a  fishing 
smack  on  the  scene  prevented  the  premature  silen- 
cing of  the  voice  that  was  presently  to  entrance  the 
world  (or  some  part  of  it)  with  the  "Songs  before 
Sunrise."  "  I  asked  him,"  writes  Mr.  Gosse,  "what 
he  thought  about  in  that  dreadful  contingency,  and 
he  replied  that  he  had  no  experience  of  what  peo- 
ple often  profess  to  witness,  the  concentrated  pano- 
rama of  past  life  hurrying  across  the  memory.  He 
did  not  reflect,  on  the  past  at  all.  He  was  filled 
with  annoyance  that  he  had  not  finished  his  '  Songs 
before  Sunrise,'  and  then  with  satisfaction  that 
so  much  of  it  was  ready  for  the  press,  and  that 
Mazzini  would  be  pleased  with  him.  And  then  he 
continued:  'I  reflected  with  resignation  that  I  was 
exactly  the  same  age  as  Shelley  was  when  he 
was  drowned.'  (This,  however,  was  not  the  case; 
Swinburne  had  reached  that  age  in  March,  1867; 
but  this  was  part  of  a  curious  delusion  of  Swin- 
burne's that  he  was  younger  by  two  or  three  years 
than  his  real  age.)  Then,  when  he  began  to  be, 
I  suppose,  a  little  benumbed  by  the  water,  his 
thoughts  fixed  on  the  clothes  he  had  left  on  the 
beach,  and  he  worried  his  clouded  brain  about  some 
unfinished  verses  in  the  pocket  of  his  coat."  So 
here  again  we  have  an  instance  of  the  failure  of  an 
actor  in  a  real-life  drama  to  rise  to  the  dramatic 
possibilities  of  his  part.  They  do  these  things  better 
in  fiction. 

A  SUMPTUOUS  BOOK  CATALOGUE,  which  collectors 
will  undoubtedly  preserve  for  its  own  sake,  quite 
apart  from  the  interest  of  the  items  which  it  records, 
is  that  of  '-two  hundred  extraordinarily  important 
books,  manuscripts,  and  autograph  letters"  offered 
for  sale  by  Messrs.  Pearson  of  London.  It  is  a 
beautifully-printed  quarto,  whose  many  illustrations, 
facsimiles,  and  detailed  descriptions,  increase  one's 
desire  to  see  and  handle  and  own  some  of  the  liter- 


ary curiosities  enumerated.  For  mere  costliness,  the 
first  place  in  the  collection  is  held  by  the  copy  of 
the  "  Antiphonary  "  supposed  to  have  been  presented 
by  Francis  I.  to  Henry  VIII.  on  the  Field  of  the 
Cloth  of  Gold.  It  is  a  splendid  manuscript  with 
beautiful  miniatures  attributed  to  Fra  Benedetto, 
and  is  encased  in  what  "is  believed  to  be  the  finest 
Renaissance  binding  in  the  world,"  the  work  of 
Roffet.  It  is  yours  for  three  thousand  pounds  ster- 
ling. A  more  modest  appeal  is  made  by  Lamb's 
"John  Woodvil:  A  Tragedy,"  first  edition,  original 
boards,  uncut,  and  offered  at  sixty-three  pounds. 
Especial  curiosity  is  excited  by  the  description  of  a 
letter  from  Lady  Hamilton  to  George  IV.  (then 
Prince  of  Wales)  after  Trafalgar,  with  a  lock  of 
Nelson's  hair.  Letter  and  hair  await  purchase 
at  six  hundred  pounds.  The  Burbage  portrait  of 
Shakespeare,  "in  its  original  pure  and  untouched 
state,"  is  ready  to  be  hung  over  your  study  table  as 
soon  as  you  choose  to  send  Mr.  Pearson  the  six  hun- 
dred and  fifty  pounds  named  as  the  price.  But  if 
you  haven't  that  amount  at  hand  just  now,  perhaps 
a  copy  of  La  Fontaine's  "Fables  Choisies,"  first  edi- 
tion, quarto,  with  numerous  vignettes  by  Chauveau, 
bound  in  red  morocco,  and  costing  only  seventy-five 
pounds,  would  better  agree  with  the  state  of  your 
bank  account. 

STEVENSON'S  CONCEPTION  OF  REALISM  is  illus- 
trated by  a  passage  in  an  overlooked  Vailima  letter 
recently  discovered  by  Sir  Sidney  Colvin  while  he 
was  overhauling  his  desks  and  cabinets  in  prepara- 
tion for  a  change  of  residence.  This  letter  and 
other  Stevensoniana  unearthed  at  the  same  time 
form  the  subject  of  an  article  from  the  discoverer's 
pen  in  the  November  "Scribner."  After  referring 
to  certain  vexatious  delays  in  the  making  of  the 
final  draft  of  "  David  Balfour,"  Stevenson  writes : 
"  At  the  same  time,  though  I  love  my  Davy,  I  am 
a  little  anxious  to  get  on  again  on  The  Young  Che- 
valier. I  have  in  nearly  all  my  works  been  trying 
one  racket :  to  get  out  the  facts  of  life  as  clean  and 
naked  and  sharp  as  I  could  manage  it.  In  this  other 
book  I  want  to  try  and  megilp  them  altogether  in 
an  atmosphere  of  sentiment,  and  I  wonder  whether 
twenty-five  years  of  life  spent  in  trying  this  one  will 
not  make  it  impossible  for  me  to  succeed  in  the  other. 
However,  it  is  the  only  way  to  attempt  a  love  story. 
You  can't  tell  any  of  the  facts,  and  the  only  chance 
is  to  paint  an  atmosphere."  And  yet  who  would 
ever  think  of  going  to  Stevenson's  romances  (those 
in  which  he  had  been  "  trying  one  racket  ")  for  the 
facts  of  life,  "  clean  and  naked  and  sharp  "  ? 

A  PROPOSED  LIBRARY  OF  PECULIAR  CHARACTER 

forms  the  subject  of  a  recent  interesting  newspaper 
communication  from  Leipzig.  Everyone  familiar 
with  that  centre  of  German  book-publishing  knows 
about  the  Book-Industry  Museum,  with  its  Guten- 
berg statue  in  front,  and,  inside,  its  collection  of 
examples  of  printing  in  different  ages,  and  its  illus- 


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trations  of  all  the  various  processes  connected  with 
the  making  of  books.  But  this  museum,  famous  and 
well  worth  visiting  though  it  is,  does  not  satisfy 
the  booksellers  and  the  printers  and  publishers  of 
Leipzig,  who  apparently  desire  a  more  modernly- 
equipped  institution  to  signalize  the  triumphs  of 
present-day  book-manufacture  in  Germany.  There- 
fore they  have  urged,  with  success,  the  founding  of 
a  library  that  shall  contain  a  copy  of  every  printed 
work  of  German  make  from  the  first  day  of  January, 
1913,  onward.  The  city  has  granted  land  for  the 
new  building,  which  will  be  a  costly  structure  —  but 
exactly  how  it  is  to  be  paid  for  does  not  appear  — 
and  the  expense  of  maintenance  will  be  defrayed 
by  the  kingdom  of  Saxony  and  the  city  of  Leipzig. 
The  public  use  of  so  exclusively  modern  a  library 
will  be  small  at  first,  but  with  the  lapse  of  time  this 
rawness  of  youth  will  give  place  to  mellowness  and 
maturity ;  and  one  need  not  be  a  great  prophet  to  pre- 
dict a  comparatively  early  congestion  of  its  shelves, 
so  rapid  is  the  present  rate  of  book-publication  in 
Germany,  as  elsewhere.  Even  the  Royal  Library 
at  Berlin,  with  its  fourteen  hundred  thousand  vol- 
umes, is  likely  to  be  outstripped,  in  this  matter  of 
size  of  book-collection,  before  many  years. 

THE  ECONOMIC  VALUE  OF  LOAFING,  especially  to 
students,  writers,  and  literary  workers  generally, 
must  be  urged  now  and  then,  even  at  the  risk  of 
encouraging  laziness  in  those  constitutionally  ad- 
dicted to  unemployment.  Stevenson  has  said  a 
good  word  on  the  fruitfulness  of  occasional  idling, 
and  Mark  Twain's  biographer  has  described  that 
great  writer's  method  of  wooing  the  creative  mood 
by  waiting,  in  masterly  inactivity,  for  the  "  inspira- 
tion tank"  to  fill  up.  The  annual  vacation  season 
is  now  past,  but  it  is  not  an  unseasonable  thing  to 
lay  plans  for  the  summer  that  is  coming.  "Public 
Libraries  "  publishes,  and  also  reprints  as  a  special 
leaflet,  Mr.  Adam  Strohm's  Ottawa  address  on 
"Efficiency  of  the  Library  Staff  and  Scientific 
Management,"  in  which,  among  other  wise  counsels, 
the  granting  of  a  generous  annual  vacation  (of  at 
least  a  month)  to  the  library  worker  is  eloquently 
urged  —  "not  so  much  because  a  faithful  servant 
has  earned  a  rest,  but  because  without  it  life  means 
living  at  a  low  level,  with  the  certain  result  of 
deadening  one's  faculties,  ambition  and  alertness, 
whereas  these  should  all  grow  with  one's  experience 
and  work."  Dr.  Luther  H.  Gulick  is  quoted  as 
asserting  that  "  growth  is  predominantly  a  function 
of  rest,"  and  that  "the  best  work  that  most  of  us 
do  is  not  in  our  office  or  at  our  desks,  but  when  we 
are  wandering  in  the  woods,  or  sitting  quietly  with 
undirected  thoughts." 

A  ROSEATE  VIEW  OF  TURKEY  arrests  the  attention 
just  now  in  the  opening  chapter  of  that  deservedly 
popular  book  (recently  translated  from  the  German 
into  the  mother-tongue  of  its  author),  "The  Founda- 
tions of  the  Nineteenth  Century,"  by  Mr.  Houston 


Stewart  Chamberlain.  On  page  six  of  volume  one 
he  says :  "While  these  lines  are  being  written  [1897], 
the  civilised  world  is  clamorously  indignant  with 
Turkey ;  the  European  Powers  are  being  compelled 
by  the  voice  of  public  opinion  to  intervene  for  the 
protection  of  the  Armenians  and  Cretans;  the  final 
destruction  of  the  Turkish  power  seems  now  only  a 
question  of  time.  This  is  certainly  justified;  it  was 
bound  to  come ;  nevertheless  it  is  a  fact  that  Turkey 
is  the  last  little  corner  of  Europe  in  which  a  whole 
people  lives  in  undisturbed  prosperity  and  happiness. 
It  knows  nothing  of  social  questions,  of  the  bitter 
struggle  for  existence,  and  other  such  things ;  great 
fortunes  are  unknown  and  pauperism  is  literally 
non-existent;  all  form  a  single  harmonious  family, 
and  no  one  strives  after  wealth  at  the  expense  of  his 
neighbor.  I  am  not  simply  repeating  what  I  have 
read  in  newspapers  and  books,  I  am  testifying  to 
what  I  have  seen  with  my  own  eyes."  And  it  is 
this  peaceful  Arcadia,  this  perfect  Utopia,  that  now 
resounds  with  the  clash  of  arms  and  the  roar  of 
artillery.  .  .  . 

HlGH  QUOTATIONS  ON  A  YOUNG  AUTHOR'S  FIRST 

EDITIONS  must  send  sensory  waves  of  an  agreeable 
warmth  through  the  cardiac  regions  of  that  author. 
It  is  reported  from  London  that  certain  early  works 
of  Mr.  Kipling  (who  will  not  be  displeased,  we  hope, 
if  we  consider  him  still  young  in  years,  as  he  un- 
deniably is  in  spirit)  were  recently  sold  at  Sotheby's 
for  $245  (in  terms  of  American  money)  at  the  same 
time  that  Mr.  Thomas  Hardy's  works,  in  thirty-eight 
volumes,  first  editions,  brought  $210;  George  Eliot's 
complete  works,  also  first  editions,  $270;  the  volumi- 
nous G.  P.  R.  James's,  $127.50 ;  and  the  rollicking 
Charles  Lever's  romances,  $305.  Among  high  prices 
for  single  books  is  to  be  noted  the  handsome  figure 
reached  by  the  original  edition  of  "  Alice  in  Wonder- 
land "  with  its  forty-two  Tenniel  illustrations.  This 
little  nursery  classic  brought  $125,  and  its  first  ap- 
pearance is  still  pleasurably  remembered  by  those 
not  yet  old.  ... 

THE    GROWTH    OF    THE     GOETHE     MUSEUM    AT 

WEIMAR  testifies  to  the  rapidity  with  which  the 
great  poet's  works  are  selling  in  new  editions  and 
new  translations,  and  the  steady  increase  of  litera- 
ture about  him  and  his  writings.  The  Goethe  house 
has  long  served  as  a  repository  for  Goethe  relics 
and  souvenirs  of  all  sorts,  including  all  the  editions 
of  his  works  and  all  the  books  written  about  him  and 
his  works.  Consequently  it  is  now  found  too  small 
for  the  purposes  of  a  museum  of  this  sort,  and  an 
addition  is  to  be  built,  modelled  as  closely  as  possi- 
ble after  the  smaller  buildings  that  were  unwisely 
demolished  in  1890.  They  opened  on  the  garden 
where  the  poet  was  wont  to  take  his  daily  constitu- 
tional. Their  replacement  will  illustrate  anew  the 
surprising  rapidity  with  which  libraries  and  museums 
almost  invariably  outgrow  their  quarters,  however 
generous  the  allowance  of  space  may  seem  to  have 
been  in  the  beginning. 


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COMMUNICA  TIONS. 


HACKNEYED  PHRASES. 
(To  the  Editor  of  THE  DIAL.) 

Subscribers  to  THE  DIAL,  if  they  read  no  other  than 
that  worthy  periodical,  would  scarcely  be  justified  in 
writing  to  you  for  help  against  the  almost  universal  and 
monotonously  dreary  repetition  of  hackneyed  phrases. 
The  more  reason  that  you  should  use  your  authority  in 
banishing  such  banal  and  senseless  terms,  if  not  from 
the  language,  at  least  from  the  pages  of  magazines  and 
newspapers  pretending  to  some  degree  of  literary  taste. 
It  is  possibly  going  too  far  to  say  that  whenever  a  writer 
makes  use  of  expressions  like  the  following,  he  will  have 
nothing  of  intellectual  value  to  give  to  his  reader.  He 
may  occasionally  prove  pleasantly  disappointing,  but 
the  chances  are  that  his  message  will  be  as  worn  out 
and  dusty  as  the  road  of  his  mind  from  somewhere  to 
nowhere. 

The  detritus  of  language  is  also  the  veriest  dust  and 
mud  of  thought,  and  the  ruts  and  hummocks  of  both  wear 
more  and  worse  with  every  tramp  footfall.  Experience 
has  demonstrated  that  argument  and  reproof  are  wasted 
upon  the  reportorial  mind  and  the  editors  of  the  Yellows, 
but  could  not  something  be  done  with  the  men  "  higher 
up"? 

From  a  list  of  many  old  sins  by  a  multitude  of  sinners 
I  now  single  out  only  a  few  illustrations: 

"  Gathered  together."  Could  there  be  more  foolish 
and  useless  tautology?  And  yet  it  will  be  found  re- 
peated many  times  in  the  pages  of  every  number  of 
most  periodicals.  Why  not  vary  it  with  "collected 
together  "  ?  And  to  make  it  more  ridiculous  why  not 
the  threefold  "gathered  and  collected  together,"  or, 
indeed,  "  gathered  and  collected  together  into  a  col- 
lection "  ?  May  not  the  single  word  "  gathered,"  or 
"  collected  "  be  made  to  serve? 

Worse,  if  possible,  assuredly  more  certain  to  pop  up, 
is  the  trite  old  "as  a  matter  of  fact."  Facts  and  truths 
are  always  certain  to  mean  little  to  the  minds  of  those 
who  make  use  of  such  a  pompous  phrase,  and  such  repe- 
titions and  attritions  deceive  only  those  who  wear  them 
out  in  the  vain  attempt  to  simulate  judgment.  Let  us 
delete  every  word  of  the  stodgy  simulacrum,  and  go  at 
once  to  state  what  is  the  matter  and  the  fact. 

"  Call  attention  "  is  another  pretender.  Better  suited 
to  the  mental  condition  of  the  "  caller  "  would  be  "  bawl." 
A  modest  writer  would  of  course  say  "  ask,"  "  invite," 
"  request,"  etc. 

"  It  is  to  be  hoped."  One  trusts  that  there  may  be 
an  end  made  of  this  bit  of  stuckupishness,  and  of  "  met 
with,"  both  of  which  one  meets  in  every  second  page  of 
the  popular  writer.  "All  right  all  right "  has  got  into  the 
theatre,  and  even  illumines  the  murk  of  the  "  writerup." 

"  Next  gentleman  !  "  Q_  M.  Q. 

Ithaca,  New  York,  November  9,  1912. 


A  PROPOSED  INSTITUTE  OF  BUSINESS  AND 
AGRICULTURAL  RESEARCH. 
(To  the  Editor  of  THE  DIAL.) 

Readers  of  THE  DIAL  will  perhaps  remember  previ- 
ous articles  by  the  present  writer  suggesting  the  estab- 
lishment of  a  Bibliographical  Institute.  The  plan  was 
rather  an  academic  one,  and  concerned  chiefly,  if  not 
exclusively,  with  the  interests  of  men  of  learning.  I 
have  gradually,  through  stages  that  do  not  here  need  to 
be  explained,  come  to  understand  that  there  is  another 


world  than  that  of  abstract  learning,  that  needs  attention 
from  bibliographers  and  librarians, —  namely,  the  world 
of  affairs,  of  industry,  of  business.  The  needs  of  this 
world  are  only  in  part  identical  with  that  of  the  other, 
its  needs  are  very  largely  in  other  directions.  What  the 
business  man  and  manufacturer  wants  is  information 
about  facts,  not  about  theories ;  and  facts  are  not  always 
to  be  found  in  books.  The  following,  therefore,  is  a 
development  of  my  previous  plans,  better  adapted,  as  I 
believe,  to  the  needs  of  our  everyday  world. 

An  Institute  is  needed  for  the  organization  of  the  collec- 
tion and  imparting  of  exact  and  reliable  information  about 
facts  and  ideas.  It  is  important  that  a  means  of  communica- 
tion be  established  between  those  who  seek  and  those  who 
have  to  impart  special  information  about  new  facts  and  ideas. 
In  order  to  obtain  exact  and  reliable  information  on  any  sub- 
ject it  is  necessary  to  know  where  such  information  is  to  be 
found,  and  what  sources  of  information  are  most  reliable. 
The  proposed  Institute  would  first  of  all  collect  information 
about  available  sources  of  information;  it  would  prepare 
a  directory  of  directories,  a  catalogue  of  catalogues,  a  list  of 
addresses  of  workers  and  investigators,  a  guide  to  special 
collections  of  written  and  printed  material,  of  specimens  and 
models,  as  well  as  to  the  expert  special  knowledge  not  yet 
public  property.  The  Institute  would  offer  its  services  to 
organize  bibliographical  and  index  work,  much  of  which  is 
now  done  by  isolated  agencies  and  individuals,  resulting  in 
duplication  and  waste  without  making  all  the  existing  knowl- 
edge available.  It  would  also  undertake  research  and  index 
work  that  does  not  come  within  the  field  of  any  other  agency. 
The  Institute  would,  in  a  word,  be  a  clearing  house  of  ideas 
and  an  organizer  of  research.  Many  problems  of  today,  that 
seem  new  to  us,  are  really  not  new  at  all ;  we  often  find  in  old 
books  and  magazines  important  information  about  matters 
and  methods  that  were  once  in  vogue,  but  are  now  forgotten, 
and  which  might  aid  in  solving  problems  that  have  just  come 
to  the  surface.  For  instance,  farming  with  dynamite,  which 
now  is  written  up  in  this  country  as  an  entirely  new  thing,  has 
been  practiced  in  Germany  for  several  years.  When  a  new 
idea  like  that  of  scientific  management  is  presented,  or  a 
new  discovery  made,  such  as  the  X-rays,  the  Institute  would 
collect  information  in  regard  to  similar  ideas  of  older  date,  or 
other  discoveries  that  have  led  up  to  the  one  that  at  the  mo- 
ment fills  the  public  mind.  In  the  present  scarcity  of  meat 
a  new  problem  seems  to  confront  the  whole  world ;  here  it 
might  be  the  function  of  the  Institute  to  search  for  informa- 
tion about  earlier  or  more  recent  problems  of  similar  char- 
acter, in  order  to  find  out  how  they  were  met,  or  how  they 
solved  themselves.  Every  day  someone  wants  to  find  out 
where  certain  kinds  of  information  may  be  found ;  for 
instance :  Where  is  the  most  complete  collection  of  statisti- 
cal material  about  the  resources  and  business  possibilities  of 
South  America?  Where  has  the  problem  of  vocational  edu- 
cation which  just  now  has  been  brought  before  us  by  Mr. 
Cooley,  been  most  satisfactorily  solved  ?  What  is  the  Raif- 
feisen  system,  and  can  it  be  adopted  in  this  country  ?  How 
might  the  rural  free  delivery  best  be  utilized  as  an  agency 
for  the  progress  of  the  rural  population  ?  These  and  other 
questions  that  press  forward  for  solution  cannot  be  answered 
by  an  isolated  institution,  however  munificently  endowed; 
the  world's  knowledge  is  not  collected  in  one  spot,  it  is  scat- 
tered all  over  the  world  and  must  be  searched  for  all  over  the 
world.  The  Institute  would  therefore  establish  close  relations 
with  other  institutions  of  similar  nature  in  other  countries, 
and  direct  connections  with  the  large  libraries,  museums, 
schools,  and  learned  societies  and  institutions  of  the  world. 
The  proposed  Institute  would  supplement  the  work  of  the 
libraries  and  museums.  The  latter  collect  and  preserve  the 
materials  of  research,  catalogue  them,  and  hold  them  avail- 
able for  investigators.  The  Institute  would  go  one  step 
further,  prepare  the  material  for  use,  and  even  indicate  its 
probable  value  for  the  purpose  of  the  inquirer.  It  would  act 
as  an  intermediary  between  the  investigator  and  his  material. 

AKSEL  G.  S.  JOSEPHSON. 
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RECOLLECTIONS  OF  L.OTJIS  XAPOLEON.* 

"  The  late  Baron  d'Ambe"s,"  who  figures  as  the 
author  of  these  "  Intimate  Memoirs  of  Napoleon 
III.,"  seems  to  have  been  in  close  touch  with 
Louis  Napoleon  for  the  larger  part  of  the  latter's 
life.  It  is  not  quite  true,  as  he  cries  out  in  a 
burst  of  grief  at  the  unfortunate  ruler's  death, 
that  Louis  was  "  the  playmate  of  his  childhood," 
since  they  met  for  the  first  time  in  Switzerland 
in  1833 ;  but  the  ardent  enthusiasm  of  disciple- 
ship  which  Louis  possessed  the  strange  power 
of  exciting  seized  this  young  man  of  twenty  and 
was  never  cast  off  entirely,  though  with  the  last 
years  he  was  only  the  devoted  friend  and  ad- 
mirer, no  longer  the  blind  and  confident  follower. 

Baron  d'Amb^s  helped  to  organize  the  at- 
tempted revolution  from  Strassburg  in  1836. 
He  was  on  hand  when  Louis  made  an  effort  to 
enter  France  by  way  of  Boulogne,  in  1840.  He 
followed  his  friend  on  his  campaign  in  Italy, 
always  unofficially,  and  thought  of  joining  the 
expedition  to  China,  in  1860,  but  was  restrained 
by  meeting  one  day,  at  the  turning  of  a  street, 
"  an  extraordinary  being,  yellow,  hideous,  with 
a  bony  face  and  wicked  little  eyes."  He  said 
to  himself:  "No,  I  won't  cross  the  sea  to  go 
where  such  folks  live."  It  is  to  be  feared  that 
his  friendship  was  not  worth  as  much  to  the 
Emperor  as  he  himself  imagined.  While  other 
supporters  of  the  Pretender  suffered  imprison- 
ment and  persecution,  he  himself  seems  never 
to  have  been  in  the  slightest  danger  or  even  to 
have  attracted  a  great  deal  of  attention.  He 
proudly  notes  the  phrase  "Paladin  of  discre- 
tion" which  his  master  applied  to  him,  but  there 
is  no  evidence  that  this  discretion  was  ever  put 
to  any  particularly  severe  test.  To  d'Ambe's, 
distrust  of  the  coup  d'etat  was  indisputable 
evidence  of  alliance  with  "forces  of  revolt  and 
anarchy";  Victor  Emmanuel  and  Cavour  were 
not  patriots,  but  only  "Foxy  and  Company," 
scheming  to  make  trouble  for  France ;  the  Jews 
were  "stinking  vermin  everyone  would  extermi- 
nate if  possible";  Vichy,  like  China,  was  a  tire- 
some place  where  "I  shan't  come  again  .  .  . 
deeply  attached  to  the  Prince  as  I  am";  and 
Morny  was  the  object  of  apparently  unmixed 
envy  because  he  "gave  himself  up  madly  to 
love,  gambling  and  drinking."  Amiable  and 

*  INTIMATE  MEMOIRS  OF  NAPOLEON  III.  Personal 
Reminiscences  of  the  Man  and  the  Emperor.  By  the  late 
Baron  d'Ambes.  Edited  and  translated  by  A.  R.  Allinson, 
M.A.  In  two  volumes.  With  illustrations  from  the  collec- 
tion of  A.  M.  Broadley.  Boston  :  Little,  Brown,  &  Co. 


witty  and  often  exceedingly  shrewd  d'Ambes 
undoubtedly  was,  but  scarcely  a  "  Paladin  of  dis- 
cretion." On  one  occasion  when  he  reproached 
Louis  for  not  having  confided  in  him,  the  Em- 
peror replied,  "  But,  my  friend,  I  remembered 
that  you  were  writing  your  memoirs." 

The  first  chapter  is  a  labored  attempt  to  prove 
that  Napoleon  I.  was  the  father  of  Napoleon  III. 
The  subject  is  not  of  a  sort  that  Anglo-Saxons 
choose  to  discuss  freely ;  but  a  review  of  the  evi- 
dence shows  rather  conclusively  that  Napoleon 
III.  was  not  the  son  of  Louis  Bonaparte,  though 
it  fails  utterly  to  prove  that  he  was  the  son  of 
the  first  Napoleon.  This  discussion  is  redeemed 
from  idle  scandal-mongering  by  the  concluding 
sentence:  "Be  this  as  it  may,  Napoleon  III.  is 
certainly,  above  all  morally,  of  the  race  of  the 
great  Corsican  whose  life-work  he  has  striven  to 
emulate,  both  in  his  acts  and  in  his  aspirations." 
With  all  his  faults  and  failures,  Louis  exercised 
an  influence  and  accomplished  a  result  that  set 
him  immediately  below  his  marvellous  uncle, 
and  leagues  away  from  the  other  irresponsible 
weaklings  who  bore  the  name  of  Napoleon. 

If  it  be  true  that  youthful  inclinations  indi- 
cate a  divine  purpose,  Louis  was  providentially 
intended  for  a  ruler.  He  himself  says  that  he 
felt  his  destiny  from  the  age  of  seven.  He  had 
a  hand  in  political  affairs  in  every  country  his 
mother's  wanderings  dragged  him  into.  In  Italy, 
though  he  denied  it  himself  later,  he  must  have 
been  a  Carbonaro.  At  least  his  elder  brother 
was,  and  d'Ambes  asserts  that  the  latter's  sud- 
den death  was  due  not  to  the  measles,  but  to 
the  stiletto  of  a  comrade  when  pressure  from  his 
family  made  him  incline  to  defection.  It  was 
this  early  Italian  complication  which  helped 
determine  the  Emperor's  half-hearted  interfer- 
ence with  Austria  and  Naples, — an  interference 
which  made  him  only  enemies,  and  which  played 
its  part  in  his  final  downfall. 

"  My  uncle,''  Louis  said  to  Thierry  in  1838, 
"  was  Caesar.  I  will  be  Augustus."  And  when 
sentenced  to  perpetual  confinement  at  Ham,  he 
remarked  quietly  that  the  word  "  perpetual  " 
was  not  in  the  French  language.  Entering 
Paris  eight  years  later,  after  the  outbreak  of 
February,  1848,  he  passed  a  barricade,  the  stones 
of  which  some  passers-by  were  restoring  to  their 
proper  positions  in  the  pavement.  "  Come,  young 
man,"  said  a  woman  to  the  new  arrival,  "  help 
us  put  back  the  paving-stones  in  place."  "  My 
good  woman,"  Louis  replied,  "  that  is  precisely 
what  I  have  come  to  Paris  for."  His  lieutenant 
is  quite  as  confident.  At  their  first  interview  in 
Switzerland,  the  Prince  chanced  to  remark,  as 


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they  strolled  past  a  bank  of  hortensias,  "  I  love 
the  flowers  beyond  measure.  They  have  about 
them  something  royal,"  "  Imperial,"  d'Ambes 
put  in  softly. 

Louis's  belief  in  his  own  destiny,  however, 
did  not  prevent  his  frequent  use  of  clever  tricks. 
It  is  difficult  to  generalize  with  regard  to  this 
puzzling  and  contradictory  character,  but  it  may 
safely  be  said  that  at  least  during  the  early  part 
of  his  career  he  was  a  consummately  skilful 
demagogue.  His  "  police  de  poche," — the  little 
notebook  full  of  data  with  regard  to  the  local 
dignitaries  he  was  to  meet  on  his  popular  tours, 
to  be  used  in  charming  them  by  showing  them 
how  famous  they  were  and  by  his  sympathetic 
interest  in  their  personal  affairs, — won  him  thou- 
sands of  votes.  But  there  is  no  question  that 
Louis  had  a  good  heart  and  a  brain  fertile  in 
expedients  for  making  the  lot  of  the  common 
people  easier.  Mr.  F.  A.  Simpson's  luminous 
work  on  "  The  Rise  of  Louis  Napoleon  "  gave 
us  the  completest  study  in  English  of  his  early 
labors  in  this  direction,  and  the  Baron  d'Ambes 
touches  lovingly  on  various  evidences  of  a 
thought  for  the  comfort  of  the  many  which 
could  not  always  have  been  selfishly  prompted. 
Defeated,  broken,  and  dying  at  Chislehurst,  he 
yet  busied  himself  with  plans  for  utilizing  the 
heat  from  the  lower  floors  of  the  great  European 
tenement  houses  —  the  floors  occupied  by  the 
wealthy  —  to  warm  the  rooms  above  where  the 
poorer  families  lived. 

The  Empress  does  not  appear  to  great  advan- 
tage in  these  pages.  D'Ambes  stamps  as  calum- 
nies the  attacks  upon  her  character  which  were 
made  before  her  marriage,  but  he  is  sure  that 
notwithstanding  her  charms  and  her  family's 
enterprise  she  would  never  have  been  Empress 
if  Napoleon  had  not  been  refused  beforehand 
by  half  the  royal  princesses  of  Europe ;  and 
he  ascribes  the  larger  part  of  the  blame  for  the 
successive  acts  of  interference  in  foreign  affairs, 
which  pushed  Napoleon  and  the  Empire  further 
and  further  toward  the  edge  of  the  precipice, 
to  her  bigoted  Catholicism  and  her  meddling 
vanity.  "  L'Empire,  c'est  la  paix,"  it  is  true, 
but  how  much  of  a  safeguard  is  that,  when 
"  L'Imperatrice,  c'est  la  guerre  "  ? 

The  last  fifty  pages  of  the  book,  those  deal- 
ing with  the  Prussian  War  and  the  fall  of  the 
Empire,  are  of  thrilling  and  poignant  interest. 
D'Ambes  saw  the  end  long  before  it  came,  and 
he  had  taken  Bismarck's  measure  the  moment 
that  man  of  blood  and  iron  appeared  above  the 
horizon.  "It  is  often  a  great  help  to  matters 
for  a  statesman  "  (this  was  written  in  January, 


1870)  "to  possess  qualities  the  most  widely  at 
variance  with  the  temperament  of  the  nation 
that  he  governs."  Was  not  that  the  secret  of 
Bismarck's  power  and  success  ?  Was  he  not  the 
most  violent  and  independent  of  men,  working 
with  the  most  quiet  and  docile  of  national  ma- 
terial? Bismarck  could  never  have  done  his 
work  with  Frenchmen,  or  even  with  English- 
men ;  Prussia  would  have  been  long  in  taking 
the  first  rank  among  nations  without  Bismarck. 
Such  flashes  of  insight  as  this  redeem  many 
pages  of  purposeless  detail  or  frivolity. 

Napoleon  is  not  even  distantly  related  to  many 
sections  of  the  diary.  "  There  is  a  man  Zola  who 
has  taken  up  Manet's  defense."  "  Everybody  is 
reading  and  talking  over  Victor  Hugo's  Les 
Miserables.  It  is  a  gigantic  success."  "  Scribe 
is  not  dead.  He  lives  again  in  M.  Victorien 
Sardou.  .  .  .  This  Sardou  is  only  thirty,  and 
bids  fair  to  command  success."  Such  are  some 
of  the  entries.  Extending  from  1838  to  1873, 
the  notes  touch  the  fascinating  social  and  intel- 
lectual life  of  Paris  at  a  thousand  different 
points.  The  Baron  was  still  alive  to  write  an 
introduction  to  the  present  work  in  July,  1893. 
It  is  a  pity  that  he  did  not  continue  his  memoirs 
up  to  that  time.  Roy  TEMPLE  HOUSE. 


THE  HUMBLE-BEE  AS  A  HOBBY-HORSE.* 


"  We  gave  up  Euclid  and  the  Rule  of  Three 
And  nature- studied  the  Bumble-Bee." — Punch. 

The  Bee  has  been  discussed  by  innumerable 
writers  for  the  last  two  thousand  years  and 
more ;  it  is  the  subject  of  every  kind  of  disser- 
tation, even  of  numerous  jokes.  One  of  these 
latter,  which  has  been  a  favorite  with  the  news- 
papers, relates  how  a  young  person  of  the  city, 
visiting  in  the  country,  observed  honey  upon 
the  breakfast  table.  "I  see  you  keep  a  bee," 
was  the  innocent  remark.  People  who  smile  at 
this  seem  no  less  funny  to  the  entomologist  when 
they  let  the  fact  escape  that  they  imagine  there 
is  only  one  kind  of  bee.  The  bee,  so-called,  is  in 
fact  only  one  of  many  thousand  species,  and  the 
most  learned  work  on  honey-bees  no  more  than 
introduces  us  to  the  study  of  bees  in  general. 
It  may  even  be  objected  that  such  a  work  be- 
gins at  the  wrong  end  of  the  subject,  and  that 
to  really  understand  the  socialism  of  the  higher 
bees  we  must  trace  its  evolution  from  the  indi- 
vidualism of  the  primitive  kinds. 

*THB  HUMBLE-BEE.  Its  Life-history  and  How  to 
Domesticate  It.  By  F.  W.  L.  Sladen.  Illustrated.  New 
York :  The  Macmillan  Co. 


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Mr.  Sladen's  work,  now  before  us,  does  not 
do  this,  but  it  does  give  us  an  excellent  picture 
of  the  life  and  habits  of  the  humble-bee,  which 
in  some  respects  stands  just  below  the  hive-bee 
in  social  rank.  Mr.  Sladen  is  a  well-known 
expert  on  honey-bees,  and  it  is  from  this  interest 
that  he  has  been  led  to  consider  bees  in  general, 
and  to  attempt  the  domestication  and  careful 
study  of  humble-bees.  He  has  been  abundantly 
repaid  for  his  trouble,  and  has  succeeded  in 
describing  his  observations  so  well  that  many 
readers  will  share  his  pleasure,  while  some  will 
doubtless  attempt  similar  work  of  their  own. 
The  book  is  full  of  remarkable  new  observa- 
tions, and  is  a  "nature  book"  of  the  best  type. 
The  illustrations  are  original  and  very  good, 
both  drawings  and  colored  plates.  It  is  a  dis- 
advantage that  the  bees  described  are  British 
species,  all  different  from  those  found  in  this 
country;  but  even  this  is  not  altogether  to  be 
regretted.  The  general  discussion  will  no  doubt 
apply  almost  equally  well  on  both  sides  of  the 
world,  while  the  treatment  of  the  European 
kinds  may  serve  as  a  model  for  similar  work 
in  this  country,  leaving  the  student  to  make  his 
own  original  observations,  following  a  carefully 
worked-out  plan. 

If  any  fault  is  found  with  Mr.  Sladen,  it 
will  probably  be  on  the  ground  that  he  permits 
himself  a  certain  Maeterlinckian  freedom  of 
expression  which  will  not  please  the  modern 
school  of  experts  on  animal  behavior.  Thus  he 
tells  us  how  Psithyrus,  the  usurper-bee,  invades 
the  nest  of  the  humble-bee,  slays  the  proper 
queen,  and  establishing  herself  as  the  ruler  of 
the  house,  has  her  offspring  brought  up  by  the 
humble-bee  workers.  All  this  is  accurately 
described,  with  many  new  details ;  but  we  are 
assured  that  when  the  Psithyrus  settled  in  the 
humble-bee  nest,  the  poor  humble-bee  queen 
"was  visibly  depressed  and  ill  at  ease."  "As 
time  went  on  she  grew  nervous  and  languid, 
and  showed  increasing  fear  and  suspicion  of  the 
unwelcome  guest."  Finally,  on  the  tenth  day 
after  the  first  appearance  of  the  Psithyrus,  the 
humble-bee  queen  and  three  workers  were  found 
lying  dead  outside  the  nest.  "Evidently  the 
three  workers  had  sacrificed  their  lives  in  a  futile 
attempt  to  destroy  their  mother's  murderess." 
Personally,  I  do  not  object  to  this  sort  of  thing, 
as  long  as  the  writer  is  careful  to  describe  ap- 
pearances,  and  we  are  careful  to  remember  that 
every  word  must  not  be  taken  literally.  As  a 
matter  of  fact,  literature  is  necessarily  full  of 
expressions  which,  while  inaccurate  perhaps  if 
judged  by  the  actual  meaning  of  the  words, 


nevertheless  convey  a  vivid  idea  of  what  really 
took  place.  It  would  not  help  us  much,  from 
any  point  of  view,  to  state  instead  that  the  pres- 
ence of  the  Psithyrus  inhibited  the  normal  activ- 
ities of  the  humble-bee,  and  led  to  the  exhibition 
of  imperfectly  coordinated  motor  reactions. 

Wherever  there  are  boys  (young  boys  or  old 
boys)  who  like  to  get  the  most  out  of  nature  in 
the  long  summer  days,  Mr.  Sladen's  book  ought 
to  be  available.  It  should  be  put  in  libraries 
as  a  sort  of  bait  for  budding  naturalists.  Not  all 
will  bite,  of  course,  but  if  one  or  two  in  a  town 
come  to  admire  and  watch  humble-bees  instead 
of  persecuting  them,  the  thing  is  worth  while. 
And  who  knows  what  ability,  even  genius,  may 
somewhere  be  stimulated  in  just  this  way? 

T.  D.  A.  COCKERELL. 


A  NEW  STUDY  OF  AMERICAN  TRAITS.* 

When  one  has  examined  a  number  of  books 
on  America  written  by  foreigners  —  by  every 
manner  of  visitor  from  England  and  France  and 
Germany  and  Italy, —  and  when  one  has  turned 
in  despair  to  the  interpretations  by  our  own 
journalists,  politicians,  and  college  professors, 
one  is  inclined  to  the  conclusion  that  the  Land 
of  Opportunity  has  not  yet  been  discovered. 
Putting  our  faith  in  minute  inspection,  we  peer 
through  spy-glass  or  microscope,  but  to  no  avail : 
our  vision,  bright  for  a  moment,  is  soon  blurred. 
Or  we  speed  through  the  country  on  twentieth- 
century  railway  trains,  in  the  hope  that  the 
moving  picture  will  record  the  salient  features 
of  our  continental  nation  and  finally  yield  a 
faithful  composite  reproduction.  Or  we  inquire 
whether  art,  that  interprete  lingua,  has  not  re- 
vealed the  great  pulsing  heart  of  America  with 
such  coy  subtlety  that  she  has  eluded  all  our 
predecessors  in  the  quest.  But  to  no  purpose  do 
we  open  our  eyes,  or  shut  them,  or  gaze  through 
them  half -closed ;  we  are  wellnigh  as  far  from 
clear  knowledge  as  were  those  first  bold  immi- 
grants, Captain  John  Smith  and  William  Brad- 
ford. 

America,  then,  is  yet  to  be  discovered;  and  it 
would  be  too  much  to  say  that  Professor  Perry, 
the  latest  adventurer,  has  succeeded  in  landing 
on  the  coveted  shores.  Yet  he  is  closer  than  all, 
or  nearly  all,  who  have  tried  before :  one  derives 
from  his  little  book  a  sense  of  intimacy  with 
American  life  and  of  truth  of  interpretation 
nowhere  else  to  be  had, —  no  other  writer  has 

*THE  AMERICAN  MIND.  By  Bliss  Perry.  Boston : 
Houghton  Mifflin  Co. 


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manifested  in  so  great  degree  mellow  experience 
and  broad  knowledge  lightly  held.  The  chapters 
(originally  lectures)  are  graceful,  thoughtful, 
concrete;  incident,  example,  and  apt  quotation 
are  always  at  hand ;  humor,  an  urbane  affection- 
ate humor,  enables  the  writer  to  delight  while 
instructing  —  as  the  sober  pseudo-classicists 
would  have  put  it.  Fluid  yet  sure  in  thought, 
and  constantly  engaging  in  style,  the  book 
tempts  one  to  read  with  uncritical  haste ;  at  the 
risk,  as  Emerson  said  of  Milton's  prose,  that  we 
shall  become  "fatigued  with  admiration." 

Whoever  would  read  hastily,  or  think  hastily, 
should  ponder  long  over  the  first  of  these  lectures, 
on  "Race,  Nation,  and  Book."  in  which  Profes- 
sor Perry  clears  the  ground  with  the  thorough- 
ness, and  without  the  excessive  assurance,  of  the 
American  pioneer.  In  particular,  our  dogmatic 
foreign  critics — friends  or  enemies,  they  are 
nearly  all  dogmatic  —  would  do  well  to  read  this 
chapter  at  intervals  while  they  travel  in  the 
United  States  or  think  us  over  as  they  lie  in  their 
deck  chairs  homeward  bound.  The  dangers  one 
encounters  in  generalizing  about  a  race  or  a 
nation  have  often  been  pointed  out  since  the 
pleasant  days  of  determinism,  but  no  one  has 
indicated  so  clearly  the  unique  insecurity  in 
generalization  concerning  the  American  people. 
The  second  chapter,  "The  American  Mind,"  is 
a  discussion,  rather  briefer  than  one  would  like, 
of  American  traits, — our  alertness,  excitability, 
versatility,  curiosity,  over-confidence,  energy, 
idealism,  radicalism  in  our  brains  and  conser- 
vatism in  our  blood,  our  individualism  and  our 
public  spirit.  The  most  valuable  part  of  the  book 
follows.  "Humor  and  Satire"  maintains  more 
persuasively  than  has  ever  been  maintained  be- 
fore the  idea  that  American  humor  is  hardly  a 
thing  sui  generis,  but  rather  the  application  of 
the  common  fund  of  humor  to  American  condi- 
tions of  life.  The  remaining  three  chapters,  per- 
haps the  most  notable  in  the  book,  are  devoted 
to  "  American  Idealism,"  "Romance  and  Reac- 
tion," and  "Individualism  and  Fellowship," 
phases  of  American  spiritual  qualities. 

Spiritual  qualities  have  often  been  denied  us, 
on  the  assumption  that  the  dollar  and  the  sky- 
scraper are  the  only  symbols  of  America  that 
must  be  reckoned  with.  Carlyle  was  loath  to 
lecture  in  this  country  because  he  thought  of  it 
as  "mainly  a  new  Commercial  England,  with  a 
fuller  pantry."  What  more  is  to  be  expected 
of  a  huge  democracy, — a  "  government  of  the 
worst,"  as  it  was  sometimes  called  in  Federal- 
ist days  ?  The  dispassionate  critical  sense  of 
Matthew  Arnold  brought  him  to  the  conclusion 


that  a  great  democracy  is  almost  sure  to  be  lack- 
ing in  elevation.  Emerson,  looking  for  heroes, 
for  surpassing  fruit  where  the  soil  is  so  rich, 
found  us  running  "  to  leaves,  to  suckers,  to  ten- 
drils, to  miscellany."  It  is  still  feared  that 
democracy  is  a  cult  of  incompetence,  that  an 
equalitarian  social  organization  involves  medi- 
ocrity ;  and  it  is  conventional,  in  an  increasing 
degree,  to  deplore  our  instinct  for  money-getting 
and  our  unthinking  lust  for  "  quick  returns." 
Yet  this  expanding,  restless,  mysterious  nation 
has  really  been,  as  Professor  Perry  remarks, 
"  the  home  of  idealism,"  from  the  beginning 
onward.  From  the  day  when  elect  Puritans 
enjoyed  "the  Rapturous  praelibations  of  the 
Heavenly  World"  to  our  own  day  of  trust  in 
the  unlimited  possibilities  of  democracy,  spirit- 
ual America  has  been  as  vivacious  as  material 
America.  Among  the  writers  of  books  alone, 
the  Mathers  in  the  seventeenth  century,  Ed- 
wards in  the  eighteenth,  and  Emerson  in  the 
nineteenth  are  nobly  representative  of  our  inner 
life.  How  pervasive  idealism  has  been  in  this 
country  no  one  has  pointed  out  so  fully  and  buoy- 
antly as  Professor  Perry  in  these  three  chapters. 
His  view  is  hopeful  —  our  defects  impress  him 
but  slightly — and  yet  is  so  clear-sighted  that 
only  the  cynic  will  fail  to  share  his  hope.  "  In- 
dividualism and  Fellowship,"  the  closing  chap- 
ter, is  the  most  interesting  in  the  book,  opening 
up  as  it  does  an  endless  vista  for  our  dreams 
and  speculations.  Fellowship  may  mean  nothing 
better  than  a  "  Samaritan  Soup  and  Blanket 
Society";  it  is  often  narrow,  fanatical,  or  silly; 
but  it  must  not  be  forgotten  that  individualism 
also  had  absurd  excesses,  that  it  was  not  only 
an  age  of  mighty  heroes  but  also  "...  the  age 
of  oddities  let  loose."  The  centrifugal  always 
fascinates.  If,  then,  the  new  era  of  cooper- 
ation is  tending,  as  one  must  think,  to  senti- 
mentalism  and  mechanical  organization  rather 
than  genuine  fellowship,  we  have  good  reason 
to  believe  that  we  shall  see  another  and  more 
estimable  tendency  as  the  years  go  on.  Perfect 
balance  is  one  of  the  rarest  of  human  qualities  ; 
but  it  is  not  for  us  to  deny  that  the  future  will 
witness  that  interplay  of  fellowship  and  individ- 
ualism that  is  now  our  largest  hope. 

NORMAN  FOERSTER. 


MR.  ROBERT  BRIDGES'S  poems  will  be  published  im- 
mediately in  the  "  Oxford  Poets  "  series.  The  volume 
contains  not  only  the  poems  printed  in  Volumes  I.  and 
II.  of  the  author's  collected  works,  but  others  as  well 
some  now  first  collected  or  now  first  printed.  The  photo- 
gravure frontispiece  is  a  portrait  of  the  poet  specially 
drawn  for  the  book. 


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MATHEMATICO-PROCRUSTEAN  ART.* 

It  is  unquestionably  the  fact  that  symmetry 
and  regularity  are  attributes  frequently  found 
associated  with  the  beautiful  in  nature  and  in 
art.  Whether  such  association,  however,  is  uni- 
versal and  invariable  is  open  to  question.  Still 
more  debatable  is  the  contention  that  such  rela- 
tionship is  of  a  sort  which  may  properly  be 
termed  causal.  Are  objects  beautiful  primarily 
because  they  are  symmetrical  and  regular  in  their 
tectonic  ?  If  the  reviewer  correctly  understands 
the  essential  argument  of  the  somewhat  obscure 
book  called  "  Nature's  Harmonic  Unity :  A 
Treatise  on  its  Relation  to  Proportional  Form," 
by  Mr.  Samuel  Colman,  that  author  intends  to 
maintain  as  his  primary  thesis  that  the  beautiful 
is  necessarily  geometric,  and  as  a  corollary  that 
the  geometric  must  perforce  be  beautiful.  Now 
these  contentions  may  be  true,  but  the  reviewer 
has  very  grave  doubts  about  the  matter.  The 
fundamental  difficulty  in  the  case  lies  in  what 
would  certainly  seem  to  be  the  fact,  that  if  these 
ideas  were  true  it  ought  to  be  possible  for  a  rea- 
sonably ingenious  person  to  invent  a  machine 
which,  upon  being  supplied  with  an  appropriate 
source  of  power,  would  proceed  to  turn  out  paint- 
ings with  the  appeal  of  the  Sistine  Madonna  or 
the  Night  Watch,  sculpture  which  would  move 
mankind  as  does  the  Venus  de  Milo  or  the 
Winged  Victory,  music  of  the  order  of  the  Ride 
of  the  Valkyries,  or  poetry  like  Shelley's  "  To 
a  Skylark."  But  somehow  everyone  knows,  in- 
stinctively and  surely,  that  this  is  a  sheer  im- 
possibility. Harmony  and  symmetry  all  these 
things  certainly  have.  But  just  as  certainly 
their  harmony  and  symmetry  is  not  something 
created  primarily  by  the  application  of  compass 
and  ruler,  and  no  amount  of  well-printed  and 
illustrated  mathematical  argumentation  is  ever 
going  to  convince  anybody  that  it  is.  Any  dil- 
igent fool  can  manipulate  a  ruler  and  compass 
to  produce  geometrical  symmetries  and  harmo- 
nies ;  but  if  he  supposes  that  by  this  activity 
solely  he  is  going  to  create  something  which  will 
make  an  enduring  appeal  to  the  aesthetic  in- 
stincts of  his  fellow  men,  he  has  only  to  try  it  in 
a  practical  way  in  order  to  be  undeceived. 

The  method  of  Mr.  Colman's  book  is  to  show 
by  the  most  extraordinarily  complicated  dia- 
grams that  a  great  many  different  objects  found 
in  nature  or  created  by  man  display  a  more  or 
less  definite  and  harmonious  proportionality  of 
parts,  and  may  be  enclosed,  by  the  exercise 

*  NATURE'S  HARMONIC  UNITY.  A  Treatise  on  its  Relation 
to  Proportional  Form.  By  Samuel  Colman,  N.A.  Edited  by 
C.  Arthur  Coan,  LL.B.  New  York  :  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons. 


of  some  force,  within  triangles  or  pentagons  or 
concentric  circles  or  some  other  geometric  figure. 
The  examples  chosen  to  illustrate  this  really 
profound  but  not  altogether  novel  discovery  are 
numerous  and  diverse.  In  their  diversity  kirks 
the  element  of  deliciously  unintentional  humor 
which  classifies  this  book  with  the  lucubrations 
of  other  geometrical  philosophers  who  have  pre- 
ceded our  author.  Thus  we  are  shown  (p.  112) 
that  a  peanut  and  the  Parthenon  are  planned  on 
the  same  "  ideal  angle."  In  the  Hermes  of 
Praxiteles  and  the  mollusc  Haliotis  "  the  pen- 
tagon is  strongly  in  evidence."  And  so  on  in- 
definitely :  snow  crystals  and  saint's  chapels, 
peacocks  and  palaces,  milkweeds  and  mosques, 
pine  cones  and  porticos,  —  all  these  things  and 
many  more  are  geometrically  Procrustified  in 
the  course  of  the  argument.  One  is  moved  to 
wonder  whether  it  might  not  be  wise  to  prescribe 
the  thorough  study  of  the  adventures  of  Alice 
as  a  fundamental  part  of  all  elementary  mathe- 
matical training.  It  would  certainly  have  the 
good  effect,  as  Septimus  said,  of  tending  to 
"  keep  one  human." 

The  artist,  and  particularly  the  architect,  will 
certainly  find  this  book  interesting.  There  is 
a  possibility  that  somebody  may  find  it  useful. 

RAYMOND  PEARL. 


THE  CHILD  AND  SOCIAL  REFORM.* 


Despondency,  verging  upon  despair,  is  a  note 
that  is  often  heard  in  the  utterances  of  many  of  our 
most  earnest  and  most  intelligent  students  of  social 
problems.  Material  prosperity  we  have;  material 

*  THE  CONSERVATION  OF  THE  CHILD.  By  Arthur  Holmes. 
Illustrated.  Philadelphia:  J.  B.  Lippincott  Co. 

THE  DELINQUENT  CHILD  AND  THE  HOME.  By  Sophonisba 
P.  Breckinridge  and  Edith  Abbott.  With  an  Introduction 
by  Julia  C.  Lathrop.  New  York :  Charities  Publication 
Committee. 

PROGRESS  AND  UNIFORMITY  IN  CHILD-LABOR  LEGISLA- 
TION. A  Study  in  Statistical  Measurement.  By  William  F. 
Ogburn.  "Columbia  University  Studies."  New  York: 
Longmans,  Green  &  Co. 

CHILD  LABOR  IN  CITY  STREETS.  By  Edward  N.  Clopper, 
Ph.D.  New  York  :  The  Macmillan  Co. 

CITIZENS  MADE  AND  REMADE.  An  Interpretation  of  the 
Significance  and  Influence  of  George  Junior  Republics.  By 
William  R.  George  and  Lyman  Beecher  Stowe.  Illustrated. 
Boston :  Houghton  Mifflin  Co. 

YOUTH  AND  THE  RACE.  A  Study  in  the  Psychology  of 
Adolescence.  By  Edgar  James  Swift.  New  York  :  Charles 
Scribner's  Sons. 

THE  COMING  GENERATION.  By  William  Byron  Forbush. 
New  York :  D.  Appleton  &  Co. 

THE  CHILD  IN  THE  CITY.  A  Series  of  Papers  Presented 
at  the  Conferences  Held  during  the  Chicago  Child  Welfare 
Exhibit.  Edited  by  Sophonisba  P.  Breckinridge.  Illustrated. 
Chicago  :  School  of  Civics  and  Philanthropy. 

HELPING  SCHOOL  CHILDREN.  By  Elsa  Denison.  Illus- 
trated. New  York :  Harper  &  Brothers. 


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progress  may,  as  far  as  we  can  see,  continue  into 
the  indefinite  future.  But  the  ideal  values  that 
prosperity  should  embody,  the  values  that  should 
give  real  meaning  to  progress,  appear  to  be  wav- 
ering. Religion,  personal  and  political  integrity, 
family  obligation,  love  of  truth  and  beauty,  self- 
control  and  honesty  of  endeavor  —  those  ideals  and 
abstractions  which  are  the  only  contributions  of 
the  past  to  present  welfare  that  are  of  unimpeach- 
able worth  —  are  apparently  undergoing  important 
structural  changes.  Whether  these  changes  repre- 
sent, on  the  whole,  an  advance,  or  whether  they  are 
signs  of  a  degeneration  which  forebodes  the  ultimate 
downfall  of  western  civilization,  must  be  left  to  the 
constitutional  optimists  and  pessimists  to  debate. 
Optimists  and  pessimists,  however,  must  agree  that 
our  society  suffers  from  maladies  that  if  neglected 
will  result  in  serious  consequences. 

We  are  acquainted  with  the  social  reformers  who 
hold  that  nothing  short  of  a  thoroughgoing  trans- 
formation of  our  political  and  economic  structure  can 
bring  relief.  Other  reformers,  not  less  zealous,  urge 
that  even  this  could  do  little  good.  Men  are  poor, 
as  a  rule;  but,  as  a  rule,  men  are  inefficient,  self- 
indulgent,  envious.  As  long  as  men  are  what  they 
are,  the  most  profound  changes  in  social  structure 
will  leave  the  sources  of  misery  uncontrolled.  An 
improved  human  nature  is  evidently  what  we  need. 
To  improve  the  nature  of  the  adult,  however,  seems 
a  task  beyond  the  power  of  the  social  reformer. 
Hence  his  attention  turns  to  the  child,  and  we  have 
a  flood  of  books  designed  to  force  upon  the  citizen  a 
realization  of  the  necessity  of  the  conservation  of 
the  child. 

First  in  the  order  of  urgency  is  the  problem  of 
the  defective  child.  Among  our  public  school  chil- 
dren are  tens  of  thousands  who  suffer  from  congeni- 
tal defect  of  understanding.  They  block  the  progress 
of  the  classes,  yet  profit  nothing  themselves.  There 
are  hundreds  of  thousands  suffering  from  impaired 
hearing  or  eyesight,  from  under-nutrition  or  other 
remediable  condition  which,  as  matters  stand,  assimi- 
late them,  for  all  practical  purposes,  with  the  con- 
genitally  defective.  It  is  the  plain  duty  of  society 
to  segregate  from  the  body  of  normal  children  all 
those  that  are  abnormal,  to  provide  adequate  treat- 
ment for  those  suffering  from  remediable  defects, 
'  and  to  devise  means  for  the  training  of  those  who 
are  congenitally  inferior.  Adequate  medical  inspec- 
tion in  the  schools  will  perform  the  cruder  work  of 
segregation.  To  draw  a  distinction  between  the 
children  whose  mental  deficiency  is  due  to  causes 
that  are  removable  and  those  who  suffer  from  incur- 
able mental  taint  is  a  difficult  matter.  The  distinc- 
tion must,  however,  be  drawn ;  for  it  is  obviously 
the  duty  of  society  to  segregate,  as  far  as  possible, 
tainted  stock,  to  prevent  the  transmission  of  the 
defect  to  the  next  generation.  For  this  work  of 
segregation  we  have  need  of  the  services  of  the  psy- 
chologist, who  can  also  give  invaluable  suggestions 
as  to  the  training  of  those  whose  development  has 
merely  been  retarded.  Even  the  children  who  are 


incurably  defective  in  mind  may  often  be  trained 
for  useful  and  reasonably  happy  lives,  provided  the 
teacher  can  command  the  best  methods  that  the  psy- 
chological expert  can  devise.  Students  of  education 
have  long  known  of  the  wonderful  work  of  this  char- 
acter carried  on  at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania 
under  Professor  Lightner  Witmer.  We  have  now 
in  Mr.  Arthur  Holmes's  "  The  Conservation  of  the 
Child  "  an  account  of  the  work  of  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania  psychological  clinic.  The  book  is  a 
practical  guide,  specially  adapted  to  the  use  of  in- 
vestigators and  teachers  who  wish  to  undertake  a 
similar  work.  For  such  it  is  extremely  rich  in 
suggestions  as  to  methods.  The  book  contains  also 
much  that  will  interest  the  general  reader  who  has 
awakened  to  the  significance  of  the  current  eugenic 
movement. 

Important  as  are  the  problems  of  checking  the 
transmission  to  future  generations  of  hereditary  men- 
tal taint,  and  of  removing  physical  defects  which  tend 
to  retard  mental  development,  there  is  a  problem  of 
even  greater  immediate  importance:  the  protection 
of  the  child  against  the  degrading  influences  of  en- 
vironment. Much  of  our  j  uvenile  delinquency,  much 
of  the  criminality  of  adult  life,  is  traceable,  not  to 
physiological  or  psychological  causes,  but  to  the  forces 
for  evil  that  bear  upon  the  neglected  child  in  the  city. 
What  obstacles  the  children  of  the  slums  must  over- 
come if  they  are  to  reach  a  plane  of  normal  living  we 
are  beginning  to  understand.  Miss  Breckinridge 
and  Miss  Abbott  give  us,  in  "The  Delinquent  Child 
and  the  Home,"  a  clearer  insight  into  the  condi- 
tions of  the  homes  that  produce  delinquents.  The 
book  presents,  to  be  sure,  much  evidence  of  delin- 
quency due  to  tainted  heredity;  but  the  main  root 
of  juvenile  delinquency  appears  to  be  unfavorable 
environment,  due  to  parental  vice  or  ignorance,  to 
poverty,  or  to  the  lack  of  adjustment  to  American 
urban  conditions  of  a  population  of  foreign  or  rural 
origin.  The  book  is  a  general  study  of  juvenile 
delinquency  in  Chicago,  and  is  the  most  thorough 
and  systematic  study  of  its  kind  extant.  It  not  only 
exhibits  the  causes  of  juvenile  delinquency,  but 
offers  also  abundant  suggestions  for  practical  re- 
form. Not  the  least  important  part  of  the  book 
are  the  appendices,  containing  a  very  competent 
discussion  of  the  legal  problems  involved  in  the 
juvenile  court,  an  abstract  of  juvenile  court  laws, 
and  "family  paragraphs"  relating  to  one  hundred 
boys  and  fifty  girls  brought  before  the  juvenile  court 
for  delinquencies. 

More  potent  than  the  disorder  and  neglect  of  the 
home,  in  producing  delinquency  and  in  arresting 
the  "physical,  mental,  and  moral  development  of  our 
children,  is  their  economic  exploitation.  Child  labor 
in  the  factories  has  for  almost  a  century  received  the 
condemnation  of  all  men  of  intelligence  and  public 
spirit.  The  evil  is  still  with  us.  As  all  American 
students  know,  progress  in  the  direction  of  the  aboli- 
tion of  child  labor  is  rendered  difficult  by  the  fact 
that  the  subject,  in  this  country,  is  a  matter  of  state 
legislation ;  and  each  state  fears  to  advance  too  far 


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beyond  its  neighbors.  We  are,  however,  advancing ; 
and  little  by  little  the  more  backward  states  imitate, 
in  legislation,  the  measures  of  those  bold  enough  to 
prefer  the  permanent  welfare  of  their  children  to 
the  transient  prosperity  of  their  industries.  The 
present  state  of  legislation  in  this  field,  throughout 
the  United  States,  is  set  forth  by  Mr.  W.  F.  Ogburn 
in  his  "Progress  and  Uniformity  in  Child  Labor 
Legislation."  Its  somewhat  forbidding  style  should 
not  bar  this  work  from  the  shelves  of  the  student  of 
the  labor  problem.  It  is  a  systematic  study  of  com- 
parative child  labor  legislation.  The  age  limit  of 
each  state,  the  exceptions  to  the  rules  of  state  law, 
the  machinery  of  inspection,  the  penalties  upon 
infractions  of  the  law,  are  here  placed  before  the 
reader  in  easily  comprehended  tables.  The  author 
hopes  his  study  will  be  useful  to  legislators.  It  cer- 
tainly will  be,  if,  as  many  believe,  we  are  about  to 
enter  upon  an  era  of  expert  legislation. 

While  factory  exploitation  of  child  labor  has  been 
the  subject  of  reforming  agitation  for  three  genera- 
tions, the  exploitation  of  children  in  the  manifold 
services  of  the  city  street  has  scarcely  been  noticed. 
We  know  comparatively  little  about  the  extent  of 
employment  of  small  children  as  newsboys,  street 
vendors,  bootblacks,  etc.  The  effects  of  such  em- 
ployment upon  character  receive  little  thought  from 
the  general  public  who  are  served  by  these  children. 
Mr.  Edward  W.  Clopper,  in  "Child  Labor  in  the 
City  Streets,"  shows  that  the  number  of  children 
thus  employed  is  enormous.  He  also  emphasizes  the 
fact,  pointed  out  by  other  social  investigators,  that 
such  employment  is  attended  by  grave  dangers  to 
society.  The  children  of  the  streets  furnish  an  ex- 
traordinarily large  contingent  to  our  army  of  juve- 
nile delinquents. 

For  the  child  who  has  gone  wrong,  through  the 
fault  of  his  guardians,  or  in  consequence  of  the  ad- 
verse social  and  economic  influences  to  which  he  is 
exposed,  there  formerly  appeared  to  be  little  hope. 
Fortunately  we  have  learned  that  the  reform  of  the 
juvenile  delinquent  is  far  from  a  hopeless  task.  The 
bad  boy  of  our  city  slums  can  be  transformed  into 
a  useful  and  virtuous  citizen,  provided  he  receives 
the  proper  kind  of  treatment.  The  whole  world  has 
heard  of  the  achievements  of  Mr.  William  R.  George 
and  his  Junior  Republic.  It  cannot  hear  too  much 
about  this  great  work,  and  will  welcome  "  Citizens 
Made  and  Remade,"  written  by  Mr.  Lyman  Beecher 
Stowe,  upon  data  furnished  by  Mr.  George. 

The  experience  of  Mr.  George  has  given  many 
of  the  suggestions  for  Professor  Edgar  J.  Swift's 
"  Youth  and  the  Race."  Professor  Swift,  however, 
is  concerned  primarily  with  the  education  of  the  nor- 
mal youth.  He  is  a  follower  of  the  school  of  peda- 
gogy which  sees  in  the  life  of  the  average  person  an 
abbreviated  repetition  of  the  life  history  of  the  race. 
Boyish  nature,  in  this  light,  loses  its  inexplicable 
and  irresponsible  quality.  Boyish  sins  are  thrown 
back  upon  that  modern  representative  of  the  prin- 
ciple of  vicarious  atonement,  primitive  man.  We 
should  recognize  the  atavistic  character  of  the  im- 


pulses of  the  child  and  utilize  them  in  the  great  work 
of  education. 

Like  Professor  Swift,  Dr.  William  B.  Forbush, 
in  "The  Coming  Generation,"  is  concerned  pri- 
marily with  the  problems  of  the  upbringing  of  the 
normal  child.  If  Professor  Swift's  interpretation 
of  youth  is  essentially  anthropological,  that  of  Dr. 
Forbush  is  essentially  human.  Dr.  Forbush  loves 
children  —  boys  especially.  It  is  doubtful  that  he 
has  even  studied  them  scientifically.  Possibly  for 
this  very  reason,  his  knowledge  of  their  nature  is 
profound.  His  book  should  prove  helpful  both  to 
parent  and  to  teacher ;  it  is  worth  anyone's  while 
to  read  it.  It  is  difficult  for  the  social  reformer  to 
enter  the  kingdom  of  pure  literature  ;  and  probably 
Dr.  Forbush's  work,  in  spite  of  its  fine  personal  qual- 
ity, must  be  consigned  to  the  realm  of  pedagogy. 

The  problem  of  the  proper  care  and  training  of 
our  children  is  manifestly  one  of  great  complexity. 
The  American  public  school  system  is,  on  the  whole, 
an  efficient  one ;  the  American  public  school  teachers 
are  as  a  class  devoted  and  intelligent.  The  schools 
are  not,  however,  performing  all  the  work  we  have 
a  right  to  require  from  them.  Moreover,  the  ser- 
vices of  the  teachers  must  be  supplemented  by  the 
organized  activities  of  many  other  social  agencies. 
From  papers  presented  at  the  conferences  held  dur- 
ing the  Chicago  Child  Welfare  Exhibit  in  May,  1911, 
now  published  under  the  title,  "The  Child  in  the 
City,"  both  the  teacher  and  the  interested  layman 
can  gain  much  information  as  to  the  possibilities  of 
child  welfare  work.  The  book  contains  an  enormous 
mass  of  information  concerning  actual  achievements 
in  this  field  in  the  various  cities  of  the  country.  As 
would  naturally  be  expected,  the  material  composing 
the  volume  is  very  uneven  in  quality.  A  number 
of  the  papers,  however,  are  of  such  excellence  as  to 
make  the  volume  an  important  contribution  to  the 
literature  of  social  reform. 

There  has  probably  never  been  a  time  when  a 
larger  proportion  of  the  citizens  of  a  state  were 
willing  to  engage  in  the  work  of  social  amelioration 
than  at  present.  Much  of  the  social  work  undertaken 
by  laymen,  however,  is  lamentably  ineffective.  Who 
has  not  known  of  associations  of  public-spirited  men 
or  women,  meeting  regularly  through  months  or  even 
years,  conducting  an  interminable  correspondence, 
with  a  view  to  the  accomplishment  of  some  worthy 
but  wholly  trivial  task  ?  The  waste  of  philanthropic 
energies  in  our  society  must  be  incredibly  great.  If 
these  energies  could  be  controlled,  and  directed  to 
the  use  of  our  children,  many  of  our  problems  would 
solve  themselves.  Miss  Elsa  Denison's  book  on 
"Helping  School  Children"  is  essentially  a  manual 
designed  to  impart  the  technique  of  organizing  the 
scattered  philanthropic  forces  of  society  and  of  ap- 
plying them  to  the  service  of  the  child.  The  book  is  a 
marvel  in  its  multiplicity  of  practical  suggestions.  No 
one  to  whom  it  is  accessible  will  need  to  confess  his 
inability  to  find  important  social  service  work  to  do. 

The  pessimist  will  urge  that  it  is  easy  to  suggest 
work  for  children  that  needs  to  be  done, — the  funda- 


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mental  difficulty  which  we  encounter  is  in  finding 
men  and  women  who  are  capable  of  doing  the 
work.  The  truth  would  appear  to  be  that  we  have, 
in  our  society,  a  host  of  men  and  women  qualified 
by  intelligence  and  sympathy  to  assist  in  the  con- 
servation of  the  child.  If  they  are  inactive,  it  is 
because  the  general  public  does  not  recognize  the 
worth  of  the  work.  Values  are  social.  If  the  gen- 
eral public  regards  a  certain  function  with  indiffer- 
ence, the  individual,  however  pure  his  motives  and 
devoted  his  character,  must  lose  the  faith  upon 
which  effective  action  depends.  The  books  under 
review,  and  others  of  their  kind,  are  helping  to 
create  general  interest  in  the  problems  of  child 
welfare,  and  so  are  establishing  the  new  values  upon 
which,  in  the  last  analysis,  the  solution  of  these 
problems  must  depend.  ALVIN  S  JOHNSON. 


RECENT  FICTION.* 


The  theme  of  the  marital  relation  is  one  that  the 
novelists  find  perennially  interesting,  and  the  com- 
plications that  result  from  ill-assorted  unions  afford 
them  endless  opportunities  for  discussion.  Writers 
of  the  older  school  were  usually  content  with  the 
development  of  a  situation  in  which  either  husband 
or  wife  was  obviously  at  fault.  The  wife  was  un- 
faithful or  the  husband  was  a  brute,  and  he  who  ran 
might  read  the  moral.  There  was  always  in  the 
background,  if  not  in  the  foreground,  a  contrasting 
ideal  of  marital  felicity,  which  example  was  held  up 
for  the  reproof  of  the  offending  hero  or  heroine.  But 
our  later  novelists  will  have  nothing  so  obvious,  and 
it  is  their  peculiar  delight  to  devise  a  situation  in 
which  neither  party  does  anything  particularly  wrong, 
and  yet  both  are  profoundly  unhappy.  Mr.  H.  G. 
Wells  is  one  of  the  most  ingenious  of  these  exposi- 
tors, and  his  latest  novel,  entitled  "Marriage"  tout 
court,  seems  to  us  an  elaborate  illustration  of  much 
ado  about  nothing.  His  Marjorie  is  an  extremely 
attractive  young  woman  with  a  college  education  and 
a  rather  distressing  family.  She  becomes  engaged 
to  a  writer  who  is  said  to  be  a  professional  humorist, 
which  fact  we  must  take  on  faith,  since  none  of  his 
many  recorded  words  for  a  moment  suggests  such  a 
thing.  He  is  described  more  accurately  as  covering 
every  subject  which  interested  him  "with  a  large 

*  MARRIAGE.   By  H.G.Weils.   New  York:  Duffield&  Co. 

EVE.  An  Incident  of  Paradise  Regained.  By  Maarten 
Maartens.  New  York :  E.  P.  Button  &  Co. 

PRISCILLA'S  SPIES.  By  "G.  A.  Birmingham."  New 
York :  The  George  H.  Doran  Co. 

THE  LOST  WORLD.  By  Sir  Arthur  Conan  Doyle.  New 
York :  The  George  H.  Doran  Co. 

THE  FORTUNES  OF  THE  LANDRAYS.  By  Vaughan  Kester. 
Indianapolis :  The  Bobbs-Merrill  Co. 

A  MAN'S  WORLD.  By  Albert  Edwards.  New  York: 
The  Macmillan  Co. 

MY  LOVE  AND  I.  By  "Martin  Redfield."  New  York :  The 
Macmillan  Co. 

THE  SECRET  OF  FRONTELLAC.  By  Frank  K.  Scribner. 
Boston :  Small,  Maynard  &  Co. 


enveloping  shallowness."  From  the  fate  of  such  a 
union  Marjorie  is  saved  by  a  young  student  of  mo- 
lecular physics  who  drops  one  day  upon  her  lawn  in 
a  wrecked  airship.  Trafford  knows  his  own  mind 
and  is  plain-spoken ;  the  wooing  is  speedily  followed 
by  the  wedding,  and  the  skies  seem  unclouded.  Un- 
fortunately, Marjorie  soon  involves  the  household  in 
unanticipated  expenses,  for  spending  is  her  delight, 
and  Trafford  gives  her  carte  blanche,  although  he 
knows  that  she  has  no  idea  of  the  value  of  money. 
The  "society"  bee  also  gets  into  her  bonnet,  and, 
to  meet  the  increased  demands  upon  him,  Trafford 
gives  up  his  scientific  research  and  takes  to  money- 
making  unabashed.  Synthetic  rubber  brings  him  a 
large  fortune,  and,  according  to  all  rational  theories, 
the  couple  are  provided  with  everything  that  makes 
for  happiness.  But  instead  of  realizing  his  blessings, 
Trafford  becomes  filled  with  a  profound  disgust  with 
his  whole  scheme  of  life,  and  persuades  Marjorie  to 
join  with  him  in  a  mad  scheme  of  breaking  away 
from  all  its  artificial  entanglements.  The  outcome 
is  that  they  close  their  home,  place  their  children  in 
the  care  of  relatives,  and  set  out  for  —  of  all  places 
in  the  world  —  Labrador.  There  they  strike  into 
the  wilderness,  establish  a  solitary  winter  camp,  and 
talk  things  over  interminably.  At  this  point  the  book 
ceases  to  be  a  novel  at  all,  and  becomes  a  philo- 
sophical discussion  of  the  deeper  meaning  of  life.  It 
is  all  immensely  clever  in  its  introspective  analysis, 
and  the  interest  does  not  flag  although  the  action  is 
arrested.  Trafford  breaks  his  leg  and  becomes  delir- 
ious, revealing  himself  to  Marjorie  in  his  ravings,  to, 
which  she  listens  patiently  for  weeks.  For  example  • 
"  I  ought  never  to  have  married  her  —  never,  never  I  I 
had  my  task.  I  gave  myself  to  her.  Oh !  the  high  immen- 
sities, the  great  and  terrible  things  open  to  the  mind  of  man ! 
And  we  breed  children  and  live  in  littered  houses  and  play 
with  our  food  and  chatter,  chatter,  chatter.  Oh,  the  chatter 
of  my  life !  The  folly  I  The  women  with  their  clothes.  I  can. 
hear  them  rustle  now,  whiff  the  scent  of  it !  The  scandals  — 
as  though  the  things  they  did  with  themselves  and  each  other 
mattered  a  rap ;  the  little  sham  impromptu  clever  things,  the 
trying  to  keep  young  —  and  underneath  it  all  that  continual 
cheating,  cheating,  cheating,  damning  struggle  for  money !  " 

Presently  he  recovers  consciousness,  but  talks  on  in 
the  same  strain  for  endless  pages,  discussing  the  prob- 
lems of  the  rational  individual  life  and  the  rational 
organization  of  society.  In  his  earlier  books,  Mr. 
Wells  has  suggested  various  nostrums  fo*  the  relief 
of  the  world's  imagined  discontent,  but  he  seems  noT* 
to  have  lost  faith  in  them,  and  to  see  no  clear  patL 
through  the  tangle.  What  he  does  not  see  is  that 
the  tangle  is  largely  of  his  own  creation,  and  that 
reason  is  slowly  but  surely  working  out  its  triumph 
over  unreason  in  the  ordering  of  human  affairs.  As 
for  Trafford  and  Marjorie  he  leaves  them  on  their 
way  back  to  civilization,  with  a  vivid  experience  to 
remember,  but  with  nothing  definitely  solved,  bear- 
ing with  them  their  unhappy  temperaments,  which 
do  not  promise  for  them  any  greater  peace  of  mind 
in  the  future  than  in  the  past. 

"Maarten  Maartens"  confesses  that  he  owes  the 
inspiration  of  "Evev  to  "Effie  Briest,"  Theodor 


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Fontane's  famous  novel.  It  is  an  intimate  story 
of  Dutch  life,  full  of  the  types  of  character  which 
the  author  portrays  with  such  delicate  insight.  It 
offers  a  variation  upon  the  familiar  "triangular" 
situation  with  which  the  majority  of  modern  novels 
are  concerned.  The  heroine  is  an  imaginative  crea- 
ture with  a  passionate  sense  of  beauty,  whose  up- 
bringing has  been  of  a  nature  to  develop  her  native 
artistic  temperament.  The  man  whom  she  marries 
is  the  wrong  one  —  a  prosaic  person  who  is  a  model 
of  all  the  homely  virtues,  a  well-to-do  landowner 
and  ambitious  politician,  but  narrow  in  his  outlook, 
and  wholly  incapable  of  understanding  the  woman 
to  whom  he  is  married.  The  man  who  makes  her 
an  unfaithful  wife  is  an  aviator,  who  achieves  fame 
by  flying  from  the  Hook  to  Harwich  and  back,  an 
exploit  with  which  all  Europe  resounds.  When  the 
news  of  his  death  in  Paris  comes  to  her,  ahe  makes 
confession  of  her  guilt,  and  departs  with  her  child  to 
geek  the  protection  of  the  nuns  in  a  near-by  convent. 
The  author  describes  this  story  as  "an  incident  of 
Paradise  regained,"  which  leaves  one  questioning. 
Is  it  really  to  regain  Paradise  to  find  happiness  in  an 
illicit  love  and  to  bear  all  the  practical  consequences 
of  such  a  lapse?  Like  most  of  its  predecessors,  this 
book  is  largely  one  of  conversations — keen,  witty, 
and  often  wise — which  reveal  the  inmost  natures  of 
the  interesting  and  very  human  group  of  people  with 
which  it  is  concerned.  It  comes  very  near  to  being 
a  work  of  genius. 

The  Irish  humorist  who  writes  under  the  name 
of  "  G.  A.  Birmingham "  is  rapidly  acquiring  an 
enthusiastic  clientele  of  American  readers.  Six  of 
his  novels  have  now  appeared  in  the  American  edi- 
tions, and  in  the  latest  of  these  the  author's  powers 
of  whimsical  invention  show  no  signs  of  exhaustion. 
The  appetite  for  his  work  grows  by  what  it  feeds 
on,  and  "Priscilla's  Spies"  proves  to  be  no  less 
delightful  than  its  predecessors.  Priscilla  is  a  re- 
freshingly nice  girl  of  the  torn-boy  variety,  and  the 
prompt  way  in  which  she  enlarges  the  experience 
of  her  cousin,  the  priggish  public  school  boy  who 
comes  to  visit  her  in  the  west  of  Ireland,  is  highly 
diverting.  Her  escapades  have  an  imaginative  touch. 
They  are  chiefly  concerned  with  running  to  earth  two 
mysterious  strangers  —  a  young  man  and  a  young 
woman — who  appear  in  those  parts,  and  cruise  about 
the  islands,  camping  in  remote  places.  Priscilla  pre- 
tends to  believe  that  they  are  German  spies  engaged 
in  the  nefarious  task  of  charting  the  coast.  In  reality 
they  are  a  runaway  couple  —  a  curate  and  his  bride 
— escaping  from  the  paternal  wrath  of  the  bride's 
father,  who  is  the  official  at  the  head  of  the  War 
Office.  When  the  latter  arrives  upon  the  scene,  the 
game  is  up,  but  it  is  too  late  for  him  to  do  anything 
but  forgive.  Incidentally,  there  is  disclosed  the  sec- 
ret of  one  of  the  islands,  which  the  natives  prevent 
visitors  from  approaching  by  a  most  ingenious  and 
complicated  system  of  lying.  They  have  the  best  of 
reasons,  for  the  island  in  question  is  the  scene  of  a 
flourishing  native  industry  of  the  kind  which  is  dis- 
couraged by  the  revenue  officers.  Priscilla  is  a 


joyously  original  creature,  and  stands  next  in  our 
affections  to  Lalage  among  the  author's  heroines. 
Her  occasional  comments  upon  English  poetry 
(which  she  has  reluctantly  studied  in  school)  fur- 
nish one  of  the  most  entertaining  features  of  the 
story. 

Sir  Arthur  Doyle's  "The  Lost  World"  is  a  tale 
of  amazing  adventures  in  South  America.  A  basaltic 
plateau,  near  the  upper  course  of  one  of  the  tribu- 
taries of  the  Amazon,  has  in  prehistoric  ages  been 
cut  off  by  a  cataclysmic  elevation  from  participation 
in  the  life  of  the  rest  of  the  continent,  and  upon  it 
have  been  preserved  down  to  our  own  days  such 
dragons  of  the  prime  as  dinosaurs,  and  ichthyosaurs, 
and  plesiosaurs,  and  iguanodons,  besides  a  race  of 
ape-men  not  much  higher  than  the  gorilla  in  develop- 
ment. To  this  region  a  well-assorted  party  of  four 
explorers  make  their  way,  and  have  a  most  exciting 
time  of  it.  These  fearsome  beasts,  hitherto  known 
only  to  palaeontology,  are  made  to  live  and  ravage 
before  our  very  eyes,  and  the  denizens  of  the  Indian 
jungle  are  made  to  seem  tame  in  comparison.  The 
explorers  barely  escape  with  their  lives,  and  return 
to  London  to  tell  their  story  with  sensational  effect, 
bringing  with  them  as  an  exhibit  a  live  plesiosaurus. 
The  story  is  told  by  a  newspaper  reporter,  who  had 
joined  the  expedition  to  acquire  merit  in  the  eyes  of 
a  young  woman  named  Gladys,  who  was  to  be  satis- 
fied with  nothing  less  than  a  hero.  When  he  returns, 
sad  to  relate,  Gladys  has  well-nigh  forgotten  him,  and 
found  consolation  in  the  arms  of  one  Potts,  a  solic- 
itor's clerk,  who  is  anything  but  a  hero.  This  is  the 
only  love-interest  of  the  story,  but  it  has  enough  in- 
terest of  other  sorts  to  atone  for  this  culpable  sin  of 
omission. 

Since  the  lamented  death  of  Vaughan  Kester, 
which  occurred  soon  after  the  publication  of  his 
sterling  novel,  "The  Prodigal  Judge,"  two  posthu- 
mous novels  from  his  pen  have  seen  the  light.  One 
of  them,  "The  Just  and  the  Unjust,"  was  a  poor 
performance,  which  added  nothing  to  his  reputation. 
The  other,  "The  Fortunes  of  the  Landrays,"  now 
published,  is  a  much  finer  work,  and  approaches 
within  measurable  distance  the  ideal  which  the  pub- 
lic delights  to  envisage  under  the  style  of  the  Great 
American  Novel.  It  is  a  typical  story  of  American 
life  during  the  last  half  of  the  nineteenth  century, 
not  the  life  of  the  great  centres  of  population,  which 
gets  exploited  in  our  newspapers  and  other  works  of 
fiction,  but  the  life  of  the  small  community,  in  which 
the  interests  and  purposes  of  our  national  character 
are  less  obscured  and  sophisticated  in  their  expres- 
sion. The  Landrays  are  one  of  the  pioneer  families 
of  Benson,  Ohio,  and  we  first  make  their  acquaint- 
ance in  the  year  of  the  California  gold  discovery. 
The  two  brothers  who  represent  the  family,  finding 
their  fortunes  somewhat  decayed,  join  the  Argonauts 
in  their  quest,  taking  the  overland  route,  and  become 
the  victims  of  an  Indian  massacre.  Their  widows, 
one  of  whom  has  a  son,  are  thus  left  in  Benson  to 
carry  on  the  family  tradition  and  sustain  the  family 
fortunes.  The  son,  grown  to  manhood  at  the  outbreak 


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of  the  Civil  War,  enters  the  army  and  remains  in  it 
until  Appomattox  puts  an  end  to  the  struggle.  He 
then  goes  into  business,  makes  a  failure  of  it,  and 
dies,  leaving  a  son  to  keep  the  name  alive.  This  son, 
grown  to  manhood,  and  about  to  marry  a  girl  whose 
family  fortunes  we  have  also  followed  for  three  gen- 
erations, is  the  chief  object  of  our  interest  when  the 
story  ends,  or  rather  stops  short,  at  the  beginning  of 
the  present  century.  We  thus  have  a  situation  not 
unlike  that  of  the  play  called  "Milestones,"  and  a 
treatment  which  is  necessarily  episodic.  Whatever 
unity  the  plot  possesses  is  due  to  the  two  characters 
whose  lives  span  the  entire  period  of  the  narrative. 
These  are  Virginia  Landray,  the  widow  of  one  of 
the  ill-fated  gold-hunters,  and  Jake  Benson,  the  suc- 
cessful lawyer  and  man  of  substance,  who  persistently 
presses  his  suit  upon  her  only  to  be  definitely  rejected. 
When  faithfulness  and  devotion  fail  to  achieve  their 
aim,  he  becomes  unfaithful,  and,  having  charge  of  her 
business  affairs,  defrauds  her  in  a  peculiarly  mean 
and  revolting  way,  hoping  to  retain  a  hold  upon  her 
through  her  poverty.  The  way  in  which  the  fraud 
is  eventually  disclosed  illustrates  one  of  the  many 
ingenious  devices  whereby  the  end  of  this  novel  is 
linked  with  its  beginnings.  It  comes  through  the 
recovery  of  a  document  entrusted  by  Stephen  Land- 
ray  to  the  keeping  of  a  small  boy  in  the  camp  of 
the  gold-seekers  just  before  they  are  wiped  out  by 
the  Indians.  This  boy  is  rescued,  grows  up  in  the 
household  of  a  Mormon  elder,  becomes  a  prosperous 
ranchman,  and,  fifty  years  later,  accidentally  learns 
into  whose  hands  the  document  should  be  given.  The 
long  arm  of  coincidence  has  to  be  worked  in  many 
other  ways  also  to  work  into  one  pattern  the  many 
threads  of  this  romantic  history,  but  the  ingenuity  of 
the  author  is  unfailing,  and  he  does  not  strain  our 
incredulity  overmuch.  In  observation,  variety  of  in- 
terest, and  power  of  characterization,  this  book,  with 
its  presentation  of  a  cross-section  of  the  American 
life  of  its  period,  is  really  a  noteworthy  performance. 
"A  Man's  World,"  by  Mr.  Albert  Edwards,  "is 
the  story  of  how  I,  born  at  the  close  of  the  Great 
War,  lived,  and  of  the  things — commonplace  and 
unusual — which  happened  to  me,  how  they  felt  at 
the  time  and  how  I  feel  about  them  now."  A  book 
thus  described  does  not  fit  easily  into  the  conventional 
literary  categories,  and  the  author  is  quite  right  in  his 
renunciation  of  the  title  of  novelist,  saying  that  the 
work  has  no  unity  "  except  the  frame  of  mind  which 
led  me  to  write  it,  which  has  held  me  to  task  till  now." 
These  prefatory  observations  whet  our  expectations, 
for  a  story  which  should  live  up  to  the  formula  above 
given  would  obviously  be  something  out  of  the  com- 
mon. It  would  substitute  reality  for  artifice,  sincerity 
for  simulation,  and  insight  for  the  play  of  superficial 
observation.  "  A  Man's  World  "  does  all  of  this,  and 
more,  giving  us  in  the  form  of  autobiography  a  pic- 
ture of  everyday  life  which  impresses  the  reader  with 
its  absolute  honesty,  and  makes  for  the  enlargement 
of  his  sympathies.  It  must  be  said  also  that  it  makes 
for  the  confusion  of  moral  values,  for  it  holds  up  "free 
love"  as  a  tenable  alternative  to  legalized  marriage, 


and  it  bids  us  accept  the  metamorphosis  of  a  foul- 
mouthed  prostitute  into  a  virtuous  wife  of  high  spirit- 
ual ideals.  These  matters  are  so  dealt  with  that  they 
do  not  seem  to  give  offense  when  we  read  of  them; 
it  is  only  upon  subsequent  reflection,  when  we  view 
them  in  the  abstract,  that  we  see  them  as  they  are. 
The  story  of  the  narrator's  life  begins  in  the  South, 
and  pictures  his  mind  as  it  struggles  to  escape  from 
the  bondage  of  a  narrow  religious  orthodoxy.  The 
emancipation  is  fairly  complete,  and  the  boy  goes  to 
New  York  to  earn  his  living.  He  drifts  into  literary 
hack  work  until  his  eyes  give  out,  and  then  he  drifts 
into  social  settlement  work,  in  which  he  finds  his 
true  vocation.  He  becomes  a  sort  of  missionary  in 
the  Tombs,  then  a  probation  officer,  and  in  the  end  a 
recognized  authority  upon  penology.  He  comes  to 
know  thoroughly  the  seamy  side  of  life,  and  finds  a 
soul  of  good  in  most  of  the  evil  things  that  engage 
his  attention.  He  elaborates  no  theories,  but  applies 
to  each  case  that  presents  itself  a  broad  human  method 
of  treatment  which  is  sometimes  effective,  and  some- 
times not.  He  goes  straight  to  the  heart  of  each 
concrete  human  problem,  which  is  better  than  any 
doctrinaire  course,  even  if  it  lead  to  mistakes  now 
and  then.  He  has  all  the  time  the  vision  of  a  better 
social  order  toward  which  mankind  is  slowly  groping, 
and  is  content  to  think  that  he  is  obscurely  helping 
to  bring  about  the  regeneration.  He  wins  none  of 
the  prizes  which  we  expect  to  come  to  the  heroes  of 
our  novels,  and  even  his  one  radiant  love  affair  ends 
in  disappointment.  We  leave  him  in  middle  life, 
confused  but  not  embittered,  a  man  who  feels  that 
his  work  is  done,  and  that  it  has  played,  in  its  coral- 
insect  way,  "an  integral  part  in  the  increment  of 
wisdom."  In  the  belief  that  the  new  generation  is 
less  handicapped  than  the  old,  and  that  it  will  know 
better  how  to  deal  with  the  problems  of  poverty,  and 
suffering,  and  crime,  the  narrator  ends  his  convincing 
tale  of  a  human  life  lived  in  "a  man's  world."  We 
notice  a  few  conspicuous  errors  that  ought  to  be  cor- 
rected, such  as  "  Compte  "  for  the  French  positivist, 
"Safchen"  for  Heine's  Sefchen,  and  "Guiseppe," 
the  impossible  name  of  the  old  Garibaldian. 

"My  Love  and  I,"  by  "Martin  Redfield,"  is  a 
discussion,  in  autobiographical  form,  of  the  problem 
dealt  with  by  Mr.  Wells  in  the  novel  previously 
reviewed.  It  has  nothing  of  the  richness  of  Mr. 
Wells's  treatment,  and  relies  more  upon  the  con- 
ventional motives.  There  is  another  woman  in  the 
case,  whom  the  man  loves  in  secret,  although  he 
does  not  escape  from  the  bondage  that  keeps  him 
from  her.  He  has  married  a  girl  simply  because 
she  is  beautiful,  and  is  left  afterwards  to  make  the 
discovery  that  she  is  hard,  selfish,  and  mercenary. 
It  is  a  common  experience  with  men,  and  the  present 
case  is  fairly  typical.  The  hero  is  a  popular  novelist 
who  prostitutes  his  art  to  meet  the  demands  of  his 
wife  for  display  and  social  position.  She,  for  her 
part,  constantly  wounds  his  susceptibilities  by  her 
inability  to  understand  any  ideal  of  life  that  is 
above  the  artificial  and  material  plane.  She  fawns 
upon  a  wealthy  spinster  in  the  hope  of  an  inherit- 


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ance,  and  secretly  takes  money  from  a  former  lover 
to  gratify  her  mean  desires  and  ambitions.  There 
are  many  quarrels,  but  no  domestic  crash,  and  the 
other  woman  remains  a  star  that  dwells  apart.  The 
story  has  a  rare  degree  of  sincerity,  which  makes  it 
more  convincing  than  most  works  of  fiction.  Such 
tragedies  will  continue  to  exist  as  long  as  men  take 
to  themselves  wives  knowing  nothing  more  of  them 
than  may  be  seen  upon  the  surface,  and  the  interests 
of  society  sternly  demand  that  the  obligations  thus 
heedlessly  incurred  shall  be  kept,  whatever  their 
cost  of  individual  suffering. 

''The  Secret  of  Frontellac,"  by  Mr.  Frank  K. 
Scribner,  is  a  mystery  story  of  considerable  ingen- 
uity and  picturesque  in  its  setting.  An  American 
becomes  the  heir  to  a  French  chateau,  and  proceeds 
to  take  possession.  He  finds  that  it  has  been  a 
rallying-place  for  the  irreconcilable  faction  of 
French  royalists  ever  since  the  Revolution,  and  he 
unearths  documents  which  lead  him  to  believe  that 
somewhere  within  its  precincts  are  hidden  the  trea- 
sure rifled  from  the  royal  tombs  at  St.  De"nis  at  the 
time  of  the  sacrilege  of  1793.  Searching  for  this 
treasure,  the  occupant  becomes  aware  that  his 
movements  are  watched,  and  supposes  that  the 
government  is  suspicious  of  him.  Ambushes  and 
attempted  assassinations  follow,  and  at  last  the 
treasure  is  unearthed  in  the  shape  of  gold  ingots 
bearing  a  modern  date.  It  seems  that  the  Bank 
of  France  has  been  robbed  of  a  million  francs,  and 
that  the  swag  has  been  planted  in  the  grounds  of 
the  castle.  Whereupon  the  American  is  arrested  for 
complicity  in  the  crime,  and  has  a  hard  time  proving 
his  innocence.  A  little  elementary  science  would 
have  saved  the  author  from  endowing  sulphur  with 
the  properties  of  phosphorus  (a  frequent  blunder 
with  novelists),  or  from  having  his  hero  nonchal- 
antly pick  up  the  treasure-chest,  unaware  that  a 
million  francs  will  weigh  the  greater  part  of  a  ton. 
Since  the  hero  has  inherited  with  the  castle  the 
guardianship  of  a  beautiful  girl,  he  is  richly  con- 
soled in  the  outcome  for  the  perils  that  have  beset 
his  path.  WILLIAM  MORTON  PAYNE. 


BRIEFS  ON  NEW  BOOKS. 

Among  the  haps  and  mishaps  of  the 

luckle88  Bourbon  family' the  fate  of 

the  little  Dauphin,  son  of  Louis  XVI. 
and  Marie  Antoinette,  has  "  kept  guessing  "  a  certain 
number  of  well-meaning  people,  whose  Legitimist 
devotion  to  the  head  of  the  family,  whether  on  or 
off  a  throne,  is  little  short  of  pathetic.  Regarding 
the  Revolution  as  a  spasm,  yielding  only  a  reluctant 
and  provisional  assent  to  the  eighteen  years'  reign  of 
the  Orleans  branch  as  represented  in  Louis  Philippe, 
looking  on  the  present  republic,  in  spite  of  its  forty- 
one  years  of  vigorous  life,  as  a  mistake  some  time  to 
be  rectified,  they  have  lavished  on  "  Louis  XVII." 
a  passionate  devotion  only  equalled  by  the  Jacobite 
loyalty  to  the  Stuart  Pretenders.  These  claimants 


to  the  English  throne  had,  however,  the  enormous 
advantage  of  being  always  ocularly  in  evidence; 
while  the  name  and  claims  of  Charles  Louis  de 
Bourbon,  Duke  of  Normandy,  were  assumed  by 
half-a-dozen  men  at  different  times  and  places.  As 
only  one  of  these  could  be  the  rightful  heir,  the  ques- 
tion of  identity  was  of  course  vital  to  any  successful 
prosecution  of  the  cause.  What  became  of  the  little 
prince  after  he  was  separated  from  his  mother  on 
July  3,  1793,  and  committed  to  the  rude  mercies  of 
his  jailer  Simon  in  the  Temple  prison?  Did  he  die 
there,  as  was  asserted  and  generally  believed,  on  the 
8th  of  June,  1795,  or  was  another  child,  already 
moribund,  substituted  for  the  Dauphin  and  the  latter 
smuggled  out  of  the  prison,  to  lead  a  wandering 
and  precarious  life  for  fifty  years  longer,  under  the 
assumed  name  of  Naundorf  ?  Among  the  various 
works  which  have  espoused  and  pressed  the  cause 
of  Naundorf  as  the  real  Louis  XVII.,  probably  the 
most  exhaustive  in  detail  and  energetic  in  spirit  has 
been  Henri  Provins's  "Dernier  Roi  Le'gitime  de 
France,"  which  has  now  been  made  available  for 
English  readers  by  Miss  Phoebe  Allen,  in  a  volume 
called  "The  Last  Legitimate  King  of  France"  (Dut- 
ton).  The  work  is  modestly  described  as  a  "com- 
pilation," based  on  the  researches  and  writings  of 
Henri  Provins,  Otto  Friedrichs,  and  others.  It  con- 
stitutes a  sustained  and  elaborate  special  plea  in  sup- 
port of  the  claim  that  "Louis  XVII.  was  secretly 
taken  from  the  Tower  in  the  Temple  some  time  be- 
tween the  middle  of  October  and  the  beginning  of 
November,  1794,  and  that  he  left  the  Temple  early 
in  June,  1795;  that  his  place  in  the  Tower  was  sup- 
plied by  a  deaf  and  dumb  child,  who  served  as  his 
substitute  until  probably  the  end  of  March,  1795; 
that  the  deaf-mute  was  in  his  turn  exchanged  for  a 
second  substitute,  the  moribund  child  whose  death 
in  the  Tower  and  subsequent  autopsy  did  really  and 
truly  take  place."  After  various  imprisonments  and 
escapes,  the  young  man  emerges  in  Berlin  in  1810 
with  a  passport  bearing  the  name  of  Naundorf.  For 
the  thirty-five  years  ensuing,  until  his  death  in  1845, 
he  led  the  adventurous  life  of  a  Claimant.  He  bore 
certain  physical  marks  known  to  have  been  on  the 
person  of  the  Dauphin,  and  recalled  correctly  various 
intimate  details  of  the  life  in  the  prison  which  could 
have  been  known  to  the  Dauphin  only.  He  also  pos- 
sessed two  documents  in  the  handwriting  of  Marie 
Antoinette  and  Louis  XVI.,  which  were  taken  by 
the  Prussian  government  and  never  returned.  It  is 
simply  amazing,  the  enormous  mass  of  evidence — 
some  of  it  convincing,  some  trivial — which  has  been 
accumulated  in  this  volume  of  over  four  hundred 
pages,  to  prove  the  parti  pris.  Delia  Bacon  was  by 
contrast  a  cold  and  timorous  advocate  of  her  heresy. 
The  work  is  conceived  in  a  spirit  of  bitterness  toward 
all  who  were  skeptical  as  to  Naundorf's  pretensions. 
As  the  prince's  sister,  the  Duchess  of  Angoul§me, 
and  his  uncles,  Louis  XVIII.  and  Charles  X.,  could 
naturally  never  be  brought  to  look  with  anything  but 
a  forbidding  eye  on  Naundorf's  appeals  for  recogni- 
tion, the  author  has  no  good  words  for  them;  and 


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Louis  Philippe  is  also  castigated  for  his  refusals  to 
open  the  claimant's  case  when  repeatedly  begged  to 
do  so.  Europe's  interest  in  the  "  Cause,"  which  had 
grown  somewhat  tepid,  was  roused  to  a  fitful  warmth 
by  the  recent  appeal  (1911)  made  to  the  Senate  in 
Paris  by  the  descendants  of  Naundorf  for  favorable 
consideration  of  their  claims;  and  some  hitherto 
unpublished  evidence  was  brought  to  light,  which  is 
included,  with  all  the  rest,  in  the  present  work. 
On  the  whole,  the  book  may  be  recommended  as  a 
spirited  though  one-sided  representation  of  one  of 
the  great  mysteries  of  history. 

The" man  ^  *s  an   amazing    thing   that    any 

farthest  down "  American,  in  a  seven  weeks'  race 
in  Europe.  through  Europe,  from  Scotland  to 

Sicily  and  from  Sicily  to  Scandinavia,  should  dis- 
cover enough  that  is  new  to  serve  as  material  for  a 
book  worth  the  reading.  That  such  a  book  should 
throw  light  upon  important  problems  of  our  own 
is  still  more  amazing.  The  wonder  of  it  disap- 
pears, however,  upon  the  mention  of  the  author's 
name, —  for  Booker  T.  Washington  is  a  professional 
wonder-worker.  What  Mr.  Washington  set  out  to 
find  was  the  "man  farthest  down"  in  European 
countries,  in  order  to  compare  his  position  with  that 
of  the  man  farthest  down  in  America,  the  negro. 
This,  at  any  rate,  was  his  avowed  purpose;  his 
unavowed  design  was  to  discover  what  hope  for 
the  future  the  most  wretched  of  Europeans  might 
justly  entertain,  and  to  bring  back  some  of  that 
hope  to  his  own  people.  Wretchedness  enough  he 
found.  He  saw  youths  in  the  sulphur  mines  subject 
to  a  worse  slavery  than  the  negroes  have  ever  known 
in  America.  He  saw  coasts  that  must  be  guarded  by 
soldiers  to  keep  wretched  peasants  from  stealing 
the  waters  of  the  sea.  He  saw  women  serving  as 
beasts  of  draught  and  of  burden.  In  some  of  the 
countries  visited  he  saw  evidence  of  race  prejudice 
more  bitter,  race  oppression  more  cruel,  than  that  of 
our  own  country  at  its  worst.  But  everywhere,  he 
found  reason  to  believe,  conditions  are  gradually 
improving.  The  man  farthest  down  is  rising.  And 
in  some  cases  this  appears  to  be  due  to  the  very  fact 
of  racial  oppression. 

"  Of  the  three  sections  of  the  Polish  race,  German,  Rus- 
sian and  Austrian,  there  are  two  in  which  .  .  .  the  [Polish] 
people  are  oppressed,  and  one  in  which  they  seem  to  be,  if 
anything,  the  oppressors.  In  Russian  Poland  and  in  German 
Poland  the  Polish  are  making  a  desperate  struggle  to  main- 
tain their  national  existence,  but  in  these  two  countries  the 
Poles  are  prosperous.  ...  In  Austrian  Poland,  on  the  con- 
trary, where  the  Austrian  government,  in  order,  perhaps, 
to  hold  the  political  aspirations  of  the  Ruthenians  in  check, 
has  given  them  a  free  hand  in  the  government  of  the  prov- 
ince, .  .  .  they  have  made  less  progress." 

Not  more  than  two  hundred  and  fifty  years  ago 
so  gifted  a  man  as  Holberg  could  believe  that  intel- 
ligence and  political  capacity  are  by  nature  denied 
to  all  but  the  hereditary  aristocracy.  There  are  still 
cultivated  Englishmen  who  will  assert  that  the  Irish 
lack  capacity  for  government;  we  who  have  been 
governed  by  them  know  better.  The  German  is  con- 
vinced of  the  political  incompetence  of  the  Poles; 


the  Poles,  of  that  of  the  Ruthenians;  the  Hunga- 
rians know  of  a  certainty  that  the  Slovaks  lack  civic 
qualities.  We  who  have  seen  Germans  and  Poles 
and  Ruthenians,  Hungarians  and  Slovaks,  under 
equal  laws,  and  with  equal  opportunities,  gradually 
transforming  themselves  into  typical  Americans, 
know  what  value  to  place  upon  Old  World  super- 
stitions of  congenital  inferiorities  and  superiorities, 
social  and  racial.  We  have  our  own  congenital 
superiorities  and  inferiorities  —  white  and  black. 
Possibly  these  alone  of  their  kind  are  real  and 
eternal.  Even  so,  they  need  not  prevent  a  vast 
improvement  in  the  lot  of  the  black  man.  (Double- 
day,  Page  &  Co.)  

coeur  de  Lion  Those  who  are  interested  in  the  psy- 
and  the  chology  of  authorship  will  not  turn 

landscape.  lightly  from  Miss  Maude  M.  Hoi- 

bach's  "  In  the  Footsteps  of  Richard  Coeur  de  Lion  " 
(Little,  Brown,  &  Co.).  The  writer  is  not  content 
with  following  those  footsteps,  biographically,  to  her 
hero's  last  fateful  strides  before  Chaluz.  She  pro- 
ceeds, in  the  second  part  of  the  book,  to  lead  us 
through  various  regions  once  traversed  by  him, 
pointing  out  whatever  footprints  still  remain  —  and 
also  inviting  our  attention  to  much  scenery  which 
(like  Quince's  "bill  of  properties")  but  slenderly 
illuminates  the  main  plot.  Does  the  work  as  a  whole, 
then,  belong  to  the  genus  Travel  or  Popular  Biog- 
raphy ?  In  body,  to  the  latter  —  for  part  one  takes 
up  two-thirds  of  the  book  ;  in  spirit,  however,  chiefly 
to  the  former.  Part  one  presents  us  with  a  scenic 
life  of  the  Lion-Heart;  and  does  so,  on  the  whole, 
excellently.  The  writer  has  had  a  keen  eye  for  all 
that  is  picturesque  in  the  chronicles ;  and  her  con- 
siderable narrative  and  descriptive  powers  enable 
her  to  make  effective  use  of  what  constitutes  her  dis- 
tinctive equipment,  —  an  extraordinary  familiarity 
with  the  scenes  of  Richard's  activities.  In  part  two 
the  lion,  indeed,  is  off  the  stage ;  but  the  atmosphere 
remains  the  same.  The  author  has  something  of 
Shakespeare's  skill  in  reminding  us  of  what  has 
happened  "  behind  the  scene  ";  and  when  allusion  to 
Richard  fails  —  why,  then  there  is  Herod  or  Napo- 
leon. So  that  in  part  two  Richard,  aided  by  others, 
illuminates  the  landscape  ;  whereas  in  part  one  the 
landscape  illuminates  Richard.  To  be  sure,  towns 
and  countrysides  can  throw  but  little  light  on  a  man's 
inner  nature — unless  he  happens  to  be  an  architect 
or  a  landscape  gardener.  And  it  is  unfortunate  that 
Miss  Holbach  implies,  in  her  opening  chapter  and 
elsewhere,  an  intention  of  rendering  a  truer  picture 
than  has  yet  been  of  Richard's  personality.  She 
adds  nothing,  in  this  respect,  to  accounts  given  in 
the  various  historical  works  (particularly  in  Kate 
Norgate's  admirable  book  on  the  Angevins)  which 
she  quotes  so  liberally  in  her  own  text.  Like  many 
other  makers  of  popular  biography,  she  seems  oblivi- 
ous to  the  fact  that  nice  discrimination  as  well  as 
historic  bent,  and  much  logical  thinking  as  well  as 
whole-hearted  interest,  are  required  for  the  delinea- 
tion of  a  notable  individuality.  Miss  Holbach's 


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pictorial  account,  however,  is  thoroughly  sincere. 
Indeed,  her  whole  book  rings  true.  It  thus  stands 
in  pleasing  contrast  to  those  numerous  minor  works 
in  which  inadequate  history  appears  in  the  service 
of  cheap  artistic  effects* 

Reminiscences  it  takes  an  heroic  effort  of  intellec- 
Oermann  tual  charity  to  forgive  Dr.  G.  Stanley 

philosophers.  Hall  for  calling  his  collection  of 
studies  of  eminent  men  who  appealed  to  his,  as 
to  so  many  others',  interests  in  his  pilgrimages  to 
Germany,  "The  Founders  of  Modern  Psychology" 
( Appleton) .  To  the  last  of  the  group,  who  is  properly 
accorded  the  largest  space,  the  title  rightly  belongs. 
Wilhelm  Wundt,  who  this  year  celebrated  his  eighti- 
eth birthday,  has  in  his  own  career  witnessed  the 
emergence  of  a  new  insight  into  the  nature  of  the 
world  of  mind  and  the  methods  of  its  pursuit,  and 
himself  played  a  pioneer's  part  in  the  occupation. 
Helmholtz  was  a  versatile  genius  who  solved  a  con- 
siderable range  of  problems  by  which  the  psycholo- 
gist eagerly  profited.  Fechner  has  a  quasi-legitimate 
rank  as  a  founder ;  but  the  sketch  presented — though 
less  engaging  than  the  slighter  essay  of  James — 
shows  the  otherwise  directed  bent  of  his  major  in- 
terests. Von  Hartmann,  Lotze,  and  Zeller  are 
rightfully  claimed  by  philosophy  and  have  had  but 
a  negligible  influence  in  shaping  modern  psychology, 
though  they  labored  in  fields  where  a  psychological 
harvest  (or  gleaning)  was  inevitable.  But  apart  from 
Dr.  Hall's  title,  his  collection  of  studies  deals  with 
notable  men  who  made  notable  contributions  to  the 
philosophic  renaissance  of  the  nineteenth  century  in 
Germany.  They  seem  heroic  figures,  despite  their 
proximity  to  our  own  outlook  ;  and  yet  the  studies 
carry  a  reminiscent  air.  Dr.  Hall  had  a  living  ac- 
quaintance with  all  these  men,  casual  in  some  cases, 
but  enough  to  catch  the  direct  inspiration  of  personal 
contact  which  attracted  the  scholarly-minded  of  his 
generation  to  the  seats  of  learning  in  Germany,  and 
kept  them  there  long  enough  to  catch  its  spirit  and 
successfully  transplant  it  to  the  new  world.  The 
studies  make  difficult  reading,  unrelieved  by  felici- 
ties or  facilities  of  presentation  ;  they  often  suggest 
the  careful  digest  of  a  conscientious  student,  yet  one 
keeping  in  mind  the  principles  of  interest  that  give 
unity  of  interpretation,  and  the  critical  sense  that 
must  weigh  and  judge  as  well  as  record  the  data  of 
judgment.  There  is  often  a  plethora  of  detail  that 
reflects  the  formlessness  which  the  younger  Germans 
are  discarding  as  an  impediment  of  progress,  how- 
ever imposing  as  the  baggage  of  learning.  As  a 
record  of  the  contributions  of  a  related  group  of 
scholars  who  made  a  critical  epoch  in  the  Wissen- 
schaft  which  is  our  direct  heritage,  the  volume  oc- 
cupies a  unique  place  and  serves  a  helpful  purpose. 

Superstition         ManV    Parts    °f   India   °ffer    a    rich 

and  omens  of  harvest  for  the  anthropologist  or 
Southern  India,  ethnologist,  and  from  the  lower  end 
of  the  peninsula  Mr.  Edgar  Thurston  has  garnered 
an  attractive  bundle  of  sheaves,  which  he  presents 


in  a  volume  entitled  "  Omens  and  Superstitions  of 
Southern  India"  (McBride,  Nast  &  Co.).  The  au- 
thor was  formerly  Superintendent  of  the  Madras 
Government  Museum  and  of  the  Ethnographic  Sur- 
vey of  the  Madras  Presidency,  and  has  published  a 
number  of  works  on  kindred  subjects.  The  present 
contribution  contains  twelve  chapters,  with  such 
captions  as  "Snake  Worship,"  "Charms,"  "Human 
Sacrifice,"  "Magic  and  Magicians,"  and  "Rain- 
making  Ceremonies."  The  general  treatment  seems 
to  represent  a  compromise  between  the  scientist  and 
the  layman,  but  inclining  rather  to  the  latter.  The 
net  result  is  a  volume  that  does  not  enlarge  the 
boundaries  of  science,  but  does  treat  its  deliberately 
limited  field  with  considerable  thoroughness,  while 
reporting  much  that  is  interesting  for  the  general 
reader.  As  an  illustration  of  the  latter  phase,  we 
may  adduce  the  story  of  the  idol  protected  from 
desecration  at  night  by  a  cobra.  "  When  the  doors 
are  being  shut,  the  snake  slides  in,  and  coils  itself 
round  the  lingam.  Early  in  the  morning,  when 
the  priest  opens  the  door,  it  glides  away,  without 
attempting  to  harm  any  of  the  large  number  of  spec- 
tators, who  never  fail  to  assemble."  More  thrilling  is 
the  account,  twice  recorded,  of  the  Shanan  who  was 
working  on  the  top  of  a  palmyra  palm  when  a  high 
wind  broke  off  the  stalk  and  he  was  wafted  gently 
to  the  earth  by  a  huge  leaf,  which  acted  as  a  natural 
parachute.  Again,  there  is  much  suggestiveness  in 
an  instance  of  demon  worship:  the  demon  was  an 
English  officer,  killed  about  a  hundred  years  ago, 
and  the  worship  "  consisted  in  offering  to  his  manes 
spirituous  liquors  and  cheroots."  Then  another 
paragraph  will  send  a  very  different  current  along 
the  reader's  nerves:  "As  recently  as  1902  a  Euro- 
pean magistrate  in  Ganjam  received  a  petition, 
asking  for  permission  to  perform  a  human  sacrifice, 
which  was  intended  to  give  a  rich  colour  to  the 
turmeric  crop."  And  even  later  than  this  there 
have  been  unmistakable  examples  of  the  slaying  of 
children  to  procure  the  help  of  some  god.  Exact- 
ing students  will  regret  that  Mr.  Thurston  has  not 
always  indicated  more  clearly  the  value  he  places 
on  his  authorities,  although  his  sources  of  informa- 
tion are  generally  given.  The  author's  English  is 
simple  and  unstudied  almost  to  an  extreme.  The 
volume  is  well  printed  and  generally  presentable. 

Mr.    John    Burroughs's    new   book, 
The  long  ,     _          °  ,,     .TT        ,         N 

road" of  "Time  and  Change"   (Houghton), 

evolution.  js  a  C0nection  of  nature  essays  of  a 

kind  that  is  new,  not  only  in  Mr.  Burroughs's  work, 
but  in  literature.  It  was  to  be  expected  that  Mr. 
Burroughs,  who  has  more  of  the  scientific  attitude 
than  had  any  of  his  predecessors  in  nature  writing, 
would  turn  sooner  or  later  to  questions  of  geology  and 
biology,  and  he  has  at  last  done  so  in  a  book  that 
is  both  wise  and  entertaining.  It  is  the  result,  as 
he  remarks  in  the  preface,  "  of  the  stages  of  brood- 
ing and  thinking  which  I  have  gone  through"  in 
embracing  the  doctrine  of  evolution.  Most  of  us 
accept  this  doctrine  quite  as  our  forebears  normally 


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accepted  the  doctrines  of  Christianity  —  without 
question,  almost  without  interest;  and  we  avoid 
learned  treatises  on  the  subject  because  they  are 
presumably  dull.  Mr.  Burroughs's  essays  are  in 
the  main  a  visualization  of  evolution,  an  attempt  to 
open  our  eyes  and  our  minds  to  "  Primal  Energies  " 
and  "The  Hazards  of  the  Past"  and  all  the  infinitely 
wonderful  events  that  took  place  on  "The  Long 
Road";  they  are  an  emotional  yet  thoughtful  in- 
quiry into  the  problems  of  modern  science  —  science 
touched  with  emotion.  As  such,  they  are  thoroughly 
readable,  despite  the  prevalence  of  Mr.  Burroughs's 
inveterate  weakness,  repetition.  "I  am  aware," 
he  writes,  "that  there  is  much  repetition  in  them"; 
there  is  indeed,  and  it  wellnigh  spoils  them.  The 
first  essay  is  a  marvel  of  lack  of  evolution  in  style : 
back  and  forth  it  runs,  and  across,  like  a  dog  seeking 
the  scent.  The  annoyance  that  the  reader  suffers 
is  diminished  somewhat  by  the  skilful  arrangement 
of  the  essays;  they  become  more  and  more  specific 
as  we  go  on,  and  the  semi-narrative  essays,  such 
as  "  Holidays  in  Hawaii,"  afford  some  relief.  The 
concluding  chapter,  on  "The  Gospel  of  Nature," 
contains  soonany  interesting  and  significant  remarks 
that  one  finds  it  difficult  to  forbear  quotation. 

A  great  military  General  Sherman  at  the  head  of  an 
commander  as  academy  of  half  a  hundred  undis- 
college  president.  cipiined  boy  s,  and  pestered  with 
such  petty  administrative  details  as  the  detection 
and  punishment  of  the  young  scapegrace  who  had 
daubed  with  hair-oil  all  the  blackboards  and  chairs 
in  one  of  the  recitation  rooms,  presents  a  picture 
not  at  all  familiar  to  those  in  whose  imagination  he 
is  either  marching  victoriously  through  Georgia  or 
standing  shoulder  to  shoulder  with  Grant  in  repuls- 
ing with  heavy  loss  the  assaults  of  Confederate 
armies.  Yet  this  is  the  picture  of  him,  painted 
chiefly  by  himself,  that  is  offered  us  in  a  noteworthy 
volume  compiled  and  edited  by  Professor  Walter  L. 
Fleming,  of  the  Louisiana  State  University,  and 
published  by  the  Arthur  H.  Clark  Company  of 
Cleveland.  "General  W.  T.  Sherman  as  College 
President"  is  succinctly  described  on  its  title-page 
as  "a  collection  of  letters,  documents,  and  other 
material,  chiefly  from  private  sources,  relating  to 
the  life  and  activities  of  General  William  Tecumseh 
Sherman,  to  the  early  years  of  Louisiana  State  Uni- 
versity, and  to  the  stirring  conditions  existing  in  the 
South  on  the  eve  of  the  Civil  War;  1859-1861." 
Sherman  applied  for  and  obtained  the  position  of 
superintendent  of  the  State  Seminary  of  Learning 
at  Alexandria,  upon  its  organization  in  1859,  and 
he  entered  on  his  new  duties  with  the  opening  of  the 
year  1860,  holding  also  the  professorship  of  engi- 
neering, architecture,  and  drawing.  He  remained 
at  Alexandria,  ably  guiding  the  fortunes  of  what 
was  ere  long  to  become  the  State  University  of 
Louisiana  until  the  strained  relations  between  North 
and  South  made  him  feel  in  honor  bound  to  relin- 
quish his  post  and  throw  in  his  lot  with  the  Union. 
His  personal  and  official  correspondence  for  those 


two  years  is  now  for  the  first  time  brought  to  light 
by  one  enjoying  exceptional  facilities  for  the  col- 
lecting and  editing  of  these  interesting  documents, 
and  the  volume,  suitably  illustrated  and  sufficiently 
annotated,  forms  a  valuable  appendix  or  companion 
piece  to  Sherman's  "Personal  Memoirs."  It  shows 
the  man  at  a  critical  period  of  his  life. 

A  treatise  ?r-  Hubert  Parry's  "Style  in  Mus- 

on  style  in  ical  Art"  (Macmillan)  consists  of  a 

musical  art.  series  of  lectures  delivered  recently 
at  Oxford.  While  the  volume  has  the  necessary 
academic  completeness,  it  maintains  also  the  interest 
which  appeals  to  the  larger  audience.  Style,  Dr. 
Parry  tells  us,  "may  be  considered  from  as  many 
points  of  view  as  there  are  causes  or  conditions 
which  induce  it.  They  interlace  and  mingle  without 
necessarily  disturbing  or  confusing  one  another. 
Some  are  plain  and  easily  distinguished,  and  some 
are  hard  to  define ;  some  are  elementary,  inevitable, 
persistent ;  some  are  elusive  and  resultant.  Material 
causes,  general  causes,  psychological,  racial,  and  per- 
sonal causes,  associations  and  conditions  of  present- 
ment, all  influence  and  control  its  variations,  of  which 
anyone  with  a  glimmering  of  artistie  or  literary 
sense  is  conscious."  This  passage  indicates  the 
method  of  treatment.  To  each  phase  of  the  subject 
is  devoted  one  or  more  lectures,  and  the  historic  or 
evolutionary  procedure  is  followed  in  each  case. 
From  the  first  instinctive  recognition  of  an  element 
through  its  conscious  manipulation  up  to  its  free  and 
artistic  use  the  unfoldment  proceeds.  One  wonders 
why  the  treatment  is  not  made  more  systematic ;  Dr. 
Parry  announces  the  principles  underlying  the  mass 
of  material,  but  he  employs  these  principles  only  in 
the  subsidiary  phases,  not  in  the  whole.  This  gives 
a  somewhat  encyclopaedic  aspect  to  his  discussion, 
but  the  accumulation  of  detail  is  after  all  very  well 
ordered.  The  subject  of  style  is  here  treated  with 
the  consideration  which  its  importance  demands. 
The  work  is  remarkably  comprehensive,  and  indeed 
is  authoritative  in  its  field.  The  great  art  with 
which  it  deals  is  discussed  not  only  from  the  side  of 
its  technique,  but  also  from  the  side  of  its  content 
or  significance.  It  is  a  work  which  deserves  the 
serious  attention  of  all  who  are  interested  in  music. 


Recollections  of  A  young  English  society  woman, 
a  busv  author  suddenly  left  a  widow  with  two 
and  traveller.  smail  children,  pluckily  determined 
to  earn  for  those  children  the  advantages  that  would 
have  been  theirs  if  their  father  had  lived;  and  it 
was  with  her  pen,  backed  by  her  courage  and  her 
mental  resourcefulness,  that  she  accomplished  her 
resolve.  The  story  of  this  up-hill  struggle  is  told 
with  briskness  and  vivacity  in  "Thirteen  Years  of 
a  Busy  Woman's  Life"  (Lane),  a  noteworthy  piece 
of  autobiography  signed  by  Mrs.  Alec  Tweedie.  In 
her  "prologue"  she  refers,  with  a  mingling  of  epi- 
gram and  philosophy,  to  the  discipline  of  misfortune. 
"  Although  I  did  not  experience  it  myself,"  she  says, 
"I  am  sure  that  adversity  is  a  fine  up-bringing  for 


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youth.  It  makes  children  think,  which  youth  nursed 
in  luxury  seldom  does.  Adversity  only  came  to  me 
in  my  twenties.  Youth  is  often  spent  courting  time, 
middle  age  in  chasing  time,  and  old  age,  alas!  in 
killing  time."  Mrs.  Tweedie's  biography  of  her 
father,  Dr.  George  Harley,  and  her  books  about 
Mexico  and  its  seven-times  president  are  well  known, 
as  also  are  others  of  the  thirteen  volumes  she  has 
produced  in  as  many  years.  Her  large  output  of 
newspaper  and  magazine  writing  in  the  same  period 
was  probably  what  chiefly  paid  the  household  bills, 
though  it  will  be  sooner  forgotten.  Her  account  of 
her  various  travels  in  quest  of  book-material,  of  the 
hardships  and  bodily  dangers  she  has  faced,  of  the 
illustrious  persons  she  has  met,  and  a  great  variety  of 
other  matters  such  as  a  bright  and  observant  woman 
knows  how  to  make  the  most  of  in  a  narrative  of  the 
kind  she  has  so  entertainingly  written,  will  be  greatly 
enjoyed  by  those  who  like  to  read  of  real  life  strenu- 
ously lived  by  energetic  people. 


Washington  and  In  Wsvolume  entitled  "Washington 
Lincoln  as  and  Lincoln  "  (Putnam),  Mr.  Robert 

related  leaders,  yf  McLaughlin  attempts  a  rather 
unusual  task.  Inasmuch  as  the  names  of  Washington 
and  Lincoln  are  generally  coupled  as  the  two  great- 
est of  our  history,  it  has  seemed  to  the  author  that 
the  relation  of  these  two  leaders  in  governmental 
action  and  theory  should  be  traced.  He  assumes  a 
general  conviction,  "  which  deepens  with  the  years, 
that  the  two  '  Fathers  '  mastered  the  ideas  that  con- 
stitute the  basis  of  our  national  structure,"  and  he 
endeavors  to  show  that  the  two  men  acted  on  the 
same  great  principles  of  government,  —  the  "im- 
perial ideal  "  with  power  lodged  at  the  centre  dis- 
tinct from  and  in  addition  to  power  in  the  parts. 
Both  the  aristocrat  and  the  democrat  subscribed  to 
the  political  creed  that  power  as  expressed  in  law,  is 
derived  from  the  people,  "yet  the  words  did  not 
mean  exactly  the  same  to  each.  Washington  saw 
the  people  in  the  law  ;  Lincoln  saw  the  law  in  the 
people."  Mr.  McLaughlin  traces  the  course  of  our 
political  development,  from  the  English  attempt  at 
parliamentary  control  in  1765  through  the  revolu- 
tionary era,  the  constitutional  era,  the  national  era, 
and  the  civil  war  era,  to  show  Washington's  theory 
of  government  and  his  influence  upon  the  course  of 
affairs,  and  then  Lincoln's,  and  to  show  that  the 
abuse  of  its  power  by  the  controlling  group  called 
both  to  leadership  for  the  correction  of  these  abuses. 
The  attempt  is  interesting,  but  hardly  convincing  in 
the  matter  of  establishing  the  close  relation  in  ideas 
that  he  sees  between  the  two  leaders. 


Memorials  of 
Dante  in 


Dante  lovers  have  long  felt  and 
deplored  the  absence  in  Florence  of 
modern  Florence.  ue&T\y  ay  traces  of  the  great  poet 
whose  birthplace  it  was  more  than  six  hundred  years 
ago.  The  house  in  which  he  was  born,  the  stone  on 
the  spot  where  he  was  supposed  to  have  sat  as  a  boy 
to  watch  the  Duomo  a-building,  the  battered  portrait 
on  the  Bargello  wall, — these  have  seemed  almost 


his  only  remaining  memorials  in  the  modern  city. 
In  a  book  entitled  "With  Dante  in  Modern  Flor- 
ence "  (Dutton),  Miss  Mary  E.  Lacy  has  recorded 
and  described  whatever  now  remains  to  throw  light 
on  the  "  Divina  Commedia  "  or  its  author.  With 
its  help,  the  reader  or  tourist  may  reconstruct  in 
great  measure  the  Florence  in  which  Dante  lived 
until,  under  sentence  of  death,  he  became  an  exile 
for  twenty  years.  The  picture  of  those  times,  in 
politics,  in  art,  in  society,  and  religion,  is  briefly  but 
vividly  drawn ;  and  the  twenty-eight  illustrations, 
though  mostly  modern,  help  to  connect  present  and 
past.  A  concluding  chapter,  "  Florence  Repentant," 
relates  how  —  all  too  late  —  the  city  that  the  poet 
so  passionately  loved  has  done  and  continues  to  do 
all  that  is  in  her  power  to  wipe  out  the  shame  of 
centuries. 


BRIEFER  MENTION. 


Mrs.  Wilfrid  Jackson  has  translated  M.  Auatole 
France's  ironic  masterpiece  "La  Rotisserie  de  la  Reine 
Pe'dauque,"  and  the  work  is  published  by  John  Lane  Co. 
in  their  library  edition  of  the  author's  works.  Mr.  W. 
J.  Locke  contributes  an  introduction,  which  seems  to 
afford  a  felicitous  conjunction  of  wits. 

A  sense  of  filial  obligation  has  led  Miss  Helen  Nicolay 
to  carry  out  a  plan  long  cherished  by  her  father  of  sup- 
plementing his  great  history  of  Lincoln  and  his  times  by 
a  small  and  more  intimate  volume  portraying  the  man 
as  Nicolay  knew  him  in  the  close  association  of  many 
years.  He  had  collected  a  great  mass  of  anecdotes 
and  incidents  illustrating  Lincoln's  personal  traits;  but 
the  work  was  not  done,  and  now  the  daughter  has  ful- 
filled her  father's  unfinished  task  in  the  volume  entitled 
"  Personal  Traits  of  Abraham  Lincoln  "  (Century).  No 
new  light  is  thrown  on  Lincoln's  career  or  character,  but 
the  work  is  valuable  in  that  as  far  as  may  be  it  separates 
the  man  from  the  times  and  shows  him  as  he  was  in  his 
daily  life  and  personal  relations.  Such  chapters  as  those 
on  "  Lincoln's  Attitude  toward  Money,"  "  President  Lin- 
coln, his  Wife  and  Children,"  "Daily  Receptions  of  the 
Plain  People,"  "  Life  at  the  White  House,"  and  "  His 
Reason  and  his  Heart "  give  the  reader  a  new  and  clear 
insight  into  the  character  of  Lincoln. 

Miss  H.  A.  Guerber,  the  author  of  various  manuals 
of  legends  and  stories,  is  now  making  her  industrious 
way  through  Shakespeare,  her  latest  production  being 
a  volume  of  "  Stories  of  Shakespeare's  English  History 
Plays  "  (Dodd,  Mead  &  Co.).  That  Shakespeare  can  be 
retold  with  delight  and  edification,  Charles  Lamb  proved 
once  for  all;  and  though  one  hesitates  to  commend  this 
method  of  making  the  dramatist's  acquaintance,  doubt- 
less there  are  times  when  a  short  cut  may  serve  a  use- 
ful purpose.  There  may  be  readers,  too,  who  cannot 
relish  such  language,  for  example,  as  that  of  the  angry 
Douglas,  seeking  out  the  king  among  those  who  are  fnr- 
nished  like  him, —  "  I'll  murder  all  his  wardrobe,  piece 
by  piece  !  " —  but  would  really  prefer  to  be  told  that 
"  Douglas  hastens  away,  vowing  he  will  kill  all  the  kings 
on  the  battle-field,  since  a  number  of  knights  are  incased 
in  royal  armor."  For  all  such,  Miss  Guerber's  book  is 
to  be  commended.  Its  method  brings  out,  with  con- 
siderable emphasis,  the  instructive  value  of  this  epic 
cycle  of  plays. 


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A  new  work  by  Professor  Josiah  Royce,  entitled  "The 
Problem  of  Christianity,"  is  announced  by  Messrs.  Mac- 
millan  for  publication  early  next  year. 

A  French  study  of  Chaucer,  by  M.  Emile  Legouis, 
will  be  issued  shortly  by  Messrs.  E.  P.  Dutton  &  Co.  in 
an  English  translation  made  by  L.  Lalavoix. 

Mr.  Cobden-Sanderson  will  immediately  add  "The 
Tragedie  of  Anthonie  and  Cleopatra  "  and  "  Venus  and 
Adonis  "  to  his  splendid  Doves  Press  edition  of  Shake- 
speare. 

"  A  Christmas  Garland,"  by  Mr.  Max  Beerbohm,  to 
be  issued  shortly  by  Messrs.  E.  P.  Dutton  &  Co.,  will 
consist  of  a  series  of  parodies  of  well-known  authors  of 
the  day. 

Charles  Lamb's  essay  on  "  Old  China  "  and  Emerson's 
essay  on  "  Success  "  will  be  added  at  once  to  the  series 
of  Riverside  Press  Editions  published  by  Houghton 
Mifflin  Co. 

Mr.  J.  C.  Snaith,  the  young  English  novelist,  has  writ- 
ten a  study  of  industrial  and  political  conditions  in  Great 
Britain,  which  Messrs.  Doubleday,  Page  &  Co.  will  pub- 
lish next  year. 

"  Carmen  Sylva,  and  Sketches  from  the  Orient "  is 
the  title  of  a  new  book  by  Pierre  Loti,  which  the  Mac- 
millan  Co.  will  publish  immediately.  The  translation  is 
the  work  of  Mr.  Fred.  Roth  well. 

In  their  "  Connoisseur's  Library  "  the  Messrs.  Putnam 
will  issue  immediately  a  volume  entitled  "Fine  Books," 
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for  their  printing,  decoration,  or  illustrations. 

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known  as  "  New  York  Art "  is  soon  to  appear.  It  is 
said  that  Dr.  Wilhelm  R.  Valentiner,  curator  of  decora- 
tive arts  in  the  Metropolitan  Museum  of  Art,  will  be 
the  editor  of  the  new  publication,  and  Mr.  Frederic 
Fairchild  Sherman  will  be  the  publisher. 

Sir  Arthur  Quiller-Couch  has  been  appointed  King 
Edward  VII.  Professor  of  English  Literature  at  Cam- 
bridge University,  with  a  salary  of  £800  yearly.  The 
intended  foundation  of  this  professorship  was  announced 
two  years  ago,  Sir  Harold  Harmsworth  giving  Cam- 
bridge University  £20,000  for  its  endowment. 

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viewed in  our  last  issue,  died  in  Los  Angeles  November  1, 
at  the  age  of  thirty-six.  Besides  the  book  above  named, 
he  was  the  author  of  "The  Vermilion  Pencil,"  a  novel; 
"The  Valor  of  Ignorance,"  a  military  work;  "The 
Crimson  Spider,"  a  drama;  and  had  in  preparation  a 
history  of  the  political  development  of  China. 

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man's Library,"  Messrs.  E.  P.  Dutton  &  Co.  are  plan- 
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with  "Everyman's."  The  first  volume  of  this  important 
work  will  be  issued  in  January  next,  and  the  others  at 
regular  intervals  thereafter. 

The  biography  of  George  Frederick  Watts,  to  be  pub- 
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remarkable  interest.  The  work  has  been  prepared  by 
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these  the  first  two  include  the  biography  proper,  the 
last  containing  various  writings  and  hitherto  unpublished 
notes  by  G.  F.  Watts  on  artistic  subjects. 


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PAGE 

.  427 


A  TEACHER  OF  THE  SPIRIT 

CURRENTS  AND  EDDIES  IN  THE  HOLIDAY 

BOOK  FLOOD.    Percy  F.  Bickneil 429 

CASUAL  COMMENT 430 

Gerhart  Hjfuptmann's  variety  in  unity.  —  Foggy 
impressions  of  English  authors. — Respect  for  literary 
property. — What  great  authors  pride  themselves  on. 

—  Genius  and   personality.  —  The   demolition  of  a 
famous  library  building.  —  Ancient  Servian  poetry. 
— A  Cervantes  Museum. — A  use  for  old  schoolbooks. 
— A  hint  from  Quintilian.  —  The  two  latest  French 
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catalogues. 

COMMUNICATIONS 433 

' '  The  Peril  of  Externalism. "  An  American  Professor. 
Culture  and  Socialism.  B.B.  Wilton. 

MR.  BENNETT  VISITS  AMERICA.    Edith  Kellogg 

Dunton       435 

CHAUCER  IN  PROSE.     Clark  S.  Northup    ....  436 

AN  ALBUM  FROM  GREEK  AND  ROMAN  DAYS. 

Fred  B.  B.  Hellems 439 

A  DISCIPLE  OF  PATER.     Charles  H.  A.  Wager  .     .  442 

ASPECTS  OF  SOUTH  AMERICA.    Julian  Park  .    .  444 
Bryce's  South  America. — Whitney's  The  Flowing 
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HOLIDAY  PUBLICATIONS— 1 446 

Bullard's  Historic  Summer  Haunts.  —  Marden's 
Egyptian  Days. — Thurston's  The  Flower  of  Gloster. 

—  Edwards's  Marken  and  Its  People.  —  Howell's 
Around  the  Clock  in  Europe.  —  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hale's 
Motor  Journeys.  —  Chatterton's  Through  Holland  in 
the  Vivette.  —  Hilton-Simpson's  Land  and  Peoples 
of  the  Kasai.  —  D'Auvergne's  Switzerland  in  Sun- 
shine and  Snow.  —  Bradley's  The  Gateway  of  Scot- 
land.—  Allen's  Burgundy,  the  Splendid  Duchy. — 
Jenkins's  The  Story  of  the  Bronx.  —  Addison's  The 
Romantic   Story  of   the    Puritan    Fathers.  —  Miss 
Crawford's  Romantic  Days  in  the  Early  Republic. 

—  Mrs.  Champney's  Romance  of  the  French  Cha- 
teaux. —  Historic  New  York  during  Two  Centuries. 

—  Mrs.  Terhune's  Colonial  Homesteads  and  their 
Stories.  —  Eliza  Calvert  Hall's  A  Book  of  Hand- 
woven  Coverlets. — Miss  Urlin's  Dancing  Ancient 
and  Modern. — Flitch's  Modern  Dancing  and  Dancers. 
— Mr.  and  Mrs.  Caffin's  Dancing  and  Dancers  of  To- 
day. —  Fraprie's  The  Raphael  Book.  —  Miss  North- 
end's  Colonial  Homes    and  Their    Furnishings. — 
Lahee's  Grand  Opera  Singers  of  To-day.  —  Pennell's 
Pictures  of  the  Panama  Canal. —  Morris's  William  T. 
Richards.  —  Maeterlinck's    The    Life  of  the    Bee, 
illustrated    by    E.  J.    Detmold.  —  Kipling's  Kim, 
holiday  edition.  —  Merejkowski's  The  Romance  of 
Leonardo  da  Vinci,  translated  by  Herbert  Trench, 
holiday  edition.  —  Moir's  The  Life  of  Mansie  Wauch, 
illustrated  by  Charles  Martin  Hardie.  —  Hay's  Pike 
County   Ballads,    illustrated  by  N.   C.  Wyeth.  — 
Gautier's  Works,  new  pocket    edition.  —  Farnol's 
The    Broad    Highway,  illustrated  by-  Charles   E. 


HOLIDA  Y  PUBLICATIONS  — continued. 


Brock.  —  New  volumes  in  the  Burlington  Library.  — 
Rabelais's  Works,  illustrated  by  W.  Heath  Robin- 
son.—  Hyatt's  The  Charm  of  London  and  The 
Charm  of  Venice.  —  Bryant's  Yuletide  Cheer.  — 
Miss  Haines's  A  Book  of  Happiness.  —  McSpadden's 
The  Alps  as  Seen  by  the  Poets.  —  Robinson's  Bill 
the  Minder.  —  Mrs.  Hutchinson's  Our  Country  Life. — 
Johnson's  Childhood.  —  Flemwell's  The  Flower- 
Fields  of  Swtizerland. —  Miss  Wormeley's  Illus- 
trious Dames  of  the  Court  of  the  Valois  Kings,  and 
The  Ruin  of  a  Princess,  holiday  editions.  —  Davis's 
Myths  and  Legends  of  Japan.  —  Mrs.  Pennell's  Our 
House,  holiday  edition.  —  Barbour's  The  Harbor  of 
Love.  —  Miss  McCauley's  The  Garden  of  Dreams. 

THE  SEASON'S  BOOKS  FOR  THE  YOUNG  ...  456 

NOTES 461 

TOPICS  IN  DECEMBER  PERIODICALS    ....  462 
LIST  OF  NEW  BOOKS    .  .  463 


A  TEACHER  OF  THE  SPIRIT. 


"A  questioner,  scrupulous  yet  hopeful,  a 
teacher  of  the  spirit  and  doer  from  the  heart," — 
such  is  the  characterization  of  Charles  Eliot 
Norton  given  us  by  Mr.  Edward  Waldo  Emerson 
in  his  memorial  address  before  the  Archaeolog- 
ical Institute  of  America  at  the  Toronto  meet- 
ing of  1908.  This  address,  together  with  a 
briefer  one  by  Mr.  William  Fenwick  Harris,  is 
now  published  in  a  tastefully  made  volume  by 
the  Houghton  Mifflin  Co.,  and  offers  a  welcome 
foretaste  of  what  awaits  us  when  the  official 
biography  of  that  great  scholar  and  good  citizen 
shall  at  last  see  the  light. 

"  The  written  word  abides,  yet  sometimes 
merely  on  shelves,"  once  said  Mr.  Norton.  It 
was  rather  by  the  spoken  word,  reinforced  by 
the  engaging  personality  of  the  speaker,  that 
Norton  influenced  his  contemporaries,  and  made 
them  feel  that  he  approached  as  closely  as 
was  humanly  possible  to  that  ideal  type  of  the 
American  gentleman  which  most  of  us  cherish 
in  the  secret  chambers  of  the  heart.  To  count- 
less men  of  the  younger  generation  he  seemed 
the  ripe  scholar,  the  wise  counsellor,  and  the 
perfect  friend,  who  embodied  all  the  virtues  best 
worth  emulating,  and  his  example  stood  forth  as 
the  fine  flower  of  the  great  democratic  experi- 
ment in  which  are  centred  the  fairest  hopes  of 
mankind.  It  will  be  difficult  for  a  future  gen- 
eration to  realize  all  that  Norton  meant  to  those 
who  were  his  contemporaries,  and  who  were 
mentally  and  spiritually  fitted  to  appreciate 


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the  unerring  taste  and  unfailing  sanity  that 
informed  his  outlook  upon  art  and  life.  The 
printed  page  has  preserved  only  a  fraction  of 
the  utterances  which  constituted  his  influence, 
and  even  those  are  so  scattered,  in  periodicals 
and  in  the  books  to  which  he  contributed  edi- 
torial matter,  as  to  be  inconvenient  of  access. 
No  better  service  could  be  done  the  future  than 
that  of  collecting  these  fugitive  pages,  and  in- 
cluding them  within  the  covers  of  two  or  three 
volumes. 

Of  Norton's  sincere  kindness  and  unselfish 
desire  to  be  helpful,  many  instances  are  treas- 
ured by  those  who  knew  him.  The  following 
are  given  by  Mr.  Emerson: 

"He  kindly  came  to  our  little  farming  village,  as 
Concord  was  forty  years  ago,  to  tell  us  about  Turner 
in  our  Lyceum,  and,  unasked,  not  only  brought  ten  of 
Turner's  water-color  sketches  and  bade  me  hang  them 
in  our  public  library  for  a  week;  but,  hearing  that  two 
or  three  boys  and  girls  had  tried  to  copy  them,  wrote 
'  keep  them  a  fortnight  longer.'  For  a  further  instance 
of  his  great  generosity,  let  me  record  that  once,  hearing 
of  some  one  in  Portland,  Maine,  who  cared  for  Turner, 
he  packed  up  and  sent  several  of  his  own  pictures 
thither.  The  great  Portland  fire  came  and  destroyed 
them  all." 

Mr.  Harris  gives  us  these  further  instances : 

"  Professor  George  Herbert  Palmer  once  told  me  a 
charming  story  which  well  illustrates  the  desire  to  serve 
and  the  kindliness  of  which  I  have  spoken.  In  prepar- 
ing the  text  for  his  edition  of  the  poet  whose  name  he 
bears,  Palmer  found  it  necessary  to  use  the  first  edition 
of  Herbert's  works,  but  a  copy  was  not  to  be  had,  although 
Quaritch,  who  is  supposed  to  find  anything,  was  author- 
ized to  offer  an  extravagant  price  for  it.  Learning  that 
Norton  possessed  a  copy,  Palmer  with  some  trepidation 
ventured  to  ask  if  he  might  use  it  for  a  day  or  so.  Mr. 
Norton  was  leaving  for  his  summer  home  at  Ashfield,  but 
nothing  must  do  but  Palmer  should  take  the  book  for 
the  summer.  When  not  in  use  the  treasure  was  carefully 
locked  away  in  a  safe,  and  was  returned  the  day  the 
owner  came  back  from  Ashfield.  Mr.  Norton  listened 
with  great  interest  to  Palmer's  account  of  the  profit  he 
had  had  from  the  book.  Next  morning  the  latter  found 
a  neat  packet  in  his  hall,  with  a  note  to  this  effect  in 
Mr.  Norton's  exquisite  handwriting: — 

« 'Mr  DEAR  PALMER:  I  realized  last  night  after  you 
had  gone,  that  this  book  belongs  to  you  rather  than  to 
me.  Will  you  please  accept  it  ?  ' 

"Another  story,  one  of  many,  illustrates  the  same 
qualities.  A  young  instructor  in  Cambridge  was  keenly 
anxious  to  possess  a  certain  book  of  rarity  and  price. 
Norton  had  a  copy,  and  knew  the  younger  man's  desires. 
Meeting  the  instructor  one  day  upon  the  street,  Norton 
remarked  quite  casually,  'I  have  just  seen  a  copy  of  your 
book  at  the  Cooperative,  and  at  a  very  reasonable  price.' 
No  time  was  lost  in  the  purchase.  It  was  only  long 
afterwards  that  the  happy  possessor  realized  how  strange 
it  was  that  such  a  book  should  be  in  such  a  place  at 
such  a  price." 

These  anecdotes  serve  to  show  how  generously 
he  gave  himself  and  his  possessions  to  thos^  who 


were  merely  acquaintances  or  less  than  that. 
How  he  gave  himself  to  the  elect  among  his 
friends,  to  Ruskin  and  Carlyle  and  Clough  and 
Stephen  andFitzGerald  and  Lowell,  may  be  read 
in  the  correspondence  and  journals  of  these  men. 
Truly  he  had,  like  such  men  as  Stedman  and 
Howells,  a  genius  for  friendship. 

Norton's  undeviating  advocacy  of  righteous- 
ness in  public  affairs,  fearlessly  undertaken 
when  it  meant  opposition  to  popular  clamor, 
made  him  a  mark  for  the  criticism  of  mean  and 
malicious  persons,  and  he  suffered  not  a  little 
from  their  attacks.  He  was  called  un-American 
because  he  championed  the  merit  system  in  the 
civil  service,  and  opposed  the  spirit  of  imperial- 
ism which  so  fatally  undermined  our  national 
principles  after  the  war  with  Spain.  He  could 
not  "keep  his  ear  to  the  ground,"  which  he 
characterized  as  "  surely  not  the  attitude  most 
favorable  to  catch  the  message  from  on  high." 
He  was  called  a  pessimist  because  he  would  not 
admit  that  all  was  for  the  best  in  our  triumph- 
ant democracy,  and  "  was  impatient  of  optim- 
ism, being  too  sensitive  to  the  evils  of  his  day, 
public  and  private,  and  the  dangers  already 
looming  even  over  America  as  results  of  low 
standards  in  politics,  in  trade,  in  culture,  in  con- 
duct, to  be  content  in  waiting  for  things  to  work 
out  right  in  secular  time."  He  was  too  passion- 
ate an  idealist  to  observe  these  tendencies  in 
silence.  He  lived  in  a  time  when,  as  he  once 
wrote  to  a  friend,  "  the  advocates  of  culture  and 
the  maintenance  of  morality  in  politics  find  their 
best  type  in  Mrs.  Partington.  At  any  rate,  let 
us  use  our  brooms  as  briskly  as  we  can  till  the 
tide  quite  drowns  us  out."  He  never  lost  his 
faith  in  a  spiritual  purpose  in  the  world,  work- 
ing "  darkly,  but  O  for  good,  for  good,"  and 
never  expressed  that  faith  more  strikingly  than 
when,  not  long  before  his  death,  he  told  a  friend 
that  "  if  his  life  were  to  be  lived  again,  he  should 
like  to  live  in  Chicago,  because  he  seemed  to  see 
working  there,  through  the  vulgarity  and  com- 
mercialism necessarily  found  in  a  young  and 
prospering  American  town,  a  power  for  good, 
which  would  in  time  come  to  its  own." 

Mr.  Harris,  speaking  of  what  Norton  did  for 
archaeology,  quotes  a  letter  from  Dr.  Holmes  re- 
ferring to  the  work  of  the  Archaeological  Insti- 
tute. "  It  is  going  to  dig  up  some  gods  in  Greece 
—  if  it  can  get  money  enough.  I  suppose  they 
may  be  required  in  some  quarters  to  supply  an 
apparent  want."  It  was  the  "apparent  want" 
symbolized  by  the  gods  of  Greece  that  Norton 
made  it  his  life  work  to  attempt  to  supply — the 
want  of  reason  in  our  thinking,  and  righteous- 


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ness  in  our  public  and  private  conduct,  and 
beauty  in  our  daily  lives.  Quoting  Mr.  Harris 
once  more: 

"  That  standard  of  true  excellence  to  which  he  ever 
held  himself,  he  insisted  on  for  others,  and  men  rallied 
about  him  all  over  the  country.  The  simple  existence 
of  such  a  man  with  no  private  ends  to  serve,  who  is 
always  ready  and  willing  to  tell  his  fellows  the  truth, 
and  who  does  it  clearly  and  unflinchingly,  is  a  blessing 
to  a  community,  demanding  for  its  ennobling  influence 
a  gratitude  that  cannot  be  overpaid,  stimulating  and 
leading  men  to  high  achievement,  and  maintaining  those 
qualities  of  dignity,  of  skill,  and  of  high  ideals  which 
were  so  conspicuous  in  his  own  personality." 


CURRENTS  AND  EDDIES  IN  THE 
HOLIDAY  BOOK  FLOOD. 


An  attempt  to  write  a  treatise  on  the  book  harvest 
of  this  holiday  season,  a  harvest  amounting  to  thou- 
sands of  different  works,  would  inevitably  leave  the 
writer  filled  with  regret  that  he  had  not  confined  his 
attention  to  a  small  part  of  that  bewildering  whole, 
or  even  to  a  single  author  or  volume.  The  German 
specialist  who  in  his  last  years  lamented  that  he  had 
not  devoted  his  life  to  one  of  the  Greek  particles, 
and  not  to  them  all,  would  have  been  scandalized  at 
the  thought  of  undertaking  a  survey  of  the  tons  of 
books  that  fall  from  the  printing  presses  of  the  world 
in  a  single  season.  Yet  the  making  of  a  few  notes 
as  one  watches  from  a  safe  distance  the  yearly  liter- 
ary freshet  may  be  permissible. 

As  usual,  the  great  mass  of  this  periodic  flood  is 
composed  of  books  written  or  compiled  in  an  honest, 
utilitarian,  and  wholly  uninspired  endeavor  to  pro- 
duce something  acceptable  to  the  publisher  and  not 
distasteful  to  the  reader.  Literary  skill,  scholarly 
industry,  abounding  resourcefulness,  and  a  keen 
instinct  for  the  timely  and  for  what  shall  be  at  least 
transiently  interesting,  with  occasional  revelations 
of  curious  learning  or  unusual  scholarship,  are  all 
to  be  noted  among  the  qualities  contributing  to  the 
salability  of  the  printed  product,  to  which  also  the 
illustrator's  art  has  added  its  welcome  share  in  full 
measure.  This  stupendous  total  of  plodding  literary 
labor  seems  to  be  demanded,  year  after  year,  and  the 
patient  workers  are  not  wanting  to  the  task.  One 
is  reminded  of  that  great  majority  among  the  bees 
and  ants  which  consists  of  toilers  fitted  for  their 
monotonous  duties  by  certain  expert  manipulations 
in  the  pre-natal  stage  whereby  they  are  enabled  to 
perform  their  laborious  part  undistracted  by  the  vivid 
emotions  and  errant  impulses  necessary  to  ensure  the 
perpetuation  of  the  race.  Good  workmanlike  execu- 
tion, without  a  gleam  of  inspiration,  and  with  little 
or  nothing  of  striking  originality,  is  what  we  find 
in  the  great  mass  of  printed  matter  issued  in  such 
impressive  bulk  and  with  so  agreeable  an  accompani- 
ment of  exterior  ornamentation  and  pictorial  illustra- 
tion, as  the  annual  holiday  season  approaches.  Of 
course  no  rule  is  without  its  conspicuous  exceptions, 
and  so  in  the  great  company  of  holiday  books  there 


are,  first  and  last,  not  a  few  that  deserve  to  live  and 
will  live  after  the  season  for  which  they  are  immedi- 
ately provided  is  over.  Every  writer  of  a  Christmas 
book  is  privileged  to  hope  and  does  hope  that  his 
work  may  prove  to  be  of  this  enduring  sort. 

Ever  recurring  in  the  Yuletide  literary  output  are 
the  volumes  of  apt  selections  pleasantly  commemo- 
rating the  Christmas  season.  "Christmas  with  the 
Poets,"  "Santa  Glaus  in  Song  and  Story,"  "The 
Yule  Log  in  Legend  and  Tradition" — under  such 
attractive  titles  appear,  as  surely  as  "  Winter  comes 
to  rule  the  varied  year,"  a  sufficient  number  of  hand- 
somely bound  and  illustrated  volumes  which  show 
off. well  on  the  drawing-room  table  and  are  gladly 
picked  up  and  looked  through  by  the  caller  waiting 
for  my  lady's  appearance.  Almost  equally  sure  of 
publication  is  the  annual  volume  on  happiness,  either 
a  compilation  from  standard  authors  or  an  independ- 
ent attempt  to  point  the  way  to  that  elusive  good 
which  all  the  world  is  ever  seeking  and  rarely  holding 
in  conscious  possession.  A  considerable  contribution 
is  also  annually  made  to  the  "literary  landmarks" 
series,  books  showing  diligent  reading  or  at  least 
much  careful  examination  of  a  host  of  authors,  in  the 
search  for  topographical  allusions  or  other  matter 
suitable  for  this  class  of  literary  geography.  "Lon- 
don in  Literature,"  or  "Paris  in  Poetry,"  or  "His- 
toric Haunts  in  Hong  Kong,"  may  be  taken  as  typical 
forms  of  the  title  chosen  for  this  rapidly-growing 
series.  Closely  allied  to  it  is  the  travel-book  enriched 
with  literary  references  and  quotations,  a  kind  of 
book  that  could  be  written  without  going  outside  the 
four  walls  of  one's  library,  and  probably  is  some- 
times so  written, —  arm-chair  travels,  in  short,  both 
as  to  writer  and  reader. 

At  an  appreciable  remove  from  this  general  class 
of  geographic-literary  works  stands  the  never-failing 
book  of  more  or  less  matter-of-fact  travel,  a  kind  of 
literature  that  in  these  days  must  be  either  descrip- 
tive of  strange  lands,  if  there  be  any  such  still  left,  or 
the  chronicle  of  journey  ings  in  familiar  lands  under 
unusual  conditions.  "A  Year  with  the  Yookaghir 
Tribes,"  as  a  hypothetic  example,  would  seem  to 
promise  more  of  novelty  than  "Our  Summer  in 
Switzerland";  and  "Ballooning  in  the  Balkans"  or 
"  Aeroplaning  in  the  Andes  "  or  "Across  the  Pacific 
in  a  Canoe  "  should  offer  more  excitement  than  "  Six 
Weeks  in  Europe  "  or  "  My  Trip  to  Bermuda."  The 
Tailed  Head-Hunters  of  Borneo,  and  other  Head- 
Hunters,  presumably  tailless,  in  the  Philippines,  have 
recently  excited  some  curiosity  among  hardy  explor- 
ers and  novelty-seeking  readers,  and  at  least  three 
substantial  volumes,  one  English  and  two  American, 
have  very  lately  testified  to  this  awakened  interest. 
Of  country-life  books  and  nature-study  books  the 
already  generous  supply  is  this  year  still  further 
increased,  but  with  some  moderation  of  zeal  on  the 
part  of  the  so-called  nature-fakirs.  In  the  depart- 
ment of  reprints,  the  sumptuously-illustrated  holiday 
edition  is  every  year  becoming  more  conspicuous. 
Striking  and  often  beautiful  cover-designs,  such  as 
were  unknown  twenty  years  ago,  and  colored  illus- 


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trations,  often  astonishing  in  their  combination  of 
gaudy  hues,  but  of  late  showing  marked  artistic 
improvement,  make  their  vehement  appeal  to  the 
eye  on  every  book-counter. 

In  the  struggle  for  existence,  a  book  published 
in  these  crowded  days  often  owes  much  of  its  suc- 
cess or  failure  to  its  title.  The  invention  of  new  and 
striking  book-titles  is  becoming  daily  more  difficult, 
though  the  rapid  growth  of  our  vocabulary  helps  to 
relieve  the  embarrassment.  A  short  and  apt  and 
attention-compelling  name  every  book  that  hopes  for 
popular  success  must  have.  A  title  in  fifteen  or 
twenty  lines,  such  as  pleased  our  leisurely  ancestors 
would  not  now  be  tolerated.  For  brevity  nothing 
could  well  surpass  the  title  of  a  current  novel  which 
calls  itself  "Who?"  Another  is  entitled  "C  Q," 
self-explanatory  and  briefer  than  "  The  Wireless 
Man,"  which  appears  on  the  cover  of  another  novel 
of  the  season.  Familiar  and  even  stale  by  this  time 
is  the  title  of  which  "The  Rejuvenescence  of  Reho- 
boam  "  (though  there  is  no  such  book)  may  be  taken 
as  the  type.  Not  very  dissimilar  in  form,  and  not 
unsuccessful  in  its  appeal  to  curiosity,  is  the  actual 
title,  "The  Woman  of  It."  Among  other  rather 
unusual  book-names  this  year  may  be  noted  the 
following, — "  Cease  Firing,"  "  Why  Women  are  So," 
"Do  Something!  Be  Something !"" Around  the 
Clock  in  Europe,"  "  Martha-by-the-Day,"  and,  beau- 
tifully descriptive  of  a  collection  of  poems,  "A  Dome 
of  Many-Coloured  Glass."  Between  "  C  Q "  and 
"  Hevy  News  of  an  horryble  Erthquake  which  was 
in  the  Citie  of  Scarbaria,  Morocco.  In  the  present 
yere  of  xlii.  The  xiii.  day  of  June.  And  also  how 
that  a  Citie  in  Turky  is  sonke,"  there  stretch  nearly 
three  and  three-quarters  centuries  of  development  in 
the  art  of  book-making  and  book-naming.  Intoler- 
ably long  and  wearisome  and  taxing  to  the  memory 
would  those  sixteenth-century  book-titles  be  to  us 
now ;  and  unendurably  abbreviated  and  whimsical 
and  absurd  would  many  of  those  of  our  day  have 
seemed  to  our  great-great-great-grandfathers.  What 
book  fashions,  in  respect  to  the  minor  details  here 
briefly  touched  upon,  the  next  three  or  four  centuries 
shall  develop,  no  man  now  living  can  even  remotely 
conjecture. 

On  the  whole,  the  season's  literary  stream  leaves 
with  the  beholder  sitting  on  the  bank  an  impression 
of  surprising  volume  and  a  disposition  to  wonder 
where  all  those  tumbling  waters  will  finally  empty 
themselves.  Also  an  image  remains  of  the  fresh- 
ness and  sparkle  of  many  a  ripple  on  the  flood's 
surface,  and  at  the  same  time  a  sense  of  calmer  and 
stronger  currents  underneath,  with  a  consciousness 
of  the  inevitable  sediment  that  all  great  bodies  of 
flowing  water  carry  along  for  a  while  until  it  settles 
to  its  long  rest  on  the  ocean's  bottom.  And  so 
the  literary,  like  the  physiographic,  circulation  goes 
ceaselessly  on,  year  after  year,  bringing  health  and 
happiness  and  renewed  life,  and  insuring  against 
stagnation,  mephitis,  and  their  attendant  ills. 

PERCY  F. 


CAS  UAL  COMMENT. 

GERHART  HAUPTMANN'S  VARIETY  IN  UNITY  is 
emphasized  by  Professor  Edward  Everett  Hale  in 
a  study,  contributed  to  the  Boston  "Transcript," 
of  the  German  playwright  to  whom  has  just  been 
awarded  the  1912  Nobel  Prize  for  literature. 
"  Hauptmann  is  always  Hauptmann,"  we  are  as- 
sured, but  his  methods  of  expression  have  a  Protean 
diversity.  "  He  does  not,  like  some  artists,  grad- 
ually develop  a  form,  a  manner,  a  style  by  which 
we  may  know  him.  Zola  perfects  a  method  and  a 
theory ;  we  need  not  say  he  is  always  alike,  but 
certainly  his  work  is  all  of  a  piece.  Henry  James's 
later  work  differs  from  his  earlier,  but  it  is  all  a 
clear  development  and  each  step  seems  natural 
enough  in  view  of  the  one  before.  George  Meredith 
perfects  his  wonderful  instrument  and  accustoms  us 
to  it.  It  is  not  so  with  all.  Stevenson  was  always 
experimenting.  One  can  never  guess  what  Anatole 
France  will  produce.  The  leading  dramatists  of  our 
day  have  usually  held  to  a  few  resembling  forms.  .  .  . 
Maeterlinck,  it  is  true,  has  written  all  kinds  of  things. 
But  not  even  Maeterlinck  has  written  in  so  many 
forms  as  Hauptmann.  Hauptmann  himself  adds  to 
the  sense  of  diversity  by  giving  curious  names  to  his 
dramatic  forms,  a  social  drama,  a  thieves'  comedy, 
a  dream  poem,  a  fairy  tale  play,  a  dramatic  poem, 
a  glass-house  fairy  tale,  a  Berlin  tragi-comedy  — 
these  terms  are  not  exactly  the  names  of  literary 
forms,  but  they  certainly  signify  very  different 
things."  The  writer  finds,  what  perhaps  few  would 
look  for,  points  of  resemblance  between  the  subject 
of  his  essay  and  Byron,  and  his  study  concerns  itself 
with  various  other  matters  of  interest  to  admirers  of 
the  German  playwright. 

FOGGY  IMPRESSIONS  OF  ENGLISH  AUTHORS  are 
possessed  by  even  maturer  students  than  the  fifty 
first-year  college  girls  who,  according  to  a  writer 
in  "The  School  World,"  were  subjected  to  a  simple 
test  of  their  knowledge  of  the  classic  literature  of 
their  own  tongue,  and  were  found  surprisingly  de- 
ficient in  the  mere  elements  of  the  subject.  A  list 
of  writers  was  given,  comprising  Chaucer,  Shake- 
speare, Spenser,  Ben  Jonson,  Milton,  Dryden,  Pope, 
Dr.  Johnson,  Fielding,  Coleridge,  Wordsworth, 
Byron,  Keats,  Scott,  Jane  Austen,  Dickens,  Thack- 
eray, George  Eliot,  Rossetti,  Matthew  Arnold, 
Tennyson,  and  Browning,  and  it  was  required  to 
place  each  in  his  or  her  half-century  and  name 
one  of  each  writer's  works.  The  chronology  of  the 
answers  was  amazing,  Shakespeare  being  placed  by 
some  as  late  as  the  last  half  of  the  eighteenth  cen- 
tury, and  even  in  the  first  half  of  the  nineteenth, 
Milton  anywhere  from  the  thirteenth  to  the  nine- 
teenth, and  Wordsworth  and  Tennyson  as  far  back 
as  the  sixteenth,  with  Chaucer  ranging  over  nearly 
the  whole  of  the  Christian  era.  But  all  the 
girls  were  safe  when  it  came  to  naming  a  work 
by  Shakespeare  and  one  by  Milton,  while  forty 
were  equally  at  home  with  their  Chaucer,  Scott,  Ten- 


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Tennyson,  Thackeray,  Dickens,  and  George  Eliot. 
Thirty  showed  the  same  familiarity  with  Spenser, 
Pope,  and  Wordsworth.  But  all  these  names  were 
on  the  list  of  college  entrance  requirements.  Ben 
Jonson,  Fielding,  and  Rossetti,  however,  not  being 
on  the  list,  were  correctly  placed  by  only  three 
girls.  When  it  came  to  naming  the  authors  of  cer- 
tain designated  works,  varying  degrees  of  ignorance 
were  displayed,  four-fifths  of  the  students  being  able 
to  place  the  "Canterbury  Tales,"  "Faerie  Queene," 
"King  Lear,"  "In  Memoriam,"  and  "The  Mill  on 
the  Floss,"  but  only  one  knowing  the  authorship  of 
"Adonais,"  while  other  titles  evoked  a  variety  of 
random  guesses.  What  wonder  that  the  critics 
of  our  system  of  education  charge  us  with  encour- 
aging vagueness  and  superficiality  in  the  learner? 

RESPECT  FOB  LITERARY  PROPERTY  prevails  among 
men  and  women  of  honor,  and  stays  the  hand  from 
plagiarism,  piracy,  the  stealing  of  ideas,  and  similar 
practices.  There  is  also  another  kind  of  respect  for 
literary  property,  a  respect  that  will  bear  further 
cultivation,  especially  among  freauenters  of  public 
libraries.  This  respect,  it  will  at  once  be  surmised, 
is  the  feeling  that  forbids  the  mutilation,  defacement, 
or  theft  of  books,  periodicals,  or  other  reading  mat- 
ter provided  by  the  library  for  public  use  and  enjoy- 
ment. Reference  was  recently  made  in  these  col- 
umns to  the  indefensible  practice  of  marking  favorite 
passages  in  books  not  one's  own.  Familiar  to  all  is 
the  juvenile  prank,  which  seems  to  the  small  person 
so  immensely  clever  and  amusing,  of  writing  on  the 
fly-leaf,  or  on  an  early  page,  "  If  my  name  you  wish 
to  see,  look  on  page  two  hundred  and  three,"  with 
a  similar  rhyme  on  the  designated  page  referring 
the  reader  to  another  page,  and  so  on  until  the  circle 
is  complete,  and  the  young  vandal  hugs  himself  with 
glee  at  the  thought  of  the  seeker's  fruitless  search 
for  his  (the  vandal's)  valuable  autograph.  No 
amount  of  legislation,  no  system  of  police  will  ever 
completely  cure,  or  even  very  greatly  diminish,  evils 
of  this  sort.  A  stub  of  a  pencil,  or  a  small  pen-knife, 
held  concealed  in  the  hand,  can  accomplish  unlimited 
mischief  under  the  very  eyes  of  the  official  in  charge 
of  a  reading-room  or  reference-room  or  other  pub- 
licly accessible  department  of  a  library,  and  to  catch 
the  culprit  red-handed  is  rarely  possible.  Of  course 
the  remedy  lies  in  a  quickening  of  the  public  con- 
science, a  fostering  of  the  sense  of  what  is  seemly, 
a  realization  of  the  stupidity  and  brutishness  of  all 
acts  that  disregard  the  rights  of  others.  Travellers 
in  Japan  tell  of  beautiful  carved  fences  that  border 
the  public  road  and  yet  remain  permanently  unmu- 
tilated  by  destroying  jack-knives.  In  this  country 
the  carving  on  public  fences  is  done  by  the  ubiqui- 
tous small  boy,  or  even  by  the  college  student,  and 
takes  chiefly  the  form  of  personal  initials  and  the 
Greek  letters  designating  certain  secret  societies 
that  flourish  in  schools  and  colleges.  Some  day  all 
this  sort  of  thing  will  be  universally  recognized  as 
*'  bad  form,"  and  as  unallowable  as  a  buffet  below 
the  belt  in  a  boxing-match — or  at  least  we  hope  so. 


WHAT  GREAT  AUTHORS  PRIDE  THEMSELVES  ON 
is  by  no  means  always  their  best  writings,  or  even 
their  writings  at  all.  What  one  does  easily  and 
naturally  and  well  has  a  way  of  seeming  less  admir- 
able to  the  performer  than  a  painfully  and  imper- 
fectly executed  piece  of  work  for  which  he  is  not 
suited.  That  is  probably  one  reason  why  so  many 
authors  and  artists  of  assured  fame  have  longed  to 
win  laurels  in  walks  of  life  to  which  their  feet  did 
not  naturally  turn.  In  this  connection  it  is  interest- 
ing to  note  a  little  peculiarity  of  Guy  de  Maupassant's 
as  recorded  in  a  reminiscent  article  by  an  intimate 
woman  friend  of  his,  in  "  La  Grande  Revue."  He 
was  proud  of  his  physical  strength,  says  the  writer, 
and  liked  to  speak  about  it ;  and  she  recalls  his  lift- 
ing her  by  her  belt  and  holding  her  at  arm's  length, 
and  also  his  walking  laughingly  across  the  room  with 
a  heavy  arm-chair  in  each  hand.  She  even  believes 
he  prided  himself  more  on  this  muscular  dexterity 
than  on  his  literary  genius.  This  may  remind  the 
reader  of  Dr.  Holmes's  unfeigned  delight  in  the  bits 
of  wood-work  or  cabinet-making  with  which  he  varied 
the  monotony  of  literary  composition,  keeping  a  set 
of  tools  in  one  of  his  desk  drawers  for  such  recrea- 
tional uses.  The  recent  biography  of  Mark  Twain 
shows  him  to  have  prided  himself  on  his  mathemat- 
ical talent,  though  he  commonly  arrived  at  an  incor- 
rect result  in  his  laborious  calculations.  In  one  of 
these  self-imposed  exercises  in  later  life  he  figured 
out  his  own  pecuniary  liabilities  as  twice  what  they 
actually  were,  and  passed  a  wakeful  night  in  conse- 
quence; but  his  delight  on  discovering  his  error  in 
the  morning  seems  to  have  more  than  made  up  for 
the  loss  of  sleep.  At  another  time  we  find  him  calcul- 
ating the  number  of  light-years  separating  us  from 
Alpha  Centauri,  and  the  figures,  reproduced  in  fac- 
simile, are  certainly  impressive,  whatever  other  quali- 
ties they  may  lack. 

GENIUS  AND  PERSONALITY  are  rightly  associated 
together.  The  theory  of  impersonal  genius,  whereby 
a  great  epic  (like  the  "Iliad  "  or  the  "  Odyssey  ")  can 
come  into  being  spontaneously  without  any  assign- 
able authorship,  has  by  this  time  been  pretty  well  ex- 
ploded, although  Wolf  for  a  long  while  made  the 
greater  part  of  the  academic  world  believe  that  a 
brew  of  commonplace  minds  could  somehow,  if  left 
to  simmer  long  enough,  take  on  the  flavor  of  trans- 
cendent genius.  Those  who  have  never  allowed 
themselves  to  be  overawed  or  convinced  by  the  array 
of  Teutonic  learning  in  support  of  the  conglomerate 
authorship  of  Homer's  poems  can  now  congratulate 
themselves  as  they  see  the  learned  world  coming 
around  again  to  their  own  position.  The  first  chapter 
of  Mr.  Chamberlain's  masterly  book,  "The  Founda- 
tions of  the  Nineteenth  Century,"  contains  some  pas- 
sages that  will  please  them.  The  late  Andrew  Lang 
was  one  of  the  sturdiest  believers  in  Homer,  and 
also  in  Shakespeare.  A  posthumous  work  of  his, 
announced  for  publication,  indicates  by  its  table  of 
contents  the  attitude  of  the  writer  toward  th  ti- 
Shakespeare  school.  "  Shakespeare,  Bacon,  the 


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Great  Unknown  "  is  the  book's  title,  and  its  chapters 
deal  with  the  Baconian  and  anti- William  positions, 
the  "silence  "  about  Shakespeare,  that  impossible  He, 
the  schooling  of  Shakespeare,  Mr.  Churton  Collins 
on  Shakespeare's  learning,  contemporary  recognition 
of  Will  as  an  author,  the  later  life  of  Shakespeare,  the 
preoccupations  of  Bacon,  and  other  kindred  topics. 
Nevertheless,  there  will  probably  always  be  disbeliev- 
ers in  the  Shakespearean  authorship  of  the  plays,  just 
as  there  will  always  be  disbelievers  in  the  rotundity 
of  the  earth.  ... 

THE  DEMOLITION  OF  A  FAMOUS  LIBRARY  BUILD- 
ING will  begin  about  Christmas  time,  when  Gore  Hall 
will  have  ceased  to  shelter  the  library  of  Harvard 
University  and  will  yield  place  to  the  magnificent 
structure  given  by  Mrs.  Widener  in  memory  of  her 
son,  Harry  E.  Widener  (Harvard  '07),  who  at  his 
death  in  the  wreck  of  the  "Titanic"  left  his  fine 
collection  of  books  to  his  alma  mater.  The  removal 
of  the  books  from  Gore  Hall  has  for  some  time  been 
going  on  at  the  rate  of  about  fifty  thousand  volumes 
a  week ;  but  as  the  entire  library  numbers  somewhat 
over  a  million  volumes  (though  not  all  housed  to- 
gether) the  work  of  transfer  to  temporary  quarters 
in  other  college  buildings  is  no  speedy  process.  It 
was  to  the  generosity  of  Christopher  Gore,  seventh 
governor  of  Massachusetts,  that  Harvard  owed  its 
once  greatly-admired  library  building  which  was  first 
occupied  in  1841,  fourteen  years  after  Gore's  death 
and  his  bequest  of  two  hundred  thousand  dollars  to 
the  college  in  Cambridge.  In  those  intervening  years 
the  corporation  had  deliberately  and  wisely  deter- 
mined to  erect  a  building  that  should  be  fire-proof 
and  "  in  material  and  architecture  an  enduring  mon- 
ument to  the  memory  of  the  most  munificent  of  all 
the  benefactors  of  the  University ;  .  .  .  since  the 
security,  the  capacity,  and  the  means  of  convenient 
arrangement  and  display  which  such  a  building 
affords  would  be  among  the  more  powerful  induce- 
ments to  intelligent  and  liberal  minds  to  contribute 
toward  filling  its  alcoves  and  enlarging  its  useful- 
ness." In  the  short  space  of  a  quarter-century  what 
had  seemed  so  vast  an  emptiness  was  crowded  with 
books,  and  ever  since  then,  despite  additions  to  the 
structure,  the  congestion  has  been  growing  more  pro- 
nounced. It  is  pleasant  to  learn  that  the  name  and 
memory  of  Christopher  Gore  will  be  perpetuated  in 
one  of  the  three  freshmen  dormitories  about  to  arise 
on  the  bank  of  the  Charles  River,  somewhat  apart 
from  the  main  group  of  university  buildings. 

•          •          • 

ANCIENT  SERVIAN  POETRY  is  of  a  richness  and 
beauty  suspected  by  few.  One  of  the  marked  char- 
acteristics of  this  gallant  people  that  has  been  so 
sturdily  contending  for  its  national  independence  is 
its  imagination,  its  poetic  temperament,  as  Professor 
Pupin  of  Columbia  University,  honorary  Servian 
consul  at  New  York,  is  reported  recently  as  saying. 
It  is  wonderful  and  admirable  that  a  race  deprived 
of  education  during  five  centuries  of  Moslem  oppres- 
sion, and  robbed  of  all  knowledge  of  its  ancient  liter- 
ary language,  should  still  be  able  to  preserve  in  the 


form  of  folklore  and  verse  of  extraordinary  beauty 
the  details  of  every  important  event  in  its  history. 
Goethe  is  said  to  have  learned  the  old  Servian  tongue 
in  order  to  gain  access  to  this  rich  mine  of  native 
poetry  so  little  worked  by  scholars  and  writers,  though 
it  appears  that  the  University  of  Vienna  has  lately 
caused  several  hundred  thousand  lines  of  this  poetry 
to  be  translated  into  German.  The  Servian  minstrel, 
old  and  blind,  perhaps,  or  supporting  himself  on 
crutches,  is  a  not  unfamiliar  sight,  making  his  way 
with  his  one-stringed  lute  from  place  to  place  and 
singing  to  the  peasants  the  brave  deeds  of  their  fore- 
fathers. It  is  not  strange,  by  the  way,  that  the  peo- 
ple object  to  being  called  Servians,  which  suggests 
a  derivation  from  the  Latin  servus,  a  slave.  They 
wish  to  be  known  as  free  and  independent  Serbs. 

A  CERVANTES  MUSEUM  has  been  established,  or 
at  least  started,  at  Valladolid,  where  the  house 
once  occupied  by  the  author  of  "Don  Quixote," 
together  with  the  two  adjoining  houses,  has  been 
bought  by  King  Alfonso  out  of  his  private  purse, 
and  Cervantes  rel|cs  and  souvenirs  will  there  be  col- 
lected and  preserved.  As  in  Homer's  case,  seven 
cities  have  contended  for  the  honor  of  having  given 
to  the  world  the  greatest  of  Spanish  writers,  but 
Valladolid  is  not  one  of  these  seven.  Soon  after 
the  beginning  of  the  seventeenth  century  Cervantes 
is  believed  to  have  lived  there  a  few  years  and  to- 
have  written  there  a  part  of  his  most  famous 
work,  whose  first  publication  dates  back  to  1605.. 
Alcalii  de  Henares,  as  everyone  knows,  is  the  for- 
tunate  city  now  conceded  to  have  given  birth  to  this- 
great  contemporary  of  our  Shakespeare.  The  tradi- 
tion  of  their  dying  both  on  the  same  day  one  likes  to- 
regard  as  history  and  to  set  side  by  side  with  the  famil- 
iar story  of  the  almost  simultaneous  death  of  Adama- 
and  Jefferson  —  though  apart  from  the  element  of- 
curious  coincidence  there  is  nothing  to  connect  the- 
two  traditions.  ... 

A  USE  FOR  OLD  SCHOOLBOOKS  which  might  other- 
wise be  thrown  into  the  fire  or  on  the  rubbish  heap, 
should  be  brought  to  the  attention  of  those  whose 
attics  are  rich  in  these  interesting  reminders  of  the- 
little  red  schoolhouse  or  the  old-fashioned  village - 
academy.     The  United  States  Bureau  of  Education 
is  forming  what  it  hopes  will  be  the  best  pedagogical1 
library  in  the  world;  indeed,  it  already  is  the  best,, 
containing  about  seventy  thousand  volumes  on  the 
subject  of   education,  and  eighty   thousand   pam- 
phlets, reports,  periodicals,  and  other  miscellaneous- 
matter  not  in  bound  book  form,  all  freely  accessible 
to  the  public  and,  under  certain  restrictions,  open  to  • 
general  circulation.    The  department  of  school  text- 
books in  the  principal  European  languages  ne^,,*- 
sarily  has  many  yawning  gaps,  and  it  is  in  the  hope- 
of  reducing  these  gaps  that  Commissioner  Claxton . 
asks  for  gifts  of  such  old  books  of  this  class  as  may 
be  lurking  unused  and  unregarded  in  dusty  lofts 
and  obscure  corners.    The  Government  has  always- 
been  liberal  in  its  policy  of  sending  out  its  publica* 
tions  wherever  desired,  and  it  now  hopes  the  people- 


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will  respond  with  like  generosity  in  helping  to  equip 
the  educational  library  with  such  material  of  the 
above-named  sort  as  may  be  available. 

A  HINT  FROM  QUINTILIAN,  whose  "Institutiones 
Oratoriae  "  are  not  now  much  read  even  by  classical 
students,  is  conveyed  to  those  desirous  of  perfecting 
their  literary  style  and  enlarging  their  vocabulary, 
by  a  writer  in  the  current  "Hibbert  Journal"  who 
makes  a  study  of  ancient  and  modern  methods  of 
education,  with  the  Roman  rhetorician  for  a  text. 
After  quoting  Quintilian's  advice  to  read  the  ancient 
Latin  authors,  first  because  they  supply  a  fine  liter- 
ary vocabulary,  and  secondly  because  they  are  models 
in  the  arrangement  of  their  matter  so  as  to  instruct 
and  inform  by  orderly  sequence  and  not  by  clever 
phrase-making  alone,  the  writer  continues:  "Quin- 
tilian's lesson  for  us  to-day,  then,  would  be — Receive 
gratefully  the  large  heritage  of  language  which  you 
have  received  from  your  literary  predecessors,  and 
study  it  by  progressive  stages,  and  employ  its  vocab- 
ulary when  occasion  requires.  If  an  old  word  ex- 
isted in  English  —  say  in  Elizabethan  times  —  hold 
by  that  word,  or  re-introduce  it,  rather  than  some 
modern  catchword  spawned  by  slang  or  perverted 
from  Cockney  French."  Or,  to  put  this  more  briefly 
in  our  own  words  (and  Milton's),  cultivate  the  habit 
of  avoiding  such  terms  and  phrases  as  would  have 
made  Quintilian  stare  and  gasp. 

THE  TWO  LATEST  FRENCH  ACADEMICIANS,  Gen- 
eral Lyautey,  conqueror  of  Morocco,  and  Professor 
Emile  Boutroux,  philosopher  and  author  of  "Le  Moi 
Subliminal"  and  other  works,  including  a  notable 
preface  to  the  French  edition  of  William  James's 
"Varieties  of  Religious  Experience,"  present  a  pleas- 
ing contrast  to  the  mind's  eye  and  illustrate  in  their 
dissimilar  personalities  the  broad  catholicity  of  judg- 
ment that,  in  this  instance  at  least,  has  placed  them 
both  among  the  Immortals.  Yet  it  should  not  be 
inferred  that  General  Lyautey  is  exclusively  a  man 
of  arms  and  of  warlike  deeds.  He  handles  the 
pen,  it  appears,  with  as  much  dexterity  as  the 
sword.  Two  articles  of  his  in  the  "Revue  des 
Deux  Mondes  "  (one  entitled  "  Du  Role  Colonial  de 
1'ArmeV'  the  other,  "Du  Role  Social  de  1'Officier") 
have  won  warm  praise,  and,  apart  from  their  sub- 
stance, are  said  to  be  well  worth  reading  "merely 
as  literature."  Professor  Boutroux's  early  work  on 
"The  Contingency  of  Natural  Laws,"  his  thesis  for 
the  doctor's  degree  in  1874,  was  a  vigorous  assault 
on  the  then  prevalent  doctrine  of  determinism,  and 
it  marked  him  as  a  thinker  of  originality  and  force. 

THE  VIGOROUS  GROWTH  OF  LIBRARY  CATALOGUES, 
u.  ir  rapid  increase  in  physical  dimensions,  especially 
when  they  take  the  form  of  card-catalogues,  as  they 
commonly,  and  wisely,  now  do,  is  something  rather 
disturbing  to  the  mental  peace  of  a  librarian  already 
cramped  for  space  in  the  upbuilding  of  the  institu- 
tion under  his  charge.  Some  one  has  facetiously 
forecast  the  time  when  the  card-catalogues  of  the 
Boston  Public  Library  and  the  Harvard  Library 


will  meet  on  the  bridge  over  the  Charles  (known  as 
the  Harvard  bridge)  and  special  conveyances  will 
be  provided  for  those  desiring  to  consult  distant 
drawers  in  this  five-mile  catalogue  of  the  two  famous 
collections.  But  even  the  compactness  of  a  printed 
catalogue  does  not  by  any  means  make  a  large  li- 
brary's catalogue  a  volume  for  the  pocket.  This  is 
forcibly  brought  to  mind  by  an  announcement  from 
the  State  University  of  Iowa  (in  a  neat  little  "Hand- 
book of  the  Library  ")  that  it  "has  just  strengthened 
its  bibliographical  collection  by  the  addition  of  the 
British  Museum  catalog  of  printed  books," — a  work 
extending  to  some  ninety  large  volumes  and  still 
growing.  The  contemplation  of  those  serried  ranks 
brings  home  to  one  the  truth  of  that  hackneyed 
quotation  from  "  Eeclesiastes,"  xn.,  12. 


COMMUNICATIONS, 


"THE  PERIL  OF  EXTERNALISM." 

(To  the  Editor  of  THE  DIAL.) 

I  beg  your  permission  to  file  my  objections  to  your 
recent  editorial  on  "  The  Peril  of  Externalism,"  based 
upon  a  recent  paper  by  Professor  Joseph  Jastrow  on 
"  The  Administrative  Peril  in  Education."  What  you 
say,  and  what  Professor  Jastrow  has  said,  is  what  has 
been  said  by  others.  But  it  seems  to  me  to  lack  founda- 
tion in  fact, —  or  at  least,  it  represents  a  widespread 
state  of  things  from  which  there  are  many  exceptions. 
It  may  be  true  that  "  externalism,"  as  you  term  it,  fails 
to  attract  strong  men  to  the  profession  of  teaching  and 
that  it  does  not  foster  a  vigorous  intellectual  life  in  our 
universities.  It  is  true  that  there  are  institutions  with- 
out strong  men  and  with  conditions  hampering  to  free- 
dom of  thought  and  expression.  But  is  this  due  solely 
or  chiefly  to  the  method  of  administration  ?  And  it  is 
true  also  that  there  are  institutions  manned  by  robust 
scholars  who  enjoy  complete  freedom.  The  latter  group 
may  be  smaller  than  the  former,  but  it  exists.  I  speak 
from  intimate  personal  knowledge,  for  I  have  had  the 
honor  of  holding  a  chair  in  an  institution  of  this  high 
character  for  nearly  a  quarter  of  a  century.  And  yet 
this  institution  is  governed  by  a  self-perpetuating  board 
of  trustees;  it  has  a  president  who  does  not  hesitate  to 
exercise  authority;  and  its  administration  seems  to  con- 
form to  the  method  you  hold  to  be  harmful.  In  theory 
the  ultimate  power  over  everything  is  absolutely  in  the 
hands  of  the  trustees;  and  sovereignty  must  be  lodged 
somewhere.  In  practise  every  one  of  the  separate  schools 
has  its  owu  faculty  and  is  expected  to  control  its  own 
internal  affairs.  The  department  to  which  I  belong  is 
substantially  autonomous;  that  is  to  say  that  we  recom- 
mend men  for  vacant  chairs  and  for  promotion,  our 
recommendations  being  always  accepted  by  the  presi- 
dent and  by  the  trustees  who  also  deal  with  us  as  liberally 
as  the  finances  of  the  university  will  permit.  In  theory 
this  may  be  autocracy;  in  practise  it  is  democracy. 

I  find  in  your  article  this  quotation  from  Professor 
Jastrow : 

"Prosperity  is  statistically  measured;  hence  the  desire 
for  more  buildings  and  costly  ones ;  for  more  instructors, 
many  of  them  occupied  in  work  that  the  college  should  re- 
quire and  not  provide ;  and  more  and  more  students  who  must 
be  attracted  toward  the  local  Athenopolis  and  away  from  the 
rival  one ;  accordingly  the  hills  are  all  reduced  to  easy  grades 
and  new  democratic  (not  royal)  roads  to  learning  are  laid  out 


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for  those  who  do  not  like  the  old  ones.  Requirements  are  set 
not  to  what  collegians  should  learn  but  to  what  they  will ;  as 
at  the  circus  the  strip  of  bunting  is  held  ostentatiously  high 
until  the  horse  with  its  fair  burden  is  about  to  jump,  when  it  is 
inconspicuously  accommodated  to  the  possible  performance." 
Again  I  admit  that  there  may  be  institutions  of  this 
sort;  but  if  they  exist,  I  should  like  to  know  their 
names.  I  think  that  the  time  has  come  for  a  bill  of  par- 
ticulars. I  crave  more  specification  and  less  declamation. 
At  the  institution  which  I  know  best  the  conditions  are 
the  reverse  of  this.  Buildings  continue  to  be  erected, 
provided  always  by  special  gift  and  never  out  of  the  free 
funds  of  the  corporation.  Students  also  increase  in 
numbers,  but  not  as  a  result  of  any  lowering  of  stand- 
ards. On  the  contrary,  these  standards  have  been 
steadily  raised  in  the  several  professional  schools,  every 
one  of  which  now  requires  two  or  three  years  of  college 
work  as  a  prerequisite  for  admission,  and  every  one  of 
which  is  making  severer  demands  upon  the  students 
after  they  are  admitted.  In  the  college  itself  there  has 
been  a  steady  improvement  in  the  students ;  they  work 
now,  most  of  them,  as  very  few  of  my  classmates  worked 
when  I  was  an  undergraduate.  They  are  alert,  intelli- 
gent, interested.  They  are  in  fact  the  exact  opposite  of 
those  described  in  another  passage  that  you  quote  from 
Professor  Jastrow: 

"  Students  have  no  intellectual  interests,  no  applications, 
no  knowledge  of  essentials,  no  ability  to  apply  what  they 
assimilate;  they  are  flabby,  they  dawdle,  they  fritter  and 
frivol,  they  contemn  the  grind,  they  seek  proficiency  in  stunts, 
they  drift  to  the  soft  and  circumvent  the  hard;  undertrained 
and  overtaught,  they  are  coddled  and  spoon-fed  and  served 
where  they  should  be  serving;  and  they  get  their  degrees  for  a 
quality  of  work  which  in  an  office  would  cost  them  their  jobs." 

I  have  visited  a  score  of  American  colleges  east  and 
west;  and  nowhere  have  I  met  undergraduates  of  this 
type.  If  Professor  Jastrow  actually  knows  a  single 
institution  harboring  such  creatures,  he  owes  it  to  the 
cause  of  education  in  the  United  States  to  step  forward 
frankly  and  let  us  know  its  name. 
November  20, 191S.  AN  AMERICAN  PROFESSOR. 

CULTURE  AND  SOCIALISM. 
(To  the  Editor  of  THE  DIAL.) 

While  every  thoughtful  reader  of  the  editorial  in 
your  last  issue  must  agree  with  Dr.  Andrews  as  to  the 
present  condition  of  our  spiritual  health,  I  venture  to 
think  that  there  are  many  who  will  take  decided  excep- 
tion to  much  of  his  reasoning. 

In  the  first  place,  a  conception  of  culture  narrowed 
down  to  an  "  appreciation  of  the  non-economic  values  " 
leaves  something  to  be  desired.  There  have  been,  and 
are  to-day,  persons  of  not  wholly  contemptible  intellect 
who  maintain  that  ethical  and  aesthetic  values  are 
almost  inseparably  interwoven  with  economic  and  social 
values, —  that,  indeed,  the  advance  of  economic  forces 
has  always  been  the  base  of  cultural  and  religious 
no  less  than  of  political  and  social  progress.  But  even 
disregarding  this  view,  is  it  anything  less  than  ludicrous 
to  look  for  "  appreciation  of  the  non-economic  values  " 
in  a  civilization  such  as  ours  is  to-day  where  economic 
values  are  so  all-pervading  and  all-powerful  ? 

Dr.  Andrews  is  quite  obviously  a  thorough-going  indi- 
vidualist, and  as  such  it  is  no  doubt  comforting  to  him 
to  think  of  socialism  as  a  rigid  economic  theory  standing 
rooted  to-day  where  it  stood  a  half-century  ago,  —  being 
of  those  who,  as  Miss  Scudder  says,  "  find  it  more  con- 
venient and  more  consonant  with  prejudices  of  which 
they  are  unaware,  to  accept  the  blatantly  materialistic 


tone  of  some  current  socialism  at  face  value  as  represen- 
tative of  the  whole  movement."  Socialism,  to  him,  is 
"  a  crusade  against  the  highlands  of  men's  life  in  the 
supposed  interest  of  the  bog";  "it  is  essentially  a 
gospel  of  materialism,  and  its  root  appeal  is  to  greed"; 
it  would  "  build  forth  the  social  body  utterly  without 
regard  to  heterogeneity."  Now  I  think  it  is  no  less 
than  the  truth  to  say  that  socialism,  as  the  majority  of 
its  adherents  understand  it  to-day,  is  the  exact  and 
polar  opposite  of  all  these  things.  It  is,  if  it  is  any- 
thing at  all,  a  crusade  to  rescue  mankind  from  the  bog, 
and  give  him  his  chance  at  the  highlands;  instead  of 
being  a  gospel  of  greed,  it  is  an  organized  revolt  against 
greed;  free  play  for  the  development  of  heterogeneity 
is  one  of  its  primary  and  basic  purposes. 

Except  in  the  consciousness  of  a  few  irreconcilables, 
the  old  warfare  between  socialism  and  individualism  is 
in  fact  at  an  end.  Few  things  are  more  clear  to  an  open 
and  rational  mind  than  that  not  only  are  the  two  con- 
ceptions not  antagonistic,  but  that  each  is  essential  and 
complementary  to  the  other.  As  Oscar  Wilde  remarked, 
over  twenty  years  ago,  socialism  is  of  value  simply  be- 
cause it  leads  to  individualism.  "  We  socialize  what  we 
call  our  physical  life,"  says  Mr.  Havelock  Ellis,  "in 
order  that  we  may  attain  greater  freedom  for  what  we 
call  our  spiritual  life."  The  class-conscious  revolution- 
ary socialism  of  Karl  Marx  is  to-day  as  obsolete  as  the 
violent,  almost  insane  individualism  of  his  contemporary, 
Max  Stirner.  In  the  place  of  these  we  now  have  a  great 
far-reaching  system  of  social  moralization  and  regenera- 
tion that  promises  to  every  individual  a  rational  hope  of 
freedom  and  self-realization. 

If  we  reject  that  hope,  what  other  is  there?  Perhaps 
it  should  be  sufficient  for  us  to  know,  as  a  writer  in  your 
last  issue  tells  us,  that  "  reason  is  slowly  but  surely  work- 
ing out  its  triumph  over  unreason  in  the  ordering  of 
human  affairs,"  and  we  should  rest  content  in  the  con- 
templation of  that  automatic  and  beautiful  process.  But 
there  are  some  persons,  like  Mr.  Wells,  who  prefer  not 
to  wait,  who  prefer  doing  what  they  can  to  hasten  mat- 
ters along  a  bit.  And  even  were  we  all  to  wait,  in  serene 
and  confident  inaction,  what  would  become  of  culture 
meanwhile?  For  as  surely  as  it  is  impossible  to  gather 
grapes  from  thorns  and  figs  from  thistles  is  it  impossible 
that  sound  culture  should  spring  from  the  conditions  of 
economic  restraint  and  social  wrong  in  which  we  live. 
What  William  Morris  said  of  art  is  equally  true  of  all 
cultural  activity, — "  it  has  no  chance  of  a  healthy  life, 
or,  indeed,  of  a  life  at  all,  till  we  are  on  the  way  to  fill 
up  the  terrible  gulf  between  riches  and  poverty."  And 
until  that  gulf  is  filled,  what  ethical  right  have  any  of 
us,  however  exempt  from  the  common  lot  our  own  lives 
happen  to  be,  to  devote  ourselves  to  the  concerns  of 
abstract  culture?  We  know  what  choice  Ruskin  and 
Tolstoy  and  Morris  made  when  it  came  to  a  decision 
between  cloistered  culture  and  social  warfare;  and  in 
the  aggravated  conditions  of  our  own  day,  their  choice 
is  far  more  emphatically  incumbent  upon  us. 

Nowadays  "  there  is  wide  remission  of  enthusiasm  for 
humanity,"  thinks  Dr.  Andrews.  He  is  doubtless  right; 
but  such  enthusiasm  for  humanity  as  does  exist  will  be 
found  in  largest  part  among  those  who,  whether  or  not 
they  call  themselves  socialists,  are  yet  fighting  the  good 
fight  for  all  that  present-day  socialism  represents  and 
embodies.  And  until  that  fight  is  won,  it  is  idle  to  look 
for  anything  other  than  a  constantly  accelerating  decline 
of  culture.  3.  R.  WILTON. 

Milwaukee,  Wis.,  November  22,  1912. 


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MR.  BENNETT  VISITS  AMERICA.* 


Quite  as  extraordinary  as  Mr.  Arnold  Ben- 
nett's delicate  and  masterly  manipulation  of  one 
type  of  fiction  is  his  facility  at  any  sort  of  lit- 
erary work.  He  has  edited  a  woman's  magazine 
with  success  and  relish.  He  can  turn  out  a  best- 
seller with  dispatch,  and  a  play  with  inconceiv- 
able celerity.  His  advice  to  the  man  in  the 
street  on  the  conservation  of  leisure  moments 
has  exactly  that  happy  mingling  of  commonplace 
and  suggestiveness  that  the  man  in  the  street 
craves. 

And  so,  when  Mr.  Bennett  visited  America 
last  winter,  to  see  and  to  be  seen,  it  was  inevi- 
table that  his  retrospective  impressions  should 
be  promptly  forthcoming,  as  promised ;  and  that 
they  should  be,  in  quality,  competent,  spicy,  of 
a  carefully  measured  depth  and  a  carefully 
determined  cogency.  Being  of  a  highly  unemo- 
tional temperament,  Mr.  Bennett  never  over- 
reaches himself.  Everything  that  he  has  written, 
including  "  Your  United  States,"  is  a  completely 
unified  product.  When  Mr.  Bennett  decides  to 
skim  the  surface  of  an  experience,  he  does  so 
thoroughly  and  with  deftness,  without  illusions 
about  the  importance  of  his  occupation,  and  with 
no  disconcerting  dips  below  or  flights  above  to 
mar  the  symmetry  of  his  achievement.  In  short, 
Mr.  Bennett  has  a  feeling  for  "  key  "  that,  in 
the  almost  appalling  variety  of  his  literary  pro- 
duct, keeps  each  group  peculiarly  distinct  and 
makes  it  very  difficult  to  amalgamate  them  all 
in  any  general  estimate  of  the  man.  Taken 
individually,  you  may  scorn  all  his  works ; 
but,  as  the  psychological  phenomenon  that  pro- 
duced them,  Mr.  Bennett  is  truly  to  be  won- 
dered at. 

"  Your  United  States  "  is  naturally  under- 
taken in  lighter  mood.  Mr.  Bennett's  stay 
among  us  was  of  the  briefest.  In  due  course 
he  visited  New  York,  Boston,  Chicago,  Phila 
delphia,  Washington,  and  Indianapolis, — which 
latter  city  he  refers  to  unquestionably  as  at  pres- 
ent our  chief  literary  centre.  Everywhere  that 
he  went,  but  particularly  in  Indianapolis,  he  had 
friends  —  old  friends,  that  is,  besides  the  enthu- 
siastic crowds  of  would-be  acquaintance  that 
beset  his  path.  Under  their  efficient  guidance 
he  savoured  the  quality  of  our  hotels  and  our 

*  YOUR  UNITED  STATES.  Impressions  of  a  First  Visit. 
By  Arnold  Bennett.  Illustrated.  New  York :  Harper  «fe 
Brothers. 


home  life,  travelled,  and  went  sight-seeing, — 
except  in  Washington,  where,  escaping  from 
control,  he  insisted  upon  "  doing  "  the  Capitol 
building  in  thirty  minutes,  as  a  slight  but  suit- 
able retaliation  upon  Americans  for  their  cur- 
sory treatment  of  the  sacred  sights  of  Europe. 
Mr.  Bennett  was  so  exhausted  by  this  magnifi- 
cent feat  that  he  refused  to  look  at  anything 
more  in  Washington  save  such  of  the  streets 
and  avenues  of  the  city  as  he  could  view  peace- 
fully from  the  "  sea-going  hack  "  that  had  taken 
him  to  the  Capitol. 

Now  it  is  rather  difficult  to  believe  that  the 
sophisticated  and  brilliant  Mr.  Bennett,  sea- 
soned resident  of  London  and  Paris,  and  familiar 
of  other  European  capitals,  found  the  diversion 
that  he  professes  in  his  "  Cook's  view  "  of  Wash- 
ington, just  as  it  is  difficult  to  believe  that  he 
was  as  completely  overwhelmed  as  he  would 
appear  by  the  glories  of  the  "Lusitania,"  or  as 
bewildered  by  the  crookedness  of  Boston;  that 
he  stood  awe-struck  before  Lowell's  study 
windows,  was  thrilled  with  romantic  wonder  in 
a  Chicago  mail-order  house,  or  was  "positively 
intoxicated"  by  the  glorious  spectacle  of  Fifth 
Avenue  at  its  finest.  In  other  words,  we  are 
inclined  to  write  down  the  best  parts  of  Mr. 
Bennett's  American  impressions  as  very  clever, 
very  entertaining, — and  entirely  fictitious.  It 
is  only  one  more  case  of  the  Bennett  astuteness. 
"  Who,"  thought  he,  "  would  see  this  America 
most  interestingly?  Why,  surely  the  provincial 
Englishman  with  an  imagination  —  that  same 
fellow  whose  romantic  impressions  of  London 
(under  my  signature)  have  lately  delighted  the 
readers  of  a  certain  British  weekly."  It  is  one 
of  Mr.  Bennett's  cleverest  tricks, — this  ability 
to  assume  naivete  convincingly,  to  sketch  bril- 
liant pastels,  emanating  romance  and  mystery, 
of  city  streets,  grand  hotels,  gay  restaurants, 
straggling  suburbs ;  to  make  life  seem  as  color- 
ful and  wonderful  and  mystically  idealistic  as 
it  is  to  the  perennial  heart  of  youth.  After  all, 
what  Mr.  Bennett  frankly  and  soberly  thought 
about  America  has  probably  often  been  thought 
and  said  before.  Indeed  there  are  pages  and 
chapters  in  his  book  to  prove  this — bits  that  he 
might  well  have  given  to  the  greedy  interviewers 
who  swooped  down  upon  him  even  before  he 
had  landed  on  our  shores.  It  is  surely  a  matter 
for  gratification  that  Mr.  Bennett's  book  is  not 
merely  an  extended  interview. 

The  essential  quality  of  the  impressions  may 
be  caught,  as  well  as  anywhere,  from  the  account 
of  Mr.  Bennett's  first  sight  of  New  York  —  be- 
ginning after  he  had  entered  a  "  rickety  and  con- 


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fined  taxi,"  and  mistaken  a  policeman,  "  flashing 
forth  authority,  gaiety,  and  utter  smartness," 
for  an  archduke.  Mr.  Bennett  continues : 

"  The  rest  of  the  ride  was  an  enfevered  phantas- 
magoria. We  burst  startingly  into  a  very  remarkable 
deep  glade  —  on  the  floor  of  it  long  and  violent  surface- 
cars,  a  few  open  shops  and  bars  with  commissionaires 
at  the  doors,  vehicles  dipping  and  rising  out  of  holes  in 
the  ground,  vistas  of  forests  of  iron  pillars,  on  the  top 
of  which  ran  deafening,  glittering  trains,  as  on  a  tight- 
rope ;  above  all  that,  a  layer  of  darkness ;  and  above  the 
layer  of  darkness  enormous  moving  images  of  things  in 
electricity  —  a  mastodon  kitten  playing  with  a  ball  of 
thread,  an  umbrella  in  a  shower  of  rain,  siphons  of  soda- 
water  being  emptied  and  filled,  gigantic  horses  galloping 
at  full  speed,  and  an  incredible  heraldry  of  chewing- 
gum.  .  .  .  Sky-signs!  In  Europe  I  had  always  in- 
veighed manfully  against  sky-signs.  But  now  I  bowed 
the  head,  vanquished.  .  .  .  'You  must  not  expect  me 
to  talk,'  I  said." 

Of  course  much  criticism  and  opinion  is  neces- 
sarily included,  incidentally  to  the  narration  of 
such  experiences  as  this.  Mr.  Bennett  does  not, 
for  instance,  admire  our  sky-scrapers  except  as 
symbols ;  he  dislikes  our  restaurants,  abhors  our 
Pullman  cars,  and  sharply  arraigns  the  vaunted 
luxury  of  our  Limited  trains ;  he  discounts  our 
sporting  spirit,  though  he  approves  the  technique 
of  our  national  game ;  he  lauds  our  standard  of 
domestic  comfort  in  home  and  hotel;  he  finds 
hopeful  signs  in  our  theatres,  a  lack  of  the  finest 
public  spirit  in  our  citizens ;  and,  finally,  he  dis- 
covers "the  essential  America"  in  "the  long, 
calm  streets"  of  Indianapolis,  maple-shaded  and 
set  with  the  homes  of  the  solid  middle  class. 

Perhaps  it  was  because  Mr.  Bennett  unex- 
pectedly discovered  the  essential  America  in 
Indianapolis  that  he  cut  short  his  intended  and 
well-advertised  progress  to  our  Western  coast; 
or  perhaps  the  terrifically  swaying  sleeping  cars 
deterred  him  from  penetrating  beyond  Chicago. 
Whatever  the  reason,  the  event  was  fortunate. 
The  real  Mr.  Bennett  might  have  been  enter- 
tained and  even  edified  by  the  sight  of  other 
phases  of  the  essential  America, —  phases  less 
calm  and  ordered  than  the  streets  of  Indianap- 
olis, which  house,  we  are  told,  Victorian  ladies 
and  old  silver  tea-things,  besides  important  lit- 
erary pretensions.  But  there  was  ample  material 
east  of  the  Mississippi  to  provide  Mr.  Bennett, 
the  author,  with  romantic  adventure,  unhappy 
disillusionment,  not  too  poignant  to  hold  possi- 
bilities of  humor,  and  a  vivid  impression  of 
native  traits,  culminating  on  the  maple-shaded 
streets  of  Indianapolis.  More  of  our  United 
States  would  have  been  superfluous. 

Mr.  Frank  Craig's  pictures  are  as  "  smart "  as 
Mr.  Bennett's  text,  from  which  they  seem  to  have 
caught  the  prevailing  note  of  genial,  inconse- 


quent picturesqueness.  They  give  the  book 
somewhat  the  appearance  of  a  clever  society 
novel — an  appearance  not  wholly  misleading. 

EDITH  KELLOGG  DUNTON. 


CHAUCBR  ix  PROSE.* 


Why  should  we  modernize  Chaucer  to-day? 
Was  not  Landor  right  in  holding  such  a  project 
to  be  futile?  "I  would  rather  see  Chaucer 
quite  alone,"  he  wrote,  "  in  the  dew  of  his  sunny 
morning,  than  with  twenty  clever  gentlefolks 
about  him,  arranging  .his  shoestrings  and  but- 
toning his  doublet.  I  like  even  his  language. 
I  will  have  no  hand  in  breaking  his  dun  but 
richly-painted  glass  to  put  in  (if  clearer)  much 
thinner  panes."  In  Lander's  time,  moreover, 
when  early  English  was  more  like  a  foreign 
tongue  than  it  is  to-day,  there  was  greater  need 
of  a  rendering  into  the  modern  idiom  than  at 
present,  when  the  Globe  Edition  provides  a  text 
not  difficult  to  read  after  a  slight  acquaintance 
with  the  language  of  the  fourteenth  century. 

The  public,  however,  has  taken  a  different 
view  of  the  question.  For  two  centuries  it  has 
eagerly  bought  and  presumably  read  good,  bad, 
and  indifferent  imitations  and  translations  of 
various  parts  of  Chaucer's  works.  The  long  list 
of  modernizers  is  virtually  headed  by  Dryden, 
who  in  his  "Fables"  (1700)  included  para- 
phrases of  "The  Knight's  Tale,"  "The  Nun's 
Priest's  Tale,"  "The  Wife  of  Bath's  Tale," 
and  the  character  of  the  Parson.  Dryden's 
work  found  great  favor  throughout  the  cen- 
tury ;  as  late  as  1787  Walpole  remarked  that 
he  loved  Chaucer  better  in  Dryden  and  Bask- 
erville  f  than  in  his  [Chaucer's]  own  dress  and 
language.  Closely  following  Dryden  came  Pope 
with  his  "January  and  May"  (1709),  his 
"Wife  of  Bath's  Prologue"  (1714),  and  his 
"Temple  of  Fame,"  based  on  "The  House  of 
Fame"  (1715) — all  polished,  artificial,  and 
distorted  renderings  —  one  had  better  say  per- 
versions— of  their  genuinely  simple  and  natural 
originals.  The  year  1712  saw  the  publication 
of  Betterton's  version  of  "The  Reeve's  Tale" 
and  of  most  of  the  Prologue,  together  with 
Samuel  Cobb's  "Miller's  Tale."  The  most 

*THE  MODERN  READER'S  CHAUCER.  The  Complete 
Poetical  Works  of  Geoffrey  Chaucer.  Now  First  Put  into 
Modern  English  by  John  S.  P.  Tatlock  and  Percy  MacKaye. 
Illustrations  by  Warwick  Goble.  New  York :  The  Macmillan 
Co. 

tl  suppose  Walpole  means  that  he  read  Dryden's  "  Fables" 
in  the  "Select  Fables  of  Esop  and  Other  Fabulists  "  printed 
by  John  Baskerville  for  the  Dodsleys  in  1761,  second  edition 
1764;  but  1  have  not  seen  this  work. 


1912.J 


THE    DIAJL 


437 


ambitious  of  these  Chaucerian  undertakings, 
however,  was  that  of  George  Ogle,  who  in  1741 
published,  in  three  volumes,  "  The  Canterbury 
Tales  Modernized  by  Several  Hands,"  the  heroic 
couplet  being  used  throughout.  Poor  as  some 
of  these  readings  were,  a  second  edition  of  the 
book  was  issued  in  1742  and  a  third  in  1795, 
the  latter  edited  by  William  Lipscomb.  Words- 
worth modernized  "The  Prioress'  Tale"  (1801, 
published  in  1821)  and  "The  Manciple's  Tale," 
though  he  never  published  the  latter.  Lord 
Thurlow's  "Arcita  and  Palemon"  (1822)  went 
into  a  second  edition.  Leigh  Hunt  translated 
"  The  Squire's  Tale  "  twice  (1823,  1841),  and 
also  modernized  "  The  Pardoner's  Tale,"  "The 
Friar's  Tale,"  and  "The  Manciple's  Tale." 
Charles  Cowden  Clarke's  "Riches  of  Chaucer  " 
(1835)  remained  popular  throughout  the  cen- 
tury, being  three  times  reprinted.  A  century 
after  Ogle  came  Richard  Hengist  Home  with 
his  "  Poems  of  Chaucer  Modernized,"  to  which 
contributions  were  made  by  Wordsworth,  Leigh 
Hunt,  and  Elizabeth  Barrett,  and  which  was 
partially  reproduced  by  J.  P.  Briscoe  as  late  as 
1901.  Saunders's  edition  of  "The  Canterbury 
Tales"  (1845)  has  been  reprinted  at  least 
four  times.  In  1870  two  renderings  of  "The 
Canterbury  Tales"  were  published:  Frederick 
Clarke's  did  not  go  beyond  the  first  volume, 
but  that  of  Purves,  including  several  others  of 
Chaucer's  poems,  was  twice  reprinted.  The  late 
Professor  Skeat  in  his  last  years  translated  at 
least  ten  of  "  The  Canterbury  Tales,"  "The  Le- 
gend of  Good  Women,"  "  The  Romaunt  of  the 
Rose,"  and  the  minor  poems.  Mr.  MacKaye 
himself  published  in  1904  the  version  of  the 
Prologue  and  ten  tales  which  is  here,  we  believe, 
reproduced;  and  that  this  volume  had  a  good 
sale  may  be  inferred  from  the  fact  that  he 
now  joins  with  Prof  essor  Tatlock  in  bringing  out 
the  first  modern  English  rendering  of  Chaucer's 
complete  works.  Many  other  modernizers  are 
mentioned  by  Miss  Hammond  in  her  bibli- 
ography; and  it  is  evident  that  there  was  a 
demand  for  the  work  of  these  mediators  or 
middle-men  —  since  the  poorest  of  it  seems  to 
have  been  welcomed  by  the  public.* 

If  we  are  to  have  a  modernization  of  Chaucer, 
let  it  be  in  prose.  We  doubt  if  the  genius  exists 
or  ever  will  arise  who  could  even  remotely  sug- 
gest, continuously  and  for  any  length  of  time, 
in  a  contemporary  verse  rendering,  the  tone  and 
flavor  of  Chaucer's  poetry.  It  is  hard  enough 

*For  an  elaborate  criticism  of  several  of  these  modern- 
izers  one  should  consult  Professor  Lounsbury's  entertaining 
"Studies  in  Chaucer,"  iii.  154-240. 


to  put  any  early  poet  into  modern  verse,  since 
the  shifting  of  the  accent  toward  the  beginning 
of  words  has  ruined  the  language  from  the  point 
of  view  of  facility  in  rhyme.  In  spite  of  this 
handicap  some  have,  to  be  sure,  rendered  parts 
of  Chaucer  in  readable  verse ;  but  their  attempts 
have  not  come  much  nearer  to  being  Chaucer 
than  Pope's  "Iliad"  came  to  being  Homer.  A 
quotation  or  two  may  illustrate  our  point.  Here 
is  Troilus's  prayer  to  Cupid  when  he  finds  that 
Criseyde  has  departed  (v.  582  ff.): 

"Than  thoughts  he  thus:  'O  blisful  Lord  Cupide, 
Whan  I  the  proces  have  in  my  memorie, 
How  thou  me  hast  werrey'd  on  every  side, 
Men  might  a  book  make  of  it,  lik  a  storie! 
What  nede  is  thee  to  seke  on  me  victorie, 
Sin  I  am  thyn,  and  hoolly  at  thy  wille  ? 
What  joye  hast  thou  thine  owne  folk  to  spille  ? 

"  '  Wei  hastow,  Lord,  ywroke  on  me  thyn  ire, 
Thou  mighty  God,  and  dredful  for  to  greve! 
Now  mercy,  Lord!     Thou  wost  wel  I  desire 
Thy  grace  most  of  alle  lustes  leve, 
And  live  and  deye  I  wol  in  thy  bileve: 
For  which  I  naxe  in  guerdon  but  oo  bone, 
That  thou  Criseyde  ayein  me  sende  sone. 

" '  Distreyne  her  herte  as  faste  to  retorne 
As  thou  dost  myn  to  longen  her  to  see: 
Than  wot  I  wel  that  she  nil  not  sojorne. 
Now,  blisful  Lord,  so  cruel  thou  ne  be 
Unto  the  blood  of  Troye,  I  preye  thee, 
As  Juno  was  unto  the  blood  Thebane, 
For  which  the  folk  of  Thebes  caughte  hir  bane!'" 


WORDSWORTH. 

"  '  O  blissful  God  of  Love  ! '  then  thus  he  cried, 
'  When  I  the  process  have  in  memory, 
How  thou  hast  wearied  me  on  every  side, 
Men  thence  a  book  might  make,  a  history; 
What  need  to  seek  a  conquest  over  me, 
Since  I  am  wholly  at  thy  will?  what  joy 
Hast  thou  thine  own  liege  subjects  to  destroy? 

" «  Dread  Lord!  so  fearful  when  provoked,  thine  ire 
Well  hast  thou  wreaked  on  me  by  pain  and  grief; 
Now  mercy,  Lord!  thou  know'st  well  I  desire 
Thy  grace  above  all  pleasures  first  and  chief; 
And  live  and  die  I  will  in  thy  belief; 
For  which  I  ask  for  guerdon  but  one  boon, 
That  Cresida  again  thou  send  me  soon. 

"  «  Constrain  her  heart  as  quickly  to  return, 
As  thou  dost  mine  with  longing  her  to  see, 
Then  know  I  well  that  she  would  not  sojourn. 
Now,  blissful  Lord,  so  cruel  do  not  be 
Unto  the  blood  of  Troy,  I  pray  of  thee, 
As  Juno  was  unto  the  Theban  blood, 
From  whence  to  Thebes  came  griefs  in  multitude.' " 


TATLOCK-MACKAYE. 

"  Then  he  thought,  '  O  blessed  lord  Cupid,  when  I 
remember  the  history,  how  thou  hast  warred  against 
me  on  every  side,  men  might  make  a  book  of  it  like  a 
tale.  What  need  hast  thou  to  seek  a  conquest  on  me, 


438 


[Dec.  lr 


since  I  am  thine,  wholly  at  thy  will?  What  joy  is  it 
to  thee  to  destroy  thine  own  folk?  Lord,  well  hast 
thou  wreaked  thine  ire  on  me,  mighty  god,  deadly  to 
offend!  Show  mercy  now,  O  lord!  Thou  knowest  well 
I  crave  thy  grace  above  all  dear  pleasures,  and  will  live 
and  die  in  thy  faith ;  in  guerdon  of  which  I  ask  but  one 
boon,  that  thou  send  me  back  Criseyde  speedily.  Let 
her  heart  long  to  return  as  eagerly  as  mine  to  see  her; 
then  I  wot  well  she  will  not  tarry.  Blessed  lord,  I  pray 
thee  be  not  so  cruel  to  the  blood  of  Troy  as  Juno  was 
to  Theban  blood,  for  which  the  folk  of  Thebes  had  their 
destruction! ' ' 

Wordsworth  has  here  shown  great  skill  in  pre- 
serving the  original  form ;  yet.  he  has  mistrans- 
lated werreyed  and  has  given  a  misleading  turn 
to  the  Jast  line. 

For  a  second  illustration  we  choose  the  ac- 
count of  the  stranger  knight's  entrance  in  "  The 
Squire's  Tale  ": 

"  This  strange  knyght  that  cam  thus  sodeynly, 
Al  armed,  save  his  heed,  ful  richely, 
Saleweth  kyng  and  queene,  and  lorde's  alle, 
By  ordre,  as  they  seten  in  the  halle, 
With  so  heigh  reverence  and  obeisaunce, 
As  wel  in  speche  as  in  contenaunce, 
That  Gawayn,  with  his  olde  curteisye, 
Though  he  were  comen  ageyn  out  of  fairye, 
Ne  koude  hym  not  amende  with  a  word; 
And  after  this,  biforn  the  heighe  bord, 
He  with  a  manly  voys  seith  his  message 
After  the  forme  used  in  his  langage, 
Withouten  vice  of  silable,  or  of  lettre ; 
And  for  his  tale  sholde  seme  the  bettre, 
Accordant  to  his  wordes  was  his  cheere, 
As  techeth  art  of  speche  hem  that  it  leere. 
Al  be  it  that  I  kan  nat  sowne  his  stile, 
Ne  kan  not  clymben  over  so  heigh  a  style, 
Yet  seye  I  this,  as  to  commune  entente, 
Thus  much  amounteth  al  that  ever  he  mente, 
If  it  so  be  that  I  have  it  in  mynde  .  .   ." 


LEIGH  HUNT. 

"  The  stranger,  who  appear'd  a  noble  page, 
High-bred,  and  of  some  twenty  years  of  age, 
Dismounted  from  his  horse;  and  kneeling  down, 
Bow'd  low  before  the  face  that  wore  the  crown; 
Then  rose,  and  reverenc'd  lady,  lords  and  all, 
In  order  as  they  sat  within  the  hall, 
With  such  observance,  both  in  speech  and  air, 
That  certainly,  had  Kubla's  self  been  there, 
Or  sage  Confucius,  with  his  courtesy, 
Return'd  to  earth  to  show  what  men  should  be, 
He  could  not  have  improv'd  a  single  thing: 
Then  turning  lastly  to  address  the  king, 
Once  more,  but  lightlier  than  at  first,  he  bow'd, 
And  in  a  manly  voice  thus  spoke  aloud  .  .  ." 


TATLOCK-MACKAYE. 

"This  strange  knight,  who  came  so  suddenly,  all 
armed  full  richly  save  his  head,  saluted  king  and  queen, 
and  all  the  lords  by  order  as  they  sat  in  the  hall,  with 
such  deep  reverence  and  obeisance  as  well  in  speech  as 
in  bearing,  that  though  Gawain  with  his  antique  cour- 
tesy were  come  again  out  of  fairyland,  he  could  not  have 
corrected  this  knight  in  a  word.  And  then  before  the 


high  table  he  spake  his  message  in  a  manly  voice,  after 
the  form  used  in  his  language,  without  fault  in  syllable 
or  letter;  and,  that  so  his  story  should  seem  the  more 
acceptable,  his  cheer  accorded  with  his  words,  as  the  art 
of  speech  teaches  them  that  learn  it.  Albeit  I  cannot 
follow  his  style,  nor  climb  over  so  high  a  stile,  yet  to 
the  general  understanding  I  say  this,  which  was  the 
purport  of  all  that  ever  he  said,  if  so  be  I  have  it  in 
memory.  ..." 

It  will  be  observed  that  Hunt  cut  down  the  num- 
ber of  lines  by  one-third  without  any  correspond- 
ing gain  in  force  or  elegance.  His  substitution 
of  Kubla  Khan  and  Confucius  is  inexplicable, 
and  would  seem  to  be  an  unwarrantable  liberty ; 
even  if  we  assume  that  these  men  were  patterns 
of  courtesy  (and  we  know  of  no  such  tradition), 
the  fact  remains  that  Chaucer  does  not  mention 
them  and  does  mention  the  familiar  Gawain. 
Moreover,  Hunt  has  introduced  ideas  not  in  the 
original :  the  age  of  the  Knight,  his  dismounting 
from  his  horse,  his  bowing  after  he  kneels,  his 
second  bow  to  the  King.  Certainly  it  is  of  less 
importance  to  adhere  to  the  original  form  than 
it  is  to  render  accurately  the  thought.  Hence 
the  superiority  of  prose,  in  which  the  translator 
can  devote  himself  unreservedly  to  the  thought. 

This  has  evidently  been  the  view  of  the  present 
translators.  They  hold  that  so  many  words  and 
idioms  have  undergone  subtle  changes  in  mean- 
ing since  Chaucer's  time  that  the  general  reader 
needs  more  than  a  bare  text  and  glossary.  They 
believe  that  it  is  all-important  to  get  at  Chaucer's 
thought.  In  accordance  with  this  belief  they 
have  tried  to  be  as  faithful  to  the  original  as 
possible  while  avoiding  four  things :  rhyme  and 
excessive  rhythm  (which  we  take  to  mean  the 
rhythm  of  verse),  obscurity,  extreme  verbosity, 
and  excessive  coarseness.  The  general  verdict 
of  the  critic  must  be  that  they  have  succeeded 
admirably. 

While  the  present  translation  is  worthy  of 
high  praise,  some  of  the  notes  are  disappoint- 
ingly meagre.  It  means  little  to  say  that  the 
"  Physiologus  "  was  an  early  book  "on  the  na- 
tures of  animals."'  An  essential  trait  was  that 
they  connected  the  characteristics  and  habits 
of  animals  with  the  beliefs  and  observances  of 
Christianity.  Under  "Venus'  hour'1  it  would 
have  been  easy  to  add  the  particular  hour  (the 
second  before  sunrise  on  Monday)  presided  over 
by  the  goddess.  The  astrological  terms  should 
also  have  been  explained  more  fully.  Under 
"  Roncesvalles,"  Tyrwhit's  plausible  conjecture 
might  well  have  been  added. 

For  the  class  of  readers  who  require  illustra- 
tions, Mr.  Warwick  Goble  has  embellished  the 
volume  with  over  thirty  full-page  illustrations  in 


1912.] 


439. 


color.  In  themselves,  considered  without  refer- 
ence to  the  text,  they  are  excellent  and  include 
much  that  is  beautiful;  they  do  not,  however, 
represent  anything  like  our  idea  of  Chaucerian 
scenes,  and  we  doubt  if  very  many  readers  will 
be  found  to  whom  their  appeal  is  strong.  For 
some,  these  pictures  will  be  a  hindrance  rather 
than  a  help  to  the  imagination.  The  picture  of 
Emily,  for  example,  has  a  beautiful  setting ;  but 
the  features  of  the  girl  as  here  drawn  are  hardly 
such  as  to  cause  all  the  trouble  set  forth  in  "  The 
Knight's  Tale."  The  reproduction  of  Blake's 
picture  in  outline  on  the  end-leaves  is  effective. 
The  make-up  of  the  volume  leaves  nothing 
to  be  desired.  The  paper  is  excellent,  the  page 
of  good  proportions,  and  the  type  clear.  The 
binding,  which  is  in  keeping  with  other  features 
of  this  handsome  volume,  helps  to  make  it  one 
of  the  most  desirable  gift-books  of  the  season. 
CLARK  S.  NORTHUP. 


AN  ALBUM  FROM  GREEK  AND  ROMAN 
PAYS.* 

Apart  from  mankind's  innate  interest  in  any 
face  as  an  expression  of  human  nature,  we  may 
say  that  portraits  from  ancient  Greece  and 
Rome  appeal  primarily  to  the  student  of  history 
and  the  lover  of  plastic  art.  For  the  former, 
they  frequently  preserve  the  actual  lineaments 
of  a  man  or  woman  depicted  with  almost  photo- 
graphic accuracy,  or  transmit  a  character  study 
carved  in  the  spirit  of  a  modern  portrait  painter. 
For  the  latter,  they  often  provide  beautiful  ob- 
jects of  aesthetic  charm,  and  more  often  repre- 
sent instructive  links  in  the  development  of 
style  and  treatment.  The  famous  portraits  of 
Pericles,  for  instance,  reveal  to  us  something  of 
the  statesman,  the  general,  and  the  cultured 
humanist ;  but  they  also  offer  a  goodly  pleasure 
to  the  eye,  and  at  the  same  time  tell  us  that  the 
sculptor  loved  the  beautiful  as  deeply  as  the 
characteristic,  and  show  us  how  far  he  was 
master  of  his  chisel  and  marble. 

As  to  the  essential  merit  of  a  portrait,  we 
are  all  ostentatiously  agreed  that  it  is  "  truth  to 
life."  But  beneath  these  shortest  and  simplest 
of  words  are  rooted  quarrels  that  seem  to  be  as 
old  as  the  pyramids.  The  observing  visitor  at 
the  perfectly  arranged  Egyptian  Museum  in 
Cairo  will  find  realism  and  conventionalism 
facing  each  other  at  least  as  early  as  the  Old 
Kingdom,  say  three  thousand  years  before 
Christ ;  and  that,  too,  in  representations  of  the 

*  GREEK  AND  ROMAN  PORTRAITS.  By  Dr.  Anton  Hekler. 
Illustrated.  New  York :  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons. 


same  man  in  the  same  tomb.  Of  course,  the 
purpose  of  the  statue  has  to  be  considered  in 
these  cases  ;  but  the  elements  of  the  debate  are 
there,  and  we  have  no  doubt  that  the  contro- 
versy dates  back  to  the  first  moment  in  the  his- 
tory of  man  that  saw  two  sculptors  capable  of 
choosing  and  of  executing  their  choice. 

In  Greek  portraiture,  our  best  authorities 
have  felt  that  the  tendency  toward  an  idealiz- 
ing representation  was  the  stronger.  In  addi- 
tion to  the  monuments,  they  adduce  to  the 
much-quoted  authority  of  Aristotle,  who  says 
that  good  portrait  painters,  while  reproducing 
"  the  distinctive  form  of  the  original,  make  a 
picture  which  is  like  the  subject  and  yet  more 
beautiful."  But  we  may  point  out  that  it  is 
easy  to  carry  this  belief  too  far,  and  that  not  a 
few  artists  must  have  followed  the  practice  of 
giving  feature  for  feature  and  line  for  line 
with  relentless  realism.  Demetrius,  the  much- 
discussed  exponent  of  this  style  at  the  close  of 
the  fifth  century,  did  not  shrink  from  represent- 
ing a  distinguished  Corinthian  general  in  most 
uncompromising  detail,  "  with  a  protuberant 
paunch,  a  ragged  wind-tossed  beard,  and  a  bald 
head ";  and  he  can  hardly  have  stood  alone 
even  in  that  age.  In  later  Greece,  certainly, 
there  was  no  lack  of  realism.  Pliny  tells  us, 
for  instance,  that  Lysistratus  "looked  upon 
likeness  in  every  detail  as  the  chief  aim  of  por- 
traiture, and  that  he  went  so  far  as  to  use  plas- 
ter casts  to  transfer  actual  forms  to  his  work." 

And  the  question  is  even  more  keenly  debated 
to-day.  Realism,  conventionalism,  idealism,  im- 
pressionism, and  illusionism,  not  to  mention 
futurism  or  a  dozen  other  extravagances,  have 
become  so  rampant  that  there  is  some  truth  in 
Oscar  Wilde's  paradox  that  a  portrait  tells  us 
absolutely  nothing  about  the  sitter  and  a  great 
deal  about  the  maker.  Naturally,  we  should  be 
grateful  if  Rossetti's  prayer  could  be  realized 
and  a  woman's  portrait  might  show  us  "  beyond 
the  light  that  the  sweet  glances  throw,  and  re- 
fluent wave  of  the  sweet  smile,  the  very  sky  and 
sea-line  of  her  soul."  But  to  very  few  painters 
or  sculptors  has  such  skill  been  vouchsafed,  nor 
can  many  spectators  catch  even  the  vision  that 
the  work  of  the  cunning  craftsman  legitimately 
embodies.  So  most  of  us  declare  with  a  sigh 
or  a  smile  that  we  have  two  ordinary  eyes  and 
something  within  us  that  feels  pleasure  or  dis- 
pleasure, satisfaction  or  dissatisfaction  ;  and  the 
average  amateur,  if  he  reaches  any  decision  as 
to  what  makes  the  difference  in  a  portrait,  gen- 
erally does  not  become  more  definite  than  Sir 
Joshua  Reynolds,  who  concludes  that  the  like- 


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ness,  as  well  as  the  grace,  of  a  portrait  "  con- 
sists more  in  preserving  the  general  effect  of  the 
countenance  than  in  the  most  minute  finishing 
of  the  features,  or  of  any  particular  parts." 

At  this  point  we  may  briefly  describe  the 
offering  presented  by  Dr.  Anton  Hekler  to 
readers  or  workers  who  are  interested  in  such 
topics  as  those  suggested  above.  His  volume 
is  a  generous  quarto,  containing  three  hundred 
and  eleven  plates  of  illustrative  Greek  and 
Roman  portraits  from  the  fifth  century  B.C. 
to  the  fourth  century  A.  D.  In  connection  with 
these  the  author  gives  us  forty  pages  of  com- 
ment. He  has  also  prepared  a  serviceable 
bibliography,  and  an  excellent  table  of  illus- 
trations, which  gives  the  home  of  each  portrait 
and  often  refers  to  some  treatise  in  which  the 
statue  is  discussed.  If  we  add  that  his  ex- 
amples are  well  chosen,  we  shall  probably  con- 
vey our  belief  that  the  album  offers  convenient 
as  well  as  extensive  material  for  an  approach 
to  the  study  of  Greek  and  Roman  portraits. 

From  such  a  wealth  of  material  we  must 
make  an  arbitrary  choice,  and  if  we  first  point 
out  that  Dr.  Hekler  deals  with  his  general 
theme  historically,  we  may  content  ourselves 
with  instancing  his  treatment  of  Socrates.     As 
it  happens,  this  offers  an  enlightening  glimpse 
at  our  author's  method,  while  the  subject  is  one 
of  perennial  interest.    Who  will  ever  forget  the 
description  of  this  homeliest  of  high  thinkers 
given  by  Alcibiades,  gloriously  drunk,  in  the 
Symposium  of  Plato ?   "I  say  he  is  exactly  like 
the  figures  of  Silenus,  which  may  be  seen  sit- 
ting in  the  statuaries'  shops,  having  pipes  and 
flutes  in  their  mouths ;  and  they  are  made  to 
open  in  the  middle,  and  there  are  images  of  gods 
inside  them."     Here  then  was  a  dainty  task 
for  the  worker  in  marble:  to  show  the  satyr 
mask  and  the  god  within.     Such  at  least  was 
the  task,  if,  as  Socrates  himself  had  demanded, 
the  sculptor  was  to  express  the  activity  of  the 
soul  in  his  forms.    As  a  basis  for  his  comment 
Dr.  Hekler  gives  us  the  Naples  bust,  the  small 
bronze  at  Munich,  the  head  in  the  National 
Museum  at  Rome,  and  two  views  of  the  term 
in  the  Villa  Albani.     After  pointing  out  how 
natural  it  was  that  the  interesting  artistic  and 
physiognomical  problem  of  the  head  of  Socrates 
should  have  occupied  Greek  sculpture  for  sev- 
eral centuries,  he  proceeds : 

"No  less  than  three  types  have  come  down  to  us,  which 
also  represent  three  different  stages  of  art-development. 
The  first  type,  best  represented  by  the  Naples  bust  (PL 
19)  and  the  small  bronze  at  Munich  (111.  2)  is  a  sober, 
naturalistic  portrait  of  the  fifth  century  which  renders 
admirably  the  most  striking  elements  of  the  outward 


man  and  is  content  to  forego  the  deeper,  more  intense 
vitality  of  the  spirit.  The  face  here  has  a  certain  coarse, 
boorish  cast.  The  treatment  of  the  beard  recalls  that 
of  the  head  of  Homer  in  the  Vatican.  In  the  course  of 
the  fourth  century  the  prosaic  naturalism  of  this  head 
was  transmuted  by  the  hand  of  a  great  artist  into  lofty 
significance.  In  this  second  portrait-type  (PI.  20)  the 
ugly  forms  acquire  an  unsuspected  wealth  of  expressive 
power;  the  spectator  feels  himself  to  be  in  the  presence 
of  a  highly  gifted,  gentle,  and  benevolent  being,  whose 
intelligent  eyes  and  large  mouth  with  its  parted  lips  sug- 
gest an  agreeable  loquacity.  We  would  fain  ascribe  this 
masterly  creation  to  the  genius  of  Lysippos;  literature 
credits  him  with  the  execution  of  a  statue  of  Sokrates; 
and  our  example  is  stylistically  akin  to  his  works.  The 
treatment  of  the  beard  and  hair  is  a  strong  point  in 
support  of  the  hypothesis.  Later,  the  Silenus-head  of 
Sokrates  underwent  a  final  free  transformation  bearing 
all  the  accents  of  the  Hellenistic  period.  It  is  repre- 
sented by  a  head  in  the  Villa  Albani  (PL  21).  Here  the 
artist,  careless  of  likeness,  was  concerned  above  all  to  ren- 
der his  conception  of  the  daemonic  energy  and  enthusi- 
astic fervour  of  the  martyred  philosopher,  with  all  the 
realistic  resources  of  a  fully  matured  art.  This  tendency 
removes  the  Albani  head  from  the  domain  of  reality  into 
that  of  ideal  portraiture." 

Herewith  we  are  plunged  into  the  centre  of  a 
central  problem.  Granted  a  trained  observer, 
skilled  in  physiognomy  and  versed  in  the  condi- 
tions of  plastic  representation,  how  much  can  he 
confidently  and  reliably  tell  us  about  the  inten- 
tions of  the  sculptor  and  the  characteristics  of 
the  subject  revealed  by  the  statue.  Now  any 
man  who  has  worked  under  a  master  like  Peter- 
sen  will  admit  that  the  possibilities  are  large; 
but  there  have  been  many  startling  contradic- 
tions and  still  more  startling  reversals  of  opinion 
among  the  experts,  and,  when  all  concessions  are 
made,  the  margin  of  error  is  so  appallingly  wide 
that  the  most  modest  of  reviewers  may  be  par- 
doned for  differing  rather  frequently  from  the 
conclusions  of  an  author.  Dr.  Hekler  has  been 
laudably  conservative  in  assigning  names  to 
doubtful  portraits ;  but  in  dealing  with  the  char- 
acteristics conveyed  by  a  portrait,  and  with  the 
intentions  of  the  sculptor,  he  often  exhibits  a 
comprehensiveness  and  finality  that  can  hardly 
be  justified  in  the  present  status  of  our  knowl- 
edge. However,  he  was  barred  from  any  ade- 
quate balancing  of  probabilities  for  his  readers 
by  his  goodly  array  of  reproductions,  if  his  work 
was  to  be  compassed  in  one  volume;  and  he 
would  probably  be  the  first  to  admit  the  possi- 
bility of  legitimate  differences  of  opinion. 

In  passing  to  the  Roman  section  of  our  trea- 
tise we  find  ourselves  debating  an  old  question . 
More  than  a  quarter  of  a  century  ago,  in  a  bril- 
liant and  most  readable  contribution,  "  Vernon 
Lee  "  declared  that  Roman  portraiture  had  in- 
troduced something  new  and  wonderful  into 
sculpture.  In  this  contention  she  has  been  en- 


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thusiastically  supported  by  Mrs.  Strong ;  but 
despite  the  hopeful  studies  of  such  workers  as 
the  latter  and  Professor  Wickhoff,  who  repre- 
sent the  extreme  in  the  advocacy  of  Roman  inno- 
vation, there  is  still  more  than  a  little  cloud  of 
doubt  about  the  "  new  and  wonderful  "  element 
as  manifested  in  portraiture.  Detailed  modifi- 
cations of  treatment  there  assuredly  were  ;  but 
further  than  that  it  is  difficult  to  go  without  a 
faltering  hesitancy.  Dr.  Hekler,  too,  feels  that 
there  is  an  essential  difference  between  the  two 
groups  represented  by  Hellenistic  and  Roman 
portrait  sculpture,  and  gropes  for  the  specifi- 
cally Roman  element  in  this  later  art.  However, 
he  insists  that  "there  is  no  breach  of  continuity, 
but  a  perfectly  organic  development ";  and,  if 
we  understand  him  aright,  he  explains  the  differ- 
ence rather  by  the  Roman  national  physiognomy 
and  character  than  by  essential  modification  of 
the  means  employed  in  achieving  artistic  effects. 
At  any  rate,  Roman  portraits  are  just  as  inter- 
esting as  Miss  Paget  declared  them  to  be  in 
"  Euphorion ":  "Of  this  Roman  portrait  art,  of 
certain  heads  of  half -idiotic  little  Caesar  brats,  of 
sly  and  wrinkled  old  men,  things  which  ought 
to  be  so  ugly  and  yet  are  so  beautiful,  we  say, 
at  least,  perhaps  uuformulated,  we  think, '  How 
Renaissance.' ' 

And  it  is  desperately  hard  to  refrain  from 
considering  some  of  the  portraits  in  this  section 
of  Dr.  Hekler's  volume.  The  history  of  the 
Roman  Empire  seems  to  stand  before  one  in  a 
sort  of  personification.  Thirteen  portraits  of 
Augustus,  from  boyhood  to  old  age,  suggest  the 
days  of  transition  from  Republic  to  Principate. 
The  Claudian  degenerates  recall  the  wild  trag- 
edy of  the  Caesars,  even  if  we  cannot  quite  agree 
that  "  they  reveal  more  of  the  dark  atmosphere 
of  those  days  of  cruelty  and  terror  than  the 
most  circumstantial  accounts  of  historians." 
And  so  we  might  trace  the  story  through  the 
days  of  national  decline  to  the  ruler  who  cham- 
pioned the  religion  of  the  despised  Nazarene. 
But  fully  as  interesting  to  the  student  of  human 
nature,  and  more  interesting  to  the  lover  of  art, 
are  the  private  persons,  named  or  nameless. 
From  the  Pompeiian  banker,  with  his  keen 
American  face,  to  the  two  boys,  who  are  so  alike 
and  yet  so  unlike,  the  reader,  or,  as  one  might 
better  say,  the  spectator,  may  observe  a  range 
of  masculine  faces  that  constantly  challenge  his 
human  interest  or  critical  acumen.  Nor  will  he 
find  less  attraction  in  the  representatives  of  the 
other  sex,  from  Julia,  with  her  architectonic  coif- 
fure, to  the  lady  with  softly  waving  hair  who 
suggests  a  well-known  English  writer.  And  he 


who  loves  a  contrast  is  invited  to  turn  from  the 
austerity  of  Livia  as  an  elderly  woman  to  the 
girlish  grace  of  the  so-called  Minatia  Polla,  be- 
loved of  every  visitor  to  the  Museo  delle  Terme. 

But  the  lure  of  this  collection  and  of  memories 
from  the  days  when  we  first  lingered  in  Roman 
galleries  is  tempting  our  pen  far  beyond  all 
permissible  bounds,  so  we  must  simply  add,  what 
is  already  obvious,  that  to  us  the  volume  seems 
both  valuable  and  enjoyable. 

It  is  difficult  to  turn  from  such  thoughts  to 
unfavorable  criticism  of  details ;  but  a  few  points 
require  notice.  For  instance,  might  we  not  have 
had  just  a  word  on  Egyptian  portrait  sculpture? 
Some  examples  are  truly  remarkable,  and  despite 
the  independence  of  Greek  artistic  development, 
it  is  inconceivable  that  it  was  not  touched  by  some 
tiny  breath  of  influence  from  the  valley  of  the 
Nile.  Again,  is  it  absolutely  sure  that  artistic 
activity  always  begins  with  abstractions,  and  that 
the  first  essays  in  the  portrayal  of  human  beings 
are  consequently  rather  abstractions  than  imita- 
tions? On  the  contrary,  is  there  not  considerable 
evidence,  as  well  as  the  evolutionary  probability, 
that  individual  men  and  particular  animals  were 
among  the  earliest  subjects  of  nascent  depic- 
tion? In  lamenting  our  loss  from  the  perish- 
ing of  painted  figures  and  faces,  Dr.  Hekler 
mentions  as  our  only  relics  of  importance  the 
mummy  portraits  of  Egypt;  but  the  stelae  dis- 
covered a  few  years  ago  at  Pegasae  are  certainly 
not  without  value.  And,  finally,  when  the  work 
was  being  made  ready  for  English-speaking  read- 
ers, why  were  the  most  common  Greek  names 
not  given  in  their  ordinary  form  ?  One  really 
feels  ill  at  ease  in  the  presence  of  Aristotcles 
and  Epikuros  when  one  has  known  them  so  long 
and  so  familiarly  as  Aristotle  and  Epicurus. 
However,  these  minor  points  and  a  few  more  like 
them,  even  if  they  worry  a  reviewer,  are  negli- 
gible in  comparison  with  the  general  services  of 
the  volume. 

The  type  is  clear,  the  reproductions  satisfac- 
tory, the  binding  very  simple,  and  the  price  as 
low  as  the  nature  of  such  a  publication  would 
reasonably  admit.  FRED  R  R>  HELLEMS. 


MR.  CLIFTON  JOHNSON  and  Mr.  W.  D.  Howells  seem 
to  thiiik  that  Artemus  Ward  is  in  need  of  resuscitation, 
for  they  have  just  become  sponsors  for  a  volume  entitled 
"  Artemus  Ward's  Best  Stories  "  (Harper),  which  should 
certainly  appeal  to  a  generation  which  we  fear  knows 
not  this  humorist,  one  of  the  raciest  we  have  yet  pro- 
duced. Not  the  least  readable  of  the  contents  is  the 
sympathetic  introduction  with  which  Mr.  Howells  has 
supplied  the  volume.  A  number  of  illustrations  are 
provided  by  Mr.  Frank  A.  Nankivell. 


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A  DISCIPLE  OF  PATER.* 


It  is  ten  years  since  Lionel  Johnson  died, 
and  according  to  the  happy  phrase  chosen  as 
the  title  of  his  volume  of  critical  studies,  he 
now  returns  to  cross  again  his  own  threshold 
and  to  receive  for  a  little  the  greetings  of  his 
friends.    The  clamor  of  those  years  has  drowned 
voices  far  louder  than  his,  but  his  friends  have 
not  forgotten  him.     As  a  poet,  he  is  in  the 
strictest  sense  a  minor  poet,  a  seeker  of  effects 
exquisitely  refined ;  and  in  his  prose,  too,  it  is 
upon  the  delicacies  of  emotion  and  thought  that 
he  loves  to  dwell,  and  upon  the  felicities  of 
phrase  that  will  alone  express  them.    These  are, 
of  course,  qualities  that  do  not  compel  a  hearing 
from  the  crowd  ;  and  even  for  those  whom  Pater 
calls  "  disinterested  lovers  of  books,"  they  seem 
nowadays  to  have  lost  their  appeal.    One  won- 
ders sometimes  if  it  is  not  the  neglect  of  the 
Greek  and  Latin  classics,  the  loss  from   our 
training  of  that  attention  to  detail  which  an 
appreciation  of  the  classical  literatures  perpetu- 
ally demands,  that  is  responsible  for  the  prev- 
alent taste,  even  among  persons  who  read,  for 
the  broad,  the  slapdash,  and  the  bizarre.    Well, 
such  persons  will  not  care  for  Lionel  Johnson,' 
nor  for  his  master,  Walter  Pater,  for  the  style 
of  both  calls  for  a  somewhat  more  discriminat- 
ing literary  palate  than  it  is  the  fashion  nowa- 
days to  cultivate.     Nevertheless,  there  will  no 
doubt  always  be  some  persons,  not  very  numer- 
ous nor  much  given  to  voicing  their  opinions  in 
the  market  place,  who  take  a  quiet  satisfaction 
m  such  writing  as  this,  and  who  feel  a  kind  of 
friendship  for  the  author  of  it.    "  In  an  age  of 
extraordinary  vehemence,"  writes  Johnson  of 
Erasmus,  "his  delicacy,  his  subtlety  were  bound 
to  be  ineffective."     The  writer  of  these  words 
would  probably  not  be  surprised  to  find  himself 
little  read;    yet  inasmuch    as   the    Erasmian 
method  and  the  Erasmian  temper,  in  spite  of 
their  manifest  defects,  have  had  in  every  age 
their  warm  admirers,  so  he  may  count  for  many 
years  to  come  upon  a  small  and  perhaps  an  in- 
creasing circle  «of  appreciative  friends. 

Appreciative  and  admiring,  but  not  uncriti- 
cal. They  will  find  in  this  volume,  for  instance, 
more  than  a  touch  of  sheer  preciosity,  a  naive 
parade  of  learning  and  allusiveness,  and,  once 
at  least,  a  defect  of  taste,  curiously  unexpected 
m  these  careful  pages.  "The  later  sweeter  es- 
sayist, Charles  Lamb,"  he  writes  in  the  paper 
on  Bacon,  "  was_called  by  Thackeray  *  Saint 

POST  IONIUM     Essays  and  Critical  Papers.  By  Lionel 

ISO  1 1 .          P^n  i  TOM      K  fr     1*1*-.— \VTi  *  f  f  "" 


Charles  ;  no  one  could  call  the  cold,  corrupt 
Lord  Chancellor  '  Saint  Francis.' "    No  one,  in- 
deed, we  agree  with  a  shudder ;  but  why  go  so 
obviously  out  of  one's  way  to  produce  so  poor  a 
pleasantry  ?     These  are  plainly  faults  of  imma- 
turity —  not,  to  be  sure,  of  immaturity  of  years 
for  he  was  thirty-five  when  he  died,  but  of  that 
sort  of  immaturity  which  is  the  differentia  of 
the  minor  gift,  whether  in  poetry  or  prose.    We 
have  called  Pater  his  master,  but  in  his  evident 
consciousness  of  his  verbal  successes  he  does  not 
remind  us  of  the  elder  and  the  greater  man .    For 
Pater  illustrates  his  own  dictum  that  "  beauty 
is  only  fineness  of  truth."     One  feels  that  he  is 
absorbed  in  the  adequate  expression  of  his  diffi- 
cult and  involved  thought,  while  his  pupil  not 
seldom  appears  to  be  turning  his  fine  phrases 
for  their  own  sake.     This  is  only  to  say  that 
his  writing  is  not  of  the  first,  or  even  of  the 
second  order ;  but  at  its  best,  its  charm  is  that 
of  the  dawn  of  an  exceedingly  sensitive  and 
subtle  talent  for  criticism  and  of  a  rare  gift  of 
expression. 

He  has  another  mark  of  the  minor  prosaist, 
a  chameleon-like  quality  that  causes  his  style  to 
vary,  within  certain  limits,  its  cadence  and  color 
with  the  work  upon  which  he  is  engaged.    If  he 
is  writing  of  Pater,  he  writes  like  Pater;  if  on  a 
subject  that  would  have  appealed  to  Lamb,  like 
Lamb.    Or,  perhaps  it  would  be  more  correct  to 
say  that  when  he  writes  of  men  whose  nature  is 
akin  to  his,  he  abandons  himself  to  his  genius 
and  instinctively  praises  them  in  their  own  vein. 
To  Arnold  and  Newman  he  is  not  akin,  and 
though  he  writes  of  them,  he  does  not  write  in 
the  least  like  them;  but  the  paper  on  Stevenson 
is  not^unlike  Stevenson,  "The  Work  of  Mr. 
Pater  "  is  such  a  piece  of  criticism  as  Pater  him- 
self in  his  youth  might  have  signed,  and  while 
there  is  no  essay  on  Lamb,  there  is  an  essay  on 
a  subject  that  Lamb  might  have  chosen,  treated 
m  the  manner  in  which  Lamb  would  have  treated 
it.  In  the  paper  on  Octavius  Pulleyn,  an  obscure 
seventeenth  century  poet,—  a  poet,  indeed,  of 
but  one  extant  poem,—  we  hear  what  seems  the 
very  voice  of  Elia  : 

"Nominis  umbra,  he  is  a  ghost,  of  whom  I  know 
nothing;  whilst  his  little  bird,  the  least  of  birds,  lives 
merry  and  musical  yet.  Octavius  and  his  like,  phantom 
gentlemen  m  the  « haunted  thicket '  of  old  years,  have  a 
singular  fine  charm.  Until  some  plaguey  investigator 
of  libraries,  of  Rolls  and  Record  Offices,  unearth  my 
twilight  friend,  he  is  mine  to  dream  over,  mine  to  play 
with.  I  can  enter  him  a  student  at  the  Inns  of  Court- 
make  him  a  tavern  wit  or  playhouse  censor;  I  can  turn 
him  into  a  country  squire,  and  give  him  a  comely  manor 
in  the  taste  of  Inigo.  We  stroll  there  together  through 
the  <  Itahanate  garden,'  with  its  statua  and  busto,  and 


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pass  out  into  a  green  coppice.  It  shall  be  the  old  May 
morning  of  merry  England,  May  of  clear  sunlight  and 
soft  wind;  Octavius  shall  quote  me  his  Horace,  and  I 
cap  him  with  my  dearer  Virgil.  An  air  of  the  scholar's 
affectation  sits  prettily  upon  us,  an  Oxford  touch.  We 
would  fain  esteem  ourselves  Younger  Plinies  of  the 
time,  and  a  neat  copy  of  verses  is  our  pride.  Octavius 
has  a  decent  fair  knack  at  imitation  of  the  great  Mr. 
Cowley,  and  ever  a  gratulatory  ode  at  a  friend's  service. 
So  go  we  gently  through  the  May  morning  of  a  dream ; 
of  winter  nights,  we  '  drink  tobacco  '  by  the  fire  of  logs 
in  a  parlour  of  black  panel,  and  pore  together  upon  the 
medals  of  popes  and  emperors.  Of  such  sort  is  my 
Octavius;  and  if  I  weary  of  him  in  such  sort,  he  shall 
proceed  ambassador  to  the  Hague,  and  send  me  word 
of  tulips." 

In  the  short  paper,  too,  entitled  "An  Old 
Debate,"  the  debate,  to  wit,  over  the  compara- 
tive charms  of  town  and  country,  he  is,  like 
Lamb,  all  on  the  side  of  the  town,  and  praises 
London  with  a  warmth  caught  from  "  A 
Londoner  ": 

"  After  all,  other  people  are  very  companionable. 
Caesar  held  in  mistrust  the  lean,  who  think  too  much; 
others  have  misliked  the  haters  of  children,  of  music, 
and  of  bread;  for  ourselves,  we  will  be  friends  with  no 
man  who  goes  down  the  Strand  with  an  Odi  profanum 
on  his  lips." 

His  fondness  for  Lamb  is  one  of  many  tastes 
that  he  shares  with  Pater,  for  nowhere  has  Pater 
written  with  a  more  penetrating  sympathy  and 
a  more  quiet  perfection  of  style  than  in  the 
essay  on  Lamb. 

Indeed,  as  we  have  already  intimated,  this 
volume  is  full  of  echoes  and  suggestions  of 
Pater.  The  four  papers  that  open  it  treat  of 
Pater's  humor,  his  views  of  Plato,  and  his  work 
as  a  whole,  in  the  tone  of  a  confessed  admirer 
and  disciple.  Not,  however,  of  an  undiscrim- 
inating  admirer.  More  than  once  he  takes  pains 
to  admit  that  two  opinions  may  be  held  of  Pater's 
place  in  criticism.  It  is  as  if  he  felt  the  neces- 
sity of  guarding  himself  against  the  charge  of 
a  too  uncritical  discipleship.  There  are  pages 
of  Pater  in  which  "  we  seem  to  take  less  than 
our  customary  pleasure."  It  is  possible  to  differ 
with  him  in  his  views  of  Plato,  of  Botticelli,  of 
the  Renaissance.  "  A  discreet  judgment  "  dare 
not  class  him  with  the  greatest.  Yet  these,  we 
feel,  are  concessions  forced  from  him  by  the 
knowledge  that  without  them  his  praise  would 
seem  too  unmeasured.  There  is  a  sentence  at 
the  close  of  "  The  Work  of  Mr.  Pater  "  which 
tells  the  story :  "  There  is  yet  deeper  sorrow, 
upon  which  I  cannot  touch,  save  to  say  that  to 
younger  men  concerned  with  any  of  the  arts,  he 
was  the  most  generous  and  gracious  of  helpful 
friends . ' '  Certainly  Pater  has  never  been  praised 
so  justly,  so  finely,  so  entirely  in  his  own  man- 


ner, as  in  these  pages.  It  will  be  remembered, 
too,  that  one  of  Lionel  Johnson's  most  exquisite 
poems  and  one  of  the  most  successful  brief  thren- 
odies in  our  language  was  dedicated  by  him  to 
the  memory  of  his  master. 

His  debt  to  Pater  is  felt  not  only  in  such 
formal  tributes  as  these,  but  upon  almost  every 
page  of  the  volume.  The  names  dear  to  Pater 
recur  again  and  again, —  Lamb,  Montaigne,  Sir 
Thomas  Browne,  Pascal,  St.  Francis  of  Assisi. 
Every  now  and  then  one  comes  upon  echoes  of 
Pater's  own  language,  as  in  the  affectionate 
repetition  of  the  delightful  word  "  umbratile," 
familiar  to  lovers  of  "Marius."  The  style  in 
general  is  thoroughly  Paterian.  There  is  the 
same  delicate  precision  of  phrase,  the  same 
repudiation  of  the  superficial,  the  obvious,  the 
approximate,  the  same  unremitting  effort  to 
pluck  out  the  heart  of  some  subtle  personality 
and  enshrine  it  in  an  epithet.  And  the  re- 
semblance goes  deeper  than  style.  The  mind 
of  the  disciple  was  evidently  profoundly  akin 
to  the  mind  of  the  master.  We  may  say  of  him 
what  he  says  of  Pater :  "Things  hieratic,  ascetic 
appealed  always  to  him."  For  this  reason,  the 
papers  on  Pascal,  Thomas  a  Kempis,  Patmore, 
Henry  Vaughan,  "  The  Soul  of  Sacred  Poetry," 
are  among  the  best  in  the  volume.  For  this 
reason,  too,  we  meet  everywhere  allusions  to 
Newman.  His  characteristic  phrases  are  quoted, 
and  his  authority  is  invoked  as  if  a  mere  refer- 
ence to  him  were  sufficient  to  settle  any  moral 
or  spiritual  question.  "  To  the  present  writer," 
we  read,  "the  thirty-six  volumes  of  Newman, 
from  the  most  splendid  and  familiar  passages 
down  to  their  slightest  and  most  occasional  note, 
are  better  known  than  anything  else  in  any  lit- 
erature and  language." 

There  is  one  notable  particular,  however,  in 
which  he  forsakes  the  example  of  his  master. 
One  of  Pater's  most  characteristic  and  admirable 
critical  habits  was  his  refusal  to  speak  severely 
of  anyone.  In  the  whole  range  of  his  writings, 
there  is  not  a  line  of  harsh  criticism.  He  writes 
only  of  those  whom  he  can  praise,  justly  believ- 
ing that  for  a  subtle  and  penetrating  genius  like 
his,  there  is  an  ample  field  for  action  in  the  true, 
the  beautiful,  and  the  good.  But  inferior  talents 
may  be  more  inclusive,  and  it  is  refreshing  to  find 
that  Johnson  can  wield  on  proper  occasions  — 
and  to  our  taste  his  occasions  are  all  proper  —  a 
trenchant  pen.  Even  his  strictures  on  Byron 
seem  to  us  not  too  severe,  and  his  plain  speaking 
on  the  Bashkirtseff  we  find  peculiarly  timely  in 
the  light  of  a  new,  and  we  think  quite  unneces- 
sary, volume  of  her  letters  and  journals.  "  A  dis 


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eased  and  silly  soul,"  he  calls  her,  and  the  letters 
"are  the  letters  of  an  hysterical  lady's-maid." 

We  do  not  forget  that  Lionel  Johnson,  as  a 
poet,  is  a  prominent  figure  in  the  Gaelic  revival, 
and  it  would  not  be  proper  to  pass  over  without 
mention  the  papers  in  this  volume  that  deal  with 
the  movement.  They  are  not,  however,  among 
the  most  valuable  of  these  studies,  and,  indeed, 
Johnson's  interests  and  inspirations  were  too 
wide  and  his  powers,  both  as  critic  and  as  poet, 
too  great  to  permit  him  to  be  confined  within 
the  limits  of  any  movement,  however  admirable. 
In  fact,  the  paper  entitled  "  Poetry  and  Patriot- 
ism in  Ireland  "  seems  to  be,  in  part,  his  own 
apology,  written  in  reply  to  those  who  thought 
the  harp  of  Tara  the  only  suitable  instrument 
for  a  poet  who  was  really  devoted  to  the  Irish 
cause.  He  makes  the  plea  that  Ireland  is  truly 
honored  by  all  her  distinguished  sons,  even 
though  their  muse  be  not  strictly  "  patriotic." 
"  There  seems  to  be  no  place  for  a  poet,"  he 
writes,  "  who,  though  he  be  intensely  national 
in  temperament  and  sympathy,  may  be  unfitted 
by  nature  to  write  poetry  with  an  obvious  and 
immediate  bearing  upon  the  national  cause  "; 
and  he  urges  that  Irish  literature  be  encouraged 
and  developed  "  in  a  finely  national,  not  in  a 
pettily  provincial,  spirit." 

We  end  as  we  began.  These  essays  are  for 
the  few,  not  for  the  many.  The  author  of  them, 
like  his  own  Octavius  Pulleyne,  did  not  seek 
"  to  fill  the  irritated  air  with  agitated  echoes  "; 
but  like  that  "  umbratile,  quiet  man,"  he  would 
be  heartily  content  with  "  a  miniature  immor- 
tality," a  fame  far  short  of  the  highest,  and  a 
circle  of  friends  intimate,  affectionate,  and 
secure.  CHARLES  H.  A.  WAGER. 


ASPECTS  OF  SOUTH  AMERICA.* 

Travel  is  still  for  us  the  perfect  epitome  of 
life;  and  when  the  narrative  of  travel  is  com- 
bined with  the  most  searching  observations  on 
the  character  and  development  of  the  peoples 
visited,  the  result  is,  for  the  reader,  a  complete 
transplantation  into  another  world.  This  is 

*  SOUTH  AMEKICA.  Observations  and  Impressions.  By 
James  Bryce.  With  maps.  New  York :  The  Macmillan  Co. 

THE  FLOWING  ROAD.  Adventures  on  the  Great  Rivers 
of  South  America.  By  Caspar  Whitney.  Illustrated.  Phila- 
delphia :  J.  B.  Lippincott  Co. 

THE  PATH  OF  THE  CONQUIST  ADORES.  Trinidad  andVen- 
ezuelan  Guiana.  By  Lindon  Bates,  Jr.  Illustrated.  Boston: 
Houghton  Mifflin  Co. 

THROUGH  SOUTH  AMERICA.  By  Harry  W.  Van  Dyke. 
With  Introduction  by  John  Barrett.  Illustrated.  New  York  • 
Thomas  Y.  Crowell  Co. 


what  Mr.  Bryce  invariably  achieves,  no  matter 
what  his  theme  or  what  the  path  of  approach. 
He  enters  the  remote  periods  of  the  Holy  Roman 
Empire  with  the  same  fresh  enthusiasm  as  that 
with  which  he  examines  our  own  contemporary 
institutions;  he  throws  himself  wholeheartedly 
into  sympathy  with  the  difficult  past  as  well  as 
with  the  changing  present ;  he  prophesies  to  dry 
bones  and  makes  them  live  again.  Perhaps  no 
other  critic,  certainly  no  other  foreigner, 

"  hath  walked  along  our  roads  with  step 
So  active,  so  inquiring  eye,  or  tongue 
So  varied  in  discourse." 

If  this  is  true  of  North  America,  which  he  knows 
so  well,  how  infinitely  more  so  of  the  Southern 
republics,  to  which  he  has  made  but  one  visit. 
But  what  a  fruitful  visit  it  was !  Such  an  inquir- 
ing eye  is  his  that  it  has  searched  out  in  a  few 
months  everything  worth  seeing,  penetrated  the 
inmost  recesses  of  thought,  and  glimpsed  things 
which  we  never  dreamed  were  there. 

It  is  usual  for  writers  on  South  America  — 
not  always  of  judicial  temperament  —  to  range 
themselves  definitely  on  the  side  either  of  the 
optimists  or  of  the  pessimists.  Mr.  Bryce  does 
neither,  for  he-  writes  with  a  detachment  born 
of  the  trained  mind  accustomed  to  tracing  na- 
tional evolutions  from  their  historical  past  to 
their  immediate  present.  Indeed,  the  first  sign 
that  a  new  land  is  approaching  maturity  is  when 
that  land  begins  to  have  leisure,  or  when  others 
think  it  profitable  to  cast  a  look  backwards  and 
realize  the  lesson  of  its  past.  What  a  past  it  has 
been  for  South  America, —  what  a  varied  tale 
is  unfolded !  Not  the  least  interesting  part  of 
Mr.  Bryce's  volume  deals  with  historical  evolu- 
tion, and  his  treatment  is  as  judicial  and  impar- 
tial as  it  is  logical  and  discriminating.  If  we 
may  venture  a  criticism  so  early  in  our  notice, 
however,  it  would  deal  with  his  bias  against  the 
Spanish  colonial  system  —  a  bias  which  might 
almost  be  termed  injustice ;  for  there  is  no  doubt 
in  the  mind  of  the  present  reviewer  that,  how- 
ever unfortunately  it  worked  out,  the  system 
itself  was  fundamentally  sound,  and  that  if  it 
had  only  allowed  for  more  —  or  even  any  —  self- 
government  the  whole  course  of  future  events 
might  have  been  altered.  The  only  other  point 
of  possible  objection  deals  also  with  presumable 
injustice.  Mr.  Bryce  says  : 

"  Those  who  quote  the  age  of  Queen  Victoria  and 
the  age  of  Lewis  [szc]  the  Fourteenth  as  instances  to 
support  the  doctrine  that  eras  of  successful  war  and 
growing  power  herald,  or  coincide  with,  an  epoch 
of  literary  creation,  may  expect  to  find  that  the  inces- 
sant strife  which  has  kept  hot  the  blood  of  the  citizens 
of  some  republics,  and  the  rapid  material  progress 


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of  others,  promise  an  era  of  intellectual  production  in 
South  America.  Of  this,  however,  there  has  been  no 
sign.  National  spirit  seems  little  disposed  to  flow  in  this 
channel.  In  the  southern  republics  there  is  plenty  of 
energy,  but  not  much  of  it  is  directed  towards  art  or 
science  or  letters." 

Such  a  judgment  may  be  true  enough  in  com- 
parison with  nearly  any  European  country,  but 
to  those  who  have  been  impressed  with  the  art  of 
the  Peruvian  painter  Bacaflor,  or  of  the  Chilean 
artist  Sotomayor ;  to  those  who  are  familiar  with 
the  verse  and  fiction,  in  which  perhaps  Colombia 
and  Brazil  excel  (and  there  are  many  who  first 
came  to  realize  the  importance  of  Latin  America 
as  a  literary  power  through  the  polished  work  of 
the  late  Brazilian  ambassador,  Senhor  Nabuco); 
to  those  who  recognize  the  value  of  the  treatises 
on  international  law  by  the  internationally  known 
Argentine  authority  on  the  subject,  Dr.  Drago 
— to  all  such  Mr.  Bryce's  statement  would  seem 
to  demand  modification. 

But  as  a  rule  the  author's  criticisms — and 
they  are  few  considering  his  opportunities  to 
make  them  —  are  constructive,  free  alike  from 
scorn  and  condescension.  Perhaps  the  most 
important  contribution  of  the  present  volume  is 
its  help  toward  a  better  understanding,  largely 
fostered  by  the  author's  generous  and  sympa- 
thetic point  of  view.  This  is  the  spirit,  for  in- 
stance (though  his  favorite  country  seems  to  be 
Chile)  in  which  he  describes  Brazil.  "Not 
even  the  great  North  American  republic  has  a 
territory  at  once  so  vast  and  so  productive," — 
a  territory  which,  if  in  the  hands  of  the  Anglo- 
Saxon  race,  would  in  thirty  years  have  fifty 
millions  of  inhabitants.  But  to  Mr.  Bryce 
"second  or  third  thoughts  suggest  a  doubt 
whether  such  a  consummation  is  really  in  the 
interest  of  the  world.  May  not  territories  be 
developed  too  quickly  ?  Might  it  not  have  been 
better  for  the  United  States  if  their  growth  had 
been  slower,  if  their  public  lands  had  not  been 
so  hastily  disposed  of,  if  in  their  eagerness  to  ob- 
tain the  labour  they  needed  they  had  not  drawn 
in  a  multitude  of  ignorant  immigrants  from  Cen- 
tral and  Southern  Europe  ? ' '  British  ownership, 
however,  does  not  necessarily  mean  prosperity  or 
development — even  when  the  natural  resources 
are  not  lacking.  Bordering  Brazil  there  is  the 
colony  of  British  Guiana,  with  territory  as  large 
as  Great  Britain,  the  possessor  of  boundless  re- 
sources. "  For  nearly  a  century  it  has  formed 
part  of  the  British  empire,  yet  its  population  is 
less  than  four  souls  to  the  square  mile."  But 
surely  Mr.  Bryce's  observation  as  to  our  own 
development  is  just,  and  it  cannot  do  us  harm 
fully  to  realize  the  logic  of  it. 


Such  considerations  as  these,  around  which 
an  infinite  text  and  argument  might  be  woven, 
form  the  basis  for  the  latter  half  of  the  volume. 
Eleven  of  the  sixteen  chapters  contain  a  simple 
narration ,  interspersed  with  glowing  appreciation 
of  the  grandeurs  of  nature,  of  what  Mr.  Bryce 
saw  both  of  the  country  and  its  inhabitants.  In 
the  remaining  chapters,  as  might  have  been  ex- 
pected, the  distinguished  author  draws  liberally 
on  his  knowledge  of  history  to  give  more  point 
to  his  views.  Not  even  Mr.  Bryce  deems  him- 
self qualified  to  give  us  general  reflections  on 
the  future  of  these  republics  as  a  body,  for  they 
are  too  diversified  to  be  treated  collectively^ 
But  he  does  venture  individual  conclusions  which 
are  worthy  of  the  most  attentive  consideration,, 
and  he  so  far  avoids  undue  optimism  as  to  con- 
tent himself  with  saying :  "  The  troubles  of  these 
ninety  years  have,  accordingly,  nothing  in  them* 
that  need  dishearten  either  any  friend  of  Span- 
ish America  or  any  friend  of  constitutional 
freedom." 

If  we  stopped  here  we  should  give  a  very  im- 
perfect impression  of  Mr.  Bryce's  volume;  but  no 
review  can  do  full  justice  to  a  work  which  must 
immediately  be  regarded  as  the  last  word  on  the 
subject,  —  to  us  of  the  North  a  necessary  com- 
plement to  "  The  American  Commonwealth." 
One  or  two  errors  should  be  corrected  in  the 
next  edition.  Perhaps  the  most  flagrant  of 
these  proclaims  that  "the  area  of  Brazil  is  about 
3,300,000  square  miles  larger  than  that  of  the 
United  States"!  Dom  Pedro  is  throughout 
called  "  Don."  An  excellent  index  and  some 
good  maps  complete  a  handsome  volume. 

All  books  of  foreign  travel  are  divided  into 
two  classes  —  those  which  are  meant  to  be  read 
and  enjoyed  at  home,  and  those  which  are  to- 
be  packed  in  a  bag  and  consulted,  something 
after  the  manner  of  a  guidebook,  on  the  spot* 
If  Mr.  Bryce's  volume  is  one  of  the  few  which- 
belong  to  both  classes,  two  other  recent  works 
of  South  American  travel,  not  less  interesting 
in  their  way  but  in  a  vastly  more  confined  ex- 
tent, must  be  placed  in  the  second .  Mr.  Caspar 
Whitney's  "  The  Flowing  Road  "  derives  its- 
title  from  the  nature  of  his  travel, — he  tells  of 
five  separate  overland  and  river  expeditions  into 
the  heart  of  South  America,  all  of  which  were 
largely  undertaken  by  canoe  and  on  streams 
more  or  less  connected.  Mr.  Whitney's  success- 
ful attempt  to  reach  the  unknown  land  at  the 
head  of  the  Orinoco  River,  through  the  un- 
friendly Indians  and  almost  impassable  natural 
barriers,  when  all  save  one  native  companion 
had  fled,  presents  the  other  side  of  South  Amer- 


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ican  travel  in  a  most  engaging  and  romantic 
way.  Mr.  Bryce  did  not  reach  this  part  of  the 
continent,  and  if  he  had  he  would  no  doubt  have 
been  lavishly  entertained  by  the  Colombian  and 
Venezuelan  governments.  All  the  official  pro- 
vision that  Mr.  Whitney  sought  was  help  in 
procuring  trustworthy  guides, — help  not  partic- 
ularly efficacious. 

It  is  curious  that  more  or  less  the  same  region 
traversed  by  Mr.  Whitney,  —  that  of  the  lower 
Orinoco,  —  is  described  in  the  volume  by  Mr. 
Lindon  Bates,  Jr.,  entitled  "  The  Path  of  the 
Conquistadores. ' '  The  trail  of  these  picturesque 
old  conquerors  Mr.  Bates  followed  in  an  expedi- 
tion which  started  from  Trinidad,  proceeded  up 
the  Orinoco  to  Angostura,  and  thence  on  mule- 
back  into  the  interior  of  Venezuela  near  the  sur- 
mised location  of  the  legendary  Golden  City  of 
Manoa,  in  the  search  for  which  so  many  adven- 
turers have  given  their  lives.  This  volume  is 
slighter  in  substance  than  in  form,  due  to  very 
large  print  and  to  the  many  and  usually  excel- 
lent illustrations.  The  text,  however,  forms  an 
interesting  mixture  of  fact  and  gossip  about  what 
is  no  doubt  the  least  known  and  esteemed  portion 
of  the  continent. 

One  of  the  more  conventional  books  of  South 
American  travel  is  Mr.  H.  W.  Van  Dyke's 
"  Through  South  America."  It  is  introduced 
with  a  preface,  by  Mr.  John  Barrett,  which 
rather  "  writes  down"  to  the  reader  in  such  a 
way  as  to  imply  that  both  book  and  preface  are 
intended  as  an  elementary  course  for  those  who 
know  little  of  South  American  history,  institu- 
tions, or  nature.  If  such  be  the  case,  the  volume 
has  fulfilled  its  intention;  nowadays,  how- 
ever, with  the  ever-increasing  flood  of  Latin- 
Americana,  there  seems  little  need  for  a  further 
essay  in  a  field  which  for  the  last  ten  years  has 
been  covered  to  satiety.  But  the  present  work, 
having  much  to  commend  it  besides  its  admir- 
able form  and  illustrations,  should  not  be  dis- 
missed so  superficially.  The  author  has  a  happy 
way  of  expressing  himself,  and  conveys  his  en- 
thusiasms so  naively  as  to  make  us  instinctively 
share  them  —  if  we  do  not  read  too  carefully. 
Though  he  by  no  means  catches  the  spirit  of 
such  a  book  as  Mr.  Arthur  Ruhl's  "  The  Other 
Americans,"  or  imparts  the  thrill  of  new  dis- 
coveries conveyed  in  Mr.  Bingham's  "  Across 
South  America  "  (which  latter  title,  by  the  way, 
is  a  serious  omission  in  Mr.  Van  Dyke's  bibliog- 
raphy), he  does  succeed  in  bringing  home  to  us 
a  pleasantly  agreeable  picture  of  life  and  nature 

in  South  America. 

JULIAN  PARK. 


HOLIDAY  PUBLICATIONS. 
I. 

BOOKS  OF  TRAVEL  AND  DESCRIPTION. 

A  few  of  New  England's  many  famous  and 
historically  interesting  summer  resorts  are  treated 
with  the  knowledge  and  sympathy  of  long  acquaint- 
ance by  Mr.  F.  Lauriston  Bullard  in  his  "  His- 
toric Summer  Haunts  from  Newport  to  Portland" 
(Little,  Brown  &  Co.),  which  Mr.  Louis  H.  Ruyl  has 
adorned  with  thirty-two  admirable  drawings,  printed 
on  a  tinted  background.  The  haunts  are  all  on 
or  near  the  coast, —  Newport,  Plymouth,  Quincy, 
Lexington,  Concord,  Sudbury  (included  for  its 
Wayside  Inn),  Marblehead,  Gloucester,  Salem, 
Haverhill  and  Amesbury  (the  "Whittier  country"), 
Newburyport,  Portsmouth,  and  Portland.  From 
the  abundance  of  history  and  tradition,  literature 
and  legend,  touching  these  fine  old  towns,  Mr. 
Bullard  has  taken  with  a  free  hand,  yet  not  with- 
out discrimination,  for  the  enrichment  of  his  book, 
while  his  own  running  commentary  is  packed  with 
welcome  explanation  and  suggestion  and  allusion. 
Writing  of  Salem,  for  example,  he  reminds  us  that 
"  Hawthorne  was  not  an  admirer  of  Salem,  but  in 
Salem  he  lived,  almost  as  a  recluse,  for  years." 
And  he  wrote  much  about  the  old  seaport,  about  its 
custom-house,  its  town  pump,  its  now  famous  seven- 
gabled  house,  its  "Main  Street"  (which  is  now 
Essex  Street),  and  its  romantic  history.  As  the 
author  points  out,  "Salem  has  no  less  than  eight 
Hawthorne  houses:  the  house  of  his  birth,  the 
house  of  his  youth,  the  house  of  his  courtship,  the 
house  in  which  James  T.  Fields  persuaded  him  to 
surrender  the  manuscript  of  'The  Scarlet  Letter,' 
these  and  the  House  of  the  Seven  Gables,  the 
custom-house,  and  two  other  houses  in  which  the 
writer  lived,  account  for  some  twenty-five  years  of 
his  life."  At  Portsmouth  the  Aldrich  house,  now 
the  Thomas  Bailey  Aldrich  Memorial  Museum,  will 
be  to  many  the  chief  object  of  interest.  The  book 
is  of  most  inviting  appearance,  its  rich  binding 
displaying  the  Wayside  Inn,  stamped  in  gilt  on  the 
front  cover. 

That  ancient  bit  of  advice,  If  you  wish  to  learn 
a  subject  thoroughly  write  a  book  about  it,  seems 
to  have  been  followed  faithfully  by  Mr.  Philip  San- 
ford  Marden,  who,  when  he  was  reading  up  for  a 
vSit  to  Egypt,  failed  to  find  just  the  kind  of  book 
he  required  for  his  enlightenment;  and  so,  on  his 
return  from  the  Nile  country,  he  has  himself  filled 
the  gap  and  written  the  compactly  informing  and 
at  the  same  time  readable  and  enjoyable  book  that 
his  own  need  had  shown  to  be  lacking.  At  any  rate, 
this  seems  to  have  been  the  genesis  of  his  "  Egyptian 
Days"  (Houghton),  a  volume  similar  in  character 
and  scope  to  his  "Travels  in  Spain,"  which  met 
with  a  kindly  reception  three  years  ago.  What  the 
intelligent  tourist  most  wishes  and  needs  to  know, 
to  make  his  Egyptian  travels  enjoyable  and  fruitful, 
is  what  Mr.  Marden  has  tried  to  furnish  in  his  six- 


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teen  scholarly  chapters,  which  are  evenly  divided 
between  lower  Egypt  and  the  regions  further  up  the 
Nile.  The  illustrations,  forty-three  in  number,  are 
mostly  from  photographs  taken  by  the  author,  and 
the  map  at  the  end  of  the  book  is  from  his  hand. 
A  typical  Egyptian  scene  in  bright  colors  adorns 
the  front  cover.  The  volume  is  a  fine  piece  of  work 
in  all  respects  —  a  suitable  gift  to  the  intending 
winter  tourist  or  sojourner  on  the  Nile. 

One  who  can  find  such  charm  and  fresh  delight  in 
a  solitary  canal-boat  journey  through  rural  England 
as  Mr.  E.  Temple  Thurston  has  found  in  his  month's 
meanderings  on  board  the  "Flower  of  Gloster,"  and 
who  can  so  well  transfer  his  daily  experiences  and 
impressions  to  the  printed  page,  ought  not  to  seek 
in  vain  for  readers.  "The  'Flower  of  Gloster'" 
(Dodd),  named  from  the  newly  and  gaudily  painted 
barge  which  he  secured  for  his  rather  unusual  form 
of  outing,  is  written  in  much  the  same  light-hearted, 
high-spirited  vein  as  Stevenson's  "Inland  Voyage." 
"I  would  not  for  a  kingdom,"  says  Mr.  Thurston, 
"  have  missed  those  few  weeks  in  the  heart  of  En- 
gland, far  distant  from  any  of  those  main  thorough- 
fares where  the  dust  of  motors  powders  the  face  of 
Nature  till  she  is  worse  than  some  painted  thing. 
Scarce  a  soul  is  to  be  met  along  those  winding  tow- 
paths,  for  you  may  be  sure  that  where  a  canal  runs 
from  one  town  to  another,  that  is  the  longest  way  it 
is  possible  to  go."  From  Oxford  to  Inglesham,  by 
these  devious  windings,  the  "Flower  of  Gloster" 
made  her  leisurely  way,  towed  by  faithful  Fanny, 
while  Fanny  in  turn  was  driven  by  Eynsham  Harry 
—  at  thirty  shillings  a  week  and  "found,"  though  he 
would  have  gladly  accepted  considerably  less.  The 
copious  illustrations  of  the  book  include  six  colored 
plates  and  are  all  from  the  deft  hand  of  Mr.  W.  R. 
Dakin.  That  so  much  of  interior  England  and  Wales 
is  accessible  by  canal-boat  will  be  a  surprise  to  most 
readers.  The  remorseless  railway,  with  its  short  cuts 
and  its  saving  of  invaluable  time,  has  put  the  inland 
waterways  very  much  into  the  class  of  "back  num- 
bers," so  that  Mr.  Thurston's  voyage  strikes  one  as 
decidedly  novel  and  interesting  and  worthy  of  imi- 
tation. 

Something  distinctly  out  of  the  ordinary  in  Euro- 
pean travel  literature  is  presented  by  Mr.  George 
Wharton  Edwards  in  his  "Marken  and  Its  People" 
(Moffat),  which  is  described  on  the  title-page  as 
"  some  account  written  from  time  to  time  both  during 
and  after  visits  covering  some  considerable  space  of 
time  upon  this  most  curious  and  comparatively  un- 
known island  —  unknown  in  spite  of  the  fact  that 
thousands  of  tourists  visit  it  each  year,  but  of  the 
character  or  life  of  these  strange  people  they  know 
little  or  nothing."  The  island  in  question,  which  is 
really  a  number  of  small  sandy  hillocks  separated  by 
shallow  canals  and  strongly  dyked  against  the  invad- 
ing Zuyder  Zee,  would  probably  remain  uninhabited 
in  any  quarter  of  the  globe  where  dry  land  is  less 
at  a  premium  than  in  Holland.  It  is  surmised  that 
the  terrors  of  the  Spanish  Inquisition  first  caused  the 
colonization  of  the  unpromising  islet,  and  the  original 


manners  and  customs  of  these  early  settlers  have  been 
largely  preserved  to  this  day.  In  seventeen  chapters 
and  twenty  pencil  sketches  and  a  colored  frontispiece 
the  author  makes  his  readers  somewhat  familiarly 
acquainted  with  Marken  ("Marriker"  the  natives 
call  it)  and  its  delightfully  unsophisticated  inhabit- 
ants. The  book  is  as  striking  to  the  eye  in  its  elab- 
orate and  Dutch-like  exterior  ornamentation  as  it  is 
appealing  to  the  interest  in  its  reading  matter. 

A  volume  refreshingly  original  in  recent  travel 
literature  is  presented  by  Mr.  Charles  Fish  Howell 
in  his  "Around  the  Clock  in  Europe  "  (Houghton). 
The  plan  of  the  work  is  explained  to  the  eye  by  the 
cover  design, — a  clock  dial  with  the  names  of  twelve 
European  cities  running  around  it ;  and  this  plan  is 
further  elucidated  by  the  author  in  his  preface.  His 
purpose  was  to  convey  in  words  a  picture  of  each  of 
these  twelve  places  at  what  he  has  considered  its 
typical  hour.  Thus  Edinburgh  is  described  as  seen 
in  the  early  afternoon,  from  one  to  two  o'clock  ;  Ant- 
werp from  two  to  three  ;  Rome  from  three  to  four  ; 
Prague  from  four  to  five ;  Scheveningen  from  five 
to  six ;  Berlin  from  six  to  seven ;  London  from  seven 
to  eight ;  Naples  from  eight  to  nine ;  Heidelberg, 
from  nine  to  ten ;  Interlaken  from  ten  to  eleven ; 
Venice  in  the  hour  before  midnight;  and  gay  and 
wicked  Paris  in  the  hour  after  midnight.  Mr.  Harold 
Field  Kellogg  has  drawn  twenty-five  views  (a  vig- 
nette at  the  beginning  of  each  chapter,  and  a  larger 
plate  inserted  a  little  later  )  to  embody,  visually,  the 
author's  thought.  Venice  claims  the  added  distinc- 
tion of  furnishing  a  motif  for  the  book's  frontispiece, 
a  view  of  the  Piazza  San  Marco  from  the  Grand 
Canal. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Walter  Hale's  "Motor  Journeys" 
(McClurg)  is  made  up  of  thirteen  breezy  narrative 
chapters  that  have  appeared  separately  in  "Harper's 
Magazine  "  and  other  periodicals,  with  numerous 
illustrations  by  Mr.  Hale  and  an  appended  discus- 
sion by  him  of  the  cost  of  this  mode  of  sight-seeing. 
Mrs.  Hale  (Louise  Closser  Hale)  has  written  the  rest 
of  the  book.  It  is  in  western  Europe  and  northern 
Africa  that  the  scene  of  the  story  —  for  it  has  some 
of  the  fascination  of  fiction  —  is  laid.  As  to  practi- 
cal matters,  Mr.  Hale,  who  has  made  seven  motor 
tours  in  Great  Britain  and  on  the  Continent  in  the 
last  eight  years,  asserts  that  the  daily  expense  can 
be  kept  down  to  ten  dollars  or  even  less.  France 
is  the  motorist's  paradise  ;  the  roads  are  the  best  in 
Europe,  and  the  hotel  bills,  except  in  the  large  cities, 
are  moderate.  But  gasolene  costs  about  twice  what 
it  does  in  England,  for  some  unexplained  reason. 
Spain  stands  at  or  near  the  other  end  of  the  scale 
for  desirability  to  the  automobilist.  The  artist's 
drawings  for  this  series  of  motor  journeys  are  many 
in  number  and  tasteful  in  design.  They  are  repro- 
duced in  such  a  manner  as  to  convey  the  general 
impression  of  etchings.  Intending  motor- tourists 
will  find  the  book  of  especial  interest  and  full  of 
useful  hints  and  information. 

Some  voyagers,  like  Captain  Amundsen  and  Com- 
mander Peary,  seek  the  uttermost  ends  of  the  earth, 


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and  then  record  their  perilous  adventures  for  admir- 
ing thousands  to  read  ;  others,  like  R.  L.  Stevenson, 
content  themselves  with  an  inland  voyage  or  a  coast- 
wise cruise,  and  let  their  inventive  fancy  play  about 
the  simple  incidents  of  the  outing  in  a  way  to  amuse 
their  host  of  appreciative  readers.  Mr.  E.  Keble 
Chatterton  is  one  of  the  inland  voyagers,  and  his 
"Through  Holland  in  the  Vivette"  (Lippincott)  is 
the  variously  entertaining  logbook  of  "  the  cruise  of 
of  a  4-tonner  from  the  Solent  to  the  Zuyder  Zee, 
through  the  Dutch  waterways,"  with  sixty  illustra- 
tions, harbor-plans,  charts,  etc.  As  shown  by  "  Down 
Channel  in  the  Vivette,"  Mr.  Chatterton  knows  how 
to  get  the  very  most  out  of  a  yachting  trip  such  as 
the  present  volume  describes.  A  few  of  his  chapter- 
headings  (such  as  "  A  Chapter  of  Accidents," 
"  Southampton  Water  to  Ramsgate,"  "  Ramsgate 
to  Calais,"  "Calais  to  Ostende,"  and  so  on,  with 
landings  at  Dordrecht,  Amsterdam,  and  other  im- 
portant points)  may  serve  to  indicate  the  nature  of 
the  book's  contents.  The  author  had  as  sailing  mate 
Mr.  Norman  S.  Carr,  who  sketched  and  photo- 
graphed for  the  book's  embellishment.  It  is  a  good 
substantial  volume,  ably  planned  and  pleasingly 
executed. 

Opportunity  for  the  study  of  primitive  savagery 
in  darkest  Africa  is  constantly  narrowing  with  the 
invasion  and  settlement  of  those  regions  on  the  part 
of  Europeans,  so  that  in  a  few  years  it  may  be 
impossible  for  an  explorer  to  produce  such  a  book 
as  Mr.  M.  W.  Hilton-Simpson,  F.R.G.S.,  F.Z.S., 
F.R.A.I.,  has  written  in  "  Land  and  Peoples  of  the 
Kasai"  (McClurg).  It  is  "a  narrative  of  a  two 
years'  journey  among  the  cannibals  of  the  equatorial 
forest  and  other  savage  tribes  of  the  south-western 
Congo,"  and  is  illustrated  with  many  process-prints 
from  photographs  taken  in  most  instances  by  the 
author,  and  also  with  eight  colored  plates.  A  large 
folding  map  of  the  Belgian  Congo  follows  the  read- 
ing matter,  and  a  ten-page  index  closes  the  book. 
The  work  shows  the  careful  personal  observation 
that  gives  value  to  books  of  its  class.  The  author 
rejoices  at  having  been  able  "  to  amass  a  great  num- 
ber of  objects  for  the  British  Museum  "  and  "to  turn 
to  good  advantage  the  opportunities  we  had  enjoyed 
of  studying  the  primitive  African  negro  before  he 
has  been  materially  changed  by  contact  with  the 
European." 

To  disabuse  oneself  of  any  lingering  preconception 
that  Switzerland  is  a  country  to  be  visited  only  in 
summer,  one  merely  needs  to  open  Mr.  Edmund  B. 
d'Auvergne's  "Switzerland  in  Sunshine  and  Snow," 
a  book  that  portrays  with  pen  and  camera  the  charms 
of  the  Swiss  winter  as  nowise  inferior  to  those  of  the 
Swiss  summer.  A  chapter  devoted  to  the  native  cold- 
weather  sports  finds  appropriate  place  in  the  book, 
side  by  side  with  one  on  "  Winter  in  the  Alps."  Other 
sections  treat  in  agreeable  detail  of  the  St.  Bernard 
dogs,  the  guides,  the  Lion  of  Lucerne,  Chillon,  Neu- 
chatel,  Berne,  the  Bernese  Oberland,  "the  Protest- 
ant Rome,"  which  is,  of  course,  Geneva,  the  land  of 
William  Tell,  the  Swiss  lowlands,  and  other  districts 


and  features  of  this  favorite  European  playground. 
Incidents  of  travel  and  other  personal  experience 
enliven  the  author's  pages  and  make  it  abundantly 
evident  that  he  is  writing  from  110  second-hand  or 
guide-book  information.  He  loves  his  Switzerland, 
and  he  makes  his  feeling  contagious.  Thirty-six 
typical  views,  four  of  them  colored,  help  to  transplant 
the  reader,  in  imagination,  from  his  arm-chair  to  the 
lakes  and  mountains  whose  like  are  nowhere  else  to 
be  found.  Ornate  binding,  large  print,  an  index  to- 
the  proper  names  in  the  book,  and  a  good  box  to  hold 
the  volume  are  all  duly  provided.  (Little,  Brown  & 
Co.). 

The  Scottish  Border  has  something  in  its  very 
name  that  suggests  romance,  and  of  this  agreeably 
suggestive  quality  Mr.  A.  G.  Bradley  has  made  the 
most  in  his  rambling  sketches  of  southeastern  Scot- 
land which  he  has  gathered  into  a  volume  under  the 
title,  "The  Gateway  of  Scotland,  or  East  Lothian,. 
Lammermoor,  and  the  Merse  "  (Houghton).  Mr. 
A.  L.  Collins  contributes  eight  cheerful  views  in  the 
opulent  hues  of  nature  —  or  even  with  somewhat 
more  than  nature's  opulence  in  this  matter  of  color 
— and  fifty-seven  soberer  drawings  in  black  and 
white.  Mr.  Bradley  well  says  that  the  region  chosen 
by  him  for  description  and  comment  is  almost  an 
unknown  land  to  the  great  travelling  public.  His 
very  first  chapter,  on  Berwick-on-Tweed,  will  catch 
the  average  reader  cherishing  the  mistaken  fancy 
that  this  old  town  is  on  Scottish  soil;  and,  indeed, 
as  the  author  remarks,  "that  the  whole  south- 
eastern corner  of  what  by  every  law  of  nature  and 
common  sense  should  be  the  Scottish  county  of 
Berwickshire  beyond  Tweed,  even  to  the  measure 
of  some  eight  square  miles  of  pastoral  and  tillage 
upland,  is  English  soil,  remains,  I  feel  morally 
certain,  a  geographical  and  political  curiosity  only 
understood  by  Borderers."  And  what,  furthermore, 
will  ninety-nine  non-Scottish  readers  out  of  a  hun- 
dred conceive  to  be  designated  by  such  geographical 
names  as  East  Lothian,  Lammermoor,  and  the 
Merse  ?  The  book  is  well  worth  a  nearer  acquaint- 
ance,—  if  only  for  the  sake  of  clearing  up  these 
obscurities. 

Good  line  drawings  that  convey  the  impression 
of  wood-cuts  diversify  in  pleasing  manner  the  pages 
of  Mr.  Percy  Allen's  u  Burgundy,  the  Splendid 
Duchy  "  (Pott),  and  not  even  the  eight  water-colors 
by  the  same  artist  (Miss  Marjorie  Nash)  can  make 
us  forgo  our  partiality  for  the  less  elaborate  but  more 
satisfying  sketches.  The  reading  matter  which  these 
illustrate  and  enliven  comprises  a  series  of  "  studies 
and  sketches  in  South  Burgundy," interweaving  per- 
sonal experience  and  learned  comment  in  a  way  to 
win  the  reader's  attention  and  make  him  consider- 
ably wiser  in  the  art,  history,  traditions,  and  customs 
of  the  duchy  than  he  was  before.  Burgundy  has 
played  no  unimportant  part  in  European  history. 
The  author  reminds  his  readers  that  "it  saw  the 
genesis  of  a  religious  movement  that  was  the  great- 
est feature  of  eleventh  and  twelfth  century  history. 
Cluny  was  a  nursery  of  popes;  Citeaux  became  a 


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breeding-ground  of  saints ;  their  abbots  lorded  it 
over  mighty  kings  ;  they  dictated  to  potentates  and 
princes ;  they  bent  all  western  Europe  beneath  their 
sway."  Mr.  Allen's  book  is  one  of  the  best  of  its 
class,  written  not  for  the  passing  season,  but  for 
permanent  keeping  and  repeated  reading  and  con- 
sultation. Its  appeal  to  the  eye  also  makes  it  an 
attractive  gift  book. 

HOLIDAY  BOOKS  OF  HISTORY. 

Local  history  has  no  more  enthusiastic  devotee 
than  Mr.  Stephen  Jenkins,  careful  chronicler  of 
Broadway's  numberless  points  of  historic  interest 
from  Bowling  Green  to  Albany,  and  more  recently 
author  of  a  companion  volume  on  "The  Story  of 
the  Bronx"  (Putnam),  which  traces  the  borough's 
settlement  and  growth  from  its  purchase  by  the 
Dutch  (from  the  Indians)  in  1639  to  the  present 
day.  As  with  its  predecessor,  "  The  Greatest 
Street  in  the  World,"  this  work  is  the  product  of 
years  of  research  and  note- taking.  The  author  says 
in  his  preface:  "The  preparation  of  this  history 
has  taken  over  a  decade,  during  which  time  I  have 
jotted  down  various  facts  and  incidents  as  I  have 
run  across  them,  either  in  books,  or  in  the  daily 
press,  or  in  magazines.  I  have  kept  no  account  of 
the  sources  from  which  I  have  drawn  my  facts, 
so  that  I  can  furnish  no  bibliography."  But  he 
acknowledges  indebtedness  to  Bolton's  and  Scharf 's 
histories  of  Westchester  County.  "The  earlier  his- 
tory of  the  Borough,"  he  tells  us,  "can  be  found  in 
both  these  works,  if  one  has  plenty  of  time  to  search 
for  it."  Among  his  most  interesting  chapters  are 
those  touching  on  colonial  manners  and  customs,  the 
Bronx  during  the  Revolution,  the  churches,  early 
and  later  means  of  communication,  and  ferries  and 
bridges.  More  than  one  hundred  illustrations  and 
maps  are  interspersed,  the  former  from  photographs 
taken  by  the  author,  and  the  latter  so  chosen  as  to 
represent  the  borough's  topography  at  the  close  of 
each  distinct  period  in  its  history.  The  frontis- 
piece of  the  book  is  a  reproduction  of  Mr.  E.  W. 
Deming's  painting,  "  The  Purchase  of  Keskeskeck, 
1639,"  and  there  are  numerous  other  illustrations. 
An  excellent  index  of  nearly  twenty  double-column 
pages  completes  the  volume. 

The  springing  of  our  American  Boston  from  the 
loins  of  old  Boston  in  England,  whose  famous  church 
(St.  Botolph's)  is  more  than  twice  as  old  as  the 
younger  city  which  derives  its  name,  indirectly,  from 
the  patron  saint  of  the  Lincolnshire  town,  is  not  yet 
so  hackneyed  a  theme  of  historical  narrative  as  to 
render  superfluous  Mr.  Albert  C.  Addison's  volume 
of  original  research  and  entertaining  comment  and 
discussion,  "The  Romantic  Story  of  the  Puritan 
Fathers,  and  their  Founding  of  New  Boston  and  the 
Massachusetts  Bay  Colony,  together  with  Some  Ac- 
count of  the  Conditions  which  Led  to  their  Departure 
from  Old  Boston  and  the  Neighboring  Towns  in  En- 
gland" (Page).  The  length  of  the  title,  the  greater 
part  of  which  is  really  a  sub-title,  but  worth  noting 
for  the  sake  of  completeness,  need  not  dismay  any 


intending  reader.  The  book  itself  is  of  moderate 
proportions,  diversified  with  frequent  illustrations 
from  old  and  new  Boston,  especially  the  former.  In 
fact,  the  parent  rather  than  the  lusty  offspring  claims 
the  chief  attention,  which  is  gladly  accorded.  In 
the  table  of  contents  such  promising  headings  as  the 
following  arrest  the  eye, — The  Mayflower  Pilgrims, 
The  Puritan  Exodus,  A  Boston  Adventure,  John 
Cotton,  Quaint  Services  in  Boston  Church,  Mutila- 
tion of  the  Town's  Maces,  Church  Life  in  Boston, 
The  Lincolnshire  Movement,  Faith  and  Flight  of 
Cotton,  Old  Boston  in  Cotton's  Day,  The  Bostons 
and  "The  Scarlet  Letter,"  Links  with  Old  Boston, 
and  Cotton's  Successors  at  St.  Botolph's.  The  book 
is  highly  ornamented,  with  page-borders  in  olive 
green,  tinted  illustrations  from  photographs,  a  useful 
index,  and  a  neat  box  to  preserve  all  these  good 
things  from  defacement. 

Miss  Mary  Caroline  Crawford  has  in  former  books 
succeeded  so  well  in  transporting  her  readers  to  the 
early  times  of  Boston  that  large  expectations  are 
excited  by  the  appearance  of  her  "  Romantic  Days 
in  the  Early  Republic  "  (Little,  Brown  &  Co.).  What 
she  did  so  well  for  her  own  city  in  "  Old  Boston  Days 
and  Ways  "  and  "  Romantic  Days  in  Old  Boston" 
she  now  does  for  a  larger  constituency,  selecting 
such  portions  of  history  and  tradition  as  may  restore 
to  us  with  something  of  charm  and  fascination  the 
by-gone  days  of  Philadelphia,  New  York,  Washing- 
ton, Baltimore,  Charleston,  Richmond,  New  Orleans, 
and,  in  a  concluding  chapter,  Boston  once  more  and 
certain  other  cities  of  New  England.  Naturally, 
good  use  has  been  made  of  such  interesting  char- 
acters as  Hamilton  and  Burr,  Jerome  Bonaparte 
and  his  wife,  Lafayette,  and  Franklin,  and  Andrew 
Jackson,  and  many  others.  The  materials  for  such 
reconstruction  of  the  past  are  abundant;  the  merit 
of  the  book  lies  in  their  skilful  use.  No  formal 
bibliography  of  her  manifold  theme  is  drawn  up  by 
the  author,  but  her  pages  contain  frequent  incidental 
references  to  her  authorities.  A  pleasanter  way  to 
study  American  history — the  history  of  our  manners 
and  customs,  and  something  about  our  great  men  and 
women  of  the  past — could  not  be  imagined  than  the 
way  opened  to  the  reader  of  Miss  Crawford's  chatty 
and  anecdotal  volumes.  As  in  her  former  works, 
illustrations  from  old  prints  and  portraits  are  given 
in  profusion. 

A  re-issue  in  two  volumes  of  Mrs.  Elizabeth  W. 
Champney's  three  volumes  on  the  French  ch&teaux 
(feudal,  renaissance,  and  Bourbon)  is  among  the 
season's  notable  books  of  travel  and  description. 
"  Romance  of  the  French  Chateaux  "  (Putnam)  will 
in  its  new  form  attract  fresh  readers.  Its  author's 
skill  and  artistry  in  interweaving  the  history  and 
legend  of  the  scenes  visited  by  her  are  familiar  to 
readers  of  her  other  "romance"  volumes  —  on  the 
French  abbeys,  the  Italian  villas,  and  the  Roman 
villas.  Her  artist-husband,  one  gathers  from  her 
pages,  accompanied  her  on  her  travels,  and  supple- 
ments the  photographs  that  adorn  her  volumes  with 
occasional  less  mechanical  representations  of  things 


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seen.  Among  the  famous  castles  pictured  and 
described  in  the  present  work  are  to  be  noted  the 
chateaux  of  Mont  St.  Michel,  Falaise,  Gaillard, 
Josselin,  Laval,  Cbateaudun,  Chaumont,  Nantes. 
Amboise,  Pau,  Les  Rochers,  and  others  of  equal 
celebrity.  Les  Rochers  serves  as  excuse,  if  any  were 
needed,  for  devoting  considerable  space  to  Madame 
de  Se'vigne'  and  her  circle.  An  index  to  the  varied 
riches  of  these  agreeable  volumes  would  have  in- 
creased their  usefulness.  The  retention  of  the  old 
page-numbering  is  a  little  confusing,  but  not  easily 
avoidable.  Otherwise  the  workmanship  is  all  that 
could  be  desired. 

Prepared  especially  for  members  of  the  City  His- 
tory Clubs,  the  twenty-four  monographs  comprising 
"  Historic  New  York  during  Two  Centuries  "  (Put- 
nam) were  originally  published  some  years  ago  in 
two  volumes.  Their  present  collection  in  one-volume 
form  at  a  moderate  price  ought  to  enlarge  their  circu- 
lation. The  staff  of  editors  and  writers  (including 
such  names  as  Maud  Wilder  Goodwin,  Alice  Car- 
rington  Royce,  Ruth  Putnam,  Eva  Palmer  Brownell, 
Alice  Morse  Earle,  Oswald  Garrison  Villard,  George 
E.  Waring,  Jr.,  George  Everett  Hill,  Elizabeth  Bis- 
land,  John  B.  Pine,  Talcott  Williams,  Spencer  Trask, 
and  others  of  like  prominence)  is  one  to  carry  weight 
with  all  readers,  and  the  subjects  treated  —  such  as 
"Fort  Amsterdam  in  the  Days  of  the  Dutch,"  "The 
Early  History  of  Wall  Street,"  "The  City  Chest  of 
New  Amsterdam,"  "Old  Greenwich,"  "King's  Col- 
lege," "The  Bowery,"  "Tammany  Hall,"  "Bowling 
Green,"  "The  Doctor  in  Old  New  York,  "and  "Early 
Schools  and  Schoolmasters  of  New  Amsterdam" — 
form  an  inviting  list.  Sixty-two  illustrations  and 
maps  contribute  to  the  attractiveness  and  value  of 
the  volume. 

By  the  use  of  thin  but  opaque  paper,  one  not 
unwieldy  volume,  entitled  "Colonial  Homesteads 
and  their  Stories"  (Putnam),  has  been  formed  from 
the  two  already  favorably  known  as  "  Some  Colonial 
Homesteads"  and  "More  Colonial  Homesteads," 
written  some  years  ago  by  her  whose  pen-name 
("Marion  Harland")  is  a  guaranty  of  good  literary 
quality  and  skilled  workmanship.  The  stories  of 
colonial  life  with  which  the  above-named  works 
abound  will  attract  new  readers  to  the  present  one- 
volume  re-issue.  Exceptional  facilities  for  gathering 
the  information  they  contain  were  enjoyed  by  the 
writer,  who  was  received  as  a  guest  at  the  various 
homesteads  pictured  in  her  pages,  and  who  had  placed 
at  her  disposal  all  sorts  of  family  records  and  faded 
manuscripts  and  curious  mementos  of  a  by-gone  time, 
from  which  to  frame  her  graphic  chapters.  The 
illustrations  comprise  both  exterior  and  interior 
views  and  portraits,  and  are  in  lavish  abundance. 
The  southern  and  middle  Atlantic  States  are  chiefly 
represented  in  the  mansion  described,  so  that  there 
remain  many  old  New  England  houses  for  the  full 
and  intimate  treatment  which  they,  no  less  than 
these  others,  richly  deserve.  The  original  division 
into  two  parts,  with  full  index  to  each,  is  preserved 
in  the  one-volume  form  of  the  work. 


HOLIDAY  AKT  BOOKS. 

A  novelty  in  the  literature  of  arts  and  crafts  is 
presented  in  "A  Book  of  Hand-woven  Coverlets," 
by  Eliza  Calvert  Hall  (Mrs.  William  Alexander 
Obenchain),  whose  "Aunt  Jane  of  Kentucky"  has 
made  her  name  well-known  in  a  rather  different 
department  of  literature.  The  old-fashioned  hand- 
woven  coverlet  is  to  her  an  object  of  human  as  well 
as  of  artistic  interest,  and  she  evidently  feels  that 
if  she  could  understand  it,  woof  and  all,  and  all  in 
all,  she  would  know  what  God  and  man  is.  In  it 
she  sees  "poetry,  romance,  religion,  sociology,  phil- 
ology, politics,  and  history."  Four  years  of  search 
and  travel  in  many  states  were  spent  in  gathering 
facts  and  designs  for  her  book ;  it  was  a  new  field 
of  study,  and  she  had  to  break  her  own  road  through 
the  wilderness.  Even  if,  as  she  intimates,  there  still 
remains  a  vast  unexplored  domain  of  coverlet-lore, 
her  book  is  still  a  considerable  and  a  praiseworthy 
achievement.  Its  ten  agreeable  chapters  afford  us 
a  glimpse  into  the  primitive  times  of  the  spinning- 
wheel  and  hand-loom ;  introduce  to  us  the  mountain 
weavers  of  Virginia,  North  Carolina,  Tennessee,  and 
Kentucky,  where  indeed  "women  are  working  at 
wheel  and  loom  just  as  their  great- great-grand- 
mothers worked  ";  discuss  the  mysteries  of  coverlet 
designs  and  colors  and  names ;  touch  on  the  historic 
and  family  associations  of  the  "storied  coverlet"; 
and,  finally,  appeal  to  the  reader  to  rescue  and  cher- 
ish any  heirloom  of  the  coverlet  kind  that  may  be 
lying  unappreciated  in  attic  or  storeroom.  Sixteen 
colored  plates  and  forty-eight  in  half-tone  present  to 
the  eye  as  many  patterns  of  hand-woven  coverlets. 
The  photographic  process  has  transferred  the  mi- 
nutest details  of  web  and  design  to  the  page,  and 
where  colors  have  been  used  the  beauty  of  the  pat- 
tern is  still  further  reproduced.  The  text  is  printed 
in  unusually  clear  type,  and  the  handsome  binding 
shows,  very  appropriately,  a  pleasing  coverlet  design 
on  the  front  cover.  (Little,  Brown  &  Co.) 

The  poetry  of  motion  is  lavishly  pictured  and 
adequately  described  in  three  notable  volumes  on 
the  modern  art  of  dancing,  chiefly  stage  dancing. 
First,  there  is  Miss  Ethel  L.  Urlin's  "Dancing, 
Ancient  and  Modern  "  (Appleton),  a  compact  and 
useful  treatise,  giving  briefly  the  history  of  the  chief 
varieties  and  some  minor  varieties  of  the  dance, 
even  including  the  cake-walk,  the  Apache  dances, 
Maori  dances,  and  the  danse  macabre.  As  a  handy 
epitome  of  the  whole  subject,  with  pleasing  illustra- 
tions from  paintings  and  from  life,  the  book  is  to  be 
commended.  Appropriate  selections  from  the  poets 
are  interspersed,  and  an  embossed  representation  of 
Miss  Maud  Allan  exemplifying  the  latest  form  of 
stage  dancing  adorns  the  cover. —  The  second  work 
is  Mr.  J.  E.  Crawford  Flitch's  "Modern  Dancing 
and  Dancers  "  (Lippincott),  a  volume  of  quarto  size 
enlivened  with  colored  plates  as  well  as  with  many 
half-tone  illustrations.  The  author  devotes  one  chap- 
ter to  a  cursory  historical  view,  "  The  Ancient  and 
Modern  Attitude  Towards  the  Dance,"  and  then 
gives  his  attention  to  the  ballet  in  different  countries, 


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the  skirt  dance,  the  serpentine  dance,  the  high  kick- 
ers, the  revival  of  classical  dancing,  Russian  dancers, 
oriental  and  Spanish  dancing,  the  revival  of  the 
morris  dance,  and  the  future  of  dancing.  Believing 
as  he  does  that  "when  the  art  historian  of  the  future 
comes  to  treat  of  the  artistic  activity  of  the  first  dec- 
ade of  the  twentieth  century,  he  will  remark  as  one 
of  its  most  notable  accomplishments  a  renaissance  of 
the  art  of  the  Dance,"  he  handles  his  theme  with 
befitting  seriousness  and,  what  is  more,  engages  the 
serious  interest  of  the  reader.  Some  good  reproduc- 
tions from  Sargent  and  other  painters  are  among  the 
illustrations  of  this  sumptuous  volume. — Last  but  not 
least,  we  have  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  H.  Caffin's  rich 
quarto  volume,  "Dancing  and  Dancers  of  Today" 
(Dodd),  or,  as  the  subtitle  reads,  "The  Modern 
Revival  of  Dancing  as  an  Art."  Together  with  some 
tracing  of  the  history  of  modern  dancing  there  are 
chapters  on  individual  dancers:  Isadora  Duncan, 
Maud  Allan,  Ruth  St.  Denis,  Gende,  Mordkin,  Pav- 
lowa,  Sacchetto,  and  Wiesenthal;  and  also  chap- 
ters on  the  ballet,  the  Russian  dance-drama,  court 
dances,  eccentric  dancing,  and  folk  dancing.  Forty- 
eight  large  plates  from  photographs  illustrate  the 
work,  which  is  ornately  bound  and  boxed. 

Mr.  Frank  Roy  Fraprie,  having  already  written 
agreeably  of  Bavarian  inns  and  Scottish  castles  and 
Munich  art  galleries,  confines  his  attention  for  his 
this  year's  book  to  a  single  great  artist  and  his  works. 
"  The  Raphael  Book  "  (Page)  is  described  in  its  sub- 
title as  "  an  account  of  the  life  of  Raphael  Santi  of 
Urbino  and  his  place  in  the  development  of  art,  to- 
gether with  a  description  of  his  paintings  and  fres- 
coes." Fifty-four  full-page  plates,  six  of  them  in 
color,  reproduce  or  at  least  suggest  to  the  reader's 
eye  the  chief  masterpieces  of  this  artist  who  first 
made  religious  painting  something  more  than  a  stiff 
conventionality.  New  facts  are  of  course  not  to  be 
sought  in  any  re-telling  of  the  story  of  Raphael's 
life  ;  but  new  points  of  emphasis,  new  opinions  on 
debatable  questions  in  his  art,  and  fresh  enthusiasm 
for  his  genius,  are  always  possible  and  in  order.  It 
is  in  this  freshness  of  presentation  and  hearty  enjoy- 
ment of  Raphael's  peculiar  merits  that  the  strength 
of  Mr.  Fraprie's  book  lies.  The  volume  ends  with 
a  useful  list  of  pictures  painted  by  or  attributed  to 
Raphael,  and  a  twelve-page  index.  The  many  illus- 
trations and  handsome  binding  of  the  work  make  it 
a  suitable  gift  book.  It  is  neatly  and  strongly  boxed. 

Of  increasing  interest  because  of  increasing  rarity 
is  the  old  colonial  homestead  exemplified  by  the 
Cabot  house  at  Salem,  the  Fowler  house  at  Danvers, 
the  Jewett  house  at  Georgetown,  Mass.,  the  Warner 
house  at  Portsmouth,  and  a  number  of  others  still 
standing  in  the  older  towns  of  our  Atlantic  States. 
"  Colonial  Homes  and  their  Furnishings,"  by  Miss 
Mary  H.  Northend,  is  a  volume  rich  in  descriptive 
details  of  such  early  and  noteworthy  examples  of 
domestic  architecture  as  are  to  be  found  in  old 
Salem,  Marblehead,  Danvers,  Newburyport,  and 
other  places  not  far  distant,  with  a  considerable 
study  of  old  colonial  furniture  and  decoration  —  all 


elaborately  illustrated  with  more  than  two  hundred 
plates.  It  was  illness  and  a  desire  for  occupation 
to  divert  her  thoughts  that  first  turned  the  author's 
attention  to  the  subjects  treated  in  her  book,  and 
now,  she  tells  us  in  her  preface,  she  has  one  of  the 
most  valuable  existing  collections  of  photographs 
illustrating  those  subjects.  Her  arrangement  of 
topics,  as  indicated  in  the  table  of  contents,  is  note- 
worthy. First  she  discusses  old  houses  in  their  total- 
ity, then  colonial  doorways,  door-knockers,  old-time 
gardens,  halls  and  stairways,  wall-papers,  chairs  and 
sofas,  sideboards  and  bureaus  and  tables,  f our- posters, 
mirrors,  clocks,  old-time  lights,  old  china,  old  glass, 
old  pewter,  and  old  silver.  The  largeness  of  the 
book's  pages  admits  of  some  unusually  fine  illustra- 
tions, as  for  instance  that  of  the  Nichols  garden,  the 
Middleton  house,  the  Andrew-house  doorway,  and 
others  that  might  be  named.  Clear  type,  a  full  in- 
dex, and  a  rich  and  appropriate  binding  are  among 
the  book's  excellences.  (Little,  Brown  &  Co.) 

Mr.  Henry  C.  Lahee  has  given  so  much  attention 
to  the  rise  of  grand  opera  in  this  country  as  to  qualify 
him  for  his  latest  undertaking,  a  volume  on  "  The 
Grand  Opera  Singers  of  To-day  "  (Page),  the  object 
of  which,  he  tells  us  in  his  preface,  "  has  been  to- 
give  some  account  of  the  leading  singers  who  have 
been  heard  in  America  during  the  present  century." 
But  "those  whose  careers  have  been  touched  upon 
in  '  Famous  Singers  of  Yesterday  and  To-day,'  and 
in  '  Grand  Opera  in  America '  are  not  mentioned,, 
except  perhaps  casually,  in  this  book."  The  histories 
of  the  leading  American  opera  houses  are  followed 
with  some  account  of  the  various  singers  appearing 
on  their  stages,  and  criticisms  of  these  opera  singers 
are  quoted  from  authoritative  sources.  The  seven 
chapters  deal  with  the  Metropolitan  Opera-House 
under  Maurice  Grau,  the  same  under  Heinrich 
Conried,  the  Manhattan  Opera-House  under  Oscar 
Hammerstein,  the  Metropolitan  (again)  under  Gatti- 
Casazza  and  Dippel,  the  Boston  Opera-House  under 
Henry  Russell,  and  the  Chicago-Philadelphia  Com- 
pany under  Dippel.  The  list  of  singers  treated  with 
pen  and  camera  within  the  ample  compass  of  the 
book  is  too  long  to  be  given  here.  Among  the  im- 
presarios, the  variously  gifted  and  boldly  enterpris- 
ing Mr.  Hammerstein  attracts  most  attention.  A 
short  concluding  chapter,  briefly  retrospective  and 
forward-looking,  ends  with  the  passage  from  Shaler's 
"  Individual "  which  promises  more  for  the  future 
development  of  music  than  for  any  other  of  the  fine 
arts.  The  book,  in  its  red  and  gilt  binding,  and 
with  its  clear  print  and  numerous  portraits  of  opera 
singers  in  their  characteristic  roles,  is  a  notably 
attractive  volume. 

Last  January  Mr.  Joseph  Pennell  went  to  Panama 
to  make  drawings  of  the  Canal,  and  he  found,  when 
he  arrived,  that  his  visit  had  been  well  timed  for 
catching  views  of  the  great  works  in  their  most  stu- 
pendous stage  and  before  the  letting  in  of  the  water 
should  have  partly  hidden  those  marvels  of  cyclopean 
engineering.  A  volume  of  twenty-eight  reproduc- 
tions from  his  original  lithographs,  preserving  as 


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many  views  of  the  "  big  ditch  "  and  its  surroundings 
on  the  eve  of  its  completion,  is  the  result  of  his  excur- 
sion. "Joseph  Pennell's  Pictures  of  the  Panama 
Canal "  (Lippincott)  is  the  title  of  the  volume,  in 
which  the  artist's  pen  has  cooperated  with  his  pencil 
in  conveying  some  adequate  impression  of  the  won- 
ders that  confronted  him.  Picking  his  points  of 
view  with  an  eye  to  effect,  and  provided  with  an 
official  pass  that  left  him  at  liberty  to  risk  his  neck 
as  boldly  as  he  chose,  Mr.  Pennell  was  able  to  repro- 
duce scenes  that  no  photographer  has  yet  caught ; 
and  he  has  imparted  to  them  the  charm  and  the 
aesthetic  suggestion  that  no  camera  can  capture.  His 
Introduction  and  comments  are  an  excellent  aid  to 
one's  appreciation  of  both  the  engineering  enterprise 
itself  and  the  artistic  undertaking  of  the  undaunted 
sketcher. 

A  most  engaging  and  lovable  personality  was 
that  of  the  late  William  T.  Richards,  widely  known 
for  his  paintings  of  the  sea  in  all  its  varied  moods. 
In  Mr.  Harrison  S.  Morris's  small  volume,  "  William 
T.  Richards:  A  Brief  Outline  of  his  Life  and  Art" 
{Lippincott),  is  presented  a  pleasing  portrait  of  the 
man  and  artist  from  the  hand  of  one  who  knew  him 
well  and  esteemed  him  highly.  Richards  was  no 
mere  painter  of  pictures;  in  him  was  "a  touch  of 
life  beyond  the  monopolizing  palette.  .  .  .  He  was 
apt  in  all  the  pleasant  devices  of  conversation,  full 
of  humor  and  quiet  laughter,  full  of  diverting  stories 
from  his  travels  and  his  contact  with  life  in  many 
•countries,  and  full  of  that  large  acquaintance  with 
books  that  furnishes  a  ripe  mind  with  overflowing 
talk."  Fourteen  "masterpieces  of  the  sea,"  as  Mr. 
Morris  rightly  calls  them,  and  one  landscape  are 
reproduced  from  Richards's  canvases,  and  portraits 
of  the  artist  and  his  wife  are  also  given.  In  all  its 
details  the  book  is  a  handsome  piece  of  work  as  well 
as  an  excellent  bit  of  biography. 

HOLIDAY  EDITIONS  OF  STANDARD  LITERATURE. 
"  The  Life  of  the  Bee,"  that  wonderful  book  of 
M.  Maeterlinck's  which  is  neither  science  nor  natural 
history,  nor  prosaic  fact  of  any  sort,  but  poetry  and 
suggestion  and  beauty,  all  with  a  substantial  basis 
in  truth  (which  is  itself  the  most  suggestive  and 
beautiful  thing  known),  comes  out  again  this  season 
in  a  finely-illustrated  edition  printed  on  heavy  paper 
with  generous  margins,  and  ornately  bound  and 
boxed.  The  excellence  of  Mr.  Alfred  Sutro's  lim- 
pid translation  is  already  recognized.  The  illustra- 
tion, done  by  Mr.  Edward  J.  Detmold,  will  be  found 
no  whit  inferior:  his  flower  pictures  have  the  effect 
of  water- colors,  or  rather  of  nature  itself;  and  his 
bees  hovering  over  them  can  almost  be  heard  to 
buzz,  so  that,  as  in  the  case  of  the  famous  bee 
painted  by  Quintin  Matsys  of  old,  a  nervous  person 
might  be  inclined  to  draw  forth  pocket-handkerchief 
and  flirt  them  away.  There  are  thirteen  of  these 
exquisite  designs,  loosely  mounted  on  heavy  tinted 
paper,  while  the  cover  further  displays  the  artist's 
skill.  In  all  its  appointments  this  edition  of  a  work 
whose  aim  is  "to  speak  of  the  bees  very  simply,  as 


one  speaks  of  a  subject  one  knows  and  loves  to  those 
who  know  it  not,"  is  in  beautiful  accord  with  the 
high  aim  of  its  author.  The  book  is  of  quarto  size, 
which  gives  ample  scope  to  both  printer  and  illustra- 
tor to  do  their  best  work.  (Dodd,  Mead  &  Co.) 

In  rich  holiday  attire  appears  Mr.  Kipling's 
"  Kim,"  the  orphan  lad  of  Lahore  who,  though  he 
owned  a  European  costume  —  trousers,  a  shirt,  and 
a  battered  hat — "found  it  easier  to  slip  into  Hindu 
or  Mohammedan  garb  when  engaged  on  certain 
businesses,"  and  who,  "as  he  reached  the  years  of 
indiscretion,  learned  to  avoid  missionaries  and  white 
men  of  serious  aspect  who  asked  him  who  he  was  and 
what  he  did.  For  Kim  did  nothing  with  an  immense 
success."  He  knew  the  wonderful  walled  city  of 
Lahore  from  end  to  end,  was  intimate  with  men  who 
lived  stranger  lives  than  were  ever  dreamt  of  by 
Haroun  al  Raschid,  and  his  whole  existence  was  a 
continuous  "Arabian  Nights"  tale.  But,  remarks 
the  author,  missionaries  and  secretaries  of  charitable 
societies  could  not  see  the  beauty  of  it.  The  beauty 
of  it,  or  at  least  the  interest  of  it,  has  nevertheless 
appealed  to  thousands  of  readers,  and  many  more 
are  likely  to  be  drawn  to  the  story  by  this  handsome 
edition,  illustrated  with  reproductions  of  the  series 
of  terra  cotta  placques  designed  for  the  story  by  the 
author's  father,  J.  Lockwood  Kipling,  and  having  as 
end-leaves  a  colored  reproduction  of  one  of  Verest- 
chagin's  paintings.  Colored  borders  set  off  the  plates, 
which  are  themselves  tinted,  and  the  binding  is  in 
red  and  gold.  (Doubleday,  Page  &  Co.) 

In  a  handsome  two-volume  edition,  for  which  the 
type  was  entirely  reset,  and  which  has  sixty-four  well- 
chosen  illustrations,  "  The  Romance  of  Leonardo  da 
Vinci "  reappears  in  Mr.  Herbert  Trench's  authorized 
translation  from  the  Russian  of  Dmitri  Merejkowski. 
It  is  ten  years  since  this  remarkable  romance  of  a 
great  artist's  life  was  first  offered  to  English  readers 
by  its  present  publishers  (G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons),  and 
in  that  time,  as  is  announced  on  the  reverse  of  the 
title-page,  it  has  had  no  fewer  than  eight  re-printings. 
The  plates  provided  for  this  edition  embrace  a  large 
number  of  reproductions  of  Leonardo's  paintings  and 
of  other  works  of  contemporary  artists,  also  portraits 
and  views  in  abundance.  The  late  disappearance 
(and  repeatedly  reported  reappearance)  of  the  famous 
"  Mona  Lisa  "  portrait  from  the  Louvre  gives  especial 
timeliness  to  this  fine  edition  of  the  Russian  roman- 
cer's book;  and  his  chapter,  in  the  second  volume, 
on  "  Mona  Lisa  Gioconda  "  acquires  a  current  inter- 
est apart  from  its  own  literary  merits.  The  artist's 
portrait  of  himself,  in  the  Uffizi  Gallery,  furnishes 
a  frontispiece  for  the  first  volume,  while  his  "Mona 
Lisa"  performs  a  like  service  for  the  second.  The 
volumes  are  attractively  bound  in  blue  and  gilt. 

In  a  new  edition,  uniform  with  recent  reissues  of 
Dean  Ramsay's  and  John  Gait's  pictures  of  Scottish 
life  and  character,  there  is  now  revived  that  classic 
of  the  early  nineteenth  century,  "The  Life  of  Mansie 
Wauch,  Tailor  in  Dalkeith"  (McClurg),  by  David 
Macbeth  Moir,  contemporary  and  friend  of  John 
Gait  and  a  writer  gifted  with  an  exquisite  humor 


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and  a  deft  touch  in  the  portrayal  of  personal  oddi- 
ties. Contributing  frequently  to  "  Blackwood's  Mag- 
azine "  in  the  twenties  —  in  fact  it  was  there  that 
"  Mansie  "  made  its  appearance  as  a  serial  —  Moir 
gained  a  reputation  that  was  further  increased  by 
the  rapid  reissue  in  edition  after  edition  of  his  mas- 
terpiece, the  book  now  under  consideration.  Mansie 
is  a  most  laughably  and  lovably  conceited  person,  as 
depicted  by  himself  in  this  his  alleged  autobiography. 
In  the  mere  record  of  his  birth  he  cannot  conceal 
his  foible,  for  he  speaks  of  his  father  and  mother  as 
"  little,  I  daresay,  jalousing,  at  the  time  their  eyes 
first  met,  that  fate  had  destined  them  for  a  pair, 
and  to  be  the  honoured  parents  of  me,  their  only 
bairn."  The  tremendously  important  events  of 
Mansie's  sartorial  career,  of  his  courtship  and  mar- 
riage and  all  the  little  domesticities  of  his  life,  make 
the  richest  of  reading  as  told  by  the  chief  actor  in 
the  drama.  The  book  was  well  worth  reviving,  and 
in  its  present  handsome  form,  with  colored  illustra- 
tions from  oil  paintings  by  Mr.  Charles  Martin 
Hardie,  R.S.A.,  it  is  a  book  to  own  and  to  keep. 

It  is  almost  half  a  century  since  the  late  John  Hay 
struck  that  vein  of  popular  ballad  poetry  that  proved 
so  rich  during  the  short  time  he  worked  it.  "The 
Pike  County  Ballads,"  first  collected  in  an  unpreten- 
tious volume  that  achieved  a  circulation  far  smaller 
than  it  deserved,  are  now  issued  in  handsome  form, 
with  illustrations  admirably  suited  to  their  character, 
by  the  Houghton  Mifflin  Company.  Mr.  N.  C.  Wyeth 
is  the  artist,  and  he  prefaces  his  work  with  a  short  in- 
troduction. "  I  have  endeavored,"  he  says,  modestly, 
"to  add  my  mite  to  these  already  potent  lines;  to 
lift  the  curtain  intermittently,  to  draw  the  veil  aside 
cautiously,  and  look  upon  the  unsuspecting  folk  of 
Pike  County."  Seven  colored  and  a  greater  number 
of  uncolored  drawings  admirably  catch  the  spirit  of 
the  ballads.  On  the  book's  front  cover  are  depicted 
three  typical  Pike  County  characters,  and  the  end- 
leaves  bear  representations  of  still  other  specimens 
of  the  same  gentry. 

In  a  serviceable  and  beautiful  "  pocket  edition," 
the  romances  of  The'ophile  Gautier,  translated  and 
edited  by  Professor  F.  C.  de  Sumichrast,  of  Harvard 
University,  illustrated  with  full-page  photogravure 
plates  of  a  striking  nature,  and  flexibly  but  strongly 
bound  in  limp  leather,  are  issued  in  a  uniform  set 
of  ten  volumes  by  Messrs.  Little,  Brown  &  Co.,  and 
are  offered  in  sets  only.  The  "Travels "  of  the  same 
author,  also  translated  by  Professor  de  Sumichrast, 
are  published  in  a  set  of  seven  volumes,  uniform  in 
style  with  the  novels,  by  the  same  publishers.  Any 
one  of  these  seven  volumes  may  be  bought  separately. 
Introductions,  presenting  in  brief  and  readable  form 
much  bibliographical  and  biographical  information 
and  occasional  critical  comment,  are  supplied  by  the 
translator.  The  richness  and  color  of  Gautier's  style 
seem  to  have  been  well  reproduced  in  this  version  of 
his  works,  of  which  the  travel  volumes  especially  show 
him  to  be  a  master  of  vivid  description,  seizing  upon 
what  is  most  characteristic  in  the  different  countries 
visited.  This  opportunity  to  obtain  a  uniform  set 


of  his  writings  in  so  trustworthy  a  version  and  at 
moderate  cost  should  not  be  neglected  either  by 
libraries  or  by  individual  purchasers. 

In  the  year  following  its  first  appearance,  and 
already  with  a  circulation  of  one  hundred  and  thirty- 
five  thousand  to  its  credit,  Mr.  Jeffery  Farad's  ro- 
mance, "The  Broad  Highway,"  comes  forth  with  its 
charm  renewed  and  heightened  in  a  holiday  edition 
printed  from  new  plates,  with  twenty-four  colored 
pictures  by  Mr.  Charles  E.  Brock,  and  an  additional 
one  on  the  front  cover  of  the  artistic  binding.  Mr. 
Brock's  previous  work  has  marked  him  as  an  illustra- 
tor quite  equal  to  the  task  of  doing  justice  to  Peter 
and  Charmian,  Black  George  and  Prue,  Sir  Maurice 
Vibart,  and  the  Ancient,  and  the  other  leading  char- 
acters of  this  vivid  romance.  Drawing  and  coloring 
alike  are  remarkably  well  done,  and  not  even  the 
beautiful  heroine  herself  could  have  been  more  ac- 
ceptably conceived.  A  short  preface  of  thanks  to 
his  hospitable  public  is  furnished  by  the  author,  who 
naturally  finds  himself  in  a  mood  to  rejoice  that 
the  stony  and  difficult  part  of  the  highway  over  which 
he  and  Peter  have  travelled  to  success  and  prosperity 
is  now  well  passed.  (Little,  Brown  &  Co.) 

"  The  Burlington  Library  "  (Little,  Brown  &  Co.) 
is  well  represented  this  season  by  two  new  volumes, 
Keats's  "Poems"  and  Kingsley's  "Water-Babies," 
each  provided  with  twenty-four  graceful  illustrations 
in  color,  and  each  also  artistically  jacketed  and 
boxed.  Mr.  Averil  Burleigh's  pictures  for  the  Keats 
volume  are  beautifully  drawn.  The  even  distribu- 
tion of  the  plates  through  the  book,  at  every  six- 
teenth page,  as  a  rule  has  resulted  in  a  certain 
severance  of  picture  from  the  poem  it  illustrates, 
which  might  have  been  avoided  —  a  slight  discord 
that  is  repeated  in  "The  Water-Babies."  Miss 
Ethel  F.  Everett's  colored  drawings  for  this  ever- 
popular  story  show  understanding  of  the  author's 
intention  and  are  designed  in  the  true  spirit  of 
fairy-land.  Few  if  any  inexpensive  color  books  can 
match  this  Burlington  series,  which  now  contains 
seven  well-chosen  volumes. 

Rabelais,  in  the  vigorous  seventeenth-century 
English  of  Sir  Thomas  Urquhart,  and  copiously  illus- 
trated with  appropriate  drawings  by  Mr.  W.  Heath 
Robinson,  appears  in  a  two-volume  edition  at  a 
moderate  price.  The  antique  flavor  of  this  time- 
tested  version  corresponds  well  with  the  archaism 
of  Rabelais's  style,  and  the  humorous  conceits  of  the 
illustrator  fall  no  whit  behind  the  amusing  inventions 
of  the  author.  More  than  one  hundred  of  these  draw- 
ings are  interspersed.  The  volumes  are  tastefully 
and  strongly  bound.  (J.  B.  Lippincott  Co.) 

HOLIDAY  ANTHOLOGIES. 

Although  Mr.  Alfred  H.  Hyatt's  volumes,  "The 
Charm  of  London"  and  "The  Charm  of  Venice" 
(Jacobs),  are  compilations  as  to  their  reading  mat- 
ter, the  range  and  variety  of  the  selections  and  the 
superior  quality  of  the  illustrations  (from  water- 
colors  by  Mr.  Yoshio  Markino  and  Mr.  Harald 
Sund)  give  the  books  an  excellence  not  attained  by 


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the  ordinary  holiday  publication  of  this  sort.  Each 
of  the  volumes  contains  about  two  hundred  well- 
chosen  extracts  in  prose  and  verse  from  approved 
sources,  including  American  as  well  as  English 
authors.  Twelve  excellent  reproductions  of  water- 
color  drawings  are  provided  for  each  volume,  those 
for  London  being  from  Mr.  Mariano's  brush,  those 
for  Venice  from  Mr.  Sund's.  The  Japanese  artist's 
style  is  already  familiar  to  the  many  readers  of  his 
books;  and  Mr.  Sund's  drawings  are  equally  pleas- 
ing in  their  way.  It  is  remarkable  how  carefully 
the  former  artist,  coming  of  a  nation  whose  art 
seeins  to  us  so  devoid  of  the  principle  of  perspective, 
has  rendered  the  perspective,  especially  the  atmos- 
pheric perspective,  in  his  London  scenes.  The  deli- 
cacy and  finish  in  both  sets  of  illustrations  make 
them  a  delight  to  the  eye. 

For  its  maximum  of  wisely-chosen  Christmas  verse 
within  a  minimum  of  space,  no  compilation  of  its  sort 
could  well  surpass  Mr.  Edward  A.  Bryant's  "  Yule- 
tide  Cheer"  (Crowell),  which  has  brought  together 
all  the  familiar  old  carols  and  poems  of  the  season, 
and  also  a  good  number  of  the  newer  and  less  familiar 
pieces  of  verse  appropriate  to  the  same  joyous  season 
— all  arranged  according  to  subject  in  eight  sections, 
"Yule-tide  Anticipations,"  "The  Yule  Log,"  "  Santa 
Claus  and  Other  Saints,"  "  Christmas  Day,"  "  Christ- 
mas in  Sacred  Song,"  "Christmas  Carols,"  "New 
Year's,"  and  "Epiphany."  Poems  as  old  as  the 
Anglo- Norman  carol  of  the  thirteenth  century,  sup- 
posed to  be  the  oldest  extant  carol  in  our  tongue, 
and  as  modern  as  Father  Tabb's  and  Mr.  Bliss  Car- 
man's Christmas  pieces,  find  a  place  in  the  book.  To 
the  table  of  contents  and  the  index  of  titles  and  first 
lines  an  index  of  authors  might  wisely  have  been 
added.  The  little  volume  is  tastefully  printed  and 
bound  and  boxed,  and  has  an  appropriate  frontispiece. 

Of  late  years,  no  holiday  season  has  been  complete 
without  its  book  on  the  cheerful  art  of  being  happy. 
This  season  accordingly  brings  forth  an  elaborately 
ornamented  and  at  the  same  time  pleasing  volume  of 
prose  and  verse  selections  compiled  by  Miss  Jennie 
Day  Haines  under  the  title  "  A  Book  of  Happiness  " 
(Jacobs).  Mr.  Orison  Swett  Marden,  that  indefati- 
gable preacher  of  the  gospel  of  success,  contributes 
the  first  extract,  and  Mrs.  Browning  occupies  the 
place  of  highest  honor,  at  the  end  of  the  list.  Be- 
tween the  two  there  must  be  nearly  a  thousand  other 
quotations,  short  and  long,  prose  and  verse,  grouped 
in  chapters  appropriately  headed.  To  the  indeter- 
minate "Selected"  are  credited  a  considerable  num- 
ber of  passages.  From  Leigh  Hunt  comes  one  of  the 
shortest  and  best :  "  It  is  books  that  teach  us  to  refine 
our  pleasures  when  young,  and  to  recall  them  with 
satisfaction  when  we  are  old."  Whether  or  not 
happiness  will  come  by  taking  thought,  no  more 
attractive  book  of  its  sort  could  be  asked  for  as  a 
gift  volume. 

The  latest  but  not  the  least  addition  to  the  series 
of  volumes  devoted  to  poems  of  places  comes  from 
the  editorial  hand  of  Mr.  J.  Walker  McSpadden, 
and  is  called  "  The  Alps  as  Seen  by  the  Poets  " 


(  Crowell) .  The  poems,  selected  with  good  j  udgment 
from  the  great  poets,  and  from  some  of  their  minor 
fellow-singers,  are  grouped  geographically  and  in- 
alphabetic  order  under  such  headings  as  Appenzell, 
Berne,  Fribourg,  Geneva,  etc.  Sixteen  colored  views 
of  Alpine  scenery,  bringing  out,  here  and  there,  some 
admirable  effects  of  light  and  shade  on  lofty  moun- 
tain peaks,  are  furnished  by  Mr.  A.  D.  McCormick, 
Mr.  J.  Hardwicke  Lewis,  and  Miss  May  Hardwicke 
Lewis.  The  cover  design  is  striking  and  appro- 
priate. The  editor  has  written  an  introduction,  and 
the  printer  has  used  his  best  and  clearest  type. 

MISCELLANEOUS  HOLIDAY  BOOKS. 
Chloe,  the  wife  of  old  Crispin  the  mushroom- 
gatherer,  was  "worn  to  a  frazzle"  with  the  care  of 
her  ten  children  (all  bad  but  one,  Boadicea),  and  so 
she  looked  about  for  a  "  minder  "  to  relieve  her  of 
care,  and  finally  sent  for  her  nephew  Bill,  who  cleaned 
the  boots.  It  is  the  entrancing  story  of  "  Bill  the 
Minder"  which  Mr.  W.  Heath  Robinson  has  toldr 
with  pen  and  pencil,  "  for  such  youngsters  —  from 
nine  to  ninety  —  as  love  their  '  Peter  Pan '  and 
'  Alice  in  Wonderland.' "  No  one  would  have  sus- 
pected Bill  of  having  the  makings  of  a  good  minder 
in  him ;  hence  the  surprise  and  delight  with  which 
his  many  and  original  methods  of  baby-minding  are 
viewed  by  every  appreciative  reader.  He  took  to 
the  calling  with  the  enthusiasm  of  an  artist.  Nat- 
urally, therefore,  he  carried  off  all  the  prizes  at  "the 
great  annual  Minding  Tournament  held  by  the  Duke 
to  celebrate  his  birthday."  The  astonishing  adven- 
j  tures  of  Bill  and  the  children  whom  he  minded,  end- 
ing with  the  siege  and  capture  of  Troy,  will  keep  a 
whole  family  in  entertainment  for  many  a  winter's 
evening.  The  pictures — sixteen  colored  plates  and 
innumerable  line  drawings — are  admirably  in  har- 
mony with  the  rollicking,  whimsical,  delightfully 
absurd  tenor  of  the  tale  they  illustrate :  and  they 
are,  in  their  way,  good  art  also.  The  book  is  of 
large  octavo  dimensions,  handsomely  and  strongly 
bound  and  boxed,  and  printed  in  the  clearest  of 
type.  It  is  a  veritable  treasury  of  mirth  and  clever- 
ness. (Holt. ) 

The  wholesome  delights  of  an  out-door  life  in  the 
summer  are  pictured  with  pen  and  camera  in  Mrs. 
Frances  Kinsley  Hutchinson's  book,  "  Our  Country 
Life"  (McClurg),  which  is  written  after  a  ten  years' 
test  of  that  mode  of  existence  on  a  woodland  retreat 
in  Wisconsin.  Nature-study,  especially  bird-study, 
chicken-raising,  gardening,  boating  on  the  near-by 
lake,  entertaining  visitors,  motoring  to  points  of 
interest  in  the  neighborhood,  these  and  similar 
health-giving  pursuits  and  recreations  fill  the  days 
of  Mrs.  Hutchinson  and  her  household  during  the 
long  vacation  season ;  and  sometimes  they  seek  the 
retreat  for  a  breathing-spell  in  the  winter  also.  A 
glance  at  the  chapter-headings  of  her  book  will 
excite  desire  to  explore  its  pages.  In  an  engaging 
manner  the  author  tells  of  her  garden,  the  bantamsr 
the  lake,  the  exhilarating  experience  of  sleeping 
under  the  stars,  the  country  in  winter,  the  story  of 


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Nan  (a  motherless  bird),  the  little  daily  doings  of 
the  family,  and  so  on.  A  multitude  of  photographic 
views,  charming  bits  of  rurality,  including  various 
aspects  of  the  foliage-embowered  and  vine-clad 
home  of  the  writer,  make  the  book  most  attractive 
to  the  eye.  There  is  a  veritable  riot  of  vegetation 
in  these  pictures,  though  the  primness  of  one  formal 
garden  is  also  exhibited.  The  volume  is  fittingly 
bound  in  green,  with  end-leaves  depicting  green 
lawn  and  spreading  trees,  and  a  low-roofed  building 
in  the  background. 

A  picture-book  of  children,  for  lovers  of  children, 
with  accompanying  verses  by  Mr.  Burges  Johnson, 
comes  from  the  Thomas  Y.  Crowell  Co.  in  sumptuous 
quarto  form,  with  the  title  "Childhood."  The  pic- 
tures, twenty  in  number,  are  full-page  plates  from 
photographs  taken  by  Cecilia  Bull  Hunter  and  Caro- 
line Ogden,  and  present  as  many  aspects  of  happy 
infancy  and  early  childhood,  with  occasional  accom- 
panying glimpses  of  motherhood  and  grandmother- 
hood.  In  a  vein  not  unlike  that  of  Eugene  Field, 
Mr.  Johnson  furnishes  appropriate  lines  for  each 
illustration.  The  verses  are  printed  in  brown  on 
heavy  paper,  with  ornamental  initial  letters  and  a 
simple  page-border.  The  illustration  to  each  set  of 
verses  follows  it  on  the  next  right-hand  page,  being 
loosely  attached  and  bordered  with  brown.  The  left- 
hand  pages  are  blank  —  inviting  additional  rhymes 
or  pictures,  or  both,  from  home  talent  and  based  on 
home  themes.  A  large  outdoor  scene,  with  a  sturdy 
urchin  in  the  foreground,  ornaments  the  cover,  which 
itself  is  in  light-brown  cloth,  artistically  stamped  in 
gilt.  This  is  just  the  book  for  the  young  mother 
and  the  growing  family,  and  is  not  without  attrac- 
tions for  the  old  who  have  once  been  children 
themselves. 

Every  landscape  has  as  many  aspects  as  it  has 
beholders.  The  Swiss  views  which  we  see  through 
Mr.  G.  Flemwell's  eyes  in  his  exquisitely-illustrated 
volume,  "  The  Flower-Fields  of  Switzerland " 
(Dodd),  are  by  no  means  the  same  as  those  pic- 
tured in  any  of  the  several  other  noteworthy  Swit- 
zerland books  of  the  present  season.  Mr.  Flemwell 
is  a  flower-lover,  a  flower-painter,  and  a  botanist. 
He  writes  the  flower-names  with  capital  initial  letters 
in  his  book,  and  he  sees  flowers  as  the  chief  feature 
of  the  landscape.  Hence  his  beautiful  colored  pic- 
tures of  Swiss  mountain  slopes  and  brooksides  and 
nooks  and  corners  are  resplendent  with  nature's 
choicest  hues.  His  earlier  work,  "  Alpine  Flowers 
and  Gardens,"  met  with  deserved  success,  but  left  un- 
treated those  aspects  of  the  Alpine  fields,  especially 
in  spring,  which  have  won  his  enthusiastic  admira- 
tion,  and  which  he  now  so  admirably  reproduces. 
Each  view,  loosely  mounted  on  heavy  paper,  is  like 
a  water-color  for  delicacy.  Flower  effects,  in  mass 
at  a  distance,  and  in  detail  in  the  foreground,  are 
given  with  unusual  skill,  and  the  accompanying  com- 
ment and  description  from  his  pen  are  in  good  taste. 
He  closes  with  a  plea  for  the  introduction  of  this 
feature  of  Alpine  loveliness  into  England,  where 
the  daisy,  the  buttercup,  and  the  dandelion  might 


well  be  supplemented  by  many  examples  of  the  Swiss 
wild-flowers.  Mr.  Henry  Correvon,  horticulturist  at 
Floraire  near  Geneva,  and  a  friend  of  the  author, 
prefaces  the  book,  which  contains  reproductions  of 
twenty-five  of  the  author-painter's  water-colors,  not 
counting  the  one  on  the  cover.  It  is  one  of  the  most 
strikingly  beautiful  volumes  of  the  season. 

Two  of  the  late  Katharine  Prescott  Wormeley's 
most  important  translations  from  the  French  — 
"Illustrious  Dames  of  the  Court  of  the  Valois 
Kings"  and  "The  Ruin  of  a  Princess" — are  now, 
a  dozen  years  after  their  first  appearance  in  an 
edition  too  expensive  for  popular  purchase,  repub- 
lished  in  handsome  but  less  costly  form,  with  all  the 
original  illustrations,  and  with  no  curtailment  of 
text,  by  the  Lamb  Publishing  Company.  It  is  from 
Brantome's  "Vies  des  Dames  Illustres"  and  "Vies 
des  Dames  Galantes,"with  Sainte-Beuve's  "Monday 
Chats "  on  five  of  the  chosen  dames,  that  the  trans- 
lator has  drawn  her  material  for  the  first-named 
work ;  and  from  Madame  Elisabeth,  the  Duchesse 
d'Angouleme,  and  Cl^ry,  Louis  the  Sixteenth's  valet, 
that  she  gets  her  account  of  "  the  ruin  of  a  princess," 
that  unfortunate  lady  being  Madame  Elisabeth  her- 
self. Brant6me's  style,  his  ingenuous  frankness  in 
recording  various  sorts  of  rascality  perpetrated  by 
his  contemporaries,  need  not  here  be  commented  on. 
It  makes  brisk  and  not  seldom  amusing  reading. 
The  pathos  in  the  undeserved  tribulations  of  the 
heroine  of  the  other  work  will  appeal  to  every 
reader  not  wholly  bereft  of  pity.  The  well-known 
smoothness  and  trustworthiness  of  Miss  Wormeley's 
rendition  have  contributed  much  to  the  popularity 
of  the  many  works  bearing  her  name  as  translator. 
The  two  volumes  here  named  are  uniform  in  style, 
each  having  eight  photogravures,  and  each  being 
excellently  printed  and  handsomely  bound  in  blue 
and  gold. 

Our  ever-increasing  interest  in  the  Land  of  the 
Rising  Sun,  a  land  that  has  so  recently  emerged 
from  the  semi-darkness  of  her  mediaevalism  into  the 
glare  of  modernity,  makes  welcome  and  timely  such 
a  variously  informing  and  curiously  entertaining 
volume  as  Mr.  F.  Hadland  Davis's  "Myths  and 
Legends  of  Japan"  (Crowell).  It  is  the  fruit  of 
careful  study  and  wide  reading,  the  now  sufficiently 
numerous  standard  authorities  on  things  Japanese 
having  been  pressed  into  service  in  the  compiling 
of  the  book.  No  country  has  a  richer  folklore  than 
Japan,  and  Mr.  Davis's  chapter-headings  alone  con- 
vey some  idea  of  its  range  and  variety.  He  has 
collected  the  noteworthy  legends  concerning  the 
national  heroes  and  warriors,  the  fox  that  so  often 
figures  in  popular  tales,  the  majestic  Mount  Fuji- 
yama ("the  Never-dying  Mountain"),  Yuki-onna 
("the  Lady  of  the  Snow"),  dolls,  butterflies,  fans, 
thunder,  tea,  birds,  trees,  mirrors,  bells,  and  innu- 
merable other  things;  and  there  are  added  a  brief 
treatise  on  Japanese  poetry,  a  list  of  the  native  divini- 
ties, a  bibliography,  an  index  of  poetical  quotations, 
and,  finally,  a  combined  glossary  and  index  to  the 
entire  work.  Miss  Evelyn  Paul  has  produced  thirty- 


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two  colored  pictures  in  which  she  is  remarkably 
successful  in  embodying  that  indefinable  quality  at 
once  recognized  as  so  peculiarly  pleasing  in  native 
illustration.  She  has  made  the  book  a  thing  of  beauty 
as  well  as  one  of  entertainment  and  instruction. 

An  artist's  wife,  herself  a  woman  of  letters, 
assumes,  for  the  first  time  apparently,  the  cares 
and  responsibilities  of  a  housewife  in  London,  and 
straightway  has  a  succession  of  memorable  and 
frequently  harrowing  experiences  with  her  domes- 
tics. Beggars,  too,  of  many  sorts,  but  chiefly  of  the 
most  respectable  appearance,  help  to  vary  the  mo- 
notony of  her  existence.  "  Our  House,  and  London 
out  of  Our  Windows"  (Houghton),  by  Mrs.  Joseph 
Pennell,  with  pictures  by  Mr.  Pennell,  tells  ,in  a 
sprightly  fashion  the  story  of  this  experiment  at 
home  making  under  unfamiliar  conditions.  The 
"house"  was  in  reality  a  flat,  three  flights  up  and 
with  a  command  of  sundry  picturesque  views  of 
roofs  and  river  and  busy  street — views  that  the 
artist  has  turned  to  account,  in  his  well-known 
manner,  for  the  further  enlivening  of  his  wife's 
already  lively  narrative.  Sixteen  of  these  glimpses 
of  "London  out  of  our  windows"  are  offered,  de- 
picting with  Mr.  Pennell's  customary  charm  and 
skill  many  of  the  most  characteristic  aspects,  both 
by  day  and  by  night,  of  the  greatest  of  modern  cities. 
In  this  new  and  handsome  edition,  with  the  added 
attraction  of  Mr.  Pennell's  illustrations,  the  book 
is  sure  to  find  the  wide  circle  of  readers  which  it  so 
well  deserves. 

A  stern  parent,  or  one  who  tries  to  be  stern,  a 
pretty  and  rather  saucily  self-reliant  daughter,  an 
ardent  and  determined  lover,  a  steam  yacht  belong- 
ing to  the  stern  parent,  some  blue  ocean,  a  transac- 
tion in  real  estate — these  and  sundry  other  persons 
and  things,  skilfully  compounded  and  flavored  with 
sentiment,  spiced  with  wit,  and  embellished  with 
the  illustrator's  art,  go  to  make  up  Mr.  Ralph  Henry 
Barbour's  annual  demonstration  of  the  incontro- 
vertible truth  that  "love  will  find  a  way."  The 
tale  is  of  the  briskly  entertaining  sort,  with  an 
abundance  of  spirited  dialogue  and  a  sufficiency  of 
incident,  and  its  title  is  "The  Harbor  of  Love." 
Mr.  George  W.  Plank  illustrates  it  in  color,  and 
Mr.  Edward  S.  Holloway  supplies  the  decorative 
page-borders  and  other  ornamentation.  (J.  B. 
Lippincott  Co.) 

A  little  tale  of  courtship  and  marriage  and  par- 
enthood amid  surroundings  of  rural  simplicity  and 
beauty  and  quiet  is  told  by  Miss  Clarice  Vallette 
McCauley  in  "The  Garden  of  Dreams  "  (McClurg). 
A  prologue  and  a  series  of  letters,  chiefly  from  the 
hero  to  a  sympathetic  woman  friend,  with  others 
from  the  heroine  to  her  dead  father  and  other  per- 
sons not  dead,  unfold  the  drama,  and  we  take  leave 
of  the  happy  pair  rejoicing  over  the  birth  of  a  son. 
Miranda  is  the  appropriate  name  of  the  unspoilt 
maiden  whom  the  Ferdinand  of  the  romance — 
though  that  is  not  his  name  —  wooes  and  wins.  The 
little  volume  is  tastefully  printed,  with  tinted  page- 
borders,  and  an  ornamental  binding 


THE  SEASON'S  BOOKS  FOR  THE  YOUXG. 


The  following  is  a  list  of  all  children's  books  published 
during  the  present  season  and  received  at  the  office  of 
THE  DIAL  up  to  the  time  of  going  to  press  with  this 
issue.  It  is  believed  that  this  classified  list  will  com- 
mend itself  to  Holiday  purchasers  as  a  convenient  guide 
to  the  juvenile  books  for  the  season  of  1912. 

Stories  of  School  Life  for  Boys. 

HENLEY'S  AMERICAN  CAPTAIN.  By  Frank  E.  Chan- 
non.  Illustrated,  12mo.  "Henley  Schoolboys 
Series."  Little,  Brown  &  Co.  $1.50. 

CAMPUS  DAYS.  By  Ralph  D.  Paine.  Illustrated. 
12mo.  Charles  Scribner's  Sons.  $1.50. 

"PEWEE"  CLINTON,  PLEBE:  A  Story  of  Annapolis. 
By  William  0.  Stevens.  Illustrated,  12mo.  J.  B. 
Lippincott  Co.  $1.25  net. 

THE  GREEN  C:  A  High  School  Story.  By  J.  A. 
Meyer.  Illustrated,  12mo.  Harper  &  Brothers. 
$1.25. 

THE  PENNANT.  By  Everett  T.  Tomlinson.  Illus- 
trated, 12mo.  Griffith  &  Rowland  Press.  $1.25  net. 

FOR  OLD  DONCHESTER;  or  Archie  Hartley  and  His 
Schoolmates.  By  i  Arthur  Duffey.  Illustrated, 
12mo.  Lothrqp,  Lee  &  Shepard  Co.  $1.25. 

THE  FOURTH  DOWN.  By  Leslie  W.  Quirk.  Illus- 
trated, 12mo.  "Wellworth  College  Series."  Little, 
Brown  &  Co.  $1.20  net. 

Stories  of  School  Life  for  Girls. 

NANCY    LEE.      By    Margaret    Warde.    Illustrated    in 

color,  etc.,  12mo.  Penn  Publishing  Co.  $1.20  net. 
SUE  JANE.  By  Maria  Thompson  Daviess.  Illustrated, 

12mo.     Century  Co.     $1.25   net. 
DOROTHY    BROOKE    AT   RIDGEMORE.      By    Frances    C. 

Sparhawk.    Illustrated,  12mo.     Thomas  Y.  Crowell 

Co.     $1.50. 

PEGGY  STEWART  AT  SCHOOL.     By  Gabrielle  E.  Jack- 
son.   Illustrated,  12mo.     Macmillan  Co.    $1.25  net. 
A  JUNIOR  Co-Eo.     By  Alice  Louise  Lee.     Illustrated 

in  color,  etc.,  12mo.  Penn  Publishing  Co.  $1.20  net. 
WHEN  MARGARET  WAS  A  SOPHOMORE.  By  Elizabeth 

Hollister  Hunt.     Illustrated  in  color,  etc.,    12mo. 

Moffat,  Yard  &  Co.     $1.25  net. 
POLLY   PRENTISS    GOES    TO    SCHOOL.      By    Elizabeth 

Lincoln    Gould.      Illustrated,    12mo.      Penn    Pub- 
lishing Co.     $1. 
JEAN  CABOT  AT  ASHTON.  By  Gertrude  Fisher  Scott. 

Illustrated,    12mo.      Lothrop,   Lee   &   Shepard   Co. 

$1.   net. 
MARJORIE  IN  THE  SUNNY  SOUTH.     By  Alice  Turner 

Curtis.     Illustrated,    12mo.     Penn   Publishing  Co. 

$1. 

Stories  of  Travel  and  Adventure. 
FOUR    BOYS   ON    PIKE'S    PEAK:    Where    They   Went, 

What  They  Did,  What  They   Saw.   By  Everett  T. 

Tomlinson.      Illustrated,    12mo.      Lothrop,    Lee    & 

Shepard   Co.      $1.50   net. 

OLD  FOUR-TOES;  or,  Hunters  of  the  Peaks.  By  Ed- 
win L.  Sabin.  Illustrated,  12mo.  Thomas  Y. 

Crowell    Co.      $1.50. 
LIEUTENANT  RALPH  OSBORN  aboard  a  Torpedo  Boat 

Destroyer.      By   Commander  E.   L.    Beach,   U.S.N. 

Illustrated,    12mo.       Boston:     W.    A.    Wilde     Co. 

$1.50. 
WITH  THE  INDIANS  IN  THE  ROCKIES.    By  James  Wil- 

lard  Schultz.     Illustrated,   8vo.     Houghton   Mifflin 

Co.     $1.25  net. 
JIM  DAVIS.    By  John  Masefield.    12mo.    F.  A.  Stokes 

Co.     $1.25  net. 


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THE  BOY  ELECTRICIANS  AS  DETECTIVES.  By  Edwin 
J.  Houston,  Ph.D.  Illustrated,  12mo.  J.  B.  Lip- 
pincott  Co.  $1.25  net. 

THE  MOUNTAIN  DIVIDE.  By  Frank  II.  Spearman.  Il- 
lustrated, 12mo.  Charles  Scribner's  Sons.  $1.25  net. 

THE  YOUNG  WOODSMEN;  or,  Running  Down  the 
Squaw-Tooth  Gang.  By  Hugh  Pendexter.  Illus- 
trated, 12mo.  Small,  Maynard  &  Co.  $1.20  net. 

EOGER  PAULDING.  By  Commander  Edward  L.  Beach, 
U.  S.  Navy.  Illustrated,  12mo.  Penn  Publishing 
Co.  $1.20  net. 

AN  ARMY  BOY  IN  PEKIN.  By  Captain  C.  E.  Kil- 
bourne,  U.  S.  Army.  Illustrated,  12mo.  Penn 
Publishing  Co.  $1.20  net. 

THE  YOUNG  FISHERMEN;  or,  The  King  of  Smugglers' 
Island.  By  Hugh  Pendexter.  Illustrated,  12mo. 
"Along  the  Coast."  Small,  Maynard  &  Co. 
$1.20  net. 

KEN  WARD  IN  THE  JUNGLE:  Thrilling  Adventures  in 
Tropical  Wilds.  By  Zane  Grey.  Illustrated, 
12mo.  Harper  &  Brothers.  $1.25. 

THE  DRAGON  AND  THE  CROSS.  By  Ralph  D,  Paine. 
Illustrated,  12mo.  Charles  Scribner's  Sons.  $1.25. 

THE  LAND  OF  ICE  AND  SNOW;  or,  Adventures  in 
Alaska.  By  Edwin  J.  Houston,  Ph.D.  Illus- 
trated, 12mo.  Griffith  &  Rowland  Press.  $1.25. 

THE  LAUNCH  BOYS  SERIES.  New  volumes:  The 
Launch  Boys'  Adventures  in  Northern  Waters; 
and  The  Launch  Boys'  Cruise  in  the  Deerfoot,  by 
Edward  S.  Ellis.  Each  illustrated,  12mo.  John 
C.  Winston  Co.  Per  volume,  60  cts. 

THE  WRECK  OF  THE  PRINCESS.  By  James  Otis.  Illus- 
trated, 12mo.  Penn  Publishing  Co.  60  cts. 

Stories  of  Out=Door  Life. 

THE  SEASHORE  BOOK:  Bob  and  Betty's  Summer  with 
Captain  Hawes.  Stories  and  pictures  by  E.  Boyd 
Smith.  Illustrated  in  color,  Svo.  Houghton  Mif- 
flin  Co.  $1.50  net. 

CAMPING  ON  THE  GREAT  RIVER:  The  Adventures  of  a 
Boy  Afloat  on  the  Mississippi.  By  Raymond  S. 
Spears.  Illustrated,  12mo.  Harper  &  Brothers. 
$1.50. 

BUDDIE  AT  GRAY  BUTTES  CAMP.  By  Anna  Chapin 
Ray.  Illustrated,  12mo.  Little,  Brown  &  Co 
$1.50. 

CAMPING  IN  THE  WINTER  WOODS:  Adventures  of 
Two  Boys  in  the  Maine  Woods.  By  Elmer  Rus- 
sell Gregor.  Illustrated,  12mo.  Harper  &  Brothers, 
$1.50. 

THE  YOUNG  CRUSADERS  AT  WASHINGTON.  By  George 
P.  Atwater.  Illustrated,  12mo.  "Young  Crusader 
Series."  Little,  Brown  &  Co.  $1.50. 

•GLENLOCH  GIRLS  AT  CAMP  WEST.  By  Grace  M. 
Remick.  Illustrated,  12mo.  Penn  Publishing  Co. 
$1.25. 

THE  BOY  SCOUTS  OF  BOB'S  HILL.  By  Charles  Pierce 
Burton.  Illustrated,  12mo.  Henry  Holt  &  Co. 
$1.25  net. 

PLUCK  ON  THE  LONG  TRAIL;  or,  Boy  Scouts  in  the 
Rockies.  By  Edwin  L.  Sabin.  Illustrated,  12mo. 
Thomas  Y.  Crowell  Co.  $1.25. 

THE  CAMP  AT  SEA  DUCK  COVE.  By  Ellery  H.  Clark. 
Illustrated,  12mo.  Houghton  Mifflin  Co.  $1.25  net. 

ALONG  THE  MOHAWK  TRAIL;  or,  Boy  Scouts  on  Lake 
Champlain.  By  Percy  K.  Fitzhugh.  Illustrated, 
12mo.  Thomas  Y.  Crowell  Co.  $1.25. 

NED  BREWSTER'S  YEAR  IN  THE  BIG  WOODS.  By 
Chauncey  J.  Hawkins.  Illustrated,  12mo.  Little, 
Brown  &  Co.  $1.20  net. 

THE  BOY  SCOUTS  OF  WOODCRAFT  CAMP.  By  Thorn- 
torn  W.  Burgess.  Illustrated,  12mo.  Penn  Pub- 
lishing Co.  $1.  net. 


BE  PREPARED;  or,  The  Boy  Scouts  in  Florida.  By 
A.  W.  Dimock.  Illustrated,  12mo.  F.  A.  Stokes 
Co.  $1.  net. 

THE  SCOUT  MASTER  OF  TROOP  5.  By  I.  T.  Thurston. 
Illustrated,  12mo.  Fleming  H.  Revell  Co.  $1.  net. 

THE  BOY  SCOUTS  OF  BERKSHIRE.  By  Walter  Pritch- 
ard  Eaton.  With  frontispiece  in  color,  12mo. 
Boston:  W.  A.  Wilde  Co.  $1.  net. 

THE  RAMBLER  CLUB  SERIES.  By  W.  Crispin  Shep- 
pard.  New  volumes:  The  Rambler  Club's  Gold 
Mine;  The  Rambler  Club's  House-Boat;  The 
Rambler  Club's  Aeroplane.  Each  illustrated, 
12mo.  Penn  Publishing  Co.  Per  volume,  60  cts. 

THE  RANCH  GIRL'S  POT  OF  GOLD.  By  Margaret  Van- 
dercook.  Illustrated,  12mo.  John  C.  Winston 
Co.  60  cts. 

Stories  of  Past  Times. 

WITH    CARRINGTON    ON    THE    BOZEMAN    ROAD.      By 

Joseph    Mills   Hanson.      Illustrated,    12mo.      A.   C. 

M'cClurg  &   Co.     $1.50. 
THE  YOUNG  MINUTE-MAN  OF  1812.     By  Everett  T. 

Tomlinson.     Illustrated,    12mo.     Houghton  Mifflin 

Co.     $1.50. 
Two    GIRLS    OF    OLD   NEW    JERSEY:    A    School-Girl 

Story  of  '76.   By  Agnes   Carr   Sage.     Illustrated, 

Svo.     F.  A.  Stokes  Co.     $1.35  net. 
THE  LUCKY  SIXPENCE.    By  Emilie  Benson  Knipe  and 

Alden  Arthur  Knipe.     Illustrated,  12mo.     Century 

Co.     $1.25   net. 
THE  YOUNG  CONTINENTALS  AT  MONMOUTH.    By  John 

T.  Mclntyre.     Illustrated,  12mo.     Penn  Publishing 

Co.     $1.25. 
THE   SON  OF  COLUMBUS.     By  Molly  Elliot  Seawell. 

Illustrated,    12mo.    Harper   &   Brothers.      $1.25. 
THE  COURIER  OF  THE  OZARKS.     By  Byron  A.  Dunn. 

Illustrated,    12mo.      "Young   Missourians    Series." 

A.  C.  McClurg  &  Co.     $1.25. 

AT  SENECA  CASTLE.    By  William  W.  Canfield.     Illus- 
trated,  12mo.     E.  P.  Dutton  &  Co.     $1.25  net. 
"DON'T  GIVE  UP  THE  SHIP!"     By  Charles  S.  Wood. 

Illustrated    in    color,    etc,    12mo.      Macmillan    Co. 

$1.25  net. 

SADDLES  AND  LARIATS.     By  Lewis  B.  Miller.     Illus- 
trated, Svo.     Dana  Estes  &  Co.     $1.25. 
WHITE  BIRD,  THE  LITTLE  INDIAN:  Being  the  Story  of 

a  Red  Child   and  Her  Love  for  a  Little  Pilgrim. 

By   Mary   Hazelton    Wade.      With    frontispiece    in 

color,  12mo.   Boston :  W.  A>  Wilde  Co.    60  cts.  net. 

Stories  of  Business  and  Industry. 

THE  BOY  WITH  THE  U.  S.  FISHERIES.  By  Francis 
Rolt-Wheeler.  Illustrated.  Lothrop,  Lee  &  Shep- 
ard  Co.  $1.50. 

DAVE  MORRELL'S  BATTERY.  By  Hollis  Godfrey.  Illus- 
trated, 12mo.  Little,  Brown  &  Co.  $1.25. 

HESTER'S  WAGE-EARNING.  By  Jean  K.  Baird.  Illus- 
trated, 12mo.  Lothrop,  Lee  &  Shepard  Co.  $1.25. 

DONALD  KIRK,  the  Morning-Record  Copy-Boy.  By 
Edward  Mott  Woolley.  Illustrated,  12mo.  Little, 
Brown  &  Co.  $1.20  net. 

FRED  SPENCER,  REPORTER.  By  Henry  M.  Neely.  Il- 
lustrated, 12mo.  Small,  Maynard  &  Co.  $1.20  net. 

MR.  RESPONSIBILITY,  PARTNER:  How  Bobby  and  Joe 
Achieved  Success  in  Business.  By  Clarence  John- 
son Messer.  Illustrated,  12mo.  Lothrop,  Lee  & 
Shepard  Co.  $1.  net. 

THE  YOUNG  SHIPPER  OF  THE  GREAT  LAKES.  By 
Hugh  C.  Weir.  With  frontispiece  in  color,  12mo. 
"Great  American  Industries  Series."  Boston:  W. 
A.  Wilde  Co.  $1.  net. 


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Miscellaneous  Stories  for  Boys. 

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many  additions,  by  John  Mastin,  Ph.D.  Illus- 
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THE  BOY'S  BOOK  OF  NEW  INVENTIONS.  By  Harry  E. 
Maule.  Illustrated,  8vo.  Doubleday,  Page  &  Co. 
$1.60  net. 

BOYS'  MAKE-AT-HOME  THINGS.  By  Carolyn  Sherwin 
Bailey  and  Marian  Elizabeth  Bailey.  Illustrated, 
12mo.  F.  A.  Stokes  Co.  $1.25  net. 

GIRLS'  MAKE-AT-HOME  THINGS.  By  Carolyn  Sher- 
win Bailey.  Illustrated,  12mo.  F.  A.  Stokes  Co. 
$1.25  net. 

FLOOR  GAMES.  By  H.  G.  Wells.  Illustrated,  8vo. 
Small,  Maynard  &  Co.  $1.  net. 

THE  MARY  FRANCES  COOK  BOOK;  or,  Adventures 
among  the  Kitchen  People.  By  Jane  Eayre  Fryer. 
Illustrated  in  color,  large  8vo.  John  C.  Winston 
Co.  $1.20  net. 

TRAINING  THE  LITTLE  HOME-MAKER  by  Kindergarten 
Methods.  By  Mabel  Louise  Keech,  A.B.  Illus- 
trated, large  8vo.  J.  B.  Lippincott  Co. 

HOUSEKEEPING  FOR  LITTLE  GIRLS.  By  Olive  Hyde 
Foster.  Illustrated,  12mo.  Duffield  &  Co. 
75  cts.  net. 

WORK  AND  PLAY  FOR  LITTLE  GIRLS.  By  Hedwig 
Levi.  Illustrated,  12mo.  Duffield  &  Co.  75  cts.  net. 

THE  STORY  OF  LUMBER.  By  Sara  Ware  Bassett.  Illus- 
trated, 12mo.  Penn  Publishing  Co.  75  cts.  net. 

SOME  LITTLE  COOKS  AND  WHAT  THEY  DID.  Edited 
by  Elizabeth  Hoyt.  Illustrated,  12mo.  W.  A. 
Wilde  &  Co.  50  cts.  net. 

Pictures,  Stories,  and  Verses  for  the 
Little  Tots. 

BILLY  POPGUN.  By  Milo  Winter.  Illustrated  in 
color  by  the  author.  4to.  Houghton  Mifflin  Co. 
$2.  net. 

THE  PEEK-A-BOOS  AT  PLAY.  By  Chloe  Preston.  Illus- 
trated in  color,  large  4to.  George  H.  Doran  Co, 
$2.50  net. 

THE  BIG  BOOK  OF  FABLES.  Edited  by  Walter  Jer- 
rold.  Illustrated  in  color,  etc.,  by  Charles  Robin- 
son, large  8vo.  H.  M.  Caldwell  Co.  $2.50. 

MERRY  AND  BRIGHT.  By  Cecil  Aldin.  Illustrated 
in  color,  large  4to.  George  H.  Doran  Co.  $2.  net. 

THE  FAIRIES  AND  THE  CHRISTMAS  CHILD.  By  Lillian 
Gask.  Illustrated  in  color,  etc.,  8vo.  Thomas  Y. 
Crowell  Co.  $2.  net. 

THE  ROCKET  BOOK.  By  Peter  Newell.  Illustrated 
in  color,  8vo.  Harper  &  Brothers.  $1.25  net. 

THE  KEWPIES  AND  DOTTY  DARLING.  Verse  and  Pic- 
tures by  Rose  O'Neill.  4to.  George  H.  Doran  Co. 
$1.25. 

CALDWELL'S  BOYS'  AND  GIRLS'  AT  HOME.  Illustrated 
in  color,  etc.,  4to.  H.  M.  Caldwell  Co.  $1.25. 

JOLLY  MOTHER  GOOSE  ANNUAL.  Illustrated  in  color, 
etc.,  by  Blanche  Fisher  Wright.  Rand,  McNally  & 
Co.  $1.25. 

THE  JAPANESE  TWINS.  Written  and  illustrated  by 
Lucy  Fitch  Perkins.  8vo.  Houghton  Mifflin  Co. 
$1.  net. 

THE  MONGREL  PUPPY  BOOK.  By  Cecil  Aldin.  Illus- 
trated in  color,  4to.  George  H.  Doran  Co.  75  cts. 


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OLD  EHYMES  WITH  NEW  TUNES.  Composed  by  Rich- 
ard Runciman  Terry.  Illustrated  by  Gabriel  Pip- 
pet,  4to.  Longmans,  Green  &  Co.  80  cts.  net. 

THE  DESERTED  LAKE;  or,  The  Dragon  That  Could 
not  Eat  Fish.  By  Ernest  T.  Surges.  Illustrated 
by  Dorothea  T.  Surges,  large  8vo.  Longmans, 
Green  &  Co.  75  cts.  net. 

WHEN  CHBISTMAS  CAME  TOO  EARLY.  By  Mabel  Ful- 
ler Blodgett.  Illustrated,  12mo.  Little,  Brown  & 
Co.  75  cts.  net. 

THE  TURKEY  DOLL.  By  Josephine  Scribner  Gates. 
Illustrated  in  color,  etc.,  12mo.  Houghton,  Mifflin 
Co.  75  cts.  net. 

A  CHRISTMAS  PARTY  FOT  SANTA  GLAUS.  By  Ida  M. 
Huntington.  Illustrated  in  color,  etc.,  large  8vo. 
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THE  COMPLETE  OPTIMIST.  By  Childe  Harold.  Illus- 
trated, 12mo.  E.  P.  Dutton  &  Co.  60  cts.  net. 

THE  STORY  OF  THE  DISCONTENTED  LITTLE  ELEPHANT. 
Told  in  Pictures  and  Rhyme  by  E.  OE.  Somer- 
ville.  Illustrated  in  color,  etc.,  8vo.  Longmans, 
Green  &  Co.  60  cts.  net. 

THE    BUNNIKIN-BUNNIES    AND    THE    MOON    KlNG.       By 

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BEST  STORIES  TO  TELL  TO  CHILDREN.  By  Sara  Cone 
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NOTES. 


Mr.  Reginald  Wright  Kauffman  has  now  nearly 
completed  a  new  novel,  to  be  entitled  "  Judith  Kent, 
Freewoman." 

"'  Bunker  Bean  "  is  the  title  of  Mr.  Harry  Leon  Wil- 
son's new  novel,  which  Messrs.  Doubleday,  Page  &  Co. 
will  publish  in  January. 

"John,  Jonathan  and  Company,"  by  Mr.  James  Milne, 
being  an  Englishman's  impressions  of  America,  will  be 
published  at  once  by  the  Macmillan  Co. 

Dr.  Charles  F.  Thwing,  president  of  Western  Reserve 
University,  has  made  a  thorough  revision  of  his  work, 
"  The  Family,"  which  will  be  published  early  next  year 
by  Lothrop,  Lee  &  Shepard  Co. 

We  learn  from  Mr.  Manly's  Introduction  to  the  new 
collected  edition  of  the  work  of  William  Vaughn  Moody 
that  a  volume  of  Moody's  letters  is  soon  to  be  published, 
"under  the  care  of  one  of  his  most  intimate  friends." 

"  Mr.  Achilles "  by  Mrs.  Jeunette  Lee,  recently 
brought  out  in  book  form  by  Messrs.  Dodd,  Mead  &  Co., 
is  to  be  published  shortly  in  an  edition  for  the  blind.  Mrs. 
Lee's  previous  stories,  "  Uncle  William  "  and  "  Happy 
Island,"  have  also  been  brought  out  in  this  way. 

Two  important  volumes  on  opposite  sides  of  the 
Home  Rule  Question,  to  be  issued  immediately  by 
Messrs.  E.  P.  Dutton  &  Co.,  are  "  Aspects  of  Home 
Rule,"  a  collection  of  speeches  by  the  Right  Hon.  A.  J. 
Balfour;  and  "Dublin  Castle  and  the  Irish  People," 
by  Mr.  Barry  O'Brien. 

Sophie  Swett,  a  talented  writer  of  children's  books, 
died  on  November  12  at  Arlington  Heights,  Mass.  She 
was  at  one  time  associate  editor  of  "  Wide  Awake,"  a 
prominent  children's  magazine  of  a  generation  ago,  and 
is  the  author  of  some  forty  books  for  young  people. 

Still  another  effort  toward  solving  the  "Edwin  Drood" 
mystery  has  been  made,  this  time  by  Sir  W.  Robertson 
Nicoll,  whose  contribution  to  the  subject  will  be  published 
by  the  George  H.  Doran  Co.  under  the  title  "  The  Prob- 
lem of  Edwin  Drood:  A  Study  in  the  Methods  of  Charles 
Dickens." 

"  The  Happy  Warrior  "  is  the  title  of  a  new  novel 
by  Mr.  A.  S.  M.  Hutehinsou,  author  of  "  Once  Aboard 
the  Lugger,"  which  Messrs.  Little,  Brown  &  Co.  will 
publish  in  January.  This  house  has  also  in  press 
for  January  publication  "  Joyful  Heatherby  "  by  Mrs. 
Payne  Erskine,  and  "  The  Little  Gray  Shoe  "  by  Mr. 
Percy  J.  Brebner. 

The  many  teachers  and  others  who  followed  with 
interest  the  newspaper  reports  of  the  lectures  given  at 
the  Columbia  Summer  School  this  year  by  Dr.  W.  H.  D. 
Rouse,  the  well-known  English  classicist,  will  be  inter- 
ested in  knowing  that  Dr.  Rouse's  three  elementary 
Greek  books,  "A  First  Greek  Course,"  "A  Greek 
Reader,"  and  "  A  Greek  Boy  at  Home,"  have  been  pub- 
lished in  the  United  States  by  Charles  E.  Merrill  Com- 
pany, by  arrangement  with  Messrs.  Blackie  &  Son,  the 
English  publishers. 

An  opportunity  for  ambitious  young  essayists  to  try 
their  pens  on  a  subject  worthy  of  their  best  efforts  is 
extended  by  the  Lake  Mohonk  Conference  on  Interna- 
tional Arbitration,  which  offers  a  prize  of  one  hundred 
dollars  for  the  best  essay  by  an  undergraduate  male 
student  of  any  college  or  university  in  the  United  States 
or  Canada,  on  "  International  Arbitration."  Essays 
should  not  exceed  five  thousand  words  in  length,  and  it 
is  preferred  that  they  be  typewritten.  An  understand- 


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ing  of  the  nature  and  history  of  international  arbitration, 
and  of  the  Hague  Conference  and  Court,  must  be  shown 
by  the  writer.  The  contest  closes  the  fifteenth  of  next 
March.  Further  particulars  will  be  furnished  upon  ap- 
plication by  Mr.  H.  C.  Phillips,  secretary,  Mohonk  Lake, 
Ulster  County,  N.  Y. 

The  lectures  delivered  at  Columbia  University  last 
spring  by  Sir  Gilbert  Murray,  Regius  Professor  of 
Greek  in  Oxford  University,  will  be  published  this 
month  by  the  Columbia  University  Press,  under  the  title 
"Four  Stages  of  Greek  Religion."  The  Press  also  an- 
nounces for  immediate  publication  "  Literary  Influences 
in  Colonial  Newspapers,  1704-1750,"  by  Elizabeth 
Christine  Cook,  Ph.D. 

M.  Remain  Rolland  is  just  finishing  his  "  Jean  Chris- 
tophe  "  and  intends  to  entitle  the  last  of  the  ten  volumes 
of  the  French  edition  "  La  Fin  du  Voyage."  He  had 
earlier  thought  of  calling  that  volume  "  Une  Nouvelle 
Journe'e."  The  concluding  volume,  which  Messrs.  Holt 
will  issue  simultaneously  with  Mr.  Heinemann,  in 
London,  will  contain  the  last  three  volumes  of  the 
French  edition,  and  is  likely  to  appear  in  February. 

Professor  W.  H.  Schofield,  Harvard  Exchange  Pro- 
fessor at  the  University  of  Paris  in  1911,  has  prepared 
for  publication  a  series  of  lectures  which  he  delivered 
at  the  Sorbonne  and  at  the  University  of  Copenhagen. 
The  volume  will  be  entitled  "  Chivalry  in  English  Litera- 
ture "  and  will  trace  the  growth  of  the  ideal  of  chivalry 
as  it  is  illustrated  in  the  works  of  Chaucer,  Malory, 
Spenser,  and  Shakespeare.  The  book  is  announced  for 
immediate  publication  by  Harvard  University. 

In  the  sudden  death,  on  November  25,  of  Frank  Hall 
Scott,  president  of  The  Century  Co.,  the  American  pub- 
lishing trade  loses  one  of  its  ablest  and  most  energetic 
members.  Mr.  Scott  was  born  in  Terre  Haute,  Indiana, 
in  1848.  He  entered  the  office  of  "  Scribner's  Monthly  " 
in  1870,  and  in  1893  became  president  of  The  Century 
Co.,  which  position  he  has  held  since  that  time.  A  prom- 
inent member  of  the  American  Publishers  Association, 
he  has  been  active  in  all  good  works  having  the  better- 
ment of  the  book  trade  for  their  object.  His  frequent 
visits  to  London  gave  him  opportunity  for  personal  ac- 
quaintance with  the  foremost  writers  and  artists  of  his 
day,  by  whom  he  was  held  in  affectionate  regard. 

The  passing  of  a  famous  publisher  is  noted  with 
regret  in  the  recent  death  of  William  Blackwood,  grand- 
son of  the  founder  of  the  house  of  William  Blackwood 
and  Sons,  and  a  man  so  well  known  among  writers  and 
with  so  many  memorable  experiences  to  record  in  his 
diary  (if  he  kept  one,  as  is  now  hoped  to  have  been  the 
case)  that  a  volume  of  very  readable  reminiscences  ought 
to  be  forthcoming  at  the  hands  of  his  literary  executor. 
His  success  with  the  magazine  that  came  into  his  hands 
with  his  assumption  of  the  management  of  the  business 
a  generation  ago  was  not  the  least  of  his  triumphs. 
"  Blackwood's  "  is  an  object  of  especial  interest  to  us 
by  reason  of  its  having  served  as  a  model  for  our  fore- 
most literary  monthly  when  Lowell  and  Fields  were 
planning  that  noteworthy  undertaking  more  than  half  a 
century  ago,  and  both  magazines  have  had  to  contend 
with  the  difficulties  arising  from  the  recent  remarkable 
vogue  of  the  low-priced  illustrated  monthly.  The  late 
Mr.  Blackwood  was  a  man  of  culture,  educated  at 
Glasgow  University,  the  Sorbonne,  and  Heidelberg,  and 
was  esteemed  an  accomplished  letter-writer  by  his  cor- 
respondents. A  selection  from  his  letters,  if  nothing 
more,  ought  to  be  given  to  the  public  at  an  early  date. 


TOPICS  IN  LEADING  PERIODICALS. 

December,  1912. 

Advertising,  A  Revolution  in.  Elizabeth  C.  Billings.  Atlantic. 
Alaska,  Alone  across.  G.  F.  Waugh  .  .  World's  Work. 
American  College,  Function  of  the.  A.  K. 

Rogers Popular  Science. 

Andersen,  Hans  Christian,  and  His  Tales.  Georg 

Brandes Bookman. 

Anger,  The  Price  of.  Ellwood  Hendrick  .  .  .  Atlantic. 
Arctic,  My  Quest  in  the.  Vilhjalmur  Stefansson.  Harper. 
Balkan  Situation,  The.  Svetozar  Tonjoroff  and 

Stephen  Bonsai North  American. 

Balkans,  The  Militant  Democracy  of  the.  Albert 

Sonnichsen Review  of  Reviews. 

Barley,  The,  that  Encompassed  the  Earth.  F.  B. 

Stockbridge World's  Work. 

Bergson,  Henri.  Alvan  S.  Sanborn Century. 

Birds,  Government  Protection  of.  George 

Gladden Review  of  Reviews. 

Books,  On  the  Selling  of.  R.  S.  Yard  ....  Bookman. 
Burns  of  the  Mountains.  Emerson  Hough  .  .  American. 
Calendar,  Reforming  the.  Oberlin  Smith  .  Pop.  Science. 

Candlemas.  Harriet  M.  Kilburn American. 

Children  in  Fiction.  Richard  Le  Gallienne  .  .  .  Harper. 
Christmas  Good  Fellows.  Clifford  Raymond  .  American. 
Christmas  Voyage  and  Picture  Gallery.  Algernon 

Tassin Bookman. 

Coal  Monopoly,  The.  L.  L.  Redding  .  .  .  Everybody's. 
College  Women,  Exclusiveness  among.  Edith 

Rickert Century. 

Cordova  and  the  Way  There.  W.  D.  Howells  .  .  Harper. 
Debt,  Dangers  of  Our  Growing.  C.  W.  Baker.  World's  Work. 
Dedication,  The  New  Order  of.  Edna  Kenton.  Bookman. 
Dollar  Mark,  Evolution  of  the.  Florian  Cajori.  Pop.  Science. 
Exploring  Other  Worlds— I.  W.  B.  Hale.  World's  Work. 
Eucken,  Germany's  Inspired  Idealistic  Philosopher. 

Thomas  Seltzer Review  of  Reviews. 

Films,  Fortunes  in  —  II.  Bennet  Musson  and 

Robert  Grau McClure. 

Flight,  My  First.  H.  G.  Wells American. 

Forestry,  Practical.  C.  C.  Andrews.  .  .  Popular  Science. 
France's  Way  of  Choosing  a  President.  Andre" 

Tridon Review  of  Reviews. 

Friendship,  The  Excitement  of.  R.  S.  Bourne  .  Atlantic. 
German  Political  Parties  and  the  Press.  PriceCollier.  Scribne  . 
Gold,  Turning  Boulders  into.  A.  L.  Dahl.  World's  Work. 
Gunnery,  American.  Robert  Neeser  .  .  North  American. 

Hand  of  the  World.  Helen  Keller American. 

Hankin,  St.  John.  John  Drinkwater Forum. 

High  Cost  of  Living,  The.  Irving  Fisher.  North  American. 
Human  Wear  and  Tear.  S.  H.  Wolfe  .  .  .  Everybody's. 

Hungry  Generations.  W.  M.  Gamble Atlantic. 

Individual  and  Social  Surplus,  Genesis  of.  A.  A. 

Tenney Popular  Science. 

Industry,  The  Captain  of.  Holland  Thompson.  Rev.  of  Revs. 
Insects  as  Agents  in  the  Spread  of  Disease.  C.  T. 

Brues Popular  Science. 

Insurance  for  Workingmen.  B.  J.  Hendrick  .  .  McClure. 
Irish  Poets,  A  Group  of — II.  Michael  Monahan  .  Forum. 
Jerusalem,  Christian  Worship  in.  T.  E.  Green  .  Century. 
Johnson,  Andrew,  Impeachment  of.  H.  G.  Otis  .  Century. 
Labor,  The  Battle  Line  of—  II.  S.  P.  Orth.  World's  Work. 
Labor,  The  Philosophy  of.  W.  M.  Urban  .  .  .  Atlantic. 
Longstreet,  James.  Gamaliel  Bradford,  Jr.  .  .  .  Atlantic. 
Loti,  Pierre  —  Academician.  A.B.Maurice  .  .  Bookman. 
Lowell,  James  Russell,  C.  E.  Norton's  Letters  to.  Atlantic. 
Mediterranean,  The  Crisis  in  the.  Roland  G.  Usher.  Forum. 
Meredith,  George,  Conversations  with.  J.  P. 

Collins North  American. 

Meredith,  George,  Letters  of.  Darrell  Figgis.  No.  Amer. 
Mission,  The  Inasmuch.  Blair  Jaekel.  .  .  World's  Work. 
New  York  Newsboy,  The.  Jacob  A.  Riis  .  .  .  Century. 
New  York  Policeman,  Diary  of  a.  A.  H.  Lewis  .  McClure. 
North  America  and  France  —  II.  G.  Hanotaux.  No.  Amer. 


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Numerals,  Hindu-Arabic.  E.  R.  Turner.  Popular  Science. 
Panama  Canal  Zone,  The.  Farnham  Bishop  .  .  .  Century. 
Poetry,  Contemporary,  A  Note  on.  H.  Hagedorn.  No.  Amer. 
Prayer,  The  Evolution  of.  Ellen  Burns  Sherman.  No.  Amer. 
Presidential  Preference  Vote,  A,  and  the  Electoral 

College.  John  W.  Holcombe Forum. 

Prices,  Rising,  and  the  Public.  John  Bauer.  Pop.  Science. 

Race-Culture.  Simeon  Strunsky Atlantic. 

Railways,  Drift  toward  Government  Ownership 

of.  B.  L.  Winchell Atlantic. 

Rubenstein,  Recollections  of.  Lillian  Nichia  .  .  Harper. 
Russia,  The  Trade  of.  J.  D.  Whelpley  ....  Century. 
Scandinavian  Painters  of  To-day.  C.  Brinton  .  .  Scribner. 

Science,  The  New.  S.  G.  Smith Atlantic. 

Selling,  High  Cost  of.  B.  F.  Yoakum  .  .  World's  Work. 
Short  Story.  How  to  Write  a.  Robert  Barr  .  .  Bookman. 
Socialism,  English,  The  Set-Back  to.  G.  K. 

Chesterton Century. 

Statesmanship  and  the  Universities.  C.  C.  Hall.  .  Forum. 
Stock  Gambledom.  Thomas  W.  Lawson  .  .  Everybody's. 

Swinburnian  Hoax,  The  Great Bookman. 

Theatre,  Children  and  the.  Walter  P.  Eaton  .  American. 
Tolstoy  and  Rockefeller.  Maximilian  Harden  .  Bookman. 
Valentine,  Basil.  J.  M.  Stillman  .  .  .  Popular  Science. 
Vitalism,  The  New.  John  Burroughs  .  North  American. 
Votes  for  Three  Million  Women.  Ida  Harper.  Rev.  of  Revs. 
War,  Perennial  Bogey  of.  David  S.  Jordan.  World's  Work. 
Wilderness,  The  Plunge  into  the.  John  Muir  .  Atlantic. 
Woman,  Good  Will  to.  Ida  M,  Tarbell  .  .  .  American. 
Women  — III.  Mabel  P.  Daggett  .  .  .  World's  Work. 
Women,  The  New  Mohammedan.  Saint  Nihal 

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HOLIDAY  GIFT  BOOKS. 
The  Complete  Poetical   Works  of  Geoffrey  Chaucer, 

Now  First  Put  into  Modern  English  by  John  S.  P. 
Tatlock  and  Percy  MacKaye.  Illustrated  in  color 
by  Warwick  Goble,  large  8vo,  607  pages.  "Mod- 
ern Reader's  Chaucer."  Macmillan  Co.  $5.  net. 

Homer's  Odyssey:  A  line-for-line  translation  in  the 
metre  of  the  original  by  H.  B.  Cotterill,  M.A. 
Illustrated  by  Patten  Wilson,  large  4to,  336 
pages.  Dana  Estes  &  Co.  $5.50  net. 

The  Episodes  of  Vathek.  By  William  Beckford; 
translated  by  Sir  Frank  T.  Marzials,  with  Intro- 
duction by  Lewis  Melville.  With  photogravure 
portrait,  large  8vo.  J.  B.  Lippincott  Co.  $5.  net. 

The  Bells  and  other  Poems.  By  Edgar  Allan  Poe. 
Illustrated  in  color  by  Edmund  Dulac,  4to.  George 
H.  Doran  Co.  $5.  net. 

South  America.  Painted  by  A.  S.  Forrest  and  De- 
scribed by  W.  H.  Koebel.  Illustrated  in  color, 
8vo,  230  pages.  Macmillan  Co.  $5.  net. 

The  Colonial  Homes  of  Philadelphia  and  Its  Neigh- 
borhood. By  Harold  Donaldson  Eberlein  and 
Horace  Mather  Lippincott.  Illustrated,  large  8vo, 
366  pages.  J.  B.  Lippincott  Co.  $5.  net. 

A  Book  of  Hand- Woven  Coverlets.  By  Eliza  Calvert 
Hall.  Illustrated  in  color,  etc.,  8vo,  279  pages. 
Little,  Brown  &  Co.  $4.  net. 

Dancing  and  Dancers  of  Today:  The  Modern  Revival 
of  Dancing  as  an  Art.  By  Caroline  and  Charles 
H.  Coffin.  Illustrated  large  8vo,  301  pages.  Dodd, 
Mead  &  Co.  $4.  net. 

Kim.  By  Rudyard  Kipling.  Holiday  edition.  Illus- 
trated in  color  from  bas-reliefs  by  John  Lock- 
wood  Kipling.  Large  8vo,  335  pages.  Double- 
day,  Page  &  Co.  $3.50  net. 

English  and  Welsh  Cathedrals.  By  Thomas  Dinham 
Atkinson.  Illustrated  in  color,  etc.,  8vo,  370 
pages.  Little,  Brown  &  Co.  $3.50  net. 

A  Camera  Crusade  through  the  Holy  Land.  By 
Dwight  L.  Elmendorf.  Illustrated,  large  8vo. 
Charles  Scribner's  Sons.  $3.  net. 


The  Art  Treasures  of  Washington.  By  Helen  W. 
Henderson.  Illustrated,  8vo,  398  pages.  L.  C. 
Page  &  Co.  $3.  net. 

She  Stoops  to  Conquer;  or,  The  Mistakes  of  a  Night. 
By  Oliver  Goldsmith.  Illustrated  in  color  by 
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Co.  $5.  net. 

Monaco  and  Monte  Carlo.  By  Adolphe  Smith.  Illus- 
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large,  8vo,  477  pages.  J.  B.  Lippincott  Co. 
$4.50  net. 

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pages.  George  H.  Doran  Co.  $5.  net. 

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J.  B.  Lippincott  Co.  $5.  net. 

Memories  of  President  Lincoln.  By  Walt  Whitman. 
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The  Broad  Highway.  By  Jeffery  Farnol.  Holiday 
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Our  House  and  London  out  of  Our  Windows.  By 
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Fifty  Water-Colour  Drawings  of  Oxford.  Repro- 
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Our  Country  Life.  By  Frances  Kinsley  Hutchinson. 
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The  Shadow  of  the  Flowers:  From  the  Poems  of 
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The  Art  of  the  Uffizi  Palace  and  the  Florence  Acad- 
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The  Life  of  Mansie  Wauch,  Tailor  in  Dalkeith. 
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The  Harbor  of  Love.  By  Ralph  Henry  Barbour. 
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The  Call  of  the  "Wild.  By  Jack  London.  Illustrated 
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millan Co.  $1.50  net. 

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Wright  (Mrs.  Athelstan  Mellersh).  With  frontis- 
piece in  color,  12mo,  242  pages.  H.  M.  Caldwell 
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Reminiscences  of  a  Diplomatist's  Wife:  Further 
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Memoirs  of  Delphiue  de  Sabran,  Marquise  de  Cus- 
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A  Journey  to  Ohio  In  181O:  As  Recorded  in  the  Jour- 
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The  Numerical  Strength  of  the  Confederate  Army: 
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ing Co. 

When  the  Ku  Klux  Rode.  By  Eyre  Damer.  12mo, 
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GENERAL    LITERATURE. 

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Walking    Essays.      By    A.    H.    Sidgwick.      12mo,    275 

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DRAMA  AND  VERSE. 

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Songs  from  Books.  By  Rudyard  Kipling.  12mo,  249 
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June  on  the  Miami:  An  Idyl.  By  William  Henry 
Venable.  Illustrated,  12mo,  35  pages.  Stewart 
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PAGE 

.  477 


THE  CASE  OF  POETRY 

CASUAL  COMMENT 479 

Noise  and  the  book -trade  and  some  other  things. 
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COMMUNICATIONS 482 

"  Externalism  "  in  Our  Colleges.    Joseph  Jastrow. 
The  Paralysis  of  Culture.    Llewellyn  Jones. 
Cooperation  in  Business  and  Agricultural  Research. 
Max  Batt. 

WILLIAM  VAUGHN  MOODY.  William  Morton  Payne  484 

THE    LAST    DAYS    OF    THE    CONFEDERACY. 

Charles  Leonard  Moore 486 

A  POET  IN  LANDSCAPE.    Edward  E.  Hale  .    .    .488 
THE  SAINT  OF  ASSISI.    Norman  M.  Trenholme  .     .  490 

NEW  MEMORIALS  OF  THE  ENGLISH  CATHE- 
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Aldrich's  The  Shadow  of  the  Flowers. — The  Sermon 
on  the  Mount,  decorated  by  Alberto  Sangorski. — 
Mrs.  Gaskell's  Cranford,  illustrated  by  H.  M.  Brock. 

—  Van  Dyke's  The  Unknown  Quantity. —  London's 
The  Call  of  the  Wild,  illustrated  by  Paul  Bransom. 

—  Le  Gallienne's  The  Maker  of  Rainbows. —  Mrs. 
Barclay's  The  Following  of  the  Star,  illustrated  by 
F.  H.  Townsend.— Chambers's  Blue-Bird  Weather. 

—  Miss  Gale's  Christmas,   illustrated  by  Leon  V. 
Solon. —  Mrs.  Sale's  Old  Time  Belles  and  Cavaliers. 

—  Dier's  A  Book  of  Winter  Sports  —  Pugh's  The 
Charles    Dickens    Originals. —  Birmingham's    The 
Lighter  Side  of  Irish  Life.—  English's  Tales  of  the 
Untamed. — Eberlein  and  Lippincott'sColonialHomes 
of  Philadelphia.— Wood's  The  Battleship.— "Hand- 
asyde's"  The  Four  Gardens.— Memories  of  Presi- 


HOLIDA  Y  PUBLICATIONS  — continued. 

dent  Lincoln. —  White's  The  Call  of  the  Carpenter, 
illustrated  by  Balfour  Ker. —  Mosher's  Amphora. — 
Flagg's  The  Adventures  of  Kitty  Cobb. —  Adams's 
A  Book  of  Beggars. — Mrs.  Sangster's  The  Mother 
Book. —  Miss  Young's  Behind  the  Dark  Pines. — 
Rodin's  Venus. —  The  World's  Romances. —  Mc- 
Cutcheon's  Dawson,  '11 :  Fortune  Hunter. — Lucas's 
A  Little  of  Everything. —  Miss  Repplier's  The  Cat. 
—  Mrs.  Bike's  The  Voice  of  the  Garden.—  Bryan's 
Poems  of  Country  Life. — Miss  Wright's  Sweet  Songs 
of  Many  Voices. 

NOTES 505 

LIST  OF  NEW  BOOKS    .  .  506 


THE  CASE  OF  POETRY. 

In  the  conditions  of  current  literary  activity 
there  are  symptoms  of  a  desire  to  do  something 
for  poetry.  It  is  a  laudable  desire,  although  its 
full  justification  depends  upon  the  assumption 
that  poetry  is  in  need  of  coddling,  and  upon 
the  further  assumption  that  encouragement  or 
incentive  will  be  likely  to  increase  its  amount 
and  improve  its  quality.  As  far  as  increasing 
its  amount  is  concerned,  we  have  grave  doubts 
of  the  wisdom  of  any  concerted  propaganda. 
A  large  acquaintance  with  such  nurslings  of 
the  muses  as  may  be  generically  described  as 
"  Badger  poets"  has  made  us  perhaps  unduly 
pessimistic.  Some  hundreds  of  volumes  of 
metrical  exercises  labelled  poetry  come  under 
our  observation  every  year,  and  we  can  only 
say  of  them  with  Othello,  "  But  yet  the  pity  of 
it!"  The  combination  of  misguided  taste  with 
overweening  conceit  which  alone  can  account 
for  these  vapid  outpourings  is  one  of  the  least 
lovely  phenomena  of  human  nature,  and  we 
endure  its  manifestations  only  because  of  the 
hope  that  springs  eternal  in  the  critic's  breast, 
the  hope  that  this  stagnant  corruption  may 
perchance  blossom  when  we  least  expect  it  into 
some  miraculous  flower  of  song.  The  hope  is 
sometimes  fulfilled,  as  it  was  once  with  us  in 
glorious  measure  when  an  uninviting  volume 
came  to  our  hand,  eliciting  at  the  first  glance 
only  some  such  reflection  as  "  another  tiresome 
allegory,  "but  upon  closer  examination  revealing 
such  wonders  of  beauty  as  we  had  not  dared  to 
dream  our  age  and  country  capable  of  produc- 
ing. For  that  volume  was  "The  Masque  of 
Judgment,"  and  it  made  us  understand  how  a 
lover  of  poetry  must  have  felt  in  1667,  discov- 
ering for  himself  "Paradise  Lost,"  or  in  1820, 
opening  the  pages  of  "  Prometheus  Unbound." 


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[Dec.  16, 


Genius  prepares  such  surprises  for  the  world 
from  time  to  time,  and  no  age  is  too  prosaic  to 
admit  of  their  possibility. 

We  would  not  then  say  a  word  in  deprecation 
of  any  earnest  effort  to  provoke  the  poetic  spirit 
into  activity,  although  the  fruits  of  such  an  effort 
are  likely  to  prove  for  the  most  part  innutritive 
and  insipid.  The  only  thing  that  gives  us  pause 
in  the  contemplation  of  such  stimuli  as  are 
offered  to  poets  in  the  way  of  prizes  or  of  oppor- 
tunities for  publicity,  is  the  question  whether  any 
such  encouragements  are  likely  to  evoke  song  in 
cases  where  silence  would  otherwise  obtain,  or 
whether  their  application  has  any  potency  to  en- 
dow the  singer  with  a  higher  rapture  or  a  more 
authentically  creative  expression  than  would  in 
any  case  be  his. 

"  In  far  retreats  of  elemental  mind 
Obscurely  comes  and  goes 
The  imperative  breath  of  song," 

and  inward  compulsion  rather  than  outward 
incentive  seems  to  be  the  law  of  its  being.  The 
history  of  "prize  poetry,"  on  the  one  hand,  and 
the  history  of  genius  in  its  struggle  with  adver- 
sity, on  the  other,  provide  reasonable  confirma- 
tion of  this  view. 

The  effort  "to  do  something  for  poetry"  is 
signalized  this  year  by  the  launching  of  two  little 
magazines  devoted  to  the  interests  of  this  art. 
"  The  Poetry  Review,"  of  English  origin,  is 
"  devoted  to  the  study  and  appreciation  of 
modern  poetry  of  all  countries,"  and,  beginning 
with  next  January,  will  change  its  periodicity, 
becoming  a  quarterly  instead  of  a  monthly,  thus 
coming  into  comparison  with  our  own  quarterly 
"  Poet-Lore,"  which  has  maintained  its  noble 
cause  for  many  years.  It  will  also  open  in 
London  a  bookshop  for  the  sale  of  poetry,  in 
which  "  purchases  will  be  strictly  optional." 
The  other  new  venture  is  Miss  Harriet  Monroe's 
"  Poetry,"  the  delightful  little  monthly  published 
in  Chicago,  to  which  we  have  previously  called 
attention.  Being  generously  subsidized,  this 
periodical  is  assured  of  at  least  five  years  in 
which  to  further  its  aims,  and  we  trust  that  the 
end  of  that  term  will  find  it  standing  securely 
on  its  own  feet.  If  it  does  not  succeed  in  evok- 
ing anything  new  and  strange,  it  will  at  least 
have  served  to  bring  together  in  convenient 
form  a  considerable  quantity  of  the  best  current 
verse.  Speaking  of  the  fear  expressed  in  some 
quarters  that  it  "  may  become  a  house  of  refuge 
for  minor  poets,"  Miss  Monroe  makes  some 
pointed  remarks :  "  Paragraphers  have  done 
their  worst  for  the  minor  poet,  while  they  have 
allowed  the  minor  painter,  sculptor,  actor  — 


worst  of  all,  architect  —  to  go  scot-free.  The 
world  which  laughs  at  the  experimenter  in  verse 
walks  negligently  through  our  streets,  and  goes 
seriously,  even  reverently,  to  the  annual  exhibi- 
tions in  our  cities,  examining  hundreds  of  pic- 
tures and  statues  without  expecting  even  the 
prize-winners  to  be  masterpieces."  The  point 
is  well  taken,  although  we  find  the  term  "  minor  '' 
a  convenient  one  for  the  expression  of  a  fact, 
and  would  rather  see  its  use  extended  to  the 
other  arts  than  tabooed  when  speaking  of  poetry. 
Of  course,  no  artist  quite  relishes  having  his 
work  dubbed  with  this  adjective,  but  the  poet 
who  resents  being  classified  as  "minor  "  may  be 
glad  that  he  is  called  nothing  worse.  When 
Mr.  Slason  Thompson  some  years  ago  published 
an  anthology,  which  he  styled  "  The  Humbler 
Poets,''  he  discovered  that  several  of  the  men 
whom  he  had  honored  by  inclusion  nursed  a 
decided  grievance,  and  he  was  the  recipient  of 
letters  from  them  indignantly  denying  that  they 
were  "humble." 

In  projecting  what  he  calls  "  The  Lyric  Year," 
Mr.  Mitchell  Kennerley,  a  New  York  publisher, 
has  undertaken  an  extremely  interesting  experi- 
ment in  poetical  encouragement.  The  volume 
for  1912,  now  published,  is  thus  introduced  by 
the  editor  : 

"  If  the  usual  volume  of  verse  by  a  single  author  may 
be  termed  a  one  man's  show,  if  poems  appearing  in  the 
magazines  may  be  compared  to  paintings  handled  by 
dealers,  if  time-honored  anthologies  may  be  called  poet- 
ical museums,  '  The  Lyric  Year '  aspires  to  the  position 
of  an  Annual  Exhibition  or  Salon  of  American  poetry, 
for  it  presents  a  selection  from  one  year's  work  of  a 
hundred  American  poets." 

Since  this  publication  was  widely  heralded,  and 
since  with  the  announcement  went  an  offer  of 
three  prizes  aggregating  one  thousand  dollars, 
we  are  not  surprised  to  be  informed  that  nearly 
two  thousand  poets  submitted  works  to  the  jury, 
and  that  no  less  than  ten  thousand  poems  were 
entered  in  the  competition.  The  result  as  now 
published  thus  represents  the  winnowing  away  of 
ninety-nine  per  cent  of  chaff,  each  of  the  poems 
printed  being  but  one  out  of  a  hundred  of  those 
submitted. 

A  peculiarly  gratifying  feature  of  this  exhibit 
is  found  in  the  fact  that  it  includes  so  many  of 
our  best-known  names.  It  is  to  be  feared  that 
all  our  living  poets  (now  that  Moody  is  no  more) 
are  "minor,"  but  there  are  degrees  of  minority, 
and  if  we  may  venture  to  suggest  such  a  thing 
as  "an  emerged  tenth/'  we  should  perhaps  find 
it  in  the  following  list  of  those  here  represented : 
Mr.  Carman,  Mr.  Cawein,  Mr.  Markham,  Mr. 
Scollard,  Mr.  Torrence,  Mr.  Woodberry,  Mrs. 


1912.] 


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479 


Dargan,  Mrs.  Dorr,  Miss  Peabody,  and  Miss 
Thomas.  In  making  this  invidious  selection,  we 
mean  to  intimate  merely  that  these  ten  have  per- 
haps more  firmly-established  reputations  than 
the  remaining  ninety,  and  not  that  their  work  is 
necessarily  finer  than  that  of  many  among  the 
others.  And  nothing  about  the  whole  matter  is 
more  striking  than  the  fact  that  the  three  prize 
awards  do  not  go  where  we  would  have  thought 
it  a  priori  probable  that  they  would  go,  but 
instead  to  three  men  whose  names  are  absolutely 
unknown  to  the  general  reading  public.  And 
yet,  comparing  with  the  others  these  prize  poems 
of  Mr.  Orrick  Johns,  Mr.  Thomas  Augustine 
Daly,  and  Mr.  George  Sterling,  we  cannot  fairly 
say  that  the  distinction  awarded  them  is  unde- 
served. If  they  are  not  clearly  superior  to  all 
the  others,  we  should  hesitate  to  say  that  any  of 
the  others  overtopped  them.  And  it  is,  on  the 
whole,  extremely  gratifying  that  three  unknown 
men  should  emerge  to  head  the  list  in  such  a 
competition  as  this.  Mr.  Orrick  Johns,  whose 
poem  is  thus  adjudged  the  best  of  the  ten  thou- 
sand submitted,  is  a  youth  of  twenty-five;  he 
has  now  become  a  marked  man,  and  has  only 
to  fulfil  the  promise  of  this  poem  to  become  a 
famous  one. 

In  one  matter  only,  we  are  inclined  to  say 
a  word  of  adverse  criticism  concerning  this 
anthology.  When  the  editor  confesses  that  in 
his  selection  he  "  has  endeavored  to  give  prefer- 
ence to  poems  fired  with  the  Time  spirit  and 
marked  by  some  special  distinction,  rather  than 
mere  technical  performances,"  we  think  that  he 
has  gone  astray.  We  should  like,  did  space 
permit,  to  enlarge  upon  this  thesis,  but  will  be 
content  with  referring  instead  to  Mr.  Hermann 
Hagedorn's  "Note  on  Contemporary  Poetry"  in 
"The  North  American  Review''  for  December, 
which  convincingly  refutes  the  critical  heresy 
above  confessed.  As  this  writer  justly  says : 

"  A  poet  need  not  limit  himself  to-day,  any  more  than 
in  the  time  of  Homer,  to  the  stories  and  the  background 
of  his  own  age,  to  speak  to  it  truths  which  the  man  in 
the  street  will  admit  are  vital,  real.  Unless  he  be  a  rare 
anachronism,  he  will  express  his  age  unconsciously,  even 
though  he  sing  of  the  Seven  Buried  Cities  of  Cibola." 

Quoting  from  a  Japanese  critic  who  says  that 
"  American  poets  bother  too  much  with  social 
reform  and  what  not,"  Mr.  Hagedorn  further 
observes  that  "  social  reform  is  matter  for 
sociology  or  any  other  science  that  deals  with 
the  passing  manifestations  of  life,  not  for 
poetry.  .  .  .  For  art,  at  its  best,  is  not  an 
escape  from  life  nor  a  criticism  of  life,  but  an 
expansion  of  life  into  regions  which  ordinary 
human  experience  cannot  otherwise  reach." 


This  argument,  coupled  with  the  editor's  con- 
fession, makes  us  feel  a  vague  suspicion  that 
among  the  poems  rejected  under  the  false  canon 
there  may  have  been  some  that  would  have 
raised  the  average  excellence  of  "  The  Lyric 
Year,"  high  as  that  average  now  is.  In  any 
such  selection,  Art,  rather  than  the  expression 
of  the  Zeitgeist,  should  be  looked  to  for  the 
decisive  test. 

CASUAL  COMMENT. 


NOISE    AND    THE   BOOK-TRADE   AND  SOME   OTHER 

THINGS  are  interrelated  in  a  curious  manner.  Paris, 
with  its  steam  trams,  its  gigantic,  iron-tired,  steam 
motor-trucks,  and  its  boisterous  fetes  foraines,  or, 
freely  translated,  Coney  Islands  on  wheels  —  not 
to  speak  of  a  hundred  other  noise- producers  —  has 
achieved  the  unenviable  fame  of  being  the  least 
quiet  city  in  the  world,  or,  which  is  the  same  thing, 
worse  than  New  York  for  quantity  and  quality  and 
variety  of  din.  So  horrid  is  the  uproar  that  one  can 
no  longer  saunter  with  any  pleasure  up  and  down 
the  boulevards,  or  along  the  quays  where  the  book- 
booths  used  to  invite  to  blissful  quarter-hour  of 
browsing  among  rare  early  editions  or  other  succu- 
lent herbage  of  the  literary  sort.  Hence  the  book- 
dealers  and  others  are  organizing  a  chapter  in  the 
vigorous  young  society  of  the  Friends  of  Silence. 
Book-writing,  no  less  than  book-reading  and  book- 
selling, is  interfered  with  by  noise,  and  authors, 
especially  if  they  be  city-dwellers,  should  be  among 
the  first  and  the  most  active  of  the  members  in  this 
anti-racket  confederation.  They  cannot  all  afford 
the  luxury  of  a  sound-proof  study,  h  la  Carlyle, 
even  if  sound-proof  studies  were  really  sound-proof, 
which,  unless  they  are  suspended  in  vacua,  they 
cannot  be.  Mr.  Henry  Wellington  Wack,  of  the 
New  York  Bar,  at  a  recent  meeting  of  the  Psycho- 
logical Section  of  the  Medico-Legal  Society,  made 
a  vigorous  remonstrance  against  unnecessary  noises 
in  cities,  pointing  out  the  nervous  and  other  disor- 
ders caused  thereby,  and  the  waste  of  energy,  as 
well  as  of  health  and  comfort,  attributable  thereto. 
The  nervous  belt  of  the  United  States  he  makes 
to  extend  in  width  from  Boston  on  the  north  to 
Washington  on  the  south,  and  thence  across  the 
continent;  and  "this  is  the  region  of  noise,  neuras- 
thenia, hysteria,  brain-storms,  mythomania,  nerve- 
specialists,  money  madness,  and  the  asbestos  con- 
science." Eliminate  avoidable  noises,  and  the  life 
of  the  average  city-dweller  would  be  prolonged 
seven  years  —  as  the  life-insurance  actuaries  will 
tell  you.  "  But  the  average  resident  of  large  cities 
has  had  his  auditory  nerves  so  coarsened,  and  has 
trained  his  voice  so  harshly,  that  he  is  more  con- 
scious of  the  absence  than  the  presence  of  noise. 
In  other  words,  he  does  not  feel  normal  unless  the 
varied  stimuli  of  noise  are  at  play  upon  his  senses. 
Deprive  him  of  this  noise-cocktail  and  he  becomes 
somnolent;  thinks  he  is  dying."  Thus  Mr.  Wack. 


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Our  urban  public  libraries  are  not  the  least  sufferers 
from  street  noises ;  their  reading-rooms,  especially 
in  summer  when  the  windows  are  open,  have  more 
of  pandemonium  about  them  than  the  "still  air  of 
delightful  studies."  ... 

Or  THOSE  WHO  KNOW  NOT  THE  PUBLIC  LIBBABT 

the  number  is  larger  than  librarians  like  to  admit 
even  to  themselves.  But  the  proportion  of  these  non- 
users  to  the  users  of  this  beneficent  institution  is  cer- 
tainly diminishing,  in  our  own  country  at  least.  The 
latest  report  of  the  Springfield  (Mass.)  City  Library 
tells  us  that  "  the  whole  number  of  cardholders  en- 
rolled in  the  present  series,  which  began  December 
15,  1908,  is  30,665.  This  figure  does  not  include 
the  many  persons  served  by  the  deposit  system,  of 
whom  no  statistics  are  available."  Springfield's  pop- 
ulation, as  given  by  the  census  of  1910,  is  88,926. 
Thus  it  seems  to  be  safe  to  conclude  that  at  least  one- 
third  of  the  inhabitants  of  that  typical  New  England 
city  are  library-users.  In  Boston,  whose  census  fig- 
ures for  population  are  670,585,  and  whose  regis- 
tration figures  in  the  year  following  that  census  were 
86,913,  the  library-users  appear  to  number  less  than 
thirteen  per  cent  of  the  inhabitants.  In  the  Balti- 
more ''Sun"  there  has  just  come  to  our  notice  a 
letter  to  the  editor  deploring  the  small  ness  of  the 
number  of  persons  registered  as  book-borrowers  at 
the  Enoch  Pratt  Free  Library,  which  is  virtually  the 
public  library  of  the  city.  Lament  is  made  that 
"  only  about  five  per  cent "  of  the  population  are 
thus  registered.  Of  course  there  are  in  Baltimore 
other  beside  public  libraries  that  serve  many  stu- 
dents and  readers,  as  there  are  in  Boston  and 
Springfield,  and  statistics  of  all  sorts  are  notoriously 
deceptive  ;  but  the  official  announcement  of  such  an 
encouraging  state  of  things  as  is  met  with  in  the 
Springfield  Report  is  always  pleasant  to  read. 

•    •    • 

A  MEMORABLE  FRIENDSHIP  was  that  between 
Lowell  and  Charles  Eliot  Norton.  Many  of  Lowell's 
letters  to  Norton — to  "Ciarli"  as  he  playfully  called 
him  in  Italian  spelling  —  are  to  be  found  in  the  two 
rich  volumes  of  Lowell's  correspondence.  Some  of 
those  written  by  Norton  in  reply  are  now  made 
public  in  the  record  of  the  "  Letters  of  Friendship  " 
series  appearing  in  "The  Atlantic  Monthly"  and 
composed  of  selections  from  Norton's  letters  to  those 
with  whom  he  was  most  intimate.  Using  at  first  the 
more  formal  opening,  "  My  dear  Lowell,"  Norton 
soon  changed  this  to  "My  dear  James"  and  then 
"  My  dearest  James,"  becoming  warmly  affectionate 
and  receiving  no  lesser  warmth  in  return.  In  a 
letter  of  December,  1861,  from  New  York  we  note 
the  following:  "How  good  the  new  number  of  the 
Atlantic  is!  I  have  read  and  reread  your  letters 
in  it,  always  with  a  fuller  sense  of  the  overflowing 
humor,  wit,  and  cleverness  of  them.  You  are  as 
young,  my  boy,  as  you  were  in  the  old  time."  And 
in  one  written  soon  after  Lowell's  appointment  as 
Minister  to  England,  the  following  is  significant:  "It 
is  an  immense  mistake,  it  seems  to  me,  to  think  it 


necessary  to  live  at  a  great  expense  as  Ambassador. 
You  can  live  with  dignity  and  propriety  in  London 
on  the  Minister's  salary,  and  be  just  as  much  liked 
as  if  you  spent  double,  and  more  respected.  I  think 
Motley  never  gained  by  his  lavishness,  but  on  the 
contrary  exposed  himself  to  criticism  that  was  not 
unfounded."  At  the  time  of  the  appearance  of 
"Leaves  of  Grass"  Norton  speaks  in  praise  of  it, 
and  adds:  "It  is  a  book  which  has  excited  Emer- 
son's enthusiasm.  He  has  written  a  letter  to  this 
'one  of  the  roughs'  which  I  have  seen,  expressing 
the  warmest  admiration  and  encouragement.  It  is 
no  wonder  he  likes  it,  for  Walt  Whitman  has  read 
the  Dial  and  Mature,  and  combines  the  character- 
istics of  a  Concord  philosopher  with  those  of  a  New 
York  fireman."  For  other  good  things  in  this  series 
of  letters  the  reader  will  be  glad  to  consult  the  De- 
cember "Atlantic."  .  .  . 

A  PUBLISHER  OF  THE  OLD  SCHOOL  has  passed  away 
in  the  recent  death  of  Mr.  Frank  Hall  Scott,  who  had 
enjoyed  four  decades  of  activity  in  the  publishing 
business  in  New  York,  almost  half  of  that  time  being 
president  of  the  Century  Company.  "Enjoyed"  is 
here  used  advisedly,  Mr.  Scott's  discharge  of  his 
duties  having  nothing  of  the  perfunctory  about  it. 
Filled  with  a  sense  of  the  publisher's  responsibility 
to  the  public,  he  seems  to  have  regarded  the  business 
of  issuing  books  as  a  sort  of  educational  crusade. 
What  there  was  in  it,  pecuniarily,  for  him,  appears 
to  have  been  his  last  thought.  Toward  authors,  espe- 
cially young  and  struggling  authors,  he  showed  a 
friendly  bearing  and  at  times  a  most  unprofessional 
tenderness  of  heart.  An  obituary  notice  of  him  tells 
of  his  final  acceptance  of  an  already  declined  manu- 
script. The  writer  was  a  woman.  Calling  upon  Mr. 
Scott  after  that  gentleman  had  endeavored  to  make 
her  aware  that  her  literary  offering  was  not  desired, 
she  pleaded  her  cause  so  well  that  when  the  publisher 
came  out  from  the  interview  he  bore  her  manuscript 
in  his  hand  and  told  his  associate,  "I've  had  to  take 
it."  "Had  to?"  queried  the  other.  "Why,  how 
did  you  come  to  do  that?  "  "  She  wept  so.  What  is 
more,  she  used  up  her  own  handkerchief  and  had  to 
borrow  mine  to  weep  in.  I  couldn't  stand  that.  I 
guess  we  can  sell  a  few  copies."  Mr.  Scott  was  a 
Hoosier  by  birth,  a  graduate  of  the  Pennsylvania 
Military  Academy,  a  holder  of  the  honorary  degree 
of  L.H.  D.  from  Marietta  College,  a  director  of  the 
American  Publishers'  Association,  and  was  sixty-four 
years  old  at  the  time  of  his  death. 
... 

THE  POSSIBLE  SOLUTION  OF  A  LINGUISTIC  MYS- 
TERY is  presented  in  the  new  theory  propounded  by 
Professor  Jules  Martha  of  the  Sorbonne  as  to  the 
character  of  the  ancient  Etruscan  language,  that 
baffling  problem  of  philology  that  has  puzzled 
scholars  for  many  a  century.  It  appears  that  he 
has  traced  certain  resemblances,  both  in  vocabulary 
and  in  syntax  and  inflections,  between  the  tongues 
of  the  so-called  agglutinative  group  of  languages  — 
which  includes  the  speech  of  the  Finn,  of  the  Lap, 


1912.] 


THE    DIAJL 


481 


and  of  the  Hungarian — and  the  hitherto  untranslat- 
able language  of  the  prehistoric  dweller  in  Tuscany. 
Following  this  scent,  he  is  reported  to  have  de- 
ciphered the  meaning  of  a  number  of  Etruscan 
inscriptions,  among  them  being  certain  contracts  for 
the  sale  of  land  and  a  prayer  to  the  god  of  healing  ; 
and  he  has  also  succeeded  in  interpreting  the  least 
illegible  of  the  writings  on  the  wrappings  of  the  cele- 
brated mummy  in  the  museum  at  Agram  in  Croatia. 
This  mummy  is  of  the  time  of  the  Ptolemies,  but 
not  Egyptian  in  its  wrappings  and  inscriptions  ;  and 
the  latter  are  found  by  Professor  Martha  to  be  a 
ritual  for  the  use  of  sailors.  If  the  key  to  Etruscan 
inscriptions  has  thus  really  been  found,  it  will  be  a 
discovery  of  great  importance ;  and  if  at  the  same 
time  light  is  thrown  on  the  anomalous  group  of 
modern  languages  to  which  the  Etruscan  is  said  to 
bear  a  striking  resemblance,  the  possible  outcome  of 
it  all  will  be  doubly  interesting. 
•  •  • 

THE  CUMULATIVE  BATE  OF  A  LIBRARY'S  GROWTH 

in  these  days  when  the  multiplication  of  books  goes  on 
in  something  like  geometrical  progression,  is  almost 
enough  to  take  one's  breath  away.  In  a  pamphlet 
bearing  the  title,  "University  of  Michigan  Library, 
1905-1912.  A  Brief  Review  by  the  Librarian,"  a 
striking  instance  of  rapid  library  growth  is  noted. 
"More  books,"  writes  Mr.  Koch,  "have  been  added 
to  the  University  Library  during  the  seven  years  of 
my  librarianship  than  in  the  first  sixty  years  of  the 
history  of  the  University.  Or,  to  put  it  another  way, 
if  the  present  growth  of  the  Library  continues,  it 
will,  by  December  1914,  be  double  in  size  what  it 
was  when  I  came  to  the  Library  in  1904."  With 
increase  in  size  comes  also  a  more  than  proportional 
increase  in  expense,  because,  for  example,  "it  costs 
more  to  put  a  book  into  a  large  library  than  in[to]  a 
small  one,  because  more  and  higher  grade  labor  is 
required  to  find  whether  the  book  is  not  already  in 
or  ordered  for  the  library.  It  costs  more  to  classify 
a  book  in  a  large  library  than  in  a  small  one ;  more 
time  and  more  skill  are  required  to  correctly  place  a 
new  book  in  a  collection  where  there  are  many  books 
in  the  same  field  than  where  there  is  but  a  handful 
of  books  on  the  subject."  And  so  with  cataloguing 
and  labelling  and  shelving;  so  also  with  keeping  in 
good  order  and  repair,  and  with  meeting  the  appli- 
cant's demand  for  any  specified  book,  the  increased 
size  of  the  collection  necessarily  causing  more  steps, 
more  pages,  perhaps  a  greater  number  of  desk  attend- 
ants. The  small  library,  therefore,  has  certain  reasons 
for  thankfulness  of  which  it  is  not  always  conscious, 
but  to  which  it  will  perhaps  have  its  eyes  opened  in 
that  near  future  when  it  shall  have  become  a  large 
library.  ... 

THE  BOOK-SWINDLER  IN  THE  TOILS  of  the  govern- 
ment drag-net  is  a  sight  to  rejoice  gods  and  men. 
Twelve  such  swindlers  of  the  ever-gullible  newly- 
rich  book-buyer  have  been  indicted  on  the  charge  of 
unlawful  use  of  the  mails  in  advertising  and  selling 
so-called  "  de-luxe  "  editions  that  have  in  reality 


about  the  value  of  so  much  tinsel ;  and  the  drag-net 
is  still  out.  This  praiseworthy  action  of  the  public 
authorities  will  perhaps  serve,  among  other  things, 
to  make  more  than  one  owner  of  what  he  considers 
an  extraordinarily  valuable  library  open  his  eyes  to 
the  comparative  worthlessness  of  the  greater  part  of 
his  collection.  Better  had  it  been  for  that  man  if 
he  had  spent  in  hiring  the  services  of  a  competent 
librarian  a  quarter  part  of  the  wealth  he  has  thrown 
away  on  showy  bindings  and  cheap  illustrations  ; 
then  the  other  three-quarters  might  have  secured 
him  a  library  really  worth  owning.  The  magnificent 
collection  of  Mr.  J.  Pierpont  Morgan,  for  instance, 
splendidly  housed  and  properly  cared  for,  contains 
not  a  single  example  of  the  book-fakir's  unholy  art ; 
for  his  librarian,  Miss  Belle  Greene,  is  reputed  one 
of  the  most  expert  members  of  her  profession,  and 
has  had  a  larger  experience  in  the  buying  of  literary 
rarities  than  anyone  you  will  be  likely  to  meet  in  a 
long  day's  journey.  Nor  is  Mr.  Morgan  himself  by 
any  means  a  helpless  innocent  in  the  hands  of  the 
persuasive  and  plausible  book  swindler.  It  is  safe 
to  say  that  he  knows  almost  as  much,  in  a  large  and 
general  way,  about  rare  books  as  he  does  about 
railroads.  ... 

THE  PHILIPPINE  LIBRARY  has  begun  issuing  a 
monthly  "Bulletin,"  the  first  number  containing  a 
brief  prospectus  and  a  copy  of  the  "  Law  Creating 
the  Philippine  Library,"  with  a  classified  list  of 
recent  additions  to  the  library.  It  was  three  and 
one-half  years  ago  that  all  libraries  belonging  to  the 
Insular  Government  were  by  legislative  enactment 
consolidated  into  the  "Philippines  Library"  under 
a  managing  board  consisting  of  the  secretaries  of 
Public  Instruction,  the  Interior,  and  Finance  and 
Justice,  with  two  other  members  appointed  annually 
by  the  Governor-General.  After  many  vicissitudes 
the  library  has  secured  good  quarters  in  the  old 
Army  and  Navy  Club  building,  which  will  hence- 
forth be  known  as  the  Library  building;  and  the 
entire  collection  of  books  under  its  control,  but  not 
all  in  this  one  building,  numbers  more  than  one  hun- 
dred thousand  volumes.  It  is  to  be  noted,  with 
some  regret,  that  "  a  fee  of  five  pesos  per  annum  or 
fifty  centavos  per  month  is  charged  for  the  privilege 
of  drawing  books  from  the  Circulating  Division 
(American  Circulating  library)."  The  other  priv- 
ileges of  the  library  are  free.  Mr.  James  A. 
Robertson  is  librarian,  Miss  Syrena  McKee  chief 
cataloguer,  Miss  Bessie  A.  Dwyer  chief  of  the  circu- 
lating division,  and  Sefior  Manuel  Artigas  y  Cuerva 
curator  of  the  "  Filipiniana  Division." 

•          •          • 

PSEUDO-LATIN,  SPOKEN  AND  WRITTEN,  enlivens 
the  monotony  of  existence  by  movyig  to  innocent 
mirth  the  person  sufficiently  conversant  with  his 
"  Harkness  "  or  his  "Allen  and  Greenough  "  to  know 
something  about  declensions  and  conjugations.  A 
New  York  newspaper  prints  a  large  and  imposing 
illustrated  advertisement  of  a  limited  express  train 
between  two  principal  cities,  "  bringing  these  great 


482 


THE    DIAL 


[Dec.  16, 


metropoli  together  in  daily  intercourse."  This  is 
even  worse  than  the  unfortunate  attempt  of  a  recent 
writer  of  repute  to  pluralize  status  by  using  the  form 
stati.  The  promoter  of  a  certain  industrial  enter- 
prise wrote  us  some  time  ago  offering  to  send  a 
number  of  the  company's  prospecti  for  distribution. 
And,  finally,  to  complete  this  list  of  irregular  plurals 
in  i,  the  toastmaster  at  a  college  alumni  dinner  not 
long  since  allowed  himself  to  refer  to  the  curriculi 
of  our  higher  institutions  of  learning.  Will  anj'one 
now  question  the  value  of  a  classical  education 
when  it  enables  the  proud  possessor  of  it  not  only 
to  enjoy  a  laugh  at  such  grammatical  slips  as  the 
foregoing,  but  also,  in  an  unguarded  moment,  as 
with  the  college-bred  toastmaster  above  named,  to 
give  cause  for  mirth  in  others?  The  Latinist  has 
joys  undreamt  of  by  ignorami. 


A  NOTEWORTHY  GIFT  TO  THE  LIBRARY  OF 

GRESS  has  placed  it  under  great  obligation  to  Mr. 
J.  Pierpont  Morgan.  He  has  presented  it  with  a 
volume  containing  what  is  the  desire  of  all  Ameri- 
can autograph-collectors  and  the  despair  of  most  of 
them,  —  namely,  a  complete  set  of  the  "Signers." 
With  an  autograph  letter  preceding  the  signature  in 
most  instances,  this  collection  of  the  fifty-six  historic 
names  affixed  to  the  Declaration  of  Independence, 
each  in  the  handwriting  of  the  one  to  whom  it 
belonged,  is  a  treasure  well  worth  preserving  in  the 
national  library,  which  has  hitherto,  with  shame  be 
it  confessed,  been  lacking  in  any  such  evidence  of 
patriotic  pride.  It  was  probably  because  Mr.  Mor- 
gan had  learned  this  fact,  with  "  chagrin  and  regret," 
as  he  says,  that  he  took  steps  to  supply  the  deficiency. 
The  early  damage  to  the  Declaration  itself,  from 
unskilful  handling  in  preparing  a  facsimile  of  the 
instrument,  renders  all  the  more  important  this  pre- 
servation of  a  set  of  the  signers'  autographs  on  the 
government's  part. 


COMMUNICA  TIONS. 


"EXTERNALISM"  IN  OUR  COLLEGES. 

(To  the  Editor  of  THE  DIAL.) 

There  are  three  good  reasons  why  it  is  unnecessary 
for  me  to  reply  to  the  communication  of  "  An  American 
Professor"  in  your  issue  of  December  1.  His  protest 
is  against  certain  positions  of  your  editorial  rather  than 
of  my  article  (which  I  cannot  be  certain  that  he  has 
read);  the  points  of  issue  do  not  depend  upon  state- 
ments or  views  for  which  I  am  responsible,  though  I 
may  in  a  measure  agree  with  them;  the  points  of  issue 
lie  somewhat  apart  from  the  central  theme  of  my  dis- 
cussion. Yet  I  cannot  expect  that  those  interested  in 
the  matter  will  take  the  pains  to  draw  these  distinctions. 
The  "  American  Professor,"  whose  lot  seems  to  have 
fallen  in  pleasant  places,  sets  forth  that  his  own  inter- 
ests and  pursuits  have  not  been  seriously  affected  by 
the  prevalent  mode  of  university  administration.  To 
the  casual  reader  this  personal  statement  might  give 
the  erroneous  impression  that  such  an  instance  is  ex- 
ceptional. It  reminds  one  of  a  pre-election  anecdote: 


the  young  daughter  of  the  house,  after  listening  to 
the  political  views  of  the  guests  at  her  father's  table, 
remarked  to  the  solitary  member  of  the  group:  "  I  know 
some  one  else  who  is  going  to  vote  for  Taft."  My  own 
statement  of  the  "  American  Professor's  "  case  is  much 
stronger  than  his.  I  note:  "  Critically  temperate  state- 
ments admit  the  enormous  power  which  he  [the  president] 
wields  to  mitigate  or  to  aggravate  the  evils  of  the  sys- 
tem." I  have  made  it  plain  that  there  are  many  insti- 
tutions which  suifer  little  fr,om  these  evils  because  of 
the  spirit  of  their  administration.  There  are  doubtless 
hundreds  of  professors  whose  activities  have  not  suf- 
fered from  the  system;  and  in  the  judgment  of  a  great 
majority  of  the  professors  who  answered  Professor 
Cattell's  inquiries,  there  are  infinitely  more  whose 
careers  have  been  unfortunately  affected,  and  who  are 
strongly  opposed  to  the  present  form  of  government. 
My  own  opinion  is  thus  expressed:  "The  successes 
achieved  under  the  present  system  are  in  my  judgment 
partly  due  to  the  compensations  that  lie  in  every  sys- 
tem, however  unsuitable,  yet  more  largely  to  the  miti- 
gations exercised  under  considerations  foreign  to  its 
temper,  more  plainly  to  violations  of  its  provisions, — 
to  concessions  and  forbearance."  If  the  "  American 
Professor "  believes  that  the  privileges  which  he  en- 
joys would  be  endangered  under  the  system  of  larger 
corporate  control  by  the  Faculties,  his  arguments  upon 
which  that  belief  is  founded  are  entitled  to  consider- 
ation. I  have  made  it  plain  that  in  all  such  discus- 
sions it  is  the  average  situation,  not  the  best,  that  is 
to  be  considered;  and  it  is  the  trend  favored  and 
the  temptations  offered  (not  the  result  of  departure 
from  that  trend  and  the  resistance  of  temptation)  that 
must  decide  as  to  the  worthiness  of  one  or  another 
form  of  government.  "  The  unwise  authority  and  false 
responsibility  of  the  presidential  office  invites  the  in- 
cumbent to  attempt  impossible  tasks;  invites  him  to 
adopt  irrelevant  standards,"  etc.  As  to  the  actual 
situation,  I  prefer  to  accept  the  cumulative  opinion 
which  Professor  Cattell  has  assembled;  as  similarly  in 
my  statements  I  cited  the  selected  opinions  of  those 
who  had  given  careful  attention  to  the  subject  in  an 
aspect  broader  than  the  personal  one.  This  consensus 
of  opinion  goes  far  enough  to  be  most  gratifying. 
The  scores  of  complimentary  letters  which  I  have 
received  since  my  article  appeared,  I  accept  as  expres- 
sions of  agreement  with  the  importance  of  the  position 
which  I  set  forth. 

The  second  issue  relates  to  the  undesirable  effects 
upon  the  student  body  of  some  of  the  forces  that  main- 
tain the  present  system.  In  discussing  this  point, — 
one  of  several  and  not  central,  but  selected  because 
of  its  popular  interest, — I  took  care  to  indicate  that  I 
was  presenting  the  summary  of  the  judgments  of 
others  and  not  my  own.  I  cited  some  witnesses  and 
reflected  as  best  I  could  the  general  impression  of  a 
large  number  of  papers  which  I  had  read.  To  indicate 
the  bearing  of  these  upon  my  argument,  I  said:  "Let 
me  concede  at  once  that  some  of  the  above  trends  are 
within  limits  legitimate  and  helpful,  and  again  that 
they  are  not  wholly  or  predominantly  due  to  the  ad- 
ministrative influence."  And  again:  "Doubtless  the 
causes  of  the  situation  so  variously  complained  of,  like 
the  cause  of  the  high  rate  of  living,  are  both  deep 
and  wide."  The  "  American  Professor  "  suggests  that 
some  institutions  deserving  to  be  placed  on  the  blacklist 
be  named,  and  that  I  should  name  them.  I  fail  to  see 
either  the  pertinence  or  the  profit  of  the  suggestion. 


1912.] 


483 


Such  a  body  as  the  "  Carnegie  Foundation  for  the  Ad- 
vancement of  Teaching"  might  favorably  undertake  such 
an  investigation  and  publish  reports  (as  has  been  done 
in  regard  to  Medical  Schools)  that  would  be  helpful  if 
received  in  the  proper  spirit, — of  which  there  is  at 
present  no  guarantee.  It  may  be  that  if  the  "  American 
Professor  "  wrote  to  some  of  the  more  discerning  stu- 
dents of  tendencies  in  the  American  College,  he  would 
obtain  the  names  of  institutions  in  which  one  set  or 
another  of  the  deplored  tendencies  was  particularly 
marked.  Taking  the  description  as  a  composite  photo- 
graph— so  carefully  blended  that  no  individual  features 
are  unpleasantly  present, —  I  have  no  difficulty  in  recog- 
nizing the  appropriateness  of  the  whole  to  many  an  insti- 
tution, though  it  is  not  a  portrait  of  anyone.  Nor  have 
I  any  intention  of  adding  to  the  woes  of  an  educational 
reformer  by  suggesting  even  in  confidence  which  one  of 
the  sitters  for  the  composite  the  portrait  most  favors. 
If  the  "  American  Professor "  will  without  prejudice 
write  the  names  of  a  score  of  American  colleges  on  slips 
of  paper,  and  draw  a  few  of  these  at  random  (unless 
Minerva  in  disapproval  of  the  method  protects  the  issue), 
he  will  know  the  names  of  a  few  of  the  institutions  to 
which  some  of  the  criticisms  moderately  apply.  Even 
as  I  write,  my  attention  is  arrested  by  this  wholly  in- 
cidental sentence  in  an  address  by  President  Jordan 
("  Science,"  December  6) :  "  It  [the  private  institution] 
is  above  all  temptation  to  grant  university  titles  or 
degrees  to  the  products  of  four  years  of  frivolity,  dis- 
sipation and  sham."  Such  sentences  by  their  very 
casual  nature  indicate  how  widespread  this  charge  has 
become. 

I  regret  that  issues  of  this  type  require  such  large 
draughts  upon  personal  judgment;  but  this  is  inevitable. 
It  is  not  necessary  that  they  should  be  rendered  yet 
more  uncertain  by  the  undue  emphasis  of  individual 
experience.  JOSEPH  J ASTRO w. 

University  of  Wisconsin,  Madison,  Wis.,  Dec.  7,  1912. 


THE  PARALYSIS  OF  CULTURE. 
(To  the  Editor  of  THE  DIAL.) 

After  reading  your  leading  editorial  of  November  16, 
on  "  Our  Spiritual  Health,"and  also  Dr.  Andre ws's  article 
in  the  "  International  Journal  of  Ethics  "  on  which  your 
editorial  is  based,  may  one  reader  at  least  testify  to  the 
faith  that  is  still  in  him?  That  faith  is  very  much  shaken 
upon  occasion  by  contact  with  certain  people;  but  those 
people  are  neither  the  readers  of  Nietzsche  nor  the 
Socialists,  neither  of  whom  Dr.  Andrews  gives  any  sign 
that  he  understands  even  in  the  most  external  and  remote 
way.  In  the  first  place  the  doctrine  of  naturalism  is 
practically  dead,  and  Nietzsche  —heralded  as  the  expon- 
ent of  its  "  logical  outcome  "  by  Dr.  Andrews  —  had  a 
good  deal  to  do  with  destroying  it.  As  against  the 
"  prudential  regulation "  theory  of  morals  which  Dr. 
Andrews  mentions  —the  utilitarian  moral  sanctions,  that 
is  to  say, —  Nietzsche  thundered  valiantly.  After  read- 
ing the  English  utilitarians,  he  impatiently  exclaims: 
"Man  does  not  seek  after  happiness;  only  an  English- 
man seeks  after  his  happiness.  I  seek  not  after  my 
happiness,  I  seek  after  my  work." 

And  as  for  Socialism,  is  it  not,  in  spite  of  its  unfortu- 
nate but  non-essential  and  obsolescent  system  of  dogma, 
one  of  the  cultural  agencies  of  the  present  day  ?  Is  it 
not,  indeed,  the  largest  movement  against  that  very  spirit 
which  your  commentator  says  "  can  contemplate  the 
social  and  political  issues  of  our  time  .  .  .  with  hardly 
any  other  emotion  than  curiosity  "?  The  spirit  of  personal 


culture  is  strong  within  the  Socialist  party  ranks. 
Among  the  men  and  women  there  assembled  you  may 
not  find  interest  in  the  particular  classical  authors  who 
bound  "culture"  for  Dr.  Andrews,  but  you  may  find 
interest  in  contemporary  art,  literature,  and  philosophy, 
both  European  and  American ;  and  often,  too,  an  appre- 
ciative valuing  of  the  human  side  of  Greek  literature. 

In  reality  the  sinners  against  whom  Dr.  Andrews 
should  thunder  are  neither  the  materialists  (if  there  are 
any  of  them  left  to  bow  before  his  wrath) ,  nor  the  Social- 
ists, both  of  whom  are  obviously  seeking  "  culture  "  and 
who  are  obviously  not  "indifferentists" — for  if  they  were, 
how  did  they  arrive  at  their  present  unpopular  and 
thought-requiring  positions  ?  No,  the  people  against 
whom  Dr.  Andrews's  fulminations  should  have  been 
directed  are  the  smug  dwellers  in  his  own  camp  —  the 
"  cultured  "  people  and  the  "  religious  "  people.  Not 
the  Socialists,  but  the  orthodox  churches  to-day  are 
afraid  of  this  attitude  which  we  are  now  discussing  under 
the  hackneyed  term  of  culture.  Let  any  reader  attend 
first  a  Christian  Endeavor  meeting  or  any  social  gather- 
ing of  church  folk,  and  then  go  to  a  club  meeting  in  any 
social  settlement  or  to  any  Socialist  assembly,  and  he 
will  at  once  detect  the  difference  of  intellectual  temper 
between  the  two  groups. 

And  the  nominally  "cultured"  people  simply  justify 
the  use  of  the  foregoing  qualification  when  they  tell  us 
that  their  culture  is  incompatible  with  the  life  of  the  time 
—  even  when  that  life  is  expressed,  perhaps  crudely,  in 
Socialism.  As  against  such  an  idea,  true  culture  says — 
and  the  saying  shall  here  be  through  the  voice  of  Pro- 
fessor J.  W.  Mackail  of  Oxford  —  that  the  "  socialist " 
motive  must  dominate  the  art  and  poetry  of  the  future. 
In  the  Introduction  to  his  "  Lectures  on  Poetry  "  Mr. 
Mackail  says  :  "But  in  the  fully  socialized  common- 
wealth which,  as  a  dream  or  vision,  mankind  begins  to 
have  before  their  eyes,  there  may  be  a  future  for  poetry, 
larger, richer,  more  triumphant,  than  its  greatest  achieve- 
ments in  the  past  have  reached.  Poetry  will  become 
the  nobler  interpretation  of  an  ampler  life.  That  vision 
is  in  the  future.  But  to  some  at  least,  here  and  now, 
it  is  a  vision  and  no  dream." 

Unless  culture  means  vision,  unless  it  means  a  sure 
prophylaxis  against  the  attitude  of  scolding,  while  the 
scolder's  eyes  are  closed,  then  it  is  not  the  genuine 
attitude  but  a  mere  pedantic  pose. 

LLEWELLYN  JONES. 

Chicago,  December  9, 1912. 


COOPERATION  IN  BUSINESS  AND 
AGRICULTURAL  RESEARCH. 

(To  the  Editor  of  THE  DIAL.) 

In  the  issue  of  THE  DIAL  of  November  16, 1  read 
with  interest  Mr.  Josephson's  communication  regarding 
a  proposed  institute  of  business  and  agricultural  re- 
search. You  are  probably  familiar  with  Wilhelm 
Ostwald's  similar  plan  launched  about  two  years  ago, 
known  as  "  Die  Briicke,"  having,  however,  a  much  wider 
scope.  Does  Mr.  Josephson  contemplate  any  coopera- 
tion with  "  Die  Brucke  "  ?  If  not,  why  not  ? 

MAX  BATT. 
Agricultural  College,  Fargo,  N.  Dak.,  Dec.  6,  1912. 

[In  reply  to  Dr.  Batt's  inquiry,  I  might  say  that 
I  most  certainly  contemplate  cooperation  with  the 
"  Brticke,"  as  with  many  other  institutions,  national 
and  international,  not  mentioned  in  my  letter. — 
AKSEL  G.  S.  JOSEPHSON.] 


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WILLIAM  VAUGHN  MOODY.* 

The  two  handsome  volumes  in  which  the  com- 
plete creative  work  of  William  Vaughn  Moody 
has  just  been  published  in  definitive  form  de- 
serve a  heartier  welcome  than  any  other  publi- 
cation of  the  year.  One  of  them  contains  the 
two  prose  plays, "  The  Great  Divide  "  and  "  The 
Faith  Healer  ";  the  other  contains  the  trilogy — 
"  The  Fire-Bringer,"  "  The  Masque  of  Judg- 
ment," and  a  fragment  of  "  The  Death  of  Eve  " 
— the  "Poems"  hitherto  published,  a  consider- 
able number  of  later  pieces  which  now  for  the 
first  time  see  the  light,  and  a  beautifully  written 
memoir  of  the  poet,  written  by  his  friend,  Pro- 
fessor John  M.  Manly.  Each  volume  has  a 
portrait  frontispiece.  We  have  spoken  of  these 
volumes  as  containing  all  of  Moody 's  creative 
work,  but  this  statement  requires  qualification. 
Everything  that  Moody  wrote  had  the  creative 
quality,  and  for  a  full  understanding  of  his 
genius  one  must  not  neglect  to  take  into  account 
his  scattered  writings  in  prose,  chief  among 
them  being  the  introductions  to  his  editions  of 
Milton  and  of  "  The  Pilgrim's  Progress,"  and 
the  school  "History  of  English  Literature" 
which  he  wrote  in  collaboration  with  Professor 
Lovett.  It  is  pleasant  to  be  informed  that 
another  avenue  of  access  to  his  personality  will 
presently  be  opened  by  the  publication  of  a 
selection  from  his  correspondence. 

Nevertheless,  the  main  thing  to  be  empha- 
sized about  Moody  is  that  he  was  a  poet  by  the 
grace  of  God,  and  such  a  poet  as  had  not  been 
raised  up  before  him  in  America  —  or  even  in 
the  English-speaking  world  —  since  the  eclipse 
of  the  great  line  of  the  older  singers.  The  first 
decade  of  the  twentieth  century  was  the  period 
during  which  his  powers  came  to  fruition,  and 
within  which  practically  all  of  his  work  was 
done.  He  seems,  then,  to  be  the  one  authentic 
"  maker  "  that  our  young  century  has  given  to 
the  world,  achieving  a  height  that  none  of  his 
contemporary  fellows-craftsmen  in  the  poetic 
art,  either  in  England  or  America,  could  attain. 
This  being  the  case,  it  is  upon  the  poems  that 
our  attention  should  be  mainly  fixed,  for  the 
two  prose  plays,  fine  as  they  are,  seem  almost 
negligible  in  the  comparison.  They  show  their 
author  as  a  subtle  revealer  of  human  nature  and 
as  an  expert  in  psychological  dramaturgy,  but 

*  THE  POEMS  AND  PLAYS  OF  WILLIAM  VAUGHN  MOODY. 
In  two  volumes.  With  portraits.  Boston:  Houghton 
Mifflin  Co. 


they  give  slight  evidence  of  his  deeper  inspira- 
tion or  of  the  magnificence  of  his  lyrical  gift. 

Those  who  seek  to  discover  in  the  circum- 
stances of  his  nurture  and  environment  the  secret 
of  his  power  will  be  completely  baffled.  Born 
in  1869  in  Indiana — the  commonwealth  which 
has  been  styled,  perhaps  somewhat  unkindly, 
the  Boeotia  of  America — 'he  was  one  of  the  seven 
children  of  a  steamboat  captain.  There  were 
English,  French,  and  German  strains  in  his 
blood,  happily  blended,  as  the  event  proved. 
He  worked  for  his  education,  putting  himself 
through  school,  academy,  and  college  by  means 
of  teaching.  He  took  a  master's  degree  at  Har- 
vard, and  a  year  later  joined  the  staff  of  the 
University  of  Chicago,  where  he  taught  English 
for  seven  years.  There  is  nothing  in  all  this 
which  might  not  be  paralleled  in  the  life-histories 
of  thousands  of  other  boys ;  if  we  are  to  look  at 
all  for  external  influences  in  the  shaping  of  his 
genius,  we  shall  find  them  rather  in  the  friends 
with  whom  he  chiefly  had  intercourse,  and  in  the 
scenes  to  which  he  was  led  by  the  Wanderlust. 
Walking  in  the  Black  Forest,  bicycling  over  the 
Italian  mountains,  climbing  the  Dolomites,  rid- 
ing through  the  Peloponnesus,  "  roughing  it "  in 
the  Colorado  mountains  and  the  Arizona  desert, 
visiting  the  countries  of  the  Spaniard  and  the 
Moor — these  were  the  recreations  of  such  ad- 
venturous days  as  were  vouchsafed  him  during 
the  years  in  which  his  was  the  common  lot  of 
working  for  a  living.  He  once  wrote:  "I  started 
in  to-day  on  another  quarter's  work  at  the  shop 
— with  vacation  and  restored  consciousness  three 
months  away."  This  attitude  toward  the  ap- 
pointed daily  task  —  when  that  task  is  the  noble 
one  of  teaching — does  not,  as  a  rule,  deserve 
approval.  But  we  can  hardly  blame  a  man  like 
Moody  for  assuming  it,  knowing,  as  we  do,  his 
power  to  become  a  teacher  in  a  still  finer  and 
broader  sense,  and  realizing  how  such  a  spirit 
as  his  must  chafe  under  any  form  of  routine. 
The  "  restored  consciousness "  which  vacation 
gave  him  was  a  consciousness  of  the  release  of 
faculty  which  meant  for  him  no  hours  of  idle- 
ness, but  rather  a  resumption  of  sovereignty  by 
the  creative  impulse,  urging  to  days  of  the  most 
strenuous  spiritual  endeavor. 

The  stupendous  task  which  Moody  set  himself 
in  the  trilogy  is  the  highest  which  poetry  has 
ever  attempted.  It  is  the  task  of  2Eschylus  and 
Dante  and  Milton,  the  task  of  Goethe  in  his 
"Faust"  and  of  Shelley  in  his  "Prometheus 
Unbound."  It  is  Milton's  attempt  to  "justify 
the  ways  of  God  to  man  "  coupled  with  the  at- 
tempt of  the  later  poets  to  justify  the  ways  of 


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man  to  God.  It  was  the  Great  Synthesis,  under- 
taken by  the  emancipated  modern  spirit,  the 
fusing  of  God  and  his  world  into  a  monistic 
scheme.  "This  thought,"  says  Mr.  Manly,  "is 
set  forth  in  the  first  member, '  The  Fire-Bringer,' 
through  the  reaction  on  the  human  race  of  the 
effort  of  Prometheus  to  make  man  independent 
of  God ;  in  the  second  member, '  The  Masque  of 
Judgment,'  through  a  declaration  of  the  conse- 
quences to  God  himself  that  would  inevitably 
follow  his  decree  for  the  destruction  of  mankind ; 
in  the  third  member,  'The  Death  of  Eve,'  it  was 
intended  to  set  forth  the  impossibility  of  separa- 
tion, the  complete  unity  of  the  Creator  and  his 
Creation."  What  has  been  lost  to  the  world 
through  the  tragic  fact  of  the  poet's  death  before 
he  had  put  the  last  window  in  his  Aladdin's  palace 
may  be  but  faintly  surmised.  Some  hints  of  his 
intention  were  given  to  his  intimates,  enabling 
Mr.  Manly  to  prepare  a  statement  from  which 
we  quote.  Eve,  having  survived  ages  of  years, 
"  has  undergone  a  new  spiritual  awakening,  and 
with  clearing  vision  sees  that  her  sin  need  not 
have  been  the  final,  fatal  thing  it  seemed ;  that 
God's  creatures  live  by  and  within  his  being 
and  cannot  be  estranged  or  divided  from  him. 
Seeing  this  dimly,  she  is  under  the  compulsion 
of  a  great  need  to  return  to  the  place  where  her 
defiant  thought  had  originated,  and  there  declare 
her  new  vision  of  life.  ...  In  the  third  act 
there  was  to  be  a  song  by  Eve,  the  burden  of 
which  would  be  the  inseparableness  of  God  and 
man,  during  which,  as  she  rises  to  a  clearer  and 
gentler  view  of  the  spiritual  life,  she  gently 
passes  from  the  vision  of  her  beholders."  These 
suggestions  are  precious  enough,  but  they  only 
make  more  poignant  our  sense  of  loss.  We 
confess  that  we  would  rather  have  had  the  poem 
completed  than  "  the  story  of  Cambuscan  bold," 
or  the  tragedy  of  the  Greek  Gotterdammerung 
which  was  left  half -told  in  the  "Hyperion"  of 
Keats. 

Moody's  mastery  of  his  material  was  such  as 
only  the  greatest  artists  can  exhibit.  In  the 
trilogy,  he  shows  himself  to  be  equally  familiar 
with  the  Greek,  Hebraic,  and  Christian  myths, 
to  have  seized  upon  their  inner  significance,  and 
to  have  saturated  his  soul  with  their  beauty. 
And  when  it  comes  to  that  supreme  test  of  the 
poet,  the  dramatic  lyric,  what  music  is  at  his 
command !  Listen  to  the  Song  of  the  Redeemed 
Spirits : 

"  In  the  wilds  of  life  astray, 

Held  far  from  our  delight, 

Following  the  cloud  by  day 

And  the  fire  by  night, 

Came  we  a  desert  way. 


O  Lord,  with  apples  feed  us, 

With  flagons  stay  ! 

By  Thy  still  waters  lead  us  !  " 

There  is  no  conceivable  process  of  human 
thought,  susceptible  of  analysis  and  exposition, 
which  could  produce  such  a  song  as  this.  The 
inspiration  of  genius  will  alone  account  for  it, 
as  for  the  lyrics  of  Shelley,  none  of  which  is 
more  beautiful.  And  the  same  thing  may  be 
said  of  the  Songs  of  Pandora  : 

"  Along  the  earth  and  up  the  sky 
The  Fowler  spreads  his  net," 
and 

"  Of  wounds  and  sore  defeat 

I  made  my  battle  stay," 
and 

"  Because  one  creature  of  his  breath 
Sang  loud  into  the  face  of  death," 

and,  most  wonderful  of  all, 

"  I  stood  within  the  heart  of  God; 
It  seemed  a  place  that  I  had  known." 

Lyric  utterance  in  English  has  never  achieved 
higher  and  purer  strains  than  these.  We  may 
say  of  them,  as  Symonds  says  of  the  lyrics  in 
"  Prometheus  Unbound,"  that  they  "  may  be 
reckoned  the  touch-stone  of  a  man's  capacity 
for  understanding  lyric  poetry.  The  world  in 
which  the  action  is  supposed  to  move,  rings  with 
spirit  voices ;  and  what  these  spirits  sing,  is 
melody  more  purged  of  mortal  dross  than  any 
other  poet's  ear  has  caught,  while  listening  to 
his  own  heart's  song,  or  to  the  rhythms  of  the 
world."  And  added  to  the  wonder  of  it  all  is 
the  fact  that  these  songs  sprang  from  the  heart 
of  one  who  was  with  us  in  the  flesh  but  yester- 
day, whose  eyes  and  voice  and  hand-clasp  we 
remember.  Half  a  century  hence,  it  may  be 
matter  of  boastful  pride  with  young  poets  to 
have  spoken  with  one  of  the  college  students 
who  in  their  own  youth  saw  Moody  plain. 

Nothing  could  be  more  superficial,  or  give 
more  convincing  evidence  of  spiritual  blindness 
than  the  complaint  that  has  been  made  against 
Moody  for  his  choice  of  major  themes,  speaking 
of  him  as  of  one  standing  apart  from  life  be- 
cause he  envisaged  it  through  the  medium  of 
Greek  and  Christian  myths.  As  Mr.  Manly 
justly  says :  "  Moody's  ideas,  though  familiar 
and  indeed  in  many  cases  ancient  themes  of 
art,  are  made  new  and  vital  by  subjection  to  his 
temperament  and  culture  and  by  association 
with  the  elements  of  his  spiritual  life.  In  later 
years  his  main  themes  were  social  and  economic 
injustice,  patriotism,  the  heart  of  woman,  and 
the  relations  of  God  and  the  soul,  the  meaning 
of  human  life.  To  the  reconception  of  all  these 
larger  issues,  he  brought  the  richest  intellectual 


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and  emotional  endowment  possessed  by  any 
American*  poet."  The  incredulous  may  retort 
to  this  last  assertion, 

"  Du  sprichst  ein  grosses  Wort  gelassen  aus," 
but  we  believe  that  time  will  justify  it,  and, 
having  once  lache  le  mot  in  the  quotation  from 
Mr.  Manly,  we  hasten  to  give  it  our  assent. 
Returning  to  the  original  argument,  it  may  be 
said  that  even  were  we  lacking  all  the  pieces 
which  are  concerned  with  strictly  modern 
themes,  we  should  still  find  the  modern  note 
dominant  in  the  trilogy,  for  all  its  ancient 
framework.  As  well  say  that  Goethe's  "  Faust," 
because  of  its  mediaeval  subject-matter,  had  no 
significance  for  the  modern  world,  as  say  that 
Moody's  treatment  of  the  Prometheus  story  was 
a  mere  exercise  in  outworn  modes  of  expression. 
Rather  than  that,  it  throbs  in  every  line  with 
the  heart-beats  of  twentieth  century  thought 
and  feeling,  and,  so  far  from  harking  back  to 
the  past,  ever  opens  vistas  of  the  future  to  our 
gaze. 

The  reasons  which  persuade  us  that  Moody 
has  a  place  among  the  great  poets  may  be  briefly 
summarized.  In  the  first  place,  he  deals  with 
the  supreme  issues  of  life  and  thought,  with  the 
destiny  of  man,  and  his  deepest  delvings  into 
the  mystery  of  the  universe.  He  has  the  cul- 
tural equipment  needed  for  such  a  task,  and  he 
transfuses  its  elements  in  the  crucible  of  his 
genius  until  they  emerge  in  new  spiritual  com- 
binations. His  vision  is  his  own,  fresh  and  vivid, 
and  his  emotion  has  unfathomed  depths.  He 
takes  old  themes  and  images,  and  "  mingles 
them  with  unaccustomed  but  predestined  asso- 
ciations." Coupled  with  his  vision  is  a  rich  and 
fervid  imagination  which  seems  inexhaustible  in 
its  command  of  metaphor,  and  which  invests  his 
thought  with  new  creative  shapes.  A  beautiful 
illustration  of  this  is  taken  from  the  great  Ode, 
where  he  speaks  of  the  common  grave  of  Robert 
Shaw  and  his  negro  soldiers. 
"  Now  limb  doth  mingle  with  dissolved  limb 

In  nature's  busy  old  democracy, 

To  flush  the  mountain  laurel  when  she  blows 

Sweet  by  the  southern  sea, 

And  heart  with  crumbled  heart  climbs  in  the  rose." 

One  would  have  thought  this  old  conceit  was 
done  with  by  the  poets,  yet  Moody  has  enshrined 
it  in  a  form  that  owes  nothing  to  his  predeces- 
sors, and  that  gives  it  a  new  significance.  He 
was  preeminently  a  sane  poet  and  a  sincere  one, 
without  a  touch  of  morbidity  or  preciosity.  He 
loved  words  for  their  beauty,  and  had  an  almost 
unexampled  power  to  pack  rich  meanings  into 
a  single  epithet.  "  What  names  the  stars  have ! " 


he  once  said  to  us  when  Antares  was  mentioned. 
A  word  was  to  him  like  a  jewel,  reflecting  mani- 
fold hues  from  its  facets,  or  like  the  note  of  a 
violin,  with  its  gamut  of  attendant  overtures, 
which  he  made  us  overhear.  And  with  all  this 
endowment  he  had  the  ear  for  music  without 
which  no  great  poetry  is  possible.  Equally  in 
his  lovely  lyrical  measures,  his  free  dithyrambic 
passages,  and  his  stately  blank  verse,  he  had  the 
sure  sense  of  beauty  that  was  the  gift  of  the 
Greeks,  and  of  Milton,  and  of  Shelley.  We 
think  of  Poe  and  Lanier  as  our  American  met- 
rists,  and  it  is  probably  an  understatement  to 
say  that  Moody  was  their  peer.  Now  that  he  is 
made  one  with  nature,  now  that  our  grief  for  the 
sufferings  of  his  last  tortured  days  has  become 
softened  by  the  ministry  of  time,  we  may  take 
comfort  from  the  thought  that  no  poet  could, 
with  firmer  assurance,  face  death  with  the 
"Benediction"  of  Baudelaire  upon  his  lips: 
"  Soyez  be'ni,  mon  Dieu,  qui  donnez  la  souffrance 
Comme  un  divin  remede  a  nos  impurete's, 
Et  comme  la  meilleure  et  la  plus  pure  essence 
Qui  prepare  les  forts  aux  saintes  volupte's ! 

"  Je  sais  que  vous  gardez  une  place  au  Poe'te 
Dans  les  rangs  bienheureux  des  saintes  Le'gions, 
Et  que  vous  1'invitez  a  1'e'ternelle  fete 
Des  Trones,  des  Vertus,  des  Dominations." 

Who,  if  not  the  poet  of  "  The  Masque  of  Judg- 
ment," to  whom  Thrones,  Virtues,  and  Domina- 
tions were  familiars,  could  with  clearer  title  look 
forward  to  participation  in  God's  everlasting 
festival?  WILLIAM  MORTON  PAYNE. 


THE  LAST  DAYS  OF  THE  CONFEDERACY.* 


The  most  original  feature  of  General  Schaff 's 
"  The  Battle  of  the  Wilderness,"  the  thing  that 
signally  caught  the  attention  of  readers,  was  its 
application  of  epic  methods  to  historic  narrative. 
In  the  spiritual  framework,  the  supernatural 
machinery  of  that  book,  the  author  might  almost 
be  credited  with  the  creation  of  a  new  form  in 
literature.  Probably  to  a  good  many  sincere 
minds  this  form  was  a  stumbling-block.  A  dis- 
tinguished fellow-soldier  said  to  him,  "  When 
you  get  done  with  your  poetry  and  get  down  to 
history  you  will  write  a  valuable  book."  But 
he  did  write  a  valuable  book,  an  unique  book, 
one  aglow  with  vision  and  emotion.  Its  peculiar 
characteristics,  its  creative  artistry,  are  what 
make  it  stand  out  from  the  hundreds  of  nar- 
ratives and  records  of  the  Civil  War,  though 


*  THE  SUNSET  OF  THE  CONFEDERACY.    By  Morris  Schaff. 
With  maps.    Boston :  John  W.  Luce  &  Co. 


1912.] 


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many  of  these  are  also  told  by  eye-witnesses  and 
infused  with  personal  emotion. 

In  essaying  again  a  study  of  a  single  phase 
of  the  Civil  War,  General  Schaff  had  two 
courses  open  to  him.  He  might  either  bring 
back  his  new-made  myths,  his  figures  of  fancy 
that  brood  above  the  scene  and  intermingle  with 
the  actors,  or  he  might  trust  to  plain  narrative 
and  the  dignity  of  his  theme.  Very  wisely,  we 
think,  he  has  chosen  the  latter  method,  except 
for  a  few  brief  and  unimportant  touches  of  the 
old  imagination.  It  is  very  doubtful  whether  he 
could  have  captured  again  the  thrilling  effect  of 
his  first  creations.  A  warmed-up  mythology  of 
visions  and  apparitions  would  have  been  fatal. 

Another  thing  missing  in  the  new  book  is  the 
story  of  personal  adventure,  which,  threading 
the  great,  glittering,  and  gloomy  scenes  of  march 
and  battlefield,  made  them  at  once  more  con  vine- 
ing  and  lent  to  them  an  air  of  romance  and  gay 
high  spirits.  We  must  count  this  a  loss ;  though 
in  wholly  suppressing  himself  in  the  presence  of 
the  last  great  struggle,  the  author  has  obeyed 
the  dictates  of  the  finest  good  taste.  Everything 
else  that  was  apparent  in  the  earlier  book  is 
here  :  the  vivid  phrase ;  the  easy  prose,  pulsing 
as  with  the  systole  and  diastole  of  the  heart; 
the  nature-painting,  insistent  and  persistent. 
Probably  no  historian  has  ever  set  his  scene  with 
greater  definition  of  view,  more  elaboration  of 
foliage  and  flowers.  The  bills,  roads,  streams, 
houses  are  as  real  and  vivid  as  the  hosts  which 
struggle  and  fight  among  them. 

As  far  as  theme  is  concerned  the  advantage  is 
all  with  General  Schaff 's  latest  book.  The  battle 
of  the  Wilderness,  that  confused  and  indecisive 
struggle,  that  almost  undecipherable  scroll  of 
events  unrolled  under  the  glooms  of  the  tangled 
scrub-oak  forest,  has  neither  the  unity  nor  the 
importance  of  the  final,  fatal  week  of  the  Con- 
federacy. Each  book  covers  only  the  operations 
of  a  few  days,  but  in  "The  Sunset  of  the  Con- 
federacy" all  the  elements  of  great  tragedy 
appear  clear  and  distinct. 

The  book  opens  with  a  scene  out  of  a  novel, 
—  Jefferson  Davis  and  other  dignitaries  of  the 
South  at  devotion  in  St.  Paul's  Church  in  Rich- 
mond, and  the  pompous  sexton  marching  up 
and  down  the  aisle  to  call  each  one  of  them  sepa- 
rately out.  The  lines  at  Petersburg  have  been 
broken,  and  the  end  is  near.  Then  follows  the 
panic  in  the  city,  the  departure  of  the  trains 
with  government  officials,  the  withdrawal  of  the 
troops.  Lee's  seven  days'  retreat  which  ensues 
is  told  with  amazing  minuteness  and  clearness. 
It  is  not  too  much  to  say  that  the  narrative  re- 


calls the  art  in  De  Quincey's  "  Flight  of  a  Tartar 
Tribe"  or  Tolstoi's  description  of  the  rout  of 
Bagration  and  his  Russians  in  "  War  and  Peace." 
General  Schaff's  impulsive  prose,  which  curvets 
and  prances  and  paws  the  ground  like  a  high- 
strung  horse,  makes  good  speed  and  hurries  us 
from  side  to  side  of  the  widespread  flight,  takes 
us  into  Lee's  rushing  hampered  columns  and 
into  Grant's  relentless  cohorts  of  pursuit.  The 
objectivity,  the  open-air  quality  of  the  style  is 
noticeable,  and  not  less  so  its  waywardness  and 
off-handedness.  General  Schaff  will  interrupt  a 
cavalry  charge  to  get  down  and  paint  some  field 
flowers  or  brookside  blooming  bushes.  Yet  the 
whole  thing  is  alive  and  rushing  on. 

Let  us  give  a  few  specimens  of  the  fresh  and 
vivid  writing  of  the  book  —  and  first,  of  its 
nature  painting: 

"  I  wish  we  could  find  a  good,  overlooking  spot. 
How  will  that  little  elevation  down  there  in  the  valley 
answer;  that  rises  like  an  old-fashioned  beehive  on  the 
left  of  the  road  and  has  a  brotherhood  of  four  or  rive 
big-limbed  oaks  crowning  it,  one  of  them  leaning  some- 
what? Admirably!  .  .  .  Well,  here  we  are:  oaks  spread- 
ing above  us,  at  our  feet  violets,  liverwort,  and  spring 
beauties  scattered  among  acorn  hulls,  dead  leaves,  and 
clustered  grass.  What  a  reviewing  stand,  and  so  near 
the  road  that  we  shall  be  able  to  distinguish  faces ! " 

Here  is  a  night  piece : 

"  Yet,  reader,  for  loneliness  —  and  every  aide  who  like 
myself  has  carried  dispatches  will  bear  witness  to  the 
truth  of  what  I  say  —  give  me  a  park  of  army-wagons 
in  some  wan  old  field  wrapt  in  darkness  at  the  dead 
hours  of  a  moonless  night,  men  and  mules  asleep,  camp- 
fires  breathing  their  last,  and  the  beams  of  day,  which 
wander  in  the  night,  resting  ghost-like  on  the  arched 
and  mildewed  canvas  covers." 

And  here  is  a  battle  picture: 

"  They  were  now  advancing  firmly  with  colors,  and 
there  were  so  many  standards  crimsoning  each  body  of 
troops  —  to  their  glory  the  Confederate  color-bearers 
stood  by  Lee  to  the  last,  —  that  they  looked  like  march- 
ing gardens  blooming  with  cockscomb,  red  roses,  and 
poppies.  .  .  .  The  road  was  packed  with  men,  their  faces 
grimly  ablaze,  colors  flying,  and  over  them,  like  a  waver- 
ing shield  of  steel,  were  their  muskets  at  right-shoulder- 
shift,  as  they  trotted  forward  to  the  sound  of  the  now 
booming  guns ;  for  Gordon's  and  Fitz  Lee's  veterans  were 
answering  the  last  call  of  the  Confederacy  with  their  old- 
time  spirit." 

Perhaps  what  most  of  all  imparts  vitality  to 
General  Schaff's  work  is  the  immense  gallery  of 
human  pictures  painted  from  the  intimacy  of 
comradeship  or  experience.  Some  of  these  are 
full-length  portraits,  some  mere  heads,  some 
thumbnail  sketches  dashed  in  with  a  phrase. 
And  there  is  no  West  Point  exclusiveness  in 
this  commemorative  work.  The  author  is  just 
as  ready  to  devote  a  paragraph  or  a  page  to 
some  unnamed  soldier  boy  as  to  the  proudest 


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general.  Witness,  for  instance,  the  young  sen- 
tinel in  gray  who  turns  back  the  slave  dealer 
from  the  escaping  Richmond  train,  or  the  young 
lad  with  brimming  eyes  who  attracts  Major 
Stiles's  attention  at  field  service  and  who  next 
day  is  shot  dead.  Naturally,  however,  most  of 
the  portraits  are  of  men  of  known  name.  Here 
is  Ouster : 

"  After  his  promotion  to  a  generalcy,  Custer  dressed 
fantastically  in  olive  corduroy,  wore  his  yellow  hair  long, 
and  supported  a  flaming  scarlet  flannel  necktie  whose 
loose  ends  the  wind  fluttered  across  his  breast  as,  with 
uplifted  sabre,  he  charged  at  the  head  of  his  brigade, 
followed  by  his  equally  reckless  troopers,  who,  in  loving 
imitation,  wore  neckties  like  his  own." 

And  here  is  Sheridan  : 

"  Sheridan  is  mounted  on  Rienzi.  Look  at  man  and 
horse,  for  they  are  both  of  the  same  spirit  and  temper. 
It  was  Rienzi  who  with  flaming  nostrils  carried  Sheridan 
to  the  field  of  Cedar  Creek,  'twenty  miles  away';  and 
on  the  field  of  Five  Forks,  the  battle  which  broke  Lee's 
line  and  let  disaster  in.  Before  the  final  charge  there, 
the  horse  became  as  impatient  as  its  rider,  kicking, 
plunging,  tossing  his  head,  pulling  at  the  bit,  while  foam 
flecked  his  black  breast.  Sheridan  gave  him  his  head, 
when  he  saw  that  Ayres,  at  the  point  of  the  bayonet, 
was  going  to  carry  the  day;  off  sprang  Rienzi  and  with 
a  leap  bounded  over  the  enemy's  works  and  landed 
Sheridan  among  the  mob  of  prisoners  and  fighting 
troops  " 

General  Schaff  apologizes  for  not  giving  much 
attention  to  the  greater  Union  leaders,  as  he  had 
dealt  pretty  fully  with  them  in  his  previous 
book.  Grant  and  Meade,  indeed,  are  kept  rather 
in  the  background,  save  toward  the  close  when 
the  former  of  course  takes  the  centre  of  the  stage. 
But  Lee  is  painted  minutely  and  lovingly,  on 
the  march,  at  camp-fire,  at  council.  Lee  is  the 
hero  of  the  book.  Shall  we  wonder  at  this  ?  Is 
it  strange  that  a  Union  officer,  proud  of  his  army 
and  its  leaders,  should  at  the  moment  of  victory 
draw  back,  give  precedence  to  a  defeated  foe, 
and  offer  the  crown  of  glory  to  Lee  and  his 
devoted  veterans  ?  No !  It  was  their  time  of 
tragedy  and  triumph.  Except  Napoleon's  last 
campaign  before  Waterloo,  Lee's  last  year  of 
struggle  against  the  North  is  the  most  wonder- 
ful thing  in  modern  warfare.  General  Schaff's 
final  tribute  to  Lee  is  too  long  to  quote,  but 
here  are  its  concluding  lines : 

"  No,  no  eagle  that  ever  flew,  no  tiger  that  ever  sprang, 
had  more  natural  courage;  and  I  will  guarantee  that 
every  field  he  was  on,  if  you  ask  them  about  him,  will 
speak  of  the  unquailing  battle-spirit  of  his  mien.  Be 
not  deceived:  Lee,  notwithstanding  his  poise,  was  nat- 
urally the  most  belligerent  bull-dog  man  at  the  head  of 
any  army  in  the  war." 

Grave  and  tender  and  true  is  the  North ;  gay 
and  ardent  and  courteous  is  the  South !  But  we 
think  that  for  once  the  South  is  beaten  out  of 


the  field  in  its  own  qualities.  We  doubt  whether 
there  is  any  Southern  book  more  chivalrous  in 
generosity  of  judgment  about  Southern  leaders 
than  is  this;  or  a  more  emotional  seizure  of 
the  passion,  pathos,  and  heroism  of  the  last  days 
of  the  Lost  Cause.  - 

CHARLES  LEONARD  MOORE. 


A  POET  ix  LANDSCAPE.* 


This  study  of  the  art  of  Homer  Martin  by  Mr. 
F.  J.  Mather,  Jr.,  is  of  the  same  form  as  that  on 
the  art  of  George  Inness  by  Mr.  Daingerfield, 
which  was  reviewed  in  THE  DIAL  some  time 
since.  It  is  a  handsome  little  quarto,  beautifully 
printed,  and  illustrated  with  a  frontispiece  in 
color  and  a  dozen  other  reproductions.  It  is  to 
be  hoped  that  these  two  volumes  are  only  the 
beginning  of  a  series  of  monographs  upon  Ameri- 
can Landscape  Painters,  and  that  they  will  be 
speedily  followed  by  volumes  on  Cole,  Durand, 
and  Church,  and  others  after  as  well  as  before 
Homer  Martin.  It  will  be  difficult  to  find  au- 
thors as  competent  as  Mr.  Mather,  who  has  an 
intimate  knowledge  of  his  subject  as  well  as 
wide  artistic  reading  and  long  practice  in  criti- 
cism. One  addition  may  be  suggested  to  such 
volumes :  they  certainly  ought  to  have  a  list  of 
the  paintings  of  the  painter  they  discuss,  and, 
one  would  think,  also  a  bibliography.  They  are 
necessarily  expensive  books,  but  their  price  is 
doubtless  none  too  much  when  the  typography 
and  execution  are  considered,  as  well  as  the  mar- 
ket. As  the  publisher  seems  to  have  done  every- 
thing that  could  be  asked  of  him,  one  would  say 
that  the  author  should  do  so  too.  If  these  books 
are  to  be  merely  attractive  tokens  of  regard  to 
be  passed  around  among  friends  or  to  lie  on  club 
tables  they  will,  of  course,  need  only  typography, 
pictures,  and  criticism.  If,  however,  they  are 
really  to  take  the  place  of  authoritative  mono- 
graphs, they  ought  to  appeal  to  the  student  as 
well  as  to  the  amateur.  And  the  student, 
although  perhaps  not  entitled  to  a  bibliography, 
would  seem  to  be  entitled  to  a  list  of  works. 
Mr.  Mather,  of  course,  has  material  for  a  list  of 
Homer  Martin's  work  that  ought  to  be  more  com- 
plete than  anyone  else  possesses ;  it  must  be  the 
basis  of  his  work.  And  if  that  work  is  to  receive 
the  intelligent  criticism  which  alone  will  give  it 
the  place  it  ought  to  take,  others  ought  to  have 
advantage,  at  least,  of  his  knowledge  of  where 
the  materials  for  study  are  to  be  found.  In 

*  HOMER  MARTIN:  POET  IN  LANDSCAPE.  By  Frank 
Jewett  Mather,  Jr.  Illustrated.  New  York :  Frederic  Fair- 
child  Sherman. 


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this  way  a  foundation  would  be  laid  for  a  real 
knowledge  of  the  subject,  which  would  finally 
be  of  ultimate  use  to  the  student  of  American 
art.  Mr.  Mather's  criticism  has  great  and  dis- 
tinguished value ;  but  if  it  is  to  remain  a  real 
contribution  to  the  history  of  American  painting, 
if  it  is  to  maintain  itself  above  the  ordinary  dilet- 
tante club-talk,  it  should  be  reviewed  by  people 
who  have  studied  the  same  materials  that  he  has. 

Not  having  the  advantage  of  any  such  knowl- 
edge of  Homer  Martin's  work  as  Mr.  Mather, 
and  relying  on  the  other  hand  only  on  such  gen- 
eral information  as  to  American  landscape  paint- 
ing as  is  open  to  hundreds  of  others,  I  can  offer 
but  a  desultory  and  slightly  founded  criticism 
of  the  estimate  of  Homer  Martin  here  offered. 
If  my  views  appear  to  be  based  upon  an  insuffi- 
cient knowledge  it  will  be  largely  due,  I  believe, 
to  the  very  lack  of  opportunity  for  thorough 
critical  study  given  not  only  by  this  monograph 
but  by  most  works  dealing  with  the  general 
subject. 

And  first  as  to  Martin's  general  position. 
Mr.  Mather  says  that  "  Martin  frankly  accepted 
the  traditional  scenic  ideal  of  landscape  paint- 
ing and  always  remained  faithful  to  it "  (p.  15)  ; 
that  he  was  "  the  last  and  greatest  expression  " 
of  the  movement  which  he  himself  is  said  to  have 
called  the  Hudson  River  School  (p.  16);  that 
"he  actually  realised  what  had  been  merely  the 
ambition  of  Durand  and  Cole"  (p.  15).  I  be- 
lieve that  this  is  very  true  as  far  as  it  goes,  but 
it  does  not  appear  to  me  to  go  far  enough  to  be 
really  definitive.  What  was  the  Hudson  River 
School  ?  What  was  "  the  ambition  of  Durand 
and  Cole  "  ?  One  would  gather  from  the  lan- 
guage that  they  had  the  same  ambition.  That, 
however,  was  not  the  case  ;  they  had  very  differ- 
ent ambitions,  and  their  paintings,  which  look 
wholly  different  even  to  the  haphazard  amateur, 
were  the  expression  of  very  different  ideas.  Now 
Homer  Martin,  to  judge  from  Mr.  Mather's 
whole  treatment,  did  not  have  the  ideals  of  either 
Cole  or  Durand,  nor  was  his  accomplishment 
like  that  of  either.  The  painter  who  realized 
what  had  been  merely  the  ambitions  of  Cole  and 
Durand  was  Frederick  E.  Church :  he  had  the 
grandiose  romanticism  of  Cole  and  the  affec- 
tionate naturalism  of  Durand.  Martin  would 
seem  to  me  to  have  had  neither.  It  may  be  that 
I  misinterpret  Mr.  Mather  when  he  speaks  of 
the  ambition  of  Durand  and  Cole,  or  of  the  tra- 
ditional scenic  ideal  of  landscape  painting.  He 
may  mean  merely  the  ambition  really  to  present 
the  wonderful  and  characteristic  notes  of  Amer- 
ican scenery,  those  things  wherein  America  was 


different  from  the  rest  of  the  world,  those  things 
which  might  make,  or  even  necessitate,  an 
"  American  School ''  of  landscape.  Those  things 
were,  in  the  mind  of  Thomas  Cole,  a  glorious 
liberty  and  power,  wild  and  often  fierce,  as  ex- 
pressed in  mountain  and  lake,  crag  and  forest ; 
and  such  things  he  loved  to  paint  with  romantic 
largeness.  In  the  art  of  Durand  the  dominant 
idea  seems  to  have  been  the  sufficing  energy  and 
strength  which  created  the  mountains  and  forests 
alike,  and  hence  with  him  the  idea  of  truth  and 
detail  was  most  important.  Homer  Martin  did 
not  have  either  of  these  ideas.  Yet  as  you  look 
at  his  u  Lake  Sanford  "  or  "  The  Sand  Dunes, 
Lake  Ontario,"  you  feel  as  though  he  had  some- 
thing which  superseded  both  and  was  naturally 
finer  than  either.  But  just  what  this  "  some- 
thing" was  I  do  not  find  in  Mr.  Mather's  esti- 
mate, and  miss  it.  Mr.  Mather  shows  that 
Martin  had  the  ability  to  render  the  grandeur 
of  form  and  wide  space  that  seemed  to  him  the 
dominant  factors  in  the  American  scene,  and  to 
render  it  in  the  painter's  style  ;  but  I  do  not 
find  that  he  has  anywhere  made  a  sufficient  and 
convincing  statement  of  the  matter.  The  gen- 
eral estimate,  however,  whether  fully  stated  or 
not,  is  a  real  contribution  :  it  shows  critical 
insight  as  well  as  sufficient  knowledge ;  it  is 
just  the  kind  of  thing  we  need. 

The  second  point  that  I  would  speak  of  is  the 
question  why  Martin  was  not  popular  in  his 
later  days.  He  was  obviously  not,  and  indeed 
could  hardly  sell  his  later  pictures  for  any  sum 
however  small.  I  note  the  matter  because  it 
seems,  very  characteristic,  and  indeed  explana- 
atory  of  Martin's  whole  life.  Mr.  Mather 
makes  the  fact  clear,  but  says  that  he  will 
merely  note  it  without  comment.  His  subject, 
he  says  (p.  63),  is  "a  particular  artist  and  not 
the  various  pseudo-esthetic  forms  of  human 
vanity."  That,  of  course,  is  the  case,  and  yet 
I  believe  we  should  have  a  better  idea  of  what 
Martin's  art  really  was,  if  we  had  a  definite 
statement  of  why  it  differed  from  the  art  in  favor 
in  the  later  years  of  the  nineteenth  century.  It 
was  not  till  after  Martin's  death  that  his  pic- 
tures commanded  any  sort  of  price,  and  then 
they  became  so  valuable  that  they  were  fabri- 
cated for  the  trade.  Now  it  seems  to  me  very 
clear  why  a  public  which  in  18^0,  say,  admired 
Monet  and  Pissarro.  and  would  certainly  buy 
pictures  like  those  of  Twachtman  (not  to  men- 
tion other  men  still  living),  would  not  buy  the 
pictures  of  Homer  Martin,  and  I  should  say  that 
a  statement  of  the  fact  would  make  very  clear 
just  what  Homer  Martin  really  was. 


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1  should  range  the  leading  figures  in  Amer- 
ican landscape  somewhat  in  this  way:  first 
(after  the  very  beginners)  Thomas  Cole,  who 
expressed  the  predominating  romanticism  of  his 
time,  which  soared  aloft  like  a  rocket  and 
blazed  out  into  darkness  in  the  work  of  Moran, 
Bierstadt,  and  Church ;  second  Durand,  who 
represented  a  sort  of  pre-Raphaelitism  which 
though  very  pervasive  never  produced  any 
painter  greater  than  Durand  himself;  then 
George  Inness,  who  represents  the  influence  of 
the  Barbizon  group  and  is  the  greatest  man 
in  America  produced  by  that  influence;  then 
somebody  still  living  (one  needn't  say  who) 
who  will  stand  for  Impressionism ;  and  finally 
the  painters  of  our  own  day.  Now  among 
these  influences  and  periods,  the  place  of  Homer 
Martin,  as  I  understand  him  and  his  work,  is 
that  he  continues  the  ideas  of  Cole  and  Durand, 
in  the  sense  already  stated,  in  the  time  of  George 
Inness.  It  appears  to  me  very  natural  that  he 
was  never  popular,  nor  even  very  interesting. 

Not  interesting, —  except,  of  course,  to  those 
who  love  beautiful  painting  without  regard  to 
periods  or  influences  or  theories  or  fashions,  who 
can  be  thrilled  by  noble  emotion  even  when  con- 
veyed by  unfashionable  technique,  and  by  fine 
technique  even  when  it  has  no  passion  but  that 
of  the  workman.  I  love  the  pictures  of  Cole; 
the  painting  of  his  time  was  awful,  but  I  like 
his  grandiose  romanticism.  I  love  equally  the 
pictures  of  Inness,  though  I  cannot  say  I  have 
much  sympathy  with  his  views  on  the  poetry 
of  nature.  But  there  are  also  a  number  of 
painters  among  our  American  landscapists  who 
seem  chiefly  to  be  painters,  without  much  refer- 
ence to  other  people  or  to  any  ideas  other  than 
their  own.  Such  I  take  to  be  Thomas  Doughty 
in  our  early  history,  a  man  who  seems  to  have 
been  quite  unable  to  accommodate  himself  to 
the  rising  passion  of  his  time  for  crags  and 
cataracts,  lakes  and  mountains.  So  he  painted 
persistently  glimpses  of  the  Hudson  and  views 
of  Fairmount  Park,  for  which  people  cared  little 
in  his  day  and  would  care  little  now  were  it  not 
in  recognition  of  his  fine  artistic  spirit.  Some- 
thing of  this  sort  is  Homer  Martin,  as  Mr. 
Mather  presents  him  to  us, — a  man  in  love 
with  the  greatness  of  nature  at  a  time  when 
people  were  charmed  with  her  littlenesses,  a  man 
who  would  paint  a  mountain-top  or  an  inland  sea 
at  a  period  when  people  in  tune  with  their  time 
were  absorbed  in  the  poetry  of  the  door-yard, 
of  the  pair  of  bars,  of  the  haystack.  Other  men 
with  ideas  like  his  own  could  maintain  them- 
selves by  the  adventitious  aid  of  tropic  splendor 


or  exotic  associations.  But  Martin  appealed  to 
nothing  adventitious,  to  nothing  that  was  not 
of  the  essence  of  art.  He  had  the  sentiment 
of  grandeur,  and  he  was  bent  on  rendering  it 
grandly.  He  could  not  possibly  have  adopted 
the  combination  of  the  grand  ideas  of  Cole  and 
the  nice  minutiae  of  Durand  that  Church  and 
Bierstadt  showed  was  possible.  He  came  fifty 
years  after  Cole  and  Durand,  and  he  knew  a  bet- 
ter way  of  painting  than  either  of  them.  So  he 
pleased  neither  the  multitude  with  his  fine  execu- 
tion nor  the  virtuosi  with  his  noble  imagination. 
What  a  pleasure  to  find  someone  to  write  and 
someone  to  publish  a  monograph  upon  an  Amer- 
ican landscape  painter  !  It  is  much  to  be  hoped 
that  people  will  be  found  to  buy  and  read  ;  but, 
after  all,  the  writing  and  publishing  are  the 
main  thing.  I  am  sure  it  is  as  well  worth  doing 
as  a  monograph  upon  some  obscure  Italian  of 
the  fourteenth  century  or  some  Frenchman  of  the 
eighteenth.  It  is  certainly  much  more  difficult. 
With  the  old-time  obscurity  you  have  quite  a 
limited  set  of  facts  to  work  with :  different 
critics  will  arrange  them  in  different  ways,  but 
there  are  not  enough  for  more  than  a  conjectural 
estimate  at  best.  With  a  man  of  our  own,  or 
almost  of  our  own,  time,  the  flood  of  facts  is  over- 
whelming, and  the  labor  certainly  is  astonishing 
if  the  result  does  not  seem  very  splendid.  Would 
that  students  of  literature  would  give  to  Amer- 
ican work  the  toil  and  the  care  which  they  con- 
secrate to  often  inferior  workers  of  remote  time 
and  place.  With  the  tried  and  tested  means  of 
modern  criticism  what  may  not  be  found  in  the 
history  of  art  in  America,  by  those  who  are  as 
capable  and  as  willing  as  Mr.  Mather? 

EDWARD  E.  HALE. 


THE  SAINT  OF  ASSIST.* 


Since  Paul  Sabatier  published  his  Vie  de  S. 
Francois  sixteen  years  ago  there  have  been  over 
thirty  French  editions  of  the  work,  an  excellent 
English  translation,  and  several  other  foreign 
translations.  Thus  the  wonder-story  of  the  great 
mediaeval  saint  has  become  known  to  thousands 
of  modern  readers  and  students,  and  has  been 
incorporated  into  text-books  and  college  courses 
dealing  with  European  history  and  culture. 
Yet  it  is  well  known  that  competent  critics  have 

*SAINT  FRANCIS  OF  ASSISI.  A  Biography.  By  Johannes 
Jorgensen.  Translated  from  the  Danish,  with  the  author's 
sanction,  by  T.  O'Conor  Sloane,  Ph.D.  New  York:  Long- 
mans, Green,  &  Co. 

EVERYBODY'S  SAINT  FRANCIS.  By  Maurice  Francis 
Egau.  Illustrated  in  color,  etc.,  by  M.  Boutet  de  Monvel. 
New  York :  The  Century  Co. 


1912.] 


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pointed  out  how  warped  and  misleading  much 
of  Sabatier's  interpretation  is,  especially  his 
emphasis  on  the  personality  of  Saint  Francis  in 
conflict  with  the  Church  of  his  time  and  with  the 
tendencies  towards  corporate  growth  on  the  part 
of  his  order.  The  appearance  in  English,  there- 
fore, of  two  thoroughly  orthodox  biographies  of 
Saint  Francis,  of  popular  character,  will  be  wel- 
comed by  Catholic  scholars,  while  the  general 
reading  public  will  have  a  chance  to  make  the 
acquaintance  of  the  saint  through  these  new 
books.  The  first  of  these  is  an  English  trans- 
lation, by  Dr.  T.  O'Conor  Sloane,  of  the  Danish 
scholar  Jorgensen's  "Saint  Francis  of  Assisi," 
a  detailed  and  scholarly  biography;  while  the 
second  is  a  much  more  popular  work  entitled 
"Everybody's  Saint  Francis,"  by  the  well- known 
American  Roman  Catholic  writer,  Dr.  Mau- 
rice F.  Egan.  Jorgensen's  book  has  five  excel- 
lent photogravure  illustrations  from  thirteenth 
and  fourteenth  century  portraits  and  manu- 
scripts ;  while  Dr.  Egan's  simpler  chapters  are 
adorned  by  twenty  full-page  drawings  (eight  of 
them  in  color)  by  the  famous  French  artist, 
M.  Boutet  de  Monvel. 

In  dealing  with  the  life  of  Saint  Francis,  the 
Danish  scholar  adopts  a  reverential  attitude 
towards  the  sources,  and  gives  a  careful  narra- 
tive account  of  all  that  is  told  on  good  author- 
ity concerning  his  subject.  He  does  not  indulge 
in  critical  discussions  or  excursions,  but  states 
his  facts  simply  and  briefly.  The  visions, 
miracles,  and  stigmata  are  either  accepted  as 
true  or  passed  over  as  legends,  and  we  have  the 
story  of  the  saint  as  known  and  believed  in  by 
his  best  informed  contemporaries  and  followers. 
The  biography  is  some  what  symmetrically  organ- 
ized into  four  books,  dealing  respectively  with 
Francis  as  Church  Builder,  Evangelist,  God's 
Singer,  and  Hermit ;  with  an  interesting  appen- 
dix, originally  the  introduction  to  the  Danish 
edition,  on  the  authorities  for  the  life  of  the 
saint.  Although  the  original  Danish  work  ap- 
peared in  1906,  no  attempt  has  been  made  to 
bring  this  appendix  up  to  date;  and  its  bibli- 
ographical value,  while  considerable,  would  be 
much  greater  had  it  been  revised  and  new  works 
added.  It  is  evident  from  the  foot-notes  that 
Jorgensen  has  made  very  considerable  use  of 
the  scholarly  studies  and  articles  of  Professor 
Gotz  of  Munich,  and  yet  this  critic  of  Sabatier 
and  Muller  is  barely  mentioned  in  the  section 
on  modern  authorities. 

That  Saint  Francis  was  a  man  of  his  time, 
that  he  was  thoroughly  orthodox  in  his  theology 
and  in  his  relation  to  the  Church,  and  that  he 


was  in  sympathy  with  the  early  aspects  of  his 
Order's  growth  are  the  views  expressed  by  Jor- 
gensen. As  an  illustration  of  his  viewpoint  we 
may  cite  the  following  paragraph  from  Chapter 
IV.  of  Book  III.,  in  regard  to  the  origin  and 
early  character  of  the  Franciscan  Order : 

"  The  community  of  Brothers,  which  Francis  of  Assisi 
had  founded,  was  from  the  very  first  an  order  of  peni- 
tents and  apostles,  and  Francis  himself  was  the  Superior 
of  the  Order.  He  it  was  who  had  written  the  Rules  of 
the  Order  and  had  promised  obedience  to  the  Pope,  he 
it  was  to  whom  the  permission  to  preach  was  given,  and 
through  whom  the  others  participated  therein.  It  is 
certain  that  the  first  six  Brothers  had  the  same  right  as 
Francis  to  receive  new  members  into  the  Order,  but  the 
the  new  members  were  taken  to  Portiuncula,  there  to 
receive  the  robe  of  penitence  from  Francis  himself. 
This  reception  into  the  Brotherhood  was  regarded  as 
equivalent  in  weight  to  the  old  time  conversion  of  the 
orders  of  monkhood  —  by  it  one  left  the  world  with  its 
pomp  and  glory.  As  a  sign  of  this  the  supplicant  gave 
his  possessions  to  the  poor." 

In  such  a  passage  we  have  no  implication  of 
difference  of  viewpoint  as  to  his  Order  between 
Saint  Francis  and  the  Church,  no  hint  of  a  tran- 
sition of  a  simple  lay  order  into  'an  ecclesiastical 
brotherhood  of  formal  character,  but  merely  a 
simple  statement  of  origin  and  character.  A 
great  deal  of  the  interest  and  charm  of  Sabatier's 
life  of  Saint  Francis  lies  in  the  close  personal 
touch  between  author  and  subject,  and  the  con- 
stant effort  to  convey  what  the  author  thinks 
were  Francis's  own  feelings  and  viewpoints. 
Jorgensen  is  content  to  give  the  historical  facts 
and  happenings  as  he  finds  them  in  the  sources, 
and  does  not  attempt  any  psychological  inter- 
pretation. The  result  is  that  Sabatier  is  more 
interesting  and  stimulating  reading,  while  Jor- 
gensen must  be  considered  as  better  historical 
biography. 

The  work  of  translating  Jorgensen's  book 
from  the  Danish  original  has  been  well  done  by 
Dr.  T.  O'Conor  Sloane,  though  certain  curious 
errors  of  translation  and  phraseology  indicate 
that  Dr.  Sloane  is  not  himself  a  close  student  of 
mediaeval  monasticism.  To  call  the  "  Order  of 
Friars  Minor  "  the  "  Order  of  Smaller  Brothers  " 
seems  inexcusable  ;  nor  should  the  well-known 
"  Legend  of  the  Three  Companions  "  be  referred 
to  as  "the  Three  Brothers  Legend."  Other 
such  errors,  and  many  inconsistencies  of  spell- 
ing and  usage,  might  be  pointed  out;  but  such 
criticism  is  tedious.  The  index  to  the  transla- 
tion is  only  fairly  satisfactory,  being  made  up 
largely  of  proper  names, —  "stigmata,"  for 
example,  is  omitted  from  the  index.  A  useful 
feature,  however,  is  a  special  index  for  the  bib- 
liographical appendix,  this  index  being  much 
better  than  the  one  for  the  main  work. 


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[Dec.  16, 


Dr.  Egan's  "  Everybody's  Saint  Francis  "  is 
an  eminently  readable  and  popular  account  of 
the  mediaeval  story  of  the  saint.  Appearing 
originally  in  a  well-known  monthly  magazine, 
with  the  remarkable  illustrations  of  M.  JBoutet 
de  Monvel  as  their  accompaniment,  they  were 
read  with  pleasure  by  many  persons  who  ordin- 
arily do  not  come  into  such  close  contact  with 
mediaeval  hagiology.  In  its  present  form  the 
work  makes  a  most  attractive  gift-book,  and  will 
be  especially  appropriate  for  those  meditating  a 
winter  visit  to  Italy.  It  is  apparent  that  Dr. 
Egan's  aim  has  been  literary  rather  than  criti- 
cal or  historical.  It  is  the  legendary  Saint 
Francis  that  he  is  interested  in  rather  than  the 
strictly  historical  personage.  The  wonderful 
story  of  the  Wolf  of  Gubbio  is  given  in  detail, 
also  the  story  of  the  birds  ;  and  we  are  told, 
seemingly  in  all  seriousness,  that  Francis  went 
among  the  Mohammedans  of  Morocco  "  during 
the  crusade  of  Saint  Louis,"  though  in  reality 
Francis  had  died  thirty-three  years  before 
Louis's  crusade  to  Tunis  took  place.  Again, 
Dr.  Egan  states  that  Francis  died  "  in  the  for- 
tieth year  of  age,"  on  October  3,  1226,  while 
he  gives  the  date  of  his  birth  as  1181  or  1182. 
Attractively  as  Dr.  Egan  tells  his  story,  it  is 
surely  to  be  regretted  that  he  is  not  more  accu- 
rate and  historical  in  the  handling  of  his  subject. 
As  a  piece  of  brilliant  literary  description  his 
chapters  are  admirable,  but  they  have  too  much 
of  the  quality  of  a  fairy  tale. 

NORMAN  M.  TRENHOLME. 


MEMORIALS  OF  THE  ENGLISH 
CATHEDRALS.* 


England's  famous  highways  are  many  and 
smooth :  and  on  them  and  from  them  spreads  a 
network  of  beaten  paths  leading  to  the  noble 
churches  which  are  her  priceless  heritage  from 
the  Middle  Ages.  Now,  as  then,  these  paths 
are  worn  by  the  tramp  of  countless  pilgrims' 
feet.  The  fourteenth  century  pilgrim,  however, 
confined  his  visits  to  the  great  shrines  like  Can- 

*  ENGLISH  AND  WELSH  CATHEDRALS.  By  Thomas 
Dinham  Atkinson  (Architect).  Illustrated  in  color,  etc., 
by  Walter  Dexter,  R.B.A.  Boston:  Little,  Brown,  &  Co. 

THE  CATHEDRALS  OF  ENGLAND  AND  WALES.  By 
Francis  Bond.  Fourth  edition,  revised  and  enlarged.  Illus- 
trated. New  York:  Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 

OUR  ENGLISH  CATHEDRALS.  By  James  Sibree,  Fellow 
of  the  Royal  Geographical  Society.  In  two  volumes.  Illus- 
trated. Philadelphia:  J.  B.  Lippincott  Co. 

MEMORIALS  OF  CANTERBURY  CATHEDRAL.  By  C. 
Eveleigh  Woodruff,  Six-preacher  of  the  Cathedral,  and 
William  Dauks,  Canon  Residentiary.  Illustrated  by  Louis 
Weirter,  R.B.A.  New  York :  E.  P.  Button  &  Co. 


terbury,  "the  holy  blisful  martir  for  to  seke, 
That  hem  hath  holpen,  whan  that  they  were 
seke  ";  while  his  secular  successor  of  the  twentieth 
century  is  urged  along  by  curiosity  or  the  thirst 
for  aesthetic  impressions,  and  is  limited  only  by 
the  conditions  of  time  and  purse.  From  fortress- 
like  Durham  to  brand-new  Truro,  from  stumpy 
Carlisle  to  historic  Canterbury,  every  one  of  the 
English  cathedrals  is  sought  and  scanned  by 
thousands  of  more  or  less  intelligent  visitors. 
Herded  and  hustled  by  the  verger,  they  gaze 
on  the  storied  beauties  of  arch  and  buttress,  of 
transept  and  towers,  of  rose  window  and  fan 
tracery ;  and  then,  after  inscribing  their  names 
in  the  visitors'  book  and  depositing  their  six- 
pences "for  the  maintenance  of  the  Fabric," 
they  move  reluctantly  away,  wondering  how 
much  they  can  remember  of  it  all. 

For  these  and  the  stay-at-home  readers  there 
has  been  no  lack  of  literary  helps,  "before  and 
during  and  after."  The  desiccated  but  trusty 
handbooks  of  Murray  and  Baedeker  and  the  in- 
valuable volumes  of  "Bell's  Cathedral  Series" 
are  portable  and  useful  during  the  visit;  but 
larger  monographs  and  more  comprehensive 
treatises  have  never  been  wanting  to  chide  and 
correct  the  reader's  ignorance,  to  stir  his  imag- 
ination, and  to  leave  him  with  an  adequate 
appreciation  of  the  architectural  and  historical 
significance  of  these  "  masses  of  gray  stone,"  in 
which,  as  Ruskin  says,  "  the  mediaeval  builders 
have  left  us  their  adoration."  Mrs.  Van 
Rensselaer's  well-known  book  on  English  Cathe- 
drals has  for  twenty  years  done  this  great  ser- 
vice for  Americans  so  far  as  the  twelve  principal 
churches  are  concerned;  would  that  she  had 
pushed  the  plan  to  completion  and  had  given 
us  the  story  of  the  whole  thirty-six  English  and 
Welsh  cathedrals. 

That  the  subject  is  one  of  perennial  interest 
would  seem  to  be  indicated  by  the  recent  appear- 
ance, at  about  the  same  time,  of  three  books  with 
practically  identical  titles.  The  largest  of  these 
is  by  Mr.  Thomas  Dinham  Atkinson,  who,  in 
his  own  words,  "  has  aimed  to  sketch  the  his- 
tories of  our  cathedral  churches  in  their  broader 
aspects,  and  to  connect  each  so  far  as  is  possible 
in  narrowcompass  with  the  main  stream  of  archi- 
tectural history  ";  but  also  "  to  approach  the 
subject  from  the  point  of  view  of  the  architect — 
the  constructor."  Following  the  main  line  of 
cleavage  between  the  old  monkish  foundations 
on  the  one  hand  and  those  served  by  secular 
canons  on  the  other,  the  author  adds  to  these 
the  foundations  of  Henry  VIII.  and  the  new 
sees  created  in  modern  times,  and  adopts  this 


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order  in  his  descriptions.  Within  the  two  chief 
divisions — the  canons1  churches  and  the  monks' 
churches  —  the  arrangement  is  topographical, 
Mr.  Atkinson  insisting  that  "  the  whole  of  En- 
gland may  be  easily  mapped  out  into  districts, 
each  with  its  distinctive  manner ;  which  is  so 
easily  recognizable  that  an  antiquary  alighting 
from  an  airship  would  at  once  take  his  bearings 
from  the  style  of  the  architecture  that  he  saw 
about  him."  The  striking  characteristics  of  the 
two  camps  are  seen  in  "  the  vast  Norman  naves 
of  the  monks  in  almost  every  church  from 
Norwich  to  Gloucester  and  from  Durham  to 
Rochester,  and  in  their  massy  towers  from  St. 
Albans  to  Shrewsbury.  The  churches  of  the 
secular  clergy  have  a  warmth  of  color,  a  gener- 
osity of  sculpture,  a  beauty  and  certain  gracious- 
ness  of  manner,  which  characterize  the  fully 
developed  mediaeval  architecture." 

The  marked  differences  between  French  and 
English  cathedrals  are  re-told  and  explained — 
the  long,  low,  narrow  English  churches  with 
their  central  towers,  square  east  ends,  and 
western  transepts  contrasted  with  the  short  and 
wide  plans,  lofty  vaults,  and  faintly  emphasized 
transepts  of  the  French  —  the  trim  lawns  and 
immemorial  elms  which  lend  an  air  of  peaceful 
seclusion  to  Salisbury  set  over  against  the  high- 
shouldered  roof  of  Amiens  rising  far  above  the 
huddled  town  at  its  feet.  Of  these  and  kindred 
features  Mr.  Atkinson  writes  with  professional 
authority,  and  in  a  clear,  succinct  style  which 
keeps  the  pages  free  from  any  load  of  techni- 
cality. The  story  of  each  church  is  made  graphic 
by  plans  and  photographs,  and  alluring  by  softly 
beautiful  colored  plates,  which  give  to  the  dome 
of  St.  Paul's  its  true  misty  atmosphere  and  make 
the  spire  of  Salisbury  like  one  of  Constable's 
pictures  of  it  (without  the  rainbow).  There  is 
a  good  index,  and  a  useful  chart  showing  in  ver- 
tical columns  the  "biography  "  of  each  cathedral. 
Few  slips  are  to  be  noted  :  in  the  Latin  inscrip- 
tion over  Wren's  tomb  "  urbs "  should  be 
*'  urbis  ";  and  the  insertion  of  the  word  "  Salis- 
bury "  after  "  the  new  town  "  on  p.  xxi.  would 
make  for  clearness.  On  the  whole,  this  is  an 
excellent  one-volume  presentation  of  a  fascinat- 
ing and  wide-spreading  theme. 

In  Mr.  Francis  Bond  we  have  an  old  acquaint- 
ance as  a  guide,  philosopher,  and  friend  for  the 
study  of  ecclesiastical  architecture.  The  first 
edition  of  his  "  English  Cathedrals  Illustrated  " 
was  published  in  1899,  and  was  soon  accepted 
as  a  standard  work,  in  spite  of  the  fact  that  it 
contained  no  ground  plans,  so  indispensable  to 
reader  and  visitor  alike.  The  work  now  appears 


in  a  fourth  edition,  with  various  important 
changes.  Beside  supplying  the  ground-plans, 
Mr.  Bond  has  rejected  the  time-honored  nomen- 
clature of  Rickman  and  others,  which  "  at- 
tempted to  thrust  the  history  of  every  cathedral 
into  a  Procrustean  framework  of  Norman,  Early 
English,  Decorated,  and  Perpendicular  periods. 
...  In  this  volume  the  actual  building  periods 
are  treated  separately,  and  no  attempt  is  made 
to  cram  them  into  arbitrary  imaginary  compart- 
ments." This  seems  pretty  strong,  in  view  of 
the  acceptance  of  the  traditional  divisions  by 
most  authorities  and  the  fact  that  so  good  an 
authority  as  Mr.  Bond  was  willing  to  accept 
them  only  thirteen  years  ago. 

Having  settled  the  way  in  which  the  biog- 
raphy of  each  church  should  be  studied  and  the 
interpretation  of  motive  of  the  different  builders, 
Mr.  Bond  adopts  the  following  classification  of 
English  and  Welsh  cathedrals  :  13  of  the  Old 
Foundation  (pre-Conquest);  13  of  the  New 
Foundation,  receiving  a  dean  and  secular  canons 
at  the  Reformation;  and  10  of  modern  founda- 
tion. He  then  proceeds  to  describe  them  in 
alphabetical  order,  keeping  the  four  Welsh 
cathedrals  by  themselves,  and  reserving  for  the 
concluding  chapter  a  brief  account  of  Birming- 
ham, Liverpool,  and  Truro.  He  writes  with 
the  full  knowledge  obtained  from  professional 
training  and  repeated  personal  visits  to  all  the 
cathedrals.  To  his  keen  technical  interest  he 
adds  the  ardor  of  an  enthusiast,  which  occasion- 
ally passes  into  something  like  extravagance ; 
and  his  superlatives  are  as  numerous  as  they 
are  —  pardonable.  Everyone  who  has  visited 
the  English  cathedrals  has  felt  the  strain  on  his 
emotional  nature  as  he  contemplated  the  special 
feature  or  features  of  each  —  the  octagon  of 
Ely,  the  spire  of  Salisbury,  the  stained  glass  of 
Lichfield  and  York,  the  situation  of  Lincoln  and 
Durham,  the  east  windows  of  Carlisle,  York, 
Gloucester ;  and  it  is  difficult  to  speak  of  such 
glories  with  a  chastened  vocabulary.  Each  is 
the  best  at  the  time;  and  we  can  smile  with 
sympathy  at  such  passages  as  the  following, 
which  seem  to  warn  us  that  if  Exeter  remains 
unvisited  all  is  lost : 

"  Whatever  else,  then,  the  student  and  lover  of  Gothic 
architecture  omits,  he  must  not  fail  to  visit  Exeter.  He 
will  find  it  fresh  and  different  from  anything  he  has 
seen  before.  Its  unique  plan,  without  central  or  western 
towers,  the  absence  of  obstructive  piers  at  the  crossing, 
the  constantly  uninterrupted  vista,  the  singleness  and 
unity  of  the  whole  design,  the  remarkable  system  of 
proportions,  based  on  breadth  rather  than  height,  the 
satisfying  massiveness  and  solidity  of  the  building,  in- 
side and  outside,  the  magnificence  of  its  Purbeck  piers, 
the  delightful  color  contrast  of  marble  column  and  sand- 


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stone  arch,  the  amazing  diversity  of  the  window  tracery, 
the  exquisite  carving  of  the  corbels  and  bosses,  the 
wealth  of  admirable  chantries,  screens  and  monuments, 
the  superb  sedilia,  screen  and  throne,  the  misericords, 
the  vaults,  the  remarkable  engineering  feat  from  which 
its  present  form  results,  the  originality  of  the  west  front 
and  of  the  whole  interior  and  exterior,  place  Exeter 
cathedral  in  the  very  forefront  of  the  triumphs  of  the 
mediaeval  architecture  of  our  country." 

Mr.  Bond  s  eulogies,  though  highflown,  are 
not  indiscriminate.  He  passes  a  severe  and  mer- 
ited criticism  on  the  defects  of  St.  Paul's,  some 
of  them  Wren's  own,  some  forced  on  him  by 
the  prejudice  and  ignorance  of  others.  For 
example,  the  change  from  Wren's  first  plan  of 
a  Greek  cross  to  that  of  a  Latin  cross  brought 
with  it  the  vaulting  of  the  nave  with  small 
saucer-shaped  domes — a  most  unhappy  intro- 
duction to  the  majesty  of  the  central  dome. 
And  the  unfortunate  dead  wall  on  the  sides  of 
the  church,  reaching  from  aisle  windows  to 
cornice,  is  condemned  by  Mr.  Bond  in  vigor- 
ous terms.  He  quotes  with  approval  another 
writer's  characterization  of  it  as  "  the,  most 
unmitigated  building  sham  upon  the  face  of  the 
earth";  and  adds,  "  It  has  absolutely  nothing 
to  do  at  all  except  to  hide  away  some  flying 
buttresses  —  the  very  ugliest  eye  ever  saw — 
which  Sir  Christopher  might  well  be  reluctant 
to  expose  to  the  jeers  of  the  man  in  the  street. 
...  It  has  been  urged  that  it  was  built  to 
weight  the  foot  of  each  flying  buttress  after  the 
manner  of  a  Gothic  pinnacle.  But  not  even  a 
Gothic  baby  would  have  provided  continuous 
abutment  for  intermittent  thrusts." 

Aside  from  extremes  of  praise  and  blame, 
Mr.  Bond's  style  is  generally  alert  and  con- 
vincing. He  is  decided  but  not  bigoted ;  and 
gives  generous  space  to  other  people's  impres- 
sions, reproducing  a  large  part  of  Mrs.  Van 
Rensselaer's  well-known  description  of  Lich- 
field,  which  has  almost  become  a  classic.  Plans 
and  illustrations  abound,  the  latter  from  excel- 
lent photographs;  and  help  to  round  out  very 
satisfactorily  this  useful  and  handsome  book. 

The  Rev.  James  Sibree  is  a  genial  and  well- 
informed  clergyman  who  has  all  his  life  cherished 
a  hobby  for  English  church  architecture.  As 
a  lad,  his  first  visit  to  Lincoln  opened  his  eyes 
and  roused  his  interest;  and  though  for  forty-five 
years  engaged  in  missionary  work  in  Madagascar, 
his  furloughs  have  been  largely  filled  with  visits 
to  his  first  loves ;  the  result  being  a  work  in  two 
small  volumes,  appropriately  bound  in  episcopal 
violet.  Instead  of  Mr.  Atkinson's  division  into 
monks'  and  canons'  churches,  and  Mr.  Bond's 
alphabetical  arrangement,  Mr.  Sibree  follows 


geographical  lines, — Vol.  I.  being  devoted  to  the 
northern  cathedrals,  Vol.  II.  to  the  southern ; 
which  after  all  is  a  pretty  good  plan.  So  we  are 
taken  at  once  to  York,  Carlisle,  and  Durham, 
and  ten  others ;  the  remaining  nineteen  and  the 
four  Welsh  cathedrals  being  reserved  for  the 
second  volume. 

In  spite  of  his  modest  disclaimers,  Mr.  Sibree 
turns  out  to  be  a  delightful  guide  and  compan- 
ion, with  plenty  of  affectionate  enthusiasm  tem- 
pered by  sound  judgment,  and  plenty  of  literary 
as  well  as  architectural  perspective.  He  is  a 
good  specimen  of  the  English  parson  at  his  best, 
honestly  proud  of  those  historic  fabrics  which 
have  kept  their  existence  through  centuries  of 
Catholic  gorgeousness,  the  simpler  glories  of 
the  Protestant  ritual,  and  the  ill-timed  assaults 
of  Puritan  iconoclasm;  and  he  is  delighted  to 
show  them  to  all  who  will  come  with  him.  His 
little  book  is  well  buttressed  (the  word  seems 
appropriate)  with  various  kinds  of  helps  and 
props  for  readers'  memories.  There  is,  to  be 
sure,  no  index;  on  the  other  hand,  there  is  a 
table  showing  the  periods  of  English  architec- 
ture according  to  the  time-honored  nomenclature 
eschewed  by  Mr.  Bond;  a  series  of  block  plans, 
useful  as  snowing  the  comparative  sizes  of  the 
cathedrals,  from  lordly  York  with  63,800  square 
feet  of  surface  down  to  little  Oxford,  with  its 
11.300;  a  glossary  of  architectural  terms;  a 
good  bibliography ;  and  an  abundance  of  illus- 
trations from  photographs.  A  sketch  map  shows 
the  distribution  of  the  English  and  Welsh  cathe- 
drals, their  nearness  to  the  coast  suggesting 
the  slow  progress  of  Christianity  to  the  interior 
of  the  island.  Another  novel  feature  of  the 
book  is  an  excellent  anthology  on  cathedrals, 
selected  from  British  and  American  poets  and 
prose  writers. 

It  would  be  difficult  to  conceive  of  a  more 
exhaustive  history  of  any  building  than  is  com- 
prised in  the  "  Memorials  of  Canterbury  Cath- 
edral," by  C.  Eveleigh  Woodruff,  one  of  the 
"six-preachers"  of  the  Cathedral,  and  William 
Danks,  residentiary  canon.  The  design  of  the 
work,  which  is  a  thick  octavo  of  five  hundred 
pages,  has  been  "  to  write  a  trustworthy,  com- 
plete, and  compendious  account  of  the  Cathedral 
from  the  earliest  times  to  the  present  day."  As 
is  well  known,  the  history  of  Canterbury  falls 
into  two  great  divisions:  first,  its  existence  as 
a  Benedictine  church  and  convent  from  early 
Saxon  days  down  to  the  sixteenth  century ;  sec- 
ond, its  conversion  by  Henry  VIII.  into  a  secular 
foundation  with  dean  and  canons,  which  remains 
the  regime  of  to-day.  To  accomplish  the  au- 


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thors'  purpose,  it  has  accordingly  been  neces- 
sary to  confine  the  range  of  view  strictly  to  the 
church  and  its  custodians,  namely,  the  prior  and 
convent  before,  and  the  dean  and  canons  after, 
the  "  Reformation "  of  the  sixteenth  century. 
From  this  aspect  it  is  remarkable  how  the  priors 
loom  and  the  archbishops  dwindle.  The  range 
of  the  Primates  was  nation-wide,  sometimes  con- 
tinental ;  but  the  prior  and  his  monks  stayed  at 
home  with  their  beloved  church,  building  and 
expanding,  watching  and  tending,  its  material 
fabric.  They  were  the  real  tenants  and  house- 
keepers: the  Archbishop  was  too  often  an  ab- 
sentee landlord,  who  visited  his  cathedral  only 
to  meddle  and  disturb.  So  in  this  deeply  inter- 
esting narrative  we  read  more  of  Ernulf,  Conrad, 
Eastry,  Chillenden,  Goldstone,  and  Sellinge 
than  of  even  Becket,  Stephen  Langton,  Rich, 
Chichele,  Cranmer,  Pole,  Laud,  and  Juxon. 

Our  two  writers  have  collaborated  with 
marked  success.  Mr.  Woodruff's  initials  are 
appended  to  a  majority  of  the  chapters ;  while 
to  Mr.  Danks  we  owe,  among  other  things,  a 
long  but  valuable  chapter  on  "The  Life  of  the 
Monastery,"  a  vivid  and  informing  picture  of 
mediaeval  conventual  life.  The  authors  have 
written  with  full  knowledge  based  on  long  resi- 
dence, first-hand  examination  of  the  archives, 
and  a  discriminating  use  of  such  standard 
authorities  as  Somner's  "Antiquities  of  Can- 
terbury," Willis's  "Architectural  History  of  the 
Cathedral,"  and  Dean  Stanley's  "  Memorials 
of  Canterbury."  The  book  is  well  supplied 
with  illustrations  from  drawings  by  Mr.  Louis 
Weirter,  and  with  tables  of  all  sorts  of  details 
pertaining  to  the  economy  of  the  "metropol- 
itical  "  church,  from  the  marketing  accounts  of 
the  mediaeval  convent  down  to  the  last  stop  in 
the  modern  organ.  These  minutiae  are  for  the 
curious  in  such  matters ;  and  do  not  interfere 
with  the  success  of  the  work's  aim  to  be  both 
compendious  and  readable. 

JOSIAH  RENICK  SMITH. 


A  BATCH  of  nine  new  volumes  in  the  "  Home  Uni- 
versity Library "  (Holt)  serves  to  deepen  our  im- 
pression of  the  admirable  character  of  this  series  of 
handbooks  of  modern  knowledge.  The  series  now 
numbers  fifty-five  volumes,  each  having  its  definitely 
circumscribed  subject,  each  subject  treated  by  a  com- 
petent hand.  Among  the  new  volumes,  two  in  par- 
ticular arrest  our  attention:  "The  Colonial  Period," 
by  Dr.  Charles  McLean  Andrews;  and  "Great  Amer- 
ican Writers,"  by  Professors  W  P.  Trent  and  John 
Erskine.  The  latter  volume  is  a  brief  history  of 
American  literature,  emphasizing  the  importance  of 
the  great  names,  yet  neglecting  nothing  of  significance 
in  our  literary  annals. 


HOLIDAY  PUBLICATIONS. 
n. 

BOOKS  OF  TRAVEL  AND  DESCRIPTION. 
"South  America"  (Macmillan),  "painted  by 
A.  S.  Forrest,  described  by  W.  H.  Koebel,"  as  its 
title-page  announces,  is  indeed  a  book  in  which  the 
artist's  share  is  more  conspicuous,  even  if  not  in  real- 
ity more  considerable,  than  the  author's.  Seventy- 
five  pictures,  full  to  overflowing  of  local  color  in 
an  almost  dazzling  brilliance  of  tint,  meet  the  eye  as 
one  turns  the  broad  pages  of  the  handsome  vol- 
ume; and  this  brave  display  accords  well  with  Mr. 
Koebel's  chapters  on  what  he  considers  to  be  the 
continent  "which  at  the  present  time  holds  more 
romance  than  any  other  out  of  the  great  divisions 
of  the  world."  But  it  is,  as  he  insists,  "  no  longer 
an  area  populated  in  parts :  it  is  a  continent  of  pow- 
erful and  growing  nations."  He  begins  his  de- 
scriptive matter  with  Argentina,  then  follows  with 
Bolivia,  Brazil,  Chile,  Guiana,  Paraguay,  Peru,  and 
Uruguay,  and  closes  with  the  northern  republics, 
Colombia,  Ecuador,  and  Venezuela.  In  the  opening 
of  chapter  seven  one  suspects  a  misprint,  rather 
than  a  confusion  of  thought  on  the  author's  part,  in 
the  assertion  that  "from  the  ascetic  point  of  view 
Paraguay  leaves  little  to  be  desired  ";  for  the  writer 
proceeds  to  tell  us  how  the  country  glows  with 
flowers,  abounds  in  tropical  luxuriance  of  verdure, 
and,  in  general,  "  is  not  wanting  in  colour  and  life." 
"  Artistic  "  may  have  been  written  or  intended,  not 
"ascetic."  Certainly  the  country  seems  to  have  left 
Mr.  Forrest  little  to  desire  from  the  artistic  point 
of  view,  since  eight  strikingly  brilliant  pictures 
illustrate  the  short  chapter  devoted  to  the  Para- 
guayans and  their  wonderful  land,  whose  atmos- 
phere Mr.  Koebel  finds  to  be  "generally  that  of 
romance."  Large  print,  an  adequate  map,  and  a 
four-page  index  are  among  the  welcome  features  of 
this  tropically  luxuriant  volume. 

Almost  ninety  years  have  passed  since  Robert 
Chambers  wrote  his  "Traditions  of  Edinburgh,"  a 
book  twice  remodelled  and  enlarged  by  him,  and  now 
for  a  third  time  revived  and  placed  before  the  pub- 
lic in  an  edition  enriched  with  thirty  illustrations  in 
color  and  more  than  twice  as  many  pen-and-ink  draw- 
ings, a  map  of  the  city,  old  and  new,  a  few  additional 
notes,  and  an  index.  Mr.  James  Riddell  is  the  artist, 
and  he  has  done  his  part  in  a  way  to  please  all  who 
open  the  book.  The  quarto  size  of  the  volume  admits 
of  unusually  large  plates,  and  they  are  rich  in  their 
color  effects,  while  the  pen-and-ink  sketches  have  a 
quieter  charm.  The  author's  preface  to  his  edition 
of  1868  is  reprinted,  and  it  will  interest  the  reader 
to  learn  the  circumstances  attending  the  first  issue 
of  the  book.  " This  little  work,"  we  are  told,  "came 
out  in  the  Augustan  days  of  Edinburgh,  when  Jef- 
frey and  Scott,  Wilson  and  the  Ettrick  Shepherd, 
Dugald  Stewart  and  Alison,  were  daily  giving  the 
productions  of  their  minds  to  the  public,  and  while 
yet  Archibald  Constable  acted  as  the  unquestioned 
emperor  of  the  publishing  world.  I  was  then  an  insig- 


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nificant  person  of  the  age  of  twenty;  yet,  destitute  as 
I  was  both  of  means  and  friends,  I  formed  the  hope 
of  writing  something  which  would  attract  attention. 
The  subject  I  proposed  was  one  lying  readily  at  hand, 
the  romantic  things  connected  with  Old  Edinburgh." 
The  subject  proved  fruitful  even  beyond  expectation, 
the  old  inhabitants  contributing  willingly  and  abund- 
antly of  their  early  memories;  and  thus  came  into 
being  the  earliest  and  perhaps  still  the  best  of  the 
informal  guide-books  to  Edinburgh  that  have  ap- 
peared in  such  quantity  and  variety.  In  its  latest 
form  it  is  a  volume  of  imposing  proportions  and 
handsome  appearance.  (J.  B.  Lippincott  Co.) 

Mr.  Dwight  L.  Elrnendorf,  popular  lecturer  and 
expert  photographer,  has  turned  his  skill  with  pen 
and  camera  to  good  account  in  a  richly  illustrated 
volume  of  travel  in  Palestine.  "  A  Camera  Crusade 
through  the  Holy  Land"  (Scribner)  contains  three 
short  preliminary  chapters  on  "The  South,"  "The 
North,"  and  "  Jerusalem,"  touching  especially  on  the 
Bible  associations  recalled  by  different  scenes  in  the 
course  of  the  author's  travels ;  and  then  follow  the 
camera  views  themselves,  each  a  full-page  plate,  with 
an  appropriate  scriptural  quotation  and  a  number  of 
Bible  references  on  the  opposite  page.  The  land- 
scapes are  all  admirable  for  clearness  and  finish, 
and  animals  and  human  beings  are  caught  in  lifelike 
pose.  There  are  one  hundred  of  these  pictures,  the 
frontispiece,  showing  a  woman  of  Samaria,  with  a 
water-jar  on  her  head,  an  infant  on  one  arm,  and 
two  little  girls  at  her  side,  being  colored  with  much 
verisimilitude.  The  cover  of  the  book,  with  its  red 
cross  on  a  gold  shield,  and  other  appropriate  decora- 
tions, is  aesthetically  satisfying. 

The  spell  of  Egypt  has  been  given  attempted  inter- 
pretation by  many  artists,  but  by  none  more  success- 
fully we  should  say  than  by  Mr.  Walter  Tyndale, 
R.  I.,  whose  volume  on  the  Pharaohs'  country  pub- 
lished a  few  seasons  ago  will  be  remembered  as  a 
gift-book  of  unusual  charm.  Mr.  Tyndale's  several 
Egyptian  sojourns  since  that  time  have  now  borne 
fruit  in  a  new  book  entitled  "An  Artist  in  Egypt" 
(Hodder  &  Stoughton).  Unlike  many  of  his  fellow- 
artists,  Mr.  Tyndale  knows  how  to  write  as  well  as 
to  paint,  and  his  spicy  record  of  personal  impressions 
and  experiences  is  decidedly  worth  while  for  its 
own  sake.  But  the  pictures  are  still  better.  These 
consist  of  twenty-seven  reproductions  in  full  color, 
separately  printed  and  mounted  on  blank  pages, 
within  a  border  of  gold  lines.  They  portray  with 
remarkable  skill  and  charm  and  opulence  of  color- 
effect  the  picturesque  scenes  of  Cairo  and  its  neigh- 
boring country.  A  minor  feature  of  the  volume 
worthy  of  particular  mention  is  the  design  for  the 
end-leaves,  depicting  in  soft  tints  a  camel  train  mov- 
ing across  the  moonlit  desert.  For  the  past  or  pro- 
spective visitor  to  the  Nile  country  we  could  suggest 
no  more  appropriate  gift  than  this  handsome  volume. 

Another  agreeable  and  useful  volume  about 
Edinburgh  and  the  surrounding  country  appears  in 
Mr.  Francis  Watt's  "Edinburgh  and  the  Lothians" 
(Stokes),  with  colored  illustrations  by  Mr.  Walter 


Dexter,  R.B.A.  The  term  "Lothians,"  less  familiar 
to  most  Americans  than  to  Mr.  Watt  and  his  fellow 
Britons,  seems  now  to  be  confined  to  the  counties  of 
Edinburgh,  Linlithgow,  and  Haddington  —  Midloth- 
ian, West  Lothian,  and  East  Lothian,  respectively — 
though  in  early  days  Lothian  meant  all  that  part  of 
the  Scottish  lowlands  between  the  English  border 
and  the  river  Forth.  Naturally  it  is  with  Midlothian 
that  the  present  volume  chiefly  deals,  touching  espe- 
cially on  the  historic  buildings  and  the  literary  and 
art  associations  of  the  Scottish  capital.  The  remain- 
ing ten  of  the  book's  twenty-nine  chapters  take  the 
reader  to  such  historic  places  as  Hawthornden,  Ros- 
lin,  Haddington,  Dunbar,  North  Berwick,  and  Tan- 
tallon  Castle.  The  artist  has  chosen  some  of  the 
most  interesting  scenes  for  his  brush,  giving  us  pleas- 
ing glimpses  of  Holyrood  and  Arthur's  Seat,  Edin- 
burgh Castle  from  Greyfriars  Churchyard,  Roslin 
Chapel,  Linlithgow  Palace  from  the  Loch,  Tantallon 
Castle,  and  other  memorable  buildings  and  pictur- 
esque views.  A  map  of  the  Lothians  would  have 
been  an  acceptable  addition  to  this  excellent  and 
attractive  volume. 

A  quick  eye  for  whatever  is  novel  and  distinctive 
in  Norwegian  character  and  Norwegian  customs, 
and  for  the  charms  of  Norwegian  scenery,  is  pos- 
sessed by  Mr.  Harold  Simpson,  as  proved  by  his 
fresh  and  stimulating  volume  entitled  "Rambles  in 
Norway"  (Estes).  He  rambles  with  a  fine  resolve 
to  be  pleased  with  whatever  he  encounters;  and  so 
his  chapters  bear  such  headings  as  these:  "An  En- 
chanted Voyage,"  "A  Haven  of  Peace,"  "  A  Perfect 
Day,"  "The  Garden  of  the  North,"  "The  Call  of 
the  Mountains,"  and  "The  Wonderful  Geiranger." 
But  there  is  one  less  cheerful  chapter,  entitled  "An 
Unfortunate  Day,"  which  chronicles  the  discomforts 
of  a  journey  from  Vossevangen  to  Gudvangen  behind 
a  lazy  horse  and  in  the  rain.  The  rambler  found 
the  conditions  for  rambling  peculiarly  favorable  in 
Norway,  especially  for  one  not  overburdened  with 
worldly  wealth.  Excellent  inns  with  a  daily  charge 
of  not  more  than  five  kroner  (or  about  five  shillings) 
are  met  with  outside  the  large  cities,  and  on  the 
coastwise  steamers  the  satisfactory  quality  of  the  food 
seems  to  be  only  equalled  by  the  steward's  indiffer- 
ence as  to  whether  payment  is  tendered  or  that  tri- 
fling formality  is  omitted  altogether.  The  book,  both 
in  its  reading  matter  and  in  its  many  illustrations, 
colored  and  monotone,  inspires  a  desire  to  ramble 
among  the  lakes  and  fjords  and  mountains  of  the 
land  of  the  midnight  sun. 

After  his  wanderings  in  London,  Paris,  and  Hol- 
land, Mr.  E.  V.  Lucas  turns  to  Italy  and  gives  us 
"  A  Wanderer  in  Florence  "  (Macmillan),  which 
concerns  itself  chiefly,  as  was  to  have  been  expected 
and  desired,  with  the  art  and  architecture  of  the 
city  of  Giotto  and  Michelangelo  and  Brunelleschi. 
Appreciative  readers  will  value  the  book  not  so 
much  for  what  it  tells  us,  which  is  more  or  less 
matter  of  common  knowledge,  as  for  the  manner  of 
the  telling.  Describing  the  art  treasures  of  the 
Accademia,  he  counsels  the  visitor,  before  leaving,  to 


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"  glance  at  the  tapestries  near  the  main  entrance, 
just  for  fun.  That  one  in  which  Adam  names  the 
animals  is  so  delightfully  naive  that  it  ought  to  be 
reproduced  as  a  nursery  wall-paper."  And  he  pro- 
ceeds to  point  out  some  of  its  delightful  naivetes. 
Concerning  Giotto,  he  thinks  that  Ruskin  has  hurt 
that  artist's  reputation  by  taking  him  peculiarly 
under  his  wing  and  persistently  calling  him  "the 
Shepherd,"  thus  making  him  appear  "  as  something 
between  a  Sunday-school  superintendent  and  the 
Creator."  But  Giotto  had  a  dry  humor  of  his  own, 
as  proved  by  his  reply  to  King  Robert  of  Naples 
when  that  monarch  said  to  him  on  a  very  hot  day : 
"  Giotto,  if  I  were  you  I  should  leave  off  painting 
for  a  while."  "Yes,"  returned  the  artist,  "if  I  were 
you  I  should."  Sixteen  Florentine  views  are  given 
in  color,  the  work  of  Mr.  Harry  Morley,  and  there 
are  thirty-eight  half-tone  reproductions  of  famous 
masterpieces  in  painting  and  sculpture. 

Mr.  Adolphe  Smith,  who  claims  "  a  lifelong  ac- 
quaintance with  the  Principality  of  Monaco,"  is  the 
author  of  a  large  book,  "  Monaco  and  Monte  Carlo," 
which  holds  within  its  covers  more  information  about 
that  anomalous  little  country  and  its  famous  gam- 
bling casino  than  any  other  one  volume  known  to  us. 
Mr.  Smith  has  participated  in  a  number  of  inter- 
national conferences  at  Monaco,  and  has  otherwise 
had  opportunity  to  learn  about  all  that  is  to  be 
learned  concerning  the  subject  of  his  book.  It  is  a 
strange  community  that  he  describes,  "a  small 
principality  where,  proportionately  speaking,  more 
money  is  spent  on  local  government,  on  public  works, 
on  the  promotion  of  original  research,  on  the  arts 
and  sciences,  than  is  the  case  in  any  other  part  of 
the  world  "  —  and  all  without  a  penny  of  taxation 
other  than  the  indirect  taxation  imposed  on  users  of 
tobacco  and  matches  and  perhaps  a  few  other  things. 
The  festive  foreigner  pays  practically  all  the  bills, 
and  the  croupier  collects  the  revenue.  It  is  all  an 
absorbingly  interesting  story  that  Mr.  Smith  has  to 
tell,  and  he  is  well  seconded  in  his  undertaking  by 
Mr.  Charles  Maresco  Pearce,  who  contributes  eight 
colored  drawings,  while  the  camera  is  responsible 
for  forty-eight  uncolored  views.  The  book  is  sub- 
stantially and  handsomely  bound,  and  its  typography 
is  of  the  best.  (J.  B.  Lippincott  Co.) 

Introducing  his  "Cities  of  Lombardy"  (Macmil- 
lan),  Mr.  Edward  Hutton  says:  "It  is  my  purpose 
in  this  book  to  consider  the  nature  and  the  history 
of  this  country,  to  recapture  and  to  express  as  well 
as  I  may  my  delight  in  it,  so  that  something  of  its 
beauty  and  its  genius  may  perhaps  disengage  itself 
from  my  pages,  and  the  reader  feel  what  I  have  felt 
about  it  though  he  never  stir  ten  miles  from  his  own 
home."  Mr.  Button's  chapters  treat  historically  and 
descriptively  of  a  dozen  or  more  Lombard  cities,  and 
he  has  been  ably  seconded  in  his  undertaking  by  Mr. 
Maxwell  Armfield,  who  contributes  twelve  exquisite 
illustrations  in  color.  The  blue  of  the  Italian  sky  is 
caught  —  and  perhaps  a  little  too  much  of  it  occa- 
sionally—  in  these  sunny  views  of  beautiful  north- 
Italian  scenes.  There  are  also  twelve  half-tone 


illustrations  of  merit  in  their  mechanical  way.  No 
lover  of  Italy  can  fail  to  find  enjoyment  in  the  vol- 
ume. It  is  of  convenient  size  for  the  hand  or  the 
pocket,  has  a  map  adequate  to  the  reader's  needs, 
and  an  index. 

In  little  more  than  two  years  the  greatest  expo- 
sition ever  undertaken,  as  the  San  Franciscans 
proudly  maintain,  will  open  its  doors  in  celebration 
of  the  completion  of  the  Panama  Canal;  and  it  is 
not  too  soon  to  begin  reading  up  about  the  wonder- 
ful city  where  that  exposition  is  to  be  held.  Mrs. 
Helen  Throop  Purdy  has  prepared  a  full  account 
of  "San  Francisco,  as  it  Was,  as  it  Is,  and  How  to 
See  it,"  and  Messrs.  Paul  Elder  &  Co.  have  issued 
the  volume  in  style  similar  to  that  of  their  earlier 
books,  "California  the  Beautiful"  and  ''The  Van- 
ished Ruin  Era."  Paper  and  print  and  illustrations, 
board  covers  and  jacket, —  everything  is  in  brown  of 
varying  shades.  Twenty-seven  chapters  give  the 
city's  early  history  and  later  fortunes,  describe  its 
chief  points  of  interest,  furnish  glimpses  of  the  men 
who  have  made  it  famous,  advise  the  reader  how 
best  to  see  its  noteworthy  features,  and  in  closing 
touch  briefly  on  its  environs.  Maps  of  the  bay 
region,  the  city  itself,  and  the  exposition  site  at 
Harbor  View,  are  added.  More  than  two  hundred 
illustrations  from  photographs  and  other  sources 
make  visible  to  the  eye  much  that  is  described  in  the 
text.  It  is  all  a  stirring  and  a  remarkable  story, 
this  account  of  a  city  founded  by  the  Spanif-h,  given 
a  new  birth  by  American  gold-hunters,  and  stimu- 
lated to  fresh  vigor  by  the  ravages  of  fire  and  earth- 
quake. 

Oxford  is  pictorially  treated,  with  fine  effect,  in 
a  volume  of  colored  views,  with  brief  descriptive 
and  historical  notes  by  Mr.  Edward  C.  Alden,  author 
of  a  useful  guide-book  to  the  University.  "  Fifty 
Water-Color  Drawings  of  Oxford  "  (Estes)  appears 
to  be  the  work  of  more  than  one  hand,  though 
most  of  the  illustrations  bear  the  signature  "  W. 
Manhison."  Glimpses  of  many  of  the  college  build- 
ings and  along  the  High  Street  and  elsewhere,  with 
interior  views  of  Christ  Church  Cathedral,  outlooks 
on  the  Isis  and  the  Cherwell,  and  peeps  inside 
some  of  the  quadrangles,  are  given  by  the  skilful 
artists  whose  work  is  so  agreeably  reproduced  in 
the  book.  A  certain  fondness  for  purplish  tints  is 
manifest  in  not  a  few  of  the  pictures,  but  no  two 
persons  see  nature  in  exactly  the  same  colors,  so  that 
one  need  not  complain.  The  short  accompanying 
comments  to  the  views  are  welcome  in  their  judicious 
mingling  of  description  and  dates.  The  plates  are 
loosely  attached  to  dark  brown  leaves,  and  each  is 
faced  by  a  page  of  notes.  Buckram  and  pasteboard, 
with  an  Oxford  scene  on  the  front  cover  and  the 
university  coat  of  arms  on  the  back  cover,  constitute 
the  binding. 

The  picturesque  and  the  mediaeval,  says  Mr.  Albert 
B.  Osborne,  were  what  he  went  to  find  in  his  first 
and  all  subsequent  visits  to  Europe;  and  in  "Picture 
Towns  of  Europe"  (McBride)  he  gives  with  pen  and 
camera,  and  in  a  few  instances  with  pencil,  if  we 


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mistake  not,  some  of  the  results  of  this  quest.  His 
chapters  and  his  illustrations  present  in  very  inviting 
form  some  of  the  picturesque  and  the  historically 
interesting  aspects  of  Clovelly,  Mont  St.  Michel,  Car- 
cassonne, San  Gimignano,  Bussaco,  Cintra,  Toledo, 
Ronda,  Bruges,  Middelburg,  Ragusa,  Salzburg, 
Gruyeres,  Rothenburg,  and  Hildesheim.  A  map  of 
that  portion  of  Europe  visited  by  the  author  is  ap- 
pended. Northern  Europe,  as  he  acknowledges,  he 
has  still  to  explore ;  but  for  the  picturesque  in  west- 
ern and  southern  Europe  he  has  had  his  eyes  open, 
to  good  effect.  The  book  has  a  striking  cover-design, 
and  its  many  illustrations  have  unusual  charm. 

Some  part  at  least  of  the  fruit  of  his  travels  in 
the  Holy  Land  is  offered  to  his  readers  by  the  Rev. 
Cortland  Myers,  D.D.,  in  a  little  book  appropriate 
to  the  Christmas  season,  "  Where  Heaven  Touched 
the  Earth  "  (American  Tract  Society).  Its  nine 
chapters  treat  of  Bethlehem,  Nazareth,  the  Wilder- 
ness of  Judea,  the  Sea  of  Galilee,  Jacob's  Well, 
Gethsemane,  Calvary,  the  Church  of  the  Holy  Sep- 
ulchre, and  the  Mount  of  Olives.  Colored  illustra- 
tions, chiefly  from  photographs  of  scenes  in  the  Holy 
Land,  are  interspersed,  and  a  pleasing  cover-design 
adds  to  the  book's  attractiveness.  Dr.  Myers's  chap- 
ters abound  in  suggestive  comment,  literary  and 
historical  allusion,  and  frequent  reference  to  the 
scriptural  account  of  the  events  that  have  made 
memorable  the  places  visited  by  him.  His  book, 
convenient  in  size  for  the  pocket,  would  be  a  good 
companion  for  the  tourist  in  Palestine ;  but  its 
readers  will  not  be  restricted  to  the  tourist  class. 

HOLIDAY  ART  BOOKS. 

Though  the  history  of  American  painting  and 
sculpture  has  engaged  the  service  of  many  pens,  a 
full  account  of  the  reproductive  graphic  arts  in  this 
country  would  be  hard  to  find.  Mr.  Frank  Weiten- 
kampf  attempts  to  supply  this  lack  in  his  careful  and 
interesting  work,  "American  Graphic  Art''  (Holt), 
whose  declared  purpose  is  "  to  group  scattered  farts 
in  a  brief  but  clear  review  of  the  whole  field  of  Ameri- 
can graphic  art.  It  is  not  intended  to  present  a 
detailed  list  including  every  artist  who  may  have 
practiced  any  of  these  arts  in  this  country,  but  to 
offer  a  survey  that  will  bring  out  salient  or  char- 
acteristic personalities  and  tendencies."  The  fifteen 
chapters  of  the  book  treat  successively  etching,  early 
and  modern;  engraving  in  line  and  stipple,  in  the 
eighteenth  and  nineteenth  centuries ;  mezzotint 
(the  art  of  rock  and  scraper);  aquatint  and  some 
other  tints;  wood-engraving,  and  the  new  school  of 
the  same ;  painter- wood-engraving ;  lithography  as  a 
business  and  as  an  art ;  the  illustrators ;  caricature ; 
the  comic  paper;  the  book-plate ;  applied  graphic  art, 
from  the  business  card  to  the  poster.  Illustrative 
plates  to  the  number  of  thirty-seven  are  scattered 
through  the  book,  but  no  attempt  has  been  made  to 
reproduce  the  colored  poster  or  other  colored  print. 
The  specimens  of  work  in  black  and  white  are  well 
chosen  and  interesting.  Of  peculiar  historic  interest 
is  the  reproduction  of  Paul  Revere's  copper-engraving 


of  the  Rev.  Jonathan  Mayhew,  a  print  only  recently 
discovered  in  the  New  York  Public  Library.  There 
is  also  given  a  reproduction  of  the  first  known  wood- 
engraving  executed  in  the  colonies, — John  Foster's 
portrait  of  Richard  Mather.  The  work  of  such  noted 
modern  etchers  and  engravers  as  Whistler,  Mr. 
Timothy  Cole,  Mr.  Joseph  Pennell,  the  late  Howard 
Pyle,  and  many  others,  is  represented  among  the 
plates  and  receives  notice  from  the  author.  It  is  a 
large  field  to  attempt  to  cover  in  a  single  volume, 
but  what  has  been  done  within  that  limit  appears  to 
have  been  well  done.  Mr.  Weitenkampf  is  Chief 
of  the  Arts  and  Prints  Divisions  of  the  New  York 
Public  Library,  and  author  of  "How  to  Appreciate 
Prints."  The  present  volume  will  be  prized  by 
print  lovers. 

The  popular  series  of  "The  Art  Galleries  of  Eu- 
rope "  published  by  Messrs.  L.  C.  Page  &  Co.  receives 
an  important  addition  this  year  in  Mr.  Charles  C. 
Heyl's  tasteful  volume  on  "The  Art  of  the  Uffizi 
Palace  and  the  Florence  Academy,"  to  which  are 
added  notes  on  the  minor  museums  of  Florence,  with 
a  bibliography,  lists  of  artists  and  their  woiks,  and 
an  index  to  the  book.  Fifty  illustrations  from  photo- 
graphs serve  to  gwre  an  idea  of  the  chief  master- 
pieces of  painting  and  sculpture  described  by  the 
author,  whose  purpose  has  been  to  omit  the  details  of 
technique  and  to  bring  his  readers  face  to  face  with  , 
"the  great,  eternal,  living  soul"  of  the  artist's  work, 
"touching  sympathetically  upon  such  elements  in 
the  intellectual  intent  and  content  of  the  productions 
as  may  afford  the  keenest  enjoyment,  coupled  with 
the  most  complete  understanding  and  appreciation." 
His  first  chapter,  entitled  "The  Genesis  of  the«Re- 
naissance:  the  First  Religious  Revival,"  gives  the 
suggestive  story  of  San  Giovanni  Gualberto  and  the 
founding  of  the  monastery  of  Vallombrosa.  The 
treasures  of  the  Pitti  Palace,  having  been  treated  in 
an  earlier  volume  of  the  series,  are  omitted  in  the 
present  work.  As  a  popular  guide  to  the  art  gal- 
leries of  Florence,  the  two  volumes  together  appear 
to  leave  little  to  be  desired.  The  illustrations,  though 
small,  are  beautifully  clear,  and  the  commentary 
abounds  in  pertinent  information  and  judicious 
criticism.  Externally,  the  issues  of  this  series  are 
attractive  to  the  eye. 

A  noteworthy  contribution  to  the  literature  of  the 
fine  arts  is  made  by  Mr.  George  Leland  Hunter  in 
his  scholarly  and  handsome  volume  on  "Tapestries: 
Their  Origin,  History,  and  Renaissance  "  (Lane). 
"To  me  personally,''  he  declares,  "tapestries  are  the 
most  interesting  and  delightful  form  of  art,  combin- 
ing as  they  do  picture  interest  with  story  interest  and 
texture  interest."  The  picture  interest  and  the  story 
interest  are  to  be  found  in  the  book's  numerous  illus- 
trative plates  (four  of  them  in  color)  and  in  the 
author's  accompanying  commentary ;  the  texture  in- 
terest one  can  fully  appreciate  only  by  studying  tapes- 
tries themselves.  Where  the  most,  famous  of  them  are 
to  be  seen  may  be  learned  from  Mr.  Hunter's  pages, 
as  also  the  historic  significance  and  the  peculiar 
merits  of  these  wonderful  products  of  the  weaver's 


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and  the  dyer's  art.  His  chapters  treat  of  the  renais- 
sance of  tapestries,  Gothic  tapestries,  Renaissance 
tapestries,  Flemish  and  Burgundian  looms,  English 
looms,  the  Gobelins,  and  other  famous  tapestries, 
some  details  as  to  the  texture  of  tapestries,  designs 
and  portraits  in  tapestries,  signatures  and  makers, 
shapes  and  sizes,  the  Bible  in  tapestries,  history  and 
romance  in  tapestries,  light  and  shade  and  perspec- 
tive, the  care  of  tapestries,  tapestry  museums,  sales, 
expositions,  and  books,  the  tapestries  in  the  Metro- 
politan Museum,  and  other  related  subjects.  The 
frontispiece  is  a  colored  reproduction  of  the  "Ver- 
tumnus  and  Pomona "  tapestry  in  the  Casimir- 
Pe'rier  collection,  a  work  of  art  valued  at  $120  000, 
and  the  most  perfect  Beauvais- Boucher  tapestry  ever 
seen  by  the  author.  This  and  the  other  colored  prints 
suggest  remarkably  well  the  rich  harmonies  of  some 
of  these  masterpieces.  The  half-tone  illustrations 
give  a  good  idea  of  the  design.  A  full  bibliography 
and  index  are  provided. 

Miss  Helen  W.  Henderson's  profusely  illustrated 
work  on  "The  Art  Treasures  of  Washington" 
(Page)  is  the  fourth  and  latest  addition  to  the 
handy  and  attractive  series  on  "  The  Art  Galleries 
of  America."  The  purpose  of  the  book,  as  explained 
on  the  title-page,  is  to  give  "an  account  of  the  Cor- 
coran Gallery  of  Art  and  of  the  National  Gallery 
and  Museum,  with  descriptions  and  criticisms  of 
their  contents  ;  including,  also,  an  account  of  the 
works  of  art  in  the  Capitol,  and  in  the  Library  of 
Congress,  and  of  the  most  important  statuary  in  the 
city."  The  unwise  legislation  of  a  Congress  not 
famed  for  it*  discriminating  love  of  the  fine  arts  has 
so  burdened  the  capital  with  examples  of  the  showy 
and  futile  that  one  is  in  danger  of  losing  sight  of 
the  lesser  number  of  genuine  masterpieces  to  be  met 
with  in  a  tour  of  the  Washington  galleries  and  other 
public  buildings.  Hence  the  need  of  some  such  in- 
telligently selective  guide  and  critic  as  is  furnished 
in  Miss  Henderson's  manual.  In  addition  to  paint- 
ings and  sculpture  she  gives  especial  attention  to  the 
National  Museum's  collection  of  aboriginal  Amer- 
ican pottery,  the  largest  and  best  exhibition  of  its 
kind  in  the  world.  Sixty-six  reproductions  from 
photographs  illustrate  the  volume,  which  also  con- 
tains a  bibliography  and  index. 

Successive  phases  of  the  artist's  life  from  age  to 
age  are  illustrated  in  Mr.  Stewart  Dick's  volume 
on  "  Master  Painters :  Pages  from  the  Romance  of 
Art  "  (Small.  Maynard  &  Co.).  Its  dozen  chapters 
begin  with  the  monkish  painters  of  the  fifteenth  cen- 
tury and  close  with  Rossetti  and  the  Pre-Raphaelites. 
The  three  chief  stages  in  this  progress  of  art  are 
found  in  the  monastic  period  of  painting  and  illumi- 
nating, the  period  of  the  bottega  or  workshop,  and 
that  of  the  art  schools.  In  each  and  all  the  creator 
of  beauty  has  commonly  lived  a  life  apart,  building 
up  a  world  of  his  own,  as  Mr.  Dick  says,  while  the 
material  world  "  has  become  an  automaton  ;  it  is 
wound  up,  and  the  stream  keeps  pouring  out  relent- 
lessly useful  things,  useless  things,  but  all  things 
that  will  sell,  and  all  dead  things.  The  artist  is 


forced  to  take  refuge  in  a  backwater  if  he  would 
produce  living  work."  Photographic  reproductions 
of  sixteen  masterpieces  of  art  are  scattered  through 
the  volume.  No  believer  in  "  the  glory  and  good 
of  art  "  can  fail  to  find  enjoyment  in  Mr.  Dick's 
sympathetic  treatment  of  his  theme. 

To  one  unacquainted  with  the  progress  of  artistic 
photography,  the  exhibition  of  present-day  camera 
work  contained  in  the  1912  volume  of  "  Photograms 
for  the  Year  "  (New  York :  Tennant  &  Ward)  will 
come  as  a  revelation.  Almost  every  sort  of  subject 
available  to  the  painter  seems  to  have  been  utilized 
in  these  hundred- odd  plates,  and  often  with  artistic 
results  of  a  surprisingly  high  order.  In  this  volume, 
the  seventeenth  annual  issue  of  the  work,  the  page 
size  has  been  increased  very  considerably,  thus 
affording  opportunity  for  reproduction  on  a  worthier 
scale  than  obtained  in  the  previous  volumes.  Be- 
sides a  general  review  of  the  year's  work  by  the 
editor,  Mr.  F.  G.  Mortimer,  there  are  nine  brief 
articles  by  various  hands  dealing  with  progress  and 
developments  in  the  field  of  camera  work  through- 
out the  world.  The  amateur  photographer  who 
finds  this  book  in  his  Christmas  stocking  is  likely  to 
be  a  very  satisfied  person. 

HOLIDAY  EDITIONS  OF  STANDARD  LITERATURE. 

Many  years  ago,  in  the  wilds  of  Central  Africa, 
where  Dante,  Homer,  and  Shakespeare  were  often 
his  sole  companions  except  the  natives,  Mr.  H. 
B.  Cotterill  conceived  a  desire  to  translate  the 
"Odyssey."  At  last  he  has  been  able  to  accomplish 
his  purpose,  and  a  hexameter  version,  in  a  volume 
of  quarto  size,  clearly  printed  on  heavy  paper  and 
adorned  with  twenty-four  drawings  by  Mr.  Patten 
Wilson,  is  the  gratifying  result.  It  was  a  rather 
bold  venture  to  translate  Homer  in  the  metre  of  the 
original,  so  little  has  popular  favor  hitherto  smiled 
on  this  exotic  form  of  English  verse.  Longfellow's 
"  Evangeline  "  is  accepted  for  other  beau  ies  than 
those  of  its  metre.  However,  there  is  no  conceivable 
form  of  Homeric  translation  that  has  not  its  own 
peculiar  weaknesses.  Those  who  are  familiar  with 
Homer,  or  even  only  with  Virgil,  in  the  original,  and 
thus  have  their  ear  attuned  to  the  six-foot  measure 
of  these  poets,  will  easily  fall  into  the  swing  of  Mr. 
Cotterill's  verse;  others  are  likely  to  trip  occasion- 
ally, especially  over  certain  proper  names  whose 
English  accent  has  yielded  to  the  "quantity"  of 
the  original  syllables,  as  in  the  line,  '•  Hailing  from 
Dulichium.  of  the  choicest  youths  of  the  island,"  and 
"Him  sage  Telemachus  addressing  in  turn  gave 
answer."  In  its  spirit,  the  translation  is  truly 
Homeric,  the  language  simple  and  dignified,  the 
faithfulness  of  rendering  all  that  could  be  expected 
under  the  restrictions  of  metre.  The  artist's  draw- 
ings are  in  many  instances  finely  conceived  and  of 
great  beauty.  (Dana  Estes  &  Co.) 

Goldsmith  could  not  have  wished  for  a  better  set 
of  illustrations  to  his  comedy,  "  She  Stoops  to  Con- 
quer," than  those  designed  with  keen  appreciation 
of  the  humors  of  the  piece  by  Mr.  Hugh  Thomson 


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in  an  elaborate  edition  from  the  house  of  Hodder 
&  Stoughton.  The  play,  thus  issued,  with  twenty- 
five  colored  plates  and  other  drawings  in  line,  makes 
a  volume  of  quarto  dimensions  running  to  nearly  two 
hundred  pages.  Heavy  paper  and  large  type  are 
used,  with  broad  margins  and  richly  decorated  bind- 
ing, end-leaves  of  appropriate  design,  and  an  embel- 
lished box.  Mr.  Thomson's  water-colors  —  for  such 
is  their  appearance  in  reproduction  —  have  often  a 
Watteau-like  delicacy  and  grace  that  is  very  pleasing, 
while  the  rude  joviality  of  certain  other  scenes  is 
also  well  depicted.  Nothing  short  of  seeing  the  play 
itself  well  staged  and  acted  could  convey  a  fuller 
enjoyment  of  its  merits  than  this  fine  setting  pro- 
vided for  it  by  artist  and  printer  and  binder. 

Hardly  a  year  passes  now  that  does  not  witness  a 
fresh  attempt  to  interpret  one  or  more  of  Poe's  poems 
by  aid  of  pictorial  illustration.  The  latest  noteworthy 
effort  of  this  sort  is  on  the  part  of  Mr.  Edmund 
Dulac,  who  has  made  twenty-eight  colored  pictures 
for  a  sumptuous  edition  of  "  The  Bells,  and  Other 
Poems  "  (Hodder)  in  a  quarto  volume  of  imposing 
appearance  in  its  elaborately  embossed,  cream- 
colored  binding,  with  print  of  the  largest,  margins 
of  the  most  generous  width,  and  paper  of  the  heavi- 
est. The  illustrations  are  striking  for  their  color- 
effects,  and  often  too  for  their  drawing.  No  one 
but  Poe  could  have  evoked  such  creations.  The 
picture  to  "The  Haunted  Palace,"  for  example,  is 
a  veritable  nightmare  in  color  and  design,  that  to 
"  Alone  "  is  beautifully  expressive,  those  to  "  The 
Bells  "  are  what  Poe  himself  might  have  been  glad 
to  be  able  to  draw.  Other  smaller  illustrations  in 
a  single  tint  head  some  of  the  poems,  and  all  have 
a  character  appropriate  to  their  theme. 

The  spirit  of  romance  breathes  in  Mr.  W.  Hath- 
erell's  illustrations  to  "Romeo  and  Juliet"  in  the 
elaborately  ornate  edition  of  the  play  issued  this  sea- 
son by  Messrs.  Hodder  &  Stoughton.  Twenty-two 
of  these  pictures,  rich  even  to  the  verge  of  excess  (or 
perhaps  beyond  it)  in  coloring,  and  frequently  of 
striking  and  beautiful  design,  are  scattered  through 
the  book.  The  charm  of  Juliet's  young  beauty  is 
now  and  again  successfully  caught,  and  the  con- 
ception of  her  old  nurse  is  excellent.  Large  print, 
heavy  paper,  generous  spacing,  broad  margins,  a 
graceful  cover  design  in  green  and  gold  —  these  are 
among  the  book's  attractive  features.  It  is  a  sub- 
stantial quarto  in  form,  and  is  provided  with  a  box 
appropriately  ornamented. 

A  request  for  a  list  of  the  flowers  named  in  T.  B. 
Aldrich's  poems,  in  order  that  the  garden  of  the 
Aldrich  memorial  house  at  Portsmouth  might  have 
growing  in  it  all  the  flowers  so  mentioned,  called 
forth  from  Mrs.  Aldrich  a  copy  of  all  the  lines 
wherein  the  desired  names  occurred.  Thus  not  only 
the  blossoms  themselves,  but  also  the  accompanying 
foliage,  so  to  speak,  the  poet's  widow  has  offered  to 
such  as  choose  to  accept  the  floral  gift.  A  thin  vol- 
ume of  exquisite  design,  entitled  "  The  Shadow  of 
the  Flowers  "  (Houghton),  contains  these  passages 
from  Aldrich's  poems,  with  drawings  in  harmony 


with  the  text  from  the  pencils  of  Mr.  Talbot  Aldrich 
and  Mr.  Carl  J.  Nordell.  The  right-hand  pages 
alone  are  used,  and  the  verses  as  well  as  the  draw- 
ings above  them  appear  to  be  the  work  of  the  artist's 
pencil.  Flowers  and  bits  of  landscape  make  up  most 
of  the  illustrations,  with  an  occasional  human  figure. 
The  cover  design  shows  a  part  of  a  wild  rosebush, 
with  accompanying  verses.  The  book  is  neatly 
bound  in  light-gray  boards  with  linen  back. 

The  effect  of  a  richly  illuminated  manuscript  is 
produced  by  Mr.  Alberto  Sangorski's  decorative  set- 
ting to  the  "Sermon  on  the  Mount"  (Estes).  Chap- 
ters five,  six,  and  seven  of  St.  Matthew  are  written 
out  in  black  letter,  with  elaborate  initial  letters  done 
in  gold  and  colors,  and  with  a  special  border  for  each 
page.  Each  leaf  is  double,  so  that  only  one  side  of 
the  paper  is  printed  on,  and  the  creamy  tint  suggests 
parchment  or  vellum.  Holman  Hunt's  painting  "The 
Light  of  the  World,"  in  Saint  Paul's  Cathedral,  is 
reproduced  for  the  further  ornamentation  of  the  vol- 
ume. In  elaboration  and  splendor,  these  decorative 
designs  are  noteworthy  exhibitions  of  the  illustrator's 
and  illuminator's  art.  The  first  and  last  verses  are 
in  red,  and  rubricated  initial  letters  also  sprinkle 
the  page. 

The  world  never  wearies  of  Mrs.  Gaskell's  little 
masterpiece,  "Cranford."  Every  holiday  season 
there  will  be,  somewhere  and  in  some  form,  a  new 
edition  of  the  story,  perhaps  more  than  one.  This 
year  Mr.  H.  M.  Brock,  R.I.,  has  drawn  half  a  dozen 
pictures  in  cheerful  colors  for  a  well-printed  reissue 
of  this  little  classic.  The  costumes,  the  graces,  the 
old-fashioned  formalities,  of  Miss  Matty,  Mr.  Hoi- 
brook,  Captain  Brown,  and  other  characters  in  the 
story,  are  well  depicted  by  the  artist,  and  add  a  fresh 
charm  to  the  simple  narrative.  (J.  B.  Lippincott 
Co.) 

HOLIDAY  FICTION. 

Nineteen  stories,  told  with  Dr.  Henry  van  Dyke's 
well-known  charm  of  manner,  are  grouped  in  the 
volume  entitled  "The  Unknown  Quantity"  (Scrib- 
ner).  The  thread  uniting  the  stories  their  author 
calls  "the  sign  of  the  unknown  quantity,  the  sense 
of  mystery  and  strangeness,  that  runs  through  human 
life."  The  sub-title  to  the  collection,  "  A  Book  of 
Romance  and  Some  Half-Told  Tales,"  calls  forth  a 
further  word  of  explanation  in  the  preface.  Inter- 
spersed between  the  longer  stories  are  a  number  of 
"  tales  that  are  told  in  a  briefer  and  different  man- 
ner. They  are  like  etchings  in  which  more  is  sug- 
gested than  is  in  the  picture.  For  this  reason  they 
are  called  Half-Told  Tales,  in  the  hope  that  they 
may  mean  to  the  reader  more  than  they  say."  The 
mere  names  of  some  of  the  stories,  since  nothing 
more  can  be  given  here,  will  serve  to  hint  at  the  rich- 
ness and  variety  of  the  volume.  "  The  Wedding- 
Ring,"  "  The  Ripening  of  the  Fruit,"  "  The  King's 
Jewel,"  "  The  Music-Lover,"  "  An  Old  Game,"  "  A 
Change  of  Air,"  "The  Return  of  the  Charm,"  "The 
Mansion  " — these  and  other  titles  have  the  true  ring 
to  the  story-reader's  ear.  Good  illustrations,  both 
colored  and  in  black-and-white,  are  provided  by 


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various  artists,  and  a  cheerful  design  in  blue  and 
gold  enlivens  the  book's  exterior. 

Mr.  Jack  London's  popular  story,  "The  Call  of 
the  Wild," — the  tale  of  a  noble  St.  Bernard  dog 
stolen  from  his  California  home  and  pressed  into 
sledge  service  in  Alaska,  where  he  finally  reverts  to 
the  primitive  condition  of  his  kind  and  runs  wild  as 
the  leader  of  a  pack  of  wolves, —  celebrates  its  decen- 
nial anniversary  by  appearing  in  an  elaborately- 
illustrated  holiday  edition  (Macmillan).  Mr.  Paul 
Bransom  has  provided  the  stirring  and  touching 
narrative  with  a  great  number  of  appropriate  illus- 
trations, both  full-page  color  plates  and  smaller 
colored  and  uncolored  drawings.  A  first-rate  story. 
to  begin  with,  the  tale  thus  reissued  becomes  more 
alluring  than  before,  and  will  doubtless  win  for  itself 
many  new  readers. 

Mr.  Richard  Le  Gallienne  addresses  his  readers  in 
parables  in  "The  Maker  of  Rainbows"  (Harper),  a 
collection  of  fourteen  fairy  tales  and  fables  supposed 
to  have  been  found  by  an  old-clothes  dealer  in  one 
of  the  pockets  of  a  poet's  dress  suit  which  the  poet 
had  sold  in  order  to  get  money  to  buy  a  rose  for  his 
sweetheart;  so  that,  with  this  touching  story  of  the 
careless  and  improvident  poet,  there  are  fifteen  tales 
in  all,  one  of  them  being  poetry  in  form  as  well  as 
in  substance.  Miss  Elizabeth  Shippen  Green  has 
illustrated  the  book  with  two  colored  and  three 
uncolored  drawings,  in  harmony  with  the  tone  of 
the  text;  and  the  rainbow-maker  himself,  a  cheery 
grinder  of  scissors  and  knives,  is  brightly  depicted 
on  the  cover  in  the  midst  of  a  group  of  eager  chil- 
dren. 

Mrs.  Barclay's  popular  success  of  last  year,  "The 
Following  of  the  Star"  (Putnam),  has  followed  the 
example  of  others  of  her  widely-read  romances  and 
gone  into  a  richly  illustrated  and  ornamented  holiday 
edition,  handsomely  bound  and  artistically  boxed. 
Mr.  F.  H.  Townsend  has  provided  eight  colored  pic- 
tures, Miss  Margaret  Armstrong  has  designed  the 
page-borders  and  other  decorations,  and  the  printer 
has  not  been  lacking  in  the  proper  discharge  of  his 
important  duties.  The  vivid  illustrations  harmonize 
well  with  the  reading  matter,  and  in  every  way  this 
sumptuous  volume  appears  to  be  what  an  edition  de 
luxe  of  Mrs.  Barclay's  novel  ought  to  be. 

Republished  in  holiday  book  form  after  its  serial 
appearance,  Mr.  Robert  W.  Chambers's  "  Blue-Bird 
Weather"  (Appleton),  with  seven  illustrations  by 
Mr.  Charles  Dana  Gibson,  makes  as  pretty  a  love 
story  as  any  young  girl  need  ask  for.  It  is  the  tale 
of  a  duck-shooting  expedition  in  which  the  duck- 
shooter  loses  his  heart  to  the  pretty  daughter  of  the 
keeper  of  the  shooting  box  where  he  puts  up,  and  of 
course  it  all  ends  as  it  should  and  they  live  happily 
ever  after.  The  narrative  is  brisk,  the  pictures  good, 
and  the  book,  well  printed  and  neatly  bound  and 
jacketed,  shows  nothing  to  find  fault  with — unless 
one  chooses  to  take  exception  to  a  rather  glaring 
error  in  a  Latin  quotation.  But  the  lover  of  love 
stories  will  not  allow  so  small  a  matter  as  this  to 
disturb  his  or  her  enjoyment  of  the  romance. 


Miss  Zona  Gale's  story  entitled  "  Christmas " 
(Macmillan)  appears  fittingly  at  this'  time  of  the 
year  in  artistic  book- form,  with  half  a  dozen  brightly 
cheerful  pictures  in  color  by  Mr.  Leon  V.  Solon. 
The  very  names  that  greet  the  eye  in  its  pleasant 
pages  are  an  earnest  of  good  things  in  store  for  the 
reader.  Old  Trail  Town  is  the  scene  of  the  rural 
drama,  and  such  names  as  Mary  Chavah,  Ebenezer 
Rule,  Tab  Winslow,  Jenny  Wing,  Mis'  Mortimer 
Bates,  and  Buff  Miles  are  borne  by  the  actors.  The 
book  is  attractively  bound  in  cream-colored  cloth, 
richly  decorated  in  green  and  red  and  gilt. 

MISCELLANEOUS  HOLIDAY  BOOKS. 
A  pleasant  style  and  a  disposition  to  pass  with 
no  unnecessary  delay  from  one  subject  to  the  next 
distinguish  Mrs.  William  Wilson  Sale's  handsome 
volume  on  "  Old  Time  Belles  and  Cavaliers  "  (Lip- 
pincott),  a  collection  of  thirty  biographical  studies 
beginning  with  Pocahontas  and  ending  with  Anne 
Carmichael.  Mrs.  Sale  (Edith  Tunis  Sale  she  signs 
her  name  to  her  book)  believes  that  "the  stories  of 
womanly  heroism  and  manly  bravery  with  which  the 
lives  of  the  old  time  belles  and  cavaliers  are  indelibly 
associated  should  be  familiar  to  all  readers  of  Amer- 
ican history ;  for  while  the  English  men  and  women 
of  that  day  were  lounging  at  court  or  taking  their 
ease  at  Bath,  their  kinsmen  and  women  over  the 
sea  were  suffering  and  enduring  the  privations  of 
war  and  discomforts  of  life  in  a  new  country." 
Accordingly  the  claims  of  the  more  prominent  of 
these  belles  and  cavaliers  to  our  admiration  are 
touched  upon  in  a  manner  to  entertain  and  never 
to  weary  in  Mrs.  Sale's  book.  Robert  Carter,  or 
"King"  Carter,  William  Byrd,Mary  Ball  and  Martha 
Dandridge  (mother  and  wife,  respectively,  of  Wash- 
ington), Alice  De  Lancey,  Benjamin  Thompson 
(Count  Rumford),  Peggy  Chew  and  Peggy  Shippen, 
Dolly  Payne,  Theodosia  Burr,  with  others  of  equal 
note,  have  their  characters  briefly  drawn  and  the 
things  for  which  they  are  to  be  remembered  recalled 
to  mind,  while  there  is  no  lack  of  portraits  to  help 
fix  the  various  personages  in  one's  mind.  The  book 
forms  a  sort  of  national  portrait  gallery, —  or  one 
room,  of  peculiar  interest,  in  such  a  gallery. 

"  An  attempt  to  catch  the  spirit  of  the  keen  joys 
of  the  winter  season  "  is  the  explanatory  sub-title  of 
"  A  Book  of  Winter  Sports  "  (Macmillan),  edited 
by  Mr.  J.  C.  Dier  and  illustrated  in  lively  manner 
with  both  colored  plates  and  half- tone  reproductions 
of  photographs.  The  sources  from  which  readable 
and  often  instructive  matter  has  been  taken  are 
numerous  and  varied.  Dickens,  Burns,  de  Amicis, 
Christopher  North,  Blackmore,  "  The  Scientific 
American,"  "  Outing,"  "  The  Saturday  Review," 
w$|th  many  other  writers  and  a  few  other  periodicals, 
have  been  drawn  upon  for  chapters  on  ice-motoring, 
skating,  curling,  snow-shoeing,  skiing,  toboganning, 
sleighing,  and  other  ice  and  snow  pastimes.  The 
newest  and  therefore  perhaps  the  most  interesting 
of  these  sports  is  ice-motoring,  while  the  wind-driven 
ice-yacht  is  still  a  fascinating  toy  and  one  that,  under 


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favorable  conditions,  can  still  outstrip  the  gasolene- 
propelled  sledge.  Directions  and  diagrams  for  build- 
ing certain  kinds  of  ice  craft  are  given  in  the  book  ; 
but  these  may  of  course  be  omitted  by  those  not 
mechanically  gifted,  who  will  find  more  pleasure  in 
"  Mr.  Winkle  on  the  Ice,"  from  "  Pickwick,"  or 
the  song  of  "  The  Jolly  Curlers  "  by  James  Hogg, 
both  of  which,  and  many  other  readable  miscellanies 
of  a  nature  suitable  to  the  book's  purpose,  are  to  be 
met  with  between  its  covers.  The  selections  are  all 
short,  and  the  volume  has  that  brisk  air  appropriate 
to  the  winter  season  which  it  celebrates. 

An  echo  of  the  Dickens  centennial  reaches  our 
shores  in  Mr.  Edwin  Pugh's  careful  and  interesting 
work  on  "The  Charles  Dickens  Originals"  (Scrib- 
ner).  Of  the  real  characters  that  inspired  the  novel- 
ist to  the  creation  of  their  famous  doubles  in  fiction 
no  genuine  Dickens-lover  will  ever  tire  of  reading. 
Such  chapters  as  those  of  Mr.  Pugh  on  Mary 
Hogarth,  Maria  Beadnell,  the  Brothers  Cheeryble, 
some  Pickwickians,  relics  from  "  The  Old  Curiosity 
Shop,"  certain  criminal  prototypes,  and  so  on,  afford 
both  entertainment  and  instruction.  The  portraits 
in  the  volume  are  many  and  interesting,  as  for  ex- 
ample that  of  Sam  Vale  ("Sam  Weller"),  Henry 
Burnett  ( "  Nicholas  Nickleby  "),  Mary  Hogarth 
("  Kate  Nickleby "  and  other  characters),  Maria 
Beadnell  ("Dolly  Varden"  and  other  characters), 
Mrs.  Cooper  ("Little  Dorrit"),  John  Dickens 
("Mr.  Micawber"),  Lord  Mansfield  ("Barnaby 
Rudge"),  and  many  more.  An  index  of  names 
and  book-titles  closes  the  book.  Mr.  Pugh  is 
already  known  as  the  author  of  "  Charles  Dickens, 
the  Apostle  of  the  People,"  and  his  qualifications 
for  such  a  work  as  the  present  will  not  be  ques- 
tioned. The  book,  with  its  frontispiece  reproducing 
the  Maclise  portrait  of  Dickens,  and  with  its  other 
attractive  features,  is  one  of  the  most  inviting  of 
recent  works  about  the  great  novelist. 

The  proverbial  Irishman,  the  Irishman  of  the 
Victorian  novelists  and  dramatists,  vanishes  like  an 
illusion  dispelled  in  Mr.  George  A.  Birmingham's 
chapters  on  "The  Lighter  Side  of  Irish  Life" 
(Stokes).  Seen  with  the  eyes  of  this  native  of  Erin, 
Patrick  becomes  a  much  less  picturesque  and  amus- 
ing character,  a  much  more  matter-of-fact  and  unim- 
aginative mortal,  than  it  pleases  us  to  conceive  him. 
"Nothing  is  more  characteristic  of  the  Irishman 
to-day  than  his  freedom  from  illusion  and  his  power 
of  seeing  facts,"  declares  Mr.  Birmingham,  and  we 
are  glad  to  arrive  at  the  truth  of  the  matter  as  he  sees 
it.  But  he  half  acknowledges  that  the  accepted  and 
familiar  picture  of  Patrick  as  he  used  to  be  may  not 
have  been  entirely  false.  With  all  this  stripping  of 
the  Irishman  of  his  picturesque  trappings,  however, 
there  remains  enough  of  interest  and  charm  in  his 
personality  to  furnish  material  for  a  baker's  dozen 
of  unusually  readable  and  often  amusing  sketches  in 
the  author's  best  vein.  He  takes  occasion,  naturally 
enough,  to  insist  that  the  Irish  bull  is  really  "an 
example  of  abnormal,  perhaps  morbid,  mental  quick- 
ness." Mr.  Henry  W.  Kerr,  R.S.A.,  contributes  six- 


teen colored  plates,  showing  the  Irishman  rather  more 
in  accordance  with  the  popular  ideal  of  him  than  do 
the  pages  they  illustrate. 

Two  years  ago  the  Goncourt  prize  for  the  best 
piece  of  imaginative  writing  of  the  year  was  awarded 
to  M.  Louis  Pergaud  for  his  animal  stories,  "De 
Goupil  a  Margot,"  published  by  the  "Mercure  de 
France."  These  stories,  six  in  number  and  dealing 
chiefly  with  the  tragic  fate  of  as  many  wild  creatures 
in  their  unequal  encounters  with  their  foes  (usually  of 
the  human  kind),  are  now  retold  by  Mr.  Douglas 
English  in  our  own  tongue,  under  the  general  title, 
"Tales  of  the  Untamed,"  with  illustrations  by  Mr. 
English.  Adapter,  not  translator,  he  calls  himself, 
urging  that  anything  like  literalness  of  rendering 
was  found  to  be  impossible.  In  his  telling,  the  stories 
are  full  of  a  pathetic  interest,  and  yet  the  pathos  is 
never  strained,  the  naturalness  of  it  all  never  spoilt. 
The  pictures,  which  seem  to  be  photographs  from 
nature,  are  as  true  to  life  as  could  be  desired.  Mr. 
English  is  already  known  for  his  "Photography 
for  Naturalists"  and  also  his  "Book  of  Nimble 
Beasts."  His  new  volume  should  find  wide  favor 
as  a  gift  for  the  nature-lover.  (Outing  Publishing 
Co.) 

Philadelphia  and  its  environs  can  boast  of  a 
greater  number  of  historic  colonial  residences,  still 
in  a  good  state  of  preservation  and  most  of  them 
occupied  by  descendants  of  the  original  owners,  than 
any  other  city  in  America.  A  stately  quarto  volume 
descriptive  of  these  "  Colonial  Homes  of  Philadelphia 
and  its  Neighborhood  "  has  been  prepared  by  Mr. 
Harold  Donaldson  Eberlein  and  Mr.  Horace  Mather 
Lippincott,  who  have  from  infancy  been  familiar 
with  many  of  the  houses  described.  More  than  fifty 
of  these  early  examples  of  domestic  architecture 
have  their  history  and  associations  narrated  in  the 
book,  with  a  great  number  of  accompanying  views, 
exterior  and  interior,  from  photographs.  Numerous 
other  old  houses  of  the  city  and  its  suburbs  are  men- 
tioned, but  the  limits  of  space  have  made  it  impos- 
sible to  do  more.  Among  the  more  famous  of  colonial 
homes  met  with  in  turning  the  book's  pages  are  the 
Wister  house,  at  Fourth  and  Locust  streets ;  Provost 
Smith's  house,  at  Fourth  and  Arch  streets,  where 
Lowell  and  his  bride  were  entertained  in  1844  ;  the 
Solitude,  Fairmount  Park,  built  by  John  Penn, 
grandson  of  William  Penn  ;  James  Logan's  house, 
known  as  Stenton,  at  Germantown ;  the  Wayne 
homestead,  Waynesborough ;  and  the  houses  asso- 
ciated with  such  old  Philadelphia  names  as  Willing, 
Wharton.  Morris,  Shippen,  Brinton,  Ashhurst,  Pen- 
rose,  Pennypacker,  Shoemaker,  and  Wain.  The 
book  is  printed  from  type,  in  a  limited  edition ;  and 
with  its  many  pleasing  illustrations  and  artistic 
binding  leaves  little  to  be  desired  as  an  example  of 
what  is  best  in  fine  book-manufacture.  It  bears, 
appropriately,  the  imprint  of  the  J.  B.  Lippincott 
Company. 

Mr.  Walter  Wood,  believing  that  "it  may  well  be 
chat  we  have  reached  a  stage  when  all  the  nations 
must  say  'Halt!'  in  connection  with  battleship  con- 


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struction  and  naval  expenditure,"  commemorates 
this  epoch  in  naval  history  by  preparing  an  histori- 
cal and  descriptive  account,  from  a  British  point  of 
view,  of  " The  Battleship  "  (Button  ).  From  the  first 
ship-of-the-line  in  Henry  the  Seventh's  reign  to  the 
twentieth-century  Dreadnaught,  he  traces  the  his- 
tory of  battleship  construction  and  the  manners  and 
customs  of  Jack  Tar  and  his  commanding  officers, 
through  four  centuries  of  English  naval  development. 
Mr.  Frank  H.  Mason,  R.B.A.,  enlivens  the  narrative 
with  eight  striking  illustrations  in  color,  while  many 
more  pictures  are  supplied  from  old  prints  and  mod- 
ern photographs.  An  original  poem  lamenting  the 
fate  of  a  splendid  battleship  insidiously  done  to  death 
by  a  submarine  is  prefixed  to  his  notable  book  by 
the  author.  Since,  as  Mr.  Wood  points  out,  "there 
is  no  book  in  our  language  which  deals  solely  with 
the  battleship,  both  sail  and  steam,"  his  scholarly  and 
handsome  volume  supplies  a  real  want.  Its  pages, 
are  alive  with  interesting  facts,  and  its  many  illustra- 
tions are  appropriate  and  helpful  to  an  understand- 
ing of  the  subjects  discussed. 

Those  who  enjoy  gardening,  and  others  also,  will 
find  pleasure  in  "  The  Four  Gardens  "  (Lippincott), 
by  "  Handasyde,"  with  colored  illustrations  and  line 
drawings  by  Mr.  Charles  Robinson.  The  four  gar- 
dens are  the  haunted  garden,  the  old-fashioned 
garden,  the  poor  man's  garden,  and  the  rich  man's 
garden,  all  being  such  gardens  as  are  to  be  seen  in 
England  and  Scotland,  and  all  redolent  of  odors 
familar  to  garden-lovers.  The  first-named  of  these 
gardens  has  a  ghost,  pictured  in  the  frontispiece, 
and  a  very  old  stone  wall ;  also  a  children's  corner, 
sheltered  and  sunny,  where  mint  and  sage  grow 
against  the  old  wall,  and  where  the  children  do  all 
the  gardening  with  three  tools  shared  in  common 
and  a  shilling  a  year  to  each  child  for  seeds.  The 
gardening  diary  of  one  of  the  children  contains  an 
entry  that  may  recall  to  the  reader  some  of  his  own 
childhood  likes  and  dislikes.  "  If  all  the  garden 
belonged  to  me  I  would  never  plant  potatoes."  In 
the  rich  man's  garden  we  see  the  owner,  John 
Hardress,  slowly  pacing  its  broad  paths  and  looking 
mostly  at  his  boots,  which  are  polished  to  perfection. 
Each  of  these  gardens  has  its  distinct  character,  and 
the  artist  has  ably  seconded  the  author  in  making 
that  character  appreciable  to  the  reader.  The  book 
is  beautifully  printed  and  bound. 

Tributes  to  Lincoln  are  always  in  order.  In  a 
thin  quarto  of  artistic  design  are  brought  together, 
under  the  general  title,  "  Memories  of  President 
Lincoln,"  Walt  Whitman's  beautiful  poems,  — 
"  When  Lilacs  Last  in  the  Dooryard  Bloom 'd,"  "O 
Captain  !  My  Captain  !  "  "  Hushed  be  the  Camps 
To-day,"  and  "  This  Dust  was  Once  the  Man,"  pre- 
ceded by  the  "Gettysburg  Address,"  a  preliminary 
word  from  Mr.  William  Marion  Reedy,  Mr.  John 
Burroughs's  comment  on  the  Whitman  monody,  a 
preface  by  Mr.  Horace  Traubel,  a  few  words  from 
the  publisher,  Mr.  Thomas  B.  Mosher,  and  a  part 
of  the  Lincoln  passage  in  Lowell's  "  Commemoration 
Ode."  A  short  bibliography  closes  the  book.  The 


handmade  paper,  large  print,  broad  margins,  dec- 
orative initial  letters,  and  other  pleasing  features  of 
this  tasteful  volume  are  worthy  of  the  publisher 
whose  imprint  it  bears.  An  excellent  and  unhack- 
neyed portrait  of  Lincoln  faces  the  title-page. 

Appropriate  to  the  season  is  the  reappearance  in 
richly  decorated  form  of  Mr.  Bouck  White's  thought- 
ful book  treating  of  the  life  of  Jesus  and  its  special 
significance  to  the  world  of  to-day.  "The  Call  of 
the  Carpenter"  (Doubleday)  opens  with  a  prelimi- 
nary chapter  calling  attention  to  two  facts  which  in 
the  writer's  opinion  "  occupy  the  centre  of  the  stage, 
to  which  all  other  facts  are  tributary,  and  which  for 
good  or  ill  are  conceded  to  be  of  superlative  import. 
They  are,  the  rise  of  democracy,  and  the  decline  of 
ecclesiasticism."  But  while  the  gap  between  the 
church  and  the  people  is  widening,  "this  antagon- 
ism," asserts  the  author,  "of  the  working  class  to  the 
Church  does  not  carry  an  antagonism  also  to  Jesus. 
On  the  contrary,  the  Workingman  of  Nazareth  prob- 
ably never  stood  higher  in  their  esteem  or  more 
ardent  in  their  affections."  One  might  feel  tempted 
to  try  to  improve  the  form  of  this  statement,  but  the 
general  truth  that  the  life  of  Jesus,  rightly  presented, 
never  fails  in  its  appeal,  remains  unassailable.  Hence 
the  value  of  such  earnest  and  intelligent  studies  as 
Mr.  White's.  The  book's  outward  beauty  will  help 
to  increase  its  circulation.  Its  colored  frontispiece 
is  by  Mr.  Balfour  Ker,  its  decorations  by  Mr.  Frank 
Bittner. 

The  annual  catalogues  issued  by  Mr.  Thomas  B. 
Mosher  have  for  more  than  twenty  years  past  held 
a  peculiar  place  in  the  affections  of  book-lovers,  not 
alone  by  reason  of  the  appealing  wares  which  they 
advertise  or  their  own  attractiveness  of  form,  but 
also  on  account  of  the  choice  bits  of  literature  scat- 
tered through  their  pages.  These  waifs  and  strays  by 
many  authors  have  now  been  brought  together,  with 
some  revision  and  additions,  in  a  delectable  an- 
thology entitled  "  Amphora,"  of  which  Mr.  Mosher 
is  editor  as  well  as  publisher.  The  title  is  a  happy 
one,  for  the  little  volume  is  indeed  "a  vase  filled  and 
over-flowing  with  wine  of  spiritual  Life," — a  jar  of 
precious  essence  distilled  not  from  the  famed  public 
gardens  of  literature  but  from  the  shyer  and  more 
elusively  fragrant  blossoming  of  hedge  and  hillside. 
That  little  company  to  whom  literature  is  a  passion — 
an  affair  of  the  heart  more  than  of  the  head  —  will 
not  fail  in  gratitude  to  Mr.  Mosher  for  this  happy 
gift.  It  should  find  a  place,  perhaps  the  chief 
place,  on  the  bedside  shelf  of  every  member  of  that 
company. 

The  winning  wiles  and  seductive  smiles  of  Miss 
Kitty  Cobb,  who  leaves  her  home  in  Pleasant  Valley 
to  see  what  the  city  of  big  hopes  has  in  store 
for  her,  are  pictured  with  pen  and  pencil  by  Mr. 
James  Montgomery  Flagg  in  thirty-one  chapters, 
or  scenes,  filling  a  broad-paged  quarto  entitled  ''The 
Adventures  of  Kitty  Cobb"  (Doran).  They  are 
collected  in  this  permanent  and  attractive  form 
after  serial  publication  in  certain  papers,  and  form 
a  picture-book  calculated  to  amuse  children  of  a 


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larger  growth.  Mr.  Flagg's  cartoons  are  not  unlike 
Mr.  Gibson's  in  their  general  manner,  and  are  good 
examples  of  their  species  of  art.  The  story  part, 
under  each  drawing,  is  crisp  and  brief  and  very 
much  to  the  point.  Words  and  pictures  fill  the 
right-hand  pages;  smaller  sketches  of  Kitty  in  vari- 
ous attitudes  appear  on  the  left. 

"A  Book  of  Beggars"  (Lippincott)  contains  six- 
teen large  colored  pictures,  drawn  by  Mr.  W.  Dacres 
Adams,  of  various  sorts  of  mendicants, —  a  gipsy 
fortune-teller,  a  crossing-sweeper,  two  sisters  of 
charity,  a  Salvation  Army  lassie  and  lad,  a  "  suffra- 
gette," two  charity-bazaar  damsels,  a  well-nourished 
writer  of  begging  letters,  a  sleek  politician,  and 
others.  The  old  nursery  rhyme  beginning,  "  Hark, 
hark,  the  dogs  do  bark,"  introduces  this  company 
of  beggars,  and  facing  each  picture  is  a  more  or  less 
angry  canine,  sometimes  two,  while  the  front  cover 
shows  a  ragged  beggar  subjected  to  the  incivilities 
of  a  pair  of  unfriendly  curs.  The  artist's  meaning 
is  in  each  instance  unmistakably  conveyed,  and  the 
pictures  are  bright  and  amusing. 

The  mother  as  the  home-maker  and  the  central 
figure  of  the  home  life  forms  the  subject  of  the  late 
Margaret  E.  Sangster's  thoughtful  and  sensible  vol- 
ume, "The  Mother  Book"  (McClurg).  Thirty-fire 
chapters  follow  the  mother's  course  and  consider 
her  problems  from  the  first  day  of  her  married  life 
onward  to  her  old  age,  if  indeed  she  allows  herself 
ever  to  grow  old.  The  male  members  of  the  house- 
hold, too,  receive  some  attention,  as  in  the  chapter 
"  About  Husbands,"  in  the  one  on  "  Bachelor  Uncles 
and  Spinster  Aunts,"  and  in  the  pages  devoted  to 
"The  Boy  and  the  Latch-key."  Of  course  the  ser- 
vant question  is  discussed,  and  the  book  abounds  in 
good  suggestions  on  that  and  many  other  domestic 
problems  —  all  set  forth  in  Mrs.  Sangster's  well- 
known  agreeable  manner,  and  with  a  poem  from  her 
pen  to  close  each  chapter,  beside  apt  selections  here 
and  there  from  other  poets.  The  lavender  binding 
of  the  book,  its  ornamental  initial  letters,  its  neat 
box,  and  other  attractive  features,  help  to  commend 
it  to  the  discerning  seeker  of  gift-books. 

Animal  stories  told  in  negro  dialect  after  the 
manner  of  Uncle  Remus  fill  a  well  printed  and 
cleverly  illustrated  volume  entitled  "  Behind  the 
Dark  Pines  "  (  Appleton).  The  author,  Miss  Martha 
Young,  opens  her  pages  with  a  tribute  to  the  old 
Mammy  who  used  to  delight  her  and  other  Southern 
children  with  such  tales  as  her  book  contains.  Fifty- 
five  stories,  full  of  amusing  incident  and  sprinkled 
with  snatches  of  verse,  all  in  unmistakable  darkey 
dialect,  are  told  in  the  best  manner  of  old  Mammy. 
Mr.  J.  M.  Conde"s  numerous  drawings  show  a  lively 
appreciation  of  the  comic  element  in  these  stories, 
and  invite  to  a  nearer  acquaintance  with  the  text. 

Recent  revelations  concerning  the  cause  of  the 
mutilation  of  the  Venus  of  Melos  and  the  original 
position  of  the  missing  arms  make  timely  and  wel- 
come a  translation  of  M.  Auguste  Rodin's  eloquent 
tribute  to  that  masterpiece  of  sculpture.  "Venus," 
or,  as  the  sub-title  reads,  "To  the  Venus  of  Melos," 


is  in  its  English  dress  the  work  of  Miss  Dorothy 
Dudley,  and  forms  a  booklet  of  twenty-six  pages,  two 
views  of  the  famous  statue  being  added,  together 
with  a  portrait  of  M.  Rodin  drawn  by  Miss  Gertrude 
Huebsch.  A  little  less  literalness  of  rendering 
would  have  been  advisable  on  the  translator's  part. 
Otherwise  the  book  is  thoroughly  pleasing.  (B.  W. 
Huebsch.) 

In  the  series  of  "The  World's  Romances,"  pub- 
lished in  this  country  by  Dana  Estes  &  Co.,  there 
appear  this  year  the  ever-popular  stories  of  "Sieg- 
fried and  Kriemhild"  and  "Tristan  and  Iseult," 
told  in  simple  and  attractive  manner,  each  within  the 
compass  of  a  hundred  pages,  and  each  illustrated 
with  eight  colored  drawings  in  harmony  with  the 
manner  and  the  period  of  the  narrative.  Mr.  Frank 
C.  Pape*  illustrates  the  "Siegfried,"  Mr.  Gilbert 
James  the  "Tristan."  Covers  and  jackets  are  also 
brightly  adorned  with  pictures. 

How  a  country  boy,  fresh  from  college,  went  to 
Chicago  to  seek  his  fortune,  and  just  what  sort  of 
a  fortune  his  search  brought  him,  is  told  with  no 
little  cleverness  of  both  pen  and  pencil  by  Mr.  John 
T.  McCutcheon,  favorably  known  as  cartoonist  to 
the  Chicago  "  Tribune,"  and  deserving  of  still  closer 
acquaintance  through  the  pages  of  "Dawson,  '11 — 
Fortune  Hunter"  (Dodd).  The  story,  which  is  told 
no  less  by  the  pictures  than  by  the  text,  runs  off  with 
a  briskness  of  manner  and  a  flow  of  ready  invention 
that  cannot  fail  to  be  enjoyed.  The  collegian  just 
ready  to  conquer  the  great  world  could  enjoyably 
and  profitably  devote  a  spare  hour  to  Dawson's  case 
before  setting  forth  in  quest  of  his  own  fortnne. 

Five  inviting  small  holiday  volumes  of  selections 
call  each  for  a  few  words  of  commendation.  "  A 
Little  of  Everything  "  (Macmillan)  presents  titbits 
from  Mr.  E.  V.  Lucas's  books,  chosen  and  arranged 
by  himself.  Characteristic  essays  and  sketches,  with 
a  number  of  poems  from  his  books  of  verse,  make  up 
the  volume,  which  conveys  a  good  idea  of  Mr.  Lucas 
in  his  happiest  vein. — Something  novel  in  antholog- 
ical  literature  is  offered  by  Miss  Agnes  Repplier  in 
"The  Cat:  Being  a  Record  of  the  Endearments 
and  Invectives  Lavished  by  Many  Writers  upon  an 
Animal  much  Loved  and  much  Abhorred  "  (Sturgis). 
The  author  of  "The  Fireside  Sphinx"  is  well  quali- 
fied to  compile  such  a  collection  as  this  of  entertain- 
ing prose  and  verse,  and  to  preface  it  with  an  essay 
both  learned  in  feline  lore  and  pleasing  to  the  cat- 
lover.  The  book,  well  illustrated  by  Miss  Elizabeth 
F.  Bonsall,  extends  to  1 73  pages,  to  the  admiration 
of  those  who  had  not  suspected  how  considerable  is 
the  volume  of  extant  cat  literature. —  A  little  book 
for  the  pocket  is  devoted  to  selections  in  prose  and 
verse  from  those  who  have  written  in  praise  of  gar- 
dens. "The  Voice  of  the  Garden  "  (Lane),  as  the 
book  is  called,  is  compiled  by  Mrs.  Lucy  Leffingwell 
Cable  Bikle',  and  has  a  preface  by  Mr.  George  W. 
Cable.  Under  nine  appropriate  headings  are  grouped 
passages  from  a  great  number  and  variety  of  writers, 
ranging  over  English  literature  and  even  beyond  it, 
but  not  presented  to  view  in  an  alphabetical  index, 


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as  might  have  been  wished.  The  book  is  tastefully 
bound  in  blue  and  gold. — "  Poems  of  Country  Life  " 
(Sturgis),  compiled  by  Mr.  George  S.  Bryan,  is  pub- 
lished as  a  welcome  addition  to  "  The  Farmer's 
Practical  Library."  The  most  practical  things  are 
sometimes  said  to  be  the  ideal ;  hence  the  propriety 
of  a  book  of  poetry  in  a  farmer's  library.  The 
selected  pieces  of  verse,  ranging  from  Herrick's 
"  Harvest  Home  "  to  Ellsworth's  "  Shindig  in  the 
Country,"  all  have  the  agreeable  rustic  tone  and 
manner.  They  are  grouped  in  seven  divisions  treat- 
ing of  country  folk,  country  tasks,  country  pleasures, 
country  blessings,  country  fun,  country  scenes,  and 
country  ties.  Well-known  paintings  of  rural  scenes 
are  reproduced  to  illustrate  the  book.  The  table  of 
contents  has  wisely  been  arranged  in  the  form  of 
an  alphabetical  author- index.  —  "Sweet  Songs  of 
Many  Voices  "  (Caldwell),  compiled  by  Kate  A. 
Wright  (Mrs.  Athelstan  Mellersh),  is  a  general  col- 
lection of  some  of  the  best  short  poems  of  chiefly 
nineteenth-century  English  poets.  A  delicately 
ornamented  binding  and  a  colored  frontispiece  at- 
tract the  eye.  A  useful  closing  index  of  first  lines 
supplements  the  alphabetical  author-index  at  the 
beginning. 

NOTES. 


"The  Night-Riders,"  another  of  Mr.  Ridgwell  Cul- 
lum's  exciting  tales  of  western  ranch  life,  will  be  pub- 
lished in  February  by  Messrs.  George  W.  Jacobs  &  Co. 

A  timely  publication  just  announced  by  Messrs. 
Duffield  &  Co.  is  "  The  Orient  Question "  by  Prince 
Lazarovich-Hrebelianovich,  a  prominent  Servian  states- 
man. 

"  The  Authoritative  Life  of  General  William  Booth," 
founder  of  the  Salvation  Army,  has  been  written  by  his 
"  first  commissioner,"  Mr.  G.  S.  Railton,  and  will  be 
published  in  this  country  by  Messrs.  George  H.  Doran 
Co. 

"  Roses  of  Psestum,"  by  Mr.  Edward  McCurdy,  is  a 
volume  of  essays  on  Italy  and  the  mediaeval  spirit, 
charmingly  written,  and  published  by  Mr.  Thomas  B. 
Mosher  in  the  exquisite  form  that  he  knows  how  to  give 
to  a  book. 

The  forthcoming  biography  of  George  Frederic 
Watts,  by  his  widow,  to  which  we  have  once  or  twice 
referred  in  this  column,  will  be  published  on  this  side 
by  Messrs.  George  H.  Doran  Co.  The  work  promises 
a  rich  literary  and  artistic  treat. 

Three  novels  to  be  issued  in  February  by  Messrs. 
Little,  Brown  &  Co.  are  the  following:  "  The  Day  of 
Days,"  by  Mr.  Louis  Joseph  Vance;  "The  Maiden 
Manifest,"  by  Delia  Campbell  MacLeod;  and  "On 
Board  the  Beattic,"  by  Anna  Chapin  Ray. 

Mr.  George  M.  Trevelyan  has  edited  what  seems  to 
be  a  definitive  edition  of  "  The  Poetical  Works  of  George 
Meredith  "  in  a  single  volume  of  six  hundred  pages, 
based  on  the  carefully-revised  text  of  the  "  Memorial  " 
edition.  The  editor's  notes  give  this  work  a  special 
value.  It  is  published  by  the  Messrs.  Scribner. 

It  is  reported  that  the  recent  death  in  London  of 
William  Flavelle  Monypenny  will  not  interfere  with  the 
completion  of  his  important  Life  of  Disraeli,  the  second 


volume  of  which  has  just  appeared.  Mr.  Monypenny, 
it  seems,  had  practically  all  the  material  for  the  work 
ready  for  the  publishers  at  the  time  of  his  death. 

Professor  Henry  S.  Cauby  of  Yale  has  prepared  a  vol- 
ume on  "The  Short  Story,"  to  be  published  immediately 
by  Messrs.  Henry  Holt  &  Co.  The  body  of  this  book 
is  a  revision  and  enlargement  of  Professor  Canby's 
previous  monograph  on  the  short  story,  the  principles 
therein  laid  down  being  illustrated  by  a  number  of 
specimen  stories. 

Beginning  with  its  January  issue  the  name  of  "  Cur- 
rent Literature  "  will  be  changed  to  "Current  Opinion," 
and  the  page-size  will  be  increased  from  that  of  the  ordi- 
nary magazine  to  seven  by  ten  inches.  We  trust  these 
innovations  may  help  in  widening  the  popularity  of  one 
of  the  few  periodicals  which  may  be  regarded  as  indis- 
pensable to  the  intelligent  reader. 

One  of  the  most  important  books  yet  announced  for 
publication  in  the  new  year  is  "  The  Mechanistic 
Conception  of  Life,"  by  Professor  Jacques  Loeb,  to  be 
issued  by  the  University  of  Chicago  Press.  The  book 
has  been  written  in  such  a  manner  that  the  layman  may 
understand  the  work  done  by  Professor  Loeb  and  draw 
his  own  conclusions  as  to  the  importance  of  the  fact  that 
living  creatures  have  been  developed  without  the  inter- 
position of  the  paternal  element. 

A  set  of  seven  volumes,  just  received,  completes  the 
forty  in  which  Miss  Charlotte  Porter  has  given  us  the 
"First  Folio"  Shakespeare  (Crowell).  In  text  and 
critical  apparatus  this  edition  leaves  little  to  be  desired, 
and  it  is  matter  for  congratulation  that  Miss  Porter's 
task  of  presenting  the  "  trewe  copy  "  has  been  so  satis- 
factorily completed.  Shakespeare  is  better  worth  read- 
ing in  this  form  than  in  any  modernized  one,  and  in  these 
days  when  even  Chaucer  is  made  easy  by  translation  into 
current  prose,  it  is  well  to  be  reminded  that  such  shifts 
do  a  doubtful  service  to  serious  students  of  literature. 

A  new  publishing  house  has  been  established  in  Chi- 
cago by  Mr.  F.  G.  Browne,  for  many  years  head  of  the 
publishing  interests  of  Messrs.  A.  C.  McClurg  &  Co., 
and  a  member  of  the  directory  of  that  corporation.  Mr. 
Browne  will  have  associated  with  him  Mr.  Frank  L. 
Howell,  and  the  firm  name  will  be  F.  G.  Browne  &  Co. 
The  first  book  bearing  the  imprint  of  the  new  firm,  an- 
nounced for  publication  in  January,  will  be  "  The  Lapse 
of  Enoch  Wentworth,"  by  Isabel  Gordon  Curtis,  author 
of  "  The  Woman  from  Wolverton."  Four  other  novels 
by  popular  authors  are  in  preparation  for  issue  during 
February  and  March. 

One  of  the  best-known  and  best-loved  of  American 
clergymen  has  gone  from  us  in  the  death  of  Dr.  Robert 
Collyer  in  New  York  City  on  November  30.  He  was 
born  in  Yorkshire,  England,  in  1823,  and  came  to  this 
country  at  the  age  of  twenty-seven,  continuing  to  follow 
here  the  trade  of  blacksmithing  which  he  had  learned 
in  the  mother  country.  After  a  time  he  turned  to  the 
ministry,  first  as  an  itinerant  Methodist  preacher,  then 
as  an  Unitarian  missionary  in  Chicago.  In  1860  he 
founded  Unity  Church  in  this  city,  continuing  as  its 
pastor  for  eighteen  years.  In  3  879  he  was  called  to 
the  Church  of  the  Messiah  in  New  York  City,  with 
which  he  was  associated  until  his  death.  His  published 
writings  include  the  following:  "Nature  and  Life," 
"The  Life  That  Now  Is,"  "The  Simple  Truth:  A 
Home  Book,"  "Talks  to  Young  Men,"  "History  of 
Ilkley  in  Yorkshire  "  (in  collaboration),  and  "  Things 
New  and  Old." 


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LIST  OF  NEW  BOOKS. 


[The  following  list,  containing  100  titles,  includes  books 
received  by  THE  DIAL  since  its  last  issue.] 

HOLIDAY  GIFT  BOOKS. 

An  Artist  In  Egypt.  By  Walter  Tyndale,  R.  I.  Illus- 
trated in  color,  4to,  286  pages.  George  H.  Doran 
Co.  $5.  net. 

Traditions  of  Edinburgh.  By  Robert  Chambers, 
LL.  D.  Illustrated  in  color,  etc.,  by  James  Rid- 
dell.  R.  S.  W.,  large  8vo,  377  pages.  J.  B.  Lippin- 
cott  Co.  $6.  net. 

The  Battleship.  By  Walter  Wood.  Illustrated  in 
color,  etc.,  large  8vo,  308  pages.  E.  P.  Button  & 
Co.  $4.  net. 

The  Following  of  the  Star.  By  Florence  L  Barclay. 
Illustrated  in  color  by  F.  H.  Townsend  and  deco- 
rated by  Margaret  Armstrong,  large  8vo,  426 
pages.  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons.  $2.50  net. 

A  Christmas  Garland.  By  Max  Beerbohm.  12mo, 
197  pages.  E.  P.  Dutton  &  Co.  $1.35  net. 

Wayfarers  In  the  Libyan  Desert.  By  Frances  Gor- 
don Alexander.  Illustrated,  12mo,  257  pages.  G.  P. 
Putnam's  Sons.  $2.  net. 

The  Charles  Dickens  Originals.  By  Edwin  Pugh. 
Illustrated  in  photogravure,  etc.,  8vo,  347  pages. 
Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 

The  Call  of  the  Carpenter.  By  Bouck  White.  Holi- 
day edition;  with  frontispiece  in  color  by  Balfour 
Ker,  12mo,  355  pages.  Doubleday,  Page  &  Co. 
$1.50  net. 

BIOGRAPHY  AND  REMINISCENCES. 

The  Girlhood  of  Queen  Victoria:  A  Selection  from 
Her  Majesty's  Diaries  between  the  Years  1832  and 
1840.  Published  by  authority  of  His  Majesty,  the 
King;  edited  by  Viscount  Esher.  In  2  volumes; 
illustrated  in  photogravure,  etc.,  large  8vo.  Long- 
mans, Green  &  Co.  $9.  net. 

Social  Life  In  Old  New  Orleans:  Being  Recollections 
of  My  Girlhood.  By  Eliza  Ripley.  Illustrated, 
8vo,  332  pages.  D.  Appleton  &  Co.  $2.50  net. 

George  Borrow:  The  Man  and  His  Books.  By  Ed- 
ward Thomas.  Illustrated,  8vo,  333  pages.  E.  P. 
Dutton  &  Co.  $3.  net. 

Lieutenant  General  Jnbal  Anderson  Early,  C.  S.  A.: 
Autobiographical  Sketch  and  Narrative  of  the 
War  between  the  States.  With  Notes  by  R.  H. 
Early.  Illustrated,  large  8vo,  496  pages.  J.  B. 
Lippincott  Co.  $3.50  net. 

The  Life  and  Letters  of  Frederic  Shields.  Edited  by 
Ernestine  Mills.  Illustrated  in  photogravure, 
etc.,  large  8vo,  368  pages.  Longmans,  Green  &  Co. 
$3.  net. 

The  Last  Leafs  Observations,  during  Seventy-Five 
Years,  of  Men  and  Events  in  America  and  Europe. 
By  James  Kendall  Hosmer,  LL  D.  With  portrait, 
8vo,  340  pages.  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons. 

Notable  Women  of  Modern  China.  By  Margaret  E. 
Burton.  Illustrated,  8vo,  271  pages.  Fleming  H. 
Revell  Co.  $1.25  net. 

Leading  American  Inventors.  By  George  lies.  Illus- 
trated, 8vo,  447  pages.  "Biographies  of  Leading 
Americans."  Henry  Holt  &  Co.  $1.75  net. 
The  Story  of  a  Good  Woman,  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford. 
By  David  Starr  Jordan.  12mo,  57  pages.  Boston: 
American  Unitarian  Association.  75  cts.  net. 

HISTORY. 

Italy  In  the  Thirteenth  Century.  By  Henry  Dwight 
Sedgwick.  In  2  volumes;  illustrated  in  photo- 
gravure, 8vo.  Houghton  Mifflin  Co.  $5.  net. 

Napoleon's  Last  Campaign  In  Germany,  1813.  By  F. 
Loraine  Petre.  Illustrated,  8vo,  403  pages.  John 
Lane  Co.  $3.50  net. 

Smuggling  In  the  American  Colonies  at  the  Outbreak 
of  the  Revolution.  By  William  S.  McClellan,  M.  A.; 
with  Introduction  by  David  T.  Clark.  8vo,  105 
pages.  "David  A.  Wells  Prize  Essays."  Moffat, 
Yard  &  Co.  $1.  net. 

GENERAL  LITERATURE. 

William  Morris:  A  Critical  Study.  By  John  Drink- 
water.  With  photogravure  portrait,  8vo,  202 
pages.  Mitchell  Kennerley.  $2.50  net. 


Journals  of  Ralph  "Waldo  Emerson,  with  Annota- 
tions. Edited  by  Edward  Waldo  Emerson  and 
Waldo  Emerson  Forbes.  In  2  volumes;  with  pho- 
togravure frontispieces,  8vo.  Houghton  Mifflin 
Co.  Per  volume,  $1.75  net. 

Shakespeare,  Bacon,  and  the  Great  Unknown.  By 
Andrew  Lang.  Illustrated,  large  8vo,  314  pages. 
Longmans,  Green  &  Co.  $3.  net. 

Humanly  Speaking.  By  Samuel  McChord  Crothers. 
12mo,  216  pages.  Houghton  Mifflin  Co.  $1.25  net. 

Some  English  Story  Tellers:  A  Book  of  the  Younger 
Novelists.  By  Frederic  Taber  Cooper.  With 
portraits,  8vo,  464  pages.  Henry  Holt  &  Co. 
$1.60  net. 

All  Manner  of  Folk:  Interpretations  and  Studies.  By 
Holbrook  Jackson.  Illustrated,  12mo,  206  pages. 
Mitchell  Kennerley.  $1.50  net. 

Carmen  Sylva,  and  Sketches  from  the  Orient.  By 
Pierre  Loti;  translated  from  the  French  by  Fred 
Rothwell.  With  photogravure  portrait,  12mo,  214 
pages.  Macmillan  Co.  $1.  net. 

The  Problem  of  "Edwin  Drood":  A  Study  in  the 
Methods  of  Dickens.  By  W.  Robertson  Nicoll. 
With  frontispiece,  12mo,  212  pages.  George  H. 
Doran  Co.  $1.25  net. 

John  and  Irene:  An  Anthology  of  Thoughts  on 
Woman.  By  W.  H.  Beveridge.  12mo,  324  pages. 
Longmans,  Green  &  Co.  $1.40  net. 

A  Boy  In  the  Country.  By  John  Stevenson.  Illus- 
trated, 12mo,  300  pages.  Longmans,  Green  &  Co. 
$1.40  net. 

A  Free  Lance:  Being  Short  Paragraphs  and  De- 
tached Pages  from  an  Author's  Note  Book.  By 
Frederic  Rowland  Marvin.  8vo,  196  pages.  Sher- 
man, French  &  Co.  $1.25  net. 

Solitude  Letters.  By  Mary  Taylor  Blauvelt.  8vo, 
216  pages.  Sherman,  French  &  Co.  $1.30  net. 

Uncollected  Writings:  Essays,  Addresses,  Poems, 
Reviews,  and  Letters.  By  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson. 
With  frontispiece,  8vo,  208  pages.  New  York: 
Lamb  Publishing  Co. 

Two  Masters:  Browning  and  Turgenief.  By  Philip 
Stafford  Moxom.  12mo,  91  pages.  Sherman, 
French  &  Co.  $1.  net. 

Poetry  and  Prose.  By  Rev.  J.  H.  Sankey.  12mo,  52 
pages.  Richard  G.  Badger.  $1.  net. 

NEW  EDITIONS  OF  STANDARD  LITERATURE. 

Success.  By  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson.  12mo,  65  pages. 
"Riverside  Press  Edition."  Houghton  Mifflin  Co. 
$2.  net. 

The  Complete  Works  of  Geoffrey  Chaucer.  Edited 
from  numerous  manuscripts  by  Walter  W.  Skeat, 
Ph.  D.  With  frontispiece.  12mo,  732  pages.  Ox- 
ford University  Press. 

The  Works  of  Gilbert  Parker,  Imperial  Edition.  Vol- 
umes I.  and  II.  With  photogravure  frontispieces, 
8vo.  Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 

Poems  of  Adam  Lindsay  Gordon.  Edited,  with  In- 
troduction, Notes,  and  Appendixes,  by  Frank 
Maldon  Robb.  With  portrait,  12mo,  390  pages. 
"Oxford  Edition."  Oxford  University  Press. 

DRAMA  AND  VERSE. 
The  Eldest  Son:     A  Domestic  Drama  in  Three  Acts. 

By  John   Galsworthy.     12mo,   74  pages.     Charles 

Scribner's  Sons.    60  cts.  net. 
The  Story  of  a  Round  House,  and  Other  Poems.     By 

John  Masefleld.     12mo,  325  pages.     Macmillan  Co. 

$1.30  net. 
The  Lyric  Year:     One   Hundred   Poems.     Edited  by 

Ferdinand    Earle.      12mo,    316    pages.      Mitchell 

Kennerley.     $2.  net. 
Echoes  from  Vagabondla.     By  Bliss  Carman.     12mo, 

65  pages.     Small,  Maynard  &  Co.     $1.  net. 
The  Mortal  Gods,  and  Other  Plays.     By  Olive  Tilford 

Dargan.    8vo,  303  pages.    Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 

$1.50  net. 
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12mo,      242     pages.        Sherman,     French     &     Co. 

$1.50  net. 
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pages.     Dublin:     Maunsel  &  Co.,  Ltd. 
The    Dance    of    Dinwiddie.      By    Marshall    Moreton. 

With    frontispiece,    12mo,    83    pages.      Stewart   & 

Kidd  Co.     $1.25  net. 


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FICTION. 
One  Man's  View.     By  Leonard  Merrick.      12mo,    258 

pages.     Mitchell  Kennerley.     $1.20  net. 
The  Kiss,  and  Other  Stories.     By  Anton  Tchekhoff; 

translated  from  the   Russian   by  R.   E.   C.   Long. 

12mo,      317      pages.        Charles      Scribner's      Sons. 

$1.50  net. 
The  Valiants  of  Virginia.     By  Hallie  Erminie  Rives. 

Illustrated    in    color,    12mo,    432    pages.      Bobbs- 

Merrill  Co.     $1.35  net. 
Bubbles  of  the  Foam.     Translated  from  the  original 

manuscript   by    F.   W.    Bain.     With    frontispiece, 

12mo,  160  pages.     G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons.    $1.25  net. 
The  Bountiful  Hour.     By  Marion  Fox.     With  frontis- 
piece in  color,  12mo.    John  Lane  Co.   $1.25  net. 
The  Fortunes  of  the  Landrays.     By  Vaughan  Kester. 

New  edition;  illustrated,  12mo,  481  pages.     Bobbs- 

Merrill  Co.      $1.35  net. 
An  Isle  of  Eden:     A  Story  of  Porto  Rico.     By  Janie 

Prichard  Duggan.     Illustrated  in  color,  12mo,  346 

pages.     Griffith  &  Rowland  Press.     $1.25  net. 
Anne  Boleyn.     By  Reginald  Drew.     12mo,  364  pages. 

Sherman,  French  &  Co.     $1.35  net. 
A    Loyal    Love.      By    Eleanor    Atkinson.      12mo,    93 

pages.     Richard  G.  Badger.     75  cts.  net. 

TRAVEL   AND   DESCRIPTION. 

Karakoram  and  Western  Himalaya,  19O9:  An  Ac- 
count of  the  Expedition  of  H.  R.  H.  Prince  Luigi 
Amedeo  of  Savoy.  By  Filippo  de  Filippi;  with 
Preface  by  H.  R.  H.  the  Duke  of  the  Abruzzi. 
With  plates  and  maps  in  separate  volume;  illus- 
trated in  photogravure,  etc.,  4to.  E.  P.  Dutton  & 
Co.  $15.  net. 

The  Last  Frontier:  The  White  Man's  War  for  Civil- 
ization in  Africa.  By  E.  Alexander  Powell.  Illus- 
trated, 8vo,  291  pages.  Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 
$3.  net. 

Trails,  Trappers,  and  Tender-feet  in  the  New  Empire 
of  Western  Canada.  By  Stanley  Washburn.  Illus- 
trated, large  8vo,  350  pages.  Henry  Holt  &  Co. 
$3.  net. 

Papua  or  British  New  Guinea.  By  J.  H.  P.  Murray. 
With  Introduction  by  Sir  William  MacGregor. 
Illustrated,  large  Svo,  388  pages.  Charles  Scrib- 
ner's Sons.  $3.75  net. 

United  Italy.  By  F.  M.  Underwood.  Illustrated, 
large  Svo,  360  pages.  George  H.  Doran  Co. 
$3.50  net. 

Along  Spain's  River  of  Romance:  The  Guadalquivir. 
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pages.  George  H.  Doran  Co.  $2.50  net. 

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plans;  twenty-fifth  edition,  12mo,  384  pages. 
Macmillan  Co.  $1.75  net. 

John,  Jonathan  and  Company.  By  James  Milne. 
With  frontispiece,  12mo,  248  pages.  Macmillan 
Co.  $1.50  net. 

Saint  Anne  of  the  mountains:  The  Story  of  a  Sum- 
mer in  a  Canadian  Pilgrimage  Village.  By  Erne 
Bignell.  Illustrated,  12mo,  215  pages.  Richard 
G.  Badger.  $1.25  net. 

Seeing  Europe  on  Sixty  Dollars.  By  Wilbur  Finley 
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The  Government  of  American  Cities.  By  William 
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millan Co.  $2.25  net. 

The  Woman  Movement.  By  Ellen  Key;  translated 
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nam's Sons.  $1.50  net. 


The  Elements  of  Child-Protection.  By  Sigmund 
Engel;  translated  from  the  German  by  Dr.  Eden 
Paul.  Svo,  276  pages.  Macmillan  Co.  $3.50  net. 

Christianizing  the  Social  Order.  By  Walter  Rausch- 
enbusch.  Svo,  493  pages.  Macmillan  Co.  $1.50  net. 

Recent  Events  and  Present  Policies  in  China.  By 
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The  Peace  Movement  of  America.  By  Julius  Morit- 
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Wealth  and  Welfare.  By  A.  C.  Pigou,  M.  A.  Svo,  493 
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Modern  Philanthropy:  A  Study  of  Efficient  Appeal- 
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Swords  and  Ploughshares;  or,  The  Supplanting  of 
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Lucia  Ames  Mead;  with  Foreword  by  Baroness 
von  Suttner.  Illustrated,  12mo,  249  pages.  G.  P. 
Putnam's  Sons.  $1.50  net. 

Penal  Philosophy.  By  Gabriel  Tarde;  translated  by 
Rapelje  Howell,  with  Preface  by  Edward  Lindsey 
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pages.  "Modern  Criminal  Science  Series."  Little, 
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Socialism  from  the  Christian  Standpoint.  By  Father 
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Greek  Thinkers:  A  History  of  Ancient  Philosophy. 
By  Theodor  Gomperz;  translated  by  G.  G.  Berry. 
Volume  IV.  Authorized  edition;  large  Svo,  587 
pages.  Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 

Science  and  the  Human  Mind:  A  Critical  and  His- 
torical Account  of  the  Development  of  Natural 
Knowledge.  By  William  Cecil  Dampier  Whetham 
and  Catherine  Durning  Whetham.  Svo,  304  pages. 
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Art.  By  Auguste  Rodin;  translated  from  the  French 
of  Paul  Gsell  by  Mrs.  Romilly  Fedden.  Illus- 
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Memorials  of  the  Cathedral  and  Priory  of  Christ  in 
Canterbury.  By  C.  Eveleigh  Woodruff  and  Wil- 
liam Danks.  Illustrated  in  photogravure,  etc., 
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A  Short  Critical  History  of  Architecture.  By  H. 
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Forged  Egyptian  Antiquities.  By  T.  G.  Wakeling. 
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lan Co.  $2.  net. 

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Puvis  de  Chavannes,  with  biographical  and  crit- 
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High  School  Geography:  Physical,  Economic,  and 
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field.  Illustrated  in  color,  etc.,  large  Svo,  347 
pages.  George  H.  Doran  Co.  $3.50  net. 


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How  to  Play  Golf.  By  Harry  Vardon.  Illustrated, 
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Extemporaneous  Speaking-.  By  Paul  M.  Pearson 
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