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LITERARY    WORLD 


A   FORTNIGHTLY  REVIEW  OF  CURRENT  LITERATURE. 


VOLUME    XVII. 

JANUAKV  —  Deceuber,  i386. 


BOSTON: 

E.     H.    HAMES     &    COMPANY, 


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INDEX   TO   VOLUME   XVII. 


[Tilla  in  italitt  rtftr  h  enlrui  in  "Liliraiy  Imdtx''] 


Abbot,'  K.'fc.,  Hclintl 
AbboD.  C.  C'.',  llplmnd 


IS  Stoop*  to  Conqnar,      ASt 


F.ilia,  m^Ttuoogh  lb«  Y< 


^*P! 


Aluu,  itlUou,  t^,  ni:  HAUoek,  3 


1,   L.  It.,  Jta.  J57:  Jol  9m,  KH 
ila'i  LlbniT,  W;  S>la  at  Works, 


....  Divlnltj  D(   Oat  L 


Alplna  Winter.  ITtae, 

AItMJa,  b.  de.  ^Uglon  Tlmigtit. 
Amsrkea,  BookB  on,  Kl,  AVI;  lUiloi7, 

AamlM  Slntaltsot,  »;  Art.  Kogbltr. 
«!;  Cttlm^  Manul.  Ford.ni!  Di- 
pliiaaiij,SBtaDjlBr,!lfr;  FlfarvFitlnt- 
m.  ffiti  HMorT.  aanilDe  of,  Hli 


A.  B.  &  r. «.  ud  New  Ortliodoir. 

Aiiiei.Bru.,  ' 

Amlcti.  E.  d«.  ConiUmUnople, 

AmLel*!  JourDHl, 

AbwdbUh  Law-ktikan,  Alton, 

Amonc  Ibe  Tree*.  Clmicli, 

Anurau  de  Cutliartiio, 

A^i?6iU«i'wrl|ikt. 


AHteT^J\.  Fiilen  Idol, 

iid'ApM,  Hartnunn, 

MnpMa.  Bonrta, 
a.ESSMI, 

into- 

■».  T.,  Bl  Hre  Md  Sword, 
ieetiirt,PQTaM  and  Leferr 
Aram  gfTtee.  Qflif . 

ArMon&Bj  In  En^ud,  Badcan, 

AlMMI  din  *  Co,, 

AriMltuin,  Q.  Da  Two  Booki, 


r.  c.  ^, 


■neca  of  Cblralir,  Ml 


Qoartarlr , 

Aiior,  W.  #..9:  ValenUiw,  tt,U,  IH 

AlUntlc  HoDtlilT.  11.  tU,  T»,  tM.  MB 

AUaneii.  si.  99,  (94 

Anot  Racbel.  u'urraT.  »» 

AarlDge^  O.  C,  Emeraon  and  CarlTle,      IM 


"  oZ'm°MJlT^*iBtki 


Hacoa,  If.  fl..'blecloiiRrT  oT  Bo«on,         9W 
anrTHeori  oT 


Sahoc,  //.  d(.  IM.  R*.  ITl:  Aflar  E 
Dnchcaaa  da  LAngHiki,  41;  £i 

B«nirofl.(l..on  Lord*!  Prajer,  15 


JSCr~. 


IIFII.J.  Q.,EdiltiDarton, 


Haylor,  r.  i;,.  On  Bolti  Sldea, 
RuTnta.  R.  H..  Euiei  Bong. 


skonLnn,  Larcom,  41 

fsbtt.  B,  T.,  Book  at  Daya,  Mt;  Cal- 
endar, 4(3;  Oratory,  ^ 
iIEitracu.Hari,  I' 


Bernard,  ¥..  Wo^erfnl  Eaiapai, 


BioErmpbLea.  JUfIott  in,  Uombert, 
Bloinplllv,  World:    DonnalLT,    [.,   N; 
£nvl,  C.  W.,  ei;  Iniersoll.  E..  290; 

Blrda,'  Brldgea  and  Skeldlng,  ' 


111,  Qualtrongta, 

BodT  ol  tblf  Death,  M 

Body,  Wondemot.kletir, 
Bohemlin  Clnb.  M, 

Bollngbmkv.blbllographr.ll;  Colllna, 


DknandHwIiinen.  UnE, 
«k>.l«-iitHiinrir«I.<4.JM:n 


J-  G..  Apacha  Campaign, 


rlne.  m'  b'.,  ilotjiar'i  ami,  MJ 


l'.  d'  Two  CoU(«e  OtrA,         K,  II 


Imwnlng,'^.  B..  Bonneti,  41 

irownlng'.  K.'.  Mli  Handbook,  Orr,  Bt. 
ni:  Loei  Leader,  111  Silaet  Poami, 
Rolfe,  ua,  m;  Sonnet,  WarAeU,  IM, 


I,  O.  B..  IMint.  I 

UuntUngBall,' 

a-»»raa.  J.,JT«:  Ufa. Brown, le, B;  t 

wSISSbJ,  F*..  Onr  Badloali, 

Harnett,  F.  a.,n.  U.  M,  K,  til;  Ut 


BorniQirha,  J.,  20a:  Slgni  and 

ssr.-A°ii, 

Butler,  W.  A.,  Domeattona, 


:anieron,  V.  L.,  Harrr  Harmond. 

i.-r."..»-..'"A".'--  -- 


Captain  John  1 

Cardinal  Sin,  CODwaV 
Card!.  CbeaUng  at, 
Carol,  R,  H., 

Cartnan.B^,  "nn". 
Carrie..  Llle  of  ^muion, 


(^emonTK.'VoDng  WUd-^oi^ink'''     * 
Calalorie.  Anierloan,  Bowkar. 

CantnrT,  171,  SlA,  29),  ix,  T,\,  )K.m,3M. 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


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UHdy  Valwortb'f  Dluhoii 


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THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


Lodlc  o(  IntniapMUoii,  Wenwonh, 

LondOB,    naOnr   Cbulu   1],  Mollo 

QuIcIb    to.    QIUIS.   Ml     hiulur 

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Lmaftit^.  'h.  It*.,  iM.  m,  n«i  ei 

ud  ^Dturd.  I73i  Llie,  Wi;  Mt 

1W.'4M;  Wreck  oT  Hopeciui' 
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UoCoob.  J..  |->ycbolOKj,  3M1  KttlKluu 


Hnuof  FwliBii.  MuMdiIc, 
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llui'iUeiuloir.  Ewing, 


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BOi,  if.   p.,  HHUjal'i  Noil  Book. 

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Snun,B.,BadtoBeat,  3 

Smitli,  F.  B.,  Wall- Won  Boada,  4 

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Bpartan  and  nalHia  Buprtmaolii,  Su- 
BpaolAiig,  U.  3.,  1 

Bpaakan.  304,9 

Bpaecii  Formation,  I^vaaum, 
Bpelllna-BoDU,  V»,l 

Bpeuw.  H.,  EoolMlullMil  Inllltatlou, 

Hi  Iimppniallilt  Boot, 
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Sphinx'*  CbUdno,  Cookt,  1 

8iitelh>««u-)War)u,  1 

BplnnlBg  WbMl,  Da;*  of,  Bmoki,  3 

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Bporgeon,  C.  H.,  Ttwannr  of  David,  1 
BpTrT,  J.,  Bloo  anil  Wtoeli. 

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Stephen!,  A.  B.,  M.3D3 


Story  Dl  Iha  Kitloiil. 
Btorj  ot  a  Ranch,  BglUii 

BuanEe  cue,  Slaveuou 


Htrlnc  Attuned  lo  Ulrth. 

Stndenli'  Sartea,  ih  Bolta. 

StiineTant,  J.  ll.. 

NubbllWia, 

SuDIvaDTTTlt.,  Roasof  Bhadoir, 

4allT,  J.,  Fevchologr, 

Hummer  lo  itooklet,  Woodbrtd|C. 

Kiin.Ualllemtn,^i  Spoti. Eedila, 
stuiHlaj,  Kaw  England, 
Hunila;  Openbu, 


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TajLor.  B.  t.,  WOIfca. 

Taylor,' w!H.,Jweph, 

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TeiiBraon,  A.,  lleokot,  2W ; 


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Btudenu'qoarler,  lU;  Vaults  Ttlr, 

Thai  bieadlDl  Boy,  Woodi,  '  :s 


TtaomDaoD,  J.il.,  From  AccidlaCi  Itaeb- 
Thoffipaonis.i'Unmblei  J'u^,  '  M,  IM 


>n  i/hins,<:'1uinipiwr.  4; 


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CONTENTS. 

PlUIIU) 

TUDI  BlBUOGIAPHV 

Uouov**  Royalty  Rnroan)         .... 
BAHnoFT*!  Mixica 

AHBTOaYOrPAIHTIHO    .' 

Hiloimt  OH  Railmoao* 

RnjciovBAHofinouiciuL: 

Bibli  Unl»  *<"!  Ilxi'  Parmlleli  in  Other  Reli|ioM 

ri  I  ■ni'i  BvTand  tba  Gnn 

Wbiloo'i  Tb*  KtoIuUici  of  RnclUiaD  . 

Kkhl  Sndia  of  Ibc  LonT)  Day      .... 

Fwbun'i  Stniwat 

Biibap  LaVi  L«ian> 

DiWsi'i  Shbou 

Slmr'a  Phbb 

GiUo'iLYria 

KunMph'iVcrHi 

OtwroB  asd  Pack 

na-DHnklcUiua 

AdMrorFluiM 

Tb*  Tbouhi  of  God 

Mn.  Pill?!  Stlttt  PoBU 

Hiddm  SwHImi 

Tlx  lu  Prium 

Tb*  Lad;  of  La  Gnara 

PrinoeZlUh      ,'  '. 

Rsw  of  Shadow 

Mn.  Heiwloii'i  Iocoih 

NanVaFulMr 

AloH  AlaOa'i  Gnai  Rinr 

Tba  QiKtB'i  Enjin 

Tba  Lina  oi  Robul  and  Uuy  UoSal  . 

AMiikalCriiiH 

Wood'a  Hma  ud  Hu 

Shun  Sindic*  froiB  Naluia 

Tba  SctaiKa  oI  Mind  Appliad  ID  Tuchini 

Tha  World*!  Workin 

Enaiagi  with  Ibe  Sacrad  Foata      .... 
CuauHT  LmiATUH 

ODiNavVoiKLrTTaa.    Snlua     .... 
Ooa  Ehgluk  Urm.    A.  H.  F.  R.       . 
OnaGiBHAii  Lii-m.    Laopold  Katachar 

J^  KcUa  lUnu,  LL.D 

SHAKBiruaiAHA.    Edited  bv  WiiL  J.  Rolfl: 

Tba  DmnilxT  Ui«mi  of  iIk  Sew  York  Shika- 

■paan  Sodaty  

MnnuiDNoTs* 


"TX)  many  who,  like  the  present  reviewer, 
*■  have  visited  the  beautiful  island  of 
Sidly  utd  the  Sicilian  Mediterranean,  this 
huidsome  Christnias  book  will  be  a  pleasant 
anrpriae.  It  is  a  story  set  in  sunoundings 
wboae  charm  of  loveliness  Is  unique,  and 
whose  memory,  once  gdued,  will  never  be 
forgotten.  So  glorious  is  the  mountain  i 
cent  within  whose  arc  Palermo  lies,  so  pure 
and  perfect  the  Arabian  architecture  of  its 
great  church,  so  marvelous  the  coloring  of 
the  BtA  in  front  and  the  mountains  behind, 
that  the  Italians  may  well  speak  oE  its  plain 
a*  the  Golden  Shell,  and  look  upon  it  and 
its  environment  as  an  earthly  Paradise  — i 
Venus  de  la  Concha.  A  year  or  two  agi 
the  late  General  McClellan  described  thi 
mummiedwondersofits  old  Capuchin  church, 
trithin  which,  a  little  later,  the  present « 
saw  thousands  of  corpses  hung  up  to  dry 
on  hooks  against  the  wall  or  lying  in  long 
avenues  of  glass  cases,  the  ^r  t>eing 
wonderfully  preserving  that  nothing  depos- 
ited in  the  deep,  subterranean,  but  admirably 
lighted,  streets  of  the  necropolis,  decays; 
while  here,  autumn  after  autumn,  in  the  sea- 


son of  All  Saints  the  Palermitans  come  for 
their  annual  visitation  of  the  dead.  Fergus- 
,  Symonds,  Hare,  and  Bartlett  have  writ- 
appreciatively  of  the  architectural  or  the 
landscape  wealth  of  the  noble  island  whose 
mighty  triangle  lies  in  a  sea  bluer  than  blue- 
bells, and  whose  eastern  apex  is  accentuated 
by  the  huge  mass  of  Etna.  The  island  is 
strewn  with  magnificent  ruins  and  temples; 
ilphur  pita  vie  with  the  richest;  the 
grapes  and  fruits  are  the  sweetest;  and 
the  melodious  dialect,  brilliant  flowers,  and 
opulent  sunlight  of  the  South  conspire  to 
form  a  Ixiuquet  of  fascinations  which  make 
of  Sicilia  la  Bella  one  of  the  choicest  spots 

I  earth. 

It  is  in  the  midst  of  these  delightful  sights 
and  associations  that  Mrs,  Field  places  her 
Christmas  Story  of  1885  —  sights  and  asso- 
ciations which  she  has  pleasantly  intertwined 
simple  plot  and  picturesque  per- 
sonal experiences.  The  story  runs  on  the 
fates  and  fortunes  of  an  expatriated  Ameri- 
can and  his  daughter  Ninpa,  an  American 
missionary,  an  Italian  padrt,  and  an  English 
family  of  rank.  The  time  is  the  tempestuous 
time  of  Garibaldi's  landing  in  the  island, 
1859-60,  and  before  one  knows  it  the  love- 
scenes  are  interrupted  by  the  roar  of  cannon 
and  the  6asb  of  artillery  from  the  retiring 
Neapolitan  fleet.  Garibaldi  Is  of  course 
victorious ;  the  lovers  are  happily  united ; 
and  the  book  ends  with  abundant  poetry 
and  gratulation.  Indeed  the  fault  of  thi 
book  is  its  superabundant  quotation  on  thi 
poetical  side,  and  its  excessive  use  of  phrase: 
and  phraseology  from  the  Book  of  Common 
Prayer.  The  etchings  which  illustrate  it, 
and  the  immensely  broad  margins  of  the 
book,  are  a  treat  to  the  bibliophile,  and  give 
it  a  more  than  ephemeral  value.  The  MS. 
passed    through    the   hands   of    Mr.    Luigi 

Monti.  .^ 

TKADE  BIBUOGEAFHY.* 

THE  completion  of  the  third  part  of  th< 
American  Catalogue,  containing  titles 
of  books  published  between   1876  and  1884, 
is  evidence  of  delinite  progress  in  bibliog- 
raphy in  this  country.     It  may  be  taken  for 
granted  that  the  publication  of  the  first  two 
parts  cannot  have  been  a  wholly  calamitous 
enterprise    to  the  publisher — the  late  es- 
teemed Frederick  Leypoldt  —  for  magnani- 
mous as  he  certainly  was  in  such  matters, 
his  business  was  not  wholly  a  philanthropic 
endeavor.    Moreover  this  third  part  is  : 
earnest  that  the  American  Catalogue  is 
continue  its  good  work ;  the  present  part 
realty  the  first  of  a  projected  series  of  five- 
yearly  Supplements ;  the  second  is  to  appear 
in  1890. 
The  first  two  parts  have  of  necessity  the 


•The  American  Catalogue  FDundeil  by  F.  LcTpoldl, 
1876-1884.  Booki  RECorded  (Inclndiog  Reprint!  and  [m- 
poftalion))  Juijf  1,  ia;6-June  )0,  1884.  Compiled  undtr 
the  Editorial  Direction  ol  R.  R.  Bowker  by  Miu  A.  I. 
ApplalOB.  New  Voik :  Office  of  Fublitbera'  Weekly,  i88j, 
fan  I,  AalhoraandTitlea;  II,  Sulqccu,  etc 


least  pretensions  to  completeness,  for  the 
collection  of  titles  was  literally  a  work  in 
the  dark,  there  being  no  previous  bibliogra- 
phies of  value,  except  the  rather  meager 
efforts  of  Roorbach  and  Kelly.  Booksellers* 
catalogues  and  other  unsatisfactory  sources 
to  be  relied  on  for  accuracy  of  titles. 
Considering  all,  the  success  is  remarkable. 
Part  third  not  only  had  the  advantage  of  a 
skilled  editor  and  assistants,  but  it  could 
depend  on  the  Publishers'  iVeekly  and  the 
Publiskeri'  Trade  Ust  Annual,  which,  so 
far  as  they  go,  are  useful  and  fairly  complete 
records  of  current  issues.  The  American 
Catalogue  does  not,  of  course,  pretend  to  b« 
a  bibliography  of  American  literature;  that 
may  come  in  time ;  the  five-yearly  Supple- 
nents  may  develop  into  something  of  the 
:ort;  at  present  it  is  only  intended  to  fur- 
nish titles  of  books  In  print  and  for  sale 
during  the  years  covered.    Even  in  this  less 

ibitious  attempt  perfection  was  not  to  be 
expected.  Complaint  has  been  made,  for 
instance,  that  publications  throughout  the 
West  have  not  been  included  as  fully  as 
desirable,  as  for  instance,  a  number  of 
county  histories  in  Iowa,  Illinois,  and  Wis- 
consin, though  as  it  is,  almost  one  thousand 
publishers  are  represented.  It  is  not  the 
common  titles  which  mystify  the  trade  and 
libraries ;  publishers'  lists  enable  one  to 
discover  a  new  or  popular  book  easily 
enough.  What  causes  vexation  of  spirit  is 
the  fruitless  search  to  verify  the  title  or  get 
the  price  or  publisher  of  some  local  history, 
biographical  memoir,  genealogy,  or  "cen- 
tennial discourse"  —  these  in  ^^  disjecta 
membra  of  bibliography,  the  most  sought 
for,  the  hardest  to  find. 

Previous  to  the  publication  of  the  Ameri- 
can Catalogue  trade  bibliography  was  in  a 
miserable  condition ;  il  has  been  for  years  a 
source  of  irritation  to  be  constantly  re- 
minded of  the  superior  works  of  Loreoz  and 
the  Journal  de  la  Ubrairit  in  France,  of 
Kayser  and  Hinrich  and  Heinsius  in  Ger- 
many, and  of  the  convenient,  if  by  no  means 
perfect,  Engluh  Catalogue. 

The  transference  of  the  right  of  publica^ 
tion  from  one  firm  to  another,  and  the  too 
common  dishonesty  of  certain  publishing 
houses,  have  given  rise  to  one  of  the  worst 
abuses  in  the  book  trade  —  reissuing  books 
with  changed  titles.  Mr.  J.  L.  Whitney's 
little  manual,  entitled  A  Modem  Prottus, 
was  an  exposure  of  this  vicious,  and  to  the 
purchaser,  costly  practice.  It  is  a  satisfao 
tion  to  notice  that  the  American  Catalogtu 
has  pointed  out  such  cases  when  known; 
it  would  have  been  an  excellent  idea  to  have 
ina>rporated  Mr.  Whitney's  work  into  its 
pages.  What  remedy  there  is  for  this  abuse 
is  not  obvious,  unless  the  law  be  made  such 
that  a  publisher  or  author  shall  forfeit  his 
copyright  if  the  title  is  changed.  The  names 
of  persons  and  vessels  cannot  be  altered 
without  due  pro<»ss;  why  should  not  the 
names  of  books  be  similarly  treated  ?    Here 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Jak.  9, 


Is  one  instaoce  of  the  perili  to  a  buyer  of 
fiction.  In  iSSi  Octave  Feuillet's  Hittairt 
iPuHt  Parisienne  was  translated  and  pab- 
lisbed  In  this  country  as  History  of  a  Paris- 
itnnt;  in  the  same  year  it  agun  appeared 
as  Jtantie;  or,  the  History  of  a  Parisitnnt; 
\tiI%S-i\lrt^p^iaicAaa  A  Parisian  Romasue, 
and  now  in  1885  Feuillet's  delicate  con- 
ception of  Parisian  luxury  has  been  honored 
with  the  title  of  Skipped  by  the  Ught  of  the 
Afooit,  suggested  no  doubt  by  a  hoodlum 
variety  show  of  the  same  name. 

The  system  of  cataloguing  generally 
adopted  in  American  libraries  has  been 
for  the  most  part  followed  in  the  present 
work,  except  that  authors  and  titles  are 
given  in  one  alphabet,  and  subjects  11 
another.  It  was  not  a  particularly  economi 
cal  or  necessary  plan  to  give  just  the  same 
full  information  regarding  imprint,  size, 
in  the  alphabet  by  subjects  as  is  found  under 
the  main  titles;  but  smaller  libraries  might 
take  advantage  of  this  seeming  extrava- 
gance, and  secure  only  the  subject  parts, 
which  might  prove  amply  sufficient  Some 
of  the  features  cannot  be  praised  too  highly, 
particularly  Mr.  Leypoldt's  own  compilation 
of  a  list  of  bibliographical  aids  in  part  sec- 
ond, pages  T-xx.  Many  of  the  cross  ref- 
ences  and  lists  throughout  the  work  are  help- 
ful; and  in  part  third,  superior  numbers 
indicate  pages  in  the  Pubiishtrs'  Weekly, 
where  much  information  in  the  way  of  notes 
is  frequently  given.  At  times  the  subject 
references  seem  almost  too  numerous,  as,  for 
instance,  under  Catholic  Church  (or  Roman 
Catholic  Church  as  most  catalogues  say  to 
avoid  confusion)  are  inserted  many  titles  of 
books  simply  written  by  Catholic  authors. 

Certain  catechisms  are  properly  placed 
under  Westminster  Assembly;  but  surely 
there  ought  to  have  been  a  reference  from 
Assembly's  Catechism.  There  is  a  refer- 
ence from  Temperance  to  Alcohol,  but  not 
from  Alcohol  to  Temperance,  which  is  cor- 
rected in  part  third ;  there  is  no  recognition 
of  Drunkenness,  but  we  find  the  peculiar 
reference  "  Intemperance  see  Temperance." 
It  is  perhaps  well  enough  not  to  separate  the 
works  on  Calculus  with  Differential  and  In- 
tegral; but  not  to  divide  Chemistry,  at 
least,  into  Organic  and  Inorganic  is  not 
good  cataloguing.  Infant  Baptism  and  Bap- 
tism have  separate  headings,  though  these 
subjects  are  practically  inseparable.  A  ten- 
dency to  prefer  general  subjects  to  more 
minute  divisions  is  noticeable,  as  when  works 
on  Natural  Selection  are  referred  to  Evolu- 
tion, whereas  the  first  is  only  a  part  — a 
large  part  to  be  sure— of  the  greater  sub- 


s  a  curious  fact  that  while  there 


were  in  a  given  number  of  years  only  live 
entries  under  Harvard  College,  and  only  live 
under  the  immense  science  of  Comparative 
Anatomy  and  Physiology,  during  the  same 
time  this  wonderful  country  of  ours  has  fos- 
tered the  production  of  fifteen  worjts  on  the 
banjo  I 


NoUemen  are  entered  under  their  titles, 
except  when  better  known  under  their  family 
names.  It  is  well  enough  to  say  Macaulay, 
T.  B.  (/(W(f);  but  why  should  the  title  of 
Earl  of  Orford  be  left  off  Horace  Walpole's 
naroeP  by  which  title  the  elegant  Horace 
was  and  is  perfectly  well  known.  Married 
women  are  put  under  their  latest  names,  and 
here  again  arise  many  complications.  For 
instance,  George  Eliot,  Florence  Marryat, 
and  Gara  Erskine  Clement  are  all  authors 
who  have  been  twice  married.  In  this  cata- 
logue, George  Eliot,  who  was  twice  married, 
and  once  at  least  legally,  is  entered  under 
her  pseudonym.  Florence  Marryat  is  put 
in  part  first  under  her  maiden  name,  al- 
though she  was  Mrs.  Rosschurch  at  the 
time;  she  appears  in  part  third  as  Mrs, 
Francis  Lean,  while  Mrs.  Clement,  who  was 
married  in  1882  to  Mr.  Waters,  is  still  re- 
tained under  her  first  married  name  in  the 
1885  catalogue.  These  are  but  slight  blem- 
ishes in  so  worthy  and  useful  an  undertak- 
ing, and  they  were  cited  to  show  the  impos- 
sibility of  perfection  in  cataloguing.  The 
American  Catalogue,  while  not  exactly  a 
bibliography,  is  what  Mr.  Lynds  £,  Jones, 
the  compiler  of  the  first  two  parts,  calls  It  in 
the  Library  fournal,  a  "  book-buying  tool." 
It  is  in  no  unfriendly  spirit  that  the  sugges- 
tion is  often  made  that  as  a  tool  the  Ameri- 
can Catalogua  is  too  elegantly  wrought  for 
rough  usage.  No  other  trade  bibliography 
in  the  world  is  anything  but  unpretentious 
and  serviceable,  unless  perhaps  Kayser's 
BUcher-LexitoH.  These  large  margins  and 
fine  paper  must  affect  the  price  appreciably. 
With  smaller  pages,  thinner  paper,  greater 
economy  in  giving  reference  under  subjects 
and  titles,  this  most  useful  work  might  be 
brought  within  the  means  of  more  dealers 
and  smaller  libraries. 

MOLLOrS  SOTALTY  SEBTOBES* 

AS  Mr.  Molloy's  books  appear  year  after 
year,  the  remark  that  each  new  one 
shows  a  marked  advance  upon  its  predeces- 
sor becomes  such  a  truism  that  the  fastid- 
ious reviewer  is  almost  deprived  of  the  use 
of  it  It  is  certain,  however,  that  the  author 
of  Royalty  Restored  has  never  oSered  the 
public  anything  so  graphic,  so  fascinating, 
so  charming  as  an  example  of  faded  lives  re- 
vivified and  dimmed  scenes  revitalized  by 
the  magic  of  the  picturesque  historic  sense, 
Royalty  Restored  makes  no  pretence  of 
being  history  in  the  stern  sense  of  the 
word,  but  is  a  thoroughly  picturesque  set- 
ting forth  and  blending  together  in  a  har- 
moniously romantic,  although  veracious, 
ensemble  of  the  varied  social  characters  and 
moral  intellectual  aspects  of  that  curiously 
disorganized  and  licentious  period. 

Although  the  book  is  written  (as  is  evi- 
dent at  a  glance]  by  the  possessor  of  one  of 
those  Imaginations  that  see  humanity,  either 


Jndar  Cturla  II.    Br 


of  today,  or  a  thousand  years  ago,  with  ro- 
mantic insight  rather  than  with  scientific 
observation  and  analysis,  the  manner  of 
setting  the  matter  forth  is  restrained  and 
dignified,  while  the  facts  are  all  verified  by 
authorities.  When  the  book  is  read  we 
put  it  aside  with  regret  that  the  author  did 
not  finish  by  the  regulation  risumi  of  the 
fates  of  all  the  characters  in  his  romance ; 
tell  us  how  Barbara  Palmer  finished  her 
days  as  well  as  her  royal  lover,  what  be- 
came of  Nell  Gwyn,  and  how  the  poor  neg- 
lected wife  spent  her  widowhood.  That 
the  diarists  and  chroniclers  of  the  time 
have  told  us  all  this  makes  no  difference ; 
our  disappointment  is  that  we  are  not  told 
it  as  a  part  of  the  phantasmagoria  of  light 
and  shade  of  Mr.  Molloy's  delightful  vol- 

Critically  we  have  a  few  exceptions  to 
take  to  Royalty  Restored.  Too  much  space 
is  taken  up  with  descriptions  of  the  various 
pageantries  of  Cromwell's  death  and  the 
show-scenes  of  the  Restoration.  Em  bloe 
these  spectacles  are  always  very  much  alike, 
and  a  few  simple  words  would  have  given 
their  impression  quite  as  effectively  as 
pages  of  detail  description.  In  such  de- 
scriptions, as  also  in  such  sentences  as 
"  ruddy  wine  in  goblets  of  old  gold  "  and 
"  the  barges  sailing  slowly  back  while  the 
moon  rose  betimes  in  the  heavens  and  the 
water  was  streaked  with  silvery  lines  "  Mr. 
Molloy  shows  the  hand  of  the  novelist 
But  when  that  same  hand  sets  the  fact  so 
vividly  before  us  that  Buckingham's  wife 
"although  virtuous  was  lean  and  brown," 
and  gives  us  those  wonderfully  graphic  de- 
scriptions, clean  cut  like  Doric  lines,  of  the 
Plague  and  Great  Fire  of  London,  than 
which  no  better  have  ever  been  written,  we 
find  criticism  carping.  Mr.  Molloy  makes 
Charles  II  altogether  too  amiable.  He  was 
"fondly  disconsolate"  when  his  luckless 
queenHay  at  death's  door,  and  was  ready  to 
weep,  and  did  weep,  upon  various  occasions 
like  a  man  of  tenderer  heart.  But  setting 
aside  all  the  testimony  of  contemporaneous 
writers  it  is  only  necessary  to  study  his 
portraits,  even  by  his  flatterer,  such  as  Sir 
Peter  Lely,  to  see  in  his  faces  the  Medici 
ruthlessness  of  passion,  of  ingratitude,  and 
cruelly,  that  were  characteristic  of  him,  and 
that  were  not  visible  in  the  voluptuous  linea- 
ments of  his  equally  licentious  and  equally 
Medici  cousin,  Louis  XIV.  Only  that  Ital- 
ianized Stuart  face  makes  us  know  that  the 
orgies  of  the  English  Restoration  were 
more  devilish  than  the  contemporaneous 
ones  of  the  French  Court,  and  makes  us 
know  why  the  faulty  but  gentle  Charles  I 
gave  such  lawless  sons  to  disgrace  the 
name  of  the  dynasty.  To  our  mind,  also, 
Mr.  Molloy  makes  a  mistake  in  assailing  the 
morality  of  the  Commonwealth.  His  au- 
thority is  weak  that  Cromwell  was  an  adul- 
terer. That  Bridget  Cromwell  was  accused 
by  so  arrant  a  liar  and  villain  as  George 


1886.] 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


ViUiera,  Duke  of  Buckingham,  is  testimooj 
TUtIf  more  to  her  virtue  than  against  iL 
Mr.  Molloy  has  presented  the  dissoluteness 
and  groBsness  of  the  Restoration  period 
with  all  the  delicacy  and  yet  vividness  of 
the  "refined  realism"  of  our  day,  and  yet 
the  picture  is  drawn  from  matenalt  as 
coarse  as  ever  went  into  art  That  be  has 
not  eschewed  piquancy  of  anecdote  might 
be  shown  by  one  he  quotes  from  Pepys,  of 
abominable  life  and  delightful  memory,  but 
we  leave  the  reader  to  find  it  in  the  book. 


BABOBOrrS  MEXIOO  • 

THE  Indefatigable  Hubert  H.  Bancroft 
has  at  last  brought  the  history  of  our 
sister  republic  down  to  1861.  The  two 
votnroea,  however,  are  of  different  degrees 
of  interest  In  the  first,  the  events  of  the 
revolution  which  forever  freed  Mexico  from 
the  rapacity  of  Spain  are  narrated  in  too 
great  detail  for  the  general  reader.  The 
second,  though  containing  many  interesting 
chapters  on  the  disputes  between  Mexico, 
on  the  one  band,  and  Texas,  France,  and 
OUT  own  country  on  the  other,  is  pretty  dry 
reading.  Of  course  it  was  not  Mr.  Ban- 
croft's wish  to  sacrifice  historical  detail  to 
interest.  Still  it  does  seem  as  if  there  was 
too  little  attention  given  to  proportion,  and 
in  fact  that  the  fullness  with  which  a  par- 
ticular event  should  be  treated  depended 
rather  on  the  amount  of  material  on  hand 
than  on  the  intrinsic  importance  of  the 
subject  This  is  undoubtedly  due  to  the 
author's  mode  of  work  more  than  to  any- 
thing else. 

As  every  one  knows,  Mr.  Bancroft  works 
through  assistants.  Indeed  he  has  himself 
said  that  only  about  one  half  of  his  manu- 
script is  written  by  his  own  hand,  the  re- 
mainder being  the  work  of  several  persons. 
This  ia  nothing  new,  as  many  of  our  best 
historians  have  worked  through  assistants. 
But  the  present  author  has,  besides,  elabo- 
rated a  scheme  of  work  which  is  in  its  mi- 
Dutise  quite  unique.  For  many  years  the 
assistants  have  been  employed  in  the  Mex- 
ican and  other  archives  copying  or  abstract- 
ing all  the  important  and  many  unimportant 
documents  bearing  on  the  subjects  treated 
by  their  employer.  In  some  cases  these 
copies  have  been  bound  up  into  a  volume 
and  abstracts  made  of  their  contents.  In 
addition  Mr.  Bancroft,  either  through  or- 
dinary agents  or  through  a  special  agent, 
has  bought  every  collection  of  original 
documents,  letters,  and  papers,  and  even 
single  letters  and  papers,  that  could  be 
procured  at  any  reasonable  rate.  Abstracts 
and  tables  of  contents  have  been  made  of 
all  this  material. 

As  the  work  progressed  the  pieces  of 
paper    contuntog  these  abstracts  and  ex- 

■  Hittofy  dI  ibe  Pacific  Suui  of  Vanb  AmEriai.  Bj 
HidHt  M<nn  Bueroh.  VoU.  VII  ud  VIII.  Uiitoiy 
(f  Kok^  V<l*.  IV  and  V,  iS<H->S6i.  Su  Frucuooi 
A.  L.  Buaob  a  Co.,  ■»«. 


tracts  have  been  placed  according  to  an 
elaborate  scheme  of  subjects  into  ordinary 
brown  paper  bags  of  varying  sixes.  The 
method  is  now  clear.  Whenever  Mr.  Bancroft 
wishes  to  get  out  a  chapter  he  calls  for  the 
proper  bag  or  bags,  arranges  the  contents  in 
a  chronological  form,  placing  the  less  im- 
portant citations  at  the  end ;  digests  and 
re-writes  the  facts  so  presented,  and  sends 
the  manuscript  to  the  printer.  Oftentimes 
all  but  the  final  revision  is  done  by  assistants, 
and  in  this  way  several  thousand  pages  are 
produced  every  year.  The  work  is  there- 
fore an  encyclopedia  with  the  text  in  the 
form  of  a  narrative.  The  objections  to  this 
method  will  be  set  forth  more  at  length  in 
our  notice  of  the  two  latest  volumes  on  Call- 
It  remains  only  to  say  that  In  the  present 
volumes  Mr.  Bancroft  takes  a  reasonable 
and  sound  view  of  the  troubles  which 
brought  on  the  Mexican  War,  and  that  he 
has  supplied  his  readers  with  enough  maps 
and  plans  to  make  his  text  intelligible.  He 
has  also  given  a  political  map  of  the  Repub- 
lic of  Mexico  in  i860. 


OBLTVIOir.* 

WITH  a  modesty  as  commendable  as  it 
is  unnecessary,  the  author  of  OUiv- 
ion  apologizes  in  a  prefatory  note  for  an 
accidental  resemblance  between  Its  plot  and 
[hat  of  Mr.  Fargus's  CalUd  Back.  This 
resemblance  is  limited  to  the  one  fact  that 
the  heroine  of  Oblivion  loses  her  memory 
and  recovers  it  again;  in  all  other  respects 
the  novels  are  totally  dissimilar,  and  in  no 
way  to  be  likened  to  each  other. 

Calltd  Back,  for  all  its  popularity,  was 
simply  a  cheap  sensation.  It  gave  token  of 
neither  special  power  or  special  insight  j 
there  was  no  revelation  of  the  gift  to  create 
character  or  to  portray  landscape ;  the  merit 
of  the  book  rested  simply  on  novelty  of  plot 
Oblivion,  on  the  other  hand,  shows  striking 
ability  on  the  part  of  its  author,  and  ability 
of  a  high  sort  Fresh  and  vigorous  in 
handling,  with  a  certain  unexaggerated  force 
of  feeling  as  well  as  expression,  and  real 
picturesque  power,  it  stands  head  and  shoul- 
ders above  the  rank  and  file  of  ordinary 
fiction.  If  the  book  is  indeed  the  trial 
essay  of  a  new  author,  we  shall  be  disposed 
to  a  happy  expectancy  amounting  to  convic- 
tion, as  to  what  he  may  effect  in  the  future. 

The  scenery  and  people  and  dialect  of 
the  North  Carolina  mountains,  among  which 
the  scene  of  the  story  is  laid,  are  admirably 
tendered,  with  true  pathos  and  true  humor. 
The  plot  turns  on  an  accident  A  lady, 
traveling  alone  with  her  child,  is  suqjrised 
by  a  freshet  at  a  river-side  inn.  The  house 
is  swept  away,  most  of  its  occupants  lose 
their  lives,  the  child  is  killed,  but  the  lady 
is  rescued  with  mind  and  memory  utterly 
alienated  by  a  blow  on  the  head.     For  three 

>    How 


years  this  hapless  stranger  lives  among  the 
rough  but  kindly  mountain  folk,  who  adopt 
her  into  their  lives,  as  it  were,  and  give  her 
the  name  of  "Lady."  Graduallyher powers 
of  speaking  English  return,  and  a  certain 
interest  in  and  ability  for  every^lay  matters, 
but  all  [he  past  Is  still  a  blank  to  her  up  to 
the  night  of  the  freshet  Dick  Corbyn,  a 
splendid  young  mountaineer,  learns  the  road 
from  pity  to  a  passiouale  love,  and  she  ia 
on  the  eve  of  marrying  him,  when  a  second 
illness  re-awakens  the  slumbering  memory, 
saves  her  from  innocent  crime,  and  restores 
her  to  her  old  life  and  the  husband  who  has 
long  mourned  her  as  dead. 

The  one  blemish  of  the  story  is  the  the- 
atrical disposition  made  of  Dick  in  the  con- 
cluding chapter.  Death  by  runaway  horse 
is  one  of  the  stale  and  time-worn  casualties 
against  which  the  modem  reader  is  bound 
to  protest  We  feel  sure  that  in  his  second 
venture,  the  author  of  this  remarkable  little 
story  will  find  something  better  to  do  with 
a  superfluous  hero. 

A  ElflTOBT  OF  PAIBTIITa- 

OF  this  laborious,  scientific,  and  authori- 
tative treatise  we  shall  not  attempt 
more  than  a  general  survey.  With  slow  and 
patient  steps  it  is  advandng  down  the  cen- 
turies ;  having  compared  In  the  first  volume 
the  Ancient,  Early  Christian,  and  Medixval 
divisions  of  the  subject ;  and  in  the  present, 
second,  volume,  passing  to  the  period  of 
what  the  author  calls  "The  Renascence." 
"The  author,"  we  say,  for  Dr.  Woi(mann  is 
dead,  and  Dr.  Woermann  is  solely  respon- 
sible for  the  greater  part  of  the  present 
instalment 

The  contents  of  this  volume  are  divided 
into  two  books.  III  and  IV,  of  which  Book 

III  treats  of  "The  Painting  of  the  Re- 
nascence "  proper.  Here  we  have  four  sec- 
tions, each  again  divided  into  many  chapters. 
Section  I  is  devoted  to  Flemish  and  French 
Painting,  II  to  the  German  Schools,  III 
(very  short)  to  (he  Spanish  and  Portuguese, 

IV  to  the  Early  Renascence  in  Italy.  Book 
IV  takes  up  "The  Golden  Age  of  Painting 
in  Italy,"  and  gives  to  it  seven  cliapters. 

At  the  close  of  the  several  sections  are 
to  be  found  appendices,  which  comprise  the 
materials,  at  least,  for  a  bibliography,  and 
set  the  reader  aright  as  to  the  lines  for  fur- 
ther reirarding  study. 

Under  each  section  the  subject  is  exam- 
ined with  great  minuteness  of  division; 
partly  by  schools,  partly  by  centers,  partly 
by  painters,  partly  by  works.  Let  us  take, 
for  example,  an  analysis  of  Chapter  I,  Sec- 
tion II,  on  "The  German  Schools  of  the 
15th  Century:" 

The  School  of  Cologne  — The  IhmbUd— 
Locfaever  and  his  School  — The  Weslphaltaa 
School  — The  Franconian- The  Imhsf  alur- 

•HiitafT  ol  PaiBtii«-  Frco  tba  Gorau  ul  the  111* 
Dr.  Alb«d  WoltmuB  ud  Dr.  Kirl  Wufrmun.  Vol.  II. 
TIh   Paindiif  ot  lb*  Roianiico.    Tr.  br   Clan  Ball. 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


D*"-  9, 


^ece  — A  School  at  Salzburg  — The  Swabian 
School  — The  Slinrenbcrfi  altarpiece  — The 
German  Schools  under  Flemish  Influence  — 
The  Schools  of  the  Rhine  Provinces  and  West- 
phalia—The  Spread  oi  Flemish  Art  — The  Co- 
logne Masters  —  yuttut  di  Atlamagna  —  The 
Matter  of  Lisborn  —  Engraving  on  Wood  and 
Copper — Engraving  derived  from  Millo  —  Vari- 
ous anonjmous  masters  in  German;  and  the 
Netherlands  —  larael  von  Meckenon  —  Veil 
StoM  —  The  Swabian  Painters  —  Martin  Schon- 

5aucr  —  Hi>   Pictures  —  His   Engravings  —  H 
nfluence  at  Ulm  and  elsewhere,  etc.,  etc.,  etc. 

The  method  o£  the  work  is  largely  de- 
■ciiptive.  Its  spirit  is  severely  criticaL  li 
is  a  map,  so  to  speak,  of  the  art  world  vrithti: 
the  limits  of  the  historic  period  prescribed; 
locatiog  the  important  centers,  the  great  cur- 
rents, the  elevations  and  depressions,  the 
lay  of  the  land,  the  slopes  and  watersheds, 
the  battle-fields  of  conflicting  schools,  the 
moDumeots,  the  memorable  birthplaces. 

The  Illustrations  scattered  through  the 
text  are  very  numerous  and  helpful.  Gen- 
erally curious,  often  grotesque,  they  attest 
the  growth  in  knowledge  and  taste.  One 
thing  very  striking  in  them  is  the  predomi- 
nance of  Biblical  subjects.  Art  in 
renaissance  seemed  to  have  but  a  single 
thought,  namely  the  Incarnation  and  its  con- 
sequences for  men.  Interesting  suggestions 
of  architectural,  domestic,  and  personal 
cessories,  are  afforded  by  these  wood-cut 
reproductions  of  old  paintings. 

Nobody  will  care  to  read  this  great  work 
unless  he  be  a  stuiient  aspiring  to 
scholar.  Jt  is  for  the  profession,  not  for 
amateurs.  The  latter  would  not  have  pa- 
tience with  its  painstaking  movement,  and 
would  not  care  for  its  details.  But  for  those 
whose  business  it  is  to  master  the  history  of 
art  it  is  indispensable. 


HADLEY  OB  RAILEOADB  • 

THE  United  Sutes  have  more  railroads 
than  all  the  world  beside,  but  our  rail- 
road literattire  is  of  the  most  meager  de. 
scription.  Mr.  Charles  Francis  Adams' 
Railreadi  and  Railroad  QmstiOHS  is  the 
only  standard  work  on  the  subject,  and  that 
treats  mostly  some  special  questions ;  the 
r«at  is  scattered  through  pamphlets,  con- 
gressional and  legislative  investigations, 
commissioners'  reports,  Poor^s  Manual,  the 
census  reports,  and  the  like.  The  work 
before  us,  is,  so  far  as  we  are  aware,  the 
first  attempt  we  have  had  at  a  careful  and 
comprehensive  review  of  the  whole  subject 
Professor  Hadley's  position  as  Connecticut 
Commissioner  of  Labor  Statistics,  and  in- 
structor in  Political  Science  at  Yale  College, 
has  given  him  special  fitness  for  this  work. 
HU  style  is  singularly  clear,  compact,  and 
forcible,  and  he  has  been  able  to  condense 
his  abundant  material  into  very  moderate 
space.  Every  page  of  the  work  bears  wit- 
ness to  the  thorough  knowledge  of  the 
writer  on  the  subject,  and  to  his  equal  abil- 
ity and  practical  sound  sense  in  its  discus- 


sion. The  book  covers  the  history  and 
growth  of  OUT  modern  transportation  sys- 
tem, and  railroad  ownership,  speculation, 
competition  and  combinations,  charges  and 
discriminations,  and  legislation.  Valuable 
chapters  are  added  on  the  railroad  systems 
of  England,  France,  Central  Europe,  and 
Italy,  respectively.  Dealing,  as  he  does, 
much  debated  questions,  Mr.  Hadley's 
views  may  not  always  be  those  of  his  reader, 
but  they  are  always  ably  presented  and  in- 
structive. He  believes  that  railroad  com- 
binations—  pools,  if  you  please — are  nec- 
essary, and  that  the  sooner  we  reci^nize 
that  fact  in  our  legislation  and  courts  the 
better.  He  thinks  that  charges  in  many 
disputed    cases    should    not    be    so  much 

cost  of  service "  as  what  "  the  business 
will  bear,"  holding  the  latter  not  extortion, 
the  whole,  the  natural  and  sensible 
way  of  dealing  with  such  rates.  He  shows 
that  in  close  coropetitioo,  in  many  cases, 

ilroads  must  discriminate  in  favor  of  dis- 
tance as  against  short  and  local  trade,  and 
also  in  favor  of  competitive  points  as  against 
others  on  the  same  line.  He  does  not  favor 
State  ownership,  but  approves  of  commis- 
sioners, and  would  apparently  rely  quite  as 
much  on  the  moral  as  on  the  legal  power  of 
the  latter.  He  has  ringing  words  on  the 
free-pass  iniquity  (p.  109): 

When  passes  are  given  as  mailer  of  mere 
favoritism,  it  is  bad    enough.     When    they    are 

Siven  as  a  means  of  influencing  Irgislatiun,  it  is 
ir  worse.  Vet  this  last  form  of  corruption  has 
become  so  universal  that  people  cease  10  regard 
it  as  corrupt.  Public  oilicials  and  other  men  of 
influence  are  ready  to  expect  and  claim  free 
Iraniportalion  as  a  right  To  all  intents  and 
purposes  they  use  their  position  to  levy  black- 
mail against  the  railroad  companies. 

The  sooner  we  appreciate  this  iniquity 
and  stamp  it  out  the  belter.  Indeed,  it  is 
high  time  that  our  people  were  more 
thoroughly  studying  all  these  great  ques- 
tions, rather  than  blindly  following  the  lead 
of  speculators  and  politicians  in  tb< 
They  are  questions  of  serious  and  growing 
social  and  political  import.  The  book  1) 
opportune,  and  there  are  few  among  us 
of  those  most  conversant  with  such 
matters,  but  would  gain  important  instruc- 
tion from  this  exceptionally  able  treatise. 


800TT  m  SPAUI.- 

WH  EN  a  new  book  of  travels  in  Spain  ap- 
pears we  are  tempted  to  make  u 
rapid  succession  of  the  Latin  interrogatories 
which  Heine's  innkeeper  addressed  to 
successive  guest  who  put  up  at  his  inn :  Quitf 
guidt  tiiit  guibui  auxitiist  CVKi promodo t 
quandoT     Especially   the  CUR?    strikes 
as  pertinent  among  these  explosive  interrog- 
atives ;  for  is  not  their  name  already  legion  ? 
—  the  name  of  these  countless  volumes  on 
Spain  ?    and  is  there  not  danger  that  they 
may  be  mere  "cabbage  r^chauff^  "  likethat 

in  lh(  PinliMuli.    By  S.  P   ScMI.    ProfuKlj  lUnHraloL 
J.  B.  LipplMOU  Compuy.    f ;.». 


furnished  as  intellectual  and  mental  pabulum 
to  the  ancient  inhabitants  of  GOttengen  ? 
It  seems  to  us  that  a  new  volume  on  Spain 
should  be  either  one  of  two  things  or  pos- 
}f  two  qualifications  (not  to  be  ex- 
acting): it  should  either  be  a  guidebook, 
abounding  in  tables,  in  itineraries,  fn  starred 
and  daggered  hotels,  in  maps,  in  useful  in- 
formation, in  statistics  of  all  kinds.  In  price- 
ists,  and  the  like ;  or,  if  there  is  none  of 
these,  it  should  at  least  have  a  charm  of 
style,  a  wit  and  grace  of  Its  own,  an  eye  that 
sees  with  a  sort  of  easy  omnlsctence,  a 
tongue  that  talks  with  easy  eloquence,  an 
ear  for  national  traits  and  characteristics,  a 
pen  agile  and  complete  that  prints  as  it  flies 
and  pricks  as  it  touches  —  swift,  artistic, 
penetrating. 

Now  of  statisticians  there  is  Murray, 
easily  the  prince,  double-barrelled,  double- 
columned,  starred  and  daggered  like  a 
knight  of  the  garter,  bursting  with  maps  and 
tables  and  itineraries,  microscopic,  complete, 
infinitesimal  -,  and  there  is  O'Shea,  replete 
with  Irish  humor  and  epigram,  fond  of  a  good 
story  and  full  of  information  too.  Of  statis- 
ticians and  guide  books,  therefore,  enough, 
the  other  hand  there  is  Gautier,  Inimita- 
ble for  Gallic  point  and  picturesqueness,  to 
whom  the  whole  Peninsula  Is  one  vast  horn 
met  J  and  there  is  de  Amicis,  who  writes  in 
an  Italian  so  daiiling  that  it  sparkles  and 
crackles  all  over  like  silk  rubbed  against  a 
glass  wheel,  emitting  ambrosial  odora  like 
ibbed  amber ;  and  there  is  Augustus  Hare, 
delightfully  epistolary,  touching  this  and 
that  point  with  a  charm  of  Style  that  pre- 
:rves  and  perpetuates  like  salt;  and  there 
,  John  Hay,  with  sharp  American  eyes,  see- 
ig  through  and  through  the  "Castilians" 
and  reproducing  for  us  the  rare  atmosphere 
of  "Old  Castilian  Days  ;"  and  there  is  "The 
Attach^  at  Madrid,"  full  of  gossip  and 
sauce  piguantej  and  wonderful  Borrow  with 
his  "  Bible  in  Spain,"  and  Dor^  and  Davillier 
with  their  sheaves  of  pictures. 

With  all  this  superabundant  wealth  what 
more  do  we  want  ?  Is  there  a  "  reasiSn  for 
the  existence"  of  more?  Is  there  a  ^tlace 
for  the  purely  commonplace  —  unstatistical, 
unpictorial,  starless  and  garterless  —  fon  the 
aimless  ramble,  in  short,  unutilitarian,  iViar- 
tistic,  without  style,  the  rickiu^tur^  in 
Spain  ?  We  think  not  After  reading  p;yts 
of  Mr.  Scott's  handsomely  bound  and  beiku* 
tifuUy  printed  volume,  and  applying  to  it  t  tie 
tests  we  have  set  before  ourselves  in  judgi  ag 
of  the  raiton  dUrt  of  a  new  book  of  Sp:  n- 
ish  travels,  we  are  forced  to  the  conclusi  >□ 
that  it  fills  neither  place.  It  is  not  a  gui  le 
book ;  it  has  no  grace  or  charm  of  style,  a  id 
yet  it  is  not  particularly  ungraceful  or  ine  ie- 
gaot  It  is  a  ttrtium  guidhird  to  cbaract  er- 
ise.  In  eleven  tolerably  full  chapters  it 
moves  slowly  from  Bordeaux,  over  the  g  sn- 
erally  beaten  and  hackneyed  route,  back  to 
the  Asturias  and  Biscay.  In  these  chapt  sn 
the  commonplaces  of  Spanish  travel  abu  m1- 


i886.] 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


antly  figure ;  there  are  deacriptions  of  this, 
that,  and  the  other  city  (several  of  thetn 
rarely  visited,  such  as  Roma  and  Merida) ; 
of  the  bull-fight ;  of  the  Escurial ;  of  railway 
travel  ia  Spiua ;  of  Spanish  fairs  and  fair 
ones  ;  of  the  peasantry  here  and  there  ;  and 
of  the  cock-fight;  while  JDcidental  allusion 
to  customs,  habits  and  legends,  to  literature 
and  the  arts,  to  antiquities  and  its  industries, 
varies  tlie  unanimaled  narrative,  which  is 
ever  aad  aaon  lighted  up  by  poor  reproduc- 
tions o£  Laurent's  admirable  photographs. 
Do  not  writers  of  rambles  like  these  well 
exemplify  the  line  addressed  by  Virgil  to 
Galatea ; 

Fafil  kd  Hlicn  wei  <V^  aitii  atari  t 


BELI&IOTTS  AHD  THEOLOQIOAL. 

BiiU  Mytks  and  their  Paraitih  in  Otittr  Relig' 
iimt.    Third  Edition.    [J.  W.  BontoD.j 

The  aatbor  of  Bihli  Mytks  and  tkiir  Paralldi 
in  Other  Religions  bas  Bhown  praiseworlhj  indus- 
try and  research  in  Ihe  abandint  illustrative  ma- 
terial which  he  liai  drawn  from  many  sources. 
The  Old  Testament  filJs  tesi  than  a  fifth  of  the 
volume,  a  singularly  disproportionate  part,  M  the 
treatment  were  purely  hiitorical  with  no  dogmatic 
prepoBscsslons.  But  the  anlmm  of  Ihe  writer  is 
to  discredit  the  New  Testament  chiefly,  hence 
the  greater  eSort  put  forth  in  this  direction. 
Most  of  the  facts  he  has  gathered  were  Grit 
brought  to  light  by  Christian  investigatory  and 
are  generally  accepted  in  Christian  thought. 
The  explanation  of  the  facts,  however,  shoald 
not  be  confounded  with  the  facts  themselves,  and 
here  there  are  large  differences  of  opinion.  Of 
this  distinction  the  author  before  us  seems  often 
forgetful,  at  once  pushing  his  legendary  hypothe- 
ses beyond  all  wariant,  and  utterly  ignoring  the 
sobriety  in  form  and  the  superiority  in  moral 
teaching  which  even  skeptical  critics  are  forced 
(o  concede  to  the  Bible.  To  gather  a  mass  of 
heterogeneous  parallels  from  all  quarters  of  the 
globe,  and  then  to  assume  that  from  a  pedantic 
comparison  and  imitation  of  these  the  life  and 
character  of  Jesus  were  developed,  is  a  palpable 
absurdity  when  offered  as  an  eaplanalion  of  the 
origin  oE  Cbristianily  and  Ihe  New  Testament. 

Beyond  tht  Gravt.  By  Dr.  Hermann  Cremer, 
Professar  of  Theology  in  the  University  of 
Greifswald.  Translated  by  Rev.  S.  T.  Lowrie, 
D.D.    [Harper  &  Brothers.    75c.] 

By  a  curioDS  coincidence,  two  American  cler- 
gymen, of  different  theological  connections  and 
each  without  knowledge  of  the  other,  began 
about  the  same  time  to  translate  Dr.  Cicmer's 
little  volume  on  the  state  after  death.  Dean 
Gray,  oE  the  Episcopal  Theological  School  at 
Cambridge,  first  secured  the  author's  permission 
to  bring  out  the  book,  but  gracefully  withdrew  in 
favor  of  Dr.  Lowrie,  whose  translation,  which 
was  earlier  matured,  lies  before  us.  Dr.  Cremer 
ia  well  hnown  to  all  students  of  the  Greek  Testa- 
ment by  his  Biblico-Theotogical  I.exicon,  and 
ranks  with  the  foremost  evangelical  divines  of 
Germany.  The  present  work  is  an  elaboration 
of  a  shorter  essay  published  seventeen  years  ago. 
After  touching  briefly  the  mingled  darkness  and 
longing  of  man  without  revelation.  Dr.  Cremer 
finds  the  hopes  of  the  Old  Testament  writers, 
bat  vaguely  expressed  and  always  built  on  the 
ic  expectation  as  their  tmly  groimd,  the 


fitting  counterpart  to  the  scanty  light  and  com- 
fort attained  by  prechrislian  saints  after  death. 
The  resurrection  of  Christ  firtt  opened  the  gates 
of  Paradise,  through  which  the  ransomed  souls 
from  the  underworld  then  passed,  and  within 
which  the  disciple  is  now  received  at  death.  Dr. 
Cremer  believes  in  immediate  and  entire  sancti- 
ficallon,  admits  no  degrees  in  blessedness  in 
heaven,  and  regards  the  heavenly  life  as  still  in- 
complete, a  blissful  anticipation  of  the  resurrec- 
tion to  come.  In  conformity  with  the  steadily 
widening  view  of  the  mission  of  Christ  and  bis 
relation  to  the  race,  Ihe  necessity  of  a  manifesta- 
tion of  God  in  Christ  to  every  man  before  his 
choice  can  be  decided  is  plainly  affirmed.  As  a 
candid,  careful,  and  thoroughly  Scriptural  sludy 
of  this  interesting  question,  from  a  scholar  whose 
words  have  weight,  and  in  language  free  from 
technical  terms  and  pedantry,  this  book  will 
bring  comfort  to  many  readers.  Dr.  Hodge's  in- 
troduction is  a  needless  attempt  lo  square  the 
author's  statements  with  the  Presbyterian  stand- 
ards, and,  despite  its  general  fairness  of  lone, 
betrays  a  strange  misconception  of  what  is  called 
the  "  new  tbeolt^,"  in  asserting  that  Ihe  idea  of 
redemption  which  its  advocates  teach  is  built 
upon  simple  jnitlce  rather  than  grace. 

The  Evolutiett  a/ Revtlatiim.  By  J.  M.  Whiton, 
Ph.D.    [G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons.    15  cents.] 

Dr.  Whiton  contributes  to  the  new  series  of 
"  Questions  of  the  Day  "  a  brief  critique  of  theo- 
ries abont  Ihe  Old  Testament  These  Scriptures 
he  regards  as  a  revelation  by  development,  rather 
than  by  document,  "not  as  coming  dimm  tifen 
the  world,  but  as  unfolding  within  the  world," 
and  finds  their  inspiration  in  the  unique  moral 
energy  they  exert  over  mind  and  heart,  and  not 
in  any  intellectual  accuracy  of  the  letter.  His 
illustrations  and  his  language  are  not  always  upon 
the  level  of  refinement,  but  his  position  is  well 
taken  and  ably  maintained. 


This  series  of  Studies  of  the  Lord's  Day  was 
at  first  privately  printed  and  subjected  without 
the  author's  name  to  the  criticism  of  a  number 
of  Chrisliaa  scholars,  by  whose  urgent  solicita- 
tion the  work  is  now  given  to  the  public  The 
title-page  is  still  anonymous,  but  the  author  is 
said  to  be  a  lairyer  of  Cincinnati,  who  has  died 
since  addressing  this  larger  audience.  Beginning 
with  the  day  in  its  present  phenomena,  as  an  in- 
stitution, a  festival,  and  an  observance,  he  com- 
pares its  hold  upon  the  Christian  world  with  Ihe 
power  oE  other  days  of  observance,  whether  gen- 
eral or  specific,  and  shows  its  connection  with 
Ihe  spirit  of  loyalty  to  a  Lord.  A  single  chapter 
serves  to  explain  the  character  and  reason  of 
Apostolic  usage,  and  another  to  trace  the  signifi- 
cance uf  the  week  as  a  division  of  time  among 
heathen  races.  The  fourth  Study  treats  of  Ihe 
primeval  Sabbath  of  the  Old  TeiUment,  and  the 
last  half  of  the  volume  traces  carefully  Ihe  dis- 
tinctive features  of  Ihe  Sabbatic  system  trf 
Israel,  in  its  original  design,  and  in  the  succea 
sive  stages  of  Jewish  history,  with  the  enigmatit 
peculiarities  of  the  older  covenant  and  their  solu- 
tioD  in  the  Christian  revelation.  Modest  and 
unpretending  as  the  book  appears  in  dtle  and 
preface,  it  should  receive   a  generoos  bearing, 

and  will  command  admiration  a i.tetest  by 

dose  aitd  candid  reasoning  and  by  the  qniel  but 
pervasive  fervor  of  its  thought. 


Sertnant.  Preached  in  the  Chapel  of  St. 
Stephen's  College,  Annandale,  N.  Y.  By  Rob- 
ert B.  Fairbairn,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  Warden  of  the 
College.    [Thomas  Whittaker.    $2.00.] 

Dr.  Fairbaim'a  Sermoni  are  not  only  addressed 
to  college  students,  their  movement  is  also  in 
line  with  the  thoughts,  hopes,  and  needs  of  the 
student's  life.  Manliness,  Courage,  the  Neces- 
sity of  Human  Learning,  Christian  Civilization, 
Religion  no  Obstacle  to  Science  —  these  are 
among  the  subjects  discussed,  and  the  grouping 
of  themes  and  thoughts  around  Ihe  church  and 
college  calendars  is  felicitous  and  suggestive. 
The  preacher  speaks  dearly  and  with  earnestness, 
chiefly  in  short  sentences,  and  his  discourses 
may  be  helpful  to  a  wider  congregation,  allhough 
devoid  of  especial  merit  either  in  form  or  in 
substance.  We  see  no  reason  for  the  inserted 
correction  of  "Commedia  "  into  "Comedia"  in 
the  dtle  of  Dante's  poem,  since  Ihe  former  spell- 
ing is  more  natural,  as  the  poet's  own. 

Tke  Chunk  in  tkt  Nation.  By  Henry  C.  Lay, 
D.D.,  LL.D.,  Bishop  oE  Eaton.  The  Bishop 
Paddock  Lectures,  18S5.      [E.  P.  Dutton  &  Co. 

The  rights  and  powers,  duties  and  responsi- 
bilities, of  the  pure  national  church  form  the 
theme  of  the  late  Bishop  Lay's  six  lectures  on 
the  Bishop  Paddock  Foundation.  Aa  the  true 
ideal,  the  lecturer  views  the  church  as  growing 
out  of  the  incarnation  and  the  mission  of  the 
Spirit,  in  herself  a  veritable  kingdom,  and  hold- 
ing her  unity  from  the  one  Head  and  Lord.  As 
at  first  constituted,  with  her  four  great  bulwarks, 
faith  and  fellowship,  sacraments  and  service 
(Acts  ii :  42],  there  is  no  room  for  ecclesiastical 
division  or  association  on  Ihe  basis  of  elective 
afEnity.  But  in  her  conquest  and  development 
among  the  nations  and  races  of  the  world,  the 
national  church  was  a  natural  growth,  illustrated 
in  the  older  Galilean  and  the  modern  Anglican 
communions.  Out  of  the  latter  came  the  Ameri- 
can church,  and  the  relations  of  this  body  to  her 
own  children,  to  the  state,  and  to  divided  Chris- 
tendom around  her,  with  her  claims  upon  the  love 
and  loyalty  of  her  clergy,  are  unfolded  with  zeal 
and  earnestness.  Members  of  other  commuiuona 
will  be  attracted  by  the  broad  charity  of  the 
preacher,  and  by  his  project  for  national  compre- 
hension. The  recent  death  of  Bishop  Lay, 
whose  lost  public  utterances  these  lectures  prove 
to  hsve  been,  lends  new  interest  to  his  words. 


As  the  title  of  bis  volume  implies.  Dr.  De 
Witt's  sermons  are  plain  and  faithful  studies  of 
Christian  truths  in  their  broad  bearings  upon 
Christian  life,  with  its  diverse  states  and  situations. 
With  little  illustration  and  little  rhetorical  grace, 
these  discourses  carry  the  reader  along  by  their 
earnestness  and  force,  and  reward  his  attention 
by  the  profound  principles  they  disclose  beneath 
the  commonest  duties.  The  applications  are 
sometimes  monotonous  !n  form,  and  lose  power 
by  the  rigidity  of  their  lines.  The  Value  of  a 
Religious  Atmosphere  and  Christian  Content- 
ment are  noteworthy  in  theme  and  treatment, 
and  not  the  leaat  interesting  passage  is  the  excel- 
lent interpretation  of  the  absence  of  form  in  . 
Dante's  Paradise  and  the  suggestive  comparison  ' 
with  the  revelation  of  St.  John,  both  of  which 
are  crowded  into  a  single  foot-note. 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Jan.  9, 


The  Literary  World. 


BOSTON,  JANUARY  9,  1886. 


Tfa*  drcUBituica  which  ^Iv 
tie*  ■!»*•  all  ths  (nat  mut* 
an  muItlpE;  thsir  oilglDali : 


-DtJoHli 


OTJB  iraW  TOHK  LETTER. 

IT  ii  an  anfortunate  fact  that  some  of  the  tnoit 
prouiiing  literarjr  men  of  New  Vork  ftre 
alMorbed  by  the  wealthy  newspapert  and  pnbtish- 
ing  hou*ea,  and  tre  heard  of  no  more  in  I[tera- 
tnre  —  that  is  ai  wrlten  of  books.  A  striktnf 
cue  in  point  is  that  of  George  Wilttam  Curtis. 
When  as  a  ;oung  man,  thtrty-three  years  ago,  his 
PgHphar  Papers  were  publiihed  in  PutHom'i 
Metitkly,  thej  made  (he  reputation  of  that  maga- 
ilne,  and  seemed  to  promise  an  American  Thack- 
eray in  their  author.  Never  before  had  the  veil 
been  so  ruthlesalv  Com  away  from  New  Vork 
■DClety,  exposing  its  sham  polish,  i(«  hollow  pre- 
tence, its  hideous,  Mokanna-llkc  features. 
Heuadji  in  Syria  ami  Egypt  showed  that  their 
antbor  could  wield  a  graceful  as  welt  as  latirica] 
pen.  Pnu  and  1  displayed  a  delicacy  of  fancy 
Mid  sweetness  of  expression  unexpected  from 
tbe  author  of  the  scathing  Potipkar  Faptri.  Mr. 
CtirtI*  was  the  editor  and  part  owner  of  Put- 
nam'i  At^ntMy,  and  when  that  magazine  died  In 
debt  he  assumed  the  whole  burden  upon  his 
shoulders,  and  like  Sir  Walter  Scott,  under  cli- 
camstances  somewhat  similar,  went  to  work  to 
pay  off  *  debt  not  entirely  of  his  contracting. 
He  accepted  the  position  of  general  literary 
adviser  of  Harper  ft  Brothers,  and  from  money 
saved  out  of  his  bandiome  salary,  together  with 
the  profits  of  many  popular  lectures,  he  managed 
in  twenty  years  to  pay  off  tbe  entire  indebtedness 
of  Dix,  Edwards  &  Co,,  who  succeeded  Mr.  Pat- 
nam  in  (b«  publishing  of  the  magazine  which 
bore  his  name.  For  the  past  twenty-Gve  years, 
Mr.  Curtis  has  not  written  a  single  book,  bnC  his 
graceful  pen  has  been  Industrionsly  employed  in 
making  the  Editor's  Easy  Cbiirlhe  most  attract 
ive  portion  of  Harfer't  Magatint.  He  sendi 
forth  each  month  what  liave  been  called  "  eiqai 
site  nothings  "  —  literary  gossip,  delightful  remi- 
nlccences,  social  topics  treated  with  an 
disonian  elegance.  But  these  literary  dainiiea, 
delicious  as  tbey  are,  possess  only  a  temporary 
Interest.  They  are  ephemera,  and  die  within 
the  month  that  give*  Ihem  birih.  A  proof  of 
this  Is  found  in  the  fact  that,  although  Mr.  Curtit 
has  contributed  to  Harper's  Minnkly,  ffarptr'i 
fVtekly,  etc.,  sufficient  material  Id  make  a  dozen 
volume*,  not  a  single  book  has  been  made  • 
all  this  work,  except  Trumps,  a  novel  which  was 
a  dead  [allure.  Mr.  Curtis  is  approaching  his 
grand  climacteric,  and  it  is  not  probable  that  he 
will  do  now  what  be  failed  Co  do  during  the  best 
years  of  his  mental  and  physical  vigor.  Ijiera- 
ture  to  him  ha*  been  a  garden  in  which  he  has 
cultivated  rose*  and  lilies,  which  bloom  for  a 
brief  season,  and  then  perish.  He  has  not 
planted  the  sturdy  oak  that  grows  to  be  the  mon- 
arch of  the  forest  and  outlives  the  centuries. 

Frank  R.  Stockton,  whose  Ruddtr  Grange  is 
thought  humoroos  by  manj  persons,  live*  at 


Charlottesville,  Va.,  tbe  seat  of  tbe  University 
of  Vi^oia.  H«  i*  very  popular  with  bis  pub- 
lishers^ a*  hi*  bocA*  have  a  ready  sale,  and  he  is 
to  bother  them  with  verbal  com- 
plaints even  should  be  have  any.  Mr.  Stockton 
i*  *UI1  a  young  man,  and  ha*  had  the  rare  good 
not  to  rush  book  after  book  upon  the 
world  because  hit  first  work  was  a  great  success. 
This  ha*  caused  the  literary  decline  and  death  of 
nuuy  promising  writer*.  Such  ha*  been  the 
fate  of  Tonrgee,  whose  Fa^i  Errand  had  an 
.  But  who  reads,  and  how  few  can 
name,  the  half  dosen  indifferent  novels  that 
followed  In  quick  succession  upon  the  succe**  of 
that  Gnt  work,  until  the  public  would  not  be 
fooled  any  longer  f  F.  Marion  Crawford  is  fol- 
lowing the  lame  downward  course,  which  iikevi- 
tably  leads  to  literary  mln.  William  Black  has 
himself  out  by  the  same  process.  Even 
the  exuberant  imagination  of  Sir  Walter  Scott 
failed  at  last  to  respond  lo  the  constant  demands 
made  upon  it,  and  the  stale,  flat,  and  tiresome 
Ctunt  Rehert  af  Paris  and  Tlte  Btlrethtd  possess 
of  the  rich  and  picturesque  Waverley, 
Ivastkot,  Ketdtagrih,  and  other  fascinating  novels 
which  have  placed  their  author  Erst  among  the 
romandsts  of  all  time.  Let  these  examples  be  a 
warning  to  Howells,  James,  Hawthorne,  and  some 
others  who  run  off  two  or  three  novels  a  year, 
the  "analytical  school"  of  fiction  does 
not  depend  upon  imagination  and  story  Celling, 
Messrs.  Howells  and  James  may  eacape  the 
danger  of  too  rapid  production. 

lunce  has  recently  prepared  a  very 
careful  statement  upon  the  lubject  of  international 
copyright.  As  the  literary  adviser  of  a  leading 
publishing  house  he  naturally  favors  a  law  which 
ill  protect  the  interest  of  Che  manufacturers  as 
:ll  as  the  writers  of  books.  Any  law  upon  this 
much  talked  of  bat  little  acted  upon  subject  will 
be  something  gained.  A  determined  effort  in 
that  direction  will  be  made  in  Congress  this  win- 
ter. The  chief  difficulty  in  the  way  is  the  igno- 
rance and  indifference  of  Congressmen  on  the 
subject.  They  seem  to  think  that  our  domestic 
copyright  law  Is  quite  sufficient  to  protect  Amer- 
ican authors  In  their  rights,  forgetting,  or  falling 
to  see,  that  the  great  hardship  of  the  native  author 
is  the  compecJtion  with  foreign  writers  whose 
works  cost  nothing  to  American  publishers  ex- 
cept what  the  latter  choose  to  pay  \  and  publish- 
er* will  not  buy  what  Chey  can  get  for  little  or 
nothing. 

Appleton  Morgan,  the  founder  and  President 
of  the  New  York  Shakespeare  Society,  is  a  pit 
ant,  genial  gentleman,  and,  although  the  attorney 
for  several  important  corporations,  is  : 
busy  to  be  polite.  The  Shakespeare  Sodely  has 
flourished  under  hi*  presidency,  and  now  num- 
bers among  Its  members  many  of  the  most  intel- 
ligent men  in  New  York.  The  Society  is  very 
liberal  in  its  scope,  and  cordially  welcomes  all 
who  have  anything  to  say  upon  the  inexhaustible 
subject  of  Shakespeare,  its  object  being  to  prO' 
mote  the  knowledge  and  study  of  the  work*  of 
the  Prince  of  Dramatists.  Mr.  Morgan  has  re- 
cently received  a  letter  from  J.  O.  Halliwell- 
Phillips,  giving  an  interesting  history  of  the  first 
Shakespeare  Society  which  was  formed  in  Lon< 
don  in  1840.  The  Revue  dee  Deux  Mendes  foi 
November,  1S85,  has  a  complimentary  notice  of 
Mr.  Morgan  as  a  Shakeqieariao  scholar.  These 
studies,  h(HH>rable  a*  they  are,  form  only  the 
golden  fringe  upon  tbe  velvet  doublet — for  they 


Ml, 


e  merely  the  embellishment  of  a  life  crowded 
ilh  various  professional  pursuits. 
Wm.  Allen  Butler,  whose  satirical  poem,  "Miss 
Flora  McFlimsey,"  made  such  a  sensation  twenty- 
five  years  ago,  has  written  a  novel  satirizing  New 
York  society.    This  work  will  be  looked  forward 
ith  great  interest,  as  Mr.  Butler  ia  known  to 
be  a  keen  observer  of  the  foible*  of  *odety,  and 
exposes  Ihem  with  an  unsparing  pen.     Wm.  W. 
Astor,  who  has  been  so  suddenly  added  to  the 
nambcr  of  American  novelists,  is  forty  years  old. 
He  is  tall  and  slender,  but  muscular,  and  devoted 
to  all  kinds  of  athletic  sport* ;  he  is  a  good  boxer, 
accomplished  swordsman,  a  fine  and  fearless 
horseman.     The  annual  dinner  of  the    Philo- 
ithean    Society    of    Brooklyn  took  place  on 
Wednesday  evening,   December  30th.     Toasts 
were  drunk  and  speeches  made  by  politiciani, 
:dilars,  etc.,  in  all  of  which  Brooklyn  was  praised 
for  what  it  could,  would,  and  should  do  in  the 
future  for  art  and  literature;  for  let  it  never  be 
forgotten  that  the  City  of  Churches  has  a  maga- 
edited  and  managed  by  three  or  four  youth- 
imateurs  in  lileralure  who  are  also  shining 
lights  in  the  Philomaihcan  Society.    These  young 
gentlemen  have  the  courage  of  their  convictions 
y  highly  developed,  and  they  not  only  talk  of 
annexing  New  York  to  Brooklyn  at  some  future 
day,  but  look  forward  to  a  time  not  far  distant 
when  the  Braotlyn  Magatiite  miM  absorb  the  now 
flourishing  Century  and  Harper's. 
JVew  York,  fan.  *.  Stylus, 

Oira  EHSLISH  LETTEB. 
R.  STEVENSON'S  Prince  Otto,  pub- 
isbcd  three  weeks  ago,  is  already  in  a 
second  edition  ;  and  the  unexpected  success  of 
two  books  so  emphatically  works  of  style  as  Mr, 
Flier's  Marius  and  Mr,  Stevenson's  Prinee 
Olio  is  a  good  omen  for  the  departing  year  to 
leave  us.  It  must  not,  however,  be  supposed 
that  Prince  Otto  is  of  Marius's  austere  and  beau- 
tiful quality.  It  is  a  charming  little  half-success ; 
a  delicious  maritiaudagt  with  a  purpose;  a 
morality  in  Dresden  china.  Prince  Otto  and 
his  wife  the  Princess  Seraphina,  really  in  love 
with  each  other,  yet  at  odds  in  matrimony,  have 
each  tried  a  way  to  misgovern  their  tiny  king- 
dom, he  by  a  bantering,  half-bitter,  masculine 
laiiser-aiier ;  she  by  a  very  serious  and  ambitious 
imperial  policy.  Of  all  the  misfortunes  that 
come  of  their  politics  and  their  estrangement, 
and  of  final  denouement  of  these,  we  are  bound 
to  keep  silence.  But  if  any  reader  be  at  first 
discoursed  by  a  somewhat  too  liberal  display  of 
fireworks  in  the  early  chapters,  we  would  encour- 
age him  to  persevere.  There  is  an  idyll  of  the 
wandering  Cinderella  in  a  wood  which  it  ia  a 
gain  Co  be  able  to  remember. 

Prince  Otto  is  not  the  sole  success  of  this 
December.  Mr.  Julian  Slurgis,  so  long  so  obsti- 
nately silent,  has  published  a  clever  political 
novel,  yekn  Maidmmt  would  indeed  be  a  sin- 
guUtly  clever  novel  were  (here  no  such  master 
of  style  as  Mr.  Henry  James,  and  no  such  char- 
acter in  fiction  as  Tito  Melema-  John  Maidment 
is  a  Tito  adapted  to  a  conscientious,  radical,  Eng- 
lish icmosphete ;  and  one  episode,  that  of  the 
finding  of  his  faiher,  is  distinctly  an  echo  from 
the  world  of  Rumola.  The  book  is,  however, 
delicately  and  acutely  done,  and  full  of  the  pecu- 
liar satirical  humor  Mr.  Sturgis  displayed  so 
clearly  in  My  Friends  and  I. 

Lord  Tetinyson  baa  published  a  new  trolunM  of 


1 886.] 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


pocDu.  There  are  thingi  in  it,  such  u  "The 
Wrecit,"  "  Despair,"  and  "The  Flight,"  which 
prove,  if  proof  were  needed,  (bat  the  Lanreale'a 
many  golden  gifts  do  not  include  the  half-iron 
weapon  of  psychology.  But  there  are  tome  as  jew- 
eled phrases,  as  exquisite  miisic,  as  sudden  pict- 
ures, in  this  last  work  as  in  the  earlier  volo 
and  one  of  the  most  unapproachable  oftbeie,  the 
beautiful  song  of  "  Early  Spring,"  is  no  long-wi 
ten  poem  suddenly  come  to  light,  but  the  work 
of  present  days.  The  Frater  Ave  atqut  Fa/e,  the 
picture  of  Athens  in  "  Tire»i»s,"  and  the  meet- 
ing of  Launcelot  and  Guinevere  in  the  idyll, 
have  the  singular  and  inimitable  accent  of 
dauical  romance  which  Lord  Tennyson  ali 
possesses  among  our  living  poets. 

"Vengo  di  Coimopoli "  is  the  motto  of  all  of 
tis  today  and  what  is  published  in  Paris  and 
Rome  is  read  and  talked  about  in  London.  The 
Italian  Serao,  having  tried  to  outdo  Madamt 
Girvaisais  In  her  Conquitta  di  Rama,  has 
avowedly  sought  to  supplant  Cklrit  by  her  R> 
wiaate  dilla  Fantiulla.  She  has  an  emuloi 
feud  with  the  De  Goncourts.  But  her  last  book 
is  not  in  the  least  like  CAhit  and  leave*  that 
work  quite  undisturbed  upon  it*  undesirable 
eminence.  The  Rontaiae  dilla  Fanciulla  \i 
■  novel  at  all.  It  it  a  collection  of  singularly 
vivid,  brilliant,  and  turbulent  sludies  of  whole 
groups  of  girls,  in  the  telegraph  office,  in  the 
normal  school,  in  the  convent,  and  In  the  world. 
The  book  may  be  confidently  recommended  to 
those  who  wish  to  keep  in  their  minds  the  Italian 
language  as  spoken,  and  not  to  fall  back  on  the 
Latinized  claasicalities  of  Tuscan  literature.  So 
much  for  Rome.  The  literary  event  of  the 
month  in  Paris  has  been  the  production  □{  M. 
Kenan's  Polirt  dt  Nimi  and  M.  Paul  Bourgel' 
new  essays  in  Psychalagii  Cenlfmperaitu.  Space 
forbids  our  criticising  in  detail  these  singular 
and  interesting  works  of  two  minds  very  similar 
in  type.  To  those  who  are  curious  to  see  how 
the  Analyst  can  alio  be  the  Mystic,  to  those  who 
care  to  learn  the  causes  of  the  dillettante  pes- 
Mmism  of  a  decadent  civiliiation,  to  those  who 
prize  the  anion  of  an  audacious  acuity  of  spirit 
with  the  moat  penetrating  tenderness  of  mood, 
to  them  we  especially  recommend  the  second 
series  of  PtycAologie  CBntemparaim. 

Letidon,  Die.  is.  iSSj.  A.  M.  F.  R. 


01TB  QEBUAH  LETTEB. 
A  Book  Town.* 

IN  consequence  of  the  Refer  nuti  on,  the  center 
of  German  literature  moved  northwards 
where  a  freer  air  prevailed,  while  the  south  was 
more  exposed  to  the  influence  of  the  Catho- 
lic empetots,  the  insinuations  of  the  clergy,  and 
the  petty  annoyances  of  the  imperial  censors  and 
book  coromissioners.  Possibly  the  municipal 
authorities  of  Fran kforl-on-the- Main,  where  for- 
merly the  German  book  trade  had  its  center,  did 
not  sufficiently  recognize  the  value  of  complete, 
unmolested  publishing  intercourse.  The  North 
tried  to  emancipate  itscH  from  the  Frankfort 
book  fairs,  and  set  about  founding  an  independ- 
ent book  market  of  its  own  in  the  famous  fair- 
town  of  Leipzig,  where  the  then  Government 
was  more  liberal,  exercised  the  censorship  in  a 
more  humane  spirit,  and  fieed  books  from  duly. 


At  the  antumn  fair  of  1594  appeared  the  first 
Leipaig  "Mease"  Catalogue.  In  the  following 
year  the  Frankfort  Catalogue  showed  117,  tbe 
Leipzig  only  68  publishing  novelties,  but  already, 
in  1631, 1«ipzig  carried  the  day  with  izt  work* 
as  against  Frankfort  with  63.  Printing  also 
began  to  prosper  in  Leipzig.  But  the  adversity 
caused  by  the  Thirty  Years'  War  did  not  fa 
make  itself  felt ;  defective  type,  careless  co 
tions,  and  bad  paper  characterize  most  oE  the 
books  of  that  epoch.  A  marked  and  permanent 
improvement  only  appeared  towards  the  end  of 
the  seventeenth  century.  The  number  of 
portant  publishers  and  printer*  increased  1 
stantly,  and  Leipzig  assumed  indisputably  the 
very  first  place  among  frerman  book  centera. 
Since  then,  the  number  and  extent  of  the  Leipzig 
publishing,  printing,  book-binding,  and  cognate 
Industries,  have  given  to  this  "Little  Paris"  [as 
Goethe  named  it],  the  position  of  the  moat  im- 
portant book  town  of  the  whole  world.  Espe- 
cially the  book  and  music  trade*  have  assumed 
unrivaled  proportions. 

The  history  of  these  and  kindred  branches 
from  the  introduction  of  Gutenberg's  invet 
to  the  present  day  is  told  by  the  eminent  pub- 
lisher, fine.art  dealer,  printer,  and  typographical 
editor,  Karl  B.  Lork,  in  the  present  highly 
attractive  book,  which  the  publisher  has  fitted 
out  in  a  sumpluou*  manner  worthy  of  its  theme. 
It  would  be  very  interesting  to  treat  its  contents 
in  detail ;  having  regard  to  space  we  must  con- 
tent ourselves  by  extracting  a  few  facts,  and 
therefore  limit  ourselves  to  the  present  time. 
On  the  one  hand  we  will  regard  Leipzig  as  the 
commercial  capital  of  the  German- Austro- Hun. 
gartan-Swiss  "book  republic; "  on  the  other,  as 

publishing  and  typographical   manufacturing 

The  German  book  trade  is  divided  into  three 
branches :  publishing,  bookselling  (which  includes 
second-hand  dealing),  and  commissioa  business. 
Publishers  are  those  who  furnish  the  book,  t.  e., 
who  obtain  it  from  the  author  and  cause  it  to  be 
printed  and  circulated.  Booksellers  are  those 
who  sell  to  the  public,  and  the  "  commJBsioner  " 
is  a  sort  of  middleman  who  connects  publishers 
and  booksellers.  Let  us  imagine  that  fifty  book* 
ordered  daily  at  a  bookseller's,  all  of  which 
are  published  by  different  firms.  If  the  book- 
seller were  in  direct  communication  with  the 
publishers,  he  would  daily  have  to  write  fifty 
leitera,  to  pay  their  postage,  to  pay  for  the 
packet,  and  to  dispatch  fifty  remittances.  This 
lid  necessitate  labor  and  costs  quite  out  of 
proportion  to  the  trifling  gain  of  each  order. 

,  since  the  greater  portion  of  the  German 
publishers  reside  at   Leipzig,  the   custom   has 

me  instituted  in  the  course  of  time  that  the 

course  between  publishers  and  booksellers 
is  conducted  via  Leipzig.  The  bookseller  from 
whom  a  book  is  ordered  writes  the  title  and  pub- 
lisher upon  a  small  memorandum  and  sends  this, 
.(^elher  with  a  latge  number  of  similar  little 
pieces  of  paper,  to  his  commissioner  in  Leipzig. 
The  latter  in  his  turn  distributes  the  memoranda 
to  the  commissioners  of  the  respective  publish^ 
The  commissioners  of  the  publishers  send 
the  memoranda   to  their   respective   firms,  who 

pack  the  books  ordered  and  send   them  to 

commissioners,  who  distribute  them  to  the 

booksellers*  commissioners,  through  whom  they 

finally  sent  In  bale*  to  the  booksellers.     If 

a  bookseller  wishes  to  pay  a  paUlsher  on  otdeiv 


ing  the  book,  he  requests  his  c 
pay  the  money  to  the  commissioner  of  the  pub- 
lisher. As  a  rule,  book*  are  not  paid  for  in  cash, 
but  durii^;  the  fairs  that  take  place  at  Eaater  and 
Michaelmas.  At  this  period  books  that  hava 
not  been  sold  are  alao  returned  by  the  bookaell- 
en  to  the  publishers-  Both  the  money  and  tbe 
relumed  goods  go  first  to  the  bookseller**  com- 
missioner, and  then  by  tbe  same  process  as  the 
memoranda  find  their  way  to  the  publialieT*. 
Exactly  the  opposite  method  is  employed  when 
it  is  a  question  of  boolu  ordered  by  the  book- 
seller i  timJilien,  merely  to  be  bought  if  suitable. 
That  is,  before  a  book  la  completely  "made," 
the  publishers  send  circulars  to  all  the  book- 
sellers, informing  them  of  the  title,  price,  and 
trade  conditions  of  the  forthcoming  work.  The 
bookseller  either  leaves  this  circular  unregarded, 
or  he  orders  the  book  either  definitively,  so  that 
he  must  keep  it  In  any  case,  or  i  caHdilUn,  that 
Is  to  say,  with  liberty  to  return.  In  the  first  in* 
stance,  the  margin  of  profits  allowed  him  by  the 
publisher  is  far  larger  (30  to  50  per  cent  dl  the 
retail  price),  while  a  book  ordered  i  condiHm 
and  kept,  is  only  15  to  30  per  cenL  When  the 
advertised  book  is  ready,  the  puUisher  de- 
spatches it  in  the  above-named  manner  to  the 
various  booksellers.  To  the  layman  thi*  mode 
of  procedure  probably  aeems  involved,  but  In 
reality  it  is  marvelously  umple,  and,  because  of 
tbe  large  number  of  circnlars,  book-parcel*,  etc., 
that  pass  through  the  hands  dl  the  commission, 
ers,  very  cheap.  Various  arrangements  facilitate 
this  yet  further,  for  instance,  tbe  office*  for  deliv- 
ery that  many  foreign  publishers  have  on  the 
premise*  of  their  Leipug  commianoners,  so  that 
the  memoranda  have  not  to  be  sent  to  these  latter. 
Further,  the  organ  of  the  "  Booksellers'  Associa- 
tion," *  the  Btrtaiilalt  /Br  den  dtvtiektn  Buth- 
handtt,  which  appear*  daily  In  Leipzig,  and  duly 
notea  all  novelties,  ofian,  etc,  and  further,  the 
"Order  Institute,"  which  facilitate*  for  the 
Leipzig  commissioner*  the  distribution  of  the 
memoranda,  circulars,  etc,  that  constantly  flow 
in,  and  which  does,  by  the  aid  of  ten  persons,  the 
work  which  required  one  hundred  before  the 
founding  of  this  institute.  Of  such  commission- 
ers there  are  in  Leipdg  126^  who  represent 
5,130  German,  Austrian,  Hungarian,  Swi**,  An- 
glo-German, Franco-German,  etc,  pnbliabers  and 
booksellers.  Finally,  there  I*  the  Booksellers' 
Exchange,  a  sort  of  clearing-house,  in  which  the 
commissioners  settle  their  respective  sccount*, 
which  are  often  very  high,  by  paying  the  differ- 
ences, often  amounting  to  trifling  sums.  What 
extent  the  Leipzig  book  commissioners'  business 
has  aasnmed  is  shown  by  the  fact  that  at  present 
far  more  than  £1,^00,000  annually  are  paid 
through  them  from  the  booksellers  to  the  pub- 

So  mnch  with  regard  to  Leipdg  as  the  melropo- 
lia  of  a  great  bookseller  State  It  is  no  less 
grand  as  a  book-dealing  and  typographical  man- 


booklellei 

Exchaocf 
ihe  yeuly  ntttemvnt  of  aco 
pubKshcn  and  boi^icUert  i 


It  lu  nenbin,  iml  poMaissa  a 

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indin(  tlw  Uir  on  Ibc  Doa 
on  lb*  other,  ind  slso  ib* 


md  typofnpUcil  Imcrot  k  snnailly  hdd  is  tb* 
U.  A  (ood  BUBV  of  tlw  Oatmu  becknUtn  ef 
1,  Amuio,  Rnail,  Fiuca,  stc.,  aba  bdaai  ts  tba 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[]■»"•  9, 


aFictuTing  city.  In  Leipzig  there  exiils  the 
largest  muaic-publishing  firm  o(  the  world,  the 
most  widely-read  illiutrated  paper  of  the  world, 
some  of  the  greatest  publitheis  of  the  world, 
some  of  the  most  Important  printing-preues  of 
[he  world  J  while  nearly  300  papers  ap- 
pear there,  and  many  foreign  ones  are  there 
printed.  Further  at  Leipzig  appear  the  great 
encyclopaedias  of  Meyer,  Brockhaos,  and  Spamer, 
u  well  at  Ersch  and  Graber'a  gigantic  Eneyilo- 
paiia,  and  two  of  the  greatest  collections  ever 
planned  by  publishers,  the  Tauchnit*  Editim 
and  Reclam's  Unrvirsal  Biblielhek.  In  I^ipzig 
■re  some  of  the  largest  wholesale  second-hand 
book  tradeta  of  the  world,  who  often  hold  auc- 
tions of  great  importance.  The  dty  counts  nearly 
three  hundred  pablishers  and  commissioners, 
about  as  many  book-binding  establishments 
(among  them  several  worked  by  steam),  and 
quite  as  many  printing-houses,  wood-engravers, 
etc  If  we  add  further,  that  the  tenth  part  of  the 
Leiptigers  are  in  the  service  of  the  book  trade 
and  its  cognate  branches,  these  data  will  suffice 
to  give  an  idea  of  the  eminent  importance  of 
Leipzig  to  the  intellectual  nourishment  of  man- 
kind- Leopold  Katschbr. 

Berlin,  Nnvtmher,  iSSj. 


John  KellB  Ingram,  LL.D.,  Librarian  of 
Trinity  College,  Dublin,  and  author  of  the  article 
on  "  Political  Economy  "  in  the  current  edition  of 
the  Encjelapadia  Britanniea,  was  born  July  7, 
182},  at  Pettigo,  in  the  county  of  Donegal,  Ire- 
land, as  the  son  of  the  Rev.  William  Ingram,  of 
the  then  united  church  of  England  and  Ireland. 
He  entered  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  in  1837,  was 
elected  Fellow  of  the  College  in  1846,  Professor 
of  English  Literature  in  1851,  Regius  Professor 
of  Greek  in  1866,  and  Librarian  in  1879.  He  is 
principally  known  as  the  representative  of  the 
historical  school  in  political  economy,  which  dif- 
fer* materially  from  the  dogmatic  school  of 
Ricardo  and  Mill,  and  the  socialist  school  of 
Maurice,  Kingsley,  and  Hughes.  In  1S7S  he 
delivered  an  address  on  "The  Present  Position 
and  Prospects  of  Political  Economy  "  before  the 
Btillah  Association  for  the  Advancement  of 
Science,  being  the  first  serious  advocacy  of  the 
historical  method  as  applied  to  the  treatment  of 
political  economy  in  the  United  Kingdom.  The 
address  excited  much  attention,  and  was  trans- 
lated into  several  foreign  languages.  His  ad- 
dress to  the  Trades'  Union  Congress  in  iSSo  was 
republbhed  in  1S84,  and  has  been  translated  into 
French.  His  essay  "  On  Shakespeare,"  in  1863, 
was  one  of  the  earliest  aitempts  to  illustrate  the 
development  of  the  poet's  genius  on  the  chrono- 
logical basis  of  his  writings.  His  essay  "  On  the 
Opus  Ma]us  of  Roger  Bacon,"  i8jS,  was  dis- 
cussed by  Victor  Cousin  in  the  Jeurnai  dci 
Savantt.  In  iSSi  he  published  an  essay  on  the 
earliest  English  translation  of  De  Imilalioni 
Christi.  He  has  written  also  "On  the  Weak 
Endings  of  Shakspcre,"  on  modem  geometry, 
and  on  "  Greek  and  Latin  Etymology  in  Eng- 
land-" He  was  made  LL.D.  by  the  University  of 
Dublin,  I*  Vice-President  of  the  Statistical  Soci- 
ety of  Ireland  and  of  the  Royal  Irish  Academy, 
and  a  frequent  contributor  to  the  proceedings  of 
learned  sodelfei.  His  article  on  Political  Econ- 
omy in  the  Dinth  edition  of   the   Encytl^ftidia 


nsldered  a  masterpiece,  and  a 
1   the   English   history  of  thai 


[Houghton,  Hifflin  &  Co.'  fz-ja] 
In  Iheir  range  and  choice  of  subject  Mr. 
Story's  poems  show  how  thoroughly  our  Ameri- 
can sculptor  has  become  at  home  in  Italy.  But 
so  long  as  he  shares  with  us  the  treasures  which 
a  foreign  land  has  brought  him,  his  friends  and 
admirers  on  this  side  the  sea  cannot  fairly  com- 
plain of  his  expatriation.  The  best  known  of 
the  parchments,  with  which  the  first  of  these 
two  volumes  opcTis,  is  "  A  Roman  Lawyer  in 
Jerusalem,"  a  curious  and  elaborate  special  plea 
for  Judas,  as  judged  from  a  contemporary  point 
of  view.  "  A  Primitive  Christian  in  Rome " 
and  "  A  Jewish  Rabbi  in  Rome,"  the  latter  dur- 
ing the  pontificate  of  Pope  Siiius  IV,  and  the 
former  in  the  time  of  Paul's  Imprisonment,  stand 
as  fitting  companion  pieces,  and  afford  interest- 
ing studies  of  possible  phases  of  faith  and  feel- 
ing. Classic,  mediaeval,  and  modem  Italian 
legends  and  characters  form  the  themes  of  the 
other  nanatives,  monologues,  and  portraits, 
while  lyrics,  reverie*,  and  scherxl  are  busied 
with  kindred  scenes  and  thoughts.  Bits  of  rare 
description,  minuteness  touched  to  poetry,  sights 
and  sounds  from  street  and  convent  brought 
before  eye  and  ear,  with  the  passions  of  the 
present  and  of  the  past  made  warm  and  living 
In  his  verse,  these  surely  form  a  gift  Cor  which 
the  reader  may  well  be  thankful.  Perhaps  the 
chief  defect  in  Mr.  Story's  verse  is  the  diffuse- 
ness  with  which  his  imagination  moves,  and  the 
lack  of  that  chiseled  strength  which  the  greatest 
of  sculptors  showed  in  hit  aonnets  not  less  than 
in  his  marble  forms. 


The  new  edition  of  Mr.  Gilder's  poems  eon- 
tains  his  "New  Day,"  by  which  he  first  won 
recognition  a  decade  ago,  "The  Poet  and  his 
Master"  with  its  companion  pieces,  which  fol- 
lowed after  five  years,  and  his  more  recent 
lyrics,  ballads,  and  sonnets.  Delicacy  and  sub- 
tlety are  the  notes  by  which  Mr.  Gilder's  earlier 
verse  was  characterized,  but  his  later  work,  in 
no  respect  inferior  to  the  earlier  in  fineness, 
shows  large  gain  in  strength  of  conception  and 
breadth  of  range.  The  Hymn  at  the  Presentation 
of  the  Obelisk,  and  the  verses  upon  the  Burial 
of  Grant,  are  especially  noteworthy,  but  the 
"  Lament  over  the  dead  brought  home  from  the 
Jeanetle  "  has  a  weird  and  curious  interest,  as 
an  improvement  rather  than  ao 
Walt  Whitman's  unmetrical  effort*. 


In  his  modest  little  volume  of  Versa  Mr. 
Randolph,  leas  widely  known  as  a  poet  than  as 
a  publisher,  reprints  the  pieces  first  gathered 
in  1&66,  and  adds,  as  a  second  part,  the  poems 
of  Ihe  last  twenty  years.  Mr.  Randolph  sings 
in  a  devout  and  thoughtful  spirit,  and  if  his 
music  is  chiefly  in  a  minor  key,  the  notes  of 
sorrow  are  finely  blended  with  lone*  of  trust  and 
patience.  Here  and  there,  too,  we  mark  a  pleas- 
ant quaintness  in  thought  and  ezpression,  a*  in 


"  Margaret  Brown,"  and  "  Sojourning,  at  at  an 
Inn."  The  verses  entitled  "I  Know"  are  also 
noteworthy  for  their  qaiet  strength  and  confi- 

Obtren  and  Putk.  By  Helen  Gray  Cone. 
[Cassell&Co.    %\xa.\ 

Tki  Tkanklist  Musi.  By  Henry  A.  Beers. 
[Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.    $1.1^.] 

Aikts  for  Flame.  By  Caroline  Dana  Howe. 
[Portland  :  Loring,  Short  ft  Harmon.] 

Tht  Thimghi  of  Ged.    [Robert*  Bros.    50c] 

An  airy  lightness  of  touch  characleiizes  these 
verse*,  grave  and  gay,  which  own  tbe  inspira- 
tion of  Oieron  and  Pud.  "Narcissus  in  Cam- 
den," a  llti  i  i/te  between  Wall  Whitman  and 
Oscar  Wilde,  although  uneven  in  execution, 
disputes  the  prize  for  wit  with  "The  Sweet  o' 
the  Year,"  an  animated  colloquy  between  cho- 
ruses of  house-hunters.  In  a  more  serious  vein, 
"  Elsinore,"  "As  Ihe  Crow  Flies,"  and  the 
verses  in  the  Scotch  dialect,  "My  Ain,  Ain 
LiSss,"  are  among  the  best.  Mr.  Beers  has 
added  nothing  in  his  later  poems  which  equal* 
his  "Carcamon,"  or  surpasses  the  three  college 
ballads,  "Ye  Woodpeckore,"  "The  Darke 
Ladye,"  and  "The  Three  Sophomores."  A 
number  of  Mrs.  Howe's  songs  have  been  set  to 
music,  and  two  at  least,  "  I.eaf  by  Leaf  the 
Roses  Fall,"  and  the  Barcarolle,  "  Away  1  Away  I 
The  Snowy  Spray,"  have  gained  a  measure  of 
familiarity,  but  the  quantity  of  verses  here  col- 
lected, slight  as  the  volume  may  seem,  is  more 
noteworthy  than  the  quality.  Around  Tkt 
Thmghl  of  God  many  of  these  poems  by  Mr. 
Hosmer  and  Mr.  Gannett  move,  the  most  beau- 
tiful of  which  are  "The  Larger  Faith,"  "The 
Indwelling  God," and  "The  Secret  Place  of  the 
Most  High ; "  from  the  last  of  these  we  quote 
the  closing  lines: 

Thi  liuaning  Hnl  nuke*  Sinii  itiil 

Whcnnrwimarbt, 

And  in  Ihe  to*,  '-  Thj  irill  be  done  I  " 


Mrs.  I^att's  charming  verse,  with  Its  subtle 
changes  from  playfulness  to  pathos,  has  already 
won  ita  way  into  many  hearts,  and  we  trust  that 
this  volume  of  her  Select  Peetnt  may  enlarge 
the  circle  of  her  loving  readers.  Delicate  and 
graceful  as  her  pieces  are  in  construction,  with 
a  style  and  spirit  always  her  own,  the  touch  of 
the  heart  is  upon  them  all,  and  no  one  has  sung 
with  more  appreciative  truth  and  tenderness  of 
the  affections  of  home.  "A  Voyage  to  the 
Fortunate  Islet,"  and  "The  Brother's  Hand," 
among  tbe  narrative  pieces,  "  If  I  were  a  Queen," 
among  the  dramatic  moods,  and  Ihe  inimitable 
"  Playing  Beggars,"  among  the  many  eacellcnl 
children's  poems,  and  tbe  power  and  mystery 
shown  in  "  A  Wall  Between,"  deserve  especial 
mention  where  almost  all  is,  as  Iiaak  Walton 
would  say,  "  choicely  good." 

Hiddtn  Saeetnett.  The  Poems  by  Mary  Brad- 
ley ;  the  Illusltations  by  Dorothy  Holioyd.  [Rob- 
erts Bro*.    f  1.50.] 

Of  Ihe  minor  holiday  books  of  the  seawin  thi* 
was  one  of  the  most  gratifying  and  one  of  the  most 
worthy  of  preservation  for  all  seasoiu.  Teat-, 
and  illustrations  are  of  decided  merit,  and  har- 
monize as  if  they  were  the  result*  of  an  identical 
inspiration.  There  are  twenty-one  of  the^  poem* 
and  each  1*  tet  oS  by  beading*  and  footpiecea, 


1 886.] 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


now  a  (priT  of  blackberry  blouomi  or  a  cla*ler 
of  *iolctt,  now  by  ■  bunch  of  clover,  a  groop  of 
pansie*,  or  ■  sprig  of  puMj-willow,  drawn  with 
admirable  fidelitf  to  nature,  eiqaiiitely  en- 
graved, and  printed  in  a  rich-toned,  reddish, 
brown  Ink  on  polished  plate  paper.  The  poems 
are  reallj  poems,  instinct  with  the  spirit  of  true 
devotion,  exalted  in  imagery,  expressing  with 
genuine  felicity  faith  In  the  eternal  goodness. 
Tbe  pretty  volume,  a  thin  quarto  of  about  siily 
piges,  simply  and  tastefully  bound,  is  refined 
and  elevating  in  all  respects,  and  deterves  care- 
ful attention- 

Tit  Itua  Printiti:  an  Hitterical  Rematut. 
By  tbe  author  of  "Sir  Rae,"  "Iris,""  OntiOra," 
etc  Illustrated  from  Paintings  by  Church, 
Chase,  Davidson,  Fredericks,  Pyle,  Schell,  and 
Smedley.     [J.  B.  Lippincott  Co.    %^.tp\ 

The  chief  attraction  of  TTie  Inca  Princtss  nn- 
questionabljr  is  in  tbe  illustrations,  which  have 
a  delicacy  and  beauty  of  execution  consistent 
with  the  beat  work  of  our  artists  and  engravers, 
although  somewhat  lacking  in  positive  charac- 
teriatica.  Mr.  ijchell's  frontispiece,  (or  instance, 
is  Bupt>o«ed  to  represent  as  nearly  as  we  can 
make  out  from  tbe  author's  text,  "an  isle  of 
beauty  .  .  .  enthroned  on  coral  reefs  and 
bowera."  Just  how  an  island  could  be  "en- 
throned "  on  "  bowera  "  we  shall  not  undertake 
to  determine  ;  but  in  Mr.  Schell's  representation 
It  ia  Dot  apparently  enthroned  on  anything  since 
It  is  composed  simply  of  one  or  two  dark  splashes 
of  Ink  against  a  softly  graduated  background  of 
ostensible  aky.  This  view  is  framed  in  a  real- 
istic representation  of  a  Nova  Scotia  fog  through 
which  a  palm  tree  looms  vaguely,  surmounting 
a  black  hole  in  tbe  fog  which  may  possibly  be  one 
of  the  "bowers."  At  any  rate  the  whole  thing 
ia  vague.  Some  of  the  figure  pieces  are  good, 
notably  Mr.  Church's  Indian  maidens.  Tbe 
"Msloiical  romance"  docs  not  claim  to  be  a 
poem,  and  yet  it  is  broken  up  into  stanzas  and  is 
more  or  less  effectually  rhymed.  It  discourses 
of  the  adventures  of  one  of  De  Soto's  followers 
who  plighted  his  love  to  one  of  the  captive 
daughters  of  the  Inca  at  the  coort  of  Spain,  and 
tben  tailed  for  Cuba  where  he  fell  in  with  tbe 
lovely  Leonora  to  whose  charms  he  anccumbed. 
As  the  author  aays : 

Tlu  ii«er*ii  «(wdi  >tid  Injinf  vqila 
Soon  led  to  bruch  ol  monlliw*. 

The  episode  is  historical,  but  the  author  takes 
undue  liberties  when  she  substitutes  her  Don 
Antonio  de  Caslile  for  the  NuHo  de  Tobai. 
There  seem  to  be  a  good  many  "darksome 
eyea"  in  the  story.  We  have  been  impressed 
most  profoundly,  however,  with  the  author's 
effort  to  rhyme  "  eider  "  with  "  Barrameda,"  and 
"  impetuoaity  "  with  "constancy." 

ni  Lady  af  La  Garare.  By  the  Hon.  Mri 
Norton.    [A.  D.  F.  Randolph  4  Co.    Jf-so.j 

The  Hon.  Mrs.  Norton's  plaintive  bistory  of 
TAt  Lady  ef  La  Ceraye,  which  still  maintains  its 
popularity  among  readers  of  a  certain  class,  is 
here  brought  out  in  a  tasteful  and  unostentatious 
form.  The  portrait  of  the  Countess  is  retained, 
and  also  the  view  of  the  ruined  chSteau  —  in  fact 
the  edition  seems  to  be  a  reprint  from  the  origi 
nal  plates,  which,  either  because  oF  wear,  or  be- 
cause of  the  stiff  linen  paper  employed,  do  nol 
give  a  smooth  impression.  The  margins  arc 
ampl^  the  edges  uncut,  the  running  title  Is  rubri' 
-cated,  the  bbding  ia  in  antique  style,  alainped  in 


an  intricate  series  of  waving  lines  embossed  on 
a  background  of  dull  gold,  the  covers  bearing 
heraldic  devices,  the  title  almoat  illegible  on  a 
dark  red  scroll. 


We  fail  to  discover  any  intelligible  raittn 
d'ttn  tat  Mra.  Tieruan'a  Suultt.  If  it  was  in- 
tended to  enlist  the  sympathies  of  the  reader  in 
behalf  ol  tbe  heroine,  the  attempt  is  a  notable 
failure,  for  Snzette  ia  one  of  the  most  worthless 
little  creations  in  modern  fiction.  Hot-tempered, 
vain,  revengeful,  pleasute-loving,  illiterate,  with 
the  untrained  instincts  of  a  grisette  and  the  arro- 
gance of  a  would-be  ;rafri£!  dbmr  combined,  she 
offers  no  meritorious  qualities  to  offset  these 
evil  ones,  beyond  a  certain  much-insisted  upon 
brown  piettlness,  a  Creole  taste  for  color  and 
tSect  in  dress,  and  a  momentary  rampant  sin- 
cerity. Richmond,  and  Richmond  society  liefore 
the  war,  with  its  strenuous  claims  to  aristocratic 
refinement,  and  its  real  ignorance  and  crass 
provincialism,  make  the  framework  of  the  tale, 
while  its  hero  is  an  excellent  example  of  the 
sort  of  man,  happily  now  become  more  or  less 
obsolete,  which  the  old  slavery  days  fostered  — 
and  admired. 

Princi  Zilah  :  A  Parisian  Romanee.  Adapted 
from  the  French  of  Jules  Clai^lic  by  Arthur  D. 
Hall.    [Rand,  McNally  &  Co.     50  cts.J 

M.  Clarrftie's  romance  of  Princi  Zilah  is  a 
work  of  remarkable  dramatic  intensity,  in  which 
the  complex  elements  of  modern  Parisian  life 
are  deftly  woven  into  a  narrative  of  astonishing 
power.  Prince  Zilah  is  a  Hungarian  exile,  and 
the  tale  glows  with  the  love  and  passion  of  the 
Seiy  Magyar  race.  The  cover  informs  us  that 
"a  dramatization  of  this  novel  is  now  being 
played  by  Modjeska,  the  distinguished  actress," 
and  this  probably  explains  Mr.  Hall's  transla- 
tion, which  should  have  had  a  key  to  the  more 
common  French  idioms  published  with  it  for  the 
benefit  of  readers  Ignorant  of  the  Gallic  tongue. 
It*  fidelity  to  the  original  is  painfully  un-English. 


There  is  one  evening's  entertainment  in  this 
story,  which  is  one  of  the  best  of  what  may  be 
called  the  "Boston  society  novels''  —  though 
they  arc  society  people  rather  than  people  in 
society  who  are  described.  To  be  sure  there  is 
a  dinner  party  on  a  small  scale,  but  the  person- 
ages chiefly  concerned  act  their  parts  mostly  in 
private  life  —  excepting  the  club  men  with  whom 
the  book  opens.  The  scenes  shift  from  the 
club  room  opposite  the  Common,  to  the  Wavei- 
ley  Oaks,  to  the  Winton  River  Mills  {which  those 
in  the  secret  will  probably  recogniw),  to  the 
Public  Garden,  to  the  Granary  Burying  Ground 
under  the  shadow  of  the  Athenxum  where  the 
crisis  comes.  The  hero  is  Gilbert  Marvin,  a 
man  of  leisure,  sumeuhat  cynical,  so  dilatory 
and  non-committal  that  he  postpones  offering 
marriage  to  the  girl  he  loves,  Helena  Bromfield, 
till  it  is  too  late,  and  slie  acceptii  Maitland  Am- 
brose, one  ol  fortune's  Favorites  but  wholly  un- 
worthy of  her.  Before  the  time  For  the  wedding 
comes  around,  she  finds  that  her  affianced  is 
faithleta,  she  Iws  lost  her  fortune,  and  both  are 


glad  of  an  excuse  to  break  the  engogemenL 
Meanwhile  Marvin  has  become  almoat  com- 
mitted to  a  French  adventuress.  Miss  Gerard 
(a  familiar  character  in  novels),  who  is  govern- 
ess in  the  Elliston  family  where  he  is  visiting 
the  aon  Jack,  who  is  also  desperately  in  love 
with  her,  while  she,  encouraging  Harvin,  ia 
secretly  engaged  to  Jack's  rich  old  uncle.  She 
is  the  diabolic  element  in  the  story,  nearly  ruin- 
ing three  lives,  but  is  baffled  by  fate,  and  makes 
a  highly  sensational  end  of  herself  by  drowning 
at  Niagara  Falls.  Marvin  and  Helena  come 
together  at  last,  through  the  very  officious  and 
not  over  delicate  management  of  the  Italian 
artist,  Bruni  (aided  by  his  wife),  who  is  really 
the  best  drawn  person  in  the  book.  The  char- 
acters in  general  are  vague  and  shadowy,  Helena 
has  not  much  stamina,  and  Marvin  is  rather  a 
study  of  certain  traits  than  an  actual  being  ;  but 
Bruni  ia  wholly  alive,  a  crisp,  brisk,  philosophic, 
matter-of-fact,  companionable  man,  whose  method 
with  his  American  wife  is  as  amusing  as  it  is 
unique.  As  a  novel  this  does  not  pretend  to 
much,  bat  in  its  sketchy  way  it  is  pleasing,  and 
it  has  the  merit  of  being  written  with  conscien- 
tious care  —  the  literary  workmatiship  is  good, 
and  good  feeling  and  good  taste  [with  the  ex- 
ceptions above  named)  pervade  ita  pages. 

JIfri.  Htmden'3  ln(9me.  By  Helen  Camp- 
bell.   [Roberts  Brothers.    %\..<p.\ 

Mn.  Htmden't  Inctmt  is  of  far  n 
snbstance  than  the  ordinary  novel, 
with  a  distinct  moral  purpose,  which  is  never 
lost  sight  of  in  the  whole  progress  ol  tbe  story, 
which  nevertheless  does  not  lose  its  interest  as 
a  story  pur  tt  simfilt,  a  compliment  which  can- 
not always  be  paid  to  novels  written  with  an 
intention.  The  story  opens  with  Margaret 
Wentworth's  childhood  and  the  deep  passionate 
impulse  of  pity  and  helpfulness  which  is  awak- 
ened within  her  by  the  first  glimpse  she  gets  of 
the  underlying  sin  and  suffering  of  the  world 
about  her.  Then  we  see  her  some  years  later 
a  girl  at  school,  in  deep  disgrace  for  assisting 
an  old  woman  to  escape  from  the  "  Poor  Farm." 
Later  she  comes  before  us  a  beautiful  young 
wife,  trying  to  bnry  the  veiled  disquietudes  of 
her  lot,  in  this  or  that  question  or  movemertt  of 
the  day.  Next  her  husband  diea,  or  is  supposed 
to  die,  and,  untrammeled  for  the  first  lime  in 
her  liFe,  Margaret  Herndon  sets  free  her  long 
repressed  and  baffled  desire  to  make  herself  and 
her  riches  of  use  to  others.  She  looks  into  all 
the  philanthropical  systems  already  at  work, 
avails  herself  of  whatever  is  good  in  them, 
gauges  the  causes  of  their  failures.  Love  comes 
to  her  which  she  ia  forced  to  thwart  and  put 
aside,  but  at  last  her  long  inclement  day  bright- 
ens. She  meets  her  new  happiness  in  the  spirit 
with  which  all  human  joy  should  be  tec^vcd  by 
the  grateful  soul.  "  Thinks  are  poor  things," 
she  murmured.  "  But  my  God,  my  life  is  thine, 
and  all  that  can  ever  come  into  it."  And  so  we 
leave  her,  a  noble  and  touching  picture  of 
womanhood  struggling  through  hard  ways  to 
the  light,  and  finding  life  at  laiit,  the  life  of  joy 
as  well  as  the  life  of  patient  continuance  in 
righteous  effort.  We  with  there  were  mote  like 
her. 

JVulHe-i  Father.  By  ChjiT3lte_M,_yiBiJe. 
[Macmillan  &  Co.]  "^p 

Ursula  or  "  Nutlie  "  Egremont,  the  heroine  of 
NuttitU  Father,  to  daughter  to  a  gentlewoman 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Jan.  9, 


in  reduced  circamBtincei,  who  ekei  out  a  ileD- 
dcT  income  by  te&ching,  and  letting  rooms  to 
the  pupils  of  a  girls'  Khool  ot  art  Her  husband 
is  supposed  to  hare  been  loil  at  sea,  and  Nuttie 
is  Eond  of  sketching  ideal  pictures  of  his  end, 
which  she  patterns  bj  turns  after  those  of  all 
the  heroes  and  martyrs  of  history  who  have  fonnd 
water;  graves.  To  have  bim  turn  up  living, 
not  in  the  least  a  hero  or  martyr,  bat  a  commoo- 
place  selfish  man  of  the  world,  is  therefore  a 
shock  to  her  filial  affection  from  which  she 
finds  it  hard  to  recorcr.  How  she  meets  this 
trial  and  what  It  makes  of  her  in  the  end  is  the 
aubject  erf  Miss  Vonge's  latest  fiction,  which  It 
full    of    ber  Dsaal  bright    sense   and   readable 

unros  HonoEB. 


ICasaell  ft  Co.] 
Whenever  a  foreigner  asks  the  siie  of  the 
United  States,  a  good  answer  would  be  that  we 
have  one  territory  in  which  lies  the  greater 
part  of  a  river  i,oao  miles  long.  That  terri- 
tory is  Alaska,  and  that  river  is  the  Yukon. 
Every  hear  the  Yukon  discharges  at  its  mouth 
one  third  mote  volume  ot  water  than  the  Missis- 
sippi. A  raft  voyage  of  1,300  miles  down  the 
YakoD  wa*  most  certainly  an  adventure,  which 
would  throw  Bishop  Jaggar's  canoe  trips  on  the 
St.  John  quite  into  the  shade.  Nothing  less  than 
this  is  the  adventure  of  which  Lt.  Schwatka,  of 
previous  Arctic  fame,  was  the  hero,  and  which  is 
circumstantially  described  in  this  well-printed 
book  of  350  pages.  Hr.  Schwatka  and  his  party 
went  north  from  Portland,  Oregon,  and  Astoria 
at  the  mouth  of  the  Columbia,  by  way  of  the 
"inland  passage"  to  Alaska;  thence  struck 
across  the  country  over  the  ice  and  snow,  over 
passes  and  through  the  forests,  to  the  headwaters 
of  the  river  ;  there  built  a  raft  of  logs,  and  set 
out  on  their  novel,  exciting,  and  perilous  two- 
months'  trip  down  the  tortuous  stream.  This 
was  in  the  summer  of  1S83;  and  the  public 
knew  nothing  about  it.  Two  months  were  spent 
on  the  raft;  and  exchanging  the  raft  for  more 
comfortable  craft  when  dviliiation  was  reached, 
the  entire  river  was  traversed.  The  narrative 
abounds  in  descriptions  of  the  wilderness,  in 
dangers  and  escapes,  in  inddents  of  sport,  in 
strange  scenes  and  characters,  and  is  enlivened 
with  many  pictures  from  photographs  and  draw- 
ings. 

TJte  Qiuen'i  Empirt;  tr,  Ind  and  ktr  Pearl. 
By  Joseph  Moore,  Jr.  Illustrated  with  50  Photo- 
types Selected  by  Geo.  W.  Wilson.  \J.  B.  JJp- 
pincottCo.    f3.oa] 

In  more  respects  than  usual  this  is  a  model 
book  of  travel.  Its  materials  are  substantial 
and  eKcellent,  and  they  are  well  served.  The 
sut^ect  is  India.  The  excursionists  ma;  be  de- 
scribed as  an  author  and  artist  in  company, 
unce  one  seems  to  be  responsible  for  the  text, 
while  the  other  selected  the  illustrations.  The 
text  is  readable,  the  illottralions,  which  are  pho- 
totypes by  the  celebrated  Guteknnst  of  Fhih 
delphia,  from  the  realities,  are  uncommonly 
graphic  and  fine.  The  book  is  of  convenient 
sixe.  The  paper  is  "  laid."  The  margins  at 
generous  without  being  extravagant.  The  edge 
are  rough.  The  binding  is  rich  without  being 
diowy.  There  b  a  table  of  contents  and  a  map 
ME  India.    An  index  Is  lacking.    The  book  has 


character,  deserves  respect,  and  will  make 
friends.  The  companions  whose  adventures 
and  observations  it  recites,  traveled  by  way  of 
Vienna,  the  Suez  Canal,  and  the  Red  Sea,  an- 
chored at  Aden,  entered  India  at  Bombay,  crossed 
India  by  rail,  had  a  taste  of  the  Uimalayas,  vis- 
ited the  memorable  scenes  of  the  Sepoy  Mutiny 
and  the  sacred  places  of  the  Hindus,  went  to 
Ceylon,  and  participated  in  an  elephant  hunt 
"  given "  to  the  young  sons  of  the  Prince  of 
Wales.  ____^_ 

The  Liats  ef  Rebtrt  and  Afar^  MoffaL  By 
their  Son,  John  S.  Moffat.  Portraits  and  Haps. 
[A.  C.  Armstrong  ft  Son.    ^1.50.] 

This  work  has  no  need  of  the  perfunctory 
introduction  furnished  by  Dr.  Wm.  H.  Taylor. 
The  Moffats  need  no  introduction.  Their  story 
is  the  history  of  the  opening  of  South  Africa. 
The  fifty  years  of  their  life  and  labors  In  Nama- 
qualand  and  Griqua,  at  the  Cape  and  in  the 
Interior,  at  Kuruman  and  with  the  Matabele, 
constitute  a  period  of  faith,  seal,  heroism,  forti. 
tude,  perseverance,  loil,  hardship,  success,  inch 
I  has  few  parallels  in  (he  history  of  Christian 
ilssions.  As  the  true  history  of  the  church  is 
s  missionary  history,  so  such  histories  as  this 
re  the  true  Christian  biographies.  Though 
this  work  is  a  son's  work,  we  do  not  see  that  its 
fidelity  to  fact  has  been  essentially  warped  by 
the  warmth  of  filial  feeling.  Let  this  be  under. 
stood:  that  no  one  Is  competent  to  follow  Liv. 
ingstone  and  Stanley  in  Iheir  work  for  Christian 
dvilizalion  in  Central  Africa,  who  has  not  first 
mastered  the  advance  of  the  MoSats  into  .Africa 
from  the  south.  These  sappers  and  miners  led 
the  way,  and  made  it  possible  for  others  to  come 
after  and  go  farther.  Special  inletest  attaches 
the  portraits  which  illustrate  this  book,  which 
show  Hoffat  and  his  wife  fiist  at  the  age  of 
twenty,  and  second  st  the  age  of  seventy  or 
thereabouts,  when  their  noble  work  was  done. 
What  a  personal  experience  is  compressed  be- 
tween I  Tbe  closing  chapters  of  the  memoir  are 
full  of  pathos.  This  is  a  fascinating  and  inspir- 
ing book. 

A  Pelilical  Critni.  The  History  of  a  Great 
Fraud.  By  A.  M.  Gibson.  [William  S.  Gotts- 
berger.    Ji-so.) 

There  is  no  question  about  the  "fraud,"  and 
if  the  author  had  said  frauds  and  worked  on  that 
basis,  he  would  have  made  a  better  book.  We 
have  a  solid  volume  of  400  pages  of  vigorous 
campaign -news  paper  denunciation  of  the  count- 
ing in  of  President  Hayes  in  1877,  f""  tbe 
other  side,  so  far  as  we  can  learn,  all  was  fait 
and  lovely,  except,  indeed,  that  "strangest  thing 
probably  that  ever  occurred  in  political  history," 
the  acceptance  by  a  strong  Democratic  majority 
of  the  Electoral  Commission,  which  unfortunately 
turned  out  8  to  7  instead  of  7  to  8  as  expected. 
The  "  visiting  statesmen,"  the  Electoral  Commis- 
sion, Grant,  Morton,  and  the  Republicans  gen- 
erally, come  in  for  unsparing  castigation,  and 
doubtless  deserved  it  On  the  other  side,  Cronin 
of  Oregon  had  indeed  organized  himself  as  an 
electoral  college,  and  eiecled  two  others  with 
him,  and  their  three  voles  for  Tilden  had  been 
certified  in  due  form  to  Washington,  but  in  that 
he  had  only  "needlessly  gone  through  the  form 
of  organiiing  an  eleclotal  college  which  neither 
the  Constitution  nor  the  laws  of  the  United 
States  require ! "  Concerning  the  famous 
"dpher  despatches"   (except  those  of  the  Re- 


publicans] we  have  not  a  word,  nor  of  the 
attempted  bribery  of  certain  electors  which  was 
traced  so  close  to  Democratic  headquarters,  nor 
of  divers  and  sundry  other  alleged  wickednesses 
to  which  the  virtuous  Democracy  was  exasper- 
ated by  its  rascally  opponents.  Whether  Hayes 
was  elected  or  not  unimpassioned  history  will 
decide;  but  (he  whole  affair  was  iniquitous  on 
both  sides  to  the  extent  of  their  several  abilities, 
and  it  will  require  a  much  less  heated,  one-sided, 
and  partisan  book  than  the  one  before  us  to  give 
the  true  history  of  the  transaction.  The  index, 
being  arranged  according  to  the  vowels,  reada  in 
this  wise :  Gatidias,  Grant,  Grady,  Georgia, 
Greeley,  Green,  Great,  Gibson,  etc 


This  is  less  a  work  on  the  general  relation* 
between  the  horse  and  his  master,  than  it  is  a 
special  plea  for  three  reforms  in  the  matter  of 
treating  the  horse.  Mr.  Wood  believes  that  iron 
shoes  on  horses'  feet  are  a  violation  of  the  intent 
of  nature  and  a  disregard  of  its  provision  ;  that 
check-reins  are  an  abomination,  and  that  clipping 
the  hair  and  cropping  the  neck  and  the  tail  are  a 
cruelty.  On  the  tatter  point  we  certainly  agree 
with  him  i  on  the  second  we  are  indined  to 
agree  with  him  ;  and  on  the  first  it  must  be  ad- 
mitted that  he  makes  a  very  strong  argument. 
The  book  is  an  octavo  of  340  pages.  Ten  chap- 
(ers,  and  nearly  100  pages,  are  devoted  to  dis- 
proving the  rights  of  the  shoe.  The  hoof  is 
dissected,  analysed,  and  described  before  our 
eyes ;  and  very  convincing  proof  is  certainly 
offered  (hat  if  we  will  fairly  let  tbe  hoof  fulfil 
its  function,  it  will  require  no  iron  shoeing. 
What  is  more,  Hr.  Wood  Insisu  that  not  only  is 
correct  theory  on  his  side,  but  that  actual  trial, 
whenever  it  has  been  made,  abundantly  bears 
out  the  theory.  All  we  can  say  is,  we  feel 
inclined  to  give  Mr.  Wood's  recommendations 
(he  benefit  of  experiment.  He  is  known  as  a 
wise  and  gifted  sdentist.  The  book  has  numer- 
ous pidoret  and  is  handsomely  made. 


The  phrenologists  will  pronounce  this  an 
admirable  book.  Its  authorities  are  Combe, 
Gall,  Sputzheim;  Des  Cartes,  Berkeley,  Locke, 
Spencer,  and  other  mental  philosophers,  so- 
called,  are  not  alluded  to.  Our  leading  students 
of  mind  at  the  present  day  are  practically  anaui- 
nious  against  the  claims  of  phrenology,  and  if 
late  researches  are  confirmed,  as  of  Hitiig  and 
Fitich,  Dr.  Ferrier,  and  others  (see  Dr.  Hotsley 
in  Papular  Sdtnct  Monthly  for  November,  p. 
too),  there  will  seem  to  be  no  ground  whatever 
left  for  that  singularly  popular  "science"  to 
stand  upon.  Phrenology  aside,  however,  this 
book  is  filled  with  suggestions  for  parents  and 
teachers  which  are  sound,  sensible,  and  practical. 
Part  Second  especially,  on  Methods,  is  replete 
with  excellent  directions  and  working  modeU  on 
the  art  o[  instruction,  which  only  a  thoughtful 
and  expeiicnced  teacher  could  have  wiitten,  and 
which  thoi^htful  and  even  experienced  teachers 
will  findwoiihy  of  attention.  . 


These  papers  are  on   Bats,  Flame,   Birds  of 


1 886.] 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


Pusage,  Snow,  Dragon-Fliei,  Oak- Apples, 
Come  IS,  Caves,  Ihe  Glow-worm,  Minute  Or- 
ganisms. The  authors  are  W.  S,  DalUa,  Pro- 
hssoT  F.  R.  Eaton  Lowe,  Dr.  Robert  Brown,  G. 
C.  Cbisholm,  Dr.  Buchanan  White,  Geo.  M. 
Seabioke,  James  Dallas,  F.  P.  Balkwill.  The 
illnstradons  are  good,  and  in  the  ample  index 
certain  wood'Cuts  ate  indicated  by  italics.  There 
is  an  air  of  the  Popular  Seitttet  Mtmthty  about 
these  pages,  without  much  evolution,  without 
being  heavily  hampered  by  a  burden  of  statis- 
tics. They  are  in  fact  well  represented  by  the 
general  title,  and  furnish  a  variety  of  topics 
treated  in  a  clear,  matter-of-fact  way  suited  (or 
the  average  reader.  That  on  Bats,  with  several 
portraits  of  the  nondescript  creatate,  is  freshest ; 
and  to  the  same  writer,  W.  S.  Dallas,  we  are  in- 
debted for  the  study  of  dragon-flies;  Dr.  White 
finds  a  good  deal  of  romance  about  oak-apples ; 
Es  a  whole  there  is  not  a  little  of  the  pictur- 
esque element  brought  to  view  without  losing 
sight  of  Ihe  main  scientific  facts,  and  it  is  not 
until  we  come  to  the  closing  paper  that  we  are 
brought  squarely  to  the  contemplation  of  the 
favorite  modem  theory  of  "  protoplasm." 

Tki  WorliTi  Workers.  Florence  Nightingale, 
Frances  Ridley  Havergal,  Catherine  Marsh,  Mrs. 
Ranyatd  ("  I.  N.  R."J.  By  Liusie  Alldridge.  — 
Sir  Henry  Havelock  and  Lord  Clyde.  By  E.  C. 
Phillips. —  George  and  Robert  Stepheivson.  By 
CUMal^aux.  — David  Livingstone.  By  Robert 
Smiles.— Richard  Cobden.  By  Richard  Gow- 
ing.  —  George  Miiller  and  Andrew  Reed.  By 
Mrs.  E.  R.  Pitman.    [Caasell  &  Co.    Each  joc.] 

All  these  six  books  are  so  many  additions  to  a 
series  ol  which  we  have  already  spoken,  and  of 
which  we  must  continue  to  speak  in  much  the 
same  terms,  though  with  an  occasional  exception. 
Miss  Alldridge'a  book  gives  a  good  deal  of  infor- 
mation in  its  small  space  ;  her  papers  are  well 
made  up,  well  proportioned,  and  to  the  point; 
and  their  whole  tenor  inspires  honor  and  admira- 
tion for  their  subjects.  There  are  portraits  of 
the  four  women,  all  but  the  first  from  photo- 
graphs: women  with  broad  high  brows,  severity 
of  aspect,  shrewdness  and  benevolence  at  once 
of  expression;  Miss  Nightingale  kindly  but  pen- 
sive, Mrs.  Ranyard  listening  with  kind  and  pene- 
trating eyes  and  smiling  mouth.  Miss  Manh 
sunshine  itself. 

But  when  we  open  Mr.  or  Miss  Matjaux' 
sketch  of  the  Stephensons,  we  find  such  writing 
as  this: 

A  prodigious  thing  it  had  been  pronounced  by 
many  country-folk  that  had  come  out  of  thi ' 
way,  even  from  Newcastle,  to  puizle  and  stare 
this,  Ihe  Grst  engine  that  had  been  known 
draw  a  whole  lot  of  coal-laden  wagons  up  and 
down  after  it. 
And  in  the  account  of  Sir  Henry  Havelock 
we  read  (p.  39) ! 

For  four  long  hours  the  passengers  wen 
pecting  the  vessel  to  go  to  pieces  or  sink,  while 
diatress-guns  were  fired  and  a  danger-light  was 
burnt,  when  at  last  a  brave  native  swam  from 
the  beach,  whither  many  had  been  attracted,  with 
a  line  to  the  vessel. 
The  other  books  are  more  skillfully  written 

Evtningt  viith  Iki  Sacrtd  Petti.  By  Frederick 
Saunders.    [A.  D.  F.  Randolph  &  Co.    f  1.50.] 

More  than  ten  years  ago  Mr.  Frederick 
Saunders  first  published  his  Eveningi  viith  the 
Sacred  Patts^  a  series  of  ten  quiet  talks  upon 
hymni  and  hymn-writers.  Beginning  with  the 
Psalmist*  of  ttte  Old  Testament,  his  illoitrative 


and  explanatory  readings  covered  Greek,  early 
id  mediaeval  Latin,  German,  French,  Swed- 
I1,  and  Spanish  hymnology,  with  a  rapid  survey, 
and  delayed  with  pardonable  fondness  over  the 
several  periods  of  English  sacred  song.  Since 
his  book  was  published,  there  have  been  many 
works  of  a  kindred  nature,  and  the  field,  though 
comparatively  new,  has  attracted  several  corn- 
it  and  patient  workers.  Each  Compiler, 
however,  brings  some  sheaves  that  have  been 
overlooked  before,  and  Mr.  Saunders's  volume, 
enlarged  and  enriched  by  more  recent  hymns, 
will  find  a  place.  There  is  a  certain  desullori- 
nesB  in  his  method,  which  was  perhaps  unavoid- 
in  the  circumstances,  but  the  authors' 
:s  should  have  been  appended  to  the  many 
charming  fragments  of  the  closing  chapter. 


OtTEEEHT  LITE&A.TUEB. 

The  Efteyclopadic  Dictionary  traverses  the  lex- 
icographical ground  from  "  interlink  "  to  "  mely- 
ris"  in  part  II  of  volume  IV,  now  ready. 
The  astonishing  comprehensiveness  of  this  dic- 
tionary and  its  scholarly  quality  is  unfiaggingly 
maintained.  For  instance,  under  the  entry 
"  Kantian  Philosophy  "  is  given  a  biographical 
sketch  of  Kant  and  a  clear  statement  of  the  aim 
of  his  philosophy,  all  in  sixty  lines  ;  under  "  ka- 
leidoscope "  it  an  article  filling  a  column  giving 
practical  details  for  the  manufacture  of  the  instru- 
ment and  a  statement  of  its  scientific  osesj  the 
use  of  the  word  "  keep "  in  all  its  idiomatic 
applications  is  explained  in  siity.four  subdivis- 
ions. The  Eneyclopadic  promises  to  be  a  mon- 
umental work.    [Cassell  &  Co.] 

Among  culioary  manuals  The  Unrivalled  Cost- 
BoeJt,  by  "  Mrs.  Washington,"  claims  attention. 
It  is  compiled  largely  from  private  sources,  and 
its  strong  point  is  in  its  liberal  use  of  foreign 
receipts  and  in  the  two  hundred  receipts  for  Cre- 
ole dishes.  The  list  Includes  pretty  much  all  the 
famous  comestible*  of  modern  times  and  is 
enough  to  tempt  an  anchorite  to  gluttony.  [Har- 
per &  Brothers.] 

Dr.  Leroy  J.  Halsey's  little  book  on  See/land's 
Infiiitnce  on  Civilitatien  is  an  eloquent  and 
patriotic  summary  of  Scottish  history  and  of  the 
triumphs  of  Scots  in  the  pnlpit,  in  literature,  in 
philosophy,  In  industry,  in  art,  and  In  song. 
[Presbyterian  Board,  fi-oo.]  — One  does  not  look 
for  any  balancing  of  critical  values  in  a  book  of 
selections  which  gives  twenty-five  pages  to  Mr. 
Edwin  Arnold  and  only  eight  to  Mr.  Matthew 
Arnold,  which  restricts  Edmond  About  to  four 
pages,  and  allows  to  Abigail  Adams  nearly  nine  ; 
nevertheless  Aldtn'i  Cydopadia  of  Univtrsal 
Ulerature  in  the  first  volume  now  before  us 
(Abbott — Arnold)  presents  a  series  of  copious 
specimens  from  the  writings  of  authors  oE  all 
lands  and  ages,  which  are  fairly  representative 
and  cannot  fail  to  be  in  some  sort  serviceable. 
[John  B.  Alden.  60  cents.] —  Composilion  in  the 
Sckool-Poom,  by  E.  Galbraith,  is  asensible,  concise, 
intelligible  guide  for  instructor  and  pupil;  its 
object,  to  teach  the  latter  "  to  say  precisely  what 
he  mean*,  and  to  do  this  without  hesitation  or 
groping  after  words,"  is  kept  well  in  view.  There 
are  some  elementary  rules  for  the  writing  of  fic- 
tion which  we  commend  to  amateur  novelist*. 
[G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons.    tl.oa.] 

Marion  Harland's  Centmon  Sente  in  the  Nuritry 
is  a  sensible,  practical  tmok  of  counsel  for  young 
mother*,   on  Nursery   Hygiene  and  Discipline, 


Cookery,  Clothii^,  and  so  on.  A  chapter  on  the 
"Cbristmas  Tree,"  makes  it  particularly  timely 
at  the  present  moment.  The  book  is  bound  in  a 
working  dress  of  brown  linen.  [Charies  Scrib- 
ner's  Sons,    f  l.oa] 

Thelatest  additions  to'The  World's  Workers" 
are  sketches  of  the  artist  Turner,  by  the  Rev.  S. 
A.  Swaine,  of  Handet  by  Etiza  Clarke,  and  of 
Charles  Dickens  by  U*  eldest  daughter.  [Cas- 
sell ft  Co.    Each  50  cent*.] 

Mr.  William  Shepatd'*  Enchiridim  of  CriH- 
eism  is  a  collection  of  what  the  editor  considers 
the  best  criticisms  on  the  best  authors  of  the  19th 
century.  There  is  an  index,  but  no  table  of  con- 
tents, and  the  lack  of  the  latter  is  a  great  defect. 
A  study  of  such  a  volume  will  help  one  to  write 
judgments  of  authors,  and  cultivate  the  faculty  of 
forming  such  judgments.     [J.  B.  Ljppincolt  Co. 

Funk  ft  Wagnalls  have  begun  the  publication 
of  Dr.  Talmage'a  sermons  in  regular  order,  from 
phonographic  reports.  The  first  series  contains 
thirty-three  sermons.  Their  very  titles  exemplify 
their  author's  characteristics.  Among  them  are 
such  as  "  The  Reckless  Penknife,"  "  By  the  Skin 
of  the  Teeth,"  "Due  Bills  Presented,"  "God 
our  Mother."  The  text  of  "Due  Bills  Pre- 
sented," i*  "  How  much  owest  thou  unto  my 
Lord,"  and  the  Due  Bills  enumerated  are  for 
rent,  for  board,  for  clothes,  for  taxes,  for  redemp- 
tion, and  so  on.    [Funk  ft  Wagnalls.    f  1.00.] 

The  Vanity  and  fnianity  ef  Geniua  is  another 
of  those  sdssor-and- paste  compilations  which 
Miss  Kate  Sanborn  shows  herself  to  have  a 
clever  hand  for  making;  indeed,  this  is  a  little 
more  than  that  It  rises  to  the  originality  of  a 
"commonplace-book,"  being  a  mosaic  of  notes 
on  the  weaknesses,  foibles,  whims,  and  eccen- 
tricities of  the  great  authors  of  all  times.  Such 
a  book  is  not  difficult  to  make  and  not  uninter- 
esting to  read.  The  publisher  has  done  his 
best  with  the  manuscript,  making  an  extremely 
neat  book  of  it,  with  wide  margins,  marginal 
indexes,  and  rough  edges.  Mr.  Coombes's  im- 
print is  tieginning  to  be  an  assurar.ce  of  ex- 
tremely good  taste  in  book-making.  [George  J. 
Coombes.    ft .15] 

To  Harper's  "New  Classical  Series,"  under 
Ihe  general  editorial  supervision  of  Dr.  Henry 
Drisler,  have  been  added  in  a  single  volume  of 
a  few  o^ci  300  pages  the  sixth  and  seventh 
l>ooks  of  Thucydidce,  with  an  introductory  essay, 
notes,  and  indeiei  by  Mr.  Lamberton,  of  Lehigh 
University.  Tbe  notes  make  fully  one  half  of 
the  book.  In  all  respects  the  members  of  this 
series  are  models  for  their  purpose.  [Harper  ft 
Bros,    ti-50-] 

1\iKDyeingefTtxUUFabria,yi'^1.}.\iataiaK\ 
is  a  thoroughly  scienti&c  and  technical  ireatise 
on  its  subject,  fitted  to  the  hands  of  the  dye- 
master,  fulfilling  at  once  the  purposes  of  a  text- 
book and  a  manual  of  practice-  It  has  illustra- 
tions, tables  of  coior-tests,  and  an  Index,  and  i* 
eihaustivc.     [Cassell  ft  Co.] 

D.  Lothrop  ft  Co.  have  begun  the  publication 
of  "The  Household  Library"  in  monthly  vol- 
umes, at  fifty  cents  each,  or  five  dollars  a  year. 
Numbet  One  is  Tie Piltiiont Namt.hy  Vlvgutt 

—  A  superb  fdilitn  de  luxe  of  the  IVerti  af^ 
George Elitrl  is  announced  by  Messrs.  Estes  ft  i,m- 
riat.   It  is  to  be  in  twelve  volumes,  of  oclavw  slsc, 
and  wUl  be  Ulnstrated  by  mote  dum  sixty  etchings 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Jak.  9, 


and  pbotogravures,  after  designs  chiefly  b; 
Aineiican  ai liiu  of  reputation.  The  fiisi  volume 
to  appear  will  be  Adam  Btdc. 

SHAKESFEABUHA. 


The  December  MeetlnK  of  the  New  York 
Sbakeipeare  Society.  The  eighth  stated 
meeting  ol  the  Society  was  held  at  Haoiiltun 
Hall,  Columbia  College  (where  the  Society  now 
has  permanent  quarters),  December  3,  itiS5,  the 
President,  Appleton  Morgan,  Esq.,  in  the  chaic ; 
Mr.  E.  P.  Vining  presented  a  paper  (read  by  W. 
W.  Nevin,  Esq.)  on  "Time  in  the  Tragedy  of 
Hamlet."  Mr.  Vining  argued  that  the  duration 
of  time  necessarily  covered  by  the  incidents  o( 
that  play  as  they  stood,  showed  that  the  drama- 
tist intended  to  delineate  in  Hamlet  no  imnialurc 
youth  or  school-boy,  but  a  full'grown  man,  in 
perfect  health;  and  that  to  argue  insanity  or 
melancholia  from  any  one  incident  of  a  play 
meant  to  be  the  history  of  a  lifetime  was  like 
snatching  isolated  passages  from  the  context  of 
the  Bible  to  prove  whatever  one  happened  to 
wish.  "In  this  as  in  other  cases,"  Mr.  Vining 
concluded,  "the  truth  is  (hat  Shakespeare  wrote 
with  alt  care,  and  indulged  in  neither  legerde- 
main nor  claptrap ;  we  nuy  safely  conclude  that, 
whatever  faults  appear  to  ua  to  exist  in  his  work, 
they  are  mucb  more  likely  to  lie  in  our  own  care- 
lessneas  and  ignorance  than  in  any  imperfection 
in  the  poet."  Mr.  Frey  said  that  if  Shakespeare 
had  proposed  (o  tell  a  story  of  the  days  Saxo 
Grammaticus  wrote  about,  he  {Shakespeare} 
would  hardly  have  made  Hanilet  a  student  al 
Wittenberg  — a  German  univeiiily  fuunded 
several  centuries  later.  Mr.  Morgan  did  not 
think  that  SaxO'Grammalicus  or  Denmark  had 
any  thing  to  do  with  the  Tragedy  ;  Prince  Ham 
let,  Ophelia,  Folonius,  Horatio,  were  creations 
of  Shakespeare's;  and  the  whole  scheme,  plot, 
plan,  was  Engiish.  The  succession  of  Fortin- 
bras  ;  the  customs  ot  the  couit  j  the  position  of 
Hamlet  himself  (a  prince  in  wailing  —  powerless 
as  a  child  in  affairs  of  slate,  but  entitled  to  exact 
all  the  ceremonial  etiquette  of  the  king  himself)  \ 
the  sending  ot  Laertes  to  Paris  —  all  were  Eng- 
lish not  Danish.  The  first  adumbration  of  the 
story  was  Danish  perhaps;  hut,  for  all  Shake- 
speare cared,  it  might  have  been  Italian  or  Rus- 
sian 01  Persian.  The  dramatist  look  his  plots 
wherever  he  found  them  nearest  lo  hand.  The 
resemblance  between  the  noble  tragedy  as  we 
have  it  and  the  slory  Iuld  by  Saxo- Grammaticus 
is  too  ridiculously  attenuated  to  waste  time  over. 
The  name  "  Hamlet,"  is  undoubtedly  "  Amleih  " 
with  the  H  tran^posed  ;  but  there  is  nothing  like 
the  same  MUiilatity  between  the  Saga  and  the 
Tragedy.  Neilbtr  did  Mr.  Morgan  think  Ham- 
let insane ;  he  pictured  him  every  inch  a  man, 
with  a  lawyer-like  mind  (bat  would  not  accept 
the  ghost's  word  —  even  though  this  ghost  (unlike 
any  other  in  the  plays)  appeared  to  others  than 
the  one  whose  conscience  was  to  be  reached  — 
but  wanted  "matter  more  relative  than  this" 
before  acting.  But,  once  having  made  up  his 
mind  to  kill,  he  took  his  first  opportunity  1  the 
question  of  limt  is  therefore  important.  To  per- 
severe ihrougiiout  a  lifetime  in  one  resolve  and 
finally  to  accomplish  it,  is  manly  tenacity  of  pur- 
pose —  not  vacillation.  Moreover,  Hamlet  was 
ruled  by  expediency.    Had  he  alain  the  king 


when  he  found  him  at  prayers  the  people  would 
have  cauoniied  him  like  St.  Thomas  k  Becket- 
Hamlet  proposed  to  make  King  Claudius  odious 
to  the  people  as  well  as  to  kill  him  —  not  a 
Saint  in  their  calendar.  Driven  by  the  greatness 
of  his  purposes,  Hamlet  was  Forced  lo  change 
his  mind  about  Ophelia  —  and  he  took  what 
seemed  the  roughest  (but  was,  after  all,  the  kind- 
est) way  lo  convince  her  that  for  a  time  at  least 
there  must  be  "no  more  of  marriages."  No 
wcmder  she  thought  his  noble  mind  overthrown. 
But  that  all  the  commentators  since  should 
have  merely  echoed  Ophelia's  opinion  without 
taking  the  trouble  to  read  for  themselves,  was 
not  —  seeing  that  they  were  mere  commentators 

—  so  very  unaccountable. 

A  communication  from  J.  O.  Hal  1i  well- Phil - 
lippa  was  then  read,  and  ordered  to  be  displayed 
upon  the  Society's  minutes  and  printed  in  its 
transactions,  A  reeolulion  (offered  by  the  libra- 
rian) — 10  tlie  effect  that  any  one,  whether  a  mem- 
bet  or  not,  might  offer  a  paper  or  essay,  or  ar- 
rangement of  slatislica!  or  tabulated  matter  on 
Shakespearian  subjects  to  the  publication  com- 
mittee —  and  that  if  such  matter  be  found  original 
it  might  be  printed  under  the  seal  of  the  Society 

—  was  adopted.  After  announcing  that  the 
paper  for  the  next  stated  meeting  would  be 
"  Shakespeare  and  his  Alleged  Spanish  Models," 
the  Society  adjourned. 


VEW8  AHD  HOTEa 

—  Chicago  is  to  have  a  new  public  library, 
founded  by  a  gift  of  about  three  millions  of  dol- 
lars from  the  estate  of  the  late  Mr.  Walter  L. 
Newberry.  The  new  institution  will  probably 
lake  its  position  among  the  Astor  and  Lenox 
Libraries  of  the  country  ;  and  we  know  of  no  city 
where  it  could  have  a  larger  field  of  usefulness 
than  in  Chicago.  We  congratulate  the  great 
and  growing  metropolis  of  the  Northwest. 

—  ThejVdA'on  fell  into  a  not  unnatural  error 
a  few  weeks  ago,  in  criticising  Miss  Jessie  Fotb- 
eigill's  novel,  HeaUy,  as  a  new  book  and 
pointing  out  the  decadence  of  the  author's  woik. 
Htalry  was  not  only  published  in  England  a 
decade  ago,  but  in  America  also,  having  been 
issued  by  the  Harpers,  anonymously,  in  their  "  Li. 
brary  of  Choice  Fiction."  The  Holts  in  pub- 
lishing it  in  tlieir  "  Leisure  Hour  Series  "  issued 
it  as  a  new  book. 

—  Among  the  announcements  of  papers  to 
appear  in  the  new  LippineeU  was  one  of  an  article 
on  England  by  Miss  Mary  Anderson.  It  seems, 
however,  that  the  actress  has  not  had  time  Co 
prepare  the  paper,  and  its  appearance  is  indefi- 
nitely postponed.  Following  the  example  of 
HiiTpir's  and  the  Ctntury  the  magazine  will  not 
hereafter  contain  a  regular  literary  department, 
making  such  periodicals  as  the  Literary  IVorld 
all  the  more  necessary. 

—  Lee  &  Shepard  announce  for  early  pub- 
lication A  Handbeok  tf  Ea^ish  History,  by 
Mr.  F.  H.  Underwood,  based  on  M.  J.  Guest's 
Ltcluris  an  English  Uistsry.  The  volume  will 
contain  a  supplementary  chapter  On  "English 
Literature  in  the  XlXth  Century  "  and  will  in- 
clude maps  and  charts.  Mr.  George  M.  Towle'a 
Ymag  Peeplfi  England  is  also  soon  to  be  pub- 
lished by  the  same  house.  It  will  be  fully  illus- 
trated. 

—  The  illusiraled  edition  of  Tkt  Etn  tf  St. 
Agntt,  published  by  Eites  &  Lauriat,  U  ooir  in 


iu  fourth  edition.  Tht  Modtrn  Cufid,  in  a)l  the 
various  styles  in  which  it  was  supplied  by  this 
house,  is  entirely  exhausted.  The  same  is  true 
of  Amtrican  Etchings. 

—  James  Freeman  Clarke's  work,  Ttn  Grtat 
Rtligisns,  in  two  volumes,  is  to  be  issued  today  in 
a  new  edition  at  a  reduced  price,  by  Houghton, 
Hifflm  &  Co.  The  same  house  also  publish  in 
one  volume  the  three  numbers  of  Tkt  Rivtrsidt 
Liltraluri  Siria  AcvottA  to  Hawthorne's  Grand- 

falhtt'i  Chair  I  and  two  new  law-books  by  Bos- 
ton lawyers  —  Fcrms  in  Conviyancing,  by  Leon- 
ard A.  Jones,  the  well-known  legal  writer,  and  a 
work  on  7>ualte  Prtcess,  by  George  W.  McCon- 
nell. 

—  Memorial  tablets  have  been  placed  on  the 
houses  in  Paris,  in  which  Francois  Migiiet,  the 
historian,  and  Diderot,  Che  cncydoptedist,  died. 

—  Tennyson's  new  volume  of  verse,  Tirtsias, 
and  other  Petms,  is  dedicated  to  Robert  Brown- 
ing. 

—  Zr^jl,  a  posthumous  novel  of  life  in  Colorado, 
by  Mrs.  Jackson  ("  H.  H."),  is  shortly  to  be  is- 
sued by  Roberts  Brothers.  It  was  written  at 
Los  Angeles  during  the  winter  of  1SS4-5,  but  the 
author,  finding  herself  unable  to  finish  it,  tent  Che 
manuscript  to  her  publisher  with  a  brief  summary 
of  the  way  in  which  she  intended  the  book  to 
close,  and  with  a  touching  note  of  apology  written 
but  a  few  weeks  before  her  death. 

—  Cupples,  Upham  ft  Co.  will  shortly  pub- 
lish a  small  parchment-bound  volume  of  poetry, 
by  Louisa  Bruce,  well  known  to  Bostonlana  as 
the  translator  of  Heidi.  The  book  will  be  en- 
titled A  Year  ef  Sennets,  and  is  to  be  peculiarly 
attractive  in  appearance. 

—  Dr.  Herman  Grimm's  Lileraturt ;  a  Series 
of  Essays,  has  been  adopted  as  a  teiC-bouk  in 
two  Western  colleges. 

—  A  remarkably  good  likeneu  of  the  late  Dr. 
Rufus  Ellis  is  included  in  the  volume  of  his  ser- 
mons just  published  by  Cupples,  Upham  &  Co. 

—  A  prominent  New  York  merchant  was  so 
impressed  with  the  excellence  of  Farrar's  .SWcfu 
in  Life  that  he  gave  each  of  his  emflayis  a  copy 
as  a  Christmas  present,  using  more  than  one 
hundred  of  (he  volumes  for  this  purpose. 

—  The  sixth  and  final  volume  of  S.  E. 
Cassino  &  Co.'s  Standard  Natural  History  (a 
most  important  illustrated  work  which  has  been 
in  process  of  publication  for  the  past  five  years) 
was  issued  on  the  last  day  of  18S5,  The  fersen- 
nel  of  this  firm  is  changed,  Mr.  S.  £.  Cassino 
having  withdrawn  from  it,  and  the  business  being 
carried  on  under  the  old  name,  by  Mr.  Bradlee 
W hidden,  a  late  partner. 

—  The  third  volume  of  Roberts  Brothers' 
English  cranilation  of  Palaac's  novels  is  devoted 
to  The  Rise  and  Fall  0/  Clear  Biretteau. 

—  Among  the  notable  features  of  the  Febru- 
ary number  of  the  Atlantic  Monthly  is  a 
long  poem  by  Whittier,  called  "The  Hune- 
stead,"  and  an  article  by  Mr.  Abbott  Lawrence 
Lowell  on  "Ministerial  Responsibility  and  the 
Constitution."  A  pleasant  paper  is  con- 
tributed by  Eleanor  Putnam,  entitled  "Salem 
Cupboards."  It  gives  a  description  of  the  coit- 
tenls  of  some  ot  the  Salem  cupboards  of  yeata 
ago. 

—  It  is  Dt>t  generally  known  that  Mrs.  OIi> 
phant's  serial,  A  House  Divided  Against  Itself, 
which  haa  been  running  in  Chamherf  youmal, 
is  a  continuation  of  A  Country  Gentieman,  by 
the  same  aalhor,  which  has  been  one  of  the  at- 


l8«60 


THE   LITERARY   WORLD. 


IS 


IS  of  the  Atlantic  for  (he  pwt  yaa.  The 
name*  of  ihe  chiiacten  in  the  two  novels  tie 
just  enough  unlike  to  avoid  confuilon,  bat  the 
continuity  of  the  itorj  ma;  be  seen  at  a  glance- 
Each  book  is,  however,  complete  in  itself. 

—  It  is  reported  that  Alphoniie  Daudet's  new 
book,  Tertarin  lur  Its  Atfti,  will  be  issued  sim- 
nllaneously  in  France,  England,  Uermanj,  Italy, 
and  Spain,  under  the  auspice*  of  an  American 
publisher,  who  has  paid  150,000  franc*  for  thi* 
privilege. 

—  A  voiaroe  of  studies  on  the  Mailtrt  ef 
/fttitian  Lilerattirt  in  Ihi  Ninetient\  Ctatury, 
by  M.  Ernest  Dupuy,  has  just  been  published  in 
Pari*.  It  is  devoted  to  (he  prose  writer*,  Gogol, 
Tolstoi,  and  Tou^^neff. 

—  Cassell  &  Co,  have  reprinted  in  pamphlet 
form,  the  article  on  the  history  of  their  firm, 
which  appeared  in  the  French  literary  magazine, 
Le  LioTi,  a  few  month*  since. 

—  With  the  January  number  the  Andovcr  Rt- 
view  is  considerably  enlarged.  Its  *ub«cription 
price  is  also  raised.  A  series  of  papers  by  Pro- 
fessor Churchill  on  "Church  Architecture"  is 
begun  in  this  number,  and  the  Central  Church 
at  Worcester,  Mass.,  is  made  the  subject  of  his 
first  article.  As  briefly  announced  already  in 
these  columns,  a  volume  made  up  of  (he  ReoieaPt 
editorials  on  "Progressive  Orthodoxy,"  I*  soon 
to  appear.  Its  chief  divisions  arc  as  follow* : 
"Criteria  of  Theological  Progress;  The  Incarna- 
tion j  The  Atonement ;  Eschatology  ;  The  Work 
of  the  Holy  Spirit;  The  Christian;  The  Script- 
ures i  Christisnity,  Absolute  and  Universal." 

—  Canltrlnay  Taiet,  a  book  once  widely  read 
and  Kill  well  known,  by  Sophia  and  Harriet 
Lee,  is  to  be  reissued  shortly  by  Hougbton, 
Mifflin  A  Co.  II  wa*  first  published  in  1797, 
and  there  have  been  many  subsequent  editions 
both  in  England  and  America.  The  same  house 
will  shortly  publish  a  new  editiKi  of  Matauii^t 
IVtrks  in  sixteen  volumes. 

—  Prof.  J.  R.  Seeley's  Short  Hittiry  ef  Na- 
foleott,  to  be  published  at  once  by  Roberts 
Brothers,  will  coutain  a  wonderfully  striking  por- 
trait   of    Napoleon    after    BoiDy,   engraved   by 

—  MaJamt  Mehl:  HirSalm  and  Her  Frittidl, 
is  the  title  <A  a  new  book  by  Kathleen  O'Meara, 
parts  of  which  appeared  as  article*  in  the  Atlan- 
tic not  long  ago.  The  voluone  ha*  two  portraits 
of  Mme.  Mohl,  one  from  a  sketch  made  by 
W.  W.  ijtory  in  1855,  the  other  by  Hme.  Mohl 
herself.  It  is  to  be  brought  out  by  Robert* 
Brothers  iromedistely. 

—  Hatbilde  Blind's  Madam  Raland'iiWi  folloi 
Mrs.  Arlhur  Kennard's  Racktl  in  the  "Famous 
Women  Series."  A  long  review  of  Miss  Blind' 
George  Eliot  appeared  in  a  recent  number  of  the 
Revut  del  Dtux  Mondet  and  in  it  The  Impret- 
lions  of  Theophraitus  Sueh  has  rather  an  unfa- 
miliar look  when  called  Let  Impretsiom  de  Thh- 
phrasU  UM  Tel. 

—  The  New  York  Tribune  caught  its  contem- 
porary the  Independent  in  a  rather  humiliating 
mistake  a  short  time  ago.  The  fndependtHt 
printed  with  a  flourish  of  trumpet*  two  "  new 
poems  by  Lord  Tennyson  transmitted  by  cable." 
One  of  the  poems  turned  out  to  be  Tennyson'i 
verses  on  "  Spring,"  published  in  the  YoMlh't 
Companion  abont  two  years  ago,  and  the  other  it 
in  the  new  volume  issued  by  the  Macmillana, 
cofrfes  of  which  were  In  tbe  city  s  week  c 
before  the  K-called  "  new  verse*  "  were  printed 


in  the  Independent.  When  acknowledging  the 
error  the  Independent,  however,  turns  upon  the 
lyiiuiii,  and  convicts  that  journal  of  having 
printed  a  story  from  the  Independent  and  credit- 
ing it  to  a  foreign  m^azincj  so  that  accounts 
are  squared. 

—  A  new  story  by  Mr.  RotMrt  Loui*  Steven- 
son, who,  by  the  way,  wc  regret  to  hear,  is  in  very 
poor  health,  i*  about  ready,  and  will  be  published 
by  Charles  Scribner's  Sons.  The  tale  is  entitled 
The  Strange  Can  of  Dr.  Jifyll  and  Mr.  Hyde. 
snd  is  more  grotesque  and  weird  than  the  aver- 
age ghost  story  even  from  so  original  a  writer  as 
Mr.  Stevenson.  Among  the  other  books  an- 
nounced by  Messrs.  Scribner,  is  a  novel  by  Mr. 
Frank  R-  Stockton,  the  first  long  novel  he  has 
ever  written;  My  Study  and  Other  Estays.  by 
Prof.  Austin  Phelps;  a  novel  by  Mr.  William 
Allen  Butler,  the  author  of  Nothing  to  Wear; 
a  new  book  by  Mr.  James  Anthony  Froude,  enti- 
tled Oceana  ;  or  En^nd  and  Her  Coliinlei,  the 
ODtCome  of  the  historian's  recent  journey  around 
the  world  ;  Manual  of  Musical  Hiitor^;  by  Dr.  F. 
L.  Rittcr  of  Vassar  College,  the  author  of  the 
large  work  on  Music  in  America;  an  American 
edition  of  La  Piychelogit  Ailcmande  Contempo- 
raint,  by  Prof.  H.  Ribot,  with  an  introduction  by 
President  McCosh  1  and  two  new  additions  to 
the  "  Epoch  Series  ; "  The  Early  HaHoveriani,  by 
Prof.  E.  E.  Morris,  and  The  Spartan  and  Tkiban 
Supremacy,  by  Charles  Sankey. 

—  A.  C.  Armstrong  &  Son  have  in  press  a 
new  book,  by  Dr.  Van  Dyke,  the  author  of  From 
Gloom  to  Gladness,  which  will  tMar  the  title  7^e- 
itm  and  Evolution, 

—  The  new  edition  of  Mr.  John  Morley's  com- 
plete works,  which  is  being  prepared  for  Mac- 
millan  &  Co.,  will  be  issued  during  the  present 
month.  In  its  appearance  it  will  be  uniform 
with  tlie  firm'*  beautiful  editions  of  Kingsley, 
Lamb,  and  Gray.  The  author  has  revised  his 
essays  and  miscellaneous  papers  so  that  the  edi- 
tion may  be  thoroughly  complete  and  satisfactory. 

—  7»i  Mammalia  in  Their  Relation  to  Prime- 
val Times,  by  Oscar  Schmidt,  Earthfuahte  and 
Other  Earth  Movements,  by  John  Milne,  and 
Comparative  Literature,  by  H.  M.  Posnett,  are 
the  new  volume*  announced  by  D-  Applcton  & 
Co.,  to  t>e  added  to  the  "International  Scientific 
Series." 

—  Miss  Rboda  Broughlon  has  finished  a  new 
novel  which  will  find  its  way  to  the  author's 
American  audience  through  the  Harper'*  "Handy 

—  Lieut.  A.  W.  Greely  has  jtitt  arrived  bome 
from  his  visit  abroad,  having  made  arrangements 
(or  a  speedy  publication  of  his  book  in  England 
through  Bentley.  It  is  singular  to  find  that  the 
explorer  has  l>een  received  in  England  with 
much  more  cordiality  and  attention  than  was 
shown  him  in  his  own.  His  book  is  looked  for- 
ward to  there  with  the  greatest  interest,  and  at 
the  lectures  given  by  Lieut.  Greely  the  attend- 
ance has  been  very  large.  73riv  Years  ef 
Arctic  Service,  the  title  of  his  work,  is  now 
complete,  and  the  author  is  revising  the  final 
proofs.  II  will  be  the  most  elaborate  and  the 
largest  book  on  Arctic  exploration  ever  pub- 
lished, and  will  be  issued  in  two  large  volumes, 
illustrated  by  about  100  beautiful  engravings 
taken  from  the  remarkable  set  of  photographs 
brought  back  by  the  party,  and  new  maps,  some 
of  which  depict  the  topography  of  hitherto  unex- 
plored laud*.     All  the  oSdal  paper*  of  the 


expedition  were  placed  at  Ueut.  Greely'*  dis- 
posal, which  gives  his  work  a  unique  value. 

—  D.  Applcton  &  Co.  have  just  ready  Marl- 
borough, by  Geo.  Saintsbury,  in  the  "  English 
Worthies,"  and  a  novel  by  Edna  Lyall  entitled 
Donnian,  a  Modem  Englishman. 

—  Scribner  &  Weltord  have  Imported  an  edi- 
tion of  Mr-  Frank  Hatton's  book  on  North 
Borneo,  which  is  one  of  the  most  successful 
volumes  of  the  season  in  London.  Mr.  Hatton, 
it  will  be  remembered,  was  the  son  of  Mr.  Joseph 
Hatton,  the  author  and  correspondent,  and  was 
killed  by  the  accidental  discharge  of  hi*  gun 
while  hunting  in  Africa.  The  book  is  full  of 
lively  descriptions  and  entertaining  stories  of 
travel,  beside  a  vast  amount  of  valuable  in- 
formation to  the  naturalist.  Another  hook  pub- 
lished by  Messrs.  Scribner  &  Welford  is  Old 
Miscellany  Days,  which  is  composed  of  stories 
and  illustrstions  reprinted  from  Bentley's  Mis- 
cellany. The  pictures  are  all  by  George  Cruik- 
shank-  The  stories  are  very  jolly  and  full  of 
spirit,  in  its  own  way  as  good  a  collection  as  the 
now  famous  Blackwood  Tales. 

—  Mr.  George  W.  Cable's  new  novel  of  Arca- 
dian life  in  Louisiana  will  be  called  GrcauU 
Point. 

—  Mr.  Rosslter  Johnson,  the  editor  of  Apple- 
ton's  Cyclopedia  Annual,  and  the  writer  of  many 
papers  upon  American  history  topics,  has  begun 
to  contribute  a  scries  of  papers  to  tbe  New  Vork 
Examiner  setting  forth  the  causes  and  chief  in- 
cidents in  tbe  American  Civil  War.  Later  the 
article*  will  be  put  into  book  form. 

—  A  book  noticed  in  our  Holiday  Review, 
Wild  Flowers  of  Colorado,  has  given  n*e  to  a 
controversy  in  that  Slate  over  the  tine  author- 
ship, so  to  speak,  of  the  colored  plates  therein. 
Alice  A.  Stewart  of  Colorado  Springs,  in  an  open 
letter  to  the  Daily  GatetU  of  that  town,  accuse* 
Mrs.  Thayer,  in  whose  name  the  book  was  pub- 
lished, of  gross  plagiarism.  Mrs.  Stewart's  own 
sketches  have  been  sent  on  to  New  York  in  proof 
of  her  charge. 

—  The  Bay  State  Monthly  is  to  Uke  the  name 
of  The  NetB  England  Magatint,  and  to  enlarge 
its  scope  accordingly.  It  is  promised  to  make  it 
a  periodical  of  special  interest  and  value  10  New 
Englanders. 

—  Janscn,  McClurg  &  Co.  are  about  to  publish 
Letters  to  a  Daughter,  by  Mrs.  Helen  E.  Star- 
rett;  to  which  i*  added  a  "Little  Sermon  to 
School  Girls." 

—  In  anyauch  writing  as  our  "  Annual  Review 
of  the  World's  Literature  for  1885"  error*  and 
omissions  of  course  are  unavoidable.  For  the 
former  we  are  duly  sorry ;  some  of  the  latter 
are  accidental-  The  loss  of  the  name  of  Mrs. 
Helen  Jackson  out  of  the  Necrology  is  one  of 
the  most  singular  editorial  accidents  that  ever 
happened,  and  we  cannot  account  for  it.  We 
ought  not  to  have  lost  sight  of  the  Lift  and  Times 
of  William  Uoyd  Garrison  among  (he  more  im- 
portant American  biographies  of  the  year ;  nor 
among  American  histories  that  of  the  Epitcofal 
Church  and  the  "  Civil  War  Series  "  published  by 
Ticknor  ft  Co.  Wharton's  Sappho  is  an  Ameri- 
can reprint  of  an  English  original.    And  so  on. 

—  There  arc  promises  at  last  of  a  work  on  the 
Congo,  which  will  take  an  impartial  view  of  the 
great  country  which  has  been  called  so  much  of 
a  commercial  paradise  by  Mr.  H.  M.  Stanley 
and  Mr.  Johnson,  who  is  known  to  be  his  friend 
and  follower.    The  author  of  the  new  book  Is 


THE    LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Jan.  9,  1886.] 


Hr.  W.  P.  Tiidd,  "  U.  S.  Diplomitic  Agent 
the  Free  State  of  the  Congo."  He  viiit< 
Congo  tn  (he  [nterect  of  the  goveromeiit,  and 
penetnled  up  the  river  h  far  ••  Stanle;  Pool, 
be  bunted  elephant*  and  hippopotami,  and  in 
abort,  did  all  those  tliinp  which  are  neccuarj 
to  qualify  one  for  writing  a  book  of  travel  and 
adventure.  Vet,  according  to  report,  Hr.  Tiidel 
bat  not  painted  a  picture  of  the  Free  Stale  in 
glowing  colors;  he  found  manj  grave  dnwbacks 
to  commerdal  proepcritj ;  and  to  the  reader  who 
baa  been  infoMd  b;  the  enthulium  of  Stanley, 
hia  volnme,  which  wilt  be  published  during  thi 
winter,  may  act  as  a  wet  bianlceb 

—  Mcsirs.  Henry  Holt  ft  Co.  will  add  to  theit 
"Leisure  Hour  Series"  a  "romantic  and  dra- 
matic novel  of  EDBliab  rural  life  with  an  Ameri- 
can hero."  The  title  of  the  book  is  After  Hii 
Kind,  and  the  author  ii  reported  to  be  Mr.  John 
Coventry.  We  ate  happy  to  hear,  by  the  »»y, 
that  this  firm's  "Leisure  Moment  Seriet''Lgmoi 
popular  than  ever  before,  AbooktcIlet,whDdi 
poses  of  probably  more  populai  volumes  than  any 
other  in  this  country,  told  us  recently  that  the 
trade  in  (he  pamphlet  novels  was  falling  off 
rapidly,  and  that  his  customers  demanded  duo- 
dedmo  edition*.  Tbcy  objected  to  the  fine  type 
and  poor  paper  of  the  len  cent  edition*,  and  chose 
to  spend  fifteen  or  twenty  cents  more  (or  the  beltei 
grade  of  reprints.  This  is  encouraging  testimony 
certainly;  we  hope  It  may  be  proven  beyond 
question  some  day  that  the  matter  of  paper  and 
print  does  effect  the  general  reader. 

—  Mr.  W.  T.  Comstock's  excellent  paper,  TTit 
Buiidtr,  will  hereafter  be  issued  at  a  weekly, 
and  the  editor  will  be  Mr.  William  Paul  Ger. 
hard,  Mr.  Conutock  devoting  all  bis  time  to  the 
publishing  department. 

—  Mr.  Marion  Crawford's  new  novel,  which  he 
is  just  now  finishing  at  Naples,  will  probably  be 
pt^ished  by  the  Macmillans  in  the  early  spring, 

.—  The  latest  thing  in  the  cheap  book  move 
mentis  Messrs.  Casseir*  National  Library.  This 
great  house  ha*  so  large  a  connection  through 
its  branch  houses  in  New  York,  Paris,  and  Mel' 
bourne,  that  when  (hey  take  up  so  important  a 
tdieme  as  the  present  one,  there  is  good  reason 
for  believing  that  (hey  will  see  it  through.  The 
plan  i*  to  print  insmsU  volumes  containing  about 
KM  pages  each,  a  series  of  only  standard  works, 
tbe  price  to  be  three  pence  a  volume.  Fifty-iwo 
volumes  are  to  be  published  during  the  year. 
We  shall  be  interested  to  see  (he  American  edi- 
tions of  this  new  library.  The  reputation  of  the 
Grm  vouches  for  its  mechanical  excellence. 

—  Messrs.  Ginn  &  Co.  have  ready  a  volume  of 
essays  selected  from  (he  papers  of  the  late  Prof. 
Lewis  R.  Packard,  who  was  Hillboose  Professor 
of  Greek  in  Yale  College.  The  book  is  called 
Studiti  in  Greet  Thtught,  and  the  seven  papers 
which  it  contains  are  devoted  (o  the  fullowing 
subjects :  Morality  and  Religion  of  the  Greeks; 
Plato's  Arguments  in  (he  Phado  for  the  Immor- 
tality of  the  Soul ;  On  Plato's  Scheme  of  Educa- 
tion a*  Proposed  in  the  Refubtic ;  The  <Edifiui 
Rix  of  Sophokles;  Summary  of  (he  (Edifui 
CMatuui  of  Sophokle* ;  Summary  of  the  Anli- 
tom  of  Sophokles  \  On  the  Beginnings  of  a  Writ- 
ten Literature  in  Greece. 

—  Among  the  important  new  and  forthcoming 
books  from  the  same  Grm  it  a  work  on  political 
economy.  The  Pkiteiopky  af  iVeaUA,  by  John  B. 
Clark,  Professor  of  History  and  Polidcal  Science 
n    SnJth    CoUege,  and  Lec(DreT  on   Poli(ica] 


Economy  in  Amherst  College.  Also  a  transla- 
tion of  Oullinti  af  Piych(^Bgy,hj  Hermann  Lotie, 
being  the  fourth  volume  in  (he  "  Outlines  "  series 
edited  by  Prof.  George  T.  Ladd  of  Yale  College  ; 
a  volume  upon  Grfei  Iitfieclien,  by  B.  F.  Hard- 
ing of  S.  Paol's  School,  Concord ;  Elemeiiti  of 
tht  Thtfry  of  the  Nemtoman  Potential  Function, 
by  B.  O.  Peirce,  Assistant- Protestor  of  Mathe- 
matics and  Phyiics  in  Harvard  University;  Out- 
lines  ef  Mediaval  and  Modern  Hillary,  by  Prof. 
P.  V.  N.  Myers,  author  of  Renudnt  ef  Loit  Em- 
pires; and  Tlu  Ltading  Fads  of  Eng/isA  //it- 
tory,  by  D.  H.  Mon^omery.  The  idea  of  th( 
latter  book  ia  to  give  the  chief  facts  of  English 
history  and  then  to  trace  their  influence  or 
laws  of  national  growth. 

—  Two  new  novels,  7"*/  Slory  ef  Margaret 
Kent  and  Cleopatra,  are  to  be  expected  about 
the  middle  of  the  month  from  the  press  of  Tick- 
nor  ft  Co.  The  first  book  is  written  by  Mr. 
Ifenry  Hayes,  and  treats  of  Bohemian  life  in 
New  York.  It  is  pronounced  peculiarly  good 
by  the  few  critics  who  have  been  fortunate  enough 
to  tee  it.  Cleopatra  is  the  latest  work  of  the 
much-fjied" Henri  Gt^ville"  (Mme.  Durand). 

—  The  entire  first  edition  of  Prof.  Morse's 
Japanese  Hemes  was  sold  the  week  it  was  pub- 
lished.   A  second  edition  it  now  ready. 

—  We  learn  tha(  Miss  Nora  Perry  (whose  last 
novel.  For  a  WeMan,\tai,  hy  (he  way,  been  much 
praised  by  tbe  Satnrdaj  Revievi),  is  to  contrib- 
ute an  article  on  "Antographs  and  Autograph 
Hunters"  to  the  neat  number  of  Widt-Avtate. 

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Philadelphia  house  of  J.  B.  Lippincott  &  Co., 
now  the  J.  B.  Lippincoii  Company,  died  In  (ha( 
city  Jin.  5,  of  heart  disease.  The  event  is  an- 
nounced just  as  we  goto  press. 

—  The  authorship  of  Taken  bySiege,  the  serial 
begun  in  the  January  number  of  Lippincotfs 
Magaane,  is  a  profound  secret,  and  is  not  even 
known  by  the  editor  of  the  magazine.  The 
manuscript  of  the  story  was  written  out  on  type- 
writer, and  sent  him  by  a  friend  of  the  author. 
He  read  it  at  once,  and  accepted  it  on  its  merits. 
Only  two  persons  know  who  the  author  is,  and 
they  are  bound  to  secrecy.  The  trouble  with 
most  literary  secrets  of  this  sort  is  that  they  are 
known  by  too  many  persons.  The  author  of 
Taken  hy  Siege  is  wise  in  his  generation,  and  acts 
upon  the  advice:  "IF  you  don't  want  a  secret 
known,  don't  tell  it."  The  scene  of  this  story, 
which  is  of  contemporary  life,  is  laid  in  New 
York,  and  it  is  said  thai  it  will  not  be  bard  [o 
guess  who  serves  as  model  for  the  heroine.  Tbe 
other  characters,  while  they  are  not  portraits, 
describe  well-known  types. 


Gtulliird,  Louii  Fmpcr,  Bcigium,  iluul  Dec  iS,  Bg  j. 
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CONTENTS. 

HmaoR  IH  Animals 10 

AiKT'i  SdiHTinc  Thusm » 

CuiiHHTS  IN  RiuGious  Thought  ....  id 

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PUBLICATIDNdtlCUVID 34 


HUM  OB  IN  ANDCAIA  • 

MR.  WILLIAM  H.  BEARD  has  been 
for  many  jeara  one  of  our  most  promi- 
nent and  origiaal  artists.  The  field  he  has 
occupied  has  been  almost  entirely  undis- 
puted. A  caricaturist  In  color  of  the  foibles 
of  the  human  race,  with  the  brush  he  has 
followed  in  the  path  of  Maop ;  like  him,  it 
is  not  men  but  animals  that  he  has  painted; 
Iiis  subtle  perception  of  humor  has  enabled 
him  to  observe  traits  in  individuals  of  the 
brute  creation  that  bring  them  into  relation 
with  man  and  render  them  fit  mediums  for 
the  expression  of  satire  on  human  whims 
and  vices.  Those  who  have  seen 
Beard's  notable  composition,  "  The  Dance 
of  Silenus,"  will  not  soon  foi^et  the  impres- 
sion made  by  one  of  the  most  powerful 
satires  on  drunkenness  ever  composed. 

In  this  volume,  entitled  Humor  itt  . 
mah,  Mr.  Beard  attempts  to  carry  out  his 
studies  of  men  and  animals  by  combined 
sketches  in  pen  and  pencilin  which  he  appears 
in  the  double  r&Ie  of  author  and  artist  The 
text  gives  evidence  of  crudeness  and  in- 
experience in  authorship,  and  in  some  cases 
the  observations  and  humor  are  far-fetched. 

The  drawings,  likewise,  indicate  some- 
times a  certain  lack  oi  facility  in  pen  and  ink 
dramng;  they  are  too  labored,  and  would 
have   been   more   agreeable   and   artistic 


rmatbrW.  H.  Burd.    G.  P.  f 


rendered  with  more  freedom,  or  at  least 

ithout  the  stiffly  elaborate  backgrounds 
that  too  often  impair  their  effect. 

But  when  all  has  been  said  it  must  be 
candidly  admitted  that  the  work  is  one  that 
vrlll  add  to  the  author's  reputation.  The 
Speech  of  the  Donkey  is  very  funny  and 
contains  a  deal  ot  truth.  The  expression 
"feathered  monkeys,"  as  applied  to  parrots, 

apt  and  original,  and  the  hit  at  ethnolo- 
gists in  the  chapter  on  the  turtle  seems  to 
have  some  basis  in  the  peculiar  weaknesses 
of  extreme  scientists. 

The  drollery  of  the  designs  is  to  be  ex- 
pected, although  one  or  two  hardly  add  to 
the  value  of  the  work.  "  The  Scarecrow  " 
animated  sketch  admirably  composed. 
The  picture  representing  the  little  negro  and 
the  bear  surveying  each  other  is  in  Mr. 
Beard's  best  vein,  and  the  same  may  be  said 
of  the  tortoise  soliloquizing,  and  of  the  group 
of  bears  in  the  sketch  entitled  "Not  such  a 
laugh  as  this." 

The  volume  has  been  tastefully  printed 
and  bound,  and  will  doubtless  find  a  wide 
response  from  the  keen  sense  of  humor  so 
generously  distributed  In  our  community. 

ABBOTS  SOIENTIFIO  THEISJC* 

THE  very  excellence  ot  this  work  makes 
us  more  sensitive  to  its  faults ;  and 
faults  which,  in  an  ordinary  writer  would  at- 
tract little  attention,  here  become  glaringly 
offensive.  The  keen,  acute,  and  generally 
sound  reasoning  and  valuable  results  will 
have  less  effect  upon  a  reader  who  is  re- 
pelled   by    egotism,    by    uncourteous     and 

ftimes  uncalled-for  sarcasm,  and  by  an 
overestimate  of  mere  verbal  logic.  Mr. 
Abbot  has  formulated  in  this  volume  a  phi- 
losophy of  scientific  realism,  which  he  ap- 
pears to  think  has  never  before  been  artic- 
ulated. Yet  none  of  its  main  lines  of 
thought  has  upon  us  the  effect  of  novelty ; 

completeness  and  carefulness  of  the 
elaboration  is  s.\\  which  seems  to  us  really 
new.  This  is  enough,  however,  to  give  the 
book  a  very  honorable  place  in  the  literature 
of  the  subject.  The  majority  of  Mr.  Ab- 
bot's positions  and  arguments  will  command 
assent  from  many  thinkers.  But,  to  our 
apprehension,  he  is  evidently  misled  by  his 
enthusiasm  and  by  his  fondness  for  dialec- 
tic into  injustice  toward  other  men  ;  and  into 
exaggeration  of  the  merits  of  his  own  views, 
He  lays  down  (p.  6j)  three  postulates : 
that  there  is  an  external  universe,  that  it  is 
partly  known  by  man,  and  that  this  knowl- 
edge is  simply  a  knowledge  of  relations. 
But  upon  the  next  page  he  declares  that 
these  postulates  are  derived  "from  experi- 
ence alone  ;  "  and  lieems  to  imply  that  it  is 
from  scientific  experience  alone.  That  thi 
third  of  them  is  thus  derived  we  may  be 
willing  to  grant ;  but  we  do  not  see  why  the 


first  and  second  do  not  antedate  experience, 
as  a  necessary  condition  of  experience.  If 
not  innate  they  are  at  least  connate ;  they 
are  tacitly  assumed  at  the  very  beginning  of 
ail  consciousness.  Our  author  speaks  slight- 
ingly of  Scotch  Realism  ;  yet  it  really  stands 
upon  the  same  impregnable  basis  with  his 
Scientific  Realism ;  namely,  that  in 
every  act  of  sense-perception,  consciousness 
delivers  a  not.me  as  distinctly  as  a  me.  It 
did  not  require  the  modem  verification  of 
the  law  of  gravity  and  the  undulatory  the- 
ory to  give  man  a  logical  or  firm  ground  for 
believing  in  an  external  universe.  Some  of 
Mr.  Abbot's  expressions  might  readily  be 
criticised  as  severely  as  those  of  the  Scotch- 
Turn,  for  instance,  to  p.  120  and 
read:  "All  Being  is  essentially  intelligible, 
and  either  is  or  may  be  apparent"  If  a 
critic  wished  to  avoid  Mr.  Abbot's  conclu- 
lions,  with  what  withering  sarcasm  he  might 
comment  upon  that  dictum ;  and,  among 
other  things,  show  its  incompatibility  with 
the  postulate  that  all  our  knowledge  is  but 
the  knowledge  of  relations.  Yet  our  author 
'.  123]  pronounces  it  "  the  absolutely 
strongest  induction  whitdi  experience  can 
yield."  Upon  the  next  page  he  himself 
apparently  makes  the  concession  that  tt 
would  require  infinite  intelligence  to  under- 
stand all  Being.  For  another  instance  turn 
to  p.  152:  "the  possibility  of  miracle  as  a 
suspension  of  natural  law  would  be  the 
disproof  of  an  infinite  intelligence."  Yet 
every  single  instance  of  deliberate  human 
purpose,  every  volition,  especially  if  fulfilled, 
is  a  suspension  of  natural  law ;  should  Mr. 
Abbot  deny  that,  he  knocks  away  the  very 
foundation  of  his  own  masterly  defence  of 
teleology. 

We  find  the  author  also  representing 
(p.  185)  "the  old  distinction  of  nature  as 
organic  and  inorganic  "  to  be  "  a  distinction 
intrinsically  misleading,  artificial,  and  false 
itself "  because  "  it  is  no  longer  pos- 
e  to  point  out  where  the  line  is  to  be 
."  We  are  by  no  means  willing  to  con- 
cede that  there  is  any  difficulty  in  drawing 
the  line  between  organic  and  inorganic; 
but  even  were  that  concession  made,  it 
would  be  only  as  a  demurrer.  Our  author 
prides  himself,  apparently,  above  all  things 
on  his  logic;  yet  here  he  seems  to  have 
followed  his  "spotless  and  immortal  Dar- 
win "  into  the  curious  popular  fallacy  of 
saying  that  a  line  does  not  exist  because  we 
cannot  see  it.  The  protozoa  and  proto- 
phyta  may  be  as  indistinguishable  by  us  as 
an  embryo  chicken  from  an  embryo  hawk; 
and  yet  have  a  myriad  fold  as  great  a  diver- 
sity. Yet  from  this  fallacious  inference, 
from  human  ignorance,  Mr.  Abbot  draws 
what  he  calls  a  "  momentous  consequence ; " 
that  the  universe  is  either  wholly  organic, 
or  wholly  inorganic.  But  the  long  series  of 
scientific  experiments  shows  that  this  con- 
clusion, drawn  from  false  premises  by  a 
fallacious  argument,  is  utterly  contradictory 


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to  human  experience.  To  aay  that  the  cos- 
mos is  an  organism  is  just  as  misleading  as 
to  say  that  it  is  a  machine  ;  a  Topsy  theory 
is  no  better  than  a  carpenter  theory.  We 
are  not,  however,  shot  up  to  that  alterna- 
tive ;  we  would  better  leave  the  cosmos  as  the 
cosmos;  although  we  may  justly  consider 
God  immanent  as  well  as  transcendent. 
Even  Mr.  Abbot  (pp.  204,  205,  209,  191-3) 
points  out  the  enormous  differences  between 
a  finite  organism  and  the  universe  consid- 
ered as  a  whole.  To  distinguish  differences 
is  a  more  important  office  for  the  intellect 
than  to  find  likenesses  ;  and  there  is  nothing 
gained,  but  much  lost,  if,  through  Cear  of 
making  the  universe  a  machine,  separate 
from  its  Maker,  you  make  it  an  organism, 
with  Him  as  its  psyche.  We  are  uncon- 
scious of  the  building  and  guiding  of  our 
own  organism ;  but  our  conscious  psychi- 
cal life  is  as  truly  necessary  to  experience 
as  tlie  unconscious ;  which  truth  seems 
to  be  granted  on  pp.  104,  105.  Yet  we 
are  told  (p.  213)  that  Cod  is  "in  no 
sense  transcendent,  in  the  infinite  universe 
f€T  it."  This  seems  to  imply  that  we  are 
to  reject  the  conclusions  of  consciousness, 
we  are  not  to  admit  that  the  human  body  is 
strictly  not  the  man ;  we  are  not  to  admit 
with  a  majority  of  the  philosophers  of  all 
ages,  including  Mr,  John  Fiske,  that  a  life 
of  the  soul  is  possible,  and  even  probable, 
after  the  dissolution  of  the  body.  For  if 
the  finite  spirit  thus  transcends  its  organ- 
ism, then  a  fortiori  ^^  Infinite  Spirit  tran- 
scends the  cosmos,  even  if  it  be  considered 
an  organism. 

One  defect  in  Mr.  Abbot's  writings  has 
always  appeared  to  us  to  be  his  overcon- 
fidence  in  mere  logical  inference ;  he  practi- 
cally forgets  that  the  premises  are  liable  to 
be  defective,  and  the  inferences  faulty  and 
therefore  untrustworthy.  Even  the  mathe- 
maticians devise  checks  and  independent 
proofs  for  their  results.  The  results  of  all 
reasoning  are  to  be  compared  with  the  gen- 
eral results  of  experience  and  of  thought. 
On  such  grand  bases  men  have  come  to  the 
conclusion,  not  only  that  the  relations  of 
the  universe  are  relations  of  real  being;  but 
that  being  exists  independently  of  its  known 
relations,  and  transcends  them ;  that  the 
infinite  Being  transcends  all  the  relations 
of  the  universe  known  and  unknown.  Mi 
Abbot  speaks  with  too  little  respect  of  those 
philosophers  with  whom  he  does  not  agree 
calling  the  theism  of  some  (p.  211)  "Deism 
with  its  clumsy  makeshift  of  creation  n 
nihilo."  We  are  by  no  means  sure  that  the 
clumsiness  is  not  in  his  interpretation 
that  phrase;  it  may  be  that  philosophi 
have  usi;^  it  in  the  sense  in  which  we  o 
selves  have  certainly  used  it  from  our  e 
liest  manhood,  as  a  simple  denial  that  there 
is  any  other  Eternal  Being  except  God. 
Herbert  Spencer's  epithet  of  "carpenter 
-  theory  "  seems  to  imply  that  theism  postu- 
lates an  original  chaos  coeval  with   God. 


Mr.  Abbot's  meaning  in  the  terms  "make- 
shift of  creation  tx  nihilo  "  is  by  no  means 
evident  to  us.  Goethe's  contempt  for  a 
God  standing  outside  the  universe  and  twirl- 
ing il  on  his  finger,  seems  aimed  at  childish 
and  uncultivated  rather  than  at  any  phil- 
osophic conceptions.  At  any  rate  Mr.  Abbot 
recognizes  Id  God  the  source  of  the  uni- 
verse, devising  consciously  its  relations,  and 
guiding  its  movements  with  wise  and  con- 
scious thought ;  which  is  precisely  the  the- 
of  Jewish  and  Christian  theology.  And 
e  lofty  and  valuable  conclusions  he  ob- 
s  by  a  process  of  reasoning  which  is  in 
t'he  main  sound  and  founded  upon  sound 
premises.  The  book,  as  we  have  said,  must 
take  an  honorable  place  in  the  literature  of 
the  subject ;  and  from  its  falling  in,  in  so 
many  particulars,  with  the  peculiar  lone  of 
the  age,  will  be  very  likely  to  be  set  even 
above  its  merits ;  great  as  those  merits  un- 
questionably are. 

OUBBEHTS  IH  HELIOIOUB  THOUGHT. 

THE  two  books  before  us  are  closely 
related  in  theme  and  title,  and  therefore 
may  fitly  be  considered  side  by  side,  but 
their  differences  in  method  and  tone  and 
spirit  are  radical  and  world-wide.  One  critic 
thin  the  currents  he  describes,  has 
felt  as  well  as  perceived  each  subtle  change 
ind  turn,  yet  joins  with  generous  sympathies 
I  candid,  cautious  judgment,  and  firm  per- 
lona!  convictions.  The  other,  a  foreigner 
by  name  and  birth,  is  an  utter  stranger  to 
Saxon  earnestness  of  soul,  writes  with  indif- 
ference to  the  issues  at  stake,  and  betrays 
the  curious  narrowness  and  superficiality 
his  enthusiasms  and  his  estimates  which  1 
have  learned  to  expect  from  foreigners. 

If  M.  Renan  is  right,  and  the  best  critic  of 
a  faith  is  the  man  who  once  ttelieved  but 
no  more,  Count  D'Alviella*  has 
clearly  this  claim  to  fitness  for  his  task.  In 
his  introducti 

"hen' 

Mr.  Savage  in  the  United  Slates ;  a  Theiit  with 
Mr.  Voysey  i  a  Transcen  den  tali  st,  »t  Boston  with 
Theodnre  Parker;  a  believer  in  the  Divinity  oi 
the  Cosmos,  at  New  Bedford  with  Mr.  Potter;  a 
Humanitarian,  at  New  York  with  Mr.  Adier; 
and  even  a  Brabmoi^t,  at  Calcutta  with  the  lead- 
ers of  the  Brahmo  Somaj. 

The  old  adage,  Calum,  non  animum,  ma- 
tant,  never  received  so  fiat  a  contradiction ! 
Sympathies  and  enthusiasms  so  broad  as 
these  can  hardly  flow  with  depth  or  even- 
ness, and  Mr.  Savage  claims  far  more  atten- 
tion than  Dr.  Martineau  —  a  single  fact 
which  speaks  volumes  regarding  (he  quality 
of  the  author's  mind  ;  but  his  enthusia 
has  traversed  the  whole  circuit  which 
passes  under  review,  and  the  residuum  of 
religious  influence  left  by  any  or  all  of  these 


sects  will  not  impair  his  critical  qualifications, 
even  in  the  fastidious  eyes  of  M.  Renan. 

England,  America,  and  India  are  the  three 
countries  with  which  the  volume  deals,  and 
the  last  selection  is  by  far  the  most  interes^ 
ing  and  valuable  of  the  three.  The  connec- 
tion between  Brahmoism  and  the  older  Hindu 
philosophy,  theology,  and  mysticism  is  care- 
fully drawn,  the  changing  phases  ot  the  faith 
of  the  Somaj  are  distinctly  marked,  and  per- 
haps no  other  book  gives  so  intelligible  an 
idea  of  the  ferment  of  religious  thought  in 
modern  Hindustan.    Second  both  in  interest 

id  in  value  stands  the  account  of  English 
thought.  The  sketch  of  the  progress  of  free 
inquiry  since  the  Reformation  is  broad  and 
comprehensive,  English  Unitarianism  re- 
fair  and  full  treatment,  changes 
within  the  Evangelical  lines  are  noted, 
Comtism  and  secularism  are  carefully  studied, 
and  the  few  rationalistic  congregations  out- 
side the  Christian  pale  gain  a  consideration 
quite  beyond  their  importance.  But  in 
America,  since  the  Transcendental  move- 
ment, the  chief,  almost  the  only,  discoveries 
of  the  critic  are  Free  Religion,  societies  for 
Ethical  Culture,  and  Cosmism. 

The  descriptions  of  places  and  forms  of 
worship  have  often  an  especial  charm,  and 
the  author  has  undoubted  merits  as  a  keen 
observer.  Some  of  his  generalizations  are 
hasty,  and  his  classification  of  thinkers  and 
beneath  various  sects,  such  as  the 
association  of  Longfellow  and  Daniel  Web- 
(!)  with  the  Trans cendentalists,  is  often 
amusing.  We  cannot  leave  the  book  with- 
out noticing  the  unpardonable  carelessness 
and  poor  taste  of  the  translator,  from  whose 
blunders  we  quote  "  bigotted,"  "  indivisable,' 

Gensis,"  "  Capernicus,"  "  Oliver  Wendall' 
Holmes,"  and  "  Colonel  Ingersol,"  from  the 
last  of  whom  he  adds  a  gratuitous  quotation 
of  the  coarsest  scurrility. 

Principal  Tulloch'  confines  his  survey  to 

much  narrower  sphere,  and  writes  with 
correspondingly  greater  pains  and  detul. 
dedication,  to  Mrs.  Oliphant,  will 
strike  the  reader  as  fulsome  and  excessive  in 
its  admiration,  but  in  no  other  part  of  the 
volume  does  extravagance  mark  his  estimate 
r  sptems.  The  changes  in  English 
religious  thought  between  1820  and  tS6o 
would  serve  as  a  closer  definition  of  the 
scope  of  these  lectures.  The  latter  date  is 
as  near  our  own  time  as  criticism  could  come 
without  becoming  contemporary,  and  also 
forms  a  convenient  point  to  mark  the  rise  of 
evolution  in  English  speculation.  The  first 
lecture  is  given  to  Coleridge,  whose  influ- 
ence Count  D'Alviella  sets  as  high  as  Dr. 
Tulloch,  and  who  led  the  most  pervasive 
movement  of  the  century  by  his  renovation 
of  Christian  conceptions,  his  impulse  to 
Biblical  criticism,  and  his  broader  idea  of 
the  church.      The  Early  Oriel   School    is 


Lt  of    RclicUnu  Thaughl  in  britua  during 
Ji  Ceuiury.    Si.  GiIh'i  L-ccuiru.    Bj  Jolin 

.,    Ctau.  Scribncr'i  .SiHii.    fi.jo. 


i886.] 


THE    LITERARY   WORLD. 


Studied  in  its  leaders,  Whately,  Arnold,  and 
Hampden,  with  jiut  tributes  to  Thirlwall, 
"intellectually  the  greatest  bishop  of  his 
time,"  and  Milman,  "  erudite  as  auy  Ger- 
man." The  name  of  Keble  links  the  earlier 
with  the  later  Oxford  movement,  the  Tracta- 
rian  or  Anglo- Catholic  School  of  Hurrell, 
Froude,  Newman,  and  Pusey.  Without 
admitting  the  specific  teaching  of  these  lead- 
ers upon  the  visibility  and  authority  of  the 
church,  Dr.  Tulloch  owns  gratefully  the 
value  of  the  movement  in  reviving  "  the 
grandeur  and  force  of  historical  communion 
and  Church  life,"  and  revealing  "  the  true 
place  of  beauty  and  art  in  worship." 

Passing  from  England  to  Scotland,  the 
fourth  lecture  emphasizes  the  intellectual  and 
spiritual  ferment  which  marked  the  begin- 
ning of  the  century,  and  proved  its  power  in 
Thomas  Erskine  and  Macteod  Campbell. 
But  nowhere  is  the  critic's  judicial  fairness 
better  shown  than  in  his  patient  analysis  of 
Carlyle's  philosophy,  which  we  are  tempted 
to  characterize  by  a  slight  change  in  Prof. 
Huxley's  boH  mol  upon  Comtism,  as  Scotch 
Calvinism  with  the  Christianity  left  out. 
Not  less  interesting  are  the  chapter  upon 
John  Stewart  Mill  and  his  school,  and  the 
closing  lectures  upon  the  Broad  Church 
movement,  as  represented  in  Maurice  and 
Kings  ley,  Robertson,  and  Bishop  Ewing. 
The  study  of  Maurice  in  particular  is  singu- 
larly just  and  fall.  The  closing  words  of  all 
we  quote  as  an  indication  of  the  author's 
spirit,  and  in  contrast  with  the  confession  of 
Count  D'AIviella  as  given  above  : 

What  we  perhaps  all  need  most  lo  learn  Is  not 
saliifaction  with  our  opinions  —  that  is  easily 
acquired  by  most  —  but  the  capacity  of  looking 
beyond  our  own  horizon  ;  of  searching  for  deeper 
foundations  of  our  ordinary  beliefs,  and  a  more 
sympathetic  appreciation  of  the  beliefs  of  others. 
While  cherishing,  therefore,  what  we  ouraelvei 
feel  (o  be  true,  lei  us  keep  our  minds  open  to  all 
truth,  and  especially  to  the  teaching  of  Him  who 
is  "the  Way,  the  Truth,  and  the  Life." 


BIB8ELL  OH  THE  PENTATETIOH.* 

THE  Hartford  Professor  of  Hebrew  has 
herein  given  us  no  hasty  review  of  the 
modern  theories  ;  he  studied  them  on  their 
native  soil  at  Leipsic  ;  and  he  has  been  now 
for  several  years  making  scholarly  contribu- 
tions lo  a  discussion  of  the  subject  in  the 
pages  of  the  Bibliothtca  Sacra.  In  the 
present  volume  be  revises  and  repeats  those 
coDlributions  and  adds  largely  of  new  mat- 
ter. 

The  volume  is  so  full  of  detail  that  it 
would  be  difficult  to  give  any  intelligible 
abstract.  Copious  indexes  of  various  kinds 
are  annexed ;  with  a  partial  list  of  about 
twenty-five  hundred  Iraoks  and  essays  upon 
the  Pentateuch  or  some  part  of  it.  Profes- 
sor Bissell's  object  is  to  examine  tiioroughly 
and  impartially  the  arguments  by  which 
Graf  and  Weilhausen  would  show  that  ju- 

•ThB  FeDUIcticb :  iu Oricin and  Slcnaan:  an  ti.-im- 

ChulH  SciibiiEr'i  SoDi    tyoo. 


daism.was  a  gradually  and  naturally  evolved 
religion;  and  that  the  Moses  of  popular 
faith  for  the  last  two  thousand  years  was  a 
skillful  invention  of  Jewish  priests  after  the 
return  from  Babylon.  According  to  that 
theory  the  Pentateuch  is  composed  of  old 
fragments  of  traditional  history,  which  had 
been  very  early  reduced  lo  writing  by  differ. 
eot  hands  ;  revised  and  altered  from  time  to 
time ;  united  piece  by  piece ;  and  hnally  re- 
written and  greatly  enlarged,  in  the  interests 
of  monotheism,  toward  which  Ihe  nation 
was  gradually  moving;  and  also  in  the  in- 
terest of  the  priesthood  and  their  ritual. 
The  theory  is  professedly  founded  upon  an 
examination  of  the  Old  Testament  itself. 
Professor  Bissell,  however,  shows  that  the 
examination  is  not  always  thorough ;  and 
that  the  inferences  are  by  no  means  always 
sound.  The  really  fundamental  canon  of 
the  Graf  and  Weilhausen  criticism  Is  not 
generally  clearly  stated  either  by  them- 
selves or  their  school.  It  is  that  we  must 
discard  the  miraculous  from  Jewish  history, 
precisely  as  we  do  from  Grecian  or  Roman. 
We  must  allow  no  more  divine  legation  to 
Moses  than  we  do  to  Numa.  But  if  we 
admit  that  the  wonderful  morality,  human- 
ity, and  monotheistic  religion  of  the  Book 
of  Deuteronomy  came  from  Moses,  that 
fact  at  once  sets  him  so  high  above  all  men 
of  his  day  as  to  give  a  moral  argument  of 
immense  weight  in  favor  of  believing  him 
to  have  had  special  revelations.  To  break 
the  force  of  this  argument  objectors  want 
to  find  evidence  that  Deuteronomy  is  a  late 
composition,  eight  or  nine  hundred  years 
after  Moses'  death.  When  there  is  a  will 
there  is  a  way.  A  writing  of  any  consider- 
able length  can  always  be  ingeniously 
turned  to  prove  various  contradictory  prop- 
ositions ;  and  of  course  it  is  easy  to  find 
plausible  arguments  to  sustain  the  theory 
of  the  late  and  composite  origin  of  the  Pen- 
tateuch. In  the  minds  of  those  resolutely 
set  against  admitting  special  revelations 
these  plausible  arguments  appear  sound  and 
conclusive  ;  and  they  are  brought  forward 
with  a  sincere  and  confident  zeal  which  si- 
lences opposition ;  and  even  commands 
assent  with  many  readers. 

Professor  Bissell  is,  however,  not  one  of 
those  who  would  settle  a  complex  historical 
problem  by  simply  assuming  (hat  the  events 
narrated  are  impossible.  He  takes  up  the 
documents  and  examines  them  by  the  very 
methods  of  the  Graf  and  Weilhausen  school, 
only  with  much  greater  care;  and  with  a 
mind  as  nearly  impartial  as  he  can  attain. 
The  results  at  which  he  arrives  are  very 
different  from  theirs.  He  finds  their  theory 
to  be  encumbered  with  a  hundred  fold  the 
difficulties  of  the  ordinary  view,  and  sup- 
ported by  not  a  hundredth  part  of  the  evi- 
dence. A  large  part  of  the  discussion  re- 
lates to  the  Book  of  Deuteronomy,  which 
the  modern  theory  makes  to  be  one  of  the 
latest  books  of  the  Old  TesUment.    Dr.  Bis- 


sell therefore  gives  it  a  much  more  thorough 
and  detailed  examination  than  has  been 
given  by  any  other  writer  in  the  debate. 
He  shows  that  whether  we  Uke  the  laws 
peculiar  to  that  book,  or  the  laws  repeated 
and  modified  there,  they  are  precisely  such 
as  are  required  by  the  supposition  that  it  is 
an  authentic  record  of  Moses'  teaching,  and 
such  as  would  have  been  very  unlikely  to 
have  entered  the  mind  of  any  writer  in  the 
later  age.  He  examines  in  a  similar  way 
the  laws  which  are  peculiar  to  those  por- 
tions of  the  PenUteuch  considered  by  the 
Weilhausen  school  to  have  been  written  in 
the  interests  of  the  later  priesthood ;  and 
shows  that  they  also  suit  the  hypothesis  of 
having  originated  in  Moses'  time,  much  be^ 
ter  than  they  do  the  hypothesis  of  a  late 
origin.  An  examination  of  the  general  tone 
of  Deuteronomy  discloses  not  only  its  pe- 
culiar unity  and  its  moral  and  religious 
grandeur,  which  in  themselves  are  a  strong 
argument  against  the  hypothesis  of  its  being 
a  priestly  fraud,  but  also  its  perfect  accord 
in  all  its  historical,  political,  and  geographi- 
cal allusions  with  the  age  of  Moses;  and 
the  utter  absence  from  it  of  those  thoughts 
and  feelings  which  must  inevitably  have 
filled  the  heart  of  every  son  of  Israel  in  the 
age  to  which  Graf  and  Weilhausen  ascribe 
it.  Professor  Bissell  then  goes  on  to  show 
that  even  the  eariier  prophets  and  the  ear- 
lier psalmists,  to  whom  these  critics  assign 
the  honor  of  first  articulating  monotheistic 
views  and  thus  leading  the  people  into  a 
state  to  receive  the  pious  fraud  of  the  dis- 
covery of  Moses'  laws,  do  really,  throughout 
their  utterances,  presuppose  the  knowledge 
of  those  laws. 

One  can  hardly  rise  from  the  perusal  of 
this  most  interesting  volume  without  the 
conviction  that  whatever  may  be  the  multi- 
plied difficulties  in  the  Jewish  history 
pointed  out  by  many  scholars,  and  brought 
into  popular  notice  by  Colenso,  they  are  not 
to  be  solved  by  any  hypothesis  of  a  late 
and  fraudulent  origin  of  the  books ;  nor  will 
any  such  dIfGculties  hide  the  fact  that  in 
Palestine,  far  back  in  the  reigns  of  Ram- 
eses  I  and  II,  before  the  fall  of  Troy,  there 
was  a  pure  monotheistic  religion ;  a  worship 
of  the  one,  spiritual,  omnipresent,  omni- 
scient, all-holy  God. 


LOWELL'S  0H0801T." 
T^HE  exceedingly  handsome  typography 

J-  of  this  beautifully  illustrated  volume, 
and  its  high-swelling  title,  Ckosbn,  the  Land 
of  Ike  Mortting  Calm,  but  illy  prepare  one 
for  the  thinness  of  the  material  within. 
They  remind  one  of  a  certain  gateway  in 
Soul,  which  attracted  the  author's  admirar 

on  because  it  was  but  a  gateway.  His  text 
-jffers  in  contrast  with  the  excellence  of 
the    print,  binding,  and  illustrations.      Of 


Ticknot  A  Cs.    tiJia. 


By    Pordnl    LawiU. 


THE   LITERARY   WORLD. 


[Jan.  23 


these  latter,  twenty-five  are  full-page  Alber- 
tjipes,  and  sixteen  are  small  wood-cuts. 
Two  maps  are  inserted,  one  a  tnost  curious 
reproduction  of  a  native  map  of  Ifae  world, 
and  the  other  a  reduction  in  outline  of  the 
Japanese  War  Department's  map  of  the 
peninsula.  On  it  are  given  the  names  of 
three  rivers,  six  places,  and  the  eight  prov- 
inces, with  the  sea-coast,  river,  mountain, 
and  boundary  lines ;  yet  under  the  retained 
title-characters  of  the  original  Japanese  map 
we  have  in  English  "  Complete  Map  of  Cho- 
s6n."  This  sketch  map  is,  however,  valua- 
ble as  illustrating  Mr.  Aston's  system  of 
Romanizing  Korean  names,  in  which  a  fre- 
quently recurring  vowel  sound  is  repre- 
sented with  diacritical  mar)[  over  the  vowel. 
Small  maps  of  the  port  and  capital,  and 
Pusan,  the  old  historic  Japanese  colony,  are 
also  given.  The  full-page  illustrations,  re- 
duced from  the  author's  dry-plate  photo- 
graphs, are  superb.  To  one  interested  in 
the  people  and  country,  they  by  themselves 
are  worth  the  half-eagle  which  the  book 
costs.  The  preface  is  a  model,  and  there  is 
a  good  index  to  this  handsome  and  portly 
volume. 

Mr.  Percival  Lowell,  a  relative,  by  the 
way,  of  James  Russell  Lowell,  while  travel- 
ing in  Japan  in  August,  1883,  met  the  mem- 
bers of  the  Korean  embassy  in  Tokio.  He 
was  invited  to  become  their  foreign  secre- 
tary and  accompany  them  to  the  United 
States.  This  he  did  to  their  satisfaction 
and  his  own  enjoyment  Returoiog  with  a 
portion  of  the  party,  he  was  invited  to 
spend  some  months  in  the  capital  S6u[ 
(S^oul).  He  accepted,  and  his  book  is 
really  an  account  of  himself  during  his 
exile,  with  a  vast  deal  of  moralizing  and 
philosophizing,  and  some  Interesting  obser- 
vations on  Korea  and  its  people  added.  His 
style  is  clear,  simple,  and  readable,  with  a 
vein  of  humorons  badinage,  and  a  tendency 
to  puns.  Not  un frequently  the  author 
seems  to  labor  in  his  lightness  like  a  gold- 
beater. Probably  fearful  of  repeating  mis- 
takes of  authors  who  write  about  countries 
they  have  never  visited,  he  fears  to  give 
much  information  about  a  land  of  which 
very  little  is  known.  So  far  from  this  being 
a  disappointment  to  any  but  the  specially 
interested,  Mr.  Lowell's  soliloquies— as  many 
o£  his  chapters  seem  to  be  —  will  be  all  the 
more  enjoyed  by  the  general  reader.  In  the 
Land  of  Morning  Cairn,  there  is  no  such 
thing  as  "society,"  in  our  sense,  and  despite 
the  novelty  of  his  surroundings,  Mr.  Lowell 
spent  a  lonely  winter  in  the  cloister-like 
capital.  With  but  nine  foreigners  in  the 
city,  he  communed  chiefly  with  nature  — 
and  his  pen  and  paper.  Scarcely  any  parts 
of  the  kingdom  except  Pusan,  Inchon,  and 
Sdul  are  described,  but  some  of  his  chapters 
are  delightful  in  theme  and  text  The  first 
one,  "  Where  the  Day  Begins,"  is  a  classic, 
and  deserves  10  be  embalmed  in  our  read- 
ing-books.   It  is  a  charming  essay  on  an 


old  theme  treated  with  originality  and  fresh- 
ness. The  journey  to  the  capital  is  told  in 
lively  vein.  "The  Watch-Fires  on  the 
South  Mountain  "  portrays  vividly  the  sys- 
tem of  fire-signals  which  nightly  illuminate 
the  mountain-lops  and  convey  the  message 
"all's  well,"  or  the  reverse,  from  c 
point  on  the  frontiers  of  the  kingdom  to  the 
capital  city.  "TheQuality  of  Impersonality" 
is  a  fine  piece  of  philosophical  analysis, 
and  the  "  Position  of  Woman  "  in  Korea  is 
excellently  treated.  Mr.  Lowell  was  pre- 
sented at  Court,  saw  the  King,  and  was 
handsomely  entertained  during  his  stay. 
This  was  during  the  rule  of  the  Liberal 
party,  before  they  were  driven  from  power 
during  the  unfortunate  battle  in  Decembei 
i884,between  the  rival  Japanese  and  Chinese 
battalions.  He  was  charmed,  as  all  young 
men  from  our  country  are,  with  the  bright 
eyes  of  the  Korean  singing  girls.  Chapters 
on  the  Government,  Religion,  "Winter Rev- 
els in  a  Monastery,"  one  on  "Costume," 
and  one  00  "Hats"  —  without  which  no 
book  on  ChosSn  could  possibly  be  complete 
—  with  several  on  the  city  by  day,  by  night, 
in  beauty,  and  in  horror,  with  a  final  one 
"  The  Beacons  of  Pusan,"  are  the  most 
teresling.  The  book  is  a  most  charming 
traveler's  tale,  a  journal  of  a  winter  in  the 
Korean  capital,  replete  with  the  easy  and 
genial  philosophy  of  a  cultivated  gentleman. 
When  thus  received  and  appraised,  the 
work  will  delight  Judged  by  its  name  and 
description,  as  given  by  the  author,  the  text 
1  exasperating  disappointment  to  mind 
and  purse.  We  are  glad  to  see  that  Mr. 
Lowell  exposes  the  absurdity  of  the  com- 
mon phrase  "  ihe  Corea."  He  believes  the 
peninsula  has  a  population  of  twelve  mill- 
as,  and  Siiul  a  quarter  of  a  million  people. 
"  Chosfin,  the  Land  of  the  Morning  Calm," 
still  at  large,  a  virgin  field  for  the  modern 
traveler. 


OTHMAE.* 

THIS  latest  production  from  the  fertile 
pen  of  "  Ouida"  is  at  once  one  of  the 
most  powerful  and  penetrating,  and  weak 
and  superficial,  novels  of  the  year.  It  is 
:  ambitious  than  any  of  her  previous 
eSorts,  with  the  exception  possibly  of 
Wanda,  insomuch  as  it  depends  more  upon 
minute  psychological  analysis,  and  less  upon 
narrative  and  incident  The  strength  of 
Otkmar  lies  in  its  vivid  pathos,  its  firm 
characterization,  and  its  display  of  emotion, 
chiefly  erotic;  the  weakness  lies  in  Its  ultra- 
sensationalism  and  defecate  impossibility. 
Of  "  Ouida's  "  style  enough  is  known  ;  elo- 
quent at  times  it  certainly  is,  but  one  cannot 
help  paraphrasing  Disraeli's  famous  asper- 
<n  of  Gladstone,  and  say  that  she  is 
ibriated  by  the  exuberance  of  her  own 
verbosity;  and  often  in  the  midst  of  her 
harangues    are    we  tempted    (0    ask    with 

Lbnur.    By  "  Ouida."    J.  B.  Liiipinccill  Co.    f  i.oa. 


Petruchlo,  "To    what    end    are    all    these 
words  ?  " 

Though  not  announced  as  such  Otkmar 
is  a  sequel  to  Frittceit  Napraxine,  and  Is 
unintelligible  without  a  knowledge  of  its 
predecessor.  While  the  endeavor  of  Othmar 
to  gain  the  love  of  his  brutally  indifferent 
and  supernaturally  endowed  wife  consti- 
tutes the  thread  of  the  narrative,  the  central 
interest  is  in  Damaris,  a  child  of  nature, 
pure  and  simple,  born  upon  an  ocean  isle, 
and  nurtured  in  complete  isolation  from  the 
great  world.  Enticed  by  a  whim  of  Otb- 
mar's  wife  to  spend  a  day  with  her  at  her 
regal  residence,  Damaris  returns  to  her 
island  inoculated  with  the  vims  of  dissatis- 
faction with  her  humble  life,  for  this  child 
is  a  genius,  with  a  soul  sighing  to  express 
itself  in  poetry.  But  worse  than  this,  she 
meets  her  natural  grandfather's  direst  rage 
at  her  temerity  in  leaving  unbidden  the 
island,  and  by  him  is  cast  forth  upon  the 
world  without  home  or  friend.  Finding  her 
way  at  last  to  Paris,  she  is  there  discovered  by 
Othmar,  who,  finding  her  in  absolute  desti- 
tution and  upon  the  brink  of  a  terrible  ill- 
ness, takes  her  to  his  own  home  and  there 
has  her  nursed  back  to  life  and  strength. 
Discovering  that  his  wife's  caprice  had 
entailed  this  destitution  upon  Damaris,  and 
appreciating  her  possibilities  for  success 
upon  the  stage,  he  has  her  taught  by  a 
proficient  master,  with  the  view  of  her  as- 
suming an  histrionic  career.  Scandal,  how- 
ever, having  as  usual  misinterpreted  the 
relation,  tells  his  wife  that  Damaris  is  his 
mistress,  which  she  implicitly  believes. 
Damaris  hearing  this  commits  suicide  by 
incurring  annecessary  danger  in  kissing  a 
dying  diphtheritic  child,  and  in  her  last 
moments  writes  to  declare  Othmar's  indiffer- 
ence to  herself. 

Incidental  to  the  story  of  Damaris  there 
is  raised  but  not  settled  the  question  of 
transplanting  from  its  native  bourgeois  en- 
vironment a  nature  happy  because  it  knows 
of  nothing  beyond,  and  placing  it  in  the 
great  world,  where,  though  it  may  attain  "a 
life  in  other  person's  breath,"  it  will  as 
surely  meet  unhappiness  and  discontent 
Though,  as  we  have  seen,  precluded  by  the 
denouement  from  solution,  this  question  is 
discussed  by  "Ouida"  with  great  pathos 
and  ability,  and  with  an  obvious  disposition 
towards  not  disturbing  a  quiet  contentment, 
inglorious  though  it  be. 

The  morality  of  Othmar  is  only  adventi- 
tiously objectionable,  the  main  plot  being 
1.  The  enunciation  of  so  depraved  a 
principle  as  that  of  Othmar  (which  obviously 
has  the  writer's  own  sanction)  that  if  he 
could  love  Damans  he  would  be  justified  in 
seducing  her,  is  quite  in  accordance  with 
riews  of  "  Ouida "  offered  by  her  in  a 
prominent  magazine,  and  is  a  typical  exam- 
ple of  her  straining  at  a  gnat  and  swallow- 
ig  a  cameL  Othmar  shows  evideaces  of 
iterrupted  and  hasty  writing  in  its  frequent 


1 886.] 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


23 


repetition,  and  of  unpardonable  carelessness 
in  sucii  pleonasm  as  "  happy  euthanasia.'' 
Even  worse  than  this  is  the  occasional  use 
of  ungrammatical  language  and  the  utter 
confounding  of  the  indicative  and  potential 
mood!!. 

DB.  EOLUES'S  KEW  HOTEL.* 

HAD  A  Mortal  Antipathy  appeared,  as 
is  somewhat  the  style  now,  without 
the  author's  name  upon  its  title-page,  what  a 
flutter  of  inquiry  there  would  have  been  as 
to  the  paternity  of  the  book  I  To  which  sex 
is  !t  to  be  credited,  would  have  been  one  of 
tbe  first  questions,  if  indeed  its  vigor,  its 
originality,  its  scientific  force,  and  its  confi- 
dent tone  did  not  mark  it  at  once  as  the  pro- 
duction of  a  masculine  mind.  But  then,  crit- 
ics have  been  misled  lately  as  to  the  author- 
ship of  The  Prophet  of  the  Great  Smofy 
Mountains;  and  so  thejr  might  be  more 
chary  of  pronouncing  positively  upon  this 
volume.  But  we  cannot  recall  the  fact  of 
any  woman  having  yraitten  upon  an  Idiosyn- 
cratic antipaiia.  Almost  invariably  the 
feminine  mind  works  in  the  line  of  the  uni- 
versal sympaiia,  love ;  though  here  again  we 
stumble  upon  The  Smoky  Mountains,  with 
which  romance  love  has  comparatively  little 
(odo. 

There  is  an  incompleteness  in  the  struct- 
ure of  this  story,  and  an  occasional  ineffect- 
iveness, which  suggest  either  carelessness  or 
weariness ;  either  that  it  may  be  the  work  of 
a  beginner,  or  the  imoucianee  of  the  confi- 
dent author.  Painters  tell  us  that  it  is  not 
altogether  easy  to  indicate  In  the  picture  a 
rising  or  a  setting  sun.  In  tbe  case  before 
us  we  should  say  it  was  the  latter. 

The  next  thing  we  would  assure  ourselves 
of,  is  that  A  Mortal  Antipathy  is  the  work 
of  a  medical  man ;  for  tbe  main  interest  of 
tbe  story  turns  upon  a  physiological  idiosyn- 
crasy; one  more  curious  is  hardly  to  be 
found  in  the  range  of  literature.  We  arrive 
then  in  our  conjectures  at  what  we  assume 
as  fact,  that  our  author  is  an  oM  established 
writer,  who  can  afford  to  take  liberties  with 
bis  audience,  and  loves  to  do  it ;  who  is  at 
home  with  the  human  frame,  its  anatomy  and 
physiology,  normal  and  abnormal ;  and  who 
is  fascinated  by  all  physical  and  psychical 
mysteries ;  who  rambles  at  his  ease  over 
classic  and  modern  literature  ;  who  loves  to 
ridicule  good-naluredtj  everything  in  modem 
life  that  is  super-sentimental  and  extravagant, 
with  a  saving  clause,  however,  for  his  own 
private  theology  and  professional  transcend- 
alism  ;  a  writer  brimming  over  with  wit  of  a 
Flaveruiaa  flavor ;  who  indulges  in,  digres- 
sions beyond  any  author  since  Sterne  ;  who 
inserts  crisp  poems  amid  his  prose  ;  in  short 
none  other  than  the  Autocrat  of  the  Break- 
fast-Table, Dr.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

We  do  not  judge  this  volume  to  be  equal 
to  some  of  Dr.  Holmes's  former  works,  but  it 


is  essentially  like  them  all,  and  bears  through- 
out the  marks  of  the  Autocrat's  genius.  It 
is  not,  strictly  speaking,  a  novel,  for  plot  it 
has  none  ;  and  the  coherence  of  incident  is 
of  the  slightest  character.  The  dramatis 
persona  may  be  said  to  consist  only  of  a 
triad,  one  young  man  and  two  young  women, 
with  the  meagerest  modicum  of  love  and  little 
characterization,  though  what  there  is  is 
very  entertaining.  In  the  action  of  the  story 
there  are  only  two  specially  dramatic  inci- 
dents, a  boat-race,  very  admirably  given,  and 
a  house-burning  which  is  rather  common- 
place, but  has  some  amusing  absurdities 
mixed  up  with  it. 

The  sum  of  the  book,  then,  is  that  it  is 
very  interesting,  very  scientific  in  some  of 
its  professional  investigations,  and  lit  all 
through  by  those  sparkling  scintilations 
which  none  of  our  writers  are  able  to  strike 
out  so  brilliantly  as  Dr.  Holmes.  If  it  is  not 
equal  to  the  Autniralandiiie  Professor,  it  is 
at  least  such  a  book  as  nobody  but  the  Auto- 
crat could  have  written. 


BOOES  FOB  TEE  YOTTNO. 

Srh-ia't  Daughtirt.  By  Florence  Scannell, 
villi  lUustralions  by  Edith  Scannell.  Engraved 
and  Printed  by  Edmund  Evans.  TLondon  and 
New  York:  Frederick  Wameft  Co.    {1.50.] 

This  pretty  green-covered,  gilt  edged  volume, 
with  itB  acarlct  poppies  on  the  outside,  and  its 
more  than  twenty  graceful,  colored  pictures  with- 
in, tells  a  kind  of  old-fashioned  story  in  a  quiet 
way,  about  three  lovely  girls  who  were  living  in 
France  when  tbe  Revolution  began,  but  whose 
father,  a  French  gentleman,  sent  them  over  for 
safety  to  England,  to  a  place  near  the  old  home 
of  their  dead  mother,  who  had  displeased  bet 
family  by  marrying  a  foreigner.  There  they 
make  the  acquaintance  of  their  cousins,  and  the 
grandfather  finds  them  out,  Ijecomes  reconciled 
to  [he  father,  when  at  the  point  of  death  he  joins 
them,  and  happiness  comes  to  all  in  this  new 
state  of  affairs.  There  is  not  much  to  the  book, 
hut  what  there  is  proves  sound  and  sweet ;  a  gen- 
tle little  tale,  it  is  made  quite  attractive  by  the 
pictures  which  are  dainty  and  refined. 

Daoy  and  the  Goblin;  or.  What  Followed 
Reading  Alice't  AdvtntHnt  in  WenJtrland.  By 
Charles  E.  Carryl.  Illustrated.  [Boston  ;  Tick- 
nor&Co.    (1.50.} 

This  Imitation  story  is  every  whit  aa  good  as 
the  one  it  grew  out  of-  Oavy  goes  to  sleep 
before  the  fire  on  Christmas  Eve,  and  sees  a  funny 
little  friendly  goblin  sitting  on  top  of  one  of  the 
andirons,  who  immedaiely  changes  the  clock- 
case  into  a  sort  of  boat,  and  away  the  two  go  in 
it,  sailing  through  the  aiK  They  have  adventures 
with  a  cockalorum;  they  make  the  acquaintance 
of  Mother  Hubbard,  Robin  Hood, "  the  cow  with 
the  crumpled  horn,"  and  many  old  story-book 
favorites;  they  go  to  "the  house  that  Jack 
built ;  "  they  visit  the  last  of  the  Forty  Thieves 
and  Sindbad,  the  sailor ;  and  best  and  funniest  of 
all,  they  have  a  good  time  with  Robinson  Crusoe 
and  his  family  on  the  famous  island ;  Robinson 
shoots  lor  them  with  his  gun  made  out  of  a  spy- 
glass and  loaded  with  tooth-powder,  relates  the 
family  history  in  two  or  three  pages  of  nimble 


rhymes,  and  shows  off  the  animals  in  their  arith- 
metic lesson.  The  motive  of  the  whole  is  to 
prove  to  Davy  who  does  not  believe  in  fairies  nor 
anything  the  story  books  tell,  that  he  is  mis- 
taken ;  and  in  his  sleep,  he  finds  out,  as  the  gob- 
lin complacently  tells  him,  that 

In  this  part  of  the  world  things  very  often  turn 
out  to  be  different  from  what  they  would  have 
been  IE  they  hadn't  twen  otherwise  than  as  you 
expected  they  were  going  to  be. 
It  is  a  beautiful  book  in  all  respects ;  the  puns  are 
good ;  the  nonsense  verses  as  fresh  as  could  be 
expected  at  this  late  day;  the  adventures  as 
"jambly"as  possible;  the  exterior  is  tempting, 
with  the  good  goblin  seeming  to  invite  one  to 
look  within ;  and  the  illustrations  are  of  the 
best  quality,  so  fall  of  character  and  spirit 
that  the  artist  must  have  been  a  sharer  of  the 
Believing  Voyage  "  himself.  Especially  good 
re  alt  the  portruts  of  Cockalorum  and  tbe  Gob- 
lin, and  the  two  of  the  Robinson  Crusoe  family. 
'Robinson  remarked,  'He  has  left  out  the  great- 
«t  lot  of  comical  things,'  "  and  "  If  tbe  roads 
ire  wet  and  muddy,  we  remain  at   home  and 


Calculated  for  the  Sunday-Scbool  Library,  this 
eltily  illustrated  book,  in  the  guise  of  a  story, 
inculcates  religious  truth,  and  more  especially 
loyalty  to  principle  under  unusual  trials.  The 
purpose  is  good,  the  tone  elevating;  it  is  fairly 
well  written,  and  the  romance  of  Natalie's  life 
will  be  interesting  to  those  for  whom  it  is  meant 
Natalie  is  a  sweet  young  girl,  who  becomes  a 
Christian  while  living  with  her  excellent  aunt  in 
Scotland,  and  being  called  back  to  her  home  in 
France,  6nds  ample  opportunity  for  doing  good 
in  a  quiet,  gentle  way,  in  her  own  family,  and  is 
rewarded  by  restoring  hope  to  her  invalid  mother, 
and  bringing  the  light  which  vital  piety  gives  to 
her  grave  father;  and  it  is  all  brought  about 
without  cant  or  extravagance  of  emotion,  by 
"loyaltyto  the  King"  in  daily  living  and  example. 


Us"  are  two  quaint  children  of  six,  Marma- 
duke  and  Pamela,  twins,  a  loving  little  couple, 
who  are  brought  up  in  the  most  precise  manner 
by  their  aged  grandparents ;  who  are  very  good 
and  very  obedient,  till  one  unlucky  day  when 
they  are  not  able  to  eat  all  the  bread  and  milk 
they  are  required  to,  and  commit  the  wrong  of 
giving  it  to  the  dog,  and  then  keeping  back  the 
truth;  after  which  a  great  deal  of  trouble  comes. 
They  are  carried  off  by  gypsies  (which  is  so  eom- 
an  occurrence  in  English  stories  that  it 
becomes  wearisome),  and  have  sad  experiences, 
but  all  comes  out  right  in  the  end,  and  the  moral 
is  so  pleasantly  apparent  that  the  most  stupid 
child  cannot  miss  it,  while  it  does  not  take  off  at 
all  from  the  enjoyment  of  a  pretty  and  whole- 
some story. 

Roumanian  Tales.  Collected  by  Mite  Krem- 
Xt.  Adapted  and  Arranged  by  J.  M.  Percival. 
[Henry  Holt  &  Co.] 
Because  we  expected  a  good  deal  from  that 
ime  "  Roumanian,"  we  are  just  a  little  disap- 
pointed. As  a  whole  these  are  not  as  novel  and 
ipitited  as  the  Bengal  "  Folk  Tales  "  or  the  Ros- 
lian;  but  as  they  "comprise  only  a  Small  portion 
of  the  inexhaustible  treasure"  of  that  nation 
they  perhaps  represent  only  the  average  story. 


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THE   LITERARY   WORLD. 


[Jan.  23, 


Mo3t  uf  lbe«e  are  by  five  aulhois,  and  are  eight- 
een in  number;  usually  bcglnring  with  the 
tempting  formula,  "Once  upon  a  time  something 
happened.  If  it  hadn't  happened,  it  wouldn't  be 
told."  The  evil  principle  is  always  i  dragon, 
and,  as  in  most  lure  of  the  class,  he  13  conquered 
by  three  magic  spells.  Enchanted  hoiaes  are 
the  chief  insirumenis  in  bringing  about  good  luck, 
and,  as  is  characteristic  of  this  kind  of  literature, 
kindness  to  dumb  animals  is  indirectly  but  posi- 
tively taught.  Several  of  them,  like  "Stan  B0I0- 
«in,"  "The  Twins  with  the  Golden  Star,"  "The 
L' tile  Purse,"  "The  Pea  Emperor,"  and  "  Tal- 
lerchen,"  are  unique.  That  called  "The  Princess 
and  the  Fisherman,"  by  Hen  P.  Ispiresen  (whose 
collecllon  is  called  the  finest),  is  one  version  of 
the  well-known  Roumanian  tale  lutd  for  the  bene- 
fit of  wives  who  marry  beneath  (hem,  and  is  more 
vigorous  and  idiomatic  thar>  in  a  late  rendering 
by  Ralston.  All  such  collections  as  this  are 
most  welcome,  adding  as  they  do,  to  the  rapidly 
increasing  and  valaable  slock  of  folk-lore  litera- 

PIOTIOH. 

The  MaitiT  ef  tht  Mini.  By  Robert  Bu- 
chanan.    [D.  Appleton  &  Co.     15c.] 

Mr.  Buchanan  is  a  most  uneven  novelist.  He 
has  written  some  of  the  strongest  and  some  of 
the  weakest  fiction  of  the  time.  This  piece  of 
his  work  is  neither  weak  nor  strong,  but  about 
halt  way  between.  The  "mine"  is  in  Cornwall ; 
the  "  master "  is  a  young  foreman  who  succeeds 
to  ownership;  and  the  story  of  his  success  ii 
the  slorj  of  jealousy,  seduction  under  form  of 
marriage,  vengeance,  domestic  sorrow,  and  the 
triumph  of  goodness  over  badness.  There  is  a 
shipwreck  and  a  rescue ;  a  runaway  daughter 
and  a  villainous  young  squire  ;  a  murder  aad  a 
trial  i  a  flooding  of  the  mine  by  the  inbursting 
sea,  and  a  brave  deliverance  of  doomed  men  by 
a  hero  who  goes  down  with  a  rope.  Mr.  Bu- 
chanan's literary  instrument  is  not  always  in 
tune,  and  its  notes  jar  now  and  then  on  a  sen- 


Tht  Lail  Muting  has  rather  an  ominous 
sound,  but  as  the  unexpected  usually  awaits  us 
in  this  author's  stories,  we  begin  the  book  with 
confidence  in  a  surprise  that  will  doubtless  be  a 
pleasant  one  —  and  the  end  justifies  the  confi- 
dence. In  the  hands  of  many  writers  the  inci- 
dents which  Mr.  Matthews  has  worked  up  would 
be  highly  sensational ;  but  by  the  fine  art  of 
restraint  at  the  right  place,  he  has  just  escaped 
that  peril ;  and  we  accept  the  dramatic  inttcxJuc- 
tion  of  the  Greek  villain,  and  the  improbabilities 
of  the  various  circumstances  and  situations  as 
matters  of  course.  Frederick  Olyphant,  a  New 
York  artist  who  has  roughed  it  in  Europe,  where 
he  met  with  remarkable  adventure!:,  suddenly 
disappears  while  at  a  little  evening  parly  of  gen- 
tlemen, and  no  due  to  the  manner  of  his  exit 
from  the  house,  or  to  what  has  become  of  him, 
can  be  found.  It  is  well  known,  however,  that 
he  is  superstitious  on  some  subjects,  and  that  he 
has  a  deadly  enemy  in  the  person  of  a  Greek, 
whose  lite  he  had  twice  saved  under  peculiar  con- 
dilions  so  unacceptable  to  the  man  that  he  had 
vowed  that  the  next  meeting  should  be  fatal  to 
Olypbant.    Not  to  make  a  mystery  of  the  mat- 


ter, he  had  arrived  in  New  York,  abducted  the 
artist,  and  put  him  on  board  a  vessel  controlled 
by  the  secret  brotherhood  of  which  he  was  a 
member  ;  and  the  revenge  was  to  be  wrought  out 
|jy  passing  the  prisoner  on  from  vessel  to  vessel 
oR  at  sea,  so  that  his  fate  should  forever  be  a 
mystery.  This  difficult  and  extremely  unlikely 
plot  is  so  admirably  managed,  and  events  move 
along  so  easily,  the  characters  and  conversations 
of  the  New  Yorkers  who  figure  are  so  well  con. 
ceived,  that  we  are  not  at  all  oppressed  by  the 
police  court  style  of  the  search  and  the  revela. 
tions,  which,  in  the  hands  of  an  author  of  less 
training  and  literary  balance,  would  have  been 
disagreeable  even  if  not  repulsive. 

Bontiyborrmgh.  By  Mrs,  A.  D.  T.  Whitney. 
[Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.    f  1.50.] 

The  heroine  of  this  book  has  one  of  Mis. 
Whitney's  peculiar  character- names.  Peace  Polly 
Scbott.  She  "  was  bom  with  a  rush  in  her 
brain,"  and  her  nature  is  summed  up  in  the  out- 
set in  this  telling  way  : 

Peace  Polly's  thought  illumined  all  creation  to 
her,  tor  one  minute,  and  was  apt  to  strike  some- 
where. But  it  was  over^ — the  insight  and  im- 
pulse—  as  quickly,  often.  She  had  many  an 
eager  notion,  which  she  caged  if  opposed  in,  but 
which,  it  left  to  herself,  she  might  speedily  have 
done  with,  as  a  thing  exhausted  in  the  inception. 
She  had  frequently  had  enough  of  it  before 
there  was  time  or  opportunity  to  carry  it  out  in 

It  is  mainly  the  story  of  a  girl's  life,  and  when 
we  have  said  that  she  is  one  of  Mrs.  Whitney's 
kind  of  girls,  we  have  given  the  key  to  what  she 
would  be  likely  to  be  and  do  —  a  self. questioning 
girl,  full  of  faults,  which  she  overcomes  with  an 
aptitude  and  resolution  charming  to  con  tern  pi  ate, 
but  more  easy  in  the  ideal  than  in  the  real  girl, 
yet  exerting  a  powerful  influence  for  good  and 
for  noble  living.  The  helpful  older  girl  (or 
woman)  Is  portrayed  In  Serena  Wyse,  and  the 
unique  domestic  in  Rebcccarabby.  The  faulty 
man  who  makes  mistakes  is  Peace  Polly's 
brother ;  the  good,  commonplace  one  is  the 
young  minister ;  the  rector's  wife  is  the  malcli. 
maker;  and  "C.  P."  is  the  real  hero.  Of  the 
latter  and  his  natural  history  instruction  there  is 
rather  too  rhuch,  and  except  for  the  knowledge 
that  such  specimens  of  men  do  actually  exist, 
we  should  say  that  he  was  altogether  too  good 

However,  there  are,  needless  to  say,  most  whole- 
some teachings  all  through  the  book,  the  spirit 
is  pervasively  uplifting,  life  is  lived  on  a  high 
plane,  and  though  not  the  author's  best  book,  it 
is  good  enough  to  be  of  benefit,  as  it  will  be  a 
pleasure,  to  all  her  wide  parish  of  readers. 


This  is  a  bloody  and  ghastly  story  of  the  im. 
probable  in  Central  Africa.  An  old  parchment 
is  found  locating  a  mysterious  cave  in  an  Inacces- 
sible group  of  mountains  beyond  an  impassable 
desert,  which  cave  Is  said  to  have  been  the  source 
of  King  Solomon's  wealth,  and  to  be  still  full  of 
diamonds  and  gold.  Of  course  a  party  must  be 
organized  to  find  the  treasure,  and  oft  go  the 
seekers,  almost  dying  of  heat  and  thirst  in  the 
desert  on  the  way.  On  reaching  the  reputed 
mines,  they  fall  into  the  hands  of  a  savage  king, 
his  witches,  and  his  warriors,  and  are  treated  to 
all  sorts  of  horrors.    The  book  reeks  with  bra- 


tality  and  suffering,  and  is  enoi^h  to  make  the 
reader  as  haggard  as  its  author. 

ValiHtine.  By  William  W.  Astor.  [Charles 
Scribnet's  Sons,    f  z.oo.] 

Mr.  Astor's  Valentino  comes  as  a  surprise  to 
those  aware  that  It  is  the  first  literary  essay  of 
a  young  writer  who  has  undergone  little  pre- 
liminary training  for  his  task.  The  style  shows 
few  marks  of  jneiperjence.  Here  and  there  we 
note  an  Americanism,  or  a  bit  ot  modern  slang 
rather  oddly  fitted  to  a  medieval  mouth,  but  on 
the  whole  (he  English  is  good  and  the  expres- 
sion  clear  and  smooth.  The  epoch  selected  for 
the  romance  is  that  dark  chapter  of  Italian  his- 
tory, when  Alexander  Sixth  reigned  as  Pope, 
and  his  son,  the  Duke  Valentino,  better  known 
to  us  as  CKsar  Borgia,  dominated  politics  and 
society  with  his  baleful  presence.  Mr.  Astor 
has  made  a  careful  study  of  hij  period,  and  his 
pages  have  historical  interest,  especially  as  they 
treat  of  the  disaffections  and  final  revolt 
ot  the  Condottieri  bands  and  their  leaders, 
and  the  vengeance  meted  in  return  by 
the  implacable  Valentino.  The  book  seems 
sketchy  and  of  light  weight  when  compared,  for 
instance,  with  the  treatment  of  the  same  theme 
by  a  master-hand  like  Synionds,  but  that  is 
hardly  a  fair  way  in  which  to  judge  of  a  work 
of  fiction ;  and  set  beside  the  average  modern 
novel,  ValeHlino  may  justly  be  styled  an  attempt 
in  the  right  direction,  carried  out  with  mote 
than  ordinary  method  and  spirit. 

UmOB  BOTIOES. 

Italian  Fofular  Tails.  By  Thomas  W.  Crane, 
A.M.    [Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.    ^3.50.] 

Professor  Crane  has  done  a  real  sevice  to 
literature  by  his  careful  and  admirable  collec- 
tion of  the  popular  tales  and  fairy  legends  of 
Italy.  He  has  arranged  his  material  after  what 
may  be  called  the  comparative  method,  group- 
ing together  those  stories  which  spring  from  a 
common  root  or  are  variations  of  the  same  idea, 
and  further  classifying  the  whole  into  five  gen- 
eral  divisions  under  the  heads  of  Fairy  Tales, 
Stones  of  Oriental  Origin.  Ghost  Stories  and 
Legends,  Nursery  Tales,  and  Jests.  It  is  curi- 
ous to  study  the  variations  and  divergencies  of 
some  of  the  themes  familiar  to  us  in  their  Eng- 
lish or  Teutonic  dress;  to  find  Puss  in  Boots  in 
half  a  dozen  new  forms,  and  Cinderella  in  as 
many  mure,  to  recognize  Hop  o'  my  Thumb  in 
"Little  Chick  Pea"  and  "The  Old  Woman  who 
went  to  Market  her  Eggs  tor  to  Sell"  in"Pi- 
tidda."  "St.  Peter  and  his  Sisters,"  which  will 
be  new  to  most  readers,  is  evidently  the  myth  on 
which  is  founded  the  story  of  "The  Soulaccia," 
still  told  by  the  Vallambrosa  peasants,  and  illus- 
trated most  charmingly  not  many  years  since  by 
Miss  Alexander,  the  author  of  the  Ruadsidi  Songs 
ef  Tetany.  The  book  will  be  found  a  store- 
house of  treasures  by  parents  in  search  of  stories 
for  fairy-loving  children,  as  well  as  by  students 
who  like  to  trace  points  of  resemblance  in  the 
tolk-loce  of  different  nations. 

The  IniuMrissiile  Book.  A  Controversy  Be- 
tween Herbert  Spencer  and  Frederic  Harrison, 
etc.,  with  Comments  bv  Gail  Hamilton.  [£i.  E. 
Cassino&  Co.    ^1.50.]  .1 

The  hackneyed  saying  that  a  woman  pals  her 
most  important  matter  in  the  postcript  is  here 


i886.] 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


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illustralMl;  the  information  absolutely  neceuary 
for  the  appreciation  of  this  book,  and  wliich 
would  be  expected  in  a  preface,  being  reserved 
for  Ihe  closing  cliaplet.  Ii  aeems  tliat  in  Janu- 
ary. 1885,  Mr.  Vnamans  obtained  Mr.  Spencer's 
reluctant  assent  to  a  proposition  that  the  Apple. 
tons  sliould  repablisli  in  New  York,  in  book 
form,  a  aeries  of  articles  froni  the  NitteiteittA 
Century,  in  which  he  and  Mr.  Harrison  debate 
the  relative  merit*  of  agnoitidsm  and  positivism. 
But  Mr.  Harrison  showing  in  May  that  he  was 
much  incensed  at  it,  Mr.  Spencer,  after  some 
vain  attempts  to  conciliate  and  pacify  him, 
finally  ordered  Messts.  Appleton  to  cancel  the 
plates,  and  debit  thejoss  to  him.  Meanwhile 
various  English  cntiCE,  in  Gail  Hamilton's  opin- 
ion, had  done  gross  injustice  to  Spencer,  and 
failed  to  delect  the  inaccuracies  and  misrepre- 
sentations of  Harrison's  articles.  She  has, 
therefore,  repuhliahed  the  whole  controversy 
and  correspondence;  and  added  three  chapters 
of  comments,  in  her  own  breezy  style ;  comments 
which,  however,  show  her  to  be  fully  competent 
to  Join  in  the  discussion.  Hct  sitength  of  feel- 
ing in  defending  Spencer  against  one  whom  she 
deems  an  inferior  and  spiieFul  assailant,  and 
against  English  critics  whom  she  deems  careless 
abettors  of  Ihe  assault,  leads  her  into  a  little  undue 
and  even  undignified  warmth  ;  but  her  points  are 
almost  invariably  well  taken  and  well  sustained. 
The  comments  are  in  three  chapters.  The  first 
maintains  that  Spencer's  agnosticism  is  really 
a  form  oE  theism  ;  and  contains  about  all  the 
theism  which  science,  from  its  own  resources 
alone,  is  able  lo  attain.  The  second  attempts  to 
show  that  Mr,  Harrison  totally  fails  to  appre- 
hend Spencer,  or  at  least  totally  fails  to  testate 
him,  but  simply  caricatures  him ;  and  that  Mr. 
Harrison  himself  puts  forward  nothing  worth 
calling  religion.  And  in  the  third  chapter  she 
shows  that  Christianity  considered  simply  as  a 
revelation  made  through  Jesus  Christ,  a  mani- 
festation of  the  Father  through  the  Son,  is  so 
far  from  being  inconsistent  with  Spencer's  doc- 
trine concerning  the  ultimate  cause  of  Being, 
(hat  Spencer's  doctrine  would  rather  lead  one 
lo  expect  to  find  this  revelation.  It  may 
surprise  Mr.  Spencer  to  find  this  American 
woman  thus  making  him  an  ally  of  the  Christian 
faith ;  but  she  does  even  more,  and  like  the  good 
father  who  called  Socrates  a  Christian,  she 
declaies,  p.  271,  on  the  strength  oE  Matt,  xxv, 
that  Mr.  Spencer  must  be  a  Christian.  She 
adds  :  "  He  may  not  call  himself  a  Christian.  I 
do  not  know  whether  he  calls  hmself  a  Chris- 
tian, but  he  must  submit  to  an  abundant  en- 
trance into  the  kingdom  of  heaven  on  the  pass- 
word of  the  '  Inasmuch.' " 


Tht  IVtrntn  Fritiids  9f  Jisu!.  By  Henry  C. 
McCook,   D.D.    [Fords,    Howard   U    Hulbert. 

In  a  course  oE  twelve  popular  lectures,  de- 
signed for  Sunday  afternoons,  the  Rev.  Dr. 
McCook  discusses  the  characteristics  of  Tki 
Wtmen  Frirndi  of  Jinis.  The  Gospels  furnish 
often  but  brief  and  slight  details,  materials  upon 
which  only  a  slender  fabric  can  rest,  but  these 
few  outlines  are  supplemented  by  probable  tradi- 
tion, and  illumined  by  fervent  and  devout  im- 
agination. The  subjects  are  treated  also,  not  as 
individual  chatacteis  alone,  but  as  representing 
diverse  phases  in  the  private  and  social  life  of 
wonan.    And   the  (ewer  the  detaUs  of  the  in- 


dividual career,  the  larger  is  the  room  left  for 
practical  application.  Thus  Susanna,  who  ap- 
pears bat  once  in  the  New  Testament,  illustrates 
by  her  service  of  Jesus  the  wide  range  of  wo- 
man's physical  ministry.  Beside  the  five  Marys, 
the  list  includes  Joanna,  Susanna,  Salome, 
Martha,  the  wife  of  Pilate,  and  the  weeping 
daughters  of  Jerusalem.  The  preacher's  style 
is  rhetorical  and  dramatic,  and  his  lectures 
display  the  usual  excellences  and  defects  of 
hortatory  address.  The  print  of  the  volume  is 
admirably  large  and  clear,  and  will  be  welcomed 
by  the  weak  and  weary  eyes  for  whose  comfort 
the  author  has  shown  himself  so  thoughtful. 

The  Final  Stienct ;  i/r  Spiriliiai  Matirialisin. 
[Funk  k  Wagnalls.     7Sc] 

We  took  up  one  evening  Demaillet's  Telliamtd, 
and  read  selections  from  it  to  an  ardent  Dar- 
winian friend.  It  was  with  difficulty  that  we 
could  persuade  him  that  Demaillet  was  advocat- 
ing evolution  in  earnest,  and  not  burlesquing  it. 
And  now  we  ourselves  have  been  subjected  in 
this  anonymous  Final  Seitnet  to  the  converse 
experiment.  On  first  looking  over  the  little 
volume,  we  thought  that  the  writer  was  advo- 
cating materialism  in  good  faith ;  and  wondered 
how  Funk  &  Wsgnalls  should  be  publishing  a 
work  of  that  character.  But  when,  instead  of 
"  looking  over,"  we  began  to  read,  we  discovered 
that  it  is  an  ingenious  and  carefully  written 
burlesque  which  is  well  worth  a  careful  reading. 
The  author  is  evidently  a  man  of  learning  and 
of  ability ;  and  the  form  in  which  he  has  put 
his  contribution  to  the  great  philosophical  dis- 
cussions of  the  day  is  one  which  will  interest 
and  instruct  many  readers  who  would  not  care 
to  lake  up  the  more  purely  serious  treatises. 


7S*  ElAict  of  Giorge  ElUft  iVortt.  By  the 
late  John  Crombie  Brown.  With  an  Introduction 
by  Charles  G.  Ames.  [Philadelphia:  Geo.  H. 
Buchanan  &  Co.    #1.90.] 

Mr.  Brown's  little  book  of  a  hundred  pages 
aims  to  show  forth  George  Eliot  as  among  mod- 
em novelists  "  the  chieEesl,  broadest,  and  most 
catholic  illustrator  of  the  true  ethics  of  Chris- 
tianity, the  most  earnest  and  persistent  expositor 
of  the  true  doctrine  oE  the  cross,  that  we  are 
born  and  should  live  to  something  higher  than 
the  love  of  happiness  ;  the  most  subtle  and  pro- 
found commentator  on  the  solemn  words,  '  He 
that  loveth  his  soul  shall  lose  it ;  he  that  hateth 
his  soul  shall  keep  it  unto  life  eternal.'  "  George 
Eliot  herself  was  greatly  pleased  with  Ihe  book, 
and  her  pleasure  must  be  received  as  an  in- 
dorsement of  its  high  value  as  an  exposition  of 
her  underlying  thought.  Mr.  Brown's  critical 
talent  was  no^  quite  free  from  the  reproach  of 
eulogy ;  he  placed  the  Spaaiih  Gypsy  above 
every  other  poem  of  the  day  I 

Bad  Tima.  By  Alfred  Russell  Wallace, 
LL.D.    [Macmillan  ft  Co.    75  els.] 

The  writer  of  this  little  book  is  well  known  as 
one  of  the  foremost  living  scientists  and  literary 
men,  author  oE  TAi  Gragraphieal  DiitribuHon  of 
Animals,  Trgpieal  Nalurt,  and  other  standard 
works,  twin  originator  with  Darwin  of  the  great 
evolutionary  theory.  From  such  a  source  we 
could  have  only  weighty  thoughts  on  any  sub- 
ject Mr.  Wallace  writes,  of  course,  from  an 
English  standpoint,  and  he  takes  issue  at  once 
with  the   usual  explanalioni  there  given  oE  the 


great  business  depression  of  Ihe  last  ten  years, 
such  as  bad  harvests,  tariffs  abroad,  apprecia- 
tion of  gold  and  depreciation  of  silver,  universal 
lack  of  currency  for  the  increased  wants  nf  trade, 
etc.  He  finds  the  causes  to  be  wide-spread  and 
radical,  inherent  in  the  whole  fabric  of  modern 
butines*  as  reconstructed  within  the  last  quarter 
century.  The  chief  one  — the  late  enor- 
I  wars  and  war  expenditures  of  Europe 
and  America,  and  the  immense  armaments  now 
maintained  in  Europe ;  great  foreign  loans 
luostiy  to  sustain  eSete  despotisms  j  speculation; 
prodigious  increase  oE  millionaires  and  of  tents, 
taxes,  etc  ;  land-tenure  evils  and  consequent 
rural  depopulation.  In  a  word,  the  evil  is  more 
a  moral  than  a  financial  one  ;  the  entire  business 
revolution  of  the  last  few  decades  has  been  that 
of  a  fever  rather  than  one  of  a  healthy  growth; 
men  have  gone  craiy,  the  advance  of  a  genera- 
tion has  been  brought  about  in  a  year.  And  now 
the  natural  but  terrible  reaction  has  come  on  : 

Whenever  we  depart  from  the  great  princi- 
ples of  truth  and  horresly,  of  equal  freedom  and 
justice  to  all  men,  whether  in  our  relations  with 
other  states,  or  in  our  dealings  with  oar  fellow- 
mcn,  the  evil  that  we  do  surely  comes  back  to 
us,  and  the  suffering  and  poverty  and  crime  of 
which  we  are  the  direct  or  indirect  causes,  help 
lo  impoverish  ourselves.  It  is,  then,  by  apply- 
ing the  teachings  of  a  higher  morality  to  our 
commerce  and  manufactures,  to  our  laws  and 
customs,  and  to  our  dealings  with  all  other  na- 
tionalities, that  we  shall  find  the  only  effective 
and  permanent  remedy  for  Depression  of  Trade 
(p-117)- 

This  Is  profound  and  unanswerable,  however 
much  certain  schools  oE  economists  may  sneer, 
and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  the  small  size  of  Ihe 
book  may  ?ot  lead  any  political  student  to  over- 
look its  weighty  words. 


Til  standard  Optrai.  A  Handbook  by 
Georse  P-  Upton.     [Jansen    McCiurg   4   Co. 

Ji-50-] 

All  opera-goers  will  be  grateful  for  this  well 
planned  and  well-executed  handbook,  and  all 
lovers  of  good  typography  will  be  pleased  with 
its  outward  features,  which  are  up  to  the  best 
Eastern  standards.  Chicago  has  made  a  great 
advance  in  the  printer's  and  binder's  art  to  be 
able  to  turn  out  such  a  volume  as  this.  Mr. 
Upton  has  sketched  the  principal  operas  of 
some  twenty  leading  composers  j  giving,  first,  of 
each  composer  a  little  biographical  portrait,  and 
then  of  each  opera  selected  for  notice  an  out- 
line and  a  criticism;  adding  occasional  histori- 
cal notes  and  much  incidental  information.  We 
have  had  one  such  book  as  this  before,  "Not- 
elrac's "  Oprras  [LippincotL  iSSa],  but  (he 
present  essay  is  several  times  ampler  and  mote 
satisfactory.  There  should  have  been,  however, 
an  alphabetical  index  oE  the  operas  mentioned, 
in  additiott  lo  the  Table  of  Contents  by  com- 

—  Mr.  Thomas  Whittaker  will  issue  in  the 
course  of  a  week  or  two  Judge  William  Marvin's 
Authorship  of  the  Four  Gospels,  weighing  the  ex- 
ternal evidences  as  seen  from  a  lawyer's  stand- 
point. The  same  publisher  has  recently  issned 
Three  Americans  and  Three  Englishmen,  being 
lectures  on  Wordsworth,  Coleridge,  Shelley, 
Hawthorne,  Emerson,  and  Longfellow,  read  be- 
fore Ihe  students  of  Trinity  College,  Hartford, 
by  Prof.  C.  F.  Johnson. 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Jan.  23, 


The  Literary  World. 


BOSTON,  JANUARY  23,  1886. 


THE  LATE  J.  B.  LIPPIHOOTT. 

MR,  JOSHUA  BALUNGER  LIPPIN- 
CUTT,  Ihe  founder  of  the  Philadelphia 
publishing  house  which  bears  his  name,  was  born 
in  Burlington,  N.  J.,  in  Ihe  year  1813.  At  the 
early  age  of  fonrleen  he  went  10  Philadelphia  to 
seek  his  fortune,  and  found  it  in  a  small  book- 
■tore.  His  business  talents  mpidlT  developed, 
and  hj  the  time  he  was  eighteen  years  old,  he 
had  entire  chaige  of  the  store.  Before  he  was  of 
age,  he  went  into  the  book  business  on  his  own 
account  at  the  southwest  corner  of  Fourth  and 
Race  Streets.  By  his  prudence,  tact,  and  integ- 
rity the  business  rapidly  increased,  and  be  was 
soon  enabled  to  purchase  the  whole  property. 

By  1S50  Mr.  Lippincott's  business  had  proved 
so  prosperous  that  he  had  made  a  fortune.  He 
was  not  yet  thirty-eight  years  old,  and  full  of  en- 
ergy and  enterprise.  So,  instead  of  retiring  from 
active  life,  and  sinking  into  a  mere  money  lender, 
he  purchased  the  stock  and  good-will  of  Giigg, 
Elliott  &  Co.,  at  that  time  (he  largest  book  {ob- 
bing  house  in  the  country.  Mr.  Lippincott 
associated  with  himself  Messrs.  Grambo,  Claxton, 
Remsen,  and  Willis  under  the  firm  name  of  Ijp- 
pincott,  Grambo  &  Ca  Important  changes  were 
introduced ;  the  list  of  publications  was  largely 
increased,  the  standard  of  eicetlence  greatly  im- 
proved, and  as  a  consequence,  previotu  pros- 
perity was  considerably  extended  a«d  strength- 

About  1839  or  i860,  foreseeing  from  certun 
indications  a  removal  oC  Ihe  location  of  the  great 
mercantile  houses  of  Philadelphia,  Mr.  Lippin- 
cott purchased  a  large  lot  on  Market  Street  above 
Seventh,  running  through  to  Filbert,  for  the  firm's 
future  premises.  In  1S62,  during  the  darkest 
period  of  the  Civil  War  in  pecuniary  matters, 
the  handsome  and  commodious  store  where  the 
business  is  now  carried  on,  was  built,  and  occu- 
pied in  1863.  Having  passed  successfully 
through  the  depression  in  the  book  business 
consequent  upon  the  outbreak  of  the  War,  the 
I.ippincolt  house  entered  upon  the  flood  tide  of 
prosperity  with  the  return  of  peace.  Their  busi- 
ness now  extends  from  the  Atlantic  to  the  Pacifiq 
from  Newfoundland  to  Teias.  They  have  about 
ten  thousand  regular  customers,  representing 
every  State  in  the  Union,  some  of  whom  buy 
books  and  stationery  to  the  amount  of  fifty  thou- 
sand dollars  annually.  The  number  of  boies  of 
books  that  are  each  year  dispatched  to  their  cus- 
tomers vary  from  twenty  to  twenty-five  thousand 
and  about  one  hundred  thousand  express  pack- 
ages. The  cost  for  boxes  and  packages  amounts 
some  years  to  twenty- five  thousand  dollars. 
The  item  of  gold-leaf  alone  used  in  bind- 
ing books  exceeds  twenty  thousand  dollars  a 
year.  Mr.  Lippincolt's  predecessor,  Mr.  Grigg, 
was  supposed  to  be  a  very  giant  in  those  days, 
and  doubtless  had  a  fine  place  of  business.  Yel 
the  whole  stock  upon  his  shelves  when  he  retired 
from  the  trade  could  now  be  packed  in  the  small- 
est of  the  Lippincott  Co-'s  roomsj  he  did  less 
ifffi-maiiȣ  in  one  year  than  his  successors 
do  in  one  mouth ;  his  yearly  expenses  would  be 
covered  frequently  by  one  day's  outlay  of  the 


present  house,  and  his  annual  business  income 
would  scarcely  pay  the  rent  and  insurance  as- 
sessed upon  this  great  establishment.  The  Up- 
pincott  establishment,  Nos.  715  and  717  Market 
Street,  is  one  of  the  largest  and  most  complete 
book  publishing  houses  in  the  world.  It  is  five 
stories,  with  a  deep,  well-lighted,  well-ventilated 
basement,  and  is  the  most  magnificent  private 
business  building  in  Philadelphia. 

Only  a  few  of  the  firm's  most  important  publi- 
cations  can  be  mentioned  here.  The  most  beau- 
tiful of  all  the  works  issued  by  J.  B.  Lippincott 
&  Co.,  was  Schoolcraft's  //ii/erji  of  Ihe  Indian 
Tribti,  in  sii  large  quarto  volumes,  magnificently 
illustrated.  Fine  binding  is  a  specialty  of  this 
house,  but  the  binding  of  this  particular  book 
surpassed  all  that  had  preceded  it.  One  copy 
of  this  work  richly  bound  in  Turkey  morocco  was 
presented  to  the  United  Stales  Government, 
while  all  the  crowned  heads  of  Europe  ordered 
copies  equally  magnificent.  Lippinccits  Pro- 
nmncing  Camt/tr  of  lit  World,  edited  by  Dr.  J. 
Thomas  and  T.  Baldwin,  was  first  published  in 
1S5J,  and  has  since  gone  through  several  editions. 
This  work  received  the  approbation  of  such  dis. 
tinguished  men  as  Edward  Everett,  Dr.  Joseph 
Henry,  William  H.  Sewaid,  Jefferson  Davis, 
Washington  Irving,  and  George  Bancroft.  Lip- 
pincott's  Pronouiuing  Diclisnary  of  Biography 
and  Mythology,  by  Dr.  J.  Thomas,  has  been  called 
"the  mosi  comprehensive  and  valuable  work  of 
the  kind  Chat  has  ever  been  attempted."  The 
work  is  universal  in  its  scope,  doing  equal  justice 
to  men  eminent  in  literature,  science,  religion, 
general  histoiy,  etc.,  of  all  ages  and  Centuries. 
It  is  a  credit  to  the  author  and  publishers. 

The  house  is  particularly  strong  in  Americana. 
We  name  only  Che  most  valuable :  Jefferson's 
Worki,  in  nine  volumes,  edited  by  Henry  A. 
Washington  ;  the  Lift  of  Jiffcrsoi,  by  Henry  S. 
Randall;  James  Madison's  Lcl/n-s  and  Other 
Writitigi,  published  by  order  of  Congress;  the 
Life  of  fohn  Adams,  begun  by  John  Quincy 
Adams  and  completed  by  Charles  Francis 
Adams  ;  the  Mtmoirt  of  fohn  Qaitiry  Adams, 
comprising  portions  of  his  diary  from  179510 
134S.  edited  by  Charles  Francis  Adams;  ^cLifl 
and  Writings  of  Albert  Gallatin;  the  Life  and 
Sptethis  of  Daniel  Wibsltr  ;  the  Life  of  Benjamin 
Franklin,  written  by  himself ;  the  Lift  and  Writ- 
ings of  Alexander  J.  Dailat. 

In  1868  Lippincott- s  .MafHiiw  was  commenced, 
Mr.  Lloyd  P.  Smith  of  the  Philadelphia  Library 
being  its  first  editor.  Without  attempting  to 
rival  the  Century  and  Harper's  Magazine,  it  has 
for  seventeen  years  held  a  prominent  place 
among  American  periodicals.  Upon  the  retire- 
ment of  Mr.  Smith  from  the  editorship  in  iS7ohe 
was  succeeded  by  Mr.  John  Foster  Kirk,  author 
of  the  Life  of  Charles  the  Bold,  and  editor  of  the 
works  of  Wm.  H.  Prescotl,  whose  reader  and 
amanuensis  he  was  for  many  years.  Mr.  Kirk 
has  recently  retired  from  the  position  of  editor 
of  the  magazine,  and  William  S.Walsh, who  was 
manager  of  the  literary  department  for  several 
years,  has  succeeded  him.  The  magazine  has 
numbered  among  its  contributors  Anthony  Trol- 
lope,  Ouida,  Mrs.  R.  Harding  Davis,  Miss 
Tincker,  author  of  the  Jewel  in  the  Lotos,  and 
other  popular  writers  of  the  day. 

Mr.  J.  B.  Uppjncott's  personal  relations  with 
authors  formed  one  of  the  most  interesting  chap- 
ters in  the  history  of  American  publishers.  He 
knew  all  the  great  authors  of  the  time  — Bidwer, 


Thackeray,  Dickens,  Carlyle,  and  others.  He 
dined  with  the  Duke  of  Buckingham  in  Philadel- 
phia, and  was  entertained  by  the  Duke  at  his 
family  seat  at  Stowe.  He  visited  Ouida  at  her 
pretty  villa  near  Florence  and  John  Murray  at 
his  country  seat  near  London.  He  was  invited 
to  visit  Carlyle  at  Chelsea,  and  was  visited  by 
Anthony  Trotlope  at  Philadelphia. 

Mr.  Lippincott  was  endowed  by  nature  with  an 
active  and  comprehensive  mind,  singularly  keen 
perception,  and  the  most  untiring  energy. 
Through  many  disastrous  crises  he  guided  the 
financial  affairs  of  the  house  with  such  wisdom 
and  prudence  as  to  prevent  the  slightest  derange- 
ment of  its  credit,  his  principle  always  having 
been  that  the  surest  way  to  preserve  credit  is  not 
to  use  it,  and  in  accordance  therewith  he  consist- 
ently met  such  ordeals  by  drawing  on  his  own 
resources.  He  was  skillful  in  argument,  holding 
decided  opinions  about  men  and  things,  which  he 
did  not  hesitate  to  express,  though  always  with 
courtesy,  and  was  very  earnest  and  determined 
in  following  the  judgment  baied  upon  his  convic' 
tions.  His  presence  was  genial,  his  manners 
were  fiank  and  simple,  at  once  inspiring  the 
stranger  with  confidence  ;  while  his  animated 
conversation  impressed  one  with  the  lively  and 
deep  interest  he  took  in  the  affairs  of  his  time. 
Eugene  L.  Didier. 

TABLE  TALE. 

. . .  Miss  Helen  Gray  Cone,  who  .produced  in 
Oheron  and  Piut,  lately  issued  by  Cassell  &  Co., 
what  some  critics  think  to  be  the  most  notable 
collection  of  original  American  verse  of  the 
year,  is  another  of  the  graduate  "  young  coti- 
tribntors"  of  Our  young  Folks  magaiine  under 
Mr.  J.  T.  Trowbridge's  principalship.  Sheisstill 
young  —  only  26  —  a  graduate  of  the  New  York 
Normal  College  {class  of  '76),  and  resides  in 
that  city,  of  which  she  is  a  native.  She  has  been 
writing  f or  publ  ication  for  the  last  dozen  year;, 
but  only  steadily  and  with  much  definiteness  of 
purpose  since  1S79,  in  which  year  she  appeared 
in  Seribiier's  Monthly.  She  has  since  contributed 
to  the  Atlantic,  the  Century,  Harper'!,  Lippiii- 
[oU's,i.TASt.  Nicholas;  but  a  small  proportion 
of  her  work  therein  being  serious,  although  she 
has  both  taste  and  ability  in  that  direction,  as 
her  book  shows.  She  is  decidedly  the  star  in 
the  poetical  firmament  of  New  York,  among 
rising  lights.  She  does  not  regard  literature  as 
her  profession,  but  as  her  "  principal  interest." 

.  . .  Rosa  Nouchelte  Carey,  the  author  of  Ni>l 
Like  Other  Girls,  Qutcnie's  Whim,  and  Other 
very  popular  stories  —  ten  in  alt  —  is  a  resident 
Xil  Montserrat  Road,  Putney,  near  London,  and 
a  native  of  Middlesex,  England. 

.  . .  Professor  V~  S.  Morse,  of  Salem,  Mass., 
the  author  of  fapanese  Homes  and  TItcir  Sur- 
roundings, baa  another  book  nearly  ready, 
which  the  Appletons  will  publish. 

. .  .  Miss  Lucy  W.  Jennison  ("  Owen  Innsly  "), 
who  spends  most  of  her  time  in  Europe,  is  pass- 
ing the  winter  in  Rome,  whence  she  will  prob- 
ably send  letters  to  the  Worcester  Spy  and  the 
Springfield  Ripuilican, 

.  . .  Mrs.  Hattie  Tyng  Griswold's  series  of 
contributions  to  the  Chicago  Tribune  entitled 
"  Genius  at  Home,"  wherein  the  domestic  life  of 
Milton,  Shelley,  Byron,  Scott,  Goethe,  Hugo, 
Dudevant,  de  Staiil,  Carlyle,  Dickens,  Thack- 
,  eray,  Lamb^  Hawthorne,  Longfellow,  Emeraon, 


1 886.] 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


27 


Fuller,  Krontt,  and  olhera  was  plctnred,  will  tcKiD 
appear  in  a  Totume,  probably  from  Cbicago. 
Mrs.  Griswold  is  well-nigh  buried  in  liierary 
work  jast  now,  essays  and  poems  being  her 
staple. 

...  A  prominent  Maine  poet  guesses  ihat 
EdiUi  M.  Thomas  wrote  "  Of  the  Constanl,"  ihc 
remarkable  lonnet  which  appeared  in  the  "  Con- 
tributor's Club"  of  the  Allantii  a  few  numbers 
^o.  The  tame  writer  thus  refers  to  Miss 
Thomas's  recent  tribute  to  "  S.  O.  J. : " 

II  is  the  slightest  thing  I  have  ever  seen  from 
her  pen.  I  object  to  using  "tlie  old  moon's 
cockleboat "  in  getting  from  Maine  to  Ohio,  and 
I  have  a  notion  that  our  sweet  and  serene  S.  O.  J. 
might  object  to  figuring  as  a  "  will-o'-lhe-wisp  "  in 
the  face  of  all  the  Atlantic  readers.  . .  I  rubbed 


letter  of  Miss  Thomas  10  Miss  Jewett.    Gi 
line  of  Puck  or  Ariel,  'most  any  of  us  could  go 
on  at  that  jog  (or  pages. 

Mr.  Elwood  J.  Bishop,  author  of  Trofical 

America,  is  only  twentjr-Gve  years  old,  but  has 
just  been  elected  a  Fellow  of  the  Royal  Geo- 
graphical Society  of  London.  Mr.  Bishop  has 
traveled  widely,  and  has  been  very  busy  in  both 
literature  and  journalism  for  years ;  he  is  the 
gentleman  lately  named  as  proposing  to  write  a 
life  of  "Josh  Billings,"  with  which  work  he  is 
progressing  rapidly. 

. .  .  Mr.  J.  E.  Collins,  one  of  the  most  promi- 
nent of  Canadian  writers,  author  of  Life  and 
Times  a/Sir  John  A.  Macd»nald,  and  of  Canada 
Under  the  Admimitrattan  of  Lord  Lame,  xf^xK% 
in  the  current  number  of  Outing,  and  is  an- 
nounced to  appear  in  the  forthcoming  Wide 
Awake,  as  "Edmund  Collins."  He  therefore 
has  followed  illustrious  examples  in  cutting  off 
a  superfluous  initial.  Mr.  Collins  bad  a  story 
in  a  late  number  tA  Wide  Awake,  and  a  paper  on 
"  Canada  Since  Confederation,"  in  a  late  issue 
of  Leili^t  Monthly,  under  his  old  signature  — 
y,  E.  Collins.  A  notice  of  his  change  of  signa- 
ture will  form  an  interesting  item  to  our  readers 
in  Canada. 

...  Mr.  Joel  Benton's  Under  the  Apple  Baugh 
is  a  book  under  way  only,  not  yet  published,  tt 
is  to  consist  of  a  series  of  prose  essays.  Mr.  Ben- 
ton's verses  have  been  collected  for  a  publisher, 
but  have  not  yet  appeared.  Mr.  Benton,  when 
last  heard  from,  was  at  'i\.  Paul,  Minn.,  for 
Christmas  Day. 

. . .  Mr.  Charles  G.  D.  Roberts,  late  of  To- 
ronto, is  now  Professor  of  English  and  French 
Literature  in  the  University  of  King's  College,  at 
Windsor,  N.  S. 

..."Pansy's"  serial,  "Spun  from  Fact,"  it 
appearing  iu  the  feurnal  and  Btesieugtr,  a  Bap- 
tist weekly  published  in  Cincinnati. 

. . .  Emma  Alice  Browne,  the  New  York  Led' 
ger  versifier,  is  prostrated  by  an  acute  nervous 
disorder,  with  complications,  at  her  home  In 
Danville,  III.  Her  mother,  with  whom  she 
lives,  is  also  seriously  ill. 

...  It  is  discovered   that    the  popular  com- 
panion poems,  entitled  "The  Old  Song  and  the 
New,"  the  refrains  of  which  are,  respectively : 
tiod  i>  may  IiDm  At  mrldl 
Cod  i<  longer  vriib  mu  1 
were  written  by  Mrs.  (and  Rev.)  Augusta  Cooper 
Bristol,  who  lately  read  a  notable  production  in 
verse  before  a  woman's  congress,  and  who  re- 
sides in  VioeUnd,  N.  J. 

, . .  After  an  editorial  connectioD  with  The  In- 


dependent  covering  a  period  of  eleven  j-ears,  with 
ot  absence,  Mr.  Wm.  M.  P".  Round 
has  resigned  his  position  as  art  critic  of  that 
paper.  His  specialty  of  Prison  Keforni  now  ab- 
lorbes  most  of  his  time  ;  the  only  time  for  liter- 
ary work  that  he  can  command  he  wishes  to 
devote  to  writing  for  the  magazines  and  reviews 

the  somewhat  diverse   subjects  of  penology 

i  seiihetlcs. 
. .  Mr.  Augustus  Mendon  Lord,  the  author  of 

lew  and  tasteful  little  book  of  verse,  is  a  prom- 
ising graduate  of  Harvard  College  in  the  class  oF 
iSSj.  He  has  tanght  In  a  boys'  private  school, 
Mr.  Kendall'K,  In  Cambridge,  Mass.,  and  is  at 
present  tutor  in  tbe  University.  His  poems  bave 
appeared  in  the  Atlantic  Monthly  and  the  Boston 
young  man  of  fine  princi- 
ples and  atlainments,  the  "only  son  of  his  mother 
and  she  a  widow-" 

FOBEIOV  BETS  AND  50TE8. 

-Col.   Sir  C.   W.  Wilson's  From   KorH  to 
irtum  is  tbe  journal  of  a  soldier  who  partic- 
ipated in  the  campaign  of  last  year  in  the  Sou- 
dan,  supplying  trustworthy  historical   evidence 
which  is  per^nent  and  valuable.    [Blackwood.] 

—  Miss  Rboda  Broughton,  after  three  years 
of  rest,  has  another  novel  ready  for  the  Messrs. 
Bentley. 

—  The  new  Asiatic  Quarterly  Hevinii  has 
made  its  appearance,  of  which  Sir  Lepel  Griffin 
is  joint  proprietor.  The  following  is  the  Table 
of  Contents  of  the  first  number  : 

The  Rntiludon  of  Goillor  Fort.    Br  Sir  Lcpd  Griffin, 

The  Chr^linai  Tree.    Bv  Sir  Gconc  Birdwocid,  C.S.I. 

Field-Manhal  Lord  Slrathniim.    6t  Colonel  Sit  Onn 
BDrne,  K.C.S.I. 

KabHo-JobuaiinL  Bt  Colonel  Yule,  C.  B. 
c.  China  iixl  Bumiah,  Br  ProC.  R.  K.  DouElai 
i.    The  Turk.  InPrnui.    ty  "    '  " 


The  Turl 

Early  Engliih  EntetpriH  io 


UDMry. 


Fir  Eul.    Br  Dtnii 

rfirfAkbar,  Bv  C. 

Tlie  Cbinew 

Mr.  D.  Boulger  is  editor  and  Mr.  T.   Fisher 
Unwin  publisher  of  the  new  venture. 

Merry  and  Wise  is  the  title  of  a  new  Eng- 
lish illustrated  monthly  for  young  folks,  issued 
under  the  auspices  of  Cardinal  Manning. 

—  A  clever  and  in  some  respects  good  Histmy 
of  Toryism  from  1783  to  iSSi  has  been  written 
by  T.  E.  Kebbet.  Pitt,  Liverpool,  Canning, 
Wellington,  Feci,  Derby,  and  Beaconsfield, 

tbe  seven  men  whose  deeds  it  mainly 
[Alkn.] 

—  A  volume  of  the  Memoirs  of  Mary,  Queen 
0/  Ettgland,tA\iiA  by  Dr.  Doebner  from  a  MS. 
which  for  a  long  time  reposed  in  the  Hanove- 
rian Chancery  at  London,  is  said  by  the  Athenaum 
to  "form  a  touching  illustration  of  what  Ma- 
cantay  happily  terms  the '  sweet  womanly  courage ' 
o(  a  loved  and  loving  wife."    [NuttJ 

—  A  Shelley  Society  has  been  organised 
London  to  allow  the  lovers  of  that  poet  to  mi 
and  discuss  his   works  and  otiier   points   of 

life  and  character.  It  is  farther 
desired  to  compile  a  Shelley  lexicon  or  concord- 
ance, to  arrange  for  the  representation  of  his 
plays,  and  in  all  ways  to  extend  the  knowledge 
of  his  genius.  The  Society  will  be  managed  by 
a  committee  of  twenty.  Tbe  meetings  are  to 
be  held  the  first  Tuesdays  in  March,  April,  May, 
November,  and  December.  The  annua!  subscrip- 
tion, constituting  membership,  ii 
Nunes  and  subscriptions  are  to  be  sent  to 
W.  M.  Rossetti,  5  Endaleigh  Gardens,  London, 


N.  W.,  or  to  Dr.  F.  J.  Furnivall,  3  St.  George'^; 
Square,  Primrose  Hill,  London,  N.  W.  A 
performance  of  "  Cenci  "  will  be  given  early  in 
May.    American  members  are  desired. 

—  Besides  the  Shelley  Society  above  sketched, 
a  Goethe  Society  is  on  the  point  of  being 
started  in   England,   in  affiliation  with  the  Ger- 

Goelhe  Gesellschaft.  The  society's  first 
work,  says  the  Alhcnaxm,  will  be  in  Connection 
with  "  the  documents  lately  bequeathed  by 
Goethe's  heirs  to  the  Grand  Duchess  of  Saxe- 
Weimar  —  documents  which  throw  a  new  and 
vivid  light  upon  nearly  every  period  of  the  poet's 
life." 

The  first  issue,  to  be  printed  in  the  forth- 
coming Goethe  fahrbuck,  will  consist  of  two 
very  curious  series  of  early  letters,  to  Goethe's 
siaier,  1765-^,  and  to  Behrisch,  1766-8,  partly 
written  in  English,  and  containing,  inter  alia, 
an  English  poem  to  Schloiser,  an  unfinished 
tragedy,  "Belaazar,"  other  dramatic  fragments, 

Eoems  to  hta  mother,  etc.  These  will  be  fol- 
nved  by  a  volume  of  letters  to  Frau  Rath.  An 
arrangement  has  been  made  with  the  publisher 
of  the  Goethe  Gesellschaft  by  which  the  back 
volumes  of  the  Goethe  Jahrbnek  will,  so  far  as 
the  stock  lasts,  be  supplied  at  a  reduced  rale  to 
English  members,  who  will  thos  be  placed  on 
the  same  footing  as  German  members.  The 
extent  of  the  proposed  society's  publications 
must,  of  course,  be  determined  V  the  measure 
of  support  which  it  receives  from  the  public. , . . 
All  who  are  prepared  to  support  the  society  are 
requested  to  communicate  with  Mr.  David  Natl, 
270,  Strand. 

—  Dr.  S.  P.  Lambros  of  Athens  is  about  to 
publish  in  that  city  an  illustrated  history  of 
Greece  from  the  earliest  times,  which  will  fill 
three  volumes.  It  is  to  be  republished  in  Parb 
in  fortnightly  parts  at  one  franc  each. 

—  Hood  in  Scotland  is  the  title  of  a  forth* 
coming  work  by  Mr.  A.  Elliot  which  it  Is  said 
will  contain  much  fresh  matter  of  interest  about 

—  A  translation  of  Amirl's  yournal  Iittime, 
by  Mrs.  Humphrey  Ward,  has  appeared  in  two 
volumes. 

—  To  tbe  series  of  "  Canterbury  Poets  "  has 
been  added  a  selection  of  the  "best  work"  of 
Mr,  Walt  Whitman,  edited  by  Mr.  Hubert 
Rhys,  with  the  poet's  consenL 

—  Miss  Marie  A.  Brown,  who  is  known  in 
the  United  States,  has  been  lecturing  in  London 
on  Scandinavian  matters. 

—  Mr.  Clark  Russell,  the  marine  novelist,  has 
sailed  for  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope  under  great 
disability  from  chronic  rheumatism,  leaving  be- 
hind  him   the  MS.  of  a  new  "  romance  of  the 


deep"  called  The  Golden  Hope. 

—  Mr.  F.  T.  Palgrave  has  published  A  Life  of 
Christ  Illustrated  from  the  Italian  Painters  of 
the  rfih,  ijth,  and  i6th  Centuries.  The  itlos- 
traiions  are  chromo-lithographs.   [National  Sod- 

—  The  dark  aide  of  the  Panama  Canal  proj- 
ect is  forcibly  presented  in  a  work  by  T.  C. 
Rodrigucs,  the  gist  of  which  is  that  in  that  en- 
terprise "we  shall  see  tbe  most  terrible  finandal 
disaster  of  the  19th  Century."    [Sampson  Low.] 

—  Mr.  J.  A.  Symonds,  writing  in  tbe  Academy 
"  as  a  man  of  letters,  in  whose  case  long-standing 
pulmonary  consumption  was  eight  years  ago 
arrested  by  the  climate  of  the  High  Alps  in 
winter,  and  who  has  since  enjoyed  moderate 
health  and  mediocre  intellectual  vigor  ottly  on 
the  condition  of  continued  residence  at  an  eleva- 
tion of  5,000  feet  above  the  sea,"  speaks  warmly 
of  Dr.  Wise's  Alpine  Winter  in  iu  Medical  As- 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Jan.  23, 


pects.  "  Scientific  comprehensive,  practical,  and 
impartial  "  [be  safa],  "it  deals  in  lum  with  all 
the  winter  hcalth-reiorU  which  have  b«en 
founded  in  the  Grisoni,  Mtting  their  respective 
advantages  in  a  Eaii  light,  and  not  disguising 
theirdtawbacks."    [Churchill.] 

—  The  AlktmzutH,  which  seldom  drops  into 
satire  or  even  pleasantly,  says  in  connection 
with  a  notice  of  a  second  edition  of  Mn.  Orr's 
Haadheek  to  tkt  Werki  of  Robtrt  Broaiiing: 

We  majr  take  this  opportunity  of  contradicting 
the  report  generally  current  that  Mr.  Browning's 

t  purchase  of  a  pal:  "--■- 

pled  by  the  desire  to  p 

distance  between  himi 
Society.    It  has  really  been  bought  mainly  for  the 
convenience  of  Mr.  R.  B.  Browning. 

—  Among  the  latest  announcements  in  the 
Atheitatim  and  Academy  are  a  life  of  Georg 
Joachim  Goschen  bjr  his  grandson  and  name- 
sake i  Carlyle  and  Ike  Oprn  Stent  of  His  Life, 
bjF  Mr.  Henry  Larkin ;  a  selection  of  sonnets 
translated  from  the  poet*  of  other  lands  than 
England  by  Mr.  S.  Waddington ;  translations  of 
Heine's  Rtiubilder  and  Romantiicke  Schuli,  by 
Francis  Slorr  ;  a  Hislsry  of  India  under  Queen 
Victoria,  by  Capt  Trotter  (by  subscription}  ;  a 
new  novel  by  Grant  Allen  entitted  Fur  Mauric^t 
Saie;  a  volume  on  Ancient  Fariih  Life,  in  it* 
obsolete  and  curious  aspects,  by  Mr.  John 
Batty ;  and  The  Pltasurei  tf  a  Baokwarm,  by 
Mr.  J.  Rogers  Reea. 


OnBREHT  LTTERATHBE. 

The  biggest  book  of  late  laid  upon  our  table 
is  7»<  Puilitherr  Trade  List  Annual  fot  1885, 

with  its  3,000  pages  of  book  lists,  arranged  by 
pabllshers  under  alphabetical   order.    A  falo- 
able  feature  of  the  book  this  year  is  the  tbumb- 
and-finger  index  of  its  front  edges.    [Publisbei 
Weekly.] 

Macmillan  &  Co.  have  published  an  inviting 
one-volume  edition  of  Mr.  Walter  Pater'a  philo- 
Bophico-hiitorical  romance  of  Mariui  the  Epicu- 
rean. Its  fair  p»ges,  uncut  edges,  and  plain 
maroon  binding  will  commend  it  at  once  to  all 
readers  of  good  taste,    [fi-zsj 

Tiretiat,  Lord  Tennyson's  last  volume,  having 
received  notice  at  the  hands  of  our  London  cor- 
respondent, we  will  only  add  that  American 
readers  can  have  it  in  two  forma :  either  as  on 
of  Harper's  paper-covered  "Handy  Volumes 
at  15c,  or  in  cloth,  and  under  belter  conditions 
of  paper  andtype,  with  Macmillan's  imprint,  at 
fi.5a    There  are  twenty-six  poems  in  the  col' 

Myrtiila  Miner  was  one  of  the  abolitionists 
before  abolition.  OE  New  England  ancestry, 
her  life  work  was  the  founding  and  the  conduct 
of  a  school  for  free  blacks  in  Washington  before 
tbc'^ar.  Her  Memoir,  which  has  been  wi 
"^jy  Ellen  M.  O'Connor,  is  a  striking  chaptei 
of  that  now  almost  forgotten  history  when 
slavery  ruled  the  South  and  threatened  the 
North,  and  when  it  was  a  crime  to  teach  >  negro 
how  to  read  and  write.  Times  have  changed. 
This  book  shows  how.  There  is  a  strong  Mrs. 
Stowe-look  in  the  sKel  portrait  of  Miss  Miner, 
and  a  touching  interest  in  her  imseJfish  charac- 
ter, her  noble  pbilantbropy,  and  her  courageous 
and  indomitable  spirit.  [Houghton,  MifHin  & 
Co.  »i.«>,] 
The  Rev.  F.  E.  Clark's  Danger  Siptalt 


nine  sermons  or  addresses,  of  an  unconventional 
pattern,  addressed  chiefly  to  young  men,  and 
designed  to  warn  them  against  the  sins  and  evils 
which  lurk  for  human  souls  in  tjat  cities  in 
these  times  of  ours.  Drink,  trashy  books  and 
papers,  low  theaters,  gambling  saloons,  and  sex- 
ual impurity  are  the  "  dangers,"  and  the  "  signals  " 
are  well  calculated  to  arrest  attention.  Mr. 
Clark  is  plain,  direct,  illustrative,  and  wise  in 
his  handling  of  a  difficult  range  of  subjects. 
[Lee  &  Shepard.    $[.oo.] 

The  new  edition  of  Dr.  Beardsley's  Life  and 
Times  of  William  Samuel  Joknten,  LL.D., 
first  published  in  1876,  is  an  improvement  and 
•n  enlargement  of  a  biography  valuable  for  its 
happy  use  of  a  profitable  subject,  Dr-  Johnson 
was  a  Connecticut  worthy  of  the  last  century,  a 
graduate  of  Yale,  a  resident  student  at  Harvard, 
a  lawyer  at  Stratford,  a  colonial  agent  at  Lon- 
don, a  Connecticut  legislator,  a  New  York  jus- 
tice, a  President  of  Columbia  College,  and  always 
a  loyal  and  serviceable  son  of  the  Chuich  of 
England  in  the  Colonies,  afterwards  the  Episco- 
pal Church.  A  curious  momentary  episode  of 
his  career  was  his  arrest  for  treasonable  toryism 
during  the  Revolution.  [Houghton,  MifHin  A 
Co.    f2.5o.] 

The  Bai/i  Record  is  designed  to  preserve  the 
early  incidents  in  the  child's  life,  with  the  bright 
sayings  so  striking  at  first,  but  so  easily  forgot- 
ten. It  has  places  for  the  first  two  photographs, 
and  an  occasional  appropriate  quotation,  and  is 
well  adapted  for  its  purpose  as  a  "twofold  gift 
for  mothers  and  children."  [Cincinnati :  Robert 
Clarke  ft  Co.    (1.15.] 

The  Sermons,  preached  by  Dr.  Deems  during 
the  first  year  after  the  Church  <A  the  Strangen 
entered  its  present  home,  were  published  in 
elegant  style  by  certain  parishioners.  The  pres- 
ent edition,  if  less  handsome  in  appearance,  will 
doubtless  reach  a  wider  audience,  and  the  sim- 
plicity and  practical  method  which  pervade  the 
diicourses  will  find  a  ready  understanding  and 
appreciation-    [Funk  &  Wagnalls.    fi-50,] 


OTTB  5£W  TORK  LETTEH 

DR.  OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES  once 
wrote  me  that  talent  will  always  command 
the  highest  price.  That  is  true  when  the  posses- 
sor of  talent  is  known.  Ilowells  makes  his  tal- 
ents pay,  so  did  Sylvanns  Cobb,  Jr.,  but  there  are 
many  talented  jaaag  men  in  New  York  today, 
who  waste  their  talents  in  writing  for  the  news- 
papers, receiving  #5  for  a  column  of  3,00a  words. 
The  World,  with  its  boasted  circulation  averaging 
200,000  copies  a  day,  pays  only  ^  a  column. 
This  is  only  about  one  third  as  much  as  Harpers 
and  the  Cin/urj/ ptj.  But  a.writer  it  fortunate 
who  gets  one  article  a  year  in  either  of  these 
magazines.  Speaking  of  magazines,  is  it  not 
strange  that,  notwithstanding  our  enormous  in- 
crease in  population  and  in  the  number  of  read- 
ers, there  are  actually  fewer  magazines  published 
in  the  United  Slates  today  than  there  were  thirty 
years  ago?  Instead  of  Putnam's  Menlhly,  Gra- 
ham's Magathu,  Tie  Knickerbocker  and  the 
Southern  Literary  Messenger,  we  have  the  Cen- 
tury and  the  Atlantic  Monthly.  Every  magazine 
reader  most  observe  with  what  pitiless  monotony 
the  same  names  appear  in  the  table  of  contents, 
montb  after  month,  A  novel  by  Henry  James  ia 
succeeded  by  a  novel  by  Howells,  followed  by 
one  by  Cable,  then  James  begins  again,  and 


on  from  year  to  year.      Is  there   nothing  new 
under  the  sun  in  literature? 

Mrs.  Frances  Hodgson  Burnett,  who  formerly 
wrote  regularly  for  the  Cf»/Hr7,  story  after  story 
following  each  other  in  rapid  succession,  has  not 
written  anything  for  that  magaiine  for  nearly 
four  years.  I  happen  to  know  the  cause  of  this : 
When  Mrs.  Burnett  sent  the  last  chapters  of 
Tirough  One  Adaiinislraliim  to  the  Century, 
the  editorial  censor  of  that  magazine,  fearing  to 
shock  some  of  his  squeamisii  readers,  who,  how- 
ever, were  asked  to  swallow  The  Bread  Winners, 
took  the  liberty  of  making  important  changes  in 
the  denouement  of  the  story  without  consulting 
the  author.  Mrs.  Burnett  was  highly  oSended, 
holding  with  Thackeray,  that  an  editor  has  the 
right  to  make  veibal  changes  in  an  author's  work, 
but  no  right  to  rub  his  ears  over  the  manoscript, 
Mrs.  Burnett  mast  indeed  have  keenly  felt  the 
unwarranted  liberty  taken  with  her  story,  for  she 
has  deliberately  sacrificed  a  very  handsome  In- 
come which  she  made  from  her  contributions  to 
the  Century.  In  the  meantime  she  is  obliged  10 
seek  other  less  prominent  and  less  profitable 
market  for  her  literary  productions-  A  story  of 
hers  is  now  running  through  the  Sunday  edition 
of  the  Philadelphia  Press.  The  story  is  called 
Much  Ado,  but  whether  it  is  "about  nothing," 
cannot  yet  be  determined  1  for  the  second  part  is 
only  commenced- 

James  Whistler  will  arrive  in  New  York 
within  a  few  days,  wearing  the  farthing  which 
the  English  court  allowed  him  for  damages  in  the 
suit  brought  against  Ruskin  for  making  public 
his  private  opinion  that  the  said  Whistler  threw 
3  paint  pot  at  the  head  of  the  British  public,  and 
charged  two  hundred  guineas  for  it.  Mr-  Ruskin 
has  said  some  very  cross,  cranky  and  conceited 
things,  but  this  was  not  one  of  them.  The  Tile 
Club  will  have  a  jollification  in  honor  of  Mr. 
Whistler,  who,  by  the  way,  is  the  nephew  of  tbe 
late  Roas  Winans,  the  Baltimore  millionaire. 
Mr,  Wbistler  will  no  doubt  hold  forth  in  gtcal 
style  at  the  Club  supper,  modesty  not  being  his 
strong  point. 

William  Winter  has  made  more  than  a  local 
reputation  as  a  dramatic  critic,  but  his  own  taste 
leads  him  rather  to  poetry  than  10  newspaper 
work,  lie  has  written  several  dainty  bits  of 
verse,  but  it  is  only  occasionally  that  he  moves 
the  moscs.  His  poem.  At  Poe'i  Grave,  was  the 
best  thing  inspired  by  the  erection  of  a  mono- 
ment  over  the  poet's  long -neglected  grave  in 
Westminster  churchyard,  Baltimore,  on  the  I7tb 
of  November,  [S75,  When  the  marble  memorial 
to  Poe'a  memory  In  the  Metropolitan  Museum  of 
Art,  New  York,  was  unveiled  on  the  3d  of  May 
last,  Mr.  Winter  delivered  a  poem  fuU  of  rare 
beauty.  The  death  of  Lilian  Adelaide  Ncitaon 
on  the  I  Jth  of  August,  iSSo^  drew  from  Mr.  Win- 
ter some  verses  of  sad,  pathetic  sweetness.  I 
quote  the  first  and  last  verse,  in  order  to  show 
how  exquisitely  the  poet  expresses  himself  in 
mournful  numbers: 

And  O  Id  tbink  the  sun  can  shiiie, 

And  •he,  HhoHiinli'wuilMMn™" 
8c  dirUy  moulderini  in  the  toDb. 


And  nidi) 


earth  and  ilUDiiii  it 


„aalc 


Mr.  Winter,  after  graduating  at  HarvA 
to  New  York  to  push  his  forlttnes  in  the  literary 
world.     He  Iiecame  one  of  the  contributors  to 


THE    LITERARY   WORLD. 


the  Saturday  Prtti,  the  Bohemtan  weekly  JoDinal, 
of  which  (he  King  of  Bohemia,  the  late  Henry 
Clapp,  Jr.,  wu  the  editor.     Young  Winter  did 
anjr  kind  of  literary   work  that   offered,  fc 
those  days  he  had  to  write  to  live,     Hii  foi 
was  made  when  he  got  on  the  Trikiue  as 
milic  critic.      The   policy   of    that   paper  has 
always  been  to  seek  to  retain  iti  employ^*. 
Ripley  was  its  literary  critic  for  thirty  years,  re- 
maining in  that  position  until  his  death.    Bayard 
Taylor,  when  k  boynf  19  or  zo,  commenced  hi 
connection  with  the  Tribum  by  writing  Eoi  It  hi 
Viavi  A/eel,  and  continued  to  write  for  it  during 
the  rest  of  bis  life,  even  when  American  minister 
to  Germany. 

Madame  Henri  Gr^ville  is  spending  some 
weeks  in  New  York,  and  in  about  ten  days  will 
deliver  a  lecture  on  Russia.  I  saw  her  at  the 
Motel  Dam  yesterday,  and  In  the  course  c 
hour's  conversation  she  alluded  in  very  pie: 
terms  to  her  recent  visit  to  Boston,  being  partic- 
ularly pleased  by  the  bright,  witty,  and  humorous 
manner  in  which  Dr.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes 
troduced  her  to  the  audience  on  the  evening  of 
her  lecture.  She  regretted  very  much  that 
severe  indisposition  prevented  her  from  enjoying 
New  Year's  day  in  Boston.  She  was  much 
struck  by  New  England  frankness  and  hospitality, 
and  expressed  htrself  as  much  pleased  with  the 
acquaintance,  though  short,  of  Colonel  T.  W. 
Higginson  and  Mr.  Howells.  She  thinks  Henry 
James  is  a  little  too  analytical,  bestowing  too 
much  labor  on  trifles,  telling  too  much,  and  nut 
allowing  enough  to  the  imagination  of  his  read- 
ers. Madame  Grjville  is  a  great  admirer  of  the 
works  of  Edgar  A.  Poe;  she  said  that  they  pos- 
sess a  mysterious  power,  which,  white  they  fasci- 
nate, at  the  same  time  Gil  the  soul  with  horror. 
She  hss  traveled  in  many  lands,  and  is  prepared 
to  enjoy  all  that  is  enjoyable,  and  to  take  every- 
thing as  she  Gnds  it.  In  speaking  of  Boston,  she 
said  that  although  she  found  no  Parthenon  there, 
with  gigantic  cactus  plants  growing  at  its  base, 
she  saw  beautiful  American  elms  in  the  neighbor- 
hood of  the  State  House;  and  although  she  met 
neither  Plato,  Pericles,  nor  Aspasia,  she  was 
charmed  with  the  culture  and  refinement  of  the 
liicn  and  women  of  the  modern  Athens. 

^/na  Yuri,  jfan.  lb.  Stylus. 


BHAKE8PEABIAJTA. 


ThB  Death  of  Dr.  Hudson.  It  is  less  than 
a  year  since  Richard  Grant  White  died,  and  now 
we  are  called  to  mourn  the  loss  of  another  of  our 
most  eminent  Shakespearian  scholars  and  critics. 
Rev.  Henry  Norman  Hudson,  LL.  D.,  died  sud- 
denly on  the  l6th  insl.,  at  his  home  in  Cam- 
bridge, from  exhaustion  due  to  a  surgical  opera- 
tion upon  his  throat.  He  had  reached  the  ripe 
age  of  seventy-two,  but  he  was  still  in  the  full 
vigor  of  his  (acuities,  and  seemed  likely  (0  do 
much  good  work  yet,  both  as  a  teacher  and  an 
author. 

His  reputation  as  a  critic  dates  from  his  lect- 
ures on  Shakespeare,  which,  after  being  given  on 
the  platform  for  several  seasons  with  brilliant 
and  ever-increasing  succcssi,  were  printed  in  two 
volumes  in  184S,  and  ran  through  two  editions 
within  a  year.  They  were  revised  In  1851  to 
serve  as  introductions  to  the  playi  in  his  first 


edition  of  Shakespeare,  and  after  fuithtr  elabo- 
ration were  published  in  1S7Z  under  the  title  of 
Shatespcart,  His  Lift,  An,  an,/  Ch,itacleri 
These  volumes,  of  which  a  second  revised  edi 
lion  has  been  issued  since  the  appearance  of  the 
"Harvard"  edition  of  Shakespeare  <in  which 
none  of  this  matter  is  included)  are,  toour  think- 
ing, the  best  piece  of  xsthetic  criticism  on  Shake- 
speare thai  has  appeared  in  this  country,  and  01 
that  will  take  rank  with  the  few  great  works  of 
its  class  in  English  and  German  literature 
upon  this,  in  our  opinion,  thai  his  icputali 

It  was  to  the  Ltchirci  en  Shaiesjtare  as  they 
were  published  in  1848,  when  we  were  in  col- 
lege, that  we  owed  —  so  far  at  least  as  we  car 
recollect  —  out  first  real  interest  in  the  study  of 
Shakespeare. 

Of  Dr.  Hudson  as  ■  man  we  cannot  speak 
from  persona]  acquaintance.  Given  to  strong 
prejudices  as  well  as  strong  convictions,  he  was 
apt  to  be,  like  Wolsey,  "lofty  and  sour"  10 
those  who  did  not  agree  with  him,  though 
"sweet  as  summer,"  <t  is  said,  to  (hose  who 
were  so  fortunate  as  to  be  his  intimate  friends- 
Mr.  HaUiwell-Phlllippa  on  the  old  Sbake- 
■peare  Societj  of  London.  In  (he  le(ter  to  the 
President  of  the  New  York  Society,  refer 
in  the  report  printed  in  our  last  issue,  Mr.  Halli- 
well-l'hillipps,  after  expressing  his  appreciation  of 
the  compliment  paid  him  in  the  honorary  mei 
bership,  goes  on  to  give  some  interesting  facts 
the  history  of  the  first  English  Shakespeare 
Sodety  which  we  are  confident  our  readers  will 
thank  us  for  printing  here,  especially  if  they  have 
had  as  much  difficulty  in  finding  any  Bimilai 
account  of  that  famous  association  as  we  did  a 
year  or  more  ago  when  we  were  moved  to  look 
into  its  history.  With  all  our  hunting  we  could 
find  nothing  that  began  to  be  as  satisfactory  as 
what  Mr.  Halli well-Phillipps  gives  us  in  the  fol- 
lowing paragraphs : 

The  Shakespeare  Society  of  London  was  insti- 
tuted in  the  year  iSjto,  (he  (hen  leading  members 
of  the  council  being  the  director,  Mr.  Payne  Col- 
lier; the  secretary,  Mr.  F.  G.  Tomlins;  the 
treasurer,  Mr.  Dilke,  grandfather  of  the  present 
Sir  Charles  Dilke;  Rev.  William  Harness; 
Charles  Knighl ;  Campbell,  the  poet ;  Macready, 
Alciander  Dyce,  Douglas  jerrold.  Sergeant  Tal- 
Foard,  Thomas  Wright,  and  Young,  the  tragedian. 
To  these  were  added  shortly  afterward  llollon 
Coiney,  Charles  Dickens,  Henry  Hallam,  J.  R. 
Planch^  and  Peter  Cunningham,  the  last  named 
taking  the  place  of  Mr.  Dilke  as  treasurer.  Later 
acquisitions  included  Boyle  Bernard,  Knighl 
Bruce,  John  Forsler,  Rev.  H.  H.  Milman,  and  Sir 
George  Rose. 


teous  to  all,  ever  in  a  good  humor,  always  ready 
to  encourage  younger  men  in  his  favorite  pur- 
suits, and  withal,  a  good  financier,  Payne  Collier 
was  (he  beau  ideal  of  the  chairman  of  a  literary 

Mr.  Tomlins,  a  journalist  and  dramatic  critic, 
made  in  every  respect  an  excellent  secretary- 
Replete  with  good  humor  and  fun,  he  Fiequenlfy 
enlivened  what  might  otherwise  have  been  a 
somewhat  too  dull  and  technical  meeting  of  the 
council,  without  allowing  all  this,  I  need  scarcely 
add,  to  interfere  with  the  legitimate  duties  of  his 

Mr.  Cunningham  —  kind-hearted,  genial  Peter 
'  was  our  excellent  treasurer  from  nearly  the 
immencement  10  the  termination  of  our  society. 
.1  common  with  most  literary  and  scientific 
bodies,  the  power  of  government  rested  in  an 
oligarchy,  and  I  have  specially  mentioned  these 
:  names,  being  those  in  whom  the  resi  coa- 


irol  of  the  society  was  vested,  however  wisely 
ihey  accepted  (he  services  or  adopted  (he  advices 
of  others.  But  there  was,  indeed,  no  one  who 
desired  (o  share  in  the  alisotute  responsibility  of 
the  management;  least  of  all,  no  one  else  was' 
foolish  enough  to  aim  at  the  position  of  a  su- 
preme dictator.  A  few  observations  from  recol- 
lections of  two  or  three  of  the  other  members  of 
the  council  may,  perhaps,  be  admissible. 

Macready  only  attended  occasionally,  but  one 
of  his  first  steps,  he  being  then  (he  lessee  of  the 
Drury  Lane  Theatre  —  an  announcement  that  he 
had  placed  the  names  of  every  member  of  the 
C'luncil  on  the  free  list  of  that  establishment  — 
made  an  indelible  impression  on  my  memory. 
It  was  a  delightful  communication,  money  then 
being  an  exceedingly  scarce  commodity  with  me, 
and  thus  I  was  enabled  to  witness  and  study 
_nearlv_  every  evening  the  best  acting  of  the  day, 
including  the  unrivalled  personification  of  Imogen 
by  Helen  Faucif. 

Alexander  Ityce  was  a  frequent  attendant. 
Alihough  sometimes  caustic  in  his  writings,  he 
was  (he  reverse  at  (he  council  and  in  conversa- 
tion ;  and  thai  he  was  personally  one  of  the  kind- 
est and  best-hearted  of  men  few  can  vouch  with 
more  accuracy  than  myself,  having  enjoyed  the 
advantage  of  his  friendship  from  the  days  of  my 
boyhood  until  hia  death  in  the  vear  1869. 

Planch^,  the  most  prolific  English  dramatist 
England  has  seen  since  the  days  of  Heywood, 
was  also  a  frequent  attendant.  He  was  one  of 
the  most  amiable  and  genial  of  men,  one  whose 
genius  and  graceful  humor  have  not  as  yet  been 
adequate  I)  recognized- 
There  nas  not,  in  fact,  a  single  member  of  the 
council  in  whom  was  imbedded  an  element  of 
discord  in  respect  to  the  objects  or  management 
of  thesociety;  and  having  belonged  to  the  council 
from  the  time  of  its  iiksiituiion  in  1840  until  Its 
dissolution  in  1833,1  can  bear  sufficient  testimony 
to  the  enduring  harmony  that  prevailed.  The 
same  kind  feelings  and  good  humor  character- 
ized the  annual  general  meetings,  where,  1  verily 
believe,  if  an  egotistical  literary  firebrand  had 
ventured   to  disturb  the  general  concord — and 


ightened  period  t 
been  suggested  that  Shakespeare  was  somebody 
else  ;  but  even  the  enunciation  of  so  startling  a 
theory  as  that  would  not,  I  am  persuaded,  have 
disturbed  the  serenity  of  a  body  who  had  perfect 
reliance  on  freedom  of  criticism  leading  event- 
ually to  the  victory  of  truth. 

Asimilarcalhoficity  of  spirit  — the  absence  of 
a  specific  platform  —  the  trenchant  and  spontane- 
ous rejection,  if  I  understand  your  scheme  rightly, 
of  nothing  but  i^ensive  dogmatism  and  insolent 
■"■ilicism  —these  are  the  elements  that  will  com- 


Tiie  Heldon  Tombstone  Hoax.  This  old 
fiction  which  was  sufficiently  shown  up  in  (he 
World  t.  year  or  more  ^;o,  but  which  seems  to 
have  as  many  lives  as  a  cat,  turns  up  again  in  the 
mtdiial  journals,  and  the  following  paragraph  is 
going  (he  rounds  thereof  aa  an  importation  from 
Germany ; 

Shakespeare's  Physician.—  In  the  church- 
yard at   Fredericksburg,  according  to  the  Atle. 

Wiin"    1^-'   ^•i'-—'    '••    -  • i^> --I-   -I  - 

folloi 

practiiHng  physician  and  st 
companion   of  William   Shakespear 
He  died  aflei  a  brief  illness  in  the  yL_.    _.   „_, 
Lord  1618,  *t.  76." 

Mr.  Moncure  U.  Conway  has  an  article  on  the 

lax  in  Harpet'i  Magamine  for  Janiutry.  It  is 
interesting,  but  adds  comparatively  little  of  real 
importance  10  what  we  had  given. 

Mrs.  C.  H.  Dril's  "  What  We  Reallj  Know 

About   Shakespeare."    We  mnu  frankly  say 
that  we   are    disappointed   in    tliii  well-meant 


30 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Jan.  aj. 


endeavor  to  give  the  "hard  facta  "  in  the  life  of 
ShiWeapesre.  Mrs.  Dall  does  not  appear  to 
hive  a  thorough  graap  of  these  facts,  and  ahe 
gives  us  too  roan)'  fanciea  of  her  own.  She  com- 
fdains  that  the  Outlinii  of  the  Lift  of  Skakitpiari 
by  Mr.  Halliwett-Phillipps  (whose  name  she 
persistently  Dtitspells)  is  "clumail;  made  tip(" 
bat  that  description  might  be  better  applied  to 
her  own  book.  Some  important  "tacts"  are 
not  given  at  all,  or  are  merely  hinted  at,  while 
others  not  worth  mentioning  in  a  brief  biography 
like  this  are  stated  with  tedions  minnteness. 
For  example,  on  p.  31  we  have  the  marriage 
of  Shakespeare  mentioned,  and  the  baptism  oE 
his  first  child  Saiannafa,  Hay  36,  15S3;  but  the 
birth  of  the  twins,  Hamnct  and  Judith,  is  given 
only  by  implication  in  the  statement  on  p.  33 
that "  before  he  was  twenty-one  he  was  the  father 
of  three  children."  That  (wo  of  these  children 
were  twins,  and  what  weie  their  names,  we  find 
out  only  from  a  list  of  "  The  Family  of  William 
Shakespeare  "  on  p.  93  ;  and  there  we  learn  only 
that  they  were  "born  1585,"  not  ihe  eiacl  date 
of  birth  or  baptiam,  as  in  the  case  of  Susannah. 
This  sort  of  carelessness  is  noticeable  through- 
out the  book. 

Well-known  "facts"  are  in  some  instances 
strangely  confused.  On  p.  50,  for  instance,  the 
publication  of  the  first  edition  of  The  FasthHalt 
Pilgrim  by  Jaggard  (whose  name  is  misprinted 
"Taf^ard"),  in  IJ99,  is  mentioned.  Of  the  twenty 
poems  in  it  Mr^  Dall  says  that  "two  were  Hey- 
wood's,  who  complained  bitterly  of  the  abuse." 
But  these  poems  of  Heywood's  first  appeared 
in  the  third  edition  of  the  book,  published  in 
1611.  Mrs.  Dalt  refers  to  this  in  her  loose  way 
as  follows  (p.  61)  : 

"It  was  now  fin  1613]  that  some  of  Heywood's 
verses  were  publiahed  with  Shakeipeares  name 
attached  to  them,  by  a  printer  named  Jaggard." 

The  title  of  the  book  is  not  given,  and  the 
guileless  reader  who  is  unfamiliar  with  the 
actual  "facta,"  will  naturally  assume  that  Jag- 
gard, like  "Taggatd"  thirteen  years  earlier, 
printed  certain  of  Heywood's  poems  as  Shake- 
Conjectures  or  probabilities  ai 
pveo  without  qualification  as  "facts."  Shake- 
apeare  probably  went  to  London  at  some  time 
between  1585  and  15S7,  but  Mrs.  Dall  (p.  34) 
says  it  was  in  1585.  On  p.  120,  it  is  said  to  have 
been  in  1582,  but  that  is  clearly  one  of  Ihe  mis- 
prints with  which  the  book  is  spotted. 
On  p.  44  the  hall  of  Gray's  Inn  is  called  "  the 
,■  only  existing  structure  whose  'timbered  roofc~ 
we  know  to  have  echoed  to  Shakespeare's  voice.' 
The  Comtdy  af  Errors  was  played  there  in  1 594, 
and  Shakespeare  may  have  been  one  oE  the 
actors  ;  as  he  may  have  been  when  Taiilftk  mght 
was  played  in  the  Middle  Temple  Hall  in  160: 
These  two  buildings  are  "the  only  existing 
structures  "  in  which  we  "  know  "  that  any  of  the 
plays  were  performed  during  the  life  of  their 
author ;  but  we  do  not  "  know  "  that  he  had  any- 
thing personally  to  do  with  Ihe  perfortuance 
either  case. 

Some  of  Mrs.  Dall's  conjectures  are  as  wild 
as  any  that  she  criticises  in  former  biographers. 
For  example,  she  is  convinced  that  Sliakespeare 
spent  the  five  years  from' 1587  to  r  592  "chiefiy 
OD  the  Continent."  "  This  conviction  is  founded 
on  the  Internal  evidence  of  the  Flays ; "  but  we 
must  leave  the  reader  to  took  it  up  for  himself  — 
and  laugh  at  it,  as  he  atiutedly  wiU. 


On  one  at  least  of  the  four  new  "  points  "  that 
Mrs.  Dalt  claims  to  have  made,  we  believe  she  is 
right;  namely,  that  Anne  Hathaway  was  prob- 
ably hW  the  daughter  of  Richard  Hathaway  of 
Shottery.  To  this  conclusion  we  ourself  came 
some  months  ago  ;  and  in  a  parlor  lecture  on 
"Shakespeare  as  a  Man,"  which  was  read  in 
Hartford,  Nov.  iSth,  1885,  we  said  : 

It  is  generally  agreed  that  Anne  was  the 
daughter  of  Richard  Hathaway,  whose  will, 
dated  in  iqSi,  makes  specific  bequests  to  seven 
children,  Bartholomew,  Thomas,  John,  William, 
Agnes,  Catherine,  and  Margaret,  but  contains 
no  reference  whatever  to  Anne.  As  this  was  a 
full  ^ar  before  her  marriaKC  to  William,  her 
relations  to  him  cannot  have  had  anything  to  do 
with  this  omission.  For  myself,  I  find  it  difficult 
to  get  rid  of  a  lurking  suspicion  that  this  Rich- 
ard Hathaway  was  not  Anne's  father,  but  some 
other  Hathaway  of  Shottery.  It  is  curious,  how- 
ever (though  no  one  has  noted  it  before,  so  far 
BE  I  am  aware),  that  Futke  Sandells,  one  of  the 
■igners  of  Anne's  marriage-bond  a  year  later, 
was  one  of  the  "supervisors  "  of  this  will ;  white 
the  other  bondsman,  John  Richardson,  was  a 
witness  to  the  will.  But  if  these  persons  were 
intimate  friends  of  one  branch  of  the  Hathaway 
family,  they  may  naturally  enough  have  been  on 
equally  dose  terms  with  another  branch. 

We  have  referred  this  question  to  Mr.  Halli- 
well-Phillipps,  who  considers  it  worthy  of  inves- 
tigation, though  he  may  not  be  able  to  eiamine 
the  mass  of  documents  bearing  upon  it  in  season 
to  give  the  results  in  the  flext  (6th)  edition  of 
his  Outlines  now  preparing  for  the  press- 
Two  Hore  "  Alleged"  Shkkespeare  Anto- 
graphs.  We  leam  from  the  London  Academy 
that  two  fresh  autographs,  so-called,  of  Shak- 
speare  have  jast  turned  up  In  a  copy  of  the 
Prayer  Book  of  Edward  VI.,  printed  by  Edward 
Whitchurch  in  June,  1549.  "This  book  was 
sold,  with  some  other  old  volumes  of  theology,  to 
a  country  doctor  in  1S7S  by  Ihe  truttees  of  a 
grammar  school  who  wished  to  buy  some  newer 
works  for  their  boys.  All  the  volumes  bad  been 
on  the  school  shelves  for  a  time  beyond  the 
memory  of  any  inhabitant.  The  Prayer  Book 
was  shown  to  Mr.  Toon,  the  widely- travelled 
second-hand  bookseller  of  38  Leicester  Square; 
and  he,  seeing  one  signature  of  '  Shakspeare '  in 
the  inner  margin  of  the  title,  tempted  his  custo- 
mer to  exchange  it  for  some  beautiful  old  Salis- 
bury books,  etc.  Mr.  Toon  then  found  a  second 
signature  '  W.  Shakspeare  '  at  the  foot  of  one  of 
the  leaves  in  the  inside  of  the  book,  and  several 
'SS'  on  another  margin.  Dr.  Fumivall  was 
asked  to  inspect  the  book,  and  at  once  gave  his 
opinion  that  the  signatures,  though  old,  of  the 
seventeenth  century  —  not  by  Collier  or  Ireland 
—  were  not  Shalispcarc's.  Still,  they  are  inter- 
esting, as  vn'tnessing  to  the  popularity  erf  Shak- 
speare's  name  in  his  death-cenlury.  The  British 
Museum  opinion  is  said  to  be  divided  on  the 
point,  some  of  the  experts  being  more  or  less 
pronouncedly  in  favor  of  the  genuineness  of  the 
signatures,  while  the  head  of  the  MS.  depart- 
As  to  the  Gunther  autograph,  the  authenticity 
of  which  is  now  being  investigated  by  the  New 
York  Shakespeare  Society,  we  made  up  our  own 
mind  fully  and  finally  some  weeks  ago;  but  we 
will  not  say  anything  further  about  it  until  Ihe 
report  of  the  New  York  people  is  published. 

—  Lieal.  A.  W.  Greely  has  been  spendiitg  a 
few  days  in  New  York  lately,  potting  the  finish- 


ing  touches  to  his  l>ook,  TAree  Years  of  Arctic 
Service.  The  second  volume  is  now  on  the  press, 
■nd  the  complete  work  will  be  ready  about  the 
first  of  February. 


VOTES  AND  QUEBIEB. 


[All  cumni' 


The  CallDwiii);  Nolea  lod  QueHc 
if  KTCial  irctlii,  lor  the  delay  d[  w 
D  ihoii  inlemldl.    It  hu  been  ii 


74O.  The  Body  of  this  Death.  In  Car- 
lyle's  yetuilitm  I  find  an  allusion  that  recalls 
Paul's  words  in  his  Epistle  to  the  Romans:  "O 
wretched  man  that  I  am  1  who  shall  deliver  me 
from  the  body  of  this  death  ? "    It  reads  as  fol- 

The  human  species,  as  it  were,  unconsciously 
or  consciously  gone  all  to  one  sodality  of  Jesuit- 
ism :  Who  will  deliver  oa  from  the  body  of  this 
death  I  It  i*  in  truth  like  death  in  life ;  a  living 
criminal  (as  in  the  old  Roman  days)  with  a  corpse 
lashed  fast  to  him. 

Can  you  direct   to  this  punishment  of  the  old 
Roman  days?  H.  c.  J. 

AramHiJi,  O. 

747.  Reading  for  a  Young  Qlrl.  Will  you 
kindly  give  me  a  list  of  twelve  or  fifteen  books 
suitable  for  a  girl  of  sixteen  years  ?  I  find  it 
hard  to  gel  those  that  are  neither  too  young  nor 
too  old.  I  should  like  the  list  to  include  three 
or  four  for  Sunday  reading,  as  she  is  not  allowed 
to  read  stories  on  that  day.  M.  i.  l. 

Westfitid,  Mass. 

V/^Ht't  tftilwr  Trmt,.    WUltiker.    »..ij. 

Coott't  »fy  Ladf  Ptkalieott.    Hoi^tan.    fr.ij. 

Bvr'l  y*m  rfdUtr'l  Wife.     Dadd.     fl.is. 

Sotltrni'tTHrtKriaVefJii'iS^t.    Dodd.    fi.oo. 

Anr  of  Iha  Pvxy  Booki. 

Any  dI  Mn.  A.  D.  T.  Whitner'*. 

Any  of  Ihe  SdiOnbeig  Coiu  Sena. 


Tots.     Harpn. 


Abbon'l  Kwv  CtriiliMM  Sn-H$. 
E.el.»..7i. 

bUtfxVi  Sirm*ni  tmt  ^  CJhmt.    Huptr.    (i.sol 

VoDce'i  WtmtnJilnd.    HunulUn.    fi.jo. 

Rm'^  Mtm«^a:s  ^  M  QmU  Life,  i  voL  «d.  RmI- 
tedie.     »l.o«. 

Kfic'tlnliistrmmt.    Raberti.    li.Ds. 

748.    Schiller'a  Inaugural  Address  of  17B9. 

Has  Schiller's  inaugural  address  of  17S9,  "  What 
is,  and  why  do  we  study,  universal  histoiyf" 
beeu  translated  into  English?  c.  w.  c 

BBSt-»l. 

740.  The  Best  Cook-Book.  Wilt  you 
kindly  give  us  the  name  and  address  of  the 
publisher  oF  Ihe  6est  cook-book  for  general  ase  in 
the  household  t  Mrs.  w.  c.  h. 

Seattle,  W.  T. 
To  decide  between  the  ednk-bociki  ii  )ike  dedding  be- 

One  of  the  twit  cook-booki  ii  Mlii  Psrloi'i  Nrm  Ctok- 
Btek.    EMci,    fi.so.    Othonan; 

Mn.  Coni<li<u'B{Tfaoinp»>a.    li.;;)- 
Mirion  Harlud'i  (?«•■»■  .Tnur  «■  tkt  Htimluld 
(Seribner.    (1.7s). 
Tlie  PrwOfttritm  Ctok-Botk  (Thomu.    (1.71). 


l886.] 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


translatioiu  of  any  of  the  lociiliat  writings  of 
Carl  Marc,  S(.  Simon,  Proudhon,  Fourier,  or 
other  conlhental  social  reforraers.  Alio  ii  there 
any  work  in  English  wheTcin  their  chief  aigo- 
menta  and  doctrines  are  act  forth  with  ample 
quolationi  from  their  writings  f 

II.  Give  name  and  publisher  of  the  volume 
in  English  conlatnii^  the  contributions  of  Joseph 
MuzinI  to  literary  critdsm.  1  have  his  volume 
cont;^ning  revolutionary  articles. 

III.  Kindly  inform  me  in  what  one  or  tvo 
volume!  in  translation  I  can  find  the  best  of  the 
literary  criticisms  of  Sainte-Beuve.       c.  e.  u. 

Plaitniilli,  Cat. 


by  B.  R. 
Tr.  by 


I.  Froudhoa'i  WJuU  ia   Prtftrlyt     Tr 

Tndiir.     Pubtiihed  by  mnililar.    fj.ju. 

Fourrier'i     Tkrtrj  r/  Steial    OrfluisWu 
BjiibHoe.     Soaieibjr.    fi.jo. 

Do.'l     AmtroB    CrrfaralulK.      Tr,     by 

II.  KiiMTitt Lift,  Urrilmtt,Bitil FtHtiflFriiaitUi. 

HoDEblOD.     ll.Ji. 

III.  MimdayChU,.    It.lntaXtCmmriadKLm^, 
wilhintnduclIoD,  by  W.  Matbeva.    Grigfi-    (>•'». 

EmrliikPfrlr»fU'  StkcUd  nd  tr.  bom  do.  Holt.  fi.n. 
Cattraiat/OuPa^aiid  Pratni.    Tr.  br  Miecuen. 


751.  Marine  AIe«.  Will  you  inform  me 
through  the  columns  of  your  journal  the  best 
work  or  works  on  Marint  Alga  ?        w.  B.  W. 

Breetlyn. 

ln\a'm'%  Marint  A^u^ Nfoi  Et^aiid.    Bjuci.  »i.sa. 


75a.  Atlases.  Would  yuu  be  kind  enough 
to  tell  me  what  atlas  you  coosider  the  best.  Thi 
most  complete  and  recent  in  both  foreign  ant 
American  geographical  matters;  with  prices,  if 
you  have  them  at  your  command.  Also  the  bes 
atlas  of  a  moderate  price,  say  f  10.00. 

AihlanJ,  Ptnn.  s.  m.  r. 

TheAiiuquutioniihud  WUfwcr,  The  moi  ampl 
ud  complM*  partup*  i>  RiBd,  UcNiUffi  Co.'n  but  ii 
nipa  IK  Bol  «iipmi)r,  and  iu  ccot  i*  bif;li,  %i%  or  fjt 
PutDUD'a  Lihrary  Atlat  (Iro)  ii  superior  frpoGr^hicaU] 
but  ibe  map*  are  uiiiUer,  We  sh  ilua  irock  with  aaliilac- 
lion.     l-ntoo'tBtwDtin-iftivAllMi^at  U.  S.,  lor 


llialhaRhingl  mgrowD 

I  tea  iu  hcigbl  wavu  i 

We  leli  ibr  ahonu  10  die 


todelJTC 


Somewhere  I  have  read  an  account  of  the  return 
home  of  a  German  army,  and  of  their  singing 
this  song  as  they  crossed  the  Rhine. 
HouitBH,  Texat, 
{*)  Of  a  poem  of  ti  stanzas  quoted  on  p.  74 
of  Rev.  A.  W.  Momerie's  Agiieitkitm,  and  Other 
Sirmoiis  (London,  1H84),  beginning: 

The  mnka  ol  Uod  are  bur  lor  nought 
le  Ihombl 


and  ending: 


labeTns, 

I  il  dululb^cn^'!' 
oi  nuere,  loul  el  pui., 
ul  of  Cod,  are  bleoded. 


]d  of  Iha  Gnnita  and  Ibe  Roae  1 

Saul  oF  the  Sparrow  aut  Iba  Bee  I 

ie  niahljr  tide  ol  Beini  flmn 

Thnjugb  cosntleaa  cbanseli.  Lord,  Irom 


™ttd  mU 
tint*a,imi 


754-  J'  O'  Baldwin.  What  are  the  dales  of 
birth  and  death,  if  not  living,  and.  If  living,  what 
is  the  address,  of  Joseph  G.  Baldwin,  who,  in 
1853,  published  a  volume  of  humorous  sketches, 
Fluih  Timet  in  Alabamaf  Indkx. 

Pousl-tiifsie,  N.  Y. 

755.  George  T.  Lanigan.  Address  wanted 
of  George   T.  Lanigan,   author  o£    Out  of  fht 

World  Fables.  Index. 

Ptmghkeepiie,  N.  Y. 

75Q.  Christen.  What  is  the  history  of  this 
word,  used  in  (he  sense  of  to  baptize  ? 

Deiiham,  Mail.  j.  j.  j. 

Vary  aimple  and  obTWU.  To  baptlie  ii  to  make  a 
Cbriuiao  el;  10  taake  a  Chriuiin  of  !•  to  Chiideni  the 

jrd  baa  long  been  id  uae,  and  wae  origiually  ipelled  with. 

t  the  b,  cri^m. 

757.    Browning's  Lost  Leader.     (No.  727). 

A  note  in  Notes  and  Queries  (slh  series,  vol.  i, 
p.  213,  March  14,  1874}  Beems  to  settle  definitely 
eant  by  the  "  Lost  Leader."  It  is  as 
follows : 

Two  years  ago  ^r,  Brinoiiing  himself,  in  reply 

>  a  correct  gnesa  of  mine,  told  me  (hal  Words- 
worth was  the  "  Lost  Leader." 

W.^LTKR  THORNBURV. 

To  this  Jonathan  Bouchier  adds : 

I  ought  to  have  stated  thai  Mr.  Browning  told 
my  friend   that,   although  the  "  Lost  Leader " 

as  nodoubtedly  Wordsworth,  the  portrait  waf 

purposely  disguised  a  little,  used  in  short  as 
n  artist  nses  a  model,  retaining  certain  char- 
acteristic traits,  and  discarding  the  rest." 

The  previous  discussion  of  this  point  may  be 
en  in  Notts  and  Queries,  4lh  series,  vol.  11,  pp, 
473.  5'9;  S'h  «"«».  vol.  I,  pp.  71.  '38.  195.  If 
anything  more  were  needed  to  confirm  Mr. 
Thornbnry's  note,  il  may  be  found  in  the  Hand- 
book to  the  Works  of  Brmnniag,  by  Mrs.  Suther- 
land Orr,  who  certainly  ought  to  know,  when  she 
says,  on  page  184:  "It  refers  to  Wordsworth,  in 
his  abandonment  (with  Soalbey  and  others]  of 
the  libera!  cause."  L.  s. 

BtStOH. 

The  "Lost  Leader"  was  iitt  Wordsworth. 
He  was  no  one  individual.  He  was  the  Lost 
Leader  in  the  abstract ;  with  Wordsworth  as  (he 
most  prominent  among  the  concretes  going  to 
make  up  the  abstract  Idea.  Such  is  Browning's 
own  statement  of  the  case  in  the  following  letter. 
It  occurs  in  the  Preface  to  Grosart's  Prose  fVtrti 
of  William  Wordtaorth  —  three  volumes  too 
litde  known  and  read  —  with  this  remark  by  (he 

Many  have  been  the  speculations  and  surmises 
and  aiisettions  and  conLradictiona  as  to  who  the 
••  Ixis(  Leader  "  was.  The  verdict  of  one  of  the 
iinmorlals  on  his  fell  aw- im  mortal  concerns  us  all. 
Hence  it  is  with  nu  common  thankfulness  that 
the  editor  of  Wordsworth's  Prose  embraces  this 
opportunity  of  sedling  the  controversy  beyond 
appeal,  by  giving  a  letter  which  Mr.  Browning 
has  done  him  the  honor  lii  write  for  publication. 
It  is  as  follows: 


aiffut  "  Aamf/itta  of  lilvtr  ond 
hiU  tf  rOttn:'  Tluu  mvtr  iufhtntwd  ilu  chantt  •/ 
falitlis  m  lit  grtia  fetl ;  wfaoae  delectioQ.  navertbeleah 
acGompauied  aa  it  waa  br  a  regular  lace-aboul  of  hia  ipedal 
part^,  waa  lo  my  juvenile  apprehenaioo,  aod  even  malure 

tapenrv  on  my  wall  I  can  recoeniie  figurea  which  bare 


liea-^olau 


oriiiinal  d] 


aith  fully  yn 


I  have  italicized  the  middle  of  the  letter,  for 
there  is  [he  point  that  needs  (o  be  insisted  on,  in 
justice  to  both  these  great  poets.  e.  r,  s. 

(Tiy.iii^  Pulls,  O. 

738.      Bulwer  and    Thackeray.      Can   you 

commend  a  good  edition  each  of  the  noveli  irf 
Bulwer  and  Thackeray,  published  In  this  Country  i 
I  am  thinking  more  particularly  of  (he  illustra- 
those  in  Thackeray,  published 
by  Estes  St.  Lauriat,  seem  very  crude  and  com- 
monplace, and  (hose  in  Harper's  Bulwer  do  not 
strike  me  as  very  good.  h.  c  w. 

SuMBiit,  N.  J. 

There  it  a  good  ediiien  of  Bulwec  by  Worthington  in 
I]  vol!.,  (19.S0:  aGkibaed.by  Lippincotl,  i;  itAt.,%n; 
iiid  a  Lnirary  ed.  by  the  same  in  47  vole.,  »j8.so.  Of 
Thackeray  Lippincoii  publiihea  1  Keneington  ed.  in  ii 

la.  with  illuatratiani  al  (14:  a  Popular  lllna.  ed  in  14 

759.  Bolingbroke.  Please  refer  me  to  a 
good  essay  on  Bolingbroke,  and  to  the  best  biog- 
raphy of  him.     Which  is  the  best  history  of  his 

DeBiopolis,  Ala. 

Ad  edition  ol  Bollugbrolie'i  Warhi,  with  lilc  by  Cold- 
lith,  in  all  S  voli.,  appeared  in  1S09.  BotinKbrakeV  own 
Ua  rfa  FaSriM  King  ihould  be  re»d,  at  bring  probably 

of  ihe  author.  There  iia^i/r  of  B,  by  Micknigkli  there 
by  G.  W.  Cooke  (iSjs);  and  Mi  timee  may 
be  probubly  aludied  in  Brighl'a  SagfaA  Histary  or  in 
'   "     "        Peo.     See  alw"BaI. 


indlh 


"  Bol.  ■' 


ind 


7S0.  Les  MiierablsB.  Who  has  made  the 
best  translation  into  English  of  Hugo's  Les 
Miitrailes?  r,.  o.  V. 


yfii.  Living  within  your  Means.  Can  you 
:I1  me  where  I  can  find  a  book  (or  story  in  a 
olume  of  other  stories)  entitled  (in  three  pans), 
Living  within  your  Means,"  Living  up  to 
your  Means,"  "  Living  beyond  your  Means."  It 
was  a  simple  story  of  a  youtig  couple  who  went 
through  tlie  three  fortunes.  w.  t.  r. 

North  Haven,  Conn. 

jta.  Max  Nordau.  Can  yougive  me  abrief 
sketch  of  "Max  Nordau,"  author  of  Coiiven- 
lional  Lies  ef  our  Mederii  Civiliiaiion  and  Para- 
dox !  HIa  worlis  have  had  a  large  sale  in  the 
West,  but  I  have  failed  to  Sud  any  definite  infor- 
mation as  to  who  or  what  he  is,  »o  apply  to  the 
fuumain-head  of  literary  Information  in  America. 

Ckicaga,  V.  M.  c. 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Jan.  23, 


763.    A  Noble  Wife.    I«  there  a  book  oiled 

A  Nnhte  Wifi,  bjr  Ihe  aulhoi  of  "John  Inglesant  ? " 

Langham,J'tnn.  M.  1- 

W(  Ihink  not.  The  noreM  to  it  would  be  A  ttiUi  LSfi 
by  Ihe  ulher  o[  Jalui  HeJWu.  Ttiat  ii,  ihough,  ,1  A'iMr 
M'iA.by  J.  Siunden,  nslhor  o[  /fr«/  ^srf  and  ■  Dumbei 


744.     Statecraft,  U.S.  HiBlory,  etc. 

I.  If  there  be  auch,  please  refer  me  lo  an 
extended  lUt  of  works  containing  examples  of 
"Statecraft."  examples  wise,  "otherwise,"  un- 
fciupuloua,  politic,  impolitic,  etc.,  etc.  Also 
please  inform  me  where  I  can  procure  books, 
newspapers,  or  magazines  cunlaining  the  most 
vivid  and  authentic  accounts  of  mcmoiabic 
scer.es  in  U.  5.  History  — Debate  between  Web- 
ster and  Hayne,  Brooks's  assault  on  Sumner, 
Taney's  deci&ion  touching  the  Dred  Scoit  ques. 
tion,  etc. 

II.  Who  were  (he  most  veraatlle  and  enter- 
taining newspaper  correspondents  ever  located 
in  Washington  City,  and  where  can  their  writings 
be  procured  ? 

III.  Where,  and  at  what  price,  can  I  pro- 
cure a  biography  oF  American  newspaper  para- 
graphers,  written  by  H.  Clay  Lukeni',  para- 
grapbcr  of  Tki  New  York  Nnrn  ! 

IV.  Please  give  a  list  of  all  books  on  social, 
political,  and  miscellaneous  happeningsal  Wash- 
ington City,  by  whom   published,  and   at  what 


uo,  whMt  ktltn  »M«- 

cd  m  lb.  New  Vork  lnd.tl^nl. 

pon.    Ij.soliiB 

»  ootabl.  W«h. 

whcliupiibKibedM'ii 

iHftam  OuliiiU 

«rf/««KB«.l.. 

tiVl 

n\.    Cinnotuy. 

IV.     Some  well  works  are  Dihigren 

SliautU.  ,/ So. 

tmlI.ifi«W^iuAivt>H 

Lip^TICOtt.      IOC 

limTM\'tiftl»-f 

Moon'i  PitlmriifKi 

faMmtli".    R 

eid.     (j.«,. 

Gobrighi'.  K4c^ili^ 

Thrngtat  Wiuk- 

i^gH  a^i-t  Q^rltr 

«/a  C*«-rr 

Dailon.    f..7S. 

Martin'.  BikM  lA, 

r»«.  ...  tf^i 

«^«.    Tibbal.. 

765.  Uvedale's  tr.  of  ttie  "  Memoirs  de 
Comminea."  In  an  old  copy  of  Uvedale's 
translation  of  the  Mimoiret  dc  Philippt  di  Cam- 
mintt,  which  I  picked  up  last  year  in  Toronto,  I 
find  in  the  Preface  the  following  bibliographical 
notice  of  early  editions: 

There  have  been  several  copies  of  ihe  origi- 
nal j  the  first  was  printed  in  September,  1524, 
by  Anthony  Couteau;  Ihe  srcond  the  year  after; 
the  third,  at  Lyons,  1526,  the  fourth,  15191  the 
fifth  in  octavo  at  Paris,  1539.  in  an  old  Gothick 
character ;  besides  which  there  were  two  impres- 
sions in  octavo  at  Paris,  one  in  1546,  and  the 
other  in  15*9-  In  1559  there  was  another  at 
Lyons,  by  John  de  Tournes  ;  in  1551,  1561,  and 
1580  there  were  three  more  printed  in  folio  at 
Paris ;  and  besides  all  these,  there  are  several 
other  editions  in  our  age,  and  among  the  test  one 


In  another  part  of  the  same  Preface,  the  edi- 
tion of  Monsieur  Gedifroy  is  referred  to  as  the 
one  used  by  the  translator,  and  "esteemed  by 
all  learned  and  judicious  persons  to  be  the  best 
and  most  exact  that  was  ever  jet  published." 
He  also  dwells  on  the  beauty  of  the  typography 
and  "  the  indefatigable  care  and  pains  that  were 
taken  in  printing  "  it  at  the  Royal  Press  in  the 
Louvre,  and  collating  it  with  "two  Manuscripts 
that  he  had  by  him  that  were  written  about  the 
time  of  the  author."  Of  editions  in  English  he 
mentions  only  two,  "  both  of  Ihem  imperfect  and 
capable  of  great  improvements."  Of  these  one 
is  more  specially  referred  to  as  "  the  Old  Eng- 
lish translation,  printed  in  folio,  and  dedicated  to 
the  great  Lord  Treasurer  Burleigh,"  to  which  be 
sayb  was  added  a  Supplement,  which  is  reprinted. 
The  edition  before  me  is  Uvedale's  "Second 
Edition,"  and  was  published  in  London,  1713. 
It  is  in  two  imail  oelavo  volumes. 

Could  you  oblige  me  and  others  with  a  full 
bibliography  both  of  the  original  Mcmairis  and 
of  English  translations.  In  vol.  3  of  the  Cata- 
logue Taissnlt  o(  my  grandfather's  library,  there 
is  a  record  of  a  folio  edition  of  an  English  trans- 
lation bearing  the  date  of  1614.  which  was  in 
King  James's  reign,  and  long  after  the  death  of 
the  great  Lord  Burleigh,  ao  that  it  must  be  a 
subsequent  edition  to  the  English  (olio  referred 
to  in  Mr.  Uvedale's  Prefaet.  An  interesting 
notice  in  the  Calalegut  just  mentioned  says  that 
"  the  best  (edition)  is  reputed  to  be  that  of  the 
Abbi  Lenglet  du  Fresaoi,  in  1747." 

These  are  all  the  editions  that  I  know  any- 
thing about.  If  yon  or  any  of  your  correspond- 
ents can  give  further  information  on  the  subject, 
it  will  interest  me  very  much.  You  can  use  this 
letter  in  any  way  you  think  proper- 

GERVAS    HOI.IiIES. 

Csturg,  Canada. 

by  LcKlet  Dolra^ 


>y  ILond 


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NEWS  Airo  NOTES, 

—  Mr.  David  G.  Francis,  7  Astor  Place,  New 
York,  is  now  the  American  agent  for  73f  Ami. 
quary  and  Book  Leriy  two  English  monthlies 
of  special  value,  the  one  for  lovers  of  historical 
bric-a-brac,  the  other  lor  bibliophiles, 

—  D.  Loihrop  &  Co.'s  Pamy  magazine,  for 
younger  readers,  enters  the  new  year  with  bright 
promises  of  pictures,  poetry,  and  sturici  of  ex- 
cellent quality  and  attractive  aspect.     [(1.  a  year.] 

—  John  II.  Tomlinson,  Chicago,  publishes 
iVra.  Stariis  from  ,111  Old  Bool;  being  one  of 
Rev.  II.  L.  Hammond's  characteristic  books  of 
religious  teachings. 

—  W.  R.  Jenkins,  New  York,  has  issued 
a  dissertation  on  7'lit  Phitosaphy  of  Art  hi 
^w<-r/;.-d,  by  Cari  De  Muldor-    [ti.00.] 

—  Jansen,  McClurg  ft  Co.  will  publish  at 
once  an  edition  of  Mr.  Sainliibury's  Spru'meiis  0/ 
English  Prose  Style,  from  the  English  plates 
but  on  a  more  suitable  paper. 

—  The  volume  on  Alalia  is  out  iu  Mr.  If.  H. 
Bancrofi's  great  series.     The  publishers  say  that 

to  a  devoted  friend,  M.  Plnart,a  thorough  Russian 
scholar,  and  one  no  leas  enthusiastic  in  his  work 
tlian  liberal-minded  and  conscientiuus  as  a  roan, 


Ihe  author  is  indebted  for  much  of  his  material 
from  St.  Petersburg.  Three  several  times  Mr- 
Bancroft  sent  another  agent  to  Alaska  10  explore 
the  counliy  and  write  out  the  experiences  of 
men  living  there.  One  of  his  assistants,  with 
a  stenographer,  spent  over  two  years  going 
through  the  Alaska  archives  in  Washincton. 
And  at!  this  was  but  preliminary  work,  which, 
when  done,  only  placed  the  necessary  information 
in  the  hands  of  the  author,  thus  enabling  him  to 
begin  his  worlt.  The  volume  is  the  lirst  yet 
issued  in  this  Series  which  is  complete  in  itself, 
with  Preface  and  Index,  taking  up  events  from 
the  earliebl  records  and  bringing  them  down 
to  Che  present  day. 

—  A  Hillary  of  tie  ^Ik  Rigimcnt,  N.  Y.  Stait 

VolunUtrs  has  been  written  by  Rev.  Dt-  A.  J. 
Palmer,  formerly  a  Private  of  Company  D, 
and  published  by  Ihe  Veteran  Association  of 
the  Regiment.  It  is  illustrated,  and  C.  T.  Dil- 
lingham, 67S  Broadway,  New  York,  has  it  for 
sale.    Price  J2-00, 

—  Esies&  Lauriat  have  issued  a  secondedition 
of  Rebecca  Warren  Brown's  Great  Events  of  Ike 
World,  first  published  last  year. 

—  The  initial  volumes  in  Cassell's  new  Naiional 
Library  will  be  IVarren  Hastings,  by  Lord  Macau- 
lay,  Isaac  Walton's  Complete  Angler,  Byron's 
Childt  Jfarold,  the  autobiography  of  Benjamin 
Franklin,  Gilbert  White's  Naiurai  History  of 
Selborne.  Martin  Luther's  Table  Talk,  Sheridan's 
The  Schocdfgr  Seaitdal  and  ne  Rivals,  and  Hal- 
lam's  History  of  Europe  during  the  Middle  Ages. 

—  The  most  itt-natured,  unreasonable,  and 
unjust  newspaper  article  which  we  have  seen 
for  many  a  day  appeared  in  that  usually  fair  and 
dignified  journat,  the  New  York  Tribune,  in  its 
issue  for  January  3d.  The  article  was  a  tirade 
against  the  "  Annual  Review  of  the  World's 
Literature  for  1885,"  published  in  our  issue  for 
Dec.  j6,  and  ran  oS  into  an  attempt  at  bitter 
sarcasm  on  Boston's  "literary  prestige,"  the  con- 
nection of  which  with  Ihe  subject  under  criticism 
is  rather  vague.  The  animus  of  the  article  it  is 
hard  Co  account  for.  The  Tritaint  specifies 
"blunders"  in  the  characterization  or  classifica- 
tion of  15  out  uf  the  more  than  800  works  men- 
tioned in  the  Review,  and  falls  into  a  fury  of  ill- 
temper  over  thero,  which  is  almost  extravagant 
enough  to  be  ludicrous.  Most  of  the  "blun- 
ders" specified  grew  out  of  the  difficulty  of  assign- 
ing to  their  respective  nationalities  what  may  be 
called  international  books,  a  difficulty  which  will 
tie  readily  recognized  ;  while  one  or  two  "blun- 
ders" were  harmless  omissions,  and  one  was  a 
hasty  description  as  historical  fiction  of  a  work 
we  have  not  yet  reviewed,  which  is  more  strictly 
*pe:iking  the  romance  of  history. 

—  The  Boston  business  of  Lockwood,  Brooks 
ft  Co.  has  been  sold  lo  Cleaves,  Macdonald  ft 
Co.,  who  will  continue  it  at  45  Temple  Place, 

of  articles  on  "  American  Book-plates  "  for  The 
Book  Buyer,  the  first  of  which  will  appear  in  the 
February  numlicr.  It  is  a  subject  which,  singu- 
larly enough,  has  been  neglected  hitherto,  and 
Mr.  Hutton  has  the  advantage  of  exploring  an 
untirely  unoccupied  field.  Among  the  reproduc- 
tions uf  book-plates  owned  by  famous  men  will 
be  a  veiy  perfect  copy  of  George  Washington's 
plate,  taken  from  a  print  from  the  original  copper, 
which,   it  is  hardly  necessary  to  say,   are  ex- 

—  Messrs.  E.  P.  Dulton  ft  Co.  wilt  issue  eariy 
in  February,  Sertnons  ainl  Addresses  delivered  in 
America  by  Archdeacon  Farrar.  The  volume 
will  also  contain  the  lecture  on  Dante  and  "  Fare- 


1 886.] 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


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w«lt  Thought!  on  America."  Other  new  works 
from  this  house  are  to  be  Under  the  Mendips,  by 
Emini  Marshall;  Tht  Daisy  Seekers,  an  illus- 
trated poem  for  Easter,  by  W.  M.  L,  Jajr,  author 
olSkiteh;  and  Church  Echoes,  b;  Mrs.  Carey 
Brock. 

—  Man;  owners  of  sets  of  Harper's  Afagatine 
will  be  glad  to  know  that  the  new  "  Index,"  lo 
Inclode  the  last  Icn  volumes,  or  "  volume  i  to 
■JO,"  is  soon  to  be  published.  The  editor,  Mr. 
Chas.  A.  Durfee,  is  now  In  Wilmington,  Del., 
cataloguing  a  law  library  [or  the  "  New  York  In- 
formation Company,"  that  department  being  his 
especial  field,  and,  estimating  from  the  way  he 
receives  the  "Index"  proofs  and  the  probable 
time  requisite  for  presswork  and  binding,  no  day 
earlier  than  February  ist  can  be  named  for  the 
issue  of  the  new  volume.  (The  MS.  for  it  ex- 
lends  to  T,o8o  pp.)  There  are  several  new  feat- 
ures in  the  next  edition.  All  groups  of  classified 
subjects  appear  in  nonpareil  type.  Also  all  ar- 
ticles under  the  author's  name  ;  all  subordinate 
material  contrasting  with  the  current  alphabetical 
brevier.  The  obituary  notices  of  the  Historical 
Record  have  been  listed,  and  appear  in  six  non- 
pareil pages  under  ths  heading  of  "Obituary 
Notices,**  there  being  of  these  about  1,200.  Full- 
page  engravings  will  be  listed ;  there  will  be  aUo 
a  table  of  equivalents  for  volume  and  page  to 
menik  and  year,  e.  g..  Vol.  68,  p.  Soo  Kill  show 
April,  1884.  Those  who  have  loose  numbers  of 
Harper's  Monthly  lying  about  will  appreciate  the 
valne  fA  this  table. 

—  A  History  of  the  44th  Massachusetis  Kegi- 

ment  is  in  preparation,  which  Is  lo  be  divided 
into  fourteen  chapters,  each  written  by  a  mem- 
ber of  the  regiment.  It  will  be  profusely  illus- 
trated, somewhat  after  the  style  of  the  war 
papers  in  the  Century.  It  is  to  be  issued  by 
the  44th  Regiment  Association. 

~  Mr.  Charles  C.  Soule  will  shortly  publish 
American  Statute  Law,  a  legal  work  of  great 
value  and  importance,  compiled  by  Mr.  Frederick 
J.  Stimson  ("J.  S.  of  Dale"),  widclj  known  as 
the  author  of  Guerndale.  This  lx>ok,  to  quote 
the  sub-title  of  the  volume,  is'a  "Digest  of  the 
Private  Civil  Statute  Law  of  all  the  States  and 
Territories  of  the  United  States,  as  it  stood  Jan, 
I,  iSS&"  It  will  show  the  existing  law  on  a 
given  subject  in  any  or  all  of  the  States,  and 
each  statement  is  supported  by  references.  The 
taskof  compiling  the  volume  was  one  of  immense 
labor,  and  to  it  Mr.  Stimson  has  devoted  most  of 
his  time  for  the  past  five  years.  Mr.  Soule,  who 
also  announces  a  book  of  Farm  Lmi;  by  Henry 
Austin,  of  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  has  constantly 
on  hand  an  interesting  collection  of  rarities 
legal  bibliography,  comprising  superb  editio 
of  such  books  as  Bracton's  De  Legibus  (1569), 
Dugdale's  Origiius  ^hi/iVm/i'j  (16S0],  Stratham's 
Abridgment  —  the  eirlieit  known  printed  ixiok 
of  English  law,  published  at  Rouen,  about  1490 
— and  other  English  and  colonial  law-buuks, 
some  of  which  are  extended  with  portraits  and 
engravings, 

—  Houghton,  Miffiin  &  Co.  wilt  issue  imme- 
diately a  new  edition  oE  Macaulay's  Works  in 
sixteen  volumes,  and  a  cheap  edition  of  Mrs. 
Ole  Bull's  popular  memoir  of  her  husband; 
and  announce  as  in  preparation,  a  new  edition  of 
Taswell-Langmead's  English  Consistutionol  Hh 
lory  from  the  Teuleitic  Conquest  lo  the  Prestn 
Time. 

—  Mr.  Maturin  M.  Ballou  has  completed 


volume  of  qaotationa  from  writers  from 
the  time  of  Confucius  to  the  present  day.  The 
book  is  to  be  called  Edge-Tools  of  Speech,  and 
will  be  published  by  Ticknor  ft  Co.  The  same 
announce  a  novel  by  Isaac  Henderson, 
f  a  former  publisher  of  the  Evening  Pott, 
and  for  many  years  a  resident  of  Rome.  It  is 
be  called  The  Prelate.  Mr.  Howells's  Indian 
Summer,  which  has  been  running  as  a  serial  in 
Harper's  Monthly,  is  also  announced  for  early 
publication  by  this  house. 

A  little  volume  has  just  t>een  translated 
from  the  French  of  the  Abb^  Grou,  called  Self- 
Conitcration  ;  or,  the  Gift  of  One's  Self  to  Cod. 
It  is  prefaced  by  an  introduction  written  by  the 
Rev.  C.  C,  Grafton,  of  the  Church  of  the  Ad- 
it is  already  in  its  second  edition. 
A  new  book  by  the  Rev,  James  Freeman 
Clarke  is  soon  to  be  published  by  Ticknor  & 
It  is  called  Every  Day  Religion,  and  con- 
of  discourses  on  religion  in  the  affairs  of 
daily  life.  Mr.  Clarke's  Self-Culture  is  now  in 
levenlh  edition. 

Little,  Brown  &  Co.   announce  a  new  law 
book  by  Prof,  John  C,  Gray,  entitled   The  Rule 
Against  Perpetuities  ;  3\ao  the  thirteenth  edition 
Story's  Equity-Jurisprudence,  edited  by  Mel- 
leM.  Bigelow;  anda  third  edition  of  Angell 
the   Dm,   of  Hi;;hway,  edited   by   the    Hon. 
George  F.  Choate.   Among  their  interesting  Eng- 
lish importations  we  notice  a  large  paper  edition 
of  the  Badminton  Library,  a  new  series  of  Imoks 
iporting  subjects.     The  illustrations  for  this 
edition,   which   is  very  limited,  are  printed  on 
India  paper. 

Ginn  &  Co.  have  nearly  ready  an  inexpen- 
edition  of  Gny  Manncrittg  for  the  use  of 
school?.  It  is  to  be  followed  by  Jvanhoe.  They 
announce  Eysenbach's  German  Grammar, 
edited  by  Mr.  William  C.  Collar  of  the  Roxbury 
Latin  School. 

—  The  first  number  of  the  Citizen,  a  new 
monthly  periodical,  devoted  lo  the  interests  of 
good  citizenship  and  good  government,  is  jusi 
ready.  Among  the  names  of  contributors  ne 
see  those  of  Hubert  H.  Bancroft,  Rev,  E.  E. 
Hale,  Rev.  Lyman  Abbott,  Mr.  Edwin  D.  Mead, 
and  Dorman  B.  Eaton.  The  scope  of  the 
magazine  is  fully  shown  by  [he  titles  of  articles 
to  be  contributed,  which  include  papers  on 
Citizenship  and  Civil  Service,  Educational  Land 
Grants,  Government  in  Cities,  Capital  and 
Labor,  the  Decadence  of  Agriculture  in  New 
England,  the  Weight  of  Public  Debt,  and  similar 
subjects.  Messrs.  Heath  &  Co-  are  the  publish- 
ers of  the  magazine. 

—  Mr.  Howard  Seeley  has  completed  arrange- 
ments with  Messrs.  Dodd,  Mead  &  Co,  whereby 
they  will  publish  all  his  works  hereafter.  The 
author's  story,  A  Lone  Star  Bo-perp,  has  had  a 
great  success  according  to  common  report. 

—  Mr.  W.  A.  Croffut,  a  newspaper  correspoi.d- 
ent  who  turns  out  an  immense  deal  of  work,  good, 
bad,  and  indifferent,  is  at  work  upon  a  history 
of  the  Vanderbilt  family,  which  will  be  Illustraled 
and  published  in  May,  We  can  think  of  nothing 
which  would  offend  the  sons  of  the  late  Mr. 
Vanderbilt  more  than  a  t>ook  of  this  sort  if  the 
volume  itself  proves  lo  be  what  the  announcement 
leads  us  to  expect. 

—  A  Scholar's  Romaii.e  is  the  title  of  Mr, 
F.  Marion  Crawford's  new  novel,  and  it  will  be 
publislied  in  both  English  and  American  editions 
by  Messrs.  Macmillan  &  Co. 


—  A  phonographic  repott  of  Dr.  T.  DeWitt 

Talmage's  sermons  will  hereafter  be  issued 
weekly  by  Messrs.  Funk  &  Wagnalls. 

—  A  book  which  has  had  a  remarkable  success 
in  England,  but  which,  by  some  singular  chance, 
has  escaped  reprinting  in  this  country,  is  That 
Very  Man,  which  now  turns  out  to  be  written  by 
Miss  May  Kendall,  the  English  poetess, 

—  There  has  been  no  end  of  complaining  this 
year  among  the  publishers  and  ixioksellers  over 
the  bad  trade,  but  according  to  some  of  the  best 
authorities,  the  depression  felt  here  is  scarcely 
noticeable  compared  with  the  depression  in  Eng- 
land. For  the  past  year,  says  a  London  corre- 
spondent, the  cheap  movement  in  book-making 
has  extended  lo  the  higher  class  of  books,  so 
that  the  few  standard  copyrighted  works  which 
remained  to  the  publishers  have  gradually  been 
reduced  in  price  toalmost  nothing.  Meantime  the 
expenses  of  selling  the  volumes,  for  advertising 
and  trade  discounts,  have  increased  alarmingly. 
Not  only  do  the  makers  and  sellers  of  new  books 
suffer,  but  the  second-hand  bookseller  has  met 
mi^foitune  because  of  his  inability  to  supply  the 
books  for  which  there  is  a  special  demand. 
Though,  says  our  authority,  there  has  been  an 
enormous  quantity  of  high  class  literature  sold  in 
London,  it  has,  for   the  most  part,  been  bought 

trade,  while  the  lalter's  purchases  have  been 
made  at  such  figures  as  have  seriously  debarred 
them  from  remunerative  returns.  The  demand 
from  America,  says  the  same  writer,  has  fallen  off, 
he  estimates,  something  like  50  per  cent.  This 
figure  is  certainly  incorrect;  never  hare  so  many 
English  books  been  sold  in  America  as  at  the 

—  Mr.  Thomas  Bailey  Aldrich  has  been  much 
in  New  York  of  late.  He  is  constantly  coming 
across  newspaper  men  who  want  lo  interview  him 
particularly  upon  that  already  threadbare  sub- 
ject, the  literary  eminence  of  Boston,  but  he 
eludes  his  tormentors  with  great  skill  and  singu. 
lar  good  humor.  Mr.  Aldrich  is  looking  less  and 
less  like  the  pictures  of  him  which  are  being  so 
widely  circulated,  in  which  his  waxed  mustache 
and  neatly  brushed  hair  give  him  a  dandified 
look.  He  has  grown  fat  and  unfashionable  and 
fine  looking. 

—  Mr.  Swinburne's  work  on  Victor  Hugo  will 
be  published  by  the  Worlhinglon  Company  of 
New  York  before  the  close  of  the  present  month. 

—  The  Chicago  Inter  Ocean  has  a  curiously 
high  opinion  of  that  city  as  a  "  literary  center," 
"It  has,"  says  this  patriotic  sheet,  "two  book- 
stores which  are  among  the  best  in  Ihe  world. 
It  has  a  publishing  house  which  has  issued  dur- 
ing the  past  three  years  books  by  Ihe  million." 
The  city  we  leam  is  also  'full  of  literary  and 
scientific  clubs,  and  many  of  Ihe  papers  read 
before  these  august  bodies  have  lieen  puM'&htd 
in  the  East  in  leading  magazines  and  com- 
manded uncommon  attention."  Allogelher  Chi- 
cago according  to  the  liiler  Ocean  is  a  very 
remarkable  place. 

—  Messrs.  Frederick  Warnc  &  Co,  have  begun 
the  publication  of  The  Albi.-n  Pacts,  a  series  of 
standard  poetical  works  in  a  neat  cloth  book 
which  is  sold  at  retail  for  S1-50-  When  we  find 
the  complete  works  of  Shake^peate  in  the  series 
with  its  1,100  or  more  pages  we  are  convinced 
that  cheap  book  making  has  reached  its  hight. 
The  poems  of  Wordsworth  will  form  the  next 
volume  which  will  be  ready  in  a  few  days. 


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THE    LITERARY   WORLD. 


[Jan.  23, 


—  The  Grolier  Club  of  New  York  hu  issued 
a  TcpOTt  of  ilB  firal  year's  work  in  a  wcll-prjnttd 
pamphlet,  which  gives  an  a,ccount  of  the  popu- 
lar lectures  on  book-binding  and  book-printing 
which  have  made  the  meetings  of  the  dub  so 
aitiicllve  and  fruitful  of  to  much  practical 
beneGi. 

—  Heurs.  John  Wiley  St  Sun*  aie  preparing 
an  edition  of  the  smaH  books  which  are  not  in' 
eluded  among  the  author's  collected  works. 
These  volume*  are  bound  in  neat  clolh  fiiim, 
and  will  contain  among  other  esuiys  those  on 
TTtt  Art  of  England;  Arre^-t  of  Iht  Cknse ; 
Michatl  Angelt  and  Tintorel ;  The  rUmiires 
nf  England,  and  the  Fori  a.rvig,-r.i  Ltltrrs.  ij  to 
84,  besides  many  notes  on  catalogues,  etc.,  etc. 

—  Meuts.  Macmillan  &  Co.  will  Issue  a 
cheap  edition  of  Mr.  Frederic  Haiii»on's  Hltle 
volume  on  Tie  Choiee  of  Books.  Mr.  Harrison's 
cfHilroversy  with  Mr.  Spencer  has  rather  ab- 
sorbed his  reputation,  su  that  this  delightful 
little  essay  on  the  reading  of  books  has  been 
well-nigh  forgotten. 

—  Messrs.  Harper  &  Brothers  announce  a 
novel  by  Mrs.  J.  Gregory  Smith,  which  it  ap' 
pears  is  a  direct  outcume  of  Mr.  Donnelly's 
book  on  Atlantis.  It  is  entitled  Alia;  A  Sloiy  «/ 
the  Lost  Islands.  The  novel  ia  said  to  be  very 
clever  and  uncommonly  well  writlen. 

—  Mr.  Isaac  Henderson,  the  author  of  the 
novel  entitled  Thi  Prelali,  which  Messn.  Tick- 
nor  &  Co.,  are  about  to  publish,  is  a  son  of  the 
late  Isaac  Henderson,  who,  wilh  William  CuUen 
Bryant,  owned  the  New  York  Evening  Foil 
(or  so  many  years.  The  author  of  Tlie  PnhUe 
spends  moat  uf  his  time  in  Europe,  but  he  con- 
trives nevertheless  to  conduct  the  flourishing 
business  of  the  Post  Job  Printing  Establishment. 
This  is  his  first  essay  In  authorship, 

—  Tlie  Harpers  will  issue  at  once  in  their 
Franklin  Square  Library  Count  Leo  Tolstoi's 
novel.  War  and  Pemr.  It  is  also  published  by 
William  S.  Goltsberger. 

—  A  new  edition  of  Ella  M.  Baker's  Si/ldier 
and  Straant  has  just  been  issued  by  D.  Lothrop 
&Co. 

—  Whist-players  will  be  Interested  to  learn 
that  a  fifth  edition  of  "G.  W.  P.'s"  Amtrican 
Whist  is  published  in  revised  and  enlarged  form. 

—  Messrs.  D.  C.  Heath  &  Co.  have  in  prepara- 
tion, Antonio  Rosmini  Serbin'B  AMked in  Edu- 
.atien,  translated  into  English  by  Mrs.  William 
Grey,  who  is  well  known  as  a  leader  in  the  move- 
ment for  the  higher  education  of  women  in  Eng- 
land. It  wilt  be  of  interest  as  showing  the 
methods  of  presenting  knowledge  to  the  mind, 
in  accordance  with  the  laws  of  its  development. 
The  same  publishers  have  ready  a  new  book  by 
Prof.  A.  B.  Palmer  of  the  University  of  Michi- 
gan.called  The  Ttniperanie  Teachings  0/ Scimee, 
aiming  to  show  the  harnifulnesa  of  the  use  of 
spirits  from  a  scientific  standpoint.  Other  books 
of  importance  are,  Compayrrf's  llisloiy  of  Peda- 
gogy, translated  and  edited  by  Prof.  W.  II.  Payne 
of  Ann  Arbor;  Habit  and  Education,  Vin\t,\»ti. 
from  the  German  of  Radestock;  a  translation  of 
Kichter's  Levana  ;  or,  the  Dattrine  of  Eduealian  ; 
and  a  Manual  of  Zoology,  a  guide  to  the  dissec- 
tion of  the  lower  forms  of  animal  life,  by  II.  P. 
Co  I  ton. 

—  The  London  Academy,  speaking  of  Mii-s 
Hurfree's  last  novel.  The  Prophet  of  tht  Great 
Smoiy  Mountains,  says,  that  "  as  a  series  of  posi- 
Itively  lurid  sketches  of  scenery,  character,  and 


life,  all  harmonizing  with  each  other  —  for  it  can 
hardly  be  called  a  novel  —  it  surpasses  an>tliing 
of  the  kind  that  has  yet  come  from  America." 

—  A  new  edition  of  Fishing  with  the  Fly,  a 
compilation  of  papers  by  various  well-known 
anglers,  on  their  favorite  pursuit,  ia  announced 
by  Houghton,  Mifflin  ft  Co.  It  is  edited  by 
Charles  F.  Orvis  and  A.  Nelson  Cheney,  and  is 
especially  notable  for  its  excellent  colored  illus- 
trations of  stsndard  varieties  of  flies. 

—  The  volume  publiahed  ss  a  memorial  to 
George  Fuller,  the  painter,  is  soon  to  be  issued. 
It  will  contain  a  life  of  Mr.  Fuller,  written  by 
W.  D.  Howells,  an  estimate  of  his  genius  hj 
F.  D.  Millet,  a  sonnet  by  Whittier,  reminiscences 
by  Messrs-  W.  J.  Stillman,  Qnincy,  Ward,  Enne- 
king,  and  Closson,  and  a  list  of  Mr.  Fuller's 
pictures,  and  of  their  owners.  The  illustrations 
are  selected  from  Mr.  Fuller's  representative 
works  and  are  engraved  by  W.  B.  Closson.  and 
Mr.  T.  Cole,  and  there  are  also  eichings  of  his 
house  and  studio,  and  a  portrait  engraved  by 
Kruell.  The  pictures  are  accompanied,  in  most 
cases,  by  notes.  The  edition  is  limited  to  three 
hundred  copies,  and  is  sold  by  subscription  only. 
It  Is  published  by  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co. 

—  A  limited  edition  of  a  very  important  work 
on  Japanese  Art,  which  has  been  brought  out  in 
America  by  ^res*rs.  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  is 
now  ready.  The  Pictorial  Arts  of  Japan  is  its 
title,  and  it  is  written  by  William  Anderson,  late 
Medical  Ofhcer  at  the  English  I.egation  in  Japan, 
and  for  many  years  a  resident  of  that  country. 
Tlie  large  collection  of  Japanese  pictures  made 
by  Mr.  Anderson  has  recently  been  purchased 
by  the  Briiish  Museum,  and  forms  the  ba.<iis  of 
the  work,  which  ia  divided  into  four  sections, 
namely :  General  History  of  Pictorial  Art ;  Tech- 
nique of  Pictorial  Art;  Forms  and  Applications; 
Characteristics.  All  the  information  given  in 
the  volume  has  been  gathered  from  reliable 
native  sources.  The  illustrations  comprise  eighty 
plates,  and  neatly  one  hundred  and  fifty  ligures, 
printed  with  the  text,  executed  by  photogravure, 
chromo- lithography,  native  engravings  on  wood, 
copper,  and  by  other  processes,  and  reproducing 
pictures  by  artists  from  the  seventh  century  to 
the  present  time.  It  will  be  one  of  the  most 
important  aids  to  the  study  of  Japanese  art  yet 
published, 

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WAR  AND  PEACE. 

tiortul  Kovnl.     By  Cocirt  LBOi  Totaroi.     Tnuw. 
A  Inlo  Prencb  by  a  Huaalan  lady.  iuhI  fmn  tb*  Fnncli 


Seat  t|r  mall  an  rteeift  of  pfict. 

WILUAH  8.  eOTTSBEBGEB,  PBbllBher, 


G.  P.  PUTNAM'S  SONS, 

tl  aal  M  Wcat  tU  Sirwt,  K«i>  Tark, 

UADT  Tan  TEEi: 

I.  TBE    HISTOKY    or   TME   KKMAUm 
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<dutt  and  book  revlBwa.  Sample  copj  W  «nlt.  TCSt 
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HleeotfAN.    (XaaveiL: 

3o.  In  Ukia  olnb  of  art  JoamalFHibaerlberE  get,  by^actnal 
oonnt,  OTBT  lfS9#  drnwlngi,  working  pattema,  deauna  for 
palntuig.  embnklerT,  etc.  art  DiotiTca,  oolored  atndM,  and 
faHet  pbolonKVuni;  orer  !,«••  reading  oolnmna,  ao- 
awen  toOMMtu,  pnctisnl  >agEeallana,oriardini,  Ucholoa 

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wcTOH  vr„  XKvr  ia« 


r.,  ofllee  or  the  lAttrarv 


THE  POET  AS  A  CRAFTSMAN. 


tmiH-geod  VfTM.  IB  longer  Worti  eiptciallv.b<U  (*J 
tialtonaf  a  barlmroiu  Aft  Is  jil  affmnltlitd  nailer  mit 
'EMttl™™'Ju»!jip««»™E.pnooM™it..  By  mall, 
pcAtpald,  on  reeeipt  of  ^toa. 

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Deatb.  »o  lluiiiiAL  EZAHnATiov  lUatiUEn.  PanalM 
lor  ForMni  n»M  and  BeMdeooe  Fbbb  10  holdHE  «f  r  mdr 

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tall  occnpaOmi  M  oa*  «onf«MtdlT  mora  haaaidinii,  liA 
will  iMMTt  M  th»  iiuiiraiK<  or  bidniBltr  Ow  vraBdm 
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[Jan.  33,  1886.] 


ROBERTS    BROTHERS' 

HXW   BOOKS. 


Br  TBB  AUTSOK  OF  "  XAMOHA." 

ZEFH. 

A  Poflthnmons  Story.  By  Hblbm  Jacksoh 
(H.  H.),  ftntbor  ot  "  Bunona,"  "  The  Centnt? 
of  Diibonot,"  "  Teraaa,"  "  Bits  of  Trayol," 
Mo.    16mo,  clotb,  pries  S1.20. 

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pDbUUicr. 

KAOAME  MOUL: 

Har  Sklon  and  hei  Friends.    A  Studj  of  Social 
Llts  In  Paris.    Br  Kathlebk  O'Mraju. 
Tol.,  oiami  8to,  gilt  top,  S2.60. 


A  SHORT  HISTORY  OF 
NAPOLEON  THE  FIRST. 

Bj  Prof.  J.  R.  Srblrv  of  the  Unlvenlty  ot 
Cambridge,  £iiKlaud,aitthorot"  EcoeUomo,' 
eta.  With  a  supeib  aieel  engraTed  portcait 
and  two  views  ot  tlieLead  ot  Napoleon,  from 
a  oBBt  taken  alter  death.    Ifimo,  clotb,  81.S0. 


ft  P.  PUTNAM'S  SONS,  i    Bef 

27  and  2»  W«8t  2«d  St.,  Hew  York. 

Ha VI  RECaHTLX  PoSblSHBD  IN 

THE  STOEY  OP  THE  NATIONS. 

Vol.  III.— THE    8TORT    OF    THE 

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CONTENTS. 

FisKiOHTHi  Idia  OP  God 39 

Th>  Stobt  ofMabqaut  KiHT      .        .       ■       ■  )g 

HbhivGiivilu'iTwoNotiu      ....  to 

THii'p^JiMorUTiimiiT   .'       .'       .'       .'       ^       !  41 

UiHonNoTicu: 

HitloTT  ol  tbfl  ATfumenu  for  the  £xuteii«  of  God  4a 

Ths  Induitrial  Silualioo  tnd  tha  Quemdon  of  Wiga  41 

Th<  Grut  PocU  u  Rc)«ioii«  Teichert  ...  41 

Min  Hmciml'i  Work! 4> 

LAiu;iii|;a  Lwodi  id  Arittuoetic     .       .        .        .  4J 

Hiniur^  (ha  BoUnT  of  Iba  RoEkjr  MoostliDI  13 

The  SloiT  of  k  Ruch 4) 

BOOKI  n»  TKI  YODKtl 4j 

Th»  Studv  o»  A  Pairr— LiKB  B»oinimo  44 

Ou(  Naw  Yoke  Lrrru.    Si^In     ....  4] 

Th.  Pmiodicau 47 

SHAiinriiiiiAHA.    EdiKdbrWm.  J.RoIfer 

Th>  ShalmpeuD  QitartD  Fwrinuln       ...  4; 

Mn.pall'iBook 4E 

TABiTTALi  '.'.'.'.'.  ^i 

FoiBIQH  NlWS  AHD  NoTU 49 


FISKE  ON  THE  IDEA  OP  GOD.' 

THIS  is  the  second  of  Mr.  Fislce's  lect- 
ures at  the  CoQCord  School  of  Philoso- 
phy, prefaced  with  thirty-two  p^es  of 
introductory  matter.  Totally  different  from 
Mr.  Abbot's  ScUntific  Theism  in  its  mode 
of  handling  the  subject,  its  conclusions  are, 
however,  strikingly  similar ;  and  the  similar- 
ity extends  even  to  the  forms  of  language 
in  which  some  of  the  conclusions  are  stated. 
The  leading  idea  in  Mr.  Fiske's  mode  of 
treatment  appears  to  be  that  the  increase  of 
modern  knowledge,  and  particularly  the  ex- 
tension of  the  ideas  of  evolution,  through 
Darwinism,  will  lead  men  more  and  more 
away  from  Augustiutan  views  of  the  Divine 
Being,  and  toward  those  of  Clement ;  the 
world  will  not  be  regarded  so  much  in  the 
light  of  a  machine  as  of  a  plant  or  flower. 
Herein  he  di£Eers,  io/o  caelo,  from  George 
Frederic  Wright ;  who  drew  out  in  the 
BiUiotheca  Sacra  a  parallel  between  Cal- 
vinism and  Darwinism  as  argument  for  the 
truth  of  both.  Mr.  Fiske's  little  volume,  fn 
his  direct  treatment  of  his  main  theme,  is 
generally  very  satisfactory;  but  he  does  in- 
justice to  many  of  the  Other  writers  to  whom 
he  alludes  ;  not  making  for  them  the  requi- 
site allowance  for  the  inadequacy  of  all 
language  to  express  our  highest  thoughts. 
He  laments  that  "Physicus"  and  Mr.  Pol- 
lock misunderstood  his  Cotmic  Thiism. 
Yet,  in  our  judgment,  he  just  as  thoroughly 
misunderstands  the  "linal  causes  "of  Faley's 
Nalurai  Theology  and  the  Bridgewater  Trea. 
tises.  He  attributes  to  Socrates  and  those 
who  have  followed  his  lead,  in  the  recogni- 


tion of  teleoli^c  ends,  limitations  of  thought 
which  in  many  cases  have  not  existed. 
Many  of  the  writers  who  have  delighted  in 
seeking  final  causes  (which  Bacon  calls  ves- 
tal virgins,  and  Huxley  with  yet  coarser 
taste,  hitaira)  have  had  precisely  the  same 
views  concerning  the  omnipresence  and 
present  creative  energy  of  God  aa  Mr. 
Ftske.  But,  precisely  in  the  same  way  in 
which  Frederic  Harrison  seizes  upon  Mr. 
Spencer's  word  Unknowable,  and  evolves 
from  it  a  series  of  grotesque  caricatures  of 
Mr.  Spencer's  thought,  Mr.  Fiske  and 
others  seize  upon  the  word  contrivance, 
and  draw  out  of  it  absurd  misrepresenta- 
tions of  the  thought  of  those  who  use  the 
teleological  argument 

We  will  not  attempt  to  follow  Mr.  Fiske 
throughout ;  let  us,  however,  look  at  a  single 
instance  of  what  we  conceive  his  injustice 
toward  other  writers.  He  speaks,  pp.  loo- 
103,  of  Agassii's  objection  to  Darwinism, 
and  of  hts  doctrine  of  special  creations,  in  a 
manner  which  would  lead  one  who  had  not 
for  himself  read  Agaaslz's  writings,  utterly 
to  misapprehend  the  views  of  that  great 
zofiloglsL  His  language  implies  that  Agas- 
siz's  main  objection  to  Darwinism  was  that 
it  is  atheistic.  But  the  truth  is  Ihat  Agassiz 
distinctly  conceded  Ihat  it  could  be  inter- 
preted theistically.  His  main  objections 
were  not  theological,  but  scientific ;  first, 
that  there  is  no  evidenccforit  — thatis,that 
the  facts  adduced  to  prove  it  are  not  natu- 
rally interpreted  in  that  way,  and  that  there 
are  facts  irreconcilable  with  it;  and  sec- 
ondly, that  it  denies  the  universality  of  law; 
.  it  exempts  the  organic  kingdoms  from  the 
control  of  that  symmetric  guidance  so  mani- 
fest in  each  individual  organism.  Again, 
Mr.  Fiske's  language  implies  that  Agassiz 
imagined  that  complex  and,  as  it  were,  adult 
animals  came  suddenly  into  being.  But  the 
fact  is  that  Agassiz  distinctly  states  the 
probability  that  all  animals  originated  in 
eggs.  What  he  meant  by  "special  crea- 
tions "  was,  that  the  species  were  not 
evolved  out  of  each  other  by  ordinary  gen- 
eration ;  but  that  if  the  first  wa  for  each 
species  found  their  nidus  in  a  preceding 
species,  then  the  evolution  was^^r  saltuut; 
and  beyond  the  reach  of  any  means  at  pres- 
ent Known  to  science.  This  view  contains 
no  necessary  Augustinian  theology ;  it  is  a 
question  of  scientific  evidence,  which,  how- 
ever, Mr.  Fiske  regards  as  already  decided. 
He  represents  Agassiz,  p.  121,  as  expressly 
urging  the  substitution  of  theologic  concep- 
tions for  physical  inquiries  ;  which  again  is 
not  just;  what  Agassiz  urges,  over  and  over 
again,  is  to  proceed  with  the  physical  in- 
quiry more  cautiously,  and  not  to  be  so  fond, 
in  Darwin's  own  phrase,  of  "  filling  the  gaps 
of  knowledge  with  loose  and  unfounded 
speculation." 

Agassiz  himself  pointed  out  that  there 
had  been  an  evolution,  which  he  believed, 
however,  to  be  historic,  and  not  genetia 


Darwinism  pushes  this  evolution  theisti- 
cally under  Erasmus,  agnoslically  under 
Charles,  to  the  point  of  making  all  organic 
beings  genetic  descendants  of  one  original 
germ.  Mr.  Fiske  pushes  it  still  further, 
id,  p.  132,  even  tells  us  that  the  "laws  of 
nature  have  been  evolved  through  the  self- 

!  process."  Agassiz  showed  that  while 
the  early  animal  forms  prophesied  man, 
there  is  no  prophecy  of  anything  beyond ; 
that  fs,  that  science  thus  puts  all  things 
under  man's  feet.    Mr,  Fiske  has  taken  the 

!  conclusion,  drawn  from  a  Darwinian 
standpoint,  and  developed  it  with  great 
power  and  beauty  in  previous  writings,  and 
stated  it  admirably  here,  pp.  i  jS-iti?.  Take 
from  this  little  volnme  the  unjust  tone 
toward  teleology  in  general,  and  Agassiz  is 
particular,  and  you  have  a  book  which  as> 
sumes  much  more  of  the  doctrines  of  Dar- 
winism than  we  think  there  is  warrant  for, 
but  which  draws  from  them  a  finer  religions 
doctrine  than  that  which  the  grandfather, 
Erasmus  Darwin,  announced,  or  that  which 
Charles  appeared  to  be  capable  of  grasinng ; 
judging  from  his  confession  to  Mr.  Fiske, 
quoted  in  the  advertisement  at  the  end  of 
this  volume. 


THE  STOUT  or  MABOAKET  KEHT." 
•T-HE  Story  of  Margaret  Kent  treads  with 

^  perfect  self  possession  and  propriety 
on  dangerous  ground.  It  is  the  story  of  an 
engaged  man  in  love  with  a  married  woman, 
Margaret  Kent  is  the  married  woman,  with 
a  husband  who  has  left  her,  perhaps  de- 
serted her,  and  has  done  nothing  for  her  in 
six  or  seven  years.  Beautiful  and  brilliant, 
poor  and  proud,  she  lives  with  her  fairy 
little  daughter  Gladys  in  an  apartment  full 
of  bric-a-brac  in  an  old-fashioned  house  fac- 
ing Gramercy  Park,  New  York.  Upstairs  is 
Miss  Longstaffe,  her  chum ;  prim,  sedate, 
and  a  monitress.  Miss  Longstatfe's  staff  is 
her  brush,  Margaret's  her  pen;  and  with 
these  helps  the  two  women  go  halting  along 
through  their  constrained  life,  keeping  up 
appearances  by  no  end  of  sacrifices,  burning 
the  candle  at  both  ends,  devoted  servants  of 
those  alluring  but  hard  mistresses,  the  arts, 
and  Margaret  furnishing  the  bright  center 
to  a  little  world  of  admiration  and  attention 
which  would  be  alive  with  danger  to  a 
less  womanly  woman. 

As  one  by  one  her  admirers  resolve  them- 
selves into  lovers,  and  love  bursts  into  con- 
fession, and  love  confessed  kindles  love 
responsive,  the  question  for  poor  Margaret 
is  what  shall  she  do?  Legally,  convention- 
ally, she  is  entitled  to  her  liberty,  and  a  swift 
and  decorous  divorce,  so  far  aa  any  divorce 
is  decorous,  might  set  her  free  to  marry 
again  a  man  whom  she  could  love  and  whom 
she  does  love,  and  who  of  her  love  is  worthy. 
Ethically,  spiritually,  she  feels  bound  to  the  /-> 
heartless,  shiftless,  worthless  scoundrel  who  ^ 


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[Feb.  6. 


is  her  husband  stilt,  and  who  any  momeDt, 
penitent  and  longing,  may  return  to  her; 
and  who  certAinlj',  if  any  husband  needs  his 
wife's  patience  and  long-sufierlng,  needs 
hers. 

The  struggle  between  these  two  conflict- 
ing passions — the  passion  of  desire  and 
the  passion  of  duty  —  the  passion  of  thirst 
and  the  passion  of  abstinence  —  the  passion 
of  self-indulgence  and  the  passion  of  self- 
renunciation —  <s  the  noble  theme  of  this 
fine  story,  and  nobly  and  finely  is  it  treated. 
The  two.voicesareeverin  her  ears.  Which 
shall  she  obey  ?  The  one  plausibly  argues, 
the  other  tenderly  pleads.  The  one  holds 
up  the  picture  of  love,  home,  happiness, 
comfort,  a  heart  satisfied ;  the  other  points 
to  the  dim,  lurking,  shuffling  figure  of  the 
outcast  and  the  wanderer.  And  when  the 
reprobate  husband  returns  and  fastens 
himself  leech-like  on  her  rich  nature  and 
warm  tropical  life,  the  surrender  with  which 
she  stoops  to  her  old  place  caps  the  climax 
of  her  devotion  to  the  ideal. 

Around  this  central  theme  is  thrown  a 
large  and  fine  variety  of  character  and  inci- 
dent, which  invests  the  story  with  unusual 
interest  from  the  outset,  and  strikes  contin- 
ually a  balance  in  favor  of  the  good,  the 
true,  and  the  beautiful.  The  novels  are  few 
in  our  day  in  which  refinement  of  inter- 
course, charm  of  conversation,  and  ease  of 
literary  manner  are  maintained  on  so  high  a 
moral  plane.  The  author  is  at  work  down 
on  the  level  of  actual  life,  but  with  aims  and 
impulses  that  are  lofty.  The  book  is  uplift- 
Gladys  may  not  be  a  very  natural  child, 
but  she  is  an  endearing  one.  All  women 
■night  not  do  as  Margaret  Kent  did ;  who  will 
say  that  she  did  not  well?  All  men  would 
not  have  been  Dr.  Walton,  but  he  had  his 
justification.  And  yet  the  story  is  natural. 
It  is  life-like.  It  is  vivid,  real,  and  to  be 
real  is  more  than  to  be  realistic.  It  is  ad- 
mirably written,  interesting,  strong,  impres- 
sive, helpful.  The  closing  chapters  are  pain- 
ful, but  the  very  end  is  a  flash  of  joy  to 
come.  We  shall  not  spoil  a  book  that 
deserves  and  will  have  wide  readiug  by 
entering  further  into  its  details;  but  we 
commend  it  heartily,  and  shall  expect  little 
that  is  better  in  all  the  year  to  come. 


HEKBT  QBEVILLE'8  TWO  HOTELS. 

HENRY  GREVILLE,  Madame Durand, 
from  having  been  a  name  has  become 
a  person ;  a  reputation  has  crystallized 
a  fact  She  has  crossed  the  seas.  We 
have  listened  to  her  this  winter  in  the  lect- 
ure rooms.  We  have  chatted  with  her  at 
the  receptions.  She  has  pleased  us  with 
the  simplicity  of  her  manners  and  charmed 
us  with  the  freshness  of  her  cauitrus.    And 


DOW  that  we  know  her,  we  understand,  we 
/«/,  her  books  better  than  ever. 

Nevertheless  Dosia's  Daughter^  first  of 
the  two  new  stories  she  has  left  behind  her 
while  she  has  gone  from  Boston  to  Phila- 
delphia, is  unimportant  and  not  particularly 
interesting.  It  is  a  pendant  to  Dosia.  which 
appeared  a  few  years  ago ;  one  of  the  sun- 
niest of  Madame  Durand's  stories.  Dosia 
is  now  married.  She  is  Madame  Sonrof 
and  a  mother.  Her  daughter  Agnes  is 
Dosia  over  again  in  some  ways;  spoiled, 
wayward,  and  unmanageable.  She  offends 
her  mother  and  her  mother  affronts  her. 
Then  she  must  run  away  and  secrete  her- 
self as  a  governess.  She  leaves  her  room 
at  the  country  seat  of  Sourova,  steals  out  of 
the  house,  crosses  the  river  in  the  old  ferry- 
boat, catches  the  passing  steamer  for  Nijni- 
Novgorod,  takes  the  train  for  Moscow  and 
again  for  St  Petersburg,  and  finds  a  situa- 
tion in  the  out-of-town  family  of  Madame 
Markof,  as  governess  of  the  ungovernable 
Seraphine.  From  this  asylum  she  presently 
runs  away  a  second  lime,  to  avoid  the  dis- 
agreeable attentions  of  Madame 's  half-witti  d 
son  Mittia.  In  this  second  flight  she  falls 
into  the  arms  of  her  previously  discarded 
lover,  Erroile,  who  conducts  her  home,  wit- 
nesses her  reconciliation  to  her  parents, 
renews  his  suit,  and  is  made  happy.  That 
is  all,  and  it  is  not  much,  but  the  most  is 
made  of  it  Artless  and  child-like  the  story 
is,  touching  on  no  forbidden  ground,  tossing 
with  no  stress  of  passion,  animated  with  the 
scenery  and  experience  of  Russian  domes- 
tic life ;  a  book  which  girls  might  read  and 
come  to  no  barm. 

Cleopatra*  is  a  far  larger,  stronger,  tn- 
tenser  work;  dramatic,  fiery,  absorbing; 
moving  with  deep  and  strenuous  currents; 
aptly  named ;  and  leaving  a  powerful  im- 
pression. Cleopatra  is  a  Russian  beauty, 
a  belle  of  St.  Petersburg,  imperial  and  im- 
perious, proud,  ambitious,  cold  as  an  iceberg 
until  the  supreme  passion  of  life  smites  her 
and  melts  her  into  her  true  being.  She  first 
Irauhiently  loves  the  Grand  Duke,  but  the 
Grand  Duke  does  not  love  her.  As  a 
refuge  from  her  momentary  disappointment 
she  marries  General  N^utof,  who  is  old 
enough  to  be  her  father,  but  who  adores 
her;  and  who  assures  her  that  when  hB  has 
gone  she  may  marry  again,  for  love,  and  be 
happy  with  the  fortune  he  will  leave  her. 
Alaal  the  love  is  bom  while  N^outof  is  still 
living.  Ulric  d'Alsen  meets  Cleopatra  in 
the  church  at  the  midnight  Easter  service ; 
their  eyes  meet ;  their  hearts  meet ;  their 
lives  meet;  and  henceforth  destiny  sup- 
plants duty.  Both  Ulnc  and  Cleopatra 
take  what  they  consider  an  honorable  view 
of  the  situation,  but  their  sense  of  honor 
is  of  the  sort  that  is  satisfied  with  Cleo- 
patra's asking  divorce  of  N^outof  that  she 
may  marry  Ulric. 


ri  GrfiiOe.  TicknotA  Co.  (r.»j. 


With  this  development  the  story  reaches 
its  final  passage.  Ulric  fiercely  demands 
this  act  of  Cleopatra  and  will  accept  nothing 
else.  Cleopatra  concedes  the  principle,  hut 
hesitates  to  take  the  step.  At  last  she 
breaks  the  fact  to  her  husband.  He  is  at 
firstfuTious,then  thoughtful,  finally  consents. 
He  awards  Cleopatra  her  liberty.  The 
Church,  sjwaking  by  the  Emperor,  reluct- 
antly sanctions  the  separation.  Cleopatra 
retires  to  a  convent  until  her  freedom  is 
secured.  Then  she  and  Ulric  are  wedded, 
and  start  for  Sweden.  But  only  start;  for 
on  the  very  evening  of  the  wedding  day.  in 
the  chateau  where  they  have  stopped  to  rest 
for  the  night,  in  a  saloon  perfumed  with 
flowers  which  Ntfoatof  has  sent  on  before, 
and  in  Ulrlc's  arms  as  he  Is  about  to  carry 
her  to  her  chamber,  Cleopatra  dies. 

It  is  a  brilliant,  pitiful  tale ;  tuned  to  the 
old  key-note  of  renunciation  ;  but  a  renun- 
ciation which  to  our  Western  ideas  of  mo- 
rality seems  unnatural  and  impious.  The 
Neva  is  here,  turbulent  with  the  rending 
ice  of  spring-lime;  the  Church,  gorgeous 
with  the  splendors  of  the  Easter  ritual ;  the 
grand  parade,  with  its  display  of  officers  in 
gay  uniforms ;  all  the  cold,  gray,  picturesque- 
ness  of  Russia.  The  book  is  one  of  the 
ntost  skillful  and  effective  which  the  author 
has  written,  but  it  Is  not  most  skillfully 
translated,  and  it  Is  carelessly  printed  in 
respect  of  punctuation. 


M", 


KB.  ST0K7S  FIAMMETTA.* 
R.  STORY'S  "Summer  Idyl,"  Fiam- 

mttta,  is  the  wonderful  and  rather 
hackneyed  story  of  a  youthful  artist  with  a 
pure  though  ardent  soul,  a  beautiful  and 
unlearned  peasant  girl,  a  picture  painted, 
temptation  resisted,  and  a  broken  heart.  It 
is  Gtttnn,  leaving  out  the  passion  and 
pathos,  the  vivid  feeling  and  stormy  land- 
scape which  made  the  charm  of  that  more 
striking  presentation  of  the  same  theme. 
Fiammetta  is  a  paler  Guenn,  Carlo  a  feebler 
though  more  humane  figure  than  his  brother 
artist,  the  landscape  lacks  the  wind  and  sun, 
the  charm  and  movement,  of  the  Breton 
romance.  There  is  considerable  beauty, 
however,  in  Mr.  Story's  Apennine  sketches, 
and  he  evidently  loves  his  theme ;  but  the 
pity  of  it  is  that  do  what  he  will,  his  char- 
acters, one  and  all,  talk  and  think  and  feel 
like  New  Engtanders,  and  look  at  life  and 
nature  through  New  England  spectacles. 
He  may  interlard  their  speech  with  as  many 
"  Dios  "  and  "  Poverinas  "  as  be  pleases, 
but  the  mold  of  their  thought  is  still  un- 
compromisingly Anglo-Saxon,  and  the  11  tie 
provincialisms  and  profanities  which  he 
puts  into  their  mouths  sit  as  oddly  upon 
them  as  if  they  were  called  Deacon  and 
Squire  instead  of  Babbo  and  Nonno.    For 


l886.] 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


example,  what  jrouug  Italian  would  feel  thus 
—  much  lesB  express  himself  thus : 


In 


oget  n 


1  by  the  free  >ii 
pouring  rain  ;  to  clamber  over  the  mountains ; 
to  hear  the  wild  torrents  da«h  from  theii  jcu/- 
i/<erj';  to  listen  to  the  bleat  of  sheep,  the  low  of 
cows,  the  ckttring  etarioH  ef  cecka  —  in  fact  to 
be  at  home  again.  Home  I  yes,  for  home  la 
always  where  we  grew  np  as  boys.  Here  I  am 
tick  at  heart,  sick  of  eternal  trouble  and  scandal, 
and  sick  of  jealoaiiea  that  gnaw  the  green  out 
of  life's  leaves.    I  need  a  new  bath  in  nalnrc. 

Compare  this  stilted  and  impossible  dis- 
course with  the  Ulk  of  Nino  in  Mr.  Craw- 
ford's Raman  Singer  —  Nino,  who  was  Ital- 
ian to  his  fioger  tips,  whom  no  process  of 
translatioD  could  ever  make  auythiog  less 
than  Italian,  and  mark  the  difference. 

As  a  minor  point  of  criticism  we  might 
protest  agalast  Mr.  Story's  occasional  em- 
ployment of  inordinately  long  paragraphs, 
like  that,  t.g^  whiSh  begins  on  page  27  and 
contains  three  hundred  and  thirty-lour  words, 
broken  by  no  atop  more  weighty  than  a 
seroi-coloD.  But  we  have  already  indicated 
what,  in  our  opinion,  is  the  main  fault  of 
Fiammetla,  and  it  is  a  fault  so  vital  that 
trivial  errors  of  style  when  compared  with 
it  sink  into  insignificance. 


BALZAO  DT  ENGLISH. 

MR.  S  ALTUS'S  excellent  sketch  of  Bal- 
zac and  his  works  (1884),  and  the  trans- 
lation of  Fir*  Goriet  (i88j),  the  latter  the  pio- 
neer in  Roberts  Brothers'  proposed  English 
reproduction  of  the  great  French  novelist, 
have  well  prepared  the  way  for  the  present 
two  volumes,  which  contain  between  them 
nine  short  stories,  some  of  them  incompara- 
ble in  their  way.  We  will  name  them  all :  In 
the  first  volume*  not  only  "  The  Duchessede 
Langeais,"  the  title  story,  but  "  An  Episode 
under  the  Terror,"  "  The  Illustrious  Gaudis- 
sart,"  "  A  Passion  in  the  Desert,"  and  "  The 
Hidden  Masterpiece;"  in  the  second  volume* 
"The  Red  Inn,"  "Madame  Firmiani," 
"The  Grande  Bretiche,"  and  "  Madame  de 
Beausriant"  The  third  volume  contains 
also  an  introduction  on  Balcac  by  Mr.  Saltus. 
Of  these  nine  stories  we  can  use  only  two 
for  our  present  purpose,  "  The  Duchesse  de 
Langeais"  and  "The  Grande  Bretfeche;" 
both  of  them  fair  examples  of  their  author's 

The  Duchesse  de  Langeais,  a  Parisian 
beauty  with  an  inconvenient  husband,  had 
many  lovers,  but  had  installed  General  Ar- 
mand  de  Montriveau  as  supreme  among 
them.  Alluring  bim  on  with  all  the  caprices 
of  a  coquette,  she  yet  fenced  herself  in  with 
the  professions  of  virtue;  and  the  utmost  of 
hii  arts,  his  entreaties,  his  importunities 
could  bring  him  only  about  so  near  to  her 
and  no  nearer.     But  the  careful  Duchesse 


I  Tba  DBCboH  di   Lait)[<!di,  sW.    Robert!    Brullwn 

1  AfUf-DiDDW  Stotiei  Inm  fialnc  done  inio  En|luh  b| 
Hjndui  Venltt.  Wuk  u  Inuodaaion  by  Edgir  Sillui 
Gniia  J.  Coombci.    \i.vi. 


played  with  her  victim  one  day  too  long ;  she 
carried  her  torture  one  degree  too  far. 
There  was  a  revulsion,  a  reaction ;  and  when 
in  turn  it  fell  to  her  to  beg,  his  heart  was 
steeled  against  her.  There  is  something 
icily  pitiless  in  the  ineirorable  aversion  with 
which  he  regards  her  when  once  her  heart- 
lessness  has  transformed  him  from  her  vic- 
tim into  her  master.  In  despair  over  an 
unhappy  misfit  of  Incidents,  she  flees 
from  him.  Her  flight  brings  him  to  his  old 
self,  and  he  pursues.  She  hides  herself. 
He  finds  her.  She  has  become  Sister  The- 
resa in  a  Carmelite  Convent  in  a  Spanish 
town  on  an  island  in  the  Mediterranean. 
Deceiving  the  old  Mother,  who  does  not 
understand  the  language  in  which  they  con- 
verse, he  gains  an  iuterview  with  her  at  the 
convent's  grated  door; 

"Anttnnettel  will  you  follow  me?"  .  •  ■  "I 
never  leave  you  [she  repliei].  ...  I  live  here  for 
you,  pale  and  faded  in  the  txMom  of  Gud."  .  .  . 
"  Plira«es  I  you  give  me  phrases  t  [lie  exclaims  ] 
But  if  I  will  to  have  you  pale  and  faded,  .  .  .  will 
you  forever  place  duties  before  my  love?"  .  .  . 
"Oh  my  briiiherl"  — .  .  .  "You  will  noi  leave 
this  tomb.  You  love  my  sou),  you  say  :  well  t 
vou  shall  destroy  it  forever  and  ever.  I  will  kill 
myself — "  "My  Mother  ["  cried  the  nun,  "I 
have  lied  to  you :  this  man  ii  my  lovrr."  The 
curlain  fell.  The  general  stunned,  heard  the 
doors  close  with  violence.  "  She  loves  me  still  1 " 
he  said,  comprehending  all  that  was  revealed  in 
(he  cry  of  the  nan.      "  I  will  find  means  to  carry 

The  baffled  lover  hastens  back  to  France, 
obtains  help,  returns,  scales  the  precipice 
on  the  ocean  side  of  the  convent,  obt 
access  to  the  building,  aud  advances  to  Sis- 
ter Theresa's  cell  to  find  that  all  that  is  left 
of  her  is  her  body,  lighted  by  two  wax  tapers, 
and  that  the  nuns  are  chanting  the  Office  of 
the  Dead  1 

Let  us  take  a  breath  before  we  go  on. 

"The  Grande  Bretiche"  is  an  even  more 
striking  example  of  Balzac's  power.  The 
room  in  the  old  chateau  called  by  that  name, 
occupied  by  Mme.  de  Merret,  has  a  little 
wardrobe  closet  built  into  the  wall.  Her  hus- 
band, coming  home  one  evening  earlier  than 
he  expected,  and  going  directly  to  his  wife's 
room,  thinlcs  he  hears  some  one  shut  the 
closet  door  as  he  goes  in.  "Madame,"  he 
says,  when  the  maid  has  retired,  looking 
his  wife  coldly  in  the  face, "  there  is  some  one 
in  that  clof  eL"  Returning  his  gaze  calmly, 
she  says  with  an  air  of  candor:  "  No,  there  is 
no  one."  He  makes  a  movement  to  open 
the  closet  door.  She  catches  his  hand,  and 
looking  sadly  at  him,  says  :  "  If  you  find  no 
one,  remember  that  all  will  be  at  an  end 
between  us."  He  hesitates.  Then  handing 
her  her  crucifix,  "Swear,"  he  says,  "that 
there  is  no  one  there."    She  kisses  it  and 

This  very  crucifix  has  a  history. 

M.  de  Merret  immediately  gives  orders  to 
a  mason  who  happens  to  be  at  band  to  wall 
up  the  closet  door,  and  waits  to  see  it  done. 
"A  thousand  francs  a  year,"  whispers 
Madame  to  her  maid,  "  If  you  manage  to  tell 
Gorenflot  to  leave  a  crevice  at  the  bottom." 


Twenty  days  he  stayed  in  his  wife's  room.  At 
first,  when  some  noiw  or  other  came  from  the 
watled  closet  and  his  wife  attempted  to  plead  for 
the  dying  stranger,  without  even  permitting  her 
lo  say  a  word,  he  would  answer,  "  You  iwore  on 
the  cross  that  there  was  no  one  there." 

This  is  Balsac. 


THE  PGAOE  OF  UTREOHT.* 

THE  historical  part  of  this  vrork  begins 
with  the  assumption  of  power,  A.D.  1661, 
bythe  French  king.  Louts  XIV,  who  night 
fairly  be  termed  the  chief  hero  of  the  story. 
The  author  then  skillfully  unfolds  the  tangled  * 
web  of  events  up  to  the  "War  of  the  Suc- 
cession ; "  noteworthy  among  which  we  may 
mention  the  war  of  1667  between  FraoM 
and  Spain;  the  peace  of  Aix-la-Chapelle ; 
war  between  England  and  Holland  and 
the  termination  thereof;  the  accession  of 
William  the  III  as  stadtholder,  and  later 
hia  succession  to  the  crown  of  England ; 
Louis's  relations  with  the  exiled  James  11; 
the  French  occupation  of  Strasburg,  the 
return  of  which  to  Germany  has  been  a 
notable  event  of  our  own  day.  After  meit- 
tion  of  alliances,  wars,  and  treaties  too  nu- 
merous for  repetition  here,  the  author  inter- 
poses in  his  narrative  a  very  comprehensive 
and  philosophical  review  of  religions  perse- 
cution from  the  earliest  known  periods  to 
ahfoutthecloseoftheXVIIthcentury.  Then, 
as  introductory  to  the  War  of  the  Sncces> 
sion,  an  account  is  given  of  the  laws  gov- 
erning the  Spanish  monarchy  and  of  the 
strangely  close  question  of  the  comparative 
strength  of  the  different  claims  about  to  be 
made  in  the  event  of  Charles  ll's  dying 
without  issue.  Few  things  being  more 
di£Ecultlo" carry  in  one's  head"  than  mat- 
ters  of  genealogy,  the  insertion  here  of 
tables  of  descent  would  have  so  materially 
uded  comprehension  of  tba  subject  that 
every  student  of  the  work  would  l>e  well 
repaid  for  constructing  such  on  blank  paper 
for  himself  and  placing  them  in  this  ch^ter. 
Long  accounts  follow  of  treaties  made  by 
jealous  and  contentious  nations  for  the 
partition  of  the  Spanish  empire,  even  during 
the  life  of  its  unhappy  king,  and  of  the 
intrigues  kept  up  with  the  hopie  of  gaining 
advantage  over  other  powers,  particularly  in 
the  matter  of  influencing  the  king  in  the 
making  of  a  will  favoring  one  or  another 
interest  And  in  turn  the  story  tells  us  of 
the  making  of  Charles's  will  in  favor  of  the 
electoral  prince  of  Bavaria,  one  of  the  claim- 
ant ;  of  the  mysterious  death  of  that  prince ; 
of  the  accession  of  the  Bourbon  claimant, 
as  Philip  the  V,  grandson  of  the  ambitions 
Louis  XIV  of  France,  and  the  events  fol- 
lowing up  to  the  formation  of  the  great 
alliance  against  France  and  Spain  which 
resulted  from  Philip's  assumption  of  the 
Spanish  crown.  This  brings  the  narrative 
to  the  War  of  the  Succession,  whose  chief  r 


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THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Feb.  6, 


events  and  personages  occupy  the  bodj  of 
the  work  and  are  told  with  commeDd&ble 
judgment  in  the  selection  of  outlines  and  of 
details ;  among  which  we  note  the  battle 
of  Blenheim  (or  Blindhtim,  the  author  tells 
us)  famed  in  poetry ;  and  the  English  cap- 
ture, by  secret  attack  in  a  place  thought 
inaccessible,  of  the  rock  of  Gibraltar. 

A  subsequent  chapter  relates  the  recep- 
tion of  the  Treaty  and  the  views  as  to  its 
merits  entertained  by  distinguished  persons. 
The  writer  thinks  that,  though  seeniiDg  to 
satisfy  few  parties  concerned,  the  effect  of 
the  Treaty  was,  "in  a  broad,  humanitarian 
aspect,  beneficent ; ''  and  he  states  his  rea- 
sons for  this  view. 

The  narrative  is  not  cut  off  with  the 
completion  of  the  peace  at  Utrecht  and  its 
reception  by  the  powers  involved,  but  we 
have  the  story  of  the  latter  days  of  the 
two  distinguished  sovereigns,  Louis  and 
Queen  Anne ;  of  what  befell  the  victorious 
British  general,  Marlborough,  and  certain 
prominent  statesmen ;  the  turbulence  of  the 
continental  powers;  the  "triple"  and  the 
"  quadruple  "  alliances. 

There  are  two  supplementary  chapters. 
The  first,  after  a  few  further  words  about 
"the  balance  of  power,"  is  a  most  interest- 
ing discussion  of  "  the  doctrine  of  the  flag." 
Apropos  of  certain  stipulations  at  Utrecht 
that  "free  ships  [i.  t.,  neutral  ships]  make 
free  goods  "  —  that  is,  if  not  contraband, 
goods  not  to  be  seited  by  an  enemy's 
cruisers,  Mr.  Gerard  reviews  the  ques- 
dons  of  enemies'  goods  in  neutral  ships, 
and  neutral  goods  in  enemies'  ships,  from 
the  early  common-law  period  of  international 
jurisprudence  to  the  present  time,  in  which 
he  states  the  applications  made  and  soi^ht 
to  be  made  in  the  late  American  war.  So 
also  the  late  citation  of  the  destruction  of 
Dunkirk  as  a  precedent  applied  to  the  case 
of  the  harbor  of  Charleston.  There  is  also 
a  curious  comparison  of  the  XVIIlth  Cen- 
tury war  of  the  succession  with  the  question 
of  the  Spanish  crown  as  a  cause  of  the 
Franco-Gernian  war  of  1870.  This  chap- 
ter is  perhaps  some  of  the  writer's  finest 
work;  while  the  final  chapter,  on  "the  ar- 
bitrament of  arms,"  though  excellent  in 
sentiment,  shows  in  places  a  strange  de- 
"  terioradon  of  style. 

Sundry  appendices  succeed,  giving  details 
of  faistory  quoted  from  the  exact  words  of 
some  of  the  characters ;  also  one  containing 
a  list  of  authorities  consulted.  There 
map  in  a  pocket  in  the  cover;  one  prepared 
for  contemporary  use,  but  of  too  limited 
area  to  be  of  assistance  in  much  of  the 
history.  

Thackeray  and  Vanity  Fair. 


[Frao  Bmwa'i  Lift 
Thackeray  used  to  tell,  as  only  he  could,  bow 
he  once  went  down  to  Oxford  to  give  his  Icct- 
Dies  on  "  The  English  Humoiiiti,"  and  in  order 
to  prepare  the  way  for  the  attendance  of  the 
undergiaduates,   waited  on  the  heads   "f    '""'- 


legei.  Among  others  npon  whom  be  called  was 
Dr.  Plumptre,  Master  of  University,  who,  it 
seems,  had  not  heard  of  the  great  novelist,  and, 
therefore,  asked  him  who  he  was  and  what  he 
had  written.  By  way  of  furnishing  his  creden- 
tials, Thackeray  modestly  intimated  thai  he  wis 
the  author  of  Vanity  Fair.  Upon  this,  the 
Master  at  once  turned  round  npon  him  sospi- 
doualv,  with  the  renuuk  that  there  must  be  some 
mistake  somewhere.  Ear  that  John  Banyan  was 
the  author  of  Vanity  Fair.  Finding  afterwards 
that  people  were  lanebing,  Plumptre  explained 
to  a  friend  that  he  had  not  read  Bunyan's  booh, 
"  never  being  a  reader  of  novels." 


UDTOB  HOUOEB. 


Histtryef  Ikt  Arguments  for  the  Existtn,. 
God.  By  Aaron  Hahn,  Rabbi  of  the  Tifereth 
Israel  Congregation,  Cleveland,  O.  [Cincinnati : 
Bloch  Co.] 

This  little  volume  is  remarkable  for  the  wealth 
of  its  learning,  and  for  the  simplicity  and  cicar- 
nesi  with  which  it  sets  fortli  the  opinions  and 
arguments  of  a  vast  number  of  philosophers  in 
:oun tries,  all  ages,  all  schools,  and  all 
churches.  The  author  is  not  a  master  of  Eng- 
lish style,  but  his  sentences  are  almost  never 
obscure  ;  and  he  very  seldom  falls  to  give  a  cor- 
net, as  well  as  clear,  account  of  the  opinions  of 
le  writers  whom  he  mentions.  Although  out- 
spoken and  forcible  in  the  expression  of  his  own 
:ws,  he  is  also  just,  fair,  and  courteous  in  his 
dealings  with  atheists  and  agnostics,  both  an- 
and  modern.  We  know  of  no  other  single 
book  from  which  a  reader  can  obtain  so  much 
information,  or  obtain  it  so  easily  and  pleasantly, 
:rning  Pagan,  Jewish,  Christian,  Mohamme- 
dan, and  Agnostic  speculation  upon  the  greatest 
of  all  truths. 

Tkt  Industrial  SituatitiH  and  tit  Quittitn  Bf 
Wages.  A  Study  in  Sodal  Physiology.  By  J. 
Schoenhof.    [G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons.    Ii.oo.] 

Mr.  Schocnhof's  book  is  directed  at  the  cen- 
tral position  of  Protection,  namely,  the  "  pauper- 
labor"  argument  Its  aim  is  to  show  that  wages 
but  a  small  item  in  the  cost  of  articles,  and 
that  by  our  greater  skill,  intelligence,  and  en- 
rgy,  by  oar  better  machinery,  and  in  numerous 
other  ways,  we  can,  and  do  today,  bring  down 
the  cost  of  our  fabrics  below  that  of  the  same 
quality  of  goods  made  by  the  "  pauper  labor  " 
of  Europe,  and  this,  too,  without  diminishing 
our  own  wages,  and  in  spite  of  our  tariffs  on 
raw  materials,  which,  if  removed,  would  give  us 
still  more  advantage.  This  be  shows  in  detail 
in  chapters  on  cotton  goods,  woolens,  silks,  and 
iron  and  steel.  Mr.  Schoenhof  is  evidently  at 
home  in  shops  and  factories  and  their  products, 
and  his  srgument  is  able  and  well  sustained. 


and  life.  The  wide  difference  between  them,  in 
gift  and  in  point  of  view,  no  less  than  in  age, 
makes  the  comparison  more  rich  and  fruitful. 
A  slight  and  unsatisfactory  section  on  the  Old 
Testament  Writers  follows,  while  the  closing 
chapter,  by  far  the  best  in  the  series,  is  devoted 
to  the  Ideal  Teachings  of  Jesos.  Dr.  Morison 
deals  too  largely  in  snperlatives,  weakens  and 
cheapens  his  thought  by  repetition,  and  errs  at 
times  by  exaggeration  and  platitude.  His  de- 
scriptions are  generally  good,  and  his  analyses 
are  su^estive,  if  seldom  thorough  or  profound. 
But  his  individual  interpretation  of  language  or 
character  is  sometimes  more  curious  than  prob- 
aUe,  as  in  his  strange  exegesis  of  St.  John  vlii: 
2  J,  on  page  1S6,  and  his  idea  of  Shakespeare's 
disposhion  as  "rollicldng,"  an  adjective  appro- 
priate to  Falstaff,  but  not  to  the  creator  of 
Hamlet  and  Lear. 


Regarding  the  imagination  as  s  necessary 
factor  in  a  liberal  culture,  and  fearing  the  ma- 
terialistic tendency  of  purely  physical  science. 
Dr.  Morison,  a  leading  Unitarian  clergyman, 
directs  attention  to  The  Great  Poets  at  Religions 
Teaeken.  The  office  of  this  faculty  divine  in 
the  discovery,  the  interpretation,  and  the  appli- 
cation of  religious  truth  Is  shown  In  the  opening 
essay.  Dante,  Shakespeare,  and  Goethe 
then  taken  as  the  greatest  of  modern  poets,  and 
the  teachings  of  each,  implicit  as  well  as  explicit, 
are  viewed  in  their  bearing  upon  spiritual 


The  Peetieal  Works  of  Frances  Ridley  Haver- 
gal.    [E.  P-  Dutton  S  Ca    #5.00.] 

Sengs  t^the  Master's  Lave.  By  Frances  Ridley 
Havergaf.    [£-  P.  Dntion  k  Co.    ^-jo-] 

Letters  by  the  Late  Francis  Ridley  Havergai, 
Edited  by  her  sister,  M.  V.  G.  H.  [Anson  D.  F. 
Randolph  &  Co.    f  1.25.] 

The  first  of  these  three  volumes  is  a  complete 
edition  of  the  works  of  Miss  Havergai,  who  died 
June  3,  1S79,  arranged  by  her  sister,  Maria  V. 
G,  Havergai,  and  her  niece,  Frances  AnnaStuiw. 
Verses  which  Miss  Havergai  never  intended  to 
publish  are  here  included,  because  the  sister  felt 
that  even  her  simpler  utterances  must  go  "at 
once  lo  the  heart  of  those  in  humble  life."  The 
plan  is  a  peculiar  one,  subjective  not  chronological, 
with  an  index  giving  the  date  of  each  and  place 
where  it  was  written,  so  that  there  may  be  ten 
years  between  any  two  of  them.  To  indicate  the 
amount  of  matter  it  need  only  be  said  that  the 
index  fills  about  eight  pages  of  the  volume,  which 
is  a  large  quarto,  and,  in  addition,  there  is  an  in- 
dex of  first  lines.  It  is  a  gratifying  arrangement, 
as  it  gives  a  local  tiabitation  to  these  songs  and 
devotional  pieces,  and  connects  them  more  inti- 
mately with  the  author's  personality;  while  the 
divisions,  such  as  Easter  Echoes,  Sonnets,  Loyal 
Responses,  Verses  on  Texts,  etc,  are  convenient. 
Miss  Havergai  was  not  a  great  poet,  but  she  had 
the  enviable  quality  of  reaching  the  hearts  of  a 
wide  parish  of  readers,  and  becoming  the  com- 
panion of  their  better  hours ;  of  quickening  their 
devotions,  and  helping  in  aspirations  for  a 
higher  life.  Her  spiritual  insight  was  wonderful, 
and  of  all  our  religious  poets  not  one  has  left 
lines  showing  more  intimate  knowledge  of  the 
divine  life  in  the  soul  of  man.  She  has  been  the 
comforting,  sympathizing  friend  of  thousands  who 
never  saw  her  ;  and  to  all  such  this  complete  col- 
lection will  be  welcome.  The  book  is  beautifully 
made.  A  winning  portrait  of  Miss  Havergai  faces 
the  title-page  ;  the  latter  has  a  vignette  represent- 
ing Apiley  Church,  the  rectory  and  chutch-ysrd 
(her  eaily  home  and  testing- place) ;  and  there  are 
twenty-three  full-page  pictures,  many  of  which 
have  a  familiar  look.  A  few  like  those  facing  p. 
35  and  p.  loa  have  no  bearing  on  the  subject, 
while  that  fronting  p.  319  presents  woful  faces  in 
the  backgioand  engaged  in  the  glorious  service 
of  praise.  It  is  an  inexcusable  oversight  in  so 
handsome  and  expensive  a  volume  that  there  Is 
no  index  to  illustrations,  and  that  some  of  them 
are  so  far  off  from  the  passages  they  belong  to. 
In  the  case  of  the  last,  a  pretty  scene  by  Taylor, 


i88«.] 


tHE  LlTERARV  WORLD. 


4i 


one  mnit  turn  back  one  hondred  and  fifty  pages 
to  find  the  *erae. 

HiM  HaverBal'a  Songi  a/  the  Sfasttt'i  Lme  is 
a  tasteful  volume,  a  thin  quarto,  with  richl;  deco- 
rated coven,  made  up  aa  thirty-two  pages, 
loxariout  to  the  touch  and  exquisite  to  the  light. 
On  each  right-hand  page  is  a  choice,  devotional 
poem  with  ornamental  Initial  in  a  floral  design, 
and  on  the  opposite  a  few  lines  on  a  shield  or 
baoner  or  tablet  wreathed  with  vines  and  flowers. 
The  Illustrations  are  colored  lithographs,  of  dain- 
tines*  and  richness  that  ate  life-like;  (he  lilies, 
forget-me-nota,  roses,  wood-bine,  ivy,  maiden- 
hair, feins,  and  daisies  which  enter  so  largetjr 
into  the  ornamentation,  have  a  crispnest  and 
vividness  as  if  newly  pincked  and  laid  on  the 
white  page.  The  tillc-page  is  lettered  in  colors 
and  has  a  charming  design  in  palm-trees  and 
grasses.  The  book  is  in  every  respect  "a  thing 
of  beauty,"  one  of  the  most  refined  and  graceful 
that  have  yet  appeared,  and  nothing  could  be 
more  appropriate  for  a  gift  to  one  who  loves 
Sowers  and  finds  enjoyment  in  devotional  uttcr> 
ances  In  song. 

The  reason  for  oHeting  Miss  Haveigal's  Let- 
ters to  the  public  is  that  they  are  considered  as 
"treasures"  which  *' an  ever-widening  circle  of 
F.  R.  H.'s  readers"  will  be  glad  lo  be  made 
acquainted  with,  thereby  gaining  a  more  intimate 
knowledge  of  th«  way  by  which  she  was  led,  and 
to  better  estimate  her  loving  and  loyal  service 
to  the  cause  for  which  her  energies  were  spent. 
They  extend  from  iSji  to  1S79,  having  no  con- 
necting thread  of  biography  or  events,  but  show- 
ing her  struggles  after  a  holier  life,  her  extreme 
interest  in  the  spiritual  growth  of  others,  and  her 
ways  of  guiding  and  helping  ;  together  with  many 
facts  about  the  writing  of  her  poems  and  the 
artangenient  of  the  music,  and  her  immediate 
work  in  Christian  associations  and  among  the 
poor  in  her  later  years  j  and  as  showing  the 
inner  discipline  and  the  outward  results  of  a  re- 
markably devoted  woman  they  will  be  of  value 

Ltaiguagi  LttSBtu  in  Arithmilie.  Written  and 
Oral  Exercises.  By  Ellen  I.  Barton.  {Giiin  Jt 
Co-l 

The  accomplished  Principal  of  the  Portland 
School  for  the  Deaf  has  bete  embodied  the 
lessons  which  she  has  found  practically  so  useful, 
not  only  in  the  school  which,  under  her  care,  has 
attained  such  remarkable  success  in  Portland 
but  in  classes  previously  taught.  The  results 
which  she  has  obtained  justify  her  bold  depart- 
ure from  the  fashionable  pedagogy  of  the  day 
and  her  conscientious  following  of  the  theory  of 
the  wisest  teachers  in  the  past ;  the  theory  that 
practical  knack  is  first  to  be  acquired  before 
scientific  knowledge  ;  and  that  knowledge  is 
be  acquired  before  it  is  systematized.  This 
procedure  on  her  part  makes  her  book  interest- 
ing, even  fascipaling,  to  the  child;  develops  his 
self.reliance ;  leaches  him  to  think  for  himself, 
and  to  express  his  thought  clearly.  Although 
her  little  volume  was  prepared  especially  for 
deaf  pu[Hls,  it  Ik  better  adapted  for  ordinary 
schools  than  other  Primary  Arithmetics  are ; 
and  woold  be  found  on  trial  to  have  a  high  edu- 
cational value. 

Anikr^Md  Aftt.  By  Robert  Hartmann.  [D. 
AppIeton&Co.    ^00.] 

The  anthropoid  apes  are  the  gorilla,  the  chim- 
pauiee,  the  orang-utan  (so  Professor  Hartniann 


\  it  must  be  spelled),  and  the  gibbons.   These 
very  fully  described  in  the  volume  before  us, 
and  the  differences  and   resemblances  between 
them  and  man,  explaioed  throughout  the  work, 
form  one  of  its  most  interesting  and  valuable  feat- 
Professor   Hartmann  is   convinced,  with 
naturalists,  that  man  could  not  have  de- 
scended through  any  form  of  these  man-apes  now 
Icnown  to  us,  but  that  both  have  divergecl  from  a 
nmon  comprehensive  type  1^  which  no  living 
fossil  specimen  is  known.    The  author  does 
t  agree   with  most  zooli^ists  in    classifying 
these  apes  as  four-handed,  but  he  pots  them  with 
lan   ai  two-handed  and   two-footed,  the  hind 
hand,"  so-called,  being  in  every  way   a  fool, 
only  with  the  prehensile  toe  somewhat  separated 
from  the  rest.      Those  interested  in  zoological 
studies,  or  in   questions  of  origin  of  man  and 
mind,  will  find  this  work  learned  and  instructive, 
nd  quite  largely  basedon  original  investigations. 


t'K  Ikt  Sealk,  and  is  in  part,  we  suppose,  the  out- 
come of  het  recent  visit  to  New  Orleans.  It  is 
dedicated  lo  her  "  Southern  friends."  The  same 
:  is  about  to  issue  a  volnra«  of  papers  by  the 
late  Mrs.  Jackson  ("  H.  H.")  entitled  Ctimfsts 
ef  Tkrtt  Ceaits.  It  Is  devoted  to  accounts  of 
travel  in  California  and  Oregon,  in  England  and 
Scotland,  and  in  Norway,  Denmark,  and  Germany, 
of  them  have  already  appeared  in  the  At 
lantic  and  the  Century.  The  Ordeal  of  Riihard 
Fevtrel  is  the  first  of  the  series  of  George  Mere- 
dith's novels,  which  Roberts  Brothers  are  to  issue 
uniform  edition  in  nine  volumes.  The  writ- 
ings of  this  author  are  very  papular  in  England, 
re  not  so  widely  known  here.  The  series 
uislations  from  Balzac  are,  wc  are  glad  to 
hear,  meeting  with  much  success,  Pire  Gtriot 
being  in  its  fourth  edition  and  the  Duthessc  di 
Langeaii  in  its  third. 


Boundary.    By  John  M.  Coulter,  Ph.D.    [Ivison, 
Blakeman,  Taylor  &  Co.    ^1.85.] 

This  book  is  modeled  almost  exactly  after 
Gray's  well-known  Manual  of  the  botany  east 
of  the  Mississippi,  and  will  evidently  accomplish 
for  the  mountain  region  what  that  unequaled 
book  has  for  the  country  east.  It  ii^  we  believe, 
the  first  attempt  to  bring  the  flora  of  this  wholi 
n  into  a  single  volume,  and  teachers,  stu 
dents,  tourists,  explorers,  will  hail  the  result 
with  satisfaction.  The  book  is  remarkably  well 
done  for  the  first  edition  of  such  a  difficult  and 

.borious  undertaking.  A  Tourist's  Edition,  on 
light,  strong  paper,  has  been  bound  up  in  fieiible 
leather  at  ^3.00-  Under  the  title  of  Gray  and 
CaulliT't  TextBook  of  Western  Botany  it  ha 
been  bound  in  a  single  volume  with  Gray' 
Letttns,  forming  a  complete  text-book  for  the 
schools  in  the  monntain  Slates  and  Territi 
Price  >2.SO- 


Under  a  thin  veil  of  fiction  this  book  gives 
picture  of  life  on  a  sheep  ranch  in  Kansas.    Its 
characters  are  an  Admetus,   an  Enthusiast,  i 
Optimist,  a  Queen   Titania,  a  Parsimonious, 
Romantic,  and   so  on.    There   are  journeys 
and  from  the  East  with  the  loiurious  accomm 
dations  afforded  by  Western  railways;  there  a 
long   drives  across  the  flowered  prairies;  the 
are   glimpses    of   parlors    and    drawl  ng-rooe 
brilliant  and  comfortable  with  all  the  accessories 
of   modern    life ;  there  are   barking  dogs  and 
processions  of  sheep;  there  are  outings  in  Col- 
orado, which  is  playfully  set  down  as  a  "suburb 
of  Kansas;"  there  is  ploughing,  planting,  har- 
vesting, and  building   by  InrDS ;  there  are  cool 
and   pleasant   evenings  on  the  piazza,  after  the 
day's  works  are  done ;  there  are  Harvard  gradi 
ate*  in  flannel  shirts,  and  Saratoga  trunks  with 
Newport  labels  on  them ;  there  are  Morris  roon 
papers,  Japanese   nmbrcllas,  Harfrr't  and  thi 
Century,  and,  wC  doubt  not,  the  Literary   World. 
It  is  a  pleasant  picture,  all  of  it ;  full  of  ai 
tion,  full  of  color  ;  and  if  we  could  all  see  1 
life  as  Miss  Rollins  saw  it,  we  could  not  help 
failing  in  love  with  it,  as  she  did  ;  but  alas  I  thei 
are  ranches  and  ranches. 

—  A  new  novel  by  Maud  flowe  is  announced 
bj  Roberts  Brothers.     It  is  to  be  called  AtaJanta 


BOOKS  FOR  THE  YOUVQ. 

The  Children's  Museum  is  a  holiday  book  after 
I  time;  a  quarto,  with  fair  pages,  filled  with 
mingled  prose  and  verse  in  fragments,  illustrated 
with  plentiful  wood-cuts  chiefly  of  the  German 
school,  which  is  distinct  from  both  the  American 
and  the  English,  and  bound  in  showy  boards. 
[Cranston  &  Stowe.] 

Siilfid  Suty  is  a  book  of  the  best  sort  lo  put 
into  the  hands  of  girls  who  are  beginning  to  take 
interest  in  guilds,  tewing  circles,  and  the  like, 
and  who  want  to  acquire  the  art  of  needles, 
crewels,  stitches,  embroidery,  and  so  on ;  and 
lo  make  all  sorts  of  pretty  and  useful  things  for 
good  account.  The  author,  or  editor,  Elinor 
Gay,  has  had  in  mind  the  necessities  of  prepara- 
ion  for  fairs  and  bazaars,  and  has  collected 
ind  arranged  an  immense  amount  of  information 
ibout  materials,  prices,  styles,  patterns,  processes, 
'drawn  work,"  "ribbon  work,"  screens,  frames, 
bags,  pillows,  scarfs,  tray  cloths,  and  so  on. 
For  industrious  and  tasteful  girls,  with  an  eye  for 
forms  and  colors,  and  clever  fingers,  this  book  is 
worth  its  price  many  times  over.  [Funk  &  Wag- 
nails.    50c.] 

Who,  young  or  old,  will  not  be  thankful  for  a 
new  edition  of  that  old  treasure,  Masterman 
Ready  i  Own  cousin  to  Robinson  Crusoe,  and 
some  would  say,  elder  brother  1  Here  it  is,  a 
quarto  of  334  pages,  well  printed,  with  plenty  of 
pictures,  generally  good  and  often  excellent,  and 
a  cover  brilliant  with  promise ;  altogether  the 
best  edition  we  remember  of  this  immortal  juve- 
nile.   [F.  Warne  &  Co.] 

One  of  the  best  new  juveniles  of  last  year  was 
Mr.  Hazel  Shepard's  Great  Ciliei  of  the  Modern 
Werld.  From  the  same  author  we  have  now  a 
companion  volume  on  Great  Citiet  of  the  Ancient 
World  which  is  not  so  good.  Among  the  cities 
described  of  course  are  Rome,  Troy,  Athens, 
Corinth,  Thebes,  Alexandria,  Petra,  Carthage, 
Syracuse,  Ecbatana,  Damascus,  Palmyra,  Baal- 
bee,  Jerusalem,  Nineveh,  and  Babylon.  Mr. 
Shepard  has  rehabilitated  these  historic  scenes 
with  success,  but  it  is  obvious  that  descriptions 
of  them,  like  pictures  of  them,  mtjst  be  in  a 
measure  of  the  nature  of  "  restorations."  The 
volume  by  reason  of  its  subject  lacks  the  vivid 
interest  of  the  other.  Of  the  pictures  the  most 
Etriking  is  the  double  page  frontispiece  of  the 
chariot  race  in  the  Roman  circus ;  and  the  best 
are  the  portraitures  of  costume.  [George  Rout* 
ledge  k  Sons,    ti.50.] 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Feb.  6. 


The  Literary  World. 


eOSTON,  FEBRUARY  6.  1866. 


"  But  who  want!  hlcb  MriouiaaH  i  Everybody 
wuits  Id  Ih  amuiEd."  "That  li  yout  miitakfe. 
Paoplelasanetalltilltfaiabaa  vary  aarloua  mattei, 
and  you  will  find  that  tha  booka  wblch  aall  by  tbso- 
■■BdB  araool  thoaawblch  dlacuaa  the  problama  of 
with  wit  and  airy  badlnagi 


abBW  ol  eynleiaoi,  li 


t  which 


lofaciwlth 


realltlaa  and  grappla  wiih  them.    Study  Into  your 

naada,  anxlstla*,  bop**  aad  deapain,  and  yau  will 
haTB  eooncfa  to  lay.  Yod  canaat  lavlah  yaDraalf  aa 
you  do  la  trivial  mattera,  In  c(H|uetry.  In  lova  of 
liuurloua  aunaundlnga,  and  at  tha  lam*  titng  com- 


THE  8TIIDT  OF  A  POBT-LKE 
BBOWSINO. 

EVERY  once  in  a  while  tbere  is  a  litUe 
outburst  of  pleasantry  over  tlie  aludy 
of  Robert  Browning  in  England;  and  (he 
pleasantry  sometimes  runs,  here  as  well  as 
there,  into  sarcasm  and  even  biiieraeis. 
Mr.  Browning  has  no  penonal  enetnies,  we 
presume,  but  he  has  some  critical  enemieB, 
and  his  admirers  in  both  hemispheres  are 
offset  by  a  mass  of  the  totally  indifferent 
and  by  a  considerable  company  who  pro- 
nounce him  affected,  uncouth,  and  uniiitelli- 
gible.  The  study  of  Browning  is  further 
rendered  delicate  by  reason  of  the  fact  that 
be  is  still  among  the  living,  and  it  is  em- 
barrassed by  the  injudicious  adulation  of 
a  few.  No  doubt  Mr.  Browning  finds 
much  in  the  atteniions  of  his  followers  which 
is  somewhat  distasteful  to  his  modest  and 
■ensilive  nature ;  no  doubt  he  often  cries  to 
be  delivered  from  his  friends ;  but  he  would 
be  less  or  more  than  man  if  he  failed  to  be 
touched  by  the  sincere  and  thoughtful  iiom- 
^e  which  the  so-called  Browning  Clubs 
evince  on  the  part  of  a  very  large  and 
respectable  portion  of  the  English-speaking 
community.  The  pain  of  notoriety  is  one 
of  the  elements  of  sacrifice  incurred  by 
certain  types  of  genius,  and  no  man  can 
stand  where  Robert  Browning  stands  with- 
out being  bound  to  submit  good-a at u redly 
to  the  flattery,  the  courlejsy,  the  cunosily, 
and  the  inquiry  of  his  readers. 

Mr.  Browning  is  certainly,  more  than  most 
poets,  living  or  dead,  a  poet  to  be  studied 
rather  than  read.  It  is  not  in  good  taste, 
we  think,  to  compare  any  hiring  with  any 
dead  poet,  as  Mr.  Browning  Is  sometimes 
compared  with  Shakespeare,  for  no  man's 
measure  is  to  be  taken  until  he  has  finished 
the  work  which  has  been  given  him  to  do; 
at  the  same  time  we  doubt  if  any  English 
poet  can  be  named  whose  works,  next  to 
Shakespeare's,  afford  a  larger  and  more 
stimulating  field  for  study.  Some  poets  are 
subjects  for  melodious  rendering,  as  one 


would  play  the  flute  or  harp.  Others  are 
subjects  for  hard  and  critical  exegesis. 
Robert  Browning  is  of  the  latler.  He  is 
ore  to  be  smelted.  We  believe  the  taste  for 
him  is  capable  of  being  developed  to  a  de- 
gree stronger  than  that  for  almost  any  other 
poet  who  can  be  named,  but  an  acquired 
taste,  and  a  taste  to  be  cultivated  by  work,  it 
certainly  is.  And  we  should  be  quite  rendy 
to  believe  that  the  satisfaction  in  him  would 
be  all  the  greater  than  in  the  case  of  a  poet 
whose  wealth  lay  wholly  on  the  surface  of 
his  pages,  and  who  sent  his  readers  to  no 
mines  other  than  those  of  his  thought.  The 
study  of  Browning  is  subterranean  work, 
with  galleries  that  lead  away  in  every  direc- 

Social  intellectual  work  like  that  of  Brown- 
ing Study,  which  may  be  taken  as  a  tjpe. 
is  certainly  to  be  encouraged.  Whatever 
estimate  one  may  place  on  the  results 
"  panned  out,"  the  exercise  is  exhilarating 
and  healthful.  We  hope  to  see  such  lines 
of  evening  occupation  multiplied  indefinitely. 
Any  of  the  great  authors  of  this  or  of 
another  century  may  provide  an  attractive 
and  rewarding  field.  Here  is  a  pastime. 
which  for  winter  days  certainly,  if  people 
did  but  know  it,  throws  lawn  tennis  into  the 
■hade.  But  alas  1  the  pleasures  of  the  in- 
tellectual life  go  oft  unheeded. 


U8T8  or  SELECTED  BOOKS. 

SIR  JOHN  LUBBOCK  has  been  giving 
in  the  Britith  IVortman  a  list  of  a 
hundred  works  in  all  departmenis  of  liter- 
ature, a  knowledge  of  which  may  be  said  to 
be  requisite  to  a  liberal  education.  The 
Pall  Mall  Gaxtlte  ol  London,  which  makes 
its  living  these  days  largely  by  running 
amuck,  offers  this  comment : 

The  man  who  Eollows  Sir  John  Lubbock's 
c(>ur»e,  and,  beeinning  wilh  Confucius,  di|ii> 
iii|i>  all  ihe  Utenilureit  and  all  the  phi1lnluphic^ 
li.l  hr  aFTivcs  at  llulwrr  Lytlon,  will  be  ■  "rare 
bird  "  indeed  if  he  dues  not  emerge  from  ilic 
•irdeil  a  o  in  sum  male  |>rig.  ilc  will  be  the  CiHilcN 
luiiiisiiiC  lit'raiure  —  "  |lcts'^nallycul>ducle(l*'  by 
SirJ'ihn  l.ubboik  —  who  imagines  ihst  he  has 
seen  Kume  because  he  has  licen  driven  in  a  drag 

A  railway  ride  througli  human  culiuie.  wilh  leu 
mlnuics'  iilii|i;i3ge  at  all  the  princtpal  i<iaii<inp, 
is  lint  whai  the  judicinus  guide,  uhiluaoiiher.  and 
frirnil  will  rei'onimend  tu  the  British  wnrkman 
nr  any  one  else.    The  necessiiy  fora  "j-uptrficial 

why  shuuld  atiy  nlher  class,  whether  nf  workmen 
or  idlers,  wantonly  place  themselves  under  Ihe 

This  is  smartly  written,  and  minds  that 
are  accu.slomed  to  say  ditto  to  Mr.  Burke 
will  approve  it ;  but  leaving  out  of  the  ques- 
tion the  particular  lines  and  landmarks  of 
Sir  John  Lubbock's  survey,  we  venture  to 
express  the  opinion  that  such  ideal  lists  in 
literature  may  be  very  useful  after  all,  and 
are  well  worth  making.  The  oracles  who 
sit  in  great  metropolitan  newspaper  ofBces 
and  know  everything  are  not  representatives 
of  masses  of  people  to  whom  all  literature 
is  a  dark  continent,  and  whose  profit  of 


tion  and  interest  by  means  of  what 
may  be  called  Stanley  Explorations  may  be 
palpable  and  grcaL  Nobody,  except  a  stu- 
pid, would  understand  thai  anyone  person 
was  expected  to  master  all  the  books  in 
such  a  list.  Knowledge  is  an  infinite  sea. 
Is  it  not  something  to  have  the  sea  laltl 
down  upon  the  map,  with  its  caasi  lines,  cur- 
rents, and  soundings,  so  that  the  intellectual 
mariner  may  at  least  direct  his  course 
even  though  he  do  not  dream  of  sighting 
every  headland  or  making  every  harbor? 

For  our  part  we  think  these  select  lists 
have  an  important  function.  The  judgment 
upon  books  of  a  scholar  like  Sir  John  Lub- 
bock is  valuable  in  itself  and  has  distinct 
practical  uses.  Any  wise  man's  judgment 
of  books  is  useful  to  all  other  men  who 
have  wisdom  yet  to  learn.  To  know  where 
the  fields  and  highways  are  is  not  neces- 
sarily to  traverse  them  all;  that  would 
indeed  be  a  hopeless  undeitaking;  but  to 
know  them  is  to  be  enabled  to  do  what 
journeying  is  within  our  means  inielligenlly 
and  therefore  profitably. 


*•*  A  case  wis  decided  laicb  (January  i  jih),  in 
a  S'ate  court  of  New  Yi>rk,  involving  bome  mat- 
ters of  inlereat  to  authors  and  publishers. 
Shortly  after  the  death  of  ihe  poet.  H.  W.  Lung- 
Eellow,  ill  1883,  the  John  W.  Lovell  Company  of 
New  Vurk  City  published  a  cheap  paper  edition 
of  hii  two  prose  works,  HjF[-man  and  Outre  Mcr, 
clainii>^  ihe  tight  10  reprint  them  as  wotkn  on 
which  the  copyright  had  expired.  Mr.  Lang- 
fellow's  regular  publishers,  Houghton,  MifHin  & 
Co.,  regarding  this  as  an  invasion  uf  their  righlv, 
at  once  Issued  circulars  lo  the  trade  ihirging  Ihe 
reprint  of  the  Luvell  Company  to  be  ■'an  illegal 
and  unaulhoriied  edition  and  a  direct  infringe- 
ment uf  copyright;"  and  futlhet  lo  meet  the 
alleged  piracy  of  ihe  LiOvell  Company.  Houghton 
Miffln  &  Co.  announced  and  ba^tened  throuKh 
(he  press  an  edition  of  the  two  bonks  at  even 
lower  priies  than  ihtise  set  by  their  rivals.  Upon 
this  Ihe  Li'vcll  Company  br<tught  suft  fur 
^5  000  damages  on  the  giouiid  uf  Ciin»piracy  ind 
libel  in  the  aboie  sialements  and  special  injury 
in  iu  badness  interest*.  The  defence  was  ihal 
the  abiive  siatcments  were  eiuirely  true,  and  the 
plaintiff  therefore  was  nut  entitled  tu  daniagci. 
Evidence  was  introduced  tending  to  ahow  ihat 
while  numinally  lepriniing  frum  an  earlier  edition 
on  which  qop>righi  had  expired  the  Lovell  Coni- 
pany  had  really  used  a  later  edilion,  protected  by 
c<ipyright  and  containing  ihe  aulhoi's  emenda- 
tions, merely  making  small  changes  in  order  to 
avoid  seeming  toinlniige.  I'he  court  held  that  the 
klatemeiniroarieby  Houghton.  Hifllin&Co.  were 
true,  IS  alleged, and  directed  a  verdict  for  the  de- 
fendants, in  ihe  judgment  uf  the  Bosion  Aihtr- 
liur,  this  decision  ia  one  less  in  the  interest  of  pub- 
lishers than  of  auihori;  who  in  selecting  certain 
publishers  to  print  iticir  works  seek  (hereby  t<i  con- 
Irnl  (he  exact  language  aa  well  as  the  outward  ap- 
pearance of  the  issue.  The  plaintiS  took  excep- 
tions to  Ihe  court's  ruling,  and  ilthecase  is  carried 
up  the  final  issue  may  be  awaited  with  interest.  It 
may  be  added  (hat  if  the  holding  of  the  trial 
judge  is  sustained,  a  coppight  can  be  extended  ^ 
almost  indefioilety,  at  least  during  an  author's  ' 
life-time;  since  a  new  edition  with  alterations  — 


1886.] 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


45 


which  do  not  alter  the  lubstaniial  identity  of  the 
work  —  may  be  copi  righted,  and  bj  thii  Ule 
dedsion  an  iaxue  which  it  neither  the  earlier  edi 
lion  nor  the  later,  but  lomething  briween,  may 
,  be  classed  with  the  later  and  its  ibiue  forbiddeo. 


OITE  NEW  TORE  LETTER. 

DURING  a  second  visit  to  Mudame  Henri 
Gr^ville,  the  so'ject  of  American  litera- 
ture was  mentioned,  and  the  showed  an  ac- 
quaintance with  our  authiKs  unusual  among 
foreigners,  enpedalljp  Irocn  the  Continent. 
"America  has  already  a  literature  of  which  an; 
nation  might  be  proud,  Eniet»on.  Longfellow, 
Prescoit,  Bryant,  Poe,  Hawihornr,  Whiitier, 
Lowell,  and  others  fmrn  a  liierary  galaxy  of 
writers  whi<«e  natnea  have  thrown  a  luster  up'in 
their  country.  The  want  c^  an  international 
copyright  h  n  been  a  great  injustice  lo  American 
authors  by  placing  thtm  in  immediate  compcii' 
tion  with  the  often  unpaid  works  of  [ureign 
author*.  Were  Anieiican  auihors  proircied 
■gainst  this  ruinous  cum|>etilian  as  American 
inventors  and  man  u fact  urerx  are,  then  the 
United  Slates  would  lake  a  furemiist  place  in 
literature  as  she  already  has  in  all  material  ptog- 
reta."  Mme.  Gi^ville  has  received  much  at- 
tention during  her  visit  to  New  York,  having 
been  enieiiained  by  Charles  A.  Dana,  Edmund 
Clarence  Stcdnian,  George  Pinons  Lulhrop, 
Levi  P.  Morton,  and  others.  She  will  deliver 
four  lectures  here:  two  on  Russ'-a.  one  on  "  Un- 
objectionable French  Novehsta,"  and  the  last, 
on  "How  I  Became  a  Novelist"  When  at 
borne  sbe  works  at  night  between  nineo'clock 
and  midnight,  her  household  dutits  occupy  the 
morning  hours,  and  the  afternoon  is  generally 
taken  up  with  nociat  duties,  but  she  occasionally 
snatches  an  hour  or  two  from  the  latter  and  de- 
votea  them  to  literary  work.  She  has  arranged 
with  Ticknor  &  Co.  of  Boston  to  pulilish  her 
works  in  this  country.  •  Mrtie.  Gr^ville  will  write 
a  book  about  America,  but  she  will  not,  after 
accepting  our  hospitality,  go  home  and  abuse  ue, 
as  Dickens  did  after  his  first  visit  to  the  United 
Slates.  Other  French  travelers  in  this  country 
have  been  royalists,  and  were  prejudiced  against 
Afflerican  institutions,  but  Mme.  Gi^ville  is  a 
republican,  and  therefore,  whatever  opinions 
she  may  express  o(  the  American  people  and 
government  will  be  ihe  sincere  conclusions  of  a 
clever  and  bympathetic  French  woman. 

Wm.  Fearing  Gill's  vocation  seems  to  have 
ended  with  the  burial  of  the  remains  of  Mra. 
Edgar  A.  Poe  beside  those  of  the  poet  In  West- 
minster Churchyard,  Baltimore.  Fur  wveral 
years,  while  Mr.  Gill  was  carrying  the  lady's 
ashes  about  the  country  in  a  cigar  box,  his 
name  figured  Irequemly  in  the  newspapera,  but 
lo  slighily  change  the  language  of  Shakespeare, 
the  good  that  was  in  him  seems  to  have  been 
"buried  with  her  bones."  Yet  Mr.  Gill  waa  In 
some  respect*  the  "  noblest  Pue-maii  of  them 
all."  Fur  years  he  was  engaged  in  defending 
Poe,  in  and  oat  of  season,  and  without  much 
reason — he  wrute,  he  lectured,  he  repealed 
poems,  he  chanted  the  Kaven,  he  sang  Annabel 
Lee  —  until  the  patience  of  a  much. abused  pub- 
lic was  exhausted,  and,  like  the  unhappy  lover 
of  the  "  lost  Lenore,"  demanded  "respite."  Of 
all  Ibe  nine  bic^aphers  who  have  taken  Poe's 
life,  Mr.  Gill  has  used  the  most  whitewash,  and 
be  put  It  on  with  more  seal  than  skill.    Upon 


this  gallant  literary  Don  Quixote,  the  nam 
Griswold  has  the  same  effect  that  windmills  had 
upon  the  famous  knight  of  La  Mancha. 

Appleton  Morgan  say*  every  man  is  entitled 
to  have  one  holiby,  and  Shakespeare  is  his,  bi 
he  does  not,  like  so  many  hobby-horse  Hder^ 
let  it  run  away  with  him.  He  keeps  his  hubby' 
horse  well  in  hand,  riding  at  an  easy  going  pace ;  in 
fac%  Mr.  Morgan  keeps  all  his  affairs  well  in  hand 
—  his  profesrinnal  pursuits,  his  Shakespearean 
"hobby,"  his  railroad  presidency  —  so  that  they 
never  interfere  one  with  the  other. 

The  notice  of  Mr.  Astor's  novel.  ValtHtine,  in 
the  last  Liltrary  Werld,  has  been  proaounced 
the  fairest  thai  has  yet  appeared.  The  writer 
was  not  dazsled  by  the  fact  that  the  author  of 
the  book  Ii  a  millionaire  and  the  son  of  a  mill, 
ionaire,  but  treated  the  work  upon  ils  merits 
alone.  Most  of  the  reviewers  of  Valmtino 
wrote  as  though  they  expected  to  be  rewarded 

to  Mr.  A&tor,  for  when  praise  is  showered 
upon  a  book  which  would  be  regarded  as 
extravagant  if  given  to  What  Will  Hi  do 
With  itt  or  Tht  A'twcmiel.  Ihe  public  natu- 
rally expects  something  above  Ihe  average. 
Valtntina  is  not  such  a  book,  but  it  ahould 
be  remembered  that  this  is  Mr.  Astor's  first 
attempt  at  novel  writing,  and  that  he  is  a 
novice  in  literature,  and  there  ia  no  royal  road 
to  letters.  It  would  be  well  for  Mr.  Aslor  lo 
follow  his  first  novel  with  one  in  which  the 
scenes  should  be  laid  in  modern  Rome.  There 
he  is  more  at  home  than  in  mediteval  Italy  [  let 
him  not  burden  the  minds  uf  hia  readers  with  so 
many  characters,  and  I  would  ntspeclfully  sug- 
gest that  he  avoid  situations  that  border  on  the 
extravagant,  if  not  on  the  impossible. 

Woman's  rights  have  been  secured  in  one 
particular,  at  least,  in  New  York— that  is  ibe 
right  to  wield  the  pen.  Mis.  Matiha  J.  Lamb  is 
the  editor  of  the  Magaum  ef  American  Hiitory, 
Miss  Jeanette  1.  Gilder  is  the  editor  of  the 
Critic,  Mrs.  Gertrude  Harrison  is  Ihe  literary 
editor  of  the  New  York  American  Press  Asso- 
ciation, and  a  tavoriie  contributor  lo  some  of  the 
most  popular  periodicals,  MrH.  Sophia  B.  Herrick 
holds  an  important  position  in  the  literary  de- 
partment of  the  Century,  Mrs.  Frank  Leslie 
manages  with  great  success  the  many  journals, 
weekly  and  monthly,  which  sbe  inheriied  (torn 
her  husband,  and  Mrs.  David  G.  Croly  has 
made  the  name  "Jenny  June"  so  well  known 
by  her  newspaper  correspondence  that  Mr. 
Croly  ia  better  known  as  the  husband  of  "Jenny 
June"  than  by  his  own  name.  The*e  are  only 
few  of  the  women  who  occupy  prominent  posi- 
upon   New    York    periodicals,   but    there 

lany  others  who  do  good  work  on  the  daily 
press  who  win  no  fante  and  receive  very  small 
salaries. 

Forty  jears  ago  N.  P.  Willis  suggested  that 
some  provision  should  be  made  for  authors  who 

incapacitated  from  working  on  account  of 
ill  health.    Nothing  was  done  then,  and  nothing 

!ver  been  done  since,  for  that  worlhy  object, 
yet  there  is  no  class  that  needs  this  aid  and 
comfort   more  than   authors.    Their  profession 

Ires  taste,  talent,  and  culture.  They  are 
obliged  to  work  hard  for  tittle  compensation. 

1  gifted  American  poet,  now  alutoat  for- 
gotten, eaprested  it : 


rjpoiniil 


Only  the  other  day  I  heard  that  the  grand- 
daughters of  Dr.  O a  A.  B u  were  so 

poor  that  clothea  had  to  be  furnished  to  them 
through  charity  to  enable  them  to  receive  • 
gratuitous  education  at  a  convent  school.     Yet 

Dr.  B n   was  for  fifty  years  a  prominent 

figure  in  American  literature,  editing  with  amaz- 
ing force  and  industry  the  review  which  bore  his 
name.  H^a  powerful  utterances  commanded  the 
atiention  of  bishopa  and  archlnshops,  and  were 
read  with  interest  even  within  the  walls  of  the 
Vatican.  He  was  pronounced  the  ablest  rea- 
soner  America  had  ever  produced,  and  so  valu- 
able were  his  periodical  wiitinga  esteemed,  that 
they  have  recently  been  collected  'khd  published 
in  seventeen  volumes,  at  a  cost  of  fSoo  each. 
But  in  spite  of  this  splendid  contribution  to 
American    literature,    the    descendants   of    Dr. 

B n  are  extremely  poor.      Had  the  same 

aUlities  been  employed  in  the  law,  medicine,  or 
business,  he  might  have  realized  a  fortune  tor  his 
family.  It  is  too  often  the  unhappy  lot  of  authors 
to  ask  for  bread  during  life  and  leceive  a  atone 
years  afrer  their  death,  in  the  shape  of  a  marble 

\Ty  I,  tS86. 

wkk."  ibe  Mew  Ynrk  cnTTapondcDI  of  Ihe  Bn*. 


rnf  it 


DIht  I 


.hvW 


ij-ihinx 


lbs  CiKiwjf  uncc  Tkramk  Oiu  AJmaMralin 
paUwhfd.andiayi  Ibal  1  "profw  uidi  inliraali  knovl- 
cdxa  upon  ibe  ■ul^ect,  that  on*  vcvld  ihink  thai  b«  wai 
til)KrMn.Bun>HI(Klba«9ilor  ol  IlK  CenAirx"  Ian 
ntiihtr  Mr*.  Bumeil,  lb*  ediior  of  iha  Ceilmr^,  nor  Iha 

tpoibdvni,  I  uill  msintela  ilist  I  do  know  somabing  sbotit 
it.  Denials  ar>  amj,  bui  ibe  laci*  uill  nmin  uMmwcrad 
■nd  unsuwenble  ihil  Hn  Bnratll  hat  wiitleo  noiUnK 
for  Iha  CtMKrf  ma  Tkrnifk  Ont  Admimitlralitn 
wu  publiibed,  and  llnl  iha  cainc  therelix  kh  iIh  unirat- 
ranublt  libcny  lalitn  with  ihe  laM  cbaplen  d(  ihal  ilory 
br  tha  ediioriil  CEiwdr  a(  ilie  Ctnlmry  ina|tiiln<—  ihii 
during  Ihii  period  the  l>u  wrillen  iloiia  ibai  lian  been 
printed  tlH'btn,  Ihn*  ihowiDg  that  It  irai  ihh  illneH 
■  lone  ibat  prtYtnied  brr  from  coiilribBlini  lo  ih*  CeMnry. 

Nicktlat,  and  IriuiDphaolly  quoIH  Ihal  at  ptool  ihai  iha 
had  »D  qaarrel  wilb  Ibe  Century  Companr.  Fennil  mt  lo 
remind  Ibis  correapondenl  that  quandt— ^even   "biner 

Burntil  and  iha  Cenlary  dHnpanr  ma^  have  dBaned  it  lo 
ilKir  nutati  advaniaaa  lo  ahike  hwida  and  maha  up. 
'-Druniwick"aa>unHaaaa  nailer  ul  courw  ihal  I  am  a 

"B>iiii>Kick"  it  a  lady,  i 


:  n«  lor  iba  ui 


POETET. 


He  whom  an  unkind  fate  condemns  to  feed  for 
a  brief  season  upon  aucb  iniellcctoal  aliment  as 
is  afforded  by  a  t^ble  stacked  high  with  "recent 
poetry  "  may  well  ask  what  is  poetry?  and  find 
■mall  anawer  to  bis  despairing  cry.  Paul 
Hermes,  in  his  CimfcisiBm  [Philadelphia:  D. 
McKay.  >i-J5],  defines  poetry  as  a  "striving 
(or  utterance,"  and  "striving  for  utterance"  is 
Indeed  the  characteristic  of  the  array  of  verse 
before  u%  so  hard  is  it  to  be  natural  and  sincere 
to  say  what  one  really  feels  and  thinks  I 
There  is,  hoaevcr,  a  quality  about  the  Con/et- 
61  Paul  Hermes  which  renders  them  of 
I  than  passing  significance.  The  author  ba* 
had  soul -experiences,  and  has  given  them,  per- 
hap*  inadequate,  yet  certainly  not  falae  or  over- 


4« 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Feb.  6, 


elaborated  expression.  In  ipite  of  hii  defioition 
of  poetry  Ihe  **  striving  for  otterance  "  is  not  so 
manifeal  in  his  writings  as  il  U  in  manj  more 
Buent  prodnctiona  <rf  the  modem  moM.  The 
experiences  have  not  been  very  wide  or  very 
profound,  but  they  hare  been  genuine  and  apon- 
taneoo*  and  thcj  reflect  to  some  degree  the 
universal,  and  thui  far  show  forth  the  mentat 
growth  of  every  thoughtful  man.  The  ihortei 
poema  are  unequal  in  merit,  but  they  aii 
devoid  of  melody;  they  are  addressed  to  the 
mind  rather  than  to  the  heart,  although  thi 
little  poem  called  "  Passion  "  breathei  an  in 
tensity  of  emotion  that  gives  it  exceptional  1yii< 

Not  lyrical  power,  but  an  almost  epical  grand 
eur,  marks  the  Tie  Sangi  ef  tki  Htighh  and 
Ditpa  of  the  Hon.  Roden  Noel  [London ;  Elliot 
Stock].  "A  Lay  of  Civilization"  is  in  many 
respects  a  wonderful  performance,  eloquent  with 
the  wrougi  of  suffering  humanity,  prophetic 
its  piescntiments  ol  doom  Invoked  apon  the 
tyranny  of  wealth  and  luxury,  starlliog  li 
contrasts  between  the  darknei*  and  fillh  of  the 
sluma  and  the  glory  and  splendor  of  the  temples 
and  palaces  of  the  great  English  Dabytoru  In 
the  poet's  eyes 

And  liD-bnuhcd  ohiiJiIiaBi  oT Iks  cilV, 


Od<  nuptiil-tsul  of  nuTTTinrilowasdaliiciii, 
A  wDDcfroui  panbla  of  lift  lErough  dalh. 
Love  is  over  all  supreme. 

nolfarc,  dear  birds,  In  Inly  woodi  -jt  nifalc, 
And  yov,  By  childnti,  t>T  ihc  rivulet 
Plsy,  laugliinB  naTTiljr,  bccuuc  tlifl  world 

God-fronlcd,  dnfon-lnincd,  'lii  Inil  ■  mrrcd 
IiBut  in  •Dok,  whs  iniail  vM  diktowii, 
Wlui,  niOcd,  ■lowlr  wantiBlartM. 
And  whr  «(  iriK  or  fall,  no  monal  kaon 
Savfl  (hat  by  dvanp  ilont  Iha  UDchanged  abldeai 
LoH  bralhn  anid  iIm  ruin  of  rad  nmuig. 

The  remaining  poems,  if  they  fall,  ai  they  do, 
wholly  to  fulfill  the  promise  of  the  author's  ear- 
lier volumes,  display  a  strength  of  imagination, 
a  vigor  of  expression,  a  depth  of  manly  sym- 
pathy, a  keenness  of  spiritual  insight,  an  enthu- 
slaatic  appreciation  of  nature  that  are  too  rare 
among  poetical  productions  of  the  day  to  be 
patted  by  without  a  word  of  cordial  praise. 
"  Melcha,"  filled  with  picturesque  imagery  and 
far-shining  thoughts,  is,  in  spile  of  its  inequali- 
ties, a  noble  poem. 

Inequalities  there  are  alto  in  LiUth,  by  Ada 
Lai^worthy  Collier  [D.  Lothrop  &  Co.],  and 
inequalities  of  a  very  annoying  kind.  The  verse 
is  often  smooth  and  musical,  often  rough,  halt- 
ing, and  entirely  beyond  the  limits  of  any  known 
method  of  scansion  ;  and  the  form  suffers  not 
a  little  from  the  author's  astonishing  ignorance 
of  the  principles  of  punctoalion.  But  the  merits 
far  outweigh  the  faults.  According  to  Hebrew 
tradition  Lililh  was  Adam's  first  wife,  who,  re. 
fusing  (o  Eubmit  to  the  authority  of  her  spouse, 
forsook  Paradise  and  became  united  to  Eblia, 
prince  of  the  devils,  to  whom  she  bore  demon 
children.  This  idea  of  frustrated  motherhood, 
and  the  untenable  derivation  of  the  word  "la1^ 
aby"  "from  two  Arabic  words  meaning  'Be- 
ware of  Lilitht'"  supply  the  author  with  the 
insplTatlffli  for  a  charming  interpretation  of  the 
old  legend.  The  novelty  and  freshness  of  the 
theme,  the  varied  resources  developed  in  its 
elal>oration,  and  the  exquiiite  meanings  involved 
in  the  narrative,  all  conlribnte  to  render  LUilk 
a  poem  of  more  than  ordinary  significance.  A 
little  more  care  bestowed  upon  the  tecbuique 


would  have  made  it  a  very  noteworthy  produc- 

Id  a  Feathir  Jrtm  the  SVerlJ'i  Wing  [J.  B. 
LIppincott  Co.  #1.00]  Mr.  Algernon  Sydney 
Logan  deals  boldly  with  the  problem  of  illicit  love, 
and  shows  a  fine  comprehension  of  tragic  fitness 
in  consigning  his  two  tinners  to  a  watery  grave. 

Simplicity,  sincerity,  tender  and  genuine  emo- 
tion, are  to  be  found  in  Dr.  M.  F.  Bridgman' 
unrhymed,  but  by  no  meant  unmusical,  verses. 
Under  the  Pint  [Cupplet,  Upham  &  Co.] 
There  is  a  wholesome  lest  of  living  in  them, 
and  an  eager  sympathy  for  all  things  that 
and  grow  that  should  render  them  suggeativ 
all  who  can  put  themselves  in  harmony  with  the 
mood  in  which  they  written. 

Mr.  George  W.  Warder,  who  favors  us  with 
a  volume  of  Utopian  Dream  and  Latui  Leatiei 
[London  :  Sampson  Low  It  Co.]  containing  his 
entirely  undesirable  portrait,  gives  us  his  idea  of 
"  What  Canses  Poetry  i " 


Mmd  I.  Mr 

■Tialh.G..I  effort  »flba 
nloUrGaidaoIclgwini  bncT 

have  fall 

n  with  their  pent  dipped 


in  (hen 
And  some  have  w 
in  very  muddy  ink. 

What  the  literary  executrix  of  the  author 
•lyles  affectedly  The  PaeHcal  ffarij  of  Ml 
H.  J.  Uwis  [Capples,  Upham  &  Co.]  U  : 
agreeable  little  volume  of  verse,  ma«tly  of 
devotional  nature,  all  melodious,  thoughtful,  and, 
if  not  always  unhackneyed  in  theme,  yet  having 
inning  individuality.  —  At  for  Mr.  Warren 
Sumner  Barlow's  monologue  on  Immortality  In- 
herent in  Nature  [Fowler  ft  Wells,  60  cts.]  we 
cannot  discover  either  in  its  trend  of  thought  or 
outward  form  any  good  excuse  for  being;  com- 
monplace ideas  gain  nothing  when  expressed  in 
:ommonp1ace  rhymes. —  Wild  Rose  and  Thitlle, 
by  George  Edward  Day  [Worcester:  F.  R. 
Balchelder],  is  a  first  sheaf  indicative  of  better 
harvests  in  a  possible  future.  —  Colonel  John  A. 
Joyce  claims  for  his  Peculiar  Poems  [Thos.  R. 
Knox  &  Co.]  not  "the  imperial  flights  of  Shake- 
speate,  Homer,  sod  Edgar  Allan  Poe,"  but 
ome  of  the  simplicity,  heart,  and  love  found 
Tasso,  Goldsmith,  Longfellow,  and  the  Cary 
sisters."  The  claim  is  too  modest ;  they  are 
also  peculiariy  silly,  —  Mrs.  Kate  Brownlee 
Sherwood's  Camp-Fire  Poems  [Janscn,  McClutg 
&  Co.  tl.oo]  have  a  martial  sweep  of  rhythm 
and  the  glow  of  true  patriotism)  and  are  tem- 
pered with  a  fraternal  feeling  that  leaves  no 
for  sectional  hale.  Their  emotional  fervor 
and  simplicity  of  diction  give  them  a  power 
that  losea  little  with  the  lapse  of  time.  —  We  can- 
not find  in  the  Poems  of  Andrew  James  Syming- 
[Paisley:  Alexander  Gardner]  much  to 
admire.  The  author  is  evidently  sincere  in  hit 
belief  that  he  has  tomething  to  say,  but  the 
faculty  for  poetical  expression  is  vague  or  does 
exist  at  all.  —  The  Rural  Lyrics  of  the  Hon. 
J.  P.  Simmons  [J.  B.  Lippincott  Co.]  are  of  the 
that  ought  to  be  kepi  in  Ihe  unobtrusive 
-privacy  of  the  original  MSS.  for  the  benefit 
of  admiring  friends.  —  Henry  Hamilton's  Amer- 
and  Other  Poems  [G.  P.  Putnam's  Son*. 
tt.oo]  are  somewhat  too  persistently  didactic, 
and  further  are  monotonous  in  tone.  The  open- 
ing ode  to  America  as  the  home  of  the  homeless 
it  touched  with  touMtblng  sA  real  poetic  fire. — 


The  author  of  Cou/aii,  Lady  Bride,  and  Other 
Poems  [London  ;  Pickering  &  Co.]  is  capable  of 
vene  like  this: 


Id  iha  tw<li|bt  ilgnc  ute  Millkent  Onj : 
In  ibe  moanlirhl  alone,  llunkinf  deeply  alway ; 
T>iroii(h  Ihe  lon[  nighl  alone, 

I  will  da  wiial  I  may. 


THI  the  • 


-r- 

■ouu'l  c«]d  nice 

■        ■ 

iWniH 

-no- 

GUBREirr  LTTEBATirRE. 


Dr.  T.  S.  Verdi  ii 
His  works  on  Maternity  snd  Mothers  and 
Daughters  are  standard  and  are  excellent  His 
latest  production.  The  Infant  Philosopher,  is  a 
bit  of  pleasantry,  with  some  practical  wisdom 
lurking  behind  iL  The  little  book  purports  to 
be  the  leaves  out  of  a  baby's  journal,  in  which 
the  young  one  describe*  life  as  he  finds  it,  re- 
counts his  experiences;  and  tells  what  he  thinks 
of  mothers,  nurses,  pins,  hoods,  blankets,  and 
phot<^aphera.  The  idea  is  original,  and  it  is 
very  happily  worked  out.  It  It  the  baby  always 
who  speaks,  and  hit  comments,  complaints,  and 
suggestions  have  freshness,  quaintness,  and  point 
"  They  bad  such  a  lime,"  be  says, "  fixing  my  arm* 
and  my  legs  I  "  "If  that  was  the  colic,  I  shall 
never  forgot  it."  "  Do  people  like  to  dangle  in 
the  air?"  "Every  body  seems  bound  to  say 
that  I  resemble  my  father  —  Ugb  1  "  We  should 
not  be  surprised  to  hear  that  this  trifle  had  a 
great  t«n.    [Fords,  Howard  &  Halbert.    30c.] 

A  large  company  of  English  and  American 
readers  will  be  grateful  for  a  comely  volume,  in 
the  style  of  Bohn's  Library,  of  Selections  Chiejfy 
Lyrical  from  the  Poetical  Works  ef  Victor  Hugo, 
the  translations  by  a  great  variety  of  hands. 
They  have  now  been  collected  by  Mr.  H.  L. 
Williams  for  Ihe  first  liipe,  and  furnish  a  broad 
insight  to  the  genius  of  the  great  French  poet- 
There  are   x  of  his   "Early  Poems,"  g  of  hit 

Odes,"  6  "  Ballades,"  zz  of  "  Let  Orientales,"  7 
oE  "  I^s  Feuilles  d'Aulomne,"  it  of  "  Les  Chants 
du  Cr Opuscule,"  10  of  "LesVoix  Interleures,"  16 
of  "  Les  Rayons  et  les  Ombres,"  16  of  "  Les 
Clialiments,"  rz  of  "  Les  Coniemplationt,"  11 
from  "La  Legends  des  Siicles,"  9  from  "L'An- 
nie  Terrible,"  7  of  "  Les  Qoaire  Vents  de  t'Et- 
prit,"  and  a  number  of  miscellaneous  pieces, 
including  16  dramatic  fragments.  A  table  of  con- 
givet  the  source  of  the  translation  wlien- 
known.  A  brief  memoir  of  M.  Hugo  is 
prefixed,  and  there  Is  an  excellent  etched  por- 
trait for   a  frontispiece.      [Scribner  ft  Welford. 

Three  papers  defensory  of  McClellan  and  hit 
Virginia  campaigns,  by  Ihe  Hon.  George  Tick- 
nor  Curtis,  have  been  reprinted  from  the  North 
Ameriean  Review,  tc^elher  with  a  tribute  to  the 
Dead  Soldier's  memory  from  the  New  Vork 
Star,  the  whole  In  a  small  paper-coveted  book 
uitder  the  general  title  of  McCleilan'i  Last  Ser- 
to  the  Reputlie.  There  Is  an  authentic  map 
of  the  seat  of  operations  in  Virginia,  and  Ibe 
value  of  Mr.  Curtit's  tutemenl  lies  in  the  fact  of 
being  based  on  McCleilan'i  own  authority. 
[D.  Appleton  ft  Co.    30c.] 

No.  XXXI  of  Putnam's  "Questions  of  Ihe 
Day "  is  a  description  by  Lt.  W.  H.  Jacques, 
U.  S.  N.,  of  Ericsson's  Destroyer  and  Submarine 
a  "  modern  Improvement  "  of  the  first  qual< 


i886j 


TMfi  LiTfiRAftV  World. 


47 


ity  for  blowing  np  an  enemy'i  ship,  bj  meuia  of 
approach  under  water.  There  ar«  numcrou* 
diagrams  explaining  the  ingenuity  of  tbis  death- 
dealing  inventiini.     [Paper,  2jc.] 

That  voluminous  encyclopKdia  of  religions 
■elections,  Thir^  Thmuand  Thvu^ku,  ba* 
reached  a  fourtb  book  of  upwards  of  500  large 
octavo  pages  devoted  to  {u]  Jchovistic  names 
and  titles  of  God,  (J)  the  attrihntes  of  God,  (c) 
tins,  and  y)  Christian  Dogmatics.  Careful 
classification,  lucid  arrangement  of  matter,  and 
systematic  indexing  make  the  contents  easy  of 
reference,  and  certainly  useful  in  a  way  to  relig- 
ious iladenta,  especially  clergymen,  who  cannot 
fail  to  find  in  it  much  that  will  be  helpful  in  the 
task  of  teaching  and  illustrating  truth.  [Funk  & 
Wagoalls.    #3.50.] 

The  same  publishers  have  began  the  publlca- 
tloa  as  a  serial,  in  a  novel  oblong  form,  of  Pocket 
Lesien  Wotii,  in  two  editions,  one  for  teachers  and 
one  for  scholars,  on  the  International  Sabbath 
School  Lessons,  both  prepared  by  Rev.  and  Mra- 
W.  F.  Ctafu.    [Paper,  15  and  sc] 

The  new  year  brings  a  sixth  volume  of  Mr. 
Lodge's  stately  and  elegant  new  edition  of  Ham- 
ilton's Werks.  In  this  volume  we  have  a  contin- 
uance of  the  documents  in  the  Whiskey  Rebellion, 
including  correspondence  between  Hamilton, 
Mifflin,  Washington,  and  Craig ;  a  long  series  of 
Military  Papers,  chiefly  letters  of  Hamilton  to 
Washington,  McHenry,  Wilkinson,  Pinckney, 
and  Col.  Smith;  nine  papers  bearing  on  the 
Jefferson  and  Adams  Controversies  ;  the  famous 
Reynolds  Pamphlet;  and  some  Speeches  in  the 
New  York  Assembly  in  1787.  The  Reynolds 
Pamphlet  is  a  dark  and  melancholy  chapter  of 
private  scandal,  in  which  Hamilton  heroically 
cleared  hit  fame  as  a  public  man  at  a  heavy 
personal  cost.    [G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons.    $5.00.] 

A  really  finely  illustrated  edition  of  Kingsley'S 
Water  Baiiet  would  be  worth  having,  and  would 
be  worth  four  dollars,  but  the  hundred  illustra- 
tions which  Linley  Sambourne  furnishes  are 
below  what  is  requisite  for  that  result.  The 
artist's  name  is  more  brilliant  than  his  work. 
We  know  that  his  work  is  "fashionable,"  but  we 
do  not  admire  it.  There  Is  a  coarse  cheap  look 
about  il,  though  a,  certain  sort  of  originality  and 
power  in  it,  it  is  not  possible  to  deny.  [MacmiUan 
»Co.    Koo-l 

The  Boston  firm  of  Joseph  Burnett  &  Co.  pub- 
lish a  little  paper-covered  qoarlo  of  HmitAcld 
Riceipta,  all,  donbtlets,  to  be  suitably  flavored  with 
the  "  extracts  "  of  wliich  they  are  the  manufac- 
turers.    [25c.] 

THE  PEBIODIOALS. 

The  Nen  Princeton  Rtview  steps  in  It*  initial 
number  to  the  front  of  all  American  periodicals 
that  come  to  out  table  in  massiveness  and 
strength  of  aspecL  Here,  one  would  say,  is  a 
^nl  prepared  to  not  a  race.  A  salmon-covered 
cover,  imprinted  in  bold  type,  enclose*  151  large 
octavo  pages  of  reading  matter,  about  400  words 
to  a  page  ;  and  these  pages  are  allotted  to  seven 
contributors,  two  of  whom  are  not  named,  and 
to  an  editorial  department  of  "Criticisms,  Notes, 
and  Reviews."  Mr.  C.  D.  Warner  writes  with 
the  knowledge  of  observation,  not  experience,  oE 
■  Society  in  the  New  South."  President  McCosh 
of  Princeton  College  points  out  "  What  An 
American  Philosophy  Should  Be;"  a  realitm, 
namely,  as  opposed  to  idtalutn  on  the  one  hand 


and  i^ieitiiim  on  the  other.  Rev.  C.  H.  Park- 
hurst,  minister  of  the  Madison  Square  Presby- 
terian Church  in  New  York,  writes  with  piquancy 
and  vigor  of  "  The  Christian  Conception  of  Prop- 
erty," basing  it  on  brotherhood,  and  pleading  for 
a  community  of  feeling  and  intereat  as  a  higher 
sort  of  communism.  The  "  Lunar  Problems 
now  under  Debate  "  are  reviewed  ijy  Professor 
C.  A.  Young;  one  of  which  is  how  did  the 
earth  come  to  have  a  moon  at  all?  The  proba- 
bility is  that  they  are  mother  and  daughter, 
agreed  to  live  separately.  Hr.  John  Bach  Mc- 
Masier's  paper  on  "A  Free  Press  in  the  Middle 
Colonies"  is  virtually  a  sketch  of  William  Brad- 
ford, an  early  New  York  printer.  The  unsigned 
articles  are  "The  Political  Situation,"  which  is 
a  call  for  leadership  on  the  basis  of  principle, 
and  "  Monsieur  Moite,"  a  story,  i  feuillttim,  an 
odd  feature  in  a  review,  but  perhaps  not  a  bad 
one.  The  paper  on  which  T^e  Primeliin  Reiiieai 
is  printed  is  admirable,  and  deserves  special 
commendation.  [A.  C.  Armstrong  ft  Son. 
J3.00  a  year.] 

We  have  been  especially  interested  in  look- 
ing over  a  handful  of  recent  numbers  of  Thi 
Southern  Baimtac,  an  illustrated  monthly  maga- 
zine published  at  Louisville,  Ky.,  and  now  fairly 
under  way  in  a  new  and  improved  series.  Il  is 
of  the  conventional  proportions,  an  octavo  of 
60  pp.,  with  a  pictorial  cover  in  blue,  the  pre- 
dominating element  in  which  are  suggestions  of 
military  life  — not  exactly  the  best  ontward 
token  of  a  "literary  and  historical"  interior. 
The  paper  and  print  are  very  good  ;  the  illuslra- 
(lons  creditable,  all  things  considered.  The 
contents  include  a  variety  of  contributed  articles, 
signed,  and  three  editorial  departments,  "Com- 
ment and  Criticism, "  "Editor's  Table,"  and 
"  Salmagundi."  Military  history  and  biography  in 
relation  to  the  Civil  Wai  occupy  a  prominent 
place ;  Hugh  Conway's  "  Carriston's  Gift  " 
runs  along  as  a  serial ;  Charleston,  S.  C,  in 
ante-bellum  days  and  the  Cotton  Gin  are  de- 
scribed ;  there  is  a  sketch  with  portrait  of  Rev. 
Sam  Jones,  the  famous  evangelist;  and  there  is 
a  sprinkling  of  original  poetry.  Basil  W.  Duke 
and  Richard  W.  Knott  are  the  conductors,  B.  F. 
Avery  ft  Sons  the  publishers,  and  the  price  is 
(z.OO  a  year.  Altogether  T%e  Saulhtm  Bninuac 
is  a  good  thing  in  itself  and  a  sign  of  promise- 
Harvard  University  has  a  new  magazine,  Tkt 
Harvard  Monthly,  a  quarto  of  44  pp.  to  the 
number,  covered  in  heavy  white  paper  with  a 
pebbly  finish,  and  containing  a  miscellany  of 
matter  in  prose  and  verse  contributed  over  signs, 
tures  tjy  students  or  teachers  in  the  univetsily. 
Its  aim  is  "  to  preserve,  as  far  as  possible,  the 
best  literary  work  that  is  produced  in  college  by 
under-gtaduates."  If  such  a  periodical  can  be 
made  to  pay,  it  probably  has  a  place.  We  do 
not  ourselves  see  the  oecessily  for  such  an 
organ,  but  a  certain  interest  attaches  to  it  as  a 
higher  exponent  of  the  college  thought  and  life, 
[tz.oo  a  year.] 

Outside  of  the  editorial  departments,  in  (he 
hands  of  Mr.  Curtis,  Mr.  Howeiis,  and  Mr.  War- 
ner, the  attractive  features  in  the  February  Har- 
fier'i  are  a  fully-illustrated  historical  article  on 
"The  British  Navy,"  by  Sir  Edward  Keed  ;  a 
fascinating  description  of  "  The  Blue-Grass 
Region  of  Kentucky,"  by  James  Lane  Allen, 
with  some  views  thereof  which  are  enough  to 
make  the  world  wish  to  remove  Ihilhet  at  once; 
and  "  Hr  We^'s  Fatly  on  the  Klsummee,"  by 


Henri  Daug  J,  a  reminiscence  of  sport  in  Florida, 
which  is  a  pleasant  reminder  of  Porte  Crayon's 
happy  Virginian  days. 

The  February  Atlantic  we  should  not  call  a 
very  brilliant  number.  Mrs.  Oliphant  and  Mr. 
James  are  well  along  in  their  respective  serials, 
"A  Country  Gentleman"  and  "The  Princess 
Casamasaima; "  and  Miss  Murfree  has  fairly 
begun  her  new  continued  story,  "  In  (he  Clouds," 
another  chapter  of  Great  Smoky  Mountain  his- 
tory. The  solid  paper  is  one  on  "  Ministerial 
Responsibility  and  the  Constitution,"  by  a  writer 
with  (he  extraordinarily  august  name  of  Abbott 
Lawrence  Lowell,  whose  object  is  an  argument 
against  making  American  Cabinet  ministers 
responsible  to  Congress.  The  touch  of  charm 
in  this  number  is  Mr.  Whittier's  poem  on  "The 
Homestead,"  a  congenial  theme,  and  a  tender 
plea  to  roaming  sons  of  New  England  to  come 
home  and  be  happy  at  their  "  mother's  knee." 


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idld  the  1: 


SHAEESPEABIAVA. 


Tbe  Shakespeare  Quarto  Pacalmilea.  The 
admirable  and  inexpensive  series  of  photo- 
graphic reproductions  of  the  early  quarto  edi- 
tions of  Shakespeare's  Play*  and  Poems,  exe- 
cuted by  Hcssis.  W.  Griggs  and  C.  Praetorius, 
under  the  superintendence  of  Dr.  F.  J.  Furnivall, 
will  hereafter  be  issued  by  Hr.  B.  Quaritch,  the 
well-known  bookseller  of  15  Piccadilly,  London ; 
and  the  nork  will  now  to  on  as  rapidly  aa  possi- 
ble until  completed.  Already  34  Quartos  have 
been  photographed,  19  lithographed,  15  pub- 
lished, and  others  are  in  hand.  The  firs(  fifteen 
Quartos,  now  ready,  are  the  two  I/amJeti,  1603 
and  l6o4,ZffM'j  Za*D»r'jZw/,  1598  (Burby),  The 
Merchant  0/  Venice,  160O  (Roberts),  The  Rape 
of  Luereci,  1594,  all  with  Forewords  by  Dr.  Fur- 
nivall ;  tbe  two  Midsvmmer  Night  Dreamt,  1600 
(Fisher  and  Roberts),  willi  Introductions  by  (he 
Rev.  J.  W.  Ebsworlh  ;  the  first  and  second  Parts 
of  /fenry  IV.,  with  Forewords  by  Mr.  Herbert 
A.  Evans ;  Tlit  Merry  IVives,  Richard  ITI.,  and 
the  two  Lean,  t6o8,  all  with  Introductions  by 
Mr.  P.  A.  Daniel ;  The  Passionate  Pilgrim,  1599, 
with  an  Introduction  by  Prof.  Dowdcn;  Vemii 
and  Adonii,  with  an  Introduction  by  Mr.  Arthur 
Symons. 

Tbe  volumes,  which  are  bound  in  the  so-called 

Roxhurghe"  style  (half-calf  with  cloth  sides), 
re  sold  at  &.  (about  ti.50)  each  to  subscribers 
who  pay  at  once  for  the  whole  series.  The 
price  for  single  volume*  is  loi.  td^  and  full 
sets  will  be  sold  only  at  this  rate  after  all  the  3S 
numbers  are  ouL  As  a  large  part  of  the  edition 
of  (he  first  eight  quartos  wa*  destroyed  by  fire, 
persons  who  wish  to  secure  complete  set*  should 
send  their  subscriptions  promptly  to  Mr.  Qua- 
ritch, as  above. 

Some  of  our  readers  may  remember  that  Mr. 
Asbbee's  facsimiles  of  the  Quartos,  issued  by 
Mr,  Halliwell-Phillipps,  were  sold  tX  five  guineas 
{abou(  $25),  each.  The  new  facsimiles  cos( 
more  (ban  one-twentieth  as  much,  and  are 
o  respect  inferior,  while  they  have  the 
valuable  addition  of  critical  Introductioas  to  the 
by  some  of  our  best  Shakespearian  scholars. 


4S 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


fFEB.  6, 


Mn.  Call's  Book.  Several  correipondenU 
have  wrilieo  to  inquire  mhj,  in  our 
Mr*.  Dall't  book,  we  did  not  point  out  thi*  uid 
th«i  blunder  as  to  the  "  facta  "  of  Shakespeare 
life.  We  auppoaed  we  made  it  clear  thai  it  w. 
our  purpose  only  to  give  a  few  samples  of  the 
errors  and  inaccuriciei  of  the  *olume.  To  have 
catalogued  them  all  would  have  taken  more  space 
than  we  had  at  command.  That  Hrt,  D.  did 
not  know  the  Heldon  tombstone  story 
hoax  merely  shows  that  the  doe*  not  read  tbe 
Wcrld,  or  M  least  our  bumble  depailmeDt 
thereof. 

Since  the  above  was  written  we  have  received 
a  note  from  Mrs.  D.  informing  us  that  the  m 
printi  we  noted  in  her  book  hsve  all  been  ct 
reeled  in  the  plates.    She  adds  : 

Tbe  statement  made  on  p.  44  in  reference 
"  Gray's  Inn  "  U  that  of  my  friend  Mr.  Hallivell- 
Phillippl,and  not  my  own  —  except  byadopi 

On  referring  to  Mr.  Halliwell-Phitlipps'i  Out- 
Unit  (jth  cd.  p,  106),  we  Gild  the  fqilowing 
egant  open-roni 
n  lA  which  was  completed 
in  the  year  1560,  is  one  of  the  only  two  buildmgs 
now  remaining  in  London  in  which,  fo  far  as 
know,  any  of  the  Vl>y*^  Shakespeare  were  p 
formed  in  his  own  lime.  ...  It  may  safely  be 
inferred  that  the  play  was  acted  by  the  Lord 
Chamberlain's  Company,  that  10  which  Shake- 
speare was  ihen  aiiached,  and  the  owneis  of  the 
copyright. 

On  page  xdS,  afier  referring  to  the  perform* 
ance  of  Timlfth  Night  in  the  Middle  Temple 
Hall,  in  Febinary  1601-1,  tbe  author  adds; 

There  is  no  doubt  that  the  comedy  was  |>er- 
formed  by  the  Lord  Chamberlain's  tervanis,  and 
very  little  that  Shakespeare  himself 
the  actors  uho  were  engaged. 

These  facts  about  the  two  buildings  are  not 
new,  and  it  is  not  likely  thai  Mr.  Halliwetl- 
Phillipps  has  misstated  them  elsewhere.  If  he 
kai,  and  if  Mn.  Dall  will  send  us  a  transcript 
of  the  paragraph,  we  shall  be  happy  to  reprint  it 
in  her  behalf. 

Brevities.       The   Conltmperary  Rmieui  for 
January,    1SE6,    contains    an    able    article    on 
"jE^chjlus  and   Shakespeare."  by  Julia  Wedg- 
wood, who  takes  tbe  Enmtnidti  and  Uamltt  as 
illustrations  of  the  "diffcience  between  the  an- 
cient and  ihemi-deTn  view  of  this  our  human  life, 
with  all  Its  isrues  of  right  and  wrong,  sweet  and 
bitter,  true  and  false."    As  she  poinls  out,  there 
is  a  lemaikable  lescmblance  in  the  pluti  of  tbe 
Iwu   dramas;    and   "the   similarity  of   position 
belKcen  Oiestes  in  the  Greek  and  Hamlet  in 
English  play  brings  out  strikingly  the  radical 
-.^^ergerics  between  the  spirit  of  the  two  writ 
and  the  two  natrons."    The  article  Is  well  wo 
the  forty  cents  that  the  reprint  of  the  period'cal 
by  (he  Leonard  Scott  Company  of  Philadelphi 
will  cost  the  reader. 

These  Fame  publishers,  by  the  by,  are  the  prt 
ptielors  of  the  monthly  S/iakeiftariana,  which 
has  ju:>t  entered  upon  its  third  year.  The  Janu 
ary  number  contains  an  Interesting  sketch  of  ihi 
history  of  Mr.  HalliwrlLPhillipps's  OutliiKi  9/ 
tki  Lift  of  Shaktsptare,  with  a  detailed  compari- 
son of  the  6ve  editions.  Part  VII.  of  Mr.  J. 
Parker  Norris's  "  Editors  of  Shakespeare "  is 
devoted  to  Dr.  Johnson.  Sidney  Lee's  eicellent 
paper  on  "As  Yot  Like  II  and  Strallord-on- 
Avon  "  is  reprinted  from  the  Ctnt!ema«'s  Maga- 
ant.  On  the  whole,  the  number  begins  the  new 
year  well. 


We  arc  indebted  to  Dr.  Karl  Elce  of  Halle 
for  ■  copy  of  his  interesting  "  Notes  and  Conject- 
ural Emendations  on  Antony  and  CUefatra  and 
Piriclti,"  reprinted  from  Bnglisehr  Stitdun.  We 
regret  that  our  limits  do  not  permit  us  to  notice 
it  at  length. 

Mr.  Henry  A.  Clapp's  Lectures  on  Shake- 
apeare  at  Dorchester  were  a  "  brilliant  success," 
10  use  the  newspaper  phrase,  and  he  has  already 
been  invited  to  repeat  the  course  in  some  of  the 
Buburban  towns.  The  CkrUtian  RtgisUr, 
complimentary  notice,  says : 

We  may  niention  that  a  girl  of  twelve  who 
heard  him  was  asked  how  it  was  that  she  could 
ait  perfectly  still  for  an  hour  and  a  half  with  ev 
dent  enjoyment  at  these  lectures  when  it  wa 
somewhat  hard  to  endure  a  thirty  minutes'  set 
mon.  "Why,"  she  answered,  "because  Mi 
Clapp's  lectures  were  interesting,  and  I  could 
understand  them  I " 


TABLE  TALI. 


.  . .  Dr.  George  H.  Picard,  the  aalhoi  of 
A  Mallir  of  TaiU  and  A  Miuim,  Flowtr, 
of  the  best  of  la&t  year's  novels,  mingles  his 
literary  relaxations  with  a  somewhat  trying 
medical  practice  in  a  tenement  district  of  New 
York  City.  He  is  now  just  putting  the  finishing 
touches  to  a  new  story,  a  kind  of  serious  comedy, 
though  not  at  all  a  farcical  one,  in  which  nobody 
comes  to  much  distress  except  one  young  man 
and  he,  Anally,  and  rather  suddenly,  is  madi 
supremely  happy.  Its  eatly  publiotiun  is  looked 
(or. 

■ , ,  Dr.  Alida  C  Avery  •(  Denver,  Col,  who 
knew  "  H.  H."  for  the  last  nine  years  of  her  lite, 
says  that  she  believes  she  wrote  the  "Saxe 
Holm  "  stories,  for  she  told  her  so. 

.  . .  Mrs.  Frances  L.  Mace  Is  sojourning 
San  Jose,  Cal.,  and  Is  v>  charmed  with  the 
Santa  Claia  valley  that  she  thinks  of  taking  up 
her  residence  there.  She  is  writing  nothing, 
but  has  given  herself  up  to  recuperation,  having 
last  Slimmer  aufiered  an  exhausting  illness. 

,  .  ,  Who  says  this  is  not  a  just  complaint?  It 
comes  from  one  who  has  a  right  to  speak  thus 
boldly  :  "  In  oui  day  1  think  |>oelty  is  specially 
under  a  cluud  and  in  (ome  disgrace;  thought 
is  at  a  discount — it  is  in  the  way,  many  of  our 
young  verscmeii  seem  to  think.  There  is  a  rage 
for  aitiSciai  forms  of  verse,  clipped  and  sirained, 
and  compressed  out  of  nature,  like  Chinese 
gardening — a  tree  growing  in  a  lubl  Very 
pretty,  musical- sounding  strings  of  words,  but 
enfy  woidt  —  never  any  soul  to  the  form,hever 
by  chance  any  breath  of  inspiration  coming  out 
uf  it.  Now,  1  believe  in  ihe  old  fashion  of 
having  thought  and  truth  in  poetry.  But  the 
artificial  and  trivial  tendencies  of  Ihe  age  have 
gone  far  to  suppress  and  discredit  this  old- 
fashioned  sort." 

. .  .  The  dty  of  Baltimore  is  to  be  congratu- 
lated upon  its  latest  literary  acquisition  —  a 
pul)1ic  library.  Through  the  liberality  of  Mr. 
Enoch  Pratt,  a  native  of  New  England,  a  line 
building  has  been  ereaed  in  the  center  of  the 
city  for  library  uie.  The  building  has  already 
been  opened,  and  four  or  five  branches  have 
established  in  various  parts  of  the  city. 
The  city  has  voted  an  annual  appropriation 
oE  (50,000,  which  sum,  added  to  the  interest 
of  Mr.  Pratt's  millions,  is  likely  to  keep  the 
atiiuiion  in  good  condition.    The  attendance 

already  very  large. 


. .  .  The  Inlerior  Monthly,  published  by  the 
Reformed  Publishing  Company,  of  Dayton,  O., 
for  a  little  more  than  a  year  past,  has  suspended 
publication. 

.  ,  .  Of  that  bright  and  unique  book.  Wit  of 
Women,  it  is  said  that  the  puUlsfaers  could  not 
be  persuaded  to  lake  hold  of  it  until  the  compiler 
had  pledged  a  certain  amount  toward  the  ex- 
pense of  publication  ;  yet  the  venture  is  proving 
one  of  ihe  most  successful  of  the  season. 

.  .  .  Manford's  Afagiaint,  of  Chicago^  is  likely 
to  change  hands  soon,  Mrs.  H.  B.  Manford, 
editor  and  publisher,  retiring. 

. . .  Mrs.  Laura  C.  Holloway,  author  of  the 
recent  biography  of  Adelaide  Neilson,  is  just 
resuming  literary  work  after  a  protracted  illness 
at  her  home  in  Brooklyn,  N.  V. 

. .  .  Miss  Edith  M.  Thomas  has  been  visiting 
New  York,  where  she  has  been  entertained  most 
of  the  time  by  Mrs.  Anne  C.  Lynch  Sotta,  author 
of  **  Handbook  of  Univtrial  Littraturt. 

. .  .  Miss  Margaret  K.  Clemmer,  sister  of  Mary 
Clemmer  Hudson,  says  that  "Alice  Cary  wai 
a  woman  in  whom  there  was  no  guile  —  a  rare 
compliment  for  a  woman  in  these  daya.  She 
seemed  to  me  a  sad-eyed  woman,  who  always 
carried  a  sorrow  in  her  heart." 

.  .  .  Will  M.  Caileton  is  living  with  his  mother 
in  a  brown-stone  house  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Carleton  in,  beyond  question,  the  author  of  the 
long  poem,  Geraldiiie,  A  Remanct  in  Virie,  which 
J.  R.  Osgood  Sl  Co.  published  anonymously. 
He  and  Mrs.  Etla  Farman  Pratt,  of  Wide  Avtaie, 
and  Mrs.  E.  C.  Tompkin^  of  the  Toledo  Bee, 
attended  Hillsdale  (Mich.)  College  about  the 
same  time,  not  many  years  ago. 

...  A  second  edition  of  the  anthology,  Woman 
in  Saired  Song,  K  in  preparation. 

. .  .  Col.  T.  W.  Higginson  is  to  have  nothing 
to  do  with  the  volume  concerning  Mrs.  Helen 
Hunt  Jackson,  in  the  preparation  of  which  it  is 
reported  thai  he  is  to  be  associated  with  Mr.  H. 
W.  Mabie.  Readers  will  be  le-is  sorry  to  learn 
this  than  they  were  last  fall  to  learn  that  Col, 
Hipginson  was  not,  as  reported,  intending  to 
write  a  bir^raphy  of  Mm,  Jackson. 

. . .  Mrs.  t^lman,  "  Margery  Deane,"  is  winter- 
ing at  that  Boston  palace,  the  Hotel  Vendome. 
There  she  gave  a  reception  one  afternoon  last 
week,  at  which  a  large  and  brilliant  company 
were  her  guests.  Among  them  might  be  seen 
Mrs.  Lnuise  Chandler  Moulton,  who  flits  back 
and  forth  between  the  Old  England  and  the 
New  i  David  Neale,  Ihe  atiist,  just  arrived  from 
Munich;  Mr.  C.  W.  Ernst,  tall,  spectacled,  and 
fresh-faced,  the  talented  editor  of  tbe  Boston 
Seaeon  ;  Mr.  Arto  Bates,  Mr.  Oacar  Fay  Adams, 
and  Mr.  Clinton  Scol'ard;and  others.  Mrs. 
Pitman's  next  large  work,  rumor  has  it,  is  to  be 

. . .  All  sorts  of  conjectures  are  afloat  as  to 
the  authorship  of  711/  S/ory  of  Margaret  Kent. 
Une,  which  perhaps  is  as  good  as  the  next, 
ascribes  it  to  Mrs.  Kirk  of  Philadelphia,  a  warm 
friend  of  the  late  "Sherwood  Bonner,"  Mrs. 
McDowell,  whose  pathetic  history  is  said  to  be 
Ihe  fact  underlying  this  fiction.  Mrs.  Kirk  fur- 
nished the  sketch  of  Mrs.  McDowell  prefixed  to 
her  Staoanei  River  Taiet  of  1884. 

—  A  new  history  of  Califomta  is  upon  us,  Tki 
Nislory  of  California,  by  Theodore  H.  Hittell, 
to  be  published  by  subscription  in  two  voluones, 
of  which   the  first  is  at  hand-      "It   was   not 


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49 


writien,"  we  ue  told,  "u  a  tpeculatioi 
patched  togciher  u  ■  job."  It  bears  the  imprint 
of  the  Occidental  Publishing  Company,  San 
Francisco,  and  will  receive  notice  io  doc  se^ 


FOBEIQV  NEWS  AHD  H0TE8. 

—  Mr.  Stanley    Lane-Poole    has  well    edited 
Swift's  Ltlleri  and  Journal!,  giving   about 
tenth   of  the  joninal,   and   eclccliuns  from   the 
corieipondtnce.    [Kcgan  Paul.] 

—  The  new  Shelley  Socieiy  staru  out  with 
seventy  members,  and  lis  first  publication  will 
be  Bicgrafhieai  AriiiUi  en  Skellty  fy  3feii  who 
Knm  Him,  Part  I  of  which  has  already  gone  to 

—  The  Alhenaum  speaks  highly  of  Mr.  Rich- 
ard Bagwell's  history  of /ra/<i»i/^iii/^M«  Tudori, 
in  two  volumes,  saying  that  no  belter  guide  to 
that  part  of  the  general  subject  has  yet  appeared. 
[Longmans,]  The  tame  authority  is  also  en- 
thusiastic over  Mr.  A.  J.  Butler's  translation  uf 
Dante'a  Paradiu.     [Uacmillan,] 

—  The  London  house  of  Griffith,  Farrsn  & 
Co.,  whose  New  York  agents  are  E.  P.  Dutlon 
&  Co.,  has  opened  new  headquatlera  at  the  tnisy 
coiner  of  St.  Paul's  Churchyard  and  Ludgale 
Hill.  — Mr.  Magnasson  of  the  Cambridge  Uni- 
versity Library  is  editing  Shakespeare's  Ttmpttt 
in  Icelandic,  with  introduction  and  notes,  (or  use 
in  the  schools  of  that  distant  island.  —  Hr.  Le 
Page  Renouf  is  named  as  Ibe  probable  successiir 
of  the  lata  Dr.  Birch  at  the  British  Musenm.  — 
The  Cerrttpondinet  of  Gtorgi  Sand  is  about  to 
appear  in  an  English  tratislaliun.  —  Mr. :  Disraeli 
is  toon  to  publish  another  collection  of  his 
brother's  (Lord  BeacontSeld's)  Leittrt,  addressed 
to  his  sister  during  the  earlier  years  of  hit 
career.  —  M.  Taine  is  out  of  health,  but  the 
command  of  his  physician  to  qnit  work  has  not 
come  until  good  progress  hat  been  made  on  the 
concluding  volume  of  his  history  of  the  French 
Revolution. 

—  The  poet  laureate.  Lord  Tennyson,  has  been 
appointed  President  of  the  London  Libiary  in 
place  of  the  late  Lord  Houghton. 

—  Paul  Lindan,  the  celebrated  German  writer, 
will  shortly  bring  ont  a  new  romance  called 
H^iiu  Yung. 

—  Two  Germans,  Richard  Kralik  and  Joseph 
Winter,  have  acted  on  the  excellent  idea  of  fol- 
lowing the  puppet-shows  exhibited  at  the  differ- 
ent fairs,  and  taking  down  stenographically  all 
the  pieces  fA  their  rifertoirt.  They  have  thus 
been  able  to  give  very  interesting  specimens  of 
popular  dramatic  art.  The  principal  pieces  of 
Ibis  novel  collection,  Ctnmirve  dt  Brabant,  Fault, 
and  2>i>H  ^^isn,  have  already  been  printed.  But 
besides  the  curious  variations  that  these  writers 
have  met  with  in  these  three  works,  they  have 
collected  other  plays  of  some  interest,  yeait 
•  Vackltr,  Ceunl  PaynaJU,  or,  AUxander  dt  Paril ; 

Count  Hmri,  or,  Tkt  Two  Daeturi  Disguited ; 
Caifiard  It  Fiancl,  and  others.  These  plays 
generally  contain  a  large  nnmber  of  popular 
songs,  which  figure  already  in  special  collccCiont. 

—  The  first  volume  of  Victor  Hugo's  posthu- 
mous works,  entitled  Le  Tkedtrt  in  Liberti,  will 
probably  appear  about  the  fifteenth  of  February. 

—  We  nitice  that  Goethe's  complete  corre- 
ipondence  wiih  Carlyle  has  lately  been  brought 
to  light  in  Germany-  The  publication  of  this 
correspondence  is  announced  there. 

—  An   English   edition   of    Mr.  Astor't  new 


novel,  Valenlino,  has  just  been  iaioed  in  London. 
—  Ttit  indefatigable  Mr.  Crawford  has  just 
completed  two  novels.  Prince  Sarttca,  a  Roman 
story,  and  a  study  of  English  life  called  A  Lonely 
Parish. 


HEWS  AKD  NOTSa 

—  Messrs.  Ticknor  &  Co.  have  issued  their 
announcement  of  new  banks  for  the  spring  uf 
[886.  The  list,  which  is  an  attractive  one,  in- 
cludes, besides  the  volumes  already  announced 
in  these  columns,  several  interesting  works  of 
fiction :  a  novel  by  Robert  Grant,  Called  A  Ro- 
mantic Yomta  Lady  ;  JoHh  Bodewin's  Tiilimotiy, 
a  novel  by  Mary  Hallock  Foote;  a  collection  uf 
short  stories  by  Rose  Terry  Cooke,  token  from 
Iiarper''s  Msnlhly,  the  Atlantic,  and  the  Galaxy, 
entitled  Tht  SfAiitx's  CAUdrtn  and  Other  Pcif^ 
pill.  That  the  list  is  not  wilbout  books  of  a 
more  ambitious  character  is  seen  from  the  prom- 
ise of  A  Life  ff  Henry  Wudtwsrtit  Limgfellow, 
viith  Extraiti  from  kit  youmali  arid  Correspond- 
ttue,  edited  by  his  brother,  the  Rev.  Samuel 
Longfellow.  It  is  to  be  in  two  volumes,  and 
will  contain  six  new  portraiis,  besides  wood-cuts 
and  t  facsimile  ;  and  there  is  alsoto  be  a  limited 
iditioH  dt  luxe  of  the  work  with  proof  portraits. 
Oiher  valuable  books  which  maybe  mentioned 
are  The  Life  and  Genius  ef  Goethe  (being  fifteen 
of  the  leclures  delivered  at  the  Concord  School 
of  Philosophy  for  iSSj),  edited  by  F.  B.  Sanborn 
and  W.  T.  Harris.  It  includea  papers  by  Drs. 
Hedge  and  Bartot,  Mrs.  Julia  Ward  Howe,  Pro. 
feasor  White  of  Ithaca,  and  ,olhers ;  Poets  and 
Proilems,  by  George  Willis  Cooke  (author  of 
Emerson:  His  Life.  Wrilingi,  and  PhilasBfhy), 
in  which  Tennyson,  Ruikin,  and  Browning  are 
considered ;  Songs  and  Ballads  of  the  Old  Plan. 
tatieni,  by  "Uncle  Kemus"  (JocI  Chandler 
Hairif);  a  memorial  of  Mary  Clemmer,  by  Ed- 
mund Hudson,  under  the  title  of  An  Ameriean 
Woman's  Life  and  iVori.  and  also  Mrs.  Ctem- 
mer's  Poems  of  Ufe arul  Nature,  and  new  editions 
of  her  Men.  Women,  and  Things,  and  Ifis  J^oo 
Wives ;  The  Olden-Timt  Series,  a  collection  at 
Colonial  lore  edited  by  Mr,  Henry  M.  Brooks, 
the  volumes  uf  which  are  devoted  to  such  sub- 
jects as  The  A'evt  England  Sunday,  Quaint  and 
Curious  Advertisements,  Curiosities  of  the  Old 
Lotlery.  and  like  topita.  We  reserve  some  other 
announcements  by  this  house  for  our  next  issue. 

—  The  Complete  Poetical  Worts  of  Shelley,  in 
three  volumes,  edited  by  William  M.  Rossetti, 
have  just  been  issued  by  Messrs.  Estes  &  Lau- 
riat.  The  edition  is  limited,  only  fifty  copies  of 
ii  having  been  imported  from  England.  The 
Early  Hanoverians,  a  new  book  by  Prof.  Ed- 
ward E.  Morris,  of  the  University  of  Melbourne, 
Australia;  Food  Materials  and  their  Adultera- 
tions, by  Ellen  H.  Richards,  Instructor  in  Chem- 
istry in  the  Woman's  Laboratory  of  the  Institute 
of  Technology  i  and  a  new  edition  of  the  same 
writer's  Chemistry  of  Cooking  and  Cleaning,  are 
among  the  most  recent  publications  of  this  firm. 

—  Messrs.  Ginn  &  Co.  announce  an  Analytic 
Geometry,  by  ProF.  G.  A.  Wentworth  of  Phillips 
Academy,  Exeter,  N.  H. ;  also  Hans  Andersen's 
Fairy  Tales,  graded  for  the  use  of  pupils  of 
different  ages,  in  three  series,  and  prettily  illus- 
trated with  the  original  Pedesen  pictures.  The 
first  series  will  be  ready  immediately. 

—  Verses:  Tramlatioai  and  Hymne,  It  the 
title  of  a  new  book  of  poeirj  by  the  Rev.  Dr. 


W.  H.  Fnmess,  the  widely-known  Unitarian 
clergyman  of  Philadelphia.  The  mechanical 
execution  of  the  book  is  Io  be  exceptionally 
attractive.  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.  will  pub- 
lish it.  They  are  also  about  to  bring  out  a 
"  popular "  one  volume  edition  of  De  Long's 
Voyagt  of  tht  Jeannetle,  and  a  tchool  edition  of 
Richard  Grant  White's  Words  and  Their  Usee. 

—  Miss  Sarah  Orne  Jewetl  is  said  to  be  busily 
engaged  on  a  History  of  the  Normans,  for 
Mesira.  G.  P.  Putnam  &  Sons'  new  series  — 
The  Story  of  tki  Nations. 

—  Dr.  Edward  Cfaanning  of  Harvard  Uni- 
versity is  editing  a  valuable  seriaa  □(  maps,  to 
be  published  by  IMessrs.  D.  C.  Kcalti  &  Co. 
The  first, one  has  just  been  issued,  and  is  an  out- 
line map  of  the  United  States,  In  four  sections, 
each  39  X  41  inches  in  size,  drawn  under  ibe 
direction  of  Albert  B.  Hart,  Instructor  in  Amer- 
ican History  at  Harvard  College.  Dr.  Chan- 
ning's  monograph  on  The  Narragansett  Planters 
is  soon  to  be  issued  in  the  series  of  Johns  Hop. 
kins  Univenily  Sludits  in  Historical  and  Politi- 
cal Science,  in  which  his  Toppan  Friie  Essay  on 
Toain  and  County  Gmiemment  in  the  English 
Colonies  of  North  America,  has  already  appeared- 

—  The  Andover  Kevieai  for  February  has  aa 
aiticle  by  a  French  clergyman,  the  Rev.  R.  Sail- 
lens,  on  The  Religion  of  ITUtor  Hugo. 

Messrs.  D.  Lothrop  &  (Ju.'s  volume  Feiru- 
ary,  in  their  series  Through  the  Year  with  the 
Poets,  is  just  ready.  The  March  Wide  Awake, 
which  this  house  publisher,  will  contain  a  poem 
by  Elizabeib  Stuart  Phelps,  an  Alpine  paper  by 
daughter  of  the  late  Charles  KingsJey,  and 
ime  original  verse  by  the  more  promising  of  our 
younger  poeta. 

—  Professor  Bccrs's  little  volume  of  poems,  ,* 
Thankless  Mute,  was  curiously  transformed  "  into 
something  rich  and  strange"  when  annoonced 
by  Life  the  other  day,  as  A  Thankless  JVurst. 

—  The  third  volume  of  Mr.  Schouler's  History 
of  the  United  Slates  Under  the  Constitution  has 
called  out  a  letter  uf  warm  praise  from  President 
D.  C.  Gilman  of  Johns  Hopkins  University. 

—  A  mysterious  disappearance  —  that  of  £rvr>' 
Other  Saturday.  It  is  now  a  month  or  more 
overdue,  and  has  not  been  ipukcn  ;  awakening 
onr  fears  that  it  has  gone  d.iwn  with  ail  on  board. 

—  The  authorship  ti  The  Buntling  Ball  io^L 
The  Nete  Xing  Arthur  has  lieen  attributed  to 
over  100  different  persons.  The  author,  the  pub- 
lishers give  assurance,  is  "  one  of  the  best  known 
of  living  wrilets." 

-W.  H.  Lawrenie  &  Co.  of  Denver,  Cnl., 
the  publiiihers  of  the  Colorado  Wild  Flower 
'istmas  Greeting  noticed  in  onr  .Holiday  Nom- 
.  The  work  has  been  a  succeu,  and  it  to  be 
repeated  in  an  Easter  form. 

Lee  &  Shcpard  have  ready  new  editions  of 
George  H.  Calvert's  Rubens,  Charlotte  von  Stein, 
Wardsteorlh,  The  Gentleman,  Goethe's  Life 
and  Work,  and  First  Years  in  Europe,  and  a 
translation  of  Joubcrt's  Thoughts.  These  are  all 
issued  in  uniform  style. 

—  Those  who  remember  Misi  Toosey's  Mission, 
Laddie,  and  T,p  Cat  will  be  glad  to  hear  of  the 
new  story  by  the  tame  writer,  Our  Utile  Ann. 

—  Frank's  Ranch;  or.  My  Holidays  in  He 
Rockies,  Being  a  Contribution  to  tht  Enquiry  into 
What  lae  are  to  do  viith  our  Boys,  is  a  title  of  a 
new  book  on  Western  life,  written  byan  English- 
man already  favorably  known  as  the  author  of 
An  Amateur  Angler's  Days  in  DoMdale.    Th« 


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[Feb.  6, 


volume  is  in  Ihe  form  of  lelters  of  which  there 
aie  fourteen,  and  will  contain  an  appendix  and 
aom«  lllastratiiHkt,      Hoi^hton,  Mifflin  &  Co. 
ill  publishers. 

—  The  Atlantic  Mmthly  for  March  will  c 
tain  a  notice  of  the  tate  Dr.  Eliiha  Mulford,  by 
Horace  E.  Scudder;  also  an  article  on  Amtri- 
«Ba,by  Juatin  Wiosor  of  ihc  Harvard  Univer. 
sity  Ubrary  ;  and  a  notice  of  Gen.  Grant  and  his 
book,  by  T.  W.  Higginson. 

—  The  accompanying  little  note,  written  by 
Mra.  Jackson,  shortly  beEore  her  death,  and  for- 
warded with  the  anfinished  HS.  of  her  last  book, 
Ztph,  to  Mr.  Nilea  of  Robert*  Brother*,  her  pub. 
lisbers.  will  be  interesting : 

"  I  am  nrr  tarr]  I  onnol  finltb  Ztfk.  Perhapa  it  it 
DM  worth  publiiliiDg  In  iti  nnflnlihcd  ilau,  u  Ihe  chid  lo- 
•on  lor  which  I  wroteitw»  tobc  lordbl^  IiJdu  thccnd. 
You  muM  bg  ludKB  ><»■■>  thih  I  luppoH  thE»  wUl  be 
■OHM  inurtit  in  it  u  Iha  Iwi  thing  1  wnic.  1  will  Duks  x 
•hort  oallinE  of  the  plu  of  the  doK  al  ibt  itorr.  ,  .  ,  Good 
bjT.  Many  Ihanki  for  all  your  long  iood  will  and  kindacv. 
I  ihali  look  in  on  your  nw  roomi  (one  day,  b«  kuie  -  but 
Ton  won't  Ht  me.    Good  br.    ASeeiianalelT,  forcnr," 

Ai^.  7-  H.  J. 

—  Whats  Mine't  Mini,  a  new  novel  by  George 
MacDonald,  will  be  issued  by  D.  Lothrop  &  Co. 
immediately,  Ii  ia  to  be  published  from  the 
original  MS.  and  will  appear  in  this  country 
before  its  pnblicatian  in  England.  It  is  now  mtt- 
ning  as  a  serial  in   TTii  Churchman. 

—  The  death  of  SeHor  Vicniia  Makenna  of 
■  Chili  seems  to  remove  about  the  only  "  literary 

man"  in  al!  South  America.  His  eminence  as 
statesman  and  patriot  lent  importance  to  his 
work  as  am  author,  which  is  represented  by  some 
thirty  or  forty  volumes  relating  to  Sooth  Ameti. 
can  history.  It  is  said,  we  know  not  with  what 
truth,  that  he  was  the  only  South  American  who 
earned  his  living  as  a  writer. 

—  Mr.  Blaine  is  said  lo  be  reading  the  final 
proofs  of  the  second  volume  of  his  Twenty  Ytars 
in  Congreu,  and  to  be  planning  ■  new  work  on 
the  political  history  of  Ihe  country  antecedent  to 
the  period  he  has  already  covered. 

—  It  is  very  easy  to  make  errors  with  the  pen 
and  with  the  type  in  the  preparation  of  any  sin- 
gle number  of  the  Liltrary  World,  and  readers 
who  hunt  for  them  and  gloal  over  them  will 
always  find  satisfaction.  Some  of  them,  like 
that  of  John  Sttwart  Mill  for  John  S/uart  Mill, 
in  the  lost  number,  are  mortifying,  and  unac- 
countable ;  others  like  T.  ff.  Crane  (or  T.  fi. 
Crane,  author  of  Ilalian  Popular  Tatii,  and  Ij.iO 
as  the  price  of  that  book  instead  of  %z.yi,  are 
more   readily  explained,  though   not  less  to  be 

—  A  letter  from  the  secretary  of  the  Century 
Co.,  New  York,  denies  the  story  told  by  oui 
New  York  correspondent  in  his  !ast  number 
about  a  difference  between  Mrs.  Burnett  and  the 
Century  magazine,  and  adds  the  information  that 
a  novel  by  Mrs.  Burnett,  the  completion  of 
which  has  been  long  delayed  by  her  illness,  is 
nearly  ready  for  the  pages  of  that  monthly. 

—  Mr.  Henry  James  has  made  an  arrange- 
ment with  Macmillan  &  Co.  to  publish  through 
them  his  last  novel.  The  Bostonians,  in  England 
and  America  as  soon  as  the  story  is  finished 
in  the  CiHtury.  The  English  edition  will  ap- 
pear in  the  conventional  three-volume  form,  the 
American  in  one  volume. 

—  For  several  months  Mr.  T.  A.  Janvier,  the 
"Ivory  Black"  of  Cfior  StuJiei,  as  that  clever 
book  made  up  from  the  tales  publisbed  in  the 


Century  contributed  by  Mr.  Janvier  was  called, 
has  been  at  work  upon  a  GuiJi  to  Mtxiet.  The 
book  has  been  made  with  exceptional  care ; 
aithongh  it  ia  the  first  adequate  guide  to  Mexico, 
where  ao  much  Boiton  capital  is  invested, 
promises  to  be  a  good  one  and  worth  waiting  for. 
II  will  be  supplied  with  naps  and  we  beliei 
some  illnstrations.     The  Scribners  have   It    I 

—  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons  have  ready  a  list  of 
thev  announcements  for  the  spring  season. 
side  those  which  we  have  already  mentioned  the 
list  contains  the  following  new  titles:  The  Life 
and  Letter]  ef  Jtel  Barltpt,  by  Charles  Burr 
Todd ;  France  unJtr  Richelieu  and  ifatarin,  by 
J.  B,  Perkins ;  EvolutioH  of  Today,  by  Prof.  H. 
W.  Conn;  Mechanic!  and  Faith,  by  Charles  Tal- 
bot Porter ;  Poetry  at  a  Repreteniativt  Art,  by 
Prof.  George  L.  Raymond;  Refiectiens  and  Max- 
im, by  Batchelder  Greene ;  Lt  Rvmanticiimi 
Fraafoii,  idited  for  students  of  French  by  Pro- 
fessors T.  P.  Crane  and  S.  J.  Brnn;  a  series 
called  the  "  Boys'  and  Girls'  IJbrary  of  American 
Biographies,"  for  which  volumes  on  Fulton,  Lltt- 
coln,  arkd  Washington  are  in  preparation  and 
Anna  Katherine  Green's  new  novel,  7Xf  Mystery 
of  the  Will. 

—  The  Jllustratcd  Book  Buyer,  published  by 
Ihe  Scribners  in  its  new  form,  is  just  out  The 
February  number  Contains  a  newsy  London  letter, 
an  interesting  article  on  "  Some  American  Book 
Plates,"  by  Mr.  Laurence  Hnllon,  with  Illustra- 
tions, an  lliuatraled  review  of  Mr.  Koehler's  book 
on  etching,  a  notice  of  Lieut.  A.  W.  Gteely's 
new  book,  Three  Years  of  Arctic  SeitAee,  by  ex- 
Judge  Charles  P.  Daly,  a  sketch  of  Japanese  and 
Korean  life  from  Mr.  Morse's  and  Mr.  Lowell's 
recent  books,  with  many  pictures,  and  a  general 
survey  of  current  literature  treated  from 
descriptive  standpoint  and  not  a  critical  oi 
The  frontisfriece  is  a  portrait  of  Mrs.  Frances 
Hodgson  Burnett;    there  is  also  a. sketch  of  her 

—  In  their  new  series  of  American  novels  Cas- 
sell  &  Co.  have  just  ready    Without  Blemish 
Teday'i  Prohlem,  by  Mrs.  J.  H.  Walworth. 

—  Copies  of  the  new  English  Historical  Review 
which  have  reached  us  through  the  agency  of 
the  International  News  Co-  present  a  particularly 
handsome  appearance,  and  a  look  of  prospective 
prosperity. 

—  The  New  York  Tribune  a^aVt  al  the  author 
rA  Hrm lo  be  Happy  Though  Married n 3.iiomxa. 
"We  feel  sure,"  says  the  critic,  "that  the  writer 
is  a  woman."  The  author  ia  not  a  woman,  but  a 
chaplain  in  Her  Majesty's  service. 

—  Harper  &  Brothers  have  nearly  ready  for 
publication  Alia  ;  A  Story  of  the  Lest  Island,  by 
Mrs.  J.Gregory  Smith,  which  is  a  continuation 
of  Mr.  Donnelly's  Atlantis,  or  rather  a  pict- 
ure of  the  same  unreal  land  given  in  a  novel ; 
Upland  and  Meadow,  by  Prof.  C.  C.  Abbott  of 
Trenton,  New  Jersey  ;  The  Railtoays  of  the  Re- 
public, by  J.  F.  Hudson ;  A  Memoir  of  Mrs.  Ed- 
ward Livingston,  by  one  of  her  intimate  friends; 
The  Massacre  of  Ihe  Mountain,  by  J.  P.  Dunn, 
treating,  as  its  title  indicates,  the  Indian  ques- 
tion ;  and  a  new  volume  in  the  students'  series. 
The  History  ef  Modem  F.urofe,'by  Richard  Lodge. 

—  Fur  some  weeks  Mr.  Julian  Hawthorne  has 
been  visiting  bis  brother-in-law,  George  Parsoni 
Lathrop,  in  New  York.  The  immediate  outcome 
of  the  visit,  it  is  rumored,  wilt  be  the  establish- 
ing of  a  weekly  paper  edited  by  these  two  gentle- 


men, with  whom,  very  pr<^bly,  oiber  Utemiy 
men  will  be  assodated.  We  do  not  know 
whether  Mr.  Hawthorne  has  had  any  journalistic 
experience,  but  Mr,  Lathrop,  as  the  editor  of  the 
Boston  Courier  and  Mr.  Howells's  assistant  on 
Ihe  Atlantic,  hat  been  Ibrot^h  (o  much  of  the 
trials  of  editorship  that  we  should  think  he 
would  avoid  further  responiilHllty  in  this  direc- 
tion. We  are  glad  to  see,  by  the  way,  that  Mr. 
Lathrop  baa  discontinued  his  gossipy  letter* 
printed  by  a  syndicate  of  smalt  newspapers  all 
over  the  coontry.  Certainly  he  appeared  to 
very  poor  advantage  as  a  New  York  newspaper 
correspondent. 

—  The  LaU  Mrs.  jYn/Zis  the  title  of  Mr.  Frank 
R.  Stockton's  first  novel  which  Ihe  Scribnen 
will  publish.  It  is  said  to  be  quite  as  ingenioot 
in  its  construction  as  the  best  of  his  short  stories. 
The  title  of  Mr,  William  Allen  Butler's  new 
■tory,  in  the  presa  of  the  same  house,  is  Domes- 
ticus ;  A  Tall  ef  the  Imperial  City.  It  will  be 
published  during  the  present  month. 

—  In  the  "Story  of  the  Nations"  series  G.  P. 
Putnam's  Sons  have  the  following  new  volumes 
in  preparation:  Ckaldea,  by  Z,  Ragozlr ;  Spain, 
by  E,  E.  and  Susan  Hale  ;  Nensay,  by  Prof,  H.  H. 
Boyesen  ;  Alexander's  Empire,  by  Prof,  J,  P.  Ma- 
haffy ;  The  Oriental  NtUioni,  by  Prof.  Charle* 
Darmesteter ;  The  Hanseatie  League,  by  Helen 
Zimmern,  and  T^trtty,  by  Stanley  Lane-Poole. 

—  The  Reminiscenees  of  Abraham  Lincoln, 
by  Distinguished  Men  of  His  Time,  will  ap- 
pear in  April  from  the  press  of  the  new  New 
York  publishing  firm,  The  North  American 
Publishing  Company,  an  adjunct  of  the  North 
American  Review  Company.  Mr.  Allen  Thorn- 
dike  Rice,  the  editor  of  the  Rroieta,  has  edited 
the  Lincoln  book.  It  will  Im  sold  only  by  the 
subscription  method, 

—  Dr.  James  L.  Ludlow,  formerly  of  tbe 
Brooklyn  Westminster  Church,  and  at  present 
the  pastor  of  a  church  in  Orange,  New  Jersey, 
ha*  written,  and  Dodd,  Mead  ft  Co.  will  publish, 
a  novel  entitled  The  Captain  of  the  Janimaries,  a 
story  of  war  and  fighting.    The  same  firm  have 

press  «  new  novel  by  Mrs.  Amelia  E.  Barr, 
A  Daughter  of  Fife,  and  A  Midnight  Cry,  by 
Jane  Marsh  Parker.  Another  huge  edition  of 
E.  P.  Roe's  Barriers  Burned  Away  has  just 
come  from  the  press  to  supply  the  never  ending 
demand  for  the  novels  of  this  popular  writer. 

Some  weeks  ago  it  was  announced  in  the 
letters  from  Paris  correspondents  that  the  suc- 
cessors of  the  firm  of  Goupil  ft  Co.,  Messrs. 
Boussod,  Valadon  &  Co.,  would  on  Ihe  first  of 
the  year  begin  the  publication  of  a  superbly  illus- 
trated magazine,  to  be  called  Les  Lettres  el  let 
The  January  number  was  published  a 
.  or  two  ago,  and  arrangements  have  been 
made  whereby  Charles  Scrihner's  Sons  will  sup- 
ply the  American  market.  In  both  literary  and 
ic  senses,  the  undertaking  promises  to  be 
of  the  gteatesl  interest.  Among  the  contributors 
of  pictures  to  the  first  number  are  Kaemmerer, 
Detaille,  Duhule,  L^vy,  Delort,  Bonlet  de  Moo- 
vel.  All  of  these  drawings  are  reproduced  by 
photogravure  in  color.  They  are  profusely 
itrewn  over  the  pages,  and  give  the  number  a 
ich  look  beyond  any  publication  of  the  sort  we 
have  ever  seen.  The  literary  contiibuttons  are 
1  less  notable.  Among  the  authors  repre-  f> 
lied  are  Edouard  Pailleron,  Henry  Houssaye, 
Caro,  Gounod,  Masson,  Jules  Simon,  de  Lisle, 
Popelin,  Camillc    Benoit,  Judith  Gautier,  and 


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man]'  other*.  Lts  Littret  tt  In  Arts  U  drSercnt 
from  >ny  pubHcation  now  in  eiiitence,  ire  be- 
lieve, haviDK  so  ttrong  a  claim  upon  people  wbo 
care  onl;  iot  literature  and  illastration  of  an 
exceptionally  higb  Btandird. 

—  We  hear  that  Mr.  Aldrich,  the  editor  ot  the 
Atlantic,  bai  discovered  another  "  Charles  Egbert 
Craddock."  The  first  introduction  of  this  new 
writer  to  the  public  will  occur  in  the  March 
Atlantic,  and  in  Ibe  form  of  3.  (tory  entitled  *'  A 
Brother  to  Dragons."  Like  most  undiscovered 
geniuses,  the  identity  of  the  author  is  shrouded 
by  a  carefully  arranged  mystery.  It  must  occur 
to  liteisrf  paragraphers  who  are  expected  to 
give  circulation  to  these  hidden  authorship  notes 
(hat  this  particular  form  of  literary  advertising  is 
being  >  little  too  freely  utilized.  The  first  and 
the  only  real  mystery  among  the  newer  novels 
was  in  the  case  of  the  Bread  fyinaers.  Since 
then  how  many  of  these  anonymous  authorship 
paragraphs  have  been  set  going  to  sell  TAc 
Monty  Makers,  As  II  Was  Written,  Buntting 
Ball,  and  its  successor,  Tltc  New  King  Arthur, 
Across  the  Ckasm,  The  Bar  Sinister,  The  Story 
efa  Siege,  Hovi  to  be  Happy  though  Married,  and 
a  host  o[  others  which  never  gained  much  public 


LITERABT  INDEZ  TO  THE  FEBIODI- 
OALS. 


'i.    W.  L.  Counncf.  Frrtuigla 

~\xa\a^B.     S,  Lwni.     r    ■    ■   •■ 
Schooliof.    LordAiton. 


,  Gennan  5ch»b' 
ind  Ihe  Earl;  Hi 


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Hirpcr'i 
Firlnifiiljt, 


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Sitini.  Rn.,  J>[ 

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n.  — ,>».  7iJ«7(«,D,D„En^and,  giy,;  Cin 
Imford,  Jounaliii,  ind  HIblical  lileraiure. 

n.  —  .Rev. HMmthrit,   Loudon;    Viar  of 

lin'i  in  ihc  Ficldm,  Uovlt  and  Hulicin  Leclanr,  1 

of  lli(  N.  T.  RtnKra. 

B,~JaMth  Msjtr,  Lincrpool,  EngUnd,  S3  j.;  ti 

luntoo.     V 
■n  W^ng 


n.  —  Shttdm    Amtt,    £ii(l> 
VieMUt  Mattnmh  Chill, 


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Mon»n.    Scribnei  A  Wcllord.  joe. 

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UadahiHohli  Hik  Salon  and  hik  Fi 

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.^n  Tolitol.    Tr.  by  CUn  Bell.    )  voli.     New  York ; 

Jacos  Schuvui's  Hiluohs.    D.  Appleloo  ft  Co.  vk. 
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The  Literary  World  has  ^ven  its  leadera 
50B  pa^ea  during  1885,  instead  *of  the  4(0 
which  it  pTomlaed  tbem.  Ita  review  of  the 
year,  which  fills  nearly  fifteen  pagea  of  tha 
Issue  of  Dec.  16,  ia  exceedingly  compraben- 
■Ive  and  descriminaling.  The  reader  la 
enabled  to  glance  over  the  whole  field  of 
literature  In  a  half-hour's  time,  and  to  gain  a 
good  general  idea  of  the  quality  and  propoi- 
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departments.  If  nodding  now  and  then,  the 
Literaiy  World  standa  es«ily  at  the  bead  of 
American  publications  of  the  sort,  and  has 
a  certain  apicy  Savor  which  its  rather  pon- 
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lack.  To  people  of  literary  tastes  and  cul- 
it  ia  almost  a  neceaaily. 

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Wolf.  "The  Lover."  ArtM,  Thomag  Hoven- 
den;  Engraver,  C.  H.  Beed.  "The  Soldier." 
Artist,  Gilbert  Gaol;  Engraver,  Frank  Frenoh. 
"The  Jiutoe."  Artist,  A.  B,  Frost;  En< 
graver,  Geo,  P.  Williams.  "The  Lean  and 
Slippered  Pantaloon."  Artist,  W.  T,  Smed- 
leyi  Engraver,  Geo.  F,  WUIiamg,  "Second 
ChlldltbDees."  Artist,  Walter  Shlrlaw;  En- 
graver, Fred.  JnengUng,  Site  of  Plates,  12^ 
by  9}  Inches,  Inclosed  in  neat  portltdlo. 
Price  for  Proofa,  $1.B0;  India  Proofs,  tS.BO; 
Fioots  of  Japanese  Paper,  S3JX). 


J.   B.    UPPINCOTT     COMPANY, 


1886.] 


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CONTENTS. 

Lowb's  Bishaick 

LxuoHuii't  HihTOivor  BmTAU4Ut  . 

BiooaArHT : 

C'hn  UDbym 

ChulH  Darwin 

Hvlbonuth 

FklchirDlMHldaT 

Peflpls  ind  PiEuhen  in  tha  Mctlw^  EfdKop^ 
Chunh 

Wa  Two  Atone  b  Enropa 

A  Tmir  Armind  ihe  World 

The  Cnck  I-lindi  iixl  TurkBT  Alter  Iba  Wilt 

Hwi^on'i  StDiT  it  Gmee 

Ill  HUH  NimcB; 
H(il»n  Spancaron  Eolauutial  InaliluiuBK 

Bancnd'i  UlilotDii 

Two  Tbowund  and  Ten  Chwa  Quotitioni   . 
Tb*  Annate  ol  Ihe  Cakcbiqwla       .... 

Wonderful  Ekxps 

Tha  An  of  IM  Old  EnglUb  Potlar  .... 

*■  Thrsuch  Iha  Year  villi  iha  Poeti "... 
Cu»iHTLiTaa*TU»i 
The  Family  and  the  Hobh 

Educational  Woika 

"~™iiaoi 

JuiB  BuitT  Bbhbil.      Linaa.     Cbariolle  ruk* 
Balaa  

lenatiu  Dunpell* 

CW.EmM 

ThiLatiGkikuT.  Lanicah       .... 
Oua  ILMLim  LaTTSL    A.  H.  P.  R,       . 
Ou«  N«w  Voaic  Lrrru.    Siylu     .... 
Ohi  or  DosTmBrnicv'B  Novils      .... 
SHAKXraAntAHA.     Kdiiedby  Wn.J.Ro1la: 

SeeomI  Edhion  at  Mnrxan'e  "  Shaluapeuiao  Uflb  " 

The  Neit  York  Shakcapakra  Sodeir 

TailiTalk 

FouiCH  News  ahd  Nom 


ZEPH.» 

^EPH,      Mrs.     Jackson's     posthun 

novel,  differs  widely  in  intention  and 
treatment  from  Ramona.  That  seemed 
be  half  a  poet's  vision  of  past  things,  and 
half  a  humanitarian's  protest  against  pres- 
ent wrongs.  Its  pages  are  steeped  in  thi 
soft  hues  of  romance  of  that  old  Hispanic 
Mexican  civilization  which  still  makes  ihe 
South  California  Coast  the  most  picturesque 
point  in  our  United  States,  though  its  ves- 
tiges are  fading  day  by  day  in  the  bold  light 
of  modern  utilitarianism. 

The  scene  of  Zeph  is  Pendar  Basin, 
of  those  rapidly  evolved  Colorado  towns, 
whose  site  and  equipment  are  so  wonder- 
fully in  advance  of  their  years  as  to  furnish 
a  standing  marvel  to  the  Eastern  traveler. 
The  characters,  to  superficial  view,  are 
thoroughly  pros^c  Miss  Sophy  Bun, 
ranch  owner  and  boarding-house  keeper-, 
Zeph  Riker,  carpenter;  Rushy,  his  wife, 
worthless,  unprincipled,  passionate,  fierce  — 
her  only  redeeming  quality  her  tigress-like 


love  for  her  young;  Gammer  Stein,  the  old 
Missourian;  these  are  the  chief  dramatis 
perzena  of  the  tale,  and  not  one  of  them 
would  seem  adapted  to  the  needs  of  the 
lodern  novelist  who,  if  not  analytical,  is 
nothing  unless  he  be  picturesque.  But  love 
and  pain,  anger,  patience,  and  forgiveness, 
factors  which  in  all  ages  can  stand  for 
themselves  and  make  up  the  tragic  elements 
of  story  without  aid  from  scenery  or  philos- 
ophy, and  Ztph  has  the  constraining  charm 

a  vital,  human  interest  The  story  seems 
true  in  its  almost  homely  detail,  its  un- 
adorned fact;  and  the  lesson  which  it  un- 
folds is  the  beautiful  lesson  that  it  is  when 
man's  love  and  pity  come  nearest  to  the 
mighty  and  pitiful  patience  of  God,  that  they 
n  real  potency  over  evil  natures;  and 
that  no  impulse  of  their  divine  quality  is  or 

n  be  utterly  lost. 

The  brilliant,  vigorous  hand  which  traced 
this  lesson  dropped  Ihe  pen  before  the  work 
was  quite  finished,  but,  happily,  not  before 
the  story  had  drawn  so  near  its  close  that 
the  reader  can  lay  it  down  with  no  sense  of 
dissatisfaction  or  baffled  curiosity.  Zeph's 
future  was  assured  from  the  moment  when 
he  and  Sophy  and  the  rescued  baby  stepped 
on  board  the  south-bound  train;  and  the 
few  words  of  final  eicplanation  appended  by 
the  author  in  her  last  days  are  all  that  were 
needed  to  make  it  seem  complete.  It  may 
interest  those  who  care  for  it  and  its  author 
to  know  that  the  vine  on  the  pretty  o 
design  is  the  kinnikinnick,  a  Colorado 
creeper,  which  was  an  especial  favorite 
with  Mrs.  Jackson,  and  grows  in  ma 
over  her  grave  on  Cheyenne  Mountain. 


M^ 


LOWTS  BISUAROE.* 
R.  Lowe,  the  Berlin  correspondent  ' 
the  London  Times,  has  here  done 
substantial  service  to  all  students  of  recent 
history.  His  Bismarck  is  the  first  compre- 
hensive account  of  the  life  and  work  of  the 
most  powerful  statesman  of  his  century,  if 
not  of  modem  times.  The  "  Iron  Chan- 
cellor "  has  ridden  rough-shod  over  so  many 
pet  political  theories,  and  has  cast  down  the 
idols  of  so  many  honest  champions  of  human 
progress,  that  it  has  seemed  well-nigh  im- 
possible for  any  contemporary  writer  to  give 
an  unbiased  narrative  of  his  struggles  and 
triumphs.  Mr.  Lowe,  however,  has  done 
this,  and  has  done  it  in  a  spirit  of  sobriety 
and  earnestness  worthy  of  the  great  task 
which  he  set  himself.  We  trust  his  work 
may  have  some  influence  for  good  upon  the 
American  newspaper  in  its  attitude  to< 
the  German  Empire.  It  may  be  possible 
for  the  reader  to  <»)ndemn  the  imperious 
Chancellor  and  his  imperial  handiwork  evec 
after  careful  study  of  Lowe's  stately  volumes 
but  it  will  be  hardly  possible  to  express  that 


•  Prince  Biuuuck.  An  Uiitorical  Biography.  By 
Chailce  Lowe,  H.  A.  Two  »lumeL  With  Two  FDRnio. 
CaaaaUftCo.    fi.oo. 


condemnation  in  the  petulant  criticism  which 
has  hitherto  formed  the  staple  of  the  Ameri- 
can editorial  on  German  affairs.  The  New 
Empire  is  not  a  huge  joke  which  Bismarck 
has  played  upon  Europe  for  his  own 
amusement  and  the  advantage  of  his  royal 
master.  The  Emperor,  his  Chancellor, 
and  Count  Moltke  are  not  a  triumvirate 
formed  simply  for  the  humiliation  of  Pnis- 
foes  and  the  aggrandizement  of  them- 
:8.  The  German  Empire  is  a  mighty 
historical  fact,  the  result  of  the  most  im- 
portant political  changes  since  the  French 
Revolution. 

It  was  no  fault  of  those  who  raised  the 
imperial  structure  that  it  had  to  be  founded 
upon  the  ruins  of  other  realms.  Even  to 
the  most  violent  hater  of  Prussia  it  must 
now  seem  preposterous  and  almost  incred- 
ible that  France  could  ever  have  felt  it  to  be 
her  right  to  object  to  a  close  union  of  the 
German  States.  Who  can  now  look  upon 
the  former  position  of  Austria  in  the  old 
Confederation  as  anything  but  anomalous 
and  absurd  ? 

All  Germany,  or  more  strictly  speaking,  all 
patriotic  Germans,  had  long  been  struggling 
for  "  unification."  The  points  of  dispute, 
however,  which  must  be  settled  before  any 
nification  was  possible,  seemed  to  be  In- 
umerable  and  to  form  insurmountable 
obstacles.  Bismarck  early  formulated  his 
plan  for  the  settlement  of  those  questions 
and  the  removal  of  those  obstacles,  and  from 
the  path  which  he  straightway  entered  upon 
he  was  led  astray  neither  by  the  timid  tcrtk- 
ples  of  his  friends  nor  the  ridicule  of  bis 
opponents. 

The  chief  obstacles  to  German  unification 
may  be  briefly  summarized  as  follows : 

I.  The  existing  rivalry  between  the 
two  largest  States,  Austria  and  Prussia. 

z.  The  dynastic  ambition  and  conserva* 
tism  of  the  smaller  States. 

3.  The  democratic  or  liberal  sentiment 
among  the  people  (especially  in  the  smaller 
States),  a  sentiment  which  would  oppose  a 
"monarchical"  union. 

4.  The  avowed  hostility  of  France  to 
any  "close  "  German  union  which  might  be 
a  menace  to  her  supremacy  in  Europe. 

Bismarck's  programme  was : 

1.  To  strengthen  Prussia  by  fostering 
the  monarchical  spirit  and  perfecting  her 

2.  To  drive  Austria  out  of  the  Confeder- 
ation. 

3.  To  place  Prussia  at  the  head  of  a 
union  of  all  the  German  States. 

4.  To  destroy  the  hegemony  of  Fiance 
BO  far  as  German  and  Austrian  aff;drs  were 
concerned. 

It  is  not  likely  that  Bismarck  clearly 
thought  out  the  methods  by  which  the 
fourth  article  of  his  political  creed  was  to 
be  applied,  nor  is  there  any  evidence  that  tt 
took  definite  shape  in  his  mind  before  the 
Austrian  War  of    186&     He  adopted  the 


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[Feb.  20, 


principles  of  the  first  lliree,  however,  almost 
as  sooQ  as  he  entered  public  life,  and  he 
made  do  concealment  of  them.  He  told 
them  to  Napoleon,  who  thereupon  said  of 
him :  "  Ce  n'est  pas  un  homme  s^rieuz." 
Disraeli,  to  whom  he  revealed  his  hopes, 
pronounced  them  "the  mere  moonEhine  of 
a  German  baron."  Sir  Alexander  Malet, 
however,  who,  as  English  Ambassador  at 
the  German  Diet,  was  on  terms  of  warm 
friendship  with  Bismarck,  says  of  htm  :  "  To 
raise  Pnissia  to  the  political  status  which  be 
thought  his  country  ought  to  hold,  was  his 
religion.  He  entered  the  path  of  action 
with  the  fervor  of  a  Mahomet  enforcing  a 
novel  faith,  and,  like  Mahomet,  he  sue 
ceeded."  The  story  of  his  Herculean  strug- 
gle against  his  own  parliament  is  well  and 
powerfully  told  by  Mr.  Lowe.  The  nar- 
ralive  of  the  purely  military  part  of  the 
conflict  is  quite  properly  subordinated 
to  the  political  development.  This  is  also 
fortunate  for  Mr.  Lowe,  for  he  is  not  as 
successful  in  describing  the  achievements 
of  the  soldier  as  he  is  in  explaining  the 
victories  of  the  diplomatist  and  statesman. 
In  depicting  the  campaigns  of  '64,  '66,  and 
'70,  he  falls,  too,  Into  the  error  of  much  "  fine 
writing  "  and  free  use  of  stilted  and  pomp- 
ous phrases.  His  narrative  would  have  been 
more  effective  had  he  confined  himself  to 
the  simplest  possible  recital  of  the  events  of 
those  years  of  "  blood  and  iron,"  the  travail 
of  Europe  at  the  birth  of  a  new  nation. 
They  need  no  effusive  rhetoric  The  biog- 
rapher is  moreover  guilty  of  exaggeration 
ID  his  praise  of  the  Schleswtg-Holstein 
operations.  The  Prussian  soldiers  fought 
gallantly  there,  as  well  as  in  the  later  wars, 
but  no  student  of  military  history  can  find 
much  10  praise  in  the  generalship  of  the 
campaign  of  1S64.  It  was  simply  a  "  Kriegs- 
spiel,"  a  "war-play;"  the  training  of  the 
Prussian  army  for  the  rtal  contests  which 
were  to  follow. 

The  first  of  the  two  volumes  closes  with 
the  establishment  of  the  German  Empire, 
the  end  of  the  French  War,  and  the  fulfill- 
ment of  all  of  Bismarck's  hopes  as  expressed 
in  bis  "programme."  Few,  indeed, 
men  to  whom  is  granted  the  realization 
of  such  far-reaching  desires  I  Ten  short 
years;  and  Germany  has  ceased  to  be  thi 
meddling-ground  of  the  European  States ; 
her  councils  are  no  longer  the  training 
school  in  the  petty  chicanery  of  diplomacy 
Austria  no  longer  baffles  Prussia  in  hei 
rightful  leadership  of  the  German  national 
movement ;  and  France,  proud  and  beauti 
ful  France,  has  yielded  her  jewels  and  her 
kingship  in  the  world's  affairs  to  "shabby 
little  Prussia,"  the  poor  relation  of  the 
European  family. 

The  second  volume  gives  an  account  of 
the  "stewardship"  which  Bismarck  had 
undertaken  in  the  imperial  household.  Un- 
der the  headings;  "The  Foreign  Relations 
of  the  Empire;"  "The  ' Kulturkampf ' ; " 


The  Domestic  ASsurs  of  the  Empire ; " 
and  "Characteristics,"  the  biographer  has 
a  vivid  picture  of  the  new  contests 
which  new  responsibilities  forced  upon  Bis- 
marck, and  has  placed  the  personality  of 
before  us  in  almost  every  possible 
degree  of  light  and  shade.  While  he  has 
himself  abstained  from  criticism  he  has 
relentlessly  exposed  the  personal  weak- 
nesses of  the  lofty  but  irritable  Prince,  the 
greatest  of  the  irorld's  diplomatists  and  the 
pettiest  of  parliamentary  dictators. 

The  reasons  which  probably  led  Bismarck 
weaken  in  his  struggle  against  the  Pope 
do  not  seem  to  us  to  be  stated  with  sufficient 
clearness.    Bismarck  abandoned  the  "  Kul- 
turkampf"  as  soon  as  he  had  made  up  his 
mind  that  Socialism  was  a  graver  menace 
the  State  than  was  the  Papal  power,  and 
did  not  hesitate  to  court  the  help  of  the 
church  in  combatting  the  common  enemy. 
Nor  was  this  all ;  he  became  himself  a  So- 
cialist, and    thus    put    Slate-Socialism   di 
rectiy   in   opposition    to    the  plans  of  thi 
Social-Democrat    This  we  believe  to  have 
been  his  masterpiece  in  the  domestic  policy 
of  the  Empire,  and  on  its  success  or  failure 

ill  rest  largely  his  future  renow 
administrator  of  Home  affairs.  Mr.  Lowe 
would  have  done  well  to  give  at  some 
length  the  plans  for  the  improvement  of  the 
condition  of  the  workingmen  which  Bis- 
marck has  repeatedly,  and  with  only  partial 
success,  urged  upon  the  Diet.  We  should 
have  been  glad  to  find  also  a  description  c 
the  much  berated  "  Tobacco- Monopoly, 
which  the  Diet  has  persistently  refused  t 
adopt ;  a  measure  which  perhaps  has  brought 
down  upon  the  head  of  its  author  more 
editorial  wrath  in  this  country  and  England 
than  any  one  other  of  his  many  unpopular 
proposals.  Mr.  Lowewouldhave  donegood 
service  in  showingthat  this  proposed  "tyran- 
nical measure"  was  the  same  which  is  in 
force  today  in  Austria,   Italy,  and  —  republi- 

On  the  whole,  however,  Mr,  Lowe  has 
shown  admirable  judgment  in  the  treatment 
of  his  material,  and  great  skill  in  its  arrange- 
ment, We  wish  we  could  give  equal  praise 
to  his  style  and  to  some  other  points  which 
are  important  in  book-making.  He  has 
shown  on  several  hundred  pages  how 
he  can  write,  and  what  a  noble  instrument 
the  English  language  may  be  in  his  hands. 
Why  has  he,  on  the  other  hand, 
made  use  of  the  most  common  slang  F  He 
frequently  employs  idioms  which  are  Ger- 
man and  not  English.  He  has  in  several 
instances  made  use  of  the  same  quotations 
twice.  He  has  overloaded  his  foot-notes  with 
unimportant  matter.  He  has  made  clumsy 
application  of  slipshod  metaphors.  It  is  a 
pity  that  a  work  so  ambitious  and  so  really 
able  should  be  marred  by  grave  errors  of 

Despite  the  omissions  and  errors  of  form 
to  which  we  have  called  attention  the  book 


remans  still  the  most  important  one  which 
has  yet  been  written  about  that  princely 
Autocrat  of  German  politics  and  European 
diplomacy  whom  another  English  writer 
calls  "a  solitary  Colossus  with  a  continent 
for  a  pedestal." 


THE  SILVEE  QDE8TI0S." 
Laughlin's  Hlstoir  of  Bimetalllsaa. 

THE  history  of  our  American  coinage  la 
comparatively  simple.  When  the  mint 
was  established  in  1793,  there  was  unlimited 
coinage  of  both  gold  and  silver,  and  both 
rere  made  legal  tender  in  the  ratio  of  i  to 
5.  That  was  nearly  the  relative  market 
alues  of  the  two  metals  at  that  time,  but 
they  soon  drew  apart,  silver  falling  to  about 
5}-.  According  to  Gresham's  well- 
known  law,  that  in  such  cases  the  cheaper 
displaces  the  dearer,  gold  gradually 
dropped  from  circulation,  and  the  currency, 
though  normally  and  legally  bimetallic,  was 
reduced  to  a  silver  bayis. 

enl  so  far  that  after  several  years 
of  discussion,  in  1834,  Congress  changed 
ratio  to  about  I  to  16,  by  reducing 
nt  of  gold  in  the  gold  coins  6|  per 
cent  Silver  was  now  nearly  as  much  undei^ 
valued  as  gold  had  been  before,  and  with  a 
similar  result,  that  it  disappeared  as  fast  as 
coined,  giving  place  to  the  cheaper  gold  and 
and  Spanish  silver  pieces.  The 
country  was  now  on  a  gold  basis. 

In  1853  the  nuisance  of  foreign  silver  had 
become  so  great  that  an  attempt  was  made 
to  drive  it  out  of  circulation  by  debasing 
our  own  silver  coins  (except  the  dollar) 
about  7  per  cent,  and  withdrawing  the  legal- 
tender  power  they  had  hitherto  possessed; 
and  this  not  proving  sufficient,  the  foreign 
coins  were  drawn  in  and  recoined.  This 
change  simply  made  silver  coins  subsidiary, 
and  confirmed  the  existing  gold  basis.  Dur- 
ing all  this  time  the  famous  "dollar  of  the 
fathers  "  was  practically  an  unknown  thing, 
not  enough  of  that  coin  ever  having  been 
minted  to  give  more  than  a  single  piece  to 
one  in  ten  of  those  same  "fathers."  Up 
to  1874  the  212}  grain  silver  dollar  seems  to 
have  had  full  legal-tender  power  along  with 
gold,  but  it  was  little  coined  or  used,  and  in 
1873  its  coinage  was  suspended,  and  the  next 
year  its  legal-tender  power  was  taken  away. 
Thus  for  eighty  years,  up  to  1S73,  our 
coinage  system  had  been  bimetallic  In 
theory ;  but,  owing  to  a  wrong  coin  valua- 
tion, up  to  1834  it  was  on  a  silver  basis,  and 
after  1834  on  a  gold  basis.  Then  began  the 
remarkable  depreciation  of  silver,  its  market 
value  falling  from  I  to  15^  in  1872  to  about 
I  to  19  in  1879.  At  the  same  time  the 
equally  remarkable  silver  craze  set  in,  cul- 
minating in  1878  in  the  "  Bland  Sliver  Bill," 
so-called,  compelling  the  coinage  of  at  least 
two  million  silver  dollars  a  month,  author-  (^ 


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57 


Iting  silver-certificates,  and  resloriag  the 
legal-tender  power  of  the  silver  dollar. 
Since  then  the  "  silver  men "  have  been 
persistent  in  eadeavors  to  restore  the  un- 
limited coinage  of  silver,  which  will  at  once 
reduce  the  country  to  a  silver  basis  about 
20  per  cent  lower  than  the  gold  basis  of  the 
last  fifty  years.  Indeed  the  present  silver 
coinage  is  rapidly  doing  the  same  thing,  it 
only  being  a  question  of  a  short  time  when 
silver  will  so  far  displace  gold  in  the  national 
vaults  as  to  compel  the  government  to  pay 
its  Interest,  bonds,  etc,  in  silver,  and  then  the 
business  of  the  country  must  make  the  plunge. 

Snch  are  the  simple  facts,  and  these  have 
been  well  presented  by  Mr.  Laughlin  in  his 
present  work,  though  in  such  a  fragmentary 
way  and  with  so  much  discussion  that  the 
reader  will  have  some  difficulty  in  collecting 
them  into  a.  straightforward  history.  For 
the  main  thing,  after  all,  is  th'e  underlying 
reason  for  these  monetary  changes.  Why 
did  silver  gain  the  ascendency  before  1834, 
and  why  gold  afterwards  ?  What  were  the 
causes  of  the  steady  decline  of  silver  for 
nearly  four  centuries,  and  for  its  sudden 
downfall,  1872-6  ?  Has  gold  appreciated  of 
late,  and  if  so,  why  and  to  what  extent  P 
This  last  problem  leads  to  the  discussion  of 
general  prices,  and  they  all  lead  out  into 
serious  questions,  as  the  absorption  of  silver 
by  India  and  the  East,  the  causes  and  effects 
of  the  German  demonetization  of  silver,  the 
position  of  the  Latin  Union  in  the  matter, 
the  lessons  of  bimetallism  in  France  for  the 
last  eighty  years,  the  application  of  all  these 
and  other  data  to  the  solution  of  the  great 
silver  problem  in  America.  All  these  are  dis- 
cussed by  Mr.  Laughlin  with  great  thorough- 
ness and  ability,  so  that  his  work  is  much 
more  than  the  title  indicates — it  is  the 
theory,  the  philosophy,  of  bimetallism  in 
general,  with  special  application  to  its  im- 
mediate phases  presented  in  this  country. 

Professor  Laughlin  does  not  believe  bi- 
metallism anywhere  possible  for  any  length 
of  time,  and  he  brings  in  proof  not  only  the 
historical  facts  of  American,  French,  and 
other  experiments,  but  strong  and  sharp 
polemic  as  well.  His  language  often  bristles 
like  a  political  speech.  He  considers  his 
subject  in  three  parts  —  The  United  Stales, 
1792-1873;  The  Late  Fall  in  Silver;  The 
United  SUtes,  1873-85.  It  is  to  be  re- 
gretted that  some  chapters  were  not  added 
on  the  effects  of  a  depreciation  of  currency 
upon  general  business,  and  especially  upon 
the  wage-earning  and  debtor  classes.  This 
last  Is  the  present  strong  point  of  the  silver 
men,  and  by  all  odds  the  most  fallacious  and 
misleading,  and  it  is  a  pity  that  some  one 
has  not  given  it  the  discussion  its  importance 
demands.* 

The  chapters  appear  to  have  been  pre- 
pared   not    primarily  for    publication,    but 

•  Sums  thu  wu  wriitoi,  Uw.  JoMph  H.  WiUut  of 


possibly  for  the  author's  rollege  lectures. 
Some  parts,  especially  in  the  second  dins- 
ion,  have  an  appearance  of  hasty  prepara- 
tion, with  a  repetition  and  prolixity  that 
detract  much  from  the  value  of  the  book. 
Indeed,  if  the  whole  had  been  carefully 
revised  and  reduced  one  third,  it  would 
have  been  much  improved  in  both  literary 
merit  and  effectiveness.  The  book  fairly 
overflows  with  statistics  well  chosen  and 
well  put;  in  fact  one  of  Mr.  Laughlin's 
strongest  weapons  is  his  skillful  use  of  tables 
and  diagrams  —  the  latter  numerous  and 
admirable  in  this  as  in  all  bis  other  publica- 
tions. The  appendices  are  important,  giving 
the  production  of  gold  and  silver  since  the 
discovery  of  America,  the  relative  values 
of  the  two  metals  for  the  same  time,  the 
gold  and  silver  coinage  of  the  United  States 
since  1793,  the  coinage  laws  of  this  country 
from  the  beginning,  and  of  France,  Germany, 
and  the  Latin  Union,  the  silver  flow  to  the 
East,  the  French  coinage,  etc. 

The  statement,  p.  93,  that  up  to  1873  there 
had  been  coined  of  412^  grain  dollars  only 
fii439>497i  and  those  before  1806^  seems 
misleading,  since  the  dollar  pieces  from  the 
beginning  have  contained  the  same  amount 
of  silver  (371^  grains),  and  the  issue  up  to 
1873  was  $8,045,338,  and  of  all  legal-tender 
silver  up  to  1853  more  than  (80,000,000. 
On  p.  73,  line  12,  150  is  plainly  a  misprint 
for  100.  The  rule  given,  p.  226,  for  finding 
the  value  of  a  212^  grain  dollar  from  the 
New  York  quotations  of  bar  silver  is  not  a 
good  one  on  account  of  its  ambiguity  and  of 
the  reductions  necessary.  Indeed  the  author 
is  incorrect  in  his  own  illustrative  reduction, 
making  out  the  value  of  the  dollar  when  bar 
silver  is  quoted  at  1.02]  to  be  78.9  cents, 
instead  of  79.47  as  it  should  be.  The  rule 
is  simply,  multiply  the  New  York  quctattori 
by  .7734I.  or.  for  short,  by  .774. 

This  silver  question  now  occupies  a  fore- 
most place  in  the  popular  mind,  and  the 
issues  of  the  discussion  promise  to  be  most 
serious,  if  not  most  disastrous.  The  ap- 
pearance of  Professor  Laughlin's  work  is 
opportune,  as  being  by  far  the  fullest  and 
best  to  be  had  on  the  subject ;  and,  consider- 
ing the  great  importance  of  the  question, 
and  the  ability  and  especially  the  soundness 
of  the  treatment,  one  that  deserves  a  very 
large  reading  by  our  voting  public. 

HBHET  FAWOETT* 

FEW  fignres  in  the  history  of  Nineteenth 
Century  England  are  more  striking 
than  that  of  Henry  Fawcett,  the  blind  man, 
who  was  not  only  Professor  of  Political 
Economy  at  Cambridge,  but  also  an  active 
member  of  Parliament  for  twenty  years, 
and  a  most  successful  Postmaster-GeneraL 
It  is  not  strange  that  a  biography  should 
be  ckUed  for  and  prepared  within  a  year. 


Had  a  hand  less  skillful  than  Mr.  Leslie 
Stephen's  been  employed  to  do  the  work, 
the  evidences  of  haste  might  have  been 
painfully  apparent  But  while  Mr.  Stephen 
been  restr^ned  by  motives  of  delicacy 
from  writing  as  freely  as  he  might  have 
done  at  a  later  date,  there  is  no  evidence  of 
haste  in  this  carefully-written  and  well-pro- 
portioned memoir. 

One  of  the  simplest  and  most  trans- 
parent of  men,"  Fawcett's  manly,  generous, 
and  tender  character  stood  in  no  need  of 
minute  analysis,  and  the  lesson  of  his  heroic 
life  irould  only  suffer  from  extended  moral- 
izing. Not  a  bright  pupil,  but  with  a  head 
like  a  cullender,''  he  early  showed  his  bent. 
What  is  the  price  of  cheese?  What  was 
yesterday,  and  what  will  it  be  tomorrow, 
and  why?"  Such  questions  from  the  boy 
prophesied  the  political  economist  From 
the  first  his  ambition  was  to  enter  Parlia- 
ment A  vigorous  student  of  mathematics, 
and  successful  in  the  strife  for  collegiate 
honors,  blameless  in  his  conduct,  the  soul  of 
geniality  and  sociability,  with  an  unequaled 
power  of  making  friends,  he  seemed  to  be 
cherishing  no  vv'n  hopes.  Then,  at  twenty- 
five  years  of  age,  the  world  was  at  once 
blotted  from  his  sight  by  the  accidental  shot 
from  his  father's  hand  which  made  him 
totally  blind.  But  the  father  was  the 
wretched  one.  "  I  could  bear  it  if  my  son 
would  only  complain."  That,  says  Mr. 
Stephen,  was  almost  the  only  consi^lation  he 
ever  received  from  his  devoted  soil  Henry 
Fawcett  almost  immediately  resolved  that 
his  terrible  misfortune  should  not  alter  his 
destiny.  "  He  would  go  all  the  straighter 
to  his  mark,  and  take  by  storm  the  position 
which  he  was  to  have  assailed  by  the  usual 
approaches." 

The  story  of  his  efforts  and  his  success  is 
one  to  encourage  the  most  faint-hearted. 
Very  athletic,  he  still  continued  to  ride,  to 
swim,  to  do  a  hundred  things  supposed  to 
be  impossible  for  the  blind.  "The  silver 
lining  to  the  dark  cloud,"  he  characteristi- 
cally said,  "  is  the  wonderful  and  inexhaust- 
ible fund  of  human  kindness  to  be  found  in 
this  world."  His  misfortune  brought  out 
all  the  beauty  of  a  singularly  kind  and 
chivalrous  nature.  It  may  even  have  served, 
as  he  took  it,  to  smooth  the  way  of  his  am- 
bition. Mr.  Stephen  has  told  at  length  the 
particulars  of  Fawcett's  career,  as  the  par- 
liamentary champion  of  toleration,  of  edu- 
cation, of  the  oppressed  agricultural  laborer 
in  England,  and  of  the  poor  of  India  as 
well,  and  as  the  indefatigable  official  ever 
eager  to  make  the  Post  Office  an  agent  in 
promoting  the  welfare  of  the  lower  classes, 
and  raising  it  to  an  efficiency  never  known 
before.  Not  an  original  thinker,  not  a  gen- 
ius, not  even  a  man  of  versatile  talents, 
Fawcett  was  yet  a  very  noble  specimen  of 
what  is  finest  iud  most  winning  in  English 
manhood,  and  Mr.  Stephen's  Life  is  one  of 
the  best  biographies  that  can  be  put  into  a 


58 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Feb.  so, 


youDgman's  hands  to  keep  him  ambitious, 
gcDcrous,  and  true,  in  the  contest  of  life. 


filOOBAFET. 


Illoitrated. 


comparisi 


Jdhn  Butnait.    By  John  Brown. 
[HuughiOD,  MiSIn  &  Co.    f4.50.] 

Mr.  Brown's  life  of  Bunjian  ii  subjected  lo 
misfortune  at  our  bands.  W«  bive  kept  it 
waiting  for  weeks  in  the  hopes  of  giving  it  the 
alteoiion  it  deserves,  but  we  do  not  like  to  hold 
it  back  longer,  and  now  must  crowd  our  notice 
of  it  into  far  too  narrow  Jimits.  It  is  bcfond 
It  thorough,  the  most  aulhori- 
ind  the  most  entertaining  of  the  lives  of 
the  immortal  author  of  The  PilgrinCs  Prsgrtss. 
Mr.  Brown  is  the  minister  of  the  Church  at  Bun- 
;an  Meeting,  Bedford,  of  which  Bunyan  was 
also  miniiler,  and  is  the  official  guardian  a\  tht 
personal  Diemotlals  of  him;  and  his  presei 
woric  embudies  (he  researches  of  twenty  years 
into  the  various  departmenCi  of  the  interesting 
suliject.  All  Sutc  Papers  have  been  explored, 
as  well  as  all  local  sources  uf  informaiiun  ;  ipecial 
attention  has  been  paid  to  topographical  poi 
and  assuciaiions  of  place ;  and  the  result  t 
memuir  which  must  displace  every  oiher  for 
amplitude  of  method  and  fullness  and  accuracy 
of  detail.  There  are  ig  chapters,  of  which  ;; 
devoted  to  historical  and  ancestral  conditions,  9 
to  Bunyan's  life,  4  to  his  writings;  and  the  re»i 
to  acctiiBory  topics.  A  bibliography  of  Tht  Pit 
grim's  f^egrtii  is  appended,  and  there  is  a 
bibliographical  chapter  on  its  various  editions. 
The  16  illUftlralipns  include  a  number  of  wood- 
cuts inserted  in  the  lexi,  of  singular  mechanical 
delicacy  and  refinement,  and  the  book  is  of 
matchless  English  make  which  is  so  delightful 
to  all  lovers  of  good  typography. 

Memoir  of  Mary  Anna  Leagtirelh.  By  an  Old 
Pupil.  With  a  hkeich  of  her  Work  for  Hamp- 
ton, by  Helen  W.  Ludlow.  [J.  B.  Lippincott 
Co,    »i.a5.1 

Mary  Anna  Longstrelh,  this  Memoir  of  whom 
is  in  part  the  work  of  Helen  W.  Ludlow,  a 
sister  oE  the  lamented  Fitz  Hugh  Ludlow,  was  a 
remarkably  successful  teacher,  now  tenderly  re- 
meii:bcre(l  by  hundreds  of  her  pupila.  She  came 
of  fine  old  Quaker  siockj  was  born  in  Phila- 
delphia, February  g,  lEll,  and  retained  the  sin- 
gular serenity  of  her  childhood 


evinced  I 


t  face 


which  looks  forth  a(  us  from  the  froniispicce- 
Before  she  was  twelve  she  had  read  every  word 
of  Virgil  i  at  thirteen  she  was  an  ajisistant 
teacher  in  a  Philadelphia  school ;  and  at  eight- 
een, with  the  aid  of  a  sister  two  years  younger, 
she  established  a  school  of  her  own,  which,  with 
two  slight  interruptions  for  rest  by  means  of 
European  travel,  she  maintained  for  fony-eighl 
years.  This  school  became  so  popular,  thai 
parents,  many  of  them  unconnected  with  the 
Society  of  Friends,  secured  places  in  it  for  their 
children  before  Ihcy  were  old  enough  to  enter, 
and  in  l347-'li  over  a  hundred  applicants  were 
necessarily  refused.  Perfect  health,  self-posses- 
sion, firmness  that  never  wavered,  and  gentle- 
ness that  never  failed,  admirably  qualified  Miss 
Longslretb  for  her  work,  while  in  her  religious, 
ncss  she  seems  to  have  been  another  Mary  Lyon. 
"She  loved  to  count  the  hundreds  of 'children' 
and  'grandchildren'  whose  weddings  she  had 
been  invited  to  attend."     Nearly  a  hui 


pages  are  taken  up  with  an  account  of  her 
travels  In  Europe,  where  she  met  many  distin- 
guished persons,  and  enjoyed  the  society  of 
Quaker  friends.  After  giving  up  her  school 
she  was  much  interested  in  charitable  work,  and 
Lpecially  in  the  Hampton  Instilule,  to  which 
le  was  a  generous  benefactor.  Her  death  took 
place  in  Philadelphia  on  the  ijth  of  August, 
1884. 

Ckarlei  Darwin.  By  Grant  Allen.  [D.  Ap- 
pleton  &  Co.    7JC-] 

Marlbetotigh.  By  George  Saintsbury.  [D.  Ap- 
pleton  &  Co.    7SC.] 

These  are  pioneer  volumes  in  a  new  series  of 
English  Worthies,"  brief  Uographies  of  Eng- 
lish authorship,  with  a  range  of  subjects  indi- 
cated by  the  above  examples.  The  list  of 
subjects  already  announced  Is  important  and 
inviting,  and  the  hands  so  far  selected  to  do  the 
work  are  competent.  In  Mr.  Grant  Allen' 
sketch  of  Darwin  there  is  certainly  some  special 
pleading,  and  its  brilliancy  runs  occasionally  into 
smartness  ;  but  there  is  no  denying  its  readable- 
ness.  and  the  ability  with  which  it  is  written ; 
and  it  is  a  good  presentation  of  the  scientific 
work  of  the  great  naturalist.  That  Mr.  Allen 
claims  all  that  can  possibly  be  allowed  for  the 
effects  of  Darwin's  teachings  will  be  understood, 
and  the  calmer  students  of  evolution  will  subjei 
its  face  values  to  a  certain  discount- 
Mr.  Sainisbury's  subject  cannot  be  said  lo  be 
10  fascinating  nor  the  handling  of  it  so  good  as  in 
the  case  of  Grant  Allen's  volume-  Marlborough 
was  a  celebrated  man,  and  in  some  respects  a 
great  man  ;  the  splendid  palace  of  Blenheim, 
which  Queen  Anne  built  for  him,  was  the  fitting 
frame  to  the  portrait  of  his  personality;  the 
manners  and  methods  of  his  wife,  Sarah  Jen- 
nings, lent  an  odor  of  notoriety  to  his  fame ;  and 
his  place  b  large  and  important  in  English  :7th 
Century  history;  but  what  is  lo  be  said  of  this 
sort  of  literary  style  in  a  biographer  : 

That  lo  Ihe  purely  military  historian  the  his- 
lory  of  those  brilliant  campaigns  in  which,  alone 
uf  great  modern  soldiers,  Marlborough  proved 
himtelf  invincible  for  a  long  series  of  years, 
dwarfs  all  the  test  of  his  history,  may  be  freely 

Mr,  Saintsbury  writes  chiefly  of  Marlborough 
the  man,  and  lakes  the  background  of  his  times 
for  granted.  There  are  ten  chapters,  aikd  a  very 
scant  bibliographical  note,  with  an  index. 

FltUhtr  of  Madflty.  By  the  Rev.  F.  W.  Mac- 
donald.     [A.  C.  Armstrong  4  Son.     7sc.] 

People  and  Prtachers  in  the  Mttkodiil  Episco- 
pal Church.  By  a  Layman.  (John  A.  Wright.) 
[J.  B.  Lippincotl  Co.    Jt.2i.l 

These  two  books  have  special  interest  fui 
Methodists,  Ihe  latter  of  the  two  for  them  ex. 
clusively.  John  Fletcher  was  a  man  of  that 
saintlincss  of  character  and  general  usefulness 
life,  that  all  who  profess  and  call  ihemseli 
Christians  may  get  good  as  well  as  pleasure  1 
of  the  story  oE  him.  He  wai  of  Swiss  birth  and 
of  a  noble  Savoyard  family,  was  educated  ai  Ge- 
neva, served  in  the  Portuguese  army,  became  a 
tutor  in  England,  joined  the  Methodists  under 
Wesley,  took  orders  in  Ihc  English  Church,  and 
for  twenty-five  years  did  a  hero's  work  as  a 
preacher,  pastor,  and  missionary.  Madeley  was 
his  parish,  and  Wesley  and  Whitelield  were  hit 
coadjutors.  His  history  is  a  candle-light  throwo 
upon  his  times. 

The  Philadelphia  layman  who  has  written  on 


the  Methodist  Fe<^U  and  Prtaihtrt  is  full  of 
crilidsmg  he  wants  radical  changes  in  the  con- 
stitution, order,  and  working  of  that  church  at 
every  point;  he  sees  dangers  in  details  of  the 
present  system:  he  writes  clearly,  forcibly,  a 
little  dogmatically  and  self-sufficienlly,  but  in  a 
to  command  attention  and  require  at  least 


The  fifth  volume  o(  Leslie  StephenV  Dictitn- 
ary  0/ National  Biography  runs  from  BlCHtHO  to 
BoTTisHAU,  and  contains  fewer  names  of  promi- 
nence and  interest  than  almost  any  one  of  the  vol- 
umes preceding.  But  this  is  nothing.  There  must 
be  stretches  of  mediocrity  in  the  vast  expanse  <rf 
a  cyclopedia  like  this,  whose  riches  and  whose 
values  will  be  simply  incalculable  to  students  lA 
English  biography.  The  list  of  contributors  is 
as  usual  long  and  august ;  and  there  are  some 
lives  of  note  within  the  compass  of  the  volume  ; 
as  for  example  the  Blairs,  the  Countess  of  Bleaa- 
ington,  the  Bickersteths,  the  Blouflts,  the  Bloom- 
fields,  the  Blakes,  the  Blacks,  the  Blackwooda, 
and  the  Blackslonea.  [Macmillan  &  Co.  tj.ij.] 
J.  L.  Ringwalt's  Antcdetei  of  General  Grant  is 
a  collection  of  the  flotsam  and  jetsam  of  the 
newspaper  and  periodical  press,  not  very  exten- 
sive (there  are  but  few  over  100  pages),  bat 
throwing  a  good  many  vivid  side  lighn  on  trails 
of  Grant's  character  and  incidents  in  his  career. 
Many  of  the  stories  will  be  read  with  relish. 
[J,  B.  Lippincotl  Co.     5oe.] 

Mr.  J.  Colter  Morison's  Etude  of  Madami  dt 
ifainienm  is  well  named ;  a  brief,  thoughtful, 
lympaihettc  refieciion  it  is,  upon  the  life  and 
character  of  a  brilliant  and  famoos  French- 
woman, whose  true  figure  has  been  somewhat 
obscured  by  misrepresentation,  and  whom  he 
brings  out  jolo  a  clearer  light.  Scribncr  3l 
Weliord  have  it  in  a  dainty  parchment-covered 
quarto.    [50c] 

Macmillan  &  Co.  are  re-issuing  Mr.  John 
Morley's  works  in  a  new  globe  edition,  in  which 
the  life  of  Voltaire  makes  a  single  volume,  to  be 
followed  by  Ihe  Rousnau  in  two.  The  form  is 
and  the  dress  attractive.    [^1.50  ] 


BOOKS  or  TRAVEL 

We  Txoo  Alone  in  Europe.  By  Mary  L. 
Ninde.  Illustrated.  [Jansen,  McClurg  &  Co. 
H-SO-] 

This  is  one  of  the  most  intelligent,  most  inter, 
esting,  and  most  valuable  of  American  narratives 
of  foreign  travel.  There  is  something  piquant 
in  the  basis  of  it ;  the  "  we  two  "  were  a  couple 
of  companionable  American  young  women  who 
determined  to  sec  the  Old  World  for  themselves 
and  by  themselves.  And  they  did,  from  England 
to  Russia,  and  from  the  North  Cape  to  Cairo  and 
the  Pyramids.  The  opening  chapters  are  the 
least  important,  but  when  our  adventurers  have 
fairly  got  out  of  beaten  tracks,  when  they  have 
reached  the  land  of  the  midnight  sun,  and  icy  St. 
Petersburg  and  Moscow,  they  arc  extremely 
entetlaining.  There  is  nothing  of  the  guide  book 
in  Miss  Ninde's  writing  ;  but  sharp,  clear,  lively 
personal  observation  and  experience.  Who  but 
a  pair  of  American  girls  would  have  stormed  the 
House  of  Parliament  as  did  they?  Who  could 
so  have  threaded  the  way  into  the  interior  wilds 
of  Norway  ?  Who  so  successfully  could  have 
mastered  the  situation  with  a  crazy  landlord  In 
Moscow  P    Few  travelers  have  better  eyes,  and 


l886.] 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


59 


The  author  of  this  book  of  Iravela  rankj  the 
cathedral  of  Glasgow  "  next  to  Westniiniter  in 
the  Kingdom,"  apelli  London's  Strand  with  a 
samll  I,  and  ci>nsiden  Madame  Tusaaad'a  Wax- 
work*  "oneof  Ihegreat  aighis"  of  the  Engltth 
metropolii.  He  calU  Newport  the  "Capital  "  of 
the  Isle  of  WighL  He  larrenders  to  Paris  at 
once  at  "the  gayest  and  most  beantifnl  city  of 
the  world."  The  Falls  of  the  Rhine,  he  lerioiisl; 
■ays,  "though  less  grand  than  thoae  of  Niagara, 
ate  more  picturesque. "  Lucerne  *'ia  still  sur- 
rounded by  its  old  walls."  And  the  glacier  be- 
tween Mounts  Eiger  and  Mitielberg  "is  sixty 
miles  in  extent"  (1)  And  so  on.  There  is  no 
table  of  contents  in  this  book,  no  list  of  chapters, 
and  there  are  no  page  headings ;  but  it  woold 
appear  that  Mr.  Raum,  having  traversed  Europe 
pretty  thoroughly,  first  crossed  to  Algiers,  then 
skilled  the  shores  of  the  Mediterranean,  and 
afterward  ascended  the  Nile,  and  explored  Pal- 
estine, Syria,  and  Turkey ;  and  that  then  he  pro- 
ceeded by  way  of  India,  Cbina,  and  Japan,  across 
the  Pacific  to  California,  and  thence  across  the 
Coalinent  to  New  York,  completing  his  circuit  of 
the  glotie  in  about  two  years'  time.  As  the  entire 
narrative  of  this  eipediiion  is  comprised  within 
416  l6mo  pages,  the  reader  will  understand  that 
it  is  of  necessity  rapid  and  supetficial.  The  per- 
sonal element,  which  is  now  %o  essential  to  give 
life  and  character  to  any  account  of  travels,  is  so 
br  lacking  that  the  book  might  easily  have  been 
compiled  out  of  the  guide  books  by  a  clever  writer 
without  once  leaving  hit  own  fireside.  If  one 
wants  to  be  taken  around  the  world  in  tbls  cou- 
rier fashion,  Mr.  Raum's  book  will  do  It. 

Tht  Grtck  Ulattdi  and  T^lm  Afitr  tht  War. 
By  Henry  M.  Field,  D.D.  {Cbarles  Scribner'a 
Sons,    fi.50.] 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Field,  editor  of  the  New  York 
Evangilht,  has  traveled  so  widely,  and  written 
so  much  about  his  travels,  that  a  considerable 
constituency  of  readers  have  been  gathered  who 
ate  interested  in  what  be  writes  t>ecause  he  writes 
IL  This  personal  equation  comes  to  be  a  strong 
element  after  a  time,  and  it  Is  a  very  strong  ele. 
ment  in  Dr.  Field's  letters.  Leave  out  Dr. 
Field  and  but  little  would  remain.  A  writer  of 
Dr.  Field's  experience  and  popularity  may  take 
liberties  with  his  pen ;  may  make  digressiona, 
may  wax  discursive,  may  drop  into  moralizing  and 
even  cant,  which  in  ibe  case  of  another  would  be 
resented.  The  present  volume  is  what  we  have 
learned  to  expect  from  Dr.  Field,  rambling.garru- 
lous,  egotistic,  bright,  a  little  Uriah  Heepish, 
(airly  inleresling.  In  locality  it  is  confined  to  the 
Eastern  shores  of  the  Mediterianean,  to  Constan- 
tinople, to  the  Black  Sea,  and  to  the  Danube, 
describing  in  fact  a  trip  from  BeiiQt  through  the 
^gean,  the  Sea  of  Marmora,  and  the  Euxine, 
across  Bulgaria  and  Roumania  to  Budapest 
and  Vienna.  In  time  it  seems  to  skip  about. 
There  are  chaptera  on  Cyprus,  Smyrna,  Con- 
bUntinoplc,  the  Turk,  the  last  and  the  present 
Sultan  ;  and  an  historical  section  is  supplied 
in  a  graphic  narrative  of  the  Bulgarian  mas- 
sacre of  1S76  and  a  hasty  sketch  of  the  Russo- 
Tnikish  War  which  followed.  A  good  deal  is 
Hid  to  the  praise  of  American  misiioiis  and 


sionarics  in  Turkey,  and  there  are  full  particu- 
lars of  all  the  notabilities  who  honored  Dr.  Field 
with  their  attentions.  Excellent  maps  enrich  the 
book,  and  there  are  one  or  two  wood-cuts. 


8T0EIE8  OF  TEE  HATIOVS. 

Hoamer's  Storj  of  tbe  Jews. 

Th,  Slant  of  the  Jew.  By  Prof.  James  K. 
Hosmer.  llJustrated.  [G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons. 
»i.SO.] 

7'Ai  Story  of  the  Jetai  is  one  voltime  of  the 
series,  "The  Story  of  the  Nations."  After  an 
introductory  chapter,  "Why  the  Story  of  the 
Jews  is  Picturesque,"  Professor  Hosmer  gives 
an  admirable  narrative  of  the  earlier  history  of 
the  race  from  the  mi|[ration  of  Abram  to  the 
captivity  at  Babylon.  Great  wisdom  is  shown  in 
the  selection  of  the  salient  events.  Then  follows 
"  Israel  at  Nineveh ; "  next,  the  history  of  the 
expedition  of  Sennacherib  against  jEtusalem, 
brings  us  to  the  stirring  and  romantic  times  of 
Judas  Maccabxus,  well  termed  by  our  author 
"the  Jewish  William  Tell."  A  few  skillful 
touches  depict  the  change  from  the  independ- 
ence of  the  Maccabcans  to  the  accession  of  the 
first  Herod,  when  larael,  from  their  voluntary 
alliances  with  the  overwhelming  power  of  the 
Romans,  became  at  last  tributary  to  that  haughty 
nation.  Following  is  the  best  description  we 
remember  ever  10  have  seen  of  the  sects  and 
patties  whicb  bid  grown  up  among  the  Jews ; 
the  Pharisees  or  Chaiidim,  the  pious,  who  re- 
quired observance  both  of  written  and  oral  law; 
the  Zadikiut,  or  righteous,  afterwards  called 
Sadducees,  who  declared  the  written  law  suf- 
ficient; the  EKsenes,  also,  the  Herodians,  the 
Zealots,  and  the  Samaritans.  Simplicity  of  lan- 
guage and  judicial  fairness  characterize  the 
writer's  account  of  the  nativity,  the  life,  and  the 
teachings  of  Jesus  Christ.  The  relations  of 
Judaism  with  the  Mohammedan  power  are 
later  sketched ;  and  we  learn  how  the  ancient 
oral  law  of  the  Hebrews,  called  Mischna  from 
the  time  oE  Eira,  began  to  be  reduced  to  writing 
under  HiUel,  but  was  left  incomplete  until  the 
labor  of  rabbis  in  later  ages  produced  from  it 
the  Talmud. 

Space  permit*  but  a  rapid  review  of  the  his- 
tory to  our  own  time  i  the  graphic  description  of 
the  siege  and  capture  of  Jotapata,  the  almost 
unparalleled  horrors  of  the  destruction  of  Jeru- 
salem, the  story  of  "the  mediaeval  humitialion," 
the  awful  severity  of  the  persecutions  in  Spain 
and  Germany,  illustrated  with  some  oE  their 
sickening  details,  and  the  leas  extensive  crnelties 
in  other  nations,  until,  in  our  own  day,  the  de- 
spised race  is  rising  to  wealth  and  power.  One 
chapter  on  the  weird  legend  of  "the  wandering 
Jew,"  points  out  the  variations  in  the  story,  and 
its  strange  connection  with  "  the  wild  huntsman." 
Another  gives  account  of  the  false  Messiah,  Sab- 
bataii  Zevi,  and  his  contemporary,  Baruch  Spin- 
oaa.  Uf  Spinoza  the  author  is  highly  laudatory, 
and  complains  greaity  at  the  dentinciatlons  which 
Ibe  di>tinguished  philosopher  underwent  from 
critics  learned  and  unlearned.  Especially  he 
regards  as  ahocking  bigotry  the  excommunica 
tion  ptononnced  by  his  fellow  Jews  of  Amster- 
dam. Giving  a  brief  account  of  Spinoza's  phi- 
losophy, our  author  says  it  was  "certainly  not  a 
theism,  certainly  not  materialism."  In  what 
respect,  except  in  the  mere  name,  is  pantheism, 
,  especially  if  fatalistic^  better  than  atheiaiii? 


The  remainder  of  the  work  is  mainly  a  series 
of  finely  executed  biographical  sketches  with 
portraits.  First  "Israel's  new  Moses,"  the  phi- 
losopher and  philanthropist,  Moses  Mendelssohn, 
with  an  interesting  extract  from  hia  letter  to 
Lavaler,  showing  Judaism  as  a  religion  which 
does  not  seek  converts  of  other  descent,  and 
with  a  bright  story  from  Auerbach  of  Men- 
delssohn's courtship.  Then  Meyer  Anselm  and 
his  descendants,  tumamed  Rothschild  from  the 
red  ehield  over  his  door;  the  beginning  of  the 
colossal  fortunes  of  the  family  in  the  trust  com- 
miled  to  Meyer  by  the  landgrave  of  Hesse  Caasel, 
and  the  subsequent  wonderful  success  of  his 
sons  In  increasing  their  wealth.  The  list  con- 
tinues with  Sir  Moses  Montefiote,  whom  justly 
the  world  has  delighted  to  honor  ;  continues  with 
the  leading  statesmen  of  the  ancient  race,  Lasker, 
Gambetta,  Lord  BeaconsGeld;  and  then  the  poet 
Heine,  and  his  sad  life;  and,  finally,  the  great 
Hebrew  prince  in  the  realm  of  music,  Felix 
Mendelssohn  Bartholdi,  grandson  of  the  philos- 
opher, and  the  beautiful  family  life  of  the  com- 
poser and  the  other  children  of  Abraham  Men- 
delssohn. 

Of  numerous  notable  points  in  the  book  we 
further  specifyonly  a  curious  view  of  the  Hebrew 
sanitary  laws  in  relation  to  modern  getm  theories 
of  disease ;  the  unusual  clearness  of  the  deao'ip- 
lion  of  Jerusalem,  a  place  not  easy  to  depict; 
and  the  excellent  choice  of  subjects  for  the 
illustrations,  some  of  which  are  very  pleasing, 
as,  for  instance,  the  flock  of  sheep  in  one  at  the 
story  of  Rachel,  also  that  oE  the  Sea  of  Galilee. 
The  author  is  a  master  tA  the  finest  English 
prose  ;  his  atyle  a  model  of  elegance,  clearness, 
and  strength  worthy  to  rank  with  that  of  the 
most  celebrated  writers.  An  odd,  but  not  ex- 
actly new,  feature  in  the  series  of  books  is  the 
printing  of  maps  on  the  fly-leaves,  jutt  within 
the  two  covers. 

Harrison's  Stoiy  of  Oreece. 

TTit  Stery  ef  Greece.  By  Prof.  James  A.  Har- 
riaon.  With  Maps  and  Illustrations.  [G.  P, 
Putnam's  Sons,    f  1.5a] 

In  this  other  volume  of  the  same  series  it  is 
the  writer's  purpose  rather  to  give  his  readers 
just  what  the  title  promises  than  to  write  a  Aii- 
tary  in  the  ordinary  manner.  Instead  of  burden- 
ing the  mind  with  all  the  details  which  only 
persons  of  phenomenal  memory  can  carry  unless 
themselves  engaged  in  teaching  history,  Profea- 
sor  Harrison  aims  to  give  bright  pictures  out- 
lining the  narrative  of  Grecian  scenes,  beliefs, 
and  deeds;  to  offer,  in  words  which  he  quotes 
from  Ftoude,  "the  true  jewels  of  history,  the 
diamonds  in  the  general  gravel  heap."  Thia 
plan  is  perhaps  especially  well  adapted  to  the 
Greeks,  because  their  many  picturesque  legends 
and  stories  seem  almost  a  part  of  their  history. 
Unfotlunalely,  in  pursuit  of  this  object,  the 
writer  has  thought  it  necessary  to  employ  pict- 
uresque language  as  well,  and  constant  compari- 
sons <rf  things  in  ancient  Greek  civilization  with 
things  analogous  in  modern  limes;  and  Iheae 
eSottx  damage  his  work.  The  language  is  un- 
necessarily juvenile,  in  many  places  inelegant, 
and  in  some  descends  nearly  to  slang  and  vnl- 
gariiy;  and  the  Comparisons  and  similes  ate 
uflen  eilremely  far-fetched.  Per  eontra,  the 
author  attains  his  purpose ;  his  story  is  vivacious, 
never  dull,  and  abounds  in  the  historical  "jewels  " 
of  which  Froude  speaks.    From  an  iaIrodiKtoiT 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Feb.  ao. 


chapter  on  the  geogiapbf  and  phytical  cfaarac- 
teristio  of  the  Greek  world,  followed  bjr  ■ 
remarkably  good  account  of  the  Hellenic  godi, 
which  may  remove  some  hazinett  of  knowledge 
In  even  classically  instrncted  mindi  —  notably  at 
to  the  "older  "  and  "younger"  dynasties  of  godi 
and  the  wait  between  them,  Professor  Harrison 
cvriCB  down  his  nairaiive  through  the  time  oE 
Philip  of  Macedon,  father  of  Alciandtr  the 
Great.  Especially  noteworthy  also  are  t~ 
stories  of  the  famous  Trojan  War  and  its 
laming  heioea,  Odysseus  and  ^neai,  the  cl< 
picture  of  Spaitsn  institutions,  and  the  laws 
Lycurgus,  the  statement,  probably  new  to  mi 
readers,  that  the  Athenian  Draco  was  not  a  legis- 
lator, but  only  a  compiler  or  reviser  of  pteiions 
•tatates,  and  in  no  degree  responsible  for 
their  seveiity,  and  finally  the  excellently  clear 
presentation  in  few  worda  of  the  causes  and 
history  of  the  Peloponnesian  War  and  the  Sicil- 
ian expedition.  There  are  some  violations  of 
chronological  order,  apparently  due  in  part  to 
the  great  wealth  of  atortei  and  legends  with 
which  the  history  is  interspersed.  As  in  other 
volumes  of  the  series,  there  are  maps  on  fly- 
leaves just  within  the  covers. 


icnroB  NOTioEs. 


Eatiiiaslital  Institutions:  being  Part  VI  of 
the  Principles  of  Sociology.  By  Herbert  Spen- 
cer,   p.  Appleton  &  Co.    »I.2S.] 

In  the  first  chapter  of  this  work  Mr.  Spencer 
resumes  his  historical  sketch  oE  the  development 
of  religious  ideas;  and  devotes  ten  pages  to  an 
elaborate  proof  of  the  similarity  of  the  Jewish 
and  Christian  to  other  religions,  as  a  presump- 
tive proof  that  they  also  are  of  natural  develop- 
ment Fourteen  chapters  ate  given  to  a  discna- 
sion  <A  ecclesiastical  institutions,  past,  present, 
and  to  come.  The  volume  closes  with  a  slightly 
modified  reprint  of  an  article  on  the  Religious 
Retrospect  and  Prospect  from  the  NitMttntk 
Ctnfury  for  January,  1884.  Of  Mr.  Spencer's 
learning  and  industry  and  his  ingenuity  in  in- 
ferences, this  volume  affords  as  good  an  instance 
a*  any  of  its  predecessors  j  and  we  at  least  fancy 
that  it  shows  a  little  softening  of  the  prejudices, 
and  a  decided  increase  of  care  lo  avoid  the 
logical  fallades,  which  marred  hit  earlier  publi- 
cationa.  Nevertheless  we  cannot  think  he  is 
fair  or  reasonable  when,  for  example,  on  p.  704, 
he  tells  us  that  we  cannot  believe  in  "a  trans- 
cendent unlikeness"  of  Christianity  10  other 
religions,  without  believing  that  the  Infinite 
Cause  o£  the  universe  "took  the  disguise  of 
a  man  for  the  purpose  of  covenanting  with ' 
Abraham,  and  ascribed  10  himself  attribulei 
"discreditable  to  a  human  being;"  and  worse 
than  all,  arranged  these  limilarities  between  the 
Christian  religion  and  other  religions  "for  the 
purpose  of  misleading  sincere  inquirers,  that 
they  may  be  eternally  damned  for  seeking  the 
troth,"  He  has  resented  being  classed  as  a 
Comtist,  but  this  identification  of  some  of  the 
assumptions  of  Roman  writers  with  Christianity 
it  very  much  after  Comte's  fashion.  If  Mr. 
Spencer  were  a  man  of  more  leisure  we  should 
recommend  him  to  follow  Mr.  Fiske's  example 
and  read  Professor  Allen's  CmUinuiiy  of  Chris- 
Han  Thought.  As  it  is,  he  ought,  in  justice  lo 
himself  as  well  as  to  others,  to  retrain  more 
carcfally  from  assuming  lliat  he  knows  ao  much 
more  about  Christian  theology  than  Christian 


writers  do.  In  the  closing  chapter  on  religious 
retrospects  and  prospects,  also,  we  feel  that  the 
maater  is  test  wise  than  his  disdple ;  Mr.  Fiske's 
I  being  more  rational  than  the  agnosticism 
of  Mr.  Spencer. 

History  of  the  Pacific  Statu.  By  Hubert 
Howe  Bancroft.  Vols.  XIV  and  XV.  Cali- 
fornia. Vols.  II  and  til.  1801-1840.  [A.  L. 
Bancroft  &  Co.     Each  fj.oo.] 

Of  all  Mr.  Bancroft's  productions  to  date 
none  can  be  compared  in  thoroughness,  or  even, 
perhaps,  in  valne,  to  these  volumes  on  California. 
Without  doubt  they  are  among  the  very  best 
of  onr  Slate  histories.  They  will  remain  for 
years  the  standard  books  on  California.  Indeed 
it  is  doubtful  if  the  work  in  all  its  details  will 
ever  be  done  again.  All  these  considerations 
make  oiw's  regret  still  more  keen  that  Mr.  Ban- 
croft had  not  adopted  some  method  by  which 
the  authorship  of  the  different  portions  of  his 
work  might  have  been  made  known.  Of  course 
there  are  assistants  and  assistanti.  &ome  are 
very  good,  very  trustworthy;  others  not.  The 
supervision  of  the  author  lias  been  at  complete 
at  it  could  well  be.  He  has  even  written  — 
according  to  his  own  statements  —  about  one 
half  of  the  manuscript  with  his  own  hand. 
Further  than  that  we  know  nothing;  and  this 
feeling  that  one  is  depending  on  some  unknown 
and  possibly  very  inferior  assistant  has  made 
Eastern  scholars  chary  of  their  commenda- 
tions. It  only  remains  lo  add  that  in  these 
volumes  the  history  of  California  is  brought 
down  to  1840,  and  the  Pioneer  Register  con- 
tinued to  Hyatt. 


Two  Thousand  and  Tin  Chmct  Quolaliont. 
Arranged  for  Daily  Use.  By  Thomas  W.  Hand- 
ford.     [Belford,  Cfarke  &  Co.] 

This  is  a  "Daily  Food"  on  a  large  plan, 
marked  by  great  catholicity  in  the  choice  of 
eatracta,  and  arranged  with  a  good  deal  of  rare 
and  judgment  in  point  of  detail.  There  are  365 
pages  of  text,  one  for  each  day  in  the  year ;  and 
each  page  is  headed  with  the  month  and  date. 
On  each  page  is  a  series  of  short  extracts,  in 
prose  or  verse,  for  that  day,  four,  five,  or  six 
of  them  aa  the  case  may  be,  each  with  a  title 
of  its  own  prefixed  and  the  name  oE  its  author 
suffixed,  and  all  consecDlively  numbered  through- 
out the  book.  So  far  aa  possible  the  extracts 
ara  fitted  to  the  seasons  of  the  year,  and  to  his- 
toric anniversaries,  and  there  are  two  full  in- 
dexes, one  of  subjects  and  the  other  of  authors. 
The  tone  of  the  collection  is  high,  very  high. 
The  best  literature  is  represented,  and  one  can- 
not tread  this  pathway  of  intellectual  flowers 
through  the  year  without  breathing  some  of  the 
most  flagrant  thought  the  world  has  known. 
A  very  excellent  taste,  nourished  on  wide  and 
choice  reading,  has  planned  and  executed  this 
book,  and  the  publishers  could  well  afford,  we 
should  think,  in  a  subsequent  edition  to  give  it  a 
more  luxurious  form. 

By  Daniel  G. 

Dr.  Brinton  is  steadily,  laboriously,  and  oblig- 
ingly extending  his  Library  of  Aboriginal  Ameri- 
can Literature,  in  which  the  present  is  Volume 
Vt.  The  Cakchiquels  were  a  tribe  occupying 
a  portion  of  the  present  territory  of  Guatemala, 
and  one  of  a  group  of  four  affiliated  nations, 
agricultural  in  tbeir  pursuits,  skilled  inlthc  arts, 


familiar  with  picture  writing,  having  a  poetic  or 
hymnic  literature,  expert  in  war,  living  under  ■ 
sort  of  limited  monarchy,  and  populating  nu- 
merous towns  and  cities.  The  capital  of  tbe 
Cakchiquels  waa  not  far  from  the  present  city 
of  Guatemala,  and  the  first  European  to  visit 
it  was  Pedro  de  Alvarado  In  1514.  Guzman 
describes  iLi  ruins  in  1695,  and  Stephens  ex- 
plored its  site  in  iS40>  These  AhmoIi,  here 
edited  by  Dr.  Brinton,  ar«  comprised  in  an  old 
folio  MS.  of  48  leaves,  clearly  written  on  both 
sides  in  indigo  ink,  found  in  the  archives  of  the 
Convent  of  San-  Francisco  of  Guatemala  by  Don 
Juan  Gavarele  in  1844.  The  document  was 
first  translated  Into  English  by  the  Abbe  Bra» 
scur  in  1865,  and  it  ia  a  fragment  of  this  trans- 
lation which  Dr.  Brinton  prints,  48  out  at  the 
96  pages  oE  the  original  having  no  general  in- 
tereet,  and  the  original  itself  being  incomplete. 
The  first  6]  pages  of  Dr.  Brinton's  luxurious 
volume  are  occupied  with  an  historical  and 
critical  introduction  ;  the  text  of  the  Annaii 
and  the  translation,  page  answering  to  page, 
follow,  down  to  p.  194 ;  then  come  in  the  re- 
maining 40  pp.  a  chapter  of  notes,  a  vocabulary 
of  the  Cakchiquel  language,  and  an  index  of 
native  proper  names.  The  document  has  a 
legal  character,  growing  out  of  a  dispute  be- 
tween two  ruling  and  rival  families  of  the 
nation.  It  is  in  the  handwriting  apparently  of 
a  professional  scribe. 


Wonderful  Bscafit.  Tr.  and  Revised  by 
Richard  Whiteing  from  the  French  of  F.  Ber- 
nard, with  Some  Additional  Chaplera.  Illus- 
trated.   [Charles  Scribner't  Sons.    (1.00.] 

From  Aristomenes  of  Metsenia,  about  684 
B.  C,  to  James  Stephens,  lermed,  in  the  very 
Hibernian  phrase,  "  Head  Center "  of  the 
Fenian  order,  quite  in  our  own  day,  rnns  this 
series  of  surprising adventnres and  "hair-breadth 
'scapes,"  oftentimes  vividly  narrated  to  ui  in 
the  very  language  of  the  heroes  themselves  aa 
preserved  in  old  records  or  in  bic^rapbies.  So 
many  are  the  narrators  thus  introduced  that  the 
function  of  M.  Bernard  would  seem  to  have 
been  rather  that  of  an  editor  than  that  of  an 
author.  And,  correspondingly,  the  style  and 
interest  of  the  stories,  at  well  as  their  length, 
varies  very  greatly.  In  some,  as  notably  the 
adventures  of  Baron  Trenck,  the  interest  be- 
comes thrilling,  not  only  from  the  nature  of  the 
events,  hut  from  tbe  minuteness  of  detail, 
which,  as  in  case  oE  the  celebrated  fiction  Robin- 
son Crusoe,  almost  seems  to  make  the  reader 
present  as  an  interested  spectator  of  all  that 
happens;  white  in  others  the  excessive  com- 
pression and  brevity  of  the  narrative  make  it 
rather  a  luld  statement  of  the  fact  that  a  woti- 
derful  escape  occurred  than  an  interesting  de- 
scription of  the  hero's  dangers  and  the  meana 
whereby  he  overcame  them.  This  fault  we 
find  very  prominent  in  the  meager  and  wholly 
inadequate  account  of  the  romantic  adventures 
of  Prince  Charles  Edward,  in  1746.  after  tbe 
disaster  wherein  "The  clans  of  Cuiloden  are 
scattered  in  flight."  Among  the  most  noted 
characters  introduced  are  the  beautiful  and 
unfortunate  Mary  Queen  of  Scots,  Charles  II 
of  England,  and  Prince  Louis  Napoleon,  after-  f^ 
wards  third  emperor  oE  tbe  French,  when  a 
prisoner  in  the  Fortress  of  Ham.  Some  inac- 
curacies, of  fact  or  of  dale,  are  to  be  detected 
which  have  escaped  tbe  notice  of  both  editor 


1 886.] 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD, 


and  translator.  The  fairly  nucneroaa  illustra- 
tions add  to  (he  inlGresl  of  the  book,  especially 
for  younger  readers;  and  at  least  among  such 
readers  ihis  volume  will  doubtless  be  among  the 
most  popular  of  the  Illuairaled  Series  of  Won- 
ders. The  rendering  into  English  is  free  from 
Ihe  Gallicisms  easily  detected  in  many  transla- 
tion* from  the   French,   both  in  rhetoric    and 


It  is  some  time  since  we  have  had  a  work  on 
ceramics,  and  Ihis  of  Mr.  Solon's  does  not  pro- 
fess to  be  new,  but  a  new  edition ;  though  of  the 
first  edition  we  find  no  trace,  and  do  not  doubt 
that  Ihis  is  ils  first  appearance  here.  Mr.  Solon, 
though  not  an  Englishman,  writes  from  Slolte-on- 
Treoi,  a  great  headquarleis  of  English  pot- 
teries, and  so  from  Ihe  center  of  the  subject 
literally  as  well  aa  historically.  The  worlt 
traces  the  growth  of  Ihe  English  potter's  art 
under  the  following  heads:  the  early  period, 
prior  to  Ihe  17th  century;  the  stone  ware,  which 
was  the  first  step  of  advance  to  compete  with 
German  products  ;  the  slip-decorated  ware,  so- 
called,  which  was  a  marl  body  ornamented  with 
devices  in  diluted  clay ;  the  Delft  ware  made  to 
imitate  Ihe  Dutch ;  the  sigilUted  or  stamped 
ware,  also  probably  an  imitation  of  Dutch  varie- 
ties; ihe  talt-glaze,  a  white  and  delicate  stone 
ware,  most  English  of  all,  Mr.  Solon  says,  in  its 
characteristics  ;  the  tortoise-shell,  Falissy  like  ; 
and  last  of  all  the  cream-colored  ware  beginning 
with  ihe  Aatbury  and  ending  with  the  Wedge- 
wood.  The  book  is  in  large  measure  a  compila- 
tion, makes  copions  references  to  famous  collec- 
tions, like  those  at  South  Kensington  and 
Brighton,  and  is  plentifully  illustrated  with  very 
good  wood-culs  inserted  in  the  text.  There  are 
indexes  to  illuatralions  and  text,  and  a  full  table 


against  Christian  faith  that  he  treats  historical 
authorities  with  very  little  respect  The  abom- 
lations  unveiled  at  Pompeii  are  "free  from  im- 
loral  suggestion,"  p.  l6:  ;  the  "  ancient  classical 
temples"  were  "  with  all  their  purity  and  sanily 

ted  into  the  barbarous  worship  of  Judaic 
Christianity,"  p.   119.    The  testimony  of  Sue- 

9  and  Juvenal  is  ruled  out  on  the  ground 
that  Ihey  were  "satirists  by  profession."  Tlie 
imagination  then  supplies  the  missing  links, 
thus: 

Had  not  the  bulk  of  literature  been  no  doubt 
wilfully  destroyed  by  the  triumphant  Jfews  and 
unhappy  Goths,  the  picture  of  life  might  have 
been  quite  of  another  texture,"  p.  119. 

There  is  a  certain  kind  of  interest,  and  even 
of  value,  in  this  scot  of  history  evolved  out  of 
the  individual  consciousness  of  an  eccentric  man 

.r  own  day,  but  it  is  not  so  satisfactory  as 
that  derived  from  contemporary  records.  The 
eccentricity  which  describes  ihe  conversion  of 
the  Roman  empire  to  Christianity  as  "a  malaria 
of  fanaticism  that  had  been  the  world's  terror 
md  horror  in  Palestine  for  a  cycle"  sweeping 
)ver  Europe  "  from  the  Ghetto  of  Rome,"  is 
perilously  near  a  disruptive  excess  of  centrifugal 
force.    But,  on  the  same  page,  iij,  Hr.  Sinclair 

kind  enough  to  say  that 
Ihe  humanist  never  forgets  to  distinguish  the 
idyllic  and  eternal  beauty  of  the  Naxarene  visions 
(roTu  the  cold-blooded  harshness  of  the  organiza- 
tion put  on  mankind  in  its  weak  time  by  the 
disciple  of  Gamaliel.  There  need  be  no  blame 
to  Paul,  because  he  acted  according  to  his  ener- 
getic and  logically  fanatical  nature. 


Mr.  Sinclair  gives  us  here  six  papers, 
fijst  discnsscB  the  authorship  of  Ihe  tract  asci 
lo  Messala  Corvinus  on  the  geneali^y  of  the 
Cvsars.  The  secondreviews  the  origin  of  Rome. 
The  third  treats  of  the  modes  of  teaching  Latin. 
The  fourth  speculates  on  the  growth  of  lan- 
guages. The  fifth  exalts  culture,  under  the  title 
of  humanism.  The  siith  is  a  series  of  extracts 
from  letters  written  on  the  continent.  We  find 
tbe  whole  rather  heavy  reading.  The  style  is, 
to  our  ears,  awkward  and  confusing)  the  word; 
being  unnaturally  transposed,  and  the  page! 
bristling  with  words  and  phrases  in  Italian. 
French,  Latin,  German,  etc.  Many  things  said 
arc  interesting  and  some  are  valuable;  but  the 
general  lone  of  the  volume  is  injured  by  self- 
conceit,  amUlious  effort  to  be  sententious,  pedan- 
tic admiration  of  classic  civilization,  and  violent 
prejodice  against  the  Christian  religion.  The 
author  speaks,  p.  205,  of  Greece  and  Rome  being 
paralyzed  by  Christianity;  and  a  lower  civiliza- 
tion crushing  a  higher  in  the  time  of  the  Em- 
peror Constanline.  In  our  reading  of  history 
we  got  the  impression  that  Rome  paralyzed 
Greece  by  brute  force  neatly  Iwo  hundred  years 
before  Christianity  appeared ;  and  afterward 
paralyzed  Christianity  by  a  quasi  miliiaty  organ- 
ization of  the  church.  But  Hr.  Sinclair  Is  ap- 
parently so  determined  to  make  out  his  case 


of  January,"  Munkitirick  on  "June  In  January," 
Keble  "To  a  Thrush  Singing  in  January,"  and 
Mrs.   Dodge   on  "The  Weavers"  in  January; 
Mrs.  Webster  and  Charlotte  Fiske  Bates  have 
mng  the  Old  Year  Out  and  Ihe  New  Year  In ; 
and  to  January  may  also  properly  be  assigned 
a  large  variety  of  verses  on  Winter  and  Snow. 
February  too  has   been   sung  by  Spenser  and 
Longfellow,     Fawcelt     and     Hewlett,    Arnold, 
Morris,  and   some  minor  poets;  Tennyson  has 
lines  on  "A  Day  in  February,"  Mr.  Gosse  has 
en  of  "  February  in  Rome,"  and  there  are 
special   conliibutions   to    the    volume    on   this 
h,  not  before  published,  by  Higginson,  Hra. 
Austin,  F.  D.  Sherman,  and    Clinton    Scollard. 
Altogether  these  books   are   agreeable  com- 
inions  for  Ihe  passing  days.    It  must  be  pleas- 
it  to  make  the  circuit  of  the  year  with  such 
usic  in  our   cars.     The  indexes   lo  authors, 
ith  biographical  data,  are  a  valuable  feature, 
and  Ihe  books  are  comely  and  convenient 


"Through  Ihe  Year  with  the  Poets."    Edited 
'  Oscar  Fay  Adam*.     Otcemier.     yanuaty. 
rbruary.    3  vols.    [D.   Lothrop  ft  Co.     Each 
7Se-l 

Mr.  Oscar  Fay  Adams,  a  careful  and  Indnslri- 
is  American  Uterarian,  has  begun  Ihe  prepara- 
m  of  a  series  of  anthott^ies  bearing  Ihe  general 
title  of  "  Through  the  Year  with  the  Poets."  It 
Longfellow's  method  in  "Poems  of  Places" 
applied  to  the  months.  The  initial  volume  was 
Dictmber.  It  is  a  prettily  printed  i6mo  of  140 
pages,  with  good  indexes,  as  would  be  expected, 
bringing  tt^ether,  as  the  editor  says  in  his  pref- 
"  the  principal  poems  in  English  and  Ameri- 
literature  referring  with  more  or  less  di- 
rectness of  allusion  to  December  and  the  early 
■r."  Chrislmas  poems,  as  being  a  depart- 
by  themselves,  are  not  included.  Shake- 
speare, Shelley,  Burns,  Longfellow,  Landor, 
Lowell,  Bryant,  Tennyson,  Ihe  Procters,  Whittier, 
Swinburne,  Scott,  Akenside,  and  Morris,  are 
tbe  leading  poets  represented,  and  there  are 
numerous  minor  names.  A  poem  by  Col.  Hig- 
ginson,  which  appeared  originally  as  an  anony- 
mous contrlbulion  in  an  early  number  of  Put- 
tiam'i  Magatinf,  is  here  for  the  first  time  printed 
over  the  name  of  Its  author. 

In  keeping  with  Ihe  foregoing  in  appearance 
and  character  of  contents  are  the  volumes  on 
January  and  Fthmary.  As  Mr.  Adams  ad- 
vances with  Ihe  procession  of  the  months,  one 
may  wonder  whether  he  will  find  sufficient  in 
Ihe  fancies  of  the  poets  to  dress  them  up  in; 
but  it  is  interesting  lo  see  how  much  the  poets 
have  tuned  their  instruments  to  the  seasons. 
Thus  there  are  poems  on  "January  "  by  Spenser, 
Longfellow,  Lowell,  Edgar  Fawcett,  Edwin 
Arnold,  Hewlett,  Mrs.  Austin,  and  Wm.  Morris ; 
Christina  Rowelli  hai  written  "  On  the  Wind 


From  Uverpool  to  Enston. 

Batylat.    D.  Applelon  &  Co.] 


[From  Crmt  AIlci 

To  most  of  us,  Ihe  journey  from  Liverpool  to 
Euslon  lies  only  through  a  high  flat  country, 
past  a  number  of  dull,  ordinary,  uninteresting 
railway  stations.  It  is,  in  fact,  about  as  im- 
picluresque  a  bit  of  traveling  as  a  man  can  do 
within  the  four  girdling  sea-walls  of  this  beauti- 
ful isle  of  Britain.  But  to  Hiram  Winthrop  ft 
was  (he  most  absolutely  fairy-iike  and  romantic 
journey  he  had  ever  undertaken  in  the  whole 
course  of  his  mundane  existence.  First  they 
passed  through  Lancashire,  and  then  through 
Cheshire,  and  then  on  over  the  impalpable 
boundary  line  into  Staffordshire,  Why,  those 
tall  towers  yonder  were  Lichfield  Cathedral; 
and  that  little  (own  on  the  left  was  Sam  John- 
son's countrified  Lichfield  1  >lere  comes  George 
Eliot's  Nunealon,  and  after  it  Tom  Brown's  aad 
Arnold's  Rugby.  At  Bletchley,  you  read  on 
the  notice-board,  "Change  here  for  Oxford;" 
great  heavens,  just  as  if  Oxford,  Ihe  Oxford, 
were  nothing  more  than  Orange  or  Chattawauga  I 
And  here  is  Tring,  where  Robert  Stephenson 
made  his  great  cutting  ;  and  there  is  Marrow  on 
the  Hill,  where  Paul  Howard,  the  marauding 
buccaneer  of  the  Caribbean  Sea,  received  the 
first  rudiments  of  faith  and  religion.  Not  a 
village  along  the  line  but  had  its  resonant  echo 
In  the  young  man's  memory  ;  not  a  manor  house, 
steeple,  or  farmyard  but  had  its  glamour  of  ro- 
mance for  the  young  man's  fancy.  The  very 
men  and  women  seemed  to  take  Ihe  familiar 
shapes  of  well-known  characters.  Colonel  New- 
come,  tail  and  bronzed  by  Indian  suns,  pac«d 
the  platform  alone  at  Crewe ;  Dick  Swiveller, 
penniless  and  jaunty  as  ever,  lounged  about  the 
refreshment  room  at  Bliaworth  Junction  ;  even 
Trulliber  himself,  a  litlle  modernized  in  outer 
garb,  but  essentially  the  same  in  face  and  feat- 
ure, dived  red-cheeked  after  hia  luggage  into 
the  crowded  van  at  Willesden.  And  so,  by 
rapid  stages,  through  a  world  of  unspealuble 
delight,  the  engine  rolled  them  swiftly  into  tbe 
midst  of  seething,  grimy,  opulent,  squalid,  hun- 
gry, all-embracing  London. 


—  Mr.  Frank  R.  Stockton  is  back  in  New 
Vork  again,  working  hard  on  the  proof-sheets  of 
his  novel.  Among  literary  people  Mr.  Stockton 
seems  (o  be  little  known,  but  (hose  who  have 
(he  good  fortune  lo  gain  his  acquaintance  or  his 
friendship  know  him  as  one  of  (he  most  chano- 
ing,  unaffected,  and  interesting  of  men.  His 
wife,  who  is  now  in  New  York  with  him,  is  a 
most  agreeable  lady.  Her  assistance  is  of  the 
greatest  value  lo  her  husband,  to  whom  she  is 
not  only  an  able  adviser,  but  acts  also  as  his 
secretary,  doing  a  large  amount  of  his  writing 
for  him. 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Feb.  aa 


The  Literary  World, 


BOSTON,  FEBRUARY  20,  1686. 


knd  even  tliM«  great  book!  ■: 


Thay 


dqIu 


ud  toDlci  10  the  tnbig  Immiliiitlon  of 
aoabla  ui  to  coaoeet  Id  BOmc  way  the  prcieot  with 
tbi  put  — or,  what  U  itlll  rnoic  difficult,  ud  ro- 
qufm  ■  higher  energy  for  which  we  tn  oaly  cow 
and  then  adeqatM,  they  enehla  ui  to  coBDect  the 
prcHUt  with  the  future.  But  the  beit  of  booki  are 
reaouiete,  not  f  rieodi  —  reiourcei  which,  If  properly 
uHd.  open  cur  eyei,  serve  our  Imagl nation*,  atlr 

able  ambltioni.  But  In  any  caie,  the  book*  to  love 
and  cheilih  are  not  tfaoaa  which  give  ai  the  lergeit 
raeaaure  af  kaowladgg,  but  thoae  which  awaken 
the  activity  of  oar  trucit  Mlf ,  —  Tit  S/ttlaier :  Jan 


No  change  has  taken  place  in  the  editorial 
maDageinent  of  the  Liltmry  World,  and 
none  is  in  preparation,  current  rumors  to  the 
contrary  notwithstanding.  If  any  change 
ever  should  be  made,  our  readers  may 
expect  direct  information  of  the  fact  from 
those  who  are  fn  a  position  to  give  it. 


The  Boston  Beacan  notes  the  fact  that 
the  word  "  literarian,"  first  proposed  in  the 
Liltrary  Worldai  February  21,  1885,  "has 
fairly  made  its  way,  and  is  likety  to  be 
accepted  by  good  writers."  "  It  certainly," 
adds  the  Beacon,  "  answers  the  purpose  for 
which  it  is  intended." 


Though  midwinter  is  passing,  Boston  is 
still  in  the  midst  of  a  brilliant  series  oE  lect- 
ures, single  and  in  courses.  Prof.  Child  of 
Harvard  has  been  discoursing  delightfully 
at  the  Lowell  Institute  on  Old  English 
Ballads ;  and  on  the  same  foundation  have 
been  begun  two  courses  of  twelve  lectures 
each,  one  on  "  The  Late  Civil  War "  by 
soldiers  of  both  sides,  and  one  on  "  Popular 
Astronomy  "  by  Prof.  C.  A.  Young.  Joseph 
Cook  has  begun  a  new  display  of  intellect- 
ual fireworks  at  Tremont  Temple.  Piof. 
Chastanier  of  Paris  has  lectured  on  "  Deco- 
ration and  Dramatic  Interpretation  in  Thea- 
ters, Ancient  and  Modern,"  Rev.  James  de 
Noroiandie  on  "  The  Sunday  Question," 
and  Mr.  Sidney  Dickinson  on  "The  Treas- 
ure Houses  of  European  Art"  Boston 
may  be  losing  Its  place  as  a  "  literary  cen- 
ter," but  as  a  literary  circumference  it  con- 
tinues to  enclose  a  good  deal. 


The  iotematioDal  Copyright  question  has 
been  Illuminated  of  late  by  a  hearing  before 
a  Congressional  Committee,  in  which  Mr. 
Estes  of  the  Boston  hou.se  of  Estes  & 
Lauriat  made  a  clear,  interesting,  and  forci- 
ble statement,  in  whiclt  he  was  so  candid 
as  to  say  that  he  thought  almost  any  bill 
which  might  pass  the  committee  would  be 
better  than  none;  by  an  argument  in  the 
Homt   JtmrmU  of  Feb.    to  by  Mr.  O.  B. 


Bunce  against  the  plan  recommended  by  the 
International  Copyright  League ;  by  a  pam- 
phlet from  the  pen  of  Henry  C.  Lea  of 
Philadelphia,  expressing  his  reasons  for 
preference  of  the  Chace  Bill  over  the  Haw- 
ley  Bill,  now  before  Congress ;  and  by  an 
article  in  the  Saturday  Revitw  of  January 
30,  surveying  the  whole  subject  from  the 
American  standpoint  It  is  greatly  to  be 
hoped  that  the  outcome  of  all  this  dis- 
cussion will  be  the  devising  of  some  meas- 
ure which  will  secure  mutual  rights  between 
English  authors  and  American  publishers, 
and  American  authors  and  English  publish- 
ers; but  falling  that  we  should  be  glad  to 
see  Congress  do  justice  to  English  authors 
in  this  country,  and  let  our  country  bide  its 
time  to  get  the  return.  It  would  come 
sooner  or  later. 

As  an  offset  to  the  complaints  which  some 
authors  are  prone  to  make  over  the  conduct 
of  some  publishers,  we  may  tell  a  little  story 
of  one  publishing  house,  which  is  certainly 
a  credit  to  it  and  to  the  guild  of  which  it  is 
an  ornament  Some  fourteen  years  ago  the 
ancestors  of  the  present  house  published  a 
book  which  we  will  call  MacarwiKs.  A  few 
months  since  the  senior  member  of  the 
present  house  wrote  to  the  author  saying 
that  he  had  been  looking  over  the  original 
contract  of  publication  and  the  accounts; 
by  which  it  appeared  thatanumber  of  copies 
of  the  book  were  destroyed  in  the  Chicago 
fire,  and  that  he  desired  to  pay  the  author 
^83,33  for  his  copyrights  on  the  copies  so 
destroyed.  Theauthor  replied  that  he  had  no 
knowledge  of  these  circumstances,  and  had 
no  claim  to  make  against  the  present  house, 
which  was  a  successor  twice  removed  from 
the  original  publishers  ;  and  that  if  there 
were  a  claim  it  was  certainly  outlawed  by 
this  time.  To  this  the  publisher  replied 
refusing  to  accept  any  discharge  from  obli- 
gation, and  insisting  on  the  author's  taking 
the  check  for  $83.33.  This  little  incident  — 
great  in  the  spirit  which  underlies  it  —  we 
believe  we  are  the  first  to  make  public  We 
do  it  wholly  without  the  knowledge  of  the 
firm  in  question,  whose  probable  feelings  in 
the  matter  wc  will  so  far  respect  as  sim- 
ply to  say  that  its  headquarters  are  not  a 
thousand  miles  from  the  Park  Street  side 
of  Boston  Common. 


THE  BIBLE  AB  LITERATmiE. 

IN  the  malliplidty  of  cheap  literature  which 
overflows  the  bookstalls  and  is  scattered  on 
the  doorsteps,  there  is  no  doubt  that  the  great 
classics  have  suffered  in  the  competition.  Their 
old  monopoly  is  gone,  and  they  are  not  read  and 
re-read  with  that  degree  of  attention  which  Ihej 
demand  in  order  to  impress  themselves  upon  the 
age.  Cheap  boolis  have  intruded  themselves 
upon  the  books  that  are  classic,  and  newspapers 
are  pushing  hard  on  the  books.  It  has  been  said 
by  one  of  the  officers  in  the  Boston  Public  Li- 
brary that  the  Sunda-y  Herald,  with  its  many 
pages  of  reading  matter  upon  every  conceivable 


subject  has  diminished  the  withdrawals  of  books 
from  the  Library  for  Sunday  reading. 

In  this  change  in  the  conditions  of  literature 
the  Bible  has  suffered,  and  has  lost  somewhat  of 
that  predominance  which  it  had  when  it  was  in 
many  cases  the  only  book  accesuble-  Both  in 
the  name  of  morals  and  literature  it  is  worth  con- 
sidering what  means  ought  further  to  be  taken  in 
order  to  make  the  Bible  the  favorite  book  of 
every  class.  A*  apart  of  the  literature  of  alt  ages 
it  deserves  to  be  the  best  printed,  the  best  bound, 
the  beet  illustrated,  and  in  every  way  the  most 
attractive,  of  all  books.  A  practical  difficulty  in 
the  way  of  this  object  is  the  large  amount  of 
matter  contained  in  the  book  itself,  a  fact  which 
generally  ensnres  an  unwieldy  volume  oravolume 
so  compactly  printed  that  the  type  is  too  fine  for 
safe  reading  and  far  from  being  attraclive.  Pro- 
fessor Park,  in  an  Andover  bookstore,  remarked 
to  a  friend,  "Would  yon  like  to  see  a  wicke4 
Bible  }  "  and  thereupon  eahibiied  one  in  small  eye- 
tiring  type.  Spurgeon,  realising  bow  the  useful- 
ness of  the  hook  is  impaired  by  small  print,  is 
reported  to  have  said  that  he  should  think  that 
the  Bible  societies  were  run  by  the  devil. 

It  is  possible  to  secure  for  the  Bible  great  com- 
pactness with  good  clear  type  on  good  paper,  but 
this  ideal  is  scarcely  ever  attained.  A  search  in 
the  Boston  depository  oE  the  American  Bible 
Society  for  just  such  a  Bible,  discovered  only  one 
in  the  whole  stock,  and  that  was  from  the  Oxford 
Press.  Nevertheless  the  type  in  such  a  volume, 
if  the  book  be  small  and  inexpensive,  will  at  best 
be  fine.  This  decides  the  question  whether  the 
church  by  some  united  action  dare  publish  and 
maintain  for  popular  use  an  abridged  Bible.  If  it 
t)e  thought  too  much  of  a  concession  to  human 
weakness  to  prepare  such  a  Bible  for  the  people 
in  general,  it  might  be  especially  adapted  to  the 
young,  and  known  as  the  "Youth's  Bible."  It  is 
admitted  that  there  are  large  portions  of  Scripture 
which  are  not  and  cannot  be  made  interesting  to 
the  young,  and  are  above  their  comprehension, 
and  for  that  reason  are  of  much  less  value  to  this 
class  than  other  portions.  Making  an  abridgment 
with  this  fact  in  view,  ihe  Youth's  Bible  might 
contain  parts  of  Genesis  and  the  first  twenty 
chapters  of  Exodus,  and  such  portions  of  the 
t>ooks  of  Numbers,  Joshni,  Judges,  Sam- 
uel, Kings,  Chronicles,  Ezra  and  Nehemiah,  as 
would  outline  the  main  facts  of  Jewish  history 
and  make  prominent  the  lives  of  Joshua,  Samuel, 
David,  Elijah,  Elitha,  and  other  worthies.  It 
would  contain  the  books  of  Ruth,  Esther  and 
Job,  Proverbs  and  Ecclesiastes,  and  most  of  the 
Psalms,  omitting  such  of  the  latter  as  have  much 
to  say  concerning  the  vengeance  of  God  upon 
one's  enemies.  From  the  Prophets  there  should 
Im  enough  to  familiarize  the  reader  with  the 
course  of  prophetic  influence  and  religious  devel- 
opment under  the  old  dispensation,  omitting 
some  of  the  prophetic  books,  aa  the  mysterious 
Eiekiel,  and  taking  the  most  effective  portions  of 
others,  as  Isaiah  and  Jeremiah.  Prom  the  New 
Testament  would  be  given  the  Gospels  of 
Matthew  and  John,  the  Acts,  the  Epistles  of 
Paul  to  Ihe  Corinthians  and  Romans,  the  Epistles 
of  Peter,  James  and  John,  and  the  first  four  and 
the  last  chapters  of  the  Apocalypse.  Thus 
abridged,  the  Youth's  Bible  would  be  about  one 
half  the  size  of  the  present  volume,  but  would  be  , 
compact  and  inexpensive,  and  could  be  printed 
in  good  and  attractive  type,  and  still  admit  of 
illostration.      A  familiarity  with  and  comprehen*' 


■886.] 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


63 


lion  of  the  whole  of  ft  might  reuonabi;  be  re- 
quired at  an  e&rlyigej  and  ■■  a  teacher  of  morali, 
a  ipur  to  religioD*  atpiration,  and  an  iostructor  in 
pure  Engllth  for  the  ^ung,  the  Bible  would  lake 
a  (till  higher  place  than  it  holds  today.  Towards 
thi*   end    the    printer,    binder,   and   engraver 

.  should  bend  their  best  energies.  No  reason 
eziUi  wh;  the  book  which  containi  mail's  bright. 
est  hope*  should  be  nearly  always  clothed  in 

'  [oneieal  black  and  deprived  of  those  warm  colors 
in  binding  which  are  pleasing  to  tbe  eye.  Why 
la  it,  also,  that  so  few  efforts  have  been  made  to 
popuUrize  the  Bible  by  Illustration  i  Perhaps 
the  slM  of  tbe  book  ha*  placed  a  serious  limita- 
tion on  cfforti  in  this  direction,  an  objection 
which  would  not  apply  to  the  Vouth's  Bible.  In 
the  powerful  aid  which  in  late  years  literature 
has  derived  from  wood- engraving,  the  Bible  has 
been  alighted.  It  ia  said  that  tbe  art  of  engraving 
in  wood  began  its  great  career  in  America  with 
Harper's  Illustrated  Bible,  published  in  1S46, 
which  contained  over  i,400culs,  and  which,  though 
now  out  of  print,  has  not  again  been  equaled. 
Bat  the  extensiire  explorations  in  Palestine  and 
the  growth  of  Oriental  archteology  since  that 
date,  together  with  the  advance  in  the  technique  of 
wood-engraving,  will  make  a  aimilar  and  still 
more  snccesafnl  enterprise  possible  in  the  near 
future.  The  time  is  not  yet  ripe,  however,  for 
two  reasons.  First,  it  remains  to  be  seen  whether 
the  revised  version  is  to  take  tbe  pre-eminence  as 
tbe  book  of  the  people;  and  second,  it  is  not 
dedrable  that  a  work  of  auch  permanent  iniercil 
should  be  begun  until  by  common  consent  of  the 
wood  Cleavers,  the  art  has  been  established  units 
true  basis.  Today,  as  taken  at  its  highest  in 
//arfrr'i  and  the  Century,  it  rests  on  the  false 
basis  of  animiladve  art,  a*  is  said  by  Woodberry 
In  his  Hittiry  tf  Woed-Engrtrving ; 

A  considerable  portion  of  the  wood-engrav- 
\tig  of  the  last  ten  years  consiais  of  attempts  to 
render  original  designs  —  for  example,  a  washed 
drawing  —  not  by  interpreting  it*  ariistic  quali- 
tieSf  It*  form,  colors,  forces,  spirit,  and  manner, 
so  tar  as  thene  can  be  given  by  simple,  defined, 
firm  lines  of  the  engraver's  creation,  but  by  imi- 
tating as  closely  as  possible  (he  original  effect 
and  snowing  the  character  of  tbe  original  process, 
whether  it  were  water  color,  chsrcMl  skelching, 
oil  painting,  clar  modelling,  or  any  other.  The 
public  may  thus  derive  information ;  ihey  will 
not  obtain  works  of  artistic  value  at  all  equal  to 
those  which  wood  engraving  might  give  them, 
did  it  not  abdicate  its  own  peculiar  power  of  ex- 
pressing nature  in  a  true,  accurate,  and  beautiful 
way  and  descend  to  mechanical  imitation. 

Until  the  art,  retaining  the  modern  improve- 
nwnta  in  finish,  again  reverts  to  its  true  basis,  in 
accordance  with  the  example  of  Bewick  and 
Adams,  the  Harpers  could  not  perhaps  do  a 
better  service  than  by  reprinting  In  cheap  form 
that  iltamiaated  Bible  from  the  old  plates,  if 
they  are  still  In  existence.  Host  of  the  cuts 
would  stand  the  criticiBm  of  any  period,  and 
those  which  could  not,  would  be  Interesting  for 
their  qnaintocss. 


London    TVwM  of  the  paper,  and  anticipates  : 


— Mr.  Pan]  Potter,  formerly  a  member  of  the 
Htrald  staff,  who  proposed  recently  to  found 
new  dally  evening  paper  in  New  York,  with  Mi 
Seligman  as  his  backer,  has  given  np  the  pla: 
and  has  secured  a  controtting  intereat  in  TmiiH 
Tcpia,  asociety  paper  which  has  had  aprecarions 
life  and  has  absorbed  a  great  deal  of  money  from 
thaw  who  have  had  the  honor  of  a  connectii 
with  It.    Mr.  Potter  pt<^>oaea  to  make  a  sort  of 


JAHE8  BE&£T  BEVBEL. 
The  Question  Answered. 
"Where  pxiwiDT  Uurel  booEh  P** 

Teomelime,  nrnfiwlifira  Iiurel  wAiledhini] 

luMToui  luTEi  ihil  poets'  eree  illara 

■r  fir  lew  oClen  (M  Deilh'i  riTer-brin. 

KiEhL  oTcrfaead.  like  e  begiuDinf  wreith, 

Tbere  wived  tr>wiirdt  him  one  fnirj  thininc  ipray 

e  imlled  —  f  Bidied  —  loucbed  il  —  bill  Ihe  ilrcaiD 


Ignatius  Donnelly.  Though  for  many  ycart 
closely  identified  with  the  welfare  of  the  Slate 
of  Minnesota,  Mr.  Donnelly  iaa  native  of  Penn- 
sylvania, having  been  born  in  Philadelphia, 
November  3,  1831.  His  education  was  con- 
ducted in  the  public  schools  of  that  city,  and  be 

graduated  from  its  Central  High  School. 
Removing  to  Minnesota  he  represented  tbe  Sec- 
ond District  of  that  Sute  in  the  Thirty- Eighth, 
Thirty-Ninth,  and  Fortieth  Congresses,  was  Uett- 

it-Covernor  of  Minnesota  for  four  years, 
and  Governor  of  the  Slate  ad  interim  during  the 
War.  He  ha9  also  served  as  State  senator 
for  five  years.  He  is  the  author  of  Atlantis: 
the  Antediluvian  Worid,  Ragnarak:  the  Age  of 
Fire  and  Gravel,  and  an  Essay  on  the  Sonnets 
of  Shakespeare.  Mr.  Donnelly's  home  is  at 
Nininger,  a  few  miles  north  of  Hastings,  Minne- 


C.  W.  Bmat.  Carl  Wilhelm  Ernst,  editor 
of  the  Boston  Beaeen,  wai  boin  April  31,  1845, 

Eddesse,  near  Celle,  Germany.  There  his 
father  was  a  clergyman  in  the  Lutheran  church 
and  attended  to  the  education  of  his  son,  until 
tbe  latter  enlered  Ihe  illustrious  classical  school 

Ilfeld,  the  Rugby  of  Germany.  In  1S63  he 
was  invited  with  an  elder  brother,  now  a  college 
president  at  Walertown,  Wis.,  to  continue  his 
studies  in  the  United  Slates.  He  graduated  at 
ihe  Concordia  College  in  Fori  Wayne,  Ind.,  and 
at  the  Concordia  Theological  Seminary,  St.  Louis, 
Mo.,  and  filled  a  Lutheran  pulpit  in  Geneseo^ 
Iltq  and  Providence,  R.  I.  At  the  invitation  of  the 
late  G.  W.  Davidson  he  adopted  the  profession 
of  journalism,  acting  at  first  as  leader  writer  on 
the  Providence  Journal,  the  Providence  Press, 
Ihe  Boston  Advtrtittr  (1879-83),  and  since  1S84 
as  editor  of  Ihe  Boston  Beacm.  He  has  written 
chiefly  on  inlernational  affairs,  financial  topics, 
and  literary  subjects,  besides  editing  two  Gei 
man  books,  and  contributing  to  reviews  an< 
encyclopedias.  The  North  German  Gatetli 
usually  prints  his  American  letters  as  leadi 
articles,  with  his  name  attached  —  a  novelty 
German  journalism.  He  is  a  member  of  several 
learned  socielies,  and  has  been  made  an  honor- 
ary A.M.,  by  Brown  University. 


The  Late  Oeorge  T.  Lanigan. 

aed  Feb.  S,  ^SS6. 
The  best  things  thai  he  wrote  appeared  with- 
out his  name.     Some  of  his  friends  thought  that 
the  initials  "  G.   T.   L."  at  the  bottom  of  his 
•ketchea  and  stories  cast  a  sort  of  dcprci 


shadow  back  over  them.  But  certainly  the 
"  Fables  "  from  the  IVar/d  that  appeared  in  book 
form  under  his  name,  and  many  of  his  signed 
articles  in  the  Editor's  Drawer  in  Harptt'i 
Monthly,  as  well  as  tbe  strangely  fantastic  imita. 
tions  o(  ancient  ballads  that  were  published 
chiefly  in  ihe  World,  entitle  him  to  a  reputation. 
Personally,  Lanigan  was  one  of  the  odd- 
est and  most  uncouth  men  that  the  historian  has 
ever  known.  He  was  very  short  of  stature, 
lumpy  and  round-faced,  and  humorous  in  every 
suggestion  and  movement.  He  had  never  shaved, 
■nd  his  iace  was  fringed  with  a  soft  and  fuizy 
substance  lliat  only  faintly  resembled  a  beard. 
His  clothes,  when  the  historian  knew  him,  were 
always  of  gray,  coarse  woollen  cloth,  and  he  wore 
:o11ar,  save  the  flowing  one  of  bis  woollen 
.  He  always  carried  in  some  of  the  depths 
of  his  extraordinary  clothing  a  bottle  oE  ink  with 
a  screw  top,  a  folding  gold  pen  and  a  supply  of 
writing  paper;  and  be  would  sii  down  anywhere, 
in  a  beer  saloon  or  under  the  shade  of  a  tree  in 
Ihe  park — he  preferred  the  beer  saloon  —  and 
write  with  rapidity  Ihe  most  beautiful  copperplate 
copy  that  ever  (»me  into  a  printer's  hands.  His 
ability  was  universal.  There  was  nothing  in 
ioutnalism  or  literature  that  he  could  not  do. 
The  flow  of  his  English  was  Addisonian  and  the 
touch  oF  his  imuiiution  Lamb.like.  Educated 
in  Canada  for  the  priesthood,  he  drifted  into 
telegraphy ;  he  was  an  expert  in  thai,  but  took  up 
journalism  as  his  natural  calling.  At  the  Chica- 
go fire  he  did  famous  work,  ftoing  lo  Ihe  out- 
skirts of  the  city,  taking,  himself,  the  telegraph 
iltslrument  in  a  suburban  office,  and  wiring  with 
the  rapidity  of  lightning,  and  from  his  own  actu- 
al experience  and  observation,  the  most  graphic 
description  of  the  calamity  that  has  been  pub- 
lished. He  drifted  to  New  York,  and  for  years 
wrote  on  the  World  in  that  city.  After  Pulitzer 
came  in  he  went  to  Rochester  to  edit  the  Pest- 
Express  of  that  city,  but  soon  floated  away  lo  the 
Philadelphia  Record,  doing  general  writing  on 
that  breeiy  paper.  Heart  disease  drove  him  to 
his  bed,  but  he  dictated  his  articles  thence,  and 
died  at  last  almost  in  the  harness. —  Beslen  Ret- 


OTIS  ENGLISH  LETTEB. 

SINCE  the  time  of  Queen  Elizabeth  (rich  in 
its  miscellanies,  ils  handful  of  pleasant 
delights,  its  French  gardens,  its  golden  grove, 
its  paradise  of  pleasant  devices],  since  those 
palmy  days  of  editors  there  has  been  no  such  a 
harvest  of  anthologies  as  now  we  teap  in  Eng- 
land every  year.  Every  Christmas  time  brings 
its  little  crop  of  songs  from  the  novelists,  songs 
from  the  dramatists,  songs  from  heaven-knows- 
who.  But  the  sonnet  is  Ihe  dearest  bric-i-bNtc 
of  a  modish  London  public.  Every  month,  it 
would  seem,  must  have  its  new  collection.  The 
last  and  best  of  these  is  by  Mr.  William  Sharp, 
himself  one  of  the  foremost  of  our  modern 
poets,  and  It  is  prefaced  by  an  introduction  so 
careful  and  exact,  such  a  royal  road  to  sonnet- 
eering, that  we  fear  the  faultess  sonnet  will 
henceforth  be  flourishing  in  every  magazine. 
The  protpect  is  not  without  its  terrors  j  but 
since,  as  Mr.  Dobson  tell*  u^  it  is  no  use  to 
hope  young  poets  will  be  quiet,  it  is  perhaps  as 
well  that  they  should  sing  in  tune.  And  Indeed, 
if  any  young  Petrarch  of  the  Common  is  in 
difficulties  over  the  sonnet  she  requires,  let  him 
buy  Ihe  last  volume  of  the  Canterbury  poets, 
and  Mr.  Sharp  will  explain  to  him  the  French, 
the  Italian,  and  (he  English  sextet,  the  legitimate 
and  illegitimate  octave,  the  in-wave  and  the  out- 
wave,  till  sonnet  writing  seems  no  worse  than  an 
intellectual  quadrille.  In  Italy,  as  you  know,  the 
young  peasants  of  the  mountains  are  obliged,  at  a 
certain  season,  to  supply  the  lady  at  their  choice 
wilb  little  poems  in  her  praise.  They  have  no  Mr. 
Sharp  i  and  the  verses  are  not  always  very  good. 


64 


THE    LITERARY   WORLD. 


[Feb.  20, 


But  wilb  oar  advintagei,  it  will  indeed  be  strange 
if  ntxl  Chritimu  Hr.  Maine,  and  Mi.  Caine,  *nd 
Mr.  Waddington,  and  Mr.  Sharp,  and  Mr.  John 
Trabell  liave  not  enough  upon  their  hands  I 
Hr.  Sharp  \t  himself  quite  a  young  miter,  barely 
thirty  1  but  his  magical  touch  h  desciibing  na- 
ture, his  thorough,  uncompromising  industry,  his 
poetic  gift,  and  alto  (perhaps)  his  well-known 
friendship  with  Dante  Gabiiel  Rosietti,  com- 
bined to  make  for  bin  at  an  early  age  a  sudden 
reputation.  His  literary  career  ha>  b«en  one  of 
unbroken  prosperity,  and  among  the  younger 
men,  few  have  a  more  fortunate  prospect  than 
he. 

Talking  of  poetry,  MiM  Matbllde  Blind,  a  lady 
whose  splendor  of  poetic  vision  is  perhaps  even 
better  recognized  in  Prance  than  at  home,  is 
finishing  a  poem  on  the  Highland  Crofters, 
Every  day  the  tea  cup  and  the  cricket  match  lose 
their  hold  as  the  sole  permissible  subjects  of  the 
English  muse.  Poetry,  like  life,  begins  Co  em- 
brace a  hundred  tragic  or  beautiful  possibilities. 
The  days  of  Dresden  china  ate  at  an  end,  It 
may  be  we  are  on  the  eve  in  England  of  a  great 
poetic  Renaissance.  At  leaat  among  the  youngest 
generation  oE  our  poets  Miss  Blind  and  Mr.  Sharp, 
Michael  Field  —  and  there  are  others  —  hive 
dared  to  be  in  earnest;  have  taken  In  their 
bands  the  dust  oF  Che  real  world,  have  molded  it 
and  breathed   upon  it,  have  bid  it  live,  and  il 

To  pass  from  poetry  to  prose,  which  la  not 
less  exquisite,  Mr.  Pater  is  beginning  another  of 
hi*  singular,  palienC,  beautiful  romances  of  the 
past.  This  time  the  Milieu  will  be  the  France 
of  the  sixteenth  century.  It  will  not  be  finished 
for  some  lime.  Mr.  Paler  is  no  hasty  worker, 
but  cautious,  delicate,  chasing  his  style  as  a 
piece  of  precious  melal. 

Mr.  Lang  is  also  at  work  on  a  novel.  [The 
novel  Is  the  form  we  all  have  to  come  to  atlasl.) 
Mrs.  Humphrey  Ward  is  finishing  the  successor 
to  Mist  Brethcrlsit.  Her  sincccesC  admirers  a 
little  regret  Che  magnet  that  draws  hei  further 
and  further  from  her  long  pondered  hislory  of 
the  Golhs  in  Spain. 

There  is  no  dearth  of  novelists  with  you  or 
with  us,  but  (since  The  BDilonians)  perhaps 
not  one  in  either  country  to  match  the  Intel. 
lectual  caliber  of  Mr.  James.  In  X.ondon  ii 
least  and  among  those  who  read  for  interest  and 
not  only  for  amusement,  this  last  work  will 
immensely  enhance  a  reputation  which  has  un- 
accountably and  most  unduly  flagged  and  with- 
ered in  the  last  few  years.  A.  M.  F.  R. 

London,  yauuary  jo,  1B86, 


OUE  HEW  TOEK  LETTER. 

DINING  the  other  evening  at  the  Century 
Club  with  Col.  L.  M.  Montgomery,  the 
well-known  journalist  and  traveler,  he  recalled 
many  lively  reminiscences  of  those  "good  old 
days  "  when  Bohemians  almost  ran  Che  press  of 
New  York.  But  at]  the  Bohemians  were  not 
journalists  ;  there  were  artists,  actors,  lawyers, 
musicians,  and  poets  among  them.  The  presi- 
dent of  the  Bohemian  Club  was  Fili-James 
O'Brien,  the  gay,  jovial,  clever  young  Irishman, 
whose  death  from  a  wound  received  early  in  the 
Civil  War,  was  so  great  a  loss  10  our  imagina- 
tive literature.  John  Brougham,  the  actor,  was 
the  treasurer  of  ibe  Club,  but  the  president  very 
seldom  preMded,  and  the  treasurer   never  had 


any  financial  report  to  make.  Among  other 
members  were  E.  S.  Sothern,  Frank  Bellew, 
Thomas  Butler  Gunn,  Wm.  Allen  Butler,  James 
T.  Brady,  Horace  F.  Clark,  Richard  O'Goiman, 
Thomas  Francis  Meagher,  Wm.  Ross  Wallace, 
the  "future  Byron,"  George  Lippard,  Che  thrill- 
ing novelist,  Thos.  Dunn  English,  author  of  the 
once  popular  ballad,  "  Ben  Bolt,"  and  Dr.  R. 
Shelton  Mackenzie,  who  was  then  the  "  obituary 
editor"  of  the  New  York  Timet.  The  genial 
doctor  was  in  the  habit  of  meeting  his  friends, 
and  saying,  "  Congratulate  me,  the  Duke  of 
Wellington  Is  dead,  Daniel  Webster  is  not  ex- 
pected to  ti«  twenty-four  hours,"  etc.  The 
favorite  resort  oE  the  Club  was  Pfaaf's  restau- 
rant on  Broadway  near  Bleecker  Street.  The 
standard  drink  of  the  Club  was  beer,  and  a  fine 
was  imposed  on  a  member  who  ordered  any 
other  liquor.  It  was  a  law  of  the  Club  thai 
every  new  member  should  deliver  a  speech,  a 
poem,  or  an  essay  upon  some  subject  of  Che  day. 
The  comic  side  of  everything  was  generally 
selected,  for  Che  Bohemians  were  merry  fellows, 
and  looked  upon  life  as  nothing  more  Chan  a 
jolly  comedy-  These  merry  makers  were  not 
money  makers.  Sufficient  for  the  day  was  all 
they  cared  for.  Sometimes  when  Fiti-Jamcs 
O'Brien  received  a  good  round  check  for  The 
Diamtnd  Lent,  or  some  other  wonderful  nCory  in 
the  Allanlic  or  Harper'i,  he  would  btaie  out  for 
a  few  days,  but  those  occasions  were  few  and  far 
between,  for  he  generally  owed  all  he  made. 
Of  all  that  crowd  of  jolly  good  fellows,  nut  a 
half  doien  are  alive  today ;  and  the  places  ihai 
once  krew  them  know  them  no  longer. 

The  last  time  Donald  G.  Mitchell  was  in  town 
one  of  ihe  enterpri-ing  gentlemen  of  ihc  press, 
who  docs  the  interviewing  business  for  an  afler- 
noon  newspaper,  promptly  waited  upon  him  at 
his  hotel.  But  Mr.  Mitchell  declined  lobe  inter- 
viewed. In  vain  his  opinion  was  asked  about 
Mr.  Howells,  Henry  James,  George  W.  Cable, 
etc.  He  had  no  opinion  to  express.  Even  the 
interesting  subject  of  the  probable  American 
literary  capital  of  Ihe  future  failed  Co  open  his 
lips.  Speaking  of  the  literary  capital,  reminds 
me  of  something  which  may  be  mentioned  in 
view  of  Chicago's  claim  to  that  dislinclion. 
When  Charles  F.  Guinher,  who  unites  the  manu- 
facturing of  confectionery  with  a  mania  for  col. 
lecting  autographs,  submitted  his  allegtd  auto- 
graph of  Shakespeare  to  the  Historical  Society 
□f  Illinois,  few  of  the  members  took  the  trouble 
to  look  at  iL  One  of  the  shining  lights  of  that 
august  body  was  good  enough  to  say  that  "  Shake- 
speare was  a  man  of  considerable  literary  talents." 
After  this,  there  should  be  no  doubt  about  the 
future  literary  capital  of  the  Uniled  Stales. 
But  to  return  to  Mr.  Mitchell.  Although  he 
would  not  be  inCerviened,  he  could  not  escape 
being  sketched.  His  face  was  desciibed  as 
resemblisg  '•  an  antique  cameo  ;  che  feaCures  are 
line,  clear-cut,  and  decidedly  aristocratic.  Ifc 
dresses  in  raCher  a  piclurcaque  style,  is  fond  of 
bright  colors,  and  looks  every  inch  an  author." 

Mrs.  Charles  Tiernan  of  Baltimore,  author  of 
ffomoseile,  one  of  the  most  successful  of  Ihe 
Round  Robin  series  of  novels,  had  a  new  novel 
in  Ihe  hands  of  James  K.  O^g.iod  &  Co.  when 
that  house  failed  last  winter-  It  wis  called  Pro 
pinquily,  and  the  scenes  were  laid  in  Virginia, 
chiefly  in  Richmond,  before  the  Civil  War. 
Mrs.  Tiernan  was  so  disappointed  when  the  MS. 
was  lelnmed  to  her,  that  she  declared  she  was 


going  Co  exchange  the  pen  (or  the  needle  —  aban- 
don novel  writing  and  take  to  plain  sewing. 
The  novel  has  since  been  published  under  the 
name  of  Suielle,  and  ban  failed  to  attract  much 
attention.  A  short  story  of  hers,  called  Dirt 
Pies,  has  been  awaiting  publication  in  Harfer'e 
Magaxine  for  nearly  three  years. 

F.  Marian  Crawford  bids  fair  to  exceed  all 
living  American  novelists  in  rapidity  of  produc- 
tion, although  he  fails  to  equal  several  of  them 
in  literary  skill.  A  litlle  more  than  two  yean 
have  elapsed  unce  Afr.  Iiaaei  first  introduced 
him  to  the  reading  world,  and  five  or  six  novels 
have  followed  in  rapid  succession.  Mr.  Craw- 
ford has  lived  in  the  East,  and  the  deep  mysti- 
cism of  the  Orient  possesses  a  strange  fascina- 
tion for  him.  Zoreai/er,  however,  his  last  ro- 
mance of  the  East,  was  a  decided  failure,  and  he 
is  now  engaged  upon  a  novel  similar  in  style  to 
A  Rvman  Singer,  which  b  generally  regarded  as 
his  best  work. 

While  some  of  Ihe  New  York  neVspapers, 
which  were  formerly  regarded  as  literary  organs, 
have  become  the  mere  machines  of  party,  grind- 
ing out  whatever  tune  is  demanded,  and  other 
newspapers,  which  formerly  held  respectable 
places  in  New  York  journalism,  have  been  de- 
graded to  the  condition  of  Criminal  Recorders, 
the  Star,  which  lost  the  respect  of  all  decent 
readers  under  the  rule  of  the  turbulent  dema- 
gogue, John  Kelly,  has  become  under  its  present 
excellent  management  a  recognixed  literary  jour- 
nal. Its  Sunday  edition  is  full  of  good  things, 
and  although  we  may  not  always  agree  with  the 
npinions  expressed,  stit I  we  Cannot  help  admir- 
ing the  cleverness  of  the  writer.  They  have  the 
great  merit  in  these  days  of  being  novel  and 
original.    I  quote  the  following  as  a  specimen  : 

Great  writers  ought  to  be  edited,  and  all  their 
work  ihac  dues  nut  come  up  to  the  standard  of 
iheir  best  suppressed  after  their  death.  Per- 
ha])s,  in  the  iiiierest  cf  literature,  it  would  be  as 
well  to  suppress  Ihem  entirety  when  they  threat- 
ened 10  deteriorate.  Who  ci'Uld  blame  a  liter- 
ary fanatic  if  he  killed  Mr-  Frank  Siockton  Ihe 
moment  he  showed  signs  of  becoming  serious? 
Who  would  have  not  applauded  a  garroler  who 
Mr.  Henry  James  before  he  began    7»« 


BB<to 


ielly 


Mrs. 


better  sphere  before 
((led  herself  in  Through  One  Adminiitraliiin. 
Henri  Greviile  (Madame  Durand)  H  a  favorite 
with  Americans.  Her  salon  in  Paris  has  always 
been  opened  to  them,  and  Ihe  best  translations 
i.f  her  novels  were  those  mide  by  an  American, 
Miss  Stanley.  Her  Xsviii'i  Expiation  and 
Daiia  gave  her  a  Gied  reputation,  which  she 
has  done  her  best  to  destroy,  with  the  aid  of 
her  translator,  in  CUopalra.  Madame  Durand 
is  lecturing  on  the  virtuous  school  of  French 
fiction,  the  rmnani  de  famille.  She  can  point 
a  moral  by  analyzing  this  novel  of  hen  as  an 
example  of  how  the  vicious  ideas  of  meretricious 
French  romancers  may  influence  ■  woman  of 
talent  and  cleverness.  Her  iranslalor  writes  at 
limes  a  kind  of  pigeon  English  which  amounts 
almost  to  a  new  patois.  Such  novels  as  Cleo- 
patra are  better  left  untranslaleil ;  they  have  not 
even  Ihe  dubious  merit  of  being  reali&tic- 

Mr.  Henry  Forman,  who  was  the  body  and 
soul  of  Che  Manhattan  Magaane,  says  that  peri- 
odical is  not  dead,  and  therefore  lo  bury  ic  would 
be  a  case  of  premature  burial.  Indeed,  Mr.  For- 
man is  very  hopeful  of  the  revivication  of  Ihe 
Afjnhattan,  but  he  prudently  refrains  from  say- 
ing wlien,  how,  and  under  what  ci  re  urn  glances. 
All  effort  is  being  made  to  restore  Ihe  Lotos 
Club  10  its  former  popularity,  by  admitting 
actors  and  artists  aC  a  reduced  iniiiaCion  fee. 
The  Club  owed  iCi  original  populariCy  to  this  ele* 


l8«6.] 


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65 


ment  together  with  memben  from  the  kindred 
prafesiions  of  auihonhip  and  ]oarnaliam.  The 
diiiinctive  objea  o(  the  Ciub  as  set  rorth  in  the 
first  ariEcic  of  its  constilDtion  reads: 

III  primary  object  shall  be  to  promote  iocisl 
intercourse  among  journalists,  literary  men,  art- 
ists and  member*  of  the  musical  and  dramatic 
C'essions ;  and  at  least  one  half  of  the  mem- 
and  two  thirds  of  th«  officers  of  the  Club 
shall  be  connected  with  said  professions. 

For  some  reason,  the  Lotos  Club  has  for 
several  years  lost  its  popularity  with  the  profes- 
sions named.  Journalists  find  more  apieeable 
society  in  the  Press  Club,  and  literary  men  hive 
gone  over  in  large  nambers  to  the  Authors'  Club. 
The  acton  hare  formed  a  new  club,  the  Lambs, 
of  which  Lester  Wallacic  is  tbe  Shepherd,  and 
Henry  E.  Dixey,  the  Boy.  This  Club  is  crowded 
every  night  after  the  theatres  are  out,  and  many 
a  Jolly  symposium  is  held  there.  The  Authors' 
Club  i*  a  much  more  quiet  affair.  There  is  a 
stated  weekly  meeting,  which  few  members  at- 
tend, and  an  annual  meeting  of  which  the  officers 
for  the  ensuing  year  are  elected.  Its  member- 
ship includes  nearly  alt  the  literary  men  ot  New 
York, and  several  of  the  most  prominent  aulhors 
of  the  country  residing  elsewhere.  Among 
these  may  be  mentioned  Wm.  D.  Hone  lis, 
Henry  James,  Julian  Hawthorne,  Mark  Twain, 
etc.  Mr.  Oliver  B.  Bunce  is  the  Nestor  of  the 
Club.  Although  author*  are  called  a  genui  irri- 
tabili,  there  have  been  as  yet  no  literary  quarrels 
at  the  Authors'  Club. 

As  already  announced  in  this  correspondence, 
Jam«s  McNeill  Whistler,  the  eccentric  artist, 
will  visit  the  United  Slates  this  month.  Under 
the  management  oE  D'Oyley  Carle,  he  will  deliv- 
er his  "Ten  O'clock  "  lecture,  which  attracted  as 
much  attention  in  London  from  the  hour  (ten 
o'clock  in  the  morning)  as  from  the  lecture  and 
the  lecturer.  There  is  "  method  "  in  Whistler's 
"madness."  He  finds  that  eccentricity  draws  a 
crowd,  and  pays,  just  a*  his  fellow  clown,  Oscar 
Wilde,  by  wearing  an  absurd  dress,  drew  crowds 
to  listen  to  a  string  of  dreary  platitudes. 

New  York,  Jan.  tj.  STYLUS. 


OTJBEEirr  LITEEATnBK 

The  Family  and  the  Home. 

A  second  edition  has  been  called  for  of  tbe 
Rev.  Dr.  Geo.  Z.  Gray's  weighty  little  book  on 
Husband  end  Wife ;  advant^e  of  which  has 
been  taker*  to  make  some  slight  changes,  in- 
cluding additions  and  corrections,  cspeclaDy  at 
the  pbysiolc^ical  point  of  the  argument.  The 
work  deserves  the  widest  reading,  and  cannot 
fail  to  exert  a  profound  influence  on  all  who 
are  concerned  with  the  fundamental  laws  of 
marriage  and  the  family,  [Houghton,  Miffiin 
&  Co.    <f -CO.] 

Ifyw  tt  be  Happy  though  Married  is  the 
ironical  title  of  an  English  book  in  an  American 
dress;  by  an  unnamed  author;  having  2S  chap- 
ten  on  such  topics  as  "The  Choice  of  a  Hus- 
band,"" Honeymooning,"  "What  i*  the  Use  of 
a  Child  ?  "  "  Furnishing,"  "  Politeness  at  Home," 
and  "The  Health  of  the  Family;"  written  in 
a  lensibte  vein,  in  a  practical  style,  with  an 
ethical  purpose ;  and  with  a  spice  of  anei:dote, 
quotation,  and  similar  literary  embellishment 
which  flavors  the  book  to  the  point  of  piquancy, 
and  makes  the  profit  of  it 
JgJMriM  ScTibner's  Sod*,    fi.ss.] 


Ah'ce  M.  Christie's  translation  of   The  Fi 

Three  Years  0/  Childhood,  by  Bernard  Peret, 
supplies  a  useful '  study  ot  a  curious  and  im- 
portant field,  casting  some  light  on  psj'chologi. 
cal  processes,  and  furnishing  practical  helps  for 
the  parent  and  the  educator.  -M.  Perez  writes 
out  of  considerable  experience  as  a  pedagogue, 
with  sympathy,  and  enthusiasm,  draws  his  illus. 
trationa  not  from  one  child  but  from  many,  is 
a  loving  student  of  animals,  and  traces  the 
development  of  sensation,  sentiment,  perception, 
memory,  will,  and  the  aesthetic  sense.  The 
work  is  philosophic  but  clear,  and  wilt  be  en- 
joyed by  unscientific  readers.  The  translation 
is  careful  and  easy,  but  why  should  Virchow  be 
changed  to  Wirchow?  [A.  N.  Marquis  &  Co. 
$1.25.] 

Helen  Ekin  Slarrett's  IMters  la  a  Daughter 
are  nine  in  number,  and  are  admirable;  on 
Behavior  and  Manners,  on  Self-Culture  and 
Self  Control,  on  Aims  in  Life,  Personal  Habits, 
Society  and  Conversation,  Associate*  and 
Friends,  Tact,  the  Cultivated,  and  Religious 
Culture  and  Duly.  Added  is  "A  Little  Ser- 
mon to  School-Girls."  This  little  book  ought 
to  have  the  widest  possible  circulation.  Its 
views  are  eicellent,  and  they  are  well  put. 
Mothers  of  daughters  should  see  that  it  has  a 
healing.    Qansen,  McClurg  &  Co.] 

The  author  of  FretKh  Dishes  far  Ameriasn 
Tablet  is  M.  Caron,  formerly  Chef  d'Entremels 
at  Delmonico's  famous  restaurant,  New  York; 
his  translator  is  Mrs,  Frederic  Sherman.  M. 
Caron's  cardinal  principles  are  clearness  and 
conciseness  in  terms,  so  as  to  be  nnderatood  ; 
the  desirability,  even  with  a  moderate  income, 
of  living  welt,  yet  within  one's  means  ;  a  simple 
and  ineipensive  kitchen  apparatus  —  but  a  Dutch 
oven  for  roasting  as  a  sine  qua  nan  ;  and  prompti- 
tude in  the  serving  oE  hot  dishes.  From  these 
starting-points  his  seven  chapters  proceed  on 
Soups,  Sauces,  Fish,  Entrees,  Vegetables,  Eggs, 
etc..  Desserts  and  Cakes;  with  an  appendix  of 
receipts  for  American  specialties,  such  as  bock- 
wheat  cakes,  corn  bread,  waffles,  etc  The  re- 
ceipts are  all  calculated  for  eight  persons.  The 
book  has  the  appearance  of  being  a  generous 
but  not  extravagant  exposition  of  French  cook- 
ing, which  is  peculiar  but  good.  [D.  Appleton 
4  Co.] 

Major  Tenaee's  Handbook  ef  Whist  Is  scientific 
to  the  point  of  intricacy,  but  professes  to  be  a 
condensation  into  an  easy  system  of  the  works 
of  the  masters.  It  is  not  a  primer  of  the  game, 
but  presupposes  some  knowledge  and  practice. 
We  are  sorry  to  observe  that  it  countenances 
by  implication  play  for  stakes.  [G.  P.  Putnam's 
Son>.l 

Mr.  J  as.  Wood  Davidson  has  prepared  a 
handbook  called  The  Correspondent,  which  on 
the  dictionary  plan,  that  is  with  a  classification 
of  matter  under  heads  in  alphabetical  order, 
undertakes  to  give  full  directions  on  the  entire 
subject  of  epistolary  correspondence.  A  large 
part  ot  the  book  is  taken  up  with  details  o! 
etiquette  a*  respects  addressing  dignitaries  and 
oflJcials.  So  far  as  letter-writing  is  a  fine  art, 
the  externals  of  it  are  expounded  here.  [D. 
Appleton  b.  Co.] 

Educational  Works. 

Dr.   F.   B.   Gummere's  Handbeok   0/  Poetics 

will  be  of  service  not  only  to  teachers  of  English 

literature,  but  to  reader*  who  wish  to  cultivate 


a  discriminating  taate  for  delicacies  of  poetic 
expression.  The  book  Is  systematic  and  ata- 
cise.  The  first  of  Its  three  divisions  treats  of 
the  subject-matter  of  poetry,  and  the  character- 
istici  of  epic,  lyric,  and  dramatic  verse ;  the 
second  of  the  peculiarities  of  poetic  style,  fo- 
cluding  figures ;  the  third  of  rhythm,  quantity, 
and  accent,  the  history  of  English  metres,  and 
the  combinations  of  stanzas,  strophe,  and  son- 
net. The  work  is  greatly  enriched  with  detail, 
and  at  the  front  of  the  best  modern  scholar- 
ship. At  times  a  reference  is  made  where  an 
illustration  would  have  been  better,  at  other 
limes  the  slyie  is  too  condensed  for  clearness, 
and  here  and  there  language  is  careless  and  col- 
loquial.   [Ginn  &  Ca    {i.oo.] 

Mr.  Henry  Freeman,  in  his  work  On  Speech 
Formation  at  the  Basts  for  True  Spelling,  thinks 
it  has  "fallen  to  hi*  lot"  to  make  known,  at 
last,  the  "  natural  basis  of  langu^e  in  it*  in- 
tegrity," ^nd  to  present  the  "  true  elements  ot 
speech  completely  and  unmistakably  identified, 
and  ...  of  universal  application."  We  fear  a 
cold  world  will  not  arrive  at  the  same  high  esti- 
mate of  Mr.  Freeman's  work.  Indeed,  compared 
with  Bcli's  Visible  Speeeh  and  similar  scientific 
treatise*  on  the  subject,  this  seems  only  a  piece 
of  rather  ignorant  charlatanry,  as  any  one  who 
reads  the  preface  and  "  Thu  Waindup"  at  the 
close  will  be  convinced  without  further  examina- 
tion.   [London  :  Triibner.] 

"EiproMion,  in  its  widest  signification,  is  the 
outward  indication  of  some  inherent  property 
or  function."  This  is  what  Mr.  Francis  War- 
ner's book  on  Pkyiicat  Expression  discusses, 
briefly  as  to  plants  and  animals,  very  fully  and 
ably  a*  to  man,  under  such  heads  as  expression 
by  movements,  physiological  and  pathological 
expression,  posture  as  a  means  of  expression, 
expression  in  the  head,  in  the  human  face,  in 
the  eye,  expression  of  general  condliion  of  the 
brain  and  of  the  emotions,  expression  of  mind, 
analysis  of  expression,  art  criticism.  [D.  Apple- 
iraSCo.    JI.7S.] 

In  addition  to  their  educational  journals,  E.  L. 
Kellogg  &  Co.,  New  York,  have  a  good  list  ot 
pedagogical  works,  including  such  names  as 
Page,  Fitch,  Payne,  Parker,  and  others.  To 
ihia  they  have  just  added  a  new  American  edi- 
tion of  Tate's  Philosophy  of  Education,  a  work 
held  in  high  esteem  thirty  years  or  so  ago 
when  issued,  some  parts  of  which  are  of  coarse 
outgrown,  but  most  of  which  is  of  sterling  and 
perennial  value.  President  Sheib  of  the  Lou- 
isiana Stale  Normal  School  writes  a  preface 
and  notes  for  this  edition,  though  just  what  his 
incomplete  first  sentence  of  preface  means  we 
cannot  quite  make  out.  We  learn  that  the 
work  is  already  introduced  Into  the  teachers' 
reading  circles  of  several  Stales,    [fl.oo.] 

Of  Ginn  &  Co.'s  Clatticsfor  Children,  a  series 
neatly  bound  in  brown  paper  boards  with  a  Greek 
design  on  the  cover  and  intended  for  the  culiiva- 
[ion  of  good  literary  taste  and  for  useful  moral 
lessons,  combined  wilh  practice  in  reading, 
three  volumes  have  been  received.  j£sop''t 
Fablet  contains  a  hundred  and  twenty-five  fables, 
most  or  ail  of  which  are  attributed  to  that  author, 
with  some  others,  in  verse,  are  translated  from  La 
Fontaine,  and  a  few  (torn  Krilofl,  "the  Russian 
i^sop;"  the  language  employed  being  generally 
simplified  even  below  the  capacity  of  inielllgenl 
children  of  eight  or  nine  years,  and  with  numer- 
ous illustratioiia  adding  to  the  Interest  of  tbe  lea- 


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[Feb.  20, 


sons.  [Mailing  price  40  Mnts.]  Tht  Talisman, 
Sir  Waller  Scott's  faicinaling  tale  of  the  third 
crusade,  of  Sir  Kenneth,  Richard  of  the  Lion 
Heart  and  the  great  Saladin  —  is  printed  with  an 
interesting  eiplanalory  preface  hy  Charlotte  M. 
Yonge,  and  valuable  bisloriol  notes  at  the  end. 
TAt  Xing  tf  tht  Golden  Rivir,  a  Legend  af  Syria 
is  a  delicate,  poetic  jeti  d'etprit  of  John  Ruskin, 
written  in  1S41  for  a  young  girl  and  not  designed 
for  publication;  in  which,  as  so  often  In  fiiry 
tales,  the  youngest  brother  of  a  family  wins 
through  bis  virtue  the  prize  lost  by  the  others 
through  their  avarice  and  wickedness. 

First  work  to  be  done  in  the  teaching  of  arith- 
meiic  is  well  leptesenied  in  Woniworlh  and 
Reed's  Primary  Aritkmtlic  and  First  Steps  in 
Nitmber,  books  both  of  which  might  be  put  to 
use  in  a  KtndergarleiL  Wentworth's  Grammar 
Scheel  Arithmetic  is  a  woik  of  the  same  class  in 
a  higher  grade.  These  are  intelligent  and  excel- 
lent text-books.    [Ginn  &  Co.J 

The  Bacchantes  oE  Euripides  has  been  edited 
bjr  Professor  Beck  with  of  Trinity  College  for  Ginn 
&  Co.'s  College  Series,  the  text  being  supplied 
with  foot-notes,  appendices,  and  an  index, 
[fl.lj.]— Mr.  B.  F.  Harding,  a  teacher  at  St. 
Paul's  School,  Concord,  has  prepared  a  small 
handbook  of  Greek  Inflection,  designed  to  fur- 
nish instructors  with  ibe  apparatus  for  giving  ob- 
ject-lessons In  Greek  Philology.  [SSc.]— A 
selection  of  Kinder-Hud  Hausmdrchen  of  the 
Brothers  Grimm,  has  been  made  by  Mr,  W.  H. 
Van  der  Smissen  of  Toronto,  for  use  of  beginners 
in  the  study  of  German,  the  original  text  in  the 
Roman  letter  being  accompanied  by  notes,  glos- 
sary, and  a  grammatical  appendix.     [85c] 

Religious. 

The  American  reprint  oE  what  Eor  historical 
reason*  is  called  Meyer's  Commentary  on  the 
New  Testament  has  reached  the  volume  —  a 
solid  octavo  of  756  pages  —  on  the  Epistles  to 
Timothy  and  Titus  and  that  to  the  Hebrews. 
The  grvid  and  comprehensive  scheme  which  Dr. 
Meyer  undertook,  but  died  before  he  was  able 
to  Gnlsh,  has  been  carried  forward  by  other 
hands.  The  work  on  the  Epistle*  to  Timothy 
and  Titus  has  been  done  by  Dr.  J.  E.  Huihet 
and  translated  by  David  Hunter  ;  that  on  the 
Epistle  to  the  Hebrews  by  Dr.  G.  LUnemann, 
and  translated  by  Rev.  M.  J.  Evans;  and  ProEes- 
sOT  Timothy  Dwight  of  Yale  College  has  super- 
intended this  American  reprint  of  the  whole 
within  single  covers,  furnishing  a  preface  and 
supplementary  notes.  The  Epistle  to  the  He- 
brews,  the  reader  will  be  interested  to  observe. 
Dr.  IJinemann  ascribes  to  "  an  unknown  author." 
The  balance  of  arguments  he  maintains  to  be 
against  a  Pauline  authorship,  bat  he  will  admit 
neither  Barnabas  nor  Apoilos  to  the  honor.  A 
full  and  thoroughly  critical  discu&sion  of  this 
whole  knotty  point  may  be  found  in  Dr.  Liine- 
mann's  introduction.  Meyer's  Commentary  may 
be  regarded  as  nearly  if  not  quite  the  most  Ecien- 
tific  exegelical  work  on  the  New  Testament, 
though  not  so  rich  in  lextaal  apparatus  as 
AKotd.    [Funk  4  Wagnalls.    J3.00.] 

The  Life  of  Lives  is  the  title  of  a  collection  ol 
forty-five  chapters  on  the  New  Testament  and 
varioa*  doctrines  of  Christian  theology,  for  all  of 
which  chapters  the  compilers  have  contrived  to 
get  names  ending  in  tion,  even  when  words  had 
to  be  coined  for  the  emergency.  Each  chapter 
states  in  brief  and  distinct  form  the  different 


theories  held  as  to  its  subject-matter,  and  then 
gives  extracts,  in  prose  and  verse,  some  of  which 
are  tine  selections,  tending  to  sustain  the  difEer- 
ent  theories  so  prefixed  as  texts.  The  general 
tendency  of  the  whole  work  is  in  support  of  radi 
cal  or  advanced  Unitarian  tenets.  The  modesty 
and  good  taste  of  the  editor  may  be  judged  by 
the  insertion  of  his  own  photograph  in  a  plate 
surrounded  by  smaller  heads  oE  Longfellow, 
Emerson,  Bryant,  Lowell,  Holmes  and  Whiltier; 
and  the  joint  compiler,  Mrs.  Burnham,  is  not  less 
distinguished  In  her  position  in  the  midst  of 
another  group  of  Ametlcao  writers.  [Boston: 
Cleaves,  McDonald  &  Co.] 

Henry  T.  Cheever's  book  on  the  Carrespond- 
encis  of  Faith  and  Views  of  Madame  Gvyon  is  in- 
tended to  be  "a  comparative  study  of  the  uniiive 
power  and  place  of  faith  in  the  theology  and 
church  of  the  fulore."  Mr.  Cheever's  position  is 
well  indicated  by  a  motto,  quoted  from  a  very 
much  abler  man,  Prof.  H.  B.  Smith,  to  the  effect 
that  men  must  abide  either  by  J.  S.  Mill  or  by 
John  Calvin.  This  uncompromising  and  unjudi- 
cial spirit  pervades  these  pages,  while  Mr. 
Cheever's  trustworthiness  nuy  be  seen  in  hts 
quoting  from  a  volume  of  sermons  by  Rev.  C.  A. 
Uartol,  D.D.,  published  more  than  thirty  years 
ago,  to  show  the  alleged  present  tendencies  of 
Unitarian  ism  toward  Orthodoxy.  The  most 
valuable  part  of  the  work  is  the  review  of  the  life 
of  the  saintly  Madame  Guyon.  [A.  D.  F.  Ran- 
dolph &  Co.    (1.25] 

Part  I  of  Rev.  Dr.  James  Freeman  Clarke's 
Ten  Great  Religions  has  reached  a  Mnd  edition, 
and  Part  II  a  5th  edition ;  in  which  respective 
stages  both  troiks  now  appear  in  two  dignllied 
and  excellently  made  volumes,  aggregating  up- 
wards of  900  pages.  The  paper  is  thin,  so  that 
the  books  are  not  clumsy,  the  tops  are  gilt,  the 
front  edges  untnmmed,  and  the  typography  the 
Riverside's  best.  Every  public  library,  of  course, 
has  this  work,  and  every  private  library  should 
have.  No  comparative  atudy  of  the  religions  of 
the  world,  on  the  whole,  equals  it  for  accaracy, 
fairness,  and  interest.  [Houghton,  Mifflin  ft  Co. 
Theset,K«'-l 

la  his  latest  volume.  My  Study,  Prof.  Phelps 
gathers  a  score  or  more  of  fugitive  essays.  The 
first  three  are  devoted  to  the  professor's  study  in 
Andover,  historic  in  it*  aasociatEun*  with  New 
England  theology  and  with  the  earliest  move- 
ments for  American  missions  and  the  temperance 
reform.  The  diverse  relations  and  aspects  of 
the  doctrine  of  future  retribution  occupy  ten  suc- 
cessive essays.  Two  papers  explain  the  position 
of  the  New  England  clergy  in  regard  to  the  anti- 
slavery  tnovement,  and  two  more  oEFer  generous 
tribute  to  certain  features  of  the  Episcopal 
Church,  especially  to  its  emphasis  o[  the  spirit  of 
reverence  and  worship,  and  its  witness  to  the 
unity  and  continuity  of  the  Christian  faith  and 
spirit.  The  other  topics  are  chiefly  of  practical 
lather  than  speculative  interest-  [Charles  Scrib- 
net's  Sons.    |i.so.] 

Dr.  Joseph  Parker,  minister  of  the  City  Tem- 
ple, London,  has  a  great  many  good  traits;  one 
of  them  is  industry;  another  is  directness; 
another  is  force;  but  one  of  them  is  not  good 
taste.  Hisqualities  and  hisdefects  are  all  illus- 
trated in  the  two  initial  volumes  of  what  he  calls 
The  Peoples  Bible,  in  which  he  purposes  to  pub- 
lish "a  pastor's  commentary  upon  such  portions 
of  Holy  Scripture  as  are  of  obvious  and  imme- 
diate importance  to  the  growth  of  (he  soul  in 


Divine  wisdom."  The  Erst  two  volumes  before 
us  are  devoted  to  Genesis  and  Exodus-  The 
contents  are  discourses ;  their  method  is  ethical 
and  didactic,  not  scientific  and  critical.  They 
are  books  to  be  read  not  studied.  As  discourses, 
they  are  vigorous,  practical,  and  stimulating  ;  but 
the  accompanying  prayers  are  absurd  examples  of 
affected  devotionalism.  [Funk  ft  Wagnalls. 
Each  ti. JO. 

Rev.  Dr.  Charles  S.  Robinson's  Sermons  and 
Songs  are  upon  texts  taken  from  the  "  psalms, 
hymns,  and  spiritual  songs  "  of  the  Old  Testa- 
ment and  the  New  ;  are  straightforward  and 
practical;  fall  of  illusttallon  and  incident ;  and 
will  comfort  and  inspire  many  a  reader-  [Funk 
ft  Wagnalls.  ti.25.]— The  seventy-nine  brief 
papers  which  compose  Rev.  Dr.  H.  S.  Carpeu' 
ter's  Sunrise  on  the  Saul  are  eviilently  taken 
from  sermons,  and  ate  intended  for  "  edification," 
rather  than  for  instruction.  The  thought  is  usu- 
ally commonplace,  and  the  expression  a  flraining 
after  novelty.  The  volume  is  not  meal  but  milk. 
[Funk  ft  Wagnalls.  f  1.00.]— The  six  lectures 
in  Defence  and  Confirmation  of  the  Faith,  deliv- 
ered before  the  Western  Theological  Seminary 
(Presbyterian],  in  tSS4-S5,  and  now  printed,  are 
the  Rev.  Dr.  W.  M.  Taylor's  discussion  of  the 
Messianic  prophecies  ;  Dr.  Cutler's  philosophi- 
cal anticipation  of  and  demand  for  a  divine  Re- 
deemer; Dr.  McPherson's  presentation  of  the 
uniqueness  of  Christ  in  thought  and  character; 
Dr.  West's  array  of  the  proofs  of  the  resurrec- 
tion of  Christ;  President  Scovel's  argument  for 
the  independence  of  civilization  upon  Christianity; 
and  Dr.  McCook's  inquiry  into  the  maternal  in- 
stinct of  insects  as  an  evidence  of  foreordi nation 
[Funk  ft  Wagnalls.  fi.oo]  — Rev.  Dr. 
J.  C.  Rankin's  treatise  on  The  Coming  of  the  Lard, 
reprinted  with  improvments  from  the  Southern 
Presbyterian  t/eview,  has  some  interest,  but  not 
much,  for  students  of  cschatology.  It  is  a  sim- 
ple inquiry  as  to  the  gist  of  Biblical  teaching. 
[Funk  ft  W^nalls.    7sc.] 

Miacellaneoua. 

Harper's  "  Handy  Series  "  being  issued  weekly, 
I  numbers  accumulate  faster  than  we  can  dis- 
pose of  them.  Here  are  a  dozen  or  more  of 
paper-covered  pocket -mos,  and 
dismiss  them  with  a  word  here  and 
there.  No.  30  is  a  collection  oE  three  stories 
by  Wilkie  Collins,  the  leading  one  entitled  The 
Ghosfs  Touch.  No.  33,  Primus  in  Indis,  is  a 
capitally  wotked-out  romance  of  English  life  in 
Prince  Charles  Edward's  time,  son  to  the  Pre- 
tender, and  grandson  to  James  II,  with  a  typical 
squire  in  it  who  would  not  do  disciedit  to  Field- 
ing. No.  34  is  Macfarren's  Musical  History, 
the  most  valuable  feature  of  which  is  a  jo-page 
It  of  musicians  of  all  countries  and  all  ages, 
alphabetical  tabular  form,  giving  name,  place, 
id  dates  of  birth  and  death.  No.  40  is  a 
hygienic  tract.  Ounces  of  Prevention,  by  Dr. 
Titus  M.  Coan,  with  chapters  on  good  air,  bath- 
ing, pure  air,  food,  spectacles,  and  the  like.  Nos. 
3S  and  41  to  44  are  reprints  oE  English  novels 
by  T.  W.  Speight,  Miss  Thackeray,  Farjeon, 
and  others.  No.  45  is  a  collection  of  td  short 
sea  lale^  In  the  Middle  Watch,  by  W.  Clark 
Russell.  Mr.  Russell  is  writing  too  much.  Nos. 
47  and  50  again  are  English  novels,  Last  Days 
at  AptwUk,  and  A  Man  ofHancr,  by  J,  S.  Win- 
American  story,  Caian  and 
Gandefa,    by    Charlotte    Puuiiny,    author    Oi 


188«.] 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


67 


Upttt  a  Ctut,  one  of  the  better  of  last  year's 
DOveli.  This  Hand^  Series  i*  pabliihed  at  ^15 
■  year  for  the  i|3  numberi;  tingle  copies  felling 
for  15  or  30  cents. 

A.  L.  Phipson's  translation  of  Am^d^  Gullle- 
min's  book  on  Tie  Sum  ii  one  of  the  volumes 
oF  the  "Wonders  of  Science."  Guillemln  does 
not  profess  to  be  a  scientific  man;  l>at  he  has 
read  a  great  deal  upon  the  tun,  both  in  old 
books  and  in  new.  In  this  little  volume  he 
endeavors,  with  very  fair  success,  to  give  in 
a  condensed  fonn,  but  in  a  popular  and  inter- 
esting way,  all  the  principal  results  of  obser- 
vation and  speculation  concerning  the  physical 
properties  of  the  sun.  [Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 
(i.oo.]  Two  other  issues  in  this  same  "Library 
of  Wonders  "  are  Wojidtrs  of  Aiimilkt,  from  the 
Flench  of  Radolphe  Radau,  and  Tkundrr  and 
LigklHing,  from  the  French  1^  W.  de  Fonvielle. 
These  volumes  are  a  great  improvement  typo- 
graphically over  the  first  of  the  teriet,  and,  in 
spite  of  many  old  familiar  cult,  are  really  attract. 
tve.  They  are  accarale  and  instrnctivc;  their 
tpicy  oddity  will  make  friends  with  the  young 
people,  and  we  doubt  if  tome  of  the  older  are 
not  interested  alto.  The  price,  f  1.00  a  volume, 
is  moderate. 

Batchelder  Greene's  RtjUetiem  and  Modem 
Afaximt  make  from  two  to  six  lines  of  old 
English  text  00  each  of  384  oblong  Utile  p^es. 
ibe  whole  bound  up  into  an  odd-looking  booklet 
about  at  large  as  a  troall  wallet  [G.  P.  Put- 
nam's Sons,    ti.00.] 


One  of  Dostoicffsky's  Novels. 

Lt  Crimt  It  U  Chiismettl.  Traduil  du  Russc 
de  Fedor  Dootoieffsky  par  Victor  Der^ly.  z 
v(dt.    (Paris,  Plon.) 

Outside  Russia  the  name  of  Fedor  Do<tloicff- 
tky  was  till  lately  almost  unknooin.  An  English 
translation  of  his  Ten  Yeart'  Penal  Servitude, 
was  publbhed,  it  ia  true,  not  long  ago;  but  for 
one  who  has  heard  of  him  there  are  a  thousand 
who  are  acquainted  with  the  work  of  Tourguj- 
neif.  Yet  Uoaloieffsky  is  one  of  the  most  re- 
markable oi  modern  writers,  and  his  book,  irant- 
lated  into  French  by  M.  Victor  Det^ly,  is  one  of 
the  most  moving  of  modern  novels.  Il  is  the 
story  of  a  murder  and  of  the  punishment  which 
dogs  the  murderer ;  and  its  effect  is  unique  in  fic- 
tion. It  is  realism,  but  such  realism  at  M.  Zola 
and  his  followers  do  not  dream  oF.  The  reader 
knows  the  persanaees  —  strange,  grotesque, 
terrible  personages  ihey  are  —  more  mlimalely 
than  if  he  had  been  years  with  them  in  the  flcah. 
He  is  constrained  to  live  their  lives,  to  suffer 
their  tortures,  to  scheme  and  resist  with  them, 
exult  with  them,  weep  and  laugh  and  despair 
with  them ;  he  breathes  the  very  breath  of  their 
Dosirits,  and  with  the  madness  that  comet  upon 
them  he  is  afflicted  even  as  they.  Thit  sounds 
extravagant  praise,  no  doubt ;  but  only  to  those 
who  have  not  read  (he  volume.  To  those  who 
have,  wc  are  sure  that  it  will  appear  rather  under 
ihe  mark  than  otherwise.  Every  one  has  read 
the  pages  in  which  Dickent  has  dealt  with  the 
murder  o(  Montague  Tigg  and  the  agony  of 
Jonas  Cbuizlewit.  The  effea  of  Lt  Crime  tl 
It  Cidlimenl  is  more  poignant  and  devouring; 
and  it  ia  some  six  hundred  pages  long.  To  ana- 
lyze such  a  work  in  detail  is  manifestly  impossi- 
ble. Every  incident  —  and  there  are  many  —  Is 
worthy  of  comment ;  every  character  —  and  there 
it  at  leasts  dozen  —  would  furnish  Ihe  mailer  oF 
a  long  diacourse.  All  we  can  do  in  this  place  it 
to  remark  upon  Ihe  strange  completeness  of  the 
book  as  a  work  of  art ;  to  describe,  however  im- 
perfectly and  inadequately,  the  extraordinary 
nature  of  its  peculiar  quality  and  the  incompara- 
ble potency  of  its  peculiar  effect ;  and  10  note 
that,  in  apile  of  its  sordid  subject  and  the  tente 
of  grinding  misery  which  informs  It  throughout, 
its  teaching  it  in  the  main  eimobling  and  good. 


It  is  absolutely  non-political ;  and,  if  wc  acce) 
it  at  a  true  picture  — and  apparently  we  have  r 
choice  —  it  IS  the  best  and  fullest  explanation  < 
Nihilism  in  exisUaix.—  Alhtnaiim. 


SHAEESPEABUHA. 


Second  Edition  of  Morgan's  "  Shakespear- 
ean  Myth."  Mr.  Appleton  Morgan's  lively 
though  heretical  Shakeifearean  Myth  has  at- 
tained the  honor  of  a  second  edition,  which  does 
not  differ  materially  from  the  iirst,  which  waf 
duly  noticed  in  these  columns.  In  Ihe  preface 
one  or  two  corrections  of  minor  points  in  the 
author's  argument  are  made  ;  and  there  appears 
to  have  been  some  attempt  to  remove  the  many 
misprints  that  disfigured  the  first  edition.  The 
name  of  Mr.  Ilalliwell-Phillipps  continues,  how- 
ever, to  suffer  in  sundry  places,  though  In  the 
Index  (p.  318)  it  is  "corrrected"  Into  "Hal- 
tiwelt-Philtiphs "  by  the  blundering  printer. 
Bishop  Wordsworth  Is  still  disguised  as  "Wads- 
worth"  on  p.  131,  both  In  the  text  and  in  Ihe 
footnote,  etc.  Certain  misstatemenls  to  which 
we  referred  in  our  former  notice  also  remain  ;  as 
on  p.  220,  where  wc  are  slill  told  that  gondolas 
are  "never  mentioned"  in  the  Merchant  0/ 
Venite  or  OlheUn,  in  spite  of  such  passages  as 
ii.  8.  8  in  the  former  and  i.  i.  126  In  the  latter. 

As  we  have  said  more  than  once  before,  Mr. 
Morgan  is  not  a  Baconian;  but  the  theory  he 
advocates  in  Ihit  book  is  that  Shakespeare  was 
the  mouthpiece  of  a  number  of  writers  who 
chose  10  remain  unknown  —  a  sort  of  embodied 
pseudonym  for  a  group  of  playwrights.  The 
Saturday  Review  for  Jan.  9,  18S5,  shows  up  this 

Supposing  Ihe  "editor"  theory  of  Shakspeare 
irue,  he  musi  have  edited  the  works  of  one  man 
or  of  more  than  one.  If  it  was  one  man  only,  it 
must  have  been  either  a  known  man  (and  the 
claims  of  every  known  man  have  been  examined 
only  to  be  condemned  by  all  competent  judges) 
or  an  unknown  one.  If  more  than  one,  we  have 
further  to  consider  the  curious  point  that  not 
one  but  almost  all  the  plays  usually  attributed 
to  Shak^peare  contain  those  unapproachable 
touches  which  are  at  once  diicetned  to  be  neither 
Jonaon's,  nor  Bacon's,  nor  Raleigh's,  nor  any 
one  else's.  Therefore,  in  order  to  get  rid  of  the 
idea  that  the  owner  of  this  sovereign  and  super- 
human genius  (as  Mr.  Morgan  holds  il  to  be) 
was  one  particular  man,  we  are  to  adopt  the 
theory  that  it  was  another  or  aeveral  others. 
Because  it  it  unbelievable  that  A  should  in  the 
days  of  Eliia  and  our  James  have  been  so  ab- 
normally gifted,  we  are  to  suppose  that  not 
indeed  A,  but  B,  C,  D,  and  a  dozen  more  were 
endowed  with  the  very  same  gifts.  We  get  rid 
of  the  difficulty  by  simply  changing  Ihe  names, 
and  having  decided  that  Shakspearlsin  (if  we 
may  nse  the  word)  is  a  quality  too  great  10  have 
resided  in  Shakspearc,  we  decide  further  that  it 
resided  in  somebody  else  or  in  several  somebody 
elaes.  We  pronounce  that  the  actual  Shakspearc 
(of  whom  we  know  so  little  that  the  highest 
genius  as  well  as  the  complelest  absence  of 
genius  is  consistent  with  our  knowledge)  could 
not  have  written  Shakspeare'a  works,  and,  there- 
fore, that  Shaktpeare's  works  must  have  tieen 
written  by  some  one  of  whom  we  know  less  — 
1.  f.,  nothmg  at  all.  If  this  is  not  the  luis  eam- 
menUitoria  pushed,  not  to  the  veige,  but  well 
over  the  verge  of  madness,  we  are  no  two- 
le;[ged  critics.  Shakspeare  is  superhuman ; 
therefore,  he  must  have  been  some  other  human 
than  Shakspeare. 

The  iVew  York  Sbakeapeare  Society.    The 


lumbia  College,  on  Ihe  evetticg  of  Thursday, 


January    28ih,    1886]     Ihe    President,    Applelon 
Morgan,  Ebq..  in  (he  chair. 

Several  applications  for  membership  were  pre- 
sented and  laid  on  the  table.  The  executive 
committee  reported  favorably  on  ihe  following 
applications,  and  the  gentlemen  named  were 
elected  memlxrs  of  the  Society ;  Prof.  Thomat 
R.  Price,  Columbia  College;  Wm.  Henry  For- 
I,  Esq.,  and  George  Livingston  Baker,  Esq., 


Spanii 


\  the   early  Spanish  dramst 


yk  in  f 
especially  in  ihe  writi 
mayor,  and  Lop^  de 
enough,  argued  Mr.  Fiey,  ihat  raanjr  of  the  early 
English  playwrights  uliliied  Spanish  plots  and 
situatiotis  (which  the  Spanish  writer  had  himself 
acquired  through  the  Italian),  Shakespeare,  who 
it  he  read  Spanish  playa  at  all,  read  Ihem 
ihrough  Ihe  medium  lA  some  other  tongue 
(there  appear  to  be  no  traces  oE  his  having 
ever  acquired  either  the  Spanish  or  the  Italiat) 
languages),  must  be  regarded  as  an  exception. 
There  were  very  few  indeed  in  England  in 
Shakespeare's  time  who  paid  any  attention  10 
Spanish.  John  Thorin's  translation  of  a  Span- 
ish grammar  (with  a  brief  English- Spanish  Dic- 
tionary appended)  appeared  only  in  1590.  This 
was,  however,  followed  in  the  year  1591  by  a 
similar  production  by  Richard  Perceval,  tiome  of 
the  ovcr-crilica  —  especially  the  Germans,  Klein, 
Schack,  Simrock  —  claim  Spanish  sources  for  T%t 
Taming  of  the  Shrew,  Tteo  Gentlemen  cf  Verona, 
Winter-i  Tale,  As  Veu  Lite  Jl,  Twelfth  Night, 
and  AlPt  fVelllhat  Endt  Well.  Mr.  Trey  took 
up  these  SIX  plays  seriatim,  and  argued  that  Ihe 
derivaiion,  if  not  original,  was  Irom  the  Italian 
through  the  English ;  but,  in  any  event,  there 
was  nothing  derived  at  all  that  could  not  easily 
have  shggesLed  itself  to  anylrady,  let  alone 
Shakespeare.  It  is  an  interesting  ipeculation 
whether  Tht  Tiuii  Genlltmen  of  Verona  may  not 
be  the  re-wrltten  "History  of  Felix  and  Philo- 
mena,  shewed  and  enacted  before  ber  highnea 
by  her  mates  servaunls,  on  the  aondaie  next  after 
neweyeareBdaie,al  nighl  at  Gienewlche,  whereon 
was  ymploied  one  battlement  and  a  house  of 
canvas"  (1534).  If  this  was  Shakespeare's  it 
was  his  first  production,  and  its  success  may 
have  induced  him  to  adopt  playwrlghting  as  a 
profeislon.  Again,  Ibe  parallels  urged  By  Ihe 
German  critics  between  Ratneo  and  Juliet  and 
Lnp£  de  Vega  are  so  attenuated  as  to  be  utterly 
childish  and  ridiculous.  Here  for  example  ia 
Klein,  arguing  seriously  that  the  scrap  of  utterly 
immaterial  dialogue  in  ii.  3  (suggested  by  Ihe 
incident  of  the  mnmeni) : 

"Narst  {within).    Madam  t 

Julitt.    I  come,  anon — But  if  thou  meanett 
not  well,  I  do  beseech  thee  — 

Nurst  \fBitkiiCi.    Madam  I " 
is  borrowed   from  the   Casltlvines  y  Montesto 
(i.  4.). 

"Marin  {withmt).    Come,  matter,  or  I'm  off, 

and  therefore  that  Shakespeare  took  his  Romeo 
and  ftdiel  from  Lopi  de  Vega  I    Could  the  sim- 
plicity of  the  cradle  go  further? 
Mr.   Morgan  said   that   that  was   only  to  be 


they  wanted  them.  The  parallelism 
quoted  by  Mr.  Frey,  in  his  admirable  paper, 
would  do  credit  to  the  Baconian  gentleman  who 
made  a  great  point  of  the  fact  that  both  Bacon 
and  Shakespeare  said  "O,  yes."  Some  of  the 
Baconian  parallelisms  are  pretty  atrained.  But 
what  shall  we  say  of  the  orthodox  Germans, 
who,  in  one  line,  cry,  "  O  myriad-minded  Shake- 
speare—  nothing  wat  hidden  from  bis  alt-know- 
ing soul  I "  and,  in  the  next  line,  assert  that  he 
borrowed  bis  plays  from  this  one  and  Ibal  one, 
because  both  speak  of  "the  roaring  sea"  or 
"the  blue  sky'*  or  "  the  while  snow,  or  make 
use  of  situations  involving  Ihe  complicated  con- 
trivance of  an  ante-chamber  I 

After  further  discussion  the  paper  was  re- 
ferred to  the  Committee  on  Publication. 

A  Resolution  expressing  Ihe  Society's  satisfac- 
tion with  the  rejKirts  of  its  proceedinfft  hereto- 
fore publlthed  in  the  department  of  "  Shake* 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Feb.  30, 


reporu  of  its  proceedings 
ananimously  adopted. 

Before  the  adjournment,  the  Chair  announced 
that  at  the  next  staled  meeting  (February  25th) 
the  celebrated  copj  of  the  Second  Folio,  owned 
by  C.  F.  Gunther,  Esq.,  of  Chicago  —  in  which 
the  alleged  autograph  of  William  Shakespeare 
la  paslea  — voDld  be  exhibited,  and  members 
were  anlhorized  to  invite  all  persons  intereated 
to  join  the  Society  '-  ■  ■      -• 


TABLE  TALE. 


,  .  .  The  late  Mrs.  Anne  Gllchtiit  is  referred  to 
In  Tkt  Art  Agt  as  "  perhaps  the  only  woman  ad- 
mirer of  Walt  Whilman'i  writing*  in  the  world." 
We  think  there  are  many  women  in  the  United 
States  who  admire  Whitman's  bttt  writings 
(which  are  all  that  Mrs.  Gilchrist  could  have 
admired]  aa  highly  as  that  lady  did.  We  know 
of  some;  for  instance.  Miss  Charlotte  Fiske 
Bates,  who  would  have  included  his  worthiest 
poems  in  her  Cambridgt  Book  of  Pmlty  and 
StHg,  could  she  have  obtained  his  permission  to 
use  them ;  Mtsa  Kate  A.  Taylor,  who,  on  Whit- 
inttn's  6jlh  birthday  (May  31st,  1S84),  expressed 
her  admiration  of  him  in  verse,  and  predicted  his 
literary  immortality ;  Miss  "  Carl  Spencer,"  the 
author  of  some  ol  the  most  striking  verse  yet 
written  by  an  American  woman;  and  others  of 
wider  fame,  besides  a  considerable  number,  of 
excellent  judgment,  who  arc  not  known  to  the 

. .  .  "The  line  thing  about  American  men  of 
letters,"  says  a  friend  of  "  Table  Talk,' 
sterling  independence.  I  think  there  are  many 
■Irugglers  ol  the  pen  who  would 
follow  the  distinguished  Johnson  in  rejecting  the 
boots  left  at  his  door,  while  few  might  be  abli 
to  write  a  Rasstlas  to  defray  the  expenses  of  : 

. . .  James  Berry  Bensel,  a  verse-maker  wh( 
sustained  about  the  same  relation  to  this  countii 
that  the  late  David  Gray  did  to  Scotland,  me 
his  death  moat  unexpectedly  on  the  id  insl.  Hi 
was  in  New  York,  his  birthplace,  where  he  had 
been  living  since  a  year  ago  last  fall,  when  he 
was  seized  with  a  coughing  fit  from  which  l 
unable  to  rally,  and  died  from  suffocation. 
Bensel  was  thirty  yean  old.  His  book  of  poems, 
In  thi  King'i  Gardtn,  was  just  introducing 
to  the  readers  of  permanent  literature  ;  but  he 
had  been  writing  verses  since  boyhood,  and  had 
contributed  for  many  years  to  some  of  the  best- 
known  periodicals,  besides  writing  a  novel. 
King  Copheltidi  Wifi,  which  appeared  in  the 
Overland  Monthly.  He  read  Shakespeare  in 
public  for  four  or  five  sessona  ;  and  from  1879  to 
1833  was  employed  in  the  State  House  in  Bos- 
ton. Aside  from  these  latter  engagements,  be 
devoted  himself  wholly  to  literature.  Notwith- 
standing the  subjective  and  plaintive  character 
of  moat  of  his  poems,  they  interest  the  reader  by 
reason  of  the  evident  genuineness  of  their  feel- 
ing, and  the  positivencss  of  their  poetical  flavor. 
Mr.  Bensel  was  for  years  an  invalid;  but  tn  spite 
of  ill-health,  and  with  limited  educational  advan- 
Ugea,  he  applied  himself  assiduously  to  hi*  work, 
and  with  marked  success. 
, . .  Aneni  the  claim  that  "  H.  H."  was  "  Saie 


i«  extremely  good,  and  has  a  recognitablt  tone, 
and  everything  under  'Saxe  Holm'  is  from  poor 
to  worthless,  and  also  has  a  very  fecogniiable 
and  uniformly  different  tone  f  " 

.  ,  .  Mrs.  Belie  C.  Greene,  author  of  A  Nm 
England  Ceniciemi,  is  supposed  to  be  the 
"Ransome  Moss"  who  has  contributed  the 
bright  "New  England  Sketches"  which  hai 
appeared  in  the  New  York  Sunday  Tribune. 

. . .  Mr.  Frank  H.  Converse  and  wife  have 
taken  up  their  residence  in  Maiden,  Mass. 
Among  various  recent  productions  of  Mr.  Con. 
verse's  pen  is  a  short  serial  about  to  appear  In 
Harper'i  Young  Peef  It. 


FOBEIQV  KEV8  AHB  H0TE8. 

■  Mr.  M,  G.  Mnlhall  has  written  a  little  ffi. 
tory  of  Pritei  since  the  year  1850  which  invests 
an  immense  amount  of  research  and  labor  lo  the 
best  possible  advantage  for  the  student  oE  a 
very  important  line  of  facts  in  political  economy. 
For  example,  as  epitomized  in  the  Academy: 

Starling  upon  this  basis,  he  eitablishes  (1) 
that  prices  in  Great  Britain  showed  a  steady 
rise  from  1850  to  1864,  but  bavc  since  almost 
continually  declined,  so  that  '*  £&l  will  now  buy 
as  much  in  England  as  £1^1  in  1864  or  ^100 
in  1841-50 ;  "  (I)  that  world-prices  reached  their 
highest  point  in  tS66  {prices  m  the  United  Stales 
having  gone  up  extravagantly  even  for  gold 
payments  during  and  after  the  Secession  War), 
and  have  since  declined  to  ;  per  cent  below  the 
ces ;  (3)  that  this  decline  arises  from  a 
15  per  cent  in  manufactured  goods,  agri. 
cultural  produce  still  Handing  11  per  cent 
higher  than  at  the  beginning  of  the  period. 
This  last  point  Is  important,  and  deserves  atten- 
tion.   [Liongmans.] 

—  There  was  sold  under  the  hammer  in  Lon- 
don, the  last  of  January,  a  memento  of  Victor 
Hugo,  "  which  "  says  the  Academy,  "  it  is  lo  be 
regretted  should  ever  have  come  to  at)  English 
auction  room :  " 

It  is  a  volume  of  Helzel's  illustrated  edition 
of  Hugo's  woika  (1856),  presented  by  the  poet 
to  his  god-daughter,  "  Madame  Quatre  A.''  It 
contains  sixty-two  photographs  of  persons  and 
places,  with  signatures  and  decorative  designs 
by  members  oi  the  Hugo  family;  and  also  the 
same  number  of  autograph  and  other  documents 
of  personal  interest,  including  the  original  MS. 
of  ■•  De  Oinie,  Ode  1  Chateaubriand,  etc 

—  We  read  in  the  Academy  o£  Jan.  ijd  that 
Mr.  Grant  Allen  has  been  compelled  by  the 
stale  ol  his  health  to  suspend  work  for  a  while  ; 
that  Mr.  Andrew  Lang's  LMeri  to  Dead  Authors 
are  about  to  be  collected  into  a  volume;  that  the 
Hon.  Roden  Noel  has  in  press  with  Krgan  Paul, 
Trench  &  Co.,  a  volume  of  Eiiayi  en  Poets  and 
Poetry;  that  under  the  title  of  The  Anglican 
Pulpit  of  Today  Hodder  &  Stoughton  are  soon 
to  publish  a  collection  of  typical  sermons  by 
forty  preachers  of  the  Church  of  England ;  that 
the  first  volume   of  the   posthumous  works  of 

Hugo  is  expected  this  month  under  the 
title  of  Thiitrt  en  tiiertl ;  that  the  Paris  house 
lE  Uvy  announce  a  Grande  Encychpldie,  "  in- 
'entaire  raisonn^  des  sciences,  des  letlre*  el  des 
arts,"  to  appear,  in  twenty-five  volumes,  before 
ihe  end  of  the  present  century ;  and  that  the 
loiat  number  o(  periodicals  of  all  kinds  pub- 
lished in  France  and  her  colonies  amounts  to 
4.093,  of  which  i,jS6  are  issued  in  Paris. 
—  M.  E.  Joseph  of  Bond  Street,  London,  has 


of  England.  On  the  inside  of  the  cover  may  be 
seen  the  miniature  portraits  of  Queen  Elizabeth 
and  the  Duke  of  Alen^on,  painted  by  Nicholas 
Hilliard.  It  was  undoubtedly  a  present  given  by 
the  young  prince  to  his  royal  fianc^  about  15S1. 
The  manuscript  became  later  the  property  of 
James  Second,  and  passed  successively  into  the 
hands  of  the  Duke  of  Berwick,  Horace  Walpole, 
and  the  Duchess  of  Portland.  At  the  sale  of 
the  Portland  collection,  in  17S6,  Queen  Charlotte 
bought  the  relic  for  j^ioo. 


HEWS  AND  VOTES. 


had  on  exhibition  for  some  weeks  a  little  prayer- 
Holm,"  an  old  reader  of  the  Literary   Wartd\  book  bound  in  vellum,  containing  50  pages,  with    1 
asks :"  How  .ran  it  be  that  every  story  written    prayers  in  Latin,   Greek,   Italian,   French,  and    C._..  ..^....^  ^......_.u,  ..  .w<~u.v  tn  t.iii,uu-<»   . 

nuder  het  own  name  or  that  of  *  Jane  Silsbee '  I  English,  written  in  the  hand  of  Queen  Elizabeth  I  biographical   notice*  tA.   Italian  posts,  by  Mr.    . 


Nothing  could  seem  more  unlikely  than  that, 
well-known  Philadelphia 
widow,  literary  and  a  millionaire,  has  gone  to 
England  to  marry  a  great  poet  whose  name  doea 
not  begin  withT;  bat  the  unexpected  is  always 
happening.    To  Europe  she  has  gone. 

—  A  new  subscription  book,  entitled  Green 
Fieldi  and  Whupering  Shadis,  at  the  Recrea- 
tions of  an  American  Country  Gentleman,  by 
Frank  S.  Burton,  will  be  published  early  in  the 
summer  by  M,  W.  Ellsworth  &  Co.  of  Detroit, 
Michigan. 

—  Mr.  John  S.  Browning,  formerly  with 
Messrs.  Cupptes,  Upham  &  Co.  of  Boston,  in 
their  publishing  department,  has  aevered  his 
connection  with  that  firm  to  enter  into  the  print- 
ing and  publishing  business  for  himself,  and 
has  his  office  at  No.  gi  Oliver  StreeL 

D.  Lothrop  &  Co.,  Boston,  will  gladly  send 
free  specimen  copies  of  their  Bahyland,  Our 
Utile  Men  and  Women,  and  The  Paniy,  in  re- 
sponse lo  any  request  which  mentions  the 
Literary  World  as  the  instrument  of  giving  this 
:e ;  and  a  copy  of   IVidt  Atoahi  on  receipt 

Mr.  Frederick  A.  Ober  has  a  coarse  of 
Illosttated  Lectures  on  Mexico  which  are  de- 
serving of  no^ce  by  those  arranging  instrnclive 

ttertainments  of  this  character.     Hi*  address 

3  Park  Street,  Boston. 

—  Mrs.  Frances  Brooks,  the  translator  of 
Heidi,  will  shortly  issue  through  Cnpples,  Up- 
ham &  Co.  a  brochure  entitled  A  Year's  Soniuti. 

The  entire  edition  will  consist  of  two  hundred 

copies  only.     It  is  dedicated  to  S.  W. 

—  We  call  OUT  readers'  attention  to  Upland 
md  Meadow,  Dr.  Charlea  C.  Abbott's  new  book, 

just  published  by  Harpers,  as  having  the  pretti- 
cloth  cover  of  any  book  of  its  size   published 
for  many  a  day. 

Mr.  Bret  Harte,  who  is  becoming  energetic, 
ust  finished  a  new  story,  called  Snote  Bound 
at  Eagle"!.  It  was  first  published  in  the  Cbriat- 
las  number  of  the  London  Pictorial  World, 
rbere  it  had,  by  the  way,  some  excellent  illustrn- 
tioni.  Messrs.  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.  are  to 
publish  it  in  this  country, 

—  Ticknor  &  Co.'s  list  of  spring  books 
includes,  in  addition  to  the  attractive  volumes 
mentioned  in  onr  last  number.  Light  on  the 
Hidden  Way,  a  "  romance  of  immortality  "  after 
the  style  of  "Beyond  the  Gales,"  with  an  intro- 
duction by  the  Rev.  James  Freeman  Clarke ; 
Too  College  Cirls,  a  study  of  girl  student  life,  by  . 
Helen  Dawes  Brown ;  A  Stroll  with  Kealt,  a 
volume  of  illuminated  pages  illustrating  verses' 

that  poet,  arranged  by  Frances  Clifiordi 
Brown ;  Next  Door,  a  story  of  life  in  Boston,  by  : 
Clara  Louise  Burnham  j  a  volume  of  critical  and  ; 


l886.] 


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69 


Howdls;  the  fame  author's  comic  opera,  A 
Sta  Ckaxgt,  or  Leve't  Slmoaaiay ;  and  also  Tke 
Virginia  Camfiiigtii  of  Gtiieral  Pupf  in  iSti, 
being  vulume  second  of  <be  paper*  read  before 
the  Military  Hiaioiical  Society  of  Mauachusetti. 
Among  the  fitm's  re-issues  may  be  mentioned 
Tennyseii't  Potmi,'m  a  "Student's  Edition"  in 
two  parts,  with  notes  and  jntroduciion  by  W.  /. 
Rolfe  and  prettily  illustrated ;  also  Clara  Erskine 
Clement's  Christian  Symtelt  and  Sloritt  of  tht 
Sainti,  an  enlargement  of  Mrs.  Clement's  popular 
Handbook  of  Legaidary  Art.  Tbls  Is  fully  and 
finely  illustrated,  and  in  its  preparation  Mrs. 
Clement  has  been  aided  by  Katherine  £.  Conway 
ol  Boston. 

—  A.  new  book  by  John  Burroaghs  is  an- 
nounced to  be  called  Signs  and  Siasans.  It  will 
be  published  by  Houghton,  Miffiin  &  Co.  The 
same  firm  will  publish  ■  new  volume  of  the 
American  Common  wealth  Series  —  California  — 
by  Jobiah  Roycc,  author  of  The  Uttigiout  Ai- 
fat  of  Philosefhy ;  and  a  second  volume  of 
the  Diary  and  Leltirt  of  Tkomai  HuUhinion, 
full  of  important  matter  relative  to  the  state  of 
affairs  and  public  feeling  In  England,  during 
and  immediately  after  the  Revoluiiunary  War, 
together  with  extracts  frutn  the  diary  of  Chief- 
Justice  Oliver,  who  was  in  Boston  during  its 
siege.  Bret  Hirte's  new  story  mentioned  else- 
where is  published  by  this  firm,  which  also  an- 
nounces a  re-issue  of  Warner's  Batk-Log  Studies 
in  the  popular  "Riverside  Aldine  Series ;"  anew 
edition  of  Mrs.  Japusen't  IVri/iirgt,  in  ten  vol- 
umes, at  a  reduced  price;  an  enlarged  and 
reviacd  edition  of  Nathaniel  J.  Holmes's  Auikor- 
skip  of  Skabiipiari,  in  two  volaiues  ;  a  re-issue  of 
Abraham  ¥\t\\t'»  Voictt  for  t/it  Sptcihltts  ;  Tki 
Studenlf  Kint,  an  Abridgment  of  Keafi  Com- 
mtHtariit  on  Amtrican  Laai,  edited  by  Eben 
Francis  Thompson  ;  and  an  edition  of  Robinson's 
Harmony  oflki  Four  Gospils  in  English,  revised 
and  brought  into  accord  with  the  latest  scholar- 
ship, by  Prof.  M.  B.  Riddle  of  the  Hartford 
Theological  Seminary. 

—  D.  C.  Heath  &  Co.  have  for  early  publica- 
tion a  volume  of  Analytic  Gtamttry,  by  J.  D. 
Runkle,  of  the  Masstichuseits  Insiiiote  of  Tech- 
nology. 

—  TTu  Strangt  Cast  of  Dr.  fekyti  and  Mr. 
Hydt  is  reported  as  being  one  of  the  best-selling 
of  recent  works  of  fiction.  Tiresias  and  the 
Crrvillt  Memoirs  have  also  had  Urge  sales  in 
this  coaniry. 

—  Miss  Elizabeth  Stuart  Phelps,  whose  Old 
Maid's  Paradiie  bad  such  success  last  summer,  is 
writing  a  new  story,  called  Burglars  in  Paradise, 
which  is  running  as  a  terial  in  the  New  York 
Independent. 

—  Light  on  the  Path  ;  a  Treatise  Written  for 
the  Personal  Uie  of  those  Who  are  Ignorant  of 
Eailim  Wisdom, and  WhoDisireto  Enter  With- 
in itsjnfiuenee,  is  to  be  issued  in  a  new  and  en- 
larged edition,  with  notes,  which  it  would  seem 
to  need,  by  Cupples,  Upham  &  Co.  We  under- 
stand that  it  represents  the  views  held  by  the 
members  of  the  "Theosopbical  Society"  of  Bos- 

—  The  Lowell  Institute  is  hoping  for  lectures 
next  season  from  Mr.  A.  R.  Wallace,  the  Eng- 
lish naturalist,  and  perhaps  Dean  Church  of  St. 
Paul's,  LondoD,  may  visit  us  on  a  similar  errand. 

—  We  are  requested  by  Ticknor  &  Co.  to  print 
their  denial  of  the  statement  recently  made  in 
our  "Table  Talk,"  that  WUl  Carleton  was  "be- 


yond question  "  the  author  of  Geraldine.  "  Such," 
they  say,  "is  not  the  case.  The  authorship  of 
Gtraldiiie  has  never  been  divulged,  although  that 
American  and  evangelistic  and  Ludle-like  rhyth- 
mical romance  sells  by  thousand*  every  year." 

—  A  Thackeray  Entertainment  is  in  prepara- 
tion for  the  aid  of  the  Benefit  Sodetj  of  the 
New  England  Conservatory  of  Music. 

—  Mrs,  E.  P.  Whipple  furnished  her  parlors 
the  other  evening  for  a  presentstioit  of  Mr. 
Herman  Strachauer's  musical  settings  for  the 
songs  in  Tennyson's  Princess. 

—  We  notice  that  the  Rev.  C.  C.  Grafton,  of 
the  Church  of  the  Advent,  has  In  press  a  book 
on  Sisterhoods.  The  entire  title  of  this  volume 
is  Sisterhoods;  Their  Origin,  Gaaemtnint,  and 
ifori,  and  the  Call  of  the  Divine  Master  to  a  Sis- 
ter's Life. 

—  In  a  few  days  Messrs.  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons 
will  shortly  publish  The  Mill  Mystery,  by  Anna 
Katharine  Gieen  [Mrs.  Rohlfe],  in  both  paper 
and  bound  editions.  Mrs.  Rohlfe's  reputation 
a*  ait  author  of  detective  stories  has  over- 
shadowed her  poetical  writings,  much  to  her 
own  regret.  The  Leaveirmorth  Case,  the  first  of 
her  series  of  popular  books,  was  written  in  the 
hope  that  it  might  be  pecuniarily  successful, 
and  also  that  it  might  open  up  the  way  to  a 
volume  of  verses  upon  which  the  author  had 
long  been  at  work.  Unhappily,  Mrs.  Rohlfe  is 
not  known  as  a  poet,  but  as  a  novelist,  though 
she  takes  great  pride  in  bet  verses,  and  cares  but 
little  for  her  achievements  in  fiction.  It  has  been 
naid  that  her  father,  who  is  a  lawyer,  supplied  her 
with  the  legal  element  which  is  so  strong  in  The 
LeaveiitBOrth  Case.  The  truth  is  that  Mr.  Green 
did  not  know  his  daughter  had  written  the  book 
until  it  was  published  by  the  Putnams. 

—  We  regret  to  hear  that  Mr.  Nathan  H.  Dole 
has  given  up  literary  criticism  In  the  Phila- 
delphia/Vxjj.  For  nearly  five  years  he  has  written 
its  book  review  and  has  made  an  enviable  reputa- 
tion for  the  Press  which  it  has  not  supported 
since  his  retirement.  We  are  sorry  (00  to  see 
the  New  Voik  S/nr  falling  into  the  rut  again,  hav- 
ing abandoned  the  news  paragraphs  in  its  col- 
umns of  "  Literary  Leaves." 

—  The  report  that  Mr.  George  Parsons  La. 
throp  and  Mr.  Julian  Hawthorne  are  to  publish  a 
weekly  paper,  vre  are  glad  to  bear,  is  premature, 
and  that  no  active  steps  have  been  taken  in  the 

—  Messrs.  Henry  Holt  &  Co.  will  publish,  as 
soon  as  they  can  manufacture  the  book,  a  new 
novel  by  Mrs.  Alexander,  entitled  The  History  of 
a  Week.     It  will  be  illustrated. 

—  Messrs.  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons 
volume  of  poems,  by  Mr.  James  H.  Morse, 
which  will  be  published  under  the  title  Summer 
Haven  Songs. 

—  Messrs.  Charles  Scribner's  Sons  have  in 
preparation  for  immediate  publication  letters 
to  Dead  Authors,  by  Andrew  Lang. 

—  Mr.  S.  G.  W.  Benjamin,  who  has  been  very 
busy  since  his  return  from  Persia  writing  for 
the  magarines,  will  make  a  book  out  of  the 
story  of  his  experiences  and  publish  it  through 
Messrs.  Ticknor  &  Co.  It  will  be  fully  illus- 
trated. 

—  Mr.  William  Winter,  the  dramatic  critic  of 
the  Tribune,  will  publish  through  George  J. 
Coombes  of  New  York,  a  volume  of  criticism 
upon  Miss  Mary  Anderson's  acting.  During 
her  recent  engagement  In  New  York  Mr.  Winter 


filled  the  Tribune  with  columns  of  enthusiastic 
praise  of  Miss  Anderson,  her  beauty,  and  her 
acting.  The  volume,  which  will  be  daintily 
made,  wFIl  be  ready  In  a  week  or  two. 

—  Mr.  David  Ker,  who  is  usually  globetrotting 
and  writing  letters  to  the  New  York  Times  from 
unheard-of  places,  has  completed  a  new  boy'a 
book,  entitled  Ijist  Among  White  Afrieans, 
which  will  be  published  by  Messrs.  Cassel) 
4  Co. 

—  Hr.  Robert  Lotiia  Sleveiison  has  written  ■ 
itew  story  entitled  Kidnaped.  It  will  appear 
next  month. 

—  The  Astor  Library  In  New  York  has  had 
an  uncommonly  busy  year  of  it.  During  the  past 
twelve  months  there  has  been  72.584  reader* 
who  have  taken  advantage  of  its  privilege*, 
against  59,057  in  1884-  During  the  year  Hr- 
Astor  has  given  largely  to  the  Institution  In 
money,  books,  and  manusctlpts. 

—  For  the  first  time  In  five  years  the  number 
of  books  published  in  the  United  Slates  shows 
a  falling  ofE,  but  the  decrease  is  so  small  that 
it  would  be  manifestly  unsafe  to  draw  any  con- 
clusions from  the  figures.  The  following  is  the 
summary  compiled  by  the  Puilishers'  Weeily: 

^'""" 9«  9M 

Tbeokifjr  ud  ReKpon  .•.....,  jSo  43^ 

I-*" ■    ■    ■    .    .  4JJ  4)1 

Juvcnili  Booki )jg  jsg 

EducaiUin,  Llntdlt* iij  ,|| 

Hedicst  Scienofi,  Hyf  Icbs  .......  109  iSt 

Biocnphr,  VcmoUv.    ........  17S  174 

PocliT  »<!  Dnnu ,»  ,,, 

Sedil  and  Faliiiol  Seitnce 16S  ifij 

IVnipilon,  Tnnl i)«  ,61 

LileniT  HiilcnTsnd  Mi(a1JinT     .    .    .    .  1S6  14S 

FiniAruimdllliuinlwlBoaki      .    .    .    .  gi  ,4a 

U«f"l*™ .S4  >» 

Phfvd]  and  MallwiudGa]  Science    .    .    .  ijf  ^ 

SpinU  and  AmuMiDtDli gi  ja 

DomuticndRpnl 4]  ,« 

Wsoud  and  Uonl  Phnosophy 19  ij 

HnnMT  and  Siiira aq  ij 

4.0M  4/130 
It  would  be  Idle  to  attempt  to  show  that  the 
statistics  may  be  trusted  as  Indications  of  the 
intellectual  activity  of  readers  or  of  the  prosperity 
of  the  publishing  trade.  We  look  back  at  the 
statistics  of  former  years  and  find  that  In  1S81 
2,991  books  were  published,  in  iSSi,  3,473,  in 
1883,  3.481,  and  the  figures  of  1884  show  a  very 
marked  increase  of  six  hundred  books.  We  can 
trace  very  readily  when  the  cheap  library  publi- 
cations come  Into  the  reckoning  to  swell  the 
numbers.  In  1882  the  cheap  reprints  multiplied 
enormously,  and  in  this  year  the  increase  waa 
nearly  five  hundred;  in  1SS4  again,  at  least 
three  new  series  of  reprints  were  started,  which 
go  far  to  account  for  the  seeming  activity  %f  this 
year.  The  entries  under  fiction  are  as  usual  by 
far  the  largest,  although  this  department,  like 
most  of  the  others,  shows  a  decrease.  But  of 
the  934  books  entered  under  the  head  600  or 
more  are  cheap  editions  of  foreign  novels,  and  it 
is  a  question  whether  the  same  book  may  not 
figure  in  several  editions  in  this  grand  total. 
We  should  like  very  much  to  know  the  actual 
number  of  American  written  and  American 
made  books.  Though  the  above  figures  seem 
to  indicate  a  depression  of  trade  among  the  , 
book-makers,  we  believe  that  the  cantion  exer- 
cised of  late  by  the  publishers  has  resulted 
in  a  more  healthy  state  of  their  trade  than  ha* 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Feb.  jo. 


uiited  for  nearly  two  year*  previout,  and  we 
have  this  estimate  upon  iht  testimony  of  some 
meD  belt  versed  in  publisbing  malten. 


CroBSinK  the  Danube, 

[FtDm  FuU'l  Til  GrHk  /ilamii.) 

We  crossed  the  river  in  a  boat,  and  were  in 
another  country,  having  passed  out  of  a  princi- 
pality into  a  kingdom  —  a  fact  of  which  we  were 
apprised  by  a  ridiculous  aping  of  royal  punctili- 
ousness in  the  call  for  a  passport,  which  had 
not  been  demanded  anymere  else  in  Earope. 
When  the  officer  asked  me  for  this,  I  langhed 
in  his  face,  and  he  laughed  loo.    I  told  him  I 


fore  us  the  same  rich  plains,  diversified  with 
vineyards  and  groves  of  trees,  white  in  the  open 
fields  were  grazing  herds  of  catlle  and  flocks  of 
sheep.  How  peaceful  it  all  looked  as  the  vil- 
lagers were  driving  the  cattle  home  at  sunset  I 
In  such  a  scene  of  peace  our  journey  came  to 
an   end   on  a  Saturday  evening  ax  we  left  our 


"Me,  Boy,  the  L>ord." 

[rnm  the  Swry  of  Muiarci  Kent.] 

"That  is  what  I  say,"  said  Mrs.  Townsend. 

"The   really   best  people   are   just    alike    any- 

"They  may  be  in  the  Kingdom  of  Heaven," 
aiii  Margaret,  laughing,  "but  on  earth  I  cannot 
help  thinking  that  Americans  fail  in  certain  nice 
and  delicate  gradations.  But  we  try  to  improve. 
Did  you  hear  the  story  of  the  bishop  who  was 
over  here  last  year  i " 

"The  Bishop  of  Aldegonda?  I  know  him, 
but  I  don't  know  the  story." 

"  He  was  staying  with  (he  Si.  Johns,  who  are 
as  English  as  the  deteriorating  influence  of  a 
republic  will  allow,  and  they  especially  trained 
a  new  aervant  to  attend  on  his  lordship.  The 
take  hoi  water,  etc.,  to  the  bishop's 


"Sf- 


He  V 


9  to  Stand 

..    =    •'fly. 

bishop  should  awake;  and  (hen,  when  his  lord- 


k'ery    soflly,   until   the 


.  n  the  I 
lapping  softb 
bishop  should 

ship  should  isk,  'Who  is  there? 
reply, '  Me,  lord,  the  boy.'  The  first  morning  he 
did  tap  softly,  oh  I  so  very  soflly,  at  the  door, 
and  the  bishop  did  ask,  'who  is  there?'  but, 
oh  t  what  Ihe  servant  answered  was,  '  Me,  boy, 
the  Lord.' " 

LITEBABY  DIDEX  TO  THE  PERIODI- 
0AL8. 

Amcriin,  LHIunng  in.    J.  G.  Wood.    LiUMriHtur.ftY,, 
mEiican     «o«ioi;l      cui«     0    "'}.;^^,  j^^  y^,^ 

t:abbclt,  Wm.    C.  M,  Gaikell.  lak  Cml.,  Ftb, 

ficlion.  Moimlily  in.  Paftri/BT  Ik.  Tim,,,  Vth. 

Miria,  Bict,  Works  oi.  vfiUmmtUr  X..  Feb. 

HuED,  Vioor,  the  Religion  of. 
Rev.  Rtvben  SiiUeni.  Andovet  Rev.,  Feb. 

Liunn  Endenvour.  Oambtr,;  JtHnuU,  F< ' 

~—   ■■-  Chriilins.    '"      "'  - 

IPolhk».    

.  ..»..  ....v.  PLclnrea,  Care  of. 

P.  G.  Hamenon.  Lsiirtmnii,  Fet 

Reiding,  the  Pleuuni  of.    Sir  John  Liibbo^ 

CtHlrmt.  Kn..  Fel 

SIDT7  Boolll  far  the  Young,  Uodei 

Ten oyMD's  Lul  Volume.    T.  H.  £i 


J.  ^EijieMlen,  Fel 
FaTlHifklly,  Fel 
FuTtHirklh,  Fel 
J.  ^  Sj^..  Fel 


tl.  New  Y«k  aij,  31 


poet,  fonoerly  oi  LvDn,  Man. 

^eh    J,  JMb  D.  Plulbriti,  LL.D.,  Ph.D„  D.CL, 

Dtnnn,  Man.,  fiSy.I  educational  edcDce. 

Feb.  9,  Jama  L.  Balvr,  Minneapolia,  jj  j. ;  jaarnalia 
ad  ■uihoi  of  Mm  ami  Tkintt. 

Feb.  s,  C«r/*  T.  Lanigmi,  Philadelphia,  4;  r-i  tour 

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CONTENTS. 

ScHlim's  HiSTOItV  OF  CSKHjlH  LinRA-niH 

BooKi  FU  Tua  YouHa 

UiHonHoricK:' 

I  ntomnii,  ind  Oihcr  Diurdcn  ol  Sleep 
DictloBsiTDtlnitiakud  Puudonym   . 

RmchclFilii 

Buddio'i  Tmr  in  Hoico 

Entlind  u  Skk  by  an  Amirican  Bankfr 
SvciilSludiuinEnKlaiiil 

MoDni«>(  Wonden  of  Ponpeii      .... 
VlMtdoCt  Wmdcn  of  Egrvp^tn  An  -         . 

ConiinrDiiDwci: 
Hn.  BuTHII  md  tlw  Cnliuj.    Fnnca  Bodgm 

Bcnwr's  Life  of  Bun'^n. '  T.  W.  Chiniben .'       '. 
Gun  GntHAH  Lbttxb.    L«i>pdld  KiiKfaer 
Ou«  Nn  VOKK  LiTTH.    Slylut     .... 
Shakupiahiama.    KdiHd  by  Wm.  J.  Rglf*.- 

Shakappanaq  LocalUiu  io  London 

A  CmiplB  of  Qucrni  fnni  PhilidelpliU  . 

No™  »«D  Qh««i«s.    iW-jjs         .... 

TabuTala 

NmANDNom 

LiniART  IHDIX 

PuaLICATIOHlRlOIVBD 


TIBIH8." 

IF  the  English  proverb,  "actions  speak 
louder  than  words,"  is  well  founded, 
then  the  remark  of  a  recent  English  writer, 
that  one  line  of  an  old  Greek  ode  is  worth 
more  than  a  cart-load  of  old  pottery,  is  un- 
founded. No  remains  of  ancient  literature, 
properly  so-called,  are  free  from  the  suspi- 
cioaof  revision,  recension,  interpolation,  etc. 
In  our  boyhood,  before  we  could  read  Greek, 
we  wondered  at  the  great  similarity  between 
Moore's  translations  from  Anacreon,  and 
Moore's  own  songs.  The  wonder  was  gone 
when  we  read,  as  we  supposed,  Anacreon 
for  ourselves,  and  found  how  largely  Moore 
had  adulterated  and  drugged  his  wine  in  the 
process  of  decanting  from  the  original  ves- 
sels. But  a  little  further  study  showed  us 
that  these  supposed  Anacreontic  poems 
could  not  possibly  have  been  written  by 
Anacreon;  but  were  imitations,  or  transla- 
tions, in  a  very  different  dialect  from  his. 
All  ancient  liieraiure  suffers  under  the  sus- 
picion of  like  causes  of  uncertainty;  and 
this  leads  to  the  ingenious  criticisms  of  a 
Niebuhr,  a  Wolff,  a  Graff,  or  a  Wellhausen. 
But  in  1738  a  new  source  of  ancient  kistory 
began  to  enrich  our  modern  libraries,  the 
path  to  it  having  been  discovered  in  1709. 
We  were  taken  into  two  cities,  near  Naples, 
which  had  been  securely  covered  with  vol- 
canic ashes  since  the  year  A.  D.  79 ;  and  were 
permitted  10  see  exactly  how  their  inhabit- 
ants acted  from  day  to  day.  There  could 
be  no  question  here  of  revision,  recension, 
or  translation;    the  habits  of  thought  and 


nScribnci'i 


feeling  in  those  two  towns  were  revealed  to 
us  by  the  unimpeachable  testimony  of  their 
own  actions  speaking  louder  than  words. 

In  the  course  of  the  century  and  a  half, 
which  have  passed  since  Charles  III  began 
to  uncover  Herculaneum,  this  mode  of  re- 
verting to  original  sources  of  history  became 
more  and  more  highly  prized ;  and  after  the 
discovery  of  the  Rosetta  Stone  had  led  to 
the  successful  interpretation  of  ancient 
alphabets,  it  was  pushed  forward  with  more 
energy.  Two  series  of  enterprises  now  in- 
terest greatly  not  only  historical  scholars 
and  students,  but  the  general  reader.  One 
is  carried  on  by  a  popular  subscription,  the 
Egyptian  Exploration ;  the  other  is  the  series 
undertaken  by  the  indefatigable  energy  of 
Dr.  Henry  Schliemann.  By  a  singular 
coincidence,  the  Egyptian  Exploration  pub- 
lishes its  discoveries  in  a  Greek  city, 
Naukratis,  just  at  the  time  when  Dr.  Scblie- 
mann's  unveiling  of  Tiryns  is  laid  before  us. 

On  the  southeast  side  of  the  Peloponne- 
sus lies  the  Argolic  gulf;  15  miles  wide 
near  its  mouth,  and  running  inland  some 
25  or  30  miles.  Near  its  head  was  the 
great  city  of  Argos;  five  or  six  miles  north 
of  which  was  Mycens;  and  three  miles 
southeast  of  Argos,  a  scant  mile  from  the 
bay,  was  Tiryns.  Here,  on  the  high  plateau 
of  the  citadel,  Dr.  Schliemann  with  fifty-one 
men  made  a  preliminary  attack  in  August, 
1876.  On  St.  Patrick's  day,  1S84,  he  re- 
newed his  labor  with  sixty  men,  and  worked 
about  two  months  and  a  half.  The  neigh- 
borhood suffers  greatly  with  malaria;  but 
Schliemann  took  his  quinine  daily,  and  was 
unharmed.  Among  his  assistants  was  Dr. 
Wilhelm  Dorpfeld,  whose  thorough  archi- 
tectural knowledge  gives  peculiar  value  to 
his  discussion  of  the  buildings  uncovered. 

These  excavations  showed  that  on  this 
rocky  knoll  of  Tiryns  there  had  been  "a 
very  ancient  shabby  settlement."  But 
"about  the  middle  of  the  second  millennium 
before  Christ"  a  "great  Asiatic  people" 
came  and  built  a  magnificent  palace.  The 
limestone  ridge  is  about  1,000  feet,  north 
and  south;  and  one  third  that  width.  Its 
extreme  elevation  above  the  sea  is  about 
seventy-two  leet;  and  that  of  the  plain  out 
of  which  it  rises  is  fifteen  to  eighteen  feel. 
The  mass  of  buildings  and  fortifications 
covered  the  whole  knoll.  The  stones  were 
mostly  of  great  size,  and  were  quarried  from 
the  surface  of  a  neighboring  ridge.  The 
baih-room  floor  is  one  single  block  of  lime- 
stLne,  13  feet  by  9  feet  10  inches,  and  27 
to  ztj  inches  thick,  weighing  over  twenty 
tons.  On  the  upper  surface  is  a  carefully 
levtlled  and  polished  shaJlow  depression,  10 
feet  by  8  feet  8  inches.  Around  the  room, 
excepting  the  door,  there  seems  evidently 
to  have  been  a  solid  wainscotting,  of  five- 
inch  plank,  two  feet  wide,  set  endwise  and 
fastened  by  stout  dowel  pins.  At  one  cor- 
ner a  square  gutter  is  cut  out,  and  leads 
into  a  stone  pipe,  and  so  through  the  outer 


wall.  This  bath-room  floor  is  supported 
under  the  edges  alone.  It  gives  us  a  very 
definite  idea  of  the  mechanical  and  archi- 
teclnral  skill  of  the  Phenicians  at  that  early 

But  in  the  great  Dorian  invasioa,  or 
"return  of  the  Heracleidae,"  just  before  the 
year  1100  B.  C,  Tiryns  audits  great  palace, 
like  other  cities  on  the  Peloponnesus,  were 
destroyed  with  fire.  The  great  beams,  and 
the  thatch  under  the  clay  roofs,  made  a  fire 
hot  enough  to  burn  the  clay  to  brick,  even 
to  vitiify  portions  ;  also  to  convert  some  of 
the  upper  walls  into  lime,  which,  burning 
with  the  clay,  made  a  sort  of  hydraulic  ce- 
ment, which  preserved  these  interesting  relics 
of  antiquity,  as  it  were  hermetically  sealed, 
2,988  years,  to  be  unveiled  by  Schliemann 
and  studied  by  archxologists. 

The  volume  before  us  is  an  excellent 
specimen  of  the  printer's  and  binder's  art- 
it  has  a  copious  index,  and  its  contents  are 
too  rich  and  varied  to  be  easily  classified  in 
the  space  at  our  command.  It  will  hold  an 
important  place  in  every  historical  lilsrary, 
and  furnish  a  new  reason  for  giving  thanks 
and  honor  to  Henry  Schliemann. 


SOHERES'S  HISTOBT  OF    GEBHAJT 
LITEBATUBE." 

PROF.  MAX  MULLER'S  editing  of 
this  justly  noted  history  of  the  litera- 
ture of  his  native  land  is  of  an  exceedingly 
inobtrusive  character.  Not  a  word  of  pref- 
ace or  of  comment  from  him  is  to  be  seen 
in  the  two  handsome  volumes,  which  have 
apparently  been  imported  in  sheets  by  the 
American  publishers  as  they  came  from  the 
famous  Clarendon  Press  of  Oxford.  A  let- 
ter from  Prof.  Miiller  in  the  Atkenaum, 
however,  informs  us  that  he  read  the  trans- 
lation as  it  was  made,  and  also  submitted  it 
to  the  author  before  it  was  put  into  print, 
and  that  he  was  empowered  to  make  such 
minor  omissions,  in  passages  of  a  personal 
or  patriotic  character,  as  he  thought  best 
This  permission  will  probably  account  for 
the  fact  that  the  German  original  and  the 
translation  will  not  always  be  found  to 
agree.  The  translator  has  succeeded  in 
giving  a  form  thoroughly  English  to  Prof. 
Scherer's  work,  which  is  remarkable  among 
German  books  for  its  high  qualities  of 
style;  there  is  little  or  nothing  to  remind 
us  that  we  are  reading  a  translation  from  a 
tongue  which  is  generally  the  despair  of 
translators.  At  the  same  time,  it  would 
hardly  be  jusMo  expect  that  all  the  life  and 
beauty  of  the  original  should  be  retained, 
for  this  would  demand  almost  as  much  lit- 
erary power  in  the  translator  as  the  author 
himself  possesses. 
Prof.  W.  Scherer  has  held  for  years  a  high 


Tr.  [ram  ihc  Third  Gtrmitn  Ediik 
bait.    E<iittd   tir   F.   Uii   Mil 

Cbuln  ScHbuEt'i  Soui.    tyio. 


m.  By  W,  Sclicicr. 
by  Mr..  F.  C.  Cony- 
:t,    Id   Tva  Voloma. 


78 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Mar.  6, 


place  among  Gennan  scholars  and  writers' 
His  specialties  have  been  philology,  in 
which  he  has  devoted  himself  to  the  old 
and  the  middle  High  German,  and  literary 
criticism,  wherein  Goethe  has  been  the 
chief  object  of  his  attention.  He  possesses 
a  great  faculty  for  popular  exposttioi 
these  fields;  and  has  been  professor  of  lit- 
erature, successively,  at  Vienna,  Strasburg, 
and  Berlin.  His  history  of  German  litera. 
(ure  has  won  great  applause  at  home,  where 
it  has  passed  already  through  several  edi. 
tions ;  and  now  that  it  has  appeared  ii 
English  form,  it  seems  likely  to  become  the 
favorite  and  standard  work  on  its  subject 
for  all  English-speaking  people.  Prof.  Hos. 
mer's  Short  History  will  probably  remun,  for 
a  long  time,  unexcelled  as  a  brilliant  sketch, 
admirably  fitted  to  attract  the  reader  tc 
thorough  study;  but  Gostwtck  and  Harri- 
son's Outlints,  and  all  similar  works  by 
Englishmen,  will  undoubtedly  be  super- 
seded by  Proi  Scherer'a  volumes,  for  these 
have  great  advantages  in  that  they  proceed 
from  a  brilliant  German,  who  is  free  from 
cftattvitum,  and  a  master  of  expression,  and 
that  the  treatment  is  well-proportioned  and 
singularly  complete.  The  author  originally 
Intended  to  write  a  history  of  German 
poetry  only,  and  while  enlarging  his  plan, 
has  still  kept  before  him  the  imaginative 
literature  as  the  main  matter.  This  fact 
has  not  prevented  bim  from  doing  justice 
to  science  and  philosophy,  but  has  greatly 
added  to  the  attractiveness  and  value  of  the 
work;  pure  literature  should  always  hold 
the  chief  place  in  such  a  history.  A  full 
chronological  table  and  a  bibliography  add 
to  the  completeness  of  the  volumes. 

Prof.  Scberer  begins  with  the  primitive 
Aryas,  finding  in  them  the  germs  of  German 
mytholc^y  and  religion,  and  comes  down  to 
the  death  of  Goethe.  In  German  history 
proper  he  somewhat  fancifully  makes  out 
three  periods  of  six  hundred  years,  in  each 
of  which  there  was  a  rise  and  fall  of  litera- 
ture. He  seems  to  us  to  attach  too  much 
importance  to  the  fragments  of  the  hero- 
songs  in  making  them  mark  one  of  these 
great  literary  epochs ;  he  has  given  up  Sieg- 
fried and  Brunhild  too  much  to  solar  my- 
thology, and  has  endeavored  to  trace 
Goethe's  own  self  rather  too  closely  in 
Faust  Aside  from  a  few  minor  criticisms 
of  this  nature,  we  have  turned  over  Prof. 
Scherer's  pages  with  delight  and  admira- 
tion. Somewhat  more  than  half  of  them 
are  occupied  with  the,period  since  the 
Thirty  Years'  War.  In  the  first  seven 
chapters,  and  in  those  which  tell  the  story 
of  the  later  literature  as  it  is  skillfully  cen- 
tered around  Goethe,  the  author  is  natu- 
rally at  his  best,  the  ground  being  familiar 
to  him  and  his  extensive  knowledge  sup- 
plying him  with  all  the  minute  touches 
which  light  up  with  life  and  charm  the  his- 
tory in  its  general  features  so  well  known 
to  cultivated  readers. 


To  note  only  a  few  points  which  have 
especially  struck  as.  Prof.  Schcref  remarks 
on  the  alliteration  which  Is  so  prominent  an 
element  in  all  eariy  Teutonic  poetry,  Anglo- 
Saxon  as  well  as  German : 

It  Rives  to  the  verse  not  melody  but  a  cbi. 
actenslic  sound ;  it  does  not  beautify  it  bul 
makes  it  compact  and  strong.  Such  alliteratio 
reiults  from  a  tendency  early  found  In  the  Gci 
manic  nature,  which  renders  all  art  difficult  t 
us  —  I  tendency,  namely,  to  prise  originality 
more  than  beauty,  substance  more  than  form. 
This  feature  has  even  stamped  itself  on  oui 
language.  .  .  .  Only  the  first  sound  of  the  root- 
syllable  is  considered  in  atlitcralion,  no  notice 
liing  taken  of  the  vowels,  so  that  the  chief 
place  is  held  by  the  consonants.  The  conso- 
nants have  been  well  called  the  bones  of  speech 
while  Che  vowels  fulfil  the  office  of  the  flesh,  im- 
parting color  and  beauty.  The  old  German  ear 
however,  had  little  feeling  (or  beaut;  and  color. 

In  legal  formulas  alliterations  abounded, 
a  few  remaining  to  our  own  lime,  such  as 
house  and  home,  kith  and  kin,  bed 
board.  But  the  charming  poetry  in 
old  laws,  as  when  they  described  the  "  three 

eds  "  of  the  fatherless  child,  has  com- 
pletely disappeared. 

The  pathetic  tale  of  Hildebrand  and 
Hadubrand  is  excellently  told,  that  tale 
which  in  Laios  and  CEdipus,  and  Rostem 
and  Sohrab,  mournfully  re-echoes  in  ancient 

id  modem  verse.      Of    the    Heljand,  so 

:travagantly  praised  by  many  German  his- 
torians, ProL  Scherer  says  it  "is  really  no 
epic  at  all,  but  just  the  didactic  poem  which 
the  author  meant  it  to  be."  Two  pages  are 
given  to  the  attractive  figure  of  the  nun 
Roswitha  of  Gaodersheim, "  the  first  German 
poetess  and  the  first  dramatist  since  the 
Raman  epoch."  The  professional  German 
poets  of  the  ninth  and  tenth  centuries  are 
well  described  as  "  the  wandering  joumal- 
■'  of  the  time.  Lady  World,  the  evil 
temptress,  is  noted  on  her  first  appearance 
the  worldly  ideal  of  the  clergy.  L.acb- 
mann's  theory  of  the  divided  authorship  of 
the  Nibelungen  Lied  is  accepted  and  fully 
expounded.  Charming  chapters  tell  of  Hart- 
a  von  Aue,  Gottfried  von  Strassburg, 
Wolfram  von  Eschenbach,  and  Walther 
von  der  Vogelweide. 

Much  later,  Klopstock  is  declared  to  be 
"  really  a  lyric  poet  masquerading  as  a 
writer  of  epic."  Of  the  great  Herder  It  is 
well  said,  "the  sum  and  substance  of  all 
his  speculation  and  writing  was,  in  a  word, 
the  history  of  the  human  spirit."  While 
treating  Faust,  the  legend  and  the  poem, 

~th  the  fullness  it  deserves.  Prof.  Scherer 
gives  its  due  place  to  the  incomparable  Her- 
1  and  Dorothea  of  Goethe;  "it  is  his 
highest  achievement  in  epic  poetry,  the 
most  perfect  product  of  his  cultured  realism, 
the  noblest  fruit  of  that  style  which  he  bad 
acquired  during  his  sojourn  in  Italy."  The 
historian  can  appreciate  Schiller  as  well  as 
his  godlike  friend,  but  his  treatment  of 
Heine  seems  to  us  the  most  inadequate  part 
of  the  whole  work;  it  lacks  the  primary 
sympathy  necessary  even  to  justice. 

In  his  beginning  Prof.  Scherer  speaks  of 


the  risk  which  "  we  ourselves  feel  at  the 
present  day  ...  of  the  German  nation  de- 
generating from  the  ideals  which,  in  Goethe's 
time,  constituted  its  greatness  and  its  pride," 
and  in  closing  these  admirable  volumes  be 
vrarns  his  countrymen  of  the  dangers  of  the 
existing  "period  of  national  expansion  and 
economic  prosperity.  ...  If  in  iSoo  the  na- 
tion was  over-intellectual,  it  now  begins  to 
be  over-materiaL"  "The  fatal  one-sided- 
ness  which  so  easily  lays  hold  of  the  Ger- 
man character"  should  be  overcome,  and 
the  spirit  of  the  age  which  is  expiring  be 
carried  over  into  the  present  and  future. 
It  is  a  warning  which  scientific  and  warlike 
Germany  may  well  heed. 


T0L8T0F8  RELIGION.* 

CONDUCT,  Mr.  Matthew  Arnold  never 
tires  of  telling  us,  is  three  fourths  of 
life,  and  the  secret  and  method  of  Jesus  he 
declares  the  only  way  to  righteousness  in 
conduct.  These  two  thoughts  are  also  the 
basis  and  substance  of  doctrine  with  Count 
Tolstoi  —  the  first,  mainly  as  a  tacit  assump- 
tion, and  the  second  as  his  chief  point  of 
appeal.  But  in  spirit  and  method,  the  two 
writers  are  as  unlike  as  Seneca  and  St  Paul. 
What  the  English  critic  discusses  dispas- 
sionately as  a  matter  of  personal  indifference, 
this  to  the  Russian  novelist  and  noble  is  a 
question  of  life  and  death ;  one  is  an  essay- 
ist, the  other  a  preacher,  and  the  ethical 
teachings  of  Jesus  have  found  no  modem 
expounder  more  reverent  or  more  rigid. 

The  change  in  the  author's  life,  which 
forms  the  starting-point  and  explanation  of 
his  book,  and  which  be  recounts  in  the  in- 
troduction, reads  like  a  story  of  what  is 
known  as  "conversion."  But  it  is  a  conver- 
sion, not  only  from  himself  and  the  world, 
but  also  from  churches  and  creeds  around 
him,  to  the  simplicity  of  the  primitive  gos- 
pel. The  Sermon  on  the  Mount  be  hwls  as 
a  new  law,  and  the  sayings  of  Jesus  to  sim- 
ple and  ignorant  people  he  would  clear  from 
comment  and  perversion,  and  set  forth  in 
their  first  distinctness.  Resist  not  evil  is  to 
him  the  central  precept  and  key  to  the  eth- 
ics of  the  Gospels,  and  he  finds  in  the  fifth 
chapter  of  St.  Matthew  five  definite  com- 
mandments which  further  enforce  this  cen- 
tral prohibition.  Society  and  the  state,  as 
well  as  the  individual,  are  bound  by  the  same 
command,  and  neither  may  rightfully  use 
fdTce  against  any  foes.  His  denunciation  of 
is  eloquent  and  unsparing,  and  the 
glimpses  his  pages  give  of  proscription, 
police  service,  and  judicial  methods  in  Rus- 
sia, emphasize  the  justice  of  his  complaint 
Divorce  he  finds  absolutely  forbidden,  and 
oaths  are  never  to  be  taken.  The  wisdom 
of  these  sweeping  prohibitions  he  supports 
by  ingenious  reasoning,  based  in  many  cases 
upon  keen  psychological  insight    And,  rely- 


i886,] 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


79 


ing  on  the  willingDess  of  man  to  follow  the 
best,  when  once  he  discerns  it  as  best,  he 
anticipates  an  earthly  paradise  in  which 
these  laws  shall  gain  complete  ascendency, 
and  banish  all  evil  from  the  world. 

Not  content,  however,  with  hopes  or  gen- 
eralities,  he  urges  this  law  of  Jesus  as  a. 
guide  to  individual  conduct,  and  shows  that 
to  him  who  follows  it  there  is  life  and  peace, 
safety  without  and  satisfaction  within.  He 
lauds  the  country  life,  which  by  its  simplicity 
makes  such  obedience  possible,  and  de- 
scribes  the  evils  of  the  city  with  the  fervor 
of  Ruskin.  He  esteems  the  lot  of  the  poor 
more  blessed  than  that  of  the  rich,  because 
it  is  free  from  display  and  empty  forms,  and 
nearer  the  heart  of  nature  and  man,  health- 
ful to  the  physical  and  the  social  life,  and 
full  of  interest  and  activity.  His  practice 
keeps  pace  with  his  precept,  and  in  the  sim- 
plicity and  quiet  of  rural  society  he  has 
carried  into  conduct  the  creed  won  through 
paJn  and  conflict  and  temptation. 

The  author's  method  involves  him  in  fre- 
quent repetitions,  and  shows,  perhaps,  too 
little  plan  and  progress.  But  clear  as  bis 
ideas  and  his  expression  are,  he  spealcs  from 
the  heart,  and  the  deepest  convictions  often 
spurn  the  chains  of  logic.  The  translator, 
Mr.  Huntington  Smith,  has  discharged  his 
task  in  a  manner  at  once  graceful  and  effect- 
ive. There  is  a  seeming  discrepancy  be- 
tween the  date  assigned  for  Tobtoi's  birth, 
1S28,  and  the  beginning  of  his  introduction, 
which  conveys  the  impression  that  his  age 
is  not  yet  forty-five. 


FBOUDE'B  70TA6E  ABOTTITD  THE 
WOBLD.* 

ANEWbookby  Froude  — who  that  has 
e»er  been  under  the  spell  of  this 
potent  word  magician  can  fail  to  rejoice  at 
the  announcement?  When  we  have  as  daia 
an  author  who  is  an  able  historian,  theolo- 
gian, and  almost  a  statesman,  and  who  Is, 
moreover,  among  the  best  of  living  English 
essayists,  and  have  him  writing  about  a  new, 
little-known,  transequatorial  world,  peopled 
by  men  of  our  own  race,  and  have  the  whole 
put  into  attractive  form  by  one  of  our  fore- 
most publishing  houses,  how  can  the  result 
fail  to  be  a  feast?  The  book  is  an  account 
of  a  recent  voyage  around  the  world  by  the 
author,  his  son,  and  Lord  Elpbinstone ',  from 
England,  by  steamer,  via  the  Cape  of  Good 
Hope,  to  Adelaide,  in  South  Australia,  and 
thence  to  Melbourne;  from  which,  after 
some  months  spent  at  the  Australian 
metropolis  and  in  visits  which  included  the 
older  province  of  New  South  Wales  and  the 
north  island  of  New  Zealand,  he  returned  by 
way  of  the  United  States,  which  he  traversed 
by  rail,  and  by  Atlantic  steamer  to  England. 
Mr.  Froude  desired  to  ascertain  from  per- 
sonal inspection  the  modes  of  life  and  state 
D(|p»terial  prosperity  of  the  Australasian  colo- 


nics, and  the  opinions  and  feelings  of  their 
influential  men  respecting  closer  colonial 
and  imperial  federation.  This  fact,  or  the 
eminent  position  of  the  travelers,  or  perhaps 
both,  caused  the  party  to  be  received  fre- 
quently in  a  semi-oflScial  manner  and  with 
the  abundant  hospitality  characteristic  of 
colonists.  The  work  is,  therefore,  a  record 
of  facts  and  impressions  by  a  most  compe- 
tent observer  and  careful  student  of  history, 
and  at  the  same  time  a  presentation  of  his 
best  thoughts,  based  on  matured  knowledge, 
respecting  important  and  often  very  dif- 
ficult questions  of  colonial  policy,  and  the  fu- 
ture of  a  great  nation  in  which  we  Americans 

ixaot  fail  to  feel  warm  interesL 

Besides  this,  Mr.  Froude  is  chiefly  and 
before  all  else  an  essayist,  and  perhaps  the 
greatest  charm  of  this  work  will  be  found  in 
the  essays,  on  subjects  most  varied,  inserted 
informally  in  the  midst  of  voyages  and  politi- 
cal observations.  Whether  the  topic  con- 
sidered is  the  liter^uy  merits  of  Virgil  or 
Pindar,  or  modern  novels;  whether  deep 
problems  in  religion  or  philosophy  or  ques- 
tions as  to  the  Chinese  as  servants ;  the  sim- 
plicity and  elegance  of  language  and  the 
directness  and  force  of  thought  are  unfailing. 
We  should  perhaps  add  that  in  a  writer  so 
gifted  two  things  seem  hardly  excusable;  the 
constant  misuse  of  the  word  Catholic,  com- 
mon among  ignorant  people,  and  a  habit 
which  the  late  President  Lincoln  (we  believe) 
Is  said  to  have  declared  would  be  fatal  to  the 
aspirations  of  any  American  to  the  Presi- 
dency, to  wit,  "the  spelling  of  negro  with 
two^j."  Towards  the  fundamental  beliefs 
common  to  all  forms  of  Christianity    our 

itbor's  allusions  show  rather  the  deep  sad- 
ness of  an  unwilling  skeptic  than  the  bitter 
feeling  noticeable  in  many  modern  writers. 

Mr.  Froude  and  his  companions  went  to 
Australia  by  the  longer  route,  both  in  order 
to  visit  Cape  Colony  and  to  secure  the  six 
weeks'  rest  and  quiet  of  the  voyage.  The 
steamer  "Australasian,"  her  accomplished 
captain,  and  her  passengers  are  duly  de- 
scribed. At  Cape  Colony  Mr.  Froude  had 
been  occupied  in  some  official  business  some 
ten  years  before,  and  his  interest  in  South 
Africa  was  therefore  enhanced  by  the  desire 
to  see  what  changes,  political  or  otherwise, 
had  occurred  in  the  interval.  With  the  can- 
dor of  a  man  who  does  not  believe  that 
patriotism  consists  in  Indiscriminating  praise 
of  everything  done  by  his  own  country  or  its 
government,  he  censures  severely  the  vacil- 
lating and  unjust  course  pursued  by  the 
English  colonial  olfice  towards  South  Africa ; 
of  which  course  he  gives  a  succinct  history, 
and  declares  it  "the  history  of  Ireland  re- 
peating itself :" 

Spasmodic  violence  alternating  with  impa- 
tient dropping  of  the  reins  j  first  seveiity  and 
then  indulgence,  and  then  severity  again  ;  with 
no  perusting  in  any  one  system  ;  —  a  process  .  ■ 
inevital)le  in  every  dependency  .  .  not  entirely 
servile,  »o  long  as  it  ties  at  the  will  and  mercy  of 
so  uncertain  a  body  as  the  British  Parliament. 

Cape  Colony,  sooth  of  the  Orange  River, 


transferred  to  England,  without  the  con-  - 
sent  of  its  original  Dutch  settlers,  the  Boers, 
the  treaty  of  Vienna,  and  no  little  friction 
attended  its  government  by  its  new  masters, 
resulting  in  the  exodus  of  numerous  Dutch 
settlers  into  the  territory  north  of  that  river. 
After  the  discovery,  in  1869,  of  an  extraordi- 
nary diamond  field  in  this  new  Dutch  terri- 
tory, the  English  most  unjustifiably  seiicd 
the  diamond  region,  under  pretense  of 
avenging  a  Griqua  chief  formerly  an  ally  of 
the  British,  but  in  the  face  of  a  very  recent 
treaty  binding  them  not  to  interfere  north  of 
the  Orange.  In  Mr.  Froude's  opinion  this 
iaction  is  "perhaps  the  most  discredit- 
able in  the  annals  of  English  colonial  his- 
tory," and  "  the  cause  of  all  the  troubles  that 
have  since  befallen  South  Africa."  Later 
came  the  seizure  of  the  Transvaal  region, 
also  severely  denounced.  The  latest  devel- 
opment mentioned  is  the  expedition  of  Sir 
Charles  Warren  into  a  vast,  undefined,  tians- 
Orange  country  known  as  Bechuana-land, 
which  seems  to  have  little  object  or  promise 
of  valuable  result  In  our  author's  opinion, 
the  best  policy  now  possible  after  the  long 
series  of  wrongs,  is  that  of  non-interference; 
to  leave  the  English,  Dutch,  Basntos,  Oaf- 
f  res,  and  Zulus  to  bury  the  hatchet  and  try  to 
live  in  harmony,  trusting  for  prosperity  to 
their  fine  soil  and  climate  and  wealth  of 
minerals  and  jewels.  Cape  Town  is  de- 
scribed as  having,  periiaps,  nnequaled  beauty 
of  situation,  but  from  the  country's  politiod 
troubles  scarcely  advancing  in  visible  pro>- 
perity  in  the  ten  years. 

The  same  steamer  took  the  party  thence, 
through  the  outskirts  of  southern  polar  cold, 
to  their  first  landing-place  in  Australia,  the 
port  of  Adelaide,  seven  miles  from  the  city; 
and  thence  to  Williamstown,  the  port  of 
Melbourne.  Without  attempting  any  repro- 
duction of  the  graphic  descriptions  of  the 
city  and  ite  people,  and  of  the  ezcursioni 
made  either  in  Victoria  or  in  New  South 
Wales  and  New  Zealand,  both  which  were 
visited  subsequently,  suflice  it  to  say  that 
the  hospitalities  received,  in  some  instances 
from  old  personal  friends,  afforded  unusual 
opportunities  of  observation,  and  the  attend 
ive  reader,  from  the  descriptions  and  en- 
gravings in  this  book,  the  latter  made  from 
sketches  by  Lord  Elpbinstone,  can  obtain 
much  information  of  the  world  at  our 
antipodes. 

Of  the  Sandwich  Islands,  or  Kingdom  of 
Hawaii,  visited  in  steaming  eastward  over 
the  Pacific,  Mr.  Froude  says  little.  The 
monarchy  he  terms  "a  phantom  royalty 
guarded  by  the  stars  and  stripes;"  the 
people  "tall,  but  heavily-limbed,  flaccid  and 
sensual-looking ;  "  the  natural  vitality  of  the 
race  destroyed  by  "a  varnish  of  Yankee 
civilization,"  as  illustrated  by  the  cloud  of 
telephone  wires  at  Honolulu,  for  which  there 
is  not  sufficient  business. 

Our  author's  opinions  about  the  United  *^ 
Stales  and  its  people  and  institutions  will 


So 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Mar.  6 


be  read  with   interest  proportioned 
intelligence  and  sagaciiy.     San  Frajicisco 
he  saw  (or  the  lirst  time;  aod  it  pleased 
him  very  much  ;  that  city  and  New  York  be 
believes  will  not  Tail  to  grow,  whatever  be  thi 
fate  of  interior  cities  — even  of  Chicago, 
which  he  thinks  utterly  nninleresting 
vast  sameness.     The  famed  big  trees  of 
Califomia  he  says  are  surpassed  by  those 
in  the  Province  of  Victoria.     Mormonisn 
Utah  and    other  ten-itorilies    he  think! 
strange  puizle,  a  civil'iation  under  which 
the  desert  has  literally  "blossomed  as 
rose,"  yet  founded  on  a  gross  superstil 
In  general  our  author's  opinions  are  as  ( 
ptimentary  as  Americans  could  desire.     He 
declares  that  nowhere  in  America  has  he 
seen  vulgarity  in  its  proper  sense,  which 
sense  he  defines  to  lie  in  manners  unsu 
to  the  class  in  which  one  belongs, 
believes  that  the  American  republic  has 
cessfully  solved  the  problem  of  national  fed- 
eration and  unity  with  local  freedom  of  self 
government;    that   the   Civil  War   was   th 
delerminalion  of  the  great  issue  of  the  pei 
petual  union  of  the  States;    had  it  resulted 
otherwise,  the  separation  of  the  South  would 
have  been  only  the  first  of  others,  till  thi 
rivalries  of  Europe  would  have  been  repro- 
duced in  America  with  like  results.    With 
Canada  he  thinks  our  relations  so  friendly 
that  an  attack  upon  it  by  a  foreign  power 
"would    provoke   American    interference."" 
Yet  his  pr^e  is  not  without  discrimina- 
tion.   There  is,  he  says,  little  that  is  grand 
in  the  United   States  "except  the  indom' 
i table    energy    of     the     Americans    them- 
selves."   "  Picturesqueness  of  nature,  grace 
or  dignity,  in  the  works  of  man,  are  alike 

Mr.  Froude's  thoughts  oit  the  union  of 
the  English  colonies  and  their  relations 
one  another  and  with  the  mother  cou 
are    interestingly  brought    out    in   vai 
parts  of  the  work ;  in  the  opening  and  the 
closing  chapters,  especially;  and  ihey  are 
patriotic  and  statesmanlike.      He  believes 
that  the  colonics  have  been  founded  by  the 
enterprise  and  energy  of  English  subjects ; 
that  they  are  warmly  attached  to  the  home 
country  though  jealous  of  local  rights  and 
individual  liberty;   and  that  their  continu- 
ance and  even  closer  union  as  parts  of  the 
English  empire  are  of  great  value  and  mo- 
ment to  England,  with  its  vast  manufactures 
and  overcrowded  population,  as  well 
themselves ;  but  that  the  policy  of  the  home 
government  has  been  so  uniformly 
selfish  coldness  and  blind  indifference,  from 
the    time    when    parliamentary 
caused  the  loss  of  the  colonies,  now  part  of 
the  United  States,  to  the  present  day,  that 
there  la  a  constant  tendency  to  alienate  the 
settlers  and  provoke  their  hostility.     But  it 
may  be  not  yet  too  late  to  save  the  greatest 
of  the  world's  empires,  if  this  narrow,  illib- 
eral policy  is  reversed.    Constitutions  and 
formulated  plans  for  organic  union  must  be  Peii,"  along  the  c 


allowed  to  grow  rather  than  be  created  by 
even  the  wisest  theorists.  The  political 
arrangements  now  existing  should  therefore 
not  rashly  be  changed.  The  chief  practical 
measure  needed  is  the  generous  mainie 
nance  of  the  navy  at  the  condition  of  great- 
est efficiency ;  but  above  all  else  there 
should  be  manifested  towards  the  colonists 
a  feeling  of  cordiality;  their  experienced 
statesmen  should  be  honored  by  seats  in 
the  privy  council ;  and  in  all  such  publi 
positions  as,  for  example,  the  army  and 
navy,  there  should  be  no  difference  in  thi 
eligibility  and  promotion  of  English  and  of 
colonists.  Uy  such  measures,  judiciously 
carried  out,  the  bonds  of  affection  may  be 
so  strengthened  that  there  can  never  arise 
even  a  serious  thought  of  separation. 


BOOKS  FOB  THE  TOUHO. 

JUnaiid  H'istli  Rue;  and  Stindi,  and  How 
Rice  f-eund  a  Heme.  Tiaiislaled  from  the  Ger- 
man of  Juhaiini  Spyii.  By  Louise  Brooks.  ICup- 
plcs,  Upham&Cu.] 

Here  are  two  dories,  not  three,  and  both  hav- 
ing the  i[ualilicB  which  made  Heidi  so  faicinil. 
ing.  We  feel  that  we  have  a  source  of  sweet 
and  wholesome  books  in  this  German  authoi- 
There  is  no  drawback  to  satisfacdun  in  read- 
ing them,  except  in  the  pain  that  the  fine 
little  fellow  Rico,  and  llie  two  wr-manly  liltle 
girls  Stincli  and  Wisell,  should  have  been  so  ilt 
treated  ;  but  that  is  necessary  to  the  portrayal  of 
their  lovely  characters.  The  pictures  at  peasant 
life  among  the  mountains,  of  the  households  of 
the  Ritters  and  the  Menoltis,  the  journef  of 
Rico,  the  tavern  at  Peichiera,  and  the  traveling 
itadenlt  have  a  simple  realism  that  is  very 
attractive.  The  deserving  characters  receive  the 
reiraid  which  wails  on  good  deedi;  and  a  deep 
spirit  of  trust,  patience,  and  reverence  for  an 
unseen  Friend  and  overruling  Providence  per- 
vades the  book,  in  the  lives  of  the  grandmother 
and  mother,  who  impress  it  indelihiy  on  the 
three  noble  children  under  their  influence.  It  is 
not  often  that  in  stories  of  foreign  life,  written 
for  young  people,  we  have  anything  so  pure  and 
fresh  as  Htidi  and  the  present  v»lume,  which 
can  be  commended  without  any  reservations. 

Mrs.  Julia  McNair  Wright's  story  of  Reland's 
Daughter  is  not  paiiicularly  pleasant  or  profit- 
able. KoUnd  is  a  sort  of  dissipated  Micawher, 
and  Magareth  is  his  misused  daughter,  whose 
career  begins  in  an  unhappy  boarding-school, 
and  does  not  reach  the  sunshine  until  it  has 
passed  through  too  many  shadows.  The  book 
carries  a  temperance  moral,  and  is  strongly  re- 
ligious after  its  kind.     [Presbyterian  Board.] 

A  Summer  in  tkt  Reckits  by  Anna  E.  Wood- 
bridge  recounts  the   adventures    of   the  BIynn 
family,  beginning  with  a  Christmas  tree,  and  not 
getting  to  the  mountains  till  about  the  middle  of 
:he  book.    Little  is  seen  of  the  mountains  at  any 
and  the  fiction  is  spread  pretty  thickly  over 
[Cranston  &  Stowe.    ti.oo.] 
unroc's   WatuUa  is  a  story  of  Florida 
sprinted  from  Harper's  Yuuag  Pesplt. 
The   Elme\f""'')'  ''=   ''''''B"**    '°  """"'«    "• 
Ida  on  a^^""'  "'  ^^'''  ^"tcr's  health ;  they 


IS  ted    schooner 


the  "Nancy 
e  the  usual  ad- 


ventures with  forest  fires  and  alligators,  be^des 
some  that  are  not  so  usual.  A  well-written  and 
entertaining  story.    [Harper  A  Brothers,    (i.oo,] 

In  The  PrBfessorU  Girls  Annette  Lucile  Nobie 
relates  in  conformity  with  Presbyterian  standards 
the  not  very  eventful  fortunes  of  Ruth  and 
Madge  Preston,  the  former  of  whom  is  sent  to 
Europe  for  her  health  by  an  indulgent  relative. 
[Presbyterian  Board.] 

Lulu's  Library  ii  a  collection  of  twelve  stories 
by  Mis*  Alcott  for  her  youngest  readers,  all  bat 
three  of  them  told  to  a  liltle  niece  in  the  quiet 
hour  before  btd-time.  We  can  understand  that 
they  were  listened  to  with  avidity  in  their  first 
form.  Each  has  a  vignette.  [Roberts  Ilrothcrs. 
J' -00]  ^^^__ 

POETRY. 

Mr.  Henry  Phillips.  Jr.,  has  translated  and 
privately  primed  a  selection  of  the  Vidk  Sengs 
collected  by  Dr.  von  Ilctiel  in  the  Aela  Cam- 
paralienis  LiUerarum.  The  translations  aim  to 
be  faithful  to  the  crude  simplicity  of  the  origi- 


h  line 


as  these  from  the  Ttansyl' 


In  Annabel  and  Other  Poem,  [J.  B.  Aiden] 
Elien  P.  Allcrton  sings  the  "gosicT  of  work  and 
of  cheerful  content"  as  learned  on  the  prairies 
of  Kansas,  and  voiced  in  "  such  hours  of  leisure  " 
as  a  busy  farm  life  affords.  Her  verses  have 
unpretending  rural  simplicity,  and  celebrate 
humble  virtues,  honest  love,  and  homely  toil. 
The  theme  of  "  Annabel "  is  hackneyed,  but  the 
treatment  of  it  is  rather  noteworthy.  Annabel 
is  the  miller's  wife,  nursing  the  stranger  who  has 
been  brought  mangled  and  senseless  to  their 
house,  coming  to  love  him,  and  separating  from 
him  when  the  love  gets  known.  The  husband 
dies,  the  lover  comes  back,  mariiige  ensues, 
Annabel  is  lost  at  sea,  and  the  lover  liv:s  on 

The  concluding  books  of  Lord  Lylton's  Glen- 
averU  [U.  AppUton  &  Co.  {i  oo]  do  not 
better  the  expectation  we  expressed  with  re- 
gard to  the  first  instalment.  The  story  is  in 
rnany  respects  an  admirable  one,  and  its  central 
idea,  depending  upon  the  mystery  of  heredity, 
is  skillfully  treated;  the  political  and  social 
passages  are  bright  and  piquant,  and  the  indi> 
viduality  of  the  several  characters  is  well  sus- 
tained; but  when  read  consecutively  the  suc- 
cessive cantos  fail  to  awaken  an  active  interest, 
and  one  soon  tires  of  the  showy  epigrams  and 
flashing  witticisms  with  which  the  noble  author 
seeks  to  enliven  the  prolix  tale.  Told  in  prose, 
with  abundance  of  detail,  Clenaperil  m'ght  have 
been  a  fascinating  romance.  It  is  ill  suited  to 
the  jaunty  rhymes  of  Owen  Meredith. 

In  The  Queen  ef  He  Hid  Isle  [London  :  Trub- 
ner  &  Co.]  Evelyn  Douglass  sets  forth  with  a 
fair  degree  of  success  in  allegorical  form  an 
epitome  of  life  and  art  in  which  free  rein  is 
given  to  fancy,  although  a  methodical  purpose 
is  kept  clearly  in  view.  The  mechanism  of  the 
verie  counts  more  than  the  abitract  ideas  ad- 
vanced concerning  the  spirit  of  holiness  and  the 
incflectivenest  of  metaphysics.  The  volume 
contains,  also,  the  story  of  "The  Bloody  Heart," 
told  with  force  and  grace,  with  some  vaiiattons 
from  Boccaccio's  version.  The  drama  of  "  Love's 
Perversity  "  is  lacking  iu  adequate  modve.       C  ' 


1 886.] 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


The  nenr,  enlarged  edition  of  Tit  Petms  of\  n^rmph  bf  ft  moiUI  (atber.      Her  lover,   who 


Htnry  Aibty  offers  us  nolhing  out  of  the 
thor'a  usutl  vein  of  sioiplkit;  and  gentle  didacti- 
cism. His  vetsei  have  almost  invatlabiy  tome 
sort  of  a  moral  and  they  appeal,  not  unancess- 
fully,  to  tbe  bettec  feeling*.  We  wish  that  Mr. 
Abbey,  with  his  licDpHcity  of  Ihonght,  had 
always  Elciven  for  limplicily  of  expression. 
Some  of  his  paraphrases  are  not  poetical  and 
do  not  always  escape  being  ludicrous.  It  is 
perhaps  admissible  to  speak  uf  bread  as 

Thll  kccpi  ihe  huafrj  fin  at  life  lupplied. 

Rut  when  Mr.  Abbey  wishes  to  tell  as  that  tbe 
Indian  girl  gpolte  English  he  says  that 

Sbc  ipoke,  too,  Ihe  wnrdi  (Iwl^  ikc  ilt^owv 


becomes  her  husband,  is  King  Dnshyanla. 
fir*t  deaerts  bit  biide  and  then  forgets  her ; 
publicly  repudiates  her;  miraculously  loses  her; 
wonderfully  recovers  her  ;  and  happily  rcniirries 
her;  all  of  which  is  related  with  an  exuberance 
of  fancy,  a  love  of  beauty,  a  sympathy  with  out- 
ird  nature,  and  a  knowledge  of  the  human 
heart  which  unite  to  make  a  deep  impression. 
The  book  is  handsomely  made  by  De-Vinne. 
[Dodd,  Mead  &  Co.    f^-sa] 


mbeyn. 


■nttrd  all 


laidcn  who   saw  the 
look  of  sadness  in  the  eyes  of  the  man  she  loved 

And  ■nwcred  h<n>  over  ■  dtA- 
Wben  Mr.  Abbey  refers  to   a  bed-covering  o( 
wolf-hide  as  made  of 


innot  Sod  it  easy  to  forgive 


Tbe  AJientmt  SengJ  of  Mrs.  Julia  C  R. 
Dorr  [Charles  Scribner's  Sons,  f  i-jo]  are  toiae 
60  or  70  in  ait.  Including  sonnets,  tiibulcs,  bal- 
lade, and  pieces  of  religioas  verse-  A  religioas 
spirit,  indeed,  breathes  throi^huul  tbe  book  ;  and 
tbe  voice  of  this  ainger  ii  well  knew 
of  the  most  cultivated  in  the  New  England 
chorus.  The  outlook  of  the  volume  is  toward 
(bat  sun»et  of  this  life  whioh  for  soi 
begins  (o  hasten.  Happy  they  who  can  go 
down  into  t  wiib  the  trust,  the  reugnation,  the 
peace  which  these  pages  express. 

Wm.  Elkry  Channing'a  Eliat  n  a  vest-pocket 
poem   erf  about  1,600  lines  hi  Uink  verse, 
introspective  narration  of  tbe  consequences 
crime.    [Cupples,  Vpham  *  Co.    jocj 

Mr.  Will  Catleton's  OSy  SaOadi  arc  an  at- 
tempt to  express,  in  tliat  writer's  homely,  rugged, 
colloquial  verse,  the  sensatiwna  af  two  people 
from  the  country  cm  a,  visit  «o  the  « 
•  TORI'S  M^'it  just  out  of  tmllege,  the  aibcr 
>n  old  farmer  with  little  learning  but  g'Hid  hard 
sense.  Tbe  vorse  purports  to  be  extracts  frooi 
their  diaries,  frank  entries  at  their  isspressions. 
They  go  to  tbe  Rink,  they  atKnd  >  Concert, 
tbcy  see  a  Fire,  they  w«Wh  tbe  horse  that  has 
fallen  on  the  pavtaient,  they  visit  Ocean  Grove, 
tbey  sauater  dowa  the  Bowery,  they  climb  tbe 
Washingtm  Monument.  On  such  city  sights 
•nd  sounds  the  poet  meditates  and  morali 
and  artist  •nd  publisher  have  given  his  lines 
anattractireillnslraled  form.  [Haiper&Brotb- 
*«.    H.50.] 

levers  of  Sanskrit  Literature,  the  Vedas, 
ILighta  tA  Asia,  and  the  like,  will  be  interested 
in  cutting  the  leaves  and  turaiag  the  pages 
of  Professor  Monier  Williams's  translalion  of 
Saia»iiiali,  an  Indian  drama  by  Kalidisa,  the 
most  celebrated  of  the  Saneltrit  dramatists,  and 
■■deed  of  all  Hindoo  poets-  The  work  is  one 
of  great  popularity  with  oative  Hiodooa,  and 
has  not  lacked  appreciation  by  scholars  of  other 
nationi^  a*  wiltteM  tbe  ettcomiums  of  Schtegel 
«nd  HuaboUL  In  1853  Professor  Williams 
ccnpiled  and  pubtisbcd  a  correct  text  of  the 
poem,  with  notes,  and  now  comes  a  free  tratisU- 
ti  n  of  what  be  calls  "  the  true  and  pure  version 
of  the  most  celebrated  drama  of  the  Sbakspeie 
of   ladia."    Sakoontali  is  th«  daugbl 


Some  of  these  designs  will  repay  study,  as  exam- 
ples of  tbe  modem  renaisaance  of  taste  in  the 
decoration  of  books.  Thi  Sircni  Three  is  right- 
fully dedicated  to  William  Morris,  who  may  be 

to  head   the  school   to  which  Mr.  Walter 

E  belongs.    [Macmillan  &  Co.] 


A  considerable  handful  of  "  poetry  "  remains, 
of  which  we  have  space  but  to  say  a  pissing 
word.  Mr.  W.  Wilsey  Martin's  poems  and 
ballads  By  SoUnJ  and  Damiii  {London  :  Tihb- 

mostly  rortdeauE,  sonnets,  quatrains, 
and  sorgn,  of  respectable  merit.  Mr.  Henry 
Frank's  "gems  by  the  wayside,"  collected  under 
the  title  of  TAe  SteUlif  end  the  Rose  [Brentano 
[trolher<],  are  from  fair  to  middling.  Mr,  F.  A. 
Hilliard's  Vertet  [Putnam]  are  conscientlou', 
sentintenlal,  and  sometimes  have  a  glistening 
thought.  Mr.  Henry  Martshome's  BundU  -ef 
Sfnneti  [Purtet  ft  Coales]  are  chiefly  leligioua. 

Augustus  Hendon  Lord's  Btok  tf  Vei 
(Cambridge]  is  the  most  pronaising  first  poetical 

e  have  seen  for  a  long  time-  The 
opening  piece,  "  Boating,"  descriptive  of  scenery 

the  Charles  River,  is  a  gem.    In  Sylsi 
John  P.  Varlcy  offers  himself  as   nothing  less 
dramatist  of  the  Shakespearian  School, 
n   ambitioa  which   ia    nobter    than    his 
pciformance.    Mr.  Richmond's  Moitlctiima  [Si 

:  Golden  Era  Co.}  launches  its  poetic 
skiff  by  the  plain  of  Shinar,  and  lands  it  in 
Central  America.  Mr.  Wilisboro's  Poemt  [Phil- 
adelphia: U.  F.  Lacy]  are  hopeful  bat  not  aiuch 
else.  The  PcettcaJ  tVfrie  of  Will  T.  Lakin 
[Washington,  D.  C]  disai 
aBtbor  considerably  warns  us  not  to  look  In 
them  for  'the  elegance  and  correctness  ol 
Terence,  the  inventive  genius  of  a  Homer,  01 
the  BoUiuaity  of  an  if:schylus."  The  Rliymei  ef 
ftoHfuili  [Topeka:  T.  J.  Kellam]  are  made  l^ 
btii^ing  together  such  word*  u  Cinderella  and 
umUtrilla  I 

T%e  New  King  Arthur,  over  whose  authorship 
the  publishers,  Funk  &  Wagnalls,  have  adroitly 
set  the  public  guessing,  is  %  parody  on  Tennyson 
by  the  same  hand  that  wrote  The  Buniling  Ball, 
a  poem  in  dramatic  form,  written  with  a  good 
deal  of  skill  in  verMficaiion,  and  in  a  funny  strain 
wbo«e  level  is  about  like  this  i 

'An?J^'«rli™^n-  "" 

Whoripliccil  n*  naiDc,  Sit  GaWwd, 
Uy  the  Dime,  Sir  Had-bfaL 

Or  this. 

Sol  tbe  ludileH  mr-mid. 

Shct  talt'mtrltm  eharae, 
h<rbuiii«»Hbodylud 

Th«  10  ChimIoi  fl<4tcd  umbre  and  fnatrul ; 

And  ilw  lordt  and  lidin  here, 

Whin  lh>T  uv  ih>  biixE  appur, 
Tlioughi  ihey  leMLcd  «rr  leandiloii.  maiertaL 
[Funk  i  Wagnalls.    11,50.] 

TJii  Sireni  Three  of  Mr.  Waller  Crane's  song 
are  "No  More,  and  Golden  Now,  and  Dark  To 
Be,"  and  he  celebrates  them  in  one  hundred  and 
forty-four  mclodinua  quatrains,     Hii 
ber  thread  of  reasonings  and  rellectii 
of  Tennyson's  "  Palace  of  Art,"  and  the  striking 
illustrations  from  pen  and  ink  drawings  in  which 
Ihey  are  set,  have  more  1 
of   the  toucb  and  feelii 


unroR  HoiioES. 

fnsemnia,  and  Other  Diierdert  of  Sleep.  By 
Henry  M.  Lyman,  A.M.,  M.  D.  [Chicago: 
W.  T.  Keener.] 


Though  primarily  a  monograph  for  the  medi- 
cal prcdesslon  and  abounding  in  technical  terms, 
work  is  of  much  interest,  and  may  be  of 
value  to  the  general  reader.  In  the  opening 
chapter  we  note  a  curious  table  from  a  French 
work,  illustrating  to  the  eye  the  order  in  which 
the  faculties  yield  to  sleep;  also  the  stalement 
that  there  is  in  sleep  "  a  reduction  in  tbe  rate  of 
all  the  vital  processes,"  contrary  to  the  former 
belief  that  assimilation  and  nutrition  are  In- 
creased; further  that  tbe  author,  though  no  phre- 
nologist, believes  in  "the  division  of  tbe  brain 
into  separate  mechanisms"  partly  independent 
in  action.  He  also  holda  that  the  brain  may  be 
"so  transfonaed  by  aieep  "  as  to  be  incapable  of 
action  as  the  instrument  of  thought  —  contrary  to 
the  belief  of  Sir  W.  Hamilton,  and  other  high 
authorities;  and  sustains  his  view  by  compari- 
son of  a  force,  as  of  water  behind  a  dam,  which 
may  be  "  latent  or  inhibited  "  without  being  ex> 
tingaisheiL  Due  classification  of  the  causes  t>f 
insomnia  Tery  properly  precedes  the  chapter  <m 
remedies,  the  most  interesting  to  readers  desiring 
M  make  practical  use  of  the  book,  though  a  litlte 
obscured  by  some  faulty  arrangement  It  is 
noteworthy  that  both  nerve  stimulants  and  nerve 
sedatives  (respectively  presented  in  tabular  form) 
are  recommeikded  as  remedies  for  sleeplessness ; 
the  former  daas  operating  only  indirectly. 
There  is  a  valuable  discussion  of  food  as  a  nerve 
stimulant  and  of  the  comparative  effect  of  dif- 
ferent articles,  and  in  the  class  of  sedatives,  of 
alcohol,  with  the  precautions  ttecettary  for 
its  safe  use.  Taraldehyde,  a  derivative  of  alco 
hoi,  is  eipecially  commended  for  its  generality 
of  application  and  freedom  from  bad  conse- 
quences; and  there  is  a  good  discussion  of  the 
bromides.  Insomnia  is  next  considered  as  arii- 
ipecified  diseases,  the  most  important 
being  disorders  of  digestion.  A  very  suggestive 
iteresting  chapter  follows  on  dreams,  in- 
troducing vividly  the  effects  of  hasheesh,  and 
submitting  a  theory  as  to  prophetic  visions.  Dr. 
Lyman  concludes  with  the  two  myaterioas  sub> 
jects  of  somnambulism  and  hypnotism,  the  latter 
being  the  state  of  irtiGciallf  induced  trance. 
He  gives  certain  authors'  divisions  of  different 
degrees  of  intensity  in  somnambulism,  and  some 
lus  cases  of  tbe  disorder.  Hypnotism 
also  may  exist  in  varying  intensity;  the  brain 
lay  be  in  a  state  termed  hyperzsthetic,  having 
some  faculties  strangely  exalted  in  power;  and 
there  is  even  a  trance  condition  wilhont  loss  of 
coostnous  perception,  which  the  author  think* 
explanatory  of  some  things  at  the  lianeet  of 
"Spiritualism."  Finally  brief  allusion  is  made  to 
"  the  induction  of  the  hypnotic  stale  "  at  a  meani 
of  cure  in  some  acute  affections  —  notawholly 
new  discovery,  bnt  one  lately  "exploited  under 
the  strange  misnomer  of  metaphysical  healing." 
about  them  I  An  index  adds  to  the  value  of  the  book  foit^ 
William   Blake- 1  reference.  ,—     ■-,    ~  "' O  ' 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Mar.  6, 


The  Literary  World. 


BOSTON,  MARCH  6,  1886. 


"ifi 


yea  looked  ii 
Bdoa,  coldly.  "Oh,m  ceomctiy.  Ml 
ol  the  Docrt.'  RcidltP"  "No;  I 
it,"  "AlnH  you  loud  ol  leulioj;?" 
repiDachfully.  "I  like  lome  books,' 
I  you  [Ike,  DO' 


Hill  OD  the  FloH.'  " 
Udy,  with  luipriH.  ■ 
*  mounted  to  much,  It  c 
■o7"  Edna  imllcd  ■■ 
notblDC-  "Well,  do  ; 
"'V»iiltTF«irMllke/ 


"Do  you 


X  IhoushI  thi 
Dutaoj  dldnt  you  think 
u  ibe  could,  but  Bi 

[ow,  I  tried  to  read  th 
aacht  it  wu  real  lo' 
.  OD  her  geometry.    She 
■  that  differed  with  her 


admired  the  "  Bride  of  the  Deiert "  could  deierve 
toleraoee  in  auy  iphere  paiied  the  power  ol  her 
Imagiaation  to  eonedve.—  Tnw  CbHij^w  Oirli.  By 
Helih  Daitbs  Buown. 

The  valuable  collection  of  literary  manu- 
scripts and  autographs  brought  together  by 
Mr.  James  R.  Osgood,  now  with  Harper  & 
Brothers,  is  beiog  catalogued  and  will  soon 
be  ofifered  for  sale.  Undoubtedly  there  will 
be  much  rivalry  in  the  effort  to  obtain  some 
of  these  treasures.  Among  the  most  notable 
are  manuscripts  of  Dr.  Holmes's  Autocrat 
of  the  Brtakfait  Table,  Emerson's  Rtpre- 
sentalivi  Men,  a  story  by  Hawthorne,  an  un- 
published poem  by  Keats,  and  letters  and 
verses  in  the  handwriting  of  Dickens,  Whit- 
tier,  Bryant,  Goldsmith,  George  Eliot,  Tenny- 
son, Owen  Meredith,  Cowper,  Macaulay, 
Longfellow,  Bayard  Taylor,  Madame  de 
Staei,  and  many  more. 


The  Grolier  Club,  New  York,  which  is  a 
sort  of  bookmaker's  society  with  decided 
artistic  proclivities,  has  just  been  holding  an 
exhibition  of  fine  book-bindings  executed 
before  the  beginning  of  the  present  century, 
Some  of  these  bindings  are  extremely  rare, 
and  others  are  famous  in  history,  like  the 
prayer-book  which  belonged  to  Diane  de 
Poitiers,  and  two  owned  by  Marguerite  de 
Valois  ;  with  other  volumes  bound  for  Louis 
XllI,  Henry  111,  and  Francis  I.  Mr.  Rob- 
ert Hoe,  the  press-maker,  Mr.  S.  P.  Avery, 
Mr.  Brayton  Ives,  and  Mr.  W.  L.  Andrews 
loaned  the  bulk  of  the  specimens,  and  give 
the  beholder  an  exalted  idea  of  the  wealth 
and  beauty  of  their  collections. 

The  death  of  Henry  Stevens,  the  Ameri- 
can bibliophile  long  resident  in  London,  re- 
moves a  figure  very  familiar  to  all  American 
book  fanciers  foraging  beyond  seas.  Such 
collectors  as  Rev.  Dr.  Dexter,  Dr.  Charles 
Deanc,  and  Hon.  Melleo  Chamberlain  could 
tell  interesting  stories  of  Mr.  Stevens's  devo- 
tion to  his  calling.  Mr.  Stevens,  who  was  a 
Vermonter,  born  in  i8ig,  and  who  graduated 
3t  Yale   College  in  1843  and  at  the  Cam- 


bridge Law  School  in  1844,  procured  many 
rarities  for  American  libraries,  public  and 
private,  and  for  the  British  Museum, 
which  he  was  standing  purveyor,  and  had 
probably  as  wide  and  exact  a  bibliographical 
knowledge  as  any  man  now  living, 
place  will  not  be  easily  filled. 

Without  risking  even  a  Yankee  guess  as 

to  the  number  of  editions  attained  by  the 
world-renowned  Uncle  Tom'i  Cabin 
first  appeared  in  1852,  wc  note  in  a  Western 
pipei,  d prapot  ol  Houghton,  MifQIn  &  Co. 
new  {i  edition,  extracts  from  a  review  i 
Graham's  Magawintal  February,  1853,  which 
are  odd  reading,  in  the  light  of  subsequent 
events.    The  reviewer  says  that  "  the  plot 

feeble"  and  the  style  "careless,"  though 
characterized  by  "earnestness,"  and  he  cites 
with  approval  a  prediction  of  the  I.ondon 
Tiirtei  that  "as  a  means  of  abolition  l/acle 
Tom  was  a  mistake  and  would  be  a  failure. 
It  seems,  however,  that  sectional  feeling 
toward  this  book  is  not  even  yet  wholly 
changed,  since  in  the  January  SundaySchaol 
Magazine  of  Nashville,  the  publisher  thinks 
it  necessary  to  apologize  for  having  even 
advertisement  of  the  nevf  edition  in  his  last 
previous  issue.  Per  contra  the  Chicago 
Current  gives  a  long  letter  from  a  Southern 
writer,  Mr.  T.  J.  Girardeau,  who  confesses 
that  for  all  these  long  years  he  refused,  from 
prejudice,  to  read  the  now  historic  tale,  but, 
having  lately  had  it  sent  him  unexpectedly, 

waived  his  determination,  and  is  now 
ardent  in  his  enthusiasm  at  the  wonderful 
T  of  a  work  which  he  predicts  will  be 
immortal  —  "  not  as  veritable  history,"  nor 

its  fine  delineations  of  character,  nor  as 

special  plea,"  but  rather  as  "  an  evangel 

aOBBESFONDEBOE. 

Mrs.  Burnett  and  the  Centaiy. 

To  thi  Editor  of  the  IMerary  IVorld  : 
I  have  been   much  annoyed  by  the  constant 
petiiion  of   the  story  of    a  quarrel   between 

myself  and  the  editor  of  the  Century,  and  each 
■  oe  I  have  seen  reference  lo  it  1  have  resolved 
correct  it,  but  my  serious  and  prolonged  ill- 
ss  has  caused   me   10  put  it  olf  from  day  to 

day.    But  it  finally  tires  me  to  see  for  the  thou- 

Mndlh  lime  a  story  which  is  really  without  any 

found  all  on  whatever. 

In  the  first  place  my  relalions  with  the  Century 
ive  been  of  tfle  most  friendly  and  agreeable 
:$cription,  and  have  been   undislurbed   by  the 

(aintcsl  shadow  of  unpleasantness  since  the  pub- 
"lalion  of  my  first  alory  in  its  columns.  And 
ith  no  member  of  the  Editorial  Staff  has  my 

friendship  been  so  intimate  as  with  Mr,  Gilder. 
Secondly,  the  story  of  the  quarrel  is  not  only 
mistake,  but  is  in   every  detail  diametrically 

opposed  to  the  true  state  of  the  case,  which  was 
follows : 
For  some  time  licfore  writing  "Through  One 

Administration"  I  had  been  very  much  exhausted 

by  over-work.    While  writing  it  I  was  rapidly 

breaking  down.    When  I  finished  it  I  was  too 


tired  and  ill  to  have  any  interest  In  it  lefL  I 
wrote  two  endings  however,  merely  because 
having  written  the  one  finally  published  I  was 
haunted  by  another,  in  which  Bertha  Amory 
died  and  Tredennis  lived  —  and  the  only  way  to 
rid  myself  of  it  seemed  to  be  to  write  it  down. 
A  few  days  later  I  went  lo  New  York  and.  saw 
Mr.  Gilder,  giving  him  the  two  terminations. 

"There  could  be  no  greater  proof  of  my  com- 
plete exhaustion,"  1  said,  "than  that  I  have 
actually  not  an  atom  of  pr<^r  artistic  feeling 
about  this.  If  I  were  in  a  normal  condition,  one 
of  these  terminations  would  be  inevitable  and 
as  immovable  as  Fate,  and  no  other  one  would 
tie  possible  ;  but  here  are  the  two  and  I  am  so 
worn  out  and  indifferent  that  I  will  leave  you  lo 
choose  between  them." 

But,"  said  the  gentleman  who  has  been 
represented  ai  engaging  in  mortal  combat  with 
and  arranging  ay  story  according  to  bis  own 
views,  "  that  Is  out  of  the  question.  Nothing 
would  induce  me  to  assume  such  a  responsibility. 
The  public  is  waiting  10  hear  what  you  have  to 
say,  not  what  I  bave  to  say.  I  will  tell  you 
what  I  will  do;  I  will  have  them  both  put  into 
proof  and  when  you  read  them  in  print  you  may 
have  a  choice." 

So  the  proofs  were  sent  to  me,  and  after  read- 
ing  both  I  said  :  "  The  one  in  which  Trcdennis 
dies  is  the  more  tragic  and  unbearaUe,  and  so 
likely  to  be  true.  Vou  shall  take 
thai."  And  be  took  it,  white  I  retained  the 
other  one,  which  I  keep  in  Washington  and  read 
imeiimes  to  intimate  friends. 
Since  then  I  have  been  constantly  an  invalid 
and  have  been  strictly  forbidden  by  my  pbysl- 
'  e  anything.  Last  spring,  when  I 
was  for  two  or  three  months  much  belter,  I 
disobeyed  orders  to  the  extent  of  writing  "  Little 
Lord  Faunlleroy,"  for  which  indiscretion  I  have 
paid  with  an  illness  longer  and  more  serious 
than  all  the  rest.  "Little  Lord  Fauntleroy" 
as  sold  to  the  Century  Co.,  as  also  were  two  or 
ircc  poems,  and  as  the  half  completed  novel  I 
n  wailing  for  strength  to  finish  will  be,  when  I 

The  story,  "Much  Ado,"  was  partly  written 
ime  time  ago,  and  being  completed  page  by 
page  in  moment*  of  partial  convalescence,  was 
sold  to  Mr.  McClure  in  fulSllment  of  a  promise 
long  made.  This  is  the  only  story  which  has 
been  published  since  my  illness  began. 

Frances  Hodgson  Burnett. 
Fibraary  ig,  z886. 

Brovim's  Life  of  Buttyan. 
To  tki  Editor  of  tit  Ulerary  World: 

Your  cordial  tribute  to  the  merits  of  Brown's 
Life  of  Banyan  is  well  deserved.  But  allow  me 
n  one  slight  omission  in  the  excellent 
This  is  a  chronological  list  of  Bunyan's 
vritinga.  It  is  true  all  of  these  are 
J  in  the  appropriate  places  in  the  body 
of  the  work,  but  it  would  be  a  great  convenience 
them  stated  in  a  continuous  catalogue. 
fer  is  worthy  o£  notice  because  a  similar 
0  be  seen  In  other  biographies  of 
value,  such  as  that  of  the  late  Dr.  Henry  B. 
Smith.  T.  W.  Chambers. 

\'na  York,  Feb.  w,  t886. 

—  Mr.  Clinton  Scollard  of  Cambridge   has  a 
ume  of  verse  in  press,  lo  be  called  With  Seed   Q 
i  Lyre.    It  will  be  published  by  Messrs.  D. 


1886.] 


THE   LITERARY   WORLD. 


83 


Lothrop  A  Co.  o(  Boston.  The  poem*  of  James 
Berry  Bengel  — irho  died  in  N«w  York  on  the 
3d  instant — have  met  with  tn  excellent  recep- 
tion. Tbi*  volume,  which  is  issned  bjr  the  same 
bouse,  Is  called  In  the  Xin^s  Garden. 


OTTB  G£EMAH  LETTEB. 

THE  most  important  event  of  literary  interest 
in  the  past  month  vras  the  celebration  of 
the  hundredth  anniversary  of  the  death  of  the 
classical  Jewish  philosopher,  Moses  Mendelssohn. 
The  festive  arrangements  at  Berlin,  where  he 
■pent  the  greater  part  of  his  life,  and  at  Dessan, 
where  he  was  bom,  were  especially  remaikable, 
and  testified  to  the  great  veneraUon  in  which  the 
worthy  author  of  Fkaden,  and  many  other  im- 
mortal works,  is  still  held  not  only  by  the  Jews, 
but  by  the  literary  world  in  general.  Not  even 
the  wide-spread  "  antisemitic  "  party  oE  Germany 
dared  raise  their  voice  against  the  homage  paid 
to  the  poor  book-keeper  whose  mind  was  one  of 
the  finest  of  the  eighteenth  century,  rich  as  the 
latter  was  in  such  minds.  It  deserves  10  be 
mentioned  that  the  present  descendants  of  Ibe 
Desaau  philosopher,  a  Berlin  banker's  family, 
bequeathed  (40,000  for  charitable  purposes  in 
honot  of  the  anniversary,  January  4th. 

A  fitting  tribute  to  Moses  Mendelssohn  is 
paid  in  a  most  noteworthy  book  which  was  pub- 
lished last  week  under  the  title  of  A  Hisitry  0/ 
Jeaiitk  Literature,  by  Dr.  Gustav  Karpeles,  a 
Berlin  scholar  welt  known  as  an  occasional 
writer  on  this  subject,  as  well  as  a  biographer  of 
Heinrlch  Heine.  For  many  years  he  edited 
ffettermaitn't  MonatsAefie,  a  high  class  monthly 
on  the  lines  of  /farfer'i  Afa£atini  (established 
IS  far  back  as  1S56)  conjointly  with  our  leading 
novelist,  Friedtich  Spiel hagen.  In  the  very 
bulky  work  before  me.  Dr.  Karpeles  presents 
the  world  of  scholars  with  the  Erst  complete  and 
extensive  history  of  Jewish  literature ;  nothing  of 
the  sort  has  ever  been  published  before  in  any 
language.  The  author  has  spent  enormous  pains 
on  his  work,  and,  knowing  SDmeihing  of  the  sub- 
ect  myself,  as  I  do,  I  must  own  that  the  result  is 
a  q>tendid  one.  The  highest  authorities  on  Jew- 
ish literature  —  such  as  PtoEessors  Siegfried, 
E>elitzsch,  Ebers,  etc —  have  unreservedly 
praised  the  book  on  reading  it  lit  MS.  before  its 
publicatioik.  So  it  is  sure  to  become  a  standard 
work  in  its  way. 

While  speaking  of  Jewish  literature,  I  cannot 
refrain  from  mentioning  a  peculiar  volume  of 
poetry  relating  to  the  history  of  the  Jews,  more 
particularly  to  historical  or  traditional  episodes 
from  the  life  of  the  Spanish  and  Portuguese  Jews 
in  the  middle  ages.  This  Utile  volume  of  Dr. 
Moris  Levin's,  called  Iberia,  is  another  spieialiti 
which  has  never  before  been  attempted  on  such 
a  scale;  Heine  and  others  have  wrillcn  single 
poems,  but  no  one  ever  wrote  a  long  series  of 
poems,  on  sach  subjects  as  Dr.  Levin  treats  of. 
He  uses  the  so-called  Spanish  romance  meter 
("  Cid "  stania)  along  with  assonance,  and  he 
treats  it  in  a  very  happy  manner.  The  legend  or 
narrative  is  highly  interesting  in  every  instance, 
although  sometimes  a  little  too  gloomy.  The 
poet  is  one  of  the  most  spirited  and  liberal- 
minded  preachers  I  ever  had  the  privilege  of 
listening  to,  and  his  poetry  is  imbued  with  the 
same  freedom  of  thought  as  his  sci 
think  that  much  of  his  aversion  to  theology 
proper  is  dw  to  his  having  traveled  "  far  and 


wide  i"  he  lives  in  Berlin  at  present,  but  used  to 
spend  years  in  Austria,  Switzerland,  Spain, 
Portugal,  England,  Italy,  France,  the  south  of 
Germany,  etc  In  some  respects  he  reminds  me 
of  Henry  Ward  Beecher. 

Another  German  poel,  Frau  Agnes  Kayaer- 
Langerbanns,  the  widow  of  Sanitatsrith  Kay- 
has  just  issued  the  fourth  edition,  revised 
and  largely  augmented,  of  her  Cedichte.  Only 
very  few  volumes  of  German  poetry  attain  to  a 
(ourtb  edition ;  Mrs.  Kayser's  fully  deserves  the 
favorable  fate  it  meets  with,  foi  it  is  a  dainty 
dish  for  literary  gourmets,  some  of  the  poems 
being  decidedly  classical.  One  of  our  best  liter- 
ary men  has  declared  (hat  it  seems  at  times  as  if 
the  mantle  of  Goethe  had  fallen  on  her  shoulders. 
The  epic  of  Odin,  which  she  published  several 
years  ago,  is  generally  acknowledged  to  be  one 
of  [he  most  beaullfu!  contributions  to  contempo- 
rary epic  poetry.  Apart  from  being  a  poetical 
genius,  the  Frau  Sanitatsralh  is  also  distin- 
guished for  her  charity  towards  literary  workers 
and  associations,  and  for  the  e;iquisile  artistic 
taste  with  which  she  knew  how  to  fit  up  her  Dres- 
den house,  which,  by  the  way,  is  of  importance  in 
the  history  of  art,  having  been  formerly  the  abode 
of  celebrated  artists.  Frau  Kayser  began  tvrit- 
ig  poetry  as  early  as  her  ninth  year.  She  is  a 
genial,  generous,  rich  old  lady. 

Ferdinand  Gross  is  another  remarkable  literary 
individuality,  a  son  of  mixture  of  Andersen  and 
Jules  Janin,  but  quite  a  special  type  in  himself. 
He  formerly  edited  the  feuillettn  of  the  Frank- 
fort Gatettt,  and  now  edits  that  of  another  big 
daily,  the  Vienna  Altgemeim  Zeitung.  The 
feuillelon  is  the  element  in  which  he  feels  most 
at  his  ease ;  not,  however,  the  editing  of  it  only, 
but  much  more  so  the  writing  of  it.  He  is  a 
/euilletonisle  far  excellence,  and  is  considered 
most  of  German  "  good-naturedly " 
humorous  yh>i'//<rl'«n  writers.  Comparatively  un- 
known and  young,  he  became  suddenly  famous 
some  nine  years  ago  by  gaining  a  prize  of  (75  for 
a  short  causerie  on  "  Literary  Music  oE  the  Fu- 
ture," over  between  400  and  500  competitors. 
(Besides  being  printed  in  hundreds  of  German 
newspapers,  this  charming  piece  of  chat  ap- 
peared in  an  English  magaiine,  Miss  Helen 
Mather's  Burlington,  and,  if  I  am  not  mistaken, 
also  in  the  New  Orleans  Picayune^,  Since  then, 
he  is  one  of  the  most  coveted  conltibuiors  to  the 
German  and  Austrian  press,  and  every  second 
year  he  issues  a  selection  of  his  best  writings  in 
book.shape.  The  first  week  of  the  new  year 
brought  me  his  latest  volume,  Aus  meinem 
Wiener  Winkel{,lnmy  F/™«n  A«.i),  consisting, 
like  all  the  former  volumes,  partly  of  chatty, 
humorous  articles  on  all  sorts  of  things  and  noth- 
ings, partly  of  short  stories  and  tales  in  Gross's 
best  manner.  His  manner  I  should  describe  as 
a  medium  between  pathos  and  gayety  j  whatever 
he  writes  touches  the  heart,  be  it  humorous,  or 
serious,  or  a  mixture  of  both.  He  is  igenre 
painter  in  words,  and  a  masterly  one  forsooth. 

Taking  leave  of  iellei-l.-iirei  for  this  time,  I 
must  now  mention  a  publication  in  another  de- 
partment oE  literature,  in  that  of  the  history  of 
the  civilization  and  prioress  of  mankind.  The 
part  the  modern  postal  and  telegraphic  arrange- 
ments play  in  the  development  of  trathc  and  the 
amenities  oi  life,  has  very  often  tempted  wiiiers 
oE  many  nations  to  write  the  history,  describe  the 
organization,  and  depict  the  ways  and  means,  the 
belongings  and  dependencies,  of  those  compli- 


cated arrangements.  But  none  of  all  the  books 
published  on  the  subject  up  to  the  present  has 
treated  it  in  all  its  bearings,  has  been  written  in 
such  a  popular  style,  or  has  shown  such  a  splen- 
did "  gel.op,"  as  I>a>  Buck  von  der  Weltpott,  by 
Veredarius  (a  pseudonym,  of  course),  which  has 
just  been  published  here.  It  reads  like  a  novel, 
the  type  and  paper  are  of  the  finest,  the  cover 
is  lovely,  and  the  illustrations  are  simply  mag. 
nificent ;  the  numerous  full.page  colored  plates, 
more  especially,  are  of  the  highest  finish.  The 
whole  is  an  aruiire  de  luxe  of  the  first  order,  and 
will  certainly  create  stir  wherever  it  may  turn 
up.  Leopold  Katsciibr. 

Berlin,  Febmary  $,  tiS6. 

OUB  NEW  YORK  LETTEE. 

THE  vaulting  ambition"  of  metropolitan 
journalism  sometimes  "o'erleaps  itself." 
".Space,  space,  space"  is  the  great  cry  of  the 
New  York  newspapers,  and  very  little  "  wool " 
is  generally  the  result.  "  Are  we  beat  on  any. 
thing?"  is  the  first  question  asked  by  the  man- 
aging editor,  when  he  arrives  at  the  office  at 
3  P.  M.  every  day.  And  his  face  assumes  a 
cheerful  expression  or  is  darketied  by  frowns  aa 
he  sees  that  his  paper  has  a  quarter  of  a  column 
more  or  a  fifth  of  a  column  less  than  his  rival's 
on  any  subject  of  general  interest.  A  great 
general  dies,  a  mysterious  murder  is  committed, 
a  great  railroad  accident  occurs.  The  manag. 
ing  editor  calls  up  his  stafi.  "  Boys,  we  must 
not  be  beat  on  this.  I  must  have  at  least  six 
columns."  Quantity,  not  quality,  is  what  the 
average  New  York  newspaper  wants.  I  have 
read  articles  in  London  newspapers  which  pos- 
sessed a  grace  of  style,  an  elegance  of  scholar- 
ship, and  a  fullness  of  facts  which  made  them 
worthy  to  be  preserved  as  splendid  examples  of 
English  prose.  Such  articles  are  not  the  work 
o£  "  space  "  writers. 

Speaking  of  metropolitan  jAurnalism  reminds 
me  of  some  of  the  recent  "  nods  "  indulged  in 
by  some  of  the  so-called  thunderers  of  the  press. 
A  well-known  New  York  journalist  published 
an  article  in  the  World,  givir^  an  account  of 
the  home  life  of  Tennyson.  A  London  corre- 
spondent of  the  Chicago  Inter  Ocean  copies  a 
portion  of  this  word  for  word,  and  sends  It  to 
his  paper.  The  New  York  Timet  copies  this 
abstract,  and  credits  the  Inter  Ocean,  not  know- 
ing that  it  had  originally  appeared  in  the  New 
York  World.  Query :  do  the  New  York  jour- 
nalists read  the  New  York  newspapers  F  An 
afternoon  paper,  several  weeks  ago,  published 
a  sketch  oi  Ouida,  an  extract  Erooi  which  was 
copied  into  the  American  Register  of  Paris.  The 
afternoon  paper  in  which  the  article  originally 
appeared  copied  this  extract  and  credited  the 
Amerifan  Register  with  it.  Query  :  do  the  New 
York  journalists  read  their  own  newspapers? 
Six  weeks  ago  the  World  published  a  lengthy 
article  on  "  The  Fortunes  of  the  Aslors,"  which 
contained  a  personal  sketch  o£  Wm.  W.  Astor. 
The  Boston  Traveller  copied  this  part  of  the 
sketch  wilhoutcredil,  and  the  New  York  yl/ai7an</ 
fi/rwj,  which  always  gives  credit,  printed  the 
same  and  credited  it  to  the  Boston  newspaper, 
which  had  "  appropriated  "  it  {!  like  to  be  choice 
in  my  expressions)  from  the  World. 

I  have  just  learned  that  Mrs.  Anna  Katharine 
Green  Rohlfe  obtained  not  only  the  legal  points, 
,  but  ill  th«  best  points,  of  The  f^avini^orlk  Cast 


84 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Mar.  6, 


[rom  a  norel  called  All  for  Htr,  whicb  wat 
published  in  187&  It  bad  previou*!;,  nnd«r 
the  nam«  o[  Si.  Jud^i  Asshtant,  been  lubniitted 
to  Ibe  Messrs.  Pulnam  for  pablicalion,  and  de- 
clined. This  wu  ■  liltie  less  than  a  ^ar  before 
Tht  Liavtirmsrth  Caii  was  published.  This 
novel.  Ail  for  Htr,  had  a  rather  strange  ex~ 
perier.ce.  It  was  published  anonymously,  and 
over  50,000  copies  nete  sold.  In  1882,  another 
publisher  issued  it  under  the  name  of  LUHt  St. 
y>iJ/t,  and  lyxa  copiei  were  sold.  In  1S83, 
•till  another  publiiher  brought  out  the  book, 
calling  it  A  Crutl  Stertt,  and  disposed  of  scTerat 
thousand  more  copies.  In  73/  Leavmmtrtk 
Colt,  the  murder  was  committed  by  the  assassin 
■tealing  into  a  room  nbete  a  gentle  man  was 
writing  at  a  table,  and  (holding  the  pistol  so 
near  the  back  of  his  head  (hat  the  powder 
scorched  his  hair),  firing  a  bullet  into  his  brain, 
from  which  it  was  afterwarda  extracted.  If  the 
smallest  revolver  carries  from  Gftji  to  a  hundred 
feet,  how  small  must  this  revolver  have  been  to 
carry  Icm  than  three  inchea  I 

When  Ik  Marvel  came  (o  New  York  about 
thirty-five  years  ago,  he  was  almost  unknown  as 
an  author,  but  Ibis  did  not  deter  the  late  Mr. 
Charles  Scribner  from  publishing  his  Battle 
Summer.  The  book  proved  a  failure,  but  Mr. 
Scribner  felt  that  (here  was  an  element  of  popu- 
larity in  Ik  Marvel's  writings,  and  brought  out 
the  Reveriet  ef  a  Baekelor,  which  had  originally 
appeared  in  the  Southern  Literary  Afatenger 
without  attracting  much  attention.  In  book- 
form  it  was  an  immense  success  and  made  Mr. 
Mitchell'^  reputation.  Upon  the  strength  of 
this  success,  Mr.  Scribner  engaged  him  to  wriie 
a  series  of  satirical  society  sketches,  (o  be  pub- 
lished weekly  under  the  general  name  of  TAe 
Lorgnette,  It  was  a  great  success,  three  or  four 
thousand  copies  selling  each  week.  Many 
guesses  as  to  its  authorship  were  made,  but  they 
were  all  wide  of  the  mark.  It  was  afterwards 
published  in  book-form,  and  went  through  many 
editions. 

The  late  Dr.  J.  G.  Holland  first  came  to  New 
York  in  lSj8,  having  a  letter  of  introducdon  to 
Mr.  Charles  Scribner  from  Dr.  George  R.  Rip- 
ley, (he  literary  editor  of  the  New  York  Triiunt. 
Dr.  Holland  brought  wiih  him  (he  manuscript 
of  the  Timethy  Titcsmh's  IMiers,  which  had 
already  been  declined  by  two  publishers.  Mr. 
Scribner  saw  there  was  something  in  it,  and  in 
the  course  of  an  hour  arranged  for  its  publica- 
tion. In  six  weeks  (he  book  was  published,  and 
the  demand  was  extraordinary.  In  (he  same 
year  Dr.  Holland's  Bitter  Sweet  appeared,  and 
had  the  largest  sale  of  any  American  poem.  In 
1870  Mr.  Scribner  and  Dr.  Holland  were  (ravel- 
ing in  Europe,  and  in  August  they  met  in  Switz- 
erland. One  day,  while  sailing  on  I.jike  Geneva, 
Dr.  Holland  suggested  to  Mr.  Scribner  that  the 
time  had  arrived  for  the  starting  of  a  new  maga- 
zine. Mr.  Scribner  took  up  the  idea  at  once, 
and  Sirihier'i  Magazine  was  the  result.  The 
first  number  was  published  in  November,  1S70, 
In  ten  years  it  reached  a  circulation  of  one  hun- 
dred thousand  copies,  and  in  less  than  five  years 
more,  it  had  increased  to  more  than  two  hundred 
thousand. 

The  la^t  time  Thomas  Bailey  Aldrich  visited 
New  Yolk,  he  was  pounced  upon  by  one  of  the 
enterpri»ng  penny- a-liners  of  (he  daily  press, 
who,  not  succeeding  in  Interviewing  him,  made 
On<   of   the  cheap   Nassau  Street    dinneri    by 


describing  his  personal  appearance.  According 
to  this  would-be  interviewer,  Mr.  Aldrich  "doesn't 
took  literary  either  in  dress  or  physical  appear- 
ance. He  could  easily  be  taken  for  a  prosper- 
ous down-town  broker,  or  a  politician  in  office. 
He  is  short  in  stature,  disposed  to  be  heavy  set, 
wears  a  sack  coat  and  a  Derby  hat.  His  com- 
plexion is  florid,  and  he  has  a  tittle  moustache 
that  beside  Lieut.-Gov.  Jones's  would  not  be 
observed-  His  neckwear  is  decidedly  Bostonian 
and  becoming.  It  consists  of  a  delicate  creim- 
colored  silk  handkerchief  clasped  In  front  by  a 
handsome  gold  ring."  The  genial  editor  of  the 
Atlantic  MenlAly  would  scarcely  recognize  him- 
self in  this  description,  but  the  voracious  inter- 
viewer must  live,  and,  as  Sheridan  said  of  a 
member  of  Parliamen^  the  gentleman  is  indebted 
to  his  memory  for  his  wit,  and  to  his  imagination 
for  his  facts.  Stylus. 

Ntm  York,  Fehruary  ay,  tS86. 


THE  UBBABT  OF  T05DEBS. 

Monnier's  Wooders  of  Pompeii. 

Tht  IVenJeri  of  FemfrH.     By  Mark  Monnii 
Illuslraied.     [Charles  Scribner's  Sons,    fi.oo.^ 

This  volume,  translated  from  the  French,  is 
one  of  the  series,  "  Illuslraied  Library  of  Won- 
ders," and  belongs  10  the  division  on  Art  and 
Architecture.  ItsraiJoo  ifitrt  is  vividly  set  forth 
in  a  characteristically  French  dialogue  which 
serves  as  preface,  wherein  the  author,  in  the  rdle 
of  a  traveler  at  Naples,  asks  a  bookseller  for 
some  handbook  on  Pompeii,  which,  avoiding  cer- 
tain specified  fault*  of  previous  works  on  the 
subject,  shall  be  a(  once  portable,  accurate,  and 
conscientious.  Failing  to  find  such  a  volume, 
tbe  applicant  resolves  to  write  one  himself,  with 
the  result  before  us,  which  is  a  historical  arvd 
topographical  description  of  the  exhumed  city 
its  political  status,  iis  forum,  streets,  suburbs, 
baths,  dwellings,  its  art  and  its  theatres,  and  an 
account  of  the  awful  eruption  of  A.  D.  79  in 
which  it  wa*  overwhelmed.  The  style  of  the 
translation  is  singularly  unequal.  At  limes  the 
language  is  so  good  as  to  seem  originally  written 
in  English,  while  at  others  (be  abruptness  and 
brevity  of  expression  characteristic  of  French  are 
BO  literally  reproduced  that  the  Engliah  is  almost 
uncouth.  Similarly,  (he  clearness  of  the  descrip- 
(tons  varies  strangely.  Some  passages,  aa  for 
example,  the  account  of  the  terrified  flight  of  the 
inhabitants  in  the  great  catastrophe,  are  very 
graphic;  others  —  noiwi(hs( adding  the  saying 
Ce  qui  n'tet pat  elair  ti'esi  fas  Fraiifaii  —  are  ob- 
scure and  in  their  details  difficult  to  grasp.  As 
an  instance  of  the  latter  daas  we  note  tbe  chapter 
on  (be  forum  and  adjaccn(  temple.  In  gencial, 
M.  Monnicr  is  clear  in  his  descriptions  of  specific 
events,  and  of  objects  of  art,  etc.,  but  much  less 
so  in  those  of  places.  Occasional  expression; 
occur  which  show  but  slightly  veiled  contempt 
for  thai  form  of  Christianity,  the  Roman  Catho- 
lic, with  which  the  author  has  been,  in  his  own 
country  and  in  Italy,  most  familiar.  In  a  work 
of  this  kind  these  seem  oat  of  place.  Tbe  illus- 
trations are  numerous,  varied,  and  good,  and  aid 
much  in  elucidating  the  text.  They  include 
abundant  specimens  of  household  utensils  and  of 
objects  of  art.  No  one  can  read  the  book  attent- 
ively without  getting  much  information  about 
the  manners  and  customs  and  the  modes  of  pub- 
lic and  of  domestic  life  of  an  Italian  provincial 
dty  in  the  first  century  of  onr  eta.    With  a  view 


to  its  use  as  a  guide  book,  for  which  this  work 
might  be  very  useful,  an  itinerary  is  subjoined, 
having   the  most  important  objects  of  interest 

italicized. 

Viardot'a  Wondera  of  European  Art. 

IVondert  ef  European  Art.  By  Louis  Viardot. 
[Charles  Scribner's  Sons.    fiA).] 

This  is  Part  Two  of  Atirveillei  de  la  Peinturt. 
On  painters  and  painting  Viardot  is  an  author- 
ity. Except  in  the  needless  substitution  of 
"Art"  for  "Painting"  in  the  title,  the  work 
shows  little  of  the  awkwardness  often  to  be 
marked  in  translations.  Beginning  with  the 
Spanish  Schools,  on  which  art  students  have 
long  desired  more  information,  ft  proceeds  to 
the  German,  Flemish,  Dutch,  and  French 
Schools,  giving  concise  biographies  of  the  mas- 
ters, and  critical  descriptions  of  their  most  cele- 
braled  paintings,  many  thousands  of  which  M. 
Viardot  is  said  to  have  critically  examined. 
Eleven  of  these  are  exemplified  by  futl-page 
illustrations,  and  undoubtedly  most  readers,  like 
ourselves,  will  turn  10  these  pictures  first,  to  the 
text  describing  them,  later.  Unhappily  the 
selection  of  illustrations  is  not  always  wise. 
At  the  very  outset  we  have  Mnrillo's  St.  Eliza< 
belh  of  Hungary  bathing  the  head  of  a  leprous 
beggar,  a  picture  which  is  simply  sickening.  One 
is  puzzled  to  know  why  this  great  name  should 
not  have  been  represented  by  a  more  thoroughly 
characteiistic  work.  With  Velasquei's  ''Drink- 
ers" we  have  no  fault  to  find,  but  we  confess  to 
some  surprise  at  seeing  Dnrer's  "Four  Apos- 
tles "  engraved  under  the  title  of  "  Four  Evan- 
gelists" (p.  97).  "Evangelists"  indeed  I  Since 
when,  and  by  how  recent  a  "  New  Version," 
have  SS-  Peter  and  Paul  been  given  (he  places 
of  SS.  Matthew  and  Luke  ?  Even  if  St.  Peter 
did  dictate  S.  Mark's  Gospel,  and  so  may  claim 
the  title  of  "  Evangelist,"  how  abrot  S.  Paul  ? 
Viaidot's  accompanying  text,  however,  is  clear. 
The  account  of  the  rise  of  the  Classic  School 
under  Louis  David  is  of  especial  interest,  as  is 
also  the  part  of  the  book  devoted  to  early  French 
painters.  Tbe  whole  work  is  useful  and  read- 
able, and  has  merits  of  form  and  size  which  will 
be  appreciated  bj  the  stay-at-homes  as  well  as  hj 
travelers  who  will  want  to  take  it  with  them  into 
European  galleries.  This  last  point  will  be 
especially  appreciated  just  now,  when  readers  who 
have  been  longingly  awaiting  the  appearance  of 
Wallmann's  second  volume  are  raving  at  the 
publishers  of  it  for  having  given  it  to  us  in  such 
bulk  that  one  needs  to  be  almost  an  Hercules  to 

lOHOS  irOTIOES. 


The  Rev.  William  Cushing's  DieHanary  ef 
Initials  and  Pseudonymi  has  passed  to  a 
second  edition  before  we  ^are  found  (pace 
10  mention  it  here.  But  as  it  is  a  book  for 
reference,  not  for  reading,  and  requires  use 
before  it  can  be  judged,  (he  delay  in  this 
case  can  do  it  no  harm,  Tbe  work  ts  in 
two  alphabets  ;  of  which  the  first  cataltfuc* 
some  11,000  pseudonyms,  wiih  their  analogues, 
and  with  brief  particulars  of  literary  interest, 
while  the  second  enters  about  3,000  real  names 
of  authors  with  the  pseudonyms  under  which 
they  have  written,  and  with  personal  and  bibUo- 


1 886.] 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


graphical  dala.  The  600  pages  contain  a  re- 
narkablj  full  and  accurate  list,  and  represent 
an  enormoui  amount  of  toilsome  industry.  A 
special  feature  of  much  interest  is  the  excursus 
on  "Junius"  and  his  famous  Lftlcrs  contributed 
by  Mr.  Albert  R.  Frey,  and  requiring  nearly  11 
pages.  Of  the  facts  and  statistics  of  this  unique 
mystery  in  literature  we  remember  no  like  pie*- 
entalion.  Mr.  Frey  gives  the  names  of  the  51 
persons  supposed  to  be  "Junius,"  and  a  bibli<^- 
raphy  of  the  subject.  Aliogether  ihis  is  by  far 
the  best  work  of  its  kind  now  in  print.  By 
request  of  Mr.  Cashing  ne  append  the  folloiring 
corrections,  nbich  owners  of  the  work  will  do 
well  to  cut  out  and  paste  in  : 
In  ihe  6nt  pAnpvph  at  Ihv  prtface  soiriyutlM  InvlEad  of 

On  p.  Si,  atlcr  Ccdl,  inmlmd  of  Chiilei  Edwiid,  read 
Sidney  Georgt,  F]iher. 

but  ihe  lunie  of  I  Liiin  auihoi  Innilaicd  b^  Sii  DaTid 
Dalrraple;  Ibeume  u  probably  Irue  a[  "Laclantiua"  on 
p  161. 

On  p.  19),  K.  J.  T.    For  Satrfcid,  r»d  Sealifield. 

Od  p.  414,  ander  Drake,  Samuel  Adanu,  Jilt  Sj,  read 
BOD,  initead  of  "brolber,''  mUSet  inaiead  oC  "rcHlded-" 

On  p.  48a, "  The  High  Conilabte  "  i>  evidently  a  diSerenl 
WDIlam  Lee,  pn.bably  of  Mtncheiltt,  Em. 

On  p.  ;36,  in  the  notice  ot  Thuiiow  Weed,  read  Joht«1 
inttead  of  '■  Argut." 


Rachel  Fi^lix.  ByNina  H.  Kenttard,  Famous 
Women  Series.     [Koberts  Brothers.    Si.oo.] 

"In  a  week  from  this  time  I  may  be  food  for 
worms  and  writers  of  bit^raphy,"  said  the  dying 
actress  ;  and  again  when  she  asked  that  nothing 
might  be  said  at  her  grave :  "  You  do  not  know 
how  sweet  it  is  to  be  forgotten  after  a  life  spent 
before  the  public."  Foot  soul  1  Yet  we  do  not 
leave  her  alone.  Tbc  brilliant  flame  that  danced 
above  the  woman's  life,  that  added  grace  and 
power  to  the  finest  conception  of  Ihe  poet,  that 
lent  something  to  brighten  the  gayest  hours  of 
her  more  foiiunatc  sisters.  Is  not  yet  qnite  for- 
gotten. With  her  slender  frame,  her  starved 
girlhood,  she  had  the  capacity  for  an  intense  and 
fiery  passion ;  she  had  a  heart  to  feel  and  a  brain 
to  stady,  as  well  as  a  dramatic  instinct  so  keen 
and  swift,  so  tremendous  in  its  force,  as  to  make 
her  impersonations  seem  like  possessions.  Miss 
Kennard's  sketch  tells  of  her  hard,  exposed 
childhood,  of  her  masters  and  her  resolute  and 
eager  study,  of  her  sudden  successes,  and  the 
dazzling  zenith  of  her  shoit  career,  when  she 
held  all  the  power  of  one  who  can  compel  smiles 
and  tears.  The  eitracis  from  her  correspond- 
ence reveal  the  woman.  The  woman's  story 
within  that  of  Ihe  actress  makes  us  feel  in  her 
•araame  of  Fdix  all  the  mockery  of  fate.  Thi 
best  description  of  her  acting  in  the  book 
is  quoted  from  Charlotte  Bronte,  who  saw  I 
in  Belgium  in  1842.  There  was  something 
the  quiet,  decorous,  repressed  English  wom 
that  answered  to  the  depth  of  tragic  passion  In 
the  Jewess  which  often  seemed  almost  super- 
human. ' 

For  a  while  — along  while  — I' thought  it  was 
only  a  woman,  though  a  unique  woman,  who 
moved  in  might  and  grace  betoie  this  multitude. 
By  and  by  f  recognized  my  mistake.  Behold  t 
I  found  upon  her  something  neither  of  woman 
noi  of  man ;  in  each  of  her  eyes  sat  a  devil. 
Theie  evil  forces  bure  her  through  the  tragedy, 
kept  up  her  feeble  strength  —  she  was  but  a  frail 
creature!  snd,  as  the  action  rose  and  the  stir  deep- 
ened, how  wildly  they  shook  her  with  their  pas- 
sions of  the  pit  I  They  wrote  "  Hell "  on  her 
uutighl,  haughty  hrow.    They  tuned  her  voice 


>le  of  torment.  They  writhed  her  regal 
demoniac  mask.     Hate  and  murder  and 

madness  incarnate  she  stood I  had  seen 

.cting  before,  but  never  anything  like  this;  never 
inything  which  astonished  Hope  and  hushed  De- 
ire;  which  outstripped  Impulne  and  paled  Con- 
leption  1  which,  insteadof  merely  imitalinglmagi- 
lation  with  the  thought  of  what  might  be  done,  at 
be  same  time  fevering  the  nerves  because  it  was 

tiel  done,  disclosed  power  like  a  deep,  swollen 


J  of  its  descent. 
It  was  shortly  after  that  Rachel  wrote  to  her 
mother,  "  I  am  sad   about  many  things,  and  a 

thousand  limes  sad  not  to  be  with  my  dear  little 

child."    Tbe  letters  betray  a  fond   and  tender 

n  love  and  in  life,  a  womanly  softness  which 

hardly  expected  in  the  Pythoness,  the  fury 

of  the  classic  drama.    With  all  her  faults,  and 

ley  were  glaring  enough,  she  did  not  lack  the 

uty  human  virtues.    Love  of  kindred  wasslrong 

I  her ;  she  showed  reverence  and  obedience  to 

her  harsh   and  setlish  parents,  devotion  to  her 

children.    Even  her  avarice,  for  which  she  was 

bitterly  reproached,  was  for  her  family  rather 

in  for  herself.    Her  long,  pathetic  itines',  her 

w    and    painful    dearh,   might    have   softened 

;n  the  bitterness  of  those  implacable  enemies 

0  were  her  rivals.     Among  her  last  words  to 

'  sister  were  some  that  showed   how  real   a 

thing  was  her  art.    "If  you  only  knew  what  new, 

what  magnificent  effects  I  have  conceived.    Take 

my  word  for  it,  declamation  and  gesture  are  o( 

little  avail.    Yon  have  to  think,  to  weep." 

Report  ef  an  Archaolo^^ca!  Tour  in  Mexico  in 
iSSr,  By  L.  F.  Bandelier.  [Cupples,  Upham 
a  Co.    *5.oo] 

is  red-covered,  plentifully  illustrated  8ro  of 
326  pages  is  a  second  edition  of  the  second  issue 
in  the  American  series  of  the  Papers  of  the 
Archa:ological  Institute  of  America.  It  is  an 
instructive  and  valuable  writing  on  the  antiqai- 
ties  of  Mexico,  poorly  edited.  There  is  no 
index,  a  table  of  contents  of  only  j  lines,  no 
Information  about  the  "  Institute,"  no  list  of  its 
publicatitmv,  no  statement  of  the  conditions  un- 
der which  Mr.  Bandelier  made  his  visit,  not  one 
ord  of  inlroduciion.  The  first  duty  of  the 
American  Institute  of  Archxology  is  to  appoint 
a  competent  editor  for  its  publications.  Mr. 
Bandelier  seems  to  have  landed  out  of  the 
heavens  at  Tampico,  to  have  glided  along  the 
tst  to  Vera  Crus,  and  thence  to  have  gone  In- 
id  by  way  of  Orizaba  to  the  City  of  Mexico. 
This  approach  to  the  heart  of  his  subject,  the 
City  of  Mexico  itself,  the  suburb  of  Cholula  and 

icinity,  and  ruined  Mitia,  some  distance 
the  southeast,  are  the  subjects  of  his  four  chap. 
or  Parts.    The 

ir  is  an  inspector  uf  what  lies  below  the 
surface;  his  chapters  are  galli 
of  curiosities,  relics,  historic  fragments,  to  be 
studied;  requiring  a  retentive  memory,  and  run' 
nlng  into  speculation  on  geological,  ethnologi- 
cal, and  philological  problems.  The  average  pro. 
portion  of  the  pages  devoted  to  notes  upon  the 
text  is  large.  The  illustrations  are  as  viluabli 
as  they  are  numerous.  The  mere  list  fills  threi 
pages  ;  but  the  page  references  in  the  list  are  mis 
leading.  There  are  a  number  of  heliotypes  from 
photographs  I  abundant  sketch  maps  and  archi* 
tectural  details  engraved  on  wood  and  arranged 
in  groups,  after  drawings  by  the  author,  and 
double  colored  plate,  reproducing  \n/ac-timiU 
an  old  map  of  Cholula.    Two  hundred  copies 


only  of  this  edition,  as  we  understand,  have  been 
printed  from  type.  The  first  edition  went  out  of 
print  almost  immediately,  and  we  presume  the 
second  has  followed  long  before  this  time,  for 
our  notice  has  been  unavoidably  delayed. 


England  as  Seen  by  an  American  Banker. 
[D.  Loihrop  ft  Co.    (i.aj.] 

Sfciol  Studies  in  England.  By  Sarah  K.  B(^ 
ton.    [D.  Lothrop  &  Co.    Ji.oo.] 

The  "  American   Banker,"  the  author  of  the 

first  of  these  two  books,  is  understood  to  be  Mr. 

C.  B.  Patten  of  Boston ;    and  his  book  Is  strfctly 

about  England,  which  Mrs.  Biriton's  is  not,  who 

brings  in  a  good  many  facts  from  the  Continent. 

or  are  her  "  Studies  "  altogether  »  Social ; "  for 

hat   her  book  is  really  concerned  with  is  the 

itellectual,  social,  and   charitable   work  of  wo- 

lan   in   England,  and.  within   limits,  in   France 

and  Germany;  what  she  is  doing  to  educate  her. 

self,  how  she  is  learning  to  support  herself,  how 

is   ministering   to  the  necessities  of  others. 

As  a  collection  of  facts,  the  book  is  interesting 

and   useful,   exceedingly  so ;   stimulating  in  an 

ual  degree.     We  should  not  know  where  to 

for  a  like  picture  of  the  activities  and  benev- 

:es  of  woman,  chiefiy  in  England,  at  the  close 

of  the  Nineteen  I  h  Century. 

'.  Patten's  book  is  equally  good  in  its  way, 
though  the  way  is  very  difterent,  and  he  is  not  a 
practiced  or  skillful  book-maker.  Still,  not  even 
Professor  Hoppin  or  Richard  Grant  While  or 
Mr,  Jennings  have  given  us  more  graphic 
descriptions  of  the  English  landscape  and 
non  life.  The  tour  which  Mr.  Patten  nar- 
rates was  a  lour  on  foot,  with  only  his  little  boy 
for  company.  "I  today  count,"  he  says,  "no 
places  visited  by  me  in  England  that  I  did  not 
walk  into,  walk  through,  and  walk  out  of,  and, 
in  these  rambling  notes,  I  have  only  fully  written 
of  places  that  1  so  visited."  His  walk  from 
Liverpool  to  Chester  and  to  London  was  suffi- 
cient compensation,  be  says,  for  the  voyage 
across  Ihe  Atlantic.  He  went  through  the  gray 
Lake  District,  over  Ihe  bleak  Cheviot  Hills  of 
Scotland,  among  Ihe  peaks  of  Derbyshire,  and 
over  the  moorlands  about  the  home  of  Charlotte 
Broni£.  His  sti.iy  is  full  of  touches  to  be 
gained  in  no  other  way.  He  stops  to  talk  with 
the  grizzled  old  cobbler,  father  of  fourteen 
children;  he  scrapes  acquaintance  with  rheu- 
matic  old  miners  in  their  cottage  doorways  ;  he 
walks  through  Epping  Forest  with  a  wandering 
mechanic  on  his  way  to  London  in  search  of  a 
job.  He  notes  that  the  guide  boards  give  names 
but  no  disUnces.  He  learns  that  England  raises 
more  wheat  to  the  acre  than  any  other  land  on 
Ihe  globe,  and  that  the  United  Kingdom  sup- 
ports about  half  as  many  sheep  as  all  the  United 
States.  There  is  no  method  to  Mr.  Patten's 
travels  as  here  recounted;  he  goes  about  with  a 
hop,  skip,  and  jump.  Of  the  Bank  of  England 
he  gives  a  capital  account;  likewise  of  "con- 
sols 1"  likewise  o(  agricultural  interest*.  H's 
report  of  ihe  Church  of  England  is  prejudiced. 
He  falls  into  some  repetitions.  He  might  have 
given  his  boy  a  larger  place  in  his  pages.  But 
with  all  its  defects,  this  is  one  of  the  moi.1  read- 
able of  recent  books  on  England,  and  th"raughty 
readable  it  is  from  beginning  to  end.  The  title- 
page  has  no  date,  a  vicious  omission, 

—  The  autographs  of  the  correspondence  be- 
tween Goethe  and  Schiller,  published  by  Colta, 
were  beqneMhed  bjr  Gotihe  to  luf  o«)t  and 


THE    LITERARY   WORLD. 


[Mar.  6, 


SchilkKs  dctcendanta.  In  the  ye»r  1878  they 
came  Into  Ihe  privaie  pocseuion  of  Baron  Karl 
von  Cotti.  The  Grand- Ducheas  Sophie  of  Saxc- 
Wcimar  baa  agreed  with  liaron  Cotta  for  Iheir 
purchase,  wiih  a  view  to  their  becominK  "the 
properly  of  the  German  nation "  by  uTtimale 
incorpoi-'' — !"•>..  f^-"-««..  ■     ■■ 


in  the  Goethe-Archil. 


OTTBBEHT  LITE&ATITBE. 

There  are  two  Gilligs  in  London,  friends  to 
Americati  traveler*  in  Europe.  Of  the  old,  long 
established,  and  widely  known  American  Ex- 
change, of  which  Gen.  Joacph  R.  Hawley  is 
President,  Henry  F.  Gillig  is  Vice-Pieiident 
and  Manager;  and  its  rooms  at  449  Strand, 
facing  Trafalgar  Square  and  the  Nelson  Monu- 
ment, the  scene  of  a  late  diitutbance,  are 
a  familar  and  popular  resort  with  Americans  in 
the  English  melropoli*.  Recently  a  new  flag 
has  been  thrown  out,  jost  across  the  Strand,  at 
No.  9,  (he  flag  of  the  Uitiltd  Stmts  Exchange, 
Charlei  A.  Gillig  Manager.  These  two  estab- 
lishmenl*  are  probably  twin  brothers,  or  own 
cousins.  It  is  from  the  latter  that  Gillig'i  Nna 
LsHdoH  Guidt  emanates,  fn  a  third  edition ;  a 
handbook  of  170  pages  of  reading  mailer,  red. 
covered,  and  provided  with  an  excellent  map  of 
London  pocketed  in  the  cover,  Ihe  map  printed 
on  both  sides,  one  side  showing  the  town  in 
detail  from  Hammersmith  to  Ihe  Tower,  the 
other  side  Ihe  town  in  its  relation  to  the  en- 
virons. There  are  illuslralions,  and  copious 
^  directions  for  a  London  visit.  We  have  a 
suspicion  that  by  similarity  of  names  and  oiher- 
wise  Ihe  United  Stales  Exchange  is  an  "  imita- 
tion \"  but  we  do  not  know  that  it  is  a  dangerous 
one,  and  thU  Guidt  we  certainly  should  find 
serviceable  if  we  were  in  London  loday.  [Rand, 
McNally  4  Co.    ^x.\ 

From  the  same  publisher*  we  have  a  Guide 
to  Soulhem  Califorma,  by  Jaa.  W.  Steele,  not 
so  systematic  and  business-like  as  the  foregoing, 
but  superior  to  it  typographically,  and  with  i1- 
lustralioni,  some  of  which,  as,  for  example,  that 
of  the  Yosemite's  Three  Broihen,  facing  p.  117, 
represent  a  very  high  grade  of  wood- engraving. 

We  think  the  practice  is  to  be  condemned  of 
issuing  an  old  book  under  a  new  dale  with  no 
sign  to  notify  Ihe  public  that  it  is  not  a  new 
book.  The  practice  is  exemplified,  we  believe, 
in  the  Memoir  af  Ole  Bull,  which  was  published 
somewhat  more  than  three  years  ago,  and  now 
appears  afresh  under  date  oE  1SS6.  It  is  a 
lender  portraiture  of  a  fascinating  personality. 
[Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.    J1.50.I 

Dr.  Timothy  Dwight,  whose  name  wc  have 
lately  bad  occasion  lo  mention  in  connection 
with  Meytt'i  CemmtHlary  on  the  N.  T.,  is  also 
superinlending  an  American  pioduclion  o( 
Godet's  Coiamtiitary  on  yohii,  of  which  the  first 
volume  is  out,  extending  through  the  first  live 
chapters  of  ihe  Gospel-  A  second  volume  is  to 
follow.  Ur-  Godet's  work  is  not  new,  having 
been  well  known  Ihese  twenty  years.  But  he 
has  worked  it  over  and  over,  and  the  present 
translation  is  founded  on  the  third  French  edition, 
which  tKgan  to  appear  in  iSSi,  and  was  not 
completed  until  last  year.  Dr.  Dwight  furnishes 
a  preface,  introductory  suggestions,  and  addi- 
tional notes.  Godet  is  one  of  the  best  of  the 
evangelical  expositors  of  Scripture;  scholarly, 
fervent,  and  Kuggeslive.  [Funk  &  Wagnalls.] 
Prof.  Qeo.  T.  Ladd's  ir^ijslsiioi)  ijf  fbf  dictalpd 


portions  of  Hermann  Lotxe's  Outlines  ef  Psy- 
ch^agy  has  now  reached  its  foarlh  part  Lotxe 
was  above  all  else  a  psychologist,  equipped  as 
well  on  the  physiological  as  on  Ihe  metaphysical 
side,  and  after  treating  the  single  elements  of  Ihe 
inner  life  he  here  extends  his  treatment  to  the 
seal  of  the  soul,  the  essence  and  its  time-rela- 
tions, and  Ihe  realm  of  souls.  Highly  condensed 
and  very  suggestive,  like  all  Ihe  volumes  of  this 
excellent  series,  this  volnme  may  have  a  little 
additional  light  thrown  upon  it  for  those  who 
need  it  by  the  previous  translation  froni  Minne- 
apolis, by  Mr.  C.  L.  Herrick,  which  we  noticed 
some  months  since.    [Ginn  ft  Co.] 

In  Oullints  of  the  History  of  Greek  Philosophy, 
Dr.  Edward  Zeller,  who  needs  no  introduction  to 
readers  of  philosophy,  is  probably  the  foremost 
historian  of  Greek  metaphysic  in  all  its  forms, 
ofTers  a  long-projected  "  sketch  of  the  same  sub- 
ject," with  the  object  of  providing  students 
"  with  a  help  for  academical  lectures  which 
would  facilitate  preparation,  and  save  the  time 
wasied  in  writing  down  facts;"  a  book  intended 
to  give  "a  picture  of  the  contents  of  the  philo- 
sophical systems,  and  the  cojirse  of  their  histori- 
cal development  which  should  contain  all  the 
essential  traits,"  with  Ihe  more  important  literary 
references  and  sources.  This  manual  thus  belongs 
to  the  class,  happily  Increasing,  of  "pdmets" 
prepared  by  master  hands-  It  ha*  been  excel- 
lently translated  by  the  laie  Miss  Allcyne  and 
Ml.  Evelyn  Abbott.    [Henry  Holt  ft  Co.] 

Mr.  Porter's  thoughtful  volume  aa  Meihanics 
and  Faith  is  an  endeavor  to  prove  Ihe  essen- 
tially spitllnal  nature  of  mechanics  and  its  con- 
sequent affinity  with  religious  faith.  The  author 
is  a  decided  optimist,  and  he  would  reduce  all 
natural  science  to  ihe  order  of  revelation,  and 
everywhere  bis  effort  is  to  emphasize  the  spir- 
itual aspect  of  the  universe.  In  this  materialistic 
age  every  intelligent  effort  in  this  direction  is 
surely  to  be  welcomed.  Our  chief  criticism  on 
Mr.  Porter's  work  would  be  thai  he  too  soon 
rises,  like  an  aeronaut,  above  the  pleasing  diver- 
sities of  our  earth's  surface  to  a  hight  where 
all  is  alike  undislinguishable  and  monotonous  in 
the  single  thought  of  God.  A  paragraph  from 
Amiel's  Journal,  which  we  have  just  read,  will 
Indicate  Mr.  Porter's  general  position  : 

There  is  no  repose  for  the  mind,  except  in  the 
absolute;  for  feeling,  except  in  the  infinite; 
for  the  soul,  except  in  the  divine.  Noth- 
ing finite  is  true,  is  interesting,  is  worthy  to 
fix  my  attention.  All  thai  is  particular  is  exclu- 
sive, and  all  ihal  is  exclutive  repels  me.  There 
is  nothing  non-exclusive  but  the  All ;  my  end  is 
communism   with   Being  through   the  wnole  of 

Beautiful  and  moving  ideas,  but  how  would 
richness  and  variety  depart  from  the  life  ruled 
strictly  by  them  !     [G.  P.  Pulnam'i  Sons.] 

Mr.  Charles  Lsnman's  Farthest  North  has  for 
its  subject  the  life  in  general  and  the  Arctic  fate 
in  particular  of  Ll,  James  B.  Lockwood,  of 
Greely  expedition  fame,  founded  on  his  journals 
and  correspondence,  and  enlivened  with  anec- 
doles  furnished  by  relatives  and  friends,  Mr. 
Lanman's  usually  good  literary  taste  forsakes 
him  in  the  light  and  jocular  manner  with  which 
he  touches  some  parts  of  his  theme,  in  his  puna, 
and  in  the  atlempl*  at  tylt  to  which  he  occaalon- 
aiiy  resorts,  The  story  of  Lt.  Lockwood's  child- 
hood fills  the  first  sixth  of  Ihe  book.  He  came 
of  good  Delaware  stock,  enteted  the  ariny  in 
1S73,  served  eipht  'jitn  in  Arizona,  Nebrulfa. 


Kansas,  and  Ctdorado,  won  an  enviable  name  by 
his  ability  and  manliness,  volunteered  lo  accom- 
pany the  Greely  expedition,  easily  made  himself 
next  10  Lt.  Greely  the  moat  capable  member  of 
the  parly,  and  in  bis  death  by  starvation  at  Cape 
Sabine  with  eighteen  others  offered  one  of  the 
most  needless  and  costliest  of  sacrifices,  Mr. 
Lanman  would  better  have  printed  the  extracts 
from  Lockwood's  journals  as  they  stood,  un- 
changed from  the  first  person  to  the  third.  A 
fine  portrait  of  the  hero,  an  excellent  map,  and 
three  mediocre  wood-cut*  accompany  the  book- 
[D.  Applelon  ft  Co.] 


8HAEE8FEABU17A. 


Shakespearian  Localities  In  Ltmdon.  We 
find  thai  several  aulhoiiiies  make  the  mislaJie 
of  referring  to  the  Middle  Temple  Hall  as  the 
only  building  now  left  in  London  in  which  any 
play  of  Shakespeare's  was  probably  performed 
in  his  lifetime. 

Knight,  in  the  "Supplementary  Notice"  lo 
TW^AA^fJ/ in  his  "Pictorial  Edition"  (id  ed. 
1S67),  alluding  to  Ihe  record  of  the  performance 
of  the  play  in  Ihe  MS.  Diary  of  John  Manning- 
ham,  says : 

Venerable  Hall  of  tbe  Middle  Temple,  thou 
art  to  our  eyes  more  stately  and  more  to  be 
admired  since  we  looked  upon  that  entry  in  tbe 
Table-book  of  John  Mannmghaml  The  Globe 
has  perished,  and  so  has  Ihe  Blackfriars.  The 
works  of  the  poet  who  made  the  names  of  these 
frail  buildings  immortal  need  no  associations  to 
recommend  them,  but  yet  it  is  pleasant  lo  know 
that  there  is  one  locality  remaining  where  a 
play  of  Shakspere's  was  listened  lo  bv  his 
contemporaries,  and  that  play  Thxelflh  Night. 

In  dealing  with  the  Comedy  of  Errors,  Knight 
does  not  allude  to  the  probable  performance 
of  the  play  at  Gray's  Inn  in  December,  1594. 

Hare,  in  his  Waiki  in  Londen  (vol.  i.  p.  75), 
says  of  the  Middle  Temple  Hail : 

In  this  Hall  Shakespeare's  Twelfth  Night,  or 
What  you  Will,  was  performed  soon  after  it* 
production,  Feb.  z.  1601 ;  and  it  is  probably 
the  only  remaining  building  in  which  one  of  his 
plays  was  seen  by  uis  contemporaries. 

Gray's  Inn  (where,  by  Ihe  by.  Bacon  wrote  the 
Novum  Organum)  is  described  by  Hate  (pp. 
98-100  of  the  same  volume),  bnl  without  any 
hint  of  its  connection  with  Shakespeare. 

Mr.  Lawrence  Hulton,  in  bisexceetiingly  inter- 
esling  Literary  Landmarks  of  Lond-m,  published 
by  Osgood  ft  Co.  last  year,  says  (p.  269) ; 

Crosby  Place,  or  Hall ;  the  Church  of  St. 
Saviour,  where  it  is  to  be  supposed,  naturally, 
that  he  was  present  at  the  burial  of  his  brother; 
and  Middle  Temple  Hall,  where  Twelfth  Night 
is  known  to  have  been  produced  in  1601,  when 
Shakspere  was  probably  an  on-looker  or  director 
—  are  the  only  buildings  still  standing  in  London 
which  ate  in  any  way  —  and  even  these  only  by 
inference  —  associated  with  him. 

Of  Crosby  Place,  mentioned  three  times  in 
Richard  IIL,  we  gave  an  account  in  Ihe  World 
several  years  ago.  The  church  mentioned  by 
Hutlon  is  St.  Mary  Overy,  commonly  called  St- 
Saviour's,  Southwark,  near  (he  Surrey  end  of 
London  Bridge,  one  of  the  oldest  and  most  inter- 
esting of  the  London  churches,  in  spite  of  the 
alterations  it  has  suffered  at  sundry  times.  Here 
John  Fletcher,  the  dramatist,  was  buried,  but  no 
monument  marks  his  grave.  Tbe  "brother  "  of 
Shikeipe^re  (o  irbom  Hutlon  atlndei  wai  ^d' 


1886.] 


THE  LI-TERARY  WORLD. 


8? 


mand,  the  yoongtst  of  John  Shakespeare's  chil- 
dren,  born  in  15S0,  or  sixteen  years  later  than 
William.  He  became  an  aclor  and  played  at 
the  Globe,  but  died  at  the  early  age  of  twenty- 
seven.  Among  the  MS.  notes  oE  the  sexton  at 
St.  Saviour's  we  find  the  following  under  the 
head  of  "  Barialles,  December,  1607 : " 

31.  Edmund  Shakspeaic,  a  pUyer,  buried  in 
the  Church  with  a  furcnoone  knell  oE  the  great 
bell,  cu." 

We  quote  this  from  Halliwcll-Phinipps  (Out- 
liner,  5th  ed.  p.  jSo),  who  adds  : 

The  fee  for  burial  "in  any  churchyard  next 
the  Church  "  was  only  two  ihilliags,  but  we  ate 
told  that  "the  church  wardens  have  for  the 
ground  for  every  man  or  woman  thai  shall  be 
buried  in  the  Church,  with  an  aftcrnoones  knell 
or  without  it,  xxs.  {Dutiis  btlaHging  I9  lAt  Church 
of  St.  Savimr,  1613.)     The  fees  for  tinging  the 

Seat  bell  amounted  to  eight  shillings,  whereas 
ose  for  the  use  of  the  lesser  one  dianot  exceed 
twelve-pence  —  facts  which  indicate  that  no  ex- 
pense was  spared  at  Edmund's  funeral. 

As  the  author  says  elsewhere  (p.  184),  "  it  may 
fairly  be  assumed  that  the  burial  In  the  church, 
a  mark  of  respect  which  was  seldom  paid  to  an 
actor,  .  ,  .  resulted  from  the  affectionate  direc- 
tions of  his  brotlier  the  poet;  while  the  selection 
of  the  morning  for  the  ceremony,  then  unutuai 
at  St.  Saviour's,  may  have  arisen  from  a  wish  to 
give  some  of  the  members  of  the  Globe  company 
tlie  opportunity  of  attendance."  It  will  beremam- 
bered  that  petformances  at  the  theatre  were  then 
regularly  in  the  afternoon. 

Mr.  Hutton's  boolc,  we  may  remark  incident- 
ally, is  the  best  giude  to  London  localities  con- 
nected with  literary  men  that  has  yet  appeared ; 
and  its  alphabetical  arrangement  (by  authors) 
and  the  two  full  indexes  of  persons  and  places, 
filling  almost  forty  pages,  render  it  very  con- 
venient for  both  tourist  and  student. 

A  Couple  of  Queries  from  PhUadelphia. 
This  is  the  first : 

Will  you  be  kind  enough  to  inform  me  where- 
abouts m  Shakespeare  the  quotation,  "  To  turn 
and  wind  a  fiery  Pegasus,"  is  found,  and  whether 
wind  is  pronounced  with  the  i  long  or  short  — 
that  is,  whether  it  expresses  the  meaning  of  "to 
turn  "  or  of  "  to  breathe,"  as  one  savs  "  a  horse 
is  winded  I" 

The  line  occurs  in  the    fine   description  of 
Prince  Hal  in  i  Henry  IV.  iv.  i.  109  : 
1  Bw  ymiiiK  Hury  with  hu  buvei  on, 
Hu  cniBHi  on  hit  thifh*,  nllnntly  uiu'd. 


WTlta  Hich  n 


lobliH 


this 


To  lutn  xaA  wind  I  fierr  Pcxhhu 

And  witch  tbavocld  wilh  nobJa  bonu 
The  meaning  of  leind  is  clearly  "to 
and  that  direction."  It  is  the  only  example 
of  the  h-aniitivt  sense  in  Shakespeare,  but  we 
find  the  intransitive  verb  similarly  used  in  Julius 
Catar.iv.  1.32: 

It  it  ■  cmiun  that  1  i«i±  Id  Sghi, 

To  wind,  to  Mop,  Id  ran  dinctiy  00. 

Hi«  corpond  motion  £Dv«rn'd  by  my  ipiHl. 
We  may  add  that  Shakespeare's  only  other 
allusion  to  Pegasus,  that  hard-iiddcn  nag  of 
rhymers,  is  in  Henry  V.  ill.  7.  15,  where  the 
Dauphin  compares  his  favorite  horse  to  the 
mythical  winged  steed.  Pegatui  occurs  as  the 
name  of  an  inn  in  the  Taming  of  the  Shrew,  iv. 
4.  5,  but  that  docs  not  count,  of  course ;  and  we 
cannot  adopt  Mr.  Fleay's  whimsical  notion  thai 
the  "beast "  of  the  jisl  and  Jid  Sennett  is  Pega- 
sus and  that  the  "  travel "  referred  to  is  that  of 
the  dramatic  company  to  which  Shakespeare  be- 


The  other  Philadelphia  query  is,  we  suspect, 
from  a  school-girl,  who  writes; 

In  a  note  in  the  Variorum  Edition  of  ICing 
Ltar  on  iii.  4.  -35,  the  word  superflux  is  explained 
as  being  "a  hapax  Ugammon  in  Shakespeare." 
I  cannot  find  what  the  expression  means,  and 
having  exhausted  all  my  resources,  write  loyou 
forinformalior. 

It  is  curious  that  anytiody  should  have  to  send 
all  the  way  from  Philadelphia  lo  Boston  to  find 
out  that  "hapax  Itgomenon"  is  merely  Greek 
(transliterated  into  English)  for  "once  spoken," 
or  "once  used."  These  hapax  legomena  are 
frequent  in  Shakespeare,  including  (to  take  ex- 
amples from  the  first  place  we  open  to  in  Mrs. 
Cowden-Clarke's  Coacerdanet)  such  familiar 
words  as  illume,  illuminate,  ilt-will,  imbteility, 
immalerial,  immtderate,  impede,  impenetrable, 
imperfectly,  implacable,  imply,  etc.  We  may 
remark,  by  the  way,  that  editors  and  critics  some- 
times ert  in  regard  to  this  class  of  words  From 
looking  only  into  this  Concordance  to  iYtt  flayi, 
and  not  comparing  Mrs.  Furness's  Cancordance 
to  ShoMespeare'i  Poems.  For  instance,  we  find 
illiterate  and  immortality  given  only  once  each  in 
Mrs.  Cowden-Clarke's  voltmie ;  but  Mrs.  Fur- 
ness's  shows  that  illiterate  occurs  once  in  the 
Luereee  (line  Sio),  and  immortality  once  [tine 
715)  in  the  same  poem.  A  certain  critic  gives 
Tennyson  credit  (or  coining  the  word  steep-up  in 
The  Princess,  and  compares  Shakespeare's  steep- 
dawn  in  Othello,  v.  3.  iSo;  but,  though  sleep-up 
does  not  occur  in  the  plays,  it  is  used  In  the  7th 
Sonnet  and  also  in  The  Faisionale  Pilgrim,  Ix.  — 
one  of  the  pieces  in  that  piratical  compilation 
that  are  probably  Shakespeare's  own. 

Shakespeare  on  Sidney  Smith.  'ntShate- 
tpeare  Calendar  for  lSS<5  has  the  following  apt 
quotation  for  Feb.  3t,  the  date  of  Sidney  Smith's 
death  in  1S45 : 

Pleasant  without  scurrility,  witty  without  af- 
fection, audacious  without  impndency,  learned 
without  opinion,  and  strange  without  heresy. 
It  is  from  Love's  Labour's  Lest,  v.  i,  4 ;  and  we 
tnay  add  that  affection  Is  equivalent  to  affectation, 
and  i^inion  to  self-conceit. 


NOTES  AND  QUEBIES. 


760.  Balzac's  Grande  Breteche  and  the 
Haunted  Orange.  A  curious  coincidence,  10 
say  the  least,  is  recalled  by  the  outline  of  Balzac's 
sloiy  of  the  Grande  Breliche  in  a  late  num- 
ber. In  the  a4th  vol.  of  the  Musemn,  published 
by  E.  Littell  in  1834,  p.  44S,  is  a  tale  called  the 
Haunted  Grange,  taken  from  the  Dublin  Univer- 
sity Magatine,  and  signed  "G.  C,"the  concluding 
incidents  of  which  are  identity  with  those 
quoted  from  Balzac,  and  the  language,  except 
the  names,  nearly  so.  There  Is  no  hint  of  trans- 
lation, and  I  am  curious  lo  know  which  tale  can 
claim  priorily  of  date.  s.  t.  u. 

Burlington,  N.  J. 

7G7.  Roumanla.  Where  can  I  find  some- 
thing about  the  ancient  and  modern  history  of 
Roumania  f  A.  P. 

Lyndon,  Vl. 

(1)    }.S»saaiitim'»  Rtumatda  Fail  and  Pratni.  Loug^ 


1   Bibewa'i   lalg  Hutsir 


Ld  Malhnr 

Pun..  .87a 

(4)    Oanne- 

7*™  y 

on  in  Bimmmnu 

.      Cb^KBU 

G,  M.  Towl 

•  lUUe  mi 

nu.l,   Ttu  E^tn 

■»  Qmstion: 

Prituifalilia  nf  like  DamiOe: 
Oigaad.    ijc 

76B.  In  Hemoriam,  James  Payn,  and 
Henry  OreTlUe.  (a)  Is  there  an  edition,  with 
full  notes,  of  "  In  Memoriam,"  and  where  and  at 
what  price  can  it  be  obtained?  Will  you  name 
the  best  three  or  four  of  the  novels  of  (j)  James 
Payn  and  (;)  Henry  Gr^ville  each  i        a.  b.  k. 

Indiana. 

(d)  There  -a  A  Kiy  It  In  iUmtriam  hy  Dr.  A.  GlUT, 
Loodon,  r88>,  j.r.  fid. ;  hIso  A  Studs'  oi  the  same  poem  bf 
}.  T.  GenDDE-     Moughtan,  1884.     f '.oo. 

W    BfPrriyi.aAi.ul  Sir  MMuiKfitrd. 

(c)    The  PrtHceu  Oghirnf,  StviWi  Exfi^iim,  Dttia, 

769.  A  Light  in  the  Coffin,  etc.  In  what 
book  can  I  obtain  (a)  information  regarding  the 
time  the  ancient  Hebrews  buried  their  dead  with 
a  tight  inside  (he  coffin  ^  Also  \p)  the  legend, 
if  there  is  one,  explaining  the  following  quota- 
tion from  Evangeline: 

Seeking  with  euer  era  thai  wondraut  atoDC, 

Which  IhE  iwlllow  brings  from  the  ehore 

Of  (he  io  lo  netora  the  light  of  iu  Sedgljnii. 

Hopkinton,  Mass.  URS.  e.  d,  t. 

(s)    It  would  imtlT  facilitate  the  eeinh  [or  u  ■newer 

10  etert  with.    Some  innrttgntlon  in  worVt  on  Hebrew 
■rchsology  and  od  l»nBl  ciutoiu  throwm  no  light  oa  Ehii 


:  of  the 


Thej 


endcntB  uKd  to  leek  [or  elonee  in  Bwellawe'  neiu.  The 
elder  Pliny  mentioni  Iheie  itonn  is  being  Tijiiable  for 
epilepey  {JiiUnnUis  kittrri^,  t&.  xu,  cap.  id).  Bcanu-d 
in  bii  Diclimauiire  ^hmamd-fraKfuit  dri  miiui  (1B19} 
ayi  thu  tluH  ilonei  ere  luppaied  lo  be  found  in  (ha 
■taDucbft   of  youDff  awallowi,  but  ^thal  (hej  im  really 


jj»  QeoreeMacdonald'aPhantastea.  Can 
you  tell  me  where  I  can  find  an  explanation  of 
the  allegory  of  George  Macdonald's  Phantasies  t 

Grinnell,  Iowa.  n.  p,  c. 

Like  moat  didaijlic  allegonaa,  PkaHt^stes  wiU  hsva  to 

ich  reedel,     A  writer  in  the  Briliik  Quarlrrlf  (vol.  47, 

b«Ji  would  be  a  nve'b^ 


IT  '.^"■™"  proieaior  01 
rSfteen  yean,  and  find  that  it  the  end  iu  deeper 
wu  only  b^ioning  la  dawn  upon  hia  mDnl 

IbUmiblg  wiihnut  eSort,  That  aelfiihnui  ii  the  banf  ^ 
nora]  worth,  and  esaenlially  at  variance  with  the  nalnre  of 
oic;  thai  action  i»  better  thao  ipecnlacion;  that  coivceIi 
.leraldi  fmdure;  that  a  noble  death  11  better  than  a  dc 
eraded  life  —  thcie  are  a  few  of  the  main  poaitioua" 
Another  writer,  who  ipeaki  with  warmth  nf  PkmmlaiUs  is 
the  Ntrlh  Briiitk  Brvim  (vol.  4},  iSM,  p.  6)  layi ;  "  On 
the  odier  hand,  ther*  ii  nothing  to  obvionily  pre«iianl  wiih 
good  Deaninii,  eian  io  the  moni  lignificani  pam  of  the 
itory,  as  to  oppreaa  Iba  reader  with  ethical  conaideratitws 
too  weighty  for  Faeria  Land." 

771.    Quotations  Wanted. 

(•)    Not  braKXHnlmant  do  wi  meet  delight  and  joy. 
They  heed  not  our  expectancy, 
Bnl^Krund  lonii  comer  ol  the  atreet  of  Life 
They,  on  a  andden,  greet  ui  with  a  amile 

W  Thans'i  not  a  etrin«  attuned  to  mirth 

But  haa  ita  chord  in  melancholy. 

(c)     The  world  wears  a  mask,  and  he  who  would 

read  aright,  must  look  beneath  the  outer  surface. 


ANSWERS. 

<e  froHlOn.       TJ^     Schiller's  Inaugural  Address  of  17B9 
(No.  748)  can  be  found  in  Vol.  II  of  the  a  vol. 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Mar.  6, 


edition  of  Schiller's  Cmtfilele  fVtrii.     [Kohler, 
Philadelphia,  i36i.] 

773.  Quotallona  Found.  No.  753  (a)  is 
the  "Rhine  Song  oF  the  German  Soldiers  after 
Victory,"  by  Mrs.  Hemans. 

I  hid  ■  hm.    Il  wu  DM  all  1  hal. 

Part  ol  ihe  brim  wu  jone, 

Yclililllwoniioa. 
The   whole  of  the  parody.  "My  Old   Hat." 
may  he  found  in  Fagitim  Fmtry,  edited  by  J.  C. 
Hutchieaon  (pp.  487-489),  one  of  the  "  Chandos 
Classics  "  volumes. 

774.  LiTing  Within  jwxt  Means  (No.  761) 
and  the  other  boolis  of  this  series  ate  (according 
to  one  cotrenpondent)  by  the  late  T.  S.  Arthur, 
according  to  another,  by  Mrs.  Catherine  Sedg- 
wick, who  also  wrote  Tfu  R'uh  Poor  Man  and 
tiU  Peor  Rkh  Man,  all  "  worthy  of  a  place  in 
any  public  library." 

775.  Body  of  this  Death  (No.  746).  The 
passage  inquired  for  is  probably  Virgil's,  Book 
VllI,  line  4S5.    Of  Mezeniiug  it  is  said : 


TABLE  TALK. 

..."I'Te  a  great  liking."  says  "Carl  Spen- 
cer," "for  the  poetical  work  — not  large  in  bulk, 
but  so  fine  and  strong  — of  a  little  set  of  men 
that  I  always  think  of  together,  Boston  men, 
iDostty.  They're  Unitarian  or  other  '  advanced  ' 
clergymen.  There's  Gannett,  and  Wasson,  and 
Ames,  who  wai  editor  of  the  Christian  Rigiittr, 
bat  is  now  gone  back  to  the  church-work  that 
(uiis  him  better.  There  is  more  real  poetry  in 
such  men  as  those,  to  my  taste,  than  in  many 
who  make  much  more  noise  in  the  world  as 
poets.  ...  I  met  long  ago  that  verse  in  Was- 
son's  '  Seen  and  Unseen  '  which  runs  : 


rluDcbe 


»o^lin  in  1 

what  Uplift,  what  a  meip  o!  courage,  and 
immeasurable  hope  it  conveyed  to  me  I  and 
something  of  the  same  ring  seems  always 
in  it-  ■  .  .  One  of  my  great,  great,  old  favorites 
of  Gannett's  is  '  Hills  of  the  Lord,'  which  is 
lovely  beyond  my  powers  of  describing." 

, . .  The  Rev.  Dr.  J.  A.  Smith  of  Chicago, 
editor  of  the  Standard,  the  principal  Bapliit 
newspaper  of  the  West,  has  revised  a  collec- 
tion of  addresses  which  he  delivered  at  the 
Seminary  in  Morgan  Park,  III.,  not  long  ago, 
with  a  view  of  issuing  them  through  the  A^ 
can  Publication  Society  of  Hebrew,  of  Morgan 
Park ;  they  will  appear  under  Ihe  title  a 
New  Age." 

. .  .  The  poets  of  Indiana  are  planning 
val  to  be  held  in  June,  when  the  brightest  stars 
are  expected  10  cluster,  and  sketches 
read  of  Byron  Forceythe  and  Elizabeth  Con. 
well  Willson,  John  James  Piatt,  and  others  whi 
have  either  been  bum  or  spent  a  part  of  tbeir 
lives  in  that  State. 

. .  .  Prof.  C.  H.  J.  Douglas  of  Milwaukee  has 
retired  from  the  editorship  of  and 
terest  in  the  Unnirrsily.  The  paper  will  be 
edited  by  Charles  H.  Kerr,  its  present  managing 
editor,  and  the  oflicc  editor  of  Unily,  wiih  which 
it  will  at  once  be  consolidated,  and  published 
by  Chailes  H.  Kerr  &  Co. 


,  Mrs.  Laura  C.  Holloway's  biography  of 
Adelaide  Neitson,  a  second  edition  of  which  is 
ready,  has  found  especial  favor  with  the  people 
of  Miss  Neilson's  birthplace,  Yorkshire,  Eng- 
who  desire  to  give  the  author  an  ovation 
this  summer. 

,  As  an  illustration  of  the  Whiitier-Iike 
shyness  of  Mr.  Eben  E.  Rexford,  It  is  said  that 
summer,  when  the  authors  of  Wisconsin 
viih  the  Press  Association  of  the  State,  at 
Ashland,  he  —  although  he  had  declined  his  in- 
itation  —  was  in  Ashland,  but  took  the  first 
ain  out  after  he  knew  of  the  party's  arrival  I 
Actually  ran  from  us  I "  said  a  sprightly  au- 
loress,  recalling  the  circumstance.  "  If  T  had 
just  known  of  it  Jn  time,  I  should  have  run  after 
ind  brought  him  back  'at  the  point  of  the 
bayonet.'     I  should   have  modi  him  face   the 

.  Miss  A.   Aubertine   Woodward   ("  Auber 
Forestier  "),  probably  the  most  accomplished,  if 
t  Ihe  most  high  I)  .gifted,  female  writer  in  Wis- 
iisin,isafair,lighi.haited, matronly-looking  wo- 
rn of  forty- live,  with  blue  eyes  which  always  wear 
glasses,  and  a  very  "  sweet  "  face.    In  her  man- 
she  is  very  pleasant,  and  in  her  speech  very 
frank.    She  is  a  native  of  Pennsylvania,  but  has 
made  Madison  her  home  for  some  years.    She 
I  high  as   a  linguist,   and   is   an   exquisite 
pianist.    She  has  translated  several  Norwegian 
stories,  the  bestknown   of  which   is  the   Rev. 
Kristofer    Jansen's      TTie    Sptllbeund   Fiddler, 
and  Norwegian   melodies. 

.  - .  The  Cosmopolitan,  a  monthly  magazine  of 
current  literary  and  sociological  interest,  to  be 
furnished  at  ^.jo  a  year,  is  expected  to  appear 
this  month  from  Rochester,  N.  Y.  Mr.  C.  Ven- 
ton  Patterson  will  manage  the  new  venture, 
which  Is  to  be  published  by  Messrs.  Schlicht  & 
Field. 

. . .  Miss  Ruth  Ellis  indirectly  disclaims  the 
authorship  of  the  "  Saxe  Holm  "  writings  in  a 
private  letter  dated  Feb.  19th  ;  and  adds  that 
"it  is  a  mailer  of  regret  and  annoyance  "  to  her 
that  "they  are  still  attributed  to"  her  "in  the 
(ace  of"  her  public  disclaimer  of  ten  or  twelve 
years  ago. 

. .  .  Miss  Mary  E.  Wilkins,  who  writes  such 
excellent  short  stories  for  Harper's  Bazar,  re- 
sides in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  She  is  Ihe  "liittc 
Vermont  girl "  whom  iVidi  A-aialu  introduced 
with  promising  stories  and  verses  a  few  years 


HEWS  AHO  VOTES. 

—  Ticknor  &  Co.  have  in  press  Tht  Last 
Name,  a  novel,  by  Mrs.  Dahigren,  author  of  A 
Watkingten  Winttr,  in  which  Is  told  the  story  of 
a  family  of  French  refugees  in  the  United  States ; 
Thi  Saunlerir,  a  volume  of  descriptions  of 
ous  localities  in  Berkshire,  in  prose  and  v 
by  Charles  Goodrich  Whiting  of  the  Springfield 
RtpuMiean  (a  work  in  which  Mr.  E.  C.  Stedi 
has  taken  much  interest);  The  Imptrial  Island, 
or,  England's  Chronide  in  Stone,  a  collection  of 
views  ol  Ihe  historic  buildings  of  England, 
text  by  James  F.  Hunnewell,  author  of  The 
Lands  •>/  Scott. 

—  Tie  Story  of  Margaret  Kent  is  rapidly 
nearing,  if  it  has  not  already  reached,  a  fifth 
edition. 

— James  Herbert  Morse  has  in  press  a  volume 
of  poems  to  be  published  early  in  the  spring  by 


the  Putnams,  under  the  title  of  Summer  Haven 
Songs. 

—  A  volume  by  Mr.  Henry  Austin  of  Ihe  Bos- 
ton Bar,  announced  sometime  siuce,  is  just  out, 
which  is  of  value,  not  only  to  lawyers,  but  espe- 
cially lo  farmers  and  farm  owners,  since  it  treats 
of  all  the  points  of  law  in  regard  to  the  farmer 
and  his  iaboreis,  landlord  and  tenant,  domestic 
animals,  sale  of  crops,  boundaries,  overhanging 
trees,  seaweed,  etc.,  etc.  A  valuable  feature  of 
ihe  book  is  its  synopsis  of  game  laws  throughout 
the  United  States  and  in  Ihe  British  Provinces. 
It  is  published  by  Mr.  C.  C.  Sonle. 

—  An  illoalraled  broehuri  called  The  Message 
of  the  Blue-bird  is  announced  as  in  press  by 
Messrs.  Lee  Sl  Shepard. 

—  A  book  Full  of  interest  to  the  student  of 
New  England  genealogy,  now  passing  through 
Ihe  press,  is  Mr.  J.  O.  Austin's  Genealogical  Die- 
tionary  of  Rhode  Island,  Comprising  Three  Gen- 
erations of  Settlers  who  Came  Before  /690.  It 
has  been  carefully  compiled  from  old  records, 
wills,  and  inventories,  and  contains  many  inter- 
esting items  which  throw  light  on  the  manners 
and  customs  of  Colonial  life.  Mr.  Austin,  who 
is  known  as  a  most  painstaking  genealogist,  has 
carried  on  his  work  with  the  hearty  coiiperation 
of  Ihe  Rhode  Island  Historical  Society. 

The  Rabbi  Solomon  Schindlci,  one  of  the 
leaders  of  the  liberal  school  of  Judaism,  has 
completed  a  volume  on  Messianit  Expecla- 
.  which  is  to  be  brought  out  by  S.  E.  Cassino 
&  Co.  of  Boston.  The  hook  is  intended  10  over- 
turn some  of  the  accepted  ideas  as  to  the  Jewish 
faith,  and  is  interesting  as  showing  that  some- 
thing akin  lo  what  is  known  as  "  the  new  theol- 
ogy "  has  crept  even  into  this  conservative  body. 
Il  contains  an  introduction  by  the  Rev.  Minot  J. 

—  A  legal  work  on  Ferpettdties,  by  Prof.  John 
C.  Gray  of  Harvard  University,  Is  to  be  pub- 
lished at  once  by  Utile,  Brown  &  Co.  They 
will  issue  later  on  The  Lira,  of  Sales  of  Personal 
Property  in  Massachusetts,  by  E.  P.  Usher;  The 
Lata  of  Limited  Partnership,  by  Clement  Bates ; 
Studies  in  Comparative  furisprudenet,  and  tht 
Conflict  of  Latai,  by  Geoige  Merrill  of  the  New 
York  Bar;  and  The  Lam  of  Descent,  and  Inci- 
dents of  its  Practice,  by  Charles  E.  Grinnell  of 
the  Boston  Bar,  besides  several  new  editions  of 
standard  law  books. 

—  A  course  of  easy  lessons  in  science  for  com- 
mon schooln,  arranged  by  M.  Paul  Bert,  recently 
Minister  ol  Education  in  France,  is  being  adapted 
for  .American  schools  by  G.  A.  Wentworth  and 
G.  A.  Hill.  It  will  comprise  three  volumes 
called  respectively  The  First,  Second,  and  Third 
year  in  Science.  £xamples  of  Differential  Equa- 
tions, by  Prof.  George  A,  Oabome  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Institute  of  Technology,  a  new  volume, 
will  be  useful  to  the  students  of  the  higher 
mathematics.  Both  are  issued  by  Messrs.  Ginn 
iCo. 

—  7»e  Came  of  Mythology,  just  published  by 
The  Chautauqua  Press,  and  unusually  well 
gotten  up,  bids  fair  at  last  to  relegate  the  pet' 
ennial  "  Authors  "  to  the  shades.  It  is  arranged 
by  a  well-known  Episcopal  clergyman  of  Boston. 

—  Irving's  Alhambra  is  to  be  added  to  the 
series  of "  Classics  for  Children,"  published  by 
Messrs.  Ginn  &  Co.  It  is  edited  by  Alice  H. 
White- 

—  Mr.  Edward  Marston  of  the  London  pub- 
lishing house  of  Sampson  Low,  Maiston,  Scatle 


l886.] 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


89 


&  Rivinfiton,  Is  Ihe  lathot  of  Frank's  Kancht; 
w.  My  Holiday  in  Ikt  Roikiet,  just  published  in 
thU  country  by  Mewrs,  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co. 
The  firit  London  edition  of  this  book  was  entirely 
disposed  of  on  the  da]'  of  its  publication  thei 
and  its  American  publishers  have  been  obliged 
to  import  a  second  edition  as  the  first  is  entirely 
ezhaosied. 

—  Messrs.  Cnpples,  Upham  &  Co.  have  nearly 
ready  The  Log  of  the  Ariil,  a  volume  by 
well-known  Boslon  yachtsmen,  who  prefer  for 
the  present  to  withhold  their  names.  The  worl 
is  profosely  illustrated  with  views  of  the  lo 
calities  most  familiar  to  American  yachtimen 
Among  this  firm's  other  forthcoming  boolcs  ii 
W.  H.  Hill's  Small  FruiCs,  and  a  new  work 
translated  from  the  German  on  EUclric  Light- 
ing; a  limited  edition  of  Mr.  Rideing's  Thtui- 
eray't  London,  to  be  iuned  in  a  remarkably  taste- 
ful form,  with  parchment  cavers  ;  and  last,  but 
not  least,  fVhat  it  Thiaiophy  ?  a  (realise  by 
Newport  lady  who  is  widely  known.  This  last 
volame  is  to  be  uniform  with  Light  m  thr  Pali 
which,  by  the  way,  seems  sublime  to  one  half  it 
readers  and  ridiculons  to  the  other,  and  to  which 
we  alluded  in  our  last  number. 

—  Messrs.  Ticknor  &  Co.  are  to  publish  the 
Life  and  Letters  of  Longfellow,  by  the  Rev. 
Samuel  Longfellow,  on  March  13.  They  also 
expect  to  issue  the  first  volume  of  their  "Olden- 
Time  Scries,"  Curiesiiiti  of  the  Old  Lottery,  on 
the  same  date.  Among  their  forthcoming  books 
is  a  new  edition  of  Artistic  Homti  in  City  and 
Country,  by  Albert  W,  Fuller,  with  a  large 
number  oF  new  illustrations;  and  also  Hender- 
son's novel,  TAe  Prelate,  already  mentioned,  the 
covers  of  which  are  designed  by  Elihu  Vcdder, 
in  his  characteristic  style. 

—  The  poems  written  by  Mr.  Wbittier  since 
the  publication  of  The  Bay  of  Stoen  Mands  in 
1883.  are  to  be  collected,  and  published  in  a 
small  volume  by  Messrs.  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co. 

—  The  Amtriean  Architect,  in  addition  to  the 
usual  form  in  which  it  is  published,  will  in  future 
be  issued  in  sn  "  Imperial  Edition,"  which,  fur- 
nished at  an  advanced  price,  will  in  the  course 
of  a  year,  contain  more  than  one  hundred  eiira 
lithographic  illastrations.  It  is  to  be  printed  on 
a  paper  of  better  quality  and  brger  sIm  than 
the  ordinary  edition;  judging  from  the  number 
of  subscribers  procured  for  it,  the  success  of 
this  unique  venture  seems  assured. 

—  Mr.  G.  M.  Towle.is  at  work  on  A  Young 
Pete's  History  of  Ireland,  to  be  brought  out 
by  Messrs.  Lee  &  Shepard  in  uniform  style 
with  the  same  author's  Young  People's  History 
of  England. 

—  Among  the  Americans  mentioned  ai  sup- 
porters of  the  new  Englitk  Histericai  Sevieio 
(tlw  publication  of  which  has  just  been  begun  In 
England  under  the  editorship  of  the  Rev.  Man- 
dell  Creighton  and  Reginald  Lane  Poole)  are 
President  Charles  K.  Adams  of  Cornell  Univer- 
sity, Henry  Adams,  George  Bancroft,  the  Hon. 
John  Bigelow,  Dr.  Edward  Channing,  Professor 
F.  B.  Dealer,  Henry  M.  Dexter,  D.D,  Edward 
Eggleston,  Professor  E.  Emerton,  Professor 
George  P.  Fisher,  Professor  E.  W.  Gurney,  T. 
W.  Higginson,  Professor  Alexander  Johnston, 
Francis  Parkman,  Moses  Colt  Tyler,  Woodrow 
Wilsnn,  and  others. 

—  The  fourth  volume  of  The  Badminton 
Library,  shortly  to  appear,  is  devoted  to  Pacing. 
"  Flat  RaciDK  "  U  Healed  of  by  the  Eail  of  Suf- 


iScrings  on  i 
:   wilif  High 


folk  and  Hr.  W.  G.  Craven;  "  Steeplechasing 
by  Messrs.  A.  Coventry  and  A,  E.  T.  Watson. 
This  boot  will  be  followed  by  Hiding  and  Driv- 
ing.   All  the  volumes  are  handsomely  illustrated. 

—  Mr.  Robert  Louis  Stevenson,  in  spite  oF  his 
ill  health  which  keeps  him  most  of  ihe  time 

a  sick  bed,  has  managed  to  complete  another 
novel  which  will  appear  serially  in  England, 
probably  in  the  same  way  here.  The  story  is 
more  in  the  style  of  jyeaiure  Island  than  any  of 
his  other  books,  and  bears  this  remarkably  de- 
uiled  title  : 

Kidnapfnd :  Being  Memoirs  of  the  Adventures 
of  Uavid  Balfour  in  the  year  1751.  H<:  ' 
kidnapped  and  cast  away;  his  suffer! 
desert  isle ;  his  journeys  in  the  wi 
lands;  his  acquaintance  with  Alan  Breck  Stew- 
art, and  the  sons  of  the  notorious  Rob  Roy 
with  all  that  he  suffered  at  the  hands  of  hii 
Uncle  Ebeneier  Balfour  of  Shaws,  falsely  so 
called,  written  by  himself  and  now  set  forth  by 
Hr.  Stevenson. 

There  cannot  be  much  doubt  that  Kidnapped 
will  be  a  stirring  and  delightful  book. 

—  In  the  next  number  of  Harper's  Mrs.  Dinah 
Hnlock-Craik  will  begin  a  slory  which  nitl 

for   the  best  part  of    the  year,  entitled  King 
Arlhur;  Mela  Lane  Story.     It  was  written  ex- 
pressly  for  mothers.     It  opens  in  Switzerland, 
where  an   English   clergyman  and  his  wife  are 
living  quietly.    Some  years  before  the  opening 
of  the  novel  they  lost  their  only  child,  and  the 
bereavement    preyed    npon    the    mind    of    the 
mother  so  that  she  is  permanently  unhappy,  and 
suffers  the  cravings  of  an  uafulfilled  motherhood. 
To  the  country  place  where  the  clergyman  and 
"re  staying  comes  a  young  and  fashion- 
able  American   society  woman,   a  mother  who 
nothing  for  her  infant,  who 
entirely  devoid  of  maternal  instincts.    This 
almost  maddens  the  sorrowing  English  lady, 
i  gaitu  potsessiun  of  the  child,   whom 
ngs   up  as    her  own.      Of    course    the   real 
ithei,  who  has  given  away  her  child,  com 
r  senses  later  on,  when  she  appreciates 
folly.    Here  the  story  is  managed  with  the 
admirable  skill,  and  there  are  taiany  truly  dramatic 
Mr.    H.   M.  Alden,  the    editor   of 
Harper's,  says  that  it  is  the  best  story  she  has 
ilten  since  John  Halifax,  Gentleman  was  given 
the  world. 

—  In  fiction,  at  least,  the  April  Harper  prom- 
«  to  be  notable.    Besides  Mrs.  Craik's  King 

Arthur,  Mr.  Charles  Dudley  Warner's  serial 
stoiy,  affording  a  picture  of  life  in  the  South, 
Mr.  Blackmore'a  Spriiigltaven,  will  begin. 
Mr.  Warner's  chapters  will  be  illusttaied  by  Mr. 
C.  S.  Reinharl,  who  was  called  from  Paris  last 
year  specially  to  do  this  work,  and  Mr  Black- 
ivel  will  be  filled  out  with  pictures  by 
Hr.  Frederick  Barnard  and  Alfred  Parsons. 

—  Scribner  &  Welford  have  just  ready  Mr. 
W.  S.  Rockstro's  great  History  of  Music  From 
the  Earlieil  Times  le  Ihe  Present.  The  book 
has  been  looked  for  for  months,  and  musical 
students  will  be  glad  to  find  it  admirably  com- 
plete and  full  in  all  branches  of  musical  history 

from  the  first  trace  of  musical  knowledge  to  a 
icussion  of  "future  prospects." 

—  Mr.  Hamilton  Gibson,  the  artist.  Is  hard  at 
work  upon  a  large  new  illustrated  book  which 
will  probably  not  be  published  before  the  early 
fall.  It  is,  it  need  hardly  be  said,  a  study  of  na- 
ture, and  tastes  of  it  have  already  been  affgrded 
the  readers  of  Mr.  Gibson's  articles  in  Harper's 
Mimthly,    It  will  be  issued  by  the  Harpers,  who 


have  published  alt  of  the  author's  books.  Among 
other  new  volumes  in  Ihe  Harper  press  are  a 
novel  by  Edna  Lyatl,  the  author  of  Dona/an, 
and  other  semi -religions  novels,  entitled  In  the 
Golden  Days,  which  will  be  put  in  half  cloth 
binding;  and  volume  second  of  Sir  George  W. 
Cox's  Livee  of  the  Greek  Statesmen  and  Eventful 
Highls  in  Bible  History,  by  Bishop  Lee  of  Dela- 

—  Charles  Scribner's  Sons  have  nearly  ready 
for  publication  Mr.  Andrew  Carnegie's  Trium- 
phant Democracy,  a  book  wh'ich  has  naturally 
excited  a  good  deal  of  curiosity.  In  the  matter 
of  the  need  of  an  American  navy  the  author 
expresses  some  ideas  which  are  not  commonly 
met  with  nowadays.  "The  present  lack  of  a 
navy,"  he  says,  "  insures  the  nation  a  dignified 
position.  It  is  one  of  the  chief  glories  of  the 
republic  that  she  spends  her  money  for  belter 
ends,  and  has  nothing  worthy  to  rank  as  a  ship  of 
war.  To  buJd  a  few  smalt  ships,  and  call  Ihem 
a  navy  will  invite  comparison,  and  Ihe  'rascally 
comparative '  must  only  make  the  republic  ri- 
diculous, for  she  either  wants  Ihe  strongest  navy 
in  the  world  or  none."  And  Mr.  Caroegie  de- 
clares for  "none." 

—  Macmillan  &  Co.  announce  the  LeUere  of 
Thomas  Carlyle,  edited  by  Charles  Eliot  Norton 
and  The  Choice  of  Books,  by  Mr.  Frederick  Har- 

—  The  announcement  was  made  some  time 
ago  that  a  new  novel  had  been  written  by  Dr. 
George  H.  Picard,  the  author  of  ^  Miisiou  Flower, 
and  that  it  was  in  the  press  of  White,  Stokes 
&  Allen.  This  report  is  based  on  the  fact  that 
Dr.  PIcard  has  begun  a  new  work  of  fiction,  but 
as  yet  has  scarcely  finished  a  hundred  manuscript 
pages.     As  mapped  out,  by  the  author,  the  book 

11  take  the  form  of  a  comedy,  though  not  a 

Charles  Sctibnet's  Sons  have  in  press  a 
work  on  Persia:  the  Land  of  the  Imans,  by  the 
Rev.  James  Bassetl.  The  author  was  for  many 
years  a  missionary  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in 
Persia,  and  has  (ravemed  the  length  and  breadth 
of  the  land,  making  a  close  Study  of  the  Country 

\i  of  the  people.  Uther  books  announced  by 
the  Scriboers  include  a  new  woik  by  Hon. 
Eugene  Schuyler,  on  American  Diplomacy,  which 
.  very  thorough  way  the  diplomatic  and 
consular  service  of  the  country,  and  the  signiii- 

ince  uf  the  working  of  this  department  of  the 
government ;  and  an  American  edition  of  Fisch- 
er's History  of  Modern  Philaiophy,  with  a  new 
introduction  by  President  Noah  Porter. 

—  There  is  a  story  going  about  in  New  York 
to  the  effect  that  a  united  effort  will  be  nude 

put  Ihe  long  defunct  Manhatlan  Magcaine  on 
<  feet  again,  and  that  by  the  early  fall  Ihe 
periodical  will  take  a  new  lease  of  life.  The 
;port  also  says  that  the  new  editor  has  been 
elected,  and  that  he  is  a  well-known  literary 
>an.  We  can  hardly  believe  it  possible,  how- 
ler,  that  the  sanguine  gentlemen,  who  fur  many 
lonths  have  had  this  scheme  in  their  minds, 
111  ever  be  able  to  get  together  sufficient  ctpi- 
il  to  i&Eue  a  single  ounbet  of  thut  ili'fated  peri- 

—  The  Ufe  of  Peter  Cooper,  which  was  first 
announced  a  year  or  more  ago,  is  now,  we  learn, 
actually  on  Ihe  press,  and  will  be  issued  by  the 
MacmiUans  during  ihe  present  month.  It  will 
not  be,  as  many  people  seem  to  think,  an  ex- 
haustive   iMOgraphy,  but    will    resemble   in  its 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Mar.  6, 


scope  and  trcalment  the  monograph  on  Daniel 
Macmitlan.  The  larger  part  of  the  material 
was  furnished  to  the  author  by  Mr.  Hewitt, 
Cooper's  son-in-liw,  but  ttieie  still  remains  an 
enormous  amount  of  autobiographical  matter 
which  it  is  said  will  be  utilized  in  the  writing 
of  a  complete  biogtaphy  later  on. 

—  The  publication  of  Mr.  Frank  R.  Slocktoa't 
novel,  TAe  Lixtt  Mri.  Null,  has  been  postponed 
until  the  middle  of  March,  to  allow  time  for  a 
simultaneous  English  publication  and  the  print- 
ing of  another  American  edition,  made  necessary 
by  the  large  advance  orders.  The  liberal  way 
in  which  the  booksellers  order  Mr.  Stockton's 
story  shows  the  strength  of  this  writer's  hold  on 
his  readers. 

—  The  fact  that  Lord  Tennyson's  new  volume 
of  poetry  has  sold  only  to  the  extent  of  2,ooo 
copies  has  been  commented  upon  by  some  jour- 
nals as  "  showing  that  Tennyson's  works  are  no 
longer  eagerly  sought  for  and  purchased  by 
Americans,"  but  apparently  the  fact  that  the 
cheap  "library  "  editions  of  the  book  have  been 
sold  by  thousands  has  not  been  taken  into  con- 
sideration. 

—  Late  in  the  pTesent  month  or  early  in  April 
Macmillan  &  Co.  will  publish  the  volume  of 
Repristntativt  Potmi  of  Living  Authors,  col- 
lected by  Miss  J.  L.  Gilder,  editor  of  the  Critic. 
The  verses  are  selected  by  the  authors  them- 
selves, according  to  their  estimate  of  their  own 
best  work.  The  book  makes  a  bulicy  volume  of 
70opafiei. 

—  In  our  last  issue  we  spoke  of  Prof.  James 
K.  Hosmer  (in  noticing  his  Stery  af  Iht  yewi^  as 
a  master  of  English  style.  We  shall  do  all 
lovers  of  literature  a  good  turn,  we  think,  by 
calling  renewed  attention  to  his  Shorl  Hiitoty  ej 
Girmatt  Litiralurt,  published  in  1S79.  We 
do  not  know  whether  it  has  reached  a  second 
edition  yet,  but  it  deserves  many  editions.  It 
is  a  brilliant  book.  Its  style  is  a  model  of 
clearness  and  force.  His  views  are  sound  and 
his  presentation  of  them  attractive  to  an  extraor- 
dinary degree.  We  consider  it  the  best  English 
survey  of  German  literature  which  we  have  ever 

—The  New  York  TVibiitu  has  purchased  the 
exclusive  serial  right  to  Edgar  Fawcett's  last 
novel,  "  The  Confessions  of  Claud,"  which  will 
be  published  in  the  Sunday  edition  of  that  paper 
during  a  period  of  from  two  to  three  months. 

—  Mr.  Fawcett  will  publish,  this  spring, 
through  Ticknor  &  Co.  of  Boston,  a  new  volume 
of  poems  entitled  Romance  and  Rtrcry.  It  will 
be  a  volume  of  over  100  pages,  and  will  contain, 
as  its  initial  poem,  a  story  in  verse  of  several 
hundred  lines,  entitled  "The  Magic  Flower." 
Remanci  and  Revery  will  include  some  of  Mr. 
Fawcett's  most  ambitious  work. 

—  Mrs.  Grant  has  already  received  (200,000 
on  account  of  her  share  in  the  profits  of  the  sale 
of  the  first  volume  of  General  Grant's  Mtmoirt. 
Ilei  receipts  from  the  entire  work  are  expected 
to  be  not  less  than  (500,00a.  That  is  as  it  should 
be. 

—  The  annual  meeting  of  the  Longfellow  Me- 
morial Association  was  called  for  Saturday  of 
last  week,  but  adjourned  for  lack  of  a  quorum. 
It  appears  that  (313. z^  has  been  received  in 
subscriptions  during  the  year;  that  the  expenses 
for  the  same  period  were  (57.66;  and  that  the 
fund  now  amounts  10  (13,508.11. 

—  We  have  the  first  number  (for  March)  of 


the  Forum,  a  monthly  review  edited  by  Lorettus 
S.  Metcalf  [The  Fonim  Publishing  Co,  N.  Y.]; 
the  prospectus  of  the  Political  Science  Quarterly, 
edited  by  the  Faculty  of  Political  Science  of  Po- 
litical Economy  [Ginn  &  Co.];  and  the  first 
number  of  the  Citizen,  a  monthly  of  the  size  and 
appearance  of  the  Literary  World,  published  un- 
der the  auspices  of  the  American  Institute  of 
Civics  [D.  C.  Heath  &  Co.,  Boston].  Each  of 
these  is  an  uncommonly  promising  venture  in  an 
important  field.  The  Forum  looks  as  if  it  might 
have  caught  np  the  mantle  of  the  old  Inltma- 
tienal  Review.  The  contents  of  its  March  num- 
ber are  as  follows  1 

L    Science  and  the  Slate.     Prof.  Alexander 

Winchell. 
II.    Newspaper*  Gone  to  Seed.    James  Par- 
Ill.    Domestic  Service.      Edwin  P.  Whipple. 
IV.    Is    Romanism    a    Baptized    Paganism? 

Rev.  Dr.  R.  H.  Newton. 
V.    How  I  was  Educated.    Edward  E.  Hale. 
VL     Valcan, or  Mother  Earth}      Bishop  A. 
Cleveland  Coxe. 
VII-    The  Coming   Man.       Dr-  William  A. 

Hammond. 
VIIL    My   Religious   Experience.      Rev.  M.  J. 
feavage. 
IX.    Shall  Our  Laws  be  Enforced  }    Chancel- 
lor Howard  Crosby. 

—  The  following  criticism  of  7%i  Autocrat bota 
an  old  number  of  a  New  York  religious  weekly, 
written  in  sober  earnest,  may  amuse  our  readers: 

TSr  Autocrat  of  the  Breahfait  Table  appears 
among  the  books  recommended  to  be  read  in 
the  Chautauqua  course.  We  remember  reading 
that  work  as  it  ori^nally  appeared  in  the  Atlan- 
tic Monthly  many  years  ago,  and  the  impression 
it  left  with  us  is  that  it  was  a  positive  and  even 
violent  anti-Christian  production.  We  have 
since  read  most  that  Dr.  Holmes  has  written, 
which,  instead  of  removing  our  earlier  misgiv- 
ings, have  confirmed  and  intensified  them,  until 
we  have  come  to  reckon  him  about  the  most 
aggressive  as  well  as  the  moat  InainuatinE  oE  the 
whole  school  of  Bostonian  agnostics.  Has  Dr, 
Vincent  had  an  expurgated  edition  prepared? 
(We  hate  eipurgaliont,  and  suspect  that  they 
often  send  the  youthful  readers  away  in  search 
of  the  exscinded  matter.]  If  not,  then  "there  is 
death  in  the  pot." 

—  From  the  Athenaum  and  Academy  to- 
gether wc  Icam  that  Mr.  Gosse  is  lecturing  at 
Cambridge  on  English  Poetry  from  1400  to 
1550.  —  The  forthcoming  Afimair  of  Mrs.  Gil- 
christ will  contain  letters  from  George  Eliot,  the 
Carlyles,  Mr.  Lewes,  and  Wall  Whitman.— 
Mr.  Anstey  is  writing  a  story  the  hero  of  which 
is  an  Indian  idol. —  Mr,  Ribtou-Turner  has  fin- 
ished a  History  of  Vagrants  and  Vagrancy,  Beg- 
gars and  Begging.  — tSt.  T.  F.  Thisel ton-Dyer 
is  writing  a  work  on  treasure-trove.  —  Our  Lon- 
don correspondent,  Miss  A.  Mary  F.  Robinson, 
is  ready  with  a  new  volume  of  poems  entitled 
An  Italian  Garden.  —  A  memoir  of  the  late  Dr, 
John  Hullah  is  to  be  written  by  his  widow. — 
Mr.  Wm.  Morris  has  about  finished  a  transla- 
tion of  the  Odyssey  in  the  same  meter  as  his 
version  of  the  j¥.neid. — A  portrait  of  Charles 
Kingsley  is  to  be  painted  by  Dickinson  for  Mag- 
dalene College,  Cambridge.  —  Mr,  Marion  Craw- 
ford's new  Tide  ef  a  Lonely  Parish  deals  with 
modern  life  in  England. 

—  Colonel  CAerwick's  Campaign  is  the  title  of 
a  new  book  by  Flora  Shaw,  author  of  Castle 
Blair.  For  the  benefit  of  people  who  do  not  like 
novels  filled  with  "soldiering,"  we  may  add  that 
the  only  very  military  thing  about  the  book  is  its 
title.    Roberta  Brothers  publish  it, 

—  Miss   Elizabeth   P.   Peabody's  Uetmret  to 


Kindergarlners  are  announced  for  publication  in 
May  by  Messrs.  D.  C.  Heath  &  Company. 
The  first  of  the  eight  lecture*  contained  in  the 
volume  was  the  means  of  interesting  the  Boston 
public  in  Kindergarten  education;  and  the  re. 
maining  number*  are  those  which  Miss  Feabody 
has  addressed  to  the  training  classes  for  Kin- 
dergarten teachers,  in  Boston  and  elsewhere. 
Messrs.  Heath  Sc  Company  are  also  to  publish 
Systems  of  Education,  by  Professor  John  Gill,  of 
the  Normal  College  at  Cheltenham,  England  ; 
and  a  Manual  ef  Chemical  ArithmetU,  by  J.  Mil- 
nor  Coit,  of  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord,  N.  H. 

—  Messrs.  D.  Lothrop  ft  Company  announce 
among  their  publicationa  (or  March,  a  novel 
<:a\\tA  Heaven's  Gale ;  a  Slory  of  the  Forest  of 
Dean,  the  scene  of  which  is  laid  in  England. 
George  Macdonald's  last  book,  Whafs  Min^t 
Mine,  which  was  published  by  this  firm  on  Febru- 
ary iglh,  is  already  in  its  third  edition. 

—  The  dedication  of  Miss  Maud  Howe's  new 
book  Atalanta  in  the  South  runs  as  fallows : 
"  To  those  dear  Southern  Friends,  whose  unfail- 
ing kindness  and  hospitality  made  the  half  year 
passed  in  New  Orleans  one  of  the  pleasantest  of 
my  life,  I  dedicate  this  Romance  in  a  laving  and 
grateful  remembrance." 

—  Messrs.  Roberts  Brothers  announce  for  early 
publication  Prince  Ollo,hy  Robert  Louis  Steven- 
son, and  an  important  volume  by  Dr.  Frederic 
Henry  Hedge,  Hours  with  German  Clauics. 


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THE    PLEASURES,    DANGERS    AND    USES    OF 
DESULTORT  READING. 

).  Lord  Baclor  of  tte  DdItriHt  of 

GEMEBAL  PRINCIPLES  OF  THE  STRUCTURE 
OF  LANGUAGE. 

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dnllee  of  blH  profeaMoi 
Hj]d  rendered  familiar 
BlKtlng  itorr.    He  I*  a 


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,  nnd  harlng  l>«en  bioofhl,  hy  ihe 
i,mncb  Into  ooDMetwtS  i&e  poor, 
wUhfte  Joya  andio ^^- 

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CONTENTS. 

ThI  GlUt.V  AUCTIC  EXnDITIOH    .... 

Li™  AMD  Coiiiiispomdbk™  or  LoNoraLumr 

STUDiniHGBHUlLLHiITinV  .... 

UiHOK  Sa-naa : 

Riuliiii'i  PrcteriU 

Riukin'i  Roidiide  Sonn 

ThwkeniT'i  London 

Tntmbull'i  The  Blood  CoTtBtnl  .... 

WIUIUB  AlUo  Butlei'i  "  Dometdcoa  " 

GiulAllen>>"BibylaB" 

Two  Broken  Heiru 

Han  Cnifn'i'*Hrpenctlli«a*' 

Two  Ldiurt  Hour  Honli 

"Sw»etCic*ly" 

Th«  Let  Siiten'  "  CinierburT  Tile*  " 

Howclli'a  Indiiin  Snmaer 

Etc.  Blc,  Etc 

Von  SVHL  AKD  THI  FHIHCK  AltCHIVIl 

CouaroHDBHCi  I 

Ctuhina^t  DldioDirr  of  PKudonvnu   .  . 

SmmHolm 

Gin  Ehoush  LiTTEiL    A.  U.  F.  R.     . 

Ouii  Niw  Vom  LiTTix.    Styliu   .... 

SRAKIurBAItlAHA.     Edited  by  Wm.  J.  Rolle: 

The  Febrwy  Meeiioi  of  ihe  New  York  Shike- 
ipeAR  Society     ....... 

The  Gunlher  Aulognrb 

Cnnl  While*!  Edilwiii  of  Shikapeire 

NOTH  AHD  QUHIIS.     776 

Nimis  AMD  Nora    ....... 

NmOLOGT 


STHONDS'S    "BENAISSANOE    IN 
ITALY."" 

HIGH  up  among  the  mountains  above 
Meran,  in  tbe  little  hamlet  of  Davos 
Plati,  one  of  the  best  and  subtlest  critics 
of  modern  Europe  has  been  living  for  years 
past,  and  sending  forth  his  thought  to  the 
world.  Imprisoned  for  the  greater  piart  of 
the  year  in  the  still,  frozen  solitudes,  where 
alone  hia  physical  conditions  permit  of  his 
breathing  with  ease,  John  Addington  Sy- 
monda  has  utilized  to  the  utmost  the  vast 
opportunity  of  leisure  thus  afforded  him. 
Wider  of  range  and  far  more  just  than 
Ruskin,  clearer  and  surer  of  his  beliefs  and 
scope  than  Pater,  the  stream  of  brilliant 
research,  analysis,  and  poetry  which  hi 
sends  out  and  down  from  bis  home  in  thi 
htgfata,  is  deep  and  rich  and  beautiful  ii 
its  course  as  are  those  mountain-fed  rivers 
which,  emanating  from  the  same  water-shed, 
flow  freely  forth  to  fertilize  the  plain. 

We  are  led  to  a  fresh  recognition  of  hi 
place  as  an  historian  and  critic  of  art,  by  the 
appearance  in  an  American  edition  of  Tie 
Jtettautance  in  Italy,  at  a  price  which  puts 
it  within  the  reach  of  many  readers  who 
conld  hardly  have  afforded  the  luxury 
the  costly  edition  of  the  same  work  brought 
ODt  some  years  since  in  England.  The 
merits  of  the  book  are  too  well  known 
admit  of  an  exhaustive  criticism  at  this  late 
day,  but  for  the  benefit  of  those  who  will 
make  first  acquaintance  with  it  through  tfai 


medium  of  Messrs.  Henry  Holt  &  Co.'s 
publication,  we  will  briefly  designate  its 
salient  points. 

Tht  Renaistanci  in  /taly  is  grouped  in 
four  divisions.  The  first,  "  The  Age  of  the 
Despots,"  treats  of  that  early  and  stormy 
period  when  Italy  was  a  disjointed  series  of 
petty  republics  and  principalities,  all  at  strife 
with  each  other,  and  most  of  them  at  strife 
within  thetnselves.  To  this  time  belong 
many  of  the  most  picturesque  figives  of 
mediaeval  history,  and  some  of  Its  very  worst, 
Cesare  Borgia,  for  example,  Ezzelino  da 
Romano,  Galeazzo  Visconti,  and  Francesco 
Cenci.  It  was  then  that  Savonarola  proph- 
esied; that  Michael  Angelo,  sadly  turning 
away  from  the  struggle  and  the  injustice 
that  he  could  not  influence,  wrought  his 
stifled  indignation  into  marble ;  and  Machia- 
velli,  knowing  the  right  and  still  the  wrong 
pursuing,  dedicated  his  "  Prince "  to 
reigning  Medici,  and,  as  it  were,  placed 
gger  in  a  despotic  band,  and  indicated 
where  the  heart  of  his  country  could  be 
most  effectively  struck.  Picturesque,  we 
call  this  age,  viewing  it  from  the  safe  stand- 
point of  our  own  security,  but  the  dwellers 
therein  can  hardly  have  looked  upon  it  from 
the  artistic  point  of  view.  It  was  a  time 
when  noble  natures  bad  bard  shift  to  live  and 
keep  noble ;  and  the  few  whose  aims 
tinned  inconveniently  or  reproachfully  high 
died  young,  or,  like  Dante,  tasted  the  bitter- 
.  of  life-long  exile.  Italy  in  that  day  was 
lafe  home  for  those  who  could  not  or 
would  not  truckle  to  a  tyrant's  will,  or  who 
preferred  tbe  rewards  of  conscience  (o  thi 
rewards  of  crime. 

Mr.  Symonds's  second  division,  "  The  Re- 
vival of  Learning,"  gives  an  interesting  pict- 
ure of  the  gradual  re-awakening  of  interest 
in  classical  art  and  literature,  whose  very  ex- 
istence had  been  almost  forgotten. 

Of  Greek  there  was  absolutely  no  tradition 
left.  When  the  tiatnes  of  Greek  poets  ai  philos- 
ophers are  cited  by  MediKval  writers  it  is  at 
second  4iand  from  Latin  sources.  Greek  was 
hardly  less  lost  to  Europe  then  than  Sanskrit  in 
the  first  half  of  the  eighteenth  century,  To 
purge  the  mind  of  fancy  and  fable,  to  prove  that 
poetry,  apirt  from  its  supposed  prophetic  mean- 
ings, was  delightful  for  its  own  sake,  and  that 
the  history  of  the  antique  nations,  in  spite  of 
Paganism,  could  be  osed  for  profit  and  instruc- 
tion, was  the  first  step  to  be  taken  by  these 
pioneers  in  modern  culture.  The  achievemen" 
of  this  revolution  in  thought  was  the  great  pet 
formance  of  the  Italians  in  the  fourteenth  and 
fifteenth  centuries. 

Still  more  delightful  is  the  third  division, 
"The  Fine  Arts."  Here  Mr.  Symonds' 
extraordinary  qualities,  his  culture,  his  del 
cacy  of  perception,  his  unrivaled  grace  of 
style  appear  at  their  very  best  His  briefly 
vivid  sketches  of  the  long  line  of  Renais- 
sance painters,  architects,  and  sculptors, 
make  them  pass  before  our  eyes  like  a 
train  of  illuminated  figures.  So  little  is  said 
of  each,  yet  all  is  said.  Here  and  there  a 
single  phrase  delineates  a  character, 
when  Correggio  is  termed  "  The  Faun 
Ariel    of    Renaissance  painting,"    and    of 


Raphael  we  are  told  that  he  "  is  not  merely 
a  man,  but  a  schooL"  As  a  bit  of  just  bat 
caustic  criticism,  we  will  quote  Mr.  Sy- 
monds's remark  on  Vasari  vtrtus  Ruskin: 
"Vasari's  deicription  "  [of  Michael  Aneelo's 
Last  Judgtnent]  moves  one  to  laughter  with  its 
jargon  aljcut  "  AitHudini  brllissimi  e  icorli  mullo 
miraMli,"  when  the  man,  in  spite  of  his  honest 
and  enthusiastic  admiration,  is  so  little  capable 
of  penetrating  the  painter's  thought,  Mr.  Rus- 
kin leaves  the  same  impiession  as  Vasari :  he 
)  makes  much  talk  about  attitudes  an^  muscles 
Michael  Angelo,  and  seems  to  be  on  Vasari's 
level  as  to  comprehending  him.  The  differinci 
is  Ihat  Vasari  traisei,  Nustin  ilamei,  ielh  mits 
the  mart. 

One  other  little  bit,  as  an  example  of 
Mr.  Symonds's  charm  of  style : 

High  np  around  the  cupola  runs  a  frieze  of 
angeU,  singing  together  and  dancing  with  Joined 
hands,  while  bells  composed  of  fruit  and  flowers 
hang  down  between  them.  Each  angel  is  an 
individual  shape  of  joy,  the  soul  in  each  moves 
to  its  own  deep  melody,  but  the  music  made  of 
all  is  one.  Their  raiment  flutters,  the  bells 
chime;  the  chorus  of  their  gladness  falls  like 
voices  through  a  starlight  heaven,  half  heard  in 
dreams  and  everlastingly  remembered. 

The  two  volumes,  entitled  "Italian  Lit- 
erature," which  complete  the  work,  are  tbe 
least  desirable  part  of  it  to  tbe  general 
reader,  since  tbey  necessarily  treat  of  a 
long  succession  of  poets  and  dramatists, 
who  have,  not  unrighteously,  fallen  into 
oblivion,  and  whose  language  and  ideas,  in 
full  sympathy  with  those  of  their  age,  put 
them  beyond  the  pale  of  morality  as  under- 
stood today.  In  their  analysis  and  histories 
Mr.  Symonds's  laborious  research  and  ex- 
quisite skill  as  a  translator  shows  to  peculiar 
advantage,  while  the  sonnets  from  Michael 
Angelo  with  which  the  book  concludes, 
are  enough  In  themselves  to  confer  value 
upon  it 

THE  QiEELY  ABOTIO  EXPEDITIOIT," 

THE  story  of  the  experiences  and  suffei^ 
ings  of  the  gallant  party  under  Lieut 
Gieely,  established  in  June,  1881,  at  Lady 
Franklin  Bay,  in  Grincelt  Land,  comes  to 
us  in  two  bulky  volumes,  handsomely  bound 
and  profusely  illustrated  with  engravings 
made  from  photographs  taken  by  a  member 
of  the  party  and  by  the  relief  expedition, 
and  with  portraits  and  well-executed  maps 
introduced  when  needed.  It  is  perhaps  not 
generally  known  that  this  expedition  was 
one  of  two  sent  out  by  the  United  States  as 
this  country's  part  in  establishing  a  series 
of  fourteen  circumpolar  stations  at  which 
the  taking  of  scientific  observations,  upon 
such  matters  as  the  atmospheric  pressure, 
temperature,  dew  point,  direction  and  force 
of  winds,  and  magnetic  variation  and  dip, 
was  to  be  a  more  prominent  object  than 
geographical  exploration.  The  part  which 
each  government  was  to  take  in  this  work 
was  arranged  at  two  conferences,  in  which 
nine  nations  were  represented;  one  at  Ham- 


■  Three  Vein  nl  Arctic  Service.  By  Ueui.  A.  W.  Gredy, 
t;.  S.  A.  With  Map*  >Dd  IDuWiwiom.  a  Vola.  Ourtc. 
Scribier'a  Soni.    (lo.ea. 


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burg  in  October,  1879,  and  one  at  Berne,  in 
August,  1880.  Greater  interest  attaches  to 
the  narrative  of  this  party  than  to  any  of  the 
others,  both  from  its  extraordiDary  uUiinate 
privations  and  narroir  escape  from  total 
destruction,  and  from  the  fact  that  its  station, 
as  shown  by  a  map  giving  the  location  of 
all  established  in  (he  northern  hemisphere, 
was  nearest  the  North  Pole. 

Following  the  plan  of  furnishing  his  read- 
ers the  most  abundant  information  on  all 
points,  Lieut.  Greely  gives  first  the  official 
orders  and  instructions  of  the  war  depart- 
ment ID  relation  to  the  expedition,  followed 
by  a  vocabulary  of  the  technical  terms  of 
Arctic  life;  he  then  devotes  a  chapter  to 
the  earlier  explorers  of  Smith  Sound  — 
which  is  the  channel  leading  north  from 
BafBn's  Bay  between  Grinnell  Land  and  the 
west  coast  of  Greenland;  after  which,  and 
after  telling  of  the  international  conferences 
above  mentioned,  he  enters  on  the  narrative 
of  his  own  party.  This  is  given  with  every 
(ullneas  of  detail  which  could  be  of  interest. 
Thus  we  have  the  composition,  organisation, 
and  equipment  of  the  party,  with  their  por- 
traits ;  the  northward  voyage,  witli  some 
description  of  Greenland  and  its  inliabit- 
ants;  the  landing,  in  Lady  Franklin  Bay, 
near  the  site  of  the  British  station  of  1S75- 
1876;  the  building  and  plan  of  the  house, 
which  was  named  in  honor  of  Senator  Con- 
ger; the  methods  of  making  scieniiiic  ob- 
servations ;  the  details  of  routine  and  hy- 
giene ;  with  many  other  mailers.  The  great 
abundance  of  tlie  illustrations  and  the  mi- 
nuteness in  description  of  natural  phenom- 
ena enable  the  reader  to  realize,  almost  as 
by  personal  vision,  the  wonders  of  the  Arc- 
tic heavens,  the  portentous  length  of  day 
and  of  the  gloomy  winter  night  succeeding 
it,  and  the  vast  cheerless  expanses  of  ice 
and  snow  everywhere.  The  formation  and 
characteristics  of  Arctic  ice  are  discussed 
in  a  special  chapter. 

In  addition  to  the  technically  scientific 
work,  primarily  the  object  of  the  party.  Fort 
Conger  was  naturally  made  a  center  or  base 
of  operations  from  which  sundry  expedi- 
tions were  made,  with  sledges  drawn  by 
Eskimo  dogs,  for  exploration.  In  one  of 
these  Lieut.  Lock  wood,  accompanied  by 
Sergeant  Brainard  and  the  Eskimo  Chris- 
tiansen, attained  the  farthest  point  north 
ever  reached  by  man,  where,  on  an  island 
bordering  the  northwest  coast  of  Greenland, 
they  proudly  unfurled  the  stars  and  stripes, 
"with  an  exultation  impossible  to  describe,*' 
at  latitude  83°  238-10'.  The  relative  posi- 
tion of  this  point  may  be  best  appreciated 
by  recollecting  that  the  latitude  of  the  poll 
itself  would  be  90°.  Thus  "for  the  first 
time  in  three  centuries  England  yielded  ti 
another  nation  the  honors  of  'the  farthes 
north.'"  It  is  interesting  to  note  that  thi 
temperature  at  this  extreme  point  was,  01 
the  13th  of  May,  +  14°  F.  (—— 10  C),  and 
that  the  explorers  found  some  scanty  speci- 


s  of  vegetation  and  somewhat  more 
abundant  traces  of  animal  life.  In  another 
excursion  made  the  next  year  (1883),  by  the 
same  three  men,  westward  through  Grinnell 
Land,  a  fiord  was  found,  named  in  honor 
of  Lieut.  Greely,  leading  to  the  west  coast, 
which,  with  one  passing  near  Fort  Conger, 
nearly  bisects  the  land,  like  the  friths  of 
Scotland.  The  region  thus  explored  had 
been  a  blank  on  maps  issued  as  lately  as 
1883. 

From  early  in  the  year  1883  the  command- 
ing officer  had  had  in  mind  the  possibility 
of  being  compelled  to  retreat  southward  by 
boats,  in  case  of  the  non-arrival  of  the  relief 
expedition,  and  he  made  certain  prepara- 
tions in  the  way  of  deposits  {faekis)  of  pro- 
visions and  coal  with  that  view.  After 
August  had  come  without  the  arrival  of 
the  desired  ship,  the  order  was  given  to 
abandon  the  station  at  Fort  Conger  and 
begin  the  retreat  southward.  The  narrative 
of  the  slow,  perilous  journey  thence  to  Cape 
Sabine  fills  the  main  part  of  the  second  vol- 
ume. Up  to  this  time  the  house  named 
Fort  Conger,  used  as  the  parly's  dwelling, 
had  been  so  comfortable,  being  warm 
enough,  in  fact,  to  permit  the  luxury  of 
a  iwlh-room,  and  the  supply  of  provisions 
and  other  necessaries  so  ample,  that  the 
men  had  escaped  other  sufferings  than 
those  unavoidable  to  explorers  in  these  far 
latitudes;  and  (be  entire  number,  twenty- 
five,  remained  alive  and  in  health.  But 
upon  the  retreat  the  growing  scarcity  of 
food,  the  cold  of  the  advancing  Arctic  au- 
tumn, and  the  resultant  hardships  of  travel 
brought  increasing  suffering  and  disaster; 
and  the  narrative,  everywhere  vivid  in  de- 
tails, becomes  pathetic  in  the  extreme. 
Especially  intense  were  the  sufferings  of 
the  small  parties  sent  out  in  quest  of  sup- 
plies. One  by  one  men  succumbed  to  ex- 
haustion and  slow  starvation.  Reaching 
Cape  Sabine,  where  their  advance  was 
checked  by  ice,  the  debilitated  Survivors 
had  no  other  course  than  to  build  the  best 
shelter  possible  in  their  condition  and  await 
the  aiternative  of  rescue  or  death.  Here 
first  they  learned  from  papers  found  in  a 
cairn  that  the  relieving  party  under  Lieut. 
Garlington  bad  reached  this  point  and  been 
turned  back.  Here  also  occurred  tlie  exe- 
cution of  C.  B.  Henry  for  stealing  from  the 
scanty  stock  of  provisions,  under  circum- 
stances which  rendered  the  act  an  attack 
on  the  life  of  his  companions.  LieuL  Gree- 
ly's  frank  narrative  seems  to  show  that  the 
execution  was  a  last  resort,  after  reprimand 
and  warning  succeeding  previous  offences. 
The  miserable  state  of  the  men,  reduced  by 
deaths  to  seven  only,  when  at  last  the 
welcome  sight  of  the  rescuing  expedition, 
under  Capt,  Schley  of  the  "  Thetis,"  greeted 
their  eyes,  may  be  remembered  from  the 
accounts  read  in  newspapers,  and  so  also 
the  enthusiasm  with  which  the  returning 
survivors  were  greeted.    Among  those  who 


perished  were  the  brave  Lieut.  Lockwood, 
second  in  command,  and  Dr.  Pavy,  surgeon 
of  the  expedition. 

It  is  Lieut  Greely's  belief  that  at  the 
North  Pole  itself  there  is  land,  less  exten- 
sive than  at  the  South  Pole,  covered  with 
a  thick  ice  cap,  and  washed  at  its  shores  by 
an  ocean  which  is  never  wholly  frozen.  The 
value  of  these  volumes  to  students  of  nat- 
ural history,  and  of  physical  science  gen- 
erally, is  increased  by  the  various  appen- 
dices relating  to  such  subjects,  sixteen  in 
number;  some  recording  the  results  of  ob- 
servations in  physics,  others  in  physical 
geography,  botany,  and  zoology,  and  one  on 
ethnology. 

LIFE  AVD  00BBE8F0NDEN0E   OF 
LONGFELLOW.' 

THIS  biography  of  perhaps  the  most 
widely  known  of  American  poets 
should  be  for  several  reasons  especially  in- 
teresting to  literary  people.  Every  author, 
consciously  or  unconsciously,  impresses  on 
his  writings  much  of  his  own  personality; 
and  with  those  whose  works  are  widely  read 
and  prized,  there  grows  up  in  the  minds  of 
their  readers  a  feeling  of  personal  acquaint- 
ance. In  case  of  a  poet  who  has  delighted 
our  hours  of  leisure,  and  perhaps  soothed 
our  hours  of  pain,  this  feeling  may  become 
one  of  warm  attachment.  Furthermore, 
Mr.  Longfellow  was  himself  preeminentiy  a 
man  of  letters ;  one  loo  whose  career 
brought  him  into  contact  with  many  other 
celebrated  men,  with  some  of  whom  he  en- 
joyed personal  friendship.  An  additional 
value  is  given  to  this  account  of  his  life  by 
the  good  judgment  of  the  genial  and  accom- 
plished compiler,  a  brother  of  the  poet,  in 
telling  the  story  chiefly  in  Mr.  Longfellow's 
own  words,  as  preserved  in  journals  and  lei- 
ters,  and  in  the  words  of  his  friends,  from 
whose  letters  to  him  there  are  frequent  and 
full  quotations.  The  narrative  is  thus  con- 
temporary rather  than  retrospective.  Of 
course  these  citations  are  woven  together  by 
the  compiler  with  sufficient  explanations  and 
additions  to  make  the  whole  comprehensive 
and  clear.  Perhaps  the  greatest  charm  of 
all  will  be  found  in  the  gentle,  refined,  and 
noble  character  which  everywhere  shines 
through  the  narrative. 

A  vignette  on  the  title  page  shows  the 
house  in  Portland,  Maine,  at  the  edge  of  the 
water,  in  which  the  future  poet  was  born,  in 
the  year  1807.  Another  engraving  repre- 
sents a  nearly  square,  brick  residence,  In 
the  same  city,  built  in  colonial  style  about 
178s  by  his  mother's  father,  Gen.  Peleg 
Wadsworth,  to  which  house  his  father, 
Stephen  Longfellow,  removed  in  1808,  and 
where  the  family,  ultimately  including  nine 
children,  lived  for  many  years.  The  glimpses 
given  of  the  early  years  of  Henry  Loagfel- 


•Lilc  aC  Uinir  WuUwonh  LoDglellov.  Sdiltd  br 
Sunud  LoBitellaw.  TwoTolmniw.  Illuintcd.  Ticknor 
SCO.    (joo. 


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low  at  Portland,  previously  to  his  going;  to 
Brunswick,  in  i8Z2,  to  attend  college  at  Bow- 
doin,  indicate  a  retiring  and  sensitive  nature, 
seemingly  inherited  in  great  part  from  hiE 
mother,  yet  courageous  and  hopeful,  and 
always  strictly  conscienlious.  Pleasant  ac' 
counts  are  given  of  the  family  life.  To  this 
period  belong  the  earliest  of  his  verses 
appearing  tn  print,  a  short  ballad  on  tlie 
battle  of  Lovell's  Pond,  an  early  Indian 
skirmish.  These  were  in  the  Portland 
Gatttle  oi  November  17th,  1820.  They  are 
given  now  with  the  remark,  "There  is  very 
little,  even  of  promise,  in  these  verses- 
Other  boys  of  thirteen  have  written  better.'' 
Previously  to  their  author's  college  Iife_ 
begun  as  a  sophomore  in  1822,  he  wrote 
some  other  lines  for  the  same  paper,  which 
,  bts  biographer  declares  not  worth  reprinL 
ing;  and  others  while  an  undergraduate. 
As  a  student  hia  rank  was  high. 

The  young  collegian's  father  wished  him 
after  graduation  to  study  law,  his  own  pro- 
fession ;  bnt  the  son's  ambition  was  strongly 
for  a  more  purely  literary  life.  He  therefore 
planned  a  post-graduate  course  in  general 
literature  at  Harvard,  purposing  to  fall  back 
upon  legal  pursuits  afterwards,  iu  default  of 
other  openings.  But  before  this  project 
could  be  begun  it  was  voted  by  the  trustees 
of  Bowdoin  to  establish  there  a  professor- 
ship of  modern  languages,  and  an  "informal 
proposal "  was  made  to  the  talented  young 
graduate  to  prepare  himself,  by  study  in 
Europe,  to  receive  the  appointment.  This 
suggestion  Mr.  Longfellow  accepted  gladiy. 

The  young  traveler's  experiences  in 
France,  Spain,  Italy,  and  Germany  are  re- 
corded in  his  letters  and  journal,  and  much  of 
the  materials  so  gathered  he  used  afterwards 
iu  his  prose  romances  Hyperion  and  Ouirt 
Mor.  His  industry  in  learning  the  languages 
was  great  At  Madrid  be  met  Irving,  then 
engaged  upon  his  Life  of  Columbus,  whom 
he  found  delightful  and  who  gave  him 
letters;  among  them  one  to  Scott,  which 
it  does  not  appear  that  Longfellow  ever  pre- 
sented. He  was  in  Spain  eight  months,  a 
year  in  Italy,  and  in  Rome  twice,  where, 
"caught  by  its  proverbial  fascination,"  he 
felt  some  of  a  New  Englander's  surprise, 
but  shows  more  than  a  typical  New  Eng- 
lander's liberality  of  spirit  in  writing  of  the 
Roman  Catholic  religion.  From  Rome  he 
went  to  Germany,  by  way  of  Venice  and 
Trieste,  settled  in  Dresden  and  afterwards 
in  GSttingen  for  study  of  German ;  and  em- 
barked (or  the  United  States  in  July,  1829; 
io  September  of  the  same  year  entering  on 
the  duties  of  professor  of  modern  languages 
at  Bowdoin  College,  which  he  discharged 
futh fully  for  about  five  and  a  half  years. 

In  December,  1836,  Professor  L.ongfeIlow 
assumed  his  professorship  in  Harvard, 
which  he  held  until  1854.  He  took  rooms  in 
the  same  house  with  Professor  C.  C.  Felton, 
with  whom  and  with  Charles  Sumner,  then  a 
lecturer  in  the  law  school,  who  "  had  not  yet 


dreamed  of  a  political  career,"  he  soon  es- 
tablished a  warm  and  life-iong  friendship. 

In  the  account  of  the  succeeding  years 
of  his  life  probably  the  chief  interest  lies  in 
the  very  many  references  made  in  his  jour- 
nal and  correspondence  to  events  of  his- 
torical importance  and  of  his  own  literary 
activity,  and  to  the  great  number  of 
men  whom  he  met  There  is  such  a  wealth 
of  these  references  that  we  can  but  cite 
few  of  the  more  noteworthy,  and  those  very 
briefly.  The  celebrated  Psalm  of  Uft  was 
written  in  July,  1838.  A  fac-slmile  is  given 
of  the  original  manuscript  of  this,  as  later 
of  Excelsior  and  of  an  extract  from  Hy- 
perion. Thus  the  reader  can  see  a  little  of 
the  working  of  the  author's  mind  and 
pare  the  different  readings  —  as  is  do 
the  case  of  Excelsior  in  the  Literary  World 
of  June  3,  1882.  Aa  may  have  been 
mised  by  many  readers  the  title  and  first 
idea  of  Excelsior  came  from  seeing  the 
motto  and  coat  of  arms  of  the  State  of  New 
York.  The  next  year  saw  the  publi 
oi  Hyperion,  which  he  regarded  as  superior 
to  Outre  Mer;  io  which  he  tried  to  express 
"  the  highest  aspirations  of  the  soul  of  man," 
and  which  had  special  interest  from  inter- 
weaving some  of  its  author's  own  experi- 
ences—  it  is  said  even  in  case  of  the  small 
part  devoted  to  the  love  story.  Then  also 
appeared  The  Village  Blacktmith.  An  en- 
try in  his  journal  for  1840  chronicles  the 
beginning  of  the  curious  Brook  Farm  Com- 
munity ;  another  the  appearance  of  his 
Voices  of  the  Night. 

During  the  years  of  quiet  college  duties 
and  of  greater  or  less  literary  activity,  nu- 
merous words  show  that  Professor  Long- 
fellow was  an  earnest  and  uncompromising 
foe  of  slavery,  though  a  man  loving  peace 
and  opposed  to  any  other  than  lawful  means 
for  its  removal.  He  rejoiced  in  the  anti- 
slavery  speeches  of  his  friend  Sumner  and 
in  the  enthusiasm  aroused  by  the  publica- 
tion of  Mrs.  Stowe's  Uncle  Tom's  Caiin; 
and  was  correspondingly  indignant  at  the 
passage  of  the  Fugitive  Slave  Bill  in  1850. 
A  vote  cast  for  it  by  a  Boston  representa- 
tive at  Washington  he  terms  "  a  dark  dis- 
grace to  the  city," 

It  would  be  almost  impossibit 
the  long  list  of  distinguished  persons  whom 
Mr.  Longfellow  saw  during  the  period  of 
hia  life  at  Cambridge.  Scarcely  any  emi- 
nent man,  American  or  European,  came 
near  Boston  without  seeing  him,  and  many 
received  the  generous  hospitality  of  Craigie 
House.  One  was  Charles  Dickens.  At 
another  time  Professor  Lowell  gave  a  sup- 
per in  honor  of  Thackeray,  attended  by 
other  eminent  literati.  Longfellow  has  re- 
corded a  few  ions  mots  of  the  occasion  : 

"Will  ;ou  lake  some  portt"  said  Lowell  to 
Thackeray.  "I  dare  drink  anything  thai  be- 
comes ■  man."  "  It  will  be  a  long  while  before 
1  hat  becomes  a  man."  "Oh  no,"  cried  Felton, 
"  it  is  fast  lurHing  into  one."  A»  we  were  going 
away  Thackeray  said,  "  We  have  eiaid  too 
long."    "1  ihouid  say,"  replied  the  hoct,  "fitt 


long  and  two  short."    (It  should  be  remembered 

that  Thackeray  was  a  TCiy  tat!  man.) 

Among  the  most  interesting  literary  notes 
is  one  giving  account  of  reality  underlying 
The  IVayside  Inn.  The  inn  was  at  Sud- 
bury, about  twenty  miles  from  Cambridge, 
built  by  an  English  family  as  a  country 
house.  They  became  inn-keepers  in  con- 
sequence of  reverses  of  fortune.  "  All  the 
characters  were  real  but  they  were  not 
really  at  the  Sudbury  inn.  The  poet  was 
T.  W.  Parsons,  the  translator  of  Dante ; 
the  Sicilian,  Luigi  Monti;  the  theologian. 
Professor  Treadwell  of  Harvard;  the  etn- 
dent,  Henry  Ware  Wales;  the  musician  is 
Ole  Bull ;  the  Spanish  Jew,  Israel  Idrehl." 

In  1842  Prof.  Longfellow  made  a  third 
voyage  to  Europe,  and  in  1868  a  fourth.  In 
the  latter  he  met  many  of  the  most  dls- 
tinguished  men  in  London,  and  had  the 
honor  of  a  reception  by  the  Queen  at 
Windsor.  The  University  of  Cambridge 
bestowed  upon  him  the  honorary  degree  of 
doctor  of  laws,  and  from  Oxford  he  received 
the  dignity  of  D.C.L.  Before  returning 
home  he  visited  the  continent. 

The  skilled  band  of  the  biographer  touches 
gently  upon  the  second  great  bereavement 
which  befell  the  poet,  in  the  tragic  death  of 
his  wife,  and  upon  the  increasing  honors 
of  bis  later  years.  His  literary  activity  con- 
tinued nearly  to  the  close  of  his  lite  in  1882  ; 
the  greatest  work  of  his  last  years  being 
the  second  series  of  Tales  of  a  Wayside 
Inn,  and  The  Divine  Tragedy.  This  last 
the  first  in  order  but  the  last  written 
of  the  three  parts  of  the  trilogy  Christui, 
of  which  the  second  in  order  had  been  The 
Golden  Legend  3.ad  the  third  The  Ne-m  Eng- 
land Trageaict. 

We  miss  the  bibliography  which  some 
passing  references  led  us  to  expect.  The 
publishers,  in  a  second  edition,  could  not 
do  better  than  to  insert  that  from  the  Long- 
fellow number  of  Ihe  Literary  World,  which 
was  prepared  under  the  poet's  own  super- 
vision.    It  is  at  their  service  for  this  pur- 

STUDIES  IN  GENEBAL  HISTOBT.* 

THE  name  of  Mrs.  Sheldon  has  long 
been  one  of  the  foremost  among 
American  educators  and  pedagogical  writ- 
I.  An  elaborate  work  from  her  hand  pre- 
senting a  new  method  of  teaching  history 
cannot  fail  to  have  great  value  In  itself,  and 
challenges  at  once  our  careful  consideration. 
The  author  is  not  quite  clear  as  to  how  she 
would  have  us  use  her  book.  As  we  under- 
stand Mrs.  Sheldon  gives  us  the  "original 
ces  "  of  history,  places  us  in  regard  to 
the  nations  and  times  to  be  studied  in  the 
position  of  a  contemporary  citiien,  and  af- 
fords us  a  living  view  of  history  much  aa  we 
it  today  enacting  before  our  eyes.  Each 
nation  and  epoch  seems  to  be  treated  on  the 


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same  plan.  The  "  Study  on  Egypl  "  covers 
twelve  pages,  three  of  which  are  cngraviags. 
We  have,  first,  a  few  lines  on  sources  and 
authorities,  embracing  ruins,  contemporary 
writers,  and  modern  writers.  Then  come 
five  subdivisions:  (t)  Classes  of  people  — 
half  a  page;  (2]  Leading  periods  (two),  with 
chief  events,  works,  names — two  pages.  A 
few  lines  from  the  Theban  period  will  illus- 
trate the  whole  book : 

The  Theban  kings  expel  the  shepherds,  and 
rule  the  whole  oF  Kgypt.  Under  the  eighteenth 
and  nineteenth  dynasties,  conquests  ate  made  in 
Phanida,  Palestine,  Mesopol      ■     -•  '  ■       —' 

'Se  and  chariot  arc  brougl 

ia.    In  the  latter  part  of  1...,.-.  .   . 

9  oE  the  Jews  takes  place.  Thothmes  III 
(eighteenth  dvnasty}  builds  magnificent  temples 
at  ifemphls,  Thebes,  and  at  Kainak  and  Luxor, 
near  Thebes,  and  is  a  famous  conqueror. 

(3)  Lists  of  objects  from  the  tombs  —  two 
thirds  of  a  page.  Following  these  is  a 
"  Study"  on  i,  2,  3,  consisting  of  twelve  or 
fifteen  questions  —  "Who  held  the  central 
political  and  military  power  in  ancient  Egypt? 
Prove  it  from  i  and  2.  What  belief  con- 
finned  this  power?  Of  what  use  was  each 
class?  What  class  supported  the  rest? 
What  class  was  oppressed,  and  how  ?  What 
name  do  you  give  to  such  a  form  of  govern- 
ment? Of  society?"  Then,  after  a  brief 
note  on  the  pyramids,  come  (4}  five  pages  of 
**  Extracts "  from  the  ancient  literature, 
fragments  of  Tif  Book  of  the  Dead,  The 
Precepts  of  Ptak-kotep,  Hymn  to  the  Nile, 
Three  Prayers,  An  Inscription  of  Rameses, 
a  writer  under  Rameses  II,  and  another 
under  Thothmes  III.  A  "Study  on  4,"  of 
about  twenty  questions,  closes  this  history 
of  Ancient  Egypt 

After  looking  this  all  over  with  much  care 
from  the  point  of  view  of  a  young  learner, 
we  fail  to  see  that  he  will  gain  any  adequate 
idea  whatever  of  that  wonderful  Nile  valley, 
its  still  more  wonderful  people,  and  their 
power,  duration,  architecture,  life,  govern- 
ment, religion,  civilization,  influence  on  the 
world's  history.  If  this  is  what  is  meant  by 
making  us  an  Egyptian  citizen,  we  tail  en- 
tirely to  see  the  success  of  the  method.  If 
this  is  to  be  supplemented  by  careful  lectures 
and  explanations  by  (he  teacher,  or  by  care- 
fully directed  reading  of  any  of  the  "mod- 
em authorities"  mentioned,  that  is  quite 
another  thing;  but  we  have  looked  in  vain 
for  some  indication  that  this  is  the  method 
intended. 

The  study  of  history  embraces  three  dis- 
tinct periods :  first,  the  siory  period,  when 
the  child,  at  home  or  in  the  lower  schools, 
listens  to  isolated  tales  of  history,  and  learns 
to  tell  and  read  them  for  himself;  second, 
the  iext-iook  period,  from  the  grami 
school  through  the  college,  when  the  student 
reads  smaller  or  larger  treatises,  and  has  his 
"historic  sense  "  quickened  in  every  way  by 
contact  with  the  enthusiastic  instructor  in 
the  class;  l\\\fd.,  the  ^ino&  oi  erigmal inves- 
tigation, (a)  beginning  in  the  high  school 
and  college  by  writing  out  a  given  topic, 


theme,  from  a  comparison  of  the  leading 
historians,  and  {b)  afterwards,  mostly  post. 
collegiate,  by  going  out  and  working  up  an 
original  monograph  in  some  littie-explored 
field  of  ancient  or  modern  history,  as,  for  in- 
stance, the  Johns  Hopkins  fellowship  essays. 
Now,  as  we  understand,  it  is  this  last,  this 
original  work,  that  the  book  before  us  under 
takes  to  teach.  And  by  so  doing  it  under, 
takes  two  impossibilities,  from  the  veiy 
nature  of  the  case  —  first,  to  teach  what  is 
entirely  beyond  the  capacity,  especially  the 
undisciplined  judgment,  of  the  student  at  the 
age  for  which  the  book  is  intended  ;  and,  sec 
ond,  to  attempt  to  provide,  in  a  few  sliced 
and  dried  descriptions  and  fragmentary  ex- 
tracts, material  for  the  original  study  of 
general  history,  and  that  in  a  little  book  of 
five  or  six  hundred  pages  ! 

Or  are  we  mistaken  ?  Was  this  work  in- 
tended only  as  a  handbook  for  the  teacher 
and  student,  a  series  of  historical  outlines 
and  contemporary  extracts  carefully  chosen 
for  easy  reference  and  illustration  in  ordi- 
nary study?  If  so,  we  have  only  praise  for 
the  book,  and  it  will  prove  useful. 

Typography  and  general  appearance  are 
in  the  usual  excellent  taste  of  the  publish- 
ers, and  give  additional  evidence  that  the 
young  firm  of  S.  S.  Gushing  &  Co.  are  get- 
ting to  be  among  the  best  book  printers  in 
Boston. 

MIMOB  NOTIOES. 
Ruskin. 
Prattrita.  Outlines  of  Scenes  and  Thoughts 
Perhipa  Worthy  o(  Memo^  in  my  P»st  Life, 
liy  John  Ruskin,  I,I_D.  Chapter  IV.  Under 
New  Tutorships.  Chapter  V.  Parnassus  and 
Plynlimmon.    jNew  York:  John  Wiley  &  Sons. 

Thi  Rgadiide  Songs  of  Tutcany.  Translated 
and  Illustrated  by  Francesca  Alexander.  Kdited 
by  John  Ruskin.     Part  X.     [John  Wiley  &  Sons. 

In  the  two  new  instalments  of  Praltrita  (chap- 
ters IV  and  V),  Ruskin,  under  the  sub-litles  of 
"Under  New  Tutorshipa  "  and  "Parnassus  and 
Plynlimmon,"  marks  oS  two  more  eras  in  his 
life.  At  ten  he  goes  to  church,  or  chapel,  with 
his  parents,  who  are  the  grandest  people  in  the 
congregation  ;  and  he  refers  to  his  first  experience 
of  evening  service,  his  amazed  and  appalling 
sensation  "as  of  a  vision  preliminary  to  the 
Day  of  Judgment,  of  going  a  year  or  two  later, 
first,  into  a  church  by  candle-light."  He  and  his 
cousin  get  through  the  Sunday  evenings  as  best 
they  can,  over  Pilgrim's  Progress,  Bunyan's 
Holy  IVar,  Quarles's  Emilims,  Fox's  Boot 
of  Martyrs,  Mrs.  Sherwood's  Lady  of  lie  Manor, 
. . .  and  as  a  profane  indulgence,  Bingley's  Nat- 
ural Hhtory.  Ileleains  a  little  Greek,  and  he 
descilbes  his  father's  art  gallery,  which  contains 

He  loses  his  Croyden  aunt,  a  loss  which  cuts 
him  off  from  certain  delights ;  he  criticises  the 
boys  she  left,  hut  likes  only  one,  Charles,  whose 
older  brother  had  taken  care  of  some  matters 
in  his  education  in  this  wise : 

Very  early  in  the  child's  life  he  put  him  on  a 
bare-backed   pony,  with   the  simple  elementary 

-" uction   that  he  should  be  thrashed    if  he 

t  off.    And  he  stayed  on.     Similarly,  for 


D  the  I 


f  the  Croydon 


believe  the  lad  squattered  back  to  the  bank 
without  help. 

As  for  the  boy,  Ruskin,  he  was  never  allowed 
"  Co  go  to  the  edge  of  a  pond,  or  be  in  the  same 
field  with  a  pony;"  and  he  was,  in  his  own 
words,  "  nothing  more  than  a  conceited  and  un- 
entertainingiy  troublesome  little  monkey,"  not 
"the  sort  oC  creature  that  a  boy  could  care  much 
for,"  but  who,  he  thinks,  save  for  so  much 
coddling,  might  have  made  probably  the  first 
geologist  of  his  time  in  Europe.  There  it  the 
true  Ruskinlan  flavor  on  every  page  o(  this 
autoblogiaphy ;  the  tame  delicious  honesty  in 
the  egotism;  the  author  tells  everything  mixed 
in  with  alt  the  little  vanities  and  weaknesses 
with  which  we  are  to  familiar  and  to  which  we 
are  so  accustomed.  It  is  delightful  to  have  an 
autobiography  from  which  the  writer  docs  not 
keep  back  what  make  us  know  him  as  he  is,  or 
was;  and  the  simplicity  with  which  this  one 
lakes  it  for  granted  that  it  it  of  the  utmost 
importance  that  he  must  give  the  hittory  of 
every  little  circumstance  is  irresistibly  amusing. 

Part  X  of  the  Raadside  Songs  of  liiscany, 
which  completes  the  series,  opens  with  a  note 
by  Ruskin  on  the  vision  of  St  Christopher, 
wherein  he  speculates  upon  the  interpretation 
of  the  legend,  inclining  to  Ftancesca's  final 
version  that  it  is  the  "  gradually  enriched  and 
sunset-gilded  tradition  of  a  dream  or  vision  seen 
by  a  hermit  ferryman  ;  "  and  he  dwelli  upon  the 
lesson  in  all  these  pictures  and  stories,  that  the 
great  need  of  the  Italian  people  is  love.  Two 
tittle  songs  express  the  guiding  power  of  woman- 
hood, accompanied  by  another  note  ;  then  comet 
a  "Talk  Under  the  Olives,"  containing  tome 
of  the  timple  Edwige's  sayings,  as  that  about 
the  discontented  lady  of  whom  the  kind  god 
said,  "  after  He  had  made  people  in  the  world ; 
'  I  am  not  afraid  but  I  can  take  cart  of  you,  bul 
it  is  more  than  I  can  do  to  content  you.'  "  More 
follows  about  Edwige't  children,  more  notes, 
with  a  sort  of  leave-taking  of  these  homely 
tales  of  a  peasant  people,  and  an  even- 
ing prayer.  There  is  a  carefully-made  index, 
and  there  are  the  two  illustrations,  which  in  one 
respect  are  choicer  than  any  which  have  gone 
before,  inasmuch  as  they  represent  the  child 
Christ  with  an  appealing  grace  of  attitude,  in 
the  first  case,  more  eloquent  than  words;  and  In 
the  other  an  exquisitely  happy,  satisfied  child  (ace, 
and  a  most  loving  gesture  in  the  position  of  the  lit- 
tle hand  against  the  ferryman's  cheek  — to  which 
the  editor  has  not  failed  to  call  our  attention. 


Thackeray's    London.      By    W.   H,  Rideing. 
ICupples,  Opham  &  Co.    J[.50,] 

In  Thackeray's  London  Mr.  William  H.  Ride- 
ing gives  a  aeries  of  short  and  graphic  sketches 
of  the  various  streets  and  buildings  most  in- 
timately connected  in  our  minds  with  that  author 
and  his  works.  There  is  the  Charier  House 
first  of  all,  where  Thackeray  received  his  edu- 
cation, where  today  a  tahlet  to  his  memory 
hangs,  and  among  whose  "  Poor  Brethren " 
Colonel  Newcome  was  numbered  when  he  an- 
swered "  Adsum  1  "  to  the  roll-call  of  the  angelt. 
There  is  the  Temple  where  Pendennia  and 
George  Warrington  had  chambers,  Thackeray's 
club  (the  Athcnieum],  the  various  houses  in  P 
which  he  resided,  Fater-Nosier  Row,  scene  of 
the  rivalries  of  Bungay  and  Bacon,  96  Russell 


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Square  (dUtinguishabU  though  not  thus  num- 
bered), whence  George  Osborne  issued  forth  to 
coort  Amelia  Sedley,  that  other  dwelling  in 
Fitcrof  Square,  with  its  balcony  flanked  by 
a  funeral  urn  where  Colonel  Newcome  and 
Junes  Binnie  kept  house  together,  and  the 
imall  bouse  in  Curzon  Street,  which  was  the 
scene  of  Becky  Sharp's  ■hort-lived  glory.  Mr. 
Rideing  has  looked  about  London  with  the  eye 
of  a  true  hero-worshiper,  and  this  tasteful  little 
volume  will  be  enjoyed  by  those  who,  like  him, 
set  the  a'uthor  of  Vanity  Fair  high  above  all 
contemporary  rivals  and  novelists. 

7^  Bland  CoBenanl.  By  H.  Clay  Trum- 
bull, D.D.    [Charles  Sctibncr's  Sons.    ^2.00.] 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Trumbull's  volume  on  The 
Blood  Conenanl  is  a  useful  Stud;  in  a  fresh  and 
important  field.  It  consists  o(  three  addresses 
delivered  at  the  Summer  School  of  Hebrew  in 
Philadelphia  last  jear,  with  an  appendix  of  con- 
firmatory fact  and  observation.  The  author 
begins  with  a  description  oE  the  rite  as'  still 
practiced  in  Syria,  traces  its  observance  back 
Id  the  remotest  antiquity,  and  shows  its  world- 
wide prevalence  by  illustrations  drawn  from 
ever;  continent  and  from  the  Islands  o[  the 
sea.  The  experience  of  Dr.  Livingstone,  and 
especially  of  Stanley,  in  Africa,  is  narrated  at 
length,  and  Saitust  and  Tacitus  among  Latin 
writers,  and  Herodotus  among  the  Greeks,  are 
cited  both  as  historians  and  as  contemporary 
witnesses.  In  (be  second  lecture.  Dr.  Trumbull 
•eeka  an  explanation  for  the  origin  and  preva- 
lence of  the  lite,  and  marks  the  suggestions  thus 
offered  In  regard  to  animal  sacrifices.  As  the 
blood  has  been  everywhere  regarded  as  the  life, 
so  the  heart,  the  fountain  of  the  blood,  became 
tbe  center  of  personality,  and  blood-transfer, 
which  was  also  soul-(rans(er,  both  typified  and 
realized  the  closest  union  between  man  and  man, 
or  between  God  and  man.  The  closing  lecture 
points  out  the  indications  of  this  primitive  rite 
in  the  Bilile,  in  patriarchal  usage  and  in  Mosaic 
enactment,  and  throws  light  upon  the  applica- 
tion of  the  Old  Testament  types  in  the  New 
TestamenL  The  volume,  as  the  author  mod- 
estly states  in  his  preface,  is  largely  tentative 
and  suggestive,  and  later  and  larger  research 
will  doubtless  add  much  of  light  and  detail,  but 
as  a  pioneer  in  a  new  region  oE  investigation  the 
work  is  creditable  to  the  writer  and  to  American 
scholarship. 

OUSBENT  LITEBAT1TBE. 

No  good  books  could  be  cheaper,  and,  at  Itie 
price,  better,  than  Cassell's  new  "National  Li- 
brary," which  Professor  Henry  Morley,  a  very 
competent  person  to  do  it,  is  to  edit.  The  books 
ate  3>mos,  in  good  type  and  in  paper  covers,  and 
seU  at  the  uniform  price  of  10  cents  each,  or  are 
sent  to  stlbscribers  weekly  at  ^5  a  year.  Open- 
ing numbers  of  this  pretty,  convenient,  and  useful 
series  are  Byron's  Childi  Harold,  the  AuleHogra- 
pky  tf  BeHJantiH  Franitin,  and  Walton's  Com 
fUU  Anglir.    [Caasell  &  Co.] 

From  his  scrap-books  of  the  last  fifteen  years, 
Mr.  Slason  Thompson  has  chosen  and  published 
his  collection  of  newspaper  and  periodical  veri 
entitled  nt  HumNer  Potts.  The  pieces  are  a 
ranged  in  sixteen  divisions,  and  cover  as  wide 
range  in  subject  as  in  character.  Many  of  the 
literary  wai&  bere  preserved  will  be  welcome 
tbe  reader,  but  witbout  dwelling  on  the  invidious 


distinctions  suggested  by  the  title,  we  wonder 
what  class  of  pieces  can  have  been  rejected, 
when  the  pages  are  even  now  marred  trj  the  two 
opposite  vices,  coarseness  and  sentimental  ism. 
[Jansen,  McClorg  ft  Co.    $2.00.] 

The  valuable  Historical  Atlas  of  Robert  H. 
Labbcrton  tias  appeared  in  its  eighth  edition 
presenting  in  very  portable  and  convenient  form 
fewer  than  a  hundred  and  forty-one  maps, 
irhich  an  unusually  large  number  (thirty)  are 
explanatory  of  the  eventful  period  of  early  Eng- 
lish history.  The  work  is  enriched  by  concise 
and  interesting  sketches  of  the  times  and 
ascendencies  "  wliich  the  maps  illustrate,  and 
by  a  bibliography  of  books  and  more  ooieworthy 
magasine  articles  on  each  period.  The  use  of 
colors  tends  to  remedy  some  indefiniteness  re- 
sulting from  the  small  scale  employed  in  the 
aps.    [New  York :  Townsend  MacCoun.] 

Two  new  volumes  come  to  us  of  the  dainty 
Epochs  of  History  issued  by  Charles  Scribner's 
Sons,  which  will  tend  to  increase  the  already 
high  reputation  of  the  scries,  Thi  Spartan  and 
TAeian  Sttprtmacitj,  by  Charles  Sankey,  M.A., 
and  Tie  Early  Haturveriaas,  by  Prof.  Edward 
Morris.  In  the  former  we  note  clearness  of 
diction,  judicious  selection  of  materials,  and  ex- 
cellent sketches  of  the  characters  of  Socrates  and 
Epaminondas;  while  The  Early  HanmicrioHs  is 
perhaps  the  most  interesting  volume  in  the  divis- 
devoled  to  modern  history,  and  is  remark- 
able for  its  romantic  incidents,  picturesque  biog- 
raphies, and  admirable  purity  of  English.  It  is 
designed  as  a  successor  to  Tkt  Agt  of  Anne,  by 
the  same  author.  Both  volumes  are  provided 
with  maps,  and  the  later  with  certain  tables  of 
genealogy  which  greatly  assist  the  readers'  com- 
prehension of  the  history.    [Each  volume  ^1.00.] 

If  Miss  Amelia  B.  Edwards's  Summary  of  Eng- 
lish History,  which  had  reached  a  "  new  edition  " 
as  long  ago  as  1SJ9,  was  not  tlie  actual  pioneer 
of  modern  history  "primers,"  it  stood  very  near 
that  honorable  position,  and  was  a  model.  But 
fresh  light  has  been  thrown  on  some  passages  of 
English  history  in  twenty-five  years,  and  of  tliat 
light  the  new  Armstrongs  Primer  takes  advan- 
tage. The  authorship  is  not  stated.  Tbe  l)ook 
begiiu  well,  but  ends  as  far  ofi  as  iSSo ;  and  does 
not  do  justice  to  contemporary  events.  Further, 
it  is  too  closely  occopied  with  politics  and  con- 
fiicts,  and  does  not  give  those  glimpses  of  social 
and  intellectual  life,  which  make  Miss  Edwards's 
book  so  delightful  to  old  and  young,  and  which 
are  to  essential  to  a  full  understanding  of  life 
and  progress.  The  scanty  illumination  of  the 
reigns  of  Elizabeth  and  Anne  illustrate  our 
criticism.  Genealogical  tables  and  colored  maps 
are  excellent  features.  [A.  C.  Armstrong  &  Son. 
50c.] 

Elixal>elh  A.  Thurston's  Echoes  of  Many 
Voices  is  a  scrap-book  of  short  extracts  in  prose 
and  verse  from  somewhat  over  200  writers,  old 
and  new,  indexed  but  not  classified.    There 


this,  and  this  is  far  from 


lieing  the  best  of  them.  [D.  Loihrop  ft  Co.  fi 

Students  of  Poe,  and  collectors  of  the  litera- 
ture of  liim,  should  not  overlook  J.  H.  Ingram's 
Literary  and  Historical  Commentary  on  the 
Raven,  which  is  a  fairly  complete  account  of  that 
remarkable  poem,  "  the  most  popular  lyrical 
poem  in  the  worid,"  Mr.  Ingram  calls  it;  a 
rough-edged,  gilt-topped,  parch mcnt-lxiund  book 
of  124  pp.,  English  made.  [London:  George 
Redway.] 


The  Here  of  Ccrapens,  in  Rebecca  McConkey's 
"revolutionary  sketch,"  was  General  Daniel 
Morgan,  whose  life  and  services,  beginning  with 
Arnold's  expedition  to  QucIkc  and  ending  with 
his  pursuit  of  Tailelon  in  Virginia,  she  writes  out 
into  a  stirring  narrative  of  nearly  300  pages. 
Morgan  is  one  of  the  obscurer  figures  of  tlie 
Revolution  on  whom  a  clearer  light  onght  cer- 
tainly to  fall.  His  victory  at  Cowpens  is  his 
monument  in  history.  His  present  bii^rapher, 
issor  to  Graham  in  the  same  field,  writes 
with  her  enthusiasm  at  a  glow,  depends  on  Ban- 
croft mostly  for  her  facts,  and  does  not  spare  Ar- 
nold.   [Funk  &  Wagnalls.  (i.oa] 

Rev.  S.  A.  Swaine's  sketch  of  General  Cordon 

the  "  World's  Workers"  series  is  not  particu- 
larly well-written,  as  it  ought  to  l>c  with  such  a 
particularly  fine  snbjecL  It  is  a  pity  that  these 
books  are  tiot  super-excellent.  (Cassell  ft  Co. 
Soc.] 

The  new  (Globe)  edition  of  Mr.  John  Morley's 
works  is  extended  by  the  two  volumes  of  his  mss- 
lerly  life  of  Routseau,  one  of  the  strongest  and 
best  pieces  of  biographical  writing  in  the  English 
'anguage.  This  work  and  its  companions  on 
Voltaire  (published)  and  Diderot  (to  come) 
make  a  trio  of  fascinating  siudiea.  [Macmillan 
IC.    ,3.00.] 

One  hundred  and  eight  brief  meditations  on 
Bible  texts  compose  the  Rev.  George  Matheson's 
Mbmtnit  on  the  Mount.  They  are  in  the  form  oE 
converse  I>etween  the  author  and  bis  soal,  wholly 
devotional  in  their  atmosphere,  intense  sometimes 
to  the  pitch  of  rhapsody,  profitable  perhaps  for 
certain  minds.   [A.  C.  Armstrong  ft  Son.  f  l.lj.] 

We  do  not  realize  the  value  of  Platform  and 
Pulpit  Aids,  which  is  a  280  pp.  collection  of 
newspaper  reports  of  speeches  hj  eminent  Eng- 
lish clergymen  on  various  aspects  of  Christian 
work.  There  may  be  some  utility  in  them  as  ex> 
amples  of  public  address;  but  what  public 
speakers  need  is  not  forma  to  go  by,  but  a  spirit 
within.  Eloquence  is  original,  not  an  imitation. 
[A.  C.  Armstrong  ft  Son.    %l.y>.'\ 

Rev.  John  Worcester's  Lectures  upon  the  Doc- 
trines of  the  New  Church  are  a  simple  but  suffi- 
cient introduction  to  Swedenborgianism  for  ttiose 
who  desire  a  general  acquaintance  with  that 
form  of  religious  belief.    [Mass.  New  Church 


soc.] 


The  third  series  of  Mr.  Taimage's  Brooklyn 
Tabernacle  Sermons  bears  the  general  title  of 
Old  fVells  Dug  Out.  It  contains  33  discourses ; 
striking,  vigorous,  direct,  forcible  expositions  and 
illustrations  of  tbe  gospel  as  he  understands  it. 
Certainly  they  stand  for  a  style  of  preaching 
suited  to  arrest  attention  if  not  to  carry  convic- 
tion.   [Funk  ft  Wagnalls.    >l-50.] 

Prof.  Shedd's  views  of  the  rational  argument 
for  Endless  Punishment  received  wide  drctda- 
lion  through  a  paper  printed  in  the  North  Ameri- 
can Review  a  year  ago.  He  has  now  prefixed  to 
that  essay  two  chapters,  one  on  tbe  history  of  the 
doctrine,  and  the  other  on  the  argument  from  the 
Bible,  and  published  the  three  papers  in  a  small 
volume  with  the  above-mentioned  caption.  His 
exegesis  is  dominaled  by  dogmatic  considera- 
tions, and  reads  into  the  Old  Testament  text  as 
distinct  a  view  of  the  afterworld,  in  its  broad 
divisions,  as  can  be  found  in  the  New,  while 
all  deviations  from  his  own  doctrine  he 
ascribes  to  post-Nicene  and  pagan  accretions. 
[Charles  Scribner's  Sons,    fi.50.] 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Mar.  20, 


The  Literary  World. 


BOSTON,  MARCH  20,  1886. 


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IN  a  IWe  number  of  the  Deutsckt  Revut,  ibe 
German  hiwotian,  von  Sybel,  lakes  hU 
reider*  "behind  the  tcenes  "  in  a  most  fascinat- 
ing manner.  He  tells  of  his  eipetience  in  the 
ye»rs  1851-54, 1866-67,  in  examining  the  Parisian 
Archive  with  a  view  to  getting  material  lot  hi» 
Histoty  of  Ihi  French  Ha'Btution,  He  »a»  readily 
■dmiitcd  10  the  "  National  Archive*,"  but  found 
great  difficulty  in  gelling  acce»»  10  the  recocdi 
oi  the  Foreign  Department.  He  gives  an  a 
ing  incident  of  his  fii»t  visit  to  the  (ormer.  The 
"Director "of  the  Archives  caused  the  voli 
which  Prof.  Sybel  wanted  to  be  brought  and 
before  him.  When  one  huge  volume  of  di 
menta  from  the  years  1792-3-4  «as  thrown  upon 
the  Uble,  a  cloud  of  dust  arose  from  it.  " 
see  before  you,"  said  the  Director,  "the  dust 
of  the  year  1795.  I  can  assure  you  positively 
that  since  that  year  no  hand  has  touched  them, 
and  that  you  are  the  first  one  who  asked  to  look 

It  would  be  superfluous  to  repeat  von  tiybel'i 
conclusions  with  regard  to  the  bitluriea  of  the 
French  Revolution  written  previous  to  the  year 
i860.  The  guardian  of  the  Foreign  Arc 
wu  a  "veriuble  dragon,"  and  il  was  with  the 
greatest  difficulty  that  von  Sybel  could  get  a 
to  the  documents  he  most  needed  in  spite  of 
the  friendly  interest  which  the  Emperor  Napo- 
leon took  in  hia  work.  Probably  the  part  of 
these  "  Studies,"  as  von  Sjbel  calls  them,  which 
will  be  of  greatest  interest  to  the  general  public, 
is   the  account  of  his  interviews  with   the  Em- 

The  first  of  these  interviews  (i866)  waa  con- 
ducted in  German,  which  Napoleon  spoke  "with 
correctness  and  fluently,  but  with  a  alight  South- 
German  accent.  The  Emperor  said:  "You 
know  that  I  too  am  tiying  to  plow  in  your  field, 
bat  you  have  a  great  advanuge  over  me.  You 
can  devote  your  whole  time  and  strength  to 
inch  pleasant  work.  My  time  is  occupied  by 
a  hundred  different  and    disagreeable   duties  i 


I  can  devote  myself  to  scholarly  research  only 
i  bltons  rompns  (by  peaceroeal)."  During  his 
n  Paris  at  this  lime  von  Sybel  had  frequent 
intervieas  with  Emile  Ollivier,  who  expressed 
Imost  confidence  that  in  the  then  itnpending 
struggle  between  Prussia  and  Austria  "the  vete- 
rans of  the  latter  would  easily  defeat  (he  militia 
of  the  former." 

When  neat  von  Sybel  went  to  Paris  (in  1S67} 
the  War  of  '66  had  been  fought  and  "the  Mili' 
of  Prussia  had  triumphed.     All  France  was 
fever  of  excitement  at  the  growing  power 
of  Germany.    The   faieiorian's  researches  were 
in  the  "turmoil  of  heated  political  contro- 
."     The    frankness   with    which    Napoleon 
opened  his  heart  to  von   Sybel  concerning  the 
Luxembourg  complications  is  amaaing.    At  the 
e  time  he  gave  the  impreision  lo  von  Sybel 
any   war    between    Germany  and    France 
lid  be  a  "  terrible  calamity."    Von  5>bel  Is 
therefore   oE   the   opinion    that    Napoleon  was 
reluctantly  driven  by  the  "wai-patty"  lo  consent 
to  the  war  of  1870. 
Von  Sybel  found  il  almost  impossible  lo  gel 
cess  to  the  English  Archives,  and  he  "hastened 
back  to  Paris "  in  disgust  at   the   reception   he 
id  met  with  in  London.     He  doses  his  iiiter- 
iling  article  with  reference  to  the  greal  change 
which  has  come  over  the  governments  of  Europe 
with  respect  10  the  use  of  their  Archives.    "  For- 
iriy  it  was  a  favor  granted  only  in  very  excep- 
tional cases;  now,  thanks  to  the  example  set  by 
Prince  llismarck,  almost  all  governments  grant 
tolerably  free  access  to  their  Archives." 


secret  waa  worth  keeping  is  evident  from  the 
space  that  it  has  filled,  first  and  last,  in  the  news- 
papers. So  much  powder  is  not  wasted  on  game 
not  worth  the  bringing  down.  K. 

CoMhridgt,  Mais.,  Mar.  j,  1S86. 


00BBE8F0HDEV0E. 

CusbiDK'a  Dictionary  of  Pacudanytns. 
Te  the  Editor  oflhi  l.ittrary  Werld : 

I   thank  you   lor  ynur  friendly  nutice  of 
book  and  for  printing   he  corrections,  and  would 
be  glad  to  have  you  add  the  enclosed. 

Wu.    CUSKINC. 

Cambridgt,  Man.,  March  i,  /SS6. 
Page  i,  coluniD  1,  iiaa  1,  read  Archibald  Campbell,  ji  Duk*. 
■'    17,      *•      ).    "  u,    "    Palliter. 

"    i»,      "      I.    "  16,    ••    McDowell 

"    6s,      "     a,   "  14,    "    Hn.  Charlotte  A.  Barnard. 

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"  lie,      "     a,    "  19,    "    Cr^viUe,  HenTy. 
"  ici,      **      a,    "  »D,    "    Flaoiy  for  Haaiy. 


'    Rev.  Joaeph  T.  Hewlell. 


Saxe  Holm. 
7>  the  Editar  ef  the  LiUrary  Iforld: 

Another  old  reader  of  ihe  Literary  fVerld 
wonders  how  it  is  thai  the  stories  of  Saxe  Holm, 
if  "from  poor  to  worthless,"  have  occupied  so 
much  of  the  public  attention  for  nearly  fifteen 
years.  How  well  the  secret  was  kept  is  proved 
by  the  fact  that  in  Mr.  Cushing's  great  cyclopiC' 
dia  of  /nitiais  and  Ptiudaaymi  this  is  almost 
the  only  pseudonym  of  which  the  solution  Is 
marked  with  an  interrogation  point      Thai  Ihe 


OITS  ENQLISH  LETTER. 

HE   Boston  readers  of  the  Atkentum  will 
have  seen  by  this  time  the  announcement 
of    Mr.  Sharp's   forthcoming   volumes    of   Ihe 
Severn  Faperi.    The-book  will  be  of  the  great- 
est interest  to  all  who  have  studied  the  singular 
period  of  neo-romantic  renaissance  which  began 
century  in  England.    And  who   is  not  in- 
terested in  Keats,  in  Shelley,  in  Byron,  Coleridge, 
Peacock,  Hnnt  ?  —  all  the  charming  and  fantas- 
figures  of  the   English    romanticists^     All 
these    heroes    pass    across    ibe    sl^e    of    Mr. 
recollections ;   but  Keats  of  course  is 
(he  principal   hero.      These   memoirs   will  tell 

more  of  him  than  the  profanation  of  his  love- 
letters  has  yet  revealed  to  uj.  His  suburban, 
hourgeeii,  commonplace  existence;  his  Hellenic 
and  immortal  genius  ;  his  death  at  laat  in  Rome, 

ving  him,  eternally  young,  the  most  pathetic 
memory  of  the  Eiemal  City ;  all  the  life  ai>d 
death  of  Adonais  will  be  touched  upon  in  these 
interesting  papers ;  which  among  their 
tain  a  silhouette  of  Keats  at  ihe 
age  of  three  and  twenty;  a  companion  portrait 

that  of  Miss  Brawn  which  adorns  the  famous 
love-letters. 

By  publishing  their  secrets  and  opening  their 
private  desks,  we  show  today  our  honor  of  the 
immortal  dead.  These  are  today  our  relics  — 
these  faded  papers  clutched  by  dying  Bngers  as 
the  most  sacred  things  in  receding  life.  We 
open  the  coffins  of  our  saints  (and  as  mediaeval 
worshipers  piously  robbed  ihe  hair,  the  bune?, 
of  their  immortals),  thence  we  draw  their  dearest 
secrets  and  put  them  in  a  public  reliquary.  'Tis 
the  last  form  of  ancestor  worship  —  and  who 
shall  contradict  Ihe  spirit  of  ihe  age? 

Mr.  Qui  de  Maupassant,  the  must  distin- 
guished of  the  younger  naturalist!<,  has  thus 
been  honoring  in  Paris  Ihe  memory  of  his  uncle 
and  adopted  father,  the  immortal  Gustave  Fiau- 
bert.  A  good  story,  at  least,  has  come  out  uf 
his  researches.  ■  .  .  You  will  remember  the  ap- 
pearance three  years  ago  oE  the  delightful  Sou- 
venire  of  Maxime  du  Camp,  the  veteran  of 
romanticism.  In  that  volume  M.  du  Camp 
drew  great  attention  to  himself  as  the  guide, 
philosopher,  and  friend  of  the  undisciplined 
Flaubert,  and  in  especial  he  represented  him- 
self as  etimalaiing  the  young  novelist  to  his 
future  literary  triumphs.  The  picture  was  de- 
lightful; but  a  few  weeks  ag«  M.  de  Maupas- 
sant, in  correcting  his  uncle's  papers,  found  an 
old  letter  from  M.  du  Camp  refusing  Hme. 
Bovary  for  a  magazine  uf  which  at  that  time 
he  was  editor,  and  recommending  Flaubert, 
before  he  sent  the  novel  anywhere  else,  "to 
give  a  hundred  franca  to  any  little  journalist  of 
his  acquaintance  to  correct  the  style  !  " 

The  naturalists  in  Paris  have  made  two  great 
discoveries.  The  first  is,  the  existence  of  a 
great  contemporary  literature.  M.  A.  Laurent 
is  about  to  publish  a  Library  of  Conlemporary 
Masterpieces  which  (it  la  a  sign  of  the  times) 
will  begin  wiih  Italy.  M.  de  Maupassant  winL 
edit  the  Sicilian  stories  of  Verga,  and  H.  £d- 


1 886.] 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


ouard  Roa  hU  "  MaU  voglta."  But  the  second 
digcovecy  is  greater  itill.  It  ia  no  less  Chan  (hit 
the  invention  of  naiuraUim  occuried,  not  in 
Paiia,  but  in  England  ;  and  tint  the  successFul 
inventot  is  not  Zola,  but  Miu  Austen,  M. 
Theodore  Duret,  a  distinguished  critiqut  d'av' 
ant-gardi,  is  about  to  [ormulate  this  ingenious 
tbeory  in  an  essay.  It  is  certainly  temarliable 
that  the  name  of  Mlsi  Austen  should  at  last  be 
known  in  Paris;  for  not  many  months  ago  a 
(rell'known  Fiench  author  was  informed,  in  (he 
office  of  the  Rome  Conitmporaini,  that  no 
one  else  in  France  had  ever  heard  of  her. 

Certainly  in  England  »l  tbii  moment  her  repu- 
tation is  bighet  and  wider  than  evet  it  has  been 
before.  In  the  celebrated  lists  of  loo  beat  books, 
lately  published  by  the  Pall  Mall  Gavlti,  no 
modern  novelist  wins  so  many  sufiiages  as  Miss 
Austen.  And  now  in  Paris  they  ate  making  her 
the  godmother  of  Zola. 

But  naturalism,  both  in  Paris  and  in  London, 
has  altered  much  since  it  owned  her  gentle 
and  gracious  sway.  The  new  novel  of  Mr. 
Geiirge  Moore,  appearing  in  the  Court  and  Sa<itly 
Review,  has  already,  at  the  fifth  chapter,  given 
rise  to  a  trial  for  libel.  The  story  begins  in  the 
Convent  School  of  the  Holy  Child  at  St  Leon- 
ards where  Ihc  author,  ih  vrai  naturaiistt,  went 
to  study  his  materials  on  the  spot.  Cardinal 
Manning  is  excessively  indignant  at  the  whole 
proceeding ;  and  it  is  averred  that,  if  Hr.  Moore 
can  prove  his  admittance  to  Ihe  convent,  then 
the  School  of  the  Ladies  of  the  Holy  Child  must 
be  closed  at  once  and  forever.  Cardinal  Man- 
ning is  adamant  to  the  necessities  of  arl.  And 
■hough,  indeed,  there  is  nothing  very  dreadful  in 
the  revelations  of  Mr.  Moore,  still,  it  is  probable 
that  those  who  most  freely  admit  his  gift  of  real- 
ization will  the  most  regret  the  quite  unnecessary 
steps  he  has  taken  to  ensure  it. 

LoHdoH,  February  13,  iSSb.  A.  u.  P.  R. 


OUB  NEW  YOBE  LETTEB. 

ONE  of  the  ablest  pamphlets  upon  the  much 
talked  of  and  little  acted  upon  subject  of 
International  Copyright  was  written  by  Appleton 
Morgan,  about  ten  years  ago.  Although  he  has 
modified  his  views  somewhat  since  that  time,  he 
is  iitill  in  favor  of  both  American  and  English 
authors  being  protected  in  their  right*  if  siaiutoiy 
laws  will  bring  about  so  desirable  a  result.  But 
this  he  doubts,  and  so  expresses  himself  in  a 
recent  article  in  Scitnet,  the  last  paragraph  of 
which  contains  the  following  very  simple  and 
eSeclive  remedy  for  the  existing  evil,  produced 
by  a  want  of  International  Copyright  1 

It  seems  to  me,  however,  that  there  is  no 
doubt  possible  but  that  Congress  would  have 
power  to  simply  amend  its  present  copyright  act 
by  subilituling  the  word  person  for  the  words 
cilisiit  uf  the  United  Slates,  which  would  at  once 
give  a  perfect  and  absolute  International  Copy- 
right, and  the  best  one  possible  ;  since  any  new 
and  separate  act  would  at  once  be  brought  before 
the  courts  lor  construction,  whereas  the  word 
"person"  could  hardly  need  judicial  interpreta- 
tion. This  was  the  plan  suggested  by  me  in 
187  s.  and  I  hare  seen  no  reason  to  depart  from 

The  ungracious  letter  of  Wm.  S.   Gilbert 
Messrs.  Harper  &  Bros.,   will   kill  International 
Copyright  for  this  year  at  least. 

Few  authors  are  wise  enough  to  see  their 
folly.     H.  C.  Bunner  is  an  exception  to  this 
He  not  only  sees  but  admiia  that  he  was  guilty  of 
ft  great  folly  in  publishing  A  Weman  af  Henor, 


and,  like  a  sensible  man,  he  has  taken  the  very 
best  way  lo  make  amends  for  (his  youthful  indis- 

}n  by  writing  a  better  book,  in  which  he  has 
carefully  avoided  all  the  faults  of  his  first  attempt 
n  fiction.  In  the  meantime  Puck,  of  which  Mr. 
Bunner  is  the  editor,  has  Found  a  very  formidable 
rival  in  the  Jadgl  under  its  new  management. 
Bernard  Gillam.  its  leading  cartoonist,  who  did 
so  much  to  make  Fuck  popular,  has  been  Induced 
by  the  templing  offer  of  f  10,000  a  year  lo  leave 

liter,  and   join  (he  Judge.      Fuek  paid  him 

Dr.  J.  W.  Palmer  has  had  a  varied  experience 
author,  traveler,  and  journalist.  It  was  he 
who  accomplished  the  famous  literary  feat  of 
translating  Michelet's  La  Femme  in  seven(y-(wo 
hours,  liie  publisher  agreed  to  pay  faim  fi,aoo 
for  (he  translation,  Dr.  Palmer  to  forfeit  f  10  for 
every  hour's  delay  over  the  stipulated  time. 
With  a  constant  succession  of  wet  towels  around 
his  head,  and  strong  coffee  always  at  hand,  he 
walked  the  floor  for  three  days  and  nights,  dic- 
tating the  translation  to  his  wife.  The  work  was 
ready  on  time,  but  Dr.  Palmer  declared  that  he 
would  never  again  undertake  such  a  task. 
20,000  copies  of  La  Femme  were  sold  in  two 
weeks.  When  (he  California  gold  fever  broke 
out  in  1849,  Dr.  Palmer,  who  had  recently  gradu- 
ated al  the  University  of  Maryland,  left  Balti- 
more to  seek  bis  fortune  on  the  Pacific  Coast. 
For  a  time  he  was  the  health  officer  of  San  Fran- 
cisco, and  utilized  his  experience  thus  gained 
in  writing  a  series  of  graphic  papers  for  the 
old  Pulnant's  MunMy.  From  California  Dr. 
Palmer  went  lo  India,  the  result  of  his  Eastern 
travels  being  («o  books  :  Up  and  Drwn  lie 
/rrawaddi,  ind  The  NeK  and  Ihe  Old.  Of  the 
lalter,  Edmund  Quincy  wrote:  "I  have  been 
reading  The  New  and  lie  Old,  stories  half  weird, 
half  wild,  yet  all  pervaded  with  the 'low,  sad 
music  of  humanity.'  Dr.  Palmer's  style  is  affluent, 
forceful,  picturesque,  and  sympathetic."  After 
his  return  from  the  Easil,  he  became  a  frequent 
contributor  to  the  Atlaittic  Monthly.  During  the 
Civil  War  he  wrote  the  popular  Southern  song, 
StQnewail  Jaekseu'i  Way,  and  returning  (o  Balti- 
more, edited  there  for  a  short  lime  a  weekly 
paper,  and  contributed  several  delightful  articles 
to  Lippincolft  Magatine  upon  social  life  In  the 
Monumental  City.  In  1B72  he  removed  to  New 
York  where  he  has  since  resided.  Book  Chal 
announces  that  Dr.  Palmer  is  the  author  of  the 
clever  novel.  After  His  Kind,  which  was  pub- 
lished with  the  name  of  "John  Coventry" 
attached. 

Moat  persons  find  the  editing  of  a  paper  quite 
sufficient  employment  for  all  their  time.  But 
Miss  J.  L.  Gilder  is  not  only  the  editor  of  (he 
Crilie,  but  its  business  manager  ;  she  is  also  (he 
New  York  correspondent  of  (he  Philadelphia 
Preti  over  the  signature  uf  "  Erasmus,"  and  ia 
responsible  for  the  New  York  lelleri  in  the  Bos- 
ton Saturday  Evening  Caxelte,  signed  "  Bruns- 
wick." In  addition  to  all  this  regular  work  Miss 
Gilder  finds  time  10  do  occasional  literary  re- 
viewing for  the  New  York  Herald,  and  has 
edited  a  large  volume  of  Representative  Poems 
of  Living  Poets,  each  poem  being  selected  by 
its  author  for  this  work.  With  all  these  irons 
in  the  fire,  it  ia  not  surprising  that  one  or  more 
of  them  sometime  grow  cool  or  even  cold. 

Col.  L.  M.  Monlgomery  is  writing  The  Ad- 
ventures af  a  Raving  American  yaurnalist.  Ex- 
cept Archibald   Forbes  Col.  Mon^omery    has 


ntet  more  famous  men  than  any  living  journalist 
He  is  the  author  of  the  saying :  "  I  would  rather 
be  A  lamp-post  in  Paris  than  the  Lord   Mayor 
of    London."      The    New    York    World   pays 
Joseph  Howard,  Jr.,  ^115  a  week  fur  articles 
(hat  add  very  little  lo  (he  interest  of  that  news- 
paper.   He  is  a  good  "space"  writer,  and  that's 
'hat    the    big    New    York    newspapers    want- 
James  Parton,  in  his  article,  "  Newspapers  Gone 
<   Seed,"  in  tbe  first  number  of  the   Forum, 
:als  some  pretty  heavy  blows  at  the   Sunday 
lition   of   one  or   two    metropolitan  journals, 
ith   their  huge  advertisements:    "This  is  not 
journalism,  gentlemen,  it  is  bill  posting." 

Wm.  W.  Astor  is  engaged  upon  another 
novel.  This  ml!  aixoanl  for  his  almost  entire 
from  society  this  winter.  "  Barry 
Gray"  (Mr.  Coffin)  who  for  the  past  two  years 
has  occupied  a  sinecure  of  ^2,500  a  year  in  tbe 
Custom  House  of  New  York,  has  recently  been 
decapitated  by  the  new  Collector.  Ex-President 
Arthur,  who  has  under  consideration  the  com- 
pilation and  publication  of  his  memoirs,  is  now 
dangerously  ill  from  a  complication  of  ailments, 
and  grave  doubts  of  his  recovery  prevail.  A 
large  amount  of  memoranda  has  already  been 
collected.  E.  S.  Nadal,  late  assistant  secretary 
of  legation  at  London,  has  written  an  article  on 
(he  diplomatic  representatives  of  the  United 
.S(ates.  He  is  opposed  to  their  abolition.  Miss 
Cleveland  has  in  hand  another  book,  which  will 
treat  of  woman's  influence  and  patriotism  In 
dress,  advocating  (he  encouragement  of  (he  use 
of  domes(ic  material  in  female  apparel.  This 
same  Idea  was  taken  up  a  few  years  ago  by  the 
beautiful  daughter  of  the  Dowager  Duchess  of 
Downshire.  Stylus. 

New  Veri,  March  13, 1886. 

FIOTION. 

WlUUm  AUea  Butler's  "  Domesticus." 

In  (his  delicate  and  Asl\%^tla\  jeu  d'tspril  Ihe 
talented  author  of  "Nothing  to  Wear  "  relates 
the  haps  and  mishaps  of  a  charming  but  inex- 
perienced young  Araeiican  wife  in  (he  trials  of 
housekeeping.  Much  in  the  line  of  I'lato's  theory 
that  every  general  or  afjstract  idea  Is  the  reality 
of  which  each  visible,  concrete  thing  called  by  iis 
name  is  but  the  reflection,  the  "  Domesticus  "  of 
the  story  is  "  a  certain  malevolent  spirit  of  the  air 
and  minister  of  chaos,"  of  whom  each  individual 
domestic  in  our  families  is  an  embodiment  or  emis- 
sary. And,  by  annexing  to  this  general  name 
various  Latin  adjectives  of  nationality,  we  may 
have  domesticus  Uermanieus,  or  Seolui,  or  —  most 
frequent  of  all  —  Hil)ermau,  according  to  ftie 
country  from  which  each  servitor  comes.  The 
same  odd  fancy  for  clasi-iral  names  and  humor- 
ous pretence  of  lelling  a  s(ory  of  ancient  Roman 
civiliiadon  leads  (he  au(hor  lo  denote  very  many 
persons  and  things  by  amusing  and  well-chosen 
Latin  phrases,  which  are  at  once  recognized  by 


the  reader  moderately  familiar  with  that  I 


mgue ; 


dollar*,  for  instance,  being  termed  sesteriia,  and 
individuals  named  according  to  leading  cbaracier- 
istics.  Such  readers  as  have  become  rusty  in 
their  Latin  will  do  well,  of  course,  (o  have  a  lexi- 
con at  hand  for  occasional  reference,  in  order  not 
to  miss  Ihe  meaning.  The  location  of  "  the  im- 
perial city,"  where  the  scene  is  laid,  will,  how- 
ever, be  readily  recognized  without  such  aid ; 
and  so  doubtless  also  its  fashionable  re!>idence 
street  "  Via  Quints."    The  story  is  more  than  a 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Mar.  30, 


wittj  accoant  of  the  trials  of  honsekeepeii.    It 
!■  not  without  plot;    for  tbe  development    of 
which,  anlil  even  ■  bit  of  a  Iotc  stOTy  it   intro- 
dnced,  tfaelhne  of  action  is  extended  over  several 
TCan,  in  fact,  until  the  heroine's  eldest  daughter 
becomes  a  prominent  character.    As  a  sequel 
the  description  of  a  special   kind   of  servit 
"  Domesticus  Africanus,"  there  ia  the  bett  i 
coont  of  slavery  as  a  leading  cause  of  the  gieat 
American  Civil  War  which  we  have  seen  sir 
reading  Tkt  Nem  CoiptI  tf  Ptoct ;   and  some 
cidents  of  the  war  lime  now  happily  post  ate 
graphically  recalled.      Nor  is  the  story  without 
its  moral,  which  we  leave  the  reader  ti 
for  himself   in  what  is  one  o(  the   entertaining 
books  of  the  season.      [Charles  Scribnei'a  Sons. 

Orant  Allen's  "Babylon." 
Bafylon  shows  that  an  accomplished  naturalist 
and  a  brilliant  essayist  may  also  be  a  clever  ito 
teller.  -  Mr.  Grant  Allen  need  not  be  ashamed 
own  the  authorship  of  a  book  like  this,  which 
distinctly  to  the  credit  of  a  different  side  of  his 
intellectual  and  literary  nature  than  his  prei 
acknowledged  writings  have  represented.  The 
novel  —  for  novel  it  really  is  — begins  with  two 
very  disconneaed  strands,  one  in  England,  the 
other  on  the  shores  of  Lake  Ontario.  At  each 
point  there  is  a  misunderstood  and  abused  boy, 
who  has  something  better  in  him  than  anybody 
gives  him  credit  for;  and  in  each  case  there  is  ■ 
maiden  at  hand  ready  to  be  joined  to  the  for- 
tunes of  the  hero.  One  hero  is  born  to  be  a  sculp- 
tor and  the  other  a  painter;  and  a  kind  fate  brings 
them  and  the  appointed  maidens  together  in  the 
land  of  art,  and  after  due  vicissitudes  and  vexa- 
tions love  crowns  their  life  with  its  best  joys. 
Mr.  Allen  does  not  know  America  as  closely  and 
as  well  as  he  does  England,  as  witness  this  para- 
Boston  has  worn  itself  out  The  artificial  cen- 
ter of  an  unnatural,  sickly  exotic  culture  ever 
alien  to  (be  American  soil,  it  hag  gone  on  study- 
ing, criticising,  analyzing,  till  all  tlie  vigor  and 
spontaneity  it  may  ever  have  possessed  has 
utterly  died  out  of  it  from  pure  inanition.  The 
Nemesis  of  sterility^  has  fallen  upon  its  head  in 
the  second  generation.  It  has  cultivated  men, 
fastidious  critics,  receptive  and  appreciative  in- 
tellects by  the  tfaoQsand ;  but  of  thmkers,  work- 
ers, originalities,  hardly  now  a  single  one. 

Foolishness  is  bound  in  the  heart  of  a  man  who 
can  write  like  this,  even  if  his  name  be  Grant 
Allen  i  but  taken  as  writing  pure  and  simple,  as 
a  mere  piece  of  style  in  &z6.oa,  Babylen  iacapltal. 
It  is  full  of  acute  obseivation,  discriminating 
description,  bright  points,  and  happy  characteriia- 
lAns ;  and  it  shows  a  constructive  as  well  as  an 
artistic  skill.  [D.  Appleton  &  Co.  50c] 
Two  Broken  Hearts. 

Few  readers  of  7W  BrakcH  Hearts  will  be  at 
a  loss  to  discover  why  Ihe  book  secures  readers. 
The  story,  too  quietly  told  to  be  called  a  novel, 
is  a  love  story,  holding  our  attention  through  its 
abort  course  of  So  pages  with  the  instinctive  feel- 
ing that  if  not  literally  true  it  is  what  some  great 
critic  has  called  "truer  than  if  it  were  true." 
Henry  and  Frank,  two  college  friends,  sweat 
eternal  friendship  and  keep  their  vow.  Frank 
marries  happily,  and  from  his  wedding  day  we 
ate  turned  abruptly  to  that  of  Pauline,  Henry's 
sistei^  (o  find  a  powerful  contrast  in  the  death  of 
her  lover  on  his  way  to  the  expectant  bride.  The 
gist  of  the  book  is  not  reached  till  Annie  dies  and 


Frank  meets  Pauline;  and  in  pp.  59  and  6(^  in 
Frank's  letters  telling  Pauline  of  his  love  for  her 
and  of  the  change  in  his  views  about  mourning 
his  lost  dear  one,  we  realize  the  truth  of  Ruakin's 
dictum  that  if  some  one  would  only  write  what  he 
really  bcHevea,  the  world  would  rush  to  hear. 
Pauline's  reply  to  Frank's  confession  is  precisely 
what  one  would  expect  from  the  sufferer  of  a 
grief  silent,  hidden,  and  idealized  as  circum- 
stances had  made  hers  sure  to  be-  Sad  as  the 
story  is,  it  contains  hope.  One  feels  that  though 
Pauline  blundered  in  reading  her  own  heart, 
others  may  benefit  by  her  blunder  if  they  will  ac- 
cept the  theory  this  little  book  so  delicately 
artistically  sets  forth.  Possibly  this  theory,  which 
thuB  solves  the  riddle,  "Is  it  love  or  is  it  friend- 
ship?" is  a  trISe  dangerous.  Certainly 
not  bear  pushing.  But  alt  the  same  il 
healthful  a  one  that  its  expounder  meri 
gratulation  for  having  accomplished  the  not  easy 
task  of  presenting  it  without  a  word  of  preaching 
in  this  story  which  is  a  bona  fide  story,  and 
thai  abominable  make-shift  —  a  story  with  an  ob- 
"working  purpose."  [G.  P.  Putnam's 
Sons.    fi-OO-] 

M«ry  Crtiger's  "  HyperKBthesia." 
There  is  questionable  taste  in  giving  to  a 
novel,  as  a  title,  a  technical  sexisyllable,  the 
ling  of  which  probably  not  one  novel  reader 
hundred  knows.  "  Hyperesthesia  "  is  a 
condition  of  excessive  sensibility,  or  as  the  author 
her  preface  calls  it,  "morbid  supersensitive' 
u  of  the  nerves,"  which  she  here  extends  to 
the  region  of  the  mind  or  soul.  In  some  hands 
such  a  theme  might  be  developed  ailislically;  by 
Ur.  Holmes  it  might  be  made  both  amusing  and 
uctive  ;  but  treated  in  a  crude  and  amateur- 
ish fashion,  it  amounts  to  nothing  at  all.  So  very 
thin  is  the  narrative  thread  in  Hyptraslhisia  that 
it  does  not  support  the  dialogue.  The  scene  is  a 
resort,  with  a  lot  of  people  of  whom 
three  only  are  of  any  importance;  one  is  the 
chief  hypersBslhetic  sufferer  ;  another,  her  un- 
married sister,  a  strangely  confiding  and  unselfish 
girl,  who  also  suffers  from  a  sort  of  mental  hy- 
peresthesia, in  contradistinction  to  the  physical ; 
and  the  third  a  young  man  whose  early  entangle- 
ment with  a  young  girl  causes  him  all  sorts  of 
retrospective  and  prospective  anguish.  This 
physician,  immediately  assumes 
the  cure  of  the  two  valetudinarians,  gratuitously 
and  secretly,  and  of  course  falls  passionately  in 
love  with  the  unmarried  sister,  whom  he  con- 
cludes to  marry.  We  have  conscientiously 
traversed  this  whole  desert  of  commonplace  only 
Its  confines  parched  and  unrefreshed. 
Few  novels  are  so  encumbered  with  empty  volu- 
bility, which  the  author  evidently  mistakes  for 
thought.  Vet  there  is  a  seriousness  of 
purpose  and  suggestion  of  better  things  which 
hesitate  to  dissuade  the  author  from 
further  attempt  at  fiction,  but  she  should  repress 
her  discursiveness,  and  develop  a  plot  of  some 
Miss  Cruger  has  allowed  her  pen 
away  with  her ;  and  selected  a  subject  too 
e  for  the  lyro  to  invest  with  interest. 
[Fords,  Howard  &  Hulbert.    Ji.oo.] 

Two  Leisure  Hour  Novels. 

It  would  be  a  curious  advertising  whim  on  Ihe 

part  o(  a  novelist  10  suffer  a  false  report  of  his 

death   to  circulate,  and  from  under  this  screen 

for  years  publishing  "posthumous" 

works,  each  of  which  in  turn  would  be  read  with 


the  interest  which  attaches  to  the  "  last."  We 
do  not  tor  a  moment  doubt  the  validity  <A.  the 
demise  of  the  late  Hugh  Conway,  but  the  idea 
is  suggested  to  us  as  a  humorous  novelty  bj  the 
unprecedented  quantity  of  un printed  matter 
which  he  seems  to  have  left  behind  him,  and 
which  is  gradually  making  its  appearance.  A 
Cardinal  Sin,  announced  to  be  the  "last  hut 
one"  of  the  series,  is  written  in  the  author's 
best  vein,  with  a  fresh,  intricate,  and  carefully 
wrought-out  plot,  of  which  the  originality  is  only 
maned  by  a  slight  flavor  of  improbability.  The 
scene  where  Frances  for  thirly  hours  sits  fasting 
and  self.possessed  in  the  barred  and  bolted 
house,  refusing  to  give  the  promise  exacted  by 
her  persecutor,  has  real  dramatic  quality  in  It, 
and  taken  altogether,  the  story  is  evidently  not 
an  early  effort  taking  advantage  of  its  author's 
laler  successes,  bat  the  product  of  his  matured 
and  ripened  power. 

John  Coventry's  After  Hii  Kind,  as  a  stoiy, 
is  very  slight  in  texture,  but  it  has  a  quaintness 
of  flavor  and  a  freshness  of  touch  which  give  it 
a  hold  on  the  attention.  The  person  who  takes 
"after  his  kind"  is  a  certain  John  Shustoke  of 
Maryland,  who  goes  exploring  after  his  English 
kindred  in  the  Midland,  finds  them,  makes 
good  his  place  in  their  regard,  and  wins  a  fair 
bride,  all  under  a  name  not  his  own.  His  an- 
cestral peculiarities  do  not  escape  Ihe  sharp 
eyes  of  the  village  gossips,  however,  tsA  their 
discoveries  anticipate  his  confessions  : 

Ay  I  just  a  bonny  Shustoke,  says  I,  with 
yer  Shustoke  fingers  talkin',  so,  when  ye  be  a 
talking,  like  Squire  Randal;  and  yer  Shustoke 
ankle  in  ver  hand  (see  there  now  I]  across  yer 
knee,  and  yer  Shustoke  yed  thrown  back,  and 
yer  Shustoke  eves  blinking;  droll,  when  ye  be  a 
tistenin',  like  S'quire  Ralph ;  and  yer  Shustok« 
flush  like  Devil  Dick. 

There  is  something  in  the  manner  by  which 
the  local  humors  and  peculiarities  of  the  old 
hamlet  are  depicted  which  puts  us  in  mind  <A 
William  Black,  but  Mr.  Black  would  not  have 
made  the  mistake  of  creating  such  a  personage  as 
Barbara,  whose  improbable  character  and  tragi- 
cal end  are  the  blemishes  of  the  story.  [Heniy 
Holt  4  Co.    Each>tj>3.] 

"  Sweet  Cicely." 
Three  hundred  and  eighty-one  pages  (pict- 
ures included)  are  comprised  within  the  cuveis 
of  this  handsomely  made  book.  At  least  a  hun- 
dred pages  too  many,  for,  however  amusing  the 
efforts  and  adventures  of  the  renowned  Samatt- 
tha  may  be,  she  becomes  wearisome  long  enongh 
before  the  last  chapter  is  reached ;  and  Ihe 
"lonelic"  spelling  lost  its  novelty  long  ago.  In 
:his  new  volume  "  Josiah  Allen's  wife  "  acts  the 
;dle  of  a  reformer  in  political  life ;  raves  about 
soman's  wrongs,  not  omitting  the  worn-out  ab- 
surdity of  "idiots,  lunatics,  and  criminals,"  visits 
Washington  and  demands  of  the  President  an 
immediate  change  in  several  unjust  matters ;  "  Ike 
Whiskey  Ring  must  be  broke  up"  to  begin  with; 
and  in  her  determination  to  "  tackle  the  nation  " 
ia  passed  on  from  one  person  to  another,  "ex- 
pressing her  mind"  in  her  peculiar  fashion. 
Her  logic  is  good  on  public  affairs,  as  in  Ihe 
natter  of  copyright,  where  she  told  "the  man 
vho  made  the  copyrights,"  that  "Josiah's  farm 
un  along  one  side  of  a  pond  ;  and  if  one  of  his 
sheep  got  over  on  the  other  side  it  was  a  sheep  "> 
just  the  same,  and  it  was  hisen  just  the  same;  ^ 
he  didn't  lose  the  right  to  it,  because  it  happened 


■886.] 


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lOJ 


to  crow  the  pond."  At  first  one  !■  puzzled  to 
undcTtland  what  the  penEive  face  of  sweet 
Cicely  which  fronts  the  title-page  can  poiiibl; 
bave  to  do  with  the  garrulity  of  Samantha;  but 
the  motive  is  soon  apparent,  in  the  wrongs  she 
has  suffered  through  intemperance  and  the  in- 
justice of  legislators  and  liquor  dealers;  and  the 
cause  for  which  she  pleads.  In  the  vain  urging 
of  which  she  dies,  is  supported  by  argumenU 
which  cannot  be  overthrown.  With  all  the 
abtnrdity  of  these  spun  out  pages,  there  it  a 
•ad  story  of  an  injured  woman,  and  her  boy,  a 
quick-witted  little  fellow,  who  asks  questions, 
"Sots  questions  about  Paradise,"  and  especially 
aboat  Adam's  fall : 

"  And  say,  where  was  the  Lord  ?  couldn't  He 
have  kept  him  t  say,  couldnt  He } "  "  Yes ;  He 
c«n  do  anything,"  "  Wall,  then,  why  didn't 
Het"  Josiah  groaned  low.  "If  Adam  hadn't 
fell,  I  wouldn't  nave  fell,  would  I  i  —  nor  you  — 
nor  Ury  —  nor  anybody  P "  "  No ;  I  s'pose  not." 
"  Wall,  wooidn't  it  have  paid  to  kept  Adam 
up  i    Say,  Uncle  Josiah,  say  1 " 

There   is    a   large   amount  of  shrewdness  ind 
l(^c  about    Samantha,   Cicely,  and    the    keen 
little    lad,   and    possibly    the    arguments    here 
dressed  up  In  laughable  style  may  have  weight 
where  a  less  entertaining  presentation  of  vital 
questions  would  fail  —  if  the  author  only  knew 
just  when  to  stop.    [Funk  &  Wagnalls.    Si.o 
The  Lee  Sisters'  "Canterbuiy  Tales. 
Times  change ;  and  the  style  oE  writing  changes 
with  them,  as  is  indicated  by  the  sharp  contrast 
between  these  stories  of  more  than  eighty  ye: 
ago  and   any  collection  of  today.     Some   ki 
of  a  charm  has  kept  them  in  print  for   three 
generations,  and  has  led  to  their  present  appear 
ance  in  uew  dress;    but   whatever    may   havi 
influenced  our  ancestors  to  pore  over  and  admire 
them,  it  it  exceedingly  donbtfal   if  they  meet 
with  a  very  cSusive  welcome  from  those  accus- 
tomed  to  the  realism,  the  vivisection,  the  still- 
life  studies  of  our  present  writers.     The  readers 
of  Howells  and  Miss  Muifiee,  of  Brandcr  Mat- 
thews and  Miss  Woolson,  of  R.  L.   Stevenson 
and   Hugh  Conway,  will  nod  and  go  to  sleep 
over   the  "German's  Tale,"  even  if  Byron 
have  10  exalted  an  opinion  of  it,  and  will  find 
most  of  the  others  spun  out  to  an  unpardonabli 
length.     The   merit   of  these   tales   consists  in 
their  invention,  which  is  genuine,  and  so  natural 
that  one   can  fancy   these   two  cultivated   a 
skillful   sisters  going   on  forever  making  p\< 
and  working   them   out,   or,   at  least,  with 
limitations  except   such  as   physical   endurance 
could  Kt  upon  them.     As  specimens  of  a  kind 
of  work  once  so  popular,  the  Canlerbury   Tali 
are   entitled  to  high  praise,  free  from  an  ovei 
sensational  element,  depicting  men  and  wome 
as  the   authors  knew  or  imagined   they  knew 
them;    in    relations   and    under    circumstance 
where    the    conventional    impostor,    intrigue i 
betrayer  of  innocence,  unforgiving   parent,  lost 
child,  secret  marriage,  and  deadly  enemy  mi 
play  a  part,  but  managed  with  delicacy,  the  pl< 
arranged  in  a  consistent  way,  the  narrative  t( 
with  unflagging  fidelity,  and  in  good  English  for 
its  purpose.    There  is  much   sameni 
style  and  inventiveness  of  the  two  sister  authors. 
Sophia  has  but  two  uf  the  tales,  the  longer  being 
B  novelette,  "  The  Young  Lady's  Tale,"  of 
siderable  merit  and  well  worth  perusal.     Harriet 
has  ten,  with  a  variety  of  scene,  nationalities, : 
events ;  but  in  completeness  and  a  kind  of  sim- 


plicity reminding  one  of  Tht  Vicar  of  Waktfitld, 

ie  surpasses  the  pathetic  simple  story  of  a 
intry  girl,   which   opens   the    series — "The 
Ijtndlady's  Tale."    [Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.    3 
ilumes.    #375.] 

Indian  Summer. 
In  Indian  Summtr  Mr.  Howells  is  In  Florence, 

id  al  home.  If  our  leading  American  novelist 
'.  wise  he  will  not  wander  often  away  to  those 
rode,  raw  scenes  nearer  home  which  have  some- 
his  pen,  but  with  whose  vulgar 
realism  —  using  the  word  vulgar  in  its  scientific 
I  manner  is  far  from  consonant.  Mr. 
a  tooch,  a  note  ;  and  there  is  no  en- 
which  befits  his  mood  and  method, 
his  thought  and  style,  so  well  as  the  soft  and 
summery  air  and  skies  of  his  beloved  Italf,  Venice 
with  her  still  charm,  or  Florence  with  her  flavor 
of  the  antique  and  the  romance  of  a  thousand 
histories.  We  like  Mr.  Howells  best  when  he  is 
thus  far  away  and  yet  at  his  best,  and  we  arc 
ipressed  with  the  fact  in  reading  the 
present  book.  His  characteristic  is  playfulness 
than  power,  (he  delicate  rather  than  the 
dramatic.  Mr.  Howells's  arena  is  the  parlor. 
But  then  parlors  are  sometimes  the  stage  of 
tragedies.  There  is  little  that  is  tragic,  however, 
in  Indian  Sumnur,  We  have  not  here  any 
romance  of  the  sere  and  yellow  leaf,  but  simply 
a  chapter  out  of  middle  life,  freshened  by  a  little 
juvenescence  on  the  one  side,  and  dignified  with 
the  other.  The  central 
figures  in  this  cunning  and  pleasing  Florentine 
mosaic  are  realty  five  :  Mr.  Cotville  and  Mrs. 
Bowen,  Imogene  Graham  next  to  Mrs.  Bowen, 
and  Mr.  Waters  next  to  Mr,  Coiville,  and  the 
child  Eflie  Bowen  like  a  butterfly  flitting  among 
the  group  with  distinct  preferences  for  Colvitte. 
Col  vine's  situation  may  be  sufiiciently 
summed  up  in  the  snatch  of  Cay's  "  Beggar'e 
Opera : " 

Haw  hap»  could  I  b«  with  thber, 

Mr.  Coiville   is  a  man  of  misfortunes.       The 
first  occurred  before  the  period  of  this  slory,  ovei 

which  it  casts  its  long  shadow.  The  second  Is 
laid  before  the  reader,  and  consists  in  his  getting 
engaged  to  the  wrong  lady.  We  say  getting 
g^ed,  for  it  was  the  lady's  work,  and  Mr.  C 
ville  was  hardly  a  free  agent,  except  as  any  man 
is  responsible  for  any  such  entanglement;  and 
Colville's  age  and  experience,  in  real  conditions, 
should  have  been  equal  to  the  rather  surprising 
and  impetuous  toils  which  snared  him. 
sorry  business,  and  the  novelist's  purpose  is  prob- 
ably to  impress  the  conviciion  that  the  like  of 
ought  never  to  be  allowed  to  happen  in  fat 
Mr.  Waters,  the  retired  Unitarian  minister  from 
Haddam,  we  greatly  enjoy,  and  Effie  is  done 
the  life.  A  piquant  child  she  is;  we  know  her 
veritable  antitype,  now  illuminating 
home  in  Washington.  The  course  o£  the  story 
is  decorated  with  eEtective  Florentine  pictures,  c 
which  the  masquerade  ball  is  a  good  exampli 
The  dialogue  is  natural,  often  brilliant  and  amui 
ing.  Mr.  Howells's  inkdrops  sparkle  and  glisten 
always  in  good  humor, 
arrows  of  his  people  make 
ot  sure  of  the  good  taste  of 
s  to  bis  own  writii^gs  and 
Mr.  James's  on  p.  273.  It  is  a  hazardous  bit  of 
pleasantry,  to  say  the  least.  Madame  Uccelli  is 
undoubtedly  a  photograph.      And  indeed  there 


The  very  pain! 
you  smile.  W 
the  sportive  : 


plenty  of  photographs  In  the  book,  oE  both 
places  and  people,     [Ticknor  &  Co.    t'-5o.] 

A  pleasant  little  story  is  Our  Liltli  Ann,  by 
the  author  of  Tip  Cat,  an  author  who  has  an 
:ye  for  the  kindlier  attributes  of  the  race  and 
could  not  make  a  villain  iC  she  tried,  much  teas 
introduce  one  into  her  households  of  gentle 
mothers,  brotherly  brothers,  and  friendliest  of 
people  who  rescue  such  estrays  as  the  simple 
There  Is  a  vein  ol  aentiment  running 
through  her,  of  which  she  seems  half  shy  and 
half  ashamed,  making  a  pretty  mockery  of  it, 
but  blending  it  in  most  fittingly  with  the  lovers 
of  Will  and  Ann,  and  with  the  idyllic  life  of 
Ann  at  Filbert  Farm,  her  fondnesa  for  the  boy 
Hal,  his  fealty  to  her,  and  the  tenderness  of  the 
old  man  who  lives  his  lost  youth  over  again 
in  this  little  Irish  governess.  There  is  a  aweet 
and  pure  atmosphere  about  the  book;  pictures 
of  a  genuine  home,  though  an  humble  one,  in 
London,  and  also  of  rustic  living  amidst  the 
delights  of  country  ways  and  scenes;  and  the 
e  leads  to  more  confidence  in  human 
nd  a  feeling  that  the  world  is  not  to  bad 
as  has  been  represented.  [Roberts  Brothers. 
»i.oo.] 

Lewis  Carroll's  Tangltd  Tale  will  prove  but 
sorry  reading  for  those  who  have  been  hoping 
for  another  real  story  from  the  author  of  Alice 
in  Wenderlaad.  It  is  clever,  as  we  need  not 
say;  it  abounds  in  droll  turns  of  phrase  and 
is  amusingly  illustrated;  but  when  all  is  said 
the  little  volume  is  nothing  more  than  a  series 
of  fantastic  arithmetical  puizles,  as  useless  as 
they  are  disappointing.  It  answers  very  welt  its 
original  intention,  which  was  to  set  the  rather 
dull  young  readers  of  Thi  Monthly  Packet  a 
guessing  ;  but  as  a  book  it  must  be  pronounced 
a  failure.  We  hope  it  is  a  mere  passing  divtrtii- 
mint,  and  that  Mr.  "Carroll  "  has  a  more  sub- 
stantial pleasure  in  reserve  for  his  readers,  and 
one  better  worthy  of  his  high  reputation.  [Mac- 
millan&Co.    ^1.50.] 

The  reading  of  Kalph  Norbreik'i  Trust,  with 
the  memory  of  Red  Ryvingtoii,  by  the  same  au- 
thor, makes  us  almost  ready  to  say  that  the 
author,  William  Westall.  may  claim  a  place 
among  the  best  of  living  English  novelists.  The 
present  story  is  in  two  parts,  one  of  which  lies  in 
England,  and  the  other  in  Venezuela.  The 
Venezuelan  half  is  the  less  eSective  of  the  t«o  ; 
being  somewhat  sensational  in  its  incidents,  and 
descending  once  or  twice  to  a  humor  that  is  too 
broad;  but  the  English  half  is  capital,  the  beat 
writing  of  its  kind  by  far  since  Thomas  Hardy's 
earlier  studies  in  English  peasant  life.  What 
Mr.  Westall  calls  the  prologue  to  this  story,  its 
first  seven  chapters,  in  which  Simon  Nutter  de- 
tects his  son  Rupert  in  dishonesty  and  Rupert 
decamps,  with  the  result  of  Ralph  Norbieck  suc- 
ceeding to  the  vacant  opportunity,  wooing  and 
marrying  his  master's  preily  daughter  Alice,  and 
when  the  old  man  dies  acquiring  the  properly, 
would  pretty  nearly  make  a  short  story  by  itself. 
The  pictnresqueness  of  many  of  the  characters, 
the  quaintness  of  the  dialect,  the  humor  in  much 
of  the  situation,  the  easy  realism  of  the  author's 
manner,  make  most  entertaining  reading.  It  is 
Ralph  Norbreck's  son,  Bertram,  who,  after  his 
father's  death,  chafed  and  embittered  by  his  un- 
just uncle  Roger's  treatment,  goes  off  to  Vene- 
zuela on  a  silver-mine  chase,  and  has  the  round 
of  adventures  which  do  not  nuuntain  the  early 


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[Mar.  20, 


level  of  tbcstory.  But  if  Mr.  Wesiall  could  give 
us  an  entiie  t>ook  in  the  v«in  of  his  prologue, 
and  indeed  of  the  first  twenty  chapters,  it  would 
be  a  book  of  mark.     [Cassell  &  Co.    ^i.oo.] 

Edna  Lyall'i  Blory  of  Donovan  was  not  written 
at  a  dash  nor  can  it  be  read  in  a  day.  Ii  is  a 
slow  and  deliberate  work  on  the  part  of  the 
author,  and  will  require  a  similar  temper  on  the 
part  of  the  public.  Without  George  Eliot's 
analytic  power  and  intellectual  affluence,  it  is  a 
tale  somewhat  after  her  method.  It  is  interest- 
ing without  being  wholly  pleaiaril.  Donovan 
ia  a  boy  bom  under  an  unlucky  star.  He  dis- 
pleases his  father,  and  his  father  dies.  He  has  a 
selfish  mother,  and  his  mother  marries  again. 
Hia  guardian,  who  becomes  his  slep-father,  is  a 
scoundrel.  His  darling  sister  Dot  sickens  and 
dies.  His  life  takes  a  cant  towards  skepti- 
cism and  tuns  into  gambling.  All  the  colors  in 
his  experience  are  dark  and  depressing.  The 
single  touch  of  brightness  is  the  pan  played  by 
Gladys  Tremaine,  the  doctor's  daughter  at  Porlh- 
kerran,  who  becumcs  Donovan's  good  angel,  the 
light  thai  guides  his  sore  and  wandering  feet 
into  the  way  of  peace.  For  a  novel  of  the  solid 
and  substantial  sort  Dumman  is  considerably 
above  the  average,  but  it  is  in  some  respects 
painful.     [D.  Applelon  k  Co.     Ji.jo.J 

Much  in  the  line  so  successfully  followed  by 
Ebers,  Eckstein's  tale  of  The  Chaldtan  Magitian 
introduces  ila  readers  into  the  imperial  city  in 
lh«  leign  of  Diocleiian.  In  ils  brief  story  of  the 
love  of  a  young  patrician  and  a  beautiful  Sicilian 
girl,  thwarted  by  awful  prophesies  of  dire  woe 
from  the  sable  goddess  Hecate,  which  are  deliv- 
ered through  Olbasanus  the  Chaldean  magician, 
the  dim  past  is  invested  with  the  human  hopes, 
longings,  and  fears  which  can  never  perish  while 
the  race  endures.  Very  marvelous,  even  to  read- 
ers in  our  modern  days  when  the  advance  of 
science  has  so  greatly  restricted  the  supernatural, 
are  the  prodigies  by  which  the  decree  of  separa- 
tion is  enforced  upon  the  lovers,  and  equally  sim. 
pie  are  the  explanations  which  the  magician  is 
liii ally  compelled  to  give  of  his  modes  of  work- 
ing, whereby  all  the  mystery  is  removed  and  the 
faithful  lovers  arc  at  last  pcrmitled  to  be  united. 
The  work  of  the  translator  is  so  well  done  that 
the  story  as  printed  might  well  have  been  written 
in  English.    [W.  S.  Goltsberger.    90c.] 

American  readers  will  find  in  l^  Manage 
lie  Gairielte  a  vivacious  narrative  of  modern 
life,  which  claims  the  honor  of  having  been 
"crowned  "  by  the  Academy  and  ii  the  liflh  of 
[he  Romant  Choisis,  a  more  agreeable  story  than 
Desia,  of  the  same  series,  and  easier  French 
than  in  Le  Rq'i  del  Monlagnes.  The  intense 
pride  of  birih  of  (he  old  French  aristocracy, 
titled  and  yet  now  wholly  without  political 
standing,  is  well  brought  out  in  relief  against 
the  status  and  feelings  of  the  wealthy  mercantile 
class,  as  respectively  represented  by  the  hero 
and  the  heroine  and  their  families.  A  curious 
idea,  to  minds  more  familiar  with  English  laws 
and  customs  than  with  French,  is  that  of  the 
transmission  of  a  title  by  will  and  by  wiiltcn 
instrument  of  gift.  We  remark,  also,  the  occa- 
sional use  in  this  book  of  pronouns  of  the  series 
moi,  lei,  etc.,  as  subjects  of  a  verb.  There 
seems  no  reason,  theological,  moral,  or,  we  may 
add,  linguistic,  why  (he  variety  of  incident  and 
excellent  sketches  of  characters  and  scenes  in 
this  story  should  nut  render  it  acceptable  to  all 
deiiring  to  combine  pleasure   with  practice  in 


reading  one  of  the  most  graceful  of  modern 
languages.  As  with  many  books  issued  in 
Paris,  the  frail  paper  cover  requires  care  to 
prevent  its  destruction  in  even  a  single  reading. 
[W.  R.  Jenkins.    Paper.    60  els.] 

Under  Ihe  general  title  of  Tit  Broken  Shaft 
an  editor  who  withholds  his  name  has  collected 
a  number  of  original  and  fresh  stories,  ai 
understand  them  to  be,  by  Marion  Craw 
R.  L-  fitevenson,  F.  Anstey,  W.  K.  Pollock, 
Wm.  Archer,  Tighe  Hopkins,  and  Henry  Nor- 
man. The  stories  purport  to  be  told  in  mid- 
ocean,  on  board  the  steamship  "  Bavaria,"  in- 
cidentally to  her  being  disabled  and  delayed  by 
the  breaking  of  a  shaft.  Without  taking  space 
to  characterize  them  all,  we  will  say  of  Mr. 
Crawford's  opening  tale  of  "The  Upper  Berth," 
that  it  ia  as  effective  a  ghost  story  ai  we  have  read 
for  a  long  lime ;  and  (hal  whoever  gets  through 
it  without  feeling  big  blood  curdle  wllhin  him 
has  more  self-possession  than  (he  present  re- 
viewer.   [D.  Appleton  4  Co.     Paper.    250.] 

The  old,  sterling,  and  excellent  slory  of 
Elixabeth,  or  Ihe  Exiles  0/  Siberia  has  appeared 
in  a  new  and  convenient  edition,  in  which  it 
ought  to  find  a  new  generation  of  readers, 
[W.  S.  Gotlbberger.    90c.] 

Professedly  a  "  temperance  story,"  the  Thread 
gf  Cold,  by  Mrs.  E.  C.  Wilbur,  falls  naturally 
into  two  divisions,  not  formally  separated,  in 
the  first  of  uhich  ihe  author  relates  a  considera- 
ble  part  of  a  life  of  much  sadness,  writing  in 
autobiographical  form  and  highly  emotional  style 
and  with  profuse  employment  of  (he  religious 
phraseology  uf  extreme  Pro(es(antism,  while  in 
the  second  the  ruin  which  may  be  wrought  by 
the  alcohol  habit  is  powerfully  and  affeclingly 
brought  out  in  ihe  story  of  certain  new  charac- 
ters introduced  ;  the  end  being  of  the  pleasant 
kind  indicated  by  (he  words,  "  light  at  eventide." 
[Cincinnati ;  Cranston  &  Stowe.    80c] 


SHAEESFEASUNA. 


Tbe  February  Meeting  of  the  New  York 
Sttakespeare  Society.  The  tenth  regular  meet- 
ing of  the  Shakespeare  Society  of  New  York 
was  held  on  the  evening  of  February  25th,  at 
Hamilton  Hall,  Columbia  College,  Mr.  James  E. 
Ke)  nold?,  acting  President,  in  the  chair. 

The  Executive  Committee  reported  favorably 
an  amendment  to  (he  By-Laws,  making  (he 
annual  dues  after  (he  23d  day  cf  April,  1SS6,  live 
dollars  instead  of  (wo  dollars,  as  at  present,  and 
the  initiation  fee  ten  dollars,  instead  of  three  dol- 
lars. The  fee  for  life  membership  is  left,  as  at 
present,  twenty-five  dollars.  The  notice  required 
by  the  Constitution  having  been  given,  the  chair 
put  the  question  on  the  amendment  to  the  house, 
and  the  same  was  adopted. 

By  recommendation  of  the  Executive  Commit- 
tee  (he  applications  of  John  E.  Martin,  Esq.,  New 
York  City,  for  resident  membership  and  of  Prof. 
Thomas  D.  Supine  of  Corn  wall -on -Hudson, 
N.  v.,  fur  non-resident  membership  were  favor- 
ably considered  and  the  gentlemen  named  were 
elected. 

The  society  before  adjournmenl  took  a  recess 
to  enable  members  and  the  invited  guests  of 
the  society  to  inspect  the  copy  of  the  Second 
Folio,  owned  by  C.  F.  Gunther,  Esq-,  of  Chicago, 
upon  the  fly-leaf  of  which  is  pasted   a  slip  of 


paper  containing  an  alleged  autograph  of  William 
Shakespeare. 

The  Quitther  Autog;raph.  It  appears  from 
the  above  report  that  no  format  verdict  on  the 
authenticity  of  the  Gunther  autograph  was  pre- 
sented at  the  meeting  of  the  New  York  Society 
by  the  committee  appointed  to  investigate  the 
matter ;  and  perhaps  none  was  thought  to  be 
necessary.  We  had  the  privilege  of  examining 
a  photograph  of  the  (hing  some  weeks  ago, 
and  at  once  recognized  its  close  resemblance  to 
the  third  signature  on  Shakespeare's  will.  On 
comparing  it  carefully  with  one  of  the  engraved 
fac-similes  of  that  signature,  we  saw  that  it 
was  an  extremely  accurate  reproduction  thereof- 
Every  letter  and  every  stroke  of  every  letter 
were  minutely  copied  ;  and  even  the  slight  devi- 
ation from  a  straight  line  in  the  two  words  of 
the  name  (the  Shakspere  being  slightly  "  uphill  ") 
was  perfectly  imitated-  It  was  evidently  a  fac- 
simile of  that  signature  made,  not  "with  intent 
to  deceive,"  but  merely  to  give  an  idea  of  the 
poet's  handwriting.  No  forger,  unless  he  were 
more  tool  (ban  knai-e,  would  copy  a  well-known 
autograph  so  exactly,  for  no  man  writes  his 
name  twice  in  just  Ihe  same  way.  No  two  sig- 
natures of  Shakespeare  have  anything  more 
(ban  a  very  general  resemblance. 

We  have  seen  a  newspaper  paragraph  making 
fun  of  the  fact  that  this  alleged  autograph  is  in 
a  copy  of  the  Second  Folio,  which  was  not 
printed  until  sixteen  years  aftei  the  poet's  deith- 
Tbe  writer  seems  not  to  have  been  aware  that, 
as  staled  above,  the  name  is  on  a  slip  of  paper 
failed  inio  the  1631  volume- 
Grant  While's  Editions  of  Staakespeare. 
A  correspondent  in  Pennsylvania  asks : 

Does  the  late  "Riverside"  edition  supersede 
the  former  ii-volume  edition,  or  has  the  latter 
still  a  value  alt  its  own  ^ 

The  "  Riverside  "  is  meant  to  be  a  "  popular  " 
edition,  and  both  the  inlroduc(ory  matter  and  the 
notes  are  very  concise.    The  preface  says  : 

Its  purpose  is  not  to  furnish  material  for  criti- 
cal study  either  of  the  Eltzibetban  dramatists  or 
of  the  English  language.  .  .  The  elossarial  and 
explanatory  notes  ...  are  iiilcnded  simply  to 
enable  (he  reader  to  understand  the  words  and 
phrases  used  by  the  poet,  without  a  display  of 
the  sources  whence  they  have  been  derived,  and 
with  the  briefest  possible  diversion  of  the  read- 
er's altenlion  from  the  author  (o  the  editor. 

The  critical  student  will  want  both  editions 
(the  "  Riverside  "  as  giving  the  editor's  revised 
text,  if  for  no  olhcr  purpose) ;  but  if  he  can  have 
only  one  it  should  be  the  earlier,  which  will  have 
a  permanent  place  among  Ihe  "  standard  "  edi- 
lions  for  the  scholar  as  distinguished  from  the 
mere  reader  of  Shakespeare. 


NOTES  AND  QTTEBIB8. 


776.    Baudelaire,  Turgenieff  and  hiB  Fel- 

Are  there  any  translations  of  the  work*  of 
Charles  Baudelaire,  the  French  poet  and  ro- 
«rf  If  so,  who  publishes? 
Name  the  fullest  work  on  mythology, 
Greek  and  Roman.  Is  there  any  volume  treat- 
ing of  the  tyraboliim   of  the  old  myths  ?    Are 


i8S6.] 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


•105 


there  not  better  works  llian  Dwigbt'a  and  Mur- 

3.  I  am  much  pleased  with  (he  tales  and 
other  writings  of  Ivan  Turginieff,  and  should 
be  glad  to  heai  of  other  writera  who  look  al 
life  in  the  wne  wayj  especially  olheii  who  treat 
their  niaterial  with  equal  power.  How  is  it  with 
George  Meredith  and  Daudet  I  What  can  you 
say  of  Flaubert,  I.achambeaudie,  Spielhagen, 
Auerbach,  and  the  Goncouria  ?  Are  any  of  Ihc 
works  of  the  last  six  to  be  had  in  lianslation  7 

4.  Is  there  any  thoughtful  volume  that  points 
out  the  relation  of  Christ's  words  and  teachings 
to  the  social  problems  of  modern  life  ?  Perhaps 

of  sermons  wherein  His  altitude  toward  the 
questions  of  today  is  portrayed  in  a  striking  ^n6 
original  way.  In  a  word,  do  you  know  of  some- 
thing fresh,  out  of  the  beaten  track,  on  the  relig- 
ious aspect  oE  the  labor  and  olhei  social  prob- 
lems }  If  not,  perhaps  you  Can  refer  me  to  one 
or  two  books  or  periodicals  treating  these  mat- 
ters in  a  stcuiar  spirit.  I  prefer  those  which  are 
in  sympathy  with  the  lower  and  poorer  classes. 
Placervillt,  Cat.  c.  E.  u. 

I .  TroH^liiiia  /ram  C.  BanJrlairi,  viil\  a  Pm 
Ortfimai  Pmtwubf  K.H.SIuflurd.     London:   Pickering, 

which  «rc  de^kalcly  «nd  well  done,  fill  iml  ten  p«tei,  and 


Iht  "  few  ongIn.l  poem."  fill  one  hu 

dreJ. 

I.    0«,b«k'.  Cr« 

,,kl,li.  Kun. 

m,lkMi.tk  (Leipeic 

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le:  Atlu,  1  « 

l.)i.thet«.t.     Sym- 

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o.el  -ay  by  Andrew 

LanginhiiCutfHu^^iM.-coniiilt  alio  GeraM  Mai- 

lonK<.  A  a«^Q/li,  Biri-nJng, 

(London,  .880.    The 

alter  w»k.  <h«ith  toll  oi  erodilion. 

i>  no.,  wc  .houU  H.pp«e,  ■  recopiiH 

d  authority.    O.  Sec 

Dl.n>l  Mflidcr7  ^  GrHft  a-d  fit 

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>  good  Hnill  txKd  on 

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mythology  loan.    A 

ble  work  ii  Noewl 

•  MylktUrr 

(Lo.rf«.  .sas). 

].     C.    E.    M.'.  qn. 

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I  lordbly  what  wai 

•aid  In  a  late  onmbe 

of  the  LiUr 

r,  W„ld  in  regard 

toaikimclilenrropin 

oni  rather  iha 

qu«ioni    1.  would 

Iw  a  oniRenial  laak  f 

fill  many  pag 

eawilhlhemetiiaof 

A<  to  Meredith  it  i. 

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ncceuityalwarlbcro 

d  by  Ihe  few. 

ntheiioneodhoK 

who  have  thai  peculia 

quality  o(  mi- 

d  which  it  i.  now  (he 

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in.load-^ 

«,  and  Meredith  cef. 

of  the  beil  and  one  o(  the  wont  booki  of  modem  Ibno. 
Villtrijt,  publithed  !n  the  FarMgUfy  lor  ■8671  »  a  noble 
work,  bol  ila  ilyle  ii  tur|pd  10  the  lail  degree. 

Fourteen  of  Auerlxich's  worki  are  uanilaled  in  the 
"LeiHieHaarSgtie),"beNdei  M'a/^A'w./ [Hotl,  fi.oo), 
and  Tit  Ftrattri  (■'  Handy  VolunH  Seria,"  Appleton, 
JDC)  01  tranalations  of  Spielhagen,  Holt  publiihae  the 
io11owio(:  HummtrandAmiH.tutp;  Tki HthtHiliini, 
%iao\  PrtMtmaiic  CiaracUri,  tt.so;  TknrKfk  NifU 
ItLifU.t'  " 


Hour  Seric 


")     One 


StMiiiU   Liirary.     Flaubert's  Madami   Bovary  ii  pub- 
liihed  by  Fetenon,  f  oa.    The  Goncouru'  La  Fajutim. 

ii»r»/,'ioeent». 

4.  CoB%u\xtiVbm't  Di  RMi  atial  Jti  iilitt  dtrUlmMii, 
Pari!,  1879.  Waihington  Gladdeo'a  Warki-r  P"^  anJ 
Uuir  EMfiiytri,ljKlt.vooi,  Krooka,  1)761  and  Joacph  P. 
ThompHn'i  Tir  Ifiirtwtan  ;  Hii  Fatit  Fritnib  and  Au 
Tmt  Pritndt,  American  Tract  Svciely,  1879,  are  both 
wrillen  In  a  Cbriatian  and  humane  ipirll.  The  Society  for 
Iho  Pmnoliaii  of  Christian  Knowledge  haa  publithed 
Smciatin^  ami  CtmmnMitm  in  lk.ir  Practical  AfflUa- 
lin,  br  M.  Kaulmaun,  a  Cbriatian  lympaihiier  with 
Ibeae  Ibeories.  Ttie  beU  lale  aecutar  woik  it  Lave- 
leye'i  Steiaiiim  of  Ttday,  1884,  A  teller  addretaed  10 
the  Rev.  Jeti*  H.  Jooee,  Nonb  AUuglon,  Uau.,  would 
doutitieia  elidt  much  more  informaliou  Ihan  we  can  give, 
frmi  one  who  IborougUy  underaivida  Ihe  qucation.  By 
the  way,  haa  C  E.  M.  read  that  curioui  aodal  study,  E. 
I^rao  LiatoD's  y—lam  Dapidttn  t 


KEWS  AND  NOTES. 

—  In  the  Bnai  Buyer  for  March  the  Scribners 
publish  the  first  portrait  ever  engraved  of  Mr. 
R.  4^  Stevenson,  from  a  photograph  taken  by 
Sir  Percy  Shelley,  Hart.,  a  son  of  the  poet,  who 
must  now  be  above  sixty  years  old.  It  shows  a 
very  intetteclual,  kindly  Face,  but  plainly  worn 
with  care  and  pain.  From  a  sketch  in  Tht  BonA 
Buyer  we  learn  that  al  present  Mr.  Stevenson 
is  living  quicily  at  a  pleasant  country  house 
which  he  calls  "  Skerryvore,"  at  Bournemouth, 
in  the  South  of  England.  We  can  only  hope 
that  the  author  may  recover  his  former  vigorous 
health,  and  may  make  another  visit  to  America. 
where  he  found  his  wife, 

—  Messrs.  T.  V.  Crowell  &  Co.  will  have  ready 
early  next  week  Aiiaa  Karinina,  by  Count  Leo 
Tolstoi,  translated  complete  from  the  Russian  by 
Nathan  Haskell  Dole,  the  editor  and  translator 
of  Rambaud's  Hislary  of  Hvisia.  It  is  to  be  a 
royal  l2mo  of  7J0  pages  and  is  Tolstoi's  latest, 
and  said  to  be  his  greatest,  work  of  fiction.  The 
Russian  edition  was  in  four  volumes. 

—  For  rather  more  than  a  year  Prof.  James  K. 
Hosmer  has  been  working  opon  a  life  of 
"  Young  Sir  Harry  Vane."  He  has  searched 
about  all  the  authorities  In  America  respecting 
him  and  his  period,  and  purposes  to  spend  next 
summer  in  England,  certain  that  in  the  British 
Museum  and  the  records  of  the  State  Paper 
office  he  can  find  considerable  material  of  great 
value  not  yet  used.  Workers  in  historical  biog- 
raphy may  therefore  consider  this  subject  pre- 
empted by  a  very  competent  hand. 

—  Ginn  &  Co.  have  in  press  Our  GtvernvtenI, 
by  J.  Macy,  Professor  in  Iowa  College,  intended 
to  lie  a  complete  textbook  on  civil  government 
for  use  ill  the  United  States. 

—  A.  D.  F.  Randolph  &  Co.  have  in  press  a 
new  book  on  The  Wisdom  af  thi  Afocalypie,  by 
the  Rev.  J.  H.  Mcllvaine,  D.  D. 

—  James  II.  Earle,  Boston,  announces  His 
Opportunity,  a  story  of  American  lile,  by  Henry 
C.  Pearson;  Nin^fk  and  its  Rtfenlanie,  by 
Rev.  S.  H.  Higginc,  D,  D. ;  Songs  0/  Tnisl,  by 
Elizabeth  S.  Goodyear ;  and  Tkettgkt  Etching!, 
by  Rev.  J.  M.  ScotL 

—  It  ii  due  to  Houghton,  Mifilin  ft  Co.,  the 
publishers  of  (he  memoir  of  Ole  Bull,  a  new 
edition  of  which  was  noted  in  our  Ust  issue,  to 
say  that  in  all  their  adverlisements  of  the  book 
they  distinctly  announce  it  as  a  new  edition,  as 
all  weil-intormed  people  of  course  must  under- 
stand to  be  the  cases  and  to  add  that  nothing 
appears  in  the  book  itself  about  its  being  a  new 
edition  l>ecauBe  no  changes  were  made  in  it,  and 
it  is  not  the  custom  oi  the  firm  to  indicate  tlie 
fact  of  new  editions  of  books  in  the  books  ihem 
■elves,  unless  there  have  been  revisions  or  ad- 
ditions. The  price  oE  the  work  has  been  reduced 
from  (z-50  to  ^i.jo.  So  far  as  our  former 
paragraph  did  injustice  to  the  firm  we  regret  it 
and  modify  it  accordingly. 

—  Funk  and  Wagnalls  announce  that  15S  per- 
sons rightly  guessed  the  authorship  of  Tht  Bunt- 
ling  Ball,  but  they  decline  at  present  to  give  the 
name.    It  is  understood  to  be  Edgar  Fawcett. 

—  The  series  of  articles  by  Rev.  Lyman 
Abbott,  D.  D,  which  appeared  in  the  Christian 
Union  last  year,  under  the  name  of  ■'  Aids  to 
Faith,"  have  been  revised  by  the  author,  and 
will  be  shortly  published  in  book  form  by  E.  P. 
Dattoo  &  Co,  nnder  the  title  In  Aid  of  Fafh. 


—  Next  week  the  Rouiledges  will  have  ready 
the  American  edition  of  (he  tiist  volume  of  the 
World's  Library.  It  will  be  issued  in  paper 
covers  and  sold  for  ro  cents ;  in  England  the 
price  is  3d.  A  copy  of  (be  English  edition 
shows  that  the  publishers  have  made  a  hit  in 
the  cover,  which  is  designed  by  Mr.  Walter 
Crane,  and  is  as  good  as  anything  that  the  gifted 
artist  has  done  in  years.  They  were  fortunate 
alao  in  the  choice  of  Goethe's  Faust  to  start  the 
library.  It  was  published  in  London  just  at  the 
time  when  Mr.  Irving'*  acting  in  Faust  was 
creating  so  much  talk,  and  15,000  copies  were 
sold  within  a  week  afler  publication,  and  15,000 
more  before  the  second  week  ended.  After 
/iiujA  lives  of  Nelson  and  Wellington  will  be 
printed,  and  then  a  neat  edition  of  Ciwi'i 
Coyagis, 

—  Mark  Twain's  experiences  in  the  publishing 
business,  which  he  conducts  In  the  name  of  bis 
nephew,  Mr.  Charles  L.  Webster,  have  not  only 
been  remarkably  successful,  but  promise  to  be 
still  more  so  in  the  future.  The  great  sale  of 
(be  Grant  book  is  a  matter  of  history;  a  large 
number  of  the  printers  and  binders  of  New  York 
are  now  hard  at  work  day  and  night  trying  to 
get  the  300,000  copies  of  (he  second  volume 
ready  by  May  lat.  But  beside  the  Grant  book 
Mi.  Clemens  and  Mr.  Web&ler  have  secured 
two  other  books  which  are  certain  to  make  a  stir 
in  the  world.  One  is  the  Pope's  autobiography. 
Memoirs  of  Pope  Leo  XIII,  which  will  be  pub- 
lished some  time  in  1887,  and  the  other  will 
contain  (he  papers  of  the  late  Gen.  McClellan, 
which  we  may  be  certain  are  of  extraordinary 
interest.  The  fact  that  Charles  L.  Webster  4 
Co.  had  secured  the  copyrights  on  the  Pope's 
book  was  a  surprise  to  the  publishing  fraternity, 
as  it  was  supposed  that  the  rights  would  be  of- 
fered only  toa  Roman  Catholic  firm  of  publishers 
whose  interests  were  most  closely  identified  with 
that  church.  Although  the  manuscript  is  not 
yet  complete,  it  has  been  announced  that  (be 
volume  will  be  sold  in  its  cheapest  edition  for 
Ji.zj,  and  in  expensive  bindings  the  prices  will 
range  up  to  Jio.oo.  It  is  proposed  to  illustraie 
it,  and  the  American  publishers  have  secured 
the  tight  of  translation  in  all  languages.  Mr. 
Clemens  Is  now  so  busy  publishing  other  peo- 
ple's books,  tha(  we  can  hardly  expect  to  see 
very  soon  two  new  ones  of  his  own  which  he 
holds  siitl  in  manuscript. 

.  —  Mr.  William  J.  Florence,  (he  actor,  Is  writ- 
ing ■  sketch  of  his  friend,  EX  A.  Sothern,  for 
Messrs.  Hutton  and  Matthews's  series  of  "  Actors 
and  Actresses  of  the  United  States,"  which  the 
Cassells  are  to  publish.  Mr.  Bunner  of  Pnek 
is  (o  write  of  Joseph  JeSerson,  Mr.  Lawrence 
Barrett  is  (0  write  of  Edwin  Forest,  and  Mr. 
Henry  Irving  has  already  written  a  sketch  of 
Edmund  Kean. 

—  Mr.  Cable  has  been  reading  bis  new  and 
unpublished  story,  Grande  Peinti,  before  small 
but  en(huBia3tic  audiences  in  BoE(on  and  at 
Chichering  Hall,  New  York.  In  the  smaller 
cities  the  author's  readings  make  much  more  of 
a  sensadon  than  in  a  metropolis.  He  was  so 
far  honored  by  the  Philadelphia  Press  a  few 
days  ago  that  no  less  than  five  portraits  of  him 
appeared  in  a  column  report  of  his  reading;  the 
engravings  were  made  in  outline,  and  caught 
very  cleverly  the  author's  gestures  and  bis  chang- 
ing expression  in  reading.  By  constant  effort 
Mr.  Cable  has  overcome   his   Southern   accent, 


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THE  LITfiRAkY  WORLO. 


[Mar.  20, 


but  we  cannot  think  that  bis  readinjca  aie  im- 
proved  by  hii  manifest  effort  to  conform  to  tbe 
Nottbern  pronunciatton. 

—  The  Scribners  have  been  obliged  topoitpone 
again  ibe  publicalion  of  Mr.  Siockton's  novel, 
Tie  Latt  Mrs,  NulL  A  second  editioa  waa  put 
on  the  press  as  soon  as  tbe  first  was  off,  because 
of  tbe  very  large  advance  orders.  The  book 
will  probably  be  ready  by  the  25th  of  the  month. 
The  English  edition  will  be  Issaed  by  Sampaoo 
Low  &  Co. 

—  Abont  April  ist  Mr.  Andrew  Carnegie's 
new  book,  THumfAanl  Democracy;  or.  Fifty 
Ytar^  Marih  of  lit  Republic,  will  be  published 
by  the  Scribneis.  It  is  hardly  Dccessary  (o  tay 
that  Mr.  Carnegie  gives  a  glowing  panegyric 
upon  the  great  commercial  and  intellectual  ad- 
vancement of  America.  He  has  gathered  a 
slnpendotit  mass  of  figures  by  which  he  attempts 
to  impress  upon  tiis  readers  the  extra  ordi- 
narily rapid  advance  made  during  the  past  fifty 
years.  When  tbe  author  comes  to  speak  of 
British  royalty  and  the  nobles,  he  does  not  pick 
his  words  too  carefully.  All  monarchical  forms 
and  observances  he  detests,  and  he  expresses 
himself  at  limes  with,  startling  freedom.  Not 
only  a  large  American  edition  is  being  prepared, 
but  a  very  large  circulation  is  also  expected  in 
England,  and  the  work  is  already  in  the  hands  of 
German,  French,  and  Italian  translators, 

—  Mr.  Metcalf,  the  editor  of  the  Fontm,  has 
jtwt  completed  the  index  to  Grant's  memoirs. 
Tbe  work  was  extremely  difficult,  as  General 
Grant  seldom  gave  the  name  of  a  general  in  full, 
and  as  a  result  very  many  of  the  references  had 
to  be  traced  out  in  a  campaign  history  to  get  the 
names  right.  He  received  a  check  for  %y. 
from  the  publisher  for  his  labor. 

—  New  York  is  soon  to  have  a  new  weekly 
religious  paper,  which  has  an  abundant  financial 
backing,  and  is  expected  to  accomplish  some 
notable  results.  The  title  will  be  the  Airnn 
Pulpit,  and  the  proprietors  are  a  company  of 
Soathem  gentlemen  who  propose  to  circulate  the 
paper  more  generally  in  the  South.  Tbe  dis- 
tinctive feature  will  be  a  series  of  reports  of  the 
sermons  of  the  most  eminent  preachers. 

—  The  hidden  author  of  Phyllu,  Molly 
Savin,  and  other  books  of  ttie  sort,  has  written 
a  new  story,  entitled  Lady  Blanksmcrc,  the  ad- 
vance sheets  of  which  have  been  purchased  by 
the  John  W.  Lovell  Company.  We  are  glad  to 
hear  of  the  proprietors  of  the  Lovell  Library 
paying  for  something  which  they  republish. 

— The  naval  duel  between  the  "Kearsarge 
and  tbe  "AlalMma"  will  be  the  chief  war  article 
in  the  April  CeitUiry.    The  illnstralions  will  be 

—  The  Hon.  Eugene   Schuyler  dedicates  his 
forthcoming   book  on  American  Diplomacy  and 
Tht  Farlkeranic  of  Cemtnerie  to  "  J.  S. 
Davis,  diplomatist,  statesman,  and  jurist."    The 
author   reviews  our  whole  diplomatic  history, 
long  chapter  is  devoted  to   the  never    ending 
fishery  question  which,  as  the  author  says,  has 
occupied   the  attention  of  our  states 
since   our   government   began ;    the  concluding 
pages  are  devoted  to  a  consideration  of  the 
portant  efforts,  sucixssful   and   the   reverse, 
conclude  treaties  with  foreign  powers. 

-Fords,  Howard  &  Hulbert  announce  a  1 
book  by  the  Rev.  Thomas  M.  McWhInney,  en- 
titled Rtaion  and  Revelalien  Hand  in   Hand, 
which,  say  the  publisher!,  is  a  modem  argument 


if  an  old  question,  showing  the  reasonableness 
of  revealed   religion  when  seen  in  the  light  of 


The  great,  the  grossly,  extravagant  prices 
paid  for  the  pictures  and  bric-a-brac  owned  by 
the  late  Mis,  Morgan  of  New  York  did  not  ex- 
tend to  the  books  when  they  came  to  be  sold. 
Thoi^h  the  prices  even  for  these  were  often  very 
high,  they  did  not  bring  double  their  value,  or 
anything  like  double,  as  did  many  of  the  paint- 
ings and  bits  of  pottery. 

The  third  number  of  TJcknor  &  Co. 'a  series 
of  Menographi  jf  American  Archileeturt  is  de- 
voted to  the  Ames  Memorial  Buildings  at  North 
Easton,  of  which  Mr.  H.  H.  Richardson  was  the 
rchiiect. 

—  Ginn  &  Co.  announce  three  important  series 
which  will  be  of  much  interest  to  educationists. 
The  first  Is  A  Cotligt  Series  of  Latin  Authors, 
edited  by  Prof.  Clement  L.  Smith  of  Harvard 
College  and  Prof.  Tracy  Peck  of  Yale,  with  the 
coUperation  of  Professor  J.  B.  Greenough  (Har- 
vard), Winton  Warien  (Johns  Ilapkins),  Henry 
P.  Wright  (Yale),  and  others.  The  series  com- 
prise such  of  the  classics  as  are  adopted  for 
college  use,  but  which  have  not  hitherto  been 
obtainable  in  a  suitable  form ;  and  among  the 
authors  included  in  it  are  Juvenal,  Pliny,  Quintil- 

Horace.  The  second  Is  a  similar  Col- 
lege  Strits  of  Greek  Authors.  This  la  edited  by 
John  Williams  While  of  Harvard,  Thomas  D. 
Seymour  of  Yale,  and  other  scholars;  and  Ar- 
istophanes, Euripides,  Herodotus,  i^chines, 
iGschylus,  Lycurgus,  Plutarch,  and  Zenophon 
are  among  the  authors  whose  works  ate  drawn 
on.  The  text  of  these  volumes  is  based  on  that 
of  the  most  approved  German  editions,  and  is 
accompanied  by  valuable  notes.  The  third  work 
in  question  is  the  Historical  Outline  Strie 
ited  by  Albert  Bushnell  Hatte,  Instruct' 
American  History  at  Harvard  University,  The 
first  number  will  be  devoted  to  the  history 
tbe  colonies  of  North  America  down  to  1775; 
the  second,  to  the  political  and  constitutional 
history  of  the  United  States;  and  the  third 
the  administrative  history  of  the  country.  The 
same  publishers  announce  a  book  by  Prof.  E. 
Emerton  of  Harvard,  entitled  An  Introdurlion 
to  the  Study  of  Ike  Middle  Ages,  and  a  volume 
on  the  Fractiial  Elements  0/  Rkeleric,  by  Prof. 
John  F.  Genung  of  Amherst.  The  latter  author 
will  be  remembered  as  having  written  a  thought- 
ful little  volume  on  Tennyson's  "In  Mi 

—  Roberts  Bros,  are  issuing  a  uniform 
of    the  novels  of    the   English  writer,   George 
Meredilh.     The    initial   volume  of    the  set 
The  Ordeal  of  Richard  Fevcrel.    The  edition 
complete  in  nine  volumes, 

—  A  "Popular  Edition"  of  Miss  Blanche 
Willis  lioward'a  pleasant  little  novelette.  One 
Summer,  is  to  be  published  by  Houghti 
&  Cu,  It  will  have  illustrations,  Mr.  Joseph 
Cook's  volume  of  lectures,  entitled  Orient,  and 
the  fifth  volume  in  the  Genlleman's  Magati 
Library  —  Archeology,  Geological  and  Historic, 
are  among  the   other  books  announced  by  this 

—  Mr.  Rideing's  Thackeray'i  London  is  having 
even  a  better  sale  in  England  than  it  is  in  this 
country. 

—  The  AraUoH  Nights  (edited  by  the  Rev.  E. 
E.  Hale)  and  Johnson's  Rassela,  form  new  num- 
bers of  Messrs.  Ginn  &  Co.'s  Children's  Classics. 

—  The  popular  Satchel  Guide  to  Europe  will 


shortly  be  issued  in  a  revised  edition  for  1886. 
Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.  are  its  publishers. 

—  Mr.  Whitticr  has  chosen  the  title  Saint 
Grtgery'i  Guest  and  Recent  Poems  for  his  forth- 
coming volume  of  verse. 

—  A  new  book  on  the  Shakespeare-Bacon  con- 
troversy will  shortly  be  issued  by  Houghton, 
Mifflin  &  Co.,  written  by  William  D.  O'Connor, 
and  called  Hamlifs  Note-Boot.  We  undctstaod 
that  it  answers  the  late  Richard  Grant  White's 
strictures  on  Bacon's  Promus  0/ Formularies  and 
Elegancies,  published  some  time  since  under  the 
editorship  of  Mrs.  Henry  FotL  In  this  conneo 
tlon  the  new  and  enlarged  two-volume  edition  of 
Nathaniel  J.  Holmes's  Authorship  of  Shakespeart 
should  be  mentioned  again.  All  these  books  are 
issued  by  Houghton,  Mifflin  £  Co. 

—  A  German  translation  of  Mrs.  Agassls's 
Life  and  Correspondence  of  Louis  Agassit  has 
just  been  published  in  Berlin.  In  Leipzig  Brock- 
haus  will  publish  immediately  a  German  transla- 
tion of  General  Granfi  Memoirs. 

—  On  the  first  of  August  of  this  year  the 
University  of  Heidelberg  will  begin  the  celebra- 
tion of  a  festival  of  unusual  interest  in  the 
German  world  of  letters,  namely,  the  five  hnt»- 
dredlh  anniversary  of  the  University  foundation. 
Strictly  speaking  it  -vaa  founded  in  1354  but  did 
not  begin  its  full  work  until  thirty  years  later. 
It  is  the  oldest  University  In  the  German  Empire, 
and  the  preparations  for  the  appropriate  ce1el>ra> 
lion  of  the  "  jubilee  "  are  on  an  enormous  scale. 
Anierican  visitors  to  Germany  this  summer  will 
find  this  and  the  musical  symposium  at  Beireuth 
very  strong  attractions. 

—  The  statement  recently  made  in  our  "  Table 
Talk  "  that  a  new  book  by  Professor  Morse  of 
Salem  was  to  be  published  by  another  bouse 
than  Ticknor  &  Co.  w 


LITEBABT  DTDEX  TO  THE  FEBIODI- 
-    0AL8, 

U.  G.  BatiFwn,  D.D,  Chnrch  Macuin*,  Ifareh. 

Boalu  and  Rudint.    W.  E.  A.  Axon. 

Bo^Lor,,  Much. 
CcTTintcm,  A  DluY  u  Vilbdolid  in  ihi 

Time  of!     TohnOnnibt.  Btaekmtod't.litnii. 

Education,  Nidonil  Aid  to.    K  J.  Jane*. 
And' 
J.  P.  H. 


^KDch  Foeti,  Some.     I 

[J,  P.  M.h»ffj?| 
iesgriphrTcichinnin 
Hiitoij  (Bd  Geognpliir. 


er  R.,  March. 


Eduail 


7.  March, 
■B,  Manh. 

ir,  Mareta. 


p,  J.  C.    W.  M,  Fullei 


Canlemforarj.,  Uiueb. 
"'l!'™<AiTn  M.,  Maich. 
Himrd  Uonlhly,  FctL 


rullKh'^The  Ij» 
'enelian  Piajriglu, 


■rindiHl, 
A.     Lindi 


HittiiiH  Ctnlmrf,  March. 
BImcimcd',,  UuA. 

NmlitHal  Stw.,VlBA. 


Tth—ltev.  yeJkm  Tmlltck,  D.D.,  Scalknd,  6]  v. :  for 
■son  ihin  isy.  Principal  of  Si.  Mary'*  Colle|C,  and  thm- 

Mirch  ID,  Mrt.  yuOa  HsM^xa  A  narnet.  South  Bmlon, 
Mu*.,  t>v,i  dMghlerof  Mr..  Jnli.  Ward  Horn,  autbor 
of  HMini,  [oDodcr  of  tbe  MeKphyiial  Gub,  and  *  vaii- 
ouilrgUicd  wamiD, 

Mifch  ,.,  Mr,.  Harriett.  V.  fla/«, Bnfflklint, «.in  - ^ 
wiliol  Arlo  Bate*,  and  loincirhat  ktMnni  in  ilia  nxnilMtl 
a* "  Etcinoi  Pninam."     -      -":     ~ "  (^^ 


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GERMAN   SIMPLIFIED, 

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ANNA  KARENINA. 

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BoMl&n  b;  Nathan  Hukell  I>ol«.  Bo7>112mo, 

TOO  pages,  Sl.TS. 

"Anna  Kar^nlna"  Is  one  of  the  great  novali  of 
the  world.  It  dealt  with  qaeationa  which  appeal 
to  every  man  and  woman.  The  yoonK  v>d 
beantilnl  wife  o[  an  infloeutlal  offlolal  In  3t. 
Fetarsburg  enddenly  wakes  to  the  laot  that  sbo 

fiassionately  loves  »  yonng  officer,  and  tliat  her 
Ife  with  her  husband  whom  she  married  as  a 
matter  of  convenience  has  been  a  long  Ha.  She 
BtraKglea  against  the  temptation,  bat  at  last  she 
yields  and  goes  away  with  her  lover.  Not  even 
George  Eliot  paints  with  greater  power  the  ines- 
orableness  of  law.  The  happiness  ol  the  loveia 
at  first  Is  complete,  bat  Anna  is  Jealous  and  ex- 
acting from  the  very  reason  ot  (he  nnstableneis  of 
her  position,  and  the  downward  path  is  sore  and 

The  story  gives  the  most  vivid  piotore  of  Ros- 
slan  lite  that  has  ever  been  painted :  high  sooiety 
In  Moscow  and  St.  Petersburg;  balls,  races,  gar- 
den parties,  military  fStes,  tkatlng  scenes,  wed- 
''"igs,  and  the  inner  life  of  tliegreat  are  shown 
th  photograph io  detail.  The  author  also 
dwells  with  delight  on  the  lite  in  the  ooantry: 
tbe  Russian  peasant  Is  seen  here  In  all  his  fas- 


tbe  Russian  peasant  Is  seen  here  In  all  his  fas- 
cioatlng  qnaliitneaa,  with  his  proverbial  pbi- 
losophy,  hia  songs,  his  BUpeistltlons,  and  his 
natural  slmpllcitr.  The  practical  illustration  of 
oo-operative  taimlng  will  Interest  ererv  farmer 
and  working  man  In  this  country  where  the 
labor  qaestioD  Is  engaging  so  mach  attention. 

It  has  gone  through  several  editions  in  Bus^; 
and  the  French  paraphrase,  though  scaroeljdotng 
jostice  to  the  original,  has  gene  through  two 
editions  In  as  many  weeks.  The  pteeent  ttau*- 
latlon  very  fairly  represents  tbeorislnal.  It  has 
been  made  by  Mr.  Natban  Haskell  Dole,  editor 
and  translaUirof  Bambaud's  Ulstorr  ot  Russia, 
and  tor  five  years  literary  editor  ot  the  Phila- 
delphia Press. 

XEAI>T  WBDNSaOAI,  XAROB  94. 


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TWO  HOVELS   OF  BIGB   CHAKACTER. 

DONOVAN: 

A   MODERN   ENGLISHMAN. 

A   NOVEL. 

Br  edua  i.tali.. 

"  DonoTEUi "  to  a  noTfll  UiMhaa  been  •ttrMtiog  a  gi«at  deal  of  attention,  eipeeialljtunong 
more  aeriona  readen.  It  ]■  a  religionB  dotsI,  the  hero  of  which  1b  a  freethinker,  and  the  itor; 
cmuiaU  of  a  struggle  betireea  doubt  and  faith. 

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iii 


The  Literary  World. 


Vol.  XVII.       BOSTON,  APRIL  3, 


CONTENTS. 


A  Tik  of  1  Laetij  PuUh 

-n«  Mill  M«t«^'^       '.'.'.'.'.'. 

Eia.Eic,  Eic 

Riucioua  RMAoma 

UlHOR  NoncBS  I 

A  Sboit  Hinory  ol  NapoltoB  I     .       .       .        . 

The  Buitcifliei  of  the  Eumn  Uniud  Statu 

The  Oldan  TiiM  S«ria 

Churdi  BuiMini 

Her  Hijuly'i  Tower 

dlherine  Oweu'i  Neir  Cook  Book 

Uplaod  iw]  Mtidow      .,...- 

PoclcT  u  •  RepreienutiTt  An      .... 

SiriabuiH')  VkIoc  Hun 

ClIBllHT  Linill.TUU 

HOLHCS  AND  LOWIIL 

"THiTwiLlcKTor-nnPom."    Ednr  FucMI 
One  GnuAH  Lbttsii.    Leopold  KaUcbH    . 

The  SoloBHD  SpanlriUiiE  MSS.  awl  the  Book  of 

Hainan.    G.  Fndenck  Wricbi 
Swedkh  LUentnre  id  iSSj.    G.  N.  Snn    . 
HoTU  AMD  Qumm.   777-781       .... 

Shaebpiaiiaha.    Bditcd  hy  Wm.  J.  jtolle'i 
jDanatArtin  "HenirVI"  .        ,        .        . 

A  Plea  for  Shilock 

Queriee  on  the  "  Two  Gentlemen  ol  Verosa  "      . 

TaiuTale 

FoaiiaH  Nnn  AHS  Nom 

NmAHDNlTTU 

CcaHIHC'S  DlCnOHART 

LlTUAIV  iHDn 

NaatoLOGV 

PvBucATiom  Riciinn) 


HAH  OS  MANUAL  T&AINZIQ  ■ 

THE  main  theme  of  Mr.  Ham's  volume 
is  so  important,  and  the  main  object  of 
his  writing  so  valuable,  that  thej  do  not 
need  the  factitious  aid  of  overstatement  and 
of  turgid  rhetoric.  Although  wc  have  a 
profound  faith  in  the  vHue  of  manual  train- 
ing as  an  element  in  education;  and  have 
been  in  the  habit  for  many  years  of  express- 
ing our  earnest  hope  and  faith  that  such 
training  should  be  made  part  of  the  public 
school  system,  we  have  found  ourselves 
somewhat  repelled  by  parts  of  this  book ;  it 
too  frequently  adopts  the  style  of  the  special 
pleader,  and  even  of  the  sensational  reporter, 
The  value  of  tools  and  of  mechanics  is 
somewhat  exaggerated ;  the  value  of  laws, 
statesmanship,  military  skill,  literature,  fine 
art,  is  spoken  of  slightingly;  the  power  of 
education,  both  for  good  and  for  evil,  is  set 
forth  in  terms  that  imply  a  total  forgetful- 
ness  of  the  power  of  native  talent  One 
might  think  that  the  author  had  adopted  the 
eatravagant  theories  that  all  the  differences 
between  a  villain  and  a  saint,  a  blockhead 
and  a  man  of  genius,  arise  from  education, 
in  the  present  or  immediately  preceding 
generations ;  that  all  men  are  equally  capa- 
ble of  attaining  mechanical  skill;  and  that 
a  little  training  in  the  mechanical  aria,  given 
to  all  the  world,  would  make  all  men  honest, 
virtuous,  successftd,  and  happy. 
Of  course  our  author  could  not  deliber- 

■  Hannal  Tnining  the  Solulion  ol  Soda!  ud  lodaBtriil 
Problenii.  By  Charlu  H.  Ham.  UlaMnilH.  Hacpw  A 
Bmben.    I  ■.)<>. 


ately  advance  such  opinions;  it  is  only  his 
rhetorical  hyperbole  which,  for  example, 
leads  bim  to  say  (p.  169)  that  the  services  of 
two  leading  statesmen  are  unimportant, 
while  the  value  of  one  inventor  is  enormous, 
incalculable;  to  quote  approvingly  (p.  237} 
the  assertion  that  rogues  are  manufactured 
articles;  or  to  advance  (p.  295,  foot-note)  the 
extravagant  statement  that  "the  multiplicity 
of  languages  is  due  to  the  policy  of  inter- 
national hate,  inangurated  by  the  nations  of 
Europe  to  promote  the  selfish  purposes  of 
nders."  Yet  In  spite  of  these  overstate- 
ments, scattered  freely  through  his  pages, 
in  spite  also  of  the  sensational  headings  of 
his  chapters,  the  book  is  destined  to  be 
valuable  in  awakening  men  to  the  defects  of 
our  prevailing  modes  of  education.  We  are 
too  prone  to  copy  everything  European,  and 
to  distrust  that  which  is  the  real  product  of 
our  own  soiL  Even  Mr.  Ham  quotes  Euro- 
pean authorities  far  more  than  American. 
The  fundamental  ideas  of  all  the  best  Euro 
pean  systems  had  repeatedly  been  urged  by 
New  England  writers  and  neglected  by 
American  teachers,  until  the  same  ideas 
had  been  proclaimed  in  Europe.  Let  us 
rejoice,  therefore,  that  Russia  started  man- 
ual training. 

The  child  needs  a  training  which  will 
develop  his  body,  his  iniellect,  his  heart, 
and  his  will.  In  each  of  these  four  depart- 
ments, he  needs  power,  knowledge,  and 
skill.  The  power  is  largely  a  native  gift, 
independent  of  education ;  but  the  knowl- 
edge is  given,  and  the  skill  developed,  by 
training.  It  is  a  maxim  with  comparative 
psychologists,  that  an  animal's  psychical  life 
is  proportionate  to  his  physical  organs  of 
contact  with  external  nature  ;  and  that  thus 
the  human  hand,  enabling  man  to  make 
tools,  build  machines,  construct  telescopes, 
microscopes,  etc,  and  thereby  putting  him 
into  infinitely  closer  contact  with  nature 
than  the  highest  animals,  proves  man's  psy- 
chical life  to  be  Incomparably  higher  than 
theirs.  The  great  aim  of  education  is  to 
put  the  child  into  closer  relations  wilb  his 
fellowmeo,  making  him  heir  to  the  wealth  of 
the  race ;  and  into  closer  relations  with 
nature,  Into  possession  of  his  inheritance 
from  God.  To  attain  either  end,  and  both 
ends,  the  child  needs  command  of  his  body, 
as  a  necessary  preliminary;  or,  if  we  may 
be  allowed  the  Hibernianism,  as  an  anteced- 
ent concomitant  It  is  a  cruel  wrong  that  we 
do  to  our  children  to  confine  them  five  or  six 
hours  a  day  studying  books ;  but  giving 
them  almost  no  lessons  in  observation  and 
in  drawing,  and  none  in  the  use  of  tools. 
Manual  training,  as  a  part  of  education, 
would  not  solve  all  social  and  industrial 
problems;  It  could  never  be  made  a  substi- 
tute for  all  other  studies  and  pursuits ;  but 
it  could,  and  it  should,  be  made  a  part  of 
the  education  of  every  human  being.  Me- 
chanical genius  wotild  afterward  work  to  far 
greater  advantage,  and  mechanical  awkward- 


ness labor  under  far  less  disadvantages. 
The  difference  of  mechanical  knack  in  dif- 
ferent children  is,  by  nature,  just  as  wide 
as  the  difference  in  musical  ear.  The  boys 
in  the  splendid  and  successful  Chicago 
Training  School  are  boys  of  native  mechani- 
cal talent,  and  will  receive  the  highest  bene- 
fit from  the  education  which  they  receive 
there.  But  boys  and  girls  whose  want  of 
native  talent  would  render  them  utterly  in- 
competent to  profit  by  the  training  of  such 
a  school,  would  be  greatly  benefited,  and 
made  far  more  useful  in  the  world,  if  in  the 
common  schools  they  had  a  littie  of  the 
simpler  training  in  the  use  of  tools  which 
their  abilities  would  enable  them  to  receive. 
That  Mr.  Ham's  volume  may  help  bring 
about  such  a  change  in  the  schools  as  will 
give  the  pupils  this  Ironing,  is  greaUy  to  be 
desired. 


PI0TIO5. 


A  Tale  of  a  Lonely  Parish. 

The  first  half  of  Mr.  F.  Marion  Crawford's 
new  novel,  A  Tate  of  a  Lmuly  Parith,  is  com- 
monptace  and  dull,  and  one  reads  it  with  a 
feeling  that  the  author's  effort  is  beyond  his 
strength,  that  bis  powers  have  not  grown  with 
his  reputation,  and  that  the  work  is  going  to 
prove  ■  failure.  At  p.  193,  suddenly,  itartlingly, 
with  scarce  a  note  of  warning,  without  the  alight- 
eit  reason  for  expectstion  on  the  part  of  the 
leader,  an  event  occnia  of  a  highly  dramatic 
character,  vbich  is  very  powerfully  managed, 
which  ftiiB  the  reader's  blood,  and  arouses  his 
liveliest  attention;  and  from  that  point  on  the 
book  runs  apon  an  upper  level  of  interest  so  that 
it  will  be  finished  for  its  own  sake  and  not  for 
its  author's.  The  story  is  one  of  that  sort  that 
we  do  not  like  to  disclose  its  plot.  The  "lonely 
parish "  is  BillingaGeld  in  Essex.  The  paiish 
has  of  course  a  vicar,  the  Reverend  Aogustin 
Ambrose;  who  fits  boys  for  Cambridge  as  well 
as  preaches  to  his  flock  on  Sunday.  The  vicar 
has  a  wife,  who  has  been  a  good  manager  and  a 
good  mother,  hot  who  plays  a  subordinate  part 
in  this  story.  BilHngafield  has  a  Hall,  and  the 
Hall  has  a  Squire,  and  the  Squire  has  a  blood- 
hound, an  immense  Rosaian  bloodhound,  "Stam- 
boui,"  who  is  a  sight  to  behold.  Billbgsficld 
also  has  its  mysterious  resident,  a  Mrs.Goddard, 
who  passes  for  a  widow  in  trouble,  but  who 
really  has  a  husband.  Mrs.  Goddard  has  a 
daughter,  Nellie,  and  Mr.  Ambrose  has  a  pupil 
John.  These,  we  believe,  are  the  principal 
characters.  This  much  we  will  tell  the  reader 
about  them,  that  John  falls  In  love  with  the 
mother,  but  finally  puts  op  with  manylng  the 
daughter ;  that  the  Squire  proposes  to  the 
widow,  only  to  find  that  she  is  not  widow  but 
wife :  that  the  majestic  and  ferocious  Stamboul 
saves  his  master's  life  once  and  again ;  and  that 
brain  fever  distances  the  detectives  in  bringing 
an  escaped  convict  to  bay.  There  is  no  attempt 
at  fine  writing  in  the  book ;  no  particular  skill  in 
chiracteriiatioD ;  no  remarkable  cleverness  in 
dialogoe;  it  is  a  straightforward,  simple,  honest 
piece  of  work,  printed  and  bound  furthermore  In 
a  style  that  enhances  the  pleasnre  of  reading. 
[Macmillan  &  Co.    ^1.50.] 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


[April  3, 


In  the  Qolden  Dajr*. 
Tiicce  Menu  ■  pouibility  that  Edna  Ljall  ia 
one  of  tboBc  novelists  who  arc  in  danger  ol 
giTing  lu  too  much.  In  fkt  GoldiH  Days  la  the 
third  of  her  novels  which  keenl;  scented  Ameri- 
can publishers  have  reproduced  within  about  a 
three-month ;  thongh  perhaps  the  triplets  mean 
that  the  pubtisheri  have  only  stumbled  opon  an 
•ccnmulated  store  of  the  anihor's  works  the 
other  ride)  not  that  she  is  actually  productive  at 
the  rate  al  twelve  novels  a  year.  This  fertility 
would  out-Btaddon  Braddon.  The  first  quality 
of  the  really  good  novel  is  that  it  is  interesting, 
and  Ih  tht  ColdeH  Dayi  is  not  vtry  interesting. 
We  have  read  it  with  a  wandering  attention,  and 
have  been  obliged  to  chutise  oar  thoughts  Into 
obedience  to  the  effort.  Still  it  la  not  without 
effect  as  a  picture  of  the  times  of  Algernon 
Sydney,  whose  figure  and  whose  execution  on 
Tower  Hill  are  central  in  the  story.  The  hero 
is  Hugo  WhamcIiEEe,  a  youth  who  becomes 
enamored  of  Sydney  and  bvolved  in  his  for- 
tunes, and  who,  rather  than  betray  his  masEer,  is 
consigned  to  Newgate,  and  nearly  perishes  in 
that  black  hole  of  ttie  Seventeenth  Century.  Be- 
aides  Newgate  and  the  Tower,  Fenshurst 
sketched ;  there  is  a  visit  to  Will's  Coffee  House 
and  a  glimpse  there  of  Betterton,  the  actor;  and 
the  King,  the  Duchess  of  Gradon,  Evelyn,  and 
other  historic  notabilities  appear  In  the  dress  of 
real  life.  That  it  is  an  "historical  novel 
author  disclaims ;  but  historical  novel  it  is,  with- 
out being  a  very  vivid  or  al  all  a  powerful  one ; 
gentle,  easy-going,  and  tmexdtlng.  We  do  ni 
consider  it  10  successful  a  work,  although  in 
greatly  different  line,  as  Domrvan,  which  was  tl 
author's  first  introdnction  to  us.  It  Is  mo 
attnctively  printed  and  bound.  [Harper  & 
Brothers,    fi.oo.] 

The  Mill  Myater/. 
Tin  \fitl  Mystery  belfMgs  to  the  cl: 
books  known  as  sensational,  and  is  as  highly 
spiced  as  readers  of  this  kind  of  fiction 
desire.  Miss  Green  [Mrs.  Rohlfe]  is  a  clever 
writer,  as  was  proved  by  her  earliest  effort  in 
this  line,  The  Ltavenwortk  Catt;  here 
structs  a  story  well,  and  tells  it  with  clearness 
and  vigor.  The  difference  between  the  present 
story  and  7^  Letnenwerti  Cait  is  that  the  for- 
mer contains  less  of  the  element  of  knotty  com- 
plication. A  story  with  a  well-knit  plot  sets  the 
reader's  wits  at  work  to  find  the  clew  to  the 
mystery  which  the  author  has  done  his  or  her 
best  to  conceal.  A  Prince  ef  Darkuest,  by 
Miss  Warden,  is  one  of  the  best  examples  of 
fiction  of  this  kind,  and  a  very  keen-scented 
reader  will  find  himself  baffled  in  the  attempt  to 
solve  the  riddle.  TTu  MiU  Mystery  has  less 
plot,  and  more  pure  sensationalism,  but  it  is  not 
of  a  debasing  kind.  Books  like  this  have  their 
use  —  that  of  relaxing  and  diverting  minds 
wearied  with  serious  mental  labor,  and  they  do 
answer  this  purpose  in  a  way  that  is  not  done  by 
a  large  majority  of  the  novels  published,  which 
are  free  from  sensationalism  it  is  true,  but 
equally  without  interest  of  any  sort  — weak,  fla- 
vorless, characterless  books  that  do  not  stir  the 
Intellectual  faculties  at  all,  and  excite  no  emotion 
good,  bad,  or  indifferent,  fit  for  nothing  bnt  to 
light  fires,  but  which  do  in  fact  coiutilate  the  sole 
reading  supply  o(  hundreds  of  persons,  chiefly 
women.  7TU  Mill  Mystery  is  published  In  the 
aeries  of   Knickerbocker  Novels,  and  has  the 


great  attraction  of  a  clear,  laTge>type  page. 
[G.  P.  Pubiam'i  Sons.    %\xa\ 

Helen  Dawes  Brown's  story  of   Two   Cellege 

Girit  might  be  a  chapter  of  real  life  at  Vassar 

College  1    written   with  truth    to    nature,  vivid 

pictnrings  of  the   experience   of  girlhood    and 

keen  hits  at  its  weaknesses  and  foolishnesses ; 

indulgent   mood  towards  school-girls' 

"  londness  "  which  we  do  not  like,  but 

with  a  constant  loyalty  to  honesty,  integrity,  and 

[Selfishness,  and  with  good  lessons  of  fidelity 

and  sacrifice  woven  into  the  love  history  which 

is  half  its  theme.    The  subject  accepted,   the 

treatment  is  good,  and  the  boolc  will  find  itsmost 

interested  readers  among  those  who  are  in  their 

later  teens.    [Ticknor  &  Co.    {1.15.] 

Cariae,  by  Louis  £nault.  Is  a  bright,  |>leasant 
story,  in  French  (the  seventh  of  the  series  CanUs 
Ckoisi]),  about  the  adventures  of  a  young  artist 
of  Marseilles  who  goes  Co  Gottenburg, 
Sweden,  aimed  with  a  letter  of  introduction 
from  the  Swedish  consul  to  a  prominent  mer- 
chant. There  is  enough  of  a  love  story,  very 
delicately  told,  and  of  mystery  in  the  situation 
and  words  of  the  heroine  [who  has  the  blonde 
beanty  of  her  northern  race)  to  sustain  the 
resder's  intereiL  We  notice  occasionally  sen- 
tences suggestive  cA  misprint;  but  the  pleasani 
tone  of  the  paper,  the  clear  typography,  and  the 
pretty  arabesque  headings  of  the  chapters 
credit  to  the  publisher.  The  site  of  the  book  is 
very  convenient  for  reading.  [W.  R.  Jenkins. 
Paper,  s5c.] 

Like  the  Strangt  Sttry  of  Lord  Lytton,  7^e 
Strange  Case  of  Dr.  Jefyll  attd  Mr.  Hyde  well 
deserves  its  title.  But  it  resembles  mor 
nearly  the  morbid  writings  at  Edgar  A.  Poi 
There  is  in  the  style  a  vivid  realism,  and  yet 
grsdoally  increasing  undertone  of  the  weird  and 
awful.  The  scene  is  London;  the  characters 
few.  A  bachelor  lawyer  and  a  friend  with  wh(»n 
he  often  walks,  the  respected  physician  Dr, 
Jekyll  and  Edward  Hyde,  and  filially  Dr.  Lan- 
yon  —  these  with  a  few  others  and  the  usual 
supernumeraries  are  the  corps  of  actors, 
ward  Hyde  is  the  "  villain  "  of  the  drama ;  and, 
in  the  development  of  the  mysterious  relation 
between  him  and  Dr.  Jekyll,  the  plot  drai 
towards  its  close  in  a  horror  whose  solution 
so  revolting,  and  yet  almost  grotesque,  that  we 
leave  it  for  the  investigation  of  such  readers  as 
have  the  requisite  courage  and  fancy  for  the 
undertaking.  [Chas.  Scribner's  Sons,  f  r.50.] 
Miss  Kenyon's  intention  in  The  l.ucky  Waif'\ 
good,  to  show  what  harm  may  come  to  tb 
character  of  a  boy  or  girl  allowed  to  drift  at  wi 
without  any  firm  control  on  the  part  of  the 
parents.  But  in  developing  her  story,  and  in 
the  desire  to  make  everything  come  out  happily, 
she  defeats  her  own  purpose ;  for  not  only  do 
tbe  carefully  trained  and  well  behaved  children 
arrive  at  honor  and  prosperity,  but  the  others 
also  attain  to  such  a  degree  of  it  that  they  have 
no  cause  of  complaint.  There  is  no  logic  in 
events  when  the  almost  disgustingly  smart  Willie, 
who  marries  at  nineteen  the  foolish  Etta,  finds 
himself  and  family  eventually  provided  for  by 
the  self-denying  brother  of  his  wife.  A  great 
moral  lesson  for  families  is  promised  in  the 
beginning,  bnt  nothing  comes  of  it.  It  is  more 
by  what  is  implied  in  the  teaching  of  the  wise 
Hiss  Bradford  that  good  is  to  be  learned  than 
by  tbe  actual  conduct  lA  the  story.    Tliis  lady 


is  so  well  drawn  that  she  is  prob«Uy  a  portrait, 
the  author  intimates  having  used  real  places, 
events,  and  people  1  so  that  tbe  saving  of  the 
little  waif  encourages  other  philanthropic  workers. 
The  author  ought  to  have  managed  her  good 
material  with  more  skill ;  there  are  excellent 
situations  which  might  hsve  been  worked  up, 
and  the  different  individoals  have  character. 
The  slang  of  the  teachers  is  as  objccticmable  u 
Willie's  attempts  at  stnattness.  [Fowler &  Wells 
Co.    |i.oo.] 

Truth  in  a  tale  is  often  said  to  enter  In  at 
lowly  doots,  and  in  the  spirit  of  this  adage  Mrs. 
Brock-has  written  her  Chunk  Eckaes  to  illns- 
trate  to  children's .  hearts  and  minds  the  uses  ol 
the  Book  of  Common  Prayer.  The  story  has 
slight  merits  of  plot  or  c<Mistniction,  and  the 
characters  have  little  reality,  but  various  aaeted 
ces  are  skillfully  inwoven  with  the  threads 
ai  daily  life,  and  tbe  fitness  of  prayer  and  praise 
and  confession  as  voices  of  the  soul  in  its  chang- 
ing phases  of  experience  is  set  forth  in  pictorial 
manner.     [E.  P.  Dntton  &  Co.    %\.<f>\ 


.     RSLIGIOUS  SEADIie. 

Thirty-six  sermons  of  the  late  Dr.  Ellis,  se- 
lected by  his  friends  and  after  his  death,  form 
an  interesting  memorial  of  his  loi^  years  of 
service  as  minister  of  the  First  Chnrch,  Boston. 
A  single  volume,  as  the  editors  suggest,  canotrt 
reflect  fully  and  fturiy  the  manifold  aspects  of  a 
pastor's  teaching,  but  it  is  enough  not  only  to 
recall  his  cherished  counsels  to  those  whom  he 
has  helped,  but  also  to  make  tinfamiliar  readers 
feel  what  manner  of  man  the  preacher  was. 
The  series  covers  tbe  whole  period  from  1S61  to 
1SS5,  but  the  stream  widens  and  deepens  with 
years,  one  third  of  the  volume  belonging  to  the 
last  five  years.  The  preacher's  theological  posi- 
tion is  frankly  stated  in  such  sermons  as  "The 
Way  which  they  call  Heresy,"  and  the  "  One 
Mediator,"  his  view  of  the  practical  present 
mission  of  Christianity  and  the  church  in  "Stew- 
ardship not  Ownership,"  "  Help  the  Weak," 
and  "  The  Divine  Sonship  in  All  Men,"  and  his 
power  both  to  comfort  and  to  warn  in  "The 
Religion  of  Jesus  s  Divine  Friendship,"  and 
"The  Calamity  of  Succeeding."  Always  calm 
yet  always  earnest.  Dr.  Ellis  speaks  the  words 
of  troth  and  soberness  with  the  simplicity  and 
the  strength  of  wisdom.  [Cnpples,  Upham  ft 
Co.    fi.50.] 

The  incessant  Dr.  Philip  Schaffs  last  work  is 
a  collection  of  three  brief  biographies  in  a  vol- 
ume of  170  pages,  of  St.  Augustine,  Melancktktn, 
and  Neander,  the  first  occupying  over  half  the 
book.  The  sketches  are  intended  for  general 
reading,  and  are  well  adapted  to  this  end.  The 
dramatic  career  of  the  great  founder  of  Latin 
theology,  and  the  mild  and  peaceful  course  of 
the  great  scholar  of  the  Reformation,  are  well 
contrasted,  while  Dr.  SchafTs  intimate  knowl- 
edge of  Neander  givfs  interest  to  his  sketch  of 
the  famous  historian  of  the  chnrch,  as  odd  as  he 
was  learned  and  good.  [Funk  &  Wagoalls.  fl-oOi.] 

An  essay  on  tbe  external  evidences  of  the 
Aulhorthip  ef  Ike  Four  Gospels  Comes  to  ns 
from  Mr.  William  Marvin,  who  is  an  ei-jadge  of 
a  United  Slates  Court,  and  a  theologian,  as  he 
tells  ns,  of  some  fonr  years'  standing  only.  It  - 
is  an  epitome  of  the  vrell-known  evidences  for  the  ^ 
genuineness  of  the  gospels,  which  can  be  foond 
,  in  many  other  works  of  a  more  or  less  popular 


i886.] 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


"3 


kiDd.  We  fail  to  tee  anjr  inch  signs  of  (he 
jndidli  aiHrit  as  jnEtify  Mr.  Harvin's  work; 
be  li  ft  very  thorough-going  adTocale ;  evea  so 
moderalelj  librnl  a  critic  as  Dr.  Sandaf  caiuiot 
convince  him  that  Ibe  fonr  gospels  were  not 
composed  by  the  four  persona  whose  name  they 
bear,  exactly  as  they  have  come  down  to  ns. 
Mr.  Marvin  plainly  will  persuade  only  those  who 
need  do  pertoasion.    [Thos.  Whittaker.    75c.] 

Id  TTlt  Moiaie  Origin  of  lit  PiHtalauhal 
Cft/ei,  Hr.  GeerbardoB  Voe,  who  is  sljll  a  young 
■Dan,  a  fellow  of  Princeton  Theological  Semi- 
nary, has  produced  clearly  and  systematically 
presented  the  conservative  position  amoi^  Old 
Testatnent  critics  concerning  the  legislation  em- 
bodied in  the  Feniateuch.  The  work,  a  prize 
essay,  is  intended  as  an  introduction  to  the 
elaborate  study  of  the  question.  As  such  it  has 
great  merits,  even  by  the  side  of  Dr.  Bisscll's 
recent  votame.  We  should  complain  of  Mr. 
VoB,  however,  a«  Prof-  T-  K.  Cheyne  does  of 
Dr.  Bissell,  tii»t  he  is  too  tnncb  of  a  partisan, 
and  overstates  even  the  strong  points  of  his 
case.    [A.  C.  Annstroi^  &  Son.    ^1.50.] 

Bishop  Oaendeo's  Short  Csmmtnti  tn  tki 
Geipdijfr  Family  Worship  consist  of  selected 
psssagCB  from  Sts.  Matthew  and  Mark,  each 
acc(»npanied  by  a  brief  exposition,  explanatory 
and  critical.  Prepared  for  use  in  the  author's 
own  family,  they  sie  now  offered  to  the  public 
as  an  experiment.  Our  criticism  is  that  both 
the  selections  and  the  comments  are  longer  than 
is  needful.  Any  scheme  of  family  worship  must 
be  very  brief  to  "take"  in  these  busy  days. 
[E.  P.  Button  &  Co.    >i.i5.] 

Bishop  Hugh  Miller  Thompson's  two  lectures 
on  Thi  World  and  tht  Logoi  are  the  Bedell 
Lectures  for  18S5,  delivered  at  Kenyon  College 
JD  November,  1S85 ;  their  subject  creat" 
light  of  revelation  and  reason.  They  are  marked 
by  an  unduly  non-appreciative  temper  towards 
the  Evolution  school  of  thinkers.  [G.  P.  Put- 
nam's Sons.    ti-Mkl 

Rev-  Dr.  M.  R.  Vincent's  Chriit  as  a  Ttachir 
consists  of  two  lectures  delivered  before  the 
New  York  Sunday-School  Teachers'  Associa- 
tion, and  lead  (he  reader  into  views  of  the  phi- 
losophy and  the  methods  of  our  Saviour  as  a 
teacher  of  religious  trusts.  [A.  D.  F.  Randolph 
SCo.    3SC.1  ^ 

HnroB  vono£8. 

A  Skart  History  ef  f/afeliOH   tkt  First.     By 

Prof.  John  Robert  Seeley.  With  Portraits. 
[Roberts  Brother*,    f  1.50.] 

The  title  (rf  this  book  is  decidedly  misleading. 
For,  though  the  author  presents  chronologically 
a  very  brief  onlline  of  the  facts  of  his  hero' 
career,  the  work  Is  not  so  tnach  a  bic^rapby  of 
Napoleon  as  a  review  or  running  commentary  on 
the  circumstances,  motives,  and  policy  of  his 
variona  acts,  and  a  discussion  of  his  character. 
There  is  moreover  a  lack  of  clearness  in  the 
presentation,  and  a  (00  frequent  assumption  (hat 
the  reader  is  bmiliar  in  advance  with  eventa  or 
instllatioiu  not  previously  explained,  or,  perhaps, 
even  mentioned.  The  general  result  ia  a  series 
of  thoughtful  chapters  on  the  rise,  splendor,  and 
fall  of  the  great  emperor  which  can  hardly  fail 
to  interest  persons  already  well  acquainted  with 
the  subject ;  but  any  whose  chief  object  is  to 
Icam  the  history  will  do  well  to  select  some 
other  of  the  many  books  contalninf  it-    Professor 


Seeley's  work  is  on  the  whole  more  hostile  than 
friendly  to  its  hero.  The  prevailing  tone,  which, 
already  staled,  is  that  of  criticism,  finds  its 
fullest  scope  in  a  serie*  of  formal  essays  at  the 
close,  under  the  general  title  of  "  Napoleon's  Place 
History."  These  constjlute  by  far  the  best  part 
of  the  work.  They  are  both  interesting  and 
philosophical.  The  author  believes  Napoleon 
very  largely  the  product  of  his  time  and  environ- 
ment; and,  thoughgrcat,  not  phenomenally  great, 
either  in  military  genius  or  in  depravity.  His 
ruling  motive  he  thinks  hostility  to  England; 
the  cause  of  that  hostility  the  fact  that  England 
by  its  naval  supremacy  had  thwarted  his  early 
and  leading  ambition  of  an  eastern  empire. 
Hence  the  conquest  of  a  vast  dominion  in  con- 
tinental Europe  should  be  regarded  not  as 
Napoleon's  original  plan,  but  as  made  with  the 
desperstc  hope  and  purpose  of  thereby  humili- 
ating, and  finally  overthrowing,  the  power  of 
England. 


lis  is  a  manual  for  the  practical  zodlogist, 
supplying  a  need  which  has  long  I>een  recog- 
nised, and  it  "embraces  a  description  trf  the 
several  stages  of  butterflies,  methods  of  capti 
and  preservation,  an  analytical  key,"  etc.  The 
locality  treated  of  is  represented  by  a  : 
"being  all  east  of  the  western  boundaries  of 
Minnesota,  Iowa,  Missouri,  Arkansas,  snd  Louis- 
iana"—an  extensive  field  for  exhaustive  work. 
To  aid  in  an  understanding  of  the  text,  which  is 
clear  and  practical,  there  are,  besides  the  "  accent 
uBted  list"  of  thirty  pages,  ninety-three  tllus- 
tralions  from  electrotypes,  and  from  photograph* 
taken  especially  for  the  work,  showing  larva, 
pups,  egg,  even  scales  and  veining  of  wing,  up 
to  the  perfect  "spread  out"  butterfly  at  full 
lize ;  so  daintily  and  deftly  pictured  as  to  reveal 
the  soft  shadings  and  markings  and  fineness  of 
texture,  with  all  the  net-work  of  tines  that  is  like 
a  pattern  in  lace,  as  tn  Fig.  53,  which  is  remarka- 
bly decorative.  Figs.  67  and  68,  the  male  and 
female  of  Paflua  Tragiodyta,  picture  bntter&ie* 
which  are  as  beautiful  for  the  design,  so  to 
speak,  on  their  wings,  as  for  their  superb 
colors ;  while  for  delicate  spedmens  with  fairy 
oullines  there  are  Figs.  72,  73,  and  74.  With 
the  aystematic  arrangement  and  key,  the  minute 
description  aided  Iiy  illustrations  and  glouary, 
there  would  seem  to  be  nothing  wanting  for  the 
student  of  the  butterfly  tribe. 

Til  Oldm  Tlmti  Serits.  Gleanings  Chiefly 
from  Old  Newspapers  of  Boston  and  Salera,  Mas- 
sachusetts. Selected  and  Arranged,  with  Brief 
Comments,  by  Henry  M-  Brooks.  Curiosities 
of  the  Old  Lottery.    [Ticknor  &  Co.     soc] 

Antiquarian  zeal  and  a  desire  to  nnearth  from 
old  newspapers    inaccessible    to    most  readers 
some  of  the  matter  peculiar  to  by-gone  days, 
duced  [be  compiler  to  liegin  thi*  series.    Passing 
over  the  objection  that   "Old  Latteries"  fur- 
nished hardly  so  attractive  a  theme  to  start  with 
as  some    others,  as  "Days   of    the    Splnning- 
Wheel,"  for  instance,  which  will  make  "  Number 
Twot"  we  must  say  that  some  quite  unexpected 
revelations  will  t>e  foand  concerning  the  snbjecl. 
To  the  heretofore  nninformed,  who  look  with 
horror  upon  this  means  of  getting  money,  it  w 
perhaps,  be  rather  startling  to  learn  to  what 
extent  church  and  college  were  willing  10  res 
to  it    Great  pains  litv«  been  taken  to  make  t 


unique  series  attractive.  The  exterior,  in  its 
soft  brown  with  black  and  red  decorations,  its 
handsome  lettering  and  the  suggestive  tinen- 
rheel,  is  very  taking ;  while  within,  there  is  the 
genuine  old-fashioned  look,  hightened  by  the 
qnsint  cuts  reproduced  from  the  old  news- 
papers. The  careful  indexing  of  names,  and  of 
lotteries,  indicates  the  hand  of  a  "leisurely 
scholar."  Other  titles  advertised  to  come  (be- 
sides Ibe  two  given)  are  some  strange  and 
us  punishments,  quaint  and  curioos  adver- 
tisements, literary  curiosities.  New  England  Sun. 
days,  by  which  it  will  be  seen  that  a  treat  of 
good  things  out  of  the  past  is  in  store  for  u*. 


Except  that  some  readers  will  complain  that 
e  author  is  a  too  "  High  Churchman,"  and 
other*  will  quarrel  with  him  for  being  a  "  Church> 
"  at  all,  this  is  a  capital  book  ;  and  one  that 
may  well  be  read  with  care  by  every  minister 
and  every  building  committee  charged  with 
church  erection.  We  know  of  no  book  which 
brings  together  within  anything  like  so  compact 
dimensions  to  much  and  so  wholesome  Instruo 
tiMi  with  regard  to  the  planning,  building,  and 
fitting  of  a  house  of  worship.  The  author  is  an 
"advanced"  and  vigorously  minded  member  of 
the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  and  he  knows 
no  "  cburch  "  except  the  house  of  worship  of  bis 
own  communion,  with  its  cruciform  groond  plan, 
its  chsncel,  "  sacrarium,"  and  "  altar,"  its  vestry, 
baptistry,  and  choir  stalls;  snd  with  all  its 
provision  for  a  ritual  in  accord  with  the  Book  dl 
Common  Prayer.  For  those  like-minded,  his 
manual  is  a  piece  of  admirable  advice.  Others, 
after   making  needful   deductions  for  ecclesias- 


tical differences,  vrill  still  And  a  large  residuum 
of  sound  counsel  about  sites,  designs,  plans,  esti- 
mates, contracts,  fonndations,  materials,  towers, 
bells,  decoration,  lighting  beating,  and  ventila- 
tion, and  indeed  every  point  that  enters  Into  the 
construction  of  such  an  edifice.  The  book  Is 
distinctly  one  of  principles  rsther  than  of  de- 
tails; still  there  is  always  enough  of  detail  to 
illustrate  and  make  definite  the  recommenda- 
tions. Hooesty,  economy,  simplicity,  durability, 
and  beauty  are  fundamental  points;  and  obedi- 
ence to  auch  a  book  would  save  us  from  the 
sham*  and  abortions  of  church-building  which 
now  loo  often  disfigure  the  landscape  and  waste 
the  people's  money. 


Hit  Majist/t  Totacr.  By  William  Hepworth 
Diion.  From  the  Seventh  London  Edition.  With 
lUuslratioDS-  In  two  volumes.  [Thomas  V.  Crow* 
ell  4  Co.    l3.sa] 

For  more  than  twenty  years  this  work,  which 
if  not  an  "  historical  romance  "  may  be  called  the 
"romance  of  history,"  has  been  known  to  the 
public,  but  during  that  lime  has  been  greatly 
added  to,  and  its  interest  and  value  have  been 
hightened.  In  the  outset  the  comparatively  few 
chapters  were  more  especially  devoted  to  the  hu- 
man interests  that  clustered  about  the  Tower,  but 
Ihe  author  now  bring*  forward  the  result  of  his 
careful  investigation  of  state  papers,  bis  re- 
searches snd  identifications,  in  a  form  which 
may  be  Gnat,  two  solid  volumes  containing  in 
all  705  pages,  41  pages  of  minutely  prepared 
Index,  and  47  illustrations,  most  of  which  are 
portraits.  The  style  is  fervid  and  picturesque; 
,  tb*  author  moves  in  an  atmosphere  of  rot»anti« 


114 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[April  3, 


and  hittoiic  auodalion.  The  location,  ibe  an- 
tiqdty,  the  massiieneu,  the  gloom  of  the  Tower, 
the  innumerable  incidents,  the  penonages,  furoish 
him  with  material!  grand,  lalemn,  and  tiagic, 
well  fitted  for  acenic  purpose,  in  which  royal  and 
iltnstriout  families  and  individuals  act  the  chief 
parts.  Of  all  this  be  has  availed  himself,  and 
given  a  story  form  to  the  dire  calamities  which 
befell  some  English  sovereigns  and  English  sub- 
jects in  the  long  period  when  the  Tower  held 
such  a  terror  for  those  who  conspired  against 
the  "divine  right  "of  kings.  If  he  has  chosen 
to  treat  it  at  romantic  history,  instead  of  in  the 
austere  way  of  the  true  annalist,  wc  are  none  the 
less  ready  to  accept  it  as  the  best  and  most 
graphic,  as  well  as  the  fullest  account  of  the 
subject  that  any  author  has  yet  put  his  hand  to ; 
and  read  by  the  help  of  dales,  and  the  simple 
facts  of  standard  histories,  it  is  a  work  that 
cannot  well  be  spared. 


This  book,  in  Its  Two  Parts,  "Culture  and 
Cooking"  and  "Practical  Recipes,"  is  a  happy 
combination  of  the  strictly  scientific  and  the 
technical.  The  First  Part,  of  ii3  pages,  dia- 
cnuet  the  general  principles  which  underly  the 
culinary  art,  shows  how  the  cbemical  and  the 
.physiological  run  ti^ther,  expands  and  illus- 
trates the  cotnposition  of  bread  and  pastry, 
gives  the  true  doctrines  of  frying,  boiling,  and 
roasting,  points  out  what  ought  to  be  kept  in 
the  store-room,  instructs  in  the  arts  of  luncheons, 
and  "  warming  over,"  and  supplies  a  chapter  of 
comfort  to  "  people  of  very  small  means."  The 
Second  Part,  slightly  longer,  is  the  cookery  book 
pure  and  simple  ^  with  seventeen  chapters  of 
recipes  for  all  classes  of  foods.  One  particu- 
larly useful  chapter  in  the  first  part  is  entitled 
"A  Few  Things  it  is  Well  to  Remember,"  We 
take  from  it  these  paragraphs : 

Id  grating  nutmces  begin  at  the  flower  end;  if 
yoa  commence  at  the  other,  there  will  be  a  hole 
all  the  way  through. 

Vegetables  that  are  strong  can  be  made  much 
milder  by  tying  a  bit  of  bread  in  a  clean  rag  and 
bdling  it  with  them. 

Oyster  shells  put  one  at  a  time  in  a  stove  that 
is  "dinkered"  will  clean  the  bricks  entirely. 
They  should  be  put  in  when  the  fire  is  burning 
brjgntly. 

Lemons  will  keep  fresher  and  better  in  water 
than  any  other  way.  Put  them  in  a  crock,  cover 
them  with  water.  They  will  in  winter  keep  two 
or  three  months.  .  . 


Upland    and    Meadow.      A     PoaetquiBsiogs 
Chronicle.    Uy  Charles  C.  Abbott,  M.D.    [Hi 
per  &  Brothers,    fl.50.] 

This  unpronounceable  Indian  name,  which 
stands  for  a  little  creek,  tributary  of  the  Dela' 
ware  River,  means  "the  place  of  com-bread 
baking,"  and  is  said  by  an  early  writer  to 
"  by  nature  provided  with  everything  that 
man  can  desire."  7'he  purpose  of  the  author 
of  this  volume  — in  iis  covers  of  rare  beauty  of 
design  —  is  to  tell  what  be  found,  making  his 
matter  a  sort  oE  record  of  the  sylvan  year,  be- 
ginning with  "  Poaetquiasings  In  winter," 
ending  with  "an  October  diary."  He  has  many 
visitors  who  wish  to  explore  the  region,  "  botan- 
ists, concliologisU,  entomologists,  microscopisls, 
and  even  atchsologists ; "  wi  h;  resolves  to  be 


botanist,  but  falls  back  to  his  normal  condi- 
tion, which,  as  indicated  in  this  and  a  former 
book.  Is  that  of  a  practical  naturalist,  full  of 
traditions,  reminiscences,  and  dreams.  He 
watches  the  birds  in  winter,  and  makes  up  his 

ind  (hat  there  are  probably  few,  "if  they  so 

.lied  it,  but  could  stand  the  severest  winters. 

I  far  a*  temperature  alone  is  concerned,"  and 
by  the  exercise  of  a  little  ingenuity  they  could 
find  sufficient  food ;  he  studies  hawks,  and  is 
led  to  assert  that  they  do  more  good  in  captur- 
ing mice  than  harm  in  destroying  poultry ;  he 
i*  satisfied,  after  studying  the  winter  life  of 
fishes,  that  "the  element  of  regularity"  in  the 
er  of  the  hibernation  of  animals  is  wholly 
wanting;  he  tries  expetiments  among  several 
kinds  of  birds,  by  adding  hairs  for  the  lining 
of  their  nests,  by  removing  eggs  from  one  nest 
another,  and  otherwise  disturbing  their  ar- 
rangements, and  judging  by  results,  arrives  at 
the  conclusion  that  there  are  strong  evidences 
oE  intelligence  on  (he  part  of  the  sparrows, 
wrens,  warblers,  and  vireos  with  whom  he  was 
brought  into  such  unusual  relations.  He  finds 
realures  companionable,  and  returns  from 
□ntcmplative  rambles  a  wiser  and  a  happier 
;  meanwhile,  in  this  enviable,  leisurely  way 
of  acquiring  knowledge  of  bird  and  beast,  rep- 
tile and  insect,  he  picks  up  weather-lore,  and 
introduces  some  shrewd  country  folk,  like  (he 
farmer,  who,  when  asked  when  he  thought 
spring  had  fairly  set  in,  answered,  "  When  it's 
irarm  to  smoke  on  the  south  side  of  the 
bam."  The  volume  is  very  attractive  in  make- 
up and  arrangement,  as  well  as  in  matter,  and 
has  an  index. 


Mr.  Raymond,  who  is  Professor  of  Oratory  and 
Esthetic  Criticism  at  Princeton,  in  his  brief 
preface  threatens  to  inflict  on  a  patient  world  a 
series  of  essays,  of  which  the  present  vol- 
ume is  the  forerunner,  all  bearing  upon  repre- 
sentation in  art.  We  must  beg  him  to  pause, 
however,  unless  he  wishes  to  become  the  Tupper 
'itics.  To  learn  From  him  that  Milton  is 
guilty  of  "an  ungrammatical  arrangement  of 
tenses"  in  the  Hymn  <m  the  Nativily  ("the 
shamefaced  night  arrayed "),  that  Tennyson 
mixes  his  metaphors  badly  when  be  writes  "Far 
I  dipt  into  the  future  far  as  human  eye  could 
stt"  and  that  Lowell  crowds  together  thought 
and  illustration,  in  the  form  of  one  of  his  best 
sonnets,  "  in  such  a  way  that  neither  of  the  two 
stands  forth  in  clear  relief,"  ii  purely  distressing. 
We,  in  our  simplicity,  had  supposed  thai  these 
poets  were  masters  of  the  English  language; 
and  after  reading  Prof.  Raymond's  pages  we 
most  confess  we  are  still  so  simple  as  to  be 
unconvinced.  Mr.  Raymond  is  possessed  with 
an  ambitious  theory  that  poetry  is  a  literally 
representative  art,  instead  of  being,  as  it  is,  an 
art  both  presentative  and  representative .  Mat- 
thew Arnold's  Epilegue  in  Leiiing't  Laecoon  con- 
tains in  its  few  lines  more  sound  philosophy 
than  all  Prof.  Raymond's  minute  and  ingenious 
discussion : 

Gear  u  wordi  can  makt  revcAlinr, 
Aad  deep  «  wordi  t^n  foilaw  fuluig, 

the  poet  must  express  the  aspects  of  life ; 

Bui  iht  Then  couei  hie  HTUt  IpsU 
Of  loil,  h>  miut  lile'iauKimttcUI 
Tba  Ihrsul  which  tnnd*  it  all  in  one. 


This  thread  of  thought  seems  to  Prof.  Raymond 
to  be  an  "alloy"  in  representation,  a  position 
fundamentally  untrue  to  the  nature  of  poetry, 
which  must  re-present  what  is  deepest  and  high> 
est  in  us  not  necessarily  in  a  picturesque  form. 
The  author  falls  into  the  usual  cant  about  the 
superiority  of  Anglo-Saxon  words  to  Latin.  His 
book  contains  no  small  number  oE  ingenious 
remarks,  and  no  slight  amount  of  valuable  in- 
formation, but  Its  theory  is  driven  into  ped- 
antry. A  much  better  education  in  poetical  (aste 
will  be  had  from  reading  the  great  poets,  than 
from  digesting  any  number  of  such  treatises  as 
Prof.  Raymond's. 

Viitar  Hugo.  By  A.  C.  Swinburne.  [Worth- 
ingtonCo.    |l.is.] 

In  this  ecstatic  volume  on  Ibe  work  of  Victor 
Hugo  and  La  Llgindt  dts  SOcUj  Mr.  Swinburne 
has  apparently  endeavored  to  reduce  eulogy  to 
the  palpably  absurd.  In  the  short  space  of  the 
first  four  pages  we  are  told  that  Hugo  was  "  the 
greatest  Frenchman  of  all  time  —  the  greatest 
poet  of  this  century  —  above  all  other  apostles  of 
spiritual  life  the  one  best  deserving  to  be  called 
the  son  of  consolation,"  that  "  we  know  of  no 
such  great  poet  so  good,  of  no  such  good  man  so 
great  in  genius,"  that  Hugo  was  "the  most 
multiform  and  many-sided  genius  that  ever 
wrought  in  prose  or  verse,"  and  so  on  ad  iiau- 
itam.  These  introductory  pages  leave  one  con- 
vinced that  even  such  a  language-slingcr  as  Mr. 
Swinburne  must  he  exhausted  of  rapture  before 
long,  and  be  obliged  to  use  a  few  sober  words 
out  of  sheer  necessity.  But  it  is  not  so.  The 
Swinburnian  force-pump  plays  a  full  stream  to 
the  end.  There  is  no  commonplace  poem  of 
Hugo's  which  is  not  pronounced  to  be  uncqualed 
by  any  other  verse  in  the  literature  of  earth.  If 
any  one  is  so  unfortunate  as  to  peruse  the  whole 
of  this  incessant  gush,  let  him  turn  to  Amiel's 
fournal,  and  learn  what  a  true  critic  of  the  first 
order  thinks  of  this  god  of   Mr.  Swinburne's 

Proportion  and  fairness  will  never  be  among 
the  string  at  his  command.  His  gold  is  always 
mixed  with  lead,  his  insight  with  childishness, 
his  reason  with  madness.  .  .  There  is  always 
some  falsity  of  note  in  him.  The  great  poet  in 
him  cannot  shake  oS  the  charlatan. 
This  is  discrimination  and  just  judgment;  Mr. 
Swinburne's  work  is  the  product  of  a  hyper- 
trophical  organ  of  language. 

OFSaEHT  LITERATDBE. 

The  Preface  to  President  Bascom's  Freblimt 
in  Philosophy  informs  us  that  he  has  preferred 
to  attempt  a  more  clear  and  thorough  statement 
of  a  few  points  in  philosophy,  which  seemed  to 
invite  it,  rather  than  to  write  a  full  treatise  sim- 
ply for  Ibe  sake  of  incorporating  these  discus- 
sions. The  problems  in  question  here  treated 
are  those  of  method,  .  relativity,  spontaneity, 
freedom  of  will,  space,  ideas,  logic,  law,  being, 
final  causes,  the  history  of  philosophy,  and  the 
philosophy  of  history  —  a  sufficiently  compre- 
hensive list  I  Over  this  wide  field,  however,  the 
author's  B(ep  is  firm.  His  eclecticism  between 
the  methods  of  experience  and  intuition  is  justi- 
fied by  the  age-long  persistence  of  both  schools  i. 
of  thought.  Among  contemporary  mediators 
we  know  of  few  who  deserve  a  more  respectful 
hearing  and  a  more  careful  study  frgni  students 


l886.] 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


"5 


of  philosophy  [hui  the  President  of  the  Univer- 
tity  of  WiscoMin.   [G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons.  #1.50.] 

Dr.  Coming's  disquisition  on  Braitt-Riit,  or 
"  the  curative  properties  of  prolonged  sleep," 
now  appearing  in  a  second  edition,  is  by  no 
means  addressed  lo  (he  medical  profes«an  alone, 
but  contains  useful  hints  and  warnings  for  all 
who  suffer  from  weariness  and  exhaustion.  The 
opening  chapters  discuss  the  normal  phenomena 
and  hygienics  of  sleep,  with  its  effects  upon 
blood  and  brain,  and  emphasize  the  importance 
of  observing  carefully  its  natural  laws  of  perio- 
dicity. Idiopathic  and  gymplomalic  phases  ol 
insomnia  are  then  distinguished,  and  their  con- 
nection with  excess  and  with  deficiency  of  blood 
i«  indicated.  The  closing  chapters  treat  of  me- 
chanical methods  of  regulating  cerebral  circula- 
tion, and  hiternal  and  external  remedies  for 
sleeplessness,  including  baths  and  electricity. 
[G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons.] 

The  anonymous  author  of  Wakrheit  und 
Dichlung  would  have  us  believe  that  George 
Eliot's  lirst  disappointment  in  love  was  in  sur- 
rendering to  her  sister,  "Chrissy,"  a  man  whom 
she  herself  adored,  and  that  she  was  afterwards 
in  love  with  that  unappreciative  philosophi 
Herbert  Spencer.  The  ingenuity  with  which 
this  theory  is  wrought  out  is  extreme ;  the  gos- 
sip that  is  in  tis  all  must  allow  that  such  might 
have  been  the  case.  But  it  would  seem  as  if 
authors  had  no  rights  which  scribblers  arc 
bound  to  respect  when  such  purely  hypothetical 
"  studies "  as  this  are  printed  and  published. 
[E.  T.  P.  Allen,     soc.] 

Mr.  E.  L-  Anderson's  nine  short  papers  on 
Via  in  the  Hcrse  make  a  thin  octavo  of  67 
pages,  and  amount  to  a  study  of  the  horse  in  his 
structure  and  habits,  for  equestrian  purposes, 
from  the  English  point  of  view.  The  hunting 
field  seems  to  be  the  author's  background.  Gen- 
tlemen who  wish  to  ride  horseback  according  to 
scientific  principles,  and  to  take  the  pastime  in  a 
semi-professional  way,  will  find  in  this  book 
useful  hints  on  teaching  obedience  and  good 
manners,  breaking  up  faults,  shoeing,  etc  There 
are  three  illustrations,  one  an  absurd  steel 
vignette  on  the  title-page.  [Edinbargb :  David 
Douglas.] 

The  second  volume  in  Estes  &  Lauriat's  series 
of  "  Household  Manuals  "  is  a  treatise  on  Pood 
Mattriais  and  thtir  Adullerahoni,  by  Ellen  H. 
Kichards,  an  instructor  in  the  Massachusetts 
Institute  of  Technology.  Miss  Richarda's  field 
in  this  boi^  lies  above  and  behind  the  literal 
.  processes  of  cookery  in  the  kitchen ;  she  is  con- 
cerned with  the  scientific  basis  of  food,  and  of 
food  as  distinguished  from  feeding ;  that  is  to 
say  her  essay  is  not  physiological  but  chemical. 
It  is  an  analysis  of  the  constituents  and  alimen- 
tary properties  of  water,  cereals,  milk  and  its 
products,  and  sugar;  a  study  of  the  wholesome 
and  deleterious  elements  of  canned  goods;  a 
course  of  instruction  on  the  laws  of  seasoning, 
the  preservation  of  the  perishable,  and  so 
on.  There  is  a  useful  list  of  woiks  consulted, 
and  an  index.  The  book  Is  out  of  the  reach  of 
the  common  cook,  and  twlongs  rather  on  the 
shelf  of  her  mistress.     [75c.] 

The  increasing  tide  of  business  and  pleasure 
travel  to  Mexico  makes  Mr,  T.  A.  Janvier's 
Mexican  Gtiide  a  called-for  book,  and  will  sup- 
ply it  with  a  ready  and  obliged  constttnency, 
The  book  seems  full  and  trustworthy,  and  is 
pcU  planned  and  fn^df ,    Jir?  >ii<>p*>  <4  Mexico 


the  country  and  Mexico  the  city,  are  tucked  into 
pockets  in  the  covers;  the  covers  are  stout  and 
durable;  the  type  is  clear;  the  arrangement  of 
matter  is  good.  Part  I  is  the  guide  book  proper, 
with  itineraries,  laws,  customs,  and  particulars  of 
railroads,  streets,  hotels,  and  all  ihat  the  traveler 
needs  to  know.  Part  II  is  descriptive  and  statis- 
tical, with  directions  for  excursions  in  the  envi- 
rons-   [Charles  Scribner's  Sons.    %a.oa.\ 

Mr.  J.  W.  Shoemaker's  Practical  Elocution  Is 
two  thirds  principles  and  one  third  examples; 
the  principles  relating  to  the  laws  of  speech,  (he 
development  and  training  of  the  voice,  the  rules 
of  articulation,  expression,  modulation,  and  ges- 
ture, and  the  methods  of  instruction.  The  Selec- 
tions tor  practice  ate  in  boih  prose  and  verse, 
and  are  taken  as  a  rule  from  (he  best  English 
authors  from  Shakespeare  down  to  the  present 
day.  [Philadelphia:  National  School  of  Elocu- 
tion.   J1.00.] 

Inquiry  is  frequently  made  for  a  volume  of 
dramatic  selections  suitable  fur  amateur  per- 
formances. Such  a  volume  we  have  in  ne 
Dramatic  Students'  Vdde  Mecum,  which  has 
something  like  two  dozen  short  extracts  from 
well-knovin  plays  by  Shakespeare,  Masslnger, 
Dumas,  Sheridan,  Knowles,  Talfourd,  and  Bui- 
wer,  and  such  modern  playwrights  as  Matilda 
Heron,  Augusdn  Daly,  and  (1)  Mark  Twain. 
The  book  is  cheaply  made  in  paper  covers. 
[Chicago  ;  Fergus  Printing  Co.    3Jc.] 

Henry  Mackenzie,  whose  Man  of  Feeling  is 
printed  as  No.  5  in  Vol.  I  of  Cassell's  National 
Libraty,was  a  Scotch  attorney  who  died  in  1831. 
This  "  tearful "  novel  was  published  anonymously 
in  1771,  and  proved  so  popular  that  the  credit  of 
its  authorship  was  stolen,  and  Mackenzie  had  to 
defend  his  rights  by  acknowledging  and  proving 
them.  It  is  a  sort  of  imitation  of  Sterne's 
Sentimental  Journey,  and  the  editor  has  prefixed 
a  whimsical  "Indea"  to  the  "Tears"  that  flow 
in  the  course  of  the  story,  which  he  says  is  by 
no  means  "dry  reading."    [loc] 

Mr,  G.  A.  Osborne's  Examplei  of  Difftrential 
Equation!  arc  designed  for  advanced  students  in 
physics  for  use  in  connection  with  lectures;  are 
in  part  taken  from  standard  treatises,  and  in  part 
original ;  have  been  generally  tested  in  the  class- 
room ;  and  arc  provided  with  an  appendix  of 
answers.    [Ginn  &  Co-    Si^-I 

Here  is  the  collection  o[  Mr.  Charles  Dudley 
Warner's  Backlog  Studies  in  (be  neat  dress  of 
the  new  Riverside  Aldine  Series.  These  pleas- 
ant meditative  papers  on  modern  life  as  seen 
from  the  hearth-stone  cannot  better  be  described 
than  by  saying  that  they  combine  Certain  delight- 
ful traits  of  the  writings  of  both  Dr.  Holmes 
and  Ik  Marvel,  having  not  a  little  of  the  wit  of 
the  former  and  much  of  the  tender  grace  of  the 
latter.  Such  books  are  pillows  of  fir  balsam 
to  jaded  minds.  [Houghton,  Mifliin  &  Co. 
>i.oo.] 

The  same  publishers  have  prepared  a  cheap 
school-edition  of  Richard  Grant  While's  fVardi 
and  Their  ^»r,  closely  trimmed  and  so  compact, 
and  convenient  for  (ext-book  service.  This  book, 
as  out  educated  readers  know,  is  a  master's  in- 
struction in  the  science  and  history  —  not  of 
English  literature,  but  of  the  English  language, 
consisting  of  articles  first  published  in  the 
Galaxy,  and  afterwards  collected  in  T869.  En- 
tarlaining  as  well  as  instmctive  are  these  baker's 
do^KD  of  chapters  on  misused  words,  newspaper 
Epgljpfip  priticisros,  word*  thaf  w?  not  fvocds, 


pronouns  and  adjectives,  "is  being  done,"  and 
the  like.    B1.00.I 

In  Tlie  Temperance  Teachings  af  Science,  by 
Dr.  Palmer,  of  the  University  of  Michigan,  we 
have  a  neatly  printed,  (hin  volume,  written  (S  a 
text-book  in  furtherance  of  the  excellent  plan  of 
teaching  to  public  schools  (he  dangers  of  alco- 
holic stimulants.  After  explaining  the  produc- 
tion of  liquors  and  something  of  the  anatomy 
of  the  chief  internal  bodily  organs,  the  author 
discusses  in  turn  the  efiect  of  alcohol  upon  each. 
His  denunciation  of  this  stimulant  is  so  sweep- 
ing—  showing  unwillingness  to  sanction  even 
its  medical  use,  that  the  book  may  be  termed  a 
piece  of  "  special  pleading."  But  the  language 
is  both  earnest  and  clear,  and  the  work  should 
do  good  service  in  the  cause  for  which  it  is 
written.     [D.  C.  Heath  &  Co.     (fx.:\ 

Bays'  Useful  Pastimes,  by  Prot.  Robert  Griffith, 
differs  from  most  "  Boys'  Own  Books  "  in  that  it 
omits  many  subjects  usually  found  In  such  books 
—  for  example,  outdoor  and  in-door  games  and 
legerdemain,  but  contains  many  things  decidedly 
new.  We  may  note,  among  sundry  other  arts, 
instructions  for  making  a  fountain ;  (or  simple 
house  furniture,  including  a  mesmeric  table ; 
for  soldering  and  (or  electro-plating.  There  are 
abundant  illustrations,  and  the  explanations  are 
generally,  but  not  always,  very  clear.  The  book 
may  aid  parents  to  turn  boys'  ceaseless  activity 
into  useful  channels.     [A.  I.  Burt,    f  r.oo.] 

In  7a^  Ltading  Facts  of  Engiisk  History  D. 
H.  Montgomery  strives  to  "illustrate  the  great 
law  of  national  growth."  With  this  purpoee, 
there  is  throughout  a  subordination  of  the  details 
of  history  to  its  outlines ;  we  have  rather  a  series 
of  pictures  of  what  England  successively  was 
than  a  record  of  events.  Thus  in  the  Roman 
and  Saxon  periods  some  chieftains  and  kings 
are  not  even  named.  Nor  is  the  origin  of  the 
Church  in  Britain  narrated.  But  compensation 
is  made  for  this  wholesale  omission  by  a  brief 
yet  clear  table  of  the  descent  of  the  sovereigns, 
from  Egbert,  801 ;  also  a  chronological  summary 
of  principal  events,  containing  lists  of  anlhOT- 
ities;  and  a  chapter  of  outlines  of  constitutional 
and  political  his(ory,  beginning  in  the  time  of 
King  AKred.  The  style  is  vivacious.  A  map 
of  modern  England  stands  as  frontispiece,  and 
at  the  end  of  the  book  a  table  of  statistics  and 
an  index.  The  typography  and  binding  are  neat, 
and  the  small  uze  and  weight  convenient  for 
use.    [GInn&Co.    ^i.ii.] 

To  readers  outside  the  circle  of  the  initiated  — 
the  profani  of  Virgil,  so  to  speak  — the  large 
and  rather  thin  volume,  by  Genevieve  Stebbins, 
ting  of  The  DilsarU  System  af  Dramatic  Ex- 
presiion,  presents  two  truly  "strange  compeers," 
mysticism  and  instruction  in  elocution.  Of  mys- 
ticism it  might  be  said  that  the  charm  it  has  for 
some  minds  is  nearly  as  inexplicable  as  belief  in 
its  ntility;  of  the  instructions  in  oratorical  deliv- 
ery, that  of  course  the  only  true  test  of  their 
value  is  actual  trial.  .This  may  show  that  the 
Delsarte  system,  as  herein  expounded,  possesses 
high  merit;  but  on  a  mere  reading  it  does  not 
so  promise,  except,  indeed,  in  so  far  as  any 
sufficiently  varied  motions  of  the  human  body 
should  promote  its  fiexlbility  and  grace,  [Ed- 
gat  S.  Werner,    fz.oo.] 


—  Mr.  Henry  George  has  become  his  own 
publisher,  and  will  shortly  issue  at  New  York 
t,  pew  work  9n  Protectia^  cind  Frtf  Jr^f- 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[April  3, 


The  Literary  World 


BOSTON,  APRIL  3,  tS&6. 


When  tbt  book!  of  ■  y«i  ud  of  ■  llbnrr  wera 
counted  by  huadrsdl  or  tbcmtuda,  leuncd  mui 
could  really  know  what  wu  bnl  to  be  koawn,  ud 
mBiterad  tbat  belt.  But  when  book!  are  coaolod 
by  huodiedi  of  tbouaanda,  and  miUloni,  it  la  almoat 
a  matter  ef  chance  what  a  man  rcada,  and  atUl 
moM  what  h*  renamben.— Faamaic  Haruioh: 
Su^  m  "  Tit  NmiUnM  Cnhirr." 


[For  Ibe  LUtrarf  IfirrU.] 

"  The  Twili^t  of  the  Poets." 

[TeS.C.S.,tHnmdiirUi"P*ftiifAmtrim.-] 
P«l,  thoogh  IwiUfht,  ai  jonr  cl«u  tai«  Baiifci, 
Vnp  now  an  n 


Poor  PC 


tXUId 


at  wboUr  fadea  and  faDa^ 
V  brine  iha  larki, 

I  lore  the  ntfbilivalu  t 

Ehui  FuroTT. 


H0LUE8  AID  LOWELL. 

WHITTIER,  Holmes,  2nd  Lowell  still 
remain  to  us,  preserving  the  tradi 
tions  of  the  briUiaot  daya  whose  memories 
the  stoned  volumes  of  the  Life  of  Long- 
fellow hare  Just  now  ao  happily  revived. 
What  an  occasion  would  that  be  which 
should  bring  these  three  poets  together  for 
an  hour's  delineation  of  their  own  writings  1 
Holmes  and  Lowell,  indeed,  have  been 
fovoring  and  delighting  some  select  circles 
ia  Boston  and  Cambridge  of  late  with 
occasional  evening's  readings  from  their 
respective  poems ;  some  benevolent  object 
usually  furnishing  the  occasion,  and  a  hun- 
dred or  two  hundred  people  being  onlj  too 
glad  to  gather  not  onlj  to  hear  but  to  see 
two  of  the  three  men  whose  names  now 
stand  at  the  head  of  the  [>age  of  American 
letters.  The  most  public  of  these  readings 
was  at  the  Old  South  meeting-house. 
There  is  a  contrast  between  the  two  men, 
though  not  so  great  as  the  difference  in 
their  years  would  suggest,  Holmes  having 
been  bom  in  1809  and  Lowell  in  1819. 
Lowell  has  aged  much  in  the  last  decade, 
and  Holmes  scarcely  looks  ten  years  be- 
yond him.  It  is  a  rare  and  pleasant  sight, 
that  of  these  two  eonfrirts  in  poesy,  lending 
themselves  to  the  living  illustration  of  the 
lines  they  have  written  long  ago,  and  which 
so  many  of  us  have  learned  to  love 
welL 

As  readers  of  their  own  poems,  Holmes 
and  Lowell  singulariy  illustrate  the  fact  that 
the  poet  is  the  man.    Lowell's  poetry,  c 
tainly  his  statelier  and  preferred  verse, 
a  marble  statue,  miraculously  touched  n 
life;  Holmes's  is  the  effervescing  draught 
which  bubbles  and  sparkles  and  overflows. 
As  readers,  Lowell  is  correspondingly  calm, 
dignified,  and  unimpaasioned,  almost  cold 


if  fervent,  fervent  with  a  hidden  heat; 
while  Holmes  is  animated  and  magnetic, 
creating  an  instantaneous  sympathy  with 
his  bearers,  and,  without  the  slightest  pre- 
tence of  elocutionary  art,  really  investing 
his  delivery  with  irresistible  pathos  and 
touches  of  a  true  dramatic  fire. 

Lowell's  readings  that  we  heard  were  the 
passages  from  his  Commemoration  and  Cen- 
tennial Odes  that  contain  respectively  the 
portraits  of  Lincoln  and  Washington,  his 

Invention  of  the  Lyre,"  his  "Parable," 
his  lines  written  in  1859  after  the  Peace  of 
Villafranca,  and  bis  famous  "Courtin'." 
This  last  alone  gave  him  opportunity  of 
descent  from  his  characteristic  seriousness 
and  elevation  of  manner;  and  in  this  excep- 
tion the  descent  was  slight  There  is  hu- 
mor in  the  lines,  but  there  was  little  in  the 
reading  of  them. 

Holmes's  selections  were  singularly  happy. 
His  heart  was  evidently  in  them,  his  whole 
■oul;  and  he  rendered  his  lines  with  a 
chann  and  grace  and  effect  that  are  inde- 
scribable. First  he  strung  together,  like 
the  movements  of  a  sonata,  "The  Last 
Leaf,"  "  Bill  and  Joe,"  and  «  The  Wrecks," 
three  companion  poems,  supposed  to  be 
written  respectively  at  twenty,  at  sixty,  and 
at  eighty  years  of  age.  The  feeling  with 
which,  Lowell  being  seated  just  in  front  of 
him,  he  redted  such  lines  as  these  : 

Ab,  paniiTe  ichalar,  whit  b  funa ; 
A  fitfn]  toDfue  of  lanu  flame ; 
A  giddy  wbirlwim!'*  fickle  iiHl. 
Thai  JUta  a  [rinch  of  martaTdagt ; 
A  few  Hill  Tcari,  and  who  can  ihow 
Which  dual  wa>  Bill  and  which  wai  Joe  ? 

it  is  not  difficult  to  imagine.  Equally  effect- 
ive, though  in  a  diSerent  tone,  was  the 
incomparable  "  Grandmother's  Story  of  Bun- 
ker Hill  Battle,"  whose  trembling  accents 
were  finely  simulated  by  the  poet's  voice. 
And  perhaps  best  of  all  was  that  "family 
portrait,"  "Dorothy  Q.,"  which  the  poet' 
upturned  apostrophizing  eyes  almost  made 
one  literally  to  see  banging  upon  the  wall 
before  him.  On  one  occasion,  indeed,  It  was 
actually  there.    How  real  was  the  appeal 

SbaU  I  bleia  yoo,  BonHh;,  or  hnsin 

For  tbt  tandeT  whiqiaT  (hat  bade  ma  lira  P 

Dr.  Holmes  holds  a  high  place  in 
rank  of  American  poets,  and  in  our  opin 
bisplace  willriseas theyearsgoon.    But 
personal  interpretation  of  his  poems 
to  an  actual  illumination  of  them.     No  one 
has  penetrated  to  the  real  heart  of  hii 
who  has  not  been  guided  thereto  under  the 
undeniable  spell    of    his  own  sympathetic 
voice,  his   own   kindling  eye,  and   his  own 
winning  way.    If  it  were  sixty-seven  with 
him  and  not  seventy-seven,  we  should  be 
strongly  tempted  to  say  that  he  owed  it 
the  two  generations  whom  he  has  charmed 
with  his  pen,  to  go  upon  the  platform  for  a 
time  and  make  a  business,  as  Dickens  did, 
of  being   his  own  reader.      How  grateful 
should  we  all  feel  to  have  him  say  that  it 
was  not  too  late  now. 


I*  The  publication  this  week  of  new  editions 
of  the  popular  "No  Name"  novels,  Mercy  Phil- 
brielfs  Cieice  and  Htll/a  Strang  Hiitery,  with 
uune  of  Mrs.  Jackson,  "  H.  H,"  aa  antbor 
upon  the  lille-page,  settles  as  a  fact  what  the 
public  has  long  regarded  as  a  probt^lity,  if 
1  certainty.  The  books  will  be  read  with 
T  interest  in  the  assured  light  qA  their  real 
penonalitf. 

•,•  Sir  Henry  Taylor  and  Archbishop  Trendi, 
whose  names  are  added  to  the  year's  aecrology 
this  week,  stood  not  in  the  front  rank  of  Englidi 
men  of  letters,  but  both  had  done  service  b  tbdr 
long  livei.  Sir  Henry  was  the  oldest  of  Ei^IUh 
poets,  ind  bis  antobiography  pnUiabed  I**t  year 
was  a  pleasant  record  of  famous  acqnidotance. 
The  Archbishop  <rf  Dublin  was  best  loiown  over 
here  by  his  tfata  en  tht  Miratla  and  the  Pora- 
bill  and  Us  studies  In  English,  hot  in  addition  to 
these  works  written  voluminously  and  welL 

*a*  The  qneatlon  of  lower  prices  Mkd 
stnailer  discounts  for  books  ia  being  mnch  sgl. 
tated  by  the  New  York  Ptitlisktrf  Wttkly,  and, 
we  are  led  to  believe,  by  the  pablishers  as  well. 
The  plan  is  to  reduce  the  prices  of  all  books 
about  20  per  cent,  but  the  lower  prices  are  to  be 
net,  which  it  ia  hoped  will  shut  (A  what  In  the 
book  trade  has  come  to  be  known  aa  the  "  baaar 
book-aelleis,"  i.  e.,  large  buyers  of  popular  books 
who  sell  them  in  connection  with  dry  gooda,  and 
at  very  low  prices  as  "  leaders."  It  seems  prob- 
able that  by  the  fall  season  some  movement  in 
the  direction  of  eatablishing  a  lower  scale  of  net 
prices  may  reault. 

OUB  QERHAH  LETTES. 

I  HEAR  (hat  Mr.  L  Schick  of  Chicago  Is 
about  to  issue  an  English  venion  of  Dr. 
Max  Nordau'i  Paradaxei.  At  the  same  time  I 
find  in  one  of  your  latest  numbers  a  qneiy  as  to 
"  who  and  what "  Nordan  is,  ("  Notes  and 
Queiiea,"  No.  761.)  Max  Nordan  is  a  Himcarian, 
at  present  in  his  thirty-seventh  year,  and  •  well. 
known  medical  man.  The  latter  fact  explains 
the  intimate  physiological  knowledge  which  he 
shows  in  his  Cettviatienal  Liei  of  CivHiatd  Man- 
kind and  ParaJoxtj.  While  at  the  university 
he  began  to  take  to  literature  and  Jonraalism. 
After  spending  several  years  In  the  editorial 
offices  of  various  Budapest  journals,  he  devoted 
seven  years  to  traveling  all  over  Europe,  spend- 
ing, among  the  rest,  half  a  year  in  Iceland. 
Most  of  the  graphic  sketches  he  sent  home  from 
his  journeys  appeared  in  the  Peiirr  Uvyd,  the 
leading  German  paper  of  Hungary,  many  of- 
them  being  afterwards  republished  under  the 
now  well-known  title  of  Frem  t)u  Kreml  ta  tkt 
Alhambra.  In  1876  be  settled  in  Paris,  where 
his  time  is  divided  between  bis  medical  practice 
and  his  manifold  literary  and  journalistic  work. 
He  is  the  French  correspondent  of  the  Berlin 
Vessiscke  ZeitHtig,  one  of  the  foremoat  news- 
papers of  Germany,  and  a  frequent  contributor 
to  the  leading  jonmals  and  reviews  of  the 
Fatherland.  The  Paradexet,  like  (he  Conven- 
tional Liei,  deal  with  prevalent  prejudices  ;  cnr- 
rent  moral,  mental,  and  social  mistakes;  deep- 
rooted  literary  and  aciendfic  errors;  being  a 
brilliantly  written  componnd  of  great  truths  and 
clever  exaggerations,  of  earnest  enlhtuiasm  and 
phaniasdc  impossibilities.  Nordan,  although  al-  > 
together  a  living  paradox,  is  undoubtedly  one  of  ^ 
the  most  cnliured  and  noteworthy  minds  of  con- 
temporary German  Uierature. 


1 886.] 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


117 


Another  gifted  Hangirian-born  Germui  writer, 
Hogo  Klein  of  Vienna,  Austria,  baa  recently 
publishtd  Am  dtm  Punttnlaitdt,  &  coliection  of 
*iz  excellent  ■lories,  the  sceae  trf  ill  of  which  is 
laid  in  iiit  native  land,  the  "country  of  the 
poutM"  (lowland  plains).  Klein  hu  >  well- 
developed  tateot  for  painting  the  soul  of  a  land- 
Kape  and  the  «tate  of  the  feelings  of  peasants ; 
in  fiction  he  is  apt  to  become  a  sort  of  German 
Bnnguiui  Bjornson. 

Another  volume  of  stories,  intermingled  with 
ethnographical  sketches,  entitled  Raman  Mosaic, 
saw  the  light  lately.  It  created  to  mnch  stir  in 
Italy  that  Queen  Mai^herita  qaite  spontaneously 
sent  the  anlhor,  through  the  Italian  Embassy  at 
Berlin,  a  roost  flattering  letter,  accompanied  by  a 
beautifnl  present.  She  believed  "M.  Rumbauer  " 
lo  be  a  gentleman ;  in  reality  it  is  the  shortened 
name  of  a  young  girl  of  Berlin,  Martha  Rani' 
baoer.  Romtsche  Mosaik  is  indeed  a  charming 
book  In  it*  way. 

More  than  charming  is  a  sort  of  literary  trap 
Issued  a  few  weeks  back  by  Oskar  Juslinns. 
The  neat  little  volume  outwardly  resembles  a 
photo  album  %  hence  its  title :  Ein  Pkelagrapkie- 
Album.  It  contains  a  set  of  hamorous  and 
satirical  "portraits,"  i.  e.,  character  sketches. 
The  various  human  types  here  gathered  together 
are  depicted  in  the  harmlessly  jovial  manner 
which  is  a  sptcialiii  of  this  writer.  Three  other 
very  pleasant  contributions  to  funny  literature 
were  made  by  Richard  Schmidt  Cabania,  who  is 
one  of  the  leading  fanmoristt  of  Germany.  He 
mostly  writes  in  verse,  and  his  specialty  is  a 
kind  of  "«oo-political"  and  " botanico-aocial " 
satire  which  at  times  is  mild,  at  others  rather 
biting.  His  three  latest  volumes  are  entitled, 
respectively,  Sparrnw's  Lift  and  Lave,  All  Saris 
0/  Plants,  and  A  Bacteria  Shaw,  the  latter  being 
mainly  political ;  all  three  are  illustrsted  with 
utterly  comical  pictures  by  prominent  artists. 

Pictures  t  Drawings  I  Such  are  the  watch- 
words of  contemporary  periodical  literature  in 
Germany,  and  far  more  so  than  anywhere  else. 
The  constant  and  rapid  growth  of  this  depart- 
ment of  Journalistic  enterprise  is  altogether  very 
remarkable,  weeklies  and  monthlies  springing 
up  in  the  publishing  Geld  like  mushrooms  after 
a  warm  rain.  ScMffrcr")  Familimblait  waa  estab- 
lished in  competition  with  the  renowned  Gartm- 
laudc  ("largest  circulation  in  the  world"),  the 
Deutsche  Itlurtrirle  Zeitung  in  competition  with 
the  Leptigir  Illustrirte,  Vam  Fds  mm  Meer  as 
a  set-oS  to  Westtrmann's  Menaiske/ie ;  Ueber 
Lastd  vnd  Mcir  having  established  a  monthly 
edition  (in  addition  to  its  weekly  and  fortnightly 
ones),  to  ward  off  the  competition  of  the  monthly 
VnM  Fds  aim  Mtn — both  in  Stuttgart;  Schi>- 
rer's  Famitieablatt,  too,  founded  a  monthly  issue 
in  competition  to  Ueber  Land  vnd  Mier.  Dozens 
of  new  weeklies  were  called  into  existence  two 
months  ago,  others  expiring,  and  for  the  autumn 
another  "grand  "  monthly  is  planned  by  a  Stutt- 
gart publisher,  whereas  a  sumptuous  weekly's 
first  number  {,Bttiiti  Welt)  will  be  out  in  Berlin 
by  the  end  of  this  month.  All  this  is  very  pleas- 
ant for  the  world  of  writers,  more  contributions 
being  required,  and  higher  honoraria  paid  for 
them,  especially  to  leading  authors;  to  the  dar- 
ing publisheiB  these  undertakings  ofleu  mean 
heavy  losses.  Draughtsmen,  too,  rejoice,  for 
there  is  a  steadily  growing  mania  for  illustrations 
b  jouioala  and  magazines  i  in  some  of  these 
pnblicatlcms  there   is  actually   more  space  de- 


voted to  drawings  than  to  articles,  and  in  many 
cases  the  latter  are  but  secondary  adjuncts  to 
the  former.  All  the  periodicals  mentioned  above 
are,  or  will  be,  profusely  illustrated,  and  there 
are  hundreds  of  others,  new  and  old.  Tlus 
mania  dates  only  a  few  years  back,  and  is  an 
outcome  of  the  increased  competition  in  this 
department,  wUch  is  much  keener  in  Germany 
than  in  any  other  country  of  the  world ;  espe- 
cially as  r^ards  the  illustrated  weeklies  (which 
ore  Bometimca  weakliea),  the  number  of  which  is 
astonishingly  great,  and  their  prices  mostly  ex- 
ceedingly low.  Some  of  them  hsve  large  drca- 
lations  in  the  United  Stales. 

Mentioning  the  States,  I  cannot  help  tbinkingof 
(he  discussion  just  now  raging  in  the  columns  of 
the  Deutsche  SehriftslelUr-Zeitung  with  regard  to 
the  Gennan-Americao  copyright  question.  Every 
one  proposes  another  remedy  for  the  pirating  of 
German  authora  by  many  Cierman- American  pub- 
lishers and  editors.  Some  say  that  there  is  no 
posMbilily  of  a  better  state  of  things,  lor  those 
interested  in  the  status  qut"wt\\  never  consent 
to  a  conventiim "  (copyright  treaty).  In  today's 
number  of  the  said  journal,  a  German  writer  of 
New  York,  Dr.  Julius  Giilwl,  opines  that  if 
Prince  Bismarck  thought  of  urging  your  legisla- 
ture and  government,  in  the  usual  diplomatic 
way,  to  go  into  the  matter,  a  treaty  would 
soon  come  to  pass.  That  may  be,  but  I'm  afraid 
our  leading  statesmen  will  never  think  of  such 
an  interference.  Pending  a  treaty.  Dr.  Gdbel 
recommends  German  writers  and  publishers  to 
communicate  in  a  more  general  way  than  at 
present  with  Ameri[»n  publishers  for  the  print- 
ing of  auliffn'ied  editions  of  forthcoming  Ger- 
man books.  This  would  be  a  partial  remedy 
only  (For  articles  in  newspapers  could  not  be 
protected  in  that  manner),  but  ■'  better  little  than 
nothing."  For  stage  playa,  Messrs.  Eloch  of 
Berlin  have  established  a  branch  at  New  York, 
under  the  direction  of  an  American  citizen,  by 
way  of  a  Ixginning;  thua  at  least  the  plays 
owned  by  that  firm  cannot  be  pirated  in  the 
Union.  LlopOLI>  Katscher. 

Berlin,  March  1st. 


OOBBESFOITDEIOE. 

The  Recently  Discovered  "  Sotomon  SpauM- 
isg  "  Manuscript  and  the  Book  of  Mormon. 
7>  Ikt  Editor  of  the  Ulrrary  m»-ld: 

The  difficulty,  with  all  our  means  of  publica- 
tion, of  getting  facts  correctly  stated  is  curiously 
illustrsted  in  connection  with  the  above  caption. 
On  January  iSth  a  special  despatch  was  tele- 
graphed from  ChiojEO  to  the  leading  papers  in 
New  York,  saying  that  a  "  Professor  Samuel  5. 
PartcUo  declares  that  he  has  discovered  the 
veritable  Spauldtng  romance  from  which,  it  is 
•aid,  Joseph  Smith  wrote  his  'Book  of  Mor- 
mon."* Who  Professor  Partello  is  I  do  not 
know,  bat  that  he  should  put  forth  such  a  claim 
as  this  is  astonishing,  for  the  facta  to  which  he 
refers  were  brought  to  light  and  published  to 
the  world  several  months  ago.  In  the  summer 
of  1SS4  President  Fairchjld  of  Oberlin  College 
was  in  Honolulu  visiting  Mr.  L.  L.  Rice,  an  old 
friend,  and  a  former  anti-slavery  advocate  and 
editor.  At  President  Fairchild's  suggestion, 
and  while  he  waa  with  him,  Mr.  Rice  examined 
Us  stores  of  old  documents  to  select  out  anli- 
,  slavery    pnUications   for   presentation    to    the 


Oberlin  College  Ubrary.  In  the  process  this 
celebrated  manuscript  of  Spaulding's  was  found, 
and  thoroughly  examined,  and  its  contents  noted. 
President  Fairchild  at  once  announced  ita  dis- 
covery and  briefly  descrilxd  it  in  the  Bibliolkfta 
Sacra  for  January,  iSSj.  This  announcement 
was  widely  copied  in  (he  press  and  extensively 
commented  upon.  The  manuscript  was  pre- 
sented by  Hr.  Rice  to  the  library  of  Oberllo 
College,  and  in  January,  1S86,  Pre^dent  Fair- 
child  gave  a  more  extended  account  of  it  and 
of  its  bearing  upon  the  supposed  origin  of  (he 
"Book  of  Mormon."  Meanwhile  the  Mormons 
aent  to  Oberlin  and  had  a  copy  made  from 
which  they  have  republished  the  manuscript  to 
prove  that  the  "  Book  of  Mormon "  neither 
had  any  connection  with  this  nor  with  any 
romance  which  such  a  writer  could  have  pro- 
duced. With  this  conclusion  of  the  Mormons 
President  Fairchild  fully  agrees,  and  so  it  would 
seem  must  every  one  who  gives  the  matter  care- 
ful attention.  The  question  is  not  one  of  much 
intrinsic  importance,  since  the  "Book  of  Mor- 
mon "  is  neither  better  nor  worse  whether  it  was 
original  with  Smith  or  whether  he  borrowed  its 
drivelling  nonsense  from  somebody  else.  But 
when  such  standard  writers  ai  Professor  Fisher 
Ihlnks  it  worth  white  to  state  it  as  a  fact  that 
the  "Book  of  Mormon"  was  largely  borrowed 
from  Spaulding's  manuscript ;  and  a  Chicago 
professor  thinks  it  an  honor  worth  claiming  and 
telegraphing  to  New  York  that  he  has  discov- 
ered the  long-lost  romance,  the  public  is  prob- 
bably  sufficiently  interested  to  give  attention 
to  the  real  facts.  In  this  case  it  would  seem 
that  the  press  by  its  power  of  giving  currertty 
to  lU-appreheaded  statements  of  facts  is  in  more 
danger  of  concealing  than  of  revealing  the  (ruth. 
It  remains  to  be  seen  whether  we  can  success- 
fully correct  the  erroneous  statements  about 
this  document  so  that  it  shall  not  go  into  future 
encyclopaedias  as  leaching  the  exact  oppcsite 
oE  what  it  really  does.  If  not  we  may  well  be 
thankful  that  the  Christian  documents  were 
launched  upon  the  world  at  a  time  when  one 
day's  new*  did  not  totally  erase  the  memory  of 
the  news  of  the  day  before. 

G.  Frederick  Wright. 

Swedish  Literature  in  1885. 
To  the  Editor  of  the  Literary  World: 

Your  review  of  Swedish  literature  in  iS8c 
made  this  statement:  "The  only  American  book 
traivslited  into  Swedish  this  year  (1SS5)  is  Col. 
Robert  Ingersoll's  lectures."  This  is  a  mistake. 
T\it  translation  of  these  lectures  was  begun  in 
18S4  and  continued  throughout  iSSj,  but  in 
addition  there  were  published  translations  of 
Mark  Twain's  The  Adventures  of  Huckleberry 
Finn  and  The  Prince  and  Ike  Pauper,  also  a 
humorous  story  of  which  I  do  not  now  recall  the 
name,  by  John  Hibberton,  and  short  stories  by 
Bret  Harte.  Mr.  F.  R.  Stockton's  Rudder  Grange 
has  lately  Ijeen  translated  and  was  published 
early  in  1885  or  possibly  in  the  fall  of  1884. 
These  are  all  the  American  books  1  can  think 
of  at  this  moment.  Of  English  books  (here 
were  translated  and  published  quite  a  number, 
among  them  J.  S.  Mill's  Utilitarianism,  Arch- 
deacon Farrar's  Early  Days  of  Christianity,  and 

In  your  necrology  for  1885, 1  miss  one  name, 
that  of  Prof.  Cart  Georg  Starbiick,  an  eminent 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[April  3, 


Swedish  hittottan  and  noTeliit,  bom  July  iS, 
1838,  who  died  October  8.  1885.  He  wu  the 
Sir  Walter  Scott  of  Swedish  literattire  and  hi* 
historical  ronumceB,  published  in  hia  prime  some 
twelve  or  fifteen  jetn  ago,  yet  remain  unsur- 
passed, although  he  bad  a  large  namber  of 
[mitatora.  He  was  the  author  of  a  valuable 
hiitory  of  Sweden,  written  in  popular  style, 
which  is  now  being  published  in  a  large  illus- 
trated edition.  G.  N.  Swan. 
Sioux  City,  Ifftea,  Monk  ij. 


HOTEB  AHB  QUEBIE8. 


777.  Ruskin.  Can  job  guide  me  to  a  biog- 
ra[^j  or  sketch  of  Ruslcin  t  w.  b.  h. 

Afiuna,  Ga. 

WhT  da  aw  peopla  md  Iha  Zi'/nwy  VorUr  Ad  n- 
hauUin  bibliocnptay  of  Kukia  mxj  be  found  od  pp.  uj- 
109  si  iu  lul  Volume.  Other  milerial,  balh  ailiol  ud 
biocnpbiaU,  is  u  fDllovi : 

{■)    JiuU  RiukiH.    Bt  Edmund  J.  BuUie.    London, 

(i)    Lmnu /rtnm  mj  Hailtn.    Bj  Pcltr  Bitds. 

(3)  Jtkn  SmiA^  Ecentmul.  By  Fundi  Geddei, 
Edinbursh,  1SB4.  [Round  Tibli  SeiitL]  Thie  mar  not 
be  eaix  to  set,  becaiua  lew  nere  printed. 

(4)  Ll/i  mHd  Ttaikaigi  »f  Rtakm.  By  J.  Maithall 
Halber.    Manchaiter,  EDclaod,  lESj. 

<S)  A  DiieitUt/ Piatt:  A  CraitaiSbi^tf  RmMn. 
Bf  Wm.  Smart,  Glufow,  18S}.  See  alu  Saun'i  lDasK»- 
nl  Addreaa  bcCnra  the  Ruldii  Sodel;  ef  GlaBfow, 

Tbe  ikelch  in  William  Sbepard'e  Tlu  Lilrrary  Li/i; 
Pitt  Pitlurti  iif  Mfdrrn  A  alkm  ia  lalher  100  meager. 

778.  Studies  in  Religion.  In  1S50  the  sec- 
ond edition  oi  a  tittle  book  with  the  tide  Stuiiet 
in  SeligioH,  by  the  author  of  Wards  in  a  Sttnday- 
Sckeol,  waa  published  by  James  Munroe  ft  Co. 
in  Boston.  Can  you  find  out  who  wrote  it  ?  It 
is  a  book  of  immortal  merit,  but  was  bom  before 
its  lime.  If  properljr  republished  now,  it  would 
become  a  classic  x.  a.  h. 

f!ew  OrUam,  La. 

In  a  copT  ol  the  Gnt  •dilinD  [New  York :  C.  Sbcpird, 
ia4]),  which  beloDCMl  lo  Wendell  Phillipa,  u  ■  manunipt 
note  BBitninc  ibe  enlhnnbip  to  "Ula  Clapp  of  Roit 
borj."  The  work,  u  Car  a>  we  know,  hia  not  been  re- 
pcialed  ol  lata.  Could  the  anlhor  hiia  been  a  raUlire  of 
Iha  boonvd  ReT.  Thaodorc  Clapp  of  New  Orlaani  F 

77g.  Quotations  Found.  Na  771  (#)  is 
from  Hood's  "  Ode  to  Melancholy." 

7B0.  Three  Experiments  of  Living.  (Noa. 
761  and  774.)  If  your  correspondents  had  con- 
sntted  Appl'ten's  Cydofadia  (which  apparently 
correspondents  rarely  do)  they  would  liave  found 
that  Thnt  Exptrimmts  of  Living  was  the  (ac- 
knowledged) work  of  Mrs.  Hannah  F.  (Sawyer) 
Lee.  T.   w, 

Cambridge. 

7S1.  "  CommoQ  Coasters  and  Unprofitable 
Fowlera."  In  an  old  statute  given  on  p.  109  of 
Vol.1  of  the  CfleaiaJ  Xtcifrdi  of  Mastackmtas, 
persona  "spending  their  time  idly  and  unprofit- 
ably "  are  mentioned,  and  the  constables  are 
ordered  to  **  take  knowledge  of  offenders  in  this 
kind,  especially  of  common  caaiUrt,  unprofitable 
fffaltri,  and  tobacco  takers."    What  is  the  mean- 

Miy  of  "sMtt^r*"  iwiJ  "foirJtrs"  beref   The 


latter  may  be  sportsn 
what  the  former  are. 
Camiridgt. 


I,  but  I  cannot  imagin 


THE  PEEI0DI0AL8. 

The  first  number  of  the  long-announced  new 
art  periodical,  Let  LtUrci  el  Let  Arti,  baa  just 
been  issued  in  this  country  by  Charles  Scribner's 
Sons,  who  control  the  American  market.  The 
French  publialiers  are  Boussod,  Vaiadon  et  Cie., 
who  succeeded  to  the  business  of  Goupil  ft  Co. 
not  long  ago.  The  magazine  is  published  in 
monthly  parts  and  ia  sold  only  by  subscription 

^72  a  year,  which  unhappily  places  it  beyond 
the  reach  of  most,  perhaps,  of  those  who  would 
chiefly  enjoy  and  appreciate  it.  Looking  at  the 
veniuie  ttom  a  combined  artistic  and  a  literary 
point  of  view,  it  must  be  regarded  as  (he  moat 
important  and  successful  undertaking  of  its 
kind  which  has  been  entered  upon  for  years. 
The  number  opens  with  a  superb  photogravure 
print  of  "La  Charge,"  a  new  painting  made  foi 
Les  Lettrei  et  Lis  Arts,  by  Edouaid  Dclaille,  the 
coloring  of  which  is  wonderfully  accurate  and 
shows  to  the  best  advantage  the  value  and 
beauty  of  this  unrivaled  process.  Photogravure 
ia  chiefly  used  throughout  the  magazine,  but  an 
immense  variety  is  gained  by  the  number  of 
coloia  and  lints  employed.  The  pictures,  ol 
which  perhaps  there  are  fifty,  are  uniformly  fine, 
but  among  those  especially  notable  should  be 
mentiooed:  Detaille'a  "La  Charge  " —  first  of  alt, 
the  superb  reproduction  of  Dubnfe's  "  Sacred 
and  Profane  Music,"  Levy's  etching  illustrating 
Madame  Gautier's  story  of  Les  Rois  Mages,  and 
the  two  charming  pictures  which  accompany 
Mr.  Nolhac's  ■'  Chanson  D'Hiver."  What  is 
hardly  to  be  expected,  the  literary  features  of 
Les  Leilres  et  Let  Arts  are  quite  as  good  aa  the 
artistic.  The  editor  has  enlisted  the  best  writ- 
ers in  bis  service.  Among  the  contributors  are 
Edouard  Pai Heron,  Henry  Houssaye,  Charles 
Gounod,  E.  Caro,  Jules  Simon,  Camille  Benoit, 
Henty  Lanjot,  and  Jules  Lemaitre.  We  can 
only  wish  that  the  magazine  may  find  as  large 
an  audience  as  it  deserves,  and  if  it  does  this 
it  will  meet  an  abundant  prosperity. 

The  BrecHyH  Magatine  has  apparently  out- 
grown the  city  of  lis  birth  and  has  moved  to 
New  York.  Beginning  with  the  current  num- 
ber it  will  publish  regularly  the  sermons  of 
Mr.  Henry  Ward  Beecher  and  Dr.  T.  De  Win 
Talmage  with  (be  approval  of  both  of  these 
preachers. 

Macmillan's  Magaunt  for  March  has  an  un- 
usually large  proportion  of  articles  on  literary 
subjects,  Prof.  Goldwin  Smith  writes  intereal- 
ingly  of  William  Lloyd  Garrison,  baaing  bis 
narrative  on  a  still  unfinished  biography  by  the 
children  of  Garrison,  and  sketching  the  career 
of  the  great  alx>litionist  with  judicious  and  dis- 
criminating references  to  the  history  in  which 
he  took  part  Francis  T.  Falgrave,  professor 
of  poetry  in  the  University  of  Oxford,  treats  of 
"  The  Province  and  Study  "  of  that  art,  in  an 
essay,  appparenily  written  as  a  lecture,  with  loo 
much  introduction  and  a  too  diffuse  style  gen- 
erally, but  with  thoughtful  consideration  of 
poetry  "in  her  loftiest  function,  as  a  motive 
power  in  the  world'a  progress;"  then  of  poetry 
as  a  mirror  of  current  human  life;  and  finally 
as  the  outward  expression  of  the  world  wittiin 
the  poel'f  pfn  ij^ipt)  »nd  (pf ling.    K  bright  i|i|i} 


delicately  humorous  essay  on  "The  Oflke  of 
Literature"  condemns  dullness, a*  of  all  quali- 
ties the  most  to  lie  avoided;  and  tells  us  that 
authors  should  "possess  the  art  of  destroying, 

for  the  time,  the  reader's  own  personality,"  and 
that  "  literature  eiials  to  lighten  the  burden  of 
men's  lives."  "  A  Century  of  Books  "  gives  us  a 
vigorous  and  amusing  protest  against  the  cur- 
rent craze  of  compiling  liEts  of  the  best  books 
by  a  sort  of  circular  vote,  and  pleads  for  the 
rights  of  individual  taste  and  judgment,  in 
reading  as  in  other  things.  Under  the  title 
"In  George  Sand's  Country,"  Miss  Betham 
Edwards  takes  her  readers  into  the  pretty 
region  near  La  Chalre  in  the  department  of 
Indre  in  Central  France,  the  scene  of  some 
of  (he  novelist's  stories;  describing  tlie  system 
of  mitayer  farming  prevalent  there;  also  her 
home  at  Nohant  and  the  statue  erected  in  her 
honor  al  La  Chatre.  A  thoughtful  address  by 
the  warden  of  Merton  College  on  "  The  Social- 
istic Tendencies  of  Modern  Democracy "  con- 
cludes an  interesting  number  of  Ibe  magazine. 

The  P^ilital  Siietve  Quarterly,  a  review  de- 
voted to  history,  economics,  and  jurisprudence, 
and  edited  by  the  Faculty  of  Political  Science 
of  Columbia  College,  is  among  the  announce- 
ments for  immediate  publication  by  Ginn  &  Co. 
To  quote  its  prospectus  it  furnishes  "a  Geld 
for  the  discussion  of  all  questions  which  concern 
the  organization  of  the  State,  the  evolution  of 
law,  the  relationa  of  Slates  one  to  another,  and 
the  relation  of  government  to  the  individual." 

In  the  Ouerland  Monthly  the  people  of  the 
Pacific  slope  have  a  magazine  so  judiciously  com- 
bining mailers  of  local  value  and  interest  with 
general  literature  that  it  merits  a  large  and  in- 
creasing circulation.  As  would  be  expected  in  a 
periodical  of  the  Pacific  Stales,  a  prominent  part 
of  a  Ule  number  is  allotted  to  the  perennial  Chi- 
nese question,  which  is  discussed  by  different 
writers  and  with  fair  and  able  presentation  of 
both  sides.  Further  local  coloring  is  given  1^ 
interesting  old-tine  reminiscences  of  Callfomis, 
by  the  story  of  an  excursion  to  a  mountain  of 
nearly  pure  marble,  and  by  some  very  good  com- 
ments on  the  Berkcly  University  and  on  the  re- 
cent princely  gift  of  Senator  Stanford.  Of  more 
general  topics  we  find  the  variety  usual  in  good 
magazines;  instructive  discussion  of  German  ex- 
patriation i  interesting  sketches  of  John  Harvard 
and  Robert  Toombs;  and  fiction,  of  which  proli- 
ably  Ihe  best  is  (he  serial  by  Helen  Lake,  as  is 
undoubtedly  "Winter's  Advent"  in  (he  poetry. 
Considerable  space  ia  given  to  reviews,  very  well 
done,  and  there  is  a  department  of  miscellany. 
A  magazine  so  well  edited  and  printed  deserves 
something  better  than  the  Otierland't  unattractive 

8HAKEBFEASIAHA. 


Joan  of  Arc  In  "  i  Henry  VI."  A  lady  who 
recently  lectured  on  Shakespeare  in  Boston  was 
hard  upon  Ihe  dramatist  for  his  supposed  treat- 
ment of  Joan  of  Arc  in  i  Henry  VI.  Appar- 
ently she  was  not  aware  that  a  majority  of  Ihe 
best  critics  agree  that  this  play  is  from  another 
hand  or  hands,  and  waa  only  revised  here  and 
there  by  Shakespcaie  in  his  "prentice  days-'.^ 
As  we  have  said  in  our  edition  of  it,  we  accept  ^ 
in  the  main  the  viev  vf    Powdei),  wbg  s»yl 


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119 


King  Henry  VI.,  Part  /.  ia  almost  cerUmly 
an  old  p]>;^  b;  one  01  more  authors,  wbich,  as 
we  find  it  In  the  lat  folio,  has  received  tooches 
from  the  hand  of  Shakipere.  .  .  .  There  is  a 
general  aereeneiit  3,mong  critics  in  attributitig 
to  him  the  scene  (ii.  4I  in  which  the  red  and 
white  roses  are  plucked  as  emblems  of  the  rival 
parties  in  the  stale  ;  perhaps  the  sceoe  of  the 
wooing  of  Margaret  by  Suffolk  (v.  1.  «;  fol.},  if 
not  written  by  Shakspere,  was  touched  by  him. 
The  general  spirit  of  the  drama,  belongs  to  an 
older  school  than  the  Shaksperian,  and  it  is  a 
happiness  not  to  have  to  ascribe  to  our  greatest 
poet  the  crude  and  hateful  handling  of  the  char- 
acter of  Joan  of  Arc,  excused  though  to  some 
extent  it  may  be  by  the  concurrence  of  view  in 
our  old  English  chronicles. 

Malone  was  "  decisively  of  opinion  that  Ibis 
play  was  not  written  by  Shakespeare."  Dyce 
believes  that  "tt  is  a  comparatively  old  drama 
which  he  slightly  altered  and  improved."  Staun- 
ton also  thinks  that  in  it  "  the  hand  of  the  Great 
Master  is  only  occasionally  perceptible,"  and 
that  it  is  "probably  an  early  play  of  some  in- 
ferior author,  which  he  partly  remodelled." 
Fleay  says  that  "  the  greater  part  of  It  is  cer- 
tainly not  Shakespeare's."  Furnivall  is  confi- 
dent that  "  the  only  part  of  it  to  be  put  down  to 
Shakspere  is  the  Temple  Garden  scene  of  the 
red  and  white  roses,  and  that  has  nothing  spe- 
cially characteristic  in  it;"  and  he  adds  that, 
"traditional  as  the  witch-view  o(  Joan  o(  Arc 
was  in  Shakspere's  time,  one  is  glad  that  Shak- 
spere did  not  set  it  forth  to  us." 

Those  who,  like  Knight  and  Collier,  take  the 
play  to  be  Shakespeare's  regard  it  as  one  of  his 
very  earliest  productions.  Halliwell-Pbillipps 
says  in  his  Outlimi  {5th  ed.  p.  79)  that  it  "  was, 
in  all  probability,  his  earliest  complete  dramatic 
work."  Verplanck  says  that,  though  it  "  could 
not  have  been  written  by  the  Shakespeare  of 
1608  or  1610,"  it  is  such  a  play  as  "he  might 
well  have  written  in  1590,  in  his  twenty-Iifth 
year."  Hudson  believes  that  "the  main  body 
of  the  play  is  certainly  Shakespeare's,"  that  it 
was  probably  written  as  early  as  1589,  and  that 
those  who  deny  that  he  wrote  It,  or  most  of  it, 
are  "radically  at  fault  in  allowing  far  too  little 
for  the  probable  difference  between  the  boyhood 
and  the  manhood  of  Shakespeare's  genius."  On 
the  other  hand,  the  Cowden-Clarkes  remark  that 
"there  I*  a  sUltedness  in  the  lines,  a  pompous 
mouthingneai  ip  the  speeches,  a  stiffness  in  the 
construction,  pervading  the  major  part  of  the 
play,  that  appear  inconsistent  with  his  manner, 
even  in  his  earliest  writing."  Coleridge  quotes 
the  opening  speech  ("  Hung  be  the  heavens  with 
black,"  etc.),  and  adds : 

"Read  aloud  any  two  or  three  passages  in 
blank  verse,  even  from  Shakespeare's  earliest 
dramas,  as  Zmv'.r  Labour's  Loii  or  Semea  and 
Juliet;  and  then  read  in  the  same  way  this 
speech,  with  eapedal  attention  to  the  metre; 
and  if  you  do  not  feel  the  Impossibility  of  the 
latter  having  been  written  by  Shakespeare,  all  I 
dare  suggest  is,  that  you  may  have  ears  —  for  so 
has  another  animal  —  butan  ear  you  cannot  have. 

The  test  which  Coleridge  suggests  is  a  good 
one,  and  we  advise  the  reader  to  apply  it  not  only 
to  this  play  but  to  Titui  Andrtnicui,  if  he  be- 
lieves that  to  be  an  early  work  of  Shakespei 
own  rather  than  an  old  play  revamped  by  him 
at  the  request  of  some  theatrical  manager. 

We  may  add  that  Knight  does  not  coosidi 
the  delineation  of  Joan  of  Arc  unworthy  of  the 
young  Shakespeare.  After  referring  to  the  fact 
Miat.she  i*  "  described  In  (he  Chroxklti  under 


every  form  of  vituperation, — a  monstrous  wo- 
a  monster,  a  ramp,  a  devilish  witch  and 
satanical  enchantress,  an  organ  of  the  devit,"  he 

In  all  the  previous  scenes  [that  is,  all  except 
the  last  in  which  she  appears]  Shakspere  has 
drawn  the  character  of  the  Maid  with  an  undis- 
zuiied  sympathy  tor  her  courage,  her  patriotism, 
her  high  imellect,  and  her  enthusiasm.  If  she 
had  been  the  defender  of  England,  and  not  of 
France,  the  poet  could  not  have  invested  her 
with  higher  attributes.  It  is  in  her  mouth  that 
he  puts  nis  choicest  thoughts  and  his  most  musi- 
cal verse. .  . .  The  lines  beginning,  '  Look  on  thy 
country,  look  on  fertile  France,'  might  have 
given  the  tone  to  everything  that  has  subse- 
quently been  written  in  honor  of  the  Maid.  It 
was  his  accurate  knowledge  of  the  springs  of 
character,  which  in  so  young  a  man  appears 
almost  intuitive,  that  made  Shakspere  adopt  this 
delineation  of  Joan  of  Arc.  He  knew  that,  with 
all  the  influence  of  her  supernatural  pretension, 
this  extraordinary  woman  could  not  have  swayed 
the  destinies  of  kingdoms,  and  moulded  princes 
and  warriors  to  her  will,  unless  she  had  been  a 
person  of  very  rare  natural  endowments." 
Schlegel,  in  a  similar  vein,  remarks: 
"The  wonderful  saviour  of  her  country,  Joan 
of  Arc,  is  portrayed  by  Shakespeare  with  an 
Englishman's  prejudice :  yet  he  at  first  leaves  it 
doubtful  whether  she  has  not  in  reality  a  heavenly 
mission ;  she  appears  in  the  pure  glory  of  virgin 
heroism ;  by  her  supernatural  eloquence  (and 
'' '  lircumstance  is  of  the  poet's  invention)  she 
over  the  Duke  of  Burgundy  to  the  French 
!;  afterwards,  corrupted  by  vanity  and 
luxury,  she  has  recourse  to  hellish  fienos,  and 
comes  to  a  miserable  end." 


A  Plea  for  Shjrlock.  The  Atlantic  for  April 
has  a  capital  piece  of  facetious  special  pleading 
by  Mr.  Charles  Henry  Phelps  under  the  title  of 
"Shylock  vs.  Antonio.  A  Brief  for  Plaintiff 
Appeal."  It  could  not  be  better  done  if  it  w 
meant  to  burlesque  the  sober  sophistry  of  wbich 
s  and  commentators  have  given  us  so  many 
examples  in  their  discnssion  of  this  and  other 
plays. 

Sometimes,  however,  we  are  in  doubt  whether 
the  writer  is  misrepresenting  things  in  his  merry 
way  or  does  not  himself  understand  them;  as, 
for  instance,  when  be  says  that  it  does  not  pre- 
sage well  for  Shylock't  chances  of  a  fair  trial 
"that  this  young  gentleman  [the  disguised 
Portia]  —  that  moment  arrived  in  Venice  — 
should,  in  advance  of  any  statement  by  the  par- 
ties, declare  himself  to  be  'informed  throughly 
[Mr.  Phelps,  or  the  Atlantic  type-sticker,  puts 
it  'thoroughly']  of  the  cause.'"  If  our  pleader 
is  "informed  throughly"  of  judicial  usage 
that  day  and  the  facts  in  this  particular  case,  he 
knows  well  enough  that  the  young  Doctor  coi 
from  old  Beilario,  to  whom,  as  an  "expert' 
the  law,  a  format  statement  of  the  case  has  been 
submitted  by  the  Duke  in  advance  of  the  trial, 
and  who,  as  his  letter,  read  by  the  clerk  of  the 
court,  testifies,  has  ''coached"  his  junior  for 
taking  his  place  at  the  trial.  Beilario  writes 
that  he  is  "very  sick,"  but  sends  "a  young  doc- 
tet  of  Rome  "  in  his  stead ;  and  he  adds : 

"I  acquainted  him  with  the  cause  in  contro- 
versy between  the  Jew  and  Antonio  the  mer- 
chant ;  we  turned  over  many  books  together ; 
he  is  furnished  with  my  opinion,"  etc 

Of  the  absurdity  of  the  legal  quibbles  con- 
cerning shedding  blood  in  taking  the  pound  of 
flesh,  and  not  cutting  exactly  a  pound,  Shake- 
speare was  no  doubt  as  well  aware  as  our  modern 
limb  of  the  law  who  makes  this  able  aiul  witty 
appeal  in  bebaU  of  the  plaintiff.    In  these  points 


the  dramatist,  as  we  have  had  occasion  to  say 
ilsewhere,  simply  followi  the  old  stoiy  on  which 
this  part  of  his  plot  is  based.  The  story  was 
familiar  to  bis  auditors,  and  this  feature  of  It 
loo  "telling"  to  be  omitted  on  the  stage, 
t  was  to  offset  this  "  bad  law,"  as  we  firmly 
ve,  that  he  made  Portia  say  later,  "The 
law  hath  yet  another  hold  on  you;  "  and  this 
hold,"  which  is  not  in  the  old  story,  was  a 
ound  and  sure  one.  It  is  upon  Ihis,  moreover, 
that  the  sentence  passed  upon  Shylock  is  based, 
though  the  Duke  lets  him  escape  with  his  life 
and  the  payment  of  only  half  ibe  money  penalty. 

Queries  on  "The  Two  Gentlemen  of 
Verona."  A  correspondent  in  Boston  inquires : 
Do  you  understand  that  "ibe  fair  Sir  Egla- 
mout"  in  Turn  GtniUmen  af  Vtrona  is  the  same 
as  Eglamour,  one  of  the  dramatis  persona  of  the 
ilay?  Id  Act  II  Launce  says  his  left  shoe  is 
lis  "mother  ...  it  hath  the  worscrsole."  What 
Is  the  point  intended  here  i 

is  not  probable  that  the  Eglamour  of  i.  i.  g 
is  the  one  who  appears  on  the  stage  in  iv.  3. 
The  former  is  mentioned  as  one  of  the  suitors 
of  Jutia  in  Verona,  while  the  latter  in  Milan  has 
"  vowed  pure  chastity "  upon  the  grave  of  a 
"  true  love  "  who  is  dead. 

The  "worser  sole"  is  probably  intended  to 
prepare  the  way  for  the  allusion  to  "the  bole 
in  it "  that  follows  —  a  joke  meant  to  tickle  the 
eats  of  the  groundlings,  like  sundry  others  of 
lame  poor  sort  In  the  plays,  especially  the 
earlier  ones. 


TABLE  TALE. 

. . .  James  Parton  has  almost  always  done  his 
literary  work  without  the  aid  of  an  amanuensis  ; 
a  fact  which  those  who  are  familiar  with  said 
work,  but  not  with  its  author,  may  not  under- 
stand without  learning  the  further  fact  that  he 
is  a  remarkably  methodical  and  abstemious  lit- 
erarian.  He  once  said  that  he  could  not  fully 
grasp  his  thought,  in  writing  by  dictation;  it 
was  like  working  with  a  pair  of  tongs.  To  see 
a  page  of  his  "  copy,"  one  would  think  that  he 
composed  very  slowly. 

. . .  Mrs.  Sarah  K.  Bolton  —  who,  by  the  by, 
has  serious  thoughts  of  returning  before  long  to 
the  East  to  live  —  is  under  engagement  with 
publishers  for  four  volumes,  the  first  two  of 
which  will  be,  respectively,  a  companion  to  Pevr 
Boys  Kta  Became  famous,  sketching  for  girls 
ten  leading  American  and  as  many  leading 
European  women,  and  a  collection  of  her  short 

. .  .  Mr.  Wm.  Sloane  Kennedy,  whose  bio- 
graphical and  critical  writings  concerning  Ru&- 
kin,  Longfellow,  Holmes,  Hale,  and  Whittier 
entitle  him  to  a  large  reading  00  his  next  pub- 
lication, will  issue  very  soon,  through  John  B. 
Aldcn  of  New  York,  a  compilation  in  five  small 
volumes  of  Ruskin's  writings  on  art,  social  phi- 
losophy, conduct,  science,  nature,  and  literature. 
The  long  and  close  study  of  Kuskin  into  which 
Vfr.  Kennedy's  admiration  for  the  man  has 
brought  him  warrants  the  eipcclalion  of  very 
fine  work  in  these  selections. 

.  . .  Mrs.  Harriet  M.  Miller,  whose  charming 
chapters  called  Bird-Ways,  published  by  Honghr 
ton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  nnder  the  signature  of  "  Olive 
Thorne  Miller,"  have  won  her  an  andience  with 
readers  of  Thoreau,  Burroughs,  and  Toney, 
resides  at  171  Quincy  Street,  BrooUyi^  N,  Y,, 


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THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[April  3, 


which  dlf  haa  been  her  home  for  the  last  nil 
yetn.  She  u  a  native  oE  Aaburn,  N.  V.,  xai 
»  distant  relative  of  Horace  Mann,  the  late  dm- 
tinguithed  educator.  She  bai  been  writing  reg- 
ularly (or  publication  ontj'  about  fourteen  years, 
being  about  forty  yean  of  age  vrhen  she  began. 
Her  first  articles  were  for  children,  though 
rarely  in  itory  form ;  later,  ilill  over  the  : 
of  "  Olive  Thorne,"  she  wrote  natural  history 
papers  and  seriala  for  Ibe  young,  contributing 
to  the  foremost  religious  and  literary  weeklies 
and  juvenile  monthlies.  It  is  about  four  ye: 
since  she  began  the  study  of  bird*  fiom  life, 
some  of  the  results  of  which  appeared  in  papers 
in  the  Atlantic,  Harper's,  and  other  magazines,  and 
now  re-appear  in  Bird-  Wayt.  She  now  wrilei 
very  little  in  any  other  line.  Her  studies  an 
pursued  both  at  home,  where  she  has  a  largi 
sunny  room  bird-tenanted,  and  in  Prospect  Park, 
Brooklyn.  She  has  published,  besides  the  vol- 
ume already  named,  Littlt  Folks  in  Feathtn  attd 
Fur,  Nimfa'i  Troubles  (moat  of  which  appeared 
serially  in  St.  Niihetat),  Querr  Pits  at  Marcy' 
(true  stories  of  pet  animals  and  birds),  and  Lit 
tie  People  of  Aiii  (an  account  of  the  method  of 
life  of  Chinese,  Japanese,  Siamese,  and  other 
children] )  and  is  gathering  material  for  a,  second 
bird  book. 

.  .  .  Mr.  Slason  Thompson,  of  the  Chicago 
Daily  Newi,  compiler  of  The  Humbler  Potts, 
is  revising  that  work  vrith  a  view  of  indicating, 
throughout,  the  authorship  of  the  anonymous 
poenu;  a  task  by  no  means  small,  since  many 
of  the  pieces  are  of  English  (British)  origin,  and 
in  many  cases  bear  only  initial  Eignalures  ii 
original  print. 

...  If  possible,  certain  paragraphera  will  is- 
sue Prof.  A.  S.  Hardy's  next  novel  for  him 
before  be  has  committed  it  to  manuscript.  Tbe 
author  of  But  Yet  a  Woman  ha*  nothing 
ready  (or  publication  yet,  but  may  ba.Te  during 
the  summer. 

...  Mr.  Charles  F.  Wingate  ("  Carlfried  ") 
will  soon  issue  in  book  form  bis  discussi< 
the  tenement-house  problem,  which  occupied 
thirteen  columns  of  the  New  Vork  Herald,  and 
nineteen  of  the  New  York  Tribune, 

.  .  .  Austin  Bierbower,  author  of  Tie  Morals 
of  Christ,  will  soon  put  his  contributions  to 
reviews  and  ntagaiines  into  book  form. 

.  .  .  James  G.   Clark,   the  ballad-singer 
poet,  intends  to  visit  New  England    in  Ji 
when  he  will  place  the  manuscript  of  a  voh 
of  his  verse,  mainly  reprint,  in  the  hands  of  that 
all  absorbing  firm,  D.  Lothrop  &  Co.    Mr.  Clark 
is  now  at  his  (aim  in  Brown's  Valley,  Minn. 


rOBEIQN  H£W8  AHD  HOTES. 

—  Mr.  Furnlvall's  Shelley  Society  note,  under 
dale  o(  Feb.  27,  mentions  several  items  of  interest 
touching  the  Society's  work.  Mr.  Sydney  E. 
Preston  has  been  appointed  Honorary  Secretary. 
Fac-llmile  reprints  of  Shelley's  Adanait  (Pisa : 
iSzi)  and  Alatter  (London  i  1816],  and  Part  I  of 
Mr.  Forman's  Shelly  Bibliography  are  ready  for 
issue  to  members,  of  whom  upwards  oE  izj  have 
subscribed,  and  neatly  lOO  have  paid.  A  writer 
Is  wanted  for  the  proposed  Shelley  Primer.  The 
Society's  work  for  ten  years  ahead  has  been  laid 

—  Mr.  Leopold  Katscher,  our  German  corre- 
spondent at  Berlin,  is  about  to  issue  through 
Meurs.  Goeschen  of  Stuttgart  «  volunie  entitled 


Feg-land  and  Thames-strand,  studies  and 
sketches  from  John  Bull's  Island. 

—  German  writers  have  of  late  deplored  the 
dearth  of  German  works  of  the  imagination  and 
complained  of  the  Increasing  encroachments  of 
works  of  science  and  politics  upon  the  Geld  of 
bellisletlrei.  They  apparently  (ail  to  notice  the 
very  marked  improvement  in  the  literary  charac- 
ter of  tbe  journalistic  work  of  the  day.  This 
improvement  has  been  very  great  in  the  last 
ten  years.  The  **  pen-pictnres "  of  the 
prominent  in  the  public  life  of  Germany  and 
France,  which  are  published  in  Unsere  Zeit  and 
Das  Echo,  are  remarkable  in  their  way.  More- 
over the  speeches  and  despatches  of  Bismarck 
and  the  speeches  of  the  leader  of  the  Clerical 
Party,  Windthorst,  are  wonderful  in  (ortn  and 
strength.  The  nation  which  produces  them  need 
not  fear  for  ita  literary  renown. 

—  We  hear  that  Miss  Blanche  Willis  Howard 
is  at  work  upon  a  dramatization  of  her  Cuenn, 
whicb  she  has  undertaken  at  Lawrence  Barrett's 
suggestion.  She  is  now  living  at  her  adopted 
home  in  Stut^art 

—  There  will  soon  be  published  in  Berlin  ■ 
book  sure  to  excite  wide-spread  interest  in  polit- 
ico-literary circles.  It  is  a  sort  of  diary,  or 
rather  a  chronological  record  of  the  life  of  the 
present  Crown  Prince  oE  Germany,  with  extracts 
from  letters  from  and  to  him  and  of  others  con- 
cerning him  or  his  afiairs.  Tbe  method  of  the 
book  is  shown  in  the  following  extracts  taken 
(and  translated)  (rom  advanced  sheets  : 

1856. 

Dec.  t^.  In  Paris.  Reception  in  the  Tuileries. 
(The  prince  is  relnmine  from  one  of  his  visits  to 
England  previous  to  his  marriage  with  the  prin- 
cess Victoris.) 

Dec.  3».  The  prince  leaves  Paris  to  return  to 
Berlin.  Napoleon  writes  to  Queen  Victoria. 
"The  prince  is  very  agreeable  and  I  have  no 
doubt  (he  princess  royal  will  be  very  happy.  We 
have  tried  to  make  his  visit  in  Parts  as  pieasant 
as  possible,  but  1  found  that  his  thoughts  were 
always  in  Osborne  or  Windsor  \  Tbe  Empress 
Eugenie  writes  to  tbe  Countess  W.:  "The  prince 
is  a  tall  handsome  man,  almost  a  head  taller  than 
the  Emperor,  slender  and  with  blonde  hair,  in 
short,  just  such  a  German  as  Tacitus  describes. 
He  has  knightly  manners  and  somelhinK  of  Itie 
air  of  a  Hamlet.  His  companion,  a  Gener! 
Moltke  (or  some  such  name  as  that  (I)  ),  is 
reticent  man,  but  very  far  from  being  a  dreame 
On  the  contrary  he  takes  keen  interest  and  is 
himself  interesting,  often  surprising  you  with  the 
most  striking,  remarks.  The  Germans  are  really 
an  imposing  race,  Louis  (the  Emperor)  says  Ihey 
are  the  race  of  the  future.  Bah  I  We  haven't  got 
to  that  point  yet  I  " 

1S5S. 

Dec.  af.  Tbe  day  before  the  wedding.  Ex- 
tract (rom  the  diary  of  Queen  Victoria.  "This 
is  poor  'Vic's'  last  day  with  us.  .  .  .  After 
breakfast  we  spread  out  the  beautiful  present*  on 
two  tables.  '  Fritz's '  pearls  are  the  largest  I 
have  ever  seen.  What  a  string  of  them  I  '  Vic ' 
was  beside  herself  with  pleasure  and  'Friiz' 
much  delighted. 

ITEWS  AFD  50TE8. 

—  The  statement  that  Dr.  Holmes  and  Mr. 
Lowell  are  going  abroad  together  is  not  quite 
accurate.    Dr.  Holmes  had   taken  his  passage, 

airied  daughter,  in  the  unfortunate 
"Oregon,"  for  the  zisl  of  April ;  and  now  ex- 
pect* to  sail  in  the  "Catalotiia,"  on  the  zzd. 
Mr.  Lowell's  departure  is  fixed  for  April  3d. 
As  would  be  natural  the  two  hope  to  meel 
often  while  in  England,  and  doubtless  will  be 
joint  recipients  there  of  much  kind  attention. 


—  For  some  time  past  the  lower  readir^  room 
of  the  Boston  Athenxnm,  in  which  current  nnn- 
bers  of  periodicals  and  papers  are  kept,  baa 
been  open  to  the  public  on  Sunday.  Hence- 
forth other  rooms  of  the  library  will  be  thrown 
open  for  some  hours  of  the  same  day.  No 
books,  however,  will  be  delivered  (or  home 
reading  on  that  day. 

—A  new  edition  (the  third)  of  Mr.  Rideing's 
Thacitrays  London,  bound  in  illuminated  parch- 
ment, is  announced  by  Cupples,  Upham  &  Co. 
Curiously  enough  this  interesting  little  book, 
which  was  published  simultaneously  in  England 
and  America,  baa  had  a  much  larger  sale  here 
than  there. 

—  Democracy,  and  Other  Addresses,  by  James 
Russell  Lowell,  is  to  form  volume  eleven  in  the 
"  Riverside  Aldine  Series."  It  will  contain  ad> 
dresses  on  Democracy,  Garfield,  Dean  Stanley, 
Fielding,  Coleridge,  Don  Quixote,  aikd  on  Book* 
and  Reading;  all  of  which,  with  the  exception 
of  tbe  last,  were  delivered  in  England. 

—  A  pamphlet  bas  just  been  printed  giving 
an  account  of  the  Haeerhili  Club,  which  has 
been  for  many  years  one  of  the  institutions  of 
Haverhill,  Moss.  The  workings  of  the  Club  are 
described,  and  the  means  used  by  its  members 
for  keeping  it  up  to  the   times  in  its   literary 

—  Roberts  Brothers  will  shortly  publish  a  story 
by  Eugenie  Hamerton,  wife  of  Philip  Gilbert 
Hamerton,  called  Celdtn  Afeiiecrity ;  a  new  vol- 
ume of  Balzac's  novels,  Eugenie  Grandet;  and 
au  American  edition  of  Lord  Ronald  Gower's  fas- 
cinating book,  The  Last  Days  0/  Afarie  Antoinette, 
which  will  contain  a  portrait  of  this  unfortunate 
princess.  An  Italian  Gardat ;  a  Boot  of  Songs, 
by  A.  Mary  F.  Robinson,  just  issued  by  the  same 
firm,  is  a  most  attractive  little  book,  and  ita 
pretty  cover  and  typographical  delicacy  deserve 

—  Ginn  ft  Co.  are  to  include  in  their  Gassits 
for  Children  Charles  Lamb's  Adventures  of 
Ulysses,  an  abridgment  of  Irving's  Life  of  Wash- 
ington, and  a  selection  from  Plutarch's  Lives. 

—  A  /ilew  Departure  for  Cirls,hj  Maqaret 
Sidney,  and  Hom  They  Learned  Housevori,  by 
Mrs.  Ellen  C.  Goodwin,  two  books  inteitded 
to  give  hints  to  girls  on  self-support  and  domes- 
tic duties  appear  next  month.  They  ought  to  be 
of  value  to  the  many  girls  who  are  thrown  (Ml 
their  own  resources.  The  publishers  of  these 
books,  D.  Lothrop  ft  Co.,  are  making  Ibis  depart- 

ent  oE  lileratore  somewhat  their  specialty. 

—  Mr.  Leonard  A.  Jones  is  engaged  on  a  work 
I  Liens,  which  will  appear  during  the  spring. 

—  Mr.  Alfred  Waites'snew  book.  Forgotten 
Meanings ;  or,  Hovrs  milh  a  Dictionary,  is  to  be 
published  immediately. 

Ticknor  ft  Co.  announce  A  J^eui  and  En- 
larged  Concordance  to  the  Holy  Scriptures,  by  tbe 
Rev.  J.  B.  R.  Walker.  It  bears  reference  to  both 
the  King  James  and  Revised  Versions  of  the 
Bible. 

—  Sunrise;  or  Easter  Triumph,  an  Easter 
Token,  is  the  title  of  a  new  compilation  o(  selec- 
tions from  the  Bible  and  other  sources  by  Rose 
Porter.  It  is  brought  out  by  D.  Lothrop  ft  Co., 
who  also  issue  three  more  volumes,  similar  hi 
character;  On  Easier  Day,  by  Margaret  Sidney, 
An  Easter  Rase,  and  In  Time  of  If  ted,  a  compile 
tion,  (he  last  having  an  introductory  poem  by 
Prtrf.  W.  F.  Sherwin,  of  the  New  England  Con- 
servatory of  Music 


r886.] 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


—  A  new  edition  of  Prof.  Francis  A.  Childi's 
compiled  Poam  of  Rtliginus  Svrraa,  Comfort, 
Coumtt  and  Aspiration,  U  to  b«  iuued  in  a 
nontli  or  two  I^  Hoaghton,  Mifflin  &  Co. ;  *nd 
new  editiom  of  Dante  Gabriel  Ronetli's  Danie 
and  Hit  Cireli  and  Maria  Francegca  Roaietti'i 
Shadne  of  Dante,  by  Roberta  Brothers. 

—  Dtwn  tht  Wist  Brandt ;  or.  Camps  and 
Dramps  Around  KotaJidin  is  the  title  oE  a  new 
volnne,  bf  Capt  C.  H.  Farrar,  to  be  iaiued  at 
once  bj>  Lee  &  ShepanL  A  Hunter  in  Central 
Amtriea,  by  Miss  Helen  L.  Sanborn  oE  Boston, 
will  be  pnbllthed  by  the  ume  bonte.  Lee  ft 
Sbepard  have  also  just  ready  a  new  volume  by 
Dr.  A.  .F  Blalsdell  oE  Providence,  Tke  Child's 
Book  of  Health,  and  Horace  Grant's  Exercises 
fir  tke  Improvtmenl  of  the  Stnsei,  for    Young 

Children,  the  last-named  edited  by  Mr.  Willard 
Small. 

—  Hr.  Edwin  M.  Bacon  is  preparing  a  new 
edition  of  Boston  Illustrated,  and  a  new  Dictiim- 
ary  of  Boston,  tar  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co. 

—  Mr.  Charles  E.  Bolton  oE  ClcveUDd  de- 
livered hit  lecture,  Up  the  Rhine  to  Berlin,  [llus- 
trated  by  the  stereopticon,  at  Union  Hall,  Boston, 
beEore  a  full  bonse,  last  week  Tuesday.  This  la 
one  of  his  conrse  of  [our,  and  was  very  interest- 
ing and  instructive.  In  striking  contrast  to  the 
Milled  and  oratorical  manner  of  our  beit-known 
lecturer  on  similar  subjects,  it  was  a  positive 
pleaanre  to  listen  to  Mr.  Bolton's  clear-cnt  ennn- 
cUtlon,  snd  easy,  flowing  style.  Every  word 
wss  distinctly  beard  throughout  the  hall,  though 
irtth  no  apparent  eEEort  on  the  part  of  the 
speaker. 

—  Elwell,  Piclurd  ft  Co.,  and  Hoyt,  Fogg  ft 
Dottham  of  Portland,  Maine,  have  in  press  a 
volume  of  easays  and  aketches,  by  Edward 
Heniy  Elwell,  author  of  73^  Beys  of  Thirty-Five, 
entitled  Fraternity  Papers. 

—  L.  A.  Morrison,  Esq.,  Windham,  N.  H.,  aa- 
tbof  of  the  History  of  the  Morrison  Family, 
Bolidtt  snbscribera  at  ^1.75  for  s  new  book  by 
him  entitled  Rambles  in  Europe. 

—  Mr.  John  Albee  oE  Newcastle,  N.  H.,  the 
author  of  a  book  oE  poems  and  oE  seversl  oE  the 
"  Concord  Lectures,"  is  now  editor  of  the  Ports- 
mouth Peni^  Post,  an  enterprising  little  daily 
paper. 

—  Johns  Hopkins  University  pubUshea,  or 
rather  its  Professors  of  Modern  Languages  pub- 
lish, the  Modem  Language  Notts.  It  it  a  little 
monthly  journal  to  be  conducted  in  the  interests 
ot  the  study  of  the  modern  langaages  and  Htcra- 
tares.  The  third  number,  March,  iSSE^  contains 
a  very  useful  article  by  Prof.  Bdcher  of  Harvard, 
on  "Available  French  Texts,"  pointing  out  the 
beat  books  for  nte  in  teaching  German.  The 
article  itselE  it  written  in  a  atyle  as  elegant  and 
"dainty"  as  are  some  of  the  French  comedies 
and  tales  of  which  it  treats.  Prof.  BAcber  also 
writes  the  articles  in  the  Nation  on  "  Recent 
French  Book*." 

—  A  new  edition  of  Chambers's  Eneytlopadia 
hat  been  prepared  by  tlie  R.  WotthingtOD  Co. 
with  additions,  which  ttring  the  record  down  to 
date. 

—  Hr.  Wm.  Evarts  Benjamin's  Catalogue  of 
Asitograph  Letters,  Manuicripts,  and  Documents, 
famishes  tome  thirty  pages  or  thereabouts  of 
reading  which  is  by  turns  interesting,  tempting, 
tantalizing,  surprising,  and  amosing.  Mr.  J.  R. 
Osgood's  collections  are  undetatood  to  enter 
Into  the  iiit,  and  we  should  say  that  other  stock 


was  probably  added.  The  list  is  alphabetical,  to 
a  considerable  extent  descriptive,  and  priced 
throughoDt;  nuking  it,  as  a  catali^ue,  highly 
latisEactory.  The  prices  in  many  instances  are 
targe,  to  the  profane  world  they  will  seem 
excesaively-  large ;  but  there  are  cases  in  which 
no  price  is  large  to  a  collector.  He  will  have 
what  be  wants,  and  money  is  not  to  be  consid- 
ered. A  letter  of  Addison's  stands  at  ^90,  one  oE 
Bryant's  at  {zo,  and  one  oE  Co«per*s  at  $zo.  A 
package  oE  De  Quincey's  proof-sheets,  memo- 
randa, and  letters  is  offered  at  f  jo.  The  original 
MSS.  of  Emerson's  Rtpresit\tata/t  Men  is  priced 
at  J500,  Bret  Harte'a  Too  Men  of  Sandy  Bar  at 
foS,  Dr.  Holmes's  Professor  at  the  Breakfast 
Table  at  ^2P°i  "'^  ^^'  famous  Autocrat  (imper- 
fect) at  ^jzj.  There  is  an  unpublished  sonnet  by 
Keats  at  |6o,  and  one  of  his  letters  at  ^50 ;  four 
of  Emerson's  letters  to  Carlyle  range  from  ^1 
to  t^  each ;  a  Goldsmith  rises  to  ^tca ;  one  ( 
Hawthorne's  "Old  Home"  sketches  can  b 
had  for  ^90 ;  and  so  on. 

—  Mr.  George  J.  Coombes,  New  York,  who  is 
making  a  repotition  as  a  publisher  of  books  on 
matters  bibliographical,  has  just  put  to  preti  Mr. 
J.  Roger  Reea'a  charming  little  volume  The 
FleaiuTts  of  a  Booh  Worm.  Tbit  American 
tion  promiies  to  make  quite  as  beautiful  a  book 
as  the  volume  issued  by  the  English  publishers. 
The  chapters  contain  a  series  of  essays  coverii^ 
all  the  points  which  touch  the  heart  of  the  book- 
lover,  as  tome  of  the  chapter  headings  indicate 
clearly  enough.  Nothing  could  be  more  affect- 
ing than  inch  titlet  as  "  Home  and  Bookt," 
"Glimpses  of  Earthly  Paradise,"  "  An  Odd  Cor- 
ner in  a  Book-lover's  Study,"  etc.,  etc  Mr. 
Combes  announces,  by  the  way,  that  the  entire 
de  luxe  edition  of  Mr.  Lang's  Books  and  Book-Men 
has  been  exhausted. 

—  During  the  present  month  Charles  Scrib- 
ner's  Sons  will  publish  Mr.  H.  C.  Bunner't  new 
novel,  entitled  The  End  of  the  Story,  not  Tht 
Midge,  as  the  New  York  Tribune  has  stated.  It 
it  a  story  of  New  York  life  in  the  south  Fifth 
Avenue  quarter,  and  is  said  to  be  much  better 
than  the  author's  first  effort  as  s  novelist.  An- 
other novel  which  the  Scribnert  have  in  preas  Is 
Lieut.  J.  D.  J.  Kelly's  story  .,*  Desperate  Chance. 
Lieut.  Kelly  is  well  known  as  the  author  of  sev- 
eral books  upon  nautical  matters.  His  new  vol. 
ume,  however,  is  not  entirely  a  story  of  the  tea. 
It  has  a  good  deal  oE  mystery  to  pique  the  read- 
er's cariosity.  Before  the  end  oE  the  month  the 
firm  will  also  publish  Miss  Hapgood's  delightful 
Epic  Songs  of  Russia  ;  The  Land  of  the  Tweliie 
Imans,  byjsmes  Bassett;  Carnegie's  THumph- 
anl  Democracy,  and  a  new  and  cheaper  edition  of 
Mr.  Astor's  Valentino.  In  May  they  will  prob- 
ably issue  Mr.  Robert  Louii  Stevenson's  story 
for   boys,   the   title   oE    which   we    lutve   given 

—  The  editor  of  the  Brooklyn  Magatim  has 
obtained  a  promise  from  Ex-President  Hayes  Eor 
an  article  on  Education  in  the  South,  It  will 
appear  probably  in  the   May  number  of  that 

—  It  is  said  that  the  first  edition  of  Mr.  Stock- 
ton's new  novel,  7Tu  Late  Mrs.  Null,  consisted 
oE  10,000  copies.  It  teems  that  some  American 
novels  do  sell  even  in  the  absence  of  an  intet^ 
national  copyright. 

—  Some  months  sgo  it  was  snnounced  that 
Mr.  George  Du  Maurier  would  prepare  a  series 
of   pictures  (or  Harper's  Monthly,   illustrating 


"The  London  Season."  The  engravings  are 
now  complete,  and  will  be  published  in  the  May 
issue.  The  frontispiece  to  that  nnmber  will  be 
an  engraving  of  Hr-  Edward  Armitage's  pictoTei 
"  Faith."  Mr.  E.  A.  Abbey,  who  has  worked  of 
late  yean  exclusively  for  the  Harpers,  is  on  Us 
way  home  Erom  Europe.  It  is  not  as  yet  known 
whether  the  engagement  will  be  continued,  or 
whether  Mr.  Abbey  will  put  his  hand  to  other 
work-  Hr.  Hamilton  Gibson,  the  artist,  has 
undertaken  a  journey  through  the  South  in  th0 
interests  of  Harper's  Monthly. 

—  Nearly  ao,ODO  copies  of  Hr.  Stevenson's 
novel.  The  Strange  Case  of  Dr.  Jeiyll  and  Mr. 
Hyde,  have  been  sold  in  the  Scribner  edition. 
Two  competing  editions  sre  issued  in  the 
"  libraries."  The  Scribnera  will  be  the  Ameri- 
can publishers  of  Hr.  Stevenson's  new  story  for 

—  Tht  Education  of  the  ArHsi,  by  Mr.  Ernest 
Chesnean,  and  A  Manual  of  Greek  Archaoloty, 
by  Dr.  J.  H.  Wright  oE  Dartmouth  College,  are 
two  new  art  books  announced  by  Messrs.  Cas- 
sell  ft  Co. 

—  Messrs.  Dodd,  Head  ft  Co.  are  to  publish 
their  series  "Tales  from  Hany  Sources"  in  a 
cheap  paper  edition,  and  at  the  same  time  they  will 
add  two  new  volumes,  containing  stories  by  Hrs, 
Ewing,  A.  Hary  F.  Rotriasan,  Grenville  Hurray, 
Hugh  Conway,  and  others.  Their  first  publics* 
tion  in  April  will  cmtain  Dr.  J.  H.  I^idlow's 
novel.  The  Captain  of  tht  Jdnitarits  and  Hrs. 
Amelia  Bart's  new  story,  A  Datighter  of  Fift. 

—  The  report  of  the  United  Stales  National 
Prison  Association,  about  going  to  praat,  em- 
bodies speeches  and  discussions  by  Ex-President 
Hayes,  Charles  Dudley  Wamsr,  Fred.  H.  Wines, 
Francis  Wayland,  Goo.  W.  Cable,  Z.  R.  Brock- 
way,  W.  M.  F.  Round,  and  othera,  treating  the 
subject  of  Prison  Labor  in  all  its  phases.  The 
strictly  limited  edition  la  largely  subscribed  for, 
and  the  book  seemt  likely  to  be  rare  soon  after 
itt  publication. 

—  In  a  late  nnmber  of  the  Putlishtrs'  Weekly 
occurs  the  following  alleged  news  item:  "Hrs. 
Frances  H-  Burnett,  the  novelist,  has  written  a 
serial  story  for  St.  Nicholas,  called  "  Little  Lord 
Fauntleroy,"  the  beto  of  which  is  a  boy  char- 
acter who  it  as  new  as  be  it  delightful.  The 
finrt  instalment  is  issued  in  the  March  number." 
It  is  hardly  necessary  to  say  that  Mrs.  Burnett's 
story  it  now  half  finished,  itt  publication  having 
been  begun  in  November,  18S5-  We  have 
watched  thit  paragraph  with  much  amusement 
as  it  has  traveled  about  the  country,  and  have 
been  surprised  by  the  number  and  the  standing 
oE  the  papers  which  have  copied  it  with  much 
blind  confidence.  The  Publishers'  Weekly  ma] 
care  to  know  that  it  was  started  by  the  Chicag* 
Tribune  a  month  ago.  It  would  be  well  if  the 
editor  of  the  trade  journal  of  the  publisher 
would  veriEy  the  paragraphs  he  finds  floating 
about  before  copying  them,  or  else  credit  to  the 
papers  from  which  he  lakes  them,  that  the  blame 
for  such  blunders  as  this  may  rest  on  lets  pro* 
fessional  shoulders.  We  are  entirely  willing  lo 
take  the  responsibility  oE  having  the  name  of 
the  Literary  World  attached  to  those  items  so 
often  reprinted  Erom  this  journal. 

—  The  Brooklyn  Magaaine,  which  has  a  fac- 
ulty Eor  starting  discussions  on  topics  which 
teem  to  attract  the  public  mind,  will  publish  in  its 
April  nnmber  a  sort  of  symposium  upon  "Early 
Marriages."    Lucy  Larcom  will  write  upcm  th« 


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[April  3, 


proper  agt  for  girla  to  man;,  Mi«s  Louisa  H. 
Alcolt  trill  discuss  the  same  subject,  Mrs.  Louise 
Chandler  Moutton  will  write  apon  "  Voaog  Girl* 
and  Marriage,"  and  other  contribulions  of  the 
Same  sort  will  come  from  Mrs.  Henry  Ward 
Needier,  Rebecca  Harding  Daiis,  Julia  C.  R. 
borr,  Harriet  Prescolt  Spofford,  Lucy  Stone, 
^iiabelh  Stuart  Phelps,  and  Helen  Campbell. 
—  Baltimore  and  Salem  each  boast  a  "  Stan- 
ley Societj,"  the  members  of  which  do  not,  as 
one  might  at  first  suppose,  dcTOte  IhcmseWes  to 
Ibe  study  of  the  geography  of  the  "  Dark  Conti- 
nent," but  on  the  contrary,  to  the  comparatively 
easy  task  of  studying  the  writings  and  elucidating 
the  occasional  dark  sayings  of  the  late  Dean  of 
Weslminsiet.  The  first  step  in  the  course  is,  we 
hear,  the  careful  reading  of  the  biography  of 
Dean  Stanley,  by  Mrs.  Grace  A.  Oliver. 


Cushlng's  Dictionary. 

AJJitiana!  Errata. 

Ou  |Afi  170,  the  Keaiul  pMndonrm.  t-til^  thould  be 
Uiu  Ells  CiUmi. 

Ob  nfit  »>4,  NilU,  Mn.  Abb;  <AlliD)  Cuter,  i>  ucord- 
inf  talhe  Botuw  Athnauni  Cauliisue;  but  bcller  (ulhor- 
Ity  (ITH  il,  Mn.  Abbr  Allin  Cinliu,  the  wife  of  Dinid  S. 
Corliu. 

The  puudonTm  Noah  Count  licliiuedbT  Woi.  E.  Gil- 
D11D  of  CheUeii,  Uui.,  whe  under  Ihit  mm  dt  flMim  hu 
publidudpociiolnrtidetio  theBotton  Ctmmirtmt  BtUU- 


Guriun,  W.  L,    Goldwin  Smith.         MmttttilUM,  Much. 
Hiwlhorne,  N. :  Hii  Home  tai  Study. 

G.  P.  Laihrop.  Liicnn  Li[«.  Marcli, 

Irvjni,  Wmhiniton.  Mclh.  Q.  Kft.,  Jinuur. 

Liltniure,  The  OSce  of.  MatmiOim,  Mircb. 

".T,  Ptitn^'     '"       "  AfacmiOmm,  Mirch. 

Sud'i  (Geoiie}  Coontn,  In. 

MiH  BeihiD  Edwirdi.  MnmaUH,  March. 

Sarlei  L.clier,  Pioblemi  o(  the. 

JoIiaB  HsirthDnie.  Alluttc,  April. 

SdioolSi  PriH.FightiDc  io.  Meih.  Q,  Rer.,  Jiduut. 

ScDIliih  Utenlur*  in  the  Stuart  Period. 

SttUiik  Chmxk.  Uutb. 
Shvlock  VI.  AutoDio.    C.H.PhelpL  AllanlK,  April. 

Tinnnan  it  Hoik.    E.  L.  IMdier.    Lhei*nr  Hit,  March. 
Tolloch,  Principal.  SitUuk  Cinrtk,  Match. 


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The  Literary  World. 


L.  XVII.      BOSTON,  APRIL  17 


CONTENTS. 


Thi  Cohcxhd  School  on  Gobi 
Hn-r«i.i,'s  Ha-nwr  of  Caufi 
UiNOBFicTiom 

WiUnul  Blemiih    '.       '       '. 
ThcAlieu      .        .        .       . 
For  Hninic's  Sde 
ThcKniKoiHurU     . 

fihD  Mudment 
cHled  br  1  Lavnr 
Mn.  Fnnda  .       .       .        . 


Thackhhav.    With  ■  Biblioinpby 

An  OU  Hun.    Louw  Imogtn  Cuiney 

To  Piem  d<  Konurd.    Clinlou  Scollird      .       . 

On  Ruding  His.  Don'i  AIlerDoon  SongiL    S.V. 

Kmeritm  ~  Cirlylc!     0.*CAuringer    '. 

To  an  Entliih  Lcclurar  m  hit  Enimite  of  Encr- 

»T>.    W.  L.  Shocmiker 

Chiucer.     A.  r.  Judd 

Sonnci  with  ■  Volume  of  BroinimE'i  Poemi.    E. 

D.  WuEdd 

The  Flighl  ol  MncnHMync'i  Danglilcn.    Mn.  }. 

OHwrSmiih 

A  Nc«  TtoDbidour.    BliHCimun 
To  Robeit  Born*.    KaU  Brownlet  Shtrmod 
Oui  Niw  VoiiK  Lnraii.    Nuud 
CoRinroHDHici; 

Th<  Biplontiona  in  Egypt 

Th*  LuTCBworth  Cue 

SHAKisriAiiijtHA.    Ediltd  by  Wm.  J.  Rolle: 
Elennth  Muiini  of  tlw  New  York  Shukopev* 
Sodeir       .       .       .       .,,     .       -     „■    .  ■ 

^"oll^ifV^"''"'."'.       .      "     .'. 
Stukeepeare  do  Gravitilion   ..... 

T«BL.T*1JC 


^KrP<-"    Niimben  li 


ie  ield  of  Zow."    Pialmbarai:  43. 

Cntltmlt :  FrtmtMitH.    1 1  ob)tcU  hellolyped  on  ■  lii 

■       ■        -Trill  i/CttUinU,  If.— Pr^ati,!  pa.—/, 

••1  pp.— r<.z<.  Chip.  I,  Sin  belore  Ihe  Empin 

uDder  the  Empire i  III.  Gmk  and  Raman  Tani 

"     '        '  Flndii  IV.  BikikhuiB,  Ihe  Lawyer  • 


Sfi£ 


THE  first  ripe  literafj  fruit  of  the  Egypt 
Exploration  Fund  was  Mr.  Naville's  vol- 
ume on  Pitkom  of  last  year,  see  the  Literary 
World,  Vol.  XVI,  p.  151.  The  second  is 
this  compaoioD  volume  on  Tanis,  by  Mr. 
Petrie.  The  work  is  properly  edited,  as  not 
all  similar  scientific  publications  are.  In 
addition  to  the  complete  furniture  described 
in  the  above  note  on  the  contents,  there  is  a 
list  of  the  Publications  of  the  Fund,  already 
accomplished  or  in  preparation  ;  from  which 
it  appears    that  a  Part  II  of   Tanis  is  to 

Sau,  Tanis,  Ta'an,  Zoan,  these  are  differ- 
ent forms  only  of  one  and  the  same  name, 
the  name  of  that  once  splendid  city  of  Lower 


•  Tinii,  Fart  t.  iS3]-4.  By  W.  M.  FUoden  Petri*. 
Second  Monoir  of  the  Ejypt  Eiplonlion  Fund.  LoDdoo: 
Xrabner  A  Co. 


Egypt,  whose  remotest  antiquity  makes  it  a 
companion  of  the  Hebron  of  Abraham's 
time.  Its  ruins  lie  on  the  extreme  north- 
eastern border  of  the  Delta  of  the  Nile, 
looking  out  over  the  waters  of  Lake  Tanis 
toward  the  Mediterranean,  the  center  of  a 
striking  landscape  which  Mr.  Petrie  thus 
describes ; 

The  flat  expanse,  as  level  as  the  sea,  covered 
with  slowly  drying  salt  pools,  may  be  crossed  for 
miles,  with  only  (he  dreary  changes  of  dust,  black 
mud,  water,  and  black  mud  again,  which  it  is  im- 
possible to  define  as  more  land  than  water  or 
more  water  than  land.  The  only  objects  which 
break  the  flatness  of  the  barren  horizon  are  the 
low  mounds  of  the  cities  ol  the  dead;  these 
alone  remain  to  show  thai  this  region  was  once  a 
living  land,  whose  people  prospered  on  the  earth. 
The  reddened  top  of  the  highest  of  these  mounds 
may  lie  seen  riwng  out  of  the  flickering  haze  on 
die  horizon,  fcnic  hours  before  it  is  reached  ; 
that  is  the  great  city  of  San,  the  capital  of  Lower 
Egypt, 

The  present  San  is  a  huddled  disorder  of 
miserable  Arab  huts,  framed  in  stagnant 
waters,  and  accented  with  dead  animals,  live 
babies,  fowls,  flies,  and  sickening  smells. 
Behind  all  this  corruption,  vegetable  and 
animal,  rise  in  high  mounds  the  remaii 
the  Greek  and  Roman  Tanis,  "a  city 
built  and  well  ordered,  whose  inhabitants 
show  no  small  taste  in  their  native  pottery 
and  their  imported  marbles,  their  statuettes, 
their  delicate  glass  mosaics,  and  their  fine 
metal  work."  Beneath  this  comparatively 
modem  layer  lie,  as  we  understand,  the  r 
of  the  still  older  Ta'an,  the  city  of  Sheshonk, 
of  Fisebkhanu,  and  of  Ramessu  II,  cen* 
tering  in  a  splendid  temple,  which  was 
thousand  feet  from  end  to  end,  and  stood  up 
above  the  surrounding  houses ;  and  over 
whose  flat  ro^  towered  the  colossal  statue  of 
the  second  founder  of  the  city,  Ramessu  the 
great,  "  with  stony  eyes  gazing  across  the 
vast  plain."  Beneath  this  again  "must  lie 
the  older  town,  the  town  of  the  bearded 
Hyksos,"  and  beneath  that  still  the  town  of 
the  great  kings  who  here  first  established  a- 
capital  to  hold  in  check  the  Semitic  invaders 
of  the  basin  of  the  Nile ;  and  only  under 
that  the  earliest  Zoau  of  them  all,  the  Zoan 
of  Genesis  and  the  Psalms,  of  which  no 
trace  probably  remains. 

To  this  rich  spot  came  Mr.  Petrie  in  Feb- 
ruary, 1884,  and  here  he  pitched  his  tent, 
built  him  a  dwelling,  and  worked  till  June, 
employing  about  fifty  diggers  and  carriers, 
— men,  girls,  and  boys,  cutting  trenches, 
sinking  shafts,  cutting  down  to  the  pavement 
of  the  temple,  and  disclosing  an  immense 
store  of  tombs,  wells,  fallen  blocks  of 
masonry,  statues,  inscriptions,  obelisks, 
sphinxes,  potteries,  amulets,  utensils,  sca- 
rabs, and  other  objects  too  numerous  to 
mention.  One  important  "find"  was  the 
house  of  Bakakhuiu,  supposed  to  have  been 
a  lawyer  of  the  ist  or  2d  century,  A.  D.,  with 
a  portrait  statne  of  him  in  the  cellar,  a 
pretty  and  highly  interesting  image  carved 
in  limestone,  21  inches  high. 
Of  all  these  excavations  and  discoveries 


Mr.  Petrie's  53  pages  of  text  give  the  de- 
tailed description,  while  the  frontispiece  and 
other  plates  reproduce  the  ciiriosities  to  the 
eye  —  Ihe  quaint  statue  of  the  chubby-faced 
lawyer,  his  left  hand  gathering  his  tunic  in 
front  of  him ;  fragments  of  slabs  covered 
with  hieroglyphics,  translations  of  which  are 
to  be  supplied  in  the  succeeding  Part ;  pieces 
of  pottery,  fragments  of  sculptures,  stony 
heads,  great  temple  blocks,  one  bust  of  a 
lovely  woman  in  white  marble,  shrines, 
chambers,  and  ground  plans. 

Subscribers  to  the  Fund  have  in  this  vol- 
ume another  ample  return  on  their  invest* 
ment  and  a  new  pledge  of  valuable  results  in 
the  future. 


AHIA  EABEBIH A.* 

[Count  Lyol  Nikoliyetitch  Toliloi,  whBM  tfitr  amd 
Ptatt  and  Mji  Brliritn  ire  already  in  the  hinda  at  AiiKri- 

Hia  father  was  an  anny  officer  and  bia  mcilbtr  a  princeia. 
Hia  early  yeara  were  divided  between  bii  turthpiace.  Mo*. 
cow,  and  Kaian,  entering  the  Univeraity  of  the  latter 
dty  in  iSij.  Eight  or  ten  ycin  later,  having  Joiacd  Ihe 
amy  in  the  ITaucaaiii,  he  took  up  litenlure,  and  planned 
a  fcax  mnuncB  DO  which  he  made  a  t>ei;innio|.  He 
aened  in  Ihe  Crimeui  War,  after  which  at  St.  Petetibnis, 
MoK»w,  and  on  hii  aitate,  he  reaomed  hia  writin(.  He 
iniereUed  hinuelf  in   Ihe  elcTalion  of  the  emaodpaled 

and  he(an  Aiatt  Kmrimma  in  aerial  form  in  iSyj.  Iff 
Kgligitm  ia  hia  litat  work,  and  i»  really  a  growth  of  aeeda 
which  are  planted  inAitmi  ATsrAiiH.] 

COUNT  Tolstoi's  Anna  JCarinina  is  a 
long,  intricate,  and  crowded  novel  of 
Russian  life.  It  is  really  two  novels,  we 
might  almost  say  three  novels,  in  one.  It 
sets  out  with  an  unhappy  domestic  experi- 
ence, in  which  Prince  Stepan  Oblonsky  ia 
detected  by  his  wife,  Darya,  In  a  liauon 
with  the  French  governess  of  their  children, 
the  husband  barely  escaping  an  irretrievable 
rupture  with  her  whom  he  has  wronged. 
But  this  is  only  an  introduction  ~-a  dish  01' 
soup  before  meat.  From  this  beginning  the 
story  branches  in  two  lines:  one  following 
the  innocent  but  tearful  experiences  of  Kon- 
stantin  Levin  and  Kitty  Shcherbatskala,  to- 
gether with  the  fortunes  of  Levin  as  a  large 
landed  proprietor  In  connection  with  agra- 
rian problems  of  a  socialistic  kind ;  the  other 
the  guilty  love  of  Count  Aleks^  Vronsky  . 
for  Anna  Kar^nina,  the  wife  of  Alekstfi  Kar- 
^nio,  their  defiant  and  iUidt  union,  and  the 
tragic  fate  which  concludes  their  history. 
This  variety  of  interests  and  motives,  the 
multiplicity  of  characters,  and  a  confusion 
as  to  names  which  the  translator  might  have 
saved  his  readers  by  a  stem  independence 
of  Russian  nomenclature,  make  the  open- 
ing chapters  perplexing  and  toilsome ;  until 
the  stream  of  the  story  gets  fairly  under 
way  and  falls  clearly  into  its  several  chan* 
nels.  Then  it  becomes  interesting,  at  times 
absorbing,  and  will  retain  the  attention  of 
those  who  have  leisure,  throughout  the  en- 
tire 769  capacious  pages,  to  the  end. 
The   two   leading  themes  act  as  if  one 


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THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[April  17^ 


were  set  u  a  foil  to  the  other;  Vronsky's 
aJid  Aooa'a  lawless  passioa  aod  its  fruits 
over  against  Levin's  agrarian  experimeots 
on  his  country  estate  of  Pokrovsky.  The 
great  mass  of  materials  employed  gives 
cambersonieaess  and  complexity  to  tbe 
product,  molded  though  it  be  by  a  power- 
ful and  steady  hand.  The  reader  does  not 
ever  feel  that  the  guide  is- losing  the  way, 
but  rather  that  he  is  being  led  through  a 
mountainous  and  rugged  country,  with  an 
Immense  range  of  ground  to  cover,  and 
ground  of  a  difficult  character.  The  story 
oscillates,  swings,  sways  from  side  to 
side  like  an  express  train  at  forty  miles  an 
hour  over  the  twistings  and  dimbings  of 
the  Baltimore  &  Ohio  Rulway ;  one  chap- 
ter, for  example,  ends  in  a  most  dramatic 
passage  between  Anna  and  her  wronged 
husband,  the  next  begins  in  the  hay-loft  at 
Pokrovsky. 

As  a  socialistic  novel  Anna  Karinina  is 
wholesome,  and  for  a  novel  on  the  transgres- 
sion of  the  Seventh  Commandment  it  is 
inofiensive.  Yet  on  its  latter  side,  on  these 
relations  of  the  sexes,  on  the  facts  of  par- 
entage and  motherhood,  the  book  speaks 
with  a  plainness  of  meaning,  sometimes 
with  a  plainness  of  words,  which  is  at  least 
new.  We  do  not  know  that  we  have  ever 
before  read  a  novel  in  which  the  details  of 
an  accouchement,  for  example,  were  made 
to  do  service  for  one  chapter.  A  very 
effective  chapter  it  is  of  its  kind,  but—  1 

With  the  moral  intent  of  the  work  no 
fault  can  be  found.  The  sinfulness  of  sin, 
the  wretchedness  of  sin,  the  bitter  fruits  of 
sin,  are  all  in  the  sad  story  of  Vronsky  and 
Anna.  The  stem  virtuousness  of  Aleks^i 
Kar^nin  when  he  suspects  the  error  of 
his  wife,  and  as  suspicion  settles  into  dis- 
covery ;  the  first  severity  of  his  anger,  bis 
later  compassion,  his  final  magnanimity; 
these  are  some  lines  only  in  a  noble 
and  majestic  figure,  a  lay  figure,  in  whose 
person  and  purpose  the  author  would  in- 
carnate the  Sermon  on  the  Mount  If 
there  are  few  scenes  in  fiction,  which  for 
pure  vividness  of  portraiture  equal  the 
snowy  journey  by  night  from  Moscow  to 
St,  Petersburg,  upon  which  Vronsky,  domi- 
nated by  his  passion,  follows  Anna,  so  are 
there  few  which  for  dramatic  intensity  and 
tender  pitifulness  equal  that  in  which  Kar- 
IxAa  and  Vronsky  meet  by  Anna's  bedside, 
as  she  lies  hovering  between  lite  and  death 
over  the  birth  of  a  daughter,  ot  whom  her 
husband  is  not  the  father. 

The  book  has  many  striking  portraits 
among  its  subordinate  characters ;  and  there 
are  graphic  descriptions  of  Russian  scenery 
and  incident  — the  farmyard  at  Pokrovsky; 
the  brilliant  wedding  of  Levin  and  Kitty,  at 
which  Levin  is  late  for  a  ludicrous  reason ; 
the  exciting  races  at  which  Vronsky  has 
his  fall;  tbe  '"'««  receptions  in  which 
nobles  and  statesmen  figure;  the  officers' 
mess  in  the  barracks;  the  sojourn  in  Italy; 


and  the  two  tragedies  of  the  railway  station. 
Impressions  the  book  certainly  makes, 
makes  and  leaves ;  and  impressions  on  the 
moral  sensibilities  as  well  as  on  the  imagina- 

The  great  lesson  of  Anna  Kartfnina's 
melancholy  history  is  that  for  a  woman  to 
marry  a  man  twenty  years  her  senior  when 
she  does  not  love  him,  is  to  place  her  under 
conditions  of  terrible  temptation  when  after- 
wards she  comes  to  be  thrown  with  a  man 
whom  she  can  love,  and  who  is  not  unself- 
ish enough  to  save  her  from  herself  when 
she  has  put  herself  in  his  power ;  and  that, 
surrendering  to  that  temptation,  tbe  wages 
tr  sin  is  —  death. 

must  have  taken  some  resolution  to 
translate  this  book,  and  som^  courage  to 
publish  it ;  and  the  reading  of  it  some  per- 
will  find  a  work  which  requires  per- 
severance and  application.  Bat  It  is  large 
and  strong;  we  remember  nothing  with 
which  exactly  to  compare  it  since  Elizabeth 
De  Ville's  JehaMuti  OlaffA  1873. 


AMIEL'S  JOimVAL* 

WE  reviewed  this  remarkaUe,  well-nigh 
incomparable,  record  of  a  pathetic 
life  of  seeming  incompleteness  in  the 
French  form  in  which  it  first  appeared. 
\Uterary  World,  Vol.  XVI,  pp.  61-63.] 
Even  in  this  English  translation  it  has  an 
undiminished  beauty,  depth,  and  power. 
of  the  masterpieces  of  the  litera- 
ture of  all  time.  Amiel's  original  journal 
filled  some  seventeen  thousand  folio  pages. 
Into  it  he  poured  bis  souL  With  litde  of 
biographical  detail,  there  is  almost  every- 
thing of  science,  art,  literature,  and  religion, 
as  viewed  by  a  mind  of  the  highest  order 
moving  on  the  plane  of  the  highest  cultiva- 
tion. It  is  an  innermost  mirror  of  the 
outermost  world.  Its  place  is  by  the  side 
of  the  Confessions  of  St.  Augustine  and  the 
noughts  of  Pascal.  Amiel's  verse  was 
mediocre,  but  there  is  magic  in  his  prose, 
as  the  extracts  we  have  given  l>cfore  abun- 
dantly prove.  There  is  an  enthralling  mixt- 
ure in  his  writing  of  German  substance  and 
French  form.  For  their  literary  judgments 
merely  these  pages  have  singular  and  last- 
ing values.  But  their  supreme  worth  lies 
in  their  criticism  of  the  higher  life  of  man, 
their  appreciation  of  the  mighty  hopes,  the 
enduring  moralities,  the  potent  spiritualities, 
which  a  materialistic  age  may  slight  but 
cannot  put  by. 

Amiel  was  a  religious  genius,  combining 
the  humility  of  a  saint  with  the  subtlety  of 
a  philosopher  and  the  culture  of  an  accom- 
plished scholar: 

To  see  ail  things  in  Godj  to  make  of  one's 
own  life  a  journey  towards  the  ideal;    to  live 


•  Tba  ytmnua  /Mimt  at  Henri  FiMtrk  Aik 
Iitcd  wilh  in  IntndDctioD  and  Notu  by  Mn. 
Wud.    UHmiDan  A  Co.    U-y 


immortal  joy  which  is  the 
heritsge  of  the  true' Christian.  .  .  .  The  eternal 
'"  '  -~  the  fntare  life;  it  is  life  in  bamiony 
lie  order  of  tUngs  —  life  in  God.  We 
1  to  look  upon  lim 
of  eternity,  as  an  nndalation  in  tbe  o 
being.  To  live  so  as  to  keep  this  c< 
of  oars  in  perpetual  relation  with  the  eternal  it 
to  be  wise;  ta  live  io  as  to  personify  and  em- 
body the  eternal  is  to  be  religious. 

Here  sounds  the  characteristic  note  of 
mysticism,    one    of  the    high  types  of  re- 
ligious feeling.    Amiel  has  written  on  the 
prodigious  themes  of  mystical  thought  with 
intense  beauty  of  spirit  which  it  is  hard 
believe  has  more  than  a  few  times  been 
surpassed  in  human  literature.     He  was  not 
a  Christian,  if  belief  in  technical  dcq^a, 
iracle,  and  tradition  make  the  Christian; 
but  he  was  profoundly  a  Christian  if  inex- 
tinguishable admiration  and  love  for  Jesus 
of  Nasareth  make  a  man  snch: 

Hnmanity  tnusl  have  a  worship,  and  all  thing* 
considered,  is  not  the  Christian  religion  the  best 
11^  those  which  have  existed  on  a  large 
scale  r  The  religion  of  ain,  of  repentance,  and 
reconciliation  —  the  religion  d[  the  new  birth 
and  of  eternal  life  —  is  not  a  religion  to  be 
In  spite  of  all  the  atierrations 
of  fanaticism,  all  the  saperstiiions  of  formalism, 
all  the  ugly  superstructures  of  hypocrisy,  all  the 
fantastic  poerilitici  of  theology,  the  gospel  has 
modified  the  world  and  consoled  mankind. 
Christian  humanity  is  not  much  better  than 
■nity,  but  it  would  be  much  worse 
religion,  and  without  thli  religion. 
I  religion  propcnet  an  ideal  and  a  model ; 
the  Christian  ideal  is  sublime,  and  its  model 
of  a  divine  beauty.  We  may  hold  aloof  from 
the  churches,  and  yet  bow  ourselves  before 
Jesua  We  may  be  suspicious  of  the  clergy, 
and  refuse  to  have  anything  to  do  with  cate- 
chisms, and  yet  love  the  Holy  and  the  Just,  who 
came  to  save  and  not  to  curse.  Jesus  will  al- 
ways supply  us  wilh  the  l>est  criticium  of  Chris- 
tianity, and  when  Christianity  has  passed  away 
the  religion  of  Jesus  will  in  all  probability  sur- 
've.  After  Jesus  as  God  we  shall  come  Iwck 
faith  in  the  God  of  Jesos. 
We  would  like  to  quote  further,  but  we 
trust  we  have  extracted  enough  to  send 
than  a  few  readers  to  this  rare  book. 
There  is  spread  over  much  of  it  the  shadow 
of  Amiel's  exceeding  melancholy  and  self- 
questioning,  living,  as  he  seemed  to  live. 
Yet  this  Journal  is  a  book  des- 
tined to  perpetuate  his  name  for  genera- 
tions. Had  Arthur  Hugh  Clough  kept  a 
diary  of  his  inward  life  it  would  probably 
have  been  much  like  this  one.  Those  who 
best  appreciate  the  cry  of  that  unique  poet 
will  most  surely  "find"  Amiel;  but  his 
message  is  for  all  contemplative  minds 
of  this  doubtful  century,  "  The  force  of 
things,"  says  Mrs.  Ward,  "  is  against 
tkt  ceriatH  ptepU^''  The  youmal  of  this 
questioner  who  was  not  forsaken  by  the 
purest  spirit  of  faith  will  aid,  we  trust, 
many  seekers  after  truth  to  light  and  peace. 


pagan 


—  Mr.  W.  H.  Bishop  begins  his  new  aerial  story. 
Tie  Coldrn  yuilici,  in  the  May  number  of  the   ' 
Atlantic.    A  sketch  by  Miss  Sarah  Orne  Jewett, 
entitled  Marsh  Rosemary,  is  a  farther  attraction 
of  that  issue.    We  learn  from  the  RUhmond 


i886.] 


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State  thiLt  "A  Brother  to  Drugoiu,"  a  abort  storr 
which  will  be  remembered  as  harins  recently 
appeared  in  the  Allantic,  is  written  bj  Miia 
Am^lie  Rive*  of  Richmond. 

THE  OOMOOBD  SCHOOL  OH  GOETHE.* 

LAST  summer  the  Concord  School  of 
Philosophy  let  itself  loose  upon  Goethe. 
The  larger  portioo  of  the  strangely-mixed 
result  is  BOW  before  the  profane  world,  a 
smaller  portion  being  reserved  for  publica- 
tion in  other  forms.  Of  the  latter,  Prof. 
Hewitt's  Goethe  in  Weimar  should  have 
had  a  substitute  in  this  volume  to  make 
deserve  the  first  part  of  its  tide.  On  the 
biographical  side,  the  eicellent  introductory 
lecture  by  Prof.  White  on  Goethe's  Youth 
has  no  supplement  in  the  papers  that  follow ; 
as  a  biography  "the  volume  is  also  inade- 
quate in  neglecting  all  detail  of  the  scieatiRc 
activity  of  the  great  German.  Of  the  other 
lectures  delivered,  but  not  here  printed, 
regrets  that  Mr.  Snider's  treatment  of  Wtl- 


helm  Meisttr  had  not  filled  the  place  of  his 
somewhat  superfluous  History  of  the  Faust 
Poem,  and  that  room  could  not  have  been 
found  for  Mr.  Ernst's  lecture  on  Goethe's 
Style,  but  the  addition  of  Dr.  Soldan's  dis- 
cussion of  bis  relation  to  Spinoza  and  Kant 
would  have  been  a  carrying  of  coals  to 
Newcaatie.  Of  Concord  philosophy  and  so- 
called  philosophical  criticism,  the  suffering 
readers  of  this  volume  as  it  is  now  made  up 
will  not  complain  of  any  lack. 

These  lectures  may  be  divided  into  two 
parts,  the  first  embracing  the  addresses 
given  by  the  lecturers  from  the  exoteric 
world  of  literature,  the  second  embracing 
the  deliverances  of  the  esoteric  circle  of 
«  philosophers  "  which  has  conferred  upon 
Concord  its  peculiar,  latest  renown.  While 
we  may  hesiUte  a  little  as  to  the  classifica- 
tion of  one  or  two  of  the  writers,  we  may 
■ay  that  the  first  class  Includes  Rev.  Dra. 
Hedge  and  Bartol,  and  Prof.  White,  with 
Messrs.  Albee,  Sanborn,  and  Partridge; 
the  second  includes  Prof.  Harris,  Mrs. 
Cheney,  Mrs,  Howe,  Mrs.  Sherman,  and 
Messrs.  Davidson,  Emery,  and  Snider.  The 
estimates  of  the  works  of  Goethe  we  have 
from  our  first  class  are  proper  literary 
judgments  and  appredationa ;  those  from 
our  second  class  are  a  disagreeable 
pound  of  literature  and_"philosophy," 
elements  which  would  much  better  have 
been  kept  apart,  while  the  latter  of  the  two 
would  have  vastly  improved  the  volume  by 
its  entire  absence.  For  Mr,  Albee  has  well 
said  of  Goethe  that  "  the  limit  of  the  surren- 
der of  hb  mind  and  interest  was  reached 
when  the  method,  the  hovi,  of  nature  had 
been  reached,  and  when  the  next  step  would 
involve  a  recourse  to  metaphysics  to  resolve 
the  where/ore."    In  treating  such  a  genius 


no  way  could  be  worse  titan  the  pseudo-pro- 
found Hegelian  way  which  more  than  half 
the  Concord  lecturers  followed,  never  satis- 
ask  and  answer  the  artist's  question 
of  the  hovf,  but  wrapt  in  fruitless  and  alto- 
gether misplaced  questioning  of  the  why 
and  the  wherefore  of  the  metaphysician. 
"  1  prefer,"  said  Goethe  himself,  "  that  the 
power  which  works  in  and  through  me 
should  be  hidden  from  me.  I  have  never 
thought  about  thought.  I  have  metar 
physics  enough  to  last  me  for  life." 
Had  his  shade  been  compelled  to  listen  to 
Messrs,  Harris,  Snider,  Emery,  et  al.,  de- 
scribing how  "the  beautiful  is  produced  by 
putting  the  finite  under  the  form  of  the  infi- 
nite," how  the  Faust  legend  was  "  the  ger- 
minal dot  of  his  being,"  and  how  "love  it- 
self has  a  moral  significance  only  in  so  far 
as  it  is  distributed  in  accordance  with  the 
recognized  exigencies  of  being,"  etc.,  Goethe 
would  surely  have  felt  himself  supplied 
metaphysics  enough  for  eternity. 

The  ladies'  contributions  begin  and  end 
in  ecstasies;  of  any  real  criticism  there  is 
a  distressing  lack.  JDai  Ztitlich-^eibliche 
did  itself  littie  credit  at  Concord  when  Mrs. 
Howe  s^d  of  religion  in  our  day  that 
"  Nature  and  she  embrace  with  one  hand 
and  aspire  with  the  other"  (our  own  poor 
artistic  imagination  persists  in  asking  how 
this  remarkable  tableau  is  to  be  conceived, 
of  an  embracing  with  one  hand  and  an 
aspiring  with  the  other) ;  or  when  with  very 
bad  taste  she  introduced  Miss  E.  5.  Phelps 
as  a  sckotu  Seelt;  when  Mrs.  Sherman 
eulogized  "that  renunciation  which  rec. 
ognizes  the  claims  of  children  as  para- 
to  all  other  considerations;"  when 
Mrs.  Cheney  doted  upon  Werther's  Lotte 
unanalyzable  "wonderful  creation  of 

(When  Wenber  ni  boma  before  hei  on  i 


•TleLlIe»ndGeiiiun>f  Goelbe.    Lecliir»  »1  the  Con- 
surd  School  ot  PhiloHph]r.    Edited  by  F.  B.  Su 


while  she  set  aside  Goethe's  father  as 
of  no  particular  account  (was  that  Lebeti 
Emtt^f  Juhrtn  which  the  poet  confessed 
came  to  him  from  that  side  of  the  house 
a  mere  trifle  then?),  and  when  she  dis- 
played her  qualifications  as  a  psychologist 
in  the  statement  that  "  Woman  considers 
things  in  their  relations;  this  is  the  qual- 
ity of  judgment  which  we  recognize  as 
spedaUy  womanly."  Will  Mrs.  Cheney 
kindly  inform  us  how  the  poor  male  sex 
considers  things,  if  not  in  their  relations, 
and  how  it  is  that  natural  science,  sup- 
posed to  be  mainly  a  product  of  the 
male  mind,  has  been  so  generally  supposed 
be  a  knowledge  of  related  things  f  Mrs. 
Cheney's  curious  Trinity  of  One,  Two,  and 
Iting  Third,  and  her  "duality  in  the 
original  spirit  out  of  which  comes  the  crea- 
tive energy,  manifested  in  the  universe,"  we, 
belonging  to  the  inferior  sex,  will  humbly 
allow  we  cannot  succeed  in  bringing 
relations  to  a  rational  theology. 
The  Concord  lecturers  who  have  written 


of  Goethe  from  a  literary  standpoint  give 
this  volume  its  real  worth.  Dr.  Hedge,  in- 
deed, has  simply  revised  from  a  German 
authority  the  best  interpretation  of  Das 
MShreken,  which  Matthew  Arnold  has  char- 
acterised none  too  severely  as  "  a  piece  of 
solemn  inanity,"  and  he  wastes  no  enthu- 
siasm over  it  Mr.  Sanborn,  in  his  rather 
rambling  paper  on  Goethe's  Relation  to  Eng- 
lish Literature,  which  has,  as  he  confesses, 
real  subject,  makes  some  eminently  just 
and  keen  remarks  on  the  first  part  oE  Fmut, 
the  contrast  between  Goethe's  genius 
and  that  of  English  poets  as  a  class.  Dr. 
Bartol's  characteristically  brilliant  paper  is 
Ear  too  severe  on  Schiller,  but  its  two  pages 
on  Homer,  Dante,  Shakespeare,  and  Milton 
in  contrast  with  Goethe  are  very  good.  Mr. 
Albee  on  Goethe's  Self-cuiture  is  discriminat- 
ing while  admiring,  but  Mr.  Partridge's  paper 
on  the  poet  as  a  playwright,  though  follow- 
ing one  special  line,  is  the  most  complete 
and  well-reasoned  piece  of  criticism  in  the 
whole  volume.  It  is  based  upon  sound  prin- 
ciples of  dramatic  art,  and  it  correctly  esti- 
mates Goethe,  considered  as  a  playwright,  as 
because  he  fundamentally  lacked 
the  dramatic  sense,  constructive  power,  pas- 
sionate expression  and  vigorous  action,  and 
unable  to  deal  with  the  legitimate  rules 
of  dramatic  art.  His  services  to  the  cause  of 
the  theater  in  Germany  were  yet  of  the  high- 

>ur  readers  will  perceive  that  we  esteem 
it  the  proper  task  of  American  lecturers  on 
Goethe  to  preserve  a  sober  mind,  to  judge  the 
greatest  of  literary  Germans  by  the  canons 
of  literature,  and  to  avoid  the  fanatical  eu- 
logy of  him  now  fashionable  in  his  own  land. 
We  should  admire  him  most  of  all  as  the 
wisest  of  modem  men.  His  letters,  his 
journals,  his  conversations,  reveal,  as  Mat- 
thew Arnold  says,  "  the  truly  great,  the  truly 
significant  Goethe."  Of  this  side  of  the 
master-spirit  of  our  century  these  lectures 
have  alt<%ether  too  little  to  say. 


HITTELL'S  HI8T0ET  OF  OAUTOEHIA.* 

A  THOROUGH  history  of  the  Gold 
State  has  been  long  a  desideratum, 
for  all  that  was  known  of  historical  events 
thin  that  territory  had  to  be  gathered 
from  biographic  sketches,  travelers'  man- 
uals, travelers'  and  pioneers'  memoirs  and 
descriptions,  the  mission  archives,  and  a 
few  published  State  documents.  This  de- 
ficiency has  been  supplied  almost  simulta- 
neously by  Hitlell's  volumes  and  by  the 
more  extensive  work  of  H.  H.  Bancroft, 
the  latter  bearing  largely  a  documentary 
character.  Hit  tell  treats  the  history  of 
Alta  California  and  of  the  Peninsula  of 
California  conjointiy,  although  the  two  sub- 
jects need  not  necessarily  be  put  in  so 
close    a   connection.     The  period  of  dis- 


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THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[April  17, 


co«ry  for  the  former  lasted  over  two  hun- 
dred years  down  to  the  year  1768,  when 
the  energetic  Father  Innipero  Serra  was 
commUsioned  to  found  Franciscan  missions 
upon  this  promising  stretch  of  the  Amer- 
ican mainland.  With  these  missions  an 
agricultural  settling  in  the  country  took 
place,  and  here  commenced  the  real  history 
of  California.  Numerous  missions  were 
organized  by  Serra  among  the  Indians  south 
of  the  Sacramento  River  and  the  Golden 
Gate  until  he  died  in  1784;  but  his  work 
went  on  bearing  fruit  unlil  Mexico,  of  which 
the  Californias  formed  a  province,  freed 
itself  from  the  Spanish  supremacy  (il 
The  ruin  of  the  missions,  which  were  also 
extended  to  the  north  of  the  Straits  of 
Karquines,  was  sealed  only  fourteen  years 
later,  when  treason  on  the  part  of  the  cleri- 
cals and  spoliation  on  the  part  of  the  State 
brought  about  their  secularization.  The 
neophyte  Indians  had  always  been  kept  in 
awe  and  subjection  and  never  had  become 
self-supporting ;  they  therefore  scattered  in 
all  direcUous  and  no  practical  result  of  the 
missions  is  at  present  apparent  The  real 
cause  of  this  Hittell  states  as  follows : 


admissiiJn  into  the  Union  (1850).     Here  the 

'k  ends,  leaving  the  development  of  the 

past  generation  perhaps  for  another  volume. 

Very  interesting  glimpses  are  afforded  in 
passing  of  the  domestic  and  social  condition 
and  habits  of  the  people  at  different  limes, 
of  the  missions  and  the  missionaries,  of 
the  physical  features  and  resources  of  the 
country,  of  its  natural  history,  and  of  the 
dramatic  scenes  accompanying  the  discov- 
ery of  gold. 

There  is  a  good  analytical  table  of  con- 
tents, but  DO  index. 

Mr.  Hittell's  style  is  clear,  attractive,  and 
well  adapted  to  the  subject;  extensive  re- 
search is  evident  from  the  quotations  made, 
on  the  whole  the  work  deserves  to  be 
classed  among  the  best  monuments  of  mod- 
American  historic  literature. 


The  work  of  the  miuionaries  looked  only  to 
the  aggrandisement  of  a  system  and  dominion 
that  had  long  outlived  their  uselulness  and  did 
not  contemplate  the  progress  of  tiue  civilization 
<P-  508). 

The  Spanish  administration  and  the  char- 
acter of  the  governors,  whose  later  resi- 
dence was  at  Monterey,  is  sketched  at 
length  in  the  first  volume,  and  forms  very 
attractive  reading.  The  first  governor  was 
Portoli  (1767-1770);  he  was  succeeded  by 
Barri,  de  Neve,  Fages,  Romeu,  and  a  few 
others;  when  under  Lola  the  Spanish  yoki 
was  thrown  off  by  the  war  of  Mexican  in 
dependence,  and  at  this  period  the  volume 
ends.  The  narrative  is  interwoven  with 
sketchings  of  the  Spanish  eiploring  expe- 
ditions to  the  northwest  coasts,  the  fur 
trade  there  and  its  various  developments 
we  also  find  sketches  of  the  Californian 
Indians,  especially  of  the  coast,  their  mythi 
sorcerers,  occupations,  wars,  migrations,  and 
other  peculiarities.  Too  much  prominence, 
we  think,  is  given  to  the  myths  of  the  Cap- 
istraoo  Indians,  for  they  are  Shoshonees 
and  therefore  intruders  into  the  countries 
held  by  them  in  California. 

In  the  second  volume  we  have  an 
of  the  Mexican  Governors,  of  whom  there 
was  a  large  succession,  treated 
eighteen  or  twenty  chapters;  then  the  story 
of  Fremont's  entry  and  the  beatings  of  thr 
Mexican  War,  resulting  in  the  raising  of 
the  Stars  and  Stripes  at  Monterey  and 
San  Francisco;  and  finally,  in  fourteen 
chapters,  the  history  of  American  occupa- 
tion and  development,  nnder  such  pioneers 
as  Sloat,  Kearney,  Stockton,  and  Mason, 
the  Gold  Discovery,  the  settlement  of  land- 
titles,  the  constitutional  convention  and 
organization  of  the  State    (1849X  and    its 


MIBOB  FIOTIOH. 


It  may  be  said  of  some  books  as  of  some  1 
that  they  have  a  "kind  heart  beneath  a  rough 
,"  An  Irttt  CrowH  is  such  a  work.  The 
author  (or  authors,  for  unless  we  are  mistaken, 
than  one  had  a  hand  in  its  composition)  is 
rely  trying  to  set  forth  in  the  form  of  fiction 
the  dangers  to  which  this  country  is  subjected 
from  capitalists,  monopolies,  railroads,  Wall 
Street,  mines,  politics,  and  gambling.  As 
port  of  some  Bureau  of  Statistics,  the  siie  of  the 
book  cannot  be  complained  of ;  but  for  a  work  of 
the  imagination,  its  nearly  six  hundred  pages 
rather  formidable.  It  is  an  "  o'er  true "  I 
Sincerity  is  not  the  only  requisite  for  one  ' 
would  instruct  hy  means  of  a  novel;  he  must 
serve  the  unities,  and  not  betray  too  plainly  that 
he  is  not  to  the  manner  born  in  describing  the 
habits  of  the  very  wealthy.  *  Being  informed  that 
the  book  is  representative  of  a  class  of  writing* 
which  have  been  circulating  widely  in  the  West, 
and  are  designed  to  rouse  the  "plain  people  "  to 
a  sense  of  the  dangers  which  menace  from  cer- 
tain social  and  political  factors,  we  have  been  at 
some  pains  to  read  it,  even  to  the  tabulated  sta- 
tistics at  the  end.  The  case  is  made  out,  and  in 
a  somewhat  uncouth  way  strongly  put,  that  ex- 
cessive wealth  in  the  hands  of  the  unprincipled 
few  is  a  serious  danger.  It  may  be  said  without 
risk  of  dispute  that  fiction  is  not  a  successful 
medium  through  which  to  proclaim  reforms, 
though  such  books  as  Undi  Tom's  Cabin,  Lti 
Mislrablit,  and  A  FnoPi  Errand  are  brilliant  ex 
ceptiona.  Particularly  does  the  novel  of  purpose 
fail,  when  it  labors  under  the  charge  of  illiteracy: 
an  honest  motive  is  a  sufficient  excuse  for  invad- 
ing almost  any  domain  of  letters,  except  that  of 
poetry  and  fiction. 

Without  BUmiiA.  Today's  Problem.  By 
Mrs.  J.  H.  Walworth.     [Cassell  &  Co.    fi.15.] 

Were  miheut  Blemish  a  far  abler  or  more  in- 
teresting txiok,  it  should  not  be  commended,  for 
its  tone  is  low.  Two  young  girls  are  adopted 
from  an  orphan  asylum,  one  of  whom  is  known 
to  have  a  strain  of  negio  blood.  The  haughty 
son  of  the  inevitable  patrician  Southerner  (thi 
scene  is  in  the  South],  falls  in  love  with  the 
tainted  one,  and  when  he  finds  out  the  truth  he 


sadly  bat  promptly  puts  her  avray,  and  she  goes 
into  voluntary  exile  to  do  good  among  her  people. 
It  seems,  however,  that  the  other  orphan  was  the 
blemished  "  one,  and  so  the  haughty  son  con- 
;ats  to  accept  the  love  of  the  rejected  lady  once 
lore.  She  Is  no  more  pure,  lovely,  01  womanly 
than  she  was  before  the  truth  was  known,  and 
hence  we  say  without  further  dispute,  that  the 
moral  tone  is  despicable.  Mrs.  Walworth,  too, 
we  regret  to  say,  is  blasphemous,  though  not  in- 
tentionally so  i  in  pressing  her  hobby,  she  says  : 
What  God  has  put  asunder,  let  no  man  join." 
If  such  is  the  divine  decree,  man  has  been  very 
busy  during  the  past  three  hundred  years  in  cer- 
tain portions  of  this  country  disobeying  it.  Does 
Mrs.  Walworth  mean  that  it  is  only  the  legiti- 
macy of  the  union  of  two  races  to  which  she  ob- 
jects }  This  union  has  not  been  unproductive  of 
good  results  even  in  literature]  in  the  veins  of 
Alexander  Dumas  run  equal  portions  of  white 
and  the  hated  blood,  and  we  do  not  consider  that 
Mrs.  Walworth  possesses  his  ability.  At 
>  we  despair  of  ever  seeing  a  good  novel 
from  the  South;  Mr.  Cable,  who  promised  so 
much,  has  been  practically  ostracized  lor  presum- 
ing to  differ  from  those  who  think  with  Mrs. 
Walworth.  No  advance  seems  to  have  been 
made  on  the  old  anti-btUant  tediousness.  The 
ime  tiresome  contemplation  of  past  or  present 
randeur  ;  the  lack  of  variety  of  social  life,  its 
restraint,  its  colorlessness,  all  turning  upon  a 
ceaseless  and  unlnterestir.g  social  warfare.  It 
ought  to  be  said  of  Mrs.  Walworth  that  she 
plainly  believes  that  she  is  very  liberal  and  gra- 
cious, and  that  she  thinks  she  is  grappling  in  the 
right  way  with  a  tough  problem.  She  is  incor- 
rigibly honest,  "according  to  her  light;"  but 
civilization  has  agreed  to  ignore  race  preju- 
dice ;  the  world  uses  electricity  nowadays,  and 
people  like  Mrs.  Walworth  grope  after  truth  with 
horn  lantern. 


Like  Wilhoal  Bli«iish,  Mr.  Keenan's  book 
handles  a  race  problem;  this  time  it  is  a  story  of 
the  first  setting  in  of  the  tide  of  Irish  immigra- 
tion to  America.  The  author  seeks  to  smooth 
away  feuds  and  raze  barriers  of  prejudice,  and 
not  to  indulge  in  ethnic  feuds.  It  is  sad,  distress- 
ingly sad  ;  what  tale  of  guilty  love  is  not  bound 
to  lie  GO?  Yet  it  is  purely  and  interestingly  told, 
with  many  gleams  of  true  humor  to  relieve  the 
always  impending  gloom.  Although  Mr.  Keenan's 
style  is  vivid,  and  not  at  all  commonplace,  there 
is  something  at  fault  in  his  local  coloring,  and  he 
is  describing  a  social  life  in  New  York  State,  the 
scene  of  his  drama,  which  must  have  existed  in 
the  last  century  rather  than  forty  years  ago. 
The  two  children,  Denny  and  Norab,  are  beauti- 
ful characters,  but  alas  I  where  shall  we  find  their 
counterparts  in  this  sinful  world.  Mr.  Keenan  is 
plainly  an  idealist,  but  he  should  reflect  that  even 
little  Irish  children  have  some  faults.  Nothing 
could  be  better  or  truer  than  the  indignant  de- 
scription of  the  woes  and  torments  to  which  the 
patient  Deimy  is  subjected  at  the  hands  of  his 
school-boy  tormenters.  The  almost  unvarying 
meanness  and  tyranny  of  boys  towards  the  weak 
and  despised  is  startlingly  teal  in  his  telling. 
Tht  Alitns  can  be  recommended  to  parents  and 
school-teachers  as  a  book  to  increase  their  hu- 
manity. The  character  of  Mrs.  Worchester,  the 
patrician   mother,  who  commits  enormities    of 


l8S6.] 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


erime  to  keep  her  son  from  the  wronged  Norah, 
is  ECarcelj  human  in  its  hatefutnesa,  but  the 
novel  reader  hu  long  ago  leained  that  the  patri- 
cian mother  of  romance  is  rarely  anything  short 
of  a  fiend. 

Ftr  Maimies  Saki.  A  Tale  of  Love  and  Dyna- 
mite. By  Gram  Allen.  [D.  Appleton  ft  Co. 
Paper,  15  centj.] 


Lately 
novel  by  Mr.  Grant  Allen.  Of  his  Fer  Maimie'i 
Sakt  nothing  good  whatever  can  be  said.  It  is 
flashy,  coarse,  and  even  ungrammatical.  There 
is  no  attractive  character,  save  possibly  a  female 
Nihilist,  who  compasses  the  death  ol  two  fellow 
conspirators  under  a  false  impiession  as  to  their 
fidelity.  Mr.  Allen  remarks  somewhere  in  his 
narrative  that  "  it  is  the  pressing  necessities  of 
irife  and  children  that  drive  us  all  to  worship  sor- 
didly at  the  base  shrine  of  hateful  Mammon." 
If  dire  need  has  compelled  this  author  of  a  num- 
ber of  excellent  and  decent  books,  to  sinlc  so  fat 
below  his  own  level,  we  wish  him  no  belter  for- 
tune than  that  his  wife  and  children  may  never 
chance  to  see  a  copy  of  Far  Maimii'i  Sait, 
Maimie  may  be  bricfiy  desetibed  as  evit  undeGled ; 
she  is  "  unconventionally  "  reared  by  an  atheist 
father  ;  she  soon  learns  to  sit  on  a  cliff,  and  kiss 
an  Oxford  tutor,  who  at  last  tells  her  he 
stop  it  because  be  is  married  to  a  bar-maid.  "  My 
darling  I  my  darling  I  —  is  that  alH"  cried  Ibe 
child  of  nature.  She  goes  to  London  with 
painter  and  his  wife,  and  siia  to  him  as  Beatrice 
Cend;  he  kisses  her  to  get  artistic  effects, 
whereat  she  assumes  a  "dclicioualy  dreamy, 
voluptuous  attitude."  His  wife  straightway 
marries  her  lo  a  compounder  of  dynamite,  who 
loves  Maimie  dearly ;  but  his  love  is  not  properly 
returned  because  his  kisses  are  nut  what  she  has 
been  used  to.  Haimie  takes  a  walk, 
Ozffird  tutor,  the  best  kisser,  who  has  succeeded 
in  killing  off  the  barmaid  with  brandy ;  Maimii 
returns  home  and  shoots  her  husband  through 
the  lUngs  with  some  of  his  own  dynamite.  He 
walks  off  to  a  hospital  and  plays  dead  long 
enough  to  let  Maimie  marry  the  tutor;  he  returns 
finally  to  the  scene  of  bliss  to  say  ungrammati- 
cally, "  The  man  who  died  was  not  me,"  and  to 
save  bis  wife  from  suspicion  of  murder;  he  then 
stalks  away  to  drown  himself,  after  kissing 
Maimie  for  the  last  time,  at  her  personal  request. 
This  precious  nastiness  was  written  by  an  intelli- 
gent and  reputable  Englishman,  who  has  de- 
meaned himself  by  such  a  task. 

By 
5J 

Mr.  Grant's  tight  though  pleasant  humor  is 
better  displayed  in  the  realm  of  faerii  and  the 
impossible  than  in  more  ambitious  flights.  He 
is  still  the  social  satirist,  but  he  gains  by  not 
being  loo  much  in  earnest.  The  "Knave  of 
hearts  "  is  a  young  genlleman  —  from  Boston  — 
to  whom  his  greal'great  aunt  gives  a  mysterious 
trinket,  which  is  shaped  like  a  heart,  and  so  plas- 
tic ibat  an  accompanying  lancet  can  detach  por- 
tions as  requited.  Armed  with  this  marvel,  the 
hero  meets  in  bis  travels  various  charming  ladies, 
who  all  secure  parts  of  the  heart, 
nothing  of  it  is  lefL  "  Sick  of  love,"  like  Solomon 
of  old,  the  Knave  repairs  lo  Bar  Harbor,  that 
paradise  of  the  Lampoon  school  of  which  Mr. 
Grant  iachlef,  and  there  meets  the  lovely  descend- 
tQl  of  Michael  Westering,  a  piratical  geotlentan 


once  beloved  by  the  great-great  aunt, 
beauty  has  also  lost,  and  in  a  similar  way, 

>n  heart  Thus  this  couple  so  evidently 
adapted  to  each  other  are  fated  to  part  because 
they  have  squandered  away  their  love.  Obvi- 
ously it  is  asatire  on  the  male  flirt.    Mr.  Grant's 

is  cultivated  and  agreeable,  yet  it  may  be 
compared  to  that  of  no  contemporary;  seriously 
enough  it  suggests,  at  times,  Thomas  Amory's 
John  Bunclt  —  a  long -forgot  ten  novel  of  which 
very  likely  Mr.  Grant  never   heard.    The  letter 

ige  168,  supposed  to  have  been  written  about 

the  year  1S20,  is  expressed   in  a  fashion   which 

vailed  not  less  than  one  hundred  and  seventy 


This   put  \\ 


I  the  hands  of  a  young  lawyer,  and 
the  story  of  his  finding  Mrs.  Peixada  and  find- 
ing her  without  knowing  her,  marrying  her,  in 
fact,  makes  up  the  book.  The  mystery  of  the 
plot  is  of  the  thinnest  quality,  and  subjects  ihe 
reader's  curiosity  to  no  cruel  lexis.  The  famous 
Nathan  murder  near  Madison  Square,  in  New 
York,  a  few  years  ago,  probably  hid  something 
do  with  the  "  local  color,"  only  there  is  a 
change  of  mixture.  The  looseness  which  char- 
izes  criminal  procedure  in  New  York  is 
ively  illnstrated ;  as  well  as  the  ease  in 
al  with  which  novels  may  now  be  written 
and  printed  there.  But  we  do  not  suppose  thai 
book  is  seriouily  offered  as  an  evidence 
that  New  York  has  become  the  "literary  cen- 
:r."  The  sort  of  ability  which  it  indicates  lies 
good  way  out  on  the  circumference. 


Why  are  English  novelists,  when  they  touch 
on  politics,  so  apt  to  "  go  to  pieces  "  artistically  F 
Mr.  Sturgis,  who  is  no  doubt  a  conservative,  is 
telling  in  this  admirable  little  story  of  the  for- 
(anes  and  misfortunes  of  a  young  radical,  who 
turns  out  SO  conservative  as  to  become  ■  liberal. 
Nobody,  not  even  an  American  reader,  will  ao 
cept  this  picture  of  English  radicalism  as  faith- 
ful. As  well  make  a  Parliamentary  Companion 
out  of  Blackmore's  absurd  Tsmmy  Ufi 
Otherwise  yaka  Maidmtnt  is  excellent.  Ji 
selfishness  is  enormous,  but  not  beyond  va 
He  is  a  sort  of  English  Numa  Roavustan,  though 
not  so  coarse,  nor  nearly  so  clever  ;  both  ar 
solutely  and  irreclaimably  selfish ;  of  the  two 
perhaps  John  Maidmcnt  would  be  thought  Ihe 
worst  man ;  he  had  less  of  the  flesh  but  a  cooler 
head.  The  reiemblan<«,  however,  between  Dau- 
del'i  genius  and  Mr,  Sturgls's  cleverness  does 
not  extend  far.  It  is  pleasant  to  speak  of  a  won- 
derful  ease,  at  times,  in  the  latter's  workmanship  ; 
though  the  movement  is  not  seldom  languid, 
there  is  often  a  clearness  and  soft  finish  of  Style, 
which  makes  a  French  novel,  when  it  is  really 
good,  almost  peifection.  Chapter  nine,  in  which 
the  hero  takes  his  first  dinner  in  "high  life,' 
smooth  and  delicate  bit  of  writing. 


An  elderly  man  dies,  leaving  an  unscrupulous 
Ife  and  a  married  daughter.  Just  before  his 
death  he  made  a  will  favorable  to  the  latter. 
His  widow  and  the  usual  "pettifogging  lawyer" 
try  to  secure  an  award  in  addition  to  the  pro- 
vision for  her  by  will.  This  wicked  scheme  is 
overthrown  by  another  lawyer,  virtue  triumphs 
while  vice  lurks  vanquished  in  daik  places.  It 
every-day  legal  incident,  told  in  a  tedious, 
snuffy  way;  "dulness  raised  to  the  precision 
icience,"  as  Mr.  Lowell  said  of  Gower. 


The  l^dy  who  gives  her  name  to  this  story 
a  name  the  pronunciation  of  which  requires 
special  note  of  information  to  the  public  —  is 
Jewess  of  New  York  who  had  killed  her  hus- 
band and   his  coachman  (we  believe  it  was)  in 
what  proved  to  be  self-defence  from  a  conspir- 
acy, and  had  been  acquitted  on  the  strictly  New 
York  ground  of   moral   insanity.      Afterwards, 
when   her    husband's  will  turned  up,   she    was 
wanted  by  his  legal   heirs  with  a  view  l< 
restoration    of    his    property.      The   case    was 


I   Wiek.    By  Mrs.  L.  B.  Walford. 
tCo.    #1.00.1 

Mrs.  Walford's  History  ef  a  Wat  is  of  too 
slight  a  teiluie  to  demand  very  serious  criticism. 
It  is  the  story  of  a  girl  named  Madeline  Seaton, 
who  lives  with  an  ancle  in  (he  Highlands  of 
Scotland,  and  is,  In  fact,  the  stock  "  orphan 
cousin "  of  accustomed  romance.  The  reader 
anticipates  in  advance  every  particular  of  her 
behavior,  how  she  is  kept  back  from  the  ball, 
at  which  she  hopes  to  meet  her  undeclared 
lover,  by  the  petty  jealousies  and  rivalry  of  her 
less  beaulful  cousins;  how  she  weeps  in  private 
and  smiles  cheerily  in  public;  how  she  lets  her- 
self be  "  put  upon  "  without  protest,  and  bean 
ihe  blame  which  is  unjustly  cast  upon  her  with- 
out any  attempt  at  explanation  or  sc1f*defencc. 
This  is  all  as  it  should  be,  but  to  add  to  the 
complications  of  her  lot,  Mrs.  Walford  has 
invented  a  deformed  cousin,  who  is  a  monsler 
of  moral  malignity,  and  who  revenges  Madeline's 
refusal  lo  supply  him  with  brandy,  for  which 
he  has  a  diseased  craving,  by  all  manner  of  ill 
trealmenl  and  torture.  The  "  stock  orphan  " 
bears  all  these  with  infinite  sweetness,  in  the 
end  just  escaping  with  her  life  from  Ihe  mach- 
inations of  this  infamous  yuung  ruffian,  while 
he  ^y  way  of  expiation  is  left  to  be  burned  lo 
death,  a  melodramatic  ending  worthy  of  a  fourth 
class  theater.  We  cannot  help  suspecting  that 
Jlu  History  of  a  Wick  is  an  indiscretion  of 
Mrs.  Walford's  youlh,  revised  to  meet  the  de- 
mand of  a  later  day  for  her  writings. 


days  Scribner  &  Welford  will  pub- 
lish  the  American  edition  of  an  extremely  inter, 
ng  book  by  G.  A.  Farini,  the  famous  English 
wman,    describing    the    Kalahari    Ucserl    of 
ith  Africa.     Mr.  Farini's  Itaveling  companion 
i  that   mysterious  person^c   known   to  the 
Id  as  "Lulu,"  the  female  acrobat,  who  was 
shot  from  a  cannon  in  all  Ihe  civiliud  countries 
of  the  world.    "Lulu"  turned  out  to  be  a  very 
Ing    explorer,   and   as  an  enthusiastic  pho- 
tographer,   Mr.     Farini    brought    back    many 
prints.    The  author  was  led   lo  undertake  the 
journey  by  the  story  told  by  a  party  of  Bushmen 
whom   he  bad   in  his  show.     Aside  from   Ihe 
great  interest  of  Ihe  narrative,  the  book  is  valu- 
able in  that  it  sets  right  the  question  as  lo  the 
fertility  of  the  s^called  Kalahari   Desert.     So 
far  from  being  a  barren  land,  Mr.  Farini  shows 
it   to   consist   of   grass-covered   plains,   fertile 
and  forests  teeming  with  game. 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


[April  17, 


The  Literary  World. 


BOSTON,  APRIL  17,  IS86. 


CsllccHng  rkr*  boolii  Bud  f orgetten  aulbon  It  psr- 
hapiof  all  Ihe  collccllOK  roaoiai  the  moat  taallihia 
oaidty.  ThcnlimuchtstMuidforniechlDBUid 
cuijoua  baMlH.  The  chloa  li  acculonally  beauti- 
ful :  aod  the  beetlca  at  Iwt  are  dial).  But  ran 
tiookt  sow  are,  by  the  oalure  ol  the  caae,  worthleaa 
bookt;  and  their  rtiltyuauallycsnalBIa  In  thla,  that 
the  printer  made  a  hlunder  !a  the  text,  oi  that  they 
ceptlnaally  naMy  or  allly.— 


Han 


:   Tki  Claki  s/ B-da. 


THAOEESAT. 


THE  approachiog  "Thackeray  Carnival" 
ia  BostoD,  which  is  to  be  a  sort  of 
popular  illustration  bj  means  of  readings, 
tableaux,  and  the  like,  of  Thackeray's 
works,  directs  attention  anew  to  ooe  of 
the  marked  figures  among  modern  English 
men  of  letters.  Thackeray  is  Us  from 
being  forgotten,  bnt  deserves  to  be  bet- 
ter known.  If  the  literary  common  sense 
of  the  time  has  been  a  little  nncertain 
about  him,  the  delay  of  a  final  judgment  is 
likely  to  result  in  a  higher  estimate  rather 
than  a  lower.  His  originality  was  so  posi- 
tive, his  individuality  so  absolute,  his  powers 
were  so  varied  and  so  brilliant,  that  the 
more  he  is  known  the  more  he  will  be 
honored  and  admired.  At  many  points 
Thackeray  has  not  been  equaled,  and  at 
some  points  he  has  not  been  approached, 
by  any  English -writing  author  of  recent 
times. 

William  Makepeace  Thackeray  was  bom 
in  Calcutta  in  iSii,  and  died  in  London  in 
1863.  His  family  were  of  Yorkshire  origin. 
His  great-grandfather  was  a  Master  of  Har- 
row School.  His  father,  and  his  grandfather 
for  whom  he  was  named,  were  servants  of 
the  East  India  Company.  The  year  1817 
found  the  boy  and  bis  widowed  mother  re- 
turning to  England.  One  incident  related 
by  him  of  this  voyage  must  have  made  a 
deep  impression  upon  the  child  of  six  years : 
"  Our  ship  touched  at  an  island  on  the  way 
home  where  my  black  servant  took  me 
a  walk  over  rocks  and  hills,  till  we  passed 
a  garden  where  we  saw  a  man  walking. 
'That  is  he,'  said  the  black  man;  'that  is 
Bonaparte ;  he  eats  three  sheep  every  day, 
and  all  the  children  he  can  lay  hands  on.'" 

Thackeray's  school-boy  days  were  spent 
at  the  famous  Charterhonsc  in  London, 
which  he  fondly  returned  again  and  again 
in  bis  writings  in  after  years ;  his  Univer- 
sity years  at  Trinity  College,  Cambridge, 
where  he  did  not  take  his  degree.  In  1S30 
and  '31  he  was  one  of  a  rollicking  band  of 
English  students  at  Weimar,  where 
knew  the  Grand  Duke  and  the  Grand 
Duchess,  met  Goethe,  and  flourished  the 
sword  of  Schiller,  which  he  had  bought  as 
a  relic,  at  evening  entertainments  in  cos- 


tume. The  age  of  twenty^ine  brought  him 
a  fortune  of  jf  20,000,  and  gave  him  means 
for  several  years  of  travel  on  the  continent, 
but  the  fortune  presently  slipped  through 
bis  hands  in  unfortunate  speculations.  His 
lasting  fortune  was  of  a  higher  quality. 
For  a  time,  ambitious  of  being  an  artist, 
he  studied  art  at  Paris  and  Rome,  and  in 
1848,  having  returned  to  London,  was 
"called  "to  the  bar,  but  never,  we  believe, 
answered  the  summons  with  any  actual 
practice.  The  age  of  thirty  found  him 
fairly  embarked  on  the  uncertain  seas  of 
the  literary  life,  seas  over  which  he  was 
destined  to  make  a  prosperous  course  to 
the  haven  of  an  undying  fame. 

Thackeray  visited  the  East  in  1845  and 
the  United  States  in  1852  and  again  in  185J 
and  '6,  on  the  first  visit  Longfellow  going 
to  town  to  hear  him  on  Congreve  and  Addi- 
son, and  writing  in  bis  diary  of  bis  "  light 
graphic  lecture,"  and  his  "  soft,  deep,  sono- 
rous voice.'*  Lowell,  too,  gave  him  a  supper, 
with  Longfellow,  Felton,  Clough,  Dana,  Dr. 
Parsons,  Fields,  and  others  for  guests.  He 
not  only  lectured  as  well  as  wrote,  but  he 
handled  the  pencil  with  as  much  spirit  and 
power  as  the  pen.  Most  of  his  books  were 
illustrated  by  his  own  hand.  He  disguised 
himself  under  half  a  dozen  or  more  play- 
ful pseudonyms,  "Ikey  Solomons,  jun., " 
"  Michael  Angelo  Titmarah,"  "  The  Fat  Con- 
tributor," "  George  Fiti  Boodle,"  "  Charles 
Yellowplush,"  and  others.  His  domestic 
life  was  clouded  by  the  mental  derangement 
of  his  wife,  and  cheered  by  the  companion- 
ship of  a  literary  daughter,  Anna  Isabella 
(Mrs.  Ritchie),  who  has  continued  some- 
thing of  her  father's  tone  on  a  lower  key. 

Thackeray's  physical  stature  was  like  his 
intellectual,  tall  and  stalwart.  His  massive 
bead  (containing  a  brain  found  after  death 
to  weigh  58 1-2  ounces)  was  crowned  with 
silvery  hair.  His  disposition  was  kindly, 
his  manners  were  genial;  the  only  bitter- 
ness in  him  was  at  the  point  of  his  pen, 
when  he  touched  gently  but  unerringly  the 
shams,  the  follies,  and  the  wickednesses  of 
the  world.  No  one  knew  Thackeray  who 
did  not  love  him,  and  no  one  entered  his 
society  without  basking  in  it  as  in  a  spark- 
ling and  exhilarating  sunshine.  His  end 
was  sudden  and  melancholy.  The  day  be- 
fore he  died  he  was  seen  walking  in  Ken- 
sington Gardens,  book  in  hand.  The  next 
morning,  December  the  24th,  day  before 
the  Christmas  which  he  had  helped  to  en- 
dear to  all  the  world  by  his  pleasant  fancies, 
he  was  found  dead  in  his  bed.  He  died 
alone,  unseen,  except  of  the  heavenly  mes- 
sengers appointed  to  meet  him  and  take 
him  on  hi;  way.  "  Never  more,"  said  the 
Timtt,  "shall  the  fine  head  of  Mr.  Thack- 
eray, with  its  mass  of  silvery  hair,  be  seen 
towering  among  us."  Yet  does  it  not  tower 
stilt  in  the  loving  remembrance  of  the  Old 
World  and  the  New?  All  that  was  mortal 
of  him  was  buried  in  Keosal  Green  Ceme- 


tery. A  bust  of  him,  by  Marochetti,  was 
unveiled  in  Westminster  Abbey  in  1865. 

Thackeray  has  been  called  "the  legiti- 
mate successor  of  Fielding,"  an  equivocal 
honor.  He  has  been  subjected  to  rivalry 
with  Dickens,  a  needless  comparison.  It 
is  only  one  expression  of  the  peerlessness 
of  his  genius  to  say  that  he  is  unlike  any 
other  English  author  who  can  be  named. 
A  poet  no  less  than  a  novelist,  an  artist  no 
less  than  a  poet,  a  lecturer  no  less  than  an 
artis^  a  journalist  no  less  than  a  lecturer, 
a  humorist  no  less  than  a  journalist,  and 
a  critic  no  less  than  a  humorist,  he  united 
within  himself  some  of  the  finest  strands 
ever  apparent  in  the  intellectual  composi- 
tion of  man.  If  there  is  great  unevenness 
in  bis  work,  the  best  of  it  is  as  good  of 
its  kind  as  can  be  named.  Thackeray  was 
a  social  detective ;  the  index  finger  ex- 
tended was  his  emblem ;  he  saw  into  life 
and  character,  and  portrayed  what  be  saw. 
Imagination  was  a  secondary  power  with 
him.  To  speak  the  truth,  in  tove  when  he 
could,  bnt  to  speak  the  'truth,  as  he  saw  i^ 
was  his  aim,  his  talent,  his  gifL  He  used 
the  sharp  point  of  satire  not  for  the  in- 
human pleasure  of  seeing  his  victims  wince 
and  writhe,  but  with  beneficent  purpose. 

The  bibliography  which  follows  is  not 
submitted  as  complete,  but  as  a  guide  for 
a  generation  which  knows  not  Thackeray, 
and  the  foundation  of  whose  literary  educa- 
tion is  not  wholly  laid  until  it  does  know 
him. 

CoUections  Toward  a  Bibliography  of 
Thackeray. 

I.     Chief  Works. 
18*9.    The  Snob. 

"A  Literarr  uid  Soenlific  Jounuil,  n 


pen;  publuhcd   lor  11   w. 

A)iril  f,  edited  bfTbitkui 

and  layiof  dawn  ■ome  linea  which  were  iltennrd  toUowed 

out  more  paFticqlarly. 

1S36,      THS  CON^lTUTIONAL. 
A  dailj  new^Mper  fouadsd  and  ediied  by  Thadiaray  lot 
a  IwelTemonth  in  coDneclioB  with  hii  uep^tber,  M«}gr 

1840.    Th£  Paris  Sketch  Book. 

A  lerie*  of  (kelGlie.  and  iloHe.  reprinted  frnm  Tarisia 
periodical,  ind  dedicated  to  "  M.  Anii,  tailoi,"  ol  Puie, 
out  ol  gralilnde  loj  tatat  pccuDiaty  luiilaiict  rendered  tiy 


1841. 


Comic  Tales  a 


)  Sketches. 


I  WhI  End  locnnuti. 

1841.    The  Great  Hocartv  Diamond. 


d  toielhBT.    The  firtt  alH, 

i%  nantire  of  the  war.  ol 

,  wrillen  in    Pari,  in   .»,., 
finely  iUuimiid 


u  puhlitbed  by  ScrilHier 


iSSi.    tls.ool 


l886.] 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


133 


1843.    The  Irish  Skbtch  Book. 

1  toIl  ind  it  chaptsn,  the  fndt  of  ft  tow  in  Inlud  the 

1843.    The  Mkhoiks  of  Bakrv  Lyndoh. 

A  nonl  r«Utni(  Ibi  ■dieDlDrei  a(  u  Iriih  CottuiiA- 
hunts,  ind  [oU  of  ney  humor. 

1846.    [1S45?]    Notes  of  a  Joukney  fkom 
CoRNHiLL  TO  Grand  Cairo. 

Thi*  JDunw/  m  tik«  in  iftM  "  bjr  my  of  Uobon, 
Atbeo*,  ConitiDtinopl*,  ind  Jeruulim." 

1846.    Mrs.  Perkins's  Balu 


184S.    The  Book  of  Snobs. 

Ori|iniUr  ippcuol  In  Ptaick.  "  ConDiini,"  H 
Huniy,  "  Tliuksnj'i  batt  mtiricnl  writlnf ," 

1848.    Our  Street. 

A  Cluulmu  Book. 

1848.    Vanity  Fair. 

"  SceDH  of  ill  lorti,"  —jt  lb*  inlhor  in  til 
"  HBO  dnadfu]  ccwibAU,  lone  gniid  ind  loftf  bor 
•am  ic«BCi  al  high  Nit  and  hum  «1  tot  nuddllc] 


idbriF 


lilbloo 


uichuncteri, 


o  Friends_ 


■nd  brillliintlir  iUumiuud  with  H 
B«iy  Sharp,  ong  □(  Thickcny' 
■ppcin  in  ihii  atorr. 

1849.  Dr.  Birch  and  ] 

A  Chriotmu  Book. 

1850.  The  History  of  Pendennis. 

Arthur  Pendeanii,  whooa  "  fortuna  and  mklDrlupa^' 
"  frienda  *' and  "  £Tuuit  enemy,"  are  (he  aubject  of  ihk 
DonI,  reappun  in  Tlu  A  dptntvrtt  «/'  PUlif  and  later 
Mlla  lbs  Hdit  oI  Tlu  AVbchuj.  Amoni  the  cbaraaeia 
an  Uajor  PendenDia,  Anhur'a  ancle,  a  "trifle  banter" 
and  one  of  the  beat  oI  Thackarny'i  imiiaini  BpirBi ;  and 
WarrinfloB,  Bnnfay,  Fanny  Bolton,  if  mU. 

1850^    Rebecca  and  Roweha. 

A  ChriMinu  Book.    "  A  nmaan  upon  nmanca,"  the 
A  be  a  contlnaalioa  of  Scott'i 


1851.    The  Kicklsburys  oh  the  Rhine. 

A  Chriatnu  Book,  aatlriiini  a  moiber,  dn^lar,  comii 
and  foouiBB,  in  all  their  nl(ar  (randeur  aa  tlMy  do  (be 
Continental  Tour,  A  aeiere  crilidim  oI  ibii  narj  in  the 
Lttulvn  TimH  proTokcd  Thackeray  to  one  oI  lua  nw 
ing  oHayi,  euiiiled  "  On  Thandet  and  Small  Ben,"  piinied 
In  a  eecond  edition  of  the  book. 

1851.    The  History  op  Hbhry  Esmond. 

A  contiDuouft  atoryt  elaboralaly  wroagbt,  in  imilalJDJi  ol 
the  Iboncbt  and  ilyle  of  Qleen  Aone'i  raifn  in  which  iti 
icaMa  are  laid.  The  f  otn  ■•  aulotnopaiihic.  The  bare  ii 
a  Cavalier,  a  Jacobiiej  and  a  Colonel,  wbo  finally  ledrva  to 
Virtlsia,  where  be  writea  tbii  memar. 

1S53.  English  Humorists  of  the  Eight- 
bbnth  Century. 


AlolUB 


it  lectuna  Gn(  d 


It  Willii'a  Roomi,  and  aflannrdi  in  the  ' 


ray'a  chief  critic  w 


y,  who  caOi  it  Thackc 


uwellai 


I  ol  the  men  wiib 


Iticsn- 


]o,«D  eofdea  of  tbia  book 

lanta  mn  from  Swift  to  Galduailh. 

1854.  The  Rose  ans  ti 
A  ChrlMniaa  Book,  namlinf  "  the  hiiloi?  1 

Cwlio  and  Piinc*  Bulbe."  "A  Fiieaide  Pan 
Thackeray  read  thi  MS.,  part  by  pan,  aa  it  vai  • 
the  lick  little  daughter  of  Frederick  Locker. 

1855.  Baixads. 
1855.    The  Newcomes. 

"tlemoin   of  a  Moit  Reapeclable  Family." 

chaiactera  arc  Colone]  MewcuiDe,  one  ol  the  Gneit  portiaita 
in  all  KnilUb  litEiiIare,  bit  niece  Ethel,  bia  aoo  Q 
RcT.  Chailei  Hooeyman,  type  of  the  laihlonabi*  n 
Jack  Belaiu,  Sir  Bamn  NEwcame,  "the  tot  en 
191b  century  wotklliaeu,"  and  Lady  Kew. 

i8j7.    Thx  Shabby  Genteel  Story. 


Bopin  in  J^nuti't  Mttg^amti  but  left  a  fracmeoL  (See 
Ad«iU»r„y  PhU-t.) 

1857,    The  Virginians. 

A  Tale  of  the  dayi  of  Georce  II  —  of  CbnterGeld,  Gar- 
rick,  and  JobnaoD,  with  George  Waibiuflon,  General 
Wnlfr,  and  the  American  Reralalioo  in  the  backiroand. 

iS59.-iS£i.    The  Cornhill  Magazine. 

Founded  by  Thackeray  and  edited  by  him  during  tbeH 
186a.     The  Four  Georges. 

Lecluiel  on  Ihe  Foot  HauDTerian  King!  of  England,  fini 
deliiered  in  the  United  Stain  in  iSjj-6,  and  a(tetwird> 
repealed  in  Great  Britain,  uniting  Ihe  biatorical  and  the 
biogTrnphical,  the  deecripiiyc  and  Ihe  critical. 

1S60.    LovEL  THE  Widower. 


WolTge  and  Ifag  Lvnb." 

i86z.  The  Adventures  of  Phiuf  on  his 
Way  Through  the  World. 

"  Showing  who  robbed  bin,  who  helped  him,  and  who 
puaed  him  by."  A  cnatiauation  of  Ibe  Shabby  Genteel 
SlDiy,  which  Thaekeny  began  in  Fraitr  in  Ayt,  but  left 
anfini^nd. 

iS6z.    Roundabout  Papers. 

1864.    Denis  Duvau 

Uofinudud.    The  but  chapter  appeared  in  lbs  CrmJUU 

1867.    Early  and  Late  Papers. 

A  collection  ol  fugitive  piece!  made  by  Jamei  T.  Fields 
1875.      TUACKERAYANA, 
A  collection  ol  Ihe  antbor'i  inimitable  caiicalurei  and 

1875.  The  Orphan  of  Piulico,  ahd 
Other   Sketches,  Frjiguents,   and  Draw- 

With  note*  by  the  ■Blhor'i  daugbtsr. 

a.  Some  Editions  of  Tbackeraj'. 
SVtrit.     II  vols.     Lippincott.    ^35.75. 
fVurit.    Library  ed.,  11  vols.    Ticknor.    fsi. 
IVirrii.     Houaebold   ed.,  Il   vols.      Ilirpet. 

ty-'s- 

Worki.     PopuUr  ed.,  1 1  volt.   Lovell.  ^13.75. 

Warkt.  London,  1875.  22  voIb.  With  re- 
production! of  original  illtutnttions. 

Miscillaniis  in  Prose  and  Verse.  4  vois. 
'855-7- 

Critical  Revieai.    Lovell.     loc. 

Cimplttt  Peims.     While  &  S.    *l.oo. 

SeTCral  of  the  cheap  libiaria  ban  Thaekeny  complete 
and  in  partt.  and  almoal  any  ona  of  bit  lepaTate  worka  can 
be  had  in  a  variety  of  alylei  at  a  wide  range  of  prico. 

3.    Some  Writings  on  Tbatkcray. 

1864.  Thaiktray,  tht  Humeuriit  and  tkt  Man 
of  Lttteri :  Ihe  Story  of  his  Life.  By  Theodore 
T»ylor. 

1S69.  Studitt  en  Thatkeray.  By  James  Han- 
nay.    Routledge.    fi.15. 

1874.  Antedate  Biagraphiii  ef  Thach^ajl  and 
DUkins.  Bric-a-Brgc  Scries.  Edited  by  R.  H. 
Stoddard.     Scribner.    ti.50. 

1877.  Thaiktraj,  Hit  Uttrary  Carter.  Dr. 
John  Brown.     O^ood.     50C. 

1S79.  Thaektray.  [English  Men  of  L«t(«n.] 
Anthony  Trollope.    Harper    75c. 

1881,  Pm  PictuTis  of  Modern  AtUherl,  Wm- 
Shepard.    Putnam.    (1.15. 

1SS3.  Beit  of  all  Good  Coaiptuty.  A  Day  with 
.  .  .  .  Thackeray.  .  .  .  B.  Jerroid.  Shepard. 
>a.SOL 


1886.  TTtaekera/s  London.  By  Wm.  H.  Ride- 
ing.    Cnpplea.    fi-sa 

—  Stray  Moments  mti  TTtackeray.  W.  H. 
Rideing.    Applelon.    60c. 

Article*  itt  Hagazlnea  and  Revfswa. 

The  fallowing  i*  a  select  list  only  from  nearly 
iwo  pages  of  references  in  Poole's  /«ii^;i:  is  Peri- 
odicai  Literature. 

"Tbackeray."  By  Charles  Dickens.  Corn- 
hill.    9:129.    {Littetl.    80:476.) 

"Thackeray."   By  E.  P.  Whipple.   CA.Exam. 

7«!2M. 

"Thackeray  and  Balzac"    Littell.    84:55. 

"        "        and  Dickens."    Littell.    30 :  97. 

"        "        and  Fielding."    Lillell.    47  r  769. 

"        "        and  Stemc."    Liitelt.    104 :  387. 

"  *■  as  a  Draaghtsman."  R.  Sturgis. 
Seribner,    ao ;  25a 

"  Thackeray  as  a  Novelist."  H.  T.  Tacker- 
man.     Ch.  Exam.    60 :  lot. 

"  Thackeray  as  a  Poet"    Putnam's.    0:  623. 

"Thackeray  as  a  Satirist.    Beiectie.     115:  I. 

"Thackeray,  Glimpses  of."  J.  E.  Cooke. 
Hours  at  Home.    lo :  401J 

"Thackeray  In  America."  G.  W.  Ctirtia 
Putnam,     i :  63S. 

"  Thackeray,  Later  Manner  of."  W.  Mackay. 
C^burn.    146  ;  579. 

"  Thackeray,  Lectures  of."  J.  Eagles.  LiUell. 
30:  II,  135,237,282. 

"Thackeray.  Modes  of  Study  and  Writing." 
Cernkill.     g:  655. 

"Thackeray,  Personal  Recollections  of." 
Geo.  Lunt.    Harper.    54;  356. 

"Thackeray.  Place  in  English  Literature." 
Litldl.    Bo:  325. 

"Thackeray,  Schooldays  of."  Cornkill. 
II :  118. 

"Thackeray,  Women  of.''  f.  M.  Luyster. 
CM.  Exam.    Cg:  167. 


[For  (he  Liltrmrt  H'rrU.i 

OBiaiVAI.  FO£TET. 

An  Old  Hurt, 
[r*  Lnim  CJkoMiBir  Mnitm.i 
Wb  poet!  are  huiing  oar  Fact, 

A  ganial,  Arcadian  throog ; 
Tradition }   Foffat  and  forego  il  I 
The  wwld  i>  our  Crlflid,  and  we  know  il : 
HtT  rlTtca  run  gold  loc  a  ung. 

Such  w4l  aad  <BCb  laughter  a-kindlel 

Bat  qndi  aa  a  lonh  in  iti  fall. 
Or  aa  flla  being  uruck  from  the  ipindle, 
Al  one  breath  ol  remembrance  Ifaiy  dwindl 
To  a  hnah  and  a  check  for  ui  alL 

FrVBOur  Poela  toaal,  athiapleaamel 


It  il  good  to  bo  dead,  and  at  reat." 

We  drink  it ;  Iho'  each  at  Ibe  table. 

Dear  leOow,  abaabed  like  a  ^, 
Knowa  that  mooanl  bia  bead  ii  nniubia. 
And  balrayn  aa  in  ^ypt*!  bright  lablt. 
The  flaah  in  hii  wine  of  a  pearl. 

Louiu  iHDcui  GmmT, 
BmUm,  Mirth  tt,  itSi. 


To  Plem  da  Ronaard. 


d.  I 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[April  17, 


'  Todi;  irbx  minurd  linfi 

For(citIii|  leud  ud  wu 


Can  find  Iht  milchlCM  ktr 
Of  Ihj  nn  mElDdy, 
Whiu'tr  ihou  liludit  o(  — 
Or  flowOT  w  loT«. 

Hdw  Ikoii  diibt  wnDiKr  tbCD 
Fit  from  Iha  nT'  °'  >»». 


In  Irndi  af  bilM. 


The  (TstdTi  impiiic  ttiidn( 
CinUulelMcdiauDt;; 

Time  blaioni  on  our  pifiCf 

"  7"**  ^r«i  a/*  I " 

Vet,  B  th*  winiol  houn  •[>«<], 
Sooia  )«r  >*  "i"  our  meed. 
Borne  by  thf  miDMrrUj 
To  Arcidr. 

And  tbouf h  ibore  tfaj  fniTa 
No  Inurel  bnnchu  wnTSf 
Thou  hut  Hit  Tine  ud  bar 
InendleudiTl 

CUNTOH  SCOLLACD. 

CamirUtt,  Maa.,  Martk  t4- 

On  Reading  Mrs.  Doit's  Afternoon  Songs. 

Uen  blTawni  lander— ifi  lime  out  o[  mind, 
They  *re  Ihe  muten  wilta  the  nnce  md  pin, 
Ggidinl  Ihe  UDg  Ibit  gtoidei  Iha  worid,  u  when 

Yel  li>1enin[  aui  lhniu|h  nil  Iheu  agei  Bnd 
The  iwtei-ioittd  women  liDginn,  now  and  Ihen, 
"  Beloeen  ihe  rougher  voice*  of  the  men 

Liia  lioneu  in  the  pauHi  ot  Iba  wind." 


Find  ooly  peaee  in  eier;  air  ibii  blow 


Emerson  —  Carlyle. 

One  ilood  upon  Ihe  monini  faHli,  and  aaw 

The  hiiTent  revealed  in  lymbol  and  in  ugn ; 

Be  read  (heir  tnyitu:  meaoiiiEi.  line  by  line, 
Andlaugblin  light  ihe  reign  oC  rhylbmlc  law. 
One  in  ihe  Iwilight  vlUeya,  pierced  with  awe. 

Beheld  wan  hope  amid  great  darkneu  ihine  — 

Saw  gloom  and  glory  blent  w I ihoul  design. 
And  cried  againal  a  world  of  blot  and  flaw. 

Sunrite  and  luuel  polee  the  petfed  day ; 

And  one  the  lord  of  daikneai  wai,  and  ibey 
Made  day  and  night  one  round  of  bamHiny, 

For  tbey  were  kingi  and  brolhen,  and  iheir  iway 
Due  law  — ono  aew  divine  pbiloacqihy. 

0,  C.  AuniKC 


WhUuae,0  light  and  iweetl  —  though  to  my  nation 

Yon  might  be  iweetcr  and  yon  might  be  lighter- 
To  tell  ni,  when  tor  pelt  you've  crooed  Ibe  ocean- 


We  had  been  told  thai  he  waa  no  philoipher, 
Though  'guott  Ihii  dianm  Ihera  wai  many  a  fightart 

To  eay  osr  Concord  uge  i>  na  great  writer  r 

To  Yankee  aan  ungrateful  b  luch  twaddle. 

And  you  appear  of  libela  an  inditer, 
Knee  here  the  light  within  the  darVeil  noddle 

Shows  oni  great  thinker  Li,  too,  a  great  writer. 

And  then  yon  deem,  and  fondly  try  to  (how  it, 
Allhough  your  reaioni  might  be  alronger,  brighter, 

Thai,  iplte  at  all  hi  lang,  ha  ia  un  poet  — 
Foraooth,  no  aioger  aa  weU  u  no  great  writer. 

Then,  leit  at  yon  iboiild  all  turn  up  Ihell  nnMa, 
You  aerew  yonr  mneleaa  £ddle  a  peg  lighler; 
"  The  cenmry'i  moat  important  work  in  proa*"  ia, 


Lh  Addiaon  and  Franklin  you  coapare  him  — 
k  wondrouacondeacender,  gall-eiciterl  — 


are  odorou,  though  with  nea 
Condructed  by  Iba  •kiUfolleal  backbiter  ^ 
.□d  what  have  odota  ill  to  do  with  twaelnt 


fou  damn  him  with  bint  praJaat  and  coolmdiction 
So  vaat  you  teem  a  wiltful  mlnd-benighler : 

>ii  you  might "  manager "  well  lay  rattriction 
ToprnlenomoiBof- humph  — of  no  grail  writer. 

If  leal  iconoclaitic,  if  politer, 
^  wandering  bee  like  you  would  gain  more  honey 

Vnd  ao,  farewell  I  -know  I  no  nuJk*  bear  you. 

Who  am  in  your  own  wiitingi  a  delighter, 
Ind  yat,  though  great  younelf,  would  not  Gonpare  yi 


Ctiauccr. 

A>  uime  fieili,  tuneful  lark'i  enchanting 
Wiketa  whole  multitude  of  Wrdalo* 

In  pleuani  English  fieldi;  lo  Chancer'i 
PouT*d  f orib  a  gradoua  carol,  lond  and 

Full  of  all  truth  and  winKma  lendemeu 
He  law  in  ill  one  common  brotherhoo 

And  midit  the  loweit  ever  found  ibe  g 


Through  yean  of  darkneaa,  like  a  morning  alai 
Shone  Chanccr'i  glory.  Humbly  aa  the  few 
fmmontl  pilgiimi  honored  Becket'i  ihrine. 


It  Chauei 


Id  lay  Ire. 


fynOtmik,  iSaa. 

Sonnet. 

WM  a  y,Um.  ,/  Srtwmmt'i  Pfim 

And  charmed  by  fragrance  lading  all  the  air 
He  stooped  to  pluck  one,  and  but  found  ■  Ihom. 
He  beard  the  >pla>hing  of  yon  founliln  borne 
OnZephyi>>  wingi.indlhougbl:  "thelapwin 
Afield,  or  windi  dialutb  Ihe  Ir«a"  —  wbcnthi 
The  living  watert  flowed  tor  heam  forlorn. 

Lo,heremypoeil  —  He  who  reidi  aright 

May  cull  the  .weeleat  flowera.  miy  quifl  Ihe  d< 

Calm  waien  p(  At  wid.    Bui  U  iIr  bean 


Be  Gold,  UEueaing,  all  enwrapt  in  nigblj 
AD'a  dark.     Hat  ha  who  nin*  may  read.    They  reap 
EartlTi  fruit!  who  toil.     Such  in  ihtaa  truths  have  put. 

ETHlLaUT  DUQUV  WARrilLD. 

«>  IfmaStrtH,  Ktw  Vtrk  CUy. 

The  Flight  of  Mnemosyne'B  DauEtatera. 
SnftitUd  kf  Ur.  SUdmtmJi  TwiligU  i/Uu  PatU. 


Bnt  iu  bardi  ar 


nfort 


The  poet's  entdeu,  the  nightiagale, 
Is  singing  unnoticed  his  old-time  tale  \ 
Your  prophets  are  saying  "  Hoi  what  of  th 
WhUa  wakeful  they  wait  tor  the  glimmering 
But  whareTET  oar  bard  hai  been  held  in  tea 
Til  the  "  twilight  "  of  evening  and  not  of  n 

Where  Ibe  spirits  of  song  have  been  Ibraat  i 


A  New  Troubadour. 

ftrrOrn  m  Gadn'$  Ljrkl. 

With  cahn  uplifted  smile  he  leema  Id  tund 

Within  the  anher  Ughl  of  gold  bee(±-tieea, 

A  glad  stray  [Hlgrim  through  Ibe  centuries 

From  that  far  sunny  and  sequestered  land 


iglhec 


Of  an 


nlhei 


Shall  bring  freah  In 

To  blend  with  those  be  never  can  lorget ; 
Knowing  "what  joy  is  in  the  daikoeia  Ihera  > 
Wiih  one  loved  spirit  in  Ihe  fold  of  oight. 

The  vealure  of  thy  Ion  hsr  aoul  ihall  wear 
Thnogh  ihadowlesa  eternity  of  light  I 


I,  If.  B.,  Atmn 


ij. 


To  Robert  Bums. 

"  E'en  thou  who  moum'al  the  Deity's  fate, 
That  fata  is  thine  no  dlslanl  dale;    . 
Stem  Rain's  ploughshare  drives  elate. 

Full  on  thy  bloom, 
■Till  crushed  benesih  Ihi  furrvw  weight 

Shall  be  thy  doom." 


tf  dffmtt  witA  d 


Thou  crushed  Ihe  Daisy  wi'  thy  share 
Dear  Rabbis  Burns  i 

UnU  us  turns. 


Saese 


it  Ihe  l< 


a  that 


t,  Rab,  gtudnast  knows. 


Though  bet  thy  bluid,  a  purpose  tn 


Bailh  fast  an'  hard. 

n' aae  it  u  that  grander  ansa  | 

[aun  cnimUe  'neuh  their  cauM  gravv^Ik^  Q  I  p 
n'  proodet  folk  maun  gwig  their  lane*,  '  ^   rS 

Forgotten  a' i 

ul  Rabbie,  while  a  tear  remaioi 

For  Uiec  't  niaun  fa'. 


l886.] 


THE    LITERARY   WORLD. 


135 


Aroond  the  ivlu^  JudfniEal  i«», 
Thera'i  K>n»  vba'U  hu  nuir  auie 

Thin  liut  IbjttP, 
For  Due  BUan  play  lbs  hrpocriti 


Sae,  wbils  the  modi 
Aboon  tha  iLecIi,  a! 
Whi]>  boiuc  povBi 


T-dM^  Oh*,  Jbral  17- 


OUB  NEW  TOBE  LETTER. 

PASSENGERS,  (ittingat  (h«  windows  o[  the 
cm  on  tbe  «lev>led  railroad  ai  they 
down  the  Bower?,  lometimei  catch  a  hasty 
glimpte  of  a  large  front  room  [n  the  upper  ! 
of  a  rickety  house  filled  with  piles  of  papers 
and  magazine!  until  it  resembles  one  of  those 
London  lodgings  occupied  by  De  Quincey,  the 
floor  of  which  he  gradually  covered  with  books, 
papeia,  and  literary  rubbish,  until  there  was  left 
but  a  narrow  passage  from  the  door  to  the 
dreamer's  chair  by  the  fire.  Sometimes,  when 
the  crowded  cat  rolls  legs  swiftly  past  the  dusty 
windows,  the  pa«senger  looking  out  idly  catches 
a  sight  of  an  old  man,  bent  under  the  weight  of 
the  threescore  year*  that  have  silvered  his  bead, 
passing  to  and  fro  amongit  tbe  dosty  piles,  and 
bending  painfully  to  arrange  in  proper  order  the 
moldy  files  of  some  paper  oc  magazine  so  long 
dead  that  its  very  name  has  long  since  passed 
from  public  remembrance.  Staring  signs  on  the 
tawdrily  decoiated  walls  of  the  cars  announce 
that  hundreds  of  thousands  of  people  ride  daily 
in  the  trains,  yet  of  all  that  hurrying  crowd  but 
few  have  thought  a  second  time  of  the  quaint 
old  man  living  among  his  dusty  papers.  But  for 
the  literary  man  about  town  this  dusty  little  shop 
is  fertile  In  instruction  and  amusement.  For 
nearly  thirty  years  the  old  man  has  made  it  his 
woilc  to  keep  files  of  papers  and  magaiines,  to 
buy  old  periodica]  publications,  and  to  dawhat 
he  can  to  preserve  for  future  days  the  thousand 
and  one  ephemeral  products  of  the  periodical 
press.  Right  learnedly  can  he  discourse  of  dead 
authors,  and  as  he  draws  some  time-stained  sheet 
from  its  long  abiding  place  on  a  dark  closet 
shelf,  and  points  out  in  the  "  Poet's  Corner  "  the 
youthful  productions  of  Longfellow,  Poe,  or 
Whitlier,  one  feels  more  closely  linked  to  (be 
poets'  times  than  could  ever  be  done  by  the  first 
edition  dev  to  the  bibliophile.  A  right  shrewd 
and  calculating  business  man  is  the  old  periodi- 
cal gatherer.  His  scent  for  a  desired  publica- 
tion is  anetring,  and  a  customer's  order  is  never 
left  unfilled  antil  all  ends  of  the  earth  have  been 
ransacked  for  the  stray  sheet.  By  the  way,  be 
expects  to  reap  a  harvest  by  slocking  up  largely 
with  the  April  Cmtury,  since  the  first  edition  is 
already  exhausted,  and  a  second  made  impossible 
by  the  removal  of  De  Viane,  the  printer,  to  bis 
magnificent  new  printing  house  on  Lafayette 
Race. 

New  York  is  certainly  in  the  midst  of  a  Ii^ 
erary  craze.  A  new  author,  be  he  only  [airly 
successful,  is  talked  of  in  society,  dined,  wined, 
and  even  reaches  that  pinnacle  of  popularity  or 
notoriety  which  makes  him  the  prey  of  the  news- 
paper "interviewer."  The  latest  object  of  jour- 
nalistic adoration  is  "  Sydney  Luska,"  or   Mr. 


Harry  Harland,  whose  successful  novel,  At  II 
Wat  Writtm,  published  a  few  weeks  ago,  has 
just  been  followed  by  his  new  book,  Mri,  Feix- 
ada.  The  discovery  of  the  true  name  of  the 
author  put  an  end  to  the  many  romantic  stories 
concocted  by  journalists  whose  fertile  brains 
were  stimulated  by  the  space  rates  of  the  daily 
press.  Upon  the  discovery  that  the  author's 
vocation  was  the  eminently  practical  one  of  a 
clerk  in  the  Surrogate's  Office,  these  enterpris- 
ing gentlemen  set  to  inventing  interesting  aC' 
counts  of  the  manner  in  which  the  book  was 
written.  A  statement,  which  has  been  widely 
copied,  is  that  the  first  novel  was  written  h 
three  weeks,  between  the  hours  of  three  and 
eight  A.  M.,  and  to  lend  romance  to  the  tale  it 
was  embellished  with  accounts  of  the  sympa- 
thetic assistance  of  the  author's  wife  who  rose 
at  that  unnatural  hour  to  prepare  a  light  break- 
fast for  the  author.  Unfortunately  for  this 
story  Mr.  Harland  has  just  authoriied  the  pub- 
lication of  an  item  declaring  it  false  in  many 
essential  particulars.  He  does  not  definitely 
deny  the  early  hours,  but  mindful  of  the  apho- 
rism that  "quick  writing  makes  slow  reading," 
he  enters  an  energetic  protest  against  the  state- 
ment that  only  one  hundred  hours  were  neces- 
sary for  him  to  write  Ai  it  Was   Wrillen. 

Last  Saturday's  Mai/  and  Exprets  contained  a 
long  interview  with  Mr.  W.  D.  Howells  concern- 
ing the  advantages  oF  America  as  a  field  for  writ' 
ers.  And  in  this  connection  I  am  reminded  ol 
the  intense  disappointment  in  many  New  York 
circles  over  the  decision  of  Mr.  Howells  to  re- 
main in  Boston.  W  hen,  some  months  ago,  the 
Harpers  announced  that  Mr.  Howells  would 
become  editorially  connected  with  Harper' t 
Monthly,  tbe  New  York  papers  were  dlied  with 
editorials  announcing  that  Mr.  Howelts's  removal 
to  the  metropolis  would  deal  a  blow  to  Boston's 
literary  supremacy.  But  Mr.  Howells,  like  Mr. 
Charles  Dudley  Warner,  finds  that  his  editorial 
duties  can  be  performed  well  at  a  distance 
from  the  publication  office,  and  be  will  therefore 
remain  a  citizen  of  the  "  Hub."  But  whatever 
might  have  been  the  effect  of  Mr.  Howella's  pres- 
ence or  absence  upon  the  aspirations  of  New 
York  to  be  par  excelUntt  the  literary  center  of 
the  nation,  yet  it  is  evident  to  those  who  investi- 
gate, that  so  long  as  New  York  remains  so 
lamentably  deficient  in  library  facilities,  so  long 
her  literary  activity  must  suffer  in  comparison 
with  that  oF  Boston.  Today  there  is  not  a  free 
public  library  in  tbe  city  open  after  five  P.  M., 
and  at  the  Aslor,  the  only  public  library  to  nrhich 
access  is  easy  in  the  day-lime,  the  catalogue  is  so 
complicated  and  the  service  so  insufficient  thai 
the  student  is  apt  to  spend  more  time  in  securing 
the  books  he  wants  than  remains  to  him  for  study 
after  the  books  have  arrived. 

Nem  York,  April  1  a.  Nassau. 


OOSBESPOHDEHOE. 

Tbe  BxploratioDB  In  Egypt. 
To  Ikt  BdilBT  aj  Ihi  Literary  Werld: 
The    Egypt    Eiploiaiion     Fund's    historical 

labors  in  the  Delta  region  are  in  hopeful  prog- 
;  the  important  results  thus  far  need  no 
statement  here.  Of  Taaii,  Part  I,  your  neigh- 
bor, the  Congngatianalisl,  says,  the  "Memoir  is 
full  of  details  of  the  deepest  interest."  The 
next,  in  preparation,  will  be  Naueratii  {40  plates 


and  plans),  describing  the  discovery  and  art  dis- 
closures at  the  scene  of  Ebers's  "Egyptian  Prin- 
cess," the  brilliant  Greek  emporium  in  Egypt 
prior  to  Alexandria.  To  be  sure,  even  to  the 
editing  of  the  books,  the  committee  all  give 
their  services,  and  the  whole  thing  is  a  wonder 
of  good  management.  But  there  is  not  a  cent 
of  endowment,  and  money  is  a  siiu  qua  nan. 
From  fz,ooo  to  (3,000  must  be  annually  forth- 
coming from  the  United  States-  X  appeal  for 
500  five-dollar  subscribers,  and  so  small  a  sub- 
scription entitles  to  the  season's  memoir,  annual 
report,  lectures,  etc  As  Prof.  Hoppin  of  Yale 
said,  the  photographic  views  in  Taais  I  alone 
are  worth  tMs.  As  Hon.  Marshall  P.  Wilder 
said  before  the  New  England  Historic-Genea- 
logical Society,  "Let  us  all  contribute,  although 
in  small  amounts."  For  results,  works  in  pr<^- 
ress,  lists  of  contributors,  etc.,  let  your  readers 
unhesitatingly  write  me  for  circulars.  Mr.  James 
Russell  Lowell  is  honorary  vice-president. 

Wm.  C.  WiMSLOW,  Viee-Prctidml,  etc. 
43g  Btacan  St.,  Boston,  April  1,  18S6, 

"  The  Leavenworth  Cage." 

To  thi  Editor  eftht  Literary  World: 

I  see  the  New  York  Tribune  says  that  your 
correspondent.  Stylus,  is  unwarranted  in  remark- 
ing that  Miss  Green  took  the  "points"  in  her 
Leavinvivrth  Cote  from  my  All  far  Her,  because 
Miss  Gieen  vireU  her  novel  long  before  mine 
was  published.  Nobody  but  the  author  of  a 
novel  knows,  or  is  in  a  position  lo  make  any 
statement  as  to,  when  a  novel  was  -aritten.  All 
the  public  know  or  can  testify  to  is  as  lo  when 
it  Via  puMisied.  Now  my  novel  was  published 
first,  and  before  publication  was  read  by  the 
firm  which  afterwards  published  Miss  Green's 
book.  And  the  fact  remains  —  as  you  state  — 
that  all  the  unconventional  and  original  features 
of  my  novel  (i-  e.,  the  development  of  a  link  in 
the  story  by  the  cross-examination  of  a  witness 
at  the  coroner's  inquest,  the  inverse  order  of 
the  detective  work  and  the  like)  re-appeared  in 
Miss  Green's  novel. 

If  this  controversy  is  worth  pursuing,  let  it, 
therefore,  proceed  logically.  Miss  Green  will 
admit  that  my  novel  was  published  first.  Now 
let  her  stale  when  hers  was  toritlen.  Then  I 
will  suie  when  mine  was  written.  It  will  then 
be  in  order  for  Miss  Gieen  to  mention  the 
names  of  parlies  who  read  her  manuscript  be- 
fore its  publication.  Then  I  to  do  likewise. 
And  so,  as  Snug,  the  Joiner,  i>aith,  we  will 
therein  "grow  to  a  point."  Yours  respectfully. 
The  Author  of  All  for  Ner. 
Nea  Yerk,  April  4, 1S86. 


EA8TEB  FUBLIOATIONS. 


Like  first  shoots  of  crocuses  and  hyadnihs  in 
April,  as  the  snows  melt  away,  are  to  be  noticed 
the  beginnings  of  an  Easier  literature,  following 
that  of  Christmas,  springing  up  out  of  the  seed 
thought  of  the  Resurrection.  The  products  of 
the  present  season,  so  far  as  they  have  reached 

,  are  as  follows  : 

The  Bltiied  Easier-Tide.  Compiled  by  tbe 
editor  of  "  Christmas-Tide  in  Song  and  Story."  . 
'  medium  quarto  of  160  pages,  bound  in  dove> 
colored  linen,  with  decorations  in  purple  and 
gold.  Tbe  contents  are  (i)  the  accounts  from 
the  Gospels  of  tbe  Death,  Burial,  and  Reeurrec- 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[April  17^ 


don  of  oar  Lord,  and  (i)  56  hymni  or  religious 
poems  b;  many  authors,  the  whole  arranged 
under  the  three  heads  of  "  Good- Friday," 
"  Eaiter-Even,"  and  "  Easier-Day."  Each 
group  fs  prefaced  by  ■  monnled  photograph. 
The  page  headings  and  ornamental  initials  of 
the  first  two  groups  are  printed  in  purple ;  of 
the  third  in  gold.  The  paper  is  laid  and  not 
highly  calendered ;  the  margins  ate  broad,  and 
the  edges  are  gilt.  The  selections  ate  widely 
representative,  iind  bring  together  much  of  the 
best  that  has  been  written  in  English  and  trans- 
lated from  the  German  and  the  I^lin.  The 
general  appearance  of  the  book  is  modest, 
chaste,  and  refined.  There  is  nothing  about  it 
to  disturb,  but  only  rather  to  please,  a  cultivated 
and  devout  taste.    [A.  D.  F.  ftandolph  ft  Co. 

An  Easter  Sttng.  By  the  Rt.  Rev.  Robert 
Hall  Baynes.  Illustrated  by  J.  H.  Gratacap. 
Who  the  author  of  this  poem  Is  we  are  not 
quite  able  to  state,  but  it  does  not  greatly  mat- 
ter, (or  the  verse  is  not  of  a  high  order,  and  as 
here  presented  is  made  subordinate  to  the  pen- 
and-ink  drawings  of  Mr.  Gratacap,  and  to  a  few 
other  photogravic  illustrations  which  ate  of 
much  the  same  quality  with  the  verse ;  to  a 
showy  cover  also,  and  a  generally  ambitious 
make-up.  Bishop  Baynes  is  not  an  accurate 
versifier,  though  his  feeling  is  fine  and  bis  spirit 
pure-  Nor  is  he  always  grammatical.  The 
book  proper  consists  of  zz  leaves,  and  of  the 
44  pages  21  are  blank,  which  is  simply  to  eay 
that  letter  press  and  illustrations  occupy  every 
other  page  only.  The  poem  is  printed  not  in 
type,  but  in  stately  manuscript  text.  The  cover 
is  a  hal[-in-half  of  white  cloth  and  cloth  of  gold, 
the  former  sumpcd  in  gold  and  purple.  [A.  D,  F. 
Randolphs  Co.    J3.00.] 

Silvtr  Theughts  ef  Great  Minils.  By  Louise 
S.  Houghton.  We  have  here  eleven  pages  of 
quotations  from  Madame  Guyon,  Thomas  \ 
Kempis,  GroD,  Bunyan,  St.  Augustine,  Molinos, 
Mad.  Swetchine,  and  the  "  Theologica  German- 
ica,"  printed  in  purple  ink  on  square  wide- 
mani'xc'^  pages,  tied  together  with  a  white  and 
silver  cord  in  a  cover  of  tough  papei  with  very 
jaggrd  edges  1  the  latter  bearing  on  its  face  a 
pan'  1  of  what  looks  like  ivory,  but  is  probably 
a  Aeet  of  celluloid,  on  which  is  stamped  in 
pu  .pie  a  picture  of  pansies.  A  nosegay  of  fine 
tbjughis  is  this,  in  a  fanciful  vase.  [While, 
Siokes  &  Allen-    fi.oo.] 

Easter  Messeugirs.  By  Lucy  Larcom  and 
Susie  Barslow  Skelding.  Miss  Larcom  con- 
tributes the  poem  and  Mrs.  Skelding  the  flower 
paintings  which  are  combined  into  this  oddly 
bound  thin  quarto.  Both  poet  and  artist  ate 
known.  Their  common  subjects  here  are  the 
aialea,  the  lily,  the  white  daisy,  the  flowering 
grasses,  and  the  sweet  pea,  .Miss  Laicom  voic- 
ing in  sweet  and  musical  verse  their  messages 
of  Truth  and  Love  and  Life,  and  Mrs.  Skelding 
depicting  them  in  color  with  beautiful  fidelity 
to  nature.  The  form  of  the  book  is  squaic, 
its  binding  a  knot  of  white  ribbon  at  the  back, 
its  cover  a  fine  cream-colored  satine  figured 
with  buds  and  blossoms,  its  outward  frontis- 
piece a  silver  panel  holding  a  lovely  bunch  of 
wUte  ataleas.    [While,  Stokes  &  Allen.    I1.50.] 

—  The  final  passage  by  Congress  of  the  Kll 
(or  the  erection  of  a  building  for  tbe  Congres- 
sional library  is  the  most  important  public  lit- 


erary measure  for  years.  It  provide*  for  a 
building  covering  foar  acres,  with  shelE-room 
for  3,ooc^ooo  volumes,  and  will  cost  f  1,000,000. 
The  site  is  just  east  of  the  Cafutol,  and  the  work 
of  erection  will  take  five  or  six  year*. 


SHAEEBPEABIAITA. 


Eleventh  Meeting  of  tbe  New  York  Sbake- 
gpeare  3oclet3F.  The  eleventh  stated  meeting 
of  the  society  was  held  at  Hamilton  Hall, 
Columbia  College,  on  Thursday,  March  35th, 
the  Frealdent,  Appleton  Morgan,  Esq.,  in   the 

The  chair  stated  that  in  preparation  for  tbe 
annual  meeting  the  regular  order  irf  business 
would  be  dispensed  with,  and  tbe  nomination 
of  officers  for  the  ensuing  term  would  be  in 
order.  A  committee  on  nomination  was  ap- 
pointed, and  after  consultation  repotted  that 
they  had  re-nominated  the  entire  present  board 
of  officers,  except  Mr-  Charles  C.  Marble,  who 
declined  a  re-nomination  on  the  score  of  con- 
tinued ill  health-  Mr.  R.  M.  Lawrence,  the 
present  assistant  secretary,  had  therefore  been 
nominated  in  his  place.  For  the  Board  o[  Five 
Trustees  requited  by  the  Statutes  of  the  State 
of  New  York  the  committee  had  nominated 
Appleton  Morgan,  R-  S-  Guernsey,  James  E. 
Reynolds,  Thomas  R.  Price,  and  W.  W.  Nevin. 
Futlhei  nominations  to  be  made  in  writing  and 
submitted  to  the  ccmimitlee  up  to  atid  including 
April  19th,  the  date  (as  nearly  as  might  be)  of 
the  annual  meeting.  The  Eieculive  Committee 
reported  the  name  of  George  Dsulton,  Esq. 
Edina,  Missouri,  for  election  to  non-resident 
membership,  and  the  gentleman  was  thereupoi 
elected.  The  chair  announced  a*  the  paper 
for  the  next  regular  meeting  "Shakespeare's 
Once.Used  Words  ('Atrof  AEj-d/iefa),"  by  Prof, 
James  O.  Butler  of  the  University  of  Wisconsin. 
The  society  then  adjourned. 

Another  Query  Concerning  "  Tbe  Tvro 
Gentlemen  of  Verona."  A  cotrespondeni 
referring  to  the  fact  that  in  the  recent  revival  of 
this  play  by  Madame  Mod  jeska  the  song,  "What 
is  Silvia?"  in  iv.  1,  was  not  sung  by  Proteus, 
asks  if  this  was  as  Shakespeare  meant  to  have 
He  quotes  Julia's  remarks,  "The  musician 
likes  me  not  "  (that  is,  pleaies  me  not),  and  "  He 
plays  false,  father;  .  .  .  so  false  that  he  grieves 
my  very  heart-strings,"  as  indicating  that  Pro- 
the  singer.  But  Julia  simply  takes  the 
song  to  be  the  tribute  of  Proteus  to  Silvia, 
though  rendered  by  a  singer  whom  be  has  hired. 
4,  Pioteus  has  advised  Thurio  to  serenade 
Silvia  "with  some  sweet  consort"  (or  band  of 
musicians),  and  Thurio  says : 

And  ihT  idiica  IhBoiElit  III  put  Id  piaelia, 
Thenlnn.  mtt  Frolcui,  my  dircctran-eiicr, 
Ul  <!•  inia  lb*  dty  ymnaW 
To  »n  Kint  gcntCcmsp  wdl-^II'd  in  miuic 


not  sing  it  himself  unless  there  "may  have  been 
some  pantomime,  either  voluntary  or  involuntary, 
on  the  part  of  Proteus  which  told  tales  on  tbe 
state  of  his  affections."  It  does  not  seem  neces- 
sary to  suppose  any  such  pantomime,  though  it 
may  well  enough  have  occurred.  We  may  infer 
that  the  Host,  in  answering  Julia's  questions 
about  Proteus  — "  the  gentleman  you  asked  for," 
as  he  says  —  had  mentioned  that  the  young  man 
was  said  to  be  in  love  with  Silvia.  Later  in  the 
scene  when  she  asks, 

Bui,  h«I,  dath  lbi>  Sir  Prouu  that  we  talk  on 

he  replies, 
[Mil  vo*  what  LsuoceliiiiunlDMiHi  — hcloradbn 

This  is  apparently  a  repetition  of  what  he  has 
told  her  before  ;  and  it  was  this  news  that  made 
her  "  allicholly,"  as  the  Host  expresses  it 

Shakespeare  on  Oravitfttion.  A  Western 
querist  cites  from  an  English  journal  tbe  state- 
ment that  Shakespeare  anticipated  the  New- 
tonian   theory    of   gravitation  in    Treilut   and 


But  (tie  e^ons  bue  and  buildinx  of  mv  Lovs 

UulheVeiranlrei  '  '  ' 

Dn*iD(  ill  ihiDp  In 


l:(,-' 


Ihan 


a  ihai 


ihygood  ijviM. 
These   professional   musicians  are   to   perform 
Thurio's  song. 

Our  friend  adds  that  he  has  not  been  able  to 
find  in  the  play  "any  evidence  that  before  hear- 
ing the  song  Julia  knew  of  Proteua'  love  for 
Silvia,"  and  he  cannot  therefore  see  bow  the 
disguised  lady  should  suspect  that  he  Intended 
express  bis  own  love  in  the  cong  it  he  did 


and  asks,  "Is  this  so?"  The  reference  is  of 
course  to  the  earth  as  the  Centre  of  the  universe, 
according  to  the  Ptolemaic  astronomy,  and  not 
as  the  centre  of  gravitating  forces. 

In  like  manner,  some  critics  have  given  Shake- 
speare credit  for  forestalling  Harvey  in  the  dis- 
covery of  the  circulation  of  the  blood  in  Julius 
Carrar,  ii.  1.289: 

Ai  dBsr  to  EQc  JIB  iin  the  ruddy  drops 
Tlul  Tint  m  J  ad  hcul  \ 
but  the  general  fact  of  the   flow  of  the  blood 
through   the  heart   had  been   known  from  the 
days  of  Aristotle,  though  Harvey  was  tbe  first 
to  give  the  complete  eiplanation  of  the  process. 


TABLE  TALE. 


..•Notwithstanding  Miss  Ruth  Ellis's  recent 
denial  of  the  authorship  of  the  "Saxe  Holm" 
writings,  one  of  her  old  acquaintances  "firmly 
believes"  she  wrote  part  of  them.  Miss  Ellis 
resides  at  Whitesboro',  N-  Y.,  a  village  neat 
Utica,  and  is  the  person  referred  to  in  a  letter  by 
E.  R.  Champlin  to  the  Btac9n,  reprinted  in  this 
journal  last  fall,  in  which  it  was  maintained  that 
"H.  H-"  was  not  the  principal  author  of  those 
writings,  but  another,  an  unmarried  woman,  nnu- 
She  was  formerly  a  school-teacher,  and  resigned 
an  advantageous  poution  as  such,  not  many  years 
ago,  since  when  she  has  written  quite  steadily, 
though  not  in  connection  with  her  own  name. 
Without  doubt  "H.  H."  assisted  her  in  the 
"  Saie  Holm  "  work  at  first,  she  being  doubtful 
of  her  ability  to  produce  the  Stories  which  had 
been  asked  of  her. 

.  A  Southern  poet  who  is  likely  to  be  remem- 
bered by  more  than  one  production  says:  "I 
think  I  would  rather  be  remembered  by  oirr  poem, 
though  I  had  written  millioni,  than  by  the  mill- 
It  seems  to  me  that  with  the  exception  of 
Shakespeare  the  best-loved  poets  are  those  of 
whose  verses  we  really  only  read  two  or  three : 
Herbert,  Vaughan,  Herrick,  etc" 

.  Miss  Susan  B.  Anthony  is  writing  the  last 
chapter  <rf  "The  History  of  Woman  Suffrage* 
(third  TOlnme),  which  she  hopes  to  issue  next 


i886.] 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


137 


month.  Mils  Anihon;  h»s  arranged  to  publUb 
the  work  through  a  friend  in  Rochester,  N,  Y. 

. . .  Kose  Garfield  Clemeni,  nie  Ro*e  A.  Gar- 
fkld  of  Chautauqaa,  N.  Y.,  a  prose  writer, 
and  the  wife  of  Mr.  Will  M.  Clemens,  died  with 
consnmption  at  East  JacksonTille,  Fla.,  April 
9th,  aged  twenty-seven  years.  Mrs.  Clemens 
wrote  for  year«  before  hermarriage  —  in  i88z  — 
for  leading  Western  newspapers,  and  has  since 
contribnted  papers  to  Liltrary  Life  and  other 
periodicals  of  the  West.  She  and  Mr.  Clemens 
liare  been  spending  the  last  six  months  in  Jack- 
sonville, whither  she  went  for  her  health. 

. . .  Mrs.  George  Clinton  Smith  proposes  to 
give  herself  wholly  to  literary  work  hereafter, 
having  resigned  the  profession  of  music.  She  is 
now  employed  on  ber  sacred-song  compilation, 
and  in  editing  a  column  in  the  Saturday  Mirror, 
of  Springfield,  111. 

. . .  Mary  Bayard  Clarke,  wife  of  Judge  Clarke, 
o(  the  North  Carolina  bench,  and  one  of  the 
most  intellectual  of  Southern  writers,  a  graceful 
verse-maker  and  vigorous  in  prose  expression, 
died  in  New  Berne,  North  Carolina,  April  Jtb, 
^ed  5S.  She  was  related  Id  the  Bayards  of  chiv- 
atric  memory,  and  to  the  Secretary  of  State ;  also 
to  the  Folks,  President,  and  Bishop ;  bat  on 
ber  own  act^unt  was  highly  /espected,  being 
the  center  of  the  intelligence  and  grace  of  New 
Berne  (a  sort  of  Louise-Chandler-Moulton  of  the 
South),  where  she  spent  many  years.  She  leaves 
a  daughter,  who,  having  imbibed  the  progressive 
teachings  in  whose  advocacy  she  was  so  coura- 
geotu,  has  become  a  partner  in  a  business  firm  in 
New  Berne. 


HEWS  AHD  VOTES. 

—  Ptof.  Arthur  S.  Hardy,  the  aulbor  of  But 
Yet  a  Woman,  has  completed  a  new  novel,  which 
will  be  issued  during  the  spring  by  Houghton, 
MifHin  &  Co. 

—  Thougktt,  a  little  volume  of  reflections  and 
aphorisms,  by  Ivan  Panin,  Is  announced  for  early 
publication  by  Cupples,  Upham  &  Co.  The 
same  firm  have  just  ready  a  novel  called  Felltm 
TraviHeri,  by  Mr.  Edward  Fuller,  of  the  Soston 
Adverliiir  {Harvard,  i88a).  The  book  will  be 
published  in  London  by  Sampson  Low,  Marston 
Sl  Co.,  simultaneously  with  its  appearance  in  this 
country. 

—  Ginn  A  Co.  announce  as  forthcoming  in  their 
Library  ef  Angl^Saxon  Poetry,  CynewulPs  PAa- 
nix,  edited  by  Prof.  W.  S.  Currell  of  Hamp- 
den-Sydney  College,  Virginia!  Maldon  Fight, 
edited  by  Prof.  Thomas  R.  Price  of  Columbia 
College !  and  The  Riddlei  ef  Cyiutvulf,  by  Dr. 
B.  W.  Wells  of  the  Friends'  School  at  Provi- 
dence, Rhode  Island.  Caiat'i  Army :  a  Study 
of  the  Military  Art  of  tke  Romani  ia  the  Last 
Days  efthe  Republic,  by  H.  P.  Judson,  Professor 
of  History  in  the  University  of  Minnesota,  ia 
also  to  be  brought  out  by  this  firm. 

—  The  76'th  Wrthdayof  Rev.  Jatnes  Freeman 
Clarke  and  the  64th  birthday  of  Rev.  Edward 
Everett  Hale  were  duly  celebrated  in  this  city 
last  week  by  loving  parishioners  and  admiring 
friends,  including  a  considerable  representation 
of  the  reading  public. 

—  The  Springfirld  RfptMican  announces  a 
series  of  twelve  war  sketches  by  Massachusetts 
soldiers,  designed  to  reproduce  in  vivid  colors 
some  of  the  slirring  scenes  and  experiences  of 
twenty-five  years  ago.    "The  Citiien  Soldier," 


for  example,  will  be  depicted  by  J.  L.  Bowen, 
"The  Army  Chaplain,"  by  Rev.  John  F,  Moors, 
« Up  the  Teche  with  Banks,"  by  Prof.  H.  M. 
Whitney  now  of  Beloit,  and  "An  Escape  from 
a  Southern  Prison,"  by  Ira  B.  Sampson.  The 
articles  will  appear  on  Mondays,  and  will  be 
reprinted  in  the  weekly  edition. 

—  Signs  and  Seasons,  the  new  book  by  Johi 
Bnrroughis  which  is  today  issued  by  Houghton 
Mifflin  &  Co.,  has  been  delayed  in  order  that  it 
might  be  published  simultaneously  in  Glasgoi 

—  Messrs.  D.  Lothrop  &  Co.  namber  among 
their  April  publications  a  book  by  E.  S.  Brooks, 
called  /«  LeisUr'i  Times,  illustrated  with  de- 
signs by  Mr.  W.  T.  Smedley.  It  is  a  story  of 
Knickerbocker  life    in    New    York.      Etekingi 

from  Ta>B  Lands,  by  Clara  M.  Arthur,  ia  a 
series  of  etchings  with  an  accompaniment  of 
text,  somewhat  in  the  autobiographic  style,  giv- 
ing an  account  of  mission  work  abroad. 

—  The  George  Fuller  Memorial  volume,  3 
brief  account  of  which  was  given  in  our  columns 
some  weeks  ago,  is  expected  to  be  oat  today. 
It  is  understood  that  the  proceeds  of  the  sate 
of  this  volume,  after  paying  expenses,  are  to  be 
turned  over  to  Mrs.  Fuller. 

—  Mr.  E.  P.  Usher's  new  volume  on  Sale 
of  Personal  Proptrty  in  Massaehtisetli,  already 
alluded  to  in  these  columns,  is  now  ready. 
Little,  Brown  ft  Co.  publish  it 

—  A  new  illustrated  Frenih  Beak  for  Be- 
ginners, by  Sophie  D'Oriot,  is  announced  for 
early  publication  by  Messrs.  Ginn  &  Co. 

Dr.  Josiah  Royce,  whose  new  volume,  Cali- 
famia,  in  the  "American  Commonwealths  Se- 
ries," is  just  ready,  is  a  native  of  California  and 
was  at  one  time  Professor  in  the  State  University 
at  Berkeley.  His  new  book  takes  up  bat  the 
portion  of  Califomian  history  from  the  conquest 
in  1S46  to  the  second  Vigilance  Committee  in 
San  Francisco. 

—  The  explorations  at  Zoan  (Tanis),  with  a 
historical  sketch,  are  soon  to  appear  in  Harper's 
Magaiine,  with  full  illustrations.  Miss  Amelia 
B.  Edwards  is  to  tell  the  story. 

—  Among  the  further  new  books  t»  be 
issued  by  New   York    houses,    the    following 

:s  are  noted  :  Songs  and  Ballads  ef  the 
Seufkern  People,  by  Frank  Moore ;  The  Pear 
Guard  ef  tke  Rmolution,  a  historical  study,  by 
Edmund  Kirk  ;  The  DnieUpment  ef  the  Roman 
Constitution,  by  Ambrose  Tighe;  Creation  or 
Evelution,  by  George  Ticknor  Curtis,  and  vol- 
umes on  Shaflesbui7  and  Raleigh,  from  D. 
Appleton  ft  Co.  Fresh  Water  Fishes  of  Europe, 
by  H.  G.  Seeley,  and  By  Fire  and  Sword,  by 
Thomas  Archer,  from  Casaell  ft  Co.  Narrative 
of  Veyages  and  Commercial  Enterprises,  by 
Horace  W.  S.  Cleveland ;  Economics  for  the 
People,  by  R.  R.  Bowker;  Mary  and  Martha,  the 
Mother  and  Wife  ef  Washingten,  a  historical 
essay,  by  Benson  J.  Lossing;  George  Eliot  and 
her  Heroines,  by  Mrs.  Abba  Goold  Woolson ; 
A  Victorious  Defeat,  a  novel,  by  Wolcott  Bales- 
tier;  Barbara's  Vagaries,  by  Mrs.  M.  L.  Tidball, 
and  Rolf  House,  by  Mrs.  Lut^  C.  Liltie,  from  the 
Harpers.  Holt  ft  Co.  announce  a  number  of  new 
English  novels  [or  the  "  Leisure  Hour  Series," 
and  a  liltie  illustrated  book  by  Mr.  J.  A.  Mitch- 
ell, the  editor  of  Life.  James  Pott  &  Co.  an- 
nounce many  new  English  theological  books.  G. 
P.  Putnam's  Sons  will  devote  most  of  their  ener- 
gies to  pushing  the  "Storyof  the  Nations  Series," 
for  which  stirring  contributions  have  been  prom- 


ised from  Prof.  Boyesen,  Rev.  E.  E.  Hale  and 
Miss  Hale,  Baring-Gould,  Prof.  Mahaffy,  Helen 
^mmem,  and  Stanley  Lane  Poole.  Another 
enterprise  which  this  firm  have  in  band  is  a 
Boys'  and  Girls'  Library  of  American  Bii^raphy, 
and  volumes  are  already  in  hand  written  by  Nsah 
Brooks,  E.  E.  Hale,  and  Thomas  W.  Knox. 
The  Scribners  have  published  already  most  of 
(heir  spring  books,  but  Fisher's  History  of  Mod' 
ern  Philosophy,  Qualtrough's  Manual  for  Boat 
Sailers,  and  Mr.  Banner's  new  story  are  still  to 

—  The  Scribners  will  have  the  twentieth  vol- 
ome  of  the  Encyclopedia  Britannica  ready  in  a 

—  Mr.  Henry  James's  new  novel,  Tlte  Boston- 
ians,  we  hear  has  proved  an  entire  failure,  and 
many  bookaellers  are  complaining  that  Mr. 
James's  popularity  has  suddenly  left  him,  much 
to  their  loss.  It  was  said  that  the  American 
edition  of  this  book  was  to  have  been  shipped 
from  London  on  the  ill-fated  "  Oregon,"  but  that, 
by  what  was  deemed  a  happy  accident,  the  sap- 
ply  was  delayed  a  day  or  two.  Had  this  not 
happened  the  insurance  companies  might  per- 
haps have  proved  better  purchasers  than  the 
general  public 

—  Some  lime  ago  the  Literary  World  an- 
nounced that  the  June  number  of  Harper's  Maga- 
zine would  contain  Mr.  George  Parsons  Lalhrop's 
paper  on  literary  New  York  with  portraits  o( 
many  of  the  leading  lights  of  the  literary  metrop- 
olis. We  now  learn  from  Mr.  Alden,  the  editor, 
that  the  article  will  not  be  pablished  until  Octo- 
ber or  November.  In  the  May  number  Mrs. 
Craik's  story,  "  King  Arthur,"  will  be  concluded. 
In  the  June  issue  an  important  paper  on  "  The 
Transition  of  the  American  Navy,"  by  Rear  Ad- 
miral Edward  Simpson  will  be  printed,  and  in  the 
series  of  papers  on  American  industries  an 
anonymous  writer  will  tell  of  the  processes  which 

used  in  the  making  of  a  "  Lump  of  Sugar." 
-Mr.  J.  Brander  Matthews  has  just  sailed 
for  Europe  again  to  spend  the  summer  in  Sug* 
land.  When  in  London  he  will  be  the  guest  of 
Mr.  Andrew  Lang,  Mr.  Dobson,  and  Mr.  Gosse 
He  leaves  a  short  story,  entitled  "The  Perturbed 
Spirit,"  which  will  be  published  in  the  May 
Century,  and  during  his  absence  will  contribute 
a  series  of  letters  to  the  New  York  Commercial 
Advertiser. 

—  Mr.  Henry  George,  with  several  members 
of  his  own  family,  has  formed  a  publishing  firm 

New  York  with  offices  at  16  Astor  Place. 
The  chief  business  transacted  will  be  the  pub- 
lication of  Mr.  George's  books,  which  still  have 

The  American  branch  of  Frederick  Watne 
ft  Co.  is  soon  to  issue  a  collection  of  twenty- 
Danish  and  Norwegian  short  stories  by  the 
best-known  writers  of  the  two  countries.  The 
book  will  bear  the  title,  ,*  Stork's  Nest;  Pleas- 
ant Reading  from  tke  Nartk. 

—  The  American  Historical  Association  will 
hold  its  3d  annual  meeting  at  Washington, 
D,  C„  April  27-'9,  the  Hon.  George  Bancroft 
presiding. 

—  The  Rev.  J.  H.  Van  Buren  of  Newbury- 
port,  Mass.,  has  told  "  the  story  of  the  Christian 
Church  "  in  a  series  of  six  senrons,  which  are 
to  be  published  as  A  Short  History  by  Jamea 
Polt  ft  Co.  of  New  York.  '' 

—  Mrs.  James  Brosm  Potter  and  .Mrs.  Ella 
Wheeler  Wilcox  are  to  grace  the  pages  o£  the 


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moot  praenoal  ivaton  of  Inderlng  ret  dcrlacd. 
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Vot.  XVII.        BOSTON,  HAY  t,  iMA. 


CONTENTS. 


LoTu'a  MtcnicosHUS 

Mimn  Fiction: 

Snow  Bound  U  Eaelt'a 

A  Rjnchnun'*  Stona 

A  ConTBDtioDil  Bohf  idUn     .... 

The  Life  of  ■  Pric 

The  SpMni^i  aiSdren,  and  Giber  People"* . 
T»lM  {roiD  HmDT  Sonm      .... 

Adim  Hepbnni'i  Vow 

Catlectien  Schick  —  "  The  Orerlgnd  I^inur  " 

Fnnk'iRiiiche 

Mawinic  eipKIitioiu  ind  Modern  Jodiun 
Flihei*!  Oullinei  ol  Univerul  HiitDri 
HuUnieHabI:  Har  Selon  aod  her  Fiiendi 
EveTv-Dn  RclifioD 
Fha  Sltinl  So«£    . 
—     --umnlii  in  tl 

KnctKfj  of  Cluriuble  mod  BeveScnit  Oixmnin- 

UoMO^Roiton 

The  Genlltmiin'i  Mantioe  Libmrr 
Cinon  Funr'e  Aisenan  AddroKi     . 

Bui,  or  Ibt  Adrentiiree  of  ■  Honey  Bee 
A  Tut-Book  (or  Cemiun  SludenO 


Thb  L*ts  Archbhiiof  Ti»ch.     From  Ihdf*^ 

Another  Book  br  ThidieniT .       .        .       .        ■ 

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IH  SoKi  KinsinCTOH  Studios.     K.  S.  H.     . 
OuH  CUKAH  Lkttu.     Leopold  KUKher     . 
Oui  N»  roH  Lrrnn.     Nuuu 
Shakbtmmiah*.    EditedbTWui.  J.  Rolie: 

FsTDM't  "  Virjonuu  "  OiluU*     .... 

TIm  New  Edition  ol  JodEC  Holmei't  W<^ 

NoTU  AMD  QauiB.     781 

Thb  PiuoDicAU 

TaiuTalk i« 

Nn»AHi>NoTBi is6 

LiTIIAIT  iHDBt 157 

NicitoLaav i^ 


GRAra  BOTAHT .• 

GRAY'S  Boiamcal  Text-Book  first  ap- 
peared in  1842 — forty-four  years  ago 
— and  reached  a  fifth  edition  in  1857.  Thi 
sixth  edition  now  appearing  has  been  sev 
eral  years  in  preparation,  and  has  been 
expanded  to  four  large  volumes.  Vol.  I, 
Stmciural  Botany,  by  Professor  Gray  him- 
self, was  issued  in  1879;  Vol.  11,  PkyHolcg- 
ical  Botany,  is  now  before  us,  by  Professor 
Goodile,  Dr.  Gray's  associate  at  Harvard; 
Vol.  Ill,  Crypiogamic  Botany,  is  in  prepara- 
tion by  another  associate.  Prof.  William  G. 
Farlow ;  Vol.  IV,  A  Sketch  of  the  Natural 
Orders  of  Pkanogamavs  Plants,  the  author 
says  he  "may  hope  rather  than  expect  him- 
self to  draw  up."  May  the  hope  be  abun- 
dantly realized  1 

Of  Professor  Goodale's  work  it  must  be 
sud,  in  a  word,  that  it  is  eminently  well 
done,  and  entirely  worthy  of  its  place 
Dr.  Gray's  great  series.    A  comparison  with 
Sach's  bulky  volume,  which  is  the  leadiug 


•Grtj'i  Bottnkaa  Teil-Book.  Vol.  It.  PhydoloiioJ 
Botuy.  ByCeOTKe  LiiKoloGoodilc,  A,  M-M'P'  ''<■ 
•BO,  BltktiM",  Tiylsi  A  Co.    ti-jo- 


tezt-book  at  present,  seems  decidedly  in 
favor  of  the  American.  The  work  is  less 
elaborate,  technical,  Germanized,  so  to 
>peak,  but  is  much  more  clear,  practical, 
compact,  without  any  loss  in  fuUuess  or 
detail  of  treatment  An  agreeable  contrast 
Sach's  is  the  plain,  direct  method  of 
tement,  as  distinguished  from  a  certain 
air  of  the  great  investigator  bringing  forth 
new  truths  and  trying  to  set  other  investi- 
gators right-  While  ihe  material  of  the 
book  is  drawn  with  great  learning  from  all 
the  latest  sources,  all  of  It,  so  to  speak,  has 
passed  under  the  Harvard  Professor's  mi- 
croscope, and  much  of  it  is  original.  The 
illustrations,  214  in  number,  have  been 
drawn  from  many  sources,  and  most  have 
been  somewhat  reduced  in  size  from  their 
foreign  originals,  presenting  a  more  pleasing 
appearance  to  the  eye,  and,  indeed,  a  more 
truthful  appearance  compared  with  the  mi- 
croscope. 

Protoplasm,  which  is  generally  about  as 
much  mixed  in  the  text-books  as  it  is  com- 
plex in  its  chemistry,  we  do  not  remember 
ive  seen  elsewhere  so  neatly  and  plainly 
treated.  The  same  is  true,  in  fact,  of  most 
of  the  larger  and  more  difficult  topics,  as 
Cells  and  Tissues,  Assimilation,  Plant 
Movements,  Metastasis,  which  the  writer 
very  properly  calls  Transmutation,  etc. 
Everywhere  throughout  the  book  there  is 
the  same  neatness,  clearness,  directness  of 
style,  reminding  one  of  the  unapproachable 
excellence  of  Dr.  Gray  himself  in  these  re- 
spects. The  Index  is  exceptionally  good, 
giving  the  etymologies  of  all  technical  terms. 
Two  features  which  practical  teachers  will 

Ighly  appreciate  are  the  introductory  chap- 
ter on  Histological  Appliances,  including 
instruments,  media,  re-agents,  etc,  an< 
appendix  of  thirty-five  pages  of  suggestions 
for  actual  laboratory  work  in  Histology.  It 
may  be  safely  said  that  this  book  of  Profes- 
sor Goodale's,  in  connection  ivilh  Dr.  Gray' 
Structural  Botany,  is  the  beat  work  now  t 
be  had  for  what  It  was  intended,  namely,  the 
introduction  to  the  study  of  phxnogamous 
forms  and  functions. 


OAPTAIH  JOHV  DASaEBOnS.* 

WE  have  given  the  title  of  Mr.  Sala' 
romance  in  full,  because,  with  his 
name  at  the  end  of  it,  it  speaks  for  itself. 
Such  a  tale  by  such  an  author  can  be  of 
only  one  kind.  One  would  expect  to  And 
in  it  something  novel,  something  lively, 
something  vigorous,  some  things  coarse  and 
some  things  unconventional,  and  but  little 
that  was  not  entertaining.  The  narrative 
which  Mr.  Sala  says  he  has  "Attempted" 
In  "  Plain  English,"  and  which  he  certainly 


has  executed  in  very  effective  English,  pur- 
ports to  be  the  autobiographic  memoirs  of 
an  English  adventurer  of  the  East  century, 

Ltending  from  his  boyhood  to  his  old  age. 
It  Is  a  direct  and  straightforward  narrative, 

1th  few  passages  of  dialogue,  cleverly 
cast  in  the  Eighteenth  Century  mold, 
piquantly  flavored  with  the  epithets,  the 
Jang,  the  exclamations,  and,  we  may  add, 
the  oaths  of  its  time,  plentifully  accented 

ith    capital    letters,  and,    in    its    subject- 

atter,  provided  with  a  rich  and  animated 
background  of  history  and  society.  The 
Captain's  yarn  suffices  (as  it  is  designed}  to 
give  a  picture  of  England  and  of  the  many 
foreign  parts  he  visited,  as  they  were  in 
the  early  and  middle  part  of  the  last  cen- 
tury. British  politics,  French  assassina- 
tions, Dutch  merchantmen,  Jamaica  plant- 
and  Algerine  prisons  help  to  enliven  it. 
The  Captain  has  a  good  memory  for  every- 
body whom  be  ever  met  and  everything  he 
saw,  and  whether  describing  an  old 
house  on  Hanover  Square,  an  ale  bouse  in 
one  of  the  King's  forests,  a  dungeon  in  one 
of  his  Majesty's  jails,  a  crusade  against  the 
Maroons,  the  beach  and  the  bathers  at  Os- 
tend,  Vienna  and  the  Danube,  a  Parisian 
theater,  a  cruise  on  the  Atlantic  or  in  the 
Mediterranean,  a  secret  expedition  in  the 
service  of  an  Italian  Cardinal,  scenes  in 
Venice,  or  a  romance  among  the  Moors, 
he  seems  never  at  a  fault  for  facts  and  the 
colors  to  embellish  them.  A  larger  slice 
of  life,  with  a  more  pungent  taste  to  the 
itbful,  is  seldom  to  be  had  for  twenty 

The  fint  things  that  Captain  John  Dan- 
gerous remembers  relate  to  the  mysterious 

irroundlngs  of  his  early  home  in  Hanover 
Square  in  London,  and  the  death  and  burial 
of  his  old  grandmother.  Next  he  was  sent 
school  to  one  Gnawbit,  a  heartless 
brute,  from  whose  cruelties  he  fled  to  take 
refuge  with  a  gang  of  freebooters  in  Cbarl- 
wood  Forest.  Barely  escaping  the  halter 
from  his  association  with  these  outlaws, 
he  was  transp>orted  to  the  West  Indies, 
under  a  skipper  who  was  only  another 
Gnawbit  oS  shore.  From  Jamaica  he 
drifted  back  to  the  Low  Countries,  and 
became  body  servant  to  a  contemptible 
young  English  gentleman,  with  whom  and 
his  chaplain  he  made  the  "Grand  Tour" 
of  the  Continent,  and  saw  the  world  of 
wealth  and  fashion  as  It  then  existed.  The 
next  fifteen  years  of  his  life,  for  reasons 
of  "  prudence,"  he  passes  over,  leaving  the 
reader  to  fill  the  gap  as  he  pleases;  and 
this  task  is  not  a  difficult  one  for  an  imag- 
ination of  which  Captain  Dangerous  has 
had  the  feeding  for  fifteen  chapters.  After 
this  he  became  by  turns  one  of  the  War- 
ders of  the  Tower  of  London,  goes  into  - 
lulucky  marital  partnership  with  a  Madam 
Taffetas,  sets  sail  with  Captain  Blokes  for 
a  voyage  round  the  world,  brings  up  in 
H4llm4  in  ft  B9V  liA«  «(  inisfomin««L_u._  _ 


144 


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[May  I, 


lists  as  a.  secret  agent  of  a  Roman  Cardinal, 
and  is  taken  prisoner  by  the  Moors,  carried 
captive  to  Algiers,  and  made  cymbal  player 
to  tbe  Oey.  Here  by  a  romantic  adventure 
he  meets  his  lady-love  of  a  few  years  back, 
marries  her,  is  cruelly  separated  from  her, 
and  only  after  further  sorrows  finds  peace 
for  his  last  years. 

A  bold  and  adventurous  fellow  was  Cap- 
tain Dangerous ;  who  saw  much  that  has 
long  since  passed  out  of  mind,  with  some 
things  that  were  coarse,  others  that  were 
horrible,  and  many  that  were  amusing ;  and 
whose  graphic  account  of  himself  through 
all  the  ups  and  downs  of  his  long  and 
changeful  life  it  will  on  the  whole  do  no- 
body any  great  harm  to  read.  It  is  high 
praise  of  fiction  to  say  that  it  sounds  like 
fact,  but  that  is  what  the  critic  in  all  hon- 
esty must  say  of  this.  Indeed,  that  the 
story  is  so  largely  made  out  of  fact  is 
what  gives  it  its  strong  bold  upon  the  at- 
tention and  the  interest.  The  dreadful 
things  in  it,  belonging  to  the  Age  of 
Cruelty,  tender  minded  readers  would  bet- 

LOTZE'8  MIOROOOSMUS." 

THE  name  of  Lotze  was  first  rendered 
familiar  to  American  ears  by  the  Bos- 
ton Monday  Lectureship  some  years  back. 
Prof.  B.  P.  Bowne'a  Mitapkysics  (1882)  was 
an  excellent  presentation  of  the  Lotzian 
scheme,  in  its  general  features,  while  the 
Clarendon  Press  has  more  recently  issued 
the  l^pt  and  the  Melaphysic  in  their  latest 
forms.  These  works  are  for  students,  while 
the  series  of  Oullines  of  Lotze's  lect 
under  the  editorship  of  Prof.  I.add, 
issuing,  is  too  condensed  to  be  easy  reading. 
It  has  been  reserved  for  two  English  ladies 
to  present  in  our  language  the  1 
versally  interesting  work  of  the  German 
philosopher.  The  daughter  of  Sir  Wi 
Hamilton,  and  Miss  Jones  who  finished  her 
task,  deserve  great  praise  for  the  high  ex- 
cellence of  their  translation.  Lotze  wrote 
much  better  than  most  Germans,  and  his 
style  in  the  present  volume  is  more  easily 
rendered  into  good  English  than  that  of 
hb  other  works;  but  he  was  himself  aware 
of  the  great  inferiority  of  his  countrymen  in 
regard  to  literary  forms : 

Let  the  Germans  not  deceive  themselves  — 
though  the  whole  nation  can  read  and  write, 
he  is  a  happy  man  who  need  not  hear  the  reaa- 
ing  nor  see  the  writing  1 


The  Microcasmut  is  a  treatise  of  S 
fifteen  hundred  pages  (far  too  heavy  for 
handling  in  one  volume)  on  the  little  world 
of  man — "  the  smaller  machine  of  the 
human  mind  .  >  .  enclosed  within  the  great 
machine  of    Nature."     Its  immense  com- 


prehension may  be  seen  from  the  titles  of 
its  nine  books;  they  treat,  in  succession, 
of  the  body,  the  soul,  life,  man,  mind,  the 
microcosmic  order,  or  the  course  of  human 
life,  history,  progress,  and  the  unity  of 
things — a  veritable  encyclopxdia  of  anthro- 
pological thought  Lotze  himself  designed 
I  attempt,  from  the  changed  points 
of  modern  life,  to  execute  the  same 
task  which  Herder  set  before  himself  in  his 
notable  Ideen  mr  Geschkkie  der  Munsch- 
heit.  He  is  no  unworthy  successor  of  that 
iympathetic  genius.  For  Lotze  combined 
n  a  very  rare  way  the  man  of  science,  the 
netaphysician,  and  the  moralist  He  wrote 
with  distinction  on  medical  subjects,  and  his 
history  of  esthetics  in  Germany  bore  equal 
witness  to  his  culture  in  art  and  literature. 
He  ivas  probably  the  most  broadly  and  thor- 
oughly cultivated  philosopher  of  this  century, 
and  every  page  of  Microcoimus  shows  a 
breadth  of  view  and  a  balanced  judgment 
which  are  sadly  lacking  in  the  works  of 
most  system-builders. 

The  one  object  which   Lotie  set  before 
him  in  this  most  attractive  treatise  for 
thoughtful  people  is  to  show 
how  absolutely  universal  is  the  extent,  and  at  the 
same  lime  how  complelely  sabotdinate  the  sig- 
nificance  of   the  mission  which  mechanism  ha£ 
to  fulfil  in  the  structure  of  the  world. 
In  other  words,  he  endeavored  to  reconcile 
the  spiritual  and  the  mechanical  views  of 
the  universe ;  and,  open  to  criticism  as  every 
such  attempt  must  necessarily  be,  it  \ 
seemed  to  many  that  Lotze  has  been  ii 
very  great  degree  successful    in   his  vast 
undertaking.      His  results,  always  indicated 
without    dogmatism,  will    probably   satisfy 
those  who  to  their  culture  have  added  sci- 
ence more  than  those  who  after  a  too  prevar 
lent  fashion  exalt  science  above  all  else. 
For  Lotze  had  a  firm  hold  on  the  just  pro- 
portion of  all  human  interests.    He  had  bis 
specialty  in  science,  but  it  did  not  over- 
balance his  wide  general  culture,  nor  destroy 
le  of  moral  values.     He  properly 
rebukes  those  who  would  make  science  a 
fetich : 

Having  once  tasted  the  delight  of  impartial 
id  wholly  unfettered  investigation,  they  rush 
to  a  sham  and  puerile  kind  of  heroism  that 
glories  in  having  renounced  that  which  no  one 
has  ever  any  right  to  renounce ;  and  reposing 
boundless  confidence  in  assumptions  which  are 
by  no  means  incontestable,  estimate  the  truth 
of  their  new  philosophic  views  in  direct  propor. 
tion  to  the  degree  of  offensive  hoatilily  which 
theie  exhibit  towards  everything  —  except  sci- 
ence—  that  is  held  sacred  by  the  living  soul  of 


ality  of  God,  his  emphasis  on  the  supremacy 
of  conscience  and  ethical  ideals,  his  tenets 
the  origin,  nature,  and  destiny  of  the 
il,  with  a  thousand    other  matters,  we 
inot  even  glance  at    But  those  who  are 
make  their  first  acquaintance  with  Lotze 
and  this  fascinating  work  through  this  trans- 
lation we  should  advise  to  read  first  the 
introduction,  and  then  to  turn  to  the  ad- 
mirable chapter  in  the  second  volume,  books 
nth  and  eighth,  on  History  and  Prog- 
ress.   Here  they  will  find  the  accomplished 
.uthor  at  his  finest  expression  in  the  most 
attractive  portion  of  his  subject,  and  can 
then  return  with  a  whetted  appetite  to  a 
\    systematic    reading  of   this   master- 
piece of  cultured  philosophy. 


>   Ehit  Coni 


iJDg    Mu    1 


.     Ch«l«l  Scribnef.  Sow.    I*.™ 


AH  the  endeavors  of  the  investigator 

have  in  this  last  resort  but  this  one  meaning, 
that  they,  in  connection  with  those  of  countless 
others,  should  combine  to  trace  an  image  of  the 
world  from  which  we  may  learn  what  we  '  --  - 
to  renounce  as  the  true  significance  of  eiisti 
what  we  have  to  do,  and  what  to  hope. 


For  Lotze's  distiaclive  doctrines  in 
vast  field  covered  by  this  work  we  have 
here  no  apace  for  exposition,  much  less  for 
criticism;  his  defence  fti  the  perfect  person- 


OESAB  SmOTTBAU.* 
HE  story  of  Char  Birotteau  could  have 
been  written  out  of  nothing  but  French 
materials,  nowhere  but  in  Paris,  and  by 
lobody  but  a  Frenchman.  French  char- 
acter, French  morals,  and  French  wit  all 
enter  into  its  composition;  the  scenery  of 
Paris  embellishes  it,  the  •citizens  of  Paris 
populate  It,  the  soul  of  Paris  animates  it 
Not  Paris  of  the  King  and  the  nobility, 
though  the  King — Louis  XVIII  — is  seen 
once  or  twice  in  the  distance,  as  it  were, 
through  an  open  door ;  nor  Paris  of  the 
ctaiaUh,  though  one  of  its  figures  is  Madam 
Madou,  once  fish-wife  and  now  fruiterer, 
whose  original  vigorous  and  enticing  beauty 
had  become  lost  in  a  vast  embonpoint;  but 
Paris  of  the  prosperous  bourgeoisit,  Paris 
of  the  merchants,  bankers,  and  tradesmen, 
Paris  of  the  middle-class,  Paris  of  shops, 
clerks,  and  francs.  The  story  follows  the  fort- 
unes of  a  self-made  man  and  his  family,  in 
their  ascent  by  hard  work  to  an  upper  so- 
cial level ;  then  through  their  downfall,  by 
the  knavery  of  others,  into  penury  and 
ifferiog,  and  out  finally  into  the 
peace  won  by  their  own  heroic  virtues. 
With  some  disreputable  characters,  with  free 
to  Parisian  immoralities,  with  oc- 
casional coarsenesses  and  violations  of  what 
most  of  us  call  good  taste,  the  substance 
of  the  book  is  yet  of  admirable  fiber ; 
s  ethics  are  more  than  sound,  they  are 
Itally  constructive ;  its  aim  and  spirit  are 
noble  and  fine ;  it  is  comedy  turned  to  good 
:  the  wit  of  one  page  provokes  to 
laughter  the  countenance  over  whicii  the 
page  draws  a  tear ;  the  whole  burden 
of  its  motive  is  in  behalf  of  honorable  love, 
lawful  marriage,  domestic  purity,  commer- 
cial integrity,  personal  honor,  the  values  of 
truth,  the  mastership  of  conscience,  the 
consolations  of  religion,  tbe  eternal  reward 
of  right  We  do  not  know  that  it  could 
have  been  done  without  impairing  the  va- 
lidity of  tbe  book ;  but  we  wish  that  the 
translator  might  have  softened  some  phrases 


1 886.] 


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145 


asA  omitted  some  references  in  the  interest 
of  that  perfect  cleanliness  which  ought  to 
characterize  the  best  reading.  But  then, 
perhaps,  Balzac  would  not  have  been  Bal- 
zac, and  there  Is  much  that  we  can  pardon 
to  a  good  French  novel,  a  novel  whose  main 
current  Is  so  pure,  so  strong,  so  wholesome 
as  this. 

After  saying  so  much  of  CAar  Birotteau 
is  it  necessary  to  add  that  it  is  very  read- 
able? The  hero,  whose  name  gives  the 
book  its  title,  cotnea  to  Paris  from  Touraine, 
with  hob-naiied  shoes  on  his  feet,  a  cudgel 
in  his  hand,  and  the  prospects  of  a  peaaant- 
lad  before  him.  He  sets  up  in  business, 
marries,  prospers,  makes  a  lucky  stroke  in 
the  Restoration  during  the  'teens  of  the 
Eighteenth  Century,  is  elected  deputy-mayor 
of  his  arrondissement,  and  finally  is  deco- 
rated with  the  ribbon  of  the  Legion  of 
Honor.  His  successes  turn  his  head.  He 
aspires  to  social  recognition  from  circles 
above  him,  and  gives  a  grand  and  costly 
ball  to  celebrate  his  rise.  Simultaneously 
the  passion  of  speculation  seizes  him,  and 
falling  a  credulous  victim  to  a  conspiracy 
of  sharpers,  he  invests  pretty  much  his  all 
in  a  promising  land  purchase  in  the  vicinity 
of  the  Madeleine.  Between  the  extrava- 
gances of  his  social  folly  and  the  knavery 
of  his  land  associates  he  is  ruined,  and 
his  ruin  is  total  and  crushing.  With  the 
soul  of  honor  animating  the  three,  he,  his 
admirable  wife,  and  his  lovely  daughter 
begin  over  again  at  the  beginning,  not  to 
rebuild  the  foriunes  of  their  house  but  to 
rescue  it  from  the  dishonor  of  bankruptcy. 
Nothing  could  be  more  heroic  than  their 
effort,  with  all  the  odds  against  tbi 
nothing  more  pathetic  than  the  figure  of 
Birotteau,  stripped  and  resolute,  bending 
to  the  task  before  him.  How  impressive 
his  attitude  in  adversity !  How  pathetic  his 
refusal  to  wear  any  longer  the  Ribbon  of 
his  Order,  until  his  disgrace  ia  retrieved! 
What  a  triumph  bis  return  to  the  Bourse 
when  his  last  debt  has  been  paid !  He 
stands  like  one  of  Napoleon's  soldiers  1 
the  field  of  battle;  as  pitiless  as  bullets 
the  storm  of  disaster  which  has  laid  hi 
low.  The  magnanimous  devotion  of  his 
wife,  the  tender  loyalty  of  his  daughter 
warm  colors  in  the  picture. 

A  number  of  striking  characters,  good 
and  bad,  enliven  the  tale  with  picturesque- 
ness  and  impart  to  it  a  dramatic  variety. 
Besides  the  high-colored  shrewish  M£i 
Madou  whom  we  have  noted  above,  there 
is  the  arch  rascal  Du  Tillet,  the  author  of 
alt  the  mischief  which  saddens  this  drama 
of  real  life,  keeping  his  "  loophole  to  be- 
come in  alter  years  an  honest  man ;  "  there 
is  young  Fopinot,  worthy  apprentice  of  his 
worthy  master,  and  the  happy  lover  of  C^s- 
arine  ;  there  is  the  counterfeit  banker  Clap- 
eron,  greasy  beggar  that  he  was — how 
did  he  ever  deceive  the  elect?  there  is 
tto|;uin,  abs<:oiiding;  rogue,  and  Monsieur 


Molineux,  the  little  old  landlord  in  his  attic, 
and  good  Uncle  Pillerault,  the  retired  iron' 
monger,  and,  chiefest  of  all,  in  some  points, 

the  illustrious  Gaudissart,"  prince  of  com- 
mercial travelers,  a  Dick  Swiveller  with  a 
French  accent.   Howgenuineare thehumors 

if  the  rivalry  between  "The  Double  Paste 
of  Sultans  "  and  the  "  Macassar  Oil,"  and, 
indeed,  of  all  the  hair-oil  business  in  which 
Birotteau  and  his  partner  made  their  fort- 
How  delicious  the  satire  of  the 
prospectus  which  celebrates  the  merits  of 
the  new  "Cephalic  Oil!"  One  chapter  of 
lober  statement  describes  the  abuses  which 
characterize  French  proceedings  in  bank- 
ruptcy. Another  with  brilliancy  the  un- 
lucky ball.  Another  the  honors  of  Bir- 
otteau's  final  vindication.  Another  the 
pleasantries  of  Popinot's  supper  with  "the 
illustrious  Gaudissart "  at  the  opening  of 
the  Cephalic  Oil  campaign.  The  inside  of 
Parisian  perfumery  is  painted  in  full 
detail.  Domestic  love,  kindly  relationships, 
commercial  energy  and  thrift,  the  sweet 
offices  of  charity,  the  mercifulness  of  the 
Good  Samaritan,  make  agreeable  offsets 
the  vulgar  immoralities  of  Roguin  and  La 
Belle  Hollandaise,  the  cruel  villainy  of  Du 
Tillet,  the  financial  buffoonery  of  Claperon, 
and  the  sorrows  which  for  a  time  submerge 
the  house  of  Birotteau.  And  the  sunshii 
bursts  out  on  the  last  pages  of  the  book, 
though  it  rests  upon  the  suddenly 
lifeless  body  of  Birotteau,  the  cup  of  whose 
filled  too  full.  Great  humor  that 
broad  to  coarseness,  fine  feeling 
always  tender  and  true,  a  fidelity  to  life  and 
character  too  rigid  to  be  always  select, 
imitable  skill  in  what  may  be  called  the 
charcoal  drawing  of  literature,  and  a  fervent 
championship  of  what  is  honorable,  and  just, 
and  pure,  and  lovely,  and  of  good  report, 
these  are  the  traits  of  Cisar  Birotttait. 
And  the  current  of  its  interest  broadens  and 
deepens  steadily  from  the  beginning  to  the 
end,  so  that  it  leaves  the  mind  aglow  with 
lofty  sentiments  and  generous  purposes. 


UASSAOBES  OF  THE  HOUHTAIVS.- 

FROM  the  archives  of  the  Army  and  tl 
Interior  Departments  at  Washingto 
from  the  records  of  Indian  Commissioners 
and  Agents,  from  the  official  reports  of 
Generals  Commanding,  from  Congressional 
Debates,  from  histories  by  Bancroft,  Bar- 
rows, Benton,  Schoolcraft,  and  Parkman, 
from  sketches  by  Ross  Browne,  Helen  Jack- 
son, Dr.  Hayes,  J.  H.  Beadle,  R.  F.  Burton, 
and  Raphael  Pumpelly,  and  from  a  large 
additional  mass  of  treaty  texts,  review  arti- 
cles, public  documents,  correspondence,  per- 
sonal narratives,  and  miscellaneous  papers, 
Mr.  Dunn  has  compiled  this  handsomely 
made  octavo  of  764  pages.     His  authorities 


H»n>*t  ft  Brplhen.    fa./J. 


listed  in  full  at  the  end,  a  group  for 
each  of  the  twenty-one  chapters,  A  copious 
and  excellent  index  follows.  A  good  map 
of  the  United  States,  showing  the  Indian 
Reservations  from  New  York  to  the  Pacific* 
succeeds  the  Table  of  Contents  and  the  cat- 
alogue of  the  illustrations,  of  which  latter 
there  are  upwards  of  150.  The  general 
quality  of  these  is  good,  and  although 
doubtless  many  of  them  have  done  prior 
service  in  other  frames,  they  serve  very 
well  to  make  graphic  and  vivid  to  the  eye 
the  realities  of  that  frontier  life  and  Indian 
warfare  which  It  is  Mr.  Dunn's  purpose  to 
describe.  Prairies,  villages,  forts,  mountain 
ranges,  battle  fields,  views  on  the  great 
rivers,  on  the  trails,  and  on  the  "bad  lands," 
are  among  the  scenes  depicted;  and  we 
have  portraits  of  noted  Indian  chiefs  in  all 
their  horrid  finery  of  paint  and  feathers,  some 
subjects  in  natural  history  testifying  to  the 
strangeness  of  vegetable  growths  in  the 
Indian  country,  specimens  of  Indian  weap- 
ons, costumes,  and  habits,  and  last  but  not 
least  representations  of  many  of  the  most 
famous  battles  and  massacres,  drawn  with 
a  realism  which  does  full  justice  to  the 
cruelty  of  the  redskins  and  the  extremities 
of  the  whites.  These  are  the  outward  feat- 
ures of  a  book  which  embodies  a  great  deal 
of  research,  recounts  much  straightforward 
history,  and  furnishes  enough  of  romance, 
tragedy,  and  pathos  to  stir  by  turns  the 
reader's  interest,  pity,  and  indignation. 

Mr.  Dunn  has  done  his  literary  part  in 
what  seems  a  fair  and  judicial  spirit,  and 
with  a  skillful  and  effective  touch.  With 
sensibilities  keenly  alive  to  the  savagery  of 
the  Indians,  and  to  the  atrocities  they  have 
committed  upon  the  whites,  he  is  at  the 
same  time  fully  cognizant  of  the  gross  injus- 
tice that  has  been  done  to  them,  of  the 
cnielties  that  have  been  perpetrated  upon 
them,  of  the  wrongs  of  every  kind  they  have 
suffered.  And  his  book,  as  we  read  it, 
while  severe  in  both  directions,  is  fully  in 
favor  of  a  vrise  and  humane  policy  toward 
these  wards  of  the  nation.  His  estimate  of 
the  Indian  character  is  sober  and  just. 
"Why  should  we  be  horrified,"  he  asks,  "at 
their  eating  snakes,  lizards,  grasshoppers, 
dogs,  and  the  intestines  of  larger  animals, 
when  we  swallow  snails,  oysters,  frogs'  legs, 
sardines,  and  tripe?"    Sure  enough!   And 


.     impel 

him  to  l>e  conlented.  ...  It  will  require  years 
of  patient  cfForl  to  bring  these  people  lo  a  self- 
reliant,  honorable,  civilized  manhood.  ...  If 
not  impeded,  humanity  and  charity  will  solve 
the  problem,  bat  the  "  peace  policy  "  of  the  past 
eighteen  years  will  not  do  it.  .  .  .  it  is  no  Chrii- 
liinity  to  itarve  a  man,  and  offer  him  a  Sunday- 
school  by  way  of  eilreme  unction.  Let  us  be 
honest  and  fair  with  the  Indian,  and  temper  our 
justice  with  relieion  and  education.  The  mis- 
sionary and  teacher  are  working  nobly,  though 
the  fields  are  white  with  the  harvest,  and  the 
batvesieis  arf  but  few.    Religion  13  within  the 


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THE   LITERARY   WORLD. 


[Mav 


reach  ot  mott  of  ihe  tribei.  The  schools  at  Car- 
lUle.  HiDiplon,  Forest  Grove,  Chilocco,  Genoa, 
and  Albuquerque  are  doing  much  towards  the 
education  of  the  rising  generation.  If  the  gov- 
ernment and  the  people  will  supplement  these 
efforts  by  the  nb*erv»nce  of  common  honesty 
and  good  failh,  if  an  intelligent  effort  ii  made 
to  prevent  wrong  and  remove  disturbing  causes, 
by  Ihe  cloae  of  the  century  Ihe  Indian  will  l>e 
almost  lost  in  the  American. 

It  is  by  a  slow  and  painfnl  path  that  Mr. 
Dutin  reaches  this  hopeful  conclusioo.  Be- 
giDDiDg  with  those  early  steps  toward  Texas 
and  Oregon  whicii  carried  the  government 
domain  southward  to  Mexico  and  westward 
to  the  Pacific,  he  then  follows  down  the 
bloody  stream  of  IndiaD  history,  his  chief 
stopping-places  being  the  murder  of  the 
missionaries  in  Oregon,  the  Oatman  Massa- 
cre in  what  is  now  Arizona,  the  Mount^n 
Meadows  horror,  the  battle  at  Fort  Phil 
Kearney,  the  tragedy  of  the  Lava  Beds,  the 
Custer  tragedy  on  the  Little  Big  Horn,  and 
the  Nez  Percys  War.  Minor  incidents 
enough  of  like  complexion  are  scattered 
along  Ijetween  these  monumental  events 
which  give  a  general  course  to  the  history. 
The  narrative  is  circumstantial,  vivid,  often 
thrilling.  The  cruelties  of  the  Indiana,  the 
sufferings  of  the  whites,  the  barbarous  atroc- 
ities of  Indian  warfare  are  al!  related  with 
an  unsparing  band ;  and  there  are  personal 
experiences  imbedded  in  this  history,  tragic 
enough,  pitiful  enough — to  make  a  stout 
heart  weep.  It  is  one  long  chapter  of 
wrong  and  retaliation,  of  give  and  take  i 
the  worst  sense,  of  the  devil  let  loose  hi  hi 
roost  violent  mood.  Is  it  too  much  to  hope 
that  the  end  is  nearP  Can  we  turn  from 
these  unrolled  horrors  of  the  past  with 
fidence  in  a  better  future  for  both  the  red 
man  and  bis  master? 

HmOB  FIOTIOV. 


In  this  dramatic  story  the  Sierra*  of  Southern 
California  afford  a  solemn  background  for  the 
play  of  human  life  and  passion.  At  the  opei 
ing  occurs  a  stage  robbery;  and  most  of  the 
remainder  of  the  story  is  separated  into 
parts;  the  adventures  of  a  party  of  the  passen- 
gers in  fruitless  pursuit  of  the  highwaymen,  and 
the  quiet  scene  at  "Eagle's,"  a  high  plateau  shut 
in  by  mountains  with  only  one  known  e 
where  one  of  ihe  passengers  has  c.tlablished 
home,  and  where  the  ladies  of  his  family,  who 
are  of  Eastern  education  and  refinement.  < 
lain  two  of  the  escaped  robbers,  in  ignoran 
(heir  character.  Their  guest^  however,  an 
coarse  in  manner,  and  the  parly  remain  " 
bound"  for  a  week  without  discovery.  Good 
Opportunity  for  contrast  is  found  in  (he  associa- 
ion  of  the  owner  oE  the  ranch  al  "Eagle's"  and 
his  companions  in  the  chase  after  the  stage 
robbers  i  and  there  is  some  vigorous  characier 
drawing.  The  descriptions  of  scenery,  however, 
have  not  quite  Ihe  vividness  whereby  the  read- 
ers ot  William  Black  can  reproduce   his  land- 


I  the  - 


!  any 


would  seem  to  be  ihat  in  the  old  saying  "Des- 
perate diseases  require  desperate  remedies." 

A  Ranchman's  Stories.  By  Howard  Seely, 
[Dodd,  Mead  &  Co.  fi.oo.] 
Ten  "short  stories"  compose  this  volume,  but 
omc  of  ihem  arc  of  good  length.  They  are  gen- 
Tally  of  the  Bret  Harte  locale  and  in  a  Bret  Harle 
vein,  but  are  not  imitations,  having  a  characier 
of  their  own.  In  some  respects  they  are  up  to 
the  Bret  Haite  level.  Their  merit  is  their  gen- 
ineness,  truth  being  an  evident  quality.  They 
:e  the  work  of  a  writer  who  has  seen,  nol 
lerely  imagined,  and  their  foundation  is  there- 
fore solid.  Their  fault  is  a  tendency  to  "fine 
rriling  "  in  the  descriptive  pass^es,  a  labored 
nd  stilled  manner,  an  overweight  of  Latinized 
pithct,  which  stands  as  a  certain  sort  of  incon- 
gruity when  laken  in  connection  with  Ihe  subject- 
matter.  Rewritten  in  a  simpler  diction  they 
would  be  belter.    They  are  good  now. 

lund  Pen- 

of  this  tale  of  modern  soc 
principally  among  the  residents  and  visitors  at 
ihe  Atlantic  coast  not  far 
from  Boston.    Bright, 

by  the  various  characters  who  assemble 
there,  constitutes  most  of  the  story.  There  ii 
perhaps  a  rather  too  general  and  overpowering 
brilliancy  shown  in  this  interplay  of  wits, 
which  is  so  metaphysical  as  to  require  close 
attention  for  its  comprehension.  The  most  prom- 
inent characlcrs  are  three:  a  charming  young 
dow,  who  may  fairly  be  considered  the  heto- 
:,  and  who  attracts  sundry  lovers ;  the  n 
favored  of  her  admirers,  a  rather  unambiti 
artist ;  and  a  fiery,  intense  young  woman  i 
delights  in  violating  the  proprieties,  and  has 
ittle  principle.  Several  other  peopli 
Llely  associated  with  these.  The  plot,  «E 
first  slight,  grows  in  interest  with  su^ested 
doubts  as  to  the  death  of  Ihe  husband  of  the 
supposed  widow,  and  with  the  machinations  of 
the  unprincipled  woman  above  mentioned  ii 
trying  out  a  plan  she  has  formed  of  herself 
capturing  Ihe  artist.  Evil  is  for  a  period  tri- 
umphant, as  too  often  in  real  life  ;  and  the  good 
that  is  finally  resultant  comes  only  through  pain 
and  tragedy.  Opinions  may  differ  on  ihe  ques- 
lion  which  is  (he  "conventional  Bohemian." 
Possibly  the  artist  As  a  whole  Ihe  work  shows 
an  able  writer.  It  is  lingcd,  perhaps,  with  Ihe 
sadness  of  the  pessimistic  outcome  of  modern 
skepticism.  Al  any  rate  ils  interest  lies  less 
scenes  and  descriptions  than  in  its  reflection  of 
human  life. 

Thi  Lift  cf  a  Frig.    By  One.     [Henry  Holt 
&  Co.    >i.oo.] 

This  is  a  reprint  of  a  bit  of  English  satire.  If 
prigs  were  classified  —  a  Book  of  Prigs 
after  the  idea  of  Thackeray's  Beei  of  Snobs  — 
the  hero  of  Ibis  tale,  who  tells  it  in  the  first 
person  singular,  would  fall  into  Ihe  cUss  of 
prigs  theological.  He  passes  in  the  course  of 
his  sketch  from  bis  family  traditions  of  old- 
fashioned  "High-Church"  belief  to  the  most 
extreme  "Advanced"  ideas  and  ceremonials 
known  and  practiced  al  Oxford  —  if  anything 
exaggerated,  even  fantastic,  really  is  practiced 
there i  travels  on  the  continent!  takes  offence  at 
a  sharp  reproof  by  a  "  dun  "  of  his  college  whom 


he  chances  to  meet,  and  seeks  to  join  the  Roman 
Church ;  but  not  being  received  in  a  manner 
which  he  deems  fitting,  he  goes  on  in  his  intel' 
iectual  migrations,  through  Hindu  religions  and 
Mohammedanism,  lo  agnosticism.  Host,  if  not 
all,  of  these  phases  of  thought,  are  held  up  to 
ridicule,  especially  the  last;  and  here  the  general 
strongly  recalls  some  of  Mallock's  writing, 
but  is  not  so  deeply  philosophical.  The  humor 
of  the  whole  is  a  little  in  the  ponderous  British 

ityle.    The  American  publishers  have  made  a 

ilriking  cover  in  black  and  scarlet. 


Under  the  above  title  are  grouped  eighteen  of 
is  author's  short  stories,  all  of  which  have 
appeared  in  some  of  our  leading  periodicals,  but 
lone  the  less  acceptable  in  their  present 
form.  Here  are  samples  of  her  best  work,  like 
The  Deacon's  Week,"  "A  Black  Silk,"  and 
Some  Account  of  Thomas  Tucker;"  here  are 
Ihe  pretty,  typical  New  England  girls  who  are 
winsome,  with  a  spice  of  coquetry,  but  whose 
hearts  and  brains  and  principles  are  all  right; 
the  sturdy  youths  who  arc  made  captive  by 
Ihem;  the  bard-worked  mothers;  the  grim  dea- 
and  other  orthodox  men,  given  over  to 
rresi  of  doctrines,  and  whose  mission  in  life 
s  to  lie  to  make  all  iheir  women-folk  ancom- 
fortable.  Here,  too,  are  the  genuine  Vankee 
humor,  the  old-fashioned  manners,  modes  of 
living,  vernacular,  and,  beyond  all,  the  presenta- 
of  the  very  bone  and  fiber,  spirit  and  sub- 
^e,  of  old  Puritanism  as  il  has  survived  in 
Connecticut,  in  all  ils  soundness  and  severity,  its 
stamina  and  tenacity,  exemplified  in  the  elderly 
men,  while  Ihe  sweel-souled  women  who  belong 
to  them  illustrate  the  patience  and  long-suffering 
and  various  graces  which  are  supposed  to  thrive 
under  repression.  No  pen  has  drawn  this  class 
of  persons  with  firmer,  more  telling  lines  than 
Mrs-  Cooke,  and  everything  to  which  she  puts 
her  hand  has  the  imprint  of  her  own  individual- 
ity. Her  humor  is  delightful,  and  the  moral 
purpose  Ihat  goes  along  with  il  Is  unroislakable- 


We  are  unable  in  the  present  crowded  stale  of 
our  columns  to  give  any  extended  account  of 
these  IWD  additions  to  a  series  of  already  estab- 
lished popularity.  The  call  for  short  stories  is 
legitimate,  insatiable,  and  is  here  well  supplied. 
There  are  seven  stories  in  each  volume.  All,  if 
we  mistake  not,  are  by  English  writers,  amimg 
them  our  own  London  correspondent,  Miss  A, 
Mary  F.  Robinson,"  Mrs,  Forrester,"  Ihe  lale 
Grenville  Murray,  the  late  "  Hugh  Conway," 
Miss  Peard,  and  Mr,  Poynter  ;  and  a  number  of 
Ihem  al  least  are  reprinis  from  the  English 
nagaiines.  While  the  reader  will  find  some 
differences  of  merit  and  of  interest  in  the  four- 
teen, he  may  commit  himself  wilh  a  good  degree 
of  confidence  lo  either  one. 

e  S-  Swan. 
.00.] 

This  stirring  historical  romance  is  well  de- 
scribed by  its  aub-tille,  "A  Tale  of  Kirk  and 
Covenant."  Ils  leading  characters  are  among  the 
Scotch  covenanters  —  so  called  from  iheir  sturdy 
adherence  to  the  '*solemn  league  and  covenant" 
in  support  of  the  national  Piesbyterianism,  in 


1 886.] 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


the  eidting  daji  when  the  English  government, ' 
under  Charlea  II  and  his  brother  James,  under- 
took to  enforce  upon  the  Scots  an  unwelcome 
uniformity  with  'English  Episcopacy,  and  sub- 
jected to  penecution  those  who  actively  lesisttd 
their  efiorts.  The  vow  of  Adam  Hepburn  was  an 
oath  of  extraordinary  vengeance  for  the  killing 
of  his  wife  by  a  cavalry  party  —  who,  howevtr, 
were  in  pursuit  of  him,  and  committed  the  deed 
accidentally,  intending  their  shots  (or  a  noisy 
dog.  The  writer  does  not  excuse  the  spirit  thus 
shown,  though  it  is  made  to  give  title  to  (he 
Mory.  There  are  many  vivid  scenes,  of  hard- 
ships, of  combats,  and  of  narrow  escapes,  until 
at  last  the  change  of  government  following  the 
revolution  of  l6SS  secured  general  toleration 
and  reinstated  the  expelled  pastors  of  the  Kirk. 
The  story  has  farce  and  pathos  in  its  elements  of 
personal  action  and  feeling,  and  is  a  strong  pict- 
ure <rf  the  turbulent  times  represented.  We  can 
hardly  censure  too  strongly,  however,  the  writer's 
tJium  theilogiaim.  In  her  conlempluous  language 
respecting  the  admittAlly  beautiful  and  devout 
liturgy  of  the  Church  of  England,  language  in 
eqiecially  bad  taste  in  these  days  of  aspiration 
and  effort  fur  closer  Christian  union.  A  parli- 
KUi  bias  is  further  shown  in  the  calm  assumption 
of  exclusive  holiness  in  one  form  of  religion,  as 
well  as  in  the  customary  misuse  of  the  words 
Sabbath  and  "helpmeet"  —  which  we  may  term 
a  sort  of  shibboleth. 


also  intended  for  text-books  in  learning  the 
langu^e,  the  proposed  method  being  to  read 
the  German  story  first  and  then  the  translation, 
:r  verta,  and  to  repeat  this  operation  until 
the  meaning  it  thoroughly  nattered.  We  do 
not  believe  German  or  any  other  language  was 
well  learned  in  (hat  way. 


[Each  35c.] 

These  two  series  are  published  by  L.  Schick 
of  Chicago,  the  former  in  German,  the  latter  in 
English  translation  of  the 
The  German  ttoriei  are  selected  From  the  best 
European  writers,  chiefly  German  —  Heyse,  Sach- 
er-Masoch,  Storm,  Riebl,  HacklUnder,  Karl  Fran- 
zos,  and  Rudolf  Lindau,  and  many  othi 
selection  is  judiciously  made,  and  includes  the 
very  pearls  of  modem  German  literature.  From 
Franaos,  for  example,  we  ha*e,  "  Dcr  Shylock 
von  Bamow,"  and  "  Nach  dem  hSheren  Gescti," 
and  if  there  ate  two  stories  of  greater  dramatic 
power  and  grewsome  fascination  in  modern 
IlterMure  we  do  not  know  them.  We  have  had 
occasion  to  mention  Franzos  before  in  these 
colomns,  and  we  are  glad  to  call 
him  again  in  connection  with  this  well-printed 
and  handy  edition  of  short  stoi 
done  for  the  German  and  Russian  Jews  what 
Cable  is  trying  to  do  for  the  Creoles,  immoi 
taliie  their  characteristics  and  idealize  the! 
lives  and  customs.  No  greater  contrast  could 
be  found  than  that  between  Franzos  and  Heyse. 
We  find  in  this  collection  Keyte's  ■■  L'Arrabiata," 
in  out  opinion  the  best  of  his  short  stories.  It 
is  a  lovely  little  Italian  sketch.  A  single  chapter 
in  which  are  love,  jealousy,  passion,  despair,  and 
sweet  reconciliation  enough  for  a  dozen  modern 
American  novels.  All  of  which  are  deacritied 
in  the  prettiest  and  simplest  German  which 
has  been  very  well  translated  in  the  correspond- 
ing "Overland"  volume.  Of  course  it  is  quite 
another  thing  in  the  English  dress,  but  it 
charming  there  too.  The  "Collection"  is 
be  continuous,  and  may  be  subscribed  for  a( 
I3.00  per  year,  a  volume  of  about  one  .hundred 
pages  every  three  weeks.    The  edi(or  says  they 


OUSREBT  LITERArnitE. 

Mr.  Theodore  Roosevelt's  Hunting  THpi  0/ 

a   XaneAmaa,  originally    published   last  year  in 
it  luxurious  form  and  at  the  loxuriout  price 
of  (15.00,  can  now  be  had,  shorn  a  little  of  iu 
elegances  of  paper-stock,  margin,  breadth,  and 
binding,  at  the  very  moderate  price  of  (3.50', 
~  with  no  real  loss  of  its  intrinsic  value  and 
rest.    Life  on  a  Western  ranch  from  a  gen- 
tleman's   point    of   view    is   eEEectivety  —  even 
btiUianlly  —  sketched   in  these  handsome  pages 
both   with  pen  and  pencil.      [G.   P.   Putnam's 
™.] 

The  Stroll  with  Keali  which  Frances  Clifford 

rown  has  made  (he  theme  of  a  small   quarto 

of  pen  and  ink  drawings,  consists  of  a  passage 

of  66  lines  from  one  of  Keals's  untitled  poems, 

beginning 

I  itoDd  dpiM  Upon  1  little  failL 

The  poem,  as  Mistress  Brown  might  have  told 
her  readers,  was  suggested  to  Keats  one  delighl 
ful  summer's  day  as  he  stood  by  a  gate  leading 
from  a  path  over  Hampstead  Heath  into  a 
by  Caen  Wood.  The  lines  as  here  presented 
;  first  printed  in  ordinary  text ;  then  repeated 
fat-simile  of  manuscript,  with  pen  and 
drawii^  to  suit,  each  page  showing  a  slightly 
tinted  panel.  Mistress  Brown's  landscape  an  ~ 
flower  work  is  fair,  the  flowers  and  foliage  being 
the  beat;  but  she  has  little  skill  with  the  human 
figure.  The  arms  of  this  young  woman 
strolls  with   Keats  are  out  of  proportion, 

iwry,  and  what  might  have  been  a  pleasing 
general  effect  is  spoiled  by  this  blemish,  which 


sensitive  eye  is  wounded  by  such  offencesagaii 
nature  and  truth.    [Ticknor  ft  Co.    tl.jo.] 

The  anonymous  writer  of  Light  on  the  Iliddtn 
Way  describes  in  epistolary  form  the  powci 
of  spiritual  vision  whereby  she  believes  hersell 
to  see  deceased  persons,  friends,  and  others 
not  as  mysteriotis  visions  of  the  night,  but  ii 
the  walks  of  daily  life.  With  these  she  holds 
converse,  receiving  religious  counsel  and  help 
from  the  more  elevated  and  imparting  similar 
help  to  others  who  stand  on  a  lower  spiritual 
plane.  Unlike  the  ordinary  (alleged)  revels 
tions  of  "  Spiritualism  "  the  tone  of  this  teaching 
is  both  devout  and  inspiring.  There  is  an  in- 
troduction by  Dr.  James  F.  Clarke.  ITicki 
&Co.] 

Edgt  Taoli  of  Speech,  selected  and  arranged 
by  Haturin  M.  Ballou,  diSers  from  Bartletl' 
Dictionary  ef  Faniliar  Quelaiieni  chiefly  in  tha 
this  is  a  dictionary  of  ua/amiliar  quotations. 
The  compiler  has  selected  fine  thoughts,  aphor- 
isms, and  epigrams,  from  a  wide  range  of  read- 
ing in  authors  ancient  and  modern ;  and  the 
resulting  work,  both  suggestive  and  useful  for 
reference,  is  handsomely  bound  for  the  shelves 
of  a  library.    [Ttcknor  A  Co.    I3.50.] 

A.  C.  Armstrong  &  Son  print  in  pamphlet 
form  RtUgien  in  a  College,  an  examination  by' 
I  Pre^dent  HcCosh  of   Prioceton,  of  President 


Eliot's  paper  before  the  Nineteenth  Century 
Club.  The  venerable  writer  contends  with 
much  earnestness  for  the  retention  of  religious 
teaching,  considering  its  effect  upon  the  corn- 
large  and  upon  the  individual  student. 

[2SC] 

The  Eueniialt  of  ElecuSien,  1^  Alfred  Ayret, 
thin  volume,  elegant  in  paper  and   prin(,  is 
»st   unblushing   In  its  assertioh  of   its   own 
merits,  in  the  preface  ;    but  it  seems  really  to 
justify  its  claims  by  the  good  judgment,  brevity, 
and  clearness  with  which  the  natural  or  common 
sense  method  is  applied  to  the  ait  of  reading. 
Ayres  believes  that  when  a  reader  intelli- 
gently understands  his  author  the  tones  of  vdce 
urill   take  care  of  themselves;"   he   therefore 
gives  selected  examples  to  (each  the  art  of  ex- 
pressing an  author's  meaning   by   the    proper 
regulation  of  emphasis.    Appended  arc  sundry 
further  extracts  for  practice.     [Funk  &  Wag- 
nails.    60c.] 

"Die  Pkytiet  and  Metafkysiet  tf  Money,  by 
Rodmond  Gibbons,  Is  an  unusually  clear  dis- 
cussion of  a  perptfxing  subject,  and  entertain- 
ing as  well.  It  lays  bare  current  fallades  as 
inetary  "standards"  and  demonetization; 
lers  "tnonometalism"  and  " bimetallsm ; " 
and  Is  a  valuable  addition  to  the  series  of 
Questions  of  the  Day  "  and  one  which  should 
be  widely  read.  [G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons.  Paper, 
25CJ 

The  Studiei  in  Greek  Thought,  selected  from 
the  papers  of  the  late  Lewis  R.  Packard,  Hill- 
house  Professor  of  Greek  in  Yale  College,  are 
seven  in  number,  by  an  admirable  scholar  whose 
early  death  was  a  great  loss  to  the  University 
in  which  he  taught  for  twenty-five  years.  Three 
are  excellent  summariei  of  the  <Edipus  Rex,  the 
(Edipm  at  Kolanos,  and  (he  Antigone  of  Soph- 
oktes;  two  discuss  Plato's  arguments  for  (he 
immortality  of  the  soul  and  his  system  of  edu- 
cation )  one  on  the  beginning  of  a  written  liters, 
ture  among  the  Greeks  places  it  in  the  middle 
of  the  fifth  century  B.  C;  and  the  opening 
paper  considers  Greek  morality  and  religion. 
In  its  candor  and  its  caution  this  essay  shows 
the  true  scholar ;  it  would  be  difficult  to  name 
a  more  just  and  fair  estimate  of  its  great  subject 
The  religion  of  the  Greeks  was  "wavering  in 
its  conception  of  the  divine  being,  feeble  In 
direct  moral  influence,  and  much  too  tolerant 
of  gross  vice."  But  it  was  still  "a  religion,  and 
not  unworthy  of  the  name  .  .  .  which  influenced 
man  in  his  conduct,  and  influenced  him  in  a  con- 
tinually increasing  measure  towards  reverence^ 
integrity,  temperance,  justice,  and  good-will  (o 
his  fellow-man."    [Ginn  &  Co.] 

The  Three  Martyrs  of  the  Ninettenlh  Century 
whom  the  author  of  "The  Schiinberg-Cotta Fam- 
ily" has  made  the  subject  of  her  315  pages,  are 
Dr.  Livingstone,  Chinese  Gordon,  and  Bishop 
Patteson  of  Melanesia.  Of  these  three  Patteson 
is  the  least  knovrn,  but  deserves  quite  as  high 
honors  as  either  of  the  others,  though  bis  life 
was  less  conspicuous  and  eventful.  His  spirit, 
his  courage,  his  zeal,  his  consecration,  were 
unsurpassed.  Writers  will  never  tire  of  telling 
the  stories  of  these  brave  men  and  their  sacri- 
ficial lives,  and  the  world  will  never  tire  of 
reading  them.  The  portraits  of  the  three  men 
should  have  accompanied  this  book.  [Dodd, 
Mead  &  Co.    |l.oo.] 

The  Revised  Edition  of  Dr.  Robinson's  in- 
valuable  Harmony  of  the  Goifeli,  in  English,  is 


148 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[May 


I  great  improvement  in  every  resp 
old  edition,  which  wu  pablinhed 
twenty  yean  ^o.    The  ncv  form  ii 


the  type  ii  enlarged,  and  use  boi  been  mftde  of 
the  Revi*ed  Version  of  the  New  Testament  ol 
18S1,  Frofexor  Riddle  of  Hartford  is  the  edit- 
or. The  presentation  ol  this  Harmtny  in 
English  is  of  the  greatest  pocsible  service  to 
all  Bible  Class  students  and  teachers.  [Hough- 
ton, Mifflin  &  Co.    f  t.jo.] 

A  collection  of  fourteen  SermtHi  by  Sam 
JoHtt,  the  Southern  reriTalist  now  preaching 
in  sooie  of  the  cities  of  the  Interior,  has  been 
puUlshed  by  Crantton  A  Stowe  of  CindnnatL 
The  sermon*  are  good  and  will  do  good.  In 
spite  of  their  frequent  bad  English  and  bad 
taste  they  are  worth  the  stilted  and  polished 
rhetoric  of  the  schools  ten  times  over  as  a  virice 
to  the  people.  Here  is  a  man  preaching  the 
gospel  in  the  language  ol  the  street,  and  that 
is  what  the  people  of  the  street  can  understand. 
Hr.  Jones  would  shock  the  congregation*  of  the 
Back  Bay  and  the  Fifth  Avenue  j  but  we  wish 
there  were  a  hundred  such  evangelists  preaching 
just  such  sermon*  in'a  handred  American 
today.    [ttM.] 

The  tiiith  Volume  of  Leslie  Stephen's 
tioruity  af  Natinnal  Bii^aphy  [British]  advance* 
Steadily  and  persistently  from  "Bottomly"  to 
"Browcll,"  with  Ml.  Axon,  Dean  Bradley,  Mr. 
Bullen,  and  Mr.  Dobson,  among  the  contribu. 
tors.  The  prominent  families  treated  in  course 
of  the  contents  are  the  Bourchicrs,  the  Bow- 
rings,  the  Boydi,  the  Boytes,  the  Bradshaws,  the 
Bradys,  the  Brewers,  the  Brewslers,  the  Brights 
the  Brontei>,  the  Brooke*,  and  the  Brougham* 
leaving  the  large  and  reputable  family  of 
Browns  evidently  to  follow  in  the  next  volume. 
The  typography  of  this  work  is  a  delight,  and 
It*  wealth  ol  biographic  information  is  minute. 
[Uacmillan  ft  Co.    tj.zj-] 

Mr.  John  Morley's  study  of  Didtrot  and  tit 
Encycli^irdisii  makes  two  volumes  In  the 
(Globe)   ediiion  of   his  works  complete, 
gether  with  the  companion  volume  on  Voltaire 
and  Kousseau  it  well  serve*  the  purpose  of  «hat 
the  author  calls  a   "  literary  preparation "  < 
the  French  Revolution.    The  figure  of  Didei 
being  less  familiar  than  either  that  of  Voltaire 
or  Rousseau,   Mr.  Morley's  sketch  is  particu- 
larly fnll.     There  are  studies  of  the  Church, 
the  Stage,  and  the  literature  of  his  time ;  there 
is   an    analy^s    of    the    Encyclopedia   and  of 
Diderot's  contribution*  to  Kt;   there  : 
mated  picture  of   the   social   life   of   which   he 
was  the  center ;   and   his  various  writing* 
traced  with  a  critical  finger.    Diderot's  visit  to 
St.  Petersburg  aSurds  interesting  glimpses   of 
the  Rnisian  capital  a  hundred  years  ago.    [Mac- 
millan&Co.    ^3.00.] 

The  two  latest  additions  in  the  new  issue  of 
the  "  Wonder  Series"  are  Victor  Meunier's 
Advl'iturti  on  fht  Gnat  IIunting-Griiunds  of 
the  Wertd,  a  book  about  gorillas,  bears,  tigers, 
lions,  giraffes,  hippopotami,  rhinoceri,  elephants, 
ostriches,  and  crocodiles  i  and  R.  Donald's  Won- 
ders 9/  Architieture,  which  is  In  fact  a  transla- 
tion from  the  French  of  M.  Lefivre.  The 
translator  has  added  a  chapter  on  English  Ar- 
chitecture. The  latter  book  is  thoroughly  in- 
structive, and  as  a  general  sketch  in  outline  can 
be  read  with  profit  by  gronn  persons ;  the  for- 
mer i»  more  nearly  a  book  tor  mere  amusement, 
and  appeals  chiefly  to  boys  who  have  a  taste 


ct  over  the  for  exciting  stories.  The  pictures  in  both  books 
more  than  are  numerous  but  of  inferior  quality-  [Charles 
an  octavo,    Scribnet's  Sons-    Each  f  t.l 


Of  Mr.  O.  B.  Bunce's  Don't,  that  clever  manual 
of  good  manners,  the  very  thought  of  which 
stroke  of  genius,  70,000  copies  have  been 
sold  in  this  conntry,  and  at  least  as  many  more 
three  rival  editions  that  have 
appeared  in  England.  It  will  be  no  matter  of 
wonder  if  in  the  new,  diminutive,  and  extremely 
pretty  form  in  which  the  little  book  has  now 
re-appeared,  this  circulation  is  not  doubled. 
The  present  form  Is  of  watcb-pockcl  size,  yet 
the  type  is  distinct;  the  pages  have  a  red  line 
border ;  and  the  cover  is  a  silky  blue-  Nothing 
could  be  more  tasteful.  [D.  Appleton  &  Co. 
30C-] 

The   new    Index   to   Harper"!    Monthly,  an- 
nounced at  some  length  on  p.  33  of  the  present 
volume  of  the  Literary  World,  is  out,  fulfilling 
all   the  promises  of   Its    compiler,   Mr.  C.  A. 
Durfee-     It  is  an  octavo  of  783  pages,  every 
other  page  being  In  blank,  for  manuscript  ad- 
ditions.    It  covers  the  whole  seventy  volumes 
of  the  magazine,  from  its  inception  in  June, 
to  June,   18S5.    It   contains   51,000  referei 
Every  contribution  to  the  magazine  i*  indexed 
under  its  title,  under  its  subject,  and  under 
authorship,  the  whole    in   an   alphabet-      T 
cross   references  are   numerous.      The    prefi 
well   says  that  "the   Seventy  Volumes  o(   the 
magaiine  constitute  a  very  full  Cyclopaedia  of 
Travel,   Discovery,  and   Adventure."     [Harper 
&  Brothers,    h-oo-l 

We  have  received  from  Ur.  T,  J.  May*  an 
essay  On  the  Nutritive  Value  of  Some  Bee/ 
Extracts,  showing  by  his  experiment*  with  the 
heart  oE  a  frog,  the  cutiotu  fact  that  extracts 
of  beef  in  very  dilute  solutions  (1-2000  to  |.666), 
acting  directly  on  that  organ  and  without  any 
preliminary  gastric  digestion,  have  the  power 
of  restoring  pulsations  after  they  have  ceased 
from  innutrition.  By  proper  appatatut 
extracts  were  compared,  the  greatest  pulsations 
being  obtained  from  Citnl's;  but  about  twenty- 
three  per  cent  higher  resulted  from  "  beef  pep- 
tonoids,"  and  milk  gave  results  still  great* 
these.  The  author  deduces  two  conclusions : 
■hat  beef  extract*  have  nutritive  power, 
sometimes  disputed;  and  that  nutrition  by  their 
means  may  in  case  of  necessity  be  obtained 
hypodermically.  [Philadelphia :  Transactions 
College  of  Physidans.] 

What  it  Theosopkyt  is  the  question  asked 
an  elegant  little  gray  volume  bound  with  a  cord 
and  peculiar  manner,  and  bearing  the 
mystic  symbol  of  an  illuminated  triangle.    Any 
Greek  scholar  would  naturally  fall  back  on  first 
principles  and  reply,  The  wisdom  of  God ;  but 
Ibis  anonymous  author  uses  hia  powers  of  per- 
suasion, couched  in   simple  and  pleasing  style, 
to  make   us  believe  that  such  wisdom  is  to  1 
found  in  Buddhism,  including  its  transmigralii 
of  souls  and   ultimste   nirvana ;   after  a  short 
exposition  of  which  he  draw*  a  commendable 
moral  of  the  beauty  of  an  unselfish  life.    [Bi 
ton  :  Cupples,  Upbam  &  Co.    50c.} 


shortly  publish  a  new  work  entitled  The  Official 
Guide  to  the  Islands  of  Staffa  and  lena.  The 
book  will  be  published  in  connection  with  Hr. 
David    MacBrayDe"*   Beet    of   West    Highland 


UHOB  IfOnOES. 

Franlft  Kanche.  B;  the  Author  of  "  An  Am- 
teur  Angler'*  Days  in  Dovedale."  [Hoogblon, 
Mifflin  &  Co.    ^1.25.] 

There  Is  something  unusually  attractive  in  the 
externals  of  this  little  book,  with  its  rough  front 
edges,  its  gilt  top,  its  unglazcd  paper,  it*  wide 
side  and  bottom  margins,  its  clear  type,  its  oma- 
intal  initial  letters  and  head  and  lail-piecet, 
and  last  but  not  least  the  diminutive  and  dainty 
wood-cuts  which  are  sprinkled  through  its  pages, 
engraved  one  would  think  (tom  the  su^estioii* 
of  a  packet  sketch-book.  The  author  is  an 
Englishman,  whose  son  Franlc,  having  proved 
rather  hard  to  manage  at  home,  came  over  to 
America  in  iSSo,  and  nent  to  work  on  a  fann 
Minnesota.  The  Minnesota  experiment  not 
proving  successful,  Frank  sold  ont  his  interest 
and,  taking  a  partner,  set  up  a  creamery.  This 
I  failure.  Then  he  resolved  to  go  to 
the  Rocky  Mountains  and  try  a  ranch.  Getting 
to  Montana,  about  120  mile*  from  Boteman, 
he  began  his  new  career  by  hiring  out  00  the 
roads  at  ta  a  day,  and  followed  this  up  by  cut- 
ting cord  wood  at  ^3.  With  more  help  from 
hi*  Father  he  presently  succeeded  in  buying 
ranch,  and  at  last  found  himself  fairly  started 
on  the  road  to  fortune.  But  it  was  a  rough  road 
and  hard  to  travel.  Part  I  of  the  book  (six 
chapters)  is  occupied  chiefly  with  his  letters 
home  to  his  father,  describing  bis  mistakes,  his 
s  hardships,  his  losses,  his  sufferli^s, 
his  exposure  (0  winter  storms,  his  perils  with 
'griulies,"and  all  the  incidents  that  befell  him 
during  the  four  years  In  which  he  was  securing 
foothold  in  the  New  World.  At  this  point 
his  father  determined  to  come  out  and  make 
lit;  and  of  this  visit  the  other  three 
fourths  of  the  book  relate  the  incidents;  how 
the  father  crossed  the  Atlantic  in  the  "Cunar- 
Seplember,  1SS5,  ascended  the  Hudson, 
touched  at  Saratoga  and  Niagara,  found  himself 
baffled  as  his  journey  proceeded  westward  by 
gelling  no  word  from  his  son,  passed  Chicago, 
St.  Paul,  and  Minneapolis,  embarked  on  the 
Northern  Pacific  Railroad,  grew  heavy  at  heart 
as  one  day  succeeded  another  and  brought  no 
word  of  the  boy  he  wanted  to  find,  digressed 
from  his  route  to  visit  the  Yellowstone  Park, 
and  finally,  to  his  great  joy,  just  as  he  was 
driving  out  of  the  Park,  met  Frank  walking  in. 
A  chapter  is  then  given  to  the  ranch  and  Frank's 
life  there,  the  description  oF  which  is  not  alluring 
to  those  who  have  the  ranch  fever;  and  the 
brief  remainder  lo  the  return  journey  by  way 
of  Salt  Lake  City,  Cheyenne,  and  Omaha.  The 
book  Is  extremely  pretty  to  look  at  and  quite 
interesting  10  read,  while  not  very  weighty  in 
any  sense  ;  but  it  is  not  fitted  to  recommend 
Frank's  eiprriroent  to  would-be  imi 


—  Mr.  David  A.  Wilson  of  Glasgow,  lately 
manager  of  Wilson  Sc  McCotmick'i  Bookstall 
Department,  and  brother  of  the  senior  member 
of  that  well-known  publishing  firm,  has  opened 
business  on  his  own  account  at  iSl  Dumbarton 
Road,  Glasgow.    He  ha*  in  the  pre**  and  will 


Messianic  Expectations  and  Modern  jfudaistn. 
Lectures  by  Solomon  Schindler.  [S.  E.  Castino 
&Co.    Ji-50.] 

These  lectures,  to  which  Kev.  M.  J.  Savage 
furnishes  a  preface,  have  attracted  considerable  ~ 
attention  in  Boston  this  last  season.  Rabbi 
Schindler  of  the  Temple  Adath  Israel  In  this  dty 


1 886.] 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


149 


belongs  with  great  emphasis  to  the  Khool  of  Re- 
formed Judaism.  He  considers  "that  the  mes- 
sianic idea  had  originally  a  political,  and  hy  no 
means  a  religions  or  spiritual,  tendency."  and  (hat 
it  was  a  mental  disease,  a  mania,  and  an  epidemic 
Concerning  Jesus  of  Nazareth,  he  maintains  that 
he  "  was  not  the  (onndcT  of  Christianity ;  that  he 
never  planned  it  nor  laid  its  foundation,"  and 
"that  there  are  no  historical  sources  whatsoever 
from  which  we  could  derive  authentic  informa- 
tion concerning  his  life,  his  deeds,  and  his  death." 
This  historical  skepticism  is  counterbalanced  by 
such  very  positive  assertions  as  that  Jesus  joined 
the  Essenes.  Rabbi  Schiodler  does  not,  to  our 
mind,  represent  the  actual  state  of  criticism  upon 
the  Gospels;  both  his  skepticism  and  his  dog- 
matism need  correction  from  a  more  judicial 
spirit-  The  volume  is,  however,  very  interesting 
to  the  student  of  contemporary  religious  thought. 
Its  historical  notices  of  several  messiabs  among 
the  Jews,  of  whom  he  considers  Bar  Cochbee  the 
only  genuine  one,  and  his  discussions  of  the  posi- 
tion of  modem  Judaism  are  well  worth  attentioiv 
The  effect  of  the  volume  should  certainly  be  to 
increase  the  respect  and  esteem  which  Christians 
ought  to  feel  for  men  so  earnest,  upright,  and  in- 
telligent as  the  advocates  of  Reformed  Judaism. 
Readers  of  Lessing's  Nathan  will  not  be  slow  to 
recognize  his  tone  in  much  of  the  poMtlve  part  of 
this  volume.      

Outlines  of  Universal  Hiitery.  By  Prof. 
George  Park  Fisher,  D.D.,  LL.D.  [Ivison, 
Blakeman,  Taylor  &  Co.    f  5.00.] 

best,  of  the  general  hii 
and  private  use.  It  is  in  one  volume  and  conven- 
ient in  size ;  neither  so  large  and  heavy  as  to 
reiKler  its  use  "a  weariness  to  the  Besh,"  nor  so 
small  that  interesting  details  in  history  are  sacri- 
ficed to  brevity.  There  is  an  instructive  intro- 
ductory chapter  on  Che  definition,  the  philosophy, 
and  the  soarcei  of  history,  on  chronology  and 
ethnology,  and  on  the  three  ages  of  prehistoric 
time.  Then  follows  the  usual  threefold  division: 
into  ancient  history,  from  the  earliest  merging  of 
Egyptian  and  Chinese  legends  into  authentic 
narrative  to  the  migrations  of  the  Teutonic  tribes 
A.  D.  375;  medixval,  from  375  to  the  fall  of 
Constantinople,  1453  ;  modern,  from  1453  to  the 
present  time.  Of  a  work  so  full  we  can  cite  only 
a  few  further  characteristics.  The  division  into 
periods  is  chronological ;  events  of  the  same 
period,  in  different  regions,  beii^g  related  so  far 
as  may  be  together.  Relative  importance  is  in- 
dicated by  three  sizes  of  type.  Most  of  tiie  nar- 
rative is  in  the  largest ;  the  second  is  used  where 
narrative  is  replaced  by  description,  as  of  relig- 
ious beliefs,  arts,  literary  and  scientiGc  progress  ; 
the  smallest  for  more  minute  or  personal  details 
of  description,  and  especially  lists  of  authorities. 
Another  commendable  feature  is  the  use  of  full- 
faced  type  for  the  subjects  of  the  paragraphs. 
There  are  thirty'two  maps,  and  numerous  charts 
of  genealogy.  In  reference  to  the  important 
matter  of  accuracy,  the  dates,  taken 
which  we  have  compared  with  other  authorities, 
by  way  of  test,  have  generally  shown  the 
agreement  which  one  would  eipecl  from  the  high 
reputation  of  the  author.  The  paragraph) 
of  moderate  length,  and  the  sentences  short  and 
clear.  Good  judgment  is  shown  in  the  difficult 
matter  of  the  relative  space  lo  be  allotted 
ferenC  periods  and  events.    Dr.  Fisher  is  very 


successful  in  his  determination  to  maintain  im- 
partiality in  controverted  subjects.  Another 
principal  aim  has  been  to  exhibit  the  unity  of 
history  "in  this  g^eat  and  deeply  moving  drama 
still  advancing  into  a  futare  that  is  hidden  from 


Madame  Mahl:  Hir  Salon  and  her  Friends. 
y  Kathleen    O'Meara.     [Roberts    Brothers. 

11.50.] 

Maty  Clarke,  afterwards  Madame  MobI,  the 
heroine  of  these  vivacious  sketches  of  social  life 
Paris,  may  fairly  be  termed  a  cosmopolitan; 
for  she  was  an   English  girt,  partly  of   Scotch 
descent,  resident  in  France,  and  attimately  the 
lan.     She  lost  her  father  in  infancy, 
and  for  many  years  lived  alone  with  her  mother, 
generally  in  Paris.     Her  school-days  were  passed 
mt,  after  the   French  custom.    It  is 
probable  that   her  determination   to  be  hostess 
the   peculiarly  French  institution  called  the 
salan  —  In  make  her  bouse  a  meeting  place  fof 
the  wit  and  beauty,  the  learning  and   talent,  irf 
the  gay  capital  — arose  out  of  her  eatty  acquaint, 
ance  with  Madame  Ricamier.    The  Utter  was 
prominent  figure  both  before  and  after  the 
storation  of  royalty  in  iSi  5,  and  her  house  was 
the  residence  of  M.  de  Chateaubriand  in  his  last 
id  the  great  resort  of  the  Hitt  of  the  city. 
At  any  rate.  Miss  Clarke  herself  most  success- 
fully inaugurated  and  maintained  late  into  the 
busy  nineteenth  century  an  institution  originated 
earlier  limes  and  under  different  conditions 
of  society.    Her  marriage  in  middle  life  to  Julius 
Mohl,  a  studious  German,  long  before  one  of  the 
of  her  circle,  was  a  happy  one,  and  in 
espect  interfered  with  the  established  hospi- 
tality of  her  salon.    Among  her  guests  or  more 
Intimate  friends  we   may  name  J.  J.   Ampere, 
Tischendorf,  Helmholli,  Dean  and  Lady  Stanley, 
and  Barthilemy  Saint- Hilaire.    The  bit^rapher 
ly  characteristic  scenes  illustrative  o[ 
the  absence  of  all   stiffness  and  needless  cere- 
Madame  Mohl's  receptions.    The  chief 
secrets    of    her    popularity  were  het   ceaseless 
vacity  and    bonhomie,  her  thorough  sincerity 
(which  last  trait,  however,  on  rare  occasions  led 
rudeness),  and  her  admirable  tact 
and  judgment.    As  a  whole,  the  book  sketches 

:ry  graceful  language  one  of  the  best  exa 
pies  of  a  now  almost  obsolete  institution,  a 
depicts  a  character  in  which  there  was  little 
blame  and  much  to  admire.    There  is  a  portrait 
of  Madame  Mohl  in  earlier  life  and  one  made 
from  a  sketch  by  W.  W.  Story  of  her  appearance 
:ty-five  years  of  age. 


Ewry-Day    Religion.      By   James    Freeman 
Clarke.     [Ticknor&Co.    Ji.so.] 

In  this  volume  of  sermons  wilt  be  found  Dr. 
Clarke's  unfailing  charm  of  language.  His  die- 
is  always  unsurpassed  in  purity  and  sim- 
plicity, and  occasionally  rises  to  the  plar 
:Ioqucnce.  The  animating  spirit  of  his  teaching 
s  ever  love,  trust,  and  fidelity  to  present  duty 
and  these  disconrses  should  be  very  helpful  for 
"growth  in  grace"  and  the  practice  of  that 
"  every-day  religion  "  whose  beauty  commends  it 
to  all  men.  Shams  and  superslilions  Dr.  Clarke 
hates  cordially  and  attacks  vigorously.  It  i 
to  be  denied  that  among  superstitions,  of  the 
milder  sort  doubtless,  be  includes  some  beliefs 
which  by  orthodox  Christians  are  considered 
essential  —  the  word  orthodox  being  used 
denote   the  historic  faith  of  the  large  majority 


of  Christian  people;  and  consequently  such  be- 
liefs, as  well  as  admitted  abuses,  are  from  time 
classed  in  these  sermons  with  the  "old 
things  "  which  have  "  passed  away."  With  this 
in  fairness  to  readers  to  whom 
these  doctrines  are  dear,  we  can  commend  this 
work  to  all  who  wish  to  lead  nobler  and  more 
worthy  lives.  Among  the  many  good  discourses 
may  be  arbitrary  to  term  any  the  best ;  but 
those  on  making  the  most  of  life,  on  lost  oppor- 
tunities, and  on  "every  jww "  as  "the  day  of 
salvation,"  are  especially  characteristic  and  note- 
worthy. There  is  one  good  address  on  Chris- 
tianity and  the  ballot-box  —  the  relation  of  relig- 
->  the  duties  of  dtizena. 

The  Late  Archbishop  Trench. 

:  was  known  first  as  a  poel  \  and  though  he 
has  never  attained  a  wide  popularity  as  such  he  will 
long  be  valued  by  those  who  love  fiuent,  grac^ 
ful,  and  scholarly  verse.  Some  of  his  lyrics 
might  have  been  written  by  Wordsworth,  in 
whose  method  he  had  trained  himself.  There  is 
early  poem  called  "A  Walk  in  a  Churchyard," 
which  is  a  close  unconscious  imitation  of  the 
Weathercock  at  Kilvee."  Like  Wordsworth 
he  lacked  humor,  and  therefore  even  in  the  midst 
□f  fine  and  striking  verses  he  sunk  into  pathos. 
there  are  many  short  poems  which  should 
find  their  place  in  all  future  anthologies,  and 
lyrics  of  great  power.  His  mastery  of  the 
t  is  complete,  and  (or  those  who  admire 
that  special  form  Trench  always  deserves  study. 
We  confess  that  for  ourselves,  the  sonnet  is  only 
tolerable  when  at  its  highest  level,  and  then 
it  is  not  only  beautiful,  but  perfect. 
Trench's  sonnets  show  thoroughly  excellent 
workmanship,  but  fall  short  of  the  ideal.  If  we 
to  define  Trench's  place  in  modern  poetry, 
only  be  by  assigning  him  to  a  group  which 
others  may  place  where  Ihey  will  on  the  sicm  of 
Parnassus.      We   should   put  him   with   Henry 


Taylor  and  Aubrey  de  Vere,  not  forge  I 
tain  intellectual  ki-'-'-  -  "-'-  - 
Monckton  Milnes. 


_      ng  a  cer- 
fais   early  friend. 

In  philology  it  would  be  difficult  to  overstate 
the  archbishop's  services.  No  books  have  nven 
so  great  a  stimulus  to  the  intelligent  study  <S  the 
language  as  his  little  works  on  The  Study  of 
Words,  the  Select  Glossary,  En^ish  Synonyms, 
eic.  The  well-known  pamphlet  On  Some  Defi- 
iieacies  in  our  English  Dietionaries  was  the  sub- 
stance of  two  papers  read  before  the  Philological 
Society  in  the  autumn  of  1S57,  and  was  written 
with  reference  to  the  projected  dictionary  of  that 
society,  of  which  the  great  work  now  proceeding 
under  the  care  of  Dr.  Murray  is  the  outcome. 
No  doubt  there  are  more  sdentiGc  works  than 
Dr.  Trench's.  He  may  seem  to  overstrain  the 
lessons  on  morality  and  religion  to  be  extracted 
from  words;  the  methods  of  Liltr^,  and  still 
>rc  of  the  later  French  school,  may  seem  lead- 
!  to  somewhat  different  results  in  the  science 
.  _  philology  i  but  the  books  are,  and  will  remain, 
among  the  most  fascinating  and  encoaragiug 
which  can  be  placed  in  the  hands  of  the  young 
who  wish  to  study  their  own  tongue.  They  show, 
r,  the  widest  reading  and  scholarship. 


oected  paths  of  literature 


all  languages.  Vet,  like  moat  busy  men,  he 
was  a  ^reat  reader  of  the  books  of  the  day,  not 
neglecting  even  the  lighter  sort.  To  a  young 
man,  a  few  years  since,  who  admitted  he  had  not 
read  Sylvia's  Loners,  the  archbishop  said,  "  Then 
go  to  Hudie's  for  it  at  once,  and  do  not  consider 
your  education  complete  till  you  have  read  and 
mastered  iL"  Had  any  one  asked  Dr.  Trench 
for  a  list  of  the  "Best  Hundred  Books,"  be 
would  probably  have  replied  with  a  list  of  the 
bnt  thousand,  and  then  have  declared  that  his 
list  was  sadly  incomplete.  It  should  be  noted 
with  deep  thankfulness  by  those  who  love  our 
language,  that  the  pestilent  heresy  of  phonetic 
spelling  had  no  more  orthodox  opponent  than  the 
author  of  the  Study  of  Words,  and  this  thoi^h 
Julius  Hare  had  put  himself  under  bondage  10 
such  horrid  forms  as  "pluckt  "  and  "walkL"  — 
Academy,  April  3. 


THE  LITERARY  WORLtt 


[May 


The  Literary  World. 


BOSTON,  MAY  r,  1686. 


TMonii 


.  I  .  the  iBllhrul  bMk*  that  tn»  nmalo, 
Sllmt  thoBsb  ipeaUnci  tuiKCd  npon  tha  itaou, 
Pwinc  the  loni  proccMlon  of  th*  ytan  — 
Schiller  end  Shakipere,  Speniet,  with  Ihdr  Ud, 
And  courtly  Addlion.    Never  Ibgy  dreamed 
That  thlnei  thay  wrote  ihould  float  thu*  far  awa] 
And  In  muth  places,  heie  In  theu  rank  wooda 


B,  far  fro 


I  all  hue 


T,  fy  Wm.  SIUtj  CliMiBtinf. 


8T.  LOtriB  AS  A  UTERAST  0£HTEB. 

THE  recent  Ubor  troubles  in  St.  Louis 
have  quite  eclipsed  in  general  notice  a 
cODtetl  of  a  more  peaceful  sort  in  that  great 
city  on  "  the  Father  of  Waters."  The  Post- 
Dupalch,  one  of  its  newspapers,  has  been 
inciting,  aiding,  and  abetting  a  breach  of  the 
literary  peace  —  a  contest,  to  wit,  in  which 
each  combatant  was  required  to  submit  a 
list  naming  the  greatest  ten  books  of  the 
present  century.  Frizes  were  offered  for 
the  three  such  lists  which  should  show  the 
wisest  discrimination,  according  to  the  de- 
cision of  a  select  committee  of  three  com- 
petent judges.  One  of  these  was  Professor 
Hosmer  of  Washington  University,  whose 
works  are  well  known  to  readers  of  the  Lit- 
trary  World.  Besides  the  lists  which  vio- 
lated the  above  conditions  in  some  particular 
there  were  t6i6sent  in  which  were  published 
in  the  Post-D4spalch  as  contestants  for  thi 
prizes.  The  committee,  in  announcing  thei 
award,  describe  their  mode  of  procedure  and 
the  difficulties  they  encountered,  and  make 
playful  allusion  to  the  "accident  policies 
and  chain  armor"  which  their  friends  thought 
would  be  necessary  on  their  next  appear- 
ance in  public. 

The  first  matter  was  to  settle  the  seem- 
ingly easy  but  really  difficult  question,  What 
is  a  book?  This  they  solved  by  detiniag 
as  "a  literary  work  substantial  in  amount 
and  homogeneous  in  character."  This  ex- 
cludes a  single  poem,  such  as  Byron's  "  Pris- 
oner of  Chillon,"  by  its  first  restriction,  and 
by  its  second,  an  author's  entire  writings,  if 
on  various  topics,  such  as  the  novels  of 
Hawthorne ;  though  either  might  be  printed 
in  a  single  volume. 

Next  came  the  question  what  should  be 
held   to  constitute  greatness ;   whether 
traordinary  genius,  ingenuity,   or  labor,  or 
effect  on  the  world.    The  latter  was  held  to 
be  the  criterion. 

Long  and  sometimes  almost  sanguinary, 
says  the  report,  were  the  committee's  strug- 
gles, after  settling  these  preliminaries.  The 
three  lists  linally  selected  are  as  follows : 

1.  Cirlyle,  Fmci  Rnelit. 

.,    .ftciti.    \.  VKVtot,  ria^iJ 

1.  Goeihe,  Famil.     t.  Hugo,  Lti 
--\,  CiMMH.     7.  UuaiLlaT,  /fii 

....PtiitiaUSciiumy.   -  *'—'■■■ 

•mPaitUtn.    lo.  ThKkeny,  Vaititj  Ft 


lAia.PtlUiaJSt 

Si.  1^1 


*"■  -*■  go,  La  Mi. 


int.     I.  Diinnii,  drietll  tf  SUtitt.    ].  bickeni, 

S'.tif:f!':.  \  ,?"''.~'°v%^':  A-._9«?(= 


.  Humboldl,  Ct-m, 
lo.  Hri.  Sloi       - 


'.    Huro,  k 


FMim/t 

.  fo.  S  - , 
XHrtbaim. 
David  C> 
Eliu,  Mi. 
MiHraUn 

The  public  were  desired   to  bear  in  mind 
lat  it  was  deemed   important  to  give  due 
ipresentatton  to  different  departments  of 
literature. 

The  judges  made  very  hard  efforts  to 
agree  upon  a  list  of  ten  books  embodying 
their  own  opinion  as  to  greatest  merit,  but 
could  not  reduce  the  number  below  the 
following  nineteen,  whose  titles  may  interest 


Victor  Hugo,  who  polled  the  largest  vote 
from  the  Post-Despatch  readers,  his  Let 
MisirabUs  having  been  selected  988  times, 
not  so  successful  with  his  other  works, 
his  lugettdt  del  SiicUt  being  named  twice, 
Toilers  of  th*  Sta  three  times,  and  his  others 
less  often. 

The  Post-DtspaUh  commends  the  ability 
shown  by  the  committee's  report,  and  adds 
that  by  the  testimony  of  librarians  of  the 
city  the  competition  produced  Increased 
public  interest  in  works  of  solid  character. 


Cirlrlc, , 


iicmt  Kcann^.    Roikia,  Mnitri, 


t.  Darwin,  Oriiin  if  SftcUi,    j. 
'Md.     >■  Goeihe,  Famil.     J.  Hi 
>.  HuiDbddt,  Cmm«.     7-  UuauTav,  /fiticr,  cf 
Enfltmd.    S.  1Ai\\,PtiiliaaEetiamj._'i.  RiukiD,  iW- 


CflVrr.rfri^ 


AUi«.    TlTma,Or<eiKifStttlti. 

G«lbe,    Fatat.     Guiiot,    CkUim^iim  in  Sinvfi.     Haw- 
Ihamc,    Scarltl   Ltllrr.     Htgel,  PhUtutkf  if  HhlrrJ. 

nuga,  MiiiraiUi     "  -'  ■-   *  

ifmi  CiUiti.    Mil  .     .., 

Mtmariam.    ThuckenT,  Cajufr  Fmir.    Ds  ToequcTUIe, 
Dtwacracs  iH  Atmirica.     WarAwonh,  S:irMrMlr~. 

The  Pest-Despatch  ofiers  some  further 
interesting  remarks  based  on  the  lists  sent 
to  the  committee.  Of  the  1616  lists  ad- 
mitted to  competition,  containing  in  all  617 
books,  a  count  was  made,  to  see  what  books 
received  the  highest  number  of  votes.  The 
first  thirty  resulting  itames  are  given,  or 
three  times  the  number  on  any  one  list, 
with  the  number  of  times  each  appeared. 

I.     Hato-i  Ln  MijirMUn 9S8 

I.    Gociht't  Fatal aij 

I.    litrmD'tOririit/Sftciu nv, 

,.     Hambulil't  Caimai Uq 

J.     Macaular'l  Enrland 711 

6.  Wtb«e[*i  Diitmary 611 

7.  Ci<]f\t't  Frimii  Ifmimtin te| 

S.     D^c^Lcal•^  Darid  CMmlj/d tei 

«.     Bi„tmh'MViuUdSlaUi jH 

10.  Theckiiay.  Caail/^an- jfii 

11.  Svtnt't  UmcU  Tet^i  Caiim jjf 

II.  Scoll'i /mmisi 141 

ij.  aWVt  PtIiliiaJ  Eeomimf ih 

14.  -aivlharBet  ScarUI  Lllltr 6, 

15.  Ti<.<i.M.c:t  M^rdtrn  Paialm 65 

16.  YiMtAdi'mBiilt a 

17.  Bac^c'i  Hiilirrf  i/ CivHiaaliaK iji 

18.  Bytan'l  CUUl  Harold 148 

10!     BdW>l<u?^iV^'>^''  '.    '.    \    \    '.    \    "^ 

I  Tiine'i  Eutliih  LiUrainrt Bi 

^'•\Q^ant.'%FnfTiiiaitd  Pnvrrlf Bi 

14.     Brw?t  MidOtmarc* 7^ 

35.     Diimu'i  MamJr  CriM/a 7^ 

,  I  K]\oi'i  Da«u/ Drre,  ~ 
'"■(Gui.ot'iHuiwrW''-  - 

lAudubon'i  A>ii../ylr ,. 

''- )  Mollcf'i  DMti  RiftMic -fi 

19.  CuMe'i  ^^W^ 
)  Spencer's  J«wi.„ _ 

'•°-  i  Spencer'.  SfalkSIt  P/ulaaflv 69 

Thus  by  an   American  verdict  the  first 
place  is  assigned  lo  a  Frenchman.     In  ref' 
erence  to  the  twelfth  book  on  the  list,  it  has 
long  seemed  to  us  that  Ivanhoe  is  called  the 
best  of  Sir  Walter  Scott's  works  rather  from 
a  tradition  to   that  effect,  originating  ' 
know  not  bow  or  where,   than   because 
actually  is  either  most  interesting  or  m< 
wonderful  in  its  vivid  reproduction  of  a  past 
age. 

The  Post-Dispatch  further  says: 

OF  ihe  readers'  thirty,  Macaulay,  Bancroft, 
BucUe,  Scott,  Bulwer,  Longfellow,  Henry 
Geoige,  Dumas,  Audul>on,  Motley,  Spencer,  and 
Webster  of  Dictionary  fame  were  not  considered 
by  the  committee  of  award,  allhoDgh  these  books 


■a'  The  early  closing  movement  in  New  York, 
■bout  which  there  his  been  a  great  deal  of  talk, 
and,  as  yet,  witbont  many  very  staitlinK  result*, 
found  a  practical  advocate  In  Messrs.  Scribnet, 
who,  on  April  lo,  began  the  dosing  of  their 
:  establishment,  retail  and  whdelale,  U 
o'clock,  Saturdays.  Several  oltier  book 
houses  have  adopted  the  short  hours,  and, 
at  least  in  the  publishing  trade,  the  movement 

lems  to  have  become  general. 

*a*  By  the  direct  testimony  of  the  Grma  en- 
gaged in  publishing  the  better  class  <rf  cheap 
teit-cent  "libraries"  there   is  no  profit  in  the 

cheap  literature"  enterprises,  and  the  question 
I  now  being  agitated  whether  it  would  not  be 
worth  while  lo  raise  the  grade  of  the  book- 
making,  and  the  prices  accordingly. 

>  It  is  with  great  pleasure  that  we  Introduce 
to  our  readers,  in  ihii  number,  as  a  special 
correspondent,  Mrs.  Katharine  S.  Macquoid 
of  London,  a  writer  who  needs  no  further  in- 
[rodnclloQ  than  a  mere  interpretation  of  her 
initials. 

•.•The  publishers  of  the  Pall  Mall  GtaelU 
have  placed  an  edition  of  Tkt  Bcil  One  Hun- 
dred Books  (which  forms  a  Pall  Mall  Gasttti 
extra),  with  Cupples,  Upham  &  Co.  Besides  an 
article  on  the  choice  of  books,  by  Ruskin,  and  a 
hitherto  unpublislied  letter  by  Carlyle,  it  has 
contributions  from  the  Prince  of  Wales,  Glad- 
stone, Chamberlain,  Archdeacon  Farrar,  Max 
Miiller,  James  Russell  Lowell,  Henry  Irving, 
William  Morris,  Sir  John  Lubbock,  Miss  Brad- 
don,  Wilkie  Collins,  and  others.  The  book  con- 
tains KvtitX/ac-iimiltt,  and  a  convenient  feature 
is  its  priced  list  of  the  books  recommended  by 
the  various  contributors.  In  England  it  has 
already  reached  its  fortieth  thousand. 


00BBG8P0in)£H0E. 

Another  Book  by  Thackeray. 
To  the  Editor  of  the  Literary  World: 

1  have  a  volume  of  Thackeray's,  or  one  attrib- 
uted to  him,  which  is  not  mentioned  in  your 
bibliography.  It  is  called  The  Student s  Quarter, 
and  was  published  by  Chalto  &  Windus,  with- 
out date,  but,  evidently,  since  the  death  of  the 

The  following  is  the  first  paragraph  of  the 

The  chapters  on  French  Life,  Literature,  and 
Art,  comprised  in  Ibis  volume,  were  written  by 
the  late  Mr,  Thackeray  during  his  residence  in 
Paris  in  the  years  1839-1840.  They  were  orig- 
inally addressed  to  a  friend,  the  editor  of  a 
foreign  journal,  in  whose  publication  they  first 
appeared.  A  small  poriton  was  included  by  the 
author,  in  1840,  in  his  Paris  Sketch  Book.    The 


l886.] 


THR   LITERARY  WORLD. 


>S' 


lem^nder  have,  il  is  believed,  never  appeared  in 
this  coantry  in  uif  shape-  The  wbole  contents  of 
the  volume  may,  therefore,  be  assumed  to  be 
unknown  to  English  readers. 

Respectfallj  submitted  as  a  contribution  to 
jouT  list  by  L.  W.  Hammond. 

Werciittr,  Man.,  Afrit  iS,  iSS6. 

With  on  Apoh^y  to  Hiss  Oufner. 
Te  tkt  Editor  tflkt  Uttrary  Warld: 

I  do  not  think  there  ever  was  a  Christian 
who  suffered  as  T  do  [rom  the  "devil."  I 
try  to  write  with  atrocious  plainness,  and  I 
punctuate  like  an  automaton:  eheu!  Here  is 
mj  innocent  verse,  in  your  current  issue,  cut- 
ting a  pretty  figure  by  the  subslilullon  of 
"head,"  of  all  words  in  the  President's  Ameri- 
can," for  *'  hand  :  "  a  most  pat,  diverting,  impish, 
excruciating  error ;  so  that  where  once  there 
was,  at  [east,  a  pleasing  uncertainty  a 
whether  the  supposed  tremor  was  called  out 
by  emotion  or  by  toddy,  there  is  now  none  what- 
ever t  I  have  arisen  to  the  dignity  of  a  temper- 
ance lecture,  and  set  forth  my  poet-tippler,  very 
properly,  as  an  "  abashed  "  coterie.  T 
an  ancestral  right  to  interpolate  a  "  w 
worra!"  —  an  indifierous  Hibeinidsui,  or 
calmer  English.  You  can  make  me  no  rei 
that  I  know  of ;  suppose,  like  Bunthorne,  that 
I  **  curse  yon  ? "  But  with  this  meek  expostula< 
tion  I  go  my  way.  The  moral  ought  to  be  that 
the  gods  are  against  my  poetry,  and  that "  devils  " 
ate  the  instruments  of  Frovidence. 

Your  afflicted  contributor, 

Louise  I.  Guinkv. 

J I  Rultaad  Si.,  BbiIsh,  AprUiO,  iSS6. 

[There  is  one  redress  the  Literary  IVarld  c 

make,  and  that  Is  to  reprint  Miss  Guiney's  ver: 

correctly,  with  a  humble  confession  of  its  {prii 

er*s)  error ;  and  that  it  does  below  with  pleasure.] 

Ka  Old  Hnrt. 

We  poMl  in  fcaXiDg  aur  Pntl, 
A  gBDiBl,  Aradiia  thrani ) 


Ssdi  wit  and  *iidi  limihlEi  a-kindlc  t 

Bdi  qai^  ai  1  loreh  Id  iu  EiU, 
Or  u  flu  bdng  ttTDck  Iron  Iha  fpJDdlc, 
Al  one  breuh  of  nmambnTica  lh(]r  dwiidls 

To  ■  huh  and  I  check  In  lu  lU. 

Fmn  «ir  Poel  ■  lout,  ■(  hu  pleaiure  I 
**  John  Keati : "  lifhi  b»  loviog  bchal ; 

Bui  for  bim,  wiih  ha  wortb  berood  muitirt, 
ll  !■  good  ID  be  dead,  and  at  reel." 


Ani^Hi,  March  V),  iSOi. 

O  BOUE  EiEBSIBQTOH  STUDIOS. 
London,  April  lo. 

OUR  President,  Sir  Frederick  Leighton, 
has  this  year  only  one  small  picture,  a 
female  head ;  but  he  shows  a  very  large  decora- 
tive panel,  or  rather  three  panels,  a  commission 

for  the   ceiling  of  a  music-room  of  Mr. of 

.    The  subject  is  Musiq  and  its   various 

effects  on  the  mind  and  on   the    feelings  are 
expressed  by  symbolical  figures.     Some  <rf  these 


represent  joy  and  gaiety  and  ate  full  of  grace- 
ful movement;  others  stand  wrapped  in  tender 
melancholy.  The  figure  of  Memory  or  Mnemos- 
yne in  the  central  pane!  i*  very  poetic.  Rut  per- 
haps the  triumph  of  this  work  lies  in  the 
iterly  rendering  of  the  gold  background. 
Scarcely  any  pure  gold  is  left ;  so  marvelously 
is  color  worked  into  it,  till  it  is  almost  the  hue 
of  fine  copper,  that  the  general  effect  is  luminous 
and  prismatic  and  in  perfect  harmony  with  the 
cs  painted  upon  it.  Looked  at  from  one 
side  this  background  is  dark;  but  looked  at 
from  the  opposile  corner  it  gleams  like  sun- 
shine, BO  that  as  a  decoration  the  effects  wilt  be 
full  of  variety. 

At  Sir  Frederick  Leighton's,  although  his 
studio  is  far  more  interesting  and  attractivi 
than  any  other  in  London,  people  seem  to  speak 
softly  and  to  look  al  the  subjects  shown  to  I 
as  if  they  really  came  for  that  purpose  only;  but 
it  is  curious  to  note  at  some  other  studios  how 
the  same  people  seem  to  come  so  that  they  may 
meet  one  another  and  chat  together,  rather  than 
to  gratify  any  special  love  for  pictures.  "Acad- 
emy Sunday"  is  the  fashion  and  must  be  duti- 
fully observed,  and  so  Kensington  and  St.  John'it 
Wood  and  Chelsea  are  thronged  witb  carriages 
and  cabs  and  fashionably  dressed  ladles. 

Does  this  mock  enthusiasm  help  art,  on( 
wonders?  It  is  to  be  feared  that  these  peopit 
do  not  often  buy  pictures;  they  rather  flock  to 
see  them  because  it  is  the  fashion  to  go  round 
the  studios  on  Academy  Sunday.  Sir  F.  Leigh- 
ton's  bronie  statue,  "The  Sluggard,"  was  nol 
shown  in  his  studio. 

Mr.  Homo  Thorny  croft's  statue  for  thii 
year's  Royal  Academy,  of  which  he  is  an  Asso- 
ciate, is  in  some  ways  a  peitdant  lo  his  celebialed 
"  Mower  "  of  two  years  ago  ;  but  this  new  figure, 
which  the  gifted  sculptor  calls  "The  Sower," 
is  far  and  away  a  superior  work  of  art,  as  re- 
gards power,  both  in  conception  and  in  execu- 
tion. "The  Sower  "is  a  muscular  middle-aged 
pwasant,  and  bfs  face  indicates  force  of  intellect 
in  complete  harmony  with  the  vigor  and  skill 
with  which  he  performs  his  labor.  His  arms 
are  bared  to  the  elbow,  and  one  strong  hand 
presses  closely  to  hi*  side  the  tipped  seed 
basket,  while  the  other  stretched  out  behind 
him  seems  to  swing  forward  to  scatter  seed 
the  ploughed  Geld  over  which  he  literally  ap- 
pears to  stride.  The  reality  in  the  action  of 
this  grand  figure  is  most  striking,  and  yet  there 
is  the  poetic  charm  about  it  inseparable  from 
Mr.  Thornycroft's  i^onceptions,  a  charm  which 
fits  it  to  immortalize  one  of  the  fast  dying  tradi- 
tions of  English  husbandry,  for  nowadays  the 
sower  Is  only  a  supplement  to  the  "horse-drill, 
as  the  machine  is  called  which  deposits  the 
seed  as  it  moves  across  the  field.  From  what- 
ever point  tills  statue  is  coDsideied  it  seems  to 
be  faultless ;  perhaps  the  finest  and  most  im- 
pressive view  is  just  in  front  with  the  face  of 
the  Sower  seen  in  sharp  profile.  There  is  n 
vine  heavy  expression  about  tbia  agriculturalist, 
he  is  not  only  doing  his  work  with  a  will,  but 
he  has  a  mind  which  will  lead  him  to  spend  his 
strength  to  the  best  advantage.  It  must  have 
been  extremely  difficult  to  render  that  powerful 
swing  of  the  right  arm,  and  yet  this  has  been 
most  successfully  accomplished  by  the  talent  of 
the  sculptor. 

Mr.  Thornycroft's  studios  are  not  far  from 
thM  of  Mr.  Luke  Fildes.    This  A.  R.  A.  shows 


single  figures.  One  girl,  clad  in  blue,  is  fair 
and  pensive,  and  she  would  be  delightful  bat 
that  the  painter,  by  an  III  judged  caprice,  has 
placed  her  between  two  masses  of  the  gayest 
flowers  in  pots,  so  that  any  concentration  of 
:st  on  the  main  figure  is  destroyed  by 
these  distraction*.  The  other,  a  handsome, 
high-colored,  dark-eyed,  black-haired  Venetian, 
shows  like  a  brilliant  jewel  in  her  vivid  red 
jacket  and  sash.  This  is  a  powerful  study  of 
color;  it  look*  simple  and  true,  and  the  different 
reds  of  her  dress  are  most  harmoniously  man- 
aged, while  the  background  is  only  a  white 
wall  with  a  stain  of  red  in  one  corner  where 
tbe  brick*  show  tbroogb  the  whitewash.  Tbcs« 
pictures  were  both  on  view  in  Mr.  Fildes's 
enormous  studio.  Down  stairs,  in  another 
studio,  were  two  pictures  of  Mr.  H.  Woods, 
A.  R.  A.,  also  intended  for  the  Royal  Academy. 
They  represent  scenes  in  and  near  Venice,  and 
combine  landscape  and  figures,  shown  in  very 
pleasant  color.  k.  s.  u. 

OTJB  a£BUAH  LETTER. 

Bbulin,  April  4,  1SS6. 

WHAT  has  been  most  talked  of  in  literature, 
during  the  last  month  or  so.  Is  nothing  less 
than  a  "revolution"  is  opHma  forma.  About 
six  weeks  ago  a  small  volume  was  published  in 
Leipzig  under  the  title  of  Dit  Rctiolitii4m  in  der 
liitratur,  by  Karl  Bleibtreu,  a  very  young  but 
talented  poet  In  this  booklet  there  are  evolved 
the  doctrines  of "  Youngest  Germany,"  as  a  cer- 
tain school  of  lyrics  and  fiction  style  themselves. 
The  chief  doctrine  is  that  these  department*  of 
German  literature  are  at  present  utterly  rotten,  that 
our  most  celebiated  poets  and  novelists  —  such** 
Heyse,  Freytag,  Splelhagen,  etc.  —  are  but  weakly 
scribes  catering  for  the  depraved  tastes  of  the 
ignorant  masses  who  want  to  avoid  anything  in- 
spired by  genius  and  a  really  natural  disposition. 
After  heartily  denouncing  the  present  state  of  our 
literature  and  maintaining  that  no  genuine  poet 
ha*  arisen  since  Goethe's  death,  Herr  Bleibtreu 
goes  on  to  praise  highly  "  YonngesI  Germany," 
of  which  he  is  one  of  the  leading  members,  if  not 
tkt  leading  member.  This  odd  school  of  poetij 
and  fiction  derives  its  name  from  the  dicnm- 
stancc  that  most  of  its  adherent* — not  at  all 
numerous  when  all  told —  are  exceedingly  joui^, 
in  fact  the  very  youngest  of  authors  ;  they  range 
mostly  between  eighteen  and  twenty-five  years, 
and  only  a  few  are  a  little  older.  Youth  in  itself 
is  by  no  means  a  crime,  nor  even  a  fault;  but, 
with  Herr  Bleibtreu  and  those  he  praises  so 
highly,  it  explain*  all  their  bad  qualities,  arro- 
gance, conceit,  spite,  envy,  lewdness,  etc.  One 
may  be  a  radical  in  every  respect  and  hate  prud- 
ishneas,  but  that  cannot  prevent  one  (rom  hating 
also  self-praise,  itidecency,  and  injustice.  Heir 
Bleibtreu  is  generally  recognized  to  be  a  very 
talented  beginner,  but  for  years  he  has  positively 
forced  the  world  of  critic*  to  overwhelm  him  with 
ridicule  because  of  his  funny  tendency  to  exalt 
himself  while  in  reality  playing  by  no  mean*  an 
Important  part  in  literature.  He  absolutely  be- 
lieves himself  to  be  by  far  the  greatest  German 
writer  of  the  age ;  he  never  says  so  explicitly,  but 
—  apart  from  passages  in  former  publications  of 
his —  he  implies  it  several  times  on  each  page  of 
his  RtvoiutioH.  This  breihun  created  so  much 
stir  —  not,  of  course,  in  a  sense  agreeable  to  the 
revolutionists  —  that  the  first  edition  was  sold  lis 


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[Mat  I, 


«  (tm  dayi,  and  a  second  had  to  be  iicned 
without  "large  additioni,"  >.  i^  attacks  on  the 
fint  cntiCB  of  the  first  edition. 

By  "rcTOlotion"  the  "Yonngest  Germany" 
ueana  the  fresh  blood,  the  new  ipirit,  to  be  im- 
parled by  its  meinben  to  modem  literature. 
Down  with  the  old,  threshed-oot,  well- worn  ways 
of  contemporary  authors)  The  new  school  has 
struck  out  new  patbi  which  are  to  save  us  from 
literary  wrack  and  rain.  By  their  lofty  exampli 
they  are  continually  showing  bow  our  dying  poetry 
and  fiction  are  to  be  revived.  True,  they  are  ai 
War  with  each  other;  they  are  not  at  all  unani- 
uons  St  to  the  dimenaionB  the  "revolution  "  is  to 
auame;  but  they  meet  in  at  leait  one  respect  — 
Id  the  desire  to  be  considered  poets  endowed  m/A 
Haturai  ttntimeHtt  and  with  natural  ways  of  ex- 
pressing these  feelings.  In  reality,  however,  they 
are  only  drastically  lewd ;  seeing  that  naiuralia 
Hon  sunt  turf  ia,  they  seem  to  think  that  turpia 
tutil  naturalia.  They  differ  in  degree;  one  is 
more  lasdvioiu,  another  less  so.  Their  idol  and 
master  is  Zola,  and  they  strive  to  imitate  him ; 
but  they  only  succeed  in  imitating  his  ejrcres- 
cences,  not  his  artistic  qualities ;  nor  can  any 
moral  ideal  be  detected  in  their  nasty  writings. 
They  call  themselves  "  nataralists,"  as  the  ZoUs, 
Goncourls,  or  Gr^viltcs  do,  but  they  are  in  fact 
oxi\y fitmijgrafhtrt,  and  immature,  inexperience d, 
conceited,  love-mad  yonngsters.  There's  much 
talent  hidden  beneath  a  load  of  dirt  and  haughti- 
ness, and  it  is  a  pity  ibat  by  their  strange,  glar- 
ing ways  they  spoil  their  own  chances  and  those 
of  their  cause,  which,  theoretically  speaking,  i* 
one  by  no  means  to  be  rejected  off-hand.  As 
matlera  stand,  Herr  Bleibtreu's  "  revolution  "  is 
no  more  than  a  revolution  "  in  a  tumbler  full  of 
water,"  as  the  Germans  say.  Parturiunt  montts, 
naicetur  ridicului  mut.  Yes,  ridiculoas  it  is  to 
write  as  Heir  B.  does,  and  startling  it  is  to  read 
it.  "Youngest  Germany  "  has,  to  say  the  least, 
succeeded  in  making  itself  —  which  it  could  not 
otherwise  have  done  —  the  talk  of  the  land  in 
consequence  of  the  braeAurt  in  question,  which  is 
—  in  one  word  — the  most  wonderful  mixture  oE 
earneatneaa  and  impudence  imaginable.  A  fort- 
night afterwards,  one  of  the  youngest  and  least 
indecent  of  the  "Youngest,"  Herr  Fritsche, 
issued  a  still  thinner  booklet  under  the  similar 
title  tA  Dit  ReveltttioH  inder  Lyrik  ;  but,  as  it  was 
not  spoken  of  much,  I  did  not  take  the  trouble  to 
read  it.  One  revolution  was  quite  enough  for 
me  in  one  month;  so  I  did  not  care  to  undergo 
a  second.  Leopold  Katsckkr. 


OUB  SEW  YOKE  LETTIIB. 

New  York,  April  26. 

THE  reception  tendered  to  W.  D.  Howclls 
by  the  Authors'  Club  of  this  city  last 
Thursday  evening,  was  by  far  the  moat  interest- 
ing event  in  literary  circles  this  winter.  The 
club  has  ample  accommodations  on  West  24lh 
Street,  and  numbers  on  it*  roll  almost  all 
the  members  of  the  literary  guild  in  or  about 
New  York.  The  hundred  or  more  guests  who 
gathered  to  meet  Mr.  Howclls  formed  a  truly 
representative  assemblage  of  American  lii- 
erarians.  Foeta,  historians,  delvers  in  Greek 
and  X-alin,  journalists,  critics,  and  literary 
JloKturs  of  every  degree  hobnobbed  together 
over  their  pipes  and  beer,  and  their  number 
quite  overwhelmed  the  one  or  two  publishers 
present  with  wonder.    Not  all  the  members  of 


the  Attthors*  Club  are  known  to  fane-  Oo  the 
shelve*  of  the  two  book-cues  which  contaii 
published  works  of  the  member*  are  many 
volumes,  the  titles  of  which  are  not  perfectly 
familiar  to  readers  of  American  literature. 
But  the  club  can  boast  some  famous  names, 
and  a  perfect  good  fellowship  exist*  among 
Its  members,  so  that  the  veteran  of  many  edi 
dons  and  the  novice  of  one  edition  and  many 
anuscripts  meet  on  a  common  footing. 
The  eveping  wa*  well  advanced  when  the  1 
bers  of  the  club  began  to  drop  in  to  the  ro 
The  average  author  appeara  to  be  nocturnal 
rather  than  crepuscular  in  his  habits,  and 
the  nights  of  the  regular  meetings  a  quorum 
1  seldom  be  obtained  before  nine  o'clock. 
One  of  the  first  to  arrive  was  the  Rev.  E.  P.  Roe, 
who  brought  with  him  from  Cornwall  two  huge 
boxes  of  trailing  arbutus  with  which  he  pro- 
ceeded to  deck  the  button-holes  of  all  who  en- 
tered. Mr.  Hamilton  Gibson  came  to  his  aid, 
but  the  two  soon  forgot  their  charitable  purpose 
and  fell  to  talking  on  their  favorite  topic :  nature. 
Professor  Boyesen  was  an  early  arrival,  and, 
knowing  every  one,  did  much  to  make  the  even- 
ing enjoyable.  He  has  been  delivering  a  course 
of  lectures  at  Columbia  College  on  literary  topics, 
,nd  has  had  his  hall  crowded,  though  his  lectures 
rere  given  in  the  afternoon.  Much  effort  is  now 
being  made  to  induce  him  to  repeal  the  conrse 

»e  public  hall  in  the  evening.  Dr.  S.  Weir 
Mitchell  was  among  the  prominent  guests  who 
ived  promptly.  He  soon  fell  into  deep  con- 
versation with  Mr.  Mitchell,  the  editor  of  Ufi; 
possibly  discussing  the  strange  psychological  con- 
ditions which  lead  to  the  evolution  of  some  of  the 
jokes  in  that  lively  sheet.     By  this  time   the 

I  were  pretty  well  filled,  and  the  atmosphere 
began  to  grow  dim  with  smoke,  for  the  Authors' 
Club  as  a  body,  has  a  decided  penchaut  for 
tobacco.  The  broad  mantel-pieces  in  the  two 
large  rooma  are  piled  high  with  pipes  of  clay  and 
brier  wood,  while  the  large  center  table  is  kept 
well  stocked  with  cigarettes  and  smoking  tobacco 

rious  kinds.    Possibly  the  "literary  editor" 

of  the  Fait  Mall  CasiUt  would  take  this  a*  a 

fact  corroborating  his   recently  published  state- 

:nt  that  most  literariana  smoke,  as  "it  makes 

(he  thoughts  come  more  smoothly  and  logically, 

id  lessens  the  labor  of  composition."    At  any 

le,  whether  from  motives  of  utility  or  of  pleas- 

e,  the  members  of  the  Authors'  Club  smoke, 

and  smoke  they  did  until  the  atmosphere  of  the 

rooms  became  as  blue  as  the  haze  about 

rest  of  Mount  Olympus.  When  about  a 
hundred  had  assembled,  and  alter  all  had  been 
luly  introduced  to  the  distinguished  guest,  a 
cries  of  sonorous  taps  upon  a  Chinese  gong 
silenced  all  conversation.  Mr.  George  Gary 
Eggleston  officiated  as  chairman,  and  grace- 
fully discharged  the  somewhat  unnecessary 
task  of  introducing  Mr.  Howells.  Mr.  How- 
ells  responded  with  a  few  bright  remarks  that 
brought  frequent  rounds  of  applause.  Mr. 
Charlton  T.  Lewis,  Col.  George  K  Waring,  and 
Gen.  Horace  Potter,  who  is  widely  known  in 
New  York  as  Chauncey  M.  Depew's  chief  com- 
petitor in  the  art  of  after-dinner  speaking,  fol- 
lowed with  remarks,  the  tenor  of  which  was 
regret  for  Mr.  Howellt's  decision  to  remain  in 
Boston.  At  this  stage  in  the  proceedings,  Mr. 
Eggleston  concluded  that  Boston  should  have  a 
chance  to  express  its  opinion,  and  he  accordingly 
read  letters  of  regret  ^'o™  several  invited  litera- 


riana, among  whom  was  T.  B.  Aldrich,  who  noti- 
fied Mr.  Howella  "  to  come  back  to  Boston  and 
all  would  be  forgiven."  Rev.  Moncnre  D.  Con- 
way oune  in  after  his  lecture  in  Chickering  HaU, 
and  was  promptly  called  on  for  a  speech.  Ur. 
Stedman,  who  had  attended  the  Conway  lecture, 
followed,  and  deprecated  all  reference  to  Mr. 
Howells  itaying  in  either  Boston  or  New  York, 
saying  he  was  "like  Easter,  a  movable  feaaL" 
During  the  supper  which  followed  the  speaking 
in  the  earlier  part  of  the  evening,  there  were 
more  speeches  of  a  varied  and  interesdng  charac- 
ter. Mark  Twain  and  R.  W.  Gilder,  who  were 
among  the  late  arrivals,  were  promptly  called 
upon  their  leg*.  Loud  cries  for  Mr.  J.  Henry 
Harper  were  met  by  that  gentleman  with  such  a 
show  of  alleged  diffidence  and  such  pathetic  ap- 
peals for  a  substitate,  that  Mark  Twain  in  the 
most  charitable  manner  volunteered  to  act  as  hi* 
mouthpiece,  and  addressed  the  meeting  accord- 
ing  to  his  ideas  of  what  a  member  of  a  great  pub- 
lishing house  should  say  to  a  throng  of  authors. 
Mr.  Clemens's  views  were  heartily  endorsed  by  all 
present  and  created  the  greateal  enthusiasm. 
Frank  Stockton,  Hopkinson  Smith,  C.  H.Webb^ 
and  W.  H.  Laffan  closed  the  literary  symposium, 

Lt  a  late  hour  the  guests  separated,  after  an 
evening  that  will  long  be  historical  in  the  annals 
of  the  dub. 

The  success  of  the  Author*'  Club  ha*  been 
most  marked.  It  was  founded  three  yean  ago 
by  Mr.  R.  W.  Gilder,  Mr.  E.  C.  Stedman  and 

Charles  DeKay.  For  some  time  it  held 
periodical  meetings  at  the  residence*  of  it* 
members,  but  it  has  now  commodious  rooms 
at  all  timcB.  Its  membership  is  about  one 
hundred,  and  the  regular  monthly  meetings  are 
attended  by  invited  guests  from  ait  classes  of 
literary  workers.  The  library  of  four  or  five 
hundred  volumes  is  made  up  of  presentation 
copies  from  the  authors,  making  a  fairly  repre- 
sentative collection  of  American  literature  of 
the  present  decade.  Nassau. 

KINOB  N0TI0E8. 

The  Silent  South.  By  Geo^e  W.  Cable. 
[Charles  Scribner's  Sons,    f  1.00.] 

The  debate  between  Mr.  Cable  and  his  op- 
ponents in  the  Century  and  in  other  public 
prints  is  so  recent  and  well  known  that  but 
little  need  be  said  in  regard  to  this  collection 
of  his  leading  essays  and  argnments.  In  his 
first  essay,  "The  Negro  in  Equity,"  Mr.  Cable 
shows  how  the  power  of.  the  whites  in  the  South 
exerted  to  keep  the  colored  man  an  alien  and 
menial,  to  deprive  him  of  the  civil  right  guar- 
anteed by  the  constitutional  amendments,  and, 
ibove  all,  to  debar  him  from  those  social  and 
moral  right*  and  privileges  which  are  the  un- 
doubted birthright  of  every  American  dtiteu 
of  whatever  race  or  condition.  In  the  second 
essay,  "The  Silent  South,"  Mr.  Cable  shows 
it  is  not  social  but  civil  equality  that  the 
negro  demands;  or,  rather,  that  civil  equality 
lOt  intrude  the  black  man  into  every  parlor, 
drawing-room,  and  chamber  in  the  South,  but 
that  here,  or  everywhere  else,  be  will  be, 
from  the  very  nece»sity  of  the  case  must  be, 
socially  distinct.  The  third  essay  tells  the 
story  of  the  "Convict  Lease  System"  In  the  '^ 
South,  a  tale  of  barbarity  that  recall*  the  hor- 
of  the  old  slavery  times,  and  that  ought  to 


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THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


make  everj  American  hang  hi*  head  for  shame 
(ill  the  lystein  ii  dsalroyed  forever.  Mr.  Cable 
is  tenibljr  in  eamett.  He  belicTCB  the  only 
poliiiol  safetj  lica  in  right  doing.  He  lovea 
hit  natiie  Soath,  and  pleads  with  her  in  words 
that  cannot  be  gainsaid  —  powerful,  patriotic, 
Chriitian.  It  must  be  tliat  these  counsels, 
which  so  manjr  leading  Southerners  agree  with 
him  in  urgii^,  will  ultimately  prevail,  and  thus  the 
horrors  of  a  social  outbreak  in  another  century, 
compared  with  which  the  late  political  strife 
would  be  aa  nothing,  may  be  happily  averted. 
The  book  has  a  portrait  of  Its  genial  author, 
which,  however,  does  not  do  him  justice. 

The  Mammalia  in  Iheir  Jtelations  lo  Primeval 
Timti.  By  Oscar  Schmidt  of  the  University  of 
Strasbarii.    [D.  Appleion  &  Co.    f  1.50.] 

This  is  volume  53  of  the  International  Scien- 
tific Series.  Dr.  Schmidt  is  well  known  as  the 
author  of  one  of  the  earlier  works  in  the  same 
series.  The  Dadritu  a/  iDeictnt  and  Daruiinitm, 
which  is  Id  its  third  ot  fourth  edition,  and  ha^ 
attained  to  the  position  of  a  standard  authority 
on  the  subject.  The  book  before  us  treats  of 
the  origin  in  past  ages,  and  the  descent  of  our 
present  forms  of  mammalia,  and  is,  so  far  as  we 
can  recall,  the  only  single  work  in  which  this 
subject  has  been  formally  wrought  out.  We 
have  not  space  (or  a  riiuml  al  contents,  and 
the  name  of  the  aeries  and  the  author  must  be 
a  sufficient  guaranty  of  the  accuracy  and  excel- 
lence of  the  work.  Concerning  the  future  of 
man  we  have  only  the  dubious  assurance  of 
a  bald  pate  and  one  or  two  pairs  less  of  teeth. 
That,  with  increasing  intelligence,  the  race  will 
no  longer  require  its  wisdom  teeth  is  hardly 
worth  while;  if  only  we  could  have  the  assur- 
ance that  the  future  man  would  be  born  tooth- 
less, and  have  two  or  three  sets  of  false  teeth  in 
embryo,  ready  for  development  as  occasion  re- 
quired, the  ootlook  would  be  more  hopeful. 


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era,  Including  a  list  o(  the  consuls  in  the  city, 
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elsewhere),  Government  Relief,  and  Miacella- 
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Charity  Organizations  in  the  United  States,  a 
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Charitable  Work,  and  an  admirable  paper  on 
Legal  Suggestions,  by  the  Hon.  George  S.  Hale. 
The  book  has  also  a  list  of  the  Public  Parks  and 
Squares,  the  lungs  of  the  dty,  where  those  living 
in  the  more  densely  inhabited  parts  can  refresh 
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The  GcHllcman'i  Magatint  Library.  Edited  by 
G.  I-  Gomme.  Archaeology.  Part  I.  [Mongli- 
ton,  Mifflin  &  Co.     %^.^\ 

This  new  volume  in  the  reissue  of  selections 
from  the  contents  of  the  old  GeHlleman'i  Maga- 
lint  leaves  the  domain  of  fable,  folklore,  and 
tradition,  and  enters  upon  the  firm  ground  of 
fact,  making  a  good  beginning  with  the  archK- 
ological  treasures  which  abound  In  Great  Britain. 
The  first  section  is  devoted  to  geologic  forma- 
tions and  pre-historic  remains ;  including  such 
topics  as  traces  of  a  deluge  near  Oxford,  fossils, 
cave  relics  in  Scotland  and  Ireland,  and  some 
submarine  forests  on  the  Norfolk  Coast.  Among 
the  early  historic  remains  are  ancient  timber 
foundations,  implements  of  stone,  flint,  and  bronze 
days,  and  fr^ments  illustiative  of  naval  power. 
Sepulchral  Remains  afiord  material  for  a  sepa- 
rate section.  Here  are  given  accounts  of  numer- 
ous excavations  in  many  counties,  the  opening 
of  barrows  or  burial  mounds  in  Cornwall  and 
Dorset,  and  the  famous  Tumuli  in  the  York- 
shire Wolds.  These'  tumuli  contain  abundant 
human  remaini.  One  for  example,  j6  feet  in 
diameter  and  6  Eeet  in  length,  disclosed  upwards 
of  20  interments.  The  bodies  lay  in  a  line,  on 
a  stone  pavement,  and  in  all  manner  of  positions. 
Fotiety,  tools,  and  flints  were  scattered  in  among 
them.  The  concluding  third  of  the  book  ia  de- 
voted to  the  study  of  encampments,  earthworks, 
and  the  like,  a  subject  full  of  curious  detail. 
The  eatly  camps  were  the  centers  of  consider- 
able populations,  whether  Saxon,  Danish,  or 
Roman  it  is  not  always  easy  to  tell.  The  monu- 
mental stones  of  England  are  a  matter  of  com- 
mon knowledge,  though  often  passing  under- 
standing. Some  account  of  these  is  given.  Be- 
tween the  British  mounds  and  the  American  the 
contrasts  and  cumpatisons  ate  interesting  and 
valuable,  and  few  persons  can  resist  the  fascina- 
tions of  these  diggings  down  into  the  venerable 
body  of  our  honored  Mother  England.  The 
Stone  Circles  are  to  come  in  for  notice  in  a  suc- 
ceeding volume.  The  present  volume  is,  to  our 
mind,  the  most  readable  of  the  series  yet. 


Sermons  and  Addrtsses,  Delhierrd  in  Amiriea. 
By  Frederick  W.  Farrar,  D.  D.,  F.  R.  S.  With 
an  Introduction  by  Phillips  Brooks,  D.  D.  [E.  P. 
Dntton&Co.    fa.oo,] 

Fourteen  sermons,  four  addresses,  and  two 
lectures  —  for  the  lecture  on  Browning  is  unac- 
countably omitted  from  the  collection  —  form 
the  special  legacy  and  printed  remembrance 
which  Canon  Farrar  left  with  us  on  hisdeparture 
from  our  country.  The  lecture  on  Dante  wilt  be 
remembered  by  his  hearers  as  at  once  a  study 


and  a  sermon.  The  addresses  upon  Edacatton, 
the  Atonement,  Christian  Unity,  Temperance, 
and  the  so-called  farewell  thoughts  upon  Amer- 
ica, we  need  only  mention  as  disclosing  the 
breadth  and  sensitiveness  of  Dr.  Farrar'a  sympa- 
thies and  interests,  and  the  quickness  and  posi- 
tiveness  of  his  intelligence  when  dealing  with 
questions  either  of  theology  or  of  morals.  It  ia 
above  all  as  a  preacher  that  Canon  Farrar  finds 
hia  true  vocation  —  a  preacher  of  temperance,, 
righteousness,  and  judgment  to  come,  in  the  full 
extent  o(  the  phrase,  as  this  volume  clearly 
shows.  His  faults,  or  better,  perhaps,  the 
defects  of  his  qualities,  as  the  French  say,  are 
nowhere  more  evident  — excessive  fondness  for 
quotation  and  allusion,  and  an  unbridled  passion 
for  the  pomp  and  drcnmstance  of  rhetoric ;  but 
here,  too,  hia  strength  is  most  clearly  seen,  and 
his  moral  purpose  stands  oat  aioat  distinct  and 
commanding.  In  tbe  discnssioiu  of  modem 
theology  he  is  known  aa  the  fearless  advocate 
of  the  largest  charity,  and  declines  to  set  bounds 
to  the  mercy  or  forgiveness  of  God.  But  no 
rigid  dogmatist  upon  probation  in  our  day  baa 
approached  in  eamestneaa  and  power  the  wam- 
inga  uttered  by  this  apostle  of  Elernal  Hope. 
The  single  sermon  on  Awakenment  Is  most  strik- 
ing in  this  respect ;  strong  but  subtle  inference, 
vivid  imagery,  persona]  appeal  — all  are  here, 
but  the  secret  of  its  power  is  the  undercurrent  of 
intense  reality  ;  its  voices  have  none  of  the  orac- 
ular solemnity  of  the  stage  —  they  are  echoes  of 
ihe  thunders  of  a  veritable  Sinai.  Canon  Farrar's 
preaching  is  not  in  a  dull  monotone  ;  it  has  vari- 
ety and  depth  —  variety  because  it  has  depth. 
"  The  Example  of  the  Saints  "  he  lifts  as  a  lofty 
inspiration ;  but  no  less,  in  "  Keep  the  Command- 
ments," and  "  The  Work  of  the  Few  and  of  the 
Many,"  he  shows  the  need  and  place  tor  Christ- 
like service  in  humble  spheres.  And  he  must 
have  a  limited  and  narrow  experience  himself  who 
cannot  find  in  this  volume  much  to  comfort,  in- 
struct, uplift,  and  encourage. 


Feed  and  Ftiding.  By  Sir  Henry  Thompson. 
F.R.C.S.,  etc.     [Frederick  Warne  k  Co.   ^^\ 

Scarcely  any  books  are  more  useful  or  more 
urgently  needed  than  well  written  works  on  the 
nature  and  eEFects  of  different  foods.  For  how 
very  few  persons  have  any  knowledge,  even  ele- 
mentary, of  the  three  great  functions  of  alimen. 
lation  — heat  production,  muscular  sustenance, 
and  Ihe  supply  of  nerve  substance.  Yet  11  ]* 
in  reference  to  these  that  the  practical  and  most 
imporUnt  matter  of  diet  needs  to  be  regulated. 
The  present  book  has  in  part  the  same  aim  as 
Dr.  Bellows's  Phileiofihy  of  Bating.  lis  chief 
topics  are :  the  choice  of  food,  and  how  modi- 
fied by  the  nature  o(  each  person's  occupation 

a  matter  too  often  wholly  overlooked;  sugges- 
tions as  to  methods  of  cooking,  with  many 
recipes  {which  we  are  sorry  to  see  so  eminent 
a  writer  miscall  "receipts"),  contained  espe- 
cially in  appendices,  of  which  one  is  translated 
from  GouS^i  and,  finally,  questions  as  to  the 
beat  arrangement  and  combination  of  meals, 
in  such  points  as  their  number  and  bills  of 
(are,  and  the  conduct  of  dinners  on  public  octa- 
sions.  Sir  Henry's  correction  of  an  error  com- 
mon in  England  is  equally  applicable  to  onr 
Northern  States: 

Englishmen  generally  have  adopted  a  diet 
adapted  for  a  somewhat  more  northerly  lalitudo 
than  that  which  they  occupy ; , .  .  and  nomeroua 


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THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[May  I, 


Eormi  of  indigcttion  and  much  reiultinR  ch 
diKaMirenecestarjrconMquencM.  .  .The} 
sume  too  much   animal    food,   particulailj  the 
Aesh  of  cattle. 

He  goes  on  to  advise  sabstltuting,  for 
laboring  physicallr,  a  more  mixed  diet,  largelj 
cereal*  and  legumes,  though  not  ivholljr  vege- 
tarian, and  for  those  whose  work  is  chiefly 
mental  "still  less  of  concentrated  nilrogenoui 
food."  For  such  he  highly  recommends  fish,  a< 
entailing  less  labor  than  Scsh  upon  the  digescivi 
organs  ;  but  says  that  the  common  idea  that  fish 
i*  eapecially  rich  in  nutrition  for  the  brain  i 
without  fonndation.  Sedentary  and  elderly  pei 
sons  shoald,  fatthermore,  avoid  fat,  in  large 
quantity.  This  and  excess  of  meit,  he  adds, 
introduce  materials  into  the  system  "which  it 
cannot  eliminate  and  which  mut  ultimately  ob. 
struct  the  function  of  some  internal  organ." 
And,  though  open-air  exercise  may  do  much 
to  enable  the  body  to  get  rid  of  these  "auper- 
fluou*  nutritive  materials,"  yet  a  far  wiser  plan 
is  not  to  take  them  in.  Some  interesting  cal- 
culations are  made  showing  the  economic  bear- 
ing of  the  popular  diet  on  the  national  resources. 
Space  forbids  mention  of  many  valuable  thoughts 
and  bints.  We  will  add  only  that  the  discossion 
of  the  use  of  millc,  and  of  wines,  tobacco,  and 
other  stimulants,  in  connection  with  eating, 
especially  judicial  in  its  presentation  of  both 
udes;  and  finally,  in  what  the  author  lay; 
about  methods  of  cookery,  the  laoit  notable 
thing  is  his  description  of  a  process  called  drtiis- 
ing,  little  known  b  England  but  commended 
highly. 


1  and  delightful  book  for  chil- 
dren is  Mr.  Maurice  Noel's  Bta,  which  nairates 
the  birth,  the  education,  the  adventures,  and  the 
glorious  end  of  a  honey  bee,  in  a  fashion  so 
merry  and  graceful  as  to  make  the  story  as 
charming  as  it  is  instructive.  We  follow  the 
fortunes  of  Buz  from  the  moment  when  she 
creeps  out  of  her  waxen  cell  to  be  fed  and 
caressed  by  the  older  bees.  Like  her  we  regard 
our  Queen  with  x  blind  instinctive  devotion  and 
feel  the  keen  desire  to  "swarm"  when  she 
gives  the  signal.  Like  her  we  are  perplexed 
and  outraged  by  the  devious  wiles  of  the  bee- 
keeper. We  cannot  understand  the  disappear- 
ance of  our  vombs  of  virgin  honey  and  are 
inclined  to  resent  It  bitterly.  Like  her  we  feel 
the  world  to  be  a  puizling  place,  while  every  day 
learning  something  from  our  very  perplexities. 
And  when  she  perishes  in  the  act  of  stinging 
the  thumb  of  a  burglar  and  saving  a  family  from 
pillage,  we  are  conscious  of  a  pride  in  her  biave 
act  To  communicate  a  lesson  so  deftly  and 
agreeably  is  not  given  to  many  writets  for  the 
young,  and  we  commend  this  book  to  those 
fathers  and  mothers  who  are  patiicular  as  to 
what  their  little  folks  shall  read,  and  ate  not 
content  to  have  them  merely  entertained. 


DeuUchc  Ansckauut^s-Unterickt  fur  Ameri- 
kantr.  Von  Caila  Wenckebach,  Professor  in 
Wellesley  College,  and  Hclene  Wenckebach, 
Instructor  in  Wellesley  College.  [Boston  :  Carl 
Scboenhof.] 

The  German  language  occupies  now  one  of  the 
most  important  places  in  the  curriculum  of 
American  schools  and  colleges.  It  has  grown  to 
be  almost  a  necessity  not  only  to  that  somewhat 


nondescript  person  the  "liberally  educated 
man,  but  also  to  its  men  of  scholarly  tastes  i 
nearly  all  branches  of  learning.  In  other  words, 
the  Ocrtnans  have  written  and  are  writing  books 
which  must  be  consulted  by  any  man  who  makes 
any.  pretence  to  thoroughness  in  his  investiga- 
tions. Fashion,  of  course,  has  contributed  some- 
thing toward  the  great  advance  in  the  study  of 
the  language  and  its  literature,  but  in  the  m. 
is  necessity  which  has  driven  us  all  to  learn  the 
hard  language  of  the  Teutons.  Many  and  vari- 
ous are  the  roads  and  ways  which  have  been 
opened  up  for  us  to  this  coveted  land  of  knowl 
edge,  but  none  of  them  are  "royal."  We  ex. 
press  DO  opinion  as  to  the  comparative  value  of 
the  grammatical  and  the  so-called  "  natural 
"  conversational  "  method,  but  of  all  the  books 
wbich  we  have  examined  in  the  latter,  this 
of  the  Frilulein  Wenckebach  seem*  to  us 
best.  It  gives  material  enough  under  ei 
heading  to  lead  to  conversation  and  not  enough 
to  weary  the  learner.  The  sentences  ate  intelli 
gent  and  have  nothing  of  the  old-fashioned 
"Ollendorff"  Qavor,  such  as,  "Have  you  the 
umbrella  of  the  baker's  cousin?  No,  but  I 
have  the  pig  of  the  poor  farmer."  Frauleln 
Wenckebach's  subjects  are  treated  in  a  natural 
way  and  are  suggestive  of  further  enlargement 
on  the  part  of  the  teacher.  The  book  i*  admira- 
ble for  the  pupil  and  a  still  greater  priie  for  the 


8HAEE8PBABUVA. 


Pumess's  "New  Variomm"  Edition  of 
"  Otbello."  At  length,  after  the  lapse  o: 
years,  our  eyes  are  blessed  with  the  sight  of 
another  volume  of  Dr.  Horace  Howard  Fur- 
ness's  great  edition  of  Shakespeare.  Otktlh  is 
added  to  the  list  that  already  comprised  Romta 
and  Julitt,  Madnth,  Itamltl,  and  Lear.  I 
respect  inferior,  it  is  in  some  ways  superior  to 
its  predecessors.  In  a  work  of  such  magnitude 
and  difficulty  the  plan  in  all  its  details  cannot 
be  perfected  at  the  start;  the  editor  must  learn 
some  things  by  experience.  In  Othtllo  it  seems 
to  UB  that  Dr.  Furness  has  well  settled  all  these 
questions  of  method  and  form,  and  given  us  a 
ne  which  may  serve  as  the  model  for  all 
ire  to  follow.  If  we  might  venture  to  sug- 
one  tittle  possible  Improvement,  it  would 
be  the  insertion  of  a  Table  of  Contents,  the 
lack  of  which  is  only  partially  supplied  by  the 
excellent  Index. 

Of  the  new  featntes  in  the  present  volimie  the 
most  noteworthy  is  the  adoption  of  the  First 
I  text  in  place  of  one  made  up  by  the  editor, 
well  that  in  a  "  Variorum"  edition,  the 
original  text  should  have  the  place  that  belongs 
OS  the  basis  of  all  the  various  readings; 
[a.u1ty  as  it  obviously  is  in  many  ways,  we 
say  that  personally  we  cannot  help  think- 
ing better  of  it  after  seeing  it  thus  presented  with 
I  errors  and  defects,  face  to  face  with  all 
that  students  and  critics  and  commentators  have 
been  able  to  do  in  correcting  and  interpreting  it. 
It  bears  the  test  wonderfully  welt. 

The  first  336  pages  of  the  volume  are  devoted 
:o  this  text  of  the  play,  with  a  collation  of  the 
'eadings  of  all  the  early  and  modem  editions  I 
worth  collating,  and  a  summary  of  the  critical 
and  explanatory  conunents  of  all  the  editors  and  | 


worth  quo^ng  —  in  some  case* 
worth  it  only  for  their  worihlessness  or  absurdity 
—  and,  last  but  not  least,  the  annotation*  of  Dr. 
Fumess  himself  wbich  are  always  valuable, 
though  we  may  occasionally  disagree  with  them. 
Then  comes  the  Appendix,  containing  the  his- 
tory of  the  text  (pp.  339-343] ;  the  discussion  of 
the  date  of  composition  (344-357)  and  of  the 
action  of  the  play  (357,  358) ;  of  the  duration  of 
the  action  (358-372) ;  of  the  source  of  the  plot, 
including  the  Italian  text  and  a  subjoined  Eng- 
lish translation  of  Cinthio's  novel,  Hu  Uecca- 
ttmmilki  (372-389) ;  of  Othello's  color  (389-396) ; 
of  the  actors,  from  Burbage  down  to  Kean  (396- 
404);  of  the  costume  (404-407] ;  a  summary  of 
English  (407-430],  of  German  (431-446),  and 
of  French  criticism  (447-453) ;  specimens  of  the 
rendering  of  a  passage  (iii.  3.  330-333)  by  many 
French,  German,  Italian,  Spanish,  Greek,  and 
other  translators  (453-458] ;  a  list  of  editions  col- 
lated (459-462)  and  of  books  and  periodicals 
from  which  extracts  are  made  (463-466) ;  and  an 
index  (467-471).  The  whole  is  a  library  boiled 
down  into  a  volume,  and  for  ninety-nine  reader* 
and  students  out  of  a  hundred  infinitely  more 
convenient  and  useful  than  the  multitudinous 
original,  even  if  the  latter  were  accessible  to 
them  i  and  it  will  be  only  now  and  then  that  the 
hundredth  man  will  want  to  go  from  the  one 
handy  book  to  the  source*  whence  it*  varied 
have  been  drawn. 

re  to  meet  with  an  editor  who  can  go 
through  with  all  this  variorum  collation  and 
attendant  drudgery  without  becoming  "dry  as 
dust,"  if  he  were  not  so  before  he 
could  make  up  his  mind  to  undertake  it;  but 
Dr.  Fumess  come*  out  of  it  the  same  broad, 
liberal,  genial  man  that  he  was  when  he  went 
follow  any  (rail  that  a  pedant  de- 
lights to  trace  with  the  pedant's  persistence 
of  purpose,  but  never  gets 
one-sided,  and  intolerant,  like  the 
jKdant.  His  temper  and  spirit  are  well  shown 
by  what  he  says  at  the  close  of  bis  discussion 
of  the  date  of  the  play  : 

In  dealing  with  questions  like  this  of  a  date 
of  the  composition  of  a  play,  it  seems  to   me 
that  it  is  of  the  first  moment  to  keep  before  us  the 
nd  and  aim  which  gives  the  subject  its  impor- 
ince  ;  we  ought  to  adjust  our  lines  of  perspcct- 
'e  and  so  arrange  our  objects  in  view  that  each 
ill   have  its  true  relative  value,  and  that  we 
lay  not  be  in  danger  of  confounding  nearness 
ith  magnitude  or  importance.     Every  one  has 
right  to  select  his  vanishing-point,  and  arrange 
his  lines  to  suit  him  best ;  to  me  it  is  a  great 
charm  that  the   number  of  points  from   which 
lat  myriad-minded  man  can  be  studied  arc  as 
lyriad  as   his  mind-    If  wc   are  searching  for 
the  facts  of  his  outward  life,  then  the  days  and 
months  and  years  when  he  wrote  his  plays  are 
of   essential   importance.      But   if  the  outward 
iditions   of  bis  muddy  vesture   of  decay  do 
.   attract  us,  and    We   ate   straining    to   catch 
sound  of  immortal  harmony,  what  profit  to  us 
then  is  there  in  tides  and  times?    Would  a  year 
two,  one  way  or   the  other,   bring  us  any 
rer  to  a  knowledge  of  the  Moor  f    Would 
lingle  throb  be  added  to  Romeo's  last  fare- 
well to  Juliet  if  we  knew  the  very  day,  or  the 
very  hour  of  the  day,  when  Shakespeare  wrote 
the  scene  ?     We  must  beware  that  we  do  not 
confound  in  any  question  like  this,  the  essential 
id  the  accidental.    _  Does  the  history  of  the 
ol-i-noor  add  one  doit  to  its  value  or  one  .tint 
ils'rajrs  ?    It  is  not  the  knowledge  that  it  was 
-ilten  m  1604  or  in  1704  that  fills  our  theater* 
when  Othtllo  i*  on  the  stage. 

Most  wise  and  weighty  words  I      There   be 
those    who   cannot   thus  adjust  their  lines  of 


l886.] 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


■55 


view,  and  who  in  judging  their  own  work  and 
that  of  others,  constantlj  make  the  mistakes 
against  which  our  genial  critic  here  wains  thera. 
We  fear  his  little  homily  will  be  wasted,  so  far 
as  thcM  old  sinners  arc  concerned,  but  Chose 
who  are  "bnt  young  in  deed  "  may  profit  by  it. 

There  is  another  shrewd  hint  Cor  students  and 
commentators  at  the  close  of  some  remarks  —  we 
are  lorrj  we  cannot  quote  them  in  full — on  i. 
3,  *9i,  J92  ("Nor  to  comply  with  heat,"  etc), 
where  our  editor  says  : 

MoreoTcr  In  the  inexplicable  passages  in 
Shakespeare,  like  "the  runaway's  eyes,"  "the 
dram  of  eale,"  "VHorxa,"  the  present  passage, 
and  others,  alter  the  printers  have  borne  all  the 
obloquy  which  we  can  heap  upon  them,  might 
we  not  frown  a  little  at  Shakespeare  himself? 
He  must  have  written  rapidly.  Would  his  fame 
JorsUbbft''    -'  - 

,  red  among 
m  and  then  wrote  carelessly  ? 
Again,  after  referring  to  Theobald's  citation  of 
sundry  passages  from  Greek  and  Latin  writers 
which,  he  says,  "  might  have  given  our  author  a 
hint "  for  iii.  3. 185  ("  Who  steals  my  purse,"  etc.), 
Dr.  Fumess  aptly  asks : 

Is  it  not  strange  that  it  seems  never  to  have 
occurred  to  the  earlier  editors  of  Shakespeare, 
who  certainly  had,  especially  Theobald,  a  great 
reverence  [or  their  "poet,"  as  they  termed  him, 
that  Shakespeare  might  be  trusted  to  have  con- 
ceived, now  and  then,  here  and  there,  and  once  in 
awhile,  an  original  idea,  with  quite  as  much  likeli- 
hood as  Lucian,  or  Apollodorus,  or  Fublius  Syrus' 

We  had  marked  several  other  felicitous  para- 
graphs for  quotation,  but  we  fear  that  we  are 
already  exceeding  our  limited  space.  We  may 
recur  to  some  points  in  the  book  at  a  fntare 


New  Edition  of  Judge  Holmes's  "AU' 
tborstaip  of  SbBkespecTC."  Jadge  Holmes  is 
certainly  the  most  voluminons — aed  the  most 
luminous,  so  far  as  that  term  can  be  applied  to 
them  —  of  the  Baconians.  A  fourth  enlarged 
and  revised  edition  of  his  Avihartkif  of  Shaki- 
tptart  has  just  been  issued  by  Houghton,  Mifflin 
&  Co.  in  two  handsome  volumes,  wherein  the 
former  seven  hundred  pages  are  augmented  by 
a  hundred  and  twenty  more,  which,  we  must 
frankly  wy,  do  not  seem  to  us  to  add  much 
weight  to  the  argument.  Mrs.  Pott's  Premui 
the  Judge  regards  as  "  the  most  notable  si 
sion  to  the  evidence  "  in  recent  yean,  being,  he 
thinks,  "conGrmation  strong  as  proof  o(  Holy 
Writ,"  etc  The  other  new  literature  on  hi*  side 
of  the  subject  to  which  he  refers  does  not  make 
much  of  a  show;  and  to  eke  out  the  list  of 
authorities  he  adds  that  Mr.  Appleton  Morgan, 
"since  the  publication  of  his  Shaktspiarian 
Afyih"  (does  he  mean  the  second  edition,  issaed 
a  few  months  ago?)  has,  as  he  is  "credibly 
formed,"  become  "a  thorough  believer  in  I 
Baconian  authorship  of  the  playa."  This  will  be 
news  to  Mr.  Morgan,  who  never  was  a  Baconian 
when  he  was  supposed  to  be  such,  and  who  is 
more  likely,  in  our  opinion,  to  become  a  convert 
to  the  orthodox  Shakespearian  faith  than  to 
exchange  his  present  form  of  heresy  for  a  difier- 
ent  one.  Why  did  not  Judge  Holmes  vrrite  to 
Mr.  Morgan  himself,  and  find  out  whether  the 
"  credible  information  "  was  true  or  false  ?  Is  he 
either  judicions  or  judicial  in  oring  second-hand 
"information"  when  he  conid  so  easily  get 
direct  and  positive  evidence  on  the  subject? 
Ooe  voold  snpposf  he  iroujd  have  been  glad 


NOTES  AHD  QUERIES. 


781.    Studies  in  Religiott  (No.  77B).    It  is 
always  pleasant  to  sec  an  old  favorite  brought 
)  notice  again.    Sludiet  itt  Religian  was  writ- 
by  Miss  Eliiabeth  Clapp  of  Dorchester,  who 
had  previously  written  a  smaller  book  of  some- 
similar    character,    iVords  i«    a    Sunday- 
School.     I  should  be   glad  to  think,  with  your 
New  Orleans  correspondent,  that  the   book  be 
praises  was  "born  before  its  time,"  but  fear  that 
it  would  meet  with  less  attention  now,  in  these 
days  of  Herbert  Spencer,  than  it  did  during  the 
Transcendental"  period,  of  which  it  was  one 
of  the  best  fruits.    It    was   certainly  read   by 
many   people   with    pleasure    then,   although   I 
Luthor  herself  now  rather  dis- 
avows its  doctrines,  being  now  inclined  to  more 
religious  opinions  than   are  there 


:  opportunity  of  congratulating  and  wel- 
g  so  notable  a  neophyte. 

a  few  other  points  in  Judge  Holmes's 
plemcnt"  we  may  have  something 

we  are  not  so  crowded  for  room. 


say 


of  the  popular  superstitions  and  customs  of 
his  compatriots.  Finally,  Arthur  Benson  writes 
very  affectionate  tribute,  with  many  anecdotes, 
of  Henry  Bradshaw,  a  man  who  lived  Jn  the 
scholastic  retirement  of  the  University  of  Cam- 
bridge and  is  described  as  of  most  sweet  and 
winning  gentleness,  and  of  vast  stores  of  learn- 
ing ;  who,  however,  left  but  a  few  pamphlets  in 
evidence  of  his  talent*. 


Cambridgi,  Mass. 


THE  PEBIOSIOALS. 

Quite  two  thirds  of  the  April  MacmiUatii  is  of 
literary    complexion.      George    Salntsbury    de- 

[ibes  and  criticizes  In  a  very  chatty,  pleasant 
way  the  works  of  a  writer  probably  little  known 
even  by  name  in  the  United  States,  Thomas  Love 
Peacock  (17S5-1S66),  a  novelist  characterized  by 
humor  and  satire  and  a  somewhat  epicurean 
of  pleasure,  yet  not   without   "  a  good  deal  oi 
quaint  and  not  despicable  erudition."    Immedi- 
itely  following  i*  a  disquisition  on  "  The  Musical 
and  Picturesque  Elements  in  Poetry,"  by  Thomas 
Whittaker;    a  composition  in  which  we  fear  the 
reader,  after  finishing  a  paragraph,  will  find  him- 
self going  back  to  see  what  it  says,  and  in  which 
the  most  salient  point  presenting  itself  appears 
to  be  that  musical  rhythm,  rather  than  picturesque 
imagery,  is  the  most  important  element  in  vers 
Gcation.    "An  Old  School  Book,"   and  an  od 
one  truly,  is  John  Amos  Comenius's  Orbis  Set 
sualium  Pictut,  an  antiquarian  production  meant 
to  teach  Latin  and  general  knowledge  simult 
ously,  in  which  it  appears  that   author  and 
graver  worked  harmonionsly  to  create  a  rcsul 
comical  in  its  way  as  the  celebrated  Ntw  England 
Primer  of  sainted    memory.      Then    com 
"general  reader,"  who  discourses  on  the  n 
method  in  reading,  taking  as  a  text  The  Choice  of 
Books  and  Other  Literary  Pieces,  by   Frederick 
Harrison,    pleading    for   more    reading  of  the 
world's   great   books    themselves  and    less   of 
people's  opinions  about  them,  and   urging  that 
there  is  at  limes  much  value  In  even  the  literati 
whkh  merely  diverts  from  the  cares  of  life.    ' 
Cossack  Poet"  was  Taras  Shevchenko  (181 
tS6l) ;  born  a  serf,  emancipated  by  purchase  by 
an  artist,  and  celebrated  as  the  popular  poet 
perhaps  corresponding  to  Robert  Butns  —  of  the 
Ukraine  or  Uttle  Russia.    His  verses  are  in  tt 
Malo- Russian    dialect,    which    the    biographi 
thinks  almost  a  distinct  language,  and  embod)' 


TABLE  TALE. 


.  An  old-time  associate  of  the  writer  known 
Howard  Glyndon,"  gives  the  following  ac- 
t  of  how  her  nom  de  flume  originated  :  "  She 
took  that  name  while  living  in  St.  Louis,  seven- 
ighteen  years  ago.  It  was  a  chance 
fancy  of  hers,  chosen  to  conceal  the  identity  of 
the  author  of  some  rather  incendiary  attacks 
upon  certain  old  wire-pullers  who_were  squab- 
bling over  the  distribution  of  spoils  in  one  of  the 
municipal  departments  of  the  dty.  [Of  late,  she 
had  taken  to  dabbling  in  the  puddle  of  local  poli- 
tics.) One  day,  as  we  sat  writing  together,  each 
intent  upon  preparing  copy  for  the  Daily  Refub- 
lican,  she  handed  over  Co  me  a  sheet,  the  savage 
underscoring  of  which  rather  startled  me. 
■You're  not  going  to  put  your  name  to  that?' 
I  asked,  after  reading  it,  'No,'  said  she,  'I 
mean  to  masquerades*  a  masculine  —  and  I  want 
a  nom  de  plume  that  ahall  tell  them  nothing.' 
Well,  we  cast  about  for  a  name  beSttIng  the  oc- 
casion. Finally,  /suggested  Hmnard;  and  she, 
wishing  to  make  it  more  definite,  and  give  It  a 
sort  of  distinctiveness,  tacked  on  the  Glyndon  ; 
I  remonstrated;  the  name  was  so  outre  —  so 
harsh  and  dissonant  to  my  sensitive  ear.  *  Why 
not  write  it  Howard  G.  Lyndon?'  but  m;  lady 
would  not ;  and  *  Glyndon '  it  was,  and  '  Glyndon ' 
it  remains,  much  to  my  disgust." 

. .  .  Mr,  Henry  Harland,  who  is  known  to  the 
book  world  as  "Sidney  Luska,"  and  the  author 
of  As  It  Was  Written  and  Mrs.  Peixada,  it  is 
reported  has  resigned  his  position  in  the  New 
York  Surrogate's  office  and  will  devote  his  en- 
tire lime  to  the  writing  of  books.  We  trust  thai 
Mr.  Harland  mdy  be  able  to  write  many  success- 
ful books,  and  we  cannot  but  admire  the  con- 
fidence he  has  in  the  profession  of  letters.  The 
author  must  have  a  better  copyright  balance 
sheet  than  most  of  his  contemporary  novelists, 
but  even  the  most  successful  writers  of  novels 
have  felt  the  value  of  having  something  besides 
a  copyright  account  10  live  upon.  Troilope,  for 
example,  never  trusted  to  novel  writing  as  an 
occupation  until  his  stable  was  filled  with  good 
horses,  his  bank  account  at  a  round  figure,  and 
his  post  office  position  a  weight  upon  him. 

...  It  was  thought  that  when  Mr.  Frank  R. 
Stockton  introduced  his  "  Information  Shop  " 
to  fiction  in  his  novel.  The  Late  Mrs.  Null,  that 
he  had  described  an  entirely  new  and  original 
It  seems,   however,   that   there   has 


been 


for  s 


company 


called  the  "New  York  Information  Co.,"  which 
professes  quite  the  same  aim  as  Mr.  Stockton's 
"  Information  Shop."  We  learn  from  a  good 
authority  that  the  character  of  Mis.  Keswick, 
whose  extraordinary  antics  provoke  so  much 
of  the  fun  in  Mr.  Stockton's  new  story,  was 
drawn  from  real  life.  The  original  of  this 
strange  lady  lived  in  Virginia  for  many  years. 
Her  husband  was  generally  regarded  as  a  mild 
and  good-natured  man,  but  after  enduring  hii 


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THE    LITERARY   WORLD. 


[May 


wife's  abuse  for  a  long  time  he  went  out  one 
fine  da.y  >nd  killed  himself  at  hie  own  gate-post, 
rather  than  live  with  her  longer.  The  wild 
dance  indulged  in  bj  the  negroes  and  described 
in  the  book  —  the  "  JeruaaJem  Jump,"  Mr. 
Stockton  aaya,  is  still  to  be  witnessed  in  certain 
parts  of  the  black  belt,  but  that  the  ceremon; 
is  btt  djing  ouL 

...  It  has  been  stated  in  the  newspapers  that 
Mr.  W.  W.  Aslor  had  become  a  member  of 
the  Authors'  Club  o(  New  York,  after  receiving 
a  speciallf  pressing  invitation  because  of  the 
success  of  his  book,  Valtiitinii.  The  report 
probably  originated  in  the  fertile  brain  of  some 
of  the  romance  writers  who  conltibule  literary 
notes  to  the  papers.  Mr.  Astor  has  not  joined 
the  club,  and  the  subject  has  not  been  once 
mentioned  officially.  In  the  new  edition  of 
Valeatiiu)  we  notice  that  the  author  has  changed 
the  words  "potatoes"  to  "onions"  and  "choc- 
olate "to  "coffee."  It  was  a  pity  that  the  au- 
thor's attention  was  not  called  to  the  paragraph 
on  Ih«  3!d  page  where  he  makes  Ginevre  sink 
*'  back  upon  the  canopy  and  Cesare  seat  himself 
by  her  aide."  No  previous  hint  had  been  given 
of  the  gymnastic  accomplishment  of  either  Gin- 
evre or  Cesare. 

.  .  .  The  Rev.  Abram  J.  Ryan,  whose  poema, 
published  under  the  name  oF  "  Father  Ryan," 
have  ibown  their  author  to  be  one  of  the  few  re- 
spectable modern  writers  of  devotional  verse,  and 
whose  "  Song  of  the  Mystic  "  has  been  a  world- 
wide favorite  for  years,  died  in  Louisville,  Ky,, 
April  32,  aged  forty-six  years.  lie  was  a  native 
of  Virginia,  but  until  a  year  ago  had  long  resided 
in  Alabama,  at  Mobile,  though  briefly  engaged  at 
various  times  at  other  points.  His  only  volume 
(Poems'i  was  published  about  fifteen  years  ago,  by 
John  K-  Fiet  oF  Baltimore.  Though  egotistical 
and  dogmatic,  be  was  interesting  because  origi- 
nal and  aspiring.  He  will  be  remembered  by 
those  who  met  him  as  a  thoughtful  conversa- 
tionalist, who  expressed  himself  in  epigram- 
matic, Emerson! 


KEW8  AND  VOTES. 

—  Mr.  Edwin  D.  Mead  has  been  giving  a 
course  of  lectures  In  Providence  on  "America  in 
the  American  Poets." 

—  The  Hon.  Joseph  Williamson  of  Belfast, 
Maine,  it  at  work  on  a  Bibliography  of  tbai 
State,  for  which  he  has  already  procured  over 
3,000  titles. 

—  Ginn&Co.  of  Boston  will  publish  in  May 
a  second  aeries  oC  Hans  Andersen's  Tales,  John- 
son's Raiulas,  and  Lamb's  Adventures  of 
Ulysses,  in  their  "  Classics  for  Children." 

—  The  Imianan,  by  ToUtoi,  just  published  by 
W.  S.  Gottsberger  of  New  York,  is  a  second 
part  of  War  and  Peace. 

—  More  than  five  editions  of  Mrs.  Brooks's 
transla^on  of  Heidi  have  l>een  sold,  and  the 
translator  has  given  her  copyright  receipts  on 
the  last  edition,  amounting  to  I200  and  over,  lo 
the  Children's  Kindergarien  in  Boston. 

—  "The  Riverside  Paper  Series"  for  the  sum- 
mer of  1SS5  proved  such  a  success  that  its 
publUhcrs,  Mes«s.  lloughlon,  Mifflin  i  Co., 
have  announced  a  second  jnstallrnent  of  it  for 
this  summer,  Two  new  stories  appear  in  it, 
Not  in  the  Prasfettus,  by  Parke  Danforlh,  and 
The  Hfo'i  luho  was  Guilty,  by  Flora  H.  Long. 
I^i^d^  4nij  ^so  ^{iss  gl>»abeth  Stwirt   pbelp'ij 


Butglari  in  Paradise,  in  some  degree  a  Sequel 
to  her  Old  Maid's  Paradise,  and  The  Cruise  of 
the  Alabama,  by  P.  D.  Haywood,  an  historical 
narrative  —  the  caceplion  which  proves  fiction 
the  rule  —  neither  of  which  have  hitherto 
appeared  in  book  form.  In  addition  to  I 
attractions  the  series  includes  Mrs.  Miriam  Coles 
Harris's  Ptrfeit  Adonis,  Mt.  Horace  E.  Sciid- 
det's  Stories  atid  Romances,  Mrs.  Whitney's  Sum- 
mer in  Leslie  Celdthvxtite's  Life,  Dr.  Holmes's 
Guardian  Angel,  Aldrich's  Prudence  Palfrey,  J. 
Emerson  Smith's  Oakridge,  William  Henry  Bish- 
op's Chey  Susan,  and  Other  Stories,  Mrs.  Stowe's 
Sam  Lawson's  Fireside  Stories,  and  Ilowella's 
Chance  Acquaintance.  These  iiooks  ate  to  be 
issued  weekly  for  three  months,  the  first  num 
—  Burglars  in  Paradise — appearing  May  15. 

—  Messrs.  D.  Lolhrop  &  Co.  announce  a  i 
volume,  May,  in  their  series  "  Through  the  Year 
with    the    Poets,"   edited    by    Mr.   Oscar    Fay 
Adams.     We  learn  that  this  collection  has  so 
far    met    with   even  greater  success  than  was 

—  A  Handbeek  of  Creek  and  Romau  Setilfture, 
by  D.  Cady  Eaton,  in  a  "  Pocket  Edition  "  for 
travelers,  has  just  been  issued  by  Messrs.  Tick- 
nor  Sl  Co. 

—  Messrs.  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.  will  pub- 
lish immediately  a  new  book  by  the  Rev. 
F.  W.  Gunsaulus,  entitled  The  Transfiguration  of 
Christ.  They  also  have  nearly  ready  Prof. 
Moses    True    Brown's   Synthetic    Philosophy    of 

—  A  wondet-storytor  children,  called  TheBiii- 
Wing  Tea-Pat,  by  Liiiie  W,  Champney,  is  soon 
to  be  published  by  D.  Ixilhrop  &  Co.  It  is  to  be 
very  profusely  illustrated. 

—  Dodd,  Mead  &  Co.  have  finally  ready  Jn  a 
large  bound  volume  the  first  part  of  Bryan's  I>ic- 
lionary  of  Painters  and  Engravers.  The  size  is 
large  octavo,  and  though  the  book  contains  75a 
pages  it  covers  only  the  names  between  A  and  JC, 
from  which  we  judge  that  it  will  take  three  such 
volumes  to  complete  the  work.  Though  the  enter- 
prise is  not  American,  ibe  revision  of  the  book 
having  been  under  the  charge  of  Mr.  Robert  E. 
Graves  of  the  British  Museum  and  the  sheets 
bearing  George  Bell  &  Son's  imprint,  we  ate  in- 
debted to  the  American  bouse  for  having  brought 
the  book  in  its  new  form  beiore  American  read- 
ers; and  while  it  bears  the  almost  prohibitory 
price  of  %ll.o3  per  volume,  it  is  still  lo  be  hoped 
that  institutions  of  learning  wilt  not  fall  to  secure 
copies  of  this  great  work.  The  chief  value  of 
the  dictionary  is  to  be  found  in  the  biographical 
sketches  of  the  world's  most  famous  engravers ; 
and  in  thece  days  when  old  priots  have  so  great 
aod  so  new  a  popularity  among  intelligent  people 
the  imparlance  of  this  department  oE  biographi- 
cal literature  ia  manifest.  The  first  edition  of 
Itiyan  was  published  in  London  in  1816,  and 
those  who  have  had  occasion  to  use  this  now 
very  rare  edition,  which,  by  the  way,  was  largely 
bought  by  the  extra  illustrators,  have  been  driven 
to  despair   by   its   thousand  and   one  errors  of 

and  still  more  by  the  negative  sins  of 

ision.     In  1S49  ''■'^^   1^"  ^'-  Stanley  issued 

-evised  edition  of  the  work,  and  in  this  form 

book   his  been  published  by  Bell  Sc   Sons 

many  changes    of  date  upon  the  title-page. 

Mr.  Stanley  did  much  to  improve  the  dictionary, 

and  for  thirty  years  collectors  have  been  indebted 

tu  liini)  fur  a  useful  manual  of  fair  completeness 

;>fCi)ri(^^>     ^f-  Qravu  has  now,  however, 


dune  what  should  have  been  done  fifty  years  ago. 

He  has  made  practically  a  new  book  and  bas  had 
the  cooperation  of  many  of  the  best  experts  upon 
the  arts  of  engraving  and  painting.  Only  con- 
tinuous use  can  show  how  well  the  labor  has  been 
performed,  but  from  the  short  examination  we 
have  been  able  to  give  the  revised  volume,  we 
shonld  say  that  it  has  been  thoroughly  well  cxe- 

—  Our  Youth,  a  bright  paper  for  young 
people,  edited  by  Dr.  Vincent,  and  published 
by  the  Methodist  Book  Concern,  bas  purchased 
from  Miss  Rose  Tetry  Cooke  a  long  story  en- 
titled No.  It  will  be  published  as  a  serial,  and 
the  first  installment  will  appear  on  June  5. 

—  Mr.  J.  A.  Mitchell's  little  Romance  of  the 
Moon,  which  will  be  out  a  day  or  two  after  these 
lines  are  printed,  is  full  of  clever  illoatralions, 
and  the  publishers,  Henry  Holt  &  Co.,  expect  it 
10  hit  the  popular  fancy.  It  gives  the  sentimental 
history  of  the  moon  ;  a  subject  which,  according 
to  the  artist,  has  long  been  unjustly  neglected. 
The  illustrations  ate  in  color,  the  cover  is  of  Mr. 
Mitchell's  design,  and  the  whole  effect  is  clever 
and  bright. 

—  D.  Appleton  &  Co.  are  having  prepared  an 
English  translation  of  Rtpita  Jemine*,  by  Don 
Juan  Vallera,  recently  Spanish  minister  to  this 
country,  and  now  on  his  way  borne  to  Spain. 
The  story  has  been  pronounced  a  great  success, 
and  has  already  appeared  in  French,  fierman, 
Italian,  and  Bohemian.  The  author  has  written 
a  special  preface  for  this  American  edition. 

—  Mr.  C.  C.  Buel,  one  of  the  editors  of  the 
Century,  has  written  a  biographical  sketch  of 
Mr.  Frank  R.  Stockton,  and  Mr.  J.  W.  Alex- 
ander has  made  a  portrait  of  the  author  which 
will  be  engraved  for  the  June  number  of  the 
Century. 

—  Macmillan  &  Co.  are  lo  publish  Mr.  Hugh 
Conway's  last  book.  Living  or  Dead,  which  has 
already  appeared  in  small  installments  in  news- 
papers all  over  the  country.  The  manuscript 
was  bought  by  an  enterprising  manager  of  a 
syndicate,  and  apparently  has  been  a  profitable 
investment. 

—  Among  the  new  novels  which  Henry  Holt 
&  Co.  have  in  press  is  Mrs.  Homer  Martin's 
Whom  Gad  has  Joined  Together.  Mrs.  Martin  is 
the  wife  of  the  artist,  and  ia  now  in  Paris,  where 
all  her  proofs  are  read.  As  may  be  surmised, 
the  story  deals  with  the  sacrcdness  of  the  mar- 
riage tie,  and  of  the  religious  questions  related 
thereto.  Two  other  new  novels  by  Adelaide 
Sargeant  are  soon  to  be  issued  by  this  firm  en- 
titled Jacob's  Wife  and  Na  Saint.  They  will 
also  republish  Mr.  Thomas  Hardy's  novel,  The 
Mayor  of  Casterbridge,  which  has  been  appearing 
as  a  serial,  but  fur  this  form  has  been  thoroughly 
revised  and  even  in  minor  parts  altered.  To 
their  educational  list  Holt  &  Co.  are  soon  to 
add  A  Practical  Rhetoric  ;  English  Composition 
and  Revision,  by  Professor  S.  Clarke. 

—  The  English  sheets  of  Archdeacon  Farrar's 
new  "  Bamplon  Lectures "  on  The  History  of 
Interfiretatioii  have  just  been  put  into  the 
hands  of  the  printer,  and  E,  P.  Dution  &  Co. 
will  soon  issue  an  American  edition. 

—  An  eiliemely  well  engraved  portrait  of 
Brander  Matthews  is  given  in  the  May  number 
of  Scribner's  Book  Buyer,  togeiher  with  Mr. 
Laurence  Hutton's  concluding  paper  on  "Some 
American  Bool^-plales."  Among  ths  illustrationa 
are  (be  plain  q(  Mr-  ^  C.  Stediwn,Pr,HoliBea, 


i886.] 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


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and  Mr.  George  W.Childs.  An  interesting  article 
on  American  librarieB  is  at«o  ^ven,  with  a  (ketch 
of  the  adopted  plan  for  the  new  librar;  of  Cod- 
greis  at  Washington. 

—  Apropos  of  the  new  "  vest  pocket  edition  " 
of  Dnt't,  some  account  of  the  waj  in  which  the 
little  Tolnme  was  composed  will  be  not  uninter- 
esting. The  writing  of  the  book  was  suggested 
to  Mi.  O.  B.  Bunce,  its  XLulhoi,  in  June,  1S83, 
when  reading  on  a  railway  train  an  editorial  in 
the  New  York  Evtnitig  Potl,  discussing  "  Books 
on  Deportment."  In  this  article  the  writer 
quoted  a  series  of  directions  for  etiquette  fur- 
nished to  Madame  Patterson  Bonaparte  by  Lord 
C hoi mondeley  about  1835.  The  negative  charac- 
tet  of  the  directions  suggested  the  title  Don't  to 
Mr.  Bunce.  Upon  reaching  home  he  at  once 
began  his  task,  and  in  a  month  the  book  was 
completed  and  published.  Up  to  this  time 
144,000  copies  have  been  sold,  and  if  all  who 
have  read  the  pages  have  profited  as  they  should 
from  the  instructions  given,  the  influence  for 
good  has  been  certainly  incalculable. 

—  Charles  Scribner's  Sons  have  changed  the 
title  of  Mr.  Bunner^  story  from  Tki  End  of 
tkt  Story  to  Tki  Midgi,  but  for  what  reason  we 
are  not  informed. 

—  Casaell  &  Co.  have  already  begun  the  prep- 
aration of  a  "  Beecher  Birthday  Book,"  the  ex- 
tracts having  been  selected  from  the  published 
writings  of  Rev.  Henry  Ward  Beecher. 

—  Ex-President  Hayes's  forthcoming  nuga^ne 
article,  al>out  which  many  paragraphs  have  been 
published,  will  be  printed  In  the  Breaklyn  Mag- 
mine.  It  discusses  federal  aid  for  popular  edu- 
cation, and  the  writer  holds  that  it  is  the  duty  of 
the  general  government  to  complete  the  work  of 
reconstnction  by  affording  aid  where  needed  for 
educating  the  colored  people  in  the  late  slave- 
holding  Stales. 

—  The  Scribnera  accomplished  a  rapid  piece 
of  book-making  when  on  Tuesday  they  received 
the  advance  sheets  of  Hr.  Andrew  Lang's  T^f 
Mark  of  Cain.  By  Thursday  afternoon  the  vol- 
ume had  been  put  into  type,  plates  made,  and  (he 
edition  printed  and  bound. 

—  Mr.  James  R.  Osgood  sailed  for  Europe 
April  i3th  to  represent  the   Messrs.  Harper 
L<HKlon,  taking  the  place  of  the  late  Sampson 
Low. 

—  yasefh,  tkt  Prime  Mitattir,  is  the  title  of 
new  book  by  Dr.  William  M.  Taylor,  which  the 
Harpers  have  in  press. 

—  An  anonymous  author  has  written  a  story 
which  the  Scribners  will  soon  publish  with  the 
title  Fact  to  Face, 

—  Mrs.  Abba  Goold  Woolson's  George  Eliot 
and  her  Heroines  will  shortly  be  published  by 
Harper  ft  Brothers. 

—  A  full  expression  of  views  by  leading  Latin 
Professors  on  the  subject  of  establishing 
American  School  of  Archeology  at  Rome,  may 
be  found  in  the  current  number  of  LaHne  tt  Grace 
(tbree  montbi  behind  its  date).  Among  other 
contents  of  the  same  number  are  Latin  versions 
of  "Jesni  Lover  of  my  Soul,"  by  Prof.  Frieie 
of  Michigan  University,  and  of  Longfellow's 
"  Psalm  of  Life,"  by  Prof,  M.  L.  D'Oc^e ;  the 
first  installment  of  the  {first  American]  Treatise 
on  Greek  Synonyms,  by  Prof.  Bevicr;  Greek 
and  Scotch  versions  of  Hadrian's  "Address  to 
his  Soul,"  and  a  study  of  that  vexed  question, 
flow  Cseaar  built  his  Rhine  Bridge,  etc.,  etc 

IT-  Paul  H.  Haync  has  been  re({aested  by  the 


Memorial  Commttu 

memory   of  General   Grant,  to  be   read  at  his 

tomb  on  Decoration  Day. 

—  Baker  ft  Taylor  of  New  York  announce 
Seciaiism  and  Christianity,  by  Rev.  Dr.  A.  J.  F. 
Behrends,  a  work  treating  the  relations  of  Labor 
and  Capital  from  the  Chiistian  standpoint.  The 
substance  was  first  given  in  a  course  of  lectures 
at  Trinity  College,  Hartford. 

—  The  Hon.  George  Bancroft's  article  in  the 
May  number  of  the  Nea  Princeton  RrvieiB,  on 
the  Seventh  Petition  of  the  Lord's  Prayer,  will 
excite  attention  as  a  significant  literary  fact, 
though  all  Biblical  scholars  may  not  agree  with 
him.  The  American  historian  thus  publicly 
avows  himself  a  diligent  student  of  the  Holy 
Scripiuies. 

—  Prof.  Leonard  of  Central  University,  Rich- 
mond, Ky.,  writes  us  an  enthusiastic  letter,  too 
long  for  our  limited  space,  respecting  Mary  D. 
Sheldon's  Studies  in  General  History,  reviewed 
in  our  issue  of  March  20.  He  thinks,  after  sev- 
eral months' test  in  the  class-room,  that  the  book 
is  of  great  practical  value,  and  "ought  really  to 
revolutionize  the  study  of  general  history;" 
that  it  is  "  the  result  of  a  reaction  against  the  old 
method  of  learning  by  rote  so  many  pages  of  dry 
narrative,  and  has  been  hailed  with  delight  by 
many  teachers  who  have  long  desired  to  break 
oS  from  the  old  methods  and  teach  the  results 
of  great  events  and  [the]  development  of  na- 
tions." Its  use,  he  reports,  renders  (he  class- 
room attractive;  and  its  purpose  "primarily  to 
stimulate  original  thought,"  though  not  to  the 
extent  of  actually  giving  instruction  for  the 
working  up,  by  the  students,  of  original  mono- 
graphs. This  purpose  Prof.  Leonard  stales  is 
successful,  in  that  it  makes  the  pupil  "  an  ardent 
student  in  original  Gelds,"  and  "desirous  of 
forming  independent  opinions."  The  illustra- 
tions, he  adds,  are  not  "for  entertainment,  but 
for  instruction;"  each  being  the  condition  of 
some  problem  or  the  basis  of  some  conclusion." 

—  The  memorial  in  SI.  Paul's  Cathedral,  Lon- 
don.  In  honor  of  the  late  Charles  Reade,  is  to 
be  a  medallion  portrait  by  W.  G.  M.  Curtice, 
who  has  a  reputation  for  modeling  of  this  de- 
scription. Among  eminent  literati  supporting 
the  project  may  be  mentioned  Lords  Tennyson 
and  Coleridge,  Sir  F.  Leighton,  F.R.A.,  Edwin 
Arnold,  Wilkie  Collins,  and  J.  R.  Lowell.  Some 
further  contributions  being  needed,  Messrs,  Har- 
per &  Bros.,  who  are  among  the  subscribers, 
would  be  pleased  to  forward  to  the  Rev.  Comp- 
ton  Reade,  acting  as  treasurer,  any  sums  sent 
them  by  the  novelist's  American  friends  and 
admirers. 

—  Edmond  de  Goncourt  is  to  edit  four  volumes 
of  the  journals  of  his  brother  Jules  de  Goncourt 
and  himself,  relating  to  the  Second  Empire. 
Material  for  ten  volumes  is  in  his  bands,  but  nnlil 
recently,  his  plan  had  been  to  have  these  journals 
published  entire,  twenty  years  after  his  death. 

—  Le  Livre  tells  us  that  M.  Frederic  Godefroy 
is  about  to  issue  from  the  press  of  Hachette  An 
Unrverial  Catalogue  of  the  Freiuh  Language  as 
Written  and  Spoken,  including  i.  All  words, 
and  all  the  dialectical  or  orthographical  forms  of 
words,  from  their  origin  till  the  present  day, 
with  the  probable  evidence  of  their  ^c.  z.  The 
most  important  terms  of  the  provincial  dialects 
(those  of  the  South  excepted)  comprehending 
the  Walloon  Belgian,  the  Canadian,  and  those 
of  ibe  Islq  of  ponrbon  ud  '^  I>Ies  of  Franc? 


and  Martinique.  3.  A  vocabulary  and  explana- 
tion of  the  principal   proper  names  of  persons 

places  met  with  in  ancient  books.  4.  A 
grammatical   sketch  with  general   laws  for  the 

atlon  of  the  "  vocables  "  of  the  French  lan- 
guage and  its  dialects. 

—  The  Wind  of  Destiny  is  to  be  the  tide  of 
Arthur  Sherburne  Hardy's  new  novel,  to  be  ex> 
pected  about  the  middle  of  May. 

—  Miss  Gilder's  collection  of  Representative 
Petmi  is  in  active  preparation  by  Cassell  &  Co., 
not  Macmillan  &  Co.,  as  has  been  erroneously 
stated  in  these  columns. 

—  The  late  Charles  Storrs  of  Brooklyn  com- 
piled  a  volume  on  Tie  Storrs  Family,  which  has 
been  published  in  a  limited  edition  of  500  copies, 
in  a  handsome  octavo  of  nearly  600  pages,  at  fio, 
by  A.  S.  Barnes  &  Co. 

—  Rhoda  Broughton  and  "Ouida"  have  each 
a  new  novel  nearly  ready.  The  volumes  are  to 
be  entitled  respectively,  Doctor  Ctipid  and  A 
House  Party. 

—  Miss  Mathilde  Blind,  whose  life  of  Mme. 
Roland  has  just  been  published  by  Roberts 
Brothers,  has  completed  a  long  poem  called 
The  Crofters,  which  will  be  issued  shortly  in 
London. 

—  A  curious  loan  collection  of  objects  for- 
merly belonging  to  various  members  of  the 
Bronte  family  is  now  on  exhibition  at  the  Museum 
of  the  Free  Library  at  Bradford,  England.  Char- 
lotte Brontii's  wedding  shawl  has  lately  been  pre- 
sented to  the  Museum. 

—  A  new  weekly  review  has  just  been  started 
in  London,  called  The  State,  edited  by  Mr.  A. 
Egmont  Hake,  who  will  be  remembered  as  the 
editor  of  Gordon's  journals  at  Kartoum. 

—  Mrs.  Ole  Bull's  memoir  of  her  hosband 
is  to  be  published  in  London  by  Mr.  T.  Fisher 
Unwtn.  The  same  publisher  announces  a  new 
book  by  Vernon  Lee,  called  Baldwin ;  Being 
Dialogues  and  Aspirations. 

—  We  learn  from  the  last  number  of  Le  Livre 
that  the  removal  of  the  remains  of  Montaigne 
into  the  vaults  of  the  new  "University"  took 
place  recently  at  Bordeaux.  In  consequence  of  a 
fire  in  the  chapel  of  the  ancient  "  Lyceum  "  (he 
body  of  the  author  of  the  Eiiais  had  been  placed 
in  a  tomb.  The  removal  was  made  in  the  pres- 
ence of  the  mayor  and  his  colleagues,  the  secre- 
tary of  the  city,  the  rector,  and  Messrs.  Couat 
and  Abria,  deans  of  the  faculties  of  letters  and 
sciences ;  of  M.  Brons,  representing  the  Kercado 
family  related  to  Montaigne,  also  of  a  priest  and 
Messrs.  Barkhausen  ft  Deieimeris,  who  have 
published  a  valuable  edition  of  the  Eisaii.  The 
remains  were  placed  in  a  chapel  buitt  in  the 
vaults  of  the  "University"  below  the  cenotaph 
which  stands  in  the  vestibule. 


LITERAET  IHDEX  TO  THE  PEEIODI- 
OAm 


Aulhor,  An  Accidtotil.    Joe)  Chandler 

HimV  LippincDIl'l,  April. 

Bndihuw,  Henrv.    Anhur  Btnun.        JfecauUin,  April, 
Biyini'i  iarly  L>I«,  New  EdeIidiI  Man- 
ner* WHi  Cii«inii>  In  rune  of.  N.  E.  M»..  April. 
Dill,  The.    G.  W.  Cooke, 

J.  of  Specuiuive  Phil.,  July,  iSSi- 
Di.r«li,  B.    Geo,  SainlAuiy,  ^1.. 

MuiiineDlArtjMiy, 
EninTen,  Eiilv  Ameriam,  Naiica  nU 

y  E.  Hill,  ud  Geo.  Reg.,  ApnI. 
Fiction,  English,  Honlily  in. 

P^tr^J^  Uu  Timet,  April. 
General  Reulen.  Bv  one  of  itiem.  MumiUaH,  ApxH. 
Geor^,  Tha  Fint  Day  in,    Mih  A. 


■5 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


[May 


H«nl(i>>  Soliloquia.  H>lh.  (, 

How  I  ni  Ednaied.    Thomu  Weot 

HonlblnS^ikrPaeU.     Robert  Roikf 

lolcrrUiier,  The.     O.  B.  Frolhinghum, 

Lileniy  AotobioffTuphy,    Uy.     Julian 


«,  A  Fn 


Edtmr  , 


Ne<r  EoKlud  Libniy 

Pcuock,  Thoa.  Lon.    GeoTge  Siinu- 

Paet7A  Coauck.    W.  R.  MorGI. 

P™i™.  Hoaiol  and  Pictii™'!' 

I  in.     T.  WhilUksr. 

Boc 

Shelley  an< 


Mclh.  Qiun.  Rer,,  A 

y.  E.  Matulne,  A 

Matmilliu:  A 


Brolhcra. 

Thi  Aqvutuhu  or  H 
Mcndiih.     Robeni  Bioibii 

CtlPPIH  Alley  Fol 
Prcibylsiiu  B«rd  of 


ByCapL  Gcorfc  Bayly. 

ase. 

By  tha  R<T.  Allrol  J. 

uii  Stcvenaon.    Raberla 

RiCKUOND.     By  Georji 

ByErDealGilmore.    ItluiLnted. 
.litalion.  tLoc 


WaliW 


TVHyft  Bt,  April. 
Paftri/ar  Ikt  Timii,  April. 


April  I],  Leopold  ma  Sckenck,  AikeL,  „...,.  

si  Heiddbere^  and  fdilor  o(  th*  Ccnnan  edilioB  of  Puck. 

April  ■(,  Ferd.  " 


d.  Gacnol,  Woccealer, 


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Mr.  Bannei  writee  to  f«w  books  tlwt  miiy  tumaniUMmeiit  of  ft  neir 
Tdnma  from  hit  pen  Ii  atpeolally  weloome.  "  The  Hldge  "  U  k  atoij  of 
ODfl  of  the  moat  iDteresting  uid  least  known  phaaea  of  Neir  York  life. 
The  Frenoh  quarter,  -with  Its  odd  aharaotera  and  Its  Bohsmlanlim,  which 
Hr.  Bnnnei  piotnreB  with  aaoh  olevenieaa,  ottera  t,  parllonUrt;  etfeeUTe 
tMokgionnd  to  his  very  ahsrmlng  love  stc«y,  told  with  the  iklll  whloh  (he 
uithoT  had  m>  often  ahown  in  his  ■b<atei  tale*. 


MM  BURNETT'S  NOVELS. 

Memu.  SciUBNRR  take  pleaanre  in  anuoanclog  that,  having  beoome 
the  pabUahen  of  all  otMra.  FranoeB  Hodgaon  BnnMtt'awocka,tha;hsTe 
hegon  the  prepaiatloa  of  a  new,  uniform  librai?  ediUon.  It  la  haidly 
sBOBMBiy  to  speak  of  the  Immense  popaladty  of  Hn.  Bumett'i  wrltlnga, 
or  of  the  need  which  has  to  often  been  ezpreeaed  of  hez  booka  In  a  form 
Bailable  tor  preMtvation  npon  the  Ubraiy  ahelva*. 

TUg  VOLUMES  NOW  READY  ARE: 

TBCAT  LASS  O'  LOWRZE'S. 

1  Tol.,  12mo,  extra  olotfa,  <I.3B. 

la  ooontij  for  many 


A  FAIR  BARBAKIAN. 

1  Tol.,  ISmo,  extra  oloth,  Si.ZB. 
"  A.  pattlanlari  J  sparkling  stoiy,  the  Bnbjeot  being  the  young  helreaa 
of  a  PaoUla  illTef  mine  thrown  amid  the  rery  proper  petty  arlatooraoy  of 
an  Eai^iib  mr^  town,"— Springfield  BeptiWcan. 


THE  BOAT-SAILER'S  MANUAL 

By  Lient.  Xdwabs  F.  Qdai/fbouob,  U.S.N.,  aothor  of  "The  Sallar'i 

Bandy  BocA."    1  to].,  8to,  lllnatnted,  13.00  net. 

A  volnme  of  the  most  absolute  falne  and  Importanoe  to  all  Intereited 
In  boats  and  sailing.  It  oonCalns  a  complete  treaUae  on  the  management 
of  aalling-lMiata  of  all  kinds  and  onder  all  oonditions  of  weather,  ood- 
lalnlng  also  oonoise  deaorlptlons  of  the  Tariona  rigs  In  general  naa  at 
home  and  abroad,  dlreotlons  (or  handling  sailing  oanoea,  and  "  the  radt 
menta  of  ontter  and  sloop  sailing,"  eto. 


OHABLES   SOBIBNER'S  SONS, 


A  OEROMIOLS  BiaTOtir  OF  TEB  UFE  ASD  WORK  < 

WILLIAX  8HAKE8FEABE, 

PUTS',  Foet  tad  Ptajauko'.   Br  Fa>i>aaiOK  OiMO  Flut,  uUior  of  111) ' 


ttnr  j^  nc«lTed  mij  adaqnale 

.  .  MjcUaa  momaalBS  la  jkJi  oaiUer  yean 

.'IDB  bMa  Daeed  or  (m  lBT<Ml|Uad.    Hli  telaSona  wOh  olbar  dniiulliu,  Hpa- 

Oall*  wllE  Jduou,  lisT*  also  bam  gnmj  inlirininHnlsd.  Wlul*  •tot  I<1>*  ■bit  ot 
nrufeal  SMdp  bu  b«an  lartfDllT  coUhIhI,  and  tbs  sMUcM  dMalli  of  Ui  comiiMnlal 
■Wallas  ban  basa  suaarad,  UtUa  aUantlon  baa  taUbaifo  baaa  gltao  to  kla  ■■— ii-p  vHb 
tfce  Duja  br  oUiat  man  wtlh  whom  ha  waa  Mlow-weikar,  and  a  lacfa  (iraop  of  aviilaDBea 
baanv  on  tba  abromlDSj  oT  Ida  work,  oartved  from  tba  aarl/  proancUon  of  EnfUib 
plaja  m  Gaiuiaoj,  baa  beoa  aait  aalda  aa  Tulualeaa.  In  Uifa  vorK  an  auanipi  It  mada 
(0  collect  au  BCBlasUd  matadal,  io  Ibiow  nair  Ugbl  on  Iba  BanacO- and  10  daMnnlaa 
tha  daUa  ot  tba  piwlDCtlon  ot  all  hU  woik*. . .  .niaarranfemeDl  of  Iba  book  U  mada 
'ndtmerdj  .uUM  •pacUUM.bnt  Io  avarroaawbo  faeli  an  InUtaattnHie 


THKOUen  THE  EALAHABI  DBSEBTl 

AMamitlraotaJonniarwIlhaao,  Cauanand  tlatA-Boakto  LakeN'OunlaBd  B»ck. 
BtO.  A^ruui.    wiUimap  aodHiUnstnUDiu.    Daii7ST0,alelb,ft.«a. 

SCCLPTDBE,  REHAiaSAIICE  AVD  HODEBIT. 

BrLsiiai  Scott.    lUniDxladwiUi  nuaufiui  ansraYlnBi  of  irorki  of  ablbeitl,  Dooa- 

wlUi  awnplea  of  Canon.'norwaldaui,  and  olber  Kulplen  of  tba  alflilwnt£  and 
DlnMe«Dtbb«Dtiii1ca.    Crown  Bra,  clotb.fS  00.    ^  '  ^ 

■■■  Pnrloas  Tolunm  of  UiU  aarta,  all  on  hand,  eMfa  fS.W,  tIi.  : 

• ~^OTt;KK,  Claiilc  m"  — -■-  ~ 

tCTITM*, 

PAXMTIHS,  Ciuaiau 

PAIinriHe,  oannaa,  ricnlabaminakita.    Bf  B. 

PAISTlirs,  BJudahaadmiKzb.    B^u.  W.6111I 


. —  - —  Eartf  Cbrlatlin.   B  j  T.  K.  Bmllh  and  J.  Slatar. 

AKOHITKOTITBK,  OottalaandBiiulluancti.    ByT.  B-SmlUi. 
PAXMTIHS,  Cluaiaud  Icallu.    B>  n.  J.  I'oTnlu  aod  1'.  K.  Head. 
PAIinriHe,  Oannaa,  nnolabaml  liakita.    Bf  B.  J.  W.  BoHon  and  K.  J.  p 

PAiaTlWB,  Bpanlahar"" '- ^-■" 

PAIITTINCt,  Eb^Uta  as 


KODEBN  WHIST,  TOGETHEB  WITH  THE  UWS  OF  WHIST. 

1.  GUISE  TO   THE  WlHNlNa  SAUK.    Br  Cluor  DtTIU,  iljt..    1  ToL,  Umo, 
dotta,  HM. 

"  Tkla  la  an  amlnantlr  ptaetteal  tnatlia  br  a  ineeaaaf  ol  pUrar.  Tba  aothor  la  aaonid 
and  cleai  teactwr,  and  ha>  plaoad  wtthln  a  amall  ownpata  all  tliU  It  la  nnrnaaaij  for  a 
plajer  to  laam."— dcodeny. 

MADAME  DE  MAISTENOK. 

AX  XTUDE.    Bj  J.  CoTTU  Moaiioa.    Square  Itmo,  parohDMol,  H  caala. 
"An  exeeedlnCIv  Intanattna  atndr  of  a  womui  whaH  motlTea  ±ad  rjiuvbtp  hB» 
been  tba  abject  of  uuoToacopLa  obaarrmtkHi 


bdu  aa  tnUr  and  aa  taliTr  t 


IMFORTANT  WORK  OB  THE  HISTORY  OF  MUaiO. 

A  mSTOBT  OF  MUSIC, 

FiOBtlMKBiUiatTlmeatotlHPnaant.    Br W. 8. Bocuiao.    STO,eMli,aU*. 

Owrmn:  BeetloBl.^aalg  In  Ibe  Eailr  AMB.  WIOi an lalradoelorT DaseiliitlOB 
otika  Hade  ot  tba  AwaentOraaki.  aaMoa  Oi^^finalaln  the  Middle  Ack  SaMtvnm. 
^Iiiata  In  Oh  ITIta  CanOrr.  Mactloa  IY.-Xiula  In  tba  UUi  l-antarj.  eMMon  T.— 
UodaiB  Hosle.   SaoOon  VI.— fntun  FnapaelB. 

_. '-  siren  to llie  procreai  ot Moalc In  Enalaad, tliia  part otiba inl>;«et 

ipaniad  br  a  oopJoDi  Index  aad  ebioboUigloal  table. 

FLOATIHfi  FUES  AND  HOW  TO  DBE8S  THEM. 

t  TrwUaa  on  Iba  Moat  Modain  Hetliodi  of  Dnadni  ArtlOclnl  ril«  for  Trotit  aad  Oiaf- 
UBg.   Wltb  toll  lUnatiated  dlncUoM  and  eonUlolos  Dlnetr  hand^oloccd  kD| 
ot  Iba  neat  kOllns  pattana,  and  aooompanled  br  a  few  binia  to  dr^Mlj  Oi 
Br  ruDaaio  U.  Huf  oan.   A  laria  paper  edlOon  prtnlad  on  p 
paper,  limited  to  df(r  Cor  Araertea,  TaUnm,  IllAO. 


■i>  n*  ateaa  battt  uOt  bt  MaJ  190a  receipt  9/  minrtifd  pHr*.     OalBloiraa  a^ 
»arrwaliR- JfiMt.  atea  «/ Aita'i  £<tnrl«i,  wlU  »(  matted,  (^  .laKrail,  le  " 
JKlitaualMU4^mafea,Aanaad  Aeaad-ffoad^oditinadti.   JTav  OdalepM  n/ 


S0BIBN1!B   &  WELFOBD, 

T«S-74a  BnM4w»r.  Il«w  Twh. 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


[May  15, 


HOW  READY  1 


Being  the  Banpton  Leotares  for  1886. 
By  the  Rov.  Tkwdkrio  W.  Fabkak,  D.  D., 


"        7-   Paat-KcrarMBtlas  Kpwk. 
Sr  THE   SAME  AUTHOR. 

SERMONS  AND  ADDRESSES 

DELIVERED  IN  AMERICA. 

I^rge  12m0.  3TS  pages,  vlth  portrait,  {2.00. 
TbI*  taandioma  Tolning  contalw  FonrWta  Stnnoiu— Fgsr 
Bit  on  Duitfl-^iid  FKTflwcU  Tboui^ti 


'  Tbs  Hnnoni  ftn  In  tbe  EngUib  dipnltaiT'i  bat  tlile, 
'minrind  yHrlDiu^oTci  of '  CUiUllxn  talOi  and  dulv. 


"sr. 


IN  AID  or  FAITH. 


pfKVa  bT  wbluh  1  bAve  out  off  »me  oU  noUou  uid  lonie 
old  donbu,  And  nAch«d  itronger  and  doLnr  convletlotu 

EASTEB  IN  ST.  PAUL'S. 

SennoDB  boMtng  ohieflir  on  the  Beaiinectloii  of 
One  Lord.  By  H.  P.  LmiMH,  D.D,  2  vols., 
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entlnu  ntm  boat  Tsj  tbki  gifted  wrllsi,  i 
one  h»Va  found  ui  ecbo  In  lo  nunj  beuoi 


.  F.  DOTTON  &  CO.,  fglilisliers, 

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a  oontinnaUoD  ot  the  eerlea  the  prtaent  seaaon. 
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wai  Gallty,"  by  Mrs.  Loctqbead,  hare  never 
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mm  T.  Dt  Will  Talmagt  Qtd  ofAffl  lof  itT  Oevrgt  ntiat 


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fQ  end  laoTemsnl.  and  we  taUj  enpect  to 

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b  a  llnraugblr  faac^nnUna  pLod  aod  one 
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lanilva  wltli  cub  liaiu,  nnUI  ber lattat  work, '  Tba  Ladr 
ItatbaBnMci  'ilampea  beru  a  lltanur  dtamrerar  and 

' wttb  tnoad  taataa  and  eonuopoluaii  Imnrtationa. 

a 'la  not  a  vhll  Icai  wortby  lbananx<^f  >bepr«vl- 

ur  Innlallnna.     In  bHaf.  tbu  BO«l  la  IbonnKbljr 

de  and  growtnc  circle  of 


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tone,  piwfiiu  the  nalanl  to  an  anlneat  dcfi^.  It  bi  a 
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Vol.  XV[I.       BOSTOH,  HAY  n,  itSt.  No.  k 


CONTENTS. 


FlBIA  THeLaHD  OF  TH>  Ih*MS    .... 

TrrnDr£THiuLTi»oiv 

Sii  Haiiar  Maihi  oh  DuockACT 
H iMoa  FicnoH  1 
Inquirando  lalind  ....... 

WeT«o'.  '.  '.  '.       '.■      '. 

JiCDb  SchuflEi'i  Hinioiii 

Da  Both  Sidea 

Tin  Caldeo  SpOu 

UiHo*  Noncn  ■ 
Tht  Cbdra  oi  Booki  ud  OUia  LiUnir  Pieca  . 

HiUorial  Licbti 

WoadmofAeMocD 

Clui  laUnBi:  Tbeir  lUlalioiu  In  E*di  Olhtr 
and  M  GovtnuiUBt     ...... 

SiniHai  Schools 

LiTmiAiiv  OpiHtoMS  0*  FtxDWCK  Haibisoh. 

Oui  Ehoush  Ln-TU.    A.  U.  P.  K.     . 

COIRBPOHDUCI: 

Tba  CslBmbiA  Collcn  Uhnrr      .... 
What  b  ThcoKiphr  r 

For  1  F1t.L«I  ot'raidti'*  "Lrrla."  Clintaa 
ScelW 

nMCniniiniofWhlilier.    N.  H.  D.         .       . 

OaJ4odi't"1nihtT(niicaecli«iniaiu."  At 
len  EuUiun  Ciw 

BeKitflf  Ellkofi  Wirncr       ..... 

OVK  NIWVOIK  LlTTU.      NvHB 

TnHAvPnioiHCALi 

SifAKnnAKtAiiA.    Kditid  br  Wm.  J.  Kolt*: 

HhAw  el  tin  New  Yorii  Shikc^mn  SociEir    . 

WhcriBDoDiHllir! 

KoTU  AND  QuBuaa.    7IJ-7S4      .... 

NniAHDNcrns     '.'.'.'.'.'.'. 


THE  HABBATITE  ASD  OBITIOAL  HI8- 
TOET  OF  AKEBIOA  .• 

THE  volume  to  precede  thia,  on  American 
arcbeology,  has  not  yet  been  issued. 

In  plan  this  work  differs  from  most 
histories,  in  that,  instead  of  merely  giv- 
ing in  narratlTe  form  the  generally  ac- 
cepted results  of  hiatorical  iDvestigations, 
this  oSers  to  students  original  documents 
and  authorities,  on  which  each  reader  may 
form  for  himself  independent  judgments 
respecting  the  various  problems  arising  in 
the  history  of  the  new  worid. 

It  is  difficult  to  convey  in  few  words  an 
adequate  idea  of  the  surprising  abundance 
and  minuteness  of  these  original  documents, 
which  seem  almost  to  overwhelm  us  in 
"every  nook  and  cranny"  of  the  ample 
pages.  The  whole  work  is  to  consist  of 
eight  royal  octavo  volumes,  each  to  contain 
a  series  of  monographs  on  successive  periods 
or  episodes  of  American  history,  and  each 
monograph  accompanied  by  a  critical  essay, 
principally  on  the  sources  of  information 
used  in  its  preparation,  or  by  a  series  of 
very  full  notes.  In  several  cases  we  have 
boUi  the  essay  and  the  notes;  the  whole 
forming  a  chapter.     The  monographs,  or 


■MlimlTa  ud  Ciilia]  Hjuarj  of  Aoatria.  Edited 
brJuliiiWiiiKr,  Libnriuot  Huwd  Uninnity.  Vol. 
ILSptnUb  EiplondouADd  ScltlHHDti,  XVAIoXVIIIh 
Ctntaij.    lUutnicd.     Hontbion,  MiflUo  S  Co.    Is.50. 


narratives,  are  by  different  writers,  selected 
with  reference  to  fitness  for  the  especial 
subjects  assigned  to  theot. 

The  volume  before  us  has  nine  of  these 
chapters.  The  first  is  naturally  on  Columbus 
and  his  discoveries,  as  the  beginning  of  ex- 
plorations by  the  Spaniards.  Earlier  dis- 
coveries, by  the  Northmen,  about  the  year 
1000  A.  D.,  receive  notice  in  the  deferred 
first  volume.  The  other  chapters  of  this 
second  volume  are  respectively  on  Amerigo 
Vespucci ;  the  companions  of  Columbus ; 
andent  Florida ;  Las  Casas  and  the  Spanish 
cruelties ;  Cort^  and  his  companions.  Includ- 
ing an  essay  on  discoveries  along  the  North 
American  Pacific  coast ;  the  explorations  in 
New  Mexico;  Pizarro,  Chili,  and  Peru,  and 
the  Amazon  and  El  Dorado  j  and  the  voyage 
of  Magellan  around  South  America  to  the 
East  Indies. 

T^e  several  narratives,  from  their  differ- 
ent authorship  and  subjects,  naturally  vary 
in  Interest  The  finest  work  in  the  present 
volume,  in  this  respect,  seems  to  us  that  in 
the  chapters  on  Las  Casas  and  on  the  ad- 
ventures and  discoveries  of  Magellan.  Las 
Casas,  1474-1566,  was  a  veritable  "apostle 
to  the  Indians."  The  first  priest  ordained 
in  the  West  Indies  (A.  D.  1510),  and  subse- 
quently made  bishop,  he  devoted  the  years 
following  his  ordination  to  missionary  labors 
in  behalf  of  the  natives  and  to  the  almost 
hopeless  task  of  rescuing  them  from  the 
cruelties,  too  revolting  for  description,  by 
which  the  Spanish  conquerors  disgraced  the 
holy  religion  which  they  professed,  and  even 
their  common  humanity.  He  repeatedly 
crossed  the  ocean  with  the  object  of  enlist- 
ing in  his  noble  work  the  sympathies  and 
the  power  of  the  home  government ;  nor  did 
he  cease  his  efforts  as  long  as  his  life  con- 
tinued. It  is  one  of  the  curious  anomalies 
of  history,  the  writer  adds,  that  the  Domini- 
can friars,  who  were  the  founders  of  the  in- 
quisIUon  in  Europe,  were  the  most  faithful 
supporters  of  the  humane  efforts  of  Las 
Casas  in  behalf  of  the  natives  in  America. 

The  present  volume  has  an  introduction 
on  the  documentary  sources  of  early  Spanish- 
American  history,  and  an  index  at  the  close 
which  seems  so  full  that  it  must  add  much 
to  the  value  of  the  work  for  library  reference. 
The  illustrations  consist  chiefly,  but  not 
wholly,  of  maps,  portraits,  and  autographs, 
all  in  great  profusion.  There  are  many  re- 
productions of  first  attempts  at  delineating 
the  geography  of  the  newly-discovered 
regions,  and  they  are  extremely  quaint  and 
curious.  T^e  paper  and  typography  are  in 
the  handsome  style  of  the  Riverside  Press. 


TBIDKPHAirT  DBMOOKAOT.* 

IN  this  work,  originating  in  the  glowing 
patriotism  of  an  adopted  citizen  and 
executed  with  much  careful  research,  Mr. 
Carnegie  has  written  with  a  twofold  object 


—  to  enlighten  the  "  lamentable  ignorance  " 
still  found  in  his  native  land  respecting 
American  institutions,  and  to  give  to  his 
readers  in  the  United  States  "  a  juster  esti- 
mate of  the  political  and  social  advantages  " 
of  our  own  country  when  compared  with 
other  and  older  nations.  The  result  is  es- 
sentially an  enthusiastic  eulc^^  of  the  great 
American  republic,  written  with  a  running 
comparison  of  the  ideas  and  Institutions  of 
the  mother  country,  and  based  on  surpris- 
ingly full  descriptions  and  statistics  with 
which  the  industry  of  the  author  has  enriched 
his  pages. 

As  a  description  of  the  United  States  the 
work  is  very  instructive,  even  to  our  own 
dtisens.  It  considers  the  country  as  to  its 
material  resources  and  industries,  agricul- 
tural, manufacturing,  and  mineral ;  its  ra[Hd 
growth  and  prosperity ;  its  political  and  edu- 
cational systems  ;  the  origin  of  the  popula- 
tion as  respects  nationality ;  the  growth  and 
character  of  its  cities;  the  manner  of  life, 
occupations,  and  religious  ideas  and  arrange- 
ments of  the  people ;  pauperism  and  crime ; 
commerce  and  the  highways  of  traffic;  the 
state  of  music  and  other  arts  and  of  litera- 
ture ;  national  enterprises  in  aid  of  agricult- 
ure and  commerce ;  and  the  public  finances. 
Very  little  idea,  perhaps,  can  be  gained  by 
this  brief  enumeration  of  the  vast  quantity 
of  information  which  our  author  has  managed 
to  store  up  in  about  five  hundred  p^es  ;  but 
it  may  be  possible  to  gather  from  even  so 
condensed  a  list  an  idea  of  the  general  scope 
of  the  book.  The  facts  and  statistics  pre- 
sented, the  author  tells  us,  are  drawn  from 
numerous  authorities  and  are  carefully  accu- 
rate. Without  questioning  bis  fidelity  in 
this  respect,  we  may  properly  suggest  that 
his  strong  personal  feeling  against  even  the 
forms  of  monarchy  and  aristocracy  and  his 
intense  love  of  republicanism  may,  quite  un* 
consdously,  color  his  mode  of  presenting 
data,  and  the  conclusions  based  thereon,  and 
especially  so  in  the  comparisons  made  with 
the  old  country.  As  the  first  instance  that 
recnrs  to  mind,  we  may  mention  bis  very 
optimistic  view  of  the  difficult  problems  of 
pauperism  and  crime  in  the  United  States, 
r  take  the  statement  that  the  Indians  arc 
as  kindly  treated  as  practicable."  We 
speak  of  his  hostility  to  even  the  formt  of 
monarchy  and  aristocracy,  for  what  educated 
man  does  not  know  that  Great  Britain  is 
now  in  eff*cl  a  republic,  with  its  legislative 
power  vested  in  one  house  and  its  executive 
reflecting  the  popular  majority  therein  ?  Yet 
because  there  is  an  almost  ludicrous  exalta- 
tion, in  name  and  ceremony,  of  a  sovereign 
and  peerage,  which  are  now  sodal  institu- 

1,  deprived  almost  wholly  of    political 
power,  Mr.  Carnegie's  personal  feeling  leads 

to  speak  of  his  native  land  as  thereby 
impressing  upon  him  "a  stigma  of  infer!-, _^ 
ority  at  his  birth."      But  he  is  nnquestion- ^ 
ably  right  in  his  d^m  of  the  superiority  td 
the  written  constitution  of  the  United  States 


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THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[May  15, 


•—most  "radically  republican"  jet  most 
"  profoundly  conservative  " —  to  the  shifting, 
no  written  political  customs  of  England, 
called,  as  if  by  courtesy,  a  constitution. 
Equally  worthy  of  remembrance  is  the 
eulogy,  quoted  from  Lord  Salisbury,  of  our 
Supreme  Court  as  a  conservative  power  in 
the  nation,  and  of  the  Senate  as  a  chamber 
"marvelous  in  efficiency  and  strength."  So 
too  the  suggestion  that  the  greatest  security 
for  property  is  really  to  be  found  in  a  democ- 
racy. And  very  admirable  is  our  author's 
denunciation  of  war  as  a  horrible  relic  of 
barbarism,  and  his  enthusiastic  advocacy  of 
arbitration,  as  a  substitute  therefor;  the  re- 
sult, he  thinks,  towards  which  the  wide  diffu- 
sion of  power  unfailingly  leads.  Similarly, 
his  sympathies  are  very  strongly  enlisted  in 
efforts  for  the  diminution  of  human  suffering 
and  for  establishing  more  certun  but  less 
severe  punishments  for  crimes. 

Readers  who  believe  on  principle  in  free 
trade  will  notice  with  interest  that  a  Penn- 
sylvania manufacturer  tells  us  "  it  would  be 
difficult  to  set  bounds  to  the  beneficial 
effects"  of  free  trade  between  the  States, 
while  in  somewhat  cautious  and  guarded  lan- 
guage he  seems  also  to  favor  international 
free  trade  as  a  goal  towards  which  a  people 
should  strive. 

The  chapter  on  religion  is  very  severe 
on  the  principle  of  any  ecclesiastical  estab- 
lishment, and  presents  a  strong  argument 
against  it ;  but  repeats  the  common  error 
of  speaking  of  the  Church  of  England  as 
endowed  by  the  Slate,  when  in  fact  its 
property  originated  in  private  donations 
made  for  religious  and  pious  uses.  As  for 
establishment,  a  recent  writer  has  said : 
"  Parliament  never  established  a  church  [in 
England],  but  a  book."  These  subjects 
deserve  closer  study,  especially  from  persons 
who  propose  to  write  about  them. 

The  chapter  most  instructive  to  our  own 
citizens,  we  think,  is  that  on  "the  govern, 
roent'a  non-political  work,"  which  is  claimed 
to  be  "probably  the  ablest  and  purest 
vice  in  the  world."  It  gives  interesting 
account  of  departments  whose  extent  prob- 
ably few  of  us  realize;  as,  the  signal  service, 
"the  hydrographic  office,"  the  coast  survey, 
the  fish  commission,  The  Nauliail  Almanac, 
and  the  patent  office  and  museum. 

Among  the  interesting  statements  in  the 
chapter  on  national  finances  is  a  table  show- 
ing that  the  royal  family  costs  England 
above  twice  as  much  as  the  total  salaries  of 
our  President  and  Vice-President  and  the 
almost  four  hundred  Congressmen ;  the  rela. 
live  figures  per  annum  being  14,300,000  and 

Mr.  Carnegie's  numerous  comparisons, 
designed  to  give  clear  ideas  of  the  wonder- 
ful distances  and  areas  in  the  United  States, 
are  uded  by  a  curious  table  compiled  by 
Edward  Atkinson  and  prefixed  to  the  vol. 
urae,  showing  the  relative  areas  of  Ameri- 
can States  and  countries  in  Europe.    Judged 


in  this  way,  of  course  Texas  has  "a  long 
lead." 

The  author  has  aimed  to  enliven  his  sub- 
ject by  a  somewhat  playful  style  in  passages 
admitting  it,  and  tells  some  amusing  stories. 
This  colloquial  language  occasionally  casts 
~  the  laws  of  grammar.  But  as  a  whole 
the  work  cannot  fail  to  cultivate  our  patriot- 
and  to  convey  to  all  its  readers  much 
instruction. 


PERSIA  THE  LAHS  OF  THE  DCAHS.- 

THIS  modest  tittle  volume  reminds  us 
of  the  fad  that  while  works  on  Persia 
are  not  uncommon  from  the  pen  of  Euro- 
pean writers,  they  are  rare  indeed  as  the 
productions  of  American  travelers  and  au- 
thors. The  subject  has,  therefore,  a  certain 
novelty  on  this  side  of  the  Atlantic,  and  it 
is  to  be  regretted  under  the  circumstances 
that  Mr.  Basse tt  has  not  improved  his 
opportunity  with  more  acceptance.  His 
ityle  is  dry  and  uninteresting,  lacking  the 
rivifying  power  of  imagination  or  the  fac- 
ilty  of  inspiring  enthusiasm  for  the  topic 
>f  which  he  treats.  His  mind  seems  in- 
different to  what  appeals  to  the  sentiments, 
he  shows  little  feeling  for  the  beautiful  in 
nature  or  in  art ;  this  is  especially  unfortu- 
nate when  writing  -of  a  land  famed  for  its 
arts  and  poesy.  The  record  of  his  journeys 
consists  of  the  bare  statement  of  incidents 
or  facts ',  the  exact  altitude  of  the  most  un- 
important places  is  conscientiously  recorded, 
for  example,  but  we  miss  those  fine  touches 
that  bring  a  picture  before  the  eye.  Occa- 
sionally he  spares  a  few  words  to  notice 

•  valuable  point,  and  when  we  begi 
to  hope  that  we  are  to  have  at  last  an  ample 
description,  he  provokiogly  breaks  off 
note  a  trifling  and  utterly  inconsequential 
incident,  that  has  neither  personal  nor  local 
importance.  Out  of  sixteen  chapters  no 
less  than  eleven  are  devoted  to  these  color- 
less narratives  of  travel  in  which  one  may 
discern  at  rare  intervals  some  hint  of  the 
stores  of  information  at  the  author's  com- 
mand had  he  but  known  how  to  impart  his 
knowledge  to  the  reader. 

The  valuable  portion  of  this  volume 
found  in  the  five  final  chapters  in  which 
Mr.  Baasett  has  undertaken  a  brief 
pendium  of  facts  bearing  on  the  present 
conditipn  of  Persia,  its  races,  laws,  govern- 
ment, customs,  and  religions.  Although  we 
find  in  this  portion  of  the  book  the 
sapless  style  as  in  the  preceding  pages,  yet 
it  is  less  noticeable  than  in  the  journal  of 
his  tours,  while  the  knowledge  he  shows  of 
his  subject  makes  us  regret  that  he  did  not 
condense  the  first  and  expand  the  second 
part  of  his  book.  The  author  passed  ten 
years  in  Persia  as  a  missionary  of  the 
Presbyterian  Board.  His  information  is, 
therefore,  not  that  of  the  hasty  traveler  who 


a  country  and  then  cribs  facts 
from  his  guide  book  when  preparing  an  ac- 
count of  his  travels.  Mr.  Bassett  is  evi- 
dently thoroughly  well  informed  of  what  he 
In  the  expression  of  opinion  he 
also  to  be  free  from  prejudice  and 
inclined  to  exhibit  less  of  cant  than  one 
las  learned  to  expect  when  missionaries 
rrite  of  the  sects  which  they  are  engaged 
in  proselyting.  There  are  few  recent  works 
Persia  which  give  within  the  same  space 
BO  many  facts  about  it  that  one  wishes  to 
know,  especially  concerning  the  laws  and 
iects  of  that  country,  stated  also 
with  an  air  of  candor  and  every  evidence  of 
truth. 

We  notice  a  few  peculiarities  in  the 
phraseology  which  do  not  add  to  the  style. 
Mr.  Bassett  makes  constant  use  of  the  word 
quite,  often  in  places  where,  contrary  to  the 
intention,  instead  of  empbasiriog  it  weak- 
ens the  sense.  The  use  of  the  word  "  ugly  " 
as  an  explicative  of  character  instead  of 
definition  of  physical  deformity  is 
purely  a  colloquial  Americanism,  as  unap- 
propriate  in  literature  as  the  English  use 
of  the  word  nasty.  Future  editions  of  the 
Land  of  the  Imams  would  be  much  im- 
proved by  the  addition  of  an  index,  thus 
fitting  it  to  be  an  important  work  of  refer- 
ence on  a  country  that  seems  to  be  coming 
into  prominence  once  more. 

TYPES  or  ETHIOAL  THEOET,' 

THIS  work,  though  within  a  year  of  its 
first  appearance  passing  to  a  second 
edition,  appeals  to  a  more  limited  circle 
of  readers  than  other  of  its  distinguished 
author's  writings.  As  an  essay  in  the  meta- 
physical treatment  of  moral  science,  or  per- 
haps we  ought  to  say  the  ethical  aspects  of 
intellectual  science,  it  is  hard  reading  for 
all  except  students  of  speculative  thought, 
but  for  them  it  will  prove  a  pleasure  and  a 
profit.  Yet  there  is  a  singular  charm  In 
Dr.  Martineau's  range  of  intellectual  vision, 
and  in  his  manner  of  expressing  himself, 
which  no  ordinary  mind  would  miss ;  as 
witness  such  a  passage  as  the  following 
from  the  preface : 

During  a  fifteen  monlhi'  furlough  (granled  me 
in  1848^),  the  inroads  upon  my  early  modes  of 
thought  might  here  have  paused  for  a  while, 
after  giining  the  territory  which  seemed  nec- 
essary to  the  life  of  conscience ;  bad  I  not 
pasted  (now  thirty-six  Tears  ago)  through  a  kind 
of  second  education  in  Germany,  mainl]'  under 
the  admirable  guidance  of  the  late  Piofeiaor 
I'rendelenbarg.  That  I  might  learn  the  ulmoit 
from  so  great  an  Aristotelian,  I  gave  mjielf 
chicflj  to  Greek  studies,  and  only  read  more 
lateely  aulhota  of  whom  I  had  supposed  myself 


■  Fcnii  Ihs  Und  of  the  I 
ud  Rutdencc.    By  Juh 


A  Nanuin  of  TnnI 


ce,  through  what  had  been  words  before, 
t  with  living  thoaght,  and  the  black 


•  Itpm  of  Eibical  Tlwoiy.  Bjr  jM«it»  Uanise 
Sooond  Edition,  snixd.  Tm  VoIdiiih.  MacmiUu 
Co,    f4-fO. 


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THE    LITERARY   WORLD. 


I6S 


eramraatiol  text  « 


aglow  with  luminous  phi- 


loaophT.  It  was  as  if  Ihc  mental  stereogcope 
through  which  I  bad  looked  at  Plalo  or  Ans- 
lotle  had  had  its  double  picture —  Greek  and 
English  —  with  distorted  halves,  producing  only 
a  blurred  and  oveiUpping  flat ;  whilst  now  tbe 
slide  of  true  correspondence  was  there,  and  the 
eye,  after  a  momentary  strain  of  adaptation, 
beheld  the  symmetrical  reality  in  all  ils  dimen- 
■iooa.  The  experience  thus  forced  apon  me 
by  a  new  way  of  entrance  upon  ancient  litera- 
ture could  not  fail  to  spread,  and  carry  an 
interpreting  light  into  modern  studies;  it  was 
CMcnlially  the  gift  of  fresh  conceptions,  (he  un- 
sealing of  bidden  openings  of  self-consciousness, 
with  unmeasured  corridors  and  sacred  halls  be- 
hind ;  and,  once  gained,  was  more  or  less  avail- 
aUe  throughout  the  history  of  philosophy,  and 
lifted  the  darkness  from  the  pages  of  Kant  and 
even  Hegel.  It  was  impossible  tr>  resist  or 
distrust  this  gradual  widening  oE  apprehension  ; 
it  was  as  much  a  (act  as  the  sight  ot  Alps  I  had 
never  visited  before. .  .  . 

Who  could  not  folloir  such  a.  guide  with 
interest  —  not  to  say  enthusiasm  ? 

Ethics,  which  Dr.  Martineau  defiQes  as 
the  doctrine  of  human  character,  may  be 
constructed,  he  remarks,  from  the  moral 
sentiments  outwards  into  the  system  of  the 
world,  or  from  the  system  of  the  world  in- 
wards to  the  moral  sentiroenls.  The  first 
of  these  methods  he  calls  the  Psychologic; 
the  second  the  Unpsychologic.  To  the 
Unpsychological  Theories  bis  lirst  volume 
is  devoted,  and  its  two  Books,  Metaphysical 
and  Physical,  and  its  two  Branches,  Tran- 
sendental  and  Immaaental,  suffice  to  give 
what  is  really  a  judicial  history  of  the  ethi- 
cal philosophy  of  Plato,  Descartes,  Male- 
branche,  Spinoza,  and  Comte.  What  does 
Comte  oSer  us  7  he  asks : 

Nothing  but  a  looking-glass,  in  which  we  see 
the  image  of  our  own  expectant  looks  and  awe- 
struck thought  I  no  highest  person,  no  reality 
at  all,  nothing  that  would  be  there  if  we  were 
not;  only  a  phantom  blind  and  dumb  that 
knows  us  not,  and  it  but  a  phenomenon  of 
ourselves  I 

This  is  Positivism  so  far  as  ethics  are 
concerned. 

The  second  volume  is  less  historical  and 
biographical  in  its  method ;  more  strictly 
critical  and  constructive.  Cudworth  is  here 
shown  in  outline,  Clarke  and  Price  and 
Shaftesbury  and  Hutch eson ;  Bentham's 
and  Paley's  inadequate  interpretations  are 
considered;  and  there  is  a  chapter  on 
Hedonism,  or  the  ethical  duty  of  having  a 
good  time,  as  it  might  be  called  i  but  fully 
half  of  the  book  is  devoted  to  Dr.  Martin- 
eau's  own  scheme,  involving  a  careful  analy^ 
■is  of  all  the  various  springs  of  action,  and 
rigid  tests  of  the  passions,  appetites,  pro- 
pensities, sentiments,  and  supreme  affec- 
tions. It  is  here  that  the  work  rises  to  its 
highest  interest,  and  makes  the  most  defi- 
nite impression  of  the  learning,  piety,  and 
candor  of  its  author. 


BIB  HEITBY  MAINE  OV  DEHOOBAOT.' 

THAT  the  author  of  Ancient  law  and  TM^ 
Early  History  ef  InsUlutiotts  should 
be  aUe  to  write  something  of  "great  pith 


and  moment "  on  popular  government  does 
not  need  to  be  said,  but  to  cl^m  that  this 
work  is  the  ablest  on  the  subject  since  De 
Tocqueville,  would  seem  to  be  more  than  its 
ts  warrant  It  consists  of  four  essays, 
republished  and  enlarged  from  the  Qitar- 
terly  Review.  In  the  6rst  Sir  Henry  aims 
show  that,  since  the  effective  introduc- 
tion of  the  popular  element  during,  say, 
the  last  hundred  years,  governments  have 
been  less  stable,  popular  upheavals  and 
revolutions  more  frequent,  than  in  all  the 
Christian  centuries  since  the  first  And 
his  somber  conclusion  is : 


the  success  of  the  British  Constitution  during 
two  centuries  under  special  conditions,  and  in 
the  success  of  the  American  Constitution  during 
one  century  under  conditions  still  more  peculiar 
and  more  unlikely  to  recur.  .  .  .  The  British 
political  system,  with  the  national  jpealness  and 
material  prosperity  attendant  on  it,  may  yet  be 
launched  into  space  and  find  ils  lost  affinities 
in  silence  and  cold. 

Sir  Henry  Maine  is  a  conservative  of  the 
conservatives,  and  his  argument  does  not 
touch  solid  ground  on  this  point  He  fails 
to  see  that  these  "  throes  of  empire "  are 
everywhere  those  of  oppressed  peoples, 
often  of  semi-civilized  peoples,  struggling 
upward  after  what  they  instinctively  (eel  is 
theirs,  and  that  the  upheaval  is  greatest 
where  the  pressure  is  greatest,  and  steadily 
diminishes  as  men  more  perfectly  attain 
(heir  rights ;  in  a  word,  then,  in  human 
structure  as  in  earth  structure,  the  tendency 
is  always  out  of  chaos  and  disruption  toward 
stability  and  permanence. 

In  the  second  essay  the  argument  ad- 
vances and  deepens  very  perceptibly.  The 
greatest  danger  of  popular  government  Sir 
Henry  holds  to  be  its  difficulty  of  administra- 
tion. Democracy  is  government,  the  same 
as  aristocracy  or  monarchy.  The  people  are 
king.  The  people  can  have  no  set  opinions 
or  volition;  hence  the  real  ruler  is  the  party 
leader  who  has  both,  and  whose  views  the 
voters  merely  echo  and  register.  Hence 
democracy  is  the  prey  of  demagogues,  and 
the  fatal  danger  is  that  of  constant  and  rad- 
ical constitutional  changes.  In  English  and 
European  forms  of  democracy  Sir  Henry 
finds  no  safeguard  whatever  against  these 
changes.  America  is  the  only  country  "  in 
which  the  question  of  the  safest  and  most 
workable  form  of  democratic  government 
has  been  adequately  discussed,  and  the 
results  of  discussion  tested  by  experiment" 
And  the  closing  argument  of  the  essay, 
showiug  the  absolute  necessity  of  some- 
thing of  the  sort  in  England,  is  certainly 
most  important  and  weighty,  lest  they  drift 
"towards  a  type  of  government  associated 
with  terrible  events  —  a  single  assembly, 
armed  with  full  powers  over  the  constitu- 
tion, which  it  may  exercise  at  pleasure." 

The  conservatism  of  the  author  crops  out 
abundantiy  in  the  third  essay,  to  the  de- 
cided weakening  both    of  merit  and  con- 


clusiveness. This  line  of  thought  (pp. 
130-3O  serves  to  give  the  key  to  Sir 
Henry's  whole  position  : 

The  passion  for  religious  reform  is,  however, 
r  more  intelligible  than  the  passion  for  po- 
litical change.  .  .  .  "If  you  have  wrong  ideas 
t  Justification,  yon  shall  perish  everlast- 
,"  is  a  very  intelligible  proposition;  but  it 
•t  exactly  a  proposition  of  the  same  order 
lat  into  which  most  English  democratic 
philosophy  translates  itself;  "  If  you  vote  straight 
with  the  Blues,  yonr  greatgrandchild  will  be 
on  a  level  with  the  average  citizen  of  the  United 
SWtei." 

Perhaps  not,  Sir  Henry,  but  when  a  man 
ice  comes  to  see  and  feel  that  himself  and 
s  ancestors  have  been  held  for  ages  under 
uel  deprivation  of  essential  rights,  he  is 
going  to  the  very  death  if  he  may  but  gain 
those  rights  for  his  great-grandchild,  or 
even  his  great-grandchiki's  great-grandchild. 
The  same  radical  error  inheres  in  the  au- 
thor's argument  that  the  political  unrest  of 
today  is  ephemeral,  spasmodic,  out  of  joint 
with  humanity;  indeed,  that  not  change, 
progress,  but  inertia  is  the  universal  law 
of  human  nature.  This  is  indeed  true  of 
the  semi-civiliied  nations  which  he  adduces 
in  proof;  but  once  let  education,  Chris- 
tianity, get  hold  of  a  people  and  what  of 
its  inertia  then  1  That  is,  this  great  prem- 
ise  of  human  inertia  is  only  a  half-truth, 
true  at  one  stage  but  giving  place  to  more 
and  more  activity  as  civilization  advances. 

Sir  Henry  Maine's  fourth  article,  "The 
Constitution  of  the  United  States,"  is  to 
us  by  far  the  most  interesting  and  instruct- 
ive of  the  series.  "  American  experience 
has,  1  think,  shown  that  by  wise  constitu- 
tional provisions  thoroughly  thought  out  be- 
forehand, democracy  may  be  made  tolera- 
ble." His  meed  of  praise,  unstinted  and 
almost  unqualified  all  through  the  essay, 
is  most  remarkable.  Our  statesmen  come 
in  for  the  same  high  praise.  In  a  running 
contrast  between  our  own  Congressional 
legislative  methods  and  those  of  Parlia. 
ment,  he  finds  the  checks  and  balances 
necessary  in  a  popular  government  almost 
incomparably  in  our  favor.  And  he  looks 
with  gloomy  forebodings  at  the  small  pros- 
pect that  England  will  succeed  in  saving 
her  crumbling  constitution  ("if  it  be  still 
permitted  to  us  to  employ  the  word")  by 
any  such  admirable  safeguards. 

It  is,  perhaps,  impossible  for  a  foreigner 
to  discuss  our  complicated  political  system 
without  some  minor  mistakes,  and  Sir 
Henry  probably  escapes  with  as  few  as  any. 
On  p.  122  he  speaks  of  the  New  Jersey 
method  of  ratifying  her  constitution  by  "a 
special  election  to  be  held  for  that  pur- 
pose only,"  and,  a  few  pages  later,  of  this 
ratification  as  "placed  in  the  hands  of  a 
special  legislature  specially  elected  for  the 
purpose;  when,  in  fact,  there  is  no  ratifying 
"legislature,"  but  the  people  at  their  voting 
precints  baUot  "  yes  "  or  "  no  "  on  the  ques- 
tions proposed.  On  p.  231  he  speaks  of 
septennial  elections  In  Virginia  and   half- 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[May  15. 


yearly  electioas  in  Connecticut  aod  Rhode 
Itlaod,  when  at  the  time  iadicated  they 
were  annual  in  all.  In  considering  that 
most  important  safeguard  afforded  by  the 
tx  poit facte  clause  of  the  constitution  as 
interpreted  in  the  celebrated  Dartmouth 
College  case,  the  writer  does  not  seem  to 
be  aware  that  our  legislatures  have  found 
means  to  regain  very  largely  their  lost 
ground,  and  that  chartered  monopolies  are 
every  day  less  and  less  secure  as  against 
the  supposed  "  rights  of  the  people."  The 
remark,  p.  251,  that  our  "system  of  pay 
mcDt  for  legislative  services,  which  prevuls 
throughout  the  whole  of  the  Union,  ...  is 
a  point  of  marked  inferiority  to  the  British 
political  system,"  is  in  exact  accord  with 
the  writer's  aristocratic  instincts,  but  would 
find  few  defenders  this  side  the  ocean. 

There  is  no  question  as  to  the  value  and 
importance  of  this  latest  treatise  on  de- 
mocracy, especially  considering  its  origin  i 
and  we  regret  that  we  are  unable  to  join 
fuUy  in  the  meed  of  praise  which  American 
critics  have  so  generally  awarded  it.  As 
a  series  of  magadne  essays  it  is  able  aod 
instructive;  as  a  historical  discussion  it  is 
far  from  profound.  The  writer  sneers  at 
the  "  nauseous  grandiloquence  of  the  Amer- 
ican panegyrical  historians."  Either  Sir 
Henry  Maine  is  radically  wrong,  or  our 
Bancrofts,  Palfreys,  and  the  great  political 
system  which  they  so  ably  sustain  are 
wrong ;  and  the  latter  conclusion  we  are 
not  yet  prepared  to  admit,  even  in  defer- 
ence to  so  eminent  an  authority  as  the 
author  of  Ancient  Law. 


IDNOB  nOTIOH. 


Anybody  who  think*  he  is  wise  enough  to 
satirize  homan  life  ooght  to  bear  well  in  mind 
that  people  who  profess  religious  belief  are  apt 
to  be  sensitive  when  their  creed  is  coarsely 
■■sailed.  Had  the  antbor  of  Inquirettdo  Iilaiul 
bethought  himself  of  this  sensitiveness  in  others, 
he  would  have  afforded  pleasurable  sensations 
where  now  he  will  Ineviubljr  offend.  The  Isl- 
«nd,  which  the  hero  reaches  in  an  open  boat,  is 
inhabited  by  people  who  believe  that  the  ocean 
over  which  he  has  jnit  come  is  fatal  to  the 
touch  —  it  is  like  our  conception  <rf  death.  The 
religion  of  the  islandera  is  baaed  upon  an  old 
arithmetic  (tlii  arilhmetic,  ihey  call  il),  from 
whose  rules  Ihey  deduce  both  their  theory  and 
practice  of  life.  There  are  also  free-thinkers, 
one  of  whom,  Mr.  Hurlheart,  delivers  a  Sunday- 
night  speech,  which  is  the  cleverest  thing  in  the 
book.  Huithesrt  is,  perhaps,  Inquirendian  tor 
Injute-soul  or  perhaps  Ingersoll.  The  hero  Is 
totally  unable  to  subscribe  lo  the  simple  truths 
laid  down  in  Ihe  arithmetic,  and  is  incarcerated 
in  a  lunatic  hospital  for  his  contumacy.  He 
finally  escapes  by  means  o£  the  ocean.  Had  the 
travesty  on  Christianity  not  l>cen  pushed  to 
such  extremes,  Ihe  book  would  have  been 
slrciigthcnei),  certainly  it  would  be  more  popu- 
lar, fur  it  U  not  without  cleverness,  and  some  of 


its  hiu  are  fair.  It  will  be  noticed  that  in 
general  the  best  writings  on  imaginary  states 
of  existence  are  careful  not  to  particularize 
human  folly  loo  closely  —  they  will  generally 
amuse  a  child  and  at  the  same  lime  not  wound 
even  a  bigot.  Anybody  might  like  Gulliver, 
the  Ceming  Race,  or  even  Candidt,  but  every 
creed  in  Christendom  will  find  something  to 
grieve  over  in  Inquirmdo  Island.  Hudor  Ge- 
none  seems  to  have  a  creed  of  his  own  which 
is  free  from  error,  but  not  easily  intelligible. 

Eiidura;  or.  Three  Generatioiu.  A  New  Eng- 
land Romance.  By  B.  P.  Moore.  [San  Fran- 
cisco: Golden  Era  Co.    fl.50.] 

Not  having  any  desire  to  be  facetious  at  Mr. 
Hoore's  expense,  it  will  be  common  honesty  to 
say,  as  cheerfully  as  possible,  thai  he  has  wril- 
1  very  stupid  book.  It  is  bound  in  most 
solemn  black,  and,  amidst  the  crowd  of  gaudy- 
Ted  fiction  of  the  day,  looks  like  some  horse- 
hair sofa  in  a  modem  parlor.  The  illustrations 
too  are  the  worst  specimens  of  xylography  we 
have  seen  lately  outside  of  a  six-penny  murder 
trial.  Endura  ia  hardly  more  than  a  bare  record 
of  the  natural  increment  of  a  New  England  fam- 
ily during  three  generations.  A  large  fortune 
in  France  is  finally  secured  to  the  descendants 
of  an  Imigri,  by  the  efforts  of  a  virtuous  young 
man,  who  wisely  does  not  pretermit  to  woo  the 
heiress.  They  many  and  "set  up  housekeep- 
ing." The  fortune  involved  is  one  hundred 
million  francs,  and  the  luxury  of  their  life  must 
»pond  to  their  position.  The  author  here 
enlarges  1 

The  furniture  was  elegant,  of  Ihe  very  latest 
ktterns,  upholstered  in  the  most  exquisite  style. 
The  lambrequins  aitd  draperies  were  gems  of 
art,  and  the  lace  curtains  were  elaborate  and 
tastefully  draped.  The  picture*  were  the  finest 
steel  engravings,  selected  for  their  appropriate- 

If  there  is  any  good  thing  in  so  superfluous 
a  book,  it  i*  that  its  author  has  shown  a  whole- 
some contempt  for  cheap  village  gossip ;  he 
thinks,  too,  that  New  England  has  deteriorated 
since  hi*  day;  after  reading  Endura,  however, 
we  are  not  convinced  that  Ihe  literary  movement 


Six  or  seven  years  ago  there  appeared  in  Eng- 
land in  admirable  little  story  entitled  Won  by 
WaHing,  which  has  not  been  published  here. 
Its  quiet  tone,  and  its  freedom  from  all  senu- 
tionilism,  were  meritorious  qualities  not  likely 
to  bring  an  author  into  an  immediate  popularity. 
It  is  now  wilh  pleasure  that  we  notice  Ihe  re- 
ptinling  of  her  later  works.  Donmian  has  been 
already  spoken  of;  Wi  Tioo  ii  its  sequel. 
Edna  Lyall's  writing  is  almost  sure  to  please 
those  who  demand  seriousness  even  in  iheir 
novels ;  the  interest  is  almost  wholly  human, 
and  there  is  no  strained  attempt  to  produce 
effects  by  exaggerated  descriptions  of  "nature." 
Particularly  grateful  is  such  work  in  contrast 
to  the  morbidities  of  many  contemporary  Eng- 
lish women  novelists.  It  in  as  if  one  stepped 
from  a  noonday  healed  street  Into  some  quiet 
room  among  friends.  After  saying  all  this  it 
may  be  correctly  surmised  that  we  are  pleased 
with  Edna  I.yail.  We  Tioa  is  a  novel  of  "  sec- 
ularism"—a  word  not  so  significant  to  us  as 
to  the  English.    The  hero,  Mark  Raeburn,  and 


his  daughter,  are  the  inspiration  of  a  band  of 
devoled  followers — secularist*  —  or  a*  we  shonld 
say,  "  unbelievers,"  or  "  atheists."  The  sin- 
cerity of  Raeburn  is  beyond  question,  even  dar> 
ing  a  wonderfully  fine  scene  when  his  daughter 
Ictts  him  at  last  that  she  must  accept  implidtly 
Ihe  [aiih,  to  combat  which  lie  is  ready  to  snt^ 
render  his  very  life.  In  fact  he  doe*  at  last 
die  from  violence  rocsived  at  the  hands  of  a 
mob  of  Christian  fanatics.  If  this  book  1*  not 
essentially  true,  it  should  never  have  been  writ- 
ten; as  it  is.  It  is  well-nigh  incredible  that  re- 
ligious persecution  so  relentless  can  exist  in 
England  today.  Artistically  it  may  be  objected 
that  Ihe  author  thwarts  her  own  object,  for  her 
"secularists"  are  so  completely  imbued  with 
Christianity,  or  are  at  least  living  in  Carlyle's 
"allershine,"  and  her  Christians,  wilh  few  ex- 
ceptions, are  so  Intolerant,  that  sympathy  goes 
entirely  wilh  the  persecuted,  althongh  we  feel 
that  Edna  Lyall  is  distincdy  religious  in  her 
teachings.  It  is  certainly  a  fine  plea  for  tol- 
erance. Not  the  least  of  her  merits  is  the 
importance  given  to  the  common  relations  of 
life,  the  love  of  a  father  for  a  daughter,  of  a 
brother  for  a  sister.  As  in  IVan  by  Waiting, 
mere  marrying  and  giving  in  marriage  are  sub- 
ordinated to  their  natural  place  in  the  economy 
of  life. 


A  state  of  Communism,  shonld  it  ever  prevail, 
will  work  serious  harm  to  one  class  of  novel 
writers,  in  that  the  reversion  of  private  property 
to  govn-nment  will  annihilate  the  "  missing  will " 
in  fiction.  It  will  still  be  possible,  however,  for 
Ihe  rich  ancestor  to  secrete  his  millions  tiehind  a 
hidden  panel  in  the  "  long-unnsed "  chamber. 
Both  these  old-time  favorite*  are  employed  by 
Ihe  author  of  jfateb  Schuyltr'i  Millitnt,  a  story 
which  might  have  been  written  in  any  decade 
from  Mrs.  Kadcliffe  to  George  Hanville  Feno. 
The  scene  is  laid  in  Bergen  County,  New  Jersey, 
among  old  Dutch  families,  whose  names  are 
made  use  of  with  astonishing  freedom.  An  Im- 
mense property  is  left  —  nobody  knew  to  whom 
—  but  it  is  agreed  that  a  charming  girl  by  the 
name  of  Kitty  ought  to  have  the  moat  of  it,  and 
so  she  does,  while  the  excellent  gentleman,  who 
gets  the  rest,  marries  her.  The  designing  fortune- 
hunter  who  prowls  about  disguised  as  a  pedlar, 
and  deceiving  nobody,  comes  to  grief.  To  liter- 
ature this  story  will  stand  In  the  same  relation 
that  the  "  Street*  of  New  York  "  doe*  to  drama, 
perfectly  harmless,  but  not  altogether  elevating. 
One  can  withstand  certain  little  bolts  hurled 
from  Bergen  County,  New  Jersey,  at  Puritans 
and  Quakers,  but  it  Is  strange  that  a  person  who 
knows  enough  to  carry  on  conversation  in  the 
gipsy  tongue,  and  who  is  so  fsr  above  the  level 
of  Ihe  masses  as  to  say  Kcrberos  when  he  means 
Cerberus,  should  not  have  written  a  better  story. 


Two  more  "international  episodes"  suppliants 
for  public  favor,  and  not  destined  to  sue  in  v^n. 
Both  are  brightly  and  intelligently  written,  and  '~- 
t>otb  take  the  cis-Atlantic  field  of  observation. 
Oa  Beth  Sides  is  really  two  stories,  one,  the 
shorter,  of  an  American  family  in  London,  the 


i886.] 


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167 


second,  of  an  English  family  traveling  In  Amer- 
ica. IE  the  object  of  the  Anglo-American  novel 
is  to  amuse,  Mlt*  (or  Hri.)  Baylor  has  succeeded 
even  (o  the  provoking  of  wide-mouthed  laugh- 
ter; not  that  she  is  coarse,  on  the  contrary  there 
is  refinement  of  diction  and  delicate  raillery. 
From  a  harmless  tendency  to  link  the  names  of 
Washington  and  the  late  General  Lee  as  a  dnum- 
virate,  we  infer  that  this  lad;  is  not  of  Northern 
prejudice*.  It  is  pleasant  to  notice  how  few 
disagreeable  features  are  brought  forward  con- 
cerning the  insular  peculiarities  of  the  English 
visitors.  Mr.  Henry  James,  by  a  life-long  atten- 
tion to  his  art,  has  so  perfectly  succeeded  in 
making  everybody  and  everything  as  uncomfort- 
able as  possible,  that  whoever  wishes  to  write 
in  a  good  temper  on  transatlantic  li[e  need  have 
no  fear  of  poaching  on  his  preserves.  One 
charming  scene  in  On  Beth  Sidis  is  that  In  which 
Sir  Robert  visits  the  home  of  two  Virginians  of 
good  family  —  the  Aglonbys. 

Hr.  King's  story  is  an  account  of  the  Journey  of 
an  Earl  and  his  friends  across  the  Atlantic  and 
then  over  this  continent  with  the  famous  Villard 
excursion.  A  love  plot  of  happy  termination 
between  the  prond  Lady  Helena  and  an  Ameri- 
can artist  of  cosmopolitan  tastes  gives  a  motive 
to  the  narrative.  Why,  pray,  does  Mr.  King 
Ciill  his  book  a  fuitasie?  it  is  no  more  a  fan- 
tasie  than  Tom  yonts  is  a  symphonic,  or  Yaniit 
Doedle  a  ballade.  It  might,  perhaps,  with  pro- 
priety have  been  called  an  ilinirairi ;  and  this 
calls  to  mind  that  Sainle-Beuve  once  said  that 
the  itinerary  was  a  better  medium  than  the  nar- 
rative for  describing  the  manners  of  ancient  or 
liitle-known  peoples.  Both  these  books  are 
itineraries,  and  both  suggest  the  question 
whether  that  is  a  desirable  form  for  portraying 
the  peculiarities  of  modems.  Aside  from  this 
matter  it  is  well  to  ask  why  American  writers 
always  paint  English  noblemen  as  fatuous  P  Sim- 
ple-minded they  may  be,  and  intensely  British, 
but  not  fer  si  and  in  every  clime,  feeble-minded 
"innocents."  Trollope  gives  no  such  character 
to  lords,  and  he  knew  them  even  in  their 
weaker  moments.  The  fact  is,  that  Trollope  de- 
scribes various  individuals  of  a  class,  each  pos- 
sessing distinct  traits,  while  our  international 
novels  take  types,  and  more  often  conventional 
and  stagey  types.  This  fault  is  not  especially 
applicable  to  the  present  books,  which  are,  on 
the  whole,  entertaining.  It  should  be  added  that 
The  Golden  Sfite  Is  daintily  published,  and  that 
On  Bath  Sides  has  already  appeared  in  Lipfin- 
cotCs  Magatiiie, 


UIHOB  NOnOES. 


per,  50c.] 

The  modest  and  inexpensive  form  of  this  col- 
lection of  various  papers  is  out  of  proportion  to 
its  value ;  and  is  suggestive  of  an  intelligent  and 
skilled  artisan  in  his  working  dress.  Mr.  Harri- 
son goes  by  the  bad  names  of  "  Positivist "  and 
'■  Philosopher,"  but  he  is  better  than  his  names, 
and  in  these  pages  is  practical  rather  than  specu- 
Iniive.  The  contents  of  the  book  are  essays  and 
lectures  of  about  twenty  years'  standing,  one 
third  being  now  printed  for  the  first  time.  In- 
cluded in  this  freiih  part  ate  most  of  the  opening 
paper  on  "The  Choice  of  Books  "  and  the  review 


of  James  Cotter  Morlson's  "Life  and  Times  of 
St  Bernard."  The  paper  on  "The  Chi^ce  of 
Books"  Is  in  four  chapters,  and  amounts  to  a 
designation,  with  critical  reasons,  of  the  best 
reading  in  all  langu^es.  Persons  of  literary 
tastes  will  enjoy  this  survey  greatly,  and  in  the 
main  be  profited  by  it.  Of  the  fourteen  other 
units,  three,  besides  the  Bernard,  are  reviews, 
respectively  of  IMkair,  Fronde's  Carlyli,  and 
the  U/e  of  George  Eliot.  There  is  a  pleasant 
account  of  "  Historic  London,"  a  picture  of  the 
town  with  its  memories  and  associations.  There 
is  a  plea  for  the  preservation  of  the  Tower  as  the 
great  historical  landmark  of  the  English  people. 
There  are  one  or  two  lighter  pieces  of  writing, 
and  some  scholarly  glances  at  this  centnry  and 
the  last.  As  a  whole  the  book  will  be  found 
extremely  readable  by  all  persons  who  are  in- 
terested in  historical  views  and  literary  opinions. 
Some  of  these  latter  we  have  transferred  to  the 


Here  is  an  immense  octavo  of  nearly  1,000 
pages,  two  columns  or  about  I, zoo  words  (two 
columns  of  the  Literary  World)  to  a  page,  con- 
taining upwards  of  "6,000  quotations  from 
standard  histories  and  biographies,"  chiefly  re- 
lations of  facts  and  inddents,  and  designed  for 
use  in  illustrations  of  addresses  and  sermons. 
A  scrap-book  it  is,  only  the  scraps  are  not 
pictures  but  anecdotes  and  sentiments  gathered 
from  works  of  history  and  biography  by  J.  S.  C. 
Abbott,  Dr.  Arnold,  Carlyle,  Canon  Farrar, 
Irving,  Lamartine,  Macaulay,  Parton,  Plutarch, 
Smiles,  and  many  others.  Each  quotation  has 
a  subject-title  in  heavy  type,  the  arrangement 
of  matter  is  alphabetical  by  titles,  the  para- 
graphs are  numbered,  and  there  are  indexes  to 
proper  names  and  to  subjects,  the  latter  being 
made  so  very  copious  by  means  of  cross-refer- 
ences that  it  fills  over  ioo  pages.  A  great  deal  oE 
labor  has  gone  into  the  preparation  of  this 
book,  and  some  use  may  be  made  of  it  by 
writers  and  public  speakers;  though  it  is  less 
serviceable  than  the  similar  book  which  every 
intellectual  workman  may  and  ought  to  make 
For  himself. 

Wonders  of  the  Moon.  From  the  French  of 
Amedee  Guillemin.  By  Miss  M.  G.  Mead.  Ed- 
ited with  Additions  by  Maria  Mitchell.  [Charles 
Scribner's  Sons,    ^i.-oo.] 

This  little  volume  Is  not  intended  For  students 
of  astronomy  but  for  the  general  reader;  it  is 
entirely  free  from  technicalities,  and  contains, 
nevertheless,  a  vast  amount  of  information,  con- 
cerning what  is  actually  known  of  the  moon ; 
and  concerning  the  speculations  of  learned  men 
about  the  things  which  are  not  known.  The 
editor's  name  is  a  sufficient  guarantee  for  the 
accuracy  of  the  facts  given.  But  we  would  that 
all  printers  were  careful  in  their  proof-reading ; 
it  is  annoying,  pp.  xii  and  xiii,  to  find  140  for 
340 ;  both  in  Arabic  figures  and  in  words.  And 
one  would  think  that  the  editor  would  hsve 
taken  the  liberty  of  altering  such  a  passage  as 
that  in  which  (p.  195)  the  author  gravely  cal- 
culates the  time,  to  the  nearest  second,  fn  which 
a  body  woald  fall  from  the  moon  to  the  earth 
and  then  in  an  appendix  tells  us  (p.  13S]  that 
he  has,  for  simplicity's  sake,  made  the  otlcala- 
tion  on  a  wrong  basis ;  and  that  the  real  time 


would  be  less  than  o 
has  given. 


eighth  of  that  whidi  be 


LTEEKAST  OFDnOlTS  OF  FBEDEBIOE 
HABRIBOH, 

[From  Tkt  Ckaiu  ^Bttki.    MicmiUan  ft  Co.] 
Even  of  Shakespeare  himself  it  is  better   to 


rlhy  ituS.  No  poet  known  t( 
so  careless  of  his  genius,  so  little  jealou 
wn  work,  and  none  has  left  his  crea 
form  so  unauthentic  and  confused;  for  no  one 
of  his  plays  was  published  with  his  name  in  his 
lifetime.  Let  os  face  the  necessity,  that  ft  is 
belter  in  such  case  to  know  his  eight  or  ten 
masterpieces  thoroughly,  rather  than  to  treat 
his  thirty-sii  supposed  pieces  with  equal  irrev- 
erent veneration.  With  Milton  the  case  is  dif- 
ferent. In  the  Paradise  LestKuA  in  the  Lyrict 
-lyrics  unsurpassed  in  all  poetry,  and  for  Kng- 
ishmen,  at  least,  the  high-water  mark  of  lyrical 
perfection,  equally  faulireiis  in  their  poetic  form 
and  in  their  moral  charm,  the  poet  seems  to  be 
putting  his  whole  inspiration  into  every  line 
and  almost  every  phrase.  And  thus,  till  his 
strength  began  to  wane  with  life,  this  most  self- 
possessed  of  the  poets  hardly  ever  swerves  or 
swoops  in  his  calm  majestic  flight. 
There  is  danger  lest  conventional  adulation 
id  a  certain  unique  quality  of  his  may  tend 
<  mislead  the  general  public  as  to  the  true  place 
Tennyson  smongst  poets.  Since  the  death 
of  Wordsworth  he  has  stood,  beyond  all  question. 
In  a  class  wholly  by  himself,  far  above  all  con- 
temporary lyric  poets.  It  is  no  less  certain  that 
he,  alone  of  the  Victorians,  has  definitely  en- 
tered the  immortal  group  lA  our  English  p^ets, 
and  stands  beside  Wordsworth,  Coleridge,  and 
Keats.  Nay,  we  must  go  further  than  this. 
Tennyson  has  a  gift  of  melody  in  meditative  lyric, 
more  subtle  and  exquisite  than  any  poet  but 
Shakespeare  and  Shelley.  ' 

If  Victor  Hugo  be  in  the  sum  the  greatett 
European  literary  force  since  Goethe  and  Scott, 
the  readers  of  his  prose  have  too  often  to  snficr 
from  rank  stage  balderdash.  Baliac  wearies 
us  all  by  a  sardonic  monotony  of  wickedness; 
George  Sand  by  an  unwomanly  proneness  to 
idealize  lust.  Notre  Dame  and  Les  ifiiirailei. 
Fire  Goriot  and  Euginie  Graiidet,  Censuelo  and 
La  Mare  <iux  Diables,  Capilaine  Fracajte  and 
Viigt  Ani  April  are  books  of  extraordinary 
vigor;  but  it  would  seem  to  me  treason  against 
art  to  rank  even  the  best  of  them  with  immortal 
masterpieces,  snch  as  Tom  Jones  and  the  Vicar 
of  Watifeld. 

Voltaire,  Kousseau,  and  Diderot  wrote  prose 
fictions  which  may  by  a  stretch  of  language  be 
called  novels.  But  the  wit  of  Candide,  the  pathos 
of  the  Religieuse,  the  passion  of  Hiloist  do  not 
make  up  a  tale  fit  to  be  placed  beside  SUai 
Mariier,  as  a  complete  §em  of  art  in  the  true 
field  of  romance.    Voltaire,  Rousseau,  Diderot, 


rank  above  Geo 
leclual  impulse  t)iey  gave  to  their  time.  But 
none  of  them,  unless  it  be  the  author  of  the 
MisirabieSf  can  be  said  to  be  her  equal  in  the 
painting  of  real  life  and  actual  manners. 

Of  Walter  Scott  one  need  as  little  speak  as 
of  Shakespeare.  He  belongs  to  mankind,  to 
every  age  and  race,  and  he  certainly  must  be 
counted  as  in  the  first  line  of  the  great  creative 
minds  of  the  world.  His  unique  glory  is  to  have 
definitely  succeeded  in  the  ideal  reproduction 
of  historical  types,  so  as  to  preserve  at  once 
beauty,  life,  and  truth,  a  task  which  neither 
Ariosto  and  Tssso,  nor  Comeille  and  Racine, 
nor  Alfieti,  nor  Goethe  and  Schiller  — no)  dot 
:n  Shakespeare  himself  entirely  achieved. 


ing  phenomena  in  the  history  of  poetry.  It  is 
melancholy  to  think  how  complete  is  the  neg- 
lect of  a  literature  so  rich  and  rare.  Of  late 
Calderon  is  beginning  to  be  better  known.  His 
magnificent  imaf^ination,  his  inlinite  fertility,  hfs 
power  and  passion  have  a  real  Shakespearean 
note ;  whilst  his  purity  and  devotional  fervor 
remind  as  of  the  Catholic  period  of  Comeille's 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[May  15, 


The  Literary  World. 


BOSTON,  MAY  19,  1886. 


eh  will  lldaa  10  PinafMe  toi 
thm  hDBdred  niihti,  a&d  will  read  H.  Zola'i 
HVBDteeDtb  romanca,  can  do  mora  nad  Homar 
than  It  could  nmd  a  cuBelfDnn  laacriptlDB.— Piui- 
iiicE  HAaaisoH  :  On  tlu  Cktia  «/  Baaki. 


SUHICES  SOHOOLS. 

SUMMER  Schools,  so  called,  so  far  as 
we  know,  are  a  distinct  product  of 
American  soil,  and  a  special  fit  to  American 
Ideas,  habits,  and  institations.  Thej  are 
not  of  many  years'  standing,  bnt  have  had 
a  marked  growth  in  popularilj  and  bave 
multiplied  under  various  divergencies  of 
plan  and  object  They  seem  to  have  had 
their  originatlnj;  suggestion  in  the  camp- 
meeting,  another  strictly  indigenous  growth, 
which  is  only  another  name  for  a  summer 
school  of  religion  —  religion  of  a  certain 
kind.  As  the  camp-meeting  was  primarily  a 
cross  between  the  prayer-meeting  and  the 
picnic,  with  a  preponderance  In  the  direc- 
tion of  the  latter,  so  the  summer  school 
is  a  cross  between  the  picnic  and  the 
lecture-room,  with  a  dignified  preservation 
of  lecture-room  traditions.  The  summer 
school  proposes  that  vacations  be  tamed  to 
good  account ;  it  o£Eers  an  intellectual  diet 
sugar-coated  with  recreation;  it  is  the  pro- 
fessor out-of-doors ;  it  tempts  teachers  in 
their  only  hours  of  leisure,  it  privileges  the 
unprofessional  with  a  welcome  opportunity, 
it  plays  the  scale  of  learning  with  one  hand 
while  with  the  other  it  keeps  up  a  running 
accompaniment  of  boating,  bathing,  lawn- 
tennis,  and  social  iotercoursei  Cupid  is 
believed  to  be  a  not  infrequent  visitor  at 
the  summer  school,  and  to  take  a  sly  but 
active  part  in  its  diversions.  Work  is 
lightened  into  a  pastime,  and  the  workers 
enjoy  themselves  in  the  midst  of  duty.  We 
have  a  lurking  conviction  that  after  all  the 
best  summer  school  for  brain  workers  is 
the  deck  of  an  ocean  vessel  or  a  camp  in 
the  Adjrondacks ;  but  Atlantic  voyages  and 
mountain  adventures  are  beyond  the  reach 
of  many  of  us,  and  undoubtedly  the  summer 
school  has  a  function  and  is  rendering 
service. 

The  now  famous  Chautauqua  institution 
was,  we  believe,  the  pioneer  in  this  new 
educational  departure,  and  its  brilliant  parti- 
colored successes  have  doubtless  inspired 
the  hopes  of  its  host  of  imitators.  Fore- 
most among  them,  probably,  would  be 
placed  the  grave  and  profound  Concord 
School  of  Philosophy,  where  some  wisdom 
and  much  else  has  found  ready  utterance 
and  received  moderate  attention  for  several 
years  past.  The  arrangements  for  the  pres- 
ent season  have  already  been  announced. 
Readers  of  our  advertising  columns  bave 


not  been  left  without  witness  of  the  advan- 
tage which  has  been  taken  of  Martha's 
Vineyard,  for  several  seasons,  for  the  hold- 
ing of  a  "Summer  Institute"  therej  of 
which  our  honored  Shakespearian  editor 
is  the  President,  and  where  a  solid  round 
of  instruction  can  be  pursued  in  all  the 
branches  of  a  "modem"  education.  At 
Grimsby  Park,  a  Canadian  town  on  the 
south  side  of  I^ake  Ontario,  twenty-five 
miles  west  of  Niagara  Falls,  the  "National 
School  of  Elocution  and  Oratory,"  whose 
headquarters  are  at  Philadelphia,  has  had 
for  four  years  a  Summer  Session,  under 
favorable  and  Inviting  conditions.  Three 
hours  of  work  each  morning  leave  all  the 
rest  of  the  day  for  pleasure. 

The  rather  peripatetic  "Sanveur  Collq^e 
of  Languages,"  hamng  removed  from  Bur- 
lington, Vt,  to  Amherst,  Mass.,  has  now 
moved  again,  this  time  to  Oswego,  N.  Y. 
where  its  six  weeks'  session  for  the  present 
summer  will  begin  on  the  12th  of  July.  It 
leaves  behind  it,  however,  an  "Amherst 
School  of  Languages,"  under  the  direction 
of  Prof.  W.  L.  Montague  of  the  College  in 
that  town,  whose  session  this  year  runs  one 
month  from  July  5.  Boston,  too,  has  a 
"  Summer  School  of  Oratory,"  with  a  five 
weeks'  term  commencing  July  15,  and 
good  many  worse  places  than  Boston  might 
be  selected  as  a  point  of  studious-pleasure 
residence  for  a  few  hot  weeks.  So  numer- 
ous are  the  points  of  interest  and  the  facili- 
ties for  recreation  in  and  about  the  city  that 
it  deserves  to  be  classed  with  the  summer 
resorts.  A  "  Summer  Course  in  Botany  "  Ii 
advertised  at  the  Harvard  College  Botanical 
Gardens  in  Cambridge,  continuing  through 
July,  under  the  direction  of  Professors  Good- 
ale  and  Sargent;  and  a  " National  Summer 
School  of  Methods,"  whatever  that  be,  is 
appointed  for  Saratoga  at  a  time  not  speci- 
fied in  the  paragraph  before  us. 

Finally  the  four  days'  meeting  of  the 
"National  Teachers'  Association,"  at  To- 
peka,  Kansas,  July  13-iC^  while  not  strictly 
a  summer  school,  will  amount  to  one,  and 
a  short  and  lively  one  at  that,  of  which  large 
numbers  of  teachers,  East  and  West,  will 
be  likely  to  avail  themselves. 

There  is  an  "Institute  of  Hebrew,"  which 
holds  a  group  of  "  Summer  Schools  "  at  Phil- 
adelphia, Chicago,  Newton,  Mass.,  Chautau- 
qua, and  the  University  of  ViTginia;  and 
doubtless  there  are  other  kindred  institu- 
tions which  might  be  added  to  the  list ;  but 
here  is  a  variety  in  kinds  and  localities  suffi- 
cient to  meet  a  variety  of  wants.  We  con- 
gratulate all  who  may  find  themselves  able 
to  make  a  selection. 


*•*  We  receive  far  more  original  poetry  writ 
ten  for  the  Littraty  Wtrtd  than  it  is  withii 
the  bounds  of  possibility  (or  us  to  print ;  and 
we  are  moved  again  to  advise  our  poeticalljf- 
indined  contributors  that  the  character  of 
journal  and  the  limits  of  our  space  have  long 
sinc«  obliged  ns  to  adopt  the  inSenble  rule  oE 


publiihing   no  original   poetry  whatever  except 
upon  strictly  literary  topics. 

•«•  The  scenes  so  realislicallr  described  in 
that  booklet  of  a  few  months  since,  entitled  T%t 
FaU  ef  tht  Gnat  Republic,  have  been  in  some 
imatl  degree  realised  the  past  week  or  two  in 
Chicago,  Uilwaukee,  and  other  American  dties. 
The  hidden  aathor  ol  that  grim  prophecy  is 
probably  a  little  startled  himself  at  the  swift 
:meDt  of  his  drama  in  real  life.  The  fnt 
fillment  of  the  dream  is  likely  to  stop  short  at 
about  the  present  point,  but  the  moment  is  a 
good  one  for  advising  our  readers  to  go  on 
and  read  the  book. 


OTIB  ENGLIBH  LSTTEB. 

THE  English  public  is  a  chivaltons  one  and 
easily  interested  in  youth  and  daring;  in- 
terested most  of  all  when  the  person,  newly 
challenging  its  praise  or  blame,  is  a  young  girl, 
hitherto  unsuspected  of  ambition.  Few  things, 
indeed,  are  more  tooching  or  delighttol  than 
the  welcome  we  give  to  such  an  artist,  victor 
without  a  scar,  divinely  entering  by  birthright 
the  Temple  to  which  we  climb  along  sndi 
difficult  paths  of  failare,  experience,  and  dis- 
appoiaiment.  Such  a  welcome  It  is  delightful 
to  give,  raptnre  to  receive  —  and  easiest  dL  all 
things,  alas,  to  withdraw.  The  new  comer  of 
yesterday,  working  more  honestly  to  dcMrve 
his  laurels,  finds  himself  superseded  by  a  newer 
comet  still.  Let  bim  not  despair;  the  victory, 
in  the  end,  is  only  to  the  strong;  the  welcome, 
and  rightly,  is  only  for  the  new. 

Yesterday  our  welcomes  were  all  lor  Hiss 
May  Kendall,  whose  Viry  Mab  took  London  — 
or  at  least  Piccadilly  —  by  storm.  That  young 
lady,  we  are  persuaded,  is  working  her  way 
towards  a  high  place  in  modem  letters  which 
she  may  enjoy  by  right  and  not  by  favor.  For 
the  moment  we  have  left  off  talking  about  her ; 
for  in  London  all  our  greetings  just  now  are 
for  Miss  Laurence  Alma  Tadema. 

Miss  Tadema  is  the  elder  daughter  of  the 
great  painter,  whose  searching  knowledge  and 
thoroughness  have  earned  a  more  than  Enro- 
pcan  fame.  The  same  qualities  of  strength, 
vividness,  and  patience  which  have  enabled  bim 
to  raise  the  dead  Past  from  its  dusty  giave, 
these  qualities  appear  to  have  descended  to  his 
daughter.  It  is  not  with  the  remote  past  of 
antiquity  that  Miss  Tadema  chooses  to  deal. 
She  raises  for  us  the  vision  of  remoter  yester- 
day. The  lime  of  her  novel  is  1825  (the  tone 
is,  perhaps,  that  of  a  rather  earlier  moment), 
and  in  keeping,  quiet  strength,  and  knowledge, 
she  shows  herseK  worthy  of  her  name.  She  is, 
moreover,  an  artist  of  a  more  passionate  gift 
than  her  father )  and  the  name  of  (he  Brontes 
is  frequent  on  the  lips  of  Miss  Tadema's  admir- 
ers—  her  readers,  that  is  to  say.  It:  is  indeed 
long  since  such  good  and  solid  work  has  Iieen 
presented  to  the  public  by  a  young  lady  of  one 

Another  writer  who,  eight  years  ago,  made 
as  great  a  sensation,  has  a  new  book  in  the 
press.  Tis  a  good  omen  for  Miss  Tadema  to 
mention  Vernon  Lee.  The  book  is  called  Bidd- 
win.  Despite  the  title  it  is  not  a  novel,  but  a 
collection  of  dialogues  on  all  manner  of  Kstheti- 
cal  and  ethical  problems.  "  The  Value  of  the 
Ideal,"  which  appeared  in  the  National  SarUw, 
and  "  Doubts  and  PesMmism,"  new  written  for 


1886.] 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


169 


this  book,  ma;  be  algnaled  as  complete  achieve- 
ments. The  strength  of  Vernon  Lee  lies  Id  the 
■access  with  which  she  luSases  her  solid  argu- 
ments in  an  atmosphere  of  beauty.  This  is  the 
easier  done,  as  the  locale  of  several  of  these 
imaginary  conversations  Is  set  in  the  Italian 
country.  Tuscan  spring  with  its  roses  and 
fireflies;  Venetian  autumn  with  Its  sunsets  and 
lit  lagoons;  the  Rome  of  the  Popes,  set  in 
straggling  orchard  gardens ;  all  these  haunts 
are  familiar  to  Baldwin,  dear  spectral  companion 
of  his  author.  But  Baldwin  also  walks  the 
Yorkshire  moors,  sails  in  Southampton  water, 
and  is  familiar  with  the  wolds  of  Sussex  and 
the  weald  of  Kent.  Thus  an  exquisite  land- 
scape-setting is  secured  for  the  somewhat  arbi- 
trary opinions  and  tlie  militant  Ic^c  of  Baldwin. 

Mr.  Crawford,  who  has  but  lately  finished  the 
Tale  ef  a  Lonely  Parieh,  is  at  work  ^ain.  His 
method  is  singular.  When  he  has  settled  on 
his  theme,  the  novelist  begins  his  task  in  ear- 
nest; working  every  day  from  nine  till  six,  often 
longer.  The  first  seven  chapters  are  not  easy 
worki  but,  after  the  seventh,  Mr.  Crawford  usu- 
ally completes  a  chapter  every  day.  Thus  the 
whole  novel  may  be  completed  in  little  over 
three  weeks.  But,  having  done  it,  the  author, 
exhausted,  requires  some  months  of  rest.  Mr. 
James  works  on  a  different  method,  slowly, 
by  little  touches,  with  no^rila,  with  no  candles 
a-lit  for  the  protecting  Motes  (Mussct,  we  re- 
member, worked  in  a  dress-coat  amid  a  blaze  of 
lights).  But,  as  Euripides  long  ago  informed, 
both  gods  and  mortals  are  alike  in  each  pre- 
fening  a  way  of  their  own. 

Mr.  Lang,  after  two  years,  on  and  oS,  ha* 
finished  bis  sensational  story.  'Tls  to  be  the 
newest  of  the  new,  with  a  murder  on  ethnologi- 
cal principles.  At  least  we  may  be  sure  to  find 
in  it  a  charming  audacity,  a  humor,  a  wrong- 
headednesB,   that   no  other  story-teller    has  of 

-  such  a  quality  in  such  degree.  a.  m.  f.  r. 

April  to. 

OOBBESPOHDENOE. 

The  Columbia  College  Library. 
7i  the  Editor  ef  the  Lilrrary  World: 

Your  New  York  correspondent  "  Nassau," 
perhaps  excusably,  seems  unaware  of  the  recent 

-  library  progress.  Our  library  facilities  aren 
great  but  what  we  need  full  credit  for  all  that  we 
have.  "  Nassau's  "  criticism  wa*  true  three  years 
ago  when  a  Boston  man  took  charge  of  the  libra- 
ries of  Columbia  College.  Very  likely  it  will  be 
(aid  that  Boston  deserves  credit  for  the  revolu- 
tion that  has  been  e&ected  there,  but  we  are  sat- 
isfied to  enjoy  the  results.  Under  the  new 
administration  the  library  is  open  from  S  A.  M. 
to  10  P.  M.  throughout  the  year,  including  all 
vacations  and  holidays.  A  new  building  costing 
over  1(400,000  has  been  finished  and  equipped 
with  every  convenience  and  comfort  for  readers; 
thuroughly  waimed,  ventilated,  and  lighted  by 
the  Edison  incandescent  light  to  the  great  com- 
fort of  all  readers  who  have  delicate  eyes  that 
will  not  allow  night  work  by  any  other  light 
New  and  very  full  catatoguss  arc  nearly  com 
pleted  for  the  whole  collection,  by  authors,  by 
titles,  and  by  subjects,  the  latter  being  ren 
able  for  the  minuteness  with  which  topia 
divided  by  subjects,  so  as  to  show  the  reader  the 
full  resources  of  the  library  on  bis  pardcular  sub- 


ject without  forcing  him  to  wade  through  a  long 
list  of  titles.  The  books  are  also  minutely  clas- 
sified on  the  shelves,  which  are  themselves  made 
admirable  subject  catalogue,  and  by  thousands 
of  printed  shelf  labels  showing  the  beginning  of 
each  topic,  A  courteous  staS  of  thirty  are  com- 
pleting the  catalc^uing  and  doing  all  in  their 
iwer  to  make  the  library  useful  to  its  readers. 
The  collection,  to  be  sure,  is  only  about  So.ooo 
ilumes,  and  cannot  yet  compete  with  libraries 
like  the  Boston  Public  and  the  Harvard  College, 
but  it  is  growing  rapidly,  having  added  in  a  single 
13,889  volumes  and  8,116  pamphlets.  The 
trustees  have,  within  a  few  days,  issued  an 
appeal  to  the  public,"  staling  these  facts  and 
asking  for  gifts  of  books  and  money  to  assist  in 
building  a  university  library  worthy  of  the  me- 
tropolis. They  specially  propose  the  endowment 
of  particular  subjects  in  the  library  as  special 
chairs  are  endowed  in  colleges.  Though  this  is 
,  Free  Circulating  Library,  it  is  really  more 
public  than  the  Astor,  for  to  its  greatly  increased 
hours  and  fadlilies  every  scholar  is  welcomed 
who  comes  to  make  investigation,  and  Readers' 
Tickets  are  issued  by  the  Chief  Librarian  to  any 
person  properly  introduced.  The 
Columbia  College  are  thus  with  great  wisdom 
and  liberality  doing  their  part  to  wipe  out  New 
York's  reproach  of  inferior  library  facilities,  and 
it  is  to  be  hoped  that  those  specially  interested 
in  this  work  will  respond  to  the  appeal  for 
cooperation.  New  York. 

Columbia  College,  N.  Y.,  April  2S. 

The  Theosophical  Society. 
To  the  Editor  of  the  Literary  IVorld  : 

Amidst  the  general  storm  of  abuse  or  ridicule 
which  the  subject  d  Theosophy,  and  the  opera- 
tions of  the  Theosophical  Society  over  which  I 
have  been  called  to  preside  in  this  country,  re- 
ceive from  mistaken  or  uninformed  reviewets 
o(  current  Theosophical  literature,  it  is  signifi- 
cant that  at  length  one  book,  What  is  Tkeesa- 
phy  f  meets  with  no  unfavorable  mention  in 
your  columns.  Will  you  allow  me,  however, 
to  correct  one  error  into  which  yoar 
has  fallen,  in  using  the  pronoun  "he 
reference  to  the  author  of  the  brochur 
conceals  her  identity  by  the  nse  of  her  title, 
"  Fettow  of  the  Theosophical  Society." 

Elliott  Coues. 

IVashingtOH,  D.  C,  May 3. 

—  It  has  become  a  great  fashion  in  these  days 
for  every  one  who  has  gained  distinction  in  any 
walk  of  life,  no  matter  how  far  removed  that 
distinction  may  be  from  the  field  of  literature, 
to  write  a  book,  and  the  success  of  Mr.  Astor's 
volume,  beside  a  good  many  other  similar  exam- 
ples, seems  to  indicate  that  if  the  man  is  well 
enough  known  his  work  is  certain  of  a  good 
sale.  It  ia  reasonable  to  suppose  then  that  thi 
new  book  which  Mr.  Henry  Clews  of  New  York 
has  written  will  find  a  very  large  and  profilabli 
market.  Mr.  Clews  has  been  a  banker  in  Wall 
Street  for  nearly  thirty  years,  having  had  his  ups 
and  dnwns.  He  has  known  intimately  almost 
all  uF  the  familiar  personages  of  the 
in  his  volume  he  gives  his  experier 
financial  men  and  a  history  of  the  great  money 
center  of  the  United  Slates.  His  voli 
be  published  about  July  1st,  illustrated  with 
many  portraits. 


<0uc  ^ort'^  Comer. 


For  a  Fly-Leaf  of  Onder's  "  Lyrics," 

Pure  depth  ol  fecIinE  wedded  to  high  irt 
And  keennl  {might  - thne  Ihe  potl  brinpt 

Hi  itrikci  ItiE  chordi  that  slir  Ihe  hunuD  hart. 
CUntfn.N.  Y.  CuKTOM  Scoli.»bb 

The  Crowning  of  Wbittier. 

Tike  jeyoui  throng 

FIoDg  wide  the  bconu  doon  ol  the  houK  of  Fame, 
And  to  the  vaulted,  vut  rotund*  ^me. 


Th.Tbon.0 

nhigh 

ThePri»t 

Miberly, 

The  Doble  ii 

nger  of  1  r 

Who  touched  hi.  harp 

dom'.hlsbUbe.l. 

The  great  M 

dgood 

Ami-d  the 

oldn..n.l 

»d 

To  l>y  their 

wreilht  til  hooia 

einhiiaitht 

WhdMKIe 

nitpenti 

bitt 

n«  for  the  right. 

Thed.^™ 

done. 

Behind  the  hill>  the  .u 

Senkdowly 

da.nt.po 

Which  glowed  with  heaven'. 

eleniji]  mymk  fire. 

Th«Hon« 

o[F«n. 

Wu  lighted 

with  ohit 

name 

And  on  the 

buniiihed 

flhew>n 

TheoHneo 

Whittier 

Pkii^^lfUa. 

"■«■ 

raddock'a 

y.m«.nt 

>in.»>d7< 

B=il.d,f 

ryeallu 

have 

found  a  tongue. 

AnuIteriU 

ee  10  lose 

ne» 

ntnng 

SavobyU 

Hmt-Urd 

nthe 

aurel-tree, 

S.Te  by  the  "Creek 

■thai 

parted  n™ly 

xikiti 

lonely  child 

Into  iu  lonely  heart. 

■nda 

Wu^ilon 

Ulh."h 

ami" 

ol  Chilhowee. 

Soneofth 

•,  be 

ealMglad; 

IDocIti  2&ioffrapI)ieiei. 

Beverley  BUiBon  Warner.  Beverley  Ellison 
Warner,  whose  Gction-work  in  behalf  of  labor 
reform  promises  to  be  influential,  is  a  native  of 
Jersey  City,  N.  J.,  where  he  was  born  on  the 
14th  of  October,  1855.  He  attended  boarding- 
school  most  of  the  time  until  1872,  when  he 
entered  Princeton  College,  remaining  two  years  [ 
in  the  following  January  entering  Trinity  Col- 
lege (Hartford),  where  he  completed  his  course 
in  187&  After  preparing  for  Holy  Orders  at  the 
Berkeley  Divinity  School  (Middlelown,  Conn.), 
he  began  ministerial  work.  He  is  now  in  his 
fourth  pastorate,  at  Stratford,  Conn,  From  boy- 
hood Mr.  Warner  has  had  \\it  cacoelhei  icribendi  ; 
he  wrote  continuously  for  college  journals  and 
New  York  newspapers,  while  at  Princeton  and 
Trinity;  and  on  taking  up  ministerial  work  en- 
lered  also,  and  with  much  seriousness  of  pur- 
pose, upon  literary  service  ;  contributing  to  the 
Chrittian  Union,  Sunday  A/lernean  (later.  Good 
Company),  and  Mr.  C.  D.  Warner's  Courant,  of 
Hartford,  and  editing  a  religious  column  in  the 
Manchester  (Conn.)  Heraid.    He  alto  wrote,  in 


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[May  15, 


1S78,  a.  long  paper  againEt  the  sale  of  pernidous 
literature,  which  was  issued  In  a  pamphlet; 
1SS4,  a  history  oF  St.  Mary's  Parish,  Minchesti 
another  pamphlet;  and  in  1S85,  a  novel  entitled 
TVauiltii  tValeri:  A  Probltm  of  Today,  pub- 
lished  by  the  J.  B.  Lippincolt  Company  o( 
rhiladelphia,  A  ifemoir  of  Ella  SI.  Baker,  ac- 
companying an  edition  of  that  writer's  pc 
issued  by  D.  I^throp  &  Co.  of  Itotton,  a  aecond 
novel  beacing  on  the  labor  question,  an 
series  of  Letlirs  te  WorkUi^iin,  the  list 
of  which  will  apgiear  soon.  In  many  of  the 
reviews  of  Troubled  WaUri,  Ibe  author  is  sus- 
pected of  having  written  Tht  Bread  Wiiiners ; 
more  than  150  critics  intimating  such  suspicion; 
but  he  is  not  suspected  of  the  authorship  of 
that  story  by  those  who  know  him  besL  Mr. 
Warner's  serraon-publicalions  (including  a  dis- 
course  in  ciemory  of  Miss  llakct)  in  the  Spring- 
field RepvblUan,  and  other  papers,  number 
about  a  dozen,  and  include  some  o[  the  most 
noteworthy  addresses  of  the  day  from  our 
younger  preachers. 


OUB  BET  TOBK  LETTEE. 

THE  Grolier  Club  has  attracted  very  general 
attention  this  week  by  the  fine  collection 
of  examples  of  the  work  of  modern  book-bind- 
ings'on  CKliiliition  at  the  club-rooms.  The  club 
itself  dematids  more  than  a  mere  passing  men- 
tion. Established  in  1SS4  by  a  number  of  gen- 
tlemen, among  whom  were  such  well-known 
bibliophiles  u  Messrs.  Brayton  Ives,  Robert 
Hoe,  Jr.,  and  Theodore  L.  De  Vinne,  it  began 
an  unbroken  march  to  the  front.  These  gentle- 
men, determined  to  found  a  club  having  for 
its  object  the  study  and  promotion  of  the  arts 
pertaining  to  the  production  of  books,  were 
not  long  in  choosing  as  their  name  the  patro- 
nymic of  that  famous  patron  of  the  book-making 
and  book-beautifying  arts.  Of  Grolier's  life 
and  character  I  need  not  discourse  here.  One 
quotation  from  an  essay  published  with  the 
"Transactions  of  the  Grolier  Club"  will  suffi- 
ciently characterize  the  man  under  whose  stand- 
ard these  nineteenth-century  btbtiophiles  have 
enrolled  themselves ; 

Grolier  was  a  princely  protector  of  men  of 
tetters,  but  still  more  was  he  a  protector  of  the 
men  who  b^^^  to  literature  its  enduring  form. 
He  was  a  patron  oF  art,  but  it  was  ait  as  con- 
tributing to  the  gloriScation  of  the  printed  word 
which  found  favor  in  his  eyes.  No  mere  dillil- 
tanteitm  taking  its  ease  among  its  treasures 
could  have  ealhered  the  magnificent  examples  ol 
the  book-binder's  art  that  have  lieen  handed 
down  to  posterity  with  the  stamp  of  Grolier 
upon  them. 

Grolier's  career  other  than  as  a  book  lover  I 
will  not  discuss  here,  but  will  merely  mention 
that-4he  political  honors  lavished  upon  him  go 
far  to  contradict  Disraeli's  dogmatic  statement : 
"  Bookworms  never  yet  made  ministers  o(  slate." 

Once  enrolled  under  the  name  of  the 
Orolier  Club  these  book  lovers  of  Gotham  pro- 
cured club-rooms  and  set  about  the  task  they 
had  set  themselves.  The  first  result  of  the 
organization  was  an  exhibition  of  etchings  in  the 
rooms  of  the  club;  the  rapidly  growing  use  of 
etching  as  a  means  u(  book  illustration  placing 
this  within  the  province  of  the  club.  Then  fol- 
lowed an  exhibition  of  illuminated  manuscripts, 
consisting  of  examples  of  the  early  illuminators 
to  the  valiie  of  over  sixty  thousand  dollars.    Then 


the  first  publication  of  the  club.  The  Darn  bA 
Slarre  Chambir.  This  was  printed  by  De  Vinne< 
and  an  edition  of  one  hundred  and  forty-eight 
copies  on  Holland  paper  and  two  on  v 
issued.  The  former  were  furnished  members  of 
the  club  at  two  dollars  a  copy.  In  talking 
one  of  the  members  the  other  day  I  leatrted  that 
there  is  a  demand  for  this  book  today  at  twenty- 
five  dollars,  and  no  copies  are  offered  for 
Since  the  issue  of  the  Dtcree  of  Starrt  Cham- 
hir  the  club  has  held  exhibitions  of  original  illus- 
trations and  andent  book -bindings,  and  has  been 
addressed  by  various  members  on  topics  per- 
tinenl  to  the  objects  of  the  club.  A  second  pub- 
lication has  been  issued,  The  Rvbiiyit  of  Omar 
Khayyiat.  This  book  was  printed  on  Japan 
paper,  with  head  bands  printed  in  colors,  and  an 
illuminated  cover  from  an  old  Persian  design. 
This  edition  was  also  exhausted,  and  copies  are 
now  not  to  be  obtained. 

When  I  dropped  into  the  Groli  er  Club  rooms 
yesterday,  pursuant  to  an  invitation  to  inspect  a 
collection  of  modem  book-bindings,  I  found  my- 
self in  an  old-fashioned  New  York  house  with 
heavy  hard  wood  doors,  wood  mantles,  and  long 
low-studded   parlors.     The  dark  stained 
bore  a  number  of   cases  containing  a  se: 
Whistler's  etchings.     A    round    mahogany  table 
before  the  open  fire-place  in  the  front  room  was 
Uttered  with  English  and  French  critical  papers 
and  reviews.    Down  the  center  of  the  root 
ranged  a  dozen  glass-covered  show-cases, 
them  gleamed  in  a  splendor  of  crimson  at 
pie  morocco  and  gold  tooling,  a  collection  of  the 
maater.pieces  of  modern  book-binders.    One  hun- 
dred and  sixty-eight  books  were  there,  represent- 
ing the  handicraft  of  binders  in  France,  England' 

the  United  States.  Natui^ally  the  finest 
spedmens  were  by  French  binders.  Cup^  is 
represented  by  twelve  books,  one  of  the  richest 
oE  which  is  a  French  prayer  book  of  scarlet 
levant,  richly  tooled  in  a  Gascon  design  and  in. 
laid  with  green  and  citron.  The  clasps  are  of 
gold,  studded  with  jewels. 

curious  but  attractive  little  book  it  a  duo- 
decimo edition  of  Walton's  An^ir  and  Life,  in 
two  volumes,  bound  by  Jolyin  the  Siamese  style : 
that  is,  with  but  three  covers  for  two  volumes, 
one  cover  serving  for  both,  and  the  general  effect 
reminding  one  irresistibly  of  a  t!te-a-tEte  chair. 
Twocopieaof  the  Grolier  publication,  TTte  Decree 
of  Starrt  Chamber,  are  there,  one  bound  in  citron 
levant  with  symbolical  tooling  by  Petit,  who  died 
recently  in  Paris  in  the  hight  of  his  reputation. 
The  other  is  by  Lortic,  now  easily  at  the  head  of 
the  French  book-binders,  and  leading  them  he 
leads  the  world.  This  copy  is  bound  in  brown 
levant  with  a  diamond  panel  bearing  the  Grolier 
arms,  and  is  in  every  way  more  satisfactory  than 
Petit's  design  for  the  same  book.  A  copy  of  the 
club's  edition  of  the  RubAiyit  bound  by  Petit  is 
also  shown. 

While  most  of  the  books  are  the  products  of 
foreign  printing  houses,  two  American  publica- 
tions deserve  mention.  Of  these  the  first  is 
Dodd  &  Mead's  superb  Oriental  edition  of  the 
Sakotntala,  printed  by  the  De  Vinne  Press,  and 

d  by  Matthews  in  a  vellum  binding  inlaid 
with  blue  and  red  morocco  and  delicately  tooled. 
The  other  tells  a  story  in  its  catalogue  ctassifi- 

n.  "Pratt for  11.  Stevem,  Vermont's  Ap- 
peal, green  morocco  with  acorn  setting."  How 
characteristic  that  It  of  the  sturdy  old  book- 

',  who,  though  living  in  London   and   imi 


mersed  in  the  study  of  rare  booki,  never  forgot 
hit  native  State,  and  to  the  hour  of  his  death 
wai  wont  to  dedare  "  I'm  a  Green  Hoimtain 
Boy,  sir."  Nassau. 

ATevi  Yori,  May  11. 


ItlHOB  xonOES. 

Clots  IniereHs  :  Their  Relations  to  Each  Other 
audio  Covemmeat.  By  the  Author  of  Confikt 
iH  Nature  and  Life,  etc,    [D.  Appleton  &  Col 

The  flood  of  books,  wtte  and  otherwise,  on 
economy  continues  unabated.  The  work  before 
us  it  one  of  much  ability,  and  both  wise  and 
otherwise  in  singular  proportion,  to  that  the 
reader  is  constrained  to  agree  and  to  disagree 
on  almost  every  page.  On  the  whole,  the  book 
seems  too  much  in  the  "class  interest"  of  the 
present  disturbing  elements  in  society.  We 
cannot  agree  with  the  writer  that  our  bank  money 
is  "credit  money"  in  any  true  sense;  money 
that  has  both  gold  and  bonds  back  of  it  has  in  ft 
very  little  of  the  element  of  credit.  Nor  does 
he  succeed  in  proving  that  the  fall  of  silver  is  an 
appreciation  of  gold  —  piices  of  other  commod- 

do  not  bear  out  the  slatemenL  His  argu- 
againtt  President  Cleveland's  remark  that 
the  continued  coinage  of  silver  will  result  in  the 
scaling  down  of  wages  is  disingenuous,  at  least, 
as  every  one  can  see  who  read  the  message. 
A  depreciated  money  may,  possibly,  Mng  the 
wage-earner  more  dollars,  but  It  never  did  and 

r  will  bring  him  more  bread.    The  writer, 

like  all  his  class,  believes  too  little  in  laisseM-fairt, 

much  in  the  power  of  government  to  relieve 

the  burden  of  labor.    On  the  other  hand,  there  is 

I  in  the  book  to  commend.  The  writer  ap- 
pears to  favor  hard  money ;  he  thinks  we  make  a 
mistake  in  putting  so  many  millionaires  into  the 
Senate;  he  doubts  much  of  the  so-called  prindplc 
of  "  diffusion  of  taxes ; "  he  distrusts  monopolies ; 
he  argues  strenuously  against  personal  and  local 

iminationt  in  railroad  rates,  and  thinks  an 

■stale  law  the  only  remedy.  The  most  valu- 
able part  of  the  book  is  the  last  chapter,  "  The 
Radical  Wroi^  and  its  Remedy."  The  equitable 
distribution  of  wealth  "  can  only  be  approximated 
by  a  gradual  change  in  the  education  of  the  great 

es  of  the  people ;  and  this  eriucition  mntt 
be  had  before  the  people  can  discharge  fully  the 
doty  they  owe  to  themselves."  There  should  . 
vciywhere  be  education  in  the  elements  of 
conomics.  Youth  and  children  shaoid  be  tanght 
0  save,  and  he  approves  the  system,  which  some 
me  should  make  popular  in  this  country,  o[ 
school  savings  banks.  Especially  should  childreD 
be  taught  mutual  helpfulness  instead  of  the 
mutual  robbery  that  seems  to  underlie  so  much 

ir  business  today.  If  he  had  said  "teach 
the  practice  of  the  Golden  Rule,"  he  would  have 


THE  KAT  PIEIODIOALS. 

One  can  always  be  sure  of  a  pleasant  hour, 
in  sitting  down  with  a  pile  of  fresh  magazines 
and  reviews  in  the  left  hand  and  a  good  thin 
sharp  paper-knife  in  the  right.    There  ts  a  vague 

ertain  charm  in  Cutting  the  leaves,  opening 
the  damp  and  fragrant  pages,  and  leaving  the 

0  lead   the   mind   by  swift  steps  through     ^ 
fields  of  fancy,  history,  sdence,  ethics,  biography, 
or  politics  a*  the  case  may  be.      No  pictures 


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171 


in  the  ■Iwaj'i  striking  Cmbay  mc  more  strfliing 
the  present  month  tbui  ihote  of  Fane;  Pigeons 
illustrating  an  intercBting  descriptive  article  by 
E.  S.  StaiT,  "pouters,"  "  turbits,"  "fintails," 
■nd  other  varieties,  being  depicted  with  great 
spirit  and  beaut]'.  In  connection  with  Julian 
Hawthorne's  rather  ambitious  exposition  of  his 
father'*  "Philosophy"  there  are  two  eicellenl 
portraits  of  the  author  of  Tht  Searlii  LtUtr, 
both  of  them  worthy  the  attention  of  collcclois. 
Ttie  War  Papers  in  this  number  ftre  numerous 
and  strong,  relating  chiefly  to  Antietam  and  the 
Maryland  Campaign.  The  pictures  are  graphic 
and  good ;  no  figure  in  tbem  more  true  to  life 
than  that  of  Lincoln.  The  Flour  Hills  of  Min- 
neapolis and  the  new  Lick  Observatory  in 
California  are  also  pictorially  described,  and 
there  1*  an  engaging  imnmer  article  on  "  Ameri- 
can Country  Dwellings,"  prominent  among  the 
views  of  which  is  that  of  Ben  Perley  Poore'a 
most  quaintly  rambling  farm-hoase  at  Indian 
Hill,  Mass. 

Among  its  other  attractions  The  Forum,  Jifn 
York's  new  monthly  review,  is  publishing  a 
series  of  edaottional  autobiographies.  Presi- 
dent Barnard  of  Columbia  College  is  the  May 
contributor,  giving  an  account  of  hia  experiences 
at  Saratoga,  Stockbridge,  and  Vale,  and  after- 
wards for  two  years  as  a  teacher  in  the  Hartford 
Grammar  School.  These  last  two  yean  were 
more  advant^eous  to  bim  educationally,  he 
says,  than  any  other  equal  period  in  his  life ; 
and  at  Yale  no  part  of  his  trainir^  he  thinks, 
was  more  beneficial  than  his  writing  and  speak- 
ing practice  in  the  literary  society  to  which  be 
belonged.  Id  this  same  number  Ueut.  Greely 
writes  uadismayed  of  future  Arctic  expedition- 
ary work;  Mr.  Parton  sketches  the  personal 
and  Bodal  elements  in  Victor  Hugo's  character 
and  career;  and  Rev.  John  W.  Chadwick 
swera  Bishop  Coze's  recent  impetnons  assault 
on  crematioiu  The  several  other  articles  relate 
generally  to  pnblic  questions  of  the  hour  —  the 
currency,  labor,  and  the  like.  7%e  Forum  is 
printed  on  too  stiff  and  heavy  paper. 

Austin  Dobson  and  Louise  Chandler  Moulton 
are  among  the  poets  in  the  May  Lippimetf), 
Julian  Hawthorne,  Andrew  Lang,  and  W.  E. 
Norria  among  its  story-tellers,  and  Joel  Benton 
its  leading  essayist  with  a  paper  on  Thoreau' 
Poetry.  The  essay  is  sprinkled  with  extracts, 
and  leads  to  this  conclusion  : 

Thoreau'a  poetry  is  not  of  the  kind  that  wil 
lift  ihe  reader  by  any  lyric  sweep  of  prodlBlon 
exaltadoD,  but  it  appeals  rather  to  the  inne 
spirit,  like  the  tinea  of  Wordsworth  and  B^ei 
son.  It  brings  with  it  no  drum  and  fife  \  \ 
expresses,  instead,  the  rapture  and  fervor  and 
ecstasy  of  the  still  small  voice.  It  carries  with 
It  the  anconacious  melody  of  the  brook's  rippli 
amd  the  jocund  spirit  tA  the  lord's  song. 


The  "  Literary  Cotifessions,"  with  which  Ella 
Wheeler  Wilcox  enlivens  the  same  number 
at  least  frank,  but  their  ^olism  is  perhaps 
pardonable  considering  their  purpose,  and  they 
furnish  several  pages  of  amusement  for  older 
authors  if  not  of  counsel  for  younger. 

The  Maga*int  tf  AmerUan  HUt^ry  has  for 
its  historical  personage,  this  month,  the  late 
Horatio  Seymour,  and  for  its  historical  places 
Denver,  past  and  present,  and  New  Orleai 
Jackson's  time.  Ttie  picture  of  Denver' 
moua  "  Windsor  Hotel "  presents  a  striking 
contrast  to  that  of  the  "  Denver  House  "  where 
^orace  Greeley  "  put  np  "  wiien  he  visited 


spot  in  18^  *'  a  log  structure,  canv^roofed.  and 
earthen-floored."  Shiloh  and  Cross  Keys  are 
tbe  subjects  of  the  two  battle  papers. 

There  is  a  very  remarkable  article  in  Harper^s 
on  "  Portraits  of  our  Saviour,"  copiously  illus- 
trated, though  not  Including  Page's  celebrated 

ideal,"  which   ought  not  to  have  been  missed 

I  making  such  a  collection.  Du  Maurier's 
drawings  accompanying  the  article  on  "The 
London  Season"  are  capital.  "Memories  of 
London"  in  the  Allaiitk,  by  W.  J.  Siillman, 
relate  to  the  English  metropolis  as  Ihe  author 
it  thirty-five  years  ago,  and  chiefly  to  the 
London  of  art  and  artists,  as  represented  by 
-,  J.  B.  Pyne,  S.  C.  Hall,  the  editor  of 
the  Art  Jnimel.  Harding,  Leslie,  and  Wehnert, 

puQil-tif  Delaroche. 

Mr.  Titus  Mnnaon  Coan's  opening  paper  in 
the  Nno  Princeton  on  Wordsworth's  Passion 
argument,  with  illast rations,  to  the  effect 
that  what  in  this  poet  is  conspicuous  by  its  ab- 
lot  a  temperamental  defect  in  the  man, 
lult  of  life-long  method;  an  apologetic 
kind  of  argument,  denying  Wordsworth  a  "  place 
with  the  great  modern  poets."  The  Hon. 
George  Bancroft's  article  on  "  The  Seventh  Peti- 
tion "  of  the  Lord's  Prayer  is  very  short  —  only 
four  pages,  and  is  simply  a  disagreement  witb 
the  Kevisers  for  translating  that  petition  "  De- 
liver as  from  the  evil  one."  Mr.  Bancroft  pre' 
fers  the  old  form,  "  Deliver  us  from  evil.* 
Rev.  Dr.  F.  N.  Zabrlskie  wntes  in  a  lively 
strain  for  a  Dutcb  Reformed  dominie  of  "The 
Novel  of  our  Times."  Without  mentioning 
names  Dr.  Zabriskie  leaves  us  in  no  doubt 
where  bis  sympathies  as  a  novel-reader  ru' 
rather  do  not  run,  and  those  who  believe 
higher  school  of  fiction  than  that  which  Ihe 
popular  American  novelists  of  the  day  are 
ing,  will  find  in  this  sparkling  critique  something 
to  their  mind.  Valuable  features  of  the  numbei 
are  the  "Record,"  under  its  various  heads,  and 
the  "Analytical  Index"  to  Vol.  I  of  the  present 

The  Andevir  Rtview  is  biographical  this 
month  more  than  literary  or  theological,  ti 
its  leading  contributed  articles  being  papei 
William  Lloyd  Garrison  and  Dr.  Johnson  —  the 
latter  su^ested  by  Obitsr  Dicta,  and  one  ol 
editorial  utterances  being  to  the  praise  of 
late  John  B.  Cough  as  "  the  Master  of  Dramatic 
Eloquence."  But  the  theological  topics  ar 
wanting,  as  in  the  editorial  discussion  of  the 
orthodoxy  of  the  Orthodox  Pulpit,  and  in  Rei 
Dr.  Langdon's  third  paper  on  "  The  Possibilities 
of  Religions  Reform  in  Italy  j "  a  Rev.  Di 
Stuckenbe^  will  interest  teachers  and  student 
alike  with  his  account  of  the  ways  and  means  □ 
"liberal  Education  in  Germany;"  and  the  sodal 
questions  of  the  hour  both  in  England  and 
are  touched  by  two  editorial  hands. 

We  have  received  the  second  number  of  the 
Fath,  a  somewhat  enigmatic  and  lean  periodical, 
"devoted  to  the  brotherhood  of  humanity,  the- 
osophy  in  America,  and  the  slody  of  occult 
science,  philosophy,  and  Aryan  lileratorc."  Will- 
iam Q.  Judge  is  the  editor,  and  A.  H.  Gebhard, 
P,  O.  Box  3659,  New  Vork,  the  publisher,  [f: 
a  year.] 

Lei  Ltttret  rl  Lit  Arts  for  April  is  just  pub- 
lished in  the  American  edition  bearing  Charle! 
Scribner's  Sons  imprint.  The  illustrations  of 
the  number  are  superb,  as  usual,  excepting  Ihe 
frontispiece,  which  is  a  reproduction  of  01 


Henner's  nymphs  at  the  brook  in  the  forest. 
Though  the  painting  is  one  of  the  worst  of  the 
artist's  nude  atrocities,  its  reproduction  every 
beholder  must  admit  is  marvelously  good  of  its 
I.  The  photogravures  in  Lis  Lettrei  et  Les 
Artt  continually  impress  tts  with  the  beamy 
and  accuracy  of  this  beautiful  process.  Of  Ihe 
other  full-page  pictures  there  are  none  of  special 
iteworthiness,  but  the  little  vignettes  and  text 
ustrations  are  charming.  The  text  is  good,  as 
usual ;  there  are  interesting  papers  by  Th.  Bent- 
I,  Georges  Ohnet,  Pierre  de  Nolhac,  Jules 
Zeller,  and  many  others. 
Macmillan'i  again  devotes  considerable  atlen- 
on  to  authors.  Its  May  number  gives  an 
affectionate  Iribote  to  Abp.  Trench,  from  "an 
old  pupil,"  who  believes  him  .1  deeper  theolo- 
gian than  Dr.  Stanley,  his  successor  as  Dean  of 
Westminster,  and  much  influenced  by  Maurice 
and  Samuel  Wilberforce,  while  as  an  author  he 
lays  stress  rather  on  his  poetry  and  his  narrative 
prose  than  on  the  works  better  known  in  Amer- 
ica. Walter  Pater  discourses  in  a  gossiping 
fashion  of  Sir  Thomas  Browne,  his  simplidiy 
and  quaintness,  hts  private  life  and  letters,  and 
the  religious  tone  of  his  writings.  Another 
writer  gives  a  pen  picture  of  Horton,  in  Buck- 
inghamshire, once  the  residence  of  Milton.  Still 
another  writer,  also  anonymous,  reviews  at  some 
length  the  recent  Lift  and  Comifigndeitct  a/ 
LengfiUme ;  criticising  the  introduction  of  so 
much  of  the  letters  and  journal  containing  items 
of  no  general  interest.  The  writer  thinks  that 
the  affection  which  Longfellow  Inspired  in  ail 
about  him  can  be  compared  to  no  other  like 
case  except  that  of  Sir  Waller  Scott.  Some 
other  articles  in  this  number  we  may  term  qurui 

SEAEESPEABIANA. 


Meeting  of  tbe  New  York  Shakespeare 
Society.  The  twelfth  stated  meeting,  being 
the  annual  meeting  of  the  New  York  Shake- 
speare Society,  was  held  at  Hamilton  Hall, 
Columbia  College,  Thursday,  April  19th,  1S86; 
the  President,  Appleton  Morgan,  in  the  chair. 

The  reports  of  the  Executive  Committee, 
Librarian,  and  Treasurer  for  the  first  year  of  the 
society  were  read  and  approved.  These  reports 
show  that  the  society  has  listened  to  six  papers 
read  before  it,  of  which  four  were  printed  as  the 
first  four  volumes  of  its  publications,  being  319 
pages  of  original  mailer.  Copies  of  each  publi- 
cation circutaled,  19a.  Retained  for  Ihe  library, 
to.  New  members  added  by  election,  31.  Hon- 
orary members,  5.  Resignations,  l.  The  Treas- 
urer reported  that  the  income  of  the  society  for 
the  year  ending  April  sgth,  i3S6,  had  been  suffi- 
cient to  meet  all  expenses  and  ouilay  for  publi- 
cation account,  leaving  a  handsome  balance  to 
credit,  plus  the  revenues  for  the  second  year  now 
accruing. 

The  Librarian  reported  accessions  by  purchase 
and  donations  ;  and  that  the  cataloguing  and 
arrangements  for  permanent  deposit  thereof  in 
the  University  Library  of  Columbia  College, 
were  being  perfected. 

Mr.  Nevin  nominated  Piole^or  Thomas  R. 
Price,  Professor  of  English  Literature  in  Colum- 
bia Collegr,  lot  First  Vice-President,  fur  the  ensu- 
ing term. 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


[May  is, 


The  society  then  proceeded  (o  ballot  for  offi- 
cer! and  trustees  with  the  following  result : 

President,  Appleton  Morg»n  ;  First  Vice-Piesi- 
dent,  Thomas  R.  Price;  Treasurer,  Jame*  E. 
Reynolds  ;  Librarian,  Albert  R.  Frey  ;  Secretary, 
j  Assistant  Secretary,  Randolph  M.  Law- 
rence; Trustees,  W.  W.  Nevin,  James  £-  Rey- 
Dolds,  Dexter  H.  Walker,  Albert  R.  Frey,  Ap- 
pleton Morgan. 

The  President  congratulated  the  society  < 
first  year's  record,  and  proceeded  to  read  the 
paper  of  the  evening,  entitled  "  Once  Used  Words 
in  Shakespeare,"  by  Professor  James  D.  Butler. 

The  very  first  line  which  Shakespeare  pub- 
lished, "Even  as  the  sun,  with  pnrple-colored 
face,"  contains  a  compound  word,  "purpli 
colored,"  which  he  thenceforth  and  fdrevc 
refrained  from  repealing.  From  the  fact  that 
ProfesMt  Butler  found  674  of  thcM  'Airoj 
Ary6iitva  beginning  with  the  letter  M,  he  c 
culated  that  there  were  some  five  thousand 
these  single  words  in  Shakespeare,  or  almost 
exactly  the  number  of  words  used  in  the  King 
James  version  of  the  Scriptures.  This  array  of 
vocables  drawn  from  Shakespeare's  "alms 
basket  of  words "  must  surprise  any  one  who 
passes  it  in  review. 

Style  is  modified  by  such  words  :  —  a  moment 
bright,  then  gone  forever.  The  old  grammariani 
said  their  term  supint  was  so  named  because  it 
was  very  seldom  employed,  and  therefore  was 
almost  always  lying  en  itt  back.  The  Supines  of 
Shakespeare  outnumber  the  employees  of  most 
authors.  To  what  purpose  was  this  waste 
Even  Ihe  Greek  drama,  that  would  never  presume 
to  let  a  god  appear  but  for  an  action  worthy  of 
god,  was   not  so  pervaded   with  horror  of  tc 

Prof.  Butler  said  that  he  was  very  desirous  oE 
ascertaining  whether  anything  with  the 
special  aim  had  been  published,  and  if  so, 
and  when.  He  earnestly  hoped  that  what  he 
had  done  for  the  single  letter  M,  will  be  dan< 
by  other  Shakespeariana  one  by  one  (or,  fai 
better,  in  combination),  for  all  letters  of  the 
alphabet  When  this  tabor  has  been  finished, 
a  vantage  ground  fur  new  Shakespearian  sur- 
veys will  have  been  secured,  and  conclusions 
may  thus  become  evident  which  cannot  now 
be  conjectured.  If  any  club  or  society  shall 
undertake  this  verlial  investigation,  let  i 
determined  in  the  outset,  whether  the  different 
forms  of  a  word,  its  changes  in  spelling,  nur 
pari  of  speech,  and  conjugation,  shall  each  be 
deemed  a  separate  word  or  shall  all  be  counted 
as  one.  The  author  regrets  that  he  had 
settled  opinion  on  this  point  when  he  began  Ihe 
present  paper.  Hence  the  statistics  of  vocabu- 
laries he  has  given  diSer  considerably  from 
those  in  G.  P.  Marsh  and  other  writers. 

While  is  whitest  on  black.  Accordingly  the 
riches  of  Shakespeare  as  to  his  use,  once  for  all, 
of  a  world  of  words  would  be  tenfold  more  con- 
spicuous could  wc  contrast  him  In  this  regard 
with  other  writers  and  especially  with  his  con- 
temporaries. But  for  this  end  to  be  fully 
reached  statistical  materials  are  wanting,  for  no 
concordances,  it  is  believed,  exist  of  Shake- 
speare's fcllow-dtamatista.  Is  there  no  admirer 
of  Marlowe,  or  Ben  Jonsoo,  who  will  do  for  his 
favorite  such  a  labor  of  love  as  Mary  Cowden- 
Clarke  during  sixteen  years  did  for  hers  ?  After 
all  every  reader  of  Eliiabethan  play-writers  must 
have  been  struck  with  their  lack  of  Once  Used 
Words.      On    the   other  hand  their  fancy  for 


"favorite  sons"  —  pet   words  lugged  [n  by  Ihe 

ears  when  tGey  ought  to  have  been  cast  out  intc 
outer  darkness  —  has  forced  itself  on  the  atten- 
tion uf  every  student,  let  us  see  right  earl) 
from  some  one  familiar  with  the  old  dramatist) 
the  difference,  the  contrast,  heaven-wide  in  [his 
particular,  between  the  lesser  lights  and  tbit 
one  great  light.  So  shall  it  be  best  demon 
Blrated  that  he  surpasses  them,  as  the  day  the 
night. 

Professor   Price  said    that    the    computation 
seemed  so  startling  —  he  was  SO  nonplussed  by 
Ihe  statement — that  he  would  like  to  read  the 
paper  at  leisure  before  coming  to  a  conclusion 
□n  the  subject,  and  he  moved  to  refer  the  papei 
to  the  Publication  Committee,  which  he  hoped 
would  proceed  at  once  to  put  it  into  print. 
Shakespeare  actually  did  coin  words   or   Co 
pounds  to  such  a  vast  extent  —  use  them  once 
and  never  employ  them  again,  it  was  only  an  a 
ditlonal    proof  of  the  miraculous  nature  of  ll 
man's  gifts.    Words  Come  not  Unless  the  ide 
come  first  to  produce  them.    Shakespeare's  idei 
then,  came  so  fast  that  they  crowded  each  other 
out;  thousands  of  them  never  to  be  recalled  to 
duty.     Professor  Price  believed  that  he  had  no- 
ticed something  of  the  sort  in  Burke;  who  per- 
haps would  be  found  to  come  very  near  to  Shake- 
speare in  exuberance  of  word-coinage.    He  hoped 
Professor  Butler's   suggestion  would  be  taken. 
Why  should  not  this  be  the  society  to  work  in 
groups  upon  this  most  absorbing  feature  of  the 
Plays  and  Poems  t 

After  further  debate  the  chair  announced  thai 
the  paper  for  Ihe  next  regular  meeting  would  be 
"  Shakespeare's  Method  of  Blank  Verse  Struct- 
ure," by  Professor  Price. 

The  society  with  its  invited  guests  then  ad- 
journed to  the  Refectory  of  the  College,  where  a 
banquet  had  been  spread  in  honor  of  the  society's 

Where  is  Donnelly  ?  What  has  become  of 
Donnelly  and  his  "cipher,"  which  we  were  told 
more  than  a  year  ago  was  on  the  point  of  being 
given  to  the  world  P  It  is  curious,  by  the 
that  Judge  llulmes,  in  the  new  edition  of  his 
Authorship  of  Shakesfiiart  does  not  so  much  as 
mention  the  Hon.  Ignatius  and  his  vaunted  "dis- 
covery 1 "  nor,  unless  we  have  overlooked  it,  has 
he  anything  to  say  of  Bacon's  interest  in  "ci- 
phers," on  which  so  much  stress  is  laid  by  Don- 
nelly. We  have  before  referred  lo  the  indiffer- 
ence with  which  the  announcement  of  Ihe  great 
"discovery"  was  received  by  ihe  Baconian  So- 
ciety in  England;  and  we  have  seen  nothing 
since  to  Indicate  that  it  has  attracted  any  special 
attention  there  or  elsewhere.  Has  this  discour- 
aged Donnelly,  and  are  we  to  be  denied  the 
wondrous  revelation  of  which  he  has  given  us 
only  a  tantalizing  foretaste  f    We  hope  not. 

NOTES  AND  QIEKIES. 

I  At!  cuminunlaliont  for  liiia  dipartmenl  of  Ihe  LUirM-y 


783.  Writings  of  Mrs.  Schennerhom. 
Where  can  I  find  in  print  any  verses  by  E.  L- 
Schemierhorn  ?  I  have  memoranda  of  the  follow- 
ing titles  :  Tki  Whin  Rose  of  Miami,  Tht  Pelar 
~  uttt,  Unei  on  the  Telegraph,  Skerman'i  March 
Ihe  Sea,    TTle  flag  of  the   Uniim,  yephtha'i 


Daughter.  AH  o(  these  were  published.  Some 
of  them  in  the  magazines  of  thirty  years-  ago. 
Mrs-  Schermerhorn  was  a  daughter  of  William 
Waller  Hening,  the  compiler  of  that  treasury  of 
historical  information  The  Statutes  at  Large  of 
Virginia.  She  married  first  Robert  Goode  Spots- 
wood  of  Richmond,  subsequently  Mr.  Schermer- 
horn. G-  BftOWM  GOODB. 
SmilhiBttian  InsliliiU,  March  »- 

784.    Writings  of  Mrs.  Hemans.    Can  yoa 

or  any  of  your  readers  inform  me  what  edition 
of  Mrs.  Heman's  works  (published  either  in  this 
country  or  In  Great  Britain)  contains  ail  her 
poems  i  I  have  examined  several  American 
editions,  professing  to  be  complete,  and  find  that 
these  all  lack  some  poems  written  by  her,  or,  at 
any  rate,  commonly  attributed  to  her. 

Tuicaloeta,  Ala.  W.  S.  W. 

oDu  are  /'w/ifW  Work,  ICroweU-  1877.  ti-oo],  and 
/'ATM  [J.  E.  Potter.  Sn.  |i-i»]-  Ferhapi  Ihe  cdilioa 
iuihe  "ClundiHPHli,*'  withmenidr  and  ootu  (SnibDet 
ftWrllord.  »i,7!]i'<™ple".  Th,  only  on.  which  an 
ufdr  be  rFCocnnicndFil  ii  ihe  Pmlical  Iforki,  mOA  Lifi, 
fini  puhliahed  by  BlmckwDod  ID  rfljq,  in  7  TOlt- 1  tgtia  in 
iSto,  6  Toll,;  and  in  iKs,  ]  vols.    Thii  ii  probibly  t»t 


TABLE  TALK. 


.  .  .  Mr.  Joel   Benton   wrote  his  last  week's 
letters  from  Sparta,  Wisconsin. 

...  Mr.  E.  R.  Champlin  of  Westerly,  Rhode 
Island,  a  regular  contributor  lo  this  column  in 
the  Literary  World,  and  to  other  journals  and 
magazines,  among  which  may  be  named  the 
Youth's  CampatiioK  and  LippintotCs,  is  one  of 
our  younger  writers,  having  just  turned  thirty. 
~s  now  publishing  a  series  of  six  articles  jn 
the  Christian  Union  on  "  Unheralded  Poets," 
and  Is  also  at  work  on  A  Handbsok  of  Living 
American  Writers  which  may  be  expected  the 
coming  season.  He  has  furthermore  a  book  of 
poems  In  preparation,  and  the  "Mottoes  from 
the  Best  Sources"  which  be  prepares  for  the 
Portland  Transcript  will  presently  be  gathered 
nto  book  form.  It  is  only  due  to  him  to  say 
that  of  the  writing  of  this  paragraph  he  knows 
absolutely  nothing. 

.  A  Memphis  paper  reports  that  Miss  Mary 
N.  Mntfree  will  soon  marry  a  Tennessee  mount- 
aineer. This  may  or  may  not  be  true,  but  it  is 
that  Miss  Murfree  is  at  present  spending 
her  time  among  Ihe  Tennessee  mountains. 

...  If  common  report  Is  correct,  Mark  Twain 
much  better  satisfied  by  his  career  as  a  pub- 
lisher  than   by  his    literary  successes.      When 
asked  recently  if  he   would  contribute   lo  any 
magixines   this  year   he   said:  "No,  no.     No 
of  money  however  flattering  could  induce 
>  swerve  from  a  resolution  I  have  made  to 
enjoy  a  solid   old-fashioned   loaf  this  summer, 
after   which   I   will   visit  my  country   home  at 
nira  for  the  balance  of  the  seaFon.     Besides 
re  is  more  money  In  being  a  publisher.    At 
rate  that  is  my  experience,  and  IE  I  perform 
more  literary  work  in  future  it  will  be  only 
keep  my  hand  In.'" 

.  .  When  Mr.  James  R.  Osgood  sailed  for 
Europe  Ihe  other  day  he  had  for  his  companions 
Mr.  Edwin  A.  Abbey  and  Mr.  Prank  B.  HilleU    - 
Ihe  artist,  both  having  commissions  from  tlie   "^ 
Harpers.    Mr.  Millet  keeps  two  establishmenl^ 
I  New  York  and  the  other  in  rural  £ 


1 886.] 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


>73 


...  Mr.  Frank  H.  Convene  hu  wrilleD  a 
book  for  young  people,  which  some  Boston 
house  will  probably  publish. 

.  .  .  Mrs.  Helen  M.  Goagar,  a  capable  and 
courageous  Western  joumalist,  (md  a  member 
of  a  family  (our  of  whose  daughters  are  engaged 
in  literary  or  journalistic  pursuits.  Mils  today 
for  Europe,  for  the  purpose  of  studying  the 
aocial  and  industrial  situation  in  England  and 
Ireland,  and  reporting  her  impressions  through 
the  Chicago  Inttr-Octatt  and  the  Indianapolis 
ymirnal.  She  will  spend  some  lime  on  the 
Cotitinent  before  proceeding  on  her  mission. 

. . .  Miss  Susan  Oak  Curtis  ("  Hope  Harvey  ") 
has  been  farced  to  relinquish  literary  work  for 
a  time,  by  reason  of  illness.  L.ong  an  invalid, 
she  finds  herself  neatly  prostrate  after  the  trying 
winter  and  spring  ehe  has  experienced  in  her 
Maine  home. 

.  . .  James  Otis  Kaler,  the   boys'  story. 
("James   Otis"),  is  rallying  from  an  attack  of 
pneumonia  at  his  home  in  Philadelphia 

. ..  "Foxeroft,"  a  reader  of  the  Literary 
World,  is  one  of  many  voices  In  saying :  "  I  was 
struck  anew,  re-reading  lately  '  The  Tales  oE  a 
Wayside  Inn,'  with  the  comical,  lo  me  absurd, 
incident  upon  which  the  poem  'Emma  and 
Eginhard'  is  based.  How  could  our  gentle, 
refined  Longfellow  consider  that  a  poetic  theme? 
The  spectacle  of  the  scholar,  poet,  and  to\ 
carried  on  a  woman's  shoulders  because  he  « 
afraid!  And  then  the  Emperor's  clemency 
coming  as  a  climax  to  make  him  feel  m 
like  a  fool  than  before  !  'Tis  but  a  step  fi 
the  sublime  lo  the  ridiculous,  truly.  Think  of 
Virgil  granting  Dante  in  hell  the  proud  privilege 
of  stooping  to  chum  his  enemies'  heads  up  and 
down  by  their  back  hair  I  Leigh  Hunt  says, 
'O  the  raging  littleness  of  Dante  I '  and  so  say 
I,  despite  the  turid  splendors,  the  tremendous 
lights  and  stars,  and  glories  of  his  imagination. 
.  .  .  Wai'aK  tender?  Cnuld  he  love  and  pity? 
The  whole  learned  world  has  answeicd  these 
questions  in  the  affirmative  —  and  what 
The  music  of  his  Italian  tongue  is  tost  c 
otherwise,  perhaps  I  might  more  easily  forget 
the  false  and  jarring  notes  when  they  do 

, . .  Mrs.  Kose  Terry  Cooke  has  just  returned 
(o  Winsted,  Conn.,  having  visited  Boston;  she 
has  for  some  time,  now,  been  engaged  in  other 
than  literary  work,  in  supporting  her  family, 
although  writing  more  or  less  all  the  time,  and 
at  present  even,  working  on  "  No,"  a  serial  ti 
'appear  in  VoutA,  the  Rev.  Dr.  J.  II.  Vincent' 
paper.  _ 

HEWS  AND  HOTBS. 

—  Dr.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes  arrived  aafely 
in  due  course  at  Liverpool  by  the  "  Cephalonia," 
and  was  greeted  by  a  number  of  prominent 
people,  including  the  American  Consul  and  Vice- 
Consul.  He  left  almost  immediately  for  Chester, 
and  wa*  expected  in  London  on  Wednesday. 
"Punch"  has  already  shaken  hands  with  him, 
and  other  welcomes  and  hospitalities  will  doubt- 
less follow  each  other  in  quick  succession. 

—  The  Library  of  the  Prison  Assodation  of 
New  York  is  being  thoroughly  overhauled,  and 
will,  when  completed,  number  some  3,500  titles, 
embracing  the  entire  history  of  penalt^ical  move- 
ments. It  is  the  only  library  gl  the  kind  in  the. 
country,  and  when  completed  will  be  the  largest 


of  its  kind  in  the  world.  It  is  consulted  by  jour- 
nalists and  legislators  from  all  parts  of  the  land, 
and  is  beyond  estimate  in  value  to  sodal  science. 

—  Mr.  Thomas  Whittaker  will  issue  for  sum- 
er  reading  a   fifiy-cent    edition    of    Frederic 

Saunders's  charming  Paitimi  Papers.  It  vrill  be 
ready  early  this  month. 

A.  C.  McClurg  &  Co.  will  soon  issue  a 
novel  entitled  Naichiuk.  The  plot  turns 
upon  a  new  application  of  the  powers  of  the 
Oriental  drug,  AaicAisci,  in  the  detection  of 
crime..  The  action  of  the  story  takes  place  in 
New  York,  Monte  Carlo,  and  Pans. 

—  Three  volumes  of  the  tVarit  of  George 
Meredith,  now  published  in  an  attractive  form 
by  Roberts  Btothers,  have  been  sent  to  us,  viz. : 
Tie  Ordeal  af  Richard  Feverel,  Evan  Barring- 
ton,  and  Harry  Richmond.  It  is  intended  soon 
to  notice  more  fully  these  and  others  of  Mere- 
dith's writings,  and  to  say  something  of  the 
strange  neglect  of  such  an  author  in  America. 
The  price  of  these  is  f  2.00  each. 

—  A  few  days  ago  Mr.  E.  C.  Swaine,  one  of  tite 
partners  of  E.  P.  Duilon,  retnrned  from  Europe, 
where  he  had  gone  to  arrange  for  the  printing  of 
a  number  of  art  publications  for  the  fall  season. 
Hitherto  it  has  been  conceded  that  the  best  color 
printing  is  done  in  England,  and  among  the 
favorites  Mr.  Edmund  Evans  has  been  placed 
first ;  but  this  year  E.  P.  Dutlon  &.  Co.  have 
their  drawings  to  Germany  to  be  reproduced,  the 
printer  being  Nislcr  of  Nuremberg, 
hardly  creditable  to  American  printers  in  color 
that  our  publishers  should  have  to  go  so  far  to 
get  satisfactory  work,  both  good  and  cheap. 

—  Charles  Scribner's  Sons  have  about  ready 
for  publication  the  first  volume  of  a  work 
which  has  been  in  active  preparation  for  1 
years,  and  which  must  be  accepted  as  the 
noteworthy  undertaking  in  its  own  field  evei 
jectcd  in  this  country.  It  is  a  Cyclopedia  0/ 
Painten  and  Painting,  and  its  editor  is  Mr.  J.  D. 
Champlin,  Jr-,  aided  by  Mr-  Charles  C.  Perkins, 
who  on  the  title-page  is  designated  as 
cal  editor.  The  plan  oF  the  work  may  be  judged 
from  the  announcement  that  it  will  cover  the  hi 
tory  of  art  from  the  earliest  time,  bringing  the 
biographical  record  and  the  histories  of  the  paint- 
ings down  to  January  i,  1S86.  Not  only  is  a 
sketch  given  of  every  famous  painter,  ancient  and 
modern,  and  of  every  nationality,  but  each  famous 
picture  Is  indexed  and  described  ander  its  01 
title,  thus  adding  great  value  to  the  work, 
making  it  also  a  dictionary  of  subjects.  The 
labor  involved  in  such  a  task  is  almost  incalcula. 
ble.  Another  very  important  feature  is  the  iltus' 
trations,  which  are  tonumber  over  two  thousand, 
and  all  of  them  have  been  especially  made 
the  work.  Of  every  famous  painter  there  i 
portrait;  making  nearly  two  hundred  portraits 
alone  in  the  first  volume;  there  are  alsoy^ 
similes  of  the  characteriatic  signatures  of  the 
old  painters  and  a  thousand  or  more  outline  re- 
productions of  the  world's  most  famous  pictures. 
In  addition  to  these  each  volume  will  contain 
twelve  fine  full-page  pictures,  most  of  which  are 
photogravures  made  by  Goupil  of  Paris  from 
the  origin^  paintings,  but  In  some  cases  etchings 
and  in  others  the  Lewis  prints  have  been  used. 
Among  the  plates  in  the  first  volume  are  repro. 
ductions  of  pictures  by  Millet,  Gerome,  Coiot, 
Regnault,  Gabriel  Max,  Fromentin,  DeNeuville, 
Zamacois,  Bonnat,  Poynter,  Bouguereau,  and  Will- 
iam H.  Hunt     Other  productions  are  in  prepa* 


of  pictures  by  Alma-Tadema,  Meissonnier, 
Baudry,  Leighton,  Hillais,  Bastien- Lepage,  Hol- 
man  Hunt,  Monkacsy,  and  Hibert  The  edition 
of  the  Cyclofadia  will  be  limited  to  500  ntmi- 
bcred  copies,  and  the  work  will  be  complete  in 
four  quarto  volumes  superbly  bound  in  morocco 
and  parchment ;  the  price  being  {25.00  per  vol- 
ume, or  %loojoa  the  set.  For  such  a  monomenlai 
work  there  should  he  no  difficulty  in  finding  pur- 
chasers for  so  small  an  edition. 

—  We  are  glad  to  see  that  Mrs.  Schuyler  Van 
Rensselaer's  charming  paper  on  American  Elch- 
iri,  published  some  years  ago  in  the  Century, 
has  been  reprinted  by  Mr.  Keppel,  the  print 
publisher.  The  pamphlet  contains  all  the  origi- 
nal illustrations  and  a  new  chapter  beside,  re- 
cently  written  by  Mis.  Van  Rensselaer. 

—  Some  newspaper  apparently  started  the 
report  that  Mrs.  Garfield  was  writing  a  aeriea  of 
reminiscences  of  her  husband  for  the  Century, 
that  it  might  have  the  opportunity  of  denying  It 
again.  At  all  events,  the  editor  informs  as  that 
there  is  no  truth  in  the  story,  and  that  it  may 
have  grown  out  of  a  friendly  visit  made  recently 
to  the  Century  office  by  Mrs.  Garfield  and  ber 

—  Mr.  Henry  Bacon,  the  artist,  has  just  finished 
the  writing  and  the  illustrating  oi  a  novel. 

—  In  the  June  Harfer  Mr.  W.  D.  HowelU  in 
the"Study"andMr.  Curtis  in  the  "Easy  Chair" 
write  of  the  new  Longfellow  biography.  Mr. 
Howells  takes  the  poet's  right-mindedness  and 
lofty  aims,  and  Curtis  the  character  of  his  work, 

—  Dodd,  Mead  &  Co.  have  bought  from  Har- 
per Sc  Brothers  the  plates  of  Mr.  E.  P.  Roe's 
Natures  Serial  Story.  They  have  also  arranged 
to  issue  his  new  book,  The  Home  Acre,  made  up 
from  papers  printed  in  Harper's  Monthly. 

—  In  a  month  or  two  the  first  volume  of  the 
new  Astor  Library  Catalogue  will  be  published. 
It  is  complete  to  date  and  the  additions  are 
catalogued  in  the  most  careful  and  admirable 
fashion.  Many  people  who  do  not  have  the 
time  or  the  inclination  to  visit  the  Astor  Library 
may  caie  to  know  that  there  are  now  upon 
exhibition  some  newly  acquired  manuscripts  of 
marvelous  beauty.  The  newest  of  these  are  the 
Greek  and  Latin  codices,  formerly  in  the  library 
of  Pope  Pius  VI,  who  left  them  to  his  nephew. 
Count  Broschi  of  Venice.  They  contain  in  clear 
and  beautiful  characters  Hesiod's  "  Works  and 
Days,"  with  an  introduction,  hitherto  unknown, 
explaining  the  mythology  of  the  Greeks  as  a 
personification  of  the  forces  of  nature.  Beude 
these  volumes  there  are  some  very  interesting 
Persian  MSS.  secured  by  Mr.  S.  G.  W.  Benjamin, 
late  Minister  to  Persia. 

—  The  June  number  of  the  Century  will  be 
opened  by  a  paper  by  Mr.  Austin  Dobson,  en- 
titled "  A  Literary  Ramble."  It  describes  a 
journey  along  the  Thames  from  Fulham  to 
Chiswick.    It  will  be  fully  illustrated.  ' 

—  The  Scribners  have  ready  the  first  two 
volumes,  A  Fair  Barbarian  and  That  Laii 
D*  Loarie's,  of  their  new  edition  of  Mrs.  Frances 
Hodgson  Burnett's  novels.  Other  volumes  will 
follow  in  the  fall. 

—  Porter  &  Coates  have  just  published  a  new 
edition  a\  Norris's  American  Angler,  by  Thad- 
deus  Norria,  with  a  characteriatic  poitr^l  of 
the  author,  and  a  memtdr  by  his  intlm«te  friend, 
Joseph  B.  Townsend,  Esq. 

—  Mr.  Swinburne's  book  of  prose  misceltaniea. 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


[May  15, 


on  the  eve  of  appearing  in  London,  will  contain, 
sija  the  AthiniciiiH,  all  big  liietarr  coniribuiions 
to  the  Emyitopadia  Britaniiica  (except  the  ar- 
ticles on  Chapman  and  Marlowe],  hii  monograph 
on  Maiy  Stnatt,  his  account  of  Lamb's  manu- 
script notes  on  Wither,  and  his  criticisms  on 
Chaucer,  Spenser,  Shakespeare's  sonnets,  Milton, 
Uryden,  Pope,  Congteve,  Prior,  Wordsworth, 
llyron,  I^ndor,  Keats,  Tennyson,  Mussel,  Emily 
Bronte,  Charles  Reade,  and  others. 

—  Work  has  fairly  begun  on  the  Shelley  So- 
ciety's Concordance  ta  tie  Pattry  efShiUty. 

—  Prof.  Andersen  writes  to  T.  Y.  Crowell  & 
Co.,  from  CopenhaB^n,  that  Tolstoi's  works  have 
been  translated  Into  the  Danish  and  have  become 
very  popolar. 

LITERARY  IKDEI  TO  THE  PEEIODI- 
0AL8. 

Aryan  HomulEad.  Thg.  E.  P.  Etihi.  Allanlic,  Mit 
nodltlan  Ubnry,  The.  CaiiMt.  Mit. 

Hook,  To  hu.    A  Poem.    Auilin  DobwiB. 


Diuiuliit,  Tbc 


in.     Aii^iutin  Daly, 

How  I  w».     F.  A.  P.  B.m«d.' 
Libaial,  in  Gemuajr. 


irr,  May 


Cray.    J  R.  Lowill.  New  F 

Hiiwtlioniej  Portrait  of. 
HavIlMWi  Philow^r-     Julian  Hiw- 
H.  H.,  tolhc  Memerr  oL    T.  W,  Hig. 

I^iTvictor,  aa  a  Cilwn.    Jama  Par- 

ion.  FonuB,  May. 

Lilinrr  Confeuuwi  o[  ■  Wntcm  Faclen. 

Ella  W.  WUcoi.  LippiDcoll'a,  llai 

No.el,  The,  of  Our  Timet.     V.  N,  Za- 

bnikK.  Mew  PriDceton  Re*.,  Hav. 

Fennaylnaiila  Gaii-Ite,  Hiitoir  o<  ifae. 

Paul  UicH'ei  FonL  MaKaiine  of  Ain.  Hialorr,  May. 
ShjkeipearelWhenS.  waaaboT).     Rok 

Klnt^lcy,  St.  NichcJaa,  May. 

TliDreiu,  Tbe  Poelry  of.  Joel  BenLon.  Lippincoll^e,  Kwj^ 
War  Priiona  and  War  Poclrr.  SonilKni  BinHuc,  May. 
WanUwailh'i  PaHloD.    TltiuM.  Coin. 


Feb.  — ,  A .  SeUrmrr,  Autriu  ooYelbt. 
Feb.  11,  Sdvard  B^iar»m,  Slocklioln,  45  t,  -,  pod. 
Man* -,Jf.^«-«r<».,  Pari.;  tiiaiorian  0!  Philipll. 
March  — ,  U.  Nrtitl,  Pirii;  pvbliaber,  lod  ioumalbt  dd- 
dar  tbe  Daeudoiiyni  ol  "  P.  Stahl," 
HsKch— ,  M'^oCCrc/'Jn'f,  Helaingfon;  ionmaliat 

March  — ,  Dr.  MUmititrt,  HauborE,  »  y.  1  tbeoloiy. 

Maicb  — ,  Dr.  Liofid  Zui.  »4  y. ;  rabbinical  ach^. 

March— ,  ^mA-tw  PalUx  jamiiiiH,  ScotlaDd,  ;;  y. ; 
jounullit. 

March  ij,  Dr.  yna  Filrr  Brack.  6s  y. :  Profeaaor  of 
Semitic  Lugnitei  in  Uninniiy  ol  Chrisiiinii. 

March  IT,  Kri.  \Fnineu\  Mtrliaur  CtUha.  Esilanil; 
widow  ol  ihe  DOTiliM  and  poet,  a  novrliil  henelf  WMTbiog- 
npfacT  and  editor  of  her  bniband. 

March  17,  Dr.  yuiian  ScAmiJI,  Berlin  ;  jDunaliat  and 

Maich  ig,  JCfv.  Frrdrriri  Ltigi  Ct/vffli,  BoumeniDulh, 
Enxlind ;  relifiauiand  educaiional  Kience  and  lucal  hluory 
and  biography. 

March  31,  ytufi  BtMan  Zatnki,  near  Parf^  S4  y.  i  laal 
of  the  Poliah  rueta  of  ibe  pretenl  cenlury. 

April  I,  Ed«>tri  SMj,  Sunon,  Enxlind,  U  y. ;  dieni- 

April  J,  Rn.  Francis  Cluiruii  TrmiX.  Runpahire, 
England ;  an  elder  blather  ol  the  lile  Archbiibop  nrDub- 

April  g,  Jfrj.    GairirU  Stailti  t 

Felidori),  London,  Si  v.;   mother  of 

A-sniyit.Maj.NmlianiilDariili 

April  19,  Prtf.  Jtlu,  Fratrr,  Chicago,  14  y-  i  EngliJi 

April—,  VUirr9tifSc>uff,i,Oamm-j,(iit.\  apoeiof 


PUBLIOATIONS  REOEIVED. 
Biogrmpbj. 

Li™  and  Ad»»htu««s  of  Barok  Thhck.  Vol,  II. 
Caasell  ft  Co.,  Umiled.     Paper  loc. 

LipeofNilsoh.  By  Joaeph  Allen.  Gmie  Rouilidgc 
&  Scmi.     Paper  loc. 

Buaya  and  Skelchea. 

Faaanous.  By  Max  Nordao.  Chicaioi  L.  Schick. 
Paper  |,.eo 

a  BoaEWDIU.    By  J,  Rogen  Reea. 


Tbeological  uid  Rellcioua. 

SciiPTUiH,  Haauw  ihd  CKauTiAH.  For  Youni 
Readera.  Kd.  by  E.  T.  Banlelt,  A.  H.,  and  Pnf,  J.  PT 
Pctwi,    Pb.D,      Vol  I.      From  Cicalioii  to  tho  Exile. 


Funk  ft  WagulU. 
The  Siupuciti 

Woolaey  Bacon,  D. 


!t«i,    Pb.L 

.  P.  FnlDau'i  Soul 

P.4....«n»r.»  n.  I»ASL.    Tr.  by  John  DeWi.., 

fi.jo 
LT  IB  IH  Chiut.      By  Lei 
Funk  ft  Wamall*. 
Tjia  Two  Books  of  N»iuaM  Ann  Riv«iatiom  Cot, 
LATiD.     By  tbe  Ret.  Geo.  D.  Anaatrong,  D.  D.     F     '  ' 

Travel  and  Observation. 

CAHaatHa  in  Kanuckia.     By  Chailei  L.  None 
JohD  HibbeitoD.      lUulrated.      C.  P.  Fatoaa'i 

Loc  OF  THB  "AiISL"    III    TKI  GuLF    OF    HaIH 

lusinlcd.    Boiiod:  Cnpplea,  Upham  ft  Co, 

Miscellaneous. 

A  Stobk's  NasT.      By  J.  Fnlford  Viory.      Frriokk 
Waree  ft  Co.  " 


Br  Mn.  Sutherland  Orr.    Scribner  A  Wdfonl. 


M,  Cibba.    Vol.  V 


Scrilmer  ft  WiUord. 


Attractire  New  Books. 

PibUshed  bT  D*  LOTHBOP  A  CO., 


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proT*  ■  Taloabls  addlllaB  u>  •■rly  odoi 
HRftTKIfS  _« ATKt_ A  •S«t  •(, «ha^*i4H« 

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ooUnlHl.udUu  paMlntd«UUiotbli«unB«cUI 
■ttenUimhiii  talltiRii)  beu  (Inn  to  lUi  dMUan  wllk 
M  wu  fCllDw-worker.  utA  ■  bin  iroap  ot  orfdiicii 
nnk,  dmm  trora  Ih*  oMlf  proAelUn  ot  ZadM 
ilda  H  Talnaltaa.  In  Va\»  work  u  auanipt  k  ando 
o  Oaow  Daw  UAt  on  Ibe  Soaneli,  uul  10  dutannla* 
111  -wcwki. . . .  TlH  arruigeDMnt  of  Uu  book  li  nud* 


THROUGH  THE  KALAHARI  DESERT  i 

LKamanotijDiiniarwllhaaB.CuBBn  uul  tloto-BooktoLakslI'auBli 
BrO.A.ruui.    Wltli mtp  ud M tUiutruloiu.   DeDireva,alo(b,».M. 

SCULPTURE,  RENAISSANCE  AND  MODERN. 


BOI7I.mTKE,  Anclint.    DrO,  ttedtont. 

AKOHITKCTIIKB,  Clu>lc  Knd  Kirlj  ChlteUan.    Br  T.  B.  Bmllfa  K 

AKCDITBCTVKB,  ODtUo  u>d  RaDaluuice.    Uj  T.  B.  RmlUi. 

PAIMTIWe,  ClMMcmKl  ItilUn.    B.  B.J.  PoynUr.nd  P.  B.  HauL 

VAIHTIWe.  Uannan,  (-lEinkitiiiidlJiiUh.    By  U.  J.  W.  BuKm  mid  E 

PAINXINO,  flpinlili  ud  branch.    By  U.  W.  Smith. 

PAlMTIMe,  EngUBbiDdAuerlcu.    Bj  U.  J.  W.Bniuiiiuda.  B.  Koalilar. 

HODERS  WUIST,  TOGETHER  WITH  THE  LAWS  OF  WHIST. 

eloUi,  IIM. 

pliyor  to  )iiaiB."-Acaimti. 

HADAXE  DE  HAINTENON. 

AN  CTtJDE.    By  J.  CotTU  Kouaoi.    Bqnin  llmo,  pa.rchni«it.  Monti. 

"  An  axceadlDslT  InHnaUbi  itodr  ot  t,  woman  nhoH  motlva  >nd  c1uincl«r  ban 

been  tbe  object  ot  mlBroMoplo  obaeryaUon  for  tyro  ataUuietJ'—IJiimmrTclalAdtinittr. 

"  The  moat  Impaf  tlal  eaunukte  ot  Iba  cbaracter  ot  tbat  tunotu  tfooian  wa  ninsinJHr 

IIIPORTAKT  WORK  ON  TMB  UiaTORT  OF  MUSIC. 

A  HISTORT  OF  MUSIC, 


of  the  Uulc  ot  Uia  Ancient  Umki.   Seetlon  fl.-^liulo 
— NdhIo  In  Iha  ITU1  Centnrr.    SmUdd  IV.— MiuUi  la 
ModaraUoUc.   Section  Vl.-fnUi«  I-mpmu. 

•SSSiS 

FLOATING  FLIES  AND  HOW  TO  DRESS  THEH. 

A  TnillH  on  tbe  Hoat  Uodem  Methoda  ot  DttMdng  ArUfl<:Ud  FIKa  for  Troul  ud  Gn^ 
PMW.  "nil"^  W  Btty  lor  AB^rica.  veUim,  t\V». 

BMrngularitott,  alte  tfBok* 
JTm  (7<u.to,«  of  CMa,  Ran 
e^LUiralunnadf 

UtirarUt.wiUtemaOt^ir  <ltHrti,Ui  OiaiHiUtniai. 

SORIBNBR   &  WELFORD,  -. 

TM-74B  BMad»r,  New  Twrk. 


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kbie  ud  waleome  tn  "  But  Tet  m  Woniui."  while  the  Mrle 
it  eTeo  mon  bdiolrtble  and  the  ttoir  itroiiger  end 


Hwcd  In  am  AllaxUe  Uttillilf^ia  B*lem  Bhout,  A  atlaa 
Ekmr-SchcHi),  uid  Siltm  cSpboirdi:  In  mddltlan.  Two 
8iilcia  Jnitiialioni,  uid  Ur  Coiuln  (he  CaptAln.  l~'  " 
IntnHlucUoR  by  Ht.  Arid  Bktee.    The  eie«/i  u«  tv 

VDUBglDf  In  fUhm  uuiee  uid  tradlUoiUrUidlii  ft  linBulKjlr 

chaiming  i^Ie. 

THE  TEAN8PIGUBATI0N  OF 
CHBI8T. 

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It  U  orlgUul,  acIwIArlr  ftnd  nnreiit,  ud  cunol  tall  to 
iDUrealliuMe  wh<>iiiIlaiDb]«taUia<:U. 

8T0BIEB  AND  ROMANCES. 

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of  Enlenaln'mFnl;  AFCIdentallT  UTerheardi  A  kard  Bar- 

Bln;  A  titory  of  tha  Siege  of  fUMaa:  UaKliew.  Mart, 
^  Lke  and  ioba;  Do  not  aren  tha  Publlcaqa  the  §amat 

IN  PRIMROSE  TIME. 

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of  "  A  VoTaja  to  Ui*  Farliinata  lalei,"  ate,    Itmo,  gilt 

conbuntpoeinBon"  An  inih  fmjry  aiorr," '■  An  EmlRiuil 
ninslnE  rrorn  a  Hblp,"  ■■  BIrd'i-NeatliiK  In  Inland,"  ^  The 
teacadol  MonXitown,"  ■■  Tbn  Ivy  of  IHland,"  and  other 
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waou.  Bar  tnaaladon*  of  Sarlllt,  SReAdiB  aadotban 
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oni  W later  DanalatloBft.    In  brief,  iSia  m — '  <■  *■" >■<- 

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ifdnbot 


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la,  pnacTTW  nw  natarnl  in  an  eminent  aacraa.  It  li 
IT  of  Oanaan  high  Ufa.  aad  ot  eontM  oanagt  b*  pnaal 
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CONTENTS. 


Thm  Raii-h 
Thi  Lob  01 


Dr.  L  W  BMon't'seimom iSi 

HalvWEEkJDNonHcliCaihcdnl        .        .        .  iSi 

BithopAleundei'iSenDoia         .        .       .        .  iSi 

FroblliDn  (nil  Punlihrncnl igi 

SpuntDD'i  Tnuun  of  DiTid       .        .        .        .  iSi 
Eic.Etc.Eu:. 
Ml  Hon  Fiction  : 

Tbt  Ule  Mn.  NdH iSi 

CoL.  CbuHick'j  Cuupufn    .....  iBi 

AuUdu  in  Ibe  SiMIh 8> 

Beiloii'*  Bunio Si 

The  Eril  Gcniiii iSj 

A  DHpenle  Cbinca ig] 

TlXT-EkOKl  IK  MATHUIJkTIO         .          .          ,          .  iSl 

HlHOit  NoTicia : 

WonUDinMuilc 1S3 

The  Order  ol  Cmuion iSj 

Hahbn ■       .       .  tSj 

WhTtrier-.  Siint  Gretoir'i  Gual  .        .        .       .  iM 

An  luliin  Garden 1S6 

Ehorc  Life  in  Song %Ht 

Summer  Htvtn  Sonp    ......  167 

ScHifi  of  Oid  Cunodii      .--,-,  tSj 
Elc,  Etc,  Elc 

CuaUHT  UTnuTUH iS) 

HaHHAK  FoSTH  AHD  HBK  DaUCMTIIS  1^4 

Hub.  Jackson .»4 

Thi  Pdit-Piiiist  OF  THB  South.    E,  U  Diier  .  >ft4 

CODHEirOIIDIIICII 

Tlie  Laveowonh  Cue iSi 

Ovu  Niv>  VoRK  LrmiE.    Nuuu         ...  18; 
OubGmuah  Lrrmi.    Goeltae  Milun,  etc    Leo- 
pold Kitscher iW 

Shakhpiaiiaha.    EdilEd  hj  Win.  J.  Rolfs: 

Emenon  and  Shakespeue 188 

Ui.  W.  D.  O'CJinnor'a  "  Himlel')  Note-Bnili"  iRS 

TabuTalk 189 

Niwi  AHD  Sorma 189 

MKIOtOCY 19s 


THE  EAILWAY8  AND  THE  EEPUBUO.* 

MR.  HUDSON'S  Dame  is  not  familiar 
to  us,  but  we  know  him  from  this 
book  as  an  iatelllgent,  vigorous,  and  posi- 
tive man;  and  he  has  written  a  book  to 
correspond  upon  the  railroad  question. 
Not  a  wonder-book  and  curiosity  shop  liki 
Mr.  Sloane  Kennedy's,  not  a  history  like 
somebody's  on  the  Northera  Pacific  whose 
name  we  forget  this  moment,  not  a  law 
book  like  Pierce's,  not  a  manual  like  Poor's ; 
bat  a  discussion,  based  on  facts  and  figures, 
from  the  economist's  point  of  view,  of  the 
present  railroad  problem  in  the  United 
States,  of  railroads  as  the  servants  of  the 
public,  railroads  aa  rnlera  of  congresses 
and  legislators,  railroads  as  rivals,  fighters, 
and  contestants  among  themselves,  rail, 
roads  as  leeches  on  the  body  politic,  mo- 
nopolists, and  overgrown  corporations  with 
no  consciences.  Mr.  Hudson  is  not  a  pes- 
simist, but  he  is  very  far  from  believing 
that  the  existing  railroad  situation  in  this 
country  is  either  just,  wholesome,  or  safe. 
A  single  pregnant  sentence  out  of  his  book 
will  show  where  be  stands  and  what  ax 
cisive  way  he  has  of  expressing  himself 


The  power  which  has  converted  the  Charles 

Fiancis  Adams  of  1875  into  the  Charles  Fnnds 

Adams  ol  iSSq,  cannot  be  conquered  and  held 

■ubtection  1^  any  body  of  une  men  at  sal- 

ies  of  ^,500  each. 

A  single  fact  cited  from  the  examples 
with  which  his  book  bristles  will  show  the 
materials  with  which  he  deals ; 

Of  i7o,cxxi 
Pennsylvania 

A  single  instance  of  the  railroad  building 
which  he  denounces  is  that  of  the  Central 
Pacific,  which  he  thus  describes : 

A  company  of  capitalists,  whoM  resourcei  at 
the  beginning  of  tiie  enterprise  were  ^igtooo, 
with  the  aid  of  loans  from  the  city  of  Sacra- 
mento and  Placer  County  to  the  extent  of 
(SSC^ooo,  built  enough  road  to  draw  ^848,000 
from  the  United  States  Treasury  aa  the  subsidy 
for  the  first  section,  and  by  repeating  the  process 
constructed  the  entire  road ;  with  whidi,  as  a 
nucleus,  they  have  now  gathered  a  total  capital- 
'  ition  ol  yi39,ooo,ooa 

And  one  single  paragraph  covers  the 
point  to  which  Mr.  Hudson  directs  his 
energetic  argument : 

Legislation  sboald  restore  the  character  oi 
public  highways  to  the  railways,  by  securing 
to  all  persons  the  tight  to  run  trains  over  their 
tracks  under  suitable  regulations,  and  b^  de- 
fining the  distinction  between  the  proprietor- 
ship and  maintenance  of  the  railway  and  the 
business  of  common  carriers. 

This  is  a  radical  proposal,  but  Mr.  Hud- 
son argues  its  reasonableness  and  feasibility 
with  considerable  force,  and  supports  it  by 
a  solid  structure  of  preliminary  discussion. 
He  gives  one  chapter  to  the  discriminating 
practices  that  have  grown  up  between  com- 
peting railways  in  the  past  ten  years  in 
the  matter  of  freights,  as  between  different 
goods,  different  localities,  and  different 
shippers ;  another  chapter  to  the  history 
of  the  Standard  Oil  Company  which  be 
denounces  as  a  gigantic  conspiracy  and 
tyranny;  a  third  to  the  "pooling"  policy, 
or  the  plan  by  which  a  number  of  compet- 
ing roads  mass  their  receipts  and  divide 
^ra  rata  J  another  to  stock- watering  frauds  \ 
another  to  the  evil  influences  of  corporations 
in  politics ;  and  two  to  the  discussi 
remedies  for  existing  abuses,  chief  of  which 
is  the  highway  plan  alluded  to  above.  Mr. 
Hudson  handles  such  great  railroad  agents 
as  Commissioner  Fink  and  the  late  General 
J.  H.  Devereui  without  gloves.  Before  the 
hot  breath  of  bis  indignation  the  Standard 
Oil  people  might  drop  upon  their  knees  like 
travelers  in  the  desert  before  the 
Yet  he  is  not  intemperate  in  his  language 
or  wild  in  his  ideas.  His  book  is  indict 
ment,  evidence,  plea,  and  verdict,  all  ii 
one ;  and  it  is  strong  enough  to  carry  oe 
professional  students  of  the  question  along 
with  it  We  should  like  to  hear  what  the 
great  railroad  builders  would  say  in  defence 
of  the  measures  whereby  they  have  belted 
the  continent  with  steel,  and  how  the  great 
railroad  managers  would  view  the  plan  of 
tumiug  railways  into  public  highways.  But 
some  able  minds  on  the  other  side  will  have 
to  upset  this  book,  or  it  will  do  them  mi»- 


chief.  It  is  too  damaging  an  attack  on  the 
railroad  world  of  the  time  to  be  left  un- 
noticed. All  economists  are  interested  in 
its  discussion,  and  every  legislator  should 
give  it  a  careful  reading. 


THE  LOO  OF  THE  ASIEL,*' 

THE  novelt]'  In  this  publication— we 
hardly  know  whether  to  call  it  a  book 
or  a  portfolio — is  its  shape  and  plan,  it 
being  an  obtong,  opening  at  the  right  end, 
where  the  covers  are  tied  with  an  orange 
ribbon,  and  stitched  at  the  left  with  maroon 
silk  cord  a  la  ChinoU.  This  novelty  in 
the  exterior  is  perpetuated  within  by  means 
of  a  letter-press  done  in  the  similitude  of 

neat  back-handed  manuscript,  thus  pre- 
serving the  flavored  reality  of  an  actual 
journal.  This  novelty  of  the  interior  Is 
enhanced  into  a  positive  charm  by  means 
of  plentiful  illustrations,  some  after  draw- 
ings, others  after  photographs,  some  occupy- 
ing full  pages,  others  inserted  as  panels  or 
vignettes  in  the  text,  and  all  extremely  good 
and  effective.  The  whole  is  printed  in  a 
light  brown  ink,  the   same   tint,  accented 

Ith  sea-green,  being  repeated  on  the 
cover  \  and  the  effect  is  harmoaious,  taste- 
ful, and  altogether  pleasing  to  the  eye. 
The  only  practical  objection  to  the  book  is 
with  respect  to  the  binding,  which  is  not 
of  a  kind  to  allow  tlie  leaves  to  open  easily. 

The  water  excursion  of  which  this  fresh 
and  pre tty-loo king  book  purports  to  be  the 
"log"  was  into  what  the  writer  calls  "the 
Gulf  of  Maine,"  which  is  a  new  geographi- 
cal term  to  us.  Along  the  coast  of  Maine, 
he  means,  Saco  Fool,  Boothbay,  North 
Haven,  Somesville,  and  Portsmouth  (N.  H.) 
being  the  chief  harbors  of  the  voyage,  and 
the  shores,  sounds,  and  river-mouths  of  this 
stretch  the  limits  of  the  cruising  ground. 
The  author  is  not  always  accurate  in  spell- 
ing his  proper  names.  He  persists  in  writ- 
ing "  Damaroscotta"  for  Damar«scotta,  and 
"  Pemcquid  "  for  Pemaquid.  There  are 
some  other  slips  of  the  pen  in  the  text 
which  will  be  graciously  overlooked  because 
of  its  uniformly  beautiful  work  in  the  ac- 
companying drawings.  The  narrative,  as 
a  narrative,  is  simple  and  unpretending  to 
the  point  of  homeliness,  but  gives  a  pleas- 
ing picture  of  the  experiences  of  such  an 
excursion. 

The  chief  interest  of  the  book  to  us, 
next  to  the  pictures,  lies  In  the  Appendix, 
wherein  is  given  a  business-like  description 
of  the  "Ariel,"  the  little  steam-yacht  in 
which  the  trip  was  made.  She  was  built 
to  the  owner's  order  in  East  Boston  in 
18S1,  to  meet  the  requirements  of  a  boat 
that  should  be  reasonably  seaworthy,  rea- 
sonably fast,  draw  little  water,  be  free  from 
danger  of  explosion,  call  for  a  minimum  of 
fuel  and  attendance,  and  have  a  day  accom- 


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[May  29, 


mocUtion  of  from  €  to  iz,  with  sleeping 
accommodalioDS  for  2  or  3.  The  result  was 
a  boat  45  feet  long,  8  feet  beam  on  deck, 
with  a  standi  Dg-room  of  5  feet,  and  a 
draught  of  3  feet  when  the  two-bladed 
propeller  ii  in  motion.  She  carries  a  light 
schooner  rig,  and  is  fitted  with  closets,  lock- 
ers, ice  chest,  tanks,  and  all  needed  con- 
veniences. Her  boiler  is  what  is  known  as 
a  "coil  boiler  on  the  Waterbonse  system," 
which  her  owner  recommends  as  "practi- 
<ally  unexplodable "  and  altogether  "  the 
safest,  most  efficient,  lightest,  and  otost  eco- 
nomical boiler  yet  constructed  for  steam 
yachts."  The  motive  agent  is  a  pair  of 
compound  engines,  with  cylinders  3  1-2  by 
7  inches,  working  smoothly  and  without  ap- 
parent strain  or  wear  under  a  pressure  of 
from  125  to  175  pounds  of  steara.  Half  a 
ton  of  coal  is  sufficient  for  an  ordinary  run 
of  three  or  four  days.  The  cost  of  the 
"  Ariel "  is  not  stated,  as  we  wish  it  had 
been ;  but  the  amount  of  pleasure  she  is 
capable  of  furnishing  to  a  congenial  family 
party  fond  of  sea  life  can  readily  be  es- 
timated.   

MEVOnt  OF  HBS.  LITIKOSTOB  • 

THIS  interesting  memoir  of  a  distin- 
guished and  most  charming  woman 
is  written  by  a  favorite  grand-niece  who 
had  abundant  opportunity  for  gaining  her 
material  at  first  hand.  Mrs.  Livingstoi 
of  direct  French  descent,  of  the  ar 
family  of  D'Avenac,  which  was  represented 
in  America  by  her  grandfather,  who  came 
to  St.  Domingo  and  acquired  a  vast  estate. 
This  estate  appears  to  have  greatly  in- 
creased under  her  father's  management,  for 
the  field-hands  alone  numbered  eight  hi 
dred.  We  can  only  draw  our  own  inference 
that  this  daughter  was  bora  there,  as,  by 
unpardonable  oversight,  neither  place  nor 
date  of  birth  are  given.  She  was  a  remark- 
ably beautiful  child,  and  had  a  ready  faculty 
of  acquiring  knowledge,  "  nobody  knew 
how;"  at  thirteen  she  was  married 
French  ofBcer,  and  three  years  later  re- 
turned to  her  father's  house  a  widow. 
Soon  the  insurrection  took  place,  and  with 
other  relatives  she  escaped  to  New  Orleans, 
where  she  met  the  Mr.  Livingston  to  whom 
she  was  married  on  the  3d  of  June,  1805. 
This  was  an  ideally  happy  union,  although 
he  was  twenty  years  her  senior  and  bom 
and  bred  under  widely  different  conditions. 
Their  home  in  New  Orleans  "  became  the 
resort  of  every  notable  stranger,"  and  Mrs. 
Livingston  is  described  as  "a  hostess  like 
those  who  were  the  boast  of  France."  The 
incidents  of  Creole  life  of  those  days,  evi- 
dently taken  down  from  her  own  lips,  are 
fresh  and  vivid  and  among  the  most  pleas- 
ing portions  of  the   book.      One  of   Mrs. 


Livingston's  house-maids  wore  a  costume 
which  was  a  trial  to  her  master : 

It  consisted  of  four  head-handkeichiefs,  two 
tied  on  the  shoulders  to  form  a  sort  of  waist, 
and  two  others  on  the  bipa  to  make  the  skirt 
Mr.  Livinnton  remonstrated.  "  Uy  dear,"  be 
•aid  to  Mrs.  Livingston  in  the  most  smiable 
— !— ,  "can't  yoD  make   that  woman  put  on  a 


Mr.  Livingston  had  a  i^nk  flamingo  pre- 
sented to  hint : 

The  bird  was  tall  and  gawky,  and  very  cross. 
Il  was  the  dntf  of  a  little  n«rn  boy  to  feed  him 
in  the  yard  where  he  was  kept  The  Samingo 
bit  the  unfortunate  boy,  and  made  his  life 
cnl.  At  last  the  boy  mnsteied  conrsse 
a  Mr.  Livingston  and  to  complain  of  his 
charge.  "Why,  what  is  the  matter^"  said  Mr. 
Livingston.  ''  Mo  pa  onli  it  valet  loso,"  said 
the  boy.  ["  I  dont  want  to  be  the  valet  of  a 
bird."]  Convulsed  with  laughter,  Mr.  Livjagsion 
good-naturedly  gave  away  the  bird. 

The  sketch  of  the  social  life  of  this  dis- 
tinguished husband  and  wife  at  Washing- 
ton, where  Mr.  Livingston  was  first  a 
Member  of  Congress  and  afterwards  the 
Secretary  of  State,  affords  glimpses 
some  of  the  giants  of  that  period  of  great 
men.  Mr.  Livingston  died  on  the  23d  of 
May,  1836;  his  wife  survived  him  more 
than  twenty.four  years,  dying  October  24th, 
i860,  her  closing  years  especially  marked 
by  the  fervent  piety  which  was  the  crown- 
ing grace  of  an  unusually  beautiful  life. 
She  was  survived  by  her  only  child,  Mrs. 
Cora  Livingston  Barton  (the  widow  ol 
Thomas  P.  Barton),  to  whose  generous  ful- 
fillment of  her  husband's  wishes  the  Bos- 
ton Public  Library  owes  "  one  of  the  most 
valuable  private  collections  in  America.' 


EVOLUTION  AflB  TEE  EVIDEHaES  OF 
EEUGIOH.' 

DR.  CONN  must  pardon  the 
if,  to  point  a  moral,  his  excellent  booki 
which  is  a  purely  undogmatic  volume  on  the 
descent  of  species,  is  here  joined  to  three 
other  works  of  very  different  aim  and  tem- 
per. He  will  certainly  be  ready  to  forgive 
when  we  say  that,  life  being  short  and 
evolution  long,  our  readers  should  certunly 
make  a  point  of  it  to  buy  his  book  before 
they  think  of  getting  any  of  the  others,  since 
it  contains  more  reliable  information  and 
more  sound  sense  on  evolution  than  the 
other  three  ti^ther.  The  degree  of  D.D. 
Is  cheap  in  these  days,  and  stamps  no  book 
as  valuable,  while  Instructor  Conn's  Ph.D. 
is  evidently  due  to  merit,  not  to  grace. 
The  sub-title  of  his  work  well  describes  Its 
scope.    It  is   "A  Summary  of  the  Theory 


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Tlu  Too  Book!  of  Kuan  ud  Rcnlitioo  CoUiUd. 
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tA.  Evolution  as  Held  by  Scientists  at  the 
Present  Time,  and  an  Account  of  the  Prog- 
ress Made  by  the  Discussions  and  Investi- 
gations  of  a  Quarter  of  a  Century."  His 
title  is  rather  too  broad ;  as  his  sub- 
ject, to  which  be  closely  adheres,  is  not  the 
ambitious  theory  of  universal  evolution,  as 
promulgated  by  Herbert  Spencer,  but  the 
scientific  qnestion  of  the  descent  of  species. 
In  the  investigation  of  this  comparatively 
tangible  matter  there  has  been  no  small 
advance  made  since  Darwin's  great  work 
appeared  in  1859;  '^^  to  embody  the  re- 
sults reached  thus  far,  in  a  dispassionate 
form,  and  to  present  the  actual  state  of  the 
argument  today,  is  Dr.  Conn's  aim.  He 
seems  to  ns  to  have  succeeded  admirably. 
His  tone  is  judicial,  his  spirit  free  from  all 
taint  of  controversial  bias,  and  his  presenta- 
tion of  the  whole  subject  clear  and  compre- 
hensive. It  is  an  outline  for  general  read- 
ing, and  not  an  original  treatise ;  but  we 
are  much  mistaken  if  there  are  more  than 
two  or  three  books  on  the  subject  which 
the  non-professional  reader  will  find  more 
profitable. 

Dr.  Conn  regards  the  genealogical  con- 
nection of  species  aa  an  undonbted  fact,  the 
amsentut  of  naturalists  being  overwhelming 
to  that  effect ;  but  all  the  txplanaiums  of 
the  fact  thus  far  offered  are  defective,  each 
covering  only  a  part  of  the  ground.  To  Dar< 
inn's  principle  of  "  Natural  Selection  "  Is 
accorded  the  great  honor  which  is  due  it; 
but  its  inability  to  interpret  more  than  a 
portion  of  the  whole  problem  is  shown  in 
the  chapter  especially  devoted  to  It  The 
more  recent  theories  which  endeavor  to 
supplant  or  to  modify  "  Natural  Selection  " 
are  there  summarized,  and  this  chapter,  ex- 
pounding the  views  of  Weismano,  Mivar^ 
Nigeli,  Wagner,  Brooks,  Cope,  and  Hyatt, 
will  probably  be  the  most  novel  to  many. 
The  final  chapter  on  the  evolution  of  man 
is  not  so  satisfactory  as  the  two  just  named 
and  the  five  which  precede  them  and  cover 
the  ground  of  mutability  of  species,  cUsslfi- 
catlon,  the  geological  record,  embryology, 
and  geographical  distribution.  But  as  a 
whole  the  book  deserves  great  prwse ;  it  is 
a  complete  success  on  the  line  inariced  out 
for  It,  that  of  judicial  exposition.  A  work 
on  the  subject  with  less  of  the  advocate 
and  the  partisan  in  it  we  do  not  call  to  mind. 

We  believe,  moreover,  that  the  most 
profitable  thing  for  religious  people  to  do 
today,  who  are  disturbed  about  evolution, 
is  to  try  to  understand  it  in  its  most  easily 
apprehensible  field,  that  of  the  origin  of 
species,  leaving  alone  the  innumerable  jH^b- 
lems  of  force  and  matter,  which  arise  in 
philosophical  evolution,  until  their  minds 
are  somewhat  clear  upon  the  easier  ques- 

Dr.  Van  Dyke's  volume  proceeds  upon 
an  exactly  opposite  theory.  It  is  "  an  ex- 
amination of  modern  speculative  theories 
as  related  to  theistlc  conceptions   of    the 


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universe,"  and  covers  an  jmineDse  territory, 
in  a  verj  small  part  of  which  only  can  he 
dum  to  be  at  home,  or  to  spealc  with  any 
anthority.  The  authority  of  an  evidently 
unbiased  mind  he  might  yet  attain,  but, 
whatever  merits  the  volume  has,  and  they 
are  not  few,  it  cannot  d^m  any  sncb  au- 
thority aa  this.  The  reader  familiar  with 
recent  apologetic  literature  knows  what  he 
is  to  expect  when  he  reads  thi 
In  the  preface : 


matter;  for  it  is  inconceivable  that  oalmeil  and 
beefateak  were  to  Irinsmuled  hy  the  oidioary 
phyMcal  forces  that  a  relentteia  neceasitjr  elal>- 
oraied  and  launched  this  argument  upon  the 
troobled  waters  of  modem  discussion. 

With  many  of  Dr.  Dyke's  conclusions 
against  materialism  and  atheism  we  en- 
tirely sympathize;  but  he  is  too  rhetorical, 
too  partisan,  too  hot  altogether,  in  making 
out  bis  case.  Despite  his  industry  and  his 
comparative  accessibility,  at  times,  to  mod- 
ern ideas,  he  strikes  one  as  a  person  likely 
to  be  mnch  more  at  home  in  the  line  of  bis 
other  works,  J^roiti  Gloom  to  Gladness,  etc, 
than  in  discussing  recent  scientific  philoso- 
phy. His  book  as  a  whole  will  hurt  more 
by  its  wrong  temper  than  it  will  help  by  its 
right  conclusions,  though  diese  are  in  a 
decided  majority,  if  one  weighs  rather  than 
counts. 

But  Dr.  Van  Dyke  is  mnch  better  than 
Dr.  McWhinney;  who  postures  in  this 
style  at  the  beginning  of  a  book  designed 
to  show  that  reason  and  revelation  go  hand 
in  hand : 

Religion  is  a  phantom  of  inconceivable  out- 
rage  ...  or  else  it  ia  a  service,  etc ;  the  Bible 
is  bat  a  record  of  hypocritical  and  sacrilegious 
pretensioos  ...  or  else  it  is  a  book  containing 
a  divine  revelation,  etc. ;  Christ,  in  His  teaching, 
wonder-working  life,  death  and  resurrection. 
was  an  impostor  who  has  "  turned  the  world 
upside  down  "  by  a  lingo  of  falsehoods  and 
hypocritical  pretensions  ...  or  else  He  was 
the  Messiah,  etc. 

A  person  capable  of  such  a  mental  atti- 
tude may  undoubtedly  do  mnch  good  in 
this  world,  as  we  suppose  and  trust  Dr. 
McWhinney  ia  doing;  but  that  he  has  not 
had  a  "  call "  either  from  Reason  or  from 
Revelation  to  perfonn  tbe  marriage  cere- 
mony for  them,  we  feel  quite  certain;  his 
marriage  formula  makes  Reason  "obey" 
Revelation,  as  he  conceives  it,  in  altogether 
too  servile  a  fashion. 

But  Dr.  Armstrong  quite  tramples 
poor  Reason  altogether.  He  knows  that 
man  is  only  six  thousand  years  old  on  this 
earth,  and  that  he  began  as  a  civilized  being, 
and  he  is  equally  positive  that  Prof.  Huxley 
denies  that  there  is  such  a  thing  as 
ral  selection!"  Although  set  right  aa  to 
this  last  absurd  statement,  he  persists  in  it, 
and  his  mental  calibre  may  be  estimated 
from  the  fact  Tbe  book  belongs  to  comic 
literature,  and  is  worthy  of  Brother  Jasper. 
Dr.  Conn,  with  his  studious  fairness,  his 
controlling  desire  to  declare  things  as  they 


and  his  thorough  mastery  of  bis  sub- 
ject, is  a  teacher  from  whom  these  clergy- 
men have  much  to  learn. 


BEUaiOUS  BSADINa. 

Some  sermons  to  the  WoodtatKl  Church  in 
Fhilidelphli,  whlcb  the  Rev.  Dr.  Leonard  Wool- 
se;r  Bacon  has  collected  into  a  volume  under  the 
general  title  of  Tht  Simplicity  that  is  iti  Christ, 
are  very  far  atiove  the  level  of  pulpit  discourse 
country,  so  far  as  it  is  represented  in  print. 
For  originality  and  independence  of  view,  for 
igor  of  thought  and  downright  plain- 
ms,  for  manly  honesty  and  fidelity  to 
and  for  seminal  suggestivencss,  these 
discourses  have  great  value.  Of  course  we  do 
not  always  agree  with  our  preacher ;  who  does  ? 
Dr.  Bacon  commands  attention,  arouses 
iuquirj,  stimulates  and  strengthens  the  thinking 
faculty  and  the  moral  sense.  The  best  preacher 
Is  he  who  makes  his  hearers  preach  to  them- 
selves, and  that  these  sermons  will  do.  There  is 
whole  volume  of  meaning  in  the  very  title  of 
the  book,  and  within  it  grapples  with  the  vital 
questions  of  the  day,  dodging  nothing.  These 
ermons  ate  out  "on  the  front;"  there  is  no 
home  guard" soldiering  about  them;  bat  they 
re  not  destructive;  tbcy  go  to  the  building  up 
f  a  positive  Christian  faith  on  a  sound  and  rea' 
aonable  basis.     [Funk  &  Wagnalls.    I1.50.] 

The  Very  Reverend  Edward  MeyrickGoulbum, 
Dean  of  Norwich,  England,  has  made  many  friends 
in  this  country  by  his  admirable  writings  ontopii 
of  personal  religion;  allot  whom  will  welcome  and 
lay  by  for  use  another  year  his  book  of  Seven 
Lectures  for  Hely  Wak  in  Nennich  Calhedral. 
The  idea  of  the  series  is  novel,  to  say  the  least, 
having  for  its  basis  "  the  several  members  of  the 
Most  Sacred  Body  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ," 
Head,  his  Hands,  his  Feet,  his  Eyes,  hi 
Breast,  his  Mouth,  his  Side.  The  first  eSect  of 
this  spiritual  dismemberment  oF  oor  Lord's  Per- 
not  exactly  pleasant,  and  some  of  its 
details,  as,  f.f.,  Rev.  i:  13,  are  unpleasant;  but 
the  author's  manner  is  generally  so  reverential, 
tender,  so  full  of  feeling ;  his  mind  is  sc 
fertile  and  suggestive ;  his  treatment  is  so  rich 
with  Biblical  detail ;  his  embroidery  of  holy 
work  is  so  canning  and  delicate;  that  the  more 
devotional  mind  is  soon  interested,  rapidly  ab- 
sorbed, and  in  the  end  deeply  impressed.  Tbe 
book  will  be  particularly  enjoyed  by  members  of 
tbe  Church  of  England  and  her  Amcric 
daughter  in  their  retired  hours  of  preparati 
for  the  Holy  Communion.  [E.  &  J.  B.  Youi^  & 
Co.] 

rifleen  sermons  by  the  Rt  Rev.  WillUm  Alex, 
ander,  D.D.,  Lord  Bishop  of  Derry  and  Raphoe, 
Ireland,  comprising  nearly  all  which  he  has 
preached  outside  of  his  own  diocese  for  many 
years,  have  been  gathered  into  a  not  large  book 
of  about  300  pages,  entitled  Tkt  Great  QuetHon. 
They  are  in  four  groups:  (i)  three  sermons 
bearing  on  the  Evidences  of  Christianity  ;  (i) 
six  on  the  Christian  Life;  (3)  three  on  Human 
Characters,  those  of  Samson,  Herod  Antipas, 
and  Bishop  Ken;  and  (4)  four  on  The  Church 
in  Idea  and  Fact.  The  characteristic  of  Bishop 
Alexander's  preaching  aa  here  exemplified 
freshness  ;  his  thought  is  fitted  to  the  hour;  he 
is  not  an  ecdesiastic  in  the  library,  bat 
out  among  men.    Not  theology  but  humanity  is 


his  Geld.  With  a  stronggrasp  of  the  fundament- 
als of  Christian  truth,  these  sermons  are  remark- 
able for  their  objective  quality  ;  their  out-of-door 
flavor  and  movement.  The  Bishop  imparts  to  us 
his  homiletical  method  :  his  habit,  he  says,  "  is  to 
prepare  carefully,  and  to  take  into  the  puTpit  a 
;omplete  skeleton  of  the  discourse,  and  as  much 
argumentative  or  illustrative  matter  is  might 
occupy  some  miniAes  in  delivery,  trualing  for 
the  suggestions  of  the  moment  founded 
upon  previous  thought.  This  method  has  been 
great  relief  to  nerve  and  memory."  These 
discourses  are  eminently  not  of  the  written 
but  of  the  spoken  order.    [Thomas  Whitlaker. 

The  author  of  Prehaiion  and  Pumthment,  the 
Rev.  Dr.  S.  M.  Vernon  of  Philadelphia,  is,  we 
judge,  a  Methodist   minister.     He   is   a  strong 
~n  the  old  historic  doctrine  of  "ever- 
lasting punishment."    He  has  written  this  book 
prove    it,   on    both    ethical   snd  Scriptural 
grounds;    knocking    away,    as    he    thinks,   the 
alleged   Biblical   support   of  the  doctrine  of  a 
»nd  probation,  arguing  that  such  a  probation 
inconsistent  with  reason,  and  insisting  that 
future  punishment  will   be  endless.    He  is  un. 
compromising,   and    "goes   the  whole    Ggurc." 
If  there  is  a  hell,  love  made  it."    "An  ardent 
jver  is  always  an  intense  hater."    "  The  effective- 
ess  of  the  gospel  we  preach  requires  a  constant, 
faithful,  loving  presentation  of  the  dark  back- 
ground which  gives  tbe  gospel  much  of  its  charm 
and  lieauty."     The  discussion    contains    some 
textual  criticism,  a  good  deal  of  exegesis,  careful 
consideration  of  the  vexed  word  aienios,  and  is  an 
intelligent,  coherent,  forcible  presentation  of  its 
side  of  the  question;  which  nevertheless  is  not 
the  side  to  which  public  religious  opinion  now 
Inclines,     p.  B.  Lippincott  Co.    $1.25.] 

Rev.  Dr.  W.  H.  Poole,  a  Methodist  minister 
of  Michigan,  has  written  a  small  book  on  Anger, 
causes,  and  cure,  a  Hort  of  metaphysi- 
cal and  ethical  anatomy  of  the  subject,  which 
has  the  merits  of  truth  and  good  intentions,  but 
hardly  fitted  either  by  subject  or  treatment,  to 
win  wide  reading.    (Cranston  &  Stowe.    60c.] 

In  Eventful  Nights  in  Bible  History  the  vener- 
able Bishop  Lee  of  Delaware,  Presiding  Bishop 
of  the   ProtesUnt  Episcopal   Church,  has  trav- 
ersed much  the  same  ground  with  the  Kev.  Dr. 
Daniel    March,    a    well-known    Congregational 
in  his  Night  Stenei  in  tie  Bible,  a  book 
which  has  bad  a  good  deal  of  popularity.     But 
L.ee   is  much   more  sedate  and  severe 
than  Dr.  March.    Dr.  March  was  a  glowing  fire. 
Bishop  Lee  is  a  fervent  heat;   Dr.  March  was 
amatic.  Bishop  Lee  is  instructive ;  Dr.  March 
as  Farrar-esque,  Bishop  Lee  is  less  rhetorical 
than  he  is  ethical ;  he  subordinates  the  pictorial 
the   moral   and  religious  lessons   which    be 
wishes  to  deduce.    The  picture  which  he  paints 
always  translucent  to  the  truth  which  lies  be- 
yond.   [Harper  &  Brothers.    I1.50.] 
Rev.  Dr.  Samuel  Coi  of  Nottingham.  England, 
a  born  expositor  of  Scripture.     His  peculiar 
gilt,  in  its   somewhat  difiicult  exercise,   is  well 
exemplified  in  a  second   series  of  Exfasiiiens, 
thirty-three  in  number,  which   make  good   and 
profitable  nse  in  the  direction  oi  practice  rather 
than  mere  doctrine,  of  as  many  obscure,  curious, 
suggestive,   and   otherwise  notable  passages  in 
the  Old  Tcsument  and  the  New.    "The  Wine-  > 
skin  in  the  Smoke"  is  onetrf  his  topics,  the  New  - 
Version   in   its  entirety  another,  the  Gospel  to 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Mav  49, 


the  Greeks,  John  xii :  lo-jz,  fumUbea  udterial 
for  a  conrae  of  eight  There  is  no  straining 
after  eSect  in  these  reverent,  thoughtful,  sensible, 
edifying  explanations  and  applications  of  the 
word  of  God.    [T.  Whitlaker.    Ii.zj.l 

What  Mr.  Sputgeon  calls  TTit  Treiattry  of 
David,  and  what  is  in  fact  anurcommonly»aried 
and  rich  practical  commentary  on  the  Book  of 
Psalmi.  has  been  completed  by  the  public 
of  th«  seventh  volume,  which  runs  from  P*. 
to  the  end.  The  seven  large  and  doselj  printed 
volume*  make  a  more  copious  treatment  of  this 
part  of  Scripture  than  any  we  remember.  The 
merits  ol  the  work  are  fertility  of  suggestion, 
devotedneM  of  spirit,  and  vehement  earnestncM; 
the  defects  overabundance  of  detail  and  proliiity. 
Slill  the  use  of  the  Psalms  for  popular  instruc- 
tion, and  to  some  extent  the  enjoyment  of  them 
for  purposes  of  private  devotion,  may  be  facili- 
tated by  a  wise  employment  of  Mr.  Spurgeon'i 
3,000  pages.    [Fank  ft  WagnaJIs.    f  2.00.] 

Cleaves,  Macdonald  ft  Co.  are  the  Boston 
agents  for  a  new  and  revised  edition  of  Rev.  Dr. 
John  De  Witt's  versions  of  the  Paalms,  Praiie 
Sangi  ef  Iiriul,  published  with  iti  handsome 
illuminated  title-page  unchanged  by  Funk  ft 
Wagnalls,  and  favorably  reviewed  on  p.  134  of 
OUT  last  volume.  The  book  is  much  improved 
In  the  present  edition  typographically,  and  ad- 
vantage has  been  taken  to  amend  the  text  slightly 
in  compliance  with  criticism*  received  by  the 
author.     [|i-50.I 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Talmage  of  the  Brooklyn  Taber- 
nacle ha*  issued  in  book  form  a  series  of  dis- 
courses entitled  T^  Marriage  Sing,  on  the 
relation  and  duties  of  husbands  and  wives,  ad- 
mirable in  its  leaching,  colloquial  and  occaaion- 
ally  angramnatical  in  its  language,  and  fervid 
with  the  writer'*  well-known  intensity  of  rhetoric 
Especially  valuable  in  these  loose  times  are  the 
discourse*  on  the  choice  of  a  wife  or  a  husband, 
on  their  mutual  duties,  on  hotel  life,  on  easy 
divorce,  and  on  heredity.  The  niost  pathetic 
and  touching  passages  in  the  sermons  are  those 
portraying  the  intensity  and  unscl&shncss  of 
parental  love.    [Funk  ft  Wagnails.    JiJX).] 

What  the  Rev.  IJr.  Joseph  Parker  calls  Tlu 
Ptept^i  Bible,  and  what  is  really  a  collection  of 
his  discouraes  on  the  Bible,  reaches  in  its  third 
volume  the  book  of  I>viticus,  and  traverses  that 
and  the  first  twenty-sll  chapters  of  Numbers. 
Dr.  Parker  Is  a  man  of  abundant,  dexterous, 
fervent,  effective  —  words.  [Funk  ft  Wagnalls. 
H.SO-]  , 

imrOB  FIOTION, 

Tki  Laic  Mrs.  NtUl.  By  Frank  R.  Stockton. 
[Charles  Scribner's  Sons,    ^i.jo.] 

Hr.  Stockton  has  written  a  very  enterlaining 
book,  but  it  is  properly  speaking  an  expanded 
tnagaiinc  story  rather  than  a  novel.  There  is 
no  elaborate  presentation  or  evolution  of  char- 
acter; four  or  five  personages  are  grouped  to- 
gether In  an  odd  aituation ;  they  move  about, 
shift  places,  and  finally  adjust  tbeir  mutual  re- 
lations in  a  manner  highly  satiafactory  to  thcm- 
tclves,  and  therelore  10  the  reader.  We  should 
object  to  Mr.  Lawrence  Crofl  that  he  is  not 
quite  worthy  of  the  bright- witted,  sweet-nat- 
ured  little  Mrs.  Null,  except  that  it  is  not 
worth  while  to  take  the  story  too  seriously. 
The  book  is  a  veiy  original  invention  —  Mr. 
Stockton  is  nothing  if  not  original  — and  It  is 


more  continuously  amusing  than  we  had 
tured  to  expecL  The  professional  hnmori 
of  all  writers  most  exposed  to  the  danger  of 
miasing  his  mark  and  falling  flat,  in  which  case 
he  ia  more  afflictingly  tedioua  than  any  serious 
writer  can  be.  The  likelihood  of  such  disaster 
is  obviously  greater  the  larger  his  undertaking. 
Hr.  Stockton  happily  escapes  it  in  this  instance, 
though  rather  than  end  tamely  he  treats  us 
the  close  to  a  bit  of  pretty  broad  burlesque, 
Urs.  Keswick's  brilliant  scheme  to  avenge  her 
hereditary  wrongs  upon  her  injurer  by  threat- 
ening to  bestow  herself  and  her  temper  1 
him  for  life.  Aunt  Patsey,  Uncle  Isham,  and 
Peggy  are  truly  delightful,  and  any  one  who 
knows  the  Virginia  darkey  easily  pictures  Ihe 
face*,  voice*,  aivd  manner  of  the  "culled  pus- 
sons"  who  in  Ur.  Stockton's  story  talk  the 
genuine  dialect  of  the  State.  Peggy,  in  particu- 
lar, is  a  joy  forever.  We  must  not  spoil  the 
story  for  those  who  have  not  read  it  by  allusion! 
to  detail,  but  wilt  merely  recommend  all  who 
valne  hearty  fun  as  they  ought  to  posses*  them- 
selves of  Tilt  Late  Mrs.  Null  and  proceed  forth- 
with to  enjoy  it.  To  the  author  thereof  we  say. 
Go  on  and  write  another  book  aa  good  as  this 
and  we  will  give  It  ready  welcome. 


Writers  of  short  stories  often  fail  when  they 
try  their  bands  at  longer  ones,  but  Calmtt  Chei- 
wiei'i  Campa^H  is  sufficient  proof  that  the 
author  of  Caitlt  Blair  is  capable  of  writing 
either.  The  appearance  of  a  atoty  so  fiesh  and 
delicate  and  original  ia  like  an  oasis  in  the  arid 
waste  of  every-day  fiction,  and,  like  the  oasis, 
sends  us  forward  with  a  aense  of  refreshment, 
and  of  quickened  life  and  spirit,  flow  unutter- 
ably tired  we  have  all  become  of  the  love-mak- 
ing which  is  half  flesh  and  half  equivoque,  of 
the  feeling  which  disdains  all  alliance  with  com- 
mon aense,  and  Ihe  analysis  which  introduces 
its  dramatis  persena,  so  to  speak,  scalpel  in 
band,  and  proceeds  to  lay  their  bones  bare  for 
the  entertainment  of  iu  readers.  What  a  relief 
to  get  at  something  o(  the  old-lime  quality 
again  in  a  novel,  to  have  character  indicated  by 
processes  more  delicate  than  that  of  slicing  its 
flesh  publicly  off,  to  feel  that  romance  may  be 
high-minded  still,  and  fun  enfold  refinement. 
And  such  a  short  love  story  as  this  is,  two 
of  them  in  fact  —  stories  of  the  sort  that  we 
used  to  enjoy  before  M.  Zola  and  Mr.  Ifenry 
James,  Jr.,  took  possession  of  tbeir  opposite 
pole*  of  fiction,  and  Ihe  wide  school  of  disci- 
ples and  imilators  who  cover  the  intervening 
space  between  them,  fell  to  work  to  exorcise 
all  old-faahioned  precedents  and  scandalize  all 
ancient  pruderies.  Such  a  character  as  Ailsa 
Cheswick,  so  delicately  put  on  the  canvas,  so 
strong,  so  maidenly,  so  innocent,  so  wise,  so 
deeply  loyal,  is  enough  to  lake  the  bad  taste 
of  a  decade  out  of  the  mouth,  and  we  hope  will 
<o.  So  for  many  readers  we  proffer  out 
grateful  thanks  to  Miss  Shaw  for  her  delightful 
liltle  book,  and  hope  that  she  may  soon  again 
come  to  our  rescue  with  a  story  equally  good. 

Princt  Otto.  By  Robert  Ixjuis  Stevenson. 
[Roberts  Brother*,    fi.oo.] 

Mr.  Stevenson's  Prinei  Otto  affects  us  cather 
like  the  dance  of  shadows  depicted  on  the 
screen  of  a  magic  lantern  than  a*  the  movemeni 


of  real  men  and  women.  Surely  only  in  fairy- 
land could  a  kingdom  exist  where  human  beings 
are  of  such  inconceivable  lightness,  or  suffer 
themselves  to  be  so  blown  about  by  every 
fluctuating  wind  of  mood  or  drcumstance. 
What  with  the  Prince  who  can  neither  love 
or  discriminate,  or  control  or  resist ;  the  Prin- 
ces* who  stakes  all  on  a  coarse  fantasy  which 
she  flings  aside  the  moment  Ihe  whim  wanes, 
the  maid  of  honor  who  sets  fire  to  a  kingdom 
as  ligh-theartedly  as  if  it  were  a  bouse  of  cards, 
the  burly  and  ambitious  politician,  who  commits 
himself  in  writing  like  a  school-boy  and  falls 
by  the  pride  of  a  woman's  needle,  the  pure  and 
philosophical  privy-councilor  who  loves  another 
man's  wife  and  cannot  resiit  Ihe  charm*  of 
drink  —  these  surely  are  such  stuff  as  dreama 
are  made  of,  and  are  aketched  in  with  an  auda- 
cious levity  which  is  amaaing.  For  the  real  the 
book  ia  entertaining,  as  anything  written  by  Mr. 
Robert  Louis  Stevenson  is  prelty  sure  to  be. 

Atalania  in  lie  South.  A  Romance.  By 
Maud  flowe.    [Roberts  Brothers,    fi.zj.] 

This  third  venture  of  Miss  Howe's  doe*  not 
add  to  her  literary  reputation,  ft  is  evident 
that  being  in  New  Orleans  and  becoming  fa- 
miliar with  some  of  the  conditions  of  society 
and  with  individual  characters,  she  found  a 
scene  and  personages  at  hand  out  of  which  to 
create  a  book,  borrowing  from  the  Norih  her 
heroine,  Margaret  Rnysdale,  who  is  trying  to 
win  fame  as  a  sculptor.  This  girl  and  her  two 
lovers,  Robert  Feuardent  and  Philip  Rondelet, 
are  rather  vague  figures,  although  special  effort 
is  made  to  portray  them,  as,  in  the  case  of 
Robert,  tlius : 

His  head,  which  be  habitually  held  rather 
high,  was  small  and  of  a  Greek  mould,  and  was 
finely  set  upon  the  broad  shoulders  by  a  round 
smooth  throat,  beautiful  as  a  woman's.  His 
complexion  was  of  the  color  of  a  late  autumn 
peach  which  has  hung  long  upon  the  tree  and 
acquired  a  bronze  lingc,  through  which  the  red 
shows  with  a  splendiiT  warmth  of  color.  Thick 
eyebrows  which  looked  as  if  they  might  frown 
ominously,  arched  a  pair  ol  eyes  (earless,  open, 
and  with  a  certain  savage  beauty,  like  those  of 
some  untamed  creature  of  the  woods, 
with  a  good  deal  more  of  the  same  sort  <rf 
writing,  which  leaves  u*  speculating  how  really 
the  man  did  look.  This  diffuscness  pervade* 
the  book,  weakening  whal  with  more  repreasion 
and  literary  art  might  have  been  a  fairly  good 
story.  The  melo-dramatic  element  is  very 
prominent,  and  is  pitched  on  a  false  key;  mys- 
an  innocent  man  under  a  ban,  a  duel,  a 
passionate  Creole,  an  impulsive,  fiery  girl  with 
African  blood  in  bet  veins,  misapprehensions 
and  cross  purposes  make  up  the  plot;  but 
happiness  comes  to  Margaret,  who  abandons 
her  art  and  accepts  the  right  lover,  while  Ihe 
other  two  go  to  tend  the  sick  during  a  yellow 
[ever  panic,  and  I'hilip  loses  bis  life. 


Mrs.  Alexander's  latest  contribution  to 
modern  fiction,  and  is  an  entertaining  story  enough, 
but  of  much  lighter  quality  than  any  of  ber  more 
recent  works.  It  concerns  the  fate  and  fortunes  of 
an  heiress  who  does  nol  know  that  ahe  is  an  heir- 
ess, and  who,  innocently  and  ignorantly.  Buffers 
herself  to  be  bargained  over  and  traf5cked  with, 
and  thrown  like  a  shuttlecock  between  a  venal 
guardian  and  a  needy  man  of  the  world,  without 


1 886.] 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


■83 


baving  ItK  IcMt  stupicioQ  of  what  ii  going  on. 
Fate  ID  tb«  end  ii  kind  and  retcuei  her  from  «vil 
by  tempoiarily  withdrawing  the  foitnne  which 
hai  nearly  proved  her  destraction ;  but  there  is  a 
certain  air  Jetiautittii//i  litoat  the  plot,  and  a  care- 
leunew  of  handling,  which  lead  us  to  auapect  the 
book  to  be  ratbct  a  "  pot-boiler  "  than  a  Miiooi 
exhibition  of  its  author's  poweri. 

r/u  EvU  Gfniui.  By  Wilkie  Collins.  [Haiper 
ft  Brother*.    Paper,  a5c.] 

Reader!  who  have  In  hit  earlier  work*  admired 
Wilkie  CoUins's  wonderful  akill  in  the  weaving 
of  plot*  and  in  the  art  of  graphic  narrative  will 
find  in  thia  that  hi*  hand  hai  hj  no  mean*  lost  ii* 
conning.  The  opening  of  the  story,  after  a  pre- 
lude which  is  a  minor  tale  in  itself,  i*  not  alto- 
gether onuiual  —  the  yonng  govenieis  whose 
beauty  and  gratitude  for  kindness  shown  to  her 
prove  dangerously  seductive  to  her  employer, 
and  the  child  who  by  the  close  association  of 
pu[nl  with  teacher  becomes  pasaioaately  attached 
to  her.  But  the  development,  from  these  begin- 
nings, Is  not  commonplace,  and  Its  shifts  and 
change*  of  evil  and  of  good  will  closely  enchain 
the  reader's  attenlion  and  interest.  The  legal 
adviser,  so  useful  to  novelists,  doe*  not  fail  to 
appear,  bnt  varied  by  traits  derived  from  a 
French  ancestry.  In  the  unpleasantly  offidou* 
character  of  the  leading  elderly  lady  of  the  itory, 
one  may  discern  suggestions  of  Lady  Lundy  in 
Man  and  Wifi,  one  of  this  novelist's  gresteat 
work*;  s  character  relieved,  however,  by  some 
tonches  of  good.  Quite  annsual  i*  the  introduC' 
tion  of  a  former  tea-captain  noteworthy  for  hit 
lincere  religious  faith  and  philanthropic  efforts. 
We  may  especially  recommend  thia  story  because 
of  its  pleasant  ending  and  the  absence  of  that 
concentration  of  horrors  found  near  the  close  of 
some  of  this  author's  novel*.  Doubtlets  thl* 
will  appear  later  in  clolh. 

A  DitPrratt  Chanet.  By  J.  D.  Jerrold  Kelley, 
U.  S.  N.    [Charles  Scribner'^s  Sons.    %iioa\ 

A  realistic  and  rather  sensational  sketch  of 
modem  life,  which  v«e  may  describe,  allUeralively, 
as  a  Btoiy  of  suicide*  and  of  the  sea.  It  opens 
in  Frsnce,  with  Americans  as  leading  characters. 
Their  relations  to  one  another  and  to  those  who 
kill  themselves  are  decidedly  perplexing,  though 
perhaps  interesting  to  lovers  of  an  intricate  plot. 
Later,  the  more  prominent  survivors  are  brought 
together  at  Gibraltar  and  embark  for  the  United 
States  in  a  sailing  vessel.  The  writer's  nautical 
experience  here  proves  useful,  and  we  think  the 
beginiung  of  the  voyage  is  the  best  piece  of  nar- 
rative in  the  book.  The  voyage  enda,  however, 
in  shipwreck  on  the  coast  of  North  Carolina ;  as 
doe*  also  the  story  —  after  a  *tartling  revelation 
as  to  the  personality  of  one  of  the  people  saved 
from  the  wreck  and  a  promise  of  happiness  for 
two  lovers  whom  adverse  drcumstances  have 
long  kept  apart  The  anlkot'*  style  is  good; 
bnt  we  do  not  commend  the  plot. 


T£XT-B00K8  IV  HATHEMATIOS. 


BellaBili^t  Methfd  of  Equipeilmctt.  Thesis 
(or  the  Degree  of  Doctor  of  Philosophy,  Uni- 
ver*ity  of  Virginia.  By  S.  M.  Barton.  [Cbai^ 
lottetville,  Va. ;  BUkey  ft  Proul.] 

TU*  pamphlet  of  17  pages  i*  exceedingly 
tcreUing  and  able  i  and  Jnstifies  the  election  of 


Dr.  Barton  to  his  pr<rfessorship  of  mathematics 
at  Emory,  Virginia.  Bellavitis's  method  i*  *hown 
to  be  facile  snd  fruitful  in  treating  geomeErical 
problems   in  a  plane ;   as   Hamilton's   Quster 

I  are  in  space  of  three  dimen^ons.  It 
would  be  interesting  to  have  Dr.  Barton  com" 
pare  Bellavitis's  method  with  A.  J.  Ellis's  dinant 
algebra  and  stigmatic  geometry,  which  are  also 
limited  to  a  plane.    One  critidsm  alone  would 

enture  upon  a  pamphlet  so  out  of  the  range 
of  "literature."  The  opening  sentence*  imply 
that  the  Imaginary  has  been,  or  can  be,  wholly 
explained.  But  the  explication  of  the  imaginary 
in  one  sense  only  opens  to  it  a  new  sense.  In 
which  to  hide  again.  The  finite  intellect  mtist 
forever  find  something  inexplicable  ;  its  power 
of  inventing  symbols,  for  the  inexplicable,  must 
alwsys  exceed  its  power  of  explaining  them. 

Eltmtnli  ef  Ike  Thtoty  af  Ike  NtatuniaH  Pa- 
tntial  Function.  By  B.  O.  Peirce,  Ph.D.  [ffinn 
ft  Co.] 

In  this  little  volume  Assistant  Professor  B.  O. 

Peirce  has  given  to  the  student  trf  physics  an 

exceedingly  convenient  manual  for  hia  guidance 

the  study  of  any  problem  involving  the  at 

traction  of  gravitation,  snd   the  attraction  and 

repulsion  of  statical  eleclridty.     The  physical 

connection  between  gravity   and    elecltical   at* 

traction  and  repulsion  is  still,  we  believe,  wholly 

the  dark;  but  the  mathematical  connection 

the  three  cases  is  made  very  clear,  to  malhe- 

matical  students,  in  this  book;  which  will  prove 

of  great  assistance  to  beginners  in  mathematico- 

phyaical  studies. 

ElemtHiarji  Ca-erditatt  Geamilry.  For  Colle- 
giate Use  and  Private  Study.  By  William  Ben- 
famin  Smith,  Ph.D.    [GInn  ft  Co.] 

Professor  Smith  gives  the  student  first  a  brief 
treatlae  of  17  pages  on  determinants ;  tlien  197 
pages  on  co-ordinate  geometry  in  a  plane ;  and 
finally  55  on  forms  in  space.  The  book  is  a* 
full  of  suggestions  and  problems  a*  possible; 
no  student  can  complain  of  deficiency  of  matter  1 
the  indolent  may  complain  that  it  is  too  much 
condensed  ;  but  the  student  who  has  a  taate 
for  such  studies,  and  the  ambition  to  learn  the 
modes  of  pursuing  them,  will  scarcely  find  a 
better  guide  than  this  volume- 


KIVOB  VOnOES. 


IVeniaH  in  Mutii. 


.   [Chi. 


This  carefully  prepared  "essay,"  revised  and 
enlarged  from  the  edition  of  1880,  Is  in  three 
divisions,  treating  first  of  woman  in  music,  her 
relation  to  it  as  a  consideration  of  sex ;  second, 
of  the  influence  of  the  individual  woman,  or  of 
several  women,  on  composers  —  the  names  of 
Bach,  Handel,  Beethoven,  Haydn,  Hoxart, 
Schubert,  Schumann,  Mendelssohn,  Chopin,  We- 
ber, and  Wagner  being  used  in  illustration  ;  last, 
woman  as  the  interpreter  of  music ;  and  to  make 
the  essay  complete,  an  appendix  with  "a  list  of 
the  promment  female  composers  during  the  past 
three  cenCuriea,"  and  a  list  of  the  dedications 
made  to  women  by  the  composers  named  so  far 
as  it  was  possible  to  obtain  them.  The  author 
suggest*  as  reasons  why  woman  ha*  failed  u  a 
creator  in  moslc,  that  being  emotional  by  na- 
late  *be  "cannot   project  herself   oatwardly," 


that  she  is  unable  to  endure  the  discouragements 
oF  the  composer,  and  battle  with  prejudice,  in- 
diScrence,  and  opposition ;  that,  being  an  exact 
science  as  well  as  an  art,  music  requires  year*  of 
patient  toil  and  application  in  directions  where 
women  have  rarely  achieved  great  result*.  Hav- 
ing ingeniously  disposed  of  this  portion,  giving 
woman  credit  for  her  fine  intuition,  sensibility,  and 
appredation,  he  pa**eB  on  to  detail  in  pleasing  way 
incidents  more  or  less  familiar  in  the  lives  of  the 
n  composers,  showing  in  what  degree  they 
were  indebted  to  mistress,  wife,  mother,  or  friend  [ 
bringing  into  compact  and  attractive  shape  a 
good  deal  o£  matter  valuable  in  the  literature  of 


This  is  a  convenient  reprint  from  the  Mne- 
teenlk  Century  of  the  articles  in  the  late  contro- 
versy aroused  by  Mr.  Gladstone's  attack  on  Dr. 
Albert  lUville's  Pretegointna  to  the  History  ef 
Retigient.  Mr.  Gladstone  is,  indeed,  a  wonder- 
ful man,  writing  with  ardor  on  Genesis  and 
Homer  as  a  recreation  from  Home  Rule  and 
Land  Uwsl  But  Prof.  Huxley  is  easily  "too 
many"  for  him  as  respects  the  scientific  ques- 
tions raised  by  the  first  chapters  of  Genesis,  where 
Mr.  Gladstone  is  strangely  behind  the  best 
thought  of  his  own  church;  while  Dr.  R^ville  in 
his  courteous  reply  to  the  more  theological  objec- 
tions makes  out  a  strong  case  for  his  own  views. 
This  recent  debate,  after  a  long  truce,  on  a  sub- 
ject which  was  so  much  fought  over  up  ti 


years  ago,  n: 


n  improvement  In  good 


temper  and  in  candor,  on  both  sides.  That  there 
is  such  a  thing  as  progress  in  theology,  Macaulay 
to  the  contrary  notwithstanding,  will  be  evident 
from  the  slightest  comparison  of  this  instructive 
book  with  any  of  the  kindred  controversial  vol- 
ume* dating  ten  years  back  or  more.  That  the 
provinces  of  religious  faith  and  of  natural  science 
are  much  more  generally  djstingui*hed,  as  they 
•hould  be,  with  each  new  year,  should  gratify 
both  parties  to  the  del>ate. 


This  last  addition  to  Blackwood's  Phileiefhi- 
cai  Classics  fully  maintains  the  high  character  of 
the  preceding  issues.  The  biographical  matter 
is  given  in  an  attractive  way,  and  the  account  of 
Hobbes's  philo*oplucal  system  is  inserted  in  the 
middle  portion  of  the  work  according  to  Its 
date.  Prof.  Robertson  has  developed  this  system 
In  its  bearings  upon  subsequent  philosophy, 
metaphysical  and  mor«l,  more  fully  than  is  usual 
with  writers  on  his  subject,  while  spending  little 
time  comparatively  upon  those  political  heresies 
for  which  Hobbes  was  chiefly  renowned.  His 
inflnence  upon  later  thinkers  his  biographer 
considers  to  have  been  mainly  through  psychology, 
while  the  amount  of  Locke's  Indebtedness  to 
him  is  generally  overrated.  On  Hobbes  as  a 
masterly  user  of  the  English  language.  Prof. 
Robertson  dwells  only  in  his  closing  pages,  hi* 
own  aim  having  been  philosophical  critidsm  and 
exposition,  in  both  of  which  he  appeata  to  ua  to  be 
singularly  successful  from  the  stand-point  of  the 
English  school  of  psychologists,  rather  than  liter- 
ary appredation.  The  volume  is  well  calculated 
to  complete  the  ordinary  imperfect  estimate  ^  x 
great  name  in  English  tboughL  C  ' 


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THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Mav  29, 


The  Literary  World. 


BOSTON,  MAY  29.  IB86. 


HANHAH  FOSTEB  AND  HER 

DAtrQHTEBS. 

THE  first  Amecican  novel  [Tii  CoguMel  wis 
wrilten  by  Mrs.  Hannah  Foster,  daughter 
of  Grant  Webster  of  Boston.  Mrs.  Foster's 
husband,  Dr.  John  Foster,  was  for  forCj-Gve 
ycara  the  minister  of  the  Unitarian  church  in 
Brlghloa,  Mast.  Mrs,  Foster  before  her  mar- 
riage had  written  many  political  articles  for  the 
papers,  which  attracted  much  attention  from 
their  brilliancy.  She  never  saw  the  correspond- 
ence between  the  parties  described  in  her  book. 
The  stDiy  was  founded  on  fact,  all  the  characters 
being  persons  well  known  at  that  time;  but  it 
was  said  she  had  caught  their  style  and  individu- 
ality with  wonderful  correctness. 

Mrs.  Poster  published  another  book  called 
The  BeardiHg  ScAeal.  She  was  very  much  in- 
terested in  the  education  of  young  iadies,  and 
sought  in  this  voluioe  to  convey  instruction 
through  stories  and  essays  ;  but  it  never  became 
papular  tike  The  CtqtutU,  which  has  passed 
through  many  editions.  It  was  republished  in 
1880. 

Miss  Eliza  Foster  and  Miss  Harriett  Foster 
inherited  their  mother's  talent,  and  when  quite 
young  published,  without  their  names,  novels 
which  took  a  high  rank.  Saratoga  and  Yfrk- 
Imm  were  historical  romances,  full  of  the  vivid 
interest  which  still  lingered  around  the  scenes  of 
the  Revolutionary  struggle.  These  were  written 
by  Miss  Eliia  Foster,  who  afterwards  manied 
Dr.  Fredk.  Gushing,  and  is  still  living  in  Mon- 
treal, Canada,  as  is  also  her  sister,  Mrs.  Cheney, 
who  wrote  a  very  popular  novel,  Pief  at  tkt  PU- 
grimt,  which,  unknown  at  the  time  to  her,  has 
been  republished  in  England.  She  wrote  also 
shorter  story  called  the  Rioalt  of  Acadia,  which 
was  very  good,  though  it  did  not  please  as  Hit 
Pitf  hkd  done.  These  ladies  afterwards  edited 
one  of  the  first  juvenile  magazines  called 
Tki  Snewdrop,  and  contributed  more  or  less  to 
leading  periodicals.  They  have  passed  their 
fourscore  years,  but  their  minds  are  nndimmed, 
and  they  write  now  with  all  Ihe  freshness  ol 
youth,  and  keep  themselves  a»/ai'/with  all  the 
intellectual  movements  of  the  time. 


On  the  next  day  after  Helen's  arrival   »  sleigh 
ride  was  proposed  for  all  the  members  of  the 
family  in  a  laige  four-horse  sleigh  —  an  unusually 
jolly  excursion.     I  can  never  forget  the  expres- 
sion on  Helen's  face  as  she  watched  me   in  my 
intercourse  with  the  young  ladies  relating  to  this 
aion.    Surprise,  wonder,  a  little  suspicion 
of  an  attempt  at  producing  an   eSect,  were  all 
idenL    This  was  due  to  the  influences  which 
had  surrounded  her  since  she  was  nine  years  old- 
soon   found  that  there  was  no  treachery, 
and  became  one  of  our  best  and  loveliest  pupils- 
Affectionate  in  disposition,  but   repressed  in 
this  respect  by  her  lonely  situation,  she  clung 
Itb  deathless  grasp  to  the  friends  she  made  ii 
the  three  or  four  years  she  was  with  us. 

Her  scholarship  was  very  good  except  in 
mathematics.  In  Latin  she  was  greatly  pro- 
ficient for  one  of  her  age,  then  only  sixteen.  In 
compositioo  exercises  she  gave  promise  of  future 
ability.  Mr.  A.  often  told  her  that  God  had 
given  her  a  talent  in  this  department  which  she 
'as  bound  to  use  and  to  cultivate. 
Helen  waa  amiable,  self-reliant,  fascinating, 
lade  friends  whereret  she  chose.  For  a  yonng 
girl  she  was  a  thinker.  She  conversed  we: 
almost  any  subject  which  would  interest  s  young 
lady.  She  was  generous  and  self-sacrificing, 
in  all  her  work,  and  a  pleasant  inmate  of 
the  family.  As  a  teacher  ahe  was  beloved  and 
sncccssfol.  J 

II. 
Ad  BxtncI  from  On«  of  her  Letters. 


responsive  echo  in  millions  of  Southern  hearts, 
and  Father  Ryan  was  unanimously  proclaimed 
the  Poet-Laureate  of  the  South.  His  poems  are 
religious  as  well  as  patriotic,  for  he  said,  "  I  did 
not  cease  to  be  a  priest  when  I  became  a  poet-" 
In  the  preface  to  the  collected  edition  of  bis 
poems,  published  in  Baltimore  in  18S0,  be  says: 

These  verses  are  incomplete  in  finish,  as  the 
Author  is;  though  be  thinks  Ihev  are  true  iu 
tone.  His  feet  know  more  of  the  humble  steps 
that  lead  up  to  the  Altar  than  of  Ihe  steeps  that 
lead  up  to  Parnassus  and  the  Home  of  the 
Muses.  And  souls  were  always  more  to  him 
than  songs.  But  still  somehow  —  and  he  could 
not  tell  why  —  he  sometimes  tried  to  sing-  His 
songs  were  vnitten  at  random  —  off  and  on,  here, 
'  '        lie  mood  came, « '  ' 

I,  and  always  ii 

Father  Ryan  was  bom  at  Norfolk,  Va.,  Id 
1S39,  He  had  a  happy  bome^  a  mother  whom 
he  tenderly  loved,  a  gentle  sister,  and  a  devoted 
brother,  who  fell  at  Fredericksburg,  to  whose 
memory  he  addressed  one  of  his  moat  tender 
poems.    This  is  the  first  verse: 


Let  Angela,  Cal^ 
Tkurtday,  Joh.  aj 


iSSs- 


HELEH  JA0E80K. 

I. 

A  Recollection. 

MY  first  acquaintance  with  '■  H.  H."  w 
January,  1S47,  when  she  Came  to  our  house 
in  New  York  to  attend  Abbott's  Institution. 
She  had  been  for  some  time  a  pupil  of  Miss 
Grant  at  Ipswich,  Mass.  Her  relations  at  Ihe 
school  not  being  satisfactory,  her  uncle  (her 
parents  were  both  dead)  brought  her  to  New 
York.  She  was  tall,  slender,  bright,  and  pleas- 
ing in  appearance. 

Our  intercourse  with  our  pupils  was  not  after 
Ihe  boarding-school  manner,  as  it  existed  at 
that  day,  but  that  tA  parents  irith  their  children. 


am  gaining  very  slowly  in  walking,  and  am 
still   on   crutches,  and  I    fear  likely  to  b 

lonths.  But  if  one  must  be  helpless  I  know 
'  place  in  the  world  where  one  can  bear 
better  than  in  South  California.  The  hills  are 
already  green,  aa  velvet,  the  barley  many  inches 
high,  in  some  volnnteer  patches  in  full  head, 
larks  and  linnets  singing  all  along  the  roads, 
and  all  sorts  of  flowers  in  full  bloom  ii 
gardens;  nevertheless  it  is  cool  enough  to  make 
a  fire  welcome,  indeed  needful,  at  night  and 
the  morning;  the  perfection  of  weather. 

I   hope   you   have    read    my   story    Ramana 
and  became  converted  by  it  (if  you  needed  con 
version)  on  the  Indian  question.    I  have,  in  thi 
book,  flung  my  last  weapon  1    If  this  does  ne 
tell,  I  know  nothing  more  lo  do.    In  my  Ctn- 
tury   of  Dishener   I   tried    to  attack  peopli 
consciences  directly,  and  they  would  not  list* 
Now  I  have  sugared  my  pill,  and  It  remans 
be  seeu  if  it  will  go  down. 

Youra  always  cordially, 
HBL.EN  Jackson, 


THE  P0ET-PEIE8T  OF  THE  BOUTH. 

REV.   ABRAM  J.  RYAN,   the   Poel-Priest 
of  the  South,waB,perhapB,  the  most  unique 
and   remarkable  of  all  the  bards   of  the  "Lost 
Cause."    His  war  songs  of  the  South  were  ■ 
te  n,  as  he  himself  said,  "  not  for  harm  sake, 
for  hale  sake."     Tkt  Cengutrtd  Banner,  1 
mencing 

Furl  that  Bannr,  tor  tli  wetrr ; 
Round  itt  alaff  'u  dnxmiui  drBSrv: 
Fori  ii,  fold  h,  it  is  bert: 

was  the  most  pathetic  dirge  inspired  by  the  fail- 
ure of  the  South.    Its  monrnful  verses  found 


»  U  Ihc  Dn 


nnECSt  win  doDued  tlu  Griy, 


(Hoi  tdi  _    _      _ 

Triumphaol  irand  our  Hig  dub  daj  — 
He  ftU  in  Ihe  front  belon  it. 
Finding  that  he  was  called  to  the  priesthood, 
he  entered  the  seminary,  and  after  his  ordinatioa 
became  a  chaplain  in   the   Confederate  Army. 
serving  until  the  end  of  the   war.    In  1S65  he 
settled  in  New  Orleans,  and  for  three  years  was 
the  editor  of  Tie  Star,  a  weekly  Catholic  paper- 
u  unfitted  by  nature  for  the  regular  work 
editor.    "I  cannot  do  anything  at  a  regu- 
lar time.    The  press  does  not  give  a  man  time 
for  day  dreams,  and  I  am  a  day  dreamer.    Give 
leisure  and  a  pipe,  and  I  am  happy.    I  am 
an  inveterate  smoker,  but  I  never  smoke  when  I 
writing,   only  when  I  am  mnaing,  thinking. 


From  New  Orleans  Father  Ryan  removed  to 
Knoxville,  Tenn.,  but  did  not  remain  there  lon^ 
for  early  in  iS63  he  went  to  Augusta,  Ga.,  and 
founded  the  Banner  efthe  SmiJt,  a  half  religioua, 
half  political  weekly.  In  a  few  months,  however, 
he  gave  it  up.  He  was  too  nervous  to  sit  down 
to  deliberate  composition.  "  Hy  nervousness 
makes  me  restless,"  he  said  to  me  years  after- 
wards. "  Like  Shelley.  Keats,  Byron,  Coleridge, 
Poe,  and  other  imaginative  poets,  I  am  a  wan- 
derer. Like  the  Hums,  I  am  always  on  the 
wing.  1  expect  no  rest  until  I  am  in  the  grave." 
One  of  his  most  monrofnl  poems  waa  called 
"Rest:" 


U,  (Ht  ars  wtaricd.  and  my  hiodi  are  tired, 

A»i.d-i!;.^'Sl?Knfn7d««d- 

R-l-onlyr.*. 

Tb*l»rtwoln.7cUr.i.hird 

Bui  God  know,  bet; 

And  1  have  pnyed,  but  niu  hu 

ohMT, 

b«n  my  pnyer. 

Kf  way  hu  oound  acrou  Ox  d 
My  p«h,  «nd.lh^h°i£'aQmn 

ttnyan, 
Eol  hmuvi 

Audlu 
Litc'iH 

WhJreT.hllur^''' 

D  be  o'er; 

eihon 

For  several  years  Father  Ryan  was  pastor  of 
St.  Mary's  Church,  Mobile,  but  in  iSSo  his  old 
restlessness  returned,  and  he  left  for  the  North 
for  the  twofold  object  of  publishing  his  poems    ^ 
and  making  a  lecturing  tour.     He   apent   the 


l886.] 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


■85 


month  of  December  of  that  year  in  Baltimore, 
where  he  wm  hospitablj'  entertained  at  Lojola 
College.  In  retarn  he  gave  a  public  reading 
from  bia  poems,  and  devoted  the  prooeedt  — 
t300  — to  found  a  Father  Ryan  medal  for  p<icti7. 
In  Baltimore  he  delivered  hi*  fital  lecture,  the 
subject  being  "  Some  Aapecia  of  Modern  Civili- 
latiun,"  in  which  he  eipoaed  the  fallades  of 
Huxley,  Tynd all,  Darwin,  and  other  "advanced 
thinlters."  "These  men,"  said  Father  Ryan, 
"are  ail  wrong.  They  think  by  degrading  God, 
they  can  elevate  man  —  tbat  by  debasing  the 
Creator,  they  can  elevate  the  creature.  The  stara 
that  gem  the  midnight  sky,  the  sun  that  lights 
the  day,  the  ocean  in  its  majesty,  the  storm  in  ill 
might  — all  proclaim  the  glory  of  their  Creator." 
"American  literature,"  he  said,  "hat  long  suf- 
fered from  the  want  of  a  sound,  judicious  criti- 
cism. A  literary  critic  should  be  an  impartial 
judge,  unbiased  by  favor  or  friendship.  Many 
of  our  critics  cannot  understand  that  Jove  ever 
nods,  so  they  bestow  the  same  praise  upon  a 
trifling  production  as  Ihcy  do  upon  an  author's 
masterpiece.  A  really  excellent  book  is  as  bard 
to  find  as  a  grain  of  wheat  in  a  bushel  of  chaff." 
Father  Ryan  died  in  Louisville,  Ky.,  April 
12.  For  several  years  he  said  he  felt  that  the 
grave  and  he  would  not  be  long  separated.  He 
did  not  enjoy  good  health  —  a  man  who  slept 
only  four  hours  a  day,  and  whose  steep  was  a 
dream,  and  who  had  no  appetite  for  anything  but 
tobacco,  can  scarcely  be  called  a  healthyt  man. 
Such  was  Father  Ryan  for  the  last  ten  years  of 
his  short  liie.  His  appearance  was  extremely 
bizarre.  His  eyes  were  dark,  with  a  dreamy, 
far  away  expression  ;  his  nose  aquiline,  his  hafr 
black,  coarse,  and  falling  uncombed  upon  his 
shoulders ;  his  complexion  was  swarthy  and  his 
highl  five  feet  nine  inches. 

EUGBHB  L.  DiDItK. 


OOBBESPOSDEHOE. 
"  The  Leavenworth  Case." 

To  tki  Editor  tf  tkt  Uttrary  Wtrldr 

Our  attention  has  only  Just  been  directed  to  s 
paragraph  signed  "  Stylus  "which  appeared  some 
weeks  ago  in  the  Lileraty  World,  in  which  the 
statement  is  made  that  Miu  Anna  K.  Green 
(now  Mrs.  Rohlfs]  "obuined  not  only  the  legal 
points  but  all  the  best  points  in  her  LeoBiirwvrik 
Caic  from  another  work." 

The  anonymous  author  of  the  story  mentioned 
makes  occasion  also  at  later  dale  to  send  a  fur- 
ther communication  to  your  columns,  explaining 
that  his  book  was  issued  under  several  dtles  by 
several  publishers,  but  that  its  publication  under 
the  first  title  was  prior  to  that  of  the  Lcavtn- 
wrrlh  Cast. 

The  point,  however,  on  which  be  lays  special 
stiess  is  that  the  story  was  (under  the  first  title 
used  for  it)  submitted  to  and  declined  by 
selves,  "the  publishers  who  afterwards  published 
the  LtitvintBorth  Can,"  and  he  is  apparently 
under  the  impression  that  this  examinatii 
the  story  by  our  firm  Constitutes  an  important 
link  in  the  chain  of  evidence  by  which  the 
of  certain   details   of  his   plot   is  trsced  to 

It   does   not   seem   to  us  that  an  anonyn 
writer,  who  has  presented  to  the  public  one  story 
under  not  less  than  three  titles,  Is  a  proper  per- 
son to  bring  a  charge  of  this  kind  against  a  firm 


like  ours  and  an  author  of  an  esisbliihed  repu- 
tation, and  we  submit  it  would  have  been  in 
order  for  a  journal  like  the  Literary  World,  be- 
fore printing  such  a  communication,  to  hsve 
referred  it  to  us  for  information. 
It  seems  worth  while  now,  however,  to  say  in 
;gard  to  the  matter.  First,  tbat  while  we  may 
very  possibly  have  had  in  our  hands  the  manu- 
script of  the  story  in  question,  we  have  no  re- 
membrance of  having  teen  it  under  any  of  Ita 
various  titles,  either  before  or  after  its  publics. 

Sicond,  Mrs.  Rohlfs  informs  as  that  she  has 

:ver  seen  an;  such  book,  and  that  until  this 
communication  was  shown  to  her  she  had  never 
heard  of  it 

Third,  the  Limetrmortk  Ciui  bad,  aa  was  ex- 
plained to  ns  at  the  time,  been  written  some  two 
years  before  it  was  submitted  to  us,  snd  the  well- 
known  literary  man  who  intioduced  Mitt  Green 

I  us  wss  acquainted  with  the  facts  and  history 

'  its  preparation. 

FaHrlA,  the  general  details  mentioned  by  your 
correspoiuient  at  the  grounds  for  his  claim  that 
hit  book  was  unconventional  and  original,  such 
the  development  of  a  link  In  the  story  by  the 
cross-examination  of  a  witness  at  a  coroner's 
inqncst,  the  inverse  order  of  the  detective  work, 
etc.,  src  common  to  a  number  of  detective 
stories,  and  could  not  be  claimed  aa  original 
either  by  the  author  of  the  Leavtrraerih  Case  or 
by  your  anonymous  correspondent. 

Possibly  the   present  interest  of  the  latter  in 

calling  fresh  sttention  to  his  production  of  some 

years  back,  ia  connected  with  a  plan  for  bringing 

once  more  before  the  public,  under  a  fourth 

tie.  G.  P.  PtTTNAM's  Sons. 


OITB  H£W  TORE  LETTER. 

THE  recent  departure  of  Mr.  James  R.  Os- 
good for  London  recalled  to  my  mind  the 
sale  of  his  laige  collection  of  sntograpbs,  which 
has  been  In  progress  at  the  store  of  Mr,  W.  E. 
imin  for  some  time.  Mr.  Osgood  was  a 
enthusiastic  and  judicious  collector,  Isi^ely 
of  original  manutciiptB  and  letters,  in  many  cases 
as  Interesting  from  their  subject-matter  as  from 
tbeir  aaaociations.  By  this  time  the  collection  is 
scattered  over  the  country,  as  buyers  were  found 
almost  every  section  of  the  United  States. 
The  original  manuscript  of  Bret  Harte's  Ttao 
Mm  of  Sandy  Bar  went  to  Chicago  to  swell  the 
collection  of  Mr.  C.  C.  Gunther,  a  confectioner 
of  tbat  dty,  and  a  moat  enthusiastic  collector  of 
autographs  and  rare  books.  Mr.  Gunther  is  the 
gentleman  who  recently  created  a  sensation  in 
antiquarian  and  literary  circles  by  his  announce- 
ment of  the  discovery  of  a  fine  autograph  of 
Shakespesre.  He  is  a  regular  buyer  at  the  New 
York  and  London  book  sales,  and  it  building  up 
a  collection  that  would  be  notable  anywhere,  but 
is  particularly  to  in  Chicago,  where  fine  private 
libraries  arc  not  many.  In  addition  to  the  Bret 
Harte  manuscript,  for  which  he  paid  ^5,  Mr. 
Gunther  also  bought  for  |20o  a  letter  of  Oliver 
Goldsmith's,  in  which  be  writes  of  his  progress 
in  the  study  of  medicine,  saying:  "I  read  a 
science  the  most  pleasing  in  nature,  so  that  my 
labors  are  but  a  relaxation."  The  original  manu- 
script of  Emerson's  Jtefirtietitativi  Men  went, 
with  other  writings  from  the  pen  of  the  great 
essayist  and  poet,  to  a  gentlesiaQ  who  purposes 


presenting  them  ti 


e  public  literary  instltu. 


There  are  many  interesting  features  about  the 
light  hundred  manuscript  pages  which,  txnind 
together,  make  up  this  volume.  On  the  fly-leaf 
lote  from  Francis  H.  Underwood  attesting 
the  anthenticity  of  the  manuscript  The  title- 
page  Ijears  the  inscription,  Riprtientativi  Mm  : 
Seven  Lecture!  by  R.  W.  Emerson,  in  the  bold 
autograph  of  the  author.  The  most  strildng 
feature  of  the  manuscript  is  the  evident  baste  in 
which  it  was  written.  Erasures  and  intcrlinca- 
follow  each  other  in  such  numbers  that 
many  pages  present  the  "blottesque"  appear- 
ance of  Mr.  Ruskin's  celebrated  corrected  proof 
of  Sir  John  Lubbock's  best  one  hundred  boolu. 
.  it  not  a  manuscript  which  has  been  written 
lit  and  then  revised  and  carefully  "polished." 
he  writer  has  written  down  his  thoughts  as 
ipidty  a*  they  were  formulated  in  his  active 
mind,  and  when  any  sentence  displeases  him  his 
Sying  pen  slops,  sometimes  In  the  middle  of  a 
rd,  and  dashes  back  with  an  all  obliterating 
scrawl  thiough  the  offending  phrase;  then  on 
again  to  clothe  the  thought  in  more  happy  lan- 
guage. But  not  many  writers  of  today  could  pen 
the  paragraphs  that  Emerson  so  ruthlessly  dis- 
carded. Again  in  scanning  this  precious  manu- 
>t  one  notices  that  eitlier  it  was  not  originally 
ten  for  publication  or  else  that  Emerson  felt 
he  could  disregsrd  that  first  law  of  the  edi- 
torial sanctum,  "  Write  on  one  side  of  the  paper 
ily."  Clearly  in  msny  cases  the  author,  carried 
away  with  the  earnestness  of  his  purpose,  has 
hurriedly  turned  over  his  paper  and  gone  on  with 
his  writing.  This  manuscript,  simply  bound, 
brought  #500,  and  Mr-  Benjamin  had  orders  for 
it  from  half  a  doten  collectors.  Four  of  the 
Emerson-Carlyle  letters  were  in  Mr.  O^ood's 
collection  and  were  offered  for  a  hundred  dol- 
lars. Several  orders  were  received,  but  Hr. 
Benjamin,  learning  that  these  letters  were  among 
the  number  which  were  purloined  from  their 
rightful  owner  some  months  ago,  disregarded  the 
more  favorable  orders  and  sold  them  to  Mrs. 
Forbes,  Emerson's  daughter,  for  a  sum  less  than 
the  catalogue  price. 

Next  to  the  Emersoniana,  the  manuscripts  of 
the  Autocrat  and  of  Tki  Professor  at  IMe  Breai- 
fast  Table  were  the  most  interesting  specimens. 
At  the  time  of  my  visit  the  latter  had  not  found 
a  purchaser,  but  the  former,  though  not  a  per- 
fect manuscript,  found  an  early  purchaser  in 
Ml.  Franklin  H.  Tinker,  for  tjzs,  and  he  will 
probably  expend  as  much  more  on  the  bind- 
ing. Some  other  papers  of  interest  were:  a 
letter  from  Shelley  to  his  publishers,  in  which 
he  says  that  Ceitci  was  refuted  at  Diury  Lane 
"on  a  plea  of  the  ttory  being  too  horrible.  I 
believe  it  singulariy  fitted  for  the  stage ; "  snd 
Hawthorne's  manuscript  of  A  London  Suburb, 
one  of  the  sketches  in  Our  Old  Home,  which 
went  for  I90  to  a  gentlemen  who  is  credited 
with  being  the  first  collector  of  first  editions  of 
Hawthorne.  This  manuscript  is  written  through- 
out on  both  sides  of  the  paper.  An  unpublished 
poem  by  Keats,  being  a  sonnet  sddrested  To 
Mrs.  Reynoldi'i  Cat,  is  so  very  anmelodious 
that  any  admirer  of  Keats  ia  inclined  to  regret 
that  it  has  not  remained  forever  unpublished. 
Nevertheless  it  has  now  appeared  in  the  columns 
of  several  newspapers,  and  for  the  manuscript 
no  less  than  eighteen  orders  were  filed.  It  sold 
forffo, 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[May  39, 


The  Grolier  Club,  of  whidi  I  wrote  Rt  m 
length  lut  week,  hu  now  well  under  way 
third  annaal  [rabltcatian.    Thit  yexr  it  ii  to 
rather  more  unbitioiu  than  the  worki  prcTioudy 
issued,  illustrations  being  for  the  first  time  i 
duced.    The  book  chosen   is  Irving'*  Krucker- 
botktr  Hittery  of  Nem  York.    It  is  to  be  issued 
in  two  volomes,  each  with  an^etched  rrontispicce 
from    water-color    drawing*,  by  G.   A.  Abbey. 
The  price  of  the  book  lo  club  members  will  be 
(30,  and  the  entire  edition  hat  been  subscribed 
for.    In  typography  and  "make  np"  this  will 
be  probably  a  book  of  unexampled  beauty. 

Nm  Yffrk,  May  34, 1SS6.  Nassau. 


M', 


ODB  QERHAH  LETTER. 
Ooethe  Matters,  etc- 
f  Y  letter  this  week  will  be  nearly  filled  with 
items  on  Goethe.  The  llleratuie  writteo 
about  Goethe,  like  that  on  Shakeapeare,  is 
•uming  alarming  dimensions.  A  man's  life, 
unless  he  attains  a  hundred  yeais,  is  even  now 
scarcely  long  enough  to  read  all  the  booka  writ- 
ten on  the  "  Altmeister "  and  his  work.  A  good 
many  of  them  are  naturally  quite  supeiBuous  — 
mere  encumbrance*  of  the  already  over-encum- 
bered Germaa  book  market.  But  from  time  to 
time  a  volume  is  published  that  is  the  reverse  of 
ttdious  and  "  threshed. out."  Decidedly  one  of 
the  most  remarkable  contribution*  to  Goethe 
literature  has  quite  recently  been  issued  in  the 
shape  of  Vischer's  satire  on  the  second  part  of 
Fauil.  Some  competent  critics  say  that  this 
boolc,  which  is,  of  course,  creating  much  stir,  is 
the  grandest  satirical  work  since  Aristophanes, 
that  its  intrinsic  merits  far  exceed  those  of 
Sutler'*  Hudibras  and  of  the  great  Satin  Mhtip- 
pit,  not  10  mention  other  satires  less  famous. 
The  book  originally  saw  the  light  (wenly-iix  years 
■go  under  the  title  Fatist,  Third  Part  0/ lit 
Tragtdy;  by  Friidriik  Thtodar  Vitchtr.  Now 
second  edition,  greatly  enlarged  and  almoat  en- 
tirely rewritten,  has  come  out  under  the  pseudo- 
nym—  a  very  apt  one,  too  —  of  "  Deutobold  Sytn- 
bolltelti  Alleguriovitch  Mystificinsky,"  which 
is  In  Itself  a  clever  satire  on  the  numberless 
commentaries  on,  and  cnmmenutors  of,  our  lead- 
ing classic.  This  "original"  pseudonym  is  char- 
acteristic of  the  proverbial  eccentricity  and 
originality  of  Viitcher,  a  celebrated  "geatheti- 
cian  "  living  at  Stuttgart,  and  seventy-nine  years 

Although  a  glowing  admirer  of  Goethe,  Vis- 
cher  is  by  no  means  blind  to  the  great  poet's 
faults.  He  is  particularly  vexed  with  that  mjBtic 
and  mysterious  drama,  the  second  part  of  Fau^ 
which  no  human  being  has  been  or  is  able  to 
understand  properly,  simply  because  It  is  —  in 
spite  of  its  legions  of  enplicatora  and  commenta- 
tors—  uninlelligible.  In  masterly  verses  and 
with  scorching  contempt,  our  author  parodies  the 
dryasdusts  who  eal  themselves  into  the  remains 
of  the  Weimar  "  star."  But  his  work  is  far 
more  than  a  parody  of  Goethe  and  his  idolaters, 
it  is  also  a  surpassing  picture  of  German  history 
in  OUT  own  days,  and  a  most  ingenious  critical 
survey  of  the  whole  of  Goethe's  Faust,  the  first 
part  of  which  Vischer  enthusiastically  praises. 

Among  the  much-sinning  and  much-abused 
Goethe  commentators  one  of  the  front  places 
is  due  to  Heinrich  Diintzer,  who  devoted  dozens 
upon  dozens  of  volumes  to  the  life  and  writiDg* 
of   th«  wonderful  Frankfurter,     A  good  deal  of 


what  he  has  written  is  u«ele*i  and  worthless, 
but  his  great  Lift  (which  ha*  also  been  pub- 
lished in  the  United  States)  and  some  of  hi* 
critical  edition*  are  very  good.  Quite  recently 
he  i*tued  two  volumes  of  Abkandlungta  (**  papers 
on  Goethe  questions  ")  which  are  so  interesting 
in  every  respect  that  they  meet  with  all 
univeraal  approval.  They  contain  no  dry  philo- 
logical treatises,  no  pedantic  hair-splitting  a* 
the  meaning  of  a  passage,  but  readable  sketches 
—  biographical  and  otherwise  —  of  value  ti 
literary  historian   as    well    as    to   the    ge: 

The  day  before  yesterday  the  German  Goethe 
Society  —  which  was  formed  last  year  and 
lioned  in  one  of  my  letters  —  held  its  first 
annual  gathering  in  Weimar;  which  brougbl 
together  an  nneipeciedly  great  concourse  d 
members  from  various  parts  of  Germany.  The 
honorary  manager  stated  that  the  society  already 
numbers  far  more  than  1,800  membera  and  that 
its  financial  situation  la  very  satisfactory.  The 
well-knomrn  essayist,  Hermann  Grimm,  delivered 
an  interesting  lecture  on  "  Goethe's  Services  to 
Our  Times,"  and  afterwards  It  was  resolved  to 
pnblish  soon,  not  only  the  first  Issue  of  the 
Cottht  Yiar  Btok,  but  a  volume  of  hitherto 
unknown  letters  of  Goethe,  written  to  Madam 
Hein  during  his  stay  in  Italy.  This  volume, 
which  is  to  furnish  some  "  missing  links " 
the  history  of  Goethe's  Italian  travels  and 
relations  with  the  beautiful  lady  in  question, 
will  be  entitled  "  Leaves  from  Italy."  Another 
resolution  adopted  waa  even  more  Important ; 
the  Bodety  is  to  issue  the  firat  really  complete 
edition  — including  all  the  letters  and  all  the 
inpublished  materials  found  in  the  "  Goethe 
rchives"  —  of  the  great  man's  works,  in  about 
30  volumes,  and,  lastly,  s  new  Lift  in  three 
volutnea,  utilizing  the  results  of  the  studies  now 
carried  on  with  the  aid  of  the  rich  treasure  of 
papers  which  has  been  unearthed  last  year  after 
lying  hidden  and  useless  in  the  "archives  "  for 
more  than  hall  a  century.  So  the  young  society 
is  about  to  do  much  very  meritorious  work,  and 
it  deserves  lo  meet  with  onivertal  recognition. 

Let  me  wind  up  my  letter  by  recording  anothei 
event  of  interest  to  literary  circles,  the  death  of 
Julian  Schmidt,  the  famons  literary  historian 
and  critic  Alter  having  resided  in  this  city 
for  about  a  quarter  of  a  century,  he  passed  away 
some  three  or  four  weeks  ago.  He  had 
many  enemies,  which  waa  probably  due  to  the 
fact  that  he  was  often  very  severe  in  his  strict- 
on  others,  although  not  at  all  free  from 
faults  himself.  At  one  time  the  latter  were  so 
much  marked  as  lo  induce  the  celebrated  Social- 
leader  Lassalle  to  publish  a  malicious  but 
hitting  pamphlet,  cnlilled  SckmuUan  fud,  dtr 
Lilirarhiiloriktr,  mil  Sttxtrichtlitn  (('.  e.  "with 
compositors'  notes  "),  wherein  he  vigorously 
slashed  many  of  the  mistakes  due  to  Schmidt's 
ance  or  superficiality.  This  booklet  greatly 
damaged  the  influential  critic's  reputation.  It  is 
generally  known  that  Schmidt  himself  never 
read  Lassalle's  onalaught.  The  reason  why  he 
r  did,  and  consequently  never  replied,  is 
amusing.  On  the  day  of  the  publication  of  the 
clever  pamphlet  an  Intimate  friend  of  Schmidt's 
read  it,  and  fearing  that  its  perusal  would  excite 
the  literary  historian  too  much  and  therefore 
ijure  his  weak  health,  he  hastened  to  go  and 
M  him.  "  Vou  have  been  assailed  in  a  pam- 
phlet just  oat  i  give  me  your  word  that  yoa  will 


never  read  it"  Schmidt  rashly  gave  hli  word ; 
afterwards  he  was  sorry  for  it,  naturally  wishing 
to  be  able  to  answer  Lassalle  —but  he  kept  his 
promise.  If  he  had  not,  his  wrath  would  have 
been  enormous;  so  it  was  well  for  him  that  he 
did.  Leopold  Katschek. 

Birlin,  May  y,  1SS6. 

POETBT. 

S^Ht  Gregory  I  Gutit  and  RicttU  Patmi.  By 
John  Greenleaf  Whiilier.  [Houghton,  Mifflin  ft 
Co.    ^1.00.] 

Our  senior  and  beloved  American  poet  offera 
this  little  handful  of  hi*  recent  veise  with  ■ 
modesty  that  amounts  almost  to  timidity.  There 
1*  a  note  of  painfutness  in  the  apologetic  words 
in  which  he  speaks  of  the  "  temerity "  of  his 
publishing  a  new  volume  when  "  on  the  verge  of 
fourscore."  Mr.  Whitiier  need  nolfear  ;  he  need 
not  question  the  interest  of  his  friends,  who  are 
all  of  us  ;  or  doubt  whether  anything  which  It 
is  worth  his  while  to  write  will  be  worth  our 
while  to  read.  There  can  be  only  one  wish  that 
he  might  be  spared  to  gather  many  another  snch 
handful  of  "autumn  leaves."  The  little  book 
takes  its  name  from  a  touching  bit  of  tradition  | 
includes  the  pathetic  poem  of  "  The  Homestead," 
from  which  we  quoted  not  long  ago ;  and  con- 
tains a  variety  of  the  poet's  ripest  and  mellowest 
verse,  from  which  we  select  two  piece*  to  copy 


rn  Uw  dark  wiU  ill  Ih  licht." 


kc  Thoa  Iha  handt  of  prsTcr  w*  Tai 
Lnd  lei  ui  (k1  ihtHcblof  ThnI 


He  pBMed  ;  and  tect  end  pany  ic 
Ii^Go?t™pub1ic'<rf  iheh  ""'  ' 


Leini 


«ul  txbind. 


An  Italian  Cardtn.  By  A.  Mary  F.  Robinson. 
[Roberts  Brother*.    ft.oa] 

Our  Engllth  correspondent  here  appears  as  an 
Italian  poet,  writing  in  English  words,  it  is  true, 
but  in  Italian  molds,  in  "  nocturnes,"  "  vestigia," 
"rispetti,"  and  songs  and  dreams  of  Tuscan 
skies,  and  torrents,  and  roses  red,  and  lovers' 
sighs,  of  classic  landscapes  touched  with  ro- 
mance and  tradition,  of  temples  and  fire-flie*, 
feasts,  garlands,  and  serenades.  No  name  could 
be  more  fitting  than  the  one  she  has  cho«en 
for  the  precinct  into  which  the  reader  Is 
here  invited ;  a  prednct  of  flowers,  full  of  color 
and  fragrance,  delicate,  somewhat  artificial  in 
their  disposition,  gay  and  brilliant  to  the  senses, 
profuse,  not  too  long.Uved,  short-stemmed,  to  to 
speak,  as  for  example : 


SI.'.Ta.™, 


Whicb  newT  knew  ihe  dtarat  priaia  « 

And  f nfiana  al  Ifae  luuDieT  linii  —  ^-.  ,-r  I  ,--> 

Before  Ihey  ftel  tbe  cooleu  dew,  '  ^-^ P\  *■  ^~ 

Uv  xnl  thai  u  uDliiiielj  gritva  *^ 


HvKnilthu 
Andslwdi 


1886.] 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


187 


Ctniolation  and  OIktr  Pttmi.  Bj  Abralum 
Perry  Miller.  [Brenlano  Brothers.]  A  ■mill 
book  of  \it  pages>  bound  in  iedtt«  blown, 
devoid  of  all  omunent,  ctmUining  16  poema 
in  "  the  retigiou*  vein,"  lo  o£  "  Ihe  War  Period," 
29  "  Miscellaneous,"  and  3  longer  and  independ- 
eni  cumpoaitions  at  the  beginning  in  addition 
to  the  title-poem.  "Consolation"  is  an  epistle 
oE  sympathy  to  "a  young  poet,"  whose  wounds 
•eem  to  have  been  received  not  at  tbe  hands  of 
a  scornful  editor  but  of  some  lady  fair.  "The 
Ghost  "  is  a  parody  of  Poe's  "  Raven."  "  Minne- 
sota "  ia  an  ode  to  that  Slate,  read  in  1880  4t  tbe 
sooth  anniversary  of  the  discovery  of  St.  An- 
thony's Falls.  Mr.  Miller's  versification  is  gen- 
erally correct  and  smooth.  His  feeling  is  refined 
and  earnest.  We  End  no  situ  of  commission 
with  which  to  charge  him. 

Skeri  Lift  in  Seng.  By  William  Hale.  [Bid- 
defoid.  Me. ;  Journal  Office.]  For  a  book  made 
in  a  prorinciat  town  this  is  unusually  taslefi 
attractive,  and  creditable.  Tbe  cover,  of  brown 
and  sea-green,  with  thj  light-house  for  its  singli 
decoration.  Is  very  neat.  The  contents  are  nearly 
ninety  short  poems  of  the  sea  and  seashore  life  ; 
the  fishermen  launching  their  boats,  a  stroll  upon 
the  sands,  the  sea-moss  garden,  day-break  01 
marshes,  lounging  on  the  difis,  the  ship 
bound,  a  human  bone  washed  up  by  the  w 
with  its  associations  of  wreck,  the  gulls,  and  the 
rock*.  OccMionally  the  verge  rites  from  the 
realism  of  pure  description  to  the  reali 
fancy,  or  gilds  a  homely  object  with  pit 
sentiment.  There  is  not  great  variety  of  form 
or  manner ;  there  it  great  tove  of  the  marine 
landscape  and  suggestions;  there  is  a  good 
degree  of  pictuiial  skill ;  and  a  lender  religious 
feeling  warms  many  of  the  compositions. 

BugU  Echeei.  Edited  by  Fraticii  F.  Browne. 
[White,  Stokes  &  Allen.  $1.00.]  We  have  here 
a  collection  of  the  poetry  of  the  Civil  War, 
representing  both  the  North  and  South,  begun 
originally  out  of  the  compiler's  own  personal 
interest,  and  grown  at  last  in  size  aod  importance 
to  the  point  of  deserving  publication.  It  ii 
winnowed  collection.  War-songs  are  mostly 
eluded;  likewise  undeniable  trash;  and  m 
coarse  and  sensational  atuff  not  worthy  of  pres- 
ervation. There  are  in  all  a  few  over  ijo 
pieces,  representing  on  the  one  hand  Whitman, 
Bryant,  Holmes,  Lowell,  Longfellow,  Whittier, 
Taylor,  Hayne,  Sledman,  and  tooie  other  leading 
names,  and  on  the  other  a  considerable  company 
of  less  known  writers.  "Dixie"  is  here,  and 
"The  Battle  Hymn  of  the  Republic,"  and 
"Sheridan's  Ride,"  and  "  Captain  I  My  Cap- 
tain I "  and  "  The  Blue  and  the  Gray,"  and  other 
historic  and  favorite  pieces;  also  many  rescued 
poems  from  the  sea  of  joarnalism,  which  but  for 
such  a  life-boat  as  this  would  have  gone  down 
into  oblivion.  There  are  two  indeies,one  by  au- 
thors ;  there  is  a  prelty  title-page  with  an  etched 
vignette  j  and  the  book  hat  a  cover  suggestive 
of  military  splendor  and  glory,  and  gilt  edges. 

In  Fruitful  Lands  and  Other  Paemi.  By 
Minna  Caroline  Smith.  [Cambridge.]  The 
author  of  this  bridal  looking  booklet,  in  its 
modest  parchment  paper,  is,  we  should  guess,  an 
lowan  student  at  the  Harvard  Annex;  and  there 
are  the  makings  of  a  poet  in  her,  as,  for  example, 
witness  these  six  lines  among  others : 


i;;u^"cS 


j«. 


r.  Lore,  «f  the». 


Summer  Hmien  Songs.  By  James  Herbert 
Morse.  [G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons.  ^1.25.]  Tbe 
grace  and  delicacy  of  tbe  externals  ol  this  vol- 
particularly  of  its  litle-pagc,  at  oncx  favor- 
ably impress  Ihe  reader.  Here,  one  Ends  him- 
self saying,  It  a  poet  whose  publishers  have 
dressed  him  fittingly ;  and  thai  is  much  even  for 

poet,  Mr.  Morse  is  a  poet,  wilh  some  manner- 
isms, with  some  affectation  in  rhyme  and  meter. 

It  wilh  a  genuine  love  of  nature,  a  musical  ear, 

clever  knack  at  turning  a  line,  and  much 
pleasant  thought  and  feeling.  The  volume  is  a 
full  and  varied  one;  it  has  songs  of  youth  and 
ies  of  bachelorhood,  oul-of-door  glimpses, 
sonnets  to  the  great,  meditations,  aspiraliont, 
colloquies  wilh  birds  and  flowers  the  wind  and 
aiiL  It  represents  a  true  heart  and  a  i^n- 
scientious  workmanship. 

NitdUs  efPine.  By  Cbarlea  Wellington  Stone. 
[Cnpples,  Upham  ft  Co.  fi-oo]  Thete  rhyme- 
less  meters  are  not  eSective,  and  there  are  not 
many  of  them. 

Sangt  ef  Old  Canada.  Translated  by  William 
McLennan.  [Montreal :  Dawson  Brothers.}  Mr. 
McLennan  prints  in  this  Utile  quarto  fourteen 
old  Canadian  song*,  the  French  text  occupying 
the  left-hand  pages,  and  the  English  translation 
the  right.  This  Is  an  excellent  plan  — to  give 
tbe  original  with  tbe  translations.  The  songs  are 
full  of  French  character  and  expression;  martial, 
patriotic,  senlimental  by  turns.  One  very  char- 
acteristic is  "  Gai  le  Rosier,"  the  feature  of  which 
is  that  the  last  two  1  ines  of  each  stanza  are  repeated 
as  the  first  two  lines  of  the  next,  as  for  example  : 

The  uiihtintile'i  iodic  <i11<lli 
iMgJiida  with  iDclDdu; 


For  m(  he  ungith  never, 

Vertei   Trandaiient  from  the    German   and 
Hymm.   By  W.  H.  Fnrness.   [Houghton,  Mifflin 
ft  Co.    tl.zj.]    It  is  a  fashion  now  not  to  p 
uate  title-pages,  but  in  tome  cases  the  practice 
it  confusing,  as  above.    The  translations  ii 
present  instance  are  of  Schiller't  famous  "Song 
of  the  Bell,"  and  of  some  twenty-five  short  poei 
chiefly  from  Chamisso,  Heine,  and  Uhland, 
eluding  the  firtt-named  writer's  psalm  of  "  ^^ 
man's  Love  and  Life,"  in  its  nine  measures  of  "In 
Love,"  "The  Lover,"  "The  Offer,"  "Beltolhal,' 
"  Wedding,"     "  Maternal    Hopes,"    "  Maternal 
Joy,"  "  Widowed,"  and  "  Old  Age.-    Dr. 
is  not  always  a  smooth  and  eSective  I 
lator.    A  sensitive  ear  could  never  have  passed 
approval  on  some  of  these  lines.    The  hymns  are 
better,   and  repiesent   high  ranges  of  emotion, 
wilh   a  very  respectable   merit    of   expression, 
though  without  Ihe  fire  that  stirs  tbe  soul. 

Leavtsfrem  Maple  Lauin.  By  William  White. 
[White,  Stokes  &  Allen.}  This  collection  of 
nearly  a  hundred  poems  finds  a  sponsor  in  Mr. 
Richard  Henry  Stoddard,  Ihe  laureate  of  tbe 
latest  literary  center.  New  York,  who  says  of  it 
thai  the  kind  of  poetry  to  which  it  belongs 
so  ancient  (bat  its  beginnings  date  back  before 
the  beginnings  of  all  written  lileratute."  That 
is  to  say  it  is  a  book  of  religious  poetry.  Having 
•aid  this,  Mr.  Stoddard  proceeds  with  ■  coi 
deiued  hblorical  survey  of   English    religioi 


poetry,  beginning  with  Cgedmon,  and  passing 
down  through  the  times  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  Tate 
and  Brady,  Slernhold  and  Hopkins,  Fletcher, 
Quarles,  and  Drummond,  Wither,  Crashaw, 
Cowper,  and  the  Wesleys ;  and  having  thus 
reniently  sidled  away  from  the  present  poet, 
who  had  asked  his  favors,  leaves  him  to  the 
tender  mercies  of  the  reader  with  tbe  remark 
thai  portions  of  his  book  "are  worthy  of  preser- 
a  in  future  hymnologies."  Thus  introduced 
we  find  not  that  preponderance  of  strictly  retig- 
veise  which  we  might  have  expected,  but  a 
good  proportion  of  it;  the  earlier  parts  of  the 
book  being  devoted  to  secular  themes,  chiefly  of 
out-door  nature. 


OUBBEFF  LITEBATimE. 

new  edition  of  ffheelt  and  Whims,  a  ro- 
c  of  Ihe  tricycle  in  Connecticut,  appears 
this  spring  under  the  new  imprint  of  John  S. 
Browning,  Boston,  "  The  Caxlon  Press,"  with 
tbe  Improvemenli  of  canary-colored  covers  and 

eally  excellent  wood- engravings  within,  and 
rimmed  into  very  natty  squareness.     [50c.] 

What  complications  of  tilles  an  Englishman 
may  acquire.  The  name  in  full  of  the  author  of 
The  Livei  of  Great  Slaleimen  Is 

Tlia  Rev.  Sit  Geoi^  W.  C«,  Ban.,  M.A. 
The  ten  subjects  of  his  second  series  are 
Ephialtes,  Kimon,  Perikles,  Phormion,  Arcbida- 
Kleon,  Braaidas,  Demosthenes,  Nikias,  and 
Hcrmoktatea.  There  was  a  simplicity  of  ap- 
pellation In  olden  times  which  is  refreshing  in 

Dme  comparisons.    [Harper  &  Bros.    7sc.] 
There  is  Biblical  warrant,  certainly,  for  pulling 

book  on  The  Human  Bedy  into  Ihe  "  Wonder 

cries."  This  particular  book,  from  tbe  French 
of  M,  Le  Pileur,  is  both  anatomical  and  physio- 
It^ical,  and  wilh  its  illuslrations  would  answer 
fairly  well  the  purposes  of  a  text-book ;  though  its 
general  aspect  is  not  so  inviting  as  that  of  some 
works  on  the  same  subject  thai  might  be  named. 
[Charles  Scribner's  Sons,  fi.oo.] 
Another  dainiy   cookery-book    is   Mr.  T.  J. 

lurrey's  Puddings  and  Dainiy  Desserts,  com- 
panion to  the  same  author's  Fifty  SmifsanA  Fifty 
Salads,  devoted  to  Ihe  sweet  and  toothsome 
confections  that  regale  the  appetite  after  the 
:  substantial  dishes  of  (he  dinner  have  been 
served,  ending,  we  are  happy  to  say,  with  a  good 
recipe  for  mince-pie.  [While,  Slokes  &  Allen. 
Soc.] 

The  essay  On  Compromise  forms  next  to  the 
last  volume  in  the  new  edition  of  Mr.  John  Mot- 
ley's Works.  Its  five  chapters  originally  ap- 
peared in  Ihe  Ftrlnighlly  Revien  some  len  years 
ago.  Its  design  ia  "to  consider,  in  a  short  and 
direct  way,  some  of  the  limits  thai  are  set  by 
sound  reason  to  the  practice  of  the  various  arts 
of  accommodation,  economy,  management,  con- 
formity, or  compromise."  What  are  the  limits 
of  independent  thinking  and  action }  What  are 
the  motives  to  concession?  Where  are  to  be 
drawn  the  lines  between  minorities  and  majori- 
ties? These  are  the  questions  which  Mr.  Morley 
considers  in  a  very  thoughtful,  somewhat  ab- 
struse, but  richly  suggestive  book,  abundantly 
illuslrated  wilh  living  historical  allusion.  [Mac- 
mil  Ian  &  Co.    tl.50.] 

Talks  wilh  Namely  Girls  an  Health  and  Beauty 
is  a  title  that  we  do  not  like.  What  girl  would 
couMder  herself  a  true  and  proper  subject  for 
I  such  talk  ?    But,  the  "  homely  girls  "  secured,  tbe 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[May  29, 


book  may  cerUinlf  do  them  good,  with  iu  cbap- 
ten  on  bathing,  ezercUe,  teelb,  the  comptC] ' 
tbe  bands  and  the  feet,  dresi,  manneri,  and  the 
care  of  beautjr.  The  leciet  of  beaal]',  according 
to  the  author,  i*  hjrgiene,  and  tbe  "most  graceful 
principle  oE  dreu  i»  neatnesi."  Tbe  general 
tone  of  the  book  i*  tensible  and  good.  [A.  L. 
Burt,    soc.] 

The  aulhorof^nA'i>-A>/i//^/i'(ni'<r^,  Comrade 
C.  O.  Brown,  went  b;  rail  from  Kalamazoo,  Michi 
gan,  through  Cindnnali,  to  Chattanooga,  Tenn. 
and  then  on  by  honeback  to  Atlanta,  riding  ove 
again  the  ground  he  had  marched  orer  twenty 
yeara  and  more  ago.  His  rail  joarncy  was  by 
the  new  Cincinnati  Southern  R.R.,  which  he 
describes  as  a  mamt  of  engineering,  with  its 
tunnels,  shelves,  and  trestles,  and  as  a  constant 
delight  in  the  way  of  scenery;  and  his  saddle 
ride  abounds  with  war  reminiscences,  local  stud- 
ies of  character,  and  contrasts  of  old  and  new. 
This  is  an  unpretending  but  uncommonly  enter- 
taining tittle  book.  [Kalamazoo;  Eaton  &  An- 
derson.   Z5C.] 

The  new  Bohn's  Library  Edition  of  Tit  IVtirks 
t/  CaUimilh  is  completed  in  a  5th  volume,  which 
is  made  up  of  fragments  hitherto  uncollected. 
There  are  170  pages  of  "Preface  and  Introduc- 
tion," as  for  example  to  Plutarch's  Lives  and 
Brookes's  Natural  History,  some  50  pages  of 
extracts  from  "The  Earth  and  Animated  Na- 
ture," about  100  selected  letters  from  tbe  "  His- 
tory of  England  "  in  a  series  of  lelleri  "  From  a 
Nobleman  to  his  Son,  and  the  famous  "History 
of  Little  Goody  Two-Shoes"  in  full,  the  Gold- 
smithian  authorship  of  which  is  however  only  1 
matter  of  conjecture-  Mr.  Gibbs,  the  editor,  be- 
lieves that  Goldsmith  wrote  at  least  the  introduc- 
tion to  it,  and  probably  some  other  passages. 
An  excellent  index  to  Goldsmith's  works,  filling 
more  than  lao  pages,  completes  the  voloine. 
[Scrlbnet  &  Welford.    {1-40.] 


8EAEESPEARIAHA. 


Emerson  and  Sbakespeare.  Judge  Holmes, 
in  his  new  "  Supplement "  (p,  744),  says  ! 

Mr.  M.  D.  Conway  thinks  that  Emerson  "had 
some  skepticism  about  the  authorship  of  the 
plays,"  and  quotes  him  as  saying,  as  early  as  the 
Dial,  that  "as  a  poet,  Shakespeare  undoubtedly 
transcends  and  far  surpasses  him  [Milton]  in  bis 
popularity  with  foreign  nations;  but  Shake- 
speare Is  a  voice  merely ;  who  and  what  he  was 
that  sang,  thai  sings,  we  know  not." 

And  Dr.  O-  W.  Holmes  dtes  him  ai  saying 
of  a  certain  song  In  the  Mtasuri  fir  Mtaiuri 
(in  183S)  :  "  I  know  it  is  in  RbUo,  but  it  is 
in  Meat,  fir  Sfrai.  also;  and  I  remember 
noticing  that  the  Malones  and  Steevenses  and 
critical  gentry  were  about  evenly  divided,  these 
for  Shakespeare  and  those  for  Beaamont  and 
Fletcher.  Bui  the  internal  evidence  is  all  for 
one,  none  lor  the  other.  If  he  did  not  write  it, 
they  did  not,  and  «v  liall  have  lome  fiurlh  un- 
knmiit  linger.  What  care  we  who  sang  this  or 
that.    It  is  we  at  last  who  sing." 

Any  one  who  has  read  Emerson's  leclnre  on 
"Shakespeare  the  Poet"  in  Reprttentativt  Men 
ought  to  be  able  to  see  that  there  is  nothing 
more  in  the  above  quotations  than  a  reference  lo 
the  fact  that  we  know  so  little  about  the  life  of 
Shakespeare,  and  the  writer's  indifference  to  Ibat 
fact.  After  remarking  that  "  there  is  something 
touching  in  the  madness  with  which  the  passing 
age  mischooses  the  ol^ect  oa  which  all  candles 


:   turned,"  he  aays  of 


shine    and    all    eyes   i 
Shakespeare  1 

A  popular  p! 
the  poet  of  the  buman  race  ;'and  the 
kept  as  faithfully  from  poets  and  intellectual 
men  as  from  courtiers  and  frivolous  people. 
Bacon,  who  took  (he   inventory  of  the  human 

iderstanding  for   his   times,   never  mentioned 


hisn 
Again  he  says : 

Shakespeare  is  tbe  only  biographer  of  Shake- 
speare ;  and  even  he  Can  tell  nothing,  except  to 
the  Shakespeare  within  ns;  that  is,  10  our  noBl 
apprehensive  and  sympathetic  hour.  .  . 

Other  admirable  men  have  led  lives  in  some 


he  leached  only  the  common  measure  of  great 
author!,  of  Bacon,  Milton,  Tasso,  Cervantes,  we 
might   leave  the  ^ct  in  the  twilight  of  bum: 
fate;  but  that  this  man  of  men  .  ,  .  should  n 
be  wise  for  himself,  —  it  must  even  go  into  il 
world's  history,  that  the  best  poet  led  an  obscure 
and  profane  life,  using  his  genius  for  tbe  public 


But  he  finds  that  it  wis  really  no  belter  with 
other  representative  men,  "priest  and  prophet, 
Israelite,  German,  and  Swede";  am 
shows  that  Shakespeare,  pre-eminent  "bard  and 
benefactor"  though  he  was,  "shsred  the  half- 
ness  and  imperfection  of  humanity." 

Il  will  be  noted,  by  the  way,  thai  the  words 
which  Judge  Holmes  italicizes  in  the 
quotation  from  Emerson  are  simply  a  reductio 
ad  abiurdum.  The  internal  evidence  of  the 
exquisite  lyric  ("  Take,  O  lake  those  lips  away  ") 
is  all  in  favor  of  Shakespeare's  authorship.  If 
he  did  not  write  it,  Beaumont  and  Fletcher  [the 
question  is  really  betvreen  Shakespeare  and  the 
latter)  certainly  did  not,  and  we  must  per- 
force ascribe  il  to  some  fourth  unknown  man- 
Emerson  evidently  believes  it  to  be  Shake- 
speare's, though  he  does  not  think  we  need  care 
who  wrote  it. 

Mr.  W.  D.  O'Connor's  "Hamlet's  Note- 
Book."  This  racy  lillle  book  is  a  review  of 
Grant  White's  cutling-up  of  Mrs.  Pott's  edition 
of  Bacon's  Promus.  Mr.  O'Connor  thinks  that 
review  was  fatal  lo  the  book  for  the  lime, 
prejudicing  the  public  so  against  it  that  "it  fell 
itticken  in  its  course  without  even  having  had 
the  chance  to  gel  into  circulation,  and  be  judged 
upon  its  merits."  For  ourself  we  doubt  whether 
It  would  have  had  any  better  luck  if  the  sharp 
'  :w  bad  never  been  written ;  but  If  It  is  a 
comfort  lo  Mrs.  Polt  and  her  friends  to  ascribe 
lis  falling  dead  lo  Mr.  While's  attack,  we  would 
ot  deprive  them  of  the  sad  satisfaction  they 
lay  find  in  that  view  of  the  matter. 
Mr.  O'Connor  makes  some  good  points  against 
Mr.  While,  who  was  as  careless  as  he  was  brilt 
No  man  of  hts  learning  and  literary  skill 
laid  himself  more  open  to  the  return  thrusts 
n  adversary.  Il  was  our  duty  lo  give  an 
Iration  of  this  neatly  twenty  years  ago  in 
our  edition  of  Craik's  Eagliih  af  Shaktipeare, 
pp.  169,  170,  where  we  showed  how  many  bad 
blunders  Mr.  White  had  made  while  boasting  of 
wn  eilreme  care  in  avoiding  the  blunders 
of  former  editors  of  Shakespeare  ;  and  on  more 
Ihan  one  occasion  since  then  we  have  had  lo 
ise  him  for  similar  carelessness.  Of  course 
Mr.  O'Connor  shows  him  no  mercy  when  be  can 
caich  him  upon  the  hip. 

The  defence   and   the  praise   of  the  Premui 
will  delight  the  souls  of  the  Baconians.    If  they  | 


convince  or  convert  anybody  outside  that  Ibnited 
"cult,"  we  shall  be  much  surprised.  We  must 
say  that  Ihey  have  made  no  impression  upoo  us. 
We  are  more  interested  in  Mr.  O'Connor's 
theory  of  the  aulhorebip  of  the  Sennett,  which 
has  at  least  the  merit  of  novelty.  Sir  Walter 
Raleigh  wrote  them.  The  key  to  the  mysterious 
"  W.  H-"  is  to  be  found  in  the  first  and  last 
letters  of  his  name;  and  the  "well-wishing  ad- 
venturer," T.  T.,  is  not  Thomas  Thorpe,  the 
publisher  of  the  .SiHif/r,  but"  TliomasHarioT'," 
the  friend  and  companion  of  Raleigh,  "allowed 
free  access  to  him  during  his  imprisonment  in 
the  Tower,  which  covers  the  dale  dl  the  Sonnets,  • 

1609."  The  reader  is  aware  that  some  have 
supposed  "Mr.  W.  H."  lobe  an  unknown  Will- 
iam Hughes,  on  account  of  the  8th  line  of  the 
zoth  Sonnet,  which,  in  (he  edition  of  1609,  is 
printed  thus :  *■  A  man  in  hew  all  Hewt  in  his 
controwling  ;  "  but  no  particular  stress  Can  be 
laid  on  tbe  capital  and  the  italics,  as  more  than 
a  dozen  other  words  are  similarly  printed  in 
other  Sonnets  —  Rut  in  I.  1,  Audit  in  4.  11, 
Staitus  in  55.  j,  Intrim  in  j6.  9,  Alien  in  yS,  3, 
etc.  Mr.  O'Connor,  however,  sees  here  a  refer- 
ence to  William  Hews,  the  "salaried  scholar" 
of  Sir  Walter,  and,  like  Hariot,  allowed  access 
lo  him  in  his  imprisonmenl- 

We  hope  that  Mr.  O'Connor  means  to  develop 
Ibis  theory  more  at  length  hereafter.  It  will  at 
least  be  a  curious  addition  to  the  "cranky"  at- 
tempts at  solving  the  insoluble  enigma  of  the  his- 
lory  <rf  the  S<mtuU.  But  the  Baconians  are  not 
likely  to  thank  him  for  it.  If  "  parallelisms  "  are 
good  evidence  in  the  case  of  Bacon  versui  Shake- 
speare, they  will  be  equally  good  for  proving 
thai  Raleigh  wrote  the  plays  as  well  as  the 
Sonnets.  Tbe  latter  are  clearly  from  the  same 
hand  as  the  former,  if  interna!  evidence  can 
settle  the  question. 

Mr.  O'Connor  laughs  at  the  idea  that  Ikett 
Sonnets  can  be  the  "sugred  Sonnet*"  men- 
tioned by  Meres  in  1598.  "It  must  have  been 
a  very  difEerent  kind  of  sugar  that  went  round 
among  Shakespeare's  friend*  in  1598."  But 
of  these  same  Sonnets  of  1609  had  been 
printed  a*  Shakespeare's  In  the  Pattienatt  Pil- 
grim in  1599,  the  very  next  year  after  Meres 
efers  to  them  ;  and  one  of  these  was  the  fsmous 
[44th,  which  has  been  called  the  "  Key  Sonnet " 
of  the  series.  And  yet  Mr.  O'Connor  tells  us 
that,  "beyond  tbe  vague  and  irrelevant  refer- 
of  Meres,  there  is  not  one  scrap  of  reason 
ssumtng  that  William  Shakespeare  of  Strat- 
ford had  anything  to  do  with  them."  This  is 
as  careless  as  any  of  Grant  White's  slips  that 
is  so  hard  upon.  It  is  not  the  only 
specimen  of  the  sort  in  Mr.  O'Connor's  book, 
but   our  limit*  do  not   permit   u*   to    mention 

We  see,  by  the  way,  that  Mr.  O'Connor,  like 
Judge  Holmes,  claims  our  friend  Morgan  as  a 
Baconian.  Tiieir  list  of  "convertites "  is  so 
short  that  they  can  ill  spare  any  prominent  name 
which  by  some  blunder  has  once  got  into  it. 

HamlePs  NoU-Bm^  is  published  by  Houghton, 
Mifflin  &  Co.  It  is  brief  —  only  7S  pages  —  and, 
the  whole,  the  most  readable  thing  we  have 
I  with  in  recent  Baconian  liieratnre  —  if,  in- 
deed, we  should  not  omit  the  "  recent-" 

D.   Appleton   &  Co.  will    soon    republiik        ^ 
Prof,  George  L.  Raymond's  Medtrn  Fiilurt  tf_ 
Men,  a  novel  originally  put  forth  six  or  seven 


i886.] 


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jreara  ago ;  and  Tht  Secret  af  Her  Life,  by  Mr. 
Edward  Jenkiaa,  the  aolbor  of  more  ibao  one 
delightfol  novel. 


volume,  and  to  be  accompuied  by  a  pictore 
of  Rnakui,  recently  taken,  and  never  before  en- 
graved in  this  conntiy. 


TABLE  TALK. 


. . .  The  individoaU  referred  to  in  the  follow- 
ing note  from  a  reputable  writer  are  among  the 
moit  industrioui  literary  workera  In  the  conntrf. 
The  daughter,  who  is  apeciGcally  ccunpldned  of, 
it  a  frequent  contributor  to  the  religions  press, 
and  was  engaged  in  misNon  work  before  under- 
taking literature.  It  should  be  nnderatood,  how- 
ever, that  the  complainant  know*  the  oSendera 
personally : 

There  ii  a  family  living  on  the  Hudson  River 
whom  1  am  inclined  to  call  literal;  kleptoma- 
niacs. .  .  .  One  of  Ibe  daughters  has  honored 
me  by  doing  over  several  pieces  of  mine,  and 
making  very  good  mackeiable  articles  at  second- 
hand. The  fiist  piece  I  saw  that  treated  was  a 
poem  called  "  Flowers  in  the  Marketplace ; " 
"Captive  Queens  in  the  Harket-Ptace  "  was  her 
title.  Yet  ihii  is  not  the  most  flurant  case  of 
hers  that  I  know  of ;  in  tome  the  robbery  is  even 
more  complete.  ...  I  law  later  that  she  had 
done  the  same  thing  with  a  well-knowa  school- 
reader  piece ;  and  also  with  one  (a  narrative 
this)  by  Man  £.  Wiikini,  published  in  Wide 
ATBokt  only  the  year  before.  That  was  wonder- 
ful assurance  t  Having  a  knack  of  rhyme,  but 
apparently  a  lack  of  ideas,  she  pilfers  these 
latter ;  in  the  caae  of  my  work  she  took  not  only 
the  main  idea,  but  every  image,  comparitoi^  turn 
of  thought  ihronghout ;  the  metre  was  slightly 
different,  but  in  each  caae  it  was  so  nearly  the 
same  thing  that  no  one  could  doubt  the  one  was 
modeled  on  the  other.  .  .  .  1(  V^did  soch  a  thin^ 
1  should  be  poated  from  Maine  to  California. 


Since  the  foregoing  was  received,  we  have  our- 
selves discovered  evidence  of  the  fraudulent 
practices  of  one  of  the  "family"  in  qaestioa  ; 
a  poem  entitled  "The  Tree  God  Plants,"  to 
which  she  attached  her  name  a  few  years  ago, 
and  which  has  since  been  widely  copied  in  that 
connection,  is  found  to  have  appeared 
mously  as  early  as  1872. 

. . .  Lord  Tennyson  lives  absolutely  out  of  the 
world,  and  aatociates  only  with  a  choice  circle  of 
special  friends.  Mr.  Browning  lives  in  the  world, 
and  during  "the  Season,"  and  indeed  usually, 
dines  in  society  every  day. 

. .  .  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Katharine  S.  Macqucnd  are 
probably  going  to  Venice  this  coming  June,  and 
to  the  lulian  I..akes  tn  rente. 

.  . .  Mrs.  Louise  Chandler  Moulton  leaves  Boa- 
ton  next  week  for  England,  accompanied  by 
another  writer.  Miss  Elixa  R.  Scidmore  of 
Waahingtoo. 

, , .  Hr.  James  Elliot  Cabot,  Emerton'i  literary 
executor,  has  nearly  completed  hit  memoir  of 
the  seer,  but  will  probably  withhold  It  from  pub- 
llctttion  until  next  year. 

.  . .  The  convention  or  festival  of  Western  liter 
arians  which  certain  Indiana  writers  have  been 
planning,  la  to  be  held  at  Indianapolis,  June  30th 
and  Jaly  ist.  Fifty  conttibntiont  of  prose  and 
poetry  have  been  promised  (or  the  occasion, 
and  the  best  muticof  the  West  bat  been  engaged. 
...  A  second  edition  of  Tie  Ptemi  ef  Henry 
Ahiejt  has  appeared,  a  pleasing  indication  of  the 
tucccst  of  publiihtiig  one's  own  verses.  A  few 
changes  have  been  made  In  the  text  of  the  first 
edition. 

. ,  .  The  series  of  five  volumes  of  selections 
from  John  Ruskin's  works  which  Hr.  W.  S. 
Kennedy  has  prepared  (and  the  first  onmber  oE 
which  appears  this  week)  it  alto  to  appear  at 


HEWS  AND  VOIEB. 

Mr.  Clinton  Scollard  has  gone  abroad. 

D.  Lothrop  &  Co.  announce  l%e  Sliny 
Beak  ef  Sciente,  by  Lydia  Hoyt  Farmer. 

Ginn  ft  Co.  wilt  have  ready  in  June  an  edi- 
tion of  Harriet  Martineau's  Tie  Piaiani  and  the 
Prince,  with  notes  for  schools. 

-  Mr.  Andrew   Carnegie's    Triumphant  De- 
■racy  hat  reached  a  5th  edition,  and  la  being 
translated    into    French,   German,   Italian,  and 
Hungarian. 

Mrs.  Mary  E.  Ireland  of  Baltimore  has 
finished  a  German  translation  enritled  Betty"  1 
which  will  soon  be  issued  by  the 
Lutheran  Board  of  Publication ;  she  is  also  the 
author  of  several  tracts,  now  ir 

—  The  J.  B.  Uppincott  Company  announce 
the  early  publication  of  a  novel  entitled  Cut,  by 

Cervus,  author  of  White  Featheri,  A  Model 
Wife,  etc,  founded  upon  occurrences  at  West 
Point. 

Helen  Hays,  who  has  written  msny  stories 
for  Harpet'i  Yeung  Peefi/t,  and  who  has  pub- 
lished six  or  seven  books  for  children,  makes 
her  debut  thia  month  as  a  novelist  in  a  story 
entitled  Asptratione.  It  will  be 
19th  by  Thomai  Whittaker. 

~  &  Co.  will  have  ready  in  July  A  Bi- 
ginner't  Beck  in  Freneh,  with  comic  Illustrations, 
designed  for  children,  by  Sophie  Doriot. 

—  Mr.  Brett,  the  American 
Messrs.  Macmillan,  denies  the  newspaper  ttory 
that   Mr.  Malcolm  Macmillan  it  the  author  of 
the  novel  Dagenel  the  Jetler.     Who  Is  the  writer 
ttill  remains  a  mystery. 

—  Cbas.  E.  Brown,  Waller  Montgomery  Jack- 
son, Isaac  R.  Webber,  Seneca  Sanford,  and  Asa 
H.  Walker  are  admitted  as  partners  in  the  firm 
of  Estes  ft  Lanriat,  the  name  of  which  will 
main  the  same  as  heretofore,  Messrs.  Estes  and 
LAuriat  retaining  an  active  connection  with  the 
firm.  Mr.  Brown  will,  as  heretofore,  have  gen- 
eral charge  of  the  wholesale  department,  Mr. 
Jackson  of  the  manufacturing  and  publishing 
department,  Mr.  Webber  of  the  library  depart- 
ment, Mr.  Sanford  of  the  retail  department, 
and  Mr.  Walker  of  the  aubscription  book  de- 
partment of  the  newly  constituted  firm. 

—  Tolstoi's  Senvenira  will  be  issued  by  T.  Y. 
Crowell  &  Co.  as  soon  as  it  can  be  put  through 
the  press.  It  will  be  in  three  parts,  "  Infancy," 
"Adolescence,"  and  "Youth."  The  translatoi 
it  Miss  Isabel  F.  Hapgood  of  Boston,  author  of 
Epie  Sengt  ef  Rtueia.  Messrs.  Crowell  &  Co. 
have  also  in  press  for  immediate  publication, 
A  Vital  Quettien ;  or.  What  ii  to  be  Dene  t  by 
Nikolas  Gavrilovitch  Tcherniushevsky,  trans- 
lated from  the  Russian  by  Nathan  Haskell  Dole. 
The  author  of  this  book,  who  is  a  noted  Russian 
Liberalist,  was  banished  to  Siberia  for  his  lit>CT- 
alistic  ideas.  The  London  Times  sent  a  apecial 
correspondent  there  last  year  who  interviewed 
him.  The  book  has  been  forbidden  in  Russia, 
but  is  secretly  circulated  and  is  immensely  pop- 
ular there  as  well  as  in  Germany. 

—  Apparently  Messrs.  Julian  Hawthorne  and 
George  Paraons  Lalhiop  have  abandoned  their 
plan  of  starting  a  new  literary  paper.  Mr.  Haw- 
thorne will  become  the  literary  editor  id  the 


New  York  Werld  In  the  fall,  and  Mr.  Lathrop 
has  accepted  a  timilar  position  on  the  New 
York  Star,  which  already  bat  an  admirable 
literary  department  and  prints  more  fresh  liter- 
ary news  than  all  the  other  New  York  papers 
>ut  together. 

— Miss  CHlder,  the  editor  of  the  Critic,  sailed 
for  Europe  on  May  ao  with  Mitt  Clara  Louise 

Scribnet  ft  WelfcFrd  will  be  the  selling 
agents  for  Mr.  Henry  Stevens's  Life  of  yetmee 
Lenex.  Among  the  few  advance  sheets  which 
have  already  come  to  this  country  we  find  a 
letter  which  Mr.  Stevens  wrote  to  himself  evi- 
dently aa  a  aort  of  pledge  for  future  good  be- 
t  is  dated  June,  1S70,  and  runa  thus  i 
My  Dear  Self: 

Please  enclosed  find  a  bill  of  exchange  for 
£ioa,  being  the  first  two  months'  salary  from 
Mr.  Lenox  for  April  and  May.  Now  do  turn 
over  a  new  leaf  and  look  on  both  sidet  of  yoor 
money  before  you  spend  it.  If  yon  will  cake 
-*-"--  (ram  any  one  I  am  sure  you  will  from 
__.  Je  prudent,  be  industrious,  hold  your 
tongue,  and  remember  that  closed  mouths  "  catch 
no  flies."  (lO  ahead  and  carry  out  this  great 
work  for  Mr.  Lenox  and  especially  for  the 
world  and  yoartelf.  You  have  the  opportunity, 
improve  it,  and  in  two  years  let  the  world  of 
book  collectors  and  bibliographers  have  the 
opportunity  of  improving  their  minds.  ...  So 
good-by  and  good  luck. 

Which  goet  to  show  that  Mr.  Lenox  paid  vety 
good  salaries  to  those  who  helped  bim  to  form 
his  great  library. 

—  Messrs.  T.  V.  Crowell  ft  Co.  have  in  preat 
for  immediate  publication  a  work  of  great  impor- 
tance on  The  La6er  Question  in  America,  by 
Professor  Ely  of  Johns  Hopklnt  University. 
Prof.  Ely,  who  tt  recognized  at  an  authority 
on  the  subject,  hat  given  ranch  time  and  thought 
in  the  preparation  of  this  volume,  and  hat  no 
doubt  produced  a  work  of  enduring  value  to  all 
interested  in  this  question. 

—  Most  people  probably  have  thought  that  the 
petty  gossip  which  hat  been  telegraphed  to  the 
newspapers  from  all  parts  of  the  country,  dealing 
vrith  the  President's  matrimonial  affairs,  are  silly 
enough  and  of  decided  discredit  to  the  journals 
printing  them  at  such  great  length.  What  can 
one  think,  however,  of  the  taste  which  suggested 
a  "  bridal  edition  "  of  Mrs.  Laura  C.  Holloway's 
book.  Ladies  of  the  White  House,  which  Messrs. 
Pnnk  &  Wagnallt  announce!  It  promises  to 
contain  a  full  and  authentic  history  of  the  "  bride 
elect,"  with  a  "  fine  tteel  portrait "  of  the  lady. 

—  A  gentleman  who  made  inquiry  recently  of 
the  editor  of  the  Atlantic  concerning  the  prom- 
ised articles  by  Hr.  Lowell,  was  told  that  as  yet 
none  were  in  hand,  and  that  Mr.  Lowell's  time 
had  been  entirely  occupied  by  hia  work  on  the 
biography  of  Nathaniel  Hawthorne  which  he  is 
preparing  for  the  "American  Men  of  Letters 
Series."  For  its  companion,  "  American  Slatea- 
men  Series,"  Ex-Govemot  Doraheimer  is  writing 
a  life  of  Martin  Van  Buren,  and  the  manuscript 
will  probably  be  put  into  the  publisher's  bands 
by  the  first  of  August.  Mr.  Doraheimer  finds 
Van  Buren  an  intereating  subject  in  the  political 
history  of  our  country,  in  that  he  more  than  any 
other  aingle  man,  caused  the  change  from  Con- 
gress ional  caucuses  to  national  conventions. 
That  Van  Buren  was  practically  the  first  na. 
tional  nominee  of  the  Democratic  party  will 
also  be  tet  forth,  and  that  he  originated  many  of 
the  paity'a  methodt. 

—  We  are  glad  to  know  that  G.  P.  Putnam's 


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THE  LtTERARY  WORLD. 


[May  2^, 


Soni  have  arituiged  to  publish  in  labatanlial 
form  (he  most  Important  and  Intereillng  of  the 
papers  read  tiefore  the  New  York  Geographical 
Society,  of  which  Ei-Judge  D1I7  is  pre*ident. 
During  the  last  year  or  two  etpedally  a  great 
many  intereiting  lectures  have  been  given  which 
have  been  reprinted  briefly  in  the  tiewspipera, 
and  then  paued  out  of  light.  One  of  the  most 
valuable  of  these  wa«  Lieut.  A.  W.  Greely's  paper 
on  hi*  Arctic  experience,  which  we  are  sure  many 
people  would  be  glad  10  posses*  copies  of,  if 
they  could  be  obtained.  Another  one  was  S.  G. 
W.  Benjamin's  Persia  and  lit  Ptrtiant,  which 
happily  will  be  preserved,  u  the  Messrs.  Put- 
nam will  begin  their  publications  for  the  so- 
ciety by  iuuing  an  edition  of  the  address  in  a 
well-prinled  pamphlet.  In  the  same  connection 
the  same  firm  announce  that  Mr.  Benjamin  will 
write  the  volume  on  Persia  for  their  series  the 
"Stories  of  the  Nitions." 

—  We  hear  that  the  sale  of  Mr.  Frank  R. 
Stockton'*  novel,  Tit  Laie  Mri.  Null,  has 
already  reached  9,000  copies.  A  single  New 
York  dealer  has  bought  1,750  copies.  Another 
author  who  seems  to  be  able  lo  retain  his  amaz- 
ing popularity  is  Mr.  F.  Marion  Crawford.  OF 
his  new  book,  Tlie  Tal/  of  a  Lcmiy  Pariih,  over 
30/)00  copies  have  been  sold  here  and  in  Eng- 
land. Of  his  Dr.  Claudius  ao,ooo  copies  have 
been  sold,  and  of  Afr.  Isaacs  32,000.  After  all, 
It  is  only  when  an  author's  books  sell  into  these 
large  figures  (hat  the  business  of  a  writer  of 
fiction  is  a  realty  profitable  one. 

—  McClellan's  memoirs  will  be  published  prob- 
ably in  (he  early  fill  by  Charles  L.  Webster  & 
Co.  The  book  has  been  admirably  illustrated 
by  Mr.  A.  R.  Waud,  who  during  the  war  was 
the  artist  correspondent  for  Ifarper'i  Wtikly. 
Mr.  Webster  will  go  to  Europe  next  month  to 
complete  the  arrangements  for  the  publication  of 
the  Pope's  book,  which  his  firm  have  secured  the 
right  to  print. 


LrTEEART  IFDEX  TO  THE  PEEIOLI- 
OALS. 

Atlie'i  Pauu.  H'titmSmtt^r  Kn.,  April 

Baluc  Ctnm,  May. 

Bwkiud  ttca^Dg.  Quart,  Srn.,  Ns.  tit. 

BnranB,  Sir  Thoniu.    Wihcr  Pilcr.    MatmOla^t,  M». 
CiHaiidcr,  Gmnc.  CkurckOaMrt.  Krv.,  April. 

Coincidcnca  of  UlerUDre.  Cirmiiil,  M17. 


MilKn  Pari*.  | 

Poctrv,  Uodeni.  Ji 

Poeii,  Soniwti  10  IChiiKer,  D.  G 

Prinlini,  EiHt,  id  Iht  UidiUa  Co 

G.  D.  Boordnian. 
Trench,  ArdiUibop.     By  in  olil 


if..  No.  ji«. 

nd  H.,  Hay. 

U  U.,  April. 


April  7, 
binb  and  fur  many 


"  ""Knniylrti 


I,  Copsnha^n,  jB  jr.  i 


of  iHllI  Andt! 
o(  Denmark. 

April  16,  Stm^tn  Ltw,  London,  B9  y.  -,  tliB  wdl-koowi 
pabhiher. 

May  ir.  Dr.  DLi  Ltrnk,  Yonkcrt,  N.  Y.,  ta  y. ;  hniaBe 

May  II,  Clitdmt  B.  PaiUn,  Bcalon,  6j  y.',  uil&or  o 
Emrlmd  Ml  Sittt  trmrn  A  nuTKiHi  SmiUir. 

M>T  J],  Ln^/fn  R,«h,  Berlin,  Gennlny,  9<  1- 


pusuoAnoira  beoeited. 

BioKiapbr- 
-nas  AMD  JooMtAL  or  W.   SraiiuT  Jwront. 
rhiiWife.     WlihPatrah.    HunullaB  A  Co.    >«.«> 
1  Staci  Lin  or  Haiv  Ahdidon.    Bt  WDSub 
I.     With  Ponnit.    Gtoiie  J.  Coombu.  f  i.ij 

;HaaiiicLi  or  thi  Vkt   Family.     By  EKnbelh 
d    VtS.    Cindiiiiall:    Robert  Oarka  A   Co.    By 


Rev.  E.  L.   Hicki,  1 


Wiib  Ponniic.    UacoUIiii 


USH  OF  Gi 

^nm    Diviil 
_, JluthewiamL — 

II.    CiMcU  *  Co.,  Limllnl  t'V 

_,   RaikiD,  LL.D.     Chap.  XII. 

John  Wiley  ft  Sona.    Ptpv  ijc 

Baaaj'*  end  Sk«tcbea. 

WiLKM's  Paou  Sttlb.    By  Fannie  W.  UcLcaa. 
J.  S.  CnihiniS  Co.     PapV. 

.'.■  Eliot  AKD  HiR  HaaoiHB.    A  StodybyAbba 

Goold  Woolwn.     Haiper  &  Braihen. 

By  J.  S.'  Jtaai.     Uariar  A  Bioibcn. 


a  South.     By  A.  K.   Ucann.    J.  B.  Llppliieoa 

_ .  ■xi.\Ai<t  AND  CuainTiAHtTT.    By  Ibe  Rer.  A  J.  F. 
Behrendi,  D.D.    New  York :  Baku  «  Taylor.  %t.v 

FaiHcH  aud  CaiHAH  Socialuh  m  UoDaai)  Tii»& 
By  Richard  T.  Ely,  Ph.D.  Harper  ft  Broe.  Pap«  *)c. 
_  .J  WisDOK  or  Tua  Ahciihts,  and  Naw  ATLAims 
By  Francii  Bacon.  Cawll  ft  Co.,  Limllad,  Paper  loc 
I  Faust  Licimd  In  Oaic^iH  and  DaraLOPHiiiT, 
By  H.  Sulheilaiid  Edwirda.    Seriboei  ft  WelfonL 

Fiction. 

lAiMA.  By  Eran  SmbIod.  Cauell  ft  Co.  »i.<» 
aTTB.  (La  UoRTa.)  By  Odan  Feuinet.  Tr.  by 
nry  Kager.     D.  Applcton  ft  Co,     Paper  sac. 

I  Sronv  OF  A  TiHiD  BiATL  By  William  I.  Hanha. 
ft  Wagnalla  7sc 

I  Evil.  GiHius.  Bt  Wilkie  Collioa.  Harper  ft 
en.    Paper  ajt 

'liHca  OF  DaaKHUs.    By  Flonnee  Warden.    Caa- 

aell  ft  Co.,  Limited.     Paper  isc 

Daoohit  Tua  Juraa.    MaoniHaa  ft  Co.  (i.ij 

Baa-niH'i  Bafcaih.     By  Hn.  Aleiander.     Hanir  Holt 

ft  Co.  >>.DO 

TausT  Ma.    By  Un.  John  Kgnl  Spender.     Harper  ft 

Brotbere.    Paper  icc 

•Sum  AsssHTaa.      By  Maria  Ed|ewar<h.     Harper  ft 

BnHhett.    Paper  ijc 

Edith  Davtoh.    By  J.  Conlon  Banlalt.     Breotano 

A  VicTDaiou*  DarKAT.    By  Wokolt  Baletlier.    lUaa. 
Harper  ft  BroL 
Thi  UiDOa.    By  H.  C.   BonDcr.    Cbarlca  Scribner'i 


Whdu  Cod  Hath  lotun).     By  Eli 
in.    Henry  Holt  ft  Co. 


iiabeth  Gilbtn  Mai 


Uiii  Trfit.    CeiKll  ft  Co..  Limilod.    Paper  ijc. 

Guv  MAHHaaiHa.  By  Sir  Walter  Scoll.  Qbd  ft  Co. 
By  mail  70c. 

BuaauiKi  iH  Paiahisi.  By  Eliiabeih  Slairt  Phelpa. 
Hoi^lon,  Minin  a  Cd.     Paper  soc, 

Haichish.  By  Thorold  Kini.  Chiaco:  A.  C.  Hc- 
Clnrt  ft  Ca.  ti.oa 

Ih  a  Gias  CouHTay.    By  Mn.  H.  Lowell  CaiaaroB. 


SUMMER  SCHOOL  s  ORATORY. 

17-  r*nr*k  Tcar'a  ■aenloa  ■•  kc  HbM  Im  tha 

TM  DEL3ARTB  BrSTEH  OF  EXPRKBBIOK  appUad  Is 
Vote*.  OeaUm  and  Spwcta- 


■PIOIAI.    HOTIOI. 

TBI  mm  semi  of  outort 

will  oominuice  1u  foBiUantli  year  October  T,  IM.   Twu 

preaaJOU-    Compute  ceoTPa  of  Tocal  Tnlulni.   Tborongta 
CnatrqcUoo.   Tbe  neweat  tboDgbt  and  meUwda. 

Addreaa,       MOHBH  ThvE  ■KOWX,  Prtn. 


ZErH.   A  poeUmmona  Morj  Hi  (^lorkdo  tt 

PileaflJt. 

>  Olnn  lo  tbe  world  attar  tlH  band  wbLcb  pi 
forevnatUled.Uiaie  la  added  Uileieal  lo  Ihetdi 
real  wll(  ba  iba  laai  from  iba  ftfied  H.  H.  w 
■- -l.wlUiBoconiullcaled  plot.t 

pen  baviDf  droinjed  from 
liVit,  lb*  iafli>(  tinrl  dtcUU 


ny  prololypee  Id  ihie  dmj  when  Uie  marriaae 
Illy  epaken  ami  eaally  uet  oS.  and  we  woald 

'  fiiSribem."- Jfm^owa^Sml W. 
MAMOMA.   TbatUitMUiUKHiaudot  tbUgitkt  Amar- 


— fata.*   Tbie  briibt.  Cene  aenlenee, 
lelte  keynote  tbrougbo"'     "''"  "'--' 
\.  TlHitot  Ibe  Paslfl 
DOTlbward,  Including 
TerrtloiT,  lo  BrtUeb  ' 
Kulud,  W*le*  aad 


„  (rf  Denmark 'SSfi 

n*fe*  et  Ujely  d«crtpU_r •  - 


aeanan'.  ibe  Inhaliltania,  th 

aymualby  of  tba  willar  glTea  bar  unoaaai  luaUlit,  a 
la  alHa  to  aomTay  bar  own  keen  (lapreflBloBa  to  ibe  m 

Iba  reader.   Tlieeloaliif  eiiBptar(aanao 

playof  llbe^ADBcaau.    Whea  wa  reo— _, 

la  only  a  tnUBoSptal  H.  H.'a  paiaoBal  obaervatlona  dnrlnl 
bar  tarela,  ws  feel  Ibe  wtadom  of  Iter  rainatk  Uial '  tbe 
beat  tblofe  bi  life  aeem  alwaye  nalcbed  on  abanee*.'"— 


ftOHSKTS  AVI>  I.TmiOft.    IMlittbeMBCtildlnt 


Ban  tK  aa  taoiuUm,  er  euilad,  porfpaid,  »»  li 
BOBEBTS    BBOTHEBS, 


lor 


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CONTENTS. 


A  Dadshtib  of  Fm 
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TbeMirorafCudrtiridie    . 

UlHOB  NOT1CB9  I 

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World  UioGiiAPMiiis: 
Willbn  Otbom  SlocUlrd 


siam  Aim  ssabons.* 

OF  the  thirteen  papers  which  make 
this  collectioQ,  three,  "The  Trage- 
dies of  the  North,"  "Winter  Neighbors,' 
and  "  Bird  Enemies,''  treat  espedally  of  birds 
and  their  doings,  while  that  called  "  Hard 
Fare"  tells  of  the  scant  provision  for  birds 
and  the  smaller  animals  in  winter.  In  "A 
Sharp  Lookout "  the  author  emphasizes  and 
enlarges  upon  the  theory  of  Thoreau,  that  if 
we  sit  still  in  one  place  everything  of  interest 
will  come  to  us,  and  that  the  student  who 
stays  at  home  and  uses  his  eyes  has  the  ad- 
vantage of  him  who  seeks  far — old  thoughts 
in  a  new  dress,  but  always  welcome.  In 
reading  this  essay,  one  is  more  and  more 
impressed  with  the  vigilance  the  author 
brings  to  his  observations,  and,  while  not 
sarpassing  Thoreau  in  this  respect,  Mr. 
Burroughs  has  the  faculty  of  putting  his 
truths  into  the  most  captivating  shape,  bring- 
ing his  wonderfully  fine  descriplive  power  to 
bear  on  every  theme  he  touches,  so  that  he 
is  at  once  true  to  science  and  satisfying  to 
the  poetic  sense,  instructive  and  helpful  to 
every  one  who  can  be  touched  to  fine  issues. 
In  "A  Spray  of  Pine  "  Mr.Burroughs  dis- 
courses of  evergreen  trees  as  if  they  were 
friends  —  as  doubtless  they  are.  "A  Snow- 
storm "  is  a  brief  sketch  on  one  topic;  "A 
Taste  of  Maine  Birch "  is  a  record  of  an 
outing;  "A  Salt  Breeze"  glorifies  the  sea; 
"A  Spring  Relish  "  discourses  of  the  annual 


vernal  miracle  and  great  awakening;  and  "A 
River  View"  is  a  tribute  to  the  stream  that 
passes  the  author's  door.  Better  than  any 
of  these,  is  "Phases  of  Farm  Life,"  where 
full  scope  is  allowed  to  his  enthusiasm,  his 
conservatism,  his  joy  in  rural  life,  and  the 
sanctities  of  an  ancestral  home.  Where  has 
Mr.  Burroughs  ever  said  anything  better 
than  this  about  the  hayfield,  the  cattle,  and 
above  all,  his  pet  animal,  the  cow: 

Indeed,  all  the  ways  and  doings  of  cattle  are 
pleasant  to  look  upon.  .  .  .  There  is  virtue  in  the 
cow ;  she  is  full  of  goodness ;  a  wholesome  odor 
exhales  from  her ;  the  whole  landscape  looks  out 
oE  her  soft  eyes;  the  quality  and  the  aroma  of 
miles  of  meadow  and  pasture  lands  are  in  her 
presence  atid  products.  I  had  rather  have  the 
care  of  cattle  than  be  the  keeper  of  the  great  seal 
of  the  nation.  Where  the  cow  is,  there  is  Ar- 
as  her  influence  prevails  there  is 
humility,  and  sweet,  homely  life. 

In  the  dosing  essay,  "Roof-Tree,"  Mr. 
Burroughs  gives  his  experience  in  house- 
building, and  drops  many  little  hints  worth 
heeding,  with  a  strong  argument  for  making 
of  the  home  look,  the  domestic,  quiet, 
simple  aspect  of  a  house: 

A  house,  truly  viewed,  is  but  a  settiiw,  ■  back- 
groand,  and  is  not  to  be  pushed  to  the  front  and 
made  much  of  for  its  own  sake.  It  is  for  shelter, 
for  comfort,  for  health,  and  hospitality,  to  eat  in 
and  sleep  in,  to  be  born  in  and  to  die  in,  and  it  is 
to  accord  in  appearance  wilh  homely,  eveiy-day 
usages,  and  with  natural,  universal  objecls  ani' 
scenes-  ■  .  ■  We  can  miss  almost  anyining  elsi 
from  a  building  rather  than  a  look  of  repose,  .  . 
What  is  a  man's  house  but  his  nest,  and  wh' 
should  it  not  be  nest-like  both  outsme  and  in 
.  .  .  The  domestic  spirit  is  quiet,  informal,  un 
ceremonious,  lovescasc,  privacy, low  tones;  love 
the  chimney-corner,  the  old  arm-chair,  the  ur 
dress  garb,  homely  cares,  children,  simple  pleai 


THE  Wnn)  OF  DESTIKY/ 

THE  second  novel  of  an  author  whose 
first  has  been  a  success  is  opened  with 
mingled  hopefulness  and  anxiety.  It 
peculiarly  trying  to  a  book  to  be  read  in  tl 
light  of  such  a  success  as  that  of  But  Vet 
fVomatt.  We  are  not  sure  but  that  01 
reading  of  The  Wind  of  Destiny  has  been 
further  disadvantaged  by  several  interrup- 
tions; so  that  we  may  have  missed  ii 
largest  degree  the  unity  of  the  impressions 
it  conveys.  But  in  spite  of  these  conditions 
we  have  found  it  an  interesting,  beautiful, 
and  touching  story,  sad  with  a  great  sad' 
ness,  and  lacking  perhaps  the  moral  posi- 
liveness  of  its  predecessor;  but  displaying 
sufhdent  inventive  skill  to  excite  curiosity, 
abounding  wilh  pictorial  conceptions  which 
impress  the  eye ;  as  skillful  in  the  portrayal 
of  human  character  as  it  is  vivid  in  the  sketch- 
ing of  the  landscape  and  the  outward  s 
—  whether  the  latter  be  parlor,  piazza, 
woodland  or  river;  and  written  with  an  at- 
tention to  forms  of  statement,  even  to  quan- 
tity in  words,  which  often  gives  its  style  a 
rhythmical,  almost  a  musical,  charm  to  the 
ear.  Yet  is  not  expression  exaggerated 
in  it  to  an  undue  importance.     It  is  rich 


fn  thought  and  fine  in  feeling.  Touches  in 
its  illustrations  remind  us  that  its  author  Is 
\  geometer;  voices  in  it  suggest  that  he  is 
also  a  poet;  but  by  much  of  its  form  and 
coloring  be  must  also  be  an  artist;  and 
there  is  enough  of  the  truth  and  wisdom  at 
o  prove  him  no  mean  philosopher. 
For  example,  to  draw  out  some  of  its  glis- 
tening threads : 

In  the  laboratory  of  life  each  new-comer  re- 
peats the  old  experiments,  and  laughs  and  weeps 
for  himself.  We  will  be  explorers,  though  all 
the  highways  have  their  signboards  and  every  by- 
path is  mapped  (p.  31). 

We  defer  a  decision,  because  to  dedde  is  to 
accept comteqaences  and  assume  responsilnlities ; 
meanwhile  irresolution  creates  heavier  burdens 
(p.  171). 

There  are  seeds  which,  from  the  time  they  first 

II  into  the  heart,  we  know  will  come  to  ma- 
turity (p.  133). 

In  fnendship  tmt  gives  what  one  has ;  but  In 
love  the  values  are  fictitious,  and  imagination 
fixes  the  price  (p.  i?3). 

The  following  passage  illustrates  the  short 
nervous  sentences,  the  graphic,  faithful  way 
n  which  this  tale  is  told: 

"  You  wish  to  see  Dinant,  again,"  said  he, 
■peaking  slowly  ;  "  well,  yon  can.  Yonr  grand- 
father is  dead,  and  you  are  the  Countess  of  Foy." 
Seraphine  rose  to  her  feet.  For  a  moment  the 
large  room  that  had  always  been  so  attractive 
seemed  all  too  small  to  breathe  in,  and  her  quiet 
life  charged  with  power.  Had  she  not  been 
saving  money  these  two  months  to  buy  the  golden 
pin  which  Efize  wished  for  her  hair?  Had  she 
not  been  dreaming  as  the  bird,  safe  from  the 
hawk  in  its  case,  dreams  oE  the  wood  elms  ? 
And  now,  wealth,  freedom,  home,  Dinant,  and 
the  seal  She  stood  a  moment  breathless,  crossed 
the  room  and  came  back  again  to  his  chair,  then 
went  out  quickly  upon  the  porch  into  the  friendly 
solitude  which  emotion  loves.  The  night  was 
Etill.  Only  the  plainUve  note  of  the  wood  thtosh 
was  beard  in  the  fat  woods.  Above,  a  flock  of 
little  clouds  floated  noiselessly  up  to  the  moon, 
where  they  vanished  in  thin  veili  of  mist. 

We  shall  not  spoil  this  story  for  the  many 
readers  whom  it  is  sure  to  find  and  ought  to 
find  by  entering  into  its  plan  here.  It  be- 
gins, one  might  say,  in  an  old  half-ruined 
church  near  Dinant,  in  Belgium,  begins  with 
a  romance  which  is  also  a  tragedy,  and 
which  introduces  to  us  a  chief  and  most 
lovable  personage  of  the  book,  Schonberg, 
who  presides  over  the  fortunes  of  the 
younger  lovers  and  the  children  with 
fatherly  benignity.  To  this  same  old  church 
the  book  returns,  in  a  way  that  is  finely 
artistic,  for  a  pathetic  conclusion  which 
starts  the  tears.  The  long  drcle  of  events 
between  is  on  American  ground,  and  in- 
volves the  relations  of  a  married  woman, 
Gladys  Temple,  to  her  cousin.  Rowan  Fer- 
guson, and  Rowan's  relations  to  Seraphine 
Fleming.  The  joy  in  this  book,  which  by 
good  rights  belonged  to  Rowan  and  Sera- 
phine, is  wafted  by  the  wind  of  destiny  to 
Elize  and  her  unknown  Belgian  husband, 
and  fortune  is  thus  again  forfeited  to  fate. 
Exactly  what  Mr.  Hardy  means  by  "des- 
tiny" we  do  not  know,  but  in  this  case 
assuredly  it  was  not  kind.  If  there  is  un- 
naturalness  io  the  book,  it  is  in  the  charac- 
ter and  proceedings  of  Gladys,  whose  pas- 
sion   for   Rowan    seems    perhaps    a   little 


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forced,  and  ihe  effects  of  which  upon  her- 
self were  certainly  unexampled.  Is  there 
often,  in  life,  a  misunderstanding  with  such 
a  bitter  fruit  as  that  which  separated  Rowan 
from  Seraphine  ?  But  Schocberg's  is  a.  noble 
figure,  and  a  natural  part;  Rowan's  a  truth- 
ful one;  Jack  is  hinted  at  effectively,  and 
(he  cool  distance  between  him  and  his  wife 
is  well  depicted.  Aunt  Isabel,  too,  is  dra- 
matic, life-like,  and  impressive.  The  open- 
ing episode  of  Schonberg  and  Noel,  the 
relation  of  which  to  the  main  story  is  not  at 
first  apparent,  falls  in  time  into  its  rightful 
place,  and  at  last  assumes  its  proper  propor- 
tion and  correct  perspective;  leaving  the 
brown-haired  girl  of  the  I-esse  only  a  mem- 
ory of  the  sunshine  and  shadow  of  past 
days. 

The  Intellectual  power  in  the  book  is 
marked ;  likewise  the  artistic  refinement 
and  delicacy  of  it.  It  is  a  true  drama,  It 
lays  a  spell  upon  the  reader.  It  is  written 
with  passion,  as  such  a  book  should  be. 
The  soul  of  the  author  throbs  and  glows  In 
his  work.  His  purpose  we  leave  his  readers 
to  discover. 

One  slight  criticism  we  must  offer  in  con- 
clusion on  Mr.  Hardy's  syntax.  He  too 
often  uses  personal  pronouns  when  their 
reference  is  ambiguous.  Repetition  is  some- 
times an  element  of  strength  and  precision ; 
the  avoidance  of  it  a  weakness.  If  when 
Mr.  Hardy  touches  up  his  pages  for  a  second 
edition  he  will  in  a  number  of  places  substi- 
tute "Rowan"  for  "he,"  "Nestor"  for 
"  him,"  and  "  Gladys  "  for  "  she  "  and  "  her," 
and  the  like,  he  will  considerably  increase 
the  sharpness  and  distinctness  of  his  narra- 
tive. There  is  just  a  blur,  here  and  there, 
upon  his  plate  in  this  respect 


A  DAUGHTEa  OF  FIFE.* 

MRS.  BARR'S  strong  novel,  yon  ^ed- 
der'i  Wife,  prepared  us  to  expect 
further  excellent  work  from  her  pen,  and 
this  new  story  is  no  disappointment.  A 
Daughter  of  Fife  is  sweet  and  wholesome, 
and  has  a  kind  of  virile  energy  and  crisp- 
ness  that  is  very  attractive.  The  scene 
opens  at  the  fishing  hamlet  of  Pittenloch, 
the  tiniest  of  towns,  nestled  by  the  sands 
and  against  the  crags,  in  a  place  almost 
unapproachable  except  by  the  sea;  where 
there  was  not  a  horse  or  cart,  and  "prob- 
ably there  was  not  a  man  in  it  who  had 
ever  seen  a  hay-making."  In  this  out-of- 
the-way  nook  there  was  necessarily  a  prim- 
itive kind  of  people ;  but  more  than  that, 
these  fisher  folk  had  characters  which  had 
been  molded  by  their  surroundings,  and 
were  intensely  religious,  holding  to  the 
belief,  ways,  and  modes  of  speech  of  their 


Of  a  grand  and  most  winning  type  among  the 
women  was  ibii  daughter  of  fife,  Maggie  Pro- 
moter,   "  tall,    supple,    erect,    witti    a    pusiti 


iplendor  of  color,"  and  a  spirit  nurtured  on  the 
Bible,  destitute  of  education,  but  u  her  lover 
said  :  "  Though  she  livea  on  the  wild  Fife  coast, 
■he  has  grown  up  beneath  the  shade  of  Judea's 

Salm*;  for  the  Bible  has  blended  itself  with  all 
er  life.  Sarah,  Moses,  Joshua,  Ruth,  and 
David,  are  far  more  real   people  to  her  than 


jecled  to  duty  and   made  famill 

and  suffering  and  death.  ...  A  woman  like  that 

This  lover  is  Allan  Campbell,  of  high 
station,  who  comes  down  to  the  fishing 
town,  and  boards  with  Maggie  and  her 
brother.  He  is  (here  to  escape  from  his 
father's  importunities  for  him  to  marry  his 
cousin  Mary.  He  falls  in  love  at  first  sight 
with  Maggie,  makes  a  clean  breast  of  it 
to  his  honorable  father  and  noble  cousin, 
and  is  sent  to  America  for  two  years,  to 
let  absence  and  silence  test  his  love,  having 
first  pledged  himself  to  Maggie.  The  per- 
secution of  village  gossips  drives  her  away 
to  Glasgow,  where  she  is  soon  accidentally 
discovered  by  Mary,  made  a  companion, 
educated,  and  after  some  mischances,  the 
lover  finds  her,  and  a  happy  ending  comes. 
This  meager  outline  gives,  however,  no 
idea  of  the  plan,  which  is  anything  but  trite, 
and  has  anything  but  the  conventional  treat- 
ment Maggie,  with  her  true  and  loyal 
nature,  dignifies  every  situation,  and  en- 
larges the  reader's  reverence  for  woman- 
hood ;  while  the  spirit  which  pervades  every 
page  is  such  as  to  inspire  us  to  more  charity 
and  nobler  living. 

If  there  is  a  mistake,  it  is  io  making  Allan 
so  faithful ;  but  the  son  of  John  Campbell 
could  hardly  be  otherwise.  The  chief  per- 
sonages are  finely  drawn,  and  in  them  we 
admire  anew  the  sterling  Scotch  cliaracter; 
but  beyond  all  is  Maggie,  one  of  the  best 
heroines  of  modern  fiction. 

Not  the  least  merit  of  this  pure,  uplifting, 
and  charming  story  is  the  old-fashioned 
love,  the  simple,  honest  wooing  and  win- 
ning, without  the  analysis  and  self-question- 
ing of  so  many  modern  novels.  Mrs.  Barr's 
style  is  clear  and  strong  ;  her  literary  work- 
manship that  of  an  artist;  her  spirit,  senti- 
ment, teaching,  sound  and  sweet;  she  has 
the  real  staying  power,  and  knows  what  to 
say  and  what  to  leave  unsaid.  Given  all 
these  qualities,  and  a  unique  scene  with 
individuality  of  characters,  we  have  an  un- 
commonly picturesque  and  admirable  novel, 
the  writer  of  which  is  taking  her  place  in 
the  front  rank  of  our  women  novelists. 


BDSKIN'S  FBirrEEITA.' 

CHAPTER  VIII,  labeled"  Vesler.Came- 
nis,"  makes  us  acquainted  with  another 
of  Mr.  Ruskin's  youthful  comrades,  Richard 
Fell,  who  had  a  distaste  for  the  boy  Ruskin's 
styles,  both  of  art  and  poetry,  and,  though 
never  unkind  or  sarcastic,  the  latter  says, 
"laughed  me  inexorably  out  of  writing  bad 


English  for  rhyme's  sake,  or  demonstrable 
nonsense  either  in  prose  or  rhyme."  Other- 
wise it  shows  us  more  and  more  the  desultory 
life  of  this  only  child,  who  had  his  own  way 
and  thought  his  way  the  best,  reading  idioti- 
cally the  same  stories  out  of  third-rate  liter- 
ture  twenty  times  a  year,  in  a  surfeit  of 
Forget-me-not "  and  other  "  annuals ;  "  and 
lis  account  of  what  the  author  calls  his 
water-cress  life  "  is  concluded  with  praise 
of  Byron  and  explanation  of  his  influence 

In  Chapter  IX,  called  "The  Col  de  la 
Faucille,"  Ruskin  pays  glowing  tribute  to 
what  Rouen,  Geneva,  and  Pisa  have  done 
for  him,  "tutoresses  of  all  I  know,"  and 
"mistresses  of  all  I  did,  from  the  first  mo- 
ments I  entered  their  gates;"  and  follows 
with  page  after  page  of  his  enthusiasm  over 
Swiss  scenery. 

Chapter  X  ("  Qucm  tu  Melpomene,")  fur- 
nishes another  segment  of  the  author's 
learning  and  musical  experience,  with  a  love 
episode,  the  subject  of  which  was  a  "grace- 
ful, oval-faced  blonde  of  fifteen,"  daughter 
of  his  father's  partner.  The  ideal  of  the 
elder  Ruskin  for  his  son  is  staled  io  these 

That  1  should  enter  at  college  into  the  best 
society,  talie  all  the  priies  every  year,  and  a 
double-fiist  to  finish  with;  marry  Lady  Clara 
Vere  de  Vere  ;  write  poetry  as  good  as  Byron's, 
only  pious;  preach  sermons  as  good  as  Bos- 
nuet'i,  only  Prolcslanl ;  be  made,  at  forty.  Bishop 
of  Winchester,  and,  at  fifty,  Primate  of  England. 

In  XI  ("Christ-Church  Choir"),  Ruskin 
is  fairly  entered  at  Oxford  as  a  gentleman- 
commoner — though  not  without  much  dis- 
quietude on  the  part  of  the  father,  who  did 
not  like  the  word  "commoner"  as  applied 
to  his  son.  Sitting  down  to  consider  the 
situation,  he  concludes  that  there  was  no 
danger  of  his  gambling,  as  he  had  never 
touched  a  card,  and  looked  on  dice  as  people 
now  do  on  dynamite;  he  could  not  fall  into 
any  disreputable  ways  at  night,  for  he  was 
never  allowed  to  be  out  after  half-past  nine; 
as  for  his  state  of  mind  in  religious  matters, 
he  says  with  candor: 

As  far  as  I  recullect,  the  steady  Bible-reading 
with  my  molhei  ended  with  our  first  continental 


and  on  the  whole,  he  decided  that  "all  that 
was  required  of  me  was  to  say  my  prayers, 
go  to  church,  learn  my  lessons,  obey  my 
parents,  and  enjoy  my  dinner."  lie  soon 
had  a  consciousness  of  the  architectural 
grandeur  of  Christ  Church,  and  now  with 
his  old  fire  he  kindles  over  the  "lovely  Eng- 
lish work;"  then  digresses  to  a  description 
of  his  companions  and  teachers ;  tells  how 
his  mother  came  and  lived  at  Oxford  during 
his  three  years  there,  to  care  for  him  it  he 
should  be  ill ;  gives  an  account  of  his  pleas- 
ant visits  at  the  house  of  Dr.  Buckland, 
where  he  regrets  having  missed,  in  conse- 
quence of  an  engagement,  "a  delicate  toast 
of  mice,"  and    remembers  "with    delight, 


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197 


beiof  waited  upon  one  hot  summer  morning 
by  two  graceful  and  polite  little  Carolina 

lizards,  who  kept  off  the  flies." 

Without  any  abatement,  but  rather  with 
increase  of  Interest,  the  narrative  keeps  on, 
reminding  one  by  turns  of  the  curtness  of 
Carlyle,  the  gorgeous  sentences  and  dreamy 
rambling  of  De  Quincey,  and  the  delicious 
candor  of  Anthony  Trollope  all  meeting  in 
that  strange  combination  of  egotism  and 
eloquence  which  delights  us  in  the  person 
of  John  Ruskin,  and  which  wEth  such  desul- 
toriness,  brilliancy,  individuality,  and  fasci- 
nation we  shall  never  be  likely  to  find  in 
any  other  author. 


JOEL  BABLOW.' 

MR.  CHARLES  BURR  TODD  in  his 
Life  of  Joel  Barlow  generously  seeks 
to  revive  a  reputation  which  time  has  SO 
buried  that  what  remains  is  scarcely  more 
than  a  headstone  and  a  name.  The  author 
of  the  Columbiad  and  the  Hasty  Pud- 
ding was  a  versifier  and  not  a  poet ;  if  he 
overrated  the  value  and  lasting  charm  of 
those  productions  perhaps  he  was  not,  there- 
fore, any  less  wise  than  the  men  of  the 
present  generation. 

Joel  Barlow  was  to  the  Connecticut  of  his 
day  what  one  son  out  of  a  laboring  family, 
spared  to  a  liberal  calling  through  many 
sacrifices  and  much  resolute  persistence,  is 
to  the  home  circle.  His  fame  had  its  half- 
pathetic  clearness.  For  be  did  not  fiul  to 
bring  credit  to  his  mother.  By  bis  public 
service,  which  is  now  too  much  forgotten 
and  which  Mr.  Todd  has  done  well  to  set 
permanently  before  us,  even  more  than  by 
his  literary  reputation,  which  we  no  longer 
prize,  be  helped  to  advance  the  good  name 
of  bis  country,  to  further  ber  influence 
abroad  and  her  stability  at  home. 

Of  bis  character  as  a  man  Mr.  Todd  has 
wisely  left  us  to  form  our  own  estimate 
from  copious  and  unrestrained  letters,  by 
means  of  which  is  told  a  large  portion  of 
the  interesting  story  of  an  active  and  event- 
ful life  In  a  stirring  period.  He  bad  at- 
tractive social  qualities  and  the  dangerous 
endowment  of  versatility ;  his  genial  temper 
and  quick,  responsive  mind  caused  bim  to 
be  surrounded  everywhere  by  warm  friends, 
and  his  affiliations  were  with  men  eminent 
in  various  fields  of  human  effort.  From  the 
early  days  when  a  chaplain  in  the  army 
of  the  Revolution  he  dined  at  the  table  of 
Gen.  Washington,  sitting  at  the  right  of 
the  "greatest  man  on  earth"  while  Lord 
Steriing  sat  on  bis  left,  to  the  end,  when  in 
the  terrible  Russian  campaign  he  waited  for 
the  Emperor  at  Wilna,  his  interests  were 
with  the  affairs  of  the  world.  Perhaps  he 
was  the  first  American  citizen  of  the  world 
at  large.  Sent  abroad  in  1788  in  the  in- 
terests of  the  Scioto  Land   Co.,  he  spent 


several  years  chiefly  in  Paris  and  London, 
in  both  of  which  cities  he  was  speedily  at 
home.  His  Vision  of  Columiut,  pTevious\y 
published  and  dedicated  to  Louis  XVI,  had 
been  reprinted  in  France  and  received  with 
marked  favor  both  there  and  in  England, 
giving  him  standing  both  as  a  man  of  letters 
and  an  ardent  American.  Jefferson,  then 
ambassador  to  France,  and  the  Marquis 
Lafayette  welcomed  and  introduced  him, 
and  he  threw  himself  heartily  into  the  great 
questions  which  were  in  ferment  about  him. 
He  became  a  pronounced  Republican,  a 
friend  of  (he  Girondists,  and  a  vigorous  and 
voluminous  writer  on  political  subjects. 
Some  of  his  caustic  poetical  squibs,  printed 
at  a  time  when  matters  of  the  kind  were 
considered  of  more  importance  than  now, 
attracted  great  attention.  With  Washing- 
ton and  Hamilton  he  was  given  the  priv- 
ilege of  French  citizenship  and  narrowly 
missed  an  election  to  a  seat  in  the  French 
National  Convention.  The  land  company, 
a  dubious  speculative  venture,  soon  failed, 
and  it  is  a  significant  indication  of  his  dis- 
interested public  spirit  that  his  popularity 
suffered  so  little  from  his  connection  with 
it.  His  political  sympathies  involved  him 
in  European  politics  and  made  him  atone 
time  proscribed  in  England,  but  his  country 
again  found  work  for  him  to  do. 

Barbary,  then  dominating  the  seas,  ex- 
acting tribute  from  Great  Britain,  France, 
Spain,  Holland,  Denmark,  and  Venice,  and 
waging  successful  war  with  the  other  powers, 
was  devouring  American  commerce  and  fill- 
ing her  slave-pens  with  American  prisoners. 
These  sufferers,  thrown  at  once  into  the 
most  bitter  slavery,  chained,  driven,  starved, 
appealed  to  bis  humanity ;  his  country's  need 
and  the  political  situation  touched  both  his 
conscience  and  his  ambition.  He  sacri- 
ficed bis  personal  ease  and  large  projects 
of  private  profit  and  left  his  devoted  wife 
and  his  many  friends  to  accept  the  mission 
to  Algiers.  The  account  of  this  exile, 
largely  given  in  letters  to  his  wife,  makes 
one  of  the  most  notable  chapters  of  the 
book.  There  were  most  exasperating  de- 
lays and  difficulties  in  regard  to  money  not 
forthcoming  for  the  ratification  of  a  treaty 
previously  negotiated.  Then  the  plague 
broke  ouL  The  ill-fed  prisoners  were  dying 
by  scores,  when,  urged  by  the  extreme 
pressure  of  the  case.  Barlow,  by  a  brilliant 
stroke  of  diplomacy,  actually  induced  the 
Deytolend  him  the  very  money  which  he 
was  to  receive  for  the  ransom  of  the  Ameri- 
can prisoners.  An  American  brig  was  in 
port,  and  the  Consul  hastened  lo  ship  the 
captives,  redeemed  in  the  Dey's  own  coin, 
for  home,  before  the  fickle  autocrat  bad 
time  to  change  his  mind. 

It  is  true  that  he  himself  remained  a 
hostage  in  the  power  of  that  tyrannical 
caprice.  H  he  escaped  the  plague,  there 
was  always  the  chance  that  the  Dey,  who 
had  a  prejudice  in  favor  of  beheading,  as  a 


mode  of  punishment,  might  suddenly  find 
himself  offended.  Here  he  remained  for 
more  than  a  year  longer,  finding,  as  usual 
with  him,  abundant  and  various  occupation. 
As  he  says,  "  I  am  the  only  American  slave 
in  Algiers  and  I  work  like  a  dozen,"  and  he 
speaks  of  remaining  at  his  desk  for  thirty- 
six  hours  at  a  time.  But  at  last  his  busi- 
ness was  successfully  terminated,  and  he 
returned  to  Paris  and  to  bis  wife,  having 
received  from  the  Dey  the  most  striking 
marks  of  confidence  and  good  will. 

The  brilliant  and  victorious  young  gen- 
eral, Bonaparte,  had  risen  like  a  star  of 
strange  portent  upon  (he  horizon  of  France. 
Barlow's  brain  was  full  of  ambitious  literary 
projects ;  he  had  planned  a  "  History  of  the 
French  Revolution,''  and  he  set  to  work 
vigorously  making  notes  for  it,  and  prepar- 
ing to  execute  other  important  designs 
postponed  already  through  political  en- 
grossment Jefferson  had  asked  bira  to 
write  also  the  history  of  the  struggle  for 
freedom  in  America.  His  epic,  the  Colum- 
biad, was  likewise  in  hand.  But  these  were 
still  years  of  danger.  Collision  with  France 
was  threatening.  The  general  war  in  Eu- 
rope bad  disastrous  effects  upon  our  infant 
commerce.  The  French  Directory  was  an- 
tagonistic to  us,  and  here  Bariow  quickly 
exercised  all  bis  diplomacy,  all  his  tact 
Perhaps  it  was  due  to  him  that  an  outbreak 

It  was  not  until  after  eighteen  years  of 
absence  that  the  stanch  American  realized 
his  dream  of  returning  to  buy  an  estate  and 
enjoy  his  native  land.  Hardly  bad  he  set, 
tied  there  when  the  relations  with  France 
again  gave  cause  to  serious  apprehension. 
Negotiation  must  be  attempted,  and  by  an 
agent  whose  personal  weight  would  carry 
at  least  the  hope  of  success.  Madison  and 
his  cabinet  turned  at  once  to  Joel  Barlow, 
Once  more,  at  the  call  of  his  country,  per- 
sonal considerations  were  laid  aside  and  he 
set  forth,  not  without  forebodings.  When 
he  reached  Paris,  the  preparations  for  the 
Russian  campaign  were  in  progress.  The 
affairs  of  the  United  States  were  of  small 
importance  and  were  repeatedly  delayed. 
At  last,  after  a  year  of  anxious  and  un- 
wearied labor,  the  Minister  of  Foreign 
Affairs  made  an  appointment  for  Wilna, 
where,  it  was  believed,  the  treaty  would  be 
signed.  He  reached  tbe  tittle  Polish  town 
after  a  severe  journey  through  intense  cold 
and  over  bad  roads;  then  for  days  there 
was  waiting,  amid  the  misery  of  war ;  then 
came  the  tidings  of  the  French  defeat  and 
the  flight  of  the  Emperor.  The  treaty  was 
lost  —  the  dtbrit  of  an  army  would  soon 
descend  like  an  avalanche  upon  them.  The 
parly  made  hasty  preparations  for  the  re- 
turn journey  to  Paris.  They  set  out,  but 
cold  and  exposure  had  done  their  work; 
the  defeated  ambassador  was  evidently  ill; 
the  little  party  hailed  at  the  desolate  village 
of  Zarnovice  wd  here  death  overtook  him. 


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THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[June 


He    had    made  his    last  offering   for    his 
country. 

Life  had  offered  him  a  full  cup.  His 
vigorous  mind  and  body  had  enabled  bin 
both  to  give  and  to  receive  liberally.  Ex- 
ceptionally happy  in  marriage,  prosperous 
in  fortune,  blest  with  friends  and  honor  and 
high  motive,  dying  in  full  career  without 
any  lingering  decay,  even  if  his  later  repu- 
tation has  been  something  less  than  his 
due,  destiny  did  not  apportion  him  an  ill 
estate. 


IdSOB  FIOTIOB. 


[Macmil- 


The  magnitude  of  Mi.  Jamei'a  last  work  wai 
never  lo  apparent  as  now,  when  it  comei  in  a 
bulky  volume  of  about  four  hundred  and  €Ety 
page*.  But  juttice  deuiands  the  stateiDCnt  that 
in  this  gay  attire  of  cardinal  and  flame  color  — 
was  it  meant  to  relieve  the  internal  somberness? 
—  the  tcdiousness  ii  more  endurable;  nay,  if 
one  had  time  it  might  be  a  positive  pleasure  to 
go  over  this  interminable  story  afresh.  On  a 
further  consideration,  and  a  second  looking 
along  the  pages,  it  seems  possible  to  accept  the 
apathetic  Basil  as  representing  some  (hitherto 
unknown)  type  of  the  Southern  gentleman, 
though,  as  a  hero,  he  is  no  better  than  the 
average  hero  of  the  woman  novelists  w 
evolve  that  personage  from  their  own  ct 
sdousness  instead  of  from  actual  life.  Olivi 
insane  ambition  begins  to  rise  to  sublimity 
our  eyes,  and  her  cruel  diaappoiatment  assun 
a  tragic  Interest ;  while  the  inconsequent  and 
untrustworthy  object  of  this  ambition  and 
thor  of  the  disappointment,  the  fait  Verena, 
appears  as  the  leading  character  in  a  comedy, 
the  closing  scene  of  which  is  as  surprising  as 
ingenious,  and  as  amuiiiiig  a*  anything  on  the 
stage.  Mr.  James,  consciously  or  unconsciously, 
has  a  habit,  or  a  trick,  of  suddenly  precipitating 
a  crisis,  of  throwing  down  the  house  of  blocks 
he  has  been  lal>oriuusly  building,  as  if  he  was 
tired  of  it,  as  if  it  failed  to  suit  him ;  and  no 
longer  finding  pleasure  in  it,  he  overthrows  it 
with  one  sweep ;  but  in  this  case  it  is  a  very 
satisfactory,  though  unexpected,  way  of  ending 
Ihe  matter.  To  say  that  the/»a/f  of  the  Verena 
experiment  is  worthy  uf  Frank  Stockton,  must 
be  taken  as  complimentary  by  Ihe  author  iif  The 
Baileniani.  Mr.  James  is  ptobably  thought  by  Ihe 
English  fairly  to  represent  some  phases  of  Amer- 
ican life  in  his  careful  and  highly  elaborated 
novels ;  but  we  protest  that  the  advanced  women 
and  their  men  associates,  as  typified  by  the 
Tarrants  and  others,  have  an  atrociously  ex- 
aggerated importance  attached  to  them.  The 
types,  the  class,  the  cause,  are  not  worth  the 
space  they  occupy;  and  the  author  has  made 
a  lamentable  misuse  of  his  keen  analytic  powers 
in  reporting  Olive'*  states  of  feeling  and  ihe 
slow  dragging  of  the  reform ;  it  is  tike  bringing 
heavy  artillery  lo  bear  on  shadows.  But  Verena 
is  in  some  sense  a  success;  intangible  as  she 
often  is,  it  is  genuine  flesh  and  blood  when 
(be  breaks  out  naturally  as  in  this  way  : 

It  would  be  very  nice  lo  do  that  always  —  just 
to  take  men  a*  they  are,  and  not  to  have  lo  ibink 
about  ttkcir  badoeos.     It  would   be   very   nice 


not  to  have  so  manv  questions,  hut  lo  think  they 
were  all  comfortably  answered.  .  .  .  Thty  didn  t 
care  anything  about  female  suffrage  1  And  I 
didn't  feet  the  want  of  a  vote  today  at  all,  did 
yon?  ...  Do  you  know,  Olive,  I  sometimes 
wonder  whether,  if  it  wasn't  for  you,  I  should 
feel  it  so  very  much  I 

Alia :  a  Slery  ef  tht  LotI  Iitand.  By  Mrs. 
J.  Gregory  SmitlL    [Harper  &  Brother*.    <i.oo.] 

lii,  Palestine,  Phenicia,  Greece,  Scandi- 
navia, Mexico,  send    in  their  contributions  tc 

over-intense  little  romance,   the  principal 

a  of  which  are  lud  on  Ignatius  Donnelly's 
Ailanii*  just  before  it  sank.  Ambition,  astrol- 
(^,  astronomy ;  love,  complicated,  criss-crois, 
and  raging,  holy  and  profane;  murders  multiple; 
marvel*  innumerable;  science  and  nonsense; 
Hebrew  religion,  alar-worship,  serpent. worship, 
Grecian  mythology  j  and  various  other  matters, 

lumerous  to  mention,  are  crowded  into  Its 
forty-five  sensational  chapter*. 


a*  has  been  rumored,  Ihe   late  Mr.  Hugh 
Conway  is  now  engaged  in  dictating  novels  from 
a  higher  sphere  for  the  benefit  of  his  publishers 
and  the  edification  of  the  public,  we  can  only 
say,   that  unlike   most    ghosts  who  engage    in 
literary  enterprises,  his  style  shows  no  sign*  of 
that  strange  falling  off  which  seems  to  accom- 
pany the  transition   into  perfected  intelligence. 
Uvittg  or  Dead,   his  appropriately-named   last 
(or  latest)  work,  has  all  the  sensational 
of  its  predecessors.     It  is  Ihe  tale  of  two 
lives,  a  husband  and  a  wife,  alienated  from  each 
other   for  twenty  years  through 
trigue,  which  yet  is  so  clumsy  in  character,  that 
only  Ihe  violence  of  outraged  love  and  pride 
either  aide,  prevents  its  speedy  exposure.    There 
is  much  of  Mr.  Conway's  accustomed  ingenuity 
a\  plot   in  the   method  by   which   the   Ituih 
kept  back  to  the  last  moment,  and  Philip  Norri 
unconsciously  to  himself,  is  led  to  woric  oul  h 
mother's  exculpation  and  his  father' 

peace  and  happiness,  with  no  suspi 
the  deep  personal  slake  he  himself  holds  : 
mutual  fortunes. 


n  their 


The  Mayer  of  Casttrbridgi,  when  compared 
with  the  pale  average  fiction  of  every  day,  strikes 
us  as  might  a  bold  charcoal  drawing  Iron 
hand  of  a  master  when  set  beside  a  conventional 
gaacheric.  In  it  are  no  feeble  strokes,  no  smudged 
outlines  dim  with  needless  shading ;  all  is  of  the 
true  impressionist  school,  direct,  wcll-consideted, 
vigorous;  Ihe  very  coaiseness  of  stroke  is  an 
added  strength.  The  Mayor  of  Caslerbridge 
makes  his  first  appearance  on  the  first  page  of  the 
book,  in  the  capacity  of  a  "hay-bruiser,"  on  the 
tramp  for  employment,  with  his  wife  and  child- 
Three  long  day*' journey  ends  in  the  "furmity" 
booth  of  a  fair,  and  the  man,  reckless  with  ill-luck 
and  liquor,  offers  his  wife  for  sale  for  the  sum  of 
five  guineas  — a  proceeding  of  not  infrequent 
occurrence  in  former  days  and  at  fair  times 
among  the  English  lower  classes.  A  sailor,  who 
happens  to  be  present,  takes  him  up,  and  the 
wife,  after  vainly  remonstrating  at  ibc  transfer, 
stung  to  anger,  and  nothing  questioning  that  her 
husband  has  Ihe  right  to  thus  dispose  of 
her,   flings  her  wedding-ring   in   his   face   and 


goes  her  way  with  her  new  owner.  When 
the  hay-bruiser  awake*  from  his  drunken 
sleep  next  day,  and  realizes  his  act,  remorse 
seizes  him.  He  then  and  there  takes  a  vow  of 
total  abstinence  for  twenty  years,  and  sets  forth 
to  search  for  his  wife  and  child.  No  trace  of 
them  can  be  found,  however,  and  the  pair  do  not 
meet  again  for  eighteen  year^  during  which 
time  Ihe  man,  by  energy  and  thrift,  has  made 
himself  a  prosperous  corn-factor,  and  risen  to  be 
Mayor  of  the  town  of  Casterbridgc.  How  they 
meet  and  remarry  and  what  follows  this  second 
union  makes  the  subject  of  the  atory,  which  we 
spoil  for  the  reader  by  rehearsing  in 
brief.  It  i*  enough  to  say  that  the  book  haa 
much  oE  Mr.  Hardy's  characteristic  quality,  the 
charm,  the  pathoii,  the  humor,  the  cleverly  hit-off 
country  folk  with  their  odd  conceits  of  thought 
and  speech,  to  commend  it  lo  those  who  like  a 
book  with  a  flavor  of  it*  own,  and  are  not  con- 
lent  to  walk  forever  in  Ihe  beaten  track  of  fiction 
and  fact. 

1CIH0&  xono£8. 

A  Suidyef  DauU.  By  Susan  E.  Blow.  With 
Introduction  by  W.  T.  Harris.  LL.D.  [G.  P. 
Putnam's  Son*,    ft.zj.] 

Mil*  Blow's  one-hundred' page  volume  is  a 
udy  of  Ihe  Divina  Commedia  from  the  Alex- 
andrian stand-point  of  allegorical  interpretation, 
rris  and  the  writer  bcrsclf  have  a  very 
slight  esteem  for  Ihe  poor  people  who  comment 
on  Dante  in  a  literary  and  historical  manner  — 
as  doe*  Longfellow  for  example.  The  dialect  in 
which  they  delight  is  the  hybrid  language  of  the 
Journal  cf  Sfetulairve  Pkiloiophy  —  vA  a  very 
sterile  hybrid  it  it.  "The  realized  form  of 
thought  ii  sclf-coosciousness,  and  this  involve* 
the  distinction  of  the  self  from  Ihe  self,  and  the 
persistent  identification  with  self  of  the  self  Ihu* 
distinguished.  The  eternal  distinction  of  the 
self  is  the  begetting  of  an  eternal  object ;  the 
eternal  identification  of  this  object  with  self  is 
eternal  recc^nilion,  communion,  or  love."  This 
is  a  specimen  brick  from  which  Mis*  Blow's 
house  may  fairly  be  judged.  We  cannot  be  any 
more  enthusiastic  over  the  result  reached  by 
applying  this  process  lo  the  "mystic,  unfathom- 
able song  "  than  was  Artemus  Ward  in  his  great 
war  speech :  "  For  those  who  like  this  kind  of 
war,  it  is  just  the  kind  of  war  they  like."  Miss 
Blow  has  decided  ability,  and  ha*  studied  Dante 
carefully;  but  that  her  method  is  right,  or  her 
achievement  of  great  value,  we  very  much  doubt. 


DiicussioHi  an   Climalt  and  Cosmology.     By 
Jame*  CroU,   LL.D.,  F.R.S.      [D.  Appleton  & 

Co-      f2/».] 

The  glacial  period  is  now  one  of  the  settled 
facts  of  geological  history,  though  its  causes  are 
slill  a  matter  of  much  debate.  Many  theories 
have  been  advanced  to  account  for  the  cold  ;  as 
a  changa  in  the  sun's  heat,  a  change  in  the  earth's 
atmosphere,  a  change  in  the  earth's  polar  axis,  an 
elevation  of  the  northern  land  hemisphere  —  the 
la*l  being  the  one  commonly  held  at  present 
Twenty  years  or  more  ago,  Professor  Ctoll  ad- 
vanced a  theory,  which  has  been  vigorously  op- 
posed on  all  hands,  that  the  well-known  astro- 
nomical (act  of  a  change  in  the  eccentricity  of  Ihe 
earth's  orbit  is  sufficient  of  itself  to  account  for  - 
all  Ihe  phenomena  of  glacialion.  Just  now  the 
earth's  orbit  is  nearly  round,  and  the  earth  It  at 


1886.]  _ 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


aphelion  in  tbc  summer  solstice.  At  scime 
former  period,  when  the  orbit  wu  a  very  eton- 
gited  ellipse,  il  the  earth  was  at  aphelion  in  the 
winter  solstice,  the  increased  winter  cold,  Mr. 
Croll  thinks,  would  gradually  cap  the  northern 
regions  with  snow  and  ice  for  ages,  producing  a 
(rue  glacial  period  which  would  disappear  only 
after  thousands  of  years  with  the  rounding  out  oE 
the  earth's  orbit,  or  the  passage  of  aphelion  into 
the  summer  solstice,  or  both.  Professor  Cmll's 
whole  book  is  taken  up  with  the  careful  discus- 
sion of  this  great  question  in  all  its  phases,  pliysi- 
cal,  geological,  and  cosmological,  and  it  is  a  work 
of  great  learning  and  ability  throughout.  When 
we  remember  that  the  glacial  theory  itself  was 
only  adopted  by  geologists  after  years  of  the 
greatest  opposition,  we  are  itranKiy  Inclined  to 
think  that  Mr.  Croll's  ideas  oC  the  glacial  causes 
ntay  yet  find  favor,  though,  perhaps,  in  some 
modified  form.  There  can  be  no  question  that 
just  now  the  author  has  the  best  of  hi*  oppo- 
nents in  the  argument,  though  final  judgment 
must  be  suspended  till  we  hear  their  replies. 

An  Amtritan  WbniaH'i  Life  and  Wart.  A 
Memorial  of  Mary  Clemmcr.  By  Edmund  Hud- 
son.   [Ticknor  &  Co.    (1.50.] 

In  his  anxiety  to  avoid  giving  publicity  to  the 
drctunstances  of  Mary  Cle miner's  individual  and 
domestic  life,  her  husband  has  gone  to  the  oppo- 
site extreme  — only  telling  wliat  was  already 
known,  and  making  up  the  volume  with  a  deline- 
ation of  her  character  and  extracts  from  her 
published  letters.  So  that,  in  point  of  fact,  there 
is  nothing  new;  and  the  "  memorial "  is  simply 
her  husband's  own  loving  and  admiring  tribute 
to  her  exceptionally  beautiful  and  interesting 
nature,  and  her  experience  of  self-sacrifice  and 
her<Hsm.  White  we  cannot  help  honoring  his 
delicacy  aitd  the  spirit  which  influenced  him  to 
such  reticence,  we  feel  sure  that  a  more  full  and 
minute  account,  more  facts  instead  of  comments, 
would  have  given  greater  satisfaction  to  her  wide 
public  uf  admirers,  without  in  the  least  trespass- 
ing upon  that  proper  guard  of  reserve  to  which 
she  (in  common  with  every  author,  be  he  or  she 
never  so  much  of  a  favorite)  is  entitled.  The 
date  of  Mrs.  Hudson's  birth  is  not  given.  The 
l^ace  was  Utica,  New  Vork ;  she  was  of  Hugue- 
not descent  on  the  father's  side,  of  a  family 
which  traced  their  origin  to  Alsatia,  and  the 
QanK  in  the  Fatherland  was  spelled  Klemmer ) 
her  mother  was  From  the  Isle  of  Man;  and  on 
both  sides  she  bad  an  inheritance  of  virtues  and 
ability  whereof  to  be  proud-  OF  very  rare  and 
noble  qualities  of  mind  and  heart  was  this  girl, 
Mary  Clemmer,  who  was  handicapped  from  her 
youth,  but  bore  herself  with  heroic  courage  to 
the  end ;  making  her  name  distinguished  as  the 
foremost  woman  journalist  of  the  country  ' 
spedal  capacity  of  letter  writer,  giving  promise 
lA  success  as  poet  and  novelist  if  her  life 
been  spared;  and  through  hardship  and  trial 
wiimiiig  golden  o[dnions,  making  herself  friends, 
justifying  her  own  worthiness  of  honor  by  her 
nobility  of  life,  by  the  lender  care  over  her 
parents,  and  her  bravery  of  spirit  to  the  last. 
She  died  in  Washington  on  the  iSlh  of  August, 
1884,  from  a  brain  trouble  directly  caused  by  an 
accident  which  occurred  six  years  tiefore.  Of 
her  work  in  a  pecuniary  point  of  view,  Mr.  Hud- 
son says  that  during  the  third  year  of  her  ar- 
rangenient  to  write  for  the  IndeftndtMt  (N.  Y.) 
ai>d  UHien  (Brooklyn),  she  received  a  salary  of 


five  thousand  dollus;  and  that  ber  "aggregate 
receipts  from  literary  ai>d newspaper  workdnring 
the  sixteen  years  from  1866  to  1881  were  little  if 
any  less  than  fifty  thousaiMl  doHars."  He  thinks 
that  the  portrait  which  accompanies  the  volume 
ives  a  mM'e  accurate  idea  of  her  personal  bear- 
>g  and  expresses  more  character  than  any  other. 
He  describes  her  as  a  woman  of  "radiant  and 
abounding  health,  gracefully  proportioned,  per- 
fectly developed,  erect,  well-poised,  full  of  dig- 
nity and  repose ; "  sensitive,  generous,  sympa- 
thetic, nnselGsh,  Nncere,  a  warm  friend  and 
delightful  comrade. 


In  these  dainty  votnmea  authora  and  publisher 
have  united  in  producing  that  appearance  of  sim- 
ple and  refined  elegance  dear  to  the  heart  of  a 
genuine  book-lover.  Mr.  Lang's  book  fs  espe- 
isally  artistic,  with  its  appropriate  head  and  tail- 
pieces, illustrated  capitals,  xbA  fae-similit  tA  rare 
bindings.  Its  first  topic  is  literary  forgeries; 
of  which  account  it  given  of  some  notable  in 
history  or  curious  in  their  andacity  and  success ; 
remarkable  being  the  hmoua  forged 
decretals,  and  the  alleged  Shakespearean  dis- 
of  Mr.  W.  H.  Ireland  about  tbc  dose 
of  the  last  century.  Among  the  other  subjects 
discussed  are  curiosities  of  parish  registers; 
Elzevirs,  with  some  historical  notice  of  the  fa- 
publishers,  and  with  instruction*,  aided  by 
illustrations,  by  which  amateurs  may  distinguish 
the  few  extant  copies  of  their  issues ;  and  a  chap- 
ter on  "Japanese  Bogie  Books,"  a  most  extraor- 
dinary literature  truly,  from  which  some  startling 
illustrations  are  here  presented. 

In  73*  Pleasures  ef  a  Bodivorm  the  writer 
discourses  lA  the  peculiarities  of  bibliophiles, 
books  once  owned  by  famous  people, 
and  of  the  dedications  therein  found  on  their  Af 
leaves  —  one  instance  being  an  Elievir  copy  of 
i  Kempis  presented  to  Rou«*eau.  In  speaking 
of  "  The  Reality  of  Dedicationt "  the  author  has 
many  reminiscences  of  the  poets  Shelley  and 
Byron,  indnding  a  queer  story  of  the  latter^ 
challenge  to  Sonthey  and  that  poet* 

iply-    One  chapter  is  a  sort  of  essay 
cism  regarded  as  an  art;  in  which  the 

the  dullness  of  critics  in  recognijting 
genius  in  new  writers-  He  consider*  the  case  of 
Walt  Whitman  as  one  in  point.  The  condud- 
ing  paper.on  literature  in  odd  moments,  contains 
of  the  best  work  in  the  book;  and  is  both 
suggestive  and  practical.  This  volume  is  not, 
like  the  other,  illustrated,  but  has  the  wide 
margins  suggestive  U  the  books  of  earlier  days. 

Nebeltand  ttnd  Tlietnjistrat%d.  Studien  uad 
S^AildeniHgtH  ata  der  Neimal  Jakn  Built.  Voi 
Leopold  l^tscher.    [Stuttgart,  1886.] 

We  have  of  late  frequently  had  occasion  to 
speak  of  the  improvement  in  the  writing  of 
essay*  and  short  descriptive  arttdea  in  popular 
manner.  The  book  before  us,  while  it  has  all 
theold  virtnesof  the  Teutonic  methoc^  thorough- 
ness in  investigation  and  philosophic  treatment, 
is  also  written  in  a  pleasing  aitd  genial  style  which 
cannot  fait  to  be  attractive.  The  author  (our 
German  correspondent)  make*  no  attempt  to 
describe  the  constitutional  government  of  Eng- 
lao<L  bat  devoteiahtmself  mainly  to  the  todal 


and  politic««>dal  questions  now  a^^tating  the 
British  mind.  The  subjects  which  are  treated  at 
more  length  are  the  fallowing :  The  Salvation 
Army,  The  Modem  Newspaper,  The  Tunnal 
Bttder  the  Straits  of  Dover,  The  Position  of  Wo- 
in  England,  The  Great  Cities  and  City-Life. 
The  Salvation  Army  is  liere  described  in  great 
detail.  No  feature  of  its  organization,  system, 
purpose,  or  possibilities  seems  to  have  been 
overlooked  by  Herr  Katscher.  He  is  of  the 
opinion  that  the  whole  movement  constitutes  one 
of  the  most  remarkable  phenomena  of  the  cen- 
tury.   He  predicts  that  it  will  find  no  foothold 

Germany.  To  the  general  reader  we  think 
the  chapters  on  the  Press  and  the  Germans  in 
England  will  be  of  greatest  interest.    The  book 

welcome  addition  to  the  rather  small  collec- 
of  German  books  appropriate  to  reading  in 
the  leisure  hours  when  the  latMrmust  not  be  too 
ardnotis  nor  the  subject  too  ponderous. 

,*  SkoTi  Hislery  ef  Tapestry.  From  the  Ear- 
liest  Times  to  the  End  of  the  iSth  Century.  By 
Eiwine  Miinti.  Tr.  by  Lonisa  J.  Davis.  [Gas- 
sell  &  Co.,  Limited.    Iz.50.] 

A  revised  edition  of  a  valuable  and  interesting 
work,  the  chief  object  of  which  is  to  show  the 
held  by  tapestry  "in  the  annals  of  high 
painting  proper."  The  way  is  prepared 
by  an  introduction  telling  what  is  meant  by 
tapestry,  and  what  is  "the  type  and  character  of 
and  at  the  outset,  a  distinction  is  made 
which  will  surprise  the  uninitiated,  although  the 
student  of  this  subject  of  course  understands  it, 
that  in  tapestry,  "the  picture*  produced  are  an 
itegral  part  of  the  texture,"  while  in  embroidery 
they  are  wrought  on  the  already  existing  mate- 
rial. Brilliancy  and  boldnes*  of  coloring  should 
characterize  this  kind  of  decorative  work,  aitd 
tbe  Bubjecti  should  be  the  "encounters  of  armies 
the  pomp*  of  triumphs,"  and  similar  august 
processions.  Beginning  then  with  the 
Egyptians,  the  author  traces  the  history  of  this 
handicraft  down  through  the  sumptuous  stuSs, 
the  tent  hangings  and  temple  hangings  oE  tbe 
andenis,  to  Penelope's  loom,  which  he  says 
resembles  with  slight  variations  those  now  used 
at  tbe  Gobelins;  then,  recapitulating,  reminds 
ns  that  antiquity  possessed  all  the  appliances 
and  knowledge  for  bringing  painting  in  textile 
fabrics  of  all  kinds  to  the  highest  perfection, 
and  passes  on  with  a  condensed  account  of 
this  kind  of  work,  taking  one  century  for  a 
chapter  down  to  the  eighteenth.  Every  page  is 
crammed  with  information,  adtnirably  expressed, 
and  proportioned ;  and  the  closing  chapter  gives 
"the  technique"  of  tapestry,  with  descriptions 
of  the  looms  used.  Ninety-four  pictures  illus- 
Ihis  valuable  handbook;  and,  that  nothing 
nuy  be  lacking  for  the  amateur,  twenty  pages 
devoted  to  showing  and  explaining  the 
marks  and  monograms  used  in  the  various  tapes- 
try workshop*  in  Europe,  to  which  are  added 
lists  of  the  chief  centers  of  manufacture,  of  paint- 
ers who  designed  cartoons  or  whose  pictures 
were  reproduced,  of  tapestry  workers  mentioned, 
and  an  analysis  of  the  contents.  A  volume  at  once 
so  full  and  so  concise,  so  thoroughly  furnished 
with  just  the  knowledge  one  needs  and  no  more, 
rarely  falls  into  the  reviewer's  hands  —  a  model 
in  its  way,  by  which  future  compilers  might  well 
profiL  It  is  one  of  the  issues  (in  handsome 
style)  of  Tkt  Fine-Art  Uirory,  edited  by  John 
C,  L.  Sparks,  Prindpal  of  the  National  Art 
Tiaining  School,  Sotith  Kensington  Museum- 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[June  i 

"'""iiiT 


The  Literary  World. 


BOSTON,  JUNE  12,  1886. 


H*  cued  let*  for  the  maDnar  than  for  lh«  milter 
of  >acleBt  lancuasas.  He  wu  >  (rat  reader,  wltb 
a  wonderful  power  of  ■ccumuletlnK  knowledfe. 
Vet  be  eerried  ble  leuDlns  llfbtly,  end  wu  tbe 
(urtbeit  remove  from  ■  pedant.  V/t  all  thoDght 
thgrcaioawbyhemlued  hia  &rat  la  Oreata  wai 
aalduDuilr. 


If  lea 


lathan 


IsdiECitbiareadfo 


nnderliocd  with  pi 


if  etuy-wiiUes.     Mia  booka  1 


help  blm  Bad  hla  i 


y  acalD 


1  the  aaliao 


la  library  aooo  (raw,  and  tbia  aeemeC 
tbe  only  luxury  ha  allowed  himielf.  Amid  all  thi 
preaalBi  aagacementi  ol  hla  later  life  he  caver  out 
crew  hla  affection  tor  old-book  atalle.  —Mkmtir  « 

THE  UHPOPULABrPI  OP  GEEMAK 
LTTEEATDEE. 

THE    qucGtioo  of   the    uopopularily  of 
Gennan  literature  has  been  a  puzzle  ' 
the  literati  [or  over  a  century,  that  is,  almost 
aa  long  as  that  literature  has  existed  for 
them.     The  confusioD   has  recently  beeo 
augmented  since  minute  investigation  hg 
shown    what   immense    influence    Germ  a 
authors  had   on    French  and    English  li 
eratare.      Hillebrand    (in     WaeUckts    und 
Dttttsehis)  has    clearly  shown    how  Klop- 
■tock's,    WieUnd's,     Herder's,     Schlegel'i 
and  many  others'  ideas  penetrated  not  ooly 
Germany,  but  the  world;  how  their  ideas 
can  be  traced  in  the  works  of  French  and 
English  authors,  contemporary  to  them  or 
of  a  later  epoch ;  how  these  works  are  slit] 
universally  read,  and  only  tbe  originators  of 
the  ideas  and    their  works  are  nowadays 
forgotten. 

Still  more.  For  England  and  France 
general,  a  German  literature  did  not  exist 
down  almost  to  the  second  half  of  the  cur- 
rent century.  The  CwitiiitUs  of  Littrature 
yield*  a  striking  example  of  that.  It  con- 
t^ns  an  essay  entitled  "Literary  Dutch" 
which  certainly  is  the  greatest  curiosity  of 
an  cariosities  of  literature.  In  this  essay 
DIaraeli  speaks  indiscriminately  of  Germans 
and  Hollanders  as  one  and  the  same  people, 
using  one  and  the  aame  language ;  he  Is  not 
aware  of  any  distinction  between  them. 
The  only  names  cited  are  those  of  Vondel, 
an  obscure  Dutchman  of  the  sixteenth 
century  and  of  Schubart,  the  unhappy  poet 
of  the  "  FuerstengTuft,"  who  lived  in  the  first 
half  of  the  eighteenth  century.  And  this 
was  written  toward  the  close  of  the  last 
century,  after  the  death  of  Lessing  and 
Mendelssohn,  after  Herder  and  Wieland 
and  Klopstock  bad  nearly  finished  their 
lalwra,  and  after  Goethe  and  Schiller  had 
published  some  of  those  masteqjieces  which 
modern  literature  has  never  excelled.  Dis- 
raeli thinks  nevertheless  that  "though  the 
Germans  of  the  present  day  are  superior  to 


their  ancestors  and  their  imaginations  are 
fertile  and  vivid,"  yet  on  the  whole  the  sim- 
ple question  of  Pire  Bouhours  coaceroing 
exists  in  full  force.  The  famous  ques- 
alluded  to  is  this:  "Si  un  Allemand 
peut  avoir  de  I'espritf  " 

Later,  in  1825,  tbe  £tSn6urgA  Revuw, 
after  characterizing  Goethe's  Wilhtlm  Mtu- 
ter,  which  the  reviewer  confesses  to  know 
only  by  a  translation,  as  "eminently  absurd, 
puerile,  incongruous,  vulgar,  and  afiected, 
from  beginning  to  end  one  flagrant  oSence 
against  every  principle  of  taste  and  every 
just  rule  of  composition,"  passes  by  an  easy 
induction  from  the  particular  to  the  general, 
and  pronounces  the  same  condemnation  on 
the  entire  literature  of  Germany. 

It  is  true  that  only  two  years  thereafter 
Carlyle  vindicated,  in  the  same  Edinburgh 
Reviiw,  the  rights  of  the  German  mind. 
But  had  he  then  any  base  for  his  assertion, 
or  has  it  at  least  been  fullilled  as  he  then 
wrote:  "The  study  of  German  literature 
has  already  taken  such  firm  root  among  us, 
and  is  spreading  so  visibly,  that  by  and  by, 
as  we  believe,  the  true  character  of  it  must 
and  will  become  known." 

Almost  sixty  years  have  passed  by  since 
that  was  written,  and  withal  the  state  of 
things  has  remained  the  same.  The  study 
of  German  literature  has  taken  no  firm  root 
either  among  the  English  or  the  French, 
us,  or  any  other  nation,  and  its  true  charac- 
ter, outside  of  a  small  circle  of  professional 
students,  has  not  become  known.  Who 
is  reading  German  books  ?  Any  dealer  Ii 
foreign  books  will  convince  us  by  simple 
figures  how  small  a  number  of  readers  wor- 
ship the  German  muse  in  comparison  to 
the  admirers  of  the  French,  for  example. 
And  is  not  our  whole  literature,  from 
the  daily  paper  up  to  the  nowadays  so 
pretentious  novel,  a  striking  example  of 
the  utmost  ignorance  of  everything  per- 
taining to  German  literature  f  What 
Goethe  said  of  tbe  English  can  justly 
be  applied  to  all  other  nations.  He  com- 
pared the  Englishman's  relation  to  German 
literature  with  that  of  the  hungry  fox  to  the 
long-necked,  narrow-mouthed  bottle  set  be- . 
fore  him  by  tbe  stork.  He  licked  the  drops 
on  the  outside  of  the  vessel  and  pronounced 
the  entertainment  unsatisfactory.  The  fault 
was  perhaps  not  in  the  food,  but  in  the 
muzzle  of  the  guest 

Here  lies  doubtless  tbe  cause  of  the  un- 
popularity of  German  literature.  We  do 
not  occupy  ourselves  seriously  with  it;  we 
do  not  study  it  deeply.  But  might  not  the 
fault  lie  also  in  the  food?  To  be  sure,  many 
a  man  has  tried  among  us  to  devote  himself 
entirely  to  that  study;  and  invariably  has 
dropped  it  after  a  very  short  time.  Our 
stomachs  do  not  seem  to  be  fitted  for 
digesting  such  heavy  food.  For  all  essen- 
tially German  work  is  overflowing  with 
"  Gehall,"  with  good  ideas ;  it  is  eminently 
suggestive;  in  short,  it  (ontains  everything 


we  may  expect  from  good  reading  matter; 
but  all  that  bountifully.  Thus  its  relative 
fault  is  too  great  richness  of  ideas.  It  is 
like  an  extract  that  cannot  be  enjoyed  in 
Its  full  strength,  but  must  be  thinned,  be  Et 
even  with  water.  That  is  the  simple  proc- 
ess the  French  and  English  authors  em- 
ployed with  the  German  ideas ;  and  by  that 
way  they  prepared  us  digestible  reading, 
while  the  original  works  went  quickly  into 
the  sorrowless  land  of  oblivion.  Surely  no 
literature  has  ever  produced  as  great  a  mass 
of  new  and  valuable  ideas  as  the  German ; 
but  nowhere  either  have  tliey  been  wasted 

much  as  there.  It  seems  as  though  the 
Germans  had,  at  a  time,  been  seized  with  a 
mania  of  producing  nothing  but  new  ideas; 
thus  their  works  contained  nothing  but 
abstract  reflections,  and  therefore  seemed 
cold,  artificial,  unnatural,  and  had  nothing 
of  the  genuine  natural  flavor  that  character- 
's French  literature.  We  prefer  after  all 
natural  fruit  with  all  its  ingredients  to  the 
finest  and  most  genuine  extract. 

Such  was  and  such  is  the  general  charac- 
ter of  German  literature,  not  solely  of  the 
scientific,  but  also  of  the  polite.  The  Ger- 
man author  of  today  differs  not  essentially 
from  his  ancestors;  he  remains,  despite  of 
all  modern  cosmopolitanism,  "  gut-deutsch," 
and  his  works  retain  still  the  peculiar 
German  flavor — the  "  Studierstuijenduft." 
Goethe,  on  looking  over  a  collection  of  the 
living  poets  of  England,  remarked  that  their 
best  things  were  due  to  descent  and  situa- 
tion; the  meanest  of  them,  said  be,  has 
Shakespeare  for  his  ancestor,  and  the  ocean 
at  his  feet  The  same  is  true  of  Germany. 
Her  literature  confesses  in  all  her  writers 
the  influences  of  these  two  factors :  tbe 
meanest  of  them  has  the  Alps  for  bis  back- 
ground, the  Rhine  for  his  Ixjrder,  Luther 
for  his  ancestor,  Lessing,  Herder,  Wieland, 
Schiller,  and  Goethe  for  his  countrymen. 

This  peculiar  character  of  German  litera- 
ture is  the  principal  cause  of  Its  unpopu- 
larity. All  other  explanations  must  be 
based  upon  secondary  factors.  Hillebrand 
thinks  that  Gennan  literature,  as  the  young- 
est daughter  of  modem  civiliiatlon,  and  the 
direct  offspring  of  English  and  French  liter- 
ature, is  not  esteemed  by  either  of  these 
two  nations  because  they  have  been  work- 
ing together,  been  keeping  an  eye  on  each 
other  for  centuries,  so  that  they  cannot 
accustom  themselves  to  follow  another  lit- 
erature with  interest,  or  will  not,  perhaps, 
as  it  has  directly  grown  out  of  theirs.  But 
even  if  we  accept  this  rather  slender  expla- 
nation, it  does  not  prove  anything  for  other 
nations,  especially  not  for  America.  No- 
where, perhaps,  is  the  interest  taken  In  all 
matters  pertaining  to  Germany  greater  than 
among  us;  nowhere  prejudice  Is  exerting 
less  influence  than  in  the  New  World;  and 
yet,  in  respect  to  German  literature  we  are 
scarcely  farther  advanced  than  the  English^ 
,  or  even  the  French.        '  O  ' 


1 886.] 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


FerdiD&nd  Gross,  and  after  him  a  legion 
of  patriotic  writers,  thought  all  would  rap- 
idly change  after  Germany  would  have 
acquired  a  more  influential  political  situa- 
tion. After  tlie  Franco-German  War  tbey 
confidently  trumpeted  out  to  the  world  how 
German  literature  would  soon  take  the  place 
of  the  French ;  and  quite  recently  Herr 
Gross  held  up  the  same  opinion  in  the 
BlatiUr  fuir  Utttrariscke  Unierhaltung, 
though  fifteen  years  have  already  passed 
away  since  the  political  resurrection  of 
Germany,  and  not  the  slightest  sign  of  a 
growing  popularity  of  her  literature,  as  yet, 
has  been  observed.  The  causes  of  this 
unpopularity  must  therefore  lie  deeper. 

Some  change,  however,  has  taken  place 
during  the  last  decades.  We  have  simply 
passed  to  the  other  extreme.  Did  the 
Edinburgh  Review  of  1825  condemn  the 
German  literature  as  a  whole  P  Today  we  are 
willing  to  give  it  the  foremost  place  among 
modern  literatures.  Alas !  It  has  already 
acquired  the  best  reputation,  a  reputation 
that  saves  it  from  criticism ;  it  has  become 
sanctioned  like  the  Holy  Scriptures  which 
it  is  forbidden  to  regard  with  a  critical  eye ; 
it  has  obtained  the  advantage  of  a  religion, 
accepted  by  every]>ody  and  thought  of  by 
nobody.  Have  we  made  noteworthy  prog- 
ress towards  recognition  of  the  German 
literature  since  1825?  We  for  our  part 
believe  noL  For  we  go  with  Montaigne, 
who  said:  "To  know  a  thing  wrong  is 
worse  than  not  to  know  it  at  all;"  and  in 
ecclesiastical  matters  we  share  Casanova's 
opinion,  who  wrote :  "  An  atheist  who 
thinks  of  God  while  being  occupied  with 
building  up  his  system,  is  more  worthy  than 
a  deist  who  never  thinks  of  him." 


WHAT  ABE  THE  GBEATE8T  SOVEL87 

READERS  of  the  Saint  Louis  estimate  re- 
specting the  greatest  books  oF  the  present 
century,  in  our  issue  of  May  ist,  may  be  inter- 
eslcd  in  the  judgment  expressed  lately  by  a  much 
smaller  but  select  circle  of  readers  in  a  literary 
dub  of  Cleveland.  Each  member  was  to  name  the 
ten  novels  of  which  he  held  the  highest  opinion. 
Out  of  ninety  books  which  by  this  rule  might 
have  been  named  by  the  members  present,  the 
number  chosen  was  reduced,  by  agreement  of 
opinions,  to  forly-siz.  Of  these  Thackeray's 
Neacomes  led  the  list  with  six  votes;  the  Scarlet 
LttUr  and  A  Tale  of  Ttoa  Cititi  had  each  five  ; 
Rfmola  and  David  CopptrJUld  each  four ;  Thi 
Mill  art  thi  Fltst,  Htitry  Bsmend,  and  Lti 
Misirablii  each  three  —  the  last  named  being 
that  ranlced  highest  In  the  opinions  expressed  at 
St.  Louis.  The  remainder  of  the  forty-six  bad 
either  one  or  two  votes  each.  It  is  interesting 
to  note  that  of  the  Waverly  Novels  included  in 
the  books  receiving  but  one  or  two  votes,  Ivan- 
hoe  does  not  appear  as  its  author's  greatest,  but 
Guy  ManHtring  and  The  Hiart  of  Mid-Lothian. 


*■*  Friday  of  last  week  was  "  Library  Day  " 
at  Wellesley  College,  a  day  of  honor  to  Mr. 
E.  N.  Horsford  of  Cambridge,  Mass.,  formerly 
Professor  of  Cberoislrjr  in  Harvard  College,  who 


has  done  liberal  things  fur  the  Wellesley  Col- 
lege library  and  for  other  departments  of  that 
Interesting  institution  for  women.  The  praise 
of  books  was  loudly  sung  in  the  various  exec, 
cises  of  the  day,  and  such  days  should  stimulate 
the  generosity  of  the  rich  in  behalf  of  students. 

%■  Congress  having  organised  a  Territorial 
Government  in  Alaska,  established  schools,  and 
sent  out  teachers,  has  now  left  out  from  the 
Appropriation  Bill  the  necessary  provision  for 
their  support.  To  knock  the  ground  out  from 
under  these  teachers'  feet  and  leave  them  dang- 
ling in  the  air  3,000  miles  or  more  from  home 
would  be  hard  treatment.  Something  ought  to 
be  done  about  it. 

*«*  Dr.  Elliott  Coues  reports  a  tired  head  on 
the  subject  oE  theosophy. 


A  lETTEB  mOH  rlOEBHOE. 

Floriuie,  May  30. 

LETTERS  from  London  every  day  bring  us 
wonderful  accounts  of  Shelley's  Cenci,  and 
of  Mr.  Todhunter's  Greek  Play;  accounts  which 
we  read  in  a  domed  and  frescoed  chamber, 
which,  with  all  its  green  jalousies  closed  against 
the  burning  sun,  has  a  clear,  delicate,  green  light 
as  of  a  cave  under  the  sea.  Would  that  it  were 
as  coot  1  Rut  under  the  sea  we  should  not  have 
these  bundles  oE  stocks  and  roses,  these  jars  of 
white  May  lilies,  these  branches  of  syringa,  and 
acacia,  exhaling  a  faint,  sleepy  perfume  in  the 
heated  noonday  air. 

It  seems  impossible,  as  we  dreamily  lie  on  the 
hardest  couch  in  the  darkest  comer,  to  believe 
that  a  week  hence  we  also  shall  be  in  L.andon ; 
we  also  shall  go  to  Mr.  Todhunter's  Qreek  Play, 
and  hear  the  admirable  Helen,  and  admire  the 
dresses  of  the  chorus.  We  also  shall  go  not  to 
(he  "  Cenci,"  for  that  is  a  thing  of  the  past,  but  to 
the  next  passion  of  the  moment,  Sarah  Bern- 
hardt P  Jane  Hadny  f  Oh  no,  if  we  go  to  any 
play  at  all  it  will  be  (o  Coambe,  to  hear  Lady 
Archie  Campbell  play  Perigot  in  her  quaint 
shepherd's  costume  under  the  great  elms  in  the 
garden]  and  they  say  there  is  not  to  be  another 
play  at  Coombe  this  year.  It  is  a  pity.  There  is 
an  old  play  of  Green's,  Paris  and  Helena,  of 
which  Mr.  Malcom  Lawion  has  already  set  the 
delicious  songs  to  music,  which  would  be  perfect 
—  with  Perigot  as  Paris  — played  in  summer  time 
upon  the  shady  Uwns  of  Coombe.  Who,  though, 
should  be  Helen,  some  slim  and  exotic  person- 
age 1  And  the  little  Indian  princess  Helen,  who 
played  so  sweetly  as  the  beloved  of  Perigot,  ii 
married,  I  believe,  and  gone  away.  Could  we 
steal  his  Helena  from  Mr.  TodhunterP 

The  last  literary  event  in  London,  they  say 
(how  unnecessary  it  alt  seems  out  here),  the  last 
thing  to  talk  about  at  dinner  parties  (it  makes 
one  hot  to  think  of  them  t]  Is  the  Baldnin  of 
Vernon  Lee.  It  is  a  beautiful  book,  and  to  read 
the  Value  of  the  Ideal  here  on  a  summer  night, 
with  the  nightingales  crying  and  calling  outside 
in  the  Count's  Garden,  and  the  breath  of  the 
syringa  sweet  in  the  air,  and  the  fireflies  rising 
and  floating  among  the  dark  of  the  bushes,  that 
is  a  pleasure  I  That  particular  dialogue  should 
be  read  only  in  Italy  in  summer.  You  in  Bos- 
ton, they  in  London,  can  ponder  the  Rtsponsihili- 
lies  of  Unbelief,  and  the  Diahpte  on  NmitU, 
which  is,  perhaps,  the  author's  favorite,  although 
by  no  means  outs.  Apropos  of  this  book  it  is 
rumored  that   Oscar  Wilde  declares  he  cannot 


read  Mr.  Pater  since  he  has  spoiled  his  taste  by 
reading  Baldviin.  We  do  not  know  which 
author  this  piece  of  criticism  is  intended  to 
scathe;  but  it  does  not  strike  us  as  apt  or  true. 
Nothing  could  be  more  unlike  the  delicate,  aus- 
tere, rather  difficult  beauties  of  Mr.  Pater's  style, 
than  the  over-^undant  and  florid  genius  oE  Ver- 
non Lee.  His  resembles  the  rare,  fresh,  unripe 
beauty  of  an  English  spring,  all  trembling  green 
of  young  leaves,  lilac  and  primrose  of  flowers, 
flowing  of  waters,  and  misty,  tender  sunlight. 
And  the  work  of  Vernon  Lee  is  akin  to  this 
Italian  summer  time,  with  roses  ten  a  penny,  a 
dozen  nightingales  singing  in  the  shade  at  once ; 
a  confusion  of  reds  and  golds,  of  trills  and 
gushes,  and  sharp,  strident  Cries.  Nothing  could 
be  more  unlike. 

Have  I  already  written  thai  Mr.  Pater  Is 
busy  on  a  successor  to  Maiius,  a  romance  of  the 
French  Renaissance  laid  in  some  exquisite  castle 
of  the  Loire?  Those  who  remember  a  certain 
paper  on  Joachim  du  Bellay  will  divine  how 
well  and  surely  Mr.  Pater  will  render  that 
Golden  Age  of  France.  The  French  Renais- 
sance seems  to  be  rivaling  the  Italian  in  popular 
favor.  The  publisher  Redway  has  ready  for 
press  a  translation  of  the  Ileptameren  of  the 
Queen  of  Navarre.  But  there  is  a  certain  diffi- 
culty in  finding  any  one  to  write  the  introduc- 
tion. The  intrepid  Mr.  John  Payne  is  ill.  And 
of  the  few  other  people  competent  to  the  task 
none  will  undertake  to  edit  a  complete  transla- 
tion of  the  book.  All  scholars  and  students  can 
read  the  French,  and  though  a  selection  from 
the  Heftameron  would  be  a  charming  book  to 
have,  the  whole  work  is  unnecessary,  often  inde- 
cent, often  dull.  For  what  a  very  honest  woman 
could  write  three  centuries  ago,  people  with  less 
virtue  to  boast  nf  would  not  willingly  read  for 
pastime  or  pleasure  today.  A.  M.  F.  R. 


OOBBESPOHDEHOE. 

Summer  Scboola. 
Tq  the  Editor  of  the  Uterary  World: 

I  have  read  your  article  in  issue  of  May  15 
with  interest.  In  addition  to  your  notices  of 
summer  schools  in  the  Eastyou  might  have  given 
some  account  of  the  Mont  Eagle  Sunday-School 
Assembly,  which  is  a  Southern  Chautauqua. 
This  enterprise,  started  two  or  three  years  ago, 
has  steadily  grown,  until  this  year  the  attendance 
will  be  very  large  and  the  variuus  schools  well 
equipped  for  woik.  A  recent  addition  to  the 
other  departments  of  work  Is  "The  School  of 
Fine  Aits."  Prof.  L.  5.  Thompson  oE  Purdue 
University,  La  Fayette,  Ind,  Cart  C.  Brenner  of 
Louisville,  Ptof.  George  W.  Chambers  of  Art 
Department,  Washington  University,  St.  Louis, 
and  Miss  Sallie  Thomas  of  Nashville,  compose 
the  faculty.  There  will  be  lectures  on  art,  chalk 
talks,  studio  work,  sketching  parlies,  etc.  The 
scenery  at  Mont  Eagle  is  unexcelled  for  sketch- 
ing purposes.  D.  H.  Rains. 

Naihvilte,  May  tj,  1886. 

Proof- Readers. 
To  lie  Editor  of  the  Uterary  World: 

I  wonder  why  nothing  has  ever  been  said  in 
commendation  or  praise  of  proof-readers  or  their 
They  surely  cannot  alt  be  bad ;  there 


e  salt  t. 


afewj 


possible  that  every  one  who  takes  up  the  work 


THE  LITERARY  WORLR 


[June  is, 


oi  reading  proirf  is  loUliy  depraved,  full  of 
malice  toward  aatbori,  and  baling  tlie  whole 
world.  And  yet  in  an  experience  of  neaily  foity 
jeua  in  the  printing  bufineai,  it  is  tcij  rarely  if 
ever  tfaat  1  have  beard  a  word  of  commeadalion 
of  this  mucb-abused  dast.  Once  in  a  great 
while  you  find  an  author  wfao  is  willing  to  give 
grudgingly  a  little  cold  broth  of  praise 
proof-reader.  Does  it  arise  from  a  feeling  of 
literary  conceit  among  autbort,  that  makes  tbem 
feel  that  if  any  praise  is  given,  It  must  be  taken 
by  themielves?    Peiiah   the   thought 

Let  us  look  for  a  moment  at  the  proof-readei. 
To  begin  with,  nearly  every  one  who  devotes  bis 
attention  to  authorship  is  necessarily  careless 
about  his  handwriting.  He  cannot  stop 
particular.  His  thoughts  are  at  work,  and  he 
cannot  break  the  flow  of  the  divine  afflatus  by 
dotting  his  i's  or  croMing  his  t't.  We  do  ni 
expect  it.  Each  author  has  his  peculiarity  of  pei 
manship.  A  proof-reader  takes  up  his  MS,  aitd 
immediately,  with  his  copy-holder,  attempts  to 
make  himself  ea  rappart  with  that  author, 
second  after  that  article  is  read,  another 
of  MS.,  from  another  author  with  peculis 
entirely  different,  is  placed  before  him,  and  he 
must  "foiget  the  things  that  are  behii 
become  en  rafparl  with  that  author.  No  author 
is  truly  happy  unless  he  uses  some  word  or 
phrase  never  heard  of  before,  and  the  proof- 
reader has  nothing  in  the  past  to  help  him  in  bis 
reading.  Bear  iu  mind  that  this  is  not  for  a 
moment,  but  all  day,  all  the  week,  all  the  year, 
all  his  life.  After  puzzling  himself  with  some 
such  peculiarity,  with  eyes  half  blinded,  brain 
weary,  and  the  impelling  push  of  quantities  of 
work  waiting,  in  an  unfortunate  moment  a  letter 
is  left  out,  a  comma  inserted  in  the  wrong  place, 
a  word  is  substituted,  and  forthwith  the  whole 
army  oE  authors  march  in  solid  pbalau 
whelm  the  poor  suffering  prooi-reader  ! 

I  have  seen  conscientious,  patient,  worthy 
proof-readers  shrink  and  cringe  when  . 
came  into  the  printing-office,  not  bee 
were  conscious  of  leaving  or  committing  any 
error,  but  because  they  feared  that  in  their  work 
they  might  have  been  inadvertent,  and  left  sc 
thing  undone,  or  done  somethiug  they  ought 
I  have  heard  an  author  scold  a  proof-reader  for 
some  trifling  oversight,  when  that  same  day  the 
proof-reader  had  corrected  an  historical  blunder 
in  an  article  written  by  this  same  author,  that 
would  have  placed  him  in  an  unpleasant  light 
before  the  public.  I  bave  seen  an  author  com- 
plaining of  a  proof-reader  for  his  blunder*,  and 
saying  to  the  world  that  bis  MS.  was  perfection, 
when  that  same  MS.  had  to  be  sent  back  to  the 
author  in  order  to  have  him  decipher  some  of  its 
plainness  I  Some  time  since  1  printed  a  book  full 
of  references  and  tabulated  matter,  the  MS.  of 
which,  to  say  the  least,  woa  had.  We  corrected 
very  many  inaccurades  in  the  book,  and  in  the 
MS.,  and  yet,  if  we  left  out  a  comma  where  the 
author  wanted  it  placed  in,  back  would  come 
the  proof  with  the  words  \»o  copy]  on  the  margin. 
Some  may  say  that  it  is  the  protrf-reader's  busi- 
ness to  correct  such  things.  Is  it?  I  trow  not. 
The  wonder  to  me  is,  not  that  any  errors  occur, 
but  that  so  few  do  occur.  We  have  in  the 
natter  of  proper  names,  names  that  are  not  at 
all  common,  the  most  diffictJty.  A  case  in  point 
happened  a  few  days  ago.  The  author  wrote  as 
plainlj  u  anything  I  have  seen  lately  the  nante  I 


Fleming.  Careful  search  in  all  the  book*  in  our 
reference  library  failed  to  find  that  name  in  con- 
nection with  that  subject.  After  wandering  for 
awhile  in  the  field  of  seeming  reality,  we  started 
off  into  the  world  of  speculation,  and  after  some 
guessing,  worked  up  an  ingenious  theory  that 
perhaps  it  migbl  be  Heniog.  Presto  I  the  diffi- 
culty was  solved,  and  we  were  at  ease  for 
awhile;  but  only  for  a  moment,  for  within  two 
minutes  another  word  »a*  thrown  at  us,  which 
after  some  research  and  speculation  we  found  to 
be  Chandos.  Multiply  these  coses  by  thousand*, 
and  you  will  see  what  the  proof-reader 
silently  undergo.  I  am  surprised  that  they  do 
not  become  so  hardened  and  indifferent  that 
they  let  errors  pass,  and  when  they  detect 
author  in  an  inaccuracy,  sacrifice  him  in  print 
before  the  world.  But  I  have  yet  to  find  one 
willing  to  do  so,  although  dreadfully  tempted 
sometimesi  Thomas  Todd. 

Btacoit  Prill,  Boiten,  May  »q,  t886. 

That  Club  at  Pfaafs. 
Te  lie  EdUar  tftht  Library  iVitrld: 

A  friend  has  called  my  attention  to  a  recent 
number  of  your  journal,  in  which,  on  the  author- 
ity of  a  Colonel  Montgomery,  I  am  made  to 
figure  as  a  member  of  a  club  called  the  Bokei 
which  it  is  said  met  at  "  Pfaaf's,  in  Broadway 
Bleecker  Street,"  in  New  York,  So  far  as  I 
am  concerned,  your  correspondent  has  been  mi*. 
informed.  I  was  not  a  member  of  such  an  a*so- 
:ialian,  nor  have  I  been  connected  with  any  social 
club  in  New  York  —  except,  for  a  short  lime,  with 
the  AutAtr's  ;  nor  was  1  ever  In  Ffaafs,  or  Pfaffs, 

ly  lif^  I  am  not  quite  sure  where  it 
Of  those  mentioned  as  my  associates,  thci 
four  — Messrs.  Sothern,  Clark,  Butler,  and  Mac- 
kenzie, whom  I  never  saw,  to  my  knowledge. 
Such  a  club  may  have  existed;  but  it  is  very 
ngular  that  I  never  heard  of  it.  Mr.  Gunn, 
who  is  mentioned  as  one  of  its  members,  was  for 
time  a  steady  contributor  to  a  New  York 
journal  with  which  I  was  connected.  He  was  a 
correct,  upright,  and  decorous  gentleman,  any- 
thing but  a  Bohemian,  as  the  term  is  generally 
understood.     He  never  spoke  of  such  a  club 

I  have  heard  Fill  James  O'Brien,  Henry 
Clapp,  Jr.,  and  George  Arnold,  who  used  to 
laughingly  class  themselves  as  Bohemians,  speak 
of  Pfaff,  and  his  beer;  but  they  spoke  of  no  club. 
I  have  a  notion  that  Pfa&'s  place  was  in  a  base- 
sort  of  underground  eating-house  and 
n.  1  remember  very  well  saying  to  one 
of  these  gentlemen,  with  a  feeble  attempt  at 
pleasantry  —  "A*  there  are  so  many  buyers  of 
beer  among  your  people  it  is  quite  proper  that 
you  should  have  a  cellar  to  receive  you."  But 
far  as  my  personal  knowledge  goes,  the  place 
may  have  been  in  a  garreL 

Thomas  Dunn  English. 

Nneark,  N.  J.,  Mayj/,  1886. 

Mrs.  Null's  Ejea, 

Te  the  Ediler  of  Ike  Lilerary  World: 

Should  Mr.  Frank  R.  Stockton  be  permitted 
to  change  the  color  of  '■  The  Late  Mr*.  Null's  " 
eyes  without  protest }  If  it  were  her  hair  I 
would  not  complain.  On  page  i^  she  gives 
Lawrence  "an  honest,  straightforward  look  from 
her  gray  eyes,"  while  on  page  342  she  "fixed  on 
him  ber  large,  blue  eyes."  Is  itproper  for  a  hero- 
ine to  have  on  assorttnent  of  e]re«? 


Then,  by  irtutt  statute  tA  typography  docs  the 
printer  omit  periods  after  the  abbreviations  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  b  the  book  ?  Cynic. 

Aurora,  Indiana. 


William  O.  Stoddard.  Mr.  Stoddard,  whose 
work  in  fiction  and  tnography  has  attracted  at- 
tention, dates  his  birth  at  Homer,  Cortland  Co., 
N.  Y.,  September  24,  1835.  His  father  was 
for  many  years  a  book-seller  and  publisher  in 
Rochester  and  Syracuse,  N.  V. ;  and  at  the 
latter  place  the  son  was  engaged  with  him  four 
year*.  At  eighteen  be  entered  the  Univenity 
of  Rochester,  where  he  spent  three  years,  doing 
some  literary  as  well  as  school  work,  which 
served  to  prepare  him  for  the  editorship  of  the 
Daily  Ledger,  Chicago,  upon  which  he  entered 
on  leaving  college.  In  the  spring  of  185S,  the 
Ledger  having  suspended  publication,  Mr.  Stod- 
dard took  charge  of  the  Central  Illinois  Gazttte, 
at  Champaign,  111.,  the  newspaper  which  con- 
tained the  first  editorial  advocacy  of  Abraham 
Lincoln's  nomiiution  for  the  Presidency  —  writ- 
ten by  Mr.  Stoddard.  During  the  three  and  a 
half  years  in  which  Mr.  Stoddard  conducted  the 
CoMtUe,  he  battled  slavery  with  energy  and  bold- 
ness; and  in  the  Lincoln  campaign  which  fol- 
lowed he  took  an  active  part.  In  July,  1S61,  he 
wa*  appointed  Assistant  Private  Secretary  to 
the  President  In  September  of  that  year  be 
was  appointed  United  States  Marshal  of  Ar- 
kansas ;  but  after  a  year  failing  health  obliged 
him  to  resign,  and  he  returned  to  the  North. 
He  was  Secretary  and  a  Director  of  the  Amerf- 
can  Atlantic  Cable  Telegraph  Company  after 
regaining  his  health,  and  has  since  engaged, 
until  lately,  in  mining  and  manufacturing  oper-  * 
ations.  Meanwhile,  in  1869,  he  published, 
through  the  American  News  Company,  Scatida- 
roon,  a  political  satire  in  verse,  illustrated  by 
Eyiinge ;  in  1S75,  through  James  Miller,  Veriet 
of  Many  Days  ;  in  1879. -through  '**  New  York 
Tritunt,  Dismisied,  a  novel,  first  issued  serially, 
then  in  a  book;  in  1880,  through  G.  P.  Putnam'* 
Sons,  The  Heart  ef  It,  a  novel ;  in  1881,  through 
Messrs.  While,  Stokes  &  Allen,  Esau  Hardery,  a 
novel,  and,  through  Charles  Scribner's  Sons, 
D<^  Kinar,  a  juvenile,  reprinted  from  Si. 
fiichalas ;  in  1882,  through  Ihe  last-named  firm. 
The  Quartette,  A  Sequel  to  Dtti  Kiuur ;  in 
1883,  through  White,  Stokes  &  Allen,  Wretkedt 
a  novel,  through  Harper  ft  Brothers,  The  Tali- 
''V  i^avts,  an  Indian  story,  and,  through  the 
Scribners,  Saltiila  Boys ;  in  1884,  through 
the  Scribners,  Among  the  Lakes  (from  St. 
Nich^ai),  and,  through  Fords,  Howard  &  Hnl- 
bert,  Abraham  Liiuola,  a  Trite  Story  of  a 
Great  Life;  lost  year,  through  the  Scribners, 
iVinter  Fiin,  a  light  reprint ;  and  this  year, 
through  the  Harpers,  Tioo  Arrets:  a  Story  ef 
Red  and  While,  narrating  adventures  among  the 
of  the  Southwest,  and  first  printed  in 
Harper's  Young  People.  The  work  which  Mr. 
Stoddard  has  had  in  hand  lately  is  largely 
historical  and  biographical,  comprising  a  series 
of  books,  although  he  is  still  producing  fiction, 
married  in  1870,  and  ha*  four  children. 
His  present  residence  is  Morrisanis,  N.  V. 

. r. 


Not  long  since  an  dd  gentleman,  a  former 
resident  of  Nashville,  Teno.,  M.  H.  Howard  hj 


l886.] 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


naine,  died  in  N«w  Vork,  kavtog  I15.000  to  be 
expended  on  books  for  a  free  library  in  that  city 
(<»-  mechanics  and  other  l^oren. 


SOME  OF  TEE  OHEAP  UBBABIES. 

The  cheap  libraries  in  paper  coven  multiply 
fasler  than  we  can  keep  the  tally.  George  Rout- 
tedge  &  Sons  have  started  a  "World  Library," 
of  which  the  popular  Rev.  H.  R.  Haweis  Is  the 
general  editor,  and  in  which  the  fallowing  aie 
the  initial  numberi :  a  translation  of  Goethe'a 
J^aiut,  by  John  Ansler,  Allen's  Li/e  of  Nelson, 
Goldsmith's  Playa  and  Poems,  Captain  Cook's 
Vtyages,  and  a  Life  of  the  Duke  of  Wiiliiigton. 
The  books  are  of  pocket  size,  the  t]rpc  is  very 
fine  but  tolerably  dear,  the  lime  of  issue  is  once 
a  fortnight,  the  price  is  10  cents  each,  and  the 
subscription  ti.6o  a  year. 

Late  additions  to  the  still  smaller  "National 
Library,"  published  by  Casscll  &  Co.,  are  Sheri- 
dan's famous  plays  T^e  Rivali  and  Sckeel  for 
Scandai  (t  vol.),  Horace  Walpole's  Castle  of 
Otrantu,  The  Voyaget  and  Travels  of  Sir  yoin 
Maundeville,  an  interesting  narrative  of  the  14th 
century,  Goldsmith's  She  Stoops  to  Conquer  and 
The  Cood-Nalured  Matt  (1  vol.),  Sir  Walter 
Scott's  Ijidyofthe  Lake,  selections  from  Martin 
Luther's  Tablt  Talk,  Lord  Bacon's  Wisdom  of 
the  Aniienli  v\&  Neai  Allaatis  (i  vol.),  Macau- 
lay't  essay  on  Bacon,  and  the  Life  and  Ad- 
vinturis  of  Baron  Trenck  (2  vols.),  a  mitiUry 
autobiography  of  more  than  ordinary  aiiimat ion 
and  personal  interest,  illustrative  of  the  times  of 
Frederick  the  Great.  These  book*  come  vreckly 
at  10  cents  each,  or  f  5  a  year. 

The  additions  to  Harper's  "  Handy  Series  "  are 
still  more  numerous.  Here  are  Stories  of  Prov- 
ence,  by  Alphonse  Daudet,  translated  by  S.  H. 
Lee,  a  dozen  or  fifteen  of  them,  delicious  bits  of 
French  landscape,  character,  and  sentiment,  cab- 
inet pictures  rich  in  color  and  delicate  in  texture  ; 
next  a  fervent  argument  for  honest  money,  under 
the  title  A  Plea  for  the  Constitution,  by  the  Hon. 
George  Bancroft ;  then  Lord  Beaconsfield's  ego- 
tistic but  readable  Corrcsfiondence  with  /lis  Sister, 
crowded  with  political  and  social  portraits  and 
scenes  belonging  to  the  years  1832-52 ;  two 
Edinburgh  lectures  answering  the  question  WAat 
Does  History  Teach  1  by  the  athletic  minded 
John  Stuart  Blackie,  his  points  of  view  being  the 
State  and  the  Church;  a  collection  of  short 
sketches  and  stories  of  Cavalry  Lift  in  England, 
by  J.  S.  Winter,  in  form  of  fiction  but  probably 
having  some  foundation  of  fact ;  a  reprint  of  the 
late  Principal  Tulloch's  Movements  of  Religious 
Thought  in  Britain  During  the  igth  Century, 
which  in  its  original  form  we  have  already  re- 
viewed at  some  length;  an  Irish  History  for 
Elfish  Readers,  by  Wm.  5.  Gregg,  furnishing  an 
excellent  hour's  introduction  to  the  present  situa- 
tion with  Mr,  Gladstone  at  its  center ;  Sea-Life 
Sixty  Years  Ago,  a  thrilling  narrative  of  ad- 
venture founded  on  the  veritable  history  of  La 
Pcrouse,  a  distinguished  French  navigator,  who 
disappeared  in  the  South  Seas  a  century  s 
but  the  relics  oE  whose  ill-fated  expedition  have 
been  lately  discovered  as  herein  described  by 
Captain  George  Bayly  ;  Mr.  Frederick  Hattii 
bundle  of  essays  on  Tht  Choice  of  Books  and 
some  kindred  topics,  noticed  and  sampled  ii 
paper  of  May  15;  and  Dr.  Anster's  translation 
of  Goethe's  Faust,  mentioned  above.  Then, 
alter  all  these,  come  more   than  a  dozen  of 


novel*  and  tales,  two,  called  respectively  Doom 
and  Our  Sensation  Novel,  by  Justin  McCarthy, 
the  former  a  dramatic  episode  of  an  Atlantic 
'oyage,  the  latter  having  its  climax  in  a  spiritual- 
istic mystery;  Aunt  Rachel,  i.a  English  rustic 
interior,  by  David  Christie  Murray;  In  Shalloui 
Waters,  by  Annie  Armitt ;  Hurrisk,  an  Irish  tale, 
by  the  Hon.  Emily  Lawless,  whose  charactcrii- 
ire  of  a  rugged  sort ;  The  Last  of  the  Macal- 
s,  an  original  story  of  Scottish  life,  by  Mrs. 
.  Barr,  an  American  writer ;  a  Yorkshire 
romance,  Mauleverer's  Millions,  by  T.  Wemyss 
Reid,  which  involves  a  will,  a  charge  of  crime,  a 
trial,  and  some  detective  science,  bat  which  tacks 
the  dialect  one  would  expect  to  find  in  it ;  Ferl- 

■^s  Wheel,  by  Alex.  Innes  Shand,  which  has 

Scottish  Highland  background,  a  Sumatran 
episode,  and  an  American  caricature  ;  'Twixt 
Love  and  Duly,  hy  Tighe  Hopkins,  wrought  out 
of  ordinary  English  materials  ;  If  Love  be  Lmir, 
a  "forest  idyl,"  by  D.  Cecil  Gibbs  ;  Mrs.  Muloch- 
Cruk's  new  story  <A  Kitig  Arthur  and  Miss  Edge- 
worth's  old  one  of  The  Absentee  ;  and  With  the 
King  at  Oxford,  by  the  Rev.  A.  J.  Church.  This 
last  named  is  professedly  an  autobiography  of  a 
young  student  at  Oxford  during  the  Struggle  of 
King  Charles  I,  with  the  parliament;  amoderate 
but  devoted  royalist,  who,  after  fighting  in  the 
failing  cause  of  the  king,  returned  to  his  studies, 
was  expelled  for  political  reasons  during  the 
commonwealth,  and  after  the  restoration  married 
a  fair  lady  whom  he  had  met  during  the  earlier 
troubles,  and  then  took  orders  in  the  church. 
The  writer  is  very  successful  in  his  antique  style 
of  English,  much  like  that  of  Defoe,  and  ha* 
many  bits  of  curious  lore  interspersed  with  the 
story.  The  issues  of  this  "  Handy  Series  "  are 
weekly  at  15  cents  each,  or  f  5  a  year. 

Casaell  &  Co.  are  publishing,  not  in  serial 
form,  like  the  above  two  or  three  different  sets 
of  books,  but  in  serial  effect,  and  in  uniformity 
of  flaming-linled  covets,  a  "  Rainbow  Series  "  of 
original  novels,  their  contents  somewhat  tinged 
with  sensationalism,  and  furnishing  stimulating 
reading  for  the  ralher  languid  days  of  summer. 
A  Crimson  Slain,  by  Annie  Bradshaw,  is  a  Span- 
ish tale  of  cruelty  and  revenge  with  a  woman  for 
the  victim.  Morgan's  Horror,  by  George  Man- 
ville  Fenn,  bespeaks  its  character  by  its  title. 
Old  Fulkerson's  Clerk  U  by  Mrs.  J.  H.  Wal- 
worth, the  author  of  The  Bar  Sinister,  and  is  a 
rather  "weekly-story-paper  "  tale  of  New  York 
life.  Mrs.  Rebecca  Harding  Davis's  Nataiqaa  U 
an  oyster-man  and  crab-fisher  story  with  a  mystery 
of  birth  for  the  thread  to  be  unraveled.  King 
Solomott's  Mines,  Mr.  H.  Rider  Haggard's  blood- 
thirsty African  romance,  we  noticed  some  lime 
ago.  And  Mr.  Justin  McCarthy's  Our  Sensation 
Novel,  with  its  mid-Atlantic  tragedy,  has  already 
been  mentioned  under  this  head  in  another  con- 
nection. The  bold  and  striking  dress  of  this 
series  will  ensure  its  instant  recognition  any- 
where; we  know  of  nothing  like  it;  and  the 
large  type  of  the  book  particularly  fits  them  for 
railcar  use.     [25  cents  each.] 

To  the  "Riverside  Paper  Series"  have  been 
added  Miss  Phelps's  Burglars  in  Paradise  and 
a  collection  of  Mr.  Horace  E.  Scudder's  Short 
Stories  and  Romances,  eight  in  number.  [Hough- 
ton, Mifflin  &  Co.    Each  50c} 

G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons  are  reissuing  in  a  "Trav- 
eller's Series  "  some  excellent  works  upon  their 
list,  such  a*  Mr.  C.  L.  Norton's  and  John  Hab- 
berton's  Canoeing  in  Kentutkia  and  Mr.  C>  K. 


Tuckerman'i  The  Creeks  of  Today ;  also  Hood's 
amusing  Up  the  Rhine,  with  the  author's  original 
illustrations.    [Each  50c.] 


MIBOB  XOnOES. 

Old   School-Days,      By    Amanda  B.   Harris. 
Illustrated.       [Chicago :    Interstate    Publishing 

Co.] 

A  nngle  thread  out  oE  "New  England  By- 
rnes" is  here  deftly  embroidered  into  a  quaint 
and  pretty  picture  which  will  revive  many  a 
memory.  Four  chapters  relale  the  author's 
recollections  of  school-house  and  scholar,  first 
days  and  last  with  formidable  teacher,  mjschief- 
:rB  and  their  fortunes  good  and  ill,  and  the 
games  that  were  played  in-doors  in  bad  weather 
and  out-doors  when  the  sun  shone.  The  school- 
house  which  Miss  Harris  remembers  had  seals 
for  seventy  scholars,  with  a  rising  floor  like  that 
of  an  opera-house,  and  alleys  between  the  seats 
in  which  strange  things  sometimes  happened. 
The  school-girls  wore  "  pantalettes  "  and  the  boys 
short  "  spencers  "  and  long  trousers.  The  school 
was  a  "deestrict  school,"  kept  for  two  terms  in 
the  year.  With  a  very  vivid  recollection  and  a 
pleasant  touch  Miss  Harris  describes  the  life 
that  went  on  there ;  sketches  teacher  and  pupil 
to  the  life,  and  rehearses  scrapes  and  feat*  with 
roguish  relish.  The  pictures,  by  W.  P.  Bodfish, 
are  reproductions  of  drawings  in  pen  and  ink, 
and  show  a  good  deal  of  spirit  and  truth. 


Rev.  Dr.  Abbott  addresses  in  this  little  vol- 
ume only  those  who,  aware  of  the  difficulties  to 
religious  faith  presented  by  modern  knowledge, 
wish  to  face  these  difiiculties  boldly  and  to  lay 
these  spectres  of  the  mind.  The  reader  acquainted 
with  Mr.  Geo.  S.  Merriam's  Living  Faith  is 
naturally  reminded  of  that  stimulating  work, 
both  authors  being  members  of  the  Congre- 
gational body.      But   Dr.  Abbolt  is   much  the 

of  the  Christian  consciousness  holds  on  to  a 
good  deal  which  Mr.  Merriam,  equally  intent  on 
character  as  above  creed,  virtually  surrenders. 
The  spirit  of  both  is  generous  and  broad,  but 
Mr.  Merriam  seems  to  us  to  have  more  justly 
gauged  the  import  of  modern  science,  to  which 
Dr.  Abbott,  confusing  it  too  often  with  resolved 
skepticism,  docs  not  do  justice.  The  laller's 
strength  is  in  his  decided  affirmations,  from  life 
as  the  basis  of  alt  knowledge,  of  the  laws  of  the 
human  spirit,  of  the  necessity  of  faiih,  of  the 
imperativeness  of  sacrifice,  of  the  abiding  worth 
of  the  Bible,  and  of  the  persistence  of  the  hope 
of  future  life.  Dr.  Abbott  is  deservedly  one  of 
the  expounders  of  the  "  new  theology ''  in  the 
Congregational  body  to  whom  the  general  world 
listens  with  sincere  respect,  and  these  papers 
should  receive  the  attention  alike  of  the  student 
of  contemporary  religious  thongbt  and  of  those 
—  a  larger  number— whose  faith  in  the  primal 
verities  of  religion  need*  refreshing ;  a  work 
which  this  earnest  and  manly  work  cannot  fail 


The  Life  of  Madame  Roland  in  the  "  Famous 
Women  Scries,"  though  scarcely  more  than  a 
Inographical  sketch,  drawn  largely  from  material* 


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THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Jdne 


alreadT  public  in  French  letlcra  and 
hai  the  high  merit  of  offering  a  vivid  present- 
ment of  tbe  morul  pilgrimage  of  a  great,  heroic 
natare.  It  {b  worth  while  to  remember  tbat  a 
woman  may  be  what  Madame  Roland  wai.  Born 
in  Paris,  of  small  shop-keepers,  in  1754, escaping 
from  the  dull  commonplace  about  her  to  the 
world  o[  books,  and  growing  up  lo  a  beautiful 
and  vigorous  young  womanhood,  she  maintained 
through  many  temptations  and  allurements  a 
ruling  love  of  studies.  Her  sheltered,  happy 
youth  clospl  with  her  mother's  death,  and  diffi- 
culties set  in.  Her  union  with  Roland,  a  man 
mote  than  twenty  years  her  senior,  opened  con- 
genial lines  of  duty  in  "  an  association  where  the 
woman  undertakes  to  make  the  happiness  of  two 
people."  The  French  Revolution  drew  her  and 
her  husband  into  its  maelstrom.  Who  of  all  the 
dauntless  ones  about  her  was  more  dauntless 
than  she  i  "  I  only  Eear  guilt,"  she  said,  "  and 
despise  injustice  and  death."  So  above  danger 
and  fear  she  rose,  anxious  only  for  country  and 
friends.  Meantime  her  nature  had  been  aroused 
by  a  supreme  paaiion,  and  she  did  not  pass 
awaf  without  leaving  letters  in  which  her  intense 
toul  found  an  utterance  free  from  the  restraints 
of  life.  The  most  serious  fault  of  the  present 
memoir  is  one  too  common  to  women's  books,  a 
lack  of  clearness  and  sequence  in  the  narrative; 
a  tendency  lo  vague  feeling  where  it  is  most 
necessary  to  adhere  to  facts.  The  style,  stHne- 
times  easily  brilliant,  is  sometimes  slipshod. 

OUBBENT  LITEEATUBE, 

Antidaiet  NouviUet  presents  to  French  classes 
"  easy  readings  and  amusing  tedtaiions."  Its 
specialty  lies  in  the  freshness  of  its  stories,  de- 
signed to  enliven  tbe  dullness  of  a  class  room 
and  often  of  sufficient  merit  to  bear  repetition 
at  a  dinner  table.  We  think,  however,  that  one 
or  two  are  old  acqtiaintanccs.  The  variety  in 
the  stories  gives  good  practice  in  conversalional 
French.  [New  York  :  Writers'  Publishing  Co. 
Paper,  30c.] 

Another  voluma  of  the  illustrated  "  Wonders 
of  Science"  presents  itself,  Tht  Wendtrs  ef 
Wilier,  from  Ihe  French  of  Gaston  Tissandier, 
edited,  with  additions  giving  the  book  a  some- 
what American  tone,  by  Prof.  Scheie  De  Vere. 
Of  iu  five  divisions  —  the  ocean,  the  circulation 
of  water.  Its  action  on  continents,  its  physical 
and  chemical  properties,  and  iu  uses  m  respects 
man,  ail  have  the  vivacity  and  admirable  dear- 
aeti  usual  in  French  writers  and  especially  val- 
uable for  youthful  readers  j  while  the  most  In- 
lereiting  and  varied  information,  probably,  is 
in  the  last  division ;  discussing  atnong  other 
subjects  ice,  natural  and  artificial,  mineral 
waters,  baths,  and  artesian  wells.  The  itiustra- 
(iuns  are  abundant.  [Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 
(1.0a] 

Thoagktt,  by  Ivan  Fanin,  is  a  neat  little  book 
of  practical  philosophy,  in  the  proverbial  or 
epigrammatic  Form ;  divided  into  ten  parts  and 
treating  of  such  subjects  as  misfortune,  charity, 
speech  and  silence,  pride  and  humility,  and  — 
more  genetally  -  ■  "Vi^onduct  of  Life."  The 
aphorisms  vary  in  value  flK™  'erse  and  original 
precepts  to  apparent  paraS^p-  *  f^"  e»am- 
plen  may  best  illustrate :  "  Ou^j^''"'*  come 
from  God,  our  sorrows  from  ourscl^K ' "  *'  Anal- 
ysis strengthens  thought  bui  weaketiB^fc'''ng  1 " 
"The  soul   to  be   truly  healthy  must 


diseased  body"  [I] ;  "It  needs  as  much  gener- 
osity to  take  as  lo  give."  It  is  repotted  thai 
the  author  is  of  Russian  biith  and  has  been  a 
student  at  Harvard.  [Cupplea,  Upham  &  Co. 
Soc.] 

Men,  Wamtn,  and  Godt,  by  Helen  H.  Gar- 
dener, is  a  book  of  lectures,  of  the  same  general 
class  as  those  of  Col.  Ingersoll ;  imitating  in  their 
earlier  parts  even  his  flippant  style  of  language! 
but  aiming  more  especially  to  prove  that  Chris- 
llanily  has  degradedandnot  elevated  women.  The 
same  characteristics  prominent  in  Ingersoll  are 
noticeable  here ;  wit  and  rhetorical  ability,  shal- 
lowness, if  not  intentional  unfairness  of  argument, 
and  a  generally  effective  selcaion  of  errors. 
Faults,  and  vices  in  the  supporters  of  Christianity 
as  points  of  attack.  [New  York:  The  Truth- 
Seeker  Co.    J1.00.] 

IE  the  writer  of  this  paragraph  were  going 
abroad  again  this  year,  he  would  certainly  lay 
in  a  copy  of  Mr.  C.  E.  Pascoe's  London  ef 
Today,  as  a  part  of  his  necessary  stores,  and 
give  it  a  thorough  study,  pencil  in  hand,  on  the 
way  over.  Not  a  guide  book,  not  a  dictionary, 
not  a  directory,  it  is  an  intelligent,  entertaining 
book  about  London,  by  an  Anglo-American  who 
knows  what  Americans  in  London  need  to  know. 
Its  forty-three  chapters  cover  the  whole  ground 
of  hotels,  boarding-houses,  and  lodgings,  res- 
taurants, public  resorts,  and  amusements,  meet- 
ings, excursions,  and  exhibitions,  streets,  build- 
ings, snd  sights,  libraries,  shops,  trains,  and 
cabs.  There  are  nnmerous  pictures  of  a  semi- 
serious  cast.  The  information  as  to  hotels  and 
lodgings  ii  particularly  full  and  explicit.  One 
could  spend  an  entire  season  in  I<ondon,  with 
proGt  and  pleasure,  by  the  help  of  this  book 
alone.    [Roberts  Brothers.] 

Two  recent  issues  of  the  National  School  of 
Elocution  and  Oratory  at  Philadelphia  are  Chske 
Humor  [50c.],  a  collection  of  funny  pieces  for 
reading  and  recitation,  some  of  which  art 
funny,  and  Young  Fotlif  Speaker,  a  smaller  col- 
lection, but  quite  as  entertaining.  There  is 
difficulty  in  selecting  humorous  readings  without 
entering  upon  the  foolish ;  but  the  coarse  and 
distasteful  has  here  been  generally  avoided. — 
The  Widi  Aviate  Art  Prints  are  pretty'pict- 
ures  of  child-life,  daintily  done  and  attractively 
mounted,  and  sent  to  subscribers  monthly  at 
(5.50  a  year,  or  sold  singly  at  50c.  This  Is  a 
novel  idea,  the  issuing  of  prints  as  a  serial ;  but 
we  do  not  see  why  it  should  not  "take."  —  Vol. 
XXXC  of  the  Ctntury,  running  from  November, 
1S85,  to  April,  i38^  makes  a  heavy  and  brilliant 
octavo  of  nearly  a  thousand  pages;  rfch  without 
in  Its  cover  of  old  gold,  and  rich  within  with 
reading  and  illustration.  [The  Century  Co.]  — 
The  IfaHonal  Aiademy  f/oUs  for  1886  Serves  the 
purpose,  after  the  French  pattern,  of  an  illus- 
trated catalogue  to  the  6rst  Spring  Exhibition  of 
the  New  York  Academy,  a  specially  valuable 
feature  being  Ihe  biographical  dale  concerning 
theartists.  [CasselliCo.  50c.]— We  are  glad 
to  see  that  Roberta  Brothers  have  brought  oui  a 
new  and  much  improved  edition  of  Mr.  William 
A.  Mowry's  Talki  viilh  my  Beys,  quite  too  good 
and  useful  a  book  to  be  left  in  the  unattractive 
form  in  which  it  first  appeared,  [fi.oo,]  —  We 
observe  no  important  changes  in  the  edition  for 
i3S6  oF  the  popular  Satchel  Guide  la  Europe,  by 
common  consent  one  of  the  best  of  handbooks 
for  American  travelers  abroad.  [Hoaghton, 
MifBin&Co.    fi-So-] 


SHAEEBFEAEUHA. 


News  from  Donnelljr,  Our  inquiries  for 
Donnelly  and  his  long-delayed  revelation  of  his 
"cipher"  were  scarcely  in  print  when  the  Jfine- 
tienth  Ctntury  for  May  appeared,  with  at)  inter- 
esting article  on  the  subject  by  Mr.  Percy  M. 
Wallace.  The  article  is  reprinted  in  the  June 
number  of  Ihe  Philadelphia  Shakeipeariana,  which 
our  friends  can  get  from  Ihe  publishers  (1104 
Walnut  St.,  Phita.)  for  fiFtcen  cents,  if  ihey  have 
not  ready  access  to  the  Nineteenth  Century.  It 
is  well  worth  the  money  for  the  information  it 
gives  concerning  Donnelly's  investigations,  and 
the  prospect  of  fuller  disclosures  within  "a  few 
weeks  "  or  months. 

Our  readers  will  recollect  thai  some  two  years 
ago  we  were  favored  with  a  statement  of  some  of 
(he  main  points  of  (his  extraordinary  "discovery," 
We  were  told  that  the  folio  of  1613  — the  first 
collected  edition  of  Shakespeare's  (or  Bacon's) 
plays  —  contains  a  detailed  account  of  Ihe  real 
authorship  of  these  plays  wrought  into  the  text 
of  Ihe  volume  by  means  of  a  "cipher,"  the  key 
to  which  depends  on  certain  mathematical  rela- 
tions between  the  number  of  the  page  and  the 
number  of  ilalicized  and  "  hyphenated  "  words  on 
Ihe  page.  This  is  not  the  whole  secret  of  Ihe 
''  key,"  but  it  is  the  only  part  oE  it  that  Ihe  dis- 
coverer thinks  it  expedient  to  divulge  at  present. 
The  single  words  picked  out  in  Ibis  and  other 
ways  must  afterwards  be  arranged  "according  to 
another  system  which  it  look  him  two  years  more 
lo  discover."  When  Ibis  rule  is  published, 
il  will  prove  to  be  "so  simple  and  clear  that 
any  one  with  a  reprint  of  the  folio  can  decipher 
the  plays  for  himself." 

The  rule  for  reading  the  cipher  may  be  as 
"simple"as  Donnelly  asserts;  but  any  person 
familiar  with  printer's  work  will  see  at  once  that 
the  task  of  weaving  the  coucealcd  matter  into 
the  folio  page  (which  could  only  have  tKcn  done 
after  it  had  been  put  in  type)  must  have  been  in- 
describably tedious  and  perplexing ;  and  it  is 
quite  incredible  that  Bacon  should  have  need- 
lessly doubled  or  trebled  the  exasperating  drudg- 
ery by  introducing  into  (he  "  story  "  such  trivial 
and  irrelevaut  details  as  are  given  in  some  oE  tbe 
extracts  now  published  —  as,  Eui  itisiancc,  uhat 
Shakespeare  bad  for  dinner  on  a  certain  day. 
We  cannot  enlarge  upon  this  point  here,  but  to 
us  it  is  a  serious  if  not  an  insuperable  dtfficu'ty 
in  Ihe  "  dpher  "  theory. 

In  a  letter  lo  a  friend  in  England  (presumably 
the  author  of  the  article)  Donnelly  says  : 

At  first,  as  you  know,  I  expected  no  more  than 

to  find  written  into  the  Flays  (perhaps  aword  on 
a  page)  a  brief  tutement  that  Frauds  Bacon 
was  ttieit  author.  Bui  as  t  wenc  on  (he  Cipher 
grew  under  my  hands  until  1  found  it  to  be  a 
complete  and  elaborate  narrative,  perfect  in  all 
its  parts,  minute  in  detail ;  containing  no(  only  a 
stalemcnt  uf  facts,  but  a  desctipdon  of  his  own 
feelings  in  the  midst  oE  (he  great  troubles  and 
dangers  which  surrounded  him. 

The  portions  of  this  "cipher  story"  which 
Donnelly  assumes  to  have  made  out  confirm  this 
statement  tbat  il  is  "  elaborate  "  and  "  minute  in 
detail."  Il  seems  tbat  Robert  Cecil,  being  jeal- 
ous of  his  cousin  Francis  Bacon,  suspected  the 
connection  uf  the  latter  with  Ihe  plays,  and  con- 
fided his  suspidons  to  Queen  Elizabeth,  who  was 
very  indignant  jtt  the  excitement  caused  by  the 


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performance  o(  RUhard  II.  She  at  once  ordered 

Shakespeare  "  10  be  wrested,  and,  if  necessary, 
tacked  to  divulge  the  name  of  the  real  author." 
Donnelly  writes  to  his  English  friend  how,  ac- 
cording to  the  cipher  narrative,  this  disclosure 
was  prevented  — 

bow  Bacon  Knt  his  failhfal  friend-servant  to  find 
Shakespeare  and  to  get  him  lo  fly  the  country 
when  the  Queen  gave  orders  for  his  arrest. 
Percy's  disguise  of  himself;  how  he  stooped 
down  and  embraced  Bacon  for  the  last  lime,  as 
he  was  about  to  start  on  his  mare  (note  the 
minute  details)  from  the  orchard  at  SL  Albans; 
how  he  comforted  him  and  told  him  that  he 
would  save  him,  Bacon  meanwhile  standing  in 
the  darkness  and  listening  to  the  dull  beats  of 
the  hoofs  of  his  horse  on  the  hard  ground  as  he 
receded.  Ills  Eundness  for  Percy's  faithful  and 
cheerful  spirit,  his  feeling  that  only  the  errand 
of  that  one  (rue  man  stood  between  him  and  the 
greatest  disgrace  and  shame,  &c.  &c.  The  inter- 
nal story  will  be' found  to  be  as  thrilling  and  as 
absorbing  and  as  powerfully  rendered  as  the 
Plays  themselves.  .  .  .  The  interview  between 
Percy  and  Shakespeare  lakes  place  at  Stratford 
in  (he  presence  of  Shakespeare's  wife  and 
daughter.  It  is  told  with  the  utmost  detail. 
The  whole  Shakespeare  family  is  described, 
his  young  brother  Edmund,  his  daughter  Su- 
sanna, his  wife,  his  sister.  The  very  supper  bill 
of  fare  is  given,  and  a  very  mean  one  it  was  — 
"■dried  cakes,  mmildii  and  ancimt,'  roast  mutton 
far  advanced  in  decomposition,  the  odour  of 
which /o/ami'i/ the  room,  bitter  beer  and  worse 
Uorde^ux  stuff.  The  Smell  of  the  meal  took 
away  t!ie  dandy  Percy's  appetite.  He  told 
Shakespeare  that  the  Queen's  officers  were  after 
him,  to  a.rrest  him  as  the  nominal  author  of 
Richard  II.,  which  represented  the  murder  and 
deposition  of  the  King,  and  which  was  held  to 
be  an  incentive  to  treason.  Shakespeare,  Percy 
said,  must  fly  to  Holland  or  Scotland,  and  there 
abide  until  the  storm  blew  over.  Thereupon 
Shakespeare  became  violently  abusive  of  Bacon 
—  'Master  Francis'  he  calls  him  —  tor  getting 
him  into  such  a  scrape.  '  He  ii,' st.y9  Percy,  'lAe 
fiul-moulhedil  rascal  in  England.'  Shakespeare 
declares  that  he  will  confess  the  truth  and  clear 
his  own  skirts.  Thereupon  came  the  first  anti- 
Baconian  argument.  It  is  the  parent  of  all  later 
ones.  Percy  told  Shakespeire  (not,  probably, 
as  a  fact,  but  as  a  threat,  and  to  drive  him  from 
the  country,  so  as  to  save  Bacon's  eiposure)  that 
'  Master  Francis '  would  deny  the  authorships 
and  that  the  world  would  surely  believe  him  and 
not  Shakespeare.  For  who,  says  Percy,  'could 
conceive  of  one  man  putting  the  immortal  glory 
of  the  Plays  on  the  shoulders  of  another?  Did 
not  Shakespeare  bear  his  blushing  honour, 
through  alt  the  disreputable  houses  of  London? 
Did  he  not  profit  \>-j  the  Plays  ?  Was  he  not 
transformed  in  new  silk  and  leathers,  and  looked 
upon  in  the  low  sodety  in  which  he  shone  as  the 
one  who  wrote  the  Plays?  The  Queen  would 
ask,  "  Why  kiptst  thou  siliuce  so  hngi'"  and 
much  more  lo  the  same  purpose.  So  you  see 
there  is  nothing  new  under  the  sun.  Harry 
Percy  anticipated  all  the  an ti- Baconian  argu- 
ments by  nearly  two  hundred  and  ninety  years. 

Now,  Donnelly  declares  that  all  this  detailed 
narrative,  and  much  more  of  the  same  sort,  he 
finds  written  into  the  folio  text  by  a  cipher —  "not 
a  hop-skip-and-juinp  cipher,  but  a  mathematically 
accurate  rule,"  10  quote  his  own  words.  If  he 
can  show  that  the  story  is  thus  inlerwoven  with 
the  texture  of  the  plays,  of  course  the  B. 
theory  of  their  authorship  is  established  beyond 
question.  But  can  he  show  this  ?  At  pi 
n  the  posilion  of  the   "  Keely 


the  mysterious  "  motor,"  from  whom  his  an- 
nual brag  enables  him  to  draw  renewed  assess- 
I  for  carrying  on  his  experiments ;  while  Don- 
nelly, can  say,  an  he  does  to  his  English  friend. 

Why  should  I  assert  that  I  have  found  such  a 
ipher  ...  it  I  have  noli  I  ask  no  moneyfrom 
ny  one.  .  .  .  Can  any  one  believe  that  I  would 
Qncoci  a  deliberate  he,  which  only  a  few  months 
ould  explode?  And  for  what?  Not  (or  noto- 
ely  !  I  have  enough  of  thai  already.  Is  it  to  be 
believed  that  I  would  imperil  whatever  little 
r  I  may  have  gained  by  my  eiceplionally 
ssful  books  Atlantis  and  Ragnaroit  by  a 
pretended  claim  to  a  great  discovery? 

is  seems  honest,  and  we  will  assume  that  It 
nest;  but  before  ire  believe  in  the  "cipher  " 
ust  know  what  it  is  and  how  it  is  used  in 
working  out  the  "  story  "  of  which  the  discoverer 
has  given  us  these  exciting  but  tantalizing  ex- 
cerpts.    Wc  await  futlhcr  disclosures  with  no  lit- 


wilhm 


i  of  the  mechanical  miraci 
is  going  to  perform  "in  a  few  weeks;"  and  that 
is  the  last  we  hear  of  him  until  the  next  periodi 
cal  repetition  of  the  same  old  promise.  Ther 
is,  however,  one  important  difference  in  Ihe  two 
casea.    Keely  has  a  set  of  confiding  slockhjilders 


TABLE  TALE. 

.  The  Rhode  Island  Women's  Club  is  prov- 
ing Itself  a  positive  addition  to  the  lileraiy  and 
educational   forces   of  that   Stale.     It  recently 
observed   its    toth    anniversary  in   Providence. 
The  Club  numbers  about  140  members;  it  was 
organized  by   that   tireless    reformer,  the   lale 
Elizabeth  K.  Churchill,  in  whose  memory  it  has 
voted  to  establish  a  scholarship  for  giils  in  some 
college  to  which  girls  are  admitted  on  an  equal 
footing  with  boys.     It  meets  fortnightly  for  pa- 
pers, lectures,  teas,  etc.    The  tendency  is  to  run 
a  habit  of  listening  to  lectures  by  outsiders 
:ly,  but  this  is  largely  overcome  by  the  efforts 
ol  certain  active  minds  in  the  membership.    Dur- 
ast  winter,  several  papers  were  contributed 
by  members   illustrative  of  various  periods  in 
the  history  of  French  literature.    The  anniver- 
exercises  were  atto  brightened  by  various 
literary  productions. 
. . .  An  Illinois  writer,  alluding,  in  a  note  to 
Table  Talk,"  to  Hon.  Ignatius  Donnelly,  says  : 
I  believe  he  will   succeed  in  his  attempt  to 
prove  Bacon  the  author  of  Shakespeare's  works. 
H(  is  talented.    But  of  course  he  will  go  crazy, 
lomi  d.,." 

.  . .  The  most  stribing  and  original  author  the 
State  of  Kansas  has  yet  produced  is,  confessedly, 
Edgar  W.  Howe  of  Atchison,  who  has  written 
The  Story  of  a  Country  Town,  and  TAe  Mystery 
of  the  Locks,  and  will  soon  publish  another  novel, 
to  be  called  A  Moonlight  Boy. 

.  . .  Rev.   Arthur   Tappan    Pierson,   D.D., 
Philadelphia,  has  nearly  ready  two  volumes 
religious  interest  —  Many  Infallible  Proofs  and 
The   Crisis  of  Missionj  —  lht    latter  of   which 
Messrs.  Robert  Carter  &  Brothers  will  issue  in  the 
tall. 

. .  .  Edgar  Fawcett's  new  volume  of  vers 
appear  soon  through  Messrs.  Ticknor  &  Co., 
under  the  title  Romance  and  Revery,  will  have 
the  appearance  of  the  author's  Song  and  Story, 
but  will  cotitain  about  twenty  pages  more  matter. 
. . .  Edgar  Evertsen  Saltus,  the  author  of 
BattOi  and  Tkt  Philosopky  of  Disenckanttnt 
a  New  Yorker,  but  is  now  in  Europe.  Mr.  Saltus 
is  only  thirty  years  old.  Baltac  reached  a  sale  of 
more  than  twelve  thousand  copies. 

. . .  John  Burroughs  —  whose  home,  by  the  way, 
is  only  about  eight  miles  from  Kingston,  N.  Y., 
where  Henry  Abbey  resides,  and  not  very  far 
from  Amenia,  the  old  home  of  Joel  and  Myron 


B.  Benton,  the  laiter  of  whom  is  a  regular  corre- 
spondent of  Mr.  Burroughs  —  has  been  visiting 
Washington  and  the  States  oC  Kentucky  and 
Illinois,  for  pleasure.  He  had  had  "a  taste  of 
blue  grass,"  but  had  not  returned  to  West  Park, 

.  .  .  This  time  the  star  of  the  Pacific  Coast 
Tiong  novelists  is  a  woman.  Flora  Haines 
Loughhcad  [[ironnnnced  L(no  hed],  the  author  of 
The  M.,H  Who  Wns  Cuilly.  published  in  the 
"Riverside  Paper  Scries"  of  Houghton,  Mifflin 
&  Co.,  last  Saturday  (its  first  appearance  as  a 
volume),  is  the  wife  of  a  hardware  dealer  of  San 
Francisco,  and  resides  on  a  fruit  ranch  in  Niles, 
suburb  of  that  city  i  she  is  only  thirty  years 
old,  is  3  native  oE  Milwaukee,  but  has  spent  her 
since  graduating  from  the  Lincoln  (III.) 
University  in  1872,  in  I1lin<u's,  Colorado,  and 
California.  Her  work  thus  far  has  been  mainly 
journalistic;  having  early  mastered  "short- 
hand," she  devoted  herself  first  to  reportorial 
ce,  then  prepared  descriptive  articles,  for 
Chicago  dailies;  she  next  served  Denver,  Col., 
newspapers  variously,  removing  to  San  Fran- 
and  entering  upon  editorial  duties  in  1877, 
since  when  she  has  done  some  story  writing  be- 
ides  journalistic  work.  She  became  intimately 
acquainted  with  "H.  H.,"  who  urged  her  to 
send  Tht  Man  Who  Wat  GvUty  (which  had  no! 
then  appeared  serially,  as  it  has  since  done,  in 
the  San  Franciscan)  lo  its  present  publish- 
In  person  Mrs.  Loughhead  is  of  me- 
dium highl  and  weight,  with  large  blue  eyes, 
and  a  wealth  of  brown  hair.  She  possesses  great 
energy  and  persistence ;  is  earnest,  sympathelic, 
and  helpful ;  and,  as  might  be  supposed,  has  a 
great  many  friends.  She  is  the  mother  of  two 
children. 

.  Miss  Mary  B.  Sleight,  who  has  won  much 
favor  with  critics  by  Fulfil  and  Easel,  will  bring 
out  this  summer,  through  Crowell  &  Co.,  New 
York,  a  story  entitled  Thi  Flag  on  the  Mill. 

.  .  .  The  physical  condition  of  such  a  man  as 
John  G.  Whitlier  is  a  matter  of  interest  to  a 
greal  many  people.  Of  late  years,  though  by 
no  means  free  from  those  troubles,  Mr.  Whiltier 
is  not  so  continuously  affected  by  insomnia  and 
headache  as  he  used  to  be;  and  recently  he  has 
seemed  to  be  unusually  well.  A  gentleman  who 
visited  him  the  first  week  of  this  month  found 
him  "  in  very  good  health." 


HEWS  AHD  H0T£8. 

—  D.  C.  Heath  &  Co.  have  ready  a  new 
edition  of  Common  Minerals  and  Recks,  by 
W.  O.  Crosby  of  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of 
Technology. 

—  T.  V.  Crowell  &  Co.  have  in  press  Stories 
from  Life,  by  Mrs.  S.  K.  Bolton. 

—  We  are  indebted  to  Ticknor  4  Co.  for  ad- 
vance sheets  of  The  Savnterer,  a  colleclion  of 
pleasant  papers  on  nature  and  life  by  Mr.  Charles 
(Goodrich  Whiting,  originally  published  in  Ihe 
Springfield  Republican,  of  which  paper  he  is,  we 
believe,  one  of  the  editors. 

—  Doyle  &  Whittle  of  this  dly  have  published 
The  Dark  City,  a  book  on  London,  by  Leander 
Richardson,  a  son  of  the  late  Albert  D.  Richard- 

—  Houghton,  Miffiin  &  Co.  announce  in  prepa- 
ration an  entirely  new  and  complete  edition  of 
Longfellow's  works,  in  eleven  volumes,  crown 
octavo,  two  volumes  of  prose  works,  sis  of  poems. 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[June 


and  three  of  tbe  Dk-ina  Cemmtdia.  The  edition 
will  embrace  all  the  prose  and  poetry  which 
Mr.  Longfellow  included  in  the  latest  edition 
of  his  works,  together  with  what  has  appeared 
since  his  death  with  the  sanction  of  his  repre- 
sentatives, and  his  translation  from  Dante.  The 
text  nsed  will  be  printed  with  scrupuIouB 
to  Insure  accuracy.  Fool-noles  will  show  the 
varioos  readings.  The  order  of  the  volumes 
will  be  nearly  chronological.  Head-notes  will 
give  information  as  to  the  history  of  the  writings, 
and  at  the  end  of  each  volume  will  be  added 
nates  upon  the  subject-matter.  It  is  designed 
to  make  the  edition  complete,  systematic,  and 
thoroughly  furnished.  The  volume*  will  contain 
about  400  pages  each,  and  will  be  printed  from 
new  plates,  and  on  paper  made  expressly  for 
the  purpose.  There  will  be  Mveril  line  steel 
portraits  of  Mr.  Longfellow. 

—  The  following  morsel  about  Ex-Gov.  Long 
of  Massachusetts  is  from  a  Washington  letter  to 
the  Cleveland  Leader  ; 

Governor  Long,  I  doubt  not.  makes  a  splendid 
lover.  He  has  [rained  himself  to  say  a  Rood 
thing  whenever  it  witt  answer  just  as  well  as 
saying  a  mean  thing  about  a  man,  and  bis  face 
is  readier  to  tmile  than  to  frown.  He  is  a 
perfect  gentleman  and  be  looks  it.  He  is  a  good 
scholar,  and  he  has  done  some  very  excel  lent  liter- 
ary work  in  the  way  of  poetry.  At  anv  rate  I  know 
a  newspaper  syndicate  who  would  be  very  glad 
to  oSer  htm  %\a  per  thousand  for  the  love 
sonnets  he  has  written  during  hta  last  engage- 
ment, but  I  understand  they  arc  not  for  sale. 
Governor  t>ong  translated  the  jGneid  while  he 
was  Ueu tenant-Governor  of  Massachusetts.  He 
is  a  fine  classical  scholar,  and  during  tbe  past 
few  months  has  been  devoting  himself  more  (o 
the  love  songs  of  Ovid  and  Anacreon  than  to  tbe 
heroics  or  the  epics.  Governor  Long  has  a  fair 
chance  of  being  the  next  Senator  from  Massa- 
chaietls. 

—  D.  C.  Heath  4  Co.  announce  (or  early 
publication  an  Elementary  Count  in  Practical 
ZeSlogy,  by  B.  P.  Collon,  designed  to  aSord  a 
clear  idea  of  the  animal  kingdom  as  a  whole 
by  careful  study  of  a  few  typical  animals. 

—  Benjamin  R.  Tucker,  Boston,  has  issued, 
for  the  first  time  in  English,  {Vhaft  to  U  Dent  1 
a  novel,  by  the  Russian  Tchernychcwsky,  writ- 
ten in  a  St.  Petersburg  dungeon  In  1B63.  The 
work  was  suppressed  and  is  now  only  furtively 
read  in  its  native  land.  It  is  sometimes  called 
the  "Uncle  Tom's  Cabin  of  Nihilism." 

—  T.  Y.  Crowell  4  Co.  have  in  preparation  for 
immediate  pnblication  a  translation  of  the  ptin- 
dpal  works  of  Nikolas  V.  Gogol,  who  has  been 
called  "  the  Charles  Dickens  of  Russian  litera- 
ture." The  first  of  the  series,  Toreu  Bulba,  will 
be  ready  at  once,  to  be  followed  by  others  as 
rapidly  as  the  translator,  who  has  most  of  them 
already  translated,   can  prepare    them  for   the 

—  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons  announce  a  com- 
plete edition  of  tbe  H-'arki  of  B/iijamin  Franili'ii, 
to  be  edited  by  the  Hon.  John  Bigelow,  an  au- 
thority on  Franklin's  writings.  The  edition,  like 
the  "Hamilton,"  will  be  a  limited  issue,  printed 
from  type  and  completed  in  ten  royal  octavo 
volumes  uniform  with  the  "Hamilton,"  with  two 
portraits  and  possibly  further  illustrations.  The 
publishers  further  say  that 

Since  Dr.  Sparks's  time  much  new  material 
has  accumulated,  even  previous  to  the  recent  ac- 
quisition hj  our  government  of  the  Stevens'  col- 
lection, which  latter  contains  a  targe  number  of 
letters  and  documents  that  have  never  yet  been 
printed  and  the  literary  and  historical  value  of 


which  no  one  will  question.  The  manuscripts  of 
this  collection  had  been  preserved  bv  the  grand- 
son and  literary  executor  of  Franklin,  but  his 
plan  for  bringing  them  into  type  had  not  been 
carried  out,  Mr,  Bigelow's  edition  will  also 
contain  the  correct  and  unmutilated  version  of 
Franklin's  Autvbiegraphy,  which  will  be  printed 
from  the  autt^aph  MS.  now  in  the  possession  of 
the  editor.  It  was  discovered  only  a  few  years 
ago,  when  the  editor  was  fortunate  enough  to 
become  possessed  of  the  original  manuscript  of 
the  AulMi^aphy,  that  the  first  edition,  purport- 
ing to  be  printed  from  the  original  manuscript, 
had  in  fact  been  made  up  from  a  copy,  and  from 
an  incomplete  copy,  and  that  this  incomplete 
copy  had  been  further  mutilated  to  suit  the  liter- 
ary and  political  taste  lA  the  time  in  England, 
which  had  not  yet  become  reconciled  to  the  social 
and  political  philosophy  of  which  Dr.  Franklin 
had  oeen  the  most  popular  exponent. 

—  Mrs.  £«uiie  Palmer  Heaven  ia  publishing 
in  the  Overland  Monthly  a  novel  of  Mexican  life 
entitled  "Chata  and  Chinita."  It  is  not  a  novel 
of  American  life  in  Mexico,  but  of  Mexican  life 
itself,  with  which  Ihe  author  is  folly  familiar 

—  D.  Appleton  &  Co.  have  ready  a  Cintu 
History  a/the  Pra/eitant  liptKofal  Charth  in  Ike 
Dioeetc  of  New  Ybrli,  rjSj-tSSs.v'iHt  seven  steel 
portraits  of  Ihe  Bishops  of  New  York,  and  other 
illustrations, /ti-./ini/f/,  etc.,  the  whole  prepared 
by  General  Wilson,  Assistant  Bishop  Potter,  and 
and  Dr.  Morgan  Dix.  The  same  firm  will  shortly 
begin  a  new  series  designed  specially  for  edu. 
cators,  under  the  title  of  "The  International 
Education  Series."  Two  volumes  nearly  ready 
for  publication  are  The  Pkilasofhy  ef  Education, 
by  Johann  Karl  Friedrich  Rotenkranz  of  the 
University  of  Konigsbcrg;  and  A  Hiitory  of 
EdttiaSion,  by  Professor  F.  V.  N.  Painter  of 
Roanoke  College.  Virginia.  The  series  wilt  be 
edited  by  W.  T.  Harris,  LL.  D. 

—  G.  P.  Pntnam's  Sons  have  in  press  for  early 
publication  Reminiictniet  0/  the  Filihuster  War 
in  Nicaragua,  by  General  C.  W.  Doubleday, 
who  took  part  as  a  young  man  in  Walker's 
campaigns,  and  the  narrative  of  whose  personal 
adventures  in  this  connection  will  be  found  to 
possess  interest  as  a  story,  as  well  as  historical 
value.  They  will  also  publish  shortly  A  Life  in 
Sanfi.'i.  volume  of  poems  by  George  L.  Raymond 
of  Princeton  College,  and  American  Railraadi : 
from  the  Point  of  View  of  Investors,  by  John 

—  Funk  &  Wagnatls  correct  the  current  state- 
ment that  only  5,00a  copies  have  been  sold  of 
Miss  Cleveland's  book;  more  than  four  limes 
that  number  Ihey  say  have  been  printed  and 
sold. 

—  An  interesting  prospectus  comes  to  us  from 
tbe  Century  Ca  describing  their  new  English 
Dictionary,  on  which  Professor  W.  D.  Whitney 
of  Vale  College  has  been  engaged  as  edilor-in- 
chief  for  live  years  past.  The  work  is  to  be  thor- 
oughly scientific,  and  at  the  same  time  popu- 
lar, and  will  Introduce  an  astonishing  number  of 
new  words.  There  will  be  some  5,000  illustra- 
tions, which  are  being  drawn  and  engraved  by 
the  artists  and  engravers  of  the  Century  maga- 
zine, with  sctupulous  supervision  in  the  interest 
of  accuracy. 

—  Robert  Clarke  &  Co.  of  Cincinnati  publish 
an  appetizing  list  of  books  on  Cookery,  Domes- 
tic Economy,  etc- 

—  We  do  not  think  it  la  generally  known  that 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Matthew  Arnold  ate  in  this  coun- 
try at  the  present  time,  but  cards  are  out  as  we 
write  for  a  reception  to  them,  by  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Edward    H.    Coalet   of    Philadelphia,    at    the 


Academy  of  the  Fine  Arts,  on  Thursday  even- 
ing, June  10. 

—  A  special  desjMtch  to  the  Boston  Herald, 
dated  London,  June  I,  gives  this  account  of  Ihe 
first  appearance  of  Ihe  Younger  Dickens  as  a 
public  reader  of  his  father's  writings  : 


chose  for  hi*  trial  appearance,  was  fairly  « 
filled.  Many  in  the  audience  had  heard  his 
father  read,  and  were  curious  to  see  how  the 
■on  would  compare  with  him-  At  about  eight 
o'clock  a  short,  ruddy,  bespectacled  gentleman, 
with  a  bunch  of  geraniums  in  his  buttonhole, 
issued  from  the  door  and  walked  to  a  desk  in 
the  middle  of  the  platform.  The  selections  an- 
nounced were  the  story  of  "  Paul  Dombey  "  and 
"Mr.  Bob  SawyeA  Party"  —  one  pure  patho*, 
the  other  broad  comedy.  At  (iret  the  reader 
seemed  nervous,  and  his  voice  which  ia  not 
naturally  strong  or  flexible,  hardly  filled  the 
room,  while  we  missed  the  marvelous  dramatic 
ex^reuion  which  made  a  reading  by  the  elder 
Dickens  so  fasdnating-  In  tbe  narrative  pas- 
sages there  was  a  want  of  light  and  shade,  while 
in  Ihe  dialogue  the  different  speaker*.  Little 
Paul,  Florence,  Mr.  Toots,  and  Ihe  rest,  were 
imperfectly  differentiated.  But  on  reaching  tbe 
death  scene,  Mr.  Dickens  did  better,  and  deep 
feeling  was  thrown  into  Ihe  final  passage.  The 
impressive  yet  simple  gesture  by  which  it  was 
emphasized  moistened  many  eyes  in  llie  room. 
Clearly,  however,  Mr.  Dickens  was  more  at 
home  in  the  comic  parts.  Hia  rendering  of  the 
inimitable  scene  between  the  luckless  Bob  and 


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taDod.tbowlDC  faow.daplte  the  orerflow  of  ' 


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tnl.    It  !•  eenUn  tint,  u  u  utbsr^ba  wttl  fnllT  eiiaiil  tall 
ETHt  pamr  u  k  pTeubD."— T.  Diwnt  Taluoi. 
"lilifallol  llbud  BoreneoL and m  tnUr  expect  to 


tTps  Of  life,  wltb  a  tboronatilT  faMdaMUU  plot,  aoa  .one 
•Ubonted   wltb  ^lU  and  IDtannltj."— AoMim  Btenlna 

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SUMMER  SCHOOL :  ORATORY, 

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Tbe  DBLBA8TE  STSTEU  OF  EXFREBSION  ippUed  tc 

Voice,  Outore  and  Speech. 

HO^KR  TRUE  BBOWN,  H.A.,  Principal  of  Ibe  Boilor 

.«.».    HtDdenU  wuning  10  ]0L- 


IKB,  will  open  a 


FRENCH  BOOKS. 


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FaiBliT  and  Day  Bcbool.   rnll  corna  or  Teaclien  and  Lei. 
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ro  Words  and  nwrlf  8000  mora  Illoa 
In  an;  other  American  DictlOBar;. 


To  the  many  other  valuable  (tetnren  of  the  work, 
Uiero  wu  added  la  1880 

A  Supplement  of  New  Words 

ANXI  HBAinNOB, 

(nearly  WOO]  iDclndlngauchaalhe  canntant  growth 

or  the  langna^  has  bronght  InloueeamcB 

liiit  lait  general  reTlalan  waa  made. 

Also  added  In  1Ǥ0 

A  Biographical  Dictionary, 


It  (Jiul  Addtd,  ISW)  and 


work  a>  a  Dtotionary  and  book  of  Reference, 
ta  »  Hew  PronounelDg 

dAZEPTEEE  of  the  WORLD, 


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«i.    itlareoommendedbytlieBtataBapailBtotideBtaof  S«liaol*tnSSStotaa.aud 
■  b;  loading  CJoItofaPrasldatiti  of  tbs  U.  8.  and  Canada. 

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The  Literary  World, 


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CONTENTS. 

P0IT9  AMD  pKOBLmS 

fc™,i..-, 

Tht  Epk  Soon  of  Riun 

EukTi  in  Ihc  Sludy  of  Folk-Sonia 

Thu  sSu™    ".'.'.'.'.'.'.'. 

Whom  God  hath  Joihdi 

TKiSToarorCHALDE* 

AUKHTCAH  DirUlHtCV 

Gbobci  Euot  and  hhi  Hiroimis 
HtHoa  Fiction  1 

Tfaa  Vlai'i  P«pla 

ThePnlu* 

Ruhilnih 

Nat  Dooi 

KingAnhur 

A  Falil  RcKinblana 

That  Drudful  Sot 

UiHoii  NoTioB  : 

OldSilcm 

Prslenu.    Chipt«XII 

Th:  Djih  oI  Ibc  Spiiininii-Wh«]  in  New  Englud 

ThTDnEh  ths  Kalahaii  Dttn        .... 

Hr.  Wtmhrop'tSpacbaandAddTaia      . 

The  Road  and  the  Rnadaule 

CURUHT  LlTiaATUMI 

Dh  Holhii  in  England 

Mil  WKiprLa 

A  LrTTU  noil  Ni«  Voalt.    NaMU    '. 

TABLaTALK 

Oitii  Pott's  Cosxn ; 
On  Re-reading  "Tlw  Sick  Kinf  [n  Bokhua." 
rlorena  Karia  Coalu 

A  LETm  PROK  GiBMANr.    Leopold  KalKher     . 

SHAKnriAaiAHA.     Edited  bT  Win.  J.  Ralln: 
Fleay*!  "  life  and  Worka  of  Sh^eipun"  . 
MectinioftlMNEwyotkSlwlicipeareSacleiy    . 
Mr.  W.  H.  Wrman  on  DonnelVl  "  Cipher"      . 
The  Siilta  Ediiinnaf  Ha11iweU-Phillil>pa'a"0ul- 
Dr.  Iiig1tbT'i''C7BiWiiie"!       '.'.'.'. 

NairsANDlIoTn 

LlTnART  iHsn 

Nmototoor 

Pdiucatiohi  Ricuno 


POETS  ASD  PROBLEMS.' 

THIS,  Mr.  Cooke's  third  volume,  shows 
a  distinct  advance  in  power  of  critical 
appreciation  and  in  qualities  of  good  style 
upon  his  previous  works  on  Emerson  and 
George  Eliot  In  the  preface,  to  be  sure, 
he  disclaims  with  much  emphasis  the  Dame 
and  afKce  of  a  critic ;  for  he  takes  the  critic 
to  be  a  man  incapable  of  admiration  and 
enthusiasm,  gloating  over  the  faults  and 
shortcomings  of  his  subject  But  Mr.  Cooke 
is  surely  mistaken  here,  and  when  he  says, 
a  few  pages  further  on,  that  he  writes  with 
some  hope  of  counteracting  bad  tendencies 
in  bter  poetry,  he  is  a  critic,  and  a  good 
one,  of  tendencies.  Criticism,  in  the  true 
sense,  of  tendencies,  or  of  men,  is  simply 
judicial  appreciation  of  excellences  and  de- 
fects alike.  The  first-class  critic,  far  from 
being  always  cold,  is  even  distinguished,  al 
times,  by  what  Mrs.  Humphrey  Ward  calls 
"reasoned  rashness,"  as  in  M.  Schdrer's 
eulogy  of 'Amiel.  What  we  all,  writers  and 
readers,  need  in  literature  is  the  wise  and 
sober  discrimination  of  the  good  and  the 
evil,  the  strength  and  the  weakness,  in 
books.      Passionate  adoration  and    hostile 


blindness  are  the  destruction  of  any  man's 
claim  to  the  critic's  office.  Mr.  Cooke  is 
more,  in  fact,  of  a  critic  than  his  own  esti- 
mate allows ;  but  the  task  of  all  his  books  is 
eminently  sympathetic  exposition.  He  is 
so  fully  occupied  with  this  grateful  labor, 
that  adverse  or  censorious  paragraphs  con- 
cerning his  subject  are  quite  absent  from 
his  pages,  and  blame  is  hinted  rather  than 
expressed. 

From  this  standpoint  PoeU  and  Problems 
must  be  esteemed  a  very  creditable  work. 
It  opens  with  an  excellent  chapter  on  the 
poet  as  a  teacher,  contrasting  the  poetic 
with  the  scientific  function,  and  exalting  the 
ideal  elements  of  life  to  their  proper  high 
place  of  honor.  This  introduction  is  fol- 
lowed by  three  parts  devoted  to  Tennyson, 
Ruskin  [a  prose-poet),  and  Browning.  In 
each  of  these  a  biographical  sketch  sets  the 
man  before  us  in  all  those  details  which 
are  of  much  interest  to  the  reader  of  his 
works,  and  then  follows  a  full  consideration 
of  the  man  as  an  artist  and  a  thinker.  An 
introduction  to  the  section  on  Tennyson 
treats  of  the  characteristics  of  the  Victo- 
rian poetry,  a  second  of  the  art-revival  in 
England,  and  a  third  of  idealism  in  recent 
English  literature.  Mr.  Cooke  has  a  suffi- 
ciently receptive  mind  to  sympathize  both 
with  Ruskin's  realism  in  art  and  with 
Browning's  idealism  in  poetry;  but  in  this 
work,  as  before,  he  is  the  strong  champion 
of  the  humanities  against  the  sheer  gnosti- 
cisms and  materialisms  of  current  thought. 
He  has  none  of  that  exaggerated  estimation 
of  analytical  knowledge  of  nature  which  is 
so  common  today,  and  will  undoubtedly 
appear  so  partial  tomorrow.  But  toward 
in  the  totality  of  his  being,  as  a 
compounded  of  most  spiritual  and  most 
material  elements,  he  glows  with  a  com. 
prehensive  and  generous  interest,  and  nolh. 
ing  human,  least  of  all  the  most  delicate  and 
elusive  powers,  is  slighted  by  hi 

This  is,  in  truth,  the  most  important  office 
of  the  critic,  to  help  us  to  admire  rightly, 
and  while  Mr.  Cooke  disclaims  a  portion  of 
the  duty  of  the  completely  furm'shed  critical 
intelligence,  he  has  chosen  and  well  per- 
formed the  belter  part.  The  section  on 
Tennyson  finds  difficulty  in  saying  much 
that  is  new,  in  fact  or  in  way  of  statement, 
about  the  laureate,  but  it  leads  up  well  to 
the  sections  on  Ruskin  and  Browning.  Rus- 
kin's political  economy  is  set  down  for  the 
fanciful  vagary,  as  it  is  of  a  generous  na- 
ture, while  his  inspiring  force  in  art,  morals, 
and  religion  is  rated,  as  it  should  be,  among 
the  nobler  powers  of  our  century.  The  sec- 
tion on  Browning  is  the 'one  which  will 
probably  J>e  most  zealously  read  just  now, 
and  it  is  the  strongest  part  of  the  book,  wise 
in  its  praise  and  just  in  its  reserve.  While 
a  complete  estimate  would  condemn  more 
the  poet's  increasing  obscuri^  of  style,  and 
his  passion  for  enigma,  we  are  sure  that 
for  those  who  are  making  the  acquaintance 


of  this  great  poet,  there  is  little   writing 
better  worth  reading  than  Mr.  Cooke's  ex* 


AFTER  a  considerable  pause  the  "No 
Name  Series"  takes  the  field  once 
more,  and  with  a  book  which  is  a  beginning 
again,  yiufina  is  an  "epoch-making  book" 
in  Its  famous  series.  A  stronger,  finer 
story  has  not  been  written  with  an  Ameri- 
can pen  this  many  a  day.  It  is  high  praise, 
but  just  praise,  to  say  that  it  might  have 
been  written  by  the  author  of  But  Yet  a 
Woman;  and  except  Mr.  Hardy  we  think 
this  moment  of  no  American  novelist  who 
has  precisely  the  unusual  combination  of 
traits  which  its  pages  manifest;  admirable 
invention  with  great  descriptive  excellence, 
masculine  strength  and  force  with  feminine 
tenderness  and  delicacy,  beauty  and  natural- 
ness of  scene  and  character  with  a  lofty 
sentiment  and  purpose.  The  story  is 
interesting,  it  is  pleasant,  it  grows  absorb- 
ing, it  becomes  powerful,  it  lays  hold  of  the 
reader's  sensibilities  with  a  profound  grasp, 
it  serves  a  grand  ideal  with  fidelity,  it 
depicts  a  moral  heroism  as  sublime  as 
it  is  rare,  and  ministers  as  keen  a  satis- 
faction to  the  reader's  ethical  convictions 
as  to  his  intellectual  tastes.  This  is  large 
praise,  for  tlie  moment  it  may  seem  exu- 
berant, even  extravagant ;  but  that  the  book 
will  justify  it  we  insist,  and  we  leave  the 
public  to  confirm  our  verdict 

The  story  is  simply  this:  John  Rolfe 
casually  meets  Justina  Wilton  on  her  home* 
ward  way  from  Europe  to  her  uncle  in  the 
New  Eogland  town  of  Easterly,  and  ren- 
ders her  an  important  service,  which  es- 
tablishes mutual  remembrance  and  regard. 
Later  they  meet  again  in  Easterly,  acquaint- 
ance is  renewed  and  deepens  into  love. 
But  Rolfe's  hands  are  tied  by  circumstances 
in  his  past  which  Justina  does  not  know, 
and  when  she  learns  them  she  is  for  the 
time  being  blasted.  With  wonderful  elas- 
ticity and  control  she  quickly  recovers  her- 
self however,  like  a  strong  flbwer  rising 
after  the  storm ;  he  braces  himself  to  duty  j 
as  mutual  interest  draws  them  together, 
conscience  stands  firmly  between,  the  Strug- 
gle becomes  terrible,  the  victory  is  for  the 
right,  and  the  end  is  peace.  This  is  the 
merest  outline  of  a  romance  which  has 
sternness  as  well  as  pallios,  and  whose 
filling  in  is  almost  altogether  delightfuL 

Leaving  out  the  graphic  frontispiece  of 
low  Belgian  levels,  with  the  railway  train 
hastening  across  them  to  the  sea,  and  the 
public  square  and  hotel  courtyard  in  old 
Antwerp,  the  scenery  is  wholly  that  of  Eas- 
terly, a  town  near  Boston,  sketched  with  a 
loyal  and  familiar  hand.  Its  somewhat  ex- 
ceptional society  is  full  of  agreeable  and  1 
interesting  people,  whom  it  is  a  liberal  edur 

•Jiuliiu.  "MoNMwSerie*."  Roberta Bratken.  fi.oo. 


313 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[June  26, 


cation  to  know.  The  single  unpleasant  epi- 
sode of  the  visit  of  the  two  servant  girls 
at  Mrs.  Beverly's  in  Chapter  XIll,  finds 
a  vindication  later  in  the  subtle  relation  of 
the  object  of  it  to  the  main  purpose  of  the 
book.  Old  Mr.  Rolfe,  the  typical  New  Eng- 
land nobleman,  Mr.  Wilton  the  eccentric 
experimenter  with  chemicals  and  minerals, 
Paul  Beverly  with  his  hopeless  love,  Mrs. 
Beverly  Smith  behind  her  teapots,  the  lovely 
Berta  and  her  baby,  and  Mrs.  Cholmondely 
"of  whom  everybody  spoke  in  a  tone  that 
implied  a  great  deal,"  divide  with  the  prin- 
cipal actors  the  reader's  interest  There 
is  an  "  Ignorant  Club,"  a  capital  model  far 
imitation;  there  is  a  graphic  scene  at  Che 
Beverly  dinner  party  where  Mrs.  Chol- 
mondely, at  John  Rolfe's  request,  strategic- 
ally reveals  his  secret  in  the  hearing  of  the 
one  most- interested  in  ii,  and  the  latter, 
startled  and  stunned,  is  lovingly  and  ten- 
derly sheltered  and  led  out  and  away  to  be 
alone  with  ber  sorrow ;  and  there  is  an 
intense,  dramatic  interview  between  Rolfe 
and  Justiao,  when  he  begs,  and  commands, 
and  almost  awes,  and  she  stands,  and  waits, 
and  bends,  but  wilt  not  yield,  and  the  man 
unnerved  by  passion  is  brought  to  his  true 
self  by  the  woman  strong  in  her  woman- 
hood, and  the  two  are  given  grace  to  accept 
the  right  and  be  true  to  their  trust  to  the 

It  is  a  fine  and  noble  story,  a  new  and 
firm  and  skillful  hand  touching  the  old  notes 
of  love  and  longing,  and  awakening  out  of 
them  a  fresh  variation  of  the  one  theme 
that  underlies  all  human  life.  The  book  ii 
extremely  well  written;  is  a  master's  work 
whoever  be  is. 


FOLE-LOBE. 


IT  must  be  new  to  the  majority  of  readers 
that  at  the  present  time  in  Russia,  epic 
song,  "  handed  down  wholly  by  oral  tradi 
tioD  for  nearly  a  thousand  years,"  is  no 
only  flourishing  in  certain  districts,  "  but 
even  extending  into  fresh  fields."  This 
exceptional  case  and  the  reasons  therefor, 
we  have  set  forth  in  Miss  Hapgood's  intro- 
duction to  her  selections '  from  the  abun- 
dance of  rhythmic  story  of  that  people.  It 
Is  In  Northern  Russia,  and  especially 
through  the  region  about  Lake  Oofga, 
that  the  bylinas  (that  is,  stories  of  some- 
thing that  actually  occurred,  in  conlradi 
tinction  to  imaginary  events)  are  sung  by 
peasants  of  today,  who  have  received  them 
through  countless  generations  of  ancestors. 
More  than  So,ooo  verses  of  this  charactei 
were  collected  several  years  ago  by  Rybnikof, 
a  government  official;  and  later,  through 
the  perseverance  of  another  gentleman, 
Alexander  F.  Hilferding,  who  penetrated 
"the  very  home  of  epic  poetry  in  theXIXth 


■  Th*  Epic  Sonii  ul  KuhU.  B;  lubel  Flonoc 
ID«d.  Wilh  u  IntradudorT  Ndu  by  PtoIohr 
J.  Child.   CliBtM  SatbDM'*  Soo*.   U-9>- 


Hap- 


Century,"  very  large  and  interesting  addi- 
tions were  made  to  the  previous  accumula- 
tion. There  he  found  a  primitive  people, 
living  in  hamlets,  separated  by  forests  and 
swamps,  having  no  means  of  communication 
but  by  sledges  or  on  horseback,  on  account 
of  the  almost  impassable  nature  of  the  coun- 
try ;  just  managing  to  escape  starvation. 
Two  of  the  causes  which  the  editor  ascribes 
for  this  remarkable  preservation  of  epic 
poetry   are   "liberty   and   loneliness."     She 

These  people  have  never  been  snbjected  to 
the  oppressions  o(  serFdom,  and  have  never  lost 
ihe  ideal  at  free  power  celebcaled  in  the  andent 
rhapsodies.  In  these  foreal  fastnesses  Lhev  have 
felt  the  influences  of  change  —  conditions 
1  as  in  epic  limes.  Even  edacation  has 
hardlr  left  a  trace.  A  man  who  can  read  and 
is  very  rare.  Pailh  in  antiquity  and  mar- 
s  thus  preserved.  All  the  singers  and 
of  the  hearers  believe  implicitly  in  the 
bylinas,  (or  when  doubt  enters,  cpic  poetry  dies. 

And  when  a  slight  doubt  was  expressed 
by  the  gentleman  who  was  taking  down  the 
O  whether  a  hero  could  annihilate 
forty  thousand  men  with  his  own  hand,  the 
-hapsodista  explained  matters  very  simply 
'People  were  not  at  all  then  as  they  are 
low."  Fortunately  for  the  lover  of  folk- 
lore and  oral  tradition,  there  is  little  danger 
that  epic  poetry  will  die  out  there,  for  while 

of  the  world  is  moving 
secluded  people  will  probably  remain  much 
has  been,  and  incite  those  interested 
in  the  study  of  such  literature  to  investiga- 
tion and  comparison  with  that  of  other 
Northern  races. 

The    selections  here  presented    number 
thirty,  and    are  in  three    divisions  —  1 
Elder  Heroes,  The  Cycle  of  Vladfmir,  or 
Kfef,  and  The  Cycle  of  Ndvgorod,  with 
Appendix  of  notes  giving  a  general  idea  of 

the  historical  foundation  of  the  bylinas 
and  the  relationship  which  exists  between 
them  and  the  epic  poems  of  other  nations," 
The  rendering  is  very  spirited  and  forcible, 

id  the  old-fashioned  language  is  used  as 
far  as  possible ;  and,  as  in  all  cases  of  the 
kind  where  this  method  is  followed,  we  get 
an  understanding  of  the  manners  and  do- 
life  through  a  few  strong,  idiomatic 
words  —  a    crisp,    direct    way    of    putting 
things.     It  is  a  work  for  the  general  reader; 
s  Professor  Child  says,  "it  cannot  fail 
most  acceptable  to  students  of  popular 
tradition  who  have  been  so  unfortunate  as 
neglect  Russian,"   adding,  "  for   nothing 
of  the  same  kind  and  compass  has,  so  far 
as  I  know,  been  published  in  any  language 
of  Western  Europe." 

The  second  volume  now  in  hand,*  the 
work  of  another  woman  in  the  folk-lore 
field,  but  unlike  the  former,  is  a  series  of 
studies  on  different  general  tApics,  such, 
for  example,  as  Nature  in  Folk-Songs,  the 
Diffusion  of  Ballads,  tbe   Idea  of  Fate  in 


iludy  oi  Folk-Sonii.  By  the  CouiiU 
kCeurcKO.  London  :  Ceorse  Redwi 
■rAWcUmd.    fjA. 


Southern  Traditions,  Folk-Lullabies,  grew- 
papers  on  Folk- Dirges  and  the  In- 
spiration of  Death  in  Folk-Poetry,  with  sev- 
eral on  national  Folk-Songs,  the  Armenian, 
Sicilian,  Venetian,  Greek  Songs  of  Calabria 
and  Folk-Songs  of  Provence,  in  all  thirteen, 
with  a  careful  introduction  wherein  she 
makes  some  interesting  points.  Mankind 
she  divides  into  "  the  half  which  listens  and 
the  half  which  reads,"  and  for  the  first  we 
must  now  go  to  the  East  (it  seems  to  North- 
em  Russia  also).  In  Europe,  she  says, 
"only  the  poor,  and  of  thera  a  rapidly 
decreasing  proportion,  have  the  memory 
to  recite,  the  patience  to  hear,  tbe  faith  to 
receive."  She  calls  tbe  folk-tale  tbe  father  of 
all  fiction,  and  the  folk-song  the  mother  of  all 
poetry,  and  says  that  the  latter  differs  from 
the  former  by  making  a  more  emphatic 
claim  to  credibility  ;  that  it  is  more  somber ; 
and  that  it  probably  preceded  the  other,  as 
"it  seems  proved  that  in  infant  communities 
anything  that  was  thought  worth  remember- 
ing was  sung." 

The  tilled  author  has  brought  the  ardor 
of  an  enthusiast  to  her  work,  which  shows 
research,  pains,  and  appreciation,  and  she 
has  been  aided  by  correspondents  of  differ- 
ent countries  whose  variants  of  some  popu- 
lar, almost  universal,  song  have  enabled 
her  to  draw  comparisons  and  arrive  at 
valuable  conclusions.  The  littie  swallow- 
songs,  she  says, 

are  worth  the  attention  of  the  Folk-Lore  stu- 
dent, since  they  are  of  ■  greater  antiquity  than 
can  be  proved  on  written  evidence  in  Ihe  case, 
so  far  as  I  know,  of  any  other  folk-song  still 
current.  More  than  two  tbousind  years  ago 
they  existed  in  the  form  quoted  from  Theognis 
by  Athenzos,  as  an  escelient  song  by  the  chil- 
dren of  Rhodes. 

Tbe  Countess  thinks  that  the  study  of 
dialect  tends  to  Ihe  conviction  "  that  there 
are  country  people  now  living  In  Italy  to 
whom,  rather  than  to  Cicero,  we  should  go 
if  we  want  to  know  what  style  of  speech 
was  in  use  among  the  humbler  subjects  of 
the  Cxsars ; "  for  while  "  the  lettered  lan- 
guage of  the  cultivated  classes  changes," 
we  are  to  remember  that  "the  spoken 
tongue  of  the  uneducated  remains  the 
same"  —  a  general  truth  whose  importance 
is  becoming  more  and  more  fully  appreciated 
as  the  increasing  store  of  folk-literature 
proves,  and  more  light  is  shed  on  this  sub- 
ject, which  ought  to  be  one  of  universal 
interest 

The  pleasing  tide  and  daintily  punted 
stork's  nest  on  the  cover  of  the  third  work 
before  us  >  invite  us  to  look  within,  where 
we  find  thirty  short  stories  in  prose,  and 
one  in  verse,  from  Danish  and  Norwegian 
authors,  fresh  and  bright,  with  pictures  of 
the  past,  and  of  peasant  life.  Those  by 
Herr  BrSsboll  "under  the  pseudonym  of 
Carit  Edar,  closely  describe  Danish  life  of 

•ASlorii'i  Ncu;  or,  Pluunt  ReadiBf  from  tho  Honh. 
Collected  bj  Jahn  Fultord  Victrjr.  London  uh)  New 
Yoriti  FndeiickWaiuACo.   fu]. 


1886.] 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


213 


daya  long  sipce  gone  by; "  homely  interiorg, 
home  virtues,  a  plain,  industrious,  frugal 
people  with  ways  and  surroundings  as  for- 
eign and  odd  to  us  as  if  they  belonged  to 
another  world.  The  two  by  Professor 
Ewald  have  a  historic  flavor,  especially 
that  called  "Olufsborg,"  which  seems  lilce 
an  episode  of  the  Nibelungen  Lay.  Eight 
authors  are  represented,  and  besides  are  a 
few  anonymous  sketches  —  the  result  to  the 
reader  being  an  insight  into  the  lives  of 
those  Northern  people  and  respect  for  their 
shrewdness,  their  sharp  wits,  their  love  of 
hearth  and  roof-tree;  while  many  lessons 
of  self-denial  rewarded  and  heroism  in  a 
lowly  lot  are  taught,  as  in  the  unique  story 
by  Brosboll  of  "The  White  Stone,"  and 
"  Furugaard,"  by  Ivar  Bing,  where  the  lame 
girl,  Karen,  and  the  little  berd-girt,  Sigrid, 
personate  the  virtues  of  Christian  patience, 
continuance  in  well-doing,  and  forgiving,  in 
a  manner  that  is  as  winsome  as  it  is  helpful. 
Stories  of  the  Northland  usually  have  a 
charm  peculiarly  their  own,  and  among  the 
charming  must  this  volume  be  counted  in. 

THE  80DTH.' 

THE  author  of  this  book  has  made  sev- 
eral recent  journeys  through  the  South- 
ern States,  with  a  view  of  studying  their 
condition  and  prospects  in  the  course  of  re- 
covery from  the  Civil  War.  These  250 
pages  contain  his  report  There  Is  little  in 
it  of  mere  description,  and  less  of  the  ordi- 
nary incident  of  travel,  though  neither  of 
these  elements  is  wholly  lacking ;  it  is  rather 
occupied  with  acute  examination  and  sage 
reSection  from  the  economist's  standpoint 
Mr.  McOure  impresses  us  as  able,  impar- 
tial, and  kind.  He  censures  Virginia  for 
her  repudiation  policy,  and  points  out  the 
unhappy  effects  thereof.  North  Carolina, 
he  finds,  has  now  reached  a  higher  pitch  of 
prosperity  than  ever  known  in  her  history ; 
and  shows  more  capital  emplojred  and  less 
debt  than  at  any  time  for  half  a  century. 
South  Carolina  la  but  a  few  steps  behind 
her  sister.  The  cities  of  Columbia  and 
Charleston  In  the  latter  State  exhibit  both 
energy  and  decay,  but  the  energy  is  on  the 
winning  side.  Georgia  Mr.  McCIare  calls 
"the  Empire  SUte  of  the  South,"  and  At- 
lanta, he  says,  "  has  every  appearance  of 
being  the  legitimate  offspring  of  Chicago," 
with  not  a  vestige  of  old  Sonthern  ways 
about  It.  No  carsiog  of  the  blacks  by  idlers 
here.  Forty  cotton  factories,  with  nearly 
200,000  spindles,  and  nearly  a  hundred 
furnaces  and  foundries  in  Georgia  make  the 
State  hum.  Mills  are  multiplying,  and  thi 
facts  stated  by  Mr,  McClure  go  to  show  as 
if  the  dxys  of  the  great  cotton  factors  at  the 
North  were  over.  The  single  present  blot 
on  the  Georgian  escutcheon  is  the  repudia* 
tion  of  Stale  debts  to  railways.    Harmony 


exists  between  whites  and  blacks,  and  the 
assessed  property  of  the  latter  now  amounts 
to  millions.  In  another  decade  Mr.  Mc- 
Qure  believes  that 

Georgia  will  have  doubted  her  cotton  prodnc- 
tion;  that  her  own  bread  will  alt  be  grown  on 
her  own  soi},  and  that  the  income  from  her 
cotton  will  be  doubled  from  every  bale  by  spin- 
ning and  weaving  her  entire  prodact. 

Alabama  shows  as  yet  less  progress  than 
Georgia,  but  peace  prevails,  the  blacks  are 
doing  well  with  their  little  cotton  farms, 
schools  are  open  in  every  township  to  both 
and  the  whites  rule  in  politics  without 
violence  or  disorder.  Mobile  has  been  left 
behind  by  shifting  currents  and  changing 
centers  of  trade  and  transportation,  but 
for  the  immediate  improvement  of 
pointed  out  by  Mr.  Mc- 
Clure, notably  the  improvement  of  the  stately 
Alabama  River,  At  Mobile  Mr.  McClure 
visited  Mrs,  Willaon,  better  known  in  the 
world  of  letters  as  Augusta  J.  Evans,  whom 
he  found  clad  in  a  pretty  gingham  costume, 
embowered  in  flowers,  in  a  fine  old  mansion 
thickly  surrounded  by  live  oaks  and  camelias. 
Birmingham  in  the  heart  of  Alabama's  great 
coal,  iron,  and  limestone  beds,  has  had  a 
marvelous  beginning  and  shows  "  more  push 
and  better  bottom  than  any  city  on  the  con- 
tinent." Here  a  doien  years  ago  was  a  sin- 
gle farm-house ;  today  there  is  a  population 
of  20,000,  and  a  county  valuation  of  nearly 
ten  millions  of  dollars.  Coal  and  iron  have 
done  it,  hand  in  hand.  When  it  is  under- 
stood that  Iron  can  be  produced  at  Birming- 
ham for  tii.50  a  ton  against  $17  in  Pennsyl- 
vania, the  secret  of  its  future  stands  revealed. 
In  Alabama,  with  her  climate,  soil,  and  min- 
erals, Mr.  McClure  sees  a  formidable  rival 
to  the  Keystone  SUte. 

From  Alabama  Mr.  McClure  passes  to 
Mississippi ;  which  is  now  practically  with- 
out debt,  and  from  which  the  age  of  violence 
has  passed  away.  Lalxir  here  ia  abundant, 
harmony  exists  between  the  races,  and 
wealth  is  rapidly  increasing.  The  "most 
difficult  shades  of  the  great  Southern  prob- 
lem "  are  found  in  Louisiana,  where  the 
Latin  blood  is  the  old  blood,  where  Sunday 
Is  the  gala  day  of  the  week,  where  political 
profligacy  ran  riot  after  the  War,  and  where 
the  recovery  of  prosperity  is  slow  and  toil- 
some. The  New  Orleans  Exposition  was  a 
financial  failure,  but  otherwise  had  good 
results.  The  Louisiana  Lottery  swindle  is 
reprobated  in  severe  but  deserved  terms. 

In  Tennessee  Nashville  follows  hard  after 
Atlanta  in  substantial  growth,  with  many 
touches  of  Northern  enterprise.  The  smoky 
city  is  a  hive  of  industry,  and  industrial 
topics  have  largely  displaced  the  political  in 
public  attention.  The  State  still  staggers 
under  financial  frauds  and  failures,  but  the 
outlook  is  promising.  Tennessee  outstrips 
even  Alabama  as  a  rival  of  Pennsylvania  in 
coal  and  iron  production,  and  has  a  splendid 
agricultural,  mineral,  and  commercial  future. 
Much  NorUiern  capital  and  enterprise  must 


flow  hither,  as  surely  as  business  follows 
natural  laws. 

The  romance  of  orange  culture  has  painted 
Florida  in  bright  colors,  but  alas  the  colors 
"do  not  wash."  For  small  farmers  who  do 
their  own  work  Florida  ofiers  inducements, 
but  land  speculators  are  as  thick  as  flies  and 
as  tormenting.  The  immigrant's  selection  * 
of  land  is  attended  with  great  danger.  The 
profits  of  orange  growing  are  comparatively 
uncertain,  though  eighty  millions  of  that 
fruit  were  harvested  last  year.  Full  particu- 
lars of  this  industry  are  given,  but  they  are 
not  encouraging  to  sanguine  incompetency. 
Florida  as  a  health  resort,  however,  is  a 
grand  success,  as  its  million-dollar  hotels 
testify.  The  reclamation  of  Florida  lands, 
now  going  forward  under  the  auspices  of  a 
gigantic  Philadelphia  corporation,  forms  the 
subject  of  one  chapter,  which  reads  like  a 
fairy  story.  That  which  follows  it,  made  up 
of  "  Hints  to  Florida  Settlers,"  is  very  prac- 
tically helpful.  Succeeding  chapters  on 
"The  Sugar  Industry"  as  noted  in  Loti- 
isiana,  Texas,  and  Mississippi,  on  "The 
Negro  as  a  Ruler,"  and  "The  Race  Prob- 
lem," complete  the  round  of  economical 
topics ;  while  accounts  of  visits  to  Jefferson 
Davis,  Mrs.  James  K.  Polk,  and  the  home 
and  tomb  of  Henry  Clay,  invest  the  closing 
pages  with  a  strong  personal  interest. 

Altogether  this  is  a  fresh,  intelligent, 
highly  interesting,  and  authoritative  book; 
one  to  be  thankful  to  for  its  cheering  facts 
and  statements,  and  one  that  every  patriotic 
American  will  read  with  renewed  pride,  pleas- 
ure, and  expectation. 


WHOM  GOD  HATH  JOIHED.» 
TJ/fiOM  God  Hath  Jointd  is  a  stoty  of 

unusual  strength  and  promise.  It 
seems  to  have  been  the  aim  of  its  author  to 
point  oat  the  incompleteness  of  all  forma  of 
faith  as  compared  with  the  complete  satis- 
faction to  be  found  in  the  boaom  of  the 
Roman  Catholic  church,  though  In  this  she 
can  hardly  be  said  to  have  been  succeasful. 
There  la  a  tendency  to  caricature  In  the  de- 
lineatlons  of  the  coaraely-fibered,  ranting 
Methodlam,  the  chill,  formal  Presbyterlan- 
Ism,  the  antics  and  vagaries  of  the  ultra- 
Unitarians,  which  betray  her  lack  of  sym- 
pathy with  all;  while,  from  the  atart,  Kath- 
erine  Danforth's  instincts  have  led  her 
straight  toward  the  goal  which  it  ia  fore- 
ordained  that  she  shall  reach.  Instincts  are 
un explainable,  but  the  process  by  which 
Katherine  and  her  husband  are  finally  con- 
vinced is  equally  unexplained.  He  is  said 
to  have  "  made  an  exhaustive  study  "  of  the 
claims  of  the  Papal  church,  but  as  no  hint 
is  given  of  his  ever  having  devoted  a  mo- 
ment toward  studying  the  claims  of  any 
other  branch  of  Christianity,  the  exhaustive 
process  may  be  objected  to  as  one-sided. 


214 


THE  UTERARY  WORLD. 


[June  26, 


She  snccumba,  apparently  without  resist- 
ance, on  beinfT  tackled  by  a  lively  little  per- 
vert from  Portland,  who  treats  her  to  daily 
doses  of  dogmatism  varied  with  slang,  which 
she  finds  irresistible.  The  result  of  their 
mutual  convergence  is  the  natural  one,  vie., 
thjlt  Louis  Giddings  elects  to  sacrifice  the 
'wife  and  child  whom  he  passionately  loves 
to  that  dogma  of  his  new  faith  which  forbids 
divorce  under  any  or  all  circumstances.  It 
does  not  matter  that  the  wife  whom  he  has 
supposed  dead  for  live  years  had  first  tricked 
him  into  marriage,  then  deserted  him,  and 
has  continued  her  career  of  vice  and  decep- 
tion ever  since  with  various  other  men. 
signifies  nothing  that  the  laws  of  his  c 
try,  of  human  society,  nay,  the  very  law  of 
Christ  as  interpreted  by  other  branches  of 
the  church,  allow  him  to  put  this  wo 
away,  and  reinstate  in  her  place  of  honor 
her  who  is  indeed  and  in  soul  his  rightful 
wife.  All  these  considerations  he  casts 
aside,  preferring  the  letter  which  killeth  to 
the  spirit  which  giveth  life. 

We  must  not  by  any  means  be  misunder- 
stood as  speaking  in  favor  of  the  loose  and 
demoralizing  divorce  laws  of  our  modem 
time,  when  we  say  that  such  a  decision  in 
the  face  of  such  a  case,  seems  to  us  the 
blemish  in  what  is  otherwise  an  admirable 
story.  What  gives  the  book  its  charm  are 
the  pictures,  clear  cut  and  masterly,  of  little 
Katherine's  childhood  in  the  prim  Methodist 
community,  of  her  growth  into  eager  ques- 
tioning womanhood,  of  her  father's  life  and 
death,  and  the  beautiful  love  between  her 
and  Louis  Giddings.  All  these  have  some- 
thing of  the  quality  which  has  made  Jane 
Ansteo  and  Mrs.  Gaskell  famous  —  the 
quality  of  just  and  delicate  apprehension  of 
the  forces  which  go  to  make  up  character, 
and  the  power  to  portray  and  make  them 
real  by  strokes,  which,  while  they  seem 
effortless,  communicate  to  ideal  scenes  the 
very  breath  and  aroma  of  life. 


TEE  STOBT  OF  OEALDEA.* 

THE  volumes  of  the  series  "Story  of 
the  Nations,"  some  of  whose  earlier 
numbers  we  have  noticed,  are  by  diSerent 
writers  and  therefore  naturally  vary  much 
In  merit  All,  however,  have  as  common 
features  elegant  paper  and  preaswork,  in 
which  the  Putnams  are  not  excelled  by  any 
publishers  whose  books  reach  us,  very 
abundant  and  appropriate  illustrations,  and 
maps  printed  just  within  the  covers.  The 
style  is  adapted  generally  to  juvenile  read- 
ers, but  in  this  volume  not  unpleasantly  so, 
nor  is  there  anything  in  it  suggestive  of  a 
translation  from  the  French  —  unless,  in- 
deed, it  Is  a  clearness  of  expression  which 
cannot  be  too  highly  commended. 
An  introduction,  on  the  sources  of  modem 


■  The  Sloijr  ol  Cbildca  hum  tb«  Euliut  Timci  ta  Ihe 
RU*  d1  Attrn*.  By  Z^nalde  A.  Rigoiis.  IJIuitnlHl. 
G,  t.  PulDun'l  Sou.    f  i.jg. 


knowledge  of  Chaldea  and  its  history,  and 
especially  the  present  appearance  of  its 
ancient  remains,  the  hardships  and 
cesses  of  explorers,  and  the  royal  library  of 
baked  clay  tablets  lately  discovered  at  Nin- 
eveh, precedes  the  account,  partly  historical 
and  largely  descriptive,  of  the  ancient 
interesting  valley  where  the  Euphrates 
and  Tigris  pour  their  floods  into  the  Per- 
sian Gulf,  and  of  its  successive  inhabitants 
and  their  beliefs  and  manners  and  customs, 
from  the  earliest  dim  traditions  to  the 
signed  limit,  when  the  Chaldean  Empire 
was  checked  by  the  growing  power  of  As- 
syria. The  earliest  inhabitants  of  this 
valley,  whom  M.  Ragozin  calls  by  the 
digenous  names  Shumirs  and  Aeeads,  ap- 
pear to  have  been  Turanian,  men  of  the  race 
called  yellow  and  marked  by  high  cheek- 
bones. This  race  our  author  supposes  to 
be  descendants  of  Cain,  living  in  the  land 
called  "Nod  "  or  exiles  ^td  as  such  wholly, 
and  intentionally,  ignored,  as  is  also  the 
black  race,  by  the  compiler  of  "  the  oldest 
and  most  important  document  in  existence 
concerning  tlie  origins  of  races  and  nations," 
vu.,  the  tenth  chapter  of  Genesis.  These 
Accads  he  surmises  to  have  had  their  orig- 
inal home  in  the  Altai  mountains,  and  to 
have  come  to  Chaldea  at  least  as  early  as 
5000  B.  C,  a  time  preceding  any  in  even 
Egyptian  records,  but  termed  by  our  author 
"a  moderate  and  probable  date"  and  fixed 
by  certain  interesting  calculations  based  on 
inscriptions  of  King  Asihurbanipal  and 
other  discoveries.  The  language  of  these 
"  Shumiro-Accadian "  settlers  was  in  the 
second  stage,  that  called  agglutinative  {the 
earliest  being  called  the  monosyllabic)^  and 
was  entirely  different  from  the  later  Chaldee 
or  Babylonian.  They  had  made  some  prog- 
ress in  "  the  first  and  most  essential  rudi- 
ments of  civilization,  the  art  of  writing  and 
that  of  working  metals ; "  they  also,  prob- 
ably, began  to  construct  the  canals  neces- 
sary in  that  country,  and  to  make  and  use 
brick.  A  long  and  full  account  is  given  of 
their  religious  ideas,  in  about  the  stages  we 
term  fetichfsm  and  demonology,  illustrated 
by  engravioga  of  some  of  their  crude  figures. 
As  to  the  next  Invaders  of  the  country,  at 
a  date  oot  to  be  put  later  than  400a  B.  C, 
there  are  two  opinions  held  by  eminent 
Orientalists !  that  of  the  German  school  of 
Professors  Schrader  and  Delitzch,  that  they 
were  purely  Shemites,  cognate  with  the 
Hebrews,  and  that  of  Lenormant  and  his 
followers,  that  they  were  descendants  of 
Ham.  M.  Ragozin,  for  chiefly  Biblical  rea- 
sons, prefers  the  Hamitic  theory,  and  gives 
a  very  instructive  account  of  the  Hamitic 
race  and  its  chief  migrations.  This  race  was 
originally  as  white  as  the  Shemitic  and 
Japhetic,  and  only  darkened  by  intermixture 
with  the  great  negro  race,  which  last  is  not 
descended  from  any  of  Noah's  sons.  But 
unquestionably  nomadic  Shemitic  tribes  — 
among  them    the  ancestors  of    Abraham, 


called  Arphaxad  En  Gen.  x. —  formed  later  a 
part  of  the  population,  and  the  language  and 
culture  which  displaced  the  ruder  Turanian 
are  habitually  called  Semitic.  Authentic 
history  can  be  said  to  begin  only  with  this 
Semitic  civilization ;  and  the  earliest  indis- 
putably real  sovereign  is  Shamikin — gener- 
ally corrupted  into  Sargon,  and  called  the 
First  in  distinction  from  a  later  celebrated 
Assyrian.  He  reigned  at  Agad£,  the  Accad 
of  Gen,  X  :  10,  and  was  a  great  and  enlight- 
ened ruler.  By  a  reckoning  based  on  a 
Babylonian  cylinder,  his  date  is  placed  at 
about  3800  B.  C.  Later  the  city  of  Ur,  then 
a  seaport  but  now  far  inland,  became  the 
capital ;  the  same  city  celebrated  as  the 
starting-point  of  Terah  and  Abraham. 
About  2300  occurred  a  conquest  of  Chaldea 
by  a  people  called  Elam  —  signifying  high- 
lands—  whose  capital  was  Shushan.  One 
of  the  kings  of  the  dynasty  thus  established 
is  identified  with  the  Chedorlaomer  of  Gen. 
xiv.  After  Hammurabi,  who  was  ruler  at 
Babylon,  then  a  small  place,  who  finally  ex- 
pelled the  invaders  and  became  king  over 
the  whole  land,  a  new  tribe  from  Elam  con- 
quered the  country.  These  were  the 
Kasshi ;  and  with  a  few  words  descriptive 
of  the  results  of  this  invasion  the  history 
terminates. 

Several  chapters  follow,  very  full  and  in- 
structive, on  the  Babylonian  religion,  legends, 
stories,  heroes,  and  myths.  In  the  wealth  of 
information  presented  we  can  note  but  few 
points.  The  religion,  though  polytheistic, 
shows  a  distinct  advance  on  the  low  forms 
of  the  earliest  race.  It  is  exceedingly  curi- 
ous and  suggestive  that  the  number  three 
occurs  often  in  the  Chaldean  conceptions  of 
deity,  triads,  however,  rather  than  trinities ; 
and  that  the  number  seven  also  seems  to 
have  had  something  of  the  mystic  and  sacred. 
This  last  idea  it  is  suggested  is  derived  from 
reckoning  the  sun,  the  moon,  and  the  five 
planets  known  to  Chaldean  astronomers; 
whose  names  were  bestowed  on  the  days  of 
the  hebdomadal  week.  Our  names  for  the 
days,  the  author  says,  are  but  translations  of 
these. 

Among  the  legends  and  stories  curiously 
resembling  those  of  the  Hebrew  oSshoot  of 
the  same  Shemitic  race  we  may  notice  that 
of  the  deluge,  as  translated  from  tablets  by 
the  lamented  George  Smith  and  doubtless 
known  to  some  of  our  readers,  occasionally 
identical  even  in  its  words  with  the  version 
preserved  in  purer  form  In  Genesis;  also 
a  tablet  supposed  to  show  pictorially  the 
temptation  and  fall  of  man,  and  containing 
two  human  figures  with  hands  extended 
towards  fmit  hanging  upon  a  tree,  while 
behind  the  smaller  figure  a  serpent  is  erect 
as  if  offering  counsel.  Another  very  inter- 
esting subject  is  the  great  Chaldean  epic  of 
the  hero  lidubar,  the  outline  or  plot  of  which 
is  presented.  The  poem  is  in  twelve  books, 
and  the  correspondence  of  these  in  number 
and  contents  with  the  months  of  the  year 


l886.] 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


JiS 


and  the  course  of  nature  therein,  and  with 
the  pictorial  signs  of  the  sodiac,  is  snffident 
to  show  that  the  narrative  is  a  sun  myth. 
The  atoi7  of  the  deluge  forms  part  of  the 
eleventh  book. 

The  concluding  chapter  treats  of  the  rela- 
tion of  the  Chaldean  religion  and  mythology 
to  the  Hebrew  forms,  and  is  very  interestmg, 
but  space  forbids  even  an  outline  here.  An 
appendix  gives  some  metrical  translations, 
from  Professor  Dyer,  of  parts  of  the  poem 
tihtar's  DtMint,  another  form  of  the  alle- 
gory of  the  sun. 


AHESIOAN  DIPLOHAOT.' 

THIS  work,  on  an  important  and  to  some 
persons  very  interesting  subject,  Is 
primarily  an  account  of  the  part  taken  by 
the  United  States,  since  becoming  a  nation, 
in  the  peaceful  settlement  of  questions  of 
interuatioDal  concern.  Incidentally 
also  in  some  measure  a  treatise  on  diplomacy 
as  a  science  and  an  art ;  describing  its  past 
and  its  present  status  and  offering  sugget 
tJons,  based  on  the  writer's  somewhat  varied 
experience,  for  the  improvement  of  the 
matic  branch  of  the  federal  service.  These 
suggestions  seem  eminently  judici 
patriotic. 

Very  properly,-  there  are  introductory 
chapters  discussing  the  workings  of  c 
national  department  of  state,  as  related 
the  subject  of  this  volume,  considering  the 
functions  of  the  Senate  in  the  making  of 
treaties,  and  explaining  the  difference  be- 
tween consular  and  diplomatic  officials. 
This  last,  we  suppose,  is  a  distinction  very 
indefinite  in  most  minds.  It  is  substantially 
this,  that,  while  both  classes  are  representa- 
tives abroad  of  the  nation  sending  them,  con- 
suls have  to  do  with  commercial  interests, 
and  in  some  cases  exercise  also,  for  the  pro- 
tection of  their  countrymen,  certain  of  the 
duties  and  powers  of  judges ;  whereas  diplo- 
mats, in  their  various  classes  of  ambassadors, 
envoys,  etc.,  are  concerned  with  matters  po> 
litical.  Occasionally,  however,  these  com- 
mercial and  political  functions  are  combined 
in  one  officer,  both  by  the  United  States  and 
some  other  nations;  generally  in  places  of 
minor  importance. 

The  author  then  takes  up  in  succession, 
and  discusses  historically,  the  subjects  of 
piracy  committed  by  vessels  of  the  North- 
African  Mediterranean  powers;  the  slave 
trade,  and  the  searching  of  ships  of  one 
nation  by  cruisers  of  another,  as  arising  out 
of  such  trade  and  as  a  means  for  its  preven- 
tion ;  the  free  navigation  of  rivers  and  seas, 
and  the  curiona  rights  of  toll  exercised  by 
certain  powers,  whereby  its  enjoyment  was 
impeded;  the  rights  of  neutral  States,  and 
especially  in  the  matters  of  privateering, 
confiscation  of  property,  and  blockades; 
rights  of  fishing,  including  the  present  Cana- 


dian question;  and  commercial  treaties  re- 
specting revenue  duties.  There  is  much 
and  various  Information  on  these  subjects ; 
one  of  which  —  that  of  free  rivers  and  seas 
—  embraces  sub-divisions  on  the  Mississippi 
and  the  Saint  Lawrence,  the  Northern  Pa- 
cific Ocean,  the  tolls  formerly  collected  by 
Denmark  at  the  entrance  of  the  Baltic  Sea, 
the  Bosphoms,  the  two  great  rivers  of 
South  America,  certain  rivers  in  Europe, 
id  the  Congo  and  Niger  o£  Africa,  It  is 
very  interesting  to  notice,  in  the  treatment 
of  the  various  matters  of  diplomatic  history 
presented  in  this  work,  examples  of  the 
modem  —  yet  In  another  sense  very  a 
doctrine  of  the  evolution  of  highi 
better  forms  and  principles  from  lower  and 
cruder.  Not  suddenly,  but  by  slow  degrees, 
and  with  occasional  reflux,  has  the  tide  of 
civilization  made  its  advance  in  interna- 
tional as  in  social  and  individual  matters ; 
nor  is  progress  yet  probably  very  near  its 
goal. 

As  a  whole,  the  treatise  evidences  much 
research  among  the  works  of  other  writers 
and  much  careful  and  painstaking  labor. 
We  regret  to  say  that  the  author's  style  is 
marred  by  errors  in  grammar,  not  gross,  but 
such  as  are  usual  among  speakers  of  ordin- 
arily good  education  ;  which,  however,  ought 
to  be  avoided  at  least  by  writers  on  subjects 
of  such  dignity  and  importance.  These 
think  less  noticeable  in  the  middle  and  later 
chapters.  There  is  further,  unfortunately,  a 
lack  of  clearness,  the  quality  of  prime  im- 
portance in  almost  every  sort  of  composi- 
tion! which  defect,  however,  though  it  re- 
quires the  reader  to  perform  extra  study  in 
order  to  grasp  the  author's  full  meaning,  is 
not  so  great  as  to  render  the  work  unsuited 
to  convey  much  interesting  instruction  on 
the  subjects  of  which  tt  treats. 


QEOBQE  EUOT  AHS  E£R  EEBOIHEB.* 

MRS.iWOOLSON'S  StHdy  is  one  of  the 
tfest  pieces  of  critical  appreciation  of 
George  Eliot  that  have  appeared  In  English. 
While  admiring  she  Is  also  discriminating, 
and  she  hardly  ever  forsakes  an  excellent 
ityle  of  her  own  togo  after  aflower  of  rhetoric 
a  little  gaudy.  The  problem  of  woman's 
destiny  and  attainment  furnishes,  says  Mrs. 
Woolson,  the  underiying  theme  of  nearly  all 
George  Eliot's  books,  and  she  depicts  with 
especial  force  and  frequency  the  unhappy 
fortune  of  the  young  woman  of  rare  endow- 

■s,  fitted  for  a  great  career.  The  one 
situation  of  all  the  novels  is  this :  the  supe- 
rior being,  unhappily  of  the  female  sex,  with 

re  and  right  both  on  her  side,  and  so- 
ciety on  the  other  side.  Society  conquers 
her ;  her  high  ambitions  come  to  naught,  her 
noble  aspirations  must  be  stifled,  and  she 
sinks  to  the  level  of  the  commonplace  —  the 
world  has  no  career  for  her.    George  Eliot's 


heroes  are  of  poor  stufiE  as  a  rule,  weak  and 
indolent,  Deronda,  her  pet,  being  a  mere 
shadow.    The  heroines  are  the  chief  figures 
of  interest,  and  had  their  lot  been  cast  on  a 
time  when  the  world  would  have  granted 
them  a  sound  education  and  an  open  field 
for  their  powers  to  work  in,  then  another 
fate  might  have  been  theirs  than  the  inevit- 
able failure  to  which  their  "motley  and  di- 
versified ignorance"  in   combinat{(Mi    with 
their  ardent  feelings  brings  them. 

Mrs.  Woolson  justly  traces  the  sad  charac- 
ter of  George  Eliot's  novels,  in   large  de- 
gree, to  the  author's  melancholy,  induced 
largely  by  bad  health,  to  her  susceptibility 
to  the  influence,  by  no  means  of  the  highest 
order,  of  the  habitual  society  of  her  eariy 
womanhood,  and  to  the  cheerless  and  inade- 
quate creed  this  society  led  her  to  adopt 
Most  of  the  hearty,  brave,  and  genial  quali- 
ties which  secure  for  an  author  affectionate 
regard  and  lend  a  personal  interest  to  his 
pages,  she  did  not  possess.     Nor  was  she  a 
supreme  artist,  her  mind  being  of  the  omniv- 
orous, reflective  German  kind,  strong  in  por- 
traying character,  but  weak  in  conceiving 
and  representing  action.    Her  heroines  sim- 
ply fail  and  live  on,  says  Mrs.  Woolson,  but 
is  not  this  what  they  do  in  actual  life  if  they 
fail?     Yet  a  more  thoroughly  healthy  and 
cheerful  nature  would  not  have  reserved  the 
same  fate  for  all  her  noble  women;  one  at 
least  would  have  been  allowed  to  succeed. 
That  they  all  fail  through  bad  marriages,  the 
critic  thinks,  shows  that  George  Eliot  was  in- 
direcUy  vindicating  her  own  marriage,  which 
society  condemned,  against  those  fal^e  unions 
upon  which  society  smiles.    This  fs,  perhaps, 
attributing  too  much  of  the  personal  bias  to 
the  novelist,  and  Mrs.  Woolson  may  some- 
what exaggerate  the  relative  importance  of 
this  feature  in  the  total  picture  of  life,  painted 
by  the  great  novelist,  but  she  has  certainly 
produced  a  critical  study  of  much  interest 
and  value.       ^______^^ 

Expense  of  an  Education. 

The  statistics  of  the  graduating  dssi  at  Yale 

this  year  furoUh  the  following  information  toncll- 

ing  the  expenses  of  an  education  at  New  Haven  i 

Annfi  par  rwr  par  BIB Ma 

Artnfc  IrtunMU)  ftu S» 


pl»i 


ml  »Ter«gi 
Ldividtiftl  ATCn^e 


Eilimited  tou] 

Five  students  went  through  on  ^oo  or  less. 
Three  spent  moie  than  fi,ooo  per  year.  The 
average  ex|>ense  per  man  for  furnishing  rooms 
was  (r35.56.  The  largest  amount  was  fi.ooo. 
I'lic  priic  pdid  fiir  buard  has  ranged  from  fit 

rei  week,  paid  by  iliree,  to  f  z.50  per  week,  paid 
y  two.  Twenty-lhree  have  earned  money  for 
their  own  support  during  the  college  course. 

Mr.  Hardy's  Wind  af  Diitiny  is  already 
in  its  sixth  edition,  and  the  popular  verdict  is 
rapidly  confirming  the  (aTunble  introduction 
which  the  Literary  World  was  prompt  to  give 
it.  A  like  success  may  be  predicted  (or  Jtutina, 
No  Name  "  novel. 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


[June  261 


The  Literary  World. 


BOSTON,  JUNE  26.  1886. 


sola  — but 


tbne  m  bgok 


■t  dlf&Eulty  wltb  a 
mot  (bBka  sti  at  mi 
SBH 1 "  ■■kad  ha,  taklDE  sut  bia  tlauei 
cannat  tall.  Sir  Toitslu.  I  koow  youn  wltbsut 
■■klDK-"  "  If  roil  keew  uy  booka,  you  kosw  me,' 
b«  replied,  looklBC  from  tha  open  pica  over  hli 
apocudaaduhlaiiBly.  "01ceun«,"  Unshed  Qladya. 
"  ud  vice  vaiaa."  —  A.  S.  Habpv  i  TJU  WifJ  t/Dtt- 
liV  


DB.  H0LUE8  IV  £VGI.A]n). 

IT  is  probably  quite  within  bounds  to  say 
that  Dr.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmea  i«  hav- 
ing a  good  time  in  England.  "  If  a  man 
likes  that  sort  of  thing,"  said  Abraham  Lin- 
coln, "that's  the  sort  of  a  thing  he'll  lilte." 
The  genial  Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast  Table 
is  having  the  sort  of  thing  he  likes.  The 
sober-^ided  Spectator  has  greeted  him  as 
"The  American  Montaigne."  The  great 
London  dailies  have  honored  him  with  lead- 
ing editorials.  The  monthly  magazines  have 
well-timed  their  contents  so  as  to  hit  his 
presence.  He  has  dined  with  the  Rabelais 
Club,  had  a  kind  of  reception  at  the  St. 
George's,  visited  Tennyson  at  the  Isle  of 
Wight,  and  received  an  honorary  Doctor  of 
Laws  at  Cambridge.  This  last  distinction 
is  simultaneously  conferred  by  the  Univer- 
sities of  Oxford  and  Edinburgh, 

The  account  telegraphed  to  the  New  York 
Wcrldoi  the  "  reception  "  at  the  St.  George' 
Qub  shows  that  they  sometimes  err  ia  such 
matters  over  the  water  as  well  as  ourselves 
here: 

I  chmrteredi  "hansom"  and  reached  the  dub 
honse  it  a  few  minutes  past  twelTC,  where,  lurc 
eniniBh,  I  found  the  illuslriouB  little  poet-doctor, 
lookmg  »ery  diiconaolate  and  unhappy,  snr- 
roanded  h;  a  knot  at  nobodies,  and,  although 
invitalioni  to  the  extent  of  some  hnndredi  had 
been  sent  out  right  and  left,  the  Autocrat's  letter 
evidently  had  a  restraining  effect  on  the  minds 
of  the  very  class  of  person*  that  he  would  like 
to  have  shaken  hands  wiih.  With  the  si--'- 
exceptlon  of  Robert  Browning,  the  poet,  I 
not  recognise  one  individual  known  to  London 
society.  It  was  a  bnngling,  pitiable  business 
throaghout,  One  man  brought  a  bound  copy  of 
the  Autaeral  tf  thi  Brtakfait  TaNi  and  solicited 
the  author's  autograph,  which  he  wrote,  and 
anoibei  bore  {I  think  he  wm  Cram  Aostralia) 
modestly  desired  the  poet  to  favor  hlu  with  an 
impromptu  or  an  epigram,  remarking,  "I  have 
long  been  an  admirer  of  your  books,  and  I  would 
cherish  any  little  souvenir,"  etc,  I  need  hardly 
say  the  colonial  admirer  was  not  favored,  and  he 
turned  on  his  heel.  After  this  precious  "recep- 
tion" was  over,  I  had  a  tew  words  with  Dr. 
Holmes  at  his  hotel.  He  regretted  the  whole 
business,  and  said  he  would  not  be  used  again 
while  in  London  for  advertising  pnrpose*. 

Alas  that  oar  American  lion  should  be  so 
entrapped  and  shorn  of  his  dignity  1 

In  July  and  August  Dr.  Holmes  is  expect- 
ing to  cross  to  the  Continent,  and  to  be  on 
his  way  back  to  the  United  States  in  Sep- 
tember. In  his  absence  it  is  pleasant  to  cut 
out  and  paste  into  our  American  scrap-books 
such  words  about  him  as  these  from  the 
speftator  to  which  we  have  already  referred ; 


It  must  be  pleasant  for  a  man  to  make 
afternoon  call  upon  a  nation,  and  find  him 
welcomed  as  a  friend  ;    and  that  pleasure  ' 
certawly  fall  to  Dr.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmei 
his  visit  to  this  country.    No  literary  American 
—  unless  it  be  Mr.  Lowell,  and  we  should  not  ex- 
cept even   him — occupies  precisely  the   same 
place  as  Dr.  Holmes   in   Englishmen's  regard. 
They  have  the  feeling  for  him  which  they  had  for 
Charles  Lamb,  Charles  Dickens,  and  John  Leech, 
in  which  admiration  somehow  blends  into  and  is 
indistinguishal)le  from  affection ateness.    Of  (he 
thousands  who  have  read  Dr.  Holmes's  produc- 
tions, and  the  lens  of  thousands  who  have  heard 
them  read  aloud,  there  is  not  one  who  would  not 
be  pleased  if  be  heard  of  his  pleasure,  or  grieved 
to  be  told  authentically  that  he  was  In  any  suCEei 
ing  or  beanache.     With  the  inajority,  of  courst. 
bis  reputation  is  only  that  of  a  humoristic  poet, 
who  has  made. them   laugh   with  the  genu' 
childlike  enjoyment  which  now-a-days  Is  begoi 
in  grown  Englishmen  only  of  what  a  Scotchi 
would  call  "wisElike"  fun.    It  has  happened  by 
an  odd  accident  to  Dr.  Holmes  to  enjoy  In  Eng- 
land a  kind  of  popularity  —  proSlless  popularily, 
we  fear,  and  yet  not  profitless  if  the  kindly  favor 
of  a  nation  profits  any  one — such  as  il    '" 
only  to  the  writer  of  a  successful  comedy, 


.a 


world  sought  for  Ihii^s  wisely  hun 
aloud,  and  all  the  world  leaped  i 
upon  "The  One-Horse  Shay-"  I 
that  all  audiences,  no  matter  how  refined  or  hoi 
lgnoIan^  without  reference  to  occupation,  and 
with  no  regard  to  age,  underslood  that  quaintly 
perfect  joke,  comprehended  its  dialect —  which 
IS,  indeed,  like  an  exag»ration  or  caricature  of 
the  dialect  of  our  ownLondon  suburbs,  where, 
also, they  pronounce  road  "reaowd"  —  and  were 
tickled  D^ond  control  by  the  predicament  of 
that  perplexed  minister  perched  on  Ihe^ulver- 
ised  relics  of  his  chaise.  It  was  those  verses,  of 
which  their  author  probably  thought  nothing, and 
which,  indeed,  but  for  a  certain  separatcness  in 
their  humor,  suggesting,  as  humoc  so  seldoi 
does,  that  the  writer  smiles  as  he  writes,  are  !i 
themselves  not  mnch,  which  made  Dr.  Holmes* 
English  fortune,  and  sent  the  cultivated  in  ihoD 
sands  to  read  Tkt  Autecrat  ef  the  Bnakfoi 
Tablt,  and  to  recognize  In  a  moment,  with  a  de- 
light which,  if  he  could  but  know  it,  would  be 
better  payment  to  Dr.  Holmea  than  any  niche  ' 
the  temple  of  fame,  an  American  Montaigne, 
coot,  wise  speculator  on  the  phenomena  of  lil 
in  whom  a  pleasant  humor  only  flavora  ai 
makes  appetising  keen  ituight  and  deep  reflec- 


w, 


ICK.  WKtPPIiE. 
0  thoughtful  man  ever  leaves  his  home 
for  a  prolonged  visit  across  the  sea 
witbotit  anticipating  tbe  changes  that  are 
likely  to  take  place  during  his  absence,  and 
wondering  who  will  be  taken  while  he  is 
away,  Dr.  Holmes,  doubtleu,  shared  this 
feeling,  which  Is  common  to  ui  all,  and  we 
can  Imagine  a  little  the  shock  with  which  on 
having  taken  up  his  morning  paper  in  Lon- 
don, on  Thursday  of  last  week,  he  must 
have  exclaimed:  "Whipple  is  deadl"  Mr. 
Whipple  was  a  member  of  the  well-known 
Saturday  Club  of  which  Dr.  Holmes  is 
President!  and  more  than  that  he  was 
fairly  a  member  of  a  larger,  older,  literary 
circle  once  brilliant,  now  a  little  faded, 
eclipsed  perhaps  we  ought  to  say  by  the 
more  conspicuous  reputations  of  the  hour. 
For  a  man  who  had  written  so  much  and 
rilten  so  well  Mr.  Whipple  was  a  sin- 
gularly unknown  person.  His  was  never 
a  ^miliar  figure  on  public  occasions.  There 
was  nothing  gf  the  "  lion  "  iq  him.    He  was 


a  rilent  man  and  led  a  hidden  life.  He 
was  an  oracle  whose  opinions  were  fre- 
quently quoted  and  always  respected,  but 
whose  face  was  never  seen.  Mr.  Whipple 
was  one  of  the  men  whom  many  had  heard 
of  but  few  knew.  Yet  in  his  simple  home 
on  Beacon  Hill,  surrounded  by  his  books 
and  in  the  midst  of  the  work  he  loved  and 
did  so  well,  he  was  one  of  the  most  cordial 
and  friendly  of  liteiarians. 

Mr.  Whipple  was  bom  in  Gloucester  in 
1819.  He  began  life  for  himself  in  Salem 
and  grew  up  gradually  into  that  literary  pro- 
fession which  he  finally  adorned  with  a  spe- 
cific luster.  Mr.  Whipple  was  an  essayist; 
a  tx)rn  essapst ;  almost  the  only  pure  and 
simple,  and  at  the  same  time  scholarly  and 
brilliant  essayist,  whom  the  world  of  Ameri- 
can letters  has  produced.  Mr.  Whipple  was 
distinctively  an  essayist,  a  critical  essayist 
The  foundation  of  his  fame  was  laid  in  1843 
with  an  essay  on  Macaulay,  which,  It  is  just 
praise  to  say,  was  worthy  of  the  distinguished 
name  which  formed  its  title.  Mr,  Whipple's 
first  volumes  were  two  collections  of  Essays 
and  Reviews,  published  in  1848-9. 

Mr.  Whipple  was  a  lecturer,  but  his  lect- 
ures were  critical  essays.  His  subjects  were 
drawn  chiefly  from  the  field  of  literature  and 
literary  biography.  The  earlier  stage  of 
American  literature  and  the  better  parts  of 
English  literature  may  be  studied  to  advan- 
tage in  his  wHtings.  His  mind  moved  on  a 
high  plane,  touched  high  topics,  and  dealt 
with  them  for  high  ends.  To  great  inde- 
pendence and  vigor  of  judgment  he  joined 
great  nicety  and  delicacy  of  style.  He  was 
generally  just ;  the  only  glaring  instance  of 
unfairness  we  remember  being  in  connection 
with  his  treatment  of  American  literature  In 
the  Centennial  Series  published  in  Harptr't 
MagOMUU. 

Mr.  Whipple's  place,  like  that  of  so  many 
another  lately  departed  American  author, 
will  close  up  now  that  be  has  left  it  It  was 
unique,  and  we  do  not  know  the  man  by 
whom  it  can  be  filled.  His  works  are  a  solid 
and  enduring  contribution  to  American  liter* 


A  LSTTES  FBOU  5£T  TOBZ, 

I  STOOD  last  night  In  the  great  library  and 
editorial  romn  of  the  leading  Republican 
newspaper  of  New  York.  The  hall  was  lofty, 
with  a  vaulted  celling  and  walls  of  pressed  brick. 
Half  way  up  the  wall  was  lodged  a  broad  gallery 
on  which  stood  rows  of  book-esses  well  stored 
with  works  of  reference  and  literature.  Over 
each  case  hung  a  glowing  electric  light  and 
every  now  and  again  a  messenger  boy  from  (me 
of  the  busy  writers  at  the  tables  on  the  floor 
below  would  come  tottering  down  the  stairs 
loaded  with  volumes  needed  in  the  preparation 
me  leader  or  historical  article.  From  the 
windows,  (en  stories  above  (he  ground,  one  cotild 
look  out  over  the  city,  dark  and  without  signs 
of  life  In  the  lower  part,  hut  glowing  with  a 
bright  radiance  about  Union  Square  and  upper 
Broadway,  where  pleasure  seekers  turn  night 
into  day.    Out  to  the  westward  coold  be  eeeq 


1886.] 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


"7 


the  dark  surface  of  tbe  Hudson  with  brfehtlf 
lighted  [erry-boits  pljing  to  and  fro,  while  for 
beyond  an  occasional  twinkle  told  of  a  lighted 
home  on  Bergen  Heights. 

Turning  from  ibe  picture  ontaide  to  the  life 
of  the  Toom  within,  I  noticed  at  the  end  of  the 
great  hall  a  broad  ahelf  on  which,  under  a  bright 
light,  lay  file*  of  all  the  New  York  papera.  The 
Suaday  paper*  happened  to  be  tbe  last  on  the 
files,  and  Idly  turning  tbe  sheets,  I  was  struck 
by  tbe  number  of  articles  from  the  pens  of  authors 
well  known  in  the  world  at  literature  as  distin- 
guished from  that  of  journalism. 

In  one  appeared  a  story  by  Bret  Harle  which 
is  to  run  through  several  issues.  In  another,  one 
by  the  late  Hngh  Conway.  And  let  it  be  borne 
IP  nund  that  these  were  not  reprints  or  piracies, 
but  stories  fairly  parchased,  and,  in  tbe  case  of 
Harte'a  Strutkal  DeaiCs  Ford,  written  especially 
for  the  paper  publishing  it,  the  Sun.  Jn  this 
same  paper  Gen.  Adam  Badeau,  whose  success 
as  a  literarian  has  been  considerable,  is  publish- 
ing  a  series  of  admirable  papera  on  the  "  British 
Aristocracy."  The  same  author  has  also  begun 
a  series  of  copyrighted  papers  in  the  Triiuiu 
on  "Gen.  Grant  in  Private  Life." 

Among  other  writers  of  repute,  whose  produc- 
tions are  to  be  constantly  found  in  the  columns 
of  the  daily  press,  are  John  Burroughs,  Ella 
Wheeler  Wilcox,  George  Parsons  Lalhrop,  Ju- 
lian Hawthorne,  and  Joaquin  Miller.  William 
Diysdale  of  the  Timis,  though  primarily  a  jour< 
nalist,  has  done  good  work  in  literature.  W.  M. 
Tappan  of  the  Sun  wrote  many  of  the  Tile  Club 
P^>ers  that  delighted  CmA/ry  readers  some  years 
ago.  R.  H.  Stoddard  of  the  Jlfaii  aitd  Exprett 
and  Bowker  of  the  Cammtrcial  are  names  well 
known  In  literature.  William  Winter  and  Clar- 
ence Cook,  respectively  dranutic  and  art  critics 
of  the  TriiuHe,  need  no  introduction  as  members 
of  the  world  of  letters ;  while  "  Gath,"  or  George 
A.  Townsend,  the  giant  among  newspaper 
respondents,  is  about  to  supplement  his  snci 
fal  novel,  T^e  Entailed  ffat,  with  a  second  work 
In  the  domain  of  fiction. 

A  paper  which  is  di^ng  much  to  elevate  jour< 
nalism  is  the  New  York  Star,  Only  a  few  months 
under  its  present  management,  it  has  drawn  about 
it  a  coterie  of  bright  writers  and  able  editors. 
It*  editor-in-chief  is  William  Dorsbeimer,  whose 
experience  in  Journalism  has  been  small,  but 
whose  name  appeared  twice  in  the  Atlantic 
Mmthly  in  iSjS  as  a  contributor.  In  its  book 
review  department  the  S^tr  has  able  writers. 
This  department  ha*  been  nnder  the  charge  of 
Mr.  George  T.  Feni*,  formerly  the  editor  of  the 
BeUeHe  MagOMtnt,  and  George  Parsons  Ixthrop, 
the  well-known  novelist  HI**  Ullle  Hamilton 
Fnnch  ha*  dotie  much  able  work  in  the  depar^ 
inent,  and  though  *till  a  yoatig  lady  ha*  made 
for  herself  a  prominent  place  in  jonniallsm. 
Tbe  books  sent  In  for  review  are  largely  sent 
out  to  specialists,  among  whom  are  George  Tick- 
nor  Curtis,  Thomas  G.  Shearman,  and  T.  P. 
Gill,  M.P.  Among  literarians  regularly  engaged 
on  the  Bta£E  of  the  ^ar  George  William  Sheldon 
in  charge  of  the  art  department  is  prominent. 
Mr.  HarriaOD  Gray  Fiske,  also  editor  of  the 
Mirror,  presides  over  the  dramatic  column,  and 
Mr.  P.  G.  Herbert  criticises  the  musical  enter- 
tainments of  Gotham.  Of  occasional  literary 
contributors  the  Star  has  a  host.  Mrs.  Schuyler 
Van  Rensselaer  has  had  a  column  or  two  almoat 
tray  week  of  art  matter  fully  aa  iutpresting  a* 


her  paper*  in  the  Cintury.    Edgar  Fawcett  is 
now  furnishing  a  story  of  old  New  York  life, 
that  will  be  published  later  in  hook  form,  and 
arrangements  are  being  made  for  a  story  by  a 
noted  living  English  novelist.    The  difficulty  lies 
the  copyright  question,  but  as  Gov.  Dorsbeimer 
an  expert  in  copyright  law,  he  hopes  to  arrange 
is  matter.    Details  of  his  plan  would  be  inter- 
eating.    Other  writers    for  the  Star  are  Jobn 
Burroughs,  Lieut.  Frederick  Schwalka,  Christo- 
pher P.  Cranch,  Julian  Hawthorne,  Col.  Charles 
ChatU   Long,  and  Ella  Wheeler  Wilcox.    The 
paid   for  manuscripts  of  course  vary  with 
the  author's  reputation,  hnt  from  fifteen  to  twenty 
rs  a  column  is  a  fair  average.    With  these 
facts   in   mind   the  sweeping  statement  of   the 
Figaro  seems  hardly  welt  founded.       Nassau. 
New  York,  Jvne, 


TABLE   TALE. 


4^ur  ^ort'#  Comer. 

On  Re-reading  "  The  Sick  King  In  Bokhara." 


Ofd 


Hotfy. 


Miss  Francea  E.  Willard,  who  knows  all 
about  the  subject,  is  writing  a  book  for  girls,  en- 
titled H(nii  to  Win.  It  will  be  a  success  if  It 
proves  as  winning  as  Nineteen  Btautiftii  Yian. 

Mr.  Noah  Brooks,  formerly  a  New  York 
journalist,  but  now  editor  of  the  Newark  (N.  J.] 
Daily  Advirliier,  and  the  author  of  three  popula 
books  for  boys,  is  preparing  a  Lift  of  Lincoln  fa 
Young  People. 

. .  .  Mrs.  Julia  C.  R.  Dorr,  whose  pen  has  pro- 
duced very  little  since  the  death  of  her  husband, 
Judge  Seneca  M.  Dorr,  a  year  ago  last  winter, 
has  devoted  herself  chiefly  since  January  to  the 
work  of  establishing  a  free  public  library  in  Rot- 
land,  Vc,  where  she  resides.  Rutland  has  long 
needed  such  an  institution,  but  it  was  hardly 
pected  that  it  would  so  soon  have  a  free  collec- 
tion of  between  three  and  four  thousand  volumes, 
as  it  will  have  when  the  library  opens  next 
month  —  thanks,  very  largely,  to  Mrs.  Dorr' 
efforts. 

. . .  Miss  Mary  E.  Wilkins,  who  live*  in  Ran- 
dolph, Mass.,  i*  described  as  peHtt,  with  soft 
golden  hair,  blue  eye*,  and  a  color  which  comes 
and  goes  as  she  talks.  She  is  shy  and  retiring, 
but  is  self-possessed,  and  holds  her  own  in  con- 
versation, In  which  her  piquancy  and  her  gift  at 
repartee  appear  to  excellent  advantage.  As  a 
writer  of  stories  with  a  pronounced  New  England 
flavor  she  ezceta  to  such  a  degree  that  competent 
critic*  mention  ber  in  this  relation  In  connection 
with  Mrs.  Stowe  and  Mr*.  Cooke;  while  In  the 
line  of  fanciful  verse  her  success  is  a**urcd. 

,  . .  Tburlow  Weed  Bamea,  author  of  a  memoir 
9f  his  distinguished  relative  and  namesake,  will 
publish  an  account  of  The  Settlement  and  Early 
Hietory  of  Albany,  his  native  dty  and  present 
re*ideDce,  In  July. 

. . .  Miss  Harriett  Pennawell  Belt,  the  young 
author  of  Sfaiyerie  Huntingdon  (issued  by  the 
J.  B.  Lippincott  Company  in  1884),  has  another 
novel  nearly  ready  for  (he  press,  entitled  A 
Mirage  of  Premiee. 

. .  .  Rev.  M.  J.  Savage  sailed  for  Europe  from 
East  Boston  by  steamer  Pavonia,  of  the  Canard 
line,  June  171b.  He  has  in  hand  a  volume  called 
Social  Proilemi  which  he  may  publish  in  Lon 
don ;  which  reminds  us  that  five  oE  Mr.  Savage' 
books  —  including  his  Peemt  —  have  been  repub- 
lished in  England,  and  another  (Bltiffton,  A  Story 
of  Today,  now  out  of  print  here)  is  being  trans- 
ited into  Germaiu 


fulilt,  |o;len  drudfen 
troiD  thd  tky«:r  paUu  youth  (houEhl  to  E>iD  -, 
Tboush  mocketl  by  hopo  ami  (DiA«d  by  Klf-ditdilii, 
FoTB''*  ^i*  Fieli  in  itingM  iTUipftlhy 

iteat  ind  vontuer  tc  b«  ffce 
From  carlh^i  lordLd  pUin ; 

Biiikt,  in  the  midU  of  old-iiarid  wTElchcdncu, 
Wilh  loTi'i  benicuDt  iDd  Mcmil  glory  — 
W>  inm  who  fenred  icd  nlhlnt  ban  dwell 

Hdv  deeply  be  wba  «mle  hu  (tudghl  tor  men  —  mod  lelL 

FLOIiaHCi  EAIll,kCOAT«S, 
Cff-JMH/IHWI,  PtnK.,  flBtl,  /SS6. 

A  LEHEB  TBOK  eiSKABT. 

Berlin,  Mayji. 

THE  greatest  German  historian  of  all  times 
is  dead  1  Leopold  von  Ranke  died  last 
week  in  his  apartments  at  Berlin  which  he  had 
occupied  for  the  last  forty  years.  Only  five 
months  ago  he  celebrated  his  ninetieth  birthday, 
which  was  made  an  occasion  for  innumerable 
ovations  in  honor  of  the  great  man.  His  funeral 
was  attended  by  one  of  the  biggest  crowds  ever 
seen  at  funerals.  The  court  and  all  classes  of 
society  paid  homage  to  the  remains  of  the  author 
of  Tie  Popes  of  Rome. 

Ranke's  first  work  waa  published  in  1814,  and 
his  last  in  iSSs,  1.  e.,  sixty-one  yeara  later. 
There  have  been  very  few  persons  ever  able  to 
do  literary  work— and  what  worki  —  for  such  a 
long  time  without  an  interruption.  What  a  atalely 
row,  hi*  four  doien  volunkes  I  Even  Carlyle  left 
off  publishing  after  his  eightieth  year.  Although 
liltie  and  nnlmposing  in  figure,  his  constitution 
must  have  been  wonderful,  for  his  working 
capacity  was  astonishing.  He  worked  for  eight 
hours  a  day  up  to  within  a  few  weeks  of  his 
death.  He  had  the  courage  six  years  ago,  when 
eighty-four,  to  begin  the  chief  work  of  his  life, 
the  WeltgeickichU ;  none  of  tbe  six  volumes 
which  have  seen  the  light  up  to  the  present,  show 
any  falling  off  In  the  master's  capabilities.  Tbe 
is  as  clear  as  ever,  and  the  salient 
aelied  with  the  old  skill  and  precision. 
No  important  document  Is  lost  sight  of. 

Host  clearly  Indicative  of  the  presence  of  a 
:w  writer  in  the  person  of  Ranke,  was  a  booklet 
of  some  MO  pages,  Issued  exactly  sixty  years 
ago,  and  entitled,  Critieitme  on  Some  Retent 
Hiiioriant.  It  showed  that  its  author  wa*  de- 
termined to  mark  out  a  course  of  bis  own,  and 
be  captivated  by  traditional  [ormulH. 
The  preface  struck  a  note  which  wa*  prolonged 
throughout  all  his  works,  blaming  those  who 
expect  from  history  more  than  it  can  yield,  and 
proving  that  only  by  a  critical  examination  of 
authorities,  I>y  carefully  weighing  their  merits  as 
witnesses,  can  good  work  be  produced. 

For  the  last  twenty  years  or  so  Ranke  did  not 
write  a  single  line  with  his  own  hand,  but  dictated 
everything  alternately  to  bis  two  secretaries. 
He  always  rose  at  nine,  dictated  from  ten  to  two, 
took  a  walk  of  two  hours,  and  began  work  again 
at  nine  o'clock,  continuing  to  dictate  up  to  one 
o'clock  in  the  morning,  when  he  went  to  bed. 
He  acknowledged  midnight  to  be  his  "most  con- 
genial hour,"  when  he  "could  produce  moat." 
On  tb«  tith  inst,  the  hundredth  analveraar; 


THE  LITERARY  WORLU 


[June  a6, 


of  the  Inrlhday  of  Lad«ig  Borne,  the  fimons 
Frankfort  taliritt  and  critic,  wu  silently  cele- 
brated by  hia  admirer*  who  form  a  small  commu- 
luty,  true,  but  which  extends  ail  o>ei  Germany, 
and  the  other  German -apeak  ing  countries.  Con- 
Tad  Albert!  aided  the  memory  of  (he  present 
generation  —  apt  to  forget  men  of  the  type  of 
Borne  —  by  publiihing  a  small  volume  on  that 
literary  slruggler  for  the  political  freedom  and 
unity  of  his  fatherland.  His  memoir  is  entitled, 
Ludwig  Biritt:  A  Biographical  mid  Critieai 
Study,  and  hat  the  merit  of  being  a  timely  pro- 
daclion  which  will,  no  doubt,  induce  many  con- 
temporaries to  take  a  renewed  interest  in  the  life 
and  writings  of  "Lob  Barnch,"  as  our  hero  was 
called  before  bis  baptism;  as  &  Ghetto  Jew, 
though  the  son  of  a  wealthy  man,  he  had  to 
suffer  many  irksome  Teiations,  which  caused  him 
to  enter  the  Protestant  chaidi. 

Very  few  wrilera  have  ever  had  a  more 
strongly  marked  literary  individuality  than  Bome. 
He  published  no  comprchensiTS  book ;  the  twelve 
Toltimei  of  his  Collected  fVorki  consist  of  articles 
and  letters  only.  But  every  line  he  wrote,  even 
the  shortest  paragraph,  bore  his  peculiar  stamp  ; 
he  knew  no  phrase- making,  no  conventional 
lying.  It  is  said  of  him  that  "his  style  had  a 
grand  character,  and  hit  character  a  grand  style." 
His  love  of  freedom  was  extremely  glowing,  and 
he  was  a  martyr  of  this  love. 

An  interesting  literary  personage  now  stays  In 
Berlin  as  a  visitor  :  Miss  Elizabeth  Schmidt  of 
Berka  (near  Weimar),  once  a  celebrated  actress, 
playwright,  (cciler,  and  novelist.  For  the  last 
two  decades  the  clever  and  spirited  author  of 
Judat  hchariotk  has  neither  published  anything 
not  delivered  any  lectures.  At  present  she  is 
said  to  have  conceived  various  plans,  such  as 
resuming  her  recitals,  adapting  her  much  per- 
formed tragedy,  "  Byron's  Genius  and  Society," 
for  the  English  stage,  and  recasting  her  "social" 
novel.  In  Vienna.  This  novel  was  written  about 
a  quarter  of  a  century  ago,  and  ran  through  sev- 
eral editions.  Now  Elise  Schmidt  intends  de- 
scribing the  important  progress  made  by  the 
Woman  Question  all  over  Europe  and  America 
since  that  time-  She  is  going  to  propose,  her 
friends  say,  a  Woman's  Army,  on  the  lines  of  the 
Salvation  Army,  for  the  better  converting  the 
world  to  the  cause  of  female  emancipation.  One 
may  wonder  how  this  proposal  will  look  in  print, 
and  whether  there's  a  chance  of  it*  being 
realiiedl  LEOPOLD  Katschek. 

MINOB  FIOTION, 


George  Manvllle  Fenn.  [Cas*e]l&  Co.  %\sxi\ 
Of  late  Mr.  Fenn  has  been  now  and  then 
allowing  himself  to  become  the  author  of  speci- 
men* of  that  class  of  sensational  fiction  which 
the  English,  with  their  fondness  for  a  new  thing 
in  slang,  have  been  calling  the  "  shilling  shocker." 
The  "  shocker  "  does  not  need  to  be  explained  ; 
Mr.  Fenn's  The  Dark  Moute  is  a  vicious  instance 
of  it.  It  is  therefore  a  pleasure  to  note  his  return 
to  his  more  natural  and  healthy  style.  Every- 
body who  is  meaning  to  go  to  the  seashore  or 
mountains  or  abroad,  will  put  a  few  bright  books 
in  his  trunk  or  valise.  The  Vicar'i  Ptople  can 
safely  be  added  to  the  summer  reading  list.  Ii 
is  what  the  newspaper  reviews  would  call 
"breeiy;"  it  really  it  hearty  and  wholesome. 
Th;   stogr   it   enacted   on  the  Comish  coas^ 


whither  a  young  and  sanguine  mining  engineer 
has  come  to  make  his  fortune.  He  is  almost 
baffled  by  the  villainies  of  a  lawyer  of  the  old- 
school,  deep-dyed  sort.  The  hero  loves  one 
beautiful  girl,  is  almost  beloved  by  another,  and 
is  commonly  believed  to  be  the  guilty  lover  of  a 
third.  His  Cornish  obstinacy  will  not  let  him 
clear  himself  of  this  stain,  and,  as  a  result,  he 
loses  almost  all  his  friends  except  the  vicar,  who 
begins  as  rather  a  "soft,"  but  who  soon  comes 
up  to  the  mark  splendidly.  All  turns  out  as  we 
hope ;  it  would  be  a  pity  to  say  how.  The 
tragic  interest  which  centers  about  Wheal  Car- 
nac,  a  submerged  tin  mine,  is  wrought  up  in  Mr. 
Fenn's  best  manner.  A  fine  scene  is  that  where 
the  tailors  take  up  the  fish  to  oSer  to  the  vicar 
in  jest  for  the  harvest  celebration  be  is  prepar- 
ing. One  feature  which  deserves  notice  from 
ita  rarity  In  fiction  is  that  the  reputed  father  of 
poor  Madge's  child  is  visited  with  his  full  share 
of  that  opprobrium  which  women  so  often  have 
to  bear  alone ;  all  which  shows,  perhaps,  that 
the  White  Cross  Society  is  having  its  influence 
even  in  English  fiction. 


Much  is  to  be  expected  within  such  a  cover  as 
adorns  The  Prelate.  In  the  dusky  backgrotind 
is  the  very  dome  of  St.  Peter's,  its  top  dimly 
touched  by  the  last  glimmer  of  twilight;  in  front 
and  across  the  whole  length  is  the  papal  crozier ; 
everything  seems  to  symbolize  something;  the 
dusk,  the  faint  and  ever  fading  light,  the  lash 
around  the  pontificial  crook,  the  bend  of  which 
appears  of  a  snakish  aspect.  Need  it  be  said 
after  this  description  that  the  initial  V  in  the 
lower  corner  stands  for  Vedder  }  One  certainly 
looks  for  gloom,  little  humor,  and  a  tragic  end- 
ing back  of  such  a  cover,  nor  are  we  happily 
disappoinled.  The  hero  and  heroine  seem  about 
to  meet  at  last  and  forever  in  a  collision  in  the 
mid  Atlantic,  but  vihen  everything  is  coming  out 
as  mortals  wish  to  arrange  the  course  of  true 
love,  by  a  sudden  anti-dlmax  the  hero  is  snatched 
away  by  fate.  The  plot  turns  upon  the  humane 
attempt  of  a  young  American  lady  in  Rome  to 
save  from  ecclesiastical  wiles  a  prelate  who  has 
seceded  from  bis  mother  church.  She  is  seen  to 
enter  his  room  alone,  and  her  very  dear  friends 
are  not  slow  in  putting  a  European  construction 
on  ber  deed  of  mercy.  Of  course  she  became 
socially  dead  and  burled  without  benefit;  and 
must  devote  herself  to  a  vindication,  though  ahe 
is  hampered  by  a  vow  of  secrecy  not  to  betray, 
by  telling  Ihc  pnrpose  of  her  visit,  the  young 
Jesuit  who  informs  her  of  the  plot.  The  prelate 
whom  she  has  aided  thwarts  finally  the  schemes 
of  a  Jesuit  of  bland  externals,  but  a  "  bad  one  " 
morally.  Mutual  love  was  the  natural  conse. 
quencc  of  such  mutual  trials,  but  destiny  aepa- 
rates  the  pair  at  last.  We  cannot  think  it  a 
profitable  theme  for  American  writers ;  this  bnild- 
ing  narratives  upon  the  contravention  of  the 
European  social  code  by  high-minded  American 
vramen.  Mr.  }fowellB's  Lady  of  the  Aroosteak 
went  far  enough  in  that  direction;  after  all  is 
■aid,  the  matter  stands  thus,  that  American 
womanhood  can  do  more  and  doe*  do  more  than 


is  allowed  in  other  countrie*,  because  it  can  be 
trusted,  and  therefore  is  trusted.  Of  what  use  is 
there  then  in  this  "sniggering  suggesliKness" 
about  the  conduct  of  our  vnimen  abroad  ?  It 
may  not  be  nasty,  but  it  is  cheap.  Mr.  Hender- 
son's story  grows  better  as  it  advances,  and  he  is 
not  preaching,  though  dealing  with  Old-Catholi- 
cism, a  tempting  subject  to  dilate  upon.  We  are 
afraid,  however,  that  the  intricate  machination* 
of  his  Jesuits,  who  hold  life  and  women's  fame 
as  naught,  will  needlessly  alarm  those  timorous 
elderly  ladies  who  may  read  his  book,  and  to 
whom  a  "popish  plot"  is  an  impending,  but  per- 
haps not  unplcasing,  possibility  in  this  country. 
Mr.  Henderaon  probably  knows  better  than  any 
of  his  readers  that  since  the  mistress  of  a  French 
king  hustled  this  order  from  France,  its  greatest 
social  viclims  have  been  frightened  servant-girls, 
and  its  widest  Gelds  of  triumph  back-kitchens; 
but  a  Jesuit  always  does  good  service  in  fiction, 
and  Mr.  Henderaon  has  "worked"  him  with 
skill. 


Ruhianak  is  a  clever  and  simply  written  little 
tale  of  a  brave  English  ofiScer  who  penetrated  to 
the  heart  of  Afghanistan  on  a  diplomatic  errand. 
Juit  beyond  the  Khyber  Pass  he  slays  the  dreaded 
Hasan  the  Khyberee,  and  pushes  on  to  Abukilla, 
where  he  is  entertained  by  the  hospitable,  but 
not  the  less  formidable,  "  Rnstum  of  Herat," 
who  ha*  a  beautiful  daughter  named  Ruhainah. 
By  the  artifices  of  a  faithful  maid-servant,  the 
gallant  Major  gets  sight  of  this  beautiful  "  Maid 
of  Herat,"  wbo  contrive*  to  *ave  him  from  the 
treachery  of  her  brother.  It  i*  love  at  firat 
sight  (or  both.  The  Englishman  saves  Ruhainah 
from  the  hand*  of  Musa,  a  Sheenwaree  chief, 
who  trie*  to  abduct  her  ;  carries  her  off  himself 
for  bis  bride,  and  finds  that  she  is  really  the 
daughter  of  an  English  soldier  who  periahed  in 
the  Cabul  massacre  of  1842.  All  theae  event* 
occurred  in  the  reign  of  the  august  Ameer  Dost 
Mohammed;  and  their  narration  makes  a  roman- 
tic love  story,  by  no  nnpraciiccd  hand.  Much 
may  be  found  therein  that  is  instructive,  yet  not 
obtrusively  so,  regarding  the  customs  and  relig- 
ion of  the  powerful  but  treacherous  Afghans. 
Not  a  few  excellent  verses  are  interspersed  ;  and 
the  notes  of  the  pleasing  Oriental  air,  Zakmee, 
are  given  on  page  194. 

Ntxt  Door.  By  Clara  Louise  Burohtm.  [Tick- 
nor&Co.    fl.lj.] 

"Hiere  i*  no  more  objection  to  Next  Doer  than 
there  It  to  a  breakfast  muffin ;  only  neither  of 
them  will  "stay  by"  one  very  long;  a  mnfiin 
furthermore  is  not  good  cold,  and  this  book  is 
fearfully  so.  It  is  propriety  itself,  such  a  book 
as  Mr*.  General  in  LitHe  Dorril  could  have  safely 
recommended  with  a  prune.  It  does,  however, 
warm  up  a  little  toward  the  last,  and  its  harm- 
Icssncss  is  even  a  positive  merit,  when  so  much 
that  is  far  from  innocent  is  passing  before  the 
eyes  and  minds  of  those  girls  and  young  women 
for  whom  Mrs  Burnham's  book  is  clearly  in- 
tended. The  purpose,  and  there  plainly  is  a 
purpose,  is  to  show  that  two  young  persons, 
dependent  on  their  own  exertions  for  a  living, 
can  retain  the  world's  respect,  socially  speaking, 
if  they  will  walk  very  circumspectly,  and  avoid 
the  appearance  of  ambitious  design*.  The  two 
yonng  person*  in  (question  suddenly  find  ihem> 


i886.] 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


219 


selves  next  door  to  a  house  which  is  inhabited  by 
four  foung  men,  and  presided  over  by  an  aunt  of 
[he  ladies.  Moial  and  conventional  safeguards 
are  imntedialelT  erected  around  their  TepuUtionf 
necessaiy  perhaps  in  Constantinople,  but  not  so 
obviooaljr  needful  in  Boston.  Of  course  in  time 
one  of  the  four  young  men  and  his  uncle  mairy 
the  two  wise  virgins,  whose  dejorum,  the  cynical 
might  say,  did  them  as  good  a  turn  ag  could  the 
most  adroit  scheming.  There  is,  however,  a 
lack  of  naturalness  and  spontaneity  in  these 
egregiously  prudent  characters.  There  can  be 
no  youthful  charm  in  such  perfect  self-conscious- 
ness.  Even  when  the  eldest  is  wooed  and  won, 
does  she  kiss  the  happy  suitor  01  put  her  head 
confidingly  on  his  shoulder?  Not  at  all  I  She 
tkakii  hands  with  him  I  In  fact,  iove,  in  Nixt 
Dear,  aeems  to  be  a  part  oE  general  deportment ; 
of  its  full  significance  the  author  has  tried  to 
show  no  knowledge.  Instead  of  falling  in  love, 
her  young  men  and  maidens  walk  discreetly 
towards  their  fate,  aqua  pede,  and  with  a  self- 
registering  pedometer  attached  to  show  their  rate 
of  speed. 


who  also  bear  the  same  Christian  and  family 
s  ;  one  of  whom  is  thoroughly  unprincipled 
and  takes  advantage  of  the  likeness  to  throw  the 
blame  of  her  misdeeds,  sotne  of  which  are  de- 

idedly  bad,  upon  the  other  cousin.  There  is 
long  a  doubt  which  is  the  daughter,  and  which 
liece,  of  a  wealthy  and  proud  gentleman  of 
English  Inrtb  but  resident  on  an  old  estate  near 
the  Hudson  River,  by  whose  care  both  the  girls 
have  been  educated  in  the  same  school,  and  who 
settles  into  the  belief  —  not  without  painful 
doubts  — that  the  more  brilliant  but  more  un- 
principled is  his  own  child.  The  other  cousin 
seeks  independent  support  by  taking   the  posi- 

'  )n  of  companion  of  a  rich  and  very  eccentric 
I7  in  whose  character  and  actions  there  is 
much  that  is  humorous  and  entertaining  ;  and  in 
this  lady's  household  and  numerous  guests  many 
other  characters  are  introduced  into  the  narra- 
It  is  not  until  near  the  end  that  the  facts 
about  the  two  cousins  ate  fully  disclosed,  the 
bad  one  brought  into  disgrace,  and  the  other 
released  from  the  troubles  and  suffering  wrought 
by  her  cousin's  selfishness  and  deceit. 


Though  entitled  "not  a  love  story"  —  and 
truly  so,  in  (he  restricted  sense  of  that  term  — 
this  is  nevertheless  a  story  penetrated  throughout 
with  a  very  real  and  noble  form  of  that  passion, 
in  the  sustained  intensity  characteristic  of  the 
writer,  who  —  like  Saint  John  in  a  higher  sphere 
—  may  indeed  almost  be  called  an  apostle  of 
love.  The  influence  of  this  quality,  in  this,  as 
in  other  of  her  writings,  is  a  veritable  inspiration 
to  higher  thoughts  and  more  worthy  purposes. 
The  plot,  stated  to  be  founded  in  part  on  fact,  is 
not  complicated,  but  is  sufficiently  dramatic  to 
enlist  and  keep  the  reader's  interest.  There  Is 
the  same  undertone  of  earnest  religious  feeling, 
and  the  tame  refinement  of  language,  with  which 
Mrs.  Craik's  admirers  are  familiar.  And,  though 
her  intensely  emotional  nature  may  unconsciously 
affect  all  that  she  writes,  yet  hei  characters  do 
not  lack  naturalness  and  individuality;  and  in 
this  little  story  of  the  adoption  of  a  child  by 
a  mother  saddened  by  the  loss  of  ber  own,  and 
of  the  faithful  training  which  the  child  received 
in  the  quiet  of  a  rectory  In  Cornwall  untit  he 
became  a  ion  of  whom  any  mother  would  be 
proud,  Mra.  Craik  has  given  us  another  story 
worthy  of  a  place  In  the  family  or  Sunday-school 
library,  uid  one  which  we  may  read  with  pleasure 
and  profit  and  leave  with  regreL 

A  Falai  RettmUanet.  By  Edward  Ellerton. 
[New  York  1  F.  P.  Lcnnon.    $1,25.] 

The  plot  of  this  novel  Is  almost  worthy  of 
WUkie  Collins,  very  interesting  and  ingenioi 
Its  "  change*  and  chances,"  in  fact,  bordering 
the  sensational.  It  Is  also  somewhat  suggestive 
of  Mrs.  Holmes,  in  the  prominence  given  to  so- 
ciety life,  in  its  introduction  of  strongly 
trasled  female  characters,  enjoying  as  (heir 
associates  gentlemen  of  elegant  leisure,  and  in 
its  presentation  of  at  least  one  man  of  almost 
ideal  moral  perfection.  Some  of  these  things 
point  to  a  feminine  author,  writing  like  George 
Eliot  and  a  few  others,  under  a  masculine  pseu- 
donym. The  general  moral  tone  of  the  story  is 
by  no  (neans  bad,  though  as  already  suggested, 
some  of  the  events  are  rather  improbable.  The 
"fatal   resemblanc«"  is    between    two  cousins, 


This  is  a  bit  of  literature  which  is  light  with- 
out  being  trashy,  notwithstanding  the  dubious 
ialions  suggested  by  its  ilt-chosen  title. 
The  scene  is  in  and  near  Boston;  and  the 
dreadful  boy  "  is  meant  by  his  delineator  to  be 
n  the  whole  a  boy  of  noble  impulses  and  intelli- 
gence  —  endowed  in  fact  with  some  virtues 
which  seem  a  little  improbable  —  notwithstand- 
ing the  mischievous  pranks  which  cause  no  little 
question  and  perplexity  to  his  fond  parents  and 
grandparents.  The  story  has  but  little  plot 
aside  from  the  development  of  the  hero's  charac- 
ter, from  his  birth  until,  after  receiving  a  West 
Point  training,  he  serves  his  country  and  is 
wounded  in  Indian  warfare  on  the  Western 
border.  Incidentally,  however,  there  are  many 
other  characters  introduced.  The  element  of 
mystery,  added  probably  to  increase  the  interest 
of  the  story  and  involving  some  question  ai  to 
the  validity  of  a  past  marriage  in  the  family  — 
perhaps  of  the  hero's  grandparents  —  we  have 
found  difficult  to  comprehend  and  certainly 
not  essential  to  the  story  in  the  sense  of  molding 
or  altering  its  course.  Apart  from  the  amuse- 
ment of  her  readers  it  would  seem  that  Mrs, 
Woods  in  this  "American  novel"  has  written 
with  the  purpose  of  enjoining  upon  parents  the 
duty  of  fort>earance  and  consideration,  instead 
of  a  mere  blind  natural  affection,  in  the  training 
of  children.  _ 

lOHOB  HOTIOEB, 


Regrets  for  the  loss  to  literature  in  the  un- 
timely death  of  her  who  wrote  under  the  name 
of  Eleanor  Putnam,  must  be  felt  by  all  who  have 
read  with  appreciation  of  their  worth,  her  few 
papers  on  Salem,  published  in  the  Atlantic 
Monthly.  The  literary  quality  is  of  the  choicest; 
in  the  happy  use  of  words,  in  pure,  limpid,  Eng- 
lish, she  bas  hardly  been  surpassed  by  any 
American  writer;  and  each  of  those  little  pieces 
is  masterly  in  its  completeness  and  finish.  An 
atmosphere  oF  culture  and  refinement,  of  d  ~ 
ness  and  elegance,  is  about  them,  as  the  aroma 


of  lavender  pervades  the  drawers  and  presses 
where  the  fragrant  leaves  have  been  laid  away. 
How  delicate  the  humor,  what  insight  and  rare 
discrimination  I  What  exquisite  fidelity  of  por- 
traiture in  the  quaint  gentlewomen  whom  she 
placed  as  central  figures  in  the  still-life  pictures 
of  old  Salem  shops,  a  Salem  dame-school,  and 

a  cupboards  t    In  everything  the   touch  is 

fine,  but  firm  and  true,  not  a  line  or  abade  too 

iny;  (he  workmanship  is  as  perfect  as  that  of 

Hawlhorne.     If  she  had   lived  and  carried  out 

her  purpose,  we  should  have  owed  to  her  rare 

r  of  observation  and  literary  skill,  a  most 
charming  series  on  Salem  life.  As  it  is,  the 
three  sketches  above  named,  together  with  Two 

n  Institutions,  and  an  unfinished  one.  My 

in  the  Captain,  are  all  that  had  taken  shape 
before  she  was  called  away.  To  this  collection 
her  husband  prefixes  a  few  explanatory  pages; 
denying  himself  "the  pleasure  of  writing  a 
sketch  "  of  her  life,  from  an  over-sensitiveness 

e  must  think),  "  lest  it  might  seem  an  effort 
forcibly  to  claim  attention  which  she  unhappily 
had  not  lived  long  enough  to  win." 


Roslyn  Castle.    [John  Wiley  &  Sons.] 

Chapter  XII  of  Rusbin's  rambling  autobit^- 
rapby  has  for  its  specific  title  "Roslyn  Chapel," 

ireats  of  his  attempts  at  drawing,  and  the 
beginning  of  his  admiration  for  Turner,  with 
further  episodes  where  beautiful  young  girls 
come  near  being  his  sweethearts.  He  also  puts 
on  record  that  at  eighteen  he  "felt  for  the  last 
time  the  pure,  childish  love  oE  nature  which 
Wordsworth  so  idly  takes  for  an  intimation  of 
immortality,"  saying  that  it  is  "  a  feeling  only 
possible  to  youth,  for  all  care,  regret,  or  knowl- 
edge of  evil  destroys  it,  ...  I  had  in  my  little 
clay  pitcher,  vialfuls,  as  it  were,  of  Wordsworth's 

■ence,  Shelley's  sensitiveness.  Turner's  accu. 
racy,  all  In  one;"  with  more  of  this  delightful 
candor,  summing  up  by  saying,  "I  have  learned 
a  few  things,  forgotten  many ;  in  the  total  of  me, 
I  am  but  the  same  youth,  disappointed  and 
rheumatic"  Still  more  of  this  entertaining  can- 
dor and  egotism  is  bestowed  upon  lis  where  he 
says  of  bis  youthful  essays,  that  though  deformed 
by  assumption  and  shallow  in  contents,  they 
"are  curiously  right  up  to  the  points  they  reach  \ 
and  already  distinguished  above  most  of  the 
literature  of  the  time,  for  the  skill  of  language 
which  the  public  at  once  felt  for  a  pleasant  gift 
to  me."  He  pays  a  warm  tribute  to  Johnson  for 
the  help  he  obtained  especially  from  the  Idltr 
and  (he  RamUtr ;  and  closes  this  installment 
with  the  pathetic  little  story  of  Miss  Wardwell 
■nd  some  opinions  about  Love  —  having  already 
told  the  story  (also  pathetic)  of  Charlotte  Withers. 

Tht  Olden  Time  Seritj.  The  Dmi  »f  the 
Spinning- Wieel  in  New  Ei^and.  [Ticknor  & 
do.     50c] 

This  is  Number  Two  in  the  series  arranged  by 
Henry  M.  Brooks,  and  contains  matter  more 
miscellaneous  than  the  former  issue.  Stories 
about  bears,  rewards  for  runaway  servants,  re- 
turns of  burials  and  baptisms,  accounts  of  the 
celebration  of  a  royal  birthday,  and  of  military 
parades,  adTertisemeuts  of  the  sate  of  slaves, 
notices  of  insurance  oBices  and  proclamations, 
are  included  with  the  legitimate  matter  concern- 
ing spinning-wheels  and  spinning- matches,  diver- 
sified and  set  off  by  comments  on  the  part  of 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD, 


[June  26, 


the  compiler.  About  1787  and  :788,  he  says, 
"  spiniiing-wbeel  meetings  Bcein  to  have  been 
very  popular,"  and  he  copies  notices  of  some  of 
these  gatherings  in  different  places  ;  as  at  Attle- 
boro',  wbere  "63  respectable  young  ladies,  be. 
longing  lo  this  town,  assembled  at  two  o'clock, 

P.  M and,  to  the  surprise  and  great 

faction  of  all  (he  frienda  to  industry,  spun  before 
tunsel  199  skeins  of  excellent  linen  yami" 
Providence  where    Ihiiteen  young   ladies   "be- 
tween the  hours  of  eight  in  the  morniug  and 
in  the  afternoon,  completed  aiity  skeins;"  t 
greater  feat  o{  the  industry  which  the 
Bay  is  "  the  genuine  source  of  all  laudable  pleas- 
are."     This    economic   and  patriotic  spirit   ii 
warmly  commended,  with  a  "  would  to  God  that 
the  gentlemen  at  the  head  of  our  political  affairs 
in  this  Slate  were  half  so  zealous  in  encouraging 
our  owD  manufactures." 

TAreugh  the  Kalahari  Desert.  By  G.  A.  Farini. 
Illuetraled.    [Sciibncr  &  Welford.    f  5.00.] 

There  is  little  in  this  book  lo  satisfy  anything 
but  a  mere  curiosity  about  a  strange  country. 
The  country  —  South  Africa  — next  north  of 
Cape  Colony  and  the  Orange  Free  Stale,  ii 
about  u  God-forsaken  a  region  as  can  be  found 
on  the  face  of  the  earth,  a  region  of  wateriest 
wastes  of  sand  and  rock,  of  half  savage  Bush- 
men, of  lions,  jackalls,  and  snakes,  of  hunger, 
and  thirst,  and  insufferable  beat.  The  author 
is  egotistical,  conceited,  and  coarse- minded,  and 
his  narrative  of  a  sporting  expedition  from  K: 
berly  to  Lake  N'Gami  and  back  makes  slender 
appeals  lo  a  cultivated  taste.  The  MoSaU  Ira 
ersed  this  same  ground,  but  in  how  different 
spirit.  Flippant  term*  in  speaking  of  danger, : 
on  p.  267,  slangy  descriptions  of  serious  sul>iect>, 
as  on  p.  283,  and  a  general  low  tone  character- 
iie  the  book.  It  gives  a  great  deal  of  informa- 
tion about  the  land  and  its  occupants,  it  abounds 
in  bombastic  stories  of  the  hunt,  It  vividly 
sketches  diamond  digging  and  ostrich  farming, 
it  gives  sensational  pictures  of  the  hardship!  and 
honors  of  adventure  amid  these  rei 
but  for  our  part  we  prefer  different  companion- 
ship in  such  an  excunlon.  The  pictures,  en- 
graved from  photographs  made  by  Mr.  Parini'a 
companion,  are  not  as  good  as  they  might  be. 
The  leading  excitements  of  the  book  are  the 
Interviews  with  wild  beasts;  the  chief  wonder 
the  extensive  and  grand  Hundred  Falls  on  the 
Orange  River, 

Addretut  and  Sttteku  bh  Varifut  Oeeatiotu 
an  1878  tt  t886.  By  Robert  C.  Winthrop, 
:Utl1e,  Brown  &  Co. '  ^5.00.] 

Thii  Is  tbe  fourth  volntne  of  ita  series,  and. 
Its  author  says,  "  will  be  tbe  Iwt."  It  is  not 
pleasant  to  think  that  the  public  services  of  this 
distinguished  citizen  of  the  Republic  are  ended, 
and  we  hope  that  he  will  live  long  enough,  and 
that  life  will  yet  furnish  occasions  enough,  to  fill 
another  voltime  with  equal  elements  of  learning 
and  eloquence.  As  represented  in  the  present 
collection  Mr.  Winthrop's  thought  and  feeling 
have  found  public  utterance  in  connection  with 
■Imo&t  every  important  event  or  memory  associ- 
ated with  the  past  eight  years.  As  President  of 
the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  he  is  the 
official  spokesman  of  Massachusetts  scholars, 
and  his  fitness  for  high  oratory  has  been  recog- 
nized more  than  once  by  Congress.  Here  are 
(be  cimtjop  op  ^  completion  of  the  Wasttino.- 


"OSul 


ton  Monument,  and  at  the  Centennial  Commem- 
oration of  the  Surrender  at  Yorktown ;  memoirs 
of  Clay  and  Webster,  various  "remarlu 
meetings  of  the  Masaachnsetca  Historical  Society, 
memorial  tributes  to  such  names  as  Governor 
Winthrop,  General  Richard  Taylor,  Rev.  Dr. 
Budington,  the  Count  de  Circourt,  James  Lenox, 
Channing,  Garfield,  and  Dean  .Stanley;  and 
variety  of  fragmentary  writings  touching  other 
historical  events,  anniversaries,  and  personages, 
important  to  a  complete  collection  of  Mr.  Wi 
throp's  work. 


The  history,  the  science,  the  philosophy,  the 
w,  and  almost  the  romance  of  roads  ai 
eirpounded  in  this  ingenious,  instructive,  an 
tertaining  little  book,  and  the  author  has  done 
admirably  with  a  suggestive  subject.  The  things 
that  lie  nearest  us  are  often  the  last  to  be  noted, 
and  who  would  have  thought  of  making  a  book 
about  roads  and  roadways?  Yet  "the  road," 
said  Dr.  Bushncll,  "  is  that  physical  sign  or  sym. 
bol  by  which  you  will  best  understand  any  age 
or  people."  The  great  highway  which  connected 
Memphis  in  Egypt  with  Babylon  on  the  Eu 
phrates  was  one  of  the  wonders  of  the  ancjen 
vrarld,  and  the  Roman  roads  are  famed  forever 
Good  roads  are  necessities,  comforts,  and  sourcei 
of  pleasure.  The  location  of  roads  is  a  science 
their  proper  construction  a  technological  art 
Drainage  is  of  prime  importance  and  often  neg- 
lected; in  New  England  climate  and  soil  the 
macadamised  road  is  the  clieapest  and  best.  In 
keeping  toads  in  good  repair  an  ounce  of  pre. 
on  is  worth  a  pound  of  cure.  How  the 
public  come  to  have  rights  of  way ;  the  economy 
of  guide-boards  and  drinking-troughs ;  adorn- 
nt  of  the  wayside  by  graas.plats  and  shade 
it ;  and  the  privileges  and  restrictions  of 
among  the  points  Mr.  Potter  touches  o 
passes  along-  Pedestrians  on  the  highway 
it  be  on  their  guard;  abuttors,  ordinarily,  have 
peculiar  rights  out  as  far  as  to  the  middle  of  the 
road;  loafers  on  the  sidewalk,  including  organ- 
grindera,  may  l>e  treated  as  tieipasaets  and 
ordered  on ;  barking  dogs  on  the  highway  sub- 
ject their  owners  to  large  liabilities.    There  is 

I  plea  for  more  footpaths,  after  the  English 
fashion;  there  is  an  excellent  chapter  on 
n't" — things  not  to  be  done  on  the  pnbllt 
highway;  and  the  courtesies,  amenities,  and 
ijoyments  of  the  road  come  in  for  remark  at 
tbe  end.  Altogether  tUa  la  a  capital  book,  read- 
able, useful,  suggestive,  and  enticing  one  out  of 


OUZRENT  LITESATUBE. 

We    have    heretofore   noticed   Gtnn   &  Co.' 

admirable  series  Cltuitct  for  Children;  printed 
:ai  type,  with  explanatory  notes  designed 
se  in  reading  classes,  and  bound  in  stiff 
s  ornamented  with  a  Greek  design.  Tbe 
latest  received  are  Charles  Lamb's  Adventures 
if  Ulyisei,  from  the  romantic  story  of  the 
Odyisey,  in  which  Lamb's  generally  channing 
English  is  disfigured  occasionally  by  uncoutb 
expressions  [price,  by  mail,  30c.];  and  a  selection 
^rom  Hans  Andersen's  unequaled  Fairy  Taiet, 
Illustrated  with  the  quaint  Pedersen  wood-cuts  of 
ilxty  yean  ago  [by  mail,  45c]. 
TTu  mdde4  Life,  \>j  the  Rev.  J.  R.  Uiller, 


D.  D.,  is  a  little  book  containing  three  chapters 
from  a  larger  work  by  the  author;  one  on  Chris- 
tian marriage  and  two  others  on  the  respective 
duties  of  a  husband  and  of  a  wife;  clear  and 
suggestive  in  thought  and  graceful  In  longuage- 
Though  a  Presbyterian  the  author  presents  the 
strict  Anglican  view  againat  divorces.  By  its 
appropriate  binding  in  while  vellum  and  its 
illuminated  certificate  of  marriage  the  little 
book  is  designed  as  a  suitable  gift  from  a  pastor 
performing  the  marriage  ceremony.  [Presbyte- 
rian Board  of  Publication.] 

Les  Fiancis  di  Crinderwald  and  Les  Ameur- 
eux  de  Catherine  are  two  pretty  French  stories 
by  Erckmann  and  Chatrian,  bound  together  as 
Number  8  of  the  Contei  CAeitii,  earlier  issues  of 
which  we  have  noticed.  These  are  tales  of  life 
en  prsvinee ;  and  though  short  a 
extend  the  reader's  vocabulary. 
style  of  the  series  is  elegant,  but  w 
prints,  and   the  paper  c 


:   likely  to 
The  general 


le  reading.    [W.  R.  Jenkins.    15c] 

An  oration  by  Rev.  Henry  Ward  Beecbet  on 
Oratory,  delivered  before  tbe  National  Scboi^ 
□f  Oratory  in  Philadelphia,  several  years  ago, 
has  been  published  in  a  neat  cloth  book  of  48  pp. 
Tbe  gist  of  it  is  that  while  "truth  is  the  arrow, 
man  is  tbe  bow  lo  send  it  home,"  and  the 
oration,  with  this  distinguished  orator  behind  it, 
is  a  good  exemplification  of  its  theme.  [National 
School  of  Oratory.] 

Archibald  Geikic's  Class-Btet  of  Ceolegy  must 
not  be  confounded  with  the  same  scholar's  Tixt- 
Book  of  Ceelagy  published  in  1SS3.  That  great 
and  exhaustive  work  is  here  supplemented  by  a 
much  smaller  volume,  which,  while  covering  the 
subject,  pursues  a  different  method  and 
order,  and  is  differently  written.  The  text  lacks 
typographical  features  helpful  to  tbe 
student's  use,  but  the  treatment  is  full,  clear, 
and  exact,  and  there  are  upwards  of  200  wood- 
cuts, while  the  appearance  of  the  book  is  uncom- 
monly compact  and  trim.  [Macmlllan  &  Co. 
f».6o.] 

Mr.  P.  V.  N.  Myers's  OuUinet  tfUfedixva!  and 
Modem  Hietory  Is  a  continuation  of  his  OuUinet 
if  Ancient  Hiefpry,  is  designed  as  a  text-book 
For  tnalnrer  minds  than  that,  avoids  controversy 
ind  mere  political  lines,  presupposes  a  familiarity 
with  the  history  of  the  United  Slates,  and  makes 
its  beginning  at  the  Fall  of  Rome,  aay  at  the  end 
of  tho  5tb  Century,  There  is  in  truth  almost  no 
American  history  In  it  whatever,  the  survey  of 
modem  development  being  confined  exclusively 
Europe.  A  work  calling  ibelf  "modem  his- 
tory "which  touches  neither  the  growth  of  Amer> 
lean  democracy  nor  the  marvelous  events  of  this 
century  In  the  East,  is  seriously  at  fault,  no 
the  explanations  in  the  preface. 
[Ginn  &  Co.] 

A.  S.  Barnes  &  Co.  publish  A  Primary  His- 
tory afthe  United  States,  a  small  quarto,  attract- 
wlth  large  type  and  excellent  wood-cuts,  pro- 
vided with  questions,  paragraph  heading*,  and 
directories  for  parallel  reading  (a  capital  feature), 
ind,  as  to  its  text,  fairly  good,  though  not  always 
precise  and  firm  in  ita  touch. 

From  the  same  publishers  comes  a  large  quarto 

school  Geography  compiled  by  James  Monteilh, 

which  is  very  finely  printed  and  beautifully  illus- 

ited,  with  engravings  which   are  of  the  first 

classy  with  maps  which  are  both  distinct  and 

datic,  with  physiqri  cl))|rts  pf  a  good  grade  of 


1886.] 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


chromo-Uthography,  and  with  letter-piCM  which 
is  well  adapted  to  its  pnrpote. 

In  La  FraiKt  Prof,  de  Rougemont  of  Adelphi 
Academy,  Brooklyn,  haa  given  ub  a  school-book 
adinitlbly  combining  the  two  functions  of  an 
elementaij  French  reader  with  a  teit-book  ol 
nsefill  and  very  clearly  eipressed  information 
aboat  the  people  and  the  countiy  where  that 
graceful  and  lucid  language  is  spoken;  truly  a 
multum  in  fanit;  treating  of  matters  detcrip- 
tire,  historical,  political,  industrial,  educational, 
I  ile  rarj,  sdentiGc,technical,military,andre1igious, 
and  some  others  of  interesting  and  miscellane- 
ous chaj'scter.  In  the  brief  r/tum^  of  the  primary 
instruction  of  children  in  morals  are  some  useful 
•Ingestions  as  to  the  method  of  giving  such  moral 
training  in  a  public  school  without  conflicts  from 
varying  religious  beliefs.  There  is  also  an  inter- 
esting point  as  to  pronunciation  —  that  French 
words  have  ■  slight  stress  of  voice  on  the  last 
syllable,  called  "Ionic  accent"  —  a  fact  ignorantly 
disputed  by  some  Americans.  [Writers'  Publish- 
ing Company.    90c.] 

Capples,  Upham  &  Co.  have  printed  a  Bowdoin- 
priie  essay  by  William  F.  Dana,  on  Tkt  Ofitim- 
ism  of  Emerion,  which  is  very  scholarly  in  tone 
and  thought  and  cannot  fail  to  interest  admirers 
of  "  Ihe  American  Carlyle."  The  essayist  re- 
views the  nature  and  cause  of  dominant  nine- 
teenth-century petdmism  and  then  expounds  the 
bright  hopefulness  of  Emerson,  which  he  pro- 
nounces all  Ihe  more  effective  as  a  motive  force 
in  modern  thought,  because  held  by  Ihe  philoso- 
pher quite  independently  of  any  faith  in  super- 
nilural  and  revealed  religion  and  the  promises 
which  such  religion  enshrines.     [Cloth,  joe.] 

The  first  volume  of  John  Morley's  Critical 
MiKtltaniis,  handsomely  bound  in  niaroon  cloth, 
contains  essays,  descriptive  rather  than  biograph- 
ical, on  Robespierre,  Carlyle,  Byron,  Macaulay, 
and  Emerson.    [Macmillan  &  Co.    fl.jo.] 

A  collection  of  miscellaneous  writings  by 
Charles  Lamb,  in  prose  and  verse,  edited  by 
the  Rev.  Alfred  Ainger,  with  a  brief  Introduction 
and  a  few  pages  of  notes  at  the  end,  contains 
a  series  of  stories  for  children,  headed  by  the 
group  known  as  Mrt.  Ldttittr's  Schott,  from 
which  the  volume  takes  its  title,  some  of  which 
are  by  Mary  Lamb;  also  "The  Adventures  of 
Ulysses,"  and  a  variety  of  essays  and  poetical 
fragments.    [A.  C.  Armstrong  &  Son.] 

A  considerable  and  growing  company  of 
American  readers  will  be  gisd  to  know  of  the 
Importation  of  a  slock  of  Mrs.  Sutherland  Orr's 
Handbtak  If  Ihi  Waris  ef  Robert  Browning  in 
its  second  edition,  revised.  This  competent  and 
useful  volume  we  have  already  noticed  and  now 
again  commend.  We  have  no  douht  that  it  will 
greatly  stimulate,  as  it  will  surely  facilitate, 
"Browning  study"  in  this  country.  [Scribner 
&  Welford.    f  1.35.] 

There  has  just  been  issued  from  the  Govern- 
ment Printing  Office  at  Washington,  though 
bearing  date  of  1S85,  a  ponderous  report  from 
the  Bureau  of  Education  on  the  subject  of  Iii- 
duilriai  aiul  High  Art  Bdutation  in  the  United 
Statei.  This  report,  though  stretching  to  the 
length  and  breadth  of  a  closely  printed  octavo 
of  t,ioo  pages,  is  but  a  "Part  I,"  and  is  de- 
voted to  the  history  of  "  Drawing  in  the  Pdblic 
Schools."  J.  Edwards  Clarke  is  the  editor  or 
■ntbor.  There  is  an  extended  introduction  of 
350  pages,  composed  of  fourteen  papers  or  essays 


on  various  subordinate  aspects  of  Ihe  subject,  as. 
tor  eiample,  "  The  Church  as  a  Patron  of  Art," 
"  Fashions  in  Archi lecture,"  "  Art  Industries  in 
America  before  the  Centennial,"  etc.    The  work 
proper   then  begins   and   runs   (or    nearly   400 
pages,  supplemented  with  statistical  tables  ai 
a  great  body   of  appendices.    The    book  is 
good   example  of  the  bulky  encjclopsedic  way 
in  which  the   Bureau   of  Education  gets  up 
documents.    Nobody  can   question  the  amount 
of  information  and  labored  discussion  in  them 
how   many  readers   Ihey  reach  is  a  matter  of 

There  is  no  more  original,  independent,  out- 
spoken, vigorous  thinker  in  the  pulpit  of  the 
Church  of  England  today  than  the  Rev.  H.  R' 
Haweis,  incumbent  of  St.  James's,  Marylebone. 
Twenty-three  short  summaries  of  extempore 
sermons  by  him,  all  preached  in  his  church  in 
1S83,  can  be  found  in  a  chunky  little  paper- 
covered  pocket  volume  entitled  Tht  Key,  pub 
lished  by  Bumpus  of  Oxford  Street,  London. 
Among  the  subjects  are  "The  Trinity,"  "The 
Devil,"  "Hell,"  "Sunday,"  "Earthquakes," 
"The  Stage,"  "Music,"  "Girls'  Work,"  "  Lu- 
ther,"  "  Spiritualism,"  "  Immortality."  There 
is  much  thought  in  these  sermonettes,  always 
freshness  and  life,  never  conventionality,  gen. 
enilly  common  sense.  [New  York:  C.  T. 
Dillingham.    35c.] 

In  the  belief  that  the  region  known  as  The 
Adirondacks  possesses  important  climatic  condi- 
tions for  the  relief,  if  not  (he  cure,  of  pulmonary 
disease.  Dr.  J.  W.  Sdcklcr  has  written  a  little 
book  on  The  Adiroiidachi  as  a  Health  Rtseri, 
which  he  first  diagnoses  consumption   and 
pounds  the  therapeutics  for  it,  and  then  describes 
the  New  York  wilderness  in  the  general  and 
detail,  with  particulars  of  the  difierent  localities 
judged  from  the  hygienic  point  of  view,  adding 
letters  and  testimonials  from  a  long  list  of 
trlbutors  in  support  of  his  theory.    Physicians 
should  consult  this  book,  and  invalids  may  find 
their  hopes  raised  by  it ;  nevertheless  miracles 
of  healing   are  not  to  be  expected  even  in  the 
Adirondacks.    [G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons,    {i.oo.] 

Dr.  Johnson's  I.rvts  ef  Waller,  Milton,  and 
C»teley  have  appeared  as  No.  18  of  Cassell's 
National  Library.  [loc]  —  Mr.  Crawford's  Mr. 
Isaaci  has  appeared  in  salmon-colored  paper 
covers  as  the  pioneer  of  a  new  "  Summer  Read- 
ing Series."  [Maciliillan.  50c.],  and  Mrs.  A. 
D.  T.  Whitney's  A  Summer  in  LtslU  Geld- 
thwaile't  Lift  as  No,  17  in  the  "Riverside 
Paper  Series"  of  similar  intent.  [Houghton. 
5oe.]  —  A  new  and  paper-covered  edition  of 
Mr.  Andrew  Carnegie's  An  American  Four- 
in-Hand  in  Britain,  an  entertaining  narra- 
tive of  a  coaching  trip  from  Brighton  to  Inver- 
ness, should  find  a  great  addition  of  readers  at 
Sumner  resorts  and  in  summer  travel,  this  sea- 
son. [Scribner.  zjc]  —  Boston  Illuiirated  has 
been  revised  for  1SS6,  though,  strange  to  say,  has 
no  information  about  the  new  Boston  Cab  Com- 
pany, an  institution  of  Importance  to  strangers. 
Many  pictures  and  a  good  map  make  this  in  the 
main  a  good  guide  book.     [Houghton.     50c.] 


Von  Ranke  and  the  King. 

The  lale  Leopold  von  Ranke,  though  an  inde- 
fatigable student,  was  fond  of  going  oat  into  so- 
ciety, where  his  high  spirits  and  conversationsl 
powers  rendered  him  welcome.  It  ii  on  record 
that,  being  once  Invited  to  Innch  with  the  King 


oi  the  Belgians,  he  made  himself  so  agreeable  at 
(able  (hat  the  party  remained  seated,  listening  to 
his  talk,  till  they  were  told  that  it  was  time  to 
dress  for  dinner.  Soch  a  triumph,  inasmuch  as 
ii  was  gained  over  court  etiquette,  was  a  greater 
effort  of  genius  than  the  similar  feat  which  is  re- 
corded of  Macaulay.  — Alkenaum. 

SHAEE8FEABUXA. 


Fleay's  "  Life  and  Works  of  Shakespeare." 
Mr.  F.  G.  Fleay  Is  not  unknown  to  the  readers  uf 
the  World  as  a  Shakespearian  scholar,  some  con- 
tributions of  his  having  appeared  in  these  col- 
umns in  former  years.  His  Shaitsfeare  Manual, 
published  in  1876,  and  his  Introdvetiait  to  SAiiie- 
sptarian  Study  \,\%^^)  are  also  familiar  (o  students 
of  the  dramatist.  The  present  volume,  an  ele- 
gantly printed  octavo  of  364  pages,  of  which 
Messrs.  Scribner  &  Welford,  New  York,  are  the 
publishers  in  this  country,  gives  the  results  of  his 
earlier  researches  in  a  revised  form,  together  with 
(he  frui(s  of  his  more  recent  investigadons  into 
the  history  of  Shakespeare  as  "player,  poet,  and 
play-maker."  The  private  life  of  the  man  is 
treated  very  briefiy,  and  with  undisguised  con- 
tempt for  those  who  have  been  interested  in  these 
persimal  matters.    Mr.  Pleay  says : 

With  laborious  research  they  have  raked  to- 
gether the  recoidsof  petty  debts,  of  parish  assess- 
ments, of  scandalous  traditions,  of  idle  gossip; 
and  they  have  shown  beyond  doubt  that  -Shake- 
ipeare  was  born  at  Stratiurd-on-Avon,  was  mat- 
led,  had  three  children,  left  his  home,  made 
noney  as  an  actor  and  piajr-maker  in  London, 
eturned  to  his  native  town,  mvested  his  savings 
there,  and  died.  I  do  not  think  that  when  siript 
of  verbiage,  and  what  the  sisng  of  the  day  calls 
padding,  much  more  than  this  can  be  claimeil 
IS  the  result  of  the  voluminous  writings  on  this 
lide  of  his  career.  For  one  I  am  thankful  that 
thintcs  are  so;  I  have  little  sympathy  with  the 
modern  inqnisitiveness  that  peeps  over  the  earden 
wall  to  see  in  what  array  the  great  man  smokes  his 

Eipe,  and  chronicles  the  shape  and  color  of  his 
e  ad-covering. 
And  again  he  sneers  at 

IS  as  to  who  might  have  been  Shake- 
speare's  schoolmaster,  whether  be  was  appren. 
'   ^d  to  a  butcher,  whether  he  stole  a  deer  out  of 
on-esistent  park,  whether  he  held  horses  at  the 
theatre-door,  .  .  .  whether  he  went  to  Denmark 
to  Venice,  and  whether  Lord  Bacon  wrote  bis 
plays  for  him. 
The  facts  that  Mr.  Fleay  thinks  we  ought  to 
icertain,  if  possible,  "not  for  a  mere  personal 
interest,  but  in  their  bearings  on  the  hbtorj  of 
English  literature,"  are 

what  companies  of  actors  Shakespeare  belonged 
-  what  theatres  they  acted,  in  what  plays  be- 
lis  own  he  was  a  performer,  what  authors 
this  brought  him  into  personal  contact  with,  what 
influence  be  exerted  on  or  received  from  them, 
what  relations,  friendly  or  unfriendly,  they  had 
with  rival  companies,  and,  finally,  in  what  older 
his  own  works  were  produced,  and  what  if  any 
share  other  hands  had  in  their  production. 

All  this  it  is  desirable  to  know,  and  it  is  most 
minutely  and  carefully  wrought  out  in  this  book 
of  Mr.  Fleay's  —  a  book  for  the  critical  student, 
we  may  remark  incidentally,  rather  than  for  the 
general  reader — but  it  strikes  us  that  a  knowl- 
edge of  Shakespeare's  early  education,  of  his  pos- 
sible travels  in  some  of  the  countries  that  he  has 
nude  the  scene  of  his  plays,  and  of  sundry  other 
facts  in  his  personal  history  which  Mr.  Fleay 
slightingly,  may  be  as  helpful  in  a 
thorough  study  of  the  poet's  productioiu  a*  some 
of  the  theatrical  details  gathered  up  In  the  pres< 
volume.    These  we  sre  gratefnl  for,  btit  we 


THE  J.ITERARY  WORLD, 


[June  26, 


want  the  other  fact*  loo,  and  "not  for  «  mere 
peilonal  intereiL" 

On  the  history  of  the  theitrei  and  theatiical 
companies  of  Shakespeare's  time,  and  the  plays 
performed  in  and  by  each  of  these,  Mr.  Fleay 
probably  Icnows  more  than  any  other  living  man. 
The  details  of  this  history  are  peculiarly  compli- 
cated and  perplexing,  and  he  has  devoted  years 
of  labor  to  getting  at  Ihcm,  sifting  and  arranging 
them,  and  malting  them  available  for  the  purposes 
of  the  student  and  critic.  The  results  of  all  this 
patient  and  scholarly  labor  form  a  large  part  of 
this  book,  and  are  sufScient  of  themselves  to  give 
it  permanent  value  as  a  contribution  to  the  his- 
tory  of  English  literature. 

On  the  chronology  of  Shakespeare's  plays,  and 
on  certain  questions  as  to  their  authorship,  we 
cannot  regard  Mr.  Fleay  as  always  a  tmstworthy 
guide.  He  is  often  as  hasty  in  his  theorizing  as 
he  is  dogmatic  in  the  statement  ot  the  conclusions 
to  which  be  rashly  jumps.  It  is  interesting  to 
compare  his  Manual  with  the  Inlradtuliait  to 
ShattsftariaH  Study,  and  both  with  this  recent 
book,  and  to  note  in  how  many  instances  he  has 
changedhisviewsastothe  date  and  history  of  cer- 
tain of  the  plays.  It  would  be  easy  to  illustrate 
this  by  quotations,  but  the  majority  of  our  readers 
may  be  more  interested  in  Mr.  Kleay's  solution 
of  the  insoluble  problem  of  the  iamicli  as  given 
in  1S77  and  in  1SS6.  In  the  Inlraductieti  lo 
Shakeipiarian  SluJy  he  says : 

I  believe  that  W.  H.  is  William  Hart,  Shake- 
speare's brotbcr-iii'law ;  that  the  Sannett  were 
written  in  1596;  that  the  first  ponton  (i-i:6)  was 
addressed  Co  Lord  Southampton;  that  they  are 
autobiographical,  and  constitute  one  poem.  The 
remainder,  I  think,  are  addressed  to  Anne 
Shakespeare,  his  wiFc,  but  with  a  very  different 
interpretation  from  that  usually  put  on  them. 
My  inlerprelatioD,  whether  right  or  wrong,  fits  in 
singularly  with  what  we  know  of  Shakespeare's 
life  from  other  sources.  I  do  not  find  that  the 
other  interpretations  I  have  seen  fit  in  at  all. 

According  to  Che  revised  version,  the  Sonnets 
begin  in  1594,  when  Southampton  attained  his 
ma)ority,  and  end  before  hi*  marrtage  in  the  lat- 
ter part  of  1598.  Mr.  W.  H.  wa*  "  Sir  William 
Hervey,  the  third  husband  of  Southampton's 
mother;"  and  the  copy  used  in  printing  the 
poems  "may  have  been  found  among  her  papers 
after  her  death  in  1607.  The  Sonnets  following 
the  Ii6lh  are  addressed,  not  to  Mistress  Shake- 
speare, but  to  ihe  "  frail  lady  "  who  is  the  heroine 
of  W^lobie  his  Aviia.  "That  the  black  woman 
of  the  Sonnets  is  identical  with  Avisa,"  says  Mr. 
Fleay,  "I  regard  as  Indubitable."  We  presume 
that  Ihe  new  theory  "  fits  in  singularly  with  what 
we  know  of  Shakespeare's  life,"  as  the  old  one 
did,  and  that  it  will  be  "  indubitable  "  until  the 
author  begins  to  liave  his  doubts  about  it. 

Mr.  Fleay  must  now  be  counted  with  the 
critics  who  have  abandoned  the  theory  that 
Shakespeare  had  a  hand  in  Tht  Tvmi  Noblt 
Xinsmta.  Three  years  ago  (sec  the  tVorld  for 
Feb.  10,  18S3)  he  had  no  doubt  Chat  the  play  was 
the  joint  production  of  Fletcher  and  Shake- 
speare, and  he  showed  most  ingeniously  how  all 
the  facts  in  the  case  "  fitted  in  "  wich  that  view. 
"  Metrical  tests,"  moreover,  made  it  clear  just 
what  portions  of  the  play  William  must  have 
written.  Now  "there  is  no  other  evidence  that 
Shakespeare  had  any  hand  in  it  eicept  the 
opinions  of  Lamb,  Coleridge,  Spalding,  Dyce, 
etc. ; "  and  there  is  "  nothing  in  i  C  above  the  reach 
of  Maswnger  and  Fletcher,"  while  some  things 


"aie  unworthy  of  either,  and  more  likely  to  be 
by  some  inferior  hand,  Rowley  for  instance." 

The  Tables  appended  to  the  book  and  filling 
some  fort;  pages  will  be  particularly  useful  for 
reference  purpose*.  They  include  lists  of  the 
quarto  editions  of  Shakespeare's  plays  and  of 
other  plays  performed  by  bis  company;  of  the 
performances  at  court  from  1584  to  1616;  of 
entries  of  plays  in  the  Stationers'  Registers  from 
158410  1640J  of  transfers  of  copyright  in  plays 
tor  the  same  period,  etc.  An  index  to  all  the 
playi  mentioned  in  the  work  is  appended,  but 
there  is  no  general  indea  —  a  deficiency  which  a 
correspondent  in  New  York  severely  criticises  in 
a  note  just  received. 

The  typographical  execution  of  the  work  is 
admirable,  and  we  are  glad  to  have  the  excellent 
etchings  of  the  portrait  of  Edward  Alleyn  at 
Dulwich  Collcee,  and  of  the  font  in  which  Shake- 
speare was  baptized,  from  an  oil  sketch  made  at 
Stratford  by  Mr.  Wallis  in  1S53. 

By  a  slip  on  page  174,  Shakespeare  is  said  lo 
have  died  "jus!  before  completing  his  fifty- 
fourth  year,"  instead  of  just  at  Ihe  beginning  of 
his  fifty-third  year. 

Meeting  of  the  New  York  Shakespeare 
Society.  The  thirteenth  stated  meeting  was 
held  at  Hamilton  Hall,  Columbia  College,  May 
17,  18S6,  Mr.  James  K  Reynolds,  President  pre 
Urn,  in  the  chair.  After  the  the  minutes  of  laal 
meeting  had  been  read  and  approved,  Prof- 
Thomas  R.  Price  read  the  paper  of  the  even- 
ing, "  Shakespeare's  Method  in  the  Strndure  of 
lilank  Verse,"  which  discussed  and  dissected 
very  elaborately  the  invariable  quality  of  this 
blank  verse,  and  urged  that  it  was  impossible 
that  the  unvarying  system  of  scansion  therein 
revealed  coutd  be  accidental.  Owing  to  the 
recondite  character  of  Professor  Price's  paper, 
no  abstract  is  now  furnished ;  but  the  entire 
paper  will  be  at  once  put  into  the  society's 
published  series.  A  discussion  by  Messrs.  Mor- 
gan, Walker,  Frey,  Reynolds,  and  Price  ensued. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  Frey  the  following  resolu- 
tions were  adopted,  vi%, : 

Whtriai,  the  Shakespeare  Society  of  New 
York  has  during  the  first  year  of  its  existence, 
just  closed,  printed  and  circulated  igo  copies 
each  of  the  first  (our  numbers  of  its  Publicationr, 
being  in  all  three  hundred  and  nineteen  (JI9) 
pages  of  original  matter,  and  proposes  hereafter 
to  issue  annually  at  least  four  volumes  of  its 
Publications,  equivalent  to  the  four  volumes 
already  issued  ;  therefore,  be  it 

Rtsoh/ed,  Thai  any  Shakespeare  Society  cir> 
culating  regularljf  any  approximate  amount  of 
printed   matter,  is  hereby  invited  to  exchange 

Resolved,  That  the  Librarian  be  and  he  hereby 
is  requested  to  act  as  ex  cfficio  chairman  of  the 
Publication  Committee,  and  as  such,  to  com- 
municate these  resolutions  lo  the  proper  officers 
of  other  Shakespeare  Societies,  as  he  may  deem 
it  desirable,  with  ihc  fraternal  greelings  and 
good  wishes  of  this  society. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  Morgan,  Ibe  President 
was  empowered  during  the  vacation,  to  call 
special  meetings  in  his  discretion  for  the  elec- 
tion of  new  members,  or  for  Ihe  Iransaclion  of 
any  other  business,  besides  such  meetings  of 
the  standing  committees  as  he  might  deem  ex- 
pedient. There  being  no  further  business,  the 
sodely  then  adjourned  to  November  15,  1SS6. 

Mr.     W.    H.    Wjrman    on     DonneUy'i 


"  Cipher."  The  Cincinnati  Commeraai  Gatttit 
of  June  4,  1886,  conUins  a  long  article  by  Mr. 
W.  H.  Wyman  of  that  city  —  the  compiler  of  Ihe 
excellent  Bibliography  of  Iht  Bacan-Shaietpean 
CMlrmieriy  —  in  which  he  states  very  clearly  and 
conclusively  (be  objections  to  Ihe  "cipher  "from  a 
typographical  point  of  view.  Our  Philadelphia 
cantcmpoTM-y^hakesptariana,  ought  to  reprint  the 
paper  Cor  the  benefit  of  Shakespearian  schdars 
on  both  sides  of  the  Atlantic.  It  seems  to  us 
absolutely  unanswerable.  Donnelly  can  refute  it 
only  by  giving  [he full  particulars  of  the  "cipher" 
to  the  world,  and  showing  that  Bacon  actually 
did  work  il  inio  the  pages  of  the  folio,  notwith- 
standing the  almost  inconceivable  difficulties  of 
the  undertaking. 

The  Sixth  Edition  of  Halliwell-PhlUlppB's 
"Outlines."  A  letter  from  Mr.  Hall i well-Phil- 
lipps,  dated  June  3,  1S86,  informs  us  that  the 
aixth  edition  of  his  Outlines  was  lo  be  ready  "  in 
about  three  weeks."  It  will  contain  some  curious 
additional  matter  and  new  illustrations.  The 
price  is  raised  lo  half  a  guinea  (about  $1.50),  but 
as  the  work  is  now  to  be  in  two  volumes  (of  384 
and  400  pages),  it  will  slill  be  the  cheapest  publi- 
cation of  its  grade  ever  issued.  The  author 
adds  :  "  Chiefly  owing  to  your  anxiety  on  the  sub- 
ject, I  have  worked  up  in  il  my  enormous  collec- 
tions on  the  Hathaway  families  —  by  '  workii^ 
up '  I  mean  condensing  them  into  an  intelligible 
summary."  He  mentions  incidentally  that  the 
doubt  which  we  {and,  independently,  Mrs.  Dall) 
had  expressed  as  to  Anne  Hathaway's  relalion- 
ship  lo  Richard  was  suggested  as  long  ago  as 
i8:i,  by  Malone  in  the  "Variorum"  ed-  of  that 
year,  vol.  ii.  p.  115. 

Mr.  Halliwell-Phillipps  calls  our  attention  to 
the  impression  on  the  wax  attached  to  his  letter, 
which  is  "  from  a  duplicate  of  the  seal  that  was 
used  by  the  poet's  eldest  daughter  after  her  mar- 
riage with  Mr.  Hall." 

Dr.  Ingleby'B  "  Cymbcline."  We  are  in- 
debted to  Dr.  Ingleby  for  a  copy  of  his  scholarly 
edition  of  Cymbtline,  recently  published  by  Triib- 
ner  &  Co.  of  London-  It  is  beaulifnlly  printed 
in  small  quarto  form,  with  a  collation  of  the 
most  important  varix  lectionts  and  exegetical  and 
critical  notes  by  the  editor,  on  Ihe  same  page 
with  Ihe  text.  We  regret  that  our  limits  permit 
only  this  brief  mention  of  the  book  at  present ; 
but  we  hopie  to  refer  to  some  point*  in  the  notes 
in  a  future  number. 


HEW8  Am)  VOTES. 

—  Mr.  Edgar  Fawcelt's  new  book  of  poems, 
Remanct  and  Rerery,  jusi  pnblilbed  by 
Messrs.  Ticknor  &  Co.  of  Boston,  contains 
a  poem  several  hundred  lines  long,  entitled 
"The  Magic  Flower."  This  work  was  com- 
pleted by  Mr.  Fawcett  no  leas  than  seventeen 
years  ago.  On  finishing  it  he  was  wholly  dis- 
satisfied with  it,  and  he  has  since  re-written  it 
no  leas  than  three  separate  times,  besides  having 
constantly  made  minor  changes  in  it  here  and 
there ;  so  that  he  now  gives  it  to  the  world  after 
seventeen  years  of  thoughtful  probation. 

—  Mr.  Grant  Allen  and  family  were  in  Con- 
cord, Mass.,  Sunday  last,  and  worshiped  with 
the  Congregational ists. 

—  A  revised  editioo  of  Allen  &  Greenough's 


i886.] 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


223 


Cictrt  !■  re>d]F  at  Ginn  &  Co.'*,  and  a  traiula- 
lion  of  Lotie't  OuUints  ef  ^ithttiei  will  lollow 
in  July. 

—  Tht  Bryi  Beak  ef  Famous  Ruleri.hj  Lydi» 
HoTt  FMiner,  will  be  published  soon  by  T.  Y. 
Crowell  k  Co.  The  suthoi  aims  to  give  sketches 
of  historical  epochs  as  backgrounds  for  her  bio- 
graphical narratives. 

—  Lee  &  Shepard  have  in  press  an  elaborate 
treatise  on  Tie  Family  from  ihe  historical  and 
sociological  points  of  view,  by  the  Rev.  Charles 
F.  Thwing.  The  work  draws  largely  frotn  stand- 
ard European  sources,  and  deals  with  modern 
phases  of  the  sabject  in  a  positive  way. 

—  Among  forthcoming  books  whicl)  D.  I^ih- 
rop  A  Co.  have  in  preparation  are  Pcny"!  Saints, 
a  volume  of  war  reminiscences  by  Colonel  J.  M. 
Nichols;  SpHii  from  Fact,  a  "  true  story  "  of  a 
remarkable  cate  of  "faith-cure,"  by  Mrs.  G.  R. 
Alden  ;  The  Full  Stature  of  a  Man,  a  novel  by 
Julian  Warib ;  With  Reed  and  Lyre,  poems  by 
Clinton  Scollard  ;  Assurance  and  Other  Petint, 
by  GeoTgiana  Heath;  Elehingi frtm  Tkb  Lands 
(Japan  and  New  Eagland),  by  Mrs.  Clara  M. 
Arthur;  and  two  companion  illustrated  books  — 
Tht  Burning  Tea-Poi,  by  Linie  W.  Champney. 
and  a  new  edition  of  E.  S.  Brooks's  Ih  //a-Man'i 
Land. 

—  Mr.  P.  D.  Haywood's  story  of  T^e  Cruise  nf 
Ikt  Alabama  issued  today  by  Houghton,  Mifflin 
&  Co.,  in  their  "  Riverside  Paper  Series,"  forms 
■  volutne  of  some  two  hundred  pages,  not,  as  re 
ported,  a  reprint  of  the  author's  recent  article  ir 
the  Century  Magatint. 

—  Mr.  Kolfe's  Shaiesfeares  tn  making  Iheli 
way  in  India,  as  tlie  following  paragraph  from 
Harpers  Weeily  evinces: 

An  American  lady,  while  attending  a  wedding 
at  the  house  of  an  Indian  nabob  in  Calcutta, 
was  somewhat  surprised  to  see  a  complete  set 
of  Rolfe's  Shakespeare  upon  his  library  ihelves. 
ft  was  the  only  edition  of  the  poet  that  his 
Excellency  possessed,  and  both  its  position  and 
the  quality  of  its  binding  seemed  to  show  that 
the    cnllivaled    old  rnagnaie  set  a  high   vali 


In  this  connection  we  may  mention  that  Har. 
vard,  Dartmouth,  Trinity,  Amherst,  and  Will. 
iitns  Colleges  and  Brown  University  now 
require  Shakespeare  as  an  admission  study, 
"Julius  Cxsar"  being  specified  in  a  majority 

—  Prof.  James  K-  Hosmer  of  the  University 
of  St.  Louis  was  in  Boston  and  Cambridge 
Saturday,  last,  on  his  way  to  sail  by  the 
"Alaska"  from  New  York  on  Tuesday- for 
England,  where  be  cjcpects  to  spend  the 
in  researches  for  the  life  of  Sir  Henry  Vane 
which  he  has  in  hand, 

—  Tlcknor  &  Co.  publish  A  Moenlight  Boy, 
by  E.  \V.  Howe;  new  editions  of  the  same 
author's  Mystery  ej  the  Locks  and  Stery  ef  a 
Ceuntry  Timm;  An  Epigrammatic  Voyage,  by 
Denton  J.  Snider,  recounting  in  blank  verse  an 
American  scholar's  rambles  in  Greece ;  and  edi- 
tions of  Tennyson  and  of  Byron's  Childe  Harold, 
with  notes,  by  Mr.  Wm.  J.  Rulfc. 

—  The  Graphic  News  of  Cincinnati  proposes 
-an  illustrated  folume  on  Ihe  Creoles  of  Louis- 
iana, by  a  New  Orleans  journalist. 

—  Mr.  Geo.  J.  Coombes,  the  artistic  book  pub- 
lisher of  New  York,  has  tqxned  a  new  store  a 
275  Fifth  Avenue,  between  19th  and  3alh  Streets 
A  position  which  shows  how  fast  business  ii 
moving  op  that  fashioiuble  tluiroi^hfare.    Be- 


sides The  Stage  Life  of  Mary  Andersen,  Mr. 
Coombes  publishes  Mr.  Winter's  account  oE  ihe 
lean  (our  of  Henry  Irving,  and  he  an- 
:es  The  Life  ef  Edwin  Booth,  The  Life  ef 
Adelaide  Neilton,  a  volume  of  essays  on  the 
ig  of  Ellen  Terry,  a  memoir  of  Lawrence 
Barrett,  a  memoir  of  John  McCulIough,  and  a 
biographical  account  of  all  the  actors  of  Ihe 
Wallack  family,  from  the  same  author.  The 
Wallack  book  will  be  a  Companion  to  Mr.  Win- 
ler's  elaliorate  and  minute  biography  of  The 
JegersBHS,  published  by  Ticknor.  Mr.  George 
J.  Coombes  is  one  of  the  youngest  publisliers  in 
New  York,  but  Lang's  Boots  and  Boekmen, 
Brander  Matlhews's  Ballads  ef  Beets,  Kate  San- 
born's Vanity  and  Insanity  of  Census,  and  other 
of  original  and  selected  matter,  are 
beautiful  specimens  of  the  printer's  art. 

—  The  American  Philological  Assodstion  will 
hold  its  l8lh  annual  session  at  Ithaca,  N.  V., 
July  13.  A  meeting  of  the  Spelling  Reform  As- 
sociation will  l>e  held  in  connection  therewith. 

—  Porter  &  Coales  of  Philadelphia  have  ir 
press  Jee  Wayring  at  I/omr,  by  Henry  CastlC' 
raon;  Ifelping  Himself,  by  Horatio  Alger,  Jr.; 
Foetprinls  in  the  Forest,  by  Edward  S.  Ellis; 
IVays  attd  Means,  by  Margaret  Vandegrift ;  and 
Holidays  at  the  Grange,  by  Emily  Mayer  Higgins. 

—  Bjornstjerne  Bjomson,  who  lias  been  living 
in  Paris  for  the  last  three  years,  has  returned 
his  home  in  the  mountains  of  Norway,  intending 
to  eschew  politic*  and  devote  himself  wholly 
literature. —  Mrs..  Otiphant  is  reported  to  be  at 
work  on  a  life  of  Ihe  late  Principal  Tulloch.— 
Uliphanl,  Anderson  &  Ferries  announce  a  new 
illustrated  work  on  Edinburgh  Past  and  Present, 
by  Mr.  J.  B.  Gillies.—  The  6th  edition  of  LHbke's 
History  ef  Architecture,  issued  In  parts  by  See- 
mann  of  Leipzig,  is  now  completed. —  Mr.  Mariii 
Farquhar  Tapper  has  written  an  amusing  book 
on  his  life  as  an  author. 

—  Harper's  for  August  will  have  an  article  by 
William  Winter  on  the  Jefferson  family  of  actors. 

—  The  London  Academy  and  Saturday  Review 
have  approving  notices  of  Mr.  John  Coventry's 
novel  After  His  Kind. 

—  Funk  &  Wagnalls  announce  a  Life  of  Schuy- 
ler Colfax  by  J.  O.  Hollister,  a  member  of  the 
Col  fas  family. 

LITERABT  UDEX  TO  THE  PEEIODI- 
OALS. 


Biliu.    C.  F.  Pu»i». 

Boolii,  New,  10  bs  Read  (or  An 

and  Wh/. 
Culrle  ind  Goethe.     Mu  HUiler 
Dinlc  for  Ih  t  GeDtnl.     Uy  one  of ' 
Donndly'i  Shak»pan  Ciplur. 

Dor«,  Giuuve. 

Fiction,  TbB  HjpocriM  of.    Jui 

Noble. 
GoelhtaiiilCirlrle.    Hu  MdUer. 
HiAorr  in  Americui  Collefo. 

Hiilory,  Judkial  FiJiiGcalloD 
Cowlgr. 


Knmlrdre.  Ji 
AllanTic,  Ji 
I), 

Kntvrltdt;4,  K 


DowdiD 

LUennr  R; 


Edoslian, 
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'<w  Entlind  Ma|.,  J 

'NewEDElindMii.,, 

L  of.     E. 

CtMltmfrrary, 
B^Lart, . 


Plarwrighl, 

P»L  The,  u  1  BuniMB  Uan. 

Pr»-tUphMlil«    "     ■     ■      ■ 


W.  L.  Courtney.    Ftrlmihilj', 
Ftrinirkay, 


■   Brotbeibood.     W.    H. 


Ctmlmttrmy,  Hay, 


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NE0B0L0G7. 

April  —  /^ap^GriiH/,  Edlnbunth,  6j  y,^  pcwt. 
April— JC.  R.Stadarl,  Edinbuigh,  jS  y.l  betljdry  and 

^^h\J^— Prtfiacr    Tkesdcrti,    Minchiller,    Eillind ! 
Oricnubtt. 
April  1;,  Rn.  (i»rff  OraiJp,  near  Doneailer,  Enilind: 

April   »,    Ibe  Hen.  LiemI  Temgisati,  on  board  the 
"Chman"  al  Aden,  of  Indian  fever,  J3  y. ;  Orientnlin. 
April  3;,  Carl  Skslrim,  Stockholm,  60  y, ;  noveliil. 
Miy  — 7afiwt.V/ri»>(,  Scnlland,  75y.;  jounialiini. 
Mur— J>r.  G.  ffiwrieti.atnnMBf.ii  J.;  GiEcian. 
Mix  —  Fr^.  a.  IfailM,  CemHIDr.  »  y. :  biitory,  mnd  D 

lixy  —  Rtv.  R.  if.  D.  Barkam,  Dawliih,  England,  71  ; 
•on  of  the  author  of  Ihe  IntalJtil  Ltgnds,  and  biot;- 

May  II,  Cnn-fT /r.  ArAW-,  Wadihglon,  D,  C.,^y. ; 

'^ly  17,  Dr.  Jihmn  Frams  AkerUum,  Sweden,  So  y.  ; 
educalional  uitnce. 

Way  .»,  yo*»  Rass^Il  Bmrll.ll.  Providence,  R.  I..  Si  y.  ; 
r^lectorand  Uibliosranhcr 

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June  — Z.A1 
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Florence,  Inly;  perfeder 

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l^'U^flt,  Boalon,  67  j. ;  euayiil. 


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CONTENTS. 

FeuiLLIt'9  AUKTTB 

Hoo»iwiTH  GnuAH  Classic*      .... 

FuTaAiniP«DL  '.'.'.'.'..', 
RoCKSTao'sHisnwvoFUusic      .... 

Timnuciicnu  and  Cbanga  in  the  Sockt*  at  Frieod 
A  Chronicle  of  thiNi^Piimilr     .... 

Tfaa  Urd  of  Lu 

MiHoii  NoTicnT* 

TlwSaanteRr 

CemuPiKhoUiCTofTodajr 

Modns  UditirWi^     .       .       .       .       .        . 

A  Shadow  of  DsnU 

EaRbqnaks  and  Oifaar  Emh  MovemtDU   . 

SoodMni  CiliConii 

MiDT  Hittiliet  Hindtd 

SoDl^i  Mimi'un 

UlHOII  FlCTIOHl 

The  CiptuD  of  the  JinluriEi  .... 
Albas  of  Hops      ....... 

A  Moonlifhl  Boy   '.'.'.'.'.'.'. 

A  Hcnul^lnnle 

£iig«iiie  Gnndet 

A  FiUcD  Idol 

CDMUHT  LlTmHATDII 

Thb  Ovtiaok  *t  D»t»o«t 

Thb  Bibuogiaphv  of  NokvAV      .... 

A  Lrrm  FKOK  Niwyoiic.     Nuwn    ...       in 

Thi  Puiodicals ,,i 

SHAKoriAniAHA.    Edited  br  Wn.  J.  RolUs 
PiHn  of  Ihe  New  York  Shalieipcuc   SooiIt. 

TabutI"    '.'.'.'.'.'..'. 

NniANDN0T» 

Aliahv'i  Cfkhbkobatioh.    TIh  Loul  CollactloB 

MlDDljrOH 

Thb  Woik  of  Bowdoih  Collbgb  .... 
Additional  Eifata  to  Cushimg's  DicTIOMAFY 
LimAitr  IHDBX 

PuBUCATIOHSlUCBinD 


FEUILLET'B  ALIETTB.* 

IN  La  hforU  M.  Feuillet  presents  with 
characteristic  dramatic  intensity  a  psy- 
chological and  sociological  problem  distinct- 
ively modern,  and  he  presents  it  in  a  way  so 
thoroughly  artistic  tbat  the  book  takes  un- 
questionable rank  among  the  great  novels  of 
the  day.  The  motive  is  sufficiently  com- 
monplace, but  the  method  is  new,  daring, 
brilliant. 

Bernard  de  Vaudricourt,  a  cultivated  and 
fascinating  man  of  society,  a  Parisian  to  the 
fioger-tlps,  marries  a  young  giri  who  has 
been  brought  op  in  the  country,  educated  in 
a  Louis  XIV  atmosphere,  and  is  moreover 
devoted  to  her  religion.  The  preliminary 
scenes  are  managed  with  admirable  skill,  and 
one  cannot  soon  forget  the  situation  where 
Bernard  and  his  uncle  find  themselves  at  the 
home  of  Bernard's  betrothed  and  are  invited 
to  remain  to  family  prayers.  As  for  Alielte 
de  Conrteheuae,  she  wins  the  consent  of  her 
guardians  to  the  marriage  with  the  avowed 
purpose  of  saving  her  affianced  from  the  evils 
of  skepticism  and  leading  him  back  to  his  early 
faith.  Bernard  is  a  proud,  generous,  and 
loyal  spirit,  and  while  freely  proclaiming  his 
lack  of  belief,  he  never  for  a  moment  lapses 
into  irreverence. 

The  scene  changes  to  Paris  and  the  cur- 


rent of  the  story  grows  deeper  and  Bows 
more  swiftly.  It  is  a  pathetic  account,  that 
of  the  young  wife  seeking  first  to  keep  her 
husband  at  her  side,  without  success,  and 
then  striving  to  join  with  him  in  the  less  de- 
praved amusements  that  occupy  the  modem 
Parisian  only  to  be  convinced  Uiat  she  is  ii 
periling  her  own  souL  Then  AUette  falls 
ill,  and  Bernard  volunteers  to  leave  Paris  and 
live  with  her  on  a  country  estate.  At  this 
point  two  new  characters  are  introduced  — 
a  Dr.  Tallevaut  and  his  beautiful  ward 
Sabine,  and  in  portraying  through  these  two 
the  effects  of  devotion  to  science  upon  dif- 
ferent personalities,  the  author  brings  into 
play  his  finest  powers  of  analytft. 

We  shall  not  undertake  to  expose  further 
the  movement  of  the  plot,  remarking  only 
that  the  story  from  this  point  Is  charged 
with  a  tragic  purpose,  and  that  Sabine  is  a 
striking  creation  while  remaining  always 
within  the  limits  of  possibility.  The  whole 
book  is  a  mighty  protest  against  the  corrupt- 
ing influences  of  modem  materialism,  and 
deserves  the  great  success  it  has  already 
won.  Mr.  Hager's  translation  is  rather 
painfully  literal  and  not  always  accurate  in 
detail,  but  it  serves. 


HOUBB  WITH  QESHAN  OLABSIOS.* 

THE  Rev.  Dr.  F.  H.  Hedge  is  the  patri- 
arch of  German  study  in  America. 
Educated  in  Germany  in  the  early  years  of 
this  century,  when  that  country  was  almost 
an  unknown  land  to  speakers  and  writers  of 
English,  and  thoroughly  familiar  from  youth 
with  its  literature,  he  was  for  many  years 
far  beyond  comparison  with  any  other  stu- 
dent of  German  in  this  country,  in  the  com- 
pleteness of  his  living  knowledge  of  the 
German  mind.  Especially  In  poetry,  philos- 
ophy, and  theology,  those  diverse  realms 
which  Dr.  Hedge's  own  genius  has 
stretched  a  scepter  of  equal  power,  were  his 
erudition  and  bis  p[ju:tical  mastery  unri- 
valed. When,  forty  years  ago  or  more,  his 
Prou-Writari  of  Germany  appeared,  it 
became  a  favorite  volume  of  earnest 
minds  stirred  by  the  new  leaven  of  Ger- 
manic thought,  and  it  has  done  a  great  deal 
toward  familiarizing  Americans  with  the 
chief  writers  of  that  wonderful  literature, 
the  whole  tone  of  which  is  so  foreign  to  the 
literatures  of  France,  England,  or  Italy,  in 
its  union  of  mystical  thought  and  warmth 
of  feeling.  The  writer  of  this  notice  will 
ever  with  gratitude  bear  the  marks  npon  his 
intellect  of  the  good  fortune  which 
made  a  copy  of  the  Prost-WrUtrs  one  of 
thi  books  of  his  boyhood. 
Appointed  in  later  life  Professor  of  Ger- 
an  Literature  at  Harvard  University,  and 
discharging  its  duties  for  some  years,  Dr. 
Hedge  has  now  published  the  substance  of 
his  lectures  there,  with  the   omission  on 


accouut  of  spacfr4imits  of  many  writers 
whose  rank  is  not  strictly  literary,  like  Kant, 
for  example.  There  is  no  intention  on  the 
part  of  the  author  of  adding  another  to 
the  long  list  of  regular  histories  of  German 
literature.  He  only  aims  at  exhitnting 
"some  of  its  characteristic  phases  as  exem- 
plified by  writers  who  fairly  represent  the 
national  genius."  With  this  view  only  the 
most  prominent  authors  are  touched  upon, 
but  Dr.  Hedge's  selection  departs  from  that 
which  would  usually  be  made,  by  dwelling 
at  some  length  upon  Ulrich  von  Hutteo, 
Moses  Mendelssohn,  Friedrich  Nicolai,  and 
E.  T.  W.  Hoffmann,  while  neglecting  names 
in  some  respects  more  important  To  Klop- 
stock,  also,  much  more  space  is  devoted 
his  genuine  value  in  permanent  litera- 
leems  to  justify.  And  Dr.  Hedgeaston* 
ishes  one  not  a  littie  by  attempting  to  ex- 
tract the  sting  from  Coleridge's  keen  charac- 
lerizatioo  of  Klopstock  as  "a  very  German 
Milton."  He  considers  that  the  Mtiiiak  is 
not  an  Inferior  work  compared  with  Parodist 
Lett,  and  is  "  hardly  prepared  to  say  "  tbat 
Milton  was  "  the  superior  poet "  of  the  two  I 
ur  mind  that  "grand  style  "  of  the 
Puritan  poet,  which  makes  his  epic  immor- 
tal despite  the  trans! tori ness  of  its  theolc^, 
of  all  comparison  with  the  watery 
sentimentality  of  the  respectable  Klopstock, 

the  best  of  whose  work  there  is  always  a 
suspicion  of  manufacture,  rather  than  the 
manifest  conviction  of  inspiration. 

Dr.  Hedge  is  known  by  all  readers  of  the 
best  literature  In  our  tongue,  as  himself  one 
of  the  masters  of  English  speech.  The  fine 
qualities  of  his  style  are  of  so  high  an  order, 
indeed,  that  they  have  been  long  in  winning 
that  recognition  which  is  their  due.  His 
first  sentence  about  Lessing  applies  to  him- 
:elf: 


istUncDCy  (torn  the  ignorant  many  to  The 
cultured  few.  It  is  one  thin;;  to  please  [he 
public,  another  to  educate  it.  A  crude  and  nn- 
[isciplined  tiale_  delights  in  tawdry  sentiment 
and  fUthy  rbetoric;  the  instructed  mind  prefers 
-    Kverer  Style,   with    intimations   o£   reserved 

In  Dr.  Hedge's  other  writings  the  severity 
with  which  he  refrains  from  all  that  can 
hinder  the  steady  march  of  his  argument  is 
noticeable.  The  poet  and  the  rhetorician 
within  him  are  only  allowed  to  speak  when 
the  logician  has  withdrawn,  his  task  com- 
pleted. But  the  strain  that  then  follows  is 
of  the  purest;  the  strong  sentences  are  of 
Imagination  all  compact.  One  familiar  with 
Dr.  Hedge's  books  will  probably  read  some 
distance  into  this  volume  and  be  surprised 

the  absence  of  any  but  the  simplest  state- 
ment, even  when  the  idea  presented  is  the 
most  original,  and  the  illustration  from  liter- 
ature or  history  one  no  other  living  author 

ight  hare  given.  But  as  we  advance,  the 
keenness  of  the  thought,  the  breadth  of 
knowledge  drawn  upon  for  characterising 
and    their   productions,   the    historic 


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po««r,  sod  the  broad,  indicia]  mind  of  the 
Mitbor  aaccft  themselKs  with  power  over 
the  reader.  However  familiar  with  the  orif- 
ioal  Uteratare  and  with  hiitories  of  it  one 
■aj  be,  he  miut  coofcH  diat  here  is  one  of 
tbe  few  works  oa  the  classics  of  Germany 
by  a  mind  of  another  land  of  tbe  very  first 
order  as  a  thinker  and  a  writer.  Dr. 
Hedge's  book  is  evidently  the  best  inlro- 
dnction  for  English  readers  to  German  liter- 
atore  now  to  be  obtained,  not  so  detailed  as 
Sdierer's  history,  and  more  solid  and  coro- 
prebeosive  than  Professor  Hosmer'i. 

The  introductory  chapter  dwells  briefiy 
opoa  the  pecallar  qualities  of  the  German 
mind,  its  predominant  idealism,  its  philo- 
sophic criticism,  its  cosmopolitan  breadth, 
and  upon  its  great  defect,  "the  want  of 
rhetorical  force."  After  a  chapter  on  the 
oldest  monuments  of  the  language,  two 
chapters  are  given  to  the  Nibelui^en  Lied. 
The  lirst  sunmarizes  it.  Summary  exposi- 
tions are  a  feature  of  the  booic,  indeed,  and 
give  it  high  value  as  an  introduction  for 
Aose  entirely  unacquainted  with  the  Utera- 
tare, while  the  extracts,  in  prose  and  vcr«e, 
cover  many  pages.  The  second  chapter  of 
these  two  conpares  the  Ntbelungen  Lied 
with  tiie  Iliad  in  detail,  and  is  one  of  the 
best  things  ever  written  on  the  subject, 
Luther  noon  follows,  and  here  the  picture 
given  of  "  the  greatest  man  of  modern  his- 
tory" is  such  as  only  a  profound  student  of 
tbe  man  and  his  times  could  paint : 

Here  unid  ihe   pbanUinu  which  crowd  the 
stage  of  human  existence  wai  a  great  reality, 
genuine  nature,  s  piece  of  the  solid  woild,  on 
whom  it  ii  impossible  to  imagine   not   to  have 

In  the  chapter  on  the  Seventeenth  and 
Eighteenth  Centuries  a  few  of  the  great 
hymn-writers  and  the  lesser  critics  are  noted 
and  we  come  to  Lessing.  In  esthetic  criti- 
cism "  tlie  Germans  excel  all  nations ;  and 
In  this,  the  greatest  of  the  Germans  is  Les- 
sing." The  biographical  sketch  which  fol- 
lows  does  justice  to  the  sorrows  of  that 
great  genius,  "genius  ...  the  one  thing 
that  mediocrity  can  never  forgive,"  The 
good  Mosei,  the  philosophic  Jew,  Nicolai, 
tbe  deserving  critic,  WieUmd,  that  German 
Mupril,  and  Herder,  the  universal  genius, 
bring  us  to  the  ninety  pages  on  Goethe, 
which  form  the  most  substantial  piece  of 
exposition  and  criticism  in  the  volume.  It 
offers  more  than  one  opportunity  for  dis- 
sent, but  certainly  it  Is  one  of  the  strongest 
pieces  of  writing  tending  toward  eulogy  of 
the  great  Genn>n  known  to  ua.  To  Schiller 
Dr,  Hedge,  however,  still  finds  It  easy  to  be 
just,  as  not  all  great  admirers  of  Goethe 
find  it.  To  Heine  he  seems  to  ui  not  to 
do  full  honor,  and  offers  as  an  explanation 
of  the  praise  bestowed  upon  him  by  promi- 
nent English  critics  the  fact  that  he  de- 
lighted to  abuse  England  above  all  other 
nations ;  certainly  a  rather  Inadequate  cause 
for  such  an  essay  as  Arnold's  on  the  great 
German   wit,    Jean  Paul,   "the  only,"   the 


Romantic  School,  and  Hoffmann,  arc  sym- 
patiietically  treated  in  other  chapters. 

The  student  of  German  Iboi^t  wilt  wel- 
come this  ripe  product  of  Dr.  Hedge's 
strongs  old  age  for  the  masleriy  portraits 
and  pregnant  judgments  of  literature  with 

'hich  it  abounds ;  while  that  large  part  of 
tbe  volume,  intended  more  for  tbe  novice, 
and  consiiting  of  abstract  and  exposition, 

ill  show  bow  much  better  even  snch  work 

:  done  by  the  great  hand  of  an  artist  than 
by  die  utmost  skiU  of  a  literary  artisan. 

8TAKLET  JET0I8.* 

THIS  unassuming  memoir  of  tbe  late 
Stanley  Jevons  is  not  only  the  history 
of  the  life  of  a  profound  and  original  thinker ; 
it  is  also,  and  to  a  highly  interesting  degree, 
a  record  of  sound  and  earnest  chatacter- 
buiMing.  To  find  ont  in  which  direction 
your  special  talent  lies,  to  cnllivate  that 
talent  with  earnest  assidoity,  to  keep  your 
ideal  always  in  view,  and  never  to  forsake 
leading,  to  give  to  the  world  of  the  best 
that  is  in  you,  asking  for  no  reward  save  the 
knowledge  of  good  work  well  done — this  is 
tbe  noble  lesson  we  read  in  the  undramatic 
story  of  bis  intellectual  career. 

The'  question  of  heredity  comes  at  once 
to  the  front  The  grandfather  and  great- 
grandfather of  Stanley  Jevon*  were  Welsh 
nail-makers,  men  of  good  sense,  strong  af- 
fections, and  much  religious  feeling,  who 
received  but  slight  educational  advantages. 
His  father  was  a  man  of  able  mind  and  a 
lover  of  science,  a  student  of  engineering, 
a  writer  on  legal  and  economical  to[ncs,  one, 
moreover,  of  ihy  and  retiring  nature ;  bis 
mother  was  the  eldest  daughter  of  William 
Roscoe,  tbe  biographer  of  Lorenzo  de 
Medid,  and  was  a  woman  of  cultivation, 
possessed  of  fascinating  manners.  The  boy 
Stanley  displayed  at  an  early  age  a  fondness 
for  scientific  pursuits  and  mechanical  dex- 
terity of  an  unusual  order.  When  he  was 
fourteen  years  old  he  was  "a  quiet,  thought 
ful  boy,  very  shy  and  reserved,  and  quit) 
unconscious  of  his  own  abilities,"  but  hii 
sister  wrote  in  her  diary  at  this  time,  "In 
Stanley  I  see  the  dawning  of  a  great  mind.' 
His  mother  carefully  fostered  a  liking  he 
had  for  botany,  and  to  this  discriminating 
study  he  attributed  his  after-success  in  the 
mastery  of  logic.  His  tendency  to  take  the 
strictly  scientific  view  was  an  Important 
characteristic.  At  sixteen  he  had  written 
essay  on  free  will  and  necessity,  "In  which 
he  tried  to  prove  that  the  arguments  in  favor 
of  the  doctrine  of  necessity  were  much 
stronger  than  those  in  favor  of  the  doctrine 
of  freedom  of  will."  A  little  earlier  he  had 
carried  out  an  analytical  comparison  of  the 
gospels,  In  order  that  he  might  have  for  his 
own  use  "a  rigorous  history  of  Christ" 
His   constitutional  reserve   led  faim  to  de- 


il  W.  Sueli7  JiTOM.     Kdh*<! 


ilop  bb  intellectaa]  resonrcea  to  tbe  ut- 
most His  studies  at  University  CoO^e 
were  chiefly  of  physical  science:,  geok^?,  and 
mathcmctics,  while  kwg  walks  in  the  coontiy 
devoted  to  increasing  tiis  botanical 
collections.  Not  many  boys  of  seventeen 
have  the  wisdom  shown  in  these  words  from 
Stanley's  journal : 

It  i*  by  long  repetition  (hat  WOTkmcn  or  ju- 
glers  acquire  inch  perfection,  and  d>e  miy  ci«nt 
given  (o  tbeu  is  for  their  diligence.  Bat  I  (bink 
that  is  exactly  tbe  same  case  with  atodenls,  f«  if 
they  have  been  accustomed  for  a  long  time  to 
■tody  diligently,  bal  particnlarly  in  a  gi/Mi  teay, 
tiiey  gel  praefiad  or  elever  in  xcqairing  Laowl- 

Already  he  had  found  out  that  be  was  a 
"  dependent  moralist,"  and  seven  years  be- 
fore the  paUication  of  71u  Origin  tfSptciet 
he  held  firmly  to  the  belief  "  that  all  animals 
have  been  transformed "  by  natural  in- 
fluences "out  of  one  primitive  form." 

Tbe  period  of  Wamdtrjakrt  was  soon  to 
follow.  In  1854  he  went  out  to  Sydney  as 
assayer  for  the  new  mint,  remaining  Cor  five 
yean  in  Australia,  and  returning  to  England 
by  way  of  Panama  and  New  York.  During 
these  five  years  the  intellectual  development 
ra[Md.  He  mingled  little  witb  sode^, 
and  his  faculty  of  observation  and  his 
qualities  as  a  thinker  were  constantiy  ex- 
panded and  strengthened.  The  bigb  serious- 
ness of  bis  mind  was  a  distinctive  element 
to  be  remembered.  He  took  up  meteorol- 
ogy, and  soon  became  expert  in  tbe  tabu- 
lating and  comparison  of  data-  He  read 
much,  and  thought  more;  he  exiKeases  him- 
self clearly  on  all  subjects  of  moment;  in 
the  process  of  character-molding  the  prelim- 
inary stages  are  complete.  The  great  sub- 
ject that  was  to  occupy  his  later  years  here 
first  made  its  importance  manifest,  and 
political  economy  attr^uted  his  careful  atten- 
tion. In  i860  he  is  back  at  University 
College  studying  for  the  master's  degree, 
and  thenceforth  the  course  is  one  of  con- 
stant and  definite  progress.  His  Theory  of 
Pelitifoi  Economy,  his  valuable  StatisUcal 
Atlat,  his  Ltttures  at  Otutni  CoUtgt,  his 
attacks  on  Mill's  SysUm  of  Legie,  his  many 
published  researches  on  social  and  economi- 
cal themes,  with  the  consequent  public  ac- 
knowledgment of  his  ability,  all  followed 
in  natural  succession.  The  controlling  the- 
ory of  his  life  is  the  theory  of  hard  work, 
and  this  he  maintained  with  rigid  self-analy- 
sis. At  twenty-seven,  when  bis  life  was 
already  four   yeara   past   its   meridian,  he 

In  action,  social  iufloence,  etc,  I  am  nothing 

—  never  shall  be  oi  the  slightest  consequence. 
In  many  kinds  of  mental  influence  I  am  nothing 

—  no  imaglnadon  —  an   imperfect    memory,   no 
claiaicai  or  mathematical  scnolai,  1  heavy  writer. 
I  have  but  one  slight  thread  of  hope,  a  capacity 
of  seeing  the  sameness  and  difference  of  thing!,    , 
which,  if  history  and  the  sayings  of  experienced 
men  are  to  be  believed,  is  a  rate  and  valuable 
kind  of  power.     Let  me  set  the  single  purpose 
before  me  of  developing  and  properly  using  It, 
not  pretending  to  what  fani  not  and  cannot  be    ^ 
in  order  that  I  may  be  what  others  seem  in    , 
capable  of  being. 


i886.] 


THE   LITERARY   WORLD. 


329 


In  the  preparation  of  this  memoir,  Mrs. 
JevoDi  bas  executed  her  labor  oE  love 
with  praiseworthy  modesty  and  nnitj  of 
pufpose.  She  has  allowed  her  late  hiubaod 
to  spealc  largely  for  biinself,  through  copiotu 
extnurti  from  his  jounul  and  family  letten. 
By  thia  method  the  personality  of  a  singu- 
larly attr^cliTC  man  is  made  dearly  mani- 
fest, and  in  this  way  the  editor  is  justified, 
from  the  literary  point  of  view,  in  withhold- 
ing any  attempt  to  portray  JevODs  In  the 
intimacy  of  domestic  life. 


PLiTO  AHD  PAUL.- 

IF  books  were  always  to  be  noticed  ac- 
cording to  tbeir  size,  then  this  volume 
by  Rev.  Dr.  Mendenhall,  a  large  octavo  of 
nearly  eight  hundred  pages,  would  deserve 
sevetvl  columns  of  our  space.  But  it  will 
probably  be  sufficient,  in  fact,  for  us  to  say 
that  Dr.  Mendenhall  appears  to  represent 
well  that  imperfect  culture  of  which  there 
la  so  much  in  the  Methodist  body,  as  in  the 
other  great  sects,  which,  up  to  a  time  not 
for  removed,  cared  little  about  the  educa- 
tion of  their  clergy.  The  zeal  which  they 
now  show  for  learning  is  admirable ;  bat 
from  authors  with  no  intellectual  traditions 
of  generations  behind  them,  like  those  in 
the  Episcopal  or  Congregational  churches, 
one  nuy  least  of  all  expect  mature  and 
profound  work  in  philosophy.  With  a  few 
notable  exceptions,  like  Prof-  Bowne,  Meth- 
odism in  this  country  has  produced  no 
philosophical  treatises  of  any  considerabli 
vaJue.  It  is  too  soon  in  the  new  intellectual 
life  of  this  great  denomination,  which  has 
done  so  much  good  in  advancing  the  relig- 
ious life  of  man,  for  us  to  expect  works 
that  are  always  the  result  of  long-continued 
culture. 

In  the  meanwhile  our  Methodist  breth- 
ren, carrying  into  these  difficult  matters  of 
titought  the  same  zeal  which  honorably  dis- 
tinguishes them  in  religion,  are  sending 
forth,  every  now  and  then,  the  most  am- 
bitious works  on  philosophy  and  science, 
and  their  relations  to  theology,  bearing  the 
marks,  indeed,  as  the  one  before  us,  of  great 
industry,  of  a  rather  unevenly  distributed 
liberality  of  temper  rather  than  of  mind, 
and  in  more  than  one  respect  creditable  to 
their  authors,  but  which  the  tnuoed  student 
of  philosophy  can  scarcely  regard  but  with 
a  sigh.  So  much  of  sheer  assumption, 
determined  a  bias,  such  crudity,  such  cir- 
cular reasoning,  such  floods  of  rhetoric 
invading  the  most  alien  themes  1  — verily 
it  were  better  that  all  but  one  in  a  hundred 
of  these  books  should  never  load  the  book- 
seller's shelves. 

Of  the  philosophic  method  and  spirit  Dr. 
Mendenhall  is  so  thoroughly  unconscious  as 
to  write  that  "  Philosophy  is  the  uncertain, 
itcaute  only  morally  cortatM,  if  at  all  certain, 


system  of  truth  ;  ChrUitoHity  is  lie  mathe- 
ttkally  certain  form  of  the  highest  truth, 
the  Geometrical  Proof  of  Eternal  Ra- 
tios." On  the  contrary, "  natural  selection  is 
a  mere  presupposition  of  science,"  and  Dar- 
winism is  a  "wretched  hypothesis."  Chris- 
tianity is  simply  a  synonym  with  the  author 
for  perfect  truth;  be  has  very  little  power 
of  discrimination,  all  that  is  good  in  our 
civlliiation  being  set  down  to  the  credit  of 
Christianity,  and  all  that  is  not  good  being 
attributed  to  some  other  cause.  "Philos- 
ophy is  speculation ;  Christianity  is  truth;" 
so  the  book  begins,  but  we  are  soon  sur- 
prised to  find  that  the  author's  aim  is  to 
ground  Christianity  on  a  philosophic  basis. 
Surely,  this  is  preposterous,  according  to 
such  a  view  of  philosophy,  to  attempt  to 
ibstitute  speculation  for  assured  truth  in 
the  believer's  mind ;  while  no  intelligent 
i-believer  in  such  revelation  as  Dr.  Men- 
denhall defends,  is  in  the  least  likely  to  be 
converted  by  such  extreme  dogmatism  in 
behalf  of  Christianity,  The  author,  we  con- 
ceive, is  not  enough  of  a  philosopher  to  jus- 
tify his  attempt  to  phtlosophiie  Christianity, 
we  are  afraid  he  is  not  enough  of  a 
Christian  to  Christianize  philosophy.  For 
the  last  task  much  more  is  needed  than 
wide  reading  under  a  strong  bias,  and  a 
mind  active  with  the  activity,  not  of  a  judge, 
but  of  an  attorney.  The  attorney  says  much 
that  is  true  and  valuable;  there  Is  in  thi 
pages,  we  cheerfully  admit,  a  great  deal  of 
valuable  matter  were  it  only  sifted ;  but  the 
attorney  must  not  be  allowed  to  play  at  judge* 
and  this  is  the  fundamental  trouble  with  Dr. 
Mendenhall's  volume. 


BOQKBTBO'B  HISTOET  OF  ICUSIO.' 

THIS  is  an  interesting  work  by  an  expe- 
rienced writer.  The  greater  part 
occupied  with  brief  sketches  of  the  lives  and 
achievements  of  the  great  representative 
musicians  of  all  ages."  A  single  appendix 
contains  "a general  sketch  of  the  technical 
history  of  music  from  the  age  of  the  Greek 
tragedians  to  the  present  time."  And  to 
facilitate  reference  a  separate  section  of  this 
synopsis  is  devoted  "  to  each  well-marked 
epoch  of  progressive  development,  indicating 
in  connection  with  every  section  the  book 
or  chapter  of  the  general  history  which  the 
technical  remarks  in  question  are  intended 
to  illustrate.'*  The  work  is  divided  into  six 
books,  treating,  respectively,  of  music  in  the 
early  ages ;  of  music  in  the  middle  ages ;  of 
music  in  the  seventeenth,  eighteenth,  and 
nineteenth  centuries ;  and  of  the  present 
condition  of  music,  and  its  probable  influence 
upon  the  future.  After  the  appendix,  which 
divides  the  technical  history  of  music  into 
nine  sections,  the  work  ends  with  an  index 
of  thirty-five  pages,  the  value  and  conven- 


A  Genen]  Hiilonr  of   Mvik 


ience  of  which  is  much  increased  by  its 
being  also  a  chronological  table,  the  dates 
both  of  musicians  and  of  compositions  being 
placed  after  the  titles.  The  work  is  clear 
and  in  portions  even  eloquent;  but  the  his- 
tory of  music  Is  no  easy  subject,  and  espe- 
cially when  condensed  into  one  volume  of 
five  hundred  pages  it  requires  considerate 
reading  and  supposes  some  information, 
unless  the  reader  will  make  excursive  or 
collateral  reading  as  he  finds  necessary.  The 
of  redtativc,  the  rise  of  the  opera, 
and  the  development  of  the  oratorio,  are  well, 
though  briefly,  set  forth.  The  remarkable 
ipulse  distinguishing  the  eighteenth  cen- 
tury is  announced  thus : 

After    the  close  of    the  seventeenth   ccntniy 
the  history  of  art  no  longer  records  the  prodnc- 
lion  of  works  remarkable  only  for  their  compara- 
tive excellence,  the  achievements  of  composers 
vho,  apart  from  their  inlrinaic  merit,  claim  our 
admiration  on  the  ground  that  they  were  in  ad- 
vance of  their  age.    Tbe  period  upon  the  history 
of  which  we  are   now  about  to  enter  prodacea 
works  which  can  never  grow  old,  gave  birth  to 
CMnpoeen  whose  genios  was  not  merely  great  in 
to  the  talent  displayed  by  contemporary 
bat  so  truly  great  in  itself  that  we  cannot 
t  the  time  in  which  it  will  lie  forgotten. 
Then  follows  the  mention  of  the  seveD 
Immortal  names  thus  referred  to,  Palestrina, 
Handel,  Sebastian    Bach,    Gluck,    Haydn, 
Moaart,   and  Beethoven.      Palestrina  pre- 
ceded bis  gr^at  brethren  by  two  hundred 
years;  but  the  rest  are  grouped  as  children 
of  the  eighteenth  century. 

It  ii  true  [says  tbe  author]  that  two  of  them 
outlived  it,  and  that  one  produced  a  long  series 
of  bis  finest  compositions  alter  its  close ;  bat  we 
are  none  the  less  justified  in  saving  that  they 
wrought  their  great  life-work  within  its  bounds. 
And  the  life-work  of  tbe  seven  bright  luminaries 
we  have  menlioned  represents  all  that  is  greatest 
and  noblest  in  every  domain  uf  art;  from  the 
most  stupendous  composilioni  for  the  service  of 
the  church  to  the  simplest  chamber  music  we 
posaess;  from  the  grandest  of  oratorios  to  the 
comic  operetta;  from  (he  concerto  which  taxes 
the  utmost  skill  of  our  most  accomplished  virtis- 
wi'io  (he  minuet  that  forms  tbe  child's  firstlesson 
on  the  pianoforte. 

The  separate  chapters  given  to  each  of 
these  great  names  are  excelfent  examples  of 
judgment  in  condensation,  and  form  al- 
together sixty  pages  of  history  morally  very 
inspiring.  Other  great  composers  are  by  no 
means  slighted,  but  their  contributions  are 
enumerated  and  estimated.  The  chapter  on 
the  History  of  English  Music  after  Handel 
is  not  made  unimportant  by  its  brevity.  We 
may  describe  the  whole  work,  indeed,  as  a 
rapid  but  distinct  view  of  a  vast  field,  includ- 
ing so  many  details  as  to  give  it  great  value 
as  a  compendium,  with  long  and  special  em- 
phases on  important  points  selected  with 
knowledge  and  judgment.  As  to  the  present 
state  of  music,  including  Wagner's  work,  and 
the  outlook,  the  author  is  full  of  faith.     He 

We  cannot  agree  with  those  who  took  forward 
to  a  disastrous  future.  Granted  that  we  are  with- 
out a  leader  fitted  to  wear  tbe  crown  laid  down  - 
by  Beethoven  more  than  half  ■  century  ago ;  1. 
does  it  necessarily  follow  that  no  such  leader  is 
living  among  useven  now,  onknown,  learning  his 
gamut  perhaps  in  a  garret,  in  Soho,  as  Beethoven 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[July  io, 


teamed  his,  at  Bonn  ?  Can  we  even  be  lute  that 
be  is  not  already  >C  wotk  in  London,  or  Paiit,  oi 
Dresden,  and  failing  in  hit  woilc,  aa  Glucli  failed 
in  the  king's  theater  in  1745  ?  Who  can  say  that 
his  Grit  opera,  or  oraloiio,  or  aymphonj,  or  sotig, 
or  little  pianoforte  piece,  hat  not  already  been 
given  to  the  world  and  mitsed  itt  mark  I 

The  author  points  out  "  analogies  betweea 
the  CDodilion  and  prospects  of  art  in  the  6rst 
aad  fourth  quarters  of  the  DioeteCDth  cen- 
tury," and  notes  what  he  considers  this 
"remarkable  coincidence : " 

When  Beethoven  pasted  from  the  world  h« 
bequeathed  to  it  a  style  which  set  imitation  at 
defiance,  and  a  problem  which  no  critic  of  the 
time  was  ctcver  enough  to  solve.  The  ilyle  was 
-  that  belonging  lo  what  is  now  called  his  third 
period.  The  problem  was  the  true  position  of 
his  latest  woiks  in  the  history  of  ate  And  ate 
we  not  busied  now  with  the  inTCsttgation  of  a 
style  which  no  one  can  imitate  and  striving  to 
forestall  the  judgment  that  will  be  passed  fifty 
years  hence  on  Dtr  Ring  dot  Nibtlttngin,  and 
Parsifal,  and  Trillan  und  lieldt  t  Out  minds 
are  as  much  occupied  now  with  these  matter* 
as  the  minds  of  our  grandfathers  were  with  the 
Ninth  Symphony  and  the  Mass  in  D. 

The  book  is  beautifully,  even  sutnptuotisly, 
maDofaclured,  but  not  more  so  than  is 
worthy  of  its  substantia)  value. 


EIOOBAFHT. 


TransadiBHs  and  Changes  in  tkt  Society  0/ 
Friends,  and  Incidents  in  the  Life  and  Experi- 
ence of  Joshua  Maule,  etc,  etc  0.  B.  Llppin- 
cottCo.    >i.50.] 

The  title  of  this  book  contains  in  full  forty-six 
words,  which  it  about  forty  loo  many.  A  title 
should  not  be  a  table  of  contents,  or  an  approach 
to  one.  The  fnll  title  is  divided  by  two  periods 
into  three  sectionl,  of  which  we  have  given  above 
only  the  first,  bnt  that  first  contains  eighteen 
words.  The  trouble  is  that  what  Mr.  Maulc  has 
written  is  his  autobiography,  but  that  he  is  too 
modest  to  call  it  by  its  proper  name.  Hr.  Maule 
is  a  Pennsylvania  Friend,  having  been  bom  in 
Delaware  County  in  1S06.  Doubtless  there  may 
be  more  lovely  people  in  the  world  than  Pennsyl- 
vania p'riends,  but  we  have  never  known  them. 
They  arc  a  class  by  themselves,  as  simple,  pure, 
and  fragrant  as  the  lilies  of  the  valley.  Mr. 
Uaule,  though  we  do  not  see  his  face  in  this 
book,  wtites  as  if  he  were  truly  one  of  his  people. 
His  profoundly  religious  temper  finds  expression 
in  forms  as  sweet  and  unaffected  as  infancy  itself. 
Where  do  wc  find  that  child-likeness  which  is  the 
essence  of  the  Kingdom  of  Heaven  so  fully  as  we 
find  it  in  the  typical  Friend?  With  charming 
unaffectedncss  Mr.  Maule  tells  us  of  his  boyhood 
and  youth,  of  his  marriage,  of  the  meetings  he 
used  to  attend  in  the  good  old  days,  of  his  giving 
up  trade  in  tobacco,  of  his  aboli 
of  his  antiwar  efforts,  and  his  refusal 
war  tax,  o(  J.  J.  Gurney  and  Ann  Bronson,  of  his 
[s  to  Ohio  and  lo  England,  of  his  second 


nage. 


and  of  his  friend  and  a 


:  Hannah 


Hall ;  and  through  all  IheSe  recollections  of 
long,  eventful,  but  unobtrusive  life  one  gets 
glimpses  of  the  life  of  his  kind,  of  their  coni 
versies,  dissensions,  divisions,  of  their  dlscipli 
doctrine,  and  duty ;  and  these  glimpses  amount 
almost  lo  a  history.  A  tone  of  sadness  ru 
through  Mr.  Maule's  narrative;  he  notes  a 
mourns  the  changing  principles  and  practice 
his  sect;  how  tenderly  and  humbly  he  clings 
the  secret  of  the  Inner  Light,  and  how  devoted 


is  hit  adherence  to  the  life  of  spiritual  truth  and 
purity  whit^h  his  tenets  prescribe  I 

A  Ckrtmcle,  together  with  a  Little  Romance 
Regarding  Rudolf  and  Jacob  Naf  of  Ftankford. 
Penntylvania,  and  their  Descendants,  Including 
an  Account  of  the  Nefis  In  Switierland  and 
America.  By  Gliiabeth  Clifford  NeS,  [Cin- 
cinnati .'  Robert  Clarke  &  Co.    (5.00.] 

Here  is  another  book  with  too  long  a  title. 
Twenly-elght  words  are  twenty  too  many.  How- 
ever, the  compiler-author  wanted  to  give  an  an- 
tique look  to  her  title-page,  and  the  contents  of  it, 
as  well  as  the  type,  must  therefore  be  made  con- 
tribudvc  to  Ihat  end.  And  a  rather  striking  title- 
page  it  is,  and  a  striking  book  In  fact  all  through ; 
square,  thick,  eolid,  printed  on  rough,  heavy,  and 
tinted  paper,  with  spacious  margin  and  uncut 
edges.  It  is*  genealogical  bislory  of  the  NeS 
family,  with   tables  and  a  few  illustrative  fai- 

tilei,  beginning  with  the  origin  of  the  family  in 
Switierland  350  years  ago,  and  following  down 
the  various  American  ttreains  lo  the  present  day. 
A  distinguished  later  member  of  the  family  was 
Felix  NefE,  the  missionary  of  the  Alps.  Rudolf 
and  Jacob  Naf,  the  American  progenitors,  came 
to  America  the  middle  of  the  last  century,  and 
ittled  at  Frankfotd,  neat  Philadelphia.  They 
found  a  home  with  one  Mrs.  Morse,  who  look  the 
strangers  in  with  true  Christian  hospitality.  Of 
course  In  due  time  Rudolf  Naf  married  Hannah 
Morse ;  the  story  how,  might  have  been  wrought 
up  into  an  Idyl  by  Bayard  Taylor.  Presently, 
too,  Peter  married  Rebecca  Stout,  and  from  these 
toorcet  the  Neffs  ipread  into  Virginia  and 
Ohio.  Sketches  of  various  lines  of  descent  are 
contributed  by  liiSerent  hands,  introducing  many 
incidents  of  domestic  life  and  pleasant  personal 
traits.  Genealogical  data  are  given  in  full  detail. 
The  book  it  as  handsome  as  a  monument,  and 
much  more  to  the  purpose.  Happy  the  family 
which  finds  so  contdentious,  loving,  and  capable 
a  chronicler.  We  notice  on  p.  9  the  obvious 
miiprint  of  Rebecca  for  Rebecca. 

The  Laird  Bf  Lag.  A  Life-Sketch.  By  Alex- 
ander Fergusson.  [Edinburgh :  David  Douglas- 
New  Yoik :  A-  D.  F.  Randolph  &  Co.    fc.oo.] 

This  book  has  a  lille  as  it  should  be,  compact, 
euphonious,  and  to  the  point ;  and  a  title-page 
etched,  with  a  vignette,  showing  an  old  lurreted 
Elizabethan  mansion  in  the  moonlight,  a  pretty 
scene;  and  in  all  outward  respects  it  is  what  a 
book  should  be,  tall,  broad-maixined,  large-typed, 
printed  on  rough  paper  with  gilt  tops,  front 
edges  uncut,  and  bottom  untrimmed,  and  bound 
in  a  dark  linen  which  shows  a  glimmer  of  gilt- 
The  author  is  the  editor  of  Mrs.  Calderaeod' s 
ZeAItt/,  which  our  readers  have  reason  lo  remem- 
ber. The  dedication  is  lo  Mr.  Ruakin,  "a  Scot 
half  in  blood  and  wholly  in  affection."  The  edi 
tion  it  limited, and  of  the  500  copies  printed  only 
100  have  been  imported  by  Mr.  Randolph.  Wi 
doubt  if  any  of  these  now  remain,  as  the  book 
has  been  waiting  on  our  table  some  tim< 
the  notice  it  deserves-  The  Laird  of  Lag  was 
Sii  Robert  Grierson.  His  life  belongs  lo  th 
time  of  the  Scotch  Covenanters,  of  whom  he  wi 
a  good  hater  and  a  sturdy  persecutor.  "Lag" 
was  the  name  he  went  by.  Claverhouse,  Daliell, 
or  Dalycll,  and  "Lag"  were  the  three  names 
that  inspired  the  greatest  terror  on  the  Scot- 
tish border  in  James's  lime.  Grierson  was  a 
country  gentleman  and  magistrate.  He  had  a 
high  Teputation  as  a  man  rA  business,  and  threw 


imtelf  with  all  possible  energy  into  the  con- 
genial work  of  searching  out  Covenanters  and 
burning  down  conventicles.  At  Ihe  head  of  his 
troopers  he  rode  up  and  down  the  country,  hnnl- 
ig  fugitives  as  he  would  foxes.  He  had  tome 
mnection  with  the  cate  of  the  Wigtown  Martyr*, 
celebrated  by  Hacaulay,  the  exact  nature  of 
which  is  a  matter  of  dispute,  and  which  is  Ihe 
subject  of  one  of  Mr.  Feigusson's  chaplers.  He 
is  also  ihe  hero  of  "Wandering  Willie's  Tale" 
Scott's  RedgaunUei,  which  is  reprinted  here  in 
full  with  notes.  Mr.  Feigusson  has  written  up  his 
~  ct  with  a  good  deal  of  antiquarian  curiosity, 
brought  lo  bear  on  it  a  considerable  amount  of 
fresh  light,  and  made  of  it  an  interesting  and 
lively  chapter  of  Scotch  history  in  the  days  of  Ihe 
Rebellion. 

lOHOa  KOTIOES. 


All  lovers  of  nature  may  grasp  the  hand  of 
fellowship  as  they  meet  TTie  Saunterir.  Mr. 
Whiting,  whose  name  is  here  rescued  from  the 
anonymity  of  journalism,  makes  us  a  gift  out  of 
his  heart  in  this  little  book.  It  is  the  record 
of  beautiful  and  significant  hours;  of  many 
memorable  phases  of  the  outward  and  the  in- 
ward life.  There  is  nothing  vague  In  these 
ipressions  and  confidences;  what  he  brings 
and  what  he  finds  upon  his  walks  is  clearly 
iBsed.  Mr.  Whiting's  universe,  loo,  is  al- 
ways a  universe  closely  related  to  man.  For 
this  suffering,  striving,  aspiring  fellow-creature 
sympathy  is  warm  though  silent,  for  the  man 
who  knows  the  secrets  of  nalure  can  keep  his 
wn.  He  has  both  the  manly  openness  and  the 
lanly  reticence  of  the  good  companion.  The 
short  poems,  which  alternate  with  the  brief 
essays,  strike  a  somewhat  higher  and  keener 
>le ;  they  are  too  earnest  to  share  the  honors 
ith  the  current  magailne  verse,  though  their 
melody  and  grace,  no  less  than  their  meaning, 
commend  them  lo  the  delicate  ear.  This  terse, 
;pressire,  we  11 -modulated  English  disproves, 
so  far  as  il  goes,  the  saying  that  the  professional 
;  is  the  author  who  cannot  write.  The 
suming  preacher  of  the  Sunday  paper,  ready 
do  good  and  throw  it  inio  the  sea,"  tells, 
with  the  authority  of  experience,  the  old  story 
of  the  value  of  the  soul ;  the  world  that  we 
know  has  its  rapture,  its  endless  beauty,  bat 
there  is  something  belier  Ihat  we  wait  for.  We 
look  on,  smiling,  at 

"The  world  in  inuuies  frHly  opei 
For  bim  (hit  cliiDbt  aim]  hin  Ihal  gropes; 

IjvH  on  l>^roii<l  Ihe  realm  of  |;raTes. 


darkhKiU; 
-  exA  one  feel: 


"  The  world  iu  batlle  I 


M.  Ribot  is  one  of  the  most  brilliant  examples 
of  the  well-known  French  talent  for  exposition. 


lS86.] 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


'i' 


Hit  TMioua  works  in  philosophy,  eapecullf 
thOM  dcToted  to  foreign  countries,  are  nuukcd 
bf  thorough nesa  and  candor.  Id  lh«  InlTodac- 
tion  to  the  present  weak,  indeed,  be  aomelinKa 
apeaka  with  *a  ardor  of  admiration  for  the  "new 
pajpchology,"  and  a  depicciation  of  Ihe  old, 
which  need  correction,  hia  ovrn  pagea,  in  fact, 
furnishing  the  needed  conections  a  little  further 
over.  But  his  main  business  is  simply  to  ex- 
pound the  actual  position  in  Germany  of  Ihe 
pajchologicat  school  —  which  employs  every  re- 
aonrce  of  the  laboratory  in  Ihe  ttiveitigation  of 
mind  ia  it*  material  aspect,  an  aspect  never  to 
be  slighted,  any  more  than  it  is  to  be  exagger- 
ated. The  results  arc,  in  more  than  one  direc- 
tion, timply  marvelous,  which  Fecbner  and 
Wundt,  for  example,  have  reached  in  determin- 
ing the  nature  of  the  tempcrat  are-sense,  the 
velocity  of  thought,  and  many  other  problems 
hitherto  unknown  to  the  accepted  psycholof^. 
Dr.  UcCoah  may  well  say  that  M.  Rlbot  has 
here  condensed  into  one  manageable  votume 
the  result  of  observations,  experiments,  and 
calcalatiotu  only  to  be  found  in  a  multitude  of 
books  moat  difficult  to  collect.  The  book  is  in- 
dispensable to  all  who  would  know  the  lateat  and 
fullest  word  of  science  concerning  the  physiology 
of  mind. 

Mffdtm  Unilarianiim.     EsMjS  and  Sermons. 
[J.  B.  Uppincott  Co.    %\.z^\ 

The  dedication  of  a  new  church  building  by 
the  First  Unitarian  Society  of  Philadelphia,  last 
February,  was  made  the  occasion  of  a  quite 
notable  conference,  which  drew  together  a  dozen 
of  the  most  prominent  preachers  of  Ihe  de- 
nomination- The  essays  and  sermons  there 
given  and  here  collected  are  of  a  high  order  of 
alMlity,  even  for  the  intellectual  body  bam  which 
Ibey  emanate,  and  a  stranger  to  Unitarianisn 
can  hardly  fail  to  be  impressed  a*  well  by  Ihe 
high  earnestness  and  Ihe  strong  moral  power 
which  runs  through  the  volume.  The  title  is 
an  apt  one,  since  all  schools  of  thought  in  Ihe 
body  are  represented,  from  Dr-  Fcabody  dis- 
coursing on  the  simplicily  of  the  go«pel  to  Rev. 
M.  J.  Savage  magnifying  the  debt  of  religion  to 
science.  Three  papers  are  of  particular  interest 
and  value  to  all  readers  interested  in  the  relig- 
ious and  moral  life  of  our  republic  :  the  dis- 
passionate review  of  a  century  of  Unilarianism 
in  America,  by  Rev.  J.  H.  Allen,  the  thorough 
discnsuon  of  the  Church  as  a  School  of  Ethics, 
by  Rev.  T.  R.  Slicer,  and  the  fine  essay  on 
Religion  and  Democracy,  by  Rev.  H.  N.  Brown, 
'in  the  line  of  Lowell's  saying:  "Democracy 
does  not  mean,  'I  am  aa  good  as  yon  are 
means, '  You  are  aa  good  aa  I  am.'  " 


A  Shadani  of  Dante.    Being  an  Essay  towards 

Studying  Himself,  his  World,  and  his  Pilgrimage. 

'  Maria  Franceses  Ro«setU.    [Roberts  Bros. 


This  is  a  new  edition,  at  a  reduced  price,  of  the 
admirable  work  by  Mias  Rossctii,  issued  seme 
years  ago,  and  commended  then,  aa  it  deserved  to 
be,  to  all  readers  of  Dante,  by  the  discriminat- 
ing critic  Miss  Rosseiti,  who  is  no  unworthy 
member  of  a  most  remarkable  family,  gives  in  a 
clear  style  and  an  attractive  manner  Just  the  pre- 
liminary knowledge  of  the  poet's  life,  and  hit 
conception  of  the  universe  (with  a  plan),  which 
tb«  reader  af  the  Divine  Comedy  needs  to  begin 
with  anderstanding.  She  then 
randnaoot  exposition  of  Ihe  poem  with  a  ch^ter 


00  The  Word  and  the  Apparition  of  Virgil ;  then 
follows  a  section-map  of  the  Hell,  a  chapter  of 
nnout  explanation  of  Dante's  thought,  and 
then  a  chapter  following  his  pilgrimage,  step  by 
step,  through  the  Inftrn9.  The  same  thorough 
method  of  discussion  is  applied  to  the  PHrgatv 
ria  and  the  Paradin.  The  tranalations  freely 
used  are  W.  M.  Rossetti's  for  the  first  division  of 
the  Comedy,  and  Longfellow's  for  the  other  two ; 
Dante's  portrait  by  Giotto  is  prefixed.  No  better 
guide  to  the  understanding  of  Dante  exists,  we 
believe,  in  English,  and  our  only  regret  Is  that 
Miss  RoBsetIi  does  not  seem  to  be  acquainted 
with  what  severe  Judges  consider  the  translation 
of  the  Divine  Comedy,  by  the  man  whose  mission 
in  life  is  plainly  to  leave  that  translation  com- 
plete —  Dr.  T.  W.  Parsons. 


Professor  Milne  of  the  Imperial  College  tA 
Engineering,  Tokio,  Japan,  gives  in  this  volume 
of  the  "International  Scientific  Series"  a  very 
clear,  intelligible,  and  interesting  sommary  of 
Ihe  facts,  and  the  deductions  from  the  facts, 
concerning  the  shaking  and  trembling  of  tlie 
earth ;  not  only  concerning  that  perceptible  to 
ordinary  observers,  but  that  also  which  is  dis- 
covered only  by  more  refined  methods.  He 
gives,  in  addition,  the  more  important  and  prob- 
able theories  concerning  the  causes  of  the  mo- 
tions, critldiing  each  theory  with  candor  and 
Bcuteneas.  The  causes  are  unquestionably  va- 
rious; and  our  only  regret  In  reading  Professor 
Hilne's  remarks  is  that  he  did  not  consider  at 
greater  length  Bonssinganlt's  conception,  that 
great  mountains  are  so -netimes  resting  on  arches, 
which  settle  and  crack  ;  producing  "cantilever  " 
tillingorseesawmovements.  The  Messrs- Apple- 
UHishould  not  have  tantalised  the  reader  by  giving 
him,  pp-  1x6,  117,  Ihe  description  of  an  exceed- 
ii^gly  Interesting  "  accompanying  map,"  which 
map,  nevertheless,  does  not  accompany  Ihe 
book,  and  seems  lo  have  been  forgotten. 


Gardens,  Farms,  and  Climate.  By  Theodore  S. 
Van  Dyke.  [Fords,  Howard  &  Hulberl.  (l.jo.] 
Mr.  Van  Dyke  knows  his  Southern  California 
thoroughly.  He  has  lived  there  for  years;  he 
has  explored  it  with  genuine  enthusiasm;  he 
calls  it  fondly,  home.  Of  course,  with  this  pre- 
mise, one  is  willing  to  allow  for  the  personal 
equation  and  Mr.  Van  Dyke's  optimism,  whili 
it  cast*  a  cheerful  glow  over  his  descriptions, 
impresses  one  as  genuine,  and  on  the  whole  jus- 
tifiable- In  spite  of  the  fact  that  Southern  Cali- 
fornia is  so  famed  in  popular  tradition,  it  is  sur- 
prising how  vague  and  untrustworthy  ia  the  fund 
of  Information  touching  the  actual  characteristics 
of  a  regicm  that  has  altracled  so  much  of  wealth 
and  culture  within  its  borders.  The  author  dis- 
claims at  the  outset  any  desire  to  cater  to  Ihe 
morbid  Imaginings  of  that  unhappiest  of  mor- 
tals, the  seeker  after  an  earthly  paradise.  He 
declines  to  expatiate  upon  the  advantages  of  this 
and  that  town-site;  he  wilt  not  enter  upon  any 
enlidug  arrangement  of  figures  whereby  antici- 
patory fortunes  are  evolved  from  embryo  vine- 
yards and  orange-groves ;  he  firmly  and  constat- 
enlly  ignores  anything  in  the  guise  of  statistics  — 
are  not  the  national  census  reports  open  to  alt  ? 
The  result  is  a  book  in  which  the  ideaa  and  Im- 
prewlons  of  ■irae  lover  ot  luMre  and  a  facile  and 


graceful  writer  are  expressed  with  sincerity  and 
candor.  First  we  get  Ibrongh  the  author's  eyes 
bird's-eye  view  of  the  land  from  the  summit  of 
the  highest  peak  in  the  San  Bernardino  mount- 
ains. After  this  general  outlook  Mr.  Van  Dyke 
lakes  us  on  a  winter  stroll,  discusses  the  peculiari- 
of  the  seasons,  devotes  no  less  than  eight  of 
the  twenty  chapter*  composing  the  volume  lo 
"animals,  birds,  and  fishes,"  tells  us  something 
of  the  native  insects  and  reptiles,  with  sensible  re- 
marks on  the  rattlesnake  which  ought  to  mitigate 
current  belief  in  whiskey  as  a  soverei^  anti- 
dote for  the  vims  of  that  special  genus  of  crela- 
lida-—XRA  then  turns  lo  the  subjects  of  rural 
life,  agricultural  methods,  the  climate,  concluding 
with  hints  to  the  intending  settler,  and  a  chapter 
on  drawbacks,  which  is  chiefiy  an  argument  going 
to  show  that  Ihe  drawbacks,  properly  conudered, 
o  drawbacks  at  all.  Mr.  Van  Dyke  consid- 
'iih  practical  sagacity  Ihe  allied  topics,  cnl- 
on  and  irrigation,  setting  forth  clearly  that 
the  latter  is  only  accessory  to  the  former,  and 
that  thorough  cultivation  without  irrigation  is 
vastly  preferable  to  irrigation  alone.  Mr.  Van 
Dyke  holds  forth  no  gilded  prospect  for  the  in- 
tending sf  tiler.  Fruit-culture,  as  a  general  thing, 
he  tells  us,  pays  a  good  profit  over  expenses.  As 
to  farming,  "  all  the  advantages  over  other  lands 
that  California  offers  tA  mere  farmers  sre  in  Ihe 
way  of  comfort  and  ease  and  freedom  from  cli- 
matic annoyances."  We  are  sorry  to  find  a 
writer  of  so  much  merit  joining  the  vaat  caravan 
of  misguided  minds  who  evidently  believe  that 
Hilton  was  once  guilty  of  that  absurd  invention 
of  mock-poetic  tautology,  "  UvA^fieldi  and  past- 
ures new."  Bui  since  Mr-  John  Burroughs  ha* 
adapted  the  phrase  as  the  title  of  a  book,  we  most 
not  be  too  severe  upon  one  who  contents  himself 
with  Dsing  so  hackneyed  a  travesty  in  Ihe  com- 
parative obscurity  of  a  preface. 

Many  Miitakti  Mended.  [New  York :  N.  Tib- 
balls  &  Sons.    tl.00.] 

This  anonymous  work  is  one  of  a  class  which 
literary  readers  should  find  both  interesting  and 
profitable.  It  is  written  to  correct  common 
errors  in  English,  and  adds  "  practical  hint*  on 
composition  and  punctuation."  After  pretty  care- 
ful examination  we  think  the  book  an  extraordi- 
nary combination  of  much  useful  and  well- written 
instruction  and  some  strange  blunderii^.  lis  top- 
ics are  :  errors  in  the  use  of  words  and  phrases ; 
synonyms;  redimdancies ;  errors  in  certain  par- 
ticular "parts  of  speech;"  slang,  vulgarisms, 
etc;  pronunciation;  miscellaneous  matters  re- 
lating to  English  composition  and  rhetoric ;  and, 
finally,  correction  of  proof  and  tables  of  abbrevi- 
ations, and  of  Latin  and  French  phrases.  We 
wish  space  permitted  the  selection  and  consider- 
ation of  some  examples;  but  may  only  speak 
briefly  of  a  few  general  characteristic*  of  the 
vrork-  Like  probably  all  writers  on  language, 
this  BOthor  sometimes  stales  a  matter  on  which 
arguments  are  very  evenly  divided,  as  if  one 
view  was  indisputable.  At  least  three  limes  be 
violate*  correct  rules  laid  down  by  himself.  The 
chapters  on  synonyms  and  on  pronunciation  are 
very  good,  but  open  to  occasional  criticisms,  and 
the  latter  omits  some  generally  mispronouitced 
words.  Tliose  on  composition  and  punctuation 
are  full  of  good  instruction  in  brief  form;  that 
on  capitals  very  faulty  and  defective.  On  the 
whole,  we  recommend  the  book  only  for  persons 
able  to  discriminate  its  good  from  its  bad  pcnnta. 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[July  io, 


The  Literary  World. 


BOSTON,  JULY  10.  1886. 


"  Tb«tel(  BOpUcalnttae  woildi"  he  want  oa  wlUi 
■DlmaUoD,  "  oe  placa  Id  the  world  for  thorouch  good 
llvlDC-  msatal  ud  pliyilciU  —  like  ■  wcll-repilatad 
New  Enslaed  town,  Dot  too  Ur  from  BoUon " 
"  Aad  Dot  too  attki  It,"  lucEntad  JoIid.  "  Yai,  ud 
It  nnit  have  tti  awa  ladlvidua] 


life,' 


THE  OUTLOOK  AT  DETfiOIT. 

SO  (requeoUy  is  it  aaserled  that  "the 
West"  is  destitute  of  litenry  tute, 
talcDt,  and  culture,  that  many  readers  will 
be  surprised,  so  says  a  correspoodeDt  at 
Detroit,  to  learn  what  contributions  Michi- 
gan has  made  to  the  country's  literary  fame, 
and  bow  Detroit  itself  is  making  rapid 
strides  toward  the  legitimate  claim  of  being 
an  intellectual  "  Hub."  There  is  a  good 
sprinkling  of  genius,  we  are  told,  among  the 
clover  fields  and  orchards  of  the  great 
PrOQODtory  State,  and  all  that  is  needed  is 
said  to  be  some  adequate  personal  force  to 
precipitate  and  crystalliu  the  elements  now 
in  solution.  An  N.  P.  Willis,  our  corre- 
spondent calls  for;  but  we  doubt  whether 
that  particular  type  of  poet  and  essayist 
would  exactly  meet  the  case  as  an  "  intellect- 
ual Columbus."  It  is  encouraging  to  learn, 
however,  that  the  young  writers  of  Michigan 
are  beginning  to  find  that  it  is  a  "  waste  of 
stamps"  to  send  their  manuscripts  to  the 
over-fed  and  apathetic  Harptr't,  Ctntttry, 
and  Atianiic,  and  that  they  are  calling  out 
for  a  magazine  of  their  own. 

The  present  impetus  in  the  right  direction 
of  general  culture  our  correspondent  traces, 
so  far  as  Michigan  is  concerned,  to  the  Art 
Loan  Exhibition  in  Detroit  in  1883.  To 
read  from  her  letter  in  full: 

During  that  Exhibition,  which  laitted 
months,  and  wu  a  most  aucceuful  enterprise, 
there  was  disseminated  throughuut  the  Stale 
desire  (u  know  something  more  oE  art  «nd  the 
"  hoinaaitjcs,"  and  hundreds  for  the  first  time 
learned  that  CoTOt  painted  landscapes  and  Ha- 
rillo  cupids.  Upon  liie  return  from  a  visit  to 
thai  grilnd  array,  young  ladies  found  themselves 
exchanging  thread  and  linen  and  braid  for 
brushes  and  tubes  and  ebonized  panels,  while 
Daisy  Millir  and  her  many  companions 
laid  aside  for  Ruskin's  Mederii  Paintiri.  The 
oulgrowlh  of  it  all  is  a  permanent  museu 
an,  a  suitable  building  for  which  will  lie  erected 
is  soon  as  the  mviageDlcnt  perfect  details.  The 
necessary  funds,  to  the  amount  of  a  hundred 
thousand  dollars,  have  been  already  subscribed. 
The  first  Annual  Eihibilion  of  the  Museum 
opened  in  Merrill  Hall,  on  Woodward  Avenue, 
in  Detroir,  in  May  last,  to  continue  two  weeks, 
but  owing  to  the  manifest  interest  the  managers 
extended  the  time  ten  days.  Rembrandt  Peali 
famous  "Court  of  Death"  was  shown,  n< 
owned  by  the  Museum.  Among  old  maste 
represented  were  Murillo,  Claude  Lorraine,  and 
Rabent.   Corot  had  three  iaodscape*;  Boogereau 


represented  by  the  "Nat  Gatherers;"  "local 
talent "  was  not  lacking. 

Speaking  <rf  art  and  artist*,  a  pleasant  item 
which  appeared  In  the  Detroit  Evening  Ntwi  the 
other  day  was  as  fallows  : 

W.  H.  Hilliard,  an  artiu  of  wide  reputation, 
who  bas  three  picture*  in  the  art  exhibition  at 
Merrill    Hall,   arrived  here   yesterday  and   will 
main  several  days.     One  of  the  pictures  repre- 
jnts   the  tomb  o(    John   Howard   Payne,   the 
author  of  "  Home,  Sweet  Home,"    It  belongs  to 
Senator  T.  W.  Palmer.  .  .  Mr.  Milliard,  during 
the  past  twenty-fire  years,  has  (raveled  all  over 
the  world  with  his  accomplished  wife,  whose  cor- 
respondence for  leading  journals  in  England  and 
America  gained  her  an  enviable  rank  among  lit- 
erary women  and  added  considerable  to  their  in- 
come.    Living  entirely  by  the  brush  and  the  pen, 
this  well-mated  couple  have  passed  Iheir  married 
life  in   flitting  from   one   part  of  the  world  to 
lother,  just  as  fancy  led  them.  .  . 
In  addition  to  other  attraction*  the  managers 
of  the  present  exhibition  conceived  the  ciperi- 
nent  of  giving  a  "  free  day  "  on  Thursday,  the 
7tli  of  June.    The  results  were  most  gratifying, 
3,516  persons  by  actual  count  having  attended 
'  10  P.  M.    On  the  whole  the  Museum  of  Art 
the  most  substantial  source  of  intellectual  cul- 
ration,  in  a  genera]  tense,  that  ha*  yet  come  to 
the  people  of  Michigan. 

Judged  by  its  joumaliBm  Detroit  is  n- 
garded  by  our  correspondent  as  not  pro- 
gressing : 

A  few  years  ago,  to  obtain  a  copy  of  the  Sun- 
day Fm  Prat  was  to  sit  down  to  a  collation  of 
good  things,  so  replete  were  Its  columns 
varied  and  superior  contributions.  There 
Col.  W.  D.  Wilkin*  (now  deceased),  whose  letters 
from  abroad  took  one  through  the  famous  gal- 
leries of  Amsterdam,  helped  one  to  listen  to 
the  Berlin  choir,  and  made  the  ascent  of  the 
Rhigi  and  Vesuvius;  there  was  "Kathleen, 
who  advised  one  what  the  Washington  peo- 
ple were  about;  there  was  "Caspar,"  the  New 
York  correspondent,  whose  pencil  wa*  alway! 
■i]  sharpened;  but  all  these  have  disappeared, 
d  with  tbem  the  literary  tone  o[  the  paper 
ems  to  have  gone  also.  Just  where  the  difli' 
culty  lie*  is  not  patent,  as  Mr-  William  E. 
Qaimby,  the  veteran  editor,  is  still  at  the  belm. 
About  the  time  the  Free  Preis  tiegan  to  show 
tigos  of  deterioration.  Entry  Saturday  appeared- 
I  tone  was  elevating,  its  editorials  were  appie- 
Itive,  its  contributions  were  of  a  high  ordei 
id  for  a  brief  hour  the  "light-house"  seemed 
ry  near.  Then  came  the  Tributu,  in 
hands  of  Col.  Stickney,  a  well-equipped  Chicago 
journalist,  who  knew  the  needs  of  a  reading 
people.  During  his  brief  administration  1 
Tribuiu  made  wonderful  strides,  but  he  had 
go,  and  after  his  retirement  it  was  learned  (hat 
be  had  paid  over  (1,400  to  the  North  Antirica, 
Reiiiew  alone  for  solid  articles,  which  accountei 
for  the  high  quality  of  its  Sunday  edition.  For 
year  past  the  Eveititig  Ncwi,  the  "  Labouchere 
of  Michigan,  has  issued  a  Sunday  e^tion  which 
affords  some  good  reading.  Joseph  Ilatton  has 
furnished  the  London  letter,  and  until  recently, 
George  Parsons  Lathrop  the  weekly  budget  from 
New  York.  The  Neva  is  the  most  formidable, 
as  well  as  the  most  widely-read  daily  paper  in 
the  State.  It  has  an  average  circulation  of  4c 
copies,  is  independent  in  politics,  the  pronuui 
enemy  of  "rings"  and  jobberies,  and  whei 
editorial  pen  sounds  an  alarm  (he  people  stop  and 
listen.    Outside  of  its  "  leader  column,"  however, 


ity  is  the  rule  observed,  and  literarians  do 
not  offer  contributions  to  its  columns. 

There  are  several  other  successful   daily  and 

weekly  papers  published  in  Detroit,  tncludii^  the 

gans  of  temperance  and  intemperance,  Free 

Masonry,  and  religion ;  and  a  new  journalistic 

ire  just  to  be  launched  is  The  Jbier,  whose 

nature  is  implied  in  the  name. 

Such  are   the    principal    points    of   this 
present  report  from  Detroit  and  Michigan ; 
perhaps  other  testimonies  from  other  West- 
centers  will  follow. 


TH£  SIBUOaBAFHT  OF  VOBWAT. 

PRIOR  to  the  year  1S14,  the  literary  registry 
of  Norwegian  authors  must  be  sought  fm 
in  the  biblii^apbical  works  of  Denmark,  the 
sorereign  state,  of  which  Norway  was  for  so 
long  a  time  but  the  province.  Up  to  that  date 
Norway  had  no  distinctive  literature ;  her  native- 
born  authors  were  educated  in  Denmarjc,  they 
wrote  and  published  there,  and  their  works 
became  a  part  of  that  couoliy's  literary  history. 
Their  names  are  not  many,  perhaps,  hut  some  of 
them  are  great  names  in  the  literary  history  at 
Scandinavia,  and  we  would  take  much  from  the 
literature  of  Denmark  should  we  subtract  the 
works  of  the  Norwegians,  Holberg,  Tullin.  Wea- 
sel, Tteschow,  SteSens,  and  Hauch.  The  biblio- 
graphy of  Norway's  literary  productiveness  up 
(o  1814  (exclusive  of  that  country's  share  in  Old 
Northern  literature)  is  found,  quite  completely 
treated,  in  the  AlminJeligt  UtierattiTlcxuon  far 
Danmark,  Norgc,  ogliland,  compiled  by  Rasmus 
Nyerup  and  J.  E-  Kraft,  and  publisbed  in  Copen- 
hagen, in  a  quarto  volume,  in  1S20.  But  the 
events  of  1S14  gave  t)irth  to  a  new  era  in  the 
thought  life  of  Norway.  The  country  then  (00k 
its  place  in  the  ranks  of  independent  nations, 
and  the  leading  minds  of  the  young  nation  made 
haste  to  inspire  and  foster  strong  feelings  of 
nationality,  and  to  encourage  a  national  litera- 
ture. Its  university,  also,  founded  in  1811,  waa 
an  active  agent  in  stimulating  the  biith  and 
growth  of  a  new  literature.  From  this  date, 
therefore,  begins  Norwegian  bibliography  proper, 
and  its  first  chronicler  was  Christian  Andreas 
Laiige,  who,  then  a  young  man,  should  later  on 
occupy  much  space  in  similar  compilations  by  a 
long  list  of  works  dealing  with  Scandinavian 
history.  This  little  volume  of  forty-three  pages, 
containing  a  catalogue  of  the  books  published  in 
Norway  during  the  years  1S14  to  1831,  waa  bis 
first  work,  and  was  published  anonymously  at 
Chrisliania  in  1B32,  under  (be  title,  ForUgnelji 
Bvir  di  i  Nergi  udkomnt  BUger  i  Aarene  1S14  tH 
iSji.  Lange's  book  was  superseded  by  the  pub- 
lication at  Chrisliania  in  1S48,  of  A'arei  Bag-Far- 
ttgnelse,  tSi^-iSfj,  the  work  of  the  talented 
Martinus  Nissen,  by  whose  sudden  death  in  1850, 
at  (he  early  age  of  thirty-three,  Norway  lost  a 
most  promising  bibliographer.  His  book,  of 
some  224  pages,  twelvemo,  contains,  besides  the 
alphabet  of  authors,  a  subject  catalogue,  and  as 
appendixes,  a  list  of  maps  and  charts,  a  cata- 
logue of  the  various  "  Indbydelsesskrifter " 
(programmes]  issued  by  the  University  and  (he 
various  schools,  and  a  list  of  newspapers.  As  a 
supplement  to  Nisaen's  work  there  was  pub- 
lished at  Christiana,  in  1855,  Martin  ArneKen's 
Norsk  BogFartignilst,  iS^SS-     This  work  met 


l88«.] 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


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with  iharp  criticinn,  and  is  now  of  no  luefiil- 
neu,  because  the  yeara  it  covered  were  inclnded 
in  the  admirable  votunie  compiled  by  Ur.  Paul 
Botten-Hansen,  the  first  half  of  which  appeared 
JQ  1867,  while  the  remaining  part  was  published 
in  1870^  the  jeai  after  Ibe  author's  death,  under 
the  ediCoTBhip  of  Mr.  Sicgwarl  Petersen,  whose 
name  appears  upon  the  title-page  as  joinl-aatbor. 
The  Imprint  dale  of  the  bootc,  which  is  entitled 
JVor^t  Bog-Fi>rUgnehe,  1848-1863,  is  1870;  and 
it  talies  np  the  record  where  Nissen's  work 
ended,  and  is  similar  to  the  latter  in  plan,  having 
the  same  appendixes  of  school  programmes  and 
newspapers ;  but  has  no  sub)ect-indeK.  The 
third  work  in  this  series  of  bibliographies,  Nersk 
Bog-Fartfgnilse,  iSdb-iSja,  was  published  at 
Chrisliania  in  1S77  in  a  twelvemo  volume  of 
312  pages.  The  author,  Mr.  Thnrvald  Boeck,  a 
son  of  the  widely-known  naturalist.  Christian 
Boeck,  possesses  a  valuable  library,  said  to  be 
Ihe  largest  privalc  collection  of  books  and  manu- 
scripts in  Norway.  His  book  is  uniform  in  plan 
with  the  previous  volumes,  and  is  also  wtihout 
an  index,  but  Mr.  Boeck,  with  the  assistance  of 
O.  A.  dverland,  prepared  and  published  In  iSSo 
a  HtgittiT  til  JVersA  Bop-ForUgnilsifer  18^-iSbs 
eg  i866~i8t%,  being  what  the  authors  call  a 
"scientific,"  that  is  to  say,  a  classified  Ittdex, 
which  includes,  in  a  pamphlet  of  66  pages, 
BotI en- Hansen's  work  a*  well  as  that  of  Hr. 
Boeck.  In  July,  1872,  Mr.  Albert  Cammer- 
meyer,  the  enterprising  Christiania  publisher, 
began  to  issue  a  semi-monthly  list  of  the  carrent 
books  published  in  Scandinavia,  under  the  title 
of  Ulirart  Nyhtder  (New  Literature),  a  publi- 
cation which  it  still  continued,  and  which  fur- 
nishei  a  convenient  clue  to  the  latest  issues  from 
the  Norwegian  press,  but  which  was  especially 
useful  in  bridging  over  the  interim  between  187s, 
Ihe  last  year  included  in  Boeck's  work,  and  the 
appearance  of  the  fourth  catalogue  in  this  series, 
//ffrti  Bog-Farttgneltt,  iSjj-iSSa;  Samlet  eg 
BtdigiTtt  a/ if.  fV.  FtUbtrg,  of  which  work  there 
was  published  at  Christiania  during  1885,  in  two 
parts  of  45S  pages,  the  alphabet  of  aulhon.  A 
third  portion  is  yet  lo  be  published  to  complete 
ihe  work,  to  contain  a  subjccMndcx  by  O.  A. 
Overland,  Ihe  usual  appendixes,  and,  in  addition, 
a  list  of  Norwegian  music,  prepared  by  Nor- 
way's leading  music  publisher,  himself  a  com- 
poser, Mr.  Cail  Warmuth.  This  part  is  in  prcp- 
aralion,  and  <rill  be  supplied,  when  printed,  to 
purchasers  of  the  two  part*  already  issued.  It 
was  Mr.  Fcilberg,  we  believe,  who,  nearly  forty 
years  ago,  incited  the  compilation  of  Ihe  first 
volume  of  this  series  of  national  tubliographies, 
and  irith  this  volnme  he  has  completed  the  record 
of  bts  country's  literary  activity  for  a  period  of 
nearly  seventy  years. 

The  law  passed  by  the  Storthing  of  Norway, 
June  Ml  1882,  establishing  a  registry  of  copy- 
right, and  providing  that  copies  of  every  work 
printed  or  published  in  Norway  during  each  year 
shall  be  sent  to  the  library  of  the  University  at 
Christiania,  also  orders  Ihe  preparation,  by  Ibe 
Univetaiiy  librarian,  of  an  annual  catalogue  of 
the  books  so  deposited.  The  first  ol  these,  Ifursk 
Begfartigndst  far  i88j,  was  published  at  Chris- 
tiania, by  Alliert  CammeTineycr,  Decenibcr,  18S4, 
in  an  octavo  pamphlet  ot  90  pages.  The  second, 
AVr/i  B<^0rtegnelj{  Jor  1884,  was  issued  by  Ihe 
same  publisher  (105  pages)  in  September,  iSBj. 
The  two  volumes  are  similar  in  form  and  style, 
coatisliiig  of  an  alphabet  of  author*  and  titles 


of  anonymous  books,  followed  by  special  lists  of 
newapapeis,  music,  and  engravings;  and  are 
provided  with  classified  indexes,  which  last  are 
due  lo  Ihe  liberality  of  the  publisher,  and  are 
prepared  by  Mr-  J.  B.  Halvorvcn.  These  annual 
catalogues,  which  are  to  be  continued,  close  the 
consecutive  series  of  Ubliographies  of  Norway ; 
but  there  remain  to  be  noticed  two  works  — 
the  one  presenting  In  a  single  compact  volume 
the  bibliography  of  whatever  is  especially  im- 
portant in  Norwegian  literature,  and  the  other  a 
comprehensive  bio-bibliographit^1  survey  of  the 
whole  field  —  of  spedal  value  to  the  itudeni  of 
Ihe  literary  history  of  Norway. 

The  royal  commission  appointed  to  superin- 
tend Norway's  participation  in  Ihe  Universal 
Exposition  at  Paris,  in  1867,  determined  to  pre- 
sent on  that  occasion  a  riiimi  (A  Ihe  literature 
of  the  country  from  1S14  to  1866,  and  intrusted 
its  preparation  to  Mr.  Paul  Batten- Hansen,  A 
more  appropriate  perton  for  the  intelligent  ac- 
complishment oE  this  task,  than  this  remarkable 
man,  could  hardly  have  been  selected.  From  the 
lowliest  birth  he  had,  by  his  talents  and  industry 
(though  at  this  Lme  but  little  more  than  forty 
years  of  age),  attained  distinction  for  scholar- 
ship, linguistic  acquirements,  and  a  wide  knowl- 
edge of  the  bibliography  and  literary  history  of 
his  native  country.  His  position  as  chief  libra- 
rian of  the  Univeraity  Library,  which  is  the  na- 
tional library  of  Norway,  gave  him  access  10 
everything  contained  in  that  great  collection; 
bat  even  more  useful,  perhaps,  in  this  spedal 
work,  was  his  own  valuabte  library,  which  was 
ctpeciatiy  rich  in  Norwegian  literature.  This 
fine  collection  was  purchased  after  Its  owner's 
death  by  private  subscription,  and  presented  lo 
the  city  of  Bergen,  where  It  became,  in  1871, 
the  foundation  for  the  first  "free  town  library" 
established  in  Norway.  Bolten- Hansen's  work 
was  not  published  until  186S,  when  it  appeared 
at  Christiania  In  an  octavo  volume  of  284  pages, 
entitled  La  Nervigt  Ltttirairc.  It  contains  a 
classified  catalogue,  made  with  bibliographical 
exactness,  of  every  work  of  importance  published 
in  Norwsy;  each  title  accompanied  with  a 
French  translation  in  parenthesis,  and  followed 
by  note^  also  in  French,  varying  in  length  from 
a  line  to  several  pages  of  small  print.  An  intro- 
duction of  sixteen  pages  summarizes  Ihe  chief 
epochs  In  the  development  of  the  modern  lilera- 
tute  of  Norway  ;  while  the  "  Pr^Is  de  I'hisloire 
de  la  presse  p^riodique  en  Norvtge  "  is  an  excel- 
lent and  circumstantial  account  of  the  periodical 
literature  of  Norway  from  its  commencement  in 
1763,  when  the  first  weekly  journal,  Noritt  Iiilil- 
ligtat-StddelcT,  was  siarted  at  Christiania.  The 
last  fifty  pages  of  the  work  contain  an  alphabeti- 
cal index  of  six  hundred  and  forty-three  names 
of  authors,  each  given  in  full  in  the  vernacular, 
with  a  brief  biographical  notice  in  French. 

Finally,  the  magnum  opus  of  Norwegian  bibli- 
ographical works  is  the  Nersk  For/alter- I^xiken, 
1814-1880  (Dictionary  of  Norwegian  Authora), 
by  Jens  Braage  Halvotsen,  thirteen  parts  of  which 
have  now  been  published  at  Christiania,  the  first 
nine  of  these  making  volume  one  of  the  work, 
and  containing,  in  569  large  octavo  pagea,  the 
letters  A  and  Bof  the  alphabet  The  printing  of 
the  woi  k,  which  is  carried  on  bv  an  appropriation 
from  the  Government,  has  been  of  necessity 
irregular  and  slow,  but  the  Information  concerr- 
ing  each  author  contained  in  any  one  signature 
1*  reTifcd  and  continued  down  to  the  time  (rf 


printing,  Ihe  date  being  always  printed  at  the 
bottom  of  Ihe  first  page  of  each  signature,  thug 
enabling  Ihe  user  of  the  volume  to  know  up  ta 
what  date  Ihe  article  upon  any  one  author  is 
completed.  But  no  author  is  included,  one  or 
more  of  whose  works  was  not  published  before 
the  end  of  the  year  1880-  The  form  adopted  in 
the  work  is  to  give  :  first,  a  cundse  bit^raphical 
notice  of  each  author,  avoiding  in  this  any  men- 
tion of  his  works,  and  supplementing  it  by  a  list 
of  references  to  boolcs  or  periodical  contributions 
which  in  any  way  give  fuller  information  con- 
cerning him;  second,  in  chronological  order  the 
books  written  by  the  author,  each  edition  being 
specified  and  translations  mentioned,  and  refer' 
ence«  are  given  to  teview  notices  of  the  particu- 
lar books.  In  this  list  are  also  included  work* 
edited  or  translated  by  tbe  author.  And,  finally, 
there  Is  an  enumeration  of  the  most  important  ol 
the  author's  contributions  to  periodical  literature 
or  to  society  publications.  Mr.  Halvorsen  is  a 
thorough  bibliographer,  and  hat  not  failed  lo 
utilize  every  opportunity  to  give  bis  work  biblio- 
graphical value ;  and  it  ii  Impossible  to  use  his 
book  without  being  impressed  with  a  sense  of 
the  author's  scrupulous  accuracy  and  exactness, 
which  preclude  the  entertainment  of  any  sus- 
picions that  anything  has  been  taken  f<M  granted. 
In  addition,  the  author  possesses  acknowledged 
critical  judgment,  which  has  been  of  great  value 
in  dealing  with  hi*  voluminous  collection  of 
materials.  The  result  it  a  work  whose  value 
as  a  bibliography,  or  as  a  guide  to  students  of  the 
literary  history  of  Norway,  it  would  be  difficult 
lo  overestimate.  , 


A  LETTEB  FBOM  HEW  TOBE. 

THIS  i*  the  season  when  everybody  in  New 
York  who  can  by  any  means  get  away  from 
the  city,  seizes  upon  the  opportunity  and  desert* 
Ihe  hot  streets  fur  cool,  shady  lanes  or  ocean 
breezes.  Perhaps  nu  class  save  artists,  is  so 
fortunate  in  being  able  to  live  and  work  where 
they  choose  as  Ihe  fullowets  of  literalutC.  Few, 
if  any,  arc  now  in  luwii,  with  the  possible  excep- 
tion of  those  who  are  tied  down  to  work  on  the 
daily  press.  Mr.  R.  W.  Gilder  has  left  the 
office*  of  the  Cetttury,  cool  and  attractive  though 
they  may  be,  for  the  summer  gayeties  of  Newport, 
where,  by  the  way,  he  had  an  oppurlunity  of 
meeting  Matthew  Arnold,  who  has  been  spending 
some  days  at  the  foremost  of  summer  cities. 
Aside  from  Ihe  absence  uf  the  cditur-ln-chicf, 
the  Ctntury  offices  have  been  for  the  past  werk 
plunged  in  gloom  from  the  effects  of  a  game 
of  baseball  between  the  editutial  and  business 
departments  of  the  magazine-  Mr.  C.  C-  Bue), 
having  his  article  on  Frank  Stockton  in  print 
and  off  his  mind,  plunged  Into  the  game  with 
such  vigor  that  he  has  since  been  forced  to 
exercise  the  utmost  discretion  in  his  movements, 
Hr.  Clark  and  Mr.  Payne  of  St.  Nuholai  are 
equal  sufferers  from  over-exertions,  and  none  of 
these  three  gentlemen  can  console  himself  by  the 
thought  o(  victory,  for  the  business  department 
overwhelmingly  defeated  the  nine  athletically  in- 
clined "literary  fellers." 

Speaking  of  the  Cinfury  reminds  me  that  for 
a  week  or  ten  day*  past  a  mysterious  paragraph  ^ 
has  appeared  in  Ihe  dally  papers,  stating  that  ihe  -^ 
editor  of  the  Cmfury\iiA  a  new  leries  of  articles, 
the  publication  of  which  would  be  began  in  the 
bll,  and  which  might  be  expected  to  equal  in 


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THE  LITERARY  WORLa 


[July  io^ 


tnterMt  tbe  seriea  of  war  papers.  The  chuacter 
of  thi«  Mrie«  bas  not  yet  be«n  made  public,  bat 
I  have  beard  upon  truitworth]'  aulhorify  that 
Ibey  will  treat  of  the  RnisiaD  Penal  Syitem,  and 
will  be  copiooaly  Illutraled.  The  material,  lit- 
erary and  artiitic,  haa  been  prepared  by  Mr. 
George  Cannon,  a  Waahlngton  joumalitt,  iriw 
wat  sent  to  Ruuiit  by  the  United  States  Govem- 
BKnt  with  gifu  in  acknowledgment  of  the  aer- 
Ticea  of  the  Ruuian  Government  in  the  matter 
of  the  Jeannetie  expedition.  While  there  he 
began  hit  study  of  the  Russian  prisona,  the 
minea  in  Siberia,  and  ihc  Tillages  of  the  convicts. 
Tbe  photographs  he  baa  forwarded  are  said  to 
be  very  inleiesling  and  instructive. 

I  happened  quite  accidentally  the  other  day  to 
t>e  examining  a  letter  of  the  poet  Sbelley,  written 
■  by  him  from  Pisa  in  iSio  to  his  pubtisbert,  the 
Messrs.  Oilier  in  London.  It  deals  mainly  with 
bosioess  matters,  but  the  part  most  interesting 
just  now  is  that  which  deals  with  hia  tragedy, 
"TbeCenci."  Concerning  this  be  wrote:  "My 
friends  here  haie  great  hopes  that  'The  Cenei' 
will  tncceed  as  a  pubtii^tion.  It  was  refused  at 
Druty  Lane,  although  expressly  written  for  the- 
atrical exhibiiion,  on  a  plea  of  the  story's  being 
too  horiible.  I  believe  it  singularly  well  fitted 
for  tbe  stage."  This  is  of  great  interest  today, 
when  tbe  Shelley  Society  of  London  is  being  furi- 
ously attacked  for  having  given  a  public  repre- 
sentation of  "  The  Cenci  "  after  having  been 
bitterly  opposed  both  by  the  authorities  and  pri- 
vate citizens.  Joseph  Hatton,  ia  bis  letter  as 
regular  London  correspondent  of  a  prominent 
New  York  religious  weekly,  writes  concerning 
Ibis  entertainment : 

There  ia  in  London  a  Shelley  Society.  Not 
content  with  honoring  the  poet,  they  must  re-rake 
tbe  gutter  which  gave  bim  the  material  for  his 
powerful  tragedy  of  Tht  Cenci.  The  Lord 
Chambetiain,  oE  course,  refused  them  a  license 
to  enact  this  play,  which,  apari  from  its  revolting 
theme,  was  not  written  for  tbe  stage.  The 
Society  thereupon  hired  the  Grand  Theater  at 
Islington,  and  deSed  "  the  powers  that  be." 


When  the  positive  statement  of  Mr.  Halton, 
that  Tkt  Cenci  was  not  written  for  the  stage,  is 
confronted  by  Shelley's  letter  quoted  above,  one 
ia  somewhat  inclined  to  doubt  Mr.  Halton's 
trustworthiness  as  a  literary  historian. 

Mr,  Harty  Harland.  whose  novels,  As  II  Was 
m-iUen  and  JIfrs.  Piixoda,  over  the  nom  dt  flume 
<A  Sidney  Luska,  have  created  such  a  stir  in  lit- 
erary circles,  is  now  traveling  in  Europe.  Be- 
sides woiking  industriously  on  a  new  novel  which 
Casaell  &  Co.  hope  to  publish  in  the  fall,  he  is 
writing  letters  of  travel  to  the  Chicago  Inter- 
Otean.  I  wonder  bow  many  people  can  pro- 
nounce the  name  of  Mr.  Hatland's  second  novel 
correctly.  I  went  into  Cassell's  the  other  day 
confessing  ignorance,  and  was  told  that  tb<  i 
is  a  Hebrew  one  and  should  be  pronounced 
Pasbyadab,  wiib  accent  on  tbe  second  syllable. 

yuly3,iS86.  Nassau. 


imroB  noTioN. 


T^e   Captain  ef  the  Janitaries.    A  Sloiy  of 
he  Times  of  ScanderbM  and  the  Fall  of  Con- 
"       "        i  M.  Ludlow.      [Dodd, 

Dr.  Ludlow's  book  it  historical  fiction  of  the 
severest  sort,  in  which  accuracy  has  been  sacri- 
ficed to  nothing  else.    If  popularity  is  not 
rsward,  the  fault  most  lie  in  the  intelligence  of 


the  reader,  (or  in  s[Hte  tA  the 
of  the  subject,  the  immense  patience  of  the 
author  has  introduced  such  a  wealth  of  neces- 
sary detail  that  the  attention  is  at  times  sorely 
taxed.  The  intricate  plot  is  worked  out  daring, 
rather  interwoven  with,  the  exploits  of  Cat- 
triot,  better  known  as  Scaaderbeg,  in  his  Al- 
banian campaigns  against  the  ruthless  aiul 
terrible  Mahomet  II.  Two  brothers,  reared 
amoi^  the  Balkans  in  the  company  of  their 
little  playmate,  Morsinis,  are  suddenly  separated 
by  fate  of  war.    One,  captured   by  Turks,  Iie- 

•  at  lait  captain  of  tbe  famous  Janiuries. 
Conttantine,  hit  brother,  remains  tbe  protector 
and  finally  the  lover  of  tbe  beautiful  Morsinia, 
who  proves  to  Iw  the  daughter  of  a  noble  house 
of  Albania.  Clearness  haa  sometimes  been  sacri- 
ficed for  effect,  even  when  clearness  was  most 
wanted  owing  to  the  intricacies  of  the  plot.  The 
how,  when,  and  where  of  some  incidents  are 
sadly  neglected.    Never   before,  we  venture  to 

not  even  in  the  pages  of  GiblKMi  (who  has 
been  closely  followed  at  times),  has  the  Tutk 
been  made  to  appear  more  fearfully  "  unspeak- 

"  than  in  Dr.  Ludlow's  paget.  However 
much  there  is  to  praise,  s  feeling  arises  that 
the  bloody  and  relentless  cruelty  of  the  followers 
of  Mahomet,  and  the  degradations  to  which  (he 
captive  odaliskt  were  subjected  are  not  whole- 

!  to  tbe  mental  appetitet  of  boys.  This  is 
a  pity,  for  boys  are  generally  the  best  resdeis  of 

es  founded  tm  historical  facL    It  seems  as 
places  the  author's  pen  ran  too  tmoothly 

scenes  wbere  the  brutal  lusts  of  the  Turkish 
soldiery  have  full  play.  On  the  other  band, 
most  dramatic  and  admirable  will  one  find  that 
chapter  in  which  the  dog  it  thrown  into  the  well 
in  the  besieged  Sfeligrade,  or  that  ime  where 
Captain  Ballaban  escapes  from  hired  bullies  in 
an  old  aqueduct  in  Constantinople. 


Much  used  to  be  expected  of  a  story  which 
opens  at  this  one  does,  with  a  death  chamber 
and  the  wind  "moaning  fitfully"  down  the  chim- 
ney; but  the  last  agonies  of  American  roman- 
ticism are  well  over,  and  the  reader  knowa  too 
well  that  wind  down  a  chimney  simply  makes 
the  file  smoke.  Therefore  unimportant  as  Askei 
of  Hepts  is  as  a  product  of  tbe  intelleCT,  It  is 
in  very  curious  contrast  to  the  present  realism. 
Its  plot  and  the  construction  mnst  seem  wholly 
unnatural  to  the  least  critical,  but  could  it  fall 
into  the  liands  of  tome  Rip  Van  Winkle  of  a 
novel  reader,  who  had  fallen  asleep  in  the  reign 
of  Beulah  Evans,  and  when  Mrs.  Hentz  and 
Eliia  Dupuy  were  supreme,  the  book  might 
still  have  some  flavor  for  bis  antiquated  palate. 
As  in  the  earlier  books  of  this  character,  there 
is  no  shading  off  of  character,  no  mediocrity  in 
morals ;  everybody  is  either  a  saint  or  the  re- 
verse ;  tbe  occasional  sinner  has  no  chance  here. 
As  a  result  the  picture  is  bold;  the  pigments 
are  harsh,  and  the  framing  decidedly  loud. 
There  is  no  humor,  no  good  manners,  not  one 
touch  of  every-day  human  life.  The  cardinal 
virtues  and  cardinal  vices  exhibit  Ihcmieives  in 
clothes,  and  finally  the  virtues  all  win  and  the 
vices  perish  miserably.  Ashes  of  Hepei  is  ■ 
story  of  three  school-girls,  of  whom  one  is  gentlt 
and  impassive.  She  is  the  sister  of  Roger 
Campliell,  tbe  "  last  o^  his  race  and  pride  of  his 
hoBse."    The  second,  a  scornful  mis*  of  noble 


propensitiet  bat  with  a  forte  for  the  private 
detective  business,  plays  the  rUe  of  the  "  caged 
lioness,"  and  is  "misunderstood."  The  third, 
Abbie  Wyman,  who  is  whst  her  sex  would  call 
a  "cu,"  is  adopted  by  the  cruel  aunt  of  the 
gentle  heroine.  In  a  scene,  powerful  in  its  way, 
but  very  unnatural,  she  refuses  to  attend  her 
own  mother's  desth-bed,  though  she  sends  thither 
check  for  five  hundred  dollars.  After  much 
deviltry,  this  schemer  runs  oS  with  an  ex-organ- 
ist, a  "^eek  foreign  panther"  named  FrapauL 
The  "panther,"  who  hat  a  way  of  folding  his 
in  "stern  majesty,"  deserts  her  at  last, 
and  she  comes  Iiack  to  her  humble  home,  dis- 
figured for  life  by  small-pox.  It  would  be 
unfair  not  to  admit  that  perb^M  the  author 
bas  done  bcr  best  to  tbow  the  consequences  of 
ngratitude  and  mean  ambitions,  but  fiction  is 
lot  a  school  where  those,  whose  moral  sensi- 
bilities are  highly  developed,  always  go  to  the 


Fellou  Travellers.  A  Story.  By  Edward 
Fuller.     [Cupples,  Upbam  ft  Co.    fi-so.] 

If  Mr.  Fuller  had  succeeded  in  infnsing  even 
an  occasional  touch  of  humor  into  his  story  it 
might  have  been  tolerable,  but  there  is  none  of 
that  saving  salt  of  humanity  to  be  found  through- 
out the  prolonged  narrative,  although  the  author 
makes  a  number  of  atiortive  efforts  to  amose 
his  readers  vrith  the  conservative  peculiarities 
of  Salem  people  and  the  idiotyncrades  of  tbe 
denizens  of  Foiett.  Mr.  Fuller  it  a  realist  in 
(he  matters  of  topography,  architecture,  and 
furnishing,  and  the  laviah  descriptive  details  he 
provides  are  not  without  valne  for  the  student 
of  contemporary  modes  of  existence.  But  some- 
how his  realism  fails  to  extend  to  the  character*, 
who  are  for  the  moat  part  vague  and  impersonal, 
notwitbttanding  the  careful  manner  in  which 
their  external  traits  ^te  portrayed.  In  a  word, 
Fellffui  lyavelleri  is  lacking  in  artistic  force,  and 
no  amount  of  description  or  inconsequent  dia- 
logue can  compensate  for  so   serious    a   defi- 

A  Moonlight  Boy.  By  E.  W.  Howe.  [Tick- 
nor  ft  Co.    tLjo.] 

This,  Mr.  Howe's  third  book,  is  in  a  different 
vein  from  either  of  its  predecessors,  snd  lias 
at  leaat  the  merit  (rf  originality.  The  subject 
is  as  odd  ss  the  title,  and  the  style  is  a  singular 
combination  of  humor  and  gravity.  We  cannot 
help  thinking  that  Mark  Twain's  Aiiventures  of 
Htuileberry  Finn  suggested  to  Mr.  Howe  this 
Story  of  a  Moeidigkt  Boy,  which  is  autobio- 
graphic in  form,  and  concerns  the  fortunes  ol 
a  lad  who  turned  up  in  Kansas,  and  afterwards 
passed  seversl  yesrs  of  curious  life  in  New 
York  as  the  reputed  son  of  a  Mr.  and  Mr*. 
Thomaa  Courtlandt,  a  relationship  which  proved 
in  the  end  not  to  be  fonnded  on  fact.  So  back 
went  the  Moonlight  Boy  to  bis  early  hotne  U 
Three  Rivers,  to  Tibby  Cole,  to  old  Mr.  Behee, 
to  Pidg,  and  to  the  drives  and  strolling  concerts 
on  the  prairies  i  and  tbe  mystery  of  his  origin 
remains  unsolved.  All  that  is  known  is  that  he 
was  loft  when  an  infant,  one  night,  in  the  moon- 
light, OD  tbe  steps  of  Tibby  Cole's  hoose  a 
Three  River*,  and  of  Tibby,  carele**,  wsnn- , 
hearted,  tipsy  Tibby  and  his  good  and  parent 
wife  he  continues  a  steadfast  friend  to  the  eitd. 
The  first  part  of  the  story  relates  to  his  life 
with  tbe  Coles  at  Three  Rivers  j  the  second  to 


l886.] 


THE    LITERARY  WORLD. 


the  mistaken  part  he  innocentljr  placed  aa  a 
membeT  of  the  Counlandt  family  in  New  York. 
In  Three  Rirers  he  serves  at  a  Tunng  violiniit, 
and  accompanies  Tibb;  on  Taiiout  musical  ex- 
carslons  about  the  country,  the  acconnt  of  which 
is  graphic  and  life-like.  In  New  York  he  has 
a  desk  in  the  office  of  a  "  religioui  weekly,"  Ihe 
Night  Watch,  whose  interior  economy  and  man- 
agement are  sketched  in  detail  aa  a  caricature. 
A  strain  of  quiet  humor  runs  through  the  whole 
book,  all  the  more  telling  by  reason  of  the 
seriousneu  with  which  it  ii  disguised.  It  is 
generally  amusing,  never  coarse  or  vulgar, 
sometimes  ■  little  silly  and  weak  through  strain- 
ing after  eHecti  once  or  twice  it  provokes  to  a 
hearty  laugh  ;  and  its  homely  fidelity  to  Western 
character  and  Eastern  artificiality  will  be  heartily 
relished  by  the  discerning  reader.  As  a  book 
to  entertain  by  a  certain  droll  mat ter of- fact- 
it  makes  a  measurable  success.  It  Is  pie: 
to  find  in  it  a  portrait  on  wood  of  Ihe  author ; 
and  a  striking  head  and  face  he  has. 


One  would  not  spontaneously  attribute  to  the 
"Duchess"  or  any  of  her  cbaracien  an  experi- 
ence so  wholly  inconsistent  as  that  involved  in 
Ihe  idea  of  a  mental  struggle,  and  yet  the  title 
of  the  latest  of  Ihe  "Duchess's"  airy  emana- 
tions is  not  altogether  far-fetched.  The  particu- 
lar mental  struggle  referred  to  is  that  experienced 
by  Iinc^eD  Heriot,  who,  heraelf  of  qnasl-noble 
lineage,  ostensibly  undergoes  severe  tortures  ii 
bringing  herself  lo  acknowledge  her  love  for  i 
er,  Felix  Browne,  who  is  the  very 
%  at  all  the  virtues,  the  perfection  of 
male  mortals,  a  man,  as  the  phrase  goes,  cal- 
culated to  win  all  hearts.  But  Ihe  fair,  proud, 
stately  heroine  is  obdurate  and  leads  poor  Feli 
a  life  of  it.  Of  course  there  are  the  nsual  incom- 
prehensible misunderstandings,  the  usual  pei 
sistent  attempts  at  comedy,  the  usual  tender 
scenes  by  moonlight.  It  was  a  clever  piece 
work  at  the  beginuing,  and  no  doubt  there 
readers  who  will  find  the  "  Duchess's"  thirteenth 
novel  as  entertaining  as  her  first.  For  ourseli 
we  confeiis  that  we  find  too  much  of  this  sort 
of  thing  rather  cloying,  and  if  we  are  compelled 
to  peruse  number  fourteen  we  hope  the  pub- 
lishers will  have  Ihe  kindness  lo  print  it  in  type 
less  ruinous  to  sensitive  vision  than  that 
ployed  to  chronicle  the  psychical  perlurbations 
of  Ihe  admirable  Imogen. 


This  "scene  of  provincial  life,"  sketched  by 
the  masterly  hand  of  Balzac,  is  entirely  unobjec- 
tionable  from  a  moral  point  of  view,  and  there 
is  scarcely  anything  in  it  to  forbid  its  being  read 
by  anybody  on  the  score  of  delicacy.  It  is  not 
so  pleasantly  human  a  book  as  C/iar  BitttUau. 
Il  has  more  unily  and  less  picturesqueness,  a 
sharper  and  intenser  realism,  but  is  less  pathetic 
and  pitiful.  Its  ethical  motive  is  perhaps  more 
distinct  and  explicit,  but  there  is  less  charm 
and  variety  in  the  presentation  of  it.  Its  chief 
personage  is  an  old  miser,  and  its  theme 
avarice.  Balzac  wrote  this  book  to  depict  Ihe 
consuming  lust  of  gold ;  to  show  how  this  can- 
k(  r  eats  its  way  into  the  aoul  until  it  compts 
conscience,  vitiates  taaie,  destroys  natontl  aiCefr 


tioD,  shrivels  Ihe  sentiments,  debases  Ihe  splrit- 
:,  and  paralyzes  Ihe  whole  better  part 
Monsieur  Grandet  of  Saumur  Is  the 
miser,  and  Eugenie  is  his  daughter.  His  por- 
trait is  painted  like  life,  his  home  is  shown 
under  Ihe  microscope,  all  the  details  of  his 
sordid,  selfish,  greedy  life  are  written  out  as  if 
to  serve  in  a  case  of  circumstantial  evidence. 
He  is  a  vine  grower  and  a  speculator  in  the 
Funds.  He  doles  out  supplies  to  his  wife  and 
daughter,  and  the  servant  Nanon,  pinch  by 
pinch.  While  he  is  amassing  his  millions  and 
starving  his  honsebold,  Eogjnie's  cousin  Charles 
comes  from  Paris,  a  fop,  frivolous,  and  a  fraud. 
Thenceforward  Ihe  current  of  the  story  parts 
twain,  and  follows  the  niggardly  prosperity 
of  the  father  and  the  one-sided  fortunes  of 
Eugenie  and  Charles.  Eugenie  loses  her  heart 
Charles  and  Charles  throws  it  away,  turning 
out  himself  a  first-class  adventurer,  and  dis- 
appearing among  the  ambitioDS  and  convention- 
alities of  Paris,  while  Eugenie,  heart-broken  but 
chastened  by  her  sorrow,  passes  through  the 
itages  of  heirship  and  nominal  widowhood  lolo 
I  character  of  great  elevation  and  benevolence. 
Monsieur  dies  smothered,  as  it  were,  beneath 
bis  piles  of  gold;  Charles  sinks  into  a  condition 
of  moral  decay;  Engi^nie  it  transfigured  Into  a 
reeds,  a  Sister  without  the  "  hood." 
The  power  of  the  t>ook  lies  in  its  realism.  The 
translation  is  good  save  for  a  single  and  un- 
desirable ambiguity  on  p.  139. 

A  Fallm  Idol.    By  F.  Anstey.    [J.  B.  Lippin- 
cottCo.    7S«:«»] 

A  Falltn  Idol  is  not  so  elaborated  an  extrava- 
ganza as  was  Thi  Tinitd  Venus,  but  the  motive 
is  simitar  enough  to  provoke  comparisons, 
the  later  story  il  is  an  Indian  idol  which  acts 
the  dcus,  or  rather  diabolus,  ei  machint.  This 
idol  was  made  in  the  eighteenth  century  by  the 
Jains  to  commemorate  Ihe  supposed  virtues  of 
an  old  reprobate  of  a  Tirthankar,  and  when, 
century  later,  Ihe  idol  is  dug  up,  carried  to 
London,  and  given  into  the  hands  of  a  promii 
ing  young  artist,  Ronald  Campion,  it  soon  b> 
comes  evident  that  the  evil  spirit  of  the  Oriental 
impostor  has  returned  to  animite  the  exiled 
image.  At  least  a  series  of  extraordinary 
involving  the  artistic  fame  of  Konald  and  his 
engagement  with  Sybil  Etsworth  in  common 
disaster  can  reasonably  be  accounted  for 
other  way.  The  implacable  malignity  of  Ihe 
idol,  Ihe  adventures  of  Ranald  in  altempli 
to  get  rid  of  it.  and  the  performances  of  Herr 
Axel  Nebelsen,  the  theosophist,  supply  abon- 
datit  material  for  comedy,  and  Mr.  Ansley  bas 
lold  Ihe  tale  in  his  own  inimitable  1 
reader  who  does  not  have  at  least  one  hearty 
laugh  for  every  chapter  must  tie  indeed  devoid 
of  any  active  sense  of  humor.  And  yet,  as  in 
all  of  Mr.  Anstey's  books  thus  far,  the  true 
interest  lies  deeper  in  the  genuine  humanity 
with  which  the  characters  are  made  lo  live  their 
various  parts.  There  is  nothing  in  A  Fallen 
Idol  to  match  the  admirably  realistic  pictures 
of  cockneydom  In  Tht  Tinted  Venus,  but  honest, 
baffled  Ronald  Campion ;  Ihe  sleek  scoundrel, 
Babcock  ;  the  charming,  tialf- coquettish,  half- 
naive  Sybil;  time-serving  Aunt  Hilary;  the 
bluff  old  Colonel  — and  each  one  of  all  the 
minor  dramatii  persona  are  delightfully  true 
to  actuality  — so  true  that  «e  find  ourselves 
wisliing  once  more  tbeir  author  would  for  once 


surrender  the  breical  vein  and  confine  blmseU 

the  comedy  and  pathos  of  every-day,  c 
place  existence. 


Hinox  NOnO£8. 


This  is  an  edition  intended  for  school  use,  and 
iving  some  good  points ;  but  the  text  is  the 
standard,"  with  alt  the  corruptions  which  Mr. 
Kolfe  has  shown   up  in  his  edition,  where  the 
poem  is  correctly  printed  for  the  drst  lime.    Mr, 
Arnold  makes  no  comment  upon  the  nonsense  at 
the  bcgintung  of  the  2d  Canto  as  usually  printed 
:  wind  rolling  rii«»r/Norman  Castle,  instead 
of  the  imeke —  nor  upon  equally  absurd  readings 
elsewhere;  but,  in  the  case  of  Lockhart's  thun- 
dering version  of  IL  464  —  "They  knew  not  how, 
knew  not  where "  (Scolt  wrote  "  and  knew 
")  —  he  quotes  in   illustration  some   double 
negatives  from  Shakespeare.    It  does  not  occur 
him  that,  if  Scolt  bad  been  disposed  to  use 
this  old  construction,  ft  was  curious  that    he 
should  have  done  it  only  in  this  one  instance. 
He  has  no  note  on  iii.  234: 

Add  pKmdeM  prinui  nil  tbur  eya 

lurse,  like  those  who  print  "  veil,"  he  takes 
"  to  mean  cover,  when  it  is  ihe  obsolete 
word  (from  the  French  avaler)  meaning  lower,  or 
cast  down.    We  see  other  instances  in  which  he 
shows  an  ignoranq^f  the  poet's  archaisms,  but 
annot  take  space  for   quoting   thetn.     His 
on  of  Illustrative  passages  from  Scott's  own 
worlcs  is  one  of  the  best  features  of  Ihe  notes ; 
and  the  glossary  contains  ■  good  deal  of  etymo- 
logical information. 


OITBfiEin  LTTEBATURB. 

Mr.  Rolfc,  with  one  band  on  Shakespeare,  is 
doing  good  work  with  the  other  in  editing  later 
English  poets  for  young  students  and  the  more 
studious  class  of  readers.  Tennyson's  rich/ViH- 
ctti  and  a  volume  of  the  Laureate's  Silrcl  Potmi 
Mr.  Rolfe  has  already  so  prepared  ;  lo  these  two 
is  now  added  a  third,  the  Yeung  People's  Tcnny 
ion.  Here  are  printed,  first,  zz  short  poems 
supposed  to  be  adapted  to  the  interests  of  the 
youngest  admirers  of  the  poet,  such  as  "The 
May  Queen,"  "Godiva,"  "Lady  Clare,"  "The 
Charge  of  the  Light  Brigade,"  "  The  Sailor  Boy," 
and  "  The  Defence  of  Lucknow."  A  few  wood- 
cuts are  interspersed.  To  Ihe  text  of  the  poems, 
which  occupies  S4  pages,  are  subjoined  36  pages 
of  notes,  Iieginning  with  an  8-page  sketch  of 
Tennyson  himself.  We  should  ourselves  prefer 
the  printing  of  the  notes  with  the  text,  page  by 
page,  but  doubtless  Mr.  Rolfe  has  his  reasons  for 
the  other  plan.  In  some  cases  his  annotations 
seem  needless,  aa  when,  to  the  words  "Old  year, 
you  must  not  die,"  he  adds,  "  Here  the  personi- 
fied year  Is  addressed."  The  youngest  reader 
might  know  that  Bui  the  bulk  of  the  notes  is 
instructive,  and  the  usefulness  of  the  book  and  of 
the  series  of  which  it  is  one  number  Is  above  dis- 
pute.   [Ticknor  &  Co.    75c.] 

A  great  many  people  will  be  thankful  for  ■ 
translation  lA  Plato  in  the  beautiful,  the  classical, 
the  fitting  form  and  dress  of  a  "  Golden  Treas- 
ury "  volume.  Mr.  F.  J.  Church  is  the  transla- 
tor, and  he  presents  The  Trial  and  Death  of 
,  SoCTates  throngfa  the  med  -im  of  the  "  Eulhj* 


9  $6 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


rjULY    10, 


pkoron,"  "Apology,"  "Crito,"  and  "  PhBdo. 
Prefixed  is  >d  introduction  of  some  So  pageB> 
which  amounCi  to  an  intellectual  portrait  oi  Pla- 
to'* great  master.  Altogether  this  ii  one  of  the 
handiest,  prettiest,  and  most  exact  reproductjon* 
of  Plato's  Socrates  to  be  had.    [Macmlllaii  &  Co. 

JI.3S.] 

The  seventh  volume  of  Mr.  Lodge's  stately  and 
luinriouB  collection  of  TAe  IVoris  of  Alixander 
HamUtaH  is  at  hand.  It  contains  (i)  MiscelUne- 
ons  Papers,  hucIi  as  letters  between  Hamilton 
and  Wsshingtoo  on  the  subject  of  "  Presidential 
Edquette,"  and  Hamilton's  draft  from  hit  own 
autograph  of  Washington's  "  Farewell  Address ;" 
and  (z)  Private  Correspondence,  including  a  large 
number  of  letters  lo  Congress,  Gouvetncur  Mor- 
ris, Robert  R.  Livingston,  Washington,  General 
Gate*,  Eli  as  Boudinot,  Baron  Steuben,  and 
otheia.  The  mechanical  execution  of  these  vol- 
ume* U  even  and  of  unusual  ciccllcnce.  [G.  P. 
Futnun'*  Sons.    ^5.00.] 

When  Dr.  Felix  L.  Oswald  sticks,  like  a  « 
shoemaker,  to  his  professional  last,  he  is  a  a 
and  serviceable   adviser,  as  his   new   book 
Hfutiheld  Rtmidia  %ot^la  show.    But  this  is  1 
a  handbook  for  domestic  medical  practice,  as 
inexact   title  might  make   it  seem  to  be;    It 
rather  a  series  of  chapters  on  the  pathology  of 
common  diseases,  and  on  the  sanitary  and  hy- 
gienic  conditions  of  their   avoidance    or  their 
cure.    There  is  little  in   the  book  about  drugs, 
dose*,  or   schools  of  practice ;    there  i*  a  good 
deal  in  it  about  fre«b  air,  out^rar  exercise, 
cleanliness,  and  regular   ha^n.      "In   the 
stages  of  its  development,"  Dr.  UswaJd  declares 
that  "consumption  is  really  the  most  curable  of 
all  chronic  diseases."     He  shows  how  the  oftei 
supposed  antagonism  between  tbe  brain  and  ihi 
stomach  is  a  fallacy.      He  has  chapters  not  only 
on  Consumption  and  Dyspepsia,  but  on  Fevers, 
Asthma,  the   Alcohol  Habit,  Nervous  Maladies, 
Catarrh,  and  so  on.    And  a  person  afflicted  with 
any  of  the  chronic  ills  to  which  life  is  heir  may 
read  this  book  with  interest  and  with  profit.     Dr. 
Uiwald  is  an  intelligent,  vigorous,  perspicuous 
writer.     Vou  are  never  in  doubt  about  his  mean- 
ing ;  and  can  always  tell  what  he  would  have  you 
d0i  even  if  you  do  not  wish  to  do  it.    [Fowler  & 
Well*  Co.    }i.OD.] 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Joseph  A.  Seiss  is  a  Lutheran 
pastor  in  Fbiladctphia,  learned,  literary,  a  trifle 
eccentric  in  some  of  his  opinions,  but  always  well- 
intentioned  and  generally  sensible  and  helpful. 
He  ha*  published  twelve  lectures  or  sermons  to 
his  people  under  (he  common  title  of  Right  Life. 
Tbejr  present  with  force  and  fervor  the  leading 
points  embraced  in  Christianity :  namely,  the  ex- 
istence of  a  personal  God,  the  reasonableness  of 
faith  in  Him,  the  reality  of  religion,  the  fact  of 
revelation,  the  relations  of  reason  and  revelation, 
the  historic  personality  and  Spiritual  supremacy 
of  Jesus  Christ,  and  the  demands  which  all  these 
verities  lay  upon  the  hnman  affections  and  will. 
While  taking  for  granted  things  which  a  part  of 
the  world  holds  in  dispute,  these  discourses  are 
logical,  from  their  premises,  and  must  have  done 
good  to  the  bearer,  as  they  will  to  the  reader. 
[J.  B.  Lippincott  Co.    Ii.so.] 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Wm.  M.  Taylor,  minister  of  the 
Broadway  Tabernacle,  New  York,  is  steadily 
ptusuing  his  homiletical  expositions  of  Old  Tes- 


discoursei^  covering  the  whole  of  Joseph's  life, 
in  detail,  with  a  concluding  one  on  the  general 
feaioret  of  hi*  character  and  career.  Dr.  Tay- 
lor's method  in  thi*  line  of  efiort  is  a  happy 
bination  of  the  descriptive  and  the  ethical, 
brings  the  scene  vividly  before  the  eye,  and  with 
equal  directness  deduces  its  lessons.  [Harper 
&  Brothers,    tt.sa] 


tament    biography.      A  volun 


IH£  FEBIODIOALB. 

Tie  New  Princttan  RevieXB  lot  July  open* 
th  "Recollection*  of  Cailyle,  with  Notes 
Concerning  His  SiminitciHtti,"  by  Prof.  Charles 
Eliot  Norton,  of  Harvard.  The  title  correctly 
suggests  the  writer's  twofold  purpose  —  to  give 
picture  of  tbe  eccentric  philosopher,  a* 
Prof.  Norton  remembers  him,  and  to  say  some- 
thing about  the  book  by  Carlyle,  published 
posthumously  under  tbe  name  ReminijctiKet 
itioned.  Though  Prof.  Norton's  ac- 
quaintance with  Carlyle  was  begun  only  in  the 
latter's  old  age,  we  have  in  this  article  some 
very  graphic  touches  presenting  the  quaii 
rugged,  old  Scotchman  almost  a*  if  we  could 
personally  hear  him  utter  his  strilting  thought*, 
clothed,  too,  in  his  characteristic  language, 
produced  by  Prtrf.  Norton,  with  suggestion: 
the    ScottJBh 

of  terminal^ from  the  present  participle.  Prof. 
Norton's  estimate  of  Carlyle  is  decidedly  eulo- 
gistic, especially  for  his  scorn  of  all  that  is  false 
and  hollow  and  his  unswerving  fidelity  to  truth. 
The  concluding  part  is  a  very  severe  arraign- 
ment of  Mr.  J.  A.  Froude,  who  was  a  sort  of 
literary  executor  of  Carlyle,  for  what  we  may 
term  malfeasance  in  office,  in  failing  to 
in  the  publication  of  the  Ximiniiaiua  I 
ful  editorial  supervision  which  Carlyle  himself 
(ell  they  much  needed,  and  in  the  many  great 
inaccuracies  of  the  printing,  of  which 
examples  are  given.  Louis  Swinburne  contrib- 
ute* to  tbe  same  number  "  Reminiscences  of 
Helen  Jackson  j"  a  warmly  enthusiastic  sketch 
chieBy  descriptive  of  her  home  and  home  life  at 
Colorado  Springs,  and  of  the  many-sided  com- 
pleteness of  her  character  and  talents.  We 
ice  also  among  others  interesting  review* 
of  Bancroft's  /Vim  /it  l/u  CensHtittitm,  and  Dr. 
McCosh's  Payckslogji,  besides  some  others. 

The  July  Century  has  two  portraits  of  Mr- 
Frank  Stockton,  which  reveal  in  an  attractive 
way  something  of  the  personality  of  that  whole- 

r,  who,  it  appears  from  an 
panying   biographical   sketch,   is   now  enjoying 
the   fame   of  a  "rising  young  man"  at  the  nn- 
age  of  fifty-two.    The  story  of  Mr. 
Stockton's  career  is  a  pleasing  commentary  on 
tue  of  perseverance  as  applied  to  litera- 
Theodore   Roosevelt  and  Henry   Cabot 
Lodge   explain  that  "Cross-Country  Riding  in 
is  more  of  a  manly  sport  than  the 
the  pastime  have  been  willing  to  ac- 
ktiDwIedge,  and  one  cannot  read  their  descrip- 
tions without   believing    in    their   good  sense. 
Emma  Laiarus  writes  with  sympathetic  candor 
of  "  A  Day  in   Surrey  with   William  Morris," 
who  appear*  in   portrait  and  description  with 
the   robust,  powerful   form    of   a   Berserker, 
crowTfd  with  a  tall,  mansive  head,  covered  with 
profusiun  of  dark,  curly  hair,  plcnlifully 


ing  article  relates  one  instance  of  failtire  in 
co&peration,  and  snggesi*  some  pertinent  rea- 
sons for  doubting  its  ultimate  universal  efficacy. 
Tbe  war  material  of  the  number  is  chiefly  con- 
cerned with  Farragut  at  New  Orleaiu.  And 
there  it  a  good  abort  stoty  —  "  Claiborne  Keu  " 
—  by  James  T.  McKay. 


8BAEESFEARUBA. 


I  ymiph  Ike   with  gray."    A   Wester 


nakes  1 


Papers  of  the  New  Yink  Shakespeare 
Society,  Nob.  3  and  4. —  By  an  accident  these 
publicationa  failed  to  reach  us  until  recently, 
though  they  were  sent  out  some  months  ago. 
No.  3  is  M>.  Albert  R.  Prey's  interesting  paper 
on  William  Shakisptart  and  Alltged  Sfaniih 
Pretelyfei,  read  before  the  Society  on  the  z8lh 
of  January  last,  and  noticed  at  some  length  in  tbe 
report  of  the  meeting  published  in  these  col- 
Fart  I.  of  Mr.  Appleton  Mor- 
gan's D^sl  Shaktsptariana  [tbe  Latin  i*  of  the 
canine  rather  than  tbe  Ciceronian  type,  if  we 
have  read  the  grammars  aright],  which,  to  quote 
the  second  part  of  the  title,  is  intended  to  be  "  a 
topical  index  of  printed  nutter  (other  than  liter' 
ary  or  zsthetic  commentary  or  criticism)  relating 
to  William  Shakespeare  or  the  Shakespearean 
plays  and  poems,  printed  in  the  English  language 
to  tbe  year  iS36." 

In  the  absence  of  any  exhaustive  list  of  die 
Shakespeare  literature,  this  catalogue  of  the 
more  important  books,  magaiine  papers,  etc,  on 
the  subject  may  be  cordially  commended  and 
welcomed.  It  will  be  extremely  useful  to  teach- 
ers and  students,  who  are  often  at  a  loss  to  get 
track  of  what  has  been  printed  on  one  Shake- 
spearian topic  and  another.  In  preparing  it  Mr. 
Morgan  has  laid  down  certain  rule*  for  himself 
which  explain  what  tome  might  at  first  regard  as 
defects  or  deficiencies  in  bis  lists  —  for  instance  : 
Where  the  precise  Geld  is  covered  by  more 
than  one  paper  or  volume,  to  give  only  the  one 
I  must  the  IwO  — latest.  .  .  But  ihiseiclu- 

he  exact  field  being  covered  by   the  later 
Where  such  a  doubt  exists,  the  benefit 
is  been  inclined  10  the  side  of  fullnest.  .  . 
When  a  bibli(%rapby  of  any  ainiile  field 
of  controversy  exists  (like  Mr.  Wyman's  admira- 
ble Bihiiwrafhy  of  the  BaceH-Shahtipeare  Com- 
Irinitriy)  I  have  included  only  the  lading  vol- 
umes inentiuned  in  such  bibliography,  with  those 
printed  since  lit  appearance. 

111.  In  treating  such  episodes  as  the  Ireland 
the  Perkins  Folio  cmilroversies— which  ,  .  . 
e  now  at  dead  an  (he  First  and  Second  Punic 
'in,  without,  like  them,  having  left  an^  infln- 
ce  upon  anything  —  I  have  not  felt  justified  in 
en  ihis  quantum  o(  reference.  .  .  A  single,  or 
leas(  a  cross  reference  to  each,  appears  to  be 
ihat  Is  necessary,  cspcciiily  since  Mr.  Alii- 
1>one'»  ample  list  of  publications  at  to  each  is 
readily  accessible. 

:  may  remark,  incidentally,  that  Alljbooe's 

•uaryofAulhorihU.'iUoai  being  "readily 

accessible  "  to  the  vast  majority  of  stndents  and 

■en  of  teachers,  espectally  those  at  1  distance 

from  the  great  cities  and  literary  centres. 

The  Digist  is  arranged  alphabetically,  with 
frequent  cross-references.  The  first  few  head- 
ings, for  example,  are : 
Abstracts  of  Title  (see  Documents,  Stralford- 
hAvon)  i  Account*  of  Actors  (see  Actors,  Strat- 
ford-on-Avon) ;  Acolastus;  Actors  (see  Audi- 
ences, England,  Contemporarieii,  London, 
Theatres;  also  particular   names    in    this    In- 


Prime  MiniiUr  now  succeeds  to  those  on  Moses,    plea  for  cooperation  as  the  solution  of  tbe  labor    ^^  .   Adapter    (see    Baconian    Theory,    Delia 
David,  Elijah,  and  Daniel.      It  embraces  fifteen  |  question,  and  Theodore  De  Vinne  in  the  follow- 1  Bacon  Theory,  Editorial  Theory,  Folk-Loie,  11- 


1 886.] 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


m 


Initratioe  tod  Conieraporsiy  TeiU,  Sources  of 
Plot*};  AgmcouTt;  Alchemv  (we  Folk-Lore, 
Medical  Knovledge,  Sapentitian) ;  AUeyn,  Ed- 
wmrd ;  Alladons  (kc  ConteRiporiry  Alluaioiu) ; 
AmuiemenU,  Conlemporar]>  {see  England,  Lon- 
don, Manner*  and  CDStoma) ;  Anachronisms ;  etc. 
This  Fart  I.  extends  through  F,  and  Gils  79 
page*  in  good  legible  type.  We  note  a  few  mis- 
prints, bat  on  the  whale  the  lypography  is  an 
improvement  on  that  of  Nos.  i  and  i  of  the  So- 
ciety's publication*. 

TABLE  TALE. 

. . .  The  lilt  of  noted  female  poets  who  had 
tlieir  birth  in  October  is  neither  small  nor  con- 
temptible, as  may  be  aeen  by  the  following : 
Elizabeth  Barrett  Browning,  Adelaide  Anne 
Procter,  -H.  IV  Eliulxlh  Akers  Allen, 
Caroline  Spencer,  Elaine  Goodale,  Dora  Read 
Goodale,  Louisa  T.  Craigin  ("  Ellis  Gray*^.  «  H. 
H."  and  Caroline  Spencer  were  born  on  the 
same  day  of  the  month  —  the  iBth. 

. . .  Henry  Sylveater  Comwell,  a  writer  of  fan- 
ciful and  faceCioBs  verce  who  united  the  practice 
of  verse -making  and  the  practice  of  medicine 
sacc«««fully  for  twenty-three  years,  died  in  New 
London,  Conn.,  June  t5th,  at  [he  age  of  fifty-Gve. 
Dr.  Cornwell  had  suffered  many  years  with  an 
affection  of  the  lungs,  and  died  from  a  hemor- 
rhage of  those  organs.  His  poetical  work  was 
pleasing  both  in  thought  and  eipretsion,  its  artis- 
tic value  being  considerably  above  that  of  some 
of  the  current  magaiine  verse.  He  caltivated  a 
limited  range,  the  descriptive  in  nature  and  the 
humorous  being  his  principal  line*  j  his  channel 
of  publicalion  was  also  limited,  very  few  of  his 
verMi  appearing  outside  of  the  Ctntury  Maga- 
titu,  the  Traotler'i  Rictrd,  and  a  New  London 
dally  newspaper.  His  only  published  book 
appeared  in  1878 ;  it  contained  an  ode  to  Lincoln 
which  has  been  translated  into  Spanish  and  Ger- 
man, and  several  other  pieces  which  have  been 
rendered  into  the  last-named  tongue.  His  beat 
poem*  have  appeared  since  then,  however  —  ex- 
cepting, of  course,  the  ode  mentioned.  He  left 
enough  pieces  of  his  finest  verse  to  fill  a  i6roo 
volume  of  two  hundred  pages,  which  will  proba- 
bly be  collected  during  the  year.  He  appointed 
Ur.  E.  R.  Champlin  of  Westerly,  R.  1.,  his  liter- 
ary executor. 

. . .  James  Clement  Ambrose,  author  of  re- 
form lectures  on  "  The  Sham  Family,"  "  My 
Partner,"  "The  Uquor  Family,"  and  "Shilob 
and  Others,"  is  finishing  a  novel  with  a  pur- 
pose, which  he  will  nsme  Wrsng  Side  Up. 

.  . .  TX*  Life  and  Wcrk,  tf  Jnk  BilHngi, 
Mr.  E.  J.  Bishop's  biography  of  and  selection 
from  the  departed  humorist,  will  appear  ibe 
first  of  September  through  the  Thompson  Pub- 
lishing Company  of  Philadelphia ;  it  will  be  an 
octavo  volume  of  about  300  pages,  with  English 
cloth  binding,  will  contain  four  steel  and  wood 
cuts,  and  be  Introduced  by  the  Hon.  Charles  E. 
Hamlin,  Speaker  of  the  Maine  House  of  Repre. 
sentatives. 

. . .  We  regret  to  learo  (hat  Mis.  Macquoid's 
visit  to  the  "  Kensington  Studios,"  a*  described 
in  a  recent  letter  to  this  journal,  resulted  in  a 
severe  illness,  which  has  incapacitated  ber  from 
work,  and  Interrupted  a  proposed  Journey  with 
ber  husband  to  Italy,  the  literar?  fruits  of  which 
were  further  to  enrich  our  columus.  The  two, 
however,  are  likely  to  visit  the  Vosge*  and 
Hn.  Mao- 


qaoid  is  now  putting  the  finishing  toncbes  to  a 
long  story  ef  English  life,  which  will  soon  be  in 
print.  A  recent  story  of  hers  for  young  people 
is  A  Straitge  Cemfaay,  published  by  the  English 
Society  for  Promoting  Christian  Knowledge ; 
and  her  novel,  Majtrit,  has  lately  been  issued 
here  by  the  Harpers. 

...Mrs.  E.  A.  Conner  ("Eliza  Archard"), 
who  lately  resigned  the  post  of  literary  editor  of 
the  New  York  Wtrld,  has  become  agricultural 
and  scientific  editor  for  the  American  Press  As- 
sociation, and  baa  ao  office  at  it*  new  head- 
quarters, 31  and  34  Vesey  Street,  New  York. 

. . .  Charles  H.  Noyes,  one  of  those  poets  who 
write  "as  the  law  directs"  (thongh  his  verses 
never  saver  of  Blackstone  mnat),  and  who  made 
a  good  impression  by  the  best  of  his  Studies  in 
Verte,  hy  Choi.  Quiet,  eight  years  ago,  has  nearly 
ready  a  new  volume  of  verse,  of  which  much  may 
be  expected. 

...  Mr.  Frank  P.  Smith  of  Rochester,  N.  Y, 
has  succeeded  the  Rev.  C.  Venton  Patterson  as 
editor  of  Ihe  Caimtfeiitan,  Mr.  Patterson  having 
sold  hi*  one  half  interest  in  the  magaiine  to 
Messrs.  Schlicht  ft  Field. 

. . .  Miss  Margaret  E.  Winslow,  who  has  writ. 
ten  and  edited  much  in  behalf  of  temperance  re- 
form, is  now  engaged  upon  Miisiettary  Ueroei 
Ammg  tki  Red  Men,  a  sketch  of  all  the  work 
done  for  North  American  Indians.  She  has  also 
in  hand  ■  summer  story,  (he  scene  of  which  is 
laid  in  the  Calskills. 

. . .  Mrs.  Caroline  Dana  Howe,  author  of  the 
famous  song,  "  Leaf  by  Leaf  the  Roses  Fall," 
has  met  with  uneipectcd  success  in  the  sale  of 
Athtt  fgr  Flami,  her  book  of  verse*.  The  cost 
of  publication  was  met  within  four  week*  of  its 
announcement,  and  the  sale*  are  still  satisfac- 
tory, it  is  said.  Mrs.  Howe  has  made  Portland, 
MaitK,  ber  home  since  infancy,  and  it  was  moat 
fitting  that  her  songs  should  have  received  *o 
hearty  a  welcome  from  her  own  townspeople. 

.  . .  Henry  Hariand  ("  Sidney  Luska ")  is  vis- 
iling  Paris,  and  has  quarters  at  No.  €  Rue  Gay- 
huBsae.  Hariand  is  a  good  fellow,  and  will 
appreciate  the  good  things  Mr.  Howells  says  of 
him  in  the  July  Harper'i. 

. .  .  John  Burroughs  ha*  returned  from  his 
travels.  He  is  looking  well,  and  says  that  he 
enjoyed  hit  Western  trip  very  much.  In  Chi- 
cago he  visited  his  brother.  Prof.  Burroughs, 
of   the    University,  and  attended    the    literary 

. . .  Prof.  Alexander  Winchell,  of  Ann  Arbor, 
issue*  immediately,  through  Ihe  Chautauqua 
Press  (C.  L.  S.  C.  Department),  a  l2mo  volume 
of  319  pages,  entitled  Watii  and  Taiit  in  tht 
Geological  Field,  and  has  about  ready  Ceelegical 
Sluditi,  a  lamo  of  513  and  uv  pages,  designed 
for  school  use,  which  Messrs.  S.  C.  Griggs  & 
Co.  will  publish. 

. . .  Mrs.  Nsthaniel  Concklin,  whose  "Jennie 
M.  Drinkwater"  stories  are  pure,  profitable,  and 
popular  among  well-trained  young  persons,  has 
in  press  The  Fairfax  Cirli,  and  proposes  T^at 
Quiiiel  Hauie  for  the  fall. 

. . .  Thomas  N.  Page,  the  author  of  '■  Marse 
Chan  "  and  "  Meh  Lady,"  is  a  lawyer,  and  re- 
sides at  Richmond,  Va.  He  is  33  years  old, 
and  is  a  great-grandson  of  Gen.  Thomas  Nel- 
son, a  signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Independ- 
ence, for  whom  he  was  named.  He  proposes 
to  issue  his  short  stories  in  a  volume  as  aoon  as 
two  or  three  as  yet  unprinted  shall  have  been , 


published.  He  has  almost  completed  a  story 
of  post-bellum  Virginia  life,  much  more  preten- 
tious, at  well  as  much  longer,  than  any  of  these, 
which  he  is  unable  now  to  finish,  owing  to  ill- 
ness. On  account  of  sickness  he  will  very  soon 
sail  for  Europe. 

. .  .  Miss  Caroline  Hazard,  of  Peacedale,  R.  t., 
is  writing  a  memoir  of  that  noble  man  and  ripe 
scholar,  the  late  Prof.  J.  Lewis  Diman,  of  BroWh 


Uni 


rsity. 


lEWB  AHS  VOTEB. 


—  Roberts  Brothers  have  reprinted  from  the 
San  Francisee  Ckranicle  an  account  of  a  visit  to 
the  Camuloi  Ranch  and  the  related  scenes  de- 
scribed in  Ramona  by  "  H.  H."  The  little  pam- 
phlet of  eight  page*  with  its  accompanying 
wood  cuts  is  a  chartning  echo  of  one  of  the  most 
impressive  of  American  works  of  fiction. 

—  T.  Y.  Crowell  ft  Co.  announce  for  publica- 
tion in  the  early  fall  a  Boyt'  Betk  ef  Fauuut 
Rulers,  by  Mrs.  Lydia  Hoyt  Farmer,  giving  brief 
sketches  of  Cyrus,  Caesar,  Alexander,  Alfred, 
Charlemagne,  and  ten  qther  notabilities  of  the 

—  Roberts  Brothers  have  in  mind  an  "Old 
Colony  Scries  of  Historic  Fiction,"  to  inclsde 
some  half  duzen  stories  of  Colonial  Aeto  Eng- 
land, perhaps  one  for  each  quarter  of  a  century 
prior  to  the  Revolution  ;  in  which  the  story  plot 
mav  be  of  suffielcnt  interest  to  attract  readers, 
and  the  historical  setting  truthful  in  color  if  not 
in  form.  The  works  are  to  be  prepared  anony- 
mously ;  but  the  religious  element  in  the  New 
England  character,  and  the  preparation  of  the 
people  for  self-government  are  to  be  made 
prominent  features.  Constanci  of  Acadia  is  the 
first  of  the  series;  and  if  the  reception  of  this 
work  warrants,  there  will  be  issued  In  the  au- 
tumn Agatha  (daughter  of  Elder  Brewster), 
which  will  be  followed  at  no  distant  date  by  the 
Story  of  Indian  Missions  in  New  England,  and 
King  Philip's  Wat;  by  Agamttn  (late  in  the 
seventeenth  ccnluiy) ;  by  a  tale  of  Ibe  Huguenot 
immigration  ;  by  an  illustration  of  the  period  of 
Whiicfield,  Jonathan  Edwards,  and  the  French 
War;  and  a  romance  of  the  era  of  Otis  and 
Samuel  Adams.  It  is  hoped  that  the  series  may 
promote  historical  inquiry,  and  «e  shall  all  be 
interested  in  this  attempt  to  create  a  body  of 
fiction  which  shall  be  alive  with  the  historic 
spirit  of  the  founders  tA  our  nation. 

—  Admirers  of  Schopenhauer  will  tie  glad  to 
know  that  Ihe  second  and  third  volume*  of  the 
English  translation  of  that  philosopher's  Tht 
World  ai  mil  and  Idea  will  be  pnblJlbed  by 
Ticknor  ft  to.  on  Friday  next.  Volume  one  tA 
this  important  work  appeared  aome  three  years 
ago. 

—  John  yenmtt :  Hii  Thoughts  and  Ways,  a 
prose  work  by  Jean  Ingctow,  will  be  iaaued  in  the 
early  aulumn  by  Roberts  Brothers. 

—  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fcnnell's  C<^A<ry  paper*  on 
tricycling  in  Italy  are  to  appear  in  book  form, 
with  the  title  Tieo  Pilgrims'  Pragrest  from  Fair 
FloTtnit  to  tht  F.lertial  Ciiy  of  Romt. 

—  Miss  Susan  Coolidge  has  translated  and 
adapted  from  the  French,  Amaud't  One  Day  in 
a  Baij^s  Life,  which  Roberta  Brothers  are  to 
publish  with  reproductions  of  Bulssefs  illustra- 

—  Mr.  W.  E.  Hoyt's  address  at  ihe  recent 
annual  meeting  of  the  Academy  of  Sdencea  on 
IfoHsehald  Sanifatim  wilt  be  published  in  cheap 
pamphlet  form  by  Ticknor  ft  Co. 

—  A  Western  monthly  has  undertaken  the 
responsibility  of  the  exclusive  pablication  of  the 
writings  of  Hiss  Cleveland,  the  Preddent's  sister. 


«38 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[July  io, 


—  A  choice  hididay  votume  is  to  be  made  of 
the  lale  Helen  Jickson'i  Hit  Prettssiim  <?/ 
piaacri  in  CalBrade,  with  illuitraliona  in  WKler 
colors  b;  Alice  Slewut.  Each  cop;  will 
twelve  haad-painted  floral  deajgiu^  Mtd  there  will 
be  but  one  hundred  copiei  Id  all,  printed  on  draw- 
ing pa|ier  and  bound  in  half  while  calf. 

—  Among  books  for  young  people  Robert* 
Brothers  announce  T^  tail  oftkt  Ptttrkim,  by 
Lncrelia  P.  Hale;  UniU,  Pup,  and  I,  bj>  Mary 
Cowden  Clarke;  What  Katy  Did  Nixl,  by  Suun 
Coolidge;  and  three  volumea  of  atorie*  by  Mrs. 
Ewing  hitherto  unpublished  In  this  conntryi 
The  publitber*  hate  now  ready  a  uniform  edition 
of  Mrs.  F.wing'l  stories  in  nine  voiumea.  It  li 
■ingoUr  fact  that  Hra.  Ewing's  l>ooks  had  : 
great  sale  in  this  countiy  until  the  appearance  of 
yactauapti,  of  which  Upward*  of  one  hundred 
thonaand  copies  have  been  aold  in  Ei^land  and 
Atnerica.  Now  the  demand  for  tbe  author's 
other  books  is  constant  and  increasing. 

—  Mr.  Ernest  Ingersoll  ia  preparing  to  t^ke  to 
the  platform  the  coming  season  with  two  popular 
lecture*,  one  "Railroading  in  the  Rockies,"  and 
the  other  "  A  Battle  for  Ufe." 

—  Roberta  Brothers  have  in  preti  and  in 
active  preparation  a  fifth  volome  in  their 
series  of  translations  from  Balxac;  A  Ytar 
in  EdtH,  a  novel  by  Harriet  Waters  Pres- 
ton; Berriei  ef  the  Brier,  a  volume  of  poems 
by  Arlo  Bates ;  and  Sania  Bar^ra  and  Around 
There,  by  Edwards  Robert*.  We  are  assured 
that  the  first  volume  of  Mr.  E.  E.  Hale's  Frank- 
lin in  Frame  will  appear  without  fail  this  coming 

—  Charles  H.  Kerr  &  Co.,  Chicago,  invite 
subscription*  to  a  volume  of  poems  by  E.  R. 
Champlin,  entitled  Heartf  Own,  to  be  published 
at  an  early  date  at  75  cent*  a  copy.  The  sub- 
jects will  be  Love,  Duty,  and  Friendship;  the 
forms  the  sonnet,  the  couplet,  and  tlie  quatrain. 

_  A.  S.  Clark,  34  Park  Row,  New  York,  pub- 
lishes priced  catalt^ues  of  second-hand  books  in 
all  departments  oF  Itteratare  which  are  well  worth 
examination  by  collectors.  The  catat<^ueB  will 
be  sent  to  any  address  on  application. 

—  Charles  A.  Bates  of  Indianapolis  will  soon 
publish  The  Chamttr  ever  Iki  Gate,  an  Indiana 
stoiy  by  Margaret  Holmes,  dealing  with  sodal 
and  moral  problems,  and  deriving  It*  title  from 
Longfellow's  beautiful  poem. 

—  W.  S.  Gottsberger  publishes  this  week  in 
New  York  a  complete  and  authorised  edition  in 
6  volumes  of  Tolstoi's  War  and  Peace,  translated 
first  from  the  Russian  into  French  by  a  Russian 
lady,  and  from  the  French  into  English  by  Clara 
Bell. 

—  We  arc  in  receipt  of  a  batch  of  interesting 
notes  from  Charles  Scrlbner's  Sons.  In  a  few 
days  they  are  to  publish  a  new  book  by  Mr.  Rob- 
ert Louis  Stevenson,  the  extraordinary  success  of 
whose  Strange  Case  of  Dr.  Jekyll  and  Mr.  Hyde 
(it,ooo  copies  having  already  been  sold)  has 
greatly  increased  the  number  of  the  author's  ad- 
mirers in  (his  country.  The  title  of  the  new 
book  is  **  Kidnapped:  Being  Memoirs  of  the  Ad- 
ventures «F  David  Balfour  in  the  Year  1751 ; 
How  be  was  Kidnapped  and  Cast  awa^;  his 
Sufferings  in  a  Desert  Isle  ;  his  Journey  in  the 
Wild  Highlands ;  his  acquaintance  with  Alan 
Breck  Stewart  and  other  notorious  Highland 
Jacobites  ;  with  all  that  he  suffered  at  the  hands 
of  his  uncle,  Ebeneier  Balfour  of  Shawa.  falsely 
so  called."  A  very  valuable  book  from  the  tame 
house  is  on  Carhbad  and  Its  Emiinmi,  by  Mr. 
John  Merrylees.  Mr.  Robert  Grant  is  the  author 
of  Face  to  Face,  which  was  published  anony- 


mously a  few  weeks  ago.  The  second  volni 
the  great  Cychtadia  of  Fainltri  and  Paintings, 
edited  by  Mr,  J.  D.  Champlin,  Jr.,  will  be  ready 
for  delivery  in  the  autumn.  Among  its  full-page 
plates  are  reproductions  of  painting  of  Meis- 
sonier.  Sir  Fi'e(]ci'jc][  Leighton,  J.  P.  Laurens, 
Fuvis  de  Chavannes,  Millais, Jules  Breton,  Ros- 
setti,  and  others  ;  while  the  fine  outline  illustra- 
tions will  reach  one  hundred  or  more,  as  In  vol- 
ume one.  The  portraits  are  even  mare  numer- 
ous than  in  that  volume,  numbering  more  than 
two  hundred  ;  while  the  monograms  and  signa- 
tnre*  reproduced  are  nearly  as  many. 


ALBAHFS  OOHHEHOBATION. 

The  Loao  Collectiaii. 

The  book  room  is  tbe  delight  of  every  book 


fancier  and  autograph  hue 


Among  the  ai 


'resident  and  every  other  eminent  American, 
letters  from  Alexander  Hamilton  and  Aaron 
Burr,  Jonathan  Trumbull,  the  original  of  Brother 
Jonathan,  and  a  tetter  of  Washington's  introduc- 
ing Gouvemeur  Morris  to  a  London  gentleman. 
The  foreign  list  includes  many  aulogiaph  let- 
'—f,  a  full  set  of  the  autographs  of  the  English 
IBS  and  queens  from  the  lime  of  Henry  '"'' 
Victoria,  the  autograjib  of  Edward  V  bei 
particularly  rare;  tbe  signatures  of  Addisi 
Chesterfield,  Coleridge,  Wadsworlh,  Lambj 
Goethe,  in  fact,  of  all  the  distinguished  polili- 
len  of  letters  for  two  centuries.  Tbe 
bibliophilisi  may  feast  upon  rare  specimens  from 
the  early  presses  of  Fausl,  Zell,  Jenson,  Notary, 
Aldus,  De  Worde,  the  Gryphii,  Zamer,  Bamler, 
Parkhnrst,  and  other  foreigners.  Here  is  the 
first  authorized  edition  of  the  letters  of  Junius 
the  copy  belonged  to  Sir  William  Draper 
and  his  autograph  on  the  title-page  with  many 
autographic  notes.  Surrounding  the  book  are 
autographic  letters  of  Woodfall,  the  printer,  Sir 
Philip  Francis,  John  Wilkes,  Duke  of  Grafton, 
Duke  of  Portland,  Warren  Hastings,  Lord 
North,  and  other  characters  in  the  book.  Tbe 
first  English  edition  of  Bacon's  six  Baoti  of 
learning  is  shown,  together  with  a  curious  edi- 
■"n  of  Euclid,  printed  three  hondred  years  ago, 
which  the  solid  angles  are  taught  by  figures 
it  are  pasted  in  the  book  so  as  to  fold  one  way 
and  the  other.  American  publishers  are  repre- 
sented by  Stephen  Day  of  Cambridge,  the  first 
printer  (>f  tbe  colonies,  and  the  printer  of  the 
Bay  Stall  Psalm  Book;  Matthew  Day;  John 
Foster,  who  had  the  lint  press  in  Boston ;  Will- 
iam Bradford,  the  first  printer  in  Philadelphia, 
and  Juan  Publos,  who  is  said  to  have  printed  in 
Mexico  in  1556.  Masons  will  be  entertained  by  the 
''-Hitituliani,  reprinted  by  Benjamin  Franklin  in 
^  (the  original  prlnleo  by  Hunter  of  London 
17*3  being  also  shown),  and  by  the  illustra. 
tiona  of  Masonry,  the  book  that  was  in  type 
when  Morgan  disappeared.  The  Mormon  visit- 
ors, if  there  are  any,  will  recognize  the  original 
edition  of  the  Boot  of  Mormon,  1S30,  and  Doc- 
trims  and  Cm/enanlt,  183J.  Among  the  manu- 
scripts the  most  interesting  and  important  is  tbe 
original  charier  given  to  the  city  of  Albany 
when  Dongan  was  Governor  in  T6S5.  This 
ivers  several  sheets  of  parchment,  and  it  is  in 
very  good  state  of  preservation.  The  challenge 
of  the  British  man-of-war,  Guerriere,  to  the 
President,  is  framed  in  wood  from  the  Constitu- 
tion. The  original  draft  of  Lincoln's  emancipa- 
tion proclamaiion  is  also  framed.  Many  other 
interesting  documents  are  shown  from  the  State 
library,  the  Van  Rensselaer  papers,  and  the 
"listotV  o[   Schenecudy. 

Middleton. 

Apropos  to  the   new  edition   of  Middtelon's 

rorkt,  of  which   Houghton,  Mllflin  &  Co.  are 

the  American  publishers,  the  London  Aihenaum 

is  not  altogether  easy  ti 

._Jleton   in   the  hierarchy 

dramatists.    In  what  rink  he  is  placed  neces- 

]ly  depends  upon  the  system  of  classification. 

Ass^ning   Shakespeare  a  class  to  himself,  and 

confining  the  second  class  to  those  who  came 


nearest  him,  Marlowe,  Webster,  Beaumont  and 
Ficlcher,  and  Jonson,  it  is  yet  difficult  to  say 
whether  the  merits  of  Middleton  do  not  entitle 
him  to  a  place  in  it.  In  some  respects  he  is 
thoroughly  representative  of  his  epoch.  At  his 
best  he  Is  on  a  level  with  anv  of  tbe  later 
Eliiabethan  dramatists  except  Shakespeare;  at 
his  worst  he  sinks  no  tower  than  sink  Heywood 
and  Decker,  Shirley,  Massinger,  and  Chapman. 
His  work  has,  moreover,  alt  the  characteristics 
of  the  age.  It  is  daring,  imaginative,  quaintly 
written,  plenarily  iiispired.  It  shows  a  kind  of 
realism  in  search  of  which  modem  literature  is 
groping  often  in  wrong  places,  and  it  has  a 
scorn  of  the  possibilities  of  bathos  that  is  heroic. 
In  lighter  and  more  facile  comedies  Middleton 
shows  himself  a  species  of  dramatic  pamphlet- 
eer, taking  upon  himself  in  plays,  like  Nash 
and  Decker  in  pamphlets,  to  depict  the  seamy 
side  of  the  life  of  the  town,  and  to  scourge  the 
backs  of  thieves,  pimps,  ]ianders,  and  others  of 
the  like  kidney.  Nowhere  in  Elizabethan  liiera- 
indeed,  is  there  to  be  seen  a  collection  of 
?ul«  upon 
Middleton 
delight  is  to  deal  with 
gipsies  and  vagrants,  to  depict  the  young  heir 
cozening  his  uncle,  or  the  liver  by  his  wit* 
fleecing  the  gentleman.  Lesaee  himself  is  not 
happier  than  ia  Middleton  in  depicting  the 
tricks  by  which  innocence  ia  wheedled  or  the 
manner  in  which  the  knave  is  developed  from 
the  dupe.  High  as  is  tbe  work  m  "The 
Changeling,"  in  "  A  Fair  Quarrel,"  and  in 
"  Women  oeware  Women."  it  is  rather  in  such 
pieces  as  "  A  Trick  to  Catch  the  Old  One  "  that 
Middleton  moves  most  at  bis  ease. 


Tbe  Work  of  Bowdoin  College. 

Two  thotisand  one  hundred  and  forty-five 
young  men  have  graduated.  Of  these,  800  have 
engaged  in  teaching.  One  in  every  21  has  been 
1  college  professor.  Twenty-lhiee  have  been 
college  presidents.  The  alumni  alcove  will  con- 
tain among  its  1,000  books  and  4,000  pamphlets 
the  works  of  zo  men  well  known  in  literature  and 
philosophy  and  science.  Two  hundred  and  sixty 
have  practiced  medicine,  18  of  whom  have  been 
professors  in  medical  schools.  Twenty  per  , 
cent  have  entered  the  ministry,  of  whom  l3 
have  been  professors  in  theological  seminaries. 
Thirty-seven  per  cent  of  the  number  have 
studied  law,  of  whom  a  large  proportion  have 
upon  the  bench.  Ten  per  cent  of  the  num- 
ber have  been  prominent  in  politics;  13,  or  one 
in  each  100,  have  been  elected  to  Congress ;  seven 
have  been  United  States  Senators,  and  one  has 
held  the  highest  office  in  the  nation.  With  the 
exception  of  the  unexpired  term  caused  by 
the  death  of  her  most  distinguished  Senator,  the 
State  of  Maine  has  bad  a  Bowdoin  graduate  in 
her  congressional  delegation  continuously  since 
iSij.  Sixty-five  have  devoted  themselves  to 
Journalism,  and  among  tbe  papers  whose  edi- 
torial staff  ha*  contained  Bowdoin  men  are 
nearly  all  the  leading  paper*  of  Maine,  Boston, 
and  New  York.  Seventy  per  cent  of  die  grad- 
uates have  engaged  in  one  of  the  three  leading 
professions;  and  if  we  include  leaching  and 
journalism  we  may  say  that  90  per  cent  of  all 
the  graduates  have  engaged  for  a  longer  or 
shorter  period  in  distinctively  literary  or  pro- 
fessional work.  Bowdoin  gave  to  the  lale  war 
*fA  of  her  »mi.  — President  Hyde's  Inaururat 
Address.  _  _ 

"  Very  well,"  said  About,  quietly. 

With  its  increasing  prosperity  the  Rtvne  des 

eux  Mendes  is  said  to  be  more  liberal  to  its 

contributors.     There   is   an  anecdote,  perhaps 

ipocryphal,  but  typical  enough  of  its  treatment 

of  Edmond  About.    After  the  first  installment  of 

novel  of  his  appeared,  he  went  to  aik  for  his 

oney,  only  10  be  informed  that  it  was  not  the 

custom   of   the  Reviie  ever  to  pay  for  the  first 

article  of  any  author.    "  Very  well,"  said  About, 

quietly,  "if  il  is  not  your  custom,  no  matter," 

and   he  went  on  his  way.    But  when  they  sent 

to  him  for  the  manuscript  of  the  second  Inslall- 

of  the  story,  he  refuted  to  send  it,  saying 


1 886.] 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


239 


that  It  <ru  not  hU  cnatom  ever  to  send  the 
Kcond  installmeDt  of  a  story  antil  he  had  been 

paid  for  the  first 


OITgHISQ'S  DIOTIOHABT  OF  IHITUL8 
AHD  FSEUDOVTHS. 


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Additional  Errata. 


,  md  Gcoii*  F. 

Id  Uirard,  read  Ottanou. 
..      ___lcr  C,  Rud  Hinpton. 
4.  —  AfMr  CbainpllHrT,  iHd  Fliury-Kiuioa. 
-  AfMr  Chultc,  n^  Ctaaniiiur*. 
-For  Colsoh,   lUHh   mf  Cilcnh,   John 
1  fer  Colt,  John  Wobb,  Colt.  Jabn  Williui. 
..-  -AfurC«nit,Noih,nadWllii>nE.GU>iuD. 
179.  — Attn  Vtn,  Kinncr,  md  Ua.   ClurtoiM 


cr  DErrkk,  ahcnlkl  br 


—  AlierLoekiu 


M  Uilo,  Rid  Gnhun. 

Alia  PutoD,  Piiiiip, 

A(iB  PailwinUt,  Pwl,  md  Ba1in(bn>]u. 

Afiw  Powell,  Huy,  md  Man  Ann*. 

— Afw  Ronnll*,  mid    Blvadu  RooMnlt 

Aflar  S.,  M.  E.  W.,  rod  Hln. 

—  Ahu  Sir,  thauM  ba  R(T.  A.  K.  Potter. 
~Alur  SproBle,   Sbt,    raad    Rar.    Ueoiic 

,Pafa  17].  — Attar  Staiapeda,  raad  Jonalhan  P.  Kallr. 

H«a  17],  —  Aflar  Suht,  SrdaaT  A.,  Atbaitoo  iboold  be 
(Blued  and  V9t*  lakco  oiu  ot  (beVadieta. 

'  —  AharSlullli«,oiBilthaeaiDn». 

—  AfwrTriooUin,  nad  N.  I.  Hndnaoa. 

—  AIicrTws  Siatira  of  ibe  Wait,  nad  Citli- 

—  After  Zad!(,  n»i»mnr. 

—  For  Cakrofl,  j!'w. .  ™Jd''Sicra!t,  J.  W. 
— Altar  Seneca,  iboald  be  Weilaj  W.  Plika. 


LTTEBABT  DIBEZ  TO  THE  FESIODI- 
OALS. 


ton.  New  PriDcaton,  lulr. 

icktna,  Wbo  Wrola  r  MmtwtilUn,  Jona. 

IBM,  Ibe  Second  Part  of.  MiumiOmn,  Jnna. 

«in  Ambon  {abould  they)  be  PrDtacled  1 
G.  P.  Uthnp,  Koiar  Shannan.  Yanm,  lul^. 

right.    H.  D.  Trmilt.    JbcmUu,  Juno. 


HanoKript  Uarkat,  Tlia.    J.  H.  Bm 
Ohio  VallaT,  Litaran  BenDniDn  in  tli 

I.    W,  ff,  Vanabli. 
Ouida.     Harriet  W.  Pnatou. 


FUBLIOITIOIB  XE0£I7ED. 


J.  B.  Lipfinnii  Co. 
Wlih  C<ilar«l  Hi 


BtJ.  I.  M. 


aLUT.    B]r  Helen  Ho 
nbert,  D.D.    Fim  Seriar 


-oik;    Laacb, 

Sbewell  &  Sanborn.     Bj  mail  Ii.dd 

PaxTBRiTA.  OotlineaelSceneiandThoBchta  Parhapa 
Wonbr  of  UemDrT  »  my  Paal  Life.  By  Tbbn  Ruikin, 
LL.D.  Vol.  II.  Chap.  1,  Of  Aaei  Cbap.  II,  R<-- 
Cbap.  Ill,  Cnnz.    Jobn  Whey  ft  Son*. 

Baaaya  uid  Sketches. 

By  Slepniak.    Harper  A 


<■  ExraKDU  of  Ehglahd.    Bt  Prol. 
amaa,    p.C.L.,   LL.D.      Macmillan    ft 

IH  Ehglahd.    By  Adam  Badeau.     Hi 


Thi  RvaaiAH  Stoim-Ci 

Wuhihotoh' 
Edward  A.  Pi 
Co. 

par  ft  BroibcTB. 

BouHGaaoEa:  and  Voltairi  ih  Enclahp. 
CbitnoD  CoUioa.     Harper  &  Brolbara. 

Baldwiii.     By  Vernon  Lea.    Roberta  Brothi 

UAaioaiE.    By  Kaibarlna  S.    Miaiuaid.      Harper  ft 
A  Smm  Chau.     By  Ui*.  Caalial  Hoey.    Haiper  ft 
AariaATiDna,    By  Helen  Hayi.    Tbomaa  Wbiltakar. 
RoLr  HovM.    By  Lncir  C  Lillia.     lEIoairaied.    Harpi 


ft  Biw.    Paper 
Cot,    By  G.  I,  Ctma. 
THaSiQuyoFDaNUi 


1  StraBf  e  Wintar.  Harper  ft  BiotberL 
toon.  Br  William  HinCo.  Harper  ft 
By  S.  Barini-Gonld.  J.  B.  Lippincotl 
LAiao,     By  Gartnida  Foida.     Harper 


_,  ,...0  Boodia  Wbackcr. 

><.5o 

By  N.  O.  Tcheniydiewaky, 

Wilb  Paruak.     Beaun ;  BenJ. 

ILTV.    By  Flora  Haiuaa  Lout- 
head.    Honcblon,  Hifflin  ft  Co.    Paper  jot 
"      "■  jjam's   SracnLATiOBS.      By  Haloan  Laing- 
Sold  by    Scribnar  ft   WcUotd.      Stiff  paper 


By  Annie  Robertaon  Mao- 

.HoIUl     Illua.    TbsraaiY. 

laanoH.     By  Niodal  G.  Tcbcnyeiiaitak*. 

Dole  and  S.  S.  Skidelaky.    Tbomaa  f. 

*>•■( 

iTUHa.    By  Florence  Wuden.    D.  Ap[Je- 


CroweU  ft  Co. 

■i\  ft  Co. 


lulraied.     PnabjitEiun  Board  of  Pabli 


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CONTENTS. 


PaBIAI's  HuTDIVDrlHT»Plin'ATtOK  141 

AlUTDCIUCV  in  EhOUMD u( 

HiHoii  NoncB : 

Mr.  Kidiw'i  SpaoiluioBi i4) 

Tbo  UMtSulM*!  MiBoal >4] 

Wcnics  OH  Ait: 

WondanolIlaUinAR iji 

The  Educalion  of  llw  Aniil >]i 

A  Manul  nf  Gmk  Archmlan     .         .         .         .  ijl 

ScolptDn.  KcDiunnu  ind  Uodun     .        .        ,  i<i 

HiRO  FicTioH : 

ThtWncken >)j 

DugoiHt  lh»  J«Ur Ijl 

John  BodewiD^B  TeuiiwHiy 153 

Wbo  WHCuUlrr lu 

The  Mu  Who  «•  Guiliy ij3 

Thi  Uidga i(] 

CUUm  of  llis  Eulh jU 

Coort  Rofa] i}3 

Aart  lUdtel   '.'.'.'.'.'.'.',  la 

Htr  On  DoiB( ijg 

A  LiT-m  noil  Lohdoh.    A.  If .  F.  K.  14^ 

A  Ln-m  ntoii  Gbiiiaiit.    LaopoU  KiUcbcr     .  ijc 
Woiui  ttioGiArumi 

Emot  IntmoU ijg 

Tjk*uTAI.K IJI 

Norm  AHD  QuBiiB.    7<s-79"       ■       ■        ■       •  »Si 

Thi  PmODiCAU it; 

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NacROLoav ■;« 

LiTUARv  Imn iS< 


EAST  AH^ELS.- 

HOW  well  East  Angth  reads  io  a  book ! 
At  times  it  seemed  slow,  as  a  serial, 
bat  here  it  is  comfortably  leisurely;  and  the 
character  drawing,  the  sliill  of  the  literary 
coQstructioa  and  work,  and  the  high  purpose 
come  out  in  as  positive  and  pleasing  a  light 
as  the  author  could  ask.  A  novel  with  a 
purpose  is  sometimes  rather  an  infliction 
upon  the  reader's  patience,  but  not  if  it  bear 
relation  to  such  vital  issues  as  this.  It  is  a 
part  of  Miss  Woolson's  art —  so  to  speak — 
that  she  is  able  to  l>eguile  her  readers  on  their 
way  by  the  fascination  of  the  scenery,  the 
unique  sort  of  life  lived  at  East  Angels,  the 
caprices  of  Garda,  the  gamilousness  of 
Betty,  and  the  episode  of  Lucian  Spenser,  so 
that  when  the  great  question  which  is  the 
mM!i/ actually  conies  to  the  front  at  the  very 
close,  it  is  to  many  a  surprise  that  for  this 
the  book  was  written.  It  must  be  owned 
that  at  first  the  unnatural  calmness  of  the 
rare,  pale  Margaret  was  exasperating,  and 
we  were  half  ready  to  wish  that  she  might 
for  once  lose  her  balance ;  but  when  the  no- 
bility of  her  brave,  indomitable  spirit  began 
to  dawn  upon  us,  we  felt  that  here  was  a 
woman  whom  no  appeals  of  passion  would 
swerve  one  hair's  breadth  from  rectitude. 


Renoundng  self,  and  knowing  what  desola- 
tion and  heart-hunger  most  be  her  portion, 
she  stands  for  the  sanctity  of  the  marriage 
obligation  which  she  took  upon  herself,  and 
holds  it  sacred,  though  her  husband  has  set 
it  at  naught  and  made  the  bondage  almost 
unbearable.  Miss  Woolson's  treatment  of 
this  subject  is  a  scathing  rebuke  to  the  many 
authors  who  have  made  marital  infidelity, 
separation,  and  elopements  their  favorite 
theme — bringing  all  their  sophistry  and 
special  pleading  to  bear  on  the  case  by  way 
of  excuse  or  palliatioo. 

For  the  rest,  we  have  the  matchless  de- 
scriptions of  that  dreamy,  faraway,  sun- 
steeped,  str&Dgely  unreal  and  yet  most  vivid 
region  "under  a  sky  of  almost  changeless 
blue,"  where  all  the  conditions  of  life,  in* 
doors  and  out,  are  as  unlike  those  of  the 
North  as  the  land  of  the  Arabian  Nights. 
There  is  a  remarkable  power  of  observation 
that  we  are  always  cooscions  of  in  our 
author,  while  we  recognize  also  the  facile 
skill  by  which  the  pictures  she  saw  are  made 
so  life-like  for  our  eyes.  With  a  touch  no 
less  graphic  she  draws  her  men  and  women, 
lingering  most  tenderly  over  little,  discreet, 
dainty  Mrs.  Thome,  with  her  t»rd-like  voice 
and  precision  of  speech,  and  her  assumed 
pride  in  the  Gracias-d-Dios,  aristocratic  an- 
cestry ;  at  the  last  throwing  oS  the  artificial- 
ity she  has  sustained  so  long,  and  letting  the 
Melissa  Whiting  spirit  assert  itself.  It  is 
comic  —  but  for  the  pathos  of  it,  the  tragedy 
of  it — the  way  this  poor  soul  on  her  dea,th- 
bed  "  blazes  "  out  about  her  sorry  subter- 
fuges and  economies,  and  the  weariness  of 
going  out  three  hundred  and  sixty-five  times 
each  year  for  seventeen  years  to  see  if 
Raquel  had  wiped  off  the  shelves,  and  every 
day  of  it  all  Raquel  had  "pretended  to  for- 
get it." 

Merely  as  a  story  East  Augtls  is  admira- 
ble; as  fine  in  its  workmanship  as  For  t?u 
Major,  it  is  yet  a  long  way  in  advance  of 
that;  in  some  respects  resembling  ^ffn«,  it 
is  fortunately  without  the  sensational  ele- 
ment which  toward  the  dose  was  such  a 
blemish  and  disappointment  in  that  book ; 
for  its  pure,  moral  atmosphere,  its  discrimi- 
nating portraiture,  its  pictnresqueness  and 
coloring,  its  mellowness  and  tranquility,  and 
its  literary  finish,  we  must  regard  East 
Angels  as  Miss  Woolson's  best  novel. 

TOLSTOrS  OHILDEOOD,  BOYHOOD, 
ABD  YOUTH.* 

THESE  exquisite  sketches,  which  came 
from  the  pen  of  Count  L.  Tolstoi'  as  the 
first  fruits  of  his  masterly  genius,  have 
the  delicate  charm  of  eternal  youth  and 
beauty;  and  although  a  third  of  a  century 
has  eli^wed  since  they  were  given  to  Rus- 
sian readers,  they  have  lost  nothing  of  tbefr 

•  ChiUbood,  Boyhood,  YooUl  By  CobbI  Lyol  N. 
TolttoL  TniuUtad  from  lb*  Kunu  by  Inbtl  F.  HAp- 
food.    T.  Y.  CidweH  a  Co.    fi.so. 


value  with  age,  nor  will  they,  for  they  be- 
long to  the  literature  which  never  grows 
old,  which  lives  forever  tn  the  heart  of 
humanity  as  a  cherished  revelation.  He 
who  takes  up  this  book  and  traces  from 
chapter  to  chapter  the  delicious  confessions 
of  personal  experience  upon  which  it  is  un- 
questionably founded,  finds  himself  a  con- 
fidential assistant  at  a  series  of  psycholog- 
ical dissections  firm  in  purpose,  true  in 
method,  and  marvelously  graceful  In  the 
irresistible  sequence  of  motive  and  action. 
The  emotions  and  ideas  of  a  sensitive  child 
are  here  followed  from  their  first  appear- 
ance, In  their  subsequent  development 
throngh  the  years  of  boyhood,  on  to  the 
very  dawn  of  manhood,  and  the  ingenuous 
disctosore  of  a  highly-endowed  personality 
is  made  the  central  theme  in  a  broad,  if 
fr^mentary,  j^cture  of  intimate  family  life, 
now  amid  idyllic  scenes  of  a  rural  existence, 
now  in  the  fashionable  quarters  of  a  great 
dty.  Nothing,  apparently,  escapes  the  au- 
thor's keen  observation  or  pitiless  sincerity. 
The  book  was  written,  as  all  great  books  of 
the  kind  are  written,  in  that  mood  of  boundless 
confidence,  when  soul  speaks  to  soul  and  lays 
bare  the  most  intricate  recesses  where  fancy 
and  imagination  wander,  /it  is  faithful  tal 
the  universal  prindples  which  govern  the/ 
mental  evolution  of  every  serious  person/ 
ality;  it  draws  its  inspiration  from  th* 
fountain  of  human  experience ;  and  thus  • 
appeals  to  all  sympathetic  minds  with  i 
noble  and  resistless  fascination.  \ 

Indeed,  the  pnlsating  vitality  of  the  mul- 
titudinous character-sketches  in  the  book 
defies  description  or  analysis.  We  read, 
and  a  procession  of  figures  passes  before 
the  mental  vision,  each  figure  complete  in. 
its  own  individuality  and  endowed  with  tho' 
changing  attributes  of  life.  Karl  I  vanitch,  the 
simple,  kind-hearted  German  tutor,  come; 
first  upon  the  scene;  mark  the  quiet  cir- 
cumstantiality of  the  narrative : 

On  the  nth  oE  August,  18 — ,  the  third  day 
after  my  birthday  when  I  had  attained  the  age 
of  ten,  and  had  received  such  wonderful  pres. 
ent*.  Karl  Ivanitch  woke  me  at  seven  o'clock 
in  the  morning  by  striking  at  1  fly  directly  above 
my  head,  with  a  flapper  made  of  sugar-piper 
and  fastened  to  a  stick.  Ife  did  it  so  awkwardly 
that  he  entangled  the  image  of  my  angel,  irhich 
hung  upon  tlie  oaken  head-board  of  the  bed ; 
and  the  dead  fly  fell  straight  upon  my  head.  I 
thrust  my  nose  out  from  under  the  coverlet, 
stopped  the  image,  which  was  still  rocking,  with 
my  hand,  flung  the  dead  Sj  on  the  floor,  and 
regarded  Karl  Ivanitch  with  angry,  although 
sleepy,  eyes.  But  attired  in  his  motley  wadded 
dressing-gown,  girded  with  a  bell  of  the  same 
material,  a  red  knitted  Kkull-cap  with  a  tassel, 
■nd  soft  goatskin  shoes,  he  pursued  his  course 
along  the  walls,  catching  on  things  and  flapping 

Later  on  the  good  Karl  is  dismissed  from 
the  care  of  his  pnpils  to  give  place  to  a 
more  fashionable  tutor.  This  is  the  way 
in  which  he  took  his  revenge; 

When  Karl  Ivanitch  returned  to  the  school- 
room he  ordered  me  to  get  up,  and  prepare  ny 
copy-book  for   writing  from  dictation.      When  ^ 
all  was  readf,  be  seated  himself  majestically  in   ~ 
his  ann-cbaiT,  and  in  a  voice  which  appeared 


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to  iuue  from  tome  great  depth,  he  began  to 
dictate  as  follows:  "'Of  all  pas-siona  the  most 
re-volt-irg  is '  —  have  you  wrilten  that  I "  Here 
he  paused,  slowly  took  a  pinch  of  snufF,  and 
continued  with  renewed  energy—  "'  the  most  re- 
volting is  In-gra-ti-tude ' .  . .  a  capital  /."  I  looked 
at  him  aEter  writing  the  last  word,  in  expectation 
of  more.  "  Period,"  said  he,  with  a  barely  per- 
ceptible smile,  and  made  me  a  sign  to  give  him 
my  copy-book. 

Humor,  in  the  ordinary  sense  of  the  word' 
one  would  not  at  first  think  of  ascribing  to 
Count  Tolstoi,  and  yet  there  is  an  artless, 
almost  unconscious,  humor  constantly  play- 
ing through  his  pages.  It  creeps  forth  at 
the  most  unexpected  momeots.  At  a  family 
picnic  games  are  proposed.  The  elder 
brother,  Volodya,  complains  that  games  are 
tiresome,  but  finally  consents  to  join ; 

Volodya's  condescension  affoided  us  but  very 
little  satisfaction ;  on  the  contrary,  hia  bored 
and  lazy  took  deatro>ed  all  the  illusion  of  the 
play.  When  we  sat  down  on  the  ground,  and, 
imagining  that  we  were  setting  out  on  a  fishing 
expediiion,  be^an  to  row  with  all  our  might, 
Volodya  sat  with  folded  hands,  and  in  an  atli- 
tude  which  had  nothing  in  common  with  the 
altitude  of  a  fisherman.  I  remarked  on  this 
to  him;  hut  he  retorted  that  we  should  gain 
nothing  and  do  no  good  by  either  a  greater  or 
less  llouiish  of  hands,  and  should  not  travel  any 
farther.  I  involuntarily  agreed  with  bim.  When 
I  mnde  believe  to  go  hunting  with  a  stick  on 
my  shoulder,  and  look  my  way  to  the  woods, 
Volodya  lay  down  Sat  on  his  back,  with  his 
hands  under  his  head,  and  said  it  was  all  the 
same  as  though  he  went  too.  Such  speeches 
and  behavior  cooled  us  towards  this  game,  and 
were  extremely  unpleasant ;  the  more  so,  ai  it 
was  impossible  not  to  admit  in  one's  own  mind 
that  Volodya  was  behaving  sensibly. 

In  English  literature  we  must  go  back 
to  Goldsmith  and  Tie  Viear  of  Waktfitld 
to  meet  with  humor  of  a  like  quality. 
Count  Tolstoi  has  what  Goldsmith  had  not, 
a  marvelous  gift  for  recording  the  motives 
and  ideas  from  which  thoughts  and  actions 
spring  —  a  wonderful  power  of  subtle  intro 
speclion.  When  he  leaves  his  mother  foi 
the  first  lime  to  go  on  a  long  journey,  "  1 
continued  to  cry,"  he  says,  "and  the 
thought  that  my  tears  proved  my  sensitive- 
ness afforded  me  pleasure  and  consolation.' 
Elsewhere  he  is  telling  us  of  the  grief  of  : 
poor  serving-woman  at  the  death  of  hi: 
mother ;  his  own  sorrow  he  found  to  b< 
largely  intermingled  with  vanity,  which,  he 
says,  is  a  feeling  so  firmly  inlerwc 
human  nature  that  the  greatest  woe  rarely 
expels  it;  "but  Natalya  Savischna 
deeply  wounded  by  her  unhappiness,  that 
not  a  single  desire  lingered  in  her  soul,  and 
she  only  lived  from  habit." 

We  have  given,  with  random  quotati 
but  a  vague  idea  of  these  charming  re 
iscences,  which  are  genuine  and  pure,  and 
yet  leave  hardly  any  humatw  pas 
analyzed.  If,  as  we  earnestly  hope.  Count 
Tolstoi  shall  be  prevailed  upon  to  complete 
the  story  of  his  life,  the  result  will  be  without 
question  one  of  the  most  revealing 
biographies  the  world  has  ever  seen. 
stands  now  it  is  a  magnificent  fragment, 
in  which  are  traced  with  the  subtle  skill 
of  a  complex  genius  something  of  the 
finite    intimatiotis    which    accompany    the 


early  growth  of  every  man  toward  the 
fullness  of  his  maturity,  when  the  emotions 
and  ideas  have  not  yet  been  solidified  by 
experience  Into  a  distinct,  individtuil  life. 


KOBVAT  AFD  aEBMANT. 

SINCE  receiving  the  volume  on  Chaldea, 
noticed  in  our  issue  of  June  26,  we  have 
had  two  others  belonging  to  the  same  aeries, 
and  displaying  the  same  external  character- 
istics heretofore  mentioned. 

Prof,  Boyesen  >  has  felt  his  work  somewhat 
restricted  by  the  requirement  to  lay  especial 
IS  on  what  is  picturesque;  and  in  our 
judgment,  as  we  suspect  in  his  own,  has  con- 
sequently devoted  too  much  attention  to  the 
ifused  mythology  and  weird  hero  legends 
of  the  Scandinavians,  and,  in  general,  to  vari- 
scenes  more  dramatic  than  important, 
while  giving  little  clear  account  of  historic 
progress.  Kings,  great  and  small,  vikings 
and  earls,  pass  before  us  in  rude  pageantry; 
marauding  expeditions  by  land  and  sea, 
private  feuds,  civil  strife,  and  public  warfare 
make  the  burden  of  the  tale;  but,  like  the 
sanguinary  wars  of  American  Indians,  these 
Scandinavian  contests  produced  little,  if  any, 
permanent  or  useful  result,  either  in  settle- 

:nt  of  boundaries  and  other  important 
questions,  or  in  the  growth  of  civilization. 

The  beginning  of  Norwegian  history  the 
author  places  at  the  Aryan  immigration  into 
Scandinavia,  which  he  thinks  occurred  dur- 
ing the  second  century  B.  C.  An  interest- 
ing theory  is  cited  from  the  Icelandic  his- 
torian Snorre  (A.  D.  1178-IZ41),  to  whom 
also  we  are  indebted  for  many  sagas,  giving 
much  of  the  mediaeval  history,  that  Odiu  [or 
Woden],  the  greatest  of  the  northern  heathen 
deities,  was  an  idea  developed  from  the  ac- 
tual chieftain,  who,  in  the  dim  past,  first  led 
the  Germanic  tribes  into  Europe.  Rough 
and  spirited  sketches  carry  down  the  narra- 
tive to  the  formation,  from  the  various  small 
principalities  or  kingdoms,  of  the  single 
monarchy  of  Norway,  with  the  introduction 
of  the  feudal  system,  by  Harold  the  Fair- 
H^red,  A.  D.  860-930.  In  the  historical 
portions  we  have  found  very  laborious  atten- 
tion required  in  reading,  on  account  of  the 
total  want  of  genealogical  tables  and  similar 
aids  to  the  eye,  and  the  frequent  and  per- 
plexingrecurrenceof  the  same  names,  among 
kings  and  other  prominent  persons,  often 
contemporaneous ;  also  because  the  writer 
has  not  fully  the  art  of  the  true  historian  in 
making  his  narrative  not  only  accurate  and 
picturesque,  but  also  interesting,  and  — 
above  all  — clear.  In  the  long  line  of  kings 
from  Harold,  above  mentioned,  to  Magnus 
Eriksson,  1319,  who,  by  election  In  Sweden, 
became  the  first  king  of  both  countries,  the 
Norwegians  can  claim  quite  as  large  a  pro- 
portion of  good  sovereigns  as  other  nations. 
Two,  in  fact,  Haakon,  93J-961,  and  Magnus, 


1035-1047,  have  the  word  Good  as  part  of 
their  titles;  and  another,  Olaf,  ioi6-io3c^ 
has  been  popularly  canonized  with  the  title 
Saint.  Christianity  was  introduced,  but  im- 
perfectly and  against  much  resistance,  by 
Haakon  the  Good ;  and  much  more  success- 
fully, though  by  a  system  of  military  com- 
pulsion more  Mohammedan  than  Christian, 
by  Olaf  Trygvesson  and  Saint  Olaf.  The 
kings  varied  in  character,  in  extent  of  terri- 
tory ruled,  and  in  degree  of  authority. 
Many  were  short-lived.  Frequent  refer- 
ences are  made  to  the  connection  of  Nor- 
way, or  its  rulers,  with  Iceland,  the  Orkneys 
aod  Hebrides,  and  Scotland  and  England; 
and  we  have  the  interesting  story  of  the  dis- 
covery of  America  under  Leif  in  1000,  and 
a  biography  of  the  historian  Snorre  Sturlas- 
son,  above  mentioned,  both  Icelanders. 
After  Magnus  Eriksson,  1319-1374,  already 
mentioned  as  first  king  of  the  whole  penin- 
sula, Norway,  but  not  Sweden,  came  in 
1374  under  the  oppressive  government  of 
Denmark,  which  was  monarchical  and  oligar- 
chical; and  this  union,  lasting  over  four 
centuries,  is  characterized  by  Prof.  Boy- 
esen as  a  period  of  great  humiliation. 
In  1814  the  nation  recovered  independ- 
ence and  became  a  constitutional  mon- 
archy under  the  same  king  with  Sweden, 
but  having  its  own  legislature,  the  Slorihiiig, 
in  which  the  peasants  take  active  part 
Even  the  very  moderate  powers  then  al- 
lowed to  the  king  have  been  of  late  to  some 
extent  curtailed.  There  is  a  handsome  por- 
trait of  the  present  excellent  king,  Oscar  II. 
Many  other  illustrations  represent  curious 
specimens  of  Norwegian  work  in  metals, 
and  the  wild  natural  scenery  of  the  country. 

The  Story  of  Germany,*  of  which  we  sup- 
pose Mr.  Baring-Gould  has  been  the  princi* 
pal  author,  is  a  series  of  beautifully  told 
sketches  of  Teutonic  heroes  and  of  the  his- 
tory of  the  Teutonic  nation,  from  its  earliest 
invasion  of  Italy.in  B.  C.  113,  to  the  present 
time.  The  topics,- scenes,  and  persona  de- 
scribed are  most  wisely  selected  to  give  a 
comprehensive  knowledge  of  the  German 
character  and  of  the  leading  or  cardinal 
events  in  the  history,  which  alone  can  be 
remembered  by  ordinary  minds.  In  case  of 
Germany  this  method  of  writing  is  even 
more  than  usually  wise,  and  almost  necessary, 
because  its  story  is  so  much  interwoven  with 
that  of  nearly  all  Europe  that  to  tell  it,  both 
interestingly  and  with  completeness  of  de- 
tail, would  far  exceed  the  assigned  limits  of 
the  volume.  The  language  is  sometimes 
ungrammatical,  but  there  is  in  the  style  a 
grace,  vigor,  and  pic  lures  que  ness  which 
should  render  this  one  of  the  most  popular 
of  the  series. 

The  narrative  opens  with  mention  of  the 
Gallic  tribes  as  reducible  to  two  great  divis- 
ions, the  Teutenes  and  the  CimbH,  who  were 


'  The  Slotj  of  G«m 


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respectiv«lj  the  socestors  of  the  Gentian 
and  the  French  peoples  of  today;  with  the 
victory  of  the  barbarian  invaders  in  B.  C.  113, 
and  their  defeat  by  the  Ronuus  under  Ma- 
riua  in  102.  A  few  graphic  toaches,  like 
those  of  a  rapid  and  slcitlful  artist,  present 
next  the  leading  features  and  ancient  insti- 
tutions of  the  German  country,  and  bring 
the  narrative  to  the  gt^at  German  leader, 
Hermann,  who  defeated  the  Romans  under 
Varus  in  A.  D.  9,  but  was  killed  by  his  own 
countrymen.  The  next  scenes  given  are 
the  great  invasions  of  Germany  by  the 
Huns,  and  the  resulting  tribal  migrations, 
A.  D.  375-452;  the  cause  from  which  arose 
first  the  Frankish  monarchy  under  Clovis, 
481-516,  and  later  the  modern  central  Euro- 
pean states.  Account  is  given  of  the  trans- 
fer oE  power  from  the  rois  ftUndanls  suc- 
ceeding Covis  to  the  mayors  of  the  palace ; 
of  whom  Charles  Martel  is  famed  for  his 
decisive  defeat  of  the  invading  Arabs,  732, 
and  Pepin  (the  Short)  as  originator  of  "the 
temporal  power  "  of  the  papacy,  destined  to 
last  till  1S71,  and  still  more  famed  as  father 
of  Charlemagne.  Of  this  last-mentioned 
hero  there  is  a  handsome  portrait,  from  that 
by  DQrer,  and  a  suitable  account  of  his 
greatness,  in  person  and  deeds.  The  ac- 
count of  Charlemagne's  son  and  his  quarrel- 
some successors  closes  with  an  important 
event  in  the  history,  the  treaty  of  Verdun, 
843,  by  which  the  empire  of  Oiarlea  the 
Great  was  partitioned,  and  Germany  de- 
tached from  France,  not  again  to  be  united, 
except  in  part,  in  the  unstable  empire  of  the 
first  Napoleon  early  in  this  present  century. 
A  short  description  of  the  feudal  system, 
as  introduced  into  Germany  by  Charlemagne 
and  his  successors,  precedes  mention  of  the 
extinction  of  the  German  branch  of  the  fam- 
ily in  91 1  and  the  introduction  of  the  elective 
principle  with  Conrad  I.  In  following  01 
author's  story  through  the  mazes  of  medi; 
val  and  more  modern  limes,  we  have  found 
considerable  difficulty  in  keeping  clearly  dis- 
tinguished, as  respects  sovereigns,  the  elect- 
ive empire  of  Germany,  curiously  called  the 
holy  Roman  Empire,  from  the  empir 
Austria  (which,  indeed,  from  the  acces 
of  the  house  of  Hapsburg  to  the  imperial 
throne  in  1273,  appears  to  have  been  long 
part  of  the  former),  and  the  Prussian  mo: 
archy,  out  of  which  has  been  lately  devel- 
oped the  modem  empire  of  Germany  now 
existing.  In  only  one  instance,  that  of  thi 
contest  about  the  Spanish  succession,  ii 
there  any  genealogical  chart  to  show  the 
relation  of  the  various  characters  of  the 
story.  Respecting  "  the  holy  Roman 
pire,"  the  author  urges  that  the  strange  idea 
of  the  Germaii  emperors  as  successors  of 
those  who  reigned  in  Italy  and  were  strictly 
emperors  of  Rome  —  the  double  function  of 
their  office,  aptly  symbolized  by  the  two- 
headed  eagle  of  the  standards  —  was  in 
practical  results  most  pernicious ;  turning 
away  the  thoughts  of  the  Teutonic  sover- 


eigns from  their  proper  duties  in  Germany 
Italian  affairs  and  to  efforts  after  wide- 
spread European  dominion,  and  thus  causing 
their  long-continued  strifes  with  the  popes. 
Coming  down  to  the  great  movements  in 
religious  thought  preceding,  constituting, 
and  following  the  Reformation,  the  writer 
gives  very  clear  explanations  of  the  close 
ection  of  religious  and  political  affairs, 
of  the  real  nature  of  the  celebrated  indul- 
gences, and  of  the  discordant  ideas,  and 
resulting  contests,  of  Lutherans  and  Cat- 
vinists.  But  there  seems  to  be  some  con- 
fusion between  the  use  of  the  word  catholic 
its  proper  sense  of  universal  and  its 
iuse  when  applied  to  what  is  peculiar 
the  Roman  part  of  the  Church.  The 
narrative  of  the  Peasants'  War  is  very  good, 
but  that  of  the  Thirty  Years'  War  is  not 
irely  clear.  In  general,  we  think  the 
author  better  in  description  than  in  narra- 
tive history;  but  we  incline  to  make  an 
exception  in  case  of  the  spirited  and  clear 
account  of  the  wars  of  the  first  Napoleon. 
The  history  is  brought  down  through  the 
brilliaut  campaign  of  Prussia  against  the 
French  to  the  new  German  Empire  and  the 
exhaustive  military  armaments  of  Europe  at 
the  present  day. 

Among  the  episodes  given  from  time  to 
time  in  the  history  we  notice,  as  most 
important,  the  introduction  of  Christianity 
under  the  labors  of  zealous  missionaries 
from  Ireland,  the  crusades,  the  growth  of 
power  wielded  by  the  cities,  German  litera- 
ture, and  the  invention  of  printing. 

Vivacity  of  style  is  cultivated  even  in  the 
ingenious  titles  of  the  chapters.  The  illus- 
trations are  very  numerous.  Some  of  them, 
taken  from  old  manuscripts,  have  a  quaint 
suggestiveness  of  the  figures  on  a  pack  of 
cards,  arising  chiefly  from  the  conventional 
forms  and  a  flatness,  or  lack  of  perspective, 
incident  to  early  art. 


PABBAB'S  EIST0B7  OF  IHTEBFBE- 
TATION.* 

ARCHDEACON  FARRAR'S  Hiitory 
of  IftttrpretalioH  is  the  Bampton  Lect- 
ure course  for  1885.  James  Martineau  has 
somewhere  said  that  the  very  fact  of  receiv- 
ing appointment  as  a  Bampton  lecturer 
seemed  to  cast  a  spell  over  the  wisest  anc 
brightest  men,  rendering  their  lecture) 
the  feeblest  of  their  works.  But  this  cannot 
be  said  of  the  present  volume.  Dr.  Farrar' 
wide,  if  not  profound  learning,  his  exuberant 
rhetoric,  and  his  fervent  interest  in 
cause  of  the  broad  church,  make  his  lectures 
contrast  vividly  with  those  of  too  many  of 
his  predecessors  in  the  long  series,  an(~ 
they  have  produced  a  history  of  exigesii 
which  can  be  read  with  pleasure  by  ever] 
cultivated  layman. 


By  exegesis  the  author  always  means 
the  explanation  of  the  immediate  and  pri- 
mary sense  of  the  sacred  writings,"  and  he 
deals  only  "with  the  chief  epochs  in  the 
progress  of  Biblical  science,"  endeavoring 
to  give  some  account,  however  brief,  of  those 
who  caused  the  chief  movement  and  fresh 
impulse  to  the  methods  of  interpretation. 
The  Bampton  Lectures  are  apologetic  in 
their  design,  but  this  does  not  require  the 
historian  of  exegesis  to  defend  any  of  the 
mistaken  methods  of  the  past.  "  My  sole 
desire  has  been  to  defend  the  cause  of 
Christianity  by  furthering  the  interests  of 
truth."  If  then,  as  Dr.  Farrar  rightly  says, 
"all  exegesis  must  be  unsound  which  is  not 
based  on  the  literal,  grammatical,  historical, 
contextual  sense  of  the  sacred  writers,"  it  is 
evident  that  the  historian's  task  will  be 
mainly  an  exposition  of  the  long  series  of 
errors  men  have  committed  under  the  influ- 
ence of  strong  biases,  this  way  or  that  way. 
Yet  in  tracing  through  the  seven  periods 
which  he  makes  the  course  of  Biblical 
science,  the  author  is  generously  ready  to 
point  out  the  excellences  of  even  the  most 
mistaken  commentators  —  the  Rabbinic  tri- 
fling, the  Alexandrian  allegorizing,  the  Pa- 
tristic blundering,  the  Scholastic  quibbling, 
the  Reformation  forcing,  Ihe  Post-Reforma- 
tion dogmatizing.  In  all  these  he  recognizes 
the  steady  progress  of  the  human  mind 
toward  this  modern  epoch,  in  which,  as  a 
scholar  of  another  communion  has  said,  we 
believe  that  "the  highest  compliment  one 
can  pay  the  Bible  is  to  understand  it,''  and 
that  in  order  to  understand  it,  one  must  cul- 
tivate what  seems  to  many  zealous  people 
an  irreligious  moderation  of  mind  and  a  calm 
determination  to  see  the  facts  of  the  Bible 
as  they  are.  Modern  Biblical  science,  of 
this  kind,  has  ended.  Dr.  Farrar  says,  "in 
establishing  more  securely,  not  indeed  the 
fictitious  theories  of  a  mechanical  inspiration, 
but  the  true  sacredness  and  eternal  signifi- 
cance of  Holy  Writ." 

Of  course  the  development  of  positive 
conclusion  concerning  the  authorship,  mean- 
ing, and  authority  of  the  books  of  the  Bible 
is  not  indeed  ended,  but  all  such  books  as 
this  of  Archdeacon  Farrar's  tend  to'hasten 
the  day  of  a  just  and  complete  understand- 
ing. It  is,  in  the  first  place,  ever  a  question 
of  simple  fact,  what  does  this  verse  mean? 
and  a  science  of  interpretation  is  therefore 
possible,  and  happily  always  becoming  more 
actual.  In  no  other  science  will  the  lesson 
of  history  be  more  persuasive  to  right  judg- 
ment, seeing,  as  we  do,  how  the  finest  minds, 
like  Origen  and  Augustine,  equally  went 
astray  through  a  wrong  method,  while  a 
Theodore  of  Mopsuestia,  far  their  inferior 
in  other  ways,  here  surpassed  them  infinitely, 
because  he  simply  saw  things  as  they  were. 

Dr.  Farrar's  copious  eloquence  carries  us 
on  with  uniUggIng  interest  from  epoch  to 
epoch.  His  style  is  not  the  st^e  of  the 
theologian,  nor  his  argument  such  aicom- 


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[July  34, 


■Hands  itself  to  the  "orthodox"  miad.  But 
"humanity"  is  in  them  both,  and  the  theol- 
ogy of  the  future  is  very  evidently  to  be 
deeply  tinctured  by  such  culture  and  such 
generosity  of  spirit  as  honorably  distinguish 
the  incumbent  of  St.  Margaret's. 


HTDU  EEVIBITED" 

FOR  a  sei-ditattt  Buddhist  and  a  life-long 
professional  adorer  of  India,  Mr.  Ar. 
Dold  shows  unexpected  but  welcome  aelf- 
restridnt  in  these  amiable  reminisceaces  of 
his  recent  oriental  tour.  Mr.  Arnold  evi- 
dently went  out  to  India  in  the  two-fold 
capacity  of  an  observant  Englishman  and  a 
willing  if  somewhat  self-opinioaed  disciple  of 
the  Buddhistic  culL  In  either  capacity  he 
acquits  himself  with  praiseworthy  leaL  His 
narrative  of  travel,  beginning  with  the  often, 
described  voyage  through  the  Mediterranean, 
Sues  Canal,  and  Red  Sea  to  Bombay,  and 
ending  with  a  visit  to  Hyderabad,  is,  if  uni- 
formly optimistic,  sagacious,  fresh  in  form, 
and  charged  with  a  pleasant  flavor  of  individ- 
uality. His  devotional  pilgrimages  and 
interviews  wiih  native  priests  are  not  with- 
out an  impressive  sincerity.  If  at  tiroes  he 
discourses  of  India,  "the  guardianship  of 
whose  peace  and  progress  is  Great  Britain' 
proudest  charge,"  too  much  in  the  manne 
of  the  partisan  leader-writer,  it  must  be 
acknowledged  that  he  displays  the  "good 
points  "  of  the  land  and  the  people  in  a  way 
calculated  to  stimulate  gratifying  fancies. 
The  best  thing  we  can  say  for  the  book 
whole  is  that  it  leaves  in  the  reader's  mind 
an  ardent  desire  to  traverse  in  person  the 
route  it  BO  agreeably  describes. 

Mr.  Arnold  had  no  sooner  landed  than  he 
found  at  once  evidence  of  the  traditional  say- 
ing that  India  does  not  change.  "  Every, 
where,  behind  and  amid  the  vast  commercial 
bustle  of  modern  Bombay,  abides  ancient, 
placid,  conservative  India,  with  her  immuta- 
ble customs  and  deeply-rooted  popular  habits 
derived  unbroken  from  immemorial  day! 
Unchanged  and  unchangeable — that  is  the 
repeated  verdict  with  regard  to  Hindu 
fashions  and  Hindu  manners ;  and  how 
delightful  it  is  in  this  age  of  material  and 
moral  instability  to  think  that  there  is  one 
country  and  people  that  our  feverish  West- 
ern civilization  is  powerless  to  bend  to  its 
ever-shiiting  idealft !  And  yet  our  faith  in 
the  immutability  of  Indian  thought  and  cus- 
toms is  weakened  when  we  learn  of  bright- 
eyed  Brahman  lads  in  charge  of  Hindu 
temples  beguiling  the  intervals  between  the 
ministrations  with  the  perusal  of  Macaulay's 
History  in  English.  More  noteworthy  still 
is  the  perceptible  relaxation  of  the  bonds  of 
seclusion  among  the  educated  natives.  At 
Bombay  Europeans  and  Parsees  dine  at  the 
house  of  a  Moslem  dignitary,  who  sits  at 
meat  with  his  guests ;  at  Poona,  in  a  Hindu 


Edwin  AnoU,  H.A.,  C.S.I 


household,  the  ladies  of  the  family  ignore 
the  old-time  restrictions  and  frankly  meet  and 
converge  with  their  English  friends ;  and 
the  Princess  Kamabaee,  daughter  of  the  late 
Guicowar  of  Baroda,  sits  outside  the  purdah 
and  freely  discusses  her  political  grievances 
with  her  foreign  visitors.  The  common 
people  still  remun  true  to  their  ancestral 
ways,  but  it  is  evident  that  the  leaven  is  at 
work,  and  socmer  or  later  it  must  afiect  the 
lowliest  Let  us  hope  that  the  process  will 
not  be  too  rapid. 

Mr.  Arnold  is  urgent  in  the  assertion  that 
the  Hindus  have  been,  and  still  are,  sadly 
misrepresented  by  European  observers  as 
regards  their  religion.  He  tells  us  of  an 
assembly  of  learned  Brahroans,  who,  after 
earnest  discourse  concerning  sacred  texts 
and  formulas,  "  generally  agreed  that  names 
and  forms  are  nothing,  that  truth  in  all  relig- 
ions is  one  and  the  same ;  that  —  at  the  last 
—  the  Vedantist,  the  Buddhist,  and  the  illu- 
minated Western  Philosopher  see  by  one 
light."  Nor,  according  to  Mr.  Arnold,  is 
the  epithet  polytheist  at  all  applicable  to  the 
Hindus,  to  whom  their  various  gods  and 
sacred  objects  are  mere  "aids  to  faith." 
"  Even  the  poor  peasant  of  the  fields  will  tell 
you  that  the  symbol  they  reverence  is  only  a 
symbol."  But  an  assertion  so  sweeping 
does  not  harmonize  well  with  what  Mr. 
Arnold  tells  us  elsewhere  of  morning  sacri- 
fices at  the  Rajput  temple  at  Jeypore,  in 
which  place,  not  long  ago,  the  Jains  begged 
the  administration  not  to  plant  pippul  trees 
in  the  bazaar,  "  because  every  Hindu  knows 
that  the  pippul  leaves  whisper  to  Rishabha, 
or  to  Yama,  every  word  they  hear,  and  no- 
body can  possibly  buy  and  sell,  in  a  world 
:,  with  any  chance  of  profit,  if  a 
pippul  tree  is  always  listening." 

Of  princely  cities,  of  palaces,  temples,  and 
towers,  Mr.  Arnold,  as  the  reader  may  infer, 
writes  with  artistic  appreciation.  Even  the 
Taj  at  Agra  is  not  a  hackneyed  theme  in 
his  hands,  and  of  the  splendors  of  Delhi  and 
the  wonders  of  Benares,  he  finds  much  to 
say  that  is  not  in  the  stereoty[>ed  vein  of  the 
book-making  traveler.  His  description  of 
Jeypore  is  enticing,  as  it  reveals  the  "  inter, 
minable  perspective  of  roseate  house-fronts  " 
stretching  away  for  two  miles  to  the  Ruby 
Gate,  and  on  either  hand  stately  pavilions 
and  palaces,  among  them  the  "  Hall  of  the 
Winds,"  "  a  vision  of  daring  and  dainty  loveli- 
ness, nine  stories  of  rosy  masonry  and  deli- 
cate over-hanging  balconies  and  latticed 
windows,  soaring  with  tier  after  tier  of  fanci- 
ful architecture  in  a  pyramidal  form,  a  very 
mountain  of  airy  and  audacious  beauty." 

Before  the  close  of  his  narrative  Mr. 
Arnold  gets  to  Ceylon,  where  he  is  received 
by  the  resident  Buddhists  with  afiecting  fer- 
vor. In  their-  addresses  of  welcome  (trans- 
lated and  printed  in  full),  the  author  of  The 
Ught  of  Asiari  credited  with  transcendent 
genius,  and  is  comfortably  assured  that  "  the 
blossoms  that  time  shall  not  wither  will  be 


vrreatbed  by  posterity  "  in  his  honor ;  and  so 
on.  Small  wonder  that  Mr,  Arnold  should 
attribute  to  Bishop  Heber  a  "  temporary 
derangement  of  the  liver,"  as  the  inspiration 
of  the  familiar  lines  in  which  the  scenery  of 
Ceylon  is  so  forcibly  contrasted  with  the 
character  of  the  native  population.    Mr.  Ar- 

ild,  at  any  rate,  found  nothing  "vile"  In 
the  Cingalese,  whom  he  celebrates  as  "  ami- 
able, courteous,  and  open-hearted,"  and  his 
dialogues  with  some  of  their  priests  are  cer- 
tainly indicative  on  their  part  of  elevated 
thought  and  noble  doctrine.  It  will,  how- 
',  grieve  the  followers  of  Professor  Sin- 
and  Mme.  Blavatsky  to  hear  that  these 
learned  disciples  of  Buddha's  teachings  deny 
emphatically    the    existence  of    mahatmas. 

Theosophy  "  does  not  seem  to  command  in 
the  stronghold  of  oriental  Buddhism  the 
respect  and  reverence  it  apparently  receives 
from  some  of  its  Western  devotees. 

ABI8T00EA0T  IH  MGLABD  ■ 

THIS  book  belongs  by  the  side  of  Sodtty 
in  London,  an  anonymous  publication 
of  last  year.  Gen.  Badeau,  ez- soldier 
that  he  is,  has  the  courage  of  his  opinions, 
and  has  not  hesitated  to  put  his  name  to 
what  he  has  written.  We  wonder  a  little  at 
irage,  which  amounts  to  temerity.  His 
book  is  a  most  daring  book.  The  feat  per- 
formed by  the  man  in  the  cask  in  the  Niag- 
ara rapids,  the  other  day,  is  nothing  to  it. 
The  author  must  have  given  up  all  intentions 
of  returning  to  England  in  a  diplomatic  ca- 
pacity or  in  any  other.  From  1869  to  1881 
he  had  the  opportunity  of  studying  his  sub- 
ject as  Secretary  of  the  American  Legation 
in  London,  and  he  has  written  out  his  recol- 
lections with  perfect  frankness.  The  pict- 
ure is  not  a  flattering  one.  There  is  some- 
thing merciless  in  the  way  in  which  General 
Badeau  uncovers  the  nakedness  of  the 
mother  country;  and  there  are  points  enough 
in  his  descriptions  to  make  the  reader  thank- 
ful that  his  home  is  here  and  not  over  there. 
In  fact,  the  general  tenor  of  all  these  thirty 
chaptere  is  decidedly  to  lower  the  estimate 
of  English  character,  political  and  social.  It 
is  evident  that  Gen.  Badeau  did  not  learn 
to  like  English  people  or  English  ways ;  that 
they  often  excited  his  contempt  and  some- 
dmes  his  indignation.  We  cannot  help  think- 
ing that  there  is  some  prejudice  in  his  recol- 
lections. He  pays  no  attention  to  the  Eng- 
lish landscape,  like  Professor  Hoppin ;  he  is 
not  analytical  and  philosophical,  like  Richard 
Grant  White ;  he  is  simply  descriptive  —  pho. 
tographically,  unsparingly,  relentlessly  de- 
scriptive; setting  down  everything  just  as  he 
saw  it,  or  as  he  thinks  he  sSw  it,  without 
respect  of  persons.  The  Queen  is  handled 
without  gloves.  Her  pride  of  rank,  her 
punctiliousness  in  etiquette,  her  regal  self- 
consciousness,  her    insensibility    to  every-  , 


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thing  where  precedent  is  conceroed,  her 
strange  and  unwomanly  exactions  in  matteTS 
of  court  dress,  malie  a  strange  contrast  to 
tenderer  pictures  that  are  sometimes  shown 
of  her  in  her  unguarded  momcDts. 

Gen.  BadeAu  strikingly  portrays  and  iltos- 
trates  the  degree  to  which  the  court  is  the 
point  around  which  the  whole  British  world 
revolves.  He  makes  us  first  smile  at  and 
then  pity  the  giddy  and  foolish  Americans 
who  insist  on  a  "presentation,"  and  wade 
wearily  through  all  the  formalities  necessary 
to  an  enjoyment  of  that  doubtful  honor. 
The  stories  he  tells  of  flunkeyism,  priggish- 
ness,  and  generally  bad  manners  in  connec- 
tion with  court  levees,  balls,  and  receptions, 
set  o5  our  simpler  republican  fashions  at 
Washington  to  great  advantage.  There  are 
curious  and  amusing  chapters  on  servants  in 
town  and  country,  on  precedence  in  the  ser- 
vants' hall,  and  on  the  ways  in  which  servants 
ape  the  grandeur  and  style  of  their  masters. 
The  chapter  on  illegitimacy  affords  a  grave 
and  unpleasant  insight  to  the  state  of  morals 
in  the  upper  English  classes.  We  must  think 
that  the  standard  of  social  punlj  is  far 
higher  in  America  than  in  England,  if  the 
accounts  which  Gen.  Badeau  gives  are  true. 

One  fine  but  unnamed  portrait  is  sketched 
under  the  title  of  "A  Nobleman  Indeed." 
This  was  a  man  who  was  both  an  Irish  and 
an  English  peer,  middle  aged  and  unmarried, 
of  enormous  fortune  and  with  troops  of 
friends  ;  a  gentleman,  as  not  all  peers  arer 
well  educated,  and  with  the  softest  and 
blandest  of  manners,  "  combined  irith  perfect 
self-possession  and  dignity  of  bearing."  He 
was  connected  with  half  the  nobility,  yet 
could  condescend  to  men  of  low  estate.  He 
had  known  everybody  worth  knowing  in  the 
highest  ranks  of  English  life,  yet  had  no 
ambition  for  public  service,  and  had  never 
been  in  politics.  Without  first-rate  abilities, 
he  had  ideas  and  force.  Learning  and  taste 
he  had;  he  was  both  humane  and  welMn- 
formed.  He  sent  a  check  for  a  hundred 
pounds  to  relieve  the  sufferers  by  the  Chi- 
cago fire.  By  and  by  he  married  ;  then  in  a 
sad  hour  he  lost  his  fortune,  his  income  of 
sixty  thousand  pounds  shrank  to  six  or 
seven  hundred,  he  went  into  exile  from  the 
estates  his  fathers  had  held  for  generations ; 
"  and  there  his  nobility  became  conspicuous, 
for  it  was  an  attribute,  not  an  appanage. 
When  the  drapery  fell  off  the  figure  was 
seen  to  advantage."  The  portrait  of  this 
man  is  the  one  redeeming  figure  in  Gen. 
Badeau's  book. 

Nothing  could  be  severer  than  Gen. 
Badeau's  language  about  the  Giurch  of  Eng- 
land, which  he  styles  a  "  branch  of  the  aris- 
tocracy." Bishops  "  go  before  dukes ; "  and 
"  when  this  mighty  fabric  of  time-serving  and 
worldliness,  called  an  Establishment,  shall 
have  passed  away,"  they,  the  bishops,  "  will 
be  pronounced  the  veriest  Esaus  that 
ever  sold  a  celestial  birthright  for  a  sum 
of  earthly  pottage,    that  the    world   has 


seen"  [sie.].  "There  are  no  more  pompous 
or  inflated  personages  in  the  peerage." 
"  The  Church  of  England  Is  the  church  of 
the  upper  classes."  All  this  and  much  more 
like  it  is  in  Gen.  Badeau's  bitterest  vein. 

On  the  land  question  he  is  instructive,  and 
writes  a  chapter  full  of  interesting  informa- 
tion. Fewer  than  600  peers  own  more  than 
one  fifth  of  the  United  Kingdonn,  or 
14,000,000  of  acres,  yielding  an  annual  rental 
of  (66,000,000.  The  agricultural  laborers 
are  really  serfs.  Their  average  wages  in 
1880  were  fifty  cents  a  day.  A  large  propor- 
tion of  the  land  is  entailed,  and  a  third  of  it 
Is  devoted  to  sport.  "  'Tis  a  fine  day  I  i.et's 
go  out  and  kilt  something."  That,  says 
Gen.  Badeau,  is  the  key-note  of  life  with  the 
average  upper-class  Englishman.  And  yet 
seventeen  new  lords  were  created  the  last 
year  he  spent  in  England.  But  he  believes 
that  the  aristocracy  must  go. 

Thus,  from  the  Queen  at  the  head  down 
to  the  literary  men  at  the  tail,  Gen.  Badeau 
paints  the  long  variegated  procession  — 
princes,  dukes,  marquises,  earls,  viscounts, 
and  barons,  bishops  and  parliamentarians. 
The  whole  intricacy  of  English  rank  and 
title  can  be  easily  mastered  in  one  chapter, 
the  mystery  of  primogeniture  in  another, 
the  delicacies  of  official  precedence  in  a 
third.  EverylMdy  must  walk  in  to  dinnei 
according  to  degree.  Rank  splits  up  fami- 
lies. The  very  Prince  of  Wales  himself  has 
to  bow  to  law.  The  Crown,  however,  has 
begun  to  find  a  match  in  the  will  of  the  peo- 
ple, and  the  days  of  hereditary  sovereignty 
and  paper  nobility  are  numbered.  How  long 
it  will  be  before  the  fabric  falls  Gen.  Badeau 
does  not  predict,  but  that  it  will  fall  he  ii 

It  is  a  sorry  picture,  on  the  whole ;  dis 
colored,  we  must  think,  a  little,  yet  doubtless 
largely  true;  and  one  that  will  make  every 
American  who  looks  upon  it  glad  again  that 
he  is  an  American. 


msoB.  KonoES. 

Sptculaiioju.  Solar  Heal,  Gravitation,  and 
Sun-Spots.  By  J.  H.  Kedzie.  [Chicago  r  S.  C. 
Griggs  &  Co.    »r.so.] 

Mr.  Kedzie  has  been  a  diligent  reader,  but  ap- 
pears never  to  have  met  with  any  of  those  specu- 
lations which  make  all  sentible  phenomena  the 
result  oHn sensible  vibrations  in  the  ether;  rip- 
pling over  points  oF  inertia,  or  resistance,  which 
points  are  the  centers  of  atoms.  His  "speculi 
dons,"  which  he  considers  new  and  striking, 
amount  about  to  this:  that  the  heat  of  the  sun 
and  stars,  radiated  in  all  direclions,  becomes  in- 
senuble,  in  llie  distance,  tiy  transformation  into  a 
new  mode  o[  motion ;  that  this  new  motion  pro 
daces  gravilation,  and  feeds  the  heat  of  the  sun 
and  stars.  The  sun-spots  are  made  by  the  plan- 
ets intercepting  the  radiation  of  the  stars.  These 
speculations  ate  presented  with  a  good  deal  of 
rhetorical  skill,  and  fortified  with  many  quotations 
from  men  of  science  and  from  the  poets.  Bn 
Mr.  Kedzie  errs  greatly  in  thmking  them  novel 


and  his  reasonlugin  their  defence  Is  wholly  incon- 
clusive; he  lacks  scientific  precision.  On  p.  11 
he  sees  no  difference  between  a  gaseous  and  a 
solid  body.  On  p.  j7  he  speaks  of  "  a  cutnc  mile 
of  heat ; "  on  p.  70  repeats  it,  "  heat  is  now  meas- 
ured by  cubic  miles  I "  and  a  third  tlitie,  p.7i,says 
"this  volume  of  heat  — for  we  are  now  allowed 
to  measure  it  by  cubic  miles."  After  some  study, 
we  perceive  that  by  a  "cubic  mile  of  heat"  he 
probably  means  the  insensible  vibrations  of  the 
ether  b  a  cubic  mile,  or  the  equivalent  amount 
of  motion  in  heat  vibrations.  On  p.  no  be 
apparently  accepts  Hr.  Cooke's  explanation  of 
his  radiometer  I  In  an  appendix  Mr.  Kediie 
quotes  Faraday's  paper  on  the  Conservation  of 
Energy  as  authority  I  And,  moat  glaring  of  all 
his  fallacies  and  weaknesses,  we  find  him,  p.  157, 
quoting  Arago's  objection  to  the  theory  which 
Mr.  K^ie  is  putting  forth  as  novel  I  The 
French  savant.  It  would  seem,  was  prevoyant,  and 
answered  the  Illinois  writer  before  he  had  writ- 
ten I  Mr.  Kcdzie's  reply  to  the  objection  is 
utterly  futile.  His  theory  is  that  the  earth  and 
the  sun  are  driven  toward  each  other,  by  each 
being  under  the  other's  lee  ;  sheltering  it  from  a 
bombardment  of  ethereal  undulations.  And 
Arigo's  objection  is  unanswerable ;  gravity  is 
instantaneous ;  while  the  effect  oE  the  lee  would 
not  be  felt  until  the  undulations  bad  had  time  to 
travel  over  the  distance  between  the  bodies.  If 
a  man  clings  to  Sir  Isaac  Newton's  idea  that 
attraction  tietween  bodies  is  impossible,  he  must 
hold  the  cause  of  gravitation  to  be  still  an  un- 
solved problem ;  and  the  solution  Is  to  come,  if 
it  ever  do  come,  from  mathematicians  and  phy- 
sicists, not  from  literary  metu 


The  Boat-Sailet's  Afanaal.  By  Lieut.  Edward 
F.  Qnaltrough,  U.  S.  N.  Illustrated.'  [Charles 
Scribner'a  Sons-    $2.co.\ 

According  to  its  title-page  this  Boat-Sana's 
^oiKfo/ is  a  "complete  treatise  00  the  manage- 
ment of  sailing  boats  of  a1!  kinds,  and  under  all 
conditions  ol  weatiier,  containing  also  concise 
descriptions  of  the  various  rigs  in  general  use,  at 
home  and  abroad,  directions  for  handling  sailing 
canoes,  and  the  rudiments  of  cutter  and  sloop 
sailing."  The  publication  a  few  years  ago  of  the 
Sailer'i  Handy  Both  and  Yachtsman's  Manual 
proved  acceptable  to  the  very  large  numljer 
of  American  yachtsmen.  So  also  will  this,  a 
more  elementary  work  on  sailing,  to  that  much 
larger  class  of  Americans  who  are  not  able,  on 
account  of  the  great  expense,  to  own  and  keep  in 
commission  the  floating  boudoirs  which  many  of 
our  wealthy  people  enjoy,  but  who  nevertheless 
obtain  full;  as  much  pleasure  from  their  smaller 
boats,  commanded  bj  the  owner  himself,  with  a 
cicw  composed  of  a  few  of  his  own  friends.  It 
is  to  this  class  that  the  Boat-Sailc^s  Manual  ap- 
peals. The  author  details  the  rudiments  uf  boat 
sailing,  then  follows  with  clear  descriptions  of 
the  various  rigs  and  models,  illustrated  fully  with 
cuts  of  well-known  boat*.  Neat  comes  a  chapter 
on  canoe  sailing,  and  finally  a  chapter  of  miscel- 
lanies, among  which  are  included  weather  indica- 
tions, useful  recipes,  instructions  for  saving 
drowning  persons,  treatment  in  accidents,  cook- 
ery, and  a  vocabulary  of  nautical  terms.  Last  of 
all  there  Is  a  good  index.  By  all  odds  this  is  the 
best  book  of  the  kind  that  we  know  of,  and  it  de- 
serves to  have  a  large  sale  ^amepg  (he  lovers  of_ 
tUs  most  manly  sport.  O 


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THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[July  441 


The  Literary  World. 


BOSTON.  JULY  24.  I88«. 


La,  all  In  mllaaca,  all  Is  order  itand, 
And  mlfhtr  Mloc,  Ant  a  lordlr  band ; 
Than  qoartoa  thdr  wtll>ordiT«d  t*n1n  nujataia, 
And  ll|fat  aciMvai  flll  ■  ipMlou*  ptala  : 


band  of  dii 

WhUa  undlaUntuOh 

xl  IrltlM  > 

-rellthe 

TbB  laM  at 

w  play  an 

nUtfllia 

Thai  -Hi  Is 

life,  whcr 

■  Brat  tba 

proud,! 

laleafuei] 

■■■embly  keep  their 

cmnbroa 

Heavy  and 

buiBthey 

nil  Ibe  w 

Kid  with 

Profeaaloni  fniltlul  pour  tbdT  oftiprlOB  round ; 
ItMiMnara  and  wlta  era  Bant  tbeir  place  all Aved, 
And  laat,  of  vulcar  tdbu  a  countlaaa  crowd. 

—  CaABU :  "  TAj  Litntrr" 


FIBE  AS  A  UTEEABT  BEHEFAOTOB. 

EVER  since  man  began  to  write,  there 
have  always  been  dire  lamentations 
over  the  damage  or  destniction  which  fire 
has  brought  upon  literature.  Ought  we  not, 
on  the  other  hand,  to  be  duljr  and  sincerelj 
thankful  for  the  removal  of  bad  or  indifFer- 
ent  bixtka  and  manuscripts  bj  accident  or 
intentional  destruction  ?  The  world  may 
have  lost  some  good  books,  but  the  ravages 
of  time  have  certainly  spared  ua  the  reading 
of  a  good  deal  of  literary  rubbish.  And  the 
weary  or  indignant  reader  sometimes  wishes 
that  the  process  of  destruction  had  gone 
farther. 

A  clever  English  writer  has  made  a  vol- 
ume about  the  "enemies  of  books,"  and  they 
are  many.  Whatever  may  be  the  truth 
about  the  semi-mythical  burning  of  the 
Alexandrian  library,  it  is  certain  that  book- 
destruction  in  later  years  has  actively  gone 
on.  Bigotry  and  persecution  have  con- 
signed books,  as  well  as  writers,  to  the 
flames ;  precious  manuscripts  have  been 
made  illegible  in  the  manufacture  of  worth- 
less palimpsests;  idle  and  vagrant  monks, 
unable  to  read,  have  used  irreplaceable  vol- 
umes for  carpeting  atone  floors ;  wars  have 
destroyed  or  dispersed  rare  collections;  ser- 
vant girls  have  made  books  fuel;  moth  and 
rust  have  corrupted,  and  thieves  have  broken 
in  and  stolen.  He  must  be  a  stolid  reader, 
of  course,  who  does  not  feel  a  stir  of  regret 
at  the  thought  of  Sir  Isaac  Newton's  perished 
work  i  of  the  manuscript  volumes  of  Cariyle's 
Frtnfk  Revolution  used  for  kindling  in  John 
Stuart  Mill's  library ;  orofthose^r^'m  Tales 
nfMyNativtLatid,  which  Hawthorne  burned, 
and  whose  ghosts  he  so  effectively  revived 
in  his  tale  of  Tlu  Dtviliti  Manuscript. 

But  there  is  another  side  of  the  question. 
One  may  feel  a  sense  of  gratitude  to  some 
unknown  and  unknowing  benefactors  in 
times  past,  who  have  reduced  the  possibility 
of  misspent  literary  hours.  When  we  think 
of  the  loss  of  valuable  Greek  and  Latin  liter- 
ature, we  console  ourselves  with  the  thought 


that  some  trash,  or  ignorance,  or  indecency 
has  been  lost  also.  And  have  not  the  literary 
misfortunes  of  later  years  served  a  whole- 
some purpose  in  ridding  us  of  much  that  is 
bad,  and  more  that  is  not  soberly  "worth 
while?  "  May  there  not  be  in  literature,  as 
in  life,  such  a  thing  as  a  "  survival  of  the 
fittest  t " 

Nowadays,  certainly,  we  are  altogether  too 
careful  in  preserving  and  printing  literary 
matter  of  petty  character  and  no  real  value 
to  the  world.  If  carelessness  and  wanton 
destruction  were  vices  of  elder  and  illiterate 
days,  a  fussy  preservation  and  hasty  print- 
ing of  "  words,  words,  words  "  may  be  set  to 
the  charge  of  our  times.  Take,  for : 
the  present  craze  for  biographical  reading- 
It  sometimes  seems  as  though  we  were  asked 
to  read  works  of  but  two  classes :  novels, 
and  books  of  memoirs,  or  reminiscence,  or 
personal  record.  A  good  tnography  Is  one  of 
the  most  beneficial  books  in  the  world.  I 
is  the  best  of  lessons  to  learn  how  a  nobli 
man  thought,  spoke,  wrote,  and  lived.  Bui 
it  will  be  a  misfortune  if  our  young  people 
grow  up  with  the  idea  that  the  table-talks, 
and  letters,  and  anecdotes,  and  personal 
vituperations  of  authors  are  more  important 
than  their  poems,  essays,  and  histories.  Too 
often  we  know  much  about  the  faults  and 
foibles  of  the  man,  and  little  about  the  value 
his  works.  Bacon  was  a  truckling  office- 
seeker  and  iniquitous  money-maker,  but  he 
was  also  a  great  philosopher,  and  the  first  of 
English  essayists;  let  us  not  devote  ten 
days  to  the  former  side  of  his  character  and 
es  to  the  latter.  Coleridge  was  a 
weak,  wavering  breaker  of  intellectual  prom- 
ises, and  an  opium-eater ;  let  us  be  sure  that 
we  have  mastered  his  Anatnt  Marintr  be- 
fore finding  out  all  the  errors  of  bis  life. 
Carlyle  was  heedless  of  his  wife's  comfort 
and  bitter  in  his  words  about  his  friends,  but 
he  also  wrote  Sartor  Xtsartut,  a  great, 
strong,  helpful  book.  It  is  to  be  feared  that 
Mr.  Froude's  volumes  of  reminiscences  have 
been  read  more  than  Sartor  Rtsarttu.  It  is 
very  true  that  we  ought  to  know  the  man,  as 
well  as  the  book  ;  but  we  ought  not  to  study 
his  worst  and  meanest  self  at  the  expense  of 
time  belonging  to  his  better  self.  The  book- 
makers give  the  public  what  it  wants,  and  it 
apparently  wants  cheap  or  hateful  literary 
gossip.  It  should  correct  its  taste,  and  learn 
to  like  something  more  wholesome. 

It  is  just  here  that  literary  men  in  their 
lifetime,  and  their  executors  afterward,  have 
a  duty  to  perform.    They  can  make  fii 
literary  benefactor.     "  Bum  this  letter 
good  advice  four  fifths  of  the  time.    They 
say  that  Mr.  Whittier,  grieved  and 
disgusted    at  the    publication    of    harmful 
literary  tittle-tattle,  or  diaries  and  letters 
belonging  to  the  public  in  any  sense, 
destroyed  all  such  correspondence  in 
possession.    If  he  has  done  so,  the  world 
has  lost  much  of  interest  and  value,  but 
much,  too,    of   small    account,    and    some 


things  that  would  doubtless  injure  the  liv- 
ing or  the  dead.     The  same  may  be  said 
of  other  literary  letters  as  yet  unprlnted. 
better  to  let  a  flower  blush  unseen, 
and  then,  than  to  spread  before  the 
public  a  great  mass  of  decayed  and  noxious 
tgetation  of  by-gone  years. 
Here,  for  instance,  is  perh^M  the  worst 
collection  of  letters  printed  even   in   this 
unfortunate  period ;  the  love-tetters  of  the 
late  Bulwer-Lytton.    That  eminent  author, 
as    was   previously   well   known,   quarreled 
with  his  wife;    there  was  blame  on  both 
ides,  principally  on  his;  but  both  are  dead, 
and  in  deference  to  the  feelings  of  their 
living  son,  if    not  to  those  of    humanity, 
nothing    cooceroing    the    wretched    affair 
should  have  been  dragged  before  the  pub- 
lic gaze.     But  now,  however,  because  of 
hate  lasting  beyond  the  grave,  the  whole 
world    can    read    letters,    sentimental    and 
silly  to  the  last  degree,  from  "oo  own  idol- 
atrous puppy "  to   "  my    dearest,    dearest, 
dearest,  fondest,  kindest,  bootifulest,  dar- 
lingest,  angelest  poodle,"  etc.     And  then 
—the  pity  of  it  — we  can  also  read  of  the 
furious  attack  made  by  the  husband  upon 
the  wife  with  carving-knife  and  teeth ;  and 
of  his  standing,  self-confessed,  "eternally 
degraded"  in  his  own  eyes.    Would  it  not 
have  been  a  thousand  times  better  if  these 
letters,  and  all  like  them,  and  all  a  hun- 
dredth part  as  harmful,  could  have  been  put 
where    the    estimable  Dr.  Allibone  would 
have  put,  if  he  could,  some  of  the  works 
of  an  eminent  English  writer  —  on  the  hot- 
test bed  of  coals  at  the  back  of  the  fireplace  f 
Every  owner  of  a  book,  diary,  letter,  or 
other  article  should  hold  it  as  strictly  pri- 
vate, or  as  a  trust  for  the  public    There  is 
a  genuine  character  In  all  personal  possea- 
I,  and  especially  in  those  which  thent^ 
selves  are  records  of  personal  life.     If  the 
existence  of  a  letter  or  other  record  is  likely 
to  benefit  no  one  in  a  legitimate  way,  bnt 
rather  to  arouse  and  gratify  evil  curiosity, 
is  the  dme  to  put  it  out  of  the  way. 
If  a  piece  of  writing,  innocent  in  itself,  yet 
belongs  strictly  and  of    necessity  to    one 
person  and  not  to  the  public,  care  should 
be  taken  to  destroy  it,  personally  or   by 
deputy,  when  it  is  no  longer  available  for 
the  use  of  that  person.     If  the  preparation 
or  publication  of  a  book  does  not  seem 
likely  to  subserve  any    lasting   good,  the 
sooner  it  is  dropped,  the  better  for  all  oon- 
cemed.    "  A  good  book  "  —  or  a  good  irord 
— "  is  the  precious  life-blood  of  a  master- 
spirit embalmed  and  treasured  up  on  pur- 
pose to  a  life  beyond  life ; "  therefore  let 
us  BO  treasure  it     But  as  for  "  puppy  "  love- 
letters,  frivolous  gossip,  unimportant  details, 
malevolent  sayings,  and  literary  padding  in 
general,  there  would  be  far  less  "toil  and 
trouble  "  if,  more  often,  of  such  material  we 
made  (he  "fire  burn  and  cauldron  bubble." 


—John  P.  Morton  ft  Co.  of  Lonliville,  Ky, 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


hare  in  press  a  new  edition  of  Florida  Fmittand 
Haa  ta  Raise  Tkim,  by  Helen  Harcourt 


O 


PAUL  H.  HATHE. 
NE  by  one  the  elder  writers  of  the  South 
e  passing  away.  Within  a  little  more 
than  ten  yeara,  Simms,  Kennedy,  Tbompaon, 
Unttod,  Bledsoe,  and  others  less  known 
have  joined  the  silent  majority.  Only  a  few 
weeks  since  we  were  called  npon  to  announce 
the  death  of  Father  Ry*n,  the  poet  of  the  Lost 
Cause,  and  now  we  have  to  deplore  the  loss  of 
Fan!  H.  Hayoe,  who,  by  hii  long  and  faithful 
life-work,  deserved  and  received  the  name  of  the 
Poet  Lauieile  of  the  South. 

Paul  Hamilton  Hayne  was  born  in  Charleston, 
5.  C^  on  (he  isl  of  January,  1S30.  He  came  of 
an  old  and  distinguished  South  Carolina  family. 
The  celebrated  Gen.  Robert  Y.  Hayne  was  his  un- 
cle, and  Col.  Hayne,  the  patriot  martyr  of  the  Rev. 
olution,  was  the  grandfather  of  the  poet.  Young 
Hayne  began  to  write  verses  at  the  early  age  of 
Dine.  He  was  always  ■  gieat  reader, 
when  a  boy  The  Anatomy  of  Mclaackoly  and 
Freissarl'i  ChroniiUt  divided  his  time  with  Rah- 
imen  Cmiot  and  Smiss  Family  Eeiinsan,  Those 
who  remember  tV  slight  and  delicate  figure  c 
the  poet  wilt  be  astonished  to  leain  that  tn  hi 
boyhood  he  was  devoted  to  field  sports  of  all 
kinds.  His  uncle,  the  General,  taught  him  how 
to  ride  and  shoot  before  he  was  eight  years  old, 
and  told  his  mother  that  he  "  never  saw  a  braver 
little  boy  with  gun  or  horse." 

After  a  brilliant  college  career  in  Charleston, 
Mr.  Hayne  chose  literature  as  his  professic 
a  bold  choice  at  a  time  when  literature 
scarcely  recognixed  as  a  profession  in  this  c 
try,  certainly  not  in  the  South.  His  first  literary 
position  was  that  of  editor  of  the  Southern  Lil- 
trary  GtaetU,  a  weekly  journal  published  ii 
Charleston  101852.  The  Cau/te  was  merged  inti 
the  Wtikly  Ntai  in  1853,  Mr.  Hayne  remaining 
the  editor.  When  the  Nrat  failed  in  1S54, 
editor  carried  his  clever  pen  to  the  columns 
the  SotUhrm  Literary  Metseager,  oC  which  John 
R.  Thompson  was  the  editor.  In  1857  RuiaelPt 
Magaiine  was  started  in  Charleston  with  Paul 
H.  Hayne  as  its  editor.  Under  his  able  man- 
cement  it  soon  became  one  of  the  best  periodi- 
cals in  the  South.  Two  years  before  assuming 
charge  of  this  magazine,  Hayne  had  published 
his  first  volume  of  poems  through  Messrs.  Tick- 
nor  ft  Fields,  at  that  time  the  poet  publishers  of 
the  countty.  E.  P.  Whipple  pronounced  the 
volume  one  "  of  great  promise,  as  well  as  of  fine 
performance."  In  1857  bis  second  voli 
poems  was  published,  and  it  more  than  realized 
all  the  promise  of  his  first  volume.  Tbe  book 
had  an  extensive  sale,  and  made  the  name  of  Paul 
H.  Hayne  known  both  in  the  United  Stales  and  ii 
England.  When  a  third  volume  of  Mr.  Hayne' 
poems  appeared  in  1S59,  the  Atlantic  Monthly 
said  :  "The  poems  show  culture,  thoughtfulness, 
sensibility  to  natural  beauty,  and  a  great  refine- 
ment of  feeling."  The  New  York  Tribune, 
Times,  and  other  leading  newspapers  bestowed 
very  high  praise  upon  "  Avolio,"  the  longest  poem 
in  the  volume;  one  critic  went  so  far  as  to  pro- 
nounce it  "one  of  the  finest  poems  in  the 
English  language." 

In  1861  our  poet's  thoughts  were  drawn  to 
more  practical  things  than  the  pleasures  of  the 
imagination.    He  was  called  upon  to  face  all  of 


the  horrora  of  war.  His  home  in  Charleston 
waa  destroyed  by  the  bursting  of  shells  during 
the  siege  of  that  city.  His  fine  library  and 
many  interesting  family  relics  were  burned,  and 
in  1S65  he  found  himself  obliged  to  write  for  his 
daily  bread.  He  removed  to  Augusta,  Ga.,  and 
became  one  of  the  editors  of  the  Conttitutionaiisl 
of  that  place,  a  newspaper  with  a  long  1 
not  very  large  circulation.  His  delicate  health 
would  not  allow  him  to  continue  in  the  position 
ore  than  six  months,  when  he  established  him- 
If  in  a  cottage  called  Copse  Hill,  about  sixteen 
iles  from  Augusta.  Here  he  settled  down 
life  of  literary  labor.  In  1866  he  gained  the 
rize  of  one  hundred  dollars  offered  by  H. 
ives  Pollard,  editor  of  Southern  Opinion,  Rich- 
lond,  Va.,  for  the  best  poem  on  the  Civil  War. 
He  was  asked  to  become  the  literary  editor  of 
the  paper,  and  during  two  years  wrote  all 
book  notices  and  "  war  reminiscences  "  that 
published  in  the  Southern  Opinion.    In  1866-7 

Hayne  formed  a  regular  connection 
Southern  Society,  a  weekly  literary  journal  of 
high  character,  published  in  Baltimore,  to  which 
ill  of  tbe  leading  writers  of  the  Sooth  were 
contributors.  In  this  paper  first  appeared 
poenl  entitled  "Fire  Pictures,"  which 
waa  republished  after  the  great  fire  in  Chlc^o. 
In  1873  he  collected  the  verses  of  his  friend, 
Henry  Timrod,  and  published  them,  introduced 
by  a  sympathetic  memoir.  The  volume  soon 
reached  a  third  edition.  Not  long  after  thi 
fourth  volume  of  his  own  poems  was  published 
id  had  a  very  cordial  reception.  This  was  fal- 
lowed in  1875  by  The  Mountain  oftkt  Lovert  and 
OM^ /'mm/,  which  contributed  greatly  to  advance 
the  author's  poetical  reputation.  In  1S82 
Lothrop  ft  Co.  of  Boston  published  a  comph 
edition  of  Paul  H.  Hayne's  poems,  with  an  int 
duction  by  Mrs.  Margaret  J.  Preston.  This  was 
a  subscription  book,  handsomely  gotten  up  and 
illoitrated,  and  containing  a  fine  portrait  of  the 
poet.  During  the  last  fifteen  years  Mr.  Hayne 
has  been  one  of  the  most  industrious  American 
writers,  doing  book  notices  for  half  a  dozen  dif- 
ferent journals,  besides  contribnting  poems, 
stories,  essays,  etc,  to  The  Century,  Harper't 
Magatine,  Lippincotfr  Magazine,  the  Atlanti, 
Monthly,  etc 

Mr.  Hayne  was  a  rapid  writer,  generally, 
especially  in  bis  prose  compositions,  but  his 
poems  of  late  years  were  carefully  and  artistically 
elaborated.  He  was  a  genuine  lover  of  nature, 
and  some  of  bis  best  poems  were  inspired  by  the 
ever-varying  charms  of  earth  and  sky.  Among 
these  verses  we  may  mention  Midsummer  in  the 
South,  The  Voice  of  the  Fines,  Forest  Pictures 
and  Muscadines.  His  sonnets  have  won  for  him 
the  title  of  tbe  "  sonnet  wiiter  of  America."  He 
haa  sounded  all  the  chords  of  his  lyre.  In  Cam- 
byses,  he  is  classic  ;  in  The  Wife  of  Brittany,  we 
have  a  sketch  of  mediieval  life ;  in  the  Mouiv 
tain  of  the  Lovers,  we  enjoy  a  glimpse  of  the 
quaint  charm  of  the  old  chronicles;  in  Bonny 
Brown  Hand,  he  tetls  the  story  of  domestic  love; 
in  The  Fire  Pictures,  he  is  intensely  realistic 
For  the  last  ten  years  Mr.  Hayne  was  a 
great  sufferer  from  ill  health,  and  the  amount  of 
literary  work  he  accomplished  under  such  un- 
favorable ciicunutances  shows  the  indomitable 
pluck  of  the  brave  poet  Id  his  twenty-second 
year  he  married  Mary  Middle  ton  Michel, 
the  only  daughter  of  Dr.  William  Michel  ol 
Charleaton,  and  granddaughter  of  General  dc 


Michel  of  the  imperial  army  of  France.  The 
always  found  in  his  devoted  wife  a  comfort 
and  solace  in  all  the  trials  of  life.  She  was  often 
his  amanuensis,  when  he  was  too  ill  to  sit  at  his 
desk;  she  nursed  him  through  many  severe 
attacks  of  sickness,  and  brightened  his  secluded 
home  by  her  ever-genial  presence. 

Paul  H.  Hayne  died  at  his  cottage.  Copse  Hill, 
eight  o'clock  on  the  evening  of  July  6th,  and 

u  buried  on  the  afternoon  of  the  loth,  in  the 
cemetery  at  Augusta,  Ga. 


A  LEITEB  FEOM  LOHDOI. 

London,  July  t. 

MR.  THOMAS  HARDY,  by  far  the  most 
brilliant  of  English  dramatic  novelists, 
has  left  his  favorite  moors  and  wolds  of  Dorset- 
shire, to  live,  for  a  time  at  least,  in  London. 
There  has  been  of  late  an  unhappy  pause,  a 
hiatus,  in  the  fame  of  Mr-  Hardy.  From  tite 
tremendous  success  of  Far  from  the  Madding 
Crowd  to  the  quieter  conviction  of  genius  that 
followed  the  reading  of  The  Return  of  the 
Native,  Mr.  Hardy  went  im  from  strength  to 
strength.  Then,  for  nearly  seven  years,  he 
seemed  to  slip  away  into  some  enchanted  place, 
where  we  never  saw  him,  whence,  when  we 
heard  it,  his  voice  came  without  the  old  power 
or  the  accustomed  fire.  Now,  in  T%i  Mayor 
af  Catterbridge,  Mr.  Hardy  has  again  made 
a  great  ■  and  striking  success  ;  thuugb  the  still 
more  dramatic  force  of  this  novel,  the  division 
into  acts  and  situations  rather  than  into  chap- 
ters, the  absolute  objectivenesa  and  synthesis 
of  the  author's  vision,  give  it  a  rude  flavor,  an 
unconvincing  tone,  which  we  found,  indeed,  in 
Fat  from  the  Madding  Crraid,  but  which  was 
beautifully  absent  from  Mr.  Hardy's  master 
piece,  The  Return  of  the  Native. 

Mr.  Blackmote  is  the  doven,  Mr.  Hardy  ne 
bead  and  front,  Mr.  Baring-Gould  perhaps  the 
most  popular,  of  our  dramatic  novelists.  Mr. 
Baring-Gould  as  naturally  inclines  to  tragedy 
as  Mr.  Hardy  to  the  more  complex  and  diflScult 
effects  of  serious  comedy.  'TIS  so  easy  to  cut  the 
gordian  knot  with  the  sword  of  Death,  so  diffi- 
cult to  unwind  it  I  The  author  of  Mikalak  cuts 
the  knot,  and  hacks  it  with  an  energetic  blunt- 
ness  that  has  something  Elieabelhan  in  its  fury. 
Mehalak  was  a  fine  novel,  though  obviously 
after  Wuthering  Heights,  John  Herring,  ^oa.^ 
less  successful  as  a  whole,  was  a  still  better 
book;  two  scenes,  that  of  Joyce  and  her  father 
their  mountain-lair,  and  that  where  Meicille 
ndcrs  over  the  house  at  night,  vaguely  feel- 
ing her  own  murder  in  the  air  —  these  two  scenes 
of  the  very  greatest  promise,  the  most 
remarkable  achievemenL  Had  the  book  t>een 
worthy  of  these,  it  would  have  been  a  book  of 
\s  it  was,  we  looked  eagerly  forward 
:cessor.  Court  Royai  is  a  melancholy 
disenchantment:  Mr.  Baring-Gould  has  essayed 
the  purely  comic,  for  which  he  has  no  gift  or 
grace.  He  has  produced  a  book  little,  it  any, 
better  than  Mr.  Anstey'a  Shilling  Dreadfule, 
and  a  great  deal  longer.  We  shake  our  heads 
over  this  unhappy  divagation,  but  still  we  ho|>e 
it  does  but  postpone  for  a  season  the  natural 
successor  to  John  Herring. 

Here,  perhaps,  is  the  place  to  mention  that, 
as  soon  as  it  can  be  printed,  Messrs.  Blackwood 
mean  to  publish  a  aetious  and  romantic  shilling 
dreadful,  a  strange  story  of  madness  and   the 


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THE  LITERARY  WORLtt 


tJm.Y  44, 


Hupernalural,  by  the  ibthar  of  Baldwin,  Vernon 
Lee.  The  icene  ii  laid  in  an  old  counliy  houie 
in  Kent.    The  title  ii  Okt  of  OluAunl. 

So  much  fo>  tbe  ronianiic  (he  dramatic,  but 
ihe  realists  are  nut  idle.  Hr.  George  Moore's 
new  novel,  A  I}rama  in  Mutiin,  Ii  out  today. 
I  have  told  yon  of  the  scandal  that  followed 
Hr.  Moore's  audacity  in  opening  bis  plot  in 
the  leritable  conTcni  where  he  had  visited  bli 
cousins  at  their  school.  There  was,  however, 
DO  worse  ofiense,  here,  than  a  breach  of  court- 
eous reticence.  The  Convent  of  the  Hoty  Child 
has  nothing  to  fear  from  any  honest  Realist ; 
and  peace  is  again  established  between  the 
novelist  and  the  nnns.  Very  soon  the  reader 
leaves  the  convent  and  [i  traiuporled  to  the 
Ireland  of  today,  where  a  group  of  young  girls 
live  and  move  before  a  terrible  background  tA 
insincerity  and  oppression.  The  inefficiency 
of  the  landlords,  the  tyranny  of  the  Land 
League,  the  discord,  heart-break,  and  violence 
of  a  country  when  a  civil  peace  has  flown;  this 
makes  a  gloomy  background  of  purple,  red,  and 
Same  color  —  indistinctly  blurred  but  most  sug- 
gestive—  behind  the  girlish  muslin-skirted  fig- 
ures, the  youthful  heads,  of  Mr.  Hoote's  gallery 
of  young  women. 

This  particular  Realist,  you  see,  is  decorative, 
like  Zola.  He  seed  life  as  a  pageant;  Mr. 
Hardy  sees  it  as  a  comedy.  Miss  Maliel  Rob- 
inson, whose  DUenckanimittt  will  be  out  this 
week,  Is  a  Realist  of  (he  simpler  sort,  a  de- 
scendant of  the  author  of  Wivti  and  Daughtirt. 
Her  book,  though  laid  in  London,  is  also  chiefly 
concerned  wiib  Irish  matters  —  with  the  life 
of  an  Irish  member,  poor  and  in  ill  health. 
This  is  natural  enough;  for  it  la  an  open  secret 
that  Miss  Mabel  Robinson  is  the  mysterious 
Mr.  Wm.  Stephenson  Gregg,  whose  shilling 
Hiilery  of  Inland  is  now  well  on  its  second 
edition  of  five  thousand  copies.  a.  11.  f,  r. 


A  L£TT£B  FBOH  aEBUASY. 

Berlin,  June  at. 

EVER  since  May  13,  the  principal  topic  of 
talk  here  in  the  papers,  as  well  as  among 
the  public,  has  been,  next  to  the  eventful  politi- 
cal new*  from  Bavatia,  the  splendid  interna. 
tlonal  Art  Eiposiliun  arranged  by  the  Berlin 
Academy  of  Arts  in  the  "  Exposition  Park  "  of 
this  city,  and  which  is  to  last  ail  through  the 
summer  and  part  of  the  autumn.  This  import- 
ant show  has  given  a  fresh  impetus  to  the  deep 
interest  (he  whole  of  (he  fa(herland  naturally 
take*  in  the  growth  and  progress  of  the  great 
capital  on  the  bank*  of  the  Spree.  People  ac- 
customed to  the  great  political  freedom  of  the 
States,  or  England,  or  Switzerland,  may  not 
be  much  pleased  by  the  severe  restrictions 
placed  here  on  liberty  under  Ihe  present  system 
of  government ;  but  this  want  of  freedom  does 
not  prevent  Berlin  from  becoming  finer  and 
greater  every  dajr.  No  wonder  if  there  is 
springing  up  an  eve r-in creasing  literature  deal- 
ing with  the  history,  Iniportatice,  life,  society, 
statistics,  and  sights  of  Berlin,  not  only  in  guide- 
books, but  also  In  more  delectable  and  less  dry 
volumes  of  description,  and  narrative  sketches, 
studies,  etc.  Within  the  last  three  years  works 
of  this  kind  have  come  from  the  scurrilous 
pens  of  "Comte  Vasili"  and  Victor  Tissot,  as 
well  as  from  the  loving  pens  of  Trinius  and  Dein- 
burg,  and  the  coolly  observing  ones  of  Girbert 


and  Dominik,  all  more  or  less  inleresting  and 
commendable,  apart  from  several  others  of 
minor  value.  Quite  recently  three  new  booki 
on  Berlin  life  have  been  issued  which  are  rathe: 
noteworthy  and  not  merely  interesting.  Each 
is  written  In  a  wholly  difierent  vein  and  by 
men  of  various  ages,  one  qaite  young,  (he  other 
middle-aged,  the  third  old.  The  work  of  Paul 
Llndenberg  is  entitled  Strlin,  and  sppears 
quarterly  parts;  its  specialty  is  short  sketches 
on  every  conceivable  subject  concerning  thi* 
city,  written  in  a  most  pleasant  and  furtive  style. 
The  author  does  not  aim  at  profundity,  but  at 
completeness  and  amusing  information.  Al- 
though only  twenty-slz  years  old,  Herr  Linden- 
berg  may  be  said  to  be  one  of  the  best  "  Berlin 
scholars "  extant,  in  spite  of  his  having  lived 
here  only  for  the  last  four  years.  The  five 
parts  which  have  been  published  hitherto  (at 
five  cents  each  for  over  loo  pp.  I )  are  a  perfect 
store-house  of  Berlin  lore.  Llndenberg  has 
issued  several  books  on  Berlin  before  now; 
these  were  more  of  the  nature  of  fiction  and 
betrayed  an  agreeable  talent  for  light  literature. 
The  middle-aged  gendeman  alluded  to  above 
is  well  known  in  the  States,  for  he  lived 
(here  as  a  iouriialiB[  and  teacher  for  some  ten 
years;  hislast  place  was  (he  19th  Grammar  School, 
New  York.  Herr  Hopp  returned  to  Germany 
in  i3y5i  and  has  since  published  half  a  dozen 
German  works  on  your  country,  as,  for  instance,  a 
volume  of  poetry,  Tram-Atlantic  Voice3,t  Trans- 
Atlantic  Sketck'Bfek,  a  Stout  volume  entitled 
The  Star-Spangled  Banner,  etc.  His  compre- 
hensive Nitttry  ef  the  United  Slalei  is  fast 
approaching  completion,  the  last  part  being 
forthcoming  immediately;   I  shall,  by  your  per- 

lon,  give  it  a  full  notice  as  soon  as  1  shall 
have  read  it.  Herr  Ernst  Otto  Hopp  has 
QDsecutively  edited  several  leading  Berlin 
family  journals,"  such  as  Scherei't  Fatnilitif 
Matt,  Ecka,  Was  IKr  Weill,  and  is  at  present 
co-editing  ■  new  venture,  the  Btaitt  Well.  His 
book  on  Berlin  life  is  entitled  In  a  Great  Tvan, 
and  has  met  with  such  universal  recognition 
that  very  soon  s  second  edition  became  neces- 
ssry.  In  contradistinction  from  Llndenberg, 
Hopp  Is  often  gloomy  and  satirical :  frequently 
enough,  however,  he  becomes  pathetic  and 
touching.  Among  his  sixty  sketches  there  are 
only  two  or  three  which  would  not  be  of  gen- 
eral interest  for  any  reader  in  any  country.  He 
closes  by  pointing  the  moral  that  you  need  not 
live  in  the  country  or  In  small  towns  to  see 
nature,  beauty,  poesy,  but  that  the  bustle  and 
immensity  of  a  modern  "  million's  (own  "  have 
a  charm  and  beauty  of  their  own.  Quite  of 
another  stamp  sre  Julius  Rodenberg's  Fielures 
ef  Berlin  Life,  which,  loo,  have  already  gone 
through  two  edition*.  In  reality  they  are  not 
merely  "pictures,"  but  almost  "studies,"  es- 
pecially the  last,  describing  as  it  does  the 
"  growth  and  increase "  of  our  metropolli. 
They  are  only  five  in  number,  but  the  quality 
makes  up  for  the  quantity ;  albeit  profound, 
they  are  deeply  interesting ;  in  them  a  compre- 
hensive knowledge  of  the  subject  is  combined 
with  a  highly  pleasant  style  of  writing.  Roden- 
berg,  who  is  among  the  foremost  writers  of 
Germany,  has  lived  in  Berlin  for  (he  last  thirty 

1;  for  the  last  twelve  years  he  has  been 
editing  that  leading  German  Review,  the 
Deutichi  Rundschau,  and  it  is  in  the  page* 
of  this  eminent  periodical  that  the  papers  em- 


bodied  in   the   present  volume  made  their  first 
appearance. 

Speaking  of  sketches,  etc.,  I  may  just  as  well 
mention  a  small  but  valuable  book  which  has 
reached  me  as  late  as  yesterday,  and  which  I 
partly  read  at  once,  coming  as  It  does  from  the 
graceful  pen  of  Emil  Peschksu,  the  popular 
author  of  T^e  Counts  ef  Walbeck,  and  other 
works  of  equal  intetes^  The  volume  of  gen- 
eral sketches  before  us  takes  it*  title  from  tbe 
first  sketch,  Herr  and  Fran  Piepi.  Its  contents 
are  many-fold,  but  all  (he  pieces  are  written  in 
the  author's  characteristically  light  and  charm- 
ing manner.  Herr  Peschkau  Is  a  Viennese  of 
II  years  and  writes  In  a  similar  vein  to  that  of 
his  conntrjrmsn,  Ferdinand  Gross,  to  whom  I 
devoted  part  of  one  of  my  last  letter*.  He 
edited  the  Iherary  department  of  the  well-known 
Frani/urtur  fvnrnal  {one  of  the  oldest  news- 
papers on  earth,  l>eing  catablished  about  z6o 
years  ago]  from  iSSt  up  to  the  end  of  1885. 
He  still  live*  in  Frankfort,  but  intends  re- 
moving to  Berlin.  Altogether  promising  and 
talented  men  are  continually  leaving  their  pro- 
vincial abodes  to  settle  down  here,  in  the  center 
of  modern  German  life  and  thought ;  this  it 
partly  one  of  the  symptoms,  partly  one  of  the 
effects,  of  the  rise  of  this  city.  With  the  rise 
of  Berlin  I  have  begun  my  letter,  and  with  the 
same  let  me  finish  it.        Leopold  Katschbk. 


Emeat  Ingersoll.  Mr.  Ernest  Ingersoll  was 
born  in  Monroe,  Mich.,  March  13,  1851,  of 
Massachusetts  stock,  but  his  grandfather  was 
one  of  the  earliest  emigrants  to  the  Western 
Reserve  of  Ohio.  His  father  was  a  dentist  of 
an  inquiring  and  Inventive  mind,  from  whom, 
perhaps,  this  son  inherited  his  tendency  toward 
scientific  investigation.  This  led  him,  as  a 
schoolboy,  to  spend  his  holidays  and  leisure 
hours  in  ranging  the  field*  and  haunting  the 
river  and  rice-marshes  of  his  vidnity  in  search 
of  all  sorts  of  objects  In  natural  history;  knowl- 
edge of  which,  in  his  case,  was,  of  necessity, 
almost  wholly  a  matter  of  observation,  since  no 
helpful  Ixraks  were  accessible  to  him.  Circum- 
stances dictated  his  going  to  Oberlin,  Ohio,  for 
collegiate  instruction,  where  an  irregular  course 
was  pursued  for  several  years.  This  institution 
was,  perhaps,  the  one  in  all  the  country  least 
fitted  for  the  education  of  a  boy  of  scientific 
taste* ;  but  Ingersoll  improved  all  possible  op. 
portunides  in  this  direction,  and  at  the  end  of 
his  course  had  the  satisfaction  of  finding  himself 
curator  of  the  college  museum  —  about  the  only 
satisfaction,  he  has  been  known  to  say,  which 
his  college  life  afforded  him.  Although  almost 
entirely  wi(hau(  resource*  either  of  money  or 
influence,  he  made  his  way  to  Harvard,  and  soon 
l>ecame  a  special  student  in  [he  Museum  of 
Comparative  Zoology,  devoting  himself  espe- 
cially to  the  study  ol  birds.  In  1873  he  passed 
the  summer  with  Prof.  Louis  Agassis  In  his 
famous  sea-side  school  on  Penikese.  The  death 
of  Agassiz  during  the  following  winter  set  adrift 
nearly  the  whole  of  the  museum  Corp*  :  aitd 
Ingersoll  took  service  with  the  Hayden  Survey 
in  the  far  West,  as  naturalist  and  collector. 
This  was  supposed  to  be  a  permanent  »tuation, 
but  disaster  overlook  tbe  Survey  in  the  spring  of 
1875,  and  Mr.  Ingersoll  was  one  of  the  many 


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THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


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who  lost  their  places.  His  (houghU  now  turned 
toward  journalimn,  in  which  he  had  previously 
done  liitle  more  than  to  write  a  few  short  arti- 
cles in  popular  science,  and  three  or  four  tetters 
from  the  West  to  the  New  York  Tribunt.  The 
TribuHt  at  once  gave  him  a  place  upon  Its  staff, 
where  for  nearly  two  years  he  did  editorial  work- 
Meanwhile  he  became  natural  history  editor  of 
Foriil  and  SIrfam  ;  and,  besides  contributing 
several  special  papers  and  lectures  to  scientific 
societies,  made  an  entrance  into  the  magazines, 
his  first  article  appearing  in  Scribntft  Monthly 
in  June,  1876.  Resigning  editorial  work,  he 
made  a  second  trip  to  ihe  West  in  1877  j  camp- 
ing [or  three  months  in  Wyoming  and  Idaho, 
(hen  traveling  north  through  Montana,  and 
coming  home  down  the  Missouri  River.  Of 
this  trip  Ihe  principal  result  was  an  eilensive 
correspondence  in  the  New  York  Hirald ;  but  a 
later  result  his  illuslraled  Kneckittg  Round  Ihe 
Rockits  [Harpers:  iS8z].  Mr.  Ingersoll  i 
devoted  himself  almost  entirely  (o  magai 
work  of  every  variety,  ijiories  formed  a  small 
part,  bui  the  (ew  written  then  and  si 
met  with  a  pleasant  acceptance.  Principal  and 
latest  among  them  is  The  lee  Queen,  which 
appeared  first  as  a  serial  in  Harper's  Young  Pet- 
file,  and  was  subsequently  republished  in  book 
form  by  that  house.  It  is  as  a  writer  for  young 
people,  indeed,  that  Mr,  Ingeraoll  has  attained 
his  widest  reputaiion.  In  1879  he  went  again  Ic 
Colorado,  visiting  Leadville  at  the  instance  ol 
the  Century,  and  describing  the  wild  scenes  ol 
its  early  days  in  an  article  entitled  "The  Camp 
of  the  Carbonates."  Then  to  Santa  Fe  fui 
ffarptr't  Magatint,  for  a  picture  of  that  quaint 
old  city,  long  before  it  had  been  iDodernized  by 
railways  and  the  tourist.  On  both  these  trips 
he  was  accompanied  by  a  Denver  artist  noi 
winning  high  success  in  New  York  — J.  Harr 
son  Mills.  In  the  autumn  of  the  same  year  Mi 
Ingersoll  became  a  member  of  the  U.  S.  Fish 
Commission,  and  was  appointed  Special  Agent 
of  the  Tenth  Census  for  the  Study  of  Amei 
Oyster  Industries.  This  investigation  lasted 
nearly  two  years,  led  to  hia  traveling  the  wboli 
length  of  the  Atlantic  coast,  and  resulted  in  : 
quarto  volume  of  150  pages.  About  this  limi 
his  Friends  Worth  Kiimaing  was  issued,  by  the 
Harpers;  also  an  illustrated  book  on  Birds'- 
Netting,  and  another  entitled  Old  Ocean.  In 
iSSi  he  spent  three  months  rambling  about  Col- 
orado upon  that  railway  expedition,  the  narra- 
tive o(  which  is  given  in  his  CrtsI  of  Ihe  Can- 
Hntnt.  In  the  succeeding  summer  be  was  sent 
to  California  by  the  Harpers,  writing  a  series  of 
illuslrated  articles  upon  the  Ear  Northwest,  and 
returning  adventurously  thiough  the  1 
tty,  now  so  easily  traversed  in  the  trains  of  the 
Northern  Pacific  The  whole  picturesque  pro- 
cess of  the  building  o(  that,  and  many  other 
of  the  Rocky  Klountain  roads,  he  became  well 
acquainted  with  upon  these  expeditions,  and  has 
described  in  a  lecture  prepared  fur  delivery  dur- 
ing the  coming  winter.  Mr.  Ingersotl's  latest 
collection  of  scientific  essays  appeared  under 
the  title  of  Country  Cousins  [1884].  In  18S5  he 
■gain  turned  his  face  westward,  going  this  time 
into  the  theretofore  undescribed  snowy  mountains 
of  British  Columbia,  for  new  materials  of  writings 
and  lectures.  During  the  past  few  years  Mr. 
Ingersoll  has  made  his  home  in  New  Haven, 
Conn.,  where  be  lives  in  a  bouse  surrounded  by 
forest  trees  and  wild  flowers,  though  well  within 


the  city,  and   enjoying  all  Ihe 

urban  life.    A  large  part  of  his  lime,  however, 

spent  in  travel  or  in  New  York,  where  a  great 

deal  of  anonymous  work  is  sent  out  from  his 

WOBEB  ON  ABT. 

Wonders  of  Italian  Art.    By  LouU  Viardot. 

[Charles  Scribnei's  Sons,     Ji.oo.] 

7^  Education  of  the  Artist.     By  Emesl  Ches- 
au.  Tr.  by  Clara  Bell.   [Cassell  &  Co.   >3ajo.] 

Collig 

sell  ft  Co.    %: 

Sculpture,  Renaissance  And  Modern.     By  Lead- 
Scott.     [Scribner  &  Welfotd.     y.'\ 

Mr.  Yiardot's  volume  is  an  important  and  wel- 

ime  addition  to  the  revised  "  Library  of  Won- 
ders." An  introductory  chapter  touches  help- 
fully upon  Greek  painters,  sculptors,  and  archi- 
ll Greek  and  Pompeiian  mosaics,  and  early 
Roman  paintings.  Chapter  II  relates  to  paint- 
ing in  the  Middle  Ages,  and  to  Chiistian  art  as 
found  in  church  decoration,  embroidery,  and 
portraits  of  the  Virgin  Mary.  Chapter  III 
passes  to  the  technical  stale  of  painting  at  the 
e  of  the  Renaissance,  giving  a  thoroughly 
illigible  account  of  mosaic, 
fresco  work.  Here,  and  indeed  throughout  the 
book,  the  illustrations  aid  greatly.  There  are 
twenty-eight  of  these,  most  of  them  full-page. 
From  the  fourth  chapter  to  the  end  we  have  less 
of  art  history,  more  of  the  paintings  themselves, 
and  descriptions  of  the  various  schools  —  Flat 

iline,  Roman,  Lombard,  Venetian,  Bolognesi 
and  Neapolitan,  The  author  gives  his  own  an 
other  critics'  opinions  of  many  of  the  more  fi 
mous  works.  "In  the  frescoes  of  the  Vatican, 
he  says,  "  Raphael  has  recapitulated  the  cot 
quests  of  the  Renaissance,  has  exalted  (he 
triumph  of  (he  Church  and  Ihe  independence 
of  Italy,  and,  in  a  word,  has  made  Italy  the 
'Greece  of  the  Gospel,'"  Such  is  (he  died 
of  the  famous  French  critic,  while  (hat  of 
equally  famous  Englishman  is  that  "when 
Raphael  painted  Apollo  and  the  Muses  on  (he 
walls  of  the  Vatican  he  signed  the  death-warrant 
of  ait."  Be  this  as  it  may,  readers  will  be  none 
(he  worse  off  for  (he  Frenchman's  ezplanadons 
of  Raphael's  allegorical  scenes.  In  form,  type, 
and  binding  the  book  is  above  reproach.  Its 
low  price  is  a  distinct  merit.  The  illustrations, 
with  one  or  (wo  eiceptions,  are  well  adapted  10 
their  purpose.  We  ourselves  should  have  pre- 
ferred some  better-known  picture  by  Paul  Veron- 
ese than  (he  "Martyrdom  of  St.  Justina"  (at 
Padua);  and  (he  cut  entitled  "The  Three  Ma- 
ries" docs  not  satisfy  the  requi 
exemplification  of  Annibalc  Carracd,  oik  of  (be 
foremost  master?  of  the  Bolognese  school. 

The  keynote  of  M.  Chesneau's  interesting 
and  timely  work  is  its  opening  words,  that 
"  throughout  Europe  art  is  in  its  decadence." 
To  find  and  state  the  reason  of  (his  decadeiKe 
is  (he  au[bor's  object.  M.  Chesneau's 
on  Religious  Art  are  particularly  thoughtful 
and  impressive,  even  for  those  who  cannot 
accept  his  judgment  that  in  Flandrin's  frieze 
Ihe  Church  of  Sl  Vincent  d«  Paul,  In  Paris,  we 
see  "  formulated  and  fixed  one  of  the  loftiest 
pictorial  ideas  of  Christian  spiiituali 
book  is  nol  a  maaual  of  instruction,  or  rules  for 
drawing  and  painting.  It*  aim  is  to  reconcJIc 
Art  and    Modern    Society.    Engllsb  Art,   ihe 


author  concedes,  is  improving  on  ils  past,  but 
exception   to  the  general  situation. 
By  edocatioii.  In  the  case  of  artists,  he  meana 
the  complete  development  of  those  intellectual 
powers  which  are  the  life   of  the  imagination, 
and  of  the  moral  qualities  which  are  (he  founda- 
of  feeling  and  passion,  wilh  such  an  expe- 
\e  of  social  laws  as  may  result  in  an  appre- 
hension of  the  needs  of  man.    Taking  the  word 
education  "  in  Ibis  sense,  one  can  well  believe 
lial  il  '*alone  makes  the  artist."    H.  Chesnean 
might   have  been  and  should  have  been  more 
explicit  as  to  the  ways  and  means  of  obtaining 
outfit.     He  does  not  lack  explidtnest  on 
other  topics,  however,  as,  for  example  (p.  113), 
art  and  the  nude.    The  final   third  of  the 
book  Is  devoted  to  Decorative  Art,  but  (his  part 
of  the  subject  is  treated  with  less  interest  than 
(he  rest.    The  volume  is  a  small  Svo,  excellent 
outward  materials  and  workmanship,  and  is 

iginable,  readable,  and  profitable. 
Recent  excavations  of  buried  ruins  on  Greek 
soil  have  obtained  new  materials  for  the  study 
of  Greek  art,  and  these  are  aiiliied  by  Professor 
John  Henry  Wright  of  Dartmouth  College  in 
his  revised  translation  of  M.  Collignon's  text- 
book on  Greek  Archaology.  M.  Collignon  was 
formerly  a  member  of  the  French  School  at 
Athens,  and  Is  now  an  instructor  in  the  Sor- 
Ixinne  at  Paris.  Hii  work  is  one  of  a  series 
designed  for  use  In  schools  and  colleges.  Pro- 
fessor Wright  has  practically  made  a  new  treatise 
out  of  it,  in  logical  arrangement,  lucid  style,  and 
illustrations  well  fitted  to  its  purpose. 
A  valuable  feature  is  (he  bibliographical  refer- 
ences prefixed  to  each  chapter,  by  which  the 
reader  is  put  on  the  (rack  of  as  extended  re- 
searches along  special  lines  as  he  cares  (o  make- 
Tbe  seven  books  into  which  the  work  is  divided 
respectively  of  the  origin  of  Greek  Art 
under  Pelasj^  and  Oriental  influences;  of  Archi- 
tecture [  of  Sculpture ;  of  the  conning  little 
L  figures ;  of  Painted  Vases ;  of  coins 
and  engraved  gems;  and  of  bronzes  and  jewels- 
Of  these  several  portions,  (hat  on  Sculpture  is 
the  moat  important;  but  (he  one  on  Potteries  is 
full  of  curiously  interesting  information.  How 
marveloDsly  fine  are  some  of  these  old  entabla^ 
urcs,  as  for  example,  the  broken  metope  on  p. 
181,  of  Heracles,  Atlas,  and  one  of  (lie  He>- 
peridax,  from  Olympia. 

The  general  subject  of  Sculfiture,  from  (he 
Thirteenth  Century  down  to  the  present  time,  is 
couiinued  by  Mr.  Leader  Scoit,  in  one  of  (be 
Poynter-Smith  "Illustrated  Hand-Booka  of  Art 
History,"  Within  these  limits,  of  course,  the 
subject  is  largely  Italian,  since,  as  Mr.  Scott 
very  truly  says,  Italy  "was  the  cradle  of  the 
artistic  world  "  for  tb«  four  hundred  years  of 
which  he  chiefly  writes.  The  Pisans  and  the 
Florentine*,  the  Pisans,  Ghiberii,  and  Dona- 
lello,  led  (A  Id  Ihe  Thirteenth  and  Fourteenlh 
Centuries ;  in  the  Fifteenth  as  in  the  Fourteenth, 
art  ran  in  familiet  and  sculpture  blended  with 
architecture  ;  and  in  the  Sixteenth,  Spain,  Ger- 
many, Flanders,  and  France  caught  the  inspira- 
tion; but  in  the  last  and  Ihe  present  centuries 
few  great  names  are  to  be  mentioned.  Two 
page*  are  devoted  to  American  Sculptora,  to 
whom,  as  a  class,  justice  is  hardly  done.  The 
biographic  element  in  Ihe  book  is  strong,  and  - 
the  whole  groond  of  sculpture  for  tbe  past  aix 
hundred  years  may  be  gone  over  profitably  by  its 
I  help.    The  illustrations  are  admirable,  MpedaUy 


as* 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


rjoLY  34, 


the   laige   folding  plit«  of  the  famon*  Ghlberli 
doots  at  Florence  ;  and  ihere  are  a  glouaiy  and 

MIHOR  riOTIOH. 


Tie  IVrecieri.  A  Social  Study.  By  Geo. 
Thos.  Dowling.  Illustratcil.  (J.  B.  UppincotI 
Co.     »..25.] 

It  Menu  to  b«  taken  for  granted,  because  the 
Rev.  Mr.  Dowling,  author  of  Tit  Wreett 
has  his  home  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  that  his  book 
must  of  necessity  be  another  solution  ol 
great  American  social  problem.  The  Bread 
Winntrs  started  the  whole  thing,  and  any  ade- 
<)Uale  answer  to  the  airiness  of  that  book  w 
be  welcomed  by  American  readers.  After 
more  careful  looking  into  Thi  Wrecktri  than 
Is  usually  given  to  an  ordinary  novel,  it  s 
to  a;  that  it  is  not  so  able  as  the  work  which 
evidently  called  it  forth.  The  title  is  deceptii 
to  start  wilhi  Tht  Wrcckiri  Is  not  a  "iodal 
Study; "  it  Is  hardly  more  than  the  simple  n 
^ve  of  an  honest,  high-minded  Irishman  of 
humble  station  who  is  deserted  by  his  unworthy 
wife.  She  takes  their  daughter  with  her,  a 
after  this  hero,  Mike  Barney  by  name,  Icai 
that  his  «ife  is  drowned  at  sea,  he  devotes  hi 
self  to  finding  his  child.  The  disappointments 
of  his  search  unsettle  his  reason.  When  at  last 
he  does  find  her,  he  quixotically  determine; 
to  claim  her  from  the  wealthy  surroundings  in 
which  she  has  at  last  found  herself.  But  e 
ually  she  is  restored  to  the  unselfish  father,  and 
the  end  is  peaceful.  The  author's  social  theoti 
are  entirely  incidental,  and  turn  upon  the  i 
peiiencea  of  two  capitalists,  one  of  whom  finds 
that  it  pays  to  treat  humanity  humanely,  while 
the  other  finds  that  it  does  not  pay  lo  be  unjust. 
No  objection  surely  will  be  made  to  Mr.  Dow- 
ling's  proposition  that  Christian  principles  and 
not  self-interest  must  be  the  instrumentality  lo 
raise  this  labor  problem  to  a  higher  level.  Good 
intention  counts  for  much  in  such  a  book,  and 
the  author's  purpose  is  high ;  only  it  must  be 
admitted  that  the  country  is  now  in  no  mood 
for  commonplaces  on  the  mutual  obligations  of 
the  moneyed  and  the  moneyless.  While  such 
books  as  Tht  Wrecken  are  writing,  some  men 
are  burning  and  rioting,  and  others  are  tighten- 
ing their  fists  the  closer.  An  amiable  work  like 
The  Wrakers  will  get  itself  read  for  the  most 
part  by  people  as  well  disposed  aa  the  au- 
thor; but  this  sort  of  "social  study  "is  like 
a  temperance  lecture  before  a  congregation  in 
which  there  is  not  a  tingle  inebriate.  The  lect- 
ure may  be  good  enough,  but  the  listeners  are 
not  bad  enough.  Several  incidents  are  decid- 
edly vulgar,  in  particular  that  one  where  Mrs. 
Michael  Barney  drubs  her  husband  under  the 
delusion  that  he  is  the  father  of  a  child  not 
likewise  her  own  ;  this  amenity,  which  is  wholly 
superfluous  in  the  plot,  is  hardly  up  to  the  level 
of  Ptck's  Bad  Boy.  There  arc,  loo,  several  in- 
stances of  carelessness ;  for  instance,  on  page 
113  the  hero's  daughter  is  admitted  10  be  six 
years  old ;  mention  is  made  at  about  this  lime 
of  a  boy  as  a  "sleeping  infant"  (page  39). 
Years  later  the  same  boy,  who  becomes  the  girl's 
lover,  miraculously  tuins  out  to  be  eighteen 
when  the  girl  b  only  fifteen  t  Mr.  Dowling 
■eems  to  have  had  some  genuine  experiences  with 
the  terrible  grievances  of  the  oppressed  pooij 
and  as  a  whole  this  effort  should  encourage  him 


to  make  another  and  more  vigorous  assault  ■ 
wrongs  which  he  religiously  seeks  lo  redress. 

Dagonet  tht  JetUr.    [London :  MactmHan  & 
Co.    %\Ai\ 

^Iher  Mr.  Blackmore  or  Hr.  Shoriho  use  could 
have  vrritten  this  shadowy  tale.  It  has  the  rather 
pleasing  artificialities,  but  not  quite  the  art,  of 
Mr.  Besant's  Doriilky  FffriUr.  Furthermore 
Mr.  Thomas  Hardy  might  have  addi 
flesh  lints  to  the  ethereal  sketch.  Whoever  did 
write  it  is  modern  euphuiit  enough 
even  Mr.  Pater,  and  has  no  lack  of  subtle  tricks 
of  thought  and  expression,  and  a  queer  familiarity 
with  the  by-pathi  of  lellers  in  the  English  seveit' 
leenth  century.  Dagonet,  who  is  thus  memorial 
ized  in  smooth,  archaic  Style,  was  jester  in  1 
nobleman's  house  in  the  days  of  Charles  I, 
whence  he  is  expelled  by  his  master's  wife  for 
some  unexplained  cause.  He  may  have  been 
her  unacknowledged  child,  or  he  may  have 
spurned  her  advances  and  gained  her  hate,  after 
the  manner  of  "The  Man  Who  Laughs."  Dag- 
onet, who  had  more  goodness  and  sense  in  his 
motley  make-up  than  anybody  else  about  him, 
marries,  at  the  suggestion  of  the  nobleman's 
rakish  son,  an  Innkeeper's  beautiful  daughter. 
With  (his  girl  the  young  lord  once  passed  some 
light  words,  innocent  on  her  part,  but  doubtless 
more  significant  in  the  mouth  of  Ihc  cavalier 
who,  it  is  faintly  hinted,  was  minded  to  avail 
himself  of  his  drait  du  seigneur.  The  wife,  who 
loves  her  jester,  pines  secretly  over  the  dark 
significance  of  these  idle  words  ;  Dagr 
ceiies  her  inward  grief,  and,  seeing  no 
it,  disappears  suddenly  from  his  home  and  is 
found,  sitting  on  a  gravestone,  dead.  Just  what 
all  this  means  is  very  mysterious.  The  story  is 
direct  enough,  but  yet  it  seems  pregnant  with 
great  ideas.  We  make  a  guess  that  il 
refined  attack  on  Puritanism,  and  a  lament  for 
the  glories  of  an  age  when  jesicn  could  J( 
wholesomely,  and  conscience  was  not  morbidly 
keen.  Beyond  this,  the  motive  is  eaviar  to  all  but 
the  very  few  readers.  The  delicacy  of  atyli 
full  of  euphuisms,  aa  it  is,  the  archaisms  so  grate- 
ful to  dilettantism,  and  the  mournful  lefi 

days  of  the  "  royal  martyr,"  must  have 
afforded  the  author  great  pleasure.  It  is  more, 
the  most  delightfully  printed  and  bound- 
work  of  fiction  for  many  a  day  past.  There  are 
several  points  where  the  author  seems  to  have 
ipped  in  his  use  of  obsolete  expressions ;  "  hous- 
elling"  (p.  sOi  for  instance,  ought,  we  think,  lo 
be  spelt  with  one"]." 

JbIih  BedetBik't   Teilimeny.    By   Mary  Hal- 
lock  Foote.    [TicknoT  &  Co.    f  125-] 

It  does  not  matter  especially  whether  yohn 
Badeviin'i  Teitimeny  is  a  little  better  than  or 
jQile  so  good  as  the  author's  previous  sto- 
People  who  like  pleasant  literature  in  hot 
weather  will  find  it  readable;  great  il  certainly 
ot.  Mrs.  Foote  does  not  succeed  so  well  in 
iplele  delineations  a\  character  aa  in  clever 
touches  which  take  an  expression  or  a  pose,  and 
vanish.  The  mining  region  in  which  the 
:  lies  does  not  remain  in  the  mind  as  one 
distinct  picture;  but  we  enjoy  such  a  ride  as 
UiS.  Foute  seems  fund  of  taking  her  readers 
through  —  giant  trees,  where  the  sun  shines  down 
at  noonday  in  the  forest  aisles  and  upon  the 
needle-strewn  paths.  Very  cool  and  delightful 
these  "  bits"  of  scenery  are,  and  we  are  glad  to 


happen  on  them.  The  plot  is  simple.  There  are 
two  claims  for  a  valuable  portion  of  a  mine.  A 
not  over-punctilious  money-maker  is  the  lawful 
owner.  His  naively  courageous  daughter  be- 
coiDcs  innocently  interested  in  John  Bodewim 
who  knows  enough  of  the  truth  to  wrest,  if  be 
would,  the  property  from  the  hands  of  the  other 
claimant.  Col.  Billy  Harkins,  a  mining  specu- 
lator and  scoundrel,  and  good-hearled  when  it 
happens  to  suit  him  or  his  interest.  Why  John 
Bodewin  would  not  at  first  testify  on  the  side  ol 
justice  is  the  pith  of  the  story.  The  character 
of  Col.  Ilaikins,  who  has  "got  his  affidavit 
always  handy  "  and  who  is  "  uncommon  lucky  in 
his  juries,"  Is  a  strong  one.  Bret  Harte  would 
have  compelled  tears  over  his  timely  end  in  a 
bar-room  brawl ;  but  Mrs.  Foote  has  too  much 
of  the  Puritan  in  her  to  do  that,  and  she  geta 
nearer  the  truth  besides.  John  Bodewin  is  not 
easy  to  interpret,  but  he  is  a  genuine  type  ot 
Western  character,  in  whom  lurks  not  one  drop 
of  physical  cowardice,  bat  who,  neverlbelcss^ 
has  a  touch  of  moral  sln^ishness,  so  to  speak, 
which  may  be  due  to  the  vast  and  depressing 
solitudes  of  that  far  West  which  environ  and 
threaten  to  crush  a  fine  individuality.  The  clean- 
nesi  of  Bodewin's  character  could  be  seen  in  that 
"  purity  of  color  and  sensitiveneas  of  expression 
which  is  said  to  be  nature's  reward  for  a  life  of 
spiritual  constancy."  The  Incident  of  the  death 
of  Babe,  a  type  of  untrained  womanly  perfection, 
unneceuarily  painful  and  adds  nothing  to  the 


le  reason  why  such  writers  of  sensation  and 
ries  of  crime  "  as  Wilkie  Collins  and  Gabo- 
are  immeasurably  ahead  of  their  imitators, 
it  that  readers  enjoy  having  the  whereabouts  ot 
IS  clearly  described.    It  adds  to  the  interest, 
when  Mr.  Collins  is  telling  something  that  hap- 
pened in  Cornwall,  to  know  that  he  is  minutely 
accurate  in  his  details  ;  so,  loo,  a  murder  in  Paris 
relishes  belter  if  a  Gaboriau  can  lay  before  os 
vividly  the   Rue-de -something  or  other  where  it 
came    to    pass.      Anna    Katharine   Green 
and  her  increasing  school  of  amaleors  In  crime 
bully  in  this  respect      They  describe  well 
the  sin,  but  the  sinners  and  their  habitats  they 
only  sketch  in.    It  detracts  from  WMa  is  Guilty 
lOt  to  know  on  what  continent  the  astonishing 
vents  therein  narrated  occurred.    Arc  the  char- 
acters English  or  American  }    They  might  easily 
be  of  any  race  or  nation.     We  do  not  wish  to  be 
0  exacting  in  respect  to  this   book,  foe  it  cer- 
inly  gives  us  a  great  deal  for  our  money.    Dr. 
Woolf'a  ingenuity  is  tireless.     Every  innocent 
character  gets  himself  or  herself  suspected  even 
by  those  who  are  no  chickens  at  this  sort  of  read- 
ing.   There  are  mysterious  and  convenient  stone 
doors  with  heavy  iron  rings  attached ;  there  are 
Sashing  signals  from  lonely  towers,  and  blood- 
spots  of  the  latest  pattern.    The  detectives  are 
ident,  and  tell  all  they   know   as  fast  as 
they   strike  a  trail.     Are   real    fleah-and-blood 
detectives    so     confiding  t     The      brain     reels 
e  machinations  of  a  certain  trim  maid-aer- 
who  is  innocence  itself  at  last,  but  who  from 
iLart   uulwits  everybody  with  her  apparent 
wiles.    Vidocq  himself  pales  before  her  genius. 
One  is  constrained  to  say  that  some  of  this  young 
person's  conduct,  especially  her  condnct  with  the 
astute  Dr.  Dtibois,  strays  at  times  into  the  trop- 


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253 


ics,  morally  speaking.  To  tell  toy  ol  the  plot  of 
a  "  ttory  of  crime  "  it  to  show  tbe  cards  and  spoij 
tbe  game,  and  enough  bas  been  hinted  U.  Thi* 
ttory  may  be  poasible,  but  not  in  the  least  proba- 
ble, in  an  eiiatence  still  hampered  by  the  limita- 
tioni  o(  time  and  only  three  diroensloni  of  apace. 
Mr.  Wilkie  CoUint  tuita  ua  better  ;  for,  strange 
and  improbable  at  he  aometimea  is,  one  w!1. 
always  find  in  him  some  kind  or  manly  IcMon 
conveyed  though  it  may  be  through  the  mcdiam 
of  sensational  fiction. 

Tit  Jlfait  lVh<>  Iftu  Guilty.  By  Flora  Haine: 
Loughead.  [Houghton,  Mifilin  &  Co.  River- 
side Paper  Series.     50  Ctt.] 

The  eSort  of  a  man  or  woman  to  regaio  lost 
ground  socially  is  always  in  itself  interesting ; 
but  sentimental  treatment  of  the  subject  is 
frequent  stumbling-block  to  novelists,  howsoev 
excellent  their  Intention  may  be.  Thi  Man  Whs 
Was  Guilty  It  to  free  from  Ibis  common  fault, 
just  towards  both  the  criminal  and  wronged  i 
ciety,  and  withal  so  excellent  a  book,  that  it  seems 
nnnecessary  to  say  more  than  that  it  lb  about 
a  young  San  Francisco  banker  who  embezzles 
money,  is  imprisoned  for  ten  years,  and  is  re- 
leased at  last  a  being  more  JnsigniGcant  than  a 
cipher.  With  immense  energy  he  starts  to  win 
back  hit  name,  and  is  before  long  aided  by  the 
potent  influence  of  unselfish  Iotc.  After  dis- 
couragements which  weie  to  be  expected,  but  at 
the  same  time  were  fearful  to  endure,  the  ex- 
convict  regains  his  name,  his  station,  and  some- 
thing even  better.  There  is  a  counter-plot  in 
which  a  man  of  supposed  probity  develops 
great  villainy,  and  meets  an  end  so  dramatic 
that  it  will  vividly  recall  a  tragedy  which  really 
took  place  in  San  Francisco  about  ten  years  ago. 
Perhaps  here  the  approach  to  facts  is  too 
close  for  good  taste.  With  suspicion  born  of  a 
dislike  to  diseased  sentimentality,  the  reader 
will  look,  but  in  vain,  for  any  false  morality 
which  makes  social  regeneration  too  easy  for  tbe 
real  criminal.  A  nice  balance  Is  kept  between 
the  hard  exactions  of  the  world,  and  the  humility 
but  not  self-degradation  of  the  guilty  man.  The 
habit  oF  prison  life  seem  to  be  accurately  known 
to  the  thoughtful  author,  and  it  is  lo  be  hoped 
that  what  she  has  to  say  about  the  familiariza- 
tion of  innocent  children  with  the  older  and 
hardened  in  crime,  may  not  fail  to  produce  good 
results.  It  it  a  pleasure  lo  read  so  good  a  book, 
and  then  to  be  able  to  speak  well  of  IL 

TAe   Mit 

Scribner's  ! 

Nobody  can  deny  that  Mr.  Bunner  writes  with 
ability.  The  general  criticism  of  hit  present 
story  would  relate  to  that  rather  indefinable 
quality  of  a  book  which  we  call  its  tone. 
Without  being  low,  the  tone  of  7y>i  Midge  is 
not  high.  There  it  a  certain  air  of  affected 
carelessness  about  it,  not  exactly  frivolity,  not 
exactly  flippancy ;  but  a  lack  of  seriousness,  or 
if  that  be  too  somber  a  word,  oE  earnestness ;  as 
if  it  were  the  work  of  a  man  who  did  not  look 
deeply  into  life,  and  had  little  sense  for  its 
profounder  aspects  cither  of  joy  or  sorrow, 
"The  Midge"  is  an  orphaned  daoghtcr  of  a 
Bohemian  pair  of  patents  who  had  been 
stranded  in  New  York.  She  is  adopted  by 
a  bachelor,  and  rather  dangerously  taken  home 
to  live  with  him  In  his  apartments.  Here  she 
grows  op  to  an  attractive  womanhood,  and  jtut 


as  her  benefactor  awakens  to  the  fact  that  be 
it  in  love  with  her  and  is  on  the  point  of  asking 
her  to  become  his  wife,  he  discovers  that  she 
is  in  love  with  another  and  younger  man, 
she  marries  him.  The  most  natural,  most  impress- 
ire,  most  loveable  character  in  the  book 
Father  Dub^,  the  Roman  Catholic  priest;  t 
most  disagreeable,  the  Reverend  Theodore 
Beatty  Pratt,  the  Episcopal  rector.  Both  of 
these  figures  are  probably  drawn  from  life. 


The  name  selected   by   Mrs.  MacFailand  for 

her  novel  seemt  in  a  way  appropriate.    There 

is  a  great  deal  oF  earthlineas,  both  among  the 

characters   of  the  story  and   the   trcalmer 

them.    By  this  we  mean,  not  earlhliness  it 

coarser  sense  —  of  this  the  twok  is  commendably 

devoid  —  but  the  absence   of  the   diviner  qual- 

es.      Vivien    Langsirelh,   its    heroine,  yearns 

id  sighs  at  odd  momenta,   and   hat  fruitless 

aspirations    after   betler  things ;    but   the 

she  sets  her  heart  on  is  of  coarse  and  callous 

mold,  a  "shady"  English  officer,  whose  charm 

ms  to  consist  in  a  certain  tint  of  red-brown 

lis  hair  and  beard,  and  a  cruel  light-hearted- 

s.    Vivien  never  ceases  to  care  for  him,  not 

n  when,  on  the   eve  of  their  marriage  day, 

\  proved  lo  her  that  up  to  the  last  moment 

he    has  been  playing   the  fatal  game  of  false 

ment  with  another  girl-    She  discards  him 

moment  of  passionate  resentment,  but  so 

little  does  she  cease  to  love  him,  thai  when  they 

again,  five  years  later,  she  melts  like 
before  fire,  regardless  of  the  fact  that  during 
e  interval  her  quondam  lover  has  set 
ife  in  India.  Ned  Brownlow  devotes  the  best 
of  his  youth  and  heart  lo  Vivien,  but  he  finds  it 
easy  to  console  himself  with  a  pretty  Miss  Eliot 
when  Vivien  proves  unattainable-  Madame 
Langstrclh  is  a  highly  accented  automaton, 
tule  of  the  natural  emotions ;  the  villagers 
of  Farquard  Gap  are  callous  and  ungrateful. 
We  do  not  learn  to  care  even  for  the  glimpses 
given  us  of  the  wild  Nova  Scotia  coast,  the 
sunken  ledges,  the  cruel  wash  of  waves  over 
them,  the  flying  storm  cloud  and  salt  spray. 
The  lack  of  true  humanity  in  the  sentient  things 
of  the  tale  aSect  these,  and  they  become  to  us 
but  the  unreal  sun  and  storm  and  tea  of  an 
unreal  scene,  set  to  accompany  a  movement  of 
puppets  whose  wiles  we  discern. 


Mr-  Baring- Gould's  Ceurl  Reyal  has  the  merit 
not  being  in  the  stereotyped  vein  of  the  aver- 
age British  fiction- monger-  It  is  written  in  a 
spirited  style,  and  its  rampant  sensationalism  is 
■  debasing  or  vulgar-  The  scene  la  in  Eng- 
land, but  might  have  been  in  any  other  part  of 
the  world  as  far  as  any  fidelity  to  local  characters 
concerned.  The  characters  are  pretty  much 
all  frankly  impossible.  The  heroine  is  pawned 
nhen  a  mere  child  to  a  Jew  pawnbroker,  is  kept 
n  poverty,  fed  on  scraps  of  food,  has  no  educa- 
:ion,but  grows  up  to  be  a  beautiful  young  woman 
of  quite  remarkable  mental  qualities,  and  a  com- 
mand of  language  that,  cuiisidetiiig  her  training, 
little  less  than  miraculous.  The  fortunes,  or 
rather  misfortunes,  of  a  ducal  family  serve  as 
backgroimd  for  the  story.    In  the  final  scene  the 


Jew's  ward  is  hottets  of  the  ducal  residence,  she 
having  married  tbe  son  of  a  rich  tradesman  who 
has  become  the  owner  of  Court  Royal.  This,  of 
course,  is  not  fiction  of  a  very  elevating  order, 
but  the  author  has  avoided  the  current  inanities 
of  bis  class,  and  (or  that  reason  ought  to  receive 
the  thanks  of  the  omniverous  novel  reader. 

Vielttta,  After  the  (Serman  of  Ursula  Zoge 
von  Manteuffel.  Ity  Mtk.  A.  L.  Witter.  [J.  B. 
Lippincott  Co.    f  1.25.] 

We  have  found  the  reading  of  this  novel  more 
an  effort  than  that  of  some  other  of  Mrs.  Witter's 
translationa  or  adaptations  from  the  German  — 
Streckfuss's  Quicksands,  for  example,  which  we 
so  vividly  remember.  Still  it  is  not  without 
variety  and  vivacity,  and  represents  the  average 
grade  of  Teutonic  fiction,  which  in  structure 
shows  careful  organization,  but  in  movement  it 
a  trifle  slow.  The  center-piece  in  this  story  is  an 
opera  artist,  Beatrice  Fouquet,  with  her  child 
daughter.  The  Baron  Treflcnbach,  a  widower 
of  a  few  months,  falls  a  prey  to  the  fascinations 
of  the  mother  and  marries  her,  and  his  son  Mag- 
nus, meantime  jilted  by  the  icily  conscientious 
Marie  Louise  of  Ravenhorst,  finds  his  consola- 
tion in  the  daughter,  Violelta.  Around  these 
principal  figures  are  grouped  the  nobility,  officers 
of  the  army,  a  Ilerr  pastor,  and  others.  The 
strongest  character  Is  Marie  Louise,  and  she  is 
also  the  most  disagreeable.  She  has  no  blood. 
There  is  a  fine  and  loveable  mare  in  the  book, 
Montrdsor,  pleasant  rural  scenery,  plenty  ol 
high  German  life,  and  glimpses  of  Como  and 
Italy,  and  through  its  pages  one  may  make 
reputable  acquaintance  with  types  and  forms 
of  present  society  under  the  Emperor  William 
which  are  not  without  interesL 

Aunt  Rathrl.  By  J.  D.  Christie  Murray. 
[Macmillan  &  Co-    %\.<Xi.\ 

The  risks  run  by  lovers  in  carrying  on  a 
correspondence  by  means  of  notes  pinned  to 
the  leaves  of  a  music-book  are  ingeniously  and 
quaintly  portrayed  by  Mt.  Murray  in  this  llitle 
,  which  has  freshness,  tenderness,  anil 
homely  simplicity  ail  in  one.  Mr-  Murray  has 
almost  Mr.  Thomas  Hardy's  eye  for  the  pict- 
uresque in  character  and  almost  his  ear  for  tbe 
in  dialect,  and  his  pages  smell  of  the  soil 
of  Old  England.  In  this  story  tbe  same  muuic- 
book  wluch  is  made  to  play  a  part  in  bringing 
pair  of  lovers  together,  also  and  most  un- 
happily serves  to  keep  another  pair  asunder. 
We  do  not  think  there  are  many  Uncle  Ezras  and 
Aunt  Rachels  who  would  have  been  separated 
and  have  kept  separated  so  long  through  sucli 

mischance  as  this ;  but  the  event  seems  nat- 
ural enough  in  their  case,  so  naturally  and 
simply  Is  it  related  by  Mr.  Murray,  The  scene 
which  the  miscarriage  of  the  note  is  dis- 
covered and  revealed,  and  in  which  Aunt  Rachel 
and  her  old  lover  meet  after  the  long  years 
which  have  been  shadowed  by  their  misunder- 
standing. It  really  touching.  The  eicellent 
print  and  pretty  Wndirg  of  this  book  will 
recommend  it  to  many  readers,  not  one  of  whom 
will  be  disappointed  In  its  interior. 

Htr  Otoit  Deiiig.  By  W-  E.  Norris.  [Har- 
per &  Brothers.    Paper,  t^c] 

We  welcome  a  new  story,  even  though  only 
short  one,  by  a  writer  wliom  we  may  fairly 
rm  one  of  the   most  accomplished   novelinis 


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[July  24, 


ol  ike  pr«tent  daj.  Mr.  Norrit  U  more  than 
all  elte  ■  fiitbful  depicter  of  humanitj,  t 
tee  it  aboDt  al  everywhere  (  with  fewer  words 
than  Trollope  and  ThackeraT,  with  whom  he 
has  been  compared,  he  hat  ail  the  former's  ex- 
actness of  detail  and  perfect  naloialnets.  This 
■torj  it  timplci  in  plot  than  Mr.  Norris't  longer 
novels.  With  its  scene  laid  in  a  French  sum- 
mer resort,  the  narrative  chronicles  the  unmask- 
ing of  a  gentleman  of  agreeable  presence  but 
of  unknown,  and  as  later  appeared,  bad  record, 
who  WM  about  to  secure  a  rich  English  heirest. 
Bat  so  able  and  adroit  waa  this  cAttia/ier 
tTindialrie,  as  one  of  the  characters  terms  him, 
that  several  vain  attempts  were  made,  ending 
In  the  great  discomGiure  af  their  makers,  before 
the  exposure  could  be  accomplished-  In  this, 
at  in  other  stories  by  this  author,  the  chann 
lies  rather  in  the  brilliant  execution  than  ii 
plot.  


OUBSEVT  IJTE£ATUBE. 

Paper-covered  noveh  abound,  at  becomes  the 
season.  Mere  is  Boiagobey's  involved  and  exc 
ing,  not  to  say  sensadonal,  Matapan  Affa 
[Rand,  McNally  &  Co.  35c.],  in  ruinouslj  fine 
type  for  eyes  that  read  on  the  road ;  here  arc 
three  more  numbers,  14,  15,  and  16,  of  the  "Col- 
lection Schick"  [Chicago,  30c.  each]  of  short 
German  stodes;  Nos.  i  and  3  of  a  new  "Hu- 
morittiche  Bibliothek,"  from  the  same  publishers 
L.  Schick,  of  Chicago ;  ten  short  Tidis  of  Ei 
trie  Lift,  (be  joint  work  of  Dr.  W.  A.  Hammond 
and  Clara  Lania  [Applcton,  25c.] ;  Mr.  Bartlett'i 
Cammerciitl  Trip  vrilA  an  Uncemmtrcial  Ending 
[Rand,  ^sc];  Robert  Buchanan's  dramatic 
Master  of  thi  Mint  [Rand,  25^] ;  and  in  the 
Rivenide  Scries,  Aidrich's  pretty  Fnultrut  Pal- 
frty,  and  Marian  Reeves's  and  Emily  Read's 
Pilot  Fortunt  [Houghton,  each  50C.],  Charles 
Kingtiey'a  Allan  Locii  can  be  had  in  Harper'i 
Handy  Series;  also  D.  Christie  Mnrray's  Cynii 
Fortunt,  Mrs.  Oliphant's  E_^i  Ogilvit,  and  John 
Strai^e  Winter's  Pluik,  each  15c 

The  latest  additions  to  Cassell's  National 
Library  are  Edmund  Burke's  Thaughti  on  th 
Prctent  Diiconttnlx,  and  Spftchtt,  which  are  we 
worth  re-reading  for  their  bearing  on  18S6 
Swift's  fanciful  and  amusing  Bailie  of  the  Baaki 
with  some  other  short  pieces  in  prose  and  verse 
four  of  Crabbe't  Poemt,  "  The  Village,"  "The 
Library,"  "  The  Newspaper,"  and  "The  Parish 
Register;"  and  the  accounts  of  Egypt  and 
Scylkia  as  given  by  Herodoltis  [each  Z5C.]. 

A  second  volume  of  Mr.  John  Horley's  Miial- 
litmei,  in  the  new  and  complete  Globe  Edition  of 
his  works,  contains  essays  on  "  Vauvenargues,'" 
a  Patisian  philosopher  of  Voltaire's  time;  on 
Turgor ;  on  Condorcet ;  and  on  De  Maistiei 
whom  Mr.  Motley  places  as  the  best  type  oE  the 
Roman  Catholic  reaction  in  France  at  the  begin- 
ning of  the  present  century.  A  third  volume  of 
these  Misitllanits  is  to  come.  Then  Mr.  Mor- 
ley's  works  will  be  complete  in  nine  volumes. 
[Macmillan.    ti.50.] 

Miss  Le  Row's  hand-book  of  PraiHcal  Ricila- 
lieni  it  more  substantially  and  attractively  ptioied 
than  most  similar  collections,  and  its  content*  are 
excellent.  They  bear  out  well  her  editorial  pur- 
pose, namely,  to  secure  "  brevity,  simplicity,  good , 
sense,  and  sound  morality."  The  best  Englith 
and  American  writers,  inclnding  a  large  propor- 
tion of  the  living,  are  represented,  and  the  selec<  | 


lions  are  suitably  classified  and  indexed.  [New 
York  ;  Clark  &  Maynard.    90c.] 

Volame  V  in  the  series  of  ■■  German  daisies 
for  American  Students "  consists  of  selectii 
from  Schiller's  Utitri  (Brfefe)  to  Goethe  and 
others,  edited  with  notes  and  an  introduction  by 
Pauline  Buckhcim  of  London.  The  introduciior 
gives  accounts  of  the  correspondents,  and  sets 
the  letteri  in  their  proper  framework.  [G.  P. 
Putnam's  Sons,    |i.oo.] 

Tki  Wisdom  and  Etoqutnci  of  Daniil  Webs, 
Is  the  title  of  a  small  and  cheaply  piloted  volui 
of  extracts  from  Webster's  speeches,  edited  by 
Callie  L.  Bonncy.  There  is  a  sketch  of  Webster, 
an  index,  and  in  effect  a  table  of  contents,  but 
none  such  in  due  and  proper  form.  [John  B. 
Alden.    7Sc.] 

Mr.  Wm.  T.  Ross's  Vaict  Odture  and  Elocu- 
tion is  a  San  Francisco  teacher's  manual,  contain- 
big  exercises  in  vocal  calisthenics  and  gesture, 
explanations  of  the  organs  of  speech,  simple 
directions  for  the  use  of  the  voice  in  speaking 
and  singing,  a  systematjzation  of  the  elements  of 
speech,  and  a  collection  of  exercises  for  pra 
The  work  embodies  the  experience  of  twenty-five 
years,  and  cctiainly  has  good  points.  The 
physics  of  elocution  are  especially  well  e 
pounded.    [Fayot,  Upham  &  Co.] 

Rev.  Dr.  J.  H.  Vincent  has  written  out  a  hi 
toty  of  Thi  Chautauqua  Maoement,  which  begi 
In  a  Sonday-school  assembly  at  Fair  Point, 
N.  Y.,  in  1873,  and  has  widened  out  into  a 
unique  institution  which  certainly  has  had  a  pro- 
found and  far-reaching  influence  In  stimulating 
and  directing  popular  interest  in  reading  and 
study.  Besides  the  genetal  sketch,  the  work  of 
each  year  is  noted  in  detail.  The  prejudii 
against  Chautauqua  which  exists  in  some  qua 
ters  we  do  not  shsre.  We  are  glad  to  have  tt 
people  get  all  the  good  they  can  in  all  the  wa] 
ihcy  can.  At  a  sort  of  carpet-bag  universi^, 
Chaataucjua  it  not  to  be  depised,  and  has  done 
a  large  and  creditable  work,  as  this  book  amply 
testifies.     [Boston:  Chautauqua  Press.       {1.50.] 

Sir  John  \.\M<xx.V!i  Flnvers,  Fruits,  and  Zjave: 
a  new  volume  of  the  "  Nature  Series,"  contain 
a  chapter  on  Rower*  from  Sir  John  Lubbock' 
Scientific  Lectures,  and  two  later  scientific  dis- 
courses. They  do  not  pretend  to  be  exhaustivi 
nor  is  their  author  possessed  of  the  genius  fa 
popular  lecturing  of  a  Tyndall  or  a  Huxley  ;  but 
he  selects  for  exposition  the  more  curious 
nomena  of  the  vegetable  world,  as  those  oE  c 
fertilization  and  seed-distribution, and  has  talked 
of  them  in  a  simple,  direct  way,  which  coi: 

great  deal  of  information  in  a  few  pages.  The 
book  is  an  addition  to  the  best  popular  science. 
[Macmillan  &  Co.    (1.^5.] 


TABLE   TALE. 


.  Miss  Amanda  M.  Douglas,  author  of 
In  Trust,  Claudia,  From  Hand  to  Mouth,  and 
other  popular  novela,  lives  in  Belleville,  N.  J. 
Her  home  is  i  lovely  villa,  surrounded  by  three 
oE  highly  cultivated  ground,  in  which 
flowers,  fruits,  and  vegetables  in  abundance  are 
ised.  Many  of  the  scenes  in  Miss  Douglas's 
books  are  taken  fiom  her  own  experience.  In 
her  childhood  she  lived  at  Fordham,  N.  Y.,  at 
the  time  when  Eldgar  A.  Poe  occupied  a  cottage 
there.  She  frequently  saw  (he  poet,  and  as  a 
child,  was  attracted  by  his  large,  luminous  eyes, 
and  broad,  white  forehead.     He    talked  little. 


never  laughed,  and  seemed  bowed  down  by  an 
unspeakable  melancholy.  He  had  a  very  fine 
library,  and  gave  Miss  Douglas  access  to  it  at 
all  times  except  when  he  was  engaged  in  literary 
work.  Miss  Douglas  writes  usually  In  the  morn- 
ing, from  nine  to  twelve,  but  when  busy  with 
a  manuscript  which  must  be  finished  by  a  certain 
time,  she  works  day  and  night.  This  is  the 
case  at  present.  She  is  now  at  work  upon  a  ' 
novel  which  Lee  &  Shepard  will  publish  next 
autumn.  When  Fatigued  with  literary  composi- 
tion, she  throws  down  he)-  pen  and  takes  up  her 
garden  tools,  and  goes  to  work  trimming  her 
vines,  culling  her  flowers,  and  picking  fruit  and 
vegetables.  She  is  well  up  in  the  literature  of 
the  day,  and  knows  personally  Kdmund  C.  Sled- 
man,  Wm.  F.  Gill,  and  other  authors  and  pub- 
lishers. Hiss  Douglas  is  a  tittle  below  the 
medium  bight,  with  blown  hair  and  eye*.  She 
talks  very  fluently  and  has  decided  opinions  on 
the  authors  of  the  day.  She  has  done  very  Utile 
work  for  magaiincs  and  newspapers,  and  lament* 
the  general  want  of  literary  culture  displayed 
in  the  leading  American  dallies.  She  sold  the 
copyright  of  In  Trust,  her  lirst  work,  and 
thereby  lost  the  advantage  of  (be  sale  of  twenty 
thousand  copies  which  the  book  had.  Taught 
a  lesson  by  this  experience,  she  now  holds  the 
copyright  of  all  her  other  books. 

.  .  .  Donald  G.  Mitchell  ^nd  Willis  B.  Allen 
have  returned,  (he  former  to  "  Edgewood,"  near 
New  Haven,  Conn.,  the  latter  to  Boston,  from  . 
trips  to  Maine ;  Thomas  Bailey  Aldrich  and  Dr. 
Noah  Porter  have  gone  to  Europe;  Miss  Char- 
lotte Fiake  Bates  went  to  Enon,  O.,  the  last 
of  June,  and  proposes  to  spend  the  summer 
there ;  Mist  Caroline  B.  Le  Row  has  gone  to 
Noyes  Beach,  Rhode  Island,  fur  the  season ; 
Mrs.  M.  F.  Butts  is  at  Paskack,  N.  J.,  engaged 
with  Miss  Helen  I.  Williams,  the  artist,  In  the 
preparation  of  a  bonk  of  original  verse  for  chil- 
dren ;  Mrs.  Louisa  Parsons  Hopkins  Is  Slopping 
at  Sherman,  Maine;  she  has  three  books  in 
hand,  but  it  able  (o  (ake  a  rural  breath  now  and 
then;  Mist  Martha  Finley,  author  of  the  "Elsie 
Books,"  hat  returned  from  her  seashore  ouiing 
to  Elkton,  Md.,  where  she  is  pushing  her  work, 
which  embraces  proof-reading  on  the  twelfth  of 
that  series,  Elsit's  Kith  and  Kin,  and  TTie 
Thorn  in  the  Ntst  (a  novel),  and  (he  writing  of 
Mildred's  Boys  and  Girls,  (o  be  finished  in  a 
k  or  two. 

.  Dr.  Thomas  Dunn  English  has  completed 
novels  which  he  intends  10  revise  for  publi- 
caiiun  shortly,  and  it  gradually  writing  a  Lift  of 
Oliver  Crommell  and  Commentnriet  on  the  Con- 
stitution of  the  United  States,  with  a  Consideration 
of  thi  Rilativi  Sights  and  Pmvtrs  of  the  Federal 
and  Statt  Governments.  It  is  getting  to  be  un- 
derstood ihal  Dr.  English  wrote  Jaeeh  Sehuyler's 
Millions. 

- .  Mr.   Hiram   Hoyt  Richmond,   author    of 
Montesuma,  is  preparing   a  mock-heroic  on  the 
of  the  Inca  race,  to  be  accompanied  by 
miscellaneous  poems. 

Mrs.  A.  G.  Paddock  has  in  hand  a  realistic 
serial  descriptive  of  the  experiences  of  early 
prospectors  in  the  new  Northwest,  enililed  "The 
Lost  Gold  Wedge,"  and  a  novel  intended  as  a 
thunder-bolt  for  the  Mormond,  called  The  Out- 
of  the  Great  Basin.  Mrs.  Paddock  Is  a 
housekeeper  and  a  mother,  and  writes  in  such  ^ 


leisure  as  home  duties  afford. 


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. . .  Mr.  John  D.  Champlin,  Jr.,  whose  cyclo- 
paedia work  for  young  people  ia  well  known,  has 
prepared  an  account  of  a  coaching  trip  through 
Southern  England  in  company  with  Matthew 
Arnold,  William  Black,  Andrew  Carnegie,  and 
others,  which  will  appear  in  a  volume  in   Sep- 

. .  .  Mrs.  Kale  Brownlee  Sherwood  ii  thua 
detctlbed  by  a  Toledo  pen-driver ;  "  She  it  a 
tboroogh  journalist,  alive,  liecn,  and  possessed 
of  marlted  ability.  She  has  done  the  chief  part 
of  the  editorial  work  on  her  husband's  paper, 
the  Toledo  Sunday  yourtial,  for  I  don't  know 
how  many  years.  She  is  bright,  bold,  setf- 
asicrttng,  and  lelf-relianL"  Those  who  have 
read  her  Camp-fiu,  Memcrial  Day,  and  Other 
Poems,  will  not  need  [o  be  told  of  her  power 
as  a  writer  o(  verae  touching  the  war. 

.  . .  Edward  ^gleston  has  completed  a  new 
novel,  but  has  not  decided  upon  its  title;  he  is 
now  busy  with  his  History  0/  Life  in  the  Thirteen 
Engliik  Amiritan  Culaniei,  at  Dunliam's  Bay, 
Lake  George. 

.  .  ,  Orin  S.  Baldwin,  who  made  Baldviin'i 
Monthly  known  everywhere  as  an  entertaining 
periodical  ol  a  grade  between  the  best  and  the 
poorest  magazines,  lies  very  low  with  a  dyspeptic 
and  cancerous  complication  at  his  home  in  Brook- 
lyn, N.  Y.  He  is  greatly  emaciated,  and,  it  is 
said,  suffers  acutely.  Few  editors  have  been  so 
friendly  with  their  contributors  as  Mr.  Baldwin 
baa  been  with  his,  and  few,  consequently,  have 
the  hearty  sympathy  of  so  large  a  number  as  he. 
The  Monthly,  which  was  his  pet  enterprise, 
ceased  to  appear  with  the  June  issue. 

.  . .  The  convention  of  wriiers  of  the  Wabash 
valley  and  vicinity,  held  in  Indianapolis  Jane  30 
and  July  I,  was  attended  by  about  sixty  authors, 
and  was  successful  in  attaining  its  object.  An 
organization  was  formed  with  the  name  of  the 
Western  Literary  Association,  of  which  Maurice 
Thompson  was  elected  President  and  Mrs.  M. 
Louise  Andrews  Secretary.  This  organiiation 
will  meet  in  the  same  place  October  5,  for  the 
purpose  of  adopting  a  constitution  and  by-lai 
The  leading  members  are  James  Whitcomb  Kilcy, 
Mis.  Emily  Thornton  Chailes,  Mrs.  Mary  Hart- 
well  CatherwDod,  Mrs.  Sarah  K.  Bolton,  and 
Miss  Mamie  H.  Paden. 


K0TE8  AND  QUERIES. 

timunieUionB  lor  Ihis  dcpHrtmenL  of  t 
asd  addieu  of  lh« 


d  IhiH  wbidi 
ukt  precedei 


785.  Remarkable  Trials.  Can  you  or  any 
of  your  readers  give  information  of  a  work  pub- 
lished, 1  think,  in  Scotland,  and  in  two  volumes, 
containing  accounts  of  some  remarkable  dials, 
and  among  them  that  of  Loid  Strange,  a  Jacobite, 
who  confined  his  wife  lor  many  years  in  one  of 
the  Hebrides  P  The  title  of  the  book  I  have  for- 
gotten. It  was  sold  at  auction  here  many  years 
ago.  H.  c.  « 

Nev,  York,  N.  Y. 

Benian'i     RimtrlUilt     Triati    [Ramltdde],    yon 
Ar»w  Trialt\\A\\\t,  B.  &  Co-I.  ind  DuSt  aiid  Ci 
ninin'i  RtmmrkaiU  Triali  Q/aUCmmtrialVtfi&VJl 
nuT  mecl  Ihc  <nal,  though  neither  uidly  luwe 

786.  Pagin.    Could  yon  inform  me  where  I 


can  obtain  a  good  review,  or  article,  on  Fagin, 
the  Jew  in  Olivir  Twin?  a.  a. 

Obtrlin,  O. 

787.  Oautier'B  Constantijiople  is  translated 
by  M.  M.  Ripley,  and  published  by  Holt  &  Co. 
This  in  answer  to  F.  S.  C,  Monroe,  Mich.    To 

le  same  inquirer  we  would  add  :  say  ^infir-win. 

7B8.     The    Five   P's.    Can  you  inform  me 

here  I  will  be  able  lo  find  a  poem  entitled  "The 
Five  P's,"  by  William  Oiberry  ?  J.  W.  F. 

llarrisburgh.  Pa. 

789.  Quotatlooa  Wanted. 
(a.)  I  never  shall  see  Carcaason. 

(#.)  And  death  mistook  his  virtues  for  his  years. 

790,  Political  2conomy.  Name  half  a 
dozen  books  on  political  economy  or  sociology 
which  will  help  one  interested  in  the  labor  ques- 

)n  to  understand  both  its  rights  and  its  wrongs. 
Ballimere,  Md.  K.  M.  h'l. 

Wilkn'i  Ptiitital  Sctaonv.  [Holt.]  Lioshlin'i  cdi- 
in  of  J.  S,  M<1!'i  ^^irica/£'cm#ii^.  [AppleloD.]  New. 
mVt  PriticifU,  1/ Fi^ilical  Ecofumr-  [Hirpen.]  Li. 
nXcjetSsciatitmo/TnUij.    [Field  &  Tucr.] 

[.     The    Questions    of     Zapata.     Who 
wrote,  who  published,  and  where,  a  little  pam' 
phlel  called  The  Quetlioni  0/  Zapaiaf 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  F.  B.  s. 

7ga.  The  Count  de  Paris'*  History.  Will 
you  kindly  inform  me  if  the  Count  de  Paris's 
Hillary  eflkt  Civil  War  in  America  has  been 
finished  and  translated  into  English? 

RoMaad.  Ml.  B.  A.  B. 

Three  rolomei  of  ihii  work  have  now  been  publlthed  by 
Porlei  &  Coaiei  of  Philadelphia,  and  Ihey  have  pari  of  the 
fotinh  in  preparation.  The  following  letter  wu  mxnllr 
reccivHl  from  the  Count,  and  appeared  in  the  PAUaJilfUa 


To  Porter  ft  Coaten,  Philadelphia : 

-'its 


Jt  be  deprived  oi  the  uie  of 


loine  ahouid  appear  of  a  veri  eicepliaiial 
the  Uttmtiri  B/CtntTal  Grant.  The  pc 
me,  uoConanately,  little  time  id  devote  u 


Robert 


TH£  FEEIODIOALS. 


ins  discusses  "  The  Indian  Qi 
in  the  Atlantic  lot  August  with 

manifest  knowledge.  As  a  remedy  for  the  c 
leas  raids  of  the  murderous  Apaches  Mr.  Evans 
favors  a  special  Indian  code  ;  and  to  civilize  the 
peaceable  Indians  he  argues  that  they  should 
have  land  in  severalty  and  be  encouraged 
support  themselves  aa  independent  farmers.  All 
this  is  just,  but  when  Mr.  Evans  pleads  for  the 
lex  lalionis  in  warfare  with  (he  Indians  he  goes 
beyond  the  mark.  David  Dodge  writes  in  an 
entertaining  way  of  the  primitive  conditions 
which  governed  ''  Domestic  Economy  in  the  Con- 
federacy." There  U  a  pleasantly  suggestive, 
although  by  no  means  profound,  article  on  "  In- 
dividual Continuity,"  by  Andrew  Iledbrooke. 
Miss  Jewett'a"The  Two  Browns"  holds  forth 
promises.  And  Octave  Thanei's  "  Sin  Vi: 
of  St.  Augnstint  "  are  exceedingly  clever. 


VEWa  AVD  SOTEB. 

Cupplee,  Upham  &  Co.  will  pablith  A 
Record  of  Servicet  in  the  Army  and  Navy  of  the 
United  Stales,  by  graduates  of  Harvard  Univer- 
sity, edited  by  Ftancia  H.  Brown,  M.D. 

Mrs.  Annie  Sawyer  Downs  of  Andover, 
Mass.,  is  ready  for  the  platform  with  a  new  and 
illustrated  lecture  on  "  Childhood  in  Art." 

T.  Y.  Crowcll  &  Co.  have  in  press  for 
immediate  publication  Tlie  Great  Mailiri  tf  Rut- 
\n  Literature  In  the  XIX  Century,  by  Ernest 
Dupuy,  translated  by  Nathan  Haskell  Dole, 
an  appendix  giving  extracts,  critical  and 
biographical  notes,  and  portraits  of  the  authora 
mentioned. 

—  The  Concord  School  of  Philosophy  has 
made  a  strong  beginning  of  its  sessions  for  1S86, 
with  a  symposium  on  Dante,  in  which  Dr.  Har- 
ris and  Dr.  Bartol  have  been  leading  speakers. 

—  We  are  glad  to  announce  as  being  in  press, 
by  D.  C.  Heath  &  Co.,  An  Introduction  to  tht 
Study  of  Robert  Browning's  Poetry,  by  Professor 
Hiram  Carson  of  Cornell  University. 

—  Houghton,  Mifiiin  &  Co.  have  in  press  a 
Dielionary  of  Boston,  by  Edwin  M.  Bacon;  Not 
in  the  Prospectus,  I.  novel  by  Parke  Danforth; 
and  have  become  publiahets  of  The  Church  Re- 
view, which  has  been  changed  from  a  quarterly 
to  a  monthly. 

—  TicknoT  &  Co.  have  in  preparation  an  in- 
teresting literary  Ifprk,  a  novel  of  Japanese  life, 
by  Louts  Werthediber,  the  well-known  connois- 
seur of  oriental  art.  Mr.  WerChembcr,  an  Aus- 
trian by  birth,  and  belonging  to  a  Viennese 
family  of  cultivation,  was  for  a  lime  on  the 
editorial  staff  of  the  ya/mn  Mail,  and  accompa- 
nied FroL  Morse,  Mr.  Edward  House,  and  other 
students  of  repute  in  their  recent  travels  through 
the  land  of  the  rising  sun.  His  story,  which  is  to 
be  called  A  Muramasa  Blade,  is  to  have  namer. 
ous  illustrations  reproduced  from  drawings  by 
Japanese  artists  now  resident  in  this  country. 

—  The  publishers  of  Mr.  Hardy's  Wind  of 
Destiny  announce  a  seventh  edition  of  that  ad- 
mirable novel. 

—  A  new  story  by  Miss  Louisa  M.  Alcott  — 
Jo's  Boys  and  How  they  Turned  Out,  a  sequel  to 
Little  Men  —  will  t>e  issued  by  Roberts  Brothers 
early  in  October  in  a  first  edition  of  twenty 
thousand  copies.  Of  Little  Men  the  sales  have 
reached  an  aggregate  of  89,000  copies. 

—  Among  forthcoming  books  from  Roberta 
Brothers  we  note  a  limited  edition  of  Rosselti's 
Dante  and  hit  Circle,  revised  and  rearranged  in 
accordance  with  the  author's  latest  corrections. 

—  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.  have  in  view  a 
"Pocket  Series"  of  books,  including,  to  begin 
with.  Miss  Jewett's  Deephaven,  and  Hawthorne's 
T-J)ice-Tfld  Tales.  There  will  be  ten  volumes 
in  the  series. 

—  Prof.  R.  B.  Andersen's  translation  of  Dr. 
Geotg  Brandea's  Eminent  Authors  of  the  Nine- 
teentk  Century,  which  T.  Y.  Ctoweil  &  Co.  are 
to  publish,  will  contain  portraits  of  the  authors 
reviewed  —  Heyse,  H.  C,  Andersen,  Stuart  Mill, 
Renan,  Tegn^r,  Flaubert,  Paludanmiiller,  Bjorti- 
son  and  Henrik  Ibsen  —  and  also  of  Di.  Brandcs 
himself.  The  same  publishers  have  nearly  ready 
Great  Masters  of  Russian  Literature,  trans- 
lated from  the  French  of  M.  Dupuy  by  N.  H. 
Dole,  who  has  added  much  valuable  material  in 
an  apjiendix  nearly  equal  in  bulk  lo  the  original 
work.    The  volume  will  contain  portraits.    This 


as6 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


[July  24,  1886.] 


houM  will  also  lUue  TTte  Ckriitmai  Country  and 
Olkir  TaUi,  tranilated  by  Haiy  J.  Safford,  from 
Danish  and  German  lources,  with  lllost ration! 
by  Charles  Copeland. 

—  Meun.  Crowell  are  preparing  for  the  com' 
iog  season  several  editions  of  the  English  and 
Anetican     poets,    which    command    attenlii 
First,  there  is  the  "  Library  Edition,"  printed 
laid   paper,   edges   uncut,  gilt   top,  simply  and 
tastefully  bouitd  in  lub;  cloth.    Then  there  is 
edition  of  the  "  Red-Une  Poets,"  in  seal  Russia, 
a  twiefol,  even  rich,  bat  inexpensive  Undiag. 
Finally,  there  is  the  "Samboo  Edition  "of  the 
"Red-Une   Poets,"  in  which  some  very   novel 
effects  are  brought  out,  the  leather  corera  being 
stamped  to   represent  a  case   of  bamboo,  with 
ornamenlal  oak  panels,  in  four  diSerent  designs. 
Each  of  these  edition*  is  planned  with  skill  snd 
consistently  meets  the   end  for 
designed. 

—  Houghton,  Mifflin  h  Co.,  whose  catalogues 
are  designed  with  quite  unusual  taste,  have  issued 
An  Hmr'i  RecreoHon  in  Stadtng,  a  little 
phlet  in  the  sixteenth  century  man 
ing  their  publications  in  well-chosen,  classified 
lists. 

—  Messrs.  Frederick  Warne  &  Co.  wilt 
in  the  fall,  uniform  with  their  Chandoe  Edition  of 
Knigket  Half-Hours,  an  entirely  new  edition 
six  volumes   of  the  Hiiti/ry  ef  the    War   in  the 
Ptnhinila  and  in  ikt  South  of  Frana/rom  tSoj 
to  1814,  by  Major-General  ^ft  W.  F.  P.  Napi 
K.  C.  It.,  with  fifty-five  steel  maE>s  and  plana. 

—  The  next  volume  of  the  Library  Edition  of 
the  Chandos  classics  will  be  the  SAdA  NAmih  of 
the  Persian  poet  Fitdansi,  carefully  revised  by 
Rev.  J,  A.  Atldnson,  M.A.,  the  son  of  the  origi' 
nal  translator.  This  cheap  and  well'printed  vol- 
ume will  no  doubt  be  acceptable  to  slodents  of 
oriental  literature. 

—  There  is  a  revival  of  the  New  York 
that  Charles  Scribner's  Sons  are  to  start  this  fall 
a  new  magazine  under  the  old  name  of  Stribmr' 
Monthly,  to  be  edited  by  Mr.  Burlii^ame,  lon| 
connected  with  their  house. 

—  MacmilUn  &  Co.  are  preparing  a  new  am 
elaborate  classified  and  indexed  catalogue  o 
their  publications.  It  will  make  a  volume  of  no 
less  than  t<;o  pages.  It  should  be  interleaved 
and  bound  up  with  stubs,  scrap-book  fashion, 
so  as  to  allow  of  insertions  of  subsequent  titles. 

—  Some  further  interesting  particulars  arc 
before  us  of  the  purpose  and  scope  of  the  Art  and 
Industry  Report  of  the  Bureau  of  Education, 
lately  noticed  in  these  columns.  Ail  the  publica' 
tions  of  this  Bureau  are  designed  for  educators  as 
specialists,  and  are  not  sent  out  to  the  public  in- 
discriminately. They  are,  properly  speaking, 
sUtistieal  monographs,  and  nobody  can  question 
their  value  to  the  atudenls  of  the  science  of  edu- 
cation. From  20,000  til  30,000  such  readers  are 
reguUrly  reached  by  these  reports,  which  seem 
so  ponderous  to  the  average  mind,  and  there  is 
reason  to  feel  assured  of  their  usefulness  and  im- 
portance within  their  sphere.  The  Bureau  of 
Education  was  created  at  the  request  of  State 
Superinleudenu  of  Education,  and  its  steady 
continuance  and  work  are  proofs  of  its  being 
needed.  An  encyclopsedia  on  its  subject  is  just 
what  this  Art  Report  proposes  to  be,  and  the  "his- 
tory of  the  various  public  art  institutions  from 
their  inception  is  believed  to  be  as  authentic  as 
untiring  research  could  make  it.  The  work  was 
begtm  in   1873,  and  *o  rapidly  has  this  subject 


developed  in  the  past  ten  years,  that  the  singli 
volume  originally  proposed  for  the  treatment  of 
it  has  been  necessarily  expanded  into  four, 
other  three  volumes  are  now  in  MS,  awaiting 
onlj  to  be  brought  down  to  the  date  of  going 
press.  Part  H  was  all  ready  when  Part  1  went 
to  the  printer  in  1S84.  The  whole  labor  of  this 
Report  has  been  done,  with  a  single  clerical 
assistant,  ty  the  editor,  Mr.  J.  Edwards  Clarke. 

—  D.  AppletoB  &  Co.  have  in  press  Sitidiii  in 
ModtTH  Sociaiiim  and  Labor  Frebiems,  by  Rev. 
Dr.  T.  E.  Brown  of  Providence,  R.  I.,  originally 
a  course  of  Sunday  evening  lectures;  an  Ameri- 
can translation  of  Pepiia  Ximena,  a  Spanish 
novel  by  Don  Juan  Valera,  which  has  already 
been  translated  into  four  languages  of  Continen. 
tal  Europe  ;  A  Politician'!  Daughter,  a  novel  by 
Myra  Sawyer  Hamlin,  a  lady  well  known  in 
Washington  circles  ;  and  a  monograph  on  The 
TVneSpiei,  Andr^  and  Hale,  by  Benson  J.  Loosing. 

—  The  Graphic  Niws  ai  Cincinnati,  in  iu 
issue  of  July  17,  published  a  portrait  of  Bill  Nye, 
the  humorist,  and  ■  sketch  of  James  W.  Riley, 
the  "  Hoosier  Poet." 

—  We  learn  from  Ih*  Cincinnati  Coptmercial- 
Gaiette  that  a  collection  of  the  poems  of  the  late 
F.  B.  Plimpton  is  soon  to  be  published  by  his 
widow.  Mr.  Plimpton  was  a  laborious  journalist 
who  (oiuid  occasionally  time  and  motive  for  thi 
expression  of  thoughu  in  verse.  The  book  will 
contain  his  portrait,  an  introduction  by  Murat 
Halslead,  and  other  memoiial  tributes,  and  sub- 
scriptions are  invited  at  f  i.jo  a  copy. 

—  The  Porui  and  Stream  Co.  of  New  York 
will  shortly  publish  Our  JVevi  Alatha,  by  Charles 
Halloch,  the  fruit  of  a  recent  eupcdition  to 
territory. 

—  J.  J.  Chapman  of  Washington  will  issue 
about  August  15  the  Hon.  Edward  McPherson'i 
Handbeei  ef  PidiHcs  for  1SS6. 

—  Henry  Holt  &  Co.  are  about  to  commence 
a  new  "Leisuie  Season  Series"  of  populoi 
novels,  the  special  feature  of  which  will  be  thi 
binding,  a  new  invention  in  flexible  cloth.  It  i! 
to  be  icgietlcd  that  a  title  wa^  not  selected  with 
greater  distinctness  from  their  "leisure  1 
Series."  Miss  McClellsnd's  Oblivion  will  be  the 
first  to  appear. 

—  The  fifth  volume  of  California  in  Bancroft' 
lorks  will    be   issued  during  tfie  latter  part  of 

the  present  month  ;  the  terrible  loss  suSere 
the  author  in  the  fire  of  April  30  having  checked 
the  publication  of  his  works  only  temporarily. 
TTie  volume  referred  10  covers  the  period  of 
gold  discovery  in  1849,  ""^  will  be  of  very  great 
general  as  welt  as  local  intete^jt. 

Charles    H.   Kerr  &   Co.   oF    Chicago  an- 

ice  a  pamphlet  by  Rev.  Jenkins  Lloyd  Jones, 

entitled  iViat  it  it  to  be  a  Chriitiunl  which  is 

offered  as  a  statement  of   Unitarian  faith  and 

life. 


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lock.     John  T.  Doric.  OrcrllDd  M.,  Jol*. 

Worfiwioh,  TVh^  Bar,  Julf. 


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CONTENTS. 


igfigunliDn  ot  Cliril 

jrdi  00  Our  Lord'i  1 

The  L»bor  Probl™ 

—     -■■■■      enofPept 


Tl»  Fi 

GrmpHi  of  Tl 
Rkiht  Porriiv 
Mn.  Piilt'a  " 
Mr.  lUTinoiid' 
CiH.  CnwEon 

Edgir  Fvreetl' 


wk  of  Soni  ud  Storj  " 


Elc,  Elc,  Elc 


COHOORD  PHIUMOPH 


Shaebm „.     ,. 

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Suind  Ediiion  of  Mn.  Dair*  ■'  Whit  Wc  Rully 

Know  ■bow  Sluluiptan "        .        .       .        . 

NOTU  AHD  QUBBUS.      T93-J9*          .... 
Haws  AHD  MOTU 


IE£  AUEBI0A2T  SALMON  PISEEE- 
UAV.' 

THE  American  Salmon  Fisherman,  ac- 
cording to  Mr.  Henry  P.  Wells,  is  an 
Americaa  io  the  political  and  not  in  the 
geographical  sense,  and  therefore  a  resident 
of  the  United  State;,  ajid  not  of  the  Canadas 
or  the  Canadian  Provinces.  The  Canadas 
or  the  Canadian  Provinces,  however,  afiord 
bim  his  happy  hunting  ground.  Having 
studied  the  map  and  selected  his  river,  and 
negotiated  his  fishing  rights  for  ten  days 
or  twenty,  or  more,  as  the  length  of  his 
purse  and  the  amount  of  his  leisure  will 
allow  him  to  do,  he  proceeds  to  the  spot, 
equipped  with  a  good  salmon  rod  of  about 
15  ft.,  a  good  salmon  line  of  about  15a  yards, 
a  **gaS,"a  clever  and  capable  reel,  an  assort- 
ment of  flies,  an  outfit  of  warm  woolen 
clothing,  and  a  waler-proof  suit  Reaching 
his  destination  he  engages  his  birch  canoe 
stnd  bis  helping  Indian  or  Indians,  and  sets 
to  work.  Work  it  is,  if  at  the  same  time 
recreation.  Paddling  or  wading  along  the 
stream,  or  pursuing  its  bank,  he  practices  and 
acquires  the  difficult  fine  art  of  "casting  a 
fly,"  and  when  at  last  a  salmon  rises,  then 
the  battle  begins. 

Nothing  less  than  a  battle  is  the  conflict 
which  ensues  between  the  forty-pounder  in 
the  river  and  the  one-hundred-and-fiity- 
pounder  in  the  birch  or  on  the  shore,  with 
a  slender,  tapering,  bending  rod  and  a  thread- 
like   line    for    connecting  link ;    the    fish. 


•The  t 


wounded  and  infuriated,  determined  to  get 
away,  and  the  fisherman,  all  excitement, 
eqnall]'  determined  on  his  capture.  If  the 
conflict  were  brought  to  a  direct  issne, 
rod  and  line  would  hardly  stand  the  strain; 
strategy,  skill,  and  patience  are  to  win  this 
victory  if  it  be  won  at  all.  The  hour  or  two 
that  follow  tax  every  muscle  of  the  angler's 
body,  and  manjr  of  the  faculties  of  bis  mind. 
The  fish  darts,  and  dives,  and  splashes,  and 
the  angler  follows  up,  retreats,  and  lingers; 
as  the  victim  grows  weary  and  weak,  bis 
pursuer  grows  wary  and  watchful;  little  by 
little  the  siege  progresses,  until  at  last  the 
crisis  comes,  the  fish  is  gradnally  beaten  and 
drawn  within  reach  of  the  helper's  "gaff," 
the  "gaff  "is  adroitly  hooked  into  his  gilb 
or  his  flesh,  he  is  flung  into  the  birch  or  on 
the  bank,  and  a  few  dexterous  blows  on  the 
head,dispatch  him. 

Such  is  the  shell  of  the  not  of  salmon- 
fishing.  The  meat  must  be  tasted.  The 
books  call  it  sport  Sport  it  is,  doubtless, 
for  the  fisherman,  and  it  is  not  difficult  for 
the  imagination  to  enter  into  the  zest  with 
which  it  is  engaged  in.  Mr.  Welts  writes 
not  only  with  imagination  and  the  zest  of 
personal  experience,  but  with  humor;  and 
this  his  book  of  the  technics  and  the  tactics 
of  his  profession  is  not  only  instructive,  but 
entertaining,  provided  one's  sensibilities  are 
not  too  keen.  We  must  confess,  however, 
that  the  spectacle  of  beating  a  salmon's 
brains  out  with  a  club  is  not  an  agreeable 
one  even  to  think  of. 

Mr.  Wells  maps  the  salmon-fishing  ground, 
which  comprises  parts  of  New  Brunswick, 
edges  of  Maine,  and  the  shores  of  the  St 
Lawrence ;  he  catalog^ues  the  salmon  rivers 
of  the  Provinces,  and  rates  them  with  one, 
two,  or  three  stars  according  to  their  pro- 
ductiveness and  the  size  of  their  fish ;  he  par- 
ticularizes the  process  of  hiring  a  season's 
rights  ;  he  describes  in  detail  the  necessary 
outfit,  including  the  varieties  and  preferences 
in  rods,  reels,  and  lines ;  he  devotes  a  con- 
siderable part  of  one  chapter  to  the  myste- 
ries of  the  "  galf,"  which,  after  all,  though 
only  a  pointed  iron  hook,  is  an  essen- 
tial weapon  in  the  fight  with  a  plucky 
fish ;  and  in  a  concluding  chapter  of  good 
length  he  takes  the  pupil  on  an  experimental 
trip,  and  by  means  of  directions,  diagrams, 
and  examples,  initiates  him  into  all  the  mys- 
teries of  the  task,  from  the  preliminary  of 
casting  a  fly  to  the  culmination,  "gaS"  in 
band.  If  salmon-fishing  can  be  reduced  to 
a  science,  and  expounded  by  book,  it  is  so 
done  here.  As  a  gazetteer  to  the  fishing 
ground  the  work  is  evidently  accurate  and 
authoritative,  and  the  number  and  variety 
of  salmon  waters  that  empty  into  the  St 
Lawrence  on  both  its  shores  below  Quebec 
are  sufEcient  to  tempt  and  absorb  a  consid- 
erable army  of  fishermen.  The  book  is  one 
that  our  friend,  Mr.  John  Bartlett,  will  add 
as  a  matter  of  course  to  his  Bitiliography  of 
Angling,  and  which  will  guide  many  a  reader, 


we  doubt  not,  to  the  salmon  haunted  streams 
of  Canada.    The  map  is  very  helpful. 


KIDHAPPED." 


THE  many-sided  genius  of  Robert  Louis 
Stevenson  seeks  all  forms  of  expres- 
sion, and  In  all  adds  an  appreciable  incre- 
ment to  the  sum  total  of  human  pleasure. 
In  Kidmappid  we  are  at  once  carried  back 
to  the  middle  of  the  eighteenth  century 
when,  one  fine  June  morning,  we  find  David 
Balfour,  an  honest  Scottish  lad  of  sixteen 
taking  leave  of  Mr.  Campbell,  the  good 
minister  of  the  little  village  of  Essendean, 
and  setting  forth  upon  his  journey  in  search 
of  bis  reputed  relatives,  the  Balfours  of 
Shaws.  And  what  a  Journey,  and  to  what 
startling  results  I  For  after  a  trudge  across 
country  David  finds  the  house  of  Shaws 
a  wretched  ruin,  his  Uncle  Ebenezer  a 
miserable  miser,  himself  an  object  of  hate 
and  suspicion ;  and  within  three  days  of 
his  arrival  he  is  sailing  out  of  the  Firth  of 
Forth  in  the  gloomy  hold  of  the  brig  "  Cov- 
enant," a  kidnapped  prisoner,  bound  for  the 
Carolinas,  with  the  pleasant  prospect  of 
being  sold  to  an  American  planter  as  a 
slave.  But  no  such  commonplace  ending 
to  his  career  is  in  store.  The  narrative 
flows  steadily  on,  and  the  boy  hero  is 
speedily  Involved  in  a  series  of  adventures 
equal  to  any  chronicled  bj  the  mighty 
Defoe,  and  chronicled  with  an  artlessness, 
a  vraisemblance,  a  careful  attention  to 
detail,  a  skill  in  the  objective  portrayal  of 
character,  and  a  never-failing  dramatic  in- 
stinct worthy    of  the  author  of   Rt^nsoit 

The  "  Covenant "  is  driven  back  from  her 
northward  course  around  Scotland  by  head 
winds ;  the  cabin-boy,  Ransome,  is  mur- 
dered by  the  first  male  in  a  fit  of  drunken 
rage;  and  on  the  night  of  the  tenth  day 
Alan  Breck  Stewart  leaps  on  deck  from  the 
small  boat  that  the  brig  has  run  down  in 
the  darkness.  Alan  is  a  Jacobite  emissary 
on  his  way  back  lo  France  with  treasure 
for  the  exiled  Pretender,  and  the  crew  form 
a  plot  lo  kill  him  and  get  his  money.  David 
sides  with  the  Jacobite,  the  two  take  pos- 
session of  the  round-house  where  the  fire, 
arms  are,  and  there  they  are  besieged  by 
the  ship's  company,  led  by  Captain  Hosea- 
son,  a  character  as  wonderful  in  his  way  as 
John  Silver  in  Treasure  Island.  In  the 
first  assault  the  first  male  is  killed  and 
the  captain  wounded  by  the  valorous  pair. 
A  second  attack  soon  followed  and  this  is 
what  happened : 

There  came  a  single  call  on  the  sea-pipe  and 
that  was  the  signal.  A  knuE  of  ihem  made  one 
rush  of  It,  cullua  in  hand,  against  Ihe  door;  and 
It  Ihc  same  moment,  the  glass  ot  the  ikjplighl 
was  duhed  in  a  ihousind  pieces,  and  >  man 
leaped  through  and  landed  on  the  floor     Before 


•Kidruppcdi    Being  Memoin  of  Ux   Adnnnnt  of^ 
Dinil  BdfaoT  io  Ihc  Y«r  17J1.    Wriltin  bj  Hit—M,  ud 
Ht  lonh  by  Robtrt  Lsoii  StcTaown.    ChirlM  Sciib- 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Aug,  7, 


he  got  hii  feet,  I  had  dapped  a  pistol  to  his 
back,  and  might  hare  shot  him,  loo ;  only  at  the 
touch  of  him  (and  bun  aliTe)  my  whole  fleah 
misgave  me,  and  I  could  no  more  pnll  the 
trigger  than  I  couJd  have  flown.  He  had 
dropped  hia  cutlaw  aa  be  jumped,  and  when  be 
felt  the  pistol,  whipped  alraight  ronnd  and  laid 
hold  of  me,  roaring  out  an  oath ;  and  at  that 
either  my  courage  came  again,  or  I  grew  so 
mach  afraid  as  came  to  the  same  thing;  for  I 
gave  a  shriek  and  ihot  bim  in  the  midst  of  the 
body.  He  ga«e  the  most  horrible,  ugly  groan 
and  fell  to  the  floor.  The  foot  of  a  second 
fellow,  whose  legs  were  dangling  through  the 
skylight,  struck  me  at  the  lame  time  upon 
the  head ;  and  at  that  I  snatched  another  pistol 
and  shot  this  one  through  the  ihigli,  so  that  he 
slipped  through  and  tumbled  in  a  lump  on  hit 
companion's  body.  There  was  no  talk  of  miss- 
ing, anv  more  than  there  was  time  (o  aim.  I 
clapped  the  moizle  to  the  very  place  and  fired. 
...  I  heard  Alan  shout  as  if  for  help,  ...  He 
had  kept  the  door  so  long;  but  one  of  the  sea- 
men, while  be  was  engaged  with  the  others,  had 
run  in  under  bis  guard  and  canght  him  about 
the  body.  Alan  was  dirking  him  with  his  left 
hand,  but  the  fellow  clung  like  a  leech.  Another 
had  broken  in  and  had  his  cutlass  raised.  The 
door  was  thronged  with  their  (aces,  I  thought 
we  were  lost,  and  catching  up  my  cuilasa,  (ell  on 
them  in  Bank.  But  I  had  not  time  lo  be  of 
help.  The  wrestler  dropped  at  last)  and  Alan, 
leaping  tiack  to  get  his  distance,  ran  upon  the 
others  like  a  bull,  roaring  as  he  wenc  They 
broke  before  him  tike  water,  turning,  and  run- 
ning, and  falling  one  against  another  in  tbeir 
haste.  The  sword  in  bis  hands  flashed  like 
quicksilver  into  the  huddle  of  our  Seeing  ene- 
mies ;  and  at  every  Saab  there  came  the  scream 
of  a  man  hurt  I  was  still  thinking  we  were  lost, 
when  lo  I  they  were  all  gone,  and  Alan  was 
driving  them  along  the  deck  as  a  theep-dog 
chases  sheep. 

The  book  tempts  ub  to  quotatioD,  but 
forbear,  and  will  do  further  UDvell  the  plot 
How  certain  passages  stick  in  the  memory 
One  feels  sure  that  although  lie  may  read 
many  books  hereafter,  he  will  not  soon 
forget  some  of  the  scenes  jn  David  Bal- 
four's story :  the  death  of  Glenure  and  the 
flight  of  David  and  Alan  through  the 
heather;  the  evenU  that  happened 
Cluny's  Cage  on  the  highta  of  Ben  Alder ; 
the  contest  with  the  pipes  between  Alan 
and  Robin  Oig  at  the  house  of  Duncan 
Madaren  in  Balquidder;  the  paasing  of  the 
Forth  by  night,  the  lass  of  Limekilns  rowing; 
and,  finally,  that  simple  but  heart-moving 
parting  of  the  two  friends  on  the  hill  of  Cas- 
torphine  looking  toward  Edinburgh.  These 
and  many  more  are  told  in  a  manner  t 
leaves  a  hsting  impress  on  the  memory. 

There  are  some,  perhaps,  who  will  object 
to  this  book  because  of  the  depravity  of 
many  of  its  characters.  It  deals  with  pi- 
rates, and  f ree-booters,  and  outlaws  of  divers 
sorts,  and  chronicles  many  bloody  advent- 
ures. But  after  all,  its  atmosphere  is 
breezy  with  fresh  airs  from  the  Highlands. 
There  is  a  Homeric  simplicity  in  the  way 
in  whicli  extraordinary  and  tragic  incidents 
are  dealt  with.  David  Balfour  is  an  honest 
lad;  Alan  Breck  as  brave  and  upright  a 
scoundrel  as  ever  drew  breath;  and  the 
miserly  old  uncle  is  at  the  end  brought  into 
deserved  hunuliation,  while  David  comes  at 
length  to  his  own.  And  so,  with  all  these 
considerattons  in  view,  we  are  obliged  to 
recommend  Mr.  Stevenson's  Kidnapptd  as 


a  great  and  thrilling  masterpiece  of  whole- 
^  sensational  romance. 


FROTEOTIOV  OB  FBEE  TRADE  ?■ 

[Henry  Geoxc,  dow  i  pobliibu'  u  mil  m  an  lathor,  b 
M  im  Engliahmui,  u  niny  hin  lappoud,  bill  wBi  bom 
in  PtuliidBlpbi«,jn  tS]9,  Aheraliale  liftalin,  baresclMd 
mil  in  1858,  ud  remlocd  ibcre  Mnnl  jrean,  in»t- 
Ihe  prlaler*!  tnde,  knd  cdiliD^  mtbtiI  p*p«*.  HIa 
first  pabliibed  w«rk  vu  a  puAphlec  fidtided  Land  tmd 
tdPMcy,  which ippeuwl  In  iSji.  Pntrmntd Pn- 
trtjf,  DOW  one  of  Ihe  Femoiu  boolu  of  Uio  time,  w»  pab- 
Uilild  in  iBSn.  RemOTIBt  10  New  Vnrk,  Ur.  Geoiie  fnl- 
lowed  hu  prerkmi  wotia  with  Tlu  IriiJk  Land  OwKiM  in 
iSSi.  end  in  ihi  bJJ  ol  Ihit  tta  mnL  to  Irelud  and  Eof- 
IiDd,  louhiiEE  ioT  ■  jcar.  He  hoi  hub  made  two  riiiu 
•croM  tba  «1I«,  lecturing  ie  Biiuin  fnr  the  "  EngUeh 
And  Scouith  [^nd  Reetontion  Leepiee.'*  In  1SS4  he  pub- 
liihcd  SteiU  PrMimt.l 

SINCE  Progrttt  and  Powrty,  by  an  au- 
thor previously  unheard  of,  was  reviewed 
in  these  columns,  and  its  epochal  character 
pointed  out  before  it  had  attracted  puElic 
terest,  the  name  of  Henry  George  hasbeco 
familiar  on  both  aides  of  the  Atlantic,  That 
work  and  his  Social  PrebUmi  are  now  fol- 
lowed by  another,  in  which  the  old  subject  of 
free  trade  is  treated  from  a  new  standpoint, 
that  is  to  say,  the  position  of  public  proprii 
torship  in  land,  the  necessity  for  which  the 
author  considers  that  he  has  already  estab- 
lished. The  book  divides  itself  naturally 
into  two  parts.  The  first  part  deals  with  the 
tariff  in  the  manner  common  to  all  free  trad- 
era,  and  it  is  sought  to  show  that  a  protective 
policy  does  not  increase  production,  and  is 
of  DO  advantage  in  developing 
wealth.  The  author  admits  that  in  this  part 
of  his  work  he  has  said  nothing  new,  and  he 
has  not,  except  lo  bring  forward  some  new 
illustrations.  In  fact,  like  Ferry,  Sumner, 
Cairnes,  and  most  other  free  traders,  he 
comes  short  of  dealing  with  the  whole  sub- 
ject as  presented  by  a  consistent  protectionist 
like  List,  for  example,  whose  work,  though 
now  probably  out  of  print,  is  an  abler  defence 
of  protection  than  is  found  in  the  current 
publications.  Looking  at  the  tariff,  as  it  ei 
ists  today,  it  would  seem  as  though  Mi 
George  were  correct  when  he  says  that  the 
primary  purpose  of  protection  is 
the  profits  of  capital  engaged  in 
ored  branches  of  industry.  And  yet,  when 
the  history  of  the  tariff  is  considered,  it  is 
seen  that  the  original  purpose  w 
the  young  nation  from  dependence  upon 
foreign  countries  for  its  necessaries,  a  de- 
pendence which  had  been  sorely  felt  during 
the  Revolution.  It  has  since  been  placed 
by  its  exponents  upon  this  ground  and  upon 
the  further  ground  that  to  force  tnanufac- 
tures  by  a  protective  tariff  is  to  increase  thi 
wealth  of  the  country.  That  by  a  legal  tour 
dt force,  the  production  of  wealth  should  be 
greater  than  when  industry,  guided  by  those 
who  are  seeking  wealth  as  their  purpose, 
flows  in  its  natural  channels  {which  ii 
country,  where  land  is  cheap,  are  of 


agricultural),  is  certainly  a  paradox.  .  The 
arguments,  however,  by  which  it  Is  msun- 
lained  are  subtle,  and  are  drawn  from  the 
influence  of  moral  and  intellectual  conditions 
upon  the  creative  activity  of  a  people;  and 
free  traders  of  the  English  school,  mind 
and  morals  scarcely  enter  into  the  field  of 
political  economy.  Not  but  that  free  trad- 
might  not  answer  these  arguments  if 
they  tried,  but  they  either  do  not  :^predate 
them  or  do  not  try.  Perhaps  the  iaxX  that 
by  gradual  changes  the  tariff  has  shifted  on 
.  new  basis  protective  to  producers  of 
material,  until  it  is  overgrown  by  such 
absurdities  as  a  tax  00  imposed  lumber, 
promoting  the  destruction  of  the  forests,  and 
a  tax  on  coal,  discouraging  manufactures,  has 
turned  aside  modern  writers  from  the  only 
ground  upon  which  a  protective  system  can 
hope  to  find  any  logical  resting-place.  A 
thoroughgoing  attack  upon  a  protective  tariff 
as  a  friend  to  production  must  be  quite  off 
the  lines  of  the  so-called  "orthodox  "  school 
of  English  economists  and  free  traders,  and 
must  be  to  a  certain  extent  historic,  as  we 
pointed  out  several  years  ago  in  reviewing 
Sumner's   Leeturgi  oh  tkt  History  of  Pre- 

It  is  when  Mr.  George  comes  to  deal  with 
tariff  reform  in  its  bearings  on  the  distriba- 
tion  rather  than  the  production  of  wealth 
that  he  becomes  decidedly  interesting  and 
suggestive.     He  says : 

But  although  we  have  directly  or  infcrentially 
disproved  every  argument  that  is  made  for  pro- 
lection,  although  we  have  seen  conclosively  that 
protection  is  in  its  nature  inimical  to  general  in- 
terests, and  that  free  trade  is  In  its  nature  pro- 
motive of  general  interests,  yet  if  our  inquiry 
were  to  stop  here  we  should  not  have  accom- 
plished the  purpose  for  which  we  set  out.  For 
mv  part,  did  it  end  here,  I  wonld  deem  the  tabor 
I  have  so  (ar  spent  in  writing  this  book  little  bet- 
ter than  wasted.  .  .  .  That  the  belief  in  protec- 
tion  has  survived  long  and  wide  discussion,  that 
it  seems  to  spring  up  again  when  beaten  down, 
and  to  arise  with  apparent  spontaneity  In  com- 
munities such  as  the  United  States,  Canada,  and 
Australia,  that  have  etown  up  without  tariffs,  and 
where  the  system  lacks  the  advantage  of  incrb's 
and  of  enlisted  interests,  proves  that  beyond  the 
discussion  there  must  be  something  which  strongly 
commends  protection  to  the  popular  mind. 

The  farmers  of  the  West  have  been  ^ 
pealed  to  by  the  Cobden  Club  through  Au- 
gustus Mongredien(rA«  Wtsttm Farmtrin 
America),  seeking  to  convince  them  that 
protection  is  inimical  to  their  interests,  and 
American  workingmen  have  been  told  th^ 
their  condition  was  like  in  kind  to  that  of 
the  English  work-people  for  the  repeal  of  the 
Corn  Laws ;  yet  the  farmers  remain  stolid, 
and  the  Eastern  mechanics  show  no  enthu- 
siasm for  tariff  reform.  Mr.  George  believes 
the  reason  to  be  that  the  farmers  are  content 
to  pay  a  higher  price  for  manufactured  goods 
so  long  as  they  can  see  the  value  of  their 
lands  increasing  by  the  growth  of  industries 
stimulated  by  a  tariff,  and  the  wage-receiv- 
ers "  sense  "  the  fact,  which  Mr,  George  be- , 
lieves  to  be  a  fact,  that  an  increase  of  pro- 
duction and  wealth  consequent  on  the 
abolition  of  the  tariff  would  not  raise  wages. 


j886.] 


THE    LITERARY   WORLD. 


■ince  all  the  gain  under  the  present  system 
of  thJDgi  would  eventually  enure  to  the  land- 
owner. What  the  workingnieD  are  most 
anxioua  for,  he  thinks,  is  not  so  much  to  get 
work  at  a  bigb  price  as  to  get  work  at  some 
price;  not  so  much  to  get  a  share  in  an  in- 
creased production  as  to  get  a  chance  to 
produce  at  all.  This  chance  is  more  preca- 
rious as  the  possibility  of  establishing  them- 
selves on  cheap  land  is  removed  farther 
away,  and  as  the  use  of  machinery  makes 
the  Isolated  pursuit  of  one's  trade  impracti- 
cable. For  the  privilege  of  being  allowed 
to  work  the  mechanic  and  laborer  are  in- 
debted, more  than  of  old,  to  other  classes  in 
society,  who  set  the  wheels  of  production 
moving,  the  large  employer  and  the  land- 
owner. The  indifference  and  frequent  op- 
position of  workingmen  to  a  change  in  the 
tUUut  pie  as  regards  the  tariff,  as  connected 
with  a  fear  of  being  out  of  work,  might  per- 
hxpt  lead  Mr.  George  to  revise  his  opinion 
that  if  the  tariff  were  abolished  the  manu- 
facturing system  of  the  country  would  stand 
unchanged,  and  in  fact  spring  forward  with 
new  vigor.  Perhaps  the  workingman  is 
afraid  that,  though  all  manufactures  might 
not  go  down,  kis  might  go  down  and  his  oc- 
cupation be  gone.  Such  experiences  are  not 
without  parallel  in  our  history,  and  our  au- 
thor is  certainly,  though  unintentionally,  mis- 
leading when  he  allows  us  to  infer  that  all 
the  more  important  manufactures  were  so 
firmly  established  in  1789  that  there  was  no 
apparent  need  of  the  first  tariff.  The  fact 
was,  the  danger  to  American  vessels  dur- 
ing the  Revolution  was  such  an  effectual 
tariff  act  in  itself  that  the  sudden  impor- 
tation of  European  goods  after  the  peace 
aroused  a  feeling  in  behalf  of  a  protect, 
ive  system  that  was  an  indudng  cause  of 

The  argtiments  in  this  part  of  the  volume 
are  closely  connected  with  those  oiProgrtts 
andPeverty,  and  it  is  enough  to  say  that 
after  reference  to  the  reasons  so  ably  set 
forth  in  that  work  why  the  Ijenefits  of  an  in- 
crease of  productive  power  enure  to  the  land- 
owners, the  reader  Is  informed  that  the  abo- 
lition of  the  protective  tariff  cannot  raise 
wages  or  benefit  the  masses.  The  produc- 
tion of  wealth  would  be  increased,  but  by 
reason  of  private  ownership  in  land,  the  dis- 
tribution of  the  gain  would  be  entirely  among 
the  landowners.  Nevertheless  Mr.  George 
is  a  vigorous  free  trader  because  he  believes 
that  an  examination  of  the  fallacies  at  the 
bottom  of  the  protective  system  wonld  make 
dear  the  true  principle  that  all  tnde  should 
be  free,  free  from  taxes  for  protection  or 
revenue,  and  that  all  taxes  should  be  laid  on 
that  merely  passive  agent  in  production,  the 
land.  In  other  words,  the  benefit  of  increase 
in  values  should  go  to  those  who  increase 
them,  the  producers,  whether  employers  or 
employed.  The  following  ditty,  taken  from 
a  San  Frandsco  paper,  is  designed  to  illi)$- 
trate  the  present  state  of  thin|8  \ 


TUrewu.muiDDurlowii 

He  MBppsd  upoD  ■  jftct  lit  frannd 

I  mail  boy  Ion  iDd  W  o[  lud 
ToholdlDrfmlbMsiia. 

Aid  lEcn  hit  tndr  hi  plio. 

"t.-ps^.rr&r^"'- 

I  connecting  his  argument  for  free'  trade 
ith  his  position  on  the  land  question  Mr. 
George  makes  a  direct  application  of  free 
trade  to  wages,  and  then  gives  the  discus- 
a  moral  basis  without  which,  he  thinks, 
and  justly,  that  very  little  enthusiasm  for  it 
be  roused  among  the  masses.  In  a  note 
he  successfully  disclaims  the  charge  of  being 
a  Bodalist.  We  commend  the  work  to  our 
readers  as  well  worth  perusal. 


OOUFATBE'8  FEDAQOQT.* 

THE  list  of  modern  books  in  the  English 
language  on  the  adence  of  education  is 
exceedingly  meager.  Setting  aside  Dr.  Bar- 
nard's great  series — too  costly  and  com- 
prehensive for  ordinary  readers  —  Mill,  Spen- 
cer, Bain,  President  Hill,  Jacob  Abbott, 
and  two  or  three  others  complete  the  num- 
ber; the  rest,  some  of  them  excellent,  are 
mostly  only  collections  of  redpes  for  school- 
keeping. 

It  is  matter  of  congratulation  that  the 
teachers  of  our  country  are  outgrowing  this 
state  of  things,  and  that,  within  the  last  two 
or  three  years,  there  has  suddenly  arisen  a 
great  call  for  standard  and  authoritative 
works  in  their  profession  such  as  French 
and  German  educators  are  so. abundantly 
supplied  with.  This  popular  vrant  first  made 
itself  felt,  perhaps,  in  the  demand  for  some 
good  work  on  pjrschology  as  applied  to  edu- 
•n.  Here  we  were  as  well  off  as  the 
foreigners ;  for  with  Bain,  Hopkins,  Porter, 
McCosh,  Sully,  and  the  rest,  we  have  psy- 
chol<^sts  enough,  though  the  psychology  of 
education,  alas,  is  only  yet  in  embryo  any- 
where. But  when  it  came  to  pedagogics 
fitr  M,  and  the  history  and  philosophy  of 
education,  we  had  absolutely  nothing  to 
show,  and  the  publishers  had  to  seek 
amongst  the  abundant  material  of  the  Ger- 
mans and  French  for  something  suited  to  our 
needs.  Already  a  score  or  two  of  works  is 
announced  by  various  publishers,  some  by 
American  or  English  writers,  but  more 
translations;  one  firm  promises  an  Interna- 
tional Educational  Series  of  fifteen  volumes 
or  more,  under  a  distinguished  American 
editor;  and,  indeed,  it  would  almost  seem 
as  though  our  pedagogics,  so-called,  were 
about  to  enter  a  higher  plane  — not  the 
"  theory  and  practice  "  of  school-keeping, 
but  the  science  and  art  of  education. 


•Th(  Miiiory  of  Pcdisonr.  Bj  Cibrid  CompBTiJ. 
TnulMcd  wilh  IntndacliOB  iiid  Notn,  br  W.  H.  Parne, 
A.M.,  at  tba  Uainni?  of  Hidugu.  D.  C  Hwth  A 
Co.    f>.fig, 


For  Opening  the  campaign  nothing  better 
could  have  been  chosen  for  translation  than 
Compayr^s  admirable  Hittoire  dt  la  Pidor 
^gi«.     Less   labored  and  exhaustive  than 

:  of  the  German  works,  more  vivadous 
and  readable  than  Paroz,  and  the  other 
Frenchmen,  this  was  probably  as  well 
adapted  to  the  American  mind  as  anything 
that  could  have  been  found.  Compayrtf's 
works  have  bad  a  large  circulation  in  his 
own  country.  He  is  a  writer  of  keen  insight, 
of  a  liberal  philosophy  which  everywhere 
respects  the  philosophy  of  others,  of  singu- 
larly dear  and  graphic  style,  a  master  of  his 
subject,  mostly  wise  in  selection,  and  accu- 
rate in  details.  A  careful  comparison  of 
several  pages  with  the  original  shows  that 
Professor  Payne  has  been  very  happy  in  bis 
translation;  rarely  is  anything  of  the  kind 
so  well  done;  so  that  the  American  reader  * 
will  lose  nothing,  so  far  as  we  can  see,  of 
the  vigor  and  charm  of  the  original.  The 
publishers  have  made  a  handsome  book, 
much  superior  to  the  French,  and  all  con- 
cerned—  author,  translator,  publishers,  and 
the  educational  public  —  are  to  be  congrat 
ulated  on  this  opportune  and  excellent 
publication. 

And  yet  we  must  remember  that  the  book 
is  French,  and  presents  its  subject  from  the 
French  standpoint  There  are  serious  omis- 
sions, notably  in  English  and  American  Ped- 
agogy. The  author  is  a  disdple  of  Rous- 
seau, Spencer,  and  Bun,  though  this  appears 

from  what  is  written  than  from  what  is 
not  American  education  is  not  founded  on 
any  such  basis,  and  it  would  be  lamentable 
indeed  if  the  tide  should  be  turned  that  way. 
We  hope  soon  to  see  from  some  one  of  our 
own  able  educators,  something  from  an 
American  standpoint  that  shall  lake  the 
place  of  this  or  any  other  foreign  work  as  an 
American  standard. 

THE  OOWTBT  BAHKEB.* 

IF  an  author  may  be  justly  called  a  public 
benefactor  who  renders  clear  what  haa 
previously  been  obscure  in  useful  and  im- 
portant subjects  of  knowledge,  we  must  so 
term  Mr,  Rae  for  this  most  admirable  expla- 
nation of  the  mysteries  of  modern  banking. 
His  clearness  of  language,  in  fact,  is  not 
merely  negative,  an  absence  of  perplexing 
difficulties,  but  rather  positive,  a  light  shin- 
ing in  the  darkness  ;  short,  crisp  sentences 
whose  meaning  comes  out  at  the  first  reading. 
It  is  Mr.  Rae's  declared  purpose  to 
exhibit  banking  as  an  art  rather  than  as  a 
sdence;  practically  and  not  theoretically; 
to  show,  as  he  phrases  it,  "  the  machinery  of 
banking  in  motion."  The  form  chosen  for 
this  purpose  is  that  of  familiar  letters  from 
an  experienced  banker  to  a  friend  whom  he 
represents  as  lately  made  head  of  a  branch 
bank,  containing  instructions  about  the  daily 


•TIh  Coudut  B4iik*r.  Hii  awnu,  CkiM,  null  Work.  *■ 
Br  G«ofi«  RiE.  Wiib  Amarieu  PrIk*  by  BrartM  >*M. 
CbulBScribiHi'iSow.    ti.ja. 


262 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Aug.  7, 


duties  of  a  conscientious  and  prudent  mana- 
ger. The  English  name  manager  Deeds  no 
explanation,  though  not  commonly  used  of 
any  officer  in  roost  American  banks.  By  a 
"country  banker"  is  meant  one  outside  of 
London;  in  that  sense  provincial,  though 
perhaps  resident  in  a  large  town.  Laler 
chapters  suppose  the  pupil  promoted  to  the 
charge  of  the  central  ofQce  of  the  bank  of 
nhich  he  was  previously  manager  of  a 
branch,  and  discuss  the  enlarged  duties  of 
the  higher  position.  Free  use  is  made  in 
the  letters  of  examples  and  specific  cases ; 
various  customers  of  the  bank  are  in  turn 
considered  by  name,  and  their  modes  of 
doing  business,  their  financial  condition,  and 
their  relations  with  the  bank  analysed,  in 
the  unfailingly  vigorous,  lucid,  and  graceful 
.  language  which  makes  the  reading  of  the 
letters  a  pleasure  as  well  as  a  means  of  in- 
struction. In  this  way,  the  lessons  which 
each  case  may  teach  are  carefully  brought 
out.  The  author's  preface  assures  us  that 
these  various  men,  though  disguised  by  the 
names  adopted,  are  not  altogether  imagi- 
nary; and  in  like  manner  the  business  trans- 
actions cited  are  slightly  modified  from  real 
occurrences. 

Perhaps  all  that  our  readers  further  need, 
to  gain  a  proper  idea  of  the  nature  of  Mr. 
Rae's  work,  is  a  statement  of  some  of  the 
more  important  of  the  topics  which  fill  the 
forty-one  letters  contained  in  the  volume. 
Of  these  we  cite  the  following,  in  addition 
to  much  practical  advice  as  to  methods  of 
management:  credit,  of  individuals  and  of 
limited  corporations,  as  affected  by  the 
nature  of  one's  business  and  as  exhibited  in 
a  balance-sheet ;  overdrafts,  occasional  or  as 
evidence  suggesting  possible  insolvency; 
bankruptcy  ;  bills  of  exchange  in  their  vari. 
oua  kinds  and  purposes ;  personal  and  collat- 
eral security,  and  the  different  grades  of 
merit  of  the  latter  from  the  highest  all 
through  the  descending  scale  to  the  worth- 
less; deposits  and  "runs;"  interest  and 
discount,  with  remarks  on  the  flnctuatioD  of 
rates ;  circulation  ;  competition  in  banking 
the  reserve  and  the  "rest,"  the  distinction 
between  which  terms  seems  to  us  almost 
the  only  point  where  the  letters  are  not 
clear ;  profits  and  losses  in  bank  business ; 
and  the  position  of  directors  and  of  share' 
holders. 

It  will  be  at  once  perceived  that  these  are 
matters  in  which  every  intelligent 
whatever  occupation  has  greater  or  less  need 
of  knowledge;  and  it  would  probably  be 
difficult  to  find  elsewhere,  within  the  same 
compass,  so  intelligent  an  explanation.  An 
index  at  the  end  facilitates  reference  to 
any  subject  which  the  reader  may  wish 
examine  for  some  special  purpose. 


Co.,  in  thdr  "  leisure  Hour  Seriea."  Those 
that  have  Men  the  manuscript  aj  that  the  plot, 
which  turns  on  ihe  intrigues  of  two  Wall  Street 
money  kings,  is  elaborate  and  iateresCing,  and 
(he  style  terse,  direct,  and  aboanding  in  wit. 


—  Jianmbal  of  Ntm   York  is  the   title  of 
new   novel  of  New  Voric  and  Newport  life,  by 
Thomas   Wbaiton,    author  of   A    Latter   Day 
Saint,  shortly  to  be  published  by  Henry  Holt  & 


lOHOB  PIOTIOH. 


Bartlelt. 


Edith  Dayton.  By  J.  Gordi 
[Brentano  Brothers.  Piper,  50C.I 
If  Ihe  present  season  has  famished  a  more 
tuouy  novel  than  Edith  Dayten  we  have  not 
en  it.  The  author,  (hough  writing  under 
American  copyright,  has  gone  to  England  (or 
chaiactets  and  his  scenery.  Winmere,  in 
Nocthumberland,  is  the  town  to  which  he  first 
takes  the  reader.  Here  lives  Dr.  Vale,  whose 
I  is  position  has  been  soured  by  an  unhappy 
marriage.  Here  also  lives  Sir  Graham  Clifton, 
old  college  friend  and  chum.  With  Sir 
Graham,  Edith  Daylon  has  her  home,  as  ward. 
When  introduced  to  the  reader  at  about  the  age 
oE  twenty,  she  was  wearing  "a  long,  trailing  robe 
oC  Davy-bine  satin,  trimmed  with  swan's  down." 
"  Her  head  was  poised  gracefuIEy  upon  a  pai 
oE  shapely  ihoulden,"  and  her  hair  was  done 
ip  with  a  pink  coral  comb.  In  her  hand  she 
arried  a  mother-of-pearl  fan.  This  beauteous 
and  handsomely- dressed  young  lady  was  en- 
gaged to  Godfrey  Clifton,  Sir  Graham's  son, 
but  he  hid  "insulted"  her,  and  she  had  con- 
cluded to  go  away  to  London.  Over  (his  decision, 
when  he  learns  of  it.  Dr.  Vale  murmurs  his  happi- 
ness, saying  t  "  My  daughter  Laura  may  yet  be 
My  Lady."  When  Edith  gels  into  th 
that  is  to  lake  her  to  London,  she  finds 
consternation  Godfrey  seated  in  the  tai 
riage.  Godfrey  knew  be  was  a  handsome  young 
man,  and  So  did  she.  And  when,  "  it 
sistible  way,"  he  said:  "Edith,  can 
forgive  mcf"  what  could  Edith  lay  in  reply? 
What  she  did  say  was :  "  I  have  taken  an  oaih 
never  to  marry  you."  She  said  it  in  1 
strained  voice.  But  Godfrey  "did  not 
worth  a  cent."  He  sat  down  beside  her. 
ungloved  hand  was  lying  in  her  lap.  He  took 
it.  She  did  not  withdraw  it.  Then 
something  with  a  trembling  voice.  Then  her 
face  softened.  Then  he  proposed  that  Ihey 
should  be  married  in  Liverpool  and  take  the 
steamer  for  New  York,  "  and  in  a  new  country 
begin  a  new  life."  To  which  her  reply  was, 
Godfrey  I  I  can't ! "  Then  be  put  his  . 
round  her  and  kissed  her  soft  cheek,  and 
said  she  was  very  happy,  but  could  not  ■an 
him  under  six  months.  All  this  time  she  was 
"dressed  in  a  very  stylish  traveling  suit  of  gray 
broadcloth,  trimmed  with  chinchilla,"  am 
small  turban-shaped  hat  ornamented  with 
owl's  head.  And  to  on  with  feeble  foolishness 
for  some  226  pages. 


UBOB  V0TI0E8. 

Tkt    TtanifiguratiiM  of   Chriit.     By   i 

Wakeley  Gunsauios.    [Houghton,  MifOin  &  Co. 

The  Rev.  Mr,  Gunsaulus's  eight  sermons 
on  Ihe  Ttansfign  ration  have  decided  merit  as 
a  good  commentary  on  the  New  Testament  nar- 
rative, and  as  a  thoughtful  handling  of  the  ques- 
tions incidentally  railed.  These  latter  are,  in- 
deed, more  numerous  than  one  would  expect 
who  did  not  remember  the  by  no  means  inexcus- 


able habit  preachers  have  » 

their  theme  to  all  truth,  and  of  finding  connection* 

between  the  text  and  many  distant  pans  of  the 

niverie.    Mr.  Gunsaulus  is  prone  thus  to  mag- 

ify  Ihe  importance  of  the  Transfiguration,  and 
to  press  every  word  of  the  narrative.    For  Ihe 

elegant  paganism,"  as  be  styles  it,  of  Matthew 
Arntrid  he  has  slight  esteem,  and  no  one  most 

link  to  find  here  a  treatment  of  the  objections 
which  a  rationalistic  critic  would  raise  against 
literal  reception  of  the  Gospel  narrative. 
the  author's  general  tone  is  excellent,  and 
his   work  will   undoubtedly  tend   lo  edification. 

in   Words  en   Our  Lord")   Wort.    By  the 
D.  N.   Beach.    [Cuppies,   Upham  &  Co. 

JO  CIS.] 

Rev.  Mr,  Beach  of  Camhridgeport,  a  Congre- 
gational minister,  has  here  published  two  sermons 
of  his  composition,  which  created  considerable 
church  and  attracted  the  attention 
of  many  others  in  his  communion  last  autumn. 
They  are  simple,  direct,  and  fordhle  disconrses 
showing  the  untenability  of  the  old  ideas  trf  the 
t,  the  ransom  view,  and  the  satisfaction 
the  great  superiority,  in  every  way, 
moral  theory.  "No  'atonement'  in 
Ihe  historical  sense  is  left;  "  but  Chriit  is  ear- 
nestly set  forth  as  the  great  witness-bearer  to 
the  truth,  the  fulfiller  ai  tighteousneu,  the  man 
of  sorrows  made  perfect  through  suSering,  and 
(he  chief  awakcncr  of  men  "by  the  power  of 
personal,  spiritual  touch."  Mr.  Beach's  little 
book  is  one  of  the  "signs  of  (he  times"  in  the 
Orthodox  churches  of  New  Etigland,  which  may 
well  welcome  heresy,  if  heresy  it  be,  of  such 
thoughtful  and  devout  temper.  The  author  is 
In  harmony  substantially  with  Maurice,  McLeod, 
Campbell,  and  Bushnell,  carrying  their  thought 
only  one  or  two  necessary  steps  forward. 

The   Labor    Problem.     Edited    by   Wm.    E. 
Bams.     [Harper  &  Brothers,    fi.oo.] 

Mr.  Bams,  it  should  be  noticed,  is  Ihe  editor, 
not  the  author,  of  this  book,  which  is  both  a 
small  one  and  a  large  one.  The  greater  part 
of  its  contents  appeared  originally  in  The  Agt 
of  Sletl,  a  St.  Louis  puUication.  It  is  not  an 
argument,  not  an  essay,  not  a  presentation  of 
any  one  view,  but  a  collection  of  views  and 
statements,  from  various  standpoints,  embodying 
diverse  experiences  and  often  contradictory  opin- 
ions. It  is  a  "symposium"  expanded  into  a 
book;  a  Labor  Congress  in  print;  a  debating 
duh  reported.  After  an  introduction  In  which 
Dr.  Richard  T.  Ely  unfolds  Ihe  principle  of 
cooperation  in  literature  and  the  Stale,  and  a 
chapter  following  hy  J.  A.  Waterworth,  in  which 
the  history  of  the  conflict  between  Labor  and 
Capital  is  rapidly  reviewed,  Ihe  book  enters 
fairly  upon  its  leading  task,  which  is  lo  assemble 
answers  from  eiperts  to  substantially  the  follow- 
ing questions : 
Are  strikes  necessary  t 
Is  arbitration  (he  "missing  link?" 
Is  profit-sharing  feasible? 
What  are  the  possibilities  of  industrial  partner- 
Is  productive  cooperation  practicable? 
Five  chapters  arc  devoted  to  communications 
on  these  points  from  a  large  number  of  American 
citizens,  not  only  manufacturers,  and  other  busi- 
ness men,  but  instructors  in  political  economy, 
journalists,  and  clergymen,  who  have  made   a 


i8S6.] 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD, 


263 


spedaltyof  tocial  scicQce;  thai  extracting  light 
upon  the  tubject  from  both  theory  and  practice. 
The  remainder  of  the  book,  largely  by  Mr. 
Bams  himself,  is  a  commendator]'  discus^^ 
of  proGl-iharing,  trades- unions,  and  arbitratron; 
while  a  concluding  chapter  by  Fred  Woodrow, 
himself  a ''irorkii^man,"iooches  on  sotne  side- 
topics  not  always  comprehended  by  theorists. 
Mr.  Woodrow  speaks  of  "the  spade"  in 
Garden  in  Eden,  and  of  Sunday  as  the  "seventh 
day"  of  the  week,  bat  despite  such  slips  he  is 
well  worth  reading,  and  the  personal  sketch  of 
him  Is  highly  intetcsting.  Students  of  the  laboi 
question  at  the  present  hoar  will  find  a  great 
deal  in  this  little  book  to  interest,  and  not  a 
little  offact  and  coansel  to  aid  in  forming  opinion. 


THE  OONOOSD  SCHOOL  OIT  DA.NTE. 
Dante  and  VirgiL 

Doubtless  Dante  benefited  greatly  by  the  uni 
versality  and  objectlveness  oC  Virgil  and  the 
other  dassic  aathois  whom  he  followed.  Bat 
even  u  Milton  rose  far  above  Spenser,  so  the 
work  of  Dante  was  far  other  {tian  that  of  Virgil, 
great  as  Virgil  was.  Therefore  Dante,  the  pil- 
grim of  love,  forsakes  this  Mantuan  guide,  when 
tbelr  paths  no  longer  lie  in  the  same  sphei 
Dante  soared  far  above  Augustine,  above  Ai_ 
brose,  higher  and  broader  than  St,  Thomas,  and 
has  left  to  the  world  an  imperishable  monument 
both  of  his  own  grandeur  of  soul  and  of  the 
strange  fetters  and  barriers  that  imprisoned  the 
Christianity  of  his  time.  —  F.  B.  Sanborn. 

Dante'a  Teachers. 
Dante   owed   comparatively   little   to   his 

teachers,   whoever   they   may   have  been.      

education  was  derived  from  familiarity  with  the 
mighty  minds  of  the  world  and  with  actual  life. 
His  intellectual  education  was  mainly  derived 
from  books,  and  of  these  he  seems  to  have 
known  a  great  many.  Indeed,  he  must  have 
been  an  omnivorousreader,  and  a  reader  who 
knew  how  to  seize  whatever  core  of  the  truth 
there  was  in  what  he  read.  Dante  knew  well 
all  that  is  conUined  in  the  Old  Testament,  the 
Apocrypha,  and  the  New  Testament.  These  he 
read  in  the  vulgale  translation ;  for  he  knew  no 
Hebrew  or  Greek.  His  knowledge  of  the  Bible 
was  profound  and  accurate,  aTthough  in  the 
modem  sense,  the  very  opposite  of  critical. 
To  him  the  Bible  was  God's  word,  and  he  ac- 
cepted it  reverently,  as  the  church  interpreted 
it,  without  doubt  or  question.  As  to  the  Greek 
pagan  writers,  he  knows  a  good  many  names, 
all  of  them  either  poets  or  philosophers.  Of 
the  poets  he  mentions  Orpheus,  Homer,  Simon- 
ides,  Euripides,  Agathon,  and  Antiphon.  Of 
philosophers  he  knows  a  long  list.  Of  Latin 
pagans  he  knows  Varro,  Livy,  Cicero,  CBsar, 
Seneca,  Donatus.  Friscian,  Plautus,  Cxcilius, 
Virgil,  Horace,  Ovid,  and  others.  Of  church 
fathers  he  names  Dionysius,  Chrysostom,  Am- 
brose, Jerome,  and  Augustine,  the  historian 
Orasius,  the  biographer  of  St.  Benedict,  Gregory 
tbe  Great,  and  Justinian,  the  codifier  of  the 
Roman  law.  There  can  be  no  doubt  that  Dante 
learned  something  from  each  of  these.  Looking 
back  upon  the  list  a\  books  with  which  Dante 
must  have  been  more  or  less  familiar,  the  ques- 
tion naturally  enough  suggests  itself ;  How,  in 
an  a^e  when  printing  was  unknown,  could  Dante 
obtain  access  to  so  many  books  i  Dante  had 
access  to  the  monastic  libraties  of  Florence, 
Verona,  Ravenna,  and  other  cities.  We  must 
never  forget  that  the  literary  activity  in  Dante's 
time  was  immense,  that  education  was  almost 
as  general  as  il  is  now,  at  least  in  Florence,  and 
that  most  boohs  were  accessible  to  the  eager 
student.  Some  books  influenced  Dante  more 
than  others,  and  only  a  very  few  took  the  place 
of  spiritual  fathers.  As  to  who  these  were, 
Daiile  himself  has  given  us  all  necessary  in- 
formation. Dante  was  an  Aristotelian.  From 
Aristotle  he  derived,  in  the  main,  bis  entire 
ethical  system,  bi*  physical  tystem,  and  his  meU- 


physical  system,  as  well  as  the  logical  principles 
according  to  which  he  reasoned  upon  all  these. 
He  is,  however,  no  slavish  worshiper  of  Aris- 
totle. He  frankly  expresses  dissent  from  him 
when  he  thinks  he  is  wrong,  or  at  variance 
revealed  truth.  —  Pre/etiar  Daoidtim. 
Tbe  Divina  Comraedla. 
The  poet  recognises  free  will  as  the  basis  of 
all  human  responsibility,  and  the  consequent 
amenability  of  the  soul  to  reward  or  punishment. 
The  argument  of  his  poem  is  man  receiving  at 
the  hands  of  divine  justice  hia  deserts,  according 
to  the  nature  of  the  actions  he  performs.  Man 
passes  from  the  darkness  of  sin  and  the  wilder- 
ness of  error  into  the  light  of  truth  and  grace. 
The  poem  is  a  song  of  emancipation.  It  danta 
the  breaking  of  the  bonds  of  sin  and  the  passing 
into  (he  light  and  freedom  of  the  children  of  God^ 
It  ia  a  song  of  hope.  It  is  a  song  of  light  and  life- 
Its  tendency  is  upward  and  onward  to  the  triumph 
of  s|>irit  over  matter.  The  poem  is,  therefore, 
practical.  Speculation  abounds  in  it,  but  it  is 
in  order  that  knowing  all  the  better  one  may  do 
all  the  better.  The  poet  is  careful  to  tell  ni  that 
if  he  speaks  by  way  of  speculation,  it  is  not  for 
ihe  saiie  of  mere  barren  words,  but  rather  '"-' 
such  may  tend  to  action.  Tbe  poet  never 
gets  that  true  wisdom  consists  in  right  knowing 
and  right  doing.  In  the  development  of  this 
thought  have  we  the  mystical  meaning  and 
tral  idea  of  the  Divina  Commedio.  It  is 
drama  of  human  nature  sinning,  struggling 
against  vice,  straining  after  perfection,  and  mak- 
ing for  the  supreme  good  by  means  of  knowl- 
edge and  power ;  the  primary  knowledge  oi 
one's  duties  toward  one's  self,  one's  neighbor, 
and  God,  and  the  larger  knowledge  of  the  rela- 
tion and  coordination  of  those  duties  in  the 
light  of  philosophy  and  theology;  the  power 
Sowing  from  this  knowledge  aidea  by  prayer  and 
grace,  and  the  assistance  of  the  unseen,  spiritual 
world-  —  The  Rni.  Brother  Aiariai. 

Dante  and  Beatrice. 

This  picture,  which  has  bean  such  ■  boon  to 
humanity,  has  for  its  central  inspiration  the 
memory  of  a  woman.  In  the  prologue  already 
we  hear  of  her.  It  is  she  who  sends  her  poet 
his  poet  guide.  When  he  shrinks  from  the 
painful  progress  which  lies  before  him,  and 
deems  the  companionship  even  of  Viivil  an  in- 
sufficient pledge  of  safely,  the  words  of  his  lady, 
repeated  to  him  by  VlTgil,  raise  his  sinking 
courage,  and  give  him  strength  for  what  lies 
before  him.     Dante  has  left  to  posterity  a  work 


courage,  and   gi 

before  him.     Dante  has  left  to  post , 

unique  of  itself  —  a  romance  of  a  childish  love, 
which  grew  with  the  growth  of  the  lover.  In 
his  adolescence,  its  intensity  at  times  over- 
powers his  bodily  senses.  The  virtues  that  built 
up  his  towering  manhood  built  up  along  with  it 
this  ideal  womanhood,  which,  whether  realizing, 
or  realizable,  ur  neither,  was  the  highest  and 
1 — i:-..  .....„ce  which  his  imagination  could  in- 


The  a 


that  first  peep  at  the  beautiful,  of  that  first  thrill 
□f  the  master  chord  of  being  is  rendered  im- 
mortal for  us  by  the  candor  of  this  great  master. 
We  can  see  the  shamefaced  boy_  taken  captive 
by  this  dazzling  vision  of  Beatrice,  retiring  to 
his  own  closet,  there  to  hide  his  joy  at  having 
found  in  love  a  thing  so  radiant.  Dante's  love 
date*  from  the  completion  of  his  ninth  year  and 
the  beginning  of  hers.  He  first  sees  her  at  a 
May  party  at  the  house  of  her  father.  Hex 
apparel  was  of  the  most  noble  nature,  a  subdued 
and  becoming  crimson,  and  she  wore  a  cincture 
and  ornaments  suitable  to  her  childish  years. 
At  this  sight  his  heart  began  to  beat  with  pain- 
ful violence;  a  master  thought  had  taken  pos- 
session of  him,  and  that  master's  name  was  well 
known  to  him,  as  how  should  it  not  have  been 
at  that  day  when,  if  ever,  love  was  crowned  lord 
of  all  1  He  beheld  in  her  a  demeanor  so  praise- 
worthy and  BO  noble,  as  to  remind  him  of  tbe 
line  of  Homer : 


that  his  second  meeting,  face  to  face 
with  her,  occurred  nine  years  after  bis  fint  en- 
counter.   The  childiah  cnaini  had  now  ripened 


into  womanly  loveliness.  He  beholds  her  ar- 
rayed in  purest  white,  walking  between  two  noble 
ladies.  He  now  begins  to  dream  of  her  in  his 
sleeping  moments,  and  to  rhyme  of  her  in 
hi*  waking.    Now  begins  for  him   a  season   of 


tbe  empire  of  love  is  good,  because  it  obstructs 
the  inclinations  of  its  vassals  from  all  that  is 
base ;  the  opposite,  tbat  the  empire  of  love  is  not 
good,  because,  the  more  absolute  the  allegiance 
of  its  vassal,  the  more  severe  and  woful  are  the 
straits  throoEb  which  he  must  needs  pass.  —  ifrt, 
yidia  WardH<^e. 

Dante'a  Place. 

As  to  the  place  of  Dante  on  Parnassus,  ttie  de- 
cision rests  on  the  degree  in  which  he  excels  in 
showing  to  the  creation  in  hia  looking-glass  it* 
own  face.  An  Italian  scholar  argues  that  he  is 
at  the  top  of  tbe  mount,  where  the  Greeks 
would  put  Homer,  the  Germans  Goethe,  and 
the  English  Shakespeare ;  and  I  own  myself  a 
loyal  Englishman  thus  far.  In  his  severities  as 
well  as  indulgendes,  the  prayers  as  the  jests, 
death-beds  and  cradles,  feast  or  fast,  things 
homely,  or  of  which  oar  philosophy  has  not 
dreamed,  in  his  naturalness  and  truth,  Dante  is 
by  him  outstripped.  Which  of  the  two  do  you 
like  most  to  read  ?  How  stands  with  them  for 
you  the  account  of  profit  and  loss  ^  We  speak 
of  perishable  commodities ;  medieval  theoli^y 
is  one  of  them.  Nevertheless  Dante  is,  up  to 
date,  at  the  head  of  the  religious  poets  of  the 
ice.  From  the  man  we  most  discount 
.  and  sins  of  his  time.  Homer,  Dante, 
Shakespeare,  and  Goethe  ;  but  in  the  qtiater- 
nion  Dante's  muse  is  the  most  pure.  He  had 
heard  tbe  song,  "  Holy,  holy,  holy."  To  his 
figure*  of  retribution  not  one  indecent 
Is  joined.  .Might  his  pattern  be  recom- 
mended to  those  authors^  French  or  American, 
wha  in  letters  have  not  learned  the  first  lesson 
of  hy^ene,  "  Run  your  sewers  into  the  sea." 
What  I*  the  drainage  ?  is  the  prime  inquiry  for 
:  or  a  book.  —  Rev.  Dr.  Bartai. 

Sin  and  Crime  With  Dante. 

_.  .-  very  important  to  understand  the  dlslinc- 
t[on  between  sin  and  crime  when  reading  Dante, 
can  lake  ci^niiance  of  crime,  but  not 
In  is  an  internal  affair  ;  it  has  a  relation 
to  God.  Crime  is  an  overt  act,  what  the  person 
does.  If  he  commits  murder,  the  state  says : 
"Yon  are  Free,  you  do  not  know  what  you  are 
doing;  here  is  your  deed  hack;  to  be  sure,  it 
comes  in  the  shape  of  a  hempen  cord,  and  you 
have  to  end  with  it.  If  you  steal,  you  have  to 
steal  yourself  into  prison."  Ciime  can  be  meas- 
ured. It  i*  the  measure  of  justice.  The  deed  I* 
retumed  in  either  its  exact  correspondence,  or 
as  something  in  the  similitude  of  it  as  near  as 
possible.  But  religion  cannot  look  upon  bad 
conduct  11  crime;  it  looks  upon  it  as  sin.  It 
looks  upon  tbe  relation  of  the  heart  to  God,  and 
lys  it  is  either  all  right  or  all  wrong.  If  it  is  in 
;bcllion  toward  God,  it  is  sin,  and  it  cannot  be 
measured.  You  cannot  make  up  for  it  by  money 
by  any  good  deeds.  On  the  other  hand,  as 
on  as  tneie  comes  tnie  and  sincere  repentance, 
then  there  is  absolution  from  sin.  From  the 
Protestant  standpoint,  the  murderer  who  has  re- 

?:nted  is  supposed  to  go  to  the  paradise  at  once. 
his  is  very  important,  because  npon  it  depends 
the  relation  of  the  church  to  the  stale.  The  stale 
has  to  look  upon  the  overt  act,  not  upon  the  in- 
ternal feeling,  and  to  measure  the  punishment 
and  to  mete  it  out  to  the  offender.  Whenever 
the  church  has  had  in  its  hands  the  manage- 
ment of  municipal  or  political  affairs,  the  affairs 
of  state,  it  has  mismanaged  them.  It  has  intro- 
duced its  divine  standpoint,  and  has  forgiven 
crimes,  and  crimes  have  flourished  in  thai  soil. 
We  see  what  confusion  that  brings  into  the 
world ;  and  that  confusion  I*  the  subject  of  a  ^ 
great  deal  that  Dante  writes.  Danie  was  a  man 
wonderful  for  his  cleame**  on  that  point,  know- 
the  limit*  of  church  and  state.  — Z7r.  W.  T. 


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■  book  uid  »ad  It  qul< 


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that  tbay  iliouM  (et  ■  baUt  of  ni 
void  without  It,  li  what  ihould  be  cultivatBd.  Ncvai 
mind  II  It  li  tiBifa  new  ;  their  !■■(■■  will  iniCDilbly 
•Jtar.  I  Ilka  ■  bay  to  enm  hlmHlf  with  nsvali  i  • 
<Uiy  will  eoniB  whan  hall  lick  of  tham,  and  rajscta 
tham  for  th*  ttudy  ol  facta.  What  wa  want  to  givt 
a  child  i>  ■  bsokmlDdedBaaa,'  ■■  asm*  eoc  call*  [I. 
Thar  will  read  a  (real  d«al  that  la  bad,  of  coura*; 
but  laDBCBDce  la  aa  allppecy  aa  a  duck'a  back  ;  a  boy 
raally  load  o[  reading  la  gengnlly  mite-mlDdad 
CDDUih.  When  you  aee  a  lobuat,  active,  out-of- 
door  boy  daaply  CDgToaaad  In  a  book,  tfato  you  may 
■uapcct  It  II  you  like,  and  aak  him  what  he  haa  cat ; 
it  win  probably  have  an  aulnial  beaiiog."-AiTHui 
Hamilton  I  JAwir^ibj  Chbutophh  Cais. 


OOVOORD  FHILOSOFHT  AVD  ZOLA. 

'T^HE  Concord  School  has  again  assem- 
-'-  bled,  meditated,  and  dispersed,  and 
notfaiag  remains  of  its  specnUtive  philoso- 
phizings  save  tbe  echoes  in  the  journalistic 
air,  some  of  which  are  repeated  oo  aa  inside 
page,  and  the  intellectual  impressions  which 
have  been  produced  in  tbe  few  attentive 
minds.  The  discussions  this  year  took  a 
more  practical  turn  than  they  have  done 
sometimes,  and  were  chieflj  concerned  with 
Dante  and  Plato  and  their  respective  places 
in  literature.  The  remarks  on  Dante, 
being  the  subject  of  perhaps  the  greater 
terest  to  most  of  our  readers,  are  what  we 
have  selected  from  for  reproduction,  and  the 
selections  f^rly  represent  the  differing 
points  of  view  and  lines  of  criticism,  aa 
well  as  the  various  speakers. 

The  discussion  of  Plato  and  Socrates  has 
been  made  the  more  conspicuous  of  the  two 
in  the  public  prints  by  reason  of  some  feel- 
ing growing  out  of  Professor  Davidson's 
remarks  on  Zola.  In  the  course  of  one  ol 
his  papers  Professor  Davidson,  as  reported 
in  the  Advertiser,  used  the  following  lan- 
guage: 

I  find  in  Socrates'*  irony  of  conveisation  one 
charsclerislic  which    dislinguishcs  it  from  (he 
irony  of  most  other  men.    I  can  think  of  oniy 
four   other   men    whose    irony    has    the    same 
characteristic  —  Aristotle,     Jeaus,    Goethe    and 
Zola.    I   know  it  will   surprise  most  of  you 
hear  me  include   Zola  in  this  noble  compan 
but  I  do  so  with  knowledge  of  cause.    ZaJa 
mach  deeded  at  present  for  an  over  devotion 
troth,  which  he  peiiists  in  telling  in  its  entire 
yea,  even  when  be  uses  irony.    Let  us  then  i 
loin  in  the  cry,  remembering  that  Socrates, 
his  day,  was  put  10  death  for  atheism   and  l_. 
corrupting  the  youth  of  Athens,  that  Aristotle 
had  to  flee   for  similar  reasons,  that  Jesus  was 
crucified    for    blasphemy,  that    when    Goethe's 
Wilhelm   Meisler  was   translated  into  English, 
it   was  saluted  wilh  a   howl,  as  being  immoral 
and  cortupling.     That  howl  is    mostly   hushed 
nowadays,  and  so  will  the  present  howl  against 
Zola  soon  be.    In  the  whole  range  of  literature, 
I  know  of  no  more  cool,  calm,  terrible  irony  than 
that  of  Zola.    It  is  the  very  irony  of  truth  itself 
— a  new  species  of  irony  to  add  to  our  liit. 


Nobody  can  say  anything  in  public  like 
this  without  bringing  some  hearers  to  their 
feet.  The  Advertiser,  editorially,  inter- 
preted Professor  Davidson  as  predicting 
"  the  speedy  coming  of  a  cordial  toleration 
of  M.  Zola's  works,"  and  asked:  "Are  we, 
then,  drifting  backward  toward  a  condition 
of  society  and  morals  when  the  nastily  truth- 
ful literature  of  the  dramatists  of  the  resto- 
ration will  be  again  in  vogue?"  And  an 
unnamed  correspondent  of  the  same  jour- 
nal, writing  from  Dublin,  N.H.,  voiced  the 
'egret  and  pain  which  many  people  would 
fed  in  hearing  tbe  Saviour  put  in  a  group 
ith  Zola,  Goethe,  and  Aristotle.  These 
and  other  outcries  called  forth  from  Profes- 
Davidson  an  interesting  rejoinder  in  a 
subsequent  issue  of  the  Advertiser,  which 
regret  we  have  not  apace  to  insert  in  full, 
and  in  which  he  explains  and  justifies  his 
meaning. 

His  opening  remarki  touching  the  sense 
in  which  "even  God  and  the  devil  may  be 
classed  together"  are  hardly  to  the  point, 
should  we  be  disposed  to  enter  into  a 
discnssioD  with  him  over  the  assertion  that 
1  the  teachings  of  Jesus  and  Dante  pride  is 
the  blackest "  and  incontinence  "  the  llght- 
Bt"  of  mortal  sins.  When  he  comes  to  the 
actual  quality  and  influence  of  Zola's  novels 
he  is,  however,  on  ground  where  he  treads 
intelligently  if  not  wisely,  and  his  views  are 
certainly  entitled  to  consideration.  He 
reprobates  most  sincerely,  he  says,  the  pub. 
lication  of  the  details  of  vice,  and  would  be 
glad  to  see  all  Zola's  social  novels  burned. 
But  this  we  cannot  afford  to  do,  he  claims, 
"  for  the  simple  reason  that  vice  and  its  con- 
sequences, degradation  and  suffering,  still 
exist,  and,  so  long  as  they  exist,  it  is  highly 
desirable  that  they  should  be  clearly  under- 
stood by  us,  not  only  in  their  actuality,  but 
in  their  causes,  conditions,  and  ultimate 
effects."     Continuing  he  says  : 

Newspaper  reports  of  vice  and  crime  labor,  for 
the  most  part,  ander  this  great  defect,  that  they 
merely  record  disagreeable  facts,  which  repei  the 
pure-minded  and  attract  the  impa re-mi nded ; 
in  the  former  case  doing  no  good,  in  the  latter 
doing  harm,  in  neither  pointing  (be  way  to  any 
remedy  or  arousing  men's  minds  to  apply  any 
such.  They  are,  therefore,  deserving  of  entire 
reprobation.  Zola's  novels,  on  the  contrary, 
while  reporting  the  same  facts,  present  them  to 
us  in  their  connection,  show  us  their  cauoes  in 
existing  social  or  other  institutions,  and  theii 
effects  upon  men's  lives,  and  characters,  and  so 
at  once  suggest  a  remedy  and  louae  us  to  apply 
it.  No  one  who  haa  lead  Zola's  novels  under. 
standingly  will  ever  think  of  denying  this ;  but 
1  am  quite  aware  that  persons  do  read  them, 
who  see  no  earnest  purpose  in  them,  and  who 
carry  away  from  them  only  what  some  tourists 
carry  away  from  Cologne  —  a  sense  of  bad 
smells.  Such  persons,  1^  course,  ought  not  to 
read  them,  tust  aa  they  ought  not  to  read  any 
book  that  depicts  vice  without  suggesting  to 
them  the  means  of  remedy.  Among  my  audi- 
ence in  Concord  I  think  I  bad  a  right  to  assume 
that  no  such  persons  were  presenL 

To  the  remark  that  Zola  might  accomplish 
his  purposes  without  tise  of  disgusting  de- 
tails, Professor  Davidson  replies  that  one  of 
the  ctii^  merit?  of  tbat  author's  book?  he 


holds  to  be  this  very  presentation  of  vice 
all  its  prosaic,  dull,  heartless,  disgusts 
ing  nakedness.  No  man,"  he  affirms,  "  baa 
made  vice  so  unlovely,  so  sickening,  aa 
Zola  has  done.  He  puts  his  vicious  peoi^ 
into  a  hell  upon  earth,  (»mpared  with  which 
Dante's  Inferno  is  a  land  of  old  romaoce. 
If  any  man  can  fall  in  love  with  vice  from 
Zola's  presentation  of  it,  then  there  Is  do 
hope  for  him  in  this  world  or  tbe  next" 

This  certainly  is  the  point  on  which  tbe 
whole  question  turns.  Are  the  writiogs  of 
Zola,  and  of  other  novelists  that  might  be 
named,  in  love  with  vice,  or  are  they  aeri- 
oualy  intended  to  make  us  hate  it,  bj  real- 
izations of  its  enormity  and  by  pity  over  the 
miseries  it  entails?  It  is  just  here  that 
opinions  differ.  Of  Zola's  writings  Profes- 
sor Davidson  thinks  the  latter,  and  we  are 
rilling  to  concede  that  the  view  is  one 
which  may  be  defended  with  some  force. 
Zola's  novels,  like  Sam  Jones's  sermona, 
may  be  medicine  for  the  vidous  claases. 
The  danger  is  that,  like  the  battle  of  carbolic 
acid  whose  contents  got  by  mistake  into  a 
boy's  stomach  near  Boston  the  other  day, 
and  killed  him,  such  books  will  fall  into  the 
hands  of  readers  to  whom  they  will  prove 
poison  and  death.  If  books  could  be  pre- 
scribed by  authority,  and  taken  in  dosea 
under  regulation  like  other  powerful  agents, 
the  dangerous  among  then  could  be  circu- 
lated with  far  greater  safely. 


■  In  the  article  on  Paul  H.  Hayne  in  odj  last 
,  the  name  of  the  late  Dr.  Frank  H.  Ticknor 
omitted  in  the  ennmeratioa  of  tluxe  authors 
of  the  South  with  whom  Mr.  Hayne  had  been 
sssodated.  Mrs.  Ticknor  was  very  desirooS'^ 
after  her  husband's  death  in  1S74  —  that  Us  scat- 
tered lyrics  should  be  collected  and  that  Paul  H. 
Hayne  should  edit  them.  But  the  lattet's  01 
health  and  various  literary  engagements  pre> 
vented  bim  from  carrying  out  this  design,  and 
the  work  was  undertaken  by  other  iiaods.  Mr. 
Hayne,  however,  kindly  allowed  an  article  which 
he  had  written  on  Ticknor  to  be  used  as  a  pref- 
ace to  the  little  volume  when  it  appeared  •noM 
years  later.  And  it  stands  a  graceful  and  sympa- 
thetic prelude  on  the  thresbhold  of  the  Ticknor 
lyrics.  This,  and  the  memoir  of  Timrod,  with 
IMrs.  Margaret  J.  Preston's  introduction  to 
Hayne's  own  poems,  thus  link  together  these 
four  typical  Southern  writers,  of  whom  naw,aUa, 
Mrs.  Preston  alone  remaina  to  as. 


—  Mr.  E.  R.  Champtin'B  forthcoming  h 
BflJBiHg  Ameruan  Writeri  will  aim  to  state  fully 
and  correctly  the  facts  of  real  name,  present 
residence,  place  and  time  of  birth,  official  liter- 
ary engagements,  publications  in  book  or  pam- 
phlet form,  and  names  of  publishers,  of  every 
resident  of  the  United  States  engaged  either 
wiiolly  or  in  any  considerable  part  in  the  pro- 
duction of  original  books,  or  original  matter  of 
sufficient  importance  to  deserve  book  publica- 
tion (t.  e.,  matter  of  any  permanent  interest), 
every  resident  who  Aat  produced  such  matter,  o 
even  if  now  inactive,  every  one  jast  entering  ^ 
upon  an  author's  life  with  settled  purpose  to 
follow  it|  and  every  writer  of  permanent  matter 


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living  DuUide  the  Uoited  Stitn,  wlto  may  be 
coniidered  an  American  writer.  The  book  will 
coolain  at  least  1,50a  names.  All  editon, 
of  books,  are  eiduded,  except  soch  as  have  pro- 
duced original  matter  of  the  kind  indicated. 
The  book  will  give  the  present  (permanent]  reai- 
dencc  of  each  writer,  and,  wherever  !t  is  not 
absolntel;  impossible,  acompletc  list  o( his  books 
or  pamphlets.    It  will  contain  no  critidsnt. 


THE    HATESVAL    UrOESTOBS  OT 
RALPH  WALDO  EMEB80N. 
Witb  Personal  Reminiscences. 


Introductory. 

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0  obibiiing  iho.  *i». 

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Mr.  Bmenou'a  Mother's  Family. 

Hanging  upon  a  wall  of  m;  study,  and  looking 
down  upon  me  while  I  write,  are  two  old-time 
portrait*.  One  la  the  portrait  of  my  father's 
father,  the  late  John  Haskins  oE  Boston ;  the 
other,  that  of  his  wife,  Hannah  (Upbam)  Haa- 
kins.'  These  persons  were  the  honored  heads 
of  a  family  oC  sixteen  children,  of  whom  Mrs. 
Kuth  Emerson,  the  mother  of  Ralph  Waldo 
Emerson,  wai  the  tenth  in   the  order  of  birth. 

The  genealogy  of  the  Haskins  family  is  not 
a  long  one." 

Robert  Haskins,  the  father  of  John,  ia  the 
first  of  the  name  of  whom  there  is  anj  trace. 
He  came  to  Boston  in  the  early  part  of  the 
lait  century.  His  origin  ts  unknown.  There 
are  two  traditions  concerning  him.  One  is 
that  he  came  to  Boston  from  Virginia,  where 
he  is  said  to  have  ieCt  numerous  relatives;  the 
Other,  that  he  came  from  England  with  a  brother 
and  settled  in  Boston,  and  that  the  brother  went 
to  Virginia,  where  there  are  persons  of  the  name 

He  married.  In  1728,  Sarah  Cook,  daughter 
of  Philip  Cook  of  Cambridge,  whose  name  is  on 
a  tombstone  of  the  old  burying-gronnd  adjacent 
to  the  meeting-house  of  the  First  Parish  irf  that 
town.  He  lived,  after  his  marriage,  in  Boston, 
occupying  a  house  on  the  northwest  comer  of 
Kingston  and  Essex  Streets,  which  was  taken 
down  only  a  few  years  ago.    Nothing  further  Is 


■  TIkk  ponniiimn  lulieii  Id  i7]q,uvcD)'ar>>ftiir  ibe 
Buriia*  of  [faepenoni  lluty  npreacnt,  bjr  a  painter  Buncd 
BadEer.  Tbougb  opca  lo  oilicum  u  wDrki  ot  an,  tbtj  ire 
□evertbeloB  uid  lo  btve  tweik  Eood  likeauKS  of  tha  ori£H 
Bib  11  Ibl  tin*  Ihey  wen  painted. 

'ViiiMtmtiri4!^JlM/fA  MmiJtiHt,  by  D.  C.  HukiBi, 
Jr.,  prapared  by  rsqueu  ol  the  "  N.  E.  Hiiloric  G>aai]o(i- 
tal  Sociaqr,"  and  pOBlwl  in  ToL  I  of  Ihs  SockQ*!  Jfewirt. 


known  about  him,  except  that  he  was  by  occupa- 
tion a  cooper,  and  that  he  died  of  small-pox 
during  the  infancy  of  his  only  child,  John.  His 
wife,  after  a  widowhood  of  alxiut  seventeen  years, 
married,  December  I,  l747,for  aaecond husband, 
Thomas  flake  of  Boaton,  who,  like  her  first 
husband,  was  a  cooper. 

John  Haskins  was  born  in  Boston,  tn  the 
house  above  referred  to,  March  12,  i; 
the  time  when  he  was  sixteen  muntha  old"  — 
I  quote  from  an  accepted  family  chronicle 
"he  and  his  father  had  the  small-pox  the  natural 
way.  His  father  died,  and  the  child 
reduced  by  the  disease,  that  he  was  laid  in  the 
same  room  with  his.  father,  apparently  dead.  B; 
opening  the  windows  the  child  was  revived,  am 
spared  in  mercy  to  hit  widowed  mother.  Shi 
was  pious,  and  early  taught  him  to  love  and  fear 
the  Lord.  He  was  an  afEectionate  and  devoted 
and  obedient  child,  and  though  he  wished  to  go 
to  sea  he  determined  never  to  leave  his  mother 
until  she  had  another  friend."  In  early  youth 
he  applied  himself  lo  acquiring  a  knowledge  of 
his  father's  trade,  that  of  a  cooper.  He  wa 
:ighteen  years  of  age  at  the  time  of  his  mother' 
marriage  to  Mr.  Hake. 

John  now  resolved  to  gratify  his  long  cherished 
desire  to  go  to  sea.     He  accordingly  embarked 
letter-of-marque  vessel  that  was  bound  for 
the  West  Indies  and  commissioned  to  act  against 
France  and   Spain,  which  were   then   allied 
hostilities  against  England.'     He  was  absent  two 
years,  sailing  from  one   island  to  another,  and 
ipporting  himself  by  working  at  his  trade.    In 
bis  absence  he  endured   many  hardships.     He 
taken  prisoner  by  the  Spaniards  and  after- 
wards by  the  French.     He  was  finally  retaken, 
though  with  the  loss  of  his  clothing,  by  au  Amer- 
L  vessel  in  which  he  returned  home.     He  was 
:ived  by  his  mother  with  great  joy  and  grati- 
E,  and  was   immediately  taken  into  partner- 
ship  in  business  by  his  step-father,  Mr.  Hake. 
i   reasonable   to   suppose  that  young  Has- 
■  desires  for  a  sea-life  had  been  more  than 
satisfied    by  the    eiperiencea    of   his    voyage 
However  that  may  have  been,  the  opening  made 
for  him  l^  Mr.  Hake  proved  sufficiently  advan- 
tageous at  the  time  to  satisfy  his  ambitions  in 
slaying  at  home,  and  he  continued  to  reside  in 
the  town  of  his  birth  till  the  end  of  his  long  life. 
On  the  iirenly-third  anniversary  of  his  birth, 
March  II,  1751,  Mr.  Haskins  married  Hannah, 
daughter  of  Phineaa  and  Hannah  (Waite)  Up- 
of  Maiden.    Mrs.  Haskins  was  about  five 
years   younger  than   her   husband.    Mr.   Hake 
died  in  1755.    By  his  last  will   and  icsiament, 
dated  the  same  year,  after  providing  for  the  pay- 
of  certain  legacies,  he  devised  all  the  re- 
mainder of  his  estate,  both  real  and  personal, 
unto  my  much  esteemed  friend  and  son-in-law, 
John  Haskins  of  Boston,  cooper." 

What  changes,  if  any,  Mr.  Hake's  death  made 

in  Mr.  Hoskins's  business,  there  are  no  means  of 

tainlng.     Some   time  afterwards,   there   is 

>n  to  suppose  that  he  was  concerned,  for  a 

,  in  commercial  tranaactions ;  but  this  may 

have  been  in  connection  with  his  business  as  a 

cooper.    Tlie  coopers,  in  those   days,  were  an 

incorporated  body,  and  had   a    large  shipping 


trade,  particularly  with  the  West  Indies.  It  is 
certain  that  later  in  life,  I  do  not  know  when, 
he  changed  his  business,  and  was  Cor  nuuiy  years 
a  distiller. 

During  the  period  between  1764  and  1769, 
Mr.  Haskins  acquired  possession  by  several 
purchases  of  a  considerable  tract  of  land  lying 
between  Rainsford's  Lane  (now  Harrison  Ave- 
nue) and  Orange  (now  Waahingion)  Street.  The 
Washington  Street  front  of  this  property  was 
opposite  the  present  Boylston  MarkeL  In  176^ 
Mr.  Haskins  built  upon  the  Harrison  Avenue 
end  of  this  property  a  large  three^tory  biick 
mansion  house,  which  he  made  his  home  for 
the  remainder  of  his  life.  After  his  death  it  was 
occupied  by  the  family  until  the  decease  of  his 
widow  in  18T9,  and,  except  for  a  brief  interval, 
continued  to  be  the  home  of  bis  three  unmarried 
daughters  until  about  1863,  in  which  year,  almost 
a  century  after  its  erection,  it  was  taken  down, 
and  the  "  Savage  School  "  was  built  by  the  dty 
of  Boaton  on  ita  site.  In  1883  the  school-house, 
having  been  sold  to  private  parties,  was  in  turn 
taken  down,  and  a  lofty  block  of  brick  stores 
now  stands  on  the  site  of  the  old  family  home. 

Before  the  Revolution,  Mr.  Haskins  was  much 
interested  in  military  ofiairs,  and  held  the  com- 
mission first  of  LieQtenant,  and  afterwards  of 
Captain  in  the  old  Boston  Regiment.  The  latter 
commission  is  in  my  possessioa.  It  is  issued  to 
John  Haskins,  Gentleman,  by  Thomas  Hutchin- 
son, Esquire,  Governor  in  Chief  of  the  Province 
of  Massachusetts  Bay,  in  the  name  of  his  Majesty, 
King  George  III,  and  bears  date,  Boston,  Feb- 
ruary 20,  1771.  I  have  also  in  my  possession 
"The  Alarm  List  "  of  Captain  Haskins's  com- 
pany. 

In  the  early  days  of  the  ezdtement  over  the 
Stamp  Act,  Mr.  Haskins  had  been  one  of  the 
"  Sons  of  Liberty ;  "  bnt  later,  repelled,  probably, 
by  the  radical  measures  of  Samuel  Adams  and 
his  followers,  he  became  a  moderate  royalist 
He  remained  in  Boston  during  the  siege;  but 
immediately  ofier  the  evacuation  of  the  town  by 
the  British,  he  took  the  oath  of  allegiance  to  Ihe 
government.  It  is  not  improbable  that  his 
father,  like  most  of  the  English  settlers  of  Mas- 
ichusetts  and  Virginia,  had  been  in  his  younger 
days  attached  to  the  Church  of  England.  His 
mother,  however,  who  had  sole  charge  of  his 
early  training,  was  a  Cungregalionalist,  and 
brought  up  her  son  in  her  own  faith.  But  in 
early  manhood,  Mr.  Haskins  attended  King's 
Chapel,  and  became  deeply  interested  in  the 
Episcopal  church,  of  which  for  the  more  than 
fifty  remaining  years  of  his  life  he  was  a  promi- 
.nd  respected  member.  Hts  Prayer  Book, 
which  has  come  down  to  me,  contains  his  auto- 
graph witb  the  date  1757,  and,  on  the  flyleaf 
before  the  Psalms  in  metre,  a  prayer  composed 
and  written  by  himself,  on  the  occasion  of  his 
first  receiving  the  sacrament  of  the  Lord's  Sup- 
per, February  4,  1759.  But  while  he  chose  for 
himself  the  old  paths  to  walk  in,  at  the  same 
time,  he  never  sought  unduly  to  urge  his  religious 
pinions  or  church  preferences  upon  others. 
There  are  many  ways  to  Heaven,"  he  used  to 
say;  "but  Ihe  Episcopal  church  is  the  turnpike 
road."  He  allowed  his  wife  to  worship  accord- 
ing lo  the  Puritan  fornu  under  which  she  had 
been  educated,  and  made  liberal  provision  for 
her  doing  so,  first  and  for  many  years  at  the  New 
South  Meeting- Houiie,  and  later  at  the  Brattle 
Street  and  the  Park  Street  Meeting-Houaes. 


THE  LITERARY  WORLtt 


[Aug.  7 


Hr.  Hukini  took  high  views  oE  Ihe  diiti«« 
which  pertain  to  Ihe  head  of  a  tuaiij  to  provide 
for  the  Chriitian  training  of  the  children.  The 
regiatera  of  King'a  Chapel  and  of  Tiinitjr  Charchi 
where  he  worshiped  at  different  periods,  and 
which  record  Ihe  baptism*  of  all  of  hia  children, 
■how  the  Importance  which  be  attached  to  hav- 
ing theii  church  life  begin  a>  nearly  at  piactica- 
ble  with  their  natural  life.  The  datea  of  several 
of  the  bapiisms  correspond  exactly  with  those  of 
their  birlb,  and  none  of  therooccurlater  than  the 
daj  of  their  biith  by  more  than  a  few  days. 
From  this  beginning,  it  was  his  aim  to  bring  np 
his  children  in  all  the  osagea  and  duties  of  a 
Christian  life. 

When  small,  the  children  went  to  church  as 
circomitances  determined,  somelimea  with  their 
bther  to  King's  Chapel,  samelimes  with  iheir 
mother  to  the  New  South ;  but  when  old  enough 
to  exercise  intelligent  judgment,  they  were  re- 
quired by  their  father  to  decide  for  themselves 
which  service  they  preferred  to  attend,  the  Epis- 
copal or  the  Congregational,  and  to  give  him  the 
reasons  for  iheir  choice  in  writing.  Hia  daughter 
Rnlh  (afterwards  Mrs.  Emerson]  was,  I  believe, 
one  of  the  children  who  expressed  a  preference 
for  the  Episcopal  worship.  The  plan  seems  lo 
have  worked  well.  It  accustomed  the  children 
to  think  and  act  for  themselves,  and  to  hold  their 
religious  opinions  with  moderation  and  charily. 
As  far  as  I  can  learn,  the  children  were  very 
equally  divided  in  iheir  preferences. 

Mr.  Haskins  was  a  pew-holder  of  King'a 
Chapel,  and  regularly  worshiped  there  till  the 
retreat  of  the  British  from  Boston  in  March, 
1776,  when  the  chapel  ceased  to  be  used  as  an 
Episcopal  church.  It  will  be  remembered  that 
Ihe  venerable  Dr.  Caner,  who  had  been  rector 
of  the  church  for  nearly  thirty  years,  together 
with  the  greater  part  of  the  proprietors  and  con- 
gregation, were  royalists,  and  had  accompanied 
the  troops  in  their  escape  to  Halifax  and  Lon- 
don. In  conaequence,  the  doors  of  the  chapel 
were  closed  for  eighteen  monlbi.  During  the 
following  five  yeais  Ihe  chapel,  with  Ihe  consent 
of  a  few  of  the  proprietors,  was  occupied  by  Ihe 
congregation  of  the  Old  South  Meeting- House. 
In  the  meantime,  and  subsequently  till  his  death, 
Mr.  Haskins  worshiped  at  Trinity  Church. 

But  he  never  relinquished  his  property  rights 
in  King's  Chapel.  In  1735,  after  the  forfeited 
pews  of  Ihe  original  owners  had  been  sold,  and 
moslly  to  Ihe  members  of  the  Old  South  congre- 
gation who  had  long  occupied  them,  Mr.  Has- 
kins was  appointed,  by  the  then  proprietors,  one 
of  a  committee  of  seven,  lo  report  certain  de- 
sired changes  in  the  Book  of  Common  Prayer. 
These  changes  were  chiefly  in  the  direction  of  a 
reaction  against  the  bald  Iritheism  of  much  of 
the  congregational  preaching  of  the  day.  They 
had  already  been  formulated,  acceptably  to  his 
people,  by  Mr.  James  Freeman,  the  young  lay 
paslor  of  the  congregation,  in  the  draft  of  a 
revined  Service  Book.  Mr.  Freeman  had  mod- 
eled his  book  in  the  main,  after  the  Book  of 
Common  Prayer  ;  but  not  satisfied  with  the  aller- 
alioDS  rendered  necessary  by  the  changed  politi. 
cal  relations  of  the  country,  he  had  gone  to  Ihe 
length  of  eliminating  or  modifying  every  expres- 
sion thai  taught  or  implied  the  doctrine  of  the 
Trinity.  Mr.  Haskins  took  strong  ground,  bolb 
in  the  cotnmitlee  and  before  the  proprietors, 
againiit  Ihe  last  described  changes.  They  were, 
nevertheless,  adopted  by  a  vole  of  twenty  yeas  to 


seven  nays.  I  have  before  me  two  documents 
relating  to  the  part  taken  by  Mr.  Haskins  in  the 
above  proceedings.  One  ia  a  manuscript  in  his 
own  handwriting,  covering  sixteen  pages  ot  letter 
sheet,  filled  with  proof-lexM  sopporting  the  doc- 
trine of  the  Trinity,  and  with  notes  on  the  origin 
and  compilation  of  Ihe  Prayer  Book,  evidently  de- 
Hgned  for  his  private  use.  The  other  is  the  copy 
of  a  paper  in  the  nature  of  a  proieat.  which  he 
presented  10  Ihe  proprietors,  April  i,  1785.  a 
short  line  before  their  adoption  of  the  changes 
reported  by  Ihe  committee.  It  is  entitled, 
"  Reasons  for  Dissenting  from  the  Proposed  Al- 
terations in  Ihe  Ulorgy  of  the  Church."  In  this 
paper,  after  a  clear  and  forcible  statement  of  his 
objections  to  the  contemplated  changes  on  the 
ground  that  they  were  not  in  accord  with  Ihe 
teachings  of  the  Scriptures,  Mr.  Haskins  urges 
(l)  that  it  is  unfit  and  against  all  ecclesiastical 
precedent  thai  questions  involving  Ihe  faith  of 
the  church  should  be  passed  upon  by  a  body 
composed  wholly  of  laymen ;  (i)  that  a  General 
Convention  of  Ihe  Episcopal  Church,  made  up  of 
both  clergymen  and  laymen,  was  to  be  held  dur- 
ing Ihe  year,  by  which  all  needed  changes  in  the 
Prayer  Book  would  be  duly  considered  and 
legally  made,  and  by  thoae  who  have  a  right  to 
make  them  j  {3)  that  Ihe  proposed  changes 
affected  the  fundamental  doctrine  of  the  Prayer 
Book,  and  would,  therefore,  be  unjost  to  the  per- 
sons who  had  contributed  to  the  building  and  to 
the  funds  of  the  church  with  the  nnderstaiiding 
that  it  was  lo  be  conformed  in  faith  and  mode  of 
worship  to  the  Church  of  England. 

This  document,  which  is  singularly  able,  as 
well  as  entirety  respectful  in  tone,  closed  with  the 
request,  that  in  caae  the  majority  report  of  Ihe 
committee  should  be  adopted,  "  this  protest  may 
be  entered  in  full  on  the  records  of  Ihe  church.'' 
Notwithstanding,  no  reference  lo  it  appears  in 
the  books  of  King's  Chapel;  nor  has  it  ever  to 
my  knowledge,  been  brought  to  the  notice  of  the 
general  public.  Later,  Mr.  Haskins  also  nniled 
with  others  in  protesting  against  the  lay  ordina- 
tion of  Mr.  Freeman. 

Mr.  Haskins  was  over  seventy  years  of  age 
when  he  retired  Irom  active  business.  He  had 
accumulated  a  hancisome  property,  which  was 
mostly  invested  in  real  estate.  In  person  Mr. 
Haskins  was  above  the  common  sixe  and  stature, 
with  somewhat  of  a  military  ereclness  of  figure, 
and  possessed  a  natural  gravity  and  dignity  of 
bearing,  the  effect  of  which  was  enhanced  by 
his  mode  of  dress  which  was  that  of  Ihe  aute- 
revolutionary  period.  Correspondingly,  he  was 
distinguiithed  by  unusual  attength  and  upright- 
ness of  character,  and  equally  for  soundness 
of  judgment  and  for  practical  wisdom.  His 
advice  was  often  sought  for,  and  many  pithy 
sayings  attributed  lo  him  were  repeated  from 
mouth  to  mouth  for  mote  than  a  generation  after 
his  death.  His  reputation  for  truth  and  rectitude 
gained  for  him  the  popular  designation  of  "  Hon- 
est John  Haskins."  The  following  anecdote  of 
him  was  told  me  by  a  gentleman  who  had  it 
from  the  lips  of  the  elder  Harrison  Gray  Otis. 
A  Boston  man,  one  Mr.  John  Boies,  was  on  the 
eve  of  sailing  on  a  long  voyage,  and  having  a  few 
hundred  dollars  in  silver  saved  from  his  earit- 
ings,  which  be  did  not  need  to  take  with  him, 
a  friend  advised  him  to  deposit  the  sum  in  the 
old  Massachuselts  Bank.  "  No,"  replied  Mr. 
Boies,  "  old  Honest  John  Haskins  is  better  than 
any  bank  j  I  am  going  to  gel  him  lo  keep  it  (or 


me."  Mr.  Haskins  was  reluctant  to  receive  the 
money,  but  finally  yielding  to  Mr.  Boies's  urgency, 
he  led  the  way  to  the  cellar,  where  he  dug  a  hole 
in  a  retired  comer  in  which  he  boried  the  box 
containing  the  treasure,  and  placed  over  it  an 
empty  hogshead.  Then  calling  his  negro  servant, 
Gloucester,  he  directed  him  to  fill  the  hogshead 
with  water.  Having  seen  thia  done,  his  visitor 
departed  satisfied.  After  a  long  absence  Mr. 
Boies  returned,  when  Mr.  Haskins  said  lo  him 
that  the  ore  of  the  money  had  caused  him  some 
uneasiness,  and  that  he  should  be  glad  to  be 
relieved  of  it.  Accordingly,  with  Gloucester's 
help,  the  hogshead  was  emptied  and  removed, 
the  box  was  found  safe,  and  given  back  to  it* 
confiding  owner. 

Both  the  devout  and  the  practical  aides  at 
Mr.  Haskins's  character  are  charmingly  iliu»* 
trated  In  the  explanation  be  once  gave  (rf  hi* 
preference  for  a  precomposed  liturgy  in  public 
worship.  He  said  that  upon  leaving  the  door 
of  his  house  to  go  to  church  he  made  il  a  point, 
if  unattended,  to  say  the  service,  which  he  knew 
by  heart,  to  himself,  beginning  with  the  openii^ 
sentences,  and  continoing  in  the  prescribed  order, 
taking  both  the  minister's  parts  and  the  people's, 
till  he  reached  the  church.  By  this  course,  he 
taid,  if  he  arrived  late,  he  was  prelty  sure  to  be 
np  with  the  minister  and  lost  nothing;  on  the 
other  hand,  if  h«  reached  the  church  before 
the  services  began,  he  was  in  a  better  frame 
of  mind  for  entering  upon  them  a  second  time. 

Still  another  anecdote  has  been  preserved  of 
Mr.  Haskins,  which  is  worth  teladng  for  the 
glimpse  it  affords  of  hi*  home  life.  Oik  day, 
while  the  family  were  al  dinner,  the  distillery, 
which  was  separated  by  only  a  thirty-foot  pas- 
sage-way from  Ihe  house,  was  discovered  to  be 
on  fire.  The  large  group  of  children  started  at 
once  and  eagerly  from  their  places,  but  were  in- 
stantly checked  by  iheir  father,  who,  rapping 
upon  the  table  to  command  attention,  reverently 
but  briefly  returned  thanks  for  the  meal,  sayii^ 
as  was  his  wont,  "  The  Lord  be  praised  for  this 
and  all  his  merdes."  Then,  after  a  short  pause, 
he  added,  "Now,  boys,  run." 

In  business,  Mr.  Haskins  was  diligent  and 
methodical  in  his  habits,  and  scrupulously  exact 
and  just  in  his  dealings  with  others.  In  ihe  fam- 
ily he  was  an  exemplary  father,  faithful  and  judi- 
cious in  the  training  of  his  children,  and  a  re- 
markably kind  and  indulgent  husband.  His  son 
Ralph,  in  the  entry  in  his  diary  which  records 
his  father's  death,  says  of  his  father  and  mother: 
"No  couple  ever  lived  more  happily  together 
during  their  married  life,  a  period  of  nearly  sixty 
three  years." 

Mr.  Haskins  was  also  noted  for  his  hospitable 
entertainment  of  visitprs,  and  for  hia  liberal 
charities.  It  is  said  to  have  been  hia  practice  — 
whether  or  not  it  was  common  in  the  early  days, 
I  am  unable  lo  say  —  lo  invite  two  or  three  per- 
sons from  the  poor-house  to  dine  with  him  <mce 

Mr.  Haskins  died  in  Boston,  October  27,  1814. 
He  was  baried  from  Trinity  Church  on  the  31st 
of  the  same  month,  the  service  having  been  said 
by  the  Reverend  Dr.  Gaidiaet.  The  remain* 
were  placed  in  the  family  tomb  under  the  church. 
Mr.  Haskins's  wife,  and  thiiieen  of  his  children 
survived  him,  besides  forty-sii  grandchildren.  Il  ,> 
is  remarkable  that  his  death  was  the  first  that  ^ 
had  taken  place  in  his  immediate  family  for 
nearly  fifty-three  yeara.    The  following  Udc^ 


1886.] 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


lit 


which  were  written  upon  Ht.  Haskini's  de&th  by 
hJB  grandson,  Ralph  W«ldo  Emcraon,  then  ■  lad 
of  eleven  jeart,  will  be  read  with  Interest : 


WMk  roBiid  hiin  olhcnd,  tH  fail  tfaildnn  Hud, 
And  wni*  ant  baO*  bii  wuhcnd,  piUiil  hud. 
HabiditlMin  mu  in  Cod,  nor  mauni,  dot  wcep) 
He  brcaiba  nliKion,  ind  iheo  [illiuietp. 
Than  on  innlk  winti  he  loin  lo  God, 
Relciindtolumbiieanhly,  tnomllaid  ; 
Hb  bead  ia  amred  wiifa  a  crown  ol  tfM, 
Hit  b»d>,  nntwed,  aharp  unmamrfaobl  i 
Thua  dollKd  wlllil^l,  Ihs  lunehil  ipiril  linii  — 
He  ungi  of  nercy  and  of  Heavanlf  tiiinci. 

Honoab  Upham. 

Hannah  Upham,  the  wife  of  John  Haskina, 
came  of  good  old  New  England  stock,  a  topical 
FoHtan  family.  Her  ancestor,  John  Upham, 
camcfroin  England,  probably  in  1635.  andaettied 
in  Weymouth;  but  later  removed  to  Maiden, 
where  the  family  lived  lor  many  yeata,  and  where 
Hannah  herself  was  bom.  The  Upbama  were 
evidently  men  of  ability  and  characler,  and  en- 
joyed the  confidence  of  the  imall  communities  in 
which  they  lived.  They  were  aelectmen,  moder- 
ator! of  town-meetings,  members  of  the  General 
Court,  officers  in  the  militia,  and  deacon*  of  the 
church.  One  of  them  waa  Town  Treasnrer. 
Another,  Lieutenant  Phinea«  Upham,  son  of  the 
first  icttler,  wai  mortally  wounded  in  the  great 
swamp  fight  with  the  Narragansel  Indians  at 
Canonicus,  in  167J.  Through  her  mother,  Han- 
nah Waite,  Miss  Upham  was  descended  from 
Captain  John  Waite,  one  of  the  leading  men  of 
Maiden,  who  was  captain  of  the  military  com- 
pany. Speaker  of  the  House  of  Depnties,  and  one 
of  the  compilers  of  the  first  body  of  the  Colony 
Laws ;  she  was  also  descended  from  Rose  Duo- 
st«r,  a  sister  of  the  Rev.  Henry  Donster.the  first 
President  of  Harvard  College ;  from  Thomas 
Oakes,  cousin  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Oakes,  the  fourth 
President  of  the  same  institatton,  and  from  John 
Howland,  the  famous  Mayflower  Pilgrim.  Han- 
nah's father,  Pbtneas  Upham,  was  one  of  the  ten 
children  of  Phineas  and  Tamsen  Upham  of  Mai- 
den, and  was  born  in  that  town  in  1707-8.  He 
was  a  brother  of  Dr.  Jabei  Upham,  who  settled 
in  Brookfield,  and  attained  distinction  there  both 
as  a  physician  and  as  a  member  of  the  General 
Court.  He  married,  in  1730,  Hannah,  daughter 
of  Joseph  and  Lydia  Waite.  He  died  in  1738, 
when  about  thirty  years  of  age. 

The  circumsunces  connected  with  the  death  of 
Mr.  Upham  furnish  a  remarkable  parallel  to  those 
conivected  with  the  death  of  Mr.  Robert  Haskins, 
related  above.  I  give  them  in  this  case,  as  in 
the  former,  in  the  words  of  the  old  family  chron- 
icle: 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Upham  were  both  eminently 
pions.  When  Hannah  was  about  four  years  old, 
the  throat  distemper  prevailed  in  Maiden  and 
many  died.  Among  these  were  Mr.  Upham 
and  three  of  his  four  children.  Hannah,  the 
surviving  child,  was  brought  very  low.  Dr. 
Tufts  attended  her.  His  remedies  were  in- 
effectual. He  one  day  returned  from  visiting 
ber,  and  resolved  to  spend  the  night  in  study 
and  prayer  on  her  account,  which  he  did.  Find- 
ing one  medicine  that  he  had  not  tried,  be  ad- 
ministered it,  and  it  relieved  her.  After  some 
time,  she  was  restored,  lo  the  great  Joy  of  her 
afflicted  mother,  with  whom  she  lived  alone  in 
the  house  for  seven  years.  She  was  carefully 
and  religiously  educated,  and  thus  prepared  lo 
be  a  blessing  in  the  church  and  to  the  world. 
The  goodness  and  mercy  of  God  were  signally 
manifested  towards  these  individuals  [John  and 
Hannah  Haskins]  and  the  promise  connected 
with  the  fifth  commandment  was  fulfilled 
their  experience. 


Mrs.  Upham,  Hannah's  mother,  married,  in 
>744-S>  for  a  second  husband,  Israel  Cook,  ao 
uncle  lA  John  Haskins,  with  whom  she  lived  for 
many  years  in  the  family  residence  at  Maiden. 
Their  home,  during  her  life,  was  a  favorite  galher- 
ing-placeof  Mr.  Haskins's  family  —  the  daughters 
going  in  pairs  to  make  visits  of  several  days 
together  to  their  grandmother  Cook.  She  died 
October  3,  1789. 

Hannah  was  bom  In  her  father's  house  in 
Maiden,  May  6,  17341  was  married  in  the  same 
town,  by  the  Reverend  Joseph  Etnerson,  the 
grandfather  of  the  Reverend  William  Emerson 
who  afterwards  espoused  her  daughter,  Ruth ; 
and  died  In  Boston,  September  18,  1819.  She 
was  in  many  respects  a  remarkable  woman. 
Hardly  eighteen  years  of  age  at  the  time  of  her 
marriage,  she  became  the  mother  of  Mr.  Has- 
kins's sixteen  children.  Thirteen  of  these  chil- 
dren were  living  at  the  time  of  her  death  in  her 
eighty-sixth  year,  the  oldest  of  these  children 
being  then  sixty-five  years  of  age,  and  the 
youngest  forty  years.  Her  health  through  life 
was  generally  good,  and  her  memory  and  facul- 
ties remained  unimpaired  to  the  last.  The 
portrait  of  her  in  my  possession  painted  seven 
years  after  her  marriage,  represents  her  as  un- 
usually slight  oF  figure ;  bat  she  is  described  as 
being  in  her  later  years  a  large  woman  of  fine 
appearance.  She  was  so  far  from  inheriting 
wealth,  that  Mr.  Haskins,  it  ia  said,  provided 
her  wedding  outfit.  But  she  brought  a  mote 
than  compensating  portion  to  his  home  in  her 
singularly  calm  and  happy  temperament,  and 
amiable  disposition  ;  in  the  well-balanced  powers 
ol  her  mind,  and  (he  strength  of  her  religious 
character  ;  in  her  spiritual  culture,  and  the  quiet 
benignity  of  her  manners.  Fully  sharing  her 
husband's  views  in  regard  to  the  religious  edu- 
cation of  the  children,  she  was  singularly  fitted 
by  her  natural  endowments  and  Christian  graces 
to  mold  their  character  and  guide  their  con- 
duct, and,  under  her  faithful  oversight,  they 
were  brought  up  in  the  best  methods  of  a  well- 
ordered,  New  England  home.  Of  the  children 
who  lived  beyond  infancy,  nine  were  daughters, 
and  naturally  came  almost  eiclusively  under 
her  influence.  Their  more  amiable  traits,  par 
ticnlarly  the  eminent  loveliness  lA  disposition 
which  distinguished  all  of  the  daughters,  are 
said,  and  no  doubt  correctly,  Co  have  come  in 
a  peculiar  sense  from  her.  In  what  degree  the 
moral  impress  of  their  mother's  character  mani- 
fest in  the  children  was  due  lo  Ihcir  having  been 
so  long  and  closely  united  in  ibe  family  bond, 
it  is  not  easy  to  determine.  But  the  statistics 
involved  in  the  inquiry  are  striking  and  inter- 
esting. The  family  life  which  came  to  an  end 
at  Mrs.  Haskins's  death  covered  a  period  of  more 
than  sixty-seven  years-  Of  the  thirteen  children 
who  survived  her,  alt  were  bom  before  the 
twenty-eighth  year  of  her  married  life,  and  till 
that  time  only  one,  the  oldest,  had  been  married. 
Of  the  twelve  others,  nine  were  subsequently 
married,  but  at  long  intervals  of  succession. 
The  dates  show  that  all  of  the  children  lived  at 
home  and  enjoyed  the  influences  of  the  family 
circle  for  many  years  beyond  the  limits  of  boy- 
hood or  girlhood.  The  three  younger  daugh- 
ters remained  unmanied  aikd  at  hume  through 
life.  The  family  intetcouise  was  also  kept  up 
by  occasional  visits  to  the  old  home  from  tho 
of  the  married  children  who  had  settled  at 
distance;   and  aometimea  these  visita  were  i 


turned  by  the  parents  together  with  one  or  more 
of  their  other  children.  There  were,  also, 
weekly  gatherings  in  their  father's  house  of  the 
married  children  who  lived  near  home,  and 
during  the  Christmas  season  there  were  general 
family  reunions.  Though  in  her  later  years  the 
responsible  cares  of  the  household  devolved 
upon  the  daughters,  by  whom  they  were  assumed 
in  turn,  yet  during  all  of  the  period  referred  to, 
Mrs.  Haskins  was  the  revered  domestic  bead 
of  the  family,  the  honored  and  beloved  center  of 
the  home  system  of  thirteen  children  and  nearly 
fifty  grandchildren.  Notwithstanding  the  re- 
sponsibilities and  cares  of  her  large  family,  she 
was  mindful  of  her  duties  to  others,  and  in 
proportion  to  her  means  vras  generous  in  her 
benefactions  to  the  poor.  A  pleasant  tradition 
of  the  family  relates  Chat  she  kept  a  mother-of- 
pearl  charity-box,  capable  of  holding  about  five 
dollars  in  silver,  from  which  she  used  Co  draw 
freely,  waving  it  before  her  husband  whenever 
it  needed  to  be  replenished.  She  retained  her 
connection  with  the  Congregational  church  to 
the  last.  At  her  dealh,  her  son  Italph  wrote  of 
her :  "  She  has  performed  all  the  duties  of  life 
well.  Wiih  truth  ic  may  be  said,  she  was  one 
of  the  t>est  of  mothers,  besC  of  wives,  best  of 
Christians,  and  best  of  women."  Her  remains 
were  deposited  with  (hose  of  her  husband  in  the 
family  tocnb  under  Trinity  Church. 

Ruth  Haskins. 

Ruth  Haskins,  daughter  of  John  and  Hannah 
(Upham)  Haskins,  was  born  in  Boston,  Novem. 
ber  9,  1768,  and  was  baptized  the  same  day  in 
King's  Chapel  by  Che  rector,  (he  Rev.  Dr. 
Caner.  She  was  married  at  her  father's  house 
by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Parker,  rector  of  Trinity 
Church,  October  ij,  1796,  Co  the  Reverend 
William  Emerson,  minister  in  the  town  of  Har- 
vard, and  son  of  the  minister,  of  the  same  name, 
formerly  of  Concord.  She  died  in  Concord,  at 
Che  house  of  her  son,  Ralph  Waldo  Emersrai, 
November  16^  1853. 

Like  all  of  her  father's  children,  Ruth  received 
in  her  yonih  careful  religious  and  domestic 
training  and  the  best  school  opportunilies  of  the 
day.  In  addition,  it  was  ber  happy  lot  to  fill, 
numerically,  the  place  of  "  the  golden  mean  "  In 
Che  line  of  the  children  of  the  family  who  lived 
to  grow  up.  She  had  five  sisters  and  one 
brother  older  than  herself;  and  three  sisters 
and  Cfaree  brolhers  younger.  At  Che  lime  of  her 
birth,  ber  oldest  sister  was  fifteen  years  of  age. 
The  advantages  incident  to  this  position  in  the 
family  were  felt  more  and  mire  as  she  grew  up, 
and  are  no  doubl  to  be  reckoned  among  the 
mote  important  influences  which  conCriboted  to 
form  her  character.  On  the  one  band,  she  en- 
joyed the  society  and  example  of  the  numerous 
older  band  of  children  ;  and,  on  the  other,  the 
perhaps  greater  moral  benefit  of  exercising  on 
her  own  part  the  tender  and  responsible  oflSces 
of  an  older  sister.  Of  her  life  previous  lo  ber 
maniage,  1  know  little  except  Chat  it  waa  varied 
by  frequent  visita  to  her  Grandmother  Cook 
and  to  ber  aunts  Waite,  at  Maiden,  and  to  ber 
married  aisters.  In  these  visits,  probably,  she 
became  acquainted  with  young  William  Emer- 
son whom  she  afterwards  married.  His  Grand- 
mother Emerson  lived  there,  as  well  as  bis 
Aunts  Brinton  and  Rebecca  Emerson  and  bis 
Aunts  Waite  with  whom  his  bister  Mary  Moody 
Emerson  lived.     It  is  certain  that  the  lovely 


THE   LITERARY  WORLtt 


[AoG.  7, 


ChrUtim  gracei  of  Ruth'i  characier  hxl  been 
early  developed  and  matnied.  The  following 
extract  from  one  o(  the  few  letters  of  beta  i 
pouetaion  give*  an  idea  of  the  cut  of  hei 
mind  and  of  her  spiritual  experience  at  thii  time. 
The  letter  waa  addreued  to  her  aiater  Deborah, 
the  wife  of  the  Reverend  Maae  Shepard  of 
Uttle  Compton,  R.  I.,  and  it  dated  Botton, 
jMie  4,  1793  ■■ 


a  of  rtmrBiDi  ber  i  I 
iiHy  bcinf  thoHi  put  It 


«h  plwcd  with  roor  nrikiDi 

iowttt  la  Iha  diSoa 

imn 

wonhip.     Xj 

lutly  ■oonl  with  ;aiin, 

V 

•T   thil  b.  bix 

«l.>lldw<.  need  not 

«r. 

war  good  aiK 

w»b».  Ttca,t.  ID 

bet  .  (nttfiL 

<!r(oryourpr«,m. 

dfu 

«th,j^ntm. 

"TJm)   c= 


m  cif  Mr.  Shepard'i  uid  your  leltan  ' 


s  psculiar  ^aj  and  plui 


Ml 

il  God  tijj  JIM  obuin  »  his  htnd  tliu 
peice  which  the  world  can  uilbei  girt  nor  { 
God)  14ke  iwtj." 

The  remainder  of  the  letter,  which  is  quite 
long,  is  largely  taken  ap  with  quoCationa  from 
Wogatt'3  Etiayt  on  lit  Church  Leiteru,  which 
the  commendi  10  tnr  liiter  aa  a  book  which  she 
has  lately  read  with  great  pleaaure. 

Kuth  was  in  the  twetity-eighth  year  of  her  age 
when  she  was  married  to  Hr.  Emerion.  Soon 
after  the  wedding  the  accompanied  her  hnsband 
to  Harvard,  and  at  once  assumed  the  charge  of 
tus  home.  Here  about  three  of  the  fifteen  and  a 
half  years  of  their  married  life  were  passed. 
Their  lint  child,  who  died  when  about  three 
yean  of  age,  was  born  in  Harvard.  Mr.  Emer> 
ton  having  been  chosen  minister  of  the  First 
Church,  in  Boston,  the  family  removed  to  that 
town  in  1799.  There  they  lived  at  first  in  the  old 
patsonage.belongingto  thechuich.situalcdon  the 
Bouthcily  side  of  fiummer  litreet,  near  the  cortier 
of  Chiuncy  Place,  now  Chauncy  Street.  After- 
wards, while  a  new  parsonage  was  building  on 
the  adjacent  corner  of  Chauncy  Place,  they  occu- 
pied for  twelve  or  fourteen  months  a  house  in 
Atkinson  Street,  opposite  the  northerly  end  of 
Berry  Street,  which  stood  next  to  the  house  of 
Mr.  Samuel  Bradford.  But  on  the  completion  of 
the  new  parsonage  they  moved  into  it,  and  lived 
there  till  Mr.  Emerson's  death. 

Mr.  Emerson  died  May  istb,  iSii.  An  entry 
in  my  father's  diary  on  the  16th  of  the  saine 
month  says  : 

"Brother  EmenoD'a  funenl  look  plus  today.  A>er- 
■noD  wu  dfKnred  by  Mr,  Buckiainilei,  and  a  very  large 
■ad  rupeclable  proceaiian  wu  foimed.  Belwecn  fifty  and 
■illy  oachet  fallowed.  £f ery  atlsniion  luu  been  paid  by 
the  GonunilLoe  of  the  church  and  jta  meidbcrm  to  the  widow 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Emerson  had  eight  children,  of 
whom  six,  iive  sons  and  a  daughter,  were  living 
at  the  time  of  their  father's  death.  The  oldest 
child,  William,  was  then  hardly  ten  years  of  age, 
while  the  youngest,  a  daughter,  was  an  infant  in 
arms.  Of  the  sons,  William,  Ralph  Waldo, 
Edward  Bliss,  and  Charles  Chauncy,  were  early 
remarkable  for  unusual  etidowments  of  mind  and 
character.  Ralph  Waldo  was  accounted  by  the 
near  relatives  of  the  family  as  the  least  brilliant 
of  the  four. 

Though  Mr.  Emerson  died  three  quarters  of  a 
century  ago,  yet,  there  is  living,  and  singularly 
and  happily,  not  far  (torn  my  own  door  in  Cam- 
bridge, a  lady  now  in  her  ninety-fourth  year,  who, 


during  her  maturer  girlhooil,  was  lot  several 
years  a  member  of  his  family,  and  who  ha*  kindly 
sent  me  in  her  own  clear  and  handsome  writing, 
her  reminiscertces  of  that  period.  The  person  I 
refer  to  is  Madam  Bradford,  widow  <rf  the  late 
Charles  Bradford  of  Botton,  and  mother  of  the 
late  Joseph  Russell  Bradford  of  Cambridgi 
whose  family  she  now  has  her  home. 

Madam  Bradford's  letter,  which  I  give  below, 
presents  a  remarkably  realistic  picture  of  the 
domestic  life  of  the  Emerson  family.  It  bears 
high  testimony  to  the  writer's  faculties  of  obser' 
vation  as  a  girl,  and  to  the  extraordinary  reteti- 
tiveness  of  her  meinot?  in  age.  Her  rare  sim- 
plicity oF  style,  and  her  facility  and  felicity  of 
minute  description,  comlnne  to  impart  a  unique 
interett  10  her  recollections  of  the  Emeraon 
home  in  tbe  Summer  Street  parsonages. 
[Tt  it  cam/iiBMd.-i 


BEOEHT  POETBT. 

Mn.  Piatt's  alight,  unpretentioiit  "new  Irish 
garland,"  lit  Primrast  Time,'  has  the  perfume  of 
true  poesy,  and  the  gentle  breath  of  home  long- 
ing that  stirs  among  these  flowen  of  song  gath- 
ered upon  an  alien  shore  can  hardly  fail  to  touch 
the  heart  of  the  least  sentimental  reader.  "  Sing 
on,"  the  poet  cries  to  the  departing  emigrant 

Sinaon,  andice  bow  aoldon  graio  can  grow, 
Ho*  loUen  trie  and  nne, 

In  our  great  wooda  \  bow  apple-bnda  cau  Uow, 


Lil,  in 


As  usual  children  ptay  an  important  part  ii 
Mrs.  Piatt's  rhymes,  and  real  American  children 
they  are,  loo.  In  the  Tower  two  of 
talking  of  the  crown. 

"  I  wiih  Iht  Prtaident  wore  one."    "  He  dj 

Not."    "  Bnl,  ii'i  pntlicr  than  a  bai." 
"  Von  don't  Ihink  any  mas  aJive  would  wear 

A  thidf  1>^  that." 

"  The  Quec 


Don't  you  know  that  yet  t " 


And  thoroughly  child.like — ought  we  to  add, 
of  the  youthful 
listener  to  the  story  of  the  ruined  bird's-nctt ; 

—  Thebirdebad  better bnildinodwr; 

ut  Mrs.  Piatt  has  taken  to  her  heart  Irish  joys 
nd  sorrows,  and  in  "  The  Ivy  of  Ireland  "  she 
chants  of  them  with  a  melodioua  gnce.  Yes; 
these  are  slight  flowers  to  make  a  garland  of  — 
slight  things,  perhaps,  but  rote*  I  " 

Obeiholtser's  fiowen  ate  daisies,*  and 
because  of  their  homely  yet  attractive  simplicity, 
re  rightly  named.  There  is  a  pretty  idyl  of 
The  Coal-Pickers."  Little  Red  Hood  goes 
with  her  buckets  among  the  tough  crowd  of  coal 
heavers  to  gather  fuel  for  her  sick  father,  and 
when  she  finds  the  task  too  much  for  her  feeble 
itrengtb,  the  gleaners  fill  the  buckets. 
"God  filled  'en  up,"  ji  faiih  ibe  liipa. 


Ther 


njia 


So  the  lad  bears  the  load  after  her,  and  gets  tbe 
sick  father's  blessing.    All  this  is  good,  and  yet 


In  PrimroH  rimei  a  New  Iriah  Cariind.    By  Sank 
M.  B,  Plan.    Houghton,  Hiain  A  Co.    t'.oo. 

of  V«K.    By  Utl  S.  L.  OberiMttut.    J.  B. 
Co.    ».JS. 


Fena  planud  iIm  dty  vt  hi*  lava,  a  "  ooaatry  lownt  m 
Whcn^l^  SdioylUU  wiien  with  tbe  Ddawir*>>  ce 


Aa  w*  walk  down  the  pairenunH  red  of  PbOadeiphla. 
There  is  however  a  sense  of  humanity  in  Mim. 
Oberholtzcr's  verse*  that  one  often  misses  in 
more  ambitious  eSusion*.  They  may  not  alway* 
be  poetical  in  form  ;  they  possess  at  any  rate  the 
poetry  of  feeling. 

In  A  Li/i  in  Sai^,'  Mr.  Raymond  ha*  endeav- 
ored, with  a  fair  degree  of  success,  to  depict  th« 
intellectual  and  spiritual  growth  of  a  richly- 
endowed  nature  through  the  seven  "notes"  at 
dreaming,  daring,  donbting,  seeking,  loving,  serv< 
ii^,  and  watching  —  the  whole  being  thrown  into 
a  totnewhal  forced  dramatic  form  which  might 
better  have  been  omitted  since  it  only  detract* 
from  the  essential  unity  of  the  central  idea.  Hr. 
Raymond  ha*  brought  to  I>ear  in  working  ool 
his  theme  many  noble  thoughts,  an  elevating  and 
unswerving  faith  in  the  ultimate  destiny  of  nan, 
and  a  genuine  passion  for  the  loftier  ideals  that 
tend  to  charity,  or,  as  he  expresce*  ii,  to  the 
univenal  law  of  sympathy.  The  verufio- 
Ijon  throughout  ia  graceful  and  thoroughly  ar- 
tistic, the  imagery  varied  and  spontaneon*^  the 
high,  earnest,  and  appealing.  Tbe  book  i* 
:o  be  read  in  a  thoughtful  mood,  and  It  will 
repay  a  careful  perusal.  Particulariy  do  we 
commend  it  to  the  multitude  of  contemporary 
barillings  who  may  find  In  it*  sincerity  of  porpose 
and  loftiness  of  aim  a  laiatary  inspintion.  Nor 
is  lyric  beauty  wanting.  The  dainty  love  song  in 
the  fifth  canto  ia  exquisitely  melodious.  The 
maiden  goes  tripping  hy : 

Soahepaaa'iLai 

None  could  ba 


All  of  nalnra  with  ibylhinic  beat 
Sa«n'd  (o  have  join'd  her  twayiog. 

Keeping  time  la  bar  fair  young  feet, 
Tba  beal  of  her  heart  (dicyiii(. 

Ah,  thoBgbt  I,  nBce  the  world  waa  on, 

All  ill  whirling  and  hununing, 
AH  ita  worUna  and  walEiiif  too, 

Mnanl  that  tba  waa  coiuag. 

Mrs.  M.  B.  Holyoke  brings  yitUti'—ihc 
calls  them  so,  and  in  the  herbarium  of  current 
flowere  of  song  they  must  perforce  have  a  place. 
Unfortunately  the  trail  of  the  temperance  lect- 
Ihe  bom  orator,  is  over  them  all,  and  their 
glowing  rhetorical  intensity  does  not  compensate 
for  a  hopeless  lack  of  the  poetic  spirit 

In  the  preface  to  a  showy  volume  bearing  the 
title  of  me  Petl  Scent}  Captain  Jack  Crawford 
oSen  the  "sketches  and  poems  "  it  contain*  a* 
"  the  spontaneous  bubblings  from  a  heart  whose 
springs  of  poesy  and  poetic  thought  were  opened 
by  the  hand  of  Nature  amid  her  roughest  scenes. 
"That  tbey  are  crude  and  rough,"  he  add^ 
and  lack  the  polished  finish  of  the  dropping* 
from  more  gifted  pens,  I  freely  admit,  and  I 
would  therefore  beg  the  critics  to  spare  them." 
So  we  considerately  spare.  —  We  will  al*o  *pare 


•A  Lilain  Son(.     By  Gm^  Lanaing  Rayimnd.    G.  P. 
jtnain'a  Son*. 

■Violata,   Early  and  Lata.      Poem*  by   Uaiia  fialkrd  ■ 
Holyoke.    Chicaso :  Hilla  ft  Spining.    fi.jo.  [ 

The  Poet  Seoul  I  a  Book  of  Soogand  Story.    Bf  C^  ^ 
■aim  Jack  Crawford  (lal*  Chief  «f  Seouta,  U.  S.  An^ 
aWaculla, 


i886.] 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


269 


Mr.  Sannd'a  maniacal  rhymes,*  paniii^  only  to 
quote  a  ringle  epigram  as  a  literary  curiouty ; 
Tbs  or  ■dipwth  la  Ilw  worl  reC(ln4 

Tba  KI  nfaibiuili  tba  nla  bcliand. 
And  cnad  doth  uk  tn  optioa  oi  the  cndft. 

To  all  of  these  ambilloui  dngen  oC  an  empty 
day  one  may  apply  with  jmtifiaUe  fervor  a 
couplet  from  the  Rev.  Mr.  How't  pleating  ro- 
mance d  "  Gentleman  John  :  "  ' 

WtU-neulDi,  DO  doubt,  bin  wtwi  of  Ibu  I    Tbm'a  mU- 

imulDi  fallu  I'm  kt»in 
That  hud  tHiur  lam  to  do  •oowtliinE  viU,  ud  kt  nH- 


A«  for  Lilian  Rozcll  Messenger,  abe  U  doubtless 
well-meanli^  with  her  Viaen  of  Galii  ,-*  the  dlffi- 
Cnlty  ia  in  detecting  the  meaning  of  her  rhapso- 
dies, so  involved  are  they  in  tangled  meshes  of 
rhetorical  extravagances.  And  yet  so  dainty  a 
piece  of  writing  as  "  Duality  "  would  teem  to  in- 
dicate on  the  part  of  the  antbor  capacity  for  bet- 
ter work  than  she  has  brought  together  to  make 
np  the  bulk  of  her  volume- 
Mr.  Wilson's  Lyrict  ^Z(/r*showTennysonian 
Influences,  neverlheUss  they  have  distinct  and 
positive  merits  of  their  own.  Warm  and  many- 
colored  fancy,  ardent  passion,  parity  of  senti- 
ment, an  intellectual  lange  of  no  slight  msgni- 
tudc,  and  a  dexterous  command  of  melodiotis 
versification  — all  these'  qualities -Mr-  WUion 
possesses,  and  he  uses  them  with  confident  skill. 
"  Apollo  and  Daphne  "  and  "  Circe  "  are  admira- 
bly conceived  and  are  wrought  into  expression 
with  true  classical  restraint.  "The  Ballad  d 
Love's  Grief  is  likewise  well  done  with 
pathetic  refrain : 

And  in  all  this  heterogeneous  mass  of  late 
addiiions  to  contemporary  veise  we  End  bat  one 
volume  that  amply  manifests  the  qualities  o(  Ihe 
tme  poet  —  the  maker  of  aongs.  The  poems 
that  Mr.  Fawcett  has  collected  In  Stmanee  and 
Haitty  "  exceed,  to  onr  thinking,  his  earlier  pro- 
ductions, both  in  subtlety  oF  inspiration  and 
quisite  delicacy  of  technique,  la  there  any  other 
of  our  younger  poets  who  has  sounded  so  many 
different  themes  and  sounded  all  so  well?  Mr- 
Fawceti  ia  Intensely  modern-  He  welcmnes  tbe 
advances  of  science,  he  indulges  in  fierce  tbrosls 
at  bigotry  and  despotism  in  the  domains  of  art 
and  morals  as  well  ai  in  religion  and  polltics- 
Bnt  he  is  no  roaleiiallsi-  He  can  see  throagh 
the  veil  that  bides  in  man  and  nature  great 
thoughts  and  emotiona,  mighty  manifestations  of 
power,  and  while  there  is  in  verse  not  so  mn 
"primal  sympathy,"  or  swill  majestic  Interpreta- 
tion as  of  ready  auggeation  and  eloquent  wonder, 
he  reads  the  lesson  of  life  In  a  way  that  appeals 
to  a  wide  circle  of  cultivated  minda.  "Tlie 
Magic  Flower  "  is  a  romance  that  would  have 
delighted  the  heart  of  Leigh  Hunt,  and  indeed, 
it  riaes  now  and  then  into  a  strain  that  outaoara 
tbe  loftiest  imaginative  flights  of  that  deft  min. 
strel.    The  Imagery  is  rich  and  varied,  and  some 


•  Vatat.    Bt  WilEsD  H.  Sami 
r.  Fdl  ft  Co. 

>  Poani.  'Bj  William  Wikhim  How  (Bidwp  Snfft^iD 
of  Badlord,  for  Eut  Loodoo).  E.  A  J.  B.  yooDi  ft  CB>- 
.  •  TIh  ViiiDD  of  G<dd  wHl  Oihn  Poea 
Roull  UBHnicr.     C.  P.  PnlBUil'a  Sont. 

•Lfria  of  Lifa.    Bj  Jokti  GrotviDOt  Wilson.    Caatee 


TlctaacftCo.   (ljol 


of  the  lines  haunt  the  memory  with  their  suggest- 
ive beauty. 


are  snUimely  likened  to 

malson.  in  asdidaiu  tixlu, 
BnalciDg  their  hearti  of  fire  tlong  the  oi^L 

In  the  same  poem  we  have  a  picture  of  the 
passing  of  a  tempest,  when 

—  biMdniliii  itniiliwird.  Iht  Itilit  bcaan, 
Afl  (lKHie;ta  HHne  deaoJuA  polar  ica  J^ould  iplit 

WbtD  Anais  wniHi  cleiTa  iu  oyiul  (pan 
Of  ka,  diapailibf  aad  diapcllins  it  { 

Enn  tbn  lb*  darkoo^  to  in  con  moon-plouElHd, 

Bn^  in  pvaE  pcarij  b«^  of  driHins  doud. 

There  is  only  one  word  for  Mr.  Fawcect'a  art 
and  that  word  we  have  already  'used  —  exquisite 
—  a  word  how  often  abused,  bow  rarely  so  appli- 
cable as  in  relation  to  this  author's  finest  work- 
mansbipl  — to  poems  like  this: 


IVOUllJ, 


Immorta]  warv  too  named  when  «artli  w 
y«l  twR,  witk  wiBH  whwt  Solid  B»  1 

On  Ike  cold  ilTand  oldaih  I  find  ran  Bi 
Blaot  wilb  In  denttorr  waili  and  uia] 

Ab  I  btillM  ud  ImdT  Btdnoin  of  tbe  air 
Onoa  10  Hdi  rovolnDB  life  lo  richl]r  wc 

Well  muhl  T  dream-  whilq  saiinE  on  jm 
That  immortality  lUelf  lay  dcadt 


HraOK  IOIIOE8. 

_    .  liliar  LttUri 
Illustrated.    fTicknor  & 

Here  is  Peppermint  rtdivivut;  in  covers,  with 
illattrattoDS,  thinking  "it's  perfectly  lovely" 
that  her  letters  are  to  be  published  j  Just  in 
aeaaon  for  the  sultry,  idle  days  of  a  vacation 
in  the  country  or  by  the  seaside-  "  Gushing," 
very  "  gnshing,"  bat  ct  a  good  type,  is  this  effu- 
sive Feppermint,  and  it  is  qaite  as  agreeable 
lo  find  bet  in  a  book  as  to  meet  ber  duplicated 
in  reality  at  every  place  of  aammer  resort;  for 
in  Ihe  latter  case  there  are  too  many  of  hers 
whereas  on  the  printed  page  one  can  take  her 
in  instalments-  It  was  a  felicitous  idea  lo  luro 
this  sort  ot  girl  lo  account,  and  make  her  Ihe 
monlb-plece  for  hitting  off  some  of  the  fandes 
and  "craxes"  and  follies  of  tbe  day.  And  if 
ahe  sometimes  overdoes  it,  she  is  none  the  less 
amnsing,  and  her  aense  and  nonsense,  her  silli- 
ness  and  shrewdness,  done  np  in  these  forty-two 
letters,  make  enleitaining  reading  to  pass  away 
an  odd  hour  or  two  "between  whiles"  of  more 
serious-minded  books. 

Cilmtus  of  Tkrtt  Caatt$.  By  Helen  Jackson. 
(H.  H-f  [Robert*  Brother*,    ft-50.] 

\  Tbe  "  three  coasts  "  sie  tbe  Pacific  coast  of 
,  the  United  States,  the  Ayrshire  district  <A  Scot- 
land, and  tbe  rocky  shores  and  islands  bordering 
Norway-  Notwithstanding  Ibis  title,  however, 
the  talented  and  now  lamented  author  did  not 
CMiGne  herself  to  the  regions  thus  specified,  but 
has  given  us  a  book  of  traveler's  general  sketches, 
including  scenes  In  England  and  Germany  as 
well-  One  hardly  knowa  whether  to  admire  most 
Ihe  writer's  powers  of  dose  and  varied  observa- 
tion and  analysis,  Ihe  warmth  of  her  sympathicst 
the  accuracy  and  beauty  of  her  language.  But 
ji  ia  easy  to  feel  the  charm  which  has  delighted 
s6  many  readers,  and  by  virtue  of  which  one 
seems  almost  as  If  actually  a  traveling  companion 
rather  than  merely  a  listener  at  the  recital  of 
atoriM  told  after  the  Journeys  are  over.  The 
voliiine  is  closely  printed,  and  embraces  a  statis- 


tical chapter,  surprisingly  full,  on  tbe  out-door 
industries  of  Southern  California  1  the  story  of 
the  missions  of  worthy  Father  Janipero  among 
Ihe  Indians  of  that  sunny  region,  with  Ihe  sad 
present  condition  of  the  remaining /roA^j  d  the 
work ;  "  echoes  in  the  dty  of  tbe  angels ;  "  aud  a 
narrative  of  a  voy^e  on  tbe  majestic  rivers  of 
Oregon.  Passing  to  Scotland  and  England,  the 
writer  seeks  Ihe  haunts  and  mementoes  of  Robert 
Burns,  and  gives  us  bright  pictures  of  the  country 
which  he  loved,  and  of  tbe  opinionated  but  self- 
respecting  Scottish  people  whom  she  there  en- 
countered—  one  of  them  connected  with  the 
family  of  the  poeL  There  are  also  in  this  divis- 
ion of  the  traveler's  portfolio  descriptions  of 
scenes  "  in  Edinboro'  town ;  "  Ihe  houses  and 
the  home  life  of  the  poor,  as  well  as  the  interest- 
ing places  generally  visited  by  tourists.  Over  all 
and  dominating  everything  Mrs.  Jackson  felt 
the  silent  majesty  of  the  towering  Edinburgh 
castle,  with  its  wealth  of  historic  association*. 
A  chapter  on  the  picturesque  streets  of  Chester 
ends  this  parL  In  the  third  part,  travel*  in  Nor- 
way, Denmark,  and  Germany,  there  is,  perhaps, 
let*  that  is  new  and  unusual,  but  there  is  the 
same  versatile  power  of  description-  Many 
liltle  details  and  personal  touches,  induding  the 
introduction  of  the  talented  and  faithful  servant 
and  interpreter  Katrina,  make  the  chapters  of 
Scandinavian  experiences  almost  like  letters  re- 
ceived from  absent  members  of  one's  own  kin- 
dred or  acquaintance.  The  wondrous  length  of 
tbe  day,  Ihe  grandeur  of  the  scenery,  the  charac- 
teristics of  tbe  people,  and  the  comforts  and  dis- 
comforts oC  travel  in  the  northern  lands,  all 
receive  notice.  Among  tbe  places  visited  in 
Germany  were  Ober  Ammergan  and  its  less- 
known  neighbor  Unter  Ammergau,  with  some 
description,  partly  historical,  of  the  Passion  play. 
For  which  the  former  haa  become  widely  cele- 
brated-   

OnSKEST  LrPEKAIIIBfi. 

The  latest  received  of  Ginn  &  Co.'s  Clajtia/er 
Children  is  Dt-  Samuel  Johnson's  philosophical 
romance,  Rojielai,  Prince  af  Abyttinia,  a  work 
which  might  be  briefly  described  as  an  essay  on 
the  search  for  happiness  t  prefaced  by  a  bio- 
graphical note  mentioning  Ihe  strange  circum- 
stances under  which  It  was  written-  [By  mail 
40c] 

From  the  J-  B.  Lippincott  Co.  we  receive  their 
Pefular  Spelling- Beak;  of  which  the  chief  dis- 
tinguishing marks  arc  the  placing  of  woids 
together  on  the  principle  of  contrasted  rather 
than  similar  spelling  j  preference  of  common 
words  and  of  those  often  misspelled  \  the  intro- 
duction of  words  in  script,  and  of  short  selec- 
tion* of  English  poetry  illustrative  of  the  lessons. 
[Price  for  introduction,  20c-] 

Six  Ifetii'  Preparation  /er  Reading  Catar,  by 
James  H.  Whiton,  Ph.D.,  is  a  small  volimie  in 
the  attractive  style  of  Ginn  &  Co.'s  textbooks, 
which  may  be  truly  called  a  mullum  in  parve. 
In  Part  I  much  attention  is  given  to  inflectional 
endings,  with  remarks  on  their  force-  Inter- 
spersed are  rules  of  syntax,  with  examples,  and 
exercises  for  translation  both  ways-  It  Is  meant 
to  give  everything  for  which  a  grammar  Is  gener- 
ally used,  except  paradigms.  In  Part  II,  de- 
signed as  a  help  to  students  after  beginning  to 
read  the  historian,  are  hints  on  translating  and 
on  the  order  of  words,  examples  oi  the  fonna' 


SJIO 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Aug.  1, 


verb  sifnopses,  a  abort  vocab- 
It  ion  paper.    [By 


tion  of  dedTalivea, 
ulary,  and  a  specii 
mail,  4SC.] 

In  Dr.  Vincent  Y.  Bowditch't  lecture  or 
Homaopalhy  before  the  Hahnemann  Society  ir 
the  medical  school  of  the  Boston  UniveraltT,  ii 
ll  pteasanl  to  notice  a  genttemanljr  moderation 
of  language  too  infrequent  in  tKe  bitlerncM  of 
the  long-itanding  controversy  between  the 
systems  of  practice.  The  lecturer  i>  of 
"  old  "  or  "  regular "  school,  and  in  this  address 
he  answers  instructively  and  pleasantly  a  series 
of  qaestions  proposed  to  him,  as  to  various 
point*  of  difiercnce.  Among  the  many  interest- 
ing maltcrv,  perhaps  not  least  so  are  the  mod- 
ification of  each  system  by  the  attrition  of  the 
other,  the  question  whether  the  homceopathic 
physicians  now  practice  in  accordance  with  the 
recognized  maxims  of  honxEopathy,  and  a  strong 
plea  for  the  abandonment  of  all 
narrow  than  that  of  physician  and  of  all  servile 
adherence  to  a  system.  [Cupples,  Upham  ft  Co. 
Paper,  loc.] 

The  second  volume  of  Aclsrs  and  Actrei 
edited  by  Brander  Matthews  and  Ijwrence  i 
ton,  deals  with  the  Kemblcs  and  their  contempo- 
raries in  the  efficient  and  concti 
characteristic  of  the  first  instalment  of  this  valua- 
ble aeries.  Fourteen  shining  lights  of  the  dra- 
matic firmament,  from  George  Frederick  Cooke, 
to  William  Heniy  West  Betty,  have  their  ele- 
ments here  recorded  and  their  several  orbits  and 
varjrii^  msgnitudes  clearly  determined  and  indi- 
cated. The  bulk  of  the  writing  is  by  the  editors, 
but  we  notice  a  brightly  limned  sketch  of  Dora 
Jordan  by  William  Archer,  and  an  excellent  re- 
view of  the  histrionic  career  of  Charles  Mathews 
by  Henry  Gallup  Paine.  Yet  we  confess  to  hi 
found  the  charming  collection  of  ana  at  the  close 
of  each  memoir  of  more  positive  interest  than  thi 
two  limited  narratives  given  by  the  biographers 
The  work  as  a  whole  promises  to  be  a  verita 
ble  i:ycIopxdia  of  the  Anglo-American  drama, 
abounding  in  picturesque  details,  and  scrupu- 
lously accurate  in  mattrrs  of  fact.  [Cassell  & 
Co.    H-SO-] 

Emery  E.  Childa's  American  history  isadmi 
bly  described  in  Its  too  long  title,  A  Hiiiery  e/ 
thi  Unittd  Slaiei  in  Chmnologual  Ordtr,  fr 
tkt  Ditcovtty  ef  America  in  1^3  .  .  lo  tSSj,  In- 
eluding  Noticet  of  Maimfoituris  ;  .  .  .of  Other  In- 
dustries ;  af  Railroads,  Canals,  Ttl/grapAt,  and 
Other  Imprmements ;  of  Imitntioni,  Important 
Events,  etc.  The  "  important  events "  are  so 
numerous  and  so  varied  that  the  book  is  a  store- 
house oE  knowledge;  in  which  the  strict  adher- 
ence to  the  order  of  time  greatly  promotes  the 
reader's  methodical  apprehension.  We  Gnd  the 
book  interesting,  and  we  think  it  is  accurate, 
judging  by  the  treatment  of  certain  critical 
periods  —  for  instance,  the  causes  leading  to  the 
great  Civil  War.  We  think,  also,  that  the  writer 
shows  a  very  pleasing  and  dispassionate  fairness. 
The  paper  used  is  rather  thin,  and  the  peacock- 
blue  cover  would  not  stand  much  use  in  a  school. 
[New  York :  Baker  ft  Taylor.} 

Volume  I  of  Tie  Nna  Princeton  Remem  in. 
etudes  the  first  three  numbers  of  1884  and  is 
very  handsomely  bound  in  maroon,  with  leather 
back.  The  managers  are  endeavoring  to  keep 
up  the  old  high  standard  ol  literary  ability  in  its 
pages,  notwithstanding  they  now  admit  fiction  in 
each  number.  At  the  close  of  the  volume  is  an 
analytical  index  j  in  which  attention  is  called  to 


the  multiple  or  "cross"  indexing  of  a 
under  more  than  one  head,  and  to  the  ii 
of  certain  dates  and  figures  designed  to  i 
reader  from  having  to  refer  to  tlie  text  fc 
[A.  C.  Armstrong  &  Son.    ti.oo.] 


8HAEE8PEABIAHA. 


Mr.  J,  H.  Siddons's  "Shakespearian  Ref- 
eree."— Messrs,  W.   H.  Lowdemiilk   &  Co.  of 
Washington,  D.  C,  publish   The  Skakespeai 
Referee,  by  J.  H.  Siddons,  who  belongs   to 
same  family  as  the  great  Mra.  Siddons.    As 
title-page  tells  us,  it  is  a  "  Cyclopedia  of  4,200 
words,  obselete  and   modem,  occnirring  in   the 
plays  of  Shakespeare,   with  original   and  other 
explanations,  commentaries,  annotations,  etymol- 
ogies, etc.,  together  witb   translations  of  all  the 
Latin,  French,  Italian,  and  Spanish   Word*' 
the  plays.      It  is  by  no  means  a  scholarly  w 

useful  purpose  for  those  who 
have  not  access  to  more  complete 

books  of  reference.    The  compiler  says  that 
was  suggested  by  the  penurious  (tic)  charac- 
ter  oE  the  glossaries,"    by  which    he   probably 
leans  thoHc  appended  to  the  ordinary  one-vol- 
me  editions   of  the  dramatist.     Hi*  250  pages 
ill  undoubtedly  be  more  useful  to  the  average 
:ader  than  their  half  dozen  or  less;    but  it  is  ■ 
pity  that   Mr.  Siddons  was  not  more  skillful  in 
ing   his  material  into  shape  for  the  printer, 
that  the  proof-reading  has  been  so  careless. 
Misprints  are  to  be  found  on  almost  every  page, 
especially  in    the  quotations    from    foreign    \: 
guages.     The  definition  of  "  sworn  brother,"  1 
iple,  appears  thus:    "Sjearn  iretier.     T 
frairit jurale,  who  bound  themselves  by  oath 
ct    together."     Fratres  jurali  would  be  better 
.atin.      In    the    familiar    Virgilian    quotation, 
Tanlicne   anim«  celestibos  iiw,"  every  word  is 


■rong. 


In 


I    Un, 


ape  ■ 


!  find 


idem  vitem "    {ar/em).    "Miching  malle- 
I,  for  a  wonder,  printed  coirectly;  but  else- 
where   under   JIf  we    find    "  Maleclt,   mischief," 
which  can   refer   to   nothing  but   the  malleeho. 
Mi  perdonte"  appears  for  mi  perdonate ;  And 
1  on.    As  samples  of  the  corruptions  of  English 
words,  we  note  such  as  "  muleties  "  for  muliiers 
(muleteers),    and    "mural    clown"    for   "mural 
down."    The  explanations  are  sometimes  open 
riticism  ;    as  where  Limander  is  said  to  be 
illiterate  artist's  blunder  for  Leander"  (that 
tisan's].     Hamlet's  "a  little  more  than  kin 
and  less  than  kind,"  we  are  informed,  "  probably 
cans  that  the  King  has  got  a  tittle  beyond  the 
in  ^I'q  without  reaching  t^t  d  in  Hind."     This 
doubtless  one  of  the  "  original  "  comments  the 
title-page  refers  to. 

These  are  not  picked  specimens  of  the  mis- 
prints and  mistakes  of  the  book,  but  such  as  we 
have  jotted  down  in  a  mere  glance  at  pages  here 
and  there.  The  reader  can  judge  for  himself 
whether  he  will  find  it  a  helpful  Referee  in  his 
Shakespeare  reading. 


Second    Edition  of    Mrs.   Dall'a    "What 
We   Realljr   Know  about   Shakespeare. 
In  the  new  edition  of  Mrs.  Dall'a  book  the 
print*  which  we  and  others  have  pointed  ou"'    *^nls- 
corrected,  and   sundry  obvious  inaccuracy       It  a<c 


that  Mr*.  Dall  does  not  consider  anything  more 
to  be  needed.  For  ourself,  we  cannot  but  regard 
it  as  a  radical  defect  in  her  plan,  that  the  per- 
sonal character  of  Shakespeare  is  so  slightly 
■rested,  and  that  almost  nothing  is  said  of  "Ike 
man  "  as  seen  in"thebook''  —  of  the  outer  and 
inner  life  of  liie  poet  as  traceable  in  what  be 
wrote.  A  brief  account  of  his  writings  would 
also  seem  to  be  proper  in  a  statement  of  what  we 
know  about  Shakespeare.  The  ideal  popular 
"Life  of  Shakespeare"  is  yet  to  be  written; 
but,  in  our  humble  opinion,  Mrs.  Dall  is  not  tlie 
person  to  write  it. 


NOTES  AITD  QUERIES. 


of  tbc  LOtrmrj 

■e  ucoDipinicd  bf  th« 
and  tboH  which  reUla 


793.  CBrc«aaonne{7S9i]).  If  the  inquirer  be 
not  acquainted  with  this  poem  cjt  Nadaud's,  and 
it  be  too  long  to  print,  and  you  care  to  take  the 
trouble  and  expend  a  stamp,  you  can  refer  this 
copy  lo  him.  I  don't  know  whose  English  it  is. 
Chauncev  Hickox. 

Waskingtan,  D.  C,  July  aj,  s886. 
Carcassonne. 


DP  Like  t 

Alul 

CsrcauoDael 

Our  via 

'  0  gnird  (he  wukut  put, 

P.X' 

«.U(>,1. 

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5jsr~ 

«n»!ho«n>or.hith.h«ih. 

•m-    "P"       ^^  of  the  five  most  complete  - 

set  right  i  but,  as  the  book  U  stereotyped,  !'  "■  '„  »re  I  P"",'"*",'^  Ljem*  of  Ed»'»^  Spenser. 
-----  .    .  '        ,  I  ^iuoos  ol  ine  y^  ^  ^ 


*  attempted.     We  infer,  11 


//tm  Bedfird- 


i886.] 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


471 


m.  HUtoD'a  Works.  (To  J.  T.  I^  Mari- 
ctu,  O.)  If  Milton's  Peetiail  Works  are  meant, 
there  is  a  good  cheap  complete  editioo  bj  Cro- 
wett,  I  vol^  {t.75:  the  same  with  Matson't  valu- 
able introduction,  easaf,  and  notei,  by  Macmil- 


lein  I  Tol.,  Globe  Edi- 


lan,  3  voli.,  f  5.00 ;  the  u 
tion,  f l.jo. 


796.    Quotation  Wanted. 

A  Ullb  cncn  peKh  In  Ite  curdeii  cm, 
A  JitllA  fncD  peich  of  vmerald  hue. 
WiRMdbrUHMnitndintbTllwd**, 


797.  Metaphjralcs.  Will  fan  kindly  give 
me  a  list  of  books  on  metaphysical  subject!  suit- 
able for  reading  and  studying.  v.  w. 

Ftltfit,  Dilceware. 


798.  New  English  Dictionary  and  Philo- 
logical Society,  (i)  Can  you  give  me  any 
Idea  when  the  third  part  of  the  Nev  Engluh 
Diciiinary,  edited  by  Dr.  Jas.  A.  H.  Mnrray,  ' 
likely  to  be  out  ?  In  the  preface  of  Part  II,  pub- 
lished last  October  or  November,  it  was  intimated 
as  probable  that  Part  III  would  appear  "lariy 
in  l88G^"  but  no  sign  of  it  has  yet  appeared  so 
far  as  I  know. 

(2)  Can  you  give  any  account  of  the  Ameri- 
can Philological  Society?  Its  origin,  publica- 
tions,  etc.  Is  the  English  Society  older  ?  Do 
the  two  work  together  in  any  way?  t.i 
adoption  of  certain  modes  of  spelling  as  steps 
to  a  reform  in  our  English  orthography. 

Coiaurg,  Onl.  G.  H. 

(0    FMrt  III  of  the  Stm  Enxliik  Oie/iimmrt »  aeuij 
ready  for  ^MribuIioD,    Th*  psbljcition  ol  i: 
Uyed  b;r  lack  of  fundi  and  iIhi  i  luk  of  cdili: 
Hum>Ti.D°llikclrto)» 

[1)  Tlie  Americu  PhUologicil  Ai 
meetins  in  1SA9,  and  11  the  wonhr  pe«r  of  the  London  PbiU 
olop^  Sodety,  which  t*  iit»nt  twgnlr.fiTfl  ysin  older. 
It  publithei  wn  unail  mliimB  of  tnnuciioiu.  Neither 
vociiiy  u  luch  im  pledged  to  my  ipeUing  ictiuue,  Ituwsh 
moBl  neinbcn  ture  Kcned  mi  to  ccrtiin  reform  ud  am- 
pli6catioili.  Funhn  inf  ormUum  u  to  ipeliiui  ud  the  two 
•odoIlH.  u  weD  u  the  dictionary,  Buy  be  had  of  ProIeBor 
F.  N.  Mircb,  Ufnyelie  Colltic,  Euiod,  Penn.  The  two 
[biological  KKieliei  end  ttie  didionuy  ire  entitled  to  the 
Ikeuty  inpport  ol  all  qiulLflcd  iludenla. 


TABLE    TALE. 


. . .  Mr.  E.  P.  Roe  now  devotes  nearly  all  his 
time  to  literary  work  —  cultivating  his  farm  in 
Cornwall,  N.  Y.,  chiefly  for  recreation,  and  as  a 
means  of  keeping  up  in  horticultural  matters. 
His  fall  novel,  which  is  now  taking  a  "  syndicate  " 
run,  will  appear  simultaneously  in  New  York, 
London,  and  Canada,  under  its  present  title,  /fe 
FM  in  Levi  wUh  Hit  Wift. 

...Mrs.  F.  Gorton  ("Ida  Glenwood"),  tbe 
lecturer  and  serial  writer,  though  blind  and  sixty 
years  of  age,  uses  a  type-writer  for  much  of  her 
work,  equaling  an  ordinary  person  in  the  neat- 
ness and  accuracy  of  the  writing. 

. . .  Mrs.  Anna  M.  B.  Ellis,  Society  Editor  of 
the  Boston  Herald,  will  bring  oat  a  volume  of 
personal  interviews  entitled  Chats  with  Pamsua 


Artiltt  (actors  and  singers),  and  a  revised  and 
much  enlarged  edition  of  her  Lift  of  Mrt.  J.  R. 
Vhuml,  the  actress,  throogh  Lee  &  Shepard,  in 
September  or  October. 

.  For  one  of   our  younger  autbora,   Prof. 
James  A.  Harrison  of  Lexington,  Va,,  can  show 
remarkable  record  both  as  to  quality  and  quan- 
tity of  production-     He  has  already  published 
ight  volumes  of  original  work  and  four  or  five 
of  translated  and  edited,  including   Thi  Library 
if  An^e-Saxen  Poelty,  and  has  ready  for  publi- 
cation a  book  of  poems,  another  of  travels  in 
Turkey,  another  of  Greek  stories  told  to  chil- 
dren, another   of   Creole  stories    (representing 
Creole  character  and  life  in  Louisiani 
West  Indies),  another  of  lectures  on  Anglo-Saxon 
poetry  delivered   before  the  students  of  Johi 
Hopkins   University   (in   1SS3],  and   a  Germi 
translation  of   Hans  Christian  Andersen's  fairy 
tales;    and  yet  he  is  only  thirty-seven  yeais  old 
and  has  found  time  for  much  teaching  ir 
last  fifteen  years.    Professor   Harrison  is 
retting  at  Round  Lake,  N.  Y. 

The  Rev.  Dr.  J.  E.  Rankin,  whose  Scottish 
religious  verse  is  somewhat  celebrated,  is  prepar, 
ing  A  Cyclafadia  ef  Chriitian  Smg,  which  John 
B.  Alden  of  New  York  will  publish ;  and  the 
Re*.  Dr.  Franklin  Johnson,  author  of  a  notable 
English  version  of  the  "Dies  Irx,"  has  in  hand, 
well  advanced,  a  work  entitled  Hymn-Potms 
Collection  of  those  English  Hymns  which  are  Best 
Entitled  to  the  Designation  of  Poems 
undertakings  of  which  those  interested  in  tbe 
proper  honoring  of  meritorious  verse  of  what- 
ever kind  will  learn  with  pleasure. 

.  ,  .  The  Hon.  George  H.  Boker  has  nearly 
ready  for  the  press  a  volume  of  about  three  hun- 
dred sonnets. 

. . .  Miss  Annie  Aubertine  Woodward  ("  Auber 
Forestiet  ")  has  been  assisting  Professor  Ras- 
mus B.  Anderson  in  the  translation  of  Georg 
Braodea's  Entimnl  Authari  of  lie  Nitietanth 
Century  (which  is  about  to  appear),  and  is  now 
completing  a  song-collectitm  entitled  Carmen  et 
Canttu,  which  she  has  supplied  with  English 
words,  to  appear  through  William  Rohlfing  & 
COt  Milwaukee.  Her  principal  continuous  work 
at  present  is  in  introducing  into  this  country  the 
of  the  Scandinavian  North,  with  a  view 
riching  our  own  citizens,  and,  through  the 
interest  which  they  may  come  to  Uke  in 
Scandinavian  settlers,  helping  them  to  become 
good  American  dtizens.  This  she  is  doing  by 
meai)s  of  daily  newspaper  articles.  But  Mis 
Woodward  has  much  home  work  to  do  in  addi 
tion  to  these  labors  with  wider  scope ;  she  is 
president  of  the  Ladies'  Society,  organist 
choir  leader  in  the  Madison,  Wis.,  Unitarian 
church ;  and  fills  eng^cments  occasionally 
other  Wisconsin  cities,  as,  for  instance,  the  last 
week  in  this  month  in  Milwaukee,  where  ahe  is 
to  read  a  paper  on  Goethe's  "  Erl  King  "  at  the 
"Literary  School"  in  Milwaukee  College,  in  a 
pregramme  in  which  Prof,  W.  T.  Harris,  Prof. 
Denton  J.  Snider,  and  Mr.  John  Fiske  are  among 
those  represented. 

...  It  haa  remained  for  Mrs.  E.  M,  Ames 
("Eleanor  Kirk")  to  undertake  the  representa- 
tion of  a  hitherto-ignored  aspect  of  a  dis 
tingnished  American  preacher's  character,  in  i 
book  which  is  nearly  completed,  entitled  Beechtr 
as  a  Humorist.  Mrs.  Ames  was  formerly 
reporter  of  Mr.  Beecber's  sermons,  and  has  long 
been  intimately  acqaunted  with  him  and   bis 


family ;  she  is,  moreover,  herself  a  bright  woman 
in  experienced  and  vivacious   writer,   and 
what  with  so  good  a  subject,  must  succeed  findy 
producing  an  entertaining  volume. 
...  Mr;  William   Winter  is  at  work  upon  a 
series  of  dramatic  books  to  commemorate,  re- 
spectively, Edwin  Booth,  Lawrence  Barrett,  John 
McCuiiough,  Adelaide   Neilson,  the   Wallacks) 
len  Terry,  and  others  ;  and  intends  to  publish 
:iew  volume  of  poems  next  season,  including 
1  tribute  to  Poe. 

...  Mr.  George  Makepeace  Towie  is  engaged 
give  sii  lectures  on  "  Governments  of  Europe," 
Lowell  Institute,  next  February  ;  he  has  lately 
returned  to  Brookline,  Mass.,  from  Waterville, 
N.  H.,  where  he  haa  been  resting,  and  is  busy 
■ith  the  concluding  pages  of  his  Young  Folh^ 
History  of  Ireland,  to  be  issued  by  I^e  ft  Shep- 
ard in  the  autumn. 


THE  FESIODIOALB. 

The  Century  for  August  haa  an  agreeable 
account  of  "  Algiers  and  it*  Suburbs,"  attract- 
ively illustrated.  The  attihor  sets  fortb  the 
charms  of  villa  life  in  a  way  that  makes  one  long 
to  be  an  Algerian—  at  least  for  a  time.  The 
five-hundredth  anniversary  of  the  opening  of  the 
University  <rf  Heidelberg  is  remembered  in  an 
admirable  historical  and  descriptive  paper  by 
Lucy  M.  Mitchell.  Ripley  Hitchcock  reveals 
something  of  the  glories  of  "The  Western  Art 
Movement"  which  has  already  accomplished 
great  things.  Dr.  Gladden'*  article  on  the  labor 
question,  "  Is  it  Peace  or  War,"  is  a  forcible  re. 
view  favoring  profit-sharing,  a  subject  on  which 
one  of  the  "  Open  Letters  "  throws  practical  light 
in  rehearsing  the  enviable  results  of  "  A  Dutch 
Success  in  Cooperation."  Miss  Thomas's  char- 
in  of  John  Burroughs  is  as  sketchy  as 
the  frontispiece  portrait  of  that  literarian.  The 
1  of  the  number  includes  the  beginning  of  a 
story  by  Frank  Stockton,  who  leaves  his 
characters  enjoying  a  luncheon  while  sustained 
by  life-preservers  in  the  middle  of  the  Pacific 
Ocean  I 

FEW8  AVD  ITOTES. 

A  course  of  "  Lectures  for  Young  People  " 
The  War  for  Independence,"  by  different 
lecturers,  is  in  progress  at  the  Old  South 
Church,  Boston,  Wednesday  afternoon*  in  Au- 
gust and  September.  Edwin  D.  Mead,  John 
Fiske,  and  George  M.  TowIe  are  three  of  the 
speakers- 

—  Ginn  ft  Co.  have  in  press  Tlu  Elements  of 
Plant  and  Solid  Antilytit  Geometry,  by  Prof. 
J.  D.  Runkle  of  the  Institute  of  Technolt^y, 
Boston;  and  they  also  announce  a  Journal  of 
Morphology,  to  be  issued  to  subscribers,  two 
parts  annually,  at  |6-0o  a  year. 

—  Mr.  Edwards  Roberts,  who  has  vrrilten  a 
useful  little  book  on  Santa  Barbara,  the  South- 
ern California  sanitarium,  is  under  agreement  to 
furnish  sketches  of  the  Pacific  Coast  country  for 
Harper's  Magaxine. 

—  T.  Y.  Crowell  ft  Co.  are  to  publish  imme- 
diately a  translation  by  Isabel  F.  Hapgood  of  the 
Ptnsies  of  Joseph  Rou»,  a  book  which  is  now 
attracting  attention  in  Paris.  The  author  U  i 
provincial  pries^  and  bis  meditations  on  the 
problems  of  life,  in  spite  of  tbe  rather  common- 


4?i 


THE  LitERARY  WORLD. 


[Aug.  7,  1886.] 


place  title  chosen  (or  them,  are  both  original  and 
profound. 

—  The  Amtrican  Journal  of  Mathematics  ii 
publiah  in  its  coming  numbers  Profestor  Sjli 
ter's  Oiford  Leclures  on  bis  "  New  Theory  of 
Reciprocants." 

—  Mrs.  Maria  B.  Holyoke,  the  author  of  Vio- 
Irti,  Early  and  LaU,  noticed  in  another  part  of 
this  paper,  is  the  wife  of  a  clergyman  formerly 
settled  in  Chicago. 

—  Mr.  Rolfe,  the  Shakespearian,  sailed  for 
Europe  by  the  "  Scythia,"  July  ag.  to  be  absent 
through  August  aiul  September. 

—  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.  will  iasne  in  the 
aummn  a  fourth  edition  of  Oscar  Fay  Adams's 
useful  litlle  Hattdboek  of  Amtriian  Autknrs, 
which  will  be  corrected  to  date. 

—  A  second  edition  has  just  appeared  of  the 
late  James  Berry  Bensel's  In  the  JHtig'i  Garden, 
to  which  twenty  more  poems  have  been  added, 
and  a  very  brief  memorial  sketch  of  the  author. 

—  Mr.  R.  L.  Stephenson's  powerful  and  dis- 
agreeable story  of  Dr.  Jeiyll  and  Mr.  Hyde 
it  selling  at  the  rate  of  a  thousand  a  week.  The 
first  edition  of  10,000  copies  of  Kidnapped  by  the 
Mme  aalhor  is  already  exhausted. 

PnBLIOATIONS  BEOEITED. 


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CONTENTS. 

¥tAna  Vbuew  U*iAitm 

Two  Russian  Nonu ; 

T»»  Bulla ,n 

A  ViulQoaaioo;  or,  Wbu'*  to  b*  Doat ?  .  176 

CA>t*UD 

UiHoiFicnoHi 

A  PoKlton's  Danhir 

A  Honl  Sini.  J^ 

A  TicMfioa  Defal 

A*  CODDDB  HoiUli 

A  Lon  Scvch 

E&aCwari* 

Tha  Huic  of  ■  Voce 

ADnofTkinc* 

EW.,  Elc,  Elc 
MiHoi  Noncn  i 

RtpnHDUtiiR  Pdou  dI  Unns  PoMi 

Tha  Cnii»  of  ihe  Alubuiu 

CmKmT  LiTUATVH 

PllTMIS  *T  HAtVAtD 

EcYFT  ExruillTlOH 

Juno  Bitck  Perkini 

Tki  Mat»hal  AHCHTom  or  Rauh   Walko 

EhUUOH.      With  Piraoiul  RcmiDUUDCU.     RcT. 

O.  G.  MatkiDi,  S.T.D.     Pulll. 
A  Lrrrn  noM  Lohdoh.    A.  M.  F.  R. 
A  Ln-mt  fioh  Guhaht.    Leopold  KUKher     . 
Tkm  Pmiiodicau     .  ^\ 

Fotncn  Nom 

TasuTauc 

Hni  AND  Horn 

NaoroLoaT 


FBAHOE  iniDEB  1£A2ABIV." 

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torical work,  In  two  solid  octavo  vol- 
umes, aggregating  nearly  a  thousand  pages, 
by  »n  unknown  author,  is  not  a  common 
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and  modesty  of  its  advent,  but  by  its  outward 
tokens  of  substantial  value,  and  as  well  by 
the  first  layers  of  its  internal  qualities.  A 
single  chapter  of  French  history,  or  perhaps 
we  ought  to  say  a  single  chapter  in  two  sec- 
tions, is  here  unrolled  to  its  utmost  limit  and 
inwrought  to  its  utmost  capacity.  A  brill- 
iant and  fascinating  period  that  has  been 
skipped,  slighted,  or  abused  by  the  igno- 
rance, favoritism,  or  prejudice  of  other  writ- 
ers, is  here  subjected  to  the  closest  scrutiny 
of  an  apparently  judicial  and  candid  student, 
who,  with  historical  scholarship  and  literary 
ability  has  combined  the  advantages  of 
access  to  almost  unlimited  stores  of  authen- 
tic information. 

To  survey  the  field  which  Mr.  Perkins  has 
sought  to  cover  in  this  work,  let  the  reader 
place  himself  in  France  at  the  middle  of  the 
Seventeenth  Century.  The  tumults  of  the 
Reformation  have  not  yet  subsided.  Prot- 
estantism has  become  a  power,  but  is  still  a 
struggliug  power,  Louis  XIV  has  just 
ascended  the  throne.  Cardinal  Mazarin  has 
succeeded  Cardinal  Richelieu  as  the  Prime 
Minister  of  the  Crown;    two  august  names 

*  Fnoa  Under  iimaim.  Wiib  ■  lt«t«w  »l  th*  Admia- 
iMimtioB  oi  Rkhcllto.  By  Jia«*  Bnck  Pokini.  i  toU. 
O.  P.  Futnam'i  Sons,    f  san 


which  filled  their  time  (1624-1660)  with  the 
splendors  of  grand  ambitions  and  great 
achievements.  The  Massacre  of  SL  Bar- 
tholomew is  less  than  a  century  old.  The 
Edict  of  Nantes  is  still  in  force,  a  sheltering 
wing  over  the  Protestant  population.  The 
disorders  which  ensued  on  the  violent  death 
of  Henry  IV  in  1610,  have  been  quieted 
under  the  strong  administration  of  Riche- 
lieu. Germany  has  been  helped  in  crowd- 
ing Austria  to  the  wall.  The  young  Duke 
d'Enghien,  afterwards  the  Great  Coadi,  has 
begun  his  triumphal  inarch.  The  Treaty  of 
Westphalia  has  sealed  religious  liberty  to 
Germany.  The  disturbances  known  as  the 
insurrection  of  the  Fronde  are  in  full  prog- 
ress. France  has  not  only  humbled  Aus- 
tria but  is  despoiling  Spain,  The  way  is 
being  prepared  for  the  financeering  of  Col- 
bert and  the  campaigns  of  Turenne,  and  for 
the  Imposing  sweep  which  French  successes 
are  to  make  In  the  closing  years  of  the 
century. 

Such  is  the  animated  field  to  which  Mr. 
Perkins  devotes  his  two  well-filled  inlivies. 
Richelieu  and  Mazarin,  whose  portraits  are 
their  respective  frontispieces,  are  theleading 
actors  in  its  dramatic  scenes.  The  fifty 
years  from  i6ia  to  1660  are  the  limit  of  the 
action.  It  is  1622  that  witnesses  Richelieu 
made  Cardinal  and  Chief  Minister ;  1661 
that  witnesses  the  death  of  Mazarin;  for 
forty  years  these  magnates  of  church  and 
state,  ecclesiastically  and  politically  father 
and  son,  with  joined  hands  upheld  the  tradi- 
tions and  advanced  the  glory  of  France. 
The  famous  Thirty  Years'  War  was  a  large 
episode  of  their  time.  Port  Royal  was  a 
retired  and  peaceful  object  in  the  landscape. 
Wallenstein,  Gustavus  Adolphus,  Pascal, 
the  Duchess  de  Longueville  and  her  brother 
"the  Great  Condtf,"  are  among  the  figures 
that  move  across  it,  close  at  hand  or  at  a 
distance. 

And  what  are  the  special  advantages 
which  Mr.  Perkins  has  had  for  the  study  of 
his  subject?  Briefly,  the  lately  published 
letters,  instructions,  and  despatches  of 
Richelieu,  Mazarin,  and  Colbert;  a  great 
mass  of  letters  and  despatches  between 
Mazarin  and  his  agents,  still  in  manuscript; 
the  so-called  "  Garnets  "  of  Mazarin,  among 
the  manuscripts  of  the  National  Library  at 
Paris,  little  memoranda-books  in  which  in 
difficult  and  sometimes  illegible  hieroglyph- 
ics the  great  statesman  for  eight  years  jotted 
down  his  private  views  and  purposes ;  and 
finally  the  despatches  of  the  Venetian  Am- 
bassadors, preserved  at  Venice,  and  existing 
in  manuscript  copies  at  Paris. 

With  all  that  we  have  written  ^>ove  we 
have  given  but  a  faint  idea  of  the  wealth  of 
materials  assembled  in  Mr.  Perkins's  vol- 
umes, and  no  idea  at  all  of  the  thoroughness 
and  skill  with  which  they  have  been  worked ; 
so  that  it  does  not  seem  possible  that  it 
should  any  longer  be  said  that  we  have  no 
good  history  of  this  period  in  Eogliafa ;    no 


nor  in  French  either.  Mr.  Perkins  has  bis 
subject  almost  to  himself,  and  has  used  his 
opportunity  and  advantages  well.  His  style 
is  fluent,  forcible,  dignified,  and  good.  It  is 
noticeable  for  terseness.  Foot-notes  connect 
his  text  with  his  authorities.  An  index  con- 
cludes the  second  volume.  Chapters  of  ex- 
ceptional Interest  in  this  volume  are  the  two 
on  "  The  Condition  of  the  People "  and 
"Social  Life  and  Customs"  at  the  time. 
That  on  "Port  Royal"  is  not  far  behind 
these  two.  The  three  chapters  on  the 
Fronde  are  disconnected.  The  Treaty  of 
Westphalia  has  a  chapter  by  itself;  the 
Thirty  Years'  War  an  incidental  treatment 
in  two  chapters.  There  are  paragraphs  in 
these  pages  which  tell  whole  stories;  chap- 
ters which  are  histories.  The  disadvantage 
of  the  work  is  the  bulk  of  it;  but  we  con- 
ceive that  fairly  begun  by  a  reader  of  histori- 
cal tastes  it  would  be  hard  to  leave  it  unfin- 
ished. Not  every  one  in  these  busy  times 
go  so  deeply  into  the  life  of  a  single  half 
century,  even  the  half  century  of  Richelieu 
and  Mazarin ;  but  they  who  can  will  find  in 
this  work  the  effort  rewarded. 


TWO  BITSSIAN  MYEIS. 

THE  excellent  corps  of  translators  who 
are  fast  exploring  the  domain  of  con- 
temporary Russian  literature  and  bringing 
some  of  its  most  noteworthy  fruits  to  the  at- 
tention of  American  readers,  have  touched 
in  the  works  now  under  notice  the  ultimate 
limits  of  romanticism  and  realism.  From 
Gogol  to  Tchcmuishevsky,  although  the 
lives  of  the  two  overlapped  each  other  by 
neariy  a  quarter  of  a  century,  is  a  tremen- 
dous stride,  not  perhaps  altogether  for  the 
better,  in  the  development  of  the  art  of  fic- 
tion. Gogol,  at  least  in  his  best  work  before 
the  demon  of  pure  fantasy  got  its  hold  upon 
him,  is  a  romancer  pure  and  simple.  The 
brilliant  descriptions  of  the  Ukraine  with 
which  his  pages  teem,  owe  much,  very  much, 
to  the  imagination  of  the  writer,  and  his 
characters  are  in  the  main  personifications 
of  elemental  passions  as  far  removed  from 
actual  humanity  as  are  the  dramatic  in- 
ventions of  pre-Shakespearian  play-wrJghts, 
And  yet  there  can  be  no  doubt  that  what  we 
may  call  the  heroic  atmosphere  of  Tarat 
Bulba  ■  is  not  in  the  least  forced  or  unreal. 
In  this  brief,  highly  wrought,  many-colored 
prose  epic  of  Little  Russia,  we  see  the  Cos- 
sack race  in  its  glory,  idealized  it  may  be, 
but  with  the  great  outlines  firm  and  true. 
Do  we  not  know  at  once  this  Bulba  from  the 
first  two  or  three  pages  P  His  two  sons  re- 
turn from  the  seminary  at  Kief  and  stand 
once  more  at  their  father's  door.  The  father 
bursts  out  in  insults  at  their  academical  at- 
tire, angers  the  elder,  attempts  to  beat  him, 
and  the  two  fall  to  blows.    "  He  fights  welt," 

1  Tim  Bulb*.  Bf  If  ikolal  VulEeriich  Gocol.  Tnu- 
1u«d  hrm  (b«  Rnina  by  lubil  F.  Hupcood.  Tbomu 
V,  Cromll  A  Co.    |i.oa. 


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THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Aug.  21 


is  the  paternal  verdict ;    "  he  will  be  a  good 
Cossack  I    Now,  welcome,    sod  I    embrace 
me,  good  little  son  I  see  that  you  beat  every 
ODC  as  you  pummelled  me."    Tbea  away 
the  Selch,  that  wooderful  focus  of  Cossack 
heroism;    away  to  war,  across  the  steppes 
that  inspire  the  heroes  to  noble  deeds  and 
breathe  a  sympathetic  sigh  nhen  the  bravest 
of  their  number  succumb  to    the  enemy 
fight,  slay,  kill  the  traitor  that  yields  to  love 
and  finds  a  woman's  smiles  more  attractive 
than  his  sword ;   die,  overpowered  by  heavy 
odds,  shouting  a  death-song  of  defiance 
there,  in  a  few  words,  is  the 
Taras  BuHa.     It  is  not  life  as 
now;  the  "psychology"  is  exceedingly  ele- 
mentary;   these  Cossacks  do  not  stop  to 
think  about  what  they  are  thinking,  or  what 
they  are  going  to  think,  or  to  speculate  cc 
ceniing  what  others  are  thinking.      All 
action,  man  is  reduced  to  a  fighting  animal. 
Bnt  we  sincerely  pity  the  person  who 
follow  the  story  without    mare  than    one 
quickened  heart-throb  at  the  valor  of  old 
Bulba,  or  the  unhappy  fate  of  the  misguided 
Ostap  and  his  beautiful  bride. 

He  who  takes  up  A  yUal  Qiustum  •  after 
Taras  Bulia  undergoes  the  experience  of  a 
denizen  of  the  plains  who  should  suddenly 
find  himself  transferred  to  the  labyrinthine 
streets  and  multifarious  activity  of  a  vast 
city.  The  impression  is  hightencd  by 
Tcbemutshevaky's  style,  which  is  involved, 
full  of  digressions,  awkward,  given  to  solilo- 
quies and  to  wearisome  appeals  to  the 
"sapient  reader."  One  feels  like  address- 
ing the  author  In  his  own  words; 
branch  oS  into  the  history  of  the  world  is 
not  necessary.  When  you  are  wriUng  a 
novel,  go  ahead  with  your  novel."  Bat  the 
story  as  a  whole  may  be  likened  to  a  stream 
which  rises  from  a  turbid  fountain,  wanders 
aimlessly  for  a  time  in  a  dense  and  almost 
impenetrable  jungle,  then  flows  swiftly  and 
clearly  in  Its  middle  course,  and  at  length 
disappears  in  a  boundless  morass,  where, 
separating  into  an  Infinity  of  intricate  chan- 
nels, it  is  soon  lost  to  all  identity  of  purpose. 
It  begins  in  mud  and  ends  in  inanity.  Once, 
however,  fully  afloat  on  the  central  reaches 
of  this  mysterious  current,  we  realize  that 
the  voyage  was  well  worth  the  making. 
More  than  twenty  years  ago  A  Vital  Quef 
tion  was  first  propounded,  and  its  main  points 
are  fresh  and  vital  still  even  here  in  Amei^ 
ica,  so  far  was  the  author  in  advance  of  his 
time.  He  now  expiates  in  the  horrors  of 
Siberian  exile  the  audacity  of  the  social  phil- 
osopher who,  in  place  of  what  is,  shows  the 
gaping  world  what  can  be  and  what  must  be. 

There  is  no  greater  contrast  in  all  fiction 
than  that  between  the  position  of  woman  as 


■AVitilQiH«krB;  DC,  WbilblotHDoiw?  BTNiko- 
U  G.  TdurnaubenkT.  TnnibMd  bum  Ihe  Ranlig  br 
Nuhu  Muken  Dole  ud  S.  S.  Skidtlik^.  Tlwau*  Y. 
CnmollACo.    fi.ij. 

Whu'ito  l»Daii>r  ARonuKC.  Br  N.  G.  Tchuiij. 
cbtmkr.  Tmulitol  by  Btn],  R.  Tudwr.  BoMos  i  BcBJ. 
R-TbAv. 


depicted  by  Gogol  in  Taras  Bulba  and  the 
place  she  holds  in  Tchernuishevsky's  story. 
"  She  is  a  woman,  she  knows  nothing,"  is 
Bulba's  injunction  to  his  son  when  the 
mother  pleads  for  the  society  of  her  child. 
Women  are  forbidden  to  step  within  the 
limits  of  the  Cossack  capital ;  they  have 
part  in  the  war  counsels ;  because  he  became 
a  deserter  from  the  Cossack  army  for  love  of 
a  woman,  Bulba  strikes  his  firstborn  down 
to  death,  Tcbernuishevsky  celebrates  the 
ideals  of  today.  He  depicts  with  a  masterly 
if  uncertain  hand  the  absolute  equality  of 
man  and  wonun,  the  sacred  right  of  indi- 
vidual liberty ;  and  he  connects  these  two 
underlying  ideas  with  theories  of  coiiperati 
which  are  now  blossoming  more  and  mi 
into  practical  realization.  The  relations 
husband  and  wife  are  reduced  by  Tchernui- 
shevsky  to  the  last  analysis.  His  remedy 
for  divorce  is  that  there  shall  be  only  fitting 
marriages  —  unions  of  mind  as  well  of  body. 
He  sees  in  coSperation  the  possibility  of  a 
lasting  amelioration  of  society ;  but  he  starts 
witl)  (be  premise  that  in  the  ethics  of  the 
future  hypocrisy  will  be  the  one  unpardon- 
able sin. 

In  illustrating  these  fundamental  ideas, 
Tcbernuishevsky  introduces  characters 
which  are  not  types,  yet  which  are  not 
all  real.  Vitfra,  the  heroine,  is  a  genui 
woman;  Lapukb^f  and  KirsJnof  are  not 
boyond  the  limits  of  actuality;  Marya  Alex- 
sey^vna  we  may  even  accept  as  unhappily 
true  to  life;  but  Rakhmtftof,  who,  although 
he  plays  only  a  brief  part,  is  certainly  the 
hero  of  A  Vilal  Qutstian,  is  altogether  too 
heroic  in  his  proportions.  He  belongs  in 
the  aluminum  palace  which  the  translators 
believe  with  the  author  will  revolutionize  the 
world.  And  yet,  the  book,  as  we  have  inti- 
mated, has,  to  those  who  can  read  it  aright, 
an  exalted  merit.  It  is  a  rough  and  almost 
shapeless  lump  of  ore  ;  but  there  is  a  thread 
of  gold  in  it. 

A  word  with  regard  to  the  workmanship 
of  the  translators.  Miss  Hapgood  renders 
Gogol  with  a  felicity  of  expression  that  is  a 
pleasurable  novelty,  and  she  apparently  has 
complete  mastery  of  the  intricate  idioms  of 
Little  Russia  in  which  Gogol  delighted. 
Her  style  is  uniformly  excellent;  "hidden 
ambushes"  (p.  49)  is,  however,  a  single 
spedmen  of  tautology  which  we  cannot  pass 
without  mention. 

Of  the  two  translations  of  Tchemuishev- 
sky,  that  of  Mr.  Tucker  is  from  the  French, 
and,  therefore,  probably  does  not  represent 
the  original  in  point  of  style.  Dr.  Holmes 
speaks  somewhere  of  "  the  ground  glass  of  a 
translation;"  here  we  have  two  ground 
glasses  I  Nevertheless,  Mr.  Tucker  has 
made  a  smooth  and  readable  version.  The 
translation  which  Messrs.  Dole  and  Skidel- 
sky  offer  is  in  some  respects  preferable;  it 
would  be  strange  if  it  did  not  keep  closer  to 
the  original,  and  it  contains  passages  which 
do  not  appear  in  Mr.  Tucker's  work.    But  it 


is  marred  by  verbal,  grammatical,  and  syn- 
tactical forms  which  are  not  at  all  in  har- 
mony with  established  English  us^es,  how- 
ever faithfully  they  may  agree  with  the 
author's  idiosyncracies  in  his  own  tongue. 

BALDWIN.' 

THE  lady  who  writes  under  the  imui  dt 
filum*  of  Vernon  Lee  (Miss  Violet 
Paget)  is  a  brilliant  but  somewhat  disap- 
pointing author.  She  has  too  ardent  a  mind, 
it  is  evident,  to  keep  her  productions  locked 
up  for  any  length  of  time  to  be  revised  in 
colder  moments  than  those  of  their  first 
composition.  So  far  does  this  extempora- 
neous habit  go  that  even  grammar  occasion- 
ally has  to  suffer  from  it  ("as  art  the  health," 
for  example,  p.  97).  But,  in  weightier  mat- 
ters, there  is  often  a  need  with  her  of  con- 
densation and  retrenchment;  she  is  carried 
away  not  rarely  with  the  copiousness  of  her 
vocabulary,  and  her  argument  is  never  con- 
tent to  be  suggestive;  all  must  be  said  that 
occurs  to  the  fertile  mind.  She  is  none  the 
less,  a  very  thoughtful,  if  incomplete,  writer, 
and  carries  us  through  discussions  of  subtle 
matters  of  ethics  and  philosophy  with  a 
candid  vigor  and  a  beauty  of  style  unusual 
in  such  realms. 

The  principal  parts  in  these  six  dialogues 
—  on  the  responsibilities  of  unbelief  the 
consolations  of  belief,  honor  aod  evolution, 
novels,  the  value  of  the  ideal,  and  doubts 
and  pessimism  —  are  taken  by  Baldwin,  who 

probably  the  masculine  side  of  Vernon 

:e's  own  mind  objectified.  So  at  least 
one  may  think  from  the  introduction  which 
declares  that  he  exists  in  the  borderland  be- 
tween fact  and  fancy.  The  other  persoa- 
ages  vary  from  one  dialogue  to  another. 
The  discussions  are  relieved  by  such  de> 
scriptions  of  the  scene  as  a  novel  would 
give,  and,  rather  too  often,  by  elaborate  at 
tempts  at  conveying  effects  of  color  into 
language,  which  remind  one  of  Mr.  Black's 
infinite  chromatics.  But  the  personages, 
Baldwin,  Agatha  Stuart,  Mrs.  Blake,  and 
the  rest  are  not  mere  sticks ;  they  have  a 
well-defined  character. 

Balwin  is  an  energetic  rationalist  In  the 
first  dialogue  he  vigorously  and  eloquently 
rts  the  duty  of  rationalists  to  teach  their 
children  what  they  themselves  believe : 

You  spoke  of  the  morBl  happineu  and  safety 
of  your  children ;  will  yon  let  that  consist  in 
falsehood  aod  depend  upon  the  duration  of 
error?  will  you  let  your  children  run  the  risk  of 
losing  their  old  faith,  without  helpioK  Ihem  to 
find!  new  one  f 

So  he  expostulates  with  Vere,  an  ssthetic 
pessimist,  while  Rheinhardt,  the  dogmatic 
skeptic,  doubts  "  which  is  the  greater  plague, 
the  old-fashioned  nuisance  called  a  soul,  or 
the  new-fangled  bore  called  mankind."  In 
aext  dialogue  Baldwin  avers  that  there 
Qo  God  with  whom  religion  can  bring    - 


King  Dulotiw*  in  Vitwi  aod  A 


1 886.] 


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277 


US  into  contact,"  and  Agatha  Stuart,  herself 
A  rery  unorthodox  person,  assails  him  with 
an  intensity  which  makes  this  part  of  the 
book  roore  stirring  than  any  other ;  and 
despite  the  author's  sympathy  with  Baldwin 
we  believe  her  Agatha  has  the  better  of  the 
argument  Not  that  Baldwin  is  unhappy, 
although  of  necessity  his  imperfect  meta- 
physics delude  him  as  to  the  character  of  the 
God  who  allows  evil  in  this  world ;  nor  that 
he  is  wrong  In  the  statement  that  morality 
is  properly  a  thing  between  man  and  man. 
Baldwin  has  the  consolations  of  his  belief  in 
human  goodness,  but  when  Agatha  declares : 
YoQ  disbelievers  are  the  very  same  men  who 
in  former  days  would  have  been  religious  fanat- 
ics ;  you  desire  maTlyrdom,  you  take  a  pleasure 
In  lonnenting  yourselves,  and  just  as  people 
used  formerly  to  wear  hair  itiirts,  and  to  drink 
brackish  water,  Ixcause  they  warned  to  feel 
that  they  were  saints,  so  yon  choose  to  believe 
all  the  things  that  cost  you  most  pain,  that  do 
most  violence  to  your  feelings,  because  yon  alio 
are  vain  and  morind,  and  wish  to  feel  yonrselves 
better  than  other  men ;  and  so  yoa  force  your- 
selves to  think  that  there  is  no  good  save  your- 
•elves  in  the  universe,  and  that  tbere  is  no  God 
ontside  it;  things  which  are  cruel  and  abomi- 
nable to  believe,  just  in  proportion  as  they  are 
false  lo  God's  nalare  and  your  own,  and  wliicb 
you  take  a  satisfaction  in  believing,  just  in  pro- 
portion as  they  are  cruel  and  abominable, 

when  she  declares  this,  we  repeat,  she  is 
uttering  what  has  no  small  force  in  refer- 
ence to  Vernon  Lee  and  the  school  of  high- 
minded  pagans  of  England  to  which  she 
belongs.  She  is  too  sound  at  heart  to  side 
with  much  of  the  fashionable  pessimism. 
Olivia,  the  poetess,  in  the  final  dialogue 
denounces  the  pessimism  which  M.  Marcel, 
the  brilliant  young  novelist,  ascribes  to  all 
the  generous  minds  of  the  day.  It  comes, 
she  says, 

merely  from  the  concentration  of  all  interest 
upon  oneself  and  one's  own  self's  powers  of 
enjoyment;  measuiing  all  good  and  evil  by  the 
standard  of  one  ciealure's  pleasure  or  pain  or 
lassitude.  This  pessimism  is  mere  seltUbness 
whether  physical  or  mental  in  its  bias. 

If  there  is  anything  in  the  world  thai  can  make 
ns  despair  it  is  that,  wben  there  is  so  much 
misery  for  which  to  think  and  feel  and  act, 
there  yet  exists  a  number  of  men  with   noble 

Sifts  and  sensibilities,  who  sit  and  moan  that 
ley  have  eihausied  all  subject  of  thought  and 
feeling  and  effort. 

So  VemoD  Lee's  conscience  tells  her  that 
it  is  better  for  men  to  suffer  a  little  from 
lack  of  knowledge,  than  for  thousands  of 
dumb  animals  to  be  tortured  in  the  vivisec- 
tion room  (this  is  the  subject  of  the  dialogue 
on  Honor  and  Evolution);  that  we  may 
treat  in  novels  of  evil  things  which  the 
English  shun,  and  which  the  French  rejoice 
in,but  that  we  must  abhor  and  shun  nastiness 
of  mind  (on  Novels}-,  and  that  the  ideal  has 
the  highest  of  all  values  (The  Value  of  the 
Ideal). 

As  you  grow  older  [says  Baldwin]  you  will  learn 
that  whfi  your  imagination  and  your  heait  hive 
made  for  you,  and  what  resides  wiihin  your  own 
soul,  is  the  one  and  only  thing  of  which  you  can 
be  certain,  the  one  and  only  thing  which  can 
jiever  alter  and  never  betray  you.  Yuu  will 
learn  that  the  great  reality  which  is  yours,  unal- 
terably and  eternally,  is  thp  ideal. 


On  the  side  of  a  high  and  disinterested  mo- 
rality this  t>oak  is  a  just  and  stirring  teacher, 
but  the  blight  which  has  fallen  on  many  no- 
ble minds  of  England  today  is  here.  In  vain  is 
the  effort  to  kindle  "ethical  passion  "when 
the  thought  of  God  is  gone;  the  morality  is 
touched  with  emotion,  but  the  emotion  is  too 
self-conscious  and  too  sublimated  to  issue 
in  religion.  Bald-win  should  be  read  by  all 
who  welcome  brilliant  and  fearless  discus- 
sion of  social  and  religious  matters,  but  with 
all  the  sincerity  of  its  ethics  and  the  ardor 
of  its  generous  humanity,  it  is  yet  the  prod- 
uct, like  much  contemporary  literature  of 
England,  of  a  hypertrophy  of  reflection,  un- 
balanced by  the  native  trust  and  submission 
which  have  been  artificially  extinguished  in 
these  sicklied  minds. 


0AEL8BAD.* 

THE  popular  Satchel  Gutd*  has  nothing 
to  say  about  Carlsbad,  but  the  Pocket 
Guide  locates  it  a  few  score  of  miles  west 
of  Prague,  and  describes  it  as  a  pretty  and 
attractive  watering  place  frequented  by  many 
thousand  people  yearly.  So  much  most  of 
us  know  already,  and  to  Carlsbad  Mr. 
Merrylees'fi  red-covered  book  of  loo  pages, 
with  its  fourteen  graphic  wood-cuts,  map, 
and  medical  essay  on  the  waters  and  their 
use  by  Dr.  London,  resident  physician 
there,  is  a  complete,  explicit,  and  satis- 
factory  introduction.  Suppose  then,  reader, 
that  instead  of  undertaking  a  conventional 
review  of  this  book,  reviewer's  fashion,  we 
undertake  an  actual  vii.it  to  Carlsbad  by 
means  of  it,  encouraging  our  imagination 
to  build  a  little  castle  in  Bohemia,  so  to 
speak,  out  of  our  author's  supply  of  ma- 
terials. 

The  month  of  April  is  the  lime  to  start, 
and  here  is  the  German  Lloyd  steamer 
"Aller,"  or  the  Red  Star  "  Noordland," 
either  one  of  which,  by  way  respectively  of 
Southampton  or  Antwerp,  will  give  us  quick 
transit  to  Paris  and  Slrassburg,  or  Brussels 
and  Cologne,  and  so  across  the  Rhine  Val- 
ley or  up  it  by  Mayence  to  Frankfort,  and 
AschaSenburg,  and  on  to  Carlsbad,  just 
beyond  Eger,  in  the  northwest  of  Bohemia, 
on  the  way  to  Prague.  Arriving  at  our 
destination  in  about  a  day  and  a  half  from 
the  Channel,  we  shall  find  ourselves  in  the 
narrow,  winding  valley  of  the  Tepel,  hemmed 
in  by  picturesque  and  rugged  hills  perhaps 
a  thousand  feet  high,  which  are  covered 
with  woods  chiefly  of  spruce  and  pine.  Count 
less  paths  intersect  these  woods  in  every 
direction.  The  town  consists  principally 
of  two  long  streets,  following  the  river  for 
a  mile  on  both  its  banks  by  a  generally 
serpentine  course.  The  river  is  spanned  by 
a  number  of  bridges.  In  the  center  of  the 
town  is  the  Markt  Platz,  and  around  it  the 
Sptudel  Colonnade,  the  Miihlbrunn  Col- 
onnade, and  the   Curhaus,  the    most    fre- 

•CarltbMlindlliEnviropl.  By  John  MenrlcCT.  lUut- 
InKed.    Clurln  Scribngi'i  SoDi.    fi.ja. 


quented  resorts  of  visitors.  From  the 
Markt  Platz  the  Alte  Wiese,  a  favorite 
promenade,  runs  along  the  left  bank  of  the 
Tepel ;  and  around  this,  the  central  and 
older  portion  of  the  town,  rise  the  enclosing 
belts  of  villas  and  hotels.  About  12,000 
inhabitants  and  900  houses,  mostly  hotels 
and  lodging-houses,  compose  the  town. 
The  chief  occupation  of  the  inhabitants  is 
to  lodge,  feed,  entertain,  and  otherwise 
serve  the  visitors. 

The  springs  of  Carlsbad  were  discovered, 
so  tradition  has  it,  by  the  Emperor  Charles 
IV  in  1358.  Probably  this  date  Is  several 
centuries  too  late.  A  hundred  years  later 
their  fame  was  made,  and  they  were  attract- 
ing msitors  from  all  parts  of  Europe.  Here 
came  Wallenstein  in  1630,  and  he  was  bar- 
barously murdered  in  the  Castle  of  Eger, 
an  ancient  town  near  by.  In  1711  and 
1712  the  presence  of  Peter  the  Great  ren- 
dered the  spot  newly  memorable,  and  a  long 
line  of  distinguished  subsequent  patronage 
has  made  Carlsbad  one  of  the  best  known 
resorts  in  Europe.  Goethe  was  first  here 
in  1785,  when  thirty-five,  and  here  he  after- 
wards spent  some  of  the  happiest  and  most 
productive  years  of  his  life.  At  no  less 
than  fourteen  different  visits  he  drank  the 
waters  of  Carlsbad,  and  the  houses  in  the 
Markt  Platz  where  he  lived  are  marked 
with  marble  tablets.  His  last  visit  was  in 
1823,  when  he  was  an  old  man  of  seventy- 
four,  but  not  too  old  to  fall  in  love  with  the 
young  and  pretty  Fraulein  von  Levetzov, 
who  however  declined  his  proposal  of  mar- 
riage. Schiller  was  here  in  1 791  with  his 
bride  of  a  year ;  here  Blucher  retired  to  rest 
after  the  perils  of  Waterioo.  All  the 
crowned  heads  of  the  Continent  have  re- 
sorted to  Carlsbad  in  the  last  hundred 
years,  and  the  registers  bear  such  other 
names  as  Bach,  Beethoven,  PaganinI,  Scho- 
penhauer, Wellington,  Mettemich,  Chateat^ 
briand,  Auerbach,  Tourgenieff,  Bismarck, 
and  John  Bright. 

The  springs  of  Carlsbad  are  hot  and 
sparkling,  and  give  forth  about  2,000,000 
gallons  a  day.  Their  flavor  has  been  com- 
pared to  that  of  oversalted  chicken  broth. 
Their  leading  constituents,  sulphate  of  soda, 
carbonate  of  soda,  and  muriate  of  soda,  place 
them  among  the  great  alkaline  and  saline 
springs  of  the  world.  Of  the  sixteen  springs, 
the  waters  of  only  eleven  are  now  prescribed 
by  physicians,  and  of  these  the  Sprudel  is 
the  most  generous  and  the  most  used. 
Their  medicinal  effect  is  anti-acid,  par  tx- 
celltnct,  and  incidentally  both  laxative  and 
stimulating.  They  are  specific  for  all  dis- 
eases of  the  liver,  many  of  the  kidneys,  and 
rheumatism.  Patients  both  drink  the  waters 
and  bathe  in  them. 

Well,  we  are  patients  at  Carlsbad;  and 
having  secured  our  lodgings,  and  obtained 
medical  advice,  are  ready  for  the  "  cure," 
which  is  by  no  means  a  fancy  process.  We 
are  early  to  bed,  and  so  ready  to  rise  at  half 


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THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


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past  five.  At  sfx  we  are  at  tbe  appointed 
spring,  ia  a.  long  line  of  patients,  to  take 
our  prescribed  number  of  caps  of  water, 
interspersing  the  cups  with  promenades  to 
the  music  of  the  band.  Then  after  an 
hour's  gentle  exercise,  having  bought  a  roll 
or  two  at  the  nearest  bakery,  we  repair  to 
a  cat6  for  our  breakfast  of  bread  and  coffee. 
No  butter  is  allowed  us.  Through  tbe 
rooroing  we  may  drive  or  stroll,  and  the 
simple  midday  dinuer  of  soup,  fish  or 
meat,  vegetables,  and  stewed  fruit  finds  us 
with  a  good  appetite.  The  wines  of  the 
country,  li^t  German  beer,  and  tbe  after 
dinner  smoke  are  not  denied  those  who 
desire  them.  After  dinner  more  walking 
ia  allowed,  but  no  napping;  evening  brings 
a  light  supper,  more  music  and  promenad- 
ing, and  ten  o'clock  the  hour  for  retiring. 

Sach  is  a  glimpse  of  "  cure  "  life  at  Carls- 
bad as  exhibited  in  this  well-planned  and 
well-prepared  book.  It  fully  covers  the 
ground,  it  recounts  the  history  of  the  spot, 
it  expounds  its  scientific  basis,  it  describes 
the  town  and  its  delightful  environs,  it  leads 
out  into  the  suburbs  by  charming  walks  and 
drives,  it  presents  a  spirited  picture  of  Carls- 
bad life  from  the  social  point  of  view,  it  sup- 
plies the  reader  with  all  tbe  directions  be  can 
possibly  require  for  the  enjoyment  of  the 
place ;  and  if  it  does  not  cause  Carlsbad  to 
be  written  down  on  the  docket  of  many  an 
Intending  American  traveler  in  Europe,  we 
are  very  much  mistaken. 


men  and  maiden*  have  walked  so  and  talked 


ing  her  liberality,  to  it  remained  active  enough 
in  argument  against  the  Trinity,  but  lomewhat 
latent  in  forgivcneu  of  sins. 
This  book  is  juit  to  the   virtue*  of  old   New 
England  toirns,    like    Tarratine,   alive    to   the 
ticautici  of  old  New  England  homes,  like  Elm- 
holme,   appreciative    (with   satirical   asides)  of 
Boston    cultare"  and    Harvard    College,  es- 
pouses the  cause  of  the  scholar  in  politics,  and 
ase  of  the  Maine  politician  holds  the  mirror 
to  nature.    Such  disguises  of  nomenclature 
"Crowninsword "  suggest  life  studies  from 
which  the   author  has  written.     Her  next  book 
shoald  be  a  decided  advance  upon  this,  and  will 
be  if  she  can  la;  hold  of  a  theme  worthj  of  her 


HDfOB  FICTION. 


Hamlin.    [D,  Applelon  4  Co.    7Jc. 

The  qnaliries  of  this  first  essaj  in  the  "  Atlan- 
tic School "  of  fiction  lie  in  screaks,  and  some  of 
the  streaks  are  good  and  some  are  poor.  Oi 
the  whole  the  average  is  in  favor  of  the  author, 
who  shoald  be  encouraged  to  try  again,  and  they 
are  not  against  the  reader,  who  may  find  an  after- 
noon's entertainment  in  the  story.  The  town 
of  Tarratine  might  be  Bangor,  Maine,  but  the 
author  should  know  better  than  persistently 
to  spell  the  Berkshire  Lenox  with  a  double  h. 
The  "politician"  i*  of  the  Irne  Maine  stamp, 
which  has  not  proved  of  the  highest  quality  of 
late ;  he  has  a  shady  past  and  a  lovely  daughtei 
ibd  tbe  problem  of  the  book  is  whether  this 
daughter,  Dorothy  Harcourt,  shall  marry  the 
man  she  loves,  Arthur  Bradley  [Harvard  18-], 
or  Irving  Chipman,  who  belongs  to  her  falher's 
political  set,  and  who  by  knowledge  ol  the 
father's  secrets  ia  capable  of  making  him  or 
nuning  him.  The  dialogue  is  weak  in  spots, 
and  become*  stilled  and  meiodramatic ;  the  de- 
scriptive passages  are  strong, 
brilliant,  and  have  the  true  touch  of  talent,  if 
not  almost  of  genius.  We  may  instance  such 
lines  as  these : 

Yoong  men  and  maidens  sought  each  other 
by  mutual  consent  and  tacit  understanding,  and 
two  by  two  walked  under  the  beautiful  New 
England  elms  which  arched  the  broad  street 
with  waving  shade.  Did  they  too  talk  of  the 
arowine  infidelity  of  the  age,  or  only  the  fidelity 
of  their  own  hearts?     Who  knows?     Young 


This  novel  has  many  of  the  element*  of 
Hver;  each  a*  invention,  dramatic  form,  fer- 
>r;  and  it  is  interesting.  Towards  the  end  it 
>mes  near  to  being  absorbing.  Some  of 
detail*  are  overdrawn,  as  when  Mrs.  Garritson 
irried  to  Lord  Thomberry  on  the  yacht  ii 
the  Mediterranean  within  half  an  hour  of  her 
husband's  death  and  by  his  peremptory  request. 
But  shorn  of  all  excessea  there  remain*  a  inb. 
stantial  body  of  good  writing,  well  planned. 
The  subject  of  the  story  is  the  eiperience  of  a 
brilliant  American  woman,  Florence  Andrews, 
marrying  Percy  Garritson,  whom  she  did 
re,  but  to  whom  she  was  irreproachably  faith- 
ful, while  exposed  to  the  templing  companion- 
ship of  Lord  Thornberr;  whom  she  did  love, 
but  whose  eSorts  to  win  her  had  been  defeated. 
The  action  begin*  in  the  cour*e  ol  a  coaching- 
party  drive  through  England,  and  proceeds  in 
a  sea-coaat  town  of  France,  with  one  Lady 
Davenport  as  duenna.  Lady  Davenport  is 
match-maker  and  reads  "Ouida."  The  ele- 
ment of  plot  Is  famished  by  the  disguised 
identity  of  Lord  Thoroberry  with  a  brother 
who  passes  for  a  priest  A  priest  she  a 
marry,  and  so  with  half  a  love,  and  out  of  pity 
and  a  sense  of  duty,  she  marries  Garritson,  and 
then,  when  the  true  personality  of  her  disguised 
lover  is  revealed,  the  nobility  and  moral  strength 
of  her  character  finds  a  field  for  exercise  in 
striking  terms.  Florence  never  swerves  a  hair'i 
breadth  from  the  path  of  integrity;  the  inex- 
orable will  with  which  she  stands  in  her  place 
as  Percy  Gartitson's  wife,  parrying  every  thrust, 
spuming  every  subterfuge,  loyally  fulfilling  every 
wifely  trust,  and  struggling  heroically  with  thi 
terrible  reality  that  sway*  her  life,  ia  finely  por 
trayed.    We  ehould  like  to  hear  from  this  author 

A    Victerioiu  Dtfeal.    By  Wolcott  Balestier. 

[Harper  &  Brothers.    %ixa\ 

This  ia  a  well-written,  agreeable,  and  meri- 

j  torious  novel  of  life  among  the  Moravia: 
Pennsylvania  early  in  tbe  century.  The  scene 
is  carefully  studied  and  well  depicted,  and  the 
reader  feels  himaelf  in  tbe  midst  of  the  inlcrcst- 

j  ing  surroundings,  the  uncommonplace  characters, 
the    un-American  atmosphere   with    which   the 

I  story  is  concerned.    The  leading  personage* 


Moravian  clergyman,  who  make*  the  sacrifice 
of  the  drama,  a  non-conforming  daughter  of  a 
Moravian  leader  in  the  setdement,  and  her  Gen- 
tile lover.  Of  course  in  the  destined  order  of 
such  a  romance  Owen  March  must  win  Con- 
Van  Clecf  in  the  end,  bat  no  reader  wilt 
feel  a  sympathy  for  the  disappointment 
of  Mr.  Kealon,  or  to  be  touched  by  his  fate— ' 

fate  in  keeping  with  his  character  and  his 
history.    Tbe  book  ha*  a  distinct  flavor. 

At  Common  MerbUi.  A  Novel.  ICassell  tt 
Co.    JI.J5.] 

There  is  not  a  little  intense  if  nntrained  power 
in  this  story,  which  is  distinctly  a  story  of  today. 
It  touchea  upon  many  of  the  sodal  and  intellect- 
ual problems  that  are  now  having  an  agitating  in> 
Bacnce  upon  receptive  minds,  and  it  brings  out 
vividly  the  danger*  attendant  upon  a  period  of 
general  mental  ferment.  The  heroine,  MiUlcent 
Barron,  a  child  of  rather  commonplace,  well-to- 
do  people,  has  traits  within  her  that  isolate  her 
from  her  relative*  and  their  petty  aima,  and 
drive  her  to  aeek  companionship*  that  contribute 
to  her  development  only  by  involving  ber  In 
bitter  experience*.  Tbe  author's  modve  la 
clesrly  to  show  that  wholesome  energy  of  par< 
pose  depend*  apon  the  moral  and  mental  atmos- 
phere in  which  purpoae  ha*  its  growth.  Tbe 
main  scene  of  the  story  is  laid  in  a  large  center 
of  population  near  New  York,  and  the  absolute 
inanity  of  life  in  this  overgrown  and  laiurioos 
village  is  depicted  with  a  malicious  knowledge; 
The  several  characters  are  fairly  well  outlined, 
although  in  the  matter  of  what  we  may  call  tbe 
psychological  details  a  great  deal  is  left  to 
the  intagination  of  the  reader.  A  "moral  sanK 
tarium "  in  Vermont,  a  society  for  ethical  c«lt- 
and  several  love  affain  all  contribute  their 
quota  to  Millicent  Barron's  development  tmtQ 
■he  come*  at  length  to  the  peaceful  haven  of  a 
happy  marriage.  The  intercat  of  the  book  lie* 
freshness  of  thought,  its  Intensity  <rf  mo* 
tive,  and  its  graceful,  almoat  brilliant,  style. 

A  Let^  Starch.  By  Mary  A.  Roe.  [Dodd, 
Mead  &  Co.    ti.iS] 

Thi*  i*  a  novel  pure  and  simple.  It  ha*  no 
apparent  ulterior  purpose,  whether  rcltgious, 
moral,  psychological,  scientific,  or  descriptive, 
beyond  enlisting  the  reader's  interest  in  the  char- 
acter* as  human  beings.  In  plot  it  ii  eventful 
enough  to  aatisFy  all  reasonable  demands.  Tbe 
heroine  is  rescued  when  a  young  and  Interesting 
child  from  the  ill-usage  of  a  termagant  in  the 
wilds  of  Itlinoi*  some  ninety  year*  ago;  thehero^ 
who  rescues  her,  ia  a  young  hunter  with  ambi- 
tion to  become  an  artist;  and  the  "long  search" 
is  their  endeavor,  aided  by  other  friends,  to  dis- 
cover the  heroine's  parentage,  unknown,  but  be. 
lieved  to  be  high.  The  young  girl  is  adopted  aa 
daughter  in  a  law3'er'*  family,  and  taken  to  tbe 
cultured  aodely  of  New  York  and  the  country- 
seats  on  the  Hudson.  Later  the  prominent 
characters  are  brought  together,  by  degrees,  in 
Italy,  where  the  quondam  hunter  has  gone  to 
pursue  art  studies;  and  here  the  trace*  brought 
to  light  of  the  heroine's  long  sought  family  and 
an  abduction  by  brigands  make  the  plot  vei^ 
on  the  sensational.  All  ends  in  the  hippy  man- 
ner which  the  average  of  reader*  would  wish. 
The  missing  fatherproves  to  be  an  Irish  baronet  ~ 
Some  of  the  characters  are  not  very  life-like,  and 
we  notice  occasional  inaccuracies,  such  as  incor< 


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rect  plural*  and  calling  the  baronet  a  nobleman  ; 
bat  the  atory  will  intemt  its  readere,  and  the 
moral  tone  is  throughout  worthy  and  in^irlog. 


tin.  Ollphant  it  certainly  a  marrel  of  literary 
resource  and  feriilitr-  Not  content  with  ihe  pro- 
duction of  an  annual  or  Kmi-annual  novel  of  the 
Ibree-volumed  capadly  demanded  by  the  English 
Bcdon-market,  and  an  occaiional  tmr  de  /tret 
like  TAt  BuUdtri  ef  Flerenct  or  ni  Lift  ej 
Ednard  Irving,  she  interspeiiet  these  severei 
toils  with  a  multitude  of  slighter  efforts,  no>cl- 
etlea  or  itori-eltci,  which,  though  slight  of  con- 
struction, demand  and  receive  the  same  exercise 
of  inventive  faculty  and  the  same  painstakiiig 
finish  as  her  more  considerable  eSotta.  One  of 
these  shorter,  "  in  between  "  stories,  is  Effic  OgU- 
vU.  ESie  is  the  daughter  of  a  small  Scotch  laird, 
Uving  in  a  dull  neighborhood.  Happier  than  her 
environments,  she  poiaesses  two  lovera,  and  is 
lU>le  to  balance  their  claims  and  oscillate  between 
the  tvTO  after  the  fashion  so  frequently  set  forth 
in  the  modem  novel.  One  of  these  young  men 
has  light  hair,  and  is  frank,  inconsequent,  opti- 
mistic ;  Ihe  other  is  dark,  reserved,  and  diffieiii. 
They  belong  in  fact  to  types  invented  bf  their 
aathor  long  ago,  and  which  have  done  duty  re- 
peatedly in  previous  books.  It  Is  not  difficult  for 
those  who  know  her  method  to  guess  the  solution 
of  the  ptLule,  but  the  fault  of  this  particular 
story  is  that  It  doesn't  exactly  "  solute,"  and  that 
Effie  and  her  indedsions  are  left  in  a  somewhat 
unsatisfactory  state  of  suspension  —  with  just  a 
final  hint  to  set  the  reader's  mind  at  rest  and 
gtdde  bis  judgment.  But  barring  this  drawback, 
tbe  little  tale  is  a  graceful  one,  and  there  are 
sundry  sly  hits  at  Scotch  character  and  h^ts 
which  lend  it  life  and  humor. 


Uacfarlane.    [Cassell  &  Co.    f  1.00.] 

If  this  be  a  strictly  original  novel,  then  its 
chief  merit  consists  in  its  imitative  quality.  It  is 
DO  slight  praise  of  it  to  say  that  it  might  be  a 
tranalation,  or  version,  or  adaptation,  from  the 
German,  but  no  hint  of  any  such  source  is  sup- 
plied- The  scene  is  laid  in  Mecklenburg  on  the 
shores  of  Ihe  Baltic,  which  one  of  Ihe  chiracters 
enthusiastically  calls  the  finest  sea  in  the  world. 
There  are  carefully  drawn  and  interesting  views 
of  an  old  castle  here,  where  the  main  events  of 
Ihe  story  take  place,  and  >  series  of  family  par- 
trails,  so  lo  speak,  which  include  many  a  fine 
countenance  and  noble  presence.  The  interest 
centers  in  Ihe  relation  between  Leopold  Ublheim, 
s  tatoT,  and  Elsa  von  Rabenhorsl,  the  friend  of 
bis  pupil  Victor  and  of  Victor's  siste 
a  lovely  woman,  with  one  blemish,  however,  that 
of  pride  of  family  and  class,  a  blemish  which  she 
comes  by  honestly.  She  despises  tutors,  and 
does  not  hesitate  to  say  so  and  to  act  accordingly. 
Leopold,  whom  she  meets  occasionally,  is  more 
highly  bom  than  she  knows  ;  still  she  makes  no 
disguise  of  her  contempt  and  aversion,  and  not- 
withstanding her  secret  admiration  of  his  figure 
and  character,  treats  him  with  rudeness  and 
scorn  on  account  of  caste.  The  melting  away 
of  her  prejudice  and  the  awakening  of  lovi 
its  place  is  the  object  of  the  story.  The  process 
Is  slow,  is  helped  along  by  a  variety  of  person- 
ages and  incidents,  and  is  consummated  by 
conflagratian  which  threatens  the  Schloss,  and  in 


which  exigency  Leopold  performs  a  gallant  deed 
The  circumstance  which  gives  the 
book  Its  title  is  fanciful  and  comparatively  trivial. 
The  story  is  entirely  unexceptionable,  being 
marked  by  sweetness  and  purity,  and  while  char- 
acterised by  gentleness  mare  than  strength, 
a&ords  pleasant  acquaintance  with  certain  phases 
of  North  German  life. 

A  Den  ef  Tkimtt. 
&  Wagnalfs.    Paper,  350.] 

If  any  one  feels  shocked  at  so  sensational  a 
title,  he  may  at  once  calm  his  mind  by  the  relig- 
ious suggestions  of  the  sub-title.  The  Lay-Reader 
a/ SI.  Mark's.    The  tale  thus  curioualy  named  is 
of  the  kind  which  most  people  call  "temperance 
ories  i "    and  it  aims  to  portray  in  vivid  colors 
e  extreme  evils,  both  public  and  personal,  of 
irestrained  dram-selling,  especially  in  a  commu- 
nity of  working-men.    The  young  lay-reader  and 
the  enthusiastie  girl  whom  we  may  call  the  hero- 
ine attack  this  traffic  most  determinedly,  and  in- 
directly both  lose  their  lives  in  the  contesL    The 
lyle  is  characteristically  feminine  —  in- 
tense emotions,  love  of  tbe  right,  and  language 
abounding  in  strong  adjectives.    But  like  many 
books  with  an  object,  this  is  rather  one-sided. 

In  Wanled—a  Stnialien,  by  Edward  S.  Van 
Zile,  we  have  a  Saratoga  story,  of  a  Long  Island 
Rev.  Samuel  Hord,  D.D.,  who  white  sum- 
mering at  the  Springs  was  detected  in  a  ruinous 
with  a  New  Vork  gambler,  and  who  died 
of  a  column  of  correspondence  disclosing  his  in- 
famy In  the  New  York  Mertiing  Era.    [Cassell 

&Co.      2SC.] 

G.  W,  Dillingham  of  New  York,  successor  to 
Geo.  W.  Caileton,  has  begun  a  *■  Madison  Square 
Series "  of  paper-covered  novels,  old  stagers 
newly  caparisoned,  of  which  Mis.  Mary  J. 
Holmes's  TtmpesI  and  Sumkint  is  an  early  num- 
ber. This  story  of  Kentucky  life  was  first  pub- 
lished in  1S64.  Its  present  value  ties  in  its 
picturing  of  a  type  of  Southern  character  and 
forever  passed  away.  [25C.I 
'ere-erdaintd :  a  Slory  of  ffircdity,  is  a  story 
founded  on  the  physiology  of  marriage  and  ma- 
ternity, and  is  fit  to  be  read  only  by 
mothers,  and  by  them  only  in  private.  [Fowler 
*  Wells  Co.] 

Mr.  Laurence  Alma  Tadema's  Levi's  Martyr 
shows  how  an  English  artist  can  paint  with  his 
pen  as  well  as  with  his  brush.  It  Is  Ihe  story  of 
two  men  in  love  with  the  same  woman,  she 
poor  relatiiHi,  cruelly  persecuted ;  and  of  her  gii 
ing  herself  to  one,  while  she  really  owes  herself 
to  the  other.  However,  all  et)ds  well.  The  tale 
is  interesting  in  Ihe  gentler  way,  and  is  written 
a  poetic  strain,  as  might  be  expected.  [D.  Ap- 
pleton  &  Co.     50c.] 

In  Wittieii  My  Hand  we  have  an  English 
beauty,  Helen  Rivers,  framed  in  an  English  hall, 
Erlston,  with  a  lover  who  is  deceived  as  to  her 
feelings  toward  him  by  the  forgery  of 
This  piece  of  feminine  villainy  comes  neai 
ing  Ibc  happiness  of  two  people,  but  is  detected 
and  defeated  just  in  time.    [Cassell  &  Co.    ajc] 

Mrs.  J.  H.  Walworth's  ScrupU 
"  Rainbow  Series  "  with  the  foregoing,  has  the 
Interest  of  being  based  on  scenes  In 
Civil  War,  the  merit  of  depicting  those  scenes 
with  a  certain  rough  and  ready  touch,  and  the 
particular  value  of  being  thorougblj  Southern 


materials  and  style;  bat  its  tone  is  coarse  and 
low,  and  readers  of  gentle  tastes  will  be  offended 
by  much  of  the  language  in  the  lips  of  its  charac- 
It  it  neither  refined  nor  refining.  [Cassell 
&  Co.    25c] 

"A  story  of  providence,"  Emma  E.  Homi- 
brook  calls  Marvellous  in  Our  Eyes.  Its  scene 
tbe  South  of  Ireland  coast,  where  a  family 
cA  gentlefolk  are  cottaging,  with  Ihe  clills,  Ihe 
waves,  and  the  fishermen's  families  for  compan- 
ions. The  aim  ia  that  of  the  so-called  religious 
novel,  which  is  often  a  spoiling  of  two  good 
things.  The  main  fabric  in  thit  case  is  the 
novel ;  tbe  religion  is  laid  on  in  spots.  The  two 
ingredients  are  not  well  mixed.  There  are  some 
exciting  incidents  in  the  story,  notably  with  the 
ingglers  in  their  cavern.    [Cassetl  &  Co.    isc] 

Mr.  Arthur  Griffiths's  Fait  and  Loose  may  be 
deacrilied  as  a  financial  novel,  dealing  with  bank 
"irregularities"  and  the  hard  ways  of  cono-t 
ing-housc  trangressorq. —  a  timely  Boston  topic 
now;  Mr.  Hawley  Smart's  Bad  lo  Beat 
English  tporting  novel,  with  a  good  deal 
of  t>arrack  life  and  club  talk,  and  glimptes  of 
in  social  strata  on  which  England's  fair 
fame  does  not  rest ;  H.  Sutherland  Edwards's 
Tht  Case  0/  Revhen  Malaehi  is  a  case  of  detect- 
ive science  relating  to  a  mysterious  murder  ;  in 
Boisgobey's  A  Fight  for  a  Fortune  we  have  a 
French  privateering  romance ;  and  in  Mr.  A.  D. 
Hall's  Anitlma  an  adaptation  of  Victoiien  Sar- 
dou's  Andra,  a  thorough-going  French  novel  of 
the  dramatic  school.  All  of  these  fire  books  be- 
long on  the  shelf  of  seiualional  fiction,  the  qaal> 
ily  of  which  scarcely  needs  more  particular 
characieriaation  ;  and  all  are  the  publications  of 
Rand,  McNallyft  Co.  of  Chicago,  at  prices  vary- 
ing from  zj  to  35c. 

Recent  issues  in  "Harpet's  Handy  Series'  — 
capital  books,  these,  for  travelers'  pockets  in 
summer  seasons  —  are  Mrs.  Campbell  Fraed's 
TAe  Head  Station,  an  unobjectionable  story  of 
Australian  life,  with  graphic  pictures  of  the  bosh, 
mining  camps,  and  all  the  strange  and  plctur* 
esqne  material  of  that  far-away  continent;  John 
Strange  Winter's  Army  Sxiety,  whose  subject  is 
furnished  by  Anglo-Indian  military  people  and 
their  dramatic  aSairs  and  love-matches;  Julian 
Corbett's  The  Fall  0/  Aigard,  founded  on  old 
Norse  Sagas,  and  dealing  with  rude  life  far  away 
in  the  recesses  of  the  Norwegian  wilderness 
amidst  almost  tiadilionary  conditions;  and 
Katharine  Lee's  Katharine  Blytht,  a  well-written 
Cornish  tale,  enacted  in  full  sight  of  the  great 
Allantic  as  it  rolls  westward  from  England,  and 
turning  on  a  girl's  fidelity  to  an  absent  lover, 
somewhat  after  the  manner  of  Mr.  Clark  Rus- 
sell's Jphn  HeldsiBorth,  Chief  Male,  of  which 
however,  it  is  no  Imitation.  [Harper  &  Broth- 
ers.   Each  35c.] 

—  We  have  received  from  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons, 
New  York,  as  representing  Triibner  &  Co.  of 
London,  the  prospectus  of  Dr.  Jaslrow's  forth- 
coming Diitienary  of  the  Targumim,  the  Tal- 
mud Bahli  and  Yeruskalmi,  and  the  Midrashie 
Literatiire,  the  first  part  of  which  wilt  shortly 
appear.  It  will  be  arranged  on  the  plan  of  mod- 
em dictionaries,  and  will  be  completed  in  about 
a  doien  parts  of  96  quarto  pages.  The  price  Id 
this  country  to  subscribers  will  tie  f  1.00  a  part. 
The  specimen  page  promises  a  work  of  great 
typographical  excellence. 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Aug.  2Ij 


The  Literary  World. 


BOSTON,  AUGUST  21,  1866. 


Of  eoune  tht  nul  all  the  poelry  (be  e 

ber  moIhcT'i  Utttc  book-itud  mhe  [ound  1 
I.ilil(lel1cw,  Cnleiidca,  Spiaiw,  idiI  Sco 


mtoEk.  ThaiB  K*th»[|liB  read 
led  her  faocy  and  did  na  harm 
mora  thu  mlcht  be  lald  o[  th 
ysuDser  pDCte.  Sfaa  WTOte  p 
course.  Uest  ImaflDBtive  ( 
peas,  try  their  bud  at  vena- 
tham,  too  — ud  I  am  ilad  V 

aaeiat  tiom  their  filaoda.  II 
u>d  atrugf  laa  In  donaral  are, 

feminine  kind  at  alileeii  muil  bavc  ■DRiat) 


artv  Btjtir,  bT*^"«" 


■  Lib. 


FEAT£BS  AT  EABVARD. 

THE  published  plan  of  provision  for 
the  religious  needs  of  tlie  students  of 
Harvard  University  promises  an  interesting 
experiment  in  a  difficult  direction.  The 
problem  of  keeping  a  place  for  "prayers" 
under  the  growing  rule  of  the  "elective  sys- 
tem "  at  Harvard  has  been  a  perplexing  one 
for  some  time,  and  its  chances  ha.ve  been 
growing  less  and  less  year  by  year.  The 
students  have  chafed  and  fretted  under  the 
compulsion  of  chapel  attendance  not  only 
on  Sundays  but  on  week-days,  and  the  com- 
pulsion has  been  felt  more  and  more  as  the 
relaxation  of  the  college  regime  in  other 
ways  increased.  It  seemed  hard  that  stu- 
dents who  were  beginning  to  be  allowed  not 
only  to  choose  their  own  studies,  but  to  reg- 
ulate their  own  study,  on  almost  purely  vol 
untary  principies,  should  siill  be  required, 
regardless  of  religious  beliefs  or  disbeliefs, 
to  be  present  at  devotional  exercises  whether 
or  no.  There  did  seem  a  certain  inconsist- 
ency in  "compulsory  prayers." 

The  question  has  come  to  be  a  very  differ- 
ent one  at  Harvard  from  what  it  is  at  the 
traditional  New  England  college,  like  Am- 
herst, or  Wesleyan  University,  or  at  the 
denominational  schools  which  dot  Hie  West 
These  institutions,  many  of  thetn,  stand  on 
a  strictly  religious  basis,  are  ordained  to  do 
a  distinctly  religious  service,  and  are  respon- 
sible for  a  distinctly  religious  influence. 
But  the  case  is  different  at  I  larvard.  What- 
ever may  have  been  the  intention  of  its 
founders,  or  the  actual  effect  of  Its  early  his- 
tory, the  fact  is  inconteslable  that  our  oldest 
and  greatest  University  has  outgrown  its 
original  character,  has  severed  its  technical 
ties  to  the  churches,  and  has  entered  on  a 
purely  secular  function,  so  far  as  any  school 
of  learning  can  be  purely  secular.  It  is  not 
a  part  of  the  question,  as  Dr.  Morgan  Dix 
and  others  have  lately  made  it,  whether  this 


type  of  college  is  lower  or  higher  than  the 
denominational  college,  like  Trinity,  for  ex- 
ample, or  whether  a  course  of  education 
which  divorces  itself  from  all  religious  faith 
be  comparable  with  one  which  is  based  upon 
a  faith  and  proposes  to  serve  it.  Distincdy 
that  is  not  the  question.  The  question  in 
the  case  of  Harvard  is  whether  the  Univer- 
sity, having  parted  from  its  old  moorings 
and  set  sail  upon  the  high  seas  of  purely 
ific  methods  of  learning,  has  any  right 
lo  continue  applying  exactions,  e 
which  amount  to  religious  tests,  to  those  who 
seek  her  conduct  We  maintain  that  there 
can  be  but  one  answer  to  such  a  question, 
and  that  that  answer  has  been  accurately 
stated  by  those  who  have  Conceded  that  re- 
ligious culture  at  Harvard,  like  all  its  other 
culture,  must  now  be  administered  upon  a 
strictly  voluntary  basis. 

The  plan  which  bas  been  adopted  as  a 
means  to  this  end  is  novel,  ingenious,  ear- 
nest, strong,  and  inviting.  The  young, 
fresh,  warm-blooded,  sympathetic  Francis 
G.  Peabody,  whose  very  name  is  Elijahts 
mantle  upon  Elisha,  has  been  made  Plum- 
mer  Professor  of  Christian  Morals,  and 
with  him  the  Reverends  Edward  E.  Hale, 
Phillips  Brooks,  Alexander  McKenzie,  Rich- 
ard Montague,  and  George  A.  Gordon,  all 
Harvard  men  of  dates  varying  from 
iSSi,  have  been  appointed  "Preachers  to  the 
University."  These  six  preacher 
take  turns  tn  conducting  a  daily  service  of 
prayer  in  the  college  chapel  and  a  Sunday 
evening  service  with  sermon,  throughi 
the  academic  year.  On  one  adernoon  of 
the  week  there  is  to  be  a  vespei 
Attendance  at  these  service)  is  to  be  vol- 
untary on  the  part  of  the  students.  "  Only 
they,"  say  the  preachers,  "  can  make  it  suc- 
cessful." They  are  invited  to  take  a  loyal 
interest  in  the  plan,  and  to  feel  that  the 
Preachers  to  the  University  will  always  be 
accessible  to  ihem  for  counsel  and  help. 

This  is  an  admirable  plan ;  for  Harvard  it 
is  incomparably  better  than  the  old  plan.  I 
is  sense  and  reason.  There  is  a  flavor  of  Di 
Arnold  about  the  manly  circular  in  which 
it  is  announced.  It  is  like  a  fresh  breei 
already  blowing  through  the  close  corridors 
of  the  conventional  religious  life  of  the 
University.  It  promises  a  healthy 
If  any  men  can  carry  it  through,  il 
six  men  who  are  charged  with  its  opera- 
tion. The  public  will  watch  with  the  deep- 
est sympathy  this  honest  attempt  to  give 
the  religious  life  a  fair  chance  alongside  thi 
intellectual  life,  on  the  same  voluntary  basis. 


expected  to  enter  on  its  passage  to  this 
country  wilb  the  rising  of  the  Nile  in  Feb- 
ruary. The  figure  it  in  a  sitting  posture, 
and  bas  a  htght  of  thirteen  feet,  and  will 
irtainly  be  an  acquisition  to  the  arcbieo- 
logical  treasures  of  the  Boston  Museum, 

It  is  to  Rev.  Dr.  W.  C.  Winslow,  we 
presume,  the  American  Vice-President  of 
the  Fund,  acting  in  connection  with  Dr. 
Reginald  Stuart  Poole,  that  we  are  indebted 
for  the  efforts  that  have  secured  this  trophy, 
should  be  glad  to  learn  that  the 
public  is  testifying  its  gratitude  by  a  heart- 
systematic  coSperatlon  In  the 
work  of  ftimishing  thobiiy  for  the  continu- 
ance of  ttie  explorations.  Mndi  interest 
was  manifested  last  year,  and  generous  sub- 
scriptions were  secured  in  the  United 
States,  but  difficulty  has  been  experienced 
in  enlisting  regular  subscribers  to  the  Fund. 
We  hope  Dr.  Winslow  will  now  find  more 
encouragement 

•«•  The  propoul  of  the  Boston  Aivtriiitr 
thai  a  lilt  of  prizes  be  ofiered  as  below  carries 
something  more  than  a  pleasantry,  lieing  ■  tort  of 
protest,  as  il  were,  against  ccrlain  ideas  of  Boston 
and  Boston  people  which  are  carreni  but  liardly 

I.  A  bound  Tolame  of  Tapper  to  an;  person 
who  hears  in  Washington  Street,  on  a  day  fixed. 


EGYPT  EXPLOSATIOH. 

THE  present  rather  languid  American 
interest  in  the  work  of  the  Egypt  Ex- 
ploration Fund  is  likely  to  be  revived  by 
the  announcement  that  a  valuable  colossus 
of  Rameses  II,  the  oppressor  of  the  Hi 
brews  before  the  Exodu.s,  has  been  secured 
for  the  Boston  Museum  of  Fine  Arts,  and 


allusion  ti 
by  lohnrbanii,  so  called. 

1.  A  report  of  the  common  coancil  meetings 
[or  one  ycu  to  the  olnerver  who  counts  three 
Boston  women  Out  of  a  hundred  who  wear  eye- 

3.  A  photograph  of  Charldtown  State  Prison 
(o  the  discoverer  of  alrave  one  out  of  evetv 
10,000  Baitoniana  who  ever  attended  the  ConccKd 
School  of  Philosophy, 

4.  A  bottle  of  water  from  the  Fro^  Pond  for 
the  identification  of  over  jo  in  1,000  ciiizens  who 
know  by  ilght  Holmes  or  Howelli  or  Aldrich,  or 
any  one  of  the  chief  literary  men  of  Boston. 

%*  The  New  Orleani  Picayune,  while  admit- 
ting the  riches  of  New  England  and  the  North 
and  West  is  fields  for  fiction,  when  worked  by 
the  genius  of  Longfellow,  Hawthorne,  Cooper, 
and  Irving,  emphaiiies  the  value  <rf  the  Southern 
fields,  and  thinks  they  have  "scarcely  been 
touched."  Touched  Ihcy  certainly  have  been, 
though  Ihe  touches  may  have  been  forgotten. 
The  most  famous  American  book,  Uncit  TenCt 
Cabin,-yit»  t.  "touch"  that  went  lo  the  quick 
before  the  War,  and  the  genius  of  Cable,  Miss 
Murfiee,  and  E.  W.  Howe  since  the  War  has 
demonsttateil  (hat  only  the  "  toach  "  is  needed  to 
continue  the  precious  yield.  The  mines  are  cer- 
tainly there;  we  need  only  the  workmen  to  find 
■he  ore. 

%•  Mr.  Brander  Matthews  of  New  York  hat 
been  writing  some  readable  letters  on  English 
topics  from  London  to  the  Boston  Advirliser,  but 
we  do  not  find  his  signature,  or  any  other,  for 
that  matter,  to  a  London  letter  primed  in  that 
journal  under  dale  of  August  14.  The  subjects 
of  this  tetter  are  the  Alhenaum  and  the  Aeadtmy, 
xYitSpectaluriXiA  \ht  Saturtiay  Xrvi.vi.X^'!  World 
and  Truth,  and  finally  Prnith.  The  Aihtiurim, 
jays  this  writer,  is  owned  by  Sir  Charles  Dilke, 
and  Ihe  S,iturday  Stvieni  hy  Mr.  A.  J.  Beieiford 
Ilupe.  Mr.  Pollack,  as  he  notes,  has  certainly 
lightened  and  softened  the  Kmict;  and  it  may  be, 
as  here  slated, "  the  most  (irmly  established  of  all 


■886.] 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


English  weekly  journals  ; "  but  wc  doubt  i(  it  hu 
on  the  whole  as  deep  an  influence  as  the  Spectator 
Id  Mr.  Hul ton's  hands,  whose  "sweetness  and 
light**  leach  far  and  wide.  Justice  is  dune  in  this 
vtlcl«  to  Mi.  Yales's  Warld,  is  having  the  low 
^m  of  success  only,  and  to  Mr.  Lalwuchire's 
Ttutk  as  having  "ideas  and  convictions  j "  and 
menlion  is  made  of  the  fact  ihat  the  staff  oE 
Puntk  hat  been  augmented  by  the  addition  oE 
Mr.  Anstey. 

%•  In  our  issue  of  July  lo  we  made  use  o( 
some  parts  of  a  letter  from  Michigan  on  Art  and 
Jouinatisro  in  Detroit.  Some  exception  having 
been  taken  to  certain  statements  therein,  we 
Have  made  intjuiry  into  the  facts,  and  are  of  the 
opinioQ  that  our  correspondent's  language,  both 
of  appreciation  and  depreciation,  was  perhaps 
too  strong,  and  did  not  do  quite  justly  by  two  of 
the  journals  named. 

*•*  A  stronger  and  finer  sutement,  fcom  a 
strictly  literary  point  of  view,  seldom  finds  its 
way  into  the  journals  of  the  day  than  appeared 
in  some  of  the  Boston  papers  lately  from  the 
pen  of  Mooifield  Story,  Esq.,  ~ 
alleged  irregularities 
financial  management  of  a  prominent  Massachu- 
setts corporation.  In  consideiatlon  of  the  word- 
iness and  circumlocution  with  which  lawyers  as 
k  claM  are  charged,  a  paper  like  this  is  a  marvel 
of  its  kind,  and  deserves  to  be  put  on  file  a«  a 


IDorlb  23iograpI)ir^. 

James  Breck  Perkins.  Mr.  Perkins,  whose 
history  of  Richelieu  and  Mazarin  is  reviewed  in 
another  column,  is  a  New  Englander  by  birth. 
His  father  was  Hamlet  H.  Perkins  of  Concord, 
N.  H.;  his  mother  Miss  Breck  of  Newport,  N,  H. 
The  families  on  both  sides  were  of  old  New 
England  stock.  His  mother's  ancestors  landed 
at  Dorchester  as  early  as  1630,  and  many  of  them 
formerly  lived  in  Boston.  There  was  a  lime,  in 
1685,  when  one  Widow  Breck  was  quoted  as 
"the  very  flower  of  Boston,"  One  of  these 
Breck  ancestors  was  a  leading  Bostonian  dur- 
ing the  Revolution,  and  his  family  afterwards 
moved  to  Philadelphia.  Mr.  Perkins's  grand- 
father Breck  was  born  in  Boston,  but  his  father 
afterwards  moved  to  New  Ilampihirr.  His 
Perkins  ancestors  came  over  to  this  country 
somewhat  later,  and  moved  to  New  Hampshire ; 
and  in  a  hazy  and  remote  way  he  is  connected 
with  Perkins  families  in  Massachuselta  and 
Connecticut.  All  of  which  goes  to  make  up  that 
coveted  possession,  a  New  England  ancestry  of 
the  straitest  sort.  Mr.  Perkins's  father  went 
West  at  an  early  day,  and  this  son  was  born  at  St. 
Croix  Falls,  Wis.,  November  4,  1847.  He  is  now 
38.  The  St.  Croix  population  at  that  time  con- 
sisted of  a  very  few  whites  and  a  great  many 
Sioux  Indians.  Three  years  later  the  Tathei  was 
drowned  and  the  mother  left  St.  Croix.  The 
widow  and  her  son  lived  for  a  year  in  Chicago, 
and  then  went  upon  a  farm  at  Como,  111.  Here 
what  time  the  boy  did  not  spend  out  doors,  he 
divided  pretty  equally  between  bis  favorite  pur- 
suits of  leading  history  and  hunting-stories, 
playing  chess.  The  only  thing  in  which  he 
was  supposed  to  show  any  special  aptitude  was 
chess,  and  at  six  he  played  nhat  was  thought 
lie  a  pretty  good  game.  Fond  relatives  hoped 
he  might  acquire  dislinciion  as  a  chess  playi 


but  at  nine  he  was  taken  away  to  Rochester  and 
put  in  schooli  and  that  was  the  end  of  chess.  He 
went  lo  the  pubttc  schools)  and  at  fifteen  received 

of  the  three  free  scbollrthips  which  the 
University  of  Rochester  gives  lo  those  grtduites 
of  the  Rochester  High  School  who  pass  the  best 
eiaminatloiL  In  the  same  year,  iS6j,  he  offered 
:nlist  for  the  War,  but  was  rejected  by  the 
uiting  officer,  partly  on  account  of  age,  or 
rather  the  lack  of  age,  and  partly  because  at  Ihat 
he  was  to  excessively  slim.  He  then 
entered  the  University  of  Rochester,  and  at 
ighteen  started  for  Europe.  Meansbeing  scanty, 
he  went  over  on  a  sailing  ship,  and  was  gone 

ix  months,  walking  over  considerable  parts 
of  England  and  Italy,  and  traveling  generally  in 
the  cheapest  *ay  possible.  He  went  into  Northern 
Italy  shortly  after  its  anneiatlon,  and  witnessed 
the  triumphal  entry  of  Victor  Emanuel.    Then 

ent  to  Rome  with  an  Englishman}  the  Eter- 

Ciiy    was    nnder  the   rule  of  the  papacy, 

there  was  great  fear  of  Garibaldian  plots. 

companion's  baggage  was  examined  and  a 
picture  of  Garilialdi  was  found  in  it  and  seized, 
together  with  a  New  Testament  in  lulian. 
Shortly  after  this  same  companion  was  arrested 

n  entirely  unfounded  charge  of  inciting  the 
peasants  to  insurrection,  and  was  only  released  on 
condition  that  he  left  Rome  within  twenlj-four 
hours.  Mr.  Perkins  had  no  passport,  and  when 
he  tried  to  leave  he  was  not  allowed  to.  Having 
applied  to  the  police  authorities  for  permission, 
they  put  him  to  work  translating  police  regula- 

and  other  dt.'cumenls  into  English.  Having 
done  this  work  satisfactorily,  he  was  then  allowed 
to  depart,  and  so  left  the  service  of  Pius  IX. 
After  Ibis,  he  came  home,  and  graduated  from 
college  at  the  age  of  nineteen,  in  1S67,  at  the 
head  of  his  class.  He  then  studied  law  with  Mr. 
W.  P.  Cogswell  of  Rochester,  was  admitted  lo 
practice  when  he  was  twenty-one,  and  when  he 
was   twenty-three   was  taken   into   partnership. 

n  he  was  twenty-five  Mr.  Perkins  did  his 
first  writing  for  publication,  in  the  Amiriain  Laa 
Review.  This  periodical  was  then  a  quarterly, 
published  at  Boston,  and  Samuel  Hoar  and 
MootSeld  Story  were  the  editors.  Mr.  Perkins 
wrote  occasional  articles  for  this  Rtvicm  as  long 
as  it  appeared  as  a  quarterly  ;  one  on  the  French 
Pcirliament-,  one  on  the  case  of  the  Diamond 
Necklace,  and  some  miscellaneous  articles.  Dur- 
ing the  next  three  or  four  years  he  wrote  a  few 
book  notices  for  the  New  York  Tribunt  and  the 
New  York  Warld.  When  he  was  twenty-six  he 
was  elected  City  Atlomey  of  Rochester,  and  at 
the  expiration  of  the  term,  which  was  for  two 
years,  was  rtelecled.  When  he  was  thirty  he 
retired  from  that  office,  and  married  a  daughter 
of  General  Martindale,  a  West  Point  graduate, 
wlio  was  Majur-General  during  the  war,  and 
afterwards  Attorney  General  of  the  State  of  New 
York.  It  was  a  year  or  so  after  this  that  Mr. 
Perkins  decided  lo  write  something  about  France 
during  the  time  of  Maiarin  and  the  Fronde.  He 
had  read  considerably  on  this  period,  and  it 
seemed  to  him  one  of  a  good  deal  of  interest, 
while  he  could  not  discover  that  (here  was  any 
book  in  English  on  the  subject  The  sketch  of 
Richelieu's  administration  he  decided  on  afte 
ward:!,  in  order  to  make  the  account  of  the  poli 
ical  results  of  the  time  more  complete.  In  iSE 
he  was  again  in  Europe,  and  gathered  alt  the 
books  lie  could  find  on  the  subject,  including  the 
various  collections  of   letters,  ducumeni*, 


published  by  the  French  (Government.  On  thi» 
of  materials  he  continued  working  for  some 
years  at  home,  and  in  iSSj  went  once  more  t<r 
Paris  to  examine  manuscript  aathorities  and 
documents  that  could  only  be  found  there,  and 
there  be  spent  mod  of  the  year,  chiefly  in  eiaiO' 
mannscript  letters  and  dispatches,  corrc 
spondcnce  of  the  Venetian  and  other  ministersr 
id  papers  bearing  on  the  condition  of  the  people 
and  social  history.  Most  of  these  material* 
were  in  the  National  Library  and  the  Archives  ol 
the  Department  of  Foreign  Affair*.  He  received 
much  valuable  advice  as  to  his  investigMian» 
from  M.  Ch^ruel,  who  knows  more  about  the 
correspondence  of  Mazarin  and  his  assistant* 
than  anybody  else  in  the  world.  Mr.  Perkin* 
finished  his  work  in  Paris,  after  laboring  upon  ft, 
on  an  average,  twelve  or  fourteen  hoar*  a  day. 
From  the  lime  that  he  began  his  studies  with  a 
view  of  puUishing  such  a  work  until  he  finished 
it,  was  a  period  of  about  six  years.  If  the  work 
should  prove  successful,  he  proposes  to  follow  it 
with  a  history  of  France  in  the  Eighteenth  Cen- 
'U'Ti  8'^"B  especial  attention  to  the  condition  of 
the  country  before  the  Revolution,  and  Its  cause*. 
The  study  of  original  auihoriiics  for  the  proper 
presentation  of  this  subject  would  be  so  extensive 
that,  at  best,  it  would  be  four  or  five  year*  before 
anything  could  be  ready  for  publication! 


THE    HATESHAL    AVOESTOSS  OF 
BALPE  WALDO  EHEESOH.* 
With  Personal  Reminisce nces. 


in  k  ■  bvndlt  ol  hit  u 


II. 


Madam  Bradford's  Letter. 
Dear  Sir:  I  went  to  reside  in  the  Reverend 
Mr.  Emerson's  family  In  iSo6.  Mr.  Emerson 
had  been  appointed  my  guardian.  They  resided 
in  Summer  Street,  Boston.  I  was  in  the  family 
between  four  and  five  years,  while  the  children 
were  quite  young.  Mrs.  Emerson  was  a  lovely 
woman,  very  superior  and  very  religious.  I  do 
not  rememljer  ever  to  have  seen  her  impatient, 
or  to  have  heard  her  express  dissatisfaction  at 
anytime,  The  daily  duties  and  cares  of  domestic 
life  never  appeared  to  annoy  her.  She  certainly 
must  have  exercised  great  self-control.  She  was 
very  industrious,  and,  in  order  to  save  time,  kept 
her  knitting  in  a  table  drawer  in  the  parlor,  and 
would  take  it  out  when  receiving  friendly  calls. 
She  had  the  care  of  the  bilver  communion  plate, 
and  was  very  particular  that  it  should  be  made 
bright  before  use.  I  think  that  a  man,  who  was 
sexton  of  the  church,  came  once  a  month  to  attend 
to  it.  Mrs.  Emerson  often  went  lo  the  ironing- 
board  to  iron  Mr.  Emerson's  bands.  She  would 
trust  no  one  to  do  them.  They  were  made  of 
lawn.  It  was  the  custom  at  that  time  for  settled 
ministers  to  wear  bands  and  black  silk  gowns, 
and  a  plaited,  broad  band  of  black  silk  round 
the  waisL  Mr.  Emerson  looked  rerj  handsome 
thus  attired.  I  remember  Mrs.  Emerson  taking 
her  infants  for  baptism.  She  would  leave  her 
pew,  and  alone  would  lake  the  infant  in  her  arms 


•  Alter  lh>  cmnpleliou  of  Iliii  Miia  ui  »rtid«,  1  low 
coi^ei,  in  pamiihlcl  [orni,  may  be  iuund  »  Ihii  office  ind 
on  the  uunttn  ol  CupiJu,  Uphun  &  Co.    Price  is  ccoli. 


THE  LITERARY  WORLR 


[Aug.  21, 


and  go  to  the  mitir.  Mr,  Eruenon  wonld  lHa  the 
babe  on  his  arm  and  baptiie  il,  giving  it  back 
to  the  mother,  who  returned  to  her  Mat  calm 
and  andiiluibed. 

The  children  when  qnite  young  were  dreued 
in  jellow  flannel  by  d«y  ai  by  nighL  I  did  not 
thinlc  il  pretty  enough  for  the  pretty  boyt.  But 
I  lee  now  the  wisdom,  combined  with  economy, 
of  Mrs.  Emerson.  When  the  boys  were  older, 
then  dark  blue  nankeen  for  jacket  and  troosers 
took  the  place  of  yellow  flannel. 

Waldo  had  a  babit  of  sucking  his  thumb  when 
be  was  a  very  little  boy,  and  bis  mother  to  keep 
him  from  doing  so  msde  a  miiten  which  she 
attached  to  hi»  night-dress.  He  sometime!  laid 
his  prayers  lo  me,  the  Lord's  Prayer,  and  "Now 
I  lay  me  down  to  sleep  i "  and  he  often  repeated 
little  pieces  to  me.  So  did  William ;  but  I 
member  more  of  Waldo.  He  used  lo  speak 
"  You'd  scarce  «pect  one  of  my  age,"  "  Frank- 
lin one  night  stopped  at  a  public  inn," and  apart 
of  the  "Dialogue  between  Brutus  and  Ca«*iu«." 

Waldo  had  a  wcmderful  memory.  When  he 
was  about  five  years  old  he  went  with  his  father 
and  me  to  Newburyport.  Mr.  Emerson  went  to 
ifisit  bis  sister.  Mis.  Farnham.  I  went  to  my 
grandmother's  and  took  Waldo  with  me.  He 
seemed  very  willing  to  be  with  me.  He  always 
called  me  coosin  Mary.  We  only  remained  two 
days  in  Newbury. 

Mrs.  Emerson  always  retired  lo  her  chamber 
after  breakfast  for  reading  and  meditation,  and 
most  never  be  interrupted  at  that  tine.  We  had 
family  prayers  in  the  morning,  and  each  one  read 
a  verse  of  Scripture,  the  children  laking  part 
as  soon  as  they  could  read.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Emer- 
son were  particular  as  lo  the  keeping  of  Saturday 
evening  in  preference  to  Sunday  evening.  They 
never  received  or  made  visits  on  Saturday  even- 
ing. At  that  time,  the  work-basket  wu  put 
awde,  the  parlor  fire-place  nicely  put  in  order 
for  Sunday,  the  liitte  boys'  best  clothes  were 
made  ready  for  them  to  put  on  in  the  morning. 
Sundays  Mrs.  Emerson  always  dressed  herself 
in  the  morning  ready  for  church.  She  would 
often  wear  a  nice  calico.  She  had  a  brown  silk 
dreu  with  a  satin  stripe  which  she  often  wore 
when  going  to  a  party.  I  well  remember  stand- 
ing by  her  when  she  was  before  tbc  glass  putting 
on  the  lace  ruffle  round  ber  oeck.  I  wanted 
her  to  look  pretty,  and  would  sometimes  ofier 
a  suggestion  which  seemed  to  me  an  improve- 
ment. I  remember  going  with  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Emeisontoa  party  the  night  of  the  "cold  Friday." 
We  only  had  a  short  walk  to  Chauncy  Place,  but 
it  wa*  bitter  cold,  and  the  parlors  could  not  be 
made  comfortable,  though  the  cheerful  fires  gave 
a  pleasant  look.    The  cold  was  tremendous. 

We  hsd  chocolate  for  breakfast  three  timet 
a  week,  with  toasted  bread,  but  no  butter.  This 
has  a  simple  sound,  but  we  see  the  wisdom  of 
Mr*.  Emerson  as  well  as  her  economy ;  for 
chocolate  was  better  for  the  health  of  the  chil- 
dren and  for  alt  of  us.  I  think  we  always  had 
good  dinners-  On  Saturday*  it  was  sail-fish 
dinner  with  all  its  belongings  oE  vegetable*, 
melted  butter,  pork  scraps,  etc  The  tall-fish 
dinner  was  always  aristocratic  On  Thursdays, 
which  was  the  day  for  the  "Thursday  lecture," 
the  clergymen  from  the  neighboring  town*  met 
in  the  Chauncy  Place  Church,  taking  iheir  turns 
to  preach,  and  Mr,  Emerson  would  generally 
bring  home  with  him  some  brother  ministers  to 
diite.    The  sermon  and  prayer  were  by  the  same 


minister.    Old  Dr.  Pierce  of  Brookliae  set  t1 
tune  for  singing.    The  congregslion  rose  at  tl 
sound  of  hit  voice.    On  the  Friday  before  coi 
munion,  Mr.  Enerton'i  and  Mr.  Buckminstei 
Ghurches  united  in  the  afternoon  "preparatory 
lecture."    Mr.    Buckminster  was    the   minister 
of  the   Bratik   Street  Church.    Mrs.  Emerson 
usually  attended  the  "  preparatory  lecture." 

I  remember  Miss  Hannah  Adams,  the  historian, 
once  dining  at  Mr.  Emerson's,  with  Mr.  Buck, 
minsler.  She  seemed  to  me  to  be  very  old.  She 
was  short  and  very  small  in  person,  though  to 
great  in  mind.  She  became  the  first  tenai 
Mount  Auburn.  The  last  week  in  May,  which 
wai  called  "  Election  Week,"  in  forioer  times, 
Hr.  and  Mrs.  Emerson  sometimes  had,  on  con. 
vention  morning,  twelve  minister*  to  break- 
EasL 

Every  Sunday  evening  Mrs.  Emerson  had  a 
waiter  prepared  on  the  sideboard  with  decanters 
oE  wine  and  of  some  kind  of  spiribi,  with  tumblers 
and  wine-glatse*.  The  deacons  of  the  church 
and  other  friends  often  came  on  Sunday  evening. 
Monday  aftemoona  Mrs.  Emerson's  parents  al- 
ways received  their  children  to  tea.    I  used  some- 

I  to  go  with  Mrs.  Emerson.  I  remember 
her  Esther  as  genial  and  cordial  in  hit  manners. 
In  the  winter  lime,  at  the  family  gathering,  he 
had  a  silver  tankard  of  sangaree  inside  the  fender, 
and  when  the  right  tine  came,  he  would  carry  it 
round  that  each  one  shonld  partake  of  it.  They 
drank  it  from  the  tankard.  I  do  not  remember 
much  about  her  mother  except  that  she  was  a 
fine,  stately  looking  woman.  I  have  a  pleasant 
recollection  of  Mrt,  Emerton't  sittert.  They 
always  friendly  and  kind  towardt  me,  and 

as  her  mother.  Her  sisters,  Miss  Nancy 
and  Mlsa  Fanny  Haskins,  were  very  mild  and 
gentle.  I  csn  remember  how  industrious  they 
were,  making  tatting  and  bobbin.  I  saw  much 
more,  however,  of  her  other  unmarried  sister, 
Betsey.     She  was  very  efficient,  sod  used 

.  to  come  and  assist  Mrs,  Emerson  in  times 
of  necessity.  Thanksgiving  Days  her  father's 
family  all  dined  at  Mr.  Emerson's;  Christmas 
they  all  met  at  the  family  home  in  Rainsford's 
Lane ;  New  Year's  Day  they  gathered  at  Mr, 
Thomas  Haskinx's,  on  the  corner  of  Carver  and 
Elliot  Streets ;  and  on  .Twelfth  Night  they  all 
went  to  her  broth er-in-Uw's,  Dr.  Kast't,  on  Han- 
over Street.  I  remember  what  a  great  privilege 
I  thought  it  to  be  allowed  lo  go  to  these  family 
meetings.  They  were  very  pleasant,  and  with- 
out music,  or  dandng,  or  games.  I  remember 
Mrs.  Emerson's  titter,  Mrs.  Kast,  as  a  dignified 
lady,  and  her  daughter.  Miss  Sally,  who  was 
very  plessant.  The  latter  called  to  see  me  a  few 
years  after  her  marriage,  with  her  husband,  the 
Reverend  Dr.  George  C.  Shepard.  He  was  an 
Episcopal  miniiler,  a  cousin  of  his  wife,  and  a 
large,  fine  looking  man.  It  seems  to  me  thai 
Mrs.  Emerson's  family  was  a  remarkable  one, 
respectful  and  affectionate  towardt  each  other. 
It  was  "love  all  through."  I  think  that  her 
mother  must   have  been  a  superior  woman   lo 

brought  up  and  educated  so  large  a  number 
of  children,  insiilling  into  ihem  loch  religious 
principle  tbai  never  departed,  but  has  descended 
from  one  generation  lo  another. 

«et  many  years  since  the  Rev.  Samne]  Rip- 
ley, half-brother  to  the  Rev.  Mr,  Emerton,  and  on 
my  inquiring  how  Mrs.  Emerson  was,  bis  reply 
at  first  quite  startled  me.  He  answered,  "She 
is  as  near  heaven  as  she  can  be."    I  soon,  how- 


ever, niKlerstood  him.  He  spoke  of  her  pure, 
tpiriioal  life.  I  believe  her  heaven  began  on 
earth.  She  was  much  beloved  by  the  parish. 
At  a  mother  she  was  a  good  disciplinarian,  firm 
and  decided  in  the  government  of  tlie  childreit. 
The  law  oE  obedience  mutt  be  fulfilled ;  but  when 
it  was  necessary  to  correct  the  children,  it  wm 
not  done  in  anger. 

At  the  Monday  family  meetings  which  I  have 
spoken  of,  the  tea  was  carried  round  on  s  waiter. 
Green  lea,  with  loaf.sugar  and  cream,  bread  cot 
thin,  spread  with  butter  and  doubled,  with  a 
basket  of  cake  handed  round,  this  repast  wat 
all-suflicient  in  those  days. 

Miss  Mary  Bliss,  a  cousin  of  Mr.  Emerson's, 
alto  resided  in  his  fan>ily,  and  used  sometimei 
to  go  with  me  to  the  family  parties  I  have 
spoken  oE.  The  new  parish  boose  was  In  tbe 
place  where  Hovey's  store  is  now.  Opposite, 
were  the  large  houses  of  Mr,  Buzzy  and  Gov- 
ernor Sullivan,  with  Iwauliful  gardens.  Re- 
gietling  that  I  cannot  tell  you  more  that  would 
interest  you,  J  am  ypith  sincere  regsrd. 
Yours  truly, 

Mary  R.  Bradfoiix 

Camtrtdgt,  Die^  iSSj. 

Mrs.  Enterson  survived  her  husband  more 
than  forty^wo  years.  After  hb  death,  no  one 
stood  more  nearly  in  the  relation  of  bead  ud 
adviser  of  the  family  than  my  father,  Mr.  Ralph 
Haskina.  Mrs.  Emerson  was  a  very  dear  sitter 
of  my  father-  He  wss  the  youngest  of  the  large 
circle  of  brothers  and  sister*.  Of  the  five  listers 
living  at  home  when  my  father  was  bom,  three 
were  too  young  to  be  trusted  to  assist  in  the 
of  their  infant  brother.  Much  of  this 
happy  charge  devolved  upon  Ruth,  who  was 
then  eleven  years  of  age.  Thus  the  brother  and 
lister  grew  up  in  peculiar  intimacy,  and  tbe 
bonds  between  them  were  remarkably  strong 
through  life.  My  father  was  married  in  1814, 
foar  years  sfter  the  decease  of  Mrs.  Emerson's 
husband.  He  made  his  home  for  some  yean 
Boston,  but  finally  established  himself  in 
Roxbury.  The  Emerson  boys,  as  they  grew  np, 
.  more  and  more,  frcqnent  visitors  at  my 
father's  house,  and  were  treated  by  both  of 
my  parents  as  sons.  Hy  father  had  a  high  ap- 
preciation of  their  character  and  intellectual 
qualities.  He  was  proud  lA  Iheir  success  at 
college,  and,  with  my  mother,  always  attended 
their  college  exhibitions  and  Commencements. 
He  admired  their  scholarly  tastes  and  methods. 
In  particular,  be  cherished  great  expectations 
from  the  brilliant  oratorical  powers  of  the  two 
younger  brothers.  He  was  gratified  by  the  ten- 
der devotion  of  all  of  the  tons  to  their  mother, 
and  equally  by  their  diapotition  to  help  one 
another.  He  had  himself  been  able  to  atsiti 
defraying  the  college  expenses  of  the  oldest 
1,  William.  But  this  waa  all  that  would  be 
allowed-  William,  on  graduating,  taught  school 
Kennebunk  to  enable  him  to  help  Waldo 
through  college ;  Waldo,  in  turn,  kept  school 
render  like  help  lo  Edward;  and  Edward  did 
:  same  to  help  Charles.  It  will  be  remem- 
bered that  Ihey  all  graduated  from  Cambridge, 
William,  in  1818 ;  Ralph  Waldo,  in  i8zi ;  Ed- 
'ard  Bliss,  in  1814;  and  Charles ' Chauncy,  in 
183S. 

A  graceful  acknowledgment  o£  Mrs.  Emer- 
son's  sffectionale  regard  for  my  father  is  coik- 
tained  in  tbe  following  note  from  her  ton.  He. 


l886.] 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


283 


R.  W.  Emerton.  It  was  written  in  reply  to  ■ 
note  which  I  addressed  to  him  some  yeiri  ago, 
infonning  hiio  that  I  had  been  asked  lo  supply 
mileiial  for  a  sketch  of  my  father  to  be  printed 
In  the  Mtpteiri  of  the  Kew  England  Ilistoiic 
Genealogical  Society,  and  inlimating  that  I 
should  be  pleased  to  receive  from  him  any 
fact*  or  reminiscences  concerning  my  father  that 
fae  might  deem  of  Interest.    In  answer,  be  wrote 

CoHcoMD,  Hifir,  iS&j. 
tfy  Dtmr  CfMiim :  I  btTS  almod  oucd  ts  wHii  ■  lilttr 
ia  my  old  1(1,  bm  I  moit  riik  Ihc  dwicr  it  joni  reqiual. 
Yonr  bther  wu  Itia  ■Anind  biiKher  oi  mj  tav&ct.  I 
lanwd  frcKB  bcr  thu  I  wu  Duned  SaJ/t  f«r  tun,  he 
being  U  (he  tisc  fu  iImciiI  in  Ihe  FudGc  Ocem,  In  chuge, 
u  npcmrgD,  of  DM  of  Mr.  Ljmuin'i  ihipi  —  If  r.  Lynwn, 
llw  tlMn  Bmhlciil  mcrchanl  gf  B»lDii.  Ciwl  w*i  hs  joy 
in  Uft  lafe  retom  hodse,  snd  ha  mtt  her  affEOifM  by  cu*- 

Hu  bouH  WHi  to  my  brotben  iind  myvU  ■  Joyful  plice. 
I  recall  uay  niiu  lo  ii,  puticulvly  in  Rmburr,  when  no 
Deed  within  ■  mile  of  you  lU. 

1  coofen,  loo,  tbit  1  wu  proud  of  bii  uaoly  beauty  la 
lb*  "  BoOoB  Uoiian,"  aiid  whidi  I  thiDli  be  nenr  loM. 
Yonn  iSotlioiiUely, 

R.  W.  Emsbsoh. 

I  hkve  only  a  geoeral  and  imperfect  acquaint- 
Mice  wilh  the  movements  of  Mrs.  Emenan's 
hatuehold  after  the  death  of  her  husband.  My 
earliest  distinct  recollections  of  m;  aunt  and  i^ 
her  BODS,  date  from  the  latter  part  of  the  year 
1S23,  when  I  was  five  years  old.  Abool  this 
lime,  and  for  some  two  years  afterwards,  the 
Emerson  family,  except  the  oldest  son,  William, 
who  had  lately  SMled  for  Earope,  lived  lo  a 
small  house,  buried  in  the  woods,  In  a  part  of 
Roibury,  then  sornetiiiies  called  Canleibary, 
situated  a  few  tods  down  a  lane  running  easterly 
out  of  Back  Street,  new  Walnut  Avenue,  abotit 
half  a  mile  north  of  the  present  Forest  Hills 
Cemetery.  It  is  to  the  time  of  their  residence 
in  this  house  that  Mr.  Emerson  refers  in  the 
dosing  lines  o(  the  above  letter.  My  father's 
home  then,  and  for  many  years  after,  was  on 
Back  Street,  but  nearer  Boston  than  Ihe  Can- 
terbory  house  by  about  a  mile,  aa  Mr.  Kmerson's 
letter  represents.  The  intervening  distance  was 
too  trifling  to  interfere  much  with  the  inter- 
course between  the  honseholda.  I  remember 
that  my  father's  family  chaise  nsed  often  to 
traverse  it  to  and  fro,  and  occasionally  retnrned 
with  my  aunt  to  spend  Ihe  day  with  my  mother. 
The  boys  scorned  to  tide  ;  but  their  feel  brought 
them  at  any  and  all  hours  lo  Ihe  house.  They 
were  the  most  cheery  of  the  many 
They  entered  with  lest  into  the  social  life  of 
the  household,  and  seemed  equally  to  enjoy 
the  out-of-door  resources  which  Ihe  ample 
ground*  presented.  On  Wednesday  and  Satur- 
day afternoons  Ihe  woods  resoimded  wilh  their 
declamations  and  dialogues. 

During  Ihe  sumnker  of  1S34,  Mr.  Edward  B. 
Emerson,  probably  at  my  father's  suggestion, 
certainly  wilh  the  aid  of  his  influence,  estab- 
lished a  private  school  for  boys  in  Roibury, 
which  both  my  older  brother'  and  myself  at- 
tended. It  was  kept  in  a  hall  over  Field  k 
Gould's  dry  goods  store  on  Meeting  House 
Square,  at  what  is  now  the  westerly  comer  of 
Highland  Street.  The  school  was  opened  by 
Mr.  George  Ripley,  acting  as  temporary  substi- 
tute for  Mr.  Emerson,  June  iG^  1814.  On  the 
3lst  of  Ihe  following  month,  however,  Mr.  Ed- 
ward B.  Emerson   himself  took  chaise  of  the 

•  Mr.  RsJpb  Hitlju,  DDW  of  New  VeA  City. 


school,  and  conducted  It  with  brilliant  success 
until  the  aulumn  of  the  next  year.  At  this  time, 
the  ardor  with  which  he  had  devoted  hinucif  lo 
his  work  having  serionsly  affected  hi*  health, 
he  arranged  with  hi*  brother  Waldo  to  continue 
the  school  at  an  early  date,  and  entered  im- 
mediately upon  arrangements  for  taking  a  long 
period   of  rest. 

when    I    was    under    Mr. 

Edward  B.  Emerson's  instruction  that  I  hardly 

feel  competent  to  explain   what  Ihere   was   in 

method  of  teaching  that  has  always  caused 

to  remember  his  school  with  peculi 

ion  and  pleasure.     I  think,  however,  that  he 

owed  much  oE  his  success  to  his  happy  faculty 

of  seeming  always  lo  l>e  on  the  same  plane  with 

t  pupils.     He  made  us  feel  that  he  wax  pet 

nalty  interested  in  each  one  of  us.     He  seemed 

discern  it  a  glance  the  needs  of  our  individual 

inds,  and  was  always  prompt  and  feliciiotts  it 

supplying  Ihem.    Though  such  results  are  hardly 

possible  except   in  private   schools    where    the 

number  of   pupils  is  limited 

under  the  most  favorable  circumstances,  lo  find 

teachers  who   possess  in  such 

Edward  B.  Emerson  did,  the  personal  qualities 

necessary  to  produce  them. 

I  remember  Mrs.  Emerson's  Canterbury  house, 
and  particularly  recall  being  present  there  at  a 
large  family  gathering  on  Thank^ivliig  Day, 
December  1,  1824.  But  I  have  at  band  a  more 
graphic  sketch  of  the  domestic  circle  than  my 
own  memory  offers,  in  a  letler  I  have  lately 
ceived  from  the  Rev.  Henry  P.  Harrii^lon  vt 
New  Bedford,  a  Roibnry  boy,  and  one  of  my 
seniors  at  Mr.  Emerson's  school,  where  hi*  Gi 
parts  were  held  in  high  account  both  by  his 
teacher  and  schoolmates.  Mr.  Harrington  says 
■tidly  iDiited  10  viHl  (be  Emeiun  tunily  I 
fkrmboiue  in  "  Love  Line,^'  Roibury.  of 
Saturday  iflemoon  ind  to  Hay  lo  to.    1  ban  the  pictui 

r  Kwing  by  (hg  hu(«  old  firi 
place;  Ihe  aiiD(.  buij  toaod  alioiit  in  tuHucbold  affain 
lod   tbe   tbm  talented   bnMben,  Waldo,   Edward,  and 
Z:haHe*,  reading  «  plcavmily  conTcrnng,  and  making 
■greeable  for  tbdr  yonnf  guent. 

In  another  part  of  this  letter,  Mr.  IIarringt< 
pays  the  following  eloquent  and  amply  deserved 
tribute  to  Mr.  Edward  B.  Emei 

had  tbc  aupcrviiiDD  of  acboolt  lb 
1  hare  Ixen  familiar  with  nnmbi 
Kcn  what  eome  of  the  bed  of  Iht 
I  have  bad 

:1b  at  bigh-toued  cbarmctf 


Edmid  Bliia  Emenon  w 
of  acboolt  (be  moat  of  in 


ong  lif< 


itbdrv 


IB  at  them  have  approached  lb( 
e  Edward  BIIb  Emenoc 
:.    Wi(b  conicientiona  d» 


ould  have  foand  thea 


iKlIa,  prolific  of  ton 


votion  he  threw  hti  whole  ' 
regarded  every  child  committed  la  bi 
mortal  |ewel  which  be  wu  to  free  froa 
fuhion  and  poliih  lor  eternity.  So 
(elleclual  gnap  and  amlntioQi  he  m 
menial  prngnu,  he  wu  far  mora  cor 
on  an  enduring  fonndaiion.  (tia  a(nKti 
aoer;  and  (here  wu  withal,  Ihe  diifdj 
palhy  and  cheerr  encouragement  which 

He  bad  jual  graduated  from  Harvard,  and  wat  a  modi 
of  manly  beanly  of  Ibe  higheal  type  in  form  and  txaul] 
Hia  face  wu  the  miiror  of  hii  inward  bdug.  Iminacnlal 
pDTily  of  BDiil,  inlcllectual  greatneai,  e]«]uiaite  ndnemcr 
ot  feeling 


cfa 


onderfnl  attnciiona. 


rof  him 


Whenever  in  the 
I  oouion  to  ur«e  my 
thy  model  ot  aicellenca, 

lariea  been  iparcd  beyond 
m  would  have  lietn  Kill 


My  father's  diary  under  Ihe  dale  of  Oct.  XI, 
1825,  records  William  Emerson's  first  call  since 
his  srrival  home  from  his  foreign  lour,  on  tbe 
l8th  instant,  and  also  Ihe  farewell  call  of  Edward 
B.  Emerson  previous  to  his  depsrture  for  Europe. 
Though  the  diary  is  nol  explicit  on  Ibe  subject, 
it  seem*  probable  thai  at  or  near  ihis  lime  Mrs. 
Emerson  removed  from  Roibury  to  Cambridge. 
I  was  then  seven  years  of  age.  Bui  my  aunt's 
form,  her  lovely  sweetness  of  expression,  her 
gentle  manners,  just  aa  I  was  familiar  with  them 
at  that  time,  and  which  impressed  every  one  who 
knew  her,  remain  the  same  in  the  image  which 
my  memory  now  gives  of  her,  unchanged  by  my 
later  recollection*  of  her  in  age.  Tbis  m  part 
explains,  perhap*,  why  the  oil-porlrait  of  her 
now  in  possession  of  the  Emerson  family,  and 
which  I  remember  in  my  boyhood  as  an  excellent 
likeness,  is  highly  satisfactory  to  me,  except 
[or  a  lack  al  vivacity  of  expression,  largely  due, 
it  may  be,  to  the  effect  of  time  upon  tbe  coloring. 

The  removal  of  my  aunt's  family  from  Ro«- 
bury  had  its  compensations.  Though  we  saw 
less  of  her  sons,  I  Ibink  we  saw  more  of  my 
aunt  than  before.  Whatever  may  have  been 
her  domestic  lies,  she  was  able  to  make  visits 
to  my  father's  honse  —often  a  week  or  ten  days 
in  length  —  al  more  or  less  frequent  intervals, 
during  Ihe  several  years  which  Intervened  before 
my  leaving  home  for  college,  in  1833.  It  was 
mainly  from  the  opportunities  presented  in  these 
visits  that  my  impressions  of  her  chsiacter  are 
derived. 

There  were  no  railroads,  and,  I  think,  no 
omnibuses,  in  those  day*.  My  father  drove 
daily  in  bis  own  chaise  inio  Boston.  He  never 
appeared  happier  Ihan  when  he  returned  with 
"lister  Emerson"  at  his  side.  My  brother  and 
I  would  sometimes  run  down  the  road  to  greet 
Ibem.  Her  arrival  always  brought  sunshine  into 
the  household.  I  do  not  mean  to  imply  that  she 
was  demonstrative  in  her  ways.  She  was  not 
a  great  talker,  though  she  was  an  aitentive  and 
responsive  listener.  But  there  was  always  cheer 
in  her  presence.  She  was  sympathelic,  and  she 
interested  herself  In  our  home  occupations  and 
amusements.  My  aunt's  visits  are  pictures  in 
my  memory  which  I  look  back  upon  with  pleas, 
ure.  But  it  would  hardly  do  lo  attempt  lo  lake 
them  out  of  the  domestic  surroundings  in  which 
Ibey  are  set.  Much  that  I  see  in  them,  while 
interestii^  as  bringing  to  mind  my  aunt,  has  at 
the  same  time  other  and  naturally  dearer  asso- 
ciations ;  but  they  are  necessarily  wholly  per- 
sonal. For  example,  my  father's  home,  espe- 
cially in  its  interior  life  ;  but,  also,  in  its  oulwud 
aspects ;  the  quiet  country  road  ihal  led  up  to 
it,  unfortunate  in  name,  but  beautiful  wilh  its 
continuous  linings  of  barberry  bushes,  and  of 
savin  trees  in  some  places  overgrown  lo  their 
tops  with  the  foliage  and  brilliant  berries  of  the 
"Roxbury  waxwork;"  the  square  while  house 
with  green  blinds;  the  flower  beds  and  green- 
house and  orchards  and  green  Gelds  and  near 
woods;  lo  say  nothing  of  the  large  variety  of 
animal  pets  that  were  domesticated  upon  the 
premises;  for  obviuus  reasons  none  of  these 
thing*  can  be  expected  to  have  any  general  in- 
terest. None  the  less,  however,  I  can  bear  wit- 
ness to  ihe  pleasure  and  profit  which  1  have  re- 
ceived in  various  ways  through  life  from  my 


384 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Aug.  21, 


retollectionl  of  Mrs,  Emenon  in  my  early  cUyn. 
Her  lovely  chaiacter  deeply  impieued  me  u  a 
boy,  and  I  am  conicioDi,  if  it  has  not  influenced 
Riy  life,  it  liu,  at  least,  been  of  lerricc  in  en- 
abling me  to  bold  up  to  other*  the  modet  of  a 
Christian  saint 

My  cousin,  the  ReveTend  Samuel  Uoody  Kas- 
kins,  D.  D.,  the  rector  of  Saint  Mark's  Church, 
Brooklyn,  L.  I.,  writes  concerning   Mrs.  Emer- 


IS  follow 
II  Ruih'i 


is|  to  thft  beftit;  her  daeda  at  tatrcy,  «  comEort  to  tho 
•amwing  and  iIh  poor;  b«  HMnocy  ■  pcrpMiul  iof  to 
enrj  oi»  vbo  hid  the  happiiKH  to  know  hp. 

Professor  Charles  Uphain  Shepard  of  New 
Haven,  another  of  Mrs.  Emerson's  nephews,  in 
reply  to  a  noie  from  mc  says : 

Yoa  tnnut,  in  ukinf  Hm  contHbDlion  for  ■  iketch  of 
mr  eueUcnt  lunl,  Wildo'i  maihci,  ■  luk  lor  wliich  I  ittl 
quile  inadfqiuu.     No  ooe  ihon  of  a   RapliHl  •bould 

[Te  fi  inaliiJ4d.\ 

A  LETTBH  FROM  LOVDOS. 

Lendtn,  "July  tq. 

THE  London  season  really  ended  with  the 
play  in  Cannizaro  Woods,  and  this  week 
half  the  world  is  out  of  town  at  Goodwood. 
Cannizaro  Woods  have  a  foreign  sound ;  they 
have  taken  the  title  of  a  Bonapartist  Duchess 
who  owned  them  long  ago;  but,  for  atl  their 
Italian  name,  they  stand  —  a  very  English  wilder- 
n<sa  of  oaks,  and  fits,  and  biacken  shoulder-high 
—  upon  the  edge  of  Wimbledon  Common.  Here 
(or  three  days  last  week,  in  the  middle  of  the 
lovely  wood.  Lady  Archibald  Campbell's  Pas- 
toral Players  interpreted  the  oui-dooi  scenes 
from  Lord  Tennyson's  Becket,  to  a  larger  audi- 
ence than  ever  heard  the  play  at  Coombe. 

For  Btckel  has  been  a  successi  the  prestige  of 
a  llvitig  name  has  brought  a  crowd  of  people 
who  lake  their  Shakespeare  of  course,  and  never 
read  their  Fletcher.  A  dead  lion,  as  we  know,  is 
out  of  place  in  the  menagerie;  he  must  be  stuffed 
and  put  in  the  distant,  respectable,  unvisittd 
museum ;  the  museum  of  books  no  gentleman's 
library  should  be  without.  This  is  an  obvious 
platitude.  And  yet  it  is  somewhat  startling  to 
find  that  Ai  F(>H£(><rAbarcly  pays  its  expenses  j 
that  Fletcher's  exquisite  Faithful  Skipherdtis 
almost  spells  ruin  ;  white  of  all  tath-and-plasler, 
impossible,  flimsy  closet-dramas  BukH  satisfies 
the  public  and  fills  the  empty  exchequer. 

Of  all  Lord  Tennyson's  plays  Btcktt  is  per- 
haps the  least  filled  for  the  stage.  There  is  one 
delightful  moment  In  (he  second  act,  one  rare 
echo  of  the  " Idylh  of  the  King"  one  romantic 
and  poignant  second  when  three  mysterious  horns 
sound  in  the  body  of  the  wood,  and  through  the 
green  boughs  there  emerges  the  slender,  golden- 
haired  child  of  fair  Rosamund,  lo  encounter 
Queen  Eleanor  disguised  and  treacherous,  to  be- 
tray his  mother  into  hci  murderous  hands.  There 
is  one  fine  scene  of  rather  obvious  melodrama  — 
Rosamund  and  Eleanor  quarreling  like  fish- 
wives. But,  save  this,  all  is  dry  and  dusty  politi- 
cal diicuision,  obscure  complications,  and  un- 
inspired love  story. 

But  Btcktt  has  been  a  success.  Well,  it  was 
certainly  a  delightful  change  from  the  dusty 
theater  to  sit  amimg  the  bracken  and  watch  the 
green  and  brown  peasrint-maidens  dancing  on 
the  sunny  grass.     t\iir  Kesamuiid  was  an  admir- 


able specimen  of  amateur  theatricals.  It  is  only 
when  we  remember  the  rare  charm,  the  beautiful 
accomplishment.  Si  Perigot  that  we  regret  it  was 
nothing  more- 

The  season,  as  we  have  said,  is  over,  as  much 
as  it  will  be  over  al  all  this  year.  For  Parlia- 
ment meets  again  on  the  fifth  of  next  month  and 
there  wilt  very  likely  be  no  absolute  dead-season 
even  in  August  and  September.  Among  other 
presages  of  this  continued  life  in  London,  pub- 
lishers still  keep  on  announcing  their  books; 
although  the  season  for  books  was  over  a  good 

Mr.  George  Moore's  Drama  in  Muslin,  only 
just  out,  is  l>eing  translated  into  Dutch,  for  the 
Afiimmer's  Wife  had  a  great  success  in  Holland. 
Mr.  Moore  is  going  to  follow  up  bis  Drama  in 
Muslin  with  a  Drama  in  Broadcloth  — we  make 
him  a  present  of  the  title  I  This  is  lo  be  a  study 
of  the  life  of  young  men,  to  which  the  young 
women  in  their  turn  only  furnish  a  decorative 
background;  and  the  hero  is,  we  l>elieve,  to  be 
that  enigmatic  novelist,  John  Harding,  who 
passes  for  a  moment  across  the  stage  of  A  Mum- 
mtr's  fVi/i  ind  of  a  Drama  in  Muslin. 

Miss  E-  Frances  Pojnler,  the  author  of  My 
Liilli  Lady,  has  in  the  press  a  volume  of  short 
stories,  of  which  the  first,  "  The  Wooing  ol 
Catherine,"  is  singularly  terrible  and  veracious. 
It  tells,  in  a  quiet,  almost  uncolored  style,  of  the 
momentary  falling  into  crime  of  a  good  and  hon. 
orable  man,  and  of  the  blight  of  that  incongruous 
slain  upon  his  virtuous  life.  After,  as  well  as 
before,  his  sin,  Caleb  remains  of  a  delicate,  truth- 
ful, and  noble  spirit,  but  a  spirit  lost  and  fallen, 
ruined  by  the  crime  of  one  passionate  mo- 
ment, so  sudden  as  to  leave  his  fundamental 
character  unchanged.  Mr.  Thomas  Hardy  has 
also  in  his  mind  a  tragicat  little  story,  to  be 
written  when  the  Weedlandtrs  is  fimUhed.  The 
legend  is  an  old  one  in  his  family,  and  telts  how 
a  wilful,  passionate  girt,  one  day  in  the  last  cen- 
tury, ran  away  against  her  parents'  will  to  see  a 
malefactor  hanged  in  chains  in  that  old  Roman 
amphitheater  of  Dorchester  which  made  so  fine  a 
setting  to  the  Mayor  af  Castirbridgt.  The  girl 
came  home,  sobered,  pious,  unrecognizable  — 
henceforth  a  disciplined  and  religious  woman. 

Mr.  Justin  McCarthy  and  Mrs-  Campbell 
Fraed,  emlioldcned  by  the  success  of  Tht  Right 
Hsnorablt,  are  writing  a  second  novel  together. 

Mr.  W.  E.  Henley,  who  leaves  the  editot't 
chair  of  the  Magatint  sf  Art  in  October,  will,  we 
believe,  join  Mr.  Hutsh  in  the  direction  of  the 
Art  Jaumal.  The  loss  of  Mr.  Henley  must 
prove  a  great,  perhaps  a  fata],  blow  to  the  maga- 
zine of  Messrs.  Cassell.  His  skill  and  courage 
should  be  invaluable  to  the  Art  ft-urnal. 

A.  K.  r.  R. 

A  LITTES  FBOH  QEBUAITT. 

Btrlin,  fuly  jS. 

THE  foremost  German  author  of  the  present 
day,  Gustav  Preytag,  attained  his  seventieth 
year  on  the  13th  inst.  Of  course  preparations 
had  been  made  all  over  the  Fatherland  fitly  to  cel- 
ebrate such  an  occasion  ;  but  two  months  agothe 
author  of  Sell  uud  Habtn,  on  reading  some  news- 
paper paragraphs  relating  lo  these  preparations, 
wrote  a  long  and  humorous  tetter  10  the  Cologne 
Gazdtti  to  request  his  countrymen  10  abstain  from 
any  celebration  whatsoever,  as  lieing  against  his 
principles  and  feelings.  This  letter,  having  madt 
the  round  of  the  whole  German  press,  produced 


the  de^red  effect  Only  three  groups  of  persons 
honored  Freytag  publicly,  1. 1.,  the  lown-councfl 
of  Wiesl>aden  —  his  present  abode — by  making 
him  an  EhrtnbHrgtr  (=  honorary  citiien) ;  the 
Wiesbaden  Revenue  Office  by  nujif^the  amoant 
of  his  income  lax  to  three  times  what  he  has  paid 
hitherto  [an  excessive  "  valuation  "  of  his  works, 
to  be  sure,  and  one  against  which  he  has  raised  a 
vigorous  protest);  and  Herr  Conrad  Alberti  — 
the  author  of  the  new  Life  of  BSmt  mentioned 
in  one  of  my  last  letters  —  along  with  his  pub- 
lisher, by  the  publication,  on  the  said  day,  of 
a  brochure,  entitled  Gustav  Friytag,  tin  FistilatI 
aim  /J  yuli,  and  profusely  illustrated  with  pict- 
ures explanatory  of  the  works  of  this  writer. 
This  biographi CO- critical  memoir  is  a  very  accept- 
able extract  from  Herr  Alberll's  older  volume  on 
Freytag.  Those  of  your  readers  who  under* 
stand  German  and  have  not  yet  read  the  great 
Silesian's  books,  I  should  recommend  to  cele- 
brate his  seventieth  haAAiypostftitaim  by  perns- 
ing  Dit  verlortae  Handschrifl,  Soil  und  Hahen, 
Dii  JournalistiH,  Dit  Ahncn,  Valintini,  etc,  etc. 
I  have  to  speak  of  another  old  writer,  not  far 
from  seventy,  who  also  occupies  a  prominent 
place  in  contemporary  German  literature  —  Ut. 
Robert  Schweichel,  author  of  Dtr  Bildtcknitttr 
vom  Aehtnset.  He  has  just  brought  out  a  small, 
but  exquisite  volume,  entitled  Camilla,  being  a 
short  novel  with  its  scene  laid  in  modem  Rome. 
The  diction  is  remarkable,  the  plot  interesting, 
the  delineation  of  character  life-like,  and  the  treat- 
ment of  psychological  conflicts  —  such  as  between 
love  and  duty,  etc  —  masterly.  Altogether  G>- 
mitla  is  a  perfect  gem,  which,  if  well  translated, 
would  be  sure  to  fascinate  your  readers  highly. 
Schweichel  is  the  president  of  the  Berlin  Press 
Society  and  of  the  Association  of  German  An- 

A  much  bigger  work  of  fiction,  and  one  of  a 
wholly  different  kind,  is  Herr  August  Niemann's 
Gehiimnits  dcr  Mumii  ("The  mummy's  secret "). 
This  writer,  who  is  an  ex.lieutenant  of  the  Prus- 
sian army  and  an  ardent  vegetarian  and  phrenol- 
ogist, has  won  golden  opinions  by  some  of  his 
former  novels,  especially  Bacchen  uiid  Thyr- 
tettrSgei — a  book  of  a  very  refined  and  "cul- 
tured" type.  The  Mummy  belongs  lo  the 
group,  now  so  numerous  in  this  country,  of  the 
"antiquarian  novels,"  a  group  which  was  initiated 
by  Taylor-Hausrath's  Anilnout  and  continued  by 
the  works  of  Ebers,  Eckstein,  Dahn,  etc.  Like 
Ebers,  Niemann  selects  Egypt  for  his  scene.  As 
to  the  subject.  It  was  suggested  to  him  by  the 
perusal  of  Thjophile  Gaulier's  celebrated  R»- 
man  dela  Mirmie,aD  English  translation  of  which, 
by  the  way,  is  just  now  coming  out  in  London 
in  a  splendid  garb;  but  the  German  writer  goes 
his  own  ways,  borrowing  from  the  Frenchman 
only  the  idea  and  supplying  an  original  and  highly 
interesting  tale  of  old  Egypt.  It  will  interest 
many  lo  learn  that  Herr  Niemann  is  the  editor- 
in-chief  of  the  famous  Catharseher  Hofkalcndtr, 
that  genealogical  year-book  which  has  long  be- 
come indispensable  lo  newspaper  editors  all  over 
the  world. 

Another  well-known  novelist,  who,  however,  is 
even  better  known  as  a  lyric  poet,  has  ventured 
on  another  field  of  literature,  and  he  has  done  so 
very  successfully.  1  speak  of  Dr.  Ernst  Fiel  and 
his  Lilerariseki  Rtti/fi.  Biographical  and  criti- 
cal essays  in  literary  history  have  been  abound- 
ing in  the  (lerman  book  market  for  the  last  few 
years,  and  they  are  getting  more  "fashionable" 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


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everj  year  —  not  wilb  the  readers  though,  bat 
with  writera  and  pnblishera.  Goldbaum'i  Pgr- 
Craits,  Engel's  Psychelogy  of  Frinck  Lilcralure, 
Fabel'a  Ruuian  Eisayt,  Ilillcbrand'a  interna- 
tional studies,  the  present  vriter's  cosmopolitan 
CkaraittrbUder  aui  dtm  ig.  yahrhunderl,  and 
many  olheii,  have  seen  the  tight  more  or  less  re- 
cently. Dr.  Fiel's  volume  of  Littrary  Typii  are 
not  only  highly  interesting  and  meritorious  in 
themselves,  bat  they  derive  an  additional  attrac- 
tion from  the  Eact  of  their  unity  of  purpose;  I 
mean  to  say  that  all  of  them,  some  two  doEcn  in 
number,  with  one  exception  only,lreat  of  Ger- 
man literary  men  of  the  last  half-century  or  so, 
many  of  them  our  contemporaries.  The  book  is 
thus  a  valuable  help  Cor  the  foreigner  desirous  of 
getting  a  good  idea  of  modern  German  literature- 
It  is  no  wonder  that  Dr.  Fiel  knowa  how  to 
write  about  contemporary  authors,  (or,  having 
for  many  years  edited  the  I^ipiig  GartinUube 
(the  weekly  paper,  by  the  way,  wbicb  has  a  larger 
circulation  than  any  other  on  earth,  1. 1.,  300,000 
CD[^es  weekly ;  at  one  time  it  had  as  much  as 
400,000),  he  certainly  had  plenty  of  opportunity 
for  knowing  literary  people  personally  and 
throagh  their  writings. 

Let  me  wind  up  my  letter  with  drawing  the 
attention  of  your  readers  —  at  least  of  those  very 
well"up"in  the  German  language  —  to  an  ei- 
cellent  new  contribution  to  the  boAorous  and 
satirical  poetry  of  the  day.  Partly  political, 
partly  sodal,  partly  "neutral,"  Herr  Richard 
Schmidt- Cabanis's  BrummiHrnmin  dir  Frit  must 
be  reckoned  among  Che  very  best  productions  of 
the  merry  department  of  literature.  This  writer 
baa  long  distinguished  himself  by  the  peculiar 
humor  of  his  own,  and  by  an  unmatched  mastery 
in  versifying  and  rhyming ;  as  regards  rhyme,  he 
has  decidedly  no  peer  nowadays,  being  able,  as 
he  is,  to  find  a  good  rhyme  for  the  strangest 
words.  His  tragicomic  ballad  of  Luigi  and 
Ckarloiti  ranks  worthily  with  Soutbey's  Watir- 
fall  ef  Lodort.  Liopold  Katschbk. 

MDfOB  HOTIOES. 

Rtprtttntativt  Potmi  of  Litntig  PotU,  AmerUan 
and  Entlith.  Selected  by  the  Poets  Them- 
selves.   With  an_  Introduction  by  George  Par- 


sons Lathrop.    [Cassell  &  Co.    ^5.00.] 

In  adding  one  more  to  the  multifarious  col- 
lections of  contemporaiy  poetry.  Miss  Jeannetle 
Leonard  Gilder  had  the  happy  idea  of  appealing 
to  the  poets  themselves  to  make  their 
tions,  and  so  she  has  succeeded  in  doing  what 
no  other  editor  of  " 
plished  ;  she  has  unquestionably  gratified  the 
vanity  of  the  authors.  But  whether  the  dis- 
criminating admirer  of  contemporary  poetry 
will  be  satisfied  with  the  result  is  another  mat' 
ter.  It  Is  assuredly  interesting  to  know  that 
Mstthew  Arnold  prefers  to  stake  his  poeti< 
reputation  with  posterity  on  a  single  productior 
—  "The  Forsaken  Merman;"  that  Browning 
among  all  his  other  writings  finds  "  Abt  Vogler," 
"Caliban  upon  Setebos,"  "A  Forgiveness," 
"  Saul,"  and  "  Clive  "  nearest  to  bis  ideals ;  that 
Holmes  and  Lowell  chooie  respectively  as  their 
" represenUtive  poems,"  "The  Chambered  Nau- 
tilus," "The  Last  Leaf,"  "Old  Ironsides,"  " The 
Voiceless ; "  and  an  "  Extract  from  the  Com- 
memoration Ode,"  "A  Parable,"  "The  Present 
Crisis,"  "  What  U  so  Rare  as  a  Day  in  Ji 
■nd  "The  Courtin*;"  and  that  Lord  Tennyson 


Early  as  the  editor  coutd  ascertain)  believes 
that  his  ballad  of  "The  'Revenge,'"  "  Boiidi- 
"Come  Down,  O  Maid,"  and  "The 
Daisy"  best  indicate  his  poetic  powers;  —  but 
poets  are  traditionally  ill  qualified  to  judge  of 
the  value  of  their  own  ptodoctions,  and  the 
tradition  (we  venture  to  think)  fs  thoroughly 
justified  in  many  instances  in  Miss  Gilder's  col- 
lection. Moreover,  if  the  poems  are  "repre- 
sentative" the  cotieclion  as  a  whole  is  not  so. 
The  selections  are  made  from  the  work  of 
ighty  authors,  and  to  attain  a  list  of  this  extent 
Miss  Gilder  may  almost  literally  be  said  to  have 
robbed  the  cradle  and  the  grave,"  yet  the 
names  of  William  Morris  and  Edgar  Fawcett 
jt  appear  in  the  volume,  and  Swinburne  is 
beard  of  {without  an  apology)  in  the  introduc- 
tion by  Mr.  G.  F.  Lathrop,  who,  in  the  perform- 
of  his  perfunctory  task  is  as  tedious  and 
prnsy  and  commonplace  as  the  most  desperate 
seeker  for  soporific  influences  could  desire.  We 
have  read  it,  but  the  very  thought  of  its  perusal 
invokes  a  yawn.  At  any  rate,  tiiis  is  a  hand- 
me  book,  mechanically  speaking,  wilh  its  683 
:1I-printed  pages  handsomely  bound,  and  it 
costs,  at  retail,  five  dollatsj  and  it  may  safety 
be  spoken  of  as  "  an  ornament  to  any  library." 

Tht  Crvist  ef  tht  Alabama.  By  One  of  the 
rew.  (P.  D,  Haywood.)  [Houghton,  Mifflin 
Co.    Paper,  joc.] 

With  so  interesting  a  subject  as  the  career  of 
the  historic  "Alabama"  it  is  to  be  regretted 
that  the  writer  has  not  made  a  better  story. 
The  reader  may  look  in  vain  for  the  vivacity 
ind  humor  of  the  Immortal  Captain  Marryat ; 
whose  stories  seem  in  some  way  more  real  In 
:  and  incident  than  this,  though  this  is  the 
history  of  an  actual  ship  and  a  living  crew.  By 
his  language  the  author  seems  to  possess  mote 
education  than  aigsi  "ordinary  seamen,"  though 
there  is  nothing  in  the  narrative  to  indicate  that 
he  held  a  higher  position.  The  partly  fitted 
cruiser,  lying  at  Liverpool,  in  July,  1S61,  and 
known  then  as  "  The  ago,"  was  an  object  of  sns- 
n  to  certain  United  States  agents,  and  the 
voyage  begins  wilh  the  silent  escape  of  the 
steamer  under  cover  of  night,  down  the  Mersey, 
out  to  sea,  and  thence  to  one  of  the  Aiores, 
where  the  needed  equipment  was  added-  From 
this  point  began  the  course  of  destructive  a 
tacks  upon  United  Slates  merchant  shippini 
which  was  practically  unchecked  until  ended  by 
thefatal  encounter  with  the  "Keartarge"  off  Cher- 
bourg, nearly  two  years  later.  The  book  de- 
sciibes  the  miscellaneous  character  of  the  crew, 
with  perhaps  a  preponderance  of  English;  the 
prominence  of  (he  bad  element]  the  ability  and 
tact  of  the  officers,  and  especially  of  Capl 
Semmes.  The  voyages,  as  marked  on  a  small 
map,  extended  as  far  as  the  East  Indies;  during 
which  the  privateer  seems  to  have  pretty  effect- 
ually cleared  the  seas  of  United  Slates  shipping. 
Captures  were  very  generally  effected,  or  at 
least  aided,  by  the  stratagem  of  displaying  the 
stars  and  stripes  on  approaching  a  vessel ;  and 
in  most  cases  the  prizes,  after  removal  of  crews 
and  cargoes,  were  homed.  The  strain  of  long 
voyaging  without  the  repairs  which  wer 
gently  needed  is,  in  Mr.  Haywood's  opinion,  the 
cause  which  rendered  the  "  Alabama  "  at  last  an 
easy  prey  to  the  "Kearsarge." 

—  Cupples,  Upbam  &  Co.  have  ready  Tht  Win- 


•peg  Country,  an  illustrative  narrative  of  travel 
and  adventure  in  the  great  Northwest,  by  "  A. 
Rochester  Fellow." 


CUBHEHT  LITEEATtlSE. 

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Te  Mr.  Bishop's  Choy  Susan  and  Othtr  Slorits 
ind  Mrs.  Stowe's  Sam  Launon's  Stories.  Sam 
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whose  delightful  dialect  has  seldom  been  sur- 
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Marquis's  Handy  Businiss  Dirtetory  of  Chicago, 
I86-7,  is  a  striking  token  of  the  bulk  and  im- 
portance of  the  great  dly  that  has  grown  up 
in  twenty-five  years  on  the  Inland  Lakes.  A 
closely  printed  volume  of  over  700  pages,  it  con- 
a  complete  alphabetical  and  classified  list 
of  all  firms  and  individuals  in  bnsiness  or  the 
professions,  including  some  35,000  entries,  and 
covering  an  estimated  area  of  60  square  miles. 
The  addition  of  Telephone  Numbers  is  a  great 
convenience.  The  book  is  in  two  parts;  the 
first  arranging  the  entries  by  alphabetical  order 
of  names,  the  second  classifying  them  under 
businesses  in  alphabetical  order.  To  the  latter 
there  is  also  an  index.  The  advertisements 
sprinkled  through  are  also  indexed,  and  there 
n  analytical  guide  to  the  diy  govern- 
ment. The  book  is  well  printed  and  substan- 
tially bound,  the  cover  stamped  wilb  advertise- 
ents  showing  how  the  thrifty  Chicagoao 
iprovcs  every  opportunity  to  "pnsh  things." 
[A.  N.  Marquis  &  Co.    $z.oa] 

Several  of  Cowley's  Essays,  in  prose  and 
verse,  with  an  introduction  and  notes,  make  No. 
27  of  Cassell's  "National  Library,"  and  aelec- 
tions  from  Sir  Rcgtr  de  Coverlty  and  lie  Sfata- 
tot's  Club,  those  classics  of  English,  No.  38  in 
the  same  little  paper-covered  vest  pocket  series 

To  ibeir  "  Travelers'  Series  "  G.  P.  Putnam's 
Sons  have  added  paper-covered  editions  of  Mr. 
and  Mra.  Macquoid's  Pictures  and  Legends  from 
Iformandy  and  Brittany,  of  1S7S,  charming 
sketches  of  happy  saunte rings  in  a  picturesque 
corner  of  the  Continent,  with  wood-cuts  from 
Mr.  Macquoid's  own  drawings ;  and  a  collection 
of  Hood's  Whims  and  OdiHUes,  enlivened  also 
with  the  aoihor's  own  drawings,  which  are  in  a 
spirit  of  rollicking  fun,  like  much  of  the  text. 
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Mr.  W.  W.  Gist  has  made  a  small  book  of 
Selectioiu  from  the  Writings  ef  George  Bancroft, 
intended  for  the  use  of  schools,  collegea,  and 
reading  circles,  prefacing  them  with  a  laudatory 
personal  sketch.  Suggestive  questions  follow 
the  selections,  and  *  few  blank  pages  for  notes. 
[Chicago :  Geo.  Sherwood  ft  Co.] 

TEE  FEBIODIOALS, 

TlU  Political  Scienee  Quarterly,  a  new  maga* 
line,  issues  its  second  number  under  date  of 
June,  1SS6,  and  offers  a  very  enjoyable  selection 
to  students  interested  in  questions  of  government 
and  politics.  Its  contents  are  a  review  of  the 
character  and  methods  of  administration  of 
Andrew  Jackson;  a  masterly  consideration  of 
the  United  States  constitution  in  dvtl  war, 
written  from  a  lawyer's  standpoint;  a  statement 
of  the  curiously  inconsistent  if  not  indefinite 
requirements  for  national  cilizenahip;  a  graphic 
account   of   the  socialistic   scheme  of    Robert 


2U 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Aug.  2t, 


Owen  and  of  the  lale  "Christian  locialUm  **  of 
about  1848-1855  in  which  Charles  Kingilej  was 
the  chiri  leader;  a  paper  on  the  legal-tender 
qocition  in  the  Ualted  States,  suggested  appar- 
entlj  b;  Geoige  Bancroft's  late  /"Ita  for  tlu 
CoHitilulien,  lU. ;  one  on  "  The  Conititntional 
Crisis  in  Norwa;,"  which  insti actively  recounts 
the  diminution  of  the  power  allowed  In  that 
country  to  the  sovereign ;  and  finally  a  history  of 
the  financial  troubles  of  Egypt  under  the  lale 
Khedive  Ismail.  At  the  close  are  reviews  of 
books  on  the  general  subjects  discnssed  in  the 
magazine.  We  observe  throughout  a  high  stand- 
ard of  excellence,  maintained  by  the  different 
writers  with  an  unusnal  degree  of  equality.  A 
prominent  part  in  the  editorial  manigeinent 
seems  to  be  taken  by  instructors  in  professional 
schools  connected  with  Columbia  College.  [Ginn 
&  Co.    Jj.00  per  year.J 

Hu  Forum,  for  August,  presents  a  miscella- 
neous list  of  attractions,  among  which  we  notice 
"  Confessions  of  a  Roman  Catholic,"  by  an 
anonymous  writer,  seemingly  an  American  of 
Irish  descent.  This  is  the  second  of  a  series  of 
such  religious  papers.  The  essayist,  without 
questioning  any  of  the  properly  religious  doc- 
trines 8f  the  church,  attack*  vigorously  the  papal 
denunciations  t&.  modem  civilization,  and  boldly 
calls  the  church  to  account,  also,  for  its  iMglect 
to  produce  during  its  long  centuries  of  control  In 
Europe  a  higher  degree  of  moral  and  social 
refinement  of  life  and  mannen.  "  Newspaper 
Espionage  "  is  the  title  of  a  scathing  rebuke  of 
the  offensive  personality  too  often  reached  in 
modern  reporting — as  exemplified  most  notably 
in  the  recent  persecution  of  President  and  Mrs. 
Cleveland,  Students  of  economics  may  like  to 
read  the  views  of  Andrew  Carnegie  on  the  "  Re- 
sults of  the  Ldbor  Struggle;"  characterized  by 
the  broad  sympathy  with  the  workingmen,  and 
the  undimmed  faith  in  popotar  fidelity  to  right, 
which  one  would  expect  from  the  tone  of  his  late 
liiumfhaitt  Dtmocracy.  Among  the  remai 
contribulions  perhaps  not  the  least  useful  and 
instructive  is  by  Dr.  Cyrus  Edson  on  "Poisons 
in  Pood  and  Drink."  [New  York :  Forum  Pub- 
lishing Co.    #5.00  per  year.] 

T^e  Church  Rtviev  ii  very  neat  In  the  trim 
brown  cover  with  ornate  border  and  Gothic 
title  and  the  handsome  paper  and  typography 
which  have  marked  Its  appearance  aino 
publication  at  the  Riverside  Press.  The  July 
Dumber  contains  a  paper  by  Bishop  Huntington 
on  "  Some  Points  in  the  Labor  Question,"  and 
the  fundamental  bearing  therein  of  true  Chris- 
tian principle,  which  we  incline  to  think  the 
ablest  article  in  the  number ;  "  The  Early  Creeds 
of  A«a,"  by  John  Dunlop,  M.A.;  a  short  and 
very  bright  and  graphic  account  of  the  success- 
ful universities'  mission  in  Zanzibar,  by  the 
Rev.  A.  I..  Royce,  U.  S.  N. ;  a  learned  treatise 
by  the  Rev.  Dr.  G.  W.  Dean,  on  "Prohibited 
Degrees"  in  matrimony,  and  the  question,  evei 
recurring  in  England,  as  to  altering  the  law  for- 
bidding marriage  with  the  sister  of  one's  de- 
Mased  wife.  Except  as  already  noted,  we  find 
this  issue  scholarly,  but  rather  heavy.  The  Ao- 
gnst  number  is  more  varied  and  lively.  Theably- 
written  book  notices  at  the  close  are  in  two 
departments,  one  in  which  each  review  la  dgoed, 
and  the  other  of  critical  notices  withont  signa- 
tures, but  said  to  be  by  specialists.  [Houghton, 
Mifflin  &  Co.  $4.00  per  year.] 
The  pebble  of  New  Orthodoxy  thrown  into 


the  pool  of  Old  Theology  has  produced  the 
usual  widening  circles  of  agitation,  and  these 
have  reached  at  last  the  snug  and  sheltered 
offices  of  the  American  Board  of  Commissioners 
for  Foreign  Missions,  that  solid,  conservative, 
efficient  organization  for  carrying  Christianity 
to  the  heathen.  The  Secretaries  of  the  Board 
and  its  Prudential  Committee  are  now  exercised 
over  the  question  whether  candidates  for  ap- 
pointment as  missionaries  of  the  Board  may  be 
accepted  who  believe  in  a  probation  in  the 
future  life.  In  fact  the  question  seems  to  be 
settled,  and  it  appears  that  such  candidates  have 
been  already  refused.  A  powerful  discussion  of 
this  point  in  the  controversy,  from  the  position 
of    the    New   Orthodoxy,   that   is   on  the  side 

1st  the  majority  of 'the  Secretaries  and  the 
Committee,  may  be  found  in  the  Andnver  Ri- 
view  for  August;  as  dear,  keen,  and  cutting  a 
piece  of  editorial  writing  as  has  ever  appeared, 
we  should  say.  In  this  Revirw,  or  indeed  in  almost 
any  other.     No  one  interested  in  this  question, 

I  fact  interested  in  flashing  dialectics  on  any 
subject,  should  fail  to  read  "Secretary  Alden's 
Difficulty  :  The  Way  Out."  The  editorial  writ- 
ing in  the  Andirver  Rtviea  is  very  able  now  all 

FOBEIGV  H0TE8. 

—  The  first  portion  of  Mr.  Sala's  autobic^- 
raphy,  says  the  Atkinxtim,  will  describe  his  boy. 
hood,  and  the  ten  years  frcnn  1S35  to  1845,  and 
will  contain  reminiscences  of  Bellini,  Grisi,  Pa- 
ganini,  Lablache,  Brahain,Tom  Moore,  Theodore 
Hook,  Dickena,  Thackeray,  the  Duke  of  Wel- 
lington, Lord  Melbourne,  Mrs.  Norton,  the 
"mad"  Marquis  of  Waterford,  the  Countess 
Waldegrave,  the  Duke  of  Brunswick,  Harriet 
Duchess  of  St.  Albans,  Count  D'Orsay,  Napo- 
leon III,  Mark  Lemon,  Buckstone,  Webster, 
Madame  Vestris,  Charles  Mathews,  Dejaiet,  and 
others.  The  book  will  be  published  Iw  Bentley. 
Mr.  Sala's  account  of  his  recent  Australian 
elperiences  will   appear   before    the    autobiog- 

—  T.  &  T.  Clark  of  Edinburgh  are  carrying 
through  the  press  a  new  work  on  Messianic 
Prophecy  by  one  whom  the  Athtnaum  calls  "  a 
Professor  Briggs  of  New  York,"  which,  we  may 
tell  the  AthtnaKBi,  is  very  much  as  if  this  journal 
should  speak  of  "  a  Professor  Paley  of  London." 

—  The  Acadaity  learns  that  the  Grand  Duch- 
ess Sophia  of  Saxe-Weimar  is  preparing  a 
"  monumental  edition  "  of  the  complete  works  of 
Goethe,  including  his  diaries  and  his  letters,  and 
also  a  biography  in  three  volumes.  While  the 
principal  materials  will  be  the  store  of  docu- 
ments recently  made  public  in  the  Goethe  Archiv, 
it  is  hoped  that  much  help  wiU  be  derived  from 
MSS.  and  little-known  books  in  private  hands. 
An  appeal  is,  therefore,  made  to  all  who  possess 
such  materials,  10  lend  them  for  the  purposes  of 
this  work,  which  will  make  special  mention  o[ 
the  place  and  the  condition  of  both  MSS.  and 
printed  books. 

—  Zola,  says  the  Academy,  it  at  work  on  a 
novel  which  under  the  title  of  La  Tern  will 
portray  the  life  of  the  peasantry  with  special 
reference  "  to  their  earth-hunger ; "  and  after  that 
is  finished  will  take  up  the  railways,  the  army, 
and  journalism  as  the  subjects  of  his  next  three 

—  Mr.  William  Black  has  been  making  a  tour 
of  the  English  canals  in  a  "boose-boat,"  built 
oat  of  a  ship's  long.boaL  Perhaps  a  new  book 
with  some  such  title  as  "  The  Strange  Adven- 
tures of  a  Canal  Boat "  will  be  the  literary  result. 

—  D.  Lothop  &  Co.  publish  A  Leiiurtfy  Jour- 


ty,  by  Rev.  W.  L.  Gage,  recounting  x  trip  to 
England  and  the  Continent;  another  volume  of 
Madam  Spyrt's  stories,  UhcU  Titui,  translated  by 
Lucy  Wheelock;  a  smaU  volume  on  The Modtnt 
yoo,  by  Anna  L.  Dawes ;  and  a  story  by  Rev. 
Reuen  Thomas  of  Brookline,  entitled  Grafem- 
iurg  Peeplt. 

TABLE  TALK. 
.  Mr.  Edward  Fuller,  dramatic  editor  and 
editorial  writer  of  the  Boston  Ptit,  is  engaged  on 
his  third  novel,  which  will  probably  a;^ai  early 
year ;  It  will  bear  the  title  T^adnre  Trent, 
and  will  be  issued  aimoltaneously  In  Englaikd  and 
this  country. 

. .  .  Mr.  Joel  Benton,  having  returned  from  his 
Western  Jonrneyings,  is  settled  again  at  Ameoiai 
N.  Y.  He  has  lately  disposed  of  an  eatay  on 
Longfellow  to  one  of  the  reviews,  and  is  at  work 
on  other  essays  and  pieces  of  verse. 

...  It  is  believed  that  Miss  Hannah  L.  Talbot, 
daughter  of  George  F-  Talbot  of  Portland,  Me, 
the  lawyer  who  wrote  the  interesting  study,  Jtna, 
His  Opinioiu  and  His  Character,  is  the  author  of 
the  "  Riverside  Series  "  story,  AW  in  the  Prt- 
sfettut.  Issued  over  the  name  of  "  Parke  Dan- 
forth."  Both  the  story  and  the  nam  4e  flume 
afford  proof  of  this  belief.  Miss  Talbot  ha* 
done  some  of  the  best  (short)  juvenile-story  work 
ever  produced,  her  "Tom's  Menagerie,"  in  the 
Portland  Transcript  several  years  ago,  equaling 
Mark  Twain's  most  successful  efforts  in  repre- 
senting boy-life  and  character.  "Parke"  aitd 
"  Danforth "  are  understood  to  be  the  namei 
of  the  two  streets  on  the  corner  of  which  this 
author  lives. 

. .  .  Hiss  Emily  S.  Bouton,  associate  editor  of 
the  Toledo  Blade,  is  preparing  two  volumes, 
Weman^s  Work  and  Home  Taiki,  Co  be  Issned 
by  the  Locke  Publishing  Company  of  Toledo. 

...Mrs.  Sarah  T.  Bolton  — not  Sarah  K. 
Bolton  —  one  of  the  very  few  women  who  are 
writing  as  steadily  as  ever  alter  three-score  years 
and  ten,  intends  soon  to  publish,  in  two  volumes, 
some  of  the  recollections  of  her  life  abroad, 
under  the  title,  Europe,  at  I  Saw  It  Thirty  Years 
Ago ;  she  Is  now  busy  with  a  book  for  the  times, 
to  be  called  Pontius  Pilate. 

...  A  book  of  verses  and  a  book  of  essays 
by  Rev.  Jas.  Vila  Blake  of  Chicago  —  the  for- 
mer to  occupy  about  aoo  medium  pages  —  will 
appear  from  the  press  of  Charles  H.  Kerr  & 
Co.  of  that  city,  in  October. 

. . .  James  Baldwin,  author  oE  Tie  Soot  Lever, 
Is  preparing  a  Third  Reader,  and  two  other 
volumes  of  a  different  character,  for  the  press. 
Mr.  Baldwin  is  Superintendent  of  the  Schools  in 
Green  castle,  Ind. 

. . .  Mrs.  Helen  A.  Manville,  known  by  this 
and  her  maiden  name,  Nellie  A.  Mann,  as  an 
acceptable  writer  of  story  and  verse  in  the  West, 
has  lately  resumed  pen-work,  at  La  Crosse, 
Wis.,  after  an  enforced  suspension  of  activity 
for  some  years.  Mrs.  Manville's  daughter, 
Marion  Manville,  is  also  a  writer,  and  the  two 
are  working  together  harmoniously  and  indus- 
triously. Mrs.  Manville  was  a  beauty  in  her 
youth,  and  is  even  now  beautiful,  with  her  tall, 
straight,  slender  figure,  dark  and  brilliant  eyes, 
regular  features,  and  silvered  dark  hair.  She 
is  a  relative  of  Stephen  A.  Douglas. 

. . .  Rev.  Jacob  Straub,  of  Marseilles,  III-, 
whose   book.    The    Censoiations  0/  Science,   has 

won  a  reputation  which  most  be  very  gratifying 


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to  him,  nuide  this  ibe  Gn 

ptfcliologj  and  kindred 

which,  Propkicy  and  Pra/i/iels,  or  Ike  Seurcia  tf 

Intpiralicn,  and  Tkdr  Phmpmina,  i*  to  (.ppeax 

. . .  Hits  Mtntia  Irving  hu  In  hand  &  Tolome 
of  American  Feii-Lon  Storui. 

. . .  MiM  Mary  A.  Roe,  aiMer  oE  E.  P.  Roe, 
intend*  to  bring  out  her  third  novel  in  Septem- 
ber, nnder  the  title,  £tft  in  lie  Wiliermsi. 
Phillips  &  Hunt  of  the  Methodist  Book  Coticetn 
will  publish  it;  ■*  also  a  novel  named  The 
Daughter  of  Pharavh,  by  Fred  Mfron  Colby  of 
Warner,  N.  H. 

. . .  Rev.  William  M.  Thayer,  a  writer  a\  many 
books  for  l>oyi,  has  prepared  an  illnatrated  vol- 
ame  on  Marvita  ef  the  Nra  West,  to  be  brought 
out  this  fall  by  the  Henry  Bill  Publishing  Com- 
pany. 

. . .  Miss  Mary  N.  Freicott,  who  has  been  gen- 
erally missed  from  the  periodical  as 
book  world  for  years,  is  collecting  her  poems  for 
poblicatlon  in  a  volume.  Mrs.  Maif  aret  J.  Pres- 
ton, another  singer  who  has  been  silent  for  some 
time,  is  to  give  as  two  books  of  verse,  one  of  a 
religious  character,  entitled  Far  Love's  Saie,  the 
other  rather  of  a  patriotic  nature,  called  Colmiai 
Ballads,  etc.  —  the  former  to  appear  throogh 
A.  D.  F.  Randolph  &  Co.,  the  tatter  not  arranged 
for. 

. .  .  Mrs.  Myra  Sawyer  Hamlin,  author  of  A 
PtHtieiaH's  Daughter,  is  a  daughter  of  Frederick 
A.  Sawyer,  a  Massachusetts 
South  before  the  War  and  established  the  first 
Normal  School  in  the  South,  at  Charleston,  and 
who  afterwards  represented  South  Carolina  in 
the  United  States  Senate.  I^ter  he  was  Assist- 
ant Secretary  of  the  Treasury.  Mr*.  Hamlin 
passed  her  childhood  in  South  Carolina,  wu 
educated  at  a  Boston  school,  and  has  spent 
several  years  in  Europe.  Her  husband  is  ■ 
grandson  of  the  Hon.  Hannibal  Hamlin,  not  a 
nephew  as  inaccurately  stated  in  the  Boston 
TVaeelltr,  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1S84,  and 
is  ttow  on  the  staff  of  the  New  Vvk  Tritune. 
Mr*.  Hamlin  ha*  taken  no  life  portrwts  for  her 
book,  she  says,  and  is  annoyed  that  a  generalisa- 
tion of  types  ^ould  tie  regarded  as  penonal- 
itiea. 

HEWB  Am)  lOTEB. 

—  Hubbard  Brothers  of  Philadelphia  are  about 
to  publish  Major  Ben  Perley  Poore's  Sotial  Xem- 
iniscencis  of  Sixty  Years  in  the  Natiimal  Metrofa- 
lis,  in  two  volumes,  the  first  of  which  will  be 
ready  next  week.  The  work  abounds  in  anec- 
dote* of  public  men,  and  is  well  illustrated. 

—  Mrs.  Paget's  "Shilling  Dreadful  "  is  to  be 
called  A  Phantom  Lmer,  and  not  "Oke  of  Oke- 

—  Among  the  books  forthcoming  from  the 
press  of  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  will  be  A 
White  Hersn,  and  Other  Sleriei,  by  Sarah  Ome 
Jewetl,  The  same  house  has  in  preparation, 
A  Step  Aside,  a  Story  of  New  Yoik,  by  the  sfriter 
who  is  known  as  Charlotte  Dunning. 

—  Cupples,  Upham  &  Co.,  who  have  Jnst  ready 
TheRelatim  ef  Hospitals  to  Medical  Edtitatien, 
by  Charles  brands  WIthington,  M.  D.,  will  issue 
sliortly  in  popular  form,  a  new  novel.  The  Story 
of  a  Bright  Idea. 

—  To  the  three  series  of  handbooks  published 
by  Houghton,  HifBin  &  Co.  will  probably  be 


added  during  (he  coming  year  —  to  Ibe  "Amer- 
ican Men  of  Letters,"  Benjamin  Franklin,  by 
John  Bach  McMaster;  to  the  "American  States- 
men," Clay,  by  Carl  Schurz,  and  Woihingttm, 
by  Henry  Cabot  Lodge  {each  in  two  volumes), 
Van  Bum,  by  William  C.  Dorsheimer,  and 
Patrick  Henry,  by  Moses  Coit  Tyler ;  to  the 
"American  Commonwealths,"  Hew  York,  by 
Ellis  H.  Roberts  of  the  Ulica  Herald. 

—  Mrs.  De  Meissner,  daughter  of  Admiral 
Radford,  U.  S.  N-,  and  wife  of  an  attach^  in 
the  Russian  diplomatic  service,  has  written  a 
novel  of  Russian  life,  more  particularly  of  dip- 
lomatic and  court  circles,  which  is  shortly  to 
appear  with  the  imprint  of  Cupples,  Upham  ft 
Co.  The  title  will  be  73*  Terrace  of  Mon 
Disir,  and  the  book,  it  is  said,  will  contain  .liw 
teresting  revelations  with  regard  to  social  man- 
ners and  customs. 

—  Three  volumes  to  Iw  added  during  the 
autumn  to  Robert*  Brothers'  edition  of  George 
Meredith's  novels  are  Sandra  Belleni,  Rhoda 
Fleming,  and  Beasiehamf's  Career. 

—  Ten  Dollars  Ennigh  is  the  title  of  a  book 
on  domestic  economy  in  the  press  of  Houghton, 
MiSlin  &  Co.  The  author,  Catherine  Owens, 
aims  to  show  with  all  necessary  practical  details, 
that  a  family  may  live  well  and  limit  it*  honse- 
hold  expenses  to  ten  dollars  a  week. 

—  Phillip  Gilbert  Hamerton's  papers  on  Im- 
i^nation  in  Landscape,  now  appearing  in  the 
Magaiine  of  Art,  will  Iw  issued  in  quarto  book 
form,  with  twelve  illustrations,  towards  the  dote 
of  the  year, 

—  Lord  Ronald  Gowcr's  Last  Days  0/  Marie 
Antoinette,  as  printed  at  the  University  Press  for 
Roberts  Brothers'  limited  Mlion  de  luxe,  will  be 
a  fine  example  of  dainty  book-making.  It  is 
printed  on  hand-made  Irish  linen  paper  in  small 
quarto,  and  in  typography,  presswork,  and  bind- 
ing is  admirably  done. 

—  The  September  Atlantic  has  a  discriminat- 
ing article  on  the  late  Edwin  Percy  Whipple,  by 
Thomas  Wentwortb  Higglnson. 

—  Our  London  correspondent.  Miss  A.  Mary 
F.  Robinson,  is  the  author  of  the  next  volume  Co 
appear  in  Ibe  "  Famous  Women  Series,"  on 
Margaret,  Queen  of  Navarre. 

—  W.  J.  Johnston,  New  York,  has  in  press  a 
new  work  on  electric  motors,  prepared  by  T.  C. 
Martin  and  J.  Wetxler,  associate  editors  of  the 
New  York  Electrical  World.  It  will  be  a  quarto 
of  150  pages  with  150  11  lustrations. 

—  Foot's  Directory  of  Railroad  Officials  and 
Railway  Directors  is  now  ready  for  delivery  to 
suliscribers,  with  its  immense  mass  of  informa- 
tion respecting  the  staff  of  American  railroad 
management,  steam  and  horse,  its  lists  compris- 
ing not  less  than  30,000  names. 

—  £.  L.  Kellogg  ft  Co.  of  New  York  publish 
under  title  of  Helps  to  Teachers  a  considerable 
list  of  valuable  books  on  the  science  and  practice 
of  teachers. 

—  David  G-  Francis,  17  Astor  Place,  New 
York,  is  American  agent  for  Book  Lore  and  the 
Antiquary,  two  English  monthlies  of  great  inter- 
est to  bibliophiles  and  antiquaries. 

—  The  Boston  Library  Bureau  has  begnn  the 
publication  of  Libriay  Notes,  a  monthly  journal 
of  methods  and  labor-saving  advice  for  libra- 
rians, authors,  and  readers.  It  is  edited  I>y  that 
very  original  and  ingenious  librarian,  Mr.  Mel- 
ville Dewey,  librarian  of  Columbia  College. 

—  Collectors  of  Books  and  PampAlits  ReUXing 


to  America  should  send  lo  Williamson  ft  Co.,  5 
King  Street  West,  Toronto^  for  a  copy  of  their 
catalogue  bearing  that  title.  It  embrace*  nearly 
500  titles. 

—  Mr.  Howells  is  summering  in  Boston. 

—  Mr.  Goltsberger*s  last  addition  to  classical 
fictiim  is  Aphrodite,  a  translation  by  Mary  J.  Saf- 
ford,  from  the  German  of  Eckstein. 

—  Mr.  Thomas  Whittaker,  New  York,  has  in 
press  and  will  shortly  issue  a  memorial  of  the 
late  Dr.  Dyer,  an  eminent  Episcopal  divine,  con- 
spicuously identified  with  the  educational,  mis- 
sionary, and  literary  activities  of  his  church.  He 
was,  we  believe,  for  many  years  the  editor  of  the 
Parish  Visiter. 

—  Mr.  George  W.  Cable,  who  is  now  perma- 
nently established  as  a  dtixen  of  the  North,  did 
duty  at  the  Chautauqua  Assembly  Sunday  morn- 
ing last  a*  teacher  cA  a  Bible  class  of  about 
1,000  persons. 

—  The  Century  Magiaine  is  hereafter  to  be 
published  in  London  by  T.  Fisher  Unwin. 

—  Mr.  Justin  McCarthy  is  on  his  way  to  Amer- 
ica for  a  winter  campaign  of  lectures  on  literary 

—  Temple  Bar  for  July  contains  Professor 
Johnson's  arlide  on  Wordsworth  from  Three 
Americamand  Three  Engliskmen,  recently  issued 
by  Mr.  Thomas  Whittaker.  The  Bentleys  have 
agreed  to  use  three  of  Professor  Johnson's  lect. 
ures,  paying  for  the  same  an  honorarium  equal  to 
the  price  paid  for  the  original  articles.  They  are 
honest  without  international  copyright. 

—  T,  Y,  Crowell  ft  Co..  New  York,  announce 
for  immediate  publication  the  following  works 
by  Dostoyevsky,  translated  from  the  Russian : 
Crime  and  Punishment,  Injury  and  Insult,  and 
Recollections  0/  a  Dead  House. 

HEOBOLOflT. 

JuIt  i<^  7iiiw  Gliun,  Siniford-Dii-ATaa ;  bibliogia- 

Aiwiut  g,  CkarUi  A .  Mimtom,  Niw  York ;  Bnudi]  adi- 
tor  oTlhg  Herald. 

AugiiU  8,  y**  P-  Tram,  Onnn,  N.  J.;  printer  ud 
pul>1idicr,  und  faander  cf  ibc  Nem  York  DirteUrj. 

AuEiut  9,  Sir  Samuel  Ferfut*,  Irelind,  76  j.  \  Pn»- 
dcDl  of  Lhe  Royal  triah  AaAaay  aod  authof  in  poetry  and 

■,  Berlin,  4{  y. ;  ProfoHr 
n,N.  J..  Mm 


Edm^iirekKev..lv\j. 
of  (b«  £ut.  Qaarl.  Ket,,  July. 

'    '      "  ~  *  Macmi/lait,  Au^aO. 


Anbiin  Niihu. 

Bunil,  th*  L.n'doir'iTiomo  Djiu 

CuioD  and  hit  Worki. 

CaruTf,  Chvlct.    Pug]  H.  Hayoe 

Garan^,  ChaHn.    Paul  H,  H> 


«:,JolT. 


Soulhi 
Gty.    Wd.  J.  AmulTDOE. 

Brooklyn  Hag.,  AB|nM. 


i>i1« 


Aofuatina  Biucl].      MiumillaK,  Augutt. 

-  id  Chancier  ol.       WeetminsUr,  July. 

With  ponralL    Pnf. 


ExfetUer,  Jaly. 
Ktuirsled^,  Auguit- 


FoTuin,  Ai 


UiDd  Acdng  oa  Body. 
Vewapaper  Eipionigd.    Joaepti 

Pelilnh  and  Ibe  UniTCruliaa.  j 

Emerton.  uvcnana  B.,  Aiigivi. 

Rnn  (Falber),  How  he  Died.  Yoong 

E.  AUIun.  Southern  Binwac,  Angaat 

John  G.    Widi  pcriraiL  J.  A. 


Howe,  Jr. 


Fort  Orange  Uonthlj,  J«Iy. 


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APHRODITE. 

A  Bo^BBee  mt  Ajaclent  Hella*. 

By  Ernst  Eckstein, 

Author  ot  "Qnlotiu  Claudlui,"  eto.     In  one 

Tclnine.  Price, papet,SO eta.;  doth, 90 eta. 

Vent  bj  MaU  ■■  K«wl*t  mt  Price. 

VILLIAK  S.  eOTTSBERGER.  Publlsker, 


TEXT-BOOKS 

WORKS  OF  REFBBENOB 
Schools  and  Colleses. 

UpptamtfB  Bioirnpklcal  DlfltIoD*rj. 

A  Now,  TbomtUr  BerUad  and  OreaUf  Bolaifad  Ul- 
Ikn.  A  UalTanal  PromiiiKlDg  DkHonarr  of  BlOfn' 
SHiT utiMilhBtotJ-  CDDtalnlng  eompMa  aodoonclaa 
BtocraphUal  Bkutltm  of  the  KmlMit  Panon  at  all 
Agta  aod  ConnbUa  8;  J.  TBOMAI,  1I.D.,LL.D.  In- 
PBlal«TO,tMpM»;  ■lw>p,  Ili.W. 

Voreeater'B  DIcUoBarieB. 

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CoBtuuMB'g  PrutlMl  DIetloMry  of  th« 
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BfLlolI  CanAmain.    Cravn  Sto,  elolli,  f  I  it. 

LOBgmkn'B  Dictionary  oT  tke  Qermkn  u< 

Br  r.  W.  Loionu.    lamo,  dotb,  11  ja. 

GroToa'B  Groek  and  EntUsk  DlcUonary. 

Compitaliig  all  Um  Word!  and  tlu  WrlUiiii  nf  tba  meet 
PopnlH  Onsk  Antlion.    Br  Rbt.  Johv  Oaovat.    Be- 


Qardner's  Latin  and  Enrlisk  Lexicon. 

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a  ColMfa  Coane.   Br  F.auDin,  A.H.   sro,  ilieap, 

LOToratt'B  Latin  and  En^llsk  Lexicon. 

EnlaifSd  and  ImproTad  EdlUos.    Bj  K.  P.  LiTiaiTT. 
Sto.  ahe^,  t^M. 

Plekortngr^s  Qreek  and  EiifllBk  Lexicon. 
Uppliieott'a  Oaietteer  of  tke  World. 

TbonntfilT  BsTlaed  and  Qnatlf  Enlarsed.    ContalulBg 


Qnene's  LeaaoBB  In  Ckemlatry. 

A  Haw  ElHDntaiT  Tait-BooK.  EipesiaUr  Adaptid  tor 
Bobosli  and  CoUtgM.  By  Pnt,  M.  H.  aaiaaa,  HJ>. 
llmo.  f  l.M. 

Skarpleu  and  Pkll[p8*a  Natoral  PUIu- 
opkf. 

lUoMialad.    121110,  tl.w. 

SkarplesB  and  Pkllipa's  ABtronomy. 


Cntter'a   Anatomy,  PkyaloloKr   *o4   Hj- 
rlene. 


Ckanbfn'a  EncydopMdla. 


J.  B.  LIPPINCOTI   COKPANT,  Pab'ra.  '^ 

ria  t  717  JTvfcel  St.,  PkUatUlpMm. 


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THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


The  Literary  World. 


TouXni.    BOSTON,  SEPTEUBBR  4, 1(16.    No.il 


CONTENTS. 


Th>  Philosofrv  of  Tin  SnnaHATViAi. 
UoiuT  I  Ah  Ehousk  Tcm  .... 

Hnram  Ficttoh  i 
Tbe  KiiM>i  TrtMuin,  HmiK  .... 
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The  Sury  ol  Dob  Hiff 

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Etc,  E 

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Pakacufh 1 

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Tm  Matumai.  AHOOTORt  of  Ralfh  Wauw 

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THE  FEILOSOPHT  OF  TEE  BUFEB- 
HATOSAL." 

REV.  DR.  PLATT'S  course  of  lectures, 
in  the  Biihop  Paddoclc  lectareship,  is 
as  scandalous  a  specimen  of  carelessness  in 
proof-reading  as  we  have  had  the  misfor- 
tnne  to  encounter  for  a  long  time.  A  table 
of  errata,  which  marks  but  few  out  of  the 
whole  number,  with  its  cautions  aiwut  the 
omission  and  transposition  of  the  word  "  not," 
reminds  one  of  that  improved  version  of  the 
Decalogue  which  omitted  all  the  "nots!" 
For  "gasses,"  "Tyndal,"  "Hoeclccl,"  and 
the  like  blunders  in  great  number,  "  the 
pressure  of  unassisted  dailj  Lenten  ser- 
vice and  lectures  "  is  no  sufficient  excuse. 
A  dela;  in  publishing  caused  by  a  few  days 
spent  in  revising  the  proof-sheets  would 
have  been  much  more  advisable  than  the 
hasty  issue  of  so  ill-printed  a  volume. 

The  matter  of  Dr.  Piatt's  volume  is  so 
good  in  its  way  that  one  has  the  more  right 
to  find  bult  with  the  multitude  of  small 
errors  which  disfigure  it  Not  that  he  is 
likely  to  convert  a  single  skeptic  or  natural- 
ist from  the  error  of  his  ways,  for  his  argu- 
ment t>  much  loo  unqualified  for  that  But 
the  book  ts  an  admirable  product  of  the 
lawyer  turned  priest,  carrying  Into  theology 
the  habits  of  mind  and  the  style  of  reason- 


ing which  distinguish  the  bar.  The  work  ts 
a  legal  ailment,  which  gives  the  reader 
small  respect  for  the  keenness  and  subtlety  of 
mind  of  the  author,  upon  the  meaning  and 
content  of  the  terms  "nature"  and  "super- 
nature,"  "  natural "  and  "  supernatural." 
These  terms  are  investigated  in  a  thousand 
different  lights,  but  it  is  all  decidedly  "dry  " 
light  The  illustrations  employed  ia  iht 
extemporaneous  delivery  are  omitted,  and 
the  impression  very  often  is  not  unlike  that 
of  a  "remainder  biscuit"  The  book  reads 
like  one  long-continued  lawyer's  brief,  drawn 
out  into  much  detail.  At  once,  without  cere- 
mony Dr.  Piatt  begins : 

Nalure  is  all  thU  it  can  prove  itself  to  be,  and 
Bupernatare  is  all  that  nature  is  not,  and  which  it 
cannot  prove  itself  to  be.  .  .  .  Nature  cannot  be 
separated  from  supematare. 

Certainly  not,  if  as  he  afterward  affirms: 

As  between  nature  and  lapernatDTe  one  is  as 
iDcomprehensible  as  the  other  —  in  ia.ct  they  are 
different  names  for  the  same  existence,  considered 
from  different  sidei  of  the  universe.  One  con- 
siders God  in  what  He  it,  and  the  other  in  what 
He  deej. 
Well  does  he  say  then: 


The  candid  believer  in  evolution  may 
easily  accept  very  much  of  Dr.  Piatt's  argu- 
ment in  bis  opening  lecture,  even  the  excel- 
lent vindication  of  the  "  superhuman  person- 
ality" of  the  Divine  Being;  but  he  must 
complun  of  the  fast-and-loose  way  in  which 
nature  and  supemature  are  now  antagonized, 
now  harmonized.  And  when  in  treating  of  a 
more  special  point  Dr.  Piatt  brings  himself 
to  say: 


That  is  miracle  in  nature  which  ft  alone  ii 
nature.  Each  of  the  three  kingdoms,  mineral 
animal,  and  vegetable,  is  atone  in  (he  universe  . 
and  each  to  every  other  kingdom  !*  a  wonder  — 
a  miracle.    Law  is  the  greatest  miracle  of  Godj 

we  ourselves  begin  to  wonder  if  words  mean 
anything,  and  if  the  proper  philosophy  of 
the  supernatural  consists  in  the  abolition  of 
all  distinctions  in  argument.  But  Dr.  Piatt 
goes  on,  in  a  delicious  way,  which  quite  cap- 
tivates one  by  its  entire  opposition  to  all 
later  habits  of  discussion : 

The  mistake  has  been  in  pultirg  miracle  upon 
proof,  instead  of  putting  law  upon  explanation. 
.  .  .  Law  is  the  totality  of  miracles. 

This  is  admirably  said,  without  regard  to 
its  truth  or  falsity  to  fact;  and  Dr.  Piatt's 
whole  work  abounds  in  just  such  powerful 
statements;  his  book  is  a  masterpiece  of 
forensic  reasoning  by  a  bom  disciple  of 
authority;  and  we  commend  it  to  all  schools 
of  thought  as  an  excellent  exposition  of  the 
legal  view  of  theology,  a  view  which  will 
never  fall  of  adherents.  What  that  view 
comes  to  in  the  ethical  sphere  appears  when 
Dr.  Piatt  says :  "  Things  are  right  because 
commanded  by  the  supernatural,''  not  be- 
cause they  are  right  in  themselves.  Natu- 
rally, the  legal  mind  has  small  respect  for 
"eternal  and  immutable  morality,"  having 
its  reason  in  itself ;  without  some  personal 


authority  to  back  it  up,  the  right  has  a  very 
poor  showing]  Dr.  Piatt's  theory  and  his 
ethics  are  certainly  consistent 


UOSLET:  AN  EVaiJBH  TOWT* 

IT  is  not  often  that  an  English  local  hts> 
tory  finds  its  way  to  American  readers, 
and  if  the  work  before  us  is  a  ftu'r  example  of 
its  class  we  shall  wish  the  event  might  hap> 
pen  oftener.  In  completeness  of  plan,  in 
thoroughness  of  treatment,  in  attention  to  all 
those  little  details  that  make  up  the  perfec- 
tion of  a  book  viewed  from  the  bibliograph- 
ical   stand-point,  in    Illustrations    both    as 

:gards  number,  variety,  and  quality,  in 
typography  and  binding,  this  volume  on 
Affriey  has  tndlvidaality,  value,  interest,  and 
beauty;  it  is  singularly  attractive  at  the  first 
glance,  and  its  contents  repay  careful  read* 
even  to  one  who  has  no  personal  con- 
cern with  its  subject,  and  who  looks  on  local 
history  only  with  the  most  general  and  ab- 
stract sympathy. 

But  how  much  of  romance,  of  picturesqne- 
ness,  of  tender  human  Interest,  of  even 
plaintive  association,  there  may  be  in  the 
story  of  any  old  town,  and  especially  such  an 
old  English  town  as  Moriey,  with  its  typical 
traits,  its  thoroughly  national  countenance 
and  habits,  its  steady-going,  uneventful  con- 
tribution to  the  growth  of  the  community 
around.  A  busy  town  is  Moriey,  close 
within  the  swirling  currents  of  whidi  Leeds 
is  the  center ;  with  considerable  wool  indus- 
tries of  its  own,  now  that  its  modern  life  is 
fairly  under  way,  but  with  a  very  quiet  ca- 
reer to  look  back  upon,  and  with  some  Ro- 
man remains  to  connect  it  with  the  earliest 
days  of  Britain.  Today  it  is  a  parliament- 
ary district  and  a  municipal  borough,  with  a 
population  of  i8,ooo  souls;  but  five  hundred 
years  ago  it  bad  not  one  hundred  inhabitants, 
and  the  steps  by  which  it  has  mounted  to 
its  present  rank  have  been  slow  indeed. 

Half  a  century  ago  Moriey  would  have 
presented  a  fine  picture  of  a  good  old-fash- 
ioned Yorkshire  village.  Its  interests  then 
were  agricultural,  and  its  cottages,  lanes, 
wells,  and  foliage  would  have  delighted  the 
visitor's  eye.  Once  a  day  the  heavy  red 
mail-coach,  with  the  royal  arms  painted  on 
the  door  panel,  rumbled  through  its  princi- 
pal street  to  or  from  Leeds,  and  a  single 
copy  of  the  Leeds  weekly  journal  found  its 
way  to  the  village  inn.  Night  work  was  then 
done  by  tallow  candles  ;  women  wore  pan- 
t  In  place  of  pockets;  knee-breeches, 
le^ings,  and  shoe-buckles  still  adorned 
the  men  ;  salt  was  fourpencC'half -penny  a 
pound,  white  bread  was  a  Sunday  delicacy, 
and  postage  was  'leven  pence  to  London. 

It  would  have  entertained  you  vastly, 
reader,  to  have  entered  a  workingman's 
house  in  Moriey,  fifty  years  ago.  It  stood 
upon  one  of  the  seven  hills  over  which  the 


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THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Sept.  4, 


Tillage  has  grown,  a  one-storj  house  of 
rooms,  the  walls  of  rough  stones,  the  roof  of 
thatch,  with  a  single  door  held  fast  by  a 
wooden  latcb,  and  a  solitary  window  at  the 
back  of  the  ooe  "  living-room."  Tbii  liviag- 
room  was  open  to  the  thatch,  the  walla  were 
whitewashed,  the  floor  was  nncarpeted  but 
scoured  and  sanded.  Its  chief  articles  of 
furniture  were  the  oalc  dresser  and  the  taU 
clock.  Over  the  fire-place  the  mantel-shelf 
served  as  ageneral  hold-all.  Here  stood  the 
tinder-box,  the  candIfr4nnfferB  and  tray, 
and  perhaps  some  bits  of  Leeds  pottery. 
Overhead  hung  herbs  in  process  of  drying 
for  domestic  use  —  "agrimony,"  "betony," 
"camomile,"  "  eyebright,"  and  the  like.  It 
was  a  simple  and  homelike  interior,  whose 
type  is  now  fast  passing  away  even  in  Eng- 
land where  ^e  old  lingers  so  long. 

But  Morley  cottages  and  Morley  cottag- 
ers are  only  a  single  topic  of  Mr.  Smith's 
well-filled  volume,  upon  which  we  chanced  to 
open  at  about  the  middle  of  his  more  than 
300  pages.  BegioniDg  at  the  beginning,  be 
digs  away  down  in  his  first  chapter  into  the 
very  foundations  of  Yorkshire  history,  brings 
to  light  the  Briton,  the  Roman,  and  the 
Norman  in  their  turn,  and  builds  up  the  civic 
structure  through  the  Plantagenet  period,  and 
the  times  of  Commonwealth  and  Restoration. 
He  describes  what  is  known  as  the  "Fam- 
ley  Wood  Pbt,"  in  which  one  Major  Great- 
head  played  a  discreditable  part  The  Mor- 
ley "  Wapentake,"  or  military  district,  under 
the  old  and  interesting  organization  of  two 
centuries  and  more  ago,  is  the  subject  of  a 
chapter,  with  particulars  of  the  "ducking- 
stools  "  devised  for  the  punishment  of  com- 
mon scolds,  and  of  the  penalties  inflicted  for 
"Whindow  Peeping."  After  the  detailed 
accounts  of  Morley  life  a  half  century  ago, 
to  which  we  have  above  referred,  come 
chapters  on  the  popular  amusements  and 
curious  customs ;  on  former  churches  and 
schools  and  benefit  societies;  on  the  begin- 
nings of  political  life,  of  trade,  and  of  manu- 
factures as  they  exist  today.  Fourteen 
chapters  there  are  in  all ;  topical  rather  than 
chronological  in  the  treatment ;  and  the  book 
thus  becomes  a  sort  of  panorama  of  the 
town  character  and  life  through  all  the 
shifting  scenes  of  a  thousand  years.  So 
rich  is  the  narrative  in  detail,  so  attentive  to 
the  thousand  and  one  incidents  and  objects 
that  enter  into  the  fullness  of  such  a  sub- 
ject, that  it  is  bard  to  see  how  one  could 
obtun  a  clearer  and  more  adequate  idea 
than  it  afiords  of  the  evolution  of  an  ancient 
English  bamlet  into  a  modem  English  town. 

The  illustrations  of  the  book  lend  it  a 
special  charm,  and  its  editorial  and  typo- 
graphical features  are  correspondingly  excel- 
lent There  Is  a  frontispiece  of  tbe  author 
on  wood.  There  is  a  pretty  vignette  of  the 
"Cross  Keys  Inn"  on  the  title-page. 
Vignettes  and  head-  and  tail-pieces  are 
tucked  in  all  along  among  the  large  pict- 
ures.    These    latter   often    occupy    entire 


pages.  Four  of  them  are  steel  portraits, 
seven  are  photographic  portraits,  tea 
"Dallas-tint"  views  of  buildings,  etc.,  re- 
sembling photographs,  and  seventeen  arc 
full-page  wood-cuts.  Of  other  and  smaller 
cuts  there  are  nearly  a  hundred,  including 
portraits,  scenery,  buildings,  costumes,  and 
fae-HmiUs.  The  illustrations  are  properly 
listed.  There  Is  a  full  table  of  contents  and 
an  index.  There  is  a  catalogue  of  the  a 
thor's  gther  works,  and  of  tbe  subscribers 
this  one.  Among  the  latter  we  note  the 
names  of  Rev.  Robert  Collyer,  D.D.,  Albert 
Pike,  Dr.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  the  li- 
brary of  Dartmouth  College  (by  Prof.  C.  F. 
Richardson),  and  Charles  Mortimer  of  Mil- 
waukee. The  red  cover  of  the  book,  with 
stamping  in  gilt  and  black,  finely  sets  it  ofi, 
and  it  is.  In  every  way  solidly  valuable 
thoroughly  interesting.  The  subject  itself 
may  not  have  greater  worth  than  a  hundred 

thousand  others  like  it  that  might  be 
selected;  but  recognition,  sagacity,  and  the 
handling  of  a  competent  antiquary  and  liter- 

I,  have  made  it  stand  far  out  above  the 
ordinary  level. 


SOTOrB  OAUFOKFU.* 

BETWEEN  Mr.  H.  H.  Bancroft's  vo- 
luminous and  exhaustive  history  of 
California  on  tbe  one  hand,  and  such  a 
lesser  but  by  no  means  inconsiderable  work 
Hittell's  on  tbe  other,  it  might  seem 
rather  a  needless  if  not  a  hazardous  task  to 
itnide  a  third,  which  should  have  only  the 
compass  of  a  single  twelvemo  of  500  pages. 
Dr.  Royce  has  done  what  neither  Ban- 
croft nor  Hittell  has  done  or  tried  to  do, 
and  what,  we  venture  to  say,  few  persons 
could  have  done  so  welL  From  his  fine 
work  on  Tkg  Rtligiout  Aipecl  of  Phihsophy 
we  should  expect  him  to  do  It  well.  And 
we  might  also  expect  what  manner  of  work 
a  history  of  California  by  him  would  be. 
We  should  expect  not  simple  annals,  not 
imaginative  romancing,  not  a  mere  skeleton 
of  names  and  dates;  but  a  philosophical 
interpretation  of  the  effects,  in  relation  to 
their  causes,  which  make  up  the  California 
of  today.  And  that  is  what  we  have ;  leam- 
:dly,  intelligently,  judiciously  done ;  with 
every  evidence  of  a  thorough  handling  of 
original  sources  of  information,  with  every 
mark  of  scholarly  analysis  and  criticism, 
ith  every  tone  of  impartiality  and  candor, 
with  every  effect  of  a  strong,  close,  telling 
literary  style.  Without  quite  so  picturesque 
a  subject  as  Mr.  John  Esten  Cooke  had  in 
Virginia,  without  exactly  the  scientific  sense 
which  Kentucky  aroused  in  Mr.  Shaler, 
and  certainly  with  a  far  greater  reserve  and 
self-control  than  Rev.  Dr.  Barrows  mani- 
fested in  treating  Oregon,  Dr.  Royce  has 
produced  a  thoroughly  scientific,  sober,  and 


vivid  picture,  which  makes  a  clear  and  defi- 
nite impression  on  the  mind. 

In  1846  California  was  "  an  outlying  and 
neglected"  province  of  Mexico.  In  iSfo 
it  was  admitted  as  a  State  to  tbe  Union. 
In  1856  the  disorders  incident  to  the  or- 
ganization of  a  social  state  under  tbe  rude 
conditions  which  had  existed  In  California 
had  culminated  in  the  outrages  leading  to 
the  formation  of  Vigilance  Committees, 
through  which  gate  of  blood  and  vengeance 
tbe  State  passed  into  a  settled  and  serener 
stage  of  history.  These  ten  years  only, 
from  1S4G  to  1856,  tumultuous  years,  forma- 
tive years,  the  theater  of  great  causes,  tbe 
seed-time  of  great  issues,  are  the  limit  of 
Dr.  Royce's  history.  All  that  went  before 
1846  —  discovery,  colonization,  missions,  all 
that  has  happened  since  1856  —  settlement, 
development,  culture,  Is  dismissed  in  a  few 
pages.  The  heavens  are  before  him,  but 
our  observer's  Instrument  moves  slowly 
over  a  limited  arc,  and  looks  deeply  and 
closely  Into  tbe  life  which  It  reveals. 

A  capital  map  of  California,  a  good  table 
of  contents,  and  a  full  index,  equip  tbe  book 
as  It  should  be. 

"A  Study  of  American  Character"  Dr. 
Royce  denominates  his  volume : 

The  social  condition  [he  says  in  bis  preface] 
ba*  been  tbroughont  of  more  interest  lo  me 
than  the  Individual  men,  and  tbe  men  chemselveB 
of  more  inierett  than  tbeir  fortunes,  while  tbe 
purpose  to  study  the  national  character  has 
never  been  lost  sight  of  in  the  midst  of  even 
'nation  of  certain  obscure 


.  The  SI 


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accidental  doings  of  detached  but  in  the  sequel 
vastly  influential  individuals,  and  ends  Just  where 
the  individual  ceases  to  have  any  very  great 
historical  significance  for  California  life,  and 
where  the  community  Iwgin)  to  be  what  it  ought 
to  be,  fw.,  all  important  as  against  individual 
doings  and  interest*. 

An  important  and  delicate  section  of  the 
work  ia  that  touching  the  question  of 
Fremont's  part  in  the  measures  which  re- 
sulted in  the  conquest  of  California.  These 
iures  were  not  creditable  to  the  United 
States,  and  they  cast  definite  shadows  on 
Fremont's  name.  Dr.  Royce  approaches 
this  vexed  point  with  great  caution,  and 
deals  with  it  after  a  manner,  both  as  regards 
method  and  spirit,  which  must  command 
tbe  heartiest  admiration  of  every  reader. 
If  all  vexed  historical  questions  were  sifted 
in  the  same  way,  there  would  be  fewer 
quarrels  and  less  hard  feeling. 

There  Is  a  graphic  picture  of  tbe  begin- 
nings of  San  Francisco  In  1S47,  wben  there 
were  459  peraons  in  that  "  village."  Then 
followed  the  gold  excitement,  the  rush  of 
irs  and  settlers,  the  eruption  of  camps, 
and  the  fiood  of  violence  and  crime.  Dr. 
Royce's  parents  were  of  a  party  who  crossed 
the  Rockies  among  the  immigrants  of  1849. 
He  himself  is  at  home  in  the  "diggings" 
which  he  so  effectively  describes,  and  per- 
sonally witnessed  many  of  the  rude  and 
exdting  scenes  which  are  wrought  Into  hia 
narrative.      Here  are  the  facts,  hard  and 


■  886.] 


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293 


aoltd,  with  which  Bret  Harte's  livelj  fancy 
has  so  Eoadly  played  —  the  originals  of 
"  Roaring  Camp  "  and  "  Mrs.  Skagga,"  of 
"Poker  Flat"  and  "Truthful  James." 
His  "Typical  History  of  a  Miniog  Camp 
in  1851-32,"  occupying  pages  344-356,  we 
should  be  so  glad  to  reprint  entire,  had  the 
Liitrary  World  thirty-two  pages  every  week 
instead  of  sixteen  pages  once  a  fortnight. 
So  the  social  evolution  went  on,  with  lynch 
law  filling  the  gap  between  colonization  and 
organiiation,  the  great  and  murky  torrents 
of  a  comple:!  life  finally  settling  into  the 
broad  and  placid  stream  which  glistens  in 
the  Pacific  sunlight  today. 

We  commend  Dr.  Royce's  California  not 
only  to  all  students  of  American  history  but 
to  all  lovers  of  the  best  books,  especially  to 
those  who  have  the  disposition  to  look 
underneath  the  outward  facts  for  the  bidden 
currents  that  produce  them,  and  who  like 
best  that  type  of  history  which  is  philo- 
sophical in  its  insight  and  reverent  in  its 


uurOK  Fionov. 


nu  Kin^t  Trtaiurt  Hvuie,  A  Romance  of 
Ancient  Egypl.  By  Wilheim  Walloth.  From 
the  German  by  Mary  J.  SaSord.  [W.  S.  Gotti- 
berger.    90c.] 

Had  a  Hagh  Conway  been  living  in  the  days  of 
Rameses  II  he  might  have  written  Tkt  Kin^s 
fVeasuri  Hmtit.  Some  fnn  has  lately  been  made 
at  the  expense  of  German  archaeological  noveli, 
and  man;  of  them  are  leally  astoniibing  affairs. 
Give  one  of  these  imaginative  savinta  an  old 
brick,  a  piece  of  a  mummy,  or  a  coin,  and  he  will 
hatch  you  out  a  fat  tittle  foor-volume  story  in  no 
lime.  Therefore  the  recent  ponderously  humor- 
oDS  satires  on  these  romantic  CutliThislariscki 
Studitn  are  welcome,  and  may  do  good.  Wil- 
heim Walloth's  contribution  (o  the  swelling  balk 
of  l^yptian  fictitious  literature  is  readable,  as  all 
sensationil  stories  are  readable  when  the  inci- 
dents are  lively  and  the  plot  does  not  drag,  but 
the  main  situation  —  the  discovery  of  imrnense 
wealth  —  is  not  new.  Aladdin  is  still  the  prince 
of  discoverers  of  treasure  trove.  Humanity 
will  ever  delight  in  caverns  sparkling  with 
diamond!,  and  filled  wilb  chests  of  gold  and 
India  shawls;  the  present  slory  leaves  nothing 
to  be  desired  in  this  reapecl.  But  the  reader 
who  has  his  own  ideas  about  the  times  when  the 
Jews  were  toiling  in  bondage  before  the  Exodus, 
will  get  a  shock,  we  fancy,  when  he  is  presented 
with  a  view  of  the  magnificent  Rameses  intrigu- 
ing at  midnight  with  a  profligate  Jewish  dancing- 
girl,  while  his  wife  and  son  are  lurking  about  with 
steel  and  poison  10  destroy  him  I  Rameses  how- 
ever "comes  up"  with  them  (at  the  phrase  is), 
by  taming  on  the  Nile  into  a  subterranean  cham- 
ber, drowning  all  his  enemies  like  rata,  and  so 
curing  his  country's  ills  as  it  were  by  hydropathy, 
His  daughter  (she  of  the  bulrushes]  meanwhile 
is  carrying  on  a  desperate  flirtation  with  a 
young  man,  lares  him  into  her  own  tomb,  loses 
the  way  out,  and  pats  out  the  only  torch.  The 
young  man,  however,  is  cold;  even  lather  Rame- 
ses cannot  turn  his  heart,  for  he  loves  somebody 
else.  If  this  story  has  any  merit  historically  we 
have  not  been  bright  enough  to  see  it ;  simply  as 


a  story  It  is  well  enough.  Imagine  a  Jew  even 
in  the  darkest  days  of  bis  people's  fortunes 
speaking  as  follows : 

"Don't  bother  Jehovah  about  such  trifles," 
Rebecca  answered  in  a  woutd-be  jesting  tone. 
"  He  has  more  important  matters  to  look  after. 
Go  I  Take  the  lantern.  ...  Go,  Brother  dear, 
and  don't  trouble  yourself  about  the  snoring  Je- 
hovah—  we  ate  our  own  Jcbovahs  1 "  (p.  117). 


Whatever  Emma  Marshall  sets  her  name  to  — 
aitd  she  writes  not  a  little  —  is  on  a  high  grade  of 
excellence.  To  middle  English  life  she  may  be 
said  to  be  what  Miss  Vonge  has  been  for  years 
to  a  higher  class  of  readers  in  her  mach  classified 
country.  The  present  attempt  is  one  of  the  au- 
thor's occawonal  departures  from  her  well-known 
Geld  of  contemporary  life.  It  takes  na  back  to 
early  Christianity,  at  Grst  in  Britain  and  after- 
ward in  Rome  during  parts  of  the  reigns  of  both 
Diocletian  and  Constantine,  when  the  persecution 
of  Christians  had  risen  to  its  hight  and  had  begun 
to  subside  under  the  latter's  reign.  In  the  mind  of 
Hyacintha,  dat^hter  of  a  noble  Roman  colonist  at 
Verulam  (unfortunately  misprinted  Veralum  on 
the  first  page),  the  seeds  at  the  new  religion  were 
planted  by  himible  means.  Sent  to  Rome  to  be- 
come a  vestal,  this  girl  is  at  last  brought  to  em- 
brace the  despised  faith,  although  she  dies  in  the 
odor  of  sanctity  as  a  vestal.  Why  she  became  a 
"  tost  vestal  "will  be  made  plain  tothose  who  read 
the  simple  story  of  her  life.  The  stoical  indiSer- 
entism,  the  material  grandeur,  tA  the  dvilization 
which  was  already  in  rapid  decay,  are  faithfully 
bat  not  extravagantly  portrayed.  The  tempta- 
tion to  make  the  early  Christians  too  statuesque 
in  their  perfections  has  been  successfully  resisted. 
What  an  excellent  Siuiday«choot  book  this 
/ft).  Jf/// really  is,  if  we  compare  it  with  some  of 
the  foolishness  that  baa  made  a  "Sunday-school 
book  "  hardly  more  than  a  jest  in  literature.  No 
boy  or  girl  could  fail  to  profit  by  such  scenes  of 
early  days  of  noble  suffering  and  martyrdom 
and  their  contrast  with  our  fat  time*. 

The  Story  9/ Dtn  Miff,  as  Told  by  his  Friend, 
John  Bouche  Whacker.  A  Symphony  of  Life. 
Edited  bv  Virginins  Dabney.  id  ed.  [J.  B.  Lip- 
pincott  Co.    fl.50.] 

It  is  bard 
willing  to  sail 
authors  on  the  sea  of  literature  to  make  a  sacccu 
of  the  voyage  ;  it  is  certainly  harder  still  for  one 
who  sets  out  a  century  ahead  of  his  times  ;  what 
then  shall  be  said  of  one  who  voluntarily  em- 
barks on  a  dismantled  and  leaky  craft,  long  since 
condemned  as  unseawortby.  This  is  what  Mr. 
Dabney  has  done,  in  choosing  a  literary  vehicle 
for  his  story  as  intolerable  at  present  as  would 
be  the  once  fashionable  custom  of  working  oat  a 
plot  by  the  epistolaiy  method,  after  the  manner 
of  the  Clarissa  Hailowe  school.  He  has  taken 
his  reputation  into  bis  own  hands  and  has  neg. 
lected  friendly  counsel,  from  no  other  reason  sp. 
patently  than  to  gratify  an  abhorrence  of  what 
he  calls  the  analytical  method.  With  plenty  — 
almost  a  wealth  —  of  intelligence,  wit,  and  imagi- 
nation at  his  command,  be  has  delitieralely  retro- 
gressed a  hundred  years  to  find  a  style  to  suit. 
He  takes  the  reader  into  his  confidence,  which 
is  something  that  Mr.  Howelts,  with  a  generous 
candor,  has  explained  will  no  longer  be  tolerable 
even  in  a  Thackeray.    He  make*  display  of  eru- 


dition, which  is  worse  than  the  unbosoming  him- 
self. This  is  at  times  absurd,  as  in  the  scene 
where  a  Virginian  captain  runs  his  sword  to  the 
hilt  into  a  Northern  colonel  and  then  quotes  a 
line  of  the  Iliad  [p.  453].  The  Northerner  had 
just  been  striking  a  Southem  lady  in  the  face! 
Mr.  Dabney  does  not  forget  to  remind  ui  that  he 
is  a  gentleman,  and  then  does  his  best  to  make  us 
think  otherwise,  by  his  singling  out  a  comrade  in 
letters  —  one  of  Southem  antecedents,  but  now 
we  are  glad  to  say,  among  friends — and  trying 
to  dub  bim  poliroon.  After  all  we  like  Hr. 
Dabney,  nor  has  he  been  able  altogether  to  make 
us  dislike  his  book,  althnagb  he  has  taken  five 
hundred  close  pages  to  tell  the  btory  of  a  brave 
and  most  obstinate  young  man  who  lost  his  life- 
happiness  because  be  wouldn't  go  to  church. 
In  the  telling  he  ha*  pictured  some  interior* 
of  Virginia  home  life  of  the  best  sort  as  we  may 
believe  it  existed  in  reality  before  the  war. 
These  pictures  are  not  photographs,  but  the 
idealixation  of  an  artistic  and  a  laving  band.  He 
has  spoken  wittily,  kindly,  pathetically  even,  of 
the  virtues  and  vices  too  of  a  past  in  which  he 
still  seems  to  live.  Lovers  of  mntic  will  pardon 
all  blemishes  in  so  evident  an  enthusiast  for  his 
art.  It  was  a  pity  for  Mr.  Dabney  to  take  so 
many  pages  to  elaborate  explanations  of  why  hi* 
side  was  defeated ;  or  why  General  Sheridan  did 
not  do  well  at  Winchester;  or  why  Mr.  Csble 
has  no  right  to  free  hi*  mind  with  just  that  free- 
dom our  author  himself  enjoys.  But  we  are  de- 
termined to  think  well  of  Don  Miff,  loi  there  is 
evidence  of  brain*  in  it,  and  of  a  kind  heart, 
which  is  better. 


"Unexceptionable"  is  what  most  reader* 
wilt  *ay  of  AipiroHatts.  And  in  this  epithet 
there  is  no  innuendo  {  the  story  is  interesting  and 
certainly  refined,  with  a  dash  of  romance,  of  how 
a  young  waif  who  promises  well  to  become  an 
artist,  goes  to  Italy,  and  discovers  too  late  to 
*p<^l  him  that  he  is  heir  to  princely  estates, 
which  he  renounces  that  he  may  better  wed  his 
true  love  and  at  the  same  time  not  divorce  his 
art.  Thns  far  the  story  goes  well,  there  is  noth- 
ing novel  about  it,  the  "unexceptionable"  feat- 
ures are  those  portions  devoted  to  the  "  sodety  " 
which  figures  throughout.  It  is  American  of  the 
"  nice  "  sort,  with  a  sprinkling  of  the  vulgar  kind, 
with  which  latter  condition  the  author,  as  an 
anthor,  ix  unfamiliar.  She  is  sure  of  her  man 
when  she  describe*  a  gentleman,  but  her  par- 
venus sre  lay  figures.  There  is  a  mild  and 
rather  delicate  flavor  of  sarcasm  throughout, 
which  at  times  one  suspects  is  meant  to  be  in- 
as  well,  a*,  on  page  109,  for  instance  : 


much  loo  nice  for  that."    "  Whv,  isn't  it  nice  to 
be  genteel  ?"    "No,  not  at  all," 

People  who  talk  as  Mr.  Barclay  and  his  "set" 
do,  ought  not  to  have  to  be  reminded  that />uh- 
iia  (p.  159),  is  not  a  masculine  substantive,  and 
that  it  is  not  correct  to  say  "the  uncertainty  as 
to  nKom  the  friend,  the  financial  friend,  might 
be  "  (p.  309).  It  might  have  been  pardoned  to 
inelegant  Mrs.  Vedder ;  but  a  social  grade  where 
the  young  are  "  taught  to  remember,  with  a  ra/ti- 
tary propriety,  the  massacre  of  St  Bartholomew  " 


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THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Sept.  4, 


{p.  104)  must  b«  held  to  a  strict  accooDtabiUtr 
hy  exacting  though  admiring  inferiors.  Aside, 
however,  from  these  Irifles,  Aipiratitm  is  read- 
able, its  style  i*  cultivated,  and  pure  though 
never  bracing. 


I1.00.1 

A  quiet  and  anpretentious  air  o(  probability 
pervades  the  pages  of  Firt  attd  SvHrrd  quite  dif- 
ferent from  the  sensationalism  of  late  historical 
fiction.  The  annals  of  the  Montholieos,  s  familj' 
living  in  Nimes,  are  here  lucidly  tbough  wc  shall 
hardly  say  giaphiodly  told.  The  period  choMn 
by  Mr.  Aicher  in  which  to  set  fin^h  the  trials 
of  the  French  Huguenots  was  not  the  most 
vivid  in  their  hktotjr,  but  in  the  reign  of 
Louis  XV,  almost  two  hundred  years  later, 
when  the  fires  of  persecution  were  not  bam- 
ing  their  hottest,  though  the  embers  still 
glowed.  It  waa  a  period  of  history  not  much  in- 
vestigated by  historian  or  oovelisL  And  acqui- 
escence in  the  priestly  rule  was  still  insisted  on, 
thoi^h  the  property  and  not  the  lives  of  the 
heretical  seemed  to  have  been  in  the  greater 
jeopardy,  ^iiv  anrfiWwrf  is  possibly  an  eitrav^ 
agant  title,  for  the  devoted  men  and  women  who 
figure  here,  though  sturdy  and  honest  lovers  of 
liberty  and  their  religion,  were  not  characters  of 
heroic  build.  Mr.  Archer  indeed  has  made  an 
interesting  study  of  the  development  of  the 
Huguenot  character  at  this  stage  of  its  growth, 
with  its  seemingly  incongruous  constituents,  of 
a  whole-hearted  devotion  to  high  conviction, 
snd  at  the  same  time  of  a  shrewdness  (almost  a 
cunning)  which  was  the  result  no  doubt  of  ceit- 
tnrics  of  compulsory  seclusion  and  scK-repreision. 
The  struggle  of  the  spy  Le  Blanc  with  his  awak- 
ening sense  of  manhood  and  gratitude  is  the  most 
spirited  thing  in  the  book. 

71/  Mart  a/  Cain.  By  Andrew  Lang. 
[Charles  Scrlbner's  Sons.    Paper,  ajc.] 

Mr.  Andrew  Lang  is,  we  believe,  a  poet  and 
an  essayist ;  but  this  his  novel  is  a  piece  of  pure 
sensationalism  of  a  very  conunon  grade.  It 
possesses  ingenuity,  but  scarcely  any  other  trait 
of  an  excellent  story.  There  is  cheating 
at  cards,  murder,  abduction,  attempted  murder. 


Mttooing,  and  a  Bying  machine.  The  man  in 
the  flying  machine  becomes  the  witness  to  the 
mutder.  The  cheating  at  cards  is  done  by 
meant  of  a  mysierions  silver  cigarette  case, 
which  holds  a  secret  dose  of  deadly  opium. 
The  tattooing  plays  a  part  in  a  adieme  to 
obtain  fraudulent  possession  of  a  large  fortune. 
The  abducted  girl  comes  near  to  being  a  victim 
of  poisoned  oranges.  And  all  these  crimes,  or 
attempted  crimes,  are  performed  in  full  sight 
of  the  reader,  and  described  with  the  relish  of  a 
dime-museum  for  the  hideous  and  the  horrible. 
It  is  a  cheap  sort  of  talent  Chat  produces  a  l>ook 
like  this,  and  it  is  a  low  sort  of  taste  that  will 
enjoy  the  reading  of  it 

Dmtbli  Cunnitw.  By  George  Hanvitle  Fean. 
[D.  ApiJeton  &  Co.    Paper,  soc] 

Exciting  is  perhaps  the  most  appropriate  epi- 
thet by  which  to  describe  ibis,  Mr.  Fenn't  latest 
novel.  Of  course  it  is  sensational.  Usually  one 
mystery  is  enough  «  a  lime,  but  here  there  are 
two.    On  the  one  hand  there  is  a  manslaughter 


lonely  ravine,  which  ha*  been  covered  up 
and  hidden  away,  and  which  sustains  a  serious 
italion  to  the  peace  and  happiness  of  an  Eng- 
lish family  j  and  on  the  other  there  is  a  rich 
young  American  who  has  been  kidnaped  by  a 
gang  of  scoimdrels  and  shut  dp  in  a  private 
mad-house  near  London  for  purpose*  of  extor- 
tion. From  one  to  the  other  of  these  themes 
the  attention  is  kept  turning  by  the  clever  art 
of  the  author,  and  each   chapter  is  suspended 

most  critical  point  of  the  story.  This  two- 
fold thread  of  villainy  and  suffering  is  very  skill- 
fully twisted  together,  and,  as  Mr.  Lincoln  would 
have  said,  if  a  reader  like*  iliis  tort  of  a  book, 
why  this  is  the  sort  of  a  book  be  will  like.  For 
one  of  its  kind  It  It  certainly  well  done.  The 
parties  to  the  ttory  are  strongly,  in  some  re- 
tpectt  powerfully,  drawn.  Sir  Harry  and  Sir 
Robert  Fanshaw  are  a  picturesque  pair  at  old 
East  Indian  fighters,  settled  down  to  a  comfort- 
able life  at  home.  Sam  Burton  is  a  game- 
keeper whom  Trollope  might  have  created. 
One  of  the  best  feature*  in  the  story  is  the 
intelligence  and  fidelity  of  the  Gordon  setter 
"Bess."  Arthur  Range  and  his  Uncle  Wash 
are  Americans  in  caricature,  though  the  rarica- 
is  not  harsh.  The  experience  of  Arthur 
in  the  mid-boDse  Is  frightful,  and  yet  one  can 
lily  tee  how  possible  it  would  be  (or  it  to  be 
all  true.  Mr.  Fenn's  materials  go 
his  literary  name  with  Wilkie  Collins 
Charlet  Reade,  but  he  i*  inferior  to  thoie  ^ 

in  style.  He  lays  on  hit  horrors  with 
generou  a  brush.  In  the  passages  between 
Burton  and  the  maid  Milly  he  is  more  natural 
and  life-like,  and  touches  of  humor  ate  not 
lacking  b  tome  of  the  lituationa  to  soften  what 
would  otherwise  be  a  grim  and  horrible  tale. 


The  spell  of   Fepila  Ximenei,   widow,  falla 
upon  Don  Luiaito  de  Vargas,  postulant  for  the 
priesthood ;  be  aunenders  to  it,  abandons  his 
Ideal,  and  Is  lumultuonsly  transformed  into 
lover;   in  an  hour  of  overmaatering  passion  he 
and  Fepita  become  wedded  to  each  other  befoi 
marriage ;  their  fault  Is  condoned,  their  friends 
are  reconciled,  the  blessing  of  the   Church 
pronounced  upon  them,  and  they  settle  down 
a  truly  pious  and  peaceful  life  amid  the  vii 
yards,   the  olive  groves,   and  the  sunshine 
Andalusia.    Such  in  brief  is  the  story  of  Ptfiia 
Ximtita.    In  form  no  less  than  in  ingredients 
and  In  flavor  it  is  very  unlllie  the  common  Eng- 
lish or  American  mixture   in  fiction,  and  it  a 
genuine  product  of  its   soil.    The  first  part  it 
made   up   of   letters  from  Don   Luisito  ti 
uncle,  describing  his   sensations   and  emotions 
as  the  love  between  him  and  Fepita  begins  and 
proceeds,  sweeping  him  on  to  the  brink  where 
he  discovers,  and  she  discovers,  that  he 
give  up  either  her  or  his  vocation.    The  9< 
part  consists  of  direct  narrative,  recounting  the 
events  that  swiftly   follow    on    this   discovery, 
the  interview  arranged  between  Luis  and  Fepi 
by  the  sly  old  servant,  AntoHona,  and  its  une 
pected   and  for  the   moment  appalling    com 
quence  —  which   late  incident  is  of  course  ti 
to  the  reader'a  imagination.    A  brief  epilogu 
in  the  shape  of  scattered  extracts  from  a.  few 
letters,  paints  the  happiness  of  the  duly  married 
lovers  in    their    home.     The  fact    thai    Luis'a 
father  is  in  the  first  place  a  ttiitot  for  the  affec- 


tions of  Fepita,  and  the  parts  inddenlally  played 
by  the  vicar  confessor  and  the  servant  AntodoiiB, 
lend  delicious  louche*  of  farce  to  what  is  a  true 
comedy,  dramatically  speaking,  of  a  high  order. 
In  Luis'i  letter*  there  it  a  strange  blending  at 
the  profoundest  spiriti&l  longings  with  the  most 
passionate  outpourings  ol  earthly  love  j  they  are 
stich  lettera  as  an  infatuated  Thomas  i  Kempii 
might  have  written,  or  Abelard  after  ibe  out- 
burst of  hia  love  for  Heloise.  The  tone  of  the 
book  it  strongly  introspective,  but  of  It*  kind 
masterly.  On  strictly  Spanish  ground  it 
would  be  considered  highly  moral.  And  though 
pivotal  point  is  one  which  Engliah  standard* 
exclude  from  a  story's  plot,  yet  it  is  presented  in 
this  instance  with  irreproachable  delicacy.  The 
tone  of  the  book  it  tcntuous,  but  it  has  a  meri< 
aim,  and  i*  to  be  interpreted  by  it* 
purpose.  We  must  remember  that  the  light 
by  which  a  Spaniah  author  wrilea  is  different  in 
many  waya  from  that  which  falla  on  our  work 
here;  and  of  the  literary  and  artiilic  skill  <&•■ 
played  by  Signor  Valera  it  is  impossible  to 
speak  otherwise  than  in  praise. 

By  William    WestaU. 

The  extravagance*  and  horror*  of  Mr.  Haf- 
gard's  JCiitg  Stitmm'i  iiintt,  one  of  the  early 
liooks  of  the  year,  are  rivaled  in  this  romance 
of  73/  Pkanicm  City,  which  is  Jules  Verne-work 
overdone,  or  imderdone,  whichever  one  nuy 
to  call  it,  and  not  nearly  so  tatlafactorj 
a  story  a*  ihe  tame  author'*  Ralph  XbrtrttJf* 
Trust  or  Rid  Ryvingfn.  Mr.  Westall  has  here 
given  free  reign  Co  an  imagination  fed  on  the 
stimulating  luxuriance  of  Central  America.  The 
Phantom  City  ha*  it*  situation  in  the  interior 
of  Yucatan,  amidst  a  labyrinth  of  mountain*, 
and  swamps,  and  Infested  by  savages, 
alligator*,  and  wild  beasts  of  the  forest  A  re- 
port having  reached  one  Dr.  Carlyon  of  the 
existence  of  this  city,  he  detetmine*  on  bunting 
it  up,  and  gathering  a  party  about  him  sets  forth 
on  his  exciting  quest  His  first  expedition  r«- 
tnlt*  in  his  losing  his  way,  in  his  separation  from 
his  companiona,  in  the  sliogbler  of  *ome  ef 
them  by  the  Indiana,  and  in  his  return  to  the 
point  of  departure  Uripped  of  pretty  mn(A 
!rything.  Uoditmaycd,  and  lured  on  by  con- 
fident expectation,  he  makes  a  second  attempt 
this  time  by  balloon,  with  what  astonishing  suc- 
cess we  must  leave  the  reader  Co  discover.  Por- 
luit  by  a  condor,  a  battie  in  the  air,  the  city 
attained,  banuu  sacrifice*^  and  a  tender  ro- 
mance, help  to  make  up  the  cJimax  of  thi* 
wholly  sensational  and  improbable  tale  of  ad- 


Goldtn  Mtdiocrity.      By   Enginie   Hamerton. 
[Roberts  Brother*,    ti.00.] 

This  is  a  qoiel  and  pleasing  story  of  famQy 
life.  The  scene  is  laid  generally  in  France.  Ml*. 
Hametton,  as  wife  of  the  well-known  aullior  and 
artist,  Philip  Gilbert  Hamerton,  and  herself 
French  by  birth  and  residence,  has  anusnal 
qualifications  for  vrriting  a  tale  illustrative  o( 
the  contrasts  between  French  and  Ei^lish  life, 
customs,  and  modes  of  thought,  in  which,  per- 
haps, the  interest  of  this  story  will  be  chiefly 
found.  The  leading  charactera  are  the  family 
and  friends  of  a  modest  and  scholarly  French-  \^ 
man  of  Champignol,  and  three  Engliah  penple, 
a  mother  and  son  and  a  cou*in  of  tbe  latter,  who 


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come  to  reiide  for  a  time  in  the  netghborhood. 
But  the  rather  numerous  love  affairs,  of  gie^iter 
or  leu  intensity,  among  the  young  people,  add 
at  least  a  mild  flavor  at  the  novel  lo  the  itory, 
and  there  are  also  dements  of  pathos  in  the 
family  circumstances  and  ultimate  death  of  a 
young  narqais  living  near,  and  in  the  supposed 
loss  at  sea  of  another  most  worthy  young  man. 
But  except  in  case  of  the  unfortunate  marquis 
all  ends  happily,  much  in  orthodox  fashion- 
The  title  of  the  book  is  meant  10  denote  the 
state  of  moderate  expenditure  in  which  French 
people  are  content  10  live,  as  contrasted  with 
the  greater  ostentation  of  the  English. 


In  T^e  Death  ef  HnafiA  Pasha  an  anonymous 
author,  without  Introduction,  without  preface, 
relates  how  he  fell  under  the  spell  of  a  pair  of 
bright  eyes  in  London,  followed  them  and  lost 
them  in  Constantinople,  was  invited  to  dine 
with  Hewlik  Pasha,  was  left  alone  with  him  in 
his  apartment  at  the  moment  when  the  Paaha 
was  mysteriously  murdered  by  a  aiab  in  the 
back,  was  arraigned  as  the  murderer,  SDCcecded 
in  proving  his  innocence,  fell  iu  with  the  bright 
eyes  again,  and  found  that  they  were  none  other 
than  the  eyes  of  the  mysterioiu  murderer  of 
Hewfik ;  after  which  he  followed  his  charmer 
to  America,  married  her,  and  settled  down  to 
a  happy  life  with  her  in  a  villa  on  the  Hudson. 
The  extravagania  is  well  written,  and  reads  like 
fact.    [Funk  &  Wagnalls.    6oc] 

The  swindling  ways  of  some  Joint  slock  com- 
panies of  the  day  are  effectively  portrayed  in 
the  story  of  Sir  IVilliam's  SpeeulaiieHt,  which 
is  fiction  founded  on  fact,  having  to  do  with  an 
imagioary  bubble  on  the  London  financial  sea, 
which  swamped  its  victims  in  a  melancholy 
manner.  Just  such  experiences  as  this  are  hap- 
pening every  day,  not  only  iu  London,  which 
witnesses  the  organiiatjon  of  i,5cx]  new  stock 
companies  every  year,  but  in  thia  country  as 
well ;  and  the  ignorant  and  unwary  need  the 
note  of  warning  which  1  book  like  this  sounds 
forth.    [Sampson  Low  &  Co.] 

Tht  Strangest  Story  Ever  Told,  by  Norman 
Duval,  seeks  to  add  to  its  strangeness  by  a 
fantastic  dragon  depicted  on  its  cover.  It  is 
a  fanciful  romance  in  the  form  of  a  traveler's 
tale,  wherein  the  narrator  gains  the  companion- 
ship of  a  hennit  philosopher,  possessing  super- 
natural powers  and  known  as  "the  Mystic ;" 
and  his  miraculous  adventures  and  conversation 
with  this  aage  are  made  the  vehicle  for  discuss- 
ing economic  problems  and  the  inequalities  and 
hardships  of  modern  civilization,  and  for  incul- 
cating fidelity  lo  the  refining  and  humane  teach- 
ings of  religion.  [Cincinnati :  WoodruS,  Cox  A 
Co.    Paper,  »s<:] 


MDTOS  VOTIOEa 

Our  Country.  Its  Possible  Future  and  its 
Present  Crisis.  By  Rev.  Josiah  Strong.  [Baker 
ft  Taylor,     ynu} 

Mr.  Strong  is  pastor  of  the  Central  Congrega- 
tional Church,  Cinctnnati,  Ohio.  This  little 
book  on  the  Present  and  Future  of  our  Country, 
hardly  more  than  a  tract,  was  first  published 
■ome  four  months  since  by  the  American  Home 
Missionary  Society,  an  organization  of  the  Con- 
gregational churches.  Without  any  advertising 
or  other  effort  to  push  sales,  the  aociety  ha*  jtut 
issaed  the  I5lh  thousand  of  il^  and  it  has  now 


been  put  regularly  into  the  hands  of  publishers 
and  the  trade.  Professor  Phelps  of  Andover 
furnishes  a  highly  commendatory  introduction. 
In  fourteen  chapters  the  author  discusses  what 
he  conceives  lo  be  the  present  perils  to  our 
national  character  and  the  remedies  (or  the  same. 
The  perils  are  immigration,  Romanism,  Mormon- 
ism,  intemperance,  socialism,  wealth,  and  the 
city.  The  text  consists  largely  of  facts,  figures, 
and  citations,  so  that  it  reads  somewhat  like  the 
report  of  an  Investigating  committee.  There  is 
little  argument  in  the  hook  ;  it  is  mostly  a  state- 
ment. The  author  looks  at  some  objects  through 
colored  spectacles,  but  in  the  main  he  is  keen 
and  clear  sighted,  and  what  he  has  written  is  a 
strong  appeal  in  favor  of  education,  true  religion, 
brotherly  love,  social  virtue,  public  morality,  and 
political  righteousness.  It  is  comforting  to  End 
that  some  minds  are  alive  to  the  situation. 

English  Hymta  :  Their  Authors  and  History. 
By  Samuel  Willoughby  DufiSeld.  [Funkft  Wag- 
nails.    Ii.so.] 

Rev.  Dr.  Dufficld,  who  is,  we  believe,  a  Pres- 
byterian difirte,  is  not  a  pioneer  explorer  in  the 
field  of  English  hymnology,  but  follows  a  path 
which  others  have  laid  out  before  him.  Never- 
theless he  has  made  a  large  and  interesting  vol- 
ume out  of  hi*  researches  into  the  histories  of 
familiar  hymn*  and  ttwir  author*,  and  Christian 
people  of  every  denomination,  who  have  fond- 
ness for  hymns —  and  who  has  not?  —  will  &nd 
themselves  turning  his  pages  with  pleasure  and 
satisfaction,  as  they  come  upon  faa  after  fact 
and  incident  after  incident  relating  to  lines  they 
love  so  well-  The  only  serious  literary  blemish 
in  the  book  is  the  preface,  which  is  as  affected  a 
piece  of  tropical  writing  as  we  have  seen  this 
long  time.  If  this  is  the  Rev.  Dr.  Dufficld's 
usual  style  when  engaged  in  original  discourse, 
we  are  sorry  for  his  readers,  or  hearers,  as  the 
case  may  be.  Nothing  can  be  more  stilted  in 
itself  or  more  tedious  in  its  effects.  In  the  body 
of  the  work  itself  the  author  is  natural  and  sensi- 
ble. He  has  hunted  up  the  authorship,  origin, 
and  historic  setting —  the  whole  pedigree,  in  fact 
—  of  some  fifteen  hundred  hymns,  arranging  the 
matter  under  the  first  lines  as  titles,  and  placing 
them  in  alphabetical  order ;  while  a  thorough 
system  of  indexes,  to  authors,  lo  first  lines,  and 
to  topics,  affords  ready  access  lo  any  part  of  the 
collection.  There  is  a  good  deal  of  eccleuastical 
history  in  the  book,  a  good  deal  of  personal  his- 
tory, not  a  little  anecdote,  and  of  course  a  strong 
religious  and  devotional  Oavor.  The  annotations 
vary  in  extent  with  different  hymns,  ranging  from 
a  few  lines  up  to  several  pages  ;  and  an  immense 
amount  of  labor  must  have  gone  into  the  prepara- 
tion of  the  work.  Only  a  decided  taste  tor 
hymnological  lore,  great  patience,  and  rich  biblio- 
graphical resources  could  have  erkabled  its  per- 
formance. A  very  large  portion  of  the  public 
will  thank  Dr.  Duffield  heartily  for  a  good  work 
welt  done. 

Saertd  Myslrrits  Among  lit  Mayas  and  tki 
Quiehis.  Illustrated.  By  Ai^ostus  Le  Plon- 
geon.    [New  York :  Robert  Macoy.] 

The  first  item  in  this  octavo  of  163  pages  is  a 
portrait  of  the  author,  in  which  M.  Le  Plongeon 
appears  a*  a  dome-headed  man  of  perhaps  fifty, 
with  a  very  luxuriant  mustache  and  beard,  the 
latter  hanging  low  upon  his  chest.  Following 
the  title-page  is  a  dedication  of  the  work  to 
Ketre  Lorillard.    The  preface  lament*  the  de- 


gree of  American  apathy  towards  American 
archaeology,  and  recounts  the  difficulties  the  au- 
thor has  experienced  in  interesting  American 
sdenlisls  in  his  researches  and  New  York  pub- 
lishers in  printing  his  book.  After  a  list  of  the 
illustrations,  the  book  fairly  Iwgins.  Look- 
ing for  a  careful  and  scholarly  description  of 
"finds"  in  Yucatan  and  Central  America,  we 
have,  instead,  first,  some  thirty  pages  of 
disquisition  on  the  rites  of  Free  Masonry  and 
their  relation  to  ancient  mysteries,  and  for 
the  rest  an  argument  whose  object  is  10  show 
that  the  Mayas  and  the  Quiches,  who  occupied 
Yucatan  and  Central  America  "11,500  years 
^o,"  or  so,  were  the  originators  o(  the  sacred 
mysteries  afterwards  found  among  the  nations  of 
the  East,  and  were  indeed  the  founders  of  cirili- 
zation-  M.  Le  Plongeon  claims  to  have  discov- 
ered an  ancient  Maya  alphabet  by  whi<A  the  bas- 
reliefs  and  inscriptions  of  Central  America  can 
be  deciphered.  It  may  be  that  the  refusal  of 
"two  of  the  most  prominent  firms  in  New  York 
to  publish  "  his  book  is  only  another  instance  of 
the  indifference  which  the  world  has  traditionally 
shown  to  true  merit,  and  that  M.  Le  Plongeon's 
sufferings  and  hardships  as  an  investigator  and 
an  author  are  only  those  of  the  typical  inventor; 
but  we  have  strong  suspicions  to  the  contrary. 
The  reading  of  this  book  impresses  us  with 
neither  the  scientific  method,  the  judicial  temper, 
nor  the  modest  spirit  of  its  scholarship.  We 
should  be  sorry  to  do  the  author  an  injustice,  but 
if  he  had  given  more  facts  and  fewer  theories  hfs 
book  would  have  bad  more  value.  The  portrait 
of  him  is  a  fine  one,  and  the  other  il lustrations; 
chiefly  Moss-types  from  photographs  of  Central 
American  remains,  are  interesting  and  choice. 


Peters.  Vol.  I.  [G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons.  ^1.50.] 
This  work  is  designed,  as  its  editors  say,  to  be 
an  introduction  to  the  study  of  the  Bible.  The 
plan  is  a  good  one,  and  the  end  will  show  whether 
it  has  been  well  worked  out  In  the  first  of  the 
three  volumes  of  which  the  work  is  to  be  com- 
posed, portions  of  the  historical  books  of  the 
Old  Testament  are  given,  and  intetwoven  with 
them  are  such  extracts  from  the  Prophets  and 
Psalms  as  belong  to  the  time  of  which  the  narra- 
tive speaks.  Then  the  story  of  David  is  embell- 
ished by  the  Psalm  composed  by  him  when  the 
Ark  was  brought  to  Jerusalem,  by  the  Psalm 
supposed  to  have  been  written  when  he  was  flee- 
ing from  Absalom,  etc  With  the  account  of 
Solomon  are  given  specimens  of  his  proverbs 
and  riddles.  Many  of  the  less  important  events 
in  Chronicles  and  Kings  are  omitted,  and  even  in 
Genesis  the  building  of  Babel  and  the  table  of 
The  Natiotis  do  not  appear.  All  is  in  the  lan- 
guage of  Scripture,  the  translation  being  the 
authorized  version  and  the  Canterbury  version 
combined,  and  the  chapters  are  paragraphed  attd 
not  marked  by  verses.  We  fear  that  a  mistake 
is  to  be  made  by  including  too  much  in  the  next 
two  volumes.  A  three-volume  work  is  rather 
stupendous  for  young  people,  a  class  for  whom 
the  editors  say  this  was  especially  designed. 
Judging  from  the  wide  margins  and  extensive 
blank  spaces  the  whole  work  might  have  been 
brought  into  a  single  book  if  the  plan  had  not 
been  quite  so  elaborate.  It  will  be  a  help  lo 
Bible  readers  although  it  will  not  fill  the  place  of 
a  Youth's  Bible,  such  as  we  have  previously  de- 


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THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Sept.  4 


The  Literary  World. 


BOSTON.  SEPTEMBER  4.  1886. 


Til*  DDval  coDitutly  BHdaBclvvhlitaclcalback- 
croiuiiI,  la  ordat  tbat  tha  dsvalopmODti  which  ua 

nil  ceurta  o(  tha  world.  Yet  (laat  hlatorlcal  tg. 
una  and  aveaU  tfaaaulvaa  will  Barer  foinlah  for  It 
a  happy  principal  aubjact.  Thay  appear  hattar  IB 
the  backfreuad.  and  Icava  the  tonKroBad  fraa  te 
raorc  ■InplahuDUB  character*,  In  wbon  the  aScacy 
and  ■iBQlflcance  at  the  hlatsrlcal  oaei  la  gathered 
toietber,  aa  ft  were,  and  comaa  to  view  Is  Ita  after 
eflecu  far  batter  than  la  diract  torm.  —  Huhahh 
Lona:  OMtUmtt  ^ XtUului. 


*a*  One  of  the  niMt  pictureaqoe  ud  •tiiking 
ligare*  in  America  baa  been  ieino<red  b;  the 
death  of  Profesior  Slowe,  the  hutband  of  Har- 
riet Beecher  Stowe.  Who  that  had  ever  aeen 
him  could  ever  forget  him  f  Aa  long  aa  twenty 
Tears  ago  hit  appearance  waa  the  pertonificatlon 
of  an  <Jd  Hebrew  Rabbi  of  the  firat  dasa ;  what 
he  waa  under  the  added  venerableness  <A  four- 
Bcore  yeari  and  foar  the  imagination  can  con- 
ceive, lie  waa  a  acholar  of  the  Rabbinic  type; 
as  he  sat  among  hia  boolia,  heaTj  fleihed,  long 
haired  and  bearded,  wilh  a  blaclc  skntl-cap  cov- 
ering hi*  mauive  head,  and  hia  keen  aparkling 
eyes  looking  oat  over  his  drooping  apectaclea, 
he  was  a  picture  out  of  a  by-gone  cenlary.  Hoat 
leamed,moatbIuDt,most  genial, most  quaint,  nou 
true  ot  men  I  Nobody  who  knew  him,  and  who 
had  lasted  the  keen  bat  sly  hnnior  with  which  he 
flavored  the  affairs  of  life,  will  Fail  to  detect  the 
under  side  of  the  following  story  related  by 
the  Hartford  Cmrant:  "One  day,  a  couple  of 
years  ago,  when  Hodjeika  was  in  Hartford,  at 
the  house  of  a  friend,  she  called  upon  the  doctor. 
He  had  never  seen  her  ou  ttie  stage,  but  he  ad- 
mired her  character  and  genius  from  report,  and 
he  was  evidently  exceedingly  pleased  to  tee  bet. 
When  she  rose  to  go,  the  old  gentleman,  making 
an  effort  to  rise  from  hil  chair,  said, '  Madame, 
I  am  very  glad  you  called.  I  should  not  like  to 
have  gone  to  heaven  without  seeing  you." "  It 
was  very  plain  that  the  old  Puritan  Professor 
did  not  expect  to  meet  actresses  in  heaven. 

%•  Professor  Charles  F.  Richardson  of  Dart- 
mouth College  contributes  to  the  Christiatt 
Union  of  last  week  an  excellent  article  on  "Li- 
braries for  Running  Readers."  Hotel  librariea 
are  wbat  he  meana.  This  practical  subject  he 
opeiu  up  in  an  entertaining  manner.  Every- 
body knows,  he  saja,  the  ordinary  collection  of 
books  on  the  center-table  of  the  typical  hotel 
parlor.  A  Life  of  Abra.!)am  Lincoln  is  there, 
a  hymn-book,  Byron's  poems.  Pilgrim's  Prog- 
riss,  Unclt  Tem'i  CaiiM,  perhaps,  and  JJu 
Pottry  of  Flowiri.  Why,  he  asks,  should  not 
hotel  proprietors,  along  with  shelter,  food,  and 
Ere  also  furnish  a  circulating  library  for  their 
guests?  He  instances  one  Boston  hotel  which 
has  had  the  good  sense  to  try  this  plan,  and 
draws  a  pictore  of  the  experiment  in  operation, 
as  seen  in  the  light  of  a  ccrUin  "  Fast  Day," 
which  ought  to  recommend  it  for  universal  imi- 
tation. A  hundred  dollars,  he  observea,  would 
provide  a  good  case  and  slock  it  well,  and  a 
hall-boy  might  have  care  of  iL 

*a*  Ttie  lateat  candle-holder  amidst  the  shad- 


ows of  uncertainly  that  gather  around  the  rela- 
tiODB  between  Carlyle  and  hia  wife  ia  Mr.  Andrew 
James  Symington,  Scotchman  and  titerarian,  who 
ought  to  know  whereof  he  write*.  His  little 
book  of  personal  reminiscences,  just  published, 
show*  sympathies  on  the  husband'*  aide,  and 
place*  him  deddedly  at  the  advantage.  Carlyle, 
he  admits,  had  a  way  of  being  **  disturbed,"  and 
when  "dialurbed"  was  "apt  to  be  raisuuder- 
stood,"  which  is  a  euphemistic  way  of  saying 
that  he  waa  irritable,  ill-tempered,  and  aaid  and 
did  things  for  which  allowance  needed  to  be 
made  ;  but  Mrs.  Carlyle  he  chargea  out  and  out 
wilh  being  unreasonable,  aggravating,  whimsical, 
jealous  of  her  husband's  fame,  and  given  to  com- 
plaining to  outsiders.  Mr.  Symington  havii^ 
published  his  testimony,  it  seems  necessary  to 
call  attention  to  it,  but  perhapa  it  would  better 
have  been  left  unspoken.  Enough  haa  been  said 
about  an  unpleasant  matter. 

*a*  Dr.  Haskins's  paper  on  Emerson,  which 
is  concluded  in  this  issue,  is  a  valuable  contri- 
bution to  our  knowledge  of  the  man  and  of  the 
circumstances  that  accoimt  for  him.  Its  great 
length  has  crowded  our  pages,  hut  we  are  sure 
that  our  readers  have  not  begrudged  the  space. 
Its  interest  has  steadily  riaen  as  it  progressed, 
and  the  writer's  own  personal  reminiscence*  of 
Hr.  Emerson  prove  not  unworthy  to  follow 
Madam  Bradford's  extremely  striking  letter. 
This  Bradford  letter  is  unique,  and  is  certain 
to  take  a  permanent  place  among  the  memora- 
bilia of  Emerson.  For  ourselves  we  confess 
to  a  peculiar  interest  in  the  earlier  paasages  of 
the  paper,  those  remote  and  slow  approaches, 
by  genealogical  steps,  on  the  other  side  of  the 
summit,  as  it  were ;  s  path  out  of  sight  and  out 
of  reach  to  the  ordinary  explorer,  bat  full  of  re- 
ward and  value  when  taken  nnder  such  intelli- 
gent auspices. 

*  As  affording  one  of  the  moat  important 
decisions  on  the  law  of  copyright,  a  late  number 
of  the  New  York  NoHbh  cites  the  case  of  the 
Henry  Bill  Publishing  Co.  v.  Smythe,  tried 
before  Judge  Hammond  in  the  U.  S.  Circuit 
Court  for  the  southern  diatrict  of  Ohio.  It  is 
held  that  copyright  is  in  its  nature  a  monopoly, 
auch  that  a  person  acquiring  a  copyright  volume 
in  any  other  way  than  by  consent  of  the  owner 
of  the  right  may  not  lawfully  sell  or  even  lend 
such  volume,  nor  in  fact  make  any  possible  use 
of  it  aa  a  literary  prodnction.  This  doctrine  the 
judge  admits  virtually  throws  upon  the  dealer 
the  duly  of  tracing  hia  ownership  of  the  volumes 
he  offers  as  apecifically  aa  in  case  of  title  to 
real  estate-  A  valid  aale,  however,  is  said 
to  transfer  to  the  purchaser,  so  far  as  respects 
any  particular  copiea,  all  the  rights  of  alienation 
poasesacd  by  the  owner  of  the  copyright. 

V  The  Boston  Trinvllrrit  grieved  thai  Ouida, 
who,  it  says,  "  haa  written  a  series  of  novels  that 
comprise,  first  and  last,  about  at  much  corruption 
as  one  could  ordinarily  find  in  the  literature  of  fic- 
tion, should  form  the  subject  of  a  paper  in  the 
AttoHtie  MmtlAly  by  that  refined  and  scholarly 
essayist.  Miss  Harriett  Waters  Preston."  If  we 
are  not  mistaken,  the  paper  in  question  is  one  oE 
a  series  in  which  Hiss  Preston  has  been  criti- 
cally depicting  some  of  the  famoos  authors  rA 
the  time.  Whatever  may  be  the  truth  about 
Ouida  and  her  novels,  we  (ail  to  see  why  she  it 
not  a  proper  subject  of  examination  by  Miss 
Pieston  evm  in  the  pages  of  the  ^/iuu!i«  JfiriH^. 


%"  There  have  been  few  more  indtutrions  and 
productive  Englitb  novelitts,  or  perhaps  we 
should  say  story- tellers,  than  Hary  Cecil  Hay, 
the  tidings  of  whose  death  on  one  of  ibe  last  days 
of  July,  have  only  just  reached  ua.  Ten  yean  ago 
ahe  was  known  in  this  country  only  by  four 
worlu,  the  chief  of  which  waa  Old  MyddtUan'i 
Momy.  Today  the  list  of  her  writings  counts  up 
at  least  two  doien  separate  volumes,  not  all  of 
them  large,  to  be  sure,  hut  several  being  collec- 
tions of  short  stories.  Most  of  them  have  been 
reprinted  here  in  the  cheap  libraries,  her  manner 
not  demanding  more  permanent  form.  Her  last 
work,  A  Wicked  Girl,  was  only  completed  cm 
her  death-bed,  and  has  just  been  ptiblisbed  by 
the  Harpera. 

*■<  Mr,  Howells  is  undergoing  some  criticism 
because  in  his  comer  of  Harpet'i  Monthly  and 
on  one  or  two  public  occasions  of  late  he  has 
ventured  to  give  his  ideaa  about  novels  and  the 
writing  of  them.  Mr.  Howells's  relation  to  this 
subject,  it  is  said,  is  too  personal  and  delicate  to 
allow  him  properly  to  discourse  upon  it.  That 
is  a  strange  argument.  There  may  be  and 
doubtless  are  two  opinions  about  the  novels  Mr. 
Howells  himself  has  written,  and  about  his  own 
rank  as  a  novelist ;  but  his  ability  to  give  lessMi* 
in  the  art  nobody  can  fairly  question.  The  best 
(eachert  of  any  instrument,  however,  are  not  al- 
ways the  moM  brilliant  petfonner*,  and  vitt  otrta. 

%■  If  we  have  counted  aright  the  Ule  Mrs. 
Ann  8.  Stephens,  whose  death  we  announce  this 
week,  was  the  author  of  exactly  twenty-four 
novels,  and  of  one  book  not  a  novel,  namely, 
a  Laditf  Guidi  te  Crachet.  Only  one  of  her 
novels,  Fashion  and  Famim,  ever  attained  fame. 
There  is  art  in  the  title  of  every  one  of  her 
books.  She  knew  how  to  arouse  curiosity 
before  the  reader  had  opened  the  covert,  and 
the  cariosity  thus  aroused  the  fed  with  the 
tensationa!  misdoings  of  life.  By  no  meaiu 
what  a  female  Zola  would  have  been,  she  did 
no  high  grade  work  and  none  that  will  last. 

*«*It  was  a  shocking  death,  that  <A  Hr. 
Charles  C.  Perkins  of  Boston,  who  was  thrown 
from  a  carriage  drawn  by  runaway  horses  at 
Windsor,  Vt.,  last  week,  and  instantly  killed. 
Wealthy,  finely  educated,  advantaged  by  foreign 
travel  and  residence,  a  gentleman  of  taste.  Id- 
sure,  and  public  spirit,  he  was  one  of  the  fonndft- 
lioDS  on  which  Boston  character  reals.  When 
such  men  die  a  city  is  undermined-  Mr.  Per- 
kins was  one  of  the  two  or  three  most  thoroughly 
furnished  and  competent  art  critics  in  the  coun- 
try. The  Litirary  World  had  been  honored 
by  contributions  from  his  pen. 

•a*  Dr.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  who  ia 
jutt  It  home  again,  as  we  write  these  wotd% 
will  have  to  meet  aome  chargea  of  having 
toadied  to  English  flattery  while  he  waa  abroad. 
The  flattery  he  certainly  had,  and  the  Doctor's 
heart  is  as  certainly  a  susceptible  one ;  but  the 
reports  of  the  toadyism  must  be  taken  with 
some  allowance.  What  if  he  did  cry  "Dear, 
dear  England  I "  as  he  bade  her  shores  good- 
by  ^  That  is  no  more  than  many  an  American 
risitot  has  said,  nnder  conditions  not  half  so 
moving. 

—  The  Rev.  Dr.  Dyer,  whose  Li/i  Records  are 
just  published   by  Whitiaker   of   New  York,  is     .-> 
still  living,  though  we   inadvertently  slated   the     ^ 
contrary  in  our  last  iasue.    Mr.  Whiltaker  an- 


1886.] 


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297 


nooncM  Liturgia  and  OJka  of  tht  Chwek,  for 
tlie  nw  of  English  readCTi  in  illuilTation  of  the 
Book  of  Common  Prayer,  bjr  Edward  Bnrbidge, 
M.D.  

The  "Autocrat'*"  Birthday. 


Y«  pcopla  of  lh«  BTrud-tHDiini;  tlc>^> 
Wfait  iiibute  bKD(  y>  lor  bu  binbdiT  ^fl 
Who  kU  unahakea  IbTOiigb  ihis  tAii|;lb  of  yeui 
Still  nil«  lui  broUut-l^lc  of  tbemrldM' 
Tha  criid  Iba  taenldi  wbo  kHp  ehranicla 
01  the  (reil  d«edi  of  men  In  vnrt  bA&, 
And  [tdu  a  loji^iig  ernwd  of  cnir  tDdfue 
Unntttnd  aiBRnun  of  ■  tml  d«n 
SwaUod  in  tumnttuooa  apnwr ;  than  all  thair  aooJa, 
lladt  Tocil  by  ana  nuialh,  ipoka  Ibu: 
..^^i ,..,  -■■iiiribiiUBanwabrinj 


Who  hlva  bnn«lit  lU  •>  long  ail 


Wahnan 
Wan  tbnwi 


ioadP    AUiwDoi 


.  Aorthy  called 
1  Ibc  laartl  crowi 


tuid  hii  held  hu  Iwi 

trtlcbad  fonh  hia  tcapur  ■ 
Wbo  coimla  gold  piacee  all  tba  daya  an 

And  from  hla  tmium-hupa  wbcH  houded  naltf 
Oulvaiibi  ioi  him  ill  worth  in  human  loala. 
Dolad  out  aomc  bandlnla  whemiilba]  lo  build 
Hi.  .weal '  conlantmenl '  for  oor  '  Auiocni.' 
And  Baaal7»  ahcateat  laerdon  of  tha  Irae. 
Hia  loved  him  long  and  lit  hit  path  wiib  imilei ; 
While  GntitBde  in  lilent  conata  aobbed 
Hot  loTtefnl  praren,  and  biHT-niodad  Lo*a 
PliDikad  aoma  BDrpriae  to  fill  his  hevt  with  jor. 
O I  tail  tu  uifht  of  nonfa  or  nrilT 
Wa  haTa  Ibfiotj  and  aleep  it  in  far  pola 
InpancmiUe  of  nortbam  aena,, 
OrtwirliiinibacTerlutingfin 
Of  aaathing  cratara,  wa  will  bnng  it  him, 
AaJ  laj  it  on  hia  footatool.    Bat,  alaa  I 

What  tribula  haia  we  f  nanght  but  that  wa  brongb 
Lobg  tune  ago^  and  noca  In  diTcri  ahiqiaa 

Now  are  the  l^Ki  uhinued  and  the  truth 
In  nude  unplidtr  ia  all  our  gift. 
Wa  bring  him  Love,  (ha  ion  of  awellinf  hauta. 
Of  Btraaming  ajea,  and  of  faat-daDched  handa 
Nanad  with  Iha  atmgtb  of  ■□  Elanul  Lore. 
Ii  lUa  gift  wonhir  t  Ihao  'tie  all  hia  own. 
O I  (hat  it  may  give  joy  10  him  im  lil«, 
elBghlac 


BirknJaad,  Sittla*J, 


TEE    HATESHAL   ASOESTOBS  OF 
BALPH  WALDO  EHEESON .• 
With  Personal  Remlnlacencea. 


"  Bvarj  nan  ia  a  bnndla  of  hia  anca 


Reminisce ncea  of  Ralph  Waldo  EmeiMo, 

Hr.  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson,  the  fourth  in  the 
order  of  blith  of  the  eight  children  t£  the  Rev. 
William  Emerson  and  Rulh  (Haikina)  Emenon, 
was  born  in  Boston,  May  25,  1SC3.  He  grad- 
uated ai  Harvard  College,  Cambridge,  in  the 
class  of  1821 ;  was  ordained  a  minister  Octobei 
10,  1S26,  and  letiled  over  the  Second  Church  ii 
Boston,  March  II,  i8zg.  He  married,  September 
30,  1829,  Mist  Ellen  Louisa  Tacker  of  Concord, 
N.  H.,  who  died  Febtoary  S,  1831.    In  Scptem- 

•  CotvttfM,  iUi>  br  Cnppl^  Upham  ft  Co. 


ber,  1835,  lie  narried,  for  a  second  wife,  Lidian 
Jackson  of  Plymouth,  Mass.  He  died  at  his 
iiome  in  Concord,  April  27,  1SS2.  The  above 
dates  arc  given  only  for  the  convenience  of  refer- 
ence. I  sbatl  not  attempt  to  fill  in  the  outline 
with  a  sketch  of  Mr.  Emerson's  life,  but  only  to 
recall  some  of  the  least  unimportant  of  the  facts 
connected  with  him  in  the  remembrances  of  mj 
youth  and  early  nunhood. 

Far  back  towards  the  dawning  period  of  my 
memoiy — I  am  enabled  by  my  father's  diary  to 
&x  the  dale  as  the  8th  day  of  May,  1824 — an 
event  of  great  family  importance  and  interest 
took  place  in  my  falhet's  front  parlor  in  the 
presence  of  the  household  and  some  specially 
invited  guests,  amonf(  whom  were  my  Aunt 
Emerson  and  her  son  Ralph  Waldo.  The  occa- 
sion was  [he  baptism  of  my  infant  sister.'  The 
sacrament  was  administered  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Gar- 
diner, rector  <A  Trinity  Church,  Bolton,  where 
the  family  woribiped  1  and  Mr.  Ralph  Waldo 
Emerson  stood  as  godlathei  to  the  baptized  child. 
Mr.  Emerson  never  foi^ot  this  occasion ;  but 
pleaaantly  referred  to  it  En  what  I  believe  was  his 
last  meeting  with  my  sister  in  a  call  which  he 
made  upon  her  while  she  was  living  In  Paris,  I 
think  in  187a. 

I  have  before  mentioned  that  in  the  Utter  part 
of  iSzj,  when  Mr.  Edward  B.  Emerson  was 
compelled,  (Ml  account  of  failing  health,  lo  give 
up  tiit  school  for  boys  in  Rozbury,  he  made 
airangemenU  with  his  brother  Waldo  to  take 
early  charge  of  it.  In  pursuance  of  this  arrange- 
ment, Mr.  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson  reopened  this 
scbool,  January  3,  iSiG,  in  the  second  siory  of  the 
octagonal  stone  building,  then  known  as  the  Nor- 
folk Bank  Building,  on  the  corner  of  Dudley  and 
Kenilworth  Streets,  and  which  is  stlil  standing. 
My  older  brother  and  myself,  Mr.  Henry  F. 
Harrington,  and,  I  think,  most  if  not  all  of  the 
other  pupils  of  Mr.  Edward  Emenon  were  also 
members  of  this  school.  I  have  very  agreeable 
recollections  of  my  cousin  Waldo  as  a  teacher, 
but  for  reasons  that  I  do  not  know,  be  gave  up 
the  school  in  less  than  three  uonlhs  from  its 
opening,  or  on  the  aSth  of  March,  1826.  Mr. 
Harrington,  in  the  letter  from  which  I  have 
before  quof ed,  writing  from  bis  remembrances  of 
this  time,  says: 

Mr,  R.  W.  Emanon  was  not  qHoallr  aucceaaful  la  a 
teacher.  He  took  the  icboal  off  tba  handa  of  hia  brolber 
Edward,  wboK  health  bid  failed.  He  wu  ilndring  for  tbe 
Bualilry,  and  hia  heart  waa  centred  in  hi*  aludiea.  Still, 
everything  went  along  with  tha  nlmoal  amoothoaaa,  a  ad  Ilia 
hUdlactDal  ponton  of  lua  dmiea  waa  faitbtnlly  and  >da- 

The  grief  caused  in  my  fatber's  family  by  the 
death  of  Mr.  Emerson's  wife,  in  February,  1S31, 
was  very  profound-  I  had  not  myself  seen  her 
often ;  but  I  distinctly  recall  her  as  a  very  beau- 
tiful and  very  lovely  person.  Her  remains  were 
deposited  in  the  cemetery  situated  on  what  is 
now  Keaisarge  Avenue,  Rozbniy,  a  short  dis- 
tance from  the  easterly  side  of  Warren  Street, 
and  near  the  Roibury  Latin  School.  It  was  for- 
merly a  retired  spot,  and  not  devoid  of  natural 
attractions.  For  several  months  after  his  wife's 
death,  I  think  till  his  departure  for  Europe  in 
1S33,  Mr.  Emerson  was  in  the  daily  habit  of 
walking  from  Boston,  in  the  early  morning,  to 
visit  her  grave.  The  cemetery  lay  between  my 
father's  house  and  the  business  part  of  Roibury, 
then  known  as  "  Roxbary  Street."    I  often  passed 

■  "nw  lale  hlis.  Cbariaa  C  Jeiratt. 


Mr.  Emenon  on  his  way  to  the  grave,  as  I  rode 
to  school.  It  used  to  be  said  in  the  family  that 
no  weather  interfered  with  tbe  regularity  of  these 

My  father  had  early  discerned  the  promise  of 
the  Emerson  boys,  and  had  brought  up  his  chil- 
dren to  feel  his  own  adrairition  for  their  chaiac- 
Whcn  I  entered  college,  in  1833,  my  four 
cousins  were  all  living.  At  the  time  of  my  grad- 
uation, four  years  later,  the  two  youngest  of 
them,  whom  I  knew  best,  were  dead;  William, 
the  oldest,  had  made  his  home  far  away  in  New 
York  ;  mj  cousin  Waldo  alone  was  accessible  to 
me,  and  he  resided  In  Concord,  some  twenty 
miles  distant  from  Mr.  Greene's  Academy  at 
Jamaica  Plain,  where  I  was  a  teacher  (or  more 
than  a  year  after  leaving  college.  Meantime  Mr. 
Emerson's  writings  had  attracted  universal  atten- 
tion. He  waa  hailed  as  a  new  and  great  light. 
Hia  opiniona  and  utterances  were  topics  of  dis- 
cnssion  in  all  drdes-  Though  I  occasionally 
met  him  Saturdays  at  my  father's  house,  more 
frequently  at  his  office,  in  Boston,  where  Mr. 
Emerson  had  occasion  to  consult  him  on  his 
mother's  affairs,  yet  I  had  a  strong  desire  to  see 
him  in  his  home,  and  to  find  out  from  observa- 
tion and  from  his  own  tips  as  much  as  T  could 
of  bis  ways,  of  his  methods  of  study  and  compo- 
sition, and  particularly  of  his  beliefs. 

During  the  vacation  periods  of  the  two 
years  that  followed  my  leaving  college,  I  found 
several  opportunities  for  gralifying  this  desire. 
I  remember  more  than  once  driving  from  Rox- 
bury  to  Concord,  in  company  with  my  sister, 
dining  at  my  cousin's,  and  returning  in  the  even- 
ing. A  trivial  but  interesting  point  in  connection 
with  the  dinners  was  the  form  my  cousin  used 
in  saying  grace  before  meat.  It  surpassed  even 
"episcopal  brevity."  The  few  but  sufficient 
words  were,  "  We  acknowledge  the  Giver." 

Mr.  Emerson's  regard  for  my  father  manifested 
itself  through  life  in  the  cordial  and  kind  inter- 
est which  he  took  in  his  children.  In  the  earliest 
of  the  viuts  referred  to  there  were  no  other 
guests,  and  my  cousin  devoted  himself,  first  of 
all,  to  showing  us  tbe  sights  of  Concord.  In 
respect  to  everything  that  related  to  Concord  he 
was  an  entbnsiast  to  the  last.  After  returning  to 
his  library  I  began  at  once  upon  the  subject  I  had 
at  heart;  begging  him  as  a  cousinly  favor,  which 
I  should  highly  esteem,  to  tell  me  something  of 
his  habits  of  study  and  writing,  and,  also,  of  his 
religious  opinions  and  beliefs,  making,  at  tbe 
same  lime,  playful  reference  to  my  attachment  to 
the  historic  church  of  our  grandfather.  He 
seemed  interested  and  gratified;  and  with  great 
minuteness  of  detail  answered  my  various  ques- 
tions- He  explained  to  me  his  mode  of  compos- 
ing. He  aaid  that  usually,  after  breakfast,  he 
went  to  walk  in  tbe  woods  in  pursuit  of  a 
thought;  very  much  u  boys  go  out  in  summer  to 
catch  butterflies.  He  was  not  always  successful, 
any  more  ihan  the  boys  were.  But  when  success- 
fnl,  no  boy  was  ever  happier  with  his  butterfly 
than  he  with  his  thoughL  Having  captured  his 
thought,  he  pot  a  pin  through  it,  and  look  It 
home,  and  placed  it  in  his  collection.  He  ex- 
plained that  be  made  a  note  of  his  thought ;  but, 
generally,  only  in  his  mind  ;  and  that  he  l.ept 
what  he  called  a  Thought  Book,  in  which  be 
entered  each  thought,  having  lint  worked  it  over 
and  clothed  it  in  fitting- garb.  Sometimes  he 
would  go  again  in  the  afternoon  into  the  woods, 
and  there,  or  perhaps  by  the  roadside,  would 


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[Sept.  4, 


find  another  thoDKht  which  he  would  treat  in  the 
■une  manner.  But  Ihi*  wu  exceptioiul.  He 
wu  satiafied  if  he  •occeeded  in  securing  one 
thought  a  daf.  The  thought*  were  entered  one 
after  the  other  in  the  Thought  Book,  witltout 
regard  to  their  connection.  Whenever  be  withed 
to  write  an  esiaj  or  a  lecture,  he  made  free  nie 
<rf  the  Thought  Book,  aelecting  and  adapting 
•uch  thought*  aa  teemed  fitting,  and  stringing 
them  together  as  a  child  *trii^  beadi  on  a 
thread.  After  this  explanation  I  was  at  no  toss 
to  account  for  the  moiajc  character  of  much  of 
his  writing. 

With  equal  readiness,  and  at  much  greater 
length,  Mr.  Emerson  answered  the  manjr  ques- 
tions which  I  put  to  him  about  his  religious 
opinions.  I  regret  that  I  am  unable  to  reproduce 
with  accuracy  much  that  he  aaid.  I  remember 
that  he  expressed  great  admiration  for  Sweden- 
borg.  It  is  not  improbable  that  he  was  at  that 
time  engaged  in  writing  hia  eaaa;  upon  Sweden- 
borg,  which  contain*  all  and  more  than  all  that 
he  *ald  tome  of  him,  though  It  lacks,  of  course, 
the  charm  which  Mr.  Emenon's  voice  imparted 
to  the  spoken  words.  I  assumed  from  his 
enthusiastic  utterances  that  he  waa  a  Sweden- 
borgian.  But  this  be  would  not  fully  allow.  On 
my  asking  him,  how,  then,  he  would  define  hit 
position,  he  answered,  and  with  greater  deliher- 
ateness,  and  longer  pauses  between  his  words 
than  usual,  "I  am  more  of  a  Quaker  than  any- 
thing else.  I  beliere  in  the  '  atill,  amall  voice,' 
and  that  voice  is  Christ  within  ns." 

Meeting  I^r.  Emerson  one  day,  I  think  in  the 
summer  of  183S,  at  my  father's  office  in  Boston, 
I  inquired,  incidentally,  whether  he  taw  much 
of  my  classmate,  Mr.  Henry  D.  Thoreau,  who 
was  then  living  in  Concord,  and  with  whom  I 
had  lately  corresponded,  I  think  concerning  a 
school  which  was  in  quest  of  a  teacher.  "  Of 
Thoreau  I "  replied  Mr.  Emerson,  hia  face  light- 
ing up  with  a  smile  of  enthusiasm.  "Oh,  yea; 
we  could  not  do  without  him.  When  Mr. 
Carlyle  cumes  to  America  I  expect  to  introduce 
Thoreau  to  bim  as  tit  man  of  Concord."  I  was 
certainly  very  greatly  surprised  at  these  words. 
They  set  an  estimate  upon  Thoreau  which 
seemed  to  me,  to  say  the  least,  extravagant.  In 
college  Mr.  Thoreau  had  made  no  great  im- 
pression. Me  was  far  [rom  being  distinguished 
as  a  scholar.  He  was  not  known  to  have  any 
literary  taste*;  was  never  a  contributor  to  the 
college  periodical,  the  "  Harvardiana ; "  wa* 
not,  I  think,  interested,  certainly  not  coiupic- 
uous,  in  any  of  the  literary  or  tcientiGc  sodetiea 
of  the  undergraduates,  and,  withal,  was  of  an 
unsocial  disposition  and  kept  himself  much  aloof 
from  bis  classmates.  At  the  time  we  graduated,  I 
doubt  whether  any  of  his  acquaintances  regarded 
him  as  giving  promise  of  future  distinction. 

But  though  so  brief  a  period  had  elapsed  since 
our  college  days,  a  remarkable  reaction  —  to  use 
a  chemical  figure  —  had  taken  place  in  Thoreau, 
due  to  his  frequent  contacts  and  intimate  inter- 
course with  Mr.  Emerson,  beginning  from  the 
very  time  of  his  leaving  college,  and  concerning 
which  I  had  previously  no  knowledge.  Social 
propinquities  have  often  much  to  do  both  in 
moulding  our  characters,  and  in  determining  our 
destinies.  Thoreau's  opportunity  did  not  come 
to  him  in  college ;  it  was  waiting  for  him  in  his 
own  village. 

Not  long  after  the  interview  wilb  Mr.  Emer- 
son above  referred    to,   I    happened   to    meet 


Thoreau  in  Mr.  Emerson's  study  at  Concord. 
I  think  it  was  the  first  time  we  had  come  to- 
gether after  leaving  college.  I  was  quite  start- 
led by  the  transformation  that  had  taken  place 
in  him.  His  short  figure  and  general  cast  (rf 
countenance  were,  of  course,  unchanged ;  but 
in  his  manners,  in  the  tones  and  inflections  oE 
his  voice,  in  his  modes  of  expression,  even  in 
the  hesitations  and  pauses  oE  hit  speech,  he  had 
become  the  counterpart  of  Mr.  Emerson.  Mr. 
Thoreau's  college  <roice  bore  no  resemblance  to 
Mr.  Emerson'i,  and  wa*  so  familiar  to  my  ear, 
that  I  could  readily  have  identified  him  by  it  in 
the  dark-  I  waa  to  much  struck  with  the  change, 
and  with  the  reaemblance  in  the  tetpeeta  re- 
ferred to  bettreen  Mr.  Emerson  and  Mr,  Tho- 
reau, that  I  remember  to  have  taken  the 
opportunity  as  they  sat  near  together,  talking, 
of  listening  to  their  o>nversation  with  closed 
eyes,  and  to  have  been  unable  to  determine  with 
certainly  which  was  speaking.  It  was  a  notable 
instance  of  uncorucious  imitation.  Nevertheless 
it  did  not  surpass  my  comprehension.  I  do  not 
know  to  what  subtle  influences  to  ascribe  it, 
but  after  convening  with  Mr.  Emerson  for  even 
a  brief  lime,  I  always  found  myself  able  and 
inclined  to  adopt  his  voice  and  manner  of  tpeak- 

I  remember  once  meeting  Mr.  Emerson  at  my 
father's  oflSce  and  walking  with  him  to  State 
Street.  I  happened  at  that  lime  to  be  interested 
in  Carlyle,  and  gladly  seiicd  the  opportunity  to 
lead  my  cousin  to  speak  about  him.  I  referred 
to  the  difference  in  the  style  of  composition 
between  Carlyle'a  earlier  and  later  writlnga.  I 
remarked  that  I  thought  hi*  earlier  style  a 
model  of  excellence,  snd  I  asked  Mr.  Emerson 
if  he  could  explain  to  me  under  what  influencea 
or  with  what  motives  Carlyle  had  adopted  the 
unnatural,  and,  at  It  seemed  to  me,  the  affected 
style  of  Sart(tr  Stiartus  and  Tkt  Frtttck  Rev- 
oltuien.  It  did  not  occur  to  me  till  too  late  that 
the  question  had  any  pertooal  bearings,  Mr. 
Emerson's  reply  was  partly  in  the  character  of 
a  parable.  "I  presume,"  he  said,  "that  Mr. 
Carlyle  desires  10  secure  attention.  If  I  had 
something  of  great  importance  to  ssy  to  the 
crowd  that  now  jostles  us,  I  am  sure  I  should 
be  at  my  nitt'  end  to  get  a  hearing.  But  sup- 
pose I  should  plant  a  hogshead  over  there 
against  Scollay'a  building,  and  should  mount 
upon  it  with  ribbons  of  all  the  bright  colors 
streaming  from  my  hat,  and  arms,  and  button- 
holes, do  you  not  think  I  should  be  sure  of  an 


ef" 


In  the  year  1S39 1  was  a  student  in  the  Theo- 
logical Seminary  at  Andorer.  Conducted  by 
the  classes  of  that  insiitulion  it  a  literary  society 
known  as  "The  Porter  Rhetorical  Society."  I 
became  a  member  of  that  society,  and  was  ap- 
pointed to  read  a  paper  before  it.  I  selected  for 
my  aub]ect  the  "  Life  and  Labois  <rf  Gibbon." 

The  following  letter  from  Mr.  Emerson  was 
evidently  written  in  reply  to  one  from  mc,  in- 
forming bim  of  the  duty  assigned  to  mc,  and  of 
the  theme  I  had  chosen  for  my  address.  It  is 
too  stirring  an  appeal  to  young  scholars  not  to 
have  a  wider  application  than  its  writer  gave  it. 

Hji  Dtar  CwiH ;  I  wd  ^ad  lo  bur  rou  hiTi 
ini  uid  uimidsi  1  Uik  u  ■  itaeory  of  Gibban'i  l 
ihinb  a  youn*  Daa  annal  read  bii  aulobiogrvpby  withoat 
bcina  provoked  to  riu  1  little  eariier,  road  1  litUo  lonioj, 
and  dint  a  little  ihorter.  H«  knew  ihiit  ereiT  real  to«d 
BSK  bfl  bofl^l;  and  ihefefors,  allhoogh  a  man  who  had 


ta  keen  ft  fdUb  u  anj  for  literary  teatAy  lod  tbe  comfort 
aai  q>]SDdi]c  whidi  HirTtHind  tba  Eo^iih  sootir,  be  v^ 
took  tiie  BftBly  pan  of  buiihini  hiniHll  to  ■  loady  liaXfa 
on  Ibo  bocden  of  Fnoco  and  SvHuriand,  where  be  led 
■aoDf  bk  book!  ■  Bonk'*  Ufa,  wmpeimtini  taiBHlf  (or 
tbft  ■dnnuCH  ha  bif Dted,  br  the  poop  ol  IbaemiUuid 
imicet  with  wlueh  he  umwodcd  b»  own  und,  the  whole 
Koomn,  ibc  wboli  baitiofUii  worid.  and  the  pcoceaiica  of 
ao  niiDT  icei  ftad  enpina.  Van  ittHinber  Brroo'i  fine 
rene  loluin, CiDtoIlI, Suou  107.  And  I  think  jtmrnva 
edon  70ar  coaay  wilh  tbe  two  atfttclj  pvapmpha  in  which 
he  roaadi  the  conceplian  end  the  candoainii  of  bk  hiuory. 

of  tba  inhabiluila  to  walk  in  the  (irIeii,  "  in  Ihe  covered 
walk  of  acaou."  II  ccomanda  a  new  of  the  Lake  of 
CtBtn. 

I  do  no*  lUnk  there  ia  any  need  lo  puusrrii*  Gibbon, 
norUeaBiaebiifaiiltL  He 
(be  Cftlholic  diorch  for  barii 
ftod  vbea  once  ipada  aahemed  of  bii  easy  convoaw,  h« 
■nii[ad  hbnielf  all  the  net  ol  bb  lila  br  hk  laBcor 
B^Bit  the  aAola  hktocici]  cheidi.  A  wdih  boh  ■  the 
dirt  he  hft*  defiled  hU  ngeea  wilb,  1  cheap  lad  baae  wil,  and 
Dowiae  better  Ib»  thai  whiiA  ecnwli  walla  and  (onca* 
wilb  iu  tffuHonft,  betnTiof  thn»*b  hia  Grack  ftiid  I^o  4 
Esaiae  ftnd  mnlllited  aosl,  dead  to  Ibt  meudaf  of  ofttore, 
ftod  \b  the  nidal  of  what  U  allied  enlMn,  deatirale  ol  tba 

btQ  bud  bb  doe.  and  make  it  fdi 

•he  have  libnrke  is  which  dier  ncvar  road ; 
who  dkidt  Gibbon,  bal  m  nnabla  cren  ts 
dianified  ttodiea,  bia  ericinil  ftulhoriliei,  bk  (teat 
plaa,  Bad  (nal  eaacolloa  of  it.  Oar  jnanc  DeD  md  n- 
TMwa  aod  Bawapapnt,  and  uaoke  ud  aletp.  It  aeo^  to 
OK  that  BToditkon  ii  not  tbe  tendeiKT  of  Ibo  boat  ndnda  of 
Dur  time,  aa  It  waa  of  Cibboa'a,  and  Ibe  foUowiiia  afe.  We 
indioe  to  caat  off  antbority ,  and,  of  coarae,  we  think  iwatead 
of  raadii^.  But  it  at  leait  beborea  tiiooa  wbo  napiifr 
auihoritf  in  ihk  age,  to  read  and  know  wbai  amhDiitj 
teaduB.  Tba  aianple  o(  thia  litarair  ieaoadett  ou^t  ant 
lobeloalontbem. 


hapa,yoa*i1I  waiBiirDur 

md  Iha  Baiiaariua  cbipieim:    tba  duptei 

ConalanEinD^  \  aad  parbape  that  1 


Mb.  David  GaaaMi  HatKmt, 


R.  W.  EHaasoN. 


In  the  subsequent  year*  I  had  fewer  oppor- 
tunities of  seeing  much  of  Mr.  Emerson.  I 
occasionally  obtained  viails  from  him  by  pro- 
curing invitations  to  him  to  lecture  before  tbe 
lycenms  in  the  placet  where  I  resided.  In  this 
way  I  seimred  his  presence  at  my  maniagc,  in 
Portland,  in  1841;  likewise,  in  1851,  at  my  home 
in  Medford,  when  I  was  the  rector  of  Grace 
Church  in  that  town.  On  this  last  occasion  I 
remember  that  tome  of  my  people  expreased 
their  surprise  thai  I  should  invite  Mr.  Emerton 
to  lecture,  because  tbey  "had  supposed  he  did 
not  believe  in  God."  I  was  probably  more  sno- 
cessful  ia  allaying  their  feara  than  Mr.  Emerson 
himself  would  have  been.  Conversing  with  him 
at  the  tea-table  previous  to  the  lecture,  I  told 
bim  of  the  objection  that  had  beea  made,  and 
how  I  met  it,  which  I  now  forget.  I  then  said 
lo  him,  in  effect ;  Now,  cousin  Waldo,  I  think 
I  am  entitled  to  ask  what  you  would  have 
answered,  if  the  inqm'ry  bad  been  made  of  yon, 
"  Do  you  believe  in  God  i  "  Hia  reply,  though 
quaintly  worded,  was  nevertheless  very  gravely 
and  reverently  made  :  "  When  I  speak  of  God, 
I  prefer  to  say  It  —  IL"  I  confess  that  I  was, 
at  first,  startled  by  this  antwer  j  but  aa  he  ex- 
plained his  viewt,  in  the  conversation  which  fol- 
lowed, I  could  discover  no  difference  between 
them  and  the  commonly  accepted  doctrine  at 
God'i  omnipresence.  Conversing  lately  irith  my 
good  friend  and  neighbor,  the  Reverend  Dr. 
A.  P.  Pcabody,  concerning  Mr.  EmerMo,  I  i«- 


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THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


299 


marked  that  I  thought  hit  puthcUm  wu  of  the 
beat  kind.  "  I  do  not  call  it  famtAtiim,"  Mud 
Dr.  Peabody,  "I  call  it  kyptrthcitm.'* 

ISj  mind  often  recurs  with  laterest  to  one 
occauon,  when  happening  to  meet  Ur.  Emenon 
in  Boston,  I  lunched  with  him,  bj  inritatioo, 
at  the  American  Home,  in  Hanover  Street.  I 
am  analile  either  to  Bx  definitely  the  date  ot  Ihii 
occaaion,  or  to  report  accaratelf,  if  at  all,  the 
converaatton  tlut  »u  bad.  I  onlf  remember 
that  on  that  day  be  had  learned  of  Miaa  Har- 
tineau's  change  of  viewa,  and  her  adoption  of 
the  diimal  phitosophj  of  Materialism,  and  that 
I  felt  oppreaaed  bj  the  dejection  of  Mr.  Emer- 
aon's  apiriti  and  the  ladneu  of  his  conntenance. 
The  one  saw  God  nowhere,  the  other  saw  God 
everywhere.  This  i*  my  inpreMion  of  the  ex- 
planation he  gave  me  of  hi*  dejectednes*. 

At  no  period  after  the  early  days  of  Mr. 
Emenon's  reiidence  in  Roxbury,  waa  it  my 
privilege  to  live  in  near  neighborhood  to  him. 
Even  after  moving  to  Cambridge,  I  seldom  met 
him  except  on  the  college  Commencements,  and 
in  rare  viaits  in  company  with  tome  members 
of  my  family  to  hit  hooae.  But  I  never  lost  my 
Inherited  admiration  of  his  character,  or  my  early 
love  (rf  the  man. 

The  last  time  he  was  at  my  house  was  in  1877. 
The  General  Convention  of  the  Episcopal  Church 
met  that  year  in  Boston.  I  had  invited  the 
Bishops  who  were  Tmstees  of  the  University 
of  the  South  to  paai  an  evening  at  my  haute, 
and  Mr.  Emerson  and  one  or  two  other  special 
gnetta  were  asked  to  meet  them.  Mr.  Emerson 
came  and  staid  over  night  irith  me.  He  was  In 
excellent  tpiiits.  The  Bishi^  were  much  In- 
tercsled  in  converting  with  him.  Several  of 
them  afterwards  said  to  me  that  their  meeting 
with  Mr.  Emerson  was  the  most  gratifying  inci- 
dent of  their  visit  to  Botton.  The  next  morning, 
JnvttlDg  my  consin  into  my  study,  I  called  hit 
attention  to  the  portrait!  of  our  grandparenta, 
referred  to  In  the  beginning  of  this  paper.  It 
was  interesting  to  observe  the  pleasure  expressed 
in  hit  conntenance  at  be  atood  before  them,  and 
to  listen  to  some  of  his  childhood's  memories 
of  the  "  good  grandfather  and  grandmother,"  of 
neither  of  whom  I  had  any  recotlecdon,  the 
(onuer,  indeed,  having  died  before  I  was  bom, 
"  How  well,"  be  said,  "  I  remember  the  good  old 
man  calling  me  to  him  and  asking,  '  Do  yon  go 
to  school,  my  son?'  —  and  when  I  replied  that 
I  did,  his  pMtii^  my  bead,  and  saying,  'That's 
clever,  that'a  clever.'" 

What  I  have  taid  above  of  the  appearance 
and  character  of  my  grandparents,  accords  with 
the  description  and  recollectiont  of  them  which 
Hr.  Emerson  gave  me  at  this  time. 

I  was  present  at  Mr.  Emerson's  funeral ;  but 
took  no  public  part  in  the  services. 

The  Reverend  Dr.  Haskins,  who  read  al 
grave  a  portion  of  the  Episcopal  Order  for  the 
Burial  of  the  Dead,  and  who  pronounced  the 
final    benediction,  waa   the    Reverend    Samuel 
Moody   Haskini,  D.D.,  the  writer  of  the  note 
concerning  Hrs.  Emerson  above  quoted,  now 
the  forty-tcventh  year  <^  hit  rectorate  of  SainI 
Mark's  Church,   Brooklyn,  L.  1.      He  wu 
coDsio  of  Mr.  Emerson  on  his  mother's  side 
well  u  on  hit  father's,  his  father,  Mr.  Robert 
Hukint,  having  married  a  titter  of  the  Rever- 
end   William    Emeraon,  the   father    of   Ralph 
Waldo.      Dr.   Haskina   informed   me   that    the 
Prayer  Book  which  he  used  upon  this  occwon 


ne  that  had  been  pretented  to  Mr.  Emu-- 
son's  mother  by  her  father,  John  Matkins,  in 
1783.  He  alto  told  me  that  upon  repeating  the 
wordt  "  We  therefore  commit  bit  body  to 
the  ground,  earth  to  earth,  ashes  lo  ashes,  dost 
dnst,"  he  threw  upon  the  lowered  cc^n  some 
ashes  which  he  had  collected  and  brought  to 
the  grave  from  Mr.  Emerton'i  study  fire-place, 

lingled  with  sand  and  dust  taken  from  the 
walk  in  front  of  hit  houte. 

With  this  brief  reference  to  Mr.  Emerson's 
funeral,  my  reminiscences  of  him  which  have 
any  general  interest  come  to  an  end.  Though 
they  are  few  and  inconsequential,  still  aa  con- 
nected with  the  life  of  so  rare  a  man,  I  trust  that 
they  will  not  be  thought  too  trivial  lo  be  re- 
in the  face  of  an  often  quoted  aphorism  of 
Mr.  Emerson  —  "Great  geniuses  have  the  short- 
est tuographfe* ;  their  cmuiiti  cam  till  you  utlhing 

■Hitm"—h  can  hardly  be  expected  that  I 
should  attempt  any  formai  characteriiation  of 
Besides,  I  am  far  from  deeming  myself 
qualified  for  the  undertaking.    The   objection, 

ver,  does  not  apply  with  equal   force  to 
giving  briefly  my  imprestions  of  the  man,  which, 
fact,  is  all  that  the  fitness  tA  things  reqoires  in 
bringing  this  paper  to  a  dose. 
Coiuldering  my  early  knowledge  of  Hr.  Emer- 
in,  it  it  by  no  meant  strange  that  I  should 
iver  have  experienced  the  difficulty  which  many 
id  in  acconntjng  for  much  that  appears  abnor. 
al    in   his   character    and  wridngi.     He  was 
endowed  by  nature,  in  a  remarkable  degree,  with 
the  faculty  of  spiritual  discernment     His  train- 
ing and  education  and  general  surroundings,  alto, 
tended   almost  exclusively  io  develop  the  spir- 
itual side  of  bit  nature.    Hia  mind  waa  thos  pre- 

ised  to  subjectivity,  and  to  concern  itaelf 
with  the  ipirltual,  rather  tlian  with  the  outward, 
the  historical,  and  objective  relationt  of  what- 

engaged  hit  attention.    Even  the  predomi- 
nating faith  of   New  England,  in  which  he  had 
been  nurtured,  and  of  which  hit  fathers  for  gen- 
lOns  had  been  among  the  ablest  advocates, 

itself  based  upon  a  protest  against  formal- 
This  was  the  toarce  of  much  of  its 
ttrength  as  well  as  i^  much  of  ita  weakneaa. 
Puritanism  unquestionably  had  its  providential 
uses  in  its  day.  Mr.  Emerson  was  a  child  of 
Fotitanlsm.  But  in  his  strivings  after  a  spiritual 
life,  he  came  early  to  feel  that,  for  himaelf,  all 
forms,  even  those  connected  with  the  celebration 
of  the  Lord'a  Supper,  which  Puritanism  itaelf 
held  sacred,  were  unnecessary — a  hindrance  and 
not  a  help  to  worahip — and  he  ceased  to  observe 
them.  In  his  own  words,  "  Sacrifice  was  smoke, 
and  forms  were  shadows."  Nevertheless  that 
abounding  faith  in  God,  which  was  the  gloiy  of 
the  old  Puritans,  had  atrock  deep  toot  in  his 
heart,  and  his  spiritualistic  sentiments  naturally 
entwined  themselves  around  it. 

I  ant  not  aware  of  any  material  change  in  my 
estimate  of  Hr.  Emerson's  character  from  the 
dme  of  my  earliest  acquaintance  with  liiin. 
It  it  possible,  however,  that  my  judgment  of 
him  may  be,  in  some  degree,  nnconsdoosly 
tinged  by  my  recollections  of  the  lovely  qnal- 
itiei  of  hit  mother,  from  whom  it  alwayt 
seemed  to  me  he  inlieriled  many  of  his  m 
striking  traita.  If  T  were  asked  (o  express 
the  fewest  wordt  what  it  was  in  Hr.  Emerson 
that  most  impressed  me,  I  should  anawer  without 
hewtation,  his  reverent  faith  in  God;   hi*  pure 


Ordinarily,  the  conversation 
devout  men  consiati  with  the  idea  that 
God  is  far  away  from  us,  governing  the  universe 
from  his  throne  in  the  distant  heavens.  Whereat 
Intercourse  with  Mr.  Emerson  produced  the 
direct  reverse  of  this  impression.  For  his  dis- 
cemii^  of  God  were  like  those  of  the  Psalmist 
of  Itrael  1  "  Thou  compoiitest  my  path  and  my 
lying  down,  and  art  acquainted  with  all  my 
ways,  .  .  .  Whither  shall  I  go  from  thy  spirit? 
or  whither  shall  I  flee  from  thy  presence?" 
Everything  that  went  to  moke  up  Hr.  Emerson's 
individoalitygave  unmistakable  assurance  of  this. 
It  waa  impottifale  to  hold  converte  with  him— I 
might  almost  say  to  hear  the  tones  of  hit  voice, 
or  to  mark  the  expression  of  his  countenance, 
without  perceiving  that  spiritual  thingi  were 
verities  to  him,  and  the  near  pretence  of  the 
Infinite  One  a  reality.  It  was  the  same  convic- 
tion of  the  same  truth  that  Saint  Paul  declared 
from  Mar*  Hill  lo  the  men  of  Athens,  "  God  it 
not  far  from  every  one  of  ds  ;  for  io  Him  wc 
live  and  move  and  have  our  being."  With  this 
profound  tense  of  the  divine  omnipresence,  Hr. 
Emerson  seemed  to  walk  through  this  earthly  life 
with  the  wondering  tread  and  rapt  mien  of  one 
who  had  been  permitted  lo  enter  into  the  street* 
of  the  Heavenly  Jerusalem  ;  looking  on  either 
with  reverent  curiosity;  recognizing  the 
divine  image  even  in  the  humblest  of  ita  indwel- 
lert,  and  thoughtfully  scrutiniiing  every  object 
in  Ms  way  with  the  purpose  of  learning  whaS  be 
cootd  of  its  relations  and  uses  in  the  divine  econ- 

It  i*  impowible  that  the  life  of  such  a  man 
should  not  be  pure  and  blameless.  It  is  impor- 
tant, also,  for  the  moral  uses  of  such  a  life,  that 
the  tme  source  of  it*  inspiration  should  be  known 
of  all.  _ 

lOirOB  50TiaE& 

Bittigluim.  [Funk  &  Wagnallt.  50c] 
It  is  a  pity  thai  thia  extremely  clever  and  effect- 
ive sketch  in  historic  prophecy  hag  not  a  more 
suggestive  and  less  unintelligible  title ;  though  the 
dlle,  with  the  lurid  cover  of  the  book,  will  cer- 
tainly provoke  curiosity,  and  the  curiosity  will 
be  repaid.    The  book  purports  lo  be  a  course  of 

three  lectures  delivered   in   Denver  in   1932 

mark  the  dale — on  the  momentous  events  of 
1890  and  following  years  —  mark  the  date  again 
—  which  revolutionised  human  society,  and 
changed  the  map  of  the  globe.  In  iSSg,  it 
teems,  a  German  citizen  of  the  United  States, 
Reinhardt  by  name,  returning  for  a  visit  to  hi* 
native  land,  wa*  arrested  as  a  deserter  A'om  the 
German  army,  and  pending  the  negotiation*  for 
hit  release  was  shot  dead  with  his  passport  in 
his  hand.  Up  to  ibii  time  there  had  not  been  a 
cloud  on  the  international  horiion.  In  an  hour 
the  American  sky  wat  black  with  the  rising 
ttorm.  Arbitration  was  proposed  and  under- 
taken, but  in  vain  t  aiui  to  moke  a  long  story 
short  a  general  war  was  the  result  on  Continen- 
tal soil  in  which  Germany  found  hertclf  pitted, 
so  to  speak,  against  the  world.  The  determining 
battle  of  this  unparalleled  campaign  was  fought 
at  Bietigheim,  a  town  in  Wurtemburg,  near  Slnlt- 
garl,  in  February,  1891,  in  which  a  million  and  a 
half  of  men  were  engaged.  Germany  was  de- 
feated. France  got  her  revenge.and  all  the  allies 
co3perating  an  enormous  indemnity.  The  map 
tA  Europe  wa*  recmi*ttucted,  and  the  cemDry 


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THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Sept.  4, 


doaed  upon  the  nuiterial*  lot  a  new  political  de- 
partare.  When  the  neit  ceiilui?  came  in,  it 
Eound  a  remarkable  agitator,  EmuuDDel  Win- 
terhoff,  at  work  uader  conditioni  which  rapldljr 
developed  him  into  a  reformer  ud  aodaliatic 
leader  of  the  first  class ;  and  under  hii  powetf  nl 
and  magnetic  influence  a  Univertal  Kepublic  wm 
proclaimed,  into  which  all  the  State*  of  Europe 
entered  one  by  one,  and  the  world  wal  filled  with 
peace.  Thii  antidpaiory  history  is  told  with  the 
veiisimilitude  of  the  calmest  tact,  with  nupi 
oE  ihe  battle  grounds,  a  portrait  of  WlnterhoEE, 
Mackay- Bennett  cablegrams  to  the  New  York 
Htndd,  and  every  circumataoliality  of  truth; 
and  sounds  so  real  that  parts  of  it  are  abso- 
lutely thrilling.  For  a  piece  of  writing  after  the 
manner  of  "The  Battle  of  Dorking,"  it  is  mas- 
terly, with  a  far  bolder  flight  of  the  imaginatton, 
and  actuated  by  a  Car  nobler  dream.  If  the  pub- 
lic find  this  book  out,  it  will  have  a  great  run. 


The  fortitude  of  undcrtakii^  the  preparation 
of  this  Dictionary  ef  EngliiA  Biography  and  the 
courage  of  publishing  it  became  more  and  more 
imprettive  as  the  work  proceed*.  Here  is  the 
seventh  volume,  and  the  third  letter  of  the  alpha- 
bet not  yet  reached,  though  it  il  In  sight.  For 
this  stow  progress  the  large  family  of  Browns 
ate  in  part  responsible,  requiring  as  tbey  do 
nearly  So  pages  of  the  present  volume.  A  large 
and  respectable  family  they  are,  with  the  several 
Dr  John  Brownt,  Oliver  Hadox  Brown,  the 
Thomas  Brownes,  Sir  Thomas  Browne,  and  Rob- 
ert Browne  for  leaders.  Of  Sir  Thomas  there  is 
a  pleasing  account  of  some  seven  pages.  So  of 
Mrs.  Browning,  giving  her  birth-date,  the  first 
time  we  have  seen  it  staled,  March  6^  1S09.  The 
account  of  David  Bruce  is  eqoally  full,  and  that 
of  Robert  Brace  longer  still.  Turning  the  pages 
wc  strike  such  eminent  names  as  the  Brunels, 
engineers,  Martin  Bucer,  the  proiettani  divine  of 
the  i6lh  century,  nameroot  Buchanans,  Buck- 
land  and  Buckle,  Bulwer,  Bunyan — the  sketch 
of  whom  is  an  extended  one,  Burckhardt,  Ihe 
traveler  in  the  East,  the  Burgesses  and  Burghs, 
of  whom  there  are  a  good  nnmber,  Burgoyne, 
the  soldier  in  the  Revolalion,  Edmund  Burke, 
whom  no  fewer  than  10  pages  are  given.  Bishop 
Burnet  who  has  nearly  u  pages,  and  Robert 
Burns,  who  baa  nearly  13.  If  the  patience  of 
editor,  contributors,  and  publisher*  hold  oat, 
this  work  when  finished  will  be  moflumental. 
There  are  no  signs  a*  it  proceed*  of  deteriora- 
tion either  in  plan  or  workmanship ;  and  the 
latter,  both  literary  and  mechanical,  is  of  a  high 
order  of  excellence. 


The  excellent  character  of  the  Portland  Trvn- 
uript,  one  of  the  best  of  American  weekly  family 
papers.  Is  to  be  foaiKl  in  tbi*  collection  of  ten 
miscellaneous  papers  by  its  editor,  Mr.  E.  H. 
Elwell.  Their  subjects,  as  well  as  their  scope, 
lake  them  outside  ordinary  newspaper  use  ;  they 
show  a  busy  editor  in  his  hours  of  leiauic, 
engaged  with  outside  themes  which  have 
enlisted  his  sympathy,  his  study,  or  hi*  personal 
acquaintance,  and  to  the  treatment  of  which  he 
brings  an  educated  judgment  and  a  trained  hand. 
"  What  we  Stumbled   upon  One   Day  in   Flor- 


"  is  a  pleasant  reminiscence  of  foreign 
travel.  "  The  Building  of  the  House  "  draws  00 
both  the  theoretical  and  Ihe  practical  for  It* 
counsel*  to  young  founder*  of  a  home.  "Ho- 
mor*  of  Dialect"  and  "Conversation"  are  in  a 
vein  of  literary  anecdote.  "  Dream*  "  b  a  scien- 
tific essay  touched  with  fancy  and  sentiment. 
The  "  Discovery  of  Ihe  Mississippi  "  is  a  vivid 
historical  narrative.  In  "The  White  Mount- 
ains "  and  "  The  Aborigine*  of  Maine "  we 
have  description,  and  in  "  The  I>urilan  Sermon  " 
a  quaint  picture  of  old  New  England  ministerial 
life.  A  full  mind,  a  gift  of  illustration,  a  digni- 
fied but  unassuming  style,  and  a  tinge  of  humor 
make  these  papers  uncommonly  good  reading  of 
their  kind. 

OTTSSEVT  LTTBTtATTTB^n 

Something  of  a  curiosity,  certainly,  is  Shosake 
Sato's  monograph  Hiitny  sfthi  Land  Qurilien  in 
Iki  UniUdStatu.  published  as  No.  VII— IX  in 
the  Fourth  Series  of  "Johns  Hopkins  University 
Series."  It  makes  a  pamphlet  of  iSl  pages.  Mr. 
Sato  is  a  Special  Commissioner  of  Ihe  Colonial 
Department  of  Japan,  and  the  outcome  of  this 
thoroughly  studied  essay  is  *  strong  argument 
against  land  monopoliea  and  Urge  land  owner- 
ships by  syndicates  and  corporation*.  As  a  tract 
for  Knights  of  Labor  to  circulate  it  would  be  an 
effective  one,  though  rather  ponderousl 

The  merit*  of  a  new  two-volume  edition  of 
Thackeray's  Vaiuty  Fair,  from  Smith,  Elder  & 
Co.  of  London,  are  its  convenient  siie — a  wx- 
leenmo,  excellent  paper,  rough  edges,  clear 
type,  an  exceedingly  tasteful  binding  of  red  linen 
backs  and  dark  mottled-paper  sides,  a  tinted 
wood-cut  frontispiece  portrait  of  Ihe  anthor,  and 
the  low  price.  The  single  demerit  is  that  the 
type  is  possibly  a  little  too  small.  But  it  is  sel- 
dom that  prettier  books  than  these  arc  seen. 
The  eye  fastens  on  them  at  once  with  pleasure. 
[Soc.  each.] 

It  is  a  pleasure  also  to  receive  a  Leipsic  edition 
of  Mrs.  Jackson's  RamaHa,  translated  int( 
German  by  Miss  Denio,  the  Professor  of  that 
language  in  Wellesley  College.  The  book  is 
printed  in  the  German  text,  and  bound  rather 
tawdrily  in  gill,  silver,  black,  and  red.  It  is  cer- 
tainly a  good  lift  for  American  letters  that  this 
fine  rtory  should  have  had  so  competent  an  i 
ductiou  to  Continental  readers.    [Georg  Bolime.] 

The  contents  of  the  third  volume  of  Mr.  John 
Morley's  Mitctllaniei  in  the  new  globe  edition  of 
his  works,  are  ten  essays  or  reviews :  one  geit- 
eral,  on  "Popular  Culture  \"  two  historical,  on 
"  France  in  the  Eighteenth  Century  "  and  the 
"Expansion  of  England,"  the  latter  of  which 
joins  00  to  Mr.  Freeman's  book  soon  to  be  re- 
ferred to ;  the  other*  personal  and  critical  on 
Mill,  George  Eliot,  Mark  Patlison,  Harriet  Mar. 
tineau,  Mr.  Greg,  and  Comte.  Those  on  Mill 
and  Comte  strike  us  as  the  moat  important  of 
the  set,  perhaps  because  of  the  author's  deepei 
sympathetic  interest  in  those  subjects.  But  the 
reader  will  find  in  Mr.  Morley  a  very  just  ap- 
praiser of  all  these  six  celebrities  of  the  first  and 
second  rank.     [Macroillan  &  Co.    (i-ja] 

Eciinomics  /or  Ihe  PiopU,  by  R.  R.  Bowker,  ii 
one  of  Ihe  best  epitomes  of  political   economy 
that  we  have  seen.     It  is  compactly  written,  1 
prehensive,  sound  and   conservative,  and  more 
readable   than   most  books  of    its  dasa. 
young  student,  or  the  man  of  little  leisure,  will 


from  it  a  better  insight  into  Ihe  general 
principles  of  economics  than  from  many  a  book 
of  much  greater  pretentions.    [Harper  &  Broth- 

s.    7S  cents.] 

Univtrtt  Lam,  by  Lewis  H.  Blair,  is  a  rehash 
some  of  the  argument*  against  protection. 

lie  writer  make*  singular  use  of  all  bis  mate- 
rials— facts,  logic,  and  English.  Hi*  book  i*  cer- 
tainly not  at  all  the  thing  for  the  "  plain,  sensible 
people"  for  whom  il  was  intended,  and  those 
who  are  acquainted  with  the  subject  will  find 
nothing  in  it  either  new  or  valuable.  [G.  P-  Put- 
nam's Sons.] 

THE  FEBIODIOAIA. 

Mr.  Edward  Duffy  in  the  BraoklyH  Magatini 
paint*  a  sorrowful  picture  of  the  poet  John  G. 
Saze,  as  be  now  lives  in  loneliness  and  despond- 
ency in  an  apartment  of  a  brown  stone  hoose  on 
State  Street  in  Albany,  Me  Is  *eventy  yean 
old,  ailver-haired,  bent,  emaciated,  and  infirm. 
Hit  once  splendid  physical  manhood  is  a  ruin. 
He  shuns  Ihe  public  gaie,  and  receives  no 
acquaintances,  scarcely  even  a  friend.  He  avoids 
the  daily  papers  because  of  their  details  of  crime 
and  caanalty.  He  reads  little  of  his  old  favor- 
ites, Hawthorne,  Dickens,  and  Thackeray; 
though  the  name  of  Longfellow  is  often  on  hi* 
lip*.  Hi*  wife  and  children  arc  gone.  Hi* 
most  cherished  souvenir  of  the  past,  perhaps,  is 
a  small  portrait  of  Thomas  Hood  which  hangs 
upon  his  wall.  All  this  wreck  of  his  former 
•df  is  traced  to  a  nervous  shock  received  in  a 
frightful  railway  acddent  at  the  West  in  1875. 

We  have  received  the  July  number  of  The 
Heretie,  a  new  English  magazine,  not  only  con- 
spicuous by  its  audadous  name,  but  also  resplen- 
dent with  the  brilliant  colors  of  the  "union 
jack "  streaming  defiantly  upon  its  cover.  It, 
however,  we  may  judge  by  this  number,  the  mag- 
aiine  is  not  at  all  eilreme;  having  bat  little  of 
religion  or  politic*  and  that  of  rather  mild  son, 
and  devoting  most  of  its  space  to  topics  usual  in 
monthlies,  snch  as  art,  horticulture,  and  fiction  — 
the  last  largely  of  the  fandful  and  even  of  the 
fairy-tale  style  of  literature.    [London.] 


S0TE8  Ami  QnERIES. 

UBiinicuioiii  lor  Ihi*  deparUDftnL  of  the  LiUrmry 
1  HCwa  UMntion,  nau  t*  iccanpiDieil  br  Ihi 
■nd  sddriHof  Uie  lulfaor;  ud  IhoM  which  r«]u* 
topLca  of  fcnvsl  inlcrctl  will  tnhfl  prvadfliict  in 


799-  Books  on  Electricity.  We  have  a  call 
for  books  on  electridty,  telephone,  telegraph, 
electric  lights,  etc,  etc  They  must  be  popular 
rather  than  deeply  sdentific  Vou  would  confer 
a  favor  could  you  pobliah  a  short  list  of  recent 
publications  of  this  kind.  Windsor. 

Windsor.  Vt. 


■11  thai  !■  sMded  od  tbi)  lubject,  but  wa  add  1  faw  oihu 
titlw 

Bula,  J.    Watdmrn/EUitritUf.      (In  lUiuiraiW  Li- 
brsrv  of  Wonden.)    [Scribner.    Ii.^l 

BrcDDU,  HartlD  S.    A  PtfHUr  BiptiitimtfBlttlrit- 
ay.    fAppklDD.    iS8{.    7se.] 

Giur,  Heaiy,  (diut.    Xianl  Wtmitri  n  RUctricHf, 
BlicirieLitlitiMt,t\t..   [Nn>  York :  Aftot  CoUc*e  of  El*»  ~ 
Uisil  EDpncding.     Ii.oo.) 

Hoqilalkr,  B.    The  Mtdtrm  A^UcatMm  «'  SitHHf 
Uf.    [Apiiluaa.    lUa.    U-S>-1 


1886.] 


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HouMan,  E.  J.  Primtr  ^ EUctrltUf.  IPhDultlphUl 
EUndgi  ft  Son  n.     1BS4.] 

MunnU,  J.  C.  KUmnttrj  Trmtar.  [UkdDUd. 
>Ui.    (.,90.] 

llDBra,  J.  SUdrliitrmi^iUUm.  [Laadem  Rb]«- 
ioia  Tnct  Sodcty.     iSSj.    31.  U.] 

Spncue,  J.  T.  Slidritily :  lit  TJUtrj,  Stmrta,  mnd 
A^icalinu.    [London:  Spon.     iS;).    ti.oa.] 

''Written  chiedy  (or  Ihmt  lirgo  uid  incMdof  du  of 
tlnnklnc  people  who  find  plcamre  in  ■oeDce." 

Tyndlle,  J.    L4unu  in  EUeMeay.    [Applaton.     1I77. 

OC  theee  puhipt  HnpluHer  (ad  Spncae  %n  tog  tcien- 


lj.00.1 

Dd  Uoncd,  T.  A.  L.,  c»a^.  Elttrie  LirUiKe-  Tnu. 
by  K.  Roulledie.    [London  i  C.  Raelledn-    ini.   »,  6^.] 

FonOtBe,  H.  EUiMe  Lit^imf.  Tiuu.  by  Flfet 
Hitn-    (London :  Span.  iSA    fo^).] 

Ooidon,  J.  £.  H.  .4  Prilkat  Trtatim  m  Slielric 
LirUit^.    [Applelon.     1SB4.    t4.io.] 

Munniond,  R.  Tlu  Eltdrit  LifU  in  Otu-  Htma. 
WllhilluslniionondpholcicnplH.    [WonbiDgtoo.     1)84. 

HodEce,  K.  Uttfml  Im/armmtum  «■  Ebttrit  LifUhtg. 
[Span.    i3S4.    400.] 

Hlai,  Fifcl.  TIh  SUetrieal  LitU  6>  ^  Prmctitmt 
AffHaUiu..    [Spon.     1879.    d-so.] 

"  Abel ni«e  dUcuHion  ha*  been  arefidly  avoidod." 

Sawyer,  W.  E.    Eltclric  LigUmf  h  ImtmnJtm 


(Vu  NoMni 

SdMllinc,  N.   H.     Tii  Pr, 
LiflHiHe.    ICupple*,  Vf>aa. 

Swinton,  A.  A.  C    FHmHfiti  tnd  FrtHla  ^  EUttrk 
Ligkimg.     [Vin  NcKlnnd.     1)84.     fi.io.] 

Urtguhitt,  J.  W.    £&clnr  Lifklbie.    In  prodnctioB 
■nd  nse.     Ed.  b;  F.  C  Webb.    [Londm:   C.  Lockwood. 

.880.   ^..bd-^ 


CuUey,  R.  S.  Hmiuat^  ^  PntHeiU  TOirra^. 
[LontmuL     ifri.] 

Lockwood,  Th.  D.  EUttritUf,  MUgntltm,  «^  EUc- 
Irieai  T^rratkf.    A  pnctki]  glide.  [Vu  NouruuL 

1881.     fl.jD.] 

Lynd,  Wm.     Tin  Prtllcml  TAirafkiii.    [London.' 


Wyni 


J.  6^] 


a.    1874.] 


oiichooli.    [NewYorl 

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pittoo.     1876,    (i.ja] 

nreaeoti,  G.  B.  ElteMtUt  mmd  On  Ebttrit  TAermfk. 
6th  ed.  Willi  67Dl)laMntioH.  [Appletoo.  itSj.  i  tiJl 
»S~.] 

Reid.J.  D.  ThtTibgrmtkiitAmmem.  [Hew  York: 
D«fa)P  Broa.    1879.    t&Do.] 

HiRorially  Irnled, 

Sdilni,  R.     TIh  Elntrie  TtUgrntk.    [Vu  NoMnnd. 

Ten,  W.  Ptil*  »ttd  TaUgrMfii,  Fmii  mxd  Pmna. 
[LondoB:  W.  TctI  A  Co.     187B.    m.\ 

Cnlley'i,  Lockwonl'i  and  Frucoll'i  waAi  an  nen 
•denli&e  thin  Ibe  other*.  PraKotl*!  boolu  an  to  be  ree- 
oomgndsd.  Sibini'i  dun  laper  In  Benn'i  eiaDenl 
BrUiMk  ImdHilriH  [Vol.  id]  u  good.  Then  ii  ■  lack  of  1 
eaniceaUe  muoal  for  popular  nac  on  Ibe  MleKi^>h. 


AIIAtttI  Iht  TtUfktmmnJ  Fktnttrt^  [London; 
WiKd,  Locke  A  Cd.     t8}8.     ij.) 

Dolbeir,  A.  E.  Tlu  TthfJum.  With  dinctiou  fai 
making.    [Lee  &  Shepard.     1&77.    75  cti.] 

Du  Umcd,  T.  A.  L.,  ttmlt.  T»d  Ttbf*fm,  tlu 
MicrfttM,    amd    au     P/umagrt^.       [Harper.       1879. 

Gamer,  S.     T*i  7Wr>«Mf.    With  inUnclioni. 
dooi  SinpUih  ManbaJl  ft  Co.     187I.     ii.I 

Udiwaod.  T.  D.  Pnclkml  In/trmtitn  frr  Tilt. 
fkrmhU.    NtwYork:  W.  J.  Johniton.     188a.    fi.oo.] 

PreecotI,  G.  B.  BtlTi  BItctrit  SfaUmf  TOifktu. 
lAmileloD.     .8*4-    |4.«>.l 

Thii  author  hH  al»  wiiltea  an  tarXer  and  welU 
knowB  booki  T%t  St—hmg  TtUflUM,  BUttHe  Ligki, 
mudOOtr  EIt€Mcal  tw»tmtitm$.  (ApiilatoiL  1879.^4^1.1 


Du  Uonotl  and  PrenoR  treat  (he  eo^acl  KtantiBcally. 

b.  J.  Girbii'i  papet*  on  "The  Telephone"  and  "  Edl- 

•on'i  Speaking  Phooagnph"  ia  Hmif-Hnr  SttnMlitmt 

Pifmltr  Stina,   id  leriea   [EBei  ft  Lanriat],  are 


TABLE    TAIX 

. . .  Mn.  Helen  Mm  Bean,  author  of  Th* 
Widw  Wyii,  h>E  two  other  qotcU  In  prepira 

. . .  Miss  Haiy  Tucker  Migill,  lecturer  uid  elo- 
cationist,  intl  the  author  o(  the  Southern  storf^ 
Tkt  H^cemhtj,  is  supplementing  her  HUtny  ef 
Virginia,  which  has  been  in  uM  in  the  South 
the  last  thirteen  years,  so  as  to  bring  it  to  dale. 

.  . .  Ballard  Smith,  managing  editor  of  the  New 
York  JItraid,  is  said  to  command  a  (alary  of 
twelre  Ihooaand  dollar*  a  year. 

.  Mr.  Will  Montgomery  Clemens  (named  for 
his  poetical  ancestor,  Jamei  Montgomery)  ii  at 
Jamesloum,  N.  Y.,  ei^aged  upon  a  biography  of 
Mark  Twain  ;  he  has  three  books  ready  for  the 
press,  tui. .-  T/u  Li/i  and  Times  ofjekn  Breaib 
Tit  Ntmetis  ef  Passien  (a  nOTel],  and  LiUrary 
Siertls,  all  to  appear  soon. 

.  Mn.  Cartdine  Howard  GMman,  widow  of 
the  Rev.  Dr.  Samnei  Gilman,  and  In  earlier  life 
a  leading  magazine  editor  and  a  writer  of  books, 
sojourning  in  Boston;  she  resides  in  Washing- 
ton, D.  C,  and  is  ninety-two  years  old. 

.  We  are  to  have  another  novel  on  the  prob. 
lem  of  woman's  place,  Ihii  time  an  ideal  treat- 
ment, from  a  new  book-wrller.  Miss  Eliiabeth 
Porter  Gould  of  Chelsen,  Masa.,  one  of  the  most 
couKienlioo*  of  later  literariina.  The  book  will 
be  ready  for  publication  soon. 

.  Mr.  John  Lewis  Peyton  has  in  hand  a  work 
on  France,  social,  literary,  and  political,  covering 
the  period  from  17S9  to  the  death  of  Napoleon 
III. 

. . .  Hiss  Charlotte  Fiake  Bates,  who  knew  the 
late  Paul  H.  Hayne,  says,  truly,  that  "his  Chris- 
tianity was  as  great  a*  hit  geniDS." 

. . .  Miss  Uda  A.  CbuTChilt,  who^  atory  of 
Afy  Girh  waa  well  received,  hai  another,  entitled 
IitUmtavingi,  leady  for  issne  ;  she  is  alio  pre- 
paring a  txwk  with  the  title  of  A  Raid  fn  New 

. . .  Mrs.  Mary  D.  Biine,  author  of  many  books 
for  the  young,  has  in  press  a  volume  of  poems, 
to  be  known  as  J^nrm  CM  ta  Gray.  It  is  In- 
tended for  adult  readers. 

...  Mr.  Edward*  Roberta,  who  has  lately  is- 
sued SoMia  Bariara  and  Around  Titre,  was  mar- 
ried at  Santa  Barbara,  July  18th,  to  Miss  Bea- 
trice Fernald  of  that  ciiy.  Mr.  Roberts  has  had 
a  busy  career  both  as  writer  and  traveler.  He  ii 
a  native  of  Andover,  Mass,  where  he  waa  born 
in  18J5.  After  graduating  at  Harvard  in  the 
class  of  ^6,  he  paid  an  eight-months'  visit  to 
Europe,  then  went  to  the  Shetland  Islands,  then 
to  Italy,  Germany,  and  France ;  neat  (in  1878) 
10  Old  Meaico  as  correspondent  of  the  Boston 
JItraid,  and  to  make  a  report  of  that  country  for 
the  Boston  Board  of  Trade ;  in  18S0  made  an  ex- 
tended journey  through  the  Southern  States  j  in 
the  following  year  went  to  Colorado;  haa  since 
visited  every  State  and  Territory  in  the  Union  ; 
revisited  Mexico,  and  visited  Alaska.  In  1876 
he  was  literary  editor  of  the  Boston  Weekly 
Glott ;  in  18S1  manning  editor  of  the  Colorado 
Springs  (Col.)  Gom/i^;  and  later  was  correspond- 
ent of  daily  jonmals  in  nearly  all  the  chief  Ameri- 
can dtiea,  aa  well  a«  of  the  Portland  (Me.)  Thtw 


tcripl,  aod  other  weeklies,  and  contributed  to 
leading  magaslnes ;  wrote  Co/arada  Springt, 
Mamtau,  Tlu  Scadc  RaiOe,  Gogeiec,  Byway  t  ef 
Utah,  The  Hewu  ef  Ramana  (pamphleu),  uid 
With  the  Invader:  Glimfiei  ef  lie  SaHAaiel 
(on  account  of  which  he  was  invited  to  member- 
ship in  the  Paris  Geograpliical  Society),  pub- 
lished by  Samnei  Caroon  &  Co.,  San  Francisco, 
and  Santa  Barbaraioid  Around  There,  published 
by  Roberts  Brothers.  He  Is  now  at  work  in 
San  Francisco  upon  a  series  trf  letters  for  the 
New  York  Evening  Pest,  and  articles  for  Har- 
per's Magadnt  on  "  Wine-Making  in  California," 
'  The  Small  Fruits  of  California,"  "  Portland, 
Oregon,"  "Botle  City,"  "Helena,"  and  "Den- 
ver," also  articles  for  Harper't  Wtekly,  ail  of 
which  are  to  be  collected  in  a  volume  which 
Roberts  Brothers  will  publish  after  current  pub- 
lication. Mr.  Roberta  intends  to  lecture  and 
write  in  Boston  and  vicinity  tlie  coming  winter; 
and  liopes  to  visit  Australia,  Japan,  and  other 
countries  next  year. 

. . .  Harvey  Rice,  whose  Nature  and  Culture, 
Select  Jttmi  (illustrated),  Pioneers  ef  Ihi  West- 
ern Reserve,  and  Sktichet  ef  Western  Ufe  are 
widely  known,  ia  pait  eighty-six  years  of  age. 
Mr.  Rice  originated  the  Ohio  School  System. 

. . .  Mis*  Emma  E.  Brown  is  writing  the  clos- 
ing pages  of  a  Life  of  James  Russell  Lewell,  tor 
D.  Lothrop  &  Co.'s  biographical  scries. 

. . .  Mr*.  Belle  Kellogg  Towne,  associate  edi- 
tor for  the  David  C.  Cook  Publishing  Company, 
Chicago,  has  ready  a  historical  story  of  that 
city,  entitled  A  Crimm  ef  Beauty.  After  a  resi- 
dence of  twenty  years  in  Chicago,  and  much 
painstaking  with  her  writing,  this  should  be,  ai 
the  author  hopes,  well  grounded  historically, 
and  "the  most  elaborate  story"  she  has  "ever 

. . .  Mr.  W.  H.  Gibson,  the  artist,  has  a  vol- 
nne  called  ffapfy  Hunting  Grounds  in  the 
press  at  Harper's. 

.  .  .  Mr.  Rotiert  Grant  bring*  out  at  once, 
through  Tkknor  &  Co.,  A  Remantic  Young 
Lady,  a  novel  written  several  yean  ago. 

. . .  Mr*.  Jane  Spear  Collins,  anthor  of  Em- 
mt^i  T^-iumfA,  a  recent  story  for  young  women, 
is  preparing,  at  Ocean  Grove,  N.  J.,  a  book  in 
the  interest  of  the  colored  race.  Mrs.  Collins 
was  formerly  aaaistant  editor  of  the  Pittsburgh 
Advance. 

..."  Marion  Harland  "  is  still  very  busy ;  she 
conducts  a  household  department  for  a  syndN 
cate  of  fifteen  newspapers,  does  editorial  work 
□n  BaiyAeed,  and  is  completing  a  tximpanlon- 
volume  to  Judi&,  to  be  called  In  Old  Virginia, 
and  a  household  manual  to  be  entitled  Heme- 
MaMng  and  Hoiut-Keeping. 

The  Macquoids  in  Switserland. 
Our  reader*  will  be  interested  in  the  following 
extract  from  a  private  noie  from  Mr.  Macquoid 
to  the  editor  of  this  journal : 

SBBVI  S-  IM-PkATTIG  au, 

Switzerland,  August  18,  18S6. 
We  have  been  in  this  lovely  village  some  ten 
days,  and  the  improvement  in  Mrs.  Macquoid's 
health  is  very  greac  Her  writing  power  haa  al- 
moat  come  back  to  her.  .  ,  .  This  health -giving, 
almost  Idyllic  village  is  off  the  main  road  to 
Davos,  Fontresina,  which  places  are  much  more 
resorted  to  I>y  English-speaking  people.  Ger- 
man* and  Swiss  know  of  this  place  and  come 


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[SeM.  4. 


here  for  health  aod  enjoymcnL  It  ii  litnated  on 
a  plateau  on  the  aide  of  a  mountain  6^000  feet 
high,  which  rises  ap  from  the  «allc;  of  the  Land- 
qoarL  It  it  sarronnded  bj  neai  and  dittant 
monnltJDi,  the  latter  covered  with  snow.  Our 
American  consins  might  do  wone  than  come 
here  if  tbej  aie  seeking  health  and  lorelj  scenerj 
in  Switiertand.  I  find  manir  sketche*  for  mjr 
braah,  and  irithoat  donbt  Mrs.  Hacquold  will,  on 
an  catif  dajr,  nse  it  for  the  background  of  a  itory. 
With  beat  regards, 

Very  troly  jonrs, 

Tho.  R.  Macqvoid. 


FOBEIQV  I0TE6. 

— The  centenaiT  of  the  pnblicatian  of  tbe  first 
edllioo  of  the  poem*  of  Robert  Btims  hu  been 
celebrated  in  Scotland  at  Kilmarnock  bj  a  con- 
course of  30/N»  persons. 

—  Mr.  Browning  is  slowly  getting  legal  poa- 
session  of  his  palauo  in  Venice,  and  his  son 
is  painting  a  fine  picture  for  the  center  of  the 
piiodpal  ceiling.  It  is  founded  on  a  theme  in 
Shelley's  "Revolt  of  Islam." 

—  Mr.  Paget  Tojrobee,  (ays  the  Acadtmji,  has 
completed  tbe  firat  part  of  his  Dictisntaj  to  tht 
Divina  Cmtmtdia. 

—  Ward  &  Downey  of  London  are  about  to 
bring  oat  a  work  on  South  Florida  by  Mist 
Ida  Duffus  Hardy,  entitled  Orangu  andAlliga- 
tori,  and  founded  on  a  recent  visit. 

—  Lord  Tennyson  is  said  by  the  Alhtntaim 
to  have  written  a  number  of  new  poems,  includ- 
ing a  postscript  to  "Lockiley  Hall,"  in  which 
the  h«ra  appears  as  a  broken-down  man  of  eighty 
with  modified  views  of  life  and  liberty. 

—  Mr.  Geo.  Manville  Fenn  has  a  new  novel 
ready,  TTit  Maitir  ^Iki  Cerantmtt. 

— "  Edna  Lyall,"  the  new  English  novelist, 
is  a  Mitt  Bayly,  and  at  last  accounts  wat  travel- 
ing in  Norway. 

—  Mr.  Stanley  Lane-Poole  hat  gone  to  St. 
Petersburg  to  study  Oriental  coins. 

—  Miss  Helen  Dawet  Brown's  7W  CalUgt 
Girlt  reccivet  very  cotnplimcntaiy  notices  from 
the  Academy  and  the  Atiemnm, 

—  Mr.  Barnett  Smith  is  compiling  a  Life  of 
the  Queen  which  Routledge  ft  Sons  expect  to 
publish  this  montL 

—  The  J'ail  Afail  Giuette  of  Augntt  a  gives 
prominent  place  to  an  article  by  Professor  Jamea 
K.  Hosmer  of  St.  Louis,  now  in  Europe,  entitled 
"Imperial  Federation  and  the  United  Statct," 
the  point  of  which  is  in  the  fallowing  paragraph ; 

It  will,  however,  be  a  tad  day  for  America  if 
her  people  ever  allow  themselves  to  be  so  far 
swayed  by  this  andent  prejudice  Or  the  foreign 
influences  which  have  been  poured  in  so  co- 
piously as  to  forget  that  their  country  is  in  origin 
English,  thai  her  institutions  are  the  bequest  oi 
bygone  English  generations,  and  that  the  land 
will  be  past  praying  for  if  the  forgets  the  mother 
from  whom  she  diew  her  life.  To  such  an  extent 
it  America  ovcrtwept,  stunned  on  the  one  hand 
by  the  Irish  cry,  weighted  in  another  direction  by 
inert  millions  just  released  from  slavery,  threat 
ened  in  still  another  by  an  Asiatic  inundation, 
penetrated  through  and  through  with  a  Teutonic 
influx,  which,  wdcome  though  It  is,  and  closely 
allied  though  it  is,  cannot  undertake  her  free 
life  without  a  process  of  atiimilation  —  to  such 
an  extent  is  America  overswepi  that  It  is  natural 
for  thoughtful  men  of  the  original  stock  to  feel 
somewhat  insecure,  and  to  ask  whether  it  may  not 
some  day  be  desirable  and  possible  to  brace 
themselvet  by  entering  into  smne  closer  league 


VEVa  AVL  VOTGB. 

—  7X/  Ciamier  Ootr  tie  Gate,  the  nei 
dlanapolis  novel,  is  oat,  and  proves  to  be  a  very 
strong  and  able  work,  a  marked  addition  to 
American  fiction,  as  our  reader*  will  shortly  see 
for  themselves.    {Charles  A.  Bates.] 

—  Mr.  Nathan  Haskell  Dole  is  translating  the 
JIfaria  y  Afaria  ol  Don  Armando  Falado  Valdet, 
a  Spanish  novel,  for  T.  V.  Crowell  &  Co.,  to  be 
published  early  in  the  autumn. 

—  Tbe  C.  F.  Jewett  Publishing  Company  is  a 
new  Boaton  organization,  with  a  capital  stock  of 
Sy^ooo,  and  Mr.  Dana  Estes  and  Mr.  C.  E. 
I^nriat  among  the  directors.  The  others  are 
Clarence  F.  Jewett,  President,  Walter  M.  Jack- 
son, Treaaurer,  and  Asa  H.  Walker.  Subscrip- 
tion book  botinest  is  understood  to  be  the  chief 
expectation  of  the  new  house. 

—  Mr.  Oscar  Fay  Adamt  la  soon  to  pnUish 
throi^h  D.  Lothrop  ft  Co.  a  volume  entitled 
pMt-LaurtaU  Idyll  and  Other  Paems. 

—  Ginn  ft  Co.  request  us  to  say  that  the  pub- 
lication of  Professor  Cnrrell't  edition  of  Cyne- 
wulf's /'.tirwT  as  Vol.  IV  in  their  "Ubraryof 
Anglo-Saxon  Poetiy  "  is  necessarily  delayed  till 
fall. 

—  Mr.  George  Makepeace  Towie,  the  Journal- 
ist and  lecturer,  of  Boston,  received  many  public 
and  private  congratulations  on  Friday,  the  syth 
inat,  on  the  occasion  of  his  4jth  birthday. 

—  Dr.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  acctraipanied 
by  his  daughter,  arrived  in  New  York  by  the 
Canard  steamer  "Aurania"  on  Sunday,  the  39th, 
that  being  his  77th  birthday.  Except  for  his 
troublesome  asthma  he  was  in  heslth  and  fine 
s;drits.  Mr.  Thomas  Hughes,  the  anthorof  7'em 
Brmtm  at  Kiigty,  was  a  fellow-pattcnger,  and  in 
connection  with  an  entertainment  Friday  evert- 
ing, at  which  Dr.  Holmet  presided  and  read,  and 
Mist  Kellogg  sang,  mutual  compliments  between 
the  two  were  exchanged.  Dr.  Holmet  was  ten- 
dered a  banquet  at  the  Adelphi  Hotel,  Liverpool, 
the  day  before  lailing,  and  a  large  birthday  cake 
prepared  by  order  of  the  captain  of  the  "  Aura- 
nia" wat  served  up  the  day  of  arrival.  Journal- 
ism from  a  "reportorial"  point  of  view  has 
seldom  achieved  a  more  brilliant  feat  than  In  the 
statements  in  tbe  press  dispatches  that  during 
the  voyage  the  Doctor's  "  wrapt  and  a  big  hat, 
drawn  down  over  his  ears,  left  nothing  visible 
but  his  kindly,  sparkling  eyes." 

—  Mr.  John  S.  Lockwood,  formerly  the  senior 
partner  of  Lockwood,  Brooks  ft  Co.,  hat  opened 
an  office  in  Boaton  for  the  supply  of  public  and 
private  libraries.  From  what  we  know  of  Mr. 
Lockwood  personally,  and  of  his  long  expe- 
rience in  the  book  business,  we  are  glad  to  speak 
(wholly  without  solicitation)  of  his  ability  in 
strong  terms,  as  a  purveyor  of  literature,  and  to 
recommend  his  knowledge,  judgment,  and  apti- 
tude to  all  who  have  purchases  to  make  in  any  of 
the  book  marts  of  the  world. 

—  Prof.  Richard  T.  Ely's  book  on  Tke  Labor 
Mm^rmtnt  in  Amerira,  which  T.  V.  Crowell  ft 
Co.  have  now  nearly  ready,  will  be  a  complete 
hittotical  review  and  wilt  also  deal  with  the  pres- 
ent outlook  of  labor  agitation.  Professor  Ely 
begins  with  the  ditcuttion  of  early  American 

~  trace*  the  development  of  labor 


organixationt,  the  promulgation  of  theories  of 
cjjoperation,  the  beginnings  of  modern  todalisII^ 
and  tbe  rise  of  revirfutionary  aocialltnii,  the  sigiufi- 
cancc  of  which  is  fully  recognized.  An  appendix 
affords  abandant  materia]  in  the  way  of  platform*, 
manifestoes,  conttitutiont,  and  dedaratioiu  of 
principle*  adopted  by  variont  labor  and  social- 
istic organizations. 

—  Dr.  D.  G.  Haskins's  reminitcetices  of  Emer- 
son and  bis  maternal  ancestors,  already  publiahed 
in  the  Literary  World,  are  issued  by  Cupples, 
Upham  ft  Co.  in  pamphlet  form  In  a  limited  edi- 
tion of  350  copies.  The  same  firm  publish  a 
translation  of  Herman  Grimm's  letter  on  73< 
DestrucHtm  of  Reme. 

—  The  recent  uncovering  of  the  mummy  of 
Rameses  II,  "king  of  Egypt  and  oppressor  of 
the  Jews  in  the  time  of  Mose*"  —  in  a  word  the 
Pharaoh  of  tbe  Old  Testament  — b  to  be  con- 
memorated  by  Cupples,  Upham  ft  Co.  in  an  i]li» 
trated  broadiide  giving  in  full  Professor  Ha*. 
pero't  report  and  the  letter  of  Brngsch-Bey,  with 
three  engravings  from  pboti^raphs  of  the  mummy 
stripped  of  its  coverings  and  displaying  the 
strongly  marked,  masterful  fealurea. 

—  Houghton,  Miffiin  ft  Co.  publish  today  Ap- 
trty  Craii,  a  volume  of  short  stories  by  LilUe 
ChaceWyman;  *.vA  Mtm^s  and  Lttltri  of  Mr*. 
MadiioH,  They  have  nearly  ready  Ltttmrei  tm 
Intematicnal  Lai :  In  Time  of  Paul,  by  Profca- 
sor  Pomeroy,  edited  by  Prof.  T.  S.  Wotdsey ;  and 
In  the  "Riverside  literature  Series"  a  first  In- 
stalment of  Franklin's  Antebiegrapky.  Volmnet 
one  and  two  of  the  large  paper  edition  of  Lone* 
fellow's  prose  works  are  now  in  process  of  dis- 
tribution.      ^ 

—  In  connection  with  the  announcement  of  a 
seventh  edition  of  Mrs.  Brooks's  translation  of 
Hme.  Spyri't  Heidi,  we  leam  that  the  Kinder- 
garten for  tbe  Blind  has  profited  to  the  amotnt 
<rf  five  hnndred  dollara  by  the  sale  of  that  book 
since  the  beginning  of  the  present  year.  A  third 
volume  in  the  series  is  to  appear  this  fall. 

—  Mr.  J.  B.  Cowdin,  a  contributor  to  the  mag. 
aiines,  it  preparing  an  illnttr^ted  volume  of  his 
poetry,  to  be  published  ihii  fall.  The  contents 
will  include  hnmorons  and  pathetic  subjects  irith 

—  The  Rev.  Davis  Sessnms  of  HMn[AIs,  Ten- 
nessee, baa  been  chained  with  the  duty  of  pre- 
paring for  the  press  a  collection  of  tbe  Philoaopb- 
ical,  Metaphyseal,  and  Scientific  Writings  of  the 
late  Professor  John  HcCrady  of  the  University 
of  the  South.  At  the  time  of  his  death,  a  few 
yeara  since,  Mr.  McCrady  was  one  of  the  aUett 
scholars  on  biological  lines  and  in  the  border- 
land between  sdence  and  religion,  and  his  taking 
from  nt  wat  felt  to  be  a  great  loss  to  the  caose 
of  the  highest  Christian  thought.  For  inde- 
pendence, courage,  and  vigor  he  bad  few  snpe- 
riors  among  Anwrican  philosophical  thinkers. 
He  had  not  completed  hia  system,  but  left  mann- 
tcripts  nearly  covering  it,  and  we  are  glad  to 
leam  that  they  are  to  be  given  to  the  press.  Mr. 
Sestums  will  be  thankful  to  receive  materials  or 

iggestiont  fitted  to  help  him  in  his  work. 

—  Mr.  George  F.  Wharton,  the  New  Orleans 
publisher,  is  making  a  summer  tvAk  to  Philadel- 
phia, New  York,  Boston,  and  other  Northern 
points  of  interesL  Mr.  Wharton,  we  believe.  Is 
still  in  his  teens,  and  is  probably  the  youngest 
publisher  in  the  United  States.  ^ 

—  Brentano  Brothers  of  New  York  will  shortly 
pnUish  an  anonymoot  novel  entitled  DtBart  «r 


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m 


Sam  t  a  tal«  ol  tvetj-ixj  lite  Id  EngUnd  *nd 
America. 

—  Mr.  GolUbeiger  hai  reaij  "Gltria  Vktir," 
a  romance  from  the  Gemun  of  Osiip  SchuUn  by 
Mar;  Muwell. 

—  Harper  ft  Brother)  are  (till  printing  editioD 
after  edition  of  Gen.  Lew  Wallace's  ffm  Siir. 
More  than  laofioo  oo^itt  have  been  Mid  thu  far 
InalL 

—  We  have  recdved  from  Robert  Clarke  ft  Co. 
of  Cincinnati  an  faportant  LUt  of  B»akt  and 
PamfhicU  OH  Americatt  Indtant,  Arckxalogy,  and 
Languagii,  conlainii^  over  a  thonaand  titles. 

—  An  article  on  Misi  Alcott  b;  Mrs.  Sarah  K. 
Bolton,  originallj  printed  in  the  CkritHan 
RiguUr,  has  found  ita  wa;  into  the  London  Ijt- 
irary  World  of  July  J3. 


gladly  > 


An  Old  NoTwefUn  Fire-Hall. 

Tlu  Fall  of  Atgard'a  the  title  of  a  norel  by 
Julian  Corbett,  lately  published  In  "  Harper's 
Handy  Seriea,"  the  aunes  nf  which  are  drawn 
from  Norwegian  life  nearly  a  thonaand  years  ago. 
In  it  occun  tin  following  description  of  what 
SMS  known  u  the  "fire-hall"  in  an  old  Norse 
dwelling,  a  picturesque  interior  which  we 
sure  many  of  our  rcaden  will  be  glad  to  enti 

It  was  the  first  he  had  seen,  and  it  was  little 
wonder  that  the  splendor  of  the  scene  impressed 
with  a  sense  of  aadrealned-of  magnificence  the 
lad  who  knew  nothing  better  than  the  hut  which 
Heidrek  had  built  (or  his  mother  up  in  the  fells. 
It  was  the  custom  then  (or  every  faiuutead  to 
have  one  great  hall,  where  meals  were  taken  in 
common  t^  the  whole  household,  and  where  all 
could  ait  together  for  warmth  and  company  in 
the  long  winter  nighta.  Although  the  ^rmstead 
in  which  the  travelers  had  found  Ehiar  was  not 
his  chief  dwelling,  the  chamber  which  Thorkel 
now  beheld  seemed  to  him  fit  (or  a  king,  or  an 
earl  at  leasL  Down  the  centre  ran  a  long  hearth 
of  Btonea.  upon  which  danced  and  crackled  a 
blazing  fire  of  pine  logs,  and  above  the  whole 
length  of  this  was  fixed  a  sort  of  cowl,  which 
conducted  the  dense  mass  of  smoke  out  c^  holes 
In  the  ridge  of  the  roof,  so  that  but  tittle  esc 
to  pollute  the  atmosphere  of  the  room, 
fire  served  for  light  as  well  as  heat,  and  shed  a 
warm  red  glow  around,  which  enabled  Thorkel 
to  see  the  whole  extent  of  the  hall.  Down  each 
side  of  it  was  a  partition,  running  parallel  t 
hearth,  which  separated  the  sleeping-rooms  of 
the  house-carls  from  the  rest  of  the  building. 
Tonight  these  partitions  were  ablaze  with  their 
arms,  which  eadi  had  huns  there  opposite  to  his 
cribt  and  Thorkel's  heart  bounded  as  he  caught 
sight  of  the  awards  and  shields,  axes  and  spears. 


two  long  benches,  somewhat  raised  in  the  mid- 
dle, so  as  to  form  on  either  side  of  the  hearth  a 
high  scat.  In  front  of  these  was  a  row  of  mov- 
able tables,  which  hurrying  tbralls  were  now 
loading  with  food.  Another  row  of  benches  had 
been  placed  on  the  opposite  side  of  the  tables 
between  them  and  the  hearth,  for  large  as  the 
hall  was,  there  would  not  otherwise  have  been 
room  to  seat  the  number  of  guests  and  followers 
whom  Einar  had  galhered  round  him  in  expec 
tation  of  Olafs  descent  upon  the  vallev.  Tht 
hall  was  siresdy  crowded  with  them,  and  others 
were  hurrying  in  at  a  laitie  door  on  the  right  of 
where  the  t>oy  was  standing.  Thev  were  all 
drcaaed  in  bright-colored  kirlles  and  hose,  and 
many  wore  gold  and  silver  rings  upon  their  bare 
arms  and  buckles  on  their  clothes,  which 
tered  in  the  fire  around  which  Uiey  were  stan_...„ 
as  brightly  as  did  the  arma  upon  the  walla.  Be- 
yond the  groups  of  men  Thorkel  saw  that, 
the  other  end  of  the  hall,  a  (ew  women  we 
coming  in  by  the  door  which  corresponded  with 
the  one  close  to  him,  and  takiiw  their  seats  on  a 
sort  of  dais  across  the  end  of  the  room,  wU^ 
was  provided,  like  the  rest  of  the  spartment, 
with  benches  and  tables.    Thither  Bergliot  now 


between  the  tables  and  the  hearth.    Einar  seati 
himself  on  one  of  the  high  seats,  with  a  (ew  of 
and  his  wife's  kinsmen,  while  Beisi  con- 
ducted Thorkel  to  the  opposite  one,  where  he 
Disced  in  company  with  some  of  the  Ltender- 
•''  more   honorable  guests.    Gudrun  would 
have  looked  her  gratitude  to  Einar  for 
courtesy  to  her  son;    but  he  wsa  taming 
another  way  to  give  the  signal  for  the  meal  to 

PemtDlcan. 

In  Tki  Winniptg  Country,  a  book  just  pub- 
lished by  Cupples,  Uphsm  ft  Co.,  Is  s  good 
description  of  the  dried  meat  known  as  pemmi- 
can,  which  forms  so  important  sn  article  of  food 
among  the  Indians,  trappers,  and  explorers  in 
British  North  America,  and  the  regions  border- 
ing on  the  Arctic  Seas.  The  gennine  article  Is 
thus  prepared  and  eaten 

The  meat,  cut  in  long  flakes  from  the  warm 
carcass  of  the  buffalo,  and  dried  in  the  sun, '~ 
afterwards  beaten  into  shreds  by  fiails  upon 
floor  of  buffalo  hide  on  the  open  prairiej  the 
hide  is  then  sewn  into  a  bag,  the  meat  jammed 
in,  the  top  sewed  up,  all  hut  one  comer,  into 
which  more  meat  is  crowded ;  and  then  the  fat, 
which  has  mesnwhite  been  tried,  is  poured 


whole  forms  a  bolster- shaped  bag,  as  solid  and 
as  heavy  as  stone;  and  in  this  condition  it  re- 
mains, perhaps  for  years,  until  eaten.  Each  bag 
weighs  from  a  hundred  to  a  hundred  and  twenty 
pounds.  One  who  has  tried  it  will  not  wonder 
that  it  was  once  used,  in  the  turmoils  of  the  con- 
tests between  the  Northwest  and  Hudson  Bsy 
Companies,  to  form   a  redoubt,  armed  with  '~  ~ 

nave  two  ways  of  preparing  this  — 
"mb-B-boo,"  when  it  Is  boiled  in  a  great 
deal  of  water,  and  makes  a  soup  ;  the  other  more 
favorite  dish  is  "  rousseau,"  when  it  is  throim 
into  the  frying-pan,  fried  in  its  own  fat,  with  the 
addition,  perhaps,  of  a  little  salt  poik,  and 
mixed  with  a  small  amount  of  flour  or  broken 
biscuit.  But  sometimes,  when  our  philosophei 
are  hard  put  to  it,  and  forced  to  take  their  mei 
in  the  canoe,  the  pemmican  Is  eaten  raw,  chopped 
out  of  the  bag  with  a  hatchet,  and  accompanied 
simply  by  the  biscuit,  which  has  received  the 
sonbriqoet  of  "Redrivef  granite."  These  won- 
derful objects,  as  large  as  sea-biscnit,  are  at 
least  three-quarters  of  an  inch  in  thidcness,  and 
against  them  the  naturalist's  geological  hammer 
is  alwa^  brooght  into  requisition. 

But  the  "  infidel  dish,"  as  we  termed  roDSseau, 
is  by  comparison  with  the  others  palatable, 
thongh  it  is  even  then  impossible  to  so  disguise 
it  as  to  avoid  the  suggestion  of  tallow  candles; 
and  this  and  the  leathery,  or  India- rubbery, 
siructore  of  the  meal  arc  its  chief  disqualifica- 
tions. But  even  rousseau  may  lose  its  chsmu 
when  taken  as  a  steady  diet  three  times  a  dsy  for 
weeks ;  especially  when  it  is  served  in  a  frying- 
pan,  and,  breakfast  or  dinner  over,  one  sees  the 
remnants  with  the  beef  or  pork  all  hustled 
ti^ethcT  into  the  boil ing- kettle )  the  Uicnit, 
broken  bannocks,  and  unwashed  cups  placed  ' 


July  14,  Mkry  CkU  Hay,  Eul  PmlMI,  Eosluid,  41  y.  ( 

Aupui  5,  Prifaitr  Htinrkk  yk*tff,  Triv,  Gemuy, 
17.;  liUTVT  tiiBlonan,siid  iTUilalor  of  Lon^now. 
k^al  ID,  Mm.  Amu  SifUa  SUfknH,  Mawpofl,  K.  I., 

"j|[gcvu  j>,  JTn.  C.  E.  Sltmi,  D.D.,  Haitlonl,  Coaa., 
\  J. ;  bililkal  Uufanm. 
AiifBK  ■),  C*ar&i  C.  PtrUa,  Wiiid»r,  V(.,  6)  y. ;  of 


tossed  into  the  ,  ... 

the  ample  folds  of  an  old  bit  of  gunny-doth 
which  has  served  daily  at  once  as  dishcloth  and 
tablecloth,  thrown  into  the  canoe  to  rest  until 
the  next  mesl,  when  at  last  Billy  finds  lii 
wash  the  dishes  —  the  tablecloth,  never. 


HEOBOLOaT. 


Juhr  — ,  Mia  Aiaa  BrmmMM,  RidnDowL  Yorkihin, 
Enslind,  91  1-\  aollior  oi  Tkt  Kmitfrat  Hmmtm  ani 

J  sly  II,  Dr.  ttm  Dtmiirr,  BsUa,  t;  t.  i  hiMarivi. 
■It  11,  iV.  .rfnKZMiUntaf  CWMt,  ef  HiUniboi, 
wad»,  u  CotlianbiUK  jj  y.;  pUali^. 


Barns,  Tb*  Lanil  of.  TbOBUi  Drks*.  tttcmilUu,  AonA 
FaoUiH'i  Fibla.  AitliBrlllUv.  JKkhuOh,  AsfoM. 
Huliti'i  "  ChindEiiilki"  ind '■  Hulma" 

'I,  SeplH^i 


Hailid't  "  Cbvaderiitia"  sod  ''  Hudi 

HridelbvT,  StiidcDi  Llle 
HdIib^  Gtita  Wendall. 

Inu^nstioB  in  LaDdac^M  Pi 


Prri/Mt,  Angual. 


P.  G.  HwDnloii. 
Lamb,  Cliuia.    ABCuttiu  BiikII. 
Lenenasd  LMts  Wndnc.    R<t.  I>r.  J^np. 

KbHtttnOi  Ctnl.,  Aafot 
TlwDcritiisaadlbaSiptBiiKint    W.  M.  FnllntoD. 


puslioatioxs  eeoeitsd. 


h«r  Griod-aUc*.    Uod|;iktoD,  Uifflin  A  Co. 

Osumw.     Bv  H.  C.  HcOallud.     "  I^imrs  SfSMo 
Sdid."    HauTHgllACo,  yic 

NawYoiic.    ByT.Whuton.    Do.,  Do., 


Bf  Ur*.  Aanic  Edwudi*. 

--•*."  15c. 

Br  Hn.  J.  H.  Wil- 


Do. 

A  Plavugkt'i  .     . 
Hup«r  Jt  Bnrihcn'  "Uudy  Si 

TKaNn  Uah  at  BoUHan 
woRti.    CiadiaCo. 

Thb  PaaimiH  CiTT.    By  Wsl  Wwtall.    CudlACo. 
(r.fo 

ArKKODrra.     B;  Ernd  EckiidB.    Froa  (ha  GanaD  liy 
UsiT  J.  SaSori.    W.  S.  Gatubeixar.  9<>c 

Thb  On  THtira  Namrui-     By  U.  E.  Bra&lon.     Har. 
par  A  BrMhen'  '■  FnaUiD  Sqoaia  Sanaa."  loc. 

Tmb  CuaHBia  ovn  tub  C«tb.    By  Uaipril  Holnia*. 
Indiaupolia  I  CliBilaa  A  Bslaa.  ts.aii 

CKanLorTHS  iHrxHT  Jaioa.    Bji  Mn.  Chaoncay  L 


ACo. 

Bnithen.     Papar 


A  Brotlkara.     Papar 


By  Frad.  Bamabj.     Harpvr  A  BnMh- 

•je- 

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KiwiHk.  Wilh  iniMnlions,  Notei,  and  Voeabebry. 
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BasT  SoHOS  AHD  Lya- 
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qnalltatire  chemlatry,  thai  allowing  theae  kln- 
dnd  blanchas  to  •applamani  and  illoftrate  eaoli 
other;  a  ptaotloat  conns  ol  tabanlaty  work, 
UlDibatlng  tba  general  prlndplea  of  tlie  iotenae 
and  tbelr  applloatlon;  a  (air  preaentatlon  of 
oliemlcal  ttisorieaj  a  oonoEianeaB  oonflnlng  the 
work  to  tbe  reqnlrod  llmlta;  and  foil  and  ez- 
pllolt  dlreotiona  for  sncoeaatallf  and  eotnioiui- 
oallj  aqnlpplng  the  iaboratorj,  and  praparing 
the  needed  reaganta  and  aolatlani.  IntioduO' 
Hon  prioe,  S1.12. 

Shalers  Geology. 

Intended  to  glra  the  itodent  ot  from  tan  to 
fifteen  jean  of  age  a  few  olear,  wett-eeleoted 
faota,  that  nu^  ierre  ai  a  ke;  to  the  knowledge 
of  the  earth.  The  nmnber  ot  faeta  dealt  with 
la  far  lea  than  la  nmallr  glxen  in  moh  booka, 
but  paina  ate  taken  In  theii  praaanlaUon  to  make 
them  open  the  wa^to  the  broadeat  veina  that  the 
•olenoe  affords.  The  effort  la  made  to  tllnatiate 
theprinolpleiof  geologybjreterenoe  toaamanj 
facta  ot  familiar  experienoa  ai  poaaible. 

The  Teaoher'a  Edition  oonlidna  general  dirao. 
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Tbia  book  haa  been  prepared  in  order  that  the 
general  Undent  may  share  In  the  adrantagea  of 
thia  bealrapprOTed  mode  of  initniotirai.  It  la 
oolleoUon  ot  hiatorloal  material,  Interiperwd 
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work  ont  tor  himself  from  original  historical 
data.  In  tbia  way,  he  Is  trained  to  deal  with 
the  original  blitorloal  data  of  his  own  ttme.  In 
short,  It  may  be  termed  an  «Mrcl*a  boot  In  hU- 
Vtry  andpoiiiiet. 

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be  gained  from  the  Stndeat'a  Edition.  It  en- 
bodies,  in  general,  tbe  teaoher's  part  ot  the  work, 
and  ia  made  np  ot  anmmariea,  explanations,  and 
soggestlons  tor  essays  and  ezamlnatlona. 

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laMMUoa  ti  la  (Ita.lB  Uw  <MliMtid  allBBM  oflriiiildB,  ■* 
ttwreiub  and  IIMnl  an  •daeatGa  aa  caa  b*  Hurad  la  tba 
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The  Literary  World. 


L.XVII.  BOSTON,  SEPTEMBER  it 


CONTENTS. 


Tin  Winnipn  Coontrj  . 
An  Anche  C^npAif  n 

Th«  G«maii  Soldier  in  Ibe  Win  o 


nigbu  Iniid*  ind  Oauidi  Pumdiit 
The  Fifht  loT  UtwHiri  . 
HitlatToItiK  Inik  People    . 

Etdung  in  Anwria 

" "-     -        "■      ■     Britain 


Greater  GreeoE 

CwhIu-  Remlr 
The  Reat  Gum 


Eddcatidhal  WpiK 


Lecture,  in  theTnud-vSch..!. 
Etc.,  Etc.,  Etc 

MiHoii  FicnoH  I 

I^^M^l^ii"' 

aSSJIL 

:    :    :    :    lU 

■nieD«.™ciiooo(G«l™ h 

Etc..  Elt,  Etc. 

A  Laii»  rat»i  GsiHAHV.    Leopold  Katacher     .       ]■> 

OTO  GOVEEHBEHT.* 


THOUGH  small  and 
book  is  a  notable  one,  and  will  be 
hailed  by  teachers,  especially  in  the  second- 
ary schools,  with  great  satisfaction.  Pro- 
fessor Macy  cuts  loose  at  once  from  the 
oltttiroe  formulas  of  our  "Civil  Govern' 
roents,"  and  gives  us  an  original  work  on 
a  new  and  excellent  plan.  He  begins  by 
showing  briefly  how  from  German  and 
Saxon  ancestry  our  complex  system  of  gov. 
ernment  has  gradually  grown  into  its  present 
shape.  Then  he  lakes  education,  and  be- 
ginning with  known  ground  to  the  student, 
that  is  the  school  district,  the  town,  he 
works  up  to  county,  state,  nation,  showing 
what  each  distinctively  docs  in  the  way  of 
public  education.  The  various  other  topics 
— highways,  care  of  poor,  taxation,  courts, 
juries,  money,  law-making,  the  Constitution, 
etc,  etc.,  are  treated  in  much  the  same  way, 
particular  attention  being  called,  whenever 
practicable,  to  the  origin  and  history  of  our 
present  institutions  and  practice. 


Hiaunj  and  Polilical  S 


ByJeueUacy,  A.M.,Pi 


This  CMMpara/ivt  view  of  the  subject  is 
chief  peculiarity  of  the  book,  and  is  both 
the  strong  and  the  weak  point  of  Professor 
Macy's  method.     If  properly  taught,  it  will 
send  the  student  out  to  more  comprehensivt 
study  (and  we  suppose  this  is  the  author't 
purpose),  but  this  same  comprehensiveness 
will  tax  the  teacher  severely,  even  if  he 
pretty  well  prepared  on  the  subject    The 
work  is  one  of  those  best,  worst,  of  books, 
namely,  not  a  text-book  of  elaborated  subject- 
matter,  but  a  handbook  of  methods  to  be 
followed.    There  is  infinite  matter  for  the 
student  to  hunt  up,  or  for  the  teacher 
supply.     More  and  more  of  our  teachi 
are  getting  able  to  use  such  a  book,  but 
multitudes  of  thera  will  still  fall  helpless 
before  it. 

From  a  somewhat  careful  reading,  our 
criticism  would  be  that  in  so  much  that  Is 
new  and  excellent,  Professor  Macy  has  not 
retained  enough  of  the  old.  Under  thi 
lus  topics  treated,  the  respective  posi 
and  work  of  town  (or  county),  state 
m,  are  not  marked  off  with  suflicient 
distinctness.  There  is  not  exactness,  detail 
enough,  as  to  the  actual  workings  of  the 
wheel  within  a  wheel  by  which  our  govern- 
ital  machinery  is  run.  Especially,  enough 
does  not  seem  to  be  made  of  the  origin, 
history,  and  interpretation  of  the  Constitu- 
tion itself — of  the  actual  workings  of  the 
nattenal  part  of  our  government  The 
teacher  who  wants  to  show  just  what  our 
people  do  today  with  their  caucuses,  ballot- 
boxes,  legislatures,  governors,  congresses, 
cabinets,  presidents^ what  every  student 
ought  to  know,  and  to  know  well  —  will  have 
much  difficulty  in  handling  this  book.  This 
difficulty  a  little  more  distinctive  treatment 
and  fifty  additional  pages  (or  is  the  usual 
"supplementary"  volume  coming?)  would 
have  abundantiy  remedied. 

It  should  be  added  that  this  is  an  ex- 
cellent book  for  the  general  reader  as  well 

the  teacher,  though  for  its  general  com- 
parative view  of  the  subject  rather  than  its 
facts  and  figures"  as  to  structure  and 
running  of  the  various  branches  of  our  gov- 
ernment 

THi:  OHAHBEB  OVER  THE  QATE  • 

WH  EN  this  novel  was  announced  we  were 
immediately  impressed  by  the  title 
of  it  The  title  is  itself  a  stroke  of  genius. 
Everybody  knows  the  meaning  of  "  the  skel- 
in  the  closet"  But  that  is  a  harsh, 
gloomy,  forbidding  metaphor.  "The  Cham- 
ber Over  the  Gate  "  is  a  much  softer  and  less 
repulsive  embodiment  of  the  same  idea  — 
the  sorrow  and  sufiering  which  wrong-doing 
brings  into  domestic  experience,  and  which 
very  domestic  circle  are  hidden  away. 
The  music  in  these  words,  the  picture  in 
tiiem,  the  pathetic  lines  which   Longfellow 


wrote  under  them  a  short  time  before  his 
death,  and  the  sad,  affecting.  Scripture  his- 
tory which  lies  behind  them,  all  help  to 
invest  them  with  a  peculiar  meaning.  A 
novel  taking  them  as  its  title  ought  to  be 
an  uncommon  work ;  but  coming  from  an 
unexpected  quarter,  from  an  author  who 
was  a  stranger,  and  from  an  almost  unknown 
publisher,  did  it  not  mean  another  disap- 
pointment? We  are  bound  to  say  the  dis- 
appointment is  a  happy  one.  Our  reading 
of  The  Chamber  Over  the  Gate  has  discovered 
in  it  more  of  the  elements  of  that  long  ex- 
pected product,  "  the  great  American  novel," 
we  have  found  in  any  recent  work  of 
fiction.  The  subject  is  thoroughly,  intensely 
American ;  the  book  is  right  out  of  the  soil; 
it  is  like  a  block  of  New  England  granite, 
or  one  of  the  big  trees  of  California ;  it  has 
large  stature,  reserve  force,  abundant  play 
of  power;  its  intellectual  endowment  is 
marked ;  it  has  character,  incident  sentiment, 
and  passion ;  it  is  virile,  natural,  life-like, 
dramatic,  absorbing. 

When  we  have  said  this  much  we  must 
pause  for  qualification.  It  is  not  a  pleas- 
ant story.  It  is  the  vigorous  narrative  of 
a  painful  history.  We  say  history,  for  we 
do  not  suppose  that  the  author  can  have 
got  all  her  materials  from  her  imagination. 
She  mnst  have  drawn  on  that  truth  which 

stranger,  not  only,  but  stronger  than  fic- 
tion. No  dramas,  no  tragedies,  are  so  im- 
pressive, so  terrible  in  their  impressiveness, 
''lose  which  are  constantly  in  course  of 
enactment  all  around  ua  day  by  day,  and 
of  which  we  have  startling  glimpses  with 
very  eyes  which  ever  way  we  turn.  The 
realism  of  humanity  in  The  Chamber  Over 
the  Gate  is  the  realism  of  a  score  of  cases 
which  have  come  under  everybody's  per- 
sonal observation  in  the  last  decade.  The 
downfall  of  commercial  honor,  the  wreck  of 
families,  the  social  disasters  that  bury  joys 
and  hopes  beyond  a  resurrection  —  are  not 
these  part  of  common  and  actual  experience? 
The  story  of  David  and  Absalom,  was  it 
real  ?  And  is  it  not  told  over  and  over 
again?  Could  it  have  been  invented?  So 
with  this  "  Chamber  Over  the  Gate  j "  its 
analogue  is  in  many  a  human  history;  it  is 
10 1  invention  but  reality. 

We  have  read  this  story,  therefore,  begin- 
ling  in  curiosity,  continuing  with  interest, 
and  ending  with  the  fascination  which  trag- 
edy always  inspires.  In  style  and  manner 
it  is  calm  and  quiet,  somewhat  as  if  the 
author  of  Cape  Cod  Folks  had  gone  to  work 
'ndiana.  The  solemnity  of  Abraham 
Lincoln's  most  memorable  words  is  in  the 
'.  with  which  it  pronounces  the  penalty 
of  transgression.  The  sadness  of  marriage 
that  is  a  mockery,  of  husband  and  wife 
estranged,  of  home  embittered,  of  sin,  of 
crime,  of  innocent  helpless  children  suffer- 
ing, is  in  its  pages.    And  there  is  another  ^ 

rrow  in  it  springing  from  a  cause  which  '^ 

not  common  in  American  fiction. 


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THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Sept.  i8, 


The  sceDC,  as  we  have  intimited,  lies  m 
Indiana,  but  the  book  has  no  landscape  and 
lillle  scenery.  There  is  a.  side  view  of 
Indianapolis,  during  the  sitting  of  the  Leg- 
islature, and  a.  distant  view  of  Minnesota 
at  the  close.  The  book  is  too  closely  con- 
nected with  the  deep  passions  and  fierce 
slruggies  of  human  life  to  stop  for  externals. 
Most  of  its  action  takes  place  in  the  village 
of  Fairview,  the  home  of  the  Gatsimer  family, 
and  follows  the  blended  fortunes  of  the  two 
sons,  Hugh  and  Dr.  Stephen  Gatsimer. 
Dr.  Stephen,  serving  in  the  Civil  War,  has 
unwittingly  married  a  beautiful  octoroon ; 
his  brother  Hugh  has  made  a  commercial 
nurriage  with  the  delicate,  dollish,  shift- 
less Miriam  L.owe.  The  consequences  of 
Stephen's  marriage  to  himself  and  to  his 
child  Coral,  skillfnilj  blended  with  Ihi 
happy  fortunes  of  Hugh  and  Miriam,  give 
shape  to  the  story.  No  story  touching  on 
such  themes  as  these  —  miscegenation,  the 
taint  of  blood,  marital  feuds,  family  jealous- 
ies and  quarrels,  can  be  called  pleasant ; 
the  redeinption  of  the  book  lies  in  its  work- 
manship, which  is  near  to  being  masterly. 
The  cnrse  of  American  slavery,  the  dirtiness 
of  American  politics,  the  cruelty  of  American 
divorce,  many  of  the  dark  as  well 
of  the  brighter  colors  in  the  American  idea 
are  here.  Nothing  is  exaggerated.  The 
tale  has  the  calm,  plain,  terrible  intensity 
of  truth.  It  is  told  with  the  self-possession 
of  an  eye-witness.  Fine  characters 
wanting.  Such  are  Stephen  Gatsit 
daughter,  the  sweet  and  saintly  Coral,  Dick 
Scott  and  his  wife  Letty.  Old  Mammy  June 
and  Bob  Fountain  lighten  the  picture.  The 
interview  between  Percy  Langdon,  Coral, 
and  Coral's  father,  in  which  the  wholly  un- 
suspected facts  of  Coral's  birth  are  disclosed 
to  the  half-uncle  who  was  her  lover  and  who 
would  have  been  her  husband,  is  a  remark- 
able piece  of  writing.  Some  of  these  people 
are  vicious,  some  of  them  are  profane,  they 
plot  and  conspire  ;  but  they  never  get  beyond 
the  author's  control.  She  holds  them  and 
their  conduct  in  a  firm  grasp  and  guides  the 
complicated  issues  of  their  lives  to  a 
conclusion.  But  it  is  (he  quiet  after  the 
storm.  We  commend  TAe  Chaiitber  Over 
the  Gatt  to  nobody  who  wishes  to  hear  only 
what  is  agreeable;  but  to  those  who  have 
nerve  for  the  tragic,  who  can  bear  to  stand 
and  see  sin  work  itself  out  into  the  wages 
of  death,  we  commend  it  as  one  of  the  i 
original,  able,  and  remarkable  of  recent 
els. 

A  word  is  due  to  its  outward  appearance. 
Save  fora  few  misprints  it  is  an  uncommonly 
well-made  and  handsome  book,  and  decidedly 
a  credit  to  its  publisher.  Its  commanding 
proportions,  its  excellent  papier  and  print, 
salmon-colored  edges  and  cover  of  old  gold 
mark  it  out  among  the  mass  of  books  with  a 
certain  distinction  of  aspect  well  befitting  its 
uncommon  character. 

We  should  not  place  this  novel 


hands  of  young  people,  but  to  readers  who 
half  way  across  the  sea  of  life,  and  have 
I  some  taste  of  Its  tempests  and  perils,  it 

may  bring  profit  and  a  strange  sort  of  pleas- 


A  5EW  MAHUAL  OF  ENOUBH  LITEB- 
ATUBE.* 

THIS  is  distinctly  an  anomalous  book. 
It  is  constructed  on  a  somewhat  fan- 
ciful theory  and  contains  much  that  is  absurd 

id  even  grotesque.  But  it  has  also  very 
definite  merits.  The  author  is  an  enthu- 
ic  lover  of  English  literature  and  the 
English  tongue.  He  draws  freely  from  the 
ample  resources  at  his  command ;  and  his 
taste  is  so  catholic,  his  ideas  are  so  honest 
even  audacious,  his  enthusiasm  is  so 
Me,  that  while  one  finds  on  almost  every 
page  something  objectionable,  one  also  finds 
a  great  deal  to  admire.  The  rhetoric,  now 
and  then  tawdry,  ill-designed,  and  glittering 

lith  the  tinsel  of  far-fetched  metaphors,  is 

lore  often  firm-woven  in  well-selected  colors, 
and  its  texture  is  a  source  of  mental  pleas- 
The  author's  theory  is  soon  outlined. 
Language    is  verbal    architecture    because 

words  are  verbal  bricks  with  which  we 
plan  our  phrases,  build  our  sentences,  and 
round  our  periods ; "  verbal  sculpture,  "  em- 
bodying .  .  .  the  corporeal  or  mental  char- 
acteristics of  an  individual,  as  truly  as  does 
the  marble  bust  or  statue  convey  to 
human  eye  the  lineaments  and  form  of  the 
being  symbolized;"  verbal  painting,  "con- 
taining within  its  manifold  vocabulary  all 
the  appliances  of  the  artist  to  represent 
form  and  texture,  light  and  shade,  color 
atmosphere;"  verbal  music,  "appealing  by 
sound  to  that  sense  of  the  beautiful  which 
is  innate  in  every  human  nature." 
reader  can  easily  imagine  how  the  materials 
are  cut  to  fit  the  theory.  A  passage  from 
Oisian  is  likened  to  the  hoary  relics  of 
Stouehenge,  "  each  of  these  rugged  periods, 
isolated,  weather-stained,  tempest-torn,  a 
verbal  monolith;"  Carlyle's  style  is  Gothic; 
Shakespeare  builds  in  "pyramidal  cli- 
maxes;" Bacon  in  "verbal  stories  or  fiats, 
so  to  speak,  one  over  the  other;"  DeQuin- 
cey's  "foundations  are  in  the  clouds,  and  he 
descends  by  flights  of  fancies  ever  broaden- 
ing to  the  base,  which  spreads  outwards  into 
the  mists  of  uncounted  centuries,  and  buries 
'itself  fathoms  deep  in  the  slime  and  reeds 
of  a  forgotten  past;  "  —  all  this  ingeniously, 
nay  felicitously,  illustrated,  with  skillfully 
chosen  specimens  and  deftly  worded  argu- 
ments in  which  the  frequent  digressions  are 
fully  as  attractive  as  the  lucubrations  bear- 
ing more  closely  upon  the  main  theme.  Mr. 
Morrison's  incidental  remarks  with  regard 
to  poetic  forms  are  full  of  suggestion ; 

Blank  verse  is  nf  all  mediums  perhaps  the 
best  for  ward-building.  The  imuolh  iambic 
pcnlameter,    unhampered    by    the   tiickerii 


rhyme,  lends  itsdf  readily  to  the  production  of 
stately  eSccte,  and  to  •ymmetiical  magnificenM 
of  construction.  The  octo-srllabic  iambic  verse 
of  which  wc  find  so  much  in  the  romintic  school 
of  English  poetry  ii  better  adapted  to  the  paint- 
er's art.  .  .  .  Short  words  are  more  iuggesti*e  of 
color,  th»(  Is  of  the  commonest  color,  and  being 
short  they  can  be  massed  reidily,  monosyllable 
onosyllable,  and  trope  on  trope,  till  the  page 
becomes  a  very  transformation  scene,  according 
to  the  humor  of  the  artist.  ...  It  the  rhjmmg 
tetrameter  be  color  and  life-sense,  then  the  deca- 
syllabic of  blank  verse  \%  Parian  marble,  or 
ScoKish  Kranile,  or  may  be,  cedar  of  Lebanon. 
The  vistas  are  colonnades ;  Doric  pillars  or  giant 
trunks.  The  climaxes  —  domes,  gables,  Frieies, 
many-fashioned  summit!  —  stretching  out  to  the 
'  on  in  straight  line*,  geometrical  and  correct, 
with  occasional  grand  sweeps  and  slightly  sinn- 
IS  undulationi,  or  piercing  up  to  the  heavens  to 
irer  atxive  ordinary  conatructiona,  as  the  obe- 

k,  erect,  looks  down  on  the  prostrate  column 

its  feel. 

Mr.  Morrison  does  not,  however,  insist 
upon  his  interpretation  of  literature  and  lan- 
guage as  absolute  and  immutable.  He  sees 
that  there  can  be  no  absolute  standard  of 
style  and  finds  in  that  fact  a  source  of  rejoic- 
ing. If  every  one  thought  alike  "liberty  in 
fetters  would  mourn  in  anguish  over  a  Sa- 
hara-like waste  of  inanity,"  and  Mr.  Morri- 
son would  not  be  able  to  propound  his  inter- 
esting conundrums ; 

How  much  of  beautr>  of  ugliness,  of  happi- 
ness, oE  misery  in  this  world  belongs  to  a  vivid 
imigination  or  a  good  digestive  apparatus,  liow 
mncb  to  reality  or  an  ill-conditioned  liver  f  How 
much  of  the  beauty  of  literature  dwells  in  one's 
self,  and  how  much  in  one's  author  ? 
a  conundrum  perhaps  best  answered  by 
him  who  sees  in  every  work  of  art  "  a 
shadow  looking  back  at  itself  in  quivering 
but  not  unsympathetic  outlines  from  the 
crystalline  depths  of  the  psychical  profound  1 " 
Of  Macaulay  Mr.  Morrison  says — (so  easy 
is  it  to  pass  from  "  verbal  architecture  "  to 
verbal  tailoring) : 

I  fancy  Macaulay  will  descend  the  stream  of 
time  more  by  virtue  of  the  brilliant  point  lace 
of  his  narrative,  than  by  inherent  truth  or  relia- 
bility of  senlimenl  or  statement. 

Just  how  "point  lace,"  however  "brill- 
iant," could  act  as  a  life-preserver  on  "  the 
stream  of  time"  probably  Mr.  Morrison 
alone  could  determine.  This  of  Cartyte  is 
better  expressed : 

His  thoughts  are  worthy,  and,  because  worthy, 
immortal,  though  giant-like,  their  limbs  are 
thrust  too  far  through  the  arms  and  legs  of  their 
often  ill-filting  garments.  They  have  outgrown 
the  meagre  and  threadbare  resources  of  the  rer- 
bal  wardrobe.  Their  muscular  hero-worship  and 
their  double-jointed  cvnxatm  set  the  wristbands 
and  trouser  straps  ot  a  conventional  diction  at 
defiance. 

A  good  many  passages  In  the  book  ar« 
worthy  of  quotation.  Of  the  mathemati- 
cian the  author  demands  "can  he  see  the 
emerald  of  the  meadow  in  x  -\-  y,  or  hear 
the  murmur  of  the  'multitudinous  sea  incar- 
nadine '  in  the  cosine  of  an  angle  P  " 

Therefore  would  f  teach  the  little  child  the 
tove  of  all  that  is  beautiful  in  nature  and  all  that 
is  iKautifuI  in  the  reflection  of  nature,  first  in 
the  pag"  of  ihls  fair  earth,  and  next  in  the  pages 
of  our  fair  language  and  literature,  so  that  indeed 
his  life  may  be  dual  in  its  b«st  sense,  that  when 
the  light  of  each  successive  day  is  quenched,  he 


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311 


into  th«  azure 

It  has  been  said  thai  ignorance  is  the  mother  of 

kdmiralion ;  the   aphorism,  like  most  old  laws, 

hM   a   flaw    in   its   conslraction.     Ignorance    is 

rather  ibe  mother  of  wonder. 

"  In  Memorlam,"  which  lonnds  like  a  sobbing 
~  «-shadow,  haunting  the  graves  of  possibility 


Just  analyse  it,  and  then 
eant* —  its  radiant  being.    It  seems  to  have  ab- 
sorbed the  sunlight,  to  rclam  it  al  the  (ouch  of 
the  Tocal  spark. 

There  is  sonieihing  about  the  American  poets 
that  is  essentially  unique.  I  scarcely  know  what 
it  is.  I  only  know  that  it  is  something  very 
beaulila)  and  fascinating.  It  appeals  to  a  certain 
sense,  that  the  poetry  ot  other  nations  seldom,  if 
ever,  ap[ieals  to.  What  is  it?  I  believe  it  is 
the  inspiration  which  cumes  10  them  with  the 
Indian  Sammer.  Much  of  the  poetry  I  allude  to 
ii  bathed  in  the  atmosphere  of  that  lovely  aeaion. 
It  it  poetiy  in  the  scarlet  and  yellow  leaf,  envel- 
oped ,in  the  golden  glamour  and  shimmering 
through  th«  velvet  mantle  of  lliose  glorious  days, 
half  triumphant,  half  metincholy,  when  alt  na- 
ture in  a  blaze  of  color,  is  immersed,  without 
being  quenched,  in  the  voluptuous  haze  of  rus- 
set, maple -crowned  autumn. 

To  the  cosmopolitan  in  act  and  letters  all  will 
be  beautiful.  There  is  sunlight  for  the  joyous 
and  shadow  for  the  sombre  ;  there  is  color  lor  the 
gay  and  neutral  tmt  for  the  serious:  for  a  library 
IS  a  universe,  and  a  book  is  a  world,  and  the 
writer  is  a  divinity,  and  the  reader  is  a  dual 
creature  within  a  double  creation.  The  di- 
vinity shapes  things  as  he  will,  while  the 
creature,  if  sympathetic,  sees  them  with 
the  divinity's  eyes.  .  .  .  The  student  of  let- 
ters lives  in  fairy-land.  He  has  his  genii  and 
bis  talismans,  his  wonderful  lamps  and  his  magic 
rint^.  What  does  he  require  that  he  cannot 
conjure  forth  f  He  wants  not  monicd  wealth,  nor 
eipensive  conveyance,  nor  even  unlimited  time. 
Seated  in  his  study  chair,  he  wants  but  a  volume, 
the  power  of  appreciation,  and  the  gift  of  fancy 
—  then  the  universe  ii  his. 

It  will  be  seen  that  the  book  bears  the 
test  of  quotation.  Its  faults  are,  for  the 
most  part,  the  faults  of  excess.  It  ought  to 
be  carefully  revised,  ruthlessly  pruned  of 
extravagances,  corrected  of  its  glaring  errors 
in  punctuation,  and  provided  with  exact  ref- 
erences, a  list  of  authors  quoted  from,  and  a 
good  index.  Thus  modilied  it  would  be  an 
admirable  manual  for  literary  training,  as 
well  equipped  in  form  as  it  is  now  fresh  in 
thought,  agreeable  in  illustration,  and  at- 
tractive in  style. 

KELIQIOtTB  BEABUTS. 

FareaarneJ — Fariarmrd.  By  J.  Thain  David- 
son, D.D.     [A.  C.  Armstrong  &  Son.    #i.zj-l 

This  is  a  selection  of  the  author's  sermons 
young  men,  delivered  in  London,  on  topics  of 
practical  teligimi  and  duty.  The  language, 
though  occasionally  inelegant,  is  vivacious,  and 
has  the  merit  o(  saying  plainly  exactly  wh: 
means ;  the  moral  tone  is  excellent ;  and  the 
discourses  should  tend  to  arouse  their  readers 
from  love  of  the  merely  worldly  and  sensual 
life.  Whenever  any  dislinaive  theology  comes 
out,  it  is  of  the  extreme  evangelical  Protestant 
type  ;  sometimes  almost  offensively  so,  for  those 
whose  conception  of  Christianity  is  different  — 
as  for  instance  in  the  unqualified  Calvinistic 
denial  that  even  the  slightest  good  remains  in 
man  since  the  fall  in  Adam.  From  several  such 
Indications  the  author  appears  to  be  a  preacher 
of  some  body  of  Orthodox  dissenters,    Perhaps 


the  best  sermon  in  the  twenty  here  given  is 
the  parable  o(  the  two  sons  —  "  Practice  without 
profession  and  profession  without  practice." 

Tk€  Olh/t  Liaf.  By  Hugh  Macmillan,  D.D., 
etc    [Macmillan  &  Co.    ft.75.] 

These  sermons  are  examples  of  the  highly 
poetic  temperament  in  religious  thought  and 
teaching.  In  chaste  and  beautiful  language  and 
with  many  subtle  and  ingenious,  yet  we  think  not 
fanciful,  analogies,  they  deduce  religious  lessons 
the  manifold  phenomena  and  processes  of 
nature  and  from  descriptions  contained  in  the 
~  ~  or  New  Testament,  of  which  the  olive  leaF, 
giving  name  to  the  first  chapter,  is  an  example. 
There  is  great  wealth  of  thought  and  illustration 
throughout.  A  tuft  of  moss,  a  swallow's  nest, 
the  great  laver  in  the  Jewish  Temple,  the  gates 
of  peart  in  St.  John's  vision— all  these  and 
others  of  varied  selection  serve  as  text*  and 
vehicles  of  spiritual  instruction.  Several  of  the 
discourses  conclude  with  seleclions  of  verse, 
which,  from  the  fact  that  they  are  anonymous, 
judge  to  be  by  Dr.  Macmillan  himself.  The 
general  teaching  of  the  sermons  is  in  accord  with 
Orthodox  Protestant  faith,  and  they  are  very 
wide  in  their  sympathies  and  hope*,  and  In  their 
recognition  of  lome  good  as  at  least  latent  in 
all  classes  of  mankind. 

We  do  not  understand  why  the  Rev.  Dr.  and 
Prof.  Murphy  of  Belfast,  Ireland,  should  give  to 
his  new  book  on  prophecy  in  the  Old  Testament 
a  title  which  belongs  to  only  half  of  it.  Tltt 
Beok  ef  Danitl  is  the  title,  but  the  treatment  of 
that  Scripture  docs  not  begin  until  page  69.  The 
first  zo  pages  are  devoted  to  the  Pentateuch, 
the  next  13  to  the  historical  books,  then  10 
to  the  Psalms,  then  14  to  Micah,  Isaiah,  and 
Jeremiah.  Not  till  after  all  this  is  Daniel  under- 
taken, first  the  historical  chapters  of  the  book 
bearing  his  name,  then  the  prophetical.  The 
Messianic  thread  is  what  the  expositor  ia  after 
throughout,  and  it  is  handled  in  connection  with 
its  counterpart  in  the  Book  of  Revelation.  Dr. 
Mnrphy  is  an  old-fashioned  commentator,  a  (rue- 
blue  Irish  Presbyterian.    [W.F.  Draper.    jLaj.] 

The  Rev.  Dr.  J.  R.  Miller,  a  very  practically. 
minded  Presbyterian,  has  written  what  he  calls 
a  book  "  to  help  in  reading  the  Bible  into  life." 
It  is  entitled  Silent  Times,  in  token  of  its  in- 
tended service  in  devotional  hours,  or  as  a  relief 
to  the  harried,  noisy,  confused  conditions  under 
which  many  of  us  are  placed.  "The  point  al 
which  many  Christians  fail,"  he  says,  "in  the 
using  of  divine  truths  is  the  point  at  which 
doctrine  should  be  transmuted  into  life,"  To 
this  "point"  his  book  is  directed.  Its  (wenty- 
four  short  chapters  under  such  headings  as 
"  Finding  One's  Mission,"  "  Living  by  the  Day," 
"The  Power  of  the  Tongue,"  "The  Blessing  of 
not  Getting,"  are  to  the  point,  direct,  concrete, 
illustrative,  and  really  helpful.  IT.  Y.  Crowell 
4  Co.    Ji.zs.] 

The  idea  of  the  late  Rev.  Dr.  John  Leighton 
in  his  essay  on  Gospel  Failh  Commended  la  Com- 
man  Senst  is  that  what  Is  known  as  faith  in  the 
Gospel  of  Jesus  Christ  is  an  act  of  common 
sense,  that  in  this  fact  consists  its  largest  war- 
rant and  justification,  and  that  they  who  exercise 
this  faith  are  sensible,  rational,  and  wise.  This 
position  he  expounds  and  defends  in  eight  chap- 
ters.   [Funk  &  Wagnallt.    75c.] 

The  same  author  in  his  inquiry  entitled   71/ 


Jeaiitk  Altar  resists  the  commonly  received 
interpretation  of  the  typical  character  of  the 
Jewish  Sacrificial  system,  arguing  that  that  In- 
terpretation does  injustice  to  the  facts,  and  that 
the  system  stood  upon  a  ground  of  independent 
efficiency  (A  it*  own.  The  author  is  clear  and 
rational,  and  deserves  attention.  [Funk  &  Wag- 
nails.    75c.] 

HIHOK  NOTIOES. 

Tie  Winnipeg  Couutry.  By  A.  Rochester 
Fellow.    [Cupples,  Upham  &  Co.] 

The  author  of  this  book  nowhere  states,  we 
believe,  the  year  in  which  the  expedition  he  de- 
scribes took  place,  but  it  is  dated  i860  on  the 
accompanying  map,  which  is  a  good  mpp  and 
a  useful  feature.  The  publication  of  such  a 
narrative  twenty-six  years  after  the  fact  is  a  little 
taidy,  though  in  this  case  it  is  made  fresh  to  the 
eye  by  a  series  of  typographical  arts  fully  up  to 
dale.  The  subject  ilsclF,  however,  is  like  the 
pemmican  the  book  so  graphically  portrays. 
The  railroad  has  rcvolutionieed  the  Winnipeg 
Country.  At  the  time  of  this  expedition,  whose 
object  was  the  scientific  observation  of  a  total 
eclipse  of  the  sun  at  a  point  on  the  Saskatche- 
wan River,  it  was  necessary  to  journey  from  St. 
Paul  tediously  by  stage  to  the  Red  River  at 
Breckenridge,  whence  the  party  descended  by  a 
clumsy  steamboat  to  Fort  Garry.  Here  a  mam- 
moth canoe  was  taken,  under  a  convoy  of  Indians, 
and  the  rest  of  the  way  was  made  by  the  rough 
waters  of  Lake  Winnipeg,  battling  with  waves, 
rapids,  mosquitoes,  rain  torrents,  pemmican,  and 
a  type  of  biscuit  known  as  "  Red  River  Granite." 
On  reaching  the  appointed  station,  after  three 
thousand  miles  of  constant  travel,  occupying  five 
weeks,  the  last  part  of  it  fatiguing  and  often 
perilous  in  the  extreme,  the  party  had  the  satis- 
faction of  planting  their  instruments  in  an  inun- 
dated bog  and  observing  the  eclipse  through 
clouds  I  It  was  an  hour's  scant  return  for  a 
heavy  investment  of  months.  The  story  of  it  all 
is  a  piquant,  good-humored,  entertaining  story  of 
a  canoe  voyage  into  a  grand  and  desolate  wilder- 
ness, enlivened  with  many  but  rather  rude  wood- 
cuts from  drawings,  and  enriched  with  a  few  ex- 
cellent phototypes.  It  is  a  pity  that  it  was  not 
printed  immediately  after  the  accomplished  fact, 
before  tbe  march  of  civilization  had  not  left  its 
pictures  of  British  North  America  a  considerable 
way  behind.     But  a  neater,  prettier  book  is  set- 


Captain  Bourke  tells  the  story  of  an  expedition 
of  United  States  troops  and  friendly  Apache 
scouts  from  Arizona  over  into  Mexico,  in  1SS3 
In  pursuit  of  a  marauding  band  of  Chiricahua 
Indians,  who  had  been  committing  depredations 
upon  both  Mexicans  and  Americans,  and  who 
were  chased  into  Ihetr  stronghold  in  the  Sierra 
Madre  Mountains,  where  they  surrendered  almost 
without  the  firing  of  a  gun.  The  reader's  ex- 
pectations of  a  sanguinary  and  savage  battle  are 
happily  disappointed;  the  affair  being  all  smoke 
and  no  fire,  save  a  bad  prairie  fire  at  one  point 
of  the  march.  Capt.  Bourke  gives  a  graphic 
picture  of  the  roughness  aod  wildness  of  the 
country,  and  a  good  idea  of  the  toil,  hardship, 
danger,  excitement,  and  fatigue  incident  to  sack 
an  incursion  into  it.  >     —-  --■    ~-'  ^ 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Sept.  i8, 


The  Literary  World. 


BOSTON,  SEPTEMSEn  IB,  I8B6. 


of  book.  WM  worthy  D[  thi  tnaium  it  contniaed. 
It  wu  Ions  *Bd  loltr,  with  ■  fln-placo  at  each  Bad, 
tha  oak  chluney.pl  eca*  carved  by  QriaUai  Qlb- 
bona,  tha  cdJlaf  anrlcbed  with  oak  carvEac,  the 
booh^caioa  la  harmoDy  with  chimney -plecn  and 
celllnf.  Lord  l.a*hiiiM''l  wi1lln(-Uble  and  reul. 
iDi'deik,  hia  capacloui  arra-chalr  and  tUlBtyUttla 
tea.labic,  only  made  an  laland  ol  lurnlture  la  the 


blight  col  art 
bookL     The 

book.bladloc  tor  the 
apeat  thoDaanda  upi 


tha 


wa*  IiunUfaed  by  the 


world,  peraone  (low  to  underaland  that  the  caee 
of  •  *habby.IODklB|  duodecimo  Elievir  oucht  to 
coat  foDf  or  Bve  peaada.— Uiu  BiaDooii:  Tit  Om 
Thing  Nii4f^.    

1  L£TT£B  FBOH  fiEBlCAST. 
a«rman  AnthorB'  Societiea. 

Btrlin,  August  a;. 

IN  one  of  in;  prenouB  letten  I  mentioDcd  the 
quMtioQ  of  great  as*ociatlon*  (or  our  men 
&nd  women  of  letters.  Since  Iben  a  good  deal 
bai  been  done  in  the  milter,  and  juit  at  preient 
deciuTe  measuret  are  about  to  be  taken.  It  ia 
really  worth  the  while  of  a  pnrel;  literary  jotir- 
nal  like  jpoqtb  to  lake  notice  of  *DCh  currents 
as  those  involved  in  thia  question. 

Every  great  town  in  Germany  boasta  one  or 
more  writera'  aocietiea,  but  they  are  all  mote  or 
leu  of  a  local  character.  Aa  regards  greater 
aaaociations  for  the  whole  cJ  German  journalists 
or  authors,  there  were  more  until  some  Iwenly 
years  ago,  when  the  *'  Deutscher  Journaliitentag ' 
was  founded,  a  society  ol  editors  and  proprietor 
of  newspapers,  with  an  annual  meeting  held  in 
a  different  town  every  year.  There  were  always 
heaps  of  debates  and  discnasions  about  copy- 
'  right,  piracy,  pensions,  insurance,  funds  for  is- 
stating  needy  colleagues,  etc.,  but  nothing  ever 
came  out  of  all  the  theoretical  speeches,  for 
there  was  nobody  energetic  and  practical  enough 
to  properly  work  at  the  rcaliution  of  the  many 
fine  propositions  and  plans.  A  few  years  ago 
Ibis  association  tacitly  expired.  In  the  mean- 
time the  leading  members  of  the  Leipzig  "  Sym- 
poMom,"  a  local  writers*  club  of  merely  sociable 
aiois,  bad,  in  1878,  founded  a  "General  Assocta- 
tioa  of  German  Authors,"  also  with  a  literary 
annual  gathering  for  its  center.  Some  three 
hundred  and  fifty  to  four  hundred  members  grad- 
nally  entered,  but  all  the  wonderfully  nice  things 
that  were  promised  them  never  took  any  pal- 
pable ahape.  The  excursions,  the  banqueting*, 
the  theatrical  performances,  and  the  other  amuse- 
ments provided  at  the  yearly  meetings,  were 
regarded  as  the  chief  purpose,  while  the  practi- 
cal interests  of  the  writers  remained  In  abeyance, 
A  aolicitor  was  paid  for  giving  his  efiniait  to 
members  questioning  him  about  matters  of  copy- 
right, etc.,  but  whenever  a  member  required  the 
Association  to  go  10  law  in  some  affair  of  Inter- 
est to  the  whole  writing  community,  they  refused 
to  do  so.    The  proposed  "court  of  arbitration," 


pacamouDt  need  for  quarrels  between  authors 
among  themselves  and  with  publishers  and  ed- 
itors, never  saw  the  light.  The  executive  com- 
mittee meddled  with  monuments  and  wreaths  for 
dead  authors,  and  such  like  matters,  but  nothing 
practical  was  ever  done,  in  spite  of  the  long 
sittings  and  numerous  speeches  at  the  meetings. 

In  consequence  of  this  ridiculous  state  of 
affairs,  the  number  of  members  grew  less  and 
less,  and  the  editor  of  the  Siriflstilltr-Zaiung, 
Professor  KUrschnei  of  Stuttgart  suggested 
the  formation  of  a  new  "  Society  of  German 
Writers."  some  eighteen  months  ago.  Owing  to 
Ibe  general  anger  at  the  Leipilgers'  impotence 
le  hand,  and  to  Profeasor  Klinchner's 
influential  position  on  the  other,  between  300 
and  400  colleagues  flocked  in  within  a  compara- 
tively short  time.  The  organiiation  of  the  new 
looked  much  more  promising  )  for  it  im- 
plied a  union  of  as  many  local  societies  aa  possi- 
ble, and  it  was  not  to  have  a  bureau  in  any  single 
place,  but  its  committee  was  to  consist  of  one 
member  each  in  the  five  great  literary  towns  of 
Germany  and  Austria.  But  a  long  time  elapsed 
e  the  new  union  became  formally  constituted; 
id,  when  it  did,  the  world  enjoyed  the  spectacle 
two  rival  associations  making  war  on  one 
another.  It  had  been  hoped  that  the  two  would 
united  Apropos  of  the  laat  annual  meet- 
ing of  the  Leipiigers,  held  at  Berlin  in  October 
last,  but  nothing  came  of  iL  As  discord  is  worse 
than  inaction  in  matters  of  protection  of  pecuni- 
ary and  legal  rights,  and  as,  moreover,  the 
younger  of  the  two  societies  did  not  move  on- 
more  than  the  old,  there  was  nothing 
left  hot  to  begin  an  agitation  in  favor  of  the 
fusion-  To  this  the  founders  of  the  KUrschnerian 
Society  were  long  opposed,  naturally  unwilling 
give  up  BO  aoon  a  scheme  fostered  with  much 
love  and  many  good  intentions-  But  in  Ji 
a  miaed  committee  of  six  delegates  of  the  two 
unions  met  in  Berlin  at  the  suggestion  of  the 
Leipzigcrs;  and  that  select  committee 
agreed,  not  only  on  the  amalgamation,  but  also 

if  new  rules  and  by-lawa,  intended 
submitted  to  the  respective  members  along  with 
the  question  of  voting  for  or  against  the  amalga- 
mation. A  decision  ought  to  have  come  In 
July  J  but,  owing  to  intrigue  and  neglect  on  the 
part  of  some  wiio  are  afraid  of  losing  their  pres- 
ent positions,  the  affair  was  delayed-  This  week, 
however,  the  question  was  placed  on  the  order 
of  the  day  of  the  respective  general  meetings 
be  held  in  October,  when  a  definite  decision 
will  be  reached- 

The  future  amalgamated  union  is  based  on  the 
plan  of  less  talk  and  less  amosement,  but 
practical  work  ;  its  principal  prototype  is 
the  excellently  organized  and  extremely  su 
ful  "  Soci^t^  des  Gens  de  Lettres,"  of  Paris.  I 
shall  keep  you  informed. 

Leopold  Katschbk. 

Mrs.  J.  H.  Walwarth.  This  American  no 
elist,  whose  latest  work,  77ie  New  Man  at  Roit- 
mm,  is  reviewed  in  another  column,  v 
a  signature  which  embodies  the  initials  of  her 
maiden  name,  Jeannette  Hidermann.  She  was 
born  in  Philadelphia,  but  her  father's  last  resi- 
deni:e  was  in  Adams  County,  Miss.,  where  he 
was   President  of   JeSeraon  College.      On  his 


death  the  bunily  moved  to  Louisiana,  whidi 
State  Mrs.  Walworth  now  claims  aa  her  own  by 
adoption.  Thia  daughter'a  peraonal  history  con- 
tains tbe  uneventful  record  of  a  governess's  life, 
begun  at  the  early  age  of  16,  just  before  the 
Civil  War.  Daring  the  War,  in  common  with 
other  "rebel "  girls,  she  learned  lessons  of  seU- 

inial  and  endurance  that  have  since  served  her 

good  stead,  and  her  recollections  of  thi*  period 
have  found  their  way  into  print  in  various  papers 
North  and  South.  Herfirateffortainaiiteraryliiie 
were  articles  in  the  New  Orleans  Sfud^  Tlm^x 
the  nam  diplumt  of  "  Ann  Atom."  These 
attracted  considerable  attention,  but  broimht 
lOney.  As  a  more  promising  finandat  vent- 
she  nndertook  a  book,  but  anrromided 
tbe  production  with  a  fatal  amount  of  secrecy 
and  precaution,  and  committed  its  publication  to 

New  York  house  which  tailed  in  the  very  act. 
Her  second  manuscript  was  submitted  to  J.  B. 
Lippincott  &  Co.,  and  published  by  them  under 
the  title  of  ForgiotH  at  Latl.  This  was  followed 
by  Ditut  Mm's  Sheet.  Hr.  S.  R.  Crocker,  tbe 
originator  of  the  Liltrary  Wirid,  recognised  tbe 
of  both  of  these  work*^  criticised  them 
fully  and  favorably  in  this  jottmal,  and  gave  the 
author  warm  encouragement     Hia  criticism*  be 

ipplemented  with  private  letters  to  tbe  author, 
recommending  her  removal  to  Boaton.  At  his 
suggestion  her  next  MS.  found  its  way  hither, 
brought  out  by  Shepard  &  Gill,  but 
their  failure  almoat  immediately  after  was  a 
heavy  blow  to  Its  success,  and  Mr.  Crocker^ 
illness  and  death  terminated  a  cheering  and 
helpful  friendship.  Having  meanwhile  married 
Major  Douglas  Walworth  of  Natchez,  Mis*., 
Mrs.  Walworth  now  accmnpanied  him  to  his 
planiation  in  Southern  Arkansas,  and  there  ei>- 
tered  on  the  life,  as  we  must  suppote,  which 
yielded  her  the  material*  for  71u  Ntm  Mam  at 
Reismtre.  She  wrote  very  little  while  living  on 
the  plantation,  but  on  removal  to  Memphis, 
Tenn.,  contributed  regularly  to  the  Memphis 
Appeal  over  the  nam  dt  plume  of  "Holber 
Goose."  These  articles  were  a  feature  of  the 
paper,  and  led  to  a  determination  on  the  part  of 
Mr.  and  Mis.  Walworth  to  come  to  New  York, 
there  to  seek  a  field  for  tbe  practice  of  bis 
profession,  the  law,  and  for  the  ampler  eierdse 
of  her  pen.  In  New  York,  in  the  last  two  years* 
Mrs.  Walworth's  literary  career  may  be  said  to 
have  fairly  begun.  Judge  Tourgee  carried  one 
of  her  serials  through  tbe  CentintHt,  and  pro- 
nounced its  author  a  representative  of  the  best 
Southern  thought.  Two  other  serials.  At  Bay, 
and  Tie  Silent  tf^tneti,  appeared  in  Frank 
Leslie's  periodicals-,  Alice  and  Seruplts  in  the 
Batlan  Beaean,  and  afterwards  in  Cassell's  "  Rain- 
bow Scries ; "  another  serial  and  StcalUelieni  iy 
a  Rebel  Girl  in  the  Christian  Union.  Tkt  Bar 
Sinister,  Without  Blemish,  and  now  The  New 
Man  at  Ressmere  have  been  published-  by  Cas- 
sell.  Mrs.  Walworth  has  won  her  fooling  by 
indomitable  energy  against  heavy  odds,  and  from 
what  is  said  elsewhere  of  ber  last  work  it  will 
appear  that  we  believe  her  to  have  conquered 


—  The  committee  on  instruction  of  the  Acad- 
emy Art  School,  Philadelphia,  consisting  oE 
Edward  H.  Coates,  William  S.  Baker,  Henry  C. 
Gibson,  Charles  Henry  Hart,  and  Dr.  John  H. 
Packard,  has  issued  a  circular  announcing  that 
the  object  of  (he  schools  is  to  afford  facilitie*  and 


1 886.] 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


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in  of  the  higbest  order  lo  men  and  womea 
who  intend  making  painting  or  sculptare  their  pro- 
fession. The  school  year  begins  on  the  first  Mon- 
day in  October. 


B00K8  POE  THE  TOUH0. 

Pfttr  PtnniUtt :  Gamekeeper  and  Gentleman. 
By  G.  Christopher  Davies.  Illastrated.  [F. 
Warne  &  Co.]  The  handsomest  English  books 
are  very  handaome,  and  to  that  rank  this  book 
belongs.  A  spacious  page,  beautifol  type,  good 
margins,  choice  paper,  a  rich  binding,  and  numer- 
ous and  pertinent  pictures  make  up  an  uncom- 
monly attractive  volume.  To  neat  boys  the 
contents  will  enhance  the  attraction.  Peter 
Penniless,  as  he  called  himself,  was  an  orphan 
who  had  been  left  dependent  on  his  own  re- 
sources, and  who,  putting  hia  pride  in  his  pocket, 
hired  out  as  under-keeper  on  an  English  estate. 
An  account  of  his  adventures  in  this  position, 
studying  the  habits  and  arts  of  all  sorts  of  game 
and  the  wiles  and  wickednesses  of  poachers,  is 
given  in  the  form  of  a  story,  in  which  Peter, 
the  head-keeper-Quadling,  and  Peter's  brother 
G«rard  are  the  chief  actors,  and  the  woods,  the 
lake,  and  the  river,  in  winter  and  summer,  the 
constant  but  ever  changing  scene.  We  have 
little  or  nothing  in  the  United  States  which  cor- 
responds to  this  phase  of  English  life,  md  the 
book  is  therefore  fresh  and  interesting;  instruct 
ive,  too,  in  a  certain  way.  As  to  its  influence 
on  the  sensibilities  we  are  not  so  sure.  The 
sacredness  of  animal  life  has  no  place  in  such  a 
story,  of  course,  and  the  reading  of  it  cannot  pro- 
mote humane  feeiinga  towards  harmless  creat- 
ures of  the  forest  and  the  air.  Fascinating  as 
the  book  must  be,  we  should  regret  its  effect  in 
this  direction. 

Tie  Youiig  Wild'Fmvlcri.  By  Harry  Castie- 
tnon.  [Porter  ft  Coates.]  'Such  sporting  as 
there  is  on  the  shores  of  the  Chesapeake  — and 
there  is  ■  good  deal  of  it  —  forms  the  subject  of 
this  addition  to  the  "Rod  and  Gun  Series." 
Here  arc  ducks  and  wild-fowl  in  abundance,  leased 
shooting  privileges,  and  skulking  poachers,  and 
a  wide  Beld  of  adventure,  of  a  different  and  more 
exciting  sort,  however,  than  is  found  in  the  book 
above  noted.  The  mysteries  of  "sink-boats," 
the  rank  of  "diamond-backs"  in  the  terrapin 
family,  the  difficulties  of  the  police-boats  in  pre- 
venting illegal  sport,  enter  Into  the  first  few 
chapters.  The  scene  then  changes  for  a  lime,  to 
an  academy,  and  to  the  jealousies,  rivalries,  and 
quanel*  of  school-life,  a  much  less  profitable 
subject ;  returning,  however,  to  the  Eastern  shore 
of  Maryland  for  the  conclusion.  Not  the  highest 
type  of  boy-life  is  depicted  in  these  pages. 

TuK  Arrewi.  By  W.  .O  Stoddard.  [Harper 
ft  Brothers.  Jt.oo,]  "Two  Arrows"  was  the 
trophy-name  won  by  a  young  Indian  lad  for  his 
prowess  in  bringing  down  a  buffalo  cow  with  his 
missile,  and  fetching  home  the  prey  to  a  starving 
camp  of  Nez  Perceg  in  the  Northwest,  Hia 
courage  thrives  on  his  fame,  and  he  rises  lo  prod- 
igies of  valor.  Meantime  the  Indian  trail  and 
the  trail  of  a  prospecting  party  of  whites  are 
drawing  nearer  and  nearer  together,  and  pres- 
ently touch.  Two  Arrows  is  uken  prisoner,  and 
forms  a  lie  between  the  two  bands.  Bloodthirsty 
Apaches  appear  on  the  scene,  and  excitements 
deepen  to  the  climax,  the  point  of  which  is  a 
moral   m  favor  of  the  schools  which  Christian  1 


civilization  has  foanded  for  Indian  boys  and  girls. 
For  an  Indian  story  this  is  unobjectionable. 

Rolf  Heiiii.  B;  Lucy  C.  Lillie.  Illustrated. 
[Harper  &  Brothers,    ^i-oa] 

Jf's  Oppertamty.  By  Locy  C.  Olie.  Illns- 
traled.    [Harper  &  Brother*-    txxa-l 

The  first  of  these  books  b  in  the  nature  of  a 
continuation  of  Jttildreil']  Bargain  and  //an  by 
the  same  author  in  the  same  "Voung  People's 
Series,"  and  the  second  is  linked  to  the  first  by 
unity  of  design  and  method.  Rclf  Houitpaiiixnt 
the  animated  happy  life  of  girls  in  domestic  sur- 
roundings, with  lessons  to  learn,  duties  to  per- 
form, and  a  terrible  boy  Bob  to  be  patient  with 
and  to  be  softened  and  subdued ;  the  "  Jo "  of 
the  second  book  is  not  a  boy  but  a  girl,  a  rough 
girl,  though,  taken  out  of  unfortunate  conditions 
and  chastened  into  a  fine,  sweet  character.  A 
vein  of  genuine  religious  faith  and  feeling  runs 
through  her  story.  The  pictures  in  both  of  these 
books  deserve  special  notice,  not  only  for  their 
abundance,  but  for  Ihcir  excellence. 

TXi  ChUdren  of  Old  Park's  Tavern.  By  Fran- 
ces  A.  Humphrey.  [Harper  ft  Brothers,  f  i.ooj 
This  is  a  story  of  the  "South  Shore,"  as  Boston 
people  call  the  stretch  of  country  running  along 
the  Massachusetts  Bay  from  the  "  >Iub  "  towards 
Cape  Cod.  The  time  is  before  railroads,  when 
the  stage-coach  ran  daily  between  Boston  and 
Plymouth  and  Whig  Conventions  were  in  order. 
Then  were  the  days  when  Daniel  Webster  was 
a  living  celebrity,  in  his  blue  coat,  brass  buttons, 
and  bu&  waistcoat ;  and  he  makes  an  appear- 
ance in  this  story.  So  does  the  Webster  Man- 
sion at  Marsbfield,  and  the  old  Pilgtim  Burial 
Ground  near  by.  A  more  astounding  appear- 
ance is  that  of  Skatta,  a  black  Shetland  pony,  who 
is  led  into  the  breakfast  room  at  the  Marchant 
House  as  a  birthday  gift  to  Dorothea  from  her 
papa  and  mamma.  Then  comes  a  pony  tourna- 
ment in  the  old  muster-field,  the  death  of  old  Gas- 
ton, a  nobie  St.  Bernard  dog,  and  the  discovery 
of  a  secret  chamber  in  the  ancient  New  England 
house.  So  the  story  rambles  on  through  such 
chapters  as  "The  Vellow  Satin  Gown,"  "The 
Military  Ball,"  "  Publishment  in  the  Old  Meet- 
ing House,"  and  "Thanksgiving  Days,"  its  office 
being  to  recall  every-day  domestic  life  as  it  ex- 
isted in  these  parts  a  generation  ago.  One 
"specialty  "  of  the  book  is  New  England  dialect 
as  supplied  by  Skipper  Joe. 

Cecil's  Ceuiitu.  By  E.  B.  HoIIis.  [T.  Y. 
Crowell  &  Co.  #1.25.]  Cecil  is  a  motherless 
girl  who  has  been  left  to  grow  up  under  the  care 
of  Huldah,  a  fine  specimen  of  the  good  and  faith- 
ful servant.  Huldah  has  a  married  sister  in  Ne- 
braska, who  is  in  trouble,  and  while  she  is  gone 
to  make  her  a  visit  Cecil  goes  to  stay  with  her 
cousins  the  Thomdykcs.  One  of  the  cousins  is 
Charlie,  who  is  just  on  the  line  between  boyhood 
and  manhood,  where  currents  of  temptation 
meet.  Cecil  lays  herself  out  to  get  a  good 
influence  over  this  Charlie,  to  interest  him  to 
stay  at  home  evenings  and  so  on,  while  the  other 
cousin,  Clara,  gets  herself  engaged  to  a  young 
man  who  i*  "not  a  professed  Christian."  Be- 
tween cousinly  interest,  motherly  anxiety,  and 
fatherly  indulgence,  Charlie's  temptations  get 
the  better  of  him,  he  comes  home  the  worse  for 
wine,  he  falls  into  the  vice  of  gambling,  and  gets 
very  near  to  sowing  the  wind  and  reaping  the 
whirlwind.  His  father's  failure,  and  his  cousin's 
steady  eSorls,  finally  bring  him  to  his  better  self, 
and  all  turns  Out  well.    The  ministry  of  a  good 


influence  ia  the  moral  of  this  religious  novel  for 
young  people. 

Alict  fVilAraw.  By  Lucy  Randolph  Fleming. 
[T.  Y.  Crowell  ft  Co.  #1.15.]  Alice  Withrow 
was  a  cily  girl,  with  brothers  and  a  sister,  all  of 
whom  had  to  stay  at  home  one  summer  instead 
of  going  to  the  country,  on  account  of  their 
father's  business  reverses.  This  was  a  disap- 
pointment to  them.  How  Ihcy  took  their  dis- 
appointment, how  they  made  the  best  of  it,  how 
Alice  started  out  "  to  be  a  Christian  "  and  made 
a  number  of  bad  mistakes  in  finding  the  way,  and 
how  she  contrived  in  the  end  to  do  good  and 
learn  her  lesson  and  get  into  the  light  and  peace 
of  humility,  dutifulness,  and  submission  —  this  is 
the  story.  It  is  a  pretty  story,  well  written,  with 
some  keen  points  and  bright  touches,  grounded 
in  the  theology  of  Mr.  Moody's  hymns,  and  likely 
to  interest  girls  and  do  good. 

Trant/Brmed.  By  Faye  Huntington.  [T.  V. 
Crowell  ft  Co.  f  i.ij.]  It  was  the  Barney  fam- 
ily who  were  "  transformed,"  a  poor,  ignorant, 
degraded,  Irish  family  living  in  the  "swamp" 
near  Waltham  ;  and  it  was  Christian  love  and 
sympathy  and  skill  and  patience  that  did  it,  all 
united  in  the  charming  person  of  Marian  Kings- 
ley. 

The  Rev.  James  M.  Tbompsonls /^rem  Accadia 
It  Macphilah  popularizes  the  results  of  modern 
research  in  Bible  lands  in  a  way  to  form  a  picto- 
rial background  for  the  story  of  Abraham,  there 
being  a  union  in  it  of  geographical,  archaeo- 
logical, and  historical  information,  [fl.33.]  — 
Ckiric's  Ansvxrid  Prayer  is  a  story  oE  evangel- 
istic work  among  the  French  Waldcnses,  or  Vau- 
dois,  the  descendants  of  those  "  Poor  Men  of 
Lyons"  whose  fortunes  have  been  so  touchingly 
portrayed  by  the  Rev'  E.  E.  Hale  in  In  I/ii 
Nam4.  [(1.00.]  —  A  tale  of  somewhat  aimilar 
spirit  of  Reformation  times  in  Holland  ia  pre- 
sented in  Waiter  Harmsen,  a  translation  from 
the  Dutch  of  Rev.  Daniel  Van  PelL  The  land 
of  Hans  Brinker  and  the  Silver  Skates  is  here 
seen  in  its  religious  atmosphere,  the  leading  facts 
oE  which  are  supplied  by  the  translator  in  an 
explanatory  chapter.  [tl. 25-] —Ella  Rodman 
Church  has  written  two  companion  books  in  nat- 
ural history,  presenting  certain  interesting  facts 
in  the  form  of  a  story.  Amtng  the  Trees  at  Etm- 
ridge  tft.aj]  is  devoted  to  the  diversities,  habits, 
and  uses  of  forest  and  orchard  growths,  wild  and 
domesticated;  Fltnaer  Taiis  at  ElmriJge[%l.i^ 
to  similar  lessons  in  the  structure  of  flowers- 
Arboriculture  and  floriculture  are  brought  down 
by  these  twin-books  to  the  level  of  young  minds. 
—  Mabel's  Summer  in  Ike  Himaiayai  is  the  sim- 
ple story  of  a  little  girl  who  accompanied  her 
parents  to  those  mountains  in  search  of  summer 
coolness,  affording  pictures  of  Indian  landscape 
and  lite.  [8sc]  —  Gri_ffln  Alliy  Folk  is  an  expo- 
silioD  of  rescue-work  in  the  slums  of  a  city. 
\%\.Qa\~Ridfh.  Wilton' t  Seerel  is  a  temperance 
story  finding  its  theme  in  a  well-to-do  Philadel- 
phia woman's  tampering  with  wine  in  face  of  the 
fact  that  she  had  inherited  a  drunkard's  appetite 
from  her  father.  [fl-oo.] — The  qoestion  an- 
swered by  Kate  W.  Hamilton  in  Wood,  Hay,  and 
Stubbie  is  what  and  how  shall  we  build,  being  an 
illustration  by  means  of  fiction  of  i  Cor.  iii,  la, 
13.  The  form  is  that  of  the  novel ;  the  voice  is 
that  oCthe  preacher.  [(i-zj.J  —  Much  the  same 
may  be  said  of  Uncle  SelA'i  Will,  by  Jennie  M. 
Urinkwaler,  which  has  however  an  individnality 
above  books  of  its  class.    Uncle  Seib  a  quite  a 


THE  LITERARY  WORLR 


[Sept.  i8, 


character.    All  of  Ihe  books  mentioned  (n  thia 
paragraph  are  publication!  of  the  Presbjtt 
Board  at  Philadelphia. 


eduoahoval  tobes. 

Geelogiea!  SCuJUs.  By  Alexander  Winchcll. 
IS.  C.  Gtiggs  &  Co.  f3.oo.]  This  is  a  thor- 
oughly new  departure  in  geological  text- 
books. Something  of  it  was  indicated  in  Cea- 
logiial  Excvriiaiii,  by  the  same  author,  which 
was  favorably  noticed  in  these  coli 
its  appearance.  The  present  volume  etaborates 
the  plan  more  fully  for  high  schools  and  col- 
leges. The  essence  of  Professor  Winchell'i 
method  ii  that  the  teacher  with  his  diss  goes 
into  the  field  or  laboratory,  and  studies,  not  text- 
book bat  nature  henelf.  The  book  is  divided 
into  two  parts,  first  a  seiiea  of  thirty-four  "  stud- 
ies "on  the  general  facts  of  geology,  containing 
full  and  excellent  outlines  for  field  and  labor 
lory  work;  second,  the  application  of  these 
the  lysiematic  and  historical  <riew  of  the  sub- 
ject. The  work  ii  not  "  popular"  in  any 
but  is  for  the  geological  work-shop,  and  for  the 
teacher  who  has^time  und  knowledge  enough  for 
so  much  detail.  For  this  use,  and  for  Amei 
geology,  there  is  nothing  comparable  with  it 
before  the  public  Many  who  are  obliged  to 
teach  geology  have  neither  time  nor  i 
such  elaborate  work,  and  still  more,  perhaps, 
would  feel  diffident  about  undertaking  such  a 
purely  sdentiGc  presentation  of  the  subject ;  but 
such  teachers  especially  should  have  this  book 
before  them  for  daily  study  and  preparation. 
Indeed,  if  we  mistake  not,  the  most  important 
mission  of  the  book  will  be  to  educate  Ihe  teach- 
ers themselves. 

LecturiJ  in  Ihe  Training  ScAoirlj  for  Kinder- 
garlntri.  By  Elizabeth  P,  Peabody.  [H.  C. 
Heath  &  Co.  ^i.oo]  The  eight  lectures  and 
two  appendices  in  this  little  volume  are 
filled  with  discursive,  colloquial  discussion 
of  the  great  theme  of  education.  But  the 
apparently  rambling  talk  is  found,  on  more 
attentive  listening,  to  be  intensely  interesting, 
and  in  reality  to  be  closely  bound  together  in 
logical  consecution  of  thought.  If,  here  and 
there,  a  very  few  passages  were  eliminated,  con- 
taining, i«  we  think,  scientific  error,  we  might  say 
that  every  sentence  in  the  book  is  not  only  full  of 
Ihe  true  spirit  of  the  Christian  religion,  but  full 
of  the  most  profound  and  valuable  truth.  Nom- 
inally addressed  to  those  who  were  in  training  la 
become  kindergarincrs,  it  is  worth  reading  and 
re-reading  by  all  parents  and  leicbers.  It  would 
prove  valuable  especially  to  scholars  of  our  nor- 
mal schools ;  and  to  young  ]>ersotM  in  general, 
upon  whom  the  care  o(  children,  in  one  form  or 
anolher,  is  likely  to  fall. 

Kelsey's  Casar'i  Gallic  War  is  a  very  superior 
piece  of  work.  The  six  colored  plates  illustrat- 
ing  the  officers,  soldiers,  implements,  and  melh. 
ods  of  Roman  warfare,  ate  from  the  beat  French 
and  German  sources,  as  are  also  the  maps  and 
plans  throughout  [he  work.  The  introductory 
portion  —  Life  of  Cssar,  Roman  Art  of  War, 
Theater  of  the  Gallic  War  — is  much  more  full 
and  valuable  than  is  usual  in  such  books.  That 
a  portrait  of  Czsar  was  not  inserted  is  a  great 
omission.  The  text  is  good,  notes  ample,  vocab- 
ulary apparently  sufficient  for  the  student  at  that 


stage  of  his  reading.  We  should  not  know 
where  to  lay  hands  on  a  more  attractive  or  val- 
uable school  edition  of  this  great  classic,  and 
editor,  publisher,  teachers,  students,  are  alike  to 
be  congratulaicd.    [Boston :    John  Allyo.] 

Allen  &  Greenough's  SiUct  Oralimi  f/  Ckern 
comprise  fourteen  of  the  fifty-seven  extant,  in- 
cluding the  four  against  Catiline  and  olhers 
usually  read.  The  text  is  based  on  that  of 
Baiter  and  Kiyser.  The  edition  contains  also 
portrait,  taken  from  a  Florentine  bust;  a  sbor 
biography,  with  lists  of  Cicero's  orations  am 
other  writing! ;  a  chronological  table  of  events 

acription  of  Ihe  Roman  forum,  with  a  plan 

I  picture  of  the  ruins  as  appearing  in  1S85 
judicious  notes,  with  references  to  three  leading 
grammars;  and  a  vocabulary,  giving  derivations 
of  the  words.    The   volume   is  very   attractive 

nally,  having  convenient  site,  red  edges, 
leather  back,  and  handsome  paper  and  print. 
[GinniCo.    #i^o.J 

Mr.  Wentworth's  Elcmenl)  ef  Analylii  Ccom- 
itry  is  a  text-book  for  beginners,  starting  off 
with  easy  steps  and  advancing  to  most  abstruse 
problems  so  arranged  ai  to  allow  the  teachi 
lead  the  way  judiciously  among  them.  Mr. 
Wentworth's    text-book    series  in   mathematics 

amounts  to  some  twenty  volumes.    [Gi 
Co.    fi.io.]  ^ 

BIOaBAPHT. 


By  dint  of  collecting  most  of  the  readily  avail- 
able data  concerning  the  life  of  Mary  Shelley, 
the  author  of  this  volume  has  succeeded  in  mak- 
ing a  connected  narrative  in  which  the  Godwins 
and  Shelleys,  Lord  Byron,  the  Hunts,  and  all  the 
other  familiar  figures  in  Ihe  Shelley  drama  havi 
their  proper  parL  But  it  is  a  narrative,  pure  and 
imple,  enlivened  toward  the  close  with  abundant 
elections  from  correspondence,  and  far  fi 
presenting  a  satisfactory  portrait  of  Mary  Shelley. 
Miss  Moore  is  satisfied  with  tracing  Ihe  outline 
if  her  character  through  the  resplendent  mist  of 
omance  in  which  she  is  involved  by  association 
with  her  poet  husband.  Mary  Shelley,  the  com- 
<n  of  a  man  of  genius,  having  a  more  or  less 
definite  relation  to  an  immortal  career,  is  indeed 
ne  extent  made  manifest ;  Mai;  Shelley  as 
inct  entity  Is  nowhere  to  be  found  in  these 
vague  and  tentative  pages.  There  is  absolutely 
attempt  at  an  analysis  of  her  personality. 
Miss  Moore's  sole  idea  of  this  part  of  a  biogra- 
pher's task  seems  to  be  limited  to  propounding 
conundrums.  "  What  art  thou  looking  for  thou 
drous  child  ?  Thy  Shelley  comes  not  from 
the  sea."  Perhaps  the  elaborate  and  ex- 
lely  fanciful  exposition  of  Frankentttin  is 
intended  to  compensate  in  some  degree  for  other 
shortcomings.  We  can  find  no  valid  reason, 
however,  for  believing  that  the  talc  of  horror  in 
question  was  anything  more  than  a  tale  of  horror 
in  its  first  conception,  and  ihe  attempt  to  evolve 
a  world-allegory  from  it  i*  fanciful  and  far- 
fetched. Miss  Moore's  style  is  indicative  of  the 
boarding-school  stage  of  intellectual  develop- 
menL  Sir  Timothy  Shelley,  we  are  told,  was 
"well  posted  rather  than  cultured;"  moreover, 
"with  his  son  Percy  he  lacked  all  possible 
grounds  of  sympathy  or  understanding — a  con- 
dition of  things  of  which  Mary  Shelley  partook 
the  fruits,  and  of  which  she  bitterly  reaped  the 


harvest,"  It  U  also  asserted  by  Miss  Moore 
that  "fidelity  to  fact  must  deny  to  Harriet 
[Westbrook]  the  po«^  of  an  injured  and  credu- 
lous innocent."  And  here  is  a  sentence  thmt 
should  invoke  Ihe  shade  of  the  late  lindley  Hur- 
ray to  visit  condign  punishment  upoo  the  perpe- 
trator. "  In  the  beginning  of  the  year  1815,  his 
grandfather  dying,  Shelley's  father  allowed  him 
Z' 1,000  a  year,  as  being  the  direct  heir  of  the  es- 
tate." Miss  Moore  takes  no  notice  of  Trelaw- 
ny's  recent  revelations  with  regard  to  the  Shel- 
leys —  except  to  give  the  other  side  of  the  story 
without  qualifying  comment.    The  book  is  inade- 

Lift  of  Schuyler  Cel/ax.     By  O.  I.  Holliater. 

[Funk&  Wagnalli.    Ij-jo.] 

Mr.  Hollister'a  bit^raphy  of  Schuyler  Colfax 
fills  an  octavo  of  five  hundred  and  thirty-five 
pages.  It  is  precisely  two  hundred  and  thirty- 
five  pages  100  long.  The  career  of  Mr.  Colfax 
was  that  of  a  typical  American,  and  in  many  re- 
spects was  worthy  of  careful,  even  of  elaborate, 
record;  but  there  is  no  excuse  (or  much  of  the 
historical  padding  that  has  gone  to  the  making  of 
this  volume.  Mr.  Hollister  has  sought  to  carry 
his  readers  along  on  the  current  of  Ihe  times 
and  has  thereby  succeeded  in  being  at  intervals 
very  tedious.  His  abstract  and  chronicle  Is 
prosy  and  prolix.  In  treating  of  Mr.  Colfax's 
public  life  the  biographer  has  shown  discretion. 
He  eulogizes,  but  not  fulsomely  ;  he  attempts  no 
criticism;  every  act  of  the  man  of  whom  he  writes 
is  placed  in  Ihe  most  favorable  light,  but  there  is 
no  attempt  at  concealment.  The  Credit  Mobi- 
lier  matter  is  related  frankly  and  honestly,  and 
on  the  strength  of  what  has  gone  before  the 
reader  is  ready  to  exonerate  the  conscientioua 
and  upright  publicist  from  all  blame.  Schuyler 
Colfax,  by  nature  gifted  with  a  high  integrity  of 
character,  was  also  endowed  with  a  masterly 
talent  for  politics,  and  these  two  trails  harmoDJ- 

ily  united  go  far  to  explain  the  affeclionate 
regard  bestowed  upon  him  by  his  countrymen. 
He  belonged  to  a  class,  now  alas,  not  too  numer- 
ous, whom  the  great  masses  Of  the  people  delight 

honor,  and  his  life  is  an  eloquent  enforcement  of 
the  too  often  forgotten  truth  that  the  politician's 
not  necessarily  divorced  from  honesty 
of  purpose  and  lofty,  if  partisan,  aspirations. 
The  book  has  some  excellent  portraits  and  is 
otherwise  well  made. 

Bolingtrote :  a  Historical  Study.  By  Juhn 
Churton  Collins.  [Harper  &  Bros,  fi.oo.] 
Mr.  Collins's  study  of  Pope's  .St.  John,  the  in- 
rer  of  the  Essay  on  Man,  consists  of  three 
icles  reprinted  from  the  Quarterly  Review. 
They  remind  one  more  of  Macaulay  than  does 
any  other  writing  of  the  present  day.  They  have 
that  famous  author's  brilliancy  and  much  of  his 
partisanship,  painting  Bolingbroke  In  very  vivid 
colors,  with  few  quiet  tints.  Mr.  Collins  is  prob- 
ably just    in  his  denunciations  of  all  the  biogra- 

ers   who  have  gone  before  him,  and  has  been 

dilligent  a  student  that  his  monograph  must 
hereafter  be  read  by  all  interested  in  the  history 
of  I  be  first  half  of  the  eighteenth  Century;  but 
iless  a  preference  for  less  epigrammatic 
chronicles,  epigram  being  generally  one  of  the 
mies  of  truth  1  A  detailed  study  it 
appended  of  Voltaire's  stay  in  England,  which 

:ended  over  two  years  and  eight  monthly  aqd.  , 
WM  a  very  important  episode  in  hit  life.        O 


1 886.] 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


PliUarck'i  Lives.  Cloagh's  Tranalation 
Abridged  and  Annotated  b;  Edwin  Ginn. 
With  Hislorical  Introduction  by  W.  F.  Allen. 
[Ginn  &  Co.  50c.]  According  to  the  preface 
"  dough's  translation  of  the  Lives,  with  the 
exception  of  about  half  a  dozen  lines,  has  been 
followed  in  this  edition."  This  language  is  in- 
comprehensible. The  first  flash  of  thought  was 
that  "  lines  "  was  a  misprint  (or  livii.  But  Plu- 
tarch's "Uves"  number  fifty;  in  this  abridg- 
ment only  seven  are  abridged.  Little  &  Biown's 
edition  of  Ctough's  Plutarch  is  a  massive  octavo 
of  more  than  700  closely  printed  pages,  1,000 
words  to  a  page  \  Mr.  Ginn's  abridgment  is  a 
twelvemo,  of  a  few  over  300  pages,  300  words  to 
a  page.  We  are  probably  very  stupid,  but  what 
the  above  description  can  mean  we  arc  at  a  loss 
to  understand.  As  for  the  Lives  the  subjects  are 
Themislocles,  Pericles,  Alexander,  Coriotaniu, 
Fabins,  Scrtorius,  and  Cxsar.  The  abridg- 
ments are  extendve.  Mr.  Allen's  historical  in- 
troductions are  brief  and  helpful.  There  are  a 
few  notes,  which  are  indexed,  and  there  is  a  key 
to  the  pronunciation  of  proper  names.  The  type 
and  presswork  are  excellent,  as  in  all  the  volumes 
of  *'  Classics  for  Children." 

Henry  Battley.  By  Rev.  E.  1_  Hicks.  [Mac- 
millan  &,  Co.  fzxxx]  An  interesting  but  pecul- 
iar religious  character  is  portrayed  in  this  biog- 
raphy. Mr.  Bazeley  was  an  Oxford  student  of 
distinguished  talents  and  fervent  piety,  who  gave 
himself  to  the  work  of  an  evangelist  with  an 
evangelist's  true  spirit,  first  under  the  banner  of 
the  Church  of  England,  but  aflerwards  as  a  min- 
ister of  the  Church  of  Scotland.  He  began  his 
Oxford  life  in  dose  connection  with  the  Evangel- 
icals, bnt  Calvinism  acquired  a  strong  influence 
over  his  mind,  the  Establishment  lost  its  hold 
upon  him,  «nd  he  became  a  Presbyterian, 
byterians  would  hail  this  book  with  joy  in  their 
contests  against  Episcopacy.  But  it  has  a  larger 
than  a  sectarian  bearing ;  it  shows  how  Chris- 
lianily  is  larger  than  any  denomination,  and  pre- 
sents a  positive,  earnest,  aggressive,  courageous, 
devoted  disciple  of  the  Saviour  at  work  among 
men  to  win  ibem  to  Him.  Mr.  Bazeley,  despili 
the  Oifttrd  cap  and  gown  which  he  wears  in  the 
frontispiece,  was  an  evangelist  of  the  Moody 
type,  and  on  the  street  corners,  at  the  races,  and 
among  abandoned  women  preached  the  Cross 
irith  the  faith  and  unction  of  an  apostle. 

TU  Stage  Ufe  of  Mary  Anderson.    By  Willi 
Winter.    [Geo.  J.  Coombes.    f  1.15.]      If  Mary 
Anderson  be  the  great  American  actress,  then 
Mr.  William  Winter  is  her  prophet ;    and  it  n 
not  be  her  prophet's  fault  if  by  such  writing 
this  she  Is  not  advanced  to  the  rank  of  the  fore- 
most tragic  actress  of  the  world.    This  is  going 
a  good  deal  farther  than  cooler  beaded  critics  will 
allow;    but  Mr.  Winter's  enthusiasm  knows 
bounds,  and  ancritical   admirers  will   read 
laudatory  pages  with  great  relish  and  satisfac- 
tion.   This  pretty  booklet,  with  its  wide  margin 
and  uncut  edges,   is  a  professional  biography, 
claims  to  be  a  critical  one  of  its  distinguished 
subject,  and  is  to  be  followed  by  others. 


KIHOE  FIOTIOH. 


No  Saint.     By   Adeline   Sergeant.      [Henry 
Holt  4  Co.    >i.oo.] 

No  Saint  is,  after   Prohatian,  the   most 
worthy  addition   to  the  long  line  of  the  Leisure 
Hour  fictions  which  has  appeared  of  late  years. 


It  is  the  story,  so  simply  told  as  to  appear  like  a 
record  of  actual  experience,  and  at  the  same  time, 

so  well  told  as  to  a  thorough  training  in  literary 
ods,  of  a  boy  of  twenty  whose  manhood  is 
blasted  in  the  onlset  by  the  impulse  of  one  nn- 
govemed  moment.  Panl  Hemshaw,  goaded  into 
sudden  fury  by  blows  and  insults,  strikes  his 
elder  brother  one  rash  blow  and  kills  him.  He 
is  tried  for  the  murder,  his  youth  and  the  circum- 
Blances  plead  in  his  favor,  and  Che  sentence  is  a 
light  one,  tiro  months  of  imprisonment;  at  the 
end  of  which  he  is  set  free  to  pick  up  and  piece 
together  the  fragments  of  his  broken  life.  Ar- 
rangements are  made  by  the  few  who  are  kindly 
disposed  toward  him,  to  defray  his  expenses  to  the 
colonies,  where  his  history  is  unknown,  and  where 
hecanbcgin  without  the  hindrances  which  in  Eng- 
land inevitably  hedge  the  path  of  a  released  felon. 
These  benevolent  intentions  are  frustrated,  first 
by  a  critical  illness  which  delays  him  and  causes 
the  forfeiture  of  his  pass^e,  and  then  by  his  own 
dogged  determination  to  remain  in  Glandf  ord,  the 
scene  of  his  misfortunes,  and  work  his  problem 
out  there.  How  hard  a  problem  it  was;  how 
desperate  the  fight  during  those  first  months 
when  shut  into  himself  as  well  by  the  stricture 
a  bitter  reserve  as  by  the  avoidance  of  his  felli 
men,  he  endured  more  than  the  rigors  of  solitary 
imprisonment ;  how  penitence  and  courage  came 
to  him  with  the  Christian's  change  of  be  ait  as  he 
set  himself  to  live  for  his  fellow-men,  till,  in  the 
end,  he  won  back  their  regard  and 
long-deferred  happiness.  These 
periences  make  up  the  story  of  Paul  Hemshaw, 
who,  if  "No  Saint,"  is  at  least  a  deeply  human 
man.  The  story,  beside  being  profoundly  inter, 
esting,  is  admirable  in  literary  quality,  true  of 
feeling,  keen  of  instinct,  thoroughly  good  of 
workmanship. 


Co.    »i.ail 

Wall  Street  can  scarcely  be  called  promising 
ground  for  the  development  of  an  Idyll,  and 
readers  will  hardly  be  deluded  into  expecting 
one,  by  the  romantic  second  title  of  IlanHibal  of 
ffall  Street— "  Some  Account  of  the  Financial 
Loves  of  Hannibal,  St-  Joseph,  and  Paul  Cradge." 
In  fact  these  grisly  shepherds,  while  ostensibly 
combining  to  lead  their  "  lambs  "  down  the  sleep 
path  which  conducts  to  ruin,  are  in  reality  watch- 
ing each  his  chance  for  a  telling  blow  at  the 
other,  and  the  man  who  strikes  lirst  has  the  best 
of  it.  It  is  a  coarsely  vigorous  story  of  a  side  of 
modern  life  which  has  its  amusing  as  well  as  its 
repulsive  aspects,  and  the  sharp-eyed  public 
which  is  on  the  look-out  for  studies  of  rea!  people 
as  well  as  the  other  public  who  reads  for  fiction's 
sake,  will  find  it  sufficiently  entertaining.  It  is 
the  pioneer  of  the  new  "Leisure  Season  Series.'' 

sen,  Mc- 

How  many  people  know  that  the  word  aiiaiiin 
comes  from  the  word  haschisehf  Assassins  or 
tuuikiickini  were  originally  men  who  committed 
murders  to  order  under  the  infiucnce  of  haschiach, 
which  is  the  Arabian  name  of  a  powerful  drug 
produced  from  a  species  of  hemp.  In  Mr.  King's 
very  original  and  uncommonly  able  story,  how- 
ever, haschisch  is  employed  not  to  procure  a 
murder  but  to  delect  the  perpetrator  of  it.  This 
singalar  use  of  the  drug  is  suggested  by  an  art!- 


Furthermore,  I  would  suggest  the  medico- 
legal question  whether  the  condition  that  may 
thus  be  produced  by  haschisch,  may  not  be  util- 
'ced  in  certain  criminal  cases,  to  extract  confes- 

ions  from  persons  suspected  of  crime,  and  thus 

void  grave  judicial  errors. 

The  murder  whose  mystery  was  solved  by  the 
use  of  haschisch  in  this  story  was  committed  in 
"The  Belmont,"  a  firsl-class  family  hotel  in 
upper  New  York.  The  victim  was  Mr.  Austin 
Hardy,  a  returned  diamond  miner  from  South 
Africa.  He  had  been  showing  a  belt  full  of  dia- 
monds, one  of  them  a  f  20,000  gem,  to  his  family 
and  friends  in  the  evening,  and  the  next  morn- 
ing was  found  dead  in  his  bed,  chloroformed,  with 
his  throat  cut,  and  the  diamonds  gone.  Suspi- 
cion first  turned  upon  a  young  man  named  Gor- 
don Wright,  who  had  seen  the  diamonds,  and 
who  was  in  a  strait  for  just  fac^ooo  through  a 
previous  misfortune  which  had  left  a  shadow  on 
his  character.  He  is  arrested,  tried,  convicted 
on  circumstantial  evidence,  and  sentenced  to 
prison  for  life.  There  arc  those  who  believe  in 
bis  innocence,  and  by  them  a  man  named  Philip 
Arnold  is  suspected,  who  bad  had  dealings  with 
Hardy  the  afternoon  before  the  murder.  Arnold 
is  followed  lo  Europe  by  an  amateur  detective, 
tracked  lo  Nice,  Monaco,  and  Monte  Carlo,  and 
then  to  Paris,  and  there  by  an  ingenious  course 
of  strategy  is  brought  under  the  influence  of 
haschisch,  whereupon  he  enacts  over  again  with 
imaginary  materials,  in  the  presence  of  witnesses, 
the  murder  in  the  "  Belmoni "  chamber.  Other 
meshes  of  Che  nee  of  evidence  are  woven  in  with 
this,  and  the  ruined  criminal  makes  confession 
of  his  guilt  by  suicide.  The  story  is  admirably 
planned  and  well  told,  with  great  naturalness  of 
manner,  close  attention  to  details,  circumstantial 
and  effective  descriptions,  and  a  by-play  of  love 
and  romance  which  relieves  the  dark  colors  of  so 
tragic  a  theme.    We  give  Haichiich  praise. 


Walworth.     [Cassel!  &  Co.    (i.: 

Tite  Nev  Man  at  Ressmert  is  a  novel  that 
places  the  public  under  obligations.  It  has  an 
unhackneyed  subject,  a  aobject  that  is  pictur- 
esque and  interesting;  it  has  plot,  character, 
dramatic  incident,  healthy  emotion,  and  good 
purposes;  it  has  landscape,  atmosphere,  fore- 
ground, background,  and  perspective;  it  is  re- 
lated to  current  history  and  is  instinct  with 
genuine  life ;  it  avoids  sexaal  immorality,  and  in- 
structs while  il  entertains.  It  is  not  unworthy  of 
being  named  with  the  best  novels  of  Southern 
life  that  have  appeared  since  the  war.  It  locates 
itself  upon  the  map  and  connects  itself  with  a 
definite  national  period.  The  scene  is  a  trio  of 
cotton  plantations  in  Arkansas  on  a  lake  a  few 
miles  inland  from  the  Mississippi.  The  year  is 
1870.  "  Tievina,"  the  run-down  estate  of  the 
Southmeads,  is  the  central  plantation  of  the  three. 
"Rossmere,"  recently  bought  by  Major  Denny, 
a  Yankee,  is  on  it*  left;  "Thorndale,"  old 
Squire  Thorn's  place,  on  the  right.  Political  ani- 
mosiiies,  sectional  jealousies,  and  social  antipa- 
thies play  a  part  in  the  opening  of  the  story. 
An  imminent  inundation  from  the  river, 
occasioned  by  villainy  taking  advantage  of  a 
weak  place  in  the  levee,  shrouds  later  events 
with  a  sense  of  appalling  danger,  and  (urnisbe* 
material  for  a  highly  dramatic  turn  in  the  sttwy. 


3lS 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Sept.  i8, 


The  eidtemenis  of  an  election  dly,  marked  by 
the  triumph  of  a  local  colored  politiciln,  end  i 
tragedy  an  Ihe  court-house  green.  A  rcligi 
meeting  in  the  village,  a  night  in  the  cabin  of 
Aunt  Lottie,  the  old  Voudoo  Queen,  supply 
further  loachei  of  "local  color."  Negro  dialect 
of  the  purest  Bowi  from  the  lips  of  Aunt  Nancy, 
the  cook  at  Tievlna,  and  Uncle  Ephe,  the  team- 
ster at  Thotndale.  Urtula  Ralaloti,  the  South- 
meads'  widowed  cousin,  is  a  sweet  and  noble 
woman,  worthy  of  Major  Denny's  pnraui 
Ihc  way  in  which  proofs  discover  themselves  of 
the  actual  death  of  her  careteu  Harry  of  a  hus- 
bani),  after  he  had  been  tnissing  half  a  dozen 
yeail,  is  more  natural  than  fiction  sometimes  pro- 
vides. The  Major's  disguised  brother,  the  villain 
of  the  story,  does  no  serious  harm,  and  the  sun- 
shine rests  on  Rossmerc  as  we  bid  it  good-bye. 
This  is  I  strong,  meritorious,  readable  book,  an 
addition  to  the  shelf  oE  Southern  fiction. 

Wow  by    Waiting.    By  Edna  Lyali.    [D.  Ap. 
pleton  &  Co.    ^1.50.] 

Edna  Lyall's  novels  follow  thick  and  fast 
This  new  one  begins  with  the  Franco -Prussian 
War,  (he  Siege  of  Pans,  and  Ibe  horrors  of  the 
Commune  for  a  background,  in  the  midst  of 
which  trying,  thrilling  surroundings  we 
duced  to  Esp^rance  and  Gaspard  De  Mabillon, 
whose  father  has  fallen  in  the  conflict  and  left 
them  to  flee  from  Paris  and  seek  refuge  with 
maternal  kindred  in  England.  Applying  to  an 
uncle,  the  cold-blooded  Dean  of  Rilchesler,  a 
home  is  found  in  his  family  for  Espdrance,  where 
she  is  unhappy  enough  at  first,  while  Gaspard 
looks  out  for  himself  in  London.  At  Rilchesler 
Esp^rance  meets  with  a  young  artist,  Claude 
Magnay,  who  has  come  to  paint  the  interior  of 
the  Cathedra),  and  a  warm  friendship  springs  up 
between  them.  Claude  and  Gaspard  arc  pres- 
ently thrown  together  in  London,  and  the  three- 
fold intimacy  deepens,  nurtured  rather  by 
Gaspard's  hardships  in  making  his  own  way  and 
by  Espjrance's  trials  as  a  poor  relation.  From 
this  point  the  slory  widens,  takes  in  Worihing- 
ton  llall  alongside  the  Deanery,  and  Lady 
Worth ington's  sympathetic  interest  lo  offset 
Dean  CoUinson's  supercilious  neglect ;  Gaspard 
is  offered  a  good  situation  on  a  Coffee  plantation 
iu  Ceylon,  and  Esp^rancc  sells  her  beautiful 
brown  hair  for  five  guineas  lo  help  him  off; 
Claude  turns  into  a  lover  ;  and  the  coldness  and 
harshness  of  the  CoUinsons  toward  Esp^rance 
softens  under  the  warmth  of  her  character  and 
the  sunshine  of  her  presence.  She  becomes  mis- 
tress of  the  situation,  the  leading  figure  against 
the  Cathedral  background,  the  dominant  element 
in  the  life  that  goes  on  around  the  Deanery. 
The  strains  of  the  Cathedral  service  are  in  the 
morning  and  evening  air.  The  smoke  and  the 
echoes  of  the  Commune  are  in  the  distance. 
There  is  one  dramatic  moment  when  Espirance 
finds  hi.  rself  locked  alone  into  the  vast  and  silent 
Cathedral  with  the  note  in  which  Bertha  divulges 
her  plan  o(  elopement  that  coming  night.  In 
lime  Claude  proposes  to  Gaspard  for  Esp^rance 
in  true  French  fashion,  is  accepted,  and  the  two 
plight  their  troth  in  the  dim  south  aisle  of  the 
Cathedral  beside  ibe  crusader's  loinb,  and  are 
duly  marriedi  but  there  is  almost  a  tragedy  in 
the  smitten  tower  after  a  terrific  stroke  of  light- 
ning has  nearly  struck  the  Dean  dead,  before 
final  peace  settles  down  over  the  scene.  Edna 
Lyall's  books  cannot  be  read  rapidly;    there  is 


an  old-fashioned  slowness  and  dignity  about  their 
movement;  but  they  are  thoroughly  good,  they 
grow  upon  the  reader,  and  they  leave  the  mind 
in  a  healthy  glow. 


Mr.  Roosevelt  is  the  author  of  a  number  of 
books  on  fishing  and  shooting  and  related  sports 
in  American  woods  and  waters,  tie  has 
turned  his  nautical  tastes  and  sportsman's  knowl- 
edge to  the  account  of  a  novel,  of  which  Great 
South  Bay,  Long  Island,  is  the  scene,  and  ii 
which  a  merry  family  party  from  ijaratoga  ar 
the  actors.  A  thorough-going  "dude,"  Mi 
Cyril  Montague,  furnishes  the  fun,  some  of  which 
is  rather  foolish,  and  tongues  are  in  incessant 
motion  from  the  beginning  to  end  of  the  advent- 
ure. Great  South  Bay  is  an  immense  eipanse 
of  land-locked  water  on  the  south  shore  of  Long 
Island,  shallow,  placid,  and  sunny,  fringed  with 
quiet  old  towns  and  low-lying  dunes,  abound- 
ing in  almost  every  species  of  lish  and  fowl,  and 
affording  happy  conditions  for  sailing,  fishing, 
shooting,  and  bathing,  lo  say  nothing  of  I01 
making.  Alt  of  this  goes  on  in  a  lively  way  on 
board  the  sharpie  "Morning  Glory,"  and  the 
account  of  it  the  author  has  endeavored  to  write 
up  lo  the  level  of  grown  folks'  interest  The  en- 
deavor is  not  uniEormly  successful  j  the  mcchan- 
of  the  story  sometimes  shows  through  the 
of  it ;  but  it  certainly  gives  a  vivid  idea 
of  Great  South  Bay,  and  of  the  way  a  summer 
iiay  be  pleasantly  passed  on  its  waters.  Not 
R>ithout  accident  and  imminent  danger,  however, 
n  this  instance,  and  with  a  double  wedding  for  a 

Face  te  Fact.  [Charles  Scribner's  Sons.  ^1.15-] 
Fact  In  Fate  was  too  good  a  novel  to  languiab 
ong  in  anonymity,  and  when,  a  short  time  after 
Is  publication,  Mr.  Robert  Grant  was  spoken  of 
IE  its  author,  those  who  had  read  the  book  must 
have  been  agreeably  surprised.  It  is  far  in  ad- 
:  of  Mr.  Grant's  previous  work  it)  fiction  — 
sober  and  earnest  in  purpose  yet  richer  in 
comedy;  clearer  in  character  drawing;  more 
ecided  in  dramatic  intensity;  and  it  deals  in 
bold  and  trenchant  manner  with  that  problem 
of  problems  today,  the  relations  of  capital  and 
ibor.  The  charm  of  the  opening  pages  could 
hardly  be  exceeded  wherein  Miss  Evelyn  Pimlico, 
ter  to  a  countess  and  aunt  to  an  embryo  earl, 
ibarks  upon  ■  transatlantic  steamer  without  a 
chaperon  and  passes  herself  off  as  an  American 
girl  from  Kansas  in  the  eyes  of  a  young  New 
York  millionaire  whom  she  takes  for  an  English 
1'he  fun  lasts  till  the  steamer  draws 
near  her  dock,  when  the  millionaire  "cuts"  his 
quondam  acquaintance  as  likely  lo  be  an  embar- 
rassing encumbrance.  Later  he  meets  her  at 
Newport,  where  all  her  radical  ideas,  fostered  by 
course  of  study  at  Girton,  have  been  tempora- 
ly  smothered  by  a  whirl  of  gayety,  and  she  is 
the  acknowledged  success  of  the  season.  By 
what  turns  of  fortune's  wheel  she  is  placed  in 
possession  of  eiturmous  wealth  and  becomes  mis- 
Wisabet  Mills  we  cannot  attempt  to 
relate.  Enough  to  say  that  she  struggles  with 
the  problem  of  problems  in  a  brave,  yet  womanly 
results  she  obtains,  while  they  are 
by  no  means  final,  are  sufficient  to  cast  a  glow  of 
hope  over  the  path  upon  which  she  enters.  It 
have  been  expected  that  the  young  mill- 


ionaire would  ultimately  join  forces  with  her,  and 
the  part  of  the  story  which  tells  how  this  comes 
about  is  exceedingly  well  managed.  Indeed,  the 
book  as  a  whole  is  admirably  written,  and  in  it 
Mr.  Grant  betters  expectation.  It  is  a  book  that 
all  men  and  women  of  serious  minds  may  read 
in  the  confidence  that  they  may  derive  from  its 
pages  both  entertainment  and  instruction  of  a 
very  wholesome  and  profitable  kind. 


Mr.  Coulter's  novel  beats  the  manifest  stamp 
of  immaturity,  but  it  is  not  without  merit    The 
lilitary  post  at  Fort  Leavenworth  is  described  in 
way  that  tends  to  impress  the  uninitiated  reader 
with  the  author's  fidelity  to  his  facts,  and  il  this 
pression  is  correct   the  army  will  not  be  Hat- 
ed by  the  resulting  conclusions.    There  is  an 
occasional  dash   of  satire  to   enliven   the   nar- 
t,  and  even  a  spice  of  wit  is  not  wanting. 
The  story  is  fairly  well  planned,  although  the  cen- 
aotive  is  by  no  means  new.    Mr.  Desmond 
is  the  son  of  ■  colonel,  and  not  being  able  to  en- 
West  Point  on  account  of  the  examinations, 
receives    bis   commission    through    presidential 
favor.    The  characters   are  not    outlined    very 
clearly  in  action,  although   their    attributes  are 
carefully  enumerated.     If  Mr.  Coulter  tries  again 
t  feel  confident  that  he  will  do  better. 

MarioH't  Faith  ;  a  Sequel  ta  the  CciontTi 
Daugkter.  By  Capt.  Charles  King,  U.  S-  A. 
U-  B.  Lippincolt  Co.    ^1.25.] 

Captain  King  is  nothing  if  not  spirited,  and  his 
latest  essay  in  fiction  may  be  favorably  compared 
'ith  his  first.  There  is  more  action  in  il,  and 
military  life  on  the  plains  is  portrayed  with  a 
graphic  touch  that  leaves  no  detail  undeveloped. 
The  love-making  is  something  after  the  manner 
of  the  gentle  "  Duchess,"  but  it  is  perhaps  not 
unnatural,  and  Captain  King's  army  heroes  have 
soldieriy  way  with  them  that  carries  off  a  great 
deal  of  sentimental  moonshine  without  danger  of 
mawkishness.  There  it  a  test  about  this  author's 
work  which  renders  It  quite  distinct  from  other 
novels  of  the  day.  The  reader  who  lakes  il  up 
lay  be  sure  of  getting  something  worth  his  while 
id  something  altogether  out  of  the  common  ran 
'  stories.  There  is  aothing  "  analytical "  about 
Captain  King's  method,  and  his  character*  are 
depicted  to  the  life. 


In  this,  as  in  Mr.  Norris's  other  stories  of  mod- 
n  English  social  life,  we  find  that  the  greatest 
charm  lies  in  his  perfect  naturalness.     He  writes 
a  if  he  was  a  personal  acquaintance  describ- 
1  us  by  letters  people  and  things  within  his 
personal  knowledge.    The   success  of  this  real- 
way  of  telling  a  story  is  increased  by  the  de- 
of  inlroducitig  himself   therein,  not  as  the 
hero,  as  in  strictly  autobiographical  novels,  but 
minor  character  who  associated  with   the 
leading  personages  and  obtained  his  facts  as  one 
in  real  life,  partly  by  observation  and  partly 
by  hearsay.    And  this  simulation  of   reality  Is 
tided  by  a  sort  o{  chatty,  confidential  style  which 
s  wonderfully  life-like,  the  writer  in  his  assumed 
'6le  even  confessing  lo  the  reader  some  of  his 
>wn   follies    or   errors   of    judgment.     In   these 
:hings  more  than  [n  his  plots  we  commend  Mr-      \^ 
•^Qiia  as  a  novelist ;    and  we  therefore  irill  not 


l886.] 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


du  him  tli«  injustice  of  oollining  the  story  of  My 
Fritnd  Jim.  There  is  >n  untcrupuloal  and  b»- 
ciniitiTig  womiin.  Dot  far  inferior  to  the  celebrated 
Beck;  Sharp  herself,  who  makea  fools  of  sundrj 
men,  including  even  the  manly  "Jim;"  one  or 
two  rather  bad  specimens  of  the  aristocracy ;  and 
other  characters  of  less  prominence,  whom,  how- 
ever, the  reader  is  not  to  suppose  all  bad.  To 
trace  any  specific  moral  from  the  story  would 
be  as  difficult,  perhaps,  as  from  corresponding 
passages  in  real  life.  But  with  very  little  formal 
analysis  of  character,  there  is  a  certain  philo- 
sophic way  of  considering  men  and  things  in 
which  the  reader  may  find  much  of  the  pleasure  of 
the  story. 

Whatever  may  be  the  facts  actually  hidden  be- 
hind Ihc  eiteiior  of  this  little  book,  whose  coun- 
tenance may  be  a  disguise,  its  appearance  is  that 
of  a  collection  of  short  essays  in  fiction,  the  work 
respectively  of  two  authors,  one  an  Italian  and 
the  other  i  Russian,  brought  together  for  conven- 
ience, and  published  a«  a  joint-stock  venture. 
The  names  may  be  aliases,  to  hide  the  identity 
of— Brander  Matthews  and  l.eander  Richard- 
son, for  ought  we  know,  but  the  book  is  a  prod- 
uct of  Bohemia.  The  first  two  sketches  in  the 
seKes  of  ten  are  excellent,  and  well  worthy  of 
print.  Their  basis  of  reality  is  self  evident,  and 
they  illustrate  that  the  highest  act  of  art  is  to 
copy  nature.  "  Peppino  "  is  simply  the  story  of 
a  little  Italian  boot-black  in  New  York,  but  it  is 
as  powerful  in  its  simplicity  as  a  MuriUo;  "Only 
a  Dog  "  is  the  portrait  of  a  noble  and  faithful 
creature  who  frequented  a  North  River  pier,  and 
played  a  momentary  part  in  its  tragedy  of  life. 
The  rest  of  the  stories  are  "efforts,"  and  of  Eair 
merit  only,  the  best  of  them  being  "Beppo." 

The  Deiirticlion  of  Gotham.  By  loaqaio  Mil- 
ler.    [Funk  4  Wagnalls.    Ji.oo.] 

New  York  is  the  Nineveh  which  Mr.  Miller 
here  serves  in  the  capacity  of  Jonah.  "  Yet  forty 
days  and  the  city  shall  be 
the  burden  of  his  cry.  It  is  a  deep,  passionate, 
rhapsodic  outburst  of  indignation  over  the  vices, 
the  crimes,  the  ctoelties,  the  sufferings  that  seeihe 
and  surge  under  the  city's  surface  of  respecta- 
l»Jity,  luxury,  and  splendor.  The  fate  of  a  beai 
tiful  young  girl,  betrayed  and  abandoned,  the 
shameless  audacity  of  the  vile  procuress  who  wi 
concerned  in  her  fate,  the  reckless  speculatior 
of  a  Wall  Street  gambler,  the  gilded  wickedness 
which  found  domicile  in  Fifth  Avenue,  lead 
the  way  by  swift  steps  to  a  catastrophi 
as  wild  and  weird  as  the  sacking  of  Fails  by  the 
Commune.  Mr.  Miller  writes  with  the  knowing 
accent  of  a  man  who  has  been  "down  below 
decks ; "  and  like  a  poet  in  a  raging  [ever. 

There  is  a  good  deal  of  power  —  inventive 
constructive,  descriptive  power  —  in  Mr.  Charles 
Howard  Montague's  Remanci  of  Ihi  LUUt.  The 
two  "  Lilies  "  are  two  women,  the  elder  of  whom 
has  impressed  herself  upon  the  younger  through 
a  curious  operation  of  heredity  in  Ihc  perse 
an  intermediate  mother.  Out  of  this  singh 
cumitance,  which  is  one  that  Dr.  Oliver  Wendell 
Holmes  might  have  invented,  Mr.  Montague  has 
built  up  a  romance  of  more  than  ordinary  ability. 
Cert^D  elements  in  the  story  unfit  it  for  the  read, 
ing  of  young  people,  but  as  a  literary  work  it  has 


decided  merits.    [Boston :   W.  I.  Harris  & 
Co.    joc.] 

We  will  tay  very  frankly  that  we  do  not  derive 
the  largest  pleasure  from  the  historical  novels  of 
the  Ebers  school,  but  tastes  differ,  and  some 
,  will  be  gratified  by  Eckstein's  Aphreditt, 
:ene  of  which  is  laid  in  Miletus  in  the  sixth 
century  before  Christ.  The  chief  actors  are 
Acontius,  a  young  sculptor,  studying  in  that  city, 
Cydippe,  the  daughter  of  the  archon,  Conon,  a 
profligate,  Neaira,  a  charming  (lower  giil,  and 
MelanippuA,  the  priest  of  Aphrodite.  The  story 
full  of  the  lovely  scenery  of  Hellas,  and  sensu 
IS  and  sumptuous  with  the  classic  life  of  its 
period.    [W.  S.  Gotlsberger.    fi.oa] 


mVOB  NOTI0E9. 

The  German  Soldier  in  the  Wart  of  the  United 
alls.  By  J.  G.  Rosengarten.  fj.  B.  Lippincott 
Co.  Ji.oo.1 
Mr.  Rosengarlen's  book,  expanded  first  from 
I  historical  paper  into  a.  magatine  article,  and 
en  into  its  present  form,  is  based  upon  original 
researches,  and  picks  out  the  thread  of  German 

:e   not   only   in   "  the  wars   of  the   United 

States,"  but  in  the  wars  of  the  British  Colonies 

America,  before  those  colonies  became  States; 

"thread  "  which,  comparatively  slender  at  the 

beginning,  grew  into  a  strand  of  very  respectable 

bulk  during  the  period  of  the  talc  Civil  War. 

names  of  De  Kalb  and  Steuben  in  the  Revo- 
lutionary War,  and  of  Heintzelman,  Sigel,  and 
Wetzel,  in  the  Civil  War,  arc  monumental  and 
familiar  to  us  all ;  hut  from  the  outset  of  Amer- 

hlstory  the  German  colonist  bore  a  brave 

in  conflicts  with  the  Indian,  and  no  more 

nt  service  was  done  the  Union  cause  in  the 
late  struggle  than  by  him.  In  fact  the  "German 
soldier  "  is  to  be  found  in  various  parts  of  the 
Geld  where  he  would  be  least  expected.  Mr. 
Rosengarten   mentions  the    interesting  circum. 

e  that  the  gallant  General  Custer  was  the 
great-grandson  of  one  of   the   Hessian   officers 

□ut  to  fight  for  the  British  during  the  Revo- 
lution. The  famous  Lieutenant  Greble,  one  of 
the  first   lamented  victims  of  the   Civil   War, 

the  great-grandson  of  an  immigrant  from 
Saxe  Gotba,  who  foaght  in  the  colonial  army  at 

:mouth  and  Princeton.    German  names  are 

always  a  guide  to  German  soldiers,  for  a 
Capt.  William  Jackson,  formerly  of  the  Regular 
Army  and  afterwards  of  the  Missouri  Volun- 
teers, was  a  native  of  Metz,  and  his  real  name 
was  Jacquin.  Mr.  Rosengarten  gives  figures 
showing  that  not  less  than  i37,ooo  Germans 
served  in  the  Union  Army  in  the  late  war,  of 
whom  considerably  more  than  half  came  from 
New  York,  Pennsylvania,  Ohio,  and  Mi 
He  gives  brief  accounts  of  many  leading  officers 
by  name,  and  abundant  facts  illustrating  the 
patriotism,  courage,  and  devotion  of  these 
adopted  citizens.  His  book  will  give  our  Ger- 
man brother  occasion  for  just  piide.and  is  a  use- 
ful contribution  to  our  history. 

Flights  Inside  and  Outilde  Paradise.  By  a 
Penitent  Peri  (George  CuUen  Pearson).  [0.  P. 
Putnam's  Sons.    Jl.iS-1 

The  fanciful  mood  betokened  in  the  lilli 


this  book  pi 
pages,  and  0 
end.    A  pli 


3ugh  all  of  its  neatly  40a 
tiled  of  it  before  the 
raighlforward. 


in  auch  a  land  as  Japan  is  always  welcome ;  but 
this  is  over-written,  artificial,  high-flown,  and 
pretentions  from  beginning  to  end.  A  few  antics 
at  the  beginning  of  a  journey  on  the  part  of  a 
frisky  young  colt  are  pardonable,  but  legs  in  the 

.11  the  lime  become  unpleasant,  and  the 
people  behind  him  begin  to  wish  that  he  would 
settle  down  to  serious  work.     Mr.  Pearson's  ban- 

{  lone  never  ceases.  Each  of  his  seven 
chapters  is  a  "flight,"  and  he  is  flighty  all 
through.  Swarms  of  epithets  fill  the  sky. 
Common  objects  sirell  up  with  extravagances  of 
description  until  they  almost  buret.  The  distor- 
o[  caricature  tease  the  reader  to  smite  on 
every  page.  Here  and  there  through  the  gro- 
tesque ness  of  Ihc  author's  style  one  gets  a 
glimpse  of  a  genuine  bit  of  scenerj-,  or  a  native 

sity  of  figure  or  custom,  or  some  really 
amusing  or  entertaining  incident ;  but  for  the 
most  part  the  showman  is  always  between  us  and 
what  he  asks  us  to  look  at,  blocking  up  our 
viaion  with  his  own  eccentricities  of  dress  aud 
gesture.  When  one  thinks  of  what  Miss  Bird 
and  Miss  Gordon- Cum m ing  have  done  with  such 
lubjects  as  this  one  finds  his  patience  sorely  tried 
by  the  shallow   affectations  of   this   "  Penitent 

"  Mr.  Peason,  we  should  say,  dues  ^not 
belong  to  the  class  of  tourists  and  visitors,  but 
has  resided  in  Japan  in  business  relations  for  a 

of  years,  and  used  his  vacations  for  excur- 
sions and  explorations  in  the  interior.  He  cer- 
inly  has  enjoyed  exceptional  opportunity  to 
ake  an  interesting  and  valuable  book,  and  ax 
rtainly  he  has  missed  iL  Externally  the  book 
very  inviting. 


Though  not  so  technically,  this  work  ia  in 
reality  a  contribution  to  the  aeries  of  monographs 
ich  the  Scribners  have  been  illuminaling 
the  whole  field  of  the  late  Civil  War.  A  remote 
and  somewhat  obscure  corner  of  that  field  is 
lighted  up  in  this  volume.  The  light  falls  from 
the  Confederate  side,  and  produces  some  queer 
effects  to  eyes  which  arc  accustomed  to  looking 
Ihe  conflict  from  another  point  of  view.  Cir- 
cumstances alter  not  only  cases,  but  ways  of 
looking  things  and  ways  of  putting  things.  Mr. 
Snead  was  active  In  Missouri  politics  before  the 
War,  and  took  an  active  part  in  the  Missouri 
chapter  of  the  War,  on  the  Confederate,  or  per- 
haps we  should  say,  the  States'  Rights  side. 
From  the  Union  point  of  view  the  hero  of  Mis- 
souri was  the  brave  and  noble  General  Lyon,  and 
Ihe  battle  of  Missouri  was  that  of  Wilson's 
Creek,  in  which  Price  and  Lyon  confronted  each 
other,  and  Lyon  fell.  Booneville  and  Carthage 
were  the  two  other  chief  bloody  fields.  About 
a  hundred  pages  are  devoted  by  the  author  to 
the  political  preface  to  the  conflict,  and  the  rest 
to  the  military  conflict  proper,  Frank  Blair's 
"  Rebellion  against  the  Stale  "  being  the  tie  be- 
tween the  iwo.  The  book  has  two  maps  and  an 
index,  but  strange  to  say,  no  table  of  contents. 

ffiiloTy  efthe  Irish  People.  By  W,  A.  O'Conor. 
Second    Edition.      [London :    John    Heywood. 

The  serious  prominence  of  the  affairs  of  Ire- 
land ha*  furnished  occasion  for  a  second  edition 
of  Mr.  0'Conor*a  work,  which  made  an  early 
and  marked  reputation  on  it*  first   appearance. 


of-fact  relation  of  observations  and  experiences  |  As  a  born  Irishman  and  at  Ihe  s 


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gyman  of  the  Established  Church  of  England 
Mr.  O'Conor  holds  »  lomewhat  peculiar  relation 
to  his  subject,  and  his  book  is  marked  by  breadth, 
sympalhj,  and  impattialitj,  rather  than  by  con- 
fttsion,  tuas,  or  neutrality.  The  key-note  of  it 
is  this:  "The  Irish  difficulty  most  be  settled  by 
the  English  party  of  ptogress."  Through  s 
teen  loi^,  but  vehement  and  eloquent  chapti 
Mr.  O'Conor  lemds  the  way  to  this  position  ; 
from  the  beginnings  of  peaceful  settlement  and 
warlike  invasion,  through  St.  Patrick's  mitsioi 
and  Nonnan  Conquest,  through  the  lives  am 
careers  of  great  families  like  the  O'Conors,  thi 
Fitzgeralds,  and  the  O'Neills,  through  the  lime: 
of  Catholic  Confederation,  and  Ctomweii,  and 
Revolution,  and  out  into  the  agitations  and 
make-shifts  of  the  present  cenlary.  The  work  ii 
essentially  a  philosophical  history,  but  it  ii 
written  with  great  vigor  and  ability,  and  willi 
full  national  characteristics  of  style.  Readers 
who  would  enjoy  seeing  Macaulay  and  Fronde 
immolated  can  have  that  pleasure  in  several 
stances  in  this  volume,  and  behold  the  victi 
slowly  turning  on  Mr.  O'Conor's  pen  before  the 
fire  of  his  historical  indignation.  Others  who 
like  to  look  on  masterly  portraits,  which  stand 
out  from  the  canvas  like  so  much  solid  fleah, 
will  find  them  in  abundance,  like  one  for  eiamplc 
of  O'Connell.  A  fault  of  Mr.  O'Conor's  book 
is  its  hasty  end,  its  abrupt  conclusion.  It  stops 
■nddenly,  and  leaves  the  reader  standing,  as  if 
the  author's  paper  and  ink  had  given  out.  The 
last  paragraph  is  a  striking  figure,  but  a  post- 
script should  have  been  added  to  this   second 

EUhiHginAmerUa.  ByJ.R.W.H.  [White, 
Stokes  &  Allen.  (1.15]  This  little  book  of  one 
chapter  begins  with  a  frontispiece  from  the  first 
plate  etched  by  the  New  York  Etching  Club, 
follows  with  a  note  relating  the  social  circum- 
stance under  which  the  plate  was  produced,  and 
with  a  short  preface,  and  then  proceeds  through 
nearly  a  hundred  pages  with  an  historical  n 
tive  of  the  beginning  and  growth  of  the  etching 
art  in  this  country,  closing  with  lists  of  etchers 
and  etching  collectors.  The  himor  of  being  the 
fint  American  etcher  Mr.  Hitchcock  awards 
Joseph  Wright  o£  Bordentown,  N.  J,  who  etched 
a  portrait  of  George  Washington  in  1790,  steal' 
ing  a  view  of  him  as  be  sat  in  his  pew  in  Trinity 
Chapel,  New  York.  Robert  W.  Weir  copied 
some  of  Rembrandt's  etchings  in  1810.  B 
was  not  until  about  1S50  that  our  painters  fairly 
got  the  etching  tools  into  their  hands.  The 
practice  of  the  art  in  this  country  received  a 
great  impulse  from  Mr.  Hamerton's  writings, 
and  the  organiialton  of  the  New  York  Etching 
Club  in  1877  consolidated  the  interest  and  made 
it  permanent.  Over  sixty  etchers  contributed  to 
its  last  exhibition.  A  New  York  piinl-aeller 
reports  the  proportion  of  etchings  in  his  sales  as 
having  risen  from  z  per  cent  for  a  given  month 
in  1S75  to  73  per  cent  in  the  same  month  in 
1833.  Among  the  leading  American  collectors 
are  George  A.  Armour  of  Chicago,  S.  P.  Avery  of 
New  York,  Theodore  Irwin  of  Oswego,  N.  Y„ 
and  Henry  C.  Lea  of  Philadelphia. 

Griatir  Gritct  and  Grealir  Britain.  By  Ed- 
ward A.  Freeman,  LL.D.  [Macmillan  &  Co. 
%\.lt,\  There  are  three  distinct  bat  related 
pieces  to  this  small  book.  The  first,  which  fur- 
nishes it  with  a  title,  is  a  lecture  given  to  the 
Stodenls'  Association  of  Edinburgh,  drawing  a 


parallel,  or  rather  a  contrast,  between  the  Greek 
colonies  which  grew  up  outside  of  Greece  and 
the  British  colonies  which  have  grownup  outside 
of  Britain.  Folloiring  this  is  a  second  lecture 
on  Washington  as  the  Expander  of  Engl: 
delivered  at  Oxford  on  Washington's  Birthday 
last.  The  third  piece  is  a  revamped  article  from 
Maimillan's  MaganmOD  "Imperial  Federation." 
A  certain  community  of  thought  and  purpose 
touching  the  problems  of  tbe  future  developmei 
of  English-speaking  peoples  binds  the  thrc 
ti^ether.  Dr.  Freeman  is  an  historical  philDs< 
pher  or  a  philosophical  historian ;  and  —  a 
Englishman.  He  sees  everything  from  one  hlght, 
and  his  war  cry  is  "  Rule  Britannia."  There  is 
of  course  a  sense  in  which  it  is  true  that  Amer- 
ica, politically  speaking,  is  an  expansion  of  Eng- 
land. This  is  the  sense  which  Dr.  Freeman 
presses  to  the  utmost ;  and  the  qneitions  he 
siders  relate  to  tbe  federal  relations  of  America, 
the  Canadas,  India,  Australia.  What  an  octo- 
pus this  Freemanian  Britain  is  to  be  sure  I 

Coniutar  RiminisceHcei.  By  C.  Henry  Horsl- 
man.  [J.  B.  Lippincott  Co.  Il.aj.]  Mr.  Horst- 
man  was  United  States  Consul  at  Munich  from 
1369  lo  1880,  and  at  Nuremberg  from  1880 
to  1SS5.  These  fifteen  years  of  official  residence 
in  two  important  Continenta!  cities  ted  hii 
through  a  round  of  curious  experiences,  the  story 
of  which  he  has  written  out  in  this  book.  It 
in  parts  readable,  but  would  have  been  improved 
by  judicious  omissions-  The  author's  mood 
garrulous  and  his  style  prolix;  he  Is  a  great 
while  getting  under  way;  he  is  parenthetical  ani~ 
discursive  in  sometimes  a  tedious  degree ;  but 
the  reader  who  knows  how  to  skip  may  eiliact 
good  deal  of  entertainment,  and  now  and  thi 
amusement,  out  of  his  descriptions  of  office 
routine,  consular  trials,  eccentric  visitors,  impor- 
tunate candidates  for  assistance,  strangers  in 
ridiculous  difficulties,  and  all  manner  of  impos- 
tors and  nuisances.  There  is  one  extremely  inter- 
esting chapter  on  the  fiddle-makers  of  Mitten- 
wald ;  another  on  the  Passion  Ptay  at  Oberam- 
mergau;  another  on  the  late  King  Ludwig  and 
his  whimsicalities;  and  another  on  Bavarian 
Beer ;  while  the  whole  of  what  an  American 
consul  may  tee  and  learn  in  a  foreign  city  is  well 
set    forth,   notwithstanding    the    abundance    of 

T^t  Rtar  Guard  ef  the  /iaielutioit.    By  J.  R. 
Gilmore.    [D.  Appleton  ft  Co.    Ii.jc]    We  do 

not  think  that  The  Rear  Guardofthe  RevB/ution  is 
an  exact  title  for  this  instructive  and  very  interest- 
ing volume  in  which  Mr.  Gilmore,  better  known 
as  "Edmund  Kirke,"  relates  the  history  and  ser- 
vices of  John  Sevier,  Isaac  Shelby,  and  James 
Robertson,  three  pioneers  in  Western  solitudes, 
whose  steps  took  them  beyond  the  Atleghanles 
before  the  Revolution,  aitd  who  played  important 
parts  in  opening  up  those  regions  to  the  future. 
The  shadow  of  Daniel  Boone  is  upon  these  men ; 
the  savages  haunt  their  steps;  the  most  piclur- 

B  section  of  the  country  is  the  framework  to 
their  portraits  ;  and  their  timet  were  "  the  times 
that  tried  men's  souls."    Between  tbe  more  vivid 

rn  scenes  of  the  Revolution  and  the  mote 
studied  later  incideTits  of  the  national  life,  this 
com^  of  history  is  a  seldom  entered  and  some- 
time^ forgotten  Geld.  Hr.  Gilmore  is  a  capital 
guidt  through  it.     With  an  eye  for  the  dramatic 

I  sense  for  the  heroic,  he  has  made  out  of 
ibis  history  a  true  romance  without  sacrifice  of 
■ct,  and  w«  have  not  turned  for  many  a  day  the  I 


pages  of  a  sober  statement  in  which  th«  spirit  of 
an  adventurous  personality  was  more  alive  than 
in  this.  A  subject  of  uncommon  interest  uncom- 
monly well  handled. 

A  Texai  Cirv-Bey.  By  Charies  A.  Siringo. 
[Chicago:  Siringo  ft  Dobson.]  Mr.  Siringo, 
who  describes  himself  on  his  title-page  as 
"an  old  stove-up  'cow  puncher,'"  has  writ- 
ten out  here  an  account  of  his  nearly  twenty 
years'  experience  on  the  great  Western  cattle 
ranges.  This  introduction  to  the  book  gives 
a  fair  idea  of  what  is  to  be  found  in  it.  It 
is  a  cow-boy's  book;  lively,  spirited,  energetic, 
slangy,  and  coarse ;  a  book  with  a  great  deal 
of  courage,  adventure,  roughness,  and  inci- 
dent ;  a  book  which  gives  a  life-like  picture 
of  cattle  railing;  and  one  that  is  full  of  the 
flavor  of  the  "  Wild  West."  but  which  is  mde 
company  for  people  with  the  tastes  and 
refinements  of  civilization.  Cow-boys  will  read 
it  as  it  is  with  zest;  it  is  a  pity  that  for  a  higher 
grade  of  readers  it  could  not.have  been  purged 
against  grammar,  spelling,  and  good 
It  has  an  underlying  substance  which 
Is  excellent. 

Santa  Barbara  and  Around  There.  By  Ed- 
wards Roberts.  [Roberts  Brothers.  75c.]  A 
dainty  little  bottit  —  some  readers  would  tay  a 
lovely  little  book  — is  this;  but  probably  no 
book  can  quite  satisfy  one's  expectations  with 
that  paradise  for  a  subject.  In  nine  chapters 
Mr.  Roberts  describes  (he  town  and  its  environs, 
the  famous  Mission,  the  nooks,  comers,  and 
by-ways,  the  neighboring  Ojai  and  Santa  Clara 
Valleys,  the  Camulos  Ranch  which  was  the 
home  of  "Ramona,"  and  the  terms  and  con- 
ditions of  cottage  and  hotel  life  in  Santa  Bar- 
bara itself.  The  historical  parts  of  the  book 
are  dull.  The  account  of  the  Camulos  Ranch 
is  charming;  so  are  all  tbe  descriptions  of  bay 
and  mountain,  beach  and  valley,  vineyard  and  olive 
grove,  skies,  waters,  and  flowers.  The  book  it 
full  of  sutuhine  and  fragrance.  The  figure  of 
the  Sehora  of  Camulos  is  like  a  cameo  ;  nothing 
in  words  could  be  more  inviting  than  the  picture 
of  her  home,  with  its  imaginary  associations  of 
Ramona,  and  itt  tender  memories  of  "  H.  H." 
A  cottage  in  Santa  Barbara  would  seem  to 
promise  the  maximum  of  quiet,  comfort,  and 
repose.  No  heat,  no  cold,  no  fog,  no  dust,  no 
ms,  cool  nights,  cool  winds  by  day, 
undying  flowers,  unfailing  fruits,  an  easy,  gentle, 
xistence,  drinking  in  delicious  air,  looking 
incomparable  landscape,  sauntering  by  a 
matchless  sea,  penetrating  shady  caHons,  picnick- 
ing in  January —  that  is  Sauta  Barbara. 

OUEKEHT  UTERATUEE. 

We  should  wish   to  speak  cautiously  of  the 

scholarship  of  the  Rev.  J.  N.  Fradenburgh's  Wit- 

from   the  Dust;   while  its  intent  Is  good, 

and  its  substance  has  some  popular  interest.     Its 

method  is  an  assemblage  of  the   testimony   of 

the  recovered  remains  in  the  East  to  the  truth  of 

the  Biblical  record  ;  stabs,  tablets,  obelisks,  and 

all    the    deciphered   monuments   which   recent 

archaeological  science  has  arrayed  within  the  past 

twenty-five  years,  are  made  to  tell   their  secrets. 

Dr.  Fiadenhurg  is  committed  to  some  old-fath- 

ned  views,  and  his  bias   must  be  taken  into       ^-^ 

;COUnl.     [Cranston  ft  Stowe.     |i.oo.]  -L 

Mr,  William  Sloane  Kennedy's  Ruskin  Anthtl- 

egy  is  a  tastefully  printed,  paper-covered  compi- 


i886.] 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


lallon  of  abort  extracts  from  Rusktn's  writings 
relating  to  art,  clawiiied  under  the  heads  of 
"Cardinal Tenets,"  "Graphic  Arts,"  "Architect- 
ure," and  "  Sculpture,"  the  selection  directed  by 
a  Brmpathetic  taste  and  clever  hand,  and  the  col- 
lection prefaced  by  an  admiring,  biographical 
note,  which  pronounces  Mr,  Ruskin  the  most 
original  man  in  England.    [John  B.  Aldcn.    2jc.] 

We  have  had  occasion  before  to  complain  of 
the  practice  which  some  publishers  have  of  bind- 
ing in  bulky  advertising  catalogues  at  the  end  of 
books  bearing  their  imprint.  This  complaint 
finds  new  occasion  in  the  volume  on  Tie  Nrm 
Englarui  Sunday  in  the  "  Olden  Time  Series,"  of 
which  64  pages  are  text  and  z6  pages  adverlise- 
inents.  "New  England  Sabbath"  would  be  a 
better  title  for  the  book,  whose  contents,  largely 
clippings  from  old  newspapers,  go  to  show  bow 
our  fathers  kept  a  Sabbath  rather  than  a  Lord's 
Day,  or  rather  kept  the  Lord's  Day  on  strictly 
Sabbatic  principles.  There  is  a  little  carious 
reading  in  these  pages.    [Ticknor  &  Co.    joc.] 

Number  4  of  the  "  Olden  Time  Series,"  by 
Henry  M.  Brooks,  is  devoted  to  Quaitit  ami 
Curious  Advirtiiimctiti ;  chiefly  from  Boston 
and  Salem  papers,  about  1760-1829,  and  on  sub- 
jects 100  numerous  to  mention ;  illustrated  by 
tome  correspondingly  curious  anlique  wood-cuts. 
["Hcknor  ft  Co.    soc.] 

Caasell  &  Co.  have  begun  a  new  series,  the 
"Select  Library  of  Entertaining  Fiction,"  made 
up  of  small  and  compact  collections  of  short 
stories,  taken  in  many  cases,  we  presume,  from 
their  several  excellent  periodicals.  The  books 
run  about  140  pages  each,  each  has  ten  or  a  dozen 
tales,  and  the  price  is  but  l  j  cents.  Four  num- 
bers are  out :  A  Rail  far  Lift,  My  Night  Advent- 
ure, fVhB  Took  It  t  and  Snmved  Up.  The  type 
is  very  good. 

Voyager/  Tales,  by  Richard  Hakluyt,  is  ■  re- 
publication of  stories  of  adventure  by  sea  and 
land  io  various  parts  of  the  eaith,  written  in  the 
lime  of  Shakespeare,  and  expressed  in  the  quaint 
antique  language  of  that  time,  and  with  the  curious 
minuteness  of  detail  and  even  of  slatsiHei  —  the 
latter  tiresome  in  some  cases  —  whereby  writers 
sometimes  seek  to  give  to  their  romances  an  air 
of  reality.      [Cassell  &  Co.,    Limited.     Paper, 

In  "  Harper's  Handy  Series,"  lately  received,  is 
Tie  Open  Air,  by  Richard  JcSeries,  a  collection 
of  sketches,  reprinted  from  magazines,  depicting 
the  pleasures  oC  ont-door  strolls  taken  by  a  med^ 
itative  lover  of  nature  who  has  also  a  taste  for 
philosophizing  upon  the  phenomena  thus  pre- 
sented to  his  thoughts.  The  style  of  the  CMays 
combines  a  fiesh  breeziness  and  a  restful  peace 
well  suited  lo  the  varied  phases  of  his  subject. 

We  had  last  year  (ram  Prof.  Geo.  T.  Ladd  of 
New  Haven  a  translation  of  I.,otze's  OulHties  ef 
Meiapkytics,  being  dictated  portions  of  his  lect- 
ures. The  present  month  brings  us  a  compan- 
ioa  volomc  of  Outlines  of  Msthttics,  Similarly 
prepared,  another  fragment  of  the  great  and 
valuable  philosophical  system  which  this  fore- 
most of  modem  thinkers  did  not  live  to  con). 
plele.  This  collection  of  lecture  notes  lays  the 
philosophical  foundation  of  beauty  in  the  abstract, 
and  of  music,  architecture,  painting,  sculpture, 
and  poetry.  We  commend  these  studies  to  the 
careful  reading  of  all  thoughtful  persons.  White 
profound,  their  style  is  singularly  clear  and  intel- 
ligible.   [Ginn&Co.    f  I  00.] 

The  Society  for  Promotion  of  Christian  Knowl- 


edge publishes  another  of  the  late  Mrs.  Ewing's 
books  for  children,  Mar^s  Meadoui  ar.d  Letters 
from  a  Little  Garden,  bound  together  and  beauti- 
fully illustrated  by  Gordon  Browne,  not,  however, 
with  flowers  or  plants,  though  both  treat  of  ama. 
teur  gardening.  The  first  is  a  story  of  English 
family  life,  as  told  by  a  youi^  girl,  in  the  viva- 
cious, original  style  characteristic  of  the  writer; 
and  the  latter  short  lettersiof  advice  to  a  young 
horticulturist,  [tr.  Sold  in  the  United  Stales 
by  E.  S  J.  B.  Young  &  Co.] 


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RsLiGio  Maoici.    BTSirThomuBronc,  M.D.    Cu- 
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well.    Williin  S.  GetUbeT(er.  foc 

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THE   LABOR   MOVEMENT   IN 
AMERICA. 


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Of  Pnttttot  Elj.wtu 
ta  EniDM  mad  AnHrt 
lalhaaoMuapinal 
Qrifllii  ud  (nnru  bol 

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tUi  wub  thlBlDTtaw:  uid,  dmlag  th*  prftp&rmliDD  of  Uila 
bookjH  bu  tHTelsd  isTSnil  Itaouuid  miiH.  Till  Hal  ooiB- 
formkiic  thB  Bcqulnluice*  or  Ubor  IVKdfln.  Elu  picture  or 
tlia  pmenl  ooodilkin  of  Ilia  libor  moTcmcnt  axj  in  nllsd 

■EDITATI0N8  OF  A  FABISH 
PKIEST. 


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ST.  JOHN'S  ETE. 

lI  V.  OaoaL,  unUwr  ol  "  Tuu  Bulb*."    tinw, 


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3toTl«/'  itaowlnff  the  murreloiu  itj 


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r  Om  anUui  of  "  BlntiwMid  "  ud  "  Flleh  Clab."    ISm 


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■allm  Ittt  4lBrla<if  Iht  dilTfniiX  nalleni  ilul  tuirtallaiii 
Hvmlacim  la  Milort/.  Each  nkltcl  rompltlt  <n  sh>  *. 
•mt,  itauiftll^  prinlut  and  fullv  lUiutralid.     Cm 

lEADV  (SEPT.  15): 
a».    By  z.  A.  RAQDua. 


eStarraf  tbc  JTawa.  Bi  Prof.  jAaaaK.BotHUt- 
'ln  vhleb  behai  tnaIadUB>ab]«l,  Tha  work  appHb 
lU  cIum  of  readrn,  and  the  lijlg  li  attncUra  io  old 

c  Btory  of  Oei-HBay.    Br  S.  BAuao-Ooiiu). 


Tkc  Btorr 


>  bait  BsADdlnarun  hlataij  In  I 

LllcfonH.  .  .  .  It  Is  BByidflbutthB  literal  tmtbl 
f Bv  noTcIa  poaBBai  tba  faaclnatlon  of  tbU  stoi 


Tolimia."-il'ar(/or5 /"oU.  "*" 

Tfce  Sivrr  af  ■hbbmt-    »7  Prof-  A-  Vaximi. 

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NEARLY  READV: 
Tk*  atarr  of  tkc  aBraeeiie.    Bj  Airana  Oiuiur. 
Tha  ntarj  •(  AaayrlB.    Bf  Z.  A.  BAOOtia. 
Th«  MMPr  af  Aaclcal  E(Tpt.  By  Pnit.  Kawukmi. 
Tka  Story  of  AleKK>acp*a  Xmvlre.     Br  Frot. 

Xkc  atsrv  of  tks  Mavra  tn  a^alB.    Br  H.  Laaa- 
The  HMrr  at  the  Korataaa.    Br  SAtAK  O.  Jawarr. 

IN  PREPAHATION  : 
Tha  atoiT  af  Iralaa*.    Br  the  Bon.  Bult  Latliii 
Tka  SMUT  of  tba  tlatha.    Br  Bt.  BiADLai. 

The  atary  at  tha  Haaaa  Tawaa.    Ily  Ulua  Zia- 

The  atatT  •*  Mexico.   Br  BriAi  Hau.   Blc 

•,•  Thru  retama  art  mil  lullid  /«■  rtadlnt  cirtia, 
ehuiu  and  Mranei,  and  Mil  be  /ouvd  /uU  i^  tnlernt  It 

•,•  FM  pnipicliu  unl  on  appticatiim.    Hoc  elouUdl 
ani  analvUcafCataltsut  ml  an  rtaipt  af  tlamp. 

a  P.  PUTNAM'S  SONS, 

TtKW  TOMK  AND  t^ovnom. 


QUERIES  ANSWEKED. 

bara  a  let  of  Uie  jVotfsi.u  Tolnmee,  aabound.  clean, p«> 
Kt.    Pnce.  RIOCW.    NoJcyIaUod.    A.g.CI.ARK,HKllt 


For  Sale-"  Fewacres," 

rriBE   HOMESTEAD  AT  rABMlHGTO!!.  HAIS'E.  K) 

U  now  offered  for  t^a.   The  property  conalau  of  amomr 

tainlng  In  all  flftaan  or  more  rooou.  and  aometblmr'aTar 
two  acrea  of  land,  ebarmlnalr  altiiated  Jut  oulalde  the  tU- 
URe,  and  comblnlna  ■aclnaion  with  convanlenca  In  an  un- 
uHiial  deffrea.  With  a  fair  triniDB  azcaptkona.  ibe  entire 
prpmuaa  are  In  aood  order.  Tba  noiiaa  la  bcma^lke  and 
□omlotlable,  and  tbe  groondi,  riolilr  endowed  br  nalnre, 
and  tastafnllr  Improved  by  Ur.  Abbott  blmaelf,  are 
idamed  wllb  paOii,  Urmcaa,  (rona.  bedna,  eeata,  arbon, 
and  nu^lfflcenl  alma.  Tba  beoullea  of  FamlniAbn  aa  a 
New  England  rllLga.  IB  ncellcnt  acbiwl  priTflma,  Uia 
famed  lovellnaaa  of  ibc  Sandy  Ktier  Vallcr,  and  tEe  proi- 
Imlty  of  tbe  Rangelei  I^kn.  Old  Bine,  and  other  pleuure 


•sav 


Htri,MO.    Addnaiiheeuonioi, 

BDVTAKD   ABBOTT, 
■B  atrwit,  Ouahridca,  Hufc 


THE 


ipTERARY  World. 

C^sitt  fieabbigtf  from  tfK  ^0t  j^tD  ^SmAf,  ant  tOOaX  fietrittiMt. 


FORTNIGHTLY. 


IE.H 


•■■I         BOSTON,  OCTOBER  a,  1886.        |"~iSr 


0nB»,lSi]»ii»Hflfc,t      HOMtipcrOopf, 


GOOD  AUTUMN  BOOKS. 


Tb«  cheiLp  fkVtloD  of  CosmuidBr ' 

TirtniiH  to  Lint.  OiMlj^  gwD  work,  "TIuM  Ti 
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r.  eimiu.  Adahi  Duf  ■*•  n 


b  Maawt  HKbomea  uhI  Uh  dkUj  lUa 
■dntbaiallrtakMorTOdhapeaplBof  Maw  Knr 


THE    HAKINO    OF     NEW    BNG- 
LAND,  1580-1043. 


THE  AQE  OF  ELECTRICITY, 
rran  AmbaiMnl  to  Tatapbeoa.    nitHtntid  by  dliw 
d  font  floa  pnaa  pictona  bj  J.  SMpli  '  (Tti. 


>f  BTOdiTOM'a  arouaa.  eonHlnlag  b 


THE  CHRISTMAS  WRECK. 


•  BjkB,"  Mi  Bnll-CaJf,  Thl 
■qml  ta"Tha  LAdf.atUM  ' 
loBlhlEMtwd  Wtat). 


iTrt, 


>  nf^  "^cd-ot  BOral  pabllabad  t< 

IWBO ^'~-«o«1  boobi  »ii  IB .  .._ 

.jjlK  L*^-- «» 

^lirt^"^^' 

„_   _  A«WB4«>'a  BIMtai 


"  I%e  rttptctabU  oiut 
loCloiM  (t^  fioAn'*  Lfbrary  haet  done  for  Kfsrw- 
tura  M^  roUnMKta  Aove  doM  /or  (nternoj  tnter- 
wurM."— R.  W.  Bmaaoii. 

"Imag  tav  in  ngari  Ut  all  maniw  o/bookt, 
Bohn'i  PvbUeaUm*  <S«rtM  U  th»  ua^Ut  lAlrv 

Itaow."— ThOKU  CAB1.TLB. 

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Ota.  (1.40  or  S3.00  por  volnmo  (with  exoep- 
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prioai,  OD  applloktiOQ. 


The  loUowlng  wmki  an  noommetided  to  thoee 
who  are  tonoing  publie   or   privata   libiailel. 
The  TOlamea  are  lotd  separalal;: 
Addi>«'a  ITn^*.  ■  mt.,  H.M  auli. 
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SHmll'a  Ufa  mt  •laaaa* 
KabrMea.  alo.  (Kirua),  t  tc 

Oerraataa'a  D>b  QHlsata.  1  fol 
Okaaeaa'a  Warka  (Paor.  flaau) 
~'arka.lTOIa„|l.M' 


fl.M 


.,  (I.M  aa 


•rka,  8  Tola.,  f  I.4t  aaafa. 
I  I^mtlkmmm,  *>e.,  II.M. 
I  SntsBtIa  W««a,  lToli.,fl.W 
rraaa  'VFarka,  Arola.,  fl.Naaali. 


a  ITarka,  I  n>lL.  SIM  taob. 

I  Utcs  mt  PalKtan  {altb  aav  appai 

a   (Mm.  jrarMay-i)   OMUJUt,   1  vob 

■  { JAta.  lyArUa^ii  Krallafc  Sl.ML 


m.,tnla^JljaaBd 
4Tala.,fl.M»>idtt4( 


"PHIZ." 

The  Life  and  I«ban  o(  Hablot  Knight  Browoe 
("Fhii").  By D. C. Thohmn.  Withl30U]n»- 
ttationi.  PnMt  ImpceMkm  ea  India  paper. 
4to,  olotb,  net,  tISM. 

BEC0LLECTI0N8  OF  MR. 
JAHE3  LENOX 

Of  New  Terk,  and  ths  FonuaUcHi  of  hU  Uhraiy. 
Bj  HsTBT  SxBVEffs.  With  poTtnit  ot  the 
anthiw.    12nio,  halt  oloth,  nneat,  tS.SS, 

TWENTY-ONE  YEARS'  WORK 
IN  THE  HOLY  LAND. 

(A  Beoord  and  a  Bnmmarr.)  Jons  33, 1865- 
Jnite  31,  1B8S.  PnblUhed  for  the  Commlttae 
of  the  FaleetlDe  Exploration  Fund.  In  1  vol., 
orown  Sro,  with  BO  tllnrtntHona,  oloth,  I1.3S. 

labon  wUeh  Iba  aoelMr  bal  la- 


IRELAND  AND  HOME  RULE. 

The  HaklDK  ot  tho  Irlah  Ifatlon,  and  the  Flttt 
Fmlti  of  FederaUon.  By  J.  A.  Paxthdob, 
author  (rf  "  Demootaey:  I»  Faeloca  and  Oon- 
ditlona,"  etc.    Deny  Sto,  oloth,  f3.40. 


aiOVANNI  DDPRE, 

Tlie  Sterj  ot  a  Florentine  Sculptor.  By  Hembt 
BmoHB  FniEZK,  ProfeHor  at  the  Unlrenlty 
of  Mlchlcao.  With  two  Dialogues  on  Art 
from  the  Italian  o[  Angnato  Cooti.  niaattated 
with  full-[iaf|e  wood  engnTinga.  Cnwn  8to, 
oloth,  S3.3S. 


ila  lira  li  alDpla  Kod  aantatlj  lol 


WHAT  IS  THE  CHURCH? 

Or,  Plain  lustraoUcm  about  the  Chnrob,  eepe- 
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The    atepT    at    (he     SeaurrcrtlBB    Tsid    OHO 

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Edited  br  U.  LADBHIn  Ooau,  P.H.A.  In  foDiteen  to) 
omee.  Eub  voluina  Hro.  fiJU;  •  Boiburi^.  printed  oi 
bud-Dudepaper.MJO.Hfi  •Lerge-l^per  lidltlon. Box 

aioiife  esIhdiu  hM  (■  eJsUnlf.-  (ki  iiszfriirvSkifvl<  mi 
LAtaB-PutB  EpiTIoa  art  mil  nnla  to  lu^ttrtrUan/ai 
IhttHiirtHt.   YoLS.AECBAOM)aT,  Anil. 

TTashlngtoB  Gladden. 

Applied  Ok HatUvultT.  Idorsl  Aipecu  of  Boclnl  Qd« 
Jiuu.    l«mi>,  11.21. 

Nathaniel  Hawthorne. 

OeiBpleM  ^vrk*.  l/ii  Firalde  EJ«iM.  InUxTol 
umii*,c»wnBvD,|10JKIi  MIC  ciil[,(W.M.    ISnU  oitlrii 

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Sarah  Ome  Jeirett. 
Walter  Hontagn  Kerr. 

lood  Hope  to' the  IdkaB^noii  at  Canlnl  AMsa. 


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The  Osuplete  rsatirBl  nBd  Prsae  VTsrlu  •( 
Uenrr  Wndnwarth  I^nifellow.    Rinmldt  Hdl- 

taSi  reilHd  r«l  nnd  eaplon*  LluruT,  iUUoncnl.  Blo- 

mpUcAludBllilloHnplirialNaM.   With  Sva  ponnln. 

Ml,  titMi  hAlf  aiii,  ftTil;  halt  if  rut.  fU.M.  ' 

eompi^d  tniora  ihs  Houdiii 


Dr.  S.  Weir  Hll«hell. 


Omar  Khayjani. 


Catherine  Owen. 


Tern  DallBrs  IThen^h. 


LllUe  Chaee  Wrman. 


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Tbnpopnlikr  little  hooka  brougliitoul  Inn&eir  tuid< 
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IVsteh  nad  Ward.   Bj  Ubht  Jambs. 
In  the  'WUderaea*.    Kj  Chau.u  Dddlbt  Waubb. 
1    athdy    at   niiwtharne.      Bj    Ubdaob    Fu»» 

rhe  Btapy  st  m  KIihi.    Bj  Bbbt  HabIB. 
Bound  In  flexible  Dlath,  ud  aold  it  H  eenli  tanh. 

William  Shakespeare. 

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ediea.  And  Caisedu*  ol  ^iluah  SUABBarBiu  h 
■•-"-'-'.  •*  the  QlaM  uid  BlackfriAn  Thsien,  tirea 
BaliK  the  Tul  (niBlabad  tl(g  FiBjen,  In  pant- 
wlih  Uia  lint  nrlied  text  or  1KB,  with  GnUcdl 


F.  Hopfclnson  Smith. 

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It*lr  I  or,  Tha  Tiavota  ot  n  llQaier  In  aserdi  of  the  lie- 
UinMiiH.  ContAlnlng  Bliieen  tull-pAgo  uhololTpea  and 
manTnuIlai  «a*iidlnK  tkatchH,eu.,n)T  f.Hopeui- 
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eou  ot  Uolmea,  Lomll, 


eoplea.    Id  poruoll 


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Edith  M.  Thomas. 

Fhe  Konnd  Tesr.    Ihna.tlUlop,|l.2l. 

The  Tile  Club. 

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pBlntlnfi  bT^Dembera  ot  Thb  Jilb  CLCiof^Haw  Torfc, 

urea,  m  r.  UorKii- 
quarto,  baantUiUl/ 


Mrs.  Sehufler  ran  Bensaelaer. 


KSn; 


^-i^JHHi 


h*^?u'3: 


onDAlted  to  eat  Doples. 

Jones  Tery. 

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Vol.  XVII.       BOSTON,  OCTOBER  i, 


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ICABTEBS  or  EUBBIAlf  LITEBITUEE  • 

MDUPUY'S  charming  little  book 
•     the  three  great  muters  of  modern 
Russian  fiction  —  Gogol,  Torgdaief,  Tolstoi 
—  is  here  brought  before  readers  of  English 
by  Mr.  Dole,  who,  if  he  has  not  succeeded 
very  well  in  preaerving  the  nameless  grace 
of  style  characteristic  of  the  original,  has,  ia 
appropriate  foot-notes  and  ao  extended  ap- 
pendix, added  from  established  authorities 
touches  of  accuracy  of  which  M.  Dupuy, 
his  pursuit  of  Gallic  felicity  of  expressioi 
not  always  considerate.    As  now  constituted 
the  work  forms  an  admirable  introduction 
the  study  of  the  chief  productions  of  the 
writers  considered,  and  by  liberal  quotatii 
may  even  render  that  task  unnecessary  to 
the  generality  who  find  Russian  literatui 
tM  fiuris  maiuralibut  too  stroDg  a  pabulum 
for  enervated  mental  digestions. 

M.  Dupuy's  method  is  chiefly  expository, 
and  criticism  in  these  pages  is  closely  limited 
to  the  occasional  indication  of  what,  in  the 
expositor's  judgment,  is  not  especially  worthy 
of  pruse.  In  the  opinion  of  M.  Dupuy, 
"poetry  is  not  rhyme,  or  meter,  or  even 
rhythm ;  it  is  the  power  of  touching,  of  re- 
cording its  impressions  in  vivid  and  genuine 
images,"  and  he  is  quick  to  detect  and  expa- 
tiate upon  the  "  poetic  realism  **  of  each  of 
the  great  masters  whose  productions  he 
passes  in  review.  In  Gogol,  in  Turg^nief, 
and  in  Tolstoi  he  discovers  the  almost  mor- 
bid sincerity  with  which  Ibcir  impresi 
are  arranged  in  artistic  synthesis.  It  is  not, 
as  he  observes,  the  lens  of  the  photogra- 
pher's camera  which  transmits  these  impres- 
sions, but  the  quivering  retina  of  the  poet' 
eye,  which  translates  everything  that  comes 
within  Its  range  into  forms  of  vital  beauty  ' 
the  atmosphere  of  a  luminous  and  all*em' 
bracing  imagination.  Beneath  the  satiric 
melancholy  of  Gc^ol,  the  spiritual  nostalgia 
of  Turg^nief,  and  the  ethical  enthusiasm  of 


•  The  GrcU  Mulcn  sf  Riuiiu  liunliin  io  Ihs  Nine 
UentliCuiluiv.  By  Etdcm  Dupuy.  Truiliud  bjr  ^albli 
UukeU  Dole.    T.  V.  Crowell  ft  Co. 


Tobtol,  this  underlying  motive  of  poetic 
realism  gives  to  each  the  power  of  a  great 
and  enduring  artist,  and  to  his  writings  a 
vital  moral  force  to  which  the  followers  of 
the  naturalistic  method,  for  all  their  dreary 
platitudes,  never  can  attain.  M.  Dupuy 
speaks  of  dreaminess  and  banter  as  the  two 
natural  tendencies  of  the  Russian  mind,  and 
he  recognizes  the  two  elements  of 
Gogol's  talent ;  to  Turgrinief  he  ascribes  a 
profound  philosophical  wisdom  which  took 
constant  note  of  political  movements  and 
correctly  determined  their  genesis  and  re- 
sults; Tolstofs  governing  motive  he  finds 
to  be  faith  in  the  ideal.  In  whatever  that 
ideal  may  for  the  time  being  consist. 

These  roun  characteristics  are  clearly  dis- 
cerned and  abundantly  verified,  but  the  im> 
portant,  the  overwhelming  trait  of  Russian 
literatare  to  western  minds  Is  not  expressed 

any  such  enumeration  of  individual  attri- 
butes. The  great  charm,  the  great  power  of 
Russian  literature  as  we  see  ft,  is  its  ingeO' 
,  its  apparent  artiessness,  its  abso' 
lute  lack  of  self-consciousness,  Hereare  no 
traditions  as  to  what  subjects  are  or  are  not 
fit  themes  for  literary  treatment ;  here  are 
set  methods  for  the  management  of  given 
situations  ;  here  is  no  attempt  to  read  into 
poor  humanity  other  ideas,  motives,  and  as- 
pirations than  are  reasonably  to  be  sought  in 
the  personages  selected  for  representation. 
The  treatment  is  inevitably  free,  natural, 
life-like.  There  Is  no  deliberate  purpose  to 
bend  everything  to  an  established  oil: 
ending.  The  descriptions  are  daring,  even 
audacious ;  but  the  moat  delicate  topics 
touched  upon  with  an  innocent  refinement 
of  thought  almost  child  like  in  its  simplicity. 
Compared  with  such  realism  the  brutality  of 
Zola  is  forever  intolerable.    The  difference 

that  in  the  most  realistic  of  the  Russian  nov- 
els, from  Gogol  to  Dostoyevsky,  the  charac- 

men  and  women,  however  degraded 
they  are  actuated  in  their  better  moments  by 
aspirations  that  tend,  however  hopelessly,  to 
elevate  their  condition;  they  are  human  and 
not  animated  embodiments  of  the  cardinal 
sins.  In  a  word,  the  Russian  ma 
scribe  the  world  they  see  with  sympathetic 
appreciation ;  Zola  and  his  compeers  content 
themselves  with  the  revolting  externals  of 
vice.  There  are  not  wanting  signs  which 
indicate  a  distinct  tendency  toward  reali: 
in  English  and  American  fiction ;  let  us  hope, 
in  spite  of  the  "irony  of  truth  "which  Mr. 
Davidson  finds  in  the  RongoD.Macqnart 
chronicle,  that  It  will  be  the  poetic  realism 
of  Turgfnief  and  Tolstoi  rather  than  the 
brutalizing  naturalism  of  Zola.  As  M.  Dupuy 
well  says,  "observation  in  our  realists  is 
systematic  and  cold ;  in  the  Russians  it  Is 
always  natural  and  generally  passionate." 
And  elsewhere  he  remarks : 


still;  where  the  ac[i:>n  develops  without 
haste  ;  and  where  the  author  does  not  even  (hink 
it  important  to  come  lo  an  end.  It  is  sgfRcient 
for  him  to  enumerate  facts  and  explain  chirac- 

'•.  Thin  perfect  naturalness,  at  first  a  trifle 
dubious,  finally  comes  to  have  a  great  chirm. 
There  is  nothing  which  is  more  ab!e  to  nuke  us 
reflect  on  the  puerile  stress  which  we  lay  on  the 
method,  and  on  the  often- to-be-reg retted  cmpty- 

ss  of  our  novels  of  industriotis  niechiniim. 

These  qualities   M.  Dupuy  brings  out  in 
his  graceful  eatuerut,  in  which  snggestive 
comment,  apt  quotation,  and  enlivening  anec- 
dote are  happily  commingled.    We  are  sorry 
find  the  translator  marring  the  general 
attractiveness  of  his  rendering  with  occa- 
sional vulgarisms.    "  Play  it  upon  "  in  the 
sense    of    "take  advantage  of"   (p.  276); 
"takes  stock  in"  fpp.  158,  189);  and  the  use 
to  pbint "  in  the  sense  of  designate,  as  a 
transitive  verb  (p.  187),  are  the   most  notc- 
r''.lhy  of  these   blemishes.      The  portraits 
serviceable,  that  of  Count  TolstoT  being 
particularly  striking.    As  a  whole  the  book 
is  a  welcome  stimulus  to  popular  taste. 


We  find  ourselves  at  first  not  quite  so  much 
our  ease  in  these  Russian  novels,  which  aie  full 
of  art,  bat  ate  bate  o(  little  artifices;    where  thi 
developments  are   like  the  coarse   of  real  life 
I  where  the  characters  hesitate  and 


LA  SOOIETE  SE  aADTT-PETEBS- 
BOUEQ.* 

COUNT  PAUL  VASILI,  the  chartered 
libertine  of  courtly  gossip,  at  length 
reveals  his  nationality.  He  is  a  Russian; 
and  of  things  Russian  he  writes  with  his 
erstwhile  gall-embittered  pen  dipped  in  rose- 
water.  The  audacious  critic  who  found  in 
the  royat  circles  of  Berlin,  Vienna,  London, 
and  Madrid  so  many  unsavory  bits  of  scan- 
dal that  one  felt  like  inscribing  upon  his 
titie-pages  Sir  John's  remark  In  Prince  Otto, 
"  I  am  no  poet,  I  go  about  sniffing,"  now 
roars  as  gently  as  any  sucking  dove.  If 
there  is  on  this  earth  a  reasonably  pure,  un- 
questionably brilliant,  and  altogether  unfet- 
tered society,  we  must  look  for  it,  according 
to  Count  Paul  Vasili,  in  the  capital  of  the 
Tsars. 

And  what  are  all  these  beliefs  with  regard 
to  the  despotism  of  the  Emperor,  the  tyranny 
of  the  "  Third  Section,"  the  possibilities  of 
the  revolutionary  movement,  the  corruption 
in  official  and  social  life  that  have  gained  cre- 
dence outside  of  Russia?  According  to 
Count  Paul  Vasili,  mere  figments  of  idle 
fancy.  The  present  Emperor  is  an  able  and 
conscientious  autocrat  devoted  wholly  to 
the  interests  of  Russian  nationality ;  the 
police  system  is  inefiective  and  badly  organ- 
ized ;  Nihilism  is  dead  and  buried  and  only  1 
few  poor  ghosts  still  squeak  and  gibber  over 
its  unhallowed  grave;  while  as  to  official 
corruption.  Count  Paul  Vasili  holds  it  to  be 
true  that  government  without  peculation  is 
a  human  impossibility,  the  m^n  thing,  he 
thinks,  is  that  officials  perform  their  admin- 
istrative duties;  how  much  they  steal  is  a 
matter  that  concerns  only  tliemselves. 

The  most  interesting  revelation  made  by 


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THE   LITERARY  WORLD, 


[Oct.  2, 


Count  Paul  Va&ili  ii  ibat  of  a  profound 
national  determination  to  crush  the  power  of 
Germany.  It  seems  that  Piince  Bismarck, 
having  subjugated  France,  has  turned  his 
sutention  to  Rassia  as  the  only  other  coun- 
try likely  to  oppose  the  supremacy  ol  the 
Hohenzollerns,  and  Russia,  animated  by  a 
noble  patriotic  zeal,  only  awaits  a  fitting  op- 
portunity lo  meet  "the  Teutonic  hordes." 
Her  objective  point  is  still  Constantinople! 
and,  to  quote  Count  Paul  Vasili,  "the  near- 
est road  to  Constantinople  is  by  way  of  Ber- 
lin." In  directing  this  impending  manifesta- 
tion of  national  energy  the  Emperor  will  be 
simply  fulfilling  the  popular  will.  Alexander 
II  was  slain,  not  by  Nihilists,  but  by  repre- 
sentatives of  the  people  at  large,  who  thus 
declared  their  dissatisfaction  with  ihe  treaty 
which  ended  the  latest  Turco-Russi 
"  The  useless  blood  shed  upon  tiie  ungrateful 
soil  oi  Bulgaria  cried  aloud  for  vengeance 
Ihe  whole  nation  felt  that  there  was  a  crimi 
to  be  expiated  ;  anj^ the  Emperor  was  offered 
as  a  sacrifice  to  the  indignation  of  a  race. 

fn  fact.  Count  Paul  Vasili  gives  us  a  far 
different  view  of  the  late  Emperor  th; 
of  the  liberal-minded  sovereign  which  has 
■arrounded  his  personality  with  a  halo  of 
romance  and  given  him  a  martyr's  fame. 
The  truth  is  (so  says  Count  Paul  Vasili)  that 
he  was  devoid  of  moral  resolution.  Individ- 
ual courage  he  possessed  to  a  high  degree, 
but  in  politics  he  was  timid,  and  dared  not 
face  the  consequences  of  his  schemes  for 
the  amelioration  of  his  people.  He  promul- 
gated reforms  which  might  have  been' bene- 
ficial, and  at  the  same  time  exercised  over 
public  opinion  a  sway  more  absolute  than 
had  ever  before  been  known.  He  was 
kindly  of  heart,  but  weak  in  character; 
liberal,  but  never  generous;  vindictive,  but 
incapable  of  cruelty;  greedy  of  success,  sus- 
ceptible to  flattery,  ronuatic  in  sentiment, 
and  always  vain. 

The  present  Emperor  is  represented 
far  more  favorable  light  as  an  intelligent, 
serious,  hard-working  ruler,  given 
nest  mastery  of  governmental  detail  and  rely- 
ing little  upon  the  imperial  council  for  advice 
in  planning  a  national  policy  or  reducing  it 
to  practice.  Alexander  III  holds  the  foreign 
relations  of  his  country  under  his  personal 
control,  and  he  takes  little  trouble  to  inform 
himself  with  regard  to  the  opinions  of  others. 
Upright,  frank,  honest,  and  loyal,  he  seeks 
to  place  only  honest  men  in  places  of  trust, 
a  fact  which  is  much  deplored  by  Count 
Paul  Vasili,  who  thinks  it  hard  that  abli 
should  be  driven  from  power  "simply  be- 
cause they  are  suspected  of  weakness  in 
questions  of  money." 

Count  Paul  Vasili  devotes  a  great  deal  of 
space  to  the  Empress,  the  court,  the  grand 
monde,  and  (o  various  personalities  of  signifi- 
cance. The  Empress  is  endowed  with  in- 
comparable grace ;  has  two  unconquerable 
passions, the  toilet  and  the  dance;  and  takes 
absolutely  no  part  in  politics.    And  yet  poll- 


plays  a  large  part  in  the  social  activity  of 
St.  Petersburg.  The  talk  is  of  public  affairs, 
id  criticism  is  frank  and  outspoken  to  an 
extent  hardly  known  in  any  other  political 
center  of  Europe.  This  condition  of  fever- 
ish discussion  is  fostered  by  the  taloni;  for 
Russian  women,  who  are  often  more  intelli- 
gent and  nearly  always  more  observing  than 
le  men,  are  all  more  or  less  actuated  with 
desire  to  play  a  part  in  politics  and  to  ad- 
vance the  political  interests  of  their  hus- 
bands. The  principal  personages  in  this 
world  of  wit  and  luxury  are  pleasantly  por. 
Irayed  by  our  amiable  chronicler;  who  in- 
dulges in  raptures  over  the  charms  of  prin- 
cesses and  other  ladies  of  high  degree, 
sketches  for  our  delectation  several  "  origi- 
nal figures,"  and  outlines  the  traits  of  states- 
men and  diplomatists  with  ease  and  grace. 

Count  Paul  Vasili  strongly  contests  Ihe 
impression  that  the  Russian  press  is  under 
governmental  control.  The  leading  Russian 
newspapers,  be  says,  have  an  enormous  in- 
fluence on  public  opinion,  and  enjoy  entire 
freedom  of  criticism  on  every  subject  except 
the  doings  of  theimperial  family.  The  edit- 
ors are  men  of  mark,  and  their  utterances 
are  listened  to  with  general  respect.  Ivan 
Akssakof,  the  late  editor  of  the  Moscow 
Ruts.,  possessed  a  moral  authority  which 
gave  him  almost  unlimited  power 
minds  of  the  masses. 

So  much  for  a  peep  into  Count  Paul 
Vasili's  kaleidoscope,  which  reveals  a  num- 
ber of  unheard-of  things.  The  glimpses  we 
get  therein  may  not  be  very  accurate  reflec- 
tions of  existing  circumstances;  they  are  at 
:  entertaining  for  the  moment,  and, 
like  a  child  who  has  read  a  fairy  story,  we 
put  the  book  aside  wishing  with  all  sincerity 
that  it  might  be  true. 


each  of  them  gets  at  intervals  the  command 
of  his  intellect.  It  is  a  curious  fact  that  we 
find  in  the  Thoughts  indications  of 
the  fusion  of  these  characteristics  into  a  sin- 
gle mental  conception:  the  Abb^  Roux  is 
philosopher,  satirist,  or  priest—  never 
all  these  in  one. 

The  Abb^  Roux  is  a  native  of  Bas-Limou- 
n,  that  infertile  and  unatlraclive  province 
where  a  sordid  peasantry  with  difiliculty 
a  livelihood  from  the  ungrateful  soiL 
There  he  has  lived  for  the  greater  part  of  his 
fifty-two  years,  preaching  Knpalois  to  his  little 
parish  and  engaged  in  literary  work.  He 
was  educated  in  the  seminary  at  Brive ;  he  is 
a  fervid  Latinist ;  he  has  written  heroic  poems 
in  limausin  and  other  poems  in  French ;  his 
Thoughts  are  the  fruits  of  long  meditation. 
M.  Mari^lon,  who  stands  as  sponsor  to  the 
Atitii  Roux's  work,  in  a  gossipy  and  raift- 
bling  introduction  depicts  the  author  with  a 
"  strong,  square-built  form  "  and  "  deep,  bass 
voice." 

and  rugged, 
feminine  Mnsibilitr.  like  the  accent  of  his  words. 
Wilh  the  gentlenesi  of  ■  child  and  a  poet,  he  ei- 
hibiled  to  me  the  simpUcily  of  his  life,  and  I 
deputed  more  affected  than  1  ca 


THE  THOUGHTS  Or  THE  ABBE  KOUX' 

THESE  7%«HfAitrof  the  Abb^RoQx  seem 
to  us  hardly  to  justify  the  great  outcry 
made  over  them  in  Paris.    The  fact  is  that 
literary  abb^  who  can  speak  on  equal  term 
with  the  rest  of  the  world  is  a  good  deal  of 
novelty  nowadays  in  France,  and  this  has,  no 
doubt,  much  to  do  with  the  vogue  of  the 
Abbd   Roux's    meditations.  -This    we 
while  recogoizing  in  the  author   originality, 
candor,  devotion,  and  a  certain  quality 
flavor  of   distinct  and   potent  individuality. 
Imagine  a  Joubert  condemned  to  the  isola- 
tion of  provincial  life  and  touched  with  the 
religious  aspirations  of  a  Pascal  and  the  bit- 
ter sincerity  of  a  La  Bruyirel     But  the 
Abb<  Roux  does  not  rise  to  the  ethical 
hights  attained  by  Joubert,  to  the  spiritual 
fervor  of  Pascal,  or  to  the  subtle  penetra- 
tion of  La  Bruyire.    In  him  something  of 
each  of  these  characteristics  is  mingled,  and 

•  MedililioDi  of  »  P.riih  Priest!    Thoughl.  \,j  Joiiph 


CnnNllACo.    fi.ij. 


I  can  express 
The  Tlioughts  are  arranged  under  various 
headings  —  literature,  poets ;  eloquence,  ora- 
tors; mind,  talent,  character;  the  country, 
the  peasant;  love,  friendship,  friends  ;  God, 
religion.  They  may  be,  however,  more 
naturally  classified  as  literary,  satirical,  re. 
ligious,  and  moral,  and  as  such  we  shall  give 
them  brief  consideration.  The  first  offer, 
amid  much  that  is  almost  commonplace, 
some  sayings  that  are  fine  and  true ;  as 
for  instance,  the  Abbt!  Roux  defines 
poetry  as  "  Ihe  exquisite  expression  of  exqui* 
site  impressions,"  or  observes  that  "  the  real 
gives  exactness,  the  ideal  adds  the  truth.'' 
10  felicitous  when  he  speaks  of 
poetiy  as  "truth  in  its  Sunday  clothes." 
on  the  writers  of  ail  ages  are 
keen  and  far-reaching ;  they  are  not  always 
just.  Of  Victor  Hugo  he  says,  "  What  a 
magnificent  career  he  has  run  badly;"  of 
George  Sand,  "  Like  Circe  the  enchantress, 
she  transforms  those  whom  she  enamors 
beasts;  "  Voltaire  has  "the  spirit  of  a 
courtier  and  the  heart  of  a  courtesan ; " 
Goethe  is  "  a  German  drinking-cup  engraved 
at  Corinth ;  "  "it  is  in  vain  that  Eugenie  de 
Gu^rin  praises  Maurice;  the  more  she  rec- 
ommends him,  the  more  she  effaces  him." 
This  has  truth  enough  lo  make  it  eloquent : 

Antique  art  clothed  the  human  body  wiih  mod- 
esty and  tnajesty  ;  modern  art  unclulhes  even  the 
nude.    Il  is  immodest,  and  Bomeiimrs  even  im- 

fudent  Athens  diffused  the  soul  over  the  flesh; 
aris  diffuses  Ihe  flesh  over  the  soul.  The 
Greek  aiatue  hlu^hed  ;  Ihe  French  Etatue  causes 
blushes. 


The  Abb^  Roux's  satire  verges  on  cyni- 
cism,  at  times  overleaps  the  bounds  and  is  k 
frankly   cynical.       "  Literature,"    he    says, 
"  was  formerly  an  art  and  finance  a  trade ; 
today  it  is  the  reverse."    "  Say  nothing  good 


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of  yourself,  you  will  be  distrusted ;  say  noth- 
ing bad  of  yourself,  you  will  be  taken  at  3rour 
word,"  is  an  epigram  worthy  of  La  Roche- 
foucauld. On  the  subject  of  friendship  he 
says,  "  We  vaunt  our  friend  u  a  man  of  talent, 
less  because  he  has  talent  than  because  he 
is  our  friend."  And  further  on  we  find  the 
cynical  characterization,  "Neither  frivolous 
enough  to  have  comrades,  nor  credulous 
enough  to  have  friends."  Here  are  a  few  of 
the  moral  apothegms  scattered  through  the 


What  l(  eiperience?  A  poor  little  hut  con- 
sicocted  from  the  ruins  irf  the  palace  of  gold  and 
marble  called  our  illusions. 

"Bmied  alive!  ..."  What  measures  *re 
not  taken  to  prevent  such  a  peril  ?  Hut  there  are 
souls  wbich  are  buried  alive,  hearis  which  are 
buried  alive,  and  wbo  (roubles  hiuuelf  about 
them? 

There  is  no  humiliation  for  humility. 

That  man  who  boasts  of  not  boasting  is  not  the 
one  who  boasts  the  least. 

Our  sentiments,  our  thoughts,  our  words,  lose 
their  cectilude  on  entering  certain  minds,  just  as 
sticks  plunged  in  the  water  look  bent. 

A  certain  sadness  constitutes  a  refinement  of 
pleasure,  which  is  peculiar  to  pride. 

We  shall  know  whether  we  have  been  happy, 
we  do  not  know  \t  we  are  so. 

A  man  who  is  not  in  his  place  it  like  a  dislo- 
cated bone  t  he  suffers  and  he  causes  suffering. 

And  does  man  do  anything  else  on  the  earth 
except  wail  always  for  a  happiness  which  never 

The  Abb^  Roux  in  dealing  with  the  peas- 
ant finds  scarcely  a  human  tnut.  "The 
I>easanl  is,  indeed,  sin,  original  sin,  Still  per- 
sistent and  visible,  in  all  its  brutal  simplicity, 
in  all  its  simple  brutisfaness."  And  yet  the 
Abb^  Roux  is  a  devout  Christian,  a  Catholic 
by  firm  conviction.  "Alt  which  is  not  at- 
lached  to  the  Roman  church  is  named 
Error,"  is  his  final  avowal.  Truly  an  origj. 
nal  compound,  this  Abb^  Roux,  and  one  that 
the  curious  may  well  delight  to  study. 


THE  LA  PLATA  OOUSTEIEB.* 

THE  La  Plata  countries  of  South  Amer- 
ica, as  traversed  and  described  by  this 

very  intelligent  and  instructive  volume, 

Uruguay,  Paraguay,  Bolivian  and  Brazilian 

La  Plata,  and  the  Argentine  Republic. 

eluding  Chili,  which  lies  along  tbe  Pacific 

shore,  these  countries  comprise  substantially 

the  whole  of  the  southern  part  of  South 

America.     Of  Uruguay,  handsome  Monte- 
video is  the  capital,  and  of  the  Argentine 

Republic,  Buenos  Ayres;    and    these  two 

flourisbing  cities,  lying  on  opposite  sides  of 

tbe  mouth  of  the  La  Plata,  whose  tributaries 

gather  their  currents  from  tbe  slopes  of  the 

Andes  a^d  the  ^pam^as  of  Brazil,  divide 
"  tetween  them  the  comS^rce  "tharflo^^nn  liSve-beCE  worked  for  centuries  and  stiU 
yield  their  treasure ;  ranches,  cattle  ranges, 
plains,  mountains,  rivers,  foundations  of 
great  enterprises,  colonies  from  the  end: 
of  the  earth,  lines  of  railways  slowly  thread- 
ing the  valleys  and  creeping  up  tbe  steeps 
of  the  Andes,  armies  and  navies  organized 
and  officered  after  good  models,  schools, 
academies,  and  seminaries  of  professional 
learning,  cathedrals  vying  with  the  noblest 


States  are  infrequent  and  sluggish.  From 
Portland,  Maine,  to  the  mouth  of  the  La 
Phlta  is  more  than  7,000  miles  and  a  voyage 
IS.  The  most  expeditious  route 
from  New  York  Is  by  steamer  via  England, 
than  10,000  miles  in  length,  and 
two  months  are  a  short  compass  for  the 
passage.  One  of  the  commercial  oppor- 
tunities of  the  future,  and  one  which  this 
book  ought  to  promote,  is  the  opening  of 
steam  communication  direct  between  New 
York  and  Montevideo  and  Buenos  Ayrts, 

Mr.  Qemens,  the  author  of  this  book,  we 
understand  to  be  a  Protestant  mlssiot.ary 
from  the  United  Stales,  who  has  spent  m'.ny 
years  in  the  lands  he  describes.  We  have 
learned  to  set  the  highest  value  on  such 
books  so  written ;  but  this  is  distinctly  a 
book  of  the  highest  value ;  we  know  of 
lOlhing  In  the  same  field  with  which  it  is  to 
be  compared.  It  is  packed  like  a  box  of 
goods  with  solid  facts,  and  facts  always  of 
pertinent  sort;  it  deals  sufficiently  but 
not  tediously  with  statistics;  it  Is  furnished 
with  excellent  maps ;  it  is  business-like, 
manly,  thoroughly  honest  in  tone ;  it  repro- 
duces the  country,  the  people,  the  cities, 
the  lives  and  habits  of  life,  the  conditions  of 
prosperity,  with  vivid  eSect;  it  is  sound, 
sensible,  and  cheering  in  lis  views,  counsels, 
and  suggestions;  and  to  add  to  all  this  it  is 
admirably  written  and  thoroughly  readable 
from  the  first  page  to  the  last.  Trustworthy 
information  about  any  part  of  South  Amer- 
ica is  rare  enough ;  but  here  is  a  book 
which  is  well  informed,  which  awakens 
terest,  which  inspires  confidence  at  the 
outset,  and  which  is  a  positive  contribution 
to  our  knowledge  of  tbe  world  we  li 

There  are  five  Parts :  of  wbich  the  first 
relates  to  Uruguay,  and  Its  capilal  Monte- 
video; the  second  to  the  Argentine  Repub- 
lic, with  its  twenty-two  provinces 
tories,  and  to  those  parts  of  Bolivia  drained 
by  the  La  Plata;  a  third  presents  an  his- 
torical retrospect;  a  fourth  passes  to  Para- 
guay ;  and  the  filth  and  last  is  occupied 
Ith  the  La  Plata  regions  of  BraziL  What 
a  world  it  is  of  itself  that  Mr.  Clemens 
sketches  in  these  pages;  populous,  beau- 
tiful, and  thriving  cities;  educated,  culti- 
vated, delightful  people;  manners  and  cus- 
toms rooted  In  pre-bistoric  origins,  but  gilded 
by  the  touch  of  Spanish  influence  and  later 
civilization;  trackless  forests  rich  in  precious 
woods  and  alive  with  some  of  the  most  com- 
manding or  most  brilliant  species  of  tbe 
animal  creation;  mines  of  fine  metals  that 


of  Europe,  Jesuits  of  typical  character  and 
service,  manufactures,  fruit  culture,  great 
meat  industries,  festivals  gay  with  pictur- 
esque effects,  bull-fights  rivaling  the  sports 
of  Spain,  grain  elevators,  Christmas  cele- 
brations to  the  tune  of  bird-songs,  English- 
made  carriages  and  liveries,  Declarations  of 
Independence,  Congresses  and  Presidents, 
college  commencements  and  class  essays, 
telegraphs,  telephones,  and  electric  lights — 

we  shall  take  away  the  reader's  breath 

e  go  on. 

t  Is  Mr.  Oemens's  good  fortnne  to  have 

ne  subject  and  to  be  an  accomplished 
guide;  and  with  those  two  conditions  so 
well  supplied  as  they  are  in  this  case  there 
can  be  but  one  result  We  can  only  give 
his  work  the  heartiest  commendation.  What 
a  sensible  book  for  the  study  of  the  geog- 
raphy, history,  and  life  of  South  America 
this  would  be ! 


Eiad  out  between  these  vast  domains  and  the 
rest  of  the  world.  The  La  Plata  countries 
look  towards  Europe  and  the  setting  sun; 
their  traffic  is  almost  exclusively  with  Liver- 
pool, and  London,  Bremen,  Antwerp,  and 
LisboD  ;  connections  direct  with  the  United 


SOLLT  MASISOH.* 

THE  very  unpretentious  little  volume 
which  holds  these  memories  of  Mis- 
tress Madison  needs  only  to  be  opened  to  fix 
the  attention  to  the  end,  and  must  certainly 
have  room  on  the  same  shelf  with  the  ^Mer- 
StaUsmen  series.  Indeed,  that  series 
can  hardly  be  said  to  have  done  its  full 
work  till  another  of  American  Stattswomen 
stands  side  by  side  with  it.  John  Adams 
never  be  known  fully  till  one  reads  the 
letters  of  Abigail,  the  shrewd,  brilliant,  witty, 
unendingly  self-sacrificing  wife;  and  James 
Madison,  about  whom  it  is  difficult  to  feel 
either  interest  or  enthusiasm,  stirs  a  little  of 
:ach  when  the  record  of  his  devotion  as  a 
husband  is  read.  Dolly  Payne,  who  before 
twenty-two  became  wife  and  widow,  was 
met  by  tbe  bachelor  devoted  to  his  books 
and  principled  against  matrimony,  as  the 
pretty  widow  Dolly  Todd,  and  he  suc- 
cumbed instantly,  knowing  no  rest  till  he 
had  made  her  Dolly  Madison  and  carried 
her  in  triumph  to  the  great  Vir^nia  man- 
sion at  Harewood,  where  the  wedding  took 
place. 

From  thenceforth  the  record  of  forty 
years  of  married  life  holds  constant  devo- 
tion from  both.  The  tall,  slight  girl,  with 
dazzlingly  fair  complexion,  and  blue  eyes  of 
peculiar  sweetness  of  expression,  became 
tbe  stout  matron  of  the  Presidential  man- 
sion, but  grace  and  sweetness  both  re- 
mained unaltered.  There  is  a  perpetual 
reminder  in  her  of  Madame  de  R^musat, 
whose  charm  seems  to  have  been  something 
quite  independent  of  any  intellectual  brill- 
iancy. 

Dolly  Madison  had  very  little  education, 
and  her  Quaker  birth  and  training  cut  her 
off  from  much  that  might  have  taken  its 
place ;  yet  her  lovely  spirit,  lier  keen  humor. 


•  Menwirm  ind  Lcltcn  ot  Dalir  Madiun,  WKi 


alj» 


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THE   LITERARY   ^yORLD. 


[Oct.  3, 


ft  marvelous  power  of  adapting  herself  to 
people  and  BurroandlDgs,  so  fascinated  all 
who  met  her  that  there  was  never  question 
aa  to  mental  deficiency.  With  all  her  sim- 
plicity, she  delighted  in  dress,  all  the  more, 
it  may  be,  from  the  resUiclioni  of  her  youth ', 
but  she  shared  her  "pretty  things"  with 
sister  or  friend,  and  was  never  content 
where  sliaring  was  Impossible. 

As  a  picture  of  political  and  fashionable 
life  in  the  early  part  «of  the  cenlury,  her 
letters,  while  lacking  the  sparkle  of  Abigail 
Adams's,  are  still  quite  worthy  to  rank  with 
them.  Such  narrative  as  holds  them  to- 
gether is  giveo  simply  and  with  excellent 
taste,  and  the  pretty  volume  should  find 
many  friends. 


THE  8T0ET  OF  8PAIH." 

THE  many  vicissitudes  and  picturesque 
incidents  in  which  Spanish  history 
abounds  have  enabled  Its  two  talented  au- 
thors, brother  and  sister,  to  make  this  per- 
haps the  most  attractive  volume  of  the  series 
"  Story  of  the  Nations  "  which  has  yet  ap- 
peared. The  romantic  and  poetic  side  of 
the  history,  in  fact,  receives  especial  stress, 
in  the  introduction  of  numerous  legends  and 
poems,  sgme  translated  from  the  Spanish, 
illustrative  of  feelings  and  modes  of  life  at 
<li£Ferent  periods.  There  are  many  and 
beautiful  engravings,  iucluding  views  of  the 
wild  and  majestic  scenery  of  the  country, 
portraits  of  some  of  the  important  charac- 
ters and  fine  examples  of  the  exquisite  Moor- 
ish architecture  and  of  the  plainer  and  more 
massive  Gothic.  In  otherexteroals.of  print 
and  binding,  the  volume  conforms  to  the  high 
standard  of  those  preceding  it 

The  narrative  opens  with  the  early  tradi- 
tionary accounts  of  the  tirnt  known  inhabit- 
ants of  the  peninsula,  Iberians  in  the  south 
and  blond  Cells,  of  Indo-European  lineage, 
in  the  north,  known  later  to  the  Romans  as 
amalgamated  into  Celtiberians ;  and  sketches 
the  location  and  characteristics  of  the  differ- 
ent tribes.  Of  these  the  most  remarkable 
are  the  Basques,  or  Gascons,  among  the 
Pyrennees,  whose  ancient  and  strange  lan- 
guage is  without  affinity  with  any  tongue 
either  Aryan  or  Semitic 

Authentic  history  may  be  said  to  begin 
with  the  coming  of  the  Phcenicians,  in  their 
enterprising  trading  expeditions,  and  the 
much  more  extended  occupation  of  the  cog- 
nate race  of  Carthaginians,  In  accord  with 
the  general  plan  of  the  series,  the  history, 
these  and  in  later  periods,  is  grouped  around 
the  prominent  figures  and  picturesque 
sodes  of  each  period.  Thus  we  have  the 
story  of  Hannibal's  juvenile  oath  of  unend- 
ing hostility  to  the  Romans,  and  his  siege  of 
Saguntum  on  his  great  expedition  agai 
Rome  In  the  first  Punic  war ;  and  the  account 
of  the  transformation  of  Spain  into  a  Roman 


province,  during  the  four  centuries  following, 
is  told  chiefly  as  related  to  the  three  com- 
manding figures  of  Scipio  Africanus,  Ser- 
torius,  and  Julius  Ca;aar.  Under  the  last  of 
these  occurred  the  decisive  battle  with 
Pompey  at  Munda,  near  Cordova.  At  the 
close  of  the  account  of  the  Roman  domina- 
tion occurs  a  little  sketch  of  the  formation  of 
the  Spanish  language,  built  up  chiefly  of 
Roman-words  but  with  the  northern  gram- 
mar of  the  Gothic  tribes  who  next  acquired 
dominion.  This  matter  is  further  treated  in 
a  later  chapter. 

The  period  of  Gothic  Invasion  and  suprem- 
acy occupies  the  next  of  the  parts  into  which 
the  tx)ok  Is  divided ;  from  Ataulphus,  the 
Adolphus  of  Gibbon,  the  first  king  who  es- 
tablished his  court  in  Spain,  to  the  overthrow 
of  Roderick,  called  "the  last  of  the  Goths." 
Account  is  given  at  some  length  of  the  con- 
version of  the  Gothic  tribes  by  Bishop  Ulfi- 
his  (or  Wulf-i-1as)  to  the  Arian  form  of  relig- 
ion, at  a  time  earlier  thaa  their  coming  into 
Spain,  and  of  the  dissensions  and  contests 
due  to  difference  of  religion  which  arose  in 
the  Gothic  Spanish  kingdom  between  the 
Arian  and  the  orthodox  or  Catholic  parties, 
for  there,  as  elsewhere,  religious  and  po- 
litical matters  were  In  those  times  not  a  lit- 
tle mixed.  These  dissensions  were  shrewdly 
appeased  by  a  king  named  Recared  who  per- 
suaded the  leading  Arian  contestants  to  fol- 
low his  lead  in  embracing  the  Trinitarian 
faith.  But  when  King  Roderick  succeeded 
to  the  throne  contests  between  him  and  a 
rival  claimant  named  Witiza  gave  opportun- 
ity for  a  certvn  Count  Julian,  commanding 
Spanish  forces.  In  Africa,  to  invite  detach- 
ments of  Moors  into  Spain  to  take  part  in 
the  rebellion.  Count  Julian  has,  from  this, 
been  called  in  Spain  the  arch-traitor.  One 
of  the  leaders  of  these  Moorish  detachments, 
Tarif,  has  had  the  odd  fortune  to  give  his 
name  to  the  port  Tarifa  and  thence  to  a 
schedule  of  revenue,  which,  from  Tarifa,  we 
now  call  a  tariff.  Another,  Tarik,  the  chief 
of  the  invaders,  appears  in  Gibraltar,  GeM 
al  Tarik,  the  mountain  of  Tarilc. 

The  dominion  of  the  Moors,  or  North- 
African  Saracens,  thus  begun  in  71 1,  lasted 
to  1492  (the  latter  a  date  easily  remembered 
by  Americans),  and  falls  Into  two  divisions 
the  caliphate  of  Cordova,  embracing  niost 
of  the  peninsula  and  ruled  by  the  Omme- 
yade  dynasty,  which  fell  in  1031,  and  a 
period  of  petty  sovereignties  from  1031  to 
149Z.  The  Ommeyade  rule  was  a  time  of 
power,  reaching  its  highest  splendor  under 
Alhakem  II,  when  Cordova  was  DOt  only  a 
rich  and  beautiful  capital,  but  also  a  center 
of  learning.  During  the  second  period  of 
Moslem  rule  the  remaning  Christian  ii 
habitants  of  Spain  grew  more  and  more 
powerful,  especially  the  Jfingdoms  of  Cas- 
tile and  Arragon.  Several  con  sect 
chapters  trace  the  history  of  the  Christian 
population  from  their  retreat  into  the  As- 
lurias,  in  the  extreme  northwest  of  Spain, 


after  their  defeat  by  the  Invaders  ander 
Tarik,  in  711,  to  the  union  of  Arragon  and 
Castile  under  Ferdinand  and  Isabella, 
whose  united  power  proved  sufficient  for 
the  final  expulsion  of  the  Moors,  in  the 
year  1492,  already  mentioned.  A  decisive 
step  towards  this  end  was  a  great  defeat 
of  the  Moslems  by  Alfonso  IX  of  Castile, 
212;  after  which  their  dominion  was 
confined  to  the  smaller  territory  of  Gren- 
ada. Full  scope  is  given  to  the  romantic 
episodes  of  both  sides  in  the  long  contest; 
as  the  celebrated  poems  of  the  Cid  and  the 
Song  of  Roland  and  the  mediaeval  splendor 
of  the  noble  Abencerrages  of  Grenada  and 
their  rivals,  the  savage  Zegris.  The  history 
of  Grenada,  celebrated  as  the  site  oE  the 
beautiful  Alharobra,  will  doubtless  be  given 
in  greater  detail  in  the  forthcoming  volume 
on  the  Moors  in  Spain.  Of  the  Christian 
sovereigns  Alfonso  X  of  Castile  seems  to 
have  been  the  most  noted  preceding  the 
time  of  Ferdinand  and  Isabella.  In  the  his- 
tory of  Arragon  before  the  union  there  is  a 
long  and  not  very  clear  account  of  the  civil 
war  by  which  at  last  the  crown  came  to 
Ferdinand. 

The  description  of  the  reign  of  the  joint 
sovereigns  Is  well  written,  and  contains  the 
familiar  story  of  the  first  expedition  of  Co- 
lumbus to  the  New  World. 

The  accession  of  their  grandson,  Charles  I 
of  Spain,  better  known  as  the  Emperor 
Charles  V  of  Germany,  introduces  the 
reader  to  the  wider  field  of  European  his- 
tory; but  this  reign  is  treated  somewhat 
briefly,  and  still  more  those  of  his  suc- 
cessors, the  three  Philips,  under  whom  the 
power  of  the  Spanish  Empire  greatly  de- 
clined, notwithstanding  the  immense  wealth 
received  from  Spanish  America.  Charles  II, 
of  this  line,  is  called  the  last  of  the  kings  of 
Spanish  lineage ;  for  he  was  succeeded  by 
the  line  of  Bourbon,  which,  except  under 
Joseph  Bonaparte  and  the  short  reign  of 
Amadeo  and  the  republic,  has  since  pos- 
sessed the  throne.  The  war  of  the  Span- 
ish succession,  before  and  after  the  acces- 
sion of  Philip  of  Bourbon  (1700),  is  very 
strangely  attributed  by  our  authors  to  the 
intrigues  of  Charles  1 1,  the  last  of  the  Span- 
ish line. 

The  ioglorions  reigns  of  the  Eighteenth 
Century  are  sketched  rapidly.  Spain,  under 
them,  reached  a  slate  in  which  its  conquest 
by  Napoleon  was  not  difficult;  and  it  is 
uncertain  whether  the  French  dominion 
could  ever  yet  have  been  thrown  off  but 
for  the  aid  of  the  naval  power  of  England 
and  her  great  leaders  —  Nelson  and  Well- 
ington. 

There  seems  little  to  notice  in  the  re- 
maining part  of  the  history.  It  includes 
the  unpopular  Queen  Isabella  and  her 
unforiunaie  son  and  the  changes  which 
intervened,  and  mentions  even  the  recent 
birth  of  the  infant  heir. 

With  the  merits  which  we  have  tried  to 


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show  in  the  work  we  should  not  omit 
to  mentioii  certjun  faults.  The  plan  of 
writing  by  topics  of  course  sometimes  leads 
to  disorder  in  chronology.  Thus  after  we 
have  read  the  story  of  the  Gothic  conquest 
in  Spain  we  are  talcen  back  to  ieam  aome- 
thing  of  the  previous  history  of  the  Gotiis 
in  other  regions,  and  especially  their  con- 
version from  heathenism  in  the  preceding 
century.  In  the  chapter  entitled  "Arians" 
there  is  no  historic  account  of  Ariaoism  as 
one  of  the  most  noted  of  andeat  heresies, 
nor  any  explanation  of  its  adoption  by 
Ulfilas;  and,  still  worse,  the  description 
of  Arianism  as  a  system  is  so  inadequate 
as  to  be  decidedly  misleading.  A  difference 
of  faith  so  radical  as  really  to  separate  two 
distinct  religions  Is  represented  as  only  a 
failure  of  one  party  to  understand  the  mean- 
ing of  theological  terms  in  a  common  re- 
ligion. In  genera),  however,  the  work  is 
one  whid)  we  are  sure  will  be  read  with 
both  pleasure  aad  profit 


MHOS  NOTIOES, 


Mill  Taoit/i  MiiHim  ww  fiction  ;  Miit  EUWi 
Mittien  is  facL  Miss  Toosey  mia  a  lay  Ggare, 
Miss  Ellis  is  an  historic^  figure.  That  traok  has 
djnibtless  saggested  this,  and  the  fact  more  than 
(alfils  the  ficlLon,  and  shows  how  real  life  is  not 
lacking  in  charadeis  and  services  equil  to 
the  best  which  imagination  invents.  Miss  Sarah 
Ellis  was  a  qaick-minded,  vann'hearted,  deiout- 
souled,  active-handed  Unitarian.  She  was  bom 
in  Cindnnati  In  1835.  Her  father,  a  Boston 
man,  is  still  living  in  Cincinnati.  Her  mother 
was  a  woman  oi  uncommon  loveliness  of  charac 
ter.  Miss  Ellis  early  lost  ber  hearing,  and  after- 
wards almost  everything  else  that  is  thought  to 
make  life  desirable.  Then  her  character  shone 
out  and  ber  ministry  began.  She  kept  a  diary, 
and  out  of  this  diary,  her  letters,  and  the  impres- 
sions she  left  on  all  who  knew  her,  this  little  book 
has  been  compiled.  It  is  the  record  of  a  sunny, 
thonghlful,  benevolent  nature  seeking  and  find- 
ing expression  in  a  bosy,  nnsetfish,  heneGcent 
life.  She  worked  in  Sunday-school  and  seiring- 
■chool.  She  distributed  tracts,  leaflets,  and  ser- 
mon*.  She  came  under  the  dominating  power 
of  a  desire  to  promote  the  spiritual  good  of 
others.  With  a  profound  faith  In  the  value  of 
Unitarian  theology  and  habit,  she  became 
enlhusiaatic  and  indefatigable  Unitarian  lay  u 
■ionaiy.  She  made  a  great  deal  of  her  "Post 
Office  Mission,"  an  idea  originated  by  an  English 
lady,  her  records  for  (our  and  a  half  years  show- 
ing tfi}i  letters  and  postal  cards  received,  and 
3,541  written.  She  sold  books,  lent  books,  sent 
newspapers  with  articles  marked,  was  the  means 
of  inducing  several  young  men  to  enter  the  minis- 
try, cheered  msny  a  lonely  life,  led  the  way  oat 
of  doubts,  and  as  her  strength  of  body  failed, 
grew  stronger  In  faith  and  love  and  more  patient 
and  heroic  in  service.  She  died  in  December 
last.  More  than  half  the  book  pabliahed  as  her 
memorial  is  occupied  with  extracts  from  her  let- 
ters. They  are  always  religious,  alive  with  a 
positive   faith,  helpful   aad  sliuiulating,  to  those 


like-nunded  with  their  writer.  It  Is  a  tonic  to 
come  in  contact  with  such  a  character,  even 
through  the  medium  of  a  book.  No  woman  can 
read  it,  whatever  her  religloai  beliefs,  without 
being  quickened  in  her  sense  of  responsibility 
and  directed  in  methods  of  usefulness.  Its  very 
strong  doctrinal  and  sectarian  atterances  will 
make  It  objectionable  to  some  persons. 

7^1  Fabltt  ef  PUpay.  Revised  Edition. 
With  Illustrations.  [London :  Frederick  Wame 
&  Co.] 

This  new  edition  of  the  famous  fables  appears 
as  one  of  the  Chandes  Claitici,  with  an  eiplan- 
atory  preface  and  a  profuslou  of  illustrations. 
Probably  no  work,  says  the  preface,  has  been 
translated  into  so  many  languages,  "and  at  so 
early  an  epoch,"  with  the  exception  of  the 
Bible.  The  earliest  form  is  "in  the  Pantcha- 
tantra  and  Hitopadcsa  oi  the  Sanskrit;"  then 
into  a  now  extinct  language ;  thence  into  the 
ArsUc;  and  the  latter  version  is  "the  parent 
of  all  successive  ones."  It  is  of  Interest  to 
know  of  the  remote  antiquity  to  which  this 
favorite  collection  belongs,  and  of  the  many 
translation*  into  various  Eastern  languages 
before  the  German  in  1483  received  it ;  that 
La  Fontaine  owed  eighteen  of  bis  fables  direct 
to  Pilpay,  and  that  Beaumont  and  Fletcher  and 
Massinger  made  use  of  the  story  of  "The  Der- 
vfse  and  the  Thiei"  These  fables  have  the 
peculiarity  of  being  under  a  few  (five)  general 
heads,  such  as  "  Fortune  Favors  the  Bold," 
each  of  which  (omu  a  sort  of  historical  or  po- 
litical narrative.  In  which  the  different  animals 
introduced  follow  out  and  illostrste  the  general 
principle  Involved,  by  relating  fables  of  which 
they  are  reminded  by  something  that  the  pre- 
ceding speaker  has  said. 


Mrs.  H.  Lovetl  Cameron,  we  should  judg* 
by  this  novel,  aspires  to  be  a  sort  of  English 
"  Ouida."  Let  ns  recount  what  we  have  In  it : 
hunting,  betting,  slang,  profsneness  st  which 
ladies  laugh,  vulgarity  which  sets  a  parlor  com- 
pany in  an  uproar,  weak  women  and  reckless 
men,  falsehood,  scandal,   flirtation   with   other 


wives  in  the  light  of  a  good  joke,  and 
seduction  under  cover  of  ample  exoneration. 
The  miM:hief  of  the  book  is  that  it  has  a  good 
plot  and  is  vrell  written.  But  it  is  bad, 
thoroughly  bad.  What  else  can  be  said  of  a 
novel  whose  hero,  a  clever  young  Englishman, 
seduces  one  woman,  engages  himself  to  a 
second,  and  Is  in  love  with  a  third,  all  so  to 
speak  at  once,  and  all  before  one's  very  eyes? 
Yet  that  I*  the  sort  of  novel  this  is. 


Pew  persons  besides  the  gifted  and  original 
author  of  EufAerioH  and  Baliain  would  have 
thought  out  this  ingenious,  weird,  uncomfortable, 
psychological  story.  It  is  of  about  the  compass 
of  a  magaxine  article,  though  made  into  a  book 
by  itself.  It  is  a  painter's  narrative  of  what 
befel  him  in  a  fine  old  English  country  house 
while  he  was  at  work  on  the  portrait  of  its 
mistress,  Mrs.  Oke.  There  had  been  a  Mrs. 
Oke  of  Okehurst,  centuries  before,  and  her 
portrait  was  now  hanging  on  the  walls.  That 
Mrs.  Oke  had  had  a  lover,  Christopher  Love- 


lock, and  Lovelodc,  so  tradition  ran,  had  been 
murdered  by  his  mistress  and  her  husband. 
The  present  Mrs.  Oke  is  pleased  to  personate 
the  farmer  Mrs.  Oke  by  meaiui  of  dress  and  all 
other  means  10  her  power,  and  in  time  tease* 
her  adoring  husband  into  the  hallucination  that 
she  Is  pursued  by  a  phantom  Lovelock  lover 
as  ber  namesake  was  in  reality  of  old.  Fired  by 
this  hallucination  into  a  frenzy  of  jealous  hatred, 
he  levels  his  pistol  at  the  supposed  phantom  and 
shoots  his  wife  dead.  The  verdict  was  "  mo- 
mentary madness."  This  is  Vernon  Lee's  story 
of  it    Do  you  like  It  ? 


Twentjr  cents  is  a  (air  price  for  a  novel  of  this 
quality.  One  can  buy  it,  read  it,  and  then  throw 
it  away,  without  a  sense  of  loss,  pecuniarily 
speaking  at  leasL  The  heruine  of  ihls  tale  of 
English  country  li(e  is  Stella  B.ildwood,  the 
orphan  child  of  a  labor  agitator  whose  life  is 
lost  in  a  burning  tenement  in  the  city  of  Btumm. 
Brumm  might  be  Birmingham  and  Boldwood 
Mr.  Bradlaugh.  Stella,  at  the  time  of  the  fire 
a  mere  child,  is  heroically  rescued  from  the 
flames  by  a  young  Lord  Loshmar,  who  adopts 
her  and  brings  her  up  as  a  ward.  Jnst  as  she 
is  developing  into  a  lovely  woman,  and  visions 
of  a  probable  marriage  dawn  upon  the  reader, 
Lashmar  dies,  snd  Stella's  trials  begin.  The 
conversion  of  the  next  Lord  Lashmar  from  a 
prejudiced  hater  into  a  devoted  lover  is  a  slow 
process,  and  to  Stella  a  painful  one,  but  it  comes 
about  la  time.  Stella  becomes  not  only  fascinat- 
ing,  but  talented,  publishes  a  famous  book,  and 
turns  ODt  to  be  not  of  gipsy  blood,  as  was  sup- 
posed, bat  of  Spanish,  and  of  good  blood  at 
that,  and  an  heiress  to  jf  30,00a  A  Mr.  Nes- 
torios,  M.F,  Is  concerned  in  the  establishing  of 
her  posidon,  together  with  a  number  of  typical 
English  society  people. 

Cheating  at  Cards. 
Mr.  Andrew  Lang's  novel,  "Hit  Mark  of  Cain, 
opens  with  a  gambling  scene  in  a  London  club^ 
in  the  coarse  o(  which  one  o{  the  characters,  the 
Hon.  Thomas  Cranley,  a  blackguard  bisuel^ 
relates  the  following  story  i 

"  I  don't  see  where  the  cheating  can  come  in," 
■aid  one  o(  the  young  fellows.  "  Dozens  of 
ways,  as  I  told  you.  A  man  may  have  an  under- 
standing with  the  waiter,  and  play  with  arranged 
packs;  but  the  waiter  is  always  the  dangerous 
element  in  that  little  combination.  He's  sure  to 
peach  or  blackmail  his  accomplice.  Then  the 
cards  may  be  marked.  I  remember,  at  Ostend, 
one  fellow,  a  big  German ;  he  wore  Spectacles, 
like  all  Germans,  and  he  seldom  gave  the  play- 
ers anything  better  than  three  court  cards  when 
be  dealt.  One  evening  he  was  In  awful  luck, 
when  he  happened  to  go  (or  his  cigar-case, 
which  he  had  left  in  the  hall  in  his  great-coat 
pocket.  He  laid  down  his  spectacles  on  the 
table,  and  some  one  tried  them  on.  As  soon  as 
he  took  up  the  cards  he  gsve  a  start,  snd  sang 
out,  'Here's  a  swindle!  ffims  temmt)  v«Ut/" 
He  could  see,  by  the  help  of  the  spectacles,  that 
all  the  nines  and  court  cards  were  marked  j  and 
the  speciaclet  were  regular  patent  double  million 
magnifiers." 


—  "The  Records  of  an  Active  Life"  (Dr. 
Dyer)  Is  ready  at  Whittaker's;  also  "True 
Words  for  Brave  Men,"  a  new  volume  of  ser- 
mons by  Charles  Kingsley. 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


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THE  FALL  AJTHOnVOElUirTS. 

UR  readers  will,  we  hope,  find  much 
pleasure  in  the  literary  bill  of  fare 
herewith  presented,  descriptive  of  the  abun- 
dant feast  wherewith  their  hospitable  enter- 
tainers, the  publishers,  are  preparing  to 
spread  tbclr  tables.  Certainly  no  one  will 
complain  that  the  rntau  lacks  either  rich- 
ness or  variety ;  and  a  properly  diligent 
search  therein  will  undoubtedly  bring  to 
light  something  to  suit  the  taste  of  even 
the  most  exacting.  A  few  of  the  works 
named  may  be  now  ready. 

Books  in  Press  or  in  Preparation. 
TliG  Oclober  Literary  Btdlitin  of  the  River- 
(ide  Press,  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  comes  to 
us  ID  a.TtU(ic  cover,  and  seems  eipcdallj  rich  In 
the  depsrtments  of  biography  and  poetry.  In 
the  seriei  "  American  Men  ol  letters."  edited  by 
the  genial  C.  D.  Warner,  ibe  ninth  volume,  now 
announced,  is  to  tie  BtKJamin  Franklin,  by 
Jamei  U.  HcHaster ;  treating  tbe  celclirated 
philosopher  not,  as  often,  in  bis  chaiacier  of 
iUlesman,  but  as  >n  author,  and  both  prolific 
and  versatile.  The  "American  Statesmen  Series  " 
will  add  to  its  thirteen  volumes  now  out  George 
Watkin^oH,  by  Henry  Cabot  Lodge;  Patrick 
Henry,  by  Moses  Colt  Tyler  j  Mariin  Van  Buren, 
by  William  Dorsheimer ;  Henry  Clay,  by  Carl 
Schurx;  and  TSmroi  H  Benten,  by  Theodore 
Koosevelt.  The  lives  of  Wa«hingloD  and  Clay 
will  be  in  two  volumes  each.  Tht  Life  and  Car- 
reipondence  of  Pmftssor  Agassii.  by  Eliiabeth  C. 
Agassiz,  in  two  volumes,  with  poitraiu  and 
other  illostralions,  will  (arm  part  ot  a  new  a: 
uniform  scries,  including  his  scientific  works, 
four  volumes.  There  is  also  ■  new  duodecimo 
edition  of  A  yourvty  in  Braiil,  fully  illustrated, 
and  at  price  reduced  to  tz.50.  O.  B.  Frolhing- 
bam  writes  The  Uft  bJ  W.  H.  Ckannitig,  "one 
of  the  most  noble  and  pure  idealists  ever  pro- 
duced in  New  England;"  and  Caroline  Hazard, 
tbe  biography  of  the  laie  Piof.  J.  L.  Dimon, 
oE  Brown ;  each  book  enriched  by  a  portrait. 
TTu  Metaairi  and  LelUri  ef  Dolly  Madiien  is 
announced  in  our  issue  of  September  4.  We 
may  expect  a  union  of  bit^raphy  with  art  in 
Mrs.  Schuyler  Van  Rensselaer's  Henry  H  Rick- 
ardivn  and  Hit  Works,  with  Ibirly  Cull-pagc 
views,  and  about  fifty  smsller  sketches  uf  Mr. 
Richardson's  buildings.  One  of  the  beat-known 
of  these,  probably,  is  Trinity  Church  in  Boston. 
Our  readers  may  share  our  surprise  that  the 
next  volume  of  the  Boston  Monday  Lectures 
will  be  the  tenth,  and  especially  ai  these 
part  of  the  lectures  of  three  years  ago.  The 
general  title  is  Oritnt,  and  from  the  subji 
both  of  "preludes"  and  lectures,  as  announced, 
this  volume  can  hardly  be  surpassed  in  interest 
by  any  in  the  series,  especially  In  our  days  of 
revived  interest  in  Eastern  religions.  Dr.  Wash- 
ington Gladden  will  discuss  in  his  suggestive 
and  inlcresting  way,  under  the  title  Apfliid 
Christianity,  the  relations  of  religion  to  wealth, 
labor,  socialism,   amusements,  and  education. 


le  also  a  new  edition  of  Tie  Lar^i 
by  this  writer,  an  exposition  highly  com- 
mended in  The  Lutheran  Quarterly.  Democracy, 
and  Other  Addresses,  by  James  Russell  Lowell, 
ill  embody  the  talented  author's  speech  at  tbe 
Midland  Institute,  and  others  in  England,  and 
e  new  Chelwa  Library.  Students  of 
Mr.  Browning  will  doubtless  welcome  an  essay 
by  Annie  Wall,  explanatory  of  Strdtlle,  "gener- 
itly  accounted  the  moat  obscure  and  puzzling 
of  Mr.  Browning's  poems."  The  Rev.  E.  M. 
Wherry's  Commentary  on  the  Qurin  is  to  be 
lued  with  Volumes  HI  and  IV;  a  work 
including  Sale's  translation,  and  one  which  may 
be  judged  by  the  prospectus  to  be  of  great  learn- 
research.  Turning  to  the  realm  of  fic- 
notice  that  Charles  Egbert  Craddock 
still  faithful  to  the  East  Tennessee 
1S,  in  selection  of  the  scene  of  her  new 
novel.  In  the  Clouds,  which  we  do  not  doubt  will 
be  eagerly  rcsd  by  her  many  admirers.  A  Stef 
Aside,  by  Cbarlotic  Dunning,  will  be  a  tale  of 
modern  life  and  lemptalion  in  the  great  Ameri- 
can metropolis.  The  Madonna  of  the  Tubs  may 
dimly  suggest  Dean  Swift,  but  Elizabeth  Stuart 
Phelps  is  responsible  lor  launching  these  lub', 
Ross  Turner  and  G.  H.  Clements  (or  their 
abundant  illustrations,  both  landscape  and  ma- 
from  sketches  made  on  the  Massachusetts 
coast.  Dr.  S.  Weir  Mitchell  will  again  tempt 
fortune  in  the  field  of  fiction,  with  Jfoland 
Blake,  a  tale  in  some  degree  connected  with  the 
last  American  war.  SeedDeau  is  a  book  ol  short 
stories,  by  Mrs.  Whitney,  and  A  While  Heron, 
\d  Other  Stories,  a  cottcclion  of  New  England 
tales,  by  Sarah  Orne  Jcwett.  Books  in  series  will 
also  be  abundant  from  these  publishers.  Thus  the 
new  Fireside  Edition  of  Httatkorn^s  Comfiete 
Works,  in  six  volumes,  and  in  the  Little  Classic 
Edition  (i8mo),  in  twenty-five,  which  will  be  sold 
ratying  with  the  three  styles  of  binding, 
from  Iwrnty-fire  to  seventy-five  dollars  for  the 
set.  The  Dramatic  Works  of  yohn  Afariton 
are  announced  in  three  octavo  volumes;  and 
The  Cemplele  Works  of  William  Shaketfeate,  in 
six  volumes,  octavo,  with  the  late  R.  G. 
White's  "concise  and  admirable  nol 
This  edition,  called  the  Riverside,  is 
bound  in  three  volumes.  Another  edi 
of  Shakespeare,  the  Blackfriars,  "limited  to 
five  hundred  copies,  will  be  brought  out  u 
the  auspices  of  the  Shakespeare  Society  of  New 
York ; "  each  play  10  be  issued  separaicly,  oc- 
tavo size,  and  sold  10  subscribers  at  two  dollai 
each.  The  text  of  this  edition  is  Ihat  famished 
the  players  in  1591-1623,  printed  parallel  with 
the  "first  revised  text"  of  the  latter  jear. 
Brooks  Adams,  in  The  Emaneipalioa  of  Massa 
chusettSipititoti  curious  studies  in  early  rctig- 
ioui  history  of  a  commonwealth  where  these 
subjects  were  long  connected  with  politics.  Of 
the  series  "American  C ommon weal ihs," Ellis  II. 
Roberts,  editor  of  the  Utica  Herald,  writes  on 
Hew  York.  Much  of  history  is  involved  of 
necessity  in  Ibe  biographies  already  mentioned. 
A  literary  etla  pedrida,  if  we  may  so  speak  with 
all  due  respect,  would  seem  to  be  presented 
buyers  of  the  "  Riverside  Literature  Series  ; " 
which  the  eighteen  already  issued  and  used 
some  extent  in  schools  will  be  supplemented  by 
nine  more  volumes :  Franklin's  Autobiography, 
and  Poor  Richard's  Almanac,  etc., —  both  with 
notes ;  Hawthorne's  Tangleviood  Tales,  from 
cienl  mythology;    Washington's  Words;   Long- 


fellow's Golden  Legend;  and  Selectimi  from 
Tioreau,  Another  miscellaneous  series,  called 
"  The  Riverside  Pocket  Series,"  is  by  vartoni  au- 
thors. It  includes  Deephanen;  Exile,  from  "  Little 
Classics  ; "  Adirondack  StoHet ;  A  Gentleman  of 
Leisure;  The  Snmsi- Image,  and  Other  T^wite- 
Told  Tales;  Watch  and  Ward;  In  the  Wilder, 
mess;  A  Study  of  Hawtkorme;  Detmold;  Tkl 
Story  of  a  Mine;  each  bound  in  flexible  cloth, 
and  sold  at  fifty  cents.  Further  enjoyment  for 
lovers  of  Oiiental  poetry  may  be  expected  in- 
The  Worki  ofEdmard  Fittgerald  ;  two  volumes, 
containing  his  translations  of  the  RubAiydl  at 
Omar  Khayjim,  the  Agamemnon  of  i^schylus, 
and  others,  from  the  Greek  and  the  Per>iaQ. 
Riverside  Edition  of  Longfellow's  Complete 
Poetical  and  Prose  Worit,  is  in  eleven  volumes, 
contains  five  portraits  of  the  poet,  at  differ-, 
periods  of  life.  It  may  be  had  in  cloth,  in 
half  calf,  and  in  half  levant,  at  varying  prices; 
I  a  limited  "large-paper  edition,"  like  that 
uf  Mr.  Sledman's  PmIs  of  America.  A  new 
edilioit  is  announced  of  F.  O.  C.  Darley's  Taelvt 
Outline  niuitratioHS  ot  Longfellow's  Evangeline, 
phototypes  made  from  the  artist's  original  de- 
jns.  Other  poetry,  issued  by  the  same  firm, 
ill  be  Lord  Tennyson's  Complete  Poetical  Works, 
a  new  Riveraide  Edition,  in  six  octavo  vol- 
umes; The  Silver  Bridge  and  Other  Poems,  by 
Eliiabclh  Akers;  Ariel  and  Caliban,  by  Christo- 
pher Peatse  Cranch,  and  a  new  edition  of  the 
same  poet's  blank  verse  Irsnklalion  of  Tie  jEneid 
of  Virgil;  James  Parton's  Humorous  Poetry  ef 
the  English  Language,  with  notes  and  portraits 
which  embraces  selections  from  Chaucer  to 
Saxe,  and  will,  it  is  suggested,  "  promote  the  gSy- 
ety  of  nations ;  "  The  Cruise  of  the  Mystery,  and 
Other  Poems,  by  Celia  Thaiter,  characterised  as 
in  less  degree  poems  of  the  ses  than  her  two 
former  volumes,  nothwilhstanding  the  title; 
Holy  Tides,  by  Mrs.  A.  D.  T.  Whitney,  celebrat- 
ing the  red-letter  days  of  the  Church,  and  ol  de- 
votional spirit ;  Poems  of  Religious  Sorrtue,  Com' 
fort,  Couiuel,  and  Aspiration,  edited  by  Prof.  F. 
J.  Child  of  Harvard ;  and  finally,  the  "  Cabinet 
Edition  "  of  the  same  poets,  included  in  the  pop- 
ular "Diamoitd  Edition,"  and  bound  in  three 
styles.  But  the  mote  material  department  of 
science,  art,  and  technique  is  also  represented  in 
the  ovetilowing  abundance  issuing  from  the  Riv- 
erside. We  note ;  A  Century  ef  Etatricity,  by 
T.  C.  Mendenhalli  E.  P.  Dole's  Talks  About 
Law ;  Vsni.  John  Norton  Fonieto)'s  Inlre- 
diiction  to  the  C01utitutien.1l  Lams  of  the  United 
Slalei,  and  his  Lectures  on  International  Laa 
in  Time  ef  Peace;  and  A  Treatise  en  Liene, 
by  Leonard  A.  Jones ;  last  three  each  in  one  vol- 
ume, octavo  law  sheep ;  Calheritie  Owen's  I'en 
Dollars  Enough  —  though /ur  10*17/ does  not  quite 
appear,  further  than  that  the  work  treais  of  the 
art  of  the  good  housewife ;  also  Old  Lines  in  Hen 
Black  and  White,  twelve  pictures  from  poems  of 
Holmes,  Lowell,  and  Whittier,  reproduced  from 
designs  in  charcoal  by  F.  Ilopkinson  Smith. 
Large-paper  edition,  in  portfolio,  measuring 
about  16  X  21  inches,  on  Japanese  paper,  edi- 
tion limited  to  one  hundred  copies ;  and  Tht 
Book'  of  Ike  Tile  Club,  a  somjituous  holi- 
day volume  of  about  twenty-five  phototypes 
from  selected  paintings  of  American  artists, 
with  many  other  pictures,  and  a  sketch  of  the 
club.  The  size  of  vhu  last  work  will  be  alias  (^ 
quarto,  and  an  idilion  de  luxe  of  one  hundred 
copies  will  also  be  issued.    Books  of  religious 


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order  have  been  mentioned  above,  wbcn  partly 
in  oilier  classei.  We  add:  7%irlem  iVreks  e/| 
Proftrt  fn-  tht  Family,  for  inoinmg  and  even- 
ing, compiled  by  Benjamin  B.  Coniegys;  and 
Tki  Story  efihe  Rtsumttiint,  etc.,  by  Dr.  W.  H. 
Fumew,  containing  also  lome  miiccllaneous  >e- 
iigions  essafs  on  inleteiling  topics.  Of  bootu 
of  travel  or  descriptive  of  places  — a  peculiarly 
good  class  for  illustration  —  we  note  first  Ancient 
Citiii.frem  tht  Daun  to  thi  Daylight,  by  the 
Rev.  W.  B.  Wright,  deacriplive  both  of  famous 
old  cities  and  of  iheir  civilization.  WiU-mern 
Readi  in  Spain,  Holland,  and  Italy,  by  P.  H. 
Smith,  will  be  a  folio  volume,  very  rich  in  itlos- 
trations,  large  and  small.  Tht  Far  Interior,  by 
Malcolm  Kerr,  illustrated,  describes  a  journey 
north  from  Cape  Town  to  equatorial  regions. 
Two  Iraoks  present  American  towns,  E.  M. 
Bacon's  DUlienary  ef  Boston,  a  new  edition, 
rewritten,  and  Henry  S.  Dana's  Hiitery  of 
Woedsteek,  Vermont.  As  miscellaneous  works 
we  group  the  remainder  announced  by  this 
house  i  a  new  edition  of  Susan  Fenimore 
Cooper's  KtiraJ  Hairs,  abridged  ;  Biekonings  Jor 
Every  Day,  A  Calendar  of  TAoughli,  by  Lucy 
Larcom ;  Tlit  Round  Ytar,  a  series  of  medita- 
tiona  on  nature,  by  Edith  M.  Thomas;  the 
Eiiays  and  Fuims  of  Jones  Very.  Their  poetic 
calendars  for  1SS7  will  be  eight  in  number  — 
Browning,  and  Hawthorne,  new,  and  Emerson, 
Holmes,  Longfellow,  Lowell,  Whitney,  and 
Whittier. 

Besides  several  works  now  ready,  for  which 
the  reader  is  referred  to  our  "Publications  Re- 
ceived," G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons  promise  an  attract- 
ive list  for  the  coming  season,  especially  strong, 
perhaps,  in  the  department  of  history.  They 
announce  as  ready  Tht  Davm  ef  tht  JVinelemtk 
Century  in  England,  "a  sodal  sketch  of  the 
times,"  by  John  Ashton.  Studiti  in  Sociology, 
is  by  John  Bascom,  president  of  the  University 
of  Wisconsin.  Tht  Old  Order  Chan^i.hj  W. 
H.  Mallock,  will,  in  the  guise  of  a  story,  deal 
with  questions  the  same,  in  part  at  least,  with 
those  considered  by  the  Rev.  R.  H,  Newton 
Preblemt  and  Social  Staditi.  An  Invettor's 
Nntet  oit  American  Railroads,  by  John  Swann, 
H.  A.,  Oxon.,  and  Eitaju  in  Finance,  by  the 
piealdcnt  of  the  British  Statistical  Society, 
both  ready.  In  the  handsomely-illustrated  series 
"  Story  of  ibe  Nations,"  of  which  m  e  have  reviewed 
some  volumes,  seven  will  appear  this  auiumn: 
Carthage,  by  Prof.  A.  J.  Church  ;  Tht  Hfoori 
Spain,  tiy  Stanley  Lane-Pool ;  Alexander's  Em- 
pire, by  J.  P.  Mahaffy ;  Ancient  Egypt,  by  Prof. 
Rawlinson;  The  Normans,  by  Sarah  O.  Jewell; 
Fn~sia,  by  the  Hon.  S.  G.  W.  Benjamin,  anc 
Assyria,  by  Z.  A.  Ragozin.  A  second  edition  i: 
in  press  of  France  Under  Maxarin.  Documents 
lUustratioe  ef  American  Hiitery,  1606-1S63,  by 
Howard  W.  Preston,  contains  many  colonial 
charters,  and  other  miscellaneous  papers,  of  later 
dales,  loo  varied  to  describe.  Half  a  Century  of 
American  History  (1840-1886),  by  Prof.  Alex- 
ander Johnston  of  Princeton,  is  promised  for 
18S7.  The  History  of  the  United  Statet  Naoy, 
by  Edgar  Stanlon  Maclay,  will  be  in  two  vol' 
umes,  and  give  "  a  review  of  the  colonial  naval 
expeditions,  and  a  sketch  of  our  present  navy." 
Reminisctncet  ef  a  Private,  by  Frank  Wilkeson, 
tells  tEie  story  of  the  Virginia  campaigns  from 
the  ranks,  and  should  be  interesting  to 
with  Ihe  popular  "war  articles"  ol  magi 
In   ne  Scriptures  far   Young  Readers,  by  the 


Rev.  Edward  T.  Barilett,  A.M.,  and  the  Rev. 
Prof.  J.  P.  Peters,  Ph.  D.,  we  may  expect,  in  the 
two  volumes  from  the  Old  Testament,  a  useful 

ipilation  of  ancient  history,  chieQy  Jewish, 
in  the  books  classed  as  juvenile,  we  have 
additional  woiks  which  at  least  verge  upon  the 
historical.  These  are ;  Chivalrii  Days  and 
Yeuthful  Deeds,  by  £.  S.  Brooks,  author  of  His- 
toric Beys :  Uncle  Sam's  Medal  ef  Honor,  by 
Gen.  Theo.  F.  Rodenbough,  a  proCuselj'-illus- 
traled  account  of  "  some  of  the  most  stirring  and 
dramatic  incidents  connected  with  the  history  of 
the  medal,"  which  is  the  only  national  military 
decoration  for  valor  instituted  by  our  govern- 
ment; and  Tie  Beys' and  GirU  Library  of  Amer- 
Biography,  of  which  the  volume  On  Robert 
Fulton  has  appeared,  and  others  are  in  prepaia- 
Esidcnls  Lincoln  and  Washington.  In 
poetry  "  The  Peari  Series,"  promised  for  October 

embraces  six  volumes,  48mo,  Scxible  binding, 
namely  r  KejUelion,  Wit  and  Humor,  Fancyi 
Leve,  The  Feel's  Garaen  (teaching  the  flower 
language),  and  Faith,  Hope,  and  Charity.  Four 
ilher  works  are  now  ready:  Summer  Haven 
Songs,  by  James  Iletlxrt  Moise ;  A  Life  in 
Song,  by  George  L.  Raymond;  The  Temple  of 
Alanlhur,  with  other  poems,  by  Isaac  R.  Baaley 
and  Reymond,  a  Drama  of  the  Revolution,  b) 
Henry  M.  Cronkhite.  Of  Risif^s  Daughter,  by 
Anna  Katharine  Green,  and  Prof.  George  L. 
Raymond's  Shetchts  in  Verst,  we  have  only  Ihe 
names.  The  Romances  ef  Ckroairy,  by  John 
Ashton,  will  include  some  of  the  less  known 
heroes  of  legend,  and  will  liave  fifty  illustrations 
in  fac-simile.  The  Psychologist  is  announced 
a  romance,  despite  it*  scientific  title.  So  also 
The  Story  of  My  Life,  by  Georgiana  B.  Kirby, 
which  might  seem  biography.  The  Romantt  ef 
the  Unexpected,  by  David  S.  Foster,  is 
yet  described  at  all;  and  Woodstock,  by  Clarence 
W.  Bowen,  is  called  simply  "an  historical 
sketch."  Of  scientific  or  technical  works,  the 
following  are  promised  by  this  house:  Memo- 
rials of  Half  a  Century,  by  Bcla  Hubbard,  being 
observations  in  archa:ology,  early  history,  an 
physical  geography  in  the  lake  region;  Tht  Hi 
lory  of  the  English  Constitution,  by  Rudolph 
Gneist,  a  law  professor  in  the  University  of 
Berlin,  Essays  in  Finance,  by  Robert  Giffen; 
Outlines  of  Music,  by  Louis  S.  Davis ;  Sketches 
and  Imfrtssions,  Musical,  Theatrical,  and  Social, 
lygg-iSSj,  by  the  late  Thomas  Goodwin ;  a 
Dictionary  of  Ihe  Talmud,  and,  for  students  of 
French  and  German,  Le  Romantismt  Franfais, 
1884-1848,  edited  by  Prof.  T.  F.  Crane,  and 
selections  from  Lesiing'i  Prese,  edited  by  Prof. 
H.  S.  While  of  Cornell.  Of  general  or  miscel- 
laneous nature  are  :  Humorous  Masterpieces  from 
American  Lilcraturt,  in  three  volumes,  edited 
by  Edward  T.  Mason,  with  a  wide  range  of 
selections ;  Benjamin  FranUin's  Complett  Works, 
including  his  private  aa  well  as  bis  more  general 
correspondence,  a  part  now  printed  for  the  first 
time,  ihe  whole  being  in  ten  octavo  volumes, 
with  illustrations  on  steel,  under  the  editorship 
of  John  Bigelow;  American  Literature,  ibaj- 
i8Sj,  edited  by  Prof.  Richardson  o[  Dartmouth, 
of  which  the  first  volume  will  have  as  its  sepa- 
rate it  tie  The  Development  of  American  Thought, 
and  the  second,  American  Poetry  and  Fiction; 
and  The  Land  ef  Sleepy  Helleta;  a  folio 
series  of  photogravure  representations  of  the 
principal  scenes  about  the  home  of  Irving,  wiih 
descriptive  letter-press,  and  with  a  reprint  of 


the  Legend  ef  Sleepy  Hollow,  and  of  Wolferes 
Roost. 

Among  coming  publications  of  Harper  & 
Brothers  are  noteworthy  some  handsome  illus- 
trated gift  books.  Edwin  A.  Abbey's  edition  of 
Goldsmith's  She  Stoops  to  Conquer  will  comprise 
Mr.  Abbey's  illustrations  of  the  play  which  have 
appeared  in  Harpir's  Magatine ;  the  drawings 
having  been  engraved  afresh  for  the  book  under 
the  personal  supervision  of  the  artist.  Ten  of 
the  illustrations  have  been  reproduced  by  the 
photogravure  process  on  fine  India  paper,  and 
their  legends  will  be  printed  in  red  on  flyleaves. 
The  work  will  be  a  folio  volume,  handsomely 
bound  in  calf.  Another  handsome  specimen  of 
book-making  will  be  William  Hamilton  Gibson's 
Happy  Hunting  Grounds.  Margaret  E.  Sangster^ 
verses  entitled  Homt  Fairies  and  Heart  FIovkts, 
will  be  a  quarto  richly  illustrated  by  the  skillful 
Frank  French.  Col.  Knox's  Boy  Trav 
tlltrs  in  Russia  presents  to  young  readers  scenes 
from  a  great  em[Hre  which  is  attracting  much 
more  attention  at  present,  probably,  than  ever 
before  —  if  not  politically,  certainly  in  literature. 
This  is  uniform  with  preceding  volumes  in  its 
series.  The  same  publishers  announce  A  Demi- 
god, an  anonymous  novel. 

The  Century  will  make  its  leading  feature  for 
1886-7,  commencing  with  the  November  issue, 
Tht  Authorised  Ljfi  of  Uneeln,  by  his  confiden- 
tial secretary,  John  George  Nicolay ;  a  work  which 
has  been  in  preparation  no  less  time  than  sixteen 
years,  and  indeed,  said  to  have  been  begun  with 
the  sanction  and  assistance  oE  President  Lincoln 
himself.  ^ 

A.  C.  Armstrong  &  Son  promise  for  early 
autumn  From  Pole  to  Pole,  a  new  sea  story  by 
Gordon  Stables,  R.N.;  also  several  religious 
works ;  The  Miraculous  Fitments  in  tht  Gospels, 
by  the  Rev.  A.  B.  Bruce,  D.  D.,  a  companion  to 
the  author's  Parabolic  Teaching  of  Christ,  being 
philosophical  lectures  on  miracles  in  relation  10 
nature,  revelation,  exegesis,  etc.;  Light  for  the 
Last  Days,  a  study  of  prophecy  and  hutory  dur- 
ing the  last  twenty-five  cenlunes;  the  "  Golden 
Thoughts  Series,"  embracing  Golden  Thoughts 
from  the  Imitation  ef  Christ,  Give  UsthisDayOur 
Daily  Bread,  from  the  German  of  Alban  Stotz; 
and  Hours  ef  Refreshing,  translated  from  MQI- 
ler;  The  Legendary  History  of  the  Cress,  x  iet'ict 
ai  full-page  wood-culs,  (rom  a  Dutch  work  pub- 
lished in  14S3,  with  an  introduction  written  and 
illustrated  by  John  Ashton,  bound  in  white 
parchment,  giving  the  hislory  of  the  cross,  and 
printed  in  antique  style,  with  old-style  types,  and 
the  old  spelling ;  Anecdotes  of  Old  Testament 
Texts,  the  eighth  volume  of  the  "Clerical  Li- 
brary Series;"  Tht  Good  Fight ;  or.  Mare  than 
Conquerors,  stories  of  Christian  martyrs  and  he- 
roes, by  the  Rev.  J.  Hunt,  D.  D.,  and  others; 
and  Tht  Churckette,  a  fanciful  name  for  "  a  year's 
sermons  and  parables  for  the  young,"  bj  the 
Rev.  J.  Reed  HowatL  The  same  publishers 
issue  a  new  library  edition  of  Hallam's  Complett 
Works,  in  eight  volumes,  reprinted  from  the  lat- 
est London  edition;  Poets  in  the  Garden,  by  May 
Crommelin  ;  A  Budget  of  Litters  from  Jiipan,  by 
Arthur  C.  Maclay,  formerly  of  the  Imperial  Col- 
lege of  Engineers,  Tokio,  illustrated  with  full- 
page  engravings  ;  On  Tuscan  Hills  and  Venetian 
Waters,  by  Linda  Villari,  illustrated  by  Mra. 
Arthur  Lemon.  Hovi  to  Form  a  Library,  by 
Henry  B.  Wheatley,  will  be  the  first  volume  of 
the  "  Book  Lover's  Library."     But  the  brightest 


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aor  Id  this  firm's  galaxy  of  attractions  ia  perhaps 
"the  smalleit  complete  Sbakcspeare,"  in  eight 
volumes,  crown  31010,  in  clear  nonpareil  type, 
beautifnlty  illustrated  with  reproduclic 
graving!  by  Westall  and  others,  and  including 
a  glossary  and  life  of  Shaliespeare  and  index 
familiar  quotations.  This  set  will  come  in  (our 
style*  of  binding,  each  with  box  to  match  and  at 
moderate  prices. 

New  fiction  by  Messrs.  Porter  &  Coatet  in- 
cludes Jm  IVajifing  at  Hamt,  by  Ha,rry  Castle- 
m^n,  the  first  in  a  tKwteries  of  juveniles  ;  Htlp- 
ing  Himaif,  by  Horatio  Alger,  Jr,  and /w^jtrwu^ 
t«  tht  FoTitt,  by  Edward  5.  Ellis,  both  conclud- 
ing volumes  of  series  heretofore  out;  Wayi  ana 
Aftaaty'by  Margaret  Vaadegrift,  It  book  for  girls; 
Nslidaft  at  tit  Grangt,  by  Emily  Mayer  Hi 
gins;  and  The  BelAUAtmiia,  1.  CYa'Mnaa  sta 
from  the  German  of  Julie  Sutler.  Manna  far 
tht  Pilgrim  embrace*  readings  for  a  month, 
from  vkriout  authors,  compiled  by  the  same 
hand  with  Dri/ltd  Smmt-Fiakts.  Ellerslie  Wal- 
lace, Jr.'s  Amattur  Photographtr  may  be  had 
in  a  new  edition  with  two  additional  chaplers, 
bound  in  morocco.  Uerse-Breiding  RecallectiiiU!, 
by  Count  Lehndorf,  is  another  technical  work 
now  in  press.  Slanlry  and  the  Cango  describes 
not  meielythat  explorer's  achievements,  but  ali<o 
explorations  by  Sir  Samuel  Baker  and  Lieut.  V. 
S.  Cameron.  From  the  Coatc  de  Paris's  Hillary 
of  tht  Civil  War,  etc.,  the  three  chapters  on  the 
momentous  battle  of  Gettysburg  are  announced 
by  the  same  firm,  in  one  volume,  with  the  addi- 
tion of  "  an  itinerary  of  the  army  of  the  Potomac 
and  coSperailng  forces." 

From  the  forthcoming  publications  of  Roberts 
Urotheis  we  select  first  works  of  art  especially 
attractive  for  sumptuotu  style  of  issue.  Goethe's 
version  oE  Reynard  thi  Fax,  translated  by  James 
Arnold,  will  have  sixty  wood-cuts  from  von  Kaul. 
bach,  and  twelve  etchings.  Helen  Jackson's 
Precissian  of  Flowers  in  Colarada  is  to  be  illus- 
trated in  water  colors  by  Alice  A.  Stewart. 
Hamerton's  exquisite  Unknown  River  is  again 
published  with  the  author's  etchings,  thirty  seven 
in  number.  Tait  Pilgrim^  Frtgreu,  "from  fair 
Florence  to  the  eternal  city  of  Rome,"  is  by 
Joseph  and  E.  R.  Pennell,  with  illustrations  by 
the  former.  Edwin  Arnold's  India  Revisitidhas 
engravings  from  photographs  selected  by  the  au- 
thor. In  biography  are :  Zatl  Dayt  of  Marie 
Atitoinetlt,  by  Lord  Ronald  Gower,  an  Idilion  de 
luxe;  MargaritefAngBuUmi^Quetn  of  Navarre, 
by  A.  Mary  F.  Robinson ;  Susanna  Weslty,  by 
Eliza  Clarke  (in  the  "  Famous  Women  Series  ") ; 
while  Franklin  in  France,  now  in  preparation  by 
Edward  Everett  Hale,  may  perha[»  be  included 
rather  in  history.  Familiar  Talks  en  Same  of 
Shakespeare's  Comedies,  by  Mrs.  E.  W.  Latimer, 
has  grown  out  of  the  author'*  parlor  leaures  in 
Baltimore.  Another  work  by  the  talented  and 
prolific  P.  G.  Hamerton  is  a  (olio  volume  with 
numerous  illustrations,  entitled  Imagination  in 
Landscape  Painting.  In  fiction,  Roberts  Broth- 
ers announce  Mabel  Stanhope,  by  Kathleen 
O'Meara,  author  of  Madame  Mahl,  etc;  John 
Jtrome,  His  Thoughts  and  Ways,  by  Jean  liige- 
low  (a  book  which  is  aaid  to  be  "  without  begin- 
ning," but  we  presume  has  an  end ) ;  A  Year  in 
Eden,  by  Harriet  W.  Preston  ;  Ctorge  Meredith's 
I/otiels,  Time  volumes,  of  which  four  are  ready; 
Cousin  Font,  in  the  series  of  "  JtalziC's  Novels ;  " 
ttnd  In  the  Time  of  Roaei,  by  Florence  Scannell, 
a  book  for  girls,  illustrated  by  Edith  Scannell. 


Other  juveniles  are  I  One  Day  in  a  Saiy't  Life, 
translated  by  Susan  Coolidge  from  M.  Arnaud; 
WheU  Katy  Did  Next,  by  Susan  Coolidge;  Jds 
Bays  and  Hoot  They  Turned  Out,  by  Louisa  M. 
Alcott,  a  sequel  to  her  LiUli  Men;  KeyHole 
Country,  by  Gertrude  Gerdon,  apparently  in  the 
tine  suggested  by  Lewis  Carroll ;  The  Last  ofthi 
Feterkini,  with  Olhert  of  Their  Kin,  by  Lucretia 
P.  Hale ;  Uneli,  Peep  and  I,  by  Mary  Cowden. 
Clarke;  also  three  by  Mrs.  Ewlng,  of  which  we 
have  probably  not  heretofore  mentioned  Mel- 
chior's  Dream,  and  Other  Tales. 

Ticknor  &  Co.  promise  for  October :  Stories  of 
Art  and  Artisti,  by  Clara  Erskine  Clement,  pro- 
fusely illustrated  and  bound  in  cloth  and  in  half 
parchment;  Reeoltectioni  of  Eminent  Men  and 
Other  Papers,  by  E  P.  Whipple,  with  steel  por- 
trait of  the  author;  Conftssiont  and  Critieisms, 
by  Julian  Hawthorne,  including  some  essays  al- 
ready known  and  a  great  variety  of  topics ;  Ptrtia 
and  tie  Persians.by  the  Hon.  S.  G.  W.  Benjamin, 
lale  United  States  Minister  to  the  Shah's  court, 
an  illustrated  octavo  volume;  Steadfast,  a  novel, 
by  Rose  Terry  Cooke;  and  Sennets  from  thi 
rir,  by  Elizabeth  Barrett  Browning  —  to 
appear  in  one  volume,  oblong  folio,  illustrated  by 
Ludwig  S.  Ipsen,  and  described  ai  "  a  labor  of 
love  with  the  artist,  who  is  the  prince  of  decora- 
tors." For  later  issue  Hcknor  &  Co.  promise 
several  new  stories  and  some  other  works.  Bar- 
Wendell,  author  of  The  Duchess  Emilia,  has 
been  engaged  for  two  years  on  a  new  novel.  Ran- 
ielPs  Remains.  Lewis  Wertheimer,  a  scholarly 
itrian,  many  years  resident  in  Japan,  has  writ- 
A  Muratnasa  Blade,»  story  of  Japanese  feud- 
m,  illustrated  by  native  artists.  Edwin  L. 
iner,  author  of  Nimport,  etc,  has  a  forthcom- 
ing novel  called  Agnes  Surriagi.  We  observe 
also  Mr.  Howells's  new  story,  The  MiniHer's 
Charge,  will  appear  in  book  form.  John  Boyle 
O'Reilly  has  a  volume  of  Stories  and  Sketches, 
id  Louis  De  Coppet  Berg  an  octavo  called  Safe 
Building,  of  which  we  know  nothing  further. 
The  "Olden-Time  Series"  will  be  continued  by 
Literary  Curiosities,  New  England  Music,  etc. 
Travel  in  Old  Timet,  Stages,  Thvems,  etc.  Curi- 
osities of  Politics  Among  Federalistt  and  Republi- 
eans.  Senator  Morrill,  in  SrlfConscioutness  of 
Noted  Persons,  will  give  his  readers  "the  (ruits 
of  years  of  research  in  a  strange  and  unfamiliar 
Some  other  announcements  we  omit  as 
already  made  known. 

aillan  &  Co.  send  us  a  card  for  the  coming 
containing  the  following  works  ;  Letters 
and  Reminiseences  of  Tiomae  Carlyle,  edited  by 
Prof.  Charles  Eliot  Norton  ;  a  new  volume  of 
Historical  Leeturtt,  by  Prof.  Edward  A.  Free- 
Swing  the  "Chief  Periods  of  European 
History;"  and  a  new  and  cheaper  edition,  in 
four  volumes,  iimo,  of  the  late  M.  Lanfrey's 
great  History  of  Napoleon  I;  while  a*  illustrated 
works  may  be  mentioned  an  Important  book  on 
Greenland,  by  Baron  Von  Nordenskiiild ;  Dayt 
viith  Sir  Roger  de  Coverley,  with  characteristic 
ns  by  Hugh  Thomson  ;  and  an  idilion 
de  luxe  printed  on  fine  paper,  in  one  volume,  of 
Washington  Irving's  Old  Ciristmas  and  Brace- 
bridge  Hall,  the  illustrations  of  which  were  a 
labor  of  love  of  the  late  Randolph  Caldecott. 
To  their  list  of  novels  they  will  add  Mr.  Henry 
lew  story  Casamaisima  ;  Sir  Fercival, 
by  J.  Henry  Shorthouse,  author  of  Join  Ingle- 
and  a  new  story  by  Charlotte  M.  Yongc, 
entitled  A   Modem   Telemaehus,     For  younger 


readers  they  will  have  a  new  volume  entitled 
Four  tf^ndt  Farm,  from  the  pen  of  that  delight- 
ful  writer  for  young  people,  Mrs.  Molesworth, 
illustrated  by  Walter  Crane. 

The  leading  feature,  for  quandty,  of  George 
Koutledge  ft  Sons'  fall  announcements  is  juve> 
niles,  a  veritable  feast  for  the  young  folks,  as  will 
appear  in  order.  The  late  Ralph  Caldecoit'a 
new  Christmas  book  is  endtled  More  "  Graphic  " 
Pitturcs,  being  selections  from  that  journal. 
Waller  Crane  has  illustrated  in  colors  Tie 
Baby  I  Ovm  jEsop.  The  History  of  Manou  Les- 
caul,  etc,  by  I'AbbJ  Provost,  is  an  art  work,  sold 
in  portfolio,  with  115  illustrations  and  twelve 
full-page  etchings.  Another  fine  work  of  thi* 
class  is  England,  Scotland,  and  Ireland,  trans- 
lated by  Henry  Frith  from  the  French  of  P.  Vil- 
lars,  with  maps  and  several  hundred  illustrations, 
made  from  photographs  or  sketches.  The 
Frenehvwman  of  the  Century  i*  descriptive  both 
of  fashions  and  of  notable  people,  and  is  engraved 
in  color*  by  Eugene  Gaujean  from  designs  of 
Albert  Lynch.  A  royal  quarto,  Les  Miserables, 
with  about  600  illustralions  by  eminent  French 
artists,  will  appear  In  five  volumes  during  Octo- 
ber and  November.  Another  classic.  Goldsmith's 
Ficar  of  Wakefield,  will  be  rich\y  illustrated  in 
colors  by  V-  A.  Porson,  and  contain  a  memoir 
by  George  Saintsbury.  In  history  we  have  The 
Life  and  Timet  of  Quim  Victoria,  by  George 
Bamett  Smith.  The  Routledge*'  reputation  for 
novels  in  sets  will  be  well  sustained.  We  note: 
Lord  Lytton's  Noitels  and  Tales,  in  large  type, 
twenty-six  volumes,  with  frontispiece  illustra- 
tion* i  Ficttr  Hugo's  Worts,  in  sii  volumes, 
illustrated;  the  Copperfield  edition  of  Dickem, 
large  type,  illustrations  by  F.  Barnard ;  Ihe 
Waverly  Novels,  and  those  of  Captain  Marryat, 
each  In  twelve  volumes,  illustrated.  Lady  Dilke 
appears  in  "the  republic  of  letters"  with  7X< 
Shrine  of  Death,  and  Other  Sloriet.  For  young 
people  we  find  One  Hundred  Famous  Americans, 
by  Helen  Ainslic  Smilh;  Animals,  Wild  and 
Tame,  and  Birds  and  Fishes,  for  young  students ; 
a  second  edition  of  The  Great  Cities  of  the  Mod- 
ern World,  with  270  illustrations;  Kate  Greena- 
way's  colored  alphabet  for  little  learners,  A 
Apple-Pie,  etc  ;  Tht  WhiU  Chief  of  the  Caffris, 
by  Gen.  A.  W.  Drayson,  R.A.;  Tht  Big  Olter, 
by  R.  M.  Ballantyne ;  the  twenty-fifth  issue  of 
Routledge's  Every  Boy's  Annual;  Carol's  Little 
Daughter;  Little  Wideaaakt for  1887,  tnd  Wide- 
aviaht  Sloriet.  Harry  Fumiss's  Book  of  Romps  ; 
Unity  Sanboum/s  Alpiabet,  and  some  other  such 
books  for  very  yoong  people.  Tht  Bible  Birth- 
day Book  it  a  small  compilation  by  Canon  Dixon, 
M.A.  The  same  publishers  announce  ten  more 
numbers  of  "  The  Morley  Library,"  for  names  of 
which  we  refer  to  catalt^ues;  one  or  two  books 
the  language  of  flowers,  which  are  illustrated, 
are  also  the  juvenile  books;  Shakespeare,  in 
Knight's  five-volume  and  sii-votumc  editions, 
l11  size  ;  and  a  "  Pocket  Library  "  of  se- 
lect classics,  issued  monthly  ;  also  a  Kale  Green- 
away  and  a  Japanese  almanac.  Uniform  with 
the  Knight's  Siaketptare  is  W.  B.  Scott's  large 
type  edition  of  Byron  in  three  volumes.  Idylle 
of  the  Month  is  a  book  of  verses  with  colored  de- 
signs, by  Mary  A.  LAthbury,  author  of  The  Seven 
Litde  Maids,  etc 

While,  Stokes  ft  Allen  send  us  a   handsome 

lisi  especially  rich   in  poetry,  and   the  artistic 

bindings  in  which  many  old  works  arc  newly 

iued.    For  these  we  geDcrally  refer  tbe  reader 


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(o  the  catal<^aei,  but  will  here  give  some  of  the 
moat  Important.     Cheict  Blikings  by  Promitieitl 
Artisli,  inctudei  ten,  bomid  in  dark  red  leather, 
and  with  letler-prew  for  each  picture,  by  RFplej 
Hitchcock.    A  •imilai  collcaion  is  called  Nai- 
abtt  Etelungt,  by  American  Bttisti,  and  it  aold 
in  sereral  ntylea  o(  issue.    Lovcn  of  etchings 
•hoald  examine  the   lists  of  ariists.     Auliert'a 
popular  work,    WitUtr,  is  offered   ai   a  photo- 
etching  in  three  styles.     Tht  Bad  HaMtt  ef  Gaod 
Setiity,  by   George  A.  Baker,  J'.,  ahonld  be 
ntelal  as  it  is  apparently  a  needed  book.    Silvtr 
Thrughti  of  Great  Mindt,  compiled  bj  Louise 
S.  Houghton,  is  a  holiday  book  in  a  new  ityli 
of  binding  called  ivorine,  a  material  closely  like 
ivory,  from  which  its  name  ia  formed ;  In  which 
these  publishers  announce  several  other  books, 
as   Gatdm    Wordt  af  Holy  Mtn,  by  the  sai 
compiler,  the  "  Flower-Songs  Seiies,"  by  Sui 
Barstow    Skelding,    and    Of   tht    Imitation    of 
Chritt.    Most  of  these  may  be  had  also  in  other 
bindings.    In  this  firm's  "  Handy  Volume  "  edi 
tiona  we  notice   Lamb's  Euays   ef  Elia    and 
Brown's  Rah  and  His  Eritndi.     In  fiaion    we 
notice  George  H.  Picard's  Oid  Benifiui ;  Char- 
lotte Bronte's  works  in  several  elegant  Inndlngs 
and  Real  Peefli,  by  Marion  Wilcox,  a  volume 
of  short  stories.     Tie  Pearl  Fountain  and  Other 
Fairy   Talet,  by  B.  and  J.  Kaifan^h, 
edition,   illustrated.     Dickens's  Child't  Drtean 
of  a  Star  is  one  of  the  books  in   the   ivorine 
covera.    Ameriean  Petts  is  a  series  in  Elzevir 
i6mcv  of   which    two    volumes   are    now    out. 
Prominence  is  given  in  it  lo  vtrt  dt  atilii.    Of 
the  books  of  poeliy  following  there  are  usually 
several   styles  of   binding,  to  suit  almost 
taste,  the  least  costly  being  cloth :  At  the  Sign  ef 
Iht  Lyrt,  by  Austin  Dobson;   William   Ailing- 
Iiam's  selection  of  the   best  old  ballatla  under 
title  of  Tlu  BalladBork;  the  "Bird  Songs  Se- 
ries "  already  mentioned,  and  illuattated  by  Fi- 
delia Bridges;  the  poetical  woiks  of  Charlotte 
Bronie,  of  Charles  Dickens,  of  Thomas  Gray, 
of    Sir   John   SttcUiti{^  of  Lord  Tennyson,  of 
George  Eliot,  of  Thackeray  (  alt  these  are  part 
of  the  rich  stores  in  the  CBtalt^ue  before  as. 
Individual  poems  and  collectiona  are  also  nu- 
merous :    Co/  and  Belli,  by   Samuel   Minium 
Feck  \   Meredith's  Luttle  ;   some  new  issues  of 
TAe    Lvrie  Pattt;    Make    Thy    Way   Mint,    by 
George  Klinger;     On   Viel  and  FlttU,  by  E.  W, 
GoMc;   Point  Latt  and  Diamondt,  by  George 
W.    Baker,  Jr.  j    Miss   C.  E.  Alexander's  Re- 
ligiout  Potmi ;   Austin   Dobson's    Vigneltis   in 
Xhyme;   Emily  Leath's    Thoughti  and  Remem- 
Sraaee ;  C.  C.  Moore's  Fiiil  from  Santa  Clout, 
with  many  illustrations  in  colors.    Bulge  Eekoes  is 
poetry  of  the  Civil  War  from  boih  Northern  and 
Southern  «des,  collected  by  F.  F.  Browne  of  the 
Chicago  Dial.    Familiar  Birdt  and   H%tt  tie 
J>oeff  Singef  Them  is  compiled  and  illustrated 
by  tbe  Bame  bands  as  the  "Bird  Song  Series." 
We    noticed    also   a  second  series  of   "  Uf e's 
Veraea."    Pilgrim's  Frogrtu  is  offered  in  three 
edition*-     Of  technical  books  this  firm  offer  sev- 
eral  on  cooking  :    Tht  Practical   Ceob.Book,  by 
Mrs.  Bliss  \  Puddings  and  Dainty  Diiitrti,  and 
TAe  Boot  ofEntrlis.  by  T.  J.  Muirey,  a  profes- 
sional in   the  art;  and  the  same  author's  Saladi 
and  Sauees.    For  students  in  painting  is  a  set  of 
birds,  by  Fidelia  Bridges,  twelve  designs  in  col- 
ors ;  also  the  fifth  series  of  "Studies  for  Paint- 
ing Flowers."    Dr.  A.  N.  Chase's  Family  Fhyii- 
tiam  treats  not  only  of  common  diicaaes,  in  both 


man   and  beast,  but   also    of   some    technical 
branches  of  housekeeping.    This  firm  have  also 
a  new  edition  of  Kelie'i   Tour  in   Europe; 
octavo  Shahitpeart  in  four  volumes;  and  calen- 
dars for  1S87,  richly  illustrated,  and  shaped 
combinations  of  a  sun,  a  star,  and  a  crescent. 

Ginn  &  Co.   will   issue   sbottly.  Counti  a 
Mtthods,  by  John  T.   Prince,  a  handbook  for 
teachers  in  the  practical  part  of  their  duties. 

Thomas  Whitukcr's  list  for  the  fall  aeison 
Is  particularly  strong  in  the  line  of  pretty  piei- 
entation  books  for  daily  reading,  and  in  birthday 
books.  Among  the  more  noticeable  are  Golden 
Thtugklifrom  George  Matdonald,  whose  writings 
lend  themselves  readily  to  excellent  excerpt ;  Tht 
Daily  Renewal,  being  Prayer,  Praise,  and  Medita- 
tion for  Every  Day  in  the  Year,  by  Dr.  Vaughan, 
Master  of  the  Temple;  Flovieri  of  Hope,  a  new 
Scripture  leI^bo□k,  printed  in  colors  by  the  cel- 
ebrated firm  of  Nister,  Nuremberg ;  The  Church- 
inan'i  Birthday  Book,  being  extracts  from  the 
Imitation.  The  Dickeni,  Shakeipiart,  and  Tenny- 
itm  Birthday  Books  appear  in  beautiful  ikw  bind- 
ings. In  fiction  Mr.  Whittaker  will  publish 
Through  Unhwran  Wayt,  a  historical  story  by 
Lacy  Ellen  Guernsey ;  Her  Gentle  Deeds,  a  quiet 
romance,  by  Sarah  Tytler;  and  A  Gripped 
ReUn,  a  tale,  by  M.  E.  Wincheater.  In  chil- 
dren's  books  the  following  will  appear :  That 
Child,  a  very  charming  tale,  by  the  author  of 
Mademeiiellt  Mori  :  Through  Iht  midtmeit ; 
The  DeserUd  Children,  by  Mrs.  S.  Currier ; 
Margaret  Ctuion't  Raolve,  by  E.  C.  Kenyon  ;  Us 
Three,  a  story  lor  boys ;  My  Backyard  "  Zoo,"  ■ 
course  in  natural  history,  by  the  Rev.  J.  G. 
Wood ;  Fmthful  Friends,  by  L.  T.  Meade  j  King 
Frost:  the  Wonders  of  Snow  and  lee,  by  Mrs- 
Thorpe;  Three  Little  Heroes,  by  Mrs-  Charles 
Garnett,  the  last  four  being  fully  illustrated; 
Elliott  Malcolm's  Chronicle;  ITie  Master's  Like- 
nesi,  a  School  Story  for  Boys,  by  Joseph  Johnson. 
This  house  will  also  issue  the  Rev.  J.  G.  Wood's 
Half  Hours  with  a  Naiuralisl—  Rambles  Near 
I'ltfj'Aifr^',  forming  a  companion  to  his  Half  Hours 

Fitid  and  Forttt,  published  last  season.  A 
new  colored  text-book,  with  the  seaaonable  title, 
and  Cedar,  will  be  ready  for  Christmas.  It 
will  appear  in  emblematic  colors  and  designs 
throughouL  In  theolc^lcal  literature  Mr.  Whit- 
taker will  bring  out  during  the  season  Tuck's 
Handbook  of  Biblical  Diffieultits ;  Probation,  a 
sympoaium  on  "  Is  salvation  possible  after 
death  ?"  by  leading  clergymen  of  England,  uni- 
form with  Inipiratien  and  Immortality,  already 
published;  Cheyne's  Commentary  on  Job  and 
Solomon,  uniform  with  his  Fropitcits  of  Isaiah  ,■ 
Sermons  in  Brief  from  the  MS.  Moles  of  a  Lan- 
Clergyman,  in  two  volumes.  Among  other 
Duncements  are,  "  Gem  Series  of  Reward 
Books,"  two  packets  with  colored  pictures  about 
of  ordinary  merit-cards;  the  "Script- 
I  "  Proverbial  "  block  calendars,  with 
very  chaste  backs;  Eehots  from  the  Ptailtr,  a 
of  poems  for  each  day  of  the  month,  by  J. 
C.  S. ;  and  The  Ascension  Catechism,  intended  as 

improvement  on  the  Caiaary  Catechitm,m\i\'^ 

I  written  a  generation  ago. 

Ir.  W.  R.  Jenkins  of  New  York  is  doing  a 
good  work  in  printing  French  books  of  high 
character  in  artistic  style  and  at  very  low  prices, 
in  tbe  series  Romans  Choisii  and  Contes  Choitis. 
The  next  ii^ues  of  the  former  are  to  be  the  well- 
known  Z.'<4ini^rc/a,  of  Erckmann-Chatrian,  and 
Z/ J/Jft«ot/'WfW,  by  Georges  Ohuet  i  in  Ciwto 


Choisii  Edmond  About's  amusing  little  story 
Le  Buste;  and  Louis  Snaulfa  Le  Chief  du  Cafit- 
taint.  Let  Malheurs  de  Sophie,  by  the  Comtesse 
de  Segur,  is  a  juvenile  "virtually  a  classic  among 
French  children-"  Prtaau  Wordi  of  Hope  and 
Comfort,  includes  both  prose  and  verse  and  will 
appear  in  October.  For  elementary  French 
study  this  publisher  will  issue  French  Verbs  at  a 
Glance,  by  Hariot  de  Beauvoiiin,  and  for  general 
reading  Lei  Grands  Ecritiaint  Franfois,  by 
Henri  Troan,  a  work  compact  and  comprehen* 
sive.  Two  technical  works  are  promised  for 
October,  Dr.  A.  Liautard's  yade  Mecum  ef 
Epiint  Anatomy,  and  The  Veterinary  Hospital 
Prtscriber,  by  Drs.  Albert  and  J.  B.  Gresswell, 
members  of  the  R.  C.  V.  S. 

Of  the  leading  department  of  books  in  press 
by  the  J.  B.  Lippincott  Co.,  is  the  scientific  and 
technical.  They  include  an  art  work  called  Booh 
of  Ameriean  Figure  PainUrs,  containing  forty 
photogravures  of  leading  examples  of  the  artist's 
skill,  in  large  quarto  form  on  plate  paper;  Bot- 
any, for  Academies  and  Colleges,  with  250  illus- 
trations and  a  list  of  all  known  orders  of  plants, 
with  representative  genera,  by  Annie  C.  Kclchum; 
A  Manual  of  North  American  Birds,  '•  lot  tbe 
naturalist  and  sportsman,"  by  Robert  Ridgway, 
of  the  department  of  birds  in  the  United  States 
National  Museum,  illustrated  ;  a  ATey  to  San- 
ford's  Common-School  Arithmetic  ;  House  Plants 
as  Sanitary  Agents,  treating  also  forests,  as  re- 
lated to  health,  and  practical  floriculture,  by  J. 
M.  Anders,  M.D.,  Ph.D.;  Paul  Bert's  First 
Steps  in  Scientific  Knewltdgt ,-  The  Curability  of 
Insanity,  a  series  of  studies  by  Pliny  Earle,  A.M., 
M.D.  J  Diagnosis  ef  Hervoui  Diseases,  by  H.  C. 
Wood,  M.D.,  LL.D.,  as  based  on  their  symp- 
tomatology i  Pathological  Mycology,  by  Drs. 
Wuodhead  and  Hare )  A  Signal  Success  is  an 
autobiography  by  Martha  J.  Coston;  Othello 
and  Desdtmona,  a  Study  of  their  characters  and 
Desdemona's  death,  by  Dr.  Ellis ;  From  Dawn 
to  Duii,  and  Other  Poems,  is  by  Hunter  HcCul- 
lough  ;  while  the  other  works  now  in  press  by 
this  company  pertain  to  the  realm  of  fiction. 
These  are :  A  Mirage  of  Promise,  by  Harriet  P. 
Belt,  author  of  Marforie  Huntingdon;  Dr.  Cu- 
pid, by  Rhoda  Broughlon ;  jEgie  and  the  Elf,  by 
Mrs.  M.  B.  M.  Toland,  author  oE  The  Inca  Prin- 
etc.;  OttceApsin,  by  Mrs.  Fortestcr,  author 
of  R^  and  Viola,  etc. ;  Harcourt,  by  Annie  Som- 
Gilchtist,  author  of  Rosehurst ;  Stanley 
Huntingdon,  by  Sydney  J.  Wilson  ;  a  story  for 
girls,  by  Rosa  Nouchette  Carey,  and  an  anony- 
mous novel  called  Tahen  by  Siege. 
Frederick  Warne  &  Co.  issue  new  editions  of 
lany  atandatd  works,  for  which  the  reader  ia  re- 
ferred to  their  catalogues.  They  announce  alko 
the  allegories  of  the  Rev.  William  Adams, 
Shadon  ofihe  Cress  and  Distant  Hills,  illuiirated 
id  with  red  line  borders;  Health,  Beauty,  and 
tie  Toilet,  letters  to  ladies,  by  Anna  Kingslord, 
M.D. ;  Mayne  Reid's  hiteat  story,  Tht  Land  ef 
Fire ;  Conjurer  Dick,  or  the  Adventures  of  a 
Young  Witard,  by  Angelo  J.  Lewis ;  and  have  in 
preparation  Ronald  Halifax,  by  Lieut.  Arthtu 
Knight,  R.N.,  another  book  for  boys. 

The  fall  announcements  of  A.  C.  McClurg 
&  Co.  of  Chicago  include  a  number  of  works  of 
inviting  aspect.  Mr.  J.  L.  Garner  has  translated 
Biart's  work  on  the  history,  manners,  and  cus- 
of  Tie  Aztecs,  the  result  of  twenty-five 
years'  study  of  the  sobjea  on  the  ground.  The  f^ 
original  was  published  in  Paris  la^t  year-    His. 


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THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Oct.  2, 


Hattie  TjPDg  Griswold  ha«  writlen  a  sketchy 
book  OD  the  IfMie  Lift  of  Great  Anthtrt,  pre- 
•enling  facta  believed  to  be  of  legitimale  interest 
in  the  domestic  ezperiencei  of  Lord  Byron, 
Burns,  tbe  Brownings,  Bryant,  Butwer,  Charlotte 
Bronlif,  Dickeni,  Madam  DeStilil,  DeQuincey, 
George  Eliot,  Emeraon,  Margaret  Fuller,  Irving, 
Goetbe,  Hawthorne,  Hood,  Victor  Hugo,  Kings- 
ley,  Lowell,  Lamb,  Longfellow,  Macsiulay,  Mil- 
ton, Christopher  North,  Poe,  Ruskin,  Shelley, 
George  Sand,  Thackeray,  Tennyson,  Words- 
worth, and  Whittier.  From  Mr.  M.  B.  Anderson 
is  to  come  a  translation  of  Victor  Hugo's  charac- 
teristically eloquent*  essay  on  Shakispiart.  A 
feature  oE  R.  H.  Kbcinhirdt's  Whht  Scerts  and 
Card  Tadle  Talk  will  be  a  biblii^raphy  of  whist. 
George  P.  Upton  has  prepared  »  companion  vol- 
ume to  his  Standard  Optras  in  Tkt  Standard 
Oralfrioi ;  which  will  contain  a  historical  sketch 
showing  the  origin  and  progress  oF  the  oratorio 
from  its  inception  as  a  sacred  drama  to  its  pres- 
ent form,  and  including  descriptions  of  the  Mys- 
teries, Miracle  Plays,  and  Passion  Music.  Each 
best  known  oratorio  will  be  separately  treated, 
historically,  dramatically,  and  musically.  In  ad- 
dition the  work  will  contain  sketches  of  Ihe  best 
Te  Deums,  Stabat  Maters,  and  Requi 
other  interesting  matter  connected   wii 

E.  ft  J.  B.  Young  ft  Co.  have  on  their  li,l, 
"Robinson  Crusoe,"  in  a  new  and  very  pretty 
dress,  the  Illustrationa  well  drawn,  and  carefully 
printed  in  colors;  "Home  Sunbeams,"  a  ser 
of  pictures,  bcautilully  chromo-Iithogiaphed 
colors,  with  letter-press  in  prose  and  rh;me  by 
Mrs.  Molesworth  j  "Mary's  Meadow,"and"Let. 
ters  from  a  Little  Garden,"  the  last  by  Julh 
Horatia  Ewing,  illustrated  by  Gordon  Brow 
engraved  and  printed  by  Edmund  Evans;  Robert 
Bloomfield's  "  Fakenham  Ghost,"  illustrated  by 
Wimburt,  and  "  Likenesses  of  Our  Lord,"  fac- 
similes, in  gold  and  colors,  of  paintings  by  the 
old  masters,  and  from  other  sources,  with  letter- 
press description,  small  4to. 

A  (wmplete  and  authoritative  account  of 
the  professional  criminals  of  America,  by 
Thomas  Byrnes,  Inspector  of  Police  and  Chief 
of  Detectives,  of  New  York  City,  will  be  pub 
lished  next  week,  by  Messrs.  Caisell  &  Co.  I' 
will  contain  the  portraits,  pedigrees,  and  records 
o(  a  large  number  of  celebrated  professional 
criminals.  The  portraits  arc  heliolype  copies 
of  the  original  photographs.  Inapectc 
has  facts  at  hi*  command  that  would  make  the 
fortune  of  a  writer  of  sensational  stories.  His 
experience  of  twenty-ihree  years  has  been  par- 
ticularly fruitful,  and  the  book  is  filled  with  stories 
of  famous  bank  burglars,  murderers,  sneak  thieves, 
confidence  men,  and  others,  so  that  the  general 
reader  will  find  much  enlertainmeni  in  its  pages. 
In  looking  over  Ihe  portraits,  Ihe  reader  will  be 
struck  l>y  the  respectable  appearance  of  some 
of  these  criminals. 

Thomas  Y.  Crowell  ft  Co.  have  just  issued : 
"  St.  John's  Eve  " ;  the  second  volume  of  a  series 
of  Gc^ol's  works ;  the  "  Meditations  of  a  Parish 
Priest,"  by  the  Abb^  Roui,  that  wonderful  book 
that  has  created  such  enthusiasm  in  France  and 
all  Europe;  and  Mr.  Ernest  Dupuy's  "Great 
Masters  o£  Russian  Literature."  "  Girls  Who 
Became  Famous,"  by  Sarah  K.  Bolton,  a  com- 
panion volume  to  "  Boys  Who  Became  Famous," 
and  the  "  Riverside  Museum,"  by  "  Jak,"  belong 
to  the  class  of  young  people's  books.    "The 


Labor  Movement  in  America,"  by  Prof.  Richard 
T-  Ely,  is  the  result  of  long  and  careful  study  of 

a  subject  upon  which  he  is  an  authority. 

We   understand   that   a   German   translatii 
is  already  Called  for  of  Prof.  Ely's  book  just  pub- 
lished by  T.  Y.   Crowell  &  Co.,  on  Ihe  "Labor 
Movement  in  ihe  United  States,"  and  permission 
has  t>een  given  Lutz  of  Slultgart  to  publish 
edition  in  that  language  for  circulation  in 
countries  of  Europe. 

A  new  magazine  devoted  to  all  maiters 
art  will  be  issued  In  this  dty  this  month, 
will  be  called  "American  Art,"  and  will  appear 
as  a  quarto  of  about  forty  pages.  It  will  be 
issued  monthly  and  will  be  illustrated,  llie 
conductor*  of  tbe  enterprise  have  formed  them- 
selves into  a  company,  to  be  known  as  the  Ai 
can  Art  Publishing  Company.  They  are  M< 
Frank  T.  Robinson,  art  director  of  the  New 
England  Institute;  L>-man  H.  Weeks,  and  Will- 
iam M.  Thayer  of  the  Boston  Post.  The 
tents  of  the  first  number  of  the  magazine 
be  "Mosaic  Glass,"  by  Caryl  Coleman  of  New 
York ;  "  Industrial  Art,"  by  Frank  T.  Robinson 
"  A  Jipancse  Interior,"  by  Louis  Werlheimber; 
"  Roundabout  Sketches,"  by  A.  Trumble  ;  "  Pop- 
ularizing Alt,"  by  Sidney  Drckin-ion,  M. 
"  An  Artist's  Club,"  by  William  Howe  Downes, 
and  other  papers  and  editorial  notes  by  "  A 
Landscape  Painter,"  Charles  DeKay,  Mr.  Weeits, 
the  editor,  etc.  Beside  these  contributors  to 
the  initial  number,  the  following  names  are 
given  as  regular  and  special  writers  for  the 
magazine:  James  Jackson  Jarves,  Florence; 
James  B.  Townsend,  art  critic.  New  York  World ; 
Arlo  Bales,  editor  Boston  Courier  ;  Lillian  Whil- 
ing,  art  critic,  Boston  Traveller;  John  Michcls, 
late  editor  of  Science,  New  York;  Gen.  Rush 
C.  Hawkins,  New  York;  Henry  Hitchinga, 
snperintendenl  of  drawing,  Boston  public  schools; 
Edward  Greey,  New  York;  Wendell  Stanton 
Howard,  Chicago  ;  Mrs.  Louise  C.  Young,  art 
critic,  Boston  Herald;  Edmund  H.  Garrett,  W. 
L.  Taylor.  Abbott  Graves,  W.  F.  Halsall,  F.  S. 
Balcheller,  Ross  Turner,  Marcus  Waterman, 
Louis  K.  Harlow,  W.  B.  Closson,  A.  H.  Bicknelt, 
F.  Childe  Hassam,  W.  E.  Norton,  W.  L.  Mel- 
calF,  A.  C.  Howland,  F.  G.  Alwood,  I.  H.  Caliga, 
C.  A.  Piatt,  W.  H.  Ranger,  Charles  Volkmar, 
S.  R.  Burleigh.  The  office  of  ihe  publication  is 
in  the  Studio  Building. 

The  latest  addition  to  Websiei's  Un- 
abridged Dictionary  is  a  "Gazetteer  of  the 
World,"  filling  one  hundred  of  the  large  quarto 
pages.  Under  its  35,000  titles  is  given  in  con- 
densed form  just  such  information  as  the  mass  of 
people  desire  to  know  regarding  the  location, 
population,  magnitude,  etc.,  of  the  world's  na- 
tions, states,  cities,  and  towns,  also  information 
of  a  similar  character,  as  to  nalaral  featuies, 
seas,  rivers,  mountains,  lakes.  It  is  somewhat 
le  style  as  the  Biographical  Dictionary 
which  was  added  to  Ihe  work  a  few  years  ago, 
rhich  gives  just  Ihe  information  desired  of 
^nt  persons.  This  Gazetteer  will  be  found 
equally  useful  in  regard  to  places. 

Hon.  W.  H.  Herndon,  of  Springfield,  111.,  the 
law  partner  and  most  intimate  personal  friend 
of  Abraham  Lincoln  during  the  twenty-five  years 
preceding  his  election  to  the  Presidency,  has 
prepared  a  lecture  on  the  facts  of  Lincoln's  life, 
including  his  characteristics,  with  which  he  will 
go  upon  the  platform  the  coming  season. 

Tbe    "  Century "   will   soon   publish   two  of 


Mr.  George  W.  Cable's  stories,  "  Grande  Pwnto" 
and  "Carancro,"  each  of  Ihem  to  run  throogh 
two  numbers  of  the  magazine.  Mr.  Kemble, 
the  artist,  has  recently  paid  a  visit  to  the  Louis- 
iana Acadian  country,  in  order  to  illustrate  these 
stories  with  genuine  "local  color." 

The  Kev.  J.  M.  Buckley,  D.D.,  editor  of 
the  "Christian  Advocate,"  and  author  of  the 
article  recently  published  in  the  "Century"  on 
"  Faith-Healing  and  Kindred  Phenomena,"  will 
contribute  to  the  same  magazine  a  aerie*  of 
articles  on  the  subject  of  Drcaroa,  Presenti- 
ments, Astroli^y,  Clairvoyance,  and  Spiritual- 
ism, of  which  he  has  made  a  life-long  tivdy. 

Some  further  announcements  majr  appear  tit 
our  next  number. 

A  LGTTEE  FBOH  VET  TOXK. 

THE  drawin^ff  of  summer  has  brought 
editors  back  lo  ihclr  desks,  and  Ihe  "subs," 
who  carry  our  magazines  and  brevier  ci^umm 
through  Ihe  silly  season,  are  back  again  at  Ihelr 
piece-work.  The  magazine  manufacture  of  thia 
city,  by  January  first,  wilt  be  just  twice  its  inven- 
tory of  a  year  before.  Uarper't,  the  CtiiiMry,  tbe 
Narth  Amtricati,  —  the  triad  which  has  held 
the  field  so  long  —  on  Ihe  first  of  January,  1887, 
promise  to  be,  if  the  new  comers  hold  ong 
Harper's,  Ctntstry,  North  Ameritan,  Fsrum, 
Scribntr's,  Nae  Princiton,  MaHhaHan.  As  to  the 
Manhattan  —  a  dainty  little  affair  in  its  prime, 
but  beginning  lo  show  a  delicate  and  Seiible 
strength  when  the  Redder  defalcation  prostrated 

—  I  speak  only  by  hearsay.  But  it  is  rumored 
thai  strong  hands  have  now  bought  up  its  stock, 
and,  believing  that  it  showed  signs  of  being  too 
good  to  be  willingly  let  die,  are  going  to  try 
again.  Should  it  appear,  1  am  able  to  forecast 
the  contents  of  the  first  number  as  follows :  "  A 
Lazy  Tour  in  Spain,"  Louise  Chandler  Moulton; 
"Athens,  Old  and  New  "  (the  result  of  an  eipe- 
dilion  sent  out  by  the  Manhattan  in  its  Bush 
limes,  in  1S84,  lo  illustrate  that  storied  city) ; 
"Twelfth  Night,"  Walter  Henry  Pollock,  edit- 
or of  the  (London)  Saturday  Rrviea,  with  por- 
traits of  Irving  and  his  company ;  these,  with 
drawings  by  Thackeray  (hitherto  unpub- 
lished and  Ihe  property  of  the  Manhottaaii,  will 
form  Ihe  piclortalized  matter.  Besides  which  the 
old  standard  will  be  kept  up  with  the  variety  and 
range  for  which  the  magazine  was  beginning  to 
be  relied    upon.      As   to  Scriiner't  Magaztnt, 

hether  it  will  duly  appear  on  the  expiration  of 
the  ten  years,  i.  e.  January  ist,  '337,  or  again 
be  bought  oS  by  the  Ctntury,  remains  lo  be  seen. 
able,  however,  10  give  you  Ihe  authentic 
int  of  the  origin  of  Ihe  MaH/iatlan ;  which 
has  never  been  before  printed,  and  which,  while 
very  thrilling,  may  be  interesting  to  those 
concerned  in  the  practical  part  of  magazine  pub- 
lishing. There  is  a  theory  that  it  does  nol  pay 
publish  a  magazine.    The  fact*  I  am  abont  to 

lie  will  show  at  least  that  brainj  pay  as  well  in 
the  magazine  field  as  any  other.  Tbe  lale 
Charles  O'Conor,  Ihe  greatest  lawyer  at  this  bar, 
told  Mr.  Bigelow,  shortly  before  his  (O'Conor's) 
:ment,  that  he  was  sure  he  would  have  been 
as  greatand  as  luccessfut  in  any  other  field,  that 
he  had  no  espedal  taste  for  the  law,  but  drifted 

ito  it  simply  from  necessity  and  lack  of  capital. 

Whatever  I  look  hold  of,"  said  Mr.  O'Conor, 

I  should  have  climbed  to  the  top."    And  so  aa 

I  a  magazine.     Whatever  quality   of  the   im- 


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THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


337 


ntorti!  there  may  have  been  or  have  lacked  ii 
Holland's  writings,  nobody  after  this  can  doubt 
his  financial  ability.  After  using  the  Scribni 
capital  to  mike  Scribnet's  Magaiint  a  success, 
he  saw  no  reason  why  he  should  continue  on  a 
salary  of  |io.ooo  a  year,  when  the  m^azlne  was 
netting  150,000,  solely  out  of  his  management. 
So  he  proposed  purchasing  it.  When  the  price 
came  to  be  considered,  "Voa  have  nothing  to 
tell  me  except  the  name,  and  that  I  propose  to 
discard,"  he  said  to  the  Scribners.  Il  was  finally 
agreed  to  pay  ^75,000  for  Ibe  good-will,  v 
consisted  of  a  (tip  of  paper  on  which  the 
Scribnen  tlipulated  not  to  print  or  fotind  a  mag- 
azine for  ten  years.  (It  is  doubtful  whether  ■ 
slip  of  paper,  not  a  promise  to  pay,  or  a  negotia- 
ble secnrily,  ever  brought  a  higher  price  in  cash 
since  this  globe  began  revolving.)  Well,  the 
magazine  began,  flourished,  and  grew  fat.  Iti 
iSSo  it  moved  its  quarters  from  Sciibner's  build' 
ing  on  Broadway  at  Astor  Place,  and  went  intc 
magnificeni  aparlmenls  on  Union  Square.  (Il 
only  became  the  Century  in  1SS2,  though  the 
change  had  been  contemplated  since  its 
chase.)  It  took  a  one  year's  lease  of  the 
upper  floors  of  the  building  erected  on  the  site  of 
the  old  Moffat  mansion,  which  at  the  outbreak 
of  the  Civil  War  became  the  famous  Union 
League  Club  house,  where  a  dozen  of  the 
wealthiest  citizens  of  New  Yorlc  came  togethi 
one  angry  night,  and  resolved  that  in  spile  of  it 
secessionist  government.  New  York  City  would 
save  the  Union  so  far  a*  gold  and  men  and  inflo- 
encc  could  save  iL  At  the  end  of  the  lease,  the 
magazine  applied  for  a  four  years'  rem 
Messrs.  Arnold,  Constable  &  Co.,  the  owne 
the  building,  referred  the  application  to  their 
man  of  bosines*,  Henry  C.  Pedder.  Mr.  Pedder 
offered  to  renew  the  lease  if  allowed  to  inspect 
the  magaane'a  books,  and  only  if  such  an  inspec- 
tion should  prove  satisfactory.  He  was  amaied 
to  find  that  the  magazine's  pcoGts  were  {150,1 
for  the  single  year.  He  renewed  the  lease,  but 
resolved  to  start  a  magazine  of  his  own.  1 
AtanAaltan  was  the  result.  In  iu  salutatory 
simply  said  that  he  believed  that  New  York 
could  SDpport  another  magazine.  He  found  Mr. 
William  Henry  Forman  in  the  office  of  the 
Evening  Mail,  and  made  him  his  editor, 
moved  to  Temple  Court  building,  a  lofty  st 
.  nre  also  on  historic  ground,  on  the  history  of 
which  the  JlfaniaOaii,  at  the  lime  of  its  collapse, 
was  about  printing  a  profusely  illustrated  paper, 
and  rivaled  the  Century  itself  in  elaborateness  of 
furnishing.  A  little  foresight  could  have  kept  the 
magazine  going,  at  Pedder's  Inmble.  It  could 
have  paid  its  way.  To  allow  a  magazine  with 
circulation  of  30,000  to  collapse  was  almost  crim- 
inal. But  the  Pedder  magnificence  was  t< 
much.  Hit  subordloatea  did  not  understand' 
rxfcAA  not  at  one  fell  swoop  bring  themselves  to 
the  rigid  economy  the  moment  demanded,  and  so 
it  all  went.  By  this  lime  its  stockholders  have 
learned,  I  think,  that,  however  hard  it  is  to  run  a 
magazine,  it  is  slill  harder  to  start  it  afresh.  I 
have  lingered  lovingly  over  this  last  headstone  in 
New  York's  magazine  cemetery,  because  I  be- 
lieve the  trnmp  which  will  resurrect  the  "  pearl 
of  monthlies  "  lying  at  its  feet,  is  about  to  be 
sounded.  Now  take  a  stroll  down  this  walk  with 
me.  The  Knickerheckir,  GraAam'i,  Putnam's, 
the  Galaxy-  This  is  the  plot  where  are  buried 
X\iva  who  died  because  they  were  (00  good  to 
li\e.    Who  would  not  mourn  for  Lycidas^and, 


good  as  were  the  other  three,  who  ever  saw  a 
better  magazine  than  the  Galaxy  f  Even  today 
you  seize  upon  an  odd  number  and  are  absorbed 
at  once.  The  "fine  Italian  hand  "  of  Carl  Ben- 
son [Charles  Astor  Biisted)  is  dust.  The  in- 
comparable Richard  Grant  White  has  gone,  too. 
What  magaiinists  these  were  I  Both  New  York- 
ers from  iheir  birth,  who  breathed  and  cared  to 
breathe  no  other  atmosphere  than  thai  of  this  an- 
tique town,  whose  nierchanls  twice  saved  the 
Union  by  sheer  gravity  —  (of  thia,  perhaps,  anon.) 
Some  other  day,  perchance,  you  and  I  may  walk 
musingly  down  the  other  roadway  of  this  ceme- 
tery, but  let  these  four  exhaust  our  present  tears. 
Of  other  and  living  New  York  magazines,  a 
good  word  could  t>e  written.  Specialist,  relig- 
ious, industrial,  they  count  up  by  dozens.  Of  one 
of  these,  the  Catholic  World,  1  may  close  my 
ble  by  speaking.  I  know  that  noit- Romanists 
seldom  used  to  open  it ;  but  it  was  al  (heir  01 
loss.  It  is  very  far  from  being  pre-Niceite, 
denominational,  or  bigoted.  Indeed,  strange 
it  may  sound,  it  comes  nearer  to  the  Atlatitk 
Monthly  than  any  one  of  our  New  York  maga- 
zines. It  is  purely  literary,  and  does  not  seek 
popularity.  Take  the  October  number  just 
printed.  A  paper  on  Shakespeare  criticism 
of  several  delightful  bits  from  the  accomplished 
pen  of  the  president  of  the  New  York  Shake- 
speare Society,  Applcton  Morgan,  which  have 
appeared  in  this  monthly) ;  a  caustic  criticism  on 
"English  Hymnology,"  packed  with  such  sen- 
tences as  theae  ;  "  If  the  young  men  and  women, 
who,  in  interval  of  gossip  and  fiirtalion,  sing 
hymns  at  the  seashore  on  Sunday  evenings, 
shouting  out  the  holiest  of  names  in  a  lusty  chorus, 
could  realize  that  it  is  a  Being  not  to  be  thought 
of  without  awe,  or  spoken  of  without  reluctance, 
whom  they  are  addressing  with  such  careless 
irreverence,  it  might  occur  to  them  that  their  re- 
ligious dissipation  should  be  conducted  on  a  leas 
broadly  humorous  basis."  "  Except  in  the  tem- 
perance hymns,  there  is  seldom  a  auggestion  of 
reform  in  all  these  noiay  verses;"  snd  articles 
on  "  Prison  Reform,"  "  Liszl,"  "  Christian 
Union,"  and  "Progressive  Orthodoxy,"  "Ger- 
many and  the  Vatican  "  (political],  and  some  ex- 
ceptionally fine  carrent  theatrical  and  literary 
criticism,  close  a  perfect  number.  But  it  is  only 
an  average,  I  think,  of  the  issues  of  this  magazine. 
The  editor  is  Father  Hecker,  a  Piulist,  and  chief 
of  (he  order,  who,  to  the  perfect  training  in  the 
Fast  which  his  church  gives  its  priests,  adds  an 
exactness  in  keeping  abreast  of  the  Present,  tare 
in  any  profession,  and  the  result  is  a  magazine, 
now  in  its  twenty-second  year,  w''ich  everybody 
reads  with  pleasure  who  reads  it  at  all. 

Ntvi  York  City,  September  18,  /886. 


JOEK  EBTEH  OOOEE, 

FOR  the  third  time,  within  a  few  months,  we 
are  called  upon  to  announce  the  death  of  a 
prominent  Southern  writer.  Father  Ryan  died 
in  April,  Paul  H.  Hayne  in  July,  and  John 
E^ten  Cooke  —  poet,  novelist,  and  biographer  — 
has  quickly  followed  his  two  distinguished  con- 
temporaries, dying  on  the  17th  of  September,  at 
hia  country-scat  in  Clarke  County,  Va. 

John  Eslen  Cooke  was  bora  in  Winchester, 
Va.,  on  the  3d  of  November,  1630.  His  father, 
John  Kodgers  Cooke,  was  a  leading  Virginia 


lawyer  and  a  most  accomplished  gentleman. 
His  country-seat.  Glengarry,  was  the  center  of 
a  graceful  and  laviah  hospitality  such  as  pre- 
vailed in  the  Old  Dominion  a  half  century  since. 
On  his  mother's  side,  he  was  related  to  the  Pen- 
dletona,  Dandridges,  Kennedys,  etc  John  Pen- 
dleton Kennedy,  the  author  of  StBallvto  Bam, 
Narse-Shoi  Robinion,  Rsb  of  the  Bav^^  and 
other  novels  of  Sonthern  life,  was  bis  cousin. 
Philip  Pendleton  Cooke,  author  of  Florence 
Vane,  a  once  very  popular  poem,  was  the  elder 
brother  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

In  1B39  Mr.  Cooke's  father  removed  to  Rich- 
mond lo  practice  his  profession  in  the  Court  of 
Appeals  of  Virginia,  and  hia  education  was 
completed  in  that  city.  When  the  lime  arrived 
for  him  to  enter  college,  he  asked  his  father  to 
be  allowed  to  commence  the  study  of  the  law 
that  be  might  be  the  aooner  able  to  support 
himself  without  depending  upon  his  beloved 
parent,  whose  fortune  had  been  greatly  dimin- 
iahed  by  his  open-handed  generosity.  Young 
Cooke  was  admitted  to  the  bar  before  he  had 
attained  his  Iwenty-first  year,,  and  entered  at 
once  upon  the  practice  of  his  profession.  At 
the  end  of  four  years  he  abandoned  the  law 
entirely  in  order  to  devote  himself  to  literary 
pursuits.  He  had  already  wrillen  a  novel.  The 
Virginia  Comrdiani,  which  was  published  In 
1S54,  and  had  an  Immedlale  success.  This  was 
soon  followed  by  its  sequel,  Henry  St.  John, 
GenUeman,  which,  with  Canolles  and  Cory  of 
Hunsden,  covered  the  interesting  period  of  the 
social  and  political  life  of  Virginia  just  before 
and  during  the  American  Revolution,  from  1765 
to  17S1.  These  novels  have  been  described  as 
admirable  pictures  of  the  courily  Virginian  of 
(he  elder  day.  Thackeray  recognized  the  grace 
and  beauty  of  that  picturesque  old  Virginia  life, 
and  in  his  novel.  The  Virginiaru,  has  introdaced 
us  to  some  of  the  most  charming  creations  of 
his  matchless  pen  —  peerless  dames  and  fair 
maidens,  fit  wives  and  mothers  of  heroes,  states- 
men, and  presidents. 

In  Leather  Stocking  and  SilJt  Mr.  Cooke 
transferred  (he  scene  of  his  novels  to  the  valley 
oF  Virginia,  and  instead  of  the  polished  society  of 
Richmond  and  Williamsburg,  we  are  introdaced 
(o  the  rough  characters  and  wild  adventures  of 
border  life  prior  to  (he  Revolniion.  Fair/ax, 
which  was  written  many  years  after  the  novel 
jnst  mentioned,  had  its  scenes  also  iu  (he  Shen- 
andoah Valley,  but  at  an  earlier  period.  Lord 
Fairfax,  who  gives  the  name  to  the  stury,  had 
been  one  of  the  most  elegant  couriers  of  the 
time  of  Queen  Anne,  he  had  known  Addison, 
Steele,  and  o(her  wits  of  (hat  witty  age,  had  writ- 
ten for  the  Spfctalor,  and,  in  a  word,  had  been 
known  as  a  roystering  blade,  a  fine  gentleman, 
a  wild  gallant.  In  the  midst  of  his  gay  and 
blilliant  career  he  fell  in  love  with  one  of  the 
beauties  of  the  court,  was  jilted  at  the  last 
□omcnt,  and,  fall  of  bilter  disappointment,  he 
luddenly  quitted  the  bright  sceties  where  be  had 
ihone  so  long,  and  retired  to  the  wilda  of  Vir- 
[inia,  and  established  hlmeetf  at  Greenway 
Court,  where  for  many  years  he  dispensed  a 
boundless  hospitality.  Lord  Fairfax  waa  the 
friend  and  patron  of  the  yuulhiul  George 
Washington,  and,  when  thirty  years  afteiwards, 
he  hears  of  (he  surrender  of  Cornwallis  to  his 
former  protegtf,  he  calls  his  old  body  servant  to 
assist  him  to  bed,  saying,  "  It  is  time  for  me  to 
die." 


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THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Oct.  2, 


When  tbe  Civil  War  broke  out  Mr.  Cooke 
Tothed  headlong  into  it,  setTing  first  with  Stone- 
wall Jackson,  and  afterwards  on  the  itaif  of 
Gep.  J.  E.  B.  Stuart,  coming  out  of  the  atmggli 
■  major.  The  resall  of  hii  war  experience  was 
shown  in  the  novel  of  Surry  ef  Eagii't  Nat, 
which  was  published  in  Ihe  n-tnter  of  1866,  and 
went  rapidly  thioagh  seven  editions.  Manf  of 
the  iceites  the  author  himself  had  wilnetted,  and 
he  tells  what  he  htard  Jackson  and  Stuart  tay, 
not  what  he  read  the;  bad  said.  The  success 
of  Surry  Induced  Cooke  to  continue  the  war 
novels,  and  Mohun,  Hill  to  Hill,  Hammer  and 
Attvil,  etc.,  followed  in  a  few  jears.  He  also 
wrote  the  lives  of  Lee  and  Jackson,  TAe  Wiar- 
ing  ef  the  Cray,  and  other  books,  all  having 
more  or  less  of  the  war  almosphcre. 

Mr.  Cooke's  aim  was  to  do  for  Virginia  what 
SiiDtDS  had  done  for  Sonih  Carolina,  Cooper  for 
the  Indian  and  frontier  life,  Irving  for  the  quaint 
old  Knickerbocker  times,  and  Hawthorne  for  the 
weird  Puritan  life  of  New  England.     Although 
Mr.  Cooke's  sympathies  were  for  llie  caralient, 
he  never  magnified  one  of  them  at  the  expense  of 
a  Puritan,  and  his  books,  while  Sontliern  in  their 
viewi,  are  never  rancorous.    They  are  of   Vir- 
ginia,  because  their  author  loved  the  grand 
Commonwealth ;  and,  thoi^h  both  local  and 
tional,  they  have  no  narrow  spirit  in  them,  Mr. 
Cooke  believing  with  Shakespeare,  that  "  thi 
are  liners  out  of  Britain." 

Some  of  John  Esien  Cooke's  earliest   literary 
work  was  done  for  Ihe  Southern  Ulerary  Men 
gtr,  a  respectable,  but  rather  heavy   magazi 
which  was   published   in  Richmond   for    about 
Iwenly-five  years,  being  stopped   by    the   Civil 
War.      He  also  contributed   several   delightful 
sketches  to  the  first  series  of  Pubam'i  Atagat 
More  recently  he  hai  written  tor  Appltion't  yaur- 
nai.   Harper's   Mageaine,   and   the    Philadelphii 
Times,  furnishing  some  very  interesting  ikctcbes 
In  the  "  Annals  of  the  War  "  papers  for  tbe  last 
newspaper. 

In  tS€7  Mr.  Cooke  was  married  to  Miss  Mary 
Frances  Page,  daughter  of  Dr.  Robert  Page 
the  Bradncck  branch],  and  Susan  Randolph. 
After  his  marriage,  he  settled  in  the  Shenandoah 
Valley,  at  an  old  Virginia  country-seat,  called  the 
Briars.  Here  he  lived  the  happy  life  of 
ginia  gentleman,  his  time  being  divided  among 
hunting,  farming,  driving,  and  literary  pursuits. 
The  neighborhood  where  he  lived  was  composed 
of  some  cA  the  most  charming  Virginia  society, 
being  a  perfect  nest  of  Pages,  Randolphs,  Nel- 
sons, etc,  who,  as  far  as  tbeir  altered  fortnaes 
permit,  keep  up  the  old  hospitality.  John  Esten 
Cooke  was  always  a  great  reader,  and  much  of 
his  lime  was  spent  in  his  library. 

Of  late  years,  Mr.  Cooke  wrote  books  of  con- 
temporaneaui  interest,  among  othcn,  Prtlly  Mrs. 
Gaston,  Tbe  Virginia  Bohemians,  etc  His  very 
last  work  was  the  History  of  Virginia  for  Ihe 
"American  Commonwealth  Series. "  He  also 
wrote  a  life  of  Pocahontas,  in  which  he  repeated 
all  the  exploded  traditions  about  Captain  John 
Smith  and  PowhaUn, 

John  Esten  Cooke  was  about  the  medinm 
hight,  with  dark  hair  and  eyes.  He  was  very 
courteous  in  his  manners,  possessing  much  of  the 
grace  of  the  old  cavaliers  whose  splendid  fortunes 
and  boundless  hospitality  he  loved  to  chronicle. 

EUGBNE   L_  DlDlEK. 


—  Rev.  Hemy  S.  Burrage,  D.D,  of  Portland, 


Me.,  editor  of  ZIsh's  Advocate,  is  at  work 
volume  to  be  entitled  Bafitisf  Hymn-Writers  and 
their  Hymns, 

TABLE    TALE. 

.  . .  Mr.  Oscar  Fay  Adams,  who  is  establishing 
himself  as  an  editor  of  books  of  poetical  and  lit- 
erary value,  and  a  writer  of  sentiment  in  short 
story  and  verse,  and  of  poetical  travesty,  is  a  na- 
of  Worcester,  Mass.,  a  graduate  of  the  Nor- 
mal School  in  Trenton,  N.  J.  [class  of  '74) ;  and 
vas  at  first  a  teacher  in  parish  schools  in  Penn- 
lylvania,  after  which  he  contributed  storiei  and 
rersea  for  a  few  years  to  prominent  magazines 
and  newspapers  while  residing  in  Plainficld, 
N.  J. ;  then  was  for  a  short  time  assistant  editor 
of  the  Steuben  Courier,  of  Bath,  N.  Y,  since  when 
he  has  devoted  himself  mainly  to  work  of  a  liter- 
ary character.  About  four  years  ago  he  pub- 
lished, through  Messrs.  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co., 
A  Brie/ Handbook  ef  English  Authors,  which  he 
n  followed  with  A  Brief  Handbook  of  Ameri- 
Authors,  both  of  which  have  passed  through 
-.e  editions  i  books  of  great  value  to  profes- 
lal  persons  in  several  departments,  partly  by 
ion  of  their  fullness,  and  partly  on  a 
their  accuracy.  While  preparing  these  volumes, 
Mr.  Adams  lived  in  Erie,  Pa.,  where  he  also  lect- 
ured on  literary  topics.  In  June,  188^  he  took 
up  his  residence  in  Cambridge,  Mass.,  where  hit 
well-known  series  of  books  oi  verse,  Tkreugk  Ike 
Year  uith  Ihe  Poets,  has  been  prepared.  He  is 
intimately  associated  with  Mr.  Clinton  .Scollard, 
author  of  Pictures  in  Song  and  With  Reedand 
Lyre.  He  is  very  fond  of  society,  and  Culti^ 
a  wide  llteraij  and  social  acquaintance.  Per 
ally  he  is  of  medium  siaiurc,  broad-shouldered, 
and  has  very  dark  hair,  a  blonde  comp 
broad  face,  and  a  very  dark  moustache, 
who  know  him  well  have  a  very  good  report  to 
make  of  him. 

. .  .  The  Rev.  Dr.  George  R.  Crooks,  Professor 
of  Church  History  in  Drew  Theological  Semi 
nary,  has  in  hand  a  Life  of  Bishop  Simpson.  Dt 
Crooks  is  Bu£Eering  just  now  from  an  affection  of 
the  eyes ;  but  he  hopes  to  complete  his  biographi- 
cal work  before  many  months. 

. . .  Mrs.  Lucy  M.Mitchell.thewriter  on  ancient 
sculpture,  has  gone  to  Greece  in  the  interest  of  a 
work  on  Greek  vases  which  she  begun  this  stira- 
mer.  Mrs.  Mitchell,  who  is  a  native  of  Persia, 
has  lived  for  many  years  in  Berlin,  Germany. 

.  . .  Henry  Bacon,  the  author  of  A  Parisian 
Year,  will  soon  issue  through  a  Boston  house  a 
story,  the  scene  of  which  Is  laid  at  Etretat,  on 
the  Normandie  coast,  where  Mr.  Bacon  spends 
his  summers. 

. .  ■  Miss  Virginia  W.  Johnson  Is  traveling  In 
Italy. 

. .  .  John  AntrobtiB,  Ihe  artist,  has  three  vol- 
umes ready  for  the  press,  via. .'  Cybele,  a  book  of 
idred  pages,  Romaunts  Mediirt/al,  poems, 
and  ne  Religion  of  Art,  essays  and  lectures. 

.  .  Mr.  C.  P.  Cranch's  translation  of  The 
jSneid  is  about  to  appear  in  a  new,  revised  edi- 
from  Houghton,  Mi&lin  &  Co.'s  press,  and 
his  poem  Satan  is  to  be  issued,  re-written  and  en- 
larged, with  a  new  name,  by  Messrs.  Roberts 
Brothers ;  a  volume  of  Mr.  Cranch's  later  verse 
be  published  in  a  few  weeks  by  the  lint- 
named  firm. 

Hugh  Farrar  McDermott  is  now  living  in 
Fifth  Avenue,  New  York;   he  intends  soon  to   r.'cnnnri ft"^ 


bring  out  a  third  edition  of  Tie  Blind  Canary, 
and  Other  Poems,  in  which  much  of  the  first  edi- 
tion will  not  appear,  bul  new  matter  instead. 

. . .  Miss  Amanda  B.  Harris  has  ready  PleatoHl 
Authors /or  Kuiitf^a/^t^,  a  companion  collection 
to  ber  foreign  group  of  author  sketches  —  these 
being  American.  D.  Lothrop  &  Co.  will  publish 
ihe  book. 

.  A  new  edition  (showing  many  changes  in 
the  text}  of  the  long  poem  Monte  Rosa  the  Epie 
of  an  Alp,  which  brought  iu  author,  SUrr  H. 
Nichols  of  New  York,  into  notice  as  a  writer  of 
strong  verse,  a  few  years  ago,  will  appear  at 
from  the  press  of  Belford,  Clarke  &  Co., 
Chicago. 

Rev.  Samuel  W.  Dyke,  of  Royalton,  Vt., 

nritlen  a  book  on    Tke  Divorce  Question, 

which  Funk  &  Wagnalls  will  presently  publish. 

Mme.  Blanche  Roosevelt's  story  called  TAe 
Copper  Queen  in  October  will  appear  simultane- 
ously in  London,  Paris,  and  New  York;  her 
Familiar  Faces,"  pen-portraits  of  cosmopolitan 
celebrities,  now  running  in  the  Sunday  edition  of 
the  Chicago  Times,  are  to  appear  in  a  volume 

...  Mr.  William  R.  Thayer  <"  Paul  Hermes  »] 
is  traveling  in  Europe,  and  was  at  Munich  a 
month  ago. 

■ . .  Mr.  Edwin  Lasseter  Bjmner,  author  of 
Nimport,  has  another  novel  ready,  which  will 
appear  very  soon. 

. . .  Mrs.  Alice  Williams  Brotherton  Is  prepar- 
ing a  small  book  for  holiday  publication,  to  con- 
tain four  illustrations  by  her  sister,  Miis  Minna 
Williams,  who  is  studying  wood-engraving  with 
T.  Cole  in  Florence. 


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ma  Tlavra  of  tba  Coneoid  at  todai 

X  Tiiq  Minute  Man,"  tba  Concord  vat 

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ralory."— nw  Btaeatt. 


RBADT  IH  OCTOBER. 

CONFESSIONS  AND  CEITICISIIS. 

By  JULiAH  HAimourB.   f\M. 
itlaa  ot  vttv  deUshttiil  Maayi  and  papan,  with  lan- 
iMfla  aod  oiner  maiiiorabla  papen. 


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.jaden,  wbo  find  In  Uila  anilwr  (be  beat  tialla  6t  modern 

UMistara. 

SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS 

OF  NOTED  FEBSONS. 


MBS.  BBOWNING'S 

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ELitABiTH  Biuan 
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lop,  tiuu. 
Xi^  mesnifloent  work  baa  bean  a  labor  of  lave  fo 

it'toSSpo* 


■oanat  la  pcabeed  by  a  rlcbly  or 

[nU  pass,  and  ta  mrnMuidsd  L, 

emblematleiniiadtainUHlGOmpoaMloa.   M 
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EAOdem  literature:  an-*  ■^-*'-  n"— —  m n— 

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and  bandanaoa  paaei  offer  very 
rlbedlBplayetlha  lUoalntloH, 
Tb««  are  maay  Tiaainia  floure  pleoea,  la'  vUeb  appear 
fair  Mainnt,  tba  Ablit  (^JMbnlsa,  tba  OoblurKs*, 
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ud  leseod-hanntad    toeallUia    of  Uie    ScoUlab  Border 

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[Oct.  a, 


S«lMtloiiB  troK  tbe  Fall  Pnblleatloiu  of 

G.  P.  PUTUII'S  SOUS,  Hn  lorl  ind  LoDdm. 

RSADF,  OR  SEAJtLr  READT: 
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WjvliliigtaD   Irving  to    lh«  pi 


I.-Kt>a< 


i.PM. 


III.- 


Klowen.)      VI.^^AitB*    Kiope    aim 

III.  AMEKioAx  i.itbkati;kk,  1««T- 


ot  EngUib  Ulcntam  In  DHlaumUi  Cotlesa. 


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latwrtnniDBi 


lUIJoe.  tbMlocT.  I 


lured  Ibirt  nonMre  Inlemllng — . 

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lUaniiT  peilad  or  k 
dnj*  o(  llirtDf  irrlU 


a  Vaiici  uid  rktion."  w 


F»»»TO».   OtInTO. 


tton  In  Enfiuict  uid  ttiroughoul  Itae  world,  ancki  u  social 
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orHKlnl  claaif,  Ihe  relnUoni  of  anplofeim  and  emplored , 


which  coDlahu  eoina  nryalevaT  penooal  chancterlBalloDi 
Tl.  THE  BOYB'  AN»  OIKIA*  I,IBKAKt' 

or  AHEnioAir  sioeKAPiir  ■ 


II.  Abrahani  LlMwU.    Bt  Nou  Baoou.      (/■ 

III.  Olwrae  Wiuhbi(MB.   Br  Bdvau  Evaanr 
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VII.  PKOBI^MK  AITD  SOOIAI.  STUDIES, 

By  Uev.  R.  Iliica  Kiwtoh,  aulhor  of  "thllU. 

Unlm,"  "Tha  Uk  and  Abiwaof  the  Uitila,"  "Tbe 

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Cradit  la  Ihe  United  Ruileii  The  hlmjt  of  CcwpamllTf  Ilia' 


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Raleigh. 


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Little  Tia'peiuiy. 


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annday  School  Tlmea. 
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•  Hcrwll  laaakoonMOoornnEllof.  Mrg-Poyaor.' 

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CONTENTS. 


EhcUIH  AMD  GntHAH  LmKATDKB  IH  T1 


BrokiDl 

Cot. 


Lb  Frtra  Colontw 
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11  PuBUSRUts'  AxNomnsHncn 


OOSSTAHTIHOPLE." 

HERODOTUS  wM  perh^M  the  first 
traveler  who  penetrated  the  East  and 
wrote  of  the  marvelous  ptnetralia  of  that 
region  with  distinct  pictorial  purpose.  And 
if  he  was  the  first,  so  be  was  the  prince,  of 
travelers;  and  It  is  not  without  intention 
that  be  divides  his  travels  into  cantos  and 
dedicates  each  chapter  to  one  of  the  muses, 
as  if  he  was  writing  a  Homeric  poem.  The 
chord  struck  in  his  day  and  by  him  for  the 
first  time  —  the  chord  of  high  poetic  fervor 
in  description,  of  pictorial  grouping,  of 
gorgeous  coloring,  of  liction  intermingled 
with  fact,  and  of  delightful  digressions  — 
has  gone  on  sounding  down  to  our  day,  and 
continues  bravely  in  his  latest  Oriental 
descendant,  Edmondo  de  Amicia.  While 
Herodotus*  purpose  was  fundamentally  his- 
torical—that of  a  great  historian  seeking 
his  material  by  actual  observation  in  tbe 
countries  described,  the  purpose  of  his 
modern  imitators,  whether  conscious  or  not, 
has  been  largely  tbe  gratification  of  them- 


*  CoDUaDlinaple.  By  Edmondo  da  Amicn.  Tmulued 
Ota  iba  ScTanih  iu&tB  Edilioo  by  Cuoliu  TDteo. 
.  P.  PaiDui'i  Sod*,    ^jo. 


selves  and  their  readers  by  attractive  ac- 
counts of  tbe  lands  they  have  visited.  This 
ptHcAimt  for  travel  is  a  characteristically 
modem  tnut,  and  has  given  rise  to  a  distinct 
literary  genus.  The  French,  perhaps,  have 
been  the  happiest  cultivators  of  this  style, 
in  the  Swiss  descriptions  of  Jean 
Jacques,  tbe  island  memories  and  imagin- 
ings of  Bernardin  de  St  Pierre,  the  wander- 
ings of  Chateaubriand,  and  the  masterpieces 
Spanish,  Russian,  and  Oriental  travel 
left  by  Th^opbile  Gautier.  Close  upon 
their  heels,  however,  follow  the  English  and 
the  Italians  —  more  particularly  among  the 
latter,  Edmondo  de  Amicia,  who  combines 
probably  more  literary  traits  and  more  real 
genius  than  any  professional  traveler  now 
living.  Amicis  has  long  been  known  as  a 
sort  of  Fortuny  with  a  pen,  a  sort 
Prince  Housain  with  a  carpet  transporting 
him  with  tbe  instantaneousness  of  photog- 
ipby  from  Orient  to  Occident,  from  Hol- 
land lo  Morocco,  and  leaving  everywhere 
sparkling  traces  of  himself,  like  another 
Mephistopheles.  In  this  way  he  has,  so  to 
speak,  focalized  Spain,  concentrating  its 
scattered  radii  Into  one  of  tbe  most  brilliant 
pictures  ever  given  of  the  Peninsula.  Then 
he  took  the  people  and  places  of  Morocco 
and  shook  them  up  into  the  angles  and 
iridescence  of  a  starUIng  kaleidoscopic  view 
—  or  series  of  dissolving  views.  Next,  he 
made  of  the  fogs  and  clouds  of  Holland  an 
opalescent  mist  shot  with  the  rare  hues  of 
an  Italian  sunset,  so  that  the  Frogland  of 
Aristophanes  became  a  landsci^M  of  Oandc 
Lorraine.  Idealization,  enthusiasm,  color, 
are  tbe  constitutional  qualities  of  Amidt, 
mingled  with  an  eloquence  of  vocabulary 
and  an  abundance  of  comparisons  truly 
tropical.  The  "personal  equation'' 
enormous  factor  with  him;  if  he  is  m 
ipport  with  his  subject,  if  he  has  an 
itellectual  affinity  for  it,  he  rushes  into 
nmediate  crystal iiati on  about  it,  he  tin- 
gles with  tbe  electricity  of  it,  be  is  like  a 
piece  of  rubbed  amber  emitting  sparks  and 
golden  flashings. 

Accordingly,  when  be  comes  to  "Con- 
stantinople," tbe  dream  of  his  heart,  the 
center  of  his  most  poetic  longings,  his 
imagination  is,  as  the  French  say,  im- 
mediately /»  feu  J  be  "chisels  out  his 
words  in  bronse,"  enthusiasm  rises  and 
ripens  in  him  to  lyrical  exaltation,  all  the 
italics  bloom  in  his  luxurious  style,  and  his 
attitude  is  that  of  an  imprvtritatare  endeav- 
oring to  "wreak  on  language"  all  the  full- 
ness of  feeling  and  metaphor,  of  experience 
and  allusion,  in  his  capacious  memory. 
Naturally,  truth  In  such  a  mind  as  Amicis's 
is  often  sacrificed  to  temperament :  nobody 
ever  saw  a  Spain  like  his,  or  a  Holland,  or 
a  Morocco)  and  nobody  will  ever  again, 
this  side  of  the  heavenly  Jerusalem,  see  a 
Stamboul  like  that  described  in  the  book 
before  ns,  radiant,  quaint,  unique,  indescrib- 
able.   Yet  for  all  tiiat  it  is  an  exquisite  lit 


erary  treat  to  get  hold  of  such  a  book  as 
this,  permeated  like  a  Mexican  hydrophone 
with  the  gorgeoDs  rays  of  human  fancy  —  to 
drink  hydromel  prepared  by  one  of  the  most 
skillful  cup-bearers  of  tbe  gods.  We,  who 
know  our  Constantinople  by  heart  from  a 
sojonm  there  similar  to  Amicis's,  feel  as  if 
the  Italian  bad  supplied  a  cardinal  defect  in 
our  own  intellectual  outfit  by  his  abounding 
delineations,  had  renewed  in  us  our  lost 
imagination,  had  suddenly  made  us  a  poet 
again  ont  of  the  superabundance  of  his  own 
heart  Nobody  can  read  this  book  without 
falling  in  love  with  Constantinople —its 
great  bazaar,  its  bridge,  its  khans,  its  women, 
its  birds,  memorials,  costumes,  dogs,  night- 
life, cookery,  antiquities,  baths,  and  towers, 
the  old  Seraglio,  the  superb  Bosporus, 
Santa  Sophia  and  its  lordly  dome  of  Jus. 

a,  the  cypresses  and  cemeteries,  tbe 
Mahometan,  Hebrew,  and  Turkish  jungle 
of  confused  tongues,  the  strange  theaters 
and  lovely  gardens,  the  minarets  and  pal> 
aces  and  aqueducts  —  what  a  Vanity  Fair 

vamtas  vfuatattim  of  motiey  effects  and 
brilliant  picture squenes s !  and  what  "grace 
before  meat"  we  owe  to  the  author  before 
sitting  down  to  such  a  Christmas  feast  I 


PATHS  OH  THE  SOIEHOE  OF  EDI7- 
OATIOS." 

THE  seventeen  chapters  of  this  volume 
are  very  unequal  in  their  values  to 
the  gener^  reader,  and  even  to  the  mem- 
bers of  the  profession  of  teaching ;  but 
there  are  six  or  seven  which  cannot  fail  to 
be  of  value  to  every  thoughtful  man  who 
sees  them.  They  indicate  a  wide  range  of 
learning  and  a  habit  of  vigorous  and  pro- 
found thought  on  the  part  of  the  author. 
Tbey  are  calm,  self-sustained,  dignified,  and 
convindng;  they  carry  one  above  petty 
controversies  concerning  details,  and  give 
him  a  broad  outiook  over  the  whole  field  of 
education.  Other  chapters  criticise  writings 
of  ephemeral  interest,  or  consider  special 
methods  of  the  management  of  American 
schools  and  colleges ;  such  chapters  may  be 
of  use  to  professional  teachers,  but  are  dry 
and  innutritlous  to  the  general  scholar. 
There  are,  however,  pages  enoagh  of  the 
higher  and  broader  character  to  render 
the  volume  an  admirable  contribution,  not 
only  to  the  science,  but  to  the  literature,  of 
education.  They  amply  vindicate  the  claim 
of  education  to  occupy  in  a  university  cur- 
riculum an  honorable  place  among  psycho- 
logical and  historical  studies. 

Emerson  says  that  human  rhetoric  cannot 
state  strongly  one  truth  without  seeming  to 
contradict  some  other  truth  ;  and  Professor 
Payne  illustrates  the  saying  for  us  by  occa- 


Iha  Sdnea  of  Ednciiioii.  By 
H.  Vtjem,  A.M.,  Proleaer  of  ihc  Sdau  ud 
tbe  An  of  TeKhini  in  Mit  Uninnllr  a[  Michigmo,  ate, 
■tc    HvpcrA  BcMlun.    (i.'s. 


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[Oct.  1 6, 


sioDally  failing  to  concede  the  evident  trutli 
contained  in  a  statement  which  seems  to 
contradict  truth.  In  other  words,  our 
author  occasionally  overstates  in  his  con- 
demnation of  overstatements,  and,  in  one 
or  two  instances,  overstates  in  his  eulogy 
of  good  things.  But  this  simply  shows  him 
to  t>e  human,  and  may  even  make  the  vol- 
ume more  valuable  by  malting  it  more  pro- 
vocative of  thought. 

Professor  Payne  quotes  {p,  i8j),  with  his 
highest  approval,  Matthew  Arnold's  state- 
ment of  the  purpose  of  education,  viz. : 
"  The  ideal  of  a  general  liberal  training  is 
to  carry  us  lo  a  knowledge  of  ourselves  and 
the  world."  Yet  from  the  whole  drift 
and  tenor  of  bis  writing,  it  is  evident 
that  Mr.  Payne's  own  ideal  of  a  general 
liberal  education  is  far  higher  than  this. 
The  ideal  of  a  general  liberal  training  em- 
braces more  than  knowledge  ;  it  Is  lo  cany 
us  to  the  highest  life  for  which  our  capacity 
fits  us.  Professor  Payne  fails  to  recogni 
his  own  higher  ideal  when  (p.  ziz)  he  says 
that  "  the  public  school  must  teach  morality, 
because  morality  is  an  element  of  good 
dtizenship."  It  must  teach  morality  be- 
cause morality  is  one  of  the  essentials  of  a 
high  and  noble  life.  He  adds ;  "  Bm  it  may 
not  teach  religion,  or  rather  may  not  require 
pupils  to  receive  instruction  in  religion." 
That  depends  upon  our  definition  of  relig- 
ion. The  great  fundamental  truths  of 
religion  are  as  essential  to  real  life  as  are 
the  fundamentals  of  morality ;  nay,  i 
so,  since  tbey  lie  beneath  morality  and 
stitute  a  part  of  its  foundation.  Upon  page 
267  our  author  quotes  with  approval  thi 
saying  that  progress  is  propagated  from 
above  downward.  The  Baconian  method 
is  declared  in  the  Novum  Organoti  to  be  to 
ascend  rapidly  to  the  highest  generalization 
and  thence  descend.  Progress  in  physical 
science  is  not  possible  without  confidence 
that,  as  Herbert  Spencer  says,  there  is  no 
vice  in  the  constitution  of  things ;  without 
resting,  as  Alexander  John  Ellis  says,  in 
serene  trust  upon  the  consensus  of  the 
harmonies  of  the  universe.  This  high 
trust  may  be  attained  by  children  at  a 
very  early  age,  and  usually  is  thus  attuned. 
It  is  the  essential  first  step  in  all  methods 
of  education,  secular  or  ecclesiastical,  to 
develop  and  keep  living  and  strong  this 
deep  religious  reverent  faith  ;  without  il 
progress  in  intellectual  life  is  possible, 
was  a  thing  silently  assumed  even  in  Ja 
Mill's  education  of  his  son ;  and  the  very 
founder  of  the  school  of  "Philosophii 
Positif"  declares  that  in  the  child's  mini 
it  necessarily  takes  the  form  of  faith  ii 
God.  The  secularization,  or  laicity,  of 
public  instruction  has  proceeded,  therefore, 
to  an  utterly  illogical  and  ruinous  extreme 
when  it  has  excluded  the  simplest  elements 
of  religion  such  as  are  given  in  the  Sermon 
on  the  Mount. 
The  condemnation  by  our  author  (p.  129) 


of  the  formula,  we  learn  by  doing,  is  entirely 
too  strong  and  sweeping.      We  can  pardon 

me  righteous  indignation  at  the  in- 
tolerable Phariseeism  of  the  phrase  "  the  new 
education."  It  is  with  difficulty  that  we  our- 
selves treat  respectfully  any  essay  or  pam- 
phlet, bearing  such  a  title  as  The  New  Theol- 
ogy, the  New  Piety,  the  New  Morality,  or 
New  Education.  But  he  certainly 
greatly  errs  when  he  says  (p.  130},  "  If  any- 
thing has  been  settled,  .  .  it  is  that  action 
should  be  preceded  and  guided  by  knowl- 
edge." Had  be  allowed  bis  indignation  to 
grow  cool,  and  reason  to  resume  her  sway, 
he  would  have  seen  that  this  is  a  case  to  be 
illustrated  by  sucb  a  diagram  as  that  on 
page  12.  Certainly  his  dictum,  just  quoted, 
will  not  hold  of  a  child.  Knowing  does  not 
precede  action  in  the  case  of  swallowing, 
inking,  walking,  throwing  stones  at  a  mark, 
catching  a  ball,  etc. ;  nor  in  talking,  singing, 
whistling,  etc  The  maxim  that  we  learn 
by  doing,  manifestly  holds  true  in  many 
school  study  also;  in  all  the  more  element- 
ary studies.  Even  our  author,  on  page  34O) 
seems,  without  perceiving  his  ow 
ststence,  to  concede  that  the  abhorred 
maxim  holds  in  regard  to  manual  arts 
for  he  says ;  "  In  the  learning  of  tvery  art, 
knowing  precedes  doing ;  and  in  mere 
ual  art,  the  major  part  of  the  learning 
process  mtttt  consist  in  making  experiments, 
etc."  The  italics  are  ours ;  but  the  sentence 
seems  to  us  to  say  that  "  every  art "  does 
not  include  mere  manual  art  The  truth 
seems  to  us  plainly  to  lie  in  both  dicta 
children,  and  for  manual  operations,  knack 
precedes  knowledge,  and  is  acquired  by  ac- 
tion; for  adults,  and  in  more  intellectual 
operations,  knowledge  precedes  and  guidi 

and  the  passage  from  childhood 
manhood  is  not  more  uniform  and  gradual 
than  the  passage  from  matters  of  mere  dex- 
terity to  matters  of  pure  and  high  intuition. 
One  great  fault  in  the  American  public 
school  has  been  in  carrying  the  dictum 
knowledge  before  action "  beyond  its 
reasonable  limits ;  thereby  bringing  multi- 
tudes of  children  to  the  condition  of  the 
centipede  (p.  62),  who  could  not  walk  for 
thinking;  and  filling  multitudes  of  others 
with  sucb  a  conceit  of  their  ownomnisdence 
as  to  destroy  their  natural  thirst  for  knowl- 
edge, and  fix  them  for  life,  in  a  shallow  and 
irreverent  socialism. 

TOLSTOI'S  WAR  AVD  PEACE.- 

WITH  the  appearance  of  the  two  com- 
pact volumes  of  the  third  part,  Tol- 
stoi's stupendous  War  and  Ptace  at  last  is 
complete  for  English  readers.  The  work 
is  not  new,  it  having  been  published  first  in 
Russian  in  i860,  and  in  French  in  1884. 
Considered  simply  as  an  addition  to  recent 


\Am  ToUloI.    Tm 


k  Hiiloricil   Mord.      Bf  Cowil 


English  literature  it  is  assuredly  one  of  the 
most  considerable  events  of  the  year — as 
important  in  its  department  as  was  the  in- 
troduction to  us  of  Les  MisirabUs. 

To  those  who  are  not  freely  conversant 
with  literatures  other  than  their  own,  it  is 
often  a  misfortune  that  they  are  obliged  to 
work  backward,  as  It  were,  in  their  gradual 
acquaintance  with  the  works  of  genius.  In 
of  Tolsto!,  Mr.  Huntington  Smith's 
translation  of  My  Religion  no  doubt  gave  the 
Impulse  In  this  country  to  the  interest  in  him 
which  has  been  excited  within  a  few  months, 
and  which  now  seems  likely  to  bring  within 
reach  what  is  really  best  in  later  Russian 
literature.  Already  the  efforts  of  so  able  a 
scholar  as  Miss  Hapgood  have  been  turned 
in  this  direction,  and  we  may  expect  that 
American  letters  will  not  now  have  cause  to 
be  ashamed  of  inadequate  translation  work. 
My  Religion  represents  the  latest  develop- 
ment of  the  religious  and  philosophical  sys- 
tem of  ToIstoT — a  man  clearly  stamped  with 
the  genius  of  his  century,  and  without  that 
suspicion  of  "  charlatanism "  which  even 
those  who  admire  him  most  have  not  been 
wholly  able  to  deny  in  Hugo's  make  up.  It 
is,  furthermore,  by  no  means  certain  that 
Tolsto!  has  come  finally  to  his  earthly 
Nirvana,  beyond  which  there  is  no  progress 
possible  for  him,  as  some  would  maintain 
since  the  appearance  of  My  Religion.  He 
is  not  an  old  man,  being  as  yet  only  fifty- 
eight  years  of  age,  and  for  such  minds  as  his, 
advance  ends  only  with  life  itself.  He  has 
accepted  the  teachings  of  Christ  implicitly, 
but  rejects  immortality ;  possibly,  nay,  prob- 
ably, he  will  before  long  drop  in  this  key- 
stone of  his  arch ! 

Be  all  this  as  it  may,  ffor  and  Peace  and 
the  Coiiatks  (which  we  have  not  yet  In  Eng- 
lish) do  represent  earlier  phases  of  TolstoVs 
existence ;  but  all  that  My  Religion  has 
so  far  revealed  may  easily  be  prefigured  in 
several  characters  of  these  earlier  works. 
Much  has  already  been  said  and  more  will 
continue  to  be  said,  in  the  heat  of  present 
enthusiasm,  of  Tolstoi  the  man,  the  moralist, 
the  philosophical  historian,  the  Christian 
communist.  Before  he  has  been  thoroughly 
anatomized  for  the  delectation  of  assthetic 
criticism,  there  is  yet  a  little  space  in  which 
sfmple  and  healthy  minds  may  rejoice  over 
this  fresh,  strong  vitality,  which  comes  to 
us  from  that  fascinating,  because  unknown, 
borderland  of  eastern  and  western  civiliza- 
tion. Any  translation  is  so  welcome  that  we 
forbear  to  speak  in  particular  of  the  failings 
of  the  present  effort  —  though  one  has  only 
to  take  the  French  version  and  find  that  in 
English  War  and  Peace  has  been  at  times 
foully  dealt  with.  Nevertheless,  the  worst 
second  hand  paraphrasing  from  Russian  to 
French  and  from  French  to  English  cannot 
efface  the  brilliant  effects  of  the  originaL 
And  what  pictures  some  of  them  are !  The 
brutal  buUy  Dologhow  balanced  on  the  lofty 
window-sill  drinking  off  a  bottle  of  rum  for 


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349 


a  trivial  wager,  the  fascinating,  weak,  but 
really  noble  Pierre  Besonkhow  in  his  father's 
death  room,  the  odIj  honest  soul  there,  the 
elopement  of  Natacha,  the  gleaming  shoul- 
dcTs  of  Pierre's  vile  wife,  those  few  awful 
teconds  when  Prince  Andr£  speculated  on 
the  fateful  shell  which  was  to  shatter  him, 
the  eternal  calm  of  the  peasant  Platon,  the 
most  nearly  perfect  ideal  of  what  TolstoT 
DOW  holds  to  1  These  and  many  more  can 
never  be  forgotten,  cannot  even  become 
dimmed  in  memory.  TolBtoffl  is  no  patent 
process  In  photi^raphy  —  it  Is  rather  the 
mirror  of  a  river  which  suggests  depths 
under  Its  surface  ;  the  mirror  truthfully  re- 
flects the  objectivity  of  nature,  but  the 
reflection  is  subjective.  It  is  much  more 
than  realism,  for  Tolstoi  never  could  have 
come  down  so  far  as  merely  thaL  There 
are  passages  which  to  intelligences  still 
unused  to  the  savageries  of  an  almost  unin- 
telligible semi-dvilizatiOD  must  seem  bitrbar- 
ous,  but  how  different  In  all  their  sincerity 
from  the  horrors  of  such  a  book  as  Sor 
lammbd/ 

The  chaos,  the  turbulence,  the  seeming 
incoherence  of  War  and  Peace,  especially 
in  the  battle  scenes,  are  felt  to  be  Lke  the 
unrest  of  life  itself,  even  as  the  affairs  of 
men  and  society  appear  to  those  who  are  in 
the  mental  condition  in  which  Tolstof  found 
himself  when  he  wrote.  There  are  undoubt- 
edly grave  obstacles  to  those  who  decide  to 
journey  through  this  apparendy  fatalistic 
scheme  of  human  existence  ;  there  are  fair 
valleys  and  towering  hights,  but  there  are 
abo  mauvaises  terres,  wearisome  perhaps 
beyond  description,  as  there  are  in  the 
course  of  daily  life.  This,  then.  Is  TolstoT's 
accompliahmeot,  the  revivification,  as  it  were, 
of  humanity  as  it  existed  io  Russia  before 
and  during  the  invasion  of  Napoleon. 

The  publisher  has  wisely  put  the  work  ij 
the  convenient  form  which  is  growing  to  b 
as  pleasantly  familiar  as  the  volumes  of  the 
old  Tauchnitz  collection. 


N° 


FLAUBEBrS  SALAMBBO." 
JOTHING  but  the  admitted  difliculty 
f  the  task  can  have  postponed  for  a 
quarter  of  a  century  the  putting  of  Flau- 
bert's marvelous  experiment  into  English 
now  at  last  within  this  year  two  translators 
have  been  bold  enough  to  rush  in  where 
others,  with  discretion,  have  feared  to  (read. 
So  much  has  already  been  said  against 
Mrs.  Sheldon's  attempt,  that  there  is  noth- 
ing to  do  but  to  add  another  missile  towards 
her  literary  lapidation.  If,  however,  she 
had  succeeded  even  less  than  she  has,  the 
uninformed  English  reader  would  still  have 
found  enough  to  convince  him  that  he  was 
occupied  with  a  wonderful  book,  a  book 
full  of  strange  things  that  those  who  know 
the  French  will  grant  that  tbe  author  him- 


self fell  into  confusion  throi^h  his  very 
embarrassment  of  riches.  We  cannot  for- 
bear to  say  that  it  bespeaks  either  great 
carelessness  or  Ignorance  in  the  translator 
have  tnmed  the  French  "cothumes', 
into  anything  but  the  familiar  "cothums-,', 
ekept  the  French  word  "suffete'' 
when  "  snffect "  was  at  hand.  There  is  the 
same  lack  of  judgment  in  her  making 
soldiers  in  the  days  of  Hamilcar  Barca  sing 
wassail-songs."  The  French  "  pin^aient " 
I  turned  to  "  th ridded  on;"  "to  thrid"  is 
barely  admissible,  while  "  tbrumb  "  was  ob- 
viously the  word  needed. 
But  enough  of  the  translator ;  the  ques- 
m  is  not  so  much  whether  the  "  English- 
g"  was  well  done,  as  whether  it  were 
ise  to  have  done  it  at  all.  Of  Flaubert's 
great  effort,  in  which  he  sought  to  bring  to 
life  again  the  splendid  materialism  of  Car- 
thage during  her  struggle  against  the  be- 
sieging mercenaries,  we  can  say,  with  all 
sincerity,  that  it  would  be  far  better 
bad  SalammbS  never  passed  into  English 
literature.  To  those  who  value  always 
artistic  faultlessness  above  any  ethical  con. 
siderations  this  will  seem  rank  Philistinism, 
and  perhaps  we  are  not  sorry  to  have  a 
taint  of  it  lately  the  Littrary  World 
:d  Itself  to  the  opinion  that  realism 
may  have  its  just  defence  if  the  result  of  it 
really  is  to  make  men  hate  vice,  "by  real' 
izatiODS  of  its  enormity,  and  by  pity  over 
;  miseries  it  entails."  This  was  admitted 
the  case  of  Zola,  who  knows,  if  anylxidy 
does,  that  the  abysses  into  which  he  gazes 
ith  steady  eye  are  real  horrors.  Now 
ith  Flauliert  the  case  is  different.  He 
was  a  genuine  realist — or  naturalist,  as 
some  define  him  —  excepting  that  he  had 
Imagination  and  a  wealth  of  descriptive 
power  peculiar  to  his  genius.  To  fais 
Madame  Bovary  our  objections  do  not 
apply;  that  book,  to  a  sane  mind,  has  no 
blandishments  for  the  evil  doer.  But  .5*11^ 
ammbS,  as  has  just  been  said,  was  an 
experiment  Its  author,  letting  loose  — 
disgorging  is  almost  the  word  —  his  whole 
force  of  imagery,  using  with  consummate 
skill  such  scholarship  as  he  and  his  learned 
friends  could  call  to  their  aid,  constructed 
an  imaginary  Carthage.  He  then  applies 
the  realistic  method  as  it  has  never  been 
applied  before  or  since ;  he  describes  with 
horrible  accuracy  what  he  conceives  may 
once  have  existed.  Of  obscenity  there  is 
nothing  here ;  Flaubert  bad  no  relish  for  it 
But  everything  else,  sensnousness,  the 
horrors  of  war,  famine,  human  sacrifice, 
loathsome  disease,  gluttony,  all  things  that 
men  shrink  from  inspecting  too  closely, 
are  here  so  vivid  that  the  pages  seem  in- 
stinct with  dreadful  things.  The  chapter, 
"  Moloch,"  is  so  terrible  that  it  ought  to 
make  good  women  faint.  So  of  the  scene 
of  Hanno  at  his  bath,  the  enclosure  of  the 
Barbarians  in  the  Defile  of  the  BatUe  Axe, 
the  crucified  lions,  all  is  dreadful.     It  la 


fully  one  hundred  and  fifty  years  since  an 
English  audience  hissed  a  character  off  the 
stage  for  appearing  before  the  public  with 
a  bow-string  round  her  neck.  If  that  coarse 
age  did  not  tolerate  so  simple  a  bit  of  real- 
ism, may  not  we  of  more  refinement  avert 
our  faces  from  that  which  we  know  is 
neither  lovely  nor  of  good  report,  and 
furthermore  which  may  have  sprung  from 
no  more  substantial  source  than  the  imag- 
ination of  a  great  but  not  healthy  genius? 

EH&LISH  AND  OEBHAV  LITERATURE 
J&  THE  SIITEEirTH  OBHTDRY.* 

THE  subject  of  these  pages,  at  once 
brilliant  and  scholarly,  is  not  one  which 
will  attract  the  ordinary  student  of  English 
literature.  His  knowledge  is  naturally  con- 
fined, even  when  it  has  considerable  range, 
to  the  bare  reading  of  Barclay's  Ship  of 
Fooh,  Decker's  GuPs  Hom-Bookt,  and 
Marlowe's  Fanstus.  But  these  works  the 
specialist  like  Mr.  Herford  calls  "luminous 
but  isolated  points  in  a  tract  of  international 
literature,"  to  traversing  the  whole  of  which 
this  book  is  devoted.  Only  a  specialist  in 
criticism  should  assume  a  superior  position 
in  noticing  a  work  covering  so  obscure  a 
field.  We  shall  not  number  ourselves 
among  those  critics  whom  Prof.  Huxley 
likens  to  the  African  cutting  his  steak  off 
from  the  ox  on  which  be  travels,  but  will 
simply  ln<ticate  for  the  benefit  of  teachers 
and  advanced  students  some  features  of  Mr. 
Herford's  admirable  essay. 

It  is  the  literary,  not  the  theological,  influ- 
ence of  Germany  upon  England  which  Mr. 
Herford  proposes  to  trace.  German  Prot- 
estantism had  yet  a  rude  literature  of  its 
own  —  io  hymn,  dialogue,  and  drama,  to 
which,  in  its  action  upon  England,  the  first 
hundred  and  fifty  pages  are  devoted.  But 
the  marvelous  vigor  of  Luther  and  Hutlen 
found  no  peer  in  that  country  where  the 
Reformation  "as  a  literary  movement  was 
from  the  first  insignificant"  It  was  a  revo- 
lution "which  of  all  others  bears  the  deep- 
est stamp  of  English  character,  the  faintest 
and  most  fugitive  of  English  genius."  Quite 
otherwise  was  it  in  tbe  secular  field.  The 
coarse  but  virile  pletxian  literature  of  Ger- 
many sprung  out  of  one  of  those  "epochs 
of  general  social  disintegration  io  which 
few  poets  but  many  satirists  are  born;" 
"and  the  most  characteristic  as  well  as 
most  famous  poem  of  the  age  was  that  in 
which  Sebastian  Brandt,  resuming  with  a 
sterner  bias  the  mediaeval  'satire  upon  all 
classes,'  summoned  the  greater  part  of  his 
contemporaries  to  the  Ship  of  Fools" 
Brandt's  Narren-Sehyff  was  the  foundation 
of  Alexander  Barclay's  famous  picture  of 
English  society  in  the  time  of  Henry  Vlll.  ' 


*  SiBiUa  IB  the  Limry  KduioBi  of  Eagbwd  hhI  C«r-      C> 
mu/in  iba  SiiMeoth  Canliuj.    BrOurica  M.  Hiilocd,      ^ 
M.A.,  of  Triailr  Collet,  Clnbri4».    Cubridsai  Tb* 
Uninnliy  Phh.    ^.ty 


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[Oct.   1 6, 


A  full  analysis  of  the  Gennan  orig;iiial  is 
givea  by  Mr.  Herford,  who  also  traces  in 
detail  the  "Fool  litenture"  of  the  sixteenth 
century  in  England.  Ulenspiegel,  MarkoU, 
and  Friar  Rush  have  a  cb^>ter  to  them- 
selves ;  Grobianus,  a  sensual  Faust,  who 
rcpTeseots  the  meaner  presninptioii  which 
defies  every  precept  of  civil  decorum  and 
suave  usage  in  the  name  of  appetite  and 
Indolence,  is  the  subject  of  the  dosing  pages. 
But  of  course  the  figure  of  most  general 
interest  in  the  whole  work  is  Dr.  Faustus, 
who  "stands  for  the  Titanic  aapjnuion  of 
Humanism  which  repadiates  divine  law  for 
the  sake  of  infinite  power,"  and  who  is 
studied  with  extreme  care  by  our  author, 
Faust's  dealing  with  supernatural  powers 
introduced  a  new  class  of  situations  into 
English  drama,  and  in  Marlowe's  immortal 
FaustMt  captured  the  imagtnation  of  Eng- 
land, and  initiated  a  whole  line  of  pUya. 

Through  this  literature  "of  sorcerers,  of 
jesters,  of  fools,  and  of  Grobians,"  Mr. 
Herford  advances  with  the  step  of  a  man 
thoroughly  at  home  in  all  the  details  of  his 
obscure  subject,  thanks  to  German  learning, 
with  a  fine  sense  of  proportion,  the  keen- 
ness of  a  trained  critic,  and  a  style  which 
in  animation,  firmness,  and  sustained  vigor 
puts  to  shame  the  ordinary  text-books  and 
entitles  him  to  a  rank  among  historians. 
The  modest  title  of  Siuaus  should  not 
conceal  from  students  of  English  literature 
one  of  the  most  thoroughly  finished  and 
effective  histories  of  a  special  epoch  we 
know;  In  its  own  field  it  is  easily  the  first 
and  best  of  English  books. 

UaOB  FIOTIOV. 


The  plot  of  Brottn  Bands  tnnu  on  an  absurd 
■itualion.  Arthur  Wardwell,  x.  man  ostensibly 
of  more  than  ordiwiry  intelligence  and  common 
sense,  is  desperately  in  love  with  Alice  Bralnard. 
He  has  a  rival  in  Philo  D.  Pnrvie,  who  one 
night  a(  the  club  handi  him  a  memorandum  of 
a  business  engagement  written  on  the  back  of 
what  purports  to  tie  a  love-letter  written  by 
Mi*i  Brainard  to  Furvie.  Thereupon  Wardwell, 
without  seeking  any  explanation,  sail*  at 
for  Europe,  sending  back  word  that  he  will 
never  come  tuck.  Of  course  the  letter  is 
clumsy  forgery,  and  of  course  no  end  of  trouble 
ensues,  in  which  two  or  three  lives  are  nearly 
ruined.  But  the  author,  in  the  opening  para, 
graph  of  the  story.  Touches  for  its  irnth,  and 
we  have  no  reason  except  the  absurdity  of  the 
incident  mendoncd,  to  believe  otherwise, 
novel  is  unmistakably  well  written,  and,  althongh 
sensational,  is  not  disagreeable  in  tone. 
interest  is  maintained  and  even  increases  toward 
the  close,  and  the  ending  it  a  pleasant  on 
the  ultra-sympathetic  reader  to  contemplate. 
The  few  characters  are  drawn  with  no  little 
skill,  Jack  Brainard,  the  young  collegian,  being 
particularly  well  done.  The  author  is  m 
successful  in  depicting  feminine  nature  as  with 
that  of  the  opposite  sex.    His  heroine  is  rather 


colorless  and  v^id.  Vet,  In  spite  of  all  these 
defects,  we  regard  SrvJun  Betidt  a*  a  novel 
quite  atrave  the  average  of  current  fiction. 


Ctd  is  a  narrative  of  almost  toe  fragmentary  a 
character  to  deserve  the  name  of  novel.    The 
sketches  of  life  at  West  Point  are  vivid  enough 
be  true,  and  they  are   full   of  drollery  and 
fun.    Indeed,  we  fancy  that  the  central  theme 
is  merely  a   thread   upon  which  to   hang  this 
series   of   atriking  pictures.      Wirt   Kenyan  is 
cut"  by  his  class  because  lie  refuse*  to  sutanit 
1  the  cadet  code  of  honor  by  fighting  to  avenge 
n  insult.    The  refusal  is  due  to  a  promise  given 
to  hi*  grandmother,  a  Friend,  and  in  spile  of  the 
atrodons  indignities  heaped  upon  him  by  some 
of  his  classmates,  he  holds  firmly  to  his  declared 
purpose.    Tlien  the  war  breaks  out,  and   Wirt 
Kenyon  rites  to  the  rank  of  division  commandei 
leaving  upon  the   minds  of   his  former  perse- 
cutors no  doubts  as  to   his  bravery.    A  lo 
affair    runt   through    the    book,  but  the  nu 
motive  of  the  story  we  have  relaied.    For  ot 
selves,  we  find  it  hard  to  believe  that  a  worn: 
like  Mrs.  Kenyon,  opposed  to  all  resort  of  v 
leuce  for  the  overcoming  of  evil,  would  alli 
her  ward  to  enter  a  military  academy  —  a  si 
which   in   this  story  she   is  made   distinctly 
favor.      Mr.  Cervus  is  a  keen  analyst  of  chi 
and   a  vigorous   writer.     His  books  a 
always  welcome,  and  Cat,  if  not  equal  in  me 

iVkitt   Ftatitri,  is  a  thoroughly    readable 
book. 


r.  Her  Otim  Way. 


Way.    By 

:o.    jLiji 


7^t  Hattte  at  Cragtu  is  a  domestic  ttory, 
quietly  told  notwittistanding  the  character  of 
the  Incidents.  It  deal*  mainly  with  the  fortunes 
of  Blanche  Braddington,  a  handsome  girl, 
by  her  love  for  luxury,  permits  herself  to  marry 

rid  and  fascinating  scoundrel  only  to  find 
that  her  supposed   husband  has  a  wife  in  an 
Insane  asylum.     "Hien  the  deceived  one  goes 
back  to  her  seaside   home  to  work  out  her 
pillion.    The  other  personage*  in  the  book 

somewhat  familiar  type  —  a  long -suffering 
husband)  a  shrewish  wife;  a  sensible  yonng 
an ;  and  two  or  three  manly  young  fellows, 
alt  at  first  in  love  with  Blanche,  and  then  trans- 
ferring their  affections  without  much  ado  t 
aisler.  The  story,  on  the  whole  commonplace. 
Is  too  persistently  didactic  to  attract  reader*  who 
believe  life  teaches  its  own  lesscais  without  the 
aid  of  forced  and  narrow  interpretations. 

Lit  Frh-u  Celetnbt.  Par  Georges  de  Peyre- 
brune.     [William  R.  Jenkins,     35  cents.] 

M.  Georges  de  Peyrebrune's  exquisite  tale  of 
La  Frirti  Cflaribe  is  a  welcome  addition  of 
Mr.  Jenkins's  well-choscn  "Contea  Choiaea.' 
The  Colombe  brothers  are  two  amiable,  elderly  '■ 
provincial*  whose  estates  become  impoverished, 
and  who  seek  to  retrieve  their  fortunes  by  em- 
ployment in  official  bureaat  in  Paris.  They  live 
in  a  frugal  way,  one  of  the  brothers  acting  as 
cook  and  housekeeper,  and  they  draw  up  a  cal- 
endar enumerating  the  days  of  toll  which  will 
end  their  servitude,  and  enable  them  to  return 
to  then  ancestral  home  and  live  upon  their 
incomes.  But  their  plans  are  set  awry  by  a  little 
waif  who  take*  refuge  with  them  and  whom  they 


care  for,  pe^  and  educate,  till,  finally,  grown  into 
a  beautiful  young  woman,  their  ward  marries  a 
young  artist  and  goes  away  with  bim  to  Vienna. 
The  Colonbe  brothers  are  left  lonely  and  im- 
poverished, all  idea  of  a  return  to  their  boy- 
hood's home   long  abandoned.    They  continue 

e  simply  from  halnt.  They  perform  their 
official  duties  with  the  regularity  of  machines. 
The  only  rays  of  sunshine  that  come  into  their 
existence  are  Manon's  happy  letters  from 
Vieniut.  One  night  a  storm-beaten  sparrow  taps 
at  the  window-pane  and  they  admit  the  bird, 
care  for  it,  lavish  upon  it  alt  winter  the  wealth 
of  their  affection-  When  spring  comes  and  the 
windows  are  opened,  the  bird  flies  gayly  away 

'  lo  return,  although  the  two  brothers  watch 
and  wait  lor  many  days.  "  We  ought  not  to 
ipl^n  of  the  decrees  of  (ate,  since  we  have 
been  permitted  to  do  a  little  good  in  the  world," 
says  one  of  the  brothers,  in  a  voice  broken  with 
emotion;  and  the  other  responds,  with  bowed 
head,  "  that  is  very  true." 


Mrs.  DaUgreo  has  evidently  sought  to  achieve 
imethiog  weird  aitd  terrible  In  this  book;  she 
has  socceeded  only  in  being  very  tedious.  The 
theme,  the  concealment  by  a  French  emigrl  at 
his  family  name  from  his  descendants,  and  the 
discovery  of  the  title  by  his  grandson,  might  have 
been  made  of  romantic  interest  if  properly 
eated.  Mrs.  Dahlgren  has  mixed  it  up  with  a 
liodge-podge  of  hysterical  visions  and  impossible 
incidents,  and  the  result  is  anything  but  altract- 
;  it  is  neither  fiction  nor  anything  else  defin- 
able, but  as  it  is  styled  on  the  title-page  a  "nov- 
elette," let  it  pass  for  such  that  we  may  the 
sooner  be  done  with  it. 

SI.  ^ain't  Em,  and  OIker  S/ariet.  By  NikolaV 
Vasilievitch  Gogol.  Translated  from  the  Rus- 
sian by  Isabel  F.  Hapgood.  [T.  Y.  CroweU  & 
Co.    fl.00.] 

Five  lA  Gi^ol'a  short  stories  are  included  in 
this  volume,  and  they  represent  fairly  well  the 
humorous,  satirical,  weird,  and  fantastic  elements 
in  the  genius  of  the  author.  "  Si-  John's  Eve  " 
i*  a  tale  of  diablerie  such  as  only  genius  could 
produce,  altliough  it  i*  without  doubt  founded 
upon  some  little  Russian  legend,  as  indeed  are  all 
the  stories  included  in  the  collection  to  which 
Gogol  gave  the  title  of  Evtningi  at  I  At  Farm. 
Three  of  these  are  given  here,  including,  besides 
the  one  already  mentioned,  "Old-Fashioned 
Farmer* "  and  "  How  the  Two  Ivans  Quar- 
relled," the  former  describing  with  masterly 
touches  of  humor  and  pathos  the  lives  of  an  aged 
couple  who  existed  only  to  minister  to  one 
another's  comfort,  the  latter  a  droll  picture  of 
village  life.  In  "  The  Portrait "  we  have  a  vivid 
account  of  ruined  talent,  the  possessor  of  great 
gifts  as  an  artist  surrendering  his  ideals  for  the 
pursuit  of  wealth  and  luxury.  Incidentally  there 
is  a  blow  at  the  realists-  Nature  is  degraded, 
says  Gogol  in  substance,  by  him  who  strives  to 
depict  her  in  any  aspect  without  the  illuminating 
power  of  sympathy.  "The  Cloak,"  the  closing 
story  in  the  series,  is  a  carefully  satirical  study  of 
official  life  in  St.  Petersburg,  but  Gogol  never 
allow*  his  satirical  purpose  to  blind  him  to  the 
human  qualities  of  bis  characters.  Akakiy 
Akakievitch  is  brought  before  us  in  all  his 
shabby  gentility  and  with  his  patient  ettdurance 


1886.] 


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35  > 


of  Mrttle  toil  finely  emphatized.  The  book  is 
pat  into  excellent  Engliah,  u  one  might  expect 
from  the  name  ot  th«  (ruuUtor,  and  its  unique 
flavor  will  commend  it  to  thoM  who  seek  for 
something  above  the  level  of  onUoair  fiction. 

7Xr  Sou  Girl,  aitd  Other  SieUhtt.  By  Juaes 
Wliitcomb  Rile*.  pndianapoJtt ;  The  Boweu- 
Merrill  Co.] 

The  exterior  of  this  book  with  iu  list  of  titles 
in  a  setting  of  fandfal  illustrations  is  far' from 
templing,  but  the  interior  reveals  good  paper 
and  type  and  ample  margins,  with  a  tasteful 
enongh  arrangement  of  alternate  poems  and  prose 
pieces,  the  verse  bearing  some  relation  to  the 
pioie  which  follows.  "  Character  sketches  "  the 
author  very  properly  terms  them,  and  the  boot- 
black in  The  Bast  Girl,  the  preacher's  boy 
"Tod,"  the  wise  girl  in  Where  is  Mary  Alice 
Smith  tmttATht  Bey  from  Zeeny  are  in  their  way 
as  fresh  and  vigorous  portrayals  as  anything  in 
Bret  Hirte,  genuine  flesh-and -blood,  boy-and 
girl  impishncss,  with  an  undertone  of  pathos,  all 
true  to  human  nature ;  while  teverat  of  the 
poems  have  a  lilt  like  the  old  ballads,  with  an 
original  Western  dash  and  flavor  about  them. 
Thoroughly  American  and  local,  these  spirited 
pieces  were  well  worth  putting  into  book  form. 

Miss  MetiHda's  Opptrtut 
bell.    [Roberts  Brothers. 

ThU  is  a  book  to  awaken  rich  women  of  leisure 
to  a  sense  of  their  obligations  to  working  girl*, 
while  at  the  same  time  it  indicates  to  the  latter 
class  ways  and  means,  plans  and  contrivances,  by 
which  with  a  little  skill  and  tatle  they  can  make 
homes  for  themselves,  and  homes,  too,  which 
shall  be  attractive  and  lovely.  The  main  pur- 
pose, however,  is  to  tell  the  story  of  the  develop- 
ment of  certain  experiraenu  and  arrangements 
into  what  became  eventually  a  kind  of  woildng 
girl's  gnild.  As  told  by  this  sanguine  and  per- 
suasive author,  such  an  institution  in  almost  any 
quarter  of  a  large  city  is  wholly  practicable  ;  and 
if  one,  then  why  not  an  indefinite  number  —  as 
many  as  there  ars  wise,  kindly  women,  willing 
lend  a  hand  to  their  establishment?  The  luggi 
don  conveyed  in  that  cooperative,  home  life  for 
young  working  girls  is  an  admirable  one  ;  and 
the  plan  of  establishing  places  for  cheap,  whole- 
some lunches  of  home-made  food  instead  of  de- 
pending on  restaurants,  is  even  belter,  and  can 
be  carried  out  whenever  and  wherever  the  right 
persons  are  ready  to  make  Mrs.  Campbell's  ideal 
—  is  it  an  ideal  with  tier?  —  a  comfortable  and 
saving  reality. 

A  SlepAiidi.  By  Charlotte  Donning.  [Hough- 
ton, Mifflin  Si  Co.    fi.a;.] 

The  writer  who  styles  herself  Charlotte  Dun- 
ning—  wc  believe  that  is  a  part  of  her  name  —  has 
achieved  that  difficult  and  unusual  point  of  lit- 
ertuT  progress  —  a  successful  second  novel,  tier 
first  book,  Upeit  a  Cast,  was  estimated  ID  these 
colanins  last  year  as  "a  powerfnl  story,"  but 
power  was  in  somewhat  coarse  forms.  A  Step 
jttsiit  is  in  some  respects  a  step 
its  predecessor,  whose  power  it  reproduces,  but 
in  forms  that  ate  delicate.  Its  characteristic  is 
what  in  instrumentation  would  be  called  Itwch. 
Its  basis  is  observation.  Its  secret  is  the  elabo- 
ration of  a  simple  theme.  The  story  moves  with 
It  deliberateness  which  awakens  the  reader' 
Jmpatience ;  he  soon  becomes  eager  to  turn  the 


pagei 


faster,  to  hasten  to  the  denouement.    This 


erit  in  fiction.  Rare  naturalness  of  char- 
acter and  converaation,  and  singular  fidelity  in 
descriptioa  —  the  realism  of  Cmth  —  are  striking 
traits.  The  subject  is  somewhat  sad,  but  it  is 
pleasantly  treated.  The  book  is  of  a  kind  and 
quality  that  we  hesitate  to  give  much  of  an  in- 
tight  of  it  It  it  a  New  York  story,  and  it  does 
Fifth  Avenue  and  First  Avenue  to  the  life. 
Hontieur  Valrey  is  a  portrait;  Pauline  hb 
daughter  a  miniature;  Miss  Berryan  a  study; 
Hugh  Langmuir  and  Gilbert  Prosper  are  scarcely 
less  solid  and  actual.    Who  that  knows  the  city 

lot  been  in  just  such  a  boardinghonse  as 
Mrs.  Terry's  in  Harloe  Row?  The  pleasantry 
with  which  this  story  is  written,  the  pathos  of  it, 
its  extreme  naturalness,  the  minuteness  and 
nicety  of  it*  workmanship,  the  combined  vivacity 
and  tenderness  with  which  it  is  written,  its 
thorough  and  true  feeling,  the  art  in  it,  the 
artlessnest  of  it,  the  wholesome  moral  in  it,  the 
feminine  refinement  and  sweetne**  of  it  all,  lift  it 
above  the  current  Not  stirring  nt  with  pro- 
found passions  and  tragic  situations,  it  yet  in- 
terests and  absorbs,  and  is  in  every  way  a  desir- 
able novel  to  read.  But  Pauline  Valrey  was  a 
very  weak  young  woman. 

AW  (■«  the  Protfitctw,  by  Parke  Danfoith,  is  a 
fresh  and  bright  little  story  of  incidents  and 
events  attending  the  progress  of  a  "personally 
conducted  "  party  of  Americans  through  Europe. 
The  foibles  and  idiosyncrasies  of  some  of  the 
parly  are  capitally  done,  and  the  leading  charac- 
lers  are  all  drawn  with  appreciation.  It  was  the 
persistent  suit  of  a  ponderous  Western  college 
president  for  the  hand  of  Miss  Anstice  Morley, 
an  acddeni  which  kept  that  young  woman  for 
some  weeks  an  invalid  in  a  Swiss  village,  and  a 
consequent  meeting  with  Dr.  Edmund  Wolaey, 
with  sundry  other  events  of  interest,  which  were 
//at  in  the  Proiptctus,  and  which  the  author  has 
set  forth  with  quiet  humor.  [Houghton,  Mifliin 
&  Co.    50c.] 

73^  £<n(f  £aw,  by  Ethel  Coxen,  is  an  Engli 
story  of  an  artist  sketching  on  the  Cornish  coast, 
where  he  meets  a  lady.  Acquaintance  ensues 
and  ripens  into  attachment.  Then  it  comes  out 
that  the  lady  Is  a  wife  who  has  left  her  hus- 
band, and  that  that  husband  is  the  artist's  old 
friend.  Then  the  artist  goes  to  work  to  induce 
her  to  go  back  to  her  husband,  and  after  awhile 
succeeds.  The  story  is  pleasantly'  written. 
[Harper's  Handy  Series,    ajc.] 


imrOR  H0TI0E8. 

Tlu  PhiUitphy  af  Words.  A  Popular  Intro- 
duction to  the  Science  of  Language.  By  Fred- 
eric Garlanda,  Ph.D.    [A.  Lovell  S  Co.J 

This  concise  manual  impresses  us  as  being 
an  admirable  introduction  to  the  science  of  lan- 
guage. The  author  has  full  command  of  his 
facta ;  he  has  no  pet  theories  to  celebrate ;  the 
arrangement  it  excellent ;  the  general  view  com- 
prehensive, yet  there  is  an  abundance  of  illus- 
trative detail;  and  the  Ityle  is  simple,  clear, 
readable.  The  introductory  chapter  brings  out 
distinctly  the  fundamental  truth  that  the  evolu- 
tion of  language  is  a  "  progressive  idealization," 
and  something  is  shown  of  the  methods  of  scien- 
tific comparison  and  analysis  to  establish  this 
law  of  development,  the  examples  being  suffi- 
ciently varied  to  throw  light  upon  phonetic  lawi 
— a  snbject  which  la  further  elucidated  in  the 


sncMeding  chapter.  The  general  characterbtlcs 
of  the  English  language  are  then  unfolded ; 
and  chapters  follow  on  comparative  grammar, 
the  history  of  the  tcience  of  language,  the  qnes* 

of  the  origin  of  language,  comparative  my- 
thology, languages,  and  races,  and  the  inpor- 
of  the  scientific  study  of  language  to  edu- 
cation. Dr.  Garlanda  takes  issue  with  Max 
Miiller's  theory  of  laziness  aa  explanatory  of 
phonetic  decay  and  substitutes  therefor  the  more 

inable  theory  of  ethnological  adaptation. 
The  emphasis  laid  upon  the  value  of  the  historico- 
comparaiive  method  in  the  study  of  grammar 
ought  10  have  a  salutary  effect  in  hastenii^  the 
period  when  in  our  public  schools  "the  study 
of  language  will  become  a  matter  of  reason- 
ing rather  than  of  memory."  In  closing  Dr. 
Garlanda  gives  us  an  inkling  of  what  the  diction- 
ary of  the  future  will  be  — its  words  classified  by 
"Lexicology,"  he  says,  "awaits  its  Lin- 
UKUS,  and  it  will  have  him." 

A  Handbook  tf  Paliiics  for  18S6.  By  the  Hon. 
Edward  McPherson.  [Washington:  J.  J.  Chap- 
Opening  this  green  covered  octavo  of  247 
pages  we  find  among  it*  contents  such  matter  at 
the  following :  lists  oE  Senators  and  Represent- 
ives  in  Congress,  and  of  President  Arthur's 
and  Cleveland's  Cabinets ;  last  messages  of 
both  Presidents;  important  bills  passed  and 
voles  recorded  by  the  last  Congress  and  the 
present ;  executive  and  legislative  action  on  sus- 
pensions from  office  ;  the  Fiti-John  Porter  bill ; 
the  educational  bill ;  the  Utah  bill ;  the  Pension 
legislation;  all  action  on  Labor  questions;  the 
Oleomargarine  debate  and  enactment ;  and  a  list 
□f  Mr.  Cleveland's  115  vetoes  to  dale.  Judging 
by  some  of  the  newspapers  the  particulars  of 
Mrs.  Cleveland's  trousseau  and  the  itinerary 
□f  the  excursion  to,  the  Adirondacks  ought  to 
have  been  included,  but  they  arc  not.  T'here  is 
a  full  index  to  this  collection  of  official  facts, 
figures,  and  documents. 

The  LumiHi/ermi  jEther.  By  De  Volson 
Wood,   C.E.M.A.     Reprinted,   with   Additions, 

from  the  Phitosofhieal Magcaim.  [Van  Nostrand.] 

This  is  No.  85  of  Van  Nostrand's  "Science 
Series."  The  extraordinary  properties  of  the 
Bther  and  its  unquestionable  differences  from 
all  other  solid  and  gaseous  bodies  have  frequently 
led  to  the  most  extraordinary  hypotheses  and 
extraordinary  Inference*.  It  has  been  said  for 
example  to  be  mote  solid  than  steel,  as  well  as 
more  fiuid  than  hydt<^iL  It  has  been  assured 
to  be  a  fluid  absolutely  homogeneous  and  con- 
linnont,  under  an  almost  infinite  pressure,  whose 
parts  moved  among  themselves  absolutely  with- 
out friction ;  and  whose  moving  parts,  in  the  form 
of  vortex  rings,  constituted  the  atoms  of  matter. 
In  contrast  with  all  this,  Mr.  Wood  ask* 
what  would  be  the  rigidly  mathematical  conse- 
quences of  assuming  the  aether  to  be  a  gat, 
possesung  the  two  best  established  properties 
of  the  aether;  namely,  of  carrying  waves  of  light 
186,300  miles  a  second ;  and  of  conveying,  by 
beat,  133  foot  pounds  per  square  foot  each  sec- 
ond, to  the  surface  of  the  earth.  These  conse- 
quences are,  some  of  them,  startling  enough ; 
bat,  in  Mr.  Wood's  opinion,  are  more  accordant 
with  the  analogies  of  physics  than  the  usual 
hypotheses.  To  the  essay  are  added  some 
striking  selections  from  Clerk  Maxwell,  S^T<d- 
ver  Preston,  and  Sir  Isaac  Newton.  O 


353 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Oct.  1 6, 


The  Literary  World, 


BOSTON,  OCTOBER  \6.  1886. 


HOKE    PTIBUSHEES'    AKHOUXOE- 
HEVTS. 

The  lilt  of  Charles  Scribner'i  Sou'  new  and 
forthcoming  publications  Opens  vith  aa  official 
announcement  oE  the  new  Stribntr'i  Magaaiiit, 
the  first  number  of  which  will  bear  dale  of  Janu- 
ary, 1SS7.  It  is  to  be  published  monthly  with 
illustratioDB.  The  price  of  the  magaxine  will  be 
twentj'five  cents  per  copy,  or  thcce  dollars  a 
year.  A  History  tftht  Frituk  Ramtvluai,  by  H. 
Morse  Stephens,  in  three  volnmet,  represents 
Dtaay  years'  research  and  study,  and  the  result  ii 
a  mats  of  (reah  material  now  Incorporated  for  the 
first  time  into  a  history.  The  book  attracted  not 
only  exceptional  interest  and  attention  apon  its 
appearance  in  London,  bat  universal  praise  from 
critics  and  historians  alilce.  Tlu  Hitttry  of  tki 
/tamoH  Prtvirutt,  from  the  time  of  Cxsar  to 
that  of  Diocletian,  translated  by  Dr.  W.  P.  Dick- 
son from  the  German  of  Professor  Theodor 
Mommsen,  is  in  two  volumes,  crown  Svo,  with 
maps.  A  second  volume  of  the  Cyclopedia  ej 
Painltrt  and  Paintiiigi  will  be  published  at  once. 
Among  its  full-page  illustration*  in  photogravure 
will  be  reproductions  of  paintings  by  Rossetti, 
MeisBonier,  Jule*  Bi^ton,  Pavis  de  Chsvannes, 
Bastien- Lepage,  and  Sir  Frederick  Leighton. 
Only  five  hundred  copies  are  to  be  printed.  In 
Till  Huguenttt  and  HiHry  of  Navarri,  Profes- 
sor Henry  M.  Baird  of  the  University  of  New 
York,  author  of  Tht  History  of  the  Site  of  the 
Huguenots  of  France,  gives  an  account  of  the 
persistent  struggle  of  the  French  Huguenots  to 
secure  a  fair  degree  of  religious  liberty,  such  a* 
they  finally  attained  in  the  Edict  of  Nantes;  fif- 
teen years  o[  the  struggle  (15M-15S9)  falling  in 
the  reign  of  their  deadly  enemy,  Henry  III,  and 
nine  more  (1589-1598)  in  the  reign  of  the  friendly 
Henry  of  Navarre,  now  known  in  history  as 
Henry  IV  of  France.  The  book  narrates  the 
story  of  the  heroic  and  unflinching  determination 
which  finally  secured  the  Edict  of  Nantes,  the 
last  chapter  giving  a  sketch  of  the  halcy<»  days 
of  Protestantism  in  Prance  under  the  Edict,  and 
down  to  the  death  of  Henry  IV.  The  work, 
while  distinct  in  itself,  I*  supplementary  to  the 
author's  The  Site  of  tht  Hugnenett  of  Frai 
General  Francis  A.  Walker,  late  Superioiendcnt 
of  the  Census,  and  Adj.-General  United  States 
Volunteers,  who  served  through  the  war  with  the 
famous  Second  Army  Corps,  has  written  a 
tory  of  that  famous  corps,  which  will  also  be  pub- 
lished by  the  Scribners.  Excellent  full-page 
portraits  of  each  of  the  corps  commanders 
succession  are  given,  and  portraits  in  groups  of 
the  brigade  commanders,  in  all  thirty-two 
traits,  made  especially  for  the  book.  In  Tlu 
Meisianic  Prapkeey,  Charles  Augoslus  Briggs, 
D.Dq  professor  in  the  Union  Tbeolt^ical  Semi- 
nary, gives  us  a  critical  study  of  Ibe  Messianic 
prophesies  of  the  Old  Testament  in  the  order  of 
their  development,  the  result  of  profound  study 
and  high  scholarship.  The  author  is  well  known 
as  an  authority  on  all  that  relates  to  Old  TesU- 
nient  study,  and  his  work  is  one  which  is  sure  to 
attract  universal  attention  among  Biblical  schol- 


ars. A  ready  welcome  will  be  extended  to  a  new 
work  on  Otir  Arctit  Praoiiut,  Alatka,  and  tilt 
SaU  Islands.  The  author,  Mr.  Henry  W.  Elliott, 
has  been  connected  for  many  years  with  the 
Smithsonian  Institute  at  Waahii^ton.  A  scien- 
tist and  a  naturalist,  he  spent  MZ  or  seven  years 
in  studying  Alsska  and  it*  people,  traveling  from 
the  most  southerly  point  of  the  province  to  the 
most  northerly,  along  the  coast,  and  among  the 
islands  extending  300  miles  to  the  west.  The 
illustrations,  of  which  there  are  about  a  htmdred, 
are  engraved  from  the  author's  original  drawings 
and  water-color  paintings.  In  Dowh  the  Islands, 
A  Crvist  to  the  Caribbtet,  Mr.  William  Agnew 
Paton  describes  a  journey  through  the  British 
Guiana  Islands,  Bubadoet,  St.  Kitts,  Antigua, 
Trinidad,  and  other  of  the  Windward  Islands. 
He  has  written  entirely  from  personal  observa- 
tions, and  an  interesting  feature  will  be  descrip- 
tions  of  the  life,  manners,  and  customs  of  the 
natives,  the  Hindoo  Coolies,  and  the  negroes. 
Mr.  Paton  also  treats  of  the  commercial  relations 
of  the  Caribbees  and  the  United  Stales  —  a  sub- 
ject just  now  of  timely  interest-  A  new  book  is 
promised  from  "  J.  S.  of  Dale,"  author  of  Guem- 
dalt,  and  T\i  Crime  of  Henry  Vane.  It  is  enti- 
tled TTie  Sentimental  Calendar,  and  consist*  of 
twelve  striking  stories  by  the  author,  stories 
which,  by  their  quaintness,  literary  finish,  and 
altogether  unique  character,  have  already  taken 
their  place  among  the  best.  A  number  now  ap- 
pear in  print  for  the  first  time.  The  book  is 
beautifully  printed  by  De  Vinne.  Mr.  Frank 
Byron  Jevons's  History  of  Creek  Literaiute  is 
already  published.  Closely  following  it  will 
come  Talis  wUi  Socrates  aiout  Life,  by  the  au- 
thor of  Socrates  and  A  jCoy  in  Athens  toith  Sac- 
rales.  The  rest  of  Messrs.  Scribner's  Sons' 
announcements  are  anticipated  by  actual  publi- 
cation, Mr.  Champl ill's  Chronicle  of  the  Coath, 
Mr.  Benjamin's  Age  of  Electricity,  Mr.  Timaye- 
jtWa  Contet  Tires  de  Shakespeare,  a.tiA  Mrs.  Bur- 
nett's Little  Lord  Fatintltrey  having  come  to 
hand.  So  also  have  the  two  volumea  of  Mr. 
Stockton's  Stories,  Mr.  Drake's  The  MakiMg  of 
Hew  England,  Mr.  Holder's  book  about  the  ele- 
phant, entitled  The  Ivory  Xing,  and  Brander 
Hattbews's  TTie  Secret  of  the  Sea.  Manners 
Makytk  Man  Is  a  new  book  by  the  author  of 
Hoa  to  be  Happy  Though  Married,  with  chapters 
on  Good  Manners,  Woman's  Work  —  to  Ptease, 
Mind  Who  You  Marry,  Keeping  Up  Appear- 
ances, Traveling  with  Advantage,  Only  Temper, 
Vital  Force,  Distinguished  Service  in  Passion, 
The  Wisdom  of  the  Foolish,  "God  Almighty's 
Gentleman,"  Matrimonial  Manners,  Family  Gov- 
ernment, Money  is  Character,  Conversation, 
Only  Trifles,  Success  in  Ufe,  What  is  Religion, 
The  Wise  Man's  Conclusion,  Wanted  —  A  Man, 
A  Husband-and-Wife  Mutual  Improvement  So- 
ciety, Vainglorious  Housekeeping,  About  Read- 
ing, Tippling,  Misapplied  Virtues,  In  All  Time 
of  Our  Wealth,  How  Do  You  Do?  Readers  of 
the  author's  earlier  book  will  welcome  this  new 
one  very  heartily.  The  Speaker's  Commentary  is 
to  be  re-issued  in  1  new  and  attractive  style, 
complete  in  ten  volumes,  at  f  3.00  per  volume.  A 
volume  of  Children's  Stories  of  American  Prog- 
ress, by  Henrietta  Christian  Wright,  touches 
upon  the  important  events  in  our  history 
graphic  way  so  as  to  firmly  impress  Ihem  upon 
the  minds  of  young  readers.  The  book  is  a  com- 
panion volume  to  Miss  Wright's  Children's  Sto- 
ries in  American  History,  published  last  year. 


Mr.  Edmund  Alton,  author  of  Among  the  Law- 
MaJttrs,  was  for  four  years  a  Senatorial  page.  In 
his  volume,  believed  to  be  the  first  record  of 
veritable  Congiessional  experiences  ever  made 
by  a  boy  for  boys,  he  conducts  bis  reader* 
IhrOQgh  the  rooms  and  corridors  of  the  Capitol 
the  balls  of  Congress,  to  witness  the  memo- 
rable scenes  which  are  enacted  there.  With  a 
description  of  many  stirring  incidents  and  humor- 
episodes  there  is  given  much  valuable  fn- 
fonnation  concerning  the  theory  of  our  Govern- 
ment and  its  modes  of  procedure,  told  so  simply 
that  yoimg  people  may  understand  It  readily- 
The  illustrations  are  numerous.  Prince  Peerless 
is  a  fairy  folk  story  book,  by  Margaret  Collier, 
illustrated  by  John  Collier,  the  author's  brother, 
a  fanoua  English  painter.  The  Rescue  of  Gredy, 
by  Commander  W.  S.  Schley,  U.  S.  N,  and  Prot 
J.  H.  Soley,  U.S.N.,  is  to  appear  in  a  popular 
edition;    and  Jules  Vemis  Works  in  a  new  and 

ifonn  edition  of  9  vols.,  8vo,  with  over  750  full- 
page  illustrations,  at  {17.50  for  the  set.  Finally 
attention  should  be  called  to  The  Presbyterian 
Reviett,  published  quarterly  on  the  first  of  Janu- 
ary, April,  July,  October,  which  the  Boston  Her- 
aldhaa  called  "the  strongest  religious  quarterly 
in  America ;  "  Lei  Lettres  el  Les  Arts,  published 
monthly,  with  its  superb  illustrations  in  photo- 
gravure, etching,  and  wood  engraving;  and  The 
Book  Buyer  Christmas  Annual,  whose  chief  illus- 
trations will  be  printed  in  colors  on  ivory-finished 
paper.  The  cover  will  also  be  printed  tn  two 
colors.  The  illastrations  have  been  selected 
with  great  care,  and  many  well-known  writers 
have  been  engaged  to  contribute  the  reviews, 
among  whom  are;  Miss  Louisa  M.  Alcott,  Mr. 
H.  C.  Bunner,  Mrs.  Burton  Harrison,  Mr.  George 
Parsons  Lathrop,Miss  Edith  Thomas,  and  Ham- 
ilton W.  Mabie. 

The  Fowler  *  Wells  Co.  wilt  poblish  two  prac- 
tical handbooks  in  special  lines:  How  to  Teach 
Vocal  Music,  a  manual  for  teachers  in  class  or 
private  instruction,  and  ffoio  to  Become  a  Reporter, 
by  A.  M.  Baker,  an  expert  stenographer.  This 
company  has  become  publisher  of  the  American 
Kindergarten  and  Primary  Teacher. 

Thomas  Whittaker  is  about  issuing  Religion  a 
Revelation  and  a  Rule  of  Life,  hy  Ibe  Rev.  Will- 
iam  Kirkus,  of  Baltimore,  who  has  won  a  reputa- 
tion asaneditotandakeen  and  profound  thinker. 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Henry  Fiulknrr  Darnell,  the 
rector  of  Zton  Church,  Avon,  N.  V.,  and  author 
of  A  Psalm  of  Praise  and  Songs  of  the  Seasons, 
has  in  preparation  a  story  of  English  clerical  and 
sodal  life  called  Philip  Hatlebrotk. 

Lee  ft  Shepaid  issue  this  fall  a  volume  of 
engravings  from  drawings  by  Irene  E,  Jerome, 
under  the  odd  title.  Natures  Hallelujah,  and  a 
portfolio  of  Ja/-r^/>^ prints  from  the  designs  for 
tiles  made  by  J.  G.  and  J.  F.  Low,  entitled  PlasHe 
Sketches.  In  fiction  Lee  ft  Shepard  will  publish 
Foes  ef  her  Household,  hy  Amanda  H.  Douglas, 
A  Boston  GirPs  Ambition,  by  Virginia  F.  Towns- 
end  ;  and,  in  books  for  young  people,  All  Taut, 
by  Oliver  Optic  i  The  Little  MasUr  and  His  One 
Fault,  two  stories,  by  J.  T.  Trowbridge ;  Voung 
Folks'  Pictures  and  Stories  of  Animals,  in  MS 
fully  illustrated  volumes,  by  Mrs.  Sanborn  Teit- 
ney;  and  Young  Folks'  History  of  Ireland,  by 
George  M.  Towle.  Of  scientific  or  technical 
nature  are  The  Book  of  Eloquence,  edited  by 
Charles  Dudley  Warner ;  How  Shall  I  Teach 
my  Child!  and  Psychology  in  Education,  two  man- 
uals by  Louisa  Parsons  Hopkins.     In  poetry  th^ 


1886.] 


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promite  Tennytoa's  Dor4s,  illnftTated  b;  W.  L. 
Taylor ;  also  the  "  Illiutrated  Serle*  of  Fa*orile 
Hrmm,  Ballads,  and  Pocma,"  oow  nambering 
•lateen  volumes,  in  varloos  new  tXjSst  of  binding, 
among  which  the  "  imperial  antique,"  the  "  rajra] 
plush,"  and  the  "embtoideredatlk"  will  compete 
for  papular  faTor,  There  will  alM  be  a  "Golden 
Miniature  "  series,  made  up  of  aiz  of  the  books 
reduced  to  "  Test-pocket "  size,  with  all  the  orig- 
ioal  illustrations  retained. 

S.  C.  Griggs  &  Com  Chicago,  have  in  press 
a  complete  edition  of  the  poema  of  Benjamin  F. 
Taylor,  who  "has  won  a  national  rcpoUtion  as 
the  poet  of  the  home  and, the  fireside,"  and  is 
well  known  as  the  anthor  of  7»*  lah  aftki  Long 
Ago,  A  Winltr  Pialm,  Ah  Old  Tiau  PUturt,  and 
other  poems,  that  have  became  almost  claasic 
It  wtll  be  a  "  popular  edition,"  finely  printed  and 
tastefully  bound,  and  will  contain  an  excellent 
portrait  of  Mr.  Taylor  from  a  painting  by  Healy. 
George  J.  Coombes,  275  f^ifth  Avenue,  New 
Yoik,  makes  a  specialty  of  a  certain  refined 
elegance  and  an  antique  style  in  the  externals 
of  bocks.  He  has  in  preparation  the  following 
works  of  interest  to  lovers  of  the  drama  1  Memnrr 
»/Jb»H  McCfiletk;  Mtmain  o/Lawraui  Bar- 
ritt;  Tht  Wellack  Family  of  Acton ;  Tki  Life 
and  Labourt  cf  Edtnn  Beolk  ;  Ettayi 
Acting  ef  Elltn  Trrry,  and  TTte  Slagi  Lift  qJ 
Adelaide  Jifeiltan.  The  same  pablifher  will  bane 
shortly  7Tu  LM-g7ieat,»aKim  of  illustrated  sod ely 
sketches,  by  S.  W.  Van  Schalk  and  J.  K.  Bangs, 
in  oblong  izmo ;  and  Imfniiiimi  im  Paintiiig, 
by  Alfred  Stevens,  translated,  with  the  author's 
permission,  by  Charlotte  Adauu.  He  promises 
also  Balzac's  Tbiet  Befart  Supper,  translated  by 
Myndart  Verelst  aad  uniform  with  ibe  "After- 
Dinner  Stories,"  and  Segtr  Canttrdttn,  deacribed 
briefly  aa  "  a  strange  story ;  "  in  poetry,  BaUadi 
a/  Beeki,  edited  by  Brander  Matlhewa. 

Hessra.  S.  E.  Caasino  Si  Co,  have  In  press 
Precieui  Slmtti  in  Jifaturt,  Art,  and  Litrrature, 
by  S.  M.  Bumham,  which  will  treat  of  rarer 
American  gema,  as  well  as  of  the  better  known. 
A  second  edition  of  Schindler's  Meitianit  Expte- 
taHtm  andifadem  Judaiim  Is  expected,  a  work 
treating  a  subject  generally  very  little  studied,  by 
one  of  the  moat  advanced  liberals  of  modern 
Jewish  teachers.  Mr.  Isaac  Sprague,  the  skillful 
painter  of  flowets,  has  prepared  for  ProL  Good- 
ale'a  work  fifty-one  handsome  colored  plates; 
and  the  publication  of  this  work  in  elegant  atyle 
and  at  low  price  is  now  announced. 

Under  the  title  Tm  Etckingi,  Messrs.  Dodd, 
Head  &.  Co.  will  offer  In  folio  examples  of  the 
etched  work  of  Masse,  Cazanova,  Rhead,  Grave- 
■end,  Jacomb-Hood,  Ballon,  L'Hermitte,  Jacqne- 
mart,  Steele,  and  Veyrassal ;  while  A  Scare  tf 
Etehingi,  containing  work  from  the  moat  cele- 
brated English  eichers,  with  critical  and  descrip- 
tive text  by  Roger  Riordan,  will  appear  Id  a 
second  edition.  Juliet  Corson's  Prcutital  Amtr- 
ieoH  Cetkery  and  Haaiekvld  ManagtiHtnt,  amply 
illiutrated,  is  a  comprehenaive  book,  embodying 
the  laat  results  of  the  snthor's  long  experience  as 
a  writer  and  teacher  of  cookery.  The  same  pub- 
lishers issue  three  juveniles  00  unusual  aub. 
jecta :  Bliu  yacieU  if  '61,  a  History  for  Young 
People  of  the  Navy  in  the  War  of  Secession,  by 
Willis  J.  Abbot,  with  many  illustrations,  mostly 
by  W.  C.  JacksoD  1  Toe  TTieutaHd  Yean  Agt ; 
^,  Til  AdvetUurei  cf  a  Jlmtaa  Bay,  by  Alfred 
J.  Church,  Professor  of  Latin  in  University  Col- 
1^^  London,  and  aothor  of  stories  from  Hoiner, 


Virgil,  Greek  Tragedians,  etc.,  with  illustrations 
by  Adrian  Marie;  Tht  CkUdnn  of  the  Wctk, 
"being  the  honest  and  only  authentic  account  of 
certain  stories  as  related  by  the  Red  Indian  to 
Alexander  Selkirk,  Jr.,  herein  truthfully  aet  down 
by  Wiltiam  Theodore  Peters,  with  picture*  there- 
unto by  Clinton  Peters."  In  fiction  these  pub- 
lishers announce  A  Bland  Dammul,  by  Dante 
Gabriel  Rossetti,  in  laige  quarto,  illustr 
They  say  farther  that  Mrs.  Bart's  new  story, 
dedicated  to  the  Holland  Society  of  New  York, 
and  to  be  published  October  15th,  is  called 
Tke  Baa  of  Orange  RibboH.  The  scene  is  laid 
in  New  YatV  jnst  after  it  comes  into  the  bands 
of  the  English,  and  concerns  itself  with  the  1< 
affairs  of  a  Dutch  maiden  and  an  officer  in 
English  regiment.  As  a  picture  of  colonial 
times  it  is  said  to  be  very  successful,  the  author 
having  given  long  study  to  the  question  of  local 
color.  Mr.  E.  P.  Roe,  in  his  new  story  Hi  Fdl 
in  Leue  toitk  Hii  Wife,  gives  a  plot  of  consider- 
able originality.  It  is,  in  brief,  the  account  of  a 
man  and  wonan,  who,  having  met  with  disap- 
pointments and  reverses,  and  lost  faith  in  hnmi 
nature,  make  a  dvil  marriage  (hat  shall  be 
nurriage  in  name  only,  in  order  that  they  may 
carry  on  together,  and  without  eidting  the  atten- 
tion of  Mrs.  Grundy,  the  work  of  hla  farm.  Each 
possesses  strong  individuality  and  excellence  of 
character,  anc^  thrown  together  thus  intimately, 
their  rapid  progress  towards  esteem  and  love  and 
a  marriage  by  religious  ceremony  is  a  foregone 
conclusion.  At  the  same  time  with  the  issue  of 
He  Fell  in  Loot  nilk  Hit  Wife.  Messrs.  Dodd, 
Mead  &  Co.  bring  out  an  edition  at  fi.jo  of 
Mr.  Roe's  Hatur^t  Serial  Story,  which  has  here- 
tofore been  issued  only  in  illustrated  form  at  f  5 
per  copy,  a  price  which  has  been  practically  pro. 
hibitive  to  many  of  Mr.  Roe's  admirera.  Miss 
Finley,  the  author  of  the  ever  papular  Elsie 
books,  brings  forward  another  volume  in  the 
series,  Elii^i  Kitk  and  Kin,  and  at  the  same 
time  another  volume  in  the  Mildred  series,  JIdil- 
dred't  Boyt  and  Girti.  Mr.  Howard  Seeley, 
whose  Land  Star,  and  Olker  Texan  Talei,  wsa  re- 
issued this  spring  in  larger  form  by  Dodd,  Mead 
&  Co.,  as  A  Ranekman'i  Sioriei,  has  lately  fur- 
nished another  Texan  tiovcl,  entitled  Cyntkia 
Dailat,  a  Hympk  of  tke  C^orado.  Mr.  Seeley 
has  recently  completed  arrangements  with  the 
same  publishers  for  the  issue  of  his  writings  for 
the  next  five  years. 

The  forthcoming  books,  whose  names  have 
reached  us  from  John  Wiley  &  Sons,  are  all  of 
technical  or  sdenlific  nature.  The  following  list, 
ready  shortly,  is  commended  to  the  attention 
of  students.  Robert  Grimshaw's  Steam-Engine 
Cateckiim,  I^irt  II,  containing  answers  to  further 
practical  inquiries  received  since  the  issue  of  the 
first  volume.  (Ready  in  October.)  ElemenU  of 
Geodesy,  exhibiting  in  a  single  volume  the  ptin- 
dples  of  this  sdence,  heretofore  accessible  only 
through  the  examination  of  many  works,  by 
Prof.  J.  H-  Gore,  Colnmlnan  University  ;  Top*- 
graphical  Drawing  and  Sketeking,  includii^  ap- 
plications of  photography,  by  LL  Henry  A- 
Reed,  U.  S.  Military  Academy,  West  Point. 
Illtistrated  with  plates,  colored  and  plain 
[shortly) ;  Text-Boot  ^  Surveying,  for  use  in 
engineering  schools,  etc.,  by  Prof.  J.  B.  Johnson, 
Waahington  University  (shortly) ;  Kinematia, 
or   Practieal   Meckanitm,    Part    II,  a   Treatise 

Transmission  and  Modificadon  of  Motion  and 
ConatTuctioii  of    Mechanical   Movements,  for 


draughtsmen,  machinists,  and  students  of  me- 
chanical engineerbg,  in  which  the  laws  goven^ 
ing  mechanics^  aa  affected  by  fotnis  and  modes 
of  rannection,  are  deduced  by  simple  geometri- 
cal reasoning,  and  their  application  illustrated  bj 
diagrams,  by  Prof.  Chas.  W.  MacCord,  Stevens 
Institute  of  Technology;  TTti  Cat  Engine,  His- 
tory and  Practical  Working,  by  Dugald  Clerk, 
with  100  illustrations  (shortly) ;  Cipker  Code 
of  Rolled  LroH  and  Steel,  containing  a  complete 
lisr,  giving  siic,  thicknesses  and  lengths  of  bar, 
aheet,  plate,  and  shape  of  iron  and  steel  made  by 
each  rolling  mill  in  the  country,  by  Charles  E. 
Billin  ;  7^  Economic  Theory  of  Locating  Rail- 
nays,  a  new  revised  and  enlarged  edition  of 
this  popular  work;  T/u  Meaturement  and  Crtt 
of  EartAmoris,  being  the  ninth  revised  edition 
of  his  work  on  Excmiations  and  Embanhnente, 
which  has  been  to  a  great  extent  re-written,  and 
tables  and  diagrams  for  narrow  gauge  roads  in- 
serted, by  J.  C.  Trautwine  (shortly);  TreiO- 
iie  on  Ike  Diieatei  of  tke  Dog,  with  many  illus- 
trations, b7  John  Henry  Steel,  Royal  Veteri- 
nary College,  London. 

We  receive  from  D.  Lothrop  &  Co.  a  de- 
scription of  special  holiday  books  both  for  grown 
people  and  young  folks.  Their  array  of  costly 
illustrated  volumes  includes  seven  fine  art  issues. 
Foremost  is  the  magnificent  folio.  Idyls  and 
Faslorals,  twenty-four  poems  by  Celia  Thaxter 
written  expressly  for  this  work,  with  as  many 
fac-simiU  photogravures  from  paintings,  water- 
colors,  and  line  drawings  by  eiuinent  American 
and  foreign  artists,  printed  by  hand,  in  colors, 
on  the  finest  imported  India  paper.  The  book 
is  bound  in  vellum,  also  in  embossed  imitation 
of  antique  carved  ivory.  A  popular  edition, 
with  fine  wood  engravings,  is  bound  in  cloth  and 
in  embossed  leather.  Youth  in  Twelve  Cen- 
htriet  is  another  de  luxe  folio,  holding  twenty- 
four  bold  picturesque  drawings  by  Hassam  of 
youthful  race-types  of  both  sexes,  ranging  from 
Egyptian,  1500  B.  C,  down  through  Chines^ 
Greek,  Roman,  Scandinavian,  and  Gallic,  to  the 
Renaissance  of  the  Medici  and  the  American 
Colonial.  These  drawings  are  in  hand-printed 
photogravures  in  twelve  tones,  and  are  accom- 
panied by  twenty-four  poems  by  "M.  £.  B." 
The  book  is  in  Iwo  atyles  of  binding ;  in  rich 
silk  canvas  with  emerald  calf  corners  and  back, 
and  in  linen  fabric  in  photogravures  with  mystic 
design.  A  popular  edition  of  the  same,  with 
wood  engravings,  is  bound  in  fine  cloth.  7^ 
Minule  Man,  by  Margaret  Sidney,  is  a  ballad 
of  "the  shot  heard  round  (he  world;"  it  ha* 
drawings  by  Sandham  printed  with  the  text,  also 
strong  water-color  and  three  historic  Concord 
lews  in  toned  pbotogtavutes ;  The  Modem 
Jew:  Hit  Present  and  His  Future,  by  Anna  L. 
es,  is  an  essay  with  all  the  romance  of  a 
story,  full  of  dramatic  force;  Last  Evening 
With  Allslan.  and  Other  Papert,  by  Elizabeth  P. 
Peabody,  is  a  book  to  be  read  not  only  for  its 
own  merits  but  from  personal  interest  in  the 
author.  In  fiction  this  firm  announce  The  Full 
Stature  of  a  JIfan :  A  Life  Story,  by  Julian  Warth, 
dealing  with  the  labor  question  and  other  sub- 
jects of  popular  interest  which  enhance  the 
charm  of  Ibe  story —  in  itself  a  strong  one  ;  also 
Grafenbarg  People,  Fiction  but  Fact,  by  Rcuen 
Thomas,  one  of  those  quaint  stories  that  recall 
Mitford's  quiet  sketches.  A  choice  vol- 
ume of  short  stories  for  adults  is  included  in  the  ^ 
h^iday   lis^  Httkr,  and  Olker  Hew  Engiand 


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Sttrrut,  by  Margaret  Sidney,  in  artistic  cover 
designed  by  Urs.  Henry  Wbitmui.  This  fum' 
liat  of  JDTeniles  Is  very  full.  Of  permanent  and 
educational  value  for  young  fotka  are  Staria 
/ram  AKurkan  Hislety,  by  Pansy;  Rial  Fairy 
Faiit,  by  Lucy  J.  Rider;  J^y  Land  and  fVater 
Fritndt,  by  Mary  E.  Bamford  |  Nelly  Marlirw 
in  ffaiiingtini,  by  Laura  D.  Nichols,  describiof; 
some  of  the  wonder*  of  chemistry ;  7^  Siary 
Baek  af  Scimte,  by  Mn.  Lydia  Hoyt  Fanner ; 
SUriti  ef  Fortign  Lmidt,  by  Pansy  ;  and  Aiivtitl- 
uni  af  Calumbui,  by  Mrs.  F.  A.  Humphrey. 
Besides  these  there  are  two  new  "  Wonder 
Stories,"  additional  volumes  in  the  series  of  thai 
name ;  the  first,  gtoiies  of  history,  and  the 
second,  of  traveL  Young  readers  will  remembei 
FItitiy  Boys,  issued  a  year  ago.  This  year  the 
publishers  bring  out  a  companion  volame,  called 
Bratii  Girls.  There  is  announced,  tc 
•tory  by  Joaquin  Miller,  Tki  Gold  JUiiurs  »f  Ou 
Sierras;  an  entertaining  volume  called  Fart^ti 
Fact!  and  Fatuies,  and  a  collectiiMl  of  Stariti  ef 
Dan^r  and  Adventure ;  also  a  historical  novel 
for  young  folks,  /«  Ltisltr's  Times,  a  story  of 
Knickerbocker  New  Vork,  by  E.  S.  Brooks; 
and  a  "  Wonder  Story "  for  the  little 
folks,  Tht  Buibliitg  Teapot,  by  liiiie  W. 
Champnej.  FiatiaHs  Slaries,  by  Msry  Hartwetl 
Catherwood,  Dsvid  Ker,  and  Charles  R.  Tal- 
bot, make  a  strong  bid  for  ihe  favor  of  boys 
and  girl*  o(  fourteen  to  sixteen ;  Bit  and  Tinker 
Falki,  compiled  by  Mr*.  Humphrey,  is  full  of 
111 Qst rations,  and  the  three  volumes  oE  the  "  Fun 
(or  Ihe  Family  "  series  of  jolly  stories  and  pict- 
tirea;  Kings  and  Quiens  at  Homi  has  twenty- 
four  portraits  and  picture* ;  Queen  Viclaria  al 
Hame  and  Storiet  Abeut  Favarite  Authors  are 
among  the  attractions;  also  Pansy's  Sunday 
Beak,  The  Adventures  ef  Ann,  a  colonial  alory, 
by  Mary  E.  Wilkinsj  Twe  Medern  Princes  in 
ihe  TffBier,  by  Margaret  Sidney  ;  Petty,  an  illus- 
trated  quarto,  also  by  Margaret  Sidney  ;  and  the 
great  Getden  Year  quarto  of  short  ilorie*. 
These  are  beaotifully  illustrated  and  altractively 
and  strongly  bound.  Other  holiday  quartos,  in 
black  and  white  for  popular  use,  are  hardly  less 
rich  Id  their  handsome  bindings.  Plrst,  rA 
course,  are  the  regular  annuals,  JVide  Awake 
"  U"  and  "  V,"  Babytand,  Our  LittU  Men  and 
Wamen,  and  Tht  Pansy.  Wide  A-aake  "  U" 
contains  serials  by  Mrs.  A.  D.  T.  Whitney  and 
Margaret  Sidney,  How  tlie  Middies  Set  Up  Shop 
and  A  New  Departure  far  Girls;  "V"  has  the 
tMsutiful  Story  of  A  Girl  and  a  Jewel,  by  Har- 
riet Prescolt  SpoSord.  Willis  Boyd  Allen's 
Silver  Sags  is  the  second  issue  in  the  "Pine 
Cone  Series."  Our  Little  Men  and  Women  has 
the  delicious  English  serial  written  for  it  by 
L.  T.  Meade.  Babyland  has  a  dainty  dozen  of 
"Crib-Curtain  Stories,"  by  Mrs.  Ella  Faiman 
Pratt.  Farny  has  Margaret  Sidney's  St,  Cearge 
and  Ihe  Dragon,  and  Reaching  Out,  by  Panay. 
A  quarto  lolume  of  Children's  Ballads  is  par- 
ticularly rich  in  historical  stories.  The  new 
edition  of  the  great  encyclopedia  of  poetry. 
The  Young  Folk^  Geldin  Treasury,  has  sev- 
eral hundred  illustrated  original  poem*.  Sights 
Worth  Seeing  is  gorgeous  with  Spectacles  and 
carnivals,  while  the  kuiall  quaitus  and  the  liny 
book*  for  the  Christmas- slacking  people  are 
countless  In  their  rainbow  profusion.  For  these 
•mailer  ones  there  is  Wander  Feaple,  which  tells 
interesting  stories  about  some  curious  folks; 
Bai/s  Stary  Beak  ;   faei,  Jill,  and  Tel;  a  col- 


lection of  amusing  stories  under  the  title  of  Sa 
Funny ;  three  charming  books  by  Mrs.  Humph' 
rey,  a  treasure  to  the  little  onci.  In  Bye-o-Baiy 
Ballads  they  will  have  a  Tolnme  of  the  ballad* 
by  Charles  Stuart  Pratt  (editor  of  Wide  Aaaie 
and  Babyland),  and  pictures  by  Ha 
popular  water-color  painter,  many  full-pages  and 
hundreds  of  smaller,  reproduced  in  ezquisitt 
colors  by  Buck  ft  Co.;  withal,  the  book  ii 
distinctively  fresh  and  American.  In  poetry 
among  the  new  issues  <n  the  regular  library  form 
are  the  "Through  the  Year  With  the  PoeU 
series,  collections  of  poetry  upon  special  themes; 
With  Reed  and  Lyre,  Clinton  Scollard'i  charm, 
ing  collection  of  poems;  the  enlarged  edition  of 
the  poems  of  James  Berry  Bensel ;  and  Stmntts 
from  the  Partugveie,  Ihe  immortal  lot 
by  Elisabeth  Barrett  Browning,  richly  printed 
and  bound  as  a  presentation  volume-  New 
lions  of  recent  favorite  gift-book*  group  with 
these  new  ones,  notably  Ideal  Feems,  Heroines 
ef  the  Peels,  and  Sudiat  Mattr. 

Tht  Mitadds  Empire,  the  first  edition  of 
which  was  issued  in  1S761  is  now  In  its  fifth 
edition,  on  the  press  of  Messrs.  Harper  & 
Brothers.  The  author,  Wm.  Elliot  Griffis,  has 
kept  it  up  to  the  times,  and  has  added  In  each 
successive  edition  fresh  notes,  and  pages  of  new 
matter,  or  has  corrected  etrors  and  misprints. 
K  new  chapter,  "  Japan  in  )3S6,"  sets  forth  the 
recent  polilical  changes  in  Japan,  as  well  as  the 
social  and  material  story  of  progress  in  the  "  Land 
of  the  Morning." 

after  all  as  a  publication  society 
that  the  Shakespeare  Society  of  New  York 
:pects  to  attain  its  greatest  usefulness.  All 
papers  read  before  it,  which  pass  its  publication 
committee,  are  reported  in  absiiact  in  the  Shake- 
columns  of  the  Literary  Wartd,  and 
then  printed  In  its  black  and  gold  i6mo  series 
and  distributed  to  members,  the  excess  (after 
reserving  a  certain  quantity  for  exchange)  being 
sold  to  public  libraries  whose  applications  are 
received  before  the  next  issue.  By  a  resolution 
of  the  Society,  papers  are  received  by  the  presi- 
dent from  any  source,  and,  in  hi*  ditcretlon, 
read  before  the  Society.  If  found  lo  be  original 
in  Iheme  or  method,  or  otherwise  worthy,  they 
are  admitted  into  its  series  of  papers,  and  printed 
in  regular  course,  bearing  the  Society's  seal  and 
imprint.  Besides  papers,  the  Society  proposes  a 
teries  of  publications-  These  latter  will  be  of 
permanent  value  from  every  standpoint,  and  will 
be  sold  by  subscription  only-  The  first  of  these 
publications  will  be  an  entire  edition  of  the  plays 
in  folio  Ij9l~l632,  the  text  carefully 
paralleled  with  the  1623  or  first  folio  text.  Both 
ithout  expurgation  or  typographical  cor- 
As  this  edition  is  expected  to  be 
eagerly  sought  for  by  Shakespearean  lovers  and 
readers,  as  well  as  scholars,  it  will  be  printed  in 
much  more  attractive  form  than  the  papers 
which  are  for  students  only.  No  guarantee  of 
e  excellence  of  the  workmanship  of  this  edition 
:ed  be  given  further  than  to  announce  that 
\  manufacture  will  be  in  the  best  style  of  the 
iverside  Press,  and  bear  the  imprint  of  Messrs. 
Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  who  will  become  the 
publishers  of  this  branch  of  the  Society's  issues, 
1^  subscriptions  therefor.  The  fiitt 
play.  The  Merry  Wivei  af  Windsor,  prepared 
with  introduction  by  Appleton  Morgan,  presi- 
dent of  [he  Society,  will  appear  at  once.  No.  1, 
TTu  Taming  af  tht  Shrew,  will  be  prepared  by 


Albert  R.  Frey,  of  the  Asiur  Ubrary,  while  Pro- 
fessor Price  of  Colombia  Collie,  vice-president 
of  the  Society,  will  edit  No.  3,  Lazn'i  Laieur'i 
Last.  Another  projected  work  in  this  series  will 
be  an  exhanstive  list  of  old  English  plays  from 
the  earliest  dates,  whose  letter-press  it  is  ex- 
pected will  require  either  a  folio  or  a  quarto 
page.  In  the  series  of  papers,  (he  Society  pro- 
poses issuing  immediately;  tf a.  i.  Shakes fiar/s 
Rhythmie  System  ef  Blank  Verse,  by  Thomas  K. 
Price,  A.M.,  Professor  of  English  Literature  in 
Colnmlria  College  (read  before  the  Society, 
April  32,  1S86};  No.  d,  A  Compilatien  ef  Early 
English  Statutes  Relating  la  Plays,  Actert,  ana 
JHaygetrs,  by  the  Hon.  T.  W.  Snagge,  one  of  the 
Judge*  of  Her  Majesty's  Common  Pleas,  whose 
judicial  drcuit  embraces  Stratford  on- A  von  and 
the  bulk  of  Warwickshire.  No.  7,  Time  in  the 
Flay  ef  Hamlet,  by  Hon.  E,  P.  Vining,  author  of 
The  Myitery  af  HamUl,  An  Ingltrieue  Coium- 
bus,  etc.  For  these,  subscriptions  should  be 
sent  to  the   Society  itself,  68   Broadway,  New 

The  Rev.  Renen  Hiomas  issues  by  the  Harpers 
volume  of  sermoni  entitled  The  Divine  Sav- 
iTtignty.  Among  their  new  books  of  travel  and 
observation  for  popular  reading  are  The  Land  of 
the  Cmr  and  the  Nihilist,  by  Ihe  Rev.  J.  M.  Buck- 
ley, LL.D,  an  illustrated  octavo;  All  Amang 
Ihe  Ughthauses,  by  Mrs.  Crown inshield,  wife 
of  Commander  Crowninshield,  U.S.N,  fitkely 
illustrated  and  imlform  in  siic  and  price  with 
"Family  Flight*  ;"  and  Souvenirs  ef  my  Time, 
by  Mrs.  Jessie  Benton  Fremont,  a  large  book 
crowded  with  personal  reminiscences  of  famous 
people,  at  home  and  abroad,  celebrated  places 
and  notable  events. 

TIcknor  &  Co.  issue  a  new  novel  by 
Edgar  Fawcctt,  author  of  An  AmMiaus  Woman, 
Social  SilhauttUs,  etc.,  entitled  The  Haust  at 
High  Bridge. 

D.  C.  Heath  ft  Co.  announce  as  fresh  publica- 
tions: Studies  in  Creek  and  Roman  Histery  ;  or 
Studies  in  General  Histery  from  1000  B.C.  lo  ^{6 
A.D^  by  Mary  D.  Sheldon,  recently  of  Welles- 
ley  College;  The  Study  ef  Latin  in  tht  Prepara- 
lory  Caurie,  hj  Edward  P.  Morris,  M.A.,  Pro- 
fessor of  Latin,  Williams  College  ;  Pregressivt 
Outline  Maps  of  North  America,  South  America, 
Europe,  Central  Europe,  Asia,  Africa,  and  the 
United  Stales,  printed  on  substantial  drawing 
paper,  adapted  (o  lead-pencil  or  to  ink  ;  The 
Desk  Outline  Map  ef  the  United  States,  prepared 
by  Edward  Channing,  Ph.D.,  and  Albert  Busb- 
nell  Hart,  Ph.D.,  instructors  in  Harvard;  lilut- 
tralions  of  Gteli^  and  Gtegrapky,  for  schools 
and  families,  by  N.  S.  Shaler,  Professor  of  Palae- 
itology,  assisted  by  Wm.  M.  Davis  and  T.  W. 
Harris,  of  Harvard;  and  Dr.  G.  Stanley  Hall's 
Seltct  Bibliography  ef  Pedagogical  Literature,  a 
volume  of  over  three  hundred  pages  made  up  of 
of  the  best  books  in  every  department  of 
education,  characterized  so  as  to  be  of  real  ser- 
the  teacher  wishing  10  read  the  "very 
I  his  department.  The  same  firm  an- 
for  October  the  following  list :  Hauff's 
Marchen:  Das  Kalte  Hert,  with  notes,  glossary, 
and  grammatical  appendix,  by  W.  H.  Van  Der 
Smiuen,  H.A-.  lecturer  on  German  in  Univer- 
sity College,  Toronto,  and  editor  of  an  edition 
of  Grimm's  Marchen;  Elementary  Course  in 
PractUal  ZaUogy,  by  B.  P.  Colton,  AM-,  of 
OtUwa  High  School,  111-;  How  to  Teaeh  Read- 
ing, and   What  to  Read  In  the  Schools,  by  G. 


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Stanley  HaJl,  FrofcMor  of  Ptjcbti\ogy  and  PMa. 
fC/t  John*  Hopkint  Univcreitj ;  An  Inlroduetian 
l»  Ikt  Study  a/  Rebtrt  Bremang's  Paetry,  by 
Hinun  COTBon,  H.A.,  LL.D.,  PtofesMir  in  Cor- 
nell University. 

Uke  Henry  George,  Dr.  M,  L.  Holbrook  of 
New  York  ippeari  lo  haie  become  hia  own 
publisher.  He  sends  us  a  prospectus  of  a  new 
book  on  a  subject  cniions  and  almost  univer- 
sally interesting,  Hme  la  StriHgthen  the  Mrmeiy  ; 
er.  Natural  and  Scientific  Mitkedi  of  Nmtr  For- 
getting. The  author  believes  that  the  memory 
can  be  made  many  times  stronger  than  il  would 
be  without  culture,  and  he  goes  to  work  in  a 
straightforward  way  to  point  out  the  most  Euita- 
ble  methods;  making  free  ose  of  (he  su^estiona 
and  opinions  of  others,  l>ut  giving  methods  of  his 
own.  There  are  chapter*  on  the  memory  of  the 
aged ;  memory  of  names  and  localities ;  its  cult- 
are  in  schools;  the  relation  of  the  health  to  the 
memory,  and  sundry  suggestions  and  hints. 
Prof.  Edward  Spring,  the  sculptor,  and  Pro- 
fessors Gaillard  and  Pick  and  Dr.  Towoshend 
have  contributed  to  the  work. 

Funk  &  W^nalls  announce  The  Buddhia 
Dili  Baft,  by  Laura  C.  Holloway,  a  compilation 
of  dishes  used  by  Buddhists,  treated  in  connec- 
tion with  some  of  their  ideas  on  religion.  The 
work  is  described  as  o(  especial  interest  (o 
vegetarians. 

Messrs.  T.  Y.  Crowell  &  Co.  make  a  leading 
feature  of  several  sumptuous  editions  of  the 
poets.  Their  "  red-line  poets  include  siity-six 
volumes,  in  duodecimo  cloth.  A  Miection  of 
these  are  Issued  as  the  "  bamboo "  edition,  in 
padded  and  embossed  leather,  and  another  is 
in  seal  Russia ;  both  with  round  corners  and 
^It  edges.  Other  editions  of  poets  are  the 
fifteen  volumes  of  the  "library**  edition,  in 
mbj  cloth,  iimo,  and  the  "favorite  illustrated" 
edition,  in  twenty  volumes  octavo,  bound  in 
Russia  calf  or  Turkey  morocco.  The  illustra- 
tions are  from  original  designs  by  eminent 
nrtists.  There  are  also  editions  in  cloth  and 
En  tree  calf.  Several  illustrated  juvenile  books 
by  this  honse  have  been  already  mentioned  by 
us.  We  notice  also  a  list  of  Sunday-school 
books  which  may  be  commended  to  the  atten- 
tion of  committees  having  to  supply  libraries. 
Of  translations  from  Russian  literature  this 
firm  makes  a  specialty.  Several  volumes  of 
these  have  received  mention  in  the  Literary 
World.  An  author  recently  added  to  this  list 
is  Dostoyevsky,  whose  Crime  and  Puniihmcnt, 
now  out,  is  to  be  followed  by  works  bearing 
the  dire  names  dl  Injury  and  Imuit  and  Secei- 
lecliatu  of  a  Dead  Htute.  A  Skurl  Hillary  ef 
£nglish  Littrature  is  in  preparation  by  W.  H- 
Rideing. 

The  leading  department  announced  by  E.  P. 
Dutton  &  Co.  this  fall  is  that  of  jovenilM,  illus- 
trated in  colors.  These  are  in  several  series 
■nd  range  In  size  from  quarto  lo  oblong  (ufaa, 
and  in  price  from  two  dollars  down  to  fifteen 
ccDta.  Some  of  the  many  titles  in  these  hand- 
some holiday  books  are  given  in  our  "  Pnblica- 
tiona  Received;"  and  for  others,  parents  and 
others  thinking  of  deligbtit^  the  little  folks 
should  consult  full  catalogues. 

We  call  particular  attention  lo  the  annotince- 
menC  by  the  Century  Co.  of  a  uniform  discount 
of  twenty-five  per  cent  on  all  its  books  except 
hymn  And  tnne   Ixxdcs,  commencing  tUs  au> 


to  discount  0 


tumn.    There  is  no  change  a 
periodicals. 

Mr.  W.  J.  Rolfe's  SiUct  Peemt  tf  Xffttrt 
BrvBnting,  which  is  to  be  published  by  the 
Harpers  this  month,  will  be  a  book  of  some 
two  hundred  psges,  uniform  in  style  with  his 
Shaketptart  and  other  "  English  Classics."  It 
will  contain  a  brief  account  of  the  life  and 
works  of  Browning,  selections  from  the  best 
critical  comments  on  his  poetry,  nineteen  of  his 
minor  pieces  and  the  drama  of  "  Pippa  Passes,' 
with  explanatory  and  critical  notes.  Among  the 
shorter  poems  are  "  Hervi  Riel,"  "  Clive,"  "  The 
Lost  Leader,"  "  Rabbi  Ben  Ezra,"  "  Childe  Ro- 
'and,"  "  One  Word  More,"  "  Prospice,"  etc.  Foi 
some  of  the  notes  the  editor  ha*  been  indebted 
to  letters  from  Browning  himself.  He  has  also 
had  the  cooperation  of  Miss  Heloise  E.  Hersey, 
formerly  Professor  of  English  Literature  at  Smith 
College,  with  whom  indeed  the  plan  of  the  book 
originated. 

Mrs.  Louis  T.  Hoggin  of  San  Frandsco  has 
in  press  a  dainty  volume  entitled  Ijorc  d" Awnmr. 
It  is  promised  to  be  a  work  of  art  in  the  way  of 
binding  and  typography.  Those  who  have  had 
the  pleasure  of  seeing  Mrs.  Hoggin's  book  In 
manuscript  pronounce  it  worthy  of  a  place 
among  the  more  serious  classics- 
Judge  T.  H.  Reorden,  of  San  Frandsco,  Cal., 
has  in  press  a  new  and  complete  idition  de  luxi 
of  the  fragments  of  "  Sappho,"  which  is  expected 
to  be  one  of  the  finest  spedmens  of  book  mak- 
ing ever  turned  out  west  of  the  Rockies.  The 
forthcoming  volume  will  contain  all  the  frag- 
ments in  both  the  Greek  and  in  the  English. 
An  interesting  feature  of  Judge  Reorden'*  view 
of  the  subject  is  the  comparison  of  the  Italian 
and  English  rendering  of  the  Greek  original. 
The  volome  will  be  illustrated  with  original  etch- 
ing* and  designs  by  San  Frandsco  artists.  The 
edition  will  probably  be  limited  to  five  hundred 

A  LETTES  FEOK  NEW  TOBE. 

N>w  Yobs,  Oct.  9,  1S86. 

IT  is  very  rarely  that  a  ungle  pnblisliing  bouse 
has  done  so  much  for  a  national  literature  as 
that  which  is  now  Houghton,  Mifflin  &.  Co.  But 
you  will  ask  what  a  New  Yorker  has  to  say 
about  so  eminent  a  Boston  house  —  whose  earli- 
est traditions  are  of  Boston  —  Tjcknor,  Reed  & 
Fields,  Ticknor  &.  Fields,  Fields,  Osgood  &  Co, 
Houghton,  Osgood  ft  Co.,  H.  O.  Houghton  & 
Co.,  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.  Where  is  there 
any  New  York  in  that  catena  r  Stop  a  bit. 
We  say  that  until  1870  it  was  a  Boston  house. 
But  in  that  year  the  firm  of  Hurd  ft  Hough- 
ton, which  was  a  New  York  house,  made  the 
firm  bigger  than  any  one  single  towtt,  and  began 
publishing  books  for  the  nation.  Helanctbon 
M.  Hurd  WIS  a  member  of  the  old  firm  of  Shel- 
don ft  Co.  of  this  city,  the  member  of  that  firm. 
He  saw  the  possibilities  of  something  more  than 
he  was  engaged  in,  entered  Into  an  arrangement 
with  H.  O.  Houghton  who  had  already  made  the 
Riverside  Press  equal  the  finest  book  work 
turned  onl  in  the  world,  and  the  firm  of  Hurd  ft 
Houghton  began  on  Broome  Street,  and  then  on 
"Booksellers  Row"  at  Astor  Place.  Mr.  Hard 
sat  in  the  New  York  office,  and,  I  think,  to  hi* 
geruus  for  knowing  the  wAat,  plus  Mr.  Henry  O. 
Houghton's  consummate  undentanding  of  Iht 
i^Bf,  i*  owing  the  great  succeisoF-finn  that  pre- 


sents wtiat  is  one  lA  the  largest  publishing  list* 
In  the  world  today  in  your  advertising  columns. 
I  still  meet  Mr.  Hurd  ocirasionally.  He  left  the 
firm  on  account  of  ill-health,  and  if  pressed  for 
the  troth  (for  be  is  no  hypochondriac]  admits  to 
bad  health  today.  But  it  is  hard  10  assodate 
illness  with  the  handsome,  browned,  eleganLy 
dressed  gentleman  who  warms  your  heart  with 
his  cordial  ways.  Mr.  Hurd  spends  his  summers 
here,  or  in  Europe  (he  has  a  splendid  home  in 
Brooklyn)  and  hi*  winters  in  the  West  Indies. 
What  a  pair  of  noble  brother*  It  was  I  Me- 
lancthon  M.  Hurd  and  Henry  O.  Houghton. 
Yon  in  Boston  know  what  a  noble  man,  every 
inch  of  him,  is  Henry  O.  Houghton.  When  the 
book  of  great  publishers  is  all  written,  there  will 
be  many  a  chapter  packed  with  his  good  deeds, 
hi*  great  work,  his  almost  infallible  judgment. 
He  once  refused  to  print  a  book,  prepared  with 
great  pains,  and  in  some  three  years  of  labor,  by 
the  present  writer.  But  when  in  all  kindness 
and  cheery  sympathy,  Mr.  Houghtcm  declined  to 
print  it,  ttie  writer  pat  his  MS.  into  the  fire. 
If  k«  had  refused  it,  could  there  be  any  good  In 
it,  or  any  hope  for  it?  At  least  its  compiler 
believed  not,  and  now  ten  years  later  he  is  cer- 
tain of  it. 

A  new  weekly  is  on  the  tapis.  Mr.  DeWltt 
J.  Seligman  is  the  proprietor.  He  is  a  son  of 
James,  senior  partner  of  J.  and  J.  Seligman  the 
bankers,  and  has  at  least  one  requisite  of  a 
successfnl  Journalist,  a  limitless  purse.  The 
name,  editor,  size,  etc,  of  the  new  weekly  is  as 
yet  unannounced.  But  it  is  to  deal  with  current 
topics,  art,  literature,  politFca,  gossip.  There 
does  not  seem  to  be  any  need  for  it,  but  then 
nobody  can  tetl  about  these  things,  and  of  coarse 
—  as  Webster  said  —  there  is  always  room  at 
th9  top.  Bnt  if,  I  suppose,  it  helps  Mr.  Selig- 
man fill  up  his  surplus  time  it  will  be  considered 
as  paying  expenses.  How  many  hundred  years 
ago  was  it  that  Horace  laughed  at  the  poprjlar  idea 
that  whereas  It  was  necessary  to  train  horsemen 
and  gladiators,  anybody  without  the  slightest 
preparation  or  study  could  "run  a  newspaper." 
To  be  sare  Horace  didn't  exactly  say  "run  a 
newspaper,"  but  "write  verses."  Undoubtedly 
had  he  lived  today  and  tieteabouts,  tliat  is  the 
exact  expresdon  he  would  have  used.  Still 
for  all  the  ghosts  over  hi*  shoulder,  everybody 
wishes  Mr.  Seligman  well. 

If  yon  will  some  day  call  at  the  United  States 
Custom  House  in  Wall  Street,  and  ask  for 
Major  Hinton,  the  grizzled  old  door-keeper  will 
direct  yon  down  a  dingy  flight  of  stairways,  |je- 
tween  granite  walls  heavy  a*  those  of  a  (ottress, 
into  a  vault-like  apartment  buzxing  with  clerks. 
If  yon  take  the  dive  you  will  find  the  Major,  a 
fine  old  gentleman  with  long,  white  beard  and 
snowy  hair,  sitting  at  a  rickety  desk.  That  desk 
is  the  object  of  my  advising  you  to  look  up  the 
Major.  It  was  the  desk  assigned  to  Richard 
Grant  White  during  that  gentleman's  eminent 
services  to  his  country  as  a  sinecurist  in  the 
New  York  Custom  House.  Think  what  oceans 
of  Shakespearean  depths  have  been  brought 
into  inky  relief  on  white  paper  over  the  bevd  of 
that  desk  I  Mr.  White  was  a  derk  who  served 
the  Custom  House  much  as  Charles  Lamb 
served  India  House ;  he  came  down  to  work 
very  late  of  mornings,  but  made  up  for  it  by 
leaving  very  early  in  the  afternoon*  1  It  was  > 
better  so.  Hr.  While  would  not  have  docw^ 
mnch  in  the  way  of  posting  ledgers,  but  he  has 


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[Oct.  i6, 


done  more  than  anj  AmericaD  tn  polling  the 
world  u  to  the  mightr  Eliub«than.  There 
■re  (ew  men  who,  loving  iimI  worshiping 
Shak«apeare  ai  did  Richard  Grant  White,  could 
have  yet  preserved  hi*  manly  contempt  for  gnth 
and  sham,  and  ron  bo  well  rid  of  that  bugaboo 
trf  the  whole  commentator  tribe  —  etthetic  crili- 
dam.  Major  Hinton  himielf  comes  of  a  literary 
family.  One  of  hit  brotheis  is  literary  editor  of 
the  Home  Jeamal,  another  sacrificed  his  fortune 
tn  a  *aln  attempt  to  publish  nt  Library  TabU, 
bat  afterwards  made  a  mark  by  printing  those 
ii)T«liuible  "Booth  Prompt  Book*  of  Shake- 
■pearc,"  which  are  lo  full  of  meat,  to  eagerly 
■oDght  for,  and  ao  rarely  picked  np  at  the  book- 
stall! today.  JUHU, 

WHAT  ITO  BOOKS? 
n  tit  MJitar  c/lAt  Littrary  Werld: 

Wm  yon  pleue  print  the  following  question 
—  ttddresaed   personally   to  each  one   of   your 

If  yen  ntre  imtritened  for  life,  and  cmld  eiUy 
havt  tmo  workt  fir  ymr  library,  what  twt  vmiU 
yn  ektottt 

I  should  like  to  see  the  answers  to  this  ques- 
tion M  Wm.  H.  McAllistu, 
127  West  37th  Street,  New  Voik  City. 

Ottettr  9,  7i86. 

OUBBUHT  LITERATUBE, 

Bdacntional  Works. 

"The  Inletnacfonat  Edacatiou  Series"  it  con- 
tinued by  A  Hiitery  ef  EdtuoHeK,  by  Prof.  F.  V. 
N.  Painter,  A.M.,  of  Roanoke  College.  As 
suted  in  a  »ery  able  preface  by  Dr.  W.  T  Har- 
ris, editor  of  tlie  series,  the  aim  of  this  history  Is 
to  show  the  educational  development  in  each 
nation  a*  baaed  on  ill  ideas  of  true  civilization, 
whether  the  onderlying  philosophy  has  been 
heathen  or  Chiiatian,  and  whether  carried  out 
merely  in  tbe  teaching  conveyed  in  family  and 
national  customs  or  by  a  system  of  schools.  The 
subject  is  traced  in  Oriental  couatries,  including 
even  China,  in  classical,  and  in  primitive,  medi- 
aeral,  and  modern  Christian  times,  with  brief 
account  also  of  the  Hohunmedan  learning. 
The  author's  judgment  is  well  balanced;  his 
style  terse,  dear,  and  interesting.  [D.  Appleton 
»Co.    Ji.so] 

Lippintatei  Pa^ar  SptUing-Boek  contains 
lj8  progressive  lessons ;  closing  with  four  ele- 
mentary nles  for  spellinf;,  a  table  of  abbrevia- 
tions, and  a  few  other  miscelUneooB  matlers  not 
usually  found  in  text-books  of  this  sorL  Tbe 
words  are  classified,  sometimes  by  some  principle 
of  similarity,  sometimes  by  contrast  —  as  like 
sound  with  unlike  orthography;  many  words  ate 
in  script,  and  many  Introduced  in  short  selections 
of  poetry.  For  definitions  the  learner  is  gener- 
ally referred  to  a  dictionary.  [J.  B.  Lippincott 
Co.    14c-] 

In  Vinte  CtUturt  and  EleaHieH,  by  William  T. 
Ross,  A.M.,  will  be  found  much  and  varied 
instruction,  in  the  moderate  compass  of  338 
pages  ;  useful  exercises  in  calisthenics  and  ges- 
ticulation i  the  significance  of  various  gestures  ; 
and  caltivation  of  tone  and  articulation,  with 
especial  reference  to  difficult  combinations  o( 
letters,  to  the  sounds  of  vowels,  and  10  expression. 
Rather  less  than  one  third  of  the  book  is  devoted 
to  a  wide  range  of  selections  [or  practice.  The 
nstructioits  are  geiKrally  very  dear  and  intelli- 


gible and  the  ideas  judicious.  [San  Frandsco 
Payot,  Upham  &  Co-J 

Young  America  is  nothing  if  not  a  speaker 
With  legislatures  and  senate  chambers  open 
to  his  imbitioui  e&orts,  he  must  school  himself 
to  oratory  from  bis  earliest  years.  So  believes 
Mr.  Oiiver  E.  Branch,  and  hence  three  Natiamal 
Sptaluri,  one  Primary,  intended  for  lendci 
aspirants  for  forensic  honors  from  five  to  ten 
years  of  age ;  another  ynnier,  carrying  Ihe 
limit  of  years  for  practice  from  ten  up  to  i 
and  a  third  Advanced,  for  the  nse  of  aspii 
college  honors.  The  selections  ate  in  both  prose 
and  verse,  are  mostly  from  living  writers, 
instinct  with  good  morals,  good  taste,  and 
life  of  today,  and  avoid  as  a  rule  alike  the  heavy 
and  the  trivia).    [Baker  &  Taylor.] 

A  novel  idea  is  embodied  in  the  Rev.  J.  G. 
Wood's  Firit  NatHTol  Hiitfry  Reader,  which  is 
to  combine  learning  to  read  and  to  classify  the 
animal  creation  in  one  and  the  sam 
which  it  does  by  means  of  the  usual 
and  plenty  of  pretty  pictures.  [Boston  School 
Supply  Co.    ttx.\ 

Rev.  James  Vila  Blake  of  Chicago  has  written 
a  tract  on  Manual  IVaining  in  Edtuatien, 
is,  however,  an  argument  in  favor  of  the  theory 
and  not  a  directory  to  the  practice.  [Chicago: 
Charles  H.  Kerr  ft  Co.] 

Ticknor  &  Co.  add  to  the  elegant  "Student*' 
Scries,"  edited  with  valuable  notes  by  Wm.  J. 
Rolfe,  A.  Ml,  and  bound  in  flexible  light  brown 
covers.  Lord  Byron's  singularly  unequal  poem, 
Ckilde  Jfareld't  Pilgrimage.  The  engravings 
of  unusual  merit,  and  present  some  of  the  noted 
of  the  poem,  among  which  we  notice  as 
espedally  beautiful  one  of  the  lake  of  Get 
and  one  of  "The  castled  crsg  of  Drachenfell." 

[75=1 

Misa  Maria  Remington  Hemiup's  "Original 
Observations  "  on  the  Lavu  tf  Heat  are  one  hun- 
dred and  twenty  pages  (Iwenty^five  chapters),  of 
muddy  speculation,  tn  which  we  fail  to  discover 
anything  new,  true,  or  suggestive  of  truth.  It 
is  lo  be  hoped  the  Cattttt  was  paid  for  the  print- 
ing.   [Geneva,  N.  Vj  Gaielle  Print.] 

Book*  XVI  to  XXIV  of  The  Iliad  cf  Hemer 
make  anewvolume  in  Harper's"Classical  Series," 
edited  by  Professor  Tyler  of  Amherst  College 
rith  very  copious  notes,  and  designed  spedfically 
for  tbe  use  of  college  students.  The  Homeric 
Problem  Professor  Tyler  skips,  taking  the  poem 
at  its  face  value  in  Ihe  Dindorf  text.  [Harper 
&  Brothers,    fl.50.] 

Professor  Robert  P.  Keep's  Greek  Leisant  are 
designed  to  accompany  anij  supplement  Hidlcy 
and  Allen's  Greek  Grammar,  a  book  which  Dr. 
Keep  thinks  is  a  "standard,"  and  one  which 
"  every  American  student  of  Greek  should  pos- 
sess."    [D,  Appleton  &  Co.    fl.oo.] 

HIatorjr  and  Biogjupbjr. 
Great  Lives,  by  J.  1.  Mombert,  D.D.,  is  best 
described  by  its  additional  title  A  Cmrse  ef  His- 
ttry  in  BiBgrapkiet.  Theae  are  so  chosen  as  to 
present  ancient  history  as  divided  into  Greek 
and  Roman  ;  medizval,  made  to  commence  with 

'ustinian,  A.  D.  527,  and  to  end  with  Columbus ; 

ind  modern,  from  Martin  Luther,  b.  1483,  to 
the  present  time.  The  last  list  includes  three 
preddents,  Washington,  Lincoln,  and  Grant. 
Tliis  way  of  teaching  history  ha*  the  unavoidable 
objections  of  being  fragmentary,  and  sometimes 
a  little  obscure  from  reference*  to  subject*  not 


before  introduced;  but  the  selections  are  judi- 
cious, the  style  clear,  and  the  paper  and  print 
handsome.  In  the  first  and  second  part*  all  tbe 
heroes  except  Mohammed  are  Europeans.  There 
are  abundant  dales  throughout,  a  dironological 
table  at  the  end  of  each  part,  and  a  pronoundng 
vocabulary  of  proper  names  ;  also  seven  map* 
and  numerous  small  tailpieces  appropriate  to 
the  subjects.  [Leach,  Shewdl  &  Sanbom.  By 
mail,  f  1.00.] 

Book  VI  of  Lord  Clarendon's  Hiitsiry  tf  tht 
Rebellim  is  issued  in  the  elegant  style  character- 
istic of  the  Clarendon  Press,  Oxford.  This  voK 
ume  describes  the  period  from  August,  1641,  to 
Match,  1643,  and  has  an  introduction  and  copious 
notes  by  Thomas  Arnold,  M.A.,  and  two  rnaps. 
[Hacmillan  ft  Co.    ft.to.] 

The  contradictory  title,  A  Timid  Brave,  by 
William  Justin  Harsha,  denotes  a  Maha  Indian 
upon  a  Nebraska  reservation,  whose  timidity 
was  but  prudent  reluctance  lo  encourage  the 
rasher  spirits  of  his  tiibc  to  go  upon  the  war-path 
against  the  whites;  a  reluctance  founded  on 
Christian  prindpte  and  on  his  superior  knowl- 
edge of  their  oppressors'  power.  The  story  is 
□f  the  wrongs  of  the  natives  and  of  their  uprising 

revenge ;  vivid  in  its  terrible  details,  it  is  writ- 

1  as  a  plea  for  justice,  and  especially  to  urge 
the  long  delayed  duty  of  extending  to  Indians 
the  legal  right  of  dtiienshlp.  [Funk  ft  Wag- 
nail*.    7Sc] 

A  short  history  lias  been  written  of  tbe 
Wemuyis  Art  Muttum  Atiociaiion  of  Cindonali. 
This  Association,  which  had  some  predecessors 
field,  was  formed  in  iS;;,  on  the  wave  of 
interest  aroused  by  Ihe  Centennial,  to  foster 
public  spirit  In  behalf  of  an  art  museum  in  Cln- 
dnnati,  and  to  lead  the  way  10  the  founding  of 
schools.  This  object  having  found  accom- 
plishment In  the  dedication  this  year  of  the 
Cindnnati  Museum  in  Eden  Park,  the  Assoda* 
has  dissolved.  Its  history  is  related  in 
detail,  and   form*  a    not    unimportant  chapter 

the  development  of  art  culture  in  this  country. 
[Robert  Clarke  4  Co.] 

Number  Five  in  Mr.  H.  M.  Brooks'*  "Olden 
Time  Series  "  is  devoted  lo  Strange  and  Curinu 
PuHiiAment-r  as  illustrated  in  Old  Boston  and 
Salem  newspapers;  among  which  punishment* 
were  the  stocks,  of  course,  and  the  whipping- 
post, and  also  branding,  tongue-pinching,  gag- 
ging, dipping,  and  ducking,  being  sewed  up  in 
bedclothes  and  thrashed,  whipped  at  Ihe  carl's 
tail,  the  treadmill,  and  the  tongue  bored  with  ■ 
red-hot  iron.  Some  of  these  punishments  were 
barbarous,  no  doubt,  but  we  should  almost  be 
glad  to  see  some  of  thetn  restored.    [50c.] 

The  account  of  the  Battle  of  Gettysburg,  in 
the  History  of  the  Civil  War  in  America,  by  Ihe 
Comte  dc  Paris,  makes  three  chapters  of  its 
Third  Volume ;  and  those  three  chapter*  have 
been  republished  as  a  volume  by  themselves 
under  their  special  tille.  The  appended  itiner- 
iryoftheUnion  armies  has  been  carefully  revised 
ind  enlarged  from  documents  in  Ihe  War  Depart- 
nent.  It  is  doubtful  if  there  is  another  so  good 
mont^raph  on  this  great  battle.  It  is  both  judi- 
cial and  dramatic;  a  testimony  and  a  picture. 
Tbe  maps  are  beau'ifnl  specimens  of  the  engrav- 
■'i  art.    [Porter  ft  Coates.    f  1.50.] 

Religious. 

Cittfiel  of  Hu  Infant  Jttui,  by  Mrs.  Chauncey 

I.  FiUey,  written  in  the  course  of  the  author^ 


1886.] 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


357 


5aadar'*chool  work,  appears  to  ub  a  confused 
lad  wearisome  combinatioD  of  improbable  erents, 
uoDatnral  children,  aad  almost  equally  nnnatiira] 
idulta,  with  ill-jadged  [cligioai  talk,  well  meant, 
doubttesi,  but  in  bad  ta»te,  and  in  one  place  even 
piotanel;  —  in  orihodoi  views  at  least  —  speak- 
ing of  the  Holy  Spirit  by  the  pronoun  "it."  We 
[ail  to  ace  any  redeeming  feature  in  the  boob. 
[Cranston  ft  Stowe.    fl.oo.] 

Uft,  itt  Origin,  NiUaTi,  and  Devtlefimtnt. 
By  Salem  Wilder.  We  omaot  recummend 
any  at  our  readers  who  have  acceu  to  a 
public  library  to  purchase  Mr.  Wilder'a 
well-meaning  work.  His  intentions  are  excel- 
lent, but  his  equipment  for  his  task  of  refuting 
current  materialism  is  altogether  insufficient. 
The  work  has  already  been  done  for  all  classes 
of  readers  much  more  effectually  than  Mr. 
Wilder  accomplishes  it,  by  men  well  trained 
in  science  and  philosophy.  "  Well,  David," 
said  the  Scotch  clergyman  to  one  of  bis 
parisbioDera,  after  delivering  a  codim  of  ser- 
mons in  which  he  intended  to  examine  and 
demolish  all  the  atheistic  theories,  "  what  do  yon 
think  about  it  now."  "  Weel,  sir,  in  spite  of  all 
you  have  said,  I  can't  help  ifainking  there  is  a 
God."  Such  must  be  the  feeling  of  those  who 
read  Mr.  Wtlder's  book  about  materialisni ;  we 
[[usl  that  they  will  still  believe  in  spiritual 
things.    [Boaton  :  ^1-15] 

Petms  of  Rtligieu]  Sorrcvr,  Comfort,  Comud, 
and  Aipiratien,  selected  by  Francis  James  Child, 
is  a  re-Issue  of  the  excellent  collection  of  relig- 
ious poetry  made  by  Prof.  Child  twenty  yeara 
back.  It  belongs  to  the  same  order  of  works  as 
Mr.  Tileston's  much  later  Quiet  Hours,  many 
pieces  being  common  to  both  volume*,  while  the 
distinguishing  note  of  this  selection  Is  lis  large 
number  of  poems  by  John  Sterling  and  Arch- 
bishop Trench.  [Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.  fLaj.] 

Tkt  Unity  of  God  and  Man,  and  Otter  Sfr- 
tnoni,  by  Rev.  Stopford  A.  Brooke,  M.A,  is  a 
collection  of  discourses  preached  by  the  bit^- 
raphet  of  Robertson  at  Bedford  Chapel  within 
the  last  three  years.  The  characteristics  which 
make  Mr.  Brooke  one  of  the  first  of  living  preach- 
ers are  here  visible  in  their  ripe  development. 
Three  noble  discourses  on  the  Unity  of  God  and 
Man  open  the  volume.  For  depth  of  thought, 
purity  of  religions  sentiment,  and  beauty  «f  ex- 
pression, Mr.  Brooke's  sermons  have  few  equals. 
[Geo.  H.  Ellis,    fi-so.] 

Under  the  vague  title  of  7>t«  Wordifar  Bravt 
Sfrn,  an  editor  whose  bilials  are  P.  E.  K.,  acting 
at  the  request  of  an  English  colonel  and  under 
the  sanction  of  an  army  chaplain,  has  collected 
out  of  the  unpublished  writings  of  the  late 
Charles  Kingsley  a  little  volume  of  short  and 
stirring  addresses  on  religious  truth  fitted,  by 
subject  and  illustration,  to  catch  the  attention 
and  touch  the  feelings  of  military  men.  Biblical 
biography  is  chiefly  suggestive  of  the  twenty-five 
or  thirty  addresses  which  make  up  the  book. 
[Tiios.  Whittaker.    75c.] 


ITEWS  AITD  VOTES. 

—  The  new  edition  of  Mr.  Vcdder's  rematk- 
»ble  niustraiiimj  of  tkt  Jtuidiydt  of  Omar  Kkay- 
vdm  has  just  been  pnbliahed  by  Houghton,  Mif- 
flin &  Co.  It  is  of  about  half  the  alze  of  the 
edition  published  two  years  ago,  and  is  sold  at  a 
price  which  will  put  it  within  the  reach  trf  many 


persona  who  last  year  wanted  the  large  edition, 
but  could  not  afford  to  buy  it. 

J.  Fletcher  Brennan  ft  Co.  of  Cincbinati 
ssuing  the  memoirs  of  Cassins  M.  Clay  in 
two  octavo  volumea  of  600  pages  each.  The 
first  volume,  chiefly  tnagraphical.  Is  out;  the 
second  will  contain  writings  and  speeches.  Mr. 
Clay  gives  bis  own  account  of  his  family  troubles 
ith  an  unsparing  voice. 

—  The  yfurnal  of  Eduialion  for  SepL   30  is 
"  Temperance   Number,"  devoted  exclusively 

to  the  argument  for  the  scientific  teaching  of 
Temperance  in  the  Public  Schools.  The  writers 
are  £diih  H.  Thomas,  Miss  Frances  E.  Willard, 
Mrs.  J.  Ellen  Foster,  Mrs.  Har;  H.  Hunt,  Prof. 
J.  T.  Edwards,  LL.D.,  Prof.  A.  C.  Boyden,  Prof, 
E.  F.  Kimball,  Alex.  Gustafson,  Prof.  O.  M- 
Brands,  Miss  Alice  M.  Guernsey,  Miss  M.  E. 
CoUing,  Miss  Harriet  P.  North,  Dr.  L.  W. 
Baker,  H.  L.  Reade,  and  others. 

—  The  sale  of  Xing  Solemon'i  Atinei  haa 
reached  35,000  copies. 

—  The  price  of  Tolstoi's  Afy  RiHgion  has  been 
reduced  by  its  publishers,  T.  Y.  Crowell  ft  Co., 
to  %ixa. 

—  Dr.  Richard  T.  Ely's  book  on  the  labor 
movement,  publiabed  by  the  same  house,  has 
passed  to  a  second  edition,  and  has  probably 
settled  down  to  a  steady  sale. 

—  D.  C.  Heath  ft  Co.  of  Boaton  have  issued  a 
new  and  complete  catalogue  of  their  publications. 
In  their  list  of  authors  are  to  be  noted  many 
well-known  names,  such  at  Dr.  G.  Stanley  Hall, 
Miss  Eliiabeth  P.  Peabody,  Prof.  W.  H.  Payne, 
Prof.  Hiram  Corson,  Prof.  Chas.  Eliot  Norton, 
Prof.  Remsen,  and  a  number  of  professors  in 
Harvaid,  Yale,  Johns  Hopkins,  and  Cornell. 

—  Little,  Brown  ft  Co.  have  just  ready  a  new 
Caialagut  of  an  UnusuaUy  Fine  Celleclian  of  Ran 
and  InUreiting  Boati  which  in  the  course  of  one 
hundred  and  ten  indexed  pages  amply  bears  out 
the  promise  of  the  title.  It  is  rich  in  entries  of 
expensive  illustrated  works,  large  paper  copies, 
and  first  editiona. 

—  Mr.  N.  H.  Dole's  translation  of  Seftor 
Valdjs's  realistic  social  novel  of  modern  Spain, 
Martay  Maria, -wiW-he  puUished  next  week  by 
T.  Y.  Crowell  &  Co.  with  the  title  79«  Marquis 
ofPeHaUa. 

—  The  next  volume  in  the  "Famous  Women 
Series''istobeJiuiiH»i  »'u;<r,  by  Eliza  Clarke. 

—  Roberts  Brothers  have  in  preta  Mabel  Stan- 
kope,  a  novel  by  Hiss  Kathleen  O'Meara,  the 
biographer  of  Madame  Mohl.    The  aame  house 

111  pablisb  /«  the  Time  of  Ruei,  a  book  for 
girls,  written  and  illnslrated  by  Florence  and 
Edith  Scannell. 

—  Dr.  Haskins's^fnt>uJ<^nr/j  of  Emerson  and 
his  maternal  ancestors  have  attracted  so  much 
attention  that  the  publishers,  Cupples,  Upham 
&  Co.,  will  issue  at  once  a  second  edition  in  book 
form,  printed  in  large  type  and  illiutrated  with 
number  of  silhouette  portraits. 

—  The  list  of  forthcoming  publications  to  b 
brought  out  by  Cupples,  Upham  &  Co.  includes 
Tlu  Story  of  t/tt  Life  of  Mrs.  Anna  Latitia  Bar- 
baiUi,  by  Mrs.  Grace  A.  Oliver ;    The  Imitators, 
a  satire  in  verse,  by  a  Bostonian ;    Our  Eyes  and 
How  to  Take  Care  of  Them,  by  U.  W.  William 
M.D.,  and  a  new  edition  of  the  same  auihor 
Diagnosis  asut  Treatment  of  Ditiasts  of  tkt  Eyt 
Taw  Comtdiei,  by  F.  Donaldson,  Jr.;  The  Punch 
Calendar  for  iSSj  ;    and  a  History  of  Harvard 
CMegt,  by  Prof-  Bush,  a  iGmo,  printed  in  old< 


faced  type  and  illustrated  with  eldung*  after  tbe 
aodent  manner. 

—  The  recent  theological  debate  at  De«  Moinea 
will  be  published  in  full  by  Houghtoi^  Mifflin  & 
Co. 

—  In  reply  lo  a  recent  newspaper  paragraph 
underrating  the  pro&ta  from  Hit*  Alcotl'a 
books,  the  publishers  assert  that  more  than  one 
million  copies  have  been  aold,  and  aay  that  dnr- 
ing  the  present  autumn  the  total  aalea  exceed 
those  of  any  previous  year. 

—  little.  Brown  ft  Co.  have  just  ready  A  Di- 
gest of  the  Decisions  of  Ike  Supreme  Court  of  Ike 
United  Slates,  by  Jonathan  Kendrick  Kinney; 
Collisions  in  United  Stales  ifaters,  with  synopses 
of  decisions,  by  W.  Preble,  Jr. ;  An  Index-Di^ 
gest  to  the  decisions  of  the  Supreme  Judicial 
Court  of  Massachusetts  I  and  a  new  enlarged 
edition  of  A  Treatise  on  Ike  Law  of  Estoppel,  by 
Melville  M.  Bigelow,  Ph.D. 

—  From  John  Delay,  13  Union  Sqnare,  New 
York,  we  have  received  a  aixth  Catalogue  of 
Antient  and  Modern  Erenck  Books,  the  first  part 
of  which  at  least  is  enotigh  to  exdie  acute  mania 
in  the  mind  of  an  impecunious  bibliophile. 
Among  the  superb  copies  of  rare  and  beantifiilly- 
bound  books,  we  can  but  mention  here  tbe  only 
existing  known  copy  of  Fiamengo's  Cataoin 
Atdwm/ (1549-IJ50),  bound  by  Tranti-Bauxon- 
nct,  offered  at  fiooi  one  of  the  three  existing 
copies  of  GringMte's  Heares  do  ffostre  Dame, 
printed  l>y  Jehan  Feti^  bound  by  Dutu,  and 
offered  at  ^400  (Didot's  copy  sold  at  auction  in 
1878  for  1,047  francs);  a  complete  set  in  four 
volumea  of  the  exceedingly  tare  original  edition 
of  Le  Sage'a  Hislaire  de  Gil  Bias  de  Santiilane 
('7'Si  "724.  1735I.  *30Oi  »od  the  second  (1673) 
edition  of  the  collected  works  of  Holiire,  a 
superb  copy  with  frontispiccea  engraved  by 
Chauveau,  bound  by  Michel,  t^aa.  Mr.  Delay'i 
catalogue,  in  addition  to  such  bibliographical 
ireaaures  as  theae,  contaiiu  a  list  of  cnrrent 
works  on  genera]  literature  worthy  the  attention 
of  the  collector. 

—  The  edition  of  the  November  Century,  cod* 
laining  the  first  chapters  of  the  authoriacd  Ijfe 
of  Ijncoln  and  the  opening  of  Frank  R.  Stock- 
ton's new  novel,  **  The  Hundredth  Man,"  will  be 
a  quarter  of  a  million  copies. 

PUBLIOATIOHfi  SEOEITED. 


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PaxTwira.  By  lakn  Riukia.  VsL  II,  Ch^XK  V. 
Tfafi  Sinplon.    Joho  wiLej  A  Sou.  ije. 

LiVB  or  Tiia  Ehcuih  Poan,  ate.  Br  SanMl  Jgha. 
■011,1.1.1}.    CawU  A  Co.,  Limiud.    Pips  igc 

Baaajra  and  Sketchen. 

THiCDLTDBaoFTHaCaanu.  BvUn.  A.Q,  Kaubr. 
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CONTENTS. 


Nauih™ 

Thi  HOUSI  AT  HlOH  BUDCB 

AK  [CIUHDIC  P-IUM 

Ciiuiai'dPuhishiiiht 

AUitA 

BOOCS  P0>  TUB  YOUHG  : 

Minind  Manlu,  Hollierind  Wife  of  WuhlDiion 
Li«iolGiiliWhaB«3iiiMFam«i>     . 

Th.  Heme  o(  WaUiin 

Tht  Hikint  of  New  Endind  .... 
Jo'i  Bgn,  and  How  Tbiy  Tuned  Out 

Tht  Imj  Kinr 

Tha  Lil«  at  RdWi  Fulton 

TliE  Boil'  Book  of  Pimou  Rolen 
TnTbommiyeuiAKo 

Biiton'i  Vigiiiei 

Tho  Midnighl  Cry 

Plind  Oui  *nd  toM 

Tht  Temce  oi  Hon  Disr 1«7 

Frucii )M 

Print™ 

HlKDnNm-icu: 

Tht  FouTtli  Goipcl 

Vucd  QneuioM  in  ThcolntT 

Ancient  DtieL     Fnim  Ihe  Dawn  to  tba  Dit1«IiI 

Gpoclii  at  Church  HiiioiT 

Tbe  Bible  of  Amieni 

AflroDomy  b)  OburaliDS 

Florida  Fiuia  isd  How  to  Rabe  Them 

AChTouicleoftlwOiuh 

The  All  of  Electricin 

A  Hudiel  of  Lclltn  bun  Jipu  .... 
Sliibb?e  Lccturea  od  Hutonr  .... 
Ceniui  In  SuBituB*  and  Shadow  .... 
Kioieric  Chriwiuilnr  and  Menial  ThenpcBticB  . 
Oulline*  of  Ihe  HiKoiy  of  Ethio  (or  Engliih 


Th«  N™  Yoaic  LiTi 


:b  [he  Eltrick  Shepheid.    A  Sonnet.    Wm-Hor. 

:.BTTU  raoH  Gmkuiliiv.    Leopdd  KilKlwr     . 
^KisriAKIikHA.    EditedfarWni.  J.  Rolla: 
Im.  LiiiniEi'a  "  Familiar  Talki  on    Soma   ol 
Shakeipeare**  CoDkodien  "  ..... 
If.  Winl»T'."Shake.pe»ie'.En,land''      . 
>r.  Rankin  on  the  Laie  Dr.  HiHUon    . 
fr.  Heon  A.  CUnp'l  Leanmwi  Shakeaptara  . 
lie  Death  of  Dr.  In^by 

buTalk     .'.'.'.'.'.'.'. 


BAUKEATIB." 

WE  have  id  this  spacious  qnarto  the 
third  literary  fruit  of  Ihe  Egypt  Ex- 
ploration Fund.  Its  contents  account  for 
the  researches  of  Mr.  Pelric  and  Mr.  Grif- 
fith in  the  Mound  of  Nebireb,  a  mass  of 
half-buried  ruins,  on  the  Kanobic  or  chief 
western  branch  of  the  Nile  Delta,  identified 
beyond  doubt  as  the  site  of  the  ancient  city 
of  Naukratis.  Naulcratia  is  known  to  have 
been  ia  existence  in  the  7lh  century  before 
Christ.     It  bad  great  natural  advantages  for 


-NmuknUt.  Putt,  1(84-!-  By  W.  U.  Flin 
^vith  Chaplen  hy  Cedl  Smith,  Emal  Cnrdne 
cl>T  V.    Bod.     Londoo:  TrHhoer  A  Co. 


commerce,  and  was  the  gateway  of  a  flour- 
ishing trade  between  Greece,  Egypt,  and 
the  East  Persia  dealt  its  prosperity  a 
heavy  blow.     Ptolemy  Philadelphus  came 

its  rescue.    Decay  returned.    Ruin  finally 

it  in.    And  a  few  centuries  after  Christ 

was  scarcely  more  than  a  memory. 

The  mound  which  envelops  the  present 
ruins  is  about  half  a  mile  in  length,  lying 
north  and  south,  and  perhaps  quarter  of  a 
idth.  The  ruins  themselves  are  of 
considerably  narrower  dimensions.  Part  of 
the  area  had  been  cleared  by  the  Arabs 
before  the  present  explorations  were  begun. 
The  conspicuous  feature  of  the  ancient  city, 

little  to  one  side  o£  it,  was  an  immense 
square  enclosure,  or  temtnoSt  whose  four 
sides  have  an  average  length  of  about  800 
feet  each,  whose  walls  were  originally  some- 
thing like  50  feet  thick  and  4a  feet  high, 
nd  in  whose  interior  at  least  50,000  per- 
ons  could  be  massed  at  one  time.    This 

Great  Temenos,"  as  it  is  designated  by 
the  explorers,  seems  to  have  been  a  sort  of 
combined  fort  and  forum,  a  walled  place  of 
assembly  for  the  citizens  on  various  occa- 
It  had  a  single  entrance  on  the 
west,  and  an  immense  and  impregnable 
store-house  of  many  chambers  planted  near 
Its  southern  wall.  Beside  the  Great  Te- 
menos there  were  two  smaller  iemeni  at  the 
northern  end  of  the  city  proper. 

The  remains  of  Naukratis  are  not  only 
here  described  with  system  and  detail 
the  twelve  chapters  of  text,  but  further 
admirably  illustrated  to  the  eye  by  no  1 
than  forty-four  plates,  some  of  them  fill 
large  folding  sheets,  others  autotype  repro- 
ductions, and  all  together  making  at  least 
third  the  bulk  of  the  volume.     Among  tl 
plates,  as  a  foundation,  are  ground  plans  of 
ind,    the    city,    and    its    surround- 
ings,   of   the    streets     in     del^l,     of    the 
Great    Temenos,    and   of    the    chambered 
store-bouse    in    the    latter;  and    then 
succession      graphic      representations 
examples    of    the    architecture    and    other 
of    the    ancient    city ;    columns  and 
capitals  of  its  once  stately  temples;  frag- 
ments of  statuettes  in  limestone  and  alabas- 
ter  of   both    Egyptian   and  Grecian  types; 
painted  potteries  of  infinite  variety  belong- 
ing as  far  back  as  the  sixth  and  seventh 
centuries  before  Christ;  vases,  dishes, 
bowls  of  once  graceful  patterns  and  elegant 
decoration,  now  in  crumbled  bits ;  vessels 
of  bronze  and  tools  of  iron,  showing  how 
the  metals  were  worked  and  used  by  these 
ancient  merchants  of  the  Delta ;  carvings  ii 
marble   in   natural   or   conventional  forms 
grinning,  graceful,  or  grotesque  heads  in 
terra  cotta,  some  of  the  female  fues  of  sur- 
passing dignity  and  classic  beauty;  water 
jugs   with   curious   diversities   of    handles ; 
rude  and  nameless  images  in  stone ;  tablets 
of    inscriptions ;   assortments    of     weights, 
looking  like  loaves  of  bread  of  all  known 
modern  shapes  ;  ornaments  of  gold  and  sil- 


that  once  adorned  the  persons  of  the  fair 
Naukratines ;  cake-stamps  curiously  suggest- 
of  patterns  in  use  in  the  kitchens  of  to- 
day;  and  lastbut  not  least  some  two  hundred 
specimens  of  wondrous  scarabs,  those  famous 
amulets  of  the  Egyptians,  in  paste  and  pot- 
tery and  stone,  with  examples  of  the  molds 
used  in  the  making  of  them. 
And  with  such  wealth  of  materials  before 
I  the  imagination  readily  lights  up  the  long 
buried,  dark,  and  silent  scene  ;  Naukratis  is 
rehabilitated ;   the  freighted  galleys    come 
go;  the  streets  are  alive  with  trafficking 
throngs;  the  Great  Temenos  swarms  with 
thousands  for  a  caucus  or  tens  of  thousands 
for  defence ;  we  are  moved  back  twenty-five 
'  the  past,  to  times  when  Josiah 
'uling,   Jeremiah   prophesying,  Confucius 
flourishing,   Daniel  interpreting,  Scythians 
invading,  Draco  legislating,  Nineveh  falling, 
Rome  rising,  and  Naukratis  is  an  emporium 
of  the  nations  of  pre-C!irislian  civilization. 
And  spade,  pick,  and  printing-press  are  what 
do  it,  run  by   the  motive  power  of  English 
and  American  dollars.     Keep  the  stream 
running  1 

THE  HOUSE  AT  HIGH  BEIDGE." 

THIS,  we  should  say,  is  the  largest  work 
which  Mr.  Fawcett  has  yet  essayed  in 
fiction.  It  is  cubical,  whereas  some  of  his 
writings  under  this  head  have  had  perhaps 
only  two  dimensions.  Tlu  House  at  High 
Bridge  may  be  called  a  New  York  novel, 
inasmuch  as  High  Bridge,  so-called,  is  an 
appurtenance  of  New  York,  and  the  people 
who  inhabit  this  house  are  of  the  New  York 
world,  though  living  on  the  outskirts  of  the 
city.  It  may  also  be  called  a  literary  novel, 
inasmuch  as  the  center  of  its  situation  is  a 
literary  point,  and  its  descriptive  passages 
and  dialogue  involve  remarks  upon  literary 
products  and  methods.  Mr.  Fawcett  makes 
the  thread  of  his  story  a  line  on  which  to 
hang  out  his  views  on  the  morals  and  the 
art  of  literature,  and,  covertly,  on  the  motives, 
means,  and  successes,  of  the  literary  set  of 
the  present  day  and  especially  of  our  own 
land.  No  names  are  mentioned,  but  in 
pages  like  these  one  can  easily  read  be- 
tween the  lines,  even  if  not  meant  to  do  so. 
We  do  not  mean  that  the  book  has  furtive 
purposes,  that  it  backbites  or  caricatures 
other  work  on  parallel  lines,  that  it  is  cap- 
tious or  censorious.  It  is  not  thaL  At 
the  same  time  it  is  critical,  yet  its  critical 
remarks  are  asides,  and  do  not  obstruct  the 
main  current  of  events. 

The  House  at  High  Bridge  is  the  home 
of  the  Coggeshal  family,  father,  mother, 
and  two  daughters,  Isabel  and  Sadie.  The 
members  of  this  household  arc  well  differ- 
entiated and  individualized,  Mr.  Coggeshal 
is  an  author,  a  novelist,  who  has  slowly 
climbed  the  ladder  of  effort  and  has  just 


edire  of  the  relations  01  cau» 


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THE   LITERARY   WORLD. 


[Oct.  30, 


noir  seemiDgly  reached  the  rung  of  fame ; 
a  preoccupied,  silent,  abstracted  man,  living 
in  his  library,  and  somewhat  and  strangely 
lifeless  and  cold  under  the  great  popular 
success  of  his  latest  book,  "  Rachel  Rand." 
Mrs.  Coggeshal  is  an  iucon sequential 
woman,  of  many  and  rapid  words  and  few 
and  vapid  ideas,  "off  color"  in  what  she 
wears  aad  in  much  that  she  says  and  does. 
Sadie,  with  her  lover,  is  a  chip  off  the 
maternal  block.  Isabel  is  the  beauty  and 
the  character  of  the  household. 

And  what  is  the  trouble  in  the  House  at 
High  Bridge?  It  is  that  Mr.  Coggeshal  is 
a  literary  felon,  bearing  'on  bis  conscience 
the  secret  of  a  disgraceful  deed.  "  Rachel 
Rand,"  though  published  under  bis  name, 
is  not  his  work,  and  his  honors  as  its 
reputed  author  have  been  fraudulently  won. 
The  MS.  of  the  book  was  found  in  the 
possession  of  an  imbecile  neighbor,  Mr. 
Chadwick,  and  its  acquisition  by  Coggeshal 
aod  publication  as  his  own  was  the  result 
of  a  nefarious  bargain  between  him  and  one 
Carolan,  an  unscrupulous  Irishman  in  inti- 
mate relations  with  Chadwick. 

Such  being  the  unpleasant  situation,  of 
whose  particulars  Co^eshal's  wife  and 
daughters  of  course  know  nothing,  Caro- 
lan takes  cunning  advantage  of  it  to  put  his 
foot  forward  as  suitor  for  Isabel,  and  this 
complication  having  set  in,  who  should  turn 
up  but  a  Mr.  Brockholst,  Mr.  Chadwick's 
nephew,  the  real  author  of  the  MS.  which 
has  been  published  to  Coggeshal's  credit 
under  the  changed  title  of  "  Rachel  Rand," 
and  Brockholst  too  enters  the  lists  for 
Is^xl's  favor. 

The  problem  then  is  for  Coggeshal  to 
conceal  his  theft,  for  Brockholst  to  be  pre- 
vented from  recogniiiog  the  identity  of 
"Rachel  Rand,"  for  Carolan  to  be  kept 
quiet,  and  yet  (or  Isabel  to  be  conveyed 
over  to  the  proper  lover,  who  of  course  is 
Brockholst  This  problem,  ingeniously  con- 
trived, is  as  ingeniously  solved. 

The  inoti/oi  the  story  seems  hardly  com- 
mensurate with  its  framework,  and  through- 
out the  book  we  are  conscious  of  Mr.  Faw^ 
celt's  style.  It  is  not  a  transparent  style. 
His  selection  of  words  and  his  structure  of 
sentences  at  times  detain  attention.  As  a 
literary  composition  this  is  the  fault  of  thi 
book;  its  tendency  to  patent  artifices 'ii 
phrase  and  syntax.  The  merits  of  the  story 
are  brains,  knowledge  of  human  nature,  pre- 
cision and  force  in  description,  and  skill  in 
characterization.  Mrs.  Bondurant,  for  ex- 
ample, is  forcibly  drawn.  She  is  a  sam- 
ple of  a  class  of  women  unfortunately  nu. 
merous.  Mr.  Fawcett  has  few  superiors  in 
unveiling  these  certain  types  in  city  society. 
He  knows  them  and  he  is  merciless. 

T/it  Home  at  High  Bridgt  has  been 
written  with  carefulness;  much  of  it,  prob- 
ably, worked  over  and  over.  It  has  : 
degree  of  freshness  which  many  noveli 
have  not     It  has  not  the  sparkle  of  rippla 


in  the  sunshine,  but  rather  the  polish  of 
a  massive  piece  of  furniture  well  rubbed 
down.  It  has  the  temperate  heat  of  talent 
rather  than  the  fervid  glow  of  genius,  but 
impresses  one  as  being  the  product  of  sub- 
stantial abilities.  Occasionally  it  strikes 
fire,  and  throughout  moves  on  an  elevated 
plane  of  thought  and  feeling.  Mr.  Cogges- 
hal's case  awakens  the  sympathy  we  always 
feel  for  an  unfortunate  man,  and  Mr,  Brock- 
holst and  his  Isabel  deserve  as  they  receive 
the  reader's  congratulations. 


AN  lOEUNOIO  PBDIEB.* 

THE  English  student  rarely  finds  himself 
so  well  equipped  for  the  study  of  a 
remote  foreign  language  as  in  the  case  of 
Icelandic.  Twelve  years  ago  the  great 
letlandic-English  Dictionary,  by  Richard 
Cleasby,  enlarged  and  completed  by  Pro- 
fessor Gudbrand  Vigfusson,  was  published 
at  the  Clarendon  Press,  in  Oxford.  This 
scholarly  and  comprehensive  work,  contain- 
ing, besides  the  vocabulary  of  seven  hun. 
dred  and  eighty  pages,  a  concise  "  Outlines 
of  Grammar,"  will  of  itself  suffice  to  enable 
the  hard  student  to  obtain  a  reading  knowl- 
edge of  the  language ;  but  his  labor  may  be 
much  lightened  by  aid  of  the  leelandie 
Prose  Reader,  edited  by  Dr.  Vigfusson  and 
Mr.  Frederick  York  Powell,  which  was  pub- 
lished, also  at  Oxford,  in  1879.  This  com. 
pact  twelvemo,  one  of  the  Clarendon  Press 
Series,  contains  selections  from  the  works 
of  An  hinn  f roSi ;  the  greater  and  lesser 
Islendinga  sagas ;  the  KoKunga  Sbgur,  and 
the  Sturlunga,  together  with  extracts  from 
the  mythical  and  heroical  sagas,  and  the 
entire  Gospel  of  Matthew  (Matheus  Guds- 
piall)  from  the  first  Icelandic  translation  of 
the  New  TesUment,  printed  at  Roskild,  in 
Denmark,  in  1540J  of  which  work  only  five 
copies  are  now  known  —  according  to  a  note 
containing  an  interesting  history  of  the 
translation  of  the  Bible  into  Icelandic.  At 
the  end  there  is  a  "  Short  Grammar,"  and  a 
considerable  glossary. 

But  there  was  room  for  a  more  element- 
ary work,  and  the  authors  of  the  Reader  not 
being  able  to  undertake  it,  they  encouraged 
Mr.  Henry  Sweet  to  carry  out  his  plan  of 
preparing  an  Icelandic  primer  on  the  linei 
of  his  Anglo-Saxon  one.  Thus  encouraged 
to  persevere,  in  what  he  confesses  he  found 
was  a  more  formidable  task  than  he  had 
anticipated,  he  completed  and  has  just  pub- 
lished, Ah  Icelandic  Primer,  with  Grammar, 
Notei,  and  Glouary,  also  one  of  the  Clar- 
endon Press  Series.  This  attractive  little 
book  of  one  hundred  and  seventeen  pages 
deals  with  Icelandic  in  what  is  commonly 
called  its  classical  period,  and  contains  a 
g;nunmar ;  texts  for  reading,  selected — with 
some  regard  to  the  contents  of  Vigfusson 


Utii  Yoiki    M*cmilUii  &  Co. 


and  Powell's  Rtcder — from  the  sagas  and 
both  Eddas ;  explanatory  notes  \  a  glossary, 
and  a  list  of  proper  names.  Any  one  desir- 
ing an  easy  Introduction  to  the  interesting 
language  and  wonderful  literature  of  Ice- 
land cannot  do  better  than  procure  a  copy 
of  tbis  useful  book,  which  the  student  will 
hardly  use  without  a  feeling  of  gratitude  to 
author  and  publishers. 

Like  all  the  Oxford  books  it  is  beautifully 
printed  and  with  an  astonishing  variety  of 
Icelandic  type,  but  there  is  an  error  on  page 
eighty-ieven,  and  Mr.  Sweet's  use  of  (-)for 
(')  to  mark  long  vowels,  and  the  rather  dis- 
proportionate blackness  of  the  letters  C  and 
p,  makes  the  pages  more  trying  to  the  eye 
than  Icelandic  print  need  be.  A  similar 
elementary  work  upon  modern  Icelandic  is 
still  a  desideratum.  A  most  valuable  ad- 
junct to  the  above  books,  for  those  who 
will  master  Mr.  A.  J.  Ellis's  elaborate  "Pal- 
Kotype  " — which  is  an  attempt  to  represent 
Mr.  Melville  Bell's  visible  speech  letters 
by  means  of  ordinary  printing  types  —  is 
the  chapter  in  his  work.  On  Early  English 
Pronunciation  (part  z,  pages  537-560),  which 
deals  with  the  pronunciation  of  Icelandic 
and  Old  Norse. 


OBIHE  AVD  FUinSHHEHT.- 

THE  energetic  exploitation  of  Russian 
literature  which  already  has  brought  to 
us  here  in  America  so  large  a  revelation  of 
humanity,  hitherto  unappreciated  because 
hidden  in  an  unknown  tongue,  opens  the 
gates  of  discovery  still  wider  with  the  pub- 
lication of  the  masterpiece  of  one  of  the 
Russian  masters  of  fiction  —  the  Crime  and 
Punishment  of  Dostoyevsky.  The  author 
of  this  wonderful  essay  in  psychology,  not- 
withstanding certain  traits  of  distinctive  and 
unmistakable  nationality,  holds  among  the 
writers  of  modern  Russia  a  place  apart 
His  genius  consisted  in  seizing  upon  per- 
sonalities more  or  less  morbid  in  their 
tendencies,  in  penetrating  into  their  inmost 
thoughts,  in  tracing  with  consummate  skill 
the  genesis  of  the  most  complex  motives,  in 
following  through  their  dread  and  certain 
course  of  development  the  ideas  which 
inspire  wrong-doing,  and  transform  them- 
selves into  scorpion  whips  of  remorse  to 
drive  the  unhappy  victim  to  madness  or 
confession.  Dostoyevsky's  characters  are 
all  more  or  less  diseased,  but  there  can  be 
no  doubt  that  in  choosing  them  he  has  been 
true  to  life  as  he  saw  it  All  of  his  novels, 
and  more  particularly  Crime  and  Punish- 
ment, are  so  many  vivid  illuminations  of  the 
gloomy  underground  passages  of  society 
where  humanity,  confined  to  an  atmosphere 
of  Tice«ngendering  repression,  appears  in 
fantastic  and  horrible  forms. 
The  hero  of  Crime  and  Punishment  is  a 

-c 

•  Clime  uiil  Funbhaenl.    A  Kuuian  lAaluik  ^'uvcl. 
By  Fi&hH- M.  DMMjnaLy.    T,  Y.  CrowelL  A  Co,    t'-V- 


i886.] 


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365 


young  St.  Petersburg  studeat,  Raskolinkoff, 
who  is  introduced  in  one  or  two  opening 
paragraphs  as  a  person  of  more  than  ordi- 
nary mental  capacity,  a  prey  to  untoward 
circumstances.  Misfortune  has  evoked  a 
condition  of  nervous  depression ;  he  has 
withdrawn  from  association  with  his  fel- 
lows; he  has  given  up  his  daily  occupa- 
tions; he  has,  as  the  only  escape  from  a 
desperate  state,  resolved  upon  committing  a 
crime.  Later  we  see  how  this  determination 
came  about  as  a  natural  sequence  of  his  in- 
dividual pity  and  environment.  Six  months 
before,  he  had  written  an  article  in  which 
he  argued  that  crime  was  justifiable  when 
committed  under  force  of  circumstances  by 
extraordinary  men-  Tfature,  he  has  argued, 
divides  men  into  two  daises,  the  inferior 
and  superior.  The  first  are  the  conserva- 
tives, the  men  of  order,  who  obey  because 
they  cannot  help  obeying.  The  second  are 
those  who  have  the  power  to  make  new 
ideas  prevail.  They  break,  or  constantly 
strive  to  break,  the  law,  and  most  of  them 
insist  upon  the  destruction  of  what  is,  in 
the  name  of  what  ought  to  be.  If,  in  mak- 
ing their  ideas  prevail,  they  are  obliged 
to  shed  blood,  they  may  conscientiously 
do  so.  They  are  the  men  of  the  future, 
and  like  M^omet  or  Napoleon,  must  per- 
form their  mission  for  the  transformation 
of  society,  even  if  they  thereby  t>ecome 
criminals  and  sacrifice  the  lives  of  others 
to  obtain  their  ends.  This  is  the  doctrine 
of  Nihilism  in  a  nutshell,  and  Raskoliokofi, 
his  mind  unhinged  by  poverty  and  suiter- 
ing,  is  not  slow  to  apply  it  to  his  own  case. 
May  he  not  be  one  of  the  superior  men? 
Would  crime  in  his  case  be  justifiable? 
These  questions  he  answers  in  the  affirma- 
tive. He  knows  an  old  woman,  a  money, 
lender;  he  will  kill  her  and  use  her  wealth 
for  his  own  advancement,  and  thus  benefit 
society  at  large. 

How,  step  by  step,  the  victim  of  this  idea 
.  is  led  to  the  fatal  deed;  how,  from  the  very 
first  "Conception  of  the  crime,  its  punishment 
begins  to  pass  through  all  the  phases  of 
terror  and  uncertainty  to  the  unbearable 
torture  of  remorse;  how  the  criminal,  exist- 
ing in  a  lurid  haie  of  madness,  schemes  and 
plans  with  a  madman's  cunning  to  evade 
the  legal  penalty  of  his  act;  and  how,  slowly 
but  surely,  he  is  brought  to  make  a  full 
confession  —  all  this  and  more  Dostoyevsky 
sets  forth  with  3  power  of  vivia  realism  that 
liurries  the  reader  breathless  from  page  to 
1  page,  chained  in  a  magic  spell  of  the  strange 
and  terrible,  and  leaves  him  exhausted  with 
the  overpowering  passions  which,  without 
any  effort  of  his  own,  have  been  aroused 
within  him.  Each  one  of  the  characters,  of 
whom  there  are  many,  is  carefully  elabo- 
rated, and  each  has  a  place  in  the  gradual 
urifolding  of  the  narrative  which  is  made  to 
seem  inevitable,  so  firm  and  true  is  the 
author's  every  stroke,  so  keen  his  knowl- 
edge of  the  relations  of  cause  and  effect  in 


the  part  that  each  plays  in  this  heart-rending 
tragedy. 

Can  such  a  book,  dealing  with  material  so 

revolting,  be  of  any  possible  service  ?    We 

think  it  can — to  those  who  can   read   it 

ight  and  understand  fully  the  underlying 

principles   of   the   art   that   brought  it  into 

being.     In  its  microscopic  fidelity  it  leaves 

aspect  of  social  degradation  untouched, 

but  it  touches  all  with  the  unerring    yet 

kindly  skill  of  the  trained  physidan  who 

ipplies  the   knife   and  cautery  to  heal.     In 

filth  and   crime  and  wretchedness,  Dostoy- 

evsky's  characters  retain  the  saving  element 

of  manhood,  and  their  author  never  makes 

e  error  of  depicting  them  as  beasts.    It  is 

book  that  gains  in  power  by  a  second 

'  a  third  reading,  that  takes  bold  upon  the 

Ciemory  and  leaves  It  peopled  with  new 
hapes,  strange  and  often  terrible  in  out- 
line, yet  pulsating  with  the  universal  long- 
ings that  cry  from  the  depths  for  the  com- 
prehension and  sympathy  ^f 
humanity. 

ALASKA,- 

THE  tradition  is  that  when  the  late 
Secretary  Seward  was  asked  by  some 
what  he  considered  the  most  important 
act  of  his  Secretaryship,  he  replied  that 
"the  purchase  of  Alaska"  was;  but  that 
*'  it  would  take  a  generation  to  find  it  out," 
It  will  not  take  many  such  books  as  Mi 
Hallock's  Our  New  Alaska  to  make  us  fin 
it  out.  Documentary  information  about 
Alaska  is  abundant,  and  other  and  perhaps 
more  important  works  of  a  popular  ca! 
said  to  be  in  store,  but  this  is  the  most 
factory  and  complimentary  so  far  ai 
know  to  date.  And  we  must  emphatically 
recommend  it  as  full  of  information,  pict- 
uresquely written,  and  very  readable.  It 
cannot  fail  to  send  scores  and  hundreds  of 
to  our  great  Northwest  another 


Mr.  Hallock  is  a  well-known  American 
sportsman,  who  carries  fishing-rod  in  01 
hand  as  he   plies   the   pen   with    the  othi 
But  it  is  not  as  a  sportsman's  paradise  that 
he  describes  Alaska ;  he  explores  it  int 
gently  if  enthusiastically,  as  a  field  of  o 
roerce,  and   in  the  account  he  gives  of 
forests,  its  fisheries,  and  its  mines,  as  well 
as  of  its  climate,  scenery,  and  attractions 
for  the  tourist,  fully  vindicates  the  acquisi- 
tion of  it  as  a  territory  of  the  United  States. 
So  far  from  being  inaccessible,  it  can 
be  reached  by  luxurious   steamers  twice  a 
month    from    San    Francisco,  though    Mi 
Hallock  recommends  the  land  route  as  far 
as  Portland,  Oregon. 

The  dbtance  between  Victoria  and  Wnngell 
is  a  iiltle  less  than  eight  hundred  miles,  the 
whole  route  so  landlocked  ttial  not  a  qualm  of 
sea-sickneu  is  permitted  (o  come  aboard,  and  all 

•Aluka;  or,  1'he  Soriid  Puichu*  Viodicated.  By 
Chirlo  Hillock.  IJIusmied.  Fotni  ud  StRim  Futi- 
liatudc  Co.    fT.50. 


the  emissaries  of  Neptune  lie  low  among  the 
grottoes  of  the  deep.  The  further  northward 
one  goes  the  grander  the  scenery  becomes,  the 
higher  and  more  rugged  grow  the  mountains, 
the  whiter  their  caps  of  anow,  the  denser  the 
'surrounding    forests,  and  the   more    1       ~   — 


than  the  Saguenay,  open  channels  greener  than 
"'-^ara.  Peaks  are  piled  on  peaks  in  tumult- 
I  forms.  Outlines  seirated  and  sharp  cut 
upper  aky.  Black  ravines  and  da^iling 
patches  o[  snow  alternate.  Scats  seam  ihe  entire 
sides  of  lofly  mountains,  where  the  spring  ava- 
lanches have  scathed  them  of  every  vestige  of 
soil  and  vegeution.  The  inleti  are  oClen  envel- 
oped in  fogi,  but  when  they  lift  the  surprises  aje 
bewildering. 

In  his  first  two  chapters  Mr.  Hallock  out- 
lines his  itinerary,  by  way  of  the  Northern 
Pacific  R.  R.  and  Poget  Sound,  describing 
'n  terms  like  the  above  the  magnificent 
approaches  to  his  destination,  and  in  the 
third  chapter  fairly  enters  on  the  descrip- 
tion of  the  Territory  as  visitors  see  it,  as 
the  Indians  occupy  it,  as  the  Russians  have 
deserted  it,  as  commerce  is  beginning  to 
improve  it,  as  missionaries  may  minister 
>  it,  and  as  artists  might  paint  it : 
There  was  never  scenery  more  grand,  or  cli- 
...ate  more  delecuble.  From  the  first  of  June  to 
Ihe  end  of  September,  ihroughoul  the  whole  ex- 
cursion season,  the  temperature  is  equable.  One 
need*  not  perspire  without  exercise.  He  is 
always  cool  and  needs  never  be  cold.  Morning 
fog3  burn  off  by  ten  o'clock :  rain  seldom  fails  j 
there  is  scarcely  wind  enough  to  fill  a  sail;  and 
ihe  headway  of  the  steamer  makes  a  grateful 
breeze.  On  shore  there  are  few  insects  or  Hies, 
no  reptiles,  and  scarcely  a  butterfly  or  hee'tlc.  . .  . 
In  this  archipelago  of  mountains  and  land- 
locked seas,  objects  individually  so  magnificent 
in  themselves  as  to  startle  the  senses  are  multi- 
plied and  reduplicated  until  they  paralyse  one's 
comprehension.  ...  At  night  the  elory  o(  the 
stars  and  const  ell  ations  is  repeated  from  infinite 
hights  to  infinite  depths,  and  the  round  full 
moon  seems  regent  of  (he  whole  universe.  .  .  . 
Occasionally  there  are  nights  when  the  crests  of 
all  the  waves  are  luminous,  and  the  lustrous  phos- 
phorence  piles  up  under  the  prow  in  lumps  of 
liquid  light,  and  streams  off  in  the  receding  wake 
of  the  vessel. .  . .  Occasionally  an  Indian  village  of 
huts  or  tents  is  seen  on  shore,  or  a  canoe  load 
of  natives  sweeps  by  under  pressure  of  blanket- 
tail  and  paddle.  .  .  ,  Steaminc;  through  the  lal^- 
rinths  of  straits  and  channels  which  seem  to 
have  no  outlets;  straining  the  neck  to  scan  the 
lops  of  snow-capped  peaks  which  rise  abruptly 
from  the  basin  where  you  ride  a(  anchor;  watch- 
ing the  gambols  of  great  whales,  thresher-sharks, 
and  herds  of  sea-tiuns,  which  seem  as  if  penned 
up  In  an  aquarium,  so  completely  are  they  in- 
closed by  the  shadowy  hi) la  —  one  watches  the 
strange  forms  around  him  with  an  intensity  of 
interest  which  almost  amounts  to  ane. .  . .  There 
are  no  sand  beaches  or  gravelly  shores.  All  the 
margins  of  mainland  and  islands  drop  down 
plump  into  inky  fathoms  of  water.  . . .  When  the 
tide  sets  in,  great  rafts  of  alpae,  with  stems  fitly 
feet  long,  career  along  the  surface ;  millions  of 
jellyfish  and  aiiemones,  . .  .  great  air  bulbs,  with 
D__.:__       ^  Bchnols  of  porpoise 

and  mediterranean 

ceaseless  surge,  like  an  itrcsislible  arm'y.     Host* 

of  gulls  scream  overhead,  .  .  .  ducks,  eaglej, 

the  leaping  salmon  and  the  spouting  whales  fill 
up  the  fotegrnund  with  animated  life.  Here  and 
there  along  the  almost  perpendicular  cliffs  the 
outflow  of  the  melting  snow  .  .  .  leaps  down  in 
dizzy  water.falls.  From  (he  caiions  which  divide 
the  foothills  cascades  pour  out  into  the  brine, 
and  all  their  channels  are  choked  with  salmon. 
.  .  .  I  could  catch  them  with  my  hands.  .  .  . 
Sometimes  we  cross  the  mouth  of  a  sound  open 
to  the  sea,  where  the  full  force  of  the  Pacific 
waves  rolls  in,  .  .  .  Some  lA  the  cloud  effects 


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[Oct.  30 


But  all  this  is  of  the  introduction  onlyi 
vre  have  not  yet  reached  Mr.  Hallock's  40th 
page.  Alaska  once  fairly  at  his  feet,  he 
jiraisei  its  climate  as  moderate  if  variable. 
The  soil  along  the  coast  is  fertile,  and  in 
summer  productive.  Cereals,  vegetables, 
fruits,  berries  of  all  kinds,  grow  in  abun- 
dance. Stock  can  be  raised  to  great  ad- 
vantage. The  dairy,  the  poulliy-yard,  and 
the  hog-pen  may  all  be  made  productive. 
Silk  culture  is  entirely  practicable,  and 
Alaska  can  make  her  own  sugar.  The 
visible  wealth  of  the  Territory  lies  in  her 
forests  which  are  interminable,  in  her  mines 
which  are  cxhaustless,  and  in  her  seal  and 
salmon  fisheries  which  have  no  parallel 
in  any  waters  of  the  globe.  In  Alaska 
300,000,000  of  acres  are  covered  with  the 
noblest  timber.  The  alders  grow  to  diam- 
eters of  sixteen  inches.  The  merchantable 
woods  are  various ;  the  very  mosses  ar 
economic  value ;  the  impenetrable  forests 
are  incomparable  game  preserves.  Salmon 
jam  the  rivers  so  that  the  fish  cannot  move, 
The  glaciers  furnish  harvests  of  ice.  The 
native  population  supplies  cheap  labor. 
The  mines  can  be  worked  at  small  eipensc; 
and  besides  gold  and  silver,  coal  is  looked 
for.  Mr.  Hallock  has  one  whole  chapter 
on  the  glaciers,  another  on  the  seals, 
another  on  the  salmon  fisheries,  and  sev- 
eral on  the  natives  and  their  habits.  He 
gives  the  natives  a  general  good  character, 
but  says  they  have  been  demoralised  by  the 
transition  from  Russian  to  American  con- 
trol, the  latter  having  opened  with  a  period 
of  neglect.  Schools,  however,  are  springing 
up  and  missionary  work  has  its  encourage- 
ments. It  seems  as  if  at  last  the  national 
attention  was  aroused  to  the  value  and  im- 
portance of  its  possession. 

Whoever  wants  the  statistics  of  Alaska 
will  turn  to  government  reports  at  Wash- 
ington, and  to  Mr.  H.  H.  Bancroft's  vo- 
luminous work  for  history  in  its  complete- 
ness ;  but  for  a  sketch-book  on  a  fascinating 
subject  Mr.  Hallock's  answers  •cxcellenlly, 
and  both  text  and  illustrations  will  greatly 
sharpen  curiosity  of  the  seekers  for  a  new 
sensation.  We  shall  be  almost  tempted  to 
remove  the  LiUrary  World  to  Alaska. 


BOOKS  rOB  THE  TOTJBQ. 

Mary  and  Martha,  the  Mother  and  Wifi  cf 
Winhiti^ot-  By  Benson  J.  Losaing.  lllusliited 
by  Fac-SimilieB  of  Pen-aiid-jnk  Diawingi  by  H. 
Ross.    [Harper  4  lirolhers.    %t.^.\ 

It  is  cerUtnly  a  generalion  jince  delighted 
boys  lomed  the  pages  of  Lossing's  Fiild  Sook  ef 
the  Rnielutim,  learning  more  history  from  ■'  - 
profute  wood-cuts  than  any  school  course 
ever  succeeded  in  imparting  to  them.  The 
series  that  followed  fulfilled  much  the 
office,  the  veteran  historian,  if  chiefly  compiler, 
knowing  always  how  to  select  his  material  with 
e«cellenl  lasle  and  judgment.  The  same  qual- 
ities that  have  cbaracteriied  preceding  books  are 


found  in  this  attractive  volume  of  nearly  fonr 
hundred  profusely  illuslraled  pages,  in  which  a 
of  family  documents  have  been  made  to 
yield  their  utmost.  Dr.  Losaing  enjoyed  special 
advantages  from  the  fact  that  he  was  for  many 
I  the  strong  personal  friend  of  the  Custis 
family  at  Arlington  House,  then  filled  with  me- 
loriaU  of  the  Washington  family,  Mn.  Lee  ha«- 
ig,  in  1859,  pUced  in  his  hands  her  father's 
Kecoilectiona  of  Washington,"  together  with  a 
lass  of  family  papers.  From  these  papers  and 
from  long  research  in  other  directions,  macb 
that  had  been  unknown  to  the  public  is  now 
made  clear,  and  the  pleasant  narrative  flows  on 
with  small  hint  of  (he  lime  and  lahora  involved 
in  gleaning  the  facts  it  holds.  Naturally  there 
are  many  aidc-lights  on  the  character  of  Wash- 
ington himself,  both  as  boy  and  man,  and  the 
volume  with  its  symbolic  cover  and  clear  pages 
ought  to  be  on  the  hook-shelf  of  every  bo;  and 
girl  in  the  country,  (heir  ownership  giving  the 
opporlunity,  which  (heir  elders  will  certainly  use, 
of  (urning  over  the  pages  on  their  own  account. 


CrowellftCo.    ^1.50.] 

Mrs.  Bolton  has  the  successful  journalist's 
knack  of  seizing  characteristics  and  salient 
points  almost  at  a  glance,  and  her  work  in  any 

direction  Is  always  graceful  and  pleasing.  That 
it  lacks  oiiginality  and  is  hardly  likely  to  find 
any  permanent  place  as  literature,  does  not 
detract  from  its  present  usefulness,  her  aim 
being  merely  to  give  readable  and  trustworthy 
accounts  of  her  various  heroines.  Nineteen  End 
place  in  (he  pretty  book,  the  portraits  in  which 
are  intended  presumably  as  suggestions  only, 
most  of  them  having  the  worst  faults  of  "  proc- 
ess "  work.  Nevertheless,  the  htrak,  portraits 
and  all,  is  an  excellent  birthday,  or  any-day, 
token  for  the  girl  who  desires  to  know  by  what 
means  successful  lives  became  successful,  and 
Mrs.  Bolton's  pleasant  sketches  empha»ze  for 
each  the  fact  that  only  work  and  the  hardest 
of  work  has  brought  about  the  results  achieved. 
Poets  and  novelists,  artists  and  scientists,  jour- 
nalists and  teachers,  find  place  on  the  pretty 
pages,  though  it  is  a  little  difficult  to  understand 
why  Lady  Brassey  and  George  Eliot  are  between 
the  same  covers  ;  a  stoall  incongruity,  however, 
to  be  pardoned  because  of  the  real  value  of  the 
houk  as  a  whole. 


The  scene  of  The  Hoine  of  Waldcmt  is  laid 
in  (he  thirteenth  century.  It  is  a  story  of  (he 
old'[a<ihioned  type  fas(  falling  into  disuse,  which 
brims  with  crusaders  and  monks  and  belted 
earls ;  outlaws  of  Ihc  Kobin  Hond  sort,  rohher- 
harons  who  outdo  the  outlaws  in  cruelty,  youth. 
ful  squires  who  watch  beside  (heir  armor  on  the 
eve  of  knighthood.  In  spite,  however,  of  these 
medixval  accessories  and  (he  plentiful  foot-notes 
wiih  dates  and  references  by  which  the  author 
establishes  the  accuracy  of  his  facts,  the  atmos- 
phere of  the  tale  fails  to  impress  itself.  The 
characters  all  say  "Nay  "  and  "Methinks,"  and 
swear  by  the  Halidome.  There  is  a  ghost  who 
comes  periodically  back  to  demand  that  the  man 
who  slew  him,  or  else  his  son  in  his  stead, 
should  carry  his  sword  to  Jerusalem  and  lay  it 
on  the  altar  of  the   Holy  Sepalcher.      Under 


penalty  of  being  "spooked  "  to  all  eternity,  the 
Old  Han  of  the  Mountain  appears.  All  is 
toned  decorously  down  to  the  advantage  and 
comprehension  of  "churchly  youth"  of  the 
appropriate  age,  but  somehow  it  fails  to  im- 
press us,  and  we  look  in  vain,  this  way  and 
that,  for  the  kind  lA  young  people  who  are 
likely  to  read  ind  enjoy  The  Heuie  af  Wal- 
itrni.  We  are  disposed  to  suspect  that  they 
do  not  exist  on  our  side  of  the  sea,  and  that 
even   in   England  they  may  prove  few  and  far 

The  Maiiitg  ef  f/m    En^anJ.    tj8o-l64|. 

S"  '   Samuel   Adams  Drake.      Illustrations  and 
aps.    [Charles  Scribner's  Sons.    fLJo] 

A  more  useful  t>ook  on  the  early  history  of 
New  England  and  the  causes  which  finally 
brought  about  the  Confederacy  of  1643,  '' 
would  be  hard  to  find.  The  young  people  who 
take  it  in  hand  will  have  a  clearer  understanding 
of  the  matter,  we  ventare  to  say,  than  they  have 
obtained  from  alt  their  school  histories  and  other 
reading  combined ;  for  as  the  author  had  this 
class  especially  in  mind,  he  has  taken  unwonted 
pains  (o  bring  forward  only  the  facts  which  were 
necessary  to  make  the  outline  and  connection 
complete ;  and  these  he  has  put  into  such  form 
that  even  a  child  can  see  how  New  England 
grew  from  "the  little  seed  which  the  Filgrioi 
Fathers  plinted."  Each  topic,  as  for  example, 
the  "  First  Comers  of  Boston  Bay,"  "  Pioneers 
of  New  Hampshire,"  "Pioneers  of  Connecticut," 
etc.,  is  carefully  worked  out  by  itself,  while  at 
the  same  time  its  relation  to  the  general  colon- 
ization is  kept  in  sight.  It  was  the  purpose  of 
the  author  to  eliminate  much  of  the  matter  of  the 
larger  histories,  and  to  do  it  without  loss  of 
vitality  and  plcturesqucness  to  the  narrative ; 
and  he  has  succeeded.  It  is  admirable  as  a 
school  text-book,  and  attractive  to  any  reader 
who  likes  to  have  (he  outlining  and  grouping 
of  historic  (hemes  prepared  for  him  (o  be  filled 
in  from  more  voluminous  sources  U  his  pleasure, 
in  other  words,  to  have  the  relation  of  causes  to 
results  brought  out  without  his  own  personal 
labor  and  investigation.  There  are  one  hundred 
and  forty  pictures  and  maps,  notes  at  the  end 
of  the  chapters,  and  an  index  —  a  good  equip- 
ment for  profitable  service.  • 

Jo's  Bays,  and  Ht/n  TTuy  TVrned  Oiit  A 
Sequel  to  UttU  Men.  By  Louisa  M.  Alcott. 
[Roberts  Brothers.     ^(.50.] 

The  "Little  Men"  of  Plumfield  whom  Mrs. 
Jo  taught,  corrected,  advised,  and  mothered, 
have  grown  ap,  and  fortune  brings  them  all 
back  for  a  longer  or  shorter  stay  at  the  old 
hive,  where  everything  is  as  home-like,  as  tu- 
multuous, as  Jolly,  and  as  prosperous  as  ever, 
and  where  everything  goes  on  in  (he  same  ofi- 
hand  way  of  living  to  which  we  were  used  in 
the  earlier  time.  The  years  have  not  checked 
the  ardor  of  Mrs.  Jo  ;  and  the  Professor's  genial 
German  heart  is  mellower  if  possible  than  when 
we  first  knew  him.  The  girls  have  become 
winsome,  fatally  so  to  the  "  Little  Men,"  and 
in  consequence,  the  !ove  element  enters  largely 
into  the  present  history,  with  resul(s  varying 
just  as  life  varies.  Nan,  who  is  hen(  upon  being 
a  physician,  snubs  her  young  adorer,  Tom,  who 
finds  consolation  elsewhere,  and  she  remains  a 
spinster;  Bess  becomes  an  artist  and  Josie  an 
actress,  but  both  find  their  mates.     Dan  is  an 


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367 


adventurer,  who  comet  to  grief  —  the  Prodigal 
Son  of  the  household  —  but  !■  greatly  helped 
and  chastened  by  his  experiences,  failing,  how- 
ever, 10  gain  the  prize  be  longs  for  in  the  love 
of  little  Bess ;  Nat,  too,  has  a  downfall,  but  1 
covers  himself;  Franz,  Emil,  Rob,  »nd  Ted 
are  not  their  trials,  temptationt,  succeuea  i 
set  forth  bf  this  favorite  author's  veracious  and 
indulgent  pen?  —  and  why  spoil  your  pleasure, 
young  reader,  by  telling  how  f  Enough  that 
here  yon  have  them  all,  as  life-like  as  when  you 
parted  from  them;  and  that  much  good  fortune 
comet,  with  honors,  white  roses,  wedding  bells ; 
so  that  now,  having  bestowed  "as  much  proa- 
perity  as  the  eternal  fitness  of  things  will  per- 
mit," the  magician  says  "  let  the  music  stop,  the 
lights  die  out,  »ad  the  cnrtaiu  fall  forever  on 
the  March  family  "  —  but  not  irithout  a  reminder 
of  the  wise  advice  for  the  conduct  of  life  which 
haj  been  liberally  sprinkled  along  the  chapters ; 
more  of  which  seemis  under  meditation  (and 
more  autobiography,  let  u*  hope)  to  judge  by 
the  preoccapied  look  of  the  kindly  face  which 
fronts  the  title-page. 


lustrated.    [Charles  Scribaer's  Sons,    f  z«o.] 

We  assume  from  its  subject  and  appearance 
that  this  is  intended  as  a  yoncg  people's  book, 
though  many  an  "old  boy"  and  "old  girl  "  on 
□nee  taking  it  tip  will  become  too  much  inter- 
ested in  its  entertaining  information  to  lay  it 
down  until  finished.  It  is  a  popular  account  of 
the  elephant  from  all  points  of  viewj  a  well- 
planned,  carefully  studied,  cleverly  written,  fairly 
illustrated,  and  generally  capital  book  on  its 
theme.  I'he  author  is  a  man  of  some  sdenttfic 
tastes  and  knowledge,  has  investigated  the  ele- 
phant not  io  books  bat  in  proper  person,  and 
enlivens  his  chapters  with  a  large  amotmt  of 
anecdote  and  narrative.  The  opening  pages 
treat  of  the  natural  history  of  the  elephant,  his 
habits,  and  his  intelligence,  which  Mr.  Holder 
thinks  gives  him  an  advanced  rank  in  the  brute 
creation.  Next  there  arc  chapters  on  mamnoths 
and  mastodons,  those  extinct  members  of  the 
elephant  family.  T^cn  the  famous  Jnnbo  comet 
in  for  a  complete  biography.  After  tUa  follow 
accounts  of  hunting,  capturing,  and  training  the 
Asiatic  elephants,  which  aie  a  distinct  variety 
from  the  African ;  of  the  lacrcd  White  Elephant 
of  Stam;  of  baby  elephants  and  trick  elephants ; 
of  the  ivory  traffic  in  Africa ;  and  of  the  elephant 
in  art,  in  sport,  in  pageants,  and  in  war.  Very 
complete  ia  the  plan  of  the  book  and  very 
thorough  its  method  Mr.  Holder  says  that  "  to 
produce  the  Soo  tona  of  Ivory  used  annually 
nearly  7S°co  elephants  are  destroyed,"  and  his 
book  is  in  a  measure  a  plea  for  measures  to  pre- 
serve bis  race  from  extinction. 

T7te  Lifi  a/  Hubert  FulMt,  and  a  History  of 
Steam  Navigation.  By  T.  W.  Knox.  [G.  P. 
rutnaro's  Sons,    %l.^^ 

Mr.  Kdoz  knowt  what  young  readen  want, 
and  as  in  Hr.  Holder's  elephant  book,  so  in  this 
steam  navigation  book  old  readers  as  well  as 
young  may  find  themselves  interested.  Robert 
Fulton  stands  at  the  bead  o(  It,  of  course,  not 
only  in  t^  frontispiece,  but  in  tbe  first  eight 
chapters,  which  are  strictly  biographical,  tracing 
Fulton's  career  from  hia  turth  and  tbe  toy  pad- 
dle-boat of  his  childhoOHl,  on  to  the  deUgn  and 
trial  tripof  the  famous  "Clermont,"  to  his  death. 


and  to  his  burial  in  Trinity  Churchyard,  New 
York.  The  book  then  passes  to  the  development 
of  steam  navigation  in  England  and  the  United 
States,  sketching  in  turn  the  first  attempts  at 
river  boats  on  a  large  scale,  the  growth  of  the 
fleet  on  the  Great  lUkes,  the  early  boats  on 
British  waters,  and,  most  interesting  of  all,  per- 
haps, the  history  of  the  Atlantic  traffic.  Tbe 
romance  of  the  Cnnard  and  Collins  and  Inman 
and  Guion  and  other  lines  is  told  with  fairly 
minute  particulars  of  famous  ships  and  mem- 
orable disasters  and  fast  passages ;  there  is  a 
pathetic  obituary  of  the  "  Great  Eastern,"  and  a 
dosing  chapter  on  naval  architecture  and  exploit. 
I.arge  type,  a  bright  page,  and  numerous  pict- 
ures make  the  book  engaging  to  the  eye. 

Tlu  Boyf  Book  of  Famous  Rulirs,  by  Lydia 
Hoyt  Farmer  [T.  V.  Crowell  &  Co.  fl.jc^]  is 
a  handsome  volume,  fully  illustrated  with  por- 
traits, containing  biographies  averaging  thirty 
pages  each,  of  fifteen  of  the  famous  kings  and 
generals  of  ancient  and  modern  times,  from 
Agamemnon  to  Napoleon.    They  are  well  writ- 

thongh  not  in  a  style  adapted  to  young  boys, 
and  convey  much  valuable  information  concern- 
ing the  times  and  the  peoples  of  the  selected 
rulers.  In  general  Mrs.  Farmer  follows  safe 
guides,  but  her  chapter  on  Napoleon  is  alto- 
gether too  much  of  a  eulogium. 

T^BO  Thousand  Years  Ago ;  or.  The  Aihietttures 
of  a  Roman  Boy,  by  Prof.  A.  J.  Church.  [Dodd, 
Mead  &  Co.    ii.50.]    Lucius,  Prof.  Church's  Ro 

boy,  is  first  captured  by  Spartacus,  later  by 
pirates,  then  by  Mithridates,  King  of  Pontus, 
with  no  end  of  adventures  interspersed.  The 
story,  irhicb  is  adapted  for  older  readers,  keeps 
closely  to  historic  fact,  and  the  manners  and 
customs  of  the  time,  while  a  simple  plot  issuing 
happily  helps  to  increase  the  interest.  It  is  a 
good  historical  novel  for  youtb. 

The  Men  of  Renown  whom  tbe  Rev.  Dr.  Dan- 
iel Wise  has  sketched  in  ten  popular  chapters 
with  moral  and  religious  intent  are  Lincoln, 
Adams,  Amos  and  Abbott  Lawrence,  Haw- 
thorne, Sydney  Smith,  Fox,  Cromwell,  Cranmer, 
Erasmns,  and  Chaucer.  Some  of  these  we 
should  not  exactly  call  men  of  'renown,"  and 

lo  not  see  the  wisdom  of  the  order  of  the 
sketches;    but  the   author's  discrimination  be- 

1  his  subjects  is  good,  he  uses  no  cant,  and 
the  book  is  a  useful  one.    [Cranston  &   Stowe. 

MINOS  riOTION. 


ball.    [Harper  4  Bros.] 

We  suppose  that  tbe  author  of  Bartara's  Va- 
gariit  had  some  definite  knowledge  of  her  inten- 
tion in  writing  the  book ;  if  so,  she  has  succeeded 
admirably  in  concealing  it,  unless,  indeed,  the 
erratic  and  inconsequential  narrative  be  intended 
advertisement  fora  certain  Southern  health 
resort  —  in  which  case  we  should  say  that  it 
:tty  poor  investment  for  those  con- 
cerned in  its  publication.  Certainly  we  cannot 
imagine  any  class  of  readers  who  could  find 
entertainment  in  this  crude  account  of  uninterest- 
ing people,  tbe  whole  pitched  in  a  key  of  hyper- 
sentimentality.  Barbara  Deiier  is  an  escaped 
from  a  little  mountain  town  of  North 
Cardina,  uid  her  "  vagaries  "  consist  mainly  in 
eccentriciltes  of  costume  and  a  disposition  to  be 


"  intense,"  until  she  at  length  rows  ont  10  sea  in 
a  ft^  and  disappears  from  view.  Later  she 
comes  again  upon  the  scene,  and,  of  course, 
marries  the  man  who  has  been  pining  (or  love  of 
her.  He,  like  all  the  other  men  in  the  book,  is 
a  slick,  and  the  women  are  mostly  dolls,  with 
the  exception  of  a  female  scandal-monger  and 
mischief-maker,  who  has  some  few  traits  within 
the  realm  of  possibility.  But  It  is  a  poor  story 
to  waste  one's  time  over. 


Parker.    [Dudd,  Mead  &  Co. 

The  Midnight  Cry  has  for  its  fundamental 
theme  the  "  Second  Advent "  fanaticism  of  Will- 
iam Miller  and  his  followers  in  1844-  The 
theme  is  one  of  rare  dramatic  possibilities,  but 
the  author  of  this  story  has  not  tised  them  with 
the  artistic  skill  of  which  they  are  worthy.  The 
characters  are  varied,  and,  to  a  certain  degree,  in- 
dividualized; butthe  movement  is  hurried,  the  mo- 
lives  are  not  clearly  defined,  the  relations  of  the 
leading  personages  vague  and  intangible.  Tbe 
Genesee  Valley,  where  the  action  for  the  most 
part  takes  place,  is  depleted  fairly  well.  Letitia 
Birkenstone,  an  extraordinary  woman,  who  might 
have  been  made  a  character  of  intense  interest, 
is  in  the  author's  hands  little  more  than  a  lay- 
figure.  On  the  other  hand,  the  negroes  in  the 
slory  are,  it  seems  to  us,  rather  overdrawn. 
Mrs.  Parker's  chief  difficulty  has  been  tu  keep 
the  main  thread  of  the  narrative  distinct,  and 
thereby  to  avoid  confusion.  The  style  is  vigor- 
ous and  expressive.  It  is  a  pity  that  so  good  a 
subject  for  a  novel  should  have  been  spoiled  in 
the  making. 


The  sensational  extravagances  of  the  ultra- 
sentimental  mob  of  fiction-mongers,  and  a  style 
which  copies  the  worst  points  of  the  resplendent 
"Duchess,"  are  combined  to  form  this  nauseat- 
ing talc.  Hugh  Derrick,  ugly  of  feature,  and 
saturnine  of  nature,  having  escaped  from  the 
fascinations  of  the  heartless  enchantress,  Helen 
Douglass,  wins  the  love  of  Gillian  Lancaster. 
In  a  scene  of  stage  fury  Helen  proclaims  lo 
Gillian  her  determination  to  be  avenged,  and 
after  this  warning  has  Gillian  abducted  on  the 
eve  of  the  wedding,  and  herself  marries  the  now 
pliant  Hughj  afterwards  she  shoots  him  in  the 
back,  and  runs  away  with  a  foreign  adventurer. 
It  is  altogether  the  most  wretched  concoction 
in  the  guise  of  a  novel  that  we  have  had  the  ill 
fortune  to  encounter  for  many  a  day. 


Tit  Terrace  of  Mon  Diiir.     A  Novel  of  Rus- 
sian  Life.    [Cupplcs,  Upham  &  Co.    (1.25.] 

is  the  sunny  side  of  Russian  life  that  we 

cBectcd  In  this  pretty  story,  for  the  shadow 
of  the  crime  that  ends  the  eiislcnce  of  one  of 
the  leading  characters  is  not  allowed  to  brood 
too  darkly  over  the  narrative.    The  scene  is  for 

lost  part  at  Perezoff,  that  delightful  suburb 
of  St.  Petersburg,  with  its  vistas  over  shore  and 
sea,  il3  princely  palaces,  its  noble  statues,  and  its 
glittering  foonuina.  Here,  in  one  of  the  stalely 
villas,  we  are  introduced  to  the  gentle  Countess 
OzoteroS,  her  two  daughters,  graceful  Marie 
and  Katia  the  chatterbox,  and,  most  charming 
of  all,  to  Madame  Ozoteroff's  niece,  the  proud  ^ 
and  beautiful  Nadia  Laskar.     Here  also  are  to 

et  a  dashing  lieutenant,  two  or  three  maoly 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Oct.  30, 


militir;  students,  a  gray-haired  prince,  and  other 
agreeable  company,  and  hither  come  from  Rome 
Andr^  Rotalaky,  who  speedily  becomes  NadJa's 
belrothed,  and  Gerald  Read,  a  fine  specimen  of 
young  AmeTLcan  manhood.  The  staiy  moves 
gently  on,  with  Siu»  and  balls  and  drives  through 
the  wooded  parks,  until  a  great  sorrow  comes 
with  the  myslerioua  death  of  Andie  and  the  dis- 
appearance oF  his  cousin,  the  handsome,  cold, 
and  heartless  Nicholas  Mayr.  Then  it  appears 
that  Mayr  had  cipected  to  be  Andrrf's  heir,  but 
is  disappointed  by  the  discovery  of  a  will  making 
other  disposition  of  the  properly.  Nadia,  in 
her  grief,  turns  to  Gerald.  Will  he.  Cor  the  love 
he  bore  his  friend,  seek  out  Mayr,  and  solve  the 
mystery  of  Andre's  death?  This 
to  do,  and  it  is  not  alone  love  for  his  lost  friend 
that  prompts  assent.  We  need  not  follow  the 
baffling  quest  from  Paris  to  London  and  back  to 
Nice  and  Monaco,  where  one  night  a  ruined 
gambler  seeks  to  take  his  life,  and  it  found  to 
be  (he  missing  Mayr.  Gerald  goea  back  to 
PerCEuff  with  Mayr'i  confession,  and  what  en- 
sues the  reader  can  perhaps  guess.  It  is  all  told 
in  a  sweet,  womanly  fashion  ;  the  characters  are 
outlined  with  a  dainty  pen,  "in  lemembrance  of 
the  many  kindnesses  and  charming  hospitality 
of  which  the  writer  was  the  recipient  during  a 
year'd  stay  in  Russia."  One  may  well  envy  the 
experience  which  inspired  so  pleasant  a  me 
moriaU 

Franeit:  A  SoeialisHc  RomaiKt.  Being  foi 
the  Most  Part  an  Idyll  of  England  and  Summer 
ByM.DalVero,    [llarper  ft  Bros,    ijc] 

Aside  from  the  wild  improbability  of  its  plot, 
Framii  is  a  story  oE  more  than  ordinary  mer 
Rose  Caldicott,  the  squire's  daughter,  being  o 
for  a  ramble  one  lovely  May  day,  strives  to  cro 
a  ditch  by  means  of  a  crooked  tree-trunk  whii 
serves  as  a  bridge.     When  half  way  across,  she 
slips  from  her   uncertain  fooling  into  the  mud 
and  slime  beneath,  and  is  rescued  from  her 
comfortable  position  by  a  young  man  in  working 
clothes,  whose  countenance,  speech, 
are  indicative  of  culture  and  refinement.    T 
is  Francis   Greye,  employed  in   the  large  ii 
works  of  a  neighboring  town,  and  as  Rose  it 
ardent  socialist,  she  accepts  him  at  once  ai 
realization   of  her  ideal   type  of  laborer,    f 
takes  him  at  once  into  her  good  graces,  patt 
iies  him  gently,  and  instructs  him  in  geology  and 
kindred  sciences.    Both   are  young,  and  shi 
beautiful,  and  so  they  fall  in  love.     Meanwhile, 
Francis  has  not  revealed  his  true  position,  which 
Is  that  of  a  younger  son  of  a  wealthy  family  of 
lofty  lineage,  in  training  for  the  profession  of 
mechanical  engineer.    Rose  first  discovers  it  at 
a  London  reception,  and  is  bo  piqued  at  the 
destruction  of  her  illusions  that  she  will  consent 
to   an  engagement  only  on  condition  that  her 
lover  will  for  a  year  live  the  life  of  a  working- 
man,  and  support  himself  wholly  on  his  scant 
earnings  of  ten  shillings  a  week.    This  he  vows 
to  do;  how  he  succeeds,  and  what  came  of  it  alt, 
we  must  leave  the   reader  to  determine.    The 
book  is  attractively  written,  and  has  a  variety  of 
coloring  evidently  studied  from  life,  and  Indden^ 
ally  it  throws  some  light  on  the  condition  of  the 
English  laboring  classes. 


down  Prinass,  by  the  author  of  that  clever  story, 
Oblhnim.    Second  books  of  young  authors  not 
infrequently  dfv  disappdniing,  but  we  had  hoped 
much  from   Miss   McClelland's  eddeni  ability, 
ire  we  yet  willing  to  admit  that  the  fulfill- 
ment of  our  hope  is  more  than  temporarily  sus- 
pended or  deferred.    The  temptation  to  fallow 
up  a  marked  literary  success  is  a  strong  one,  so 
strong  that  it  may  well  plead  apology  for  some 
ess  writing ;  also  to  expect  an  mtimrage  and 
icters  so  fresh  and  original  as  those  of  Ob- 
Irviea,  until  the  author  has  time   to   asuimilate 
another  atmosphere  and  condition  of  life,  would 
be   unreasonable.    But  the  real   weakness   and 
lack  of  Printtss  lies  not  in  these.    It  lies  in  the 
defeat   of   principle    which   allows   Pocahontas 
Mason  to  falter  in  her  right-minded,  instinctive 
objections,  and,  in   the   end,  to   marry   Nesbitt 
Thome  for  the  sole  reason  that  he  desires  it  of 
all  things,  and  is  unhappy  without  her.    These 
Lot  times  when  any  slackening  of  the  faint, 
init^g  barriers  which  aland  lietween  man  and 
ishes  can  be  permitted.     If  Pocahontas  can 
be  pardotied  for  marrying  Nesbitt,  a  man  who, 
haviog  separated  from  his  wife  for  the  sole  rea- 
son that  they  jar  on  each  other,  assists  her  to  pro- 
a  divorce  that  she  may  marry  again,  and 
because  he  is  determined  to  marry  again  j  if  she, 
re,  ioyal-hearted  gir),  can  be  forgiven  this, 
there  is  little  hindrance  left  in  the  way  of  any 
-ce  or  re-marriage.     We  are  sorry  that  Miss 
McClelland  has  not  seen  the  nobler  way  in  this 
matter,  and  placed  her  sweet  heroine  by  the  side 
Justina,"  as  another  gjrl  who  preferred  her 
lover's  honor  to  her  own  happiness,  and  held  him 
!  straight  path  by  her  own  unfaltering  reto- 
1,  till  the  crooked  way  became  straight,  and 
joy,  long  deferred,  came  doubly-freighted  to  them 
both.    Such  lessons  are  needed  in  these  times, 
who  shall  give  them  if  our  young  women 
srs  fail  or  falter,  or  take  the  other  sidef 


Princm.     By  M.  G.  McClelland. 
Holt  &  Co.    *!«.] 
It  is  with  real  disappcdntment  that 


[Henry 
we  lay 


lOlfOB  NOTIOES. 

Tht  FoMrtk  Caspd.  The  Question  of  its  Origin 
Stated  and  Discussed.  By  James  Freeman 
Clarke.    [George  H.  Ellis.     50c,] 

Vtxtd  Quetlian  in  TktiUegy.  By  the  same. 
[George  H.Ellis,    fi.oo.] 

Rev.  Dr.  Clarke,  whose  perennial  vigor  is  a 
cause  of  astonishment  to  all  readers  of  Unitarian 
theology,  discusses  in  the  first  of  these  volumes 
the  great  question  of  New  Testament  criti 
from  a  conservative  standpoint.  His  conch 
is  that  "it  is  very  improbable  that  the  Fourth 
Gospel  should  have  proceeded  from  a  writer  it 
the  second  century,  outside  of  Christian  tradition 
and  importing  inttf  it  a  non-christlan  element,' 
while  it  is  also  improbable  that  the  Fourth 
Gospel,  in  the  form  in  which  it  has  come  to  us, 
should  have  tieen  written  by  John  himself." 
the  substance  of  the  matter  peculiar  to  this  gospel 
is  certainly  from  John,  while  the  whole  may 
been  put  into  shape  by  his  disciples."  Dr.  Clarke 
thus  attempts  a  via  media,  and  it  is  doubtful  if 
he  will  satisfy  those  whose  greatest  difficulty  ii 
in  attributing  to  an  uneducated  fisherman  of  Gal 
ilee  so  profound  and  philosophical  and  dramatj 
a  work  as  the  Fourth  Gospel  — especially  if  he  is 
also  to  be  credited  with  the  intensely  Jewish 
Apocalypse.  Dr.  Clarke's  parallel  between  this 
case  and  that  of  Milton,  the  rude  controversialist 
and  the  grand  epic  poet,  strikes  us  as  forced  in 
no  small  degree.    There  is  the  same  hand  trace- 


able in  the  Ariopagitica  and  the  Paradisi  Lest ; 
while  Dr.  Clarke  does  not  touch  the  main  diffi- 
culty, which  lies  in  the  altogether  probable  lack 
of  anything  like  wide  education  in  the  Apostle, 
Milton  being  distinguished  by  the  breadth  of  his 
which  qualified  him  to  write  in  more  than 
mer,  even  at  the  same  period  of  his  life. 
The  factor  of  "inspiration"  is  of  course  alone 
le  answer  to  the  problem. 
The  "  series  of  essays  "  which  make  up  Dr. 
iarke's  second  volume,  named  above,  is  not  a 
proper  "series,"  and  is  not  "essays."     It  is  a 
iscellaneous  collection  of  sermons  on  Calvin- 
ism, the  rank  of  Christ,  Sunday,  State-Help  ei. 
Self-Help,  Piolialian,  and  various  other  subjects 
with  no  particular  connection.    Dr.  Clarke's  ser- 
iB  are  among  the  very  best  currently  issued, 
genius  being  of  the  purest  homitelic  strain. 
They  come  from  one  of  the  kindest  hearts,  and 
one  of  the  most  catholic    and   comprehensive 
minds  of  our  time,  and  we  should  sincerely  pity 
tny  one  who  Could  not  get  great  good  from  perus- 
ing them,  whatever  his  theology  might  be. 

AncitHl  Cities.  From  tie  Damn  le  the  Daylight. 
By  William  Burnet  Wright  FHougbton,  MiWin 
4Co.    Ji.is.] 

Rev.  Mr.  Wright  has  here  collected  a  series 
of  Sunday  evening  lectures  which  are  much 
above  the  ordinary  level  of  their  kind,  wMIe 
ning  a  distinctly  religious  sad  pulpit 
flavor.  The  cities  treated  range  from  Ur  of  the 
Chaldees  through  Babylon,  Alexandria,  Tyre, 
nd  Jerusalem  to  the  New  Jerusalem. 
There  are  thirteen  of  them.  Mr.  Wright's 
method  is  to  describe  each  of  these  famous 
places  briefly  in  the  light  of  the  latest  archie- 
ilogical  researches,  to  give  a  selection  of  scenes 
rom  its  history  and  to  indicate  its  influence  00 
the  spiritual  life  of  the  race  from  the  standpoint 
mgellcal  Christianity.  The  result  is  an 
ive  volume  which  is  decidedly  valuable 
for  papular  religious  reading,  while  just  as 
decidedly  it  would  have  been  improved  by 
toning  down  the  rhetoric  of  the  last  two  chap- 
ters, which  forsake  history  and  enter  theology 
o  apparently. 

Iliitery  ef  Ikt  Refotmatien  in  Bagland.  By 
George  G.  Perry.  [A.  D.  F.  Randolph  &  Co. 
80c.] 

The  Eii^isA  Chunk  in  Other  Lands.  By  the 
Rev.  H.  W.  Tucker.  [A.  D.  F.  Randolph  ft  Co. 
80c] 

Longmans,  Green  &  Co.  of  London,  A.  D.  F. 
Randolph  &  Co.  of  New  York  being  their  Amer- 
ican representatives,  have  here  commenced  the 
issue  of  a  series  of  smalt  books  of  about  too 
pages  each,  i6mo,  under  the  general  title  of 
"  Epochs  of  Church  History."  The  editor  of  the 
series  is  the  Rev.  Mandeil  Creighton,  Professor 
of  Ecclesiastical  History  In  the  University  of 
Cambridge,  England,  who  has  no  superior  In 
England  as  an  historical  scholar  along  religious 
lines.  Mr.  Crelghton's  name  is  not  yet  to 
\st  found  in  the  biographical  dictionaries,  but 
he  has  done  some  of  the  ablest  work  in  his  special 
field  that  the  past  ten  years  have  witnessed ;  for 
example  his  massive  Hiitory  a/the  Papacy,  a  be- 
ginning of  which  appeared  in  two  volumes  in 
1S83,  with  every  promise  of  great  phltosophic 
power  and  truly  impartial  spirit  in  the  handling 
of  that  difficult  subject.  By  the  side  of  that  im- 
mense task  the  little  books  of  this  propoced 


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series  ■e«in  but  bo^'  fl»j,  fet  their  fubjeds  will 
certainly  afEord  a  field  for  Ibe  exercise  of  the  best 
schoiarahip.  Twenty-two  volumes  are  already 
ptopoMd,  nine  of  which  are  in  hand,  and  two 
ue  now  published.  Among  the  tobjects  to  be 
taken  up  are  tha  German  Reformation,  England 
and  the  Papacy,  WycIISe,  the  Arian  Controversy, 
the  Church  and  the  Roman  and  Eastern  Empires, 
the  Univerdties  of  Cambridge  and  Oxford,  the 
Wars  of  Religion,  the  Popes,  the  Monks  and 
Friars,  the  Church  and  the  Teutont,  and  Chris- 
tianity  and  Islam.  Mr.  Creighton  is  to  have 
such  helpers  as  Mr.  R.  S.  Foole,  and  Mr.  J.  Bass 
Mullinger.  In  the  two  volumes  now  published 
there  are  some  differences  in  point  of  interest 
Mr.  Perrf,  who  i»  a  Canon  of  LJncoln  and  rector 
of  Waddington  in  the  same  shire,  has  a  hack- 
neyed theme  in  "The  English  Reformation;" 
but  his  method  is  intelligent  and  vigorous,  and 
his  way  of  presenting  the  facts  goes  far  toward 
showing  how  the  Church  of  England  was  no 
creation  of  Kings  and  Parliaments  somewhere  in 
the  Sixteenth  Century,  but  a  weakened,  ham- 
pered, corrupted  organisation  having  a  much 
older  history,  then  shaking  herself  free  from  the 
burdens  under  which  she  so  long  had  staggered. 
Of  special  value  are  the  chaptera  on  the  develop- 
ment of  the  English  Prayer  Book,  the  suppres- 
sion of  the  monasteries,  and  the  settlement  of  the 
doctrinal  and  disciplinary  basis  of  the  reformed 
cbnrch. 

For  the  second  of  the  two  volumes  before  us  a 
very  apt  and  suggestive  title  has  been  selected, 
and  to  any  one  interested  in  the  growth  of  Chris- 
tian civilization  along  the  lines  of  English  coloni- 
talion  the  book  will  bring  delightful  reading. 
Here,  so  far  a*  we  know,  is  the  first  attempt  to 
compress  into  a  consecutive  and  logical  narrative 
the  whole  mass  of  facts  relating  to  the  spread  of 
the  Church  of  England  through  its  colonial  off- 
spring. In  the  United  States  and  Canadas,  in  the 
West  and  the  East  Indies,  in  the  continents  and 
islands  of  the  Pacific,  in  Africa,  China,  and 
Japan.  The  whole  vast  field  into  which  the 
English  Church,  during  the  past  hundred  years, 
has  sent  her  missionaries,  and  which  she  or 
her  ecclesiastical  daughters  have  covered  with 
churches  and  schools  and  hospitals  and  jour- 
nalism, all  in  the  interests  of  historic  Christian- 
ily,  is  here  mapped  out  to  the  eye,  and  Ibe  cur- 
rents of  activity  traced  to  their  source  and  along 
the  entire  course  by  which  the  wonderful  results 
have  been  accomplished.  As  a  literary  under- 
taking it  is  a  new  one,  its  subject  is  absorbing, 
and  such  personal  histories  as  Heber's,  Living- 
stone's, Selwyn's,  Patterson's,  and  Hanington'a 
invest  tt  with  tender  interest.  It  is  full  of  mis- 
sionary thankfulness  for  what  has  been  already 
done,  and  of  missionary  seal  for  what  still  re- 


The  BOltefAmieits.    By  John  Rusktn.    [John 
Wiley  &  Sons.    »i.oo.] 

Vol  iTArtu).  By  John  Raskin.  Do.  Do. 
The  pressure  of  the  coming  season,  which  like 
a  riung  tide  we  already  begin  to  feel,  most  be 
our  excuse  for  dismissing  these  two  books  by 
England's  foremost  art  critic  and  most  eccentric 
citizen  with  a  few  words.  The  first  of  the  two 
is  Part  I  of  a  proposed  series  of  sketches  of 
C  bristian  History  "  for  boys  and  girls  who  have 
be«n  at  its  fontsj"  and  by  "the  Bible  of  Ami- 
ens" the  author  means  the  Cathedral  at  Amiens, 
tbat  marvelous  creation  in  pure  Gothic,  or 


the  largest  and  finest  in  all  Europe,  with 
splendidly  enriched  interior.  Who  would  not  tike 
to  inspect  and  study  that  edifice  with  Raskin  for 
guide  and  instructor  f  That  can  be  delightfully 
done  with  this  little  book  and  its  plentiful  pict- 
ures. It  takes  a  stranger  a  little  time  to  become 
accustomed  to  his  manner,  which  is  unlike  that 
of  anybody  else ;  but  when  accustomed  to  it,  it 
is  impressive.  The  second  book,  on  cer- 
tain phases  of  Tuscan  art  as  seen  at  Florence, 
is  of  less  general  Interest,  and  more  strictly 
adapted  to  art  students  of  profeswonal  degree. 

ly  Eliza  A.  Bowen. 

Mrs.  Bowen  has  long  been  known  among 
school-teachers  as  one  of  Ibe  brightest  and  most 
sensible  and  energetic  among  their  company. 
In  this  volume  she  makes  a  grand  attempt  to 
bring  education  back,  in  one  point  at  least,  to 
direct  contact  with  nature  and  truth.  The  heav- 
enly bodies  are  the  first  and  greatest  teachers  of 
the  human  race ;  they  are  capable  of  giving  also 
the  most  valuable  lessons  to  the  human  individ- 
ual. In  earlier  ages  men  in  general  consulted 
the  stars  for  times  and  seasons  and  for  guidance 
by  land  and  sea.  Bot  the  clock  has  displaced 
the  dial;  and  even  the  docks  are  regulated  no 
longer  directly  by  the  sun  at  their  meridian,  but 
by  telegraph  from  Cambridge  or  New  Haven ; 
while  the  woodsman  and  the  navigator  depend 
on  the  magnetic  compass.  The  educating  power 
of  the  heavens  is  thus  irasted;  and  the  high 
pleasure  of  the  companionship  of  the  stars  in 
their  courses  is  lost.  Mrs.  Bowen's  book,  if 
used  according  to  her  own  directions  given  in 
the  introduction,  will  be  found  of  inestimable 
value  in  rcsloriog  these  great  gifts  to  men.  That 
introductory  chapter  is  worth  careful  study  by 
teachers  of  every  grade ;  as  its  lessons  are  appli- 
cable to  other  subjects  than  astronomy.  When 
the  visible  is  left,  and  the  author  trenches  on 
the  invisble  and  eternal,  her  thought  seems  to 
be  a  little  vague,  and  her  expression  somewhat 
misty;  as,  for  instance,  in  her  deduction  of 
Newton's  laws  from  Kepler's,  in  articles  157  and 
161.  We  hope  that  Mrs.  Bowen's  AitrtHomy  by 
ObstrvatioH  will  have  a  lasting  popularity;  and 
that  in  future  editions  these  minor  blemishes  will 
be  removed. 

FlariJa  Fruit  1  and  Horn  to  Ratit  Tkem.  By 
Helen  Haicourt.  [Louisville  :  John  P.  Morton 
a  Co.    J1.25.] 

This  is  an  admirably  written  book  and  one 
well  adapted  to  meet  the  wants  of  Florida 
settlers,  while  all  who  are  interested  in  fruit 
culture  will  find  mnch  that  is  suggestive  in  its 
pages.  Tht  chapter  on  fertilizers,  simple  as  it 
is,  is  alone  worth  the  price  of  the  volume,  which 
is  throughout  both  comprehenuve  and  practical. 
The  new  edition  is  enlarged  by  the  addition  of 
chapters  on  fruits  which  have  of  late  come 
notice,  such  as  the  Japanese  persimmon,  and 
there  i*  information  on  drying  fruit  and  direc- 
tions for  the  preparation  of  marmalade,  orange 
wine,  and  other  delicacies.  More  than  one  third 
of  the  book  is  given  Co  the  discussion  of  orange 
culture.  The  author  quotes  the  usual  number 
of  brilliant  successes  in  the  making  of  orange 
groves,  and  the  usual  inspiring  statistics  for  the 
benefit  of  the  novice  who  will  need  them  all 
for  the   support   of  his  enthusiasm.     A  strong 


argument  is  made  in  favor  of  good  pine  land  as 
superior  to  hammock  for  orange  groves,  and 
here  we  think  the  author  justified  by  the  facts- 
There  Is  a  very  good  index. 


That  a  well-known  route  of  travel  or  tract  of 
country  can  be  invested  with  a  new  and  intense 
interest  by  the  simple  process  of  subjecting  it  to 
the  action  of  a  fresh  and  observant  mind  has 
been  abundantly  proved;  but  Mr,  John  Deniaon 
Champlin  does  not  succeed  in  doing  this  in  his 
ChroniiU  eftke  Coach.  The  dusty  track  between 
Charing  Cross  and  Ilfracombe  remains  as  dusty 
and  as  hackneyed  after  he  has  said  his  say  about 
it  was  before  he  began.  There  is  no  land- 
scape, no  atmosphere  in  the  descriptions;  the 
facetiousnesa  is  of  the  heavy  after-dinner  type, 
and  the  characters,  whose  personality  is  veiled 
by  such  pseudonyms  as  "The  Chronicler,"  "An- 
iquo,"  •'  Macenas,"  and  "  The  Seer  de  Cobham," 
do  nothing  and  say  nothing  which  in  any  wise 
distinguishes  them  from  the  generality  of  their 
fellow-men.  They  drive  their  doe  number  of 
miles /vr^HTn,  they  mount  hills  on  foot,  they  ara 
caught  in  rains,  and  mildly  chaff  the  passers  by  ; 
they  lunch,  and  the  luncheons  are  exhaustively 
recorded ;  there  is  a  tittle  history  and  a  little 
fable,  commonized  by  passing  through  a  dull 
medium;  in  short,  the  fourteen  days  of  the 
coaching-tour  are  spent  in  the  ordinary  prosperous 
way  and  ail  ends  happily.  But  when  all  ie  ended, 
and  paper,  print,  and  illustration  of  the  best 
have  lent  their  artful  aid  to  enhance  the  narra- 
tive, the  reader  is  constrained  to  ask,  Cvi  bent, 
and  to  wonder  why  he  was  called  upon  to  read 
the  record  of  ao  very,  very  uneventful  a  journey? 
It  is  a  pity  that  so  dainty  and  charming  drawings 
are  buried  in  so  commonplace  a  text. 

The  Ap  of  ElKlricity.  By  Park  Benjamin, 
Fh.D.    [Charles  Scribner's  Sons,    fz.oo.] 

This  little  work  is  not  a  technical  treatise,  nor 
is  it  addreased  in  any  wise  to  the  professional 
electrician.  It  is  simply  an  effort  to  present  the 
leading  principles  of  electric  acience,  their  more 
important  applibations,  and  of  thwe  last  the 
stories,  in  a  plain,  and  it  is  hoped,  a  readable 

This  promise  of  the  preface  the  author  seems 
abundantly  to  have  fulfilled.  The  book  is  well 
written,  and  adapted  to  popular  reading,  and  is 
specially  felicitous  in  its  explanations  of  the 
more  difficult  scientific  principles  involved.  It 
goes  over  the  whole  ground  from  Thales  and  the 
ambersonl  to  the  electric  light,  electromotors, 
the  telegraph,  and  the  telephone ;  the  great  body 
of  the  work  being  given  to  the  wonderful  modem 
developments  of  electricity.  Through  the  deli- 
cate difficulties  of  priority  of  invention  and  dis- 
covery, the  writer  seems  icr  have  threaded  his 
way  with  commendable  care  and  caution,  though 
doubtless  he  will  hear  from  some  of  the  invent- 
ors or  their  friends.  The  book  is  well  printed, 
illustrated,  and  indexed,  and  is  a  decided  acqui. 
tition  to  our  popular  scientific  literalare. 

—  Two  volumes  of  reminiscences  of  excep- 
tional interest  are  to  appear  next  week,  with  the 
imprint  of  D.  Lotbrop  &  Co.    These  are  Lait 
Eveninei  ^ith  AUiIok,  by  Miss  Elizabeth  Pea-    p 
body,  and  StntotHirt  of  My  Timr,  by  Mrs.  Jessie    ^ 
Benton  FrjmonL 


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THE  LITERARY  WORLIX 


[Oct.  30, 


The  Literary  World. 


BOSTON,  OCTOBER  30,  1886. 


THE  NEW  YORE  UTERARUNS. 

A  CONSIDERABLE  company  of  New 
York  literarians  are  pleasantly  reflected 
)D  the  polished  pages  of  the  November 
Harper's.  The  opening  leaves  of  this 
always  welcome  periodical  turn  od  their 
backs  like  the  hinged  pictures  which  it  is 
fashionable  to  fasten  against  the  parlor  wall, 
and  disclose  a  succession  of  faces,  some  of 
them  striking,  and  all  of  them  interesting. 
Mr.  R.  H.  Stoddard  is  easily  the  patriarch 
in  the  processiop  ;  Mr.  John  Burroughs  and 
the  bristly  Charles  Nordhoff  come  not  far 
behind ;  and  after  these  the  Parisian  face 
of  Mr.  BronsDD  Howard,  who  looks  as  if 
he  might  be  a  member  of  the  Freacb  Cham- 
ber of  Deputies,  and  the  thoroughly  New 
York  head  and  countenance  of  Mr.  Stedman. 
Mr.  E.  P.  Roe  looks  like  a  prosperous  Chi- 
cago banker.  Edward  Eggleston,  more 
than  any  of  his  confrirts,  is  suggestive  of 
the  English  type ;  and  Mr.  Richard  Watson 
Gilder  certainly  bears  away  the  hoaors  of  the 
most  marked  individuality,  though  an  indi- 
viduality of  a  pronounced  "  sslbetic  "  mood. 

Of  the  younger  men  Mr.  W.  H.  Bishop's 
appearance  is  a  surprise.  Few  persons  who 
know  him  only  by  his  books  will  be  prepared 
for  so  youthful  an  aspect.  His  might  be 
the  face  of  a  senior  at  Vale  or  Princeton. 
Mr.  Edgar  Fawcetc  ia  hardly  of  older  look. 
In  Mr.  Julian  Hawthorne  there  is  surely  a 
reminiscence,  more  than  a  reminiscence,  per- 
haps, of  his  famous  father.  Mr.  Brander 
Matthews  and  Mr.  Boyesen  come  into  much 
the  same  category  with  Mr.  Eggleston,  though 
with  more  of  refinement  and  less  of  power. 
Mr.  J,  B.  McMaster  again  surprises  us  with 
the  lightness  of  his  load  of  years,  and  Mr. 
John  Habberton,  who  brings  up  the  rear, 
leaves  for  a  final  impression  as  agreeabU 
an  one  as  could  be  desired. 

All  the  foregoing  are  individual  portraits. 

The  opening  group  "At  the  Author' 
Club,  New  York,"  is  a  capital  piece,  re 
inarkable  for  easy  and  life-like  drawing. 
Mr.  Bunce,  Mr.  George  Cary  Eggleston,  Mr. 
Laurence  Hulton,  Mr.  Noah  Brooks,  Mr. 
Lathrop,  and  Mr.  R.  U.  Johnson  are  here 
seen  in  familiar  intercourse  in  the  smoking- 
room,  the  pipes  of  peace  freely  circulating, 
and  friendly  converse  issuing  from  animated 
lips.  Mr.  Bunce's  portrait,  however,  wi 
should  never  recognize,  and  Che  "son-in-lai 
of  Hawthorne  "  has  grown  stocky  since  hi 
was  known  in  Boston. 

The  article  which  frames  these  sixteen 
pictures  is  an  attorney's  brief  for  plaintiff  in 
the  suit  of  New  York  vs.  Boston  for  posses- 
sion of  the  honors  of  "  literary  center ; "  a 
suit  that  has  often  been  threatened,  perhaps 


has  been  actually  entered  on  the  docket,  but 
possibly  may  never  come  to  trial.  "The 
Literary  Movement  in  New  York,"  Mr. 
Lathrop  calls  it  Behind  all  the  struggle 
and  din  of  metropolitan  materialism  Hr- 
Lathrop  discerns  the  distinct  features  of  an 
llectual  life  and  a  literary  product,  a 
consolidation  and  organization  of  floating 
ilements,  the  beginnings  of  a  character 
which  promises  to  be  large  and  full  and 
strong.  Nobody  will  question  the  accuracy 
of  the  discernment  or  begrudge  the  promise 
of  it.  We  congratulate  our  sister  city  on 
the  long  and  brilliant  list  of  names  it  can 
array,  when  any  such  inquisition  as  this  is 
ordered.  Curtis,  Godwin,  Bigelow,  Stod. 
Hard,  Stedman,  Bunce,  Burroughs,  Fawcett 
Gilder,  De  Kay,  Carleton,  Bunner,  Stock- 
ton, Matthews,  Hawthorne,  the  Egglestons, 
NordhofE,  Noah  Brooks,  Bishop,. Boyesen, 
i  Greene  and  Miss  Booth,  Mrs.  Champ- 
ney  and  Mrs.  Lamb,  Hammond,  Picard, 
Mrs.  Dodge  and  Mrs.  Foote,  Harland, 
Habberton,  Lawrence,  Lathrop,  Hutton, 
Winter,  Cook,  Knoz,  Brown  and  Ernest 
Ingersoll,  Benjamin  and  Millet  — all  these 
certainly  make  a  generous  and  gracious  lislt 
of  which  New  York  may  well  be  proud. 

Mr.  Lathrop  pertinently  observes  that  the 
conditions  of  life  in  New  York  make  it 
impossible  for  literary  people  to  live  as 
independently  by  their  work  as  ihey  ma) 
sometimes  elsewhere,  and  their  necessary 
;ivocations  ought  not  to  be  reckoned  against 
them.  The  task  of  pure  authorship  in  such 
a  city  as  New  York  must  be  harder  than  in 
.such  a  city  as  Boston,  and  the  results  are 
to  be  accounted  accordingly.  We  are  all 
obliged  to  Mr.  Lathrop  for  his  entertaining 
glimpses  of  the  New  York  literary  world, 
<ind  shall  wish  that  that  world  may  broaden 
■xaA  brighten  with  every  passing  yeaj*. 


OBiaiRAL  POETRY. 
To  the  Ettrlck  Shepherd. 

1  pryihe«  liill     lEiBthtmhepheTd^iuns 
Now  rolliDg  up  Ihi  nifhl  thravch  yurow'i  n]i 
So  nKlly  HHiUul.  Xia  th*  Dighlinple, 
It  ctiumi,  uh)  chlnniog  iiiU  it  liogcn  1od(. 
But  hiuh  1     It  din,  II  dio  I    Ata  oc,  hov  uron 
How  hcutMt,  u  il  thrilled  usan  Ihc  dale, 
A  ilir'boni  itnin  uniiiiLed  vtth  euiUj  wail ; 
ThM  old  Stdliaa  lODg  thy  DoletpnJmit. 

\M  all  who  wUJ,  u  apcid  ihg  honn  awir, 
B«nd  to  ihe  muiic  of  gnat  Uilloo'i  Ioik, 
Ol  IIU  lo  Hanier>i  (nod  hirmoBtoua  laf. 


OORRESFONDENOE. 

To  tht  Editor  eflht  Liltrary  Wtrld: 

Mr.  DIdier,  in  his  article  on  John  Esten  Cooke, 
makes  a  decidedly  misleading  statement  when  he 
■ays  of  Cooke's  life  of  Pocahontas,  that  it  con- 
lain)  "  all  Che  exploded  traditions  about  Captain 
John  Smith  and  Powhatan."  I  would  refer  your 
reader*  to  Cooke's  History  of  Virginia,  and  to 


the  discourse  of  Hr.  William  Wirt  Henry  before 
the  Virginia  Hluotical  Society,  in  iSSi,  for  the 
proof  that  these  "  exploded  traditions  "  have  every 
warrant  of  credilNlity.  VlKGlNU. 

Baitimon,  Md.,  Octtbtr  la. 


A  LETTER  FROM  OERMAITY. 
New  Oerman  Books  on  the  United  States. 
Berlin,  Sept.  24. 

QUITE  a  shower  of  German  literature  on 
jOQt  country  is  pouring  down  upon  iii  juit 
now,  and  I  dare  say  those  of  your  readers  who 
are  not  conversant  with  oar  language  will  care 
to  know  something  about  their  gist,  content*, 
and  value.  The  tianilation  of  Mr.  Andrew 
Carnegie's  Triumpliatil  Demtcracy,  which  made 
its  appearance  in  Leipsig  a  few  weeks  ago, 
I  suppose  I  may  leave  out  of  comuderation,  as 
it  cannot  rightly  be  termed  a  German  book, 
being  only  on  Anglo-American  book  in  German 
garb.  But  I  must  dwell  at  some  length  00 
another  work  published  at  the  same  time  by  the 
same  eminent  firm.  Otto  Wigand  of  Leipzig,  (or 
whom  we  are  truly  sorry  for  having  been  in- 
duced to  inue  snch  a  book  as  Ernst  Hohen- 
wari'i  Land  und  Lrutt  in  dtr  Virtinighttr 
Sladtai. 

This  volume  is  a  total  failure  in  every  respect. 
Few  booki  have  less  fulfilled  what  their  lilies 
promise.  Very  little  is  said  about  the  country 
't^el(,  although  the  title  aim*  at  the  "country 
and  the  people,"  and  what  is  said  about  the  in- 
habitants il  far  from  being  new,  having  been 
previously  said  by  other  writers,  and  in  a  much 
belter  fashion.  In  vain  we  look  out  (or  a  new 
or  original  idea ;  or  does  the  author  consider  his 
interwoven  anti-Jewlih  reSectionl  original  f  As- 
>uredly  even  these  are  not  by  any  means  new, 
but  quite  threadbare.  Herr  Hohenwart's  anli- 
lemilic  proclivities,  however,  are  not  more  dia- 
creditable  than  his  attempt  at  disparaging  the 
Ameritan  nation  in  the  eyes  of  his  European 
readers  for  no  other  reason  than  their  being 
practical,  sober,  bniinesa  men.  I  believe  that  it 
is  more  honorable  to  be  engaged  in  mercantile 
[wrsuits  than  to  write  shallow  book*,  and  palm 
Ihem  off  on  unsuspecting  reader*  as  genuine  in- 
formation about  a  foreign  nation.  It  is  true  the 
author  distinguishes  between  "  Yankees  "  and 
"Americans  proper,"  but  only  nominally,  for  In 
reality  he  treats  ail  of  them  on  an  equal  footing, 
making  virtually  no  difference  between  them. 
Altogether  he  repeats  himself  over  and  over 
again,  going  to  the  length  of  reprinting  in  later 
chapters  passages  already  occurring  in  earlier 

Herr  Hohenwart  no  sooner  utters  a  general 
view  than  he  weakens  and  deteriorates  its  mean- 
ing or  import  by  confused  after  phrases.  Alto- 
gether clearness  of  thought  and  precision  of 
eipression  ate  lacking  with  him.  As  to  his  own 
countrymen  in  the  States,  he  does  not  flatter 
them  any  more  than  he  doe*  the  English-speak- 
ing race;  he  teems  to  have  known  no  class  of 
German*  in  your  country  but  the  one  addicted 
to  excessive  beer-drinking  and  rough  manners; 
at  least,  be  scarcely  speaks  of  any  other  ele- 
ments of  that  nationality.  Although  lighting 
for  the  North  in  your  great  Civil  War,  his  secret 
sympathies  were  for  the  South,  whose  inhabit- 
ants seemed  to  him  more  light-minded,  but  also 
more  gentlemanlike,  than  the  "  square,  clumsy  " 
Northerners.     With  regard  to  the  n 


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of  ]\alia  in  (he  Slates,  he  is  quite  right  li 
bbming  the  corruption  of  many  lawyers,  etc., 
bat  be  injiucs  hU  owd  cause  through  oveidoing 
liiB  indignation  ;  he  is  not  even  airaid  oE  a^ 
ing  that  "without  money  justice  cannot  be  ob- 
tained, and  with  the  aid  of  money,  law  and 
right  are  annihilated."  True,  he  quotes  ex- 
ample!; bat  these  do  not  prove  his  asseition, 
they  are  only  exceptions  which  may  be  taken  to 
prove  a  contrary  inle. 

After  ali  this  depredation,  we  are  glad  to  be 
able  to  say  that  at  lea*t  the  chapters  on  "poli- 
tics and  parlies,"  on  "  corporations  and  woik- 
men,"  and  on  "the  army"  are  written  in  an 
impartial  spirit  and  with  a  good  knowledge  of 
facts  and  circumstances.  They  are  decidedly 
the  best  in  the  whole  volume.  Unfortunately 
nch  praise  can  be  bestowed  on  the  "concluding 
remarks."  In  these  "reflection*"  he  condemns 
American  freedom,  and  moat  so  the  system  of 
universal  suffrage  prevalent  In  the  Union.  That, 
however,  does  not  astonish  us,  for  already  in  the 
preface  he  had  expressly  staled  it  to  be  his 
intention  to  contribute  towards  reconciling  lib- 
eral German  readers  to  the  condition  of  things 
political  in  the  mother  coanlry.  ffim  Ula 
Tyma!  At  the  same  time,  Herr  Hohcnwxit 
aims  at  showing  «uuld-be  emigrants  what  to 
expect  beyond  the  Atlantic,  and  what  to  do 
order  to  beware  of  becoming  disillusioned.  This 
aim  might  have  been  called  a  laudable  one  if  an 
upright  conviction  would  be  apparent  in  the 
book  ;  but  being  marred  by  factious  tendencies, 
it  must  fail  even  where  its  purpose  is  seemingly 
a  good  one.  We  are  sorry  for  being  obliged  to 
cast  such  great  blame  on  the  literary  effort 
question ;  let  os  hope  that  (he  books  which  we 
shall  have  to  consider  next  will  afford  us  mo 
opportunity  for  praise. 

Leopold  Katschgr. 


Th«  Date  Waa  Cut  Ont. 

Joseph  Henry  Thayer,  Professor  of  New  Tctta- 
ment  Criticism  and  Interpretation  in  the  Divinity 
School  of  Harvard  University,  has  just  com- 
pleted the  work  on  which  he  has  been  so  long 
engaged,  namely,  a  translation,  revision,  and  en- 
largement of  Grimm's  Wilke's  Clavit  ffsvi  Tes- 
iamtali.  Harper  &  Brothers  have  juat  issued  it- 
The  preface  to  Robinson's  Greek  and  English 
Lexicon  of  the  New  Testament  is  dated  July, 
1850.  The  preface  lo  this  new  one  should  be, 
but  is  not,  dated.  —  Bestvn  Adnertiier. 

The  preface  was  dated  by  the  editor,  "  Decem- 
ber 25,  1S85,"  but  the  date  was  cut  out  by  some- 
body without  his  consent;  and  further  the  date 
of  publication  has  been  changed  from  i3S£  to 
1887.  ^^_^^_ 

lOKOfi  ITOTIOEB. 

A  Budget  0/  LttltT!  Jram  Japan.  By  Arthur 
Collins  MacUy,  A.M.,  LL.  B.  [A.  C.  Armslrotia 
&.  Son.    tiJXi\ 

Mr.  Mactay  went  ont  to  Japan  in  1873  and  re- 
mained there  (or  four  years  in  (be  employ  of  tbe 
government,  teaching  English  in  various  parts  of 
the  Empire.  He  kept  a  journal,  and  now,  at  this 
late  date,  he  has  made  copious  extracts  from  the 
material  thus  accumulated  which  he  has  thrown 
into  the  form  of  familiar  letters.  The  book  con- 
tains a  good  deal  of  information,  but  most  of  it 
is  familiar  in  a  much  better  form.  The  account 
of  life  in  the  interior,  altboogh  evidently  true  to 
th«  facts  as  far  aa  it  goes,  is  dull  and  ct^d.  The 
reader  feels  all  the  time  that  tbe  author  is  not 


giving  all  the  details.    The  chapters  made  up  of 
selections  from  the  journal  written  en  rouie  have 
a  life  and  vitality  which  render  them  far  super! 
to  the  prosy  disquisitions  on  native  customs, 
the  habits  of  Englishmen,  on  the  colors  of  the 
races,  on  woman  suffrage,  and  on  the  compara- 
tive merits  of  Buddhism  and  Christianity.     How- 
ever excellent  in  spirit  and  wise  in  doctrine  these 
solemn  lectures  may  be,  they  are  better  fitted  for 
the  school-room   than   for  the  entertainment  of 
the  adult  reader,  who  does  not  as  a  rule  ca 
have  an  elaborate  argument  on  any  of  the  topics 
in   question    thrust  upon  his    attention.      The 
author's  views  may,  in  a  word,  be  sound ;  they 
are  certainly   commonplace.    And  yet,  even  a 
book   as  generally   worthless  as  this  is,  can  be 
read,  if  any  one  cares  to  give  the  time  to  tl 
task,  with  some  degree  of   profiL    The  opinii 
to  be  derived  from  Mr.  Mactay's  observations  ti 
the  actual  condition  of  the  JapaneM  U  not  rose- 
colored.    But  of  the  progress  made  in  the  li 
ten  years  of  course  the  book  tells  nothing.    The 
of  varying  merit. 


Sevenleiii  Leeturel  en  the  Slutfy  of  MeiUitoal 
and  Modern  History  and  Kindred  Suijicts.  By 
William     Siubbs,    D.D.      [Oxford :  Clarendon 

Press.     J2.60.] 

There  is,  or  rather  was,  a  statute  of  Oxford 
University  which  required  the  Regius  Professor 
of  History  to  deliver  a  couple  of  lectures 
specific  time  every  year.  Bishop  Siubbs  pre- 
sents in  this  volume  the  lectures  there  delivered 
n  the  later  years  of  his  professorship,  together 
with  his  inaugural   and  his  farewell  discourse. 

I  never  weary  of  saying  that  he  wrote  these 

res  under  compulsion,  knows  they  are  dull, 

and  will  wonder  if  any  find   them   interesting. 

There  is  something  too  much  of  this  ;    it  is  hard 

indetttand  why  a  master  of  English  history 

should  find  it  such  a  burden  to  give  two  lectures 

ir  on  subjects  of  hi*  own  chdce.  The 
least  valuable  part  of  tbe  volume  is  taken  np 
with  these  surprising  protestations ;  the  lectures 
on  the  present  slate  and  prospects  of  historical 
study,  its  purposes  and  methods,  are  of  some- 
what more  worth,  though  not  at  all  equal  to  those 
of  Mr.  Freeman,  lately  published,  a*  regards 
Ither  their  ideas  or  their  expression.  The  dis- 
tinctly valuable  portion  comprises   the  lectures 

ibjects  in  which  Bishop  Stubbs  is  at  home, 
and  able  to  itutruct  every  other  living  Englieh- 

as  when  he  discourses  on  the  history  of  the 
Canon  Law,  on  learning  and  literature  at  the 
Court  of  Henry  II  (a  surprising  picture  of  men- 
tal activity),  or  on  the  characteristic  differences 
between  medixval  and  modern  history.  Bishop 
Stubbs  has  no  style,  to  speak  of ;  he  talks  right 

ke  a  man  full  of  matter,  in  a  plain,  some- 
what egotistic  manner;  hut  his  CBnilitutional Hit- 

I  invaluable,  and  these  lectures  should  not 
be  overlooked  by  historical  students. 


Genius  in  Sunthine  and  Shadmu,  by  Maturin 
M.  Dallou,  is  a  medley  of  miscellaneous  infor- 
lih  regard  to  writers,  composers,  and 
artists  of  renonn,  pnt  together  without  system, 
and  dumped,  as  it  were,  like  a  load  of  bricks, 
volume  of  three  hundred  pages.  The 
author,  or  rather  the  person  responsible  for  tbii 
heterogeneous  collection,  start*  out  with   tome 


general  proposition  such  as  the  axiom  that  great 


men  are  often  of  humble  origin,  that  the  lives 
of  authors  do  not  always  correspond  with  their 
works,  that  genius  sometimes  borrows,  that 
every  great  man  has  some  grain  of  folly  in  his  na- 
ture. Then  follow  example*  of  all  these  classes, 
with  abundant  anecdotes,  frequent  quotations, 
and  many  irrelevant  foot-note*.  Sometimes  Mr. 
Ballou  has  an  idea  which  he  did  not  find  in  his 
books  and  he  runs  down  tbe  scale  in  this  way  : 
"Daniel  Webster  was  an  enthusiastic  agricult- 
urist,- so  were  Washington,  Adams,  Jefierson, 
Waiter  Scott,  Horace  Greeley,  Evarls.  Wilder, 
Loring,  Poore,  and  a  host  of  other  contempo- 
raneous and  noted  men."  A  foot-note  informs  ns 
that  "the  farm  of  William  H-  Evarts  is  situated 
in  Vermont."  That  eminent  men  are  not  unlike 
the  rest  of  humanity  in  their  desire  for  recreation 


f  Mr.  Ballon 


e  dii 


"  Will- 


iam  the  Conqueror  passed  all  his  leisure  ii 
hunting-field,  and  President  Cleveland  hastens 
with  rod  and  gun  to  pass  his  vacation  in  the 
Adirondack  region."  Fortunately  for  those  who 
may  desire  to  Consult  the  book  it  has  an  elab- 
orate IlHlex.  To  attempt  to  read  many  pages 
of  the  volume  consecutively  wouid  be  like  de- 
vonring  a  ditmer  with  all  the  various  viand* 
commingled  in  one  incongruous  dish.  But  those 
who  wish  to  learn  lo  be  "  lit'ary  "  in  one  lesson 
will  do  well  to  provide  themselves  with  Mr. 
Ballou's  book. 

Eiottrie  Ckrittianity  and  Mtntal  Therapeutics. 
By  W.  F.  Evans.  [H.  H.  Carter  &  Karrick. 
|i.3S.]  Dr.  W.  F.  Evans  continoes  in  this  vol- 
bis  exposition  of  the  latest  pseudo-science 
after  which  the  credulous  are  now  running, 
That  there  is  nothing  real  in  mind-cure  we 
ihould  certainly  be  far  from  asserting;  and  it  is 
ibvioos  that  more  than  one  of  the  Gospel  nar- 
stives  of  healing  is  related  to  the  pheuomena  of 
modern  mental  therapeutics.  Bat  to  make  tbe 
mind-cure  a  "  universal  panacea,"  as  the  Meth- 
odist minister  said,  and  to  elaborate  thereupon  a 
complete  theosophy  and  metaphysic  of  the  same, 
proceeding  that  at  least  border*  upon  the 
abaurd.  If  one  should  try  Dr.  Evan***  work*  by 
some  mental  re-agent,  the  residuum  of  pure  fact 
would  be  strikingly  small. 

OutliHet  ef  the  History  of  Ethics  for  Engiiik 
Riaders.  By  Henry  Sidgwick.  [Macmillan  & 
Co.  fi.50.]  Prof.  Sidgwick's  article  on  Ethics 
c  new  edition  of  the  Entydopadia  Britan- 
s  the  substance  of  this  admirable  brief  his- 
tory of  the  course  of  ethical  speculation,  but  it 
has  been  considerably  altered  and  enlarged, 
a  full  view  of  French  and  German  moral 
philosophy  one  must  go  elsewhere,  though  a  few 
foreign  writers  who  have  exerted  much  influence 
English  thought  are  here  briefly  considered. 
;  as  a  condensed  history  of  Greek,  Roman 
Mediaeval,  Christian,  and  English  ethics.  Prof. 
Sidgwick's  candid  and  thorough  volume  deserves 
all  praise. 

Sttmairt  of  Arthur  Hamilton,  B.A.,  of  Trinity 
College,  Cambridge.  By  his  friend,  Christopher 
Carr.  [Henry  Holt  &  Co.]  This  appears  to 
be  the  biography  of  an  ideal  person,  given  with 
ill  the  verisimilitnde  of  dates  and  places  in  exact 
detail,  in  order  to  show  "  what  a  serious  and 
thoughtful  sout-hi*(ory  may  in  these  day*  Ik." 
Arthur  Hamilton  has  the  reflective  temperament 
without  a  great  gift  of  expression ;  he  wishea  v, 
first  of  all  "  to  *tand  aside  and  think ; "  and  th« 
ie*ult*  of  hi*  thinking  are  spun  on  a  slender 


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[Oct.  30, 


thread  of  Uography.  Occasionally  we  have 
found  thcM  thoughts  k«cn  ;ind  well  put,  as 
when  be  says  :  "  We  must  also  remember,  what 
people  are  very  apt  to  forget,  that  ill  succeia  is 
not  an  absolute  proof  that  God  [a  on  our  side ;  " 
but  we  read  ihe  book  through  and  get  too  much 
imprcMioa  of  fumbling,  and  too  little  clear  stale- 
mcnt,  tor  our  own  profit.  The  volume  has  yet 
no  slight  hold  upon  the  thonghtful  from  its 
atmosphere  of  delicate  refinement  and  chastened 
peace  of  s[ririt,  and  one  can  understand  why  it 
should  have  Mttacled  considerable  attention  in 
England.  

OUBBEVT  LITEEATUBE. 

Educational. 

Mr.  Paul  Betcy's  manual  oE  La  Langui  Fran' 
faisi  gives  space  to  carefully  formulated  gram- 
matical rules,  the  conjugation  of  the  verbs,  and 
to  prescribed  exercises  for  composition,  and  in 
these  respects  is  superior  to  most  of  the  text- 
books depending  upon  what  is  known  at  the 
"  natural  method."  We  are  not  prepared  to  say 
that  the  danger  of  superficiality  is  entirely  over- 
come by  Mr.  Bercy;  jl  is  impossible  that  the 
oonversational  method,  even  with  Ihe  technical 
drill  here  provided  for,  should  give  the  mental 
training  to  be  had  by  thorough  and  well-directed 
work  with  grammar  and  dictionaiy.  [William  R. 
Jenkins.    »I.I5.] 

From  the  same  publisher  we  have  a  service- 
able edition  of  Henri  Truan's  Ltt  Grands  Ecri- 
vaiHt  Fraitfais,  a  standard  selection  of  extract* 
from  Ihe  really  great  French  writers,  admirably 
arranged  and  annotated  in  English  and  German. 
M.  Truan,  in  preparing  this  work,  had  the  happy 
idea  of  passing  over  the  writers  of  merit  and 
holding  fast  to  the  writers  of  genius.  His  book 
is  almost  indispensable  to  beginners  in  the  far- 
spreading  field  of  French  literature.  Mr.  Jen- 
kina  also  adds  to  the  "  Theatre  Contemporain  " 
the  Vicomte  Henri  dc  Bomier's  felicitous  drama, 
La  Fillt  dt  Roland.  M.  de  Bornier's  Alexan- 
drines are  musical,  his  sentiments  are  lofty,  his 
characters  well  outlined,  and  his  plot  skillfully 
sustained.    [25  cenls.] 

Adolphe  Dreyspring,  in  his  Easy  Lesson!  in 
French  Aeeording  to  the  Cumulaiha  Melhad,  re- 
duces the  natnral  method  to  the  level  of  the 
nursery  where  it  properly  belongs.  The  book, 
with  its  eternal  "qu'  est-ce  que  c'est  que  ccla" 
and  it*  clearly-engraved  pictures  of  household 
utensils,  ought  to  afford  amusement  to  those 
who  wish  to  play  at  learning  French.  [D.  Ap- 
pleton  &  Co.] 

The  school  world  is  laid  under  considerable 
obligations  to  Messrs.  G.  Stanley  Hatl  and  J.  M. 
Mansfield  for  their  eicellenC  I/inli  Tirmard  a 
Select  and  Deseripihie  Bibliography  of  Education. 
This  modest  collectioo  of  titles  of  works  in  all 
modern  languages  on  ihe  history,  science,  and 
practice  of  education  makes  a  izmo  of  308 
pages,  the  contents  arranged  by  topics  and 
indexed  by  authors.  It  must  form  an  important 
part  of  every  teacher's  apparatus.    [D.  C.  Heath 

4  Co.    (I.7S-] 

History. 

Reminiscences  of  th,  '•Filibuster''  War  in 
Nicaragua.  By  C.  W.  Doubleday.  The  "fili- 
bustering" enterprise  of  General  Walker  of 
thirty  years  ago  is  fast  becoming  a  remote  and 
obscnre  chapter  of  American  history.    The  stu- 


pendous event  of  the  Civil  War  crowded  it  out 
of  sight  and  almost  out  of  memory.  Mr,  Double- 
day  was  a  youthful  enthusiast  in  the  Nicaraguan 
expedition,  led  on  largely  by  the  personal  mag- 
netism of  Walker;  but  his  attitude  in  this  book, 
which  relates  his  own  observations  and  experi- 
ences in  the  scene,  is  Independent  and  critical 
There  is  a  good  deal  of  lively  romance  in  hit 
narrative,  true  though  it  is.  [G.  P.  Putnam's 
Sons.    Ji.25.] 

Some  of  the  earlier  votuioe*  of  the  Gentleman's 
MagoMine  Library  have  been  bteresting  or  enter- 
taining j  that  sub-entitled  Arehaol^y  Part  II'm 
important.  Its  contents,  occupying  more  thin 
300  closely  printed  octavo  pages,  relate  entirely 
to  the  famous  t  lonet  and  stone  drcles  represented 
by  such  familiar  names  as  Stonehenge  and  Abury  ; 
to  the  graves,  skeletons,  and  other  remains  be- 
loi^ing  to  the  early  Anglo-Saxon  period ;  to 
weapons,  ornaments,  brasses,  and  other  relics  of 
later  Anglo-Saxon  limes;  and  to  a  variety  of 
antiquities  of  the  Britons  proper,  including  do- 
mestic vessels,  Druidlc  implements,  and  the  like. 
Students  of  these  closed  chapters  in  early  British 
history  will  find  a  great  roast  of  curious  informa- 
tion, and  some  useful  speculation,  in  these  pages. 
[Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.    (1.50.] 

Casaell'a  National  Library, 

The  preface  to  No.  25  of  Cauell's  "Natiooal 
Library,"  Nature  and  Art,  recalls  the  few  inter- 
esting facts  in  the  life  of  its  author,  Mrs.  Inch- 
bald,  who  was  one  of  the  famous  English  women 
of  the  last  century.  She  was  an  actress  of  great 
personal  beauty,  left  a  widowand  childless  at  the 
age  of  z6.  This  was  in  1769.  She  would  never 
marry  again,  for  she  said  "her  temper  was  ao 
uncertain  that  nothing  but  blind  afiection  in  a 
husband  could  bear  with  it."  She  was  left  to 
live  on  about  thirty  shillings  a  week,  and  so  tried 
to  help  herself  with  her  pen,  but  her  first  novel, 
A  Simple  Story,  waited  twelve  years  for  a  pub- 
lisher. For  her  first  farce,  7X<  Mogul  TaU,  she 
got,  however,  a  hundred  guineas.  Her  Nature 
and  Art  was  first  published  In  1794,  when  she 
had  retired  from  the  stage,  and  was  living  in 
cheap  lodgings,  waiting  on  herself.  The  beauty 
of  her  face  stayed  by  her,  and  Ihe  beauty  of  her 
character  increased  with  her  year*.  She  had  her 
faults,  and  knew  them,  but  was  her  own  mistress, 
and  ruled  her  life  to  the  end.  She  died  in  iSzi 
in  the  faith  and  peace  of  a  devout  Roman  Catho- 
lic.   [Casaell  &  Co.     loc] 

Plutarch's  Lives  of  Alcibiadet  and  Coriolanus, 
of  Aristidis  and  Goto,  in  Langhorne't  transla- 
tion, make  No.  36  of  Cassell's  "National  Li- 
brary." Langhorrte  was  an  English  poet  and 
reviewer,  belonging  to  the  last  century,  whose 
poetical  works  were  collected  in  1766.  The 
Voyages  and  Travels  of  Marco  Polo  can  be  had 
in  the  same  Library,  in  a  little  book  extending  lo 
nearly  zoo  pages.  Succeeding  issues  in  it  are  Sir 
Thomas  Browne's  Retigis  Medici,  one  of  the  fa- 
mous books  of  the  world;  selections  from  Hak- 
luyt's  Voyages ;  Shakespeare's  Merchant  of  Ven- 
ice, with  YKarvi'Cmx^t  Adventures  of  CiannetloixA 
other  pieces  appended,  supposed  to  t>e  sources 
of  [his  drama;  selec^ons  from  Fepys's  Diary; 
Milton's  Earlier  Poems;  Goethe's  Sorrows  of 
Werther  ;  and  Dr.  Johnson's  Uvet  of  the  Poets 
(eight  of  them).  This  series  is  rapidly  growing 
into  quite  a  library.  [Each  loc.] 
Mtscellameoui. 

Recent  Issue*  of  "Harper's  Handy  Series," 


Numbers  90  and  91,  are  Our  Radicals,  by  Col. 
Fred.  Burnaby,  and  A  Wicked  Girl,  by  Mary  Cecil 
Hay.  Col.  Burnaby  has  here  left  us  one  of  those 
carious  flights  of  fancy  wherein  the  scenes  are 
thrown  forward  into  Ihe  future  —  a  dire  political 
tale  of  Fcnianism,  plots,  poison,  dynamite,  a  rail- 
way tunnel  under  the  Irish  Sea,  and  an  organized 
and  successful  military  rebellion  of  conservative 
classes  against  a  radical  government ;  in  all 
which  inventions  he  seems  to  intend,  besides 
amusing  his  readers,  to  warn  them  of  the  dangers 
in  the  modem  current  of  infidel  radicalism.  A 
Wicked  Girl  is  a  sensational  and  disagreeable 
novel  based  on  a  mysterious  murder  ;  in  which 
unnatural  people  and  a  rather  obecure  style  of 
writing  render  worse  what  would  be  bad  under 
any  treatment.  (Harper  &  Brothers.  Paper. 
Each  asc.] 

There  never  was  any  better  or  more  popular 
collection  of  songs  and  lyrics,  of  its  compass, 
than  The  Golden  Treasury,  Mr.  Palgrave'a, 
whose  title  wm  a  stroke  of  editorial  genius,  and 
which  has  served  as  the  pioneer  of  a  choice 
and  distinguished  series  of  classics  bearing  its 
illuminating  name.  First  published  in  1S61, 
it  reappeared  in  a  new  and  enlarged  edition  in 
18S3,  and  now  Is  out  afresh,  with  all  the  old 
chattenets  and  peifection  of  type  and  paper, 
bat  in  modett  green  linen  covers  at  the  low 
price  of  50c.  Many  thanks  are  due  to  the 
publishers  for  putting  such  best  of  books  within 
snch  easy  reach  of  all.    [Macmiilan  Jb  Co.] 

What  could  be  more  inviting  than  Ihe  Quaker- 
like garb  which  Houghton,  Mifflin  ft  Co.  have 
given  to  Miss  Jetvett's  seaport  story,  Deephaven, 
first  published  in  1877?  With  its  sea  green 
covers,  its  white  label,  and  while  edges  squarely 
trimmed,  it  looks  as  cool  and  fresh  as  a  pool 
among  the  mossy  rocks  at  high  water.  This 
book  belongs  to  the  "Riverside  Pocket  Scries." 
Fortunate  the  pocket  which  has  such  linings  I 
Deming's  Adirondack  Stories  [iSSo],  Rossiter 
Johnson's  "Little  Clastic"  volume  of  short 
stories  entitled  Exile  [1S74],  make  up  into  similar 
volumes  in  the  same  series.  Later  additions 
still  to  Ibis  pretty  series  are  Henry  James's 
Watch  and  Ward  [1878],  Hawthorne's  Snow 
Image,  and  Fawcctt's  Gentleman  of  Leisure. 
[Each  50c.] 

Ptndennis,  in  two  volumes,  lakes  its  place  in 
Smith,  Elder  &  Co.'s  beautiful  new  edition  of 
Thackeray,  lovely  little  books  with  refined  look- 
ing pages,  rough  edges  all  round,  and  extremely 
tasteful  binding,  half  linen  and  half  paper.  [Each 
Soc.] 

In  reading  matter,  in  typography,  and  in  pict- 
ures The  English  Illustrated  Magasme,  whose 
bound  volume  for  1835-6  is  at  hand,  compares 
favorably  with  the  best  American  monthlies. 
Harper's,  perhaps,  is  the  one  it  most  nearly 
resembles  in  fonn  and  spirit,  though  it  has  less 
compass.  The  English  topics  of  the  descriptive 
arlicles,  as  for  example,  "London  Commons," 
"  The  London  Charterhouse,"  "  Leicester 
Fields,"  and  "  In  Umbria,"  "  Old  Chester."  are 
peculiarly  appetizing.  How  attractive  England 
is  —  always  on  paper  if  not  always  in  the  reality. 
The  publishers  are  lo  be  congratulated  on  the 
established  excellence  of  Itiis  periodical.  [Mac- 
miilan &  Co.    ^2.50.1 

An  eighth  volume  in  Putnam's  elegant  and 
imposing  letter-press  edition  of  Tlie  Works  ef 
Alexander  HamUltm  is  occupied  entirely  with 
Private  Correspondence,  embracing  a  great  mats 


i886.] 


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oE  leltcn  to  Washington,  Timolhy  Picktimg, 
Rulas  King,  Oliver  Wolcott,  and  a  long  list  of 
less-well-known  contemporaries.  Hamilton's  will 
is  added.  There  ia  an  index  to  the  Correspond- 
ence, and  a  general  index  to  the  eight  volumes 
with  their  miscellaneous  contents.  A  ninth  and 
concluding  volonie  will  consist  of  TA^  Fideraliif, 
and  this  will  be  indexed  by  ilself.  Mr.  Lodge 
has  done  a  scholarly  piece  of  work,  and  ihe  pub- 
lishers a  public- spirited  piece  of  work.  In  pre- 
paring this  edition,  of  which  but  joo  copies,  we 
would  again  remind  our  readers,  have  been 
printed  for  sale.    [Each  #5.00.] 

The  Pofmi  of  David  Barber,  now  first  col- 
lected into  a  volume,  with  a  biographical  sketch* 
of  Ihe  anlhor,  by  Hon.  John  E.  Godfrey,  have 
perhaps  enough  merit  in  spile  of  their  uncouth- 
ness  to  jusCiff  their  pnblicalion  in  this  form. 
Some  of  the  productions,  notably  "Hy  First 
Courtship,"  are  of  interest  for  the  vivid  descrip- 
tions thejr  contain  of  primitive  country  life  in 
the  remoter  portions  of  New  England.  But 
they  are  mote  curious  than  elevating.  A  few 
of  the  shorter  sentimental  productions  attracted 
attention  from  newspaper  readers  when  they 
first  appeared,  a  favor  which  their  spontaneity 
and  simplicity  were  well  calculated  to  receive. 
David  Barker  was  an  upright,  noble  man,  and 
we  are  not  surprised  that  hia  surviving  friends 
ahouM  encourage  this  memorial  to  his  many  fine 
qualities  of  mind  and  heaiL  [Bangor:  U.  F. 
Knowles.] 

The  Rid-Nasid  Frost  of  N.  A.  Nekrasor,  trans- 
lated  in  the  original  meters,  with  the  original 
text  on  alternate  pages,  may  offer  something  of 
interest  to  the  student  of  Russian  ;  it  will  hardly 
be  read  with  pleasure  by  any  one  else.  Nekra- 
sor bad  a  great  literary  influence  for  thirty  years 
(he  died  in  1S77),  and  his  versified  descript 
oE  peasant  life  2rc  possessed  o(  a  somewhat 
startling  realism.  He  felt,  as  he  says  in  one  of 
his  poems,  "the  gloomy  inspiration  of  a  muse 
unloving  and  unloved,  companion  of  the  op- 
pressed, sad,  afflicted,  unsatisfied,  suppliant," 
and  so  he  sang  of  Ihe  poor  and  downtrodden, 
and  in  his  song  there  is  always  the  undertone 
of  Aivage  exaltation.  In  Rtd-Nosid  Frest  hi 
theme  is  the  toils  and  sorrows  of  the  peasant 
woman,  and  he  gives  us  what  is  no  doubt 
faithful  picture.  But  the  requirements  of  the 
original  meters  have  forced  the  translator 
play  queer  tricks  with  his  English.  A  prose 
rendering  would,  we  are  sure,  be  much  more 
satisfactory.    [Ticknor  &  Co.] 


that  il 


SHAEESPEABUNA. 


Mrs.  E.  W.  Latimer's  "  Fanriiliar  Talks 
on  Some  of  Shakespeare's  Comedies." 
are  indebted  to  the  publishers,  Messrs.  Roberts 
Brothers,  for  advance  sheets  of  this  handsomely 
printed  volume  of  44s  pages  (I2.00).  The  pref- 
ace informs  us  thai  the  book  is  mide  up  of  par- 
lor lectures  "given  in  Baltimore  to  a  large  and 
appreciative  class  of  ladies."  "  What  is  called 
Shakespearian  criticism,"  the  author  leaves' 
the  «nidite  who  write  for  University  men,"  1 
self  attempting  nothing  more  than  "to  bring 
obvious  points  of  dramatic  interest  "  and  to 
able  her  readers  "to  get  a  clear  view  of  the  story 
and  tI>A  characters."    She  adds  i 


We  see  little  evidence  of  this  insight  in  the 
book,  which  may  nevertheless  be  helpful  in  a 
ly  to  some  readers  of  the  plays. 
Certain   little   inaccuracies  are   to  be   noted, 
Judith   Shakespeare  is  said  to  have   married  a 
named  "Quimby"  (Quiney),  and  her  twin 
brother    is   twice  called   "Hamet"   (Hamnei)- 
St.  Elmo's  fires,"  alluded  to  in  the  M.  N.  D., 
appear  as  "the  St.  Hermus  light."     A  portion 
of  the  same  play  is  said  to  be  "  in  two  six-lined 
letre  unusual  in   a  play;"  but  similar 
arrangements  of  rhymes  are  not  un- 
ihe  earlier  plays,  especially  in  L.  L.  L. 
The  word  sguaih,  as   used  by  Shakespeare,  is 
defined  as  "  Old  English  for  a  budding-pea,"  in- 
stead of  an  immature  pea-pod. 

nformation  is  sometimes  given  that  is  curi- 
ously irrelevant.  Commenting  upon  Bollom's 
remark  to  the  fairy  Cobweb,  "  If  I  cut  my  finger, 
I  shall  make  bold  with  you,"  Mrs.  Lalimer  may 
well  enough  mention  that  "cobwebs  are  still 
applied  in  country  places  to  cut  fingers;"  but 
for  adding  that  "  their 
threads  are  also  used  in  telescopes  to  mark  out 
distances  between  the  stars,"  unless  it  be  to 
that  she  has  a  confused  notion  of  the 
employment  of  spider- threads  in  a  micrometer. 

We  might  point  out  more  serious  faults  in  thi 
book,  but  our  limits  forbid.  On  Ihe  whole,  ii 
seems  to  us  a  mistake  to  have  put  it  in  print. 

Mr.    William    Winter's    "  Shakespearc'i 

England."  This  pretty  booklet,  printed  ir 
Edinburgh  but  published  in  this  country  by 
Ticknor  &  Co.,  is  made  up  of  mailer  from  thi 
two  volumes.  Tie  Trip  la  En^aHd  and  Engtisk 
Rambles,  brought  out  in  Boston  some  years  ago. 
We  are  glad  to  see  them  in  this  cheap  but 
attractive  form,  which  will  be  the  means  of 
making  them  more  widely  known.  The  change 
of  title  was  a  happy  thought,  "  tor  the  rcasoi 
to  quote  the  preface,  "that  the  book  relates 
largely  to  Warwickshire,  and  because  it  depicU 
not  so  much  the  England  of  fact  as  the  England 
created  and  hallowed  by  the  spirit  of  her  poetry, 
of  which  Shakespeare  is  the  soul."  The  reader 
who  invests  half  a  dollar  in  the  book  will  ne 
regret  the  expenditure. 

Dr.  Rankin  on  the  Late  Dr.  Hudson, 
friend  sends  us  the  following  tribute  to  the  late 
Dr.   H.   N.   Hudson,   from   Dr.  J.  E.  Rank. 
Idress  at  Middlebury  College  last  summer: 
Above    the    medium    hight,  thin,   wiry,  with 
sharp,  angular  features  i  with  grajf  eyes,  keen, 
expressive,  penetrating  ;  with  a  facial  expression 
jeculiar  and  striking;  not  at  all  an  elocutionist, 
Qr.  Hudson  stood  before  his  audiences  or  his 
;lasses,  as  if  charged  with  a  kind  of  electric 
ighi,  burdened  wiUi  a  kind  of  volcanic  energy, 
struggling  to  find  exit  in  flashes  or  volumes  of 
exprciision;  in  his  own  untaught,  unlrammeled 
way,  by  tunes,  emphasis,  accent,  gestures,   con- 
'  ins,     gyrations,   getting    tor    himself    Ihe 


a  real  o 


;  that 


Portia  and  Juliet  and  Rosalind  and  Ophelia  and 
Desdemona  and  Cordelia  were  their  sister- women ; 
their  companions,  their  teachers,  whose  aspira- 
tions and  emulations,  whose  joys  and  sorrows 
they  could  understand,  then,  alas,  routine  work 

rould  do  them  no  good;  they  were  past  getting 

inylhing  out  of  text-books. 

We  learn  that  Dr.  Rankin's  address  —  of  which 
the  above  is  the  closing  passage  —  is  to  be 
published. 

Mr.  Henrjr  A.  Clapp's  Lectures  on  Shake- 
speare. We  are  gratified  to  learn  that  Mr. 
Ilent)'  A.  Clapp,  the  dramatic  critic  of  the  Daily 
',  whose  lectures  on  Shakespeare  a  year 
ago  were  received  with  so  much  favor,  has  been 
Induced  to  give  a  second  course  the  present 
teason  at  Winthrop  Hall,  Dorchester.  He  will 
^ve  four  new  lectures  upon  plays  from  the  foar 
Shakespearian  periods  —  Rtmeo  and  Juliet, 
Henry  V.,  King  Lear,  and  Cymbtlini  —  and 
:peal  by  request  the  lectures  upon  /  Henry 
IV.  and  Othello.  They  will  be  delivered  on  the 
3d  of  November,  and  the  sncceeding  Wednesday 
venlngs  at  S  o'clock.  Winthrop  Hall  is  at 
Upham's  Comer,"  and  easy  of  access  by  horse- 
irs  from  all  parts  of  the  city.  We  count  upon 
hearing  all  these  lectures,  and  we  advise  our 
friends  not  to  miss  them  if  they  can  manage  to 
attend.  Circulars  giving  full  information  can  be 
obtained  from  Mr.  S.  May,  Jr,  P.  O.  Box    34  , 


'ht,  and  inispit 
his  pupils  with  his  own  enlhu 
positive  and  dogmatic,  it  was  because  he  had 
thoroughly  studied  every  fool  of  ground  on 
which  lie  trod;  because  he  took  nothing  by  dic- 
tation, nothing  for  granted.  He  prescribed  no 
routine  work  for  his  pupils;  he  required  no 
especial  preparation.  It  they  could  sit  in  his 
presence  and  listen  to  his  discussions  and  por- 
trayals, and  subtle  analyses,  without  being  moved 


The  Death  of  Dr.  Inglebjr.  The  last  tetter 
*e  received  from  Dr.  Ingleby,  dated  July  13, 
:SS6,  and  dictated  to  his  daughter,  refers  to  his 
"long  and  painful  illness,"  but  adds  that  he  is 
"supposed  to  have  turned  the  corner,  though 
still  debarred  from  reading  and  writing."  While 
in  England  in  August,  we  learned  that  he  was 
too  sick  to  see  visitors,  but  hopes  were  still  enter- 
tained of  his  recovery ;  and  now  comes  the  start- 
ling intelligence  that  he  died  on  the  26tb  of 
September. 

Clement  Mansfield  Ingleby  was  bom  Oct.  19^ 
1S33,  at  Edgebaslon,  a  suburb  of  Birmingham. 
He  was  educated  at  Trinity  College,  Cambridge, 
where  he  received  the  degree  of  M.  A.  in  i8jO 
and  that  of  LL.D.  in  1859.  He  was  VicePresi- 
dent  of  the  Royal  Society  of  Literature,  and  oiw 
of  the  Trustees  of  Shakespeare's  Birthplace.  His 
best  known  books,  most  of  which  have  been 
noticed  from  time  to  time  in  these  columns,  ar« 
on  Shakespeare  topics. 

We  cannot  refrain  from  adding  a  paragraph 
or  two  from  the  brief  tribute  by  Dr.  H.  H.  Fur- 
ness  inserted  in  ihe  Philadelphia  Shatespeariana 
for  October  after  the  magaaine  had  gone  to  press : 

The  loss  to  Shakespearian  criticism  is  great. 
Dr.  Ingleby's  retentive  memory  gave  him  ready 
control  of  the  learning  gathered  from  extensive 
reading,  while  his  habits  of  precise  ii^ical  expres- 
sion aided  and  subdued  his  poetic  fancy.  To  an 
unusual  degree  be  was  a  many  aided  man  —  an 
excellent  musician,  and  eminent  in  metaphysics 
and  mathematics.  1  well  remember  the  cordial 
admiration  with  which  one  of  the  most  celebrated 
mathematicians  of  our  day,  spoke  of  a  solution 
by  Dr.  Ingleby  of  a  problem  that  had  proved  to 
all  others  100  intrinsecate  to  unloose. 

But  these  qualities  and  achievements  lie  outside 
of  the  province  in  which  we  all  followed  and  ad- 
mired him.  The  principles  of  criticism  enunciated  -, 
in  his  Shakespeare  Hermentulin  cannot  be  too 
closely  laid  to  heart  by  all  students ;  and  by  his 
Centurie  ef  Praysi  he  has  earned  the  gratitude  of 


374 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Oct.  30, 


■II  lovers  of  Sbakespeare,  at  home  and  abroad, 
for  manj  a  long  year  to  come.  Never  wag  Ihere 
a  man  more  ready  than  he  to  give  of  his  best  to 
all  who  applied  to  him  foi  literary  aid  ;ind  cotn- 


Minor  Notices.  Ceatei  Tir/s  de  Shakitptan 
ii  the  (itl«  of  a  French  translation  of  a  dozen  of 
Lamb's  Talet  from  Skakespiari  prep^ircd  by 
Mr.  T.  T.Timayeniaof  NewVork  and  published 
by  Ihe  Scribners  ($1.00).  It  is  well  done,  and 
seems  well  adapted  for  use  as  a  school  book. 

A  "  new  acting  edition  "  of  Hamlet,  as  arranged 
for  the  stage  b;  Mr.  Wilson  Barrett,  is  issued 
in  a  neat  pamphlet  by  the  Dramatic  Publishing 
Company,  Chicago,  for  15  cents.  We  note  an 
occasional  misprint ;  as  in  ii.  z  (p.  34) ;  Wherein 
1*11  catch  conscience  of  the  King ; "  and  on  the 
new  page  "surge  o'er"  for  "sogar  o'er"  —  or 
Is  this  latter  meant  for  an  emendation  ? 

THE  FEBIODIOALS. 

The  A&mtic  for  October  offers  an  igioeable 
nJlaQge  of  grave  and  gay,  of  lively  and  severe. 
E.  P.  Evans  writes  of  Ludwig  II  of  Bavaria  as 
"A  Had  Monarch,"  making  a  few  auggesdve 
historical  comparisons,  but  not  on  the  whole 
giving  a  complete  and  definite  estimate  of  the 
late  king's  morbid  personality.  The  same  charge 
of  fragmentarinest  may  be  brought  against  Mr. 
Haywatd's  article  on  John  Wilson  as  "  A  Uter- 
ary  Athlete,"  the  founder  of  Blackaocd  being 
regarded  much  more  as  an  athlete  than  as  a 
literarian  —  in  fact  one  hears  altogether  too 
much  about  Wilson  as  a  magnificent  animal. 
The  two  most  serious  papers  in  this  number 
■re  those  on  "  Race  Prejudices,"  by  Prof.  N.  S. 
Sbaler,  and  on  "  The  Rise  of  Arabian  Learning." 
The  former  turns  on  the  relations  between  white 
and  colored  at  the  South,  and  is  based  on  a 
strictly  scientific  analysis  of  the  preponderating 
development  of  instincts  of  rage  over  instincts 
of  sympathy.  Slavery,  had  as  )l  vras,  Piof. 
Shaler  argues,  brought  about  a  certain  accord 
between  the  two  races  which  is  likely  to  be  lost 
with  the  influx  of  whites  who  have  only  business 
relations  with  Ihe  negro,  and  the  growth  of  large 
cities,  in  which  the  negroes  will  constitute  the 
proletariat  and  be  cut  off  altogether  from  the 
upper  levels    of    society.      The  article  merits 


In  the  Century  tat  October  President  Gil 
makes  a  winning  plea  for  "hand-craft"  as 
tinguished  from  "rede-craft,"  industrial  trainii;g 
in  connection  with  book  learning.  It  is  the  age 
of  machinery,  he  says,  for  we  even  have  madii 
ery  in  politics  I  but  let  us  not  underrate  manu 
labor  and  its  artistic  value.  The  strongly 
marked,  almost  Goethe-like,  countenana 
Bjdrnson  stands  as  frontigpiece  for  this  harober, 
and  with  the  recent  celebration  of  the  twenty- 
fifth  anniversary  of  the  pubtjcatioo  of  Syiinimi 
Saliatken  as  an  excuse  we  are  given  an  act 
of  the  poet's  home  life  among  the  peasantry  of 
Aniestad.  The  picture  of  Bjornson's  hotue 
might  do  very  well  for  that  of  a  New  Hampshi 
farmstead.  F.  H.  Bacon's  description  of  the 
American  explorations  at  Assos  with  the  accom- 
panying illustrations  is  very  welcome  with  ilE 
wealth  of  graceful  erudition.  Matthew  Arnold's 
address  on  "  Common  Schools  Abroad,"  here 
inted  in  full,   has  many  suggestions  for  Ihe 


consideration  of  American  educators.     Mr.  Ar- 
nold dwells   upon   the   care  given   to  religious 
notion  in  the  best  schools  of  Germany,  and 
to  the  thorough  intellectual   drill   characteristic 
of  the  best  foreign  schools.     His  conclusion  is 
that  in  England  and  America  there  must  be  an 
organic  connection  between  the  common  school 
and   higher  instruction.      The  drollery  of  Mr. 
Stockton's  story  of  "The  Casting  Away  of  Mrs. 
Leeks  and  Mr^.  Aleshine"has  a  mild  and  very 
imulating  flavor  when  placed   in   juxtaposi- 
with  the  "Minister'a  Charge."    "A  Sum- 
Mood,"  by  Helen  Gray  Cone,  is  a  piquant 
tale    oC   a   sea-side    passion ;    Charles   De   Kay 
s  with   learning  and  romantic  zeal   of  the 
Ursulines  of  Quebec;    and  there    is    a    lively 
sketch  by   Mary    Wetherbee   of  how  she   saw 
Europe  on  Nothing  Certain  a  Year." 
The  Library  ymirnatkm  August  and  Septem- 
ber, a  double  number,  and  a  plethoric  one  at  that, 
is  peculiarly  valuable  as  containing  the  paper* 
read  at  the  Milwaukee  Conference  of  Librarians 
July  last.    The  prominent  American  librarians 
:re  present  at  thia  conference,  and  their  discus- 
)ns  covered  a  coiuiderable  part  of  the  science 
and    technology   of   library  management.     No 
librarian  can  afford  to  overlook  this  report. 

le  contents  of  Beet-Lore,  an  English  periodi- 
cal of  interest  to  bibliophiles,  we  do  not  make 
note  of  in  our  Literary  Index,  because  it  Is  dis- 
tinctly a  bibliopbi list's  magazine,  and  every  page 
in  it  is  of  moment  to  such.  "The  Book  Trade 
in  Ancient  Rome."  "An  Egyptian  Library  and 
its  Founder,"  "Early  Editions  of  the  Pilgrim's 
Progress,"  "Titles  for  Bibles,"  are  among  the 
subjects  of  articles  in  the  October  number.  Mr. 
David  G.  Francis,  17  Astor  Place,  New  York,  is 
the  American  agent  for  this  as  for  Tie  Antiquary, 
another  English  monthly,  of  similar  taste  but  a 
wider  field. 

Lifpirimtt'i,  in  its  November  number,  hits 
on  a  new  magazine  device.  In  addition  to  its 
ordinary  contents,  a  considerable  proportion  of 
which  this  month  is  devoted  to  journalism  in 
several  aspects,  it  prints,  as  a  suppleuKnt  of 
nearly  a  hundred  pages,  a  complete  novel,  or 
novelette,  by  Mr.  John  Habberton,  entitled 
"  Bruelon's  Bayou."  This  addition  about 
doubles  the  size  of  the  number,  the  price  of 
which,  however,  remains  unchanged,  asc  The 
December  number  is  to  contain  a  similar  com- 
plete novel  by  Mrs.  Burnett,  and  we  understand 
this  novel  and  generous  feature  is  to  become 
regular.  It  will  at  once  give  Lipfiiteolfi  dis- 
tinction among  the  magazines. 

The  first  number  of  the  Art  Review,  the 
new  monthly  magazine  in  New  York,  is  out.  In 
each  number  will  be  an  original  etching,  made 
by  one  of  the  leading  American  etchers,  and 
three  photogravures  of  American  artists'  paint- 
ii^s,  sculpture,  etc.,  so  that  a  year's  issue  will 
include  twelve  original  etchings  and  thirty-six 
photogravures.  In  the  October  number  is  an 
etching  by  Church,  entitled  "The  Dreamers i" 
the  three  photogravures  reproducing  paintings 
by  J.  Carroll  Beckwith  and  Francis  C.  Jones, 
and  a  piece  of  statuary,  "David  Before  the 
Combat,"  by  George  T.  Brewster,  an  Americi 
pupil  of  Merdf.  The  literary  contents  of  tl 
magazine  will  consist  mainly  of  signed  articli 
by  leading  art-writers,  on  painting,  sculptur 
prints,  architecture,  decorative  art,  industrial  ai 
etc,  in  this  country.  The  conlribntora  to  Ihe 
October  number  include  Charles  De  Kay,  George 


Parsons  Lathrop,  Mrs.  Schuyler  Van  Rensselaer, 
and  S.  R.  Koehler.  We  hope  this  enterprise 
will  meet  with  better  success  than  its  Boslon 
predecessor. 

TABLE    TALE. 

.  Prof.  E.  T.  Fames  of  Minneapolis  has  in 
hand  a  work  entitled  Capital  and  Laiar,  Their 
Righti  and  Relationi,  to  be  issued  by  Messrs. 
Fames  &  Rothie  of  that  city. 

.  Mrs.   Ella   (Clark)  Sterling   Cummins  of 

Francisco,  formerly  assistant  editor  nf  the 
Golden  Era,  and  author  of  the  story.  The  LiUli 
tintasK  Pritutsj,  is  preparing  two  novels,  soon 
be  published,  entitled  Sandalmeod  and  T^e 
Story  of  Babe  Rtbimon  ;  the  first  of  which  is  a 
fantastic  account  of  two  sisters,  the  second,  a 
realistic  picture  of  a  peculiar  phase  of  San  Fran- 
cisco life.  Mrs.  Cummins  is  contemplating  a 
story  illustrative  of  the  hardships  and  tragedies 
of  mining  life  in  old  times  in  California,  to  be 
named  Gold  and  Silver,  and  intended  to  be  the 
chief  work  of  her  life. 

.  Mrs.  Madeleine  Vinton  Dahlgren,  having 
spent  her  summer  at  her  country-seat  in  Boones- 
boro,  Maryland,  is  about  to  return  to  Washing- 
She  has  three  works  ready  to  publish:  a 
story,  Adventuret  ef  a  Night,  and  two  novels. 
Divorce,  and  Previdtnce  and  Imfrovidettce. 

.  Mrs.  Alexander  McVeigh  Miller,  who  has 
been  little  mentioned  in  print  in  late  years,  is 
living  at  Alderson,  W.  Va,  She  is  only  thirty- 
years  old,  but  has  written  a  large  number  of 
serials  and  many  short  stories  and  sketches. 
Mrs.  Miller's  latest  novel  is  Nina'i  Peril.  She 
is  finishing  another  entitled  Molly'i  Triathery. 

.  Miss  Marietta  Holley,  whose  character 
sketches  "by  Josiah  Allen's  Wife  "  are  so  popu- 
lar, is  resting  at  Saratc^a  Springs,  N.  Y.,  hoping 
to  repair  her  health,  which  has  been   impaired 

. . .  Miss  Medora  Clarke,  the  poet,  and  sister 
of  Julia  Clarke-Chase  of  San  Francisco  —  wife 
of  Lieut  G.  N.  Chase  of  the  United  States 
Army  —  is  writing  a  novel  entitled  Tie  Unicen 
WHneti,  which  will  probably  appear  from  Chi- 
cago. Miss  Clarke  is  about  to  start  for  San 
Francisco  to  take  up  her  residence  with  Mrs. 
Chase  at  "  the  Presidio." 

, ,  .  Miss  Helen  Bartlett,  formerly  literary  ed- 
itor of  the  Milwaukee  Stittinel,  and  the  author  of 
two  plays,  has  become  connected  with  journal- 
ism in  New  York  city. 

.  . .  Hon.  Francis  H.  Underwood,  United  States 
Consul  at  Glasgow,  has  in  preparation  A  Popu- 
lar History  0/  Engiisk  Literature. 

. . .  Mrs.  Nathaniel  Conklin  (Jennie  M.  Drink- 
water)  calls  her  forthcoming  story-book.  Between 
Timet,  with   the  motto,  "Experience  Workelh 

.  . .  Bishop  John  F.  Hurst  of  Boffalo,  N.  Y., 
is  at  work  on  A  General  Hislory  of  the  Christian 
Church,  to  embrace  two  large  volumes. 

Mrs.  Abby  Morton  Diaz  —  who,   by  the 

way,  lately  changed  her  residence  from  New 
Bedford  to  Belmont,  Mass.  —  has  prepared  a 
pamphlet  touching  Christian  Science,  and  has  in 
hand  a  book  to  be  called  The  Bybury  NtighbuT' 
hood,  and  another  (a  juvenile]  entitled  The  Story 
of  Ihe  Pilgrim  Fathers. 

. . .  Theodore  Stanton,  son  of  Klitabeth  Cady 
Stanton,  pubiishes  immediately  a  pamphlet  en- 
titled Grant  and  the  France-German    War,  and 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


Iiu  reidjr  a.  volume  on  The  Saditali  of  Farii ; 
both  to  a.ppcar  from  the  preu  of  G.  P.  Patnam't 

. . .  Two  books  which  ttay  be  anticipated  with 
pleasure  are  those  which  the  Rev.  A.  H.  Brad- 
ford has  in  hand,  with  the  respective  titles, 
Hiridity,  EnvirBnmtat,  and  Religion  and  Can 
J?  or,  Musi  IT  The  latter  being  a  stud;  con- 
ceiping  human  freedom. 

. . .  Mr.  Nils  Kolkin  of  Minneapolis,  who 
wrote  tVitiana,  a  poetical  rorowce  in  the  Nor- 
wegian language,  ia  about  lo  bring  out  a  work 
under  the  title,  Bltctridty  as  a  Form  of  Eihtrtai 
Matter. 


HEVS  A5D  KOTES. 

—  The   illustrated   quarto    edition   of    Dante 
Gabriel     Rossetli'H    well-known    poem, 
Bleised  Damozcl,"  announced  by  Dodd,  Mead 
&  Co.,  is  believed  by  it*  publishers  lo  be  without 
question  the  most  important  work  of  art  pub- 
lished this  year,   if    not  ever  executed  by  an 
American   aril  St.      The    publishers    have    been 
engaged  in  its  preparation  now  for  nearly  a  year, 
and   hope   to   issue  the  book  about  the  5th  of 
November.     It  will  consist  of  some  twenty  de- 
signa,  reproduced  by  the  Forbes  process,  from 
paintings  in  oil  by  Mr.  Coi,  »nd  will  be  about 
the   same   size  as   Low's  Lamia  and  the   early 
edition  of    Rubaiyit  of  Oniar  Khayydi 
which  it  will  probably  be  compared.    Mr.  Cox, 
in  addition   to   the    illustrations,   has  designed 
twenty-four  initials,    Mrs.  Van  Rensselaer,  whi 
work    in  the  Century  Magiaine   on  art  subje 
many  of  our  readers  are  familiar  with,  conti 
utes  a  sketch  on  Rossettl.    The  design  on  1 
outside   of  the  cover  as  well  as  the  linings  of 
the  book,  are  also  the  work  of  Mr.  Cox.     Proofs 
of  the  title-page  and  of  one  of  the  drawings,  as 
nell   as  proofs  of  some  of  the  initials,  give  a 
promising  idea  of  the  beauty  of  the  work. 

—  We  have  the  prospectus  of  De  Land  Col- 
lege, at  De  Land,  Volusia  Co.,  Florida,  situated 
amidat  wholly  healthy  surroundings,  and  the 
foundation,  we  doubt  not,  of  an  important  and 
flourishing  institution.  It  has  a  faculty  of  seven 
instructors,  and  a  good  beginning  of  students.  It 
is  the  crestion  of  the  Hon.  H.  A.  De  Land  of 
Fairport,  N.  Y. 

—  Mr.  Wm.  Morion  FuUerton,  whose  sonnet 
to  Hogg  is  printed  elsewhere,  is  not  a  new  con- 
tributor to  the  Liltrary  World,  his  fine  work 
having  enriched  these  columns  before  now.  But 
he  is  the  new  literary  editor  of  the  Boston  Ad- 
■vtrtiser,  Mr.  Fullerlon  is  a  graduate  of  Har- 
vard of  only  the  present  year's  class  j  but  he 
made  a  name  as  ft  critic  and  jourrtalist  while  in 
college.  Hi*  beginning  is  a  brilliant  one,  and 
illustrates  anew  the  fact  that  the  field  of  letters 
stands  wide  open  to  all  who  prove  the  right  to 

—  The  American  Beokielltr  has  issued  a 
quaint  old-style  announcement  of  a  Christmas 
number  lo  be  ready  November  r,  "yclothed 
faire  and  comlie  drefs,  and  y*  Frcsse  Work  ydon 
with  y,  befle  fkill  of  y*  craftfman.  It  will  be  by 
■noche  dele  larger  y""'  anie  of  our  heretofore 
ilTuancea." 

—  Estes  &  Lauriat  have  obtained  an  injun< 
against  the  manufacture  or  sale   of  any  Chat- 
/ef/mx    other  than  that  bearing   their    imprint, 
thus  leaving  them  in  exclusive  possession  of  that 
capital  title  as  a  copyright  and  tiade-mark. 


I  correspondent  corrects 

It  issue  :  "  the  Coiia^ki,  which  we  have  not 

English,"  etc  A  translation  of  this  work 
of  TolstoTs,  by  E.  Schuyler,  was  published  by 
Charles  Scribner's  Sons  in  1878. 

Another  error  in  our  last  issue,  a  slip  of  the 

consisted  in  crediting  lo  the  Harpers  in- 
stead of  10  D.  Lothrop  &  Co.,  who  are  the  pub- 
lishers, the  following  forthcoming  works;  The 
Rev.  Keuen  Thomas's  volume  of  sermons  en- 
titled The  Divine  Sovereignty;  The  Land  ef 
tht  Ciar  and  the  Nihilist,  by  the  Rev.  J.  M.  Buck- 
ley, LL.D.,  an  illustrated  ociavoi  All  Among 
the  Lightheusts,  by  Mrs.  Crowninshield,  wife 
of  Commander  Crowninshield,  U.S.N.,  finely 
illuslratcd  and  uniform  in  size  and  price  with 
"Family  Flights;"  and  Souvenirs  of  my  Time, 
by  Mrs.  Jessie  Benlon  Frimont. 

—  We  are  glad  to  see  Mr.  J.  W.  Boulon  again 
on  his  feel  at  yo6  Broadway,  New  York,  with  a 
lot  of  Recent  Purchases,  including  Selections 
from  a  Private  Library,  of  which  a  Catalogue  has 
just  reached  us.  One  of  the  treasures  on  this 
list  is  the  English  Etching  Club's  Edition  of 
Gray's,  Elegy,  London,  1847.  This  Catalogut, 
says  Mr.  Bouton,  is  the  first  he  has  issued  since 
the  culmination  of  his  tinancial  troubles.  "  It  is 
a  genuine  specimen  of  home  manufacture,  having 
been  set  up  and  printed  (on  a  hand  press)  on  the 

—  Virginius  Dabney's  Story  of  Don  Miff,  pub- 
lished  by  the  J.  B.  Lippincott  Co.,  has  passed  tu 
a  fourth  edition.  In  a  note  thanking  the  Liltr- 
ary World  tot  iw  notice  of  the  book  [p.  Z93]  the 
author  says: 

You  may  think  it  strange  that  I  should  thank 

you  (or  a  notice  four  fifths  of  which  was  adverse. 

But  everything  was  said  kindly,  and  as  though  you 

would  have  been  glad  to  have  found  the  book 

belter.    So  marked  was  the  spirit  throughoul 

r  criticism,  that  I  am  sure  you  will  be  glad  tc 

that  Don  Miff  has  reached  its  fourth  edi. 

1.    So  that,  turning  your  own  batteries  against 

you,  I  will  say  of  you,  as  you  said  of  my  book 

There  is  evidence  of  brains   in  him,  and  of  1 

kind  heart,  which  is  better.    Yes,  il  is  better 

ind  I  don't  hesitate  to  say  that  brilliant  as  an 

lome  of  the  eulogiums  which  have  been  passed 

>9  you  may  read)  upon  my  book,  none  pleased 

me  more  than  those  generous  words  of  yours. 

—  On  the  site  formerly  occupied  by  the  publish- 
ng  house  of  A.  L.  Bancroft  &  Co.,  721,  723,  and 

71J  Market  Street,  San  Francisco,  a  first-class 
building  is  about  to  be  erected  by  Mr.  H.  H. 
Bancroft.  According  to  the  plans  furnished  by 
Mr.  Clinton  Day,  architect,  the  building  will  be 
five  stories  high,  75  feet  front  by  170  deep,  pi 
vided  with  commodious  elevators,  and  divided 
mercantile  business  or  into  suitet 
for  professional  ofiices- 

—  Mr.  W.  Paul  Gerhard,  a  sanitary  engineei 
E  New  York,  has  published  >  book  on  The  Pre 

vention  cf  Fire,  chiefly  with  reference  to  hospitals, 
asylums,  and  public  institutions.    [60c.] 

—  Mr.  Edwin  D.  Mead  has  begun  a.  c 
six  lectures  before  the  Boston  Unive: 
"The  Pilgrim  Fathers."* 

—  Mr.  Edwin  Keith  writes  to  the  Boston  Ad- 
vtrtiser  in  praise  of  Biwton's  facilities  for  the 
study  of  Shakespeare  in  terms  which  we  are 
sure  our  readers  will  be  glad  to  see  for  them- 
selves : 

. .  .  Only  the  Congressional  and  the  Aslor  Li- 
braries rank  with  the  Public  Library,  the  Athe- 
n<eum  and  the  Harvard  Library.     But  it  is  not 
Ml  generally  known  that  only  three  libraries  in 
rope — the  British  Museum,  the  Bodleian,  and 


that  of  Trinity  College,  Cambridge  —  are  supe- 
rior in  the  Shakespearian  department  to  the 
Boston  Public  Library.  Its  so-called  "  Barton 
collection"  comprises  about  3,000  volumes.  It 
is  a  complete  bibliography  both  of  editions  and 
of  criticisms.  For  example,  the  catalwue  of 
18S2  shows  136  complete  editions  in  English 
of  Shakespeare's  works,  and  the  editions  of  sin- 
'  plays  are  legion.  Of  the  invaluable  First 
Ihe  library  has  22.  But  two  other 
in  the  country  own  any.  There  is  an 
excellent  copy  of  the  First  Folio.  I  think  I 
have  taken  a  long  step  with  my  own  student* 
when  I  have  actually  put  into  their  hands  copies 
of  these  famous  books  and  some  good  collection 
of  Shakespeare's  portraits.  As  examples  of  the 
literature  of  criticism  ready  for  the  investigator, 
let  me  say  that  the  catalogue  refers  to  192  vol- 


gle   plays 
Quartos   ; 


Ml 


wealth  of  the  library  ir 

must  aim  have  a  word  about 

William    J.   Rolte  knows, 

about    Shakespeare  than    any 


[1  in   America,  unless  it  be   Mr.        __ 

Philadelphia.    The  scholarshl))  of  Rolfe's  edi- 
ion  of  the  plays  is  everywhere  acknowledged. 
rlr.  Rolfe  has  not  taught  muih  in  either  Cam- 
bridge or  Boston  for  some  yc^rs.    But  now  the 
great  task  of  editing  the  pby~  i*  finished,  and 
last  winter  he   conducted   a  (.lass  at  the   New 
England  Conservatory.    This  year  he  is  to  cort- 
this  instruction,  and  he  will  also  meet  there 
private  pupils,  I  hear.    The  conservatory 
makes  for  him  a  convenient  Boston  headqnar- 
much  practical  aid  can  be  had  from 
Mr.  Rolfe   only   one  who   has   tried  it  knows. 
The  other  teacher  oF  whom  I  wish  to  speak  is 
long-ago  pupil  of  Mr.  Kolfe.     Mr.  Henry  A. 
Clapp  is  becoming  known  not  only  as  the  dra- 
ic  critic  a\  the  Advertiser,  but  as  a  fasdnal. 
lecturer   upon   Shakespeare.    I  see  already 
)unced   a  course  of  six  lectures  on  various 
plays.      They  are  not,  alas,  in   Boston,  but  in 
Winthrop  Hall,  Dorchester.    The  suburb,  how- 
ever, is  one  of  the  most  accessible.    Mr.  Clapp 
is  so  little  like  the  ordinary  lecturer  in  the  actual 
results  which  he  produces  that  one  is  ready  at 
one  moment  lo  call  him  a  teacher.   But  hi*  charm 
and  eloquence  are  so  little  like  the   ordinary 
teacher  that,  at  the  next  moment,  one  sets  him 
down  as  an  orator.    By  whatever  name  we  call 
his  special  office,  he  certainly  gives  a  rare  stim- 
ulus for  the  study  of  Shakespeare.     I  si 
fancy  that  we  may  be   ready  for   a  g' 
Fashioned  revival  of   genuine   love  for  ^jtiake- 
speare  ;  and  Mr.  Clapp,  unpretending  gentleman 
as  he  is,  might  well  be  the  prophet  of  such  an 

—  The  J.  B.  Lippincott  Co.'s  Classified  Cata- 
logue of  Publiittlions,  bearing  date  of  September, 
1SS6,  is  embellished  with  a  Sectional  view  of  the 
interior  of  their  great  book-making  and  booksell- 
ing house  in  Philadelphia,  on  Market  Street,  a 
curious  insight  to  one  of  the  largest  establish- 
ments of  its  class  in  the  country.  The  composi- 
tors, the  press-men,  the  binders,  the  accountants, 
and  the  packers  can  alt  be  seen  at  work. 

—  The  Rev.  James  P.  Lane  of  Norton,  Mass, 
has  published  a  memorial  pamphlet  upon  the 
Lam  Families  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  ; 
a  fragment  of  a  larger  work  on  that  family  upon 
which  the  author  has  been  engaged  for  many 
years.  Job  Lane  of  Dorchester,  Maiden,  and 
Billerica  seems  to  have  been  the  earliest  oF  these 
Puritan  progenitors,  and  he  and  those  of  the 
name  who  followed  him  played  important  parts 
in  the  development  of  the  colony.  This  pam- 
phlet further  contains  the  proceedings  of  a  meet- 
ing of  the  Ij.ne  Family  at  Hampton,  N.  H.,  in 
September,  and  some  docuir>enti  of  family  inter- 
tst. 

—  Fords,  Howard  &  Hulbert  public  this  week   \^ 
The   Volcano,  a  detailed  and  graphic  history  of 
the  famous   Draft  Riots  in  New  York  in  iS6j. 

—  Miss  Amelia  B.  Edwards,  early  this  month, 


37* 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Oct.  30 


wu  fl[tting  ibont  through  Ausiria,  Bohemia,  and 
Gennany,  touching  at  Prague,  Dresden,  and 
Berlin,  a.nd  closing  up  &  Continental  trip  with 
visits  to  friends  in  Holland.  It  is  ihe  first  lime 
■he  has  been  out  of  England  since  she  went  to 
Egypt,  and  she  Ends  it  a  pleasant  change.  But 
■he  saya  she  cannot  come  to  Ameiica.  She  can- 
not put  the  Atlantic  between  her  and  objects 
of  love  and  duty. 

—  Frederick  Wane  &  Co.,  New  York  and 
London,  lend  us  some  additional  fall  announce- 
ments, including  a  limited  new  edition  of 
7%e  Angitr's  Souvenir,  by  P.  FislKr,  edited  by 
Davies,  with  illustrations  on  India  paper;  a  six- 
volume  edition,  new,  of  JVapier'i  Ftnitisula  War, 
with  full  maps  and  plans ;  new  editions  of  the 
old  "Skekarry's"  Sport  >n  Many  Lands,  with 
chapters  on  large  game  in  the  United  Stales,  of 
Dodd's  Beauties  of  Shakespeare,  of  Vicary's  SturkU 
Nett,  a  collection  of  old'fashioned  Danish  and 
Noiwegian  tales ;  a  new  translalion  of  Madame 
de  Slacl's  Corinne ;  new  and  unifonn  editions 
of  Stilltrs  in  Canada  and  Maitermatt  Ready,  two 
of  the  best  of  liooks  fur  boys  that  ought  not  to 
be  forgotten  ;  and  Commander  Cameron's  Harry 
Raymond,  a  book  of  adventures  among  pirates, 
slavers,  and  cannibals,  by  a  noted  African  ex- 
plorer, Messrs.  Warne  &  Co.  also  publish  Uft 
in  Charge,  Linford  Green,  Lena  Graham,  and 
Nea  HonfTs,  four  companion  books  for  girls  j 
"  The  Gordon  Library,"  in  six  volumes,  new 
books  of  adventure  on  sea  and  land  by  dffeient 
authors;  Sylvia's  Daughters,  by  Edith  Scannell, 
a  girl's  story  of  the  French  Revolution  with  tinted 
pictures;  On  Manor's  Roll,  a  collection  of  tales 
of  heroism  in  connection  with  such  scenes  as 
Plevna,  Korke's  Drift,  the  Rescue  of  Greely. 
and  the  Battles  in  the  Soudan;  the  poems  of 
Shakespeare,  Byron,  Milton,  Wordsworth,  and 
Scott  in  separate  volumes,  making  aseries  known 
as  "  The  Albion  Poets ; "  the  Rev.  Wm.  Adams's 
allegories  of  the  Shadeu  of  Christ  and  Distant 
Hills,  illustrated  and  furnished  with  Oxford  red 
line  border  and  gilt  edged;  a  Wesley  Birthday, 
which  ought  to  "take  "  with  the  Methodists ;  and 
a  long  line  of  Nursery  Literature. 

—  Mr.  I^uis  Werlheimbcr,  the  author  of  A 
Muramata  Blade,  the  story  of  feudalism  in 
Japan,  which  Ticknor  &  Co.  have  ready,  was 
graduated  from  the  College  of  California  in 
1864.  He  was  for  thirteen  years  in  the  em- 
pioymenl  of  the  Japanese  government,  and  began 
his  literary  career  with  contributions  to  the 
Japan  Mail.  In  A  Muramasa  Blade  he  has 
endeavored  to  portray  accurately  life  in  Japan 
as  it  was  before  the  establishment  of  Ihe  new 
regime.  Muramasa  was  the  great  Japanese 
sword-maker  of  the  fourteenth  century,  i^ve 
of  the  illustrations  contained  in  the  book  were 
designed  and  engraved  by  Nakamura  Munchiro, 
who  enjoys  the  repute  of  being  one  of  the  best 
engravers  now  living  in  Japan. 

—  Mrs.  Rose  Terry  Cooke's  first  novel.  Stead- 
fast, will  not  be  published  till  next  spring. 

—  Agnei  Surriage,  a  story  of  the  old  colonial 
times  in  Massachusetts,  by  Edward  Bynner,  is 
to  appear  soon  from  the  press  oE  Ticknor  &  Co. 
The  heroine  is  an  historical  character,  and  the 
author  has  bestowed  a  great  deal  of  care  in  re- 
producing the  historical  accessories. 

—  Rev.  Reuen  Thomas  has  written  a  novel, 
Grafeubers  People,  which  I).  I>oihrop  &  Co.  have 

early  ready. 
■—  The  Old  Garden  is  the  title  of  a  volume  of 


poems  by  Mrs.  Margaret  Deland,  which  Hough- 
Ion,  MifSin  ft  Co.  are  to  publish. 

—  Mr.  O.  B.  Frothingham's  biography  of 
Channing  is  to  be  published  by  Houghton, 
Miffiin  &  Co.  on  Nov,  6.  On  the  same  date  will 
be  ready  a  new  edition  of  Cranch'a  jEneid,  the 
six-volume  issue  of  the  Riverside  Shakespeare, 
The  Story  of  a  Mine,  by  Bret  Hatle,  in  the 
"Pocket  Series,"  and  Franklin's  Poor  Richard's 
Almanae,  in  Ihe  "Riverside  Literature  Series." 

—  The  edition  of  Mr.  P.  Hopkinson  Smith's 
charmingly  written  and  exquisitely  illustrated 
Well  Worn  Roads,  which  was  published  a  fort- 
night or  BO  ago,  was  exhausted  within  a  weelc. 


Oricntaliil 


NEOROLOOT. 


,Dr.  R.  Demtii  HMyn,    EniUnd,  «] 
]',    Carl   Fredrit    SidderilaJ,    UbUH 

h'Prt/'s.'  yulr. 


Colic*., 


AuruU  ir,  Jilu,  Small,  lulinburgh,  ;8  y.\  libnrii 
Ifa>  ^linraitv,  ■nd  edilar  nf  clrli  Eniiiih  1»U. 
Sei>tEiabcrS(r),  X'.ir/ /■/»>,  Grieltoald,  Pru^m  ^ 

SiplEInbcr— ,  Kn,.    Dr.    7c^ll•    MaeLrn 

N.  J,,S6jf,  ;  fomtrly  Pre.idm,  ol  Prineeit 

^'sipta^^l'i'ridtlim  Hoffman,  Cologne  1  DOFcIiiland 

SFptem'ber  — ,  iV,  AdolUi  Sletn,  Dtnmitk,  Proftuai 
in  Ihe  Univenilr  ol  Copen>iien. 
Stptember  -;,  Prof.  I.  I.  loanevihy,  Sl   Peunlmii. 

"-■''"■         '"-     '"  ■      ■■     -Mfctf,   Trier    GerniMT, 


r,  Oifoid,  Engli 


ii  i-  \  liieitiy  h: 

bnj,  ^_.,  _... 
!lden   diUEhwr 

September  f  <^,  Adelf  Mtiiler.  Vimni,  Anuria,  %^  j. ; 

Septeaiber  4,  tf.  J&mh^  Fiance ;  nUEUinio  %ni  crilic 
oIEngli.l.p««. 
Sepiember  i).  Hall  Priitli,  EDgl.nd,  iaj  ;  nugiiin- 

Leih  iX'mt'. 
September  19,  7.  L.  Haltun,  Dear  |Iarga<e,  Engljind, 

^^liam^STD'r.'C-  M.  tmUt,,  near  Brighton,  Eng. 
biid;  ShikeaiKiriio. 

September  17,  Charlei  O.  Grentt.  Boiion,  Si  y.;  Jour. 

Oadba i,IJ\ Rev.  wmittttHetmirlkTMi^fitH,'DM., 
Enilarid,  jt  y, :  iheoloitii'i  and  claaiical  ediloi. 

OaObti  s  (%  Caft.  Bed/I'd  ClapfrrliH  Tmt^m 
Pirn,  London.  60  y,  i  neOErarliv  iikI  eiplotation. 

Oclober  S  (!}, HtHrik.  KarUkrona,  Sweden;  nor- 


Americaoiuni.  R,  A.  ProcWr,  KMoledgt,  SeMembn, 
Hiluc.    Na>el>oI,  TemtJi  B*r,l5ai.ber. 

Bridgcniin,  Laura.    Writing!  of, 

inn,  C,  Sanford,  O.eiland  M,.  Oclober, 

Bunym,  John,  (ioldwin  Smith,  Cixlemfsrary,  Oclobfr. 
CamW'idRe,  OuBT  Browning,  Ear.  Illut.  Mag.,  Oaobti, 
Colcndee.  "fimfit  Bar,  Septeinbei, 

Cemic  Newipiper,  tfa*  Modem, 

E.  R.  Pennell,  Cmlem^ar^,  Octobei. 

Edilon,  Some,  and  Oihin,     Em'ly, 

tiprHncoK-i,  Nonmbei, 
Faual,  a  Study  of.  Loidtn  QHarlerl^,  Oclober. 

FrendiandEngliih,  III.    P.  U. 

Hamenon.  Alliniic,  Nonmber. 

Funny  Man.  How  1  Became  a.    J.  H. 

Wifliaoia  [NorriMown  Herald]. 

Hawlhorne'a  Romancei.     W.  L. 

Courtney.  Ftrliarkllr,  Oclober. 

Mayne,  Paul  H.     M.  J.  Pretlon. 

HeirickanaMiVorM.    F.  S."" 

Palmer.  llat»aid  M..  Oclober. 

Hittorv  In  Columbia  College. 

H,  B,  Adann.  Educalion,  Oclober 


trchxology. 


Percy  Gardner,  U. 

i>h  Hiiiory,  Facia  and  Ficlions  in 


BlachvaoJ,  Oclober 


Libraiv,  How  lo  Ouoae  a.     F.  N. 

Zabnddi. 
Library,  (he  Advocalea,  Edinburgh. 

Gu.  Slrooach.  CaaelPi,  Saptamlici. 

Literary  MoTCmeol  in  New  Yoik, 

G.  P.  Lalhtop,  Harpei'i,  Nonnibv, 

Ljieiature,  Modem,  Ihe  Sinrilual 

Eleneulm.    H,W.  Mabie.        Andoier  Rer.,  Oclober. 
Liteniure,  My  Sncceaa  in.  ttumiOtm'i,  Odobei. 

Lonilillow  and  hi>  Frienda.  LtmJtm  Qatrt,  October. 

Neinpaper  Slietdiei,  Eariy.    D.  J. 

Robennn,  Lmemai^s,  Saplemtier. 

Newipaperiam,     CauiA  OcaaiMt  Fallen. 

LjpF^ncotl'a,  Norember. 
Oaiianic  Balbda.  Rct.  A.  Cameron.  ,fcMrul{je.,Oclobtr. 
Odont  Law  Sludiea.  LaimQmrlirlr,  Ne.  «. 

Penny  Poiuge,  Unlreral.    J.  Hen- 

niker-Heaum.  PortnitUlr,  Oclober. 

PlagiiriBD.  the  Elhica  of.     Brr-  '- 

Mauhewi. 
Poe'i  Lau  Poem.    H.  J,  Ken 


ZnafHu'i,  October. 


Southern  Bi'Ooai:,  Oclober, 
Pme-Pocnia,  MacmiUatC t,  October. 

ReBeclioniatid  Recolledioni,    G.  A, 

"  Salurday  Renew  "  Blunden.         Tim/f^,  Oci^bJl 
Swinburne'*  PocirT-    P,  A.  Gniiani, 

CoMlimfrrmr^,  Seplemln. 
Tuix«nitri  Ullen.    F.  K. 


id  FoUr  ot  the  Lut 


BlaiMvHd,  October. 


PUBUOATIONa  RECEIVED. 


obum.  Wiih  Appendix  by  Judge  I 
[anapoliii  The  Bowen-Merril]  Co.  Pi 
Ths  Lin,  TiaviLs.  itc,  or  Ma):. 


e,  Sioku  &  Allen. 

.rsui  S.  GiAHT.  Same  Auihoc  and  Publi 
BsBnyB  and  Sketche*. 


■%  COUB 


Cook,     lloughlou,  Mifflin  A  Cc 
What  I  Beuava.     Bv  Cnu 

GDtlaberger. 
Tmm  Fah._..    _,    - 

Butler  Thwiog.     Ue& 

MoTFill.'    Ticknor  &  Co. 


Robem  Brol 
l>.°o 

>HT.      By  Joeeph 

Tolatol.    Wm.  S. 

»..w 

By  Chailee  F.  Tbwing  and  Carrie  F, 


.    Tickno 


A  Studv 


fHa» 


I  Co. 


[qtid  PsewNE.  By  Juuin  S. 
Shoi.  By  Thomaa  Sergeant 
By  George  Paraone  Lathrop, 


HoughloD,  Uiffiin  ACo. 

A  Plain  Man's  Talk  oh  thi  Law*  Quistioh.  By 
Simon  Newcomb,  LUD.    Harper  &  Dm. 

Fiction. 

Thb  Housa  AT  HiQH  Baioca,  By  Edfar  Fawcell, 
Tickno.  4  Co,  »i,so 

CLAHor  CuHBUSD*.  By  Cbariei  Gibbon,  Harper 
&  BroL    Paper  aoc 

Thuducm  thb  WiLniHm,  By  Hra,  S.  Currier. 
Thomat  Whiilaker.  fi.ij 

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Caaaell  A  Co.,  Limited, 

A  BoETOH  Giil'i  Akbitiohb.  By  Virginia  F.Townh 
end.    Lee  &  Shepard,  Iljo 

Thhouoh  Unkhowh  Wavs,  By  Lucy  EUen  Guenuey. 
Thomaa  Whillaker,  fi,sa 

RaoBiAUTV,  ByWilliamO.  Stoddard.  With  Fron lit- 
piece,     J.B,Lpi[BncoIlCo,  |r,.s 

John  Jaaouaj  His  THOUGHTS  AHO  Wave.     By  Jean 


Dw.    Roberta  Brolhen 


By    (George   Meredith. 


Moo 


By  Ouida. 
Klaus  B 

Clara  S.  Fie 


KiH.  ByLuci 
Tna  Toucm 
per  «  Bros.    ] 


Vira.     Vy  Paul 
^enry  Hall  A  C< 


By  Honors  de  Baliae.    Roberta  Btoa. 

:iofthbMooh.     By  J.  A.  Mitchell.     II- 
ryHoll&Co.  »i.«> 


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Six  ih  All.    By  Virginia  F.  Tow 


kmclia  E.  Barr. 

,  Iroo 

LeeftShep- 


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377 


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H.     By  W.  H.  Hillock.    G. 


ViliMi.    Tr.  by  Nilhui  Hukell  Dole 
ell  &  Co. 
CasTLi    > 

SCETCHB.      : 


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Tm  DOLLAU  Eho 
Ua,  UiOiD  ft  Co. 

Thi  Laws  and  C 
Tii..iTORm.  B, 
Tbe  Bomn-MeiTill 


y  Amjuido    PaUdo 

~  Y.  Crow- 

ti.jo 

CoDKTay 

.    iUrper 

}F  A  Ham.    By  JuEto  Wartb. 

Htw  Ehglamd  Stoubs.    By 

By  Caiberinc  Ow«B.     Hooih. 

Hiatorjr. 

:ODim  or  NtnTHTDT  ahd  Iitdiana 
Daniel   Waili    Howe.      Indiuupolii  I 


nan.     M lOnillaD  ft  Co. 
DOCUHEHTS    iLLTIITIA' 

•M^iKj.    Ed.  by  Howa; 


?.  UcLen. 

»4." 


7.  Pruton.    G.  P.  FuIi 

iU  COMSTITUTIOH 


CivUf 


ft  Coals. 


Ti|ba.    D,  Ai^un  ft  Co. 

OF  GiTTVSBuaa.    From  itaHattrr  s/Ut 
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By  iha  Coal*  de 

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.    By  Some  Friends  of  the  Girls.    IDus. 


378 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Oct.  30, 


NEW   BOOKS. 

Well-worn  Bonds  of  SpolB,  Hol- 
land and  Italy. 

T....1M  Iw  ■  Falnui  m  Bttmb  of  lis  pletnnno"-   A 


■rtMt    Iii»ftJ]o»oluine,ti«l«falljm)imd  mud  «»iiip«d. 

The  surer  Bridge,  and  Other 
Poems. 

BtEuiabctH  AUH-    ISn>o,|I.:<l- 

Ten  Dollars  Enough. 

B/  CiTHMni  OWM,     IBmo,  ll.M. 

The  Sadonna  of  the  Tnbs. 

Bj  Elii*»ih  8t«*«i  ratm.  "uUior  "'  '"^l^^^ 
AJ.r."  ■'  B»roiid  me  OiW."  "tc.  Witt  lortT-tt™  (aU- 
DM«  Md  nn«ll«r  mmtatloiB.inelndUilMQre.  l»iiil«»pe 
■nd  ro«riM  intjKtt,  bT  W*  Tamer  infl  0«ws«  H.  Ctain- 
eDU.    1*100,  U»»(oU»'»i"'*i*'^  <"'••'■*'■ 

Roland  Blafce. 

A  No«l.  By  S.  WBi»  MiTimn*,  M-D-.  "lO™  <^  "1" 
W«r  Time,"  etc   imm,  fl-M- 

Applied  Christianity. 

•ic.   Unlfomwltli-TlwLonl'iPniT"-"    lUno.gUttop, 

The  Lord's  Prayer. 

By  W*»HiiiaTO«  OtiDDK.    N>w  Edition.    I«nu).  gUt  top' 

Becfconings  for  Erery  Day. 

A  Culoidar  of  Thonght.   Atisnjed  M  Loot  IrfiOoH.edl- 

lor  of  ■■  Btwthlngi  of  the  B«tt«  Ll(»,"  olo,    Iftno.fl.M, 

Holy  Tides. 

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-■mMlwortHy*."""-  aq»«ol8mo.beimUtuUyprtalBd, 
mnd  boiind  In  p*roliiiwnt  P*P*f  ■  ^^  c*ntt 

Orient. 

B«ln«ll»TMittVoli.m«of  Bwion  »iond»T  Leon.™.  nJti 
PMludc  on  Ciimnt  Evmu.ind  Flu  Appondlce..  Bj 
j^iiT^Coot   WlUi.«n.it«lponnlt.    lSmo,»l,W- 

Poems  of  BelfeiouB  Sorrow,  Com 
fort,  Connsel  and  Aspiration. 

CollMied  «nd  edlitd  by  r»"icn  J-  Cbiid,  PrafMwr  li 
lUrvard  VnltenllT.    New  Edition.    lftno,»lJS. 

The  Great  Debate. 

M  rortlgn  MliUoo 


B¥o,p»im.a«nu. 

Agasslz's  Life  and  Works. 

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A  Story,  by  W.  H.  Mallock,  anthor.of- 
"IB  Life  Worth  LlvlDg?"  ■'The  NewBo- 
pnbllo,"  eM.  (Vol.  20  in  the  Tr»M-Atl«b- 
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QUERIES  answered" 

bum  iMtof  the  JlfflHoB,  M  Tolumw.  unbonnd  clM^^ 


iv^yj. 


The  Labor  Question  ta  the  one 
prvbltnt  which  exceeda  in  impor- 
tance all  others  now  before  thie 
country 

Every  public  man,  every  private 
Ctttxen,  every  employer,  every  work- 
ing man,  is  alike  interetted  in  thi» 
gueation,  and  ahould  read 

The  Lalior  MoyBnenl 
in  America, 

Br  PKOT.  KIOHAKl*  T.  KI-T. 

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I  ona  of  Ihs  HelAUiUc  poUtlo  of  onr 

»llo<*  bn'  InlrodocHi   Lord  t-flUin- 

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Sa.  Bnnriia'i  Holy  Wmf. 

B«.  I»«ld>i>  BvMHirea  of  BhKkopeitre. 


se.  WaIMB  Had 

m^  Hebcr-i  'bik 
«1.  Half-Hsu*  1 


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CONTENTS. 

Oui  AnCTie  PnoviHCa 

TRjim'9  N™  T«stai«mt  LnicoK     . 
FanyAH's  Methods  op  Histoiical  Studv 

Shout  Stoiiis; 

PoreilT  Giw 

KfUT 

AWkiuHvon 

Tbx^Boovs  of  Psvcholocv  ..... 

ThaLoEicnl  lalronwctioD 

Microbes,  FtnDenu.  ■nd  llonldi  .... 

Sancton  Soul  PtdUebm 

Back-Woodi  Lkiuth  lor  1^84      . 

Tb(  Weild  »  WIU  and  Idea 

Tbt  Ronad  Year 

The  EncKih  Parlianient  ThTonfli  a  Tbouund  Ycai 
How  iDStmKlbcD  IhE  Mcmocr    .... 

iiTODi'i  Hiiiorrol  Grnli  Liuntnre   . 
lbH>>adMapa 

SlndiiaiD  Andant  HiiloiT 

The  Klnnlde  LanEfcllaw 

E4e.,  Eit 

Haivakd's  CouuaiioiATioH  .  ,  .  . 
Tmi  LowBLL  Iiimvinr 

Nona  noH  Chicago.  Nanan  .... 
A  Lri-m  raoH  GaauAHV.  Uopeld  Kaueha  . 
HoTB  noM  Niw  York 

Tht  Silence  ol  Dean  Mailland      .... 

A  BoatoD  Giirl'a  AiliblioDi 

The  Fhaniom  City 

SHAKDriAaiAHA.     Ediind  bf  Wm.  T.  Rolfe: 
Ur.  Churcher'i  "MyHtry  of  Shiiopeare  Ro- 

Dr.  Ellitm'.  ■'  OtheiU  and 
Tbe  Shalceapeaie  Quarto  1 


OUE  AROTIO  PBOTHrOE.' 

ANOTHER  book  on  Alaska,  a  book  that 
is  3  work;  not  a  sportsman's  pastime 
but  a  scicDtist'g  treatise ;  not  a  history,  not 
a  mere  description,  not  a  Darrattve  of  ad- 
venture; but  a  carefully  studied,  thoroughly 
assimilated,  intelligently  writteo,  attractively 
illustrated  exposition  of  Alaska  with  special 
attention  to  its  geography  and  marine  re- 
sources. The  author  dates  his  preface  from 
the  Smithsonian  Institution,  of  whose  staff 
he  appears  to  be  a  member.  The  visit  out 
of  whose  personal  observations  he  writes 
was  made,  we  judge,  eight  or  ten  years  ago. 
He  sketches  as  well  as  writes,  and  with  pen 
and  ink  as  well  as  pencil.  Some  of  tfai 
illustrations  look  like  reproductions  of  pho- 
tographs. There  are  nearly  50  full-page 
{llustrationa,  giving  eSective  ideas  of  thi 
cold  and  gloomy  grandeur  of  much  of  Alas 
kan  scenery  and  of  the  plentitude  of  its 
aquatic  population;  a  somewhat  smallei 
number  of  illustrations  are  inserted  in  the 
text,  gener^y  rude  but  forcible  drawings, 
depicting  villages,  native  physiognomies  and 
costumes,  huts,  and  so  on.    There 


■  Ovr  Araic  Pisrbica  Aluka  and  llie  Seal  Iilanda.    Bjr 

UtBtr  W.  EH       ~  ■    - 


good  maps,  one  a  Urge  and  general  map  of 
the  whole  territory,  the  others  special  charts 
of  notaUe  islands  and  localities.  The  print 
is  inviting,  the  book  large,  solid,  and  im- 

Mr.  Elliott  covers  his  field  with  fourteen 
chapters.  In  the  first  he  rapidly  accounts 
for  the  discovery  of  Alaska  and  its  islands 
by  the  Behring  Expedition  of  1741,  its 
possession  and  occupancy  by  Russian  enter- 
prise, and  its  final  transfer  to  the  United 
States  in  1867.  These  preliiniDaries  out  of 
the  way,  the  solemn,  incomparable,  and  ro- 
mantic features  of  the  Sitkan  region  are 
next  portrayed,  with  its  forests,  glaciers, 
and  primitive  industries.  One  whole  chap- 
ter is  given  to  the  Alaskan  Indians,  whose 
di£Ference  from  the  Indians  of  the  Plains 
Mr.  Elliott  pronounces  one  simply  of  phy- 
sique. Their  chief  vice  is  gambling.  Their 
are  squalid,  their  women  drudges,  their 
food  anything.  The  efforts  of  the  mission- 
ary in  their  behalf  have  been  offset  so  far 
by  the  debaucheries  of  rum-selling  whites. 

To  the  great  mountains  of  Alaska,  St 
Eiias  and  Wrangel,  the  latter  the  loftiest  on 
the  Continent,  and  visible  for  more  than  a 
hundred  miles  at  sea ;  to  the  majestic  sound 
known  as  Cook's  Inlet  with  its  extremes  of 
glacier  and  volcano;  to  the  great  outlying 
island  of  Kadiak,  Alaska's  geographical  and 
commercial  center,  with  its  luxuriant  vege- 
tation, its  fertile  soil,  and  its  once  prosper- 
ous settlements ;  and  to  the  far-reaching 
chain  of  the  Alentian  Islands  which  carry 
the  extreme  western  boundary  of  United 
States  territory  away  to  a  point  3,000  miles 
distant  from  San  Francisco  —  to  each  of 
these  topics  Mr.  Elliott  gives  an  interesting 
chapter;  the  last- mentioned,  with  its  visit  to 
Atto,  the  remotest  village  of  all,  being  per- 
haps the  most  interesting  of  the  series. 
This  great  Aleutian  chain,  with  its  infinitely 
varied  shores,  its  lofty  peaks,  its  smoking 
volcanoes,  its  snow-squalla  in  August,  i1 
rioting  winds,  its  fogs,  its  sporting  whales, 
presents  a  strangely  fascinating  picture. 

The  most  important  topic  in  Mr.  Elliott' 
hands  is,  however,  the  Seal  and  Otter  Fish- 
eries, to  which  he  devotes  large  space,  with 
all  the  fondness  of  a  naturalist  and  the  pre- 
cision of  a  scientific  observer.  We  have 
^lowhere  met  a  more  interesting  account  of 
the  almost  human  seal  in  his  home  and 
habit,  or  of  the  industry  by  which  his  fur 
is  realized  for  the  use  of  man.  The  descrip- 
tion of  the  "rookeries,"  as  the  breeding- 
places  are  called,  of  the  duels  of  the  lords 
of  the  harems,  of  the  wonderful  increase  of 
the  seals  from  year  to  year,  and  of  the 
methods  of  catching,  killing,  and  curing, 
are  extremely  graphic  It  is  a  singular  pict- 
ure of  brute  intelligence  and  prowess  over- 
powered by  the  superior  skiil  of  man.  The 
sea-lions  have  a  chapter  to  themselves,  and 
then  in  turn  the  Innuits  or  Esquimo,  who 
are  to  be  distinguished  from  the  other 
natives,  the  vast  and  splendid  Yukon,  the 


Mississippi  of  Alaska,  and  the  dreary  Arctic 
shores  along  from  Icy  Cape  to  Point  Bar- 
row, with  their  walruses,  and  their  curious 
winter  huts  approached  by  tunnels  through 
the  snow. 

There  arc  no  rose-colors  In  Mr.  Elliott's 
picture,  except  such  as  nature  herself  shows. 
You  feel  as  you  read  his  pages  that  you  are 
face  to  face  with  a  very  real,  a  very  grand, 
a  very  stern,  a  very  picturesque,  a  very  sav- 
age section  of  the  earth  ;  a  land  whose  back 
is  up  against  the  North  Pole  while  its  front 

bathed  in  the  sunshine  of  the  South;  a 
clime  whose  softer  moods  would  be  cap- 
tivating but  whose  anger  must  be  terrible. 
The  book  does  not  bring  the  country  near, 

■  aves  it  very  far  away,  a  country  of 
marvelous  versatilities  and  splendid  possi- 
bilities, but  yet  of  untamed  rudeness;  a  fair 
but  wild  creature  of  the  forest  yet  to  be 
wooed  and  won. 


THATEE'8   NEW    TESTAMEHT    LEI- 
laOH.' 

GRAMMARS  of  New  Testament  Creek 
have  been  more  numerous,  at  least 
i  accessible,  than  lexicons.  Of  grara- 
1  we  have  had  Buttraan's,  Green's, 
JelPs,  Moses  Stuart's,  Trollope's,  and,  most 
iderafaie  of  all,  Winer's.  But  of  lexicons 
only  one  has  been  reallyin  use  by  American 
students,  namely  Dr.  Edward  Robinson's, 
Whether  that  work,  the  standard  for  a  gen- 
eration, will  be  displaced  by  this  new  one  of 
Dr.  Thayer's  remains  to  be  seen,  but  the 
new  one  has  every  look  of  being  a  formid- 
able competitor.  Robinson's  is  a  narrow 
octavo  of  about  800  pages;  Thayer's  a  wide 
octavo,  almost  a  quarto,  of  726  pages;  in 
actual  hulk  Thayer's  must  considerably  ex- 
ceed Robinson's.  Robinson's  was  a  distant 
relation  of  a  German  original ;  Thayer's  is 
distincly  a  translation,  revision,  and  enlarge- 
ment of  Grimm's  (Jena)  reconstruction  of 
Wilke's  German  original  of  iSji  (2d  edi- 
tion), Wilke,  Wilke's  zd  edition,  Grimm's 
German  reconstruction,  and  now  Thayer's 
American  reconstruction ;  such  arc  the  steps 
in  the  history  of  the  work.  Dr.  Thayer 
began  his  laborious  undertaking  in  1864, 
and  though  his  twenty-two  years  of  toil  have 
been  marked  by  some  interruptions,  they  yet 
stand  for  an  immense  amount  of  applica- 
tion. Those  who  have  been  in  the  secret  of 
the  enterprise,  and  have  been  admitted  to 
observe  the  curious,  intricate,  and  extremely 
careful  processes  of  the  workshop,  have 
known  that  here  was  progressing  one  of  the 
most  scholarly  and  important  literary  ser- 
vices of  the  time.  We  forget  how  many 
years  Alvan  Clark  &  Son  spend  in  grinding 
telescopic  glasses  for  the  study  of  the  heav- 
ens, but  probably  at  least  ten  years  of 
the  hardest  sort  of  work  have  gone  into 


*  A  Greak-Entliih  Lexicon  ol  Ibe  If  ew  TialaBcnl. 
Tranilaled,  Ranted,  and  Enlarged  by  Joaeph  Hsnr^ 
TbtTO',  D.D.    Uaipct  &  Brothara.    f  j.on. 


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[Nov.  13, 


the  mere  editorial  preparation  of  Grimm's 
WiUu's  Clavis  Novi  TtttameuH  for  its 
Americaa  appearance.  For  one  thing  the 
editor's  precautions  i^ainst  danger  to  bis 
accumulating  material  from  fire  have  fur- 
nished a  singular  Illustration  of  the  costli- 
ness and  irrepUceableness  of  some  forms 
of  literary  labor. 

Dr.  Thayer  is  peculiarly  fitted  for  the 
task  to  which  he  volunteered.  Bearing  a 
well-knoirn  and  honored  New  England 
name,  with  the  practical  interest  of  a  Chris- 
tian pastor  for  a  foundation,  the  valuable 
experience  of  an  Andovcr  professor  for 
sdentific  equipment,  and  the  rich  resources 
and  opportunities  of  his  present  position  in 
Harvard  University  by  way  of  a  finishing- 
room,  he  has  brought  to  the  performance  of 
the  task  an  unusual  combination  of  advan- 
tages. Thayer's  Gruk-English  LixUon  will 
t>e  regarded  as  the  solid  growth  of  a  quarter 
of  a  century,  origlDatiDg  in  Germany,  trans- 
planted into  and  nourished  into  new  being 
in  a  pastor's  study,  carried  on  into  sturdy 
maturity  in  the  seclusion  of  Andover,  and 
ripening  In  the  free  and  mellowing  air  of 
the  great  University  of  Cambridge.  Nor  is 
it  any  detraction  to  its  merits  that  the  hands 
of  sach  scholars  as  Dr.  Gregory  of  Leipzig 
and  the  late  Etra  Abbot  have  helped  to 
shape  it 

A  detailed  professional  exposition  of  a 
work  of  this  class  will  hardly  be  expected  in 
these  columns.  But  it  may  be  said  briefly 
that  Dr.  Thayer  wisely  determined  not  to 
build  anew  but  to  re^x>duce  the  old ;  that 
his  own  additions  to  the  text  are  suitably 
indicated;  that  all  references  —  Biblidal, 
classical,  and  modern — have  been  verified 
in  the  interests  of  absolute  accuracy;  that 
particular  attention  has  been  p^d  to  the 
extra- Biblical  usage  of  New  Testament 
words ;  that  variations  in  the  Greek  text  and 
in  the  Revised  Version  have  been  noted ; 
and  that  references  and  cross-references 
have  been  greatiy  multiplied.  Some  etymo- 
logical statements  of  Professor  Grimm  be- 
lieved to  be  defective  have  been  supple- 
mented by  views  of  authoritative  philolo- 
gists. Much  labor  has  been  expended  on 
the  impartial  interpretation  of  dogmatic 
terms;  some  such,  for  example,  as  furnish 
the  starting  points  of  the  New  Orthodoxy. 

The  furniture  of  the  work  is  abundant. 
There  is  an  alphabetical  List  of  Ancient 
Authors  Quoted  or  Referred  to ;  a  list  of 
Books  Refened  to  Merely  by  their  Author's 
Name,  etc;  a  table  of  explanations  and 
abbrerialions ;  and  an  extended  Append! 
containing  lists  of  FosVAristotelian  Words 
in  the  New  Testament,  of  Borrowed  Words 
from  the  Hebrew,  Latin,  and  other  Foreign 
Tongues,  of  New  Testament  Greek  Words 
strictly  soKalled,  of  Words  Peculiar  to 
Individual  Writers,  of  Forms  of  Verbs,  and 
of  Additions  and  Corrections.  To  the  lattei 
we  may  add  that  on  p.  $14,  under  the  word 
UUmUoh,  in  line  8,  ''240"  should  read  200, 


and  that  in  line  9  for  "1167"  should  be 

Typographically  the  book  is  attractive; 
the  paper  is  good,  the  binding  firm,  and  the 
print  fair  and  distinct  Such  a  lexicon  must 
be  an  essential  tool  in  the  hands  of  every 
student  of  the  original  writings  of  the  New 
Testament.    The  price  is  extremely  low. 

FBEEUAK'S  METHODS  OF  HIBTOB- 
lOAL  8TTJDT." 

MR.  FREEMAN'S  first  course  of  lect- 
ures as  Regius  Professor  of  Modem 
History  at  Oxford  is  very  agreeable  reading. 
He  discusses  in  bis  usual  copious  and  decis- 
ive manner  the  relation  of  history  to  other 
studies,  its  pecniiar  difficulties,  the  nature 
of  historical  evidence,  original  and  subsidi- 
ary authorities,  geography,  and  travels,  and 
gives  brief  estimates  of  the  leading  histori- 
ans, ancient,  medizval,  and  modern.  For 
such  distinctions,  to  be  sure,  as  that  of 
"ancient"  and  "roodero"  in  history,  Mr. 
Freeman  has  no  respect;  be  reiterates  his 
dislike  for  these  adjectives  on  every  con- 
venient ota^asion : 

In  the  course  of  a  life  divided  about  equally 
btlween  what  are  called  "  ancient "  and  whmt  are 
called  "modem"  itndies,  I  have  never  been 
able  to  find  out  the  difference  between  the  two. 
I  have  never  been  able  to  find  out  by  my  own  wit 
when  "ancient"  hlstoir  ends  and  when  "mod- 
ern "  history  begins. 

Yet  he  thinks  the  best  point  that  could 
be  chosen,  If  an  arbitrary  division  must  be 
made,  is  the  great  barbarian  invasion  of 
Gaul  In  407  A.D.,  the  beginning  of  Teu- 
tonic settlement  in  the  Western  lands  of  the 
Empire.  But  we  must  ever  bear  in  mind 
the  one  great  central  fact  which  gives  unity 
to  all  history,  the  power  and  predominance 
of  Rome. 

What  is  history  P  The  definition  to  which 
Mr.  Freeman  most  inclines  is :  "  History  is 
the  science  of  man  in  his  character  as  a 
political  being."  But  at  once  he  discloses 
the  unsatisfactorineas  of  the  definition. 
"  We  must  at  least  attach  some  adjective 
to  the  word  '  science.' "  And  for  "  scienctf " 
itself,  as  a  word,  he  has  no  particular  liking, 
"knowledge"  being  just  as  good  a  word. 
On  the  senses  in  which  history  can  properly 
be  termed  "science,"  and  the  degree  of 
uncertainty  to  which  it  must  ever  be  sub- 
ject in  comparison  with  the  sureness  of  the 
physical  sciences,  he  goes  on  to  enlarge,  but 
makes  this  most  important  observation ; 

While  the  historian  must  have  leu  confi- 
dence than  the  natural  philosopher  hu  in  Kaying 
that  things  are  so,  yet,  granting  that  they  are  bo, 
he  can  come  nearer  than  tbe  natural  philosopher 
can  to  saying  why  things  are  so. 

For  the  physicist's  Force  is,  after  all,  only 
a  comprehensive  term  for  ignorance  of  the 
ultimate  cause  of  phenomena,  while  the  per- 


•  Tlw  Maifaodi  of  Hutorioi]  Sradj.  Ei(lit  Lcetnrai 
Rad  in  ihs  Uoinnitr  of  Oiford  In  Ukbaelmu  Tcfm, 
iSSi,  with  tbs  IniuKsna  Lccuin  od  ibe  Offica  of  Ibe 
Hiiiorial  Profsaur.    Bj  Edwmrd  A.  FnouiL    London : 


sonal  will,  the  explanation  of  the  facts  of 
history,  is  something  most  intimately  known 
to  ns  all. 

Mr.  Freeman  leaves  no  opportunity  un- 
used for  pouring  out  scorn  on  the  notion 
that  history  is  an  easy  study,  and  certainly 
the  ideal  be  presents  does  not  make  it  out 
such.  The  reading  of  tbe  original  texts  in 
bis  chosen  era  is  the  first  Imperative  duty  of 
the  student;  he  needs  also  to  be  accurately 
informed,  though  in  less  detail  and  not  by 
his  own  original  study,  concerning  all  the 
ages  preceding  and  following  the  time  to 
which  he  devotes  himself.  The  need  of  a 
knowledge  of  geology,  physical  geography, 
and  palfeontology  is  great ;  did  not  the  fate 
of  Rome,  and  so  of  all  the  world,  turn  upon 
tbe  contour  of  those  seven  low-lying  hills  by 
the  yellow  Tiber  ?  No  world-empire  could 
have  arisen  on  the  hill  of  Tusculum. 

Mr.  Freeman  devotes  considerable  space 
to  the  latest  two  sciences  which  have  en- 
lightened historical  sttidy  so  much,  com- 
parative philology  and  comparative  juris- 
prudence. For  numismatics  he  has  allowed 
a  high  office;  geography  is  one  of  the  two 
eyes  of  history ;  and  he  urges  personal  in- 
spection of  famous  scenes.  It  is  in  two  or 
three  passages  descriptive  of  places  steeped, 
like  Palermo,  in  historic  reminiscence,  that 
Mr.  Freeman  allows  himself  a  free  utterance 
which  easily  rises  into  manly  eloquence,  ai 
he  pours  forth  tbe  recital  of  the  associations 
of  many  ages,  centering  in  one  spot  and 
making  history  one  indeed. 

The  whole  volume  is  entertaining  and  in- 
structive as  well  in  its  sagacious  and  bal- 
anced counsels  to  the  student  asin  the  picture 
it  presents  of  the  historian  of  the  Norman 
Conquest  himself,  emphatic,  conservative 
yet  catholic,  a  true-born  Englishman  with 
tbe  proper  opinion  of  Germans,  who  with  all 
their  learning  cannot  understand  free  insti- 
tutions because  they  have  never  lived  under 
them.  But  tbe  most  generally  Interesting 
part  of  these  lectures  is  certainly  their  inci- 
dental criticism  of  noted  historians.  "The 
mighty  work  of  Gibbon,  alone  among  the 
works  of  his  age,  still  keeps  its  place."  To- 
wards a  different  man,  Arnold  of  Rugby,  with 
his  simple  eloquence,  Mr.  Freeman  is  proud 
to  bear  himself  as  the  man  before  his  lord. 
Macaulay's  "great  and  obvious  faults"  do 
not  blind  our  author  to  his  enormous  industry 
and  his  mastery  of  historical  narrative. 

Mr.  Freeman's  estimates  of  Dean  Mil- 
man,  whose  matter  and  whose  style  be 
considers  to  be  singularly  alike,  in  their 
general  strength  and  in  their  weakness  in 
details,  of  Mallam,  tbe  patriarch  of  the  class 
of  lawyers  who  are  among  the  best  friends  of 
historical  learning,  of  Kemble  and  Palgrave, 
"the  father  and  teacher  of  us  all,"  of  FinUy, 
Grole,  Curtius,  and  Thirlwall,  each  indis- 
pensable to  %  complete  history  of  Greece, 
are  eminently  judicial.  For  Mommsen  he 
reserves  his  highest  praise  and  his  severttt 
Uame: 


lSg6.] 


THE  LlTEkARY  WORLD. 


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The  gteateit  scholar  of  our  limes,  well-nigh 
the  greatest  scholar  of  all  times,  .  .  .  s  wide  and 
■nre  grasp  of  historic  sequence .  .  .  deep  and 
fsT-reaching  ihogihts,  [but]  lacking  in  political 
and    noiaT  insight,    with    the    politics    of    an 


■iiice  Momtnseu  rest»  his  bUraC'  of 
successful  patriots  on  %  knowledge  of  sub- 
sequent history  which  was,  of  course,  impos- 
sible to  them.  As  for  modern  historians 
in  general,  himself  included,  Mr.  Freeman 
claims  only  the  modest  place  "  of  commen- 
tators, illtistrators,  harmoDizers,  of  the  orig- 
inal texts."  But  this  leaves  too  much  out 
of  sight  the  literary  power  and  the  native 
genius  of  the  historian,  both  of  which  iu 
tbia  instance  should  ensure  a  large  audience 
to  Mr.  Freeman,  while  he  discusses  the 
methods  of  history  as  only  a  historian  of 
e  coald  do. 


HALF-HOITBS  WITH  AHEEI0A5 
AUTHOBB.* 

THE  motive  of  this  work  is  excellent,  to 
collect  in  a  moderate  number  of  vol- 


umes representative  extracts  in  prose  and 
verse  of  the  great  historical  company  of 
American  authors.  By  a  great  many  people 
such  a  comprehensive  library  of  American 
literature,  "infinite  riches  in  a  little  room," 
would  be  considered  desirable  and  found 
useful.  Its  service  in  fomishiog  examples 
of  American  authorship  and  in  guiding 
young  or  untrained  readers  into  intelligent 
and  self-reasoned  acquaintance  therewith 
would  be  considerable.  The  only  work  we 
think  of  at  the  moment  with  which  to  com- 
pare it,  Duyckinck's  Cyelopadia  of  Amtri- 
ea»  Uttraiure,  is  old-fashioned,  bulky,  and 
expensive,  and  besides  is  prolwbly  oat  of 

The  contents,  too,  of  Mr.  Morris's  collec- 
tion are  rich  and  varied.  Not  fewer  than 
260  authors  are  represented  by  upwards  of 
600  selections.  In  a  company  of  ztio  Araer- 
can  authors  there  mast  be  room  for  almost 
everybody  whom  one  would  look  for.  There 
are  some  absences  to  be  sure  which  will  be 
remarked ;  Hannah  Adams,  for  example,  is 
not  here,  nor  Mr.  Alcott,  nor  any  of  the 
Alexanders,  nor  Mr.  Boyeaen,  nor  Phillips 
'  Brooks,  nor  Bushnell,  nor  Cboate,  nor  the 
elder  James,  nor  Palfrey,  nor  Hildreth,  and 
many  more  whose  names  are  quite  as  famil- 
iar as  some  of  those  included.  But,  of 
course,  in  giving  such  a  party  as  this  every- 
body cannot  be  invited  I  The  literary  selec- 
tions are  ^so  generally  judidous.  Frag- 
mentary pieces  are  avoided  as  far  as  possi- 
ble, and  the  four  volumes  certainly  contain 
«  lat;ge  and  varied  and  inviting  assortment 
of  the  best  and  tiestknown  American  writ- 
ings. 


•HiU-HaanwilhOMBcMABcriaD  Authon.    Selected 
■Bd  AmBfad  br  Cbu>«  Uonk.    4  Volt    J.  B.  Lipris- 


It  is  when  we  reach  Mr.  Morris's  arrange- 
ment of  his  matter  that  we  find  occasio 
for  critidsim.  "  Selected  and  arranged, 
the  title-page  reads,  "by  Charles  Morris. 
We  fail  to  see  that  Mr.  Morris  has  "a 
ranged  "  the  contents  at  all.  We  discover 
in  them  scarcely  the  slightest  principle  of 
order  or  plan  from  beginning  to  end.  It  is 
as  If  Mr.  Morris,  as  fast  as  he  had  made 
bis  "selections,"  had  thrown  them  pell- 
mell  into  the  copy-drawer,  and  let  the 
printer  draw  therefrom,  put  into  type,  and 
"make  up"  into  "forms"  just  as  it  hapL 
pened.  One  would  think  that  the  contents 
of  such  a  cyclopedia  as  this  might  be 
arranged  with  advantage  either  topically  by 
subjects,  or  by  authors  in  alphabetical 
chronological  order ;  bat  nothing  of  the 
kind  is  apparent  Great  patches  of  poetry 
intersperse  great  stretches  of  prose;  Henry 
Ward  Beecher  marches  between  Miss  Wool' 
son  and  Edgar  A.  Poe,  Henry  Clay  between 
Schoolcraft  and  "  H.  H.,"  Bancroft  between 
John  Randolph  and  Sarah  Ome  Jewett 
Not  even  the  several  selections  from  one 
and  the  same  author  are  grouped  together, 
but  are  scattered  through  one,  two,  and 
even  three  volumes-  There  is  attempted 
a  certain  classification  In  the  case  of 
poetry,  but  it  is  not  apparent  Possibly 
Mr.  Morris  made  up  his  volumes  on  the 
principle  that  four  handfuls  of  wild  flowers 
loosely  laid  together  are  more  pleasing  to 
the  senses  than  four  bouquets  artificially 
composed  by  a  fiorist,  and  perhaps  he 
right ;  we  have  the  feeling,  however,  that  a 
genuine  and  logical  disposition  of  these  600 
extracts,  on  some  basis  or  other,  would 
have  enhanced  the  value  of  the  work  to 
most  users  of  it 

A  creditable  preface  on  American  litera- 
ture, indexes  to  subjects  and  authors  at  the 
end  of  the  fourth  volume,  and  four  steel 
portraits  of  Irving,  Jefferson,  Prescott,  and 
T.  Buchanan  Read,  complete  the  equipment. 
The  last  named  is  not  worthy  of  a  place  In 
the  series.    The  typography  is  excellent 


EEUEUOnS  BEADIBGi. 

RdigioH  a  RrotlaliaK  artd  a  Ruit  of  Life.  By 
Rev.  William  Kirkns.  P4ew  York :  T.  Wbil- 
laker.  ^.oo.]  Rev,  Dr.  Kirkna,  a  Rector  in 
Baltimore,  has  here  added  two  or  three  sermons 
which  would  b«  styled  "practical,"  to  a  half 
doien  or  so  othet*  of  a  very  solid  and  ihought- 
fdl  character  on  the  nature  of  revelation,  and 
the  cSectt  of  scientific  study  on  reli^oos  belief. 
They  are  argumentative,  logical  discoarsea,  not 
marked  by  beauty  of  style  or  warmth  of  religiotia 
feeling.  The  lermoiu  on  revelation,  with  aji 
elaborate  supplement,  combat  the  notion  favored 
by  the  secular  mind  that  inspiration  (the  human 
iquivaleot  or  proof  of  revelation]  is  synonymotu 
with  genlos,  or  natural  gifts  of  any  kind.  To  thii 
Rev.  Mr,  Kirkns  opposes  the  standard  theologi- 
cal Idea  of  revelation  as  a  peculiar  and  supei^ 
natural  possession  of  one  religion.  The  sacred 
books  of  other  reli|jotis  "  have  no  anthoriiyf' 


but  when  we  come  to  the  Four  Gospels,  Christ 
is  everything  or  nothing ;  the  Son  of  God  or  a 
bad  man ;  the  worker  of  miracles  or  an  Im- 
postor ;  above  our  highest  homage  or  beneath 
our  contempt 

This  is  a  view  of  the  relation  of  Christianity  to 
the  other  great  faiths  of  the  world  which  is  not 
creditable  to  an  intelligent  Christiani  In  his  dis- 
course on  the  effects  zA  exclusive  or  dispropor- 
tionate study  of  the  physical  sciences  on  religious 
belief.  Dr.  Kirkns  is  much  nearer  the  truth  (  but 
in  his  appendix  on  Maudiley  his  craitroTeraial 
lone  is  very  bad,  at  its  worst  even  when  he 
plainly  has  the  best  of  the  argument  The  book 
as  a  whole  is  conclusive  evidence  of  the  defective 
Christianity  of  the  aalhar. 

Tkt  Myttery  of  Pain.  By  James  Hinton,  M.D. 
[Cupples,  Upham  &  Co.  ^1.00.]  Using  ^'n  in 
the  wide  sense  of  all  subjective  soSering  in  this 
present  life.  Dr.  Hinton  finds  explanation  of  the 
problem  of  its  existence  in  seekli^  to  connect 
our  personal,  individual  experience  of  sofferii^ 
with  the  great  purpose  for  which  the  Son  of 
God  became  man,  the  world's  redemption ;  that 
we  in  snSering  share  with  hEn  In  that  work  tA 
unspeakable  magnitude,  "filling  up,"  In  St 
Paul's  words,  "what  is  behind  of  the  afflictions 
of  Christ.*  The  other  uses  of  pain  the  author 
indeed  recognises,  but  reckons  them  only  minor 
or  partial  explanations  of  its  existence.  In  this 
sense,  and  if  so  taken,  pain  will  be  merged  in 
the  higher  thought  sacrifice ;  and  sacrifice, 
unlike  pain,  is  a  blessing.  While  some  readers 
will  find  this  line  of  thought  hard  to  grasp 
intellectually,  no  appredalive  person  can  fail  lo 
recognize  throughout  a  purity  and  profoundly 
religious  devontness  of  feeling  and  language  in 
very  unusual  degree. 

Praytr.  By  the  Rev.  T.  Teignmoulh  Shore, 
MA.  [Cassell  &  Co.,  Limited.  40c]  The  fact 
that  literary  merit  is  sometimes  seemingly  *'in 
inverse  proportion  "  lo  length  finds  illostraiion 
in  this  little  manual,  one  of  the  series  **  Helps  to 
Beliei"  The  writer,  one  id  the  Queen's  chap- 
lains, is  nnnsnally  qualified  for  work  in  the  field 
of  Christian  philosophy,  by  hia  clear,  logical 
mind  and  his  fairness  in  argument,  as  well  as  by 
pievioos  experience.  He  here  considers  prayer 
in  its  nature  and  scope;  in  its  relation  to  God 
and  to  the  "reign  of  law" — which  be  rightly 
teims  more  accurately  a  reign  ^  law  — ir  its 
power,  in  Its  results,  and  as  a  part,  interwoven 
wilh  other  parts,  of  Christian  doctrine.  We 
commend  this  little  book  as  worthy  of  study  for 
clearer  understanding  of  one  o<  the  moat  difficult 
and  important  elements  of  religious  faith  and 

Tlu  Dnnnity  ef  Our  Lard.  By  the  Right 
Rev.  William  Alexander,  D.D.,  D.CL.  [Cas- 
sell  h.  Co.,  Limited.  40c.]  This  is  another 
volume  in  the  same  series,  "Helps  to  Belief." 
It  presents  in  brief  and  suggestive  way  the  sub- 
ject upon  which  the  greatest  treatise  in  our 
language  Is  probably  the  celebrated  Bamplon 
Lectures  of  Dr.  Liddon,  In  the  present  work 
the  divisions  arc :  direct  Scriptural  evidence^ 
suggestions  in  the  gospels,  and  the  argument 
from  history.  In  lucid  and  logical  method  and 
in  cleameis  of  language  this  writer  is  mach 
below  Mr.  Shore)  yet  the  little  work  is  rich  in 
thought  and  devout  and  orthodox  in  tone,  and 
the  iteatment  of  ibe  last  head,  tite  argument 
from  history,  serves  as  one  of  the  best  presenta- 
tions we  have  seen  of  that  argument  as  a  hraiKb 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Nov.  13, 


o£  the  evidencM  of  Chris tianii jr.  Both  books 
are  very  n«it  and  attractive  eiternally. 

Cicire'i  Tuttuian  Ditfmtatiani.  Translated, 
with  an  Introduction  and  Notes,  bj  Andrew  P. 
Peabodr-  [Little,  Btown  &  Co.  Ji.aS-]  Rev. 
Dr.  Feabody  continues,  in  his  active  old  age, 
his  excellent  series  of  translations  of  Cicero's 
ethical  writings  with  a  rendering  of  the  dia. 
logues  on  the  coatempi  of  death,  on  bearing 
pain,  OD  grief,  on  the  passions,  and  on  the  suffi- 
ciency of  virtue  to  happiness,  in  the  composition 
of  which  the  great  RomaD  orator  relieved  the 
sorrows  of  his  own  bereavement  aod  the  dis- 
appointmeot  of  his  ambitions.  The  subjects  and 
the  arguments  are  as  old  and  aa  young  as  human 
nature,  bat  there  is  a  certain  nobility  in  these 
diapuutiona  which  raise  them  high  above  toast 
ethical  discussion,  while  the  conclusions  are 
such  a*  must  inspire  the  most  self-indulgent 
with  admiration  for  the  austere  beauty  of  Stoic 
morality. 

Strmeta  Neto  and  Old.  By  Archbishop 
Trench.  [D.  Appleton  ft  Co.  {1.5a]  About 
half  of  these  twenty-four  sermons  draw  their 
subjects  from  the  Old  Testament,  and  half  from 
the  New,  but  all,  with  two  or  three  exceptions, 
are  of  a  practical  character,  avoiding  theology, 
even  that  which  is  common  to  Christendom. 
They  have  that  pure  style,  (hat  excellent  sense, 
that  moderation,  and  that  manly  conception  of 
religion  for  which  the  tate  Archbishop  of  Dublin 
was  happily  disiinguiahed.  They  do  not  search 
very  deeply,  nor  di>  they  rise  very  high,  but  ihey 
are  the  counsels  of  a  true-hearted  and  trust- 
worthy man,  an  Israelite  without  guile  and 
without  cmt.  One  is  somewhat  surprised  thai 
a  reviser  uf  the  New  Testament  should  retain 
in  their  old  form  the  texts,  "Almost  thou  per- 
suadest  me  to  be  a  Christian,"  and  "The  love 
of  money  is  the  root  of  all  evil." 

Bishop  A,  C.  Garrett's  Historical  Continuity, 
aiStrits  of  Sketchts  of  tki  Church,  lacks  clear- 
ness, from  faulty  arrangement  and  the  sudden 
Introduction  of  persona  or  things  not  previously 
explained ;  but  the  sketches  are  valuable  be- 
cause giving  much  information  not  usually 
known,  and  which,  indeed,  can  hardly  be  found 
except  in  extensive  treatises  —  notably  the  rela- 
tions of  St.  Augustine  of  Canterbury  with  the 
earlier  British  Church,  the  late  date  and  gradual 
manner  of  the  subjection  of  Ireland  to  the 
papacy,  and  the  relation  of  Henry  VIII  to 
the  Reformation  in  England.  [Thomas  Whitta- 
ker.     Paper.     tt,c.\ 


SEOfiT  ST0BIE8. 


Paverly    Grass.      By    Lillie    Chace    Wyi 
[Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.    Jl.is.] 

The  writers  of  "good  short  stories  "are  notice- 
ably on  the  Increase;  and  fortunately  the  "good 
short  story"  will  never  fail  of  readers  and  of 
appreciation.  The  eight  collected  under  the 
above  title  are  both  attractive  and  vigo 
they  are  written  with  virile  energy,  and  their 
purpose  gives  them  weight  and  power. 
what  writers  are  pleased  to  call  the  "  seamy 
side"  that  they  turn  out  to  the  gaM  of  the 
reader,  and  it  is  mostly  the  seamy  side  of  the 
crude  life  of  alien  ^ces  who  have  come  among 
us,  Freneh-Cinadiana  and  others,  in  the  lower 
strata  of  manufacttirJng  towns.  To  show  the 
bard  lines  of  thia  das*,  and  to  give  emphasis  to 


whatever  of  grace  and  beauty  may  redeem  the 
squalid  conditions,  this  author  has  brought  her 
personal  sympathy  Into  her  writing,  and  by  so 
doing  secures  that  of  all  who  can  be  touched  by 
the  pathos  of  such  existencea  amidst  such  hope- 
nvironments.  The  moral  lesson  in  a  story 
like  that  of  "The  Child  of  the  State"  [which 
those  who  read  it  in  one  of  the  magazines  will 
hardly  have  forgotten)  is  more  potential  than  a 
sermon,  or  pages  on  social  reform.  It  is  in  such 
■  ■  as  that  ai  "Luke  Gardiner's  Love," 
"And  Joe,"  and  "Bridget's  Story,"  that  Mt». 
Wy man's  strength  and  sympathy  are  most 
apparent;  and  the  more  studies  of  this  kind  that 
have  from  her  pen  the  better  it  will  be,  both 
the  class  struggling  against  great  odds,  and 
for  those  who  only  need  to  have  their  attention 
called  to  it,  to  become  helpeis  in  lightening 
burdens  that  they  may  Dot  hitherto  have  even 
beard  of;  for  to  many  these  dark  problems  will 
as  a  revelation,  these  tales  of  lives  made 
hard  by  the  cruelty  of  fellow-beings,  by  home 
unkindnesses,  by  squalor,  and  injustice. 


These  "New  England  Stories"  are  charac- 
terised by  smartness  and  good  humor.  The 
Lthor,  who  has  a  quick  eye  for  the  ludicrous 
points  in  character,  and  the  ready  tact  of  seizing 
ipon  some  apt  incident  and  making  the  most 
>f  it  in  a  few  spirited  pages,  has  taken  advantage 
of  certain  haps  and  mishaps  among  rustic  peo- 
ple, and  dashed  off  dramatic  little  narratives. 
The  typical  Yankee  dress-maker,  spinster,  and 
meddler,  who  retails  gossip  from  house  to  house, 
figures  prominently;  also  the  tj^ically  stingy 
Yankee  farmer  or  deacon;  there  are  match-mak. 
Ing  and  match-breaking,  and  family  quarrels 
that  end  in  a  comedy  ;  and  the  kind  of  people 
who  talk  in  the  vernacular  to  which  we  have 
become  so  accustomed  are  shown  up  in  an  en- 
tertaining  and  o&.hand  manner.  The  stories  are 
bright,  readable,  and  conveniently  brief  and  to 


In  its  peart-gray  covers  across  which  the  hei 
is  flying,  its  green  back  and  gilt  top,  thia  little 
volume  presents  a  dainty  and  reSned  exterioi 
symbolic  ai  the  first  sketch  that  gives  the  titli 
"  A  White  Heron  *'  is  the  purest  and  tenderest,  the 
most  idyllic  of  all  Miss  Jewett's  productions,  and 
reveals  her  to  us  in  the  use  of  imaginative  and 
creative  powers  which  give  promise  of  rtae  work 
in  the  future.  Here,  more  than  in  anything  pre- 
viously written,  we  recognize  the  fine  instinct  and 
touch  of  the  artist ;  hitherto  she  has  made  com- 
mon  life  beautiful  and  poetic,  but  this  is  a  bit 
wholly  apart,  ideal,  a  lovely  fancy  with  a  human 
meaning.  "The  Gray  Man"  is  "after  Haw- 
thorne," and  a  new  experiment  with  the  author. 
The  others  of  the  collection  are  "  Farmer  Finch," 
reprinted  from  Harptr's  Magaxint ;  that  Gnc 
study  of  two  homely  lives,  "  Marsh  Rosemary 
the  character  drawing,  also  in  her  best  manner, 
of  "The  Dulham  Ladies;"  "A Business  Man;" 
"Maty  and  Martha;"  "The  News  from  Peters- 
ham; "  and  thai  unique  venture  which  shows  aji- 
other  side  of  her  genius,  "  The  Two  Brown*  "  — 
a  choice  little  list,  with  representative  samples  of 


TEZT-BOOES  OF  FBTOHOLOQT. 

Teat  her f  Hand- Bo^  of  Ptytki;legy.  By  James 
Sully,  M.A.    [D.  Appleton  ft  Co.    ^1.50.] 

Human  Piycholngyr.  By  E.  Janes,  A.M. 
[Baker  ft  Taylor.    ^1,50.] 


The  three  text-books  named  below  are  a  wel- 

ime  sign  that  the  day  of  the  old  Mental  Phi- 

losophiei  is  over.   Psychology  has  become  enough 

science  to  have  a  distinctive  name  of  its 


varied  work  which  is  always  a*  conscientiously 
s  it  1*  charmingly  dchie. 


own,  and  the  manuals  devoted  to  it  exhibit  a 

precision,  a  thoroughness,  and  an  order  which 

In  happy  contrast  with  the  lax  incomplete- 

I  and  disorder  of  the  text-books  of  the  last 

generation.    These  scientific  virtues  are  appar- 

in  works  so  different  in  their  standpoints  as 

these  manuals  by  Mr.  Sully,  Mr.  Jane*,  and 

Dr.  McCosh. 

Hr.  Sully's  work  has  a  more  restricted  sphere 
than  the  other  two  In  that  it  is  addressed  to 
teachers  only.  It  is  based  upon  the  recent  Out- 
lines by  the  same  author,  and  contain*  all  the 
material  of  that  treatise  which  bore  upon  teach- 
ig.  The  statement  of  scientiGc  principles  has 
been  reduced  and  simplified,  and  the  practical 
applications  to  the  art  of  education  have  been 
txpanded.  The  teacher  who  wishes  to  under- 
stand the  rationale  of  his  business,  and  to  teach 
both  scientifically  and  philosophically,  can  find 
)  better  guide  than  Mr.  Sully. 

Mr.  Janes'*  work  is  "  a  brief  treatise  on  in- 
tellect, feeling,  and  will,"  which  now  appears  in 
revised  edition,  intended  for  the  use  of  coU^e 
classes  and  private  readers  who  wish  to  become 

iversant  with  the  elements  of  psychology  and 

:taphysics  as  they  now  stand.  Mr.  Janes 
commits  the  fault  of  eulogizing  his  own  work 
his  preface,  but  the  book  should  not  suffer 
from  this,  as  it  ts.  In  fact,  an  excellent  presenta- 
tion of  its  sabject- matter  in  the  light  of  the  latest 
researches,  and  is  fortified  with  a  great  abundance 
of  extracts  from  authorities. 

As  Dr.  McCosh  deal*  only  with  the  knowing 
faculties  of  the  mind  he  enters  much  mote  into 
detail  than  does  Mr.  Janes.  He  here  reproduce* 
the  substance  of  his  written  lectures,  delivered 
for  thirty.four  years  to  college  students,  but  so 
constantly  revised  that,  like  Uncle  Toby's  stock- 
ings. Dr.  McCosh  says  he  does  not  know  that  a 
single  sentence  remains  from  their  earliest  form. 
The  author  does  not  need  to  relieve  himself 
from  the  possible  charge  of  dullness,  for  Dr. 
McCosh  is  always  entertaining,  even  in  a  text- 
book, and  he  has  so  far  widened  with  the  years 
that  the  charge  of  dogmatism  would  be  almost 
as  much  out  of  place.  The  illustrative  matter. 
In  aach  notes  aa  those  on  the  rapidity  of  thought 
and  the  relation  of  speech  to  the  brain,  shows 
how  closely  Dr.  McCosh  has  brought  his  pages 
down  to  date.  The  author's  philosophical  posi- 
tion is  a  Realism  equally  removed  from  Idealism 
and  Agnosticism ;  but  he  has  not  spoiled  a  good 
text-book  by  any  distortion  of  the  facte  which  it 
was  his  first  duty  to  set  forth.  The  manual 
seems  to  us  to  show  Dr.  McCosh  at  his  best, 
and  that  is  saying  not  a  little  In  its  favor. 

—  Wm.  F.  Fell  ft  Co.  of  Philadelphia  publish 
Curioui   Qiuttiont,  edited   by   Mi**   KilUkelly 


THE  LITERARY  WQRLD. 


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of  Piiuburgh,  Penn.,  a  sort  of  reader's  handbook 
of  out-of  the  way  infotinatioa. 


lOHOB  vonoES. 

TJtt  LeHe  ef  Intratptction ;  cr,  Methvd  in 
Mental  Saime.  By  Rev.  J.  B.  Wenlwortfa,  D.D. 
[PhUlips  ft  Hunt.    {2.00.1 

Rev.  Dr.  Wentworth  addmsea  himself  mainly 
to  the  ta«k  of  demoltshii^  Rev.  Dr.  McCosh's 
work  on  the  IniuiUms  0/  tie  Human  Mind, 
which,  as  well  u  Positivism,  he  handles  with 
much  more  vigor  than  reason.  The  lalhor 
b  one  of  those  ambitious  novices  in  philosophy 
who  take  up  the  task  of  refuting  all  systems 
which  do  not  square  with  the  most  uncritical 
and  Dnsiftcd  inluilionalism.  To  them  even  Dr. 
HcCosh,  whom  Dr.  Wenlworth  very  apparently 
misunderstands,  is  a  dangerous  materialist.  For 
the  sound  method  of  induction  in  psychology. 
Dr.  Wentworth  would  substitute  what  he  calls 
the  Consciential  Method,  which  would  appear 
to  be  nothing  whaievcT  but  thorough  arbitra- 
riness in  believing  whatever  one  is  pleased  to 
think  he  knows  to  be  true.  If  Dr.  Wentworth 
will  devote  a  considerable  period  to  learning 
what  induction  really  means  in  psychology,  and 
would  patiently  discipline  himself  into  a  little 
respect  for  the  thought  of  the  last  fifty  years, 
the  result  of  his  future  labors  will  undoubtedly 
be  mote  valuable  than  this  Logic  of  IntmsfectieK, 
which  is  plainly  a  product  of  extreme  philosoph- 
ical bigotry. 

Microtei,  Ftrmmts,  and  Moulds.  By  E.  L. 
Tronessart.  No.  56  of  the  "  International  Scien- 
tific Series."    [D.  Appleton  Sl  Co.    {1.7  j-] 

The  word  micraht  was  coined  by  Sjdellot,  an 
eminent  French  physician,  eight  or  ten  yean 
ago,  and  hence  cannot  be  found  in  anj'  but  the 
latest  dictionaries.  Apparently  its  derivation  is 
from  micros,  small,  and  biot,  life,  meaning  minute 
Ufe,  and  the  subject  treats  of  the  mo! 
living  beings,  such  as  can  only  be  seen  under  ihe 
microKope.  Moulds  and  mildews  are  larger, 
though  still  microscopic  Minute  »4  these  all 
are,  there  are  no  forms  of  life,  nnlCM  it  be  the 
food'ptoducing,  that  play  a  more  important  part 
In  the  organic  world,  and  their  work  is  almost 
everywhere  a  work  of  destruction.  Their  spores, 
the  seeds  of  death,  are  everywhere,  the 
warn  weather  containing  some  thousands 
cubic  foot.  When  we  reflect  that  these 
vegetable  organisms  are  the  cause  of  all  forms 
of  fermentation,  as  of  alcohol,  beer,  yeast ;  of 
aJl  animal  and  vegetable  decay ;  of  all  rots,  mil- 
dews, and  blights ;  of  cholera,  rabies,  fevers,  lep- 
rosy, small -pox,  coughs,  consumption,  and  a  thou- 
sand more  of  the  destructive  agencies  around  us, 
we  perceive  the  singularly  interesting  and  practi- 
cal scope  of  the  subject.  This  book  is  tramilated 
from  the  French  of  M.  Trpuessart,  and 
ceedingly  wel!  done  by  both  author  and  trans- 
lator. Out  knowledge  of  most  of  these  forms 
of  life,  or  ralher  of  death,  is  still  prov(^ingly 
small,  and  our  modes  of  protection  from  them 
alarmingly  so.  The  work  before  us  has  col- 
lected in  instructive  and  readable  form  about 
everything  on  the  anbject  that  could  be  valuable 
to  any  but  the  strict  scientist.    The  illusti 

8  and  excellent.  It  is  a  work  that 
a  wide  reading,  and  to  Ihe 
our  people  who  are  so  ignorant  and  careless  on 
snch  matters,  It  should  convey  important 


The  well-known  radical  minister  of  the  Church 
of  Ihe  Unity  in  Boston  is  accustomed  to  deliver 
each  winter  a  series  of  sermons  on  a  special 
theme  which  are  afterwards  collecled  into  a 
book,  but  which  are  unaltered  from  their  first 
form  of  unwritten  dbcourses.  The  present  vol- 
ne  shows  Mr.  Savage's  great  command  over 
itemporaneous  utterance,  and  a  large  measure 
of  freedom  from  many  of  the  faults  usually 
deemed  inseparable  from  that  method-  Whether 
the  preacher  would  have  prevented  ihe  defects 
the  tkeught  of  those  discourses  by  writing 
them  out  is  very  doublful.  They  present  in  a 
vigorous,  emphatic  way  the  doctrine  of  natural 
selection  in  society,  perceptibly  modified  by  the 
Christian  gospel  of  helpfulness,  but  still  retain- 
ing much  of  the  slernness  which  usually  repels 
the  Sunday  preacher  from  proclaiming  it.  Mr. 
Savage,  curiously  enough,  is  yet  in  quite  close 
agreement  with  so  conservative  a  divine  as  Rev. 
Dr.  Behrcnds  in  many  of  his  conclusions  as  to 
what  is  possible ;  a  hard,  common  sense  tem- 
perament is  probably  the  possession  of  both. 
Yet  if  Mi.  Savage  could  free  himself  from  his 
undue  subservience  to  Herbert  Spencer,  whose 
ghost  theory  of  the  origin  of  religion  and  whose 
sive  and  unreal  individualism  he  alike 
adopts,  he  would  join  to  bis  dear  view  of  exisl- 
vits  a  far  more  hopeful  outlook  than  he 
here  expresses. 

Praudiced  Inquiries.  Being  the  Back- Woods 
Lectures  for  Ihe  Year  1884.  By  E.  J.  Morris. 
[G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons.    >i.i5.] 

The  title  of  this  volume  denotes  a  kind  of 
nartness  which  runs  through  Mr.  Morris's 
twelve  chapters  on  progress,  patriotism,  history, 
philosophy,  free-thinking,  and  minor  themes,  and 
which  imparts  to  much  commonplace  the  appear- 

of  novelty.     It  consists  in  pretending  to  be 
hide-bound  in  prejudice  and  in  gradually  releas- 

ne's  self  by  homely  reasoning  into  what  one 
ma;  call  Mauricianism,  an  ism  that  is  not  an 
absolute  synonym  for  the  clearest  thought  in  this 
world  I  Mr.  Morris  prefaces  his  lectures  with 
an  unqualified  enlogy  of  his  friend.  Dr.  Elisha 
Mulford,  at  whose  instance  they  were  written 
out,  but  who  said  that  he  should  be  obliged 
"  criticise  them  very  SEveiely-"  Instead  of  doing 
this  ourselves,  we  need  only  say  that  these 
lectures  are  pleasant  reading  for  thoughtful 
people,  but  succeed  better  in  treating  such  sub- 
jects as  hobbies,  and  how  to  help  Ihe  rich,  than 
their  discussion  of  more  profound  themes. 


The  World  as  Will  and  Idea.  By  Arlhi 
Schopenhauer.  Translated  from  the  German 
by  R.  B.  Haldane,  M.A.,  and  John  Kemp,  M.A. 
Vols.  II  and  III,  pp.  496  and  505.  [London  i 
TrUbner  &  Co.]  Messrs.  Haldane  and  Kemp's 
thoroughly  good  Itanslation  of  the  great  work 
of  Ihe  philosopher  of  will  Is  now  complete,  just 
as  a  French  translation  (or  Ihe  first  time  appears 
The  first  volume  came  out  three  years  ago;  i 
contains,  as  all  readers  of  Schopenhauer  know 
the  substance  of  bis  doctrine  as  published  ii 
1S19.  Twenty-five  years  later,  careless  of  tbe 
utter  neglect  in  which  the  world  left  him,  Scho- 


penbaner  sent  forth  the  elaborate  supplemenu 
which  compose  these  two  volumes.  They  add 
nothing  essentially  new,  but  they  amplify  and 
explain  the  doctrine  until  all  can  understand. 
For  Schopenhauer  wrote  not  after  the  manner 
of  Germans  but  after  the  manner  of  Frenchmen 
and  Englishmen,  i.  c,  intelligibly.  His  system 
before  as  in  oar  own  tongue,  ihanks  to 
ihe  Messrs.  TrUbner;  few  volumes  of  their 
Philosophical  Ubraty  are  more  worthy  of  study. 
Bacon's  DUtimtary  of  Boston.  [Houghton, 
Mifflin  ft  Co.  tz-oo]  Mr.  Edwin  M.  Bacon, 
no*  the  chief  editor  of  the  Boston  Post,  com- 
piled this  admirable  handbook  some  three  yean 
ago  for  that  enterprising  publisher,  Mr.  Hoses 
King.  Modeled  on  Ihe  well-known  DiiHonary 
ef  London,  it  was  published  as  King's  Dictionary 
if  Boslm.  Mr.  Bacon  has  thoroughly  revised  it 
and  brought  it  down  lo  dale,  and  it  now  con- 
tains, in  its  470  double-col ninned  pages,  a  really 
large  amount  of  information  concerning  the  Hub 
of  the  Universe.  Mr.  Bacon's  own  words  de. 
scribe  the  book  justly: 

n  has  been  not  to  provide  a  conven- 
iently-arranged handttook  merely,  nor  yet  simply 
a  guide  book ;  but  to  furnish  complete,  trust- 
worthy, and  direct  information  of  all  that  goes  10 
make  the  Boston  of  today.  .  .  .  This  Dictionary 
is  offered  then  as  a  handbook,  guide  book,  and 
condensed  history  of  Boston  in  one  compact, 
ready-reference  volume. 
The  stranger  in  the  city  will  of  course  need 
ime  such  friend  as  Boston  Itlustraltd  to  tell 
him  where  he  is,  after  which  this  volume  will 
supply  him  with  all  Ihe  light  he  can  desire  on 
any  given  matter.  But  the  residents  of  the  city 
be  very  few  who  would  not  learn  much  of 
own  town  from  the  slightest  inspection  of 
this  perfect  brief  encyclopedia. 

The  Lives  of  the  Presidents.  George  Washing- 
Ion.  By  William  O.  Stoddard.  [White,  Stokes 
&  Allen,  fl.15  each.]  Ulyssis  S.  Grant,  by  tbe 
same.  These  two  neat  volumes,  in  attractive 
covers,  open  a  series  of  lives  of  the  Presidents, 
out  of  which  Mr.  Stoddard  seems  to  have  taken 
two  of  the  best  subject*  for  biography.  He  tells 
his  story  well  in  each  case,  with  no  superfluous 
moralizing  at  rhetoric,  in  direct  terms,  and  in  a 
style  which  adapts  the  volume  lo  old  and  young. 
Among  popular  lives  of  Washington  and  Grant 
these  claim  respect  for  their  solid  good  sense. 

Faust.  The  First  Part.  Translated  in  the 
original  metres  by  Frank  Claudy-  [Wasbinglon : 
Wm.  H-  Morrison-  f  1.50.]  Mr.  Claudy  presenU 
his  translation  of  Goethe's  masterpiece  as  the 
first  rendering  ever  made  by  a  German  into  the 
English  language,  begun  before  Bayard  Taylor's 
version  was  published,  and  continued  wiib  no 
thought  of  rivaling  that  remarkably  successful 
feat-  Mr,  Claudy's  rendering  is,  indeed,  not  lo 
be  ranked  with  Taylor's,  but  it  shows  high  abil- 
ity, though  lacking,  in  its  finer  touches,  the  hand 
of  a  true  poet.  Occasionally  uses  of  words  such 
as  "traction"  and  "suction,"  in  two  connected 
lines,  betray  the  fact  tbat  the  translator  must 
have  learned  our  language  from  the  dictionary 
in  part ;  but  in  comparing  his  work  with  pas- 
sages of  Taylor's  we  find  not  rarely  thai  Mr. 
Claudy  is  the  mote  faithful^  of  course  he  has 
had  the  advantage  of  consulting  Taylor.  He 
has  "padded"  his  lines  ralher  more,  in  the 
endeavor  to  follow  the  original  metres,  bot  *•  a 
whole  it  strikes  ns  as  a  very  creditable  effort,  ^ 
which  should  be  of  no  small  interest  to  the  Irans- 
I  latoHs  fellow-countrymen,  here  and  abroad. 


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[Nov.  13 


The  Literary  World. 


BOSTON,  NOVEMBER  13,  1886. 


EABVABD'8  OOMUEMOSATIOB, 

THE  oldest  Ameriam  university  is  eel- 
ebratiag,  as  we  write,  tbe  ijotb  uui- 
verssiyof  its  foundation.  The  "foaodatioa" 
was  jt  vote  of  the  General  Court  of  the 
ColODj  of  Massachusetts  Bay  appropriating 
^£400  to  the  planting  of  a  school  or  college 
in  a  location  afterward  to  be  deterniiDed- 
The  location  afterwards  determined  was 
"thenewe  towne,"  or  "Newtowne, 
banks  of  the  Charles  River,  about  midway 
between  Charlestowa  and  Watertown.  Two 
years  later  the  name  of  the  town 
changed  to  Cambridge,  after  the  loved 
versity  town  across  the  seas,  and  at  about 
the  same  time  the  Rev.  John  Harvard  of 
Charlestown,  dying,  reinforced  the  act  of  the 
General  Court  with  a  bequest  o(  all  hi 
library  of  325  volumes,  and  half  his  other 
property,  or  about  ^ijoo.  Thus  Harvard 
College  came  into  being.  For  more  thi 
half  a  century,  or  until  the  founding  of 
William  and  Mary  College  in  Virginia  in 
1693,  it  was  the  only  college  in  the  colonies. 
But  by  the  end  of  that  century  its  graduates 
numbered  only  446 ;  in  the  last  century  they 
aggregated  3,069;  In  the  present  so  far 
they  are  7,418. 

One  title  of  Harvard  College  to  its  fame 
is  in  the  fact  of  its  having  established,  and 
for  nearly  forty  years  maintained,  the  first 
and  only  printing-office  in  the  American 
Colonies.  This  early  press  was  "set  up 
in  President  Dunster's  house,  and  was 
"run"  more  or  less  under  the  President' 
supervision.  From  this  Harvard  College 
Press  ivas  issued  in  1646  the  famous  Bay 
Psalm  Book,  and  in  1663  the  still  1 
famous  Eliot's  Indian  Bible. 

THE  LOWELL  IHTEEYIEW. 

THE  Hawthorne-Lowell  unpleasantness 
occurred  just  too  late  to  be  noted 
in  our  last  issue,  but  is  now  far  enough 
away  to  be  regarded  in  a  dry  hard 
Mr.  Julian  Hawthorne,  who  despiti 
name  is  not  exactly  the  son  of  bis  fg 
and  who  sustains  some  sort  of  relation  to 
the  New  York  IVerU,  called  on  Mr.  Ji 
Russell  Lowell,  his  father's  friend,  at 
latter's  present  home  in  Sonthboro',  ti 
Mr.  Hawthorne  says  the  call  was  distinctly 
nnderstood,  as  be  supposes,  to  have  been 
an  "interview"  In  the  interests  of  the 
World.  Mr.  Lowell  says  that  he  not  only 
understood  no  SQcb  thing,  but  never 
pected  it ;  that  he  supposed  that  what  he  said 
to  bis  visitor  was  said  in  the  strict  confi- 
dence of  private  intercourse,  So  supposing, 
he  talked  freely  about  his  English  life,  the 
Queen,  the  nobility,  British  politics,  and  the 


various  topics  that  might  be  touched  by  his 
residence  in  England,  saying  some  things 
that  be  would  not  wish  to  be  repeated. 
Judge  of  his  horror  when  a  few  days  later 
the  whole  conversation,  dressed  up  by.  Mr. 
Hawthorne's  imagination  and  rhetoric,  ap- 
peared in  the  World. 

A  somewhat  acrimonious  correspondence 
has  resulted  on  the  part  of  Mr.  Lowell  and  Mr. 
Hawthorne,  the  tenor  of  which  leads  one  to 
suppose  that  Mr.  Hawthorne  will  not  soon 
ag^n  call  upon  Mr.  Lowell.  Mr.  Lowell 
denies  that  he  said  what  he  is  rqpresented 
as  having  s^d,  and  is  indignant  that  any 
public  use  at  all  should  have  been  made  of 
his  conversation.  Mr.  Hawthorne  ini 
just  as  strongly  that  he  made  no  secret  of 
his  purpose,  and  that  Mr.  Lowell  was  party 
To  which  Mr.  Lowell  severely  r^ies 
that  on  any  question  of  veracity  between 
and  Mr.  Hawthorne  the  public  must  be 
left  to  its  own  conclusion. 

The  new  Congressional  statute  requires 
packages  of  oleomargarine  to  be  duly 
itamped,  and  the  dealers  in  it  to 
licensed,  so  that  the  public  may  be  on  its 
guard.  We  are  not  sure  but  that  Interriew- 
and  interviewing  might  be  put  In  the 
same  category. 

At  the  same  time  we  think  it  Is  a  good 
rule  not  to  say  anything  behind  a  person' 
back  that  you  would  not  say  to  his  face; 
and  if  a  habit  of  reserve  and  caution  ' 
more  common  in  speaking  of  persons  and 
things  there  would  be  scantier  material  for 
interviewers.  People  who  say  things  that 
they  would  not  like  to  have  repeated  must 
learn  that  they  do  it  at  their  own  risk. 


VOTES  FBOK  OHIOAOO. 

ONE  great  advance  in  the  condition  of  letters 
here  is  the  lemoval  of  the  Public  Library 
to  tommodions  and  easily  accessible  quarters  ii 
the  County  Building.  The  effect  of  the  cbsnge 
is  apparent  in  both  the  numbers  and  diss  of 
people  who  daily  frequent  the  reference  depart- 
ment for  purposes  of  study.  While  reading 
tbeie  the  other  dar,  I  came  across  ■  record  of 
literary  dissension  that  seems  likely  to  be  per^ 
petaited  until  some  future  Disraeli  writes  agsin 
of  the  Quarrels  of  Authors.  It  seems  that  in 
hii  preparation  of  the  Ckrankia  af  BaJtim»ri, 
Col.  J.  Thomas  Scharf  of  that  city  interpolated 
into  the  chapter  upon  the  antl-slaTciy  party  of 
Maryland  some  portion  of  a  pamphlet  written  by 
Mr.  Poole,  the  present  Chicago  librarisn,  upon  a 
similsr  subject.  Strsightway  Mr.  Poole  wrote  the 
Maryland  historian,  and  received  an  apol<^tic 
and  exculpatory  letter,  the  culprit  pleading  ig. 
noTxnce  of  the  authorship  of  the  pamphlet.  A 
second  letter  was  received  from  the  librsrian  of 
the  Baltimore  Mercantile  Library,  who  gave  to 
Mr.  Poole  a  by  no  means  flattering  description  of 
Col.  Scharf  and  his  writii^s,  and  enclosed 
scurrilous  "skit"  from  a  Baltimore  paper  in 
which  the  Colonel's  personal  and  literary  charac- 
teristics are  turned  to  ridicole.  All  these  docu- 
ments Mr.  Poole  has  had  bound  In  with  the  copy 
of  ScharTs  Annali  ef  Baitimart  in  the  Public 
I  Ubnry  here,  and  the  anhap(^  authM^s  own 


work  is  thus  made  the  vehicle  for  the  aggrieved 
librarian's  revenge.  Col.  Scharf  is  well  known 
all  students  of  American  history  as  an  inde- 
fatigable searcher  after  "  traditian*  "  and  "  bits.'' 
These  he  combines  to  form  local  histories,  car* 
tainly  of  small  literary  merit,  but  full  of  interest. 
His  HUtery  tf  Pliiladttfkia  is  generslly  regarded 
e  of  the  very  best  records  of  the  growth  of 
that  historic  a'ty.  I  wonder  if  Its  absence  from 
the  Chioigo  Library  is  to  be  explained  by  the 
controversy  over  the  anti-slaTery  matter  ?  Mr. 
Poole  is  worthy  of  literary  canonisation  for  his 
Invaluable  Initx  te  Pcriadkal  Literature,  but  In 
lis  case  bis  use  of  his  public  position  to  avenge 
private  wrong  seems  hardly  in  good  taste. 

In  one  of  the  great  business  blocks  here  Is  a 
small  office  in  which  literature  is  comUned  with 
less  in  a  way  at  once  novel  and  edifying. 
The  establishment  Is  known  as  a  **  Literary  Bn- 
resD,"  and  Is  presided  over  by  Mr.  Alanson  S. 
Appleton,  a  young  Chicago  journalist,  who  has 
gathered  abont  him  a  few  read;  writers,  and  Is 
prepared  to  furnish  any  and  every  class  of  liter- 
umascilpi  at  a  moment's  notice.  "Sermons 
for  parsons,"  reads  his  modest  prospectus,  "  fairy 
tales  for  children,  or  patent  medicine  ads.  for  a 
snSering  world."  Some  excellent  work  of  a 
Jonmalisdc  character  has  emanated  from  this 
bureau,  and  Mr.  Appleton  himself  excels  as  a 
bright  writer  of  newspaper  correapondence ;  but 
the  confident  manner  in  which  he  announces  lit- 
re on  tap  astonishes  even  an  nnleltercd 
Chicagoan. 

Mr.  Francis  F.  Browne,  editor  of  the  Dial, 
and  well  known  as  a  compiler  of  colteclions  of 
poetry,  hss  in  press  a  book  on  which  he  has  been 
engaged  for  some  years,  which  promises  to  be  a 
'ork  of  importance.  The  title,  which  describes 
the  character  of  the  work,  is  The  Every  Die^ 
Life  af  Airaiam  linielit,  by  Hum  Wko  Kmat 
Him.  Mr-  Browne  has  gathered  an  immense 
mau  of  personal  recollections  of  the  martyred 
Preaident,  and  weaves  them  into  a  continuous 
blogrsphy.  The  book  is  to  he  published  by  the 
Thompson  Publishing  Company  of  New  York. 


A  LETTES  FBOH  QESIUXT. 

New  Oerman  Books  on  the  United  States. 

II. 

Berlin,  October  6. 

1AH  happy  to  say  that  the  hope  expressed  at 
the  conclusion  of  my  last  tetter  has  been 
fulfilled  —  the  work  now  under  consideration 
is  deddedly  better  than  Herr  Hohenwart's;  nay, 
it  is  very  good.  It  is  not  one  of  those  books 
which  are  written  by  men  who,  after  sojourning 
in  yonr  coontry  a  few  months  only,  believe  them- 
selves entitled  m  an  apodiclic  judgment  on  the 
condition  tA  things.  Armin  Tenner's  American 
the  Prtitnt  Slate  of  Civilitatim  in  lie  Slaitt  Is 
divided  into  a  series  of  chapters  each  of  which 
Is  written  by  a  man  really  intelligent  and  trust- 
worthy and  knowing  all  about  his  subject.  Hen 
Tenner,  who  now  lives  In  Berlin,  hat  who  has 
spent  many  years  in  the  Union,  has  conceived 
the  happy  thought  of  inducing  nine  well-known 
German  authors  living  in  America  to  furnish 
him  with  essays  on  their  "special"  Gelds  of 
information.  His  own  share  in  the  work  con- 
sisted in  editing  the  various  contributions  obtained 
In  this  way,  and   in   sopplylDg  a  very  useful 


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addicionll  Vadt  meann,  i^^  Si^rl  Rxflamatimu  ef 
AmrricaH  Picaliarilia,  LinguutU  and  Social. 

Far  from  detracting  from  the  xalue  and  tnut- 
iforthineii  o[  the  book,  the  Mid  m7  of  gettivf 
it  together  enhances  it,  mnch  one-iidedness  being 
SToided  a.nd  ■  degree  of  orefnlneu  obtsined 
which  one  single  writer  could  never  have  shown, 
■imply  became  he  could  not  have  mastered  all 
the  different  topics  under  consideration.  Beside*, 
the  chapter*  do  not  by  any  mean*  tmpre**  the 
reader  as  being  at  all  disconnected  ;  on  the  con- 
Iraiy,  the  editor  has  contrived  to  produce  an 
impression  of  Iheir  being  all  "  of  one  mould  '  as 
it  were.  Moreover,  they  are  written  not  oaly 
conscientiously,  but  also  interestingly.  The  lan- 
guage is  clear,  concise,  and  lively. 

The  first  chapter,  by  GUterbock,  offer*  an  at- 
tractive description  of  the  life  in,  and  tbe  history 
of,  New  York  Hartrar;  of  the  gigantic  bridge 
connecting  "  Gotham  '  with  Brooklyn  ;  of  CasEle 
Garden  and  the  U.  S.  Barge  Office.  Dr.  Klemm 
deals  with  school  life,  Anglo- American  as  well 
a*  German -American,  in  a  most  scholarly  »nd 
appreciative  way,  while  Wilhelm  Miiller  treats 
of  the  Stage  in  the  States.  Tlie  author  of  the 
excellent  article  on  the  German  Press  in  America 
it  Udo  Brachvogel,  of  the  N-  Y.  BtUelr.  yeumai. 
This  writer  has  to  say  aome  new  and  remarkable 
things,  and  so  has  Goiil  RoEhe  in  his  paper  on 
German  Life  in  the  States.  There  is  a  flavot 
of  socialism  in  Daniel  Douai's  essay  on  tbe 
Condition  of  tlie  Working  Classes,  in  whicb  be 
strictly  severs  women  from  men.  Perhaps  the 
best  part  of  Herr  Tenner's  volume  are  Wilhelm 
Jiingsl's  spirited,  thorough,  and  weltfotinded 
view*  and  informations  «n  the  State  of  Agricult- 
ure and  Industry  j  his  hints  are  sure  to  be  very 
ralaable  to  intending  emigrants.  Tbe  editor 
say*  that'he  does  not  share  the  points  of  view 
apparent  in  the  chapter  on  the  Sunday  and  Tem- 
perance Questions,  written  by  Dr.  Uebhardt, 
the  leader  of  the  Methodist  journal,  Haui  und 
flird,  of  Cincinnati.  Tbis  gentleman  is  an  or- 
thodox abstinence  man,  while  Herr  Tenner  ad- 
vocates less  strict  ideas  of  temperance,  although 
be  acknowledges  Dr.  Liebhardl^  article  to  be 
a  good  rlstanl  of  the  history  and  state  nf  tbe 
question.  Highly  interesting  and  very  full  are 
the  last  three  papers,  contributed  by  Charles 
Riimelin,  on  Taxes,  Railroads,  and  tbe  Postal 
Service.  Riimelin  has  several  times  been  a 
member  of  Ohio  State  Legislatare. 

Smnming  up,  we  must  own  the  volume  before 
ns  to  be  what  its  editor  promises  it  to  be  in 
bU  preface :  offering,  not  cursory  amosement, 
bat  thorough  information  in  an  altracllre  gaise. 
Lnddly  and  popularly  written,  and  as  a  rule 
unbiased,  it  describes  things  American  with  the 
ud  of  historical  facts,  official  statiitics,  and 
the  personal  experiences  af  its  various  authors. 
Naturally,  particular  regard  is  bestowed  on  every- 
thing German,  for  the  book  is  intended  for  Ger- 
many; bat  it  has  no  special  "tendencie*,''sach 
as  Herr  Hohenwart's,  of  which  we  spoke  in  onr 
last  letter. 

I  jnat  learn,  through  a  tetter  from  Herr  Rich- 
ard Koepp,  that  this  gentleman  i*  engaged  on, 
and  has  almost  finished,  a  small  book  on  the 
wealth  of  (he  agricultural  and  industrial  resources 
of  your  country.  Herr  Koepp,  who  has  long 
lived  there,  is  an  extremely  ardent  admirer  of 
the  condition  of  things  in  the  Union,  and  he 
fnllT  approv  »'  everything  Mr.  Andrew  Car- 
ole »*y»   in   Tnttmpkani  Democraey.    I   had 


lent  bim  my  copy  of  tlie  German  translation  of 
that  book,  and  he  now  write*  to  me  ({aite 
enthnaiastlcaliy  about  it. 

Leopold  Katscher. 


BOTES  FROM  NET  TOItE. 

THE  first  nnmlter  of  tbe  new  Scriiner's 
itmUAly  is  well  under  way,  its  cover  and 
title-page  are  in  visible  form,  and  the  first  edition 
of  the  first  namber,  100,000  strong,  may  be  con- 
fidently expected  at  the  appmoted  dale,  Nov.  15. 
The  table  of  contents  of  this  initial  namber  is  not 
yet  ready  to  be  made  public,  but  I  can  give  you 
an  idea  of  some  of  the  treasures  which  the 
volume  for  18S7  will  bring  forth.  They  will 
include  a  batch  of  hitherto  nnpnbliahed  letters 
by  Thackeray ;  four  papers  by  Ex- Minister 
Waihbume  descriptive  of  the  scenes  attending 
the  Siege  of  Paris,  the  Fall  of  the  Empire,  and 
the  Commune,  of  which  he  was  an  eye-witness; 
a  series  of  anpnblished  papers  of  Gonvemeur 
Morris,  affording  strilcing  pictures  of  sub-Revo- 
lutiorwry  limes;  a  series  of  letters  by  a  young 
lady  belongii^  to  the  early  part  of  the  century, 
depicting  in  a  very  readable  way  the  Boston  and 
New  York  society  li£e  of  that  period ;  an  im- 
portant paper  on  Socialism  by  President  F.  A. 
Walker;  others  on  National  Defence  by  Capt. 
Greene,  U.  S.  A.,  and  on  Babylonian  Archzol' 
ogy  by  Wm.  Hayes  Ward ;  a  serial  novel  by 
Harold  Frederic,  a  New  York  journalist, 
London  correspondent  of  the  Timet,  the  scenes 
of  which  are  l^d  in  Central  New  York,  and 
which  is  said  to  be  a  story  of  great  merit ;  and 
abort  stories  by  Mr-  Banner,  "  J.  S.  of  Dale,"  R. 
I.  Stevenson,  Joel  Chandler  Harris,  Octave 
Thanet,  Miss  Jewett,  Mr.  Boyesen,  and  others. 
The  large  resonrces  tA  the  publishers  and  the 
careful  deliberation  with  which  they  have  pre- 
pared Iheir  way,  awaken  considerable  expecta- 
tions of  this  new  venture. 

Mr.  George  Parsons  Lathrop  is  paid  a  round 
sum  by  Ex-Governor  Dorsheimer  for  contributing 
book  reviews  to  the  New  Vork  Star  which  be 
signs,  apparently  to  make  them  the  more  pop- 
ular. They  have  not  been  altogether  snccessfol, 
however,  chiefly  because  Mr.  Lathrop  has  an  un- 
pleasant way  of  forcing  his  own  personality 
his  reader*  by  the  continual  and  ill-judged  use  of 
the  first  personal  pronoun.  On  the  Triiuite  Miu 
Hutchinson  is  still  tbe  managing  literary  editor 
for  the  Timtt  Mr.  F.  W.  Halsey,  Charles  DeKay 
and  Bamet  Phillips  Inm  out  the  regular  quota  of 
literary  matter  somewhat  carelessly.  Indeed,  tbe 
old-time  literary  department  of  the  newspaper*, 
departments  such  as  Ripley  made  in  bis  day,  are 
seen  no  more.  It  seems  as  thoi^h  the  average 
litetary  editor  had  but  one  aim  in  view  —  the  pab- 
lishets'  advertising. 

Mr.  Lathrop**  article  on  New  York  authors 
in  the  last  Harptt't  has  occasioned  a  feeling 
literary  drdet,  and  is  the  aul^ect  of  some  u 
favorable  comment.    The  ladies  are  aaid  to  be 
little  sore   over  the  slights  they  have  suffered, 
and  tbe  article  it  charged  with  favoritism  and 
inaccnrste  perspective,  giving  undue  prominence 
to  some  of  the  fraternity  and  ignoring  others. 
Without   doubt  it  is  a  hard  kind  of  article 
write  so  as  to  please  all.    The  opening  lllustrar 
ticm,  which  yoa  have  already  praised,  owes  il 
tieme  natanlnes*  to  the  £act  that  it  *na  made 


from  a  photograph,  and  that  the  photograph  was 
made  without  any  "  posing." 

In  a  few  days  now  Messrs.  Dodd,  Mead  tt 
Co.  will  publish  tbe  mncb-talked-aboat  folio  vol- 
ume containing  Mr.  Kenyon  Cox's  drawings 
iilnstrative  of  Rossetti's  Tlu  BUuid  Damaul. 
I  have  several  times  been  over  the  advanced 
ibeets,  and  il  is  not  too  much  to  say  that  in  very 
many  ways  the  book  is  remarkable.  Though  a 
few  of  the  design*  are  worthy  neither  of  Mr. 
Cox's  skill  nor  of  the  poem  itself,  the  chief 
drawings  are  notably  good,  and  show  true  sym- 
pathy between  poet  and  artiaL  The  work  de- 
serves attention  Ixcaute  It  ha*  not  been  made  a* 
a  picture-book.  It  is  a  real  and  valuable  t^mtri- 
bulioD  to  pictorial  art.  Mrs.  Van  Rensselaer  has 
written  an  introduction  to  the  volume  which, 
were  it  a  few  paragraphs  shorter,  would  be  a 
model  of  what  sudi  a  preface  shonld  be.  She 
gives  a  sketch  of  Rotsetti  as  artist  and  writer, 
and  spealcs  of  Mr.  CoiTs  work  without  Battery, 
although  she  has  many  appreciative  things  to 
say  of  his  designs. 

Literature  and  sensationalism  are  appar- 
ently hand  in  hand  in  New  York  at  least 
so  far  at  the  newspapers  go,  Mr.  Jnllan  Haw 
(home's  exploit.as  an  interviewer  has  created 
much  more  talk  than  would  be  supposed,  but 
(he  author  went  into  journalism  for' the  avowed 
purpose  of  making  money,  and  he  haa  aeldom 
shown  squeamishness  over  small  obstacles  when 
in  quest  of  tlie  mighty  dollar.  His  affair  with 
Mr.  Lowell  haa  not  only  been  universally  con- 
demned, but  tbe  moat  bitter  in  condemnation  are 
honest  newspaper  men  who  (eel  that  he  has 
degraded  his  newly-adopted  profession.  Per- 
onally  Mr.  Hawthorne  seems  (o  feel  the  scandal 
'ery  little.  He  turned  up  at  the  usual  Thurs- 
day meeting  of  the  Authors'  Club  two  weeks  ^o, 
and  talked  as  though  the  whole  malter  was  of  no 
consequence.  The  Wvrld,  which  employs  Mr. 
Hawthorne,  pay*  him  a  large  aalary  for  writing 
book  crltidsm*  over  bis  own  signature,  and 
offered  him  a  tempting  inducement  for  interviews 
with  tx>th  Holmes  and  Lowell.  Dr.  Holmes,  it  is 
said,  was  warned  by  a  friend  what  might  be  ex- 
pected, and  refused  all  conversation  with  the  in- 
terviewer. The  World  iXtiAi  by  its  represents- 
tive,  and  so  important  has  be  become  that  at 
the  recent  liberty  unveiiing  he  was  allowed  to 
write  bis  report  and  sign  his  name  to  it. 

Hr.  Frank  R.  Stockton,  traveling  by  a  Sound 
steamboat  on  bis  way  home  from  Cotuit  not  long 
ago,  was  much  dissatisfied  with  bis  state-room. 
He  sought  (he  clerk  of  tbe  steamer  and  adced 
if  his  quarters  might  tw  changed.  The  man  said 
yes.  "  Can  yon  give  me  a  better  room  i  "  asked 
Mr.  Stockton.  "Yes,  the  best  on  (he  boat," 
instantly  replied  the  clerk,  adding,  "if  yon  will 
tell  which  came  out  of  the  docw,  the  lady  or  tbe 
tiger." 

Several  rooms  in  tbe  Century  Company's  hand- 
some suit  are  now  occupied  with  the  editorial 
work  on  the  new  "Century  Dictionary,"  which 
is  expected  (o  make  an  appearance  in  abon(  two 
years.  Tbis  dictionary-cyclopaedia,  for  such  it 
is  really  to  be,  will  contain  some  aoa,ooo  entiics 
and  6,000  illnstrationB  in  tbe  text,  and  will  be 
issued  in  two  forms,  an  octavo  fA  two  columns 
to  the  page,  in  ten  or  twelve  volumes,  and  a 


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luge  quarto  of  three  colamns  to  r  page  in  two 
or  poSBJbl)'  three  volumes,  the  type  being  the 
wune  in  both.  A  targe  editorial  force  is  now 
engaged  on  the  work,  Piofeuor  Whitne;  of 
Yale  being  the  generai  editor.  The  whole 
range  of  English  literature  haa  beca  warched 
anew  for  rare  word*,  a,nd  for  fre*h  definition! 
and  illustrations  of  words.  The  very  heavy  in- 
vestment which  this  undertaking  involves  is 
probably  justified  by  the  fact  that  encfclo- 
psdiaa  are  said  to  be  very  nearly  the  best  selling 
books  in  the  market.  Applttm's  Cyclnpadia,  I 
am  told,  is  having  a  larger  sale  this  year  than  in 
any  previous  year  since  its  publication. 

Mr.  R.  H.  Stoddard  is  being  overhauled  in 
public  and  private  for  a  rather  bad  piece  of  pla- 
giarism in  the  October  Ifarpn't,  bis  blank  verse 
poem  therein,  entitled  "  The  Brahman's  Son," 
beii^  BO  nearly  a  transposition  of  one  of  Hr. 
Lafcadio  Hearn's  "  Stray  Leaves  from  a  Strange 
Literature"  as  at  least  to  come  under  the  head 
of  "coincidences."  The  £[vr»'i^/tM/ has  printed 
a  correspondence  on  the  subject,  but  Mr.  Stod- 
dard's defence  is  hardly  satisfaaory. 

The  question  is  being  asked  here  today  why 
the  name  of  Alfred  Russell  Wallace,  England's 
most  eminent  living  naturalist,  now  lecturing 
before  your  Lowell  Institute,  does  not  appear 
among  the  distinguished  guests  of  Harvard  Col- 
lege and  the  numerous  recipients  of  its  academic 
honors,  at  its  ijoth  anniversary.  Was  he  not 
invited  t    And  if  not  why  not  1 

Mr.  W.  A.  Harper,  Mr.  Charles  Dudley  War- 
ner, and  Mr.  Kirk  Munroe  are  three  mem- 
bers of  a  party,  representing  Harper  &  Brothers, 
who  have  just  started  for  the  South  on  a  tour  of 
inspection,  presumably  in  some  way  in  the  in- 
teiefts  of  the  Harpers*  periodicals.  "Their 
Pilgrimage "  may  be  the  subject  <A  a  second 

New  Yori,  Nmiimber  g. 


lOHOB  FIOTIOV. 


Mr.  Picard  has  produced  in  Old  Benifdte  a 
third  indisputable  success  in  fiction,  and  one 
that  will 'confirm  bis  rank  among  the  few  of  the 
mote  recent  novel  writers  who  are  endowed 
with  a  talent  for  observation,  and  have  acquired 
a  graceful  and  winning  style.  The  plot  of  Old 
Benifaec  is  an  international  episode.  After  a 
winter  at  Te neriSe,  Mrs.  Georgina  Swift  and  her 
ward.  Miss  Kitty  Boniface,  stop  in  London  on 
their  way  home  (o  America,  and  are  hospitably 
received  by  some  delightful  Scottish  people,  the 
Misses  Geddes,  their  nephew,  young  Kenneth 
Blackle,  and,  most  delightful  of  all.  Lady  Mary 
Dufi  Gordon,  who  with  admirable  wit  plays  the 
part  of  fairy  godmother.  Then  comes  across 
from  New  Vork  the  ex-bank  clerk,  Volney  Trust, 
with  a  myslerious  message  which  he  finds  much 
difficulty  in  delivering,  and  a  love  comedy  of 
more  than  ordinary  inlenbity  ensues.  Mr.  Picard 
has  his  characters  well  in  hand,  and  there  is 
nothing  forced  in  his  delineations  of  personal 
traits  and  idiosyncracies.  Kitty  Boniface  is  a 
type  of  American  girl  far  removed  from  the 
conventional  heroine  of  interoatiotul  romance, 


and  the  dainty  witticisms  she  utters  are  quite  in 
place.  The  author's  humor  finds  many  outlets, 
particularly  in  descriptions  oE  a  London  morning 
concert,  the  Aquarium,  and  a  visit  to  Hampton 
Court.  It  is  humor  of  an  agreeable  sort,  and 
even  the  victims  thereof  would  be  (he  first  to 
smile  at  its  gentle  raillery.  When  Miss  Boni- 
face suggests  to  Kenneth  Btackie,  who  proposes 
to  enter  the  army,  that  it  is  "  rather  an  inactive 
life,"  and  when  Mrs.  Swift  solemnly  assures 
Lady  DuS  Gordon  that  she  knows  several 
Americans  who  have  not  written  books,  the 
eSect,  if  not  brilliant  when  analysed,  is  suffi- 
ciently marked  to  awaken  a  sensation  of  pleas- 
And  Mr.  Picard  is  a  novelist  who  Is  sure  to 


T%t  Siltnet  t/Dtan  Maiiland.  A  Novel.  By 
Maxwell  Grey.    [U.  Appleton  &  Co.    50c] 

As  far  as  literary  workmanship  is  concerned, 
T)tt  SiUtut  »f  Dean  Maiiland  is  a  clever  per- 
formance ;  in  fact,  we  do  not  often  find  out  and 
out  sensationalism  worked  up  into  ao  readable  a 
form.      Cyril    Maitland,   white  still    a    humble 

e,  seduces  a  young  girt  and  kills  her  father 
when  the  latter  is  about  to  avenge  the  wrong 
done  to  his  child.  Cyril's  most  intimate  friend, 
Henry  Everaid,  on  the  strength  of  purely  cir- 
cumstantial evidence  and  the  perjury  of  the 
young  woman,  is  accused  of  both  crimes  and  con- 
demned to  twenty  years  of  penal  servitude. 
Cyril  Maitland  keeps  silence,  marries  Everard's 
^ter,  and  becomes  a  famous  divine,  a  second 
Clirysostom,  possessing  by  his  gift  of  eloquence 
extraordinary  power.  At  the  hight  of  his 
fame  he  preaches  a  sermon  in  which  he  confesses 

n  to  the  world,  and  then  drops  dead  of  heart 

se.  Now,  any  one  who  likes  a  story  deal- 
ing with  matters  of  this  son,  will  find  Thi  Siltnet 
of  Dtan  Maitland  very  much  to  his  taste.  There 
are  a  namber  of  thrilling  passages,  of  which 
those  dealing  with  Everard's  escape  from  prison 
and  Cyril's  confession  are  perhaps  the  most 
striking.    The   remorse  endured   by  Cyril,  and 

onsciousness  of  the  suffering  he  is  inflicting 
upon  others,  are  vividly  set  forth ;  but  the  ex- 
travagance of  the  plot,  and  the  total  improba- 
bility of  some  of  the  minor  incidents  weaken  the 

itive  beyond  the  bounds  of  credence.    The 

author  might  have  employed   his  talent  to  far 

belter  purpose  than  in  producing  a  romance  so 

Llravagant    in   lone,  and  so  unwholesome   in 

method. 


she  fitted  up  her  rooms  on  Pinckney  Street  i* 
atone  worth  the  price  of  the  book  to  like- 
minded  impecunious  young  housekeepers.  Cyn- 
ical critics  have  sometimes  complained  that  Miss 
Townsend's  revelations  of  character  are  not  of 
labyrinthine  profundity.  But  we  are  convinced 
that  she  understands  the  feminine  nature  —  at 
least  the  Boston  type  of  feminine  nature  —  a* 
well  as  Mr.  Howella  does.  When  Dorrice  re- 
ceives her  first  invitation  to  a  Back  Bay  dinner- 
party, "What  a  mercy  it  was,"  she  exclaims, 
"  that  I  got  that  ash-colored  cashmere  Instead  of 
a  thin  dress  1  I  knew  it  would  carry  me  later 
into  the  fall ;  laid  U  not  tiuk  lu  irrttistiUt  iar- 
gain,  lee."  The  italic*  are  our  own.  Nor  is 
Miss  Townsend's  portrayal  of  nature  pure  tt  lim- 
pit  to  be  boldly  anderrated.  What  could  more 
effectually  describe  a  "November  scene"  than 
say  of  it  that  "  it  had  a  distinct  charm  of  its 
n  y  "  This  fs  poetic  realism,  and  leaves  all  that 
is  necessary  to  the  imagination  of  the  reader. 
Vet  this  determination  to  stimulate  the  imagina- 
tive faculties  does  not  prevent  Miss  Townsend 
from  mathematical  accuracy  where  accuracy  is 
demanded.  The  intellectual  repose  assured  by 
isaertion  that  Bylanes  i*  "  five  mile*  from 
the  Massachuselt*  coast  Hoe,  and  twenty-Gve 
north  of  Boston,"  i*  something  that  romantic 
iporing  about  a  hypothetical  Castle  Nowhere 
is  powerless  to  bestow. 


Miss  Townsend  always  writes  with  a  purpose, 
and  in  her  stoiy  of  A  Baiton  Girl's  Ambitians 
the  lesson  to  be  inculcated  is  always  kept  firmly 
in  view.  When  Carryl  and  Dorrice  Dacres 
come  upon  the  scene  in  Boston  as  seekers  after 
fortune  we  know  pretty  well  what  the  course  of 
events  will  be.  A  period  of  bitter  privation  in 
which  the  determination  of  the  young  girl  keeps 
her  brother's  courage  to  the  slicking  point,  is 
followed  by  a  successful  career  which  involves  a 
course  at  Harvard  and  sundry  delightful  outings. 
In  fact,  the  moral  of  Miss  Townsend's  story 
seems  to  be  that  Providence  will  deny  nothing  to 
the  Boston  girl  who  has  ambitions,  and  whose 
soul  is  not  above  bric-a-brac  and  roce-tlnted 
hangings  on  a  pearl-gray  background.  Dorrice 
Dacres  has,  as  the  author  puts  it,  "a  mysterious 
affinity"  for  "things,"  and  Ike  account  of  how 


The  author  of  The  Pkantem  City  has  given  a 
le  rein  to  his  fancy,  and  has  produced  a  ro- 
ince  that  well  may  be  styled  "  volcanic."  The 
narrative  relates  the  adventures  of  a  certain  Eng- 
lishman, Dr.  Carlyon,  who  goes  in  search  of 
what  tradition  asserts  to  be  an  inaccessible  abo- 
riginal dty  in  the  interior  of  Centra]  America, 
still  occupied  by  a  people  with  a  high  degree  of 
civilization.  The  first  part  of  the  book  is  admir- 
ably written.  It  brings  vividly  before  tis  the 
natural  characteristic*  of  the  wild  tropical  coun- 
try and  the  dangers  experienced  by  the  explorers. 
At  length  Dr.  Carlyon's  patty  ate  taken  prison- 
by  hostile  Indians,  he  alone  escaping  by  a 
happy  chance  to  make  his  painful  way  back  to 
'ilization.  If  the  tale  had  ended  here,  Mr. 
Wesiall  would  have  scored  a  triumph.  What 
follows  passe*  from  the  realm  of  legitimate 
ncc  to  that  of  pure  travesty.  Dr.  Carlyon 
orders  a  balloon  from  London,  and  starts  by  that 
aerial  conveyance  in  search  of  the  "  phantom 
'  After  a  startling  battle  in  mid-air  with 
condors,  he  attains  his  end,  and  descends  among 
the  "children  of  light,"  where  he  speedily  be- 
comes court  physician,  rescues  his  former  asso- 
I  from  servitude,  and  after  a  series  of  still 
exciting  incidents,  returns  laden  with  gold 
and  emeralds,  leading  a  princess  as  his  loving 
bride  I  There  is  a  Yankee  in  the  story  who  is 
[airly  well  done,  and  shows  an  abundance  of 
lodcst  pluck.  We  observe  many  instances  of 
carelessness  on  the  part  of  the  proof-readers. 

A  Haust  Parly,  Dm  Citualda,  and  A  Rainy 
Jutu.    By  Ouida.    [J.  B.  Lippincott  Co.    i\xa.\ 

The  first  story  in  this  trio  is  ostensibly  a 
sketch  of  life  at  an  English  manor-house,  where 
a  gr*up  of  the  fashionable  sodety  of  modem 
England  gather,  and,  a*  the  Earl  of  Usk,  master 
of  the  manor,  puts  it,  transform  the  place  iato  ~ 


1 886.] 


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393 


Ml  Agapemane  or  Orleans  Club.  As  the  descrip- 
tions tally  very  well  with  General  Badeau's  recent 
revelations,  we  may  suppose  they  are  true ; 
they  certainly  are  not  dciecuble.  The  alorj  of 
the  "House  Parly"  is  concerned,  aside  from  il« 
wearisome  details  about  this  and  that  intrigue, 
with  Loid  Biandolin's  wooing  of  ■  Russian 
princess.  Then  comes  a  higb I y- wrought  account 
of  an  Italian  priest,  who  confesses  himselF  guilty 
of  a  crime  be  did  not  commit,  to  save  a  woman 
front  condemnation.  The  finale  tells  how  an 
Italian  prince  marries  an  English  girl,  and  how 
he  is  bored  during  his  honeymoon.  Ouida  i*  not 
altogether  commendable  at  her  best.  When  she 
U  dull,  to  adapt  a  nursery  rhyme,  she  is  "hor- 
rid;" and  in  this  book  she  is  unmistakably  dull. 
The  dollness  is  not  relieved  by  occasional  verbal 
improprieties.  We  read  of  "  a  consternated  sad- 
oesa"  with  mild  curiosity;  we  feel  no  desire  to 
unravel  the  exact  qaalifying  value  of  the  phrase 
"  very  nearly  almost ; "  and  we  pass  with  indiffer- 
ence the  mention  of  so  abnormal  a  characteristic 
as  a  "  paleleaa  skin." 

ICmOB  ]rOTIO£8. 

Tit  RettHd  Ye,:r.  By  Edith  M.  Thomas. 
[Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.    f  1.25.] 

Miss  Thomas  is  epicurean ;  she  win  have  none 
but  delicate  cales  at  her  feaal.  Most  writers 
on  her  favorite  themes  are  gross  in  comparison 
with  her.  She  has  some  subtle,  added  sense. 
Her  ear  is  attuned  to  sounds  inaudible  to  com- 
mon mortals.  She  holds  intimate  communion 
with  the  invisible  powers,  and  they  tell  her 
things  which  are  kept  from  most.  The  secrets 
of  wood-lore  and  winds  are  with  her;  dryads 
and  naiads  are  her  comrades.  All  of  which 
means  that  on  the  old,  much-written-about  theifles 
of  the  changes  of  the  changing  year,  summer 
nights,  frost,  moonshine,  wind  and  rain,  grass 
and  Ihe.fall  of  the  leaf,  she  makes  us  consciotu 
of  something  that  even  Thoreau  —  even  if  he 
saw  and  felt  it  —  had  not  the  power  to  put 
tangibly  before  us;  and  through  all  there  is  a 
warm,  palpitating  current  of  human  life.  Not 
one  of  the  writers  of  out-of-door  papen  is  so 
at  rapport  with  nature,  so  sensitive  to  every 
pliasc  —  for  examples,  the  papers  "Under  the 
Sky,"  "  A  Summer  Holinight,"  "  Where  it  List- 
eth,"  and  "Flake  White"  — yei  Miss  Thomas 
never  so  surrenders  to  these  unseen  powers  as 
to  become  vague  and  mystic.  She  looks  over 
into  the  border-land,  but  her  feet  have  a  good 
firm  hold  on  solid  earth.  We  are  to  uke  it  as 
an  evidence  of  her  genius  that  in  these  prose 
•ketches  as  in  her  poems,  she  is  not  carried  out 
of  herself  but  keeps  the  mastery — and  how 
captivating  are  both  prose  and  verse  I 

Tht  En^iik  Parliament  in  ill  Tranafennaliiitit 
Through  a  Tkomand  Yean.  By  Dr.  Rudolf 
Gneist.  Translated  by  R.  Jenery  Shee  of  the 
Inner  Temple.    [Little,  Blown  &  Co.] 

The  learned  Professor  of  Law  in  Berlin,  who 
has  devoted  elaborate  works  to  the  history  of 
aelf-govcrnmenl  and  administration  in  England 
and  the  English  Constitution,  bete  gives  us  what, 
as  a  Geiman,  he  calls  a  bhurt  and  poi>ular  his- 
tory of  Parliament.  The  earlier  part  on  the 
Anglo-Saxon  Gemotes,  the  Anglu- Norman  Court- 
Days  and  assemblies  o(  Notables,  and  the  further 
development  of  the  Estates  into  two  Houses  of 
Parliament,  is  yet  sufficiently  minute  for  all  but 


specdal  students  of  institutions.  The  next  three 
essays,  tracing  the  history  throngb  the  Reforma- 
tion, the  Revolution,  and  the  eighteenth  century 
are  le«s  full,  while  the  last  three  on  the  Parlia- 
ments of  the  present  ceelury  are  quite  bricL 
Dr.  Gneist's  picture  of  the  origin  of  Parliament 
and  its  growth  through  a  thousand  years  will 
probably  be  accepted  by  our  English  cousins  as 
more  trustworthy  than  his  prophedes.  For  he 
considers  that  the  "government  by  alternating 
political  parties,  which  has  hitherto  picvaileit," 
will  soon  become  impossible  through  the  vast 
changes  in  English  society.  Vet  while  "  violent, 
deep-going,  long-lasting  tempests  mayhap"  are 
to  come,  a  ttiumph  over  the  new  danger  is 
probable.  "Till  the  advent  of  Radical  Govern- 
ments, there  is  nothing  for  it  but  Coalition 
Ministries ; "  but  if  the  county-administration  can 
be  refashioned  so  as  to  restore  some  measure  of 
the  local  independence,  and  if  the  Crown  will 
continue  to  ward  oS  "  the  extreme  dangers  of  a 
democratic  guidance  of  the  foreign  affairs  of  an 
empire  so  widespread,"  the  process  of  disinte- 
gration which  has  been  going  on  throughout  this 
century  will  be  checked.  Dr.  Gneist,  with  all  his 
erudition  and  insight  into  the  origins  of  Parlia- 
ment, seems  yet  to  an  American  to  have  more  of 
a  theoretical  than  of  a  practical  knowledge  of 
representative  government  in  England,  and  to 
fear  unduly  the  inevitable  coming  of  democracy 
there,  throngh  lack  of  knowledge  of  its  salutary 
workings  in  this  country. 


Hovi  to  SlrtH^ken  tXi  Memory;  0 


Nahiral 


This  is  by  far  the  most  simple  and  practical 
handbook  on  the  cultivation  of  the  memory  that 
we  have  seen.  Dr.  Holbruok  ipends  no  time  on 
systems  of  mnemonics,  but  depends  entirely  on 
rational,  scientific  principles  which  are  based 
upon  a  thorough  comprehension  of  the  physiol- 
ogy of  recollection  —  a  subject  which  he  treats 
clearly  and  concisely  in  the  opening  pages  of  his 
essay.  We  are  shown  that  the  best  foundation 
for  a  good  memory  is  robust  health;  thai  mem- 
ory depends  primarily  upon  nutrition,  upon  the 
quality  and  quantity  of  blood  sent  to  the  brain; 
and  that  whatever  interferes  with  the  natural 
vital  processes  necessarily  affects  the  powers  of 
memory.  Bui  given,  for  any  reason,  a  weak 
memory,  how  is  it  to  be  strengthened?  First 
we  must  aim  to  have  a  definite,  even  a  vivid, 
first  impression  of  the  fact  or  idea  to  be  lemem 
bered.  This  is  to  be  secured  by  careful  atten- 
tion and  repetition.  Then  by  laws  of  associa- 
tion and  comparison,  easily  to  be  understood 
and  enforced,  the  registration  of  impressions 
may  be  transformed  from  a  chaotic  and  unavail- 
able heap  of  mental  debris  into  a  well-ordered 
arrangement  where  every  name,  date,  and  event 
Is  properly  classified  and  labeled,  ready  for  in- 
stant recognition.  Dr.  Holbrook  recommends 
that  persons  of  weak  memory  should  begin  by 
learning  short  passages  of  poetry,  (hen  of  prose, 
passing  from  general  literature  to  more  difficult 
scientific  works,  and  lengthening  the  daily  task 
in  such  a  way  as  to  develop  but  not  to  weary 
the  powers  of  application.  It  is  an  excellent 
plan  every  night  or  morning  to  recall  in  proper 
sequence  all  the  incidents  of  the  preceding  day 
to  the  minutest  detail.  If  the  memory  for  names 
is  weak,  write  them  down,  and  once  in  a  while 


refer  to  them,  and  drill  the  memory  by  commit- 
ting selected  lists  of  names  in  alphabetical  order. 
If  the  memory  for  faces  and  forms  needs  culti- 
vation, classify  the  data  by  systematic  types.  In 
visiting  a  strange  place,  take  the  trouble  to  orient 
yourself,  fix  the  points  of  the  compass  well  in 
mind,  select  some  conspicuous  object  as  a  refer- 
ence point,  and  map  out  the  surrounding  regions 
in  their  relations  to  this  chosen  center.  These 
are  the  leading  principles  of  Dr.  Holbrook's 
method,  and  their  usefulness  and  value  are  illus- 
trated by  many  eminent  examples.  The  sugges- 
tions with  regard  to  their  application  to  the 
learning  of  languages,  reprinted  from  Professor 
Pick's  book  on  that  subject,  are  a  welcome 
addition  to  a  manual  which  will  be  of  service  to 
persons  of  widely  divergent  intellectual  capa- 
bilities. 

Auput.  Edited  by  Oscar  Fay  Adam*.  [D. 
Lothrop  &  Co.    7jc] 

Septimber.    [Do.,  Do.] 

In  these  two  pretty  books  Mr.  Adams  con- 
tinues his  happily  devised  series  of  selections 
from  English  poets  illustrating  the  months  and 
voicing  the  moods  which  they  awaken.  The  pro- 
cession of  the  seasons  thus  finds  its  answering 
symphony  in  English  verse,  rendered  by  many 
performers  on  different  instruments,  in  many 
movements,  strains,  and  keys.  Attention  is  due 
10  this  general  remark  in  the  preface  upon  the 
series  as  a  whole : 

Its  editor  has  not  attempted  a  compilation  of 
month-poetry  solely.  The  field  be  has  sought  to 
occupy  is  a  wider  one,  and  includes  the  verse 
expressing  the  relation  of  the  mind  of  man  to 
the  varying  seasons,  and  representing  the  aspects 
of  nature  from  month  to  month.  To  carry  out 
this  desien,  something  more  than  a  collection  of 
poems  labeled  with  the  names  of  the  months  was 
contemplated ;  and  it  is  in  pursuance  of  the 
plan  adopted  at  the  outset  that  the  reader  finds 
in  the  successive  volumes  poems  relating  to 
human  joys  and  to  human  sorrows,  to  the 
flowers  and  fruits,  the  birds  and  insects,  the 
summer  storm,  and  the  winter  gale. 
Notwithstanding  this  ingenuous  caveat  the  pro- 
portion of  poems  in  these  two  books  applying 
directly  to  the  months  is  noticeably  large.  Au- 
gust "lilies,"  "noons,"  "twilights,"  "fields," 
"  woods,"  and  "  warnings,"  and  September's 
"face,"  "afternoons,"  and  "chills,"  are  favorite 
themes  sung  over  and  over  with  endless  varia- 
tions. The  books  between  them  introduce 
considerable  new  verse,  whose  authors  include 
Mrs.  Mary  E.  Blake,  Mr.  J.  J.  Roche,  Mrs. 
A,  W.  Brotherton,  Mr.  H.  Tyrrell,  Mr.  Scoll- 
ard,  Miss  Orne,  Mr,  Peck  of  Alabama,  Mrs, 
Austin,  Mrs.  Spofford,  and  Mr.  W.  M.  Fullerton. 

A  History  of  Greet  Lileralure  from  tht  Earli- 
est Period  to  the  Death  of  Devioslhenes,  By  F.  B. 
Jevons.    [Charles  Scribner's  Sons.    %z.tp\ 

To  the  numerous  histories  of  the  most  won- 
derfu!  of  all  literatures  Mr.  Jevons,  who  is  a  tutor 
in  the  University  of  Durham,  has  here  added 
one  deserving  a  place  among  the  best  of  its  size. 
It  is  a  companion  volume  to  Ciuttwell's  excel- 
lent history  of  Roman  literature,  and  deserves 
to  be  ranked  with  it.  Neither  work  is  a  school 
manual  of  the  old  style,  but  both  conuin,  beside 
the  usual  biographical  and  liisloiical  information, 
full  expositions  of  masterpieces  and  valuable 
criticism  of  the  literature  as  a  whole  and  in  it*  - 
parts.  Mr.  Jevons  holds  to  the  Homeric  au- 
thorship of  the  Iliad  and  the  Odytsey,  and  in 
general  preserves  a  conservative  tone.    His  two 


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[Nov.  ij 


pifU  treat  firtt,  epic,  lyric,  and  the  draiiu,  and 
ueond,  hiitoiy,  oralor;,  and  philosophy.  Of 
Ibese  Bubjecta  (he  drama  and  oralor;  receiTC 
the  moat  extended  treatmenL  Mr.  Jevona'a  con- 
duiion,  which  ahouid  have  cone  first,  conaiden 
Uie  cause*  of  the  nature  and  dcTelopmeni  of  the 
literatoie,  iti  the  character  of  the  countr?, 
the  race,  the  language,  and  the  oral  commani- 
catlon,  which  was  the  one  mean*  of  pubtication 
in  daaaic  time*,  and  which  determined  the  trans- 
parent clearness  and  the  living  beauty  of  the  prod- 
ncta  of  the  Greek  mind  —  "  Greek  literature  was 
dawical  as  long  aa  it  was  oral."  Mr.  Jevoa*  may 
nnderraie  the  value  oE  the  post-classical  liteiature 
<d  which  Plutarch  wa*  the  noblest  representative, 
'bat  we  wish  that  he  would  conCinae  his  work 
and  trace  ita  history  with  (he  same  judgment 
and  literary  skill  which  he  abundantly  manifests 
la  this  volume. 

Peftilar  FamUy  AUas  ef  lie  Wvrld.  [J'  B, 
Lippinoott  Co.    30c] 

Tht  Pecktl  Allot  ef  Hu  World.  By  John 
Bartholomew.    [G.  P.  Putnam'*  Sons,    f  1  jao.'\ 

Rand.  MeNally  6-  Ce^t  Atlai  of  tht  World. 
[Chicago :  25c.] 

Xand,  MiNally  &■  Cifs  Pocktt  Maf  and  Skip- 
ptt't  Guidt  of  Museuri.     [Chicago.     JSc] 

Do.,  Do.  Nea  York.  Ptnntylvattia.  [Do., 
Do.    Each.    fiJia] 

The  first  of  these  works  Is  of  the  old 
•chool  atlas  sise  and  style,  with  23  full-page 
maps  or  charts,  done  on  copperplate,  and  with 
two  pages  of  statistic*.  The  maps  are  good, 
Ihongb  not  equal  to  the  best  English  work. 
Putnam's  Peekti  Allot,  though  scarcely  exceed- 
ing the  limits  of  a  vest  pocket,  is  a  gem,  a 
perfect  gem.  Here  we  have  Englisli  map-work 
of  a  high  class,  and  the  diEference  between  it 
and  American  is  noticeable.  For  the  desk  and 
[or  the  traveler  we  know  a{  nothing  at  all  to 
compare  with  it.  Rand  ft  McNally's  Allot  is 
about  the  same  size  as  the  (orcgoing,  and  excels 
It  in  statistical  information,  which  Is  copious,  but 
Its  maps  are  not  to  be  compared  with  those  in 
Putnam's  for  beauty,  though  they  are  plain  and 
full.  Their  Pocket  Map  of  Miisouri,  besides 
tlie  map  on  a  large  folded  sheet,  gives  an  alpha- 
betical directory  of  towns  with  their  populations ; 
and  the  similar  maps  of  Wea  York  and  Ptnnsyl- 
pama,  are  of  a  larger  and  better  grade,  and 
bound  in  cloth. 

Sludiet  in  AiuUtit  Hitbny.  Comprlsiiw  a 
Reprint  of    Primitive   Marriage.      By  the  late 

i,  F.  McLennan.    A  New  Edition.    (Macmillan 
Co.    #4X».] 

This  handsome  volume,  edited  by  Mr.  D. 
McLennan,  is  a  reprint  of  the  edition  of  1S76 
with  the  same  title,  a  few  notes  only  having  been 
added,  with  a  valuable  appendix  containing  a 
full  collection  of  examples  ot  the  form  of  capture 
in  marriage  ceremonies,  on  (he  basis  of  the  one 
made  by  the  author  oE  Primitive  Marriage  him- 
self. Besides  this  latter  work,  essays  on  Kinship 
in  Ancient  Greece,  the  Classificatory  System  of 
Relationships  (in  criticism  of  Mr.  Lewis  H. 
Morgan),  Bachofen's  Dot  Mullerttche,  Com- 
monal  Marriage,  and  the  Divisions  of  the  An- 
dent  Irish  Family,  are  here  included.  Every 
one  conversant  with  the  modem  study  of  soci- 
ology knows  the  extremely  high  value  of  the 
original  work  done  by  Mr.  McLennan  in  tradng 
back  the  playful  aymbol  of  capture  in  the  mar- 
riage ceremony  of  later  times  to  the  early  (odety 


in  which  capture  of  wives  wat  a  stem  reality. 
Herbert  Spencer,  Sir  J.  Lubbock,  and  others, 
have  suggested  important  modifications  of  the 
exogamoas  theory  of  Mr.  McLennan,  but  in  him 
they  found  a  foenun  worthy  of  their  steel ;  and 
white  dogmadsm  In  this  little-worked  and  tiec- 
essarily  dimly-lighted  field  is  ridiculous,  it  seems 
likely  that  for  a  first  essay  Primitivi  Marriagt 
will  retain  a  remarkalile  degree  of  authority  for 
a  long  time.  No  progress,  however,  in  this 
direction  will  deprive  Mr.  McLennan**  investi- 
gations of  their  interest  and  originality.  It  is 
welcome  news  which  the  editor  gives  us  that  he 
is  getting  ready  another  volume  containing 
mostly  unputjlbhed  writings,  prepared  for  the 
comprehensive  work  which  Mr.  McLennan  was 
unable  to  ccKnplete,  and  showing  the  modifica- 
tions of  the  author's  views  after  the  publication 
of  his  first  book,  which  deserve*  that  somewhat 
abused  epithet  —  "  epoch-making ; "  Primitive 
Ufarriagt  certainly  opened  a  new  era  in  sodology, 
and  it  richly  merits  this  final  and  beautiful  dress 
which  the  publishers  have  clotlied  it. 

Otitre-Mer  and  Drift  Wood.  By  Henry  Wads- 
worth  Longfellow.  [Houghton,  HjBIin  ft  Co. 
»'-S0-] 

HyferioK  and  Kvoanagk.    Do.    Do.    Do. 

Thus  begins,  with  two  volumes  of  hi*  Prose 
Works,  the  new  Riverside  Edition  lA  Long 
fellow.  The  Poems  are  to  follow  in  dne  order 
and  time.  We  believe  it  Is  no  secret,  and  only 
just  to  say,  that  of  this  new,  complete,  standard, 
well-fuinisbed,  handsomely  made,  and  final  edi- 
tion Mr.  Horace  E.  Scudder  is  the  editor.  The 
books  are  noticeable  for  their  convenient  size  — 
>.  crown  octavo  we  should  suppose  it  to  be;  a 
rather  long  and  narrow  page  —  3  inches  liy  5! 
it  messure*,  to  be  specific;  generous  margins, 
good  type,  rough  edge*  al!  around,  and  very 
simple  covers  in  green  linen.  The  aspect  is 
what  it  should  be.  Inwardly  the  volumes  are 
found  to  be  introduced  with  proper  bibliographi- 
cal particalars  and  furnished  with  tiie  promise 
of  critical  note*  a*  needed.  The  "Publishers' 
Advertisement"  contaiiu  these  points: 

. . .  The  text  is  the  last  revised  by  tiie  author, 
and  is  printed  with  scrupulous  care.  The  order 
of  the  writings  is  chronological  in  its  main  lines. 
.  ,  ,  Great  care  has  been  taken  to  trace  the 
history  of  the  several  writings,  and  to  throw 
light  upon  the  development  of  Mr.  Longfellow's 
genius.  Notes  introductory  to  the  longer  worlts 
and  head-notes  to  many  of  the  poema  give  in- 
formation a*  to  the  Inception  ot  the  separate 
works  and  pieces.  ...  As  far  as  possible  Mr. 
Longfellow's  own  words  have  been  used.  .  .  . 
The  eariier  part  of  Mr.  Longfellow's  work  vras 
marked  by  many  experiments.  .  .  .  They  have 
a  positive  value  to  studenn  of  his  genius  .  .  . 
and  it  has  therefore  been  decided  to  print,  in 
the  appendices  of  certain  volumes,  discarded 
work  which  was  contemporaneous  with  tlie  con- 
tents of  those  volumes.  .  .  .  Indexes  have  been 
provided  wherever  the  content*  of  the  volomea 
make  such  helps  desirable,  .  .  . 


y  Julian  Warth. 

This  initial  volume  of  "The  Round  World 
Series"  is  a  powerfully  drawn  aodal  picture  of 
the  present  day,  the  scene  being  laid  at  a  farm 
some  twenty  miles  from  New  York  City  ai 
the  great  metropolis  itself.  Interwoven  in 
story  are  some  of  the  deep  problem*  of  extremes 
of  wealth  and  poverty,  church  attendance,  and 
the  evila  of  dty  tenement  booses.    A  plaa  is  out- 


lined for  sobstitudng,  for  the  present  renting,  a 
system  of  ownership  of  psrts  of  improved  sani- 
tary dwellings.  The  heroine  i*  very  winning, 
and  the  other  prominent  characters  well  individ- 
ualized ;  nor  i*  lacking  the  element  of  at  least 
one  love  afiair,  deemed  essential  in  a  novel. 

Tlu  Catting  Away  of  Mrs.  Lecki  and  Mrs. 
AUtklnt.  By  Frank  R.  Stockton.  [The  Cen- 
tnryCo.     Paper,  50c;  cloth,  ^i.oo.] 

A  moat  Ingenious  and  comical  play  of  Uncj 
certainly  ia  thi*  tale  of  castaways  in  the  vaat 
Pacific,  and  very  characteristic  of  its  talented 
author.  The  familiar  device  oE  a  shipwredt  or 
a  collision  and  the  escape  of  survivors  to  an 
island  is  here  introduced  and  worked  out  "in 
manner  and  form"  —  aa  the  law  phrase  is  — 
never  before  Imagined  and  indeed  probably  im- 
possible to  any  but  tlie  versatile  genius  of  Mr. 
Stockton.  The  whimsical  common  teiue  of  the 
two  her<»ne*  and  the  amusing  sitoatjon*  pre- 
sented are  the  characteriatic  traits.  The  story 
open*  on  board  a  ateamer  bound  for  Japan. 
Mr.  Craig  is  a  single  gentleman  traveling  for 
health,  and  Mrs-  Leeks  and  Mrs.  Aleshine  are 
two  Middle  States  widows,  on  a  visit  to  the 
latter's  son.  All  goes  well  from  'Friaco  to 
the  Sandwich  Isle*,  and  oar  three  friend*  find  . 
pleasant  ahlp  acquaintances  in  each  other.  But 
two  day*  out  from  Honolulu  the  ateamer 
collide*  vrith  a  schooner  and  the  men  have  to 
go  to  the  pumps.  After  some  hours'  hard  work 
tbey  find  that  their  effort*  to  save  the  ship  are 
nseleaa  and  that  their  only  chance  lies  in  the 
boat*.  Amid  the  hurry  and  confu*lon  Mr*. 
Leeks  finds  a  boat  at  the  stem  just  large  enough 
for  three,  and  into  It  ahe  persuades  her  friends 
to  get  and  push  off  from  the  now  fast  sinking 
gh4p.  How  the  boat  proves  to  be  unscaworthy 
and  sinks  under  them,  what  calmness  and  equ^ 
nimity  tbey  show  under  these  trying  circum- 
stances, how  Mr.  Craig  awims  ahead  and  the 
ladies  propel  themselves  after  him  with  two 
oars,  how  they  reach  a  desert  Island  which 
turns  out  to  be  the  abode  of  some  wealthy 
merchant  now  absent,  how  the  parson  and  hi* 
daughter  come  and  live  with  them,  how  Mr. 
Craig  finds  a  wife  on  the  desert  island,  and  how 
"the  board  money  is  in  the  ginger-Jar" — all 
this  forms  an  interesting  nsrrative  which  givea 
the  reader  a  good  many  chance*  10  amile.  The 
book  will  give  half  an  honr  cf  rich  enjoyment. 


SEAEEBF£ARIAKA. 


Hr.  W.  H.  Chnrcher'a  "  Mystery  of 
Shakapeare  ReTealed."  This  pamphlet  of 
no  pages,  published  by  the  suthor  at  769  Con- 
gress Street,  Detroit,  Hicb.  (35  cents),  is  mod- 
eatly  announced  by  him  as  "a  book  for  the 
million"  that  "ptacea  the  authorahip  of  Shak- 
speare  where  it  rightfully  belongs,  with  Sir 
Francis  Bacon;"  and  we  are  further  told  that 
"although  not  deaigned  as  a  text-book,  no  *tn- 
dent  of  Shakapeare  or  lover  of  the  playa  can 
afford  to  be  without  It,  as  it  contain*  Information 
to  be  found  nowhere  else,"  It  I*  perliapa  the 
weakest  and  silliest  thing  yet  put  forth  on  the 
Baconian  «de  of  this  stale  and  unprofitable  dis- 
cussion. The  aelf-conceit  of  the  author  i> 
equalled  only  by  his  ignorance,  which  i*  aom^.  ' 
tlUng  stupendotu.    He  ha*  read  the  preface  to- 


i886.] 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


395 


the  folio  of  1633,  but  doet  not  believe  It  wm 
written  by  Heminge  and  Condell  whoae  name* 
■re  ipp«nded  to  it.  In  fict,  he  ttjt,  'it  wu 
utterly  impouible  for  one  of  theie  'play-fellom ' 
to  have  anything  to  do  with  the  publication,"  for 
"  If  the  reader  will  take  the  trmible  to  examine 
the  ftat-HBla  to  the  will  of  Sbakapeare,  they 
[Bic]  will  learn  that  John  fleminge  had  bttn  diad 
tttt  ytart  at  the  time  when  hia  name  waa  anp- 
poied  to  be  aigaed  to  thia  ptefacel  "  The  italica 
are  the  aathoi's.  What  doea  he  mean  by  the 
"  f oot-notei "  to  Shakeapeare's  will?  Apparently 
lomething  in  aome  life  of  the  dramatist  or  aome 
edilfoa  of  bia  worka.  Wherever  the  atatement 
may  occur,  it  ia  probably  a  mere  misprint ;  for  no 
man  before  Charcher  can  have  been  capable  of 
Buppoaing  that  Shakespeare  would  leave  a  legacy 
to  a  man  who  had  been  dead  three  year*,  aa 
mnat  have  been  the  caae  with  Heminge  if  he 
"died  in  1613."  If  other  authorities  ate  to  be 
truated,  he  died  in  1630. 

Again,  Mr.  Cburcher  aneer*  at  the  claim  of 
Ibe  player  editora  that  they  had  the  use  of 
Shakeapeare's  original  MSS.  He  aalu  in  his 
peculiar  English : 

Are  there  any  who  are  so  simple  aa  to  believe 
that  theae  MSS.  laid  away  in  aome  pigeon-bole 
in  Ihe  green-room  oE  the  theatre,  or  aome  other 
ont-of-tne-way  place,  or  in  the  pockets  of  some 
of  the  playera  during  these  seven  years?  If  so, 
would  the  MSS.  have  remained  "  perfect  in  their 
limbea  and  nnmbeiaf" 

Any  achooli>oy  could  have  told  our  critic  that 
the  folio  text  ia  far  from  being  aa  "perfect "  aa 
the  preface  asserts,  and  that  many  of  its  imper. 
fections  are  doubtless  due  to  the  nae  of  the  MSS. 
by  the  actors  in  learning  their  parts ;  and  that  we 
have  indiaputaUe  evidence  that  the  MSS.  were 
so  used  in  the  occurrence  of  the  names  of  aome 
of  the  actors  in  the  stage  directions  and  aa  pre- 
fixes to  speeches  here  and  there  in  place  of  the 
names  of  tiie  dramatis  ptriena.  Thus  in  /Hiuk 
Adf,  ii.  3,  the  folio  baa  "  Enltr  Prince,  Ltenaie, 
Claudia,  and  latkt  Wilten,"  the  last  name  being 
pretty  certainly  that  of  the  dnger  who  took  the 
part  of  Balthazar.  In  the  aame  play,  iv.  2,  we 
find  "  Ctwlty  "  or  "  Cmlty "  prefixed  to  most  of 
Dogberry's  apeeches.  In  like  manner  the  name 
of  ''ii>i:i/0'' appears  in  the  stage-directions  of  the 
T.  of  S.,  3  Hen.  VI^  and  »  Hm.  IV. ;  and  we 
know  (hat  the  same  man  acted  in  The  Seven 
Deadly  Sins  and  in  Tie  Maltoatent  in  1604. 
How  does  Mr.  Charcher  explain  these  and  Hmt- 
lar  facu  r 

But  who  did  write  the  preface  to  the  (olio,  if 
the  "alleged"  editors  did  not?  Why,  "Mr. 
Bacon,"  aa  our  pamphleteer  calls  him,  and  there 
is  proof  of  this  fact  as  startling  in  its  way  as 
Donnelly^  "cipher."  The  preface  states  that 
the  plays  are  printed  "perfect  in  their  limbes 
and  absolute  in  their  numbers  as  be  [ibe  author] 
conceived  thi."  The  line  over  the  1  in  this  last 
word  might  seem  to  be  the  familiar  mark  indicat- 
ing the  omission  of  the  following  in  /  but  there  is 
more  in  it  ihan  meets  the  eye,  and  il  has  been 
reserved  for  Chutchcr  10  discover  it.  "Ah"  he 
adds  with  italic  emphasis,  "  it  is  ailvnishingnhat 
great  tki»gi  are  aeefmplithed  in  Ihit  vorld  iy  a 
little daski"  We  will  let  him  state  the  "mys- 
tery "  in  hia  own  way  : 

Let  the  reader  please  note  well  that  theae  two 
'friends '  profess  to  have  collectEd  and  publiahed 
these  playa,  aa  they  came  from  Shakapeare'a 
band,  free  from  blot,  etc,  but  in  realitv  they  do  no 
mch  thing,  but  only  as  he  conceived  the  — .  And 
U  be  conceived  the  dash,  —  or  minus,  —  be  con- 


ceived nothing  in  connection  with  the  worka,  and 
consequently,  as  they  received  nothing  from  him, 
they  can,  and  do,  give  you  nothing  I 

Here,  then,  we  have  one  key  to  the  Shak- 
speare  mystery,  and  thia  —  is  the  little  joker  that 
has  puzzled  tbe  world  from  that  day  to  ibisl 

There  is  plenty  more  foolery  in  tbe  pamphlet 
as  good  as  thia,  if  not  better,  bat  we  can  give  no 
further  specimens  of  it  here. 

Dr.  Bllita's  "OtbeUoand  Deademoaa."  This 
little  book  of  8z  pages  published  by  Ihe  Lippin- 
cotts  (f  1.00)  discuate*  the  characters  of  Othello 
and  Oesdemona,  and  the  manner  of  Ibe  lady's 
death.  Tbe  latter  par^  to  which  the  former  is 
mainly  intended  to  lead  up,  conaidera  tbe  ques- 
tion whether  Desdemona  was  strangled  or 
smothered,  and  decides  on  professional  grounds 
that  abe  was  smotheretl,  and  that, 
there  is  no  absurdity  in  her  recovering 
neas  and  speaking  after  the  act.  Tbe  writer  does 
not  allude  to  Ihe  discussion  of  the  subject  in  Fur- 
ness's  "  New  Variorum  "  edition  of  [he  pUy,  and 
would  seem  not  to  have  known  of  il-  Dr.  Fur- 
nesB  bad  the  impression  that  a  smothered  person 
could  not  be  "  pale,"  as  Shakespeare  describes 
Desdemona,  unless  Othello  stabbed  her  after- 
wards,—  which  some  of  tbe  editora  and  actors 
make  him  do  —  "and  that,"  as  Furness  says, 
"would  only  half  solve  the  difficulty;  the  stab- 
bing would  leave  the  face  pale,  but  the  smock 
red."  He  therefore  sent  a  copy  of  the  scene, 
with  the  significant  paasagea  underscored,  to 
several  eminent  medical  men,  together  with  these 
questions:  "i.  Do  yon  think  It  likely  that 
Olhello  stabbed  Desdemona  at '  So,  so '  f  3.  If 
he  stabbed  her,  could  her  smock  be  pale?  3. 
If  she  were  smothered,  could  she  be  pale?  4. 
In  either  case,  could  she  apeak  after  apparent 
death  \  j.  If  she  could  speak,  why  did  she  not 
revive  ?  6.  From  what  cause,  then,  did  she 
really  die  ? "  In  reply  Dr.  D.  H.  Agnew  ex- 
presses the  opinion  that  "death ensued  from  Ihe 
secondary  efiecis  of  injury  to  the  larynx."  In 
■uch  caaes  there  may  be  "partial  recovery,  with 
ability  to  ipeak,"  and  yet  death  may  suddenly 
follow  "  from  shock,"  which  would  also  cause 
the  pallor.  Dr.  D.  G.  Brinlon  believes  that  abe 
was  smothered  imperfectly,  "but  her  frail  body 
has  been  put  to  too  severe  a  strain,"  and  "  paral- 
ysis of  the  heart,"  so-called,  and  death  are  Ibe 
resolts.  Dr.  J.  M.  DaCosta  considers  Ihst  the 
theory  of  strangling  followed  by  stabbing  is  the 
only  one  that  remove*  all  difficulties.  Dr.  W. 
G.  Hammond  says  that  "if  she  was  smothered 
she  might  be  pale,"  and  refers  to  his  own  novel, 
Mr.  OldmixDit,  chap  xii.,  in  which  Hogarth  Old- 
mixon  amolhers  his  wife ;  but  if  she  spoke  after- 
wards, death  could  not  be  due  to  the  smothering, 
though  it  might  be  caused  by  "  what  is  called  a 
'broken  heart'  or  by  extreme  shock  to  her  ner- 
vous system."  Dr.  W.  Hunt  answers  "  positively 
and  at  once  "  that  "she  died  of  fracture  of  the 
cricoid  cartilage  of  the  larynx."  "  Shakeapeire," 
he  adds,  "is  entirely  coniiistent,  and  must  have 
had,  aa  in  everything  else,  an  iniuitive,  if  not 
practical,  knowledge  of  the  subject."  Dr.  A. 
Lippe  says  that  "suffocation  alone  caused  the 
death  of  Desdemona,  and  the  auffocation  was 
slow.  Violent  mental  emotion  caused  the  heart 
to  expel  Ihe  last  few  drops  of  blood,  and  when 
the  right  side  of  the  heart  became  filled  with 
dark  venous  blood,  she  died."  Dr.  S.  Weir 
Mitchell  is  inclined  lo  ihink  Ibat  "Othello  choked 
her  IitsufBdently,  and  fimsbed  with  a  dirk." 


Il  is  impossible  in  this  brief  summary  10  do 
justice  to  medicsl  opinions  which  fill  several 
pagea  of  fine  print  in  the  "New  Variorumj" 
but  it  will  at  leaat  be  aeen  that  Ihe  "doctors 
disagree  "  less  than  is  their  wont  In  a  perplexing 


The  Shakespeare  Quarto  FacsimPea.  We 
wish  to  call  attention  once  more  to  the  cheap 
and  accurate  reproductions  of  the  early  quartos 
now  being  published  in  England  under  the 
superintendence  o(  Dr.  F.  J.  Purnivall,  whose 
critical  "forewords"  add  so  much  lo  the  value 
of  tbe  series  for  the  student.  We  have  lately 
received  Fart  I.  and  Pait  JI.  of  The  Whole  Can- 
tentioH  bttnttue  the  7W  Famous  Houses,  Lax 
caster  and  Yorie,  on  which  Paru  II.  and  IIL  of 
Henry  VI.  were  based.  Though  originally  issued 
in  one  volume,  it  was  necessary  lo  bring  them 
out  as  two  numbers  in  the  present  series,  in 
order  to  keep  tbe  price  of  the  numbers  uniform. 
The  "forewords"  and  the  marginal  notes  fur- 
nish a  complete  apparatus  crilicus  for  the  com- 
parison of  the  text  with  that  of  Henry  VI. 

Theae  facBimile^  as  we  have  before  stated, 
are  now  published  by  Mr.  B.  Quatiich,  15  Picca- 
dilly, and  Ihe  price  is  only  6  shillings  (about 
$1.50)  each  to  those  who  subscribe  for  tbe  entire 
series  of  forty. 

Brevltiei.  Judge  Snagge's  treadae  on  Old 
English  Laws  concerning  the  Stage,  referred 
to  in  the  World  for  Oct.  16  (p.  354)  is  likely  to 
be  one  of  the  most  interesting  and  valuable  of 
Ihe  forthcoming  publications  of  the  New  York 
Shakespeare  Sodely.  Although  the  judicial 
duties  of  the  author  allow  him  little  leisure,  he 
has  written  Mr.  Morgan  that  he  cannot  trust  a 
copyist,  and  intends  to  transcribe  with  his  own 
hands  the  black-letler  originals  of  the  statutea,  so 
that  the  collection  shall  be  absolutely  perfecL 
From  our  own  experience,  we  are  satisfied  that 
this  is  the  only  way  to  ensure  perfect  accuracy. 
We  have  Iwen  amazed  at  the  number  of  errors 
that  a  professional  copyist,  recommended  by  the 
authorities  of  the  British  Museum,  could  get  into 
a  few  pagea  copied  from  printed  matter  of  the 
present  century.  When  it  comes  to  tranacribing 
tbe  early  black-letter,  the  chances  of  blunder 
are  of  course  far  greater. 

A  receni  London  journal  says  : 

The  instance  of  a  father  and  son  winning  races 
in  two  different  kinds  of  sports  in  an  afternoon 
must  be  of  very  rare  occurrence,  but  such  was 
the  case,  if  we  are  correctly  informed,  last  Satur- 
day. Dr.  F.  J.  Furnivatl  was  one  of  the  winning 
crew  in  a  sculling  fours  race  on  the  Tfaamca; 
while  his  son,  Percy  Furnivall,  the  record-breaker, 
put  two  magnificent  challenge  trophies  to  bis 
credit  at  ibe  Surrey  Bicycle  Club  races  on  the 
same  day. 

Personal.  In  reply  to  many  inquiries,  Mr. 
Rolfe  would  say  that  his  regular  course  in 
Shakespeare  at  the  New  England  Conservatory 
of  Music  for  the  present  season  will  begin  on 
Saturday,  Nov.  ayih,  at  10  A.M.  The  "term" 
will  include  ten  weekly  "lalks"  of  two  hours 
each,  for  which  tbe  fee  is  five  dollars-  The  aim 
will  be  to  make  the  course  useful  lo  students  — 
and  incidentally  to  teachers  —  without  rendering 
il  unattractive  to  those  who  lake  it  merely  as  a 
literary  recreation.  ^ 

Mr,  Rolfe  is  also  willing  lo  arrange  lor  a 
limited  nnmber  of  private  classes  in  Shakespeare 


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and  olhcr  English  aathors,  either  in  BottoD  1 
the  Immediate  vidnity  of  the  citr- 


TEE  FESIODIOALS. 

With  the  No»eml)er  issue  of  (he  Century  is 
begun  the  publication  of  the  tii(^raph7  of  IJn- 
coln,  by  John  G.  Nicolay  ind  John  Hay.  The 
opening  chapters  indicate  on  the  part  of  the 
collaborators  a  firm  grasp  of  (acts  and  a  mani- 
fesl  sincerity  of  purpose.  Some  new  data  are 
brought  to  light,  and  the  style  is  clear,  unassum- 
ing, and  readable.  A  frontispiece  portrait  of 
Lincoln,  engraved  from  a  phot^^raph  talten  by 
Hesler  of  Chicago  in  1S60,  affords  an  unfamiliar 
and  impressive  view  of  that  wise,  patient  face. 
Mr.  Theodore  Roosevelt,  who  has  had  eape- 
rience  of  "  Machine  Politics  in  New  York  City," 
writes  of  that  topic  in  a  comprehensive  and 
thoughtful  manner.  lie  detects  an  element  of 
weakness  in  the  disposition  of  intellectual  men 
to  hold  aloof  from  politics  "because  tbey  have 
an  unmanly  fear  of  being  forced  to  stand  up  for 
their  own  rights."  Ur.  Charles  Waldstein  has  a 
learned  and  able  paper  on  Artemis,  in  which  he 
argues  that  the  silver  patera  from  Bernay  is  the 
work  of  ancient  Ephcsian  silversmiths;  Colonel 
R.  T.  Auchmuty  writes  hopefully  of  the  trade 
school  idea  and  its  practical  results  in  New 
York ;  and  there  is  a  pleasantly  illustrated  arti- 
cle on  "Old  Chelsea."  Mrs.  Foote's  story  of 
"The  Fate  of  a  Voice,"  13  finely  told-  Mr. 
Stockton  begins  a  tale  of  "The  Hundredth 
Man  \ "  it  is  in  the  Stockton  manner,  and  the 
Stockton  manner  is  getting  a  little  tiresome  in 
spite  of  the  Interesting  correspondence  it  calls 
forth  from  sentimental  spinsters  and  boarding- 
school  misses,  who  could  not  perhaps  have  a 
better  idol. 

The  Allanlie  Afaalhly  tnt  UtixntbKT,  published 
today.  Nov.  13,  has  in  a  supplement  the  Oration 
by  James  Russell  Lowell,  and  the  Poem  by  Oli- 
ver Wendell  Holmes,  delivered  last  Monday  on 
the  two  hundred  and  fiftieth  anniversary  of  Har- 
laxA  College,  both  revised  and  corrected  by  the 
authors. 

TABLE    TAIX 

...  Mr.  John  Boyle  O'Reilly  has  in  prepara- 
tion a  volume  of  Slories  ami  Sittckea,  a  dramatic 
allegory,  The  Country  viilk  a  Roof,  and  a  book  of 

. . .  Mrs.  Eleanor  M-  Ames  and  Miss  Caroline 
B.  LeRow  have  prepared,  jointly,  A  Btttktr 
Calendar  and  A  Betcher  Book  of  Days,  contain- 
ing many  of  the  Brooklyn  preacher's  best  sayings, 
which  Cassell  &  Co.  are  to  publish  during  the 
holidays. 

. . .  Mr.  Charles  Ledyard  Norton,  joint  author 
ttl  Canoeing  in  Kaiiurkia,  is  preparing  a  volume 
on  PalilUa!  Americaniims. 

...  Mr.  Charles  Carleton  Coffin  ("  Carleton  ") 
is  engaged  upon  a  history  of  the  Civil  War. 

. .  .  Mr.  John  R.  G-  Hassard,  assistant  editor 
and  literary  critic  of  the  New  York  TVibunt,  has 
in  hand,  besides  a  volume  of  travel,  sketches  en- 
titled A  PickmUkian  Pilgrimage,  a  Life  af  Pius 
IX,  and  a  Hiitory  aflhe  United  StaUs  for  schools. 
The  last  two  will  be  published  by  the  Catholic 
Publication  Society  Company  o(  New  York,  the 
first  by  a  Boston  house. 

. , .  James  Wood  Davidson,  author  of  1^ 
Laing  fVrileri  oftlu  South,  and  at  one  dme  the 


literary  editor  of  the  New  York  Evening  Post,  ii 
finishing  a  novel  called  Helen  of  Troy,  intended 
to  illustrate  life  in  Momer's  time,  and  to  be  bio- 
graphical of  Helen  —  something  in  the  way  of 
Becker's  Chronielti.  He  i*  progretstng  slowly 
with  A  Dictionary  of  Senihtm  Authors,  ita 
which  he  has  been  collecting  material  for  about 
ten  yevs.  Mr.  Davidson  now  lives  in  Figulas, 
Fla.,  on  Lake  Worth. 

. .  .  Mrs-  Lily  Curry,  author  of  A  Behemian 
Ti-agedy,  is  rewriting  her  novel,  Under  Obliga- 
tions, which  has  just  appeared  serially,  and  pro- 
poses to  publish  that  and  another  novel  and  a 


.  Mrs.  Mary  Jane  Holmes  will  aoon  add  to 
her  list  of  story-books  a  piece  of  fiction  called 
Traeey  Park. 

. . .  Mr.  Charles  S.  Ashley,  who  contnbnted 
the  leading  article.  The  Dittribulien  of  Wealth, 
10  the  Popular  Scitnci  Mottthly  for  October,  is  a 
son  of  Ex-Governor  J-  H.  Ashley  and  a  graduate 
of  the  Univerdty  of  Michigan,  and  one  of  the 
very  few  Americans  who  show  a  disposition  to 
grapple  with  current  economic  questions  from  an 
independent  standpoint. 

. .  .  Mrs.  Kate  Brownlee  Sherwood  will  soon 
publish  a  good-sized  volume  entitled  On  lie  Iron 
Trail;  or.  Summer  Days  in  the  Rockies  and  the 
Sierras,  embodying  observations  and  experiences 
during  her  recent  viut  to  the  far  West.  The 
book  will  contain  several  of  Mrs.  Sherwood's 
best  poems,  hitherto  unpublished,  and  will  have 
an  elegant  cover,  with  striking  and  tasteful  de- 
sign*. 

. . .  Mrs.  Annie  S.  Wolf  ("  Em'ly  ")  has  finished 
a  volume  of  Apharitmt  from  the  Private  Letters 
<f  GetT^  Elitt,2.nA\i3i'v\  hand  a  novel.  Scars, 
and  a  book  of  stray  night-thoughts,  rather  in  the 
fashion  of  Metkcken  and  Walt  Whitman,  to  be 
called  Fantatia, 


ITBWS  AID  BOTES. 

—  We  are  requested  by  Ginn  &  Co.  to  say 
that  Collar's  edition  of  Eysenbach's  German 
Grammar  has  been  delayed  by  the  author's  pre- 
occupation with  his  Beginner^  Latin  Book,  but  is 
now  in  the  printer's  hands. 

—  Houghton,  Mifflin  A  Co.  are  publishing  a 
limited  edition  o(  a  little  book  of  poetry  by 
Mrs.  Margaret  Deland,  called  The  Old  Garden. 
The  binding  ia  in  pretty,  old-fashioned  style. 

—  A  limited  edition  in  pamphlet  form  of  a 
small  memorial  volume  in  honor  of  the  late 
James  A.  Dupee,  an  eminent  Boston  merchant, 
will  shortly  be  published  by  Cupples,  Upbam  & 
Co.  It  is  prefaced  by  a  photoi^raph  of  the  sub- 
ject, taken  a  few  days  before  Mr.  Dupee's  death, 
and  never  seen  by  him,  though  it  lay  waiting  for 
him  on  his  office  table  the  morning  he  died. 

—  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.'s  series  of  calen- 
dars now  numbers  eight  members,  as  follows; 
Browning,  Hawthorne,  Emerson,  Holmes,  Long. 
fellow,  Lowell,  Whittier,  and  Mrs.  Whitney. 

—  Mr.  George  Gary  Bush,  whose  elegant  little 
book  on  Harvard  is  one  of  the  accents  of  its 
z5oth  anniversary,  is  an  alumnus  of  the  college, 
whose  course  he  supplemented  by  four  years' 
study  in  Europe.  He  has  traveled  as  far  as  the 
East,  has  contributed  to  the  newspapers  and  the 
magarnes,  has  published  The  First  German  Uni- 
versities and  ne  First  Common  Sehaels  e/New 
England,  aitd  hs*  both  taught  and  lectured. 
Though  bom  in  New  York  he  belong!  with 


"the  Bostonians."  He  is  now  in  the  "forties," 
and  in  Florida. 

—  Mr.  Bradlee  Wbidden  has  succeeded  to  the 
firm  title  and  business  of  S.  E.  Cassino  &  Co.,  41 
Arch  Street,  Boston. 

—  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  Boston,  are  now 
the  publishera  of  no  less  than  seven  periodicals, 
vii.,  the  Atlantic  Monthly,  the  Andover  Revieu, 
the  Church  Reoiew,  the  Lavi  Reporter,  and  the 
U.  S.  Postal  Guide;  and  Ihey  also  republish  the 
London  Quarterly  and  the  Edinburgh  Reviem. 

—  The  Youth' I  Companion  has  secured  a  brill- 
iant list  of  special  contributors  for  1SS7,  includ- 
ing the  Marquis  of  Lome  and  the  Princess  Louise, 
Mr.  Francis  Parkman,  Gen.  Francis  A.  Walker, 
Mr.  W.  D.  Howells,  Professor  Huxley,  Tune, 
and  Lieut.  Schwatka. 

—  D.  Lothrop  &  Co.  announce  Idyls  and  Pas- 
terali,  a  folio,  containing  twenty-four  poema  by 
Mrs.  C el i a  Thaxter,  illustrated  by  photi^ravures. 

—  The  Meditations  of  the  Abie  Roux,  the  parish 
priest  of  Paris,  has  quickly  gone  into  a  third  edi- 

—  Roberts  Brothers  will  shortly  publish  a  book 
of  interest  to  all  "  cyclers,"  written  and  illustrated 
by  Elizabeth  Robins  Pennetl  and  Joseph  Pen- 
nell,  with  this  title: 

Two  Pilgrims'  Progress  from  Fair  Florence  to 
the  Eternal  City  of  Rome,  Delivered  under  the 
Similitude  of  a  Ride,  wherein  is  Discovered,  the 
Manner  of  their  Setting  Out,  Their  DanBSrous 
Journey,  and  Safe  Arrival  at  the  Desired  City. 

The  book  haa  illustration*  and  an  introduction  in 
verse  by  Charles  Godfrey  Leland,  to  whom,  as 
"the  Great- Hearte "  of  many  a  pilgrimage,  it 
is  dedicated. 

—  There  is  still  an  unsettled  difference  between 
Estcs  &  Lauriat  of  Boston  and  the  Worthinglon 
Co.  of  New  York,  respecting  the  rights  in  Chat- 
lerbox,  and  we  understand  that  further  litigation 
is  in  prospect. 

—  The  Book  aftht  Tile  Club,  which  Houghton, 
Mifflin  &  Co.  have  nearly  ready,  will  be,  if  we  can 
judge  by  an  advanced  copy,  one  of  the  most 
finely  executed  of  the  holiday  publications  of  the 
year.  Some  admirable  specimens  of  modern  art 
appear  in  the  volume,  reproduced  by  phototype 
process,  and  there  are  many  illustrations  in  the 
text,  whidi  is  overflowing  with  fun  and  genial 
nonsense.  The  binding  is  in  buckram,  with 
design  stamped  in  gilt,  the  letters  T.  C.  in  mono- 
gram being  introduced  in  an  ornamental  manner, 
while  the  cover  linings  show  the  nickname  of 
each  member  of  the  club  with  his  "armorial 
bearings."  The  Riverside  Press  has  turned  out 
no  better  work,  unless  we  except  the  idilion  de 
luxe  of  Mr.  Hopkinson  Smith's  Old  Lines  in 
Neai  Black  and  White,  in  which  the  charcoal 
designs  are  reproduced  on  Japanese  paper  with 
quite  remarkable  effect.  The  portfolio  contain- 
ing the  plates  is  pleasing,  with  its  red  leather 
back  and  sides  of  charcoal  paper,  although  the 
strip  of  ribbon  and  seat  might  perhaps  have 
been  dispensed  with. 

—  The  Emancipation  of  Massachusetts,  by 
Brooks  Adams,  will  be  published  by  Houghton, 
Mifflin  &  Co.  on  the  37th  inst.  It  is  ssserted 
that  Mr.  Adams  has  given  the  dry  bones  of 
Puritanism  a  vigorous  shaking.  The  same  house 
wFli  isstie  early  in  December  Thomas  H.  Benton, 
by  Theodore  Roosevelt,  and  jVhv  York,  by  Ellis 
H.  Roberts  —  the  former  in  the  "American 
Statesmen  Series,"  the  latter  in  the  series  of 
monographs  on  "American  Conunonwcaltha," 


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—  A  popular  hittory  of  Chriitianity  in  five 
volumes,  I^  the  Rev.  H.  R.  Haweis,  ii  to  be 
pnblished  here  by  T.  Y.  Crowell  &  Co.,  who 
have  the  Gnt  volume,  TAt  Sti>ry  ef  Ikt  Fair 
{evangelists)  now  in  preparation.  The  volumes 
to  follow  are  to  be  entitled,  respectively,  Tlu 
Pithirt  of  Jtsus,  The  PUtvrt  tf  Patd,  Tht  Can- 
quering  Cress,  and  Thi  Light  ef  tht  Natiens. 
The  entire  edition  of  the  first  volume  «aa  all 
anbacribed  for  in  London  before  the  day  of  pub- 
lication. 

—  Lee  &  Shepard  have  in  press  The  Monarch 
e/Driamt,  a  psychological  romance,  by  T.  W. 
Higginson  ;  The  Nation  in  a  Nutshell,  ••  a  rapid 
outline  of  American  history,"  by  George  Mike- 
peace  Towle  1  and  Sketches  ef  Weslcm  Life,  by 
Hon.  Harvey  Rice  of  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

—  Some  Chinese  Ghosts,  by  Lafcadio  Hearn,  is 
one  o(  the  forthcoming  boolcs  From  the  press  ai 
Roberta  Brothers.  Mr.  Hearn  has  made  his  Ori- 
ental studies  the  basis  of  a  series  of  chatacierisiic 
romances  whjcb  will  appear  in  a  style  befitting 
the  tobject 

—  The  American  edition  of  the  Thoughts  en 
Art  and  Autebii^aphical  Memoire  of  Giovanni 
Dupr^,  is  to  have  an  introdnction  by  W.  W. 
Story,  whose  daughter,  Signora  Feruzzi,  made 
the  translation. 

—  The  announcements  of  Estes  &  Lauriat 
include  a  Young  Folki'  History  ef  the  Ntlher- 
lands,  by  Alexander  Young;  Zigiag  fourneys  in 
/b.S'uHnj'i'puMlby  HeseiciahBuiterworth;  Three 
Vaitar  Girli  on  the  Rhine,  by  Lizzie  W.  Cbamp- 
ney  ;  Pioneer  Life  and  Frontier  Adventure,  a  stoty 
of  the  life  and  ezploiu  of  "  Kit  Carson,"  by  Col- 
onel D.  C.  Peters  i  What  Yeung  People  Should 
Knam,  a  manual  on  the  anatomy  and  functions 
of  the  reproductive  organs,  by  Prof.  Burt  G, 
Wilder;  Food  Materials  and  Ihtir  Adulteror 
tient,  by  El  ten  H.  Richards;  a  third  revised 
edition  of  Coues's  Key  to  North  American  Birds  ; 
and  two  volumes  in  the  "Biogen  Series"  — 
Can  Matter  Think  t  and  Kuthumi:  tht  TViM 
and  Complete  (Eionamy  ef  Human  Life.  As 
gift  books  Estes  &  Lautiat  issue  Thomas 
Hood's  Fair  Ives,  illustrated  by  St.  John 
Harper  and  *W.  F.  Freer ;  The  EarCt  Return, 
by  Owen  Meredith,  illustrated  wiih  engravings 
and  photo- etchings  from  drawings  by  W.  L. 
Taylor ;  a  volume  of  seventeen  specimens  of 
Recent  German  Art,  made  by  the  photo-etching 
process;  and  a  portfolio  of  twenty  Foreign  Etch- 
ingt,  in  limited  and  choice  editions,  five  copies 
being  printed  on  parchment  and  priced  at  (150 
each.  In  books  for  young  people  Estes  & 
Lauriat  will  publish  the  only  genuine  Chalttrbex 
for  iSSb,  Five  Meute  in  a  Mousetrap,  by  Laura 
E.  Richards,  and  a  half  dozen  other  collections 
of  stories,  rhymes,  and  pictures. 

—  The  issue  o(  November,  the  closing  volume 
of  "  Through  the  Year  With  the  Poets,"  will  be 
delayed  till  the  latter  part  of  the  month  in  order 
to  give  opportunity  to  insert  in  that  volume  a 
complete  index  of  the  series. 

—  Mr.  Clinton  Scollard  and  Mr.  Oscar  Fay 
Adama  intend,  after  the  holidays,  to  conduct 
together  private  literary  classes  in  Boston. 
Tennyson  and  Wtn.  Morris  will  probably  be 
the  poets  whose  works  they  will  consider  with 
their  pupils. 

—  De  Mille's  Pocket  Parochial  Register  is  a 
convenience  which  every  clergyman  will  appre- 
ciate the  moment  he  has  examined  it  |T.  Whit- 
taker.] 


—  Mr.  Whitlaker  announces  a  series  of 
monthly  volumes,  containing  the  cream  of  Eng- 
lish prose,  to  be  called  the  "Camelot  Classics." 
The  series  is  to  be  edited  by  Ernest  Rhys. 
The  Romance  ef  King  Arthur,  De  Quincey's 
Cenfesaens,  Lander's  Imaginary  Cotaiertatians, 
Plutarch's  Lives,  Sir  Thomas  Browne's  Religio 
Medici,  Shelley's  Essays  and  Letters,  and 
Swift's  Prose   IVritings  are  already  issued. 

—  C.  N.  Caspar  of  Milwaukee  publishes  an 
Educational  Catalogue  worthy  the  eiiroinnion  of 

—  The  first  number  of  Mr.  DeWilt  J.  Sellg- 
man'a  weekly  journal,  the  announcement  of 
which  has  already  been  made  in  the  Literary 
World,  will  be  issued  next  January.  It  will  be 
a  little  larger  than  the  Nation,  16  pages,  and 
devoted  to  Politics,  Finance,  Art,  Literature,  Sci- 
ence, Society,  and  General  Information.  Mr. 
Seligman  will  be  responsible  editor  as  well  as 
the  proprietor.  It  is  said  that  he  is  prepared  to 
publish  the  paper  for  three  years,  at  a  dead  loss, 
but  at  the  end  of  that  time  expects  it  to 
paying  <»ncern.  His  views  are  liberal,  and  if 
a  generous  expenditure  of  money  can  make 
successful  newspaper,  Mr.  Scligman's  literal 
venture  should  be  a  success. 

—  Mr.  Thomas  Whittaker  of  New  York  a 
nounccs  for  early  publication  a  volume  of  se 
mons  by  Rev.  Arthur  Brooks  of  New  York, 
younger  brother  of  Phillips  Brooks  of  Boston. 

—  H.  T.  Wright  of  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  has  pub- 
lished  a  new  edition  of  his  Map  and  Guide  of 
Kansas  City,  Mo.,  and  Kansas  City,  Kan.,  shot 
ing  the  new  city  limits,  streets,  car  lines,  etc,  with 
a  business  directory.    Price  {1.50. 

—  Cassell  &  Co.  announce  A  Mether't  Seng,  a 
song  by  Mrs.  Mary  D.  Brine  set  to  pictures  by 
Miss  C.  A.  Norihim ;  and  a  volume  of  Shake- 
speare Scenet  and  Characters,  by  Austin  Brercton, 
handsomely  illustrated. 

—  Macmillan  &  Co.  announce  a  new  edition  of 
Pickmck,  edited  by  the  great  novelist's  eldest  son, 
and  designed  lo  mark  the  change  in  the  manners, 
customs,  and  places  described  in  the  book  in  fifty 
years.  An  introductory  chapter  will  contain  the 
three  "addresses"  which  were  published  with 
ihe  original  numbers,  and  are  now  very  scarce ; 
and  notes,  together  with  illustrations,  will  accom- 
pany the  text. 

—  Mr.  Percy  Fitzgerald,  a  lealous  bibliog- 
rapher, and  the  writer  of  many  entertaining 
books,  has  just  published,  through  Scribner  & 
Welford,  New  York,  a  volume  for  seekers  after 
bibliographical  treasures  called  The  Book  Fan- 
cier; or.  The  Romance  ef  Book  Cel/eetin£,supp\j- 
ing  a  vast  amount  of  information  concerning  the 
technicalilies  of  book  collecting.  There  are 
chapters  on  " Book  Collectors  and  Book  Deal- 
ers;" on  the  Mazarin  Bible,  on  Elzevirs.  Plan- 
tins,  Caxlons  and  Early  English  Printers;  on 
Binding  and  its  Curiosities  j  on  "  Grangerising 
and  Dickensiana  ;  "  on  "Luxurious  F.dilions;" 
on  the  Auction  Room  and  Shakespeariana.  The 
book  is  well  primed  and  bound. 

—  Prof  Iianciani  of  the  University  of  Rome  is 
lecturing  in  Boston  and  in  Baltimore,  on  Roman 
Archeology. 

—  On  the  zoth  of  the  present  month  Mr.  Will- 
iam Hamilton  Gibson's  new  book,  Happy  Hunt- 
ing Grounds,  will  appear  from  the  Harper  press. 
The  author  has  been  at  work  for  a  good  many 
months  preparing  the  new  illustrations  which  are 
to  embellish  the  work.    Contrary  to  the  news- 


paper paragraphs,  the  work  is  not  taken  entirely 
from  Mr.  Gibson's  contributions  to  Harper'i 
Maga*ine.  Very  much  of  the  matter  is  entirely 
new,  and  forty  per  cent  of  the  illustrations  have 
been  prepared  especially  for  this  book.  The 
Harpers'  chief  publication  this  season  is  of 
course  Mr.  E.  A.  Abbey's  illustrated  edition  of 
She  Sleeps  le  Conquer.  If  the  publishers'  plans 
tiad  been  realized  the  volume  would  now  be  at 
the  bookstores,  but  a  good  many  unforeseen  de- 
lays have  arisen,  connected  with  the  photograv- 
ures, of  which  there  are  to  be  a  number.  With 
Mr.  Gibson's,  Mr.  Abbey's,  and  the  Warner- 
Reinhart  Their  Pilgrimage,  the  Harpers  will 
have  three  most  attractive  books,  and  each  has 
practically  been  paid  for,  already  having  ap- 
peared wholly  or  in  part  in  their  Magatine, 
Some  of  the  best  selling  books  the  Messrs. 
Harper  have  ever  published  have  been  taken 
from  the  pages  of  their  monthly,  and  have  thus 
paid  two  profits.  Such  books  as  Mr.  Gibson's 
Pastoral  Days  and  Herrick's  Poems,  with  Abbey's 
illustrations,  have  brought  the  publishers  small 
fortunes. 

—  Saturday  evening,  November  6,  a  private 
view  of  some  of  the  recent  paintings  of  Mr. 
William  M.  Chase  was  held  at  the  Art  Students' 
League.  38  West  14th  Street,  New  York.  We 
understand  that  this  is  a  part  of  the  collection 
which  will  form  an  individual  exhibition  to  be 
held  at  the  Art  Club  rooms  in  Boston. 

—  Messrs.  Frederick  Warne  &  Co.,  who  for- 
merly issued  the  Century  in  London,  will  publish 
the  English  edition  oF  Scribnet's  Magazine,  the 
first  number  of  which  will  be  ready  in  a  month. 

—  Another  novel  by  Dr.  W.  A.  Hammond  is 
nearly  completed  and  will  soon  be  published  by 
Messrs.  D.  Appleton  &  Co.  It  will  be  called  On 
the  Susquehanna,  and  the  scene  is  laid  on  the 
banks  of  that  wonderful  river,  in  the  mountains 
of  Middle  Pennsylvania. 

—  We  are  glad  to  hear  of  the  success  of  the 
American  edition  of  The  Buchhollt  Family.  Zola 
was  never  more  realistic  than  is  Herr  Siinde,bul 
in  place  of  Zola's  indecency  Herr  Stinde  gives  us 
most  original  humor. 

—  The  Century  Company  seem  to  have  estab- 
lished a  "250.000  High- Water  Mark."  The 
compatiy  is  spending  a  good  deal  of  money  upon 
its  Uncoln  feature,  and  it  is  expected  that  inter- 
est in  Hay  and  Nicolay's  life  of  Lincoln  will 
hold  all  that  army  of  readers  attracted  to  the 
magazine  by  the  "  war-papers." 

—  Of  the  first  volume  of  Mr.  Blaine's  book 
75.000  copies  have  been  sold,  and  of  the  second 
50,000.  His  copyright  has  thus  far  amounted  to 
»94.oc«. 

—  One  hundred  thousand  copies  of  Mr.  James 
Anthony  Fronde's  Oceana  have  been  sold  In  Eng- 
land. The  bulk  of  the  sate  was  in  the  cheap  edi- 
tion—  sold  for  a  shilling  or  two. 

—  Mr.  Allen  Thorndike  Rice,  the  editor  of 
the  North  American  Revietn,  has  been  receiving 
unpleasant  notoriety  in  the  New  York  papers 
lately.  Besides  being  charged  with  spending 
too  much  money  in  trying  to  get  himself  elected 
as  a  Congressman,  he  made  what  appeared  to 
be  an  attack  upon  the  printers  of  bis  review. 
Messrs.  J.  J.  Little  &  Co.,  Ihe  offended  firm, 
retaliate  by  publishing  their  correspondence  with 
Mr.  Rice,  urging  him  to  pay  some  overdue  bills 
amonnling  to  $5,000.  It  is  said  that  the  North 
American  Review  has  for  some  time  been  an  ex- 
pensive periodical  to  own. 


398 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Nov.  13, 


—  Hilt  Marfrte'i  brother  ku  developed  titer- 
anr  proclivities  like  bis  fllusttloas  sister,  and  will 
write  an  uticle  on  "  Chrlttmu  in  the  Tennessee 
Monntains,"  which  will  be  printed  ic  the  De- 
cerober  number  of  the  BrvtHyn  Afi^atiru. 

—  Mill  Woolson  hu  m  new  novel  fairly  under 
way.  She  is  living  in  Italy,  just  outside  of  the 
gates  of  Florence. 

—  The  Scribnets  announce  that  TTkt  Bvak 
Buyti'i  Chriitmai  Atmtial  will  be  uncommonly 
good  this  year.  The  most  important  of  the 
illustrations  will  be  printed  in  tinta  on  ivory 
paper.  Mr.  Hamilton  W.  Mabie  will  wri 
the  general  run  of  holiday  books,  Mrs.  Burton 
Harrison  will  discuis  the  children's  books,  and 
special  articles  have  been  secured  by  Mi 
Louisa  M.  Alcott,  Mr.  J.  D.  Champlin,  Jr, 
Mrs.  Schayler  Van  Rensselaer,  Miss  Edith  H. 
Thomas,  Miss  .Sarah  Orne  Jewett,  Mr.  Ripley 
Hitchcock,  Mr.  Roger  Riordan,  and  George 
Parsons  Lathrop.  With  luch  an  array  of 
thots  to  tell  tia  about  what  thrir  contemporaries 
have  written  for  the  Christmas  season, 
Christmas  Bsek  Suytr  ought  to  be  valuable  ai 
well  as  entertaining. 

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History. 

Thi  VoifAHO  UHoa  ths  Cttv.  Bv  a  Volimlsar  Spe- 
eiil.     With  Mep.    FonU,  Kamrd  ft  Hsrtbert.  (t  no 

Haivakd,  ths  FiaiT  AiiaaicAH  UmvaisiTT.  ~ 
Ge«ie  GaryBiub.     lUua.    Cupplta,  Uphaai  ft  Co. 

Holiday  PubUeatitma. 

BiaLaCHiKB.  Illaninitad.  CaBell  ft  Co.,  Lin.  soc 
GiHKvaA.     By  Suau  E.  Willaee.     lUaniaUd.    Woitb. 

Tha  Land  of  Littu  Ptona.  By  Predarie  K.  Wnib- 
erly.  With  lllnatralioDS  is  Colots  and  MonodirniDc. 
ScribBtr  ft  Wellsrd. 

Rnoia  DS  Covaauv.   Frsa  7%r  Jyrr 


LSGSHD*  AMD  FOFDLAI  TalsS  OF 

By  MariuB  Htmlaro.    IBinnatcd. 


a-    IJLvB.    A.  C,  ArnutroDf  ft  Soo. 

IT  Days  of  Maris  AMTOiHrm.    B 

r.     With  FartniL     RDbini  Biplban. 

.^..litirA-rioir  iH  Laitdscafi  Faihtih 

Gilbert  Hamenun.     Illiu.    Robctti  Brot. 


»17S 
IIIus. 

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STOaias  OF  Ahuicau  Piosrbu.  Ily 
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ITotlHC  PSOFLI,  1SS6.     Illnatntad,     Harper 


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unted.    J.  B.  Lippincolt  Co.  ti.oo. 

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.    S.  C.  Grigfi&Co.  t<-7S 

(i^  mH'IIL)"  Hel™  E.  h!^!^'  ViAfan^t 
rper  A  Bron.  toe. 

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ScientlDc  and  Technical. 


Gion  ft  Co.     By  Mail 
n  Lace,  Glebe  Office.    I 


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(l.IO 

Robert  Litce.     BmtoD  i 
Ahalviu.    By  F.   RitclBe, 

anna.  Gina  ft  Co.  (1,9a 
FAau.  By  AnloBin  Rona- 
PdvcU.    Form  and  Stream 


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1,  M.C.Ph.D.    J.  B.  LippiaoMI  Co.  (i.jo 

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andar  UdTiDa  B^    Bdiar  S.  Waisec.  (i.ij 


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i  Co.    Putcboud. 

•»t 

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Jr.     lUua.    Oranf  t  Jndd  Co.  yje. 

COHBIHHD  SOMIMM  AND  LAHCDAQB    LbUOHL      Bt  T. 

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Co.    By  Mail  6ac 

Theolosical  and  Religioua. 
HisToiicAL  CoHTiHuiTV.    By  ihi  Rishi  ReT.  Alexan- 
der Chirln  Garreii,  D.D.    T.  Whiiialter.     Paper         i|c 
A  KAHoaooii  OF  Biblical  DimcuLTtai.    Ed.  by  Oh 
Rft.  Robert  Tuck,  B.A.    Thonua  Whitiaker,  ti.jo 

a   DSACOHI  (H  THa  Pbot. 


I,  iBS}.     Compiled   by   (bl 
Thomai  Whitlaker.     Papa 


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Cbbatioh.  By  the  Riihl  Rct.  Hai 
D.C,I.    Caaaell  ft  Co.,  Omiled. 

HisACLBS.  By  iha  ReT.  Brownl 
Caaiell  ft  Ca  ,  Linttad. 


By    Prof.    Charlea   ADguSna 
)net*a  Sana.  fi.jo 

ReT.  Harrey  Goodwin,  D.D., 


I,  M.A. 


Haapton  C.  Du  Boae.    A.  C.  Aimitrong  ft'Soo.    Illi 
Travel  and  Obaervation. 
A  VovAca  10  THS  Cafb.      By  W.  aark  Ri 


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Charlaa  Scribaer'e  Sobl  t*-f 

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-  "-  li.so 


TowHiHir  Pocitn'  Haf 

NawYotI 


.     Same  Publi 

FOB  ErsFV  D> 

1,  Mifflin  ft  Ct 


PnblUKIB.  (IXB 

a.     Paper  .jc 

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Applied  Christianitr. 

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wllb  freataUIIty and  al 

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Imparatively  dsinaod  aerjooa  oonaldeisUo 

The  Lord's  Prater. 

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Beebonlngs  for  Every  Day. 

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tor  of"  BnaUOngs  ol  Om  betier  Lire,";!^.    |1,M. 

li^liAlnei 
,•  rtrialt  traa  iaetitUtn.    «»1  ty  n 


n  nciiiU  a/prtet,  tt  tl 

nUDITOI,  HFIlLn  &  CO., 


1886;] 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


A  SALHAOUKDI  OF 

NEW  ABIEBICA^ 

FICTION,  TERSE,  HUHOB,  COOK- 
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[DUOU,  LL.I>. 

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reading  and  Ita  nnmoroas  UlDttntlona,  many  of  which  are  really  wttq."— Jf.  T, 
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'  Uioiharpi 
.-  ..  _atevar  is  Indeliaale  or  eontaminatlnci  and 
rapuMveor  brutallilng."— JotloB  Saturday  X 


ibar  of  Wbkh  Ita  nansa  provlila  ■omathlnc  oi 

, BbVlHteaandn*edB,azeladlactlfldl*,IwwB>«r,iKia 

the  tsit  whatever  is  Indeliaale  or  eontaminatjni.  and  from  the  lunstnclous  irhat- 


antertalnlDf 


la  jodToiana  and  tIed 


X  r.  OMtkm. 

"  A  tborouhly  Bbia,  initmoClTB  and 
Ita  iBnanl  nan  ii  waU  aalMted.  Its  aditoi 
ate  of  bigb  Intoraat,  ita  moral  Cono  ii  iinfajuHi}fHvu*uiv»  auu 
(amoiii  as  Ibey  deserve  to  ^."—Oangngatlimalitt,  Buatm. 
The  only  Ulnitrated  P^Mr  of  the  day  that,  in  ita  ease 
-'--"  —  -ladonal  paper."— AvDUyii  Magl«. 


le  lift  of  them 


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-S.  T.  Ind^eiuttiu.  "^  ^ 

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eloquent,  and  it  wall  daaarvaa  the  wide  popularity  It  has  attalnad."— AmIm 


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She  Stoops  to  Oonaner.     ninstrated 
by  Abfiey. 

She  Stoops  to  Conquer;  or,  The  Mistakes  of  a  Night.     A 
Comedy,     By   Dr.   Goldsmith.     With  Ten   Full-page 
Photogravure  Reproductions  on  separate  plates ;  many 
Process     Reproductions     and  Wood    Engravings,   from 
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Parsons.      Introduction    by   Austin    Dobson.      Folio, 
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Home  Fairies  and  Heart  Flowers. 

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ion. Not  seldom  be  reminds  us  of  Thoreau  and  of  Hawthorne." — Loii- 
dtn  Satwrday  Retntm. 

ANBJr  AJfD  POPULAR  BOITIOS  OP 

The  I<and  and  the  Book. 

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Our  obtigatima  to  Dr.  Thomson  can  never  be  full*  set  fortti.     He 

obscrvedcar^olly,  — '-"'  —*--'-  — ■•' '-• '  — • — •'-     "" —  '—' 

at  home  with  him.    H< 


btigatic  , 

liaa  observed  carefully,  noted  wisely,  and  recorded  patiently.  Vou  feel 
with  him.  He  it  good  without  beiiw  goody,  and  instructive  with- 
ing  the  reader  feel  chlldisli.  .  .  .  This  nook  is  s  prize  for  which 


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C.  H.  Spukgiow  in  "  Sword  and  Trowel." 

A  QreelcEngHsh  Lezlcon  of  the  Ne-vr 
Testament. 

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Revised  and  Enlarged  by  Joseph  Henry  Thayer,  D.D., 
Bussey  Professor  of  New  Testament  Criticism  and  In- 
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Mary  and  Martha. 

The  Mother  and  the  Wife  of  George  Washington.    By  Ben- 
son J.  Lossino,  LL.D.,  Author  of  "field-book  of  the 
Revolution,"  "Field-book  of  the  War  of   1813,"  "Cy- 
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Lt^bOOM 


of  tM  HUUAAl  OftllOTTi  LoQ^OII.     OEH  nlOIlH,  7 

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uonsBO,  aiUk,  tut  «hii>al,  fltM,  ndooad  lolnM. 

—  ThBiMB*.    AUMfoUo.    LuiepiiH.    AHiiU'Pntfi 

Itdnotd  to  fn.O».    rn]lInuliiunDeea,aitn,IITaiM, 

Crane's  The  First  of 


OUII.     f'rni  Fntfi  oi 


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May. 


s,(llMt, 


s,rsa 


A  KnsimTliuB  In 


History  of  Ancient  Art. 

"  muu  tv  HnnT  Lob«b. 


m  IHTT  oalodHMl  «>- 

—  —lb  IMitnli,  FumI 

_, JlnfculdMancK^ . 

D  of  OH  buHlnd  eopM  ool*,  Mcb  Mtnf  nnmband.   Pii«>  lor  Iba  font 
>,  In  porUoUM,  fMJirndaaid  to  (UJI. 

Brillat-Savarin. 

A  HAMOBOOK  OP  aABTRONOHr.  (PhjMoloM  dn  0««t.}  A  Mv  ud  oomplMa 
BnflUib  tnnclntloBt  lundioDHlj  prlnbid  on  beary  T^nm  papAr  vid  UliAtt«led  wlM 
Afty.4luceclurinliiglxeiKulfldeu±ln9  froiB  (HicliuU  4nlBn>  bj  APOLTVi  Lalxdib. 

10  tiro  bondnd  c^h.  uid  entlnlj  out  ot  pilnt. 

Nash's  Mansions  of  England  in  the  Olden  Time. 

ComtniDi  of  on*  bondTMl  tai  toni  Ttam  danlaUnf  Uia  bum  idiafuInMlo  tsMim*  of 
a»Don«UcAnailIwtiinDttb«TBdorA«7udUliuDilliiaUMCottniBa>.llitlimud 
Dwsniulon*  or  onr  KiwUib  AoogMon.  ■iBbDruelr  oolond,  aad  moonled  oo  ootd- 
bonnl, In  ImitMtiDB  dC  E)H  ortglnul  dmrloD.  BT/saBraMuB.  ronr  lun.olBbo- 
nulj  nwdo  liMI  Dwrocw  por&oUo*.  wllb&pa.  tmM,  KdHMd  to  tIMM. 

Baronial  Halls  and  Ancient  Picturesque  Edifices  of 
England. 


•I  DlKWlgn  bf  J.  D.  HABDIia.  O.  Cattiuiolb,  S.  Pbsht,  W,  Mdllib.  t. 
JID,  t,  W.riiinOLT,  T.  AUOH.iuulotlMr  «nilHBi  Bittott)  wltb  DaHrtpUoiu 

»a.  C.  Uuu   IllonnladiUn  witlinnmorouflnelraoniled  EnantTtDfion  Wood 
AreliwBji,  Porebia.  Wlndowi,  FlnpliuH.  CtUtnn,  Oornlo*.  Pnninin,  Mo.   Two 
iBTia  ball  monosa  poniolka  wttk  Oipi,  fKM,  ndnnd  lo  fU-M. 

Etchings  after  Frans  Hals. 

A  SariH  of  tvBB^  b«ui1lfBllT  CKMnUd  EtcbLnsfl.  Br  Wiujak  uvomb.  Wltb  ui  Eanr 
on  tbo  Ufa  and  Work!  of  Uw  uUit  by  C.  Tolmiii.  Two  put*,  oompleu.roj'ia 
foUo.  Impnitfoni  on  Indlm  PBpflr,  CO-Da.  rsdncod  to  f  IMI.  fi«leelBd  Proob  on 
iBdl*  papt*.  tH.H.  ndnced  lo  ^Cm.   aruu'  i-rDor>  on  Ii>di>  tApCT,  IKM,  ndnced 

Wilson's  American  Ornithology : 

Or,  ITMonl  Hlitorr  of  tbe  Blrdiof  the  Dotted  Btntai':  wllb  tba  Contlaiutloa  bjFiliiea 
Cbaslbs  Ldcuv  BoiAfiBTB.  Vtw  uuKobuieil  nUtaoo.  tllutnttd  brTalubls 
DOIM  ud  B  Ufa  of  tbB  BDUior  bj  XIi  WiLUAii  /AMsniB.  Wltb  a  portrait  of  WUaon, 
and  IM  pLatta,  ejtblbldBA  Dtarlv  4N  flffnna  of  blrdi,  aooar^olj  amraTedand  bcenti. 
toUroofciad.  tTDla.,Rn>,i>olttb«daaf.alim,iU(top,p(i.M,ral<kDadto«»I.H. 

Fables  de  La  Fontaine. 

roBTB.par  A.  I>ELIUBI,wllbpntaa)fl.Batai.<to.   Tbt  toil  aamp- 
om  Daw  drmwLDMa, 

a>,(IUtop>.aN4l, 


M  work.    IIIoMratai^ 


oldilyle  tfpg.  on  baarr  poplar  A  i 


f"r^£o 

k,  Imparlal  «to.  luudaoiaalT  bonBd  is  balf  ItnM  no 
oftLM. 

Dessins  de  Decoration 


sSmS' 


tadUmtkndell.Ed. 

^^^^^'^  "' 

Jones's  (Owen)  Grammar  of  Ornament. 

eiaulallalT  wlorcd  platai,  aiaoalad  In  CbniDO  UlhofrubT, 
lea  of  IbaDaisoratloDotallAfvandKatlOH.wltbdMeirft™"' 
mibwoad^ula.    FoUo,  clotb,  fMJN,  ndsoad  to  |9Mt. 


Examples  of  Modern  Etching. 

EdUBd,  with  noUa,  br  Pmur  Oium  Bumrai.  odlior  of  tb«  "  PartfaVa."   Twantr 

BWBT  BHia,  BaoHrton,  HmhIUiw,  LaialUennU,  Laiiniis,  L<snia,  Locaa,  falmn. 
Baton,  TaTniaU, ate.  IlialsitbiiaatlfanTprtDlBdanbtaTTpapor.  FoUo, (aataf hUt 
bonnd  la  rdotb,  foil  (lU,  flCJI,  ndocM  to  wLvt. 

The  Art  of  the  Old  English  Potter. 

An  AaaooBl  of  tha  Piofiaaa  of  tba  Cnfl  Id  Zulaod,  from  th '  aarileal  parlod  to  Iha 
middle  of  Eba  alfhuaatb  oabtarr,  bf  L.  U.  Solob.   A  aoparb  rolmna  In  Imperlai 

SDarlOpprinlad  tbroBghoutoBDdiobhaBd-madapapar.  Tba  latur  pnaa  aooompaalad 
>aftTbaaatltiiUTaEabedlltiialranaaab«lba  antborfroDi  nolabla  axamplea.  Snb- 
•batlaUi  boDBd  In  aitn  ololb.  ontrUaiaad  eilieB.  loefaiiad  In  a  box,  (9t.m,  ndnced  to 
BU.NTXdOiaa  </  BO  turiti  imIk.    TWaUy-jlii  <i^  whiclt  art  far  lalt  in  Anurtea. 

A  Day  in  the  Life  of  a  Child. 

tIKB  JOUKNIE  d'EHFAMT.  Compoaltlona  laUllea  par  Adbiu  Habib.  Twenty  «- 
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boBBd,  ffJI,  ndBoad  10  ■<.••. 

Les  Arts  du  Metal. 

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B.  OIBIUD,    Flftr  ■npBrbrall-pam  pUtaa 


>ftbap1Ma>.    (Prtutao 


IbODt  OD  bwTj  Holland  paper,  wl 
TblDk  roral folio, clotb.lAiM.n 


Cyclopaedia  of  Costume 

Or,  A  DletloBaiTot  Dteaa-Uena,  EodvlaaUeal^MI  aad  HUU 

Fartod  IB  England  lo  iba  rewn  of  IMorge  tba  Thb^d.  Ineladlnf  notteta  or  Goniaawon- 
naoiM  Faablona  on  tbe  OonlUwnk  B^  i.  B.  I'LUiOBi,  eonnnal  HeisM.  iwruali 
Uloauatad  tf  fnll-page  oolonit  pUM*.  aom*  blibwiuit  wltb  foU.  md  Bianr  bnadiM 
otben  tbnHKbonllbe  tent.  Tol.  I.— The  DietloBatT.  ToL  ir.— A  OoneiBl  Hlamr  M 
CoanuMlaSnnpa.   ]Tola.,«o.hBU  nmooM.gltttcq),  WJO.iBdoead  to«».N. 

TtBMuDe,tnUpoVabediedleTBolmon»eo,gltt.KaJ»,ndBaadlaS<lM. 

Gerome  (J.  L.),  CEuvres  de,  Edition  de  Grand  Luxe. 

CoDBli14nff  of  portiralt  of  tbe  artlit,  and  H  anperb  TVprodqotloiu  fiom  tbe  origlDal  pBlnr 
lng>,  bT  tba  PtaologrBTiira  Prooeaa  oC  Meaara.  OoapU  A  Co.  BniUant  Earl]r  Impna- 
Blou,  printed  on  India  paper,  wllb  deacrtptlT*  oolaa.  1  Toll.,  rojal  folio,  nawlialt 
moroooo,  gUt,  ■1ISM,  redooed  to  |in. 

Rowlandson  the  Caricaturist. 

A  BeleotlDn  from  bla  Worka,  wltb  Aoeodotal  DeaetlpUona  of  hla  Fanooa  CarlcaCiuea, 
and  B  SkBloti  of  bla  Life,  Tlmea  ud  ConKiuporantB.    With  nnkiiyMQ  UluHraUaiu- 
nuMllj  In  f airatalUe  of  Ibe  orlglnala.   Br  JoaapB  Obboo.   Two  toIl,  Ursa  tC 
fuaelTlUoitralBd,foLpollabadoair,ailni,^l,fIl"  -^ ..-.i.-l 


tofUji. 


Stanfield's  Coast  Scenery. 


The  Schools  of  Modern  Art  in  Germany. 

BT  J.  BBAnvsTDB  Atiibbo*.  Anaor  of  "  Ab  Art  Tonr  In  Kortbam  Capllala,"  "  gtadtaa 
vol.,  iDTBl  110,  dolb'extrm,  lUt  ad«aa,  (IIM,  radooedlo  (AN. 

Etchings  from  the  National  Gallery. 

KTCHINas  FROM  THE  NATIONAL  OjILLEST.  A aetla at elRbUao ebola* ptoH, 
br  rUnnni,  Le  BM,  Baton,  WUe,  Waltner.  Bornet-Italialnea.  Oauotaerel,  Blcbeton, 
eto.,  after  tbe  pKlnUnga  bT  Maaaaoto.  BelUnI,  Olorolone,  Moroni.  MoDtef&a,  Telaa- 

Sa.  Bmbrandt,  Cojp.  Kata,  Hobtiama.  BeTnoldi.  OalniQoroaib,  TUnwi    and 
ndaaer,  wltb  Motea  bj  Baub  N,  Wobhth  (Keener  of  tbe  HnUonal  QBlleiTl,    Tbe 


The  Eclogues  of  Virgil. 


History  of  Don  Quixote  of  La  Mancha. 

TiBoilaiad  br  p.  A.  Uonnx.   niiatiated  with  tl  original  otijilma,  apacUllj  pnpBnJ 


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Piom  Fftir  Florenoe  to  the  Eternkl  Cltjr  ot  Borne.  Delivered  ondei  the  Slmllltoda  of  •  Bide, 
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Reynard  the  Fox. 

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Footprints  of  the  Saviour. 


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Riding  for  Ladies. 


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lemo,  uniform  with  HIm  Aloott'a  "Uttle 
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WHAT  EATT  DIB  5EXT. 
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OHE  VAT  IH  A  BABPS  UFE. 

FromtheFrenohof H. AsHAUD.  Translatedand 
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Tee  Legendary  Bistort  or  ths 

PTinoa  *  ""'"  "'  •*  ^"^  •ngniTliigi,  freoi 
unUSO.  ■  Suicb  book  pobllibed  bj  Vddsntr, 
A.  D.  14Sa,  wltb  u  iDDOdncUon  wriXtia  ud  Ului- 
mtod  by  •I>kB  AmktsH.  FnfiuM  bj  Kai.  ■■ 
MBiiBa-a«id.    PrtDtcd  m  bUck  leUar,    Boondla 

(1.79.   facltnpvtiBiiiiitcrvl. 

AooompftnytDC  tlu  lUoitnUoQi  wlU  b«  tonna— tn>ld<* 
■HI  ndUonul  vuaphnH  ot  Uh  plclorUI  Tenltm  of  Dw  L«(- 
snd— ■  npTlnt  ruMlinll*  from  Cuton'i  Qolden  Lsfuiili 
at  Uie  SiOiiti,  glTlSE  tbs  HUtory  •!  the  CrvH  tn  faU. 

I^iHTtfj  pHkIaKh  unlfTM  ili/li.icilk  aU^tiila  Imet 
and  llu  eia  iptlUne.    n>D  ctlort  of  int  an  uttA.    Sich 

mttUUM  llu  lelltrarui  are  iptdaUv  £ilttud  u  tt  (»  *ar- 
flHHBBUAtitov^Kf  <ri*«vT*<  Tht  papir  It  au  will- 
Inwin  OMteh  Maad-ntadt.  flit  cater  ii  emteiud  iitr*  a 
*nt  ttningtU  CmcifiHan,  fnm  an  old  atrmiitg  <4 

Legends  and  Popular  Tales  op 
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UitaJt,. 


■  ID.  BiuU  Its  Tobuu.  TmrtatDllj  prlBUd, 
illl  booDd  lo  DloUi.  lUnmliuled  eont,  ft.711, 
mttr  af  tapiet  «n  Iarv<  vpf-  iUailralieni 
r.gJM.} 

ftW«n  ISa  naOtr  tlUt  colleelltn  af  Bataat 

,/Mnlalei,aiidiUrUi.harimf  iMr HiglnHiVii 

IrodMMi  vAleA  foraed  a  parlitw  af  '*•  lacrti  in- 

luHlmatt  htamalliai  la  Ike  BaigiH  ptapli  ty  MMr  /art- 
fQUurt,am4aaMde^d*n/romgtiuratlente'gttunUi0a,I 
Tuutl»eiigUlllata/inirtmartniamldmal  ti  eia  a/ place 
e^iuanlnff  the  maral  and  kMancai  Impartanee  vMcA  fAAfs 
lagtndt  and  lata  pama,  at  Miv  tkt  rifltcWMt  af  (to  Uuj 


IU.U8TRATED  POCXET  EDITION  OF 

Shakespeare's  Dramatic 
Works  and  Poems.  ^':!"'i;:r?.T 

roDKD  BbUK.  CuatnllT  «dlled  from  Uw  bMI  Isni. 
Wia  A*  Um  moet  i^mdnotlou  ot  VmMI'i  ukd 
oibtt'*  ir«U«iiaw9  angnTlngi.  I  toIi,  vnwn  Mnu, 
«,aMt  PN(»i  H*  ITOB  ■  HA  font  at  DoopuvU  tjpa, 
ud  bHutUuUr  prinnd  br  Uw  GUiidv  ITnlxinltr 
Vtmt,  on  tUn  opiqiu  jikpiir,  ipnlnllT  nudg  for  It 
BKVuUt  bonnd  Id  clolh,  SS.9S ;  moiocoo,  se ;  fnU 
oU  ud  Tiuksr  maroooa,  Sl«.  (Euh  iirla  la  ■  box 
nnltoTm  with  Ui)  Mndloi.) 

•••  l%ae  tepli  an/or  Hte  ir  oU  iooluUtri,  «r  win  J 


Ths  Dragon,  Image,  and  Demon 

Or.  Uw  niTH  BellgkiBi  of  Cblu— CoircDiuuii 
BnoDuni,  uid  TAOua— gtTlna  ab  Meenut  at  tin 
JlVUsIsffli,  /dslolrir,  BSd  /tniMtlalrirot  tM  ChlBiM. 
Br  Bei.  B.  C,  DC  BOU,  tonitHn  jtaa  >  mlii 


Crown  tn  toL    BautUnll;  bODBd.    Clath,  t 

Me,  aw.,  m- 

The  vrller  hat  draitn  Mt  ualtr  from  native  w 

/aelilielnf  meillt  failures /ram  Chfae—iamnei.    i 

it  luld  bM  a  plait,  man,  wha  ilailM  hoUi  la  atii  /ra 

How  TO  FORM  A  Library.  l\ 

LIT.    Belnc  Uw  Drn  toIdoh  of  »  Tha  Bo<*  : 
Ubnrr."   Ibno.  cloth,  ancal*d(«,tlJt. 
ne  elijeet  af  Ihit  wort  it  It  prorUe  ia/armalx 
lUteuhaarelMeraUd  in  llie/ormimg  afli*ra^" 
iil/trmatieit  it  fitei   ' 


T'tSt 

Hallau's  (Henrt)  Complete 

TtTAnirg     A  M«  Ud  ni|Wlo[  edlUon,  prtnled  on 
n  UIULOi  paptT  inMl«  ipeotBllr  tor  IL   »  toW. 

HigtB/fli.N)  InclegulbiiUoklt.fM. 
TUt  tiem  fHW,  rtpHnlad/rem  lAa  tail  Lanilan  uHUon, 
mued  and  cefrtcUd,  iw  lie  mail  acturau  «d  rtliaUe 
edUiaapmilithed. 

REV.  DR.  W.M.  TATLOirS  SEW  WORK. 

The  Parables  or  Odr  Satiodr. 

Expounded  ud  IlliutiAI«d.    UnUorm  wllb  luu  an- 
thot^  ••  Limilatiant  af  Ufa"  aai  "  Omirar*  Whidt," 


\..§\.u. 


rCtbtul  RitiHlioiH  h)  good 

-u.in_«.>wu.>.irbU*kBd«bliIlDdlffsrealia- 

■poQta  to  tlMM  ulbon,  will  ba  faoBd  la  b«  Indepandflni  at 
aKa.''—Aat}ur'iFrt/act. 

IRVOE'8,  Rev.  Dr.  a.  B.,  the 
HiRAcniiODS  Element  in  the 

fl/tCtDVT  a      If"""''"  ^^  ""•  wOior^  •  P»r- 
OUOrfiljD.    .b.11.  TeHhIas  1  Obrt.t.' 

OetaTo  TDluu,  oloth,  fUi  lop,  KM. 
"  in  txhtaattie  diteuttiim  af  <*>  aaetHan  af  Ike  Net 
tttimani  miratUi.    II  it  a  rith  addiliaa  la  aar  apaloaai 
Uroluri,  Hkfc*  (HIV  BibUtttl  nudtnl  wiUdttireia  add  I 
(tltrory."— Eion'l  Hiuld. 
an,pailpaid,nir»tt^afpnie,iiillupaliiitlitn. 


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The  Literary  World. 


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CONTENTS. 


II  Frbhckwoihh  ai 


PUUtA  AND  THI  PraUAHl 


Turn  S.A* 


IF  na  Laet  UimTML  . 
□  His  Ciob  i 


The  LOwDoa  of  ChriM  , 
Tba  LegBiiillTT  HiMmy  ef  tha 
Old  CmuTiiAs  ahd  Biaciui 
Thi  Laamins  or  thi  Bakjub 
Smiun  OF  Ait  AKD  AiTitn 
Book  or  Ahbhuh  nouxi 
Home  Faiub  AMD  HiAKT  Fi 
Lu  UluaAiLO  IH  Ehdluu  . 
Shi  Stoom  to  Cokqdd 


A  Book  or  thi  Tili-Cu71 

SoKi  Booiu  roi  Vacm  Fi 

Frau  Poka  to  PdLi  . 

HUTT  RlTIDODd 

Rdd^  HUliiu      . 
Silent  PeM 


Tnnifoniied  .... 

Titki  bi>  tha  Soufaon    . 

AH  Tmut ;  or,  Ki(ginf  tha  B«t 

Tht  IJllle  lluWr  . 

luo  UnkixMa  Scu       .       . 

Etc.,  Etc..  Etc 


John  Jar! 
WlBtKi: 


:  HbTbouhHuidWtn 

-It  Kjut  Kd  Na«     .... 
Th*  Lut  of  tha  PaMrida* 
Mildrad'i  Bon  Md  GMa       .       .       . 


Driah  Stokui  1 


Tha  NecklKa  of  PilnB 

Tba  Talaa  dtbi  Sxlr  Huduini 
A  Slotk'a  Neat  .... 
Tba  IrofT  Kioc      .... 


Elc,  Etc.,  Elc. 


Tba  Unknown  Wn 
Ttae  Wreck  dI  tba  Hal] 


A  Uotbir'a  Sou    ..... 
Tha  Haiiin  Dltba  BlualHrd 

The  UisBla  Hn 

Dan  with  Sir  RonrdaOnwleT  • 
The  FakeBhim  Glioat     .... 

CHILDHIH'lQllAITOtl 

Out  tjtila  Ok)  and  Ibe  Nunanr  . 
nduna  and  Sonet  lor  LitUe  CbiUmi 
ZiR«  JoDineTaiDlheSunnTSoulh     , 
TtTree  Vaiur  Girla  on  Ibe  Rbine  . 
The  Boy  Tnnlten  in  the  Kiualan  Emplra 
The  Boyi'  Book  of  Spotu  and  Outdoor  Ufi 


Eic'TEk.!  Ett 


Bje^-Bibr  Bdlada 4M 

Fnm  Ueadow-Sweel  to  Hiatletsa        ,        .       .  tj4 

Hur'i  Uaidoo  434 

Ginaira 434 

lorla-Nook  Sloriaa         ......  434 

A  Sii  Yean*  Dirilni 4J4 

HdudatMuciluht: 

Tba  FolUc*  and  FuUoat  of  onr  Oraodfathen     .  43s 

The  Collnra  of  tba  Cndla 439 

Poema  in  Lillla  Qoanoa 4JS 

Wriring*  of  Fiueea  Ridle*  Hamnl    ...  4)5 

The  Pearl  Seriea 431 

Bonnd  Volume*  of  tba  Mafuinea        .       .        .  43^ 
Etc.,  Etc,  Etc. 

iHHSTMABAHDNswYUB'aCAIIDa       .  .  .  4)« 

)AV  Book*,  Cauudau,  rrc        .       .        .       .  43» 

L  Lnm  iiohGuhaicv.    UiaMr      .       .        .  4» 

Madonna  if  iba  Tnba 43S 

MiHOil  HoTtcn 438 

SHAnisruitANA.    SdiiedbirWB.  J.  RoUa': 

Shakaapean  CencotdaocM 439 

NawiAHuNom 4» 

PwmucATioiia  Rbliihd 440 


VATUBE'S  HALL£LUJAS.* 

THE  thonght  embodied  in  this  volnme  ii 
not  a  new  one,  but  the  embodiment  ii 
fresh,  spirited,  and  gracefuL  There  is  that 
deep  religious  feeling  in  the  book  whose 
natural  expression  is  forms  of  thanks^ving. 
There  is  in  it  an  enthusiasm  of  praise  running 
over  the  brim  of  a  grateful  heart  like  irater 
babbling  from  the  spring.  There  is  wa3-m 
syiDpatby  with  nattire,  especially  with  the 
melting  days  of  April,  the  kindling  days  of 
May,  and  the  burning  days  of  June.  There 
is  a  tender  heart  for  the  little  birds,  a  knowL 
edge  of  their  bodies  and  their  ways,  famil- 
iarity with  the  quirks  of  their  heads,  and  the 
flirting  of  their  tails,  and  the  twists  of  their 
eyes,  and  the  opeoing  of  their  mouths  tc 
pour  ont  their  songs.  There  is  a  love  of  thi 
country  —  the  beaming  meadow,  the  brook 
gni^liog  among  the  stones,  the  pathway 
the  forest,  the  hillside  with  the  farmhouse 
fronting  the  sun,  the  pasture  with  its  rocks 
and  bushes,  the  squirrel  silting  under  the 
tree,  the  daisies  cowering  under  the  rail- 
fence,  the  birds  wooing  in  the  branches 
the  buttercups  nodding  in  the  wind,  thi 
s  breaking  on  the  cliffs,  the  wooded 
horizon  disclosing  the  distant  spire,  the 
itarry  heavens  by  night  opening  ti 
ing  moon,  the  old  well-ST.eep  by  the  farm- 
house door,  the  river  winding  through  the 
meadow,  the  white<apped  mountain  miles 
away.  There  is  an  ear  in  the  book  also  for 
what  some  of  our  best  religions  poets  have 
,ang— Whittier,  Chadwick,  "H.H.,"  Bur- 
leigh, Bryant,  Mrs.  Thazter,  Longfellow, 
Taylor,  Gannett,  Addison,  George  Macdon- 
-  voicing  the  sentiments  of  the  months 
of  the  spring.  And  there  is  an  artist's  hand 
in  the  book,  combining  all  these  elements 
Into  a  hymn  of  praise,  a  sort  of  Mendels- 
Bohnian  symphony    in  type  and  picture, 

*NuiD**iHalla1i^  insMrMed  asd  Anufad  b^  Inu 
E.  Jeioaa.  BiEnnd  and  Priaied  nikder  tba  IMncdoa  ' 
Gmii*  T.  Aodnw.    LatftSbapvd.    |6.aa. 


"  Benedicite  "  in  the  actual  shapes  of  nature. 

Nature's  Hallelujah  "  —  the  tribute  of  tbo 
universe  to  its  Creator  as  discerned  In  the 
nnfolding  of  the  spring-time  —  that  Is  the 
idea  embodied  in  this  volume. 

The  volume  is  a.  large  thin  oblong  folio. 
Its  single  weakness  is  the  somewhat  fanci- 
ful and  overwritten  introduction.  This  bar- 
rier past,  the  right-hand  pages  present  a 
snccessiom  of  cartoons,  whose  dominating 
features  are  a  snatch  of  religious  poetry  in  a 
text,  a  landscape  in  sympathy  there- 
with, and  always  these  two  accompaniments : 
twittering,  fluttering  birds,  and  budding,  per- 
fuming flowers.  Fragrance  and  song  are  in 
the  atmosphere  of  these  scenes  of  spring, 
amidst  which  the  poets  are  quoted.  There 
between  forty  and  fifty  plates.  The 
drawing  is  excellent;  correct, true  to  nature, 
and  pleasing.  The  engraving  is  good  and  in 
instances  fine.  Ink,  paper,  and  press- 
work  are  made  the  most  of  to  further  the 
designer's  and  engraver's  work.  The  pref- 
ace evidently  is  laden  with  some  personal 
experience  of  the  author,  and  is  incongruous. 

Leaving  it  one  side,  the  book  has  unity, 
symmetry,  harmony,  and  beauty,  and  will 
speak  effectively  both  to  lovers  of  nature 

and  to  grateful  hearts. 


THE  FRENOHWOHAN  0 
DBT.» 


THE  OEVT- 


Uxanne,  that  skilled  historian  of  fash- 
ions and  deft  chronicler  of  social  usages 
and  transformations,  who  has  already  dis- 
coursed BO  admirably  of  the  umbrella  and 
the  fan  and  San  AlUtse  la  Ftmm*  —  no  one, 
we  say,  but  M.  Uzanne  could  deal  with  so 
delicate  a  topic  as  Ths  Fretuhtooman  of  tht 
Century  with  the  requisite  daring  and  refine- 
ment to  satisfy  the  Ksthetic  tastes  of  the 
gentle  student  of  manners  who  wishes  a 
brilliant  picture  of  dainty  suggestions.  In- 
deed M-  Uzanne  well  may  have  chosen  as  his 
motto  the  famed  inscription  on  the  gates  of 
Busyrace — "Be  bold:  Be  bold  :  Be  not  too 
bold."  There  can  be  no  doubt  that  he  has 
been  bold  enough,  and  it  may  not  be  said  that 
he  has  overstepped  the  limits  of  justifiable 

But  what  a  phantasmagoria  is  presented 
'  us  within  the  covers  of  this  luxurious 
book  I  The  sparkling  scenes  of  gay  Parisian 
life  flit  before  us  as  we  turn  the  pages  and 
pass  from  the  first  days  of  the  Directory  on 
through  the  enticing  and  bewildering 
series  of  dissolving  views  to  the  very  thrvsh- 
hold  of  the  present  year  of  fashion  and  folly. 
From  dusty  encydopiedias  and  erudite  treat. 
ises  on  costume  the  author  has  brought 
rich  spoils  of  learning,  and  has  interwoven 
them  into  a  glittering  fabric,  an  exquisite 
tapestry,  which  is  unrolled  little  by  little 


4iS 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Nov.  27, 


and  reveals  id  merry  groups  all  the  eccen- 
tricities, all  the  absurdities,  all  the  beauties, 
and  all  the  grotesqueness  of  the  progress  of 
the  Frenchwoman  across  the  stage  of  the 
century.  To  this  end  artists  of  the  pencil 
and  burin  have  lent  their  assistance  with  ex- 
quisite results.  The  illustrations  by  Albert 
Lynch,  engraved  id  colors  by  Engine  Gau- 
jean,  have  as  much  beauty  and  delicacy  as 
if  each  were  fresh  from  the  draughtsman's 
hand.  Here,  in  resplendent  full-page  draw- 
ings, with  graceful  fripperies  of  dainty  acces- 
sories and  in  figured  initials  that  remind  one 
of  the  sparsely  draped  femininities  of  the 
Fompeiian  frescoes,  the  effervescence,  the 
champagne  froth  of  Faris,  is  caught  and 
fixed  in  forms  that  the  grim  antiquarian  with 
all  his  fidelity  to  facts  could  not  hope  to 
rival.  The  "  nymphs  "  and  "  merveilleuseB," 
the  goddesses  of  the  year  Vlll,  the  grand 
coquettes  of  the  first  empire,  the  fashions  of 
the  restoration,  the  elegances  of  the  roman- 
tic period  with  its  "lions  "  and  "lionesses," 
the  grand  balls  of  the  era  of  the  prince- 
president,  the  brutal  extravagances  of  the 
second  empire,  and  the  feverish  activity  of 
today  —  all  are  depicted  in  this  magic  mi 
of  the  times  in  a  way  that  the  devotee  of 
fashion  and  the  student  of  manners  will 
alike  delight  to  look  upon. 

It  was  with  the  formation  of  the  Directory 
that  the  Frenchwoman  regained  the  empire 
she  had  temporarily  lost  during  the  Terror, 
and  she  became  at  once  "  the  mad  queen  of 
a  society,  panting,  feverish,  agitated,  resem- 
bling a  fur  open  to  all  appetites,  to  all  low 
passions,  to  stock  jobbing,  to  loves  by  auc- 
tion, to  every  kind  of  trade  which  excluded 
sentiment"  The  guillotine  had  scarcely 
ceased  to  reap  its  bloody  harvest  before  the 
dancing  mania  broke  out  Balls  were  organ- 
ized in  all  parts  of  the  city  and  the  pleasure- 
seekers  flocked  together  at  the  sound  of 
violin  and  flute.  They  danced  everywhere ; 
in  the  streets,  in  the  cemeteries,  in  the  con- 
vents. The  heirs  of  the  condemned  estab- 
lished the  "Bal  des  Victimes,"  where  the 
mildest  form  of  buffoonery  was  the  wearing 
of  a  red  shawl  by  daughters  of  those  who 
had  suffered  on  the  scaffold.  Here  the  ex- 
travagances of  attire,  which  characterized 
the  Frenchwoman  of  the  early  century, 
the  light.  The  Lacedemonian  tunics,  the 
ekalmydts,  the  buskin,  nearly  all  the  Greek 
and  Roman  fantasies,  were  first  exhibited  at 
the  "Bal  des  Victimes."  The  traditions  of 
the  past  were  gone  ;  only  the  Gallic  spirit 
survived  ;  and  like  a  multitude  of  maskers 
society  borrowed  from  antiquity  the  gar- 
ments that  could  not  be  improvised  on  the 
spur  of  the  moment 

But  an  epitome  of  the  transformations  that 
followed  cannot  be  attempted  here. 
Uzanne  io  closing  gives  a  few  somber  pages 
to  the  Parisienne  of  today.  The  cult  of 
woman,  he  tells  us,  is  no  longer  dominant  in 
Paris ;  politeness,  in  the  otd^asbioned  si 
has  disappeared,  and  as  M.  Uzanne  unkindly 


expresses  it,  the  world  becomes  "every  day 
!  egoistic  and  Americanized."  The 
contemporary  Frenchwoman  of  Paris  is  an 
exiled  goddess  who  has  turned  to  the  ex- 
travagances of  the  outer  world  for  distrac- 
tion and  finds  in  the  bazaar  her  only  temple. 
It  us  be  thankful  that  all  Frenchwomen 
ot  live  in  Paris,  and  that  in  these  days 
Paris  is  not  France  I 


FAHnJAB  BIBDS.* 

PICTURES  of  birds  and  flowers, 
poetry  about  birds  and  flowers,  are  the 
composite  work  bearing  the  above  title. 
The  flowers  bloom  on  the  earth  and  among 
the  branches.  The  birds  hover  and  play 
among  the  flowers.  The  poets  sing  of  both. 
And  the  artist  is  interpreter  of  the  whole. 
Pictures  and  poems  are  printed  and  bound 
into  a  good  sized  quarto  of  134  pages,  a  sum- 

er  book  even  if  it  is  winter  time. 

Twelve  birds  are  selected  for  this  feath- 
ered parade,  and  with  their  accompanying 
flowers  the  list  is  as  follows : 

Orioles  and  PIum-BIOMominga. 
Song- Sparrows  and  Wild  Roses. 
Snow-Buntingi  and  Pine  Bough. 
Vellow-fiirdi  ind  Mullein. 
Swallows  and  Arrow-Head. 


Wrens  and  Honeysuckle. 
Tbrusb  and  Sweet -Peas. 
Snow-Birds  and  Rose-Hips. 
Bluebirds  and  Morning -Glories. 
Sea-GuII  and  Surf. 

Among  the  poets  whose  verses  swell  the 
chorus  of  these  plumed  songsters  are  Mrs. 
Sangster,  Mrs.  Thaxter,  Miss  Larcom,  Mr. 
Gilder,  Emerson,  Miss  Havergal,  "H.  H.," 
Miss  Goodale,  MIchelet,  Allingham,  Whit- 
tier,  Nora  Perry,  Keats,  Jones  Very,  Sted- 
,  Tennyson,  Leigh  Hunt,  and  Heine. 
iss  Skelding,  who  has  proved  her  taste 
before,  has  made  the  selections  and  arranged 
them,  and  Miss  Bridges  is  the  illustrator. 
Her  sketches  are  in  watlr-color,  reproduced 
in  chromo-lithography  of  a  good  grade. 
Miss  Bridges  is  a  tasteful  colorist,  but  does 
not  always  draw  accurately.  Drawing  is  an 
artist's  hardest  work,  the  crucial  test  of  the 
hand's  and  eye's  ability.  Sometimes  Miss 
Bridges  produces  a  life-like  result;  as  in  the 
frontispiece  of  orioles,  and  the  later  pictures 
of  swallows,  and  the  thrush,  all  of  which 
ca[»tal;  but  in  other  plates  she  is  not 
successful ;  her  fore-shortening  is  poor,  the 
tails  of  some  of  her  birds  have  an  unwonted 
twist,  and  her  weakest  point  is  the  open 
mouths  of  the  birds  that  are  depicted  in  the 
act  of  singing.  There  is  a  curious  and  pre. 
vailing  failure  of  the  lower  bill  to  fit  the 
upper  bill,  which  we  are  confident  mus 
untrue  to  nature  and  therefore  is  defective 
in  arl  But  drawbacks  apart,  these  a 
lovely  birds ;    we  can  almost  take  some 

•  Familiar  Birdi  anil  What  Ihc  PrxU  Sii;(  of  Then. 
luMntcd  b/  Fidelia  BiidgH.    Edited  b;  Suiia  Band 
Skelding.    Wbite,  Sloka  A  Anen.    (j.do. 


them  in  the  hand;  their  plump  bodies  and 
bright  plumage  are  very  fascinating  to  the 
The  book  is  lai^e  and  handsomely 
bound,  and  pleases  several  tastes  at  once. 


nHE 


WELL-WOBMBOADS.* 
most  careful  methods  and  amplest 


of  the  Riverside  Press  have 
combined  in  the  manufacture  of  this  beautiful 
quarto,  whose  literary  and  artistic  materials 
richly  deserve  the  pains  and  skill  that  have 
been  bestowed  np>on  them.  It  is  seldom 
that  the  holiday  season  brings  under  notice 
a  volume  the  handiwork  upon  which  is 
marked  by  a  greater  degree  of  ingenuity  and 
patient  attention,  or  the  contents  of  which 
have  a  more  genuine  merit  Some  books 
are  to  be  looked  at  1  this  must  be  examined ; 
and  after  examination  it  must  be  read.  No 
one  will  taste  a  mouthful  out  of  any  one  of 
its  sixty  or  seventy  broad  pages  without 
feeling  that  he  must  enjoy  the  whole;  so 
fresh  a  writer  is  Mr.  Smith  upon  these  old 
subjects  of  Spain  and  Holland  and  Italy,  so  , 
agreeable  a  companion  is  he,  so  sparkling 
and  amusing,  so  alive  to  entertuning  scenes 
and  situations,  so  happy  in  escaping  from 
dilemmas,  so  invincible  over  the  untoward. 
It  is  a  rare  combination  of  accomplishments 
that  so  good  an  artist  should  be  so  good  a 
writer.  Mr.  Smith  is  equally  clever  with  his 
pen,  whether  describing  an  adventure  with 
the  Spanish  police  or  a  Venetian  justice  of 
the  peace,  or  sketching  an  old  brass  knocker 
from  the  Alcazan^  in  Seville  or  an  archway 
on  one  of  the  canals  of  Amsterdam ;  and 
when  he  lays  aside  his  nimble  pen,  and  takes 
up  the  sedater  sepia  brush,  and,  seated 
under  his  white  umbrella,  goes  to  work  upon 
a  picture  of  the  Bridge  of  Sighs  at  Venice  or 
the  Gate  of  the  Alhambra,  he  produces  in 
time  a  result  which  effectively  illustrates 
not  only  his  subject  but  the  charms  of  neu- 
tral tints.  Sixteen  of  these  large  sepia 
drawings,  reproduced  by  phototype,  consti- 
tute the  artistic  skeleton  of  the  volume;  and 
wood-cuts  of  fifty-one  pen  and  ink  sketches 
are  scattered  through  the  text.  Amsterdam, 
Seville,  Dordrecht,  Venice,  and  kindred 
points  furnish  the  topics  of  the  former  — 
quaint,  narrow  streets,  perspectives  on 
canals,  overhanging  gables  deep  in  shadow, 
battlemented  bridges,  heavy  archways  dis- 
closing far  vistas,  tall  towers  and  spires, 
promenades  by  watersides,  groups  of  gondo- 
las waiting  at  their  landing  places,  clumsy 
luggers  unloading  at  the  quays,  glimpses  of 
cathedrals  and  palaces,  shady  walks,  cos- 
tumed citizens  and  peasants.  The  smaller 
sketches  in  the  text  are  the  artist's  off-hand 
work,  and  touch  on  the  infinite  variety  of 
details  which  his  observing  eye  would  gather 
out  of  such  a  tour. 

Interesting  as  are  all  these  pictures,  the 

•Well-WoniRaadaafSiHdB,  Hol1uid,«DdIlalr.  Tn*> 
eled  bjr  a  Painter  in  Search  oT  tbe  KeluraqiH.  Br  F. 
Hopkiuon  Smith.    HonthtoD,  Mifflin  A  Co.    fij.oo. 


f8S6.] 


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narrative  which  frames  tbem  baa  a  peculiar 
and  delidous  flavor  of  Its  own,  fresh,  piquant, 
and  quite  onlilce  any  recent  story  of  travel 
which  we  remember.  Mr.  Smith  has  not 
oalj  the  knack  of  getting  into  ont-of-the-way 
corners,  but  of  falling  in  with  nncooven- 
tional  people,  aud  at  the  same  time  of  de- 
scribing his  adveotores  in  tenns  which  at 
once  win  the  feelings  of  the  reader.  What 
could  be  better  in  its  way  than  bis  account 
of  his  arrest  at  Cordova  ?  He  was  taken 
for  a  spy  and  arraigned  before  a  Spanish 
Excellency : 

"  But  I  am  not  a  spr.  I  am  ^mply  an  Ameri- 
can painter  traveling  through  Spain,  sketching  as 
I  go,  and  painting  whatever  pleases  mj  [ancj." 
..."  Bat  jou  have  no  passport"  ...  I  ran 
,  my  hknii  into  my  blouse,  and  handed  him  my 
pocket  sfcelch-b(K>k.  He  opened  [t,  stopped  at 
the  first  page,  turned  the  otbeis  slowly,  backed 
onconsciously  into  his  chair,  sat  down,  cracked 
his  face  with  a  smile,  and  then  broke  it  [n  pieces 
with  a  laugh,  ordered  the  officer  to  follow  him, 
and  disappeared  through  a  door. .  .  .  The  Young 
Governor  came  forward  and  held  ont  his  hand! 
"  SeBor,  von  are  free.  I  have  seen  your  picture. 
It  is  admirable.  I  regret  the  mistake.  The  offi- 
cer will  conduct  yon  to  the  tartana  and  detail  a 
file  of  men  who  will  prevent  your  being  dis- 
turbed nntil  you  finish.    Adios." 

Tbe  presentation  of  bis  sketch-book  as 
bis  passport  illustrates  the  author's  genius 
for  hai^y  thoughts,  which  finds  expression 
In  a  hundred  ways.    As  for  example  agaiti : 

I  never  see  a  bottle  oE  Chianti  but  I  think  of 
this  sunuT  fisherman,  and  I  never  drink  one  but 
I  pledge  him  a  bumper.  I  send  him  my  greeting 
over  the  sea,  and  long  life  to  him,  and  a  wife  to 
love  hun,  and  plenty  of  fish,  and  plenty  of  Chi- 
anti, and  one  bottle  always  for  me  ( 

Bright  ideas,  sunuy  good  humor,  tact, 
flashes  of  wit,  picturesque  touches  of  de- 
scription, dramatic  situations,  an  eye  for 
form  and  color,  a  musical  ear,  a  jauoty,  rov- 
ing mood,  health,  happiness,  and  a  thorough 
aiandim  to  the  life  he  is  leading,  character- 
ize this  book  as  a  boolc,  aud  enliven  its  art 
as  art. 

The  publishers  have  not  wasted  their 
substance  tn  reproducing  these  sketches  and 
presenting  the  letter-press  with  all  this  lavish 
and  costly  beauty.  Soul  and  body  are  in 
keeping.  A  stately  volume  this,  but  one 
whose  nature  is  warm  and  communicative, 
one  which  every  lover  of  true  books  and  fine 
will  take  to  bis  heart  at  once. 


BOKITETS  FBOU  THE  FOBTTJaTTESE.- 

CAN  artist,  printer,  aud  bookbinder  fur- 
nish accompaniment  to  such  a,  voice  as 
Mrs.  Browning's  in  her  Sonnets  from  the 
Portuguese?  Is  the  song  better  without 
the  Instrument?  The  point  underlying 
these  questions  is  one  on  which  opinions 
will  difier.  But  certainly  those  who  prefer 
the  accompaniment  will  greatly  admire  and 
enjoy  this  sumptuous  and  elegant  folio,  with 
its  artistic,  sympathetic,  and  effective  setting 
of  tbe  text  of  a  series  of  poems  as  celebrated 


•  SoniMU  fmn  the  PonufniH.  By  Eliubeth  Bunit 
Iminiing.  lUouraicd  by  Ladwl(  SudBe  IpHii.  Tick- 
<ir*Ci>.     ■■<«. 


as  any  in  later  English  literature,  and  worthy 
to  be  classed  with  the  greatest  In  all  Ei^- 
lisb  literature,  Even  beside  Spenser's,  and 
Shakespeare's,  and  Milton's  noblest  work 
do  they  deserve  to  be  placed,  and  there  are 
good  judgments  which  have  set  them  so 
high  that  there  is  nothing  abov%  them. 

Mrs.  Browning  was  bom  in  1S09,  She 
was  Elizabeth  Barrett,  only,  however,  and 
not  Mrs.  Browning  until  1846,  her  37th 
year.  Her  "  Sonnets  from  the  Portuguese," 
together  with  "Casa  Guidi  Windows"  and 
"Aurora  Leigh,"  formed  the  trio  of  her 
grandest  writings  which  issued  ont  of  the 
ten  years  immediately  following  her  mar- 
riage, and  which  expressed  ber  ripest  and 
fullest  womanhood.  There  is  in  Mr.  Sted- 
man's  VieloHan  Poeit  a  passage  on  these 
Sonnets  which  we  are  moved  to  quote  as 
being  a  fair  exposition  of  their  secret  and 
their  power : 

I  am  disposed  to  consider  the  Sonnets  from 
the  Portuguese  as,  if  not  the  finest,  a  portion  of 
(he  Gacst  subjective  poetry  in  our  literature. 
Their  fonn  reminds  us  of  an  English  prototype, 
and  it  is  no  sacrilege  to  say  that  their  music  is 
showered  from  a  higher  and  purer  atmosphere 
than  that  oE  the  Swan  of  Avon.  .  .  .  Shake- 
ipeare's  personal  poems  were  the  overfiow  of 
his  impetuous  youth  ;  ■  .  .  while  Mrs.  Brown- 
bg's  Love  Sonnets  arc  the  outpourings  of  a 
~  ms.  at  an  epoch  when 
and  her  whole  uature 


Here,  indeed,  the  singei 
rose  to  her  height  Here  she  is  absorbed  in 
rapturous  utterance,  radiant  and  triumphant 
with  her  own  joy.  The  mists  have  risen  and  ber 
sight  is  clear.  Her  mouthing  and  affectation  are 
forgotten,  her  lips  cease  to  stammer,  the  lyrical 
spirit  has  full  control.  The  sonnet,  artificial  in 
weaker  hands,  l>ecDmes  swift  with  feeling,  red 
with  a  "  veined  humanity,"  the  chosen  vehicle  of 
a  royal  woman's  vows.  Graces,  felicities,  vigor, 
glory  of  speech,  here  are  so  crowded  is  to  tread 
each  upon  the  other's  sceptered  pall.  The  first 
sonnet,  equal  to  any  in  our  tongue,  is  an  overture 
containing  the  motive  of  the  canticle;  —  "not 
Death,  but  Love  "  had  seized  her  unaware.    The 


tbe  theme  of  these  poems.  .  .  .  The  Sonnets 
reveal  to  us  that  Love  which  is  the  most  ecstatic 
of  human  emotions  and  worth  all  other  gifts  in 
life. 

The  Sonnets  number  forty-tour,  and  form 
a  succession,  revealing  a  progress  of  thought, 
somewhat  as  in  the  stanias  of  "In  Memo- 
nam."  Their  descriptive  sub-tide,  "from 
the  Portuguese,"  is  understood  to  be  a  fic- 
tion, a  thin  veil  of  disguise,  a  faint  perfume 
of  foreignneas  to  put  tbe  reader  off  the 
scenL  This  woman,  love-consumed,  would 
cover  her  face,  as  it  were,  while  she  un- 
covers ber  heart.  The  form  chosen  for  pre- 
senting the  Sonnets  in  the  volume  before  us 
is  a  large  oblong  folio  made  of  very  heavy 
paper,  and  bound  in  covers  of  light  gray  or 
ash  color,  with  decorations  in  silver,  gilt,  and 
blue.  Each  Sonnet  has  a  page  to  itself,  the 
right-hand  page,  and  is  preceded  by  a  vig- 
nette title,  also  occupying  an  entire  page ; 
so  that  as  yon  open  the  huge  book  which  is 
almost  a  thick  portfolio,  only  tbe  right-hand 
pages  display  any  contents.  The  text  of 
the  Sonnets  is  printed  in  large  antique  capi- 

'    -fHfTn    anil    Mr      Imoii'a    «nrV    has   nuw 


sisted  in  framing  each  one,  and  the  tide  of 
each  one,  in  ornamental  borders,  whose  de- 
tails are  meant  to  be  emblematic  of  Qie 
poet's  thought,  and  as  far  as  possible  picto- 
rially  in  sympathy  with  her  feeling  and  im- 
agination. The  titie  vignettes  are  round ; 
the  borders  of  the  sonnets  make  an  oblong 
panel  against  the  page.  The  designs  show 
variety  and  versatility.  They  introduce 
some  geometrical  patterns  aud  conventional 
figures,  plentiful  scroll  work,  flowers,  fruits, 
vines,  angelic,  cherubic,  and  human  forms, 
and  now  and  then  a  cottage  casement,  a 
group  of  birds  upon  the  branches,  fluttering 
butterflies,  sheafs  of  autumn  products.  All 
are  printed  in  a  brownish  ink  of  soft  and 
pleasing  tint  The  examiner  of  the  volume 
will  probably  first  find  himself  studying  these 
borders  and  vignettes,  to  master  their 
curious  and  intricate  detail  and  to  detect 
their  secret  relationship  to  the  lines  they 
accompany;  and  not  till  after  this  attention 
to  the  frame  will  he  turn  to  tbe  picture 
within  it  —  the  poet's  verse.  It  is  hardly 
needful  to  say  that  one  should  not  attempt 
a  first  reading  of  "Sonnets  from  the  Portu- 
guese" in  such  a  form  as  this.  When  ac- 
quaintance has  been  made  with  them  in 
a  plainer  dress,  when  they  have  become 
familiar,  have  been  "learned  by  heart,"  then 
this  beautiful  decoration  of  them  will  be 
rightiy  in  order.  Of  course  such  a  massive 
art-book  as  this  is  not  for  the  shelf,  but  for 
the  table,  to  whose  fumishment  it  is  well 
suited.  Few  volumes  of  the  season  will 
make  a  more  comtnanding  aj^eal  to  either 
eye  or  heart 

PEB8IA  AND  THE  PEBSUN8.' 

THE  wheel  of  political  selection,  which 
in  this  instance  was  an  instrument  of 
natural  selection,  rolling  around  between 
the  years  of  1882  and  [885,  picked  up  Mr. 
5.  G.  W.  Benjamin,  artist  and  author,  lifted 
him  to  the  distinguished  post  of  United 
States  Minister  to  Persia,  and  left  him  there 
long  enough  not  only  to  serve  his  country 
with  honor,  but  to  collect  the  materials  for 
this  handsome  work,  one  of  tbe  handsomest 
as  it  is  one  of  the  roost  interesting  of  the 
year.  One  hardly  knows  whether  to  call  it 
a  small  quarto  or  a  large  octavo ;  thick  it  is 
and  heavy,  solid  and  rich  with  the  value  of 
choice  paper,  large  type,  generous  margins, 
uncut  edges,  plentiful  illustrations,  and  about 
five  hnndred  pages  of  reading  matter.  A 
steel  portrait  of  the  author  faces  the  title- 
page,  a  young,  wide-awake,  keen-eyed  man, 
as  erect  as  a  soldier.  A  short  preface  ac- 
counts for  tbe  book,  and  explains  the  princi- 
ples that  have  been  followed  in  the  spelling 
and  pronunciation  of  Persian  names. 

It   was  a  fair  May  morning    when  the 
steamer,  bearing  our    minister    across  the  ^ 
Euxine,  approached  the  red  roofs  and  gray 


*PcrB>  udthe  Pen 


.    Br  S.  G.  W.  Bmjimb. 


430 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Nov.  27, 


walls  of  uident  Trebizond.  Eighty  miles 
fnrtber  brought  him  to  Batonm,  the  kst  port 
before  Poti,  whence  s  railway,  a  marvel  of 
engioeeriag  skill,  runs  to  Tillis  through  en- 
chanting scenery,  and  on  to  Balcn  upon  the 
Casfuan  Sea.  A  handsome  Georgian  prince 
was  his  fellow-passenger  on  the  train.  This 
railway  was  but  just  opened,  and  was  a 
happy  escape  from  the  crazy  old  troitlus 
over  rough  mountain  passes.  Baku  Is  the 
depot  of  the  great  petroleum  district,  whose 
outflow  is  beginning  to  disturb  the  sensibili- 
ties of  the  Standard  Oil  Coropjuiy.  Cross- 
ing an  arm  of  the  Caspian  by  a  steamer 
which  rivaled  the  famed  transports  of  the 
English  Channel,  Enzell  was  reached,  for  a 
first  foothold  in  Persia,  where  Persian  for- 
malities of  attention  began,  and  the  short 
post-chaise  jonmey  to  Teheran. 

Teheran,  Persia's  capital,  fairly  reached, 
we  settle  down  with  our  author  and  his 
household  to  three  years  of  residence  amidst 
novel  and  striking  scenes.  Here  we  xre  in 
a  land  which  history  and  imagination  alike 
have  made  memorable  ;  land  of  Cyrus,  Da- 
rius, and  Xerxes;  of  Zoroaster  and  Chos- 
Toes;  of  caliph  and  prophet,  of  shah  and 
virier,  land  of  the  sources  of  the  Arabian 
Nights  and  of  the  poetry  of  Saadi  and 
Ha&z.  A  greatly  varied  land  Mr.  Benja- 
min describes  it  as  being;  moist,  fertile,  and 
alb^ther  lovely  beyond  the  mountains 
towards  the  north,  lofty,  dry,  sterile  in  its 
central  portions  ;  its  vast  table-lands  swept 
by  wind  storms  ;  dotted  with  fortified  villagt 
and  with  artificial  mounds  like  the  tumuli  of 
Troy,  and  wasted  here  and  there  with  des- 
erts which  look  like  the  beds  of  former  ii 
land  seas.  A  land  of  silence  is  Persia.  The 
stiUoesB  everywhere  is  profound.  No  bells 
ring  out  on  the  air  of  the  cities;  the  locomo- 
tive whistle  is  yet  in  the  distance;  the 
whirring  wheels  of  factories  are  yet  to  re- 
volve. 

Teheran  lies  in  the  great  central  plateau, 
3,500  feet  above  the  sea.  Snow  covers  the 
surrounding  peaks  all  summer  long.  Forty 
miles  to  the  northeast  rises  the  mighty  peak 
of  Demarvbid,  20,000  feet  high.  A  busy, 
growing  town  is  Teheran,  walled  and  many, 
gated,  and  architecturally  handsome. 

It  is  iDteresting  to  witch  the  buitdere  al  work. 
They  wear  long  lunics,  which  «re  tucked  inia 
their  girdles  when  working,  displaying  s  lenglh 
and  muscular  development  of  limb  I  have  never 
seen  equalled  elsewhere.  The  one  above  lings 
out  in  musical  tone,  "  Brother,  in  the  nai 
God,  toss  me  a  brick  1 "  The  one  below, 
throws  the  brick,  sinn  in  reply,  "Oh. 
brolliert  [or,  oh,  son  of  my  uncle  I]  in  the  name 
of  God,  behold  a  brick  t " 

The  city  has  its  old  part  and  its  new,  the 
latter  the  European  quarter.  The  royal  pal- 
ace Is  worthy  of  European  comparisons ;  its 
grand  audience  chamber  is  one  of  the 
imposing  halls  in  the  world.  Here  are 
stored  many  of  the  crown  jewels,  and  vast 
reserves  at  coin  and  bullion.  The  fabled 
^lendors  of  the  past  find  here  a  foundation 
in  present  fact.      The  town   has  its  well- 


stocked  bazaars,  and  its  streets  are  traversed 
by  donkey  pedlers  laden  with  ancient  rugs  of 
Kurdistin,  priceless  shawls  from  Cashmere, 
weapons  and  armor  inlaid  with  precious 
metals,  carved  ivories,  enameled  caskets  of 
gold  and  silver,  plaques  and  tiles  out  of  the 
centuries,  coins  and  manuscripts,  filigree* 
and  the  furs  of  Astrakhan.  Itinerant  barbers 
ply  their  trade.  The  schools  are  open  to 
the  streets.  Business  goes  on  upon  the 
sidewalks.  Life  is  essentially  an  out-door 
life.  The  morning  bath,  the  noon-day  siesta, 
the  twilight  smoke  mark  the  succession  of 
the  hours.  The  national  beverage  is  tea, 
and  at  evening  the  tea-houses  are  thronged. 
Afternoon  or  early  morning  is  the  time  for 
calls,  but  a  Persian  gentleman  never  calls 
a  Persian  lady.  The  face  of  a  woman  one 
seldom  sees ;  no  one  would  dare  to  lift  her 
veil.  The  very  houses  arc  built  for  secrecy- 
Besides  opening  chapters  on  Teheran  and 
its  environs  Mr.  Benjamin  writes  at  consid- 
erable length,  in  turn,  of  the  Races  of  Per- 
sia, the  Royal  Family,  and  the  Leading 
Officers  of  the  Government ;  of  the  Arts  of 
Persia  and  its  Religious  and  Philosophical 
Sects  ;  of  Mountaineering  and  the  Persian 
Passion  Play;  of  the  Resources,  Products, 
Trade  and  Laws  of  the  land ;  of  some  of 
its  Nooks  and  Corners,  as  seen  in  course  oi 
an  ezcnrsion  towards  the  Caspian ;  and  of 
the  Political  Situation  and  Prospects,  ren- 
dered important  in  the  light  of  Russo-British 
movements  in  Central  Asia.  Persia  has  no 
debt,  a  strong  government,  and  money. 
Mohammedanism  is  a  bar  to  progress.  So 
is  Russian  jealousy.  German  relations 
however  are  favorable.  With  a  fair  chance 
and  hands  ofl,  Persia's  future  is  encourag- 
ing, and  Mr.  Benjamin's  book  about  her 
do  her  good  service.  There  is  careful  ob- 
servation in  it,  effective  description,  sound 
reflection,  and  the  quality  of  positive  inter- 
est. 


IHAGIHATION  IV  UVDSOAPE 
PAIHTIHa.* 
T  NTELLECTUAL  American  students  of 
*■  art  are  indebted  to  the  Messrs.  Roberts 
Brothers  of  Boston  for  prompt  reproduction 
of  all  Mr.  Hamerton's  writings,  though  it 
an  exception  that  a  work  from  him  takes 
form  so  displayed  as  the  present  treatise  on 
Imaginatiim  in  Landscapt  Patnting.  The 
book,  a  broad,  thin  quarto,  is  of  London 
make.  If  we  admit  it  to  a  place  in 
holiday  procession  it  is  distincUy  because  of 
its  dress,  and  not  because  of  its  contents, 
which  are  of  a  more  scientific  and  profes- 
sional cast  than  are  commonly  associated 
with  the  literature  of  the  Christmas  season. 
The  size  and  shape  of  the  book  are  neces- 
sitated, however,  by  the  larger  of  the  plates, 
of  which  there  are  fourteen,  some  etdiinga, 
and  others  engravings  on  steel.     Besides 


these  fuU-page  plates,  there  are  perhaps 
twice  as  many  wood-cuts  in  the  text  Were 
it  not  for  this  pictorial  furniture,  the  letter- 
press might  easily  have  been  put  into  the 
compass  of  a  text'^took.  And  a  text-book  it 
is,  not  a  book  to  be  read  for  pleasure,  not 
to  be  examined  as  an  art-portfolio, 
but  one  to  be  studied  for  profit. 

Mr.  Hamerton  is  a  highly  intellectual 
writer,  as  well  as  an  authority  ^in  art  This 
work  is  an  excnrsion  into  the  border  land 
between  art  and  psychology.  Or  rather,  as 
an  excursion,  it  begins  away  over  in  that 
border  land  of  met^ysics  and  works  its 
way  back  into  the  nearer  ground  of  the 
imagination  ap[4ied  in  works  of  architecture 
and  landscape  painting.  What  is  the  im- 
agination? Are  there  more  senses  of  the 
word  than  one?  What  are  they?  What  is 
the  difference  between  imagination  and 
memory?  How  is  the  memory,  that  ante- 
chamber of  the  imagination,  to  be  utilized 
!  of  art?  Where  runs  that 
fine  line  between  gifts  and  acquired  skill, 
between  what  we  sometimes  call  genius  and 
talent?  These  are  the  kind  of  questions 
whose  consideration  occupies  Mr.  Hamer- 
ton's opening  chapters. 

Having  settled  on  the  true  quality,  scope, 
and  function  of  the  artist's  imagination,  he 
proceeds  to  follow  out  its  workings  as 
applied  to  outlines  in  nature,  to  forms  of 
buildings,  to  the  element  of  distance,  and 
to  the  modifications  of  fact.  Turner,  as  a 
great  and  sometimes  dangerous  example, 
is  conatantiy  referred  to,  though  his  works 
are  not  cited  so  frequently  in  illustration  as 
perhaps  would  be  expected.  The  charm 
with  which  Mr.  Hamerton  invests  hia  subject 

well  set  forth  in  the  following  simple  par- 
agraph —  simple  but  how  telling  1 

There  is  no  human  pursuit  which  gives  such 
excellent  opportonitiei  for  observing  fife  quietly 
and  dlentlv  as  the  occupation  of  a  landacape- 
painter.  He  dts  for  hours  together  apparently 
absorbed  in  painting  a  cottage  or  a  group  of 
B,  yet  in  ■  purely  accidental  way  he  will  Me 

life  of   the  little  place  far  better  than  the 

Kjuire  when  he  comes  to  pay  bis  visit  of  patron- 
age or  kindness.  In  a  very  ahoit  time  people 
entirely  forget  his  presence,  and  go  on  with  their 
life  and  talk  cMCtly  as  if  he  were  not  there. 
Hour  by  hour  he  Is  a  privileged  apccuior.  He 
supposed  to  be  entirely  occupied  with   his 


iting,  which  bccomea  a  sort   of  s 
'  'lehind  it  there  is        ' "  _    ' 

hear.  .  .  .  Hence  it  may  come  to  pass, 


and  behind  it  there  is  nothing  that  he  may 


I«DdKapc  Palnuni,    By  Pbllip  Gil- 
ban    HuncruiL      WiUi    Minr 
BrMhen.    Ks». 


not  see  or  L . 

after  some  years  of  sketching  from  nature,  that 
s  landscape-painter  has  quite  an  exceptionally 
turge  acquaintance  with  common  out-of-door  ex- 
iitence )  and  if  he  is  imaginative  he  has  a  great 
store  of  reminiscences  to  draw  upon  for  the 
invention  of  foreground  incident.. 

The  argument  of  this  book  bears  on  the 
allowance  and  the  regulation  of  a  certain 
degree  of  imagination  in  landscape  paiikting ; 
to  justify,  for  instance,  so  far  as  it  is  justi- 
fiable, that  departure  from  absolute  truth 
which  was  so  notorious  in  Turner;  to  differ- 
entiate between  what  the  French  would 
call  the  movablts  and  the  iMmovaiUs.  A 
farm-house,  Mr.  Hamerton  would  say,  was 
a  mffvailt,  it  might  be    adjusted    by    the 


l886.] 


TUsE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


411 


painter's  tmaginatioii  to  init  his  cximposE- 
tion;  but  Bunker  Hill  MoDument,  or  the 
Bartholdl  Statue  of  Liberty,  would  be  an 
immovaiU,  which  roust  be  depicted  in  stem 
conformitj  to  fact  In  other  words  both 
prose  and  poetry  have  rights  in  landscape 
punting,  and  the  tme  artist  is  he  who 
knows  where  the  prose  leaves  off  and  the 
poetry  may  begin.  To  this  delicate  knowl- 
edge this  book  is  guide. 


THE  VIOAE  OF  WAKEFIELD.' 

The  appearance  of  this  unique  edition  of 
Goldsmith's  Vkar  of  fVakefitld  suggests 
the  thought  that  an  interesting  literary 
ch^iter  would  be  a  bibliography  of  that 
immortal  fiction.  Something  may  be  said, 
doubtless,  aa  to  the  orerestiaiation  of  the 
work  itself,  and  the  iroproveroenta  of  taste 
In  a  hundred  years  would  condemn  it  at 
certain  points;  but  all  exceptions  taken,  it 
remains  one  of  the  monumental  writings  of 
the  eighteenth  century,  and  its  place  in  Eng- 
lish literature  it  will  never  lose.  Goldsmith 
was  bom  in  1728  and  died  in  1774.  The 
Vicar  of  Wakefitld,  written  in  lodgings 
whose  rent  he  could  not  pay,  over  a  bottle 
of  Madeira  which  be  ought  not  to  have 
uncorked,  was  pubUahed  in  1766,  Dr.  John- 
son negotiatiag  the  sale  of  the  manuscript 
for  ^60.  The  first  edition  was  in  two  vol- 
nmeSj  t2mo,  at  fir.  Within  two  months  a 
second  edition  was  called  for,  within  five  a 
third,  and  a  sixth  was  reached  before  the 
author's  death.  The  list  of  editions  since 
that  lime  is  long  and  interesting,  including 
a  Large  Paper,  London,  1792;  a  Paris, 
stereotyped,  1799,  with  two  copies  on  vel- 
lum; a  second,  Paris,  1800,  again  with  two 
copies  on  vellum,  one  of  which  containing 
original  drawing  and  proof-plates  was  sold 
at  Sotheby's,  London,  in  185^  for  £,t,  and 
a  London,  1841,  with  zoo  wood  engravings 
by  Dorrington.  Perhaps  a  dozen  different 
and  generally  low-priced  editions  are  now 
on  the  market  in  this  country. 

The  present  edition  is  probably  of  Eng- 
lish manufacture,  though  bearingthe  imprint 
of  the  New  York  branch  of  the  London 
publishers.  It  is  a  generous  octavo  of  290 
pages.  The  paper  is  heavy,  slightly  tinted, 
and  of  medium  finish.  The  margins  are 
broad.  The  top  is  gilt,  the  side  and  bottom 
edges  are  undressed.  The  type  is  good, 
and  the  typography  generally 
though  we  notice  "innstaces"  fo: 
on  p.  107,  and  an  occasional  carelessness  in 
spacing.  The  cover  is  of  light  gray,  lettered 
in  Mack,  and  jauntily  decorated  with  vignette 
figures  in  color. 

The  distinction  of  the  book  is  its  illustra- 
tions, of  which  there  are  one  hundred  and 
fourteen.      They  are  colored   throughout, 


and  they  are  very  entertaining.  They  con- 
sist of  title  vignettes  at  the  beginning  of 
chapters,  initial  letters,  and  insertions  in  the 
While  generally  small,  and  so  adding 
the  daintiness  and  delicacy  of  miniature 
painting  to  their  prevailing  correctness  of 
drawing  and  charm  of  color,  they  are  marked 
by  no  uniformity  of  shape  or  size,  and  avoid 
all  setness  of  style.  Each  is  a  law  unto 
itself.  They  are  equally  skillful  in  landscape 
and  In  figure ;  and  we  can  best  describe 
their  general  aspect  and  impression  by  say- 
ing that  they  are  Kate  Greenaway  scenery 
peopled  no  longer  by  babies  and  childreni 
but  by  grown  men  and  women.  There  is 
always  the  same  careful  drawing,  whatever 
the  subject  may  be,  the  same  conscientious 
attention  to  small  details,  the  same  clever, 
half -concealed,  grave  combination  of  nature 
and  caricature,  the  same  affectionate  sym- 
pathy with  what  is  most  characteristic  in 
English  architecture  and  country  life,  the 
same  tender  feeling  towards  the  quaint,  the 
antique,  and  the  venerable,  the  same  playful 
mood  towards  common  and  familiar  objects 
of  every  day,  the  same  love  for  birds,  butter- 
flies, and  flowers.  The  lumbering  old  stage- 
coach gallops  past  the  wayside  inn.  The 
luggage  van  toils  slowly  up  the  country 
road.  The  Vicar  and  Miss  Wilmot  stroll 
from  the  door  of  Mr.  Arnold's  country 
house  down  the  steps  into  the  garden.  The 
vicarage  is  seen  bursting  into  flames.  The 
kettle  hangs  on  the  crane  in  the  huge  open 
fire-place  in  the  kitchen  in  the  public-house. 
Thomhill  Castie  reposes  by  the  lake  with 
the  blue  mountains.in  the  distance.  There 
is  nothing  large  or  loud  about  any  of  these 
pictures.  They  Interest  and  please  by  their 
minuteness  and  fineness,  by  their  brightness 
and  warmth,  by  their  quietness,  by  their 
pertinency  to  the  text,  by  their  apt  repro- 
duction of  the  salient  points  in  the  stoiy,  by 
their  harmony  with  history,  by  their  artistic 
truth  and  mechanical  merit  Externally  of 
the  same  class  with  the  drawings  ii 
Frsnckweman  of  the  Centtiry,  elsewhere 
described,  they  are  raised  above  them  by 
their  domesticity  and  moral  sweetness. 


■  Tbe  Vku-  ol  Wiksfiald.  Bt  Oliirer  Gddmith.  With 
PrthlOfyMiBKrlrbTGeoiscSiiptaburT.  And  One  Hnn- 
dred  ud  FnonMu  Celanrnl  UloujtUoni.    Gsoiia  Root. 

MgtftSOU.     fl-CD. 


A  inr&AKASA  SLADE.* 

[N  this  simple  but  finely-wrongbt  tale  of 
A  Muramasa  Blade,  Mr.  Louis  Wer- 
theimber,  an  Austrian  by  birth,  an  American 
by  education,  and  a  Japanese  by  years  of 
sympathetic  association  with  that  nation, 
has  presented  in  a  graceful  and  impressive 
form  the  essence  of  the  chivalric  spirit 
which,  with  the  watchword,  "  The  sword  Is 
the  soul  of  the  samurai,"  was  the  ruling 
motive  in  the  social  activity  of  feudal  Japan. 
The  story  takes  us  at  once  back  to  the 
beginning  of  the  fourteenth  century  to 
the  brief  period  of  peace  which  preceded 
the  famous  revolt  against  the  tyranny  of  the 


n  Old 


HftjB  chieftains  and  the  establishment  of 
unfettered  imperial  rule.  At  this  date 
flourished  Senjuin  Muramasa,  the  most 
celebrated  of  all  the  sword-makers  of 
Japan,  and  the  personality  of  the  grim  and 
fiery  artisan  is  admirably  depicted.  The 
weapons  forged  by  him  were  reputed  to 
be  possessed  of  supernatural  power,  and 
there  were  superstitious  legends  to  the 
effect  that  they  were  tempered  in  human 
blood.  Muramasa  dwelt  in  the  dominions 
of  the  battie-loving  nobleman,  Ono  go  Sawa, 
whose  court  on  the  occasion  of  certain 
festivities  comes  a  mysterious  stranger,  who, 
by  his  feats  of  arms,  acquires  at  once  dig- 
nity and  importance.  He  is  taken  into  the 
of  the  duke  as  chamberlain,  and 
devotes  all  his  leisure  time  to  the  education 
of  his  son,  Sennoske,  who  is  the  hero  of 
the  story.  Sennoske  receives  the  ph3rsical 
and  intellectual  training  demanded  of  a 
samurai,  and  to  this  end  the  sword-maker, 
Muramasa,  contributes  not  a  little  by  his 
lessons  in  swordsmanship  and  tales  of  daring. 
Muramasa  bad  a  daughter,  O  Tetsu,  of 
whose  charms  the  young  and  ardent  Sen- 
noske soon  became  enamored.  "  Fair  and 
fresh  and  beautiful  as  a  summer  mom, 
graceful  as  a  Japanese  lily,  witb  wonderful 
eyes,  lustrous  and  brilliant,  and  shining  with 
a  peculiar  humid  brightness  wblch  suffused 
rather  covered  them,  as  if  with  a  reful- 
gent and  yet  a  transparent  veil,  and  with  a 
voice  whose  sweet  melody  lingered  in  your 
ears  for  days  and  weeks  after  you  beard  It, 
O  Tetsu  might  well  lay  claim  to  be  con- 
sidered peerless  throughout  the  land."  Sen- 
noske's  suit  is  favored  by  the  sword-smlth, 
and  when  the  young  hero  announces  bis 
Intention  of  joining  the  imperial  army,  he 
is  presented  with  the  finest  specimen  of  the 
artisan's  skill  —  a  glorious  weapon  which 
enables  him  to  perform  wonderful  deeds  of 
bravery.  On  his  return  from  the  war  with 
all  his  blushing  honors  thick  upoo  him 
Sennoske  falls  in  with  his  father's  enemy, 
the  man  who  had  brought  disgrace  and  ruin 
upon  his  house.  In  a  chapter  written  with 
moch  spirit  and  vralsemblance  it  is  related 
how  Sennoske  avenged  the  wrongs  of  his 
family  and  wiped  out  the  disgrace  in  blood. 
Then  the  brave  youth  married  his  O  Tetsu, 
and  the  two  lived  happily  together  ever 
after.  The  famous  sword  was  passed  down 
through  a  long  line  of  worthy  ancestry  till 
the  decree  abolishing  feudalism  was  issued 
and  the  supremacy  of  the  samurai,  which 
had  been  maintained  for  twenty-five  cen- 
turies, was  at  an  end.  The  last  of  the  line 
of  Sennoske,  devoid  of  the  educatioo  or 
qualifications  demanded  by  the  new  order 
of  thinga,  sank  tower  and  lower  in  the 
social  scale  until  only  the  most  degraded 
position  of  all  was  open  to  him,  and  he 
became  "  a  po<»',  ragged,  despised  jinrUiuha 
man,  but  with  a  glorious  heritage  in  the 
superb  Muramasa  blade  which  hangs  on 
the  walls  of  his  hut"    All  this  Mr.  Wei^ 


422 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Nov.  27 


theimber  relates  with  a  graceful  verisimili- 
tude that  retaiaa  the  attention  of  the  reader 
and  affords  both  eDtertaioment  and  instruc- 
tion. The  illustratioDs  are  unique.  Those 
drawn  and  etignived  on  copper  by  Nakamura 
Munehiro,  who,  the  author  assures  us,  is 
now  one  of  the  best  engravers  !n  Japan, 
afford  an  excellent  opportunity  for  the  study 
of  the  phase  of  native  art  which  they  repre- 
sent Their  strength  and  delicacy  are  alike 
noteworthy.  The  other  pictures,  engraved 
from  designs  by  Shirayama  Dani,  a  young 
porcelain  painter  of  Boston,  are  excellent 
in  variety  of  subject  and  cleameRs  of  execu- 
tion. The  drawing  is  firm  and  true,  and  in 
agreeable,  rather  than  slavish,  conformity 
with  the  canons  of  Japanese  art  Tbi 
volame  as  a  whole  is  a  welcome  addition  U 
the  books  of  the  day,  and  will  be  likely  to 
retain  a  permanent  interest  and  value, 
faithful  record  of  a  by-gone  era  in  the  his- 
tory of  a  nation  which  has  so  marvelously 
broken  with  the  traditions  of  a  barbaric  but 
'  splendid  past 

THE  LAY  OF  THE  LAST  HIIBTBEL* 

THE  artists  who  have  made  the  drawings 
for  this  edition  of  Scott's  Lay  of  Ai 
Last  Minstrtl  are  Messrs.  Harper,  Myrick, 
Garrett,  Merrill,  and  Ipsen;  the  engravers 
are  Anthony,  Sylvester,  Lyouns,  Johnson, 
and  Andrew  &  Son.  With  one  or 
ceptions  the  pictures  are  small  enough  to  be 
inserted  in  the  text,  and  include  merely 
ornamental  head  and  tail-pieces,  as  well  as 
views  and  figures  described  in  the  poems. 
There  are  but  two  whole-page  cuts  we  be- 
lieve. The  paper  is  heavy,  the  type  large, 
the  margins  are  wide,  the  edges  are  gilt,  and 
the  size  is  an  ample  octavo. 

A  dozen  years  ago  such  a  book  would 
have  been  accounted  one  of  the  masterpieces 
of  the  holiday  press;  but  the  more  magnifi- 
cent dimensions  and  the  improved  art  proc- 
esses which  characterise  some  of  the  prodt 
tions  of  the  present  and  the  last  one  or  ty 
seasons,  leave  it  behind.  Yet  it 
not  a  book  to  be  lightly  esteemed.  Its 
■object  is  a  famous  and  popular  poem, 
classic  in  the  language.  And  its  outward 
appearance  has  traits  of  excellence  and 
beauty- 
There  are  about  one  hundred  engravings, 
all  told.  One  of  the  first  to  be  noted  is  a 
view  of  Melrose  Abbey  by  moonlight,  a 
which  some  one  has  recently  affirmed  to  be 
scientifically  impossible.  But  this  affirma- 
tion is  a  mistake.  The  picture  of  the  Abbey 
is  truthful  and  gives  a  good  idea  of  it,  only 
the  observer  must  fill  in  the  surrounding 
buildings  of  the  town,  close  to  the  center  of 
which  the  Abbey  stands.  Of  the  drawings 
as  a  whole  it  will  not  be  said  that  they  are 
the  best  which  are  to  be  seen  in  any  book  of 
the  season;  and  as  a  rule  the  ornamental 


designs  are  of  better  quality  than  the  scenes. 
The  Utter  lack  the  precision,  the  delicacy, 
the  conscientious  finish  which  elevate  the 
finest  work.  It  can  be  said  of  them  how- 
that  they  have  respectable  merit,  and 
of  the  typography  in  general  that  it  is  good. 
The  cover  is  rich  with  emblematic  devices. 


THE  HAHOGAFT  TBEB.' 

THE  size  of  this  book,  a  broad  quarto, 
and  its  character  as  well,  give  it 
place  in  the  leading  rank  of  holiday  pvblii 
tions.    The  poem  of  Thackeray's  which  is 
the  basis  of    it  is  a  short  lyric  of  eight 
stanzas,  which  first  appeared  in  Pufwh 
January,  1847.     It  is  a  convivial  song,  which 
ts  audior  once  described  as  "Bacchanar 
lian,"  and  directed  "  to  be  sung  after  dii 
The  "mahogany  tree"  is,  of  course,  the 
tabic  around  which  the  Christmas  revellei 
gathered.      They  eat,  drink,  and   ai 
merry ;    dull   care   is   driven   away,   sorro 
waits  without;  to  pile  up  the  glowing  fire, 
to    fill  the  steaming  bowl,  to  quaff    each 
others'  health,  to  forget  everything  but  the 
pleasure  of  the  moment,  to  drown  unhappy 
or  unwelcome  forebodings 
of  mirth,  this  is  the  philosophy  of  the 
song.    We  do  not  think  much  of  the  song, 
and  we  think  less  of  the  philosophy.     It 
seems    a    pity  to  expend  so  much    pains 
upon  the  embellishment  of  a  trifle  to  which 
its  author  did  not  choose  to  attach  his  name, 
and    which   nobody  but    the    light-hearted 
Doyle  ever  seems  to  have  thought  worthy 
of  the  pencil. 

However,  here  it  is  to  all  the  glory  of 
spacious  pages,  wide  margins,  profuse  and 
spirited  illustration,  and  elegant  binding. 
There  are  between  twenty  and  thirty 
sketches,  and  of  them  we  have  nothing 
to  say  but  in  praise.  They  have  life,  grace, 
and  beauty ;  they  catch  the  meaning  of  the 
poem  and  give  it  effective  interpretation. 
The  title-page,  with  its  red  initials  and  its 
"laying  of  the  cloth,"  is  an  inviting  pictorial 
introduction.  Mr.  James  Jeffrey  Roche  fur- 
nishes a  well-written  preface,  accounting  for 
the  poem,  and  defending  Thackeray  against 
criticism  on  two  sides.  This  preface  is 
printed  on  every  alternate  page  only  of  the 
thick  and  heavy  leaves.  The  List  of  Illus- 
trations passed,  we  find  each  stanza  of  the 
poem  first  printed  in  ordinary  type,  and 
then  repeated  on  a  larger  scale  and  in  a 
highly  ornamental  and  irregular  text,  this 
repeated  form  being  the  artist's  opportunity. 
His  drawings  were  first  made,  we  should 
say,  in  pen  and  ink,  or  in  sepia,  and  have 
been  intelligently  engraved  and  printed  in 
brown.  Several  of  the  plates  are  done  in 
phototype  in  tints  of  green.  This  change 
introduces  a  pleasant  effect 

Mr.  Merrill's  part  of  the  work  is  certainly 

*  The  Mahoginy  Tim.  B7  WUliim  Mikepaca  Tluck- 
tnr.  Wilb  IJluunliou  bj  Frwik  T,  Mirnll.  S.  £. 
CuBw.    (6-ie. 


extremely  well  done,  and  he  is  amply  top- 
ported  by  the  book-maker.  His  human  fig- 
ures are  true  and  graceful,  the  accessories 
are  drawn  with  care  and  precision,  every 
detail  is  thoroughly  finished,  and  the  designs 
invite  close  inspection  andendnreit.  Artist- 
ically considered  the  standing  of  this  book 

high.  It  was  a  novel  thought  to  employ 
a  strip  of  mahogany  veneering  in  the  dec- 
oration of  the  cover ;  the  device  is  not 
illegitimate,  and  the  effect  of  it  is  not  bad. 

We  must  not  omit  mention  of  the  portrait 
of  Thackeray,  on  luiia.  or  Japanese  paper, 
inserted  as  a  frontispiece. 


THE  EABL'B  aETTJM,' 

THE  production  of  this  poem  by  "Owen 
Meredith  "  in  its  present  form  was  per- 
haps suggested  by  the  popularity  of  the  same 
author's  LtuiU.  This  is  a  less  ambitious 
and  elaborate  writing  than  that,  being  in  fact 
only  a  brief  though  pathetic  tale  of  feudal 
times,  highly  wrought,  of  a  fair  young  wife 
living  in  the  casde  by  the  sea,  who  died  at 
the  first  touch  of  her  rough  husband,  return- 
ing after  long  delay,  and  of  the  after  tragedy 
that  swept  away  both  the  castle  and  its  lord 
in  a  tempest  of  assault  and  fire.  The  poem, 
with  its  marked  objective  quality  and  rich 
imagery,  is  a  strong  subject  for  the  artist, 
and  Mr.  Taylor's  use  of  its  materials  and 
suggestions  warrant  the  expenditure  with 
which  the  publishers  have  carried  out  his 
designs.  From  the  cover,  of  grayish-green 
linen,  with  its  classic  lettering,  and  its  single 
but  exquisite  vignette,  down  to  the  last  tai^ 
piece  that  completes  the  series  of  illustra- 
tions, the  volume  is  a  work  of  rare  art  and 
delicate  beauty,  the  entire  aspect  of  which 
calls  forth  sincere  admiration.  Mr.  Taylor, 
whose  acquaintance  we  have  made  within 
only  a  few  years,  is  an  acceptable  illustrator, 
and  his  larger  plates,  the  full-page  pictures, 
done  by  the  phototype  process  in  tints,are  a 
series  of  extraordinary  merit 

The  minor  points  of  the  book  are  also  no- 
ticeable. One  face  of  the  heavy  paper  of 
which  the  book  is  made  shows  a  faintly 
tinted  border  to  each  page,  within  which  on 
a  white  surface  the  text  is  printed.  Across 
this  text  sometimes  lies  a  spray  of  fiowers 
or  leaves,  and  worked  into  the  spaces  around 
are  vignettes  engraved  on  wood,  furnishing 
a  running  pictorial  comment  on  the  tale. 
There  are  a  few  full-page  and  half-page 
wood-cuts.  The  phototypes  number  eight, 
and  are  chiefiy  occupied  with  views  of  the 
grand  old  castle  by  the  sea,  which  looks  as 
if  it  might  have  been  patterned  after  Mount 
St  Michel,  on  the  French  coast,  and  with 
the  figures  of  the  savage  l»ron  and  his  frail 
young  wife  in  the  relations  which  the  poem 
describes.  The  castle  court,  and  the  funeral 
procession  carrying  the  casket  to  its  resting- 
place  by  the  shore,  are  the  two  most  effective 


1886.] 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


423 


scenes,  next  to  that  of  the  castle  itseU  with 
the  waves  beating  angrily  at  its  base.  Some 
oE  the  smallest  bits  of  pencilling  sprinkled 
along  with  the  text  are  not  the  least  pleasing 
of  its  embellishments.  And  one  looks  with 
respect  upon  the  manifold  evidences  of  lov^ 
ing  thought  and  patient  work  which  have 
entered  into  the  preparation  of  the  book. 


OEBIBT  AHD  HIS  0B088. 

THE  first  thoughts  of  some  sensitive 
Christian  minds  might  be  thoughts  of 
surprise  that  any  books  coming  under  such 
a  head  as  this  should  be  included  in  a  survey 
of  Holiday  Publications.  But  will  not  sec- 
ond thoughts  suggest  that  no  book  after 
all  can  be  more  appropriate  to  Christmas 
Tide,  or  be  more  strictly  entitled  to  a  promi- 
nent place  in  its  literature,  than  one  whose 
subject  is  any  aspect  of  the  person  or  any 
phase  of  the  history  of  Him,  the  name  and 
memory  of  whom  give  to  the  season  all  its 
life  and  power?  There  appeared  in  the 
Ctntury  magazine  a  few  months  ago  an  illus- 
trated article  of  some  interest  on  the  Por- 
truts  of  Christ  Of  that  article  the  first*  of 
the  two  volumes  now  under  notice  may  be 
regarded  as  a  sort  of  extension,  although  en- 
tirely independent  and  antecedent.  The 
preparation  of  it  was  the  one  work  to  which 
the  late  Mr.  Heaphy  had  given  the  greater 
part  of  his  life.  It  originally  appeared  in  Lon- 
don in  1 8S0,  in  an  edition  of  250  copies,  which 
was  quickly  sold  out,  and  is  now  reprinted 
Id  a  cheap  and  popular  form  to  meet 
liderable  demand.  The  likeness  of  Christ, 
as  is  well  known,  is  wholly  a  matter  of  tradi- 
tion. All  that  the  most  reverent  and  earnest 
feeling  can  do  is  to  grope  its  way  backward, 
step  bystep,along  the  historic  lines  of  sacred 
art,  and  recover  the  earliest  possible  at- 
tempts to  put  on  record  received  impres- 
sions. Tbebcstresultsthatwecansecureare 
probably  ideals,  and  Ibe  ideals  are  far  from 
satisfying.  They  are  curious,  however,  they 
have  arcbKological  and  historic  value,  and 
the  collation  of  them  in  such  a  work  as  Mr. 
Heaphy'a  affords  an  interesting  subject  of 
study.  The  author's  connection  with  it 
dates  from  his  childhood,  when  his  pious 
imagination  was  first  touched  by  a  rude  copy 
of  the  well-known  Effigy  of  the  Napki 
From  that  time  on  he  became  an  explor< 
with  the  passion  of  a  devotee,  of  every 
source  which  might  yield  any  authentic  in- 
formation, The  old  churches  of  all  Europe, 
the  museums  of  Italy,  the  galleries  of  Rome, 
the  very  Catacombs,  were  made  in  turn  to 
surrender  their  secrets ;  collections  of  antiq- 
uities and  mosaics  were  turned  over  and 
over ;  sculptures,  frescoes,  mosaics, 
enamels  were  subjected  to  the  closest  scru- 
tiny; the  fabled  search  for  the  Holy  Grail 


■The  Likeneu  ol  Cbml:  bciog  u  laquiT^  m 
TirisinililuilE  of  Ihc  R(CEiT«d  LiktneH  of  our  I 
Lord.  Br  Ilu  lilc  Tbomu  Hupby.  Edited  by  Wykt 
SarliH.  Lendon:  S.F.  C.  K.  New  Vork:  E.  &  J.  B. 
VoaPi  ft  Co.    f  i-io. 


more  thorough  or  more  devoted 

than  this  hunt  of  Mr.  Heaphy's  after  some 

most  primitive  and  authentic  portrait  of 

the  Man  of  Sorrows.    The  volume  before  us 

the  record  of  the  investigation,  a  story  of 
patient,  nnwearying,  single-minded  absorp- 
special  purpose.  Was  the  effort 
successful  P  Yes  and  no.  The  true  IJke- 
of  the  Lord  will  not  probably  ever  be 
found.  We  can  only  make  approaches  to  It. 
Here  are  the  approaches.  Twelve  large 
plates,  in  color  and  gilt,  show  the  principal 
masques,  busts,  and  figures,  recovered  by 
Mr.  Heaphy  from  Cemeteries,  Catacombs, 
Churches,  and  other  monumenta  of  Chris- 
tian Antiquity ;  and  eight  chapters  assemble 
the  critical  data  bearing  on  these  relics  of 
ancient  art  and  recount  the  steps  by  which 
they  were  obtained.  Many  subordinate 
wood-cuts  are  scattered  through  the  text. 
Upon  the  validity  of  Mr.  Heaphy's  argument 

support  of  what  he  conceives  to  be  a  true 
Traditional  Portrait  we  shall  not  pronounce 
an  opinion,  but  turn  the  book  over  to  those 
interested  in  such  investigations  with  the 
e  that  they  will  find  it  well  worth 
their  examination. 

Closely  connected  with  the  foregoing  in 
subject,  though  not  at    all   resembling    it 

itwardly,  is  the  little,  old-looking,  vel- 
lum-bound, metal-clasped,  antique-pictured 
quarto  in  which,  with  an  introduction  by 
John  Ashton  and  a  preface  by  Baring 
Gould,  are  reprinted  from  a  Dutch  book 
a  series  of  Sixty-Four  Wood-cuts 
afiording  in  panoramic  form  The  Legendary 
History  of  the  Cross,'  that  singular  and 
fascinating  myth  in  which  both  the  Qi 
of  Sheba  and  Queen  Helena  play  a  part 
This  book,  with  its  old  Holland-made  papen 
ts  double  red-line  border,  its  old-style  let- 
Ler,  its  rough  and  grossly  irregular  edges, 
and  above  all  its  sixty-four  15th  century 
wood-cuts,  is  a  well-executed  fac-sinule  of 
book  four  hundred  years  old,  and  looks  as 
if  it  might  have  been  taken  bodily  from  the 
shelves  of  some  old  library  in  Nuremburg 
or  Amsterdam. 

The  Invention  of  the  Cross,  as  Qi 
Helena's  finding  of  It  is  called  in  sacred 
history,  is  one  of  the  best  known  of  eccle- 
siastical legends.  It  is  here  related  in  full 
in  Caxton's  standard  form  of  1483,  and  to  it 
are  added  a  few  rude  wood-cuts  in  illustra- 
tion, copied,  curiously  enough,  from  a  col- 
lection of  frescoes  which  once  adorned  the 
Chapel  of  the  Guild  of  the  Holy  Cross,  at 
Stratford-on-Avon,  dose  by  the  later  home 
of  Shakespeare.  The  frescoes  were  de- 
stroyed in  1804. 

The  larger  series  of  wood-cuts,  the  series 
of  sixty-four,  which  are  really  the  basi 
the  book,  and  are  given  consecutively  i: 
closing  pages,  are  copied  from  the  old  book, 
above  mentioned,  printed  at  Kinlenburg  by 


Veldener  in  1483,  of  which  only  three  copies 
are  known.  Their  origin  further  than  this 
is  hidden.  They  were  drawn  originally 
in  thirty-two  blocks,  which  Veldener  cut 
n  halves.  They  tell  a  Legend  of  the  Cross 
of  their  own,  beginning  with  the  Days  of 
Solomon.  As  reproductions  of  ancient 
block-engraving  they  are  striking  and  full 
of  interest,  and  the  whole  book  is  an  at- 
tractive novelty. 


■Tba  UgsndairHuIoiyDf  theCniH.  By  Jobs  Albion. 
Pni«e  br  S.  Buini  Gould.  A.  C.  AnoMrong  4  Sob. 
(3.7S- 


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OLD  OHBISTUAS  AUD  BEAOEBBIDQE 
HALL.* 
HERE  could  the  penetrating,  sly, 
good-natured  pendl  of  Ralph  Calde- 
cott  find  a  moro  inviting  field  in  which  to 
disport  itself  than  in  the  pages  of  Washtng- 
ig's  " Old  Christmas "  and  "Brace- 
bridge  Hall  ?  "  We  do  not  know  with  whom 
this  lamented  caricaturist  could  have  linked 
a  more  companionable  way  than 
with  our  American  humorist  of  the  elder  gen- 
who  himself  was  in  love  with  England, 
and  whose  English  scenes  and  characters 
among  the  most  delightful  that  ever  have 
been  penned. 

Old  Christmas  "  with  Caldecott's  incom- 
parable illustrations  was  first  published  in 
875,  "Bracebridge  Hall"  in  1876;  and 
LOW,  ten  years  later,  by  favor  of  Macmlllan 
&  Co.,  and  from  the  press  of  T.  Be.  T.  Clark, 
Edinburgh,  the  two  works  are  brought 
together  in  a  single  volume,  a  simple  but 
beautiful  octavo,  devoid  of  all  display,  rich 
only  with  excellence  of  paper  and  print,  soft 
to  the  touch  and  to  the  eye,  and  as  fascinat- 
ing a  combination  of  text  and  picture  as  we 
have  seen  this  many  a  day.  A  choice  and 
highly  Savored  book  is  this,  to  look  through 
with  delighted  interest  and  to  read  with  a 
genial  warmth  of  feeling  kindled  by  the 
humor  of  the  author  and  the  sympathy  of 
the  artist 

Who  can  read  these  notes  of  Irving  upon 
traditional  inddents  and  scenes  in  England 
without  a  glow?  The  old  Hall  in  its  winter 
dress ;  the  joyous  approach  of  the  Christ- 
mas festivities,  the  lumbering  old  stage- 
coach laden  with  its  visitors  for  the  holidays, 
the  merriment  of  Christmas  eve,  the  holy 
services  of  Christmas  Day,  and  the  jolly 
reunion  at  the  Christmas  dinner?  And  then 
the  supplementary  life  at  Bracebridge  Hall, 
in  connection  with  the  wedding  that  was  to 
take  place  there,  the  gathering  of  friends  to 
celebrate  the  event,  the  characteristics  of 
the  Squire,  the  idiosyncrasies  of  his  guests, 
the  quiet  romances  enacted  beneath  his  roof, 
the  fidelities  of  old  servants,  the  sports  of 
horsemanship  and  hawking,  the  school-mas- 
ter, politician,  and  other  worthies  of  the  vil- 
lage, the  troubles  of  lovers,  and  finally  the 
joys  of  the  wedding-(lay.  To  those  who 
have  never  read  these  pages,  there  remains 


d  Bncebridgi  Hill,     By  Wuhinflon 
ed  by  RudDlpb  CaUecoU.    Ncv  Edidmi. 


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[Nov.   27, 


one    of   the  charmiDg  books  of  all  liters. 

And  what  an  inexhaustible  source  of  sug. 
gesdon  it  all  is  to  Mr.  Caldecott  I  His  pen 
once  started  never  ceases.  With  a  bit  of 
landscape  here  and  a  figure  there,  now  an 
interior  and  then  a  piece  of  famiture,  he 
illuminates  the  whole  narrative,  until  you 
seem  to  stand  with  the  author  in  the  midst 
of  the  life  he  describes  and  enjoy  with  him 
the  curiosities,  the  honors,  the  pleasures  of 
which  he  gives  so  delicious  an  account 

Take  the  dining-hall  on  Christmas  Day, 
for  example,  after  the  family  are  all  seated 
about  the  long  table  and  the  serving  has 
began.  What  a  study  of  faces,  profiles,  atti- 
tudes, what  character,  vivacity,  and  natural- 
ness !  Here  is  the  sideboard  crowded  with 
the  old  family  plate.  Here  enters  the  pomp- 
ous butler,  bearing  in  a  silver  dish  the 
enormous  pig's  head  decorated  with  rose 
mary,  and  attended  by  a  servant  carrying  a 
wax-light  on  either  side.  Here  comes  the 
butler  again  with  the  steaming  wassail  bowl, 
whose  appearance  is  hailed  with  general 
acclamation,  and  whose  savory  contents 
the  Squire  proceeds  to  stir  with  a,  beaming 
smile  and  a  snuff  of  relish.  How  real  it  all 
is,  and  what  zest  in  the  parti dpatioo. 

The  reader  must  think  of  these  pictures 
as  so  many  oS-hand  sketches,  done  in  a 
lightsome  vein,  of  all  shapes  and  sizes,  scat- 
tered along  in  the  text  just  as  it  happens, 
remarkable  for  the  intelligence  in  them,  the 
humor,  the  sympathy,  and  the  feeling,  more 
than  for  any  mere  mechanical  outlay.  Now 
and  then  there  is  a  prosaic  touch,  and  agaJn 
a  stroke  of  pathos,  or  of  wit,  or  of  tender- 
ness. Never  weary,  never  lagging,  the 
artist  keeps  steady  pace  with  his  author, 
never  violates  good  taste,  never  wounds  a 
sensibility,  never  offends  by  coarseness, 
misses  an  opportunity.  Where  to  get  a 
similar  amount  of  pleasure  we  do  not  know. 

THE  LEQEimS  OF  THE  BASQUEB.* 

THIS  collection  of  the  legends,  fairy 
tales,  and  ballads,  indigenous  to  the 
Basques  is  one  that  has  decided  literary 
value  aside  from  its  importance  as  a  record 
of  traditions  that  are  fast  disappearing  from 
the  memory  of  the  wonderful  race  which 
originated  them.  For  the  Basques,  with  all 
their  individuality  and  intellectual  vigor,have 
no  written  chronicles,  and  their  long  period 
of  proud  Isolation  is  rapidly  coming  to  an 
end.  Sedor  Monteiro  tells  us  that  the  influ- 
ence of  modem  civilization  is  having  its 
effect,  and  the  Basques  are  losing  their  rever- 
ence for  the  old  traditions  and  patriarchal 
customs.  They  are  even  humiliated  with 
the  perception  of  their  own  credulity  and  ig- 
norance. Now,  "even  the  most  rustic  hus- 
bandman appears  ashamed  to  relate  the  tales 


•  Legendj  an 


I  ol  Ihe  Buqua  People.    By 
ilHlioni  ID  FhotoitnTuri  by 


which  he  once  listened  to  with  enthusiasm 
and  religious  faith  ;  and  when  asked  for  a 
story  will  look  askance  suspecting  in  his  in- 
terrogator a  sneer  at  his  simplicity."  SeDor 
Monteiro  is  convinced  that  many  traditions 
have  already  been  lost,  leaving  hardly  a  trace 
of  what  probably  were  precious  refiectioni 
of  historical  events.  The  present  collection 
was  evidently  undertaken  as  a  labor  of  love, 
and  it  has  been  admirably  executed.  There 
are  in  all  twelve  selections,  and  each  has  a 
ipecial  quality  which  differentiates  it  at  once 
from  the  legendary  lore  of  any  other  people. 
One  tale  relates  how  two  brothers,  liar  and 
Lefioa,  were  lost  and  became  separated  while 
climbing  the  dread  mountain  of  Aquelarre. 
The  younger  creeps  into  the  hollow  of  a 
tree  to  pass  the  night,  and  while  there  wit- 
nesses an  assembly  of  witches  presided  over 
by  the  Evil  One  in  the  guise  of  a  goat  One 
witch  reports  that  by  her  spells  she  is  slowly 
killing  the  daughter  of  a  certain  nobleman 
and  thereby  bringing  bitter  sorrow  upon  the 
parents  who  are  zealous  Christians.  The 
fate  of  the  daughter  depends,  she  says,  upon 
the  life  of  an  enormous  toad  which  lies  hid- 
den under  a  broken  statue  in  a  neglected 
of  the  duke's  garden.  Izar  accepts 
this  as  a  revelation  of  a  divine  mission 
cumbent  upon  him,  and  he  immediately  s 
forth  to  rescue  the  fair  maiden  from  the  toils 
of  the  witch.  Unassisted  he  makes  his  way 
Italy  where  the  nobleman  lives  and 
irteously  received  by  the  inhabitants  of 
the  palace.  The  tradition  takes  pains 
late  that  the  lad,  who  had  been  used  to  no 
better  shelter  than  the  blackened  thatch  of 
It  on  the  Basque  mountains,  exhibited 
the  slightest  curiosity  or  wonder  at 
the  splendors  surrounding  him  in  the  ducal 
residence.  He  makes  known  his  mission, 
kills  the  toad,  restores  the  daughter 
health,  and  is  adopted  by  the  duke  as  his 

Then  there  is  a  story  of  Roldan  or  Roland, 
who  blew  the  horn  at  Roncesvalles.  The 
hero  in  this  legend  haunts  the  mountains  In 
the  guise  of  a  great  black  bear.  In  the  tale 
of  "The  Branch  of  White  Lilies"  the  Evil 
One  comes  in  the  guise  of  a  handsome  gen- 
tleman to  the  dwelling  of  a  widow  and  her 
lovely  daughter.  He  obtains  a  night's  lodg- 
ing and  tries  to  steal  a  branch  of  white  lilies 
which  the  daughter  has  vowed  to  place  upon 
the  altar  of  Our  Lady  of  BegoOa.  She  cir- 
cumvents the  attempt  and  the  next  day 
makes  the  oblation,  crossing  the  river  to  do 
so.  As  she  returns,  the  stream  is  swollen 
by  rains  so  that  the  ford  cannot  be  traversed. 
Catharina  is  in  despair,  when  the  Evil  One 
appears  and  offers  to  build  a  bridge  across 
the  raging  torrent  before  midnight  if  she 
will  sell  her  soul  to  him.  An  incomprehen- 
sible power  impels  her  to  agree  to  the  com- 
pact, and  soon  a  noise  is  heard  as  if  an  in- 
visible legion  of  laborers  were  at  work. 
When  all  is  finished  except  the  placing  of 
the  key-stone,  a  beautiful  lady  ascends  the 


N" 


ipleted  arch  and  lays  a  stem  of  ivhite 
lilies  across  the  opening.  When  the  Evil 
One  tries  to  pnt  the  key-stone  in  place  he  is 
unable  to  do  so,  midnight  sounds,  and  with 
a  C17  of  desperation  he  plunges  into  the 
river  and  disappears.  Then  the  key-stoae 
falls  Into  place  and  Catharina  crosses  in 
safety. 

The  book — evidently  of  British  manufac- 
ture—  is  of  course  a  translation,  although 
the  title-page  does  not  acknowledge  it  to  be 
such.  We  notice  too  many  false  idioms, 
Jike  "  he  had  jost  finished  to  replenish,"  and 
('you  are  the  first  who  has  attained  to  agitate 
the  mind  of  that  maiden ")  to  be  able  to 
praise  the  efforts  of  the  truislator.  If  Brit- 
ish publishers  must  have  such  work  done  by 
'prentice  hands  why  do  they  not  employ 
some  intelligent  school-boy  to  revise  the  MS- 
before  it  is  given  to  the  printers?  Mr.  Cop. 
ping's  Illustrations  demand  no  special  com- 
ment. They  serve  as  graceful  interludes  to 
the  text  and  that  is  all  that  can  be  said  in 
their  favor. 

BTOEIBB  OP  AST  ABD  ABTI8TB.* 
O  person  is  competent  to  tell  a  story 
who  has  not  first  made  a  study.  But 
the  studies  of  art  and  artists  which  Mrs. 
Cement  has  been  pursuing  for  years,  and 
by  which  her  name  is  known,  warrant  the 
belief  that  her  Stariti  of  Art  and  ArtisU 
are  in  order,  have  a  foundation  in  fact,  and 
e  sensible  and  edifying. 

The  note  struck  in  this  handsome  volume 
is  distinct  It  is  a  book  not  for  students, 
and  less  for  inquirers  than  for  young  peo- 
ple and  readers.  It  has  positive  qualities 
for  those  who  need  to  be  interested  in  a 
subject  before  they  take  bold  of  it.  It  is  a 
shop-window  designed  to  invite  passers-by 
to  step  within.  It  has  therefore  attractive 
force.  And  this  attractive  force  is  not  alone 
in  the  large  and  luxurious  outward  aspect  of 
the  book,  nor  in  its  sumptuous  typography, 
nor  even  in  its  eighty  wood-cuts,  many  of 
which  are  very  beautiful,  but  in  its  style, 
which  is  pictorial,  animated,  and  winning. 
It  is  a  spoken  rather  than  a  written  style. 
It  is  like  a  series  of  conversations  in  which 
a  woman  well-informed  and  of  good  judg- 
ment In  art  should  proceed  to  tell  a  room- 
full  of  every-day  people  the  things  they 
would  most  like  to  know  about  the  great 
painters  and  the  great  paintings  of  all  time. 

The  American  department  of  the  subject 
is  not  entered.  It  is  too  near,  too  familiar, 
to  have  gathered  much  association  and 
romance.  The  stories  of  American  art  and 
artists  are  now  making,  and  will  not  be 
ready  to  be  told  till  another  century  is  under 
way. 

Mrs.  Clemenfa  book  may  be  likened  to 
an  Art  Museum.  It  is  an  edifice  of  severa} 
rooms,  each  devoted  to  a  particular  age  or 


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425 


country,  and  each  hung  with  reproentative 
works  and  portruts  of  paSntcra.  Through 
these  rooms  she  takes  as,  one  by  one,  point- 
ing out  the  treasures  of  each,  and  telling  us 
in  a.  chatty  wa.y  about  the  memorable  men 
whose  names  they  bear.  Men,  we  say,  for 
there  are  few  women  among  the  painters  of 
history.    Why  ? 

The  first  of  these  halls  or  galleries,  a 
grand  and  irregular  apartment,  is  divided 
between  the  Classical  and  the  Italian  Schools. 
Here  are  such  great  works  as' the  sculptures 
of  Greece,  and  such  great  names  as  Fra 
Angelico,  R^hael,  Leonardo,  and  Michael- 
angelo.  Then  we  pass  into  the  Flemish 
room,  to  Rubens  and  Vandyke,  and  through 
the  Dutch,  German,  and  Spanish  collections, 
into  the  more  modern  atmosphere  of  France 
and  England.  We  are  told  about  Turner's 
miserliness  and  slovenliness ;  of  Hogarth 
sketching  on  his  thumb-nail,  of  Delaroche 
and  his  wax  models,  of  Murillo  falling  from 
the  scaffolding,  of  Rembrandt  selling  his 
furniture  to  satisfy  his  creditors,  of  Vandyke 
hunting  for  the  philosopher's  stone,  of  Ru- 
bens and  his  child  wife,  of  Domenicblno 
who  was  so  dull  a  boy  that  his  companions 
nicknamed  him  "  the  Ox,"  and  of  Correggio, 
of  whom  Titian  said;  "  If  1  were  not  Titian 
1  should  wish  to  be  Correggio." 

No  very  great  love  of  art  would  be  needed 
as  an  inducement  to  read  this  book,  with 
its  interesting  pass^^es  of  biography,  its 
touches  of  anecdote,  its  descriptions  of 
famous  works  in  marble  or  in  color;  and 
after  reading  one  would  find  that  he  had 
imbibed  thereby  no  small  amount  of  bio- 
graphical and  critical  information.  The 
cover  is  beautifully  and  delicately  stamped 
in  red  with  a  representation  of  those  Bronze 
Horses  of  Venice  whose  origin  is  one  of  the 
secrets  of  antiquity. 

BOOK  OF  AUESIOAIT  FmUBE 
PAIHTEK8.* 

SO  far  as  mere  bigness  goes  the  Boot  of 
Amtrican  Figun  Paittttrt  would  easily 
take  the  prize  this  year.  It  is  a  huge 
quarto,  sixteen  inches  wide,  twenty  inches 
tall,  and  two  inches  and  a  half  thick,  and  is 
a  good  load  for  a  strong  man  to  carry  in 
both  arms.  Not  as  large  as  Audubon's 
Birds  0/ Amtriea,  not  an  "elephant  folio," 
it  is  a  "baby-elephant"  certainly,  and  must 
be  one  of  the  largest  and  heaviest  books 
ever  issued  from  the  American  press.  It  is 
also  one  of  the  most  elegant  The  fact  that 
it  is  not  a  Boston  publication,  nor  even  a 
New  York  publication,  attests  the  rapid 
widening  of  the  circle  of  literary  and  artistic 
taste  and  achievement  in  this  country,  and 
reminds  us  that  the  "literary  center"  can 
no  longer  be  identified  with  any  one  or  any 
two,  American  cities. 
But  the  book  has  something  more  than 


:  ol  AnKricu  FItun  PwnK 


J.I 


mere  bigness,  and  its  size  is  a  requisite. 
Its  object  is  to  represent  the  latest  and 
foremost  types  of  the  art  of  American  paln^ 
ers.  To  this  end  the  cofiperation  of  forty 
leading  artists  has  been  procured  in  the 
preparation  of  the  volume,  and  the  body  of 
it  coDsists  of  reproductions  of  their  selected 
works.  The  unit  in  the  composition  of  the 
volume  is  a  plate,  a  head-piece  and  title 
thereto,  a  subordinate  verse  or  two  of  se- 
lected poetry,  and  a  tail-piece.  The  plates 
are  large,  and  are  products  of  the  photo- 
gravure process  by  the  Forbes  Company 
of  Boston,  based  on  ortho-chromatic 
negatives  by  Ives  of  Philadelphi; 
The  letter-press  is  in  large  and  beautiful 
type  and  black  ink ;  the  ornamental  designs 
are  In  that  chocolate  brown  which  is  so 
favorite  a  tint  this  year.  The  binding  of 
the  work  deserves  special  notice,  each  of 
its  heavy  leaves,  almost  like  so  many  sheets 
of  card-board,  being  connected  by  a  linen 
hinge  with  a  stub  of  its  own.  This  of 
course  is  a  costly  method  and  one  calling 
for  great  nicety  of  work  In  the  bindery;  but 
it  answers  the  purpose  admirably,  in  fact  is 
alone  suitable  in  a  mammoth  book  like  this, 
and  allows  of  the  opening  of  it  with  perfect 
ease.  The  cover  is  a  magnificent  set  of 
boards  of  light  buf^  cunningly  stamped  in 
gilt.  The  cover  linings  are  of  a  rich  em- 
blematic design,  and  the  entire  workman- 
ship of  the  book  deserves  the  highest  con- 
sideration. 

The  title  of  the  volume,  Book  of  American 
Figure  Painttri,  suggests  the  unity  of  its 
subjects.  Of  its  thirty-five  large  plates,  all 
are  concerned  with  the  human  figure.  In 
such  subjects  as  "John  Bums  at  Get^s- 
burg,"  "A  Tamborine  Player,"  "A  DoQog 
Tar,"  "  Mother  and  Child,"  and  "  Before  the 
Battle,"  the  figures  will  suggest  themselves ; 
such  ideal  subjects  as  "Autumn,"  "Sleep," 
"  Morning,"  "  Spring,"  are  presented  in  im- 
personations, generally  of  the  female  form. 
Mr.  Kenyon  Cox's  "  Evening,"  for  example, 
is  a  study  of  the  nude.  Mr.  Freer's  "  Morn- 
ing" is  a  not  dissimilar  figure  draped.  One 
of  the  best  plates  in  the  collection  is  Hoven- 
den's  illustration  of  Kingsley's  well-known 
song  of  "  The  Harbor  Bar,"  showing  two  of 
the  wives,  in  the  light-house  tower,  as  they 
"looked  at  the  squall"  and  "looked  at  the 
shower."  Another  admirable  study  is  East- 
man Johnson's  "Embers,"  an  aged  and 
decrepit  man  bending  upon  his  cane  before 
the  dying  fire.  Some  of  these  figures  are 
framed  in  landscapes,  but  the  figures  are 
the  center  of  interesL 

There  are  almost  no  attempts  at  pleas- 
antry In  these  drawings ;  they  are  serious 
and  earnest,  now  and  then,  as  in  "The 
Judgment  of  Paris,"  or  "In  Arcadia," 
lighted  by  a  gentie  fancy,  but  again,  as  in 
"Lost  on  the  Grand  Banks,"  laden  with 
deep  pathos.  This  latter  is  a  most  moving 
scene,  the  frail  dory  tossing  on  the  waves 
as  the  two  fishermen  within  her,  resting  on 


their  oars,  peer  through  the  driving  mist  in 
search  of  succor. 

Besides  the  artists  whom  we  have  named, 
La  Farge,  Lowe,  Weir,  Dielman,  Homer, 
Church,  Millet,  Shirlaw,  and  Vedder  are 
among  the  contributors,  Mr.  Vedder's  man- 
nerism being  as  marked  as  ever.  Would  it 
be  possible  for  Mr.  Vedder  to  draw  any> 
thing,  without  a  awirting  something  in  it  P 

It  Is  yet  several  weeks  to  Christmas,  but 
we  do  not  expect  to  see  anything  this 
season  which  will  surpass  the  Book  of 
AmtritoH  Figure  PatHUrt  as  a  demon- 
stration. 

HOICE  FAnUEB  AHD  EEABT  FLOW- 
ERS.' 
THE  tide  of  this  rich  quarto  is  the  single 
mistake  in  it  Leaving  its  vague 
^uicifulnesa  behind,  and  entering  the  book 
itself,  we  find  it  to  be  a  celebration  of  child- 
life  in  song  and  picture ;  the  songs  by  Mrs. 
Sangster  and  the  pictures  by  Mr.  French. 
The  "home  fiuries"  are  the  children,  we 
suppose,  and  the  "heart  flowers"  are  the 
songs  about  them.  And  real  flowers  are 
sprinkled  along  between. 

A  pretty  titie-page  in  brown,  and  a  pleas- 
ant dedication  "to  my  two  children,  Mabel 
and  Frank,"  the  artist's  children,  we  sup- 
pose, lead  to  the  preface,  which  is  signed 
F.  F.,  which  tells  us  that  the  drawings  of 
children's  heads  and  faces  to  follow  have 
been  made  sometimes  from  life  and  some- 
times from  photographs,  and  which  con- 
tains a  modest  and  graceful  Intimation  that 
the  pictures  have  inspired  the  poems  and 
not  the  poems  the  pictures.  The  pictures, 
then,  are  the  life  of  the  book,  as  fond  fathers 
and  mothers  and  all  lovers  of  infancy  will  be 
apt  to  recognize.  This  is  a  book  of  fascinat- 
ing little  faces,  of  soft  and  circling  arms,  of 
fresh,  sweet  kisses,  of  clean  and  dewy 
breaths,  of  cool  lips  and  bright  eyes,  of 
dimpled  cheeks  and  tossing  ringlets,  of 
happy  voices  and  ringing  laughter. 

There  are  some  twenty  poems  in  the  col- 
lection, and  very  many  more  than  that  num- 
ber of  illustrations,  if  we  include  vignettes,  or- 
naments, and  clustering  sprays  of  flowers. 
Of  portraits  proper  we  count  twenty-one, 
large  and  small,  babies,  boys,  and  girls,  all 
evidently  from  real  life,  so  very  real  and 

ithal  so  catholic  In  selection  as  to  include 
a  white-toothed  African,  a  dark-faced,  sad- 
looktng  Indian  child,  and  a  demure  little 
Japanese  maiden.  It  was  a  happy  and 
proper  thought  to  include  these  strangers 
and  foreigners  with  their  white-skinned  and 
more  enlightened  and  privileged  brothers 
and  sisters  in  the  great  family  of  Man,  as 
if  to  remind  Americans  of  high  looks  that 
God  hath  made  of  one  blood  all  the  nations 
of  the  earth,  and  to  impart  to  the  book  one 
touch  of  the  message  of  his  Son. 

There  are  some  pretty  children  in  this 


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[Nov.  a  7, 


babjr-ahow,  there  can  be  no  deoying  tlia.t; 
particululy  the  white-capped  maideD  watch- 
ing the  butterfly  oa  p.  15,  the  sailor-collared 
boy  on  p.  23,  the  intensely  earnest-faced 
girl  on  p.  39,  the  sweetly  downcast  head  on 
p.  55,  and  "Little  Coquette"  on  p.  51; 
while  by  no  means  the  least  pleasing  are 
the  kitten-holder  on  p.  30  and  the  flower- 
holder  on  p.  35,  or  even  the  grinning  picka- 
ninny on  p.  83,  who  is  the  familiar  "  Darkey 
of  the  Stolen  Chickens,"  idealized  and 
refined,  and  beaming  with  the  possession  of 
a  dear  conicieace. 

Of  Mrs.  Sangster's  accompaniment  it  is 
sufficient  to  say  that  she  is  one  of  the  true 
poeta  of  childhood. 


fidelity  to  the  original  we  have  reason  to 
think  has  been  studiously  obeyed.  Indeed, 
if  we  may  judge  from  a  present  somewhat 
hurried  examination,  the  translation  may  err 
in  being  a  little  sen/ile,  following  the  French 
lyntax  a  trifle  rigidly,  and  so  sacriflcing  a 
degree  of  east  and  grace  which  might  have 
been  preserved  without  impwring  true  fidel- 
ity. But  of  this  we  shall  take  occasion  to 
speak  further  as  the  work  progresses.  To 
lis  initiatory  volume  we  give  a  hearty  wel- 
come, and  the  widest  possible  introduction. 


L£S  IHBERABLEB  JS  ENOLIBH* 

FOR  Lts  MistrabUs  in  English,  which 
some  would  account  Victor  Hugo's 
masterpiece,  there  have  been  repeated  en- 
quiries in  our  columns,  So  far  as  we  know 
there  has  been,  up  to  this  time,  but  one  Eng- 
lish translation  of  this  great  romance  of  hu- 
manity, at  least  but  one  commonly  accessible 
to  American  readers,  that,  namely,  by  C.  E. 
Wilbour,  the  long-haired  man  of  the  New 
York  Trihtrte  of  quarter  of  a  century  ago, 
and  cheaply  published  by  Carleton  in  two 
volumes.  We  now  have  the  pleasure  of  ad- 
vising our  part  of  the  public  of  the  appear- 
ance of  a  new  translation,  and  we  congratu- 
late all  interested  upon  the  fact  that  the 
shape  it  is  to  take  will  make  it  one  of  the 
commanding  and  superb  library  editions  of 
the  times.  At  ^3  a  volume,  too!  The 
price  is  phenomenally  low  for  a  book  phe- 
nomenally fine. 

Five  volumes  this  new  edition  is  to  make, 
of  which  the  first  comes  to  hand  just  as  we 
go  to  press  with  this  heavy  number  of  the 
,  Litirary  IVorld,  easily  pushing  itself  for- 
ward into  the  front  rank  of  the  mass  of  ex- 
cellent books  with  which  we  are  confronted- 
A  tall  wide  octavo,  with  generous  margins, 
with  a  broad  and  boldly  printed  page,  with 
uncut  edges,  made  of  a  superfine  quality  of 
heavy  paper,  bound  —  exquisitely  bound 
in  perfectly  plain  covers  of  sage-green  lin< 
labelled  on  the  back  only  with  the  simplest 
of  white  paper  labels,  and  embellished  withir 
by  a  profusion  of  wood-cuts  after  drawing! 
by  distinguished  French  artists—  the  volume 
is  one  of  singular  attractions  to  the  lover  of 
noble  books,  and  will  place  the  writing  of 
Victor  Hugo  which  it  is  to  embody  before 
his  English  and  American  admirers  in  a  form 
which  leaves  tittle  to  be  desired. 

A  first  question  in  regard  to  it,  of  course, 
touches  the  point  of  the  translation.  Thi 
name  of  the  maker  unfortunately  is  not  given, 
but  he  (or  she)  is  seen  to  have  been  in  com- 
munication with  M.  Hugo  during  the  making, 
and  the  great  author's  injunction  of  absolute 


■LoMiKnblo.  Bj  Victor  Hugo.  Wilh  lllulnlion 
In  Fin  VoIdhio-  Londan  ind  New  York;  Geoige  Rou 
ledgcASou.    Vol.  L    fsAi. 


SEE  BTOOFB  TO  00NQ1TEB* 

READERS  of  Harper's  Monthly  do 
forget  the  occasional  illustrations  of 
passages  in  Goldsmith's  play.  Ski  Stoops  to 
Cottquer,  by  Mr.  Abbey,  which  have  occa- 
sionally enlivened  Its  pages  in  recent  months, 

a  sort  of  broken  series.    Those  fragments 

w  prove  to  have  been  the  advance,  the 
announcements,  of  a  luxurious  folio  from 
the  Harpers'  press,  which  presents  the  play 
in  its  completeness,  printed  in  a  large,  clear 
type  running  way  across  a  spacious  page, 
and  in  company  with  it  a  procession  of  full- 
page  etchings  on  India  paper,  interspersed 
with  numerous  wood-cuts  in  the  text,  Suffic- 
to  set  before  us  the  whole  scenery  of 
the  play  and  to  marshal  io  entertain- 
ing order  its  chief  actors.  In  fullness  of 
costnme  and  life-likeness  of  attitude.  The 
text  is  sometimes  printed  on  only  the  right- 
hand  pages,  and  the  left-hand  pages  when 
left  blank  are  utilized  for  the  insertion 
single  and  pertinent  vignette  off  in  one 
er^  Mr.  Austin  Dobson  furnishes  a 
versified  introduction  in  the  spirit  of  the 
comedy,  and  beside  the  major  illustrations 
there  are  abundant  minor  decorations  with 
the  pencil,  by  Alfred  Parsons. 

This  famous  play,  like  Goldsmith's  other 
writings,  reflects  the  life  of  his  times,  and 
(here  are  passages  in  it  which  reputable 
theaters  would  hardly  suffer  to  be  spoken 
on  its  boards  and  which  no  well-ordered  fam- 
ily would  wish  to  have  read  in  its  hearing. 
Young  ears  and  eyes,  at  least,  would  be 
averted  from  them  with  some  feelings  of 
shame.  It  is  hard,  however,  to  disentangle 
these  lines  from  the  fabric  into  which  they 
are  woven.  It  Is  one  source  of  satisfaction 
with  our  present  times  that  the  polite  litera- 
tolerate  the  innuendoes,  the  doubU-tntin- 
ture  now  in  course  of  production  does  not 
dru,  the  free  play  with  the  lawless  relations 
of  the  sexes,  the  trifling  allusions  to  wom- 
an's honor,  the  easy  handling  of  men's 
virtue,  which  were  so  perfectly  natural  and 
innocent  in  Goldsmith's  day. 

If  then  one  could  wish  that  Mr.  Abbey 
had  taken  some  other  text  tor  the  subject  of 
his  pencil,  we  cannot  at  the  same  time  deny 
the  skill,  the  good  taste,  the  penetration,  the 
thorough  sympathy,  with  which  he  has  inter- 


preted the  author's  lines,  investing  them  by 
of  his  full-page  plates  and  subordinate 
sketches  with  almost  the  reality  of  an  actual 
representation,  and  adorning  what  as  litera- 
ture is  certainly  a  fine  and  famous  piece  of 
writing  with  great  pictorial  interest.  The 
publishers  have  been  generous,  lavish,  in 
presenting  the  work  of  cotiperating  author 
and  artist  No  better  typogr^hy  will  be 
found  in  any  Christmas  book  this  year,  white 
ir  in  full  leather,  chocolate-colored, 
and  stamped  in  gilt,  savors  of  the  antique, 
and  is  unique  among  the  publications  of  the 
The  very  box  in  which  the  book  is 
cased  is  a  work  of  no  mean  art,  itself  a  tbiog 
•of  beauty,  and  will  be  a  joy  as  long  as  its 
pasteboard  life  shall  last 


EAHDOLFH  OALDEOOTT.* 

[F  it  were  possible  eveiybody  who  reads 
Old  Christmas  and  Bractbridgt  Hall 
with  Randolph  Caldecott's  illustrations,  else- 
where described,  should  turn  next  to  this 
sketch  of  Caidecott  himself  by  his  friend 
Henry  Blackburn,  wherein  the  fine,  merry, 
3  personality  of  the  lamented  draughts- 
is  forcibly  portrayed,  partly  in  extracts 
from  bis  own  letters,  and  strikingly  embel- 
lished with  a  long  and  varied  list  of  sketches 
from  bis  facile  pen  or  pencil.  For  some  of 
Mr.  Caldecott's  most  effective  work  was 
done  with  pen  and  ink,  and  done  with  rude 
and  rapid  strokes.  He  would  adorn  the 
head  of  a  note  sheet  with  a  grotesque  vig- 
nette almost  as  quickly  as  a  common  mortal 
would  date  it,  and  would  sketch  in  a  thumb- 
nail decoration  to  his  note  half  way  down 
the  page  while  yon  or  we  were  erasing  a 
blot. 

Mr.  Caidecott  was  an  Englishman,  bom 
1846,  and  his  early  death  is  one  of  the 
heavy  losses  of  the  year  now  drawing  to 
its  close.  This  memoir  of  him,  this  appro- 
priate, pleasant  memoir  of  him,  appears  with 
commendable  promptness.  Few  are  the 
eyes  familiar  with  its  subject  that  will  not 
first  kindle  with  merriment  as  they  glance 
over  its  enlivened  pages,  and  then  moisten 
they  gaze  on  the  fresh,  kindly  young  face, 
photographed  in  the  frontispiece,  that  we 
shall  see  no  more, 

Mr.  Caidecott  was  Thackeray,  Leech,  and 
Du  Maurier  in  one.  Had  he  lived  for  his 
skill  to  ripen  and  mellow,  we  are  not  sure 
but  that  he  would  have  distanced  all  his 
contemporaries.  He  was  as  fully  at  home 
with  his  pencil  in  the  hunting-field  as  was 
Trollope  with  his  pen ;  he  had  not  the  dis- 
tinction which  Du  Maurier  has  as  a  gentle 
caricaturist  of  "  society,"  but  nobody  ex- 
celled him  in  telling  delineation  of  average 
life  —  the  world  of  butiers,  and  coachmen, 
and  tradesmen.    What  feats  he  could  have 


•KindDlph  CildeCQtl.  By  Henty  Blickbum.  Men 
York:  George  RouEled^e  &  Soni.  London;  Sunpaon 
Low,  Manton,  Searle  £  RiTinfion.    %!>.■».    Uige  Vmfts, 


i886.] 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


427. 


performed  in  the  pages  of  Dickens!  Oh 
that  he  had  lived  to  illustrate  Pickwick  and 
Bleak  House  /  Never  ill-natured,  never  low, 
fuU  of  fun,  sometimes  dashing  ofi  his 
sketches  with  a  few  strolces  and  again  work- 
ing them  up  with  the  delicacy  almost  of  a 
Flaxman,  seldom  repeating  himself,  endowed 
with  an  Incomparable  gift  of  investing 
animals,  especially  birds,  with  human  senti- 
ments ^d  inten^ons,  peculiarly  skillful  in 
drawing  countenances  and  profiles,  falling 
easily  into  reverence  and  seriousness  when 
he  touched  a  subject  that  stirred  his  deeper 
feelings,  and  having  no  mean  hand  for  the 
sort  of  decorative  work  which  is  one  of  the 
fashionable  pursuits  of  modem  art,  he  was 
indeed  a  prince  in  his  school,  and  destined 
to  be  a  sovereign.  Alas  J  he  is  gone,  and 
our  helpless  smiles  over  his  remains  are 
salted  with  our  tears. 

And  here  he  is,  embalmed  in  this  fittingly 
beautiful  book  about  him;  all  of  him;  his 
personal  history,  his  professional  history, 
his  magnetic  nature,  his  humor,  his  good 
feeling,  his  love  of  the  country,  his  way  of 
poking  about  in  corners  and  getting  hold 
of  characters  and  serving  oddity  up  with  a 
relish.  We  thank  Mr.  Blackburn  for  a 
worthy  tribute,  and  the  publishers  for 
attractive  form  in  which  they  have  pre- 
sented it 


A  BOOK  OF  THE  TILE-OLUB.* 

THERE  is  an  ;ur  of  distinction  in  the  ap- 
pearance of  this  work,  which  imports 
character  and  refinement.  The  little  brass 
guards,  riveted  to  the  corners,  and  the 
metallic  stays  that  support  the  back,  speak 
for  a  presiding  genius  in  the  work  of  manu- 
facture, and  suggest  treasures  within  deserv- 
ing of  conservation.  The  book  is  not  as 
great  and  heavy  as  some  others,  but  its  di- 
mensions are  far  from  inconsiderable,  and 
dimensions  are  not  everything.  Nor  does 
this  book,  though  essentially  a  book  of  pict- 
ures, depend  solely  on  pictures  for  its  inter- 
est It  has  two  feet  to  stand  upon,  one  the 
artistic,  the  Other  the  literary,  and  the  two 
seem  equally  well-planted  and  firm. 

The  Tile  Club  is  a  New  York  institution, 
a  furtive  institution,  probably  unknown  to 
the  police,  and  escaping  the  notice  of  the 
public  generally.  It  has  its  membership, 
however,  and  its  haunts,  and  its  "mahog- 
any tree,"  and  its  pipes  and  beer;  and  brush 
and  palette  are  its  weapons.  This  book 
illustrates  and  celebrates  its  temper,  occupa- 
tions, and  achievements;  is  therefore  its 
monument,  happily  not  its  epitaph.  Long 
may  it  live,  smoking  its  pipes,  wielding  its 
brushes,  and  making  the  name  of  American 
Art  significant  and  illustrious. 

A  Book  of  the  Tile-Club  is  the  combined 
effort  of  chroniclers  and  illustrators.  The 
chroniclers  are  Edward  Strahan  and  F.  Hop- 

•A  Book  of  lh«  TUc-Club.      HouihUMi,  Miffin  &  Co. 


kinson  Smith  ;  the  illustrators  are  numerous, 
and  include  many  recognized  American 
names,  such  as  Chase,  Vedder,  Dielmann, 
Millet,  Quartley,  Gi£ford,  Reinhart  Abbey, 
Sarony,  Weir,  Mr.  Hopkinson  Smith  him- 
self, who  is  as  clever  with  his  pencil  as  with 
his  pen.  Parsons,  St  Gaudens,  Frost, 
Boughton,  Maynard,  and  White.  The  let- 
ter-press, in  its  strong,  black,  primer-like 
type,  is  in  five  chapters,  of  which  the  first, 
speaking  of  the  Tile  Club,  describes  "Their 
Habitat,"  the  second  admits  us  to  "  One  of 
their  Meetings,"  the  third  repeats  some  of 
their  "  Shop  Talk,"  the  fourth  gathers  us 
confidentially  "  Around  their  Wood  Fire," 
and  the  fifth  serves  up  a  dish  of  "Qnb 
Chestnuts  Warmed  Over."  The  book 
makes  us  guests  of  the  Tile  Club,  then,  for 
the  time  being ;  we  drop  in  on  easy  terms  to 
its  snug  quarters ;  we  study  its  members  as 
they  come  tumbling  after  us,  shaking  oflE  the 
snow ;  we  listen  to  the  jokes  and  jibes  they 
interchange ;  we  study  out  the  Identities 
concealed  by  the  amusing  sobriquets  under 
which  they  are  introduced  to  us  ;  we  get  at 
some  of  the  secrets  of  the  charmed  cin:le: 
we  catch  strains  of  personal  history  and 
reminiscence ;  we  pick  up  reminiscences 
and  romances  of  artist  life;  now  and  then 
we  give  silence  to  the  story-teller;  the  sest 
of  good  fellowship  and  the  aroma  of  choice 
tobacco  are  in  the  air ;  and  on  special  occa- 
sion a  brew  of  oysters  or  a  broil  of  ducks 
adds  to  the  warmth  of  the  hospitality  we 
enjoy. 

So  much  for  the   social  and  intellectual 
part  of  the  feast     Its  artistic  accompani- 
ments are  to  suit    There  are  twenty-seven 
full-page    phototype   plates,  and  eighty-six 
smaller  illustrations  scattered  through  the 
text,  all  of  the  sketches  by  the  members 
the  Club,  done  in  the  loving  sympathy  of 
comradeship  for  the  writing  of  their  his- 
torians.    Thirteen  of  these  eighty-six 
also  phototypes,  and  all  the  phototypes 
by  the  Lewis  Company  of  Boston,    The 
print  of  the  Riverside  Press  speaks  for  the 
excellence  and  elegance  of  the  whole  work- 
manship of  the  volume,  one  feature  of  which 
is  the  hinging  of  the  heavy  leaves  on  stubs 
at  the  back  by  strips  of  linen,  makiog  the 
book  wholly  obedient  to  the  opening  hand. 

We  cannot  linger  as  we  should  be  glad  to 
over  these  bright  and  sparkling  pages,  with 
their  mixture  of  wit  and  beautyj  delightful 
entertainments  of  the  raconteur,  accented 
with  the  off-hand  sketches  or  more  careful 
drawings  of  the  company,  as  amidst  the 
wreathes  of  smoke  and  the  crackling  of  the 
fire  they  listen  to  the  progress  of  the  story. 
Here  a  portrait  of  one  of  the  characters  fig- 
uring in  it,  there  a  pencilled  recollection  of 
a  distant  scene  described,  a  row  of  beer- 
mugs  for  a  head-piece,  the  figurine  of  a 
ravenous  fish's  head  for  a  vignette,  bits  of 
delicate  landscape,  statuesque  figures  of  typi- 
cal meaning,  and  for  the  larger  plates  such 
subjects  as  the  perspective  of  thc_ Brooklyn 


Bridge,  an  outlook  in  the  Irish  Channel,  a 
sight  of  the  Sheep  Pasture,  a  stroll  By  the 
River,  Launching  the  Boat,  Sunrise'.in 
Venice,  an  Afternoon  Tea.  All  parts  of 
the  world  furnish  these  subjects,  all  sorts  of 
people,  all  kinds  of  experiences,  aU  manner 
of  sentiment  Age  and  childhood,  outdoors 
and  indoors,  the  country  and  the  sea,  girlish 
grace  and  homely  architecture,  English  lanes 
and  Dutch  canals,  the  eve  of  battle  and  the 
garden  in  June  —  with  every  theme  the  Tile 
Gub  seems  equally  familiar,  and  each  its 
collective  touch  alike  adorns.  But  we  must 
stop  somewhere,  and  it  may  as  well  be  here. 


TEE  BLE8BED  DAUOZEL.* 

THE  printer's  "forms"  wait  as  he  is 
"maJdng  up"  for  the  press,  that  we 
may  tuck  in  a  short  notice  of  this  tardily 
appearing  work,  concerning  which  much  in- 
terest has  been  felt  in  the  city  of  Its  birth- 
place, New  York.  Rossetti's  well-koown 
poem  has  been  studiously  illustrated  by  a 
recogni£ed  American  artist,  and  poem  and 
pictures,  with  a  descriptive  and  critical  ap- 
pendix by  Mrs.  Van  Rensselaer,  have  served 
the  publishers  as  the  materials  for  a  large 
and  sumptuous  quarto,  which  may  fairly 
take  its  place  in  the  first  half  of  the  holiday 
issues  of  the  Mason. 

The  poem  is  a.  portrait  Many  of  our 
readers  must  remember  her  who 

landoot 

FrautligKald  bvol  Hunni 
Har  sys  vcre  ittatt  Ifau  Ilio  dgplli 

Of  witen  ililled  u  ctcd  1 
She  hid  Ibrce  Ulin  in  her  bund, 

The  lover  of  this  Blessed  Damozel  re- 
mains on  earth,  and  she  in  Heaven  yearns 
for  him.  She  waits  for  him.  She  prays 
that  he  may  come  to  her.  She  pictures 
their  re-union.  The  poem  is  the  expression 
of  a  woman's  longing  there  for  her  loved 
one  left  here.  And  it  is  her  longing  which 
is  sung  by  the  poet,  in  a  sensnousness 
though  perfect  purity  of  form  which  affords 
a  fine  theme  for  a  sympathetic  penciL 

Mr.  Cox  has  made  twenty  drawings  to 
interpret  the  twenty-four  stanzas  of  the 
poem,  most  of  them  full-page  plates,  and 
all  uniformly  reproduced  in  tints  of  brown 
by  the  phototype  processes  of  the  Forbes 
Company  of  Boston.  The  text  of  the  poem 
accompanies  on  the  left-hand  pages.  The 
plates  have  to  do  wholly,  of  course,  with 
the  figures  of  the  Blessed  Damozel  herself, 
her  angelic  attendants,  and  her  still  human 
lover.  The  weakness  of  the  artist's  idea 
is  inevitable :  the  materialization  of  the 
spiritual.  The  Damozel  and  the  lover,  so 
far  as  these  sketches  are  concerned,  are  of 
the  same  world.  That  is  a  necessity  of  art. 
Whatever  etherialization  is  possible  to  the 
conception  probably  has  been  done.  Per- 
haps the  materialism |of  the  poet's  thought 


428 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Nov.  a  7, 


calls  for  precisely  this  materialism  in  the 
artist* s  faacj. 

The  subjects  of  the  plates  are  generally 
well  cboseo,  and  the  anatomical  correctness 
of  the  drawings  ts  clear.  These  figures 
are  real,  graceful,  powerful  both  in  their 
strength  and  in  their  beautj.  The  inser- 
tion of  the  nude  in  one  or  two  instances, 
which  Mrs.  Van  Rensselaer  feeis  called 
upon  to  apologise  for  in  her  note,  seems, 
to  us  an  intrusion.  The  nude  figures  are 
drawn  with  entire  delicacy  of  feeling,  but 
they  are  out  of  place.  The  reason  for  their 
appearance  is  artificial. 

There  is  much  true  and  deep  feeling  in 
these  plates ;  the  poem  is  beautiful  and  a 
beautiful  use  has  been  made  of  it  Mrs, 
Van  Rensselaer's  remarks  are  instructive 
and  pertinent,  though  she  does  not  always 
say  exactly  what  she  means.  She  says,  for 
example,  "  I  can  but  say,"  when  what  she 
means  is  "  I  canno/  but  say." 


SOME  BOOZB  FOB  YOWSOt  PEOPLE. 

Fivm  PoU  to  PaU.  By  Gordon  Stables.  [A. 
C.  Atnutrong  &  Son.    f  i.JO.] 

Harry  Raymond.  By  Verney  Lovett  Cam- 
eron.    [F.  Warne  &  Co.     Jz.OO.] 

Ronald  Hallifax.  By  Arthur  Lee  Knight. 
[F.  Wame  &  Co.    J2.00.] 

These  three  books  are  so  neirly,  alike,  in  char- 
acter, spirit,  and  appearance,  that  it  is  conven- 
ient to  speak  of  them  together.  All  are  of 
English  lutborship,  and  the  second  and  third  at 
least  are  oE  English  make.  All  are  for  boys. 
Ail  ate  about  boys.  All  are  about  tnys  at  sea. 
The  covers  of  all  are  as  startling  as  the  cq. 
trance  platairds  of  a  Dime  Museum,  and  promiie 
no  end  of  excitements,  if  not  of  horrors,  «iltiin. 
Di.  Stables  sets  bis  hero  afloat,  first  in  Noithern 
■eas,  along  the  shores  of  the  Faroes,  Iceland, 
and  Greenland,  and  then  tranipoits  him  to 
Soatbcm  climes,  the  coast  of  Africa,  and  the 
Indian  Ocean,  and  between  Arctic  savages  on 
the  one  hand  and  tropical  savages  on  the  other 
conducts  a  lover's  romance  to  its  proper  issue. 
Our  reader*  may  remember  that  Di.  Stables  is 
not  a  Favorite  of  ours.  We  do  not  think  hii  books 
wholesome.  Ttiey  are  stimulants  more  than 
food,  though  of  course  his  highly  spiced  narra- 
tive is  not  without  some  solid  ingredients.  For 
a  book  by  Commander  Cameron,  of  African 
fame,  we  are  disappointed  in  Harry  Raymond. 
A  story  by  him  of  boy's  adventure  in  the  wilds 
of  the  Dark  Continent  would  have  been  aulhon- 
tative  and  might  have  been  excellent.  This  is  a 
tale  of  wild  eiperience  on  the  African  coast 
with  pirates,  slave- traders,  and  cannibals,  and 
with  "local  color"  laid  on  thick  and  heavy. 
The  best  of  these  three  books  seems  to  us  to  be 
Rsnaid  Hallifax,  which  is  a  healthy  sailor-boy 
story  of  a  young  English  midshipman  on 
board  H.  M,  S.  "  Resolute."  With  plenty  of 
incident  and  excitement,  a  soberer  tone  is  pre- 
served, and  both  materials  and  style  avoid 
extravagant  and  reckless  invention.  Our  young 
midshipman  witnessei  the  duel  iKtween  the 
"  Merrimac  "  and  the  "  Monitor  "  in  (  hesapeake 
^y,  and  has  his  torn  with  pirates  too. 

The  two  stowaways  who  figure  in  Mr.  James 
Otia's  story  of  Siient  Pelt  are  two  New  Orleans 


boys  who  steal  a  passage  to  New  York,  the 
under  the  patronage  and  protection  of  the  other. 
It  is  a  pretty  and  touching  story  of  boyish  chiv- 
alry, tenderness,  and  love,  with  a  pathetic  ending. 
[Harper  &  Brothers,    fi.oo.] 

In  Rid  Beauty  Mr.  W.  O.  Stoddard  gives 
another  narrative  of  Indian  adventure,  this 
among  the  Pawnees,  beginning  in  Sing  Sing 
Prison,  but  soon  changing  to  the  Nebraiki 
border,  and  having  rather  more  of  the  Ingredi 
ents  of  the  novel  than  his  last  excursion  in  thi 
same  Geld-    [J.  B.  Uppincott  Co.    $1.15.] 

A  "  double-leaded  "  page  and  an  extraordinary 
profusion  of  paragraphs  have  made  Florence 
Montgomery's  Transformed  a  book,  whereas 
im  account  of  the  softening,  converting,  and 
ipi ritualizing  efiect  of  a  child's  life  on  a  selfish 
and  world-hardened  uncle  might  have  been 
compreised  nearly  into  the  compaas  of  a  mag- 
azine article.  The  thread  ie  good,  but  it  is  spun 
out  very  fine.    [J.  B,  Lippincott  Co.    (i.zj.] 

Few  children  will  read  by  themselves  such 
book  as  Ella  Rodtnan  Church's  Talks  by  the 
Seaihore,  but  read  aloud  by  an  older  person 
conversations  about  the  vegetable  growths  and 
animal  inhabitanta  of  the  ocean  might  be  made 
interesting.  The  book  ll  plentifully  but  not 
always  pertinently  Illustrated.  The  concluding 
chapter  on  light-houses  is  superficial.  Theie  is 
>io  index,  as  to  such  a  book  there  should  be. 
[Presbyterian  Board,    f  1.15.] 

AU  Taut;  sr.  Rigging  the  Boat,  ii  fifth 
Oliver  Optic's  "The  Boat  Bgilder  Series,"  and 
is  in  advance  of  the  volume  issued  last  year, 
whose  brutal  fights  and  slang  were  objectionable. 
It  is  incumbent  upon  an  author  who  has  attained 
such  popularity  as  Hr.  Adams,  and  who  has 
such  excellent  material,  with  skill  to 

what  he  can  to  raise  the  standard  of  literature 
for  boys ;  and  he  who  foils  of  doing  so  fails  of 
the  best  reward.    The  present  volume  has  in 
dent  and  adventure,  gives  a  minute  and  cli 

iplanation  of  rigging  boats,  and  tells  of  Cap- 
tain Gildrock's  method  of  reforming  bad  boys, 
10  that  the  young  readers  for  whom  it  i«  meant 
rill  get  from   it  entertainment,  practical  infor- 
mation, and  some  wise  advice.    [Lee  &  Shepard, 
JI.SS-] 
Mr,  Trowbridge,   too,   in    The  UiOt  Matter^ 
ves  us   a  better  book  than  last  year  ;   not  a 
complicated   story    as    then.      It    narrates    the 
experience  of  a  youth  of  eighteen,  ambitious  to 
money  to  get  an  education,  who  found  it 
hard  work  to  teach  a  school  because  he  was  so 
small  and  his  face  so  boyish  that  no  one  could 
be  made  to  believe  in  his  ability.     How  be  per- 
severed, and    succeeded,    on    his    principle   of 
governing  by  brains  instead  of  muscle,  is  radly 
and  graphically  told,  together  with  an  account 
of  the  maneuvers  and  intrigues  of  certain   per- 
sons  in  the  district     The  narrative  is  spirited, 
and  the  sketches  of  character  are  capital.    The 
illustrations,   by    Rogers,   are    unosually   good. 
[Lee  &  Shepard.    f  1.25.] 
Into   Unknown  Seat  is   an   adventurous  and 
metimes  exciting  story  of  two  boys,  first  in  a 
il-boat,  and  then  in  a  yacht,  on  the  Mediter- 
nean,  face   to  face   with  tidal  waves,  pirates, 
wrecks,  and  other  perils  and  sensations  ;  almost 
mingling  the  romance  of  Monte  Cristo  with  the 
verisimilitndes  of  Robinson  Crusoe.    [Harper  & 
Brothers,    ^i.oo.] 

Earthly  Walchtrs  at  the  Heavenly  Gatii  is 
intended  to  contrast   the   "false    spi ritualism " 


I  with  the  "true,"  bat  we  have  our  doabts 
whether  its  method  is  wise  or  will  prove  effect- 
ive.   [Presbytenan  Board.    fl-iS.] 

The  RHieriide  Htmevm  is  a  sequel  to  Birch- 
wood,  and  continues  to  follow  the  sayings  and 
doings  of  some  of  the  young  people  who  spent 
the  summer  in  Hr.  Plimpton's  old  deserted 
house.  The  book  uses  fiction  ss  a  vehicle  €>f 
Instruction  in  natural  history.  [T.  Y.  Crowcll  ft 
Co.    #i.ss.] 

Few  better  books  for  young  folks,  for  boy* 
especially,  have  been  written  than  Capt  Marry- 
at"*  SeiUtri  in  Canada,  of  which  a  fine  new 
edition,  illustrated,  is  one  of  the  books  of  the 
season.  In  quality  the  pictures  are  only  fair, 
but  they  are  numerous,  and  the  story  is  here 
in  its  entirety  and  full  strength  of  fascina- 
tiou.  It  is  dean,  fresh,  absorbii^i  one  of  the 
books  for  all  boys  of  all  time.  [P-  Warn*  &  Co. 
»z.oo.] 


B00E8  FOB  aiBLS. 

Untie,  Peep,  and  I.  By  Mary  Cowden-Clarke. 
[Roberts  Brothers.    $1.25.] 

In  the  preface  to  her  little  story,  UncU,  P*tp, 
and  I,  Mrs.  Mary  Cowden-Clarke  confesaes  to 
having  aimed  at  a  certain  careful  detail  like 
Dutch  painting,  because  it  was  what  she  remem- 
bers wishing  for  in  her  own  childhood,  when  she 
liked  to  have  each  point  of  the  narrative  made 
clear,  and  was  always  asking,  "  Well,  what  did 
irsaythen?"  "Then,  what  did  xiUsay?"  In 
this,  as  we  believe,  she  has  hit  upon  a  want  which 
every  genuine  child  feel*  in  reading  a  story.  It 
is  this  careful  and  explicit  sequence  of  facts 
which  makes  Rotinsoe  Cnuae  and  a  few  other 
nursery  classics  perennially  fresh  and  charming. 
Childish  minds  work  more  slowly  than  grown 
people  imagine.  It  wearies  them  to  take  too 
much  for  granted,  to  he  forced  to  take  long  leapa 
I  time  and  place,  and  to  supply  gaps  and 
lions  out  of  their  limited  stores  of  knowl- 
edge and  deductive  power.  Uncle,  Peef,  and  I 
capital  example  of  a  story  treated  in  the 
right  way.  The  inddenta  are  simple  enough, 
there  is  an  old-fashioned  smack  about  the  few 
homely  details,  but  the  little  pictures  so  carefully 
drawn  are  perfect  in  their  way,  and  will  be  real 
and  delightful  to  alt  real  children,  and,  for  good 
work  in  every  department,  the  IxMk  has  positive 
value  of  its  own  to  grown  people  as  well. 

fohnj^trome :  Hit  rheughti  and  Wayt.  A 
Book  Without  Beginning.  By  Jean  Ingelow. 
[RoberU  Brothers.    (1,257] 

Jean  Ingelow's  prose  is  always  a  delight  to 
those  who  like  a  quiet,  leisurely,  refined  way 
of  telling  things,  and  a  gentlewoman  for  the 
author.  To  such  the  present  volume  will  be  a 
treat  t^ith  its  unique  monologues,  its  him  of 
wisdom  and  sparkles  of  wit,  its  gentle  irony  and 
good  nature,  which  seem  all  and  enough  until, 
before  we  are  a  third  of  the  way  through,  we  are 
astonished  to  find  that  we  have  come  right  into 

story,  a  most  delicious  story,  too,  as  real  and 
natural  as  if  every  word  were  true  (and  we  believe 
very  word),  with  such  a  sweet  and  maidenly 
and  captivating  girl  as  no  one  know*  better  than 
this  favorite  writer  how  to  describe  and  make 
ime.  Katharina  is  eaquiaile ;  the  episode 
of  Anna  and  her  eccentric  Godfrey  living  in  the 

and  the  van  with  the  tinker  and  his  daughter, ' 
is  OS  idyllic  as  anything  in  At  You  Lite  It;  and 


1886.] 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


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the  aadacitj,  iweetneis,  naive  beauty,  and  udub- 
ualnesB  of  the  story  ^ve  the  book  a  woDdeiiul 
charm.  Butwithont  the  loTe  tale  or  the  pastoral 
we  thould  have  be«n  satiafied,  so  rich  and  meaty, 
so  pungent  with  spice  ol  wit,  with  relish  of  Attic 
salt,  are  all  these  pages  that  come  where  the 
"  beginning  "  is  coospicaons  by  Its  absence.  Cap- 
ita] things  are  those  said  in  the  first  chapters, 
on  government,  on  wit  and  hamor,  on  poetry; 
atid  the  epigrammatic  sentences  are  as  good  as 
the  best : 

For  ns  there  is  no  potting  and  preserving  of 
opportnnity. 

A  man  can  draw  a  woman's  character,  but  a 
woman  can  never  draw  a  man's — to  make  any- 
thing of  it. 

Courage  Is  a  virtue  thai  spreads.  We  catch  it 
of  one  another. 

The  odd  arc  never  cowards;  they  have  the 
moral  coarage  to  dare  surprise,  disapproval,  rid- 
icule. 

The  misery  that  such  as  are  not  odd  suffer 
from  the  tyranny  of  costom,  no  tongue  can  tell, 

IVAal  Xaty  Did  Nixt.  By  Susan  Coolidge. 
With  Illustrations.  By  Jessie  HcDermot  [Kob- 
eria  Brothers.    fi-So-J 

We  renew  our  acquaintance  with  the  old 
favorite,  Katy,  in  her  father's  house,  where  she  is 
acting  the  part  of  a  neat,  wise,  bright,  young 
housekeeper,  until,  suddenly,  a  new  inrn  in  her 
life  comes  when  a  friend  invites  ber  to  go  with 
hetMlf  and  little  daughter  to  Europe,  offering 
to  pay  the  expense.  The  consent  of  the  Doctor 
is  obtained,  and  now  the  novelty  of  the  journey 
to  Boston,  a  parting  visit  at  the  delightful  home 
of  delightful  "Rose  Red,"  Kat/s  enjoyment  of 
the  dty,  tier  departure,  life  on  shipboard,  what 
she  saw  in  "  Story  Book  England,"  the  summery 
days  in  Nice,  the  lever  experience  in  Rome,  the 
borne  coming  —  all  are  duly  and  daintily  narrated 
by  this  historian.  "What  Katy  did  next,"  in 
short,  was  to  go  abroad;  and  the  next  thing  to 
be  done  is  to  marry  the  fine  young  Ueutenant 
Worthlngton  whom  she  met  while  away.  Susan 
Coolidge's  books  need  no  commending ;  they 
are*as  tempting  as  they  are  sweet  and  pure  ;  she 
kiuiwa  how  to  make  attractive  everything  she 
touches ;  and  good  literature,  good  English,  does 
not  suffer  at  her  bands,  while  the  refinement  of 
tone  and  moral  fiber  are  all  that  could  be  desired. 


Brothers,    tl.35.] 

The  irresistibly  funny  and  irresponsible  Peter- 
kins  here  make  iheir  last  appearance  in  public, 
and  their  record  comes  to  an  end,  for  the  good 
reason  that  one  and  all,  from  father  and  mother 
to  Solomon,  John,  and  Agamemnon,  are  lost. 
The  tong-talked-of  foreign  tour  proved  fatal  in 
so  far  as  the  utter  disappearance  of  every  one 
justifies  us  in  forming  that  conclusion.  It  is  sup- 
posed that  with  their  inexperience  and  lack  of 
ability  to  rely  on  themselves,  they  succumbed 
before  the  unprecedented,  though  the  author 
hints  that  the  little  boys  may  have  "  merged  into 
men  in  some  German  University."  Elizabeth 
Eliza's  Commonplace  Book,  which  was  found 
among  the  family  papers,  is  here  published  for 
the  first  time,  and  it  contains  some  wise  reflec- 

I  cannot  understand  why  a  man  should  want 
to  mairy  his  wife's  deceased  sister.    If  she  '~ 
dead,   indeed,   how  can  he?    And  if  be  has 
wife,  how  wrong  I    I  am  very  glad  there  I*  a  law 
agaiiut  It. 


lever  saw  It  counted  up,  but  I  conclude  that 
:  children  tumble  into  mud-puddles  than  into 
icean  or  Niagara  Falls,  for  instance.  It  was 
t  least,  with  our  little  boys ;  but  that  may 
have  been  partly  because  they  never  saw  the 
ocean  till  last  summer,  and  have  never  been  to 

There  are  half-a-dozen  papers  about "  others  of 
the  kin,"  and  several  illustrations. 

Mildred"!  Boyi  and  Girls.  A  Sequel  to  Mil- 
dred's Married  Life.  By  Martha  Finfey.  [Dodd, 
Mead*  Co.    J1.2S.] 

The  period  chosen  for  this  story  is  that  of  the 
late  war,  and  in  an  early  chapter  some  fugitive 
slave*  seek  protection  from  Mildred^  huslnnd, 
established   by  him    [n  a  cottage    on   fail 
grounds,  but  soon  are  kidnaped  liy  their  former 
owner.     This  leads   to  diacnssion   of   the   sore 
subject ;  then  the  irat  breaks  out,  and  the  eldest 
son  enlists,  which  pves  occasion  for  more  dis- 
cossioa  and  (or  much  anxiety ;  eventually  ci 
peace   and   the   return  of  the  soldier,  and  the 
book   closes  with    the    departure    of    the    two 
"lads"  to  college.    There  is  nothing  fresh 
vigorous  or  fascinating  about  the  book;  but 
strong   religious  spirit  and   inculcation   of   the 
principles  of  practical  piety  redeem  its  flavorless 
character,  and  make  it  a  desirable  volume 
put  into  the   hands  of  the  young,  and  like 
predecessors,  it  is  appropriate  for  the  Sunday- 
school  library. 

The  King's  Coramand.  A  Story  for  Girls-  By 
Maggie  Symit^ton.  With  Eight  Original  Illus- 
tra^ns  by  hJ^  Ludlow.    [Cassell  &  Co.   fi.sa] 

There  i*  too  much  of  this  book;  it  is  bulky 
and  clumijr  to  handle;  and  It  looks  like  a  for. 
midable  undertaking  to  read  it.  Judicious  con- 
densation would  be  to  its  advantage.  Having 
said  that,  there  is  nothing  to  be  done  but  1 
right  on  irith  one  of  the  sweetest  and  best 
stories  for  the  young  that  have  (or  a  long  time 
come  from  acrou  the  water.  Dorothy,  the  hero' 
ine,  is  an  unnaturally  good,  though  not  an  im- 
poMible,  little  girl,  who,  left  an  orphan,  with  a 
charge  from  her  father  to  obey  "the  king's  com- 
mand," fulfils  her  pledge  by  maintaining  her 
principles  in  the  midst  of  a  family  of  cotuins  who 
have  no  sense  whatever  of  moral  or  other  obliga- 
tions. Her  distress  and  perplexity  at  meeting 
with  subterfuges  and  lies,  disobedience  to  par- 
ents, and  quarrels  among  brothers  and  sisters, 
enlist  our  warmest  sympathies,  and  we  rejoice 
with  her  on  her  removal  to  the  cordial  Irish 
household,  and  in  her  final  prosperity  and  happi- 
ness. It  is  a  beautiful  book  (or  girls,  and  is 
most  cordially  approved.  While  the  story  itself 
is  captivating,  the  purpose  Is  so  clear  that  a 
child  can  understand  it  —  not  so  much  from  its 
being  kept  obtrusively  in  ught,  or  by  comments, 
or  by  that  "good  talk  "which  kills  the  usefulness 
of  so  many  books,  as  by  the  sbamefulness  and 
evil  of  concealment,  deception  and  lying  being 
made  apparent  in  the  coiueqnences  they  bring. 
There  is  a  logic  in  the  treatment  which  con- 
vinces, while  the  logic  itself  is  hardly  visible. 
The  charming  and  picturesque  way  in  which  this 
is  written  goes  to  prove  that  a  book  may  have 
a  great  deal  of  religion  in  it,  and  yet  be  very 
fasdnatlng. 

A  WfTldofGirU.  The  Story  of  a  School.  By 
L.  T.  Meade.  With  £jght  Original  Illuslrations, 
by  H.  E.  Edirards.    [Cassell  &  Co.    S1.50.] 

The  la^  who  write*  tinder  the  ptendonytn  of 


L.  T.  Meade,  has  gifU  as  a  storyteller.  Here 
another  English  story,  of  a  motherless  girl 
whose  father  has  placed  her  in  a  school  and  left 
:o  her  fate.  She  is  proud  and  somewhat 
self-willed,  and  soon  gets  herself  into  disfavor 
by  her  dislike  of  the  pet  of  the  establishment,  an 
impulsive,  brilliant  creature,  Annie  Forrest,  full 
o(  (aults  and  always  in  mischief,  but  presently 
forgiven  on  account  of  her  irresistible  lovable- 
nesa.  Very  soon  certain  disgraceful  things  hap- 
pen, by  reason  of  which  discord  is  introduced 
into  a  school  before  free  from  it,  and  Annie, 
who  is  suspected,  finds  her  position  one  which 
she  cannot  explain,  and  is  disgraced.  The 
Ml*/  is  to  show  what  misery  may  be  wrought 
by  suspicion,  jealousy,  and  malice,  and  how  a 
warm,  lender  heart  can  be  made  cold  and  hard 
by  injustice.  The  school  becomes  demoralized 
in  consequence  of  the  lying  and  concealment  of 
two  pupils;  and  as  if  this  was  not  enough,  gip- 
sies are  introduced  into  the  story,  a  child  is 
stolen,  Ihe  miserable  Annie  goes  in  gipsy  dis- 
guise to  rescue  her,  and  strange  things  happen ; 
until  finally,  after  pain,  sickness,  guilt,  peril,  and 
anxiety,  ihe  truth  cornea  to  light,  and  wrong* 
are  righted.  The  book  is  improbable,  and  quite 
overloaded  with  these  sensational  incidents,  but 
as  gipsies  form  a  staple  feature  in  English 
fiction,  and  abducting  children  it  a  part  of  their 
business,  it  behoove*  us  to  think  that  the  author 
may  imderstand  her  affairs  better  than  we  do. 
The  moral  i*  clear  enough  — that  hatred  and 
falsehood  bring  a  long  line  of  evils  in  their 
train;  and  no  girl  can  read  the  book  without 
being  helped  to  see  the  beauty  of  a  perfectly 
sincere  and  upright  character,  and  to  understand 
that  she  cannot  do  a  wrong  thing  herself  without 
injury  to  others. 

Haa  te  Win.  A  Book  for  Girls-  By  France* 
E.  Willard.    [Funk  &  Wagnalls.    #1.00.] 

Prof.  William  Mathews's  Gettit^  an  in  tkt 
World,  which  took  no  notice  of  women,  was  the 
occasion  o(  this  vivacious  book  by  the  President 
of  the  National  Woman's  Christian  Temperance 
Union,  to  which  Miss  Cleveland  fumish;^  an 
ituignificant  introduction.  The  familiar  topic* 
oE  volumes  of  this  class  are  traversed  by  His* 
Willard,  but  in  her  counsels  to  yonng  women  to 
embrace  an  active  career  she  dwells  particularly 
upon  the  opening  for  women  in  the  various 
branches  of  philanthropic  work,  and  nrges  them 
most  of  all  to  enlist  in  the  temperance  cause. 
The  author  is  advanced  In  her  idea*  o(  woman's 
sphere,  and  is  disposed  to  overcolor  the  pros- 
pect of  success  in  journalism  and  philanthropy. 
She  abhors  most  novels,  finding  Hovrells  and 
Jame*  a  dreary  pair;  but  she  cherishes  a  high 
ideal  of  womanhood,  and  her  robust  counsels  are 
a  good  tonic  for  Irresolute  yt 


Elsies  Kith  and  Kin.  By  Martha  Tmley. 
[Dodd,  Mead  &  Co.    #1.25.] 

The  Elsie  books  are  In  danger  o(  becoming 
tedious.  Cannot  the  author  who  has  made  the 
series  *o  succesifnl  afford  us  *omething  fresh? 
or,  if  the  history  of  the  noble  Max  and  the  lovely 
Grace  are  yet  to  come,  will  she  not  give  them 
more  enlivening  treatment?  We  know  that  the 
Elsie  household,  "  kith  and  kin,"  are  wise  and 
good  people,  and  that  they  mean  and  strive  to 
exert  the  best  of  influences;  we  like  their  integ- 
rity, their  steadfast  Christian  principle  and  Chris- 
Han  teachings,  and  heartily  mh  that  there  was 


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THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Nov.  27, 


more  of  ihe  (ort  in  book*,  and  in  the  world ; 
nevertbeleu  it  is  posiible  that  good  convemtion 
may  become  tireiome,  and  even  so  excellent 
■eriea  lose  iti  attract ivenesi.  Such  a  possibilitT 
should  be  ftveitcd.  Against  one  thing  in  this 
Tolume  we  piolcst — the  treatment  which  the 
impulsive,  quick-tempered  Lulu  received  at  the 
hand  of  her  father,  as  narrated  in  the  twelfth 
chapter,  and  the  cool,  calculating  wa;  with  which 
be  regarded  her  mortal  terror  at  fear  of  arrest, 
towards  the  close  of  the  fourteenth;  the  injndi- 
ciousness,  hardness,  and  injuttice  of  which  are 
not  in  keeping  with  the  gentle  tpirit  of  these 
books  uid  their  teachings,  which  lead  ns  to  ex- 
pect a  different  mode  of  parental  dealing. 


DBEAU  STOSIES. 

Behind  Time.  By  George  Parsons  Latbrop. 
[Cassell&Co.    $1.1^.] 

There  ia  real  imagination  of  a  very  grace- 
ful sort  in  Mr.  George  Parsons  Lathrop's  first 
essay  of  a  book  for  children.  Bihimi  Timt  is  a 
dream-story,  as  stories  are  only  too  apt  to  be 
now-a-days.  It  dimly  suggests  that  commonly 
followed  model,  Alice  in  Wnnderland,  as  having 
been  consciously  or  unconsciouily  before  ila 
author's  mind  ai  he  wrote,  but  It  has  qualities 
of  its  own,  humor,  fgn,and  a  certain  Americanism 
of  inventiTeness  to  distinguish  it  from  the  Eng- 
lish model,  and  these  qualities  would  lead  as  to 
argue  good  things  from  further  attempts  in  the 
same  field.  The  fabulous  being  called  "They  " 
is  distinctly  an  original  creation. 


KtyhtUt  Country  ia  another  of  the  many  at- 
tempt) which  have  been  made  since  the  appear- 
ance of  Alkt  in  Wendtrland  to  follow  in  a  sort 
the  aame  pattern,  and  it  may  safely  be  called 
a  more  socceiaful  one  than  most  of  them.  Like 
Alice  it  is  the  story  of  a  dream  dreamed  by 
little  girl,  and  it  has  much  qaaint  invention  about 
it  and  a  pretty  fancy,  while  by  no  means  coming 
up  to  the  wit  and  originality  of  its  imm 
model.  In  fact  it  would  be  hard  on  any  book 
to  demand  that  it  should  do  tha^  and  Ktykelt 
Cetntry  may  very  fairly  be  read  and  enjoyed  on 
its  own  merits  without  awkward  comparisons. 
The  wood-cuts  which  illustrate  the  tale  are  ex- 
ceptionally good. 


BOHE  OHBISTHAS  BOOES  FOR  OHIL- 
DRES. 

PtUr  Ptnniltsi.  By  G.  Christopher  Davies. 
[F.  Warne  k  Co.    #1.50.] 

A  capital  story  for  boys,  wholesome,  manly, 
full  of  teaching,  and  full  of  fresh  air,  is  Pettr 
Ptnniltsi,  which  we  have  once  spoken  of  before, 
and  which  relates  the  fortuiies  of  two  brothers, 
born  and  educated  as  gentlemen's  sons  are  in 
England,  and  thrown  by  a  turn  of  fortune  on 
their  own  resources.  Gerard,  the  elder,  is  com- 
petent to  support  himself  as  a  teacher  or  private 
tutor;  but  Peter,  who  has  cared  littie  for  study, 
and  distinguished  himself  at  Eton  rather  for 
good  football  than  exact  quantities,  has  only  his 
vigorous  young  body  and  plucky  intentions  to 
trust  to  for  a  livelihood.  He  therefore  changes 
his  name,  and,  while  waiting  for  something  bet- 
ter, takes  the  post  of  under  gamekeeper  on  an 


estate.  How  thoroughly  he  does  his  duly  and 
wins  friends  thereby,  how  he  learns  all  about 
pheasant  breeding,  and  rabbit  shooting,  and 
decoying  ducks,  and  dealing  with  vermin  and 
poachers,  those  will  see  who  read  his  history, 
and  we  hope  such  readers  should  be  many )  for 
though  "  preserves  "  and  game-laws  are  compara- 
tively unknown  in  our  country,  boys  like  to  read 
about  the  English  methods  of  dealing  with  such 
matters,  and  so  straightforward  and  cheery 
young  fellow  as  Peter  is  a  good  acquaintance  f 
any  boy  to  make. 


In  the  year  1719  the  Comte  de  Bourke,  ar 
Irish  Jacobin  naturalized  in  France,  wrote  to  hii 
wife  to  join  him  with  their  children  In  Spain, 
where  he  was  at  the  time  serving  as  French 
ambassador.  The  Comtessa  and  her 
accordingly  set  out,  and  after  the  long  land 
ney  across  France,  sailed  from  the  Utile  port  of 
Cette  on  the  Gulf  of  Lyons  in  a  Genoese  ta. 
(a  sort  of  large  felucca)  bound  for  Barcelona. 
Twenty-four  hours  later,  the  tartaiu  was  captured 
by  Algerine  pirates,  and  ultimately  made  ship- 
wreck in  a  severe  storm  on  the  rocks  bordering 
the  Bay  of  Golo.  The  Comtesse  and  most 
the  parly  were  drowned,  but  her  little  daughti 
Estelle,  then  about  twelve  years  of  age,  with 
three  of  the  servants,  escaped  from  the  sea  only 
to  fall  into  the  hands  of  the  Cabeleyzes,  a  tribe 
of  wild  Arabs,  from  whom  they  were  with  much 
difficulty  rescued  two  months  later  by  the  i 
vention  of  the  Bey  of  Algiers  and  the  Marabout 
of  Bongia.  This  true  adventure  Miss  Yonge 
has  made  the  subject  of  her  story,  with  the 
of  A  Medtrn  Ttltmatknt.  It  seems  droll  1 
who  are  accustomed  to  regard  "Telemaque"  a* 
a  lesson-book,  and  not  a  very  interesting  01 
that,  that  there  should  ever  have  been  a  time 
when  "children  cried  for  it,"  and  young 
dreamed  dreams  over  its  pages,  as  girls  of  today 
do  over  Tkt  Htir  ef  Ridclyffe  and  its  compeers. 
But  it  is  this  precious  volume  to  which  little 
Estelle  clings  through  all  her  vicissitudes,  and 
it  is  on  one  of  its  blank  leaves  that  the  letter  is 
written  which  at  length  brings  aid  to  herself  and 
her  companions.  The  story  is  charmingly 
brightly  told,  and  the  picture  of  the  brave  1 
French  maiden  balding  fast  to  her  faith,  and 
trying  to  convert  and  persuade  the  savages,  by 
whom  her  life  is  daily  menaced,  is  a  striking  one. 


TAt  Nteklatt  ef  Prineett  FletimoHdt,  and 
Other  Steriet.  By  Mary  de  Morgan.  [Macmil- 
Ian  &  Co.    »l.2S.i 

Imagination  of  a  very  rare  and  delicate  order 
is  evinced  in  the  pretty  volume  o(  fairy  tales 
which  Mrs.  William  de  Morgan  has  christened 
TAt  Nicklaci  cf  Printtsl  Ftorimondi.  This 
princess,  from  whom  the  book  borrows  its  name, 
is  a  king's  daughter,  as  wicked  as  she  is  beauti- 
ful, who  conceives  the  quaint  idea  of  changing, 
with  the  assistance  of  a  witch  with  whom  she  is 
on  terms  of  intimacy,  a  series  of  inconveniently 
urgent  suitors  into  jewelled  beads,  which  she 
wears  on  a  golden  cord  round  her  neck.  Twelve 
of  these  strange  beads  she  amasses  before,  by 
iment's  inadvertence,  she  herself  becomes 
Ihe  thirteenth.  "  The  Wanderings  of  Azasmon," 
which  follows  next,  ia  a  prose  poem  of  singular 
beauty,  and  acarcety  less  charming  in  Its  way  ia 
"  The  Heart  dt  Princess  Joan,"  the  third  story 


in  the  book.  Children  will  enjoy  these  sloriea, 
while  only  half  perceiving  the  subtle  depth  tA 
tbeir  meaning ;  and  grown  people  will  appreciate 
the  excellent  English  in  which  they  are  written, 
English  so  pure  and  simple  and  well-bred,  as  to 
furnish  an  instructive  study  in  style  to  some  con- 
temporaneous "  writers  for  the  young." 

Thi  Tatii  ofthi  Sixty  Mandarint.  B^  P.  V. 
Ramaswami  Rajn.  With  an  Introduction  by 
Professor  Henry  Mortey.  Illustrated  by  Gordon 
Browne.     [Cxssell  &  Co.    fi.ja] 

These  arc  sixty  "new  Fairy  Tales,"  many  of 
which  are  of  Chinese  origin;  some  based  on 
traditions  current  "among  the  people  of  the 
Indo-Chinese  Peninsala  and  the  Eastern  Archi- 
pelago," others  from  Tartary,  Central  Asia, 
Persia,  Asiatic  Turkey,  and  Arabia,  and  a  few 
are  purely  Hindu  in  character.  The  author,  Mr. 
Raju,  who  is  a  graduate  of  the  Madras  University 
and  member  of  the  Asiatic  Society,  was  for  a 
time  Lecturer  on  Tamil  and  Telega  in  Univer- 
sity College,  London,  where  Mr.  Morley,  to  whom 
the  tales  were  committed  for  an  opinion,  made 
his  acquaintance.  While  many  of  them  are  Qo- 
ticcably  Influenced  by  the  author's  own  person- 
ality, and  modem  philosophy  shows  through  the 
atory,  others  are  strongly  idiomatic  and  have 
the  true  folk-lore  flavor,  like  "The  Black  China- 
man and  his  Junk,"  "The  Giant  Tabalan  and 
the  Boy  Tuck,*  "The  Boy  and  the  Hundred 
Giants,"  and  "The  Lame  Saltan;"  in  others 
are  incorporated  subtle  maxims  for  life,  alle- 
gories, satires  on  the  ways  of  rulers,  flings  at 
human  folly  ;  some  bits  <A  wisdom  are  taught,  as 
in  "  The  Wonderful  Pair  of  Spectacles  ;  "  and  — 
characteristic  of  this  class  of  literature  in  all  lan- 
guages —  kiiulness  to  animals  Is  one  of  the  pleas- 
ing features. 


Mrs.  Whitman's  Mating  of  Picture*  is  not  a 
story,  but  it  will  be  found  even  more  interesting 
than  a  story  by  young  people  who  are  concerned 
in  the  subject  of  which  it  treats.  It  does  not 
profess  to  be  a  manual  from  which  drawing  and 
painting  can  be  acquired  "without  a  master," 
but  relates  clearly  and  plainly  the  broad,  under- 
lying principles  of  art  and  art  processes,  in  a 
style  at  once  so  simple  and  so  aerioua  that  boy* 
and  girls  may  not  only  learn  from  it  what  art  is, 
but  learn  to  honor  it  as  well,  as  al!  must  do 
who  come  under  its  ennobling  influence  even 
to  a  slight  degree.    [Interstate   Publishing  Co. 

One  of  the  sweetest  books  of  the  year  is 
CorW/  LilUe  Daaghttr.  Carol  is  an  old  man 
who  gets  his  living  by  making  and  selling  toy 
windulilta.  Hia  own  life  ia  bare  and  comfort- 
less, but  he  adds  to  its  burdens  by  adopting  ■ 
littie  starving  girl  whom  be  picks  up  on  his  door 
step.  How  well  she  repays  this  goodness,  how 
comfort  and  interest  grow  with  her  growth,  and 
low  her  loving  care  brightens  his  age,  is  the 
lubject  of  the  tale  which  ia  full  of  true,  simple 
pathos.    [George  Routledge  &  Sons,    f  I.25.] 

Another  good  book  for  girls  is  T%e  Ckriitwtai 
Country,  a  collection  of  stories  partly  original 
and  partly  translated.  The  translations  arc  not 
indicated,  but  they,  as  well  as  their  respective 
origins,  are  easily  recognized  by  that  intangible 
flavor  of  difference  which  distinguishes  the  folk- 
of  one  nation  from  another.  Prettiest  of 
all,  perhaps,  is  the  story  of  "The  Water  Man," 
and  the  gallant  little  Gertrude  who  carries  the 


1886.] 


THE   LItERARY  WORLD. 


431 


FtoiKr  of  Li[«  down  into  the  frozen  lake  to 
rcKoe  her  pla]p(el1ow.  [T.  V.  Crowell  &  Co. 
ft-SP.] 

ChSdrtn's  Ballads  from  History  and  Folt- 
Lore  !■  i  seriet  of  stories  told  in  verse,  and  em- 
bedded in  remarkably  pretty  illostritions.  As 
little  people  are  almoit  equally  fond  of  fiction, 
poetry,  and  pictures,  the  onion  of  the  three  in 
one  book  can  scarcely  fail  to  be  delightful  to 
them.    [D.  Lothrop  &  Co.    ti.75.] 

Yeutk  in  Twelve  Centuries  is  after  the  same 
pittern  minoi  the  story.  Each  square  double- 
page  of  this  pretty  Tolume  gives  the  picture  of 
a  girl  and  a  boy  with  the  distinctive  garb  and 
aspect  of  their  day;  the  little  poems  appended 
explain  the  design*  and  make  them  more  easy 
to  undentaad.  The  Idea  is  a  clever  one  and 
well  carried  ont.    [D.  Lothrop  &  Co.    faJTO.] 

Slill  another  tastefully  edited  volume  is  Sights 
Worth  Seeing  te  Those  Win  Saw  Them,  which, 
if  made  op  as  we  are  led  to  suppose  of  pa- 
pets  from  Wide-Amaie,  is  a  standing  proof  of 
the  eiceltent  quality  of  reading  furnished  by  that 
magazine  to  its  young  subscribers.  [D.  Lothrop 
*Co.    »i.75] 

The  collection  of  Danish  tales,  collected  and 
translated  by  Mr.  John   Hulford  Vicary  under 
the  title  of  A   Stark's  Nest,   is  less  distinctly 
juvenile  in  its  character  than  other  books  in  this 
list,  while,  at  the  same   time,  it  contains  many 
things  that  children  may  like.    Its  particul: 
lerest  will  be  for  readers  old  enough  to  note  and 
enjoy  the  flavor  of  a  literature  which  is  le 
familiar  to  the  English  public  than  that  of  mc 
other  European  countries.     [F.  Warae  &  Co.] 
Miss  Kate  Greenaway  exhibits  all  her  wonti 
graces  of   touch  and    color  in  the    illustrated 
alphabet  which  she  chrisiens  A  Apple  Pie.   Each 
page  gives  a  qoaintty  tinted  group  of  children  in 
old-time  costumes,  rejoicing,  lamenting,  quarrel- 
ing over  or  sharing  the  Pie,  and  every  page  is 
pretty.    We  hear  of  "Reading  without  Tears," 
but  babies  who  learn  from  such  an  alphabet  as 
this,  should  read  with  broad  smiles.    [George 
Routledge  &  Sons.] 

Elephants  perhaps  appeal  to  the  youthful  im- 
agination more  than  any  other  animal.    Their 
sise,  their  fabled  sagacity,  and  the   conflicting 
opinions  as  to  their  real  characters  invest 
with  a  sort  of  gigantic  fascination.    Mr.  flolder 
has  therefore  set  himself  a  kindly  task  in  making 
these  attractive  monsters  the  subject  of  his 
ograph.  The  Ivory  Xing.     Any  boy  who  reads 
this  book  through  may  feel  satisfied  that  he  is 
master  of  his  subject.     He  will  know  all  about 
fossil  elephants  with  their  splendid  tusks,  white 
elephants   surrounded  with  worshipful  retinues 
and   pampered    like     kings,    "  man-eal 
rogue  elephants,  etephants  trained  for 
elephants  trained  for  work;   in  short  he  will 
know  all  that  there  is  to  be  known  about  ele- 
phants, and  a  great  deal   more  than  the  wisesi 
person  in  the  world  could  have  known  fifty  years 
ago.    [Charles  Scribner's  Sons.    (2.00.] 

Life  in  the  wilderness  is  the  su})ject  of  Big 
Otter,  which  boys  will  enjoy  also,  but  it  is  a  far 
different  wilderness  that  is  described,  being  that 
of  the  great  fur-district  of  Northern  Canada. 
This  book  is  of  an  older  tone,  but  it  is  interest- 
ing, and  gives  a  good  picture  of  life  and  work  in 
the  trading  posts  of  the  Hudson  Bay  Company. 
[Geoi^e  Routledge  &  Sons,    fi.50.] 

Another  good  boys'  book  is  TAe  While  Chief 
of  the  Caffres,  whose  hero,  an  English  boy  of  ten 


on  his  way  to  India,  is  shipwrecked  on  the  coast 
of  Africa,  captured  and  adopted  by  a  tribe  of 
Caffres,  and  grows  up  among  them  like  one  of 
themselves.  The  incidents  of  this  story  are  so 
vividly  real  that  we  feel  that  they  must  have 
happened,  and  it  would  be  a  stolid  boy  indeed 
who  could  read  of  the  final  escape  at  Arthur 
without  bated  breath.  [George  Routledge  & 
Sons,    tl.50.1 

Little  Lord  Fatindtrey  seems  by  all  accounts 
to  have  conquered  as  many  hearts  on  the  other 
side  the  sea  as  on  our  own.  The  fun  and  pathos 
and  charm  of  the  tale  are  irresistible,  neither 
nor  sex  can  withstand  them,  and  his  admir- 
include  all  sorts  and  all  conditions.  As  the 
pretty  plot  unraveled  itself  in  the  pages  of 
St.  I/iehelas,  and  dark  doubts  obtruded  as  to 
whether  or  not  Mrs.  Burnett  had  not  a  tragical 
ending  in  view  for  het  small  hero,  there  were 
those  among  his  loveis  who  fell  inclined  to  write 
as  did  the  readers  of  Clarissa  Harloae  to  Rich- 
ardson with  regard  to  Lovelace,  to  beg  that  she 
"  would  have  mercy  upon  him."  Happily  Mrs. 
Burnett  is  too  practiced  an  artist  to  mar  her 
work  with  a  commonplace  catastrophe,  and 
Little  Lord  Fanntleroy  is  left  with  brightness 
undimmed,  standing,  the  central  figure  of  bis 
world  of  older  people  and  interests,  all  v/l 
which,  unconsciously  to  himself,  he  influences 
and  changes  and  dominates.  [Charles  Scrib- 
ner's Sons.    >z.oo.I 

Young  people  of  both  sexes,  espedalty  those 
of  any  musical  taste  and  talent,  ought 
interested  in  Mrs.  Lucy  C.  Lillie's  Stery  of  Musie 
and  Mtuieians,  which  is  a  fairly  successful  at. 
tempt  to  sketch  in  outline  in  a  popular  and  sim. 
pie  way  the  general  development  of  musical  art, 
with  attention  to  the  history  of  instruments  on 
the  one  hand  and  the  biography  of  eminent  per- 
formers on  the  other.  The  modem  part  of  the 
subject,  however,  absorbs  most  of  the  space,  the 
book  beginning  with  Handel  and  Bach  and  Mo- 
zart and  Beethoven.  There  is  one  chapti 
the  Early  Ecclesiastical  Composers,  one  o 
Orchestra,  one  on  the  Opera,  and  one  of  practi- 
cal suggestions  to  students.  [Harper  &  Brothers. 
H-oal 

The  genuine  and  harmleu  sensationalism  of 
history  enters  into  Mr.  Henry  Frith's  romance. 
Under  Bayard's  Banner,  with  its  delineations  of 
the  customs  and  feats  of  the  days  of  chivalry, 
its  tournaments,  masked  balls,  and  armored  bat- 
tles, its  dubbing  of  knights  and  winning  of  spurs 
and  duels  on  horseback,  its  Bayard,  and  Guines 
Geoffrey,  and  Gaspard  de  Vincentin,  its  Ra. 
venna,  and  Padua,  and  Meziires.  The  story  is 
long,  but  is  animated  and  picturesque.  [Ci 
sell  &  Co.    ft.oo.] 

Damn  the  Snajo  Stairs,  by  Alice  Corkran,  tells 
the  tale   of  a  Christmas  Eve  made  memorable 
forever  to  a  girl  named  Kitty,  by  the  fact  that 
her  little  lame  brother,  partly  through  her  fault, 
lies  dangerously  ill  in  the  room  below  hers,  and 
no  one  knows  how  it  will  have  fared  with  him 
when  morning  comes.    Kitty  falls  asleep  with 
heart  full   of   misery  and    repentance,   and 
waked  up  by  a  snow-man,  whom  she  has  co 
structed  during  the  afternoon  and  left  on   tl 
lawn  to  harden  and  cool,  and  who  climtis  to  h 
window  to  tell  her  that  only  by  going  with  him 
in  search  of  a  certain  potent  blue  flower, 
Johnnie's  life   be   saved.     So  Kitty  goes  with 
the  snow-man  down  a  long,  shining  staircase  of 
ice,  and  she  meets  with  adventures  as  original 


they  are  wonderful.  Children  will  enjoy  the 
taie  of  Naughty  Children's  Land,  and  Punish- 
ment Land,  and  Daddy  Coax,  as  mncb  as  older 
people,  and  be  as  quick  tt>  perceive  the  beautiful 
meaning  of  thfe  dual  influence  with  which  Kitty 
is  companioned  as  she  wins  her  difficult  way 
back  to  morning  and  happiness  and  Johnnie  and 
home.    [Scribner  &  Welford.    %2ao.'\ 

ore  delicately  fanciful  is  Mrs.' Moles- 
worth's  lovely  little  tale  oE  the  Four  Winds 
:  is  neither  a  dream  nor  a  fairy  story, 
bnt  concerns  the  fortunes  of  a  real  tittle  boy 
named  Gratian;  yet  the  dream  and  the  fairy* 
tale  seem  to  enter  into  his  life,  and  make  a  part 
The  farm-house  in  which  the  child  lives 
is  set  exactly  at  the  meeting  pla(£  of  the  four 
ilnds,  and  they,  from  the  moment  of  bis  birth, 
have  acted  as  liis  self -elected  godtnolhers.  These 
unseen,  but  by  no  means  unfelt,  friends,  serve 
him  to  the  best  of  their  abilities,  but  in  differing 
ways.  "Gray  Wings,"  the  east  wind,  and 
Snow  Wings,"  the  north,  are  a  little  vigorous 
1  their  treatment  at  times.  They  beat  and  buf- 
fet the  boy,  they  sting  his  cheeks  with  sudden 
slaps  when  he  is  going  wrong,  but  it  is  a  loving 
corrective,  meant  to  harden  and  temper  the  pur- 
pose of  his  will.  "Green"and  "Golden  Wings," 
the  south  and  west  winds,  caress  and  pet  and 
help  in  gentler  fashion,  but  all  the  winds  love 
the  boy,  and,  held  in  the  balance  of  their  influ- 
ence, he  grows  up  as  a  boy  should,  simply  and 
truly,  with  a  tender  heart  and  a  firm  mind.  The 
idea  of  this  little  book  is  essentially  poetical. 
[Macmillan  &  Co.    tl.zj} 

The  author  of  Madame  Tabids  Establishment 
is  said  to  be  a  daughter  of  Canon  Kingsley,  who 
here  makes  her  first  essay  in  writing  for  children. 
It  is  a  story  about  cats  — all  sorts  of  cats,  Per- 
sian and  Tabby  and  Maltese,  tame  and  wild,  bat 
they  are  rather  Cats  of  Fable  than  real  creatures 
to  us.  They  affect  to  despise  human  beings,  but 
they  emulate  their  customs,  and  surpass  their 
reasoning  powers,  and  borrow  their  language, 
ti!!  only  the  two  extra  legs  remain  to  remind  us 
that  they  are  not  rather  unusual  clever  ladies 
and  gentlemen  masquerading  as  felinea.  [Mac- 
millan ft  Co.    #1.35.] 


ILLUSTBATED  QUARTOS. 

The  illustrated  qnarto  has  long  been  a  favorite 
form  of  book  for  holiday  time.  Sometimes  a 
favorite  poem  is  taken  for  emiiellishment  by  art- 
ist, engraver,  printer,  and  bbder;  again  a  new 
writing  is  selected  for  these  honors  of  manufac- 
ture. All  the  books  mentioned  below  come 
under  this  general  head,  and  with  one  or  two 
exceptions,  have  much  in  common. 

Th4  Daisy  Seekers.  By  the  Author  of  "Shi- 
loL"    [E.  P.  Dutton  &  Co.    ti.50.] 

The  Unkncwn  Way.  By  W.  C.  Bryant.  With 
Illustrations  by  Frances  C,  Brown.  [E.  P.  Dut- 
ton  ft  Co.    ^1.50.] 

The  Wreck  of  the  Hesperus.  By  H.  W.  Long 
fellow.    lUus.    [E.  P.DuttonftCo.  #1.50.] 

These  three  quartos  are  companions  by  reason 
of  size,  quality,  and  binding,  (he  latter  being  a 
rich  brown  leather  stamped  in  large  leaf  and 
flower  patterns,  and  lettered  in  gilt.  It  is  a  vari- 
ation, and  an  agreeable  one,  of  the  "alligator 
skin  "  style.  The  first  poem  makes  use  of  the 
modesty  and  simplicity  of  the  daisy  to  adorn  a 
moral  for  human  character   and  life;   a  pretty 


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THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Nov.  a?, 


thought  prettily  ezpreswd  in  the  (oim  of  «  atoiy 
of  a  King  who  Knt  oat  hia  lerTaiiti  to  gathei 
diiiiei  to  deck  hit  FcMt.  The  aerraati  went  out 
Mid  ditdained  the  daiaJM ;  bat  a  little  lame  boy 
got  hia  baada  full  of  them  and  W(w  the  favor  of 
the  King.  Do  you  aee  the  leason  f  II  la  ten- 
derly and  movingly  canveyed  by  *ene  and  pict- 
are.  Biyanl'a  poem  of  Tkt  Unknowm  Way  ia  in 
aomewhat  the  aame  mood,  bat  more  reserved 
and  aober,  aa  all  hia  writing  waa,  telling  of  the 
path  that  led  he  knew  not  where,  aa 


Longfellow'a  Wrtck  eftki  Hafenu  ni 
•cription  here.    The  picturea 


ccompanylng  it 
are  perhapa  the  beat  of  those  in  either  of  theae 
books.  Bat  all  are  good.  Each  aet  ha*  indtvid- 
ualily.  Tboae  in  the  Grat  two  booka  are  of  a  leaa 
common  type. 

Tki  Wrtck  aj  tki  Hisptnu.  Do.  Do.  tfi-so-] 
This  ia  the  same  edition  as  the  one  above 
tioned,  but  bound  in  doth  instead  of  the  orna. 
mental  leather. 

Fair  Inn.  By  Thomas  Hood.  Illntlrated  by 
W.  St  John  Harper  and  W.  F.  Freer  ander  the 
Saperviuon  of  Geo.  T.  Aikdrew.  [Eaies  ft  Lau- 
riat.    Ji.so.] 


The  above  two  booka  are  of  the  conventional 
type,  the  two  well-known  poena  named  having 
been  illnalrated  on  wood,  printed,  and  made  up 
into  small  qaartos.  Between  two  anch  ainular 
booki,  lying  to  close  together,  it  ia  difficult  to 
avoid  comparison.  There  ii  a  brilliancy  about 
Fair  Ina,  both  in  the  poem  and  the  embellish- 
ment of  it,  which  ii  lacking  in  Dora  ;  on  the 
other  hand  Dora  has  a  simplidty,  and  the  pict- 
nres  which  go  with  it,  a  sweet  domestic  interest, 
which  are  very  charming.  Of  the  two,  we  ahoald 
^ve  the  preference  to  the  latter. 

Thrte  Xingt.  A  Christmat  LigtiiJ  ef  Leng 
Ago.  By  Haiy  L.  M'Lanathan.  With  Four 
Illnstrations  by  Roaina  Emmet.  [A.  D.  F.  Ran- 
dolph &  Co.  ^«a]  This  is  a  large  and  distin- 
guished looking  quarto  of  its  dass,  clad  in 
homespun,  so  to  speak,  but  having  uncommon 
typt^aphical  dignity.  It  is  ■  sort  of  Idyl  of  the 
King,  this  "Xmas  Legend  of  Long  Ago,"  an 
idyl  of  King  Arthur's  time,  of  three  kings  in  fact, 
who  belonged  to  his  knightly  cirde,  Fots,  Joyant, 
and  Saviin,  and  of  the  three  fair-faced  and 
happy^voiced  boys  whom  they  found  in  the  wood 
and  fetched  home  to  a  Chrislmaa  keeping,  and  of 
the  wondrous  dream  which  King  Savain  had 
about  the  Christ-child  carried  in  his  arma,  and 
the  aweet  lessons  of  faith  and  love  and  adoration 
which  were  taught  him  thereby.  How  gentleness 
is  the  jewd  of  gteatnesa  is  the  melody  of  thia 
pretty  and  truly  poetic  atoiy.  The  carol  which 
the  boya  of  the  wood  sang  to  the  Three  Kings  is 
printed  at  the  end,  both  music  and  words,  and 
Hiss  Emmet's  picturea,  though  few,  are  good, 
and  in  keeping  with  that  mediEval  atmosphere 
which  the  type,  paper,  and  binding  alao  conaerve. 
This  ia  altogether  a  choice  book  in  form  and 
substance. 

A  Mother's  Smg.  By  Mary  D.  Brine.  Illua- 
tiated  by  Misi  C.  A.  Nortbam.  [Caasell  ft  Co. 
fz.jo.]  Mrs.  Brine  is  one  of  the  most  sympa- 
thetic and  efficient  interpreters  of  mother-love, 
and  haa  previoualy  laid  us  under  obligations  (or 


deserving  of  attention  and  sure  to  get  It.  We 
only  regret  that  the  illnstrator's  name  ia  not 
given. 

7%t  FaitnMam  Ghat.  By  Robert  BloonGeld. 
Illostrated  by  J.  L.  Wimbnsh.  [London  :  Wells, 
Gardner,  Darton  ft  Co.]  BloomGeld'a  ballad  of 
The  Fakenham  Ghost  is  bat  a  trifle,  and  thia 
book  in  which  it  haa  been  printed  with  pictures 
is  but  a  trifle.  The  story  however  is  founded  on 
(act.  The  old  lady  wis  realty  chased  through 
Eaaton  Park,  by  what  ahe  thought  was  a  ghost, 
and  the  ghost  was  nothing  more  formidable  than 
a  stray  donkey.  Perhapi  the  tale  has  its  moral. 
The  pictures  are  clever  and  amusing,  and  the 
book  li  a  little  comfit. 

OHILDEEFB  QUABTOB. 

The  "Children's  Quartos"  present  less  uni- 
formity this  year  than  oaual,  and  as  a  whole  are 
of  an  Improved  grade  and  quality.  There  are 
several  of  the  old  familiar  pattern,  and  others 
which  are  new  departures  both  in  character  and 
appearance. 

Ovr  LUtU  Qntt  and  tJu  Nursery.  Wm.  T. 
Adama,  Editor.    [Eslea  ft  Lanriat.    fl.7j.] 

PUturet  ami  Soiigi  for  Little  Children.  [E.  P. 
Dntton&Co.    ^.JO.] 

In  contents  ibeae  two  booka  are  very  much 
alike,  and  rcpreaent  the  better  class  of  ordinary 
pictnre-stoiy-booka.  The  former  consists  of  the 
bound  numbers  (or  a  year  of  a  periodical  pub- 
lished in  Boaion.  Botii  are  compoeed  of  abort 
original  pieces,  by  many  writers,  in  prose  and 
verse,  and  an  abundance  of  wood-cuta  of  excel- 
lent quality.  There  are  little  stories,  chapters 
of  information,  anatchea  of  wisdom  and  good 
advice,  simple  poema,  songs,  snd  hymns,  and 
ttow  and  then  a  page  al  music.  The  type  is 
large.  In  typography  both  books  have  very 
nearly  even  and  decided  meriL  The  firat  has 
the  more  pages,  the  second  a  slightly  more 
artistic  look.  But  any  mother  could  order 
either  book  by  mail,  as  a  gift  to  her  aix-year-old, 
and  be  certaia  of  satisfaction.  Take  onr  word 
for  it  I 

Z^EOg  Jaurniys  in  Ihi  Sunny  SotdA.  By  H. 
Butterworth.  Illus.  [Eatea  ft  Laariat.  ti.75.] 
Tkree  Vatiar  Cirli  an  the  Rhine.  By  Liicie 
W.  Champney.  Illus.  [Eates  ft  Laoriat.  Jljo.] 
Theae  two  companions  are  extensions  of  ideas 
with  which  previous  seasons  have  made  us  all 
familiar,  Hr.  Butterworth,  "tigzagging"  over 
the  world,  baa  reached  this  year  our  Soatbem 
States,  Central  America,  and  the  West  Indies, 
while  the  Three  Vasiar  Girls  are  on  the  Rhine 
and  the  Moselle  and  in  the  Black  Forest.  The 
method  and  manner  of  theae  books  are  well  estab- 
lished and  need  no  further  description.  They 
'personally  conducted  tours."  Mr,  Butter, 
worth  is  discursive  and  makes  a  place  in  his 
for  almost  everything  —  fact,  fancy, 
and  fiction  — that  can  be  attached  to  any  point 
of  it;  as  he  takes  ns  through  the  Carolinas  and 
Georgia  and  Florida,  to  Cuba  and  back  his 
pages  are  a  carious  mixture  of  description,  his- 
tory, dislogne,  anecdote,  snd  dates,  ingeniously 
out  with  pictures.  Mis.  Champney's  nar- 
is  more  logical  and  orderly,  and  her 
borrowed   illustrations    are   supplemented  with 


her  expressions  of  true  and  holy  feeling  in  sweet 

and  pleasing  poetic  forma.      This  is  "a  mother's 

song  "  in  deed  and  in  truth,  fresh,  spontaneous, 

tender,  fervent,  all  about  the  baby  in  its  gambols 

and  ita  smiles,  fallowing  its   steps  through  the 

sunshine  and  the  Bowers,  goea^ng  al  its  thotights 

snd  fancies,  helf^ng  It  in  Its  troubles  and  sor- 
rows, and  prettily  connecting  it  with  all  that  is 

pure  and  beautiful  in  the  world  about  iL    Mra. 

Brine  is  a  poet,  snd  her  verae  is  of  a  quality  to 

touch  the  great  universal   heart.    It  is  smooth, 

musical,  sweet.     The  deomitions  of  the  poem 

are  more  than  nsually  elaborate  and  painstaking. 

There  are  wood  engravings  of  the  conventional 

daas,  and  good  quality,  but  these   are  snbordl- 

nste,  both  in  proportion  and  effect,  to  the  tinted 

illuatratioiks,  which  accotnpaDy  the  text;    a  sort 

of  constant  meadow  of  grasses  and  flowera  and 

birds    and    butterflies    and    sporting    children 

through   which    the  poetry   runs   like    a   quiet 

Blream.      These    iltustration*  are  done   in  the 

faintest  of  gray  ink,  as  if  they  were  so  many  dis> 

tant  echoes  (rf  the  poet's  voice,  or  dim,  shifting 

visions  awakened  by  her  worda.      The  effect  ia 

artistic  and  good.    The  book,  within  and  with- 
out, is  one  of  much  refinement  and  delicacy. 
The  Matage  ef  the  Bluetird.    Told  to  Me  to 

Tell  to  Others.    Irene  E.  Jerome.    [Lee  ft  Shep- 

atd.  fa.oa]  Thia  book  has 'no  proper  title- 
page,  and  seems  to  consist  of  illustrations,  by 

Mrs.  Jerome,   of  a  short  poem  by   Mrs.  ).   S. 

Bayne.     The    spirit    of  the   poem    is  strongly 

religious,  like  that  of  Mrs.  Jerome's  larger  book. 

Natures   Ifallelujah,  reviewed  elsewhere;    and 

the  bird-life  ia  this  links  it  to  that  as  a  sort  of 

echo.    Mrs.  Jerouie's  spedalty  is  birds.     She 

draws  them  well  and  is  happy  in  their  company. 

Delicate  and  pretty  drawing,  good  engraving,  and 

a  cover  which  is  both  original  and  tasteful,  char. 

acteriie  thia  book. 

The  MimiU  Man.    By  Margaret  Sidney.     Il- 
lustrated.     [D.   Lothrop  ft  Co.     fl.50.]    The 

striking  cover  of  this  boak  proves  that  even  ink- 
blots, if  of  different  colors,  economically  regu- 
lated, and  applied  with  judldoua  carelessness, 

may  have  a  true  function  in  art     The  pli 

within  are  in  two  series,  of  which  the  vignettes 
wood  are   of  respectable  quality,  and    the 

heliotypes  In    tint  are  excellent,  especially  the 
w  of  the  Concord  Meadows  and  the  group  of 

the  "embattled  farmers."    As  for  the  poetry' 

we  will  ask  10  be  excused  from  speaking 
of  the  poetry,  except  to  say  that  it  I 
best  mentioned  in  this  nnmber  of  the  Literary 

World. 

Dayt  with  Sir  Xogrr  de  Cotvrley.  Reprint 
from  the  Sfeetatcr.  [Macmillan  ft  Co.  %^joo.] 
The  tiUe-page  o(  this  book  says  nothing  of  the 
illnatrations,  which  are  the  feature  of  it.  Cer- 
tainly they  apeak  for  themselves.  They  might  be 
by  Caldecott,  or  Cruikihank,  or  Rowlandson, 
almoat  the  great  Hogarth  himself;  so 
cspitat  are  they,  so  truthful,  so  gentie  and  good- 
natured  in  their  humor,  so  sympathetic  towards 
the  delightful  mood  of  the  Spectator,  so  just  to 
the  memory  of  the  courtly  Sir  Rt^er.  How 
quaint  the  coslnmea  1  How  liFe-lIke  the  post. 
ureal  How  telling  the  situations  I  What  could 
be  more  admirable  than  the  singing-daas,  with 
the  long-coated  maater  standing  on  the  hassock 
the  better  to  survey  his  pnpil^  or  the  sleepy  con- 
gregation in  the  old  church,  with  Sir  Roger  original  drawings  to  an  extent  and  of  a  quality 
stsnding  up  in  the  midst  of  prosy  sermon  to  which  Impart  a  noticeable  and  pleasant  clement 
count  the   hearers?    This  is  a  charming  book,  |  to  the  book. 


\ 


1 886.] 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


433 


This  book,  as  a  story  of  travel  in  search  of 
information,  falU  under  the  sanie  head  with  the 
two  last  named,  but  Mr.  Knox  baa  a  wider  and 
more  interesting  field,  and  he  makes  a  great 
dea]  of  it.  A  satisfactory  exploration  of  Russia, 
geographically  and  historically,  can  be  made 
by  means  of  this  nell-writlen  and  handsomely 
illnstrated  volume  of  more  than  500  pages. 
Three  limes  Mr-  Knox  has  "been  in  the 
Russian  Empire,"  and  much  of  what  he  de- 
scribes he  has  seen.  The  party  whom  he  con- 
ducts over  the  ground.  Dr.  Bronson,  Fred  Bron- 
son,  and  Frank  Baasett,  enter  the  Empire  by 
way  o[  Vienna  and  Warsaw,  spend  some  time  at 
St.  Petersburg  and  Moscow,  and  then  descend 
the  Volga,  totiching  at  Nijni  Novgorod,  to 
Kaian,  Samara,  Saratov,  and  Tsaritsin,  embark- 
ing on  the  Caspian  Sea  at  Aitrakhan,  crossing 
to  Baku,  and  reluming  along  the  slopes  of  the 
Caucasus  and  across  the  Euxine  to  Constanti- 
nople. Several  chapters  are  devoted  to  a  detour 
through  Siberia  and  Kamlchatka.  Mr.  Knox 
has  a  dexterous  hand  for  work  of  this  sort  — 
half  original  writing  and  half  compilation.  The 
pictarei  are  aumerous,  and  the  book  efEecltvely 
lights  tip  the  interior  of  Russia  and  Central 
Asia. 

Tfit  Boys'  Bank  of  Sportt  and  Ouldevr  Lift. 
Edited  by  Maurice  Thompson.  [TiM  Century 
Co.    #2.50.]  •*- 

This  book  recalls  to  the  writer  of  tWs  notice 
a  highly  prised  volume  of  his  boyhood,  an  Eng- 
lish work,  The  Biiyi'  Trtasury  0/  Sperti,  which 
outwore  its  binding  and  almost  its  very  leaves, 
so  constant  was  the  demand  upon  it  by  the 
owner  and  his  friends.  Its  itorei  of  information 
about  all  possible  indoor  and  outdoor  sports 
were  heavily  drawn  upon  and  never  exhausted. 
But  in  many  ways  this  Bcyi  Beek  of  Sforls  sur- 
passes thaL  It  is  a  much  larger  and  handsomer 
book,  to  begin  with,  being  an  octavo  of  350 
pages,  printed  and  illustrated  in  the  best  style  of 
the  Century  Co.,  which  is  known  to  he  a  very 
fine  style  indeed.  Then  it  is  distinctively  an 
American  book,  which  Is  an  important  advan- 
tage, as  not  all  English  sports  flourish  ou 
American  soil.  Finally  it  is  an  encyclopedic 
book,  Mr.  Thompson  being  the  editor  of  the 
conliibulions  of  a  considerable  staff  of  experts. 
The  editor's  chief  personal  contribution  is  an 
opening  story  of  something  over  a  hundred 
pages,  which  is  made  to  give  a  complete  course 
of  instruction  in  gunning  for  small  game.  We 
are  glad  to  note  the  emphasis  it  places  upon 
caution  in  the  use  of  guns.  This  narrative 
would  have  been  enhanced  in  value  by  more 
explicit  and  properly  illustrated  descriptions  ol 
the  various  kinds  and  grades  of  guns.  Fallow- 
ing this  first  half  of  the  book  come  chapters  or 
departments  on  Fishing,  Aichery,  Boats  and 
Boating,  Camps  and  Camper^  Swimming  and 
Walking,  the  Camera,  Winter  Sports,  and  Base 
Bait.  Lacrosse,  cricket,  and  tennis  might  have 
been  added.  Among  the  writers  on  the  subjects 
named  arc  Charles  L.  Norton,  Che  canoeist,  ajid 
Frank  E.  Clark.  In  these  pages  a  boy  can  team 
how  to  load,  carry,  and  (ire  a  gun,  how  fo  lay 
oat  and  handle  fishing-tackle,  how  to  catch  bass, 
trout,  and  salmon,  how  to  build  and  saii  a  boat, 
a  catamaran,  or  a  Florida  "flat-boat,"  how  to 
build  and  enjoy  a  camp,  how  to  leant  tp  swim 


and  to  walk  without  getting  "  tuckered  out,"  bow 
to  take  photographs,  to  make  toboggans,  to 
hunt  jack-rabbits,  and  to  spear  fish  through  the 
ice.  The  book  has  a  fresh,  bright  look,  and  will 
go  to  the  heart  of  the  average  boy. 

Om  Hundred  Fammi  Amiriiam.  By  Helen 
Ainslie  Smith.  With  Portraits  and  Other  Illus- 
trations.    [George  Routledgc  &  Sons,    ti.50.] 

Who  remembers  Crtat  Cities  af  the  Modern 
World  a.-oA  Great  Cities  of  the  Ancient  World,  two 
children's  qnartos  of  iSSj  ?  This  volume  is  by 
the  same  author.  It  Is  a  better  printed  and 
better  illustrated  book  than  either  of  those  1 
properly  made  and  properly  presented;  an  in- 
telligent and  well-dressed  book,  not  a  college 
alumnus,  so  to  speak,  as  la  learning,  but  a  gradu- 
ate of  the  high  school.  II  is  a  collection  of 
American  biography  —  one  hundred  American 
bii^raphies,  of  inventors,  statesmen,  and  orators, 
lawyers,  soldiers,  and  sailors,  explorers,  divines, 
reformers,  men  of  the  learned  professions,  titerx- 
rians,  artists,  and  men  of  business,  classified 
accordingly.  The  sketches  are  short,  simple, 
just  to  fact,  and  kind  in  tone-  Many  potlralti 
accompany,  engraved  on  wood.  Some  of  them, 
those  of  Emerson  and  Mrs.  Stowe,  for  example, 
are  fine  ;  others,  like  those  of  Holmes  and  Mot- 
ley, are  poor,  and  might  easily  have  been  im- 
proved.   But  the  book  as  a  whole  is  an  excellent 


ChaiitrbBx.  Edited  by  J.  Erekine  Clarke. 
1886.    [Esics  &  Laoriat.    fi.35.] 

Young  America.  Stories  and  Hctures  for 
Young  People.     iSS;.    [Aldine  Book  PublUhing 

Co.    7SC.] 

These  two  pictuie-story  books  for  young  peo- 
ple, of  which  Chatterbox  is  familiar  enough 
through  past  association,  might  change  covers, 
and  few  persons  would  know  the  difference,  so 
alike  are  they  in  contents  and  character.  We 
shall  guess  that  the  Aldine  Boak  Publishing  Co. 
is  only  Esles  &  Lauriat  under  another  name,  and 
that  Young  America  is  a  stroke  to  duplicate  the 
popularity  and  success  of  Chatitrhox,  which  have 
been  phenomenal.  These  books  are  made  for 
the  million,  but  they  suit  their  market,  and 
they  are  good  for  their  purpose-  The  paper  is 
cheap,  the  pictures  (English  wood-cuts)  are 
coaise  in  texture,  aod  do  not  begin  to  compare 
In  workmanship  with  American  engravings,  but 
they  are  not  poor  and  are  never  vulgar;  their 
motive  and  manner  are  always  excellent,  and  the 
accompanying  reading  matter,  stories,  instruc- 
tions, and  verses,  is  well  selected  for  purposes  of 
mingled  information  and  eniettaiument.  Such 
books  are  the  oaten-cakes  of  literature,  plain  but 
nourishing. 

Blue  Jackets  of  '61.  By  Willis  J.  Abbot. 
With  Illusttaiiona  Principally  by  W.  C.  Jackson. 
[Dodd,  Mead&Co-    #3.00.] 

This  is  by  far  the  most  distinguished  looking 
volume  in  the  present  pile  of  "quartos;  "  having 
almost  Individuality  enough  to  set  it  apart  by 
itself.  Its  cover,  of  bltie  and  while  canvas, 
stitched,  and  stamped  in  gilt,  showing  the  end 
of  a  ship's  boom,  the  corner  of  her  mainsail,  and 
a  part  of  her  rigging,  is  decidedly  original  and 
striking,  and  must  attract  attention  and  praise 
the  moment  it  is  teen.  The  authorship,  too,  is 
a  circumstance  of  note,  Mr.  Willis  J-  Abbot 
being  a  young  grandson  of  the  late  Rev.  John 


S.  C.  Abbott,  whose  facile  and  picturesque  pen  be 
seems  to  have  inherited.  His  subject  In  these 
317  pages  is  the  navy  in  the  Civil  War.  It  is 
rather  remarkable  that  this  subject  has  not  been 
comprehensively  treated  before  this,  but  we 
believe  it  has  not  been;  certainly  not  more 
worthily  thanin  the  present  instance.  The  book 
opens  with  a  survey  of  the  Union  and  Conleder- 
ate  navies  at  the  outbreak  of  the  war,  and 
makes  chapters  out  of  the  Bombardment  of 
Sumter  and  the  Hatieias  Forts,  the  "Trent" 
Affair,  the  destruction  of  the  "Albemarle."  the 
combat  between  the  "Merrimac"  and  the  "Mon- 
itor," the  Mississippi  and  Gulf  Squadrons,  the 
famous  Cottfedcrate  privateers,  including  the 
"Alabama,"  the  exploits  of  the  blockade-run- 
ners, the  capture  of  New  Orleans,  Charleston, 
and  Fort  Fisher,  the  running  of  the  Vickshurg 
gauntlet,  and  the  battle  of  Mobile  Bay.  The 
author  shows  no  partisanship  that  we  can  dis- 
cover, bis  temper  is  cool  and  calm,  and  his  style 
easy,  pleasant,  and  eSective.  We  call  his  pages 
exceptionally  good  reading,  and  for  a  first  work 
extremely  creditable-  The  illustrations  are  un- 
even, being  of  two  grades,  but  the  better  grade 
are  very  good.  Altogether  this  book  with  its 
jaunty  title,  jaunty  cover,  and  jaunty  style,  will 
make  its  mark  among  the  publications  of  the 
year.  Taken  for  what  itprotesses  to  be,  a  story 
rather  than  a  history,  it  is  well  done,  very  well 
done,  and  betokens  an  addition  to  the  popular 
writers  of  the  day. 

OHILDBEFS  PIOTUBE-BOOES. 

There  are  few  points  at  which  the  improve- 
ment in  books  is  more  noticeable  than  in  the 
case  of  Children's  Picture- Books.  The  path 
which  Kate  Greenaway  struck  out  a  few  year* 
since  has  been  followed  by  enough  others  to 
constitute  a  school,  some  of  whose  membert 
have  gone  further  and  done  better  even  than 
their  pioneer.  The  old  picture-btxik  of  silly 
rhymes  and  coarse  daubs  has  disappeared-  We 
now  have  instead  verses  of  respectable  poetic 
quality,  warm  with  genuine  feeling,  correct  in 
measure,  and  attuned  with  skill  to  the  child's 
ear;  and  to  accompany  them  we  have  pictures 
which  for  accuracy  of  drawing  and  exqujsiieness 
of  coloring  and  finish  reach  a  degree  of  excel- 
lence beyond  which  there  would  seem  to  be 
nothing  to  attain.  The  assortment  of  this  class 
of  books  may  not  be  as  large  this  year  as  it 
has  been  in  some  previous  years,  but  the  grade 
is  of  the  best.  And  well  worthy  to  lead  the  ex- 
amples are  the  three  books  whose  titles  follow  ; 

All  Around  the  Clock.  By  Robert  Ellice 
Mack.  Illustrated  by  Harriet  M.  Bennett.  [E.  P. 
Dutton  &  Co.    f  2.00.] 

Ckristmas  Rosei.  By  Liziie  Lawson  and  Rob> 
ert  Ellice  Mack.    [E.  P.  Dutton  &  Co.    fi.oo.] 

Under  the  Mistletoe.  By  Liziie  Lawson  and 
Robert  Ellice  Mack.   [E  P.  Dutton  &  Co.  #1.50.] 

Dutton'*  Color  Books,  as  we  shall  venture  to 
christen  these  three,  nobody  should  fall  to  call 
for  at  the  bookstores,  who  wishes  to  see  very 
beautiful  work  of  its  kind,  work  as  nearly  per- 
fect in  spirit,  aim,  and  execution  as  we  are  ever 
likciy  to  see.  All  three  books  are  the  manu- 
facture of  Ernest  Nister  of  Nuremburg.  The 
idea  in  each  is  the  same,  though  there  are  slight  ~ 
variations  in  the  authorship :  simple  verses, 
namely,  about  children  and  childhood,  decorated 
with  picture*.    The  pictures  are  of  two  classes  ; 


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[Nov.  27^ 


full-page  plites  in  color  facing  the  text,  and  vig- 
nettei,  borders,  and  inaenions  in  the  teat  done 
in  a  Boft  brown  tint  like  a  aubdaed  sepia.  Treat- 
leg  the  booki  collectiTCly,  their  subject* 
inch  as  picking  up  stones  upon  the  beach,  (he 
heavj'  wash  Cor  dolly,  gathering  daisies,  putting 
the  baby  to  sleep,  the  pet  rabbit,  puss  ii 
corner,  bedtime,  the  broken  drum,  living  by 
the  sea,  out  in  the  meadows,  mother's  kiss, 
■horeling  the  path  through  the  snow,  the  secret 
kiss  nndcr  the  mistletoe.  For  nursery  rhymes 
the  quality  of  the  verses  ia  uniformly  good,  and 
no  eiception  can  be  taken  to  any  of  them 
the  score  of  either  dignity,  taste,  interest, 
smoothness.  They  will  strike  a  child's  ear 
once,  edncate  it  into  knowledge  of  poetic  forma, 
and  call  up  bright  and  pleasant  images.  When 
we  torn  from  the  poetry  to  the  pictares  wi 
in  a  fascinating  world  of  children  —  peopled 
with  aweet  little  forms  and  gay  with  color.  The 
larger  plates  have  almost  the  hard  and  glossy 
•nrface  of  ivoiy-types;  (he  sepia  sketches  ate 
very  lovely  in  their  corners  and  bordetings  and 
bits  of  nnoccnpied  room.  The  latter  show  what 
Hameiton  would  call  the  poetic  side  of  prosaic 
things ;  the  artisfs  imagination  kindles  over  (he 
commonest  objects  of  the  home  and  (he  landscape, 
and  invests  the  homeliest  details  with  grace  and 
beanty.  The  colored  plates  are  first  noticeable 
for  their  uniform  correctness  of  drawing,  a  merit 
of  no  small  significance  when  it  is  considered 
how  constantly  the  hutoao  figure  i*  employed. 
Whether  it  is  the  mother  fondling  her  babe,  or 
the  boy  and  girl  perched  upon  the  rocks  by  the 
sea,  or  the  little  daughter  watching  her  Caihet's 
boat,  or  the  brother  and  sister  trudging  to 
school,  or  the  doll's  tea-party  in  the  woods,  or 
the  beach-ride  on  the  donkeys,  or  teaching  the 
p<^s  to  "  Say  Please  I  "  or  discipliidng  the  cat, 
it  is  always  life,  real  life,  living  children  tha( 
move  and  breathe  and  talk.  They  are  depicted 
with  an  almost  photographic  vividness,  and 
carry  around  them  so  real  an  atmosphere  of 
thought  and  feeling  that  we  can  readily  enter 
into  their  experiences.  Except  in  size  and  price 
there  is  no  choice  between  the  three  books ; 
they  have  a  common  purity  and  refSnement  and 
delicacy,  and  either  one  is  ■  gem  and  a  treasure 

Tht  Land  gf  LitlU  PiBpli.  Poems  by  Frederic 
E.  Weatherly.  Picture*  by  Jane  M.  Dealy. 
ni^ndon :  Hildesheimer  &  Faulkner.  New  York : 
Scribner  &  Welford.    f  t-oo.] 

On  a  casual  glance  this  book  would  seem  lo 
be  "off  the  same  piece  of  goods"  with  the  fore- 
going, differing  only  from  them  in  being  an 
oblong  while  they  are  octavos.  There  is  the 
same  mixture  of  verses  and  pictures,  and  the 
pictures  are  of  the  same  two  kinds,  and  each 
kind  has  similar  characteristics  to  those  wc  have 
pointed  out-  But  on  a  more  careful  examination 
the  book  takes  a  second  rank  in  this  interesting 
school.  We  do  not  think  that  fiildesheimer  & 
Faulkner's  work  in  this  book  is  equal  to  Nisier's 
work,  or  to  their  own  in  their  Christmas  Cards  of 
which  we  shall  have  occasion  to  speak  hereafter. 
Perhaps  their  work  is  as  good,  but  they  have  not 
as  good  subjects  to  work  upon.  The  drawing 
does  not  show  that  patient  fidelity  to  detail,  that 
careful  attention  to  relatively  unimportant  partic- 
ulars, which  constitutes  true  work  of  art  Nor 
has  the  poetry  that  dainty  naturalness  and  dm- 
plidty  which  we  have  been  observing.    Still  this 


is  a  well-made  and  pretty  book,  refined  and  taste- 
ful, suited  perhaps  to  children  of  older  growth 
than  the  others. 

Oik  Day  in  a  Baby^i  Lift.  Proa  the  French 
of  M.  Amaad.  Adapted  by  Susan  Coolidge. 
[Roberts  Brothers,    fi.50.] 

There  ia  a  combination  in  this  book  of  English 
methods,  German  manner,  and  French  spirit. 
The  story  makes  us  think  of  the  romance  of  the 
"  Round  Loaf,"  the  telling  of  it  Is  decidedly 
French,  the  illustrations  belong  to  the  school  of 
Kate  Greenaway.  There  are  a  stiffness  and 
regularity  about  some  of  the  embellishments  that 
almost  suggest  a  Belgian  landscape;  but  the 
pages  display  unfailing  variety,  and  will  be 
turned  with  relish.  Jean  is  the  "baby"  a  his- 
tory of  one  of  whose  days  is  here  related.  He 
is  four  years  old.  He  ha*  a  sister  Jeannette. 
They  sleep  in  two  blue-cur talned  cribs  in  the 
same  chamber.  Jean  wakes  first,  scrambles  out 
of  bed,  and  begins  his  round  of  mischief.  Hinet, 
(he  cat,  is  his  first  victim;  Roae,  the  nurse,  the 
second.  After  the  bath  the  dreaain^  after  the 
dressing  the  breakfast,  then  the  lesaona,  then 
the  luncheon,  and  after  luncheon  a  feeding  of 
the  birds,  a  walk  in  the  street,  on  the  qnay,  and 
In  the  square,  a  visit  from  some  little  guests, 
dinner,  an  evening   at  a  ball  and  a  concert, 

from  the  magic  lantern,  a  wind-up  of  ice- 
cream, home  at  ten,  and  to  bed  at  laat  to  Rose': 
se  satisfaction,  with  a  patting  prayer  ti 
God  to  bless  papa  and  mamma,  and  Mr.  Juliei 
the  confectioner.  It  ia  a  busy  day,  this  baby'i 
according  to  the  canoiu  o(  Paris,  and  highly 
captivating  ia  the  account  of  it. 

Byt-e-Baby  Ballaji.  By  Charles  Stuart  Pratt. 
Water-Colors  and  Decoration  by  P.  Childe  Has. 
sam.    [D.  Lothrop  ft  Co.    $200.] 

This  is  an  attempt  to  reproduce  under  exclu- 
sively American  conditions  such  effects  of  for- 
iign    manufacture    as    are    noted    above-    The 
attempt  is  certainly  one  that  deserves  cotuidei 
(ion.    In  this  Instance  it  also  wins  respect.    As 

rale  American  color  printers  are  not  a  match 
for  the  beat  foreign  competitors.  But  laying 
(his  book  alongside  any  one  at  Nis(er's  three, 
above  named,  and  noticing  the  apparent  rough- 
of  its  style  as  compared  with  them,  it 
would  not  yet  do  to  dismiss  it  as  raw  and  crude. 
Certainly  this  book,  made  in  New  Vork,  lacks 
the  delicacy  and  finish  of  the  books  made 
London  and  Nuremberg,  but  It  has  traits  of  its 
own,  a  boldness  and  vigor,  which  are  distinct 
merits,  and  there  is  a  fertility  of  artistic  resource, 
IV  in  the  desigo*  and  their  treatment,  which 
command  praise.  The  ballads,  ten  in  number, 
lot  wholly  successful.  They  are  labored, 
lack  spontaneity  and  the  musical  quality;  they 
do  not  glide  and  gurgle  like  the  brook ;  there  is 

pump-like  action  about  them,  though  their 
subjects  are  always  pertinent  and  their  motive 
good-  The  designs  accompanying  are  abundant 
and  full  of  interesting  detail ;  the  drawing  is 
generally  correct,  and  observant  of  truth  in  out- 
and  proportion,  the  minutiz  are  often  ex- 
tremely good,  and  the  coloring  is  fresh  and 
strong.  These  are  water-color  dashes  obviously, 
and  (heir  very  dash  is  not  without  a  good  effect. 

From  Meadevi-Smetl  It  MitOtUe.  Pictures 
and  Verses  by  Mary  A.  Latbbary.  [Worthing- 
lon  Co.    #3.50.] 

This  is  considerably   the    largest   and    most 


important  looking  of  these  Children's  Picture- 
Book*,  to  it  some  twenty  full-page  pictares, 
reproduced  in  neutral  tints,  by  photo-lithc^Taphy, 
we  should  say,  fr(»D  original  drawings  in  sepia, 
alternate  with  as  many  simple  li(tle  poems,  both 
poems  and  pictures  by  (he  same  author,  and 
both  dedicated  to  the  ideas  of  childhood.  While 
the  work  of  the  artis(-poe(  is  creditable,  free 
from  fault,  and  distinguished  by  knowledge  and 
feeling,  which  cannot  be  said  of  all  work  of  ita 
kind,  it  is  at  the  same  time  true  that  the  book 
has  not  originated  out  of  so  pure  and  highly  dis- 
ciplined a  taste  as  some  of  the  others  in  this  list, 
certainly  not  the  earliest  mentioned.  The  very 
largeness  of  the  book  is  against  it,  we  think,  k 
mistake  of  judgment,  a  misplacing  of  mere  size 
for  quality.  It  would  give  a  wrong  impression 
of  the  book  to  call  it  coarse,  for  there  is  no  de- 
parture in  it  from  a  perfect  refinement;  bat  it 
does  not  please  like  the  violet,  or  the  lily  of  the 
valley;  more  aa  the  dahlia  pleases  or  the  sbawj 

OEnj)S£I'B  STOBT  BOOIS. 

Mary'i  Mtadiya  is  another  souvenir  of  the  late 
and  lamented  Mra.  Ewing,  whose  like,  a*  a  writer 
for  children,  wc  feat  *re  shall  not  soon  see  again ; 
the  last  serial  story  that  she  wrote ;  its  subject 
gardening,  and  the  cultivation  of  the  love  of  flow- 
en  and  of  the  flagrant  and  beautiful  traits  of 
charactc^^B  childhood  which  a  love  of  flowers 
nourishetJ3hd  betokens.  A  quaitit  and  lovely 
little  sli4^  this,  with  odd  characters,  broad  pages, 
and  plenty  of  pictares.  [E.  &  J.  6.  Young  &  Co. 
30C-I 

Mrs.  Susan  £.  Wallace's  Christmas  story  of 
Ginevra;  or,  Tkt  Old  OaA  Clutt,  relates  to  the 
daughter  of  an  Engliah  baron  of  nuny  years  ago, 
whose  lover.  Lord  Lovel,  came  to  her  on  a  milk- 
white  steed.  At  the  wedding  feast  she  suddenly 
and  mysteriously  disappeared,  and  no  trace  of  her 
could  be  found,  until  years  after,  her  skeletoa, 
identified  by  a  ring,  was  disclosed  in  an  old  oaken 
chest.  She  had  hidden  herself  there,  and  the 
spring  lock  had  fastened  her  in.  The  l^endhas 
different  versions,  One  of  which  is  the  subject  of 
a  poem  by  Samuel  Rogers.  Mr*.  Wallace's  story 
is  illustrated  with  pictures  by  Gen.  Lew  Wallace. 
It  is  prettily  printed  and  gorgeously  bound,  bnt 
we  see  no  special  appropria(eneBs  in  it  for  chil- 
dren.   [Wor(hington  Co.    f  l.zj.] 

Mrs.  Stanley-Leathea's  Jngle-Ntoi  St^ria  are 
four  in  number,  in  a  pretty  little  quarto,  with 
capital  illustrations  by  M.  Erwin.  They  are 
[airy  stories,  of  Silverwing  and  Brownie  who 
played  in  (he  woods  with  the  insects,  among  the 
leaves,  and  on  the  toadstools ;  of  the  six  boy 
Badgers,  brothers,  and  how  Puck  drew  on  him 
the  farmer's  vengeance  and  got  locked  up  in  the 
barn ;  of  little  girl  Fay  who  lived  with  her  grand- 
mother in  an  old  house  in  Devonshire,  and  had 
learn  lessons  of  order  and  tidiness;  and  o( 
mischievous  Roly  Poly  and  of  the  tricks  he 
played.  These  stories  will  amuae  and  do  no 
harm.    [E.  P.  Dotlon  &  Co.     500.] 

In  A  Six  Yiari' Darling ;  or,  Trix in  TmiM,\tj 
Ismay  Thorn,  we  have  a  mate  to  the  foregoing  in 
appearance,  but  one  connected  story  instead  of 
four,  the  story  of  Beatrix  Sydney  and  her  first 
month  in  London.  What  she  thought  of  the  Ug  [^ 
and  noisy  town,  how  she  got  lost  in  it,  how  sbe 
tried  to  be  good  and  didn't  always  succeed,  how 
she  wept  shopping  and  visited  the  famou*  wax- 


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works  of  Madame  Tusuud;  such  ii  the  coune 
oi  the  simple  narratiTc,  an  eiample  of  a  blight 
English  story  for  young  readers,  with  good  pict- 
DTM,  all  in  intall  quirto  form.  [E.  P.  Datton  & 
Co.     Joc]  

SOBOS  AJn)  SOT0HE8  OF  THE 
8EAS0HB. 


[E,  p.  Datton  ft  Co.    |r.oo.] 

Sumwur  Smgi  and  Skttckes.    [Do.,  Do.] 

Auiuntn.    Do. 

Whatr.    Do. 

Tia*  quartette  of  quartoi  (lands  modesttjr  at 
one  side  of  the  great  mass  of  bolidar  book*,  but 
has  merit  proportionate  to  its  modesty  and  will 
repay  careful  eiamination.  Vou  may  know  its 
nembeTa  by  their  dress,  the  knots  of  colored 
ribbon  at  their  backs,  their  uniform  covers  of 
coarsely-mottled  drab-colored  paper,  and  beau- 
tifully executed  designs  o\  the  four  seasons  in 
color  on  tbelr  front,  one  for  each.  There  can 
be  no  mistaking  these  richly  but  chastely  atlired 
Song-Books  of  the  Seasons,  nor  can  one  be 
greatly  disappointed  in  his  expectations  of  their 
contents.  Opening  them  we  find  that  they  are 
the  art-work  once  mote  o(  Nister  of  Nuremberg, 
in  a  different  vein,  it  is  trne,  from  the  children's 
picture-books  by  him  we  have  praised  else- 
where, but  showing  the  resources  of  his  pen 
and  the  advanced  degree  of  his  taste  and  skill. 
The  plan  and  framework  of  the  four  books  are 
alike.  Each  season  receive*  a  tribute  of  praise 
in  the  selected  word*  of  Engliah  poets,  and  in 
original  verae  by  "  Theo.  Gift,"  E.  Nisbet,  Caris 
Brooke,  and  C.  Mainwaring,  added  to  which  are 
translations  from  Rnnebcrg  by  Eiifkr  Magnds- 
son.  The  songs  thus  sung  are  set  to  the  music 
of  illustrations  by  Bernard  Hall,  G.  fl.  Thomp- 
ton,  Wilde  Parsons,  Lux,  EUice  Mack,  the 
Cliusens,  Addison,  Harvey,  Mar;  Bntler,  Liizie 
Lawaon,  Giacomelli  —  the  bird  artist,  Banner- 
manti,  and  Whalley. 

The  itlustralions  in  each  book  are  of  two 
kinds :  first,  wood-cuts  in  brown  ink,  embracing 
vignettes,  borders,  initial  letters,  full-page  land- 
scapes, head  and  (ail-pieces  ;  and,  second,  photo- 
types, or  the  like,  from  sepia  drawing*,  printed 
sometimes  in  panels  with  narrow  tinted  border*, 
sometimes  occupying  a  whole  page,  sometimes 
lying  across  the  upper  or  lower  half  of  the  page, 
sometimes  wreathing  the  text.  These  sepia  re- 
productions are  in  black  and  white  of  course,  so 
that  the  whole  interior  tone  is  quiet  and  sub- 
dued ;  the  noticeable  characteristic  <A  the  whole 
beii^,  in  fact,  the  absence  o(  bright  colors,  except 
upon  the  covers. 

Passing  the  poetry,  there  is  scarcely  a  page 
throughout  the  series  that  does  nut  present  some 
design  on  which  the  eye  fastens  with  a  pleasure 
that  often  kindles  into  delight.  Now  it  is  a  fleet 
of  gull-cacorted  ahips  sailing  away  into  the  sun- 
light of  the  horizon  under  heavy  overhanging 
clouds  that  portend  the  gale  (  again  it  is  the 
placid  stream  in  the  shadow  of  Ihe  bank,  where 
the  reeds  are  nodding,  and  the  skiff  is  pushing 
off,  and  the  trees  stand  dark  against  the  sky; 
here  lie*  the  snow  upon  Ihe  fields,  the  farm- 
house half-buried  beneath  its  wintry  blanket, 
the  lonely  bird  shivering  in  the  leafless  branches, 
the  farmer  and  his  dog  trudging  wearily  along 
the  imbroken  path  towards  home;  and  again  ihe 


child  sits  upon  the  log  In  the  meadow  where  she 
has  gathered  her  nosegay,  burle*  her  feet  In  the 
cool  gra**,  and  shyly  covers  her  face  with  her 
flowers  as  the  stranger  approaches. 

The  merit  of  these  lepia  prints  is  their  blend- 
ing of  light  and  shade,  their  sober  richness, 
their  softness  of  impression,  as  if  to  touch  them 
would  be  touching  black  and  silvery  velvet,  and 
the  success  with  which  they  suggest  without 
imitating  the  colors  of  nature.  The  pictures  of 
both  groups  are  uniformly  wetl-drann  and  care- 
fully finished,  and  the  objects  generally,  whether 
flower  or  figure,  ship  or  shore,  are  satisfying  and 
gratefnl  to  the  eye- 
Perhaps  the  excellence  of  these  books  is  weak- 
ened by  their  fragmenlaiiness,  and  by  the  unob- 
trusive condilioiu  under  which  they  are  pre- 
sented. We  should  like  to  see  their  contents 
reprinted  and  massed  in  a  single  quarto  of  ample 
dimensions ;  we  are  not  sure  but  that  the  result 
would  justify  the  outlay. 


HOLIDAT  mSOELLABT. 

Tht  FeUiei  and  Faskioni  of  Our  Grandfathtri. 
Embellished  with  Plates,  etc  By  Andrew  W. 
Tuer.  [London !  Field  4  Tuer.  New  Vork : 
Scribner  &  Welford.] 

This  odd-looking  ocUvo  nay  be  described  as 
the  divcrtisement  of  an  antiquary.  Its  externals 
as  well  as  iti  contents  probably  represent  the 
idiosyncratic  tastes  of  its  editor,  whose  name  is 
well-known  in  English  literary  circle*.  The  book 
is  a  collection,  in  a  magasine  form  and  monthly 
parts,  of  extracts  from  a  variety  of  London  period- 
icals of  the  year  1807,  selected  for  their  special  re- 
lation to  the  fasliions  of  that  time  in  dress,  and 
skillfully  broogbt  together  and  dovetailed  into 
each  other  as  if  the  collection  were  a  veritable 
reprint  of  an  actual  historic  publication.  The 
idea  is  ingenious  and  cleverly  carried  out.  The 
extracts  are  classified  by  months,  and  those  for 
each  month  are  presented  under  a  fresh  title- 
page  and  table  of  contents.  The  type  is  an  imi- 
tation of  the  style  in  use  at  the  beglimlng  of  the 
century.  So  is  the  paper.  The  edges  are  uncoL 
In  its  binding  the  book  reaches  the  dimax  of 
oddity.  The  side*  ate  of  rough  brown  paper,  the 
corner*  and  Eiack  of  undressed  kid;  and  the 
labels  on  the  side  and  back  look  like  cuttings 
out  of  one  of  the  "samplers  "  of  our  grandmoth. 
era.  A  book-mark  of  similar  style  is  inserted. 
The  illustrations  Include  a  series  of  fashion 
plates  in  colors,  showing  the  grotesque  costume* 
of  men  and  women  seventy-five  years  ago,  an- 
other series  of  sporting  and  coaching  scenes,  also 
in  colors,  and  many  wood-cuts,  some  of  which 
are  prints  after  Hogarth,  others  portrait*  of  Lady 
Hamilton  in  varioos  characters  and  attitude*, 
and  similar  relics.  Altogether  tbe  book  has  a 
decidedly  unique  appearance,  and  carriea  one 
back  to  olden  times  when  ladies  wore  short 
waists  and  straight  skirts  and  gentlemen  high 
collars,  short  clothes,  and  cocked  hats,  and  both 
were  gay  in  all  tbe  color*  of  the  rainbow. 

SoHgi  ef  Birdi.    By  Fidelia  Bridges  aud  Susie 
B.  Skeldmg.     [White,  Stokes  &  Allen.] 
Birdi  a/Mtadme  and  Gravt.    po.,  Do.] 
SongsUri  aftJu  Branthti.    [Do,  Do.] 
The  materials  of  Familiar  Birds,  reviewed  else- 
where, are  here  presented  in  sections,  and  in 
pier  and   less  expensive  forms.     If  yon  dc 
want  the  large  book  in  iu  entirety,  you  can  have 


one  of  these  thirds  of  it,  the  picture*  and  the 
poetry  complete,  but  on  a  smaller  page,  and  dif- 
ferently bound.  The  middle  member  of  the 
series  is  in  two  styles  of  binding,  one,  called 
"  Ivorine,"  having  an  ivory-like  panel  on  the  fore- 
cover  imprinted  with  birds  in  red. 


A  beautiful  little  book,  and  as  wise  as  it  is 
beautiful,  is  Hit  Culturt  ef  the  Credit.  The  au- 
thor, Mrs.  A.  Q.  Keasbey,  is  a  lady  of  Newark, 
N.  J.,  and  tbe  article*  composing  the  book  were 
first  written  for  and  printed  in  a  Hospital  Paper, 
which  she  has  edited  for  ten  years.  They  are 
simply  admirable,  in  the  general  thought  that 
underlies  them,  and  in  their  detail.  Tbe  physi- 
cal, mental,  and  moral  care  of  very  little  children 
is  the  subject  What  mother,  capable  of  reading 
and  appreciating  these  high-minded,  whole-souled 
pages,  will  not  feel  her  heart  swell  within  her  and 
find  the  tears  springing  to  her  eyes  as  she  thinks 
of  the  babe  entrusted  to  her  care  and  of  the  re- 
Bpon*ibilitie*  of  her  relation!  The  truth  and 
tenderness  in  this  little  book  entitle  it  to  the 
widest  passible  drculation.  We  desire  to  call 
special  attention  to  it  as  a  book  ;  the  type  from 
which  it  is  printed  is  of  the  handsomest  font  we 
ever  saw-    [James  Pott  ft  Co.    50c.] 

Lee  &  Sbepard  publish  in  a  small  thin  quarto 
John  Howard  Payne's  Homt,  Sxattt  Hamt,  with 
illustrations  by  Miss  L,  B.  Humphreys.  The 
same  publishers  issue  in  the  same  dimensions, 
but  in  covers  emulons  of  the  charms  of  alligator 
skin,  Ray  Palmer's  My  Faith  Leoki  up  to  Thtt, 
with  designs  by  Miss  Comins,  Mrs.  Adams's 
J^tarer,  my  Cod,  it  Thtt,  Lyie's  Abidt  With  Mt, 
and  Toplady's  Xaci  of  Agts,  all  with  desigtis  by 
Miss  Humphreys,  and  tbe  once  much-talked-irf 
Curfew  Must  Not  Ring  Tonight,  with  designs  by 
Merrill  and  Garrett.  None  of  these  books  are 
strictly  new,  but  these  are  fresh  impressions  of 
them  all.  The  cuts  are  extremely  small,  and  the 
best  are  those  of  the  first  two  books  and  the  last 
one.  The  Curfae  is  really  choice,  and  its  dainty 
grace  should  save  it  from  being  buried  under  the 
ponderous  issues  of  the  season.    [Each  joe] 

In  Coming  to  tht  King,  by  Frances  Ridley 
Havergal,  and  others,  we  have  a  quarto, 
small  and  thin,  made  up  of  stanza*  of  fervent 
religious  verse  decorated  with  flower  drawings  in 
color  of  excellent  quality.  The  ivy  leaves  and 
pond  lilies  are  particularly  good.  [E.  P.  Dulton 
&  Co.    ^1.00.] 

A  thin  octavo  volume  of  considerable  attract- 
iveness has  been  made  by  associating  some 
twenty-five  of  the  short  religious  poems  of  the 
late  Frances  Ridley  Havergal  nnder  the  title  of 
FuUntis  ef  Joy,  and  illustrating  the  tinted  pages 
on  which  they  are  printed  with  floral  designs  in 
color.  The  luxuriance  of  these  designs  gives  a 
brilliant  aspect  to  the  pages.  Daisies,  sweet- 
brier,  nasturtiums,  daffodils,  honeysuckles,  roses, 
and  other  flowers  are  repeated  in  turn,  with  now 
and  then  a  dash  of  birds  and  a  glimpse  of  land- 
scape. Miss  Havergal  was  one  of  our  sweetest 
hymn-writers,  and  won  the  love  and  gratitude  of 
many  hearts  iu  this  country,  to  whom  such  a  me- 
mento of  her  as  this  book  would  be  welcome. 
[E.  P.  Dutton  &  Co.    I2.50.] 

The  "Pear!  Series"  is  a  little  nest  of  booklets, 
six  in  a  gilded  box,  very  "  cunning "  the  ladies  p 
would  call  it,  containing  tiny  poetical  extracts  in   ^ 
small  type,  the  books  being  oblong  and  of  watch- 
pocket  dimensions.    The  general  subjects  of  tbe 
six  are  Reflection,  Fancy,  Wit  and  Humor,  Lova, 


436 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Nov.  a/, 


The  Poet's  Gaiden,  and  Failb,  Hope,  and  Char 
it;.  Tbii  clauificalion  Kcms  sometime!  irbi- 
triry,  and  portions  oF  the  contents  of  the  volumes 
might  be  interchanged.  But  that  does  noc  greatly 
matter.  The  charm  of  the  collection  lie*  in  the 
unique  and  dainty  foim  of  it.  It  it  a  library  in 
miniature  ;  six  pocket-books  full  of  glistening 
gold.    [G.  P.  Fatnam'i  Sons,    fj.oo.] 

A  new  edition  oC  the  famous  Piltrkin  Paptrt 
is  tead^,  in  a  quarto  of  over  two  hundred  pager, 
which  retain  some  oF  the  old  illuitratiuns  by  Att- 
wood,  re-drawn  hDwevcr  for  their  present  uM, 
and  make  room  for  some  two  hundred  new  ones. 
by  Myrick.  A  hitherto  unpublished  chapter, 
"  The  Fetcrkins  at  the  Farm,"  is  added.  [Tick- 
nor&Co.    I1.50.] 

For  a  gift  to  a  solid-inind<;d  clergyman,  or  to 
a  ibeological  student,  or  to  a  reading  layman, 
interested  in  Christian  history,  one  coald  hardly 
make  a  better  aeleclion  than  Kev.  Dr.  R.  5. 
Stoira's  lectures  on  Tht  Drvine  Origin  of  Chrit- 
tiaHily  Indiiatid  by  iti  Bitlorical  Efftcli ;  ore 
of  th«  noblest  fruits  of  scholarship  produced  in 
the  English  language  in  the  last  twenly-five 
years.  We  are  glad  to  see  a  new  edition  at  the 
reduced  price  of  f  i.oa  Of  the  original  and  more 
expensive  form  three  editions  have  been  sold  in 
this  country,  and  three  others  in  England.  [A. 
D.  F.  Randolph  4  Co.] 

Mis*  Durand's  Palirmn:  Ckristmai  to  Wkil- 
aintidt,  a  volume  of  romance  and  travel  in 
Sicily,  was  originally  reviewed  at  length  in  the 
LMtrary  World  when  it  appeared  in  large  form 
enriched  with  charming  etchings.  The  aulbore** 
now  puts  forth  a  second  and  revised  edition 
without  the  illustrations.  Several  additional 
notes  and  eiplanaiions  accompany  the  revision, 
and  the  book  appears  at  a  moment  opportune 
for  those  who  are  in  search  of  suitable  Christ- 
ina* presents.  The  refined  work  of  The  Knick- 
erbocker Press,  which  is  beginning  almost  to 
rival  The  Riverside,  is  gratefully  evident  in 
Miss  Field's  book,  which  is  affectionately  dedi- 
cated to  her  sister.   [G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons.   Jl.as.] 

We  have  received  the  bound  volume  of  the 
Ctntury  tor  the  six  months  of  [bis  year  from 
Hay  to  October  inclusive,  being  Vol.  XXXII, 
X  in  the  New  Series.  The  cover  is  the  richly 
ornamental  design  in  old  gold.  Opening  the 
volume,  with  its  nearly  1,000  pages,  one  is 
immediately  struck  with  the  quantity  of  material 
—  reading  matter  and  illustrations  —  pertaining 
to  the  Civil  War.  Antietam,  Chancellorsville, 
Corinth,  Fredericksburg,  Harper's  Ferry,  New 
Orleans,  and  the  Peninsula,  are  among  the 
localities,  and  Farragut,  Grant,  Jackson,  and 
McClellan  among  the  famous  personages  de- 
scribed ;  while  the  contributors  to  ihis  rcmark- 
atile  series  of  articles  include  Generals  Pleasanton, 
Howard,  Kosecrans,  Longstreet,  McClellan,  and 
A.  H,  Hill.    [The  Century  Co.] 

The  just  concluded  volume  of  Si.  NicMai,  for 
the  year  ending  in  October,  is  published,  as  is 
usual  with  this  magazine,  in  two  Parts,  of  nearly 
(00  pages  each,  richly  bound  in  crimson,  black, 
and  gold.  We  despair  of  saying  anything  new 
about  SI.  Nichelai  that  shall  do  justice  to  its 
beauty  and  interest  as  a  reading  book  (or  young 
people.  As  we  turn  its  accumulated  pages  we 
do  not  think  its  pictures  quite  equal  to  those  of 
the  Century,  but  they  meet  all  reasonable  de- 
mand*. The  letter-press  gives  a  good  proportion 
of  inBlTuclioD  along  with  entettunment  pure  and 
DDdiagnlted.    [Tlie  Century  Co.] 


Harper's  Ytamg  FtBple,  in  the  bound  volume 
(or  1SS6,  ha*  the  advantage  of  a  broad  page  which 
allows  room  (or  pictures  on  a  targe  st^e,  and 
those  vride  columns  of  type  which  make  easy 
reading.  The  sprinkling  of  old-time  pictures  ii 
a  feature  of  this  volume.  The  insertion  of  occa- 
sional pieces  of  music  is  an  excellent  idea.  Tlie 
"  Post  Office  "  ll  evidently  popular.  Some  of 
the  engravings  seem  to  be  done  by  the  new 
mechanical  processes.     [Harper  &  Brothers.] 

Our  always  witty  contemparaiy,  Life,  gives  ui  a 
third  scries  of  GaaJ  Tiiiigi  from  its  abundant 
store  as  welcome  as  the  two  that  went  before. 
Li/e  is  never  dull,  never  vulgar,  never  indecent, 
and  in  all  these  qualities  it  i*  pretty  dearly  differ- 
entiated from  the  other  comic  journals  of  the  day. 
We  notice  that  the  ephemeral  "  dude  "  makes  a 
fair  share  of  the  fun  in  this  collection,  and  the 
fair  sex  is  not  neglected.  The  wit  ii  distinctively 
native  to  the  soil,  and  its  flavor  waxes  not  stale. 
The  clever  hits  at  the  fashionable  follies  of  the 
day  ought  to  be  relished  even  by  the  victims. 
From  the  same  source  we  have  a  second  scries 
of  Li/i'i  Vcriit,  containing  some  of  the  flight 
society  rhymes  that  have  appeared  <luring  the 
last  twelvemonth  in  the  journal  mentioned.  I 
These  gay  and  rollicking  verses,  with  their 
dainty  illustrations,  may  well  find  a  place  on  the 
shrine  of  innocent  pleasure.  [White,  Stokes  & 
Allen.    Ji.so-Ji.so.] 

OEBISTHAS  Ain)  HEW  TEAB'S  OABDB. 

We  have  received  from  Hildesheimer  &  Faulk- 
ner, 41  Jewin  Street,  London,  whose  sole 
American  agent*  are  George  C.  Whitney,  184 
Front  St.,  Worcester,  Mass,  and  391  Broadway, 
New  York,  a  pacicage  of  Christmas  and  New 
Year  Cards  as  remarkable  for  quality  as 
(or  quantity.  There  must  be  between  one 
and  two  hundred  specimens  in  all,  and  they 
seem  to  be  specimens  only.  They  are  the 
work  of  many  different  artists,  among  whom 
are  Sigmund,  Barraud,  Drummond,  Hines,  Fraser, 
Wilson,  Dealy,  Maguire,  Edwards,  Tiddeman, 
Skipworth,  Faulkner,  Simmons,  Havers,  and 
Noakes.  Several  of  these  artist*  are  women. 
A*  a  rule  the  designs  are  in  good  taste,  and  the 
execution  is  fine.  The  texture  of  the  card  stock 
is  noticeable  for  its  excellence.  The  edges  are 
delicately  beveled  and  the  bevels  glided.  These 
cards  have  a  rare  elasticity  and  delicacy,  a  lus- 
trous finish,  an  ivory-like  surface,  a  minute  per- 
feclness  like  that  of  a  miniature.  They  divide 
themselves  by  subjects  or  style  into  classes,  of 
which  perhaps  the  leading  one  is  occupied  with 
landscapes,  ideal  or  real,  among  the  latter  being 
Lynmouth,  Clovelly,  and  views  on  the  Thames 
and  on  the  Wye.  Some  of  these  views  are  done 
in  neutral  tints  of  green  or  brown,  some  are  marine 
scenes,  some  wintry  pictures,  some  glisten  with 
powdering  of  silver,  some  bear  a  motto  in  embossed 
letters  of  gilt.  Next  to  the  landscapes  come  the 
group  devoted  to  children's  figures  and  faces, 
Kate  Greenaway  designs  in  great  variety  and  of 
a  charming  type.  No  work  of  its  kind  could 
surpass  that  of  some  of  these  faces.  Some  of 
them  are  frotn  photographs.  After  the  children 
come  a  set  of  pale tte.sh aped  cards,  divided  in 
subject  between  children  and  landscape,  but 
these  (andful  shapes  we  do  not  consider  so 
pleasing  as  the  plainer  square  or  oblong  card*. 
There  arc  very  beautiful  deaign*  however  00 
tbeee  palette*.    The  few  Bower  deaigni,  which 


follow,  arc  disfigured,  in  our  opinion,  by  the 
sunken  stiver  lettering.  We  think  that  a  de- 
parture from  the  beat  taste.  We  should  say 
the  same  of  the  folding  cards  with  the  pocket 
for  the  ^ver's  card.  There  is  one  set  of  ani- 
mal*—  cats  and  dogs,  or  rather  kitten*  and 
pnppre*.  which  is  very  pretty.  Most  of  the 
cards  have  the  Christmas  or  New  Year  greeting, 
few  of  them  any  positive  religious  sentiment, 
or  any  special  significance  beyond  their  beauty. 
But  their  beanty  is  marked  and  unmistakable. 


DAT  BOOKS,  OALEHDABB,  ETC. 

We  have  been  pleased,  touched,  and  stimn- 
laled  by  turns  in  lookii^  over  the  pages  of  Btck- 
tningt.  Miss  Lucy  Larcom's  new  "calendar  of 
thought "  for  "  every  day  "  in  the  year.  There  is 
nothing  aitifidal,  affected,  or  pretentious  about 
this  string  of  pearls ;  it  is  simply  a  plain, 
straightforward,  honest  book  of  324  pages  filled 
with  culled  sentences,  one  in  prose  and  one  ia 
verse,  for  each  day  of  the  365.  Some  attempt 
has  been  made  to  give  a  typical  unity  to  the 
assembl^e  under  each  month,  and  each  month 
has  a  word  of  introduction.    May,  for  example, 

made  the  month  of  "Sunbeam  and  Shadow," 
July  that  of  "Freedom,  Beauty,  and  Poetry." 
Great  catholicity  is  shown  in  the  selection  of 
sentiments,  but  the  unvarying  finger-point  of  the 
whole  collection  is  towards  the  Divine  Truth  and 
the  Eternal  Life.  The  book  is  a  focdble  illustra- 
tion of  the  unity  of  faitb  that  really  nndetlle* 
the  diveraity  of  statement  in  the  world.  [Hoogh- 
ton,  Miffliu  &  Co.    fr.35.] 

A  very  lovely  little  oblong  "  daily  food "  i* 
Bibii  Ckimti,  with  its  verses  for  every  day  in  the 
month,  its  embellishments  of  tinted  border  and 
vignette,  and  above  all  its  soft  padded  cover  c^ 
a  moiocco-like  crimson  fabric     [Cassell  &  Co.] 

Another  compilation  of  Bible  texts  for  the 
days  of  the  month,  in  ordinary  book  form,  i* 
called  Pin*  and  Ctdar  because  of  the  fragrant 
suggestions  of  some  of  the  quotations  ;  and  the 
idea  i*  further  carried  out  in  the  decorations  of 
page  and  cover.  This  book  has  a  preface  by 
Anna  Warner,  and  makes  pretty  use  of  ever- 
green branchc*  and  pine  cones.  [T.  WhittaVer. 
3°c] 

Still  another  of  these  monthly  manuals,  called 
FlimtTt  of  Gnui,  is  square,  and  the  texts  ap- 
pear to  be  printed  on  cards  tucked  into  bunches 
of  flowers —  violets,  verbenas,  heliotrope,  and  the 
like.     [E.  F.  Dutlon  &  Co.] 

Dutton  &  Co.  also  publish  four  little  quarto*, 
silk  tied,  under  the  general  head  of  "  The  Beanty 
of  the  King,"  the  respective  sub-titles  being  Jfii 
Tiilimenits,  Hit  Caienanti,  His  Coed  Premium, 
Hit  Lffvmg  Kindtussti,  the  contents  appearing 
to  be  the  identical  matter  o(  Flmm  of  Grate. 

Devoted  to  the  lame  object,  but  larger  than 
any  of  the  foregoing  servants  of  it,  is  Cedlia 
Havergal's  Fi-cm  JIforn  tilt  Em,  the  veraes  and 
short  hymn*  being  embellished  with  handsome 
illuminations.  In  gilt  and  color,  of  appropriate 
Scripture  passages  in  bold  Old  English  text. 
The  cover  Is  mostly  gilt,  and  the  book  showy  and 
brilliant,   while  in  good  taste.    [T.  Whittaker. 

A  counterpart  to  the  above  is  Sunikiiufor 
Lif^t  Patkwty,  with  poems  for  a  month  by 
Frances  Ridley  Havergal  and  other*,  and  alter- 
nating deaign*  by  "A.  W."  done  in  rich  brown 
tints,  with  tooche*  of  gilt;  of  which  the  Offu 


I886.] 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


437 


and  tille-pige  are  the  poorest  points.    [E.  F. 
Dntton  &  Co.] 

Flmxrtiif  Hopt,  arranged  by  R.  E.  H.,  ez- 
tetidB  much  the  Bame  plan  oC  all  the  abo*e  books 
to  the  days  of  the  whole  year,  texts  for  five  or 
Ati  days  being  closely  packed  away  in  wreaths 
and  festoons  oE  flowers  on  the  left-hand  pages, 
and  the  right-hand  pages  being  divided  and 
dated  into  spaces  to  correspond,  and  left  blank 
for  socb  use  as  may  be  convenient  [T.  Wbtt- 
taker.    Goc.] 

The  Emtrsen  and  Whittier  CaltnJart  for  1887 
bring  to  notice  the  improvements  that  have  been 
bitroduced  in  these  and  other  re-issuei  of  this 
popnlar  series  of  "Atlantic  Authors,"  and  atio 
remind  ns  to  say  that  Browning  and  Haalktnu 
Caiendari,  entirely  new,  have  been  added  to  the 
series.  At  the  same  time  the  price  has  been  re- 
duced. The  form  of  the  detachable  IcadeU  is  an 
Improvement,  affording  room  for  additional  in- 
formation as  todays,  anniversaries,  lunar  changes, 
chnrch  festivals,  and  the  like  ;  so  that  for  library 
and  general  home  use  in  particular  any  one  of 
ibem  leaves  little  to  be  desired.  [Hougbton, 
Mifflin  &  Co.    Each  50c] 

Anything  new  in  the  line  of  calendars  is  hard 
to  think  of,  but  the  editors  of  Tkt  Daily  Mem- 
ing  and  EiimiMg  Calendars  have  hit  upon  it. 
The  blocks  of  daily  leaflets,  with  their  dates  and 
sentiments,  the  latter  culled  in  wide  reading,  are 
mounted  on  small  oval  boards,  provided  with 
loops  so  as  to  be  hung  ap.  The  style  is  modest 
and  simple,  and  we  cannot  doubt  that  solid  wis- 
dom and  good  taste  wait  to  be  disclosed  as  these 
leaves  are  stripped  away.  The  two  calendars 
are  distinct  for  the  two  ends  of  the  day,  and  one 
can  be  used  or  both  at  discretion.  [Roberts 
Brothers.    The  set  |z.oo.] 

The  same  publishers  issue  a  Calendritr  Franfaii, 
the  leaves  of  which  contain  extracts  from  French 
authors,  Racine,  Molitre,  De  Stael,  and  10  ( 
the  French  language.  This  certainly  is  a 
elty,  though  for  ourselves  we  prefer  to  keep  step 
to  something  besides  Prencb  masfc  [Roberts 
Brothers.    #i/)a] 


The  Literary  World. 


BOSTON,  NOVEMBER  27,  1866. 


A  LETTER  FBOH  OEBIIAITT. 

New  OennaD  Books  on  Amerlesu 

IlL 

Berun,  October  10 

CONSIDERING  the  manifold  connections 
existing  between  the  citiiens  of  the  old 
"  Fatherland  "  and  the  GvEnan  population  of  the 
United  States,  it  appears  strange  that  there  had 
not  been  published  up  to  this  time  a  reliable 
history  of  the  United  States  by  a  German 
tbor.  The  works  of  the  late  Friedrich  Rapp 
were  chiefly  of  a  monographical  or  bic^raphical 
character,  but  they  failed  to  give  a  complete  and 
exhaustive  history  of  the  American  nadon,  while 
those  of  Professor  von  Hoist  (CMUtiiutioH  and 
Demtcraiy,  etc.)  do  not  treat  the  colonial  period 
and  are  hardly  written  in  a  satisfactory  styti 
The  new  work  of  Ernest  O.  Kopp,  Bundisttaat 
Mnd  Butidtikritg,  mil  mum  AMii  dtr  Calanial- 
fttekiiku  ait  Einidtm^  S»  in  every  respect  an 


eminent  one  snd  fulfils  all  demand*.  The  anthor 
has  spent  ten  yean  In  your  country,  and,  aL 
though  warmly  admiring  American  tDSlitntions 
and  the  enterprising  go-^head  principle  of  paUic 
life,  he  does  not  fail  to  contemplate  all  thing* 
with  tCTUtinTzing  and  critical  eyes,  and  to  dwell 
upon  lights  as  well  as  shadows.  The  introduc- 
tory part  gives  a  short  review  of  the  colonial 
period,  of  the  settlement*  of  Virginia  and  New 
England,  of  Spain  and  the  Dutch,  and  the  great 
straggle  between  France  and  England  in  North 
America,  that  changed  the  political  aspect  of  the 
nntinent,  prepared  a  way  for  the  independ- 
of  the  British  Colonies,  snd  rescued  the 
tacts  of  the  interior  from  the  rule  of  milL 
tary  despotism,  "giving  them  to  the  keeping  of 
an  ordered  democracy."  The  War  of  the  Revo- 
lution and  its  characteristic  Features,  the  first 
troubles  of  the  newly-founded  empire  and  the 
great  mistake  or  defect  of  its  constitution,  out 
of  which  there  arose  the  two  antagonistic  powers 
of  the  North  snd  the  South,  the  slow  but  sure 
development  of  two  Slates  within  the  given 
imita,  as  well  as  the  gradual  growing  up  of  a 
lew  center  of  gravitation  in  the  far  West  —  all 
hese  phases  of  American  history  are  not  new  to 
American  scholars,  but  they  are  told  in  a 
eculiar,  interesting  way  and  in  a  fresh  and 
igorooa  style.  The  descriptions  of  the  Hague- 
ot  and  German  immigrations  up  to  the  end  of 
the  eighteenth  century,  the  second  English  war, 
the  statesmen- Presidents  from  Washington  to 
Andrew  Jackson,  and  the  influence  of  the  latter 
upon  the  democratic  mass  of  the  people  contain 
great  many  interesting  remarks,  which  will  be 
appredated  even  by  those  not  agreeing  with  the 
lUthor's  opinions  concerning  Jackson,  Webster, 
md  Lafayette.  As  for  dramatic  power  of  lan- 
guage, for  clear  and  concise  force  of  description, 
and  plain,  sound  judgment,  this  German  his- 
torian's valuable  book  srill  not  be  surpassed  by 
manyj  the  great  War  of  the  Rebellion  is  givci 
In  vivid  pictores,  though  perhaps  a  little  toi 
briefly  with  regard  to  the  relations  between  thi 
United  States  and  the  European  powers. 

BnndisUaat  vnd  Buttdtikritg  ends  with  the 
great  Civil  War.  After  a  few  concluding  n 
mark*  the  author  say* :  "  As  almost  everywbei 
ia  the  world,  there  is  also  in  the  Union, 
*  laborers'  question,'  that  has  given  evidence  of 
its  existence  by  a  series  of  minor  eiploi 
Capita]  has  been  amassed  in  gigantic  fortunes 
by  some  dozens  of  families.  In  oppositio 
it,  the  paupers  and  the  poor  in  general  have 
vastly  increased,  especially  in  the  great  cities, 
and  the  Isborcrs  have  joined  societies  which 
possets  great  power.  This  power,  in  the  hands 
of  demagogic  leaders,  may  become  a  dangei 
weapon,  although  it  is  not  to  be  denied  that 
America  has  not  hitherto  shown  much  agree- 
ment with  the  sodalislic  ideas  of  Europe,  so 
dangerously  manifested  of  late.  The  principle  of 
majority,  as  adopted  by  the  Americans,  which, 
as  they  admit,  is  liable  to  bad  consequences 
and  then,  bnt  which  is  (apposed  to  bring  always 
salvation  in  the  end,  is  accompanied  by  many 
dangers.  Besides  tliere  are  many  other  hostile 
elements;  what  the  Americans  sorely  need  is  a 
deeper  perception  of  life  and  of  life's  worth." 

Hopp  refers  to  nearly  all  American  itandard 
worka :  Grant's  and  Sherman's  memoirs,  Park- 
man  and  Doyle,  Bancroft  and  Schoylet,  Hildreth, 
Sargent,  Benton,  Charles  W.  Baitd,  Samner, 
PartoD)  etc,  are  fteqoentlr  tneiititmed.     Four 


maps,  more  than  seventy  illustrations,  copies  of 
Grant's  handwriting,  of  the  original  Declaration 
of  Independence,  snd  excellent  portraits  of  Dan- 
iel Webster,  Washington,  Franklin,  and  others, 
adorn  the  work  which  counts  no  less  than  776 
pages.    "Bundesstaat  und  Bnndeskrieg"  form* 

part  of  a  great  collection  known  as  Allgemein* 
Geiihiektt  in  MinuldarsUllvHgen,  published  by 
G.  Grote  in  Berlin,  and  edited  by  Herr  Oncken, 

le  of  oar  best  historians. 

A  work  of  smaller  dimensions,  and  one  in- 
tended for  the  people  at  large,  is  another  new 
book  by  the  same  writer,  entitled  Getckieku  dtr 
VtrtintUn  SlaetiH.  These  three  thin  volumes 
are  very  cleverly  written,  but  as  their  matter  is 
much  the  same  as  that  of  the  other  book,  it  is 
Bot  necessary  for  us  to  dwell  on  them  at  any 
length.  It  is  a  great  pity  that  their  numeroiw 
illustrations  are  far  from  satisfactory. 

Doctor  Hopp  is  engaged  on  another  work  on 
America,  >'.  e.,  her  civilization  and  literature  ;  it 
is  expected  to  be  finished  next  year,  and  we  shall 
not  omit  to  inform  your  readers  about  it. 

.^_^_        Mastkl 

THE  BUOHHOLZ  FAIOLT.* 

PIQUANT,  gossipy,  humorous,  these 
sketches  of  Berlin  life  in  a  few  fam. 
ilies  of  the  middle  class  must  find  favor 
among  all  American  readers  who  like  deline- 
ations of  human  character.  They  purport 
to  be  letters  to  a  German  weekly  by  Frau 
Buchholz,  who  tells  of  her  household  aflairs, 
her  scheming  to  marry  off  her  daughters, 
her  quarrels  with  her  neighbors,  her  spites, 
her  little  meannesses,  and  all  the  unhappy 
and  disagreeable  and  discreditable  things  ia 
which  she  has  a  part,  with  a  candor  and 
realism  not  often  to  be  met  with,  although 
calculated  to  cause 
to  the  reader  rather  than  disgust, 
and  the  realism  just  escapes  the  charge  of 


Frau  Buchhotz  becomes  a  writer  to  ex- 
press her  indignation  at  the  conduct  of  her 
neighbors,  Frau  Heimrich  and  Frau  Krause, 
on  occasion  of  a  birthday  party,  where  one 
word  led  to  another  about  the  farce  that  was 
to  be  acted  till  the  three  families  were  in  "a 
terrible  fuss."  Love  afiairs  among  the 
young  people  complicate  the  situation ; 
other  neighbors,  the  Bergfeldls,  are  brought 
into  relations  with  some  of  the  parties ;  and 
she  who  is  the  head  and  front  of  all  the 
troubles,  scandal,  and  maneuver) ngs,  has 
her  hands  fully  occupied.  Between  trying 
to  prevent  one  match,  and  to  bring  about 
another  between  her  Emmi  and  Dr.  Wrens- 
chen,  who  is  not  easily  caught,  she  ia  half 
distracted ;  and  her  purposes,  doings,  and 
perplexities  she  pours  out  without  reserve 
to  the  public.  Having  tasted  the  delight  of 
authorship,  she  keeps  on  writing;  and  of  all 
the  persons  she  delineates  she  draws  her 
own  portrait  the  best,  and  that  without 
knowing  it 

*  ThB  Buchholi  Fmmily.  Skticlia  of  Berlin  Life.  B7 
JoUiu  Simdc.  Tnuliiec)  from  lbs  Futty-Minih  Edidoa 
d  ilia  Gcrtnu  Ori^Ds]  by  L.  Don   ^Iih,,^*     TThtIm 

SdibBSl'B  S«DS.     >IJ5. 


438 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Nov.  27, 


It  is  a  clever  and  racy  book,  with  atory 
enough  to  secure  the  atteotioD  of  the  reader 
who  must  have  story,  but  of  chief  interest 
from  its  description  of  life  and  manners,  its 
inside  view  of  households,  and  the  workings 
of  human  nature  which  are  found  to  be 
about  the  same  the  world  over  when  the 
keen  observer  and  ready  writer  sets  them 
before  us.  That  this  study  of  a  little  group 
of  persons  is  true  to  the  life  is  indicated  by 
the  fact  of  its  great  popularity  in  Germany, 
where,  in  the  two  years  since  it  was  written, 
fifty  editions  have  been  published.  It  is 
Intimated  at  the  close  that  another  volume 
may  be  expected,  to  tell  "  what  comes  after- 
wards" to  certain  of  the  characters,  and 
whether  the  unmanageable  doctor  makes 
good  son-in-law. 


lOHOB  FIOTIOH. 


A  Sachdor'i  Bluitder.  By  W.  E.  Nonii. 
[Kenry  Holt  &  Co.    Paper.    50c] 

We  have  endeavored,  in  noticing  aome  previ- 
ous books  of  this  author,  to  express  oui  high  ap- 
preciation of  his  graphic  powers  and  hit  right  to 
be  reckoned  one  of  the  leading  EngUih  novelists 
—  one  who  has  been  compared  to  Thackeray  ~ 
reference  to  bis  delicate  humoi  and  his  ready 
seiiute  of  the  foibles,  as  well  as  the  virtues,  of 
mankind,  and  to  Anthony  Trollope  in  a  certain 
minateness  of  finish  in  the  depicting  of  people 
and  of  acenes.  This  story  of  a  natural  and  un- 
sophisticated girl  in  the  midit  of  the  intense 
worldliness  of  modem  English  sodely,  and  of  a 
marriage  deliberately  viewed  In  advance  and  by 
both  parties  a*  one  entirely  of  cettvinarKc,  a 
not  one  of  the  author's  bert,  but  affords  an  ex- 
cellent field  for  his  characlcrislic  modes  of  treat- 
ment. We  observe  in  the  style  the  same  natnraL 
ness  and  frankness  as  in  earlier  writings;  and  to 
an;  readers  not  yet  acquainted  with  Mr.  Norria 
we  commend  his  works  as  likely  lo  afFord  much 
pleasant  literary 


Stuart  Phelps.  [Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.  fi.y).) 
Miss  Phelps  is  at  her  best  when  she  takes 
homely  lives,  with  their  joys  and  sorrows  and 
perplexities,  for  her  subject,  and  leaves  untoached 
the  world  of  fashion,  in  which  she  sometimes 
likes  lo  cipcriment,  hut  where  she  hardly  seema 
■o  much  at  ease  or  at  home.  Her  gutgeous 
Miss  Ritter  interests  us  hut  little,  hut  Henry 
Salt's  wife,  "The  Madonna  of  the  Tubs,"  is  as 
true  and  vigorous  and  simply  pathetic  a  figure  as 
she  has  ever  achieved.  We  shonid  know  the 
plain,  over-worked,  sweet-hearted  little  creature, 
if  we  met  her  on  the  long  road  between  Glouces- 
ter and  Eastern  Point  tomorrow,  and  should  call 
her  by  name  with  absolute  certainty  of  response. 
It  is  high  art  to  invest  a  human  figure  with  snch 
an  aspect  of  life,  not  having  recourse  to  violent 
contrasts  of  light  and  shadow,  and  Miss  Phelps 
has  done  nothing  better  in  the  long  course  of  her 
authorship  than  this  picture  of  the  Salt  cottage 
on  the  windy  shore,  and  the  happily.ended  trag- 
edy to  which  it  is 


Mrs.  Sarah  M.  Perkins's  story  of  Htlen  is  a 
temperance  story  with  this  as  its  moral:  "Never 
marry  a  man  who  drinks,  even  moderately,  ex- 


pecting that  your   influence  will   reform  hint.' 
[Presbyterian  Board.] 

7%t  Thorn  in  tkt  FUiK,  by  Martha  Finley,  b 
a  Pennsylvania  and  Ohio  story  of  the  times  fol- 
lowing the  Revolution,  before  Washington's 
death,  dealing  with  a  case  of  aupposed  hereditary 
insanity  and  a  related  question  of  personal  iden- 
tity; and  giving  interesting  pictures  of  the  front- 
ier life  of  the  time.    [Do<ld,Head&Co.    fi.50.] 

Mrs.  Boltun'a  SierUs  frnm  Lift  are  sensible 
and  matter-of-fact,  of  the  kind  calculated  for 
popularity,  and  deserving  of  it.  They  are  brief, 
varied,  treating  of  many  phlaea  of  human  expe- 
rience, written  with  directness,  each  with  a  pur- 
pose, wholesome  in  tone,  and  stimulating  in  the 
direction  of  living  true  and  noble  lives.  They 
rebuke  sentimentality  and  false  ideas  about 
domestic  relations,  tt  wonld  be  better  for  the 
world  of  readers  if  there  were  more  such  wi 
with  the  skill  to  make  such  themes  attractive. 
(T.  Y.  Crowell  &  Co.    f i.ij.) 


HIHOB  V0TI0E8. 

Man  ami  Ait  Hanfyterk.  By  the  Rev.  J.  G. 
Wood.  [Londcmi  S.  P.  C.  K.  New  York:  E. 
&  J.  B.  Young  &  Co.]  A  well-made,  copiously- 
illoatrated,  and  every-way  invidng  book  on  the 
instrumentalities  by  which,  in  the  evolution  tA 
human  ingenuity  and  skill,  man  is  occupying, 
mastering,  and  utiliiing  the  earth.  Out  of  the 
log  canoe  the  ship,  out  of  the  twanging  bow- 
string the  piano,  out  of  rude  flints  the  carpenter's 
tools.  First  the  hands  and  feet  of  the  brutes, 
then  of  the  simians,  then  of  man,  in  their  relation 
to  work;  then  the  first  tools  and  weapons  of 
man  in  his  savage  atate ;  then  cavema  and  cav- 
ern life  with  all  their  curiosities;  then  the  devcl. 
opment  of  the  dab,  of  edged  missiles,  tools,  and 
weapons,  of  the  bow  and  gun  and  shield,  of  the 
lasso,  of  furnace  and  forge,  and  lastly  of  cloth- 
ing, ornaments,  and  Instrumenta  of  music.  An 
index,  bnt  no  table  of  conlenta;  an  intelligent, 
instructive  book  for  young  folks  who  have  heads 
and  thinking  powers,  and  with  to  learn  as  well 
as  to  be  amused. 

Tkt  Loll  Dayi  ef  the  Ctmnlait.  From  the 
French  of  M.  Fauriel.  Edited  by  M.  L.  Lalanne. 
[A.  C.  Armstrong  A  Son.  $1.50.]  In  this  book 
is  printed  a  MS.  which  was  found  by  M.  Lalanne 
among  the  papers  of  Condoreet.  The  MS.  was 
anonymous  and  its  authorship  was  only  discov- 
ered some  years  later  by  a  curious  accident,  the 
story  of  which  as  given  by  the  editor  is  almost  a 
romance.  The  author,  M.  Fauriel,  was  an  inti- 
mate of  Madame  de  Condoreet,  of  Madame  de 
Stail.  and  of  Benjamin  Constant ;  what  be  wrote 
In  this  MS.  he  wrote  in  the  frankness  of  sup- 
posed disguise  and  the  explicit  fullness  of  an  eye- 
witness. The  principal  parts  are  four  chapters, 
whose  subjects  are  the  events  which  preceded 
and  foreshadowed  the  destruction  of  the  Repub- 
lic from  the  iSth  Brunuire,  the  Principal  Events 
of  the  English  Conspiracy  prior  to  the  arrest  of 
Moreau,  the  story  of  the  Due  d'Enghien,  and  the 
trial  of  Cadoudal  and  Moreau.  The  book  ia  a 
leaf  which  should  be  inserted  in  all  current 
French  histories  at  about  the  date  of  1804. 

Lorenx  Alma  Tadtma.  His  Life  and  Works. 
By  Georg  Ebers.  From  the  German  by  Mary  J. 
Safford-  Illug.  [W.  S.  Gottsberger.  90c]  Many 
persons  vrill  be  glad  to  know  of  this  short  and 
satisfactory  account  of  the  famous  living  English 
poet-artiil,  whose  style  is  so  purely  bis  own,  and 


whose  name  Is  such  a  ptuzle  lo  s<»ne  peopled 
lips.  Mr.  Tadema  ia  a  FHeatander  and  was 
bom  in  1836.  He  entered  the  Academy  at  Ant- 
werp in  18^3,  and  took  up  bis  abode  in  England 
in  1871,  where  his  genius  has  ripened  and 
his  fame  has  been  secured.  Mr.  Tadema  is  with 
his  brush  what  his  present  biographer,  Georg 
Ebers,  is  with  the  pen;  an  historical  painter, 
that  is,  of  classical  subjects.  This  book  de- 
scribes his  work,  works,  and  workshop,  and  is 
a  sufficient  introduction  to  him. 

Alters  ami  Actrtisii  of  Crtat  Britatn  and  Uu 
Umiltd  SlaUi.  Edited  by  Brander  Matthews 
and  Laurence  Button.  Kcan  and  Booth ;  and 
their  CtMitemporaries.  [Caaaell  ft  Co.  tl-50.] 
Fifteen  biographies  compose  this  volume.  Be- 
sides Kean  and  Junius  Brutus  Booth,  the  sub- 
jects are  John  Howard  Payne,  Wallack,  Maiy 
Ann  DuB,  Mad.  Vestris,  H.  Pladde,  Hackett, 
B.  Webster,  Budulone,  Uathews,  Burton,  Mrs. 
Kemble,  Miss  Clara  Fisher,  and  John  Brougham. 
Each  subject  is  treated  according  lo  Ifae  same 
plan;  there  ia  first  an  original  aketch  of  the 
peraon,  and  (his  ia  followed  by  a  aeriea  of 
extracts  from  other  biographers,  critics,  journal- 
ists, and  notices  of  the  time.  This  treatment 
secures  variety,  though  with  a  scrap-book  effect, 
and  makes  room  for  some  entertaining  anecdote, 
and  the  play  of  cross  lights. 


THE  FERIODIOALS. 

The  Atlantit  lor  December  carries  a  goodly 
freight  The  supplement  containing  Mr.  Lowell's 
Harvard  oration  and  Dr.  Holmes's  poem  ia  of 
course  welcome  to  all  —  and  there  are  many  — 
who  desire  to  preserve  these  fine  productions  ot 
an  occasion  in  authentic  form.  A  posthumous 
paper  by  the  late  Elisba  Mulford  is  concented 
with  "The  Object  of  a  University,"  which  object 
is  shown  to  be  a  training  toward  tiie  comprehen- 
sion of  ontversals.  Dr.  Mulford's  phrase  ia  "the 
university  is  to  train,  not  the  helots  of  aodely, 
but  iia  captains."  Cyrus  Hamlin  gives  a  care- 
fully written  review  of  Russia's  attempts  to  gain 
Constantinople,  down  to  the  recent  upset  In 
Bulgaria,  which  has  placed  Russia  in  direct  an- 
tagonism with  Europe.  Edmund  Noble  describes 
a  trip  "  Up  the  Neva  to  Schliisselberg,"  and  tells 
us  something  of  the  conditions  of  life  at  the 
"Key  City."  Miss  M-  L.  Henry's  sketch  of 
Mazzini  ia  written  with  knowledge  and  discrim- 
ination, and  will  be  appredated  by  those  lo 
whom  the  great  Italian  is  only  the  shadow  of  a 
mighty  name.  Mrs.  Fteaton,  under  the  title  of 
The  Church  of  England  Novel,"  sets  forth  in 
readable  way  the  characteristics  and  tendencies 
displayed  in  the  writings  of  two  popular  authors 
Miss  Sewell  and  Hiaa  Yonge.  The  fiction  of 
the  number  includes  "The  Strange  Story  of 
Fragytua,"  by  Harvard  B.  Rooke,  which  is  a 
rather  dever  bit  of  theosophical  romandng. 
Harper'i  Magaaiiu  for  December,  though  sp- 
:aring  more  than  a  month  before  Christmas,  is 
pitched  to  the  Christmas  key,  and  is  a  most 
tuneful  number.  There  is  a  variety  of  readbg 
matter  and  a  wealth  of  illustration  which  are 
somewhat  remarkable.  It  would  be  an  interest- 
ing item,  could  it  be  published,  the  coat  of  prodoo- 
ing  this  Christmas  number  —  including  the  sum  to- 
tal paid  to  contributors,  artists,  engravers,  print-  ^ 
era,  paper  makers,  and  distributers,  counting  up, 
we  doubt  not,  to  many  many  thousanda  of  dollars. 
All  the  articles  in  the  body  of  the  number, 


i886.] 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


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twelve  of  them,  ue  illuttrated.  Among  the 
writen  an  Howells,  Gen.  Lew  WalUce,  Stod- 
dud,  Gibson,  G«o.  H.  Boughton,  Mn.  Monlton, 
ftnd  Mill  Jewett ;  ind  the  two  leid[ng  articles 
on  "The  Bofhood  of  Christ"  and  "  The  Legend 
of  St  Nicholas"  are  pleasantly  pertineiit  to  the 
scMMi.  The  i^ciurei  in  the  former  are  not  all 
•o  pleaMnl.  Few  pictaics  of  the  Christ  are. 
The  "EiBj  Chair"  has  a  timely  and  telling 
article  in  defence  of  the  "literary  gang,"  as  the 
Boston  Hfr^d  lately  called  the  New  York  maga- 
Boe  editon,  a  defence  which  should  be  read  and 
d  bj  every  magazine  conlribotor. 


ESUOITIOUL  VOBES. 

EdtKiUitmal  Psychology.  By  Louisa  Parsons 
Hopkins.  [Lee  &  Shepard.  5ac]  Mrs.  Hop- 
kins is  a  teacher  of  experience  and  skill,  and 
this  little  *olDme,  one  of  Lee  &  Shepard's 
poptilar  handbooks,  is  a  digest  of  a  course  of 
lectures  given  by  her  to  a  Normal  Class  in  New 
Bedford.  It  develops  in  a  way  well  fitted  to 
make  it  useful  to  parents  and  leacbets  the  more 
familiar  laws  which  govern  the  development  and 
training  of  ibe  senses,  memory,  im^i nation, 
judgment,  and  taste ;  and  it  will  serve  well  as 
an  introduction  to  larger  works  (or  those  who 
can  go  further  in  the  study. 

Di*  Sc&Snsten  Deuiicken  Litdtr,  Eitit  Samai- 
iMtgvon  Carla  und  HiUnt  Wtnikihaek.  [Pub- 
lished by  the  same.  Boston  :  Carl  Scbjjnhof.] 
This  second  edition  of  the  Misses  Wencke- 
tiach's  excellent  collection  of  the  finest  German 
Ifrics  has  been  much  enlarged  by  adding  eighty 
simple  poems,  and  as  many  longer  ones,  such  as 
baUads  and  odes.  The  Volkslieder  now  fill 
more  than  seventy  pages,  and  are  provided  with 
soprano  and  alto  notes  and  easy  accompani- 
ments, a  valuable  feature.  A  hundred  pages 
of  llrtef  extracts  from  Schiller,  Goethe,  Leasing, 
and  Richter,  complete  a  full  and  attractive  ap- 
paratus for  the  use  of  beginners  in  -German  who 
prefer  a  reading-book  without  notes  or  vocab- 

8HACE8FEABIAVA. 


"Bifrontlae."  A  correspondent  out  West 
writes  us  that  bifreiitint  in  a  note  on  p.  laS  of 
onr  ed-  of  the  M.  of  V.  —  where  the  allusion 
Id  " two-lieaded  Janus"  is  said  to  be  probably 
"  to  liiose  bifrontine  images  io  which  a  grave 
(ace  was  associated  with  a  laughing  one"  — 
should  be  "bifronted."  We  took  the  word 
from  Warburton,  as  Dyce  and  others  have  done. 
It  is  curious  that  it  is  in  none  of  the  dictionaries 
—  and  yet  we  are  continually  running  across  such 
words,  not  only  in  writers  of  the  last  century  and 
earlier,  but  in  Tennyson,  Browning,  and  others 
of  our  own  day. 

Shnkeipeare  Concordances.  A  correspond. 
ent  in  Cobourg,  Ontario,  Canada,  asksi 

Has  there  not  been  published  a  new  and  im- 
proved Cotuffrdanci  Io  Shaieiptart  since  tbe 
well-known  one  of  Mrs.  Mary  Cowden-Clarke } 

We  know  of  no  complete  Concordance  to 
tlie  plays  except  Mrs.  Cowden-Clarke 'a,  wbicli  is 
fitly  supplemented  by  Mrs.  Furness's  CatKerd- 
amct  la  Iht  Poemi  of  Shakttpeart.  A  Contfrdanci 
la  tht  Plays  by  Mr.  W.  H.  Davenport  Adams 
was  pnblfihed  in  London  and  New  York  last 


year ;  bu^  as  the  editor  says  in  his  preface, 
"  it  is  not  a  Verbal  but  a  Phrase  Concordance-" 
He  adds  that  he  "believes  it  to  be  at  once  the 
most  comprehensive  and  the  most  accurate  that 
has  yet  been  published."  In  this  he  certainly 
deludes  himself,  for  a  careful  comparison  of  the 
book  with  Mr.  John  Bartlett's  SKakesftari 
Phrase  Book  (published  in  1881,  and  duly  no- 
ticed in  these  columns)  shows  that  the  latter  is 
both  more  comprehensive  and  more  accurate. 
Let  any  one  compare  the  words  and  quotationa  on 
a  few  pages  of  the  two,  and  judge  for  himself. 
Mr.  Adams's  is  a  slipshod  and  slovenly  piece  of 
work,  while  Mr.  Bartlett's  Is  scholarly  and  every 
way  admirable.  The  price  of  the  two  books  is 
the  same  (f  3.00) ;  and  Mr.  Bartlett's  Is  not  a  bad 
substitute  for  the  somewhat  expensive  Cowden- 
Clarke  Concordance,  if  one  cannot  aSord  to  buy 
the  latter. 

HEWa  AND  VOTES. 

—  Following  the  lead  of  Ur.  Elihu  Vedder 
and,  later,  of  Mr.  Will  H.  Low,  Mr.  Kenyon  Cox 
will  place  the  original  paintings  made  for  his 
edition  of  Roasetti's  7X<  Blared  Damotil  upon 
exhibition  at  Richard's  art  gallery.  Fifth  Avenue, 
New  York,  on  the  first  day  of  December. 

—  Mr.  William  D.  Howells's  novel,  A  Forignu 
ConehisioH,  has  just  been  produced  in  a  drama- 
tized form  at  the  Madison  Square  Theater,  New 
York,  at  one  of  the  experimental  afternoon  pei 
formances  which  have  been  made  a  feature  of 
that  theater.  The  play  was  witnessed  by  a 
very  select  audience  composed  largely  of  authors, 
dramatists,  and  newspaper  writers,  who  gave 
many  signs  of  appreciation  and  pleasure;  and  it 
is  not  unlikely  that  a  company  will  soon  under- 
take its  production. 

—  Kidnapped,  Mr.  Robert  I^nls  Stevenson's 
successful  story,  is  being  illustrated  by  Mr.  Hole, 
the  famous  English  artist,  on  the  order  of  Cassell 
&  Co.,  the  London  publishers. 

—  Mr.  Marion  Crawford,  Ijurence  Alma  Ta- 
dema,  W.  E.  Norris,  and  several  of  the  authors 
who  last  year  wrote  the  stories  which  appeared 
in  the  litUe  volume  entitled  Tki  Brokm  Shaft, 
edited  by  Mr.  Norman,  will  again,  this  season, 
publish  a  collection  of  more  or  less  ghostly 
stories,  entitled  For  the  iViUking  Tiwu:  Tiles 
for  the  Year's  End,  the  American  edition  of 
which  will  appear  from  the  press  of  Messrs.  D. 
Appleton  &  Co. 

—  Certainly  few  authors^  daring  the  last  few 
years,  have  made  more  money  than  Admiral 
Porter,  whose  books  have  been  published  under 
a  royalty  of  twenty  per  cent  of  the  retail  price  to 
the  author,  ll  is  estimated  that  his  novels  alone 
have  paid  him  a  handsome  income,  while  the 
bonus  on  his  naval  history  has  amounted  to 
130,000-  At  present  Admiral  Porter  is  convales- 
cing from  a  serious  illness,  but  as  soon  as  his 
health  will  permit  he  means  to  put  his  pen  to 
work  upon  several  new  and  important  literary 
enterprises. 

—  Mr.  E,  J.  Bishop  has  began  a  work  of  about 
400  octavo  pages  entitled  Maine  Authors  and 
Writers,  wbich  Brown,  Thurston  &  Co.  o(  Port- 
land will  issue  in  the  spring.  Mr.  Bishop  pro- 
poses thoroughly  to  represent  recent  authorship 
in  Maine  In  his  volume.  He  will  also  bring  out 
a  second  edition  of  TVofical  Awterica  Dec  aj. 
His  latest  publication  is  a  brochure  8  X  10  inches 
in  size,  descriptive  of  a  trip  from  Bfalne  to  Con- 


necticut, but  bearing  m;unly  on  Rhode  Island 
people  and  scenery,  and  so  entitled  Tm  the  ffar- 
ragausett  Ceunlry. 

—  T/ie  CAamier  aver  tkt  Gate,  the  powerful 
IndlauapuHs  novel,  has  reached  a  second  edition, 
and  its  price  has  been  reduced  to  f  1.50. 

—  The  best  "Teachers'  Bible"  published  by 
T.  Nelson  &  Sons,  Oxford  and  New  York, 
minion,  Svo,  costs  fii.oo, 

—  J.  B.  Ijppincott  Co.  of  Philadelphia  have 
publislied  a  Catali^iu  of  Sart  and  Chain  Eng- 
lish Beeht,  in  quarto  form  and  really  beautiful 
typography  —  tinted  ink,  rough  paper,  and  uncut 
edges  ;  a  catalogue  well  worth  preservation. 

—  Mrs.  Margaret  J.  Preston,  who  is  now 
obliged  to  write  by  dictation,  has  been  much  of 
an  invalid  this  summer;  literally  has  not  eaten  a 
morsel  of  food  for  a  month,  living  only  on  medi- 
cated milk.  Yet  she  is  as  ever  a  busy  woman. 
Of  her  two  books  now  in  press  by  Ruidolph  & 
Co.,  one  is  a  collection  of  the  religious  poems 
which  she  cares  to  keep,  to  which  she  has  added 
a  few  out  of  two  former  volumes,  which  seemed 
out  of  place  among  secular  poetry.  The  title  of 
this  book  is  For  Lev^s  Sake.  The  other  book, 
A  HandfiU  of  MonograpAs,  is  simply  a  collection 
of  little  foreign  "thumb-nail  sketches."  Mrs. 
Preston  misses  her  friend  Hayne  exceedingly; 
he  was  a  constant  correspondent,  and  did  not 
grudge  letters  that  would  run  sometimes  to  the 
length  of  thirty-six  pages.  Her  two  only  chil. 
dren,  sons,  one  a  physician,  the  other  a  lawyer, 
have  both  settled  in  Baltimore,  and  her  busband 
and  herself  are  now  alone. 

—  We  are  glad  for  California  to  see  that 
Professor  Homer  B.  Sprague  has  settled  down 
in  San  Francisco,  and  that  his  lectures  on  Hil- 
ton, Shakespeare,  and  other  topics  are  to  be  at 
the  service  of  the  Pacific  public.  Mr.  Sprague 
is  a  lecturer  of  extraordinary  ability.  When  we 
heard  him  upon  Shakespeare  we  felt  that  we 
were  listening  to  a  master  of  platform  discourse. 

—  Dr.  Daniel  G.  Brinton  of  Philadelphia  has 
been  elected  Professor  of  American  Linguistics 
and  Archteology  In  the  University  of  Fennsyl. 
vania.  Dr.  Brinton  has  been  for  several  years 
Professor  of  Ethnology  and  Archgeotogy  in  the 
Academy  of  Natural  Sciences  of  Philadelphia, 
is  Vice-President  of  the  American  Association  for 
the  Advancement  of  Science,  is  tbe  author  of 
numerous  works  and  essays  on  these  branches, 
and  has  edited  a  scries  of  works  in  the  native 
American  languages,  under  the  title  "  Library  of 
Aboriginal  American  Literature,"  six  volumes  of 
which  have  already  appeared. 

IVidt  Awake  promises  a  Christmas  number 
in  press)  of  96  pages  instead  of  the  usual 
So,  irilh  contributions  by  Miss  Phelps,  Austin 
Dobson,  Samuel  Longfellow,  Mrs.  Fields,  Mrs. 
Whitney,  Miss  Jewett,  Mrs.  Fremont  (a  popular 
new  contributor),  Susan  Coolidge,  and  many 
others;  and  it  also  announces  four  papers  1^ 
Mrs.  Fremont  for  the  issues  of  1887,  with  other 
notable  contributions  by  Rev.  Samuel  Long- 
fellow, on  tbe  childhood  of  the  poet  Longfellow, 
his  brother,  and  a  dozen  illustrated  "Ballads  of 
Authors,"  by  Mrs.  SpoSord. 

—  From  D.  Lolhrop  &  Co,  we  receive,  too 
late  (or  ampler  notice  elsewhere,  SatOa  Claus's 
Riddle,  a  poem  for  the  season  by  Katherine  Lee 
Bates,  illustrated  with  sixteen  colored  pictures. 

—  Second  and  Third  Readers  in  Ur.  J.  H. 
Stickney's  series  will  be  published  bj  Glim  ft 
Co,  of  Boston  in  December. 


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A  mort  Impcstaiit  oanbrlbnlloii  to 
Text,  iDoInding  an  «mk7  on  the  atohlng  of  Uie  put  year,  b 
OOK,  uitbor  of  "  Etching  In  Ameitck,"  Mo. 


'  EtTLir  HtTOH- 


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lOKOT  H.  TJJIA, 
JOCMPB  F.  BAMX, 

W.  H.  Bhhoov, 
Ohaslb  Toixmax,     - 
W.  8t.  Job*  Hastbk, 


■old),  bat  itunrltv  *  daolded  adnnoe  ei 

■ud  ntlei  oT  FlilM : 

MaorUh  Jnoatua  BwrHer. 

Th»IMy  Poml. 

"  C«  PtMS." 

OM  IMHily  owl  ITall  Bt. 
Thm  Old  Br*dgt. 
TA*  SMk-ITonH. 

JTaw  JTiHiMyBy. 


ABTIST-PBOOF    EDITIOKS. 

L— TELIiUM  PB00F8,  IiUdTiD  to  Tm  GoFm.  Bioited  An  Mim- 
BKBKD.    BsDUr^ne  pnxia  on  TalloB,  ueompanled  bj  praoft  on  J^ui  pv*i'. 

Taxt  prtstad  on  Imperial  J^nn  p*p«',  In  nd  aud  Uuk.  ToUo*  UMd  wtik 
mtowl  Mlk,  MO.0O. 

U.— SATDt  UD  JAPAN  f  BOOFB,  LlXBUi  lO  FIFTWni  OoHH,  SnBMD 
AMI)  NttHKEKiDi  pToob  on  SatiD,  Mcompanlad  br  praolk  an  Japan  paiiar, 
m.ita. 

nL— SATIH  PBOOXS,  LoirrKD  lO  Tra  Ooroc,  StsaXD  AXD  Nux- 
BMKHB.    Pmoft  on  Satin,  (SO.OO. 

lY.—JAPAN  FBOOFB,  LurTGD  lO  On  HVMDKUi  OOKH,  Siavxo  AXD 
HiTKauxD.    FiooboD  Japan  papn,  ISLOO. 

All  otohin^  oantaltwd  In  tha  aboTO  oopla  aro  Bxmabqux  Pkoovi,  Sians. 

All  (trial  of  the  Artlat-pToof  edfttoni  an  Innloaad  In  iloh  porttidloa  of  Talliun 

Ued  witli  rilk. 


An  ImporUnt   Annonneemeiit. 

Clara  Srtktae  Otament't  Saria  0/  OulliTit  Art  HUloritt  for  Seginnert 

and  3tuitent»,  Ifoa  c«mpleta  by  the  AddiHoti  of 

AKOBITEGTIJBE. 

DnUaim  with  FAIMTQIQ  and  BOQLFTDBE,  by  tho  ianw  waU-known  an- 
Ihor.    WtthoTetUOTalnaUalUDitratliHia. 

Saoh  of  tima  Hum  booka  ooTara  Ita  (coand  fa  an  fataraatln|  «aj,  glvlni  a 
(ood  Idaa  of  an  tha  (raat  palntaa,  anilptoii  or  anUtaali,  and  theli  werka,  aa 
wall  aa  anabling  any  odo  who  irlalxa  a  laBer^  kuowladga  of  the  lohlaat  to  obtain 
It  In  a  ^aannt  waj.  Verriwdablo.  Pnllj  and  handaondj  tllDitealad  with  nn- 
naroaafnll-pafolUiiatiatloBaandiintaNtlnthotazt.    With  oompMa  ladam. 

Eauh  oD«  ToL,  Stp.  natoftallr  bound.  With  aMatlo  daalgn  atampad  In  fold 
OB  aloA  coTSr.    MM. 

Half  salt,  nair  tokav,  IB.OO. 


A   NEW  DSPABTVBX. 

FAMILIAB   BIBDS,    AND    WHAT  THE  POETS 
SING   OF  THEH. 

Ulnatiatad  b;  Pidilu  BuiMm.    Edited  bj  Sdbir  Babsiow  SKiuma. 
>a  TOlama,  oonlainiht  man  J  baaaUAil  poam),  ato.,  relating  to  the 
'    "  la  of  the  hand-irrlltng  of  John  Bomiaglu, 
laucMar. 
exqaldtaly  printed : 

tnga  and  Fine  Bough;  Wren*  and 
Honajnoaklei  8e»-galland  Soif;  Tellow-btrda  and  MuUsln;  Boblna  and  Apple- 
bloaionu;  Bloeblidi  and  llomlng'j^oilaaj  Bnow-blnla  and  BoaeJilpai  Odolaa 
and  rinni  tilirfirm.  Song-apamnr  and  Wild  Bnaea)  Thnuh 
Ohlokadea*  and  Antamn  LearM. 

Biohl;  brand,  doth.  Coll  glU,  oniata  dealgn  of  bli4>,  Tina, 
eolor on oovar.    In  aboi,  tS.OD. 


DEUfilMTFin,   AXS    OHOIOX 

Editions  of  Poems. 

Ptot   Interuting   .Addftfotu    to    "  Tht   Lyric   Poet*." 

SIB  ions  8vcKLiire*B  poems. 


With  new  etohing  bj  J.  S.  Kiaa,  aftac  the  portndl  bj  Vandyke.    i*~-   cMk 


Tlgnettea  In  Bhjne.     luttn  Dobmn. 
At  tfts  SlgH  of  the  Ljn.     Autln  Dobi^. 
Oi  Tlol  tad  FlKte.     Edmud  Oobh. 

Tkt  etktr  eoIsiMi  In  Uu  nrlea  art.' 
Frederlttk  Loeker'a  Complete  Foema. 
Lyn  EleganttuvHt    Loeker. 
Wlnthrop  H.  Pnted't  Complete  Poemi. 
Sonffi  from  tke  DruutUts.    BelL 

Each  oftha  idne  Tola.,  ISmo,  oloth  (Tailona  ealoia),  baTolad  boarda 
daooiatlon  In  color  and  gold,  tS.UO.    Harooa  relliun  olatli,  gilt  top 
Half  sair,  extra,  ^t  Uv.  KOO.    Tree  oalT,  gUt  edfai,  tff.OD. 

Of  one  of  thaae  book!  tba  BnlEtlo  Ttaiet  eaji:    "White.  Btokea  »  A 
r^tdly  aaqnlting  dUtlnotlon  tor  the  ki^  qnalltj  of  the  lEtastnra  whloh  tl 
liita,  and  the  artlatlo  manner,  Ana  binding,  elear,  beaotUil  new  type 
paper  in  whlehttefprMantttaalrboekB  loth*  pohllo.    Vebaartllyoi 


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Anj  of  the  *tere  oan  ba  h*d  of  yoor  ItookMller,  <x  wUl  bo  sent  (o  anir  nddnv,  ftt  pvbUihen'  eapeme,  on  leoeipt  ol  adTertlMd  piloe.    Unlbti 

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"  Tbe  MOpe  ot  thu  work  eDbiaca!  Bverr  relation  of  poatiT 

bo  unffuage  and  to  lentlment.  .  .  .  The  antborU  plan  la  an 

tborengh  iCndy  ot  hi!  Mbject,  end  u  ■-*— ■-'■'-g  tamU- 
laritrwIthOKwboleraageotZogllihpoeBT,  .  . .  criltcallr 


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poette  aqilraBtcoald  learn  It  br  beait,  tbe  aaoBit  of  vaitffT- 
iBgislgMbeiadDeed  bra  halt,  and  ttaaBOoBtof  paatry 
IBM  wind  by  a  lafget  latto. ...  It  w>M  tbe  teM  nDdK 
wboae  toueh  tbe  den  Ihie  blM.   It  (oea  taiOier  than  Hdi, 


A  LIFE  IN  SONG. 

ISmo.  «l*th  «xtN,  tlJMI. 

BT 

GEORGE  L.  RAYMOND. 

••  An  age-worn  poet,  dying  amid  Hiangar!  hi  a  hambla 
TlUage,  laaTce  the  record  of  tali  lit*  In  a  pile  of  maauaslpt 
poeua.    Tbeaa  are  claimed  by  a  tTlmdand  ocmpanlon.  1ra%, 

taking  tbem  awHj.  .  .  .  Thla  la  tbe  almple  but  nnlQoe  plan. 


comment!  upon  life.  M«lher  aan  lb*  ofajactlon  b*  a^ed 
of  the  ■laskor  human  eUmrat.'  '  A  Life  la  Boag  ■  li  no* 
only  drajnatld  la  tendeaer,  but  l!  alngnlailj  reaUiUc  and 


MaolettwUIgbtbonr, . .  .bntHalao 
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UcuUrly  do  we  commend  It  to  tbe  multitude  of  eontem. 
poiary  baidUnga,  who  may  Ond  In  Ita  ahieeri^  of  parpoa* 
and  lottlaaat  ot  aim  a  aalatary  InapttatUo."— jleitai  Ufer, 


poet.  ...  A  oantury  frei 
and  qaolad  whveiar  dm 
!Uig."-irulini  it 


G.  P.  PUTNAM'S  SONS, 

a?  A  ao  W.  as«  nt»  Vew  T«rk. 


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iBPOETICALfOBKS 


BEKJAKIH  F.  TATLOB,  LL.  D. 

"Tftylor,"  MVB  the  Currtnt,  "ia  tmuaOMilj 
kn  AmBTlaaa  poet.  H«  iliiB*  to  Amerloan  h««ito, 
ol  Amerloan  honiM,  Amcrloui  aoenM, 
Anuilaaii  boniM,  >nd  hfghor  prmlae  oonld  not 
be  glTon  him  than  to  taj  biM  toog  li  irorth7  Iti 
theme."  The  London  rime*  hu  ttylDd  T>;loi 
"The  Olivet  Goldgmlth  ol  Ameiioa,"  and  the 
BoMon  Hoint  Journal  uya  he  i«  "  not  seoond  to 
the  greM  EucUtb  poet,"  while  TiBbner'i  Amtr- 
tcon  and  Oriental  Btcord,  London,  uyi,  "  Tky- 
lot  ti  one  of  the  greatest  wnd  palnteia  In  the 
WOTld."  "Intbti  TOlnme,"  Myi  the  Phiiadtl- 
phia  Inquirer,  "  which  oontalnt  Sie  poemi  of  a 
lifetime  and  the  oontenti  of  thiee  pieTloat 
booki,  are  gathated  aome  ot  the  fineat  and  moat 
poetloal  deserlptlona  ol  Amerioan  aoenee  and  in- 
oldenta  erer  written."  Theae  poema  are  pre- 
aented  In  one  handsome  ToInme,  oontalning 
portrait  ot  the  anthoc  and  SfiB  pagea  of  beantl- 
fnllr  printed  text.    FrioetI.7S. 

JTr.  Towlor't  i*r«M  W«rlu. 
frOKUl  OH  WBKmiM.   lUiutnled,   UUi  idlUon. 

«1.M. 

"  A  bright  l»ok  ...  of  almr.  ■nartlhiBifcttiilm,  full  ot 
«p«lal UM  ud  nlUeklat  tuimet.^-irtiiTort  AvrUc. 
IN  OAMCr  AII0  rlBUI.    Uedltlon.   UM. 


late FonlfD BaentuT UHl CoDDHllor Ifi tlw " ~  ~"  —-'--  — 

"It  ta  nrmlilai  to  ihlii«  thu  tlwra  l>  a» „, „_. . .. 

orMiul  luilaiimiai,  wltta  wbloti  m  an  not  tunlHai  Umiuh  tcena  ol  nod  and  Md  booki  at  tnnl.  Rii  \, 
'CboiSB,'  U  UIM  Oh  onckiai  optn  at  mi  old  aut,  neh  M  10  th*  dnyt  it  genJl  oaDl>ln«l  In-" '-  -" ~ 


AAltBa  HlrKKlAClK.   Bt  Kviria  lauotnaa  Btsaaa.   . 
OOUIIT  XATUCK*   Bf  Havar  OaBTULa.   AiRbor  of  "  l>a 


KM  nlibtt  OB  th!  Buapgi— Tkrtor  ti 

, t  [Mil  Blm,  taut  ^U  aot  tocfic.   To 

•TWTlniUi.uwUliKaiildmelBln.fea  Uski  ■  tmoy  1b  tM 
torn  or  ■«■■  Inu*  at  letMh  wlildi  nuka  tbat  tiuth  ool- 
rtte  Ilia  •t(icB7''-JiiHHeaa  WMt^nM.  aprmmt,  K.  T. 
■UmCEK  BA-TOKT.   M«dlUoa.   SLN. 

•■  A  dMt^ittDl  vork,  cniaiiMd  /nil  vttli  biUlluit  ikalolMi 
Hut  oooifiK  pIquBCT,  tmliBCM,  pown  ud  hiuiHir.''- 
Stcori,  PUItdt^a. 
BKXnEir   TKE   «ATJBS.     lUnMnUsd.     UUi 


;TS!'2L?"5.'?" 


It  ■  lucT,  tlwt  tha  t 
'arptr'l  irbtfiiWnc. 


u  plitorUJ^  idat«d. 


KANT'S  ETHICS. 


CrlUnl  EiBMllJc 


'iJt', 


Mttt.    Prl«.  fljt. 


Qriggs's  FhiloBOphioal  Classics. 


Ila,  Htioltrljr  Tolaina,  ud  Till  1 


AliTjnuTtbv 


•—AUgtmeini  ZtUtng,  Jtmich. 
1  T0LCMB8  OF  THE  SERlEa: 
KAin»»  OKFTIQTTK  or  PVKE  MEAKtir. 

Br  Pnt.  B.  S.  Uoaau,  PtaJ).,  or  Uu  UnlTsnltj  at  Nlob- 

laao.   tlM. 

"  We  hAT*  Hldom  h*d  viltdn  tba  llailU  of  »  taw  pacta 
BUT  flxdoaHtoB  of  Kant^  phUfiaopbT  tbat  at  tboronghlr  ud 
nniantutdlaflr  OTan  ina  ■□btaet."— Bswaa  Pol. 
■OHEX.IJV«'B     TMANBCBirnBirTAZ. 

IDEALISM.    Bt  Prof.  Joaa  Winoi,  LL.D„ar  <]ii**B'i 

Vnlnnilr-   t'-^ 

FioBTB'B  KOiKircB  or  Kiroiri.KDans. 

BTFlOf.  G.  C-  ETBIATfj  D.D.,  of  Humid  UBlTOTilty. 

VEnBI>'*  .SBTMKTIOM.    BfFrDf.J.S.KaDni, 

Uanepwibln 
I  oouotiT.ud 


iMpablloatloDo. 

UlUrT  ot  plilloiKiplileal  nadlaa  Id 
Idbawconiaaed.''— fimfim  ..Itfrerfii 


TDlDBiaa,pMaplni 

FofialabTaU' 
prto*  W  " 


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*  Tba  DMiU  of  a*  poeia,  iiiniailiiaiiiaw  ■ml  Bad  blDdUv,  wldeA  la  tnm  and  of  BmapttcHu 
with  tk*  two  01  thna  Tan  popalBi  koDttH  fUMiMlu  «f  tUi  MBaon,  ud  deMrradlr,  pwtiBpa,  U 

-  Obb  Of  th*  laaat  baBBlUal  iMoS  ot  adi  BHaan  at  S  aor."- i>elr«<I  lVi«i 

DC  folk)  (patna  iSlllBcbea',  btaAtUullj 

'iSSwtiitjudtta' 


BitnoRlliiBrT."->  n«  Acfoa. 


B*.  SKOmmrO'S  lATK  BOIf  If  vra.    BoDaetifromtliePoi 

»a,   lUoMlUad  br  Ladrlc  Baadta  Ipaan.    1  vol.,  obkuc  folk)  (pama 

(U.Ni  la  foil  Mlt,  PM*. 

■muT  vai  Dot  nura  bautUol  Uun  li  ttal*.   Tba  BrtUtte 

OBaof  IhefawwfalebbBnabaiUaceof  lltHBir  iBwcBBt] 

Tt»  DnbUabMB  of  tbta  nra  aod  woadartul  aUUiook  bbi  w^l  dlTlde  Iha  hoBOfa  with  tba  utlK  dtdoer.    A  aei 

bMrnltolapeeliBaDof  tbabogkankBt^BitwMaamrBBaa.    IHe  papai  la  dak  haBTf,  aad  Joat  ^latlj  uSaTaBcli  laaf  I 

pUoadlarormaolttallaBaBaiiairHilTi  l>»iWafaaaaudtbacoTar,wiaib^Tard»eorBlhm.i '- -' < — < 

B«M.   UtUalBBrift-bwkwttiaMmltattioiwwSatadaeorBUTabaBiiQr.woBdBifBlBaltia.lti 
BnhHaaadapHmiBraHiilBnaiieB    ItliBboofc WhaBtwatBWfwBlUaUBia.''-aoa<wHVw.tlf ■ 

"KarerhBitliadaeotailTaBninraUIAUwbaaeouitadoatiaBBTnuhaUBBtBatUa.    It  la  I 
Um  oxqnlana^an  bjF  wUA  If F.  Ipawi  bM  UluknMd  «wii  naaal.  tni  yt  mad*  aU  btend  la  a  dbI 

■■■Kil— 


iiKt  leiiBrBtalr,  aod  torMMdlTwUh  OBbolleal 

■BBilBti  whll*  iHll  b*  ha*  beU  ■*--  -^— ' " ' 

JSAVKXI.Z/B  KEMAUrB. 


■Bd tba conr,  wiuM  tf nr  MeuBtloB, ara  ^uroli 01 

-  ' — -- BDQr.WOSdeifBlBBltia.ltMUBBbOnUBB— »  u. 

Jaw.'*— Avm  IVwMttw.  ^^^i- 
rat  BBd* aUbtendla a Daltr <a  dealcB.*'-£M>M 
Bd  BBBppraaahabla  la  Amaftaaa  aiL  Tbia  laaat 
I  Hoat  arnnMla  Iot*  poiai  arat  wiUtaa— hai 
alaa  eoBlChBidbnibaiMT.  H* hai tahaa MWb 
«B»  of  ImMIMlfra  ttcSaaaa  aad  frtllto  wbiab 
wboM."— jfi4g  Bata,  fa  IA<  Pmt^iueJttrmml 


tiwonhjot  thaToraa, 
BilmllqtlaBd  ,onHiD*al 

BrBuaarr 


FHUIA  Ann  THK  PBKBIAVB.   Br  Bon.  B.  O.  W.  8a»Aa»,hito  U 


Ibor  of  -  Hlnpoit,-  "  Tittess,'  "  Daawn^  QbMl,'^ 

u"   S1.M. 


NORA  PERRY'S  WORKS. 

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BOOK  or  LOTB  BTOBIBB.    CbanDlns  aboit  atorlaa.   fl.H. 
ArTKK  TKB  BAI.I.,  SKK  I.aTKK>»  rHfBITB,  sad  Otkcv  PHmi,   fl.n. 
TRB  ■TBASBBT  or  THB  VBBXTBOTBB,  aMI  Otkar  BMrln.    f  IJ). 

I  aU  bar  vaiaa  Iha  iptitt  of  potltr,  of  iDsoaaDea.  of  fiaataDt 


ffarria  PmtaU  Sftifftri. 

irB  or  HBiRKr  irAiiawosTK  iAir«nnxow 

Toll,,  11 iim  H  una  ilial  niiiiainl  iiiiiliainaml  ■iiiiil  iiiaiiiliiyi. 

fllM;  iDbAlf  monwoo.wlth^lt  topBBdiOBfbadcaa.glLoT 


Edited  i>r  Be*,  "utmi  LoaarauAw.   I 
iclolb.fUti  In  bait  oalt,  with  luaribo  edfia, 

rat  of  tin  dBT,  tbat  all  eoatlaeBta 
«  that  liOBffallow  waa  aot  obHJ  a 


otkor  PsMn.   Bj  Edwii  Paici  ITairrLa.   Ciowa 
OOirrB«MIOirs  AXD  OKmolBMB.   Bt  JDUunUwiaoaaa.    Uma,  wllb  portrait  of  tba  aotbar,  $1JI^ 

osRiim  m  BinfwniB  ajts  xv  bhabow^.  sr  m.  v.  buud.  itoio,  sijo. 


.*  .^M- MM  tar  an  ftoslidMn.  «r  wtll  ><  Mii(,  poilpuM,  «■  rKiipf  q^prfci  i|i  (Aa  poWikan, 

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■uFiiB  Fi^TU,  PHulaf  (n  roHMit  nut,  JAur  Mw 
Ftat^mtt,  aUo  Vtgntiut.  Onununlal  Bead-Pitta,  tte. 
With  IMMrtpUv*  Tsil,Pnlua,ate.,bTOioaei  Oum, 
tlH  wbola  lonnlnc  ■  Siqiarb  Tolmn*  Colombln  Svo, 
tutatnllT  bound  Id  red  clDllieitn,|Ut  lop.  PTl««,fia.U. 
1^^- Portia  fattring  J.  W.  S.wiihttitlraTdtrt/Br  thtt 
»tr*  wfU  rtttpi  tht  gpttUl  Anu  BdUiim  d'Jmafwr, 
Hck  Otn  afulMi  U  Ihtmttrtd.  and  Ot  Emitn  tAmUid. 


ctf<tVIMaptiMBdMonttUli»*ttxlraeliartt. 

J.  W.  BOUTON, 
7««  Br«»dw»r,  ir«w   T»rb, 

PDBLIBBZB  ASD  IMPOBTKX. 


6.  P.  PDTNAH'S  SONS, 

HEW  TOKK  AHD  I.OIIDON, 

PVBLiaB  TBIB  WEEK; 
AMKBIOAH  UTXBATITBE,  ISOT- 
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Vol.  XVII.    BOSTON.  DECEMBER  >i 


CONTENTS. 


!^M  IliN^  Ch4 


Mi,  WHtppLx's  Rkolu 
The  Huqus 

ll»0>  NoT 


idHih 


TIm  VcDsmblf  Bed*  ExporiilEd  . 
Ttu  Lul  Dmn  of  Hv»  AnldoMM 
Bodon  Mondair  Leaura 
ScK-Cdukjouiiich  dI  Moled  Pbiod 
Flrai  SiEiM  in  Sdoniific  Knnwlada* 
Too  PilEiiiu'  Pncnu  , 
Old  Co^fciT  Book! 
Hill-Houn  with  i  Nuunliu 

tjliu  HawlhoniE'l  CoDieoiaii*  am 
[eiBoin  ol  Giononi  Dapil  . 
Iht  L»bof  MoTeiHDl  ;. 
Nanvin  ind  Critial  Hiutry  sf  Ai 
Etc,  Eic,  Etc 


Alon^  S) 


I'l  Chiiatmu  Card]  IlliKtnled  . 

•   n 

,1  of  God  and  Ki>  Wonhippan 


CbvKlcr  Sketcfac* 
Tht  a«[D(  Seen* 
^1*  ind  lh«  Ell    . 
CbriWiuii  in  the  OldtB  Tin* 
Soma  Euan  of  Eln 
Bob*  Lii^  in  Sow        .       . 
An  Amsiw  tha  LiSit-HouBt* 
Thi  QnccD  ol  the  Pinu  Iik 


Etc,  Etc, 


mOcauB. 


Books 

TliaYmojV 
ChlTiaric  fimi- 
Tha  ChildraD  of  Ilia  Cold 
LhU*  Mia  Waay  .  . 
Tba  Ctrutmu  CoaaDy  . 
RomnccaDlOilniliT    . 


Wiackar  ol  tha  Florida  R««f 


Mn.  Cliari<Wa  Ljrial  Pooa 


Tha  Sil(»  Bridfc 
Mr.  Rocha'i  Soog 
Cap  ud  Belli 
Etc,  Etc,  Eic 
UiHOR  FicnoMi 
Rolind  Bilk* . 
Th*  Matqui*  of  Pi 
Uarfvet  Jeimina 


A  LiTTU  noM  GUHAHT,    Lecpeld  Ksiacbar 
SHAKHHABIkHA.     Kdiied  br  Wm~J.  Roll*: 
NoTCmber  Mcetiat  of  iht  Na«  York  ShaktuiMn 

Sodtir 

Mr.  riaoUio  H.  Hud'* 


LORD  HEBBEKT'S  AUTOBIOGBAFHT." 

IN  tbia  elegant  Urge  paper  editioD  of  the 
famous  autobiognqihy  of  the  father  of 
Englisb  Deism,  Mr.  Lee  has  furnished  all 
the  aids  necessary  to  a  most  complete  nnder- 


•  Tba  AUobiopapfaT  of  Edwud,  Laid  Harbart  of  Char- 
bury.  Wiifa  Intradnction,  Not**,  AppeadicE*,  and  1  Coa- 
tiniHtioB  of  Ih*  Life  Bt  Stdaar  U  Lm,  B.A.  Widi  Fow 
EichodPocIrahL    SofbatT  t  Vallord.   te.ee. 


Standing  of  it;  for  it  deserves,  as  he  says, 
"the  serious  attention  of  the  student,  not 
only  of  English  literature,  but  of  English 
social  history  in  the  early  seventeenth  cent- 
ury." The  full  introduction  happily  sets 
forth  "  the  writer's  overweening  conceit  of 
his  own  worth,  which  Is  the  primary  con- 
dition of  alt  autobiographical  excellence," 
firmly  traces  Lord  Herbert's  character,  and 
relates  his  career,  from  an  independent  stand- 
point, to  the  time  where  the  autobiography 
abruptly  closed,  while  fifty  pages  annexed 
continue  the  life  to  its  end.  Elaborate 
appendices  treat  of  the  Herbert  family,  of 
Wales  in  the  sixteenth  century,  of  duel- 
ing, in  which  Lord  Herbert  was  an  expert, 
his  diplomatic  life,  and  his  correspondence. 

The  autobiography  itself  is  most  carefully 
and  fully  annotated,  and  every  requisite  for  a 
final  edition  is  presented.  Two  slight  errors 
only  have  we  noted;  "penal  ties," on  p.  xx, 
where  the  division  of  the  word  makes  an 
unintended  pun,  and  on  p.  Izv,  a  slip  of  the 
pen  which  substitutes  Herbert's  name  for 
Horace  Walpole's.  The  latter  attempted 
to  characterize  the  strange  contrast  between 
Lord  Herbert,  aa  portrayed  by  himself,  and 
Lord  Herbert  the  author  of  the  De  yerilate, 
the  profound  and  original  thinker,  by  saying 
that  "the  history  of  Don  Quixote  was  the 
life  of  Plato." 

But  the  contrast  between  the  fashionable 

in  of  pleasure  and  the  farseeing  phi- 
losopher— "the  only  Englishman  who  has 
devoted  a  large  treatise  to  a  purely  raeta* 
physical  treatment"  of  the  nature  of  truth  — 
as  Mr.  Lee  reminds  us,  was  not  unique  in 
Lord  Herbert's  age.  Bacon  and  Raleigh, 
in  that  astonishing  time,  led  lives  as 
itraagely  divided.  Romances,  as  strange 
almost  as  Mr.  Stevenson's  Strange  Cos*, 
could  be  constructed  from  the  fads  of  these 
's  careers.  It  is  not  creditable  that 
Lord  Herbert's  great  work  should  not  have 
been  translated   into    his  mother    tongue; 

ight  not  Mr.  Lee  place  all  readers  of  this 
great  thinker  still  more  in  his  debt  by  taking 
away  that  reproach  i 


THE  EVOLUnOS  OF  THE  BHOB.» 

AS  in  the  eye  of  science  the  smallest 
diatom  is  of  great  importance,  so  the 
infusoria  of  social  life  may  not  be  neglected 
by  the  philosophical  historian.  In  Mr. 
Perry's  study  it  is  seen  that  the  snob  came 
into  our  civilization  an  uncaused  effect, 
but  that  he  is  to  be  explained  and  accounted 
for  by  general  laws.  While  Mr.  Perry's  ob- 
ject is  a  perfectly  serious  one,  it  must  not 
be  stipposed  that  he  allows  himself  no 
amenities  —  it  would  take  even  an  abler  man 
than  we  hold  him  to  be  who  could  treat  the 
snob  with  a  perfect  solemnity.  To  be 
these  are  not  humorous  sketches 
"done  to  the  life ; "  there  is  nothing  comic, 


but  mncfa  that  is  witty;  nay  further,  were 
I  Lamb  alive  it  may  be  said  that  he  would 
have  tasted  these  pages  with  relish,  and 
perchance  have  placed  them  with  those 
"books  that  are  books,"  all  the  sooner,  too, 
because  so  daintily  printed  and  bound.  Is 
it  a  sort  of  snobbery  to  say  that  one  cham 
of  this  book  is  that  its  sharpest  bolts  will 
sink  swiftly  and  unpercelved  into  the  victims 
who  are  hit  the  hardest? 

If  we  read  Mr.  Perry  uoderslandingly, 
snobbeiy  made  its  appearance  in  English 
life — for  the  snob  is  an  autochthon  of 
England — after  commercial  prosperity  had 
made  its  successful  fight  ag^nst  the  pres- 
tige of  the  aristocracy  which,  up  to  that 
time,  had  held  its  sway  undisputed.  With 
romanticism,  which  was  in  part  an  attempt 
to  revive  the  accidental  glories  of  aristocracy 
without  its  reality,  snobbery  became  more 
than  ever  a  possibility,  for  it  naturally  flour- 
ishes best  where  there  is  insincerity  in 
social  life,  and  fastened  strongest  hold  on  an 
aristocratic  system  in  which  there  were  con- 
stant vicissitudes.  A  few  lines  cannot  ex- 
satisfactorily  the  ideas  pleasantly  and 
carefully  elaborated  in  nearly  two  hundred 
pages.  "  An  uneasy  sense  of  inferiority  "  is 
"the  inspiring  cause  of  the  degradation  of 
individual  dignity,  which  Is  known  as  snob- 
bery." This  is  Mr.  Perry's  definition  of  that 
social  phenomenon,  for  which  his  latest 
book  accounts.  Thackeray  long  ago  made 
a  diagnosis  of  the  snob;  we  have  now  his 
prognosis;  happy  the  day  when  literature 
shall  call  for  the  post  mortem;  but  Mr. 
Perry  convinces  us  that  it  will  not  be  In 
our  times. 

BAHEELL'S  BEHAIN8.* 
TT  is  a  long  stride  from  7^  Duehtts 
-L  Emilia  to  Rankeiri  Rtmaint,  from  the 
Rome  of  Pope  Gregory  to  the  New  York  of, 
say,  Jay  Gould ;  and  we  are  not  sure 
that  Mr.  Wendell's  firm  grasp  of  character 
and  dramatic  intensity  do  not  show  to  better 
purpose  in  the  later  romance.  It  must  be 
admitted  that  the  authortouches  very  closely 
actuality  all  through  the  story.  The  pei^ 
Bonality  of  Rankell  is  not  difBcutt  to  define, 
for  the  circumstances  and  characteristics  of 
of  popular  renown  have  been  em- 
ployed in  the  construction  of  this  masterly 
delineation ;  and  the  political  convention, 
the  death  and  burial  of  Rankell,  the  build- 
ing of  the  great  Church  of  Saint  Mary  the 
Virgin,  and  the  disappearance  of  Rankell's 
remains  —  are  not  all  these  matters  of  con 
temporary  record? 

is  not  for  us  to  say  bow  far  Mr. 
Wendell's  story  is  true  to  history.  Nobody, 
think,  will  deny  its  essential  and  artistic 
truth  in  its  fidelity  to  the  conditions  that 
control  to  a  certain  extent  American  society 
and  American  politics.     It  is  not  a  pleasing 


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[Dec. 


[dcture,  nor  one  that  is  gratifying  to  Ameri- 
can patriotism,  that  of  Ranltell  spreading 
the  web  of  bribery  and  corruption  over  a 
presidential  convention,  and  controlling,  by 
his  vast  wealth,  the  nomination  and  the  pos- 
sible election  of  the  head  of  the  repuUic, 
but,  in  view  of  recent  events,  we  have  no 
right  to  accuse  Mr.  Wendell  of  undue  temer- 
ity. 

The  important  thing,  after  all,  is  to  Icoow 
if  this  Is  a  good  storj  well  told,  and  if  it  has, 
in  the  way  of  direct  inspiration  or  solemn 
warning,  a  worthy  purpose.  These  require- 
ments it  certainly  meets.  The  tale  is  told 
in  a  series  of  episodes,  apparently  having 
no  direct  connection  with  each  other,  but  at 
the  end  we  see  how  each  Sts  into  place,  and 
how,  ta^en  together,  they  serve  to  reveal  a 
singular  character  in  its  entirely.  And  then 
Mr.  Wendell  tells  his  story  in  a  fresh  and 
original  way.  Every  chapter  is  well-bal- 
anced, every  character  has  a  definite  part  to 
play,  every  incident  has  a  definite  meaning. 
The  air  of  realism  that  pervades  the  book  is 
positive,  yet  never  aggres^ve.  To  the  nar- 
rator, at  least,  all  that  he  relates  is  tme ;  and 
without  explanations  of  any  sort,  without 
tiresome  analysis  of  this  and  that  motive,  he 
has  the  art  of  arts  in  fiction,  that  of  making 
the  characters  real  men  and  women,  and  of 
setting  down  an  account  of  their  sayings 
and  doings  in  such  a  way  as  to  leave  to  each 
a  distinct  individuality.  With  Tht  Duchtu 
Emilia  we  were  convinced  of  Mr.  Wendell's 
originality  and  ingenuity.  With  Hanktirt 
Rtmains  we  see  that  he  has  also  rare  versa- 
tility. Few  triumphs  can  be  declared  im- 
possible to  a  writer  who  has  demonstrated 
so  effectively  his  capacity  to  seize  npoD  an 
epoch  or  a  career,  past  or  present,  and  to 
reproduce  either  with  such  vigor  and  felicity. 
Rankell,  as  Mr.  Wendell  portrays  him,  is 
invested  with  as  much  interest  as  any  robber 
baron  of  a  mediaeval  romance.  Let  him 
who  believes  that  life  nowadays  is  pros^c 
give  a  leisure  hoar  to  the  reading  of  Ran- 
lUWs  S*maiHs. 


TOWARDS  THE  QULF." 

THE  author  of  Towards  th4  Gulf  tai^n 
with  conscious  power  the  field  so  long 
cultivated  by  another  hand,  and  asserting 
boldly  the  principle  of  equal  rights,  pre- 
sents to  us  no  mere  gleaning  of  odds  and 
ends,  but  the  fruits  of  a  careful  and  intelli- 
gent harvest  The  characters  chosen  are  of 
today,  and  are  developed  with  an  artistic 
perception  of  relative  values  which  never 
permits  over- elaboration.  The  accessories, 
the  scenic  surroundings,  do  not  depend  at 
all  for  their  interest  upon  highly  colored 
fancies;  they  are  reproduced  with  an  evi- 
dent grim  determination  on  the  part  of  the 
author  to  keep  safely  within  the  bounds 
of  untempered  realism; — and  with  all  this 


there  is  a  romantic  atmosphere  such  as  be- 
longs to  stories  of  the  southland,  that  can- 
not be  escaped.  Try  as  he  may,  the  writer 
who  is  worthy  of  his  task  is  not  able  to 
discard  the  fascination  of  the  quaint  streets 
of  New  Orleans,  the  glamor  that  hides  in 
the  half-ruined  houses  of  the  old  regime,  the 
.exquisite  charm  of  semi-tropical  luxuriance 
which  surrounds  the  city  with  an  endless 
charm  1  and  the  author  of  this  fine  study  Is 
an  artist  too  conscientious  and  sympathetic 
neglect  his  opportunities.  But  the  main 
interest  of  the  story  is  emphatically  human. 
The  note  of  doom  is  early  sounded,  and  its 
deft  repetition  acquires  an  intenaer  mean- 
ng  till  the  full  chords  of  tragic  purpose 
ire  at  last  struck  and  the  decrees  of  fate 
ire  amply  heralded.  For  the  tale  is  tr^c 
and  its  tragedy  is  made  to  seem  inevitable. 
Its  theme  is  an  alliance  in  marriage  between 
of  proud  lineage  and  the  grand- 
daughter of  a  beautiful  quadroon.  Its  mora' 
is  that  under  existing  conditions  such  an 
alliance  must  be  attended  with  the  most 
disastrous  results. 

When  John  Morant  meets  Alabamma 
Muir  he  sees  in  her  the  daughter  of  a  pros- 
perous English  merchant  of  good  family. 
Of  her  own  ancestry  she  knows  no  more 
than  he.  And  yet  her  grandmother  had 
been  sold  from  the  slave-mart  from  which 
she,  by  the  mysterious  sway  of  an  inherited 
instinct,  shrank  in  nameless  terror.  How 
John  Morant,  blind  and  deaf  to  the  warn- 
ings given  him  by  his  faithful  old  nurse, 
set  out  upon  his  bold  descent  "towards  the 
gulf"  of  an  unhappy  destiny;  how  by  de- 
grees the  truth  broke  upon  him,  and  sus- 
picion deepened  Into  dread  conviction ;  how, 
the  innate  chivalry  of  a  noble  nature, 
he  fought  against  the  secret;  and  how  at 
length  the  young  wife,  aroused  to  inquiry, 
learns  the  source  of  his  mental  depression 
and  brings  about  a  solution  in  her  own  way 
is  related  with  discernment  and  unques- 
tionable skill.  The  concluding  chapters  re- 
John  Morant's  son,  with  their  swift 
record  of  hereditary  possibilities,  are  well 
conceived  and  strongly  written.  Whatever 
one's  theoretical  doctrine  on  the  questi 
issue,  one  is  forced  by  irresistible  logic  to 
agree  that  in  cases  like  that  of  John  Morant, 
the  boundaries  of  nee  are  not  t 
aside  without  danger  of  disaster. 

Perhaps  we  have  dwelt  too  persistently 
upon  the  ethical  side  of  Toviardi  tki  Gulf, 
but  this,  after  all,  is  a  tribute  to  the  author' 
success.  Artistically  considered,  the  book 
has  in  all  detail  a  positive  claim  to  atten- 
tion. The  personality  of  Alabamma,  al- 
though sketched  with  a  light  and  hurried 
touch,  does  not  fall  short  of  the  vivid  qual- 
ities of  life-likeness,  and  each  of  the  asso- 
ciate and  minor  characters — more  particu- 
larly the  plantation  "hands,"  Uncle  Dan'l 
and  Aunt  PrlsciUa — are  effectively  depicted. 
The  style  at  times  betrays  evidences  of 
affectation  and  immaturity,  and  is  uneven  in 


form.  One  does  not  like  to  read  in  a  book 
of  this  sort  of  the  coming  novelist  "wield- 
a  "fadle  pen,"  and  "  material! dug " 
the  visions  of  his  imagination;  and  one 
would  like,  incidentally,  to  know  what  sort 
of  despair  it  was  that  "sought  every  collat- 
eral exposition."  But  such  defects  of  style 
may  be  overcome,  and  in  any  event  do  not 
count  seriously  against  a  writer  who  gives 
evidence  of  unusual  originality  of  concep- 
tion and  skill  In  dramatic  interpretation. 
These  qualities  the  author  of  Toward*  tXt 
Gulf  possesses,  and  with  them  he  can 
hardly  fail  to  win  an  appreciative  audience 


STEELE  Aim  BEH  J0S80H. 

RICHARD  STEELE,  who  found  no 
place  in  the  select  company  of  the 
English  Men  of  Letters,  easily  takes  ao 
honored  scat  among  the  English  Worthies.' 
id  has  in  Mr.  Austin  Dobson  a  felidtoos 
spokesman  for  his  manly  qualities  of  head 
and  heart  Mr.  Dobson,  it  is  true,  belongs 
to  the  very  modem  school  of  Inographers 
which  works  almost  entirely  with  the  micro- 
scope of  scientific  accuracy,  and  is  not  dis- 
posed to  large  views  of  any  sort  To  make 
his  horiion  small  and  to  keep  his  atten- 
tion wholly  on  the  facts,  is  the  aim  of  the 
lodem  biographer,  and  perhaps  the  world 
,  not  the  loser  by  this  tealous  fidelity  to 
things  as  they  are.  Psychological  analyses 
and  revelations  of  the  inner  motives  that 
make  and  mar  a  character  are  left  nowadays 
the  novelist  The  biographer  plumes 
himself  more  upon  the  discovery  of  docu- 
mentary evidence  concerning  the  actual 
birth-hour  and  marriage-day  of  his  subject 
than  upon  any  estimate,  however  eloquent, 
of  that  subject's  rank  in  history  or  services 
to  mankind.  Ex  pedt  HtrtuUms  and  you 
may  trace  the  course  of  the  modem  biog- 
rapher by  the  relentiess  array  of  objective 
aWa  that  marks  the  progress  of  hts  Impar- 
tial narrative. 

Impartial  Mr.  Dobson  assuredly  is  in  his 
careful  account  of  the  career  of  Dick  Steele, 
and  impartiality  in  his  case  could  not  have 
been  easy  of  attainment  Steele's  is  a  char- 
acter that  readily  moves  to  sympatiiy  or  to 
distmst,  and  the  temptation  to  side  vrith 
Macaulay  or  with  Thackeray  in  covert  dis- 
paragement or  gentle  laudation  is  very 
great  Mr.  Dobson  keeps  safely  for  the 
most  part  to  the  middle  ground  of  fact- 
enumeration  and  makes  liitie  attempt  to 
throw  any  light  of  his  own  upon  certain 
debatable  points.  As  a  possible  solution  of 
the  apparent  contradictions  between  Steele's 
professed  motives  and  recorded  actions,  we 
are  offered  the  spectacle  of  "a  weak  will 
contending  with  an  honest  purpose,"  and 
this  phrase  may  be  accepted  as  a  service- 
able summing-up  of  thp  whole  matter.  For 
the  rest  Mr.  Dobson  has  something  to  say 


1886.] 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


455 


ftbont  the  first  Mrs.  Steele,  hitherto  a 
baffling  figure  to  the  biognphers,  and 
tbanki  to  recent  researches,  is  able  to  >et 
ibrth  "her  name  and  the  period  of  her 
death."  She  was  a  Mrs.  Margaret  Stretch, 
a  widow,  and  sister  of  Major  Robert  Ford 
of  Barbadoes,  and  she  died  in  December, 
1706.  To  the  second  Mrs.  Steele  Mr.  Dob- 
ion  naturally  devotes  many  pages,  and 
Steele's  letters  to  her  are  treated  with 
Icindly  indulgence.  "She  was,  in  short,  a 
nMiTied  coquette,  whose  worst  faults  were 
fostered  by  Steele's  extravagant  admira- 
tion." Steele's  relations  with  Addison  are 
minutely  discussed,  and  the  overshadowing 
genius  of  the  greater  writer  is  not  permitted 
by  Mr.  Dobson  to  dim  the  glory  that  prop- 
erly belongs  to  real  inventor  of  the  eight- 
eenth century  essay. 

Addison  seems  10  have  iTansported  his  idea 
from  the  cofiee-hoase  to  his  quiet  Whitehall 
office ;  Steele  to  hare  found  his  m  the  street  and 
scribbled  it  down  in  Itie  coSee-bouse.  What 
Steele  with  his  "veined  humanity "  and  ready 
Kfmpaihy  derived  from  "conversation  "  —  to  use 
the  cighleenlh-centurT  term  for  intercourse  with 
the  world  —  be  flung  upon  bis  paper  then  snd 
there  without  mach  latrar  of  selection;  what 
Addison  perceived  in  his  environment  when, 
(o  ose  Steele's  expression,  be  began  "to  look 
about  and  like  his  company,"  be  carried  care- 
fully home  to  carve  into  some  gem  of  graceful 
raillery  or  refined  expression.  Each  wriler  ha^ 
naturally,  the  defects  of  his  qualities.  If  Addi- 
son delights  ui  by  his  finisii,  be  repels  ns  by 
Us  restraint  and  absence  of  fervor;  if  Steele  is 
careless,  he  is  always  frank  and  aenial.  Addi- 
son's papers  are  faultless  in  their  art,  and  in 
this  way  achieve  an  excellence  which  was  beyond 
the  reach  of  Steele's  quicker  and  more  impul- 
sive nature.  But  for  words  which  the  heart  finds 
when  the  head  is  seeking;  for  phrases  glowing 
with  the  white  heat  of  a  generous  emotion  ;  for 
sentences  which  throb  and  tingle  with  manly 
pity  or  courageous  indignation,  we  must  turn  to 
the  essays  of  Steele. 

If  Mr.  Dobson  has  been  perhaps  too 
devoted  to  his  facts  in  narrating  the  life  of 
the  "  Christian  Hero,"  we  cannot  bring 
against  Mr.  Symonds*  the  counter- charge  of 
rhetorical  over-elaboration.  This  deft  won- 
der-worker in  words,  who  in  many  colored 
periods  has  brought  before  us  so  vividly  a 
poet's  impressions  of  the  scenery  and  asso- 
ciations of  Southern  Europe,  has,  in  taking 
the  more  sober  part  of  a  biographer,  re- 
strained the  luxuriance  of  his  phraseology 
within  narrow  limits  and  become  even  sen- 
tentious and  epigrammatic,  Ben  Jonson's 
personality,  to  be  sure,  is  not  made  distinct 
and  vital,  and  here  again  we  miss  the  touches 
that  perhaps  only  imaginative  insight  can  be- 
stow ;  but  as  a  literary  performance,  as  an 
exact  and  intelligent  analysis  of  the  intel- 
lectual product  of  a  great  attthor,  Mr.  Sy- 
monds's  monograph  leaves  nothing  to  be 
desired.  Mr.  Symonds  is  disposed  "  to 
regard  Jonson's  genius  as  originally  of  the 
romantic  order,  overlaid  and  diverted  from 
its  spontaneous  bias  by  a  scholar's  educa- 
tion." He  dwells  upon  the  evidence  of  the 
plays  as  revealing  a  "comUnation  of  the 
pithiest    realism  with  encyclapscdic    erudi- 


tion." At  the  same  time  he  cannot  of 
coarse  avoid  the  stock  criticism  on  Jonson 
that  his  characters  are  the  incarnation  of 
abstractions  rather  than  human  beings  en- 
dowed with  the  attributes  of  complex  indi- 
viduality, and  the  theory  of  aborted  roman- 
ticism is  thereby  weakened,  if  not  set  at 
nongbL  It  may  be  that  Jonson's  chief 
defect  is  better  found  in  what  Mr.  Symonds 
aptly  calls  a  "determination  to  be  exhaust- 
Yet  this  weight  of  learning  that 
wonld  have  crushed  a  lesser  intellect,  was 
borne  with  ease  and  even  a  clumsy  grace. 
No  one,"  in  Mr.  Symoods's  opinion,  "who 
has  not  read  and  re-read  Volpotte  or  Tht 
Alchtmiit  has  formed  a  true  conception  of 
elephantine  sprightliness."  Of  Jonson's 
blank  verse  Mr.  Symonds  utters  a  final 
word.  "It  wants,"  he  says,  "lightness  and 
the  charm  of  chance."  For  Jonson's  prose 
a  deep  and  reverent  partiality  is  confessed, 
massive  periods  are  molded  with  a 
force  anticipating  Milton  at   his  best;   and 

nes  he  sparkles  into  epigrams  and  fiery 
fits  of  passion,  emitted  in  single  sentences, 
beyond  which  it  were  impossible  for  our 
speech  to  travel."  Mr.  Symonds  is  a  writer 
whose  pages  are  always  pleasant  to  read 

a  critic  whom  one  may  nearly  always 
safely  follow.  This  little  book  on  Btn 
JoHitm  will  rank  with  his  beat  and  most 
enduring  work ;  it  will  satisfy  the  student  of 
English  literature  and  gratify  the  scholar. 


TILLIAM  HEVBT  OHAnmfG.* 

THE  son  of  Dr.  Channing's  older  brother, 
the  subject  of  this  memoir  from  Rev. 
O.  B.  Frothingham's  skillful  hand,  undoubt- 
edly had,  as  his  biographer  says,  "the  ele- 
ments of  genius  in  greater  profusion  than 
celebrated  uncle."  He  was  a  man  of 
ardent  temperament,  an  impassioned  orator, 
a  consecrated  preacher  of  the  gospel  of 
humanity,  and  might  have  eclipsed  even  his 
uncle's  fame,  but  for  the  excessive  idealism 
of  his  intellect,  and  the  unrestrained  flow 
wonderfully  rich  vocabulary.  He  has 
left  no  deep  impress  of  himself  on  his  own 
denomination  or  the  religious  world  at  large ; 
he  was  one  of  the  truly  remarkable 
of  his  age.  His  voice  was  at  the  service 
of  every  reform,  and  his  hand  ready  in  the 
cause  of  every  charity.  His  ministries,  here 
and  in  England,  were  many  and  brief;  his 
message,  we  imagine,  though  high  and  beau- 
tiful, was  yet  pitched  too  much  on  one  tone, 
and  that  too  high,  to  maintain  the  strong 
impression  which  he  always  made  at  first 
He  was  a  bom  socialist,  attracted  to  Fourier- 
ism,  Brook  Farm,  and  every  other  prominent 
attempt  made  in  this  country  towards  a  new 
social  order ;  an  early  opponent  of  slavery, 
and  a  friend  of  woman's  rights,  he  found  no 
man  to  excel  him  in  the  inspired  eloquence 
with  which  he  advocated  the  cause  of  the 


oppressed.  In  religion  he  early  passed 
from  an  evangelical  Unitarianism  to  a  mys- 
tical theism,  which  he  held  with  intense  fer- 
vor, but  which,  to  most  others,  must  always 
have  remained  more  impressive  than  con- 
vincing. A  man  of  wide  reading  and  high 
culture,  he  came  into  contact  with  the  finest 
minds  interested  in  moral  and  religions 
matters,  at  home  and  abroad,  and  this  me- 
moir contains  numerous  glimpses  of  them ; 
his  and  his  wife's  impressions  of  the  Car- 
lyles  are  specially  worthy  of  attention  since 
Mr.  Fronde's  strange  attempt  at  a  biog- 
raphy. 

William  Henry  Channlng  was  an  emi- 
nently lovable  man,  a  saint  of  modem  times. 

I  have  never  Icnown,"  says  a  very  sot>er 
critic,  Rev.  Dr.  Hedge,  a  character  "which 
seemed  to  me  so  near  perfection.  If  ever 
there  was  such,  a  sinless  soul."  Mr.  Froth, 
ingham  has  portrayed  the  noble  character  and 
the  inspiring  example,  as  well  as  the  unsuc- 
cessful efiort  of  this  beautiful  soul,-  with 
!me  thoroughness  and  loving  apprecia- 

SIB  PEBOITAL.* 

IT  is  a  genuine  pleasure  to  settie  down  to 
an  evening  with  this  book ;  its  smooth 
pages,  open  type,  and  the  leisurely  way  of 
telling  the  story  are  inviting.  After  the 
feverish  and  introspective  literature  of  the 
day  there  is  something  restful  about  this 
Kingawood  home,  the  old  garden,  the  "(q>ple 
and  pear  orchard  of  immemorial  antiqni^," 
the  terraces,  "  the  chase,"  the  "  woodland  of 
massive  thom-trees  and  oaks,"  and  the 
church  that  was  like  the  mysterious  chapels 
a  the  forest-wilds  of  the  "Morte  d' Arthur," 
an  dde  chapel  in  a  wast  land." 
The  personages  are  few,  and  the  story  is 
slight,  but  with  what  fine  and  loving  care 
are  those  few  portrayed,  and  how  reverently 
are  the  scant  Incidents  told  I  Constance 
Uale,  who  tells  the  story,  lives  in  that 
secluded  and  stately  home  of  Kingswood, 
with  her  aged  relatives,  the  courtly  old-fash- 
ioned Duke  and  Duchess,  her  quiet  and 
blameless  days  with  them  varied  by  her 
intercourse  with  the  elderly  rector,  Charles 
De  Lys,  who  has  brought  with  him  to  this 
retirement  the  swset  spirit  of  his  ancestor, 
a  Port  Royalist,  and  whose  teachings  are  of 
the  loftiest  type  of  Christian  Idealism.  Into 
the  uneventful  life  at  Kingswood  comes  Sir 
Fercival  Masiareen,  with  the  intent  of 
making  Constance  his  wife.  The  talks  and 
walks  and  rides  of  the  two  are  like  an  idyl 
of  King  Arthur's  time ;  and  Constance  loves 
her  knight,  who  supposes  that  he  loves  her 
till  a  maiden  right  out  of  modem  life,  a 
iteenth-centnry  agnostic,  handsome  and 
audacious,  Virginia  Gare,  comes  down  on  a 
visit,  and  Sir  Perdval  loses  his  heart  to 
her.  With  characteristic  recklessness  she 
soon  exposes  herself  to  a  malignant  fever  Q 


■  fin  JoBHD.    Br  John  AddtoftoD  SyiB«dL    D.  Ap- 


456 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Dec.  II, 


among  the  cottager 
there.      After   a   tin 


himself  to  Coostance,  but,  always  doubting 
his  siocerity,  she  refuses  him,  holdiog  up 
to  him  her  ideal  of  Christian  manhood.  He 
finds  "  the  grail "  by  going  to  the  vest  coast 
of  Africa  and  giving  up  his  life  at  the  post 
of  duty. 

So  much  for  the  story.  The  atmosphere 
of  it  is  uplifting  and  refining.  Constance  is 
an  exquisite  being;  her  life,  though  shut  off 
from  most  that  is  supposed  to  make  happi- 
ness, is  full  of  that  sweetness  and  exaltation 
of  soul  that  the  mystic  experiences;  an  ec- 
static and  ineffable  sense  of  peace,  security, 
and  rest  comes  to  her  in  her  disappoint- 
ment; she  is  a  lovely  representative  of  the 
heaven-directed  devotee  ;  she  is  also  a  type 
of  virginal  purity  and  beauty.  With  equal 
delicacy  of  touch  does  the  author  picture 
the  gentle  rector;  and  the  influence  of  these 
two  lives,  of  holy  living,  of  serenity,  and 
souls  in  accord  with  the  heavenly  powers, 
pervades  the  pages  like  some  subtile  aroma. 


and  is  buried  of  the  better  class  of  trades- 
Sir   Perciral  offers    Knights  of  Labor,     He  sees  clearly,  how- 


ELT  OV  LABOB.* 

IN  the  mass  of  economic  literature  with 
which  we  are  flooded,  much  of  it  ill  di- 
gested and  ill  put,  as  well  as  unsound  and 
ephemeral,  it  is  a  relief  to  fall  occasionally 
upon  something  from  the  hand  of  a  thinker 
who  is  master  of  his  subject  Such  a  work 
preeminently  is  Professor  Ely's  Labor  Move- 
mtnt  in  America.  For  years  the  authoi 
has  been  eng^ed  in  collecting  his  materials, 
traveling  thousands  of  miles,  and  visiting 
communistic  and  labor  organizations,  and 
learning  their  views  and  work  at  first  hand. 
Perhaps  no  man  in  the  country  has  better 
quali&cations  for  such  investigations,  and  it 
Is  safe  to  say  Chat  his  work  easily  stands 
the  head  of  the  literature  which  this  vex 
question  has  produced  in  this  country. 

The  book  may  be  roughly  said  to  treat 
three  subjects  —  Trades-Unions,  CoSpera- 
tion,  and  Communism  and  Socialism.  The 
writer  begins  with  a  brief  survey  of  early 
American  communism  culminating 
Shakers,  Oneida  Perfectionists,  and  similar 
societies.  He  then  takes  up  the  subject  of 
labor  organizations,  to  which  several  of  the 
ablest  chapters  in  the  book  are  devoted. 
Like  Mr.  Thorotd  Rogers  and  other  lead- 
ing writers  on  this  question.  Professor  Ely 
has  evidently  been  converted  from  early 
prejudices  to  a  hearty  sympathy  with  the 
general  principles,  and  what  he  believes  to 
be  the  legitimate  work  of  the  labor-unions. 
His  general  position  is  that  of  a  conserva- 
tive. He  does  not  believe  in  the  spirit  of 
anarchy,  socialism,  communism,  that  is 
abroad ;  nor  in  any  revolutionary  theories 
like  those  of  Mr.  Henry  George;  nor, 
indeed,  in  much  that  is  done  in  the  name 


',  that  "a  marvelous  war  is  now  being 
waged  in  the  heart  of  modern  civilization," 
that  "  the  welfare  of  humanity  depends  on 
"  in  fact,  that  one  of  the  great 
surges  which  the  on-movement  of  Chris- 
tianity has  ever  been  setting  in  motion  is 
upon  ut,  and  that  it  is  the  duty  of 
every  man  to  comprehend  his  obligations 
to  the  hight  of  the  occasion,  that 
the  toiling  race  may  be  lifted  one  step 
higher  in  its  progress. 

Taking  this  sound  and  elevated  position, 

is  to  t>e  regretted  that  Professor  Ely's 

aipiment  leaves  something  of   the   impres- 

sidedness.    The  reader  doses 

the  book  after  the  chapters  on  labor  organ- 

Ltions  with  a  sense  of  wrong  perspective 

be  instinctively  turns  to  see  what  hi 

been   looking   at.      In   other   words,   these 

labor  organizations,  of  which  so  seemly  a 

picture  is  drawn,  have  a  darker  side  which, 

for  lack  of  space,  or  for  some  other  reason, 

[r.  Ely  declines  to  present ; 

The  labor  movement,  u  the  facts  would  indi- 

ite,  is- the  slrongest  force  outside  the  Chri&lian 

church   making   for    the   practical    recognition 

c4  human   brotherhood ;   and   it  is   noteworthy 

that.  It  ■  time  when  the  churches  have  generatt; 

discarded  brother  and  sister  as  a  customary  form 

of  address,  the  trades-nnions  and  labor  orgii ' 

tioni  have  adopted  the  habit.    And  it  ii  m 

mere  form.     It  is  shown  in  good  offices  and 

sacrifices  for  one  another  in  a  thousand  ways 

every  day,  and  it  is  not  confined  to  those  of  one 

nation.    It  reaches  over  the  civilized  world ;  and 

the  word  inlecnational  as  a  part  of  the  title  of 

many  unions,  and  the  fact  thai  their  membership 

international,  are  quite  as  significant  aa  they 


'PC 


:   laborers  a 


think  that  they  are  the  only  Urge  cl; 
really  and  truly  desire  peace  between  nations, 
the  abandonment  of  armies,  the  conversion  of 
spears  into  pruning- hooks,  and  swords  into 
ploughshares.  ■  -  -  I  sincerely  believe  that  the 
time  is  not  so  far  disunt  as  one  might  think, 
when  organized  labor  will  force  the  govemmentt 
of  earth  (o  substitute  arbitration  fur  war,  will 
compel  them  to  live  peaceably,  each  with  the 
other,  to  devote  their  forces  to  the  fruitful  pur- 
suit of  art,  industry,  and  science,  and  in  a  vast 
international  parliament  to  lay  the  foundation  of 
a  federated  world  state.  But  even  this  is  not  the 
whole  of  their  high  miulon  of  peace ;  for  they 
are,  in  our  South,  bringing  about  an  amicable 
understanding  between  black  and  while,  since  it 
is  necessary  that  ihey  should  unite  and  act  in 
harmony  to  accomplish  their  common  ends. 
Thus  they  bring  an  elevating  influence  to  bear 
upon  the  more  ignorant  blacks,  and  help  to  solve 
ttie  vexed  problem  of  race  in  the  United  Stales. 
Strange,  is  it  not?  that  the  despised  trades- 
unions  and  labor  oiganiiations  should  have  been 
chosen  lo  perform  this  high  duly  of  conciliation  I 
But  hath  not  God  ever  called  the  lowly  to  the 
most  eiahed  missions,  and  bath  he  nut  ever 
called  the  foolish  to  confound  the  wise?  (p.  139.] 
Largely  true,  perhaps,  even  though  strongly 
put ;  but  what  of  the  boycotting,  personal 
intimidation,  and  other  dark  transactions, 
which  the  author  so  quietly  slides  over? 
Admit  all  the  good  of  which  Professor  Ely 
so  eloquently  tells  us ;  it  must  not  be  for- 
gotten that  personal  liberty,  the  right- 
man  as  man,  have  never  received  such 
menace  in  this  country  from  any  othei 
source  except  the  slave  power.    When  an 


organization  dictates  whom  z  man  shall  em- 
ploy, for  whom  he  shall  labor,  for  whom  he 
shall  vote,  and,  having  the  power,  punishes 
disobedience  with  utter  ostracism  and  ruin, 
there  is  something  more  than  labor  reform, 
reform  of  any  kind.  This  great  move- 
ment stands  like  a  giant  apparition  right 
athwart  the  path  of  civilisation.  Will  it,  in 
obedience  to  the  better  men  who  largely 
have  control  just  now,  turn  to  the  peaceful 
and  happy  work  which  Mr.  Ely  indicates, 
harmony  with  the  great  line 
of  progress  F  Then  well,  indeed.  Or,  stung 
by  a  sense  of  wrong  and  oppression,  will  it 
yield  to  the  lower,  baser,  destructive  ele- 
ments so  strong  within  it,  which  Mr,  Ely 
so  well  portrays  in  his  chapters  on  the  anar- 
chists ?  Then  alas  for  progress,  and  for 
labor  too,  for  years  of  desperate  struggle. 
These  are  tremendous  factors  in  this  labor 
question,  which  it  would  seem  a  work  like 
this  should  have  brought  more  distinctly 

The  chapter  on  Codperation  is  brief  and 
mainly  descriptive.  It  is  a  pity  that  no 
more  could  be  written  on  that  Important 
branch  of  the  subject,  simply  because  no 
more  has  been  accomplished  in  this  country 
in  that  direction.  The  chapters  on  the 
Anarchists  are  the  most  stirring  in  the  book 
—  dark,  lurid,  portentous,  because  largely 
photographic,  quotations  from  platforms  and 
addresses  of  the  agitators  themselves. 

The  chapter  on  The  Remedies  is  one  of 
the  best  in  the  book,  and  is  likely  to  be 
well  criticised  on  all  hands.  It  is  best,  not 
because  all  its  propositions  may  be  accepted, 
but  because  it  takes  high,  manly,  Christian 
ground,  which,  however  it  may  be  assailed, 
must  finally  settle  all  these  great  questions: 

First  of  all  [says  Mr.  Ely]  it  is  a  time  for 
those  men  10  keep  quiet,  who,  little  in  heart  and 
mind,  have  no  better  remedy  for  social  phenom- 
ena which  do    not  please  them  than   physical 

While  disapproving  the  boycott,  he  is 
equally  emphatic  against  severe  penalties 
for  it,  as  tending  to 

the  laborers  against  the  State;  and  if  po- 
litical science  teaches  one  lesson  more  clearly 
han  another,  it  IS  the  danger  of  implanting  ho»- 
ility  to  government,  as  sucti,  in  the  hearts  of 
the  masses. 

The  practical    results    of    the   Mew   York 
judgments  have  been  to  unite 
before 


:  in  America,  the  laborers  in  one 
[and  to  give]  the  entire  labor  move- 
it  unfortunate  impulse  towards  radi- 


We  should 

listen  to  the  demands  the  socialists  and  the 
laboring  classes  generally  make  of  the  present 
stale,  and  discuss  them  in  a  spirit  of  candor,  and 
grant  them  in  so  Ear  aa  they  may  be  just,  [for] 
the  complaints  of  the  socialists  arc  often  but  too 
well  grounded,  when  they  criticise  things  as  Ihey 

The  churches  should  be  more  Christian; 
there  must  be  "  a  wider  diffusion  of  sound 
ethics,"  the  gross  extravagance  and  Ituury 
of  the  times  must  be  abated;  manufacturers 


l886.] 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


457 


must  "adopt  a  more  coociliatory  attitude 
towards  their  laborers,"  and  "workingmen 
must  remember  that  they,  too,  often  give 
just  cause  for  complaint :  " 

One  priDctpalremedj  against  Iheevils  of  social- 
ism, nihilism,  and  anarchism,  is  a  better  educa- 
tion in  political,  tocial,  and 


instruction  in  these  ought  to  be  given, 


the  times  la  equa]il;  in  the  administration  of  the 

so  that  the  poor  man  can  be  sure  of  equal 
justice  with  the  man  of  wealth.  Chief 
atteution  should  be  directed  to  the  young, 
removing  them  from  vicious  surroundings, 
compelling  the  education  of  every  child, 
giving  training  in  the  schools  in  morals, 
manners,  manual  labor,  sewing,  cooking,  etc. 
The  church  should  come  in  as  the  first  force 
in  this  great  work,  never  forgetting  its  early 
communism,  or  the  words  of  the  Master 
that  tolhepoorihe  gospel  is  preached. 

Its  general  attitude  of  moderation  should 
make  this  book  a  peacemaker  amidst  the 
strifes.  The  laborer  should  see  that  there 
are  those  out  of  his  class  who  are  in  hearty 
sympathy  with  him,  and  that  there  are 
phases  of  his  agitation  that  are  wrong  and 
hopeless.  The  opponent  of  the  labor  move- 
ment cannot  read  these  pages  without  being 
convinced  that  there  is  more  In  it  than  he 
thought,  to  command  bis  respect  and  ap- 
provaL  Despite  some  things  in  raannei 
and  style  which  we  have  not  space  to  note, 
and  some  things  in  matter  indicated  abovei 
this  book  of  Professor  Ely's  is  one  that 
does  great  credit  alike  to  his  ability,  hi 
judgment,  and  bis  humanity. 


MEHOO  OF  TODAY .• 

TlfE  qualifications  needed  for  writing 
well  about  a  foreign  country,  namely 
acute  powers  of  observation,  good  discrimi- 
nation and  judgment,  and  a  dear  and  pleas- 
ing style,  have  enabled  Mr.  Griffin  to  pro- 
duce a  book  both  interesting  and  instructive, 
filled  with  the  varied  information  necessary 
to  convey  an  intelligent  idea  of  Mexico  in 
all  the  multiplex  parts  of  its  life.  The  au- 
thor's composition  is  occasionally  disfigured 
by  colloquialisms,  but  is  unfailingly  terse 
and  vivacious. 

In  following  the  custom  of  travelers  to 
say  something  of  the  sights  and  experiences 
met  en  route,  our  author  gives  his  impres- 
sions of  Chicago,  sketches  the  class  of 
people  seen  on  the  trains  in  New  Mexico 
and  what  he  there  learned  as  to  the  leading 
business  of  cattle  raising,  and  pays  a  tribute 
of  respect  to  the  enterprise  shown  by  Boston 
capital  in  the  building  of  the  Mexican  Cen- 
tral R^lway,  as  yet  the  only  through  line 
from  the  United  States  to  the  Mexican  cap- 
ital.   After  a  rapid  suggestion  of  the  pict- 


uresqueness  of  Mexican  history,  a  descrip- 
tion is  given  of  the  physical  characteristics 
of  the  country,  as  the  most  potent  factor 
in  the  national  condition  and  progress,  of 
which  the  most  remarkable  is  the  threefold 
division  of  the  land  into  tropical,  temperate, 
and  cold,  depending  on  altitude.  The  last, 
called  tierra  fria,  is  the  vast  central  table- 
land lying  six  to  eight  thousand  feet  above 
level  and  constituting  fully  two  thirds 
of  the  total  area  of  the  country;  where, 
however,  there  is  so  great  scarcity  of  water 
that  most  of  the  surface  seems  destined  to 
be  always  tittle  better  than  a  desert  From 
the  prevailing  system  of  land  tenure,  in  large 
haciendai,  and  the  wide  separation  between 
the  upper  class  of  citizens  and  the  Aztec 
peasantry,  the  narrative  passes  naturally 
to  treat  of  Mexican  national  and  state 
politics ;  of  taxation,  which  is  burdensome 
and  antiquated  in  methods ;  and  thence  of 
mining  and  manufacturing.  Politically  the 
most  remarkable  feature  is  the  absence  of 
popular  interest  in  parties,  and  of  any  gen- 
eral discussion  or  excitement,  even  before 
elections.  In  fact  there  are  scarcely  any 
parties,  we  are  told,  except  in  the  congress  — 
and  there  only  two  kinds  of  liberals,  govern- 
ment and  opposition.  The  element  natu- 
rally forming  a  conservative  party  has  with- 
drawn from  active  politics  since  the  over- 
throw and  spoliation  in  1867  of  the  church 
with  which  it  affiliates;  but  it  is  believed 
still  to  exercise  some  influence  privately, 
as  also  by  means  of  certain  journals — of 
which  the  chief  is  El  Tiempo,  edited  under 
clerical  auspices.  In  general,  Mexican  news- 
papers are  very  numerous,  but  far  less  push- 
ing than  the  press  in  the  United  States- 
The  paper  of  largest  circulation  is  El  Moni- 
tor KepuHicano. 

Several  chapters  are  devoted  to  the  city 
pf  Mexico,  lying  in  the  midst  of  a  great  and 
well  watered  plateau  three  thousand  feet 
higher  than  the  top  of  our  Mount  Washing- 
ton, and  yet  surrounded  by  mountains  and 
dominated  by  the  towering,  snow-covered 
summits  of  its  two  sentinels,  Popocatapetl 
and  Iztaccihuatl.  Rich  in  historic  assoda- 
tions  as  well  as  "beautiful  for  situation"  is 
this  andent  "  Venice  of  the  Aztecs."  We 
may  learn  in  these  chapters  of  its  grand 
public  buildings  and  its  private  houses  ;  its 
parks;  its  street  scenes,  with  their  pict- 
uresque costumes,  primitive  water  carriers, 
troublesome  beggars ;  the  disgraceful  lack 
of  drainage;  the  soldiers  and  the  efficient 
police;  the  general  use  of  telegraphs,  tele- 
phones, and  electric  lights;  the  prevalent 
vices;  the  unusual  uses  of  the  street  rail- 
way; journalism  and  diplomacy;  hotels, 
restaurants, and  markets;  domestic  matters  ; 
the  divisions  and  the  customs  of  society  — 
details,  in  a  word,  so  ample  as  to  be  difficult 
even  of  enumeration-  One  chapter  narrates 
an  excursion  by  rail  to  see  a  bull  fight  at 
Toluca  —  a  relic  of  barbarism;  another  tells 
of  the  surprising  achievemeats  of  the  native 


race  in  the  arts  of  painting  and  sculpture ; 
another  describes  the  steep  hill  of  Chapnl- 
tepec  and  its  historic  memories.  Nor  should 
we  conclude  without  mention  of  our  author's 
intelligent  but  not  altogether  satisfactory 
discussion  of  the  religious  outlook  in  Mexico, 
and  his  thoughtful  and  cordially  friendly 
forecast  of  the  nation's  future. 

The  value  of  the  text  is  noticeably  in- 
creased by  the  choice  of  subjects  for  the 
engravings. 


TEE  OLD  OEDUB  OHAiraES.* 

IF  Mr.  Mallock  fails  to  carry  conviction, it 
will  be  found  to  be  because  he  never  suc- 
ceeds in  persuading  us  of  his  sincerity. 
Even  when  he  apparently  is  most  in  earnest 
the  grotmd  sounds  hollow  under  his  feet 
In  the  present  book  there  is  something  of 
the  old  brilliance,  if  less  of  the  impudent 
dash,  which  proved  so  attractive  when  Mr. 
Mallock  began  to  amate  people  nearly  ten 
years,ago,  in  the  flush  of  his  fresh  youth.  It 
is  a  satisfaction  to  notice  also,  that  there  are 
no  morbid  disclosures  of  forbidden  things, 
which  were  so  disastrous  to  the  reputation 
of  his  earlier  Romance  of  Ike  Nineteenth 
Century,  yet  that  story  came  marvelously 
near  being  a  faithful  picture  of  facts  which 
everybody  knows  are  only  too  real  in  the 
life  of  today. 

The  Old  Order  Changes,  as  may  be  sup- 
posed, studies  the  gradual  democratizing  of 
the  established  order  of  things  mundane, 
particularly  of  things  British.  The  hero 
spends  much  of  bis  time  bewailing  the  grow- 
ing necessity  for  a  doser  contact,  on  equal 
terms,  with  the  "lower  orders;"  he  is  con- 
tinually in  a  state  of  bewilderment  at  the 
splendor  of  his  own  surroundings,  as  if  he 
were  enjoying  them  for  the  first  time.  A 
parvenu  could  not  show  a  more  childish  ad- 
miration for  refinements  unto  which  be  was 
not  bom,  than  this  Mr.  Carew  with  raw  de- 
light in  his  andent  possessions.  If  people 
of  "birth  "in  England  as  they  sit  at  their 
dinner-tables  really  do  talk  as  Mr.  Mallock 
makes  them,  then  the  doom  of  the  aristoc*  ' 
racy  is  inevitable,  and  it  cannot  come  too 
soon.  It  may  be  that  it  is  the  humble  en- 
deavor of  Mr.  Mallock  to  carry  on  the  work, 
left  unfinished  by  the  late  Earl  of  Beacons- 
field,  of  displaying  to  the  admiring  public 
the  glories  of  the  few.  If  this  is  the  case, 
one  ought  to  be  grateful  to  him,  and  in  no 
wise  contemptuous.  We  are  only  doubting 
the  genuineness  of  the  information. 

This  book  would  hardly  be  the  work  of  its 
author  if  it  did  not  introduce  one  of  those 
persons  in  whom  Mr.  Mallock  so  much  de- 
lights, who  are  not  exactly  "respectable." 
Here  she  is  really  the  liveliest  character, 
and  not  an  unwelcome  contrast  to  so  much 
lugubrious  decorum.     The  author  likes  to 


458 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Dec.  II, 


have  It  naderstood  that  he  knows  such  peo- 
ple well,  and  how  well  we  may  judge  when 
it  Is  said  of  her  bouse  that 
the  air  was  hear^  also  with  that  odd  excesi  of 

Crfume  with  which  women  who  are  not  on  the 
It  teima  with  the  world  seek  to  make  up  in 
their  drawing-ioons  for  the  loit  oione  of  leipcct- 

Altogether  we  are  not  sure  that  Mr.  Mal- 
lock  Is  not  more  at  home  with  this  dismem- 
bered fragment  of  society  than  with  the  btau 
mondt  itself.  If  we  believed  in  him  we 
should  be  glad  to  think  that  the  words  which 
he  puts  in  the  mouth  of  a  Roman  Catholic 
clergyman  expressed  his  own  faith.  They 
are  the  key-note  of  the  book  and  are  aa  fal- 
lows: 

The  welfare  of  (he  race,  of  humanity,  of  the 
■ocial  organism,  of  the  human  inhabitanls  of  this 
planet,  is  an  idea  which  can  permanently  satisfy 
ndther  the  heart  nor  the  intellect  of  man  (p.  474). 

la  saying  this  he  is  again  patting  on  the 
back  a  creed  to  which  be  never  seems  to 
■crew  op  suffident  courage  to  believe  in. 


UB.  WHIFFL£'8  B£O0LLE0nOK8.* 

THIS  posthumous  collection  of  essays 
awakens  an  emotion  of  keen  regret 
that  Mr.  Whipple  was  taken  away  before 
he  had  written  what  he  conid  have  written 
so  well,  better,  perhaps,  than  any  of  hit 
contemporaries,  a  history  of  the  American 
literature  of  his  own  time.  Such  a  work 
would,  of  course,  have  been  more  a  memoir 
pour  itnrir  than  a  final  judgment,  bnt  the 
traits  of  mind  which  delight  one  in  the  bio- 
graphical papers  in  this  volume,  the  broad 
generosity  of  judgment  which  could  appre- 
ciate Rufus  Choate  as  well  as  Charles  Sum- 
ner, Agassii  as  well  as  Emerson,  the  warm 
sympathy  with  the  object  of  his  pen,  the 
keen  and  brilliant  yet  just  and  fur  analysis 
of  the  character  and  the  productions  of 
the  men  of  bis  day  —  these  would  have 
joined  to  make  a  memorable  volume. 

The  first  five  papers  in  the  present  vol- 
ume are  devoted  to  recollections  of  Choate, 
Agassis,  Emerson,  Motley,  and  Sumner, 
which  make  up  one  of  the  most  interesting 
series  of  essays  in  criticism  of  character 
and  literature  with  which  we  are  acqu^nted. 
They  unite  the  peculiar  charm  of  personal 
detail  with  the  more  philosophic  judgment 
of  the  practiced  critic. 

Of  Choate,  of  whom  one  of  his  friends 
bluntly  remarked,  "  Webster  is  like  other 
folks,  only  there  is  more  of  him  ;  but  as  t 
Choate,  who  ever  saw  or  knew  hii  like  ? 
Mr.  Whipple  gives  the  fullest  picture  in  thi 
volume,  and  it  is  not  only  very  entertaining 
from  the  abundance  of  wit,  in  the  subji 
and  in  the  essayist,  but  calculated  to  make 
one  think  much  more  highly  of  the  famous 
lawyer  than  the  unconsdous  bias  givei 
this  generation  by  the  success  of  the  : 


■  Rccollcaiou  ol  EodBml  Men,  with  OtW  Pipcn 
Br  Edwin  PnVT  Whipple  Wth  iBtradacrion  tif  Kn 
C  A.  Buna],  CD.    TitknoraCo.   (ijo. 


slavery  agitation  has  allured  most  of  us  to 
think,  Wendell  Phillips  was  a  mighty  man, 
indeed,  bat  for  a  wise  dedsion  upon  his 
contemporariea  in  the  political  field  we 
should  trust  Mr.  Whipple  rather  than  the 
brilliant  orator.  The  contrast  between  Web- 
ster as  an  out-door  man  and  Choate  as  an 
[n-door  man  is  especially  happy,  while  we 
are  rather  doubtful  about  that  history  which 
Choate  might  have  written  had  drcum- 
stances  been  more  propitious,  ezcelllng 
Prescott,  Irving,  Bancroft,  Palfrey,  and 
Motley  1 

Agasaiz,  who  could  not  afford  to  waste 

s  time  making  money,  Emerson,  whom 
Mr.  Whipple  was  the  first  to  call  "our 
Greek-Yankee,"  Motley,  whom  no  prosper- 
ous fortune  could  dwarf,  Sumner,  who 
thought  with  Burke  that  the  principles  of 
justice  and  benevolence  could  not  be  pushed 
far  in  politics  —  these  complete  the  por- 
traits Mr.  Whipple  has  drawn  from  his 
personal  knowledge  with  all  his  well-known 
skill.  George  Ticknor  wa*  evidently  too 
formidable  a  personage  for  this  intimate 
critidim-,  the  essay  upon  him,  aa  well  as 
that  upon  Barry  Cornwall,  is  of  the  usual 
kind  founded  upon  the  life  and  correspond- 
ence of  the  subject 

The  last  two  papers  are  upon  Danitl 
Dtroitda  and  George  Eliofs  private  life. 
They  will  not  stand  comparison  with  such 
estimates  as  Mr.  Hutton'a;  the  note  of 
admiration  is  too  itfolooged,  and  the  percep- 
of  weaknesses  too  blunt,  to  entitle  Mr. 
Whipple  to  a  high  place  among  George 
Eliot's  critics. 

Indeed,  Mr.  Whipple's  own  rank  among 
the  critics  we  are  far  from  setting  so  high 
does  his  friend.  Dr.  Bartol.  When  the 
latter  pronounces  him  "the  beat  critic  and 
creator  of  critidsm  America  has  produced," 
he  must  surely  have  forgotten  Lowell.  And 
when  one  forsakes  such  narrow  limits  of 
comparison,  and  contrasts  Mr.  Whipple  with 
the  finest  critics  of  the  Old  World,  with 
R.  H.  Hutton,  Walter  Bagehot,  or  Edmond 
Schdrer,  to  go  no  further,  we  must  confess 
that  his  place  is  not  among  the  first  Very 
high  among  critics  of  the  second  class 
undoubtedly  belongs,  but  no  critic  of  the 
first  order  could  have  written  an  essay 
Matthew  Arnold  pitched  so  low  and  as  a 
whole  so  impotent,  as  the  one  here  re- 
printed. The  parody  of  Arnold's  "The 
Eternal  not  Ourselves,"  is  puerile,  and  the 
main  judgment  that  "the  general  character- 
istic of  Mr.  Arnold's  poetry  is  moral  and 
intellectual  skepticism  and  despondency; 
and  that  the  general  characteristic  of  his 
moral  and  intellectual  supercil- 
H  extremely  inadequate.  "  Sad 
lucidity  of  soul,"  in  Arnold's  own  words, 
denotes  him  far  l>etter  as  a  poet,  and  while 
there  is  too  much  of  supercili 
critical  tone,  it  is  not  at  all  bis 
least  of  all  in  his  theological  writings,  which 
Mr.  Whipple  seemed  quite  unable  to  apprc- 


date.  The  paper  on  Mr.  Arnold  seems  to 
us  the  least  judicial  and  the  most  unworthy, 
even  of  a  critic  high  in  the  second  class,  of 
Mr.  Whipple's  essays.  His  strength  lay  in 
cordial  appredation  of  genius  acknowledged 
by  all;  his  weakness  was  in  his  defective 
sympathy  with  a  writer  who  appeals  to  so 
small  an  audience  as  Mr.  Arnold  does  in 
his  poems  and  bis  Uterattirt  and  Dtgtna. 


TEE  HTTaTTElTOTB  AVD  HEHBT  OF 
HAVAREE.* 

PROFESSOR  BAIRD  continues  in  these 
two  substantial  volumes  the  task  which 
he  began  In  his  JOse  of  the  Hupitnots.,  and 
which  we  trust  he  will  be  able  to  conclude 
ith  a  work  00  the  Revocation  of  the  Edict 
of  Nantes.  That  famotu  edict,  forever 
honorably  asaodated  with  the  Briamais, 
Henri  Quatre,  as  its  revocation  was  one 
of  the  greatest  biota  upon  the  fiunc  of 
Louis  Quatorze,  is  the  grand  event  toward 
which  all  the  history  here  related  tends.: 

If  the  supreme  aim  of  the  state  should  be  the 
prosperity  of  ever^  dtiaen  ander  the  kindly 
way  of  laws  extending  their  protection  indiffer- 
rnlly  to  the  adhetenu  of  every  religions  creed, 
and  securing  to  all  an  equal  meaiura  of  qnict 
and  safel)',  then  the  Edict  of  Nantei  dewrves 
to  rank  among  the  grandest  monuments  of 
European  ciTJIiiation.  ...  Of  religious  liberty, 
based  npon  any  notion,  even  approximate,  of 
equality,  there  has  been  a  great  dearth;  and  it 
was  precisely  this  doctrine  of  complete  rcligioiu 
liberty  which  was  enunciated  in  the  Edict  of 
Nantes  with  a  precision  remarkable  for  the  time 
of  its  publication. 

Henry  of  Navarre,  with  whose  personal 
fortunes  the  Huguenot  cause  was  dosely 
united  tmtil  hia  politic  abjuration  o£  the 
faith  in  which  he  had  been  reared  and 
which  he  still  retained  at  heart,  gives  to 
Prof.  Baird's  eminently  readable  volamen 
a  peculiar  uni^  of  interest  which  was  nec- 
rily  absent  from  the  account  of  the  rise 
of  French  Protestantism.  Henry  was  far 
from  being  a  man  of  religion : 

A  stranger  to  deep  religious  convictions,  he 
had  exhibited  in  bis  life  no  evidence  that  his 
actions  were,  or  that  he  desired  them  to  l>e, 
molded  iflei  the  pattern  of  a  lofty  morality. 
The  profession  of  a  few  doctrine*  held  by  all 
Christendom,  the  intellectual  acceptance  of  the 
dislinciiTe  tenets  of  the  Reformed  Church,  the 
scoffing  rejection  of  as  many  dogmas  of  the  Rom- 
ish Church — this  constituted,  apparentiy,  the 
meager  fund  of  his  religion. . . .  But  his  daily  con- 
duct was  little  affected  either  by  bis  theological 
opinions  or  by  his  devotions;  and  for  a  score  of 
years  the  epochs  of  his  life  had  been  aa  distinctly 
marked  by  the  succession  of  hia  mistresses,  as  by 
the  striking  political  events  of  the  peiiod.  If  there 
was  any  change,  as  lime  elapsed,  il  was  for  the 

With  such  an  opinion,  not  undeserved,  of 
Henry's  religious,  or  rather  unreligions, 
character,  Prof,  fiaird  naturally  condemns 
his  abjuration  as  a  crime,  and  as  a  political 
blunder.  But  if  it  were  this  last,  it  certainly 
was  a  blunder  from  the  commission  of 
which  only   the  strictest  moral  conviction 


•  Tb*  HivHBOU  ud  Haniy  ol  Mann*.    Br  11« 
Bijrd.    InTwftVds.    Chirln  ScHbi>(r>a  Sob*,    fj. 


a>TH. 


1886.] 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


459 


would  b%ve  preserved  the  keenest-sighted  | 
at  that  day. 

In  this  section  of  hb  great  undertaking. 
Prof.  Baird  is,  as  before,  exact  and  E^r,  a 
historian  deserving  to  rank  high  on  account 
of  his  industry,  bis  clear  arrangement  of  his 
matter,  his  ladd  style,  and  his  firm  hold 
upon  his  general  theme.  Not  a  second 
Motley  in  fire  and  brilliancy,  he  is  the 
superior  of  Motley  in  accuracy  and  histori- 
cal dignity,  and  he  has  made  the  story  of 
French  Protestantism  his  own,  as  Motley 
did  that  of  the  liberties  of  Holland. 


lOHOB  NOTIOES. 


Dcfumtittt  Illustrative  tf  Ameriean  Histery, 
ibo&'iibj.  With  Introductions  and  ReferenccE 
by  Howard  W.  Preitoo.  [G.  P.  FnUum's  Sons. 
»a.SO.] 

Prof.  Freeman's  remark  that  "the  most  ingen- 
ious and  most  eloquent  of  modem  hiitoiical 
disconriea  can  after  all  be  nothing  more  than  a 
comment  on  a  text,"  hai  incited  Mr.  Preston  to 
the  compilation  of  thii  handsome  volume,  in 
which  his  own  matter  consists  of  very  brief  in. 
troductioTis  and  a  [ew  notes.  We  miss  any  indi' 
cation  of  the  aulhoiiiles  on  which  the  compilei 
has  relied  for  the  corrccineu  of  his  texts.  The 
docnments  are  well  chosen  to  illustrate  the 
imponanl  periods  of  our  national  development, 
beginning  with  the  First  Virginia  Charter  and 
the  Mayflower  Compact,  continuing  through  tlie 
various  other  Stale  charters,  Franklin's  Plan  of 
Union  in  1754,  the  two  Declarations  of  Rights, 
the  Articles  of  Confederation,  the  Northwest 
Ordinance,  the  Resolutions  of  1798  and  1799,  the 
Nullification  Ordinance  and  its  legilimalc 
cessor,  the  South  Caiolina  Ordinance  of  Seces- 
sion, to  close  with  the  epoch-making  Proclama- 
tion of  Emancipation  by  President  Lincoln. 

71u  Vauraile  Btdi,  Expurgatid,  Expeuitdtd, 
andExpoitd.  By  the  Prig.  [Henry  Holt  &  Co. 
•l-OO-l 

Like  Tlu  Lift  af  a  Prig,  by  the  same  author, 
Ibis  volume  is  striking  ciiernally  in  parti-colored 
cover  of  black  and  scarlet.  Its  contents  are 
passages  professing  to  be  extracts  from  the  Eng- 
lish ecclesiastical  historian  Bede,  very  miscella- 
neous and  disconnected,  with  comments  which 
seem  to  us  infeiior,  both  in  force  and  humor, 
the  satire  of  Ihe  writer's  earlier  book.  They 
conslltate,  in  general,  an  attack  on  the  Church 
of  England,  by  an  ironical  profession  of  stating 
its  own  arguments  —  of  course  not  as  they  are; 
and  there  is  something  in  the  tone  whereby  one 
seems  to  recognize  the  peculiar  bitterness  of 
feeling  unfortunately  usual  with  secedeis  from 
the  English  to  the  Roman  faith. 


the  piteous  tragedies  of  history.  There  Is 
scarcely  a  picture  in-the  long  gallery  of  the  wofnl 
past  to  compare  in  darkness  with  the  unstinted 
misery  of  the  fair  Queen,  not  yet  forty  years  of 
age,  alone  amid  her  enemies,  drinking  to  the 
dregs  the  bitter  cup  of  her  sorrows,  without  a 
•Ingle  alleviation  of  circumstance,  save  the  occa- 
dooal  kindnessel,  timid  and  furtive,  shown  her 


at  the  risk  of  their  lives  by  two  poor  women-  So 
closely  was  she  watched,  so  harshly  was  the  least 
attempt  to  comfort  or  relieve  her  resented  by  the 
Revolntionary  Tribunal,  that  we  only  wonder  how 
len,  Madame  Richard,  the  wife  of  the 
jailor,  and  her  aervant  Rosalie,  dared  do  as  much 

they  did.  That  they  ran  great  risks  is  shown 
by  the  fate  of  the  Gendarme  de  Busne,  who,  for 
of  giving  the  Queen  a  glass  of  water 
and  offering  her  his  arm  when  she  stumbled  In  a 
dark  corridor,  was  cashiered  and  imprisoned.  It 
Madame  Richard  and  Rosalie  that  we  owe 
all  that  is  known  of  the  feelings  and  demeanor 
of  the  prisoner  during  those  dreadful  seventy- 
eight  days  which  comprised  her  detention  in  the 
Conciergerie.  ffow  nobly  she  bore  and  en- 
dured, how  completely  the  proud  nature,  and  the 
youthful  indiscreet  impulses  which  had  wrought 
such  harm  for  herself  in  the  daya  of  her  exultant 
prosperity,  had  given  place  to  Ihe  ripened  forti- 
tude of  the  heroine  and  martyr,  most  of  us  know 

part  already,  but  never  before  so  conviniHngly 
IS  in  Lord  Ronald  Gower's  touching  narrative. 
The  book,  which  opens  with  a  beautiful  por- 
trait of  the  Queen,  is  exquisitely  printed  on  hand- 
made linen  paper,  and  Ihe  edition  is  limited  to 
483  numbered  copies. 

BeitoH  Monday  Liclwet.  Orient,  with  Pre- 
ludes on  Current  Events.  By  Joseph  Cook. 
[Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.    |i.5a] 

For  some  reason  this  volume,  which  contains 
lix  of  Mr.  Cook's  lectures  delivered  in  1SS3,  on 
his  return  from  a  tour  of  the  world,  has  been 
delayed  in  publication  until  now.  The  Preludes, 
which  we  are  inclined  to  consider  as  generally 
the  more  valuable  part  of  Mr.  Cook's  Monday 
programmes,  are  accordingly  not  quite  so  fresh 
as  if  they  had  been  issued  sooner.  But  their 
subjects  happened  to  be  of  more  permanent 
character  than  usual.  They  discuss  national  aid 
to  education,  revivals,  limited  municipal  sufEragi 
for  women,  religion  in  colleges,  foreign  criticiin 
of  America,  and  Ihe  international  duties  of 
Christendom,  with  the  characteriatic  fullness  of 
information  and  grandiosity  of  rhetoric  of  their 
author.  The  lectures  are  devoted  to  Palestine' 
Egypt,  India,  Japan,  and  Australia.  That  on 
Keshab  Chunder  Sen  has  a  much  belter  tone 
toward  the  non-Christian  world  than  Mr.  Cook 
is  usually  pleased  to  adopt.  Appendices,  describ- 
ing the  Taj  Mahal  and  the  Himalayas,  add  to  the 
extremely  varied  interest  of  a  volume  in  which 
Mr.  Cook  appears  to  us  to  be  at  bis  best. 

Stlf-Ceiuciautnttt  ef  ffottd  Ptrani.  Compiled 
in  Leisure  Hours  by  Justin  S.  Morrill.  [Ticknor 
4  Co.    »i-so.] 

This  is  the  second  edili<»i  of  a  monograph, 
first  privately  printed,  to  which  Senator  Morrill 
of  Vermont  has  devoted  some  of  his  hours  in  a 
library.  It  is  a  very  miscellaneous  collection  of 
anecdotes  and  sayings  of  noted  persona,  arranged 
by  a  rule  which  brings  the  Greeks  and  Romans 
first  in  chronological  order,  to  be  followed  by 
Part  I  of  Russia  and  Benjamin  Franklin.  Some 
of  the  sections  seem  to  have  little  pertinence  to 
the  theme,  and  Ihe  book,  as  a  whole,  la  far  from 
showing  the  hand  of  an  expert  in  compilation. 
Senator  Moriill's  standing  as  a  critic  may  be 
judged  by  his  quoting  in  the  introduction,  as  a 
"sparkling  (I)  par^raph,"  from  H.  Taine,  Sir 
Thomas  Browne's  somber  and  resounding  decla- 
mation beginning,  ""But  the  iniquity  of  oblivicm 
bliniUy  scatleretb  her  poppy."     Yet  the  book 


works  in  a  field  where  there  have  been  no  pre- 
gleaners,  collects  numerous  amusing  anec- 
dotes, and  leaves  a  cheerful  impression  of  human 
lature  in  its  various  phases  of  self-esteem. 


This  little   work,   we    are    told,    reached   in 
France,  in   three  years  before  its  translation,  a 
drcolalion   of  five   hundred  thousand-      It  has 
passed  through    several    editions    in    England, 
brought  out  in  this  country  after  carefnl 
by   Prof.  Wm.  H.  Greene,  U.D.,  tA 
the   Philadelphia  Central   High    School.      The 
book  has  about  375  pages,  jjo  small  illnstra- 
tions,  and   treats  of   aeven  distinct  subjects- 
Animals,  Plants,   Stones    and   Rocks,   Physics, 
Chemistiy,   Animal   Physiology,  and  Vegetable 
Physiology.      At    first   sight    this    looks    like 
swding  things ;   but  a  more  careful  ezamtna- 
>n  shows  that  the  several  topics  are  presented, 
th  scientific  accuracy,  in  a  popular  and  picas- 
{  manner,  and  with  suffident  fullness  to  give 
very  good  elementary  view  of  the  snl^ectt. 
The  book  is  quite  true  to  its  title,  and  the 
average  boy  or  girl  ti  twelve  or  fifteen  cannot 
fail  to  be  delighted  with  it,  and  to  make  some 
helpful   "first  steps"  in  natural  science.    The 
low  price  and   real   value   of   the  work   make 
it  one  wliich  parents  who  cannot  aflbrd  more 
elaborate  and  cosily  books  will   be  pleased  to 
make  a  note  of  for  the  coming  holidays. 

Two  Pilgrim/  Progrta.  Fitm  Fair  Florence 
to  the  Etemai  City  of  Remt.  By  Joseph  and 
Elizabeth  Robins  Pennell.  [Roberts  Bros.  %iaa\ 

The  popular  rage  for  bicycling  and  tricycling 
seems  lo  furnish  a  new  bond  of  sympathy  of  late 
years  with  which  to  strengthen  the  linka  between 
dlSerent  portions  of  the  world.  The  Brethren 
(and  Sisters)  of  the  Wheel  belong  to  all  races, 
ihey  go  everywhere,  and  a  more  than  Masonic 
warmth  distinguishes  their  greetings  when  they 
encounter  each  other.  Far  up  in  the  hill  town 
of  Monte  Pulciano  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Joseph  Pennell, 
on  their  "sociable"  tour  from  Florence  lo  Rome, 
encounter  a  member  of  the  fraternity,  mounted 
on  an  English  "cycle"  with  all  Ihe  latest  lm< 
provemenis,  and  ready  to  extend  not  only  the 
arms  but  the  legs  of  friendship  in  their  service. 
The  record  of  this  charming  and  out-of-the-way 
journey  is  brightly  and  picturesquely  told  la 
7nw  Pilgrims'  Progras,  by  Mrs.  Pennell,  who  ia 
as  happy  In  her  pen  landscapes  and  portraits 
as  Is  her  husband  with  his  pencilled  accompani- 
ments. The  great  advantage  of  a  tricycle  jour- 
ney is  that  it  necessarily  takes  you  away  from 
railroads  and  beaten  Iraclca  of  travel,  and  into 
places  less  visited  and  less  often  described.  One 
of  the  most  delightful  chapters  of  Mrs.  Fennell's 
record  treats  of  the  old  convent  of  Monte  Oliveto^ 
now  secularized  and  kept  as  a  sort  of  half-pension, 
half-museum,  where  she  and  her  hnsbaiid  spent 
several  days  with  the  remaining  monks,  and  wero 
considered  and  treated  as  members  of  the  com- 
munity. It  is  a  place  of  reposeful  quiet  and 
dreams,  and  the  spirit  of  the  .Middle  Ages,  not 
quite  (Cared  away  by  Ihe  coming  in  of  new  men 
and  measures,  still  broods  over  JL  7W  PH. 
grimf  Pregreti  is  quaintly  printed  in  imitation 
of  the  earliest  editions  of  Bunyan,  and  a  rhynud  ,- 
"Apology  for  Ihii  Booke,"  1^  Mr.  Charles  G.  >. 
Leland,  prefaces  It  after  the  manner  of  the  older 
chrouide. 


46o 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


[D, 


EC.  11, 


The  Literary  World. 

BOSTON,  DECEMBER  II.  1866. 


TWO  BOOKS  POB  A  PRISOHI 

IN  the  Literary  World  for  October  l6 
we  printed  this  question  which  Mr.  W. 
H.  McAllister  of  New  York  City  addressed 
to  each  one  of  our  readers ;  "  If  you  were 
imprisoned  for  life,  aad  could  only  have  two 
worlfs  for  your  library,  what  two  would 
you  choose?"  It  haa  elicited  up  to  this 
date  only  Eourteeo  answers,  which,  however, 
come  from  ten  different  States,  Eaat  and 
West  This  small  number  of  responses 
may  indicate  that  most  of  our  readers  do 
not  consider  a  decision  a  matter  very  prac- 
tical, or  very  vital  to  tliemselves ;  it  may  be 
that  the  query  is,  in  current  slang,  some- 
thing of  a  "  chestnut,"  through  its  venerable 
age,  or  it  may  be  that  after  selecting,  with  or 
without  Sir  John  Lubbock's  ud,  lists  of  the 
best  hundred  books,  a  selection  of  only  two 
would  appear  to  most  an  unnecessary  con- 
tracting of  the  world  of  letters  into  a  very 
pent-up  Utica ! 

But  such  exercises  of  wit  have  their  use 
and  their  interest.  The  limit  maybe  arbi- 
trary whether  with  Mr.  McAllister  we  select 
the  bare  couple  which  the  narrowest  prison 
library  in  a  humane  country  would  exceed; 
or,  with  a  Western  contemporary,  we  pick 
out  the  best  ten  novels ;  or,  with  Sir  John 
Lubbock,  we  seek  to  determine  the  hundred 
works  in  the  literature  of  all  the  world  best 
deserving  immortality ;  still,  of  thinking  about 
reading,  there  is  not  apt  to  be  a  super- 
abundance. Let  us  welcome  any  ingenious 
stimulant  to  such  thought,  although  its  in- 
genuity may  be  more  ^parent  than  its 
value  in  practice. 

Mr.  McAllister's  desired  list  belongs 
more  to  the  sphere  of  pure  curiosity  than 
the  other  two  we  have  mentioned,  but  the 
question  needs  one  explanation,  such  as  the 
propounders  of  word-puzzles  find  it  well  to 
afford,  that  all  competitors  may  start  fair. 
How  much  ground  does  that  word  "  works  " 
cover?  Does  it  mean  single  boobs,  so  that 
one  would  be  limited  to  two  volumes?  Or 
would  it  cover  any  number  of  volumes  con- 
stituting one  "work,"  such  as  Macaulay's 
History  of  England  in  six  volumes,  or 
Froude's  in  a  dozen  ?  These  would  proba- 
bly come  within  the  intended  scope  of  the 
question.  If  so,  then,  of  course,  the  sixty- 
six  books  twund  together  and  called  Tht 
Books,  fa  biblia,  the  Bible,  would  pass  as  a 
"work;"  and  the  thirty-seven  plays  of 
Shakespeare  would  be  accounted  another 
"  work."  Popular  usage  must  be  allowed  to 
carry  the  day  over  logical  strictness  in  re 
spect  to  the  great  religious  book,  and  th< 
great  literary  treasure,  of  English-speaking 
men,  though  each  is  a  amall  library  in  its<  " 
Yet  usage  and  logic  would  alike  reject 
encyclopaedia,  as  not  being  a  "  work."    The 


BrilamHica,  named  by  two  correspondents, 
and  the  Amerieatt,  named  by  another,  are 
certainly  not  "books"  or  "works,"  in  any 
sense  which  would  make  Mr.  McAllister's 
question  sensible.  The  Brilannifa  in 
twenty-four  large  volumes  is  a  collection  of 
treatises  which  would  form  a  library  of  many 
books  if  printed  separately.  The  prisoner 
for  life  would  be  happy  indeed,  if  he  could 
call  this  one  of  his  two  "  works,"  for  it  would 
supply  a  complete  education,  and  material 
for  reading  and  study  to  occupy  the  longest 
life-time. 

Let  US  rule  out  the  encyclopaedia,  and  the 
dictionary  as  well,  and  include  the  Bible  and 
Shakespeare.  With  this  extension  allowed  to 
the  term  "  works,"  we  might  be  very  sore 
beforehand  that  a  majority  of  the  responses 
to  the  question  would  include  one  or  both  of 
these.  The  Englishman  and  the  American 
belong  to  Bible-reading  peoples,  and  if 
either  was  sentenced  to  confinement  for 
life,  the  first  book  he  would  choose,  if  he 
chose  wisely,  would  be  the  great  book  of 
religion  and  conduct,  in  which  reading  by 
himself  he  would  perhaps  misunderstand 
a  great  (lart,  but  of  which  another  precious 
part  would  "find"  his  conscience  and  soul 
o  other  book  could.  The  great  words 
of  the  Bible  have  stood  out  an  immense  deal 
of  pondering  since  they  were  written,  and 
they  will  profitably  endure  a  great  amount 
yet  The  Bible  is  a  unique  literary  product, 
as  well  as  an  unsurpassed  guide  to  life. 
The  terrible  strain  of  frequent  perusal, 
which  would  destroy  the  value  of  all  but 
classics  of  the  first  rank,  In  the  long  prison- 
years,  would  affect  the  Bible,  It  is  true ;  and 
a  sifting  process  would  inevitably  be  accom- 
plished In  time  which  would  leave  an  "es- 
rotial  Bible  "  of  pure  gold. 

One  correspondent,  however,  who  goes 
too  far  even  here,  inquires  "what  Mr.  Mc- 
Allister can  be  thinking  about?"  The  two 
books  are  "  the  Old  Testament  and  the 
New  Testament,  of  court*."  We  fail  to  see 
the  reason  for  separating  the  Bible  into  two 
books ;  and  if  it  were  necessary  to  do  so  we 
should  leave  out  the  Old  Testament  as  virtu- 
ally superseded  by  the  New,  and  for  the  sec- 
ond book  of  the  two  choose  a  great  world- 
classic  of  a  more  secular  nature.  The  Bible, 
or  the  New  Testament,  would  cultivate 
"  Hebraism  "  in  us,  but  "  Hellenism  "  has  its 
rights  as  well,  and  for  Hellenism  no  other 
one  book  would  serve  so  powerfully  as 
the  myriad-minded  Shakespeare's  picture  of 
human  life.  Of  this  opinion  are  six  of 
correspondents ;  but  one  would  leave  himself 
quite  unbalanced  by  adding  to  the  Bible  the 
Book  of  Common  Prayer,  another  the  Pil- 
grimes  Progrtss,  and  a  third  (in  case  the 
Bible  were  accessible  in  the  prison),  d  Kem- 
pis's  Imitation.  These  three  are  classics  of 
the  soul,  yet  they  are  all  drawn  out  of  the 
Bible  welt;  and  in  so  closely  restricted  all' 
brary,  they  could  not  vindicate  a  right  to 
displace  the  greatest  of  dramatists. 


These  fourteen  answers,  we  opine,  give 
very  much  such  agreement  and  such  diver- 
sity as  we  should  find  in  a  larger  number ; 
one  is  altogether  in  a  trifling  mood ;  the  re- 
mainder are  in  earnest  The  Bible  is  the  first 
book  to  occur  to  most,  yet  three  omit  it  alto- 
gether. Of  the  three  one  names  the  Iliad, 
with  some  reason,  but  the  process  of  "per- 
sonal equation"  would  surely  rule  out  Juve- 
nal's SoHrtt  named  as  Homer's  companion; 
it  would  become  a  hateful  volume  soon. 
Another  chooses  the  American  Cyclopadia 
and  a  Natural  Hittory,  disclosing  a  plain 
bias  toward  pure  science  rather  than  toward 
religion  or  conduct,  and  the  third  does 
better  by  coupling  the  BritamHica  with 
Shakespeare.  Still  another,  in  case  the 
Bible  were  already  furnished,  would  add 
Scott  to  Shakespeare.  This  last  has,  per- 
haps, hit  upon  the  kind  of  choice  in  oar 
questioner's  mind;  he  may  have  well  in- 
tended to  exclude  both  the  Bible  and  the 
encyclopsedia.  He  would  then  provoke 
responses  indicating  the  mental  biases  of 
those  who  answer.  If  Shakespeare  were 
allowed  to  stand,  then  one  person  would 
couple  with  him  Plato's  LHaloguei,  another 
Emerson's  Essays,  another  Wordsworth, 
another  Dante,  another  Goethe's  Faust,  an- 
other Milton,  another  Homer,  and  so  on  in 
endless  diversity.  And  if  to  secure  entire 
freedom  from  conventional  judgment,  Shake- 
speare himself  should  be  ruled  oat,  and  each 
one  who  replied  should  indicate  the  two 
books  which  have  done  the  most  for  him, 
and  which  he  thinks  would  continue  to  profit 
him  most  in  life-long  imprisonment,  there 
would  be  a  list  worth  scanning !  We  should 
like  to  see  the  replies  to  such  a  question 
which  would  be  ^ven  by  fifty  prominent 
men  of  letters. 

Yet  the  books  which  have  profited  one 
most  might  be  precisely  those  which  a  wise 
man  would  last  choose  for  his  two  life-long 
companions ;  he  may  have  already  extracted 
their  very  marrow.  The  two  books  must 
be  such  as  we  should  have  to  grow  up 
to  in  the  long  years,  such  as  have  many 
sides  of  interest  and  attraction,  and  such  as 
are  really  inexhaustible  by  the  highest- 
mounted  mind.  But  a  very  few  books  can 
for  a  moment  make  such  claims.  Those 
who  name  the  Bible  and  Shakespeare,  as 
they  choose  the  moat  common,  so  also  do 
they  choose  the  best  books,  which  have 
wonderfully  withstood  the  tooth  of  envious 
time.  If  the  Bible  were,  for  any  reason, 
inadmissible,  then  who  could  match  Plato's 
Dialogues  and  Shakespeare's  Plays  with 
another  couple  of  works  that  would  so  long 
and  so  worthily  endure  our  utmost  atten- 
tion ?  "  Plato's  brain  and  Shakespeare's 
strain"  are  the  finest  results  thus  far  of 
the  world's  intellectual  life. 

Q^  In  our  holiday  number  the  article  entitled 
"Christ  and  His  Cross"  referred  to  a  recent 
m^azine  article   on    "  Portrait*  of  Christ "  as 


i886.] 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD, 


461 


h&ving  appeared  in  the  Citttuiy  magazine.  Our 
pen  slipped  in  that  stalemeDt.  The  article  was 
published  in  Harpet'i  Magatint  for  Ma;,  1886. 


a^ore  ^oltbap  $u&Iitatton;tf. 

AHESIOAH  ABT  • 

THIS  work  suggests  as  an  immediate  re- 
mark that  some  of  the  finest  and  most 
important  holiday  publications  are-  always 
the  last  to  appear.  The  next  remark  to  be 
made  is  tbat  the  book  is  one  not  only  to  be 
looked  at  but  to  be  read.  Fictorially  it  Is  of 
the  first  order,  but  the  text  accompan^ng 
the  plates,  by  Mr.  S.  R.  Koehler,  is  an  essay 
which  deserves  consideration  by  itself.  Mr. 
Koehler  has  not  Hamerton's  versatility,  but 
he  may  be  compared  with  Hamerton,  whom 
he  resembles  in  knowledge  of  the  general 
subject  of  art  and  in  critical  temper,  in  can- 
dor and  discrimi nation,  and  in  the  instruct- 
ive faculty.  Mr.  Koehler  has  became,  in  a 
quiet  and  unobtrusive  way,  a  felt  influence 
in  the  evolution  of  American  art,  and  apart 
from  its  eztemal  elegance  and  beauty  we 
welcome  this  writing  aa  being  from  his  pen. 

The  title  of  the  work  further  suggests 
comparison  with  the  superb  Boob  of  Ameri- 
eon  Figurt  Painters,  reviewed  in  our  last 
issue  1  but  again  it  differs  from  that  in  being 
less  bulky  and  unmanageable,  in  having  the 
wider  scope  of  landscape  as  well  as  figure 
art,  and  in  employing  the  etching  and  the 
wood  engraving  to  the  exclusion  of  the 
newer  and  perhaps  just  now  more  fashion- 
able pkotogravk  processes  of  illustration  — 
if  we  may  coin  that  adjective.  The  etchings 
and  the  engravings  alternate,  and  there  are 
twenty-five  in  all,  reproduced  from  original 
paintings,  no  artist  appearing  twice.  Sev- 
eral of  the  etchings  and  several  of  the 
engravings,  however,  are  by  the  same  hand. 
We  cannot  name  all  the  artists,  but  Vinton, 
Shirlaw,  Johnson,  Church,  Moran,  Gaugen- 
gigl,  Hovenden,  Homer,  Innes,  Vedder,  and 
GiSord  are  prominent  among  them.  To 
speak  of  the  etchings  as  a  whole  we  do  not 
remember  ever  to  have  seen  a  series  which 
either  in  subjects  or  in  execution  maintained 
a  standard  of  such  even  excellence  or  were 
more  uniformly  pleasing.  Mr.  Vinton's 
opening  portrait  of  Judge  Devens,  East- 
man Johnson's  "  A  Glass  with  the  Squire," 
Mr,  Thayer's  portrait  of  "  A  Young  Lady," 
and  Mr.  Frank  Fowler's  "  At  the  Piano," 
another  beautiful  woman's  portrait,  are  par- 
ticularly meritorious  and  satisfactory;  while 
in  the  series  as  a  whole  we  arc  at  a  loss 
which  to  admire  more,  the  landscapes  or 
the  figure  pieces.  The  wood  engravings 
attract  less  attention,  but  are  no  mean  com- 
panionship for  their  more  distinguished 
associates. 

Mr.  Koehler's  text  is  not  particularly  oc- 


Wilb  Tut   bj    E 


cupied  with  these  illustrations.  While  we 
are  turning  over  his  magnificent  portfolio^ 
80  to  speak,  he  is  engaged  in  critical  dis- 
course upon  the  recent  development  of 
American  Art,  the  "  Promise  "  of  it,  and  the 
"  Outcome"  of  it  during  the  past  ten  yearsi 
with  subsequent  remarks  upon  Landscape* 
Portraiture,  Decorative  Art,  and  Genre 
Painting,  foreign  and  domestic  The  duty 
of  the  people  to  the  painters  is  the  burden 
of  these  thoughtful  pages. 

The  publishers  have  produced  this  work 
in  a  style  of  subdued  dignity  which  is  more 
than  usually  im press ive- 


Chritlwtai  Carol  in  Presi.  Sting  a  Gktit 
Story  of  Christmas.  By  Chailei  Dickens.  Illus- 
trated by  I-  H.  Gaugengigl  and  T.  V.  Chom- 
inski.    [iiamuel  E.  Cassino.    I9.00.] 

Certainly  these  are  among  the  beat,  if  nof  aa 
good  as  ihc  best,  illustrations  which  have  been 
made  of  Dickens.  They  are  neatly  in  the  style 
which  Darley  hai  made  so  familiar,  bnt  Eo  the 
refinement  and  gentility  of  the  works  of  that 
distinguished  draughtsman  add  the  spirit  and 
humor  of  a  Leech  or  a  Cruikshank,  and  entering 
heartily  into  the  mood  of  the  great  novelist,  pre- 
sent his  thought  to  the  eye  with  an  accomplished 
band  and  in  an  effective  way.  The  sketches, 
done  apparently  in  sepia  or  charcoal,  and  repro- 
duced by  the  photogravure  process,  sometimes 
in  tint,  number  twenty-four,  and  occupy  whole 
pages  o[  a  medium  quarto,  whose  materials  and 
workmanship  are  generally  excellent  The  sin- 
gle exception  is  the  ornamentation  in  gi)t  which 
accompanies  some  of  the  plates.  This  is  mere- 
tricious and  not  in  good  taste.  It  should 
be  immediately  discarded.  It  is  a  pity  that  a 
volume  so  choice  in  subject  and  otherwise  so 
elegant  and  attractive,  should  be  disfigured  by 
such  an  incongruity.  The  binding  has  individu- 
ality. 


lity  of  purpose  and  to  sotne  extent 
ty  of  design  characterize  both  of  these 
trim  little  quartos,  with  their  knotted  square 
leaves,  their  snatches  of  poetry  or  Sciiplure,  one 
for  eveiy  day  in  the  month,  and  their  delicate 
illustrations  or  illuminations,  in  color,  sometimes 
touched  with  gilt.  The  idea  is  Co  bring  up  a 
fresh  devotional  thought  for  the  beginning  of 
each  day,  framed  with  artistic  loggestions  in  har- 
mony therewith.  The  artist  has  not  made  a  fresh 
design  for  every  page,  but  repeats  old  ones.  The 
repetition  becomes  a  little  monotonous,  as  we 
have  been  taught  in  publications  of  this  kind  to 
look  for  an  ever  shifting  variety,  at  least  for  a 
repetition  in  regular  otdet.  The  designs  in  Ihc 
first  book  are  of  the  sea ;  in  the  second  partly 
architectural  and  partly  of  nature-  There  is 
grace  and  there  is  delicacy  in  these  books,  and 
the  "ivory  binding"  will   please  some    tastes 


The  twenty  plates  in  this  tall  folio  are  not  al- 
together new,  several  of  them  at  least  having 
appeared  in  other  fortni  before,  but  a  fresh  and 


striking  work  has  been  made  out  of  them,  and 
the  ingenious  and  luxurious  way  in  which  they 
are  mounted  gives  a  tone  of  decided  originality 
to  the  collection.  Not  all  the  plates  are  etch- 
ings, two  of  them,  confessedly  by  the  table  of 
contents,  being  steel  engravings,  and  two  of 
those  descrilwd  as  etchings  iiaving  certain  indi- 
cations of  steel  engraving  about  them  which  it  is 
hard  to  disbelieve.  These  exceptions  certainly 
illustrate  the  faint  border  line  which  sometimes 
runs  between  these  two  reproductive  depart- 
ments. Two  "old  masters"  —  Rembrandt  and 
Titian  —  are  represented  In  the  subjects  selected, 
and  the  names  of  Bonnat,  Greoze,  Munkacsy 
arkd  G^r6me  illuminate  the  rest  of  the  list.  Here 
altogether  is  another  remarkably  fine  series  of 
etched  plates,  some  of  the  best  that  have  yet 
been  given  us,  for  many  of  which  the  Amtrican 
Art  Review,  in  which  they  originally  appeared, 
laid  the  public  under  obligation.  The  accompa- 
ig  text,  in  this  case,  is  descriptive  of  the 
plates,  though  how  much  of  it  is  by  Mr.  Koeh- 
]er's  hand  does  not  clearly  appear.  The  cover 
has  the  novelty  of  an  engraving  or  etching 
pasted  thereon,  the  effect  of  which  is  not  pleas- 

;o  our  taste.  The  wide  margins  of  this 
book,  and  its  general  sumptuouiness,  will  win 
much    admiration.      Copies    are    published   in 

lus  styles  of  paper,  some  of  which  are  ex. 
tremely  choice  and  correspondingly  costly. 

CharatUr  Skebheifram  Thacktray.  By  Fred- 
erick Bamaid.    [Cassell  &  Co.    (7.50.] 

This  is  not  a  book  but  a  portfolio,  and  ■ 
twin  brother  to  the  Character  Shetrhis  from 
Diiktm  which  Mr.  Barnard  gave  us  at  this  same 
season  two  years  ago.  It  would  be  perilous  to 
say  that  it  is  a  mote  successful  series  than  that, 
which  seemed  inimitable,  but  could  anything 
excel  these  drawings  in  India  ink,  reproduced  by 
(loupil's  photogravure,  of  Colonel  Ncwcome, 
Becky  Sharp,  Major  Pendennis,  Captain  CostI* 
gan,  Major  Dobbin,  and  the  incomparable  "  Little 
Sister,"  which  as  it  is  the  simplest  is  also  the 
sweetest  picture  of  them  all  ?  There  is  an  almost 
ideal  beauty  in  her  pensive  face,  her  slightly 
drooping  figure,  her  folded  hands,  and  the  quaint 
full  aleeves  which  drape  what  we  know  must  be 
lovely  arms.  A  very  clever  touch  [n  the  picture 
of  the  shabby-genteel  Captain  Costigan  is  the 
reflection  of  his  profile  in  the  oval  mirror  on  the 
dressing  stand  at  his  right.  The  sketches  are 
themselves  large,  are  largely  mounted,  and  are 
laid  loosely  in  their  portfolio,  so  that  (hey  can 
be  removed  and  otherwise  disposed  st  the 
pleasure  of  the  owner.  Of  the  photogravure 
they  are  excellent  examples,  and  aa  drawings  in 
black  and  while  earnest  and  full  of  feeling. 


Phototype  processes  are  distancing  the  wood- 
cut as  a  means  of  embellishing  holiday  books, 
but  now  and  then  an  illustrated  work  of  the  old 
style  pushes  well  Forward  to  the  front.  Such  a 
success  in  pari  is  achieved  by  this  embodiment 
of  Buchanan  Read's  poem  of  Tfu  Closing  Scene, 
a  sort  of  "  Gray's  Elegy  "  on  the  dying  year,  not 
comparable  with  that  immortal  writii^  in  quality, 
but  like  it  in  spirit  and  tone,  and  perhaps  new. 
It  is  a  plaintive  poem,  of  "hazy  hills"  and 
"sounds  subdued,"  of  "rustic  ruins,"  "dead 
leaves,"  and  pheasants  "drumming  in  the  vale." 
Its  eighteen  stanzas  have  been  made,  for  this  vol- 


462 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Dec.  II. 


lime,  Ihe  themei  of  ai  many  drawiaga  by  Gibian, 
Garrett,  Crane,  Low,  Murphj,  Dewejp,  Jooea, 
Tryon,  Tajlor,  Pyle,  and  Sword,  and  tbe  draw- 
ing* bare  been  cngiaTcd  on  wood  by  Lander- 
bach,  Daltiel,  Jaengllng,  Kilbum,  Helneman, 
and  a  namber  of  other  artlMs  of  tbe  bmin.  Of 
not  a  few  of  these  woad-<nitB  it  may  be  laid  that 
they  reach  Ihe  penal  of  eicellence,  while  all  are 
good,  and  scarcelf  one  ii  faalty  or  poor.  The 
wood-chopper  on  p.  ij  U  perhaps  ihe  leait  MtU- 
factoij,  while  the  frontispiece  and  the  back- 
piece,  two  ijrlTan  scenes  of  rare  loveliness,  are 
Ihe  crowning  beauties  erf  the  work.  There  are 
one  stania  and  one  pictnre  to  each  right-liand 
page,  and  all  the  materials  and  handiwork  of  the 
book  combine  to  make  it  uncommonlj  taatefnl 
and  pleating.  It  is  successful  without  effort  or 
pretension,  gratifying  the  senses  in  a  quiet  way, 
attempting  no  ambitioua  effects,  blending  hap- 
pily our  interest  in  poet  and  artiit,  and  tearing 
harmony  and  repose  of  impreuion. 

^^  and  the  Elf.  A  Fantasy  by  H.  B.  H. 
Toland.  Illustrated  with  PhotogriTures.  IJ.  B. 
lippincott  Co.    ^-00.] 

This  is  not  a  large  book.  lu  thirteen  photo- 
gravures occupy  full  pages,  beaide  which  wood- 
engraved  panels  and  decorations  bearing  (he 
text  of  Mr.  Toland's  verses  Gil  the  alternate 
leave*.  The  poem  it  a  trifle,  a  playful  fancy, 
based  on  a  dream,  in  which  a  Venus-like  nymph 
bathing  in  sylvan  retirement,  with  her  compan- 
ion naiads,  is  surprised  by  a  woodland  elf,  on 
whose  approach  they  all  dive,  while  the  unwel- 
come visitor  scampers  back  inio  the  forcat.  The 
poem  gives  opportunity  for  depicting  the  stream 
and  its  overhanging  foliage,  and  more  cspedally 
the  undraped  female  form,  the  latter  being  Ihe 
artist's  favorite  subject.  The  sketches  are  in 
sepia,  and  being  by  different  hands  are  uneven. 
The  frontispiece,  after  a  bas.relief  by  Baur,  Hr. 
Harper's  forest  scene,  p.  13,  and  Mr.  Gibton't,  p. 
ig,  are  the  best.  The  book  is  ornately  bound, 
bnt  lack*  ihooght  and  sustained  merit  of  eiecn- 
lion. 


This  rich  volume,  not  a  large  or  heavy  one, 
but  of  generous  aspect  and  elegant  interior,  be- 
longs to  (be  better  class  o(  holiday  books  illus- 
trated with  wood-cuts.  Tbe  poem  which  is  its 
basis  is  one  of  tbe  genuine  celebrations  of  the 
Cbriatmai  Feast  In  song,  at  tight-hearted  a  piece 
of  verse  as  Thackeray's  "  Mahogany  Tree,"  with 
which  it  might  be  compared,  bat  more  earnest 
in  feeling  and  intention,  true  to  Ihe  mood  of  the 
hour,  highly  motical,  and  full  of  tuggettion*  to 
Inspire  the  pencil.  Seven  of  oar  familiar  Ameri- 
can draughtsmen,  Garrett,  Fenn,  Davis,  Teel, 
Sandham,  Hatsam,  and  Bamea  have  made  the 
sketches,  and  drawing,  engraving,  and  priming 
have  all  been  done  "  under  the  sapervision  of 
George  T,  Andrew."  The  wood-cuts  are  on  tbe 
right-hand  pages  and  the  poetry  on  tbe  left,  and 
both  are  wreathed  with  delicate  dccoratirais  of 
the  vignette  sort  in  soft  brown  ink.  Human 
figures  give  point  to  almost  every  sabject 
io  the  family  circle  around  the  hearthatone,  Ihe 
ringing  of  Ihe  Chriatmas  bells,  the  celebrat- 
ing of  the  midnight  maaa,  the  hauling  in  of  the 
great  yule  log,  the  tupper  in  the  baronial  hall, 
tbe  dance,  the  cottage  featt,  the  terving  of  the 
boar's  head,  the  paaalng  of  tbe  waatall  cap,  and 


the  merry  masquerade.  UnifMmly  the  wood-cuts 
f  a  good  grade,  they  escape  the  harshness 
and  coarsenei*  which  have  limited  the  succeu  of 
tome  other  efforts  this  season  in  the  tame  direc- 
tion, and  they  are  mounted  with  ■  typographical 
beauty  which  enhances  their  merit 

Somt  Stays  0/ Eiia.  By  Charles  Lamb.  With 
IIIustrsAiont  by  C.  O.  Murray.  Engraved  by  R. 
Paterton.    [D.  Applcton  &  Co.    >).oo.] 

This  pretty  quarto  would  be  a  not  unworthy 
companion  of  the  chince  Sir  Roger  dt  Ccvtrlty 
mentioned  with  some  enthusiasm  in  our  last 
issue.  Though  beating  an  American  imprint  it 
it  of  English  manufacture.  Mr.  Murray  is  a 
disciple  in  the  same  school  with  Caldecott,  o( 
whoee  alylc  hla  sketches  remind  us.  They  are 
done  with  pen  and  ink,  and  engraved  with  a 
force  and  boldnesa  in  keeping  with  their  spirit. 
The  fifteen  ettayt  of  the  gentle  Elia  which  they 
illoitrate  were  telectcd  (or  their  present  ate  by 
reason  of  their  suggesliveneas  to  the  artiti. 
They  include  "Dream  Children,"  "All  Fools' 
Day,"  "  The  Old  Benchers  of  the  Inner  Temple," 
"A  Dissertation  upon  Roait  Pigi"  and  "Poor 
Relationt."  Of  tbe  pictures,  all  of  which  are  in- 
tertcd  in  the  text,  there  are  about  a  hundred. 
They  are  nniformly  in  a  pleasant  vein,  gently 
humorous,  dealing  wholly  with  the  human  figure, 
correct  in  drawing,  and  never  broad  or  coarse. 
The  book  which  embodies  them  ha*  excellent 
typography,  red  edges,  and  a  qulel  cover,  and  is 
expression  of  good  taste  at  every  point 


This  book  was  first  published,  it  appears,  in 
■879,  but  we  do  not  remember  having  teen  it 
before.  This  new  edition  1*  a  new  book  to  the 
It  of  numerous  pictores  and  about  one  hun- 
dred additional  poems.  The  object  of  the  col- 
lection is  to  illustrate  Home  atkd  Home  life- 
This  it  does  under  the  head*  of  Babybood,  Child, 
hood.  Home  Life  in  Country  and  in  Town, 
GraDdfather  and  Grandtnother,  and  Looking 
Backward.  There  Is  an  index,  givirg  name*  of 
authors  to  far  at  known.  Many  of  tbe  poems 
are  fugitive  pieces  of  unknown  parentage.  This 
is  altogether  the  poetry  of  the  people,  such  as 
will  appeal  to  the  common  heart ;  a  street,  pure, 
ennobling  book,  modestly  dressed,  but  with  a 
heart  and  soul  which  every  one  must  recognize. 

All  Atnstig  Iki  Light- Heuttt ;  er.  Tie  Cmiuiij 
tit  Gelienrtd.  By  Mary  Bradford  Crownln- 
shleld.    [D.  Lotfarop  &  Co.    (2.50.] 

This  it  a  capital  young  people'a  book,  with  a 
fresh  subject,  brightly  written,  conveying  useful 
and  interesting  information,  and  conscientiously 
and  handaomely  made.  Thoi^h  late  In  reaching 
ui,  it  deserves  a  place  among  the  best  of  the 
"children's  quartos."  Its  subject  is  a  pleasure 
trip  in  a  light-house  iotpection  steamer  along 
the  coast  of  Maine.  The  form  is  thai  of  a  story, 
and  dialogue  predominates  over  detcriplion,  Ihe 
information  being  given  in  course  of  talks  and 
viritt  all  the  way  from  Portland  to  Eastport.  A 
map  inude  Ihe  fore  cover  shows  the  whole  First 
Ught-House  District,  from  Newburyport  to  the 
St,  Croix  Light  on  the  New  Brunswick  line,  and 
tbe  location  of  all  the  lights,  of  which  there  are 
nearly  sixty.  It  Is  curious  to  tee  bow  this 
ragged  stretch  of  Atlantic  shore  Is  fringed  with 
these   "mariners'  friends."    The  course   of  the 


"  Golden  rod "  is  also  laid  down  in  a  red  line, 
from  Portland  to  Matinicus,  Mount  Desert  Rock, 
and  past  Grand  Manan  up  into  'Quoddy  Bay, 
and  then  by  a  black  line  back,  dose  in  shore, 
touching  at  every  light-house  all  the  way ;  a 
fascinating  and  useful  trip,  certainly.  Besides 
light-boutes,  bell  buoys  are  described  and  whist. 
ling  buoys,  and  the  whole  sdence  of  lenses  and 
lamps,  flashing  lights  and  revolving  lights  I) 
expounded.  There  are  numerous  wood-cuts  of 
fair  quality,  with  the  coast  toeneiy  and  the  light- 
house* for  their  subjects.  Tbe  book  ha*  a  glit- 
tering cover  in  silver,  gill,  and  blade,  and  ei^age* 
attention  at  once. 


The  Qtieen  tf  the  PiraU  IiU.    By  Bret  Harte. 
Illnsiraied   by  Kate   Greenaway.      [Houghton, 

*"'"'-""-   »i-y>-j 


Mifflin  &  Co. 


This  droll  and  characteristic  child-story  ct 
Bret  Harte  sre  do  not  at  ibis  moment  remember, 
and  to  us  It  has  tbe  charm  of  newneas  in  addi- 
tion to  Ihe  irreaisllble  humor  of  its  very  gravity, 
and  the  quaintly  sympathetic  aketchea  with 
which  Kate  Greenaway**  camel's-hair  pencil  hat 
adorned  it-  Its  brown  linen  cover  and  tinted 
paper  help  to  give  It  a  thoroughly  English  look, 
though  of  Boston  make.  Polly,  the  "Queen  of 
the  Pirate  Isle,"  was  a  California  mias  of  nine 
yeara,  who  lived  in  an  imaginative  world,  and 
was  fcmd  of  playing  "pirate"  with  Hickory 
Hunt,  her  cousin,  and  Wan  Lee,  a  Chinese 
page.  Enjoying  tbe  play,  tlicy  determined  to 
run  away  for  real  pirates,  and  were  joined  in  this 
escapade  by  a  neighbor.  Patsy,  who  brought  to 
the  common  stock  a  revolver  and  a  banana.  A 
perilous  slide  that  followed,  a  drean  that  fol- 
lowed the  tlide,  and  the  restoration  of  Polly  to 
ber  home,  carry  out  the  author's  story  to  Its 
completion,  and  a  very  delicious  and  delicate 
mouthful  it  is.  When  Bret  Harte  is  at  his  best 
he  is  good  indeed.  What  louche*  could  exceed 
those  with  which  these  children  are  aet  bdore 
the  reader,  or  the  mock  realism  with  which  Iheir 
little  drama  is  rehearsed?  Few  luch  genu  as 
thi*  are  to  be  rescued  from  the  stream  of  passing 
literature. 

Uttder  Blue  Shut.  Verses  and  Pictures  by 
S.  ].  Brigham.  [The  Worthington  Co.  fi.oo.] 
The  higher  class  of  picture-book  work  is  repre- 
sented by  Mrs.  Brigham's  verses  and  sketches  in 
color.  Tbe  verses,  though  of  the  nursery  order, 
are  more  clever  than  common,  and  embody  many 
a  quaint  fancy  in  ditliea  that  will  readily  "  run  in 
the  head."  The  sketches  are  partly  in  bright 
colors  and  partly  io  sober  tint*  of  brown,  repro- 
duced by  lithographic  processes.  The  drawing, 
while  not  always  perfectly  accurate,  is  generally 
good,  and  often  very  good,  and  the  coloring 
tasteful  and  effective.  The  merry  faces  and  bab- 
bling voices  of  young  children  are  pleasantly 
served  up  in  these  bright  pages- 

The  alliterative  and  rhyming  title.  Fatty  "ftaw- 
tri  frmit  Oeiait  Bontrt,  covers  a  medium-siied, 
thin,  silk-knotted  book  of  short  selections  of 
poetry  of  the  sea,  illuatiated  with  sprays  of  sea 
mosses,  the  joint  compilation  of  Dr.  A.  B.  Her- 
vey  and  Jennie  May  Shaw.  The  sketches  in 
black  are  not  satisfactory,  having  a  blurred  and 
unfinished  effect,  as  if  the  ink  were  poor  or  tbe 
impression  imperfect;  but  the  mosses  in  tints 
are  done  with  extreme  delicacy  and  beauty.  [S. 
E-  Cassino.    fi-00.] 


i8S6.] 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


463 


There  ire  f«w  more  fragrant  names  among  the 
T«cent  dead  than  Frances  Ridley  Havergal.  In- 
formaiioD  about  her  hai  been  meager,  but 
li  conirejed  in  the  preliminary  akclch  to  Riyal 
Grace  and  Leyal  Gifts,  a  collection  in  one  moder- 
ate Tolame  of  her  "  Royal  Command menti," 
"Royal  Bounly,"  "Kept  for  the  Master's  Use," 
"My  King,"  "The  Royal  Inwitation, 
"  Loyal  Retponses,"  no«  appearing  in 
edition,  with  a  portrait,  but  without  any  date  of 
isaue  on  the  title-page.  [A.  D.  F.  Randolph  & 
C*.] 

Mr.  John  Wanamaker  of  Philadelphia  sends 
Di  two  showy  wall  calendars  of  (he  "  Atlantic' 
pattern,  one  devoted  to  Dicktnt,  the  other  to  Ten- 
nyian.  The  board  mounts  of  both  are  gay  with 
scenes  from  the  favorite  writings  of  each  author, 
and  the  blocks  of  extracts  contain  the  date  of 
and  a  quotation  [or  every  day  in  the  year.    [50c.] 

Daily  Ckimti,  with  its  soft  padded  cover, 
exactly  like  BiMt  Ckivus,  noticed  in  oar  last 
Issue,  both  in  form,  plan,  and  appearance,  except 
that  its  daily  selections  for  the  moni 
6-001  the  Bible  but  from  the  English  Poeu.  [Ca>- 
scll  ft  Co.     50c.] 

Tht  Romance  of  thi  Mdoh,  by  J.  Mitchell,  is 
dainty  little  volume  of  nonsense,  consisting  of 
thirteen  prettily  drawn,  absurdly  romantic  pict- 
ures, with  a  line  or  two  of  text  under  each. 
There  is  also  an  illuminated  cover,  title-page, 
preface,  and  tai^plece  ;  the  whole  making  a  gift 
[or  the  holidays;  which  will  be  welcome  to  those 
who  like  such  fun,  and  are  not  shocked  at  ibe 
idea  of  lugging  the  sun,  moon,  and  planet*  i 
conical  eitravagania.    [Henry  Holt  ft  Co.] 

WortkittgtnCt  Amatai  for  1SE7  is  about  as 
handsome  a  children's  picture-story  book  as  the 
present  season  has  yet  brought  us.  It  is  of  the 
"  Chatterbox  "  type,  but  is  superior  to  that  famil- 
iar scrap-book  both  lypogiapfaically  and  pido- 
Hally.  The  ordinary  wood-cuts  are  of  Ught 
grade,  and  the  full-page  pictures  which  invariably 
occupy  the  tight-baDd  pages  are  done  in  tints. 
One  of  these  is  a  capital  portrait  of  Oliver  We 
dell  Holmes.    [The  Worthinglon  Co.    Si. 50.] 

1^'t  Beicher  Boti  ef  Days,  edited  by  Eleanor 
Kirk  and  Caroline  B.  Le  Row,  is  of  the  "birth- 
day book"  pattern  made  familiar  by  several 
issues  one  or  two  years  ago.  Here  we  have  a 
snug  3zmo  of  about  400  pages,  yellow-edged, 
the  right-hand  pages  in  blank,  two  days  to  every 
page,  and  the  left-band  filled  with  pungent  ind 
often  pertinent  sentences  (rom  Mr.  Beecber's 
wiilings.  There  is  a  portrait  of  Mr.  Beecher 
on  wood  for  a  frontispiece,  and  the  index  to 
birthdays,  in  blank,  at  the  end  is  a  useful  feature. 
The   binding  Is  in  good  taste-    [Cassell  ft  Co. 

Tkt  Betchir  CiUtndar,  also  of  the  "  Atlantic  " 
pattern,  gives  on  the  card  a  portrait  of  Mr. 
Beecher  and  views  of  his  former  and  present 
churches,  his  birthplace  at  Litchfield,  Conn., 
and  his  Peekskill  summer  home ;  and  on  the 
block  of  d^ly  leaflets  ^tened  thereto  selections 
from  his  writings  sufficient  for  the  year.  [Cas- 
sell &  Co.    «i«a] 


BOOKS  FOB  TEE  TOUVO. 

Tht  Ytntng  Wriektr  of  ilu  Florida  Rtif;  or, 
Tkt  Trials  and  AdvaUurii  of  Frtd  Ransom.  By 
Richard  Meade  Uache.  Sixth  Edition.  [Lee  ft 
Shepard.    ti-oo.] 

Although  it  has  an  e£Easive  title,  this  book  is 
not  seniatioDal.    It  tiaiTBtea  the  adventares  of 


a  boy  who  was  carried  away  by  accident  in 
vessel  bound  from  New  York  to  Havana;  1 
the  Utter  place  he  is  transferred  to  a  wrecker 
for  Key  West  until  be  can  communi 
his  father  and  be  sent  home.  In  each  case  he 
falls  among  friends,  and  has  for  capli 
of  principle  and  kindness,  so  that  the  reader  is 
spared  the  brutality  which  so  often  characterize* 
sea  stories.  The  boy,  who  has  always  desired 
to  be  a  sailor,  is  intelligent  and  teachable,  and 
besides  learning  nautical  ways,  gains  information 
about  the  places  he  visits  and  the  wonders  of 
the  deep,  such  as  coral  reefs,  sea-fowl  and  fishes: 
and  his  experiences  with  sharka,  turtle  hunting, 
fiahing  with  the  casting-net,  and  similar  subjects, 
are  told  with  spirit.  The  time,  that  of  the  Semi 
nole  War,  gives  occasion  for  some  thrilling 
episodes,  closing  with  a  ship  on  fire  and  the 
rescue  of  passengers.  The  fact  that  the  book 
baa  passed  through  so  many  editions  indicates 
its  popularity;  it  is  packed  with  Information, 
entertaining  as  well  as  useful,  and  boys  can  read 
it  withoat  being  harmed. 

Ckioalric  Days.     And  the  Boys  and  I 
Helped  to  Make  Them.    By  E.  S.  Brooks.    Illus- 
trated.   [G.  F.  Putnam's  Sons.] 

Three  of  ihese  stories  have  been  in  .£1:  Nitk- 
olas,  one  has  been  adapted  from  the  French,  and 
six  have  been  specially  written  for  this  volume. 
Incidents  which  easily  lend  themselves  to  pictur- 
esque treatment  have  been  chosen,  and  worked 
up  in  an  attractive  manner;  historic  boys  and 
girls  of  different  periods  and  nationalities 
the  actors.  "Cinderella's  Ancestor"  is 
Egyptian  maiden  who  became  Queen  NIcotris; 
"The  Favored  of  Baal"  is  Hannibal 
Telt-Tale  Foot "  (one  of  the  best)  ia  a  story  o( 
the  mother  of  Charlemagne;  "TheBede  of  the 
Elves"  has  to  do  with  King  Alfred.  In 
cases  the  author  has  had  to  resort  to  a  little 
special  pleading  to  make  the  chivalry  meet  the 
demand  of  his  plan,  but  as  a  whole  it  is  a  very 
ing  collection  for  the  library  of  any  boy  or 
girl,  and  by  reading  these  elaborated  stories  of 
I  or  noble  deeds  they  ought  to  appreciate 
(ally  the  worth  of  honor,  truth,  genileneu, 
purity,  faith,  and  loyally  as  here  set  forth.  Of 
the  many  illustrations  it  may  be  said  that  some 
of  the  best  were  made  for  the  stories ;  others,  of 
degrees  of  merit  and  appToprialeness, 
have  been  gathered  from  different  sources  to  be 

he  subject  —  though  "fitted"  is  obvi' 
ously  a  word  sometimes  out  of  pjacc  especially 

of  such  glaring  inconsistency,  of  such 

absurd  anachronism,  as  that  labelled  "Bertha" 

p.  91,  where  a  modern  young  lady  who  may 

have  done  duty  in  a  sentimental  magazine  story 

to  represent  Bertrada,  Queen  of  the 
Fnmks''A.  D.  750." 


had  been  born  on  a  different  planet,  and  yet 
bound  up  In  the  great  family  bond  with  our- 
selves, enlisting  our  sympathies  while  our  inter- 
est and  curiosity  are  stirred.  It  will  be  a  delight 
to  all  the  child  readers  who  crave  true  stories 
to  know  that  among  these  fanny  little  Eskimo 
people  the  author  lived  two  years,  actually  shar- 
ing their  snow  huts,  so  that  he  tells  at  first  hand 
what  he  truly  saw  and  knew.  It  will  be  a  sur- 
prise, too,  to  such  youthful  readers,  and  perhaps 
to  some  older  ones,  to  learn  that  the  Eskimo 
clothes  of  reiudeer  skins,  in  which  the  wearers 
look  so  clumsily  bundled  up  and  so  stiff,  are 
really  "  as  soft  and  limber  as  velvet,"  and  warmer 
even  than  the  nice  "seal-skin  sacks  and  muffs 
that  American  ladies  wear  in  winter;"  and  to 
know  with  what  patience  the  slow  atid  laborious 
stitching  of  these  garments  is  done,  and  with 
what  primitive  needles  and  unpromising  thread. 


This  is  a  bright  little  book,  with  a  few  foil-page 
pictures,  made  up  of  the  funny  saj-ings  and 
roguish  doings  of  a  pet  child  from  her  second  to 
her  fourth  year  —  all  very  natural  and  enteitain- 
ing,  except  the  marriage  of  the  dolls  which 
comes  near  being  silly.  How  out  of  baby  im- 
pbhness,  too  delicious  for  anything  but  laughter, 
and  too  "cunning"  for  punishment,  she  locks 
out  the  washerwoman,  nearly  scalds  herself, 
larly  sets  the  house  on  fire,  how  she  runs  away 
and  loses  herself,  does  mischief  generally,  but  is 
loved  and  forgiven,  and  left  to  do  something  as 
pranksome  again,  bow  she  braids  her  uncle's 
whiskers,  how  she  goes  to  school  and  walks 
the  rules,  and  captivates  the  master  —  all  is 
lingly  put  OD  record  by  this  partial  and 
loving  historian  of  a  real  child,  for  none  but  a 
real  one  could  have  been  so  full  of  devices. 

Tit  Ckriilmat  Country,  and  Other  Taiei.  A 
Collection  of  Stories  Written  and  Translated  by 
Mary  F.  Safford.    [T.  Y.  Crowell  ft  Co.    #1.25,! 

Three  of  these  tales  are  by  Miss  Safford ;  the 
others  are  from  the  pens  of  several  writers  of 
Northern  Europe,  most  of  the  events  taking 
place  in  Germany,  varied  by  two  Icelandic  fairy 


tales,  the  n 


of  whose  author 


covers  all  a-glister  with  icebergs  and  with 
gold  and  silver  linea  streaming  up  like  the 
Northern  Lights,  with  plenty  ai  pictures,  this  is 
book  of  real  stories  about  Eskimo  children, 
their  homes,  their  playthings,  their  sleds  and 
dogs  and  canoes,  their  out-door  sports,  seal  hunt- 
ing and  fishing,  how  their  clothes  are  made, 
what  they  eat,  their  traits  and  habits,  and  all  one 
would  care  to  know ;  an  inside  view  of  the  child 
life  of  a  kind  <rf  people  on  a  lower  plane  than 
ours,  ai»d  as  imlike  In  many  respect*  as  if  they 


The  Voting  Englishman"  (by  W.  Hauff), 
where  an  ourang-outang  is  passed  off  in  socnety 
young  man,  for  the  purpose  of  rebuking 
"  snobbishness,"  ha*  been  translated  before. 
The  others  have  not  such  a  familiar  look,  and 
are  as  good  as  the  average;  but  in  view  of  all 
the  flood  of  fairy  Mteratute  that  is  pouring  in, 
help  feeling  that  a  fine  legend  like 
the  one  which  tells  how  the  statue  of  "The 
Butter  Maid  of  Zerbsi "  came  to  be  set  up  in  the 
market-place,  is  really  worth  all  the  fanciful 
things  in  the  book;  and  that  with  the  treasures 
of  historic  incidentt  to  be  made  captivating  by  a 
skillful  pen,  it  is  a  mistaken  idea  on  the  part  of 
writers  and  translators  that  our  children  need  be 
couttantly  fed  on  fairy  lore. 


Mr.  John  Ashton  concludes  in  his  Romantii  of 
Ckiealry  twelve  of  those  fascinating  fairy  and 
folk-tales  of  the  Middle  Ages,  which  have  been 
the  nucleus  for  lo  many  modern  adaptation*. 
The  book  open*  with  the  romance  of  Mclutina, 
that  fabled  ancestreu  of  the  Count  of  Lusignan 


4«4 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Dec.  It, 


in  Puiliers,  who  was  a  disguised  water  nymph, 
wjlh  a  human  Eorm  and  ■  fish  or  serpent  tail, 
and  aCtet  man;  jeacs  of  wedlock,  and  becoming 
Ihe  molher  of  seven  sons,  fell  a  Ticttm  (a*  did 
Psyche)  lo  the  curiosity  of  her  spouse,  and  was 
forced  to  return  furevci  to  her  serpent  form- 
She  is  still  heard,  traditionally,  lamenting  and 
making  moans  round  the  towers  of  her  old  home 
in  Poitiers,  where  a  sharp  sudden  sound  is 
called  by  the  peasants  to  thia  day,  "le  cri  Je 
Ml!iiiini."  "The  Story  of  (he  Swan  Knight," 
the  original  of  Lohengrta,  is  another  of  these 
Interesting  chronicles,  and  siill  another  is  that  of 
"The  Sqaire  of  Lo«  Degree,"  of  whom  most  of 
us  know  nothing  more  than  bis  name.  The 
volume,  which  is  large  and  handsomely  bound 
and  printed,  is  further  enriched  by  a  number  of 
very  quaint  wood-cuts. 


EEOEVT  POETRY. 

After  a  little  experienM  in  "reviewing"  cur- 
rent productions  in  verse,  or  wliat,  by  universal 
courtesy,  is  styled  "recent  poetry,"  one  comes  to 
have  a  depressing  sense  of  the  inevitable  nets,  |{ 
we  may  so  express  ourselves,  of  the  verse-mak- 
ing business.  Scientific  men  have  figured  ont, 
that,  given  a  specified  population  existing  under 
such  and  such  conditions,  so  many  must  commit 
Buiddc,  so  many  become  drunkards,  so  many 
'  become  thieves,  so  many  array  themselves  in 
this  and  that  category  of  ciiminali  in  Ihe  course 
of  every  year.  These  unfoctanates  are,  in  a  cer- 
tain sense,  the  victims  of  destiny.  Without 
adopting  this  philosophy  of  determinism  as  an 
intellectual  and  moral  code,  we  sometimes  find 
ourselves  applying  it  to  a  stack  of  "recent 
poetry"  with  a  great  deal  of  satisfaction.  Evi- 
dently, things  being  as  they  are,  so  many  vol- 
umes of  "  poetry  "  must  be  published  every  year, 
and  the  reviewer  to  whose  lot  they  fall  must 
acquiesce  as  amiably  as  possible  in  the  inevitable. 
Indeed,  Ihe  doctrine  of  the  inevitable  affords  a 
rauan  iPttre  that  might  otherwise  be  difficult  to 
discover  in  many  of  these  seemingly  sporadic 
and  apparently  superfluous  collections. 

Only  the  iron  doctrine  of  the  inevitable,  for 
instance,  can  account  for  Mr.  Baaley's  Tempit  a/ 
Alanthur.'  With  Mr.  Bailey  Ihe  writing  of 
verse  is  evidently  a  slrug|lc,  since  in  an  "i 
tore"  he  likens  himself  to  one  who  does  fierce 
battle  with  ihe  figments  of  his  brain  which  mock 
hia  "secret  purposes,"  and,  in  spile  of  the  un- 
tiring efiorta  of  the  pursuer,  continue  to  "whirl 
in  Iheir  unabated  circuits."  Yet  there  are  occa- 
sional touches  of  inspiration  which  leave  the 
reviewer  sorrowing  as  one  not  without  hope.  On 
the  other  hand,  not  even  the  grim  decrees  of 
destiny  can  afford  a  valid  excuse  for  such  stuff  as 
Henry  M.  Cionkhite's  Rtymond?  Mr.  Cronk- 
hite  manufactures  his  blank  verse  with  a  sausage- 
machine.  Imagine  the  pitiable  fatuity  o( 
human  being  who  can  turn  out  three  thousand 
line*  like  these  I 

Finn  win  receive  a  hnndred  ponndi  i  year ; 
'Tmll  bi  repnid.    He't  wonh  hit  weifki  in  gold. 

To  ^1  bul  him,  jrou.  J«*v,  anil  rnjuH, 

Waning  ii  caning  mbiu  ;  Irtv.  u>  >1obb. 


<  TIh  Tvn^  of  AliDlhnr,  wiih  Other  Ponu.  B^ 
R.  Bulev-    G.  P.  Pbiiiwb'i  Sons. 

>  Rernond  1  a  Dnmi  si  the  Anwiieiui  Remladini 
Hmry  M.  CnnikliilB.    G.  P.  Poinui'a  Son*. 


We  turn  with  a  sensation  very  like  relief  to 
the  pretty  commonplace*  of  Mrs.  Charles,'  which 
enshrined  in  red  lines,  adt»ned  with  a  mis- 
aneous  selection  of  extraordinary  engravings, 
and  prefaced  by  a  pleasing  portrait.  Mr.  Hunter 
MacCnIloch  also  favors  us  with  the  too  inevit- 
able portrait,*  in  this  case  displaying  a  noble 
expanse  of  forehead  and  an  elongated  beard. 

With  A  Ytar's  Sgnntts?  by  Louise  Brooks,  we 
emerge  from  the  ol  iroA^i  of  the  would-be  and 
unavailable "  to  the  select  concourse  of  true 
ingers,  of  whom,  thanks  to  the  inevitable,  the 
mes  have  still  a  tuneful  minority.  The  dainty 
collection  of  A  Year"!  SfHttiti  contains  one,  at 
least,  that  is  its  own  sufficient  excuse  for  being  : 

Crimvn  and  pMen  ilim  the  dwidleee  weB. 
A  lilaDI  pudOD  Ihrilb  atoni  the  lii. 
Onobei'i  kinriy  nuitle,  ri3ilr  tiit, 
II  folded  koelv  o'er  bie  bamiDi  breaiL 
A  flaihhic  jtwef,  on*  nd,  liqaid  tua 
l>ipces  arKl  Ircnbke  on  hie  throbbtnc  heart. 
Hm  loinna  Unfen,  irievinf  u  deput— 
LoviDily  lingcre.    Froa  the  oaH  aur 
How  eiowlj  iieali  a  feiiillj  elnpios  veil 
While  raddlcr  fTOwa  thenar  I    A  ninrlwtit 
■  Miblj  the  loW. 


VmindiniinuleaDH.   .... 
Fleeinf  ifn|hled  lhroii(h  th*  ar 


#j. 


■  loiii  cloiid.    Ociolw  wae  loo  tioid  I 

Mrs.  Eliiabeth  Akcra  is  a  poet  who  sing*  in 
bat  few  keys,  and  they  are  mostly  minor,  having 
that  undertone  of  true  pathos  which  is  inspired 
by  emotion  rather  than  by  sentiment,  and  which, 
if  never  stormy  or  impetuoas,  moves  to  sym- 
pathy by  Ihe  restrained  vitalily  of  It*  expression. 
In  the  little  volume  now  issued  with  ber  name 
upon  the  title-page,*  are  fifty  short  poems,  most  of 
them  very  abort,  representing  the  product  of  a 
good  many  years.  The  best  of  them  are  lyrics, 
for  Mrs.  Akers's  talent  is  essentially  lyrical,  and 
her  moat  altraclive  verse  is  in  the  simple  ballad 
form.  Mrs.  Akers  takes  a  very  pessimistic  view 
of  masculine  constancy,  and  celebrates  its  ab- 
sence in  varied  strains  of    scorn  and  sadness. 

There  are  hints  of  cheering  possibilities  in 
ihe  Stttgs  and  Satires  of  James  Jcfirey  Roche,' 
who,  in  a  manner  that  impresses  us  as  still  tenta- 
tive and  experimental,  display*  an  earnest  pas- 
sion for  the  elevation  of  humanity,  and  a  whole- 
some vein  of  humor  that  even  attains  to  wit. 
Humor  of  a  playful  sort  and  plenty  of  it  is  to 
be  found  in  the  Caf  ami  Bilh  oE  Samuel  Min- 
turn  Peck,'  whose  melodious  vtri  de  tetiltl,  after 
the  manner  of  Frederick  Locker,  tl  id  gentis 
oBtHi,  are  always  sprightly  and  gracefully 
rhymed.  Mr.  Arlo  Bates,  in  his  Btrritt  ef 
tkt  Briar?  gleans  an  unpretentious  harvest  of 
Heinesque  songs  which  touch  the  palate  with  a 
wild-growth  Savor,  and  incite  the  appetite  to  a 
leitful  pleasure.  Mr.  Bates,  as  a  poet,  is  wary  of 
the  sin  of  overmuch,  and  so  he  invokes  the  muse 
only  in  rare  moments  of  real  inspiration-  Some 
of  his  songs  are  trifles  light  as  ur,  but  they  have 
the  dower  of  beauty. 

In  Be/umia,  by  John  Boyle  O'Reilly,"  sustains 


•  Lriieid  Foene.    By  Esnlj  Thoratea  Chiilea.    J.  B- 
lippmcou  Co.    la-oo- 

<  From  Da«  to  Dink,  and  Other  Pouni.    By  Hsnier 
MscCulloch.    J.  B.  Lippincoll  Co.    (uj. 

•  A  Yeai*!  SmoetL    By  Looih  Brooki-    Cupplei,  Up- 

•  The  Silver  Biidn,  and  Oiher  Poemi.    By  EJiiabelh 
Akcn.    Hoaililon,  Mifflin  ft  Co.    fi.ij. 

'  Soon  and  Silirce.    By  Jamei  jEffrey  Roche.    Tick- 
BoratTo-    »i.oo. 

•  Cap  and  Belli.    By  Sanuet  MlDlitm  Peck.    Whiu, 


••iBBahemii.    8y  Joho  Boyle  O*  Reilly.   PDoi  Pnbliib- 


Ihe  reputation  of  the  author  as  a  poet  of  radiant 
imagination  and  noble  ideals,  although  it  contains 
no  narrative  poem  to  display  the  far-reaching 
dramatic  power  characteristic  of  Mr.  O'Reilly's 
mosi  impressive  productions  in  verse.  "The 
City  Streets"  is  an  eloquent  outcry  against  the 
oppressions  of  civilization : 


uIe  I 


and  the  poet  invokes  the  people's  will  as  sure  to 
bring  about  justice,  in  peace  if  rightly  guided,  in 
storm  if  it  be  denied.  Of  his  native  land  and 
her  future,  Mr.  O'Reilly  sing*  with  a  passionate 
Fervor  which  is  enough  to  set  the  pulses  of  an 
alien  bounding.  Ireland  is  the  land  of  his  heart, 
but  he  seeks  for  a  cosmopolitan  ground  where 
true  souls  may  freely  meet  —  and  finda  it  in 
"  Bohemia : " 

I'd  rather  live  in  Bohemia  than  la  any  other  laod  i 

For  only  there  an  the  viIdc*  (nie, 

And  Ihe  lannla  (albaird  in  all  men'i  view. 


a  fait] 


Aflama  with  the  glory  at  tiarreaied  muh ; 
A  xirl  wiih  1  picinrt,  a  nsB  with  a  ptay, 
A  boy  with  a  wall  he  hai  modeltd  in  clay; 

A  player,  e  kln^  e  ploufhoiep,  a  lord  — 
And  IPC  plaftr  a  kipg  when  the  door  ia  T»et, 

Mrs.  Thaxler,  in  her  latest  volume  of  poems," 
does  nol  dwell  so  persistently  on  the  sea  aa  she 
did  in  her  earlier  verae,  although  she  by  no 
means  neglects  the  primal  sources  whence  *be 
drew  her  first  poetical  faniHes.  "  The  Cruise  of 
the  Mystery"  is  a  weird  ballad,  written  with 
simple  power.  The  "Mystery"  is  aslave-ship, 
and  her  dread  cargo,  shot  below  in  a  storm,  perish 
in  a  night.  At  the  captain's  order  the  corpses 
are  thrown  overboard, 

A  banqvcl  for  the  wandering  shark. 
The  vessel  is  be<»lmed,  and.  In  the  moonlight,  a 
phantom  troop  oE  swimmers  appear,  and  swann 
upon  the  ship : 

The  awfal  ihip,  the  MyitaiT, 
Hei  captiio  in  iIm  dead  nen't  grip  -~ 


In  the  "other  poems,"  Mrs.  Thaxler  touchea  on 
varied  themes  —  music,  love,  the  delight*  of  field 
and  flower,  and  the  mysteries  of  death  and  im- 
mortality—  touches  on  all  with  the  keen  spiritual 
inaight  and  rare  felicity  of  expression  that  arc 
almost  always  the  attributes  of  her  verse. 

The  author  o(  Pipes  from  Prairie-Land"  doe* 
not  sing  as  one  to  the  manner  born.  Her  verse 
has  the  charm  of  simplicity,  but  il  is  easy  to  see 
that  she  takes  the  attitude  oC  a  cultivated  alien 
in  spite  of  her  sympathetic  efforts  to  put  herself 
in  entire  harmony  with  the  pioneer  atmosphere. 
"  Waiooska  "  is  a  charming  bit  of  Indian  lore, 
but  neither  in  this  vein  nor  in  her  dialect  verse 
does  Miss  Gilmore  seem  to  attain  fall-voiced 
utterance.  "The  Shooting  Star"  is  exquisite  in 
form  and  sequence,  although  the  conception  is 
perhaps  a  trifle  forced.  With  such  themes  aa 
"A  Western  Wedding," "An  Autumn  Canter," 
"Mowing  the  Harvest  Hay,"  and  "The  Hnsldng 
of  the  Corn,"  there  is  both  spontaneity  and 
grace. 


.   CiwU&Co-   li-oo. 


l886.] 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


46s 


Tht  wind  blowa  iwhi  with  rya  and  wbeU, 

The  blH^y  Hcka  her  amU. 
ThB  puicnl  kiu  wind  10  lbs  niich, 

The  TicHPCwlnl  hofvaa  newh  i 
And  dovd  iba  khm  iIib  ih^u  KyibH  p«a, 

Mowing  iIh  banot  Iiit, 

Fion  the  ncu  bam  th«  dear  nice  call* 

Beiide  Ihe  olEi  the  farmer  nais— 

The  faiibTuI  leam  rpea  on. 
The  pieity  miiknuidleaTn  hn  paili. 

To  beat  what  be  wouM  taT, 
Aoi  down  iha  giua  lb«  icjOitt  will  paai, 

There  are  few  voiumea  of  recent  vene  that  have 
in  Ihcm  so  many  elements  of  promiie  aa  are  to 
be  found  fn  Miss  Gilmore's  altrscttve  collection- 


MDf  OR  FIOTIOI. 

Melam/  Blatc.  Bt  S.  Weir  Mitchell,  M.D. 
[Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.    $1.35.] 

Dr.  Weir  Mitcliell  lells  hts  itory  of  Relaiid 
Blaki  with  1  quiet  power  and  a  skillful  inter- 
pretation of  characters  and  motives  that  will  at 
once  win  and  hold  the  attention  of  thoughlfol 
readers.  It  is  a  story  of  the  war  time,  and  we 
at«  taken  at  (ntervati  directly  to  the  front,  and 
get  fine  and  telling  pictures  of  soldiery  on  the 
march  and  in  battle ;  but  the  war  sceties,  admira- 
bly as  ihey  are  done,  serre  only  as  background 
for  the  leading  motive  which  involves  a  love 
affair  that  progresses  slowly  and  surely  to  a 
gr^tiiying  conclusion.  Octopi a  Darnell  partakes 
somewhat  of  a  professional  study.  One  feels 
sure  that  Dr.  Mitchell  has  seen  and  diagnosed 
that  selfish  and  contradictory  nalute  with  its 
occasional  impulses  toward  generosity  and  truth. 
Mrs,  Wynne  is  a  delightful  creation,  and  Ad- 
denda Pennell  is  no  less  creditable  to  the  au- 
thor's observation  of  the  specialized  forms  of 
humanity.  But  none  of  Dr.  Milchell's  charac- 
ters are  commonplace,  and  most  of  them  are 
people  it  would  be  agreeable  to  know.  Hardly 
any  page  is  devoid  of  some  clever  epigram. 
"The  lonely  life  of  sickness  had  made  self  so 
near  that  its  breath  blurred  (he  mirror  of  con- 
science,"  is  said  o[  Octopia.  Elsewhere  this  sig- 
nificant sentence  appears :  "  Men  make  thooghl- 
ful  sacrifices  of  self;  in  women  self-devotion 
has  the  strength  and  automatism  of  an  instinct." 
Everywhere  are  discoverable  signs  of  clear-eyed 
perception,  earnest  purpose,  and  ideal  standards 
of  thought  and  action.  Reland  Blake  is  to  be 
commended  for  all  of  these  qualities,  and  for  a 
certain  wholesome  purity  of  sentiment  not  easy 
to  analyse,  and  which  gives  to  the  book  a  lone 
and  atmosphere  entirely  its  own. 

Tki  Marquis  ef  Ptmilla  {Marta  y  Marfa) ;  A 
Realistic  Social  Novel.  By  Don  Armando  Pal- 
acio  Vald^s.  Translated  from  the  Spanish  bv 
Nathan  Haskell  Dole.  [T.  Y.  Crowell  &  Co. 
18S6.    fi.50.] 

There  are  a  few  books  —  rati  aanlet  iiigurgi/e 
nuAi  — floating  down  the  swift  tide  of  modern 
literature,  which  the  reviewer  can  greet  with  an 
unmixed  approval.  TS<  Marquis  ef  Pehalta,  to 
use  its  original  title,  Maria  y  Marii,  is  one  of 
those  happy  creations  of  which  one  can  really  say 
nothing  ill.  What  shade  there  Is  of  melancholy 
Is  so  completely  offset  by  brilliant  effect*  (hat 
the  impression  left  finally  is  altogether  agree- 
able. This  animated  picture  of  modern  Spanish 
life,  coming  10  us  just  after  an  abundant  supply 
of  Russian  literature  not  always  of  the 
cheerful   sort,   is   particularly  welcome.    It  re- 


minds us  too  that  there  is  a  contemporary  life 
in  Spain,  with  which  we  have  much  in  common. 
Although  it*  method  is  distinctly  "realistic," 
there  is  noticeable  at  times  a  seemingly  uncon- 
scious return  to  an  early  manner,  not  without 
its  suggestions  of  bygone  romanticism;  but  this 
is  to  be  expected  in  the  literature  of  a  country 
just  beginning  to  tread  on  the  heels  of  our  more 
advanced  culture.  The  paradoxical  nature  of 
Maria's  character  may  perhaps  offend  people 
to  whom  asceticism  has  ever  seemed  a  holy 
duty.  Maria  craves  tor  perfection  so  strongly 
and  so  selfishly  as  to  be  willing  to  sacrifice 
father,  mother,  and  even  her  betrothed,  by 
seeking  to  betray  them  into  a  dangerous  po- 
litical intrigue.  This  portraiture  is  evidently 
not  an  "attack"  on  any  creed,  for  the  1 
church  which  made  Haria  possible,  makes  the 
charming  Matta  a  fresh  and  living  actuality- 
Nothing  could  be  more  effective  than  the  dis- 
passionate treatment  of  Maria's  fervor,  and  of 
her  ecstatic,  sensual,  almost  libidinous, 
manings  with  her  morbidly  conceived  via 
Her  excited  nerves,  disordered  stomach,  and  her 
imaginative  self -consciousness  combined  to  spoil 
a  character  in  which  there  was  much  that  wi 
lovely.  What  Maria  might  have  been,  we  si 
in  the  wholly  charming  Marta. 


The  author  who  writes  under  the  odd  pseudo- 
nym of  Fayr  Madoc  has  a  fondness  for  studying 
morbid  conditions  of  human  character  and  their 
consequences  on  others  besides  the  diseased 
victim.  It  was  apparent  in  a  former  book,  Tkt 
Story  of  Milictnl;  and  in  the  one  now  in  hand, 
which  is  an  abler  work  by  far,  the  happiness  of 
[he  central  characters,  Margaret  and  Henry 
Bartropps,  is  wrecked  through  (he  lunatic  theory 
and  injunction  of  a  man  possessed  of  one  idea. 
This  man,  Charles  Jermine,  loses  bis  lovely 
young  wife  about  a  year  after  their  marriage.  In 
his  intense  grief  shuts  himself  up  for  a  time,  and 
then  comes  forth  with  the  stony  philosophy  that 
to  avoid  suffering  one  must  keep  from  loving; 
and  from  this  he  never  changes.  He  refuses  to 
see  his  infant  daughter,  and  commands  that  she 
be  brought  up  without  affection,  or  knowledge 
of  it ;  when  a  nurse  or  servant  becomes  attached 
to  Margaret  she  is  dismissed.  The  story  of  the 
childhood  of  this  little  girl  is  most  pathetic;  she 
is  passionate  and  wild,  but  lender-hearted  and 
(rue;  she  loves  her  boy  neighbor  Henry,  and 
(hey  are  at  once  separated.  Before  her  father's 
death  she  receives  written  injunctions  to  abide 
by  his  philosophy,  and  promises  (o  try  not  to 
love.  The  Btruggle  and  torture  of  the  high- 
minded  girl  when  later  she  meets  Henry  and 
they  fall  in  love,  is  as  painful  as  the  cruel  child. 
hood.  None  but  disastrous  results  could  fol- 
low; but  Margaret  tarns  her  house  Into  a  school 
for  children,  and  tries  to  End  in  their  love  and 
in  working  for  others  an  outlet  for  her  de- 
frauded human  feelings.  A  second  letter  from 
her  father,  releasing  her  from  her  promise,  is 
discovered  when  too  late.  There  are  fine  studies 
at  character  and  pictures  of  social  life ;  the  story 
is  told  with  a  good  deal  of  spirit  and  pathos  ;  the 
leading  purpose  dominates  it  throughout;  the 
lines  are  held  in  a  firm  grasp,  and  there  are  no 
weak  places ;  being  what  it  purposed,  it  is  not  too 
intense  and  not  overdone.  It  could  not  in  the 
nature  of  things  be  plea^ng,  bat  It  is  tukiqoe 


and  strong,  it  holds  the  interest,  and  Is  worth 
reading,  though  not  a  profitable  theme  or  one 
be  imitated. 


The  plot  of  Klaai  Brener'i  Wifi  turn)  on  the 
often  treated  theme,  an  unhappy  marriage,  of  a 
man's  mistaking  a  shallow  little  doll  with  a 
beautiful  face  and  soft  voice  for  a  real  woman 
wi(h  a  touch  of  the  angel  in  her.  In  this  case 
the  man  has  the  better  excuse,  that  he  has  been 
long  absent  from  Europe,  knows  little  of  modern 
society,  and  nothing  of  the  order  of  woman 
known  as  Bohemian.  So  Klaus  Brewer  marries 
the  actress,  Katie  Schone,  and  the  pair  pass 
through  the  usual  phases  which  accompany  such 
a  mistake.  The  adoring  lover  becomes  first  the 
disappointed  husband,  then  the  instinctive  critic, 
then  the  relentless  Judge,  and  in  the  end  they 
separate ;  the  wife  going  back  to  (he  life  which 
she  understands  and  prefers,  the  life  of  the 
green-room  and  the  theater,  with  its  revelries, 
excitements,  compromising  jollifications,  and  un- 
compromising Jautle-eiUendrti,  while  the  hus- 
band sets  a  grim  face  again  toward  the  jungle- 
It  is  a  situation  which  commands  our  sympathies 
however  treated,  which  in  this  case  is  with  a 
certain,  not  unpleosing,  simplicity  and  freshnets 
distinctively  G 


In  Lady  Valvm-tWi  Diamonds  the  English 
novelist  who  calls  herself  "the  Duchess"  has 
not  made  an  improvement  on  her  previous 
works.  In  matter  and  style  the  book  is  a  weak 
imitation  of  "  Ouida's  "  poorest  work.  Lady  Vb1> 
worth's  diamonds  have  been  stolen.  The  thief 
turns  out  to  be  disguised  as  a  gentleman,  and 
the  diamonds  turn  up  as  his  gift  (o  his  lady  love. 
Rather  vulgar   love-making,  questionaUe  fiirla- 

up  a  thoroughly  worthless  novel.  [J.  B.  Lippin- 
cott  Co.     f  1-00.] 

Anything  that  Rev.  5.  Baring  Gould  would 
write  would  be  worth  reading.  And  Littlt  7ii- 
fienny  is  thatj  the  story  of  a  plebeian  girl  in 
the  outskirts  of  London,  who  grew  up  with  a 
huge  windmill  for  a  companion,  and,  when  she 
came  to  womanhood,  married  a  man  who  passed 
for  an  aristocrat  but  proved  to  be  a  scoundrel 
and  a  burglar.  Her  unhappy  life  with  him 
opened  her  eyes  to  the  vanity  of  smooth  prom- 
ises, and  brought  her  back  at  last  (o  the  old  mill, 
and  to  happiness  of  a  less  gilded  quality  but  far 
more  real.    [D.  Applcton  &  Co.    ajc] 

Oiar  Lift,  by  J.  E.  Panton,  is  a  tragic  tale  of 
highly  improbable  character,  in  which  an  Eng- 
lishwoman, Lady  Manners,  supposed  to  have 
perished  in  (he  (ndian  Mutiny,  returns  to  Eng- 
land after  a  silence  of  twenty  years,  just  as  her 
husband  is  carried  to  his  burial.  An  old  lover 
whom  she  had  refused  in  her  youth,  there  meets 
her,  renews  his  suit,  and  is  about  to  marry  her, 
when  the  son  of  the  Rajah  whose  mistress  she 
had  formerly  consented  to  be  as  the  price  of  life, 
appears  with  a  dagger,  and  murders  her  in  cold 
blood.  Those  who  know  the  secret  of  her  In- 
dian history  have  been  very  lefere  in  their 
condemnation  of  her,  and  the  ethical  question 
of  her  conduct  Is  so  presented  aa  to  demand 
a  verdict  from  the  reader.    [D.  Appleton  &  Co. 

2JC] 

Mr.  J.  W.  Graham's  Ntara  is  ■■  a  tale  of  Ad- 
deut  Rcnue "  of  the  Ebers  pattern,  and  not  an 


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THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Dec.  ti, 


unsucceufui  study  in  that  achool.  The  tlm«  b 
ibe  tit  Century,  A.D^  and  the  problem  <rhicb  il 
BoWei  il  the  rather  difficult  one  of  a  tnir 
belweea  Martiatis,  a  young  patrician  offic 
Tiberius  Cxiar's  army,  and  Necra,  the  lovely 
daughter  of  a  CapreKan  potter.  The  work  dis- 
plays iBe  Roman  scene  with  careful  detail.  The 
i^le  U  dignified.    [Macmillao  ft  Co.    ti.oo' 

The  author  of  Deltart  »r  Strut  t  proclaims 
that  hii  book,  though  a  novel,  ha*  neither  hero, 
heroine,  nor  plot,  but  it  seema  to  have  a  little  of 
almott  everything  else,  a*  witness  «acb  linei 
from  the  Cantenti  as  these;  "Lady  Lypnyear'i 
Ball,"  "Ilwas  at  Dreiden,"  "Rotten  Row,' 
"The  Polo  Match,"  "The  Cricltet  Match,"  "A 
Tea  Party  in  Fifth  Atcuuc,"  "  Delmontco'i,' 
"  Up  the  Hudson,"  "  Mount  Desert,"  "  The  Ten- 
nil  Match,"  "  Amos  in  London,"  "  New  York,'" 
and  "  A  Drive  in  a  Mack-Cab."  Pretty  much  all 
thai  enters  into  modern  society  life  seemi  to 
have  gone  into  the  making  of  this  book,  and  It 
is  saturated  with  small-talk,  love-gnsh,  slang,  and 
■eDtimentaliim.     [Btenlano  Brothers.] 

If  Irtnt ;  or,  Tkt  Road  la  Frtidem  were  a 
rational  novel,  a  sensible  one ;  if  it  were  in- 
teresting: if  it  were  refined  and  refining  ;  if  it 
made  no  light  of  lerioui  matters,  and  were  not 
flippant,  and  flighty,  and  flat ;  if  its  performance 
were  cqtial  to  its  purpose,  which  is  well  enough ; 
then  we  should  be  willing  to  recommend  it ;  but 
the  advancement  of  woman's  genuine  rights  and 
privileges  and  the  real  service  of  womaohoad 
mast  be  helped  by  other  mqans  than  literature 
of  this  quality.  {Philadelphia  i  H.  N.  Fowler  ft 
Co.    f  1.00.1 

The  strong  French  taile  isunmiitakable  in  Mr. 
N.  Bradbury  Walker's  translation  of  Adolphe 
D'Ennery's  Levit  Martyr,  which  has  for  ingre- 
dienu  an  ingenioui  plot  and  highly- colored  ro- 
mance, and  fur  flavor  just  a  touch  of  the  national 
morals.  Taking  its  longitude  into  account  il  is 
not  particularly  objectionable,  though  it  ia  itot 
a  book  for  young  reader*.  To  the  character* 
which  appear  in  novels  like  thit  there  are,  indeed, 
some  noble  and  shining  trails.    [Rand,  McNally 

ft  Co.       3SC.] 

We  regret  that  through  some  oversight  nn- 
usual  delay  has  occurred  in  noticing  Rott  flay- 
meniPi  Wards,  by  Margaret  Vandegrift;  a  viva- 
cious, life-like,  entertaining  itory  o(  a  family  of 
orphan!,  who,  for  pecuniary  and  educational 
reaioni,  come  from  their  country  home  to  Boston, 
and  live  in  a  flat  in  an  unfaihionable  part  of  the 
city.  There  ii  a  brighmeii  and  good  cheer 
about  these  young  people,  their  friends,  and 
their  various  plans  and  doings,  and  a  healthy 
moral  tone  about  the  whole,  which  render  the 
book  suitable  for  the  use  of  families,  and  of 
Sunday-schools  which  do  not  require  positive 
religious  teaching  in  all  their  books.  [Porter  ft 
Coates.     iSS;.    Illustrated,    ft. 5a] 

A  JVerihirn  Lily,  by  Joanna  Harrison,  Is  an- 
other of  the  many  English  stories  of  modern 
society  life.  The  heroine,  the  "  norlbcm  lily,"  is 
a  charming  Scotch  girl,  who  leaves  her  father's 
home  and  lives  with  lelaitves  in  England.  The 
story  introduces  many  characters  and  scenes  j 
and  though  sad,  both  in  the  outcome  of  its  chief 
love  episode  and  in  its  ending,  yet  is  not  without 
a  light  vein  of  humor,  and  for  naturalness  and 
purity  of  style  maybe  highly  coimneaded.  [Mao- 
millaa  &  Co.     Paper,  soc] 

The  "  psychologist "  who  fiimlabet  the  title  to 
Mr.  P.  P.  Bishop's  unusually  leaned  ttory  i*  a 


Mr.  Joman,  whose  function  seems  to  be  to  dis- 
course ponderously  upon  commonplace  subjects, 
translating  them  into  the  dialect  of  mental  sci- 
ence, as  well  a«  upon  heredity,  the  evidences  of 
Cbiislianily,  etc.    The  narrator  of  the  tale  is 
New  York  drummer,  anxious  to  "  make  his  pile 
in  a  Western  real-estUe  ipecnlation,  every  detail 
of  which   it  given  in  dollars   and  cents.      T 
book  It  a  curious  mucture  of  love,  evangelical 
ligion,  discourses  on  psychology,  business  en 
prises,  and  clumsy  hnmor.    Many  of  the  ideas 
presented  in  Mr.  Jorman't  criticisms  of  modem 
thonght  are  tound  and  well  expressed,  but  for 
our  own  part  we  prefer  to  lake  our  fiction  with- 
out luch  heavy  doses  of  wisdom ;  the  reader  who 
skips  Ihem  will  find  here  a  lively  picture  of  cer- 
tain phatei  of  American  commercial  life.    [TSi 
Psyckol^i.    G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons,    ti.jo] 

The  nine  short  tkelchet  and  stories  by  Miss 
Constance  Fcnimore  Woolson  published  collect- 
ively under  the  title  of  Cailte  ffa/mhert  are  not 
new.  They  first  appeared  En  book  form  in  1873, 
and  then  were  reprints  from  the  magazine*.  As 
having  helped  to  secure  for  thit  talented  wr„tr 
the  attention  of  the  reading  public,  and  as  viewed 

the  backward  light  of  her  recent  successes  in 
larger  ways,  they  have  a  definite  place  and  in- 
tereat  perhaps  above  their  intrinsic  value.  [Har 
per  ft  Brother*.    fi.aa] 

Lee  &  Shepard  are  putting  the  old  novels  of 
Virginia  F.  Townsend  into  a  uniform  dress,  and 
will  conform  the  new  one*  to  it  as  fast  as  they 
appear.  TTtt  Milli  ef  Tkxbury,  Tkt  HoUaniU, 
in  All,  and  72/  Ditrinp  of  Midbury  are 
already  in  our  hand.  The  siie  it  a  crown  8vo, 
the  type  is  clear,  and  the  bindings  are  rich. 
[Each>i.oa] 

From  the  same  publiihers  we  have  a  newly- 
dresaed  edition,  in  style  like  the  above,  of  Anne 
Beale's  Simplieity  and  Fatcinatitit,  a  novel  of 
English  yeomanry  life,  first  issued  many  years 
(»i.»o-l    

ICHiOE  lOTIOES. 


There  is  a  fund  of  entertainment  between  the 
ivers  of  this  well-printed  little  volume,  in  which 
e  reproduced   Haitill's  explorations  into  this 
iknown  region,  and  it  will  be  shared  alike  by 
those  who  are  merely  curious  and   those  who 
ve  firmly  that  from  the  national  dietary  are 
built  up  the  national  characteriitics.    England's 
course  toward  cookery  has  been  a  devious  one. 
Beginning  with  no  cookery  at  all,  such  grain  as 
being  merely  pounded  and  eaten  with  milk, 
she  advanced  in  time  to  the  cakes,  some  of  which 
to  be  burned  by  her  wisest  king,  and  at  last 
grafted  Norman  Tashions  upon  her  own  slender 
stock,  and,  like  the  rest  of  tbe  world,  gave   in 
her  allegiance  to  French  cookery.    Still  the  tra- 
dition of  "good  old  English  dishes,"  holds  good, 
and  the  rulea  for  many  of  the  most  characteristic 
are  here  in  full.    Mrs.  Glasae  ia  known  to  all  of 
through  a  remark  still  quoted,  but  which  the 
author  affirms  she  never  made,  and  Dr.  John- 
conversation  on  cookery  in  general,  with 
his  conviction  that  till   he   made  a  cook-book, 
ihere  would  be  none  deserving  the  name,  also 
have  place,  with  much  else  that  is  amusing.    It 
becomes  certain,  at  the  pages  are  tamed,  that  the 
ikery  of  today  hat  distinct  advantages  over 
that  of  our  anceatort,  thoogh  there  is  an  eqnally 


strong  conviction  that  they  are  responsible  for 
much  of  the  dyspepsia  to  be  found  amoDg  their 
deicendanta. 


Hidf-HouTi  viitk  a  /fattiralitl.  By  the  Rev. 
J.  G.  Wood,  M.A.   [Thomas  Whittaker.    fl.50.] 

This  is  not  a  formal  treaiiie  on  loology  or  any 
Bubaidiary  branch  of  natural  science,  but  a  book 
of  sketches  which  could  have  been  more  acco- 
rately  described  by  some  such  title  a*  curiosities 
of  marine  and  insect  life.  Its  topics  range  from 
sponges,  in  their  varied  and  beaatlful  forma, 
ranked  just  above  the  doubtful  border  line  be- 
tween vegetable  and  animal  life,  to  the  gifted 
races  of  ant*,  bees,  and  spiders.  Written  with  a 
vie*  to  popular  and  perhaps  juvenile  reading, 
we  find  Ibe  book  not  methodical  and  complete, 
but  rambling  and  desultory.  It  is,  however,  in- 
teresting, and  it  abounds  in  curious  information 
illustrated  by  numerous  and  handsome  engrav- 
ings explanatory  of  the  text  Some  marvelou 
storiea  are  told  of  the  wondera  performed  by 
insect*.  A  concluding  part  on  "the  horse  and 
hit  structure  "  seems  somewhat  remote  in  matter 
from  the  rest  of  the  work.  This  treats  chiefly 
of  the  structure  of  the  legs  and  hoofs,  and  la 
introduced,  perhaps,  principally  in  order  to  ci- 
lenij  [be  author's  views  adverse  to  titing  iron 
sboes,  Dlirt.jrs,  and  "bearing-reins."  Besidea 
tbe  toned  paper,  a  special  attraction  of  tbe  book 
it  the  prettv  hits  of  landscape  introduced  aa 
head- pieces. 

Litcratmt,     I 

Upham  A  C& 

Both  m  this  country  and  In  Germany,  Prof. 
Herman  Hrimm  is  best  known  as  the  biographer 
of  Michael  Angelo  and  of  Goethe.  But  hia 
originality  and  insight  have  been  felt  in  many 
irectiont,  and  these  essays,  collrcied  by  the 
anslalor  of  his  volume  upon  Goethe,  will 
awaken  and  hold  the  reader's  attention.  In 
the  opening  papers,  which  have  an  especial  in- 
to Americans,  Prof.  Grimm  recounts  hit 
discovery  of  Emerson,  and  again,  after  twenty- 
five  years,  emphasizes  the  impression  left  upon 
mind  by  a  later  reading.  In  the  independ- 
e  of  Emerson's  position  and  the  peculiar 
poise  of  his  powers,  a  parallel  with  Goethe  ia 
suggested,  while  the  guileless  purity  of  his  ideal 
and  his  manly  attitude  toward  every  reform 
lemble  Schiller's  distinctive  virtues.  The  three 
following  essays,  "France  and  Voluire,"  "Vol- 
taire and  Frederick  the  Great,"  "  Frederick  the 
Great  and  Macaulay,"  form  a  natural  series,  and 
many-aided  and  instructive 
wide  field  oC  history  and  criticism 
The  inadequacy  and  prejudice  in  tbe  Englisb- 
of  the  king  arc  vigorously  ex- 
posed, and  explained  by  the  remark  that  "with 
Macaulay  the  clothes  of  men  always  form  an 
iportant  part  of  their  soul."  The  peraonal 
recollections  which  Prof.  Grimm  gives  of  his 
father  and  nncle,  the  Brothers  Grimm,  and  of 
Bettina  von  Arnlm,  add  certain  new  details  of 
esting  biographical  picture.  The 
chapter  on  Dante  it  a  protest  against  Karl 
Witte's  attempt  to  prove  the  great  poet  an  op- 
ponent of  Italian  freedom.  But  the  most  notc- 
thy  paper  of  all  is  that  upon  Diirer,  whom 
the  author  regards  aa  the  best  representative 
of  tbe  integrity,  contentment,  and  joyous  effort 
of  tbe  German  people  of  hit  day.  Thla  bit  of 
de*criptlon  of  one  of  the  c 


l886.] 


THE   LITERARY  WORLD. 


467 


charming  of  Dilrer's  works  may  fitlj  close  oat 
notice  of  a  suggestive  volume  : 

Wc  see  in  his  precious,  perhaps  most  precious, 
work  that  he  hat  put  Si.  Jerome  and  the  Lion 
into  his  own  low-studded  room,  which,  with  a  few 
additions,  he  has  fitted  up  for  the  old  gentleman's 
•tudy.  With  what  supreme  satisfaction  he  pro- 
ceeds  to  copj'  this  room,  so  dear  Co  him,  even  to 
the  knots  in  the  boards,  and  the  rifts  in  its  tim- 
bers I  How  warmly  and  genially  the  tan  streams 
in  sidewiie  through  the  tiny  panes  of  the  broad, 
many-paned  window  upon  the  floor,  touching  it 
lighlly  as  it  passes  the  strong,  massive  table. 
How  the  lion,  blinking  and  diunk  with  sleep, 
■tretchcB  himself  oat,  while  a  small  terrier 
crouches  ai  his  side,  both  as  if  belonging  natur- 
ally to  the  room.  We  seem  to  hear  the  Duzzing 
of  the  £ies,  and  the  gentle  rustle  of  the  leaves 
turned  over  by  the  bearded  Saint.  How  tidily  is 
everything  put  in  its  place  —  all  freshly  scoured 
—  wearing  a  Sunday  air  I  Methinks,  whoever 
bad  this  etching  in  his  room  would  find  it  a  fast- 
nailed  bit  of  sunshine,  dispensing  its  bcneGcem 
nys  even  in  the  gloomiest  hours. 


The  Preliminary  Confession  in  this  collectior 
of  Mr.  Hawthorne's  miscellaneous  essays  tells 
OS  that  when  the  author  began  novel-writing  he 
te-wtotc  his  Idolairy,  in  whole  or  in  part,  sci 
dmes;  but  lor  the  last  seven  or  eight  years  he 
has  seldom  re-written  one  of  his  many 
We  can  easily  believe  the  latter  part  of  this 
confession  from  an  author  who  says  that  be 
once  wrote  twenty-sii  hours  at  a  stretch  I  Mi 
Hawthorne  too  evidently  writes  for  bread  and 
butter,  and  has  very  slight  conscience 
work,  the  rapidity  of  the  performance  of  which 
is  its  most  prominent  characteristic.  Much  of 
the  present  volume,  more  especially  in  the 
papers  on  Novels  and  Agnosticism,  American- 
ism in  Fiction,  and  Literature  for  Children,  is 
brilliant  in  expression  and  sound  in  its  funda- 
mental ideas;  but  it  has  the  "rattle"  of  a 
vivacious  talker  for  it*  characteristic  note,  and 
leaves  a  prevailing  Impression  of  insufficiency. 
Mr.  Hawthorne  takes  himself  too  seriously  as  a 
critic ;  if  his  leaders  do  not  make  the  same 
mistake,  they  will  spend  some  hours  to  their 
profit  and  their  pleasure  in  reading  the  papers 
named,  as  well  as  those  on  the  Moral 
Fiction,  Emerson  as  an  American,  and  Modem 
Magic  {Spiritism). 

Thaughti   en   Art  and  Auto6i«grafhicai    Ml 
mMTiBf  Giovanni  Dupri.    {Roberts  Bro«.   f2.oo.n 

Mr.  W.  W.  Story's  daughter,  Mrs.  Peruui, 
has  translated  these  artless  memoirs  from  the 
Italian  of  an  eminent  sculptor  of  this  century, 
and  Mr.  Story  himself  furnishes  an  introduction 
in  which  he  sketches  the  last  three  years  m 
covered  by  the  autobiography,  and  gives  1 
estimate  of  the  sculptor's  genius: 

As  an  artist  Duprt  was  not  endowed  with 
great  creative  or  imaginative  power.  His  piety 
narrowed  the  field  of  his  imagination,  and  1  ~ 
siricted  the  flights  of  his  genius.  .  .  .  His  wo 
is  eminently  faithful,  admirably  executed,  and 
formed  by  knowledge  as  well  as  feeling.  .... 
the  man  was,  so  his  work  was — pure,  refined, 
faithful  to  nature,  and  to  his  own 

The  thoughts  on  art  are  not  - 
nor  arc  Ihey  often  above  the  commonplaci 
They  are  interspersed  in  a  memoir  of  eztrem 
simplicity  of  intention,  great  nattitU  of  stylt 
and  charming  temper.  Dupri  tells  the  story  of 
his  early  struggles  and  bis  later  successes  with 
the  Dtmoat  caikdor,  and  with  only  too  great  full- 


"It  would  not  be  allogetber  absurd  if  a 
were  to  thank  God  for   his  vanity  among 
the  other  comforts  of  life,"  said  Franklin.     Du- 
prt's  vanity  was   not  of  a  repellent  kind;  yet 
reflects  that  life  must  be  exceedingly  long  to 
rant  the  reading  of  memoirs  of  men  of  ordi- 
nary genius  written  at  such  length! 

Tkt  Labor  Matiemtnt:  the  Prciltm  ef  Today. 
Edited  by  Geo.  E.  McNeill.  [Boston:  A.  M, 
BridgminiCo.    »4.7S.] 

This  well-made  octavo  of  upwards  of  tioo 
pages  strikes  a  true  note  in  its  title.  The 
labor  movement  is  the  problem  of  today,  and 
such  books  as  this,  which  is  a  statement  of  facts 
rather  than  a  discussion  of  principles,  a  history 

ore  than  an  argument,  is  a  help  to  the  solution 
it.  Also  it  is  a  representative  work,  in  that 
has  been  written  mostly  by  working-men  an< 

it  by  doctrinaires,  and  is  printed  at  a  coopei 
alive  office.  Certainly  it  is  well-printed  and 
bound,  a  creditable  specimen  of  book-making. 
There  are  portraits  of  Mr.  Stephens,  the  founder 
of  the  Knights  of  Labor,  of  Mr.  Powderly,  the 
"  General  Master  Workman  "  of  the  order,  of 
Mr.  McNeill,  the  editor,  who  is  now  the  Labor 
Party's  candidate  for  mayor  of  Boston,  and  of 
37  other  leaders  in  the  movement ;  and  there  ar 
five  general  illustrations.  Mr.  Powderly,  Mi 
Henry  George,  whose  portrait  is  not  unlike  that 
of  Garfield,  the  Ret.  R.  Heber  Newton,  P.  M. 
Arthur,  the  Locomotive  Engineer,  and  Dr.  E.  J. 
James  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  are  the 
leading  writers  in  company  with  the  editor,  who 
himself  furnishes  seven  ont  of  the  twenty-foui 
chapters.  The  general  character  of  these  chap< 
ters  is  distinctly  historical,  their  aim  being  to 
account  for  and  expound  what  is  known  as  "  the 
Labor  Movement."  The  introductory  chaptt 
sketches  the  Rise  of  the  Modem  Laborer.  The 
progress  of  the  Labor  Movement  in  the  United 
Stales  occupies  two  chapters.  Labor  Legislation 
two.  The  various  trades  —  Printers,  Shoemakers, 
Textile,  Coal  Miners,  Iron  Workers,  Builders, 
Railroad  Employees  —  have  each  one  chapter, 
relating  the  history  of  their  several  organiia- 
tlons.  Oiher  topics  treated  with  like  fullness 
are  the  Knights  of  Labor,  the  Chinese,  Arbi- 
tration, Cooperation,  Industrial  Education,  and 
Hours  of  Labor.  Tfae  aim  of  the  book  is  the 
peaceful  settlement  of  existing  difficulties.  The 
objective  point  is  cooperation.  The  work  is 
intelligent,  temperate,  reasonable,  well-wtitten> 
instructive,  and  helpful  to  its  cause.  We  wish 
all  agitators  would  borrow  of  its  spirit  Its  esti' 
mate  that  two  millions  of  men  are  now  out  ol 
employment  in  this  country  makes  its  mission  an 
important  one. 


EJtploratibns  and  Settlements  in  North  America, 
t497-T6S9.     [Houghton  Mifflin  &  Co.] 

This  third  volume  of  the  Narrative  and  Criti 
col  Hiitery  tf  America  firmly  maintains  the  chai 
acteristics  of  the  work  announced  in  advance  of 
publication,  and  actually  presented  in  volumei 
one  and  two.  The  history  is  now  well  undei 
way,  and  lis  compretiensiveness,  strength,  and 
exhaustive  method  are  coming  fully  into 
In  structure  somewhat  intricate,   in  autho 

mure  than  popular,  yet  freshened  and  enlivened 
by  pictorial  features  which  ire  extremely  i 
esting,  its  place  among  American  hittoric* 


unique  as  it  is  commanding-  Of  the  present 
ne  Che  slxleenth  century,  the  period  mainly 
of  exploration  and  settlement  in  America,  is  the 
field  i  the  Cabols,  Hawkins  and  Drake,  Fro- 
iHsher,  Davis,  and  Baffin,  Sir  Waller  Raleigh 
and  Capt,  John  Smith,  Bradford,  Standish,  and 
ihe  Plymouth  Pilgrims,  Calvert  and  Androt, 
William  Fenn  and  Lord  Ballimoie,  are  the 
heroes ;  and  Drs.  Charles  Deane,  E.  E.  Hale,  B. 
F.  De  Coita,  G.  E.  Ellis,  and  Messrs.  John  A. 
Stevens,  G.  B.  Keen,  F.  D.  Stone,  W.  T.  Brantly, 
W.  A  Whitehead,  F.  B.  Dexter,  R.  A.  Brock, 
W.  W.  Henry,  Charles  C.  Smith,  and  the  editor, 
Mr.  Winsor,  are  the  writers.  Dr.  Deane's  special 
subject]  are  the  Cabots  and  the  development  of 
New  England,  Dr.  Hale  has  Hawkins  and  Drake, 
Dr.  Ellis  the  Religious  Element  in  the  Settle- 
ment of  New  England,  Dr.  De  Costa  the  romance 
—  almost  the  fable  —  of  Norembega,  on  which 
Professor  Hoaford  has  lately  given  us  a  very 
learned  and  counter  monograph,  and  Mr.  Stevens 
writes  of  ihe  English  In  New  York.  The  several 
chapters,  thirteen  in  all,  are  not  simple  chapters. 
The  "  narrative  "  proper  comes  first  in  large  type, 
sometimes  not  occupying  many  pages.  This  is 
followed  by  a  "critical"  essay  in  smaller  type, 
often  extending  to  many  pages,  which  is  a  full 
exposition  of  the  apparatus  by  which  the  writer 
has  worked  in  handling  his  subject,  a  thorough 
analysis  and  comparison  of  source*  and  authori- 
ties. Notes  by  the  editor,  Mr.  Winsor,  fre- 
quently further  supplement  Ihe  text  with  masse* 
of  minute  and  curious  bibli<^raphical  informa- 
tion. In  fact  the  entire  method  is  laboriously 
bibliographical  as  well  as  "  narrative  and  criti- 
cal." It  is  more  than  an  American  history,  it  is 
a  cydopzdia  of  Che  materials  of  American  his- 
tory i  it  discloses  a  vast  interior  of  books,  manu- 
scripts, documents,  maps,  collections — a  mu- 
seum of  literary  archzology,  in  which  all  these 
specialists  are  at  home,  but  which  to  "Ihe  gen- 
eral reader"  is  as  iiuly  a  "terra  incognita  "as 
was  the  New  World  to  Europe  in  the  sixteenth 
century.  The  illusiraiions  of  the  volume  invite 
particular  attention.  They  are  numerous,  varied, 
and  interesting.  The  fac-iimiUi  of  old  maps  and 
charts  are  themselves  a  valuable  and  curious 
series.  Then  there  are  rude  charts  and  outlines, 
portraits,  auli^raphs,  picluces  of  relics,  views  of 
localities.    And  there  is  also  a  full  index. 


Admiral  Blake.  By  David  Hannay.  [D.  Ap- 
pleton  &  Co.]  Admiral  Blake  was  a  noteworthy 
naval  character  of  the  17th  century  in  England. 
He  first  fought  in  the  Civil  War,  then  was  com- 
missioned lo  raise  a  fleet,  performed  many  an 
exploit  in  Ihe  Channel,  fought  in  the  war  with 
Holland,  had  his  duel  with  Tromp,  and  added 
several  leaves  to  the  chaplet  of  British  naval 
fame.  His  life  is  somewhat  obscure,  and  can 
hardly  be  found  anywhere  narrated  so  succinctly 
and  yet  so  faithfully  as  in  this  sketch.  Edited 
by  Mr-  Andrew  Lang  for  the  series  of  "English 
Worthies." 

Gaed  Seading/tr  Schin^  and  Nome.  Original 
and  Selected.  [Boston  :  Leach,  Shewell  ft  San- 
born.] The  selections  in  this  book  are 
much  longer  than  in  the  ordinary  reading-book, 
and  a  greater  degree  of  Interest  is  thereby 
secured.  Col.  Clarke's  account  of  Gettysburg, 
Lieut.  Schwalka's  "  Arctic  Repions,"  Rev.  Dr. 
Mombert's  "  Daniel  Webster,"  and  G.  M.  Gary's 
"The  Sperm  Whale"  are  original;  the  olher 
piece*  are  compilatioD*  from  the    writiag*    of 


468 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Dec.  II, 


Pr<rf.  J.  K.  Hosmer,  Rct.  E.   E.   Hile,  Victor 
Hngo,  "H.  H^'*and  "Micanlay;"  and  there 
a  doting  urieg  of  "Ethical  Teachings"  tiki 
from  the  Bible  and  other  religions  boolu  of  the 
world.    The  volume  !■  >■  unlike  the  ordinary 
"  reader  "  in  looks  as  it  is  in  plan. 

Oh,  that  we  had  been  boys  in  these  dsyi 
Such  books,  such  illustrations,  such  simplific 
tions  to  the  child  capacity  I  Through  a  Mitro- 
leapt  is  a  book  to  delight  the  inquisitive  boy' 
heart.  Mr.  Simnel  Wells  explains  the  micrc 
scope  and  gives  twenty  or  thirty  common  illui 
(rations  for  it*  use,  Mary  Treat  caniei  the  sami 
interesting  instruction  through  another  stage, 
while  Frederick  LeRoy  Sargent  does,  perhaps, 
the  best  thing  of  all  by  showing  how  to  make 
and  use  a  home-made  microKope.  The  book 
is  neatly  made,  and  the  illustrations  arc  good. 
[The  Interstate  Publishing  Co.     6oc.J 

In  the  same  line  the  same  publishers  give  oa 
the  equally  appetizing  and  excellent  book,  £»• 
ItrtainmtHts  in  Chemistry,  by  Ptof.  Harry  W. 
Tyler  of  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Tech- 
nology. With  the  simplest  apparatus,  such  as 
any  one  can  construct,  the  writer  exp 
bonic  acid,  air,  combustion,  sulphur,  hydrogen, 
ammonia,  chlorine,  soap,  yeast,  and  other 
equally  interesting  common  things.  The  book 
is  well  written,  but  tome  illustrations  would 
have  improved  it  By  all  means  let  such  works 
be  multiplied,  and  let  the  boys  and  girls  be 
encouraged  to  use  them.     [6oc,] 

The  Handbtntk  af  Mintralt^,  by  Pro!  J.  C. 
Foye  of  Lawrence  Uniiertily,  Appleton,  Wis- 
consin, contains  a  great  amount  of  valuable 
matter  most  admirably  condensed.  Ilii  chap- 
ters are :  Apparatus,  etc..  Determination  of 
Species,  Description  of  Species,  Chemical 
ClassiGcatiofl,  Classification  by  Basic  Elements 
and  Ore*.  If  his  second  chapter  works  at  welt 
in  practice  as  its  appearance  would  promise,  it 
is  certainly  one  of  the  handiest  "keys "to  the 
minerals  anywhere  to  be  found.  Teachers  and 
young  students  especially  should  give  the  book 
a  trial.    [D.  Van  Nostiand.     50c] 

Engliih  Grammar  atul  Analysit.  ByF.  Ritchie, 
M.A.  [London :  Rivingtons.]  The  second  part, 
analysis,  here  includes  syntax,  and  this  part  the 
author  directs  his  readers  to  study  in  close  con- 
nection with  the  first  part,  etymology,  in  the 
broad  senK  of  "  the  classification  and  inflection 
of  words  considered  separately."  In  the  work 
as  a  whole  two  things  are  very  noticeable  %  evi- 
dence of  learning  and  painstaking  care;  and  a 
spirit  of  independence  in  differing  from  common 
theories.  Thos  in  a  new  and  logical  arrange- 
ment of  verb  forms  he  avoids  the  absurdity  of 
calling  the  preterite  tense  "  imperfect."  The 
sentences  cited  as  examples  are  selected  wilh 
excellent  taste  and  often  from  English  classics. 
The  work  is  never  verbose ;  but  it  seems  to  us 
too  deep  tor  elementary  students,  and  it  too 
often  admits  as  correct  irregular  phrases  violat- 
ing the  analogy  of  the  language  and  therefore 
ungrammatical  —  such  as  "  is  being  done"  as  a 
progressive  passive,  and  "We  were  offered 
freedom." 

The  contents  of  Mary  D.  Sheldon's  Studia  in 
Greek  and  Roman  History  are  like  the  colors  on 
the  palette,  out  of  which  the  painter  makes  the 
picture,  but  are  not  the  picture  itself;  or  like 
the  sand,  and  bricks,  and  limber  out  of  which 
the  mechanic  builds  the  house,  but  are  not  the 
house.    The  book  assembles  the  raw  materials, 


of  Greek  and  Roman  history,  and 

before  the  reader  any  6nished 

him  on  to  makeuphisown  statement.     The  book 

therefore  calls  for  brains,  skill,  and   energy  in 

the   user,   but  its  nse   would  be  fine  eierdse. 

[D.  C.  Heath  &  Co.    Ji.oo.] 

The  latest  addition  to  the  "  Garnet  Series"  of 
the  "  Chautauqua  Library  "  is  a  volume  of  Rtad- 
ings  from   Milten,  including  "Paradise   Lost," 
the    "  Hymn     on    the    Nativity,"    "  Lycidas," 
L'Allegto,"  "II   Penseroso,"  and  four  of  the 
Dnuets  —  a  fairly  representative  selection.    Nei- 
ther the  introduction,  by  Bishop  Henry  White 
Warren,  nor  the  biographical  sketch  ii  of  suffi. 
cient  merit  to  call  for  any  particular  comment. 
ath   are  entirely   perfunctory,  and  can   be   of 
nail  service  even  to  the  votaries  of  Chautauqua 
ilturc.    [Rand,  Avery  &  Co.    75c.] 
Ginn  &  Co.  have  added  to  their  School  Class- 
s  an  edition  of  Swift's  famous  Guliivet't  Traii- 
til,  properly  pruned,  and  supplied  with  a  sketch 
of    Swift    and    with   notes,      (jjc] —  Tweed's 
Grammar  for    Common    Schools   comes    highly 
commended  by  leading  educators,  and  seems  to 
very  compact  and   well-put  outline  of   the 
subject  for  the  upper   grammar  school   grades. 
[Lee   &   Shepard.]  — Sheldon's    Word   Lessons 
teaches  spelling  on  scientific  principles,  passing 
from  orthography  to  the  first  principles  of  com- 
position.   [Sheldon  &  Co,] 

Dissolve  the  carbonates  in  CiHtOs  and  pre- 
cipitate the  Ba  with  KjCrOj.  Filler,  Precipi- 
.te  the  Sr  and  Ca  by  (NH^IiCOs,  and  proceed 
>  in  Method  II.     {Ba  absent,  Ca  present.) 

The  above  is  not  a  recipe  from  a  new  cook- 
ery book,  but  a  formula  under  the  head  of 
Reactions  of  the  Metals  of  the  Barium  Group,'' 
from  Dr.  J.  Milnor  Coit's  Etementt  ef  Chtmieal 
Arilhrntlic,  a  little  manual  of  experiments  in 
chemistry.     [D.  C.  Heath  &  Co.] 


A  LETTER  FBOH  OEBHAKT. 

Bbslih,  October  31. 

AT  the  close  of  my  letter  of  August  aj 
{printed  in  your  issue  of  September  lE),  1 
promised  to  "keep  you  informed"  on  the  score 
of  the  proposed  amalgamation  of  our  two  great 
Authors'  Societies,  Well,  then,  the  expected 
decision  has  been  arrived  at  in  the  meantime^ 
but  it  look  lome  trouble  to  ensure  the  unanimity 
rith  which  the  amalgamation  has  been  resolved 
ipon.  Many  of  those  writers  who  have  at  heart 
the  welfare  of  their  culleages,  entertained  a 
vague  fear  that  intrigue  on  the  one  hand  and 
^glect  on  the  other  might  once  more  be  in  the 
way  of  the  planned  reform,  as  they  were  at  last 
year's  Annual  Gathering  in  Berlin.  So  a  small 
group  of  Berlin  authors  met  in  the  second  week 
of  September,  and  drew  up  a  circular  which  was 
published  in  the  Authors'  Cattiti  aa  well  as  in 
the  shape  of  a  flying  leaf,  sent  lo  every  member 
of  the  two  Societies.     It  enjoined  on  its  readers 

Clare  in  favor  of  the  fusion  as  opposed  to 
confusion;  it  explained  the  advantages  of  the 
reform  scheme,  and  gave  advice  as  to  what  to  do 

suie  its  acceptance  at  the  general  meet- 
ing of  the  "  Leipzigers."     A  reply  was  solicited 

every  reader.  Before  the  reprint  was  circu- 
lated, signatures  to  it  were  procured  from  a  good 
many  well-known  writers,  bdies  as  well  as  gen- 
tlemen. Hundreds  of  replies  were  the  result  uf 
the  manly,  energetic,  convincing  circular,  and  it 
turned  out  that  not  a  single  voice  was  raised 


afainsl  the  amalgamation.  That  looked  hopeful  1 
The  said  genera]  meeting  wax  assembled  at 
Eisenach,  the  fair  Thuringian  town  of  Luthei 
and  the  Wartburg,  from  the  9th  lo  the  12th  inst. 
Two  hundred  of  the  four  hundred  member*  tA 
the  Leipzig  Association  were  present,  either 
personally  or  by  proxy,  and  everything  was  so 
■ell  prepared  that  nobody  said  a  single  word  in 
disfavor  of  the  fusion  which  was,  in  fact,  carried 
unanimously.  Delegates  of  the  other  (the 
"  KQrschnerian  " )  Association  had  been  invited 
by  the  Leipzigers  to  attend  the  Eisenach  gath- 
ering and  speak  on  behalf  of  their  "Verein;" 
I  had  the  pleasure  to  be  one  of  the  two  dele- 
gates, the  other  was  the  president  of  the  "Statt- 
garters,"  at  the  Kurschnerian  Sodcl;  is  popu- 
larly called  in  contradistinction  from  the  "  Leip- 
zigers." The  latter's  official  reporter  on  the 
question  of  the  amalgamation  was  Dr.  Alfred 
Klaar,  a  Prague  editor  and  professor,  one  of  the 
very  best  orators  I  ever  bad  the  privilege  to 
listen  to.  Hit  tpeech  was  so  eloquent  and  to 
the  point  that  it  must  have  won  over  the  last 
adversary,  if  there  had  been  any.  HI*  report 
culminated  in  the  following  motions  :  r.  The 
assembly  to  declare  in  favor  of  a  new  and  great 
Authors'  Society  10  be  founded  on  the  basis  of 
fusion  of  the  two  present  ones.  2.  A  commit- 
tee of  nine  members  to  be  at  once  elected  to 
deliberate  on  the  ways  and  means  of  the  amal- 
gamation in  common  with  a  similar  committee 
be  elected  by  the  Stuttgarters.  3.  An  extraor- 
dinary meeting  to  be  convened  as  soon  aa  poaxi- 
-not  later  than  next  spring  —  to  carry  into 
practice  the  labors  of  this  mixed  committee.  I 
repeat  that  these  motions  were  passed  without 
the  slightest  dissent.  It  was  also  resolved  not 
>  enter  into  any  details  for  the  present,  cspe- 
ially  not  to  provoke  a  debate  on  such  delicate 
questions  as  to  which  town  shall  be  the  central 
of  the  future  Union,  but  lo  leave  all  such 
considerations  first  to  the  eighteen  delegates, 
and  afterwards  to  the  next  general  meeting. 
For  the  Grtt  time  in  Germany  the  female  section 
of  the  literary  world  is  going  to  have  its  own 
! presentation,  ihree  ladies  having  been  elected 
into  the  Leipzigers'  committee.  The  Stuttgarters 
to  be  less  gallant,  for  they  have  delegated 
}ne  lady  into  their  commission,  but  this  fact  it 
:o  be  wandered  at  than  the  other,  because 
1  in  this  country  are  not  so  welt  conversant 
with  matters  of  organization,  administration,  and 
finance,  as  they  are  elsewhere,  out  "  Woman's 
iment"  still  lagging  far  behind  that  of  other 
ns,  in  consequence  of  which  the  ladies  here 
have  not  had  very  much  opportunity  for  practice 
the  said  fields  of  activity.  The  "  Kiirschner- 
is,"  by  the  way,  did  not  call  a  general  assembly 
for  the  consideration  of  the  planned  reforms, 
but,  in  order  to  gain  lime,  their  Berlin  branch  — 
which  is  the  principal  one  — took  the  matter  into 
their  hands  at  their  monthly  meeting  last  week, 
electing  nine  delegates  whose  names  will  be 
submitted  to  the  managing  board  of  the  Society ; 
if  the  board  approve  of  the  list  —  and  there  is 
no  doubt  of  that — the  commission  will  be  con- 
sidered duly  elected.  Thus  the  commissions  of 
wo  Associations  will  soon  be  enabled  lo 
lence  their  common  deliberations,  and  a* 
the  ground  has  been  well  tilled  by  some  eameU 
ithusiasts  willing  to  work  for  the  good  cause, 
would  be  very  strange  if  the  German  writers 
should  not  succeed  in  ultimately  organizing 
themselves  into  a  force,  in  accordance  with  the 


l886.] 


THE  LITERARY  WORLtt 


469 


principle  of  viritus  tmith  nhich  ii  at  the  bottom 
oE  mo»t  great  coalitions  and  associations;  lam 
■ure  they  will)  Leopold  Katschbk. 


SEAEESPEABIAITA. 


November  Meeting  of  the  New  York 
ShakeBpeare  Society.  The  slated  meeting  of 
the  Society  for  the  month  was  held  at  Hamilton 
Hall,  Columbia  College,  New  York  City,  No- 
vember iStb,  the  President,  Applcton  Morgan, 
Esq.,  in  the  chair.  The  following  resolutions 
were  offered : 

RisBlved,  That  this  Society  ii  sensible  of  the 
great  low  which  Shakespearian  study  and  litera- 
tute  has  suttained  in  the  death  of  Dr.  Clement 
M.  Ingleby,  an  honorary  member  oE  this  Society, 
and  one  of  the  earliest  benefaclors  of  its  library; 
and  desires  10  record  upon  its  minutes  its  appre- 
ciation of  hia  great  services  and  acquirements, 
his  ripe  judgment,  and  sterling  Counsels;  and 
most  oE  all  his  warm  and  generous  courtesy  to- 
ward those  whose  studies  led  them  to  differ  with 
him  as  10  details  or  items  in  the  great  field  to 
the  exploration  and  survey  of  which  he  devoted 
hi*  life. 

Reielvid,  That  the  Secretary  be  and  he  hereby 
la  instructed  to  suitably  convey  to  the  surviving 
family  of  Dr.  Ingleby  a  notice  of  this  action  oE 
this  Society. 

The  President  took  the  floor  to  second  the 
above  resolutions,  and  spoke  of  Dr.  Tngleby's  long 
and  most  useful  life;  his  contributions  to  science 
other  than  Shakespearian;  his  great  reputation 
as  a  scholar ;  his  earnest  and  prompt  acceptance 
of  the  honorary  membership  tendered  him  by 
this  Society,  and  bis  contributions  to  the  library 
of  many  scarce  and  otherwise  unobtainable  works 
(which  were  actually  the  fii$t  donations  from 
across  the  water  which  the  library  received).  The 
last  letter  the  President  received  from  Dr.  Ii 
gleby  announced  his  intention  of  searching  i 
London  for  copies  of  certain  works —which  he 
had  been  unable  to  procure  through  the  book- 
sellers—  for  forwarding  to  us;  mentioned  his 
failing  health,  and  his  unmixed  interest  in  the 
proceedings  of  this,  the  first  and  only  (so  far 
he  had  been  advised)  Shakespeare  Society  in  ibe 
United  States  devoted  to  the  publication  oE  origi- 
nal matter.    The  resolutions  were  then  adopted. 

Mr.  Morgan  then  read  the  paper  of  the  even- 
ing, "Queen  Elizabeth'*  Share  in  the  Merry 
Wives  of  Windsor."    Mr.  Morgan  argued  that 

—  although  the  tradition  that  Queen  Elizabeth 
ordered  this  play  to  be  written  (with  the  accom- 
paniments that  it  was  to  be  completed  in  "four- 
teen days,"  and  that  it*  theme  was  to  be  "Fal- 
staS  in  Love "),  seemed  at  first  a  part  of  the 
body  uE  tradition*  concerning  the  dramatist 
which,  in  the  electric  light  of  modern  research, 
was  (in  hi*  opinion)  very  gently  disappearing  — 
yet  there  seemed  to  be  considerable  reason  for 
believing  this  particular  tradition.  The  Lord 
Chamberlain  was  the  censor  of  plays  then,  as 
now-  His  directions  were,  constructively,  the 
Queen's  orders.    Mr.   Morgan  then   proceeded 

—  from  an  examination  of  the  several  sta 
and  proclamations  then  in  force  concerning 
plays,  and  from  internal  evidence  (cited  at 
■iderable  length)  —  to  argue  that  there  appeared 
to  be  sufficient  reason  for  the  issuance  of  just 
such  k  "  royal  order  "  through  the  proper  chan^ 
nel.  Mr.  Morgan  believed  that  the  1602  quarlc 
contained  an  imperfect  report  of  the  play  pre' 
pared  in  obedience  to  such  order;  and  he  traced 


legal,  statutory,  and  circumstantial  inSu- 
in  operation  which  —  in  the  course  of 
twenty-one  years  —  resulted  in  the  perfect  and 
:ly  d liferent  comedy  which  was 
printed  in  the  first  folio.  The  paper  was 
accepted  and  ordered  to  be  printed.  The  Hon. 
Thomas  R.  Snagge,  one  of  the  Justices  of  Her 
Common  Pleas,  was  elected  an  honor- 
ary member;  and  Hon.  Alvey  A.  Adee,  Assist- 
ant Secretary  of  State,  Washington,  D.  C,  and 
Mr.  William  H.  Fleming,  of  New  Yoik  City, 
'ere  elected  as  members;  after  which  the  So- 
iety  adjourned. 

Mr.  Fraiikliii  H.  Head's  "  Shakespeare'* 
Insomnia."  This  elegantly  printed  brochure, 
published  by  S.  A,  Maxwell  &  Co.,  Chicago, 
nedly  upon  the  evidences  in  the 
plays  that  Shakespeare  suffered  from  insomnia, 
sundry  extracts  from  "the  series  of 
papers  recently  discovered  and  called  the  South- 
ampton MSS.,"  to  prove  that  his  sleeplessness 
was  due  lo  business  embarrassments  and  domes- 
How  our  author  got  the  extracts 
from  these  unpublished  MSS.  will  be  seei 
the  letter  he  prints  from  "  John  Bamade,  loth 
Ass't  Sub-Secretary "  of  the  British  Husec 
We  have  no  space  for  quotations  from  this 
the  old  letters,  some  of  which  tend  to  show  how 
history  repeals  itself  ;  as,  (or  instance,  whei 
cad  of  an  impending  strike  among  the  a 
nd  "supes"  at  the  Globe  Theatre,  who 
ider  themselves  "ground  in  the  dust  by  the 
greed  of  capital"  —  an  expression,  by  the  by, 
which  we  see  to  be  not  so  modem  a*  we  might 
think  it.  Incidental  ligbt  is  thrown  upon  the 
chronology  of  the  plays.  The  M.  N.  D.  is  conv 
ily  supposed  to  have  been  written  in  1594,  to 
the  extraordinary  weather  of  the  summer  of 
which  year  there  seems  to  be  a  reference  in  ii.  i  > 
but  here  we  have  a  letter  from  Mordecai  Shy. 
ich,  a  usurer  of  the  time,  dated  Nov.  iz,  1593, 
I  which  this  play  is  mentioned  as  a  new  one 
in  manuscript."  Otktllo  is  also  alluded  to  in 
letter  dated  May  15,  1602,  which  is  some  two 
;ars  earlier  than  any  recent  critic  has  been 
inclined  to  date  it  These  be  important  facts, 
and  there  are  others  like  unto  them  in  these 
and  valuable  documents.  Our  reodei 
that  they  must  gel  the  book,  if  they 
:  op  with  the  times  on  Shakespearian 
questions ;  and  they  will  also  find  it  enjoyabh 
rithal. 


.  pp.  ntt-"ft  of  tlu  Trmtuaclitta  if  llu  . 

Stkiulttif  I  SttUtj. 

A  mdnt  MtnmnU  ef  llu  MUiiuifH  V, 
E.  G.  SquSer  iDd  E.  H,  TiA-n.  pp.  J?4-»7«,  wil 
~  ».  PuliItihEduVDl.  I.  of  Ibt  .9«Il]ltl«IU>I 
u  te  Knntltdtt,  WuhingloD,  1S4S. 
t)  Arckafletkal  Frmmdi.  InKriptiou  Ad 
Ifae  Moand  Builden.  By  Col.  Chu.  WhiltlcHT. 
Thit  pUDphlet  it  No.  9  ol  Lhc  huloncal 


XOTIS  AKD  QUEBIES 


[All  eonmiDiiicatiocu  lor  Ihi 
Wwrid,  10  Hcure  ■Itenlion, 


depuuunl  of  Ihi  LUtntry 
itior ;  vid  thova  whkh  ra 


800.  CinciDOati  Tablet.  A  correspondent, 
whose  note  has  been  mislaid,  has  requested  that 
we  furnish  sources  of  information  in  regard  to 
the  Cincinnati  tablet,  a  stone  relic  found  in  Cin 
cinnati  in  1S41,  and  supposed  to  be  an  abodgi 
nal  monument.  Its  genuineness  has  been  ii 
question.    Below  are  a  few  titles  in  chronological 

(1)    Amrricait  PitHnr,  Tol.  i,  pp.  i^i,  196    (Cii 
nati,  I&41).   Thiia«winl<ni»rillenbrJohoS.  WiUi 

(3)     Otltrvalimint  Ou  Aiarigmai  Mtinimintt  n/ llu 
Miuiuiffi  yailij.    Br  E.  G.  Sqii»r.    pp.  6q,  71. 
Vorki  BartkuA  WiUud.    1147.)    This  u  npnaiec 


dI  the  V 


Ihio,) 


t  Hiilorical  SoQ«y,  Feb., 


with  aa  DluuratiOEi.    (Londan:  MAcmillwi 


Tkt  Prtkitlerit  Rtm^ita  w 
Uu  SIU  ^  tJU  City  c/  CiMCinnali,  i 
Ikt  ••  Cincimati  TaNtl."  By  Rabc 
PUte.    (CiDCUDali.    1876.) 


THE  FEBIODIOALS. 

Everything  seems  to  indicate  that  the  new 
Seriiner't  Magaani  will  at  once  jump  into  popu- 
lar favor.  On  Wednesday  next  the  first  number 
will  be  issued.  It  opens  with  the  first  of  the 
four  papers  by  Ei-Minisler  E.  B,  Washbnme, 
giving  his  reminiscences  of  the  siege  and  com- 
mune of  Paris,  A  full-page  picture  by  Mr- 
Howard  Pyle,  entitled  "Gambella  Proclaiming 
the  Republic  of  France,"  is  printed  as  a  frontis- 
piece ;  other  illustrations  lo  accompany  this 
article  are  contributed  by  Messrs,  Thulslrup, 
Meeker,  and  Rich.  The  paper  gives  a  wholly  new 
view  of  the  incidents  which  preceded  the  great 
historical  events  soon  to  follow.  After  the 
Washbume  contribution  we  have  some  new 
serial  fiction  in  Mr.  H.  C.  Bunner's  "  The  Story 
of  a  New  York  House,"  illustrated  by  A.  B. 
Frost,  George  Wharton  Edwards,  and  Hopkin- 
son  Smith,  and  Mr,  Harold  Frederic's  story, 
"Seth's  Brother's  Wife,"  which  is  not  illus- 
trated, Mr.  Frederic's  novel  is  said  to  be  strong 
and  powerful,  and  very  much  out  of  the  usual 
line  of  serial  Sction,  Poems  by  Austin  Dobson, 
Arlo  Bates,  and  Maybury  Fleming,  Mr.  Thomas 
A.  Janvier's  story  of  Mexican  life,  and  Miss  Mar- 
garet Crosby's  "  Violin  Obligate, "  Capt,  F.  V. 
Green's  paper  on  "  Our  Defenceless  Coasts," 
Dr.  William  Hayes  Ward's  paper  on  "Babylo- 
nian Seals,"  and  the  first  of  the  series  of  artictes 
dealing  with  Gouverneur  Morris's  diaries,  ate 
among  other  attractions.  A  serious  artide  is 
General  Francis  A.  Walker's  on  Socialism. 
It  is  evident  at  least  that  Scribnet'i  Afaga- 
tint  will  not  be  frivolous,  but  exactly  what  man- 
ner of  Dtagazine  the  publishers  will  make  we  can 
hardly  divine  from  the  contents  of  this  firat 
issue.  An  edition  of  15,000  of  the  first  number 
has  been  sent  to  England.  ' 

The  editor  of  Harfer'i  Maganiii  makes  a 
strong  announcement  of  features  which  are  to 
occupy  its  pages  during  the  year  to  come.  In 
fiction  we  are  to  have  a  novel  by  Kathleen 
O'Heara,  who,  though  she  is  well  known  as  an 
essayist  and  biographer,  now  enters  what  we 
believe  to  be  a  new  field  for  her.  It  is  a  story 
of  Russian  life  which  is  said  to  lay  bare  the 
abuses  of  Russian  despotism,  and  at  the  same 
time  exposes  the  character  and  aims  of  the 
Russian  nihilist.  Other  serials  are  Mr-  How- 
clls's  new  novel,  "April  Hopes,"  a  humorous 
novelette  in  three  parts  by  Blanche  Willis  How- 
ard, which  is  illustrated  by  Reinhart,  and  ahort 
stories  by  Miss  Jeaetl,  Kale  Field,  Miss  Wool- 
son,  Prof.  Boyesen,  Gram  Allen,  Thomas  Nelson 
Page,  and  Barnei  Phillips,  whom  we  are  glad  to 
welcome  back   to  the  ranki  of   the  i 


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[Dec  ti, 


writers.  The  article*  on  naval  matters  wil)  be 
conlinaed,  and  teveral  more  papers  like  the 
Knipp  sketch  and  thoae  apon  "  American  In- 
dnstriea"  will  be  given.  There  are  host*  at 
illustrated  papers  too  numeroua  to  mention  here. 
The  long  ago  announced  Southern  sketches  by 
Mr.  Charles  Dudley  Warner  are  aooD  to  appear, 
illustrated  by  Mr.  W.  Hamilion  Gibson,  who 
accompanied  him  to  the  South.  Mr.  Frank  D, 
Millet  promises  two  papen  on  ■■  Campsigniog 
with  the  Cossacks,"  with  many  illuitraiions.  In- 
deed Harptr's  Slagamiru  is  likely  to  be  better 
than  ever  before,  which  is  saying  not  a  little. 

The  Cmtury  for  December  opens  with  two 
articles  on  Henry  Clay  —  >  sketch  of  hit  home 
life  at  Ashland,  and  a  bitch  of  reminiscences  by 
Mr.  J.  U.  Harrison,  Clay's  friend  and  executor; 
both  articles  are  pleasantly  Illustrated  and  both 
are  welcome.  Mr.  W.  C.  Brownell's  review  of 
the  work  of  two  contemporary  FreiM±  sculptors, 
Chapu  and  Datrais,  ia  wiilten  with  commendable 
judgment,  and  by  means  of  several  eicelient  en- 
gravings is  abundantly  verified.  Prof.  Edward 
Atkinson  discusses  "The  Food  Question  in 
America  and  Europe"  in  a  way  that  is  sure  to 
attract  attention ;  Prof.  Atkinson  his  at  his 
command  a  striking  collection  of  statistics,  and 
he  uses  them  with  the  eloquence  of  a  born  econ- 
omist. The  Nicolay-Hay  life  of  Lincoln  moves 
on  with  dignity  as  it  unfolda  the  inddenta  in 
Uncoln's  career  up  to  the  time  that  he  achieved 
legislative  honors.  In  its  candor,  its  absolute 
fidelity,  and  its  wide  grasp  of  momentous  politi- 
cal and  social  movements  this  work  already  dis- 
plays qualities  that  will  place  it  in  the  front 
rank  of  the  world's  biographical  literature;  Its 
influence  upon  widely  divergent  daases  of  read- 
ers is  likely  to  be  profound  and  iaating.  Mrs. 
Jane  Marsh  Parker's  recital  oE  her  experiences 
as  "  A  Little  Millerite"  is  vivid  and  of  much 
value.  Mr.  Howells  brings  to  what  many  read- 
ers will  regard  as  an  untimely  end  his  moving 
chronicle  a\  the  experiences  of  Lemuel  Barker, 
but  promises  a  comforting  sequel  at  no  far  dis- 
tant day.  Mr.  Howells's  inimitable  humor  has 
never  shown  to  better  advantage  than  in  this 
novel.  Miss  Hackubin's  story,  "A  Coward,"  is 
a  highly  crediuble  performance. 

Mr.  William  Hamilton  Gibson,  who  has  been 
spending  a  week  in  Connecticut,  visiting  his  oid 
h<Hne,  is  back  again  in  his  Brooklyn  studio,  bard 
at  work  upon  a  series  of  illastrations  which 
will  accompany  Mrs.  Rebecca  Harding  Davis's 
sketches  of  Southern  life  to  be  printed  in  Har- 
per'i  ne»t  year. 

It 'is  sud  on  good  authority  that  the  Liffin- 
eaift  MagavHt,  in  its  new  form,  and  under  its 
new  management,  has  made  a  substantial  hit, 
renewed  editions  of  the  late  numbers  having 
been  called  for.  Indeed  the  magazine  business 
seems  to  be  in  a  most  happy  and  prosperous 
condition. 

The  BrootlyH  Magaiint,  from  the  first  of  next 
January,  is  to  be  known  as  the  Amtrita*  Afaga- 

From  all  accounts  the  success  of  the  Ctntury 
goes  on  unabated ;  250,000  copies  is  now  spoken 
of  not  as  a  "high  water  mat)c,"but  is  a  by  no 
means  uncommon  edition.  Probably  few  people 
realize  how  large  a  proportion  of  the  circulation 
of  a  popular  magazine  goes  through  the  news- 
dealer. Of  this  enormous  edition  of  250,000, 
only  a  little  over  one  tenth  is  said  to  be 
sent  directly    to   subscribers.      Tba    issue    for 


December  contains  in  alt  ninety-four  pages  of 
advertising  matter,  a  pleaaant  indication  of  proa- 
peroos  'J'*^".-'-"'^- 


HOLIDAY  F08T80BIPT. 

Roberts  Brothers  send  us  Nos.  i  and  a  of 
"Gordon  Browne's  Series  of  Old  Fairy  Tales,' 
namely  Mop  »'  my  Thumb  and  Btauly  anj  tkt 
Biait.  The  stories  are  both  "  retold  "  by  Laura 
E.  Richards,  and  Hr.  Gordon  Browne  furnishes 
the  pictures.  These  are  engraved  on  wood,  and 
vigorously  rather  than  delicately  drawn,  the  full- 
page  cuts  especially  so,  which  as  a  rule  are  less 
pleasing  thin  (he  smaller  engravings  inserted  in 
the  text  The  second  of  the  two  books,  how- 
!ver,  is  the  more  successful  pictorially.  A  nov- 
elty in  the  first  is  the  printing  of  the  giant's  talk 
n  larger  type.  The  booka  are  thin  quarloa  in 
yellow  heavy  paper  covers.    [Each  40c.] 

White,  Stokes  ft  Allen  publish  Tkt  Sw  amd 
Star  Caitndar,  which  is  at  least  a  novelty  in  the 
way  of  a  calendar,  each  monthly  leaf  being  in  the 
shape  of  a  large  rounded  diak,  showing  first  the 
calendar  for  the  month  on  a  white  card,  under 
this  a  floral  or  landscape  embellishment  in  col- 
ora,  under  this  a  ailver  star,  under  this  a  golden 
The  idea  ia  fanciful,  and  vrill  please  people 
who  like  fandful  things,    tfi.oa] 

EDUOATIOHAL  W0BE8. 

7%4  Effieti  ef  MUilary  Drill  tn   Beyt,  milk 
itUs  nt  Exerciu,  by  Dudley  A.  Sargent,  M.D., 
director  of  the  gymnasium  of  Harvard  University, 
.ppeirs  to  be  1  valuable  little   monograph.    It 
n   principles   important  for  the 
:ercisc,  and  argues  thence,  contrary  to  a 
general  opinion,  that  military  drill  "does  not  to 
.ny  extent  meet  the  physiological  demands  of  the 
body  "  as  therein  set  forth,  and  therefore  requires, 
in  addition  to  such  drill,  "  a  system  of  corrective 
arrises."    [Cupples,  Uphim  &  Co.     Paper.] 
The  latest  addition  received  by  us  to  the  at- 
tractive series  of  "  English  Classics,"  edited  by 
J.  Rulfe,  A.M,  in  square   i6mo,  cloth,  with 
red  edges,  is  Stlect  Peemt  «/  Reitrt  Branning. 
It  conlaina  twenty  selectiona,  of  which  the  gallop 
from  Ghent  to  Aix  Is  perhaps  the  best  known, 
and  "  Flppa  Passes,"  the   last   and  longest  in- 
cluded.   The  book   has   a  portrait  of  the  poet 
and  a  biography,  a  bibliography,  an  essay  on  the 
itudy  of  Browning,  and  critical  notea.    [Harper 
&  Brothers.    Cloth,  56c] 

In  Combintd  Nttmhtr  and  Languagt  Llttoiu, 
by  F.  B.  Ginn  and  Ida  A.  Coady,  the  only  cmiU- 
itation  of  lessons  apparently  consists  in  their 
juxtaposition  between  the  covers  of  one  book. 
The  lessons  are  for  the  pupil's  second  year  of 
school  woik.  The  leading  idea  in  the  number 
lessons  is  the  (caching  of  addition  and  subtrac- 
almost  instantaneous  processes,  by  the 
memorizing  of  a  lum  as  a  whole  of  which  any 
□  component  digits  are  fixed  or  integral  parts 
that  any  two  of  the  three  numtieis  will  ing> 
gea(  the  (bird  at  once  and  without  eSort.  In  the 
language  lessons,  descriptive  of  Miss  Coady's 
actual  practice  the  pupils  compose  simple  sen- 
about  familiar  objects,  and  supply  omitted 
in  others.  Sentences  are  written  t^  the 
teachers  on  the  black-board  and  other*  by  the 
their  seats,  in  order  thus  to  combine 
In  writing,  in  compoiitlon,  in  spelUnib 


and  e*«D  In  elementary  grammar.    [Glna  ft  Co. 
60c.] 

nu  B^muf'i  Latin  Book,  by  William  C. 
Collar,  A.M.,  and  M.  Grant  Daniel,  A.M.,  seema 
to  us  the  best  first  book  in  Latin  which  we  re- 
member ever  having  seen,  on  acconnt  of  the 
clearness  of  It*  language,  the  naturalness  of  it* 
method,  and  (be  discrimination  shown  in  estimat- 
ing the  relative  importance  of  different  parts  <A 
the  study.  The  lessons  are  progressive,  and 
carefully  graded  ;  combining  a  short  vocabulary 
with  declensions,  substantive  and  adjective,  verb 
forms,  syntax,  indudiug  excellent  treatment  of 
the  difficulties  of  the  SDt>junctive  mode,  exerdses 
for  translation  each  way,  and  occasional  tolisquia 
designed  to  leach,  in  some  measnre,  the  art  of 
conversing  in  Latin,  greatly  neglected  of  late 
years.  The  lessons  open  with  ludd  instrnctiona 
in  the  two  systems  trf  prouandaiion,  and  at  the 
end  is  appended  the  usaal  lexicon.  [Ginn  ft  Co 
li.io.] 


DEAKATIO  SELEOnOHS. 

Several  little  books  have  reached  as  contain- 
ing readings,  recitations,  charades,  or  other 
amateur  plays,  for  the  use  of  young  performera 
upon  the  home  stage  or  at  the  school  exhibition, 
in  the  entertainments  appropriate  to  the  happjr 
holiday  season  now  rapidly  approaching. 

Ytung  Folks'  Entirtainmntt,  by  E-  C-  and  L. 
J.  Jones,  for  the  little  ones  o&ers  a  wide  variety, 
generally  easy  and  in  good  taste,  including  acted 
and  pantomimic  charades,  shadows,  motion  songs, 
dialogues,  tableaux,  readings  for  one  or  more 
persons,  and  drilla.  [Philadelphia;  National 
School  of  Elocution  and  Oratory.     Paper.] 

Parlor  Variedts.  Part  Tkrei.  By  Olivia  L. 
Wilson,  for  somewhat  older  amateurs,  contaiu 
plays  generally  of  lively  and  hnmoroui  charac- 
ler,  introducing  songs  so  freely  that  one  may 
describe  them  as  aemi-operatic.  [Lee  ft  Shep- 
ard.    Paper,  30c] 

Number  seventeen  of  TTii  Rtadiitg  Club  and 
Han^  Sftakirjg,wt  about  fifty  selections,  many 
in  poetry,  miscellaneous  in  their  subjects,  and  in 
novelty  and  other  merits  such  as  would  be  ex- 
pected from  the  experienced  SB(>ervision  o( 
George  M.  Baker.    [Ue  ft  Srepard.    Paper.] 

Frnt-Minutt  Rtadingi  for  Young  Laditt,  se- 
lected and  adapted  by  Walter  K.  Fobes,  evi- 
dences skill  and  taste,  as  well  as  labor,  in  the 
high  li[erary  grade  and  wide  range  of  its  cod- 
tenta.  It  embraces  al>out  a  hundred  composi- 
tions, in  prose  and  in  poetry,  not  exclusively  bx 
ladies.    [Lee  ft  Shepard.] 

Tlu  Elacutianiifs  Annuel,  number  fourteen, 
edited  by  Mrs.  J.  W.  Shoemaker,  presents  abond- 
and  miscellaneous  selections,  diverse  in 
length,  nature,  and  quality,  in  which  the  humor- 
element  is  somewhat  liberally  represented, 
concluding  with  a  dialogue  from  Shakespeare,  « 
few  tableaux,  and  a  charade.  [National  School 
of  Elocution  and  Oratory.  Paper,  30c;  dotb, 
joc.] 

CAriitmoi  Selection!,  compiled  by  the  Rev. 
E.  S.  Lorenz,  is  an  unpretending  little  pamphlet 
containing  verses  generally  appropriate  for 
Christmas-tide,  including  a  few  for  school  cxM- 
bitions,  largely  anonymous,  but  with  some  well- 
known  names,  and  evincing  a  chaste  and  refined 
taste  in  the  editor.  [Dayton,  Ohio ;  W.J.  Shuej.  / 
Paper,  15CJ  '^ 

No.  95  erf  "  Harper's  Handy  Series  "  is  Cms 


l886.] 


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4?' 


iStttai  and  Farca,  bj  Maddium  Morton.  Few 
teadecs,  perhaps,  have  known  u  the  aulhoT  of 
the  long  celebrated  Bix  and  Cox,  John  Mlddi- 
■on  Morton,  ion  oi  an  Engliih  dramatiit,  and 
bom  in  i8>  i  at  ■  Thamei  village  near  Reading  — 
"one  of  (he  driest  oi  humoiisti  and  mo«t  genial 
of  gentlemen."  Following  Box  and  Cox  we 
have  here  six  other  humorona  playi  which  in 
quality  seem  to  us  certainly  not  above  that 
possibly  ore  resti  mated  farce. 

OtTREEHT  IiITERAnntE. 

Three  or  four  yean  ago  Mr.  Wotthinglon  C. 
Ford  published  two  Ibin  volumes,  respectively 
on  tbe  organiution  and  the  functions  of  our 
State  and  national  governments.  The  pub- 
lishers have  now  bound  these  together  in  a 
aiogle  volume  under  the  title  of  the  Ameriean  Cil- 
igen'i  Manual,  furnishing  an  accurate  and  con- 
venient analysis  of  out  political  inslilutiona.  [G. 
P.  Putnam's  Sons.    (1.35.] 

Mr.  Edward  T.  Mason's  selections  of  Humor- 
otu  MatttrpUiei  /rem  Amirican  Literature,  in 
three  attractive  sixteenmo  books  of  about  300 
pages  each,  in  uniform  binding,  furnish  a  library 
of  amusing  reading,  which  is  also  in  important 
ways  illustrative  of  American  letters  and  Amer- 
ican life.  Of  the  older  school  of  authors  Irving 
and  Hawthorne,  Longfellow,  Holmes,  and  Low- 
ell, Curtis,  Hale,  and  Mrs.  Stowe  are  repre- 
sented ;  and  of  the  younger,  Howells,  of  course, 
Joel  Chandler  Harris,  and  Mark  Twain.  Mrs. 
Walker's  once  famous  "Total  Depravity  of 
Inanimate  Things  "  is  here.  Bret  Harle's  ' 
ciety  upon  the  Stanislaus,"  Henry  Ward  Beech. 
er'i  "  Dog  Noble  and  the  Empty  Hole,"  and 
some  of  Mr.  Bunce's  "Mr.  Bluff's  Discourses." 
Extracts  from  Fhonixiana  ought  to  be,  but  s 
not.     [G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons.    (3.75.] 

Surgeon  Morris's  small  handbook  on  The  Ma 
agement  af  Ihe  Skin  and  Hair  by  both  text  ai 
pictures    illustrates  and  enforces    the    Biblical 
remark  that  man   is   fearfully  and  wonderfully 


made.     It   I 


t   that  1 


skin  but  three ;  that  the  skin  has  a  variety  ol 
functions,  of  which  tbe  protection  and  support 
of  what  is  within  are  only  two;  that  bathinj 
is  indispensable  to  keep  it  in  good  working 
order;  that  there  are  bad  soaps  as  wcl 
good;  thai  poisonous  dyes  in  clothing  ai 
be  guarded  against ;  that  short  hair  has  the 
advantage  over  long;  that  hair  oil  has  a  p 
though  a  restricted  one,  on  the  toilet  table; 
hair  dyes  are  dangerous;  thai  Snger  nails  should 
be  cut  round  and  (oe  nails  square;  with  other 
good  lessons  of  the  same  sort.    [Cassell  &  Co.] 

A  CirPs  Room  is  a  collection  of  twenty-five 
chapters  of  miscellaneous   instructions  ranging 
from  the  making   of  coverlets   to  remedies  for 
common  diseases  and  sudden  accidents.    Some 
of  the  best  seem  to  us  tbe  chapters  on  "  word- 
stories"  as  an  instructive  recreation  for  a  small 
company,  "the  blut-print   art,"  the  training  of 
Irirds,  herbaria,  and  aquaria.    Tbe  book  is  vi 
cious,  and  suggestive  rather  than  exhaustive ; 
title  a  little  misleading.    [D.  Loihrop  ft  Co. 
Instrated.    fi.oo] 

Mr.   Wilcox's  portraits    of   Real   Pei^t  i 
nothing  more  than   silhouettes.    They  may  be 
Teal  in  tbe  sense  of  being  from  life,  and  if  the 
details  had  been  filled  in  more  carefully  they 
might  poswbly  be  IttterestJug,  bat  only  a  socio- 


logical expert  could  evoke  sctual  hamanity  froin 
these  heterogeneous  suggestions.  The  skelches 
show  that  the  author  bad  an  abandaace  of  good 
material  at  hand,  and  one  may  even  indulge  in  a 
xtgtti  that  he  has  not  been  alile  to  make  better 

e  of  it    [Whites,  Stoke*  &  Allen,    f  1.00.] 

Lee  &  Shepard  have  brought  out  a  fourth 
edition  revised  of  Blaisdell's  JWy  of  lie  En- 
gliih  Clasiiei,  a  text-book  in  English  literaltire, 
first  published  in  1878,  and  enlarged  and  im> 
proved  since  (hen.  The  same  firmJiave  become 
tbe  publishers  of  Charles  Dudley  Warner's  Beet 
of  Eltquence,  a  coUeaion  of  extract*  for  reading 
and  declamation.  In  prose  and  verse. 

Actidenti,  and  Hem  la  Save  Ufi  When  They 
Ckair,  with  a  Complete  Treatise  on  Poisons  and 
their  Antidotes,  to  which  is  added  a  Chapter  on 
Calisthenics  and  tbe  Care  of  Health,  is  the  long 
title  of  a  little  papered -covered  manual,  "acci- 
dents" being  extended  to  cover  tbe  more  corn- 
diseases.  The  counsels  and  remedies 
appear  to  be  suggested  by  a  competent  hand. 
[Rand,  McNally  &  Co.    15c] 

Count  Uon  Tolsto'fs  What  I  BilUve  has  been 
translated  direct  from  the  Russian  by  Constantine 
PopoEf.  This,  Count  TolstoTs,  account  of  his 
religious  experience,  under  the  title  of  My 
Religien,  has  already  been  fully  noticed  in  our 
columns.    [W.  S.  Gotubergcr.    f  i.oa] 

Smith,  Elder  ft  Co.  of  London  send  us  Thack- 
eray's Nrwctmis,  in  their  new  and  lieautiful 
edition  of  this  author's  works,  to  whose  manifold 
attractions  we  have  already  referred;  also  as 
illustrating  a  different  but  tasteful  style,  the 
same  author's  Barry  Lyndm,  printed  from  sim- 
ilar plates  in  similar  style,  but  trimmed  a  little 
more  closely,  and  bound  in  half  morocco,  green, 
with  sides  of  richly  marbled  paper  In  the  same 
color.  The  top  is  gilt.  The  book  stands  a  trifle 
lower  on  the  shelf  than  the  other,  and  is  richly 
dressed  enough  for  any  library.  Unfortunately 
the  price  has  not  come  with  the  book. 

Scott's  Ivanhae,  in  the  series  of  "  Claadci  for 
Children,"  is  printed   with  an  introduction  by 
Miss  Vonge  instead  of  the  Introduction  and  epis- 
tle dedicatory  of   the   original   work;    but 
changes,  so  far  as  we  observe,  certainly  do  ii 
portant  changes,  are  made  in  the  text.    A  gli 
sary  is  a  useful  addition.    [Ginn  &  Co.    70c] 

Mr.  Arthur  Oilman's  Short  Sloriii  from  tit 
Dictionary  are  really  "rambles  among  words" 
with  children  for  companions ;  explaining,  illus- 
irailng,  tracing  tbe  pedigree  and  history,  of  many 
words  more  or  less  familiar;  and  calling  attention 
to  a  great  many  curious  (acts  about  words,  the 
habits  which  they  form  in  actual  usage,  and  the 
services  which  they  render.  [Interstate  Publish- 
ing Co.    60c] 

Very  excellent  indeed  is  the  good  advice  to 
boys  given  by  Mr.  Benjamin  G.  Comegyi  in  his 
book  of  thirteen  chaptera  called  Horn  to  Get  On. 
Foolish  talk,  bad  books,  and  bad  company,  arc 
some  of  the  evils  be  warns  Ihcm  against ;  duty 
to  animals,  real  religion,  and  true  manliness  are 
among  the  things  he  urges.  If  boys  would  only 
read  and  make  use  of  such  books  aa  ihia,  the 
world  would  soon  be  txtter  and  happier.  The 
trouble  is  they  will  not.  Did  you  ever  know  a 
boy  who  did  not  think  he  knew  better  "  How  to 
Get  On"  than  any  body,  especially  his  father 
and  mother,  could  tell  him  t  There  are  excep- 
tions, we  admit,  but  they  are  rare.  Most  boys 
insist  on  learning  by  experience,  in  hard  and 
bitter  lessons.    [Am.  Snnday  School  Union.] 


Mr*.  Prentiss's  SUfping  Heaoeiraard  i*  on  tbe 
way  to  become  one  of  the  famous  American 
books.  It  is  less  than  20  years  since  it  was  pub- 
lished, but  it  has  been  republished  by  not  fewer 
than  five  houses  in  England,  ha*  been  translated 
French,  German,  Norwegian,  and  Swedish, 
and  has  circulated  more  than  75,000  copies  In  the 
United  Sules.  A  new  edition  is  now  on  the 
market,  prefaced  with  a  brief  sketch  of  tbe  au- 
thor. Mrs.  Preniiss,  it  (till  be  remembered,  wa* 
a  daughter  of  the  distinguished  Dr.  Payson  of 
Portland,  Me.   [A.  D.  F.Randolph  ft  Co.   |i,oo.] 

Thomas  J.  Murrey's  Book  of  Entrees,  uniform 
with  hi*  appetizing  Soufi,  Salads,  and  Breakfast 
DaintUi,  describes  the  side-dishes  to  be  made  of 
shell-fish,  poultry,  and  game,  sweet-breads,  vege- 
tables, fish,  and  the  meats.  Many  of  the  dishes 
proposed  are  suitable  for  breakfast  and  lunch. 
[Whites,  Stokes  ft  Allen.    75c] 

The  late  Rev.  Dr.  S.  I.  Prime's  The  Alham- 
ira  and  Uke  JCremlin,  a  series  of  travel-sketches 
in  the  south  and  north  of  Europe,  was  first 
published  in  1873,  and  has  been  out  of  print  tor 
some  time  since  the  last  edition  in  1S81.  A  new 
edition  is  published  this  December  in  substantial 
and  inviting  form,  with  a  number  of  wood  en- 
gravings. Spain,  Switicrland,  Germany,  Russia, 
Sweden,  Norway,  and  Denmark  are  the  coun- 
tries chiefly  described  in  these  brilliant,  graphic, 
amiable  letter*.  [A.  D.  F.  Randolph  ft  Co. 
|j.oo.] 

Writing  for  the  Frets,  by  Robert  Luce,  is  a 
brief,  interesting,  instructive,  and  generally  ac- 
curate manual,  useful  for  all  writers  of  English, 
f I  opens  with  matters  external  or  mechanical ; 
passes  thence  to  a  few  good  hints  on  style ;  and 
thence  to  matter*  of  grammar  and  phraseology, 
which  occupy  the  largest  part  of  the  work. 
After  these  are  remarks  on  the  order  of  words, 
mixed  metaphors,  irregular  plurals,  and  punctua- 
tion. In  treating  oi  grammar  (he  writer  makes 
one  positive  and  very  bad  error,  in  giving  laidaa 
preterite  of  lie  as  well  as  of  lay  ;  and,  negatively, 
he  omits  some  most  important  solecisms,  "  had 
belter,"  etc.,  and  the  form  "is being  done  ;"  but 
wc  arc  glad  to  see  that  he  notices  the  form  "  was 
given  a  reception,"  and  censures  the  use  of 
reliable,  djpol,  and  other  bad  words.  [Boston  : 
Robert  Lnoe,  Globe  Office.     Pi^r,  Z5c] 

In  Mr.  Bigelow's  Mistakes  in  Writing  English, 
and  Ham  to  Avoid  Them,  we  have  a  thin,  com- 
pact Utile  manual,  neatly  printed,  compressing 
into  106  pages  a  surprisingly  large  amount  ^ 
useful  instruction,  arranged  according  to  topics, 
and  expressed  with  energy  and  precision  and 
abundance  of  examples.  Especially  commend- 
able is  the  treatment  of  plural  pronouns  misused 
after  singular  antecedents;  of  shall  and  jeill ; 
of  errors  in  comparisons  and  in  certain  adverbs ; 
and  of  tautology.  We  however  warn  readers 
against  the  writer's  admission  of  the  grossly 
nngrammatical  form*  "  was  being  laid "  and 
"had  better"  with  its  allied  solecisms.  For 
neither  of  these  last  does  he  give  any  argument, 
but  falls  back  on  the  defence  of  idioms  —  a  de- 
fence which  might  excuse  any  error  whatever, 
If  only  it  is  very  common.  [Lee  &  Shepard.  50CI 

Mr.  Upton's  handbook  of  7^e  Standard  Ora- 
toriet  is  equal  in  merit  to  the  author's  preceding 
manual  of  Tht  Standard  Operas.  We  can  give 
no  better  praise.  An  introductory  chapter  on 
the  growth  and  dcvelupineiit  oi  the  uraiurio  as  a 
musical  form  Is  followed  by  biographical  sketches 
of  twenty-three  composers  from  Handel  to  Sir 


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[Dec. 


Arthur  Sullivan,   mccompanied    bf  aiulyMt  <rf 
their  ptindpil  work).    Mr,  Uptoo'a  parpoM  U 
deicripiivc  rather  than  criticil,  be   >*oids  the 
technical  jargoe,  and  be  brings  hii  information 
within  eai]'  reach  of  the  general  public.    There 
ii  a  concluding    chapter  on    lacred    moiic 
ADierica  which  might  have    been  enlarged 
■cope  wilh  advantage.    There  ii  a  cbronolc^lcal 
liat  of  the  important  aacred  music  at  the  last  two 
centuries,  and  a  good  indei.    The  book  ia 
everjr  way  a  model  o(  what  aacb  a  volume  tfaould 
be.    [A.  C.  McClurg  &  Co.    f  1.50.] 

Under  the  general  title,  TKe  Iritk  Queitwn, 
have  Iwo  essays  by  the  late  English  premier,  Mr, 
Gladstone :  *'  The  History  of  an  Idea,"  the 
er's  defence,  in  (he  form  of  a  ritnmi  of  progresa 
towards  "  home  rule,"  against  the  accusations  of 
having  either  concealed  his  pnrposea, 
unduly  "precipitate  "  in  the  Irish  policy  adopted 
in  1885;  and  "Lesaona  of  (he  Election, 
■uch  matter*  as  the  prospects  of  the  Liberal 
party,  the  outlook  in  Ireland,  and  the  bill  for 
purchase  of  land  in  that  conntry.  [Chailet  Scrib- 
ner^  Sons.     Paper,  10c.] 

In  HumatiitStsisditH  vim  Ti«tmu  Sintlair 
[Strassburg,  Katl  J.  Titlbner],  Herr  Hans  Schil- 
fert  Millier  has  taken  the  pains  to  translate  into 
German  several  of  the  essays  collected  in  the 
volume  by  Thomas  Sinclair,  an  English  journal, 
iat,  entitled  Humanititt,  but  the  English  reader 
will  prefer  the  original,  and  if  he  should  neglect 
that,  wc  opine  that  hia  toaa  would  not  be  great. 
Other  writers  have  treaied  much  more  satisfac- 
torily of  the  relations  of  culture  and  religion. 

There  is  always  room  for  such  a  book  as 
Manntrt  Makyth  Man,  by  the  author  of  Hv«  la 
6t  Hapfy  Though  Matritii,  although  It  is  only 
a  new  form  of  serving  up  maxims  of  wisdom  that 
are  as  old  as  the  world.  This  author,  a  clergy- 
man, has  good  ideas  and  a  popular  way  of 
communicating  them.  The  chapters 
mendably  brief,  the  treatment  ia  the  opposite  of 
difiuse,  and  the  subjects  are  excellent,  such  as 
"  Good  Manners,"  "Family  Government,"  "Keep- 
ing up Appeirances,""OnlyTemper,"etc  The 
volume  will  be  found  a  helpful  one  to  many. 
[Charles  Scribner's  Sons.    Jl.JJ.] 

KEW8  AlTD  50TE8. 

—  Ticknor  &  Co.  issue  this  week  Mr.  How- 
ells's  slory,  Thi  Athiiiter'i  Charge;  Lihtr 
Amorii,  a  fourteenth  century  romance  in  rhyme, 
by  Kev.  Henry  Bernard  Carpenter;  and  a  com- 
mentary on  Goethe's  Fauil,  by  Denton  J.  Snider. 

—  The  Heart  ef  the  Weed,  a  collection  of 
poems  which  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.  will  pub- 
iah  soon  in  illuminated  parchment  coven  of 
sixteenth  century  design,  is  closely  veiled  in 
anonymity,  the  author's  name  being  unknown 
even  to  the  publishers.  We  hope  the  shy  song- 
ster will  be  In  this  case  as  successful  as  Mrs. 
Margaret  Deland,  the  entire  edition  of  whose 
Old  Garden  is  taken  up. 

—  An  iditien  de  luxe  ai  Th4  Boot  of  the  TUe 
Club,  with  the  illustrations  printed  on  Japanese 
paper  and  a  binding  of  vellum.  Is  forthcomings 
one  hundred  copies  only  will  be  printed. 

—  The  touTteenth  volume  in  Roberts  Broth- 
ers' "  Famous  Women  Series  "  Is  to  be  Margaret 
<•/  Angaulfme,  Queen  ef  Navarre,  by  A.  Mary  F. 
Robinson.  Roberta  Brothers  close  their  year's 
list  of  publications  with  a  little  manual  for 
housekeepers  on  Carving  and  Serving,  by  Mra. 


D.  A.  Lli>coln,  to  whose  highly  successful  Buttn 
Cut  Book  It  is  a  sort  of  supplement. 

—  Mr.  John  Foord,  for  many  years  editor-ii 
chief  of  the  New  York  Timei,  and  later  ol  the 
Brooklyn  Uman,  has  redred  from  the  editorship 
of  that  journal,  and  it  Is  probable  will  devote 
more  time  hereafter  to  literary  work.  Among 
people  who  know  most  of  such  mi 
Foord  has  the  reputation  of  being  among  the 
ablest  editors  in  the  country.  His  friends 
ceased  to  rtgret  the  change  from  the  New  York 
Timet  to  the  Brooklyn  l/nion. 

—  A  portrait  ai  Mr.  Joel  Chandler  Harris  will 
appear  in  the  January  number  of  TIU  B»ek 
Buyer. 

—  An  exceedingly  pleasant  little  dinner  party 
took  place  at  the  New  York  Authors'  Club  Isst 
Saturday,  in  which  the  tight  hand  of  fellowship 
was  stretched  out  to  Prof.  Ernest  F.  Fenolloaa, 
whom  the  papers  designate  as  the  greatest  living 
authority  on  Japanese  art.  The  ente 
was  provided  by  Mr.  Edward  Gr^y,  whom  we 
all  know  as  a  most  charming  writer  on  al 
things  Japanese.  Prof.  Fenollosa  is  one  of  thi 
three  commissioners  appointed  by  the  Japanese 
government  to  go  around  the  world  in 
eita  of  Japanese  art.  Though  we  can  hardly 
think  the  commissioner  learned  much  (hat  was 
new  about  art  on  Saturday,  be  bad  the  good 
fortune  to  meet  some  very  clever  men  in  the 
world  of  art  and  letters. 

—  Gen.  Lew  Wallace's  article  in  the  Christ- 
mas Harper  has  apparently  given  new  life  to  the 
author's  famous  book  Ben  Mur,  and  now  almost 

50,(X)0  copies  of  it  have  been  sold.  An  edition 
s  soon  to  lie  published  In  German,  made  by  a 

Catholic  priest,  living  at   Lafayette,  Ind.,  Gen. 

Wallace's  home. 

—  The  Scribners  promise  a  second,  and 
should  that  prove  successful,  a  third,  voli 

of  the  recollections  of  the  famous  Bnchholz 
Family. 

Early  next  year  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Ci 
issue  a  selection  of  about  thirty-Gve  pieces 
from  Hisa  Liieite  Woodworth  Reeae'a  verse, 
prepared  by  herself,  under  the  title,  Petmi. 

The  partnership  of  General  James  Grant 
Wilson  and  John  Fiske  in  the  forthcoming  En- 
eyelopadia  of  American  Biography,  to  be  pub- 
lished by  Messrs.  D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  will  strike 
many  readers  as  a  curious  one.  General  Wilson 
has  for  years  been  a  most  active  and  indefati- 
gable worker  in  the  Geld  of  biography,  and  that 
he  should  be  at  the  head  of  (he  work  ia  by  no 
rprising,  but  that  Mr.  Fiske,  who  is 
en  in  New  York  except  upon  some 
mission,  should  be  identified  with  the 
undertaking  was  not  expected.  The  first  volume 
of  the  new  work  will  appear  this  month.  There 
111  be  six  volumes  in  all,  and  the  pages  wilt  be 
plentifully  sprinkled  with  portraits  engraved  on 

John  Addinglon  Symonds,  with  his 
charming  family,  is  now  established  at  Davos 
the  Tyrol,  whose  climate  seems  to  suit 
hia  delicate  health  exactly.  He  has  built  him- 
self here  a  charming  house,  and  filled  it  wilh 
objects  of  inierest.  To  keep  pace  wi(h  her 
husband's  busy  pen,  Mrs.  Symonds  paints 
ningly  in  water  colors. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Macquoid  have  returned  to 
London  from  their  Swiss  excursion,  Mrs.  Mac- 
quoid with  health  so  far  improved  as  to  be  able 
work  with  zest  and  vigor.    She  baa  | 


already  finished  aeveral  forego  storiea,  one  for 
the  new  three.pennT  periodical,  7!!^  Hour  Giati. 
This  la  10  be  a  specialty  for  travelers,  somewhat 
resembling  Macmiilan's,  and  a  very  large  drcnla- 
tion  is  anticipated.  It  ia  to  be  illustrated,  and  a 
strong  staff  of  writers  is  engaged.  Walter  Craae 
has  designed  the  cover. 

—  T.  y.  Cfosrell  ft  Co.  have  nearly  ready  Tit 
Pitture  af  Jeme,  the  second  volume  (rf  the  Rev. 
H.  R.  Haweis's  popular  work  OD  Christ  and 
Christianity.  They  publish  today  a 
of  Gogol's  Dead  Souls. 


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ve  the  brlffhmt  HnH  Anrait  of  picIDr^  Lb  Uu  tree  of  blB 
maapofmiirt."  ~  PlHllipi  llnati. 

HAWTHORNE. 

XATHARIXI,  HAWTHOMKE    A«D    RU 

^ITE.  By  jDitu  Biwnoui.  WLib  portnlu.  ) 
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G.  P.  PUTNAM'S  SONS, 

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Modern  Architectural  Practice 

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„,   Tho  Booond  Aimr  Corpi 

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Wg^S^ll  ol  dltOon  BsiUwlak.  HMrud.  itua,  Wobb, 
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KHEB  TOLUH 

Socrates. 


leation  oT  Boontw's  ra 

FOBHEB  TOLUHES. 


tecralea,  logtitiMr  wllh  PlnWi  own  iimalaUaii*. 

A  Day  in  Athens  with 
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rnuiilUlDni  Irom  the  Pnlagonu  and  IM  RepabUo  ot 

Ptuo.    liraa.cleth,  flMipapsr.NcentL 

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CHARLES  SOBIBNER'S  SONS, 

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.•ror  nUlm  alt  tUBittUm.  tr  miU  t» -ml  tw  mmll, 

J.  B.  LIPPMCOTT  COMPANY, 

71S  and  717  XAKKBT  STBEET, 


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CONTENTS. 
THE  WORLD'S  LITERATURE  IN  1886. 
[.   Tu*  Unitbo  Statu  ahd  Ehclahdi 

Liiorawra  ud  LADgoigt 4 

TIk  RimUn  Inlodon 4I 

Liuniy  CriiSduA  --,.,-,  41 

Biocnphy       ........  4 

Sodslcq 

Thaoiogy  mud  R<li|uni 
U«        .       .       . 
Usdidne         .       . 

III.  Spuh       . 

IV.  GnufAHT 

V.  DmuARK 

VI.  S«nDU>  . 

VII.  No»w.v.       , 

VIII.  RuwA     . 

IX.  Italt 

X.  Chiba  and  Cokea 

XI.  JAFAM       . 

XII.  UuciLLAinous 

XIII.  NaCKOLOOT        . 
HOUDAY  POBUCATIOHI 

PutucATiom  RacuTD 


THE  WORLD'S  LITE&&TOBE  IN  1886. 
A  OBNERAL  SURVEY. 


Art. 
If  onder  the  he&d  of  Art  In  this  General  Sur- 
TCj  of  the  World*!  UterMon  of  i386  miy 
properlj  be  placed  Bome  of  those  publicationi 
which  are  «  once  illailiatioDi  of  art  and  artistic 
examples  of  typographf,  then  certainly  we  may 
begin  oar  enumeration  with  the  superb  "Book 
of  American  Figure  Painters  "  and  the  scarcely 
inferior  though  leas  imposing  "  American  Art," 
illustrated  with  both  etchings  and  engravings, 
both  of  which,  from  recent  extended  descrip- 
tions, most  be  fresh  in  the  minds  of  our  readers. 
"The  Book  of  the  Tite  Club"  and  Mr.  Hopkin- 
son  Smith's  "Well  Worn  Roads,"  the  latter 
wholly  apatt  from  its  litet«ry  interest,  are  among 
the  finest  examples  of  American  art  work  in 
literatDre;  while  Mr.  Ipsen'i  decoration  of  Mrs. 
Browning's  "  Sonnets  from  the  Portuguese,"  Mr. 
Con's  enshrinement  of  Roasetti's  "The  Blessed 
Damotel,"  and  Mr.  Abbey's  delicate  aetting  of 
Goldsmith's  "  She  Stoops  to  Conquer "  are  not 

To  the  knowledge  and  serrice  of  art  in  its 
variotis  departmenta  or  aspects,  historical,  tech- 
niol,  oT  otherwise,  a  namber  of  notable  and 
same  valcuble  contributicma  have  been  made ; 
foremoslly  the  beginning  of  (he  great  "Cycio- 
pSHlia  of  Painters  and  Painting,"  of  which  the 
late  and  lamented  Charles  C.  Perkins  was  the 
"critical  editor,"  and  alto  the  first  part  of 
Bryan's   somewhat    analogous    "  Dictionary    of 


we  have  had  an  inatniciive  discourse  on  "  Imag- 
ination in  Landscape  Painting,"  and  from  Mr. 
S.  R.  Koebier  a  companion  essay  on  the  recent 
development  in  American  art,  both  books  them- 
selves highly  artistic  manufactures.  Chesnean's 
"Education  of  the  Ailrst"  has  been  translated 
by  Ciars  Bell.  English  technical  treatises  of  the 
year  have  been  Nutter's  "Interior  Decoration," 
Field's  "Colours  and  Pigments  (or  the  Use  of 
Artists,"  and  Collier's  "Manual  of  Oil  Fainting." 
Mr.  Frande  J.  Parker  has  written  vigorously  and 
pronouncedly  of  "Church  Building"  in  particu- 
lar, and  R.  W-  and  J.  W.  Clarke  learnedly  and 
volnminouaiy  of  the  "Architectural  History  of 
Cambiidge  University,  England,"  in  general. 
"The  House"  of  William  Burges,  one  of  the 
ablest  English  architects  of  the  century,  and  his 
"  Designs "  have  furnished  materials  for  two 
handsome  volumes.  Mr.  Ruskin  has  begun  a 
new  series  for  the  young  with  monographs  on 
the  Cathedral  of  Amiens  and  the  remains  at 
Florence.  "Early  Flemish  Artists"  have  been 
described  by  Conway,  the  "Ornamental  Arts  of 
Japan"  by  Audaley,  and  the  "Pictorial  Arts" 
of  the  same  country  by  Anderson.  And  Mrs- 
Clement  has  filled  one  of  the  handsome  books 
of  the  year  with  "Stories  of  Art  and  Aitists" 
gleaned  from  the  whole  European  field.  Frotn- 
inent  among  specialties  have  been  the  autotype 
reproductions  of  a  hundred  of  the  prints  of  the 
famous  Bartoloza,  illustrated  volumes  on  "Fif- 
teenth Century  Italian  Ornament,"  by  Vacher, 
and  on  "  English  Caricaturists  of  the  Nineteenth 
Century,"  by  Everiit;  a  book  of  richly  colored 
plates  of  "  Ladies'  Qld-Fashioned  Shoes,"  by 
Greig,  which  is  art  in  form  if  not  in  subject; 
historical  and  critical  works  on  "Tapestry," 
translated  by  Davis  from  the  French  oE  Miintz, 
and  on  "Needlework  as  Art,"  by  Lady  Alford; 
"  A  Book  □(  Facsimiles  of  Monumental  Brasses 
on  the  Continent  of  Europe,"  by  Creeny,  a 
seventh  edition  illustrated  of  CbaSers's  "Marks 
and  Monograms  on  European  and  Oriental 
Pottery  and  Porcelain,"  and  Church's  "Hand- 
book of  English  Fotcelain."  Mr.  Rockstro  has 
given  us  "  A  General  History  of  Music,"  Mr. 
Upton  a  new  and  enlarged  edition  of  his  sketch 
of  "Woman  in  Music,"  and  also  an  entirely 
new  and  very  helpful  volume  on  the  "Standard 
Oratorios;"  while  Mr.  Aichei'a  book  "About 
the  Theatre  "  has  made  a  place  for  itself  on  the 
reference  sheif. 

Archfeology. 
The  interest  in  Dr.  Schliemann's  researches 
whose  last  fruit,  the  work  on  "  Tiryns,"  reached 
American  readers  just  on  the  border  line  be- 
tween 1SS5  and  1886,  has  been  displaced  in  a 
measure  by  the  achievements  of  the  Egypt  Ex- 
ploration Fund,  whose  issues  on  "Tanis"  and 
"Naukratis,"  though  bearing  an  earlier  date, 
may  be  regarded  as  falling  within  our  present 
survey.  "Rhodes  in  Ancient  Times"  has  been 
shown  up  in  a  companion  sketch  by  Mr.  Torr, 
and  "  Ancient  Rome  in  1885  "  by  Mr.  Middleton. 
In  "Roman  Cheshire"  Mr.  Thompson  Watkin 
has  described  the  Roman  remains  in  Cheshire, 
a  work  ranking  with  his  "  Roman  Lancashire." 
To  American  arclueotogical  studies  have  been 
added  M.  Plongeon's  "  Sacred  Mysteries  among 
the  Mayas  and  the  Quiches,"  and  Dr.  Brinton's 
"Annals  of  the  Cakchiquels."  In  the  depart- 
ment of  Numismatics  we  have  had  Leggelt's 
"Notes  on   the  Mint-Towns  and  Coins  of  the 

Mnh<iTnR,«):.n<   Fr/im   thr   P:>r1!>.>   PrrinH    In  tho- 


Present  Time,"  and  two  new  volumes  (three 
parts)  in  the  Sir  Walter  Elliot's  "  International 
Numismata  Orlentalia,"  respectively  on  the 
"Coins  of  the  Jews,"  of  "Arakan,  Pegu,  and 
Burma,"  and  of  "  Southern  India."  A  posthu- 
mous volume  edited  by  the  late  E.  H.  Palmer  on 
"  Oriental  Penmanship,"  and  one  of  "  Ecclesio- 
logical  Notes"  of  an  antiquary's  tour  in  the 
Scottish  Islands,  complete  the  list. 

LllciatUTO  and  Language. 

In  one  of  the  long  pauses  between  the  vol- 
umes of  Prof.  Tyler's  great  history  of  "  Ameri- 
can Literature  "  a  first  volume  of  a  slighter  and 
more  popular  work  on  the  same  theme  by  Prof. 
Richardson  of  Dartmouth  College  has  stepped 
in,  too  recently,  however,  to  have  yet  received 
notice  in  our  columns.  We  give  it  leading  place 
here  as  the  only  important  contribution  of  the 
year  on  this  subject.  Morrison's  anomalous 
"  Manual  of  English  Literature  "  touched  us  at 
least  with  its  enthusiasm.  "  The  Relations  Be- 
tween English  and  German  Literature  in  the 
Sixteenth  Century  "  have  been  sketched  by  Her- 
ford  in  a  diligent  and  sagacious  essay,  and  the 
"Outlines  of  a  History  of  the  German  Lan- 
guage," by  Strong  and  Meyer.  Max  Miiller's 
editing  ol  Mrs,  Conybeare's  translation  of  W. 
Scherer's  "History  of  German  Literature"  is 
the  most  connderable  literary  history  of  the 
year ;  a  strong  and  noble  work.  Mr.  F.  B. 
Jcvona  has  written  a  valuable  "  History  of 
Greek  Literature  from  the  Earliest  Period  to 
the  Death  of  Demosthenes,"  and  Curtins's 
"  Principles  of  Greek  Etymology "  have  been 
translated  into  two  English  volumes  by  Wilkins 
and  England.  "The  Gothic  of  Ulfilas"  is  the 
subject  of  a  learned  essay  by  Douse,  and  Ice- 
landic and  Sanskrit  primers  by  Sweet  and 
Whitney  have  been  added  to  initial  philological 
apparatus.  The  sodal  revival  in  Msdagsscar 
the  past  few  years  lends  interest  to,  as  undoubt- 
edly it  has  furnished  occasion  for,  "A  Mada- 
gascar Bibliography  "  by  Sibiee  and  "  A  New 
Malagasy-English  Dictionary "  by  Richardson. 
Col.  Yale,  aupplementing  the  labors  of  the  late 
Arthur  Burnell,  has  published  "A  Glossary  of 
Anglo-Indian  Colloquial  Words  and  Phrases." 
The  interesting  series  of  "Sacred  Books  of  the 
East "  has  grown  by  three  several  additions 
"TheGaina  SQtras,"  translated  by  Jacobi,  "The 
Kullavagga,"  translated  by  Rhys  David  and 
Oldenburg,  and  "  The  Dbarmasamgraha,"  edited 
by  Kasawara,  a  Buddhist  priest  from  Japan  ;  all 
these  being  issues  of  the  Clarendon  I^ess  at  Ox- 
ford. The  "Roxburghe  Ballads"  have  reached 
Part  I  tA  Vol.  VI,  one  more  volume  to  complete 
the  series. 

Mr.  Hindley  has  made  the  "Catnacb  Press," 
a  once  famous  English  printing  establishment, 
the  subject  of  an  illustrated  volume ;  Mr. 
Christie  has  written  up  "The  Old  Church  and 
School  Ubrarles  of  Lancashire  i  "  and  Mr.  T. 
Mason  has  done  a  similar  service  for  the 
"Public  and  Private  Libraries  of  Glasgow;" 
while  a  "  Catalf^ue  of  the  Hebrew  Manuscripts 
in  the  Ubraries  of  Oxford"  has  been  compiled 
by  Mr.  Neubauer. 

To  the  shelf  of  Folk-Lore  have  been  added  a 
number  of  entertainitig  volumes,  including  Mr. 
Theal's  "Kaffir  Folk-Lore,"  Mr.  Vicary's  "A 
Stork's  Nest,"  the  Countess  Marti nengo-Ccsares- 
co's  "  Essays  in  the  Study  of  Foik-Lote,"  Char- 

IntU    Rnrm-'ii    "Shrniuhlrx    Vr.llr]..r.  '    \l,^,„. 


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Monleiro's  "  Legcndi  >nd  Popular  Tales  of  the 
Baique  People,"  and,  if  w«  may  properly 
mention  them  in  this  connectton,  Mr.  Harlejr'a 
"Mooa  Lore,"  Mr.  BasMtl's  "Legends  and 
Snpentitioni  o{  the  Sea  and  Sailon,"  and  Mr. 
Gould's  "Mythical  Monsters"  —  altogether  cer- 
tainly a  creditabte  list. 

An  equally  creditaUe  list  is  that  <A  tranila- 
lion*  of  daisies  and  standards,  beginning  with 
three  of  the  » Iliad ;  "  the  Grst  twelve  books  of 
it  by  Way,  lEie  poem  entire  by  Cordery,  and 
books  i-iJ  again  by  Leaf.  Mr.  W.  J.  Thomhiil 
has  "  freely  "  rendered  the  "  M-aaA "  into  blank 
ver«e,  Cicero's  "Tniculan  Disputitioni "  have 
again  appeared  in  English  under  the  hand  of 
Dr.  Peabody  of  Harvard,  and  Cicero's  "Corre- 
spondence"  and  "De  Natnra"  have  been  pre- 
sented, respectively  by  Tyrrell  and  Mayor,  in 
revised  texts,  with  valuable  critical  helps.  New 
translations  of  some  of  Horace's  "  Odes  "  have 
come  from  Sir  Stephen  De  Vere  and  Herbert 
Grant.  Mr.  R.  C.  Jebb  has  done  the  "Plays 
and  Fragment*  of  Sophocles "  into  English 
Prose,  and  from  Mr.  T.  Hodgkin  has  come  a 
"condensed  traoalatioo "  of  the  "Varix  Epis- 
lole  of  Caasiodorus."  Drs.  Abdy  and  Walker 
have  joined  in  a  translation  o(  the  "Institates  o^ 
Justinian,"  Prof.  Bugge's  translilion  of  "Mer- 
ugud  Uilix  Maicc  Leirtis,"  the  Irish  Odyssey, 
has  illustrated  the  fatnlliarity  of  the  poets  of 
the  Edda  with  certain  Greek  and  Roman  le- 
gends, and  Sir  R.  F.  Burton's  new  translation 
of  "The  Thousand  and  One  Nights"  has 
reached  lla  tenth  and  concluding  volume.  Pass- 
ing to  a  modem  subject,  tiir  Theodore  Martin's 
"Faust"  has  reached  its  second  part,  and  a 
first  part,  translated  in  the  original  meters,  by 
CUudy,  has  appeared  at  Washington. 

Tbe  Ruiriui  Infunioii. 

The  interest  In  Russian  literature,  especially 
fiction,  marked  by  a  number  of  translations,  has 
■mounted  to  a  positive  and  noticeable  feature 
of  the  year,  and  deserves  a  separate  mention 
by  itself  at  this  point.  This  movement  probably 
had  its  springs  first  in  the  charming  novels  of 
Henty  Gi^ville,  and  second  and  more  powerfully 
in  the  somber  writings  of  Tourginief,  which  gave 
the  attention  of  English  readers  a  strong  set  in 
the  direciion  of  Tourginiefs  compaliiota.  Tols- 
toi's confessions,  "  My  Religion,"  was  one  of 
the  early  treasures  of  the  year  out  of  this 
hitherto  unworked  mine,  and  this  was  followed 
by  his  souvenirs  of  "Childhood,  Boyhood, 
Youth,"  and  by  a  new  translation  of  his  great 
historical   romance,  "  War  and  Peace."    Along 


with   these  writings    1 


:    the    same    author'! 


"Anna  Karenina,"  then  Tchernychewsky'a 
"Vital  Question,"  or  "What's  to  be  Done," 
In  two  translations  ;  then  Dostoyevaltj's  "  Crime 
and  Punishment  j "  then  Gogol's  "  Taraa  Bulba  '■ 
and  "  Dead  Souls ;  "  and  for  the  better  guidance 
of  the  taste  enkindled  by  such  works  as  these 
we  have  had  from  Mr.  Dole,  an  accomplished 
scholar  in  the  field,  a  translation  of  Dopoy' 
"Great  Masters  of  Russian  Literature  in  the 
19th  Century."  All  these  have  been  Americai 
publications,  to  which  may  be  added  an  Ameri 
can  writer's  Russian  novel,  "  The  Terrace  of 
Mon  Disir,"and  Miss  Hapgood's  "Epic  Songs 
of  Russia-,"  while  in  England  there  has 
been  published  a  translation  of  Lermontoff's 
"  A  Hero  of  our  Time."  This  infusion  of  the 
Russian   element  has  perceptibly  colored   the 


year's  current  aitd  imparted  a  taste  thereto 
which  is  not  to  be  missed.  Of  a  simitar  but 
less  noticeable  importation  from  the  Spanish 
nre  shall  speak  elsewhere. 

Literal;  Cridciam. 

The  step  from  literary  history  and  imported 
samples  of  foreign  literature  to  literary  criticism 
is  natural  and  easy,  and  in  this  adjoining  Geld 
we  meet  first  with  the  additions  that  have  been 
made  to  our  knowledge  of  the  great  central 
figure  in  English  letters,  Shakespeare.  After 
six  years  of  waiting  we  hare  been  rewarded  with 
a  new  volume  in  Mr.  Fumess's  incomparable 
Variorum  Edition,  namely,  "Otliello,"  while 
"Othello  and  Desdemona  "  is  the  subject  of  a 
critical  essay  by  Dr.  Ellita.  Mr.  Fleay  has 
poblished  his  "Chronicle  History  of  the  Life 
of  Shakespeare,"  and  Mr.  Halliwell-Phlllipps's 
"Outlines  "have  passed  to  a  sixth  edition.  The 
New  Vorfc  Shakespeare  Society  has  gotten  its 
"Papers"  well  under  way,  and  Mrs.  Latimer 
has  entertained  us  with  "Talks  on  Some  of 
Shakespeare's  Comedies." 

Passing  to  Shakespeare's  fellows  —  fellows  in 
one  sense,  certainly  —  the  year  has  brought  us 
the  collected  utterances  of  the  Concord  School 
on  (Joethe,  Mr.  Snider's  essay  on  "  Faust,"  and 
a  new  edition  of  Miss  M.  F.  Rossetti's  "  Shadow 
of  Dante."  The  new  and  elegant  edition  of 
Pope,  with  Elwin  and  Courthope's  valuable 
notes,  has  nearly  reached  its  concluding  volume- 
The  new  English  Shelley  Society  has  had  a  busy 
year,  having  started  several  series  of  publica- 
tions, and  Professor  Dowden's  "  Life  "  of  Shelley 
is  in  some  sense  a  final  and  authoritative 
work.  Mr.  Swinburne  has  written  of 
Victor  Hugo  with  becoming  admiration  bnt 
turgid  rhetoric.  Mr.  Corson  and  Mr.  Rolfe  have 
laid  us  all  under  obligation  for  helps  to  Browning 
study,  the  interest  in  which  is  rapidly  increasing 
in  this  country,  and  Mr.  Rolfe  has  done  the 
same  as  respects  Tennyson.  The  Hon.  Roden 
Noel  has  published  a  collection  of  general  "Es- 
says on  the  Poets,"  and  Mrs.  Woolson  a  parlor 
study  on  "George  Eliot  and  her  Heroines." 
Seldom  has  a  year  brought  us  a  better  two 
volumes  ol  critical  essays  on  literary  topics  than 
Dr.  Hedge's  "Hours  with  German  Classics" 
and  Mr.  G.  W.  Cooke'a  "  Poets  and  Problems." 
Mr.  Andrew  Lang's  "Letters  to  Dead  Authors" 
offered  furtive  criticism  in  a  disguise  of  pleas- 
antry. Professor  Geo.  L.  Raymond  haa  written 
ambitiously  of  "Poetry  as  a  Representative 
Art  J "  and  Frederic  Harrison's  "  The  Choice  of 
Books,"  Dr.  Duffield's  inteiligent  study  of  "  Eng- 
lish Hymns,"  and  Mr.  Dana's  Bowdoin  Prize 
Essay  on  "  The  Optimism  of  Emerson,"  com- 
plete the  present  enumeration,  except  that  we 
must  not  omit  mention  of  the  Hon.  R.  B.  Ander- 
son's translation  of  Dr.  Georg  Brandes'a  "  Emi- 
nent Autiiors  of  the  Nineteenth  Century,"  our 
review  ol  which  awaits  a  less  crowded  season. 

Biography. 

The  year's  product  in  biography,  autoln'ogra- 
phy,  and  personal  narrative  is  varied  and  rich, 
the  leading  place  In  it  being  easily  held  by  the 
"Life  and  Correspondence  of  Longfellow." 
Next  thereto  may  stand  the  late  Mr.  Whipple's 
"Recollections;"  then  Mr.  Norton's  publica- 
tion of  "  The  Early  Letters  of  Carlyle  "  and  Mr. 
Larkin's  "Cariyle  and  the  Open  Secret  of  His 
Life ; "   after  which  a  line  at  least  should  be 


given  (o  Dr.  Haskins's  story  of  "  The  Halemal 
Ancestors  of  Emerson,  with  Personal  Reminis- 
cenoes,"  first  printed  In  these  columns,  and  oow 
accessible  b  book  form. 

Passing  to  subject*  of  a  secondary  interest,  we 
find  Hr.  Todd's  '•  Life  of  Joel  Barlow,"  Fmdlay's 
"Recollections  of  De  Quincey,"  Edmund  Lee's 
"Story  of  Dorothy  Wordsworth,"  Ruskin's  be- 
ginnings of  "  PrKterita,"  hi*  autobiography,  and 
Hr.  Tupper's  "  Life  as  an  Aulhur,"  all  of  which 
have  a  greater  or  less  degree  of  literary  interest. 

American  p<^itlca1  biography  is  strongly  repre- 
sented ;  first  by  the  opening  in  the  Crtiiury  of 
the  Nicolay-Hay  "  Life  of  lincoln,"  and  the 
compaoion  "Reminiscences  of  Lincoln  by  Dis- 
tinguished Hen  of  bis  Time  ;  "  and  following 
these  by  the  completed  "Memoirs"  of  Gen- 
eral Grant,  and  the  lives  of  Schuyler  Colfax  and 
B.  F.  Wade.  Mr.  Stoddard's  "  Life  of  Waah- 
ington,"  Horse's  "  Jefferson,"  and  Knox's  "  Ful- 
ton "  have  a  varying  interest  and  value.  In  the 
department  for  England  under  this  head  have 
appeared  Mr.  Baraett  Smith's  "  Prime  Ministers 
(rf  Queen  Victoria,"  Lord  Beacongfield's  "Corre- 
spondence with  his  Sister,"  more  personal  than 
political  however,  and  Mr.  Thompson's  study  of 
"  Public  Opinion  and  Lord  Beaconsfield  ;  "  while 
io  his  "  Historical  Biography  of  Prince  Bis- 
marck," Mr.  Lowe,  an  English  correspondent  at 
Berlin,  has  done  a  substantial  piece  of  work. 
New  Zealand's  "  Rulers  and  Statesmen  "  from 
1840  to  iSSj  have  lieen  sketched  by  William 
Gisborne. 

Stepping  back  from  the  present  into  the  past 
we  find  a  selection  of  Lord  Nelson's  "  Letters 
and  Despatches,"  Major  Walford's  account  of 
"  The  Parliamentary  Generals  of  the  Great  Civil 
War"  in  England (  and,  advancing  again  into 
the  region  of  recent  events.  Sir  Henry  Gordon's 
memorials  ttf  his  brother,  "  Chinese  Gordon," 
McClellan's  "Life  and  Campaigns  of  MaJ.-Gen. 
J.  E.  B.  Stuart,"  of  Confederate  army  fame,  and 
Ben  :  Perley  Poore's  "  Social  Reminiscencea  of 
Sixty  Years"  in  Washington.  In  this  connec- 
tion may  be  mentioned  Horstmann's  "  Consular 
Reminiscences "  in  Germany,  Jemingham's 
"Reminiscences  of  an  Attach^"  to  the  British 
Embassy  in  Paris  during  the  Second  Empire, 
and  Schuyler's  "  American  Diplomacy," 
which  last,  though  having  an  autobiographical 
basis,  is  an  essay  in  behalf  of  diplomatic  reform. 
The  strictly  military  line  is  further  extended  by 
Oienham's  "  Memoirs  of  Lieut,  de  Lisle,"  a  fas- 
cinating English  soldier,  Margaret  Lovett's  trans- 
lation oE  the  Comte  de  Castellane's  "Souvenirs 
of  Military  Life  in  Algeria,"  the  "  Memorials  "  of 
Sir  Herbert  Edwardes,  a  distinguished  British 
officer  in  the  Indian  service,  and  the  late  Hobart 
Pasha's  "  Sketches  "  of  his  life.  The  new  series 
of  "English  Worthies"  has  brought  us  pleasant 
reading  about  Marlborough  and  Admiral  Blake, 
Shaftesbury  and  Sir  Walter  Raleigh,  Ben  Jon- 
son  and  Richard  Steele.  Lord  Herbert's  famous 
autobiography  has  reappeared  in  a  fine  edition, 
and  a  book  on  Hobbes  by  Croom  Robertson  has 
been  added  to  Blackwood's  Philosophical  Series. 
"  The  Radical  Pioneers  "  and  the  "  English  Let- 
ters and  Letter  Writers,"  both  of  the  Eighteenth 
Century,  have  furnished  subjects  for  independent 
volumes  by  Daly  and  Williams.  Amiel's  "Jonr^ 
nat"  and  the  "Thoughts  of  the  Abbj  Roux,"  '' 
both  in  English,  have  afforded  remarkable  in- 
sight to  the  workings  of  philosophicali  French 
minds ;  the  former  a  permanent  adHitinn  in  Him-. 


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ature.  Sir  Frincis  Doyle's  "  Remini*cencet  and 
Oi^nions,"  Rev.  James  Pycroft'i  "  Oxford 
Memories,"  and  tbe  "  Hayward  Letters  "  are  a 
delightful  Eogliah  trio;  to  which  maj  be  addsd 
Dr.  Rnuell's  "  Reminiscences  of  Yarrow." 

Religions  Uograph;  starti  off  with  Dr.  Djrer'a 
"Records  of  an  Aclire  Life,"  the  memoir  of 
W.  U.  Clunning,  Joshua  Manle's  "life  and 
Experience" — an  introduction  to  tbe  Friendi, 
lives  of  Bishop  Hall  ol  Exetct  and  Norwich,  of 
"Father"  Tom  Burke,  of  Heniy  Bazely,  the 
ardent  young  Oxford  eTaagellst,  of  Jacob 
Boehme,  the  illiterate  *hocmaker-seer  tk  the 
i6th  century  (translated  from  the  Danish),  of 
William  Caiey,  the  shoemalcer-misiionarj  to 
Serampore,  and  of  Frederick  Lucas,  an  English- 
man who  died  thirty  years  ago,  after  having 
made  a  remarkable  transit  from  the  Society  of 
Friends  to  the  Church  of  Rome.  To  art  bit^- 
raphy  the  chief  cootribntioiii  have  been  the  lives 
of  Sir  Henry  Raebam,  "the  Reynolds  of  the 
North,"  Giovanni  Dupri,  "The  Honour  of 
Italy,"  and  Joseph  Wright,  commonly  known 
as  "  Wright  of  Derby;  "  also  Mary  J.  Safford's 
translation  of  Kbers's  little  sketch  of  Alma 
Tadema,  and  the  memorial  of  the  late  Geotge 
Fuller,  an  American  painter.  Mr.  Grant  Allen's 
■ketch  of  Darwin,  a  Life  of  John  HoUah,  by  his 
widow,  Mr.  Blackburn's  beantifnl  volume  about 
Caldecott,  and  the  "Joamal  and  Letters  of  Stan- 
ley Jevons,"  edited  by  hi*  widow,  have  served 
■*  reminders  of  some  of  out  latest  and  sorest 
lottes.  Almost  the  last  work  of  the  late  Henry 
Stevens  was  his  entertaining  account  ol  his  for- 
mer patron,  Mr.  Lenox. 

And  yet  the  women  remain.  Additions  to  tbe 
**  Famon*  Women  "  series  have  been  volumes  on 
Rachel,  Madame  Roland,  Margaret  of  Angou- 
Mme,  and  Susannah  Wesley.  The  picture  of 
"Madame  Mohl  and  her  Salon"  has  been  put 
into  a  bound  volume  ;  and  on  one  side  of  It 
may  be  placed  the  **  Memoirs  of  Caroline 
Bauer."  Mr.  Hudson  has  written  with  affec- 
tionate disci im in alion  of  his  late  wife,  Mary 
Clemmer,  and  Helen  Moore  rather  feebly  of 
Mary  Shelicy.  The  "  Letters  of  George  Sand  ' 
have  been  translated  and  edited]  in  "Medical 
Women  "  Dr.  SoGa  Jex-Blake  has  paid  admiring 
tribute  to  six  members  of  her  sex  who  stormed 
the  Basiile  of  Medical  College  Education  in 
England  and  carried  it;  and  the  marriage  of 
President  Cleveland  was  coiphaalzed  by  i 
"  bridal  edition  **  of  Laura  C.  Holloway'i 
"Ladies  of  the  While  House."  Mr.  Lossing't 
illustrated  book  on  "Mary  and  Martha,  the 
Mother  and  Wife  of  Washington,"  and  the  me- 
tnoirs  of  "  Dolly  Madison  "  and  Mrs.  Livingston, 
have  brought  pleasantly  before  us  a  gioup  of 
noble  ladies  of  our  olden  lime.  A  kindred  spirit 
was  Mary  Anna  Longstreth  of  Philadelphia, 
sketched  by  Miss  Ludlow.  "  The  Stage  Life  of 
Mary  Anderson "  has  been  eulogized  by  Mi 
Winter,  and  such  actresses  as  Madame  Vestris, 
Mrs.  Kemble,  and  Clara  Fisher,  Charlotte  Cush- 
anan,  Helen  Faocit,  and  Matilda  Heron,  tiave 
shared  with  Macready,  Forrest,  Booth,  and  Kean, 
the  honors  of  Mesars.  Matthews  and  Huiion' 
two  volumes  on  the  "Actors  and  Actresses  of 
Great  Britain  and  the  United  Stales." 

Joining  to  the  above  paragraph  Sir  Ronald 
Gower's  affecting  picture  of  Marie  Antoinette, 
Mr.  Round's  Clilical  essay  on  Anne  Bolcyn,  and 


Mtn    Rw 


and    ■■ 


such  an  ancient  topic  as  that  of  Mr.  Scott's 
ilsean  Prize  Essay  on  "  Uifilas,  Apostle  of  the 
Goths,"  and  thence  swing  back  to  Mr.  Chart- 
cellor's  freshly  studied  and  ably  written  "Life  of 
Charles  1,"  Prof.  Seeley's  essay  on  "  Napoleon 
the  First,"  Mr.  Collins's  historical  aludy  of 
Bolingbrokc  and  Voltaire  in  England,"  and 
Wilkinson's  "Reminiscences  of  the  Court  and 
Times  of  King  Ernest  of  Hanover." 

To  conclude,  Hr.  I.e8lic  Stephen's  "  Diction- 
ary of  National  Biography"  has  approached  its 
tenth  volume  ;  Mr.  J.  O.  Austin  has  published  a 
(^neali^cal  Dictionary  of  Rhode  Island;" 
nd  Mr.  Bettany  two  volumes  of  sketches  of 
Eminent  Doctors ; "  while  the  last  volame  ol 
the  Hon.  R.  C.  Winihrop's collected  "Addresses 
and  Speeches  "  completes  to  date  the  memorials 
oC  a  singularly  honorable  and  useful  life. 

History. 

American  History,  general  and  particular, 
holds  an  honorable  place  in  the  literary  product 
of  1886.  A  first  and  monumental  place  belongs 
r.  WInsor's  "  Narrative  and  Critical  History 
of  America,"  three  of  whose  volumes,  like  so 
many  massive  blocks  o(  closely  wrought  granite, 
have  been  duly  laid  in  course.  Mr.  Preston  has 
compiled  a  volume  of  "Documents  Illustrative 
of  American  History  from  1S06  to  1863."  The 
Pacific  States  are  still  in  Mr.  H.  H.  Bancroft'! 
hands,  and  California  has  been  further  treated 
by  Hitiell  and  Royce.  The  romance  and  tragedy 
oE  Indian  history  have  been  ably  expounded  by 
Mr.  Dunn  in  "  Maasacres  of  tbe  Mountains  "  and 
dramatically  by  Capt.  Bourke  in  "An  Apache 
Campaign;"  and  Mr.  Doubleday  has  written 
out  his  interesting  "  Reminiscences  of  the  Fill- 
buitet  War "  in  Nicar^ua.  The  Civil  War  has 
been  illuminated  not  only  by  additional  papi 
in  the  CttUury  magazine,  but  with  a  story  ol 
"  The  Cruise  of  the  Alabama,"  told  by  or 
theciew  (Mr.  Haywood),  with  Mr.  Bnead's  " 
Fight  for  Missouri,"  with  Gen.  Walker's 
ring  "  History  of  the  Second  Army  Corps,"  with 
Willis  Abbot's  spirited  narrative  of  the  "Blue 
Jackets  of  '61,"  and  with  the  anonymooi  "  Vol- 
cano Under  the  City,"  a  vivid  sketch  of  the  Draft 
Riots  in  New  York  in  tS6a.  The  only  local 
history  of  note  is  Butler's,  of  Farnilngton,  Maine, 

Working  our  way  backward  Mtsa  Harris's 
"Old  School  Days,"  Elesnor  Putnam's  "Old 
Salem,"  and  the  Ticknor  "Old  Time  Series" 
have  entertained  us  with  pictures,  curious  and 
amusing  by  turns,  of  the  lives  oF  our  New  Eng- 
land Corefalheii;  and  so  we  come  to  the  Revolu- 
ionaiy  chapter  the  contributions  to  which  are 
chiefly  Mr.  Gilmore'a  "  Rear  Guard  of  the  Revo- 
lution "  and  Mr.  Kosengarten's  monograph  c 
the  "German  Soldier"  in  that  War;  and  aki 
to  Ihese  works  are  Mr.  Schuyler's  "Colonial 
New  York  "  and  Mr.  S.  A.  Drake's  "  The  Mak. 
ing  of  New  England."  General  Wilson's  "Cen- 
tennial History  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church  in  New  York,  1785-1885."  picks  out  one 
thread  rA  events  from  the  Revolutionary  date 
to  the  present  time. 

AcroM  the  water  Mr.  Spencer  Walpole  baa 
concluded,  with  Vols,  IV  and  V,  his  "  History 
of  England  from  the  Conclusion  of  the  Grci 
War  in  iStj."  In  three  handsome  quarto  vol- 
umes Mr.  Doyle  haa  listed  the  "Official  Baron- 


reaclied  a  sixth  volume  of  his  annotated  edition 
of  "Clarendon's  History  of  the  Rebellion.* 
Professor  Morris  haa  continued  his  "Age  of 
Anne  "  with  an  account  of  "  The  Early  Hanover- 
The  Dawn  of  the  t9th  Century  in  Eng- 
land "has  been  painted  in  an  antiquary's  colors 
by  John  Ashton  in  two  volumes.  Irish  history 
epresenled  by  a  second  edition  of  O'Conor's 
■k  and  by  Sir  Gavan  Duffy's  "League  of 
North  and  South,"  an  episode  of  1850-54 ; 
Anglo- Egyptian  by  Prince  Ibrahim-Hilmy's  bib- 
iography  of  "Egypt  and  the  Soudan,"  and 
Major  de  Cosson's  "Days  and  Nights  of  Ser- 
ice  at  Suakin  ; "  Scottish  by  Dr.  Edgar's  "  Old 
Church  Life  in  Scotland,"  Dr.  Anderson's  "  Scot- 
land in  Pagan  Times,"  and  Michett's  "  Scottish 
Expedition  to  Norway  in  l6l3,"  a  careful  work. 
To  the  ecclesiastical  list  hav%  been  added  Hore's 
The  Church  in  England  from  William  in  to 
Victoria,"  Giltow'a  "  Literary  and  Biographical 
History  of  English  Catholics  "from  153410  the 
present  lime,  the  Jesuit  Amherst's  "  History  of 
Catholic  Emancipation  and  the  Catholic  Church 
in  the  British  Isles  from  1771  to  t8zo,"  and  Rev. 
Mandell  Creighton'a  unpretending  but  promis- 
ing series  of  handbooks  on  the  "  Epochs  of 
Church  History,"  of  which  three  or  four  volumes 
have  appeared. 
An  important  group  of  books  on  English  coit- 
itutional  history  marks  the  year ;  including  Sir 
W.  R.  Anson's  "  Iaw  and  Custom  of  the  Con. 
ution's  "Influence  of  the  Roman 
L.aw  on  the  Law  of  England,"  a  translation  in 
of  Dr.  Gneist's  "  History  of  the 
English  Constitution,"  a  translation  of  the  same 
flin  Professor's  "  English  Parliament  in  its 
Transforinations  through  a  Thousand  Yeara," 
Mr.  Scotlowe's  "  Short  History  of  Parliament." 
me  of  Mr.  Lucy's  "  Diary  of  Two 
Parliaments,"  and  Mr.  Grego's  "  History  of 
rntary  Elections  and  Electioneering  in 
the  Old  Days." 

English  local  history  is  always  an  interesting 
Geld  i  here  we  find  Bunce'a  "History  of  Bir- 
mingham," Doutbwaiie's  "  Hiatory  and  Associa- 
oF  Gray's  Inn,"  L'Estrange's  "Chronicle* 
of  the  Palace  and  Hoipiial  of  Greenwich,  Mr. 
Parker's  "  Early  History  of  Oxford,"  the 
history  oE  Morley,  and  Mr.  Gomme's 
Literature  of  Local  Institutions."  The  gath- 
ering of  materials  for  hiatory  is  a  favorite 
irsuit  in  England,  and  the  year  has  brought 
forth  another  installment  oE  Mr.  Hamilton's 
'Calendar  of  Slate  Papers  Relating  to  Ireland, 
[588-1592,"  a  volume  of  "Lord  Gower's  De- 
ipalches,"  Ambassador  at  Paris  1790-1791,  a 
first  volume  of  "  Middlesex  County  Records," 
and  a  third  volume  of  the  "  Lauderdale  Papers." 
Passing  into  the  wider  field  we  find  Mr.  R. 
Lodge's  epitomized   "History   of    Modem   Eu- 


I  of  "Chapters  in  European 


Hiatory,"  by  W.  S.  Lilly,  Mr.  Freeman'*  two 
lectures  on  "Greater  Greece  and  Greater  Brit- 
and  "George  Washington  the  Expander 
of  England,"  and  Barlow's  study  of  "The 
Normans  in  South  Europe,"  "  France  under 
Mazarin,"  Mr.  J.  B.  Perkins's  American  contri- 
bution to  French  history,  and  Professor  Baird'* 
"The  Huguenots  and  Henry  of  Navarre,"  also 
American,  are  two  of  the  important  and  per- 
manently valuable  works  of  the  year.  Mr. 
Morse  Stephen*'*  (English)  "  Hutory  of  the 
French  Revolution"  is  verv  hirhlv  esteemed. 


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Last  Days  of  the  Consulate  "  is  a  most  useful 
piece  of  work.  On  "  Protestants  from  France 
in  tlieir  Englisli  Home  "  Mr.  Kershiw,  F.S.A., 
has  written  an  interesting  Tuonograph. 

Professor  Fisiier  of  Yale  College,  in  his 
"Outlines  of  Universal  History,"  has  given  us 
probably  the  best  boolc  of  its  kind  in  the 
English  language ;  Ladj  Magnus,  in  "  Outlines 
of  Jewish  History,"  a  convenient  manual  suited 
to  the  reading  of  the  Hebrews  themselves,  and 
Percy  Thorpe  a  "  History  of  Japan." 

In  ancient  history  excellent  work  has  been 
done  by  Prof.  Sayce  in  his  scholarly  and  brilliant 
"  Assyria ;  "  by  Rev.  W.  B.  Wright  in  a  popular 
and  striking  way,  in  his  "  Ancient  Cities,"  and 
by  some  half  a  dozen  volumes  in  the  new  aeries 
of  "Stories  of  the  Nations,"  by  different  writers, 
American,  English,  and  others,  on  Greece,  The 
Jews,  Chatdxa,  Carthage,  Hungary,  Gei 
and  Norway,  Spain,  the  Moort  in  Spain,  and 
the  Saracen*. 

Travel. 
Lieut.  Greely'a  "Three  Years  of  Arctic 
Service,"  published  early  in  the  year,  lurned 
attention  anew  to  a  quarter  of  the  American 
Continent  which  later  was  approached 
Hallock'a  "Alaska"  and  Mr.  Elliott's 
Arctic  Province,"  two  books  which  have  opened 
up  our  great  Northwestern  Territory  in  a 
effective  way.  In  "The  Winnipeg  Country 
wc  had  a  slightly  slale  but  not  unpalatable 
account  of  a  private  expedition  into  the  heart 
of  British  North  America  for  astronomical  pur- 
poses. Turning  our  faces  in  the  opposite  di- 
rection, we  eiplored  "  The  South "  with  Col. 
McClure,  with  an  eye  to  its  industrial,  financial, 
and  political  condition,  and  from  Mr.  Cable, 
under  the  title  of  "  The  Silent  Sonth,"  received 
a  collection  of  essays,  not  of  travel,  but  of  ob- 
servation, relating  to  the  Southern  problem. 
"Comrade"  Brown's  "Battle-Fields  Revisited" 
took  us  over  the  lines  of  Sherman's  famous 
March  to  the  Sea.  Mr.  Janvier's  "  Mexican 
Guide"  and  Griffin's  "  Mexico  ol  Today"  have 
carried  our  explorations  further  to  the  south- 
ward. Purely  pleasure  travel  has  been  repre- 
sented by  the  "  Log  of  the  Ariel  in  the  Gulf  of 
Maine  "  and  the  posthumous  "  Glimpses  of  Three 
Coasts"by  Helen  Jackson. 

English  travel  has  sought  South  America  in 
two  interesting  works,  Mr.  Wells's  "  Three 
Thousand  Miles  through  Brazil "  and  Mr. 
Dent's  "A  Year  in  Brazil;"  to  which  may  be 
added  Mr.  Clemens's  extremely  good  book  on 
"  The  La  Plata  Countries."  an  American  publi- 
cation. There  has  been  the  usual  fruit  of 
English  touring  and  enterprise  in  the  United 
States, "  Frank's  Ranche  "  and  "  Ned  Stafford's 
Eiperiences "  representing  the  life  of  boy  ad- 
venturers in  Colorado  and  Florida,  "  Emigrant 
Life  in  Kansas"  being  sketched  by  Ebbutt,  and 
"Orange?  and  Alligilors"  in  Florida  by  Lady 
Duffus  Hardy  j  Florence  Marryatt  describ- 
ing her  visit  in  "  Tom  Tiddler's  Ground,"  and 
Mr.  Edward  Money  professing  to  tell  "The 
Truth  about  America,"  which  is  what  Few  Eng- 
lishman, if  any,  have  ever  done  before-  The 
only  no.iceable  works  of  reprisal  under  this 
head  are  Gen.  Badeau's  note-book  on  "Th 
Aristocracy  in  England"  and  Mr.  Patten' 
"England  as  Seen  by  an  American  Banker." 

But    Englishmen    travel     further    than    the 
'States,"   and  with   Mr.  Froude   in   "Oceani 
we  have  had  a  fascinating  trip  to  Australia  and 


New  Zealand  and  with  Princes  Albeit  Victor 
George  a  share  of  "The  Cruise  of  Her 
Mijesty's  Ship  Bacchante."  The  Baron  Hiibner 
las  given  us  a  vigorous  and  entertaining  run 
.11  "Through  the  British  Empire  i"  at  "The 
Azores  "  we  have  touched  with  Mr,  Walker  on  a 
scientific  errand,  and  have  made  with  Clark  Rus- 
sell "  A  Voyage  to  the  Cape  "  with  mere  sight- 
seeing motives.  Natal  and  the  Zulu  Land  were 
visited  with  Miss  Colenso  and  Col.  Tulloch, 
"  Six  months  in  Cape  Colony  and  Nalal "  were 
spent  with  Mr.  J.  J.  Aubertin;  and  "Through 
the  Kalahari  Desert"  we  journeyed  with  Mr. 
Farini  in  search  of  health  and  diamonds.  A 
long  leap  to  the  northward,  and  a  "  i,zoo  Miles 
Ride  through  Marocco "  with  Mr.  Stutficid 
brought  us  back  to  our  start ing.point,  through 
"The  Highlands  of  Canlabria  "  in  the  gushing 
company  of  Mars  Ross  and  St  one  hewer- Cooper. 
Then  off  again  with  the  Pennella  on  their  "  Two 
Pilgrims'  Progress"  through  Italy ;  into  "  Sar 
dinia  and  its  Resources"  with  Robert  Ten  nan  I 
studying  "  Life  and  Society  in  Eastern  Europe 
with  William  Tucker,  looking  in  on  Margare 
Collier's  "  Home  by  (he  Adriatic,"  with  Mrs 
Walker  surveying  "Eastern  Life  and  Scenery  " 
from  the  standpoint  of  Constantinople,  dazzled  by 
de  Amicis's  glittering  phantasmagoria  of  the  city 
of  the  Bosphoros;  and  then,  retracing  in  some 
measure  Mr.  Froudc's  track,  on  to  the  "  Western 
Pacific  and  New  Guinea  "  with  Romilty,  to  "  Aus- 
tralia" with  Sutherland,  to  "New  South  Wales 
and  Victoria"  with  Gane  and  Taylor  and  Wil. 
loughby  —  three  separate  works ;  and  then  In  turn 
making  acquaintance  of  "  Cannibals  and  Convicts 
in  the  Western  Pacific"  with  Julian  Thomas,  ex- 
amining "The  Madagascar  of  Today  "  with  G. 
A.  Shaw,  joining  the  Palestine  Exploration  Fund 
Survey  of  Western  Palestine  "  and  for  an 
Expedition  "  Across  the  Jordan,"  and  reviewing 
Twenty. One  Years'  Work  in  the  Holy 
Land." 

One   chapter  remains  in   this    round   of  the 

year's  travels,  or  rather  the  published  record  of 

them,  namely  the   Asiatic  chapter.    Persia  has 

been  newly  and  interestingly  described  by  Kern 

1,  and  Benjamin;    "India  Revisited"  by 

Edwin  Arnold ;  Burma  portrayed  by  Scott  and 

by   Geary    and  "Eastern    Sport  in  Bengal"  by 

Simpson;    and  India  in   general  under  various 

ipects,   has  been   the   subject   of  volumes   by 

Wheeler,  Blunt,  and  Cotton.     China  has  had  at- 

Irom  Miss   Gordon-Cumming  and   Mr. 

Henry;  Japan  by  Maclay  and  Pearson. 

Science  and  Phitosophy. 

Proper  preparation  was  made  for  the  Charles- 
n  calamity  in  Professor  Milne's  "  Earthquakes 
and  Other  Earth  Movements,"  one  valuable 
addition,  though  not  the  only  one, 
national  Scientific  Series."  The  rapid  develop- 
ment of  electrical  science  has  called  for  Park 
Benjamin's  "  Age  of  Electricity  "  and  for  the 
translation  of  the  more  considerable  Wormell's 
"  Electricity  in  the  Service  of  Man."  Two  text- 
books on  the  subject  for  schools  by  Gumming 
and  Gordon  have  appeared  in  England.  An 
excellent  technical  handbook  of  "The  Chem- 
istry of  the  Coal- Tar  Colors  "  is  that  translated 
by  Knecht  from  the  German  of  Bencdikt.  Jack- 
has  collected  the  "Statistics  of  Hydrauli 


Works  and  Hydraulogy  of  England,  Canada,  thus 
Egypt,  and  India."  The  official  "Report  on  tiny 
the   Scientific  Results   of    the   Voyage    of   the  |  text 


Challenger"  has  reached  the  twelfth  and  thir- 
teenth volumes. 

Mr.  J.  G.  Wood  has  discussed  "Horse  and 
Man"  in  their  mutual  dependence  and  duties 
ingenious  and  instructive  volume.  "The 
Butterflies  of  the  Eastern  United  States"  have 
been  mapped  by  French;  "The  Fresh  Water 
Fishes  of  Europe"  by  Seely;  and  from  the 
government  printing  office  at  Washington  have 
been  issued  two  important  works  on  "The 
Fisheries  of  the  United  States."  The  elephant 
has  been  described  in  full  by  Holder  under  title 
of "  The  Ivory  King."  Miss  Sinclair  has  sketched 
the  "  Indigenous  Flowers  of  the  Hawaiian 
Islands,"  and  Mr.  Baker  "The  Flora  of  the 
English  Lake  District-"  "The  Uke  Dwellings 
of  Ireland"  are  the  subject  of  an  interesting 
volume  by  Wood-Maitin.  "  House  Plants  as 
Sanitary  Agents"  have  been  discussed  by  An- 
ders. Vines's  "  Lectures  on  the  Physiology  of 
Plants "  make  a  text-book  on  vegetable  phys- 
iology of  the  first  importance- 

For  planters  Arnold  has  written  on  "  C<^ee  " 
in  particular,  and  Haldene  on  "  Sub-Tropical 
Cultivations  and  Climates "  in  general.  Dr. 
Croll  has  published  valuable  "  Discussions  on 
Climate  and  Cosmogony,"  and  Lotze'a  "Micio- 
cosmus  "  has  been  translated  by  Elizabeth  Ham- 
ilton and  Constance  Jones. 

In  the  field  of  intellectual  science,  passing  on 
the  border  line  Maudsley's  "Natural  Causes 
and  Supernatural  Seemings,"  we  come  to  Setb's 
id  elegant  lectures  on  "  Scottish  Fhiloao- 
phy."  Second  and  third  volumes  of  Schopen- 
hauer's "The  Worid  as  Will  and  Idea"  have 
appeared  in  a  thoroughly  good  translation  by 
Haldene  and  Kemp.  There  have  appeared  three 
text-books  on  "  Psychology,"  by  McCosh,  Janes, 
and  Sully.  Professor  Sidgwick  has  filled  a  con- 
spicuous gap  with  his  "  Outlines  of  the  History 
of  Ethics,"  alongside  of  which  may  be  ranged 
and  Tower's  "  Principals  of  Morals," 
Courtenay's  "  Constructive  Ethics,"  Sorley's 
"Ethics  and  Naturalism,"  and  Caroline  Had- 
don's  "  Studies  in  Hinton's  Ethics." 

To  physical  science  we  must  return  in  a  few 
words,  to  notice  a  number  of  "Mining  Mono- 
graphs of  the  United  States  Geological  Survey," 
Winchell's  excellent  "Geological  Studies,"  Gei- 
kie's  "Class-book  and  Outlines  of  Geology," 
Wood's  "  Luminifetous  ^iher,"  Haitmann's 
"  Anihropoid  Apes,"  and  a  translation  (or  adap- 
tation) by  Parker  of  Weidersheim's  "  Elements 
of  the  Comparative  Anatomy  of  Vertebrates." 

Sociology  and  Economics. 

The  prominence  of  the  Labor  Problem  this 
year  has  given  more  than  ordinary  importance  to 
the  literary  treatment  uf  the  topic  in  its  different 
aspects,  and  of  the  various  sociological  questions 
which  lead  towards  political  economy.  McNeill's 
"  The  Labor  Movement,"  as  a  statement  of  facts 
and  recital  o£  history,  and  Ely's  "Labor  Move- 
ment in  America,"  as  a  statement  of  prindplea 
and  discussion  of  theories,  are  doubtless  the  two 
foremost  works  in  this  department;  the  first 
coming  from  the  workshop,  the  second  from  the 
study.  "  Our  Country,"  in  "  its  Possible  Future 
and  its  Present  Crisis  "  has  been  vigorously  and 
strikingly  portrayed  by  Strong,  and  Carnegie  in 
imphant  Democracy  "  has  painted  an  co- 


future  of  Americ 
Macy  has  prepared  a  fresh  and  admirable 
■book  on  "Our  Government."  and  Sir  Hginv 


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Maine  hte  written  learnedly  on  "  Popular  Gov- 
ernmenU"  Dr.  Behrendi's  "  Socialism  and 
Christianity,"  an  anonyiDous  author's  "  Class 
Interests  "  in  their  *'  Relations  to  Each  Other  and 
to  Government,"  Barns'i  "  Id.bor  Problem," 
and  Hudson's  "  The  Railway!  and  the  Republic  " 
are  the  remaining  monographs  of  note- 
On  money  Laughlin  has  glTen  lu  a  "  History 
oF  Bimetallism,"  Gi&en  a  second  series  of  col- 
lected "  Essays  in  Finance,"  and  Rae  a  capital 
book  on  "The  Country  Banker."  From  Henry 
George  we  have  had  an  argumentative  work  on 
"  Protection  or  Free  Trade,"  and  from  Professor 
Clark  of  Smith  College  one  on  "  The  Philosophy 
oE  Wealth."  Bowket's  "  Economics  for  the  Peo- 
ple "  and  Henry  Sidgwick's  "  Scope  and  Method 
of  Economic  Studies  "  are  primers  of  the  first 

Specifically  English  essays  in  this  field  are 
Taylor's  "  Introduction  to  a  History  of  the  Fac- 
tory System,"  Graham's  "  Social  Problem  in  its 
Economical,  Moral,  and  Political  Aspects,"  Lord 
Brabuoo's  "Social  Arrows,"  White's  "Prob- 
lems of  a  Great  City."  Blrkbeck's  "  Historical 
Sketch  of  the  Distribution  of  Land  in  England," 
and  Phillips's  "  Labor,  Land,  and  Law." 

Finally  Thwing's  "  Family "  and  Robertson 
Smith's  "Kinship  and  Marriage  in  Early  Arabia" 
have  well  maintained  the  standard  of  research 
and  discussion  in  the  facts  and  laws  of  domestic 
life. 

Fiction. 
The  year's  product  of  fiction  has  been  large 
enough,  certainly,  but  for  the  most  part  common- 
place. Some  good  novels  have  been  added  to 
the  list,  but  no  commanding  one.  It  is  a  question 
with  many  readers  whether  Mr.  Howells's  "  In- 
dian Summer"  and  "The  Minister's  Charge" 
even  maintain  his  reputation.  Mr-  James' 
"  Bostonians  "  and  the  "  Princess  Casamassima 
have  at  least  the  importance  of  bulk.  Mr. 
Crawford  is  represented  by  "A  Tale  of 
Lonely  Parish,"  Bret  Marie  by  "Snow  Bound 
at  Eagle's,"  Edgar  Fawcett  by  "  The  Hi 
High  Bridge,"  Arthur  Hardy  by  "The  Wind  of 
Destiny,"  and  Higginson  by  "The  Monarch  of 
Dreams."  Mr.  Picard  has  certainly  scored 
third  success  in  "Old  Boniface,"  and  Barrett 
Wendell  a  second  in  "  RankcU's  Remaini 
Joaquin  Miller  has  written  grandiloquently  of 
"  The  Destruction  of  Gotham."  From  Hi 
Howe  we  have  had  "  The  Moonlight  Boy,"  (ron 
Julian  Hawthorne  "  John  Parmclce's  Curse,' 
from  Mrs.  Foote  "  John  Bodewin's  Testimony," 
from  Miss  Phelps  "  The  Madonna  of  the  Tubs,' 
from  Miss  Woolson  "East  Angels,"  from  Misi 
Murfree  "In  the  Clouds,"  from  Robert  Grant 
two  books,  "The  Knave  of  Hearts' 
Romantic  Young  Lady,"  from  Mrs.  Walworth 
two,  "Without  Blemish"  and  "The  New  Mi 
at  Rossmere,"  and  from  Mr.  Stockton  two, 
"The  Late  Mis.  Null"  and  "The  Casting 
Away  of  Mrs.  L«cks  and  Mrs.  Aleshine." 
Weir  Mitchell's  "  Roland  Blake."  Roe's  "  He 
Fell  in  Love  with  his  Wife,"  Helen  Campbell's 
"Miss  Melinda's  Opportunity,"  Charlotte  Dun. 
ning's  "A  Step  Aside,"  Miss  Alcott's  "Joe's 
Boys,"  Mrs.  Barr's  "  A  Daughter  of  Fife,"  Mr. 
Harland's  "Mrs-  Peixada,"  and  Mrs.  Rohlfe's 
"Mill  Mystery,"  though  of  unequal  value,  de- 
serve mention  in  this  review-  Collections  of 
short  stories  have  come  from  Mr.  Stockton,  Miss 
Jewett,    Mrs.   Cooke,   and    Brander    Matthews. 


hidden  authorship,  "Jnstina"  and  "The  Story 
of  Margaret  Kent." 

There  is  a  considerable  list  of  novels  by  new 
writers,  new  at  least  as  writers  at  fiction,  repre- 
sented by  such  names  and  titles  as  the  follow- 
ing: Margaret  Holmes's  "The  Chamber  over 
the  Gate,"  Roosevelt's  "Love  and  Luck,"  "  Wm. 
Allen  Butler's  " Domesticus,"  Ludlow's  "The 
Captain  of  the  Janizaries,"  Miss  Hamlin's  "The 
Politician's  Daughter,"  Helen  Brown's  "Two 
College  Girls,"  Dowling's  "The  Wreckers," 
Henderson's  "The  Prelate,"  Keenan's  "The 
Mrs.  Loughead's  "The  Man  Who 
Was  Guilty,"  Parke  Danforth's  "Not  in  the 
Prospectus,"  Miss  Burnham's  "  Next  Door,"  Mrs- 
Atla,"  Thorold  King's  "  Haschisch," 
and  Mr.  Wertheimber's  "  Mutamasa  Blade-" 

To  what  tnay  be  called  American  Historical 
Fiction  the  chief  contributions  have  been  "  Con. 
stance  of  Acadia"  and  Mr.  Bynner's  "Agnes 
Surriage,"  Townaend's  "Katy  of  Catoclin,"  the 
anonyrootis  "  Towards  the  GulE,"  and  Fiances 
Baylor's  "On  Both  Sides;"  and  in  a  miliUry 
or  naval  way  John  Coulter's  "Mr-  Desmond," 
CapL  King's  "  Marion's  Faith,"  and  Jerrold 
Kelley's  "  A  Desperate  Chance." 

Besides  the  appetite  for  Russian  fiction  noted 
ilsewhere  there  has  been  a  marked  interest  in 
French  and  Spanish  authors,  illustrated  by  the 
-anslations  of  Balzac,  Flaubert,  and  Feuillet,  of 
Valera's  "Pepita  Ximenez"  and  of  Valdes's 
The  Marquis  of  Peflalla."  The  German 
stream  haa  been  drier  than  for  some  years. 

The  usual  large  number  of  novels  have  ap- 
peared in  England,  three  volume  standards, 
shilling  dreadfuls,  and  penny  awfula,  but  the 
gieat  novelists  have  passed  away,  their  places 
ifilled,  and  the  writers  in  the  second  and 
ranks  have  produced  little  of  note.  The 
exceptions,  if  any,  are  Mr.  Hardy's  "  The  Mayor 
of  Casterbrii^e  "  and  the  late  Hugh  Conway's 
A  Cardinal  Sin."  Wilkie  Collins  has  written 
no  mediocrities,  "  The  Evil  Genius  "  and  "  The 
Guilty  River."  R.  L.  Stevenson's  "Strange 
Case  of  Dr-  Jekyll  and  Mi,  Hyde  "  was  perhaps 

talked  about  story  of  the  yeai 
for  boys  he  has  provided  "Kidnapped-"  From 
Edna  Lyall  three  books  have  reached  us  —  "  We 
Two,"  "  Won  by  Waiting,"  and  "  In  the  Golden 
Days,"  and  from  Justin  McCarthy  two  —  "  The 
Right  Honorable  "  and  "  Our  Sensation  Novel." 
Mr.  Mallock's  "  The  Old  Order  Changes,"  Mr. 
Ansley's  "  A  Fallen  Idol,"  Grant  Allen's  "  Baby- 
lon "  and  "  For  Mainiie's  Sake,"  Jean  IngeloVs 
"  John  Jerome,"  Mr-  Noiris's  "  Her  Own  Doing, 
"  A  Bachelor's  Blunder,"  and  "My  Friend  Jim," 


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"Cynic  Furtune,"  Miss  Yonge's  "Chantry 
House,"  "Astray,"  and  "A  Mudern  Telema- 
chus,"  Mrs.  Oliphant's  "  A  Country  Gentleman 
and  his  Familj,"  and  "A  House  Dii 
Against  Itself."  Farjeon's  "  Three  Times  Tried." 
George  Macdonald's  "What's  Mine's  Mine." 
Julian  Corbetl's  "The  Fall  of  Afgard,"  "  Shi'rt- 
house's  "  Sir  Percival,"  Mrs,  Craik's  "  King 
Arthur,"  Mr.  Sala's  "  Captain  Dangerous,"  Miss 
Braddon's  "One  Thing  Needful,"  Mr.  Payn's 
"Heir  of  the  Ages,"  and  Fenn's  "The  Vicar's 
People  "  complete  this  summary. 

Poetry. 


Tennyson's  "  Locksley  Hall  Sixty  Years  After," 
but  no  other  English  poet  of  high  rank  has  sung 
:e.  Miss  A-  Mary  F-  Robinson  hat  pub- 
lished "An  Italian  Garden;"  Mr.  Coventry 
Patmore  haa  given  us  a  collective  edition  of  his 
"Poems;"  from  Justin  McCarthy  we  have  had 
"  Haliz  in  London,"  and  from  Ernest  Myers 
"The  Judgment  of  Prometheus;"  and  this  is 
about  all- 

Of  the  older  American  poets  Whiltier  has 
been  heard  from,  in  "  Saint  Gregory's  Guest,"  with 
iwelcome  intimation  thai  it  may  be  for  the 
ime,  and  C-  P.  Cranch  in  "  Ariel  and  Call- 
ban;"  but  these  two  alone.    Mr.  Edgar  Faw- 

"  Romance  and  Revery"  is  the  most  im-  ' 

ni  contribution  from  the  younger  group. 
Mrs.  Thaxier's  "The  Cruise  of  the  Mystery," 
Noia  Perry's  "  New  Songs  and  Ballads,"  Mrs. 
Piatt's  "In  Primrose  Time,"  and  Mrs-  Preston's 

For  Love's  Sake  "  represent  the  female  poets. 

here  is  a  little  company  of  on-coming  poets, 
from  some  of  whom  good  performance  may  be 
expected,  but  whose  work  is  yet  chiefly  that 
of  promise.  To  this  class  belong  Mr.  Clinton 
Scollard's  "  With  Reed  and  Lyre."  Arlo  Bates's 

Berries  of  the  Brier,"  and  John  Jeffrey  Roche's 
"Songs  and  Satires-"  To  these  may  be  added 
John  Boyle  O'Reilly's  "In  Bohemia,"  Samuel 
Minturn  Peck's  "Cap  and  Bells,"  and  Maurice 
Thompson's  "Songs  of  Fair  Weather."  The 
Rev.  H.  B.  Carpenter's  "Liber  Amoris"  haa 
come  too  late  for  anything  but  mention  here. 
This  is  by  nu  means  ail  the  original  poetry  of  the 
year,  hut  we  believe  we  have  omitted  nothing  of 
importance- 
Theology  and  Religloii. 

Theological  and  religious  writing  still  holds  a 
leading  place  in  the  world's  literature,  occupying 
the  ablest  minds  and  contributing  nu  small  pro- 
poition  of  the  sum  total  of  books-  Plot  Thay- 
er's laboriously  edited  translation  of  Grimm's 
Wilke's  "  Clavis  Novi  Testamenil "  has  at  last 
appeared,  the  most  notable  addition  to  Biblical 
apparatus  since  the  Revision  and  the  Wesicott 
and  HoriTexL  E- Miller  has  published  a  "Guide 
to  the  Textual  Criticism  of  the  New  Testament," 
and  Trumbull  a  curious  study  of  "The  Blood 
Covenant-"  Fairar's  "  History  of  Interpreta- 
tion" and  Briggs's  "Messianic  Prophecy"  are 
scholarly  works  of  permanent  value-  Murphy  of 
Belfast  has  added  to  his  other  exeget leal  volumes 
on  the  Old  Testament  one  on  "Daniel."  The 
Tabernacle  and  the  Temple  nl  the  Hebrews 
have  been  the  subject  uf  two  critical  and  descript- 
ive works,  one  popular,  by  Randall,  the  other 
learned,  scientitic,  and  exceptionally  remarkable 
in  many  ways,  by  Paine.  Kuenen's  "  Inquiry 
into  the  Origin  and  Composiliiin  of  the  Penta- 
teuch and  Joshua  "  has  been  translated  by  Wick- 
steed;  Dr.  W.  M.  Taylor  has  written  on  "The 
Parables,"  J.  F.  Clarke  on  "The  Fourth  Gospel," 
and  Milligan  on  the  "Revelation  of  St.  John." 
A  -novel  and  useful  work  is  Tuck's  "  Handbook 
of  Biblical  Difficulties."  The  improvement  of 
"  The  Teaching  of  the  Apostles,"  that  new-found 
MS-  of  the  Second  Century,  seems  to  have  come 
to  an  end  with  Dr.  C.  Taylor's  "  Illustrations 
from  the  Talmud."  Burbridge  has  given  a  vala-  ,> 
able  historical  account  of  "The  Liturgies  of  the  ^ 
Church."  Cunningham's  Hulsean  Lectures  on 
"S.  Austin  and  his  Place  in  the  History  of 
Christian  Thought "  have  been  published ;  Joyce 


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[Dec.  25, 


from  15.1:  to  1^5-  Lechler'i  "Apostolic  and 
Post- Apostolic  Times  "  has  been  translated  by 
Davidson,  and  DiionS  "Hiitory  of  the  Cbarch 
of  England  "  hu  reicbcd  a  third  volume. 

In  the  study  of  other  than  the  Christian  relig- 
ion, we  have  had  Hughes's  "Dictionaij  of 
Islam,"  Leggc's  translation  of  "The  Texts  of 
Confucianism,"  and  the  Kcond  and  third  vol- 
umes of  Wherry's  "  Commentary  on  the  Qurin." 
In  the  field  whete  Religion  meets  Philosophy 
and  Science,  works  of  greatly  diverse  merit  have 
been  Pertin's  "Religion  of  Philosophy,"  Conn's 
"Evolution  of  Today,"  Van  Dyke's  "Theism 
and  Evolution,"  Mendenhall's  "Plato  and  Paul," 
and  Piatt's  "  Philosophy  of  the  Supernatural,'* 
the  latter  easily  the  ablest- 
More  than  the  usual  number  of  collected  ser- 
mons have  been  published;  by  Scbindler  on 
"Messianic  Expectations  and  Modem  Judaism," 
by  a  dozen  prominent  Unitarian  preachers  on 
"  Modern  Unitarianism,"  by  Tejgnmouth  Shore 
on  "Prayer,"  by  Bishop  Lee  of  Delaware  on 
"Eventful  Nights  in  Bible  History,"  by  Ta|. 
mage  oC  Brooklyn  on  "The  Marriage  Ring,"  by 
Leonard  W.  Bacon  on  "The  Simplicity  that  is 
in  Christ,"  by  Dr.  Wm.  M.  Taylor  on  "Joseph 
the  Prime  Minister,"  by  James  Freeman  Clarke 
on  "  Every  Day  Religion,"  by  Gunsaulus  on 
"The  Tranafiguraiion,"  by  M.  J.  Savage  on 
■■  Social  Problems,"  by  Kirkus  on  "  Religion  a 
Revelation  and  a  Rule  of  Life,"  by  Sam  Jones, 
the  Revivalist,  by  Dean  Church  of  St.  Paul's, 
London,  on  "The  Discipline  of  the  Christian 
Character,"  by  Dean  Goulburn  of  Norwich  on 
"  Holy  Week,"  by  Bishop  Alexander  of  one  of 
the  Irish  Dioceses  un  "The  Great  Question," 
by  the  vigorous  and  plain-spoken  Haweis  of  St. 
James's,  Marylebone,  London,  on  a  variety  of 
topics  of  the  time,  and  by  Phillips  Brooks,  Ar- 
thur Brooks,  his  brother,  Stopford  A.  Brooke, 
Dr.  Morgan  Dix,  Archdeacon  Farrar,  Dr.  Hugh 
Macraillan,  Thain  Davidson,  Archbishop  Trench, 
the  Ule  Bishop  Moberly,  and,  If  we  may  include 
such  discourses  as  the  Monday  Lectures,  Joseph 
Cook.  This  certainly  is  an  uncommonly  long 
and  weighty  list,  and  shows  that  the  sermon  is 
not  yet  losing  its  hold  on  the  public  mind. 

Law. 
Following  our  custom   in  previous  years,  we 
shall  say  tittle  or  nothing  about  second  editions 
of  works  already  known,  about  works  having 
only  a  local  application,  or  about  books  not  es- 
pecially valuable  in  this  country.    Nor  is  there 
much  to  say  of  the  Reports.    The  usual  flood 
of  these  continues,  and  the  quantity  seems  thus 
far  to  be  increased  rather  than  diminished  by 
the  unofficial  publications  called   "  Reporters." 
These  have  continued  their  course  substantially 
as  they  have  announced  it.    The  West  Publish- 
ing Company  has  now  promised  that  it  will  en- 
large its  system  by  the  addition  of  a  Southeastern 
Reporter  and  a  Southern  Reporter,  so  that  ~ 
series  now  constitutes   a  complete  "  Reportc 
system,  or  a  model  national  system  of  law 
ports,  including  all  the   federal   courts  and  all 
the   State  courts  of  last  resort.    In  addition 
the    works   of   this  nature   which  were  issued 
last  year  there  has  been  added  a  "  New   York 
State  Reporter,"  containing  all  the  current 
cisions  of  all  the  courts  of  record  of  the  Si 
suboidinate  as  well   as  appellate ;   so  that   the 
New  York  Court  of  Appeals  is  now   honored 
by  the  publication  of  its  decisions  in  the  official 


I  and  in  four  "Reporters,"  to   say  notliing 

of    the    New   York  "  Weekly   Digest "  and  o( 

veral   more    ephemeral    works.      Neatly    the 

mc  thing  may  be  said  of  the   United   States 

ipreme  Court. 

In  the  department  of  text-books,  always  the 
ost  interesting  branch  of  our  subject,  the  law 
of  property,  irrespective  of  any  distinction  be- 
tween real  and  personal,  has  received  illustra- 
on  in  Gray  on  "  Perpetuities,"  Remsen  on 
Intestate  Succession,"  Martindale's  "  Unclaimed 
Money,  Lands,"  etc  Rules  peculiar  to  real  prop- 
Tty  are  considered  in  Austin's  "Farm  Law" 
Lnd  Jones's  "  Forms  of  Conveyancing."  Wyiv- 
koop  on  "  Vessels  and  Voyages  as  Regulated 
by  the  Federal  Constitution  and  Tteasury  De- 
cisions" seems  the  only  work  00  property  in 
shipping. 

to  patent*,  the  most  important  work  — 
perhaps  the  most  important  American  taw  book 
of  the  year  —  is  Myer's  volume  of  the  "Federal 
>  on  Patents,  Copyrights,  and  Trade-marks ; " 
which  contains  a  reprint  In  full  of  all  the  more 
valuable  decisions,  accompanied  by  a  very  com- 
prehensive and  satisfactory  digest  of  the  others, 
e  whole  completed  by  several  tables  adapted 
be  very  useful  to  all  interested  in  the  snbject- 
The  editors,  W.  D.  Baldwin  and  Woodbury 
Lowery,  seem  justified  in  claiming  in  their  pref- 
ace that  the  volume  is  an  encyclopedia  of  patent 
law  for  the  use  of  patent  solicitors  who  are  not 
lawyers,  as  well  as  for  the  bar.  There  is  a  small 
rolume  in  the  nature  of  a  digest,  by  Duryee,  on 
'  Assignments  of  Patent  Rights ; "  and  C.  R. 
Srodix  as  publisher  and  B.  V.  Abbott  as  editor 
have  issued  two  volumes  containing  the  text  of 
the  Patent  Laws  of  All  Nations,  with  copious 
.  accompanying  the  United  States  laws, 
while  they  announce  *  series  o(  reports  in  five 
-  six  volumes,  of  all  the  English  patent  cases, 
ith  drawings,  specifications,  and  notes. 
The  subject  of  contracts  has  elicited  quite  a 
number  of  books,  none  of  them  of  commanding 
rtance.  We  notice  Bates  on  "  Limited 
lership,"  Dewey  on  "  Contracts  for  Future 
Delivery,"  etc^  Greenhood  on  "Public  Policy 
the  Law  of  Contracts,"  s  very  carefully  pre- 
pared volume  arranged  in  the  form  of  rules, 
five  hundred  and  eighly-six  in  all,  with  iltos- 
t  rat  ions  and  very  brief  points  on  reported 
cases;  Jones  on  "Construction  of  Commercial 
and  Trade  Contracts  ;  "  Ralston  on  "  Discharge 
of  Contracts;"  Randolph  on  "Commercial  Pa- 
per," the  first  of  a  series  to  be  complete  in  three 
volumes;  Usher  on  "  Sales  of  Personal  Property." 
Herman  on  "Estoppel  and  Xet  Judicata"  may 
perhaps  well  be  mentioned  in  this  class. 

There  seems  not  to  have  been  any  compre- 
hensive work  on  the  law  of  wrongs,  but  im- 
portant branches  of  that  subject  are  presented 
in  Preble  on  "Collisions  of  Ships  in  United 
Stales  Waters,"  which  is  a  small  sized  manual 
of  Supreme  Court  decisions,  resembling  the 
author's  previous  epitome  of  patent  cases; 
Grinnell's  "  Law  of  Deceit ;  "  Deering  on  "  Neg- 
ligence;" Whittaker's  edition  of  Smith  on  the 
same  subject;  and  Patterson  on  "The  Law  of 
Railway  Accidents." 

Crimea  have  received  comprehensive  attenlior 
in  the  completion  of  the  well-known  series  of  fivi 
volumes  on  "Criminal  Defences  and  Malone'i 
Criminal  Briefs." 

Space  fails  us  even  to  designate  all  the  works 
in  the  Geld  of  remedies.    The  more  interesting 


e  Hawes  on  "  Jurisdiction  of  Courts,"  Wood's 

Practice  Evidence,"  Bailey  on  the  "  Omu  Pro- 

bandi,"  Morrill  on  "  Competency  and  Privilege  of 

Witnesses,"  Wade  on  "  Attachment  and  Gamish- 

,"  with  McConnell  on  "  The  Trustee  Proc 

and  there  are  a  number  of  books  on  forms, 
and  partiCDlar  remedies- 
Saying  nothing  of  several  works  on  the  admin- 
istration of  particular  functions  of  govemment, 
we  mention  as  of  general  interest  Tiedman's 
"  Limitations  of  the  Police  Power  of  the  Slate  I^ 
the  Federal  Constitution,''  Winthrop  on  "Mili- 
tary Law,"  applicable  particularly  to  America, 
and  Anson  on  the  "  Law  and  Custom  of  ibe  Con- 

:ion  of  England;"  to  which  may  well  be 
added  Merrill's  "Comparative  Jurisprudence 
,nd  Conflict  of  Laws,"  and  Pomeroy's  "  Interna- 
tional Law." 

ic  most  important  work  in  the  field  of  di- 
gests is  Adams's  "  Judicial  Glossary,"  described 
the  title-page  as  an  "exhaustive  compilation 
of  the  most  celebrated  maxims,  aphorisms,  doc- 
trines, precepts,  phrases,  and  terms  employed  >n 
the  law,  adages,  proverbs,  mottoes,"  etc.  This 
is  a  work  requiring  great  learning  in  reader  as 
well  as  author,  minute  accuracy  in  printer  as 
well  as  author,  and  we  fear  some  pecuniary  risk 
to  publisher  as  well  as  author.  Those  who  are 
conversant  with  the  peculiarities  and  special  vses 
of  such  books  as  Bell's  Scotch  Law  Dictionary, 
Burrill's  Law  Dictionary,  Simson's  and  Tayler'a 
Glossaries,  Traynor's  Law  Maxims,  and  works 
of  that  class,  will  understand  the  character  of  Mr. 
Adams's  work,  when  we  say  that  it  resembles 
them,  but  is  far  broader  in  scope  and  apparently 
deeper  in  research.  One  volume  has  appeared 
during  the  year,  running  through  the  letter  E, 
Two  or  three,  probably,  will  be  needed  to  com- 
plete the  work.  Another  important  work  of  the 
digest  class  is  "  American  Statute  Law,"  by 
Stimson  ;  it  presents,  after  the  fashion  of  >  digest, 
the  points  in  the  statutes  of  the  various  States, 
arranged  under  alphabetical  titles.  One  volume 
only  has  been  published.  The  long-promised 
"Digest  of  the  United  States  Supreme  Court," 
by  J,  K,  Kinney,  has  appeared.  It  is  very  Eng- 
lish in  method  and  appearance.  The  fourth  edi- 
tion of  Chitty's  "  Equity  Index  "  has  passed  the 
third  volume.  "  Tact  in  Court,"  by  J.  W.  Dono- 
van, is  not  exactly  a  digest,  but  an  entertaining 
little  brochure  containing  numerous  instructive 
instances  of  successful  skill  in  the  conduct  of 
trials,  embellished  with  a  few  portraits  of  noted 
advocates.  It  is  well  fitted  for  reading  after 
office  hours. 

Chicago  offers  a  competitor  to  share  in  the 
somewhat  meager  patronage  which  has  been  be- 
stowed on  law  journals,  in  the  "Chicago  Law 
Times,"  edited  by  Catherine  V.  Waite.  Leadii^ 
topics  in  the  first  number  are  a  Life  of  Chief- 
Justice  Chase,  and  timely  discussions  of  The 
Labor  Question,  Woman  Jurors  in  Washington 
Territory,  The  I^al  Aspect  of  the  Boycott.  The 
Mormons  and  the  Treaty  with  Mexico,  Constitu- 
tional Amendments,  by  John  A.  Jameson,  an  ex- 
perienced writer  on  the  subject,  and  Admission 
of  Women  to  the  Bar.  Thus  it  will  be  seen  that 
this  m^azine  does  not  indulge  in  the  half-cooked 
reports  of  recent  decisions,  the  hash  of  the  di- 
gests, and  the  warmed-over  portions  of  the  text- 
books, so  common  in  some  of  the  legal  joomals- 
Medicine. 
The  mill  of  medical  literature  has  been  busy 
this  year  re-grlnding  the  grist  of  former  days. 


1886.] 


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The  new  books  «re  comp»r»tively  few,  and 
new  editions  are  scarce  also.  It  is  gettine  to  be 
the  fashion  in  book-making;  for  some  lecturer 
edit  a  series  of  monographs  by  specialists, 
else  to  write  the  body  of  the  work,  and  let  the 
spedalists  enlarge  upon  particular  topics.  Com- 
peting publishers  arrange  a  "series"  or  "li- 
brary" of  minor  works,  making  two  or  three 
really  desirable  books  sell  the  rest  of  (he  set, 
which  otherwise  would  be  rarely  called  for. 

Among  the  important  new  books  of  the  year, 
and  beginning  with  the  department  of  surgery, 
we  End  in  Coming's  "Local  Ansesthesi: 
General  Medicine  and  Surgery,"  a  full  descrip- 
tion of  the  new  anxsthetic  cocaine.  The 
"  Manaal  of  Surgery  by  Various  Authors"  in 
three  volumes,  compiled  by  Treeves,  is  said 
be  ■  successFul  compromise  between  the  epitome 
and  the  more  elaborate  treatise.  It  is  practically 
a  series  of  monographs  by  accepted  authorities. 

Volume  VI  of  Ashurst's  "International  Ency- 
clopedia o[  Snrgery  "  completes  a  work  of  great 
merit,  and  iliustratea  how  surgery  has  developed 
in  its  breadth  of  diagnosis  and  instrumentation. 
Morris  talks  to  beginners  in  a  plain  little  manual, 
"  How  we  Treat  Wounds  Today,"  which  is  espe- 
cially a  working  model  for  antiseptic  surgery. 
The  immortal  work  for  women  of  Marion  Sims 
is  brought  to  mind  by  the  beautiful  memorial 
edition  of  his  simple  but  Fascinating  book, 
"  Clinical  Notes  on  Uterine  Surgery." 

Much  interest  is  taken,  professionally,  in  a 
recent  procedure,  first  formulated  by  O'Dwyer, 
by  which,  in  closure  of  the  windpipe  by  croup 
membrane,  tubes  are  passed  From  the  mouth 
into  the  trachea.  Instead  of  by  the  cutting  opera- 
lion  of  tracheotomy  through  the  neck.  A  reprint 
by  Waxbam,  "  Intubation  of  the  Larynx  with 
History  of  Cases,"  is,  therefore,  worth  a  place  in 
the  year's  list.  "  Regional  Surgery.  Including 
Surgical  Diagnosis,"  Part  III,  is  a  "cram "for 
students,  and  will  be  useful  to  them.  Chromo- 
lithographs, beautilui  engravings,  and  excellent 
text  characterize  Owen's  "  Surgical  Diseases  of 
Children."  Morns  shows  the  wonders  of  mod- 
ern abdominal  operations  in  "Surgical  Diseases 
of  the  Kidney."  The  busy  practitioner  some- 
times wishes  to  have  medicine  crystallized  —  like 
sugar  "boiled  down  "from  maple  sap  —  and  the 
"  Manual  of  Operative  Surgery,"  by  Lane,  will 
be  of  great  assistance  for  that  purpose. 

The  making  of  a  peek-hole  in  the  center  of  a 
small  mirror  was  the  foundation  of  ophthalmot- 
ogy.  Besides  improving  the  eye-mirror,  Loring 
has  written  the  latest  treatise  on  the  eye,  ol 
which  Part  I  comes  out  this  year:  "The  Normal 
Eye,  Determination  of  Refractive  Diseases  of  the 
Media,  Psychological  Optics  and  Theory  of  the 
Ophthalmoscope."  It  is  first-class  in  thought, 
and  will  enhance  the  reputation  of  the  author. 
A  translation  has  been  made  by  Culston  of  the 
first  and  second  parts  of  the  third  volume  of 
the  complete  treatise  by  De  Weeker  and  Lao- 
dolt,  which  'bas  been  in  course  of  publication  in 
France  during  the  last  five  or  six  years,  "The 
Refraction  and  Accommodation  of  the  Eye  and 
their  Anomalies."  It  is  a  great  work,  and  finely 
illustrated. 

Prof.  Weisse  has  studied  anatomy  for  many 
years  as  one  who  loved  it,  and  this  year  he  gives 
the  profession  the  fruit  of  his  labor  —  "  Practical 
Human  Anatomy,  1  Working  Guide  for  Students 
of  Medicine  and  a  Ready  Reference  for  Surgeons 


from  dissections  and  are  the  main  part  at  the 
book,  and  the  work  recommends  itself.  A  fine 
translation  is  made  of"The  Methods  of  Bacte- 
riological Investigation,"  the  work  of  Hueppe, 
docent  at  Wiesbaden,  and  is  as  thorough  as 
all  such  studies  by  those  painstaking  Germans. 
Another  adaptation  from  the  German  is  * 
mciils  of  Comparative  Anatomy  oF  Vertebrate)," 
by  Parker,  which  lovers  of  the  evolution  theory 
will  welcome. 

The  great  modem  advance  in  the  treatment  of 
disease  began  when  its  phenomena  in  the  dead 
body  were  studied.  One  of  oar  most  trustworthy 
observers,  Delafield,  continues  his  "  Studies  in 
Pathological  Anatomy "  in  Pari  z  of  Vol.  II. 
"Chronic  Phthisis."  Whatever  is  valuable  re- 
garding this  scourge  of  man  is  to  be  found  dis- 
cussed here  —  and  the  work  is  "  excelled  by  few 
and  equalled  by  none." 

Vol.  II  of  Buck's  "Reference  Handbook  of 
the  Medical  Sciences"  is  issued  this  year. 
Writers  from  all  parts  of  the  world  contribute 
the  articles  which  embrace  "  The  Entire  Range  of 
ScientiSc  and  Practical  Medicine  and  Allied 
Science."  The  work  is  a  whole  library  by  itself 
and  really  contains  more  medicine  than  the 
tire  book  shelves  of  the  former  generation  of 
doctors.  "The  Year  Book  of  Treatment  for 
1S85"  is  a  unique  condersation  of  what  was  done 
the  past  year  in  practical  medicine. 

In  the  theory  and  practice  of  medicine,  we 
notice  -"The  Disorders  of  Digestion,  their  Ci 
sequences  and  Treatment,"  by  Brunton,  and  tl 
prolific  author,  Fothcrgill,  adds  to  the  same  si 
ject,  "  Manual  of  Dietetics ; "  each  dissimilar,  but 
good.  Bright  first  established  the  claims  to  rec- 
ognition of  certain  renal  diseases  about  forty 
years  ago.  Since  his  day  a  host  of  monographs 
have  been  published  upon  this  organ.  One  of  the 
best  this  year,  is  "  Bright's  Disease,  and  Allied 
A&ections  of  the  Kidney,"  well  written,  and 
illustrated  by  Purdy.  An  English  work  is  "  Prin- 
ciples and  Practice  of  Medicine,  Including  a  Sec- 
Cutaneous  Diseases  by  Pyc-Smith  and 
Chapter!  on  Cardiac  Diseases  by  Wicks" —  long 
recognized  authorities.  And  we  see  a  German 
book  by  HoSfmin,  with  good  translation,  "  Analy- 
of  the  Urine,  with  Special  Reference  to  the 
of  the  Gen i to- Urinary  Organs."  Neu- 
rolc^ists  and  statisticians  will  be  interested  in 
Pliny  Earle's  booli,  "  The  Curability  of  Insanity : 
a  Series  of  Studies,"  in  which  he  tries  to  correct 
the  loose  ideas,  both  professional  and  the  con- 
-ary,    held    about    the   completeness    of   such 

The  fifth  volume  of  Pepper's  great  "System 
of  Medicine,"  discusses  diseases  of  the  nerves 
their  ganglia.  The  writers  are  our  leading 
Tican  alienists,  and  the  book  continues  the 
excellences  of  those  preceding  it  in  the  system. 
Cutler  shows  rare  skill  of  judgment  jn  contrast- 
ing diseases,  and  his  "  Manual  of  Differential 
Diagnosis"  is  invaluable  to  the  under-graduate. 
Dietetics  in  young  folks  and  their  general  medi- 
re  Is  well  presented  by  Starr  in  "  The  Dis- 
of  the  Digestive  Organs  in  Infancy  and 
Childhood."  The  ideal  manual  for  the  non-pro- 
fessional is  by  Worcester,  "  Monthly  Nursing," 
brief  and  sensible.  Sutton's  argument  in  "An 
Introduction  to  General  Pathology"  is  given  cer- 
tain pathological  conditions  in  animals ;  these 
have  been  utilized,  retained,  and  transmitted  by 
them,  in  accordance   with  the  laws  of  heredity. 


tlon  can  be  found  in  "  Outlines  of  Lectures  on 
Physiology,"  by  Mills  of  McGill  University. 

The  ever  increasing  specialists  are  constantly 
publishing  "  after  their  kind."  Among  the  good 
new  books  are  "  Guide  to  the  Examination  of 
the  Nose,  with  Remarks  on  Diseases  of  the 
Nasal  Cavities,"  by  Baber,  and  "The  Hygiene 
of  the  Vocal  Organs,  a  Practical  Handbook  for 
Singers  and  Speakers,"  by  Morrell  McKenide. 
The  quiz  master  in  the  College  of  Pharmacy  at 
Philadelphia  publishesEor  a  "  cram,"  "  Compend 
of  Pharmacy,"  which  tells  all  about  the  prepara- 
tion of  drugs.  "  Materia  Medica  and  Therapeu- 
tics," by  Phillips,  combines  the  description  of  the 
grosser  qualities  of  drugs,  with  their  application 
in  diseases,  and  is  first  class. 

No  field  of  medicine  demands  so  ready  adapta- 
tion oE  one's  knowledge  as  that  of  obstetric*. 
One  of  its  new  text-books,  "  Manual  oE  Mid- 
wifery," Is  by  a  distinguished  accoucheur,  Uallo- 
bin.  A  little  pamphlet,  only  twenty-five  cents, 
by  Garrignes,  deserves  a  more  honorable  place 
on  the  book-table  than  many  a  more  costly  tome, 
"  Practical  Guide  to  Antiseptic  Midwifery," 
while  Kucher  makes  an  important  coniribalion 
to  the  subject  of  puerperal  fever  and  infection 
with  "  Puerperal  Convalescence  and  the  Diseases 
of  the  Puerperal  Period." 

On  miscellaneous  topics,  we  notice  "  The 
Genuine  Works  of  Hippocrates,"  a  translation 
from  the  German,  two  volumes  by  Adams,  in 
which  the  author  is  called  "the  highest eiampler 
of  professional  excellence  which  the  world  tut* 
"  It  is  said  to  tie  "the  Book  of  Genesis 
of  the  Medica]  Bible."  Dr.  Billing's  "  Report 
the  Mortality  and  Vital  Statistics  of  the  U.  S. 
as  Returned  at  the  lOth  Census,"  is  a  wonderiul 
compilation,  characterized  by  a  thoroughness 
mastery  of  statistical  method  which  are 
alike  an  honor  to  lis  author  and  to  his  country. 

The  Blot  upon  the  Brain,"  by  Ireland,  is  a 
queer  work  —  treats  of  the  hallucinations  of  Ma- 
homed, Luther,  and  Swedenborg,  and  considers 
the  Crusades  to  be   example*   of  wide -spread 

isanity.  The  posthumous  paper  by  Dr.  Flint 
has  especial  interest  as  being  his  last  medical 
writing,  "  Medicine  of  the  Future,"  an  address 
prepared  for  the  Annual  Meeting  oE  the  British 
Medica]  Association  in  1S86.  "  The  progress 
which  has  been  achieved  in  the  last  half  century 
justifies  the  hope  of  slill  further  and  equally 
important  advance*  in  the  fifty  years  to  come." 
Travelers   in    the    Eternal    City    will    value 

Rome  in  Winter  and  the  Tuscan  Hills  in 
Summer."  by  Young  ;  he  thinks  "  Roman  fever" 
is  dne  "to  exposure  to  thermal  vicissitudes 
during  nervous  exhaustion."  For  American 
'  ivalids  and  tourists.  Stickler  talks  about  "The 
Adirondacks  as  a  Health  Resort,"  a  tract  in 
New  York  famous  not  only  Eot  trout  and  deer, 
but  also  for  its  beneficial  infiucnce  upon  con- 
sumptives. Finally,  Granger  provides  altend- 
.  in  insane  hospitals  with  a  brief  practical 
lual,  "  How  to  Care  for  the  Insane."  Would 
that  its  humanity  and  skill  might  be  usefal  to 
those  unEortonates  I 

n^HcE.    CIOOOIC 

A  review  of  the  literature  of  France  for  the 

last  twelve  months  takea  one  through  a  mass  of 

books  which,  while  they  contain  a  good  deal  that 

is  significant,  do  not  In  general  rise  above  the 


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[Dec.  as. 


■  somewhat  notewoilhy  falling  off  in  the  deparl- 
mcnlB  of  hiicory  and  biography,  and  in  the  im- 
portant field  of  phi)oiophy  and  ethics  there  is 
an  aaloniihingly  barren  list.  Criticism  hai,  per- 
haps, fairly  held  its  own{  in  political  and  social 
science  there   has  been  a   productive   activity; 

have  claimed  much  attention ;  and  in  fiction 
there  has  b««n  an  increase  in  qaantiiy  which  has 
not  been  justified  by  any  perceptible  develop- 
ment of  quality,  for  sensationalism  and  a  ruth- 
less passion  fur  brutal  realism  are  more  and 
more  Ibc  dominant  motives  that  inspire  the  Pa- 
risian purveyors  of  literary  novelties-  We  shall 
attempt  here  only  an  enumeration  of  what  seem 
to  us  to  be  the  most  characteristic  books  of  the 
year. 

In  history,  the  Maiquis  dc  Courcy  has  brought 
forth  an  important  work  in  his  account  of 
Coalition  dc  1701  Conlte  la  France,"  wherein  he 
describes  with  vivid  touches  the  diplomatic  in- 
trigues and  the  military  and  maritime  operations 
of  a  momentous  epoch.  "  Les  Derniires  Annies 
du  Due  d'Enghien,"  by  Comte  Boulay  de  la 
Meurthc,  clears  op,  once  for  alt,  same  matters  of 
dispute  among  historical  authorities  concerning 
the  events  that  ended  in  the  tragic  death  of  this 
great  prince  of  the  house  of  Bourbon.  R.  Cbant- 
lanze,  In  an  attractive  collection  of  "Portraits 
Historiquea,"  has  brought  together  a  series  of 
biographical  studies  of  Philippe  de  Commines, 
"le  grand  Condj,"  Maiarin,  Frederick  II,  Louis 
XV,  and  Marie-ThJrise.  The  author's  skill  as  a 
writer,  combined  with  the  fruits  of  rare  erudi- 
tion, makes  this  a  valuable  work.  The  third  vol- 
ume of  M,  Thureau-Daugin's  "  Histoire  de  la 
Monarchic  de  Juillel"  has  appeared,  and  con- 
firms the  reputation  for  a  high  order  of  excel- 
lence iitained  by  the  two  preceding  volumes. 
"  Les  Fianf  lis  en  Russie  et  les  Russes  en 
France,"  by  Uonce  Pingaud,  is  a  history  of  the 
intellectual  reUtiooe  of  France  and  Russia  dur- 
ing the  reigns  of  Catherine  II  and  Alexander  I. 
The  "  Mimoires  InJdits  de  Henri  de  Mesmes," 
compiled  by  Edouard  Fr^my,  throw  a  side  tight 
on  the  character  oE  Henri  III  and  his  court. 
Taking  as  his  central  figure  ■■  Louise  de  K^rou- 
alle,  duchessc  de  Portsmouth,"  H.  Formeron 
has  invested  the  history  of  Ihe  relations  of  Louis 

XIV  and  Charles  II  with  all  the  attractiveness 
of  a  romance,  and  in  what  may  almost  be  re- 
garded as  a  companion  volume  the  Comte  de 
Bailtou  has  described,  with  scrupulous  fidelity 
and  many  curious  details,  the  career  of  "  Henri- 
ette-Anne  d'Angleterre,  duchesse  d 'Or leans," 
giving  in  full  a  hitherto  unpublished  correspond- 
ence with  Charles  II-  Robert  de  Crivtcceur 
has  edited,  with  an  introduciinn,  the  "  M^moires  " 
of  the  Comte  de  Chevemy  on  the  reigns  of  Louis 

XV  and  Louis  XVI,  and  under  the  title  "  Des 
Campagnes  de  Turenne  en  Flandre,"  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  Bourdly  has  described  the  political  and 
military  aclivity  of  the  time  of  Mazarin  and 
Cromwell.  Reni  Slourm  traces  the  origin  of 
[tie  modem  French  system  of  finance  in  "  Les 
Finances  de  I'Ancienne  Regime  el  de  la  Revolu- 
tion." The  "  Histoire  des  Avocats  au  Parlement 
de  Paris,"  by  R-  Delachenal,  is  a  scholarly  and 
painstaking  review  of  the  growth  at  the  order 
through  a  period  of  three  centuries,  Captain  E. 
Chevallier  has  written  a  useful  "Histoire  de  la 
Marine  Fran^aise  sous  la  Premiire  R^publique," 
and  under  the  fanciful  title  of  "  Daria  et  Batbe- 
roDSse"  Vice-Admlral  Jurien  de  la  Graviire  has 


told  in  a  aplriled  way  the  story  of  the  maritime 
struggle  between  Christianity  and  Mahomed- 
anism.  In  his  "  Rome  sur  Trajan,"  Maurice 
Pellison  has  made  a  learned  and  graceful  picture 
of  Roman  civilixation.  Private  life  at  Bayoone 
at  the  dawn  of  the  renaissance  is  efiectively 
depicted  by  E  Dadri  in  a  series  of  "  Stude*  sur 
la  Vie  Priv^e  Bayonnaise  an  Commencement  du 
XVIt  Si*cle."  The  "Souvenirs"  (1785-1870) 
of  the  late  Due  de  Broglie  offer  a  rich  feast  for 
students  of  modern  French  history.  The  "  Hi 
toiie  Litt^raire,  Critique  et  Anecdotique  dn 
Th^ltre  dn  Palais- Royal,"  by  Engine  Hugot, 
contains  a  fund  of  Interesting  detail*  concerning 
a  century  of  Ihe  Parisian  drama.  The  fourth 
edition  of  Professor  Mupcro's  "Histoire  An- 
cicnne  des  Pcuples  de  I'Orient"  is  practically 
new  work,  for  it  has  been  entirety  rewritten  i 
conformity  with  the  most  recent  discoveries.  In 
portraying  the  career  of  "Madame  Saint-Hu- 
berly,"  the  famous  actress  of  the  eighteenth 
century,  Edmond  de  Goncourt  haa  painted  the 
life  of  the  times  in  brilliant  color*.  The  Comte 
de  Hirisson,  In  his  "Journal  d'tio  Intetprite  en 
Chine,"  advances  what  is  regarded  u  irrefutable 
proof  that  the  expedition  to  China  after  the 
Crimean  war  was  undertaken  by  Napoleon  III 
because  of  certain  obligatiou  contracted  wllb 
England.  In  an  elaborate  account  of  the  politi' 
cat  career  of  "  L'Empereur  Guiltaume,"  Edonard 
Simon  ascribes  to  Wilhelm  III  the  policy  which 
resulted  in  a  united  Germany,  and  relegates 
Prince  Bismarck  to  a  subordinate  position.  The 
book  li  apparently  based  on  authentic  data. 
Some  pages  from  contemporary  history  are  to  be 
found  in  "  Nos  Rrfvolutionnaires,"  by  Philibert 
Audebrand,  who  slietches  from  personal  knowl- 
edge the  liberal  leaders  who  have  controlled  the 
destiny  of  France  from  Cavaignac  (o  Gambelta. 
In  the  category  of  criticism  we  have  had  from 
£mite  Mont^gut  a  series  of  profound,  scholarly, 
and  illuminating  itudici  in  Oriental  literature 
under  the  title  of  "  Livres  et  Ames  des  Pays 
d'Oiient."  Marc-Monier  lived  only  long  enough 
to  complete  the  second  volume  of  his  "  Histoire 
GJnerale  de  la  Litt^rature  Moderne,"  covering 
the  period  of  reform  from  Luther  to  Shakespeare. 
In  this  book  the  author  studies  the  Reformation 
in  the  literary  and  artistic  movement  which  it 
excited.  One  of  the  moat  ugnificant  of  the 
critical  works  of  the  year  has  been  the  Vicomte 
E.  M-  de  Vogue's  discussion  of  "Le  Roman 
Russe."  Robert  de  Bonniires  in  his " M<imoires 
d'Aujourd'bui "  has  depicted  the  personalities 
and  productions  of  some  of  the  leading  men  of 
letters  of  the  day,  and  as  he  haa  been  able  to 
include  in  his  sketches  many  intimate  details, 
and  as  he  is  in  criticism  a  daring  and  witty 
iconoclast,  his  boldness  hat  given  him  a  certain 
vogue.  Jules  Lemaitre  in  "Les  Contemporains" 
has  discussed  a  curiously  diversified  series  of 
literarians  —  Sully  Prudhomme,  Fran9ois  Cappie, 
Madame  Adam,  Alphonse  Daudet,  Ernest  Renan, 
Cmile  Zola,  Guy  de  Maupassant,  and  Georges 
Ohnet  —  with  a  secure  power  of  delicate  analy- 
sis which  shows  him  to  be  a  master  of  psycboli^y- 
Jean-Paul  Clarens  in  "  Ecrivains  et  Penseurs  " 
makes  a  number  of  furious  onslaughts  upon  the 
pessimism  of  the  day,  and  the  "Essais  dc  Crit- 
ique "  of  Charles  Fuslcr  form  a  dignified  protest 
against  the  evil  tendencies  observed  by  him  in 
current  French  literature.  Nor  must  we  omit 
to  mention  as  deserving  of  record  here  the  dainty 
and  charming  papers  gathered  by  the  poet-critic. 


Jos^phin  Sonlajj,  in  a  "Prconenade  autouT  d'un 
Tiroir,"    Edouard  Drox  ha*  made  not  very  con- 
clusive "Eludes  sur  le   Scepiicisme  de   Pascal 
Consider^  dans  le   Ljvre  des   Pens^es,"  Alciiu 
Ledieu  has  written  an  account  of  "Millevoye, 
Sa  Vie  et  ses  CEuvres,"  and  the  Abb^   Relane 
has  produced  a  conscientious  monograph,  mainly 
from  inedited  documents   on  "  La   Vie   et   les 
(Euvrei  de  TopSer-"    Professor  A.   I.oiseaa's 
"  Histoire    de    la    Litt^rature    Portugaises "    is 
fragmentary  and  defective,  but   comprehensive 
and  useful.    Alfred  Marchand,  in  his  essays  on 
"Le*  Pontes  Lyriques  de  rAuiriche,"  writes  of 
Maurice  Ilartmann,  Josephine  de  Knorr,  Ilam- 
erling,  and  Lorm,  in  a  manner  showing  an  entho- 
siaatic  love  for  poetry  and  an  appreciation  of  its 
merits.    Libera]  and  intelligent  criticism  couched 
in  an  admirable  style  is  to  be  found  in  "  Lea  Pro- 
fesseur*  de  Litt^ratore  dans  I'Ancienne  Rome," 
by  £mile   Jullicn,   while   Raoul   Frary   in   "La 
Question  du  Latin  "  has  handled  the  advocates 
of  the  dead  language*  as  the  basis  of  culture 
in  a  way  that  has  aroused  turbulent  oppoaition. 
A  tJironide  of  the  year's  verse-making  would 
be  long  and  tedious.    "  La  Mer,"  by  Jean  Rich- 
epio,   displays  the  spontaneity  and   candor   of 
geniiu  and  the  art  of  a  matter  of  veraiGcatioo. 
"  L'Abime,"  by  Maurice  Rollbot,  dealt  with  the 
pathology  of  the  emotions,  is  by  turns  grotesque, 
horrible,   and  gross,  and  yet  has  a  power  that 
cannot  be  denied.    Sully  Prudhomme  has  brought 
together  some  of  his  finest  work  in  "  Lc  Prisme." 
"  La  Vie  et  la  Mort,"  by  Jean  Rameao,  is  strong 
and  full   of  promise;  the  "Voix   Errante*"  of 
Pierre  Ganthiez  are  not  great  bat  they  are  genu- 
ine ;  and  "  Le  Livre  des  Ames,  bj  Zenon-Fiire, 
has  an  intellectual  quality  and  an  artistic  attract- 
iveness exceptional  in  contemporary  French  verse. 
With   regard    to  fiction   we  can   attempt  no 
detailed  chronicle.     An  enumeration  of  the  more 
significant  productions  in  this  field  will  indicate 
the  general   tone,  for  here  a  few  lead,  and  the 
mob  of  gentlemen  who  write  with  ease  content 
themselves  vrith  variations  on  established  metl>- 
ods.    Paul  Bourgct  has  followed  his  successful 
novel   of  last  year   with  another,   "Un   Crime 
d'Amour,"  in   which    his   profound    originality, 
Bodal  pcsFimism,   and   marvelous  command  of 
rle  are  fully  perceptible.    Guy  de  Maupasiant, 
10  now  leads  the  naturalistic  movement,  gives 
"Monsieur  Parent"  the  dramatic  story  of  an 
adultery  with  his  usual   power  of   expression. 
"La  Petite  Roque,"  bj  tlie  same  author,  soundt 
bis  lowest  descent  into  the  depths  of  bestiality. 
Octave  Feuillet's  "  La  Morte  "  has  been  one  of 
the  deserved  successes   of   the    year.     Hector 
it's   "  Baccara,"  changing   its   scenes  from 
provincial   family  life   to  a   Parisian  gambling- 
house,  has  moral  dignity  and  dramatic  interest, 
"  Les  Dames  de  Croix-Mort,"  by  Georges  Ohnet, 
is  a  romance  of  passion,  intensely  modem,  in- 
tensely dramatic,  and  intensely  corrupt.    Albert 
Delpit,  in  "  Mademoiselle  de  Bressier,"  relates  a 
touching  story  of  a  life  drama,  having  its  motive 
in  Ihe  Commune.    Andri  Theuriel,  in  "P^hj 
Hortel."  deals  with  aspects  of  Parisian  life,  lor 
the   "mortal    sin"  is,  of   course,  adultery;    in 
"H^line "   the    theme    is   the  same,   but  there 
ate    artistic   variations.    "  L'Opium,"   by    Bon- 
netan,  is  a  masterly  siudy  of  the  psychologi- 
cal  and   physiological   effects  of  opium.     Piul 
Hetvien,  in  "  L'AIpe   Homicide,"  has  a  weinl 
and  terrible  charm;  the  magnificent  descriptions 
of   nature  in  these  stories  are  almoct  imrivaied 


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THE   LITERARY   WORLD. 


487 


in  literature.  "Jesn  de  Jeanne,"  by  Emile  Pou- 
villon,  is  a  slorj  oF  country  life,  of  noleworthj 
power,  as  is  also  "  Lea  Attentats  de  Modiste," 
by  M.  Pontsevrei,  who  depicts  with  unfaltering 
fidelity  the  allied  baseness  and  nobility  ot  the 
peasantry  of  Nurmandy.  The  "  I.:etlres  dc  Ma 
Chaumiiie,"  ol  Octave  Mirbeau,  deals  also  with 
peasant  life,  and  has  the  very  odor  of  the  soil 
ia  its  pages.  Peasant  life  again  occopies  to 
good  purpose  Julcg  Case  in  "La  Fille  L  Blanch- 
ard,"  wherein  the  autbor'i  acknowledged  talent 
produces  pictures  of  nature  of  extraordinary 
merit.  "  Le  Mrfn^e  Bolsec,"  of  Gustave  Tou- 
douze,  maj  be  defined  as  a  discerning  picture  of 
the  progressive  degradation  of  an  ideal.  Some 
of  the  best  work  of  Aui^lien  Scholl  is  in  his 
"Roman  de  Follette." 

Three   volumes    bearing  the  name   of    Ren* 
Maizcroy  deserve    mention  —  "  Bibi    Milli 
the  pitiful  story  of  a  demi-mondaine ;  "Le  Fin 
de  Paris,"  a  series  of  brilliant  and  daring  studies 
of  the  corruption   of  modern  Paris  ; 
Boulet,"  an    impressive    picture   ot   a   modern 
Mesaalina  in  exile.    A  new  writer,  Henri  Lave- 
dan,  has  made  a  promising  d^bul  in  "  Mam'ielle 
Vertu,"  and  confirmed  it  with  a  second  collection 
of  stories,   "  Reine   Janvier."     Four  1 
striking   originality  are    to    be   found 
Aime  i  Vous,"  by  Joseph  Maire.    The  "Clairs 
de  Soldi "  of  Noel  Blanche  are  luminous  with 
the  rich  coloring   and  penetrating  sunshii 
Provence.    Henry  Gr^ville,  in  "  Claire  Fontaine," 
has  given   us   a  study  of  life  in  Normandy 
which  a  complicated   love  motive  is  somewhat 
arbitrarily  handled.    "  Le  Vaibriant,"  of  Madame 
Auguste  Craven,  has  for  its   theme  the   breach 
between  the  noblesse  of  the  old  and  new  regime 
"  t*  Faute  des  Autres,"  by  Maurice  Montigut 
is  I  story  of  the  war  of  1870,  chiefly  remarkabli 
for  its  beauty  of  style.    There  is  both  poetry 
and  realism  in  the  "  Contes  Bourgeois  "of  Theo- 
dore de  Banvtile;  and  in  "  Les  Gas  Difficiles" 
and  "  Les  Veille^s  de  Saint  .Pantaloon,"  o(  Ar- 
mand  Silvestre,  a  Rabelaisian  gayety  which  the 
modem  Parisian  finds  greatly  to  his  taste. 

Travel  and  exploration  and  the  portrayal  of 
contemporary  manners  and  customs  have 
pied  the  talents  of  many  writers,  but  the  really 
valuable  books  in  this  department  brought  out 
during  the  year  are  tew.  Filiz  Marjoui'i  "En 
Angleterre  "  is  picturesque  in  style  and  affords  a 
candid  and  suggestive  impression,  remarkably 
free  from  race  prejudices,  of  the  English  people 
and  their  institutions.  "  A  Travers  I'Empire 
Britannique,"  by  Baron  de  Hiibner,  is  a  library 
of  serious  intormation  prepared  by  a  trained  ob- 
server and  a  skilled  statistician.  "Souvenirs 
d'Espagne,"  by  Evarisic  Bouchct,  is  a  capital 
handbook  for  foreign  readers.  Jacques  Saint- 
Cire  in  "  L'Allemagne  Tell  Qu'elie  Eat "  is  con- 
cise and  brilliant  if  not  always  just,  and  J.  J. 
Weiss  in  "An  Pays  du  Rbin  "  presents  a  series 
of  studies  of  the  Franco^Ierman  frontier  ful!  of 
interest  and  value.  Comte  Paul  Vasili  has 
given  to  the  world  his  questionable  views  ot  "La 
Soci^t^  de  Madrid"  and  "La  Social*  de  Saint- 
PJlersbourg."  "La  Russie  au  Soliel,"  by  Ma- 
rius  Vachan,  shows  us  Russia  in  summer  and  has 
many  points  of  unique  attraction.  Two  of  the 
weightiest  of  the  books  of  the  year  in  the  field  of 
foreign  observation  relate  to  China.  "  La  Chine 
Inconnue,"by  Maurice  Jametel,  takes  up  all  top. 
ics  from  the  collection  of  bric-i-brac  to  culinary 
methods,  and  treats  of  all  with  abundant  informa- 


the  author  was  for  many  years  a  resident 
of  Pekin.     Engine  Simon  in  "  Le  C\ti  Chinoiae '" 
draws  an  elevating  picture   of  urban  civilization 
China.     He  writes   of   social  customs,  of  the 
organization  of  the  family,  of  religions,  commercci 
nt,  and  agriculture  in  a  most  eahauative 
Charles  Bigot  is  by  turns  savant  and 
humorist  in  his  bright  sketches  of  "  Grice,  Tur- 
qnie,  le  Danube,"  and  Ludovic  Campon  in  "Un 
Empire  qui  Croule"  describes  the  condition  of 
lodern  Marocco.     H.  Cervoise,  an  engineer  em- 
ployed  on  the   great  canal,  f|1alcs   a   terrifying 
of  the  experiences  of  "  Deux  Ans  i 
Panama."    Finally,  Fernand   Hue  and  Georges 
Haurigot  have  published  the  second  volume  of 
"Nos  Grands  Colonies,"  dealing  with  the  Antil- 
les and  French  Guyana. 

Politics  and  social  sdence  have  continued  to 
attract  serious  attention.  Adolphe  Cotle  in 
"  Les  Questions  Sociales  Conteroporalns  "  has 
discussed  pauperism,  taxation,  credit,  monopo- 
lies, and  education,  in  a  series  of  essays  contain- 
ing many  profound  and  exact  obiervationa  of  the 
questions  of  the  day.  Mermeix's  "La  France 
Socialiste  "  is  an  impartial  exposition  of  the  aims 
of  modem  socialism.  Jules  Batnl,  In  "  La  Morale 
dans  la  Democratic,"  argues  that  llie  first  princi- 
ple of  public  virtue  is  self-respect  with  it*  corol- 
lary, respect  for  others,  and  that  the  well-being 
of  the  state  depends  upon  the  moral  culture  of 
the  individual.  In  "  Le  Rjveil  Nationale  "  L^on 
Hngonnet  calls  upon  Prance  to  undertake  colo- 
nial expansion  and  the  maintenance  of  a  consist- 
ent national  policy ;  a  theme  which  Is  also  con. 
sidered  by  J.  J.  de  Lavessan  in  "  L'Expansion 
Coloniale  de  la  France."  An  excellent  idea  o( 
advanced  theories  concerning  modern  educational 
methods  Is  to  be  had  from  A.  Vessiot' 
I'Enseignement  k  I'Scole  et  dans  les  Cours  £l^ 
mentaries  des  Lycies  et  Colliges."  The  gra 
subject  of  the  "  ASaiblessement  de  la  Natality  ' 
France  "  is  philosophically  examined  by  the  Mi 
quia  de  Nadaillac  The  constitution  and  admin- 
istration of  Germany  ate  expounded  in  C.  Mor- 
hain's  "  De  I'Empire  Allemand."  Louis  Joseph 
Janvier  takes  "  the  bilter  tone  of  bitter  truth 
in  his  account  of  "  Les  Constitutions  d'Haiti, 
while  Algerian  politics  are  discussed  in  a  statei 

inlike  way  in  the  "  Lellres  de  Kabyli "  of  the 
tate  Paul  BerL 

A  tew  titles  of  interest  not  falling  readily 
any  of  the  established  categories  should  be  i 
lioned  to  complete  this  outline  of  the  literary 
record  of  the  year.  The  essence  of  Parisian 
life  is  distilled  into  "  La  Vie  k  Paris,"  by  Juli 
Claretie,  "  U  Gloire  k  Paris,"  by  Albert  Wolff, 
"L'Esprit  du  Boulevard,"  by  Aur^lien  Scholl, 
and  "Les  Signes  du  Temps,"  by  Henri  Koche- 
fort  The  "  Edition  definitives  "  of  the  "  CEuvres 
Completes  de  Gustave  Flaubert "  is  completed 
with  a  volume  containing  that  author's  first 
essays  in  literature,  one  the  fragmi 
hitherto  unknown  romance  ;  Ernest  L^gouT*  has 
published  the  first  installments  of  his  delightful 
"  Souvenirs  ;  "  Ars^ne  Haussaye,  in  "  Les  Com- 
edicns  Sans  le  Savoir,"  mingles  reminiscences 
with  persona!  portraits  and  anecdotes;  Roger 
Mark  has  produced  in  his  biography  of  "Henri 
Regnault "  a  masterpiece  of  enlightened 
cismj  and  in  "Les  Mois  aux  Champs"  G.  de 
Cheiville  describes  a  country  year  with  grace  ot 
style  and  a  keen  appreciation  of  the  changing 
aspects  of  nature.  In  conclusion,  let  us  name 
M.  Renan's  latest  literary  experiment, "  L'Abbess 


de  Jouarre  ;"  "La  Peinture  Italienne,"  a  concise 
and  comprehensive  sketch  by  Georges  Lafenetre ; 
and  supplement  to  Larousse's  "  Grand  Did- 
tionnaire  Universe!;"  "Ugendes,  Croyances  et 
Superstitions   de    la  Mer,"  by  Paul    S^billot; 

Nouvelle  Biographie  Normande,"  by  Madame 
N.  N.  Oursel,  containing6,50Cnoticea;  "Bibliog- 
raphie  GJn^rale  des  Gaules,"  by  £mlle  Ruelle, 
librarian  of  Sainte-Genevltve  ;  "  Bibliographic 
G^n^rale  des  Ouvrages  sur  la  Chasse,"  by  R. 
Souhart;  "  Bibliographie  de  la  Guerre  Franco- 
Allemande  et  de  la  Commune,"  by  Albert  Schurz; 

Inventaire  Somroaire  des  Manuscrits  Grecs  de 
la  Bibliothtque  Nationale,"  by  Henri  Oimont; 
'  Nouvelles  Promenades  Arch<!olugique,"  by 
Gaston  Boussier,  who  paints  with  the  accuracy 
lavant  the  conditions  under  which  Horace 
and  Virgil  lived  j  "  Les  Poates  Franfaises,"  by 
Alexis  Belloc;  "L'Esprit  Allemand,"  a  sinister 
collection  of  1,200  German  proverbs,  by  Pierre 
Pengot;  and  a  "Petite  Histoire  de  la  Typogra- 
phie,"  a  valuable  mantial  of  concise  erudition, 
by  Auguste  Vitu. 

HI. 


Spanish  literature  for  the  past  year  presents 
le  aspect  of  an  arid  Sahara  relieved  by  only  a 
w  oases.  The  fact  is  recognized  by  the  Span- 
iards themselves  and  this  is  the  most  hopeful 
In  a  public  oration  delivered  in  March, 
Don  Manuel  Lorenzo  d'Ayot  goes  over  the 
gronud,  points  out  the  disease  and  its  symp- 
toms, and  suggests  a  remedy.  "Cual  es  el  as- 
pecto  que  presentan  los  teatros  f  "  he  asks  ;  and 
lie  answers  the  question  in  the  same  breath : 

"As  sad,  as  discouraging,  as  shameful,  as  in- 
iquitous as  it  can  be."  At  one  theater  there  is 
slavery  to  French  translations;  at  another  we 
see  an  attempt  to  preserve  a  remnant  of  par 
Iriotic  decency,  but  the  abominable  influence  of 
Montepin's  disreputable  novels  spoils  it  all ;  and 
worse  than  the  others,  ruining  Spanish  art,  swal- 
lowing up  millions  of  pesetas,  ia  the  Teatro 
Real,  "like  an  immense  vampire,  like  a  monster 
thirsty  for  gold." 

Don  Manuel  proceeds  to  arraign  the  present 
state  of  fiction  :  "  Y  la  novels  ?"  he  asks: 

What  is  the  situation  today?  A  shameful 
death  1  Who  reads  novels  in  Spain  f  Scarcely 
any  one.  At  most  i  limited  circle  of  people. 
What  wilt  its  future  be  ?  It  is  impossible  to 
tell. 

And  the  reason  is  not  because  the  periodicals 
devote  their  feuilletons  to  translation  of  foreign 
works,  but  because  half  of  Spain  is  unable  to 
read  1  "Governors,"  he  cries,  "give  ua  more 
schools,"  and  he  calls  for  the  resurrection  of 
romanticism,  not  the  extravagant  and  odious 
romanticism  of  the  past,  but  "  elo  romantidsmo 
bello,  el  naturaliamo  romantico."  There  are 
always  croakers,  but  Don  Manuel's  phillipic 
seems  to  be  justified.  The  almost  frantic  efforts 
of  the  reviewera  to  magnify  unimportant  work 
into  Grst-ciass  proportions  show  to  what  a  low 
ebb  literature  has  fallen  in  the  land  of  Cervantes. 

Translations  call  for  a  first  place  in  the  critical 
review  of  the  year,  though  scarcely  more  than 
names  need  be  mentioned,  A  second  and  re- 
vised edition  of  Darwin's  "  Descent  of  Man 
and  Natural  Selection "  (La  Descendencia  del 
Hombre  y  la  Seleccidn  en  Relaci6n  al  Sexo), 
translated  by  Don  Jot<  del  Ferojo  and  Don 
Enrique  Camps,  and  a  new  translation  from 
the  German  of  Haeckel's  "Morphology,"  by 
Don    Salvador    Sanpere   y  Miguel,  show    that 


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there  is  a  live  inlereat  in  the  questiona  of  the 
day.  H«tne'»  "Buchder  Lieder"haa  been  put 
into  Spanish  rene  by  Don  TeodDro  Llarante 
Barcelona,  who  also  furniihes  an  introduction. 
The  "  Reviita  Conlemporinea "  ipeaki  of  it  as 
"Una  joya  litcraria  de  inestimable  ralor"  —  a 
literary  jewel  of  Inestimable  value.  The  preient 
taale  for  realiam  in  Spain  *«sare«  the  novels  of 
Zola  and  Daudet  an  immediate  IranBlation. 
Under  the  general  title,  "Novelas  Norte-AlneT' 
icaoas,"  have  appeared  a  few  works  by  American 
author*.  Dandet'a  "Dolores"  has  been  wel- 
comed by  the  cHiics  ai  well  ai  by  (h«  public. 
Uf  more  sctioat  importance  is  the  great  Spanish 
translation  of  Shakespeare:  "Hamlet"  has  ap- 
peared during  the  year  from  the  hand  of  Don 
Leandro  Feinindei  de  Moratin  ;  "King  Lear*! 
and  "Cymbellne"  by  Don  A.  BUnco  Ptieto. 
This  edition  is  published  by  the  enterprising 
hoose  of  Daniel  Cortcao  &  Co.  of  Barcelona. 
Lastly  we  may  mention  a  critical  "History  of 
Literature  and  Dramatic  Art  in  Spain  from  the 
German  of  A.  F.  Schack"  and  the  "Ta-Uing. 
Len-Lee"  or  Fundamental  laws  of  China  trans- 
lated from  the  Chinese  into  English,  from  the 
English  into  French  and  from  the  French  into 
Castilian.  Red  light  after  passing  through  three 
successive  prisms  is  likely  to  be  anything  but 
red,  and  this  truth  applies  to  the  refractory 
prism  of  translations, 

Spain  cannot  be  uid  to  possess  any  great 
living  historians,  but  a  few  worlu  in  this  field 
of  literattire  have  appeared.  The  most  impor- 
tant is  the  "History  of  Spain"  by  the  "moat 
lllustrioos  Seflor,"  Don  Joti  Pnlido  y  Espinosa, 
Prespftero,  of  the  Central  University  and  Hon- 
orary Chaplain  to  the  King.  It  is  a  quarto  vol- 
ume of  591  pages,  and  covers  the  ground  from 
the  earliest  limes  until  the  present.  Under  the 
general  title  "  Curiosidades  de  la  Historia  d  Es- 
pafia,"  Don  Antonio  Rodriguez  Villa  gives 
historical  review  of  the  relations  between  Spain 
and  Italy  In  the  Sixteenth  Century,  from  ifae 
Battle  of  Pavia  until  the  capture  of  Rome, 
is  based  upon  inedited  despatches,  mostly 
cypher,  from  the  embassadors,  generals,  and 
other  confidential  servants  of  Carlos  V  in  Italy, 
and  the  king's  minutes  written  to  th«ro  by  the 
great  chancellor,  Mercnrino  de  Galtarina.  It 
throws  a  curious  light  upon  an  interesting  period. 
Don  Manuel  Danvila  y  Collado  has  restored  the 
missing  codei  of  the  Cortes  of  Castills  in  1576, 
by  a  minute  examination  of  the  public  doca- 
ments  of  that  period.  As  a  contribution  toward 
recent  history  may  be  mentioned  Don  Miguel 
Sanchez's  arraignment  of  Carl  ism  published 
under  the  title  '*Novedad  e  Ilegitimidad  del 
Carllimo."  The  author  forever  disposes  of 
the  ghost  that  has  so  much  disturbed  and  har- 
ried Spain.  He  shows  beyond  peradventure 
that  Don  Carlo*  had  not  a  shadow  of  a  right  to 
warrant  tiis  claim  to  the  throne.  Another  con' 
tribution  to  modern  history  is  entitled  "Apantes 
Histoncos  solre  la  revoluci6n  de  1868,"  by  the 
late  Don  Ricardo  MuHii,  one  of  the  most  prom 
inent  actors  in  those  stirring  times.  A  sketch 
of  his  life  accompanies  ihis  posthumous  work, 
which,  though  unfinished,  is  of  great  value.  Dun 
Manuel  Fernindez  Marifn,  a  government  official, 
has  published  the  lecond  volume  oF  the  "  Collec- 
tion of  by-laws  (consiitnciones)  resolutions,  laws^ 
and  electoral  decrees  for  the  deputies  and  sen- 
ators, and  the  ordinances  (reglamentos)  of  the 
Cortes  which  have  *at  during  the  present  cen- 


The  work  is  entitled  "  Derccho  Parla- 
mentario  E*pafiol,*'  and  the  present  volume,  a 
quarto  of  more  than  900  pages,  cover*  ttie  time 
from  the  32d  of  Hay,  1809,  until  the  nth  of 
May,  1S14.  Of  more  general  interest  is  a  study 
on  the  influence  of  the  church  on  Roman  law, 
by  Don  Alfonso  Osario  de  Moscoso  y  Osorio  de 
Moscoto,  Marques  de  Monasterio.  The  young 
Marquis  of  superfluous  name  makes  a  brave 
showing  for  the  early  church  as  the  defender  of 
human  rigbls. 

In  the  field  of  general  literature  may  be  men- 
tioned Adolfo  LlaiA's  description  of  the  United 
States    under    the    trite    title  "The    American 
it,"  and  a  valuable  work  on  Costa  Rica  and 
Colombia,  by  the  Envoy  Extraordinary  from  tt>at 
{ion  to  Spain.    D>>n  Manuel  de  Petalta  has 
d  access  to  a  vast  collection  of  inedited  docu- 
:nts,  and   he  treats  of  the  history  from  IJ73 
til  1S81,  and  shows  the  present  condition  of 
i  country.     The  first  volume  of  a  "Diccion- 
:o    Enciclopedico  de   Agricultura,   Ganaderla 
[Stock-raising)   e   Industrias  Rurales,"  by  Don 
Lopez  Martinez  and   Don   Hidalgo  Tablada  y 
Prieto,  covers   the  subjects  entered  under  the 
tetters  A  to  Alf,    Composts  (abonos),  absentee- 
adulteration,  water  (agua),  alcohol,  appraise- 
t  of  animals  are  among  the  subjects  treated. 
The   work  is  fully  illustrated.    Allied   to  this 
work  is  a  monograph   by  Don  Antonio  Garcia 
Maceira  on   the  habits  of  the   insect  vulgarly 
called  lagarta,  which  recently  invaded  the  prov- 
e  of  Salamanca  and  caused  a  damage  amount- 
to  loo.ooc^ooo  of  realcs.    Don  Antonio  de- 
Ibes  the  means  taken  for  protection  and  dis. 
cusses  (he  prospect  of  a  return  of  the  pestilent 
bombyx."     Microscopy   has  recently  attracted 
much  attention  in  Spain,  and  Don  Joaquin  Maria 
de  Caatellarnau  y  de  Lleopart,  one  of  the 
distinguished    naturalists    living   in   Spain,  has 
published  a  treatise  on  "  Vinon  Hicrosc6pica,' 
showing  the   conditions  required  for   attaining 
accuracy,    and    the    value    of    the    i 
applied  to  the  study  of  anatomy  and  vegetable 
organism.    The  same  author  has  made  an  appli 
cation  of  his  theory  to  the  description  of  the 
wood  of  the  quercus  Jordana,  a  tree  indigenuus 
the  Philtipine  Islands. 

Judging  by  the  verses  published  in  the  Span- 
ish  periodicals  poetry  is  at  a  low  ebb  in  Spair 
In  the  "ColleccioD  de  Escritores  Castellanos" 
have  been  reprinted  Gomez  Manrique's  "Can. 
cionero,"  edited  with  notes  by  Don  Antonio  Paz 
J  Milia,  and  Juan  Valera's  lyrical  works,  "  Songs 
Romances,  and  Poems,"  edited  by  Don  Mar- 
celino  Menendei  Pelayo.  In  the  same  series, 
under  the  title  "  Horacio  en  EspaRa,"  the  same 
author  gives  an  account  of  the  imitators  of 
Horace  not  only  in  Spain,  but  in  Portugal.  In 
America  and  England  new  poets  are  as  thick  as 
blackberries,  but  in  Spain  the  appearance  of  one 
is  hailed  with  enthusiasm.  It  is  amusing  to 
read  the  notices  of  Don  Manuel  Paso's  "  Po- 
esias."  One  paper  recently  gave  two  columns 
and  a  half  to  quotations  and  praise,  under  the 
heading  "Un  nucvo  pocta"  (see  "La  Opinion" 
for  October  24).  "Del  suelo  fecundo  de  Anda- 
ludi"  begins  the  article  — from  the  fecund  soil  of 
Andalusia,  constantly  careised  by  the  rays  of  the 
most  gorgeous  sun  of  Spain,  has  come  to  Madrid 
a  new  poet,  thirsty  for  glory,  the  only  reward  n 
attained  by  those  who  dedicate  theuuelves 
art  I  The  article  ends  with  a  prediction  that  the 
verses  will  enjoy  "envidiables  triunfos," and  that 


will  justify  the  prediction.  Don  Tonus 
LuceRo,  who  pride*  himself  on  being  a  disciple 
of  the  famous  poet  Ram6n  de  la  Cinz,  has 
recently  completed  a  comedy  entitled  "LosUl- 
1,"  which  is  praised  for  its  healthful 
spirit,  it*  wit,  and  its  truthful  delineation  of  a 
by-gone  day,  the  scene  being  laid  in  the  middle 
of  the  last  century,  at  the  time  when  RamiSn  de 
la  Cruz  was  at  the  hight  of  his  popularity.  We 
may  also  mention  a  "Canto,"  by  Don  J.  J.  Jim- 
inet  Delgado,  entitled  "1  jl  Madrid  III"  a  well- 
known  Andalusian  poet  and  dramatic  author  aa 
well  aa  journalist,  the  author  of  odes  entitled 
The  Sea  as  a  Tomb."  "To  Calderon,"  "The 
Abolition  of  the  Death  Penalty,"  etc 

ns  to  mention  a  few  works  of  fiction. 
Don  Leopoldo  Garda  Kamon,  in  his  novel  "Dos 
Amores,"  tries  to  decide  the  question  whether 
love  bom  in  an  instant  or  love  of  long  accretion 
the  stronger  and  most  intense  The  author 
belongs  to  the  "naturalistic  school,"  and  his 
work  is  praised  for  "  its  correctness  and  fresh- 
ol  style,  its  realistic  pictures,  its  stirring  and 
easy  dialogue,  and  its  scenes  of  singular  intei^ 
Don  Jos^  M.  Macheu  has  latelj  issaed  « 
realistic  novel  under  the  title  "La  Ilustrc  Figur- 
anta,"  which  shows  the  struggle  of  a  woman 
abandoned  to  the  tender  merdes  of  a  cruel 
world,  who  rises  by  the  force  o(  her  character. 
It  is  a  work  fully  worthy  ol  the  writer's  repaia- 
tion.  Another  realistic  novel,  on  a  subject  not 
altogether  unlike  Valdes's  "Matta  y  Maria,"  is 
"Solita  o  Amores  Archiplatdnicos,"  by  Don 
Manuel  Polo  y  Peyroton.  It  tells  how  a  wealthy 
and  wel  [.educated  young  girl  becomes  the  victim 
of  a  calumny,  and  is  driven  to  the  careet  of  a 
sister  of  charity.  A  new  series  of  novels  by 
Alarcon,  Valera,  Pereda,  Perez  Galdds,  and 
others,  has  been  projected  and  begun.  The 
first  volume  in  this  "  Biblioteca  de  Novelistas 
Espafioles  Cootempoiineos "  is  entitled  "Los 
PaxoB  de  Ulloa,"  and  is  from  the  pen  of  the 
distinguished  Emilia  Fardo  Bazaru  It  has  made 
a  great  stit  in  literary  cirdes,  and  has  actually 
dwarfed  politics  for  the  time  being.  A  review 
of  contemporary  Spanish  fiction  has  been  con- 
tributed during  the  past  year  to  "  Harper's  Mag- 
azine." Little  has  been  done  in  Spain  in  the 
way  of  biography,  but  we  may  mention  in  dosing 
Don  Luis  Alfonso's  life  of  Murillo,  which  treats 
of  the  man,  the  artist,  and  his  works.  Special- 
ists might  also  be  interested  in  the  "Life  and 
Writings  of  the  Marques  de  Santa  Crux  de 
Marcenado,  the  author  of  eleven  volumes  ol 
"  Military  Reflexions,"  a  man,  curiously  enough, 
better  known  abroad  than  in  Spain  itself. 

IV. 

CEKMANV. 

The  year  which  is  going  to  make  room  for 
another  link  in  the  great  chain  of  Time,  has  not, 
as  far  as  Teutonic  literature  is  concerned,  pro> 
duced  any  overwhelmingly  important  work  in 
the  department  of  bitUi^ellrti  or  the  drama-* 
There  are,  however,  a  few  interesting  and  good 
books  to  be  noticed.  Aa  regards  novels,  the 
book  of  the  year  is  decidedly  "  Was  will  daa 
werden  f "  by  one  of  our  leading  novelists.  Fried- 
rich  Spielhagen.  This  three-volume  novel  (a 
very  rate  thing  in  the  contemporary  German 
book  market)  is  not  quite  up  to  the  level  of  some  ,~ 
of  this  author's  earlier  works,  but  it  is  still  very  >>. 
remarkable.  Georg  Ebers,  our  greatest  ^yp- 
tian  scholar,  added  one  more   to 


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"Egjptian"  novels  by  following  last  yeir's  gift, 
"Serapia,"  wllh  "Die  Nilbraut,"  which  has  just 
been  pabllghed.  George  Taylor,  the  well-known 
psendonymoiM  autboi  of  "  Antinong,"  has  isaned 
■  »0[t  of  counterpart  to  it,  entitled  "Jelta." 
Taylor's  real  nanie  is  Hausrath,  and  he  is  » 
profesaor  in  the  University  of  Heidelberg.  A 
more  modern,  but  not  less  excellent,  novel, 
"Unruhige  Gastc,  is  due  to  the  chaioiing  pen  of 
Withelm  Raabe  (Jakob  Corvinns),  one  of  our 
foremost  hnmorists;  of  It  we  may  say  what  can- 
not be  said  of  many  works  of  fiction  —  that  it 
entices  thoughtful  readers  to  read  it  twice  and 
even  thrice.  With  "  Der  Zug  den  owh  We*, 
ten  "  Paul  Lindau  l>egan  a  series  of  novels  to  be 
collectively  entitled  "  Berlin,"  and  intended  to 
describe  varioas  aspects  and  phases  of  life  in 
the  German  metropolis;  this  plan  reminds  us  of 
Zota's  "  Rougon-Macquart "  series.  Fritz  Mauth- 
ner,  the  gifted  author  of  "  Xanthippe,"  is  repce- 
sented  by  a  political  novel,  "  Der  letzte  Deutsche 
von  Blatna,"  in  which  he  deals  with  the  struggles 
of  the  Germans  in  Austria  for  the  maintenance 
o(  Iheir  predominance  over  (he  other  national' 
ities  of  that  polyglot  empire.  Hugo  Klein, 
whose  "Stories  from  the  Land  of  the  Pusltas  " 
we  noticed  some  time  ago,  has  made  a  decided 
hit  with  his  novel  "Blinde  Liebe,"  in  which  he 
pictures  life  and  love  in  a  model  blind'asylum  on 
the  one  hand,  and  in  a  Urge  jewelry  manufac- 
tory on  the  other;  the  scene  Is  laid  parti;  in 
Vienna,  partly  in  the  south  of  Hungary,  and  the 
"local  color"  U  throughout  vrondetfully  true, 
without  a  single  word  of  Magyar  or  other  slang 
being  Dsed.  Klein's  volume  is  not  "sensational,' 
but  eiceedrngty  good  and  interesting. 

lo  the  Geld  of  shorter  fiction  —  the  Germans 
say  "Novelle"  or  "Erzahlung" — five  volumes 
of  collected  stories  deserve  to  be  mentioned  in 
this  review.  "Hlmmlische  and  irdische  Liet>e>" 
by  Paul  Heyse,  conUins  two  deeply  psychologi- 
cal tales  in  this  author's  most  masterly  manner. 
Julias  Grosse's  "Mimosen"  are  composed  of 
three  "theatrical"  stories  in  which  stage  life 
behind  the  scenes  is  depicted  in  a  lively 
highly  attractive  fashion.  In  "Im  Sonnenschi 
Ludwig  Ziemssen  gives  the  world  a  bunch  ol 
drawing-room  novelettes  of  a  very  polished  and 
pleasant  description,  white  Hugo  Rosenthal' 
Bonin,  formeriy  a  medical  man  and  at  presenl 
editor  of  the  famous  Stuttgart  periodical,  "Uebet 
Land  und  Meer,"  presents  us  with  a  volume  ol 
merry  tales  of  adventure  and  travel,  entitled 
"  Stromschnellen."  Quite  another  sort  of  book 
is  Erai!  Ertl's  "Liebesmarcben,"  every  story 
which  is  a  strange  but  fascinating  mixture  of 
novelette,  parable,  and  fairy  tale ;  leaning  on 
the  titles  and  chief  incidents  of  well-known  fairy 
tales,  such  as  "Dornriischen,"  "Schnec 
^en,"  etc.,  the  author  complements  the  plots  by 
Introducing  love  affairs,  by  pointing  morals,  etc. 
the  result  is  very  impressive.  The  editor  of  the 
"  Vienna  Illustrated  Gazette  "  and  the  "German 
Authors'  Journal,"  Baldwin  Grollcr,  has  followed 
tip  his  former  volumes  of  collected  sketches, 
tales,  and  essiys,  with  a  one-volume  story,  en 
titled  "  Prinz  Kloti."  The  hero  of  this  fascinat- 
ing book  is  a  young  prince  brought  up  by  womer 
like  a  woroio,  but  ultimately  goaded  into  man. 
hood  by  his  love  for  a  manly,  chivalrous  girl 
relative  of  his. 

In  dramatic  literature,  two  tragedies  of  Ernst 
von  Wildenbruch's  have  created  stir.  "  Christo- 
pher Marlowe  "  deals  iritb  the  life  of  that  ojtfor- 


late  Elizabethan  poet.  The 
dramatic  as  it  might  be.  The  first  act  is  full 
of  vigor,  and  calls  forth  great  (;xpei:tationa  which 
however,  are  not  fulfilled.  The  play  is  wanting 
the  requisite  tragic  element,  for  It  is  a  far 
greater  poet  (Shakespeare)  by  whom  Marlowe  is 
outdone ;  the  principal  basis  of  a  tragic  fate  rests 
in  its  injustice,  but  there  is  no  tragic  injustice 
n  a  greater  poet  being  more  admired  than  a 
esser  one.  It  may  be  a  misfortune  to  be  out- 
itripped  in  that  way,  but  it  cannot  be  called  a 
tragedy.  The  whole  may  be  described  as  an 
apotheosis  of  Shakespeare,  rather  than  a  pot- 
trayaJ  of  Marlowe.  In  "Das  Neue  Geljol" 
Wildenbruch  (nmishes  the  stage  with  a  poetical 
though  deeply  sad  treatment  of  the  evil  conse- 
of  Pope  Gregory's  command  of  celibacy 
for  Roman  Catholic  priests ;  the  scene  is  laid  in 
Italy  at  the  time  of  the  publication  of  the  "  new 
command."  This  play  has  been  more  successful 
on  the  stage  than  "Christopher  Marlowe."  Os- 
car Justlnus,  the  humorous  author  of  the  "  Pho- 
tographic Albatn,"  which  we  noticed  about 
months  ago,  has  brought  out  a  much-peiformed 
comedy,  "Greek  Fire," another  pleasing  link  : 
the  long  chain  of  his  popular  plays.  Two  ne 
dramas  of  Oscar  Blumenthal's,  "Ein  Tropfc 
Gift"  and  "Der  schwarze  Schleier,"  have  all 
acqaiied  much  popularity,  whereas  a  third  ne 
play  of  his,  the  comedy  "  Sammt  und  Setde,"  has 
proved  a  decided  failure,  apart  from  its  having 
turned  out  a  partial  plagiarism  from  a  French 
play. 

Passing  on  to  poetry  proper,  we  have  to 
tion  first  Julius  WolPs  epic  of  "  Lurley"  which 
saw  the  light  about  the  middle  of  Novembei 
is  another  in  the  long  series  of  similar  works  of 
this  foremost  of  living  German  epic  poets,  but 
is  doubtful  if  it  will  be  quite  as  successful  1 
"Der  wilde  Jiger"  or  "Der  RattenHnger  vt 
Hameln "  have  been.  Another  long  work 
verse,  "Memnon,  a  myth,"  ha*  issued  from  the 
pen  of  one  o(  our  leading  poets,  the  Count  of 
Schack ;  the  old  age  of  its  authi 
not  at  all  diminished  his  refined  mastery,  and 
thus  "  Memnon  "  Is  in  no  respect  inferior  to  any 
of  the  Count's  previous  achievements.  A  poet 
still  higher  in  social  position  than  the  foregoing, 
the  queen  ot  Roumanio,  a  German  princess 
who  is  celebrated  as  "Carmen  Syl' 
poetically -sounding  pen  name  —  and  who  has 
enriched  lyric  poetry  by  many  excellent 
brought  out  a  new  valuable  volume,  entitled 
"  Meine  Ruhe,"  containing  a  large  number  of 
ballads,  romances,  philosophical  and  psychologi- 
cal poems,  as  well  as  love  lyrics.  Among  works 
in  dialect  — the  German  lai.guage, 
known,  abounds  In  dialects  —  published  during 
the  year,  the  most  conspicuous  are  the  collected 
poems  of  (wo  famous  Bavarian  poets,  Karl  Stic- 
ler's  "  Drei  Biische  "  and  Maximilian  Schmidt's 
"  Altboarisch."  Karl  Sticler,  by  the  way,  died 
in  the  course  of  the  year,  and  Schmidt  is  one  of 
our  very  best  story  writers.  Humorous  poetry 
is  exceedingly  well  represetited  by  (wo  volumes : 
H.  SodersirSm's  "  Biirgermcisterwahl,"  an  ex- 
tremely merry  epic  describes  the  deadening 
life  in  the  small  towns  of  Germany,  and  makes 
merry  over  the  electioneering  intrigues  which 

n  vogue  in  those  usually  over-quiet 
ingholds  of  Philistinism  ;  while  Edwin  Bor- 
in,  who,  up  lo  the  present,  mostly  reveled  in 
[.111  dialect  pnelry,  sends  forth  a  highly  note- 
thy,  though  small,  book  of  satire  on  liter*' 


rians,  editors,  publishers,  and  circulating  libra- 
ries ;  this  little  volume  of  accomplished  verse  is 
entitled"Das  Buch  von  der  schwarze  n  Kunst" 
("  Black  art,"  typography).  The  fourth,  and 
augmented,  edition  of  the  poems  of  Frau  Agnes 
Kayser-Langerhann's  ("Gedichte")  must  not  be 
omitted  here.  Before  dismissing  poetry  we 
must  mention  the  publication  of  quite  a  fresh 
sort  of  anthology  which  Maximilian  Bern,  one  of 
our  most  original  poets  and  story-tellers,  has  just 
issued  in  a  highly  artistic  garb,  and  which  is 
decidedly  among  the  very  best  productions  of 
this  season's  book  market.  "  Am  eignen  Herd  " 
has  nothing  in  common  with  the  host  M  antholo- 
gies extant;  the  idea  at  its  root  is  entirely  new; 
it  is  a  collection  of  modern  German  poems  con- 
cerning the  happiness  of  married  life  from  the 
lime  of  falling  in  love  up  to  death.  The  poems 
—  many  of  which  were  expressly  written  for  the 
book  —  are  systematically  arranged  into  chap- 
ters, thus  forming  a  continuous  tbreadj  and 
(hey  are  arranged  well,  apart  from  their  value  as 
single  poems,     A  most  remarkable  work  to  be 

Another  original  and  noteworthy  anthology  is 
entitled  "  Alrune ;  "  in  it  Karl  Schrallenthal  col- 
lects aphoristic  thoughts  and  sayings  of  con- 
temporary German  lady  authors  and  poets.  Paul 
Schdnfeld  has  produced  the  best  satirical  book 
of  the  year,  "  Satircn  und  Epigramme;"  some- 
times he  is  going  a  little  too  far,  becoming 
offensively  severe.  Julius  Stettenheim's  well 
known  "  Wippchen's  siimmtlichc  Kriegabetichte," 
one  of  the  most  enjoyable  works  of  humor  mixed 
with  satire,  have  had  a  fourth  volume  added  to 
ihem.  The  department  of  travel  and  observa- 
lioQ  is  worthily  represented  by  Woldemar  Ka- 
den's  inlereiting  "Neue  Bilder  aus  Welschland." 
(Kaden  has  lived  in  Italy  for  the  last  quarter  of 
a  century  at  least),  Eduard  Engel's  "Griechische 
Friihiingslage,"  an  extremely  enter(aining  book, 
Adolf  Kohut's  "Aus  dem  Reichc  der  Kar- 
pathen,"  light  and  amusing,  though  instructive 
sketches  of  social,  popular,  and  literary  life  in 
Hungary,  and  by  the  first  volume  of  Friedrich 
Ratzel's  important  work  on  ethnography,  "Vbl- 
kerkunde ; "  Ralzel,  by  the  way,  Is  the  author 
of  several  excellent  works  on  (he  United  States, 
where  he  traveled  a  good  deal. 

History  —  universal,  special,  literary,  and  other- 
wise—  has  its  goodly  share  in  this  year's  markeL 
Mommsen  published  anolhcr  volume  of  his  cele- 
brated "History  of  Rome,"  The  greatest  Ger- 
man historian  of  our  time.  Von  Ranke,  issued 
the  6th  volume  of  his  important  "Weltges- 
chichte  "  exactly  a  year  ago ;  since  then  he  died, 
leaving  the  complete  manuscript  of  the  7(h 
which  is  going  to  be  "out"  in  December;  the 
great  work,  which  the  author  began  as  late  as 
his  eightieth  year,  will  remain  a  fragment,  though 
a  grand  one.  Another  leading  historian,  G.  F. 
Hertiberg,  has  written  a  "History  of  Ancient 
Rome,"  which  bids  fair  to  become  a  standard 
work.  J.  J.  Honcgger  of  Zurich  brings  his 
masterly  "History  of  Civilization  "  down  to  the 
beginning  of  the  Middle  Ages ;  this  he  does  in 
the  second  volume  just  Issued  ;  the  first  saw  the 
light  four  years  ago.  R.  Majunke,  a  well-known 
political  journalist  and  parliamentarian,  tells  the 
"  Story  of  the  Russian  Kutturkampf,"  i.  r^  the 
struggle  between  the  State  and  the  Roman  Cath- 
olic clergy  from  1871  to  1885.  This  work  is 
important  because  of  the  historical  data  and 
other  trcasiuei     it  contains,   but    it    ii    not 


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unbiiaed,  iu  auihor  having  taken  a  very  activ 
pact  to  the  struggle.  Robert  Vitcher' 
"Studien  tar  Kunttgctchichte  "  are  clever  ani 
spirited.  Kirpeles's  "  History  of  Hebrew  lit- 
erature " —  the  first  comprehensive  work  of 
kind  —  we  have  noticed  before. 

The  principal  impulie  to  biography  was  given 
by  the  centenary  erf  the  death  of  Frederick  the 
Great;   this   event   called    forth    a    shower    of 
literature,  whose  drops   we  cannot  enumerate 
here.    W.  Kreiten'a   "Life  of  Voltaire"  ii  re- 
markable only  for  ita  hatred  oC  the  philosopher 
of  Fetney }  no  wonder,  for  Kreiien  is  a  member 
of  the  orAr  of  the  Jesuits  I     Guslav  Freytag, 
whose  jubilee  (70th  birthday)   we   noticed  last 
summer,   has   issued    the    first    volume  of   his 
"Reminiscences,"  and  Robert  Prolsi  published 
a  "  Life  ol  Heinrich  Heine."    Josef  Ktirtchi 
originated  ■  "  Wagner- Jahrbuch  "  which  he 
lends  to  publish  annually  in  honor  of  the  li 
composer  of  "Lohengrin." 

Concerning  philosophy,  only  the  two  excellent 
new  books  of  Wilh.  Wundt's  deserve  notice  faei 
"Essays"  (dealing  with  various  Important  qu 
tions  of  natural  philosophy),  and  "  Ethics."    The 
latter  work,  which   ia  just  out,  will   be  su 
create  much  stir  in  the  world  of  science. 


DBNMAKK. 

The  printing  prcMes  of  Denmark  have  been 
about  as  busy  as  usual  on  old  and  new  works,  but 
It  must  be  admitted  that  nothing  unusual  has  been 
produced.  No  new  authora  of  great  promise 
have  come  forward,  and  several  of  those  whom 
we  are  in  the  habit  of  pointing  out  as  the  leaders 
in  Danish  literature  have  eihibited  a  remarkabh 
idleness.  Georg  Brandes,  for  instance,  has  con 
tented  himself  with  giving  a  few  lectures  ant 
revising  some  of  his  earlier  German  works 
One  of  his  works,  "  Eminent  Authors  of  the 
Nineteenth  Century,"  has  recently  been  brought 
out  by  T.  Y.  Crowell  &  Co,  in  Boston,  t 
lated  by  R.  B.  Anderson,  United  States  Mir 
in  Copenhagen.  Holger  Drachmaun  has 
duced  nothing  bnt  a  few  newspaper  articles  from 
his  visit  to  Norway.  His  last  work  was 
five-act  drama,  "Alcibiades,"  published  in  I 
latter  part  of  1885-  The  venerable  Carl  H. 
trup,  the  Holberg  of  this  century,  has,  aftei 
prolonged  period  of  unproductiveness,  given 
a  new  drama  in  four  acts,  entitled  "Karens 
Garde,"  which  never  fails  to  fill  the  Royal 
Theater  to  overflowing,  though  it  is  hardly  up 
to  the  level  of  his  earlier  works.  Karl  Gjellerup 
has  sent  home  from  his  voluntary  exil 
Dresden  a  new  historical  tragedy  in  6ve 
called  "  Saint-Jusl,"  and  from  Sophus  Schan- 
dorph  we  have  a  play  entitled  "Valgkandidater '" 
(Candidates  for  Election),  a  humorous  stage  rep- 
resentation of  Danish  elections.  Schandorph 
has  also  published  a  dainty  volume  containing 
six  short  stories  descriptive  of  Danish  life  in 
small  towns.  From  C,  Ewald  we  have  a  ro- 
mance entitled,  "  Lindegrencn  "  (The  Linden- 
branch),  and  from  the  very  popular  writer  of 
historical  novels,  Mr.  H,  F.  Ewald,  we  have  an 
elegant  and  most  inleresliig  story  called  "  Niela 
Ebbesen."  It  fills  456  pages,  but  the  reader 
rcgreU  that  it  ia  not  longer.  In  verse  nothing 
of  importance  has  been  written  during  the  last 
twelvemonth. 

Historical  literature  makes  a  fail  showing,  but 
mainly   in  the  condnuation   or    completion   of 


works  long  In  press.  Fiederik  Barfod,  the 
Nestor  among  the  historical  writers  r 
in  Denmark,  has  just  completed  his  excellent 
history  of  Denmark  from  1319  to  1536.  L  F. 
Dalstrom  has  finished  his  elaborate  illustrated 
history  of  the  world,  in  seventy  parti.  E.  Holm 
has  i>aaed  one  volume  and  the  first  part  of  Vol. 
II  of  his  history  of  Denmark  and  Norway  du^ 
ing  the  period  of  absolutism  from  1660  to  1720- 
The  Reign  of  King  Frederik  VII,  by  A.  Thor- 
soe,  has  reached  the  thiity-firat  part  and  will 
probably  be  completed  in  1SS7.  We  have 
several  times  referred  to  N.  Bache's  "Nordens 
Hiatorie  "  (History  of  the  North).  This  is  an 
elaborate  work  in  five  large  octavo  volumes, 
containing  many  hundred  itiustralions.  We  are 
glad  to  report  that  it  is  now  at  length  completed, 
and  it  does  credit  to  both  author  and  publisher- 
It  ia  a  popular  work,  beginning  way  back  wilh 
the  stone  age  and  continuing  the  history  of  Den- 
mark, Sweden,  and  Norway  down  to  the  present 
lime,  and  the  large  number  of  splendid  illus- 
trations adds  greatly  to  the  attractive! 
the  work.  Three  volumes  of  "  Nordisk  Con- 
versa  tionslexikon  "  ate  now  published,  bring- 
ing the  work  down  through  the  letter  J/.  Mr. 
F.  C.  Graniow's  ambitions  work,  giving  a  gen- 
eral history  of  the  events  of  the  present  century 
("Vort  Aarhundrede),  has  been  brought  down 
to  Part  31;  with  Part  35  it  will  be  completed. 
Ernst  Boiesen  has  issued  thirty  parts  of  his 
/dilian  di  luxe  of  Holberg's  plays,  perhaps  the 
finest  piece  of  printing  ever  done  in  the  North. 
The  work  abounds  in  interesting  illustrations. 
Another  costly  literary  enterprise  is  "Danmark 
i  Skildringer  og  Billeder  (Denmark  Described 
and  Illustrated),  edited  by  M.  GalschodL  It 
in  quarto  size  and  gives  full-page  illustrations 
of  Danish  scenery,  historical  buildings,  etc,  by 
leading  artists,  with  descriptions  from  the  pens 
of  the  most  eminent  writers.  Fourteen  parts 
have  been  published.  H.  Weilemeyer's  "Geo- 
grafisk  Haandbog"  (Geographical  Manual),  long 
press,  has  been  completed,  and  deserves 
special  commendation.  It  contains  more  tha: 
thousand  pages  and  is  an  invaluable  wor! 
of  reference.  The  tenth  part  of  O.  Kalkar' 
learned  dictionary  of  the  Danish  language  a 
preserved  in  the  literature  from  1300  to  170 
has  been  issued.  Leal  cog  raphers  should  nc 
fail  to  examine  this  work.  •'  Illustreret  dansk 
Lileralurhistarie "  (An  Illustrated  History  of 
Danish  Literature),  by  Professor  P.  Hansen  de- 
serves  special  mention,  and  the  author  is  to  be 
congratulated  on  its  completion.  It  is  a  large 
work  giving  a  full  account  of  Danish  literature 
from  its  beginning  down  to  the  year  187a.  Of 
old  works  fac-similes  of  the  printed  pages 
given,  so  that  it  forms  at  the  same  time  an 
interesting  history  of  the  art  of  printing  in  Den- 
k.  Portraits  are  given  of  most  of  the  authors, 
and  fac-similes  oF  ihcir  autographs.  So  far  as 
Scandinavian  literary  history  is  concerned,  the 
work  is  unique,  and  it  may  well  be  taken  as  a 
lodei  for  a  history  of  American  literature.  Its 
publication  may  be  regarded  as  the  literary 
.  in  Denmark  for  1886.  Of  great  impor- 
in  the  field  of  archxology  is  "  Bornholm's 
Antiquities,"  by  Mr.  £.  Vedel,  a  quarto  work  of 
424  pages  filled  with  illustrations.  It  exhausts 
the  archaeology  of  Bornholm,  covering  the  stone, 
iie,  and  iron  ages,  and  ia  the  result  ol  eight- 
years'  persistent  explorations  on  the  part  of  | 
the  distinguished  author.      Lovers  of  art  will  | 


thank  Mr.  Lange  for  his  fascinating  and  instruct- 
ive work  on  Sergei  and  Thorvaldsen,  contain- 
ing forty-four  illustrations  of  the  works  of  these 
sculptors.  Mr.  C,  V.  Brann's  monumental  work 
in  bibliography,  "  Blbllotheca  Danica,"  is  now 
finished  in  three  huge  volumei.  It  covers  the 
literature  of  Denmark  from  14S2  to  1830.  A 
few  copies  of  this  work  will  doubtless  ^nd  their 
way  to  America.  In  the  field  of  biography  we 
will  call  attention  to  a  life  of  the  late  Worsaae,  by 
Sophus  Miillcr,  and  a  life  of  Elisabeth  Jenchau 
Baumann,  by  N.  Bogh.  Mr,  K.  Kroman  has 
published  a  valuable  work  on  education,  and 
Mr.  L.  Holbetg  has  given  us  King  Valdemar'* 
Law.  A  posthumoos  wort  of  Worsaae  has  ap- 
peared, containing  a  journal  he  kept  during  the 
twenty-five  years  he  was  director  of  the  Rosen" 
borg  Museum,  1858-1883.  It  is  illustrated.  The 
following  American  works  have  appeared  in 
Danish  translations  during  the  current  year: 
E.  P.  Roe's  "  Without  a  Home  ; "  William  Matb- 
ew's  "  Getting  on  in  the  World ; "  Robert  Inger- 
soll's  "The  Liberty  of  Man,  Woman,  and 
Child;  "  Louisa  M.  Alcott's  "  Little  Men"  and 
"  Jack  and  Jill ;  "  Mark  Twain's  "  Gilded  Age ; " 
and  R.  B.  Anderson's  "  America  not  Discovered 
by  Columbus." 

Jonas  Lie,  whose  stories  enjoy  great  popu- 
larity throughout  Scandinavia,  has  gladdened  his 
admirers  with  a  new  novel  called  "The  Com- 
mander's Daughters."  It  is  fully  on  a  level  with 
his  former  cSorts,  and  deals  to  some  ealent  with 
the  life  of  seamen. 

The  story-writers  of  the  second  rank  have  been 
no  less  industrious.  John  Paulsen  has  written 
both  a  volume  of  stories  "  Step-children,"  and  a 
drama  "The  Mothers."  Both  failed  to  enhance 
his  reputation,  and  the  drama  was  a  perfect 
Jlaue.  It  was  the  old  story  about  two  motbera 
claiming  the  same  child.  Laura  Kieler  is  a  new 
writer.  She  made  her  debut  in  the  early  part  of 
the  year  with  a  story  called  "  En  Oppositions- 
mand"  (An  Oppoailionist),  the  character  por- 
trayed being  Hans  Nielsen  Hauge,  a  well-known 
religious  fanatic  in  Norway  in  the  early  part  of 
this  century.  More  recently  she  has  published  a 
volume  of  Silhouettes,  in  which  may  be  found 
essays  on  Ibsen,  Bjiirnson,  Mrs.  Collett,  Tope- 
lius,  and  others.  She  is  a  vigorous  and  charm- 
ing auihor,  and  doubtless  has  a  brilliant  future. 
Another  new  lady  in  the  field  of  authors  bearing 
the  name  of  XaA,  is  said  to  be  a  young  girl,  but 
judging  from  the  gloomy  character  of  her  batch 
of  novelettes  one  would  suppose  her  to  be  a 
pessimist  in  the  nineties.  She  is  not  without 
talent.  Miss  Elisabeth  Schoyen  has  closed  the 
book  market  with  a  voluminous  work  called 
KvindeskjcEbner  "  (Fates  of  Women).  Uke  her 
revious  windy  works,  this  book  is  thoroughly 
uninteresting,  and  it  is  to  be  hoped  she  may  find 
other  employment  for  her  talents.  Mr.  K. 
:rsen  well  sustains  his  high  reputation  in  bis 
work  called  "  Dagligdags"  (Evcry-day  Life). 
Then  we  have  the  inevitable  Mr.  Dilling  with 
w  story-books,  "  I  Kupien  "  ( In  the  Rail- 
road Car)  and  "Begavet"  (Gifted),  both  light 
reading,  but  destined  to  become  popular.  J.  W. 
Flood  has  added  another  to  his  long  series  of 
stories  about  sailors.  This  one  is  called  "Sjo- 
mxndog  Guldgravere "  (Sailors  and  Gold-Dig. 
gers).  K.  Winterhjetm  has  written  a  spirited  story 
called  "  Farvel  Hansen,"  and  finally  two  new 
slory.writera  have  come  forward  asking  for  rec- 
ognition.   The  one  is  J.  FurS,  who  has  given  ua 


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a  Tolame  of  ralhcT  breezy  sketches  from  thi 
northernmost  parts  of  Norway  ;  tbe  other  Mr. 
Gregersen,  nho  is  tbe  author  of  a 
■ketches  and  desciiplions  of  every-day  life.  Both 
deserve  encoaiagc merit.  Tbe  collected  works  of 
the  poet  A.  Munch,  who  died  in  1885,  are  being 
published  in  three  volumes  by  a  Copenhagt 
bouse.  This  edition  will  contain  several  gems 
never  published  before. 

In  the  domain  of  ficlitioos  literature  we  forgot 
to  mention  '■  Slille  Exiatenser  "  (Quiet  IJves],  b; 
Herman  Bang,  a  work  of  424  pages,  containing 
tout  novels;  and  "Klokkesloberen  "  (The  Bell- 
Founder),  by  a  new  novelist,  Sophus  Bauditz. 
The  work  contains  four  bright  stories,  the  si 
of  which  deals  with  the  visit  of  Columbi 
Iceland  in  1477.  Finally,  we  should  before  have 
menlioned  "  Via  Appia,"  an  elaborate  historical 
and  descriptive  work  by  P,  Andrie. 

The  distinguished  traveler  and  author,  Paul  B. 
Du  Chaillu,  has  been  spending  several  yea: 
Copenhagen,  and  has  just  completed  for 
press  his  great  work,  "  The  Viking  Age.' 
will  soon  appear  in  two  magnificent  volumes 
about  fourteen  hundred  illustrations.  It  is  mainly 
devoted  to  describing  popular  life  during  the 
viking  period,  of  which  Mr,  Du  Chaillu  is  a  great 
admirer.  Several  years  of  industry  have  been 
devoted  to  the  work,  and  when  it  appears  in  the 
course  of  1887,  it  is  sure  to  attract  wide  attention. 
VI. 

We  have  to  record  the  death  of  the  novelist, 
Hcnrik  af  Trolle,  who  died  in  Cailskrona,  only 
fifty-seven  years  old.  He  was  a  very  popular 
writer,  and  the  most  of  his  works  have  been 
translated  into  foreign  tongues.  His  experiences 
as  a  traveler  are  embodied  in  numerous  stories 
of  the  sea,  such  as  "  The  Sea  Officer,"  "  Captain 
Thomas  Darell,"  "A  Voyage  on  a  Merchant- 
man," and  others  equally  well  known.  Sweden 
is  indebted  to  Trolte  for  a  history  of  her  navy, 
and  in  the  German  translation  of  King  Oscat's 
"Recollections  of  the  Swedish  Na¥y,"Henrik  a( 
Trolle  wrote  the  historical  and  biographical 
notes.  August  Strindberg  is  the  Zola  of  Sweden, 
and  he  is  continually  steering  his  literary  ship 
further  and  further  to  (he  left.  We  have 
volumes  from  him  this  year,  both  entitled  "  The 
Son  of  the  Servant  Woman,"  tbe  former  describ- 
ing the  hero's  childhood,  tbe  latter  bis  school- 
days in  the  university.  It  is  presumed  that  sev- 
eral more  volumes  are  to  follow,  and  wicked 
tongues  say  the  work  is  in  all  essentials  Stiind- 
berg'a  autobiography.  We  are  no  admirers  of 
the  naturalistic  or  Heshy  school  of  literature,  and 
while  we  fully  recognize  Strindberg's  talents, 
are  unable  to  commend  the  works  that  flow  from 
his  venomous  pen.  We  hope  this  naturalistic 
or  pathological  literature  will  never  get  a  foot- 
hold in  America,  and  vre  have  an  impression 
thai  its  days  are  numbered  in  Europe. 

The  poet,  A.  U.  BSStb,  seems  to  be  turning 
bis  attention  exclusively  to  Icelandic  literature. 
Thus  while  we  have  no  poems  from  him  this 
year,  he  has  published  a  small  volume  on  Old 
Norse  sagas.  In  fact  none  of  the  poets  of  Swe- 
den has  published  anything  of  importance  during 
the  past  twelvemonth.  Mrs.  A.  Agrell  has 
written  a  drama  in  thiee  acts,  "  Ensam  "  (Ixinely), 
and  Mrs.  Edgren-Leffler  has  issued  volume 
four  of  her  story  "Ur  Lifvet"  (From  Life). 
Both  are  writers  of  high  rank. 


The  most  important  work  published  in  Swedei 
during  the  year  is  Viktor  Rydberg's  "  Undersok- 
ningar  i  germanisk  Mythologi"  [Investig: 
in  Germanic  Mythology).  It  is  a  icbolariy  work 
subjecting  the  Teutonic  mythology  to  a 
thorough  and  exhaustive  study  than  has 
before  been  made.  The  first  volume  is 
completed,  and  we  predict  that  it  will  long 
remain  the  standard  work  on  the  subject  of 
which  it  treats.  Having  (or  its  author  Sweden' 
greatest  prose  writer,  it  is  no  less  brilliant  i 
style  than  it  is  comprehensive  and  thorough  in 
regard  to  contents.  We  have  no  doubt  that  the 
work  will  find  its  way  in  translation  into  English, 
German,  and  other  languages.  A  work  of  great 
promise  is  H.  Scbiick's  "History  of  Swedish 
IJleriture."  Only  four  part*  have  appeared, 
but  if  the  work  is  completed,  it  will  outrank  all 
other  histories  of  Swedish  literature  heretofore 
written.  The  Swedish  Encyclopaedia  (Nordisk 
Familjebok)  is  making  more  rapid  progress  than 
its  Danish  sister,  having  already  reached  the 
eleventh  volume,  and  will  be  completed  in  iS 
The  Swede  is  fond  of  studying  the  past,  and 
other  people  can  boast  so  extensive  1  historical 
literature  in  proportion  to  its  population.  To 
its  splendid  library  of  historical  works  additions 
are  continually  being  made.  During  the  present 
year  F.  F.  Carlson  has  added  a  voli 
history  of  Sweden ;  C.  A.  Cornelius  has  pub- 
lished tbe  history  of  the  Swedish  Church  after 
tbe  Reformation,  and  H.  Hildebrand  has  issued 
two  parts  of  "  Sveriges  Medellid"  (The  Middli 
Age  of  Sweden).  Ahnfelt's  "History  of  E1^ 
ropean  Artists,"  alphabetically  arranged,  has 
reached  part  seven,  and  promises  to  be  a  work 
of  great  interest  and  importance, 

In  the  department  of  science  we  would  call 
attention  to  W.  Liljeborg's  "  Fauna,"  of  which 
four  parts  are  out,  the  last  containing  41G  page! 
and  giving  a  description  of  the  fishes  of  Swedei 
and  Norway.  The  Royai  Library  in  Stockholm 
has  published  a  bibliography  of  the  ]i 
and  books  published  in  the  Swedish  tongue  in 
America.  It  is  a  work  of  about  sixty  pages 
and  costs  about  fifty  cents,  Mr,  H,  Juhlin- 
Daunfelt  has  completed  his  dictionary  (or  Farmers, 
a  work  of  about  450  pages.  Besides  there  bavi 
of  course  appeared  the  usual  amount  of  leligioui 
books,  light  literature,  school-books,  pamphlets 
n  all  subjects,  and  new  editions  of  old  works. 

VII, 

NORWAY. 
In  elegant  literature  Norway  continues  to  lead 


Scandinavian  countries,  and  all  her 
th  tbe  exception  of  Bjornstjerne 
Bjornson,  have  contributed  to  tbe  holiday  trade 
of  1886.  The  great  literary  event  of  the  year 
vas  Bjijrnson's  visit  to  Norway  during  the  sum- 
ner.  He  has  continued  to  reside  in  Paris  ever 
lince  his  memorable  visit  to  America  in  iBSoand 
881,  but  last  May  he  returned  to  Norway, 
ind  remained  until  October  I,  when  he  again 
vent  back  to  Paris,  He  arrived  in  Christiania 
la  a  Sunday,  and  it  may  be  truly  said  that  no 
Norseman  ever  before  received  so  enthnsiaslic  a 
reception.  "  Flags  floated  in  the  dty  and  in  the 
harbor,"  and  the  streets  everywhere  were  crowded 
rongs  who  greeted  the  na- 
tional poet  with  wild  bursts  of  hurrahs  and  vivafs. 
He  spent  a  few  days  in  Chi 

IJtions  were  tendered  hi 
oE  the  summer  was  apent  quietl 


home  described  in  a  recent  number  of  tbe  Cen- 
tury.  No  new  book  has  come  from  Bjdrnson 
since  our  last  annual  review.  His  twin  brother, 
Ibsen,  who  resides  in  Munich,  has  added  one 
more  to  his  long  series  of  dramas.  The  name 
of  his  last  is  "  Rosmersholm,"  a  drama  in  four 
acts,  the  scene  laid  in  Norway,  and  the  subject  is 
thoroughly  gloomy  and  tragic.  We  will  not 
attempt  a  risumi.  Tbe  work  is  just  out,  the  pa- 
pers are  daily  filled  with  extended  artides  about  it, 
and,  as  is  always  the  case  with  Itisen's  dramas,  it 
will  furnish  newspaper  food  for  months  to  come. 
Alexander  Kjelland,  who  had  been  silent  so 
long  that  it  was  feared  he  had  lost  tlie  faculty  of 
literary  production,  joined  the  Scandinavian  col- 
ony in  Paris  in  the  summer,  and  has  charmed 
and  horrified  the  Scandinavian  North  with  two 
new  works;  we  say  charmed  and  horrified,  for 
there  is  the  liveliest  discussion  in  (he  press  in 
regard  to  the  character  of  bis  new  works.  The 
one  is  a  novel  called  "Sne"  (Snow),  in  which  he 
lashes  the  orthodox  priests  of  Norway;  the 
other  a  drama  called  "  Tre  Par "  (Three 
Couples),  which  is  thoroughly  French  in  style, 
and  the  moral  of  which  is  (hat  women  should 
know  as  much  about  (he  wickedness  of  Ihe  world 
as  men  do.  It  is  but  fair  to  say  that  we  think 
the  author  has  transgressed  the  limits  of  decency 
in  this  work.  We  do  not  think  any  American 
would  be  willing  to  read  it  aloud  to  a  gathering 
of  cultivated  ladies  and  gentlemen.  Meanwhile, 
it  is  being  played  at  the  royal  theaters  of  Scan- 
dinavia to  overflowing  but  more  or  less  disgusted 
houses. 

In  (be  depar(ment  of  bistory  we  may  mention 
the  following  works  in  progress  of  publication. 
V-  Poulsen's  "  Stories  from  the  History  of  Nor- 
way"  has  reached   Fart  7,  and  is  ably  wrttteo 
and    handsomely    illus(ra(ed.      An    illustrated 
"  History  of  Norway,"  by  O.  A.  Overland,  has 
reached     Fart    27,    and    when    completed    will 
be  a  full  and  popular  history  of  (he  country  from 
the  must  remote  antiquity  down  to  the  present. 
Unger's     "  Diylomatarium    Norvegicum,"     fre- 
quently referred  to  in  these  columns,  has  reached 
Vol.  XXIII,  and  is  a  thesaurus  of  ancient  (acts. 
Nordahl  Rolfsen  and  Henrik  Jceger,  both  excel- 
lent scholars  and  critics,  are  issuing  in  parts  a 
rge  anthology  of  Norwegian  poetry,  furnished 
with  portraits  of  the  poets  and  sketches  o£  their 
'es.    The  publication  is  nearly  completed,  and 
ill  make  a  volume  of  nearly  i,ooO  pages.    Bry- 
Idren's  " Norwegian- English   Dictionary"  hat 
been  printed  as  far  as  page  1,340,  and  will  be  a 
improvement  on  Gelmuyden's,  on  which  it 
is  based.    Mr.  Bergh  is  continuing  his  gleanings 
the  field  of  folk-lore,  and  has  succeeded  In 
finding  a  sufficient  number  of   (ales  to  make  a 
volume   for   the   holiday  trade,     J.  B.  Hal- 
n's   "Wctionaty   of  Norwegian   Authors," 
carried   down   (o   iSSo,  is   truly  a   monumental 
'k,  and  reflects  great  credit  on  tbe  author  and 
country.    It  is  published  as  far  as  the  letter 
G,  and  is  to  be  completed  in  1B90.    Mr.  Tons- 
berg  is  issuing  a  third  and  last  edition   of  his 
:lebrated  work   called   '•  Illustrated   Norway." 
contains  a  series  of  pictures  in  colors  of  the 
finest  scenes  in  Norway,  and  accompanying  text 
I  Norwegian,  German,  and  English,  a  splendid 
•iBKttir  for  travelers  in  Norway.    The  increas- 
ig  English  and  American  travel  in  Norway  has 
:d  the  enterprising  Norwegian  publisher,  Albert 
lammermeyer,  to  bring  out  an  English  edition 
of  Dr.  Yngvar  Nielsen's  "Ulnstrated  Handbook 


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[Dec.  25, 


(or  TrtTellers,"  a  work  ol  750  page*.  Jofaan 
FriUner'a  "  Old  None  Dictionary  "  baa  not  made 
much  piogr«M  during  the  year,  but  we  are  bippj 
to  chronicle  the  fact  thai  the  letter  H  of  thU 
■cholarif  work  has  been  printed  Tn  religious 
and  scientific  literature  a  few  t)ooka  have  been 
isiaed,  bnt  none  of  much  importance.  In  this 
connection  we  onght  perhaps  to  mention  Mr. 
H.  Bonnevie's  cutiuus  tract  on  the  Julian  and 
Gregorian  Kalender,  148  pages. 

The  following  American  works  have  appeared 
in  Norwegian  translations:  Henrj  George's 
"  Progress  and  Poverty "  and  "  Social  Prob- 
lems;" Mr.  Moody's  "Sermons,"  and  R.  B, 
Anderson's  "Norse  Mythology."  Of  the  last 
named  work,  which  is  furnished  with  a  steel  por- 
trait and  biographical  sketch  of  the  author,  two 
parts  have  appeared,  and  the  rest  will  be  pub- 
lished in  monthly  installments. 

Such  is  in  brief  the  record  of  the  literary 
activity  in  Norway  for  lS36.  It  may  not  be  out 
of  place  to  add  that  the  great  friend  of  authors 
and  artists  in  Notwaj',  the  wealthy  banker,  T.  J. 
Heflye,  died  October  5.  He  was  bom  in  Chris- 
tlania,  Oct.  ig,  1812,  and  was  the  chief  of  the 
largest  banking  house  in  Norway.  He  was  a 
friend  of  all  travelers,  to  whom  he  took  pleasure 
in  showing  his  fine  country  houses,  Frognersce- 
teren  and  Sarabraalen.  He  was  also  the  author 
of  many  tracts  on  finance  and  political  economy. 
This  is  sad  news  to  the  many  American  and 
English  travelers  who  have  enjoyed  his  distin- 
guished hospitality. 

VIII. 


During  the  last  year  there  has  been  almost 
unexampled  activity  in  the  field  of  Russian  litera- 
ture. A  mere  mention  of  all  the  works  that  have 
appeared  would  Sll  many  columns  of  the  Liltr- 
ary  Wffrld.  In  the  following  sketch,  therefore, 
there  can  be  no  pretence  of  thoroughness.  We 
can  merely  walk  through  the  bookstore,  as 
it  were,  picking  up  whatever  comes  to  hand. 
We  will  imagine  that  we  are  in  the  great  estab- 
lishment of  M.  O.  Wolfl  in  the  "  Goslinui  Dvar  " 
in  Peterslnirg.  Here  we  shall  find  publications 
from  Moscow,  Kief,  Kauui,  Saralof,  and  many 
other  literary  centers.  We  shall  be  surprised  at 
the  scope  and  variety  of  the  works  that  have 
lately  been  put  forth.  The  last  two  years  have 
been  notable  for  the  number  of  "jubilees  "  cele- 
brated in  Russia.  The  thoosandlh  anniversary 
<rf  the  pioneers  of  Russian  literature,  the  two 
sainted  brothers  Cyril  and  Methodius  (Kirill 
and  Mefodii],  to  whom  is  due  the  invention  of 
the  Slavonic  alphabet,  was  celebrated  with  great 
rejoicings  all  over  Russia,  especially  in  Kief, 
where  the  first  "  Kirill  and  Mefodii "  Society, 
founded  by  the  historian  KoslomaroF,  took  charge 
of  the  celebration.  On  the  nineteenth  (31)  of 
April,  the  two  hundteth  anniversary  of  the  birth 
of  the  historian,  Vasili  Nikitiich  Tatishchef,  was 
the  occasion  of  festivals,  and  many  eyes  were 
turned  to  the  quaint  pages  of  his  "  Istoriya 
Rossisltaya  s  Samuikh  Vremen,"  the  first  edition 
of  which  bears  the  date  of  176S.  On  the  same 
day  of  the  same  month  the  fiftieth  anniversary 
of  the  production  of  Gogol's  immortal  comedy, 
the  "Reviior"  (The  Inspector),  deeply  stirred 
literary  Russia.  The  comedy  was  performed 
^t  at  the  Aleksandruinsky  Theater  under  the 
pecial  protection  of  the  Emperor  himself.    The 


annlTersary  called  forth  ■  numtier  of  works  on 
the  great  satirist.  S.  Bnrakovsky  issned  selec- 
tions from  the  "Reviior,"  with  notes;  Arkadi 
Sosnitaky  has  edited  the  play,  giving  the  text  aa 
DOW  played,  and  in  an  appendix  various  interest- 
ing facts  in  regard  to  the  work,  together  with  a 
letter  from  Gogol  to  Pushkin,  and  contemporary 
critiques  by  Bielinsky,  Duduishkin,  and  others. 
Another  edition  of  the  same,  edited  by  Nikolai 
Tikhanravof,  had  the  lienefit  of  the  original 
manuscript,  and  shows  the  changes  made  by  the 
censor.  An  endless  number  of  articles  appeared 
in  the  magatineSi/oc-nni/M  of  the  original  pro- 
grammes were  printed,  and  a  rich  fund  of  facts  in 
regard  to  the  author's  life  wax  gathered.  Here 
also  may  be  mentioned  a  compilation  from 
the  recollections  of  Gogol's  friends  and  acquaii 
ances,  and  extracts  from  inediled  letters,  entiili 
"Zapiski  o  Zhiini  N.  V.  Gogolya"  (Recollec- 
tions of  Gogol's  Life).  The  work  is  in  two  vol- 
umes, and  contains  a  portrait.  The  portrait  fa- 
miliar to  the  American  readers  of  Gogol  is  front 
view,  and  it  decidedly  repulsive ;  a  side  view 
portrait,  not  SO  well  known,  is  more  attractive, 
though  it  gives  a  better  idea  of  Gogol's  beak- 
like nose  with  which  he  used  jestingly  to  say 
that  he  could  spear  a  sheet  of  paper.  Gogol 
had  a  curious  way  of  publishing  his  articles,  and 
this  trait  of  his  is  explained  and  illustrated  in  V. 
Shenrok's  "  Guide  to  Gogol's  Writings  "  (Ukaza- 
tel  k  Pismam  Gogolya). 

Gogol  is  not  the  only  clas«c  who  has  attracted 
great  attention  during  the  year.  P.  D.  Bobo- 
a's  works  have  been  iMued  in  twelve  vol- 
I ;  N.  Ya  Solovc6rs  plays,  **  Liquidation," 
"  Honeymoon," and  others,  have  been  reprinted; 
the  eighth  volume  of  Glyeb  Uspyenski's  collected 
writings  appeared ;  Von  Viiin's  comedy,  "  Nyed- 
orosl "  (The  Minor),  was  edited  by  the  present 
director  of  the  Moscow  theater,  Ofeadotof, 
and  Count  Sologub's  stories  "Tarantas,"  etc., 
vere  re-issued.  The  subject  of  Russian  lit- 
iratore  has  been  treated  by  a  score  of  differ- 
ent authors;  among  them  may  be  mentioned  V. 
Vodovdiofs  "  New  Russian  Literature,  from 
Zhukovaky  to  Gogol  Inclusive,"  a  work  which 
includes  sketches  of  Zhukovsky,  Batiushkof, 
Krullof,  Pushkin,  Griboy^dof,  Lermontof,  etc, 
I.  K.  Shalinovaky's  "  Detailed  View  of  the  His- 
tory of  Russian  Literature,"  N.  A.  Voskresen- 
sky's  "Lights  and  Shades  of  Russian  Litera- 
ture "  (SvyCt  i  Ty«ni  Russkol  Slovesnosti),  and 
P.  V.  Yevstafiefs  "New  Russian  Literature  in 
Separate  Sketches  of  the  Most  Famous  Au- 
thors," the  first  volume  of  which  gives  selections 
from  GontcharoPs  works:  "  Obl6mof,"  "Obuik- 
'ennaya  Istoriya"  (An  Ordinary  History],  and 
his  critical  and  miscellaneous  works,  and  Pro- 
fessor I.  Porfiriyef's  "  Oral  and  Written  Popular 
ature  Before  Peter  the  Great,"  a  work  which 
haa  reached  its  fourth  edition.  Many  other 
works  of  the  past  have  been  made  to  serve  the 
educational  programme  of  the  present  time, 
must  not  forget  to  mention  the 
publication  of  the  complete  works  of  S.  T 
Aksakof,  whose  lamentable  death  occurred  in 
February  lasL  The  "  Polnoe  Sobranie  Sotch- 
enenii  "  consists  of  six  volumes,  with  portrait. 
The  first  contains  his  articles  on  the  Slavonic 
Question  printed  in  "The  Day"  (Dyen)  from 
1860-86,  and  his  discourses  in  the  Slavonic  Com - 
itlee  iu  "76,  '77,  '76.  The  sixth  volume  con- 
ins  his  classic  "  Huntsman's  Sketches." 
On  the  shelf  devoted  to  history  we  shall  also 


find  »gtis  of  abundant  vitality.  Yevgraf  Smimof 
has  sketched  the  growth  of  "The  Christian 
Church,"  meaning,  of  course,  the  Greek  Church, 
tracing  it  from  the  lime  of  Constantine  to  the 
present  lime.  Count  Heyden  tells  of  the  "Rise 
of  the  Heresy "  (Raskol)  before  the  lime  of  the 
Patriarch  Nikon.  IJentenant-Gen.  Leer  has 
edited  "  A  Recapitulation  of  the  Warsof  Russia, 
from  Peter  the  Great  until  our  own  Day."  The 
authors  are  Generals  Dubrovtn,  Kuropatkin, 
Gudi-Lyevkovitch ;  the  second  volume,  which 
has  lately  come  out,  begins  with  the  war  of  1812, 
"  the  Patriotic  War,"  and  includes  the  pictur- 
esque war  in  the  Caucasus  and  in  Persia,  and 
the  Palish  Russian  war.  H.  Stasiulevitcb's 
"  History  of  the  Middle  Ages  "  has  gone  into  it* 
second  edition.  D.  Ilovaisky  has  fired  one  more 
shot  in  the  battle  between  those  who  favor 
the  Variags  or  Varangians  as  the  founders  of 
Russia  and  those  who  claim  that  the  Huns 
were  the  first  Russians.  This  author  has  pub- 
lished essays  and  sketches  on  the  anniversary  of 
Cyril  and  Methodius,  on  the  Sarmatians,  Goths, 
and  Huns,  on  "Theodosiua  the  Great  and  the 
Triumph  of  Christianity,"  "The  Slavonic  Hun 
Emperor  Attila."  I.  A.  Nikotin  has  traced  a 
century's  history  of  Russian  legislation  in  the 
Polish  provinces  swallowed  up  by  Russia,  and 
the  legislation  concerning  the  Jews  from  1649 
till  1876.  Prof.  I.  Tarisof  has  published  works 
on  economical  subjects,  and  here  may  be  men- 
tioned his  valuable  monograph  on  "  Political 
Arrests  in  Russia  from  1703  till  1SS3."  1. 
Lutchitsky  has  found  a  subject  of  carious  in- 
terest in  the  study  of  slavery  In  Florence  in  the 
fourteenth  and  fifteenth  centuries.  Before  the 
fourteenth  century  Genoa  and  Venice  had  been 
the  center  of  South  European  slavery,  bat  Flor- 
ence, early  in  the  fourteenth  century,  took  a  very 
important  part  as  a  slave  mart;  hundreds  of  thou- 
sands lA  slaves  were  distributed  to  all  parts,  espe- 
cially among  the  Turks.   In  1419  a  handsome  Ros- 

girl  was  sold  there  for  1,093  '''''■  '"<'  '  whole 
Tatar  family  brought  1,738.  Professor  Kareyef 
of  Warsaw  University  has  issued  a  second  ai>d 
ilarged  edition  of  bis  lectures  on  the  history  of 
antiquity,  delivered  in  1881-1.  The  first  volume, 
entitled  "An  Introduction  to  a  Course  of  His- 
tory of  the  Ancient  World  "  covers  Greece  and 

e.  V.  Gollsef  has  made  a  careful  study  of 
theslate  of  morals  in  Russia,  from  the  time  of 
Peter  the  Great  till  Catherine  the  Great  inclu- 
sive. It  is  entitled  "Legislation  and  Morals  in 
Russia  in  the  XVIII  Century  "  [Zak<»M>datelstvo 
i  Nravui  v  Rossii  XVIII  VyCks).  The  latter 
part  of  the  title  relates  to  the  peculiarities  of 
legislation  beginning  with  the  "  Ulozhenle  "  or 
Code  of  Alexis  till  1799.  Prof.  M.  Olyesnitskjr 
of  the  great  theological  school  of  Kief  has  pub- 
lished the  second  part  of  his  "  History  of  Mo- 
rality and  Moral  Doctrine,"  the  first  having  been 
published  in  iSSz.  The  present  ch^tera  treat 
of  the  Eastern  People's  Nations:  the  Chinese, 
Hindus,  Semites,  Egyptians,  and  Persians.  A 
work  of  timely  interest  was  Konstantin  Lodui- 
shensky's  "History  of  the  Russian  Customs  Tar- 
iff" (Istoriya  Russkava  Tamdzhennava  Tarlfa), 
tracing  the  growth  of  the  present  system  from 

ime  of  Alexia  and  Peter  the  Great  till  1868. 

:print  has  been  made  of  S.  V.  Taneyefs 
sketch  of  the  Imperial  Theaters  "  Ii  Proshava 
Impiraiorsikikh  Tcatrof,"  which  appeared  in  tlie 
Petersburg  "Vytdomosti  "  (Gazette).  It  covers 
the  subjea  from  1675  till  1875.    As  showing  the 


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scope  of  the  historians  we  nwy  also  mention 
Prof.  M.  F.  VladimlTskr-Badanof's  "Short  His- 
tory ol  Rosslao  Law,"  and  V.  V.  Bobuinin's 
"  Histotj  of  Mathematics  and  Mathematicians." 
It  may  be  also  iatercsting  to  Itnow  that  M.  O, 
Wolff  printed  for  free  distribution  more  than 
30,000  copies  of  his  annual  calendari  which  con- 
tained among  other  interesting  milter  a  series  oC 
fifty-four  portraits  of  emperors  and  princes  taken 
from  authentic  sources  and  illustrating  the  his- 
toty  of  Russia  from  Rurik  till  the  present  time. 
E.  Baraba»h  has  sought  to  find  traces  of  modern 
spiritism  in  the  earliest  times.  His  volume  is 
entitled  "Spiritism  v  Istori."  Side  views  of 
contemporary  or  recent  history  are  contained  in 
A.  Scbomacher's  (Shumakher's)  "  Concerning 
the  Life  and  Death  of  the  Emperor  Alexander 
11,"  which  is  cast  in  the  form  of  a  (ale  in  ten 
chapters  for  popular  reading,  and  in  A.  V.  Vere- 
shcha^in's  "  At  Home  and  at  War,"  which  con- 
sists of  reminiscences  and  stories  of  the  Tarkish 
campaign  and  Skobelef's  Tekke-Turkoman  ex- 
pedition. A.  V.  Vereshchagin  is,  we  believe,  the 
brother  of  the  famous  painter. 

The  subject  ol  education  is  attracting  great 
attention  in  Russia.  Such  men  as  Bnnilko^ 
Baron  KorS,  Count  Tolstdi,  Zolotof,  Ushinski, 
are  working  busily  for  the  enlightenment  of  the 
masses.  Count  Tolst6'i  is  turning  his  splendid 
talent  toward  making  popnlar  reading-books. 
Baron  KoiS  has  lately  issued  the  second  volume 
of  his  "  Pedagogical  Problems"  (Nashi  Pedagog- 
itcheskie  Voprosui).  It  contains  six  articles 
with  such  titles,  among  the  rest,  as  "  Sympathy 
and  Cooperation,"  "School  and  Life,"  "Too 
Pretentious  Friends  of  the  People's  Schools," 
"  Popular  Reading."  M.  S.  Salayef  has  issued  a 
Tolome  entitled  "Scylla  and  Charybdis  at  the 
School-Room  Door,"  in  which  he  breaks  a  lance 
with  Prof.  Tarnovsky. 

The  title  of  a  work  by  1.  S.  Remezof,  "  Mate- 
rials for  the  History  of  Popular  Education  in 
Russia,"  leads  us  directly  from  the  subject  of 
popular  education  to  that  of  biography.  Mr. 
Remeiofs  first  volume  bears  as  3  sub-title 
"  Self-Taught "  (Samoutchki),  and  gives  interest- 
ing sketches  of  the  lives  of  Pososhkof  the 
Peasant  Thinker  of  Moscow,  of  Kulibin,  the 
mechanic  of  Nizhni  Novgorod,  of  Stupin,  the 
painter  of  Arzamas,  of  Slepushkin,  the  serf  poet 
of  Yatoslal,  and  of  Semenof,  the  astronomer  of 
Kursk,  Russia,  like  Ameiica,  is  a  land  where 
energetic  endeavor  for  sclf-beiterment  often 
meets  with  mosi  brilliant  results.  Biographical 
sketches  appear  in  the  "Album  of  Heliograv- 
ures from  the  Paintings  of  Russian  Artists," 
edited  by  A.  N.  Schwartz.  Among  the  names 
are  those  of  M.  P.  Boikin,  F.  A.  Bronrikof, 
V.  V.  Vereshchagin,  K.  Hun,  Zhuravlef,  Kram- 
skoik,  the  two  Makovskys,  Nerrcf,  Myasoy^dof, 
Morozof,  PeroF,  Poljenof,  Semirad^ky,  the  two 
Syedomskys,  and  others.  V.  V.  Rummel  and 
V.  V.  Golubtsof  have  issued  a  genealogical 
register  of  the  noble  families  (Dvoryanslvo)  of 
RoEsia.  It  contains  more  than  a  thousand  na 
the  first  two  volumes  include  notices  of  the 
Aksiko^  Gdntcharofs,  Karamzins,  Adierbergs, 
Ffsemskys,  Tolst6'is,  Turg^niefs,  and  other  noted 
writers.  A  carious  and  interesting  work  is  et 
titled  "Russian  Men  of  Affairs  in  Portraits, 
edited  under  the  aospicee  of  the  historical  joui 
nal  "  Russkaya  Starina  "  (Russian  Antiquity).  It 
contains  portraits  of  Alexander  II,  Prince  Gort- 
chako^  Count  Mnravief,  and  other  statesmen,  of 


Griboyedof,  Zhokovsky,  Pushkin,  and  other 
writers.  In  this  connection  we  may  also  men- 
tion Mikhailof-Viktorof's  "Collection  of  Anec- 
dotes from  the  Lives  of  Emperors,  Princes, 
stera,  Colonels,  Generals,  Savants,  Philoso- 
phers, Writers,  Artists,  Composers,"  etc.  It  is 
an  invaluable  collection  of  unfamiliar  biographi- 
cal lore.  Yarosh  has  written  a  highly  praised 
life  of  Jeremy  Bentham,  with  a  study  of  his 
teachings  on  esthetics  and  morals,  and  P.  U. 
Usof  has  edited  the  "  Recollections,"  ol  Nikolai 
Ivanoviich  Gretch,  who  died  in  January,  1867. 
It  is  entitled  "  Zapiski  o  moyei  Zhimi "  (Recol- 
lections of  my  Life).  Aksakof's  death  was  fol- 
lowed by  a  collection  of  biographical  sketches 
and  recollections. 

We  shall  not  have  time  to  look  over  a  tithe  of 
(he  tides  of  scientific  works  issued  during  the 
year.  Extraordinary  activity  has  been  shown  in 
chemistry,  physics,  philosophy,  surgery,  political 
economy,  etec(ricat  science,  and  other  subjects  in 
this  wide  domain.  Professor  Savitch  has  issued 
the  theoretical  portion  of  his  "  Course  of  Astron- 
omy," F.  L  Balgikof  has  brought  out  a  three- 
volume  "  Encyclopedia  of  Arts  and  Sciences  " 
'(Khudozhestrennaya  Entsiklopediya)  with  i,fioo 
illustrations ;  E.  de  Robert)  has  written  a 
treatise  on  the  "Past  of  Philosophy  "  (Proshed- 
sbeye  Filosofi),  in  two  volomes,  the  first  part  of 
which  is  historical  and  the  second  filling  a  portion 
of  the  first  volame,  and  all  of  the  second  treats  of 
the  genesis  of  philosophical  science.  I.  Ivanyu- 
kof  has  published  a  treatise  on  "  Political  Econ- 
omy," based  mainly  on  English  and  French 
sources.  "Darwinism  in  Biology  and  Allied 
Sciences,"  by  N.  Uenibir,  shows  how  the  teach- 
ings of  Haeckel  and  Spencer  have  permeated 
Roasian  thought.  V.  Snegiref  has  shown  great 
enidition  snd  truly  German  industry  in  bis  com- 
pilation of  "Teachings  Concerning  Sleep  and 
Dreams,"  a  study  from  the  writings  of  men  of 
all  epochs  on  this  subject  Alfred  Fullier'a  "  Ex- 
position and  Critique  of  Contemporary  Systems 
of  Morals  "  (Izloihenie  i  Kritika  Sovremenoaikh 
Sistem  Morali)  also  shows  »  thorough  knowledge 
of  modern  thought  In  a  different  category 
stand  N.  Fokkofs  manual  for  use  in  reading 
ecclesiastical  Greek,  curiously  enough  a  work 
unique  in  its  way,  and  N.  Alyakritsky's  "Short 
Grammar  of  the  Andent  Ecclesiastical  Slavonic," 
containing  selections  from  the  Ostromir  Gospel, 
NestEir's  Chronicle,  and  other  ancient  writings. 
Professor  Ivan  Stahlhausen  has  written  a  volume 
on  the  flora  of  the  governments  of  Kief,  Volhy- 
nis,  Podolia,  Poltava,  and  TcheinigoE  "Flora 
Yugo-Zapadnol  Rossii  "  (Flora  of  South  Western 
RuUia),  the  land  of  the  Steppe,  and  V.  A. 
Tsinger  has  made  a  careful  "Collection  of  Au- 
thorities "  on  the  foliage  oE  Central  Russia,  giv- 
ing all  that  is  now  known  about  the  vegetation 
of  the  fifteen  governments  of  that  immense 
region.  In  this  subject  belongs  Maevsky's 
"  Spring  Foliage  of  Russia."  V.  V.  Bobuinin 
has  published  a  list  of  all  the  books  and  articles 
on  the  subject  of  i^ytlcs  and  mathematics  pub- 
lished in  Russia  since  the  Introduction  of  print- 
ing till  the  present  time.  Its  Russian  title 
speaks  for  itself:  "Russkaya  Fiziko-matema- 
titchesnaya  Bibliografia." 

In  geography  we  may  only  mention :  Dzhan- 
shiel's  "BoTihom,  the  Pearl  of  the  Caucasus," 
Muahketof's  (hree-volumed  historical,  geographi- 
cal, geological,  and  orographical  work  on  Turk- 
estan,  Titof*  "Historical,  Archseological,  and 


Statistical  Description  of  the  District  of  Rostof," 
Mukalofs  "  Handbook  of  the  Geography  of  the 
Russian  Empire,"  and  last  but  not  least  "  Pictar^ 
esqae  Russia  "  (Zhivopisnaya  Rossiya),  a  work 
ven  volumes  by  upwards  of  seventy-five  of 
the  best  modern  writers  in  cooperation,  to  be 
illustrated  with  4,000  wood-cuts  of  cities,  churches, 

istumes,  and  other  subjects. 

A  Russian  critic  recently  declared  rather 
sophomorically  that  the  year  tSSj  had  been  pecu- 
liarly prolific  on  oar  Parnassus.  1886  was  not 
such  a  good  year,  but  of  the  seventy  or  seventy- 
five  young  poets  who  have  sprung  up  and  strung 
their  harps  of  late,  several  brought  out  new  vol- 
umes, and  they  make  a  goodly  outside  show  on 
Mr.  Wolff's  counters.  It  would  be  idle  to  men- 
tion even  their  names;  one  or  two  at  random 
must  suffice.  Under  the  title  "The  Sincere 
Word  "  (Iskrenneye  Slovo)  are  collected  a  choice 
of  poems  by  Usof,  Ivan  Tchelovytk,  Teteshof, 
Sliuzof,  and  half  a  dozen  others.  The  thin  vol- 
ume of  Nikolayef's  "Poema"  (Slikhotvorenniya), 
attracted  some  attention.  A.  N.  Apukhiin  pub- 
lished a  volume  containing  more  than  fourscore 
poems,  many  of  which  had  been  widely  read 
hitherto  in  various  periodicals.  The  critics  com- 
pare "  Year  in  a  Monastery "  to  Pushkin  for 
smoothness  and  felicity.  A  collection  of  forly- 
two  of  Aksakofs  poems,  many  of  which  figure  in 
Russian  anthologies,  was  issued  apart  from  his 
collected  writings.  The  popularity  of  Nekrasof's 
verse  may  be  judged  from  the  fact  that  a  fourth 
edition  of  15,000  copies  was  nearly  exhausted 
during  the  year  1SS6.  It  may  be  worth  mention- 
ing here  that  the  only  Russian  book  ever  "  set  up  " 
in  America  was  his  "Red-Nosed  Frost,"  pub- 
lished with  an  execrable  English  {t)  rendering  by 
Ticknor  &  Co.  Among  the  more  curious  and  in- 
teresting publications  of  the  year  in  Russia  was  E. 
Romanof's  "  Byelo-russki  Sbornik,"  a  collection 
of  songs,  proverbs,  and  enigmas,  collected  from 
the  people  in  the  government  of  Mogilef  where 
the  Whiete  Russian  dialect  is  spoken.  There  are 
more  than  1,200  in  all,  and  half  of  the  number 
are  by  the  editor.  We  must  also  mention  Count 
Tchkhushyan's  edition  of  poems  by  Rafael  Pat- 
kanyan,  the  self-made  poet  of  Amyansk,  who 
was  a  friend  of  Gogol  and  Turg^nief.  The  count 
calls  Patkanyan  a  popular  poet  in  every  sense  of 
the  word.  He  translates  into  Russian  "The 
Death  of  Bardan"  and  ten  more  of  his  best 
poems.  The  book  was  published  on  the  occa- 
sion of  the  3Sthyeat  "Jubilee"  of  the  poet. 

In  fiction  while  there  has  been  nothing  of 
extraordinary  interest,  there  has  been  extraord- 
inary activity.  The  present  "  fad  "  of  the  young 
Russian  novelists  is  for  short  stories.  Thus, 
A.  P.  Tchekof  (or  Tchekhonte),  under  the  title 
"Variegated  Stories"  (Pyoslruiye  Razskaiui], 
collects  not  less  than  seventy-seven,  showing 
not  only  remarkable  fecundity  but  also  a  wide 
acqaainlance  with  different  phases  of  life.  Va. 
lerii  Suisoyef,  under  Ihe  Turgjnief.like  title 
"  Tales  of  a  Huntsman  "  (Raiskzui  Okb6lnika), 
has  sixteen  short  sketches  of  peasant  life,  etc 
"  Broken  Strings "  (Porvannuia  Strunui)  Is  a 
strong  story  which  gives  its  title  to  a  collection 
of  nine  by  K.  S.  Baranlsevitch.  "  The  Pomera- 
nians "  and  "  Our  Corner  "  are  among  the  best. 
Aleksandr  Vostrom's  "  A  Secluded  Spot"  (Zak- 
holusye)  and  other  stories,  N.  S.  Lyeskors 
"  Stories  Apropos  "  (Razskazui  Kstali),  and  Ana- 
tolii  Lemau's  "Tale  oi  High  Life  "  (Dvoryanskaya 
Opovyest)  are  other  specimens  oE  Ihe  same  brill- 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Dec.  25, 


iant  bat  rather  unsatisfactory  literature, 
lorical  fictiun,  in  Russia  as  in  Gcrmanj,  all 
lome  capable  writers :  P.  Sukhotin,  aiider  the 
Mum  digaerri  of  A.  Shardin,  introduce!  int 
Ule  "  On  the  Edge  of  the  Century  "  (Na  Rub- 
Mhye  Slolyeti)  an  illegitimate  son  of  AlciJs 
Orlof  who  goes  to  Fiance  during  the  time  of 
the  French  Revolution.  Historical  stories  by 
Averkief,  Miknyevitcb,  and  serai. historical 
Ties  by  Mordovtsef,  "  New  People,"  a  story  of 
the  seventies  (Nemirovitch.Dantchenko),  " 
ward,"  a  romance  of  the  time  of  the  last 
may  be  mentioned.  But  [be  most  important 
attempt  in  this  direction  is  G.  P.  Danilevsky's 
"  Miroviich,"  a  story  of  the  time  of  Catherine.  I1 
is  as  tragic  as  "  Cinq  Mars."  Worthy  of  mention 
are  I.  A.  SaloPs  "  A  Young  Lord  of  Olshan  "  (01- 
shansky  Molodoi  Sarin),  which  is  strong,  tragic, 
and  original,  K.  Orlovaky'i "  A  Prodigal  Brother*" 
(Bludnui  Brat),  and  stories  from  Hebrew  life  by 
Paul  Weinberg  and  Yaroshevsky.  Count  Tol- 
stiiTs  collected  works  have  been  brought  to 
completion  by  the  publication  within  the  year 
of  the  twelfth  volume  containing  the  productions 
oi  the  last  few  years,  mainly  written  for  the 
common  people:  "Why  Folks  Live"  (1S81). 
"The  Little  Torch"  (1885),  "Two  Old  Men," 
" Stories  about  Ivandu  rak  (Jack  tbc  Fool)  and 
his  Two  Brothers,"  "  Three  Old  Women,"  "  The 
Death  of  Ivan  Hitch,"  "Popular  Legends," 
(1SS6),  and  many  others.  A  £ne  portrait  of  the 
author  accompanies  this  volume.  It  is  a  curious 
fact  that  only  "Anna  Kar^nina"  can  be  pur- 
chased separate  from  the  necessity  of  taking 
the  whole  twelve  volumes  of  Tolstd'fs  writings. 
The  same  is  true  of  Mikha'ilof's  works  and 
several  other  well-known  authors.  Count  Tol- 
stoTs  personality  is  a  subject  of  great  interest 
to  Russians  as  well  as  to  the  rest  of  the  wurld. 
F.  I.  Bulgikof  has  gathered  into  two  volumes 
a  collection  of  criticisms  and  reviews  by  Russian 
and  continental  writers.  The  work  is  entitled 
"  L.  N,  Tol3t6i  and  the  Critique  of  his  Produc- 
tions." It  is  a  valuable  contribution  toward  the 
life  of  the  great  apostle  of  poverty.  It  may  be 
mentioned  in  passing  that  Tolstdi's  works  have 
been  translated  during  the  past  year  not  only 
into  French.  German,  and  English,  but  into 
Swedish,  Tatar,  and  Finnish.  Little  room  is  left 
to  speak  of  books  for  children  :  Madame  Zakh- 
mitova's  "  Stories  for  Children  about  the  Earthly 
Life  of  Qui  Lord  God  Jesus  Christ  "  have  gone 
into  ten  editions.  N.  Nevaorof  has  made  a 
little  collection  of  "  Tales  and  Sketches  from  the 
History  of  Ancient  Russian  Literature  from  the 
time  of  Kiril!  to  the  Tatar  Invasion."  Zasod- 
imsky  has  edited  a  series  of  "  Books  for  the 
Young."  The  latest  consists  of  poems  and 
stories  by   Ogarkof,  V.    Alin,    Nashanin,    and 

Russian  translations  for  the  year  include  Bui- 
wer  Lytton,  Uickens,  Gibbon  (by  Nevedovsky), 
Herbert  Spencer  (by  AleksSyef ),  Schopenhauer 
(by  Tchernigovets),  Victor  Hugo,  Heine,  Goethe, 
De  la  Rochefoucauld  {Rozhfuko  in  fonetic  Rus- 
sian 1],  and  in  fact  almost  everything  of  note  In 
European  and  British  thought.  In  the  illus- 
trated magazine,  "  Nov,"  has  recently  appeared  a 
critical  sketch  of  "Contemporary  Belles- Leitres 
in  America,"  by  D.  A.  Koroptchevsky,  who 
writes  appredatively  about  Ilowells,  James, 
Fawcett,  Bishop,  Howe  ("The  Story  of  a 
Country  Town"),  Cable,  Crawford,  "Crad- 
dock,"   Mrs.  Jackson,  and  others.    The   same 


magazine  devotes  a  fair  amount  of  space  ti 
record  of  important  events  in  America,  its  New 
York  correspondent  being  Mrs.  B,  M^acGahan, 
the   widow  of  the  brilliant  war  correspondi 
who  did  such  gallant  work  at  Plevna. 

IX. 


A  fresh  breath  of  life  has  been  blowing  ovei 
Italy  of  late  years,  and  its  influence  has  been  fell 
in  literature.  It  would  transcend  the  limits  of 
our  article  to  give  a  complete  survey  of  the  field ; 
a  few  representative  publications  must  be  al- 
lowed to  show  the  current  of  thought,  if  one  may 
be  allowed  to  use  a  mixed  metaphor.  Let 
begin  with  belles-lettres.  Signor  S.  de  Cbi 
has  taken  one  of  Turg^nief's  titles  for  a  volume 
of  poems;  "Fumo"  (Smoke)  represents  the 
thoughts  suggested  by  peasant  life,  put 
harmonious  and  sometimea  cleverly  managed 
veise.  The  work  is  praised  for  its  fine  s 
exquisite  taste,  and  artistic  sincerity.  Hor« 
bilious  is  G.  E.  Filippo  Zamboni's  drar 
poem  "Sottoi  Flavi."  Its  nine  parts  tell  how 
Julius  Sabinus,  Emperor  of  the  Gauls,  is  aided 
his  struggles  with  his  persecutor,  Vespatian, 
by  his  faithful  wife.  The  "Nunva  Antologia" 
>ays  "it  is  a  strange  work,  full  of  contrasts  and 
nequalities,  of  light  and  of  darkness,  of  good 
ind  of  mediocre  lines,"  but  showing  the  author's 
noble  talent.  The  "Sociela  Blbliofila"  of  Turin 
has  published  the  "  Foesie  "  of  Marco  Lessona, 
with  illustrations  by  Carlo  Polionera.  The  style 
I  elegiac,  there  are  interesting  examples  of  Ital- 
m  heaametera.  but  Lessona  cannot  be  Called  a 
reat  poet.  Rafaello  Barblera  has  made  a  se- 
lection of  Venetian  poetry  from  Andrea  Calmo, 
who  died  in  1751,  till  the  present  time,  including 
Arrigo  Bolto,  the  most  versatile  man  in  Italy. 
The  author,  in  an  interesting  introduction,  treats 
of  popular  poetry  in  Venice,  showing  how  the 
dialect  naturally  lent  itself  to  saiire,  and  illus- 
trating his  subject  with  quotations  from  twenty- 
:ven  authors.  Nicola  Susanna  has  edited  the 
npublished  poems  of  Pieiro  Paolo  Paraanese> 
ho  lived  between  iSio  and  1S56,  and  was  some- 
hat  known  in  Italy  in  1S4S.  The  verses  are 
jnsidered  interesting  mainly  as  showing  the  low 
:ate  of  Italian  literature  in  Naples  forty  years 
ago.  Euseo  Mollno  of  Rome  published  in  June 
the  "Nuove  Poesie"  of  Guido  Mai  Maiioni; 
Vincenio  Speiioli's  "  Versi "  are  considered  re- 
kable  for  their  moral  health  united  with  good 
lor,  contrasting  vividly  with  the  immorality 
of  the  "scubia  verisia  e  scapigliata  "  — the  disso- 
.tc,  realistic  poetry  which  prevails  in  Italy  at 
the  present  day.  Professor  Virgilio  Barbieri  of 
Biella  has  issued  a  small  volume  of  poems  en- 
titled "Come  Delta  il  Core,"  which  might  be 
preted  "Voices  of  the  Heart."  Professor 
Barbieri's  verses  make  no  pretence  of  soaring 
high,  but  they  are  true,  sweet,  and  idyllic-  A 
iber  of  other  volumes  have  been  published, 
but  of  the  most  it  may  be  said  as  of  Ulisse  Tan- 
ganelli's  "  Aestiva  "  that  in  spite  of  some  skill 
rsiEcation  the  spiritus  intui  nan  alit.  And 
his  same  Ulisse  Tanganelli  declares  that 
Italian  poetry  was  never  more  fresh  and  jocund, 
iat  for  many  years  has  there  been  such  an 
awakening  as  recently. 

cannot  be  said  any  great  Italian  novel  has 
appeared  during  the  year,  but  a  number  of  works 
of  minor  fiction  may  be  mentioned,  beginning 


with  thCNovelle  e  Paesi  Valdosiani "  by  Giu- 
seppe Giacosa,  who  Calls  himself  "un  romantico 
impenitente."  The  stories,  as  the  title  indicates, 
are  drawn  from  life  in  the  Italian  Alps,  and  ifae 
author's  powers  of  observation  are  praised  very 
highly-  Signor  G.  Viacunti's  story  "  II  CDralo 
d'  Orubio,"  though  said  to  be  suggestive  of  "I 
Promessi  Sposi"and  "La  Marchesa  Travwa," 
has  aroused  some  enthusiasm  by  its  power  and 
accurate  description  of  men  and  things.  Of 
Ugo  Valcarenghi's  "Under  the  Cross"  (Sotto  la 
Croce)  the  critic  of  "La  Nuova  Antologia " says, 
there  "is  too  much  analysis,  sometime  reach- 
ing puerility;  too  much  description;  too  many 
letters  ;  too  many  kisses,  too  many  doubled  fists.' 
CampanuB,  the  author  of  the  valuable  work  on 
jurisprudence,  entitled  "Govenio  e  Govemanti," 
ha*  recently  published  a  tale,  "  In  quel  Brutto 
Mese"  (In  that  Vile  Month),  which  relates  the 
adventures  of  ■  family  in  a  country  house  near 
Naples  during  the  cholera  season  of  August  and 
September,  lSS4-  Though  in  the  form  of  ficttoo 
it  has  a  historical  value  not  to  be  overlooked- 
Somewhat  similar  in  value  is  a  "  novella  valdir- 
nese  "  entitled  "  II  Diavolo,"  in  which  Signor  G, 
Maghcrini-Grailani  bas  collected  six  short  stories 
illustrating  the  belief  of  the  people  of  Val  d'Amo 
in  diabolism.  The  work  is  illustrated  with  charm- 
ing cuts  by  Fabbio  Fabbi.  The  accuracy  id 
catching  the  popular  idiom  is  shown  in  Professor 
Giovanni  Procacci's  "  Novelle  Toscani  "  (Tuscan 
Novels),  which  are  regarded  as  better  than  mere 
novels  in  their  acute  observation  of  character 
and  life.  Of  mote  than  ordinary  interest  are 
Enrico  Caslelnuovo's  "  Reminiscenze  e  Fanta- 
sie,"  a  score  of  short  narrations  on  different 
subjects.  We  will  also  mention  Gerolamo  Ro- 
vena's  tale  "Tiranni  Minimi,"  and  "Arrigo  il 
Savio  "  and  "  Uomiini  e  Bestie,"  by  the  talenteil 
Anton  Giulo  Barrili,  L.  A.  Vassallo's  romance, 
"  Diana  Ricattatrice  "  (Diana  the  Avenger),  Julio 
Piccini's  "  La  Polizia  del  Diavolo,"  and  Luigi 
Capranica's  romance  "Maria  Dolores."  Zola, 
Goethe,  Eugene  Sue,  Paul  de  Cock,  and  other 
foreign  authors  have  been  translated  into  Italian, 
and  published  during  the  year. 

historical  studies  there  has  been  consider- 
energy  displayed.  The  Marchese  Filippo 
Covoni  has  published  a  monograph  describing  a 
of  Frederic  Augustus  IV,  King  of  Den- 
mark, to  Florence  in  170S.  The  story  is  very 
ntic  In  1691,  while  he  was  heir  apparent 
E  throne,  he  had  spent  the  winter  at  Lucca, 
met  a  charming  young  girl  named  Maria 
Maddalena  Trcnta.  After  he  attained  the  throne 
he  remembered  the  girl,  and  revisited  Italy  with 
the  hope  of  seeing  her.  But  she  had  entered  the 
;nt  of  Santa  Maria  degli  Angeli,  The  king 
allowed  to  speak  with  the  novice  for  one 
ent  through  the  grating  of  the  convent. 
The  marquis  tells  of  the  fGtes  and  receptioits 
L  to  the  young  monarch  by  his  host,  Cosmo 
III,  Grand  Duke  of  Florence,  and  one  of  the 
Medici.  His  work  is  published  anonymously, 
.nd  the  edition  is  limited  to  300  copies.  Signor 
Carlo  Malagola,  a  young  man  under  twenty 
years  of  age,  has  made  good  use  of  original 
ments  in  preparing  a  large  volume  on  "Car- 
dinal Alberoni  and  the  Republic  of  San  Marino." 
young  author  has  received  the  highest 
praise  from  the  critics  for  his  faithful  labors  and 
their  result  which  adds  definitely  to  the  sum  of 
m  knowledge.  A  new  light  has  been  thrown 
on   the   history  of   Venice  I>y   Signor  Roberto 


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Galli,  who  has  Fuund  important  materiala  bear- 
ing on  the  period  from  the  beginning  of  the 
•iith  tilt  the  end  of  the  twelfth  ccnluricB.  Im- 
portant repairs  made  recenfly  in  (he  ducal  palace 
gave  the  opportunity  to  make  a  detailed  itudy  of 
the  building,  and  Signor  Galli  believes  that  he 
_  can  now  reconstmcl  the  original  palace  erected 
by  Angeto  Pariecipaiio  in  814-  Signor  Galli, 
Qsing  ancient  chronicles  and  other  materials, 
reaches  some  surprising  conclusions  in  regard 
to  the  history  of  the  Famous  city  of  the  D(^es. 
His  present  work  is  only  a  portion  of  a  pro- 
jected hisloiy  of  Venice.  Signor  V.  Casagrandi 
has  employed  the  wealth  of  his  learning  upon  a 
volume  of  critical  and  polemic  studies  entitled, 
"Storia  e  Archeologica  Romana."  One  of  the 
most  important  essays  treats  of  Lucius  Calpur- 
nius  Piso,  who  was  consul  in  the  year  696 
A.  U.C.  Others  deal  with  Caesar  Germanicua, 
Tacitus,  the  titne  of  Tiberius,  the  Tetrarcha  in 
ihe  year  293,  etc.  The  subject  of  Roman  an- 
tiquity finds  a  valuable  addition  in  Signor  Ettorc 
de  Ruggiero's  "  Dilionario  Epigratico."  It  makes 
a  most  valuable  supplement  to  Ihe  immense 
"Corptis  Inscriptionum  Latinarum,"  published 
many  years  ago  by  the  Berlin  Academy  of  Sci- 
ences. The  Baron  Dumenico  Carutti  has  found 
a  romantic  subject  in  the  history  of  Savoy.  He 
has  published  the  result  of  his  studies  in  a  mono- 
graph, which  tells  the  story  of  Ihe  Cavaliere 
Luigi  who  was  killed  in  the  seventeenth  century 
in  the  war  with  Mahomet  IV  of  Turkey  near 
Venice.  The  second  part  of  the  work  tells  of 
the  youth  of  Prince  Eugene,  who  was  at  first 
destined  for  Ihe  church,  but  aspired  for  a  secular 
calling,  and  finally  won  his  way  to  renown.  Gil- 
berto  Govi  has  recently  discovered  a  document 
in  which  the  padre  Casfario  relates  the  facts  of 
the  expulsion  of  the  Jesuits  from  Venice  in  May, 
1606.  Signor  Govi  prints  in  the  same  volume  a 
letter  from  Galileo  to  Michelangelo  in  which  the 
same  event  is  mentioned.  Corrado  Ricci  has 
used  a  number  oE  inedtted  documents  belonging 
to  the  curious  collection  of  Francesco  Zambrini, 
and  prepared  a  volume  of  400  pages  on  "The 
Spaniards  and  Venetians  in  Romagna  (1527- 
1519)."  It  illustrates  "a  very  important  point 
of  Italian  history  during  an  epoch  full  of  famous 
events."  The  extraordinary  research  into  Ital- 
ian history  is  again  shown  by  Giovanni  GoEza- 
dini'a  monograph  on  "Certain  Events  in  Bologna 
and  in  Emilia  from  1506  till  1511,"  and  concern- 
ing the  Cardinal  Legates  A.  Ferrerio  and  F. 
Alidosi.  This  work  also  offers  a  genuine  fund 
of  dramatic  events  which,  with  the  others  already 
mentioned,  ought  to  inspire  a  generation  of  Ital- 
ian tragedians.  We  will  further  merely  mention 
Prof.  Licurgo  Cappellelti's  "  Sloria  popolare 
critica  della  Rivoluzione  trancese,"  and  Prof.  I. 
Gentile's  study  of  the  famous  Conflict  of  Julius 
Caesar  with  the  Senate.  The  same  episode  has 
been  critically  studied  by  Zumpi,  Mommsen, 
Hoffmann,  Guiraud,  and  Duruy.  But  the  Ital- 
ian author  has,  it  is  claimed,  brought  out  new 
facta.  Lastly,  the  great  period  of  the  Italian 
renaissance  is  reviewed  in  General  Michelangelo 
d'Ayala's  Memoirs  of  his  father,  Mariano  d'Ayala, 
"  una  delle  figure  pib  splendide  del  tisorgimenio 
italiano." 

We  must  give  but  a  hasty  survey  to  the  re- 
maining branches  of  literature  :  Doctor  Alessan- 
dro  Piumati  has  prepared  for  schools  a  volume 
on  the  life  and  writing  of  Alessandro  Manzoni, 
Gaspare  Gozzi  has  made  a  selection  of  lelters 


from  famous  Italians  —  Monti,  Leopardi,  Gior- 
danl,  and  others  —  to  Antonio  Papadopoli ;  Fran- 
cesco Mariano  has  published  acompendol  "The 
Science  of  Finaiftea,"  Gasparo  Ungarelli  a  treat. 
ise  on  "  Italian  Communal  Law  )  "  Francesco 
Brandileone  has  written  a  t^areful  and  erudite 
work  on  "  Byiantine  Law  in  Soulhem  Italy  from 
Ihe  Eighth  to  Ihe  Twelfth  Century;"  Filippo 
Porena  has  issued  the  second  volume  of  "Man- 
uele  di  Geografia  moderna  ad  uso  degU  Insthuti 
Tecnici."  A  number  of  other  works  on  geogra- 
phy show  commendable  interest  in  an  important 
lubjecl.  A.  Av61i  has  selected  a  number  of  un- 
published lelters  from  Ugo  Foscolo  to  Silvio 
Pellico  ;  Professor  Pietro  Coglioto  has  prepared 
a  manual  of  the  Sources  of  Roman  Law,  the 
avvocalo  Alfonso  Capoccelli,  a  manual  of  Penal 
Procedure,  Professor  Vito  Casumano,  a  work  on 
Ihe  "  Notes  of  Private  Banks  of  Palermo  in  the 
XV  and  XVI  Centuries,"  and  L.  Papa  d'Amigo, 
a  history  of  (he  formation  of  (he  bank  note. 
Still  another  awocito,  RaSacle  Foglietli,  has 
published  some  "  Observations  on  the  History 
of  Italian  Law."  Father  Cesare  A.  de  Cara  has 
compiled  a  catologue,  or  rather  a  running 
count,  of  the  labors  of  Italians  in  the  field  of 
Egyptology  and  Semitic  languages,  published 
during  the  last  ten  years.  The  especially  Ital- 
ian subject  of  Dante  has  been  enriched  by  many 
works  of  which  we  may  mention;  Lndovico  Cas- 
lelvetro's  "  Eiposilion  of  the  Twenly'nine  Can- 
tos of  the  Inferno,"  recently  discovered  by  Prof. 
Giovanni  Fraticiosi  in  the  possession  of  the  San 
Carlo  College  in  Modcna;  the  second  volume 
of  Doctor  Giacomo  Poletto's  "Dizionario  Dan- 
tesco,"  a  most  valuable  work;  Gaetani's  "The 
Material  of  the  Divine  Comedy  of  Dame  Alighi- 
eri  Set  Forth  in  Six  Tables,"  with  an  Inlroduc 
tion  by  Kafaello  Fornaciart ;  and  a  study  of  the 
first  sonnet  of  the  "  Vita  Nuova  ;  "  "  Chiede  agli 
Amantl  la  spicgazione  d'un  sogno."  It  is  the 
explication  of  this  dream  that  Giovanni  Cer- 
quctti  endeavors  to  furnish  and  decide  whether 
the  vision  of  the  "  New  Life  "  is  mental  ecsta- 
cies  or  remembrances  of  things  seen.  This 
sketch  might  t>e  doubled  in  length  and  still 
not  cover  the  ground,  but  it  must  be  brought 
to  a  close  with  a  mention  al  Ihe  works  of  the 
great  philosopher,  Rosmini-Serbati,  in  thirty- 
three  volumes. 


CHINA   AND  COKEA. 

No  surer  proof  of  the  influence  of  (he  West 
upon  the  East  may  be  nted,  than  that  the  pro- 
ductive  intellect  of  the  Middle  Kingdom  is  now 
largely  concerned  with  thought  and  things  out- 
side of  China.  Yet  (he  reactionary  influence 
upon  the  West  has  likewise  been  very  great. 
Twenty  years  ago,  the  Chinese  Empire  was  con- 
sidered nearly  a  nullity  in  the  councils  of  Euro, 
pean  diploma<:y  ;  whereas  now,  "  China  is  recog- 
nized as  a  state  of  the  first  importance,  which 
can  exercise  a  direct  and  serious  inSuence  on 
almost  every  great  power."  This  result  has  been 
largely  brought  about  within  six  or  seven  years, 
and  touch  of  it  is  due  to  the  pen  of  the  Marquis 
Tseng.  This  brilliant  young  scholar  and  student 
of  international  politics  has  mightily  influenced 
his  own  government  at  Peking  as  well  as  Euro- 
pean courts,  by  memorials  which  belong  to  the 
domain  of  creative  statesmanship,  as  well  as  of 
literature.     Helpfully  assistant  to  his  superior  is 


Colonel  TchengKi  Tong,.  who  wields  a  trenchant 
pen  in  French  as  well  as  classic  Chinese.  His 
books,  read  at  home  and  in  Europe,  aid  the  men 
of  two  civilizations  (o  understand  each  other. 

Inside  the  Great  Wall  and  the  Yellow  Sea, 
the  literature  both  of  knowledge  and  of  power 
depends  for  its  propagation  upon  the  pen  alone. 
Other  countries,  as  in  Christendom,  call  (o  their 
aid  in  diffusing  ideas  (he  press,  plaiform,  and  pul- 
pit, wherein  the  germs  of  mental  and  of  moral 
ferment,  and  the  beginnings  of  literature  find 
their  birth.  In  China,  the  theater,  ihe  wall,  and 
placard,  with  the  tri-daily  issue  of  the  "King 
Pau,"  or  Capilal  Bulletin,  and  a  nascent  news- 
paper press,  sum  up  the  methods  of  propagating 
thought  and  information.  Owing  to  the  atroci- 
ties committed  In  the  United  States  against  - 
Chinamen,  the  products  displayed  on  fence  and 
wall,  in  poetry  and  prose,  have  been  numerous 
and  vigorous  daring  this  past  year.  The  "King 
Pau,"  now  in  its  975ih  year,  is  issued  in  its  bu^- 
ness,  official,  and  rural  editions.  The  second,  ot 
forenoon,  editions  contain  many  able  state  papers 
and  memorials.  Many  of  these  are  what  the  na- 
tives would  term  belles-lettres,  since  their  style 
is  ornate,  beautiful,  and  delightful  (o  (he  scholarly 
sense  and  trained  taste.  Owing  to  the  fact  that 
the  young  emperor  reigns  conjointly  with  the  em- 
press, an  elderly  relative,  all  poems,  addresses, 
and  state  papers  must  be  presented  in  duplicate. 
The  usual  issue  of  private ly-prlnled  volumes  of 
poetry,  comments,  and  exposition  of  Confucius, 
and  controversial  writings  has  gone  on  in  this 
year  as  in  others  before,  but  none  has  appeared 
likely  to  inlerest  any  but  Chinese.  The  transla- 
tion of  foreign  works  both  of  power  and  of 
knowledge  proceeds,  and  among  them  is  "Poor 
Richard's  Almanac"  This  was  accomplished 
under  the  direction  of  John  Russell  Young,  our 
late  United  Slates  Minister.  There  are  luany 
paints  of  resemblance  between  the  writings  of 
the  two  sages,  Franklin  and  Kung-fu  Toz^.  The 
year  has  been  one  of  great  activity  in  the  mis- 
sionary propaganda,  by  means  of  tracts  and  vol- 
umes of  religious  truth.  The  Mission  Press  at 
Shanghai,  which  prints  largely  in  Chinese,  has 
made  over  five  thousand  dollars  profit,  an  item 
which  shows  the  active  circulation  among  the 
Chinese  of  the  products  at  Western  thoughL 

Corea,  which  yet  remains  as  land  unexplored 
by  European  travelers,  boasts  of  her  knowledge 
of  the  Chinese  classics,  and  the  power  of  her 
scholars  10  produce  poetry  of  the  first  [Chinese] 
order.  Her  pride  is  that  even  fn  China  —  the 
mother  of  art,  literature,  and  all  things  worth  en- 
joying—  Corean  booics  are  reprinted,  and  the 
poets  and  historians  of  ChS-sen  arc  both  known 
and  read.  We  note  (hat  Dr.  Legge,  in  seeking 
for  the  best  edition  of  Lao  Tsie's  "  Taftt^  King," 
took  a  Corean  teii  as  (he  basis  of  his  (ransla- 
The  Japanese  libraries  have  also  a  goodly 
number  of  Corean  worlts,  and  Mr.  Erncs[  Latow 
has  demonstrated  that  a  century  and  more  before 
printing  was  practiced  in  Europe,  metal  types 
known  and  used  in  the  Corean  peninsula. 
Literature  now,  however,  is  at  a  low  ebb.  Issues 
of  volumes  of  poetry  are  common,  but  the  works 
most  written  and  read  are  on  political  themes. 
In  these,  the  fixed  ammunition  of  Corean  rheto- 
ric is  fired.  During  the  last  year,  Ihe  capilal 
newspaper,  or  "Gazelle"  of  Corea,  inlermitled 
during  the  troubles  of  1S84  and  '85,  has  been  re- 
iblished.  The  refugee  Coreans  in  Japan  have 
been  busy  at  vsrious  literary  tasks.    Rijiu  Tei 


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baa  been  tranilaltng  the  New  Teaiament  into 
the  Ternacular  of  his  native  country.  This  wotli 
is  as  ezcetlent  as  the  tranjlation  of  Mark  by  the 
Rev.  John  Roia  of  Manchuria,  is,  as  the  Coreans 
now  in  the  United  States  say,  stiff  and  unidio- 
matic.  Kim  Yo  Kun,an  ez-minis(er  u(  state,  has 
been  publishing  the  Corean-Libeial  version  of 
the  "Coupd'Etat  in  S^oul  in  1884,"  and  has  been 
otherwise  active  with  the  pen.  The  Japanese 
Government  has  not  welcomed  this  expression 
of  free  thought  apon  the  soil  of  Dai  Nippon, 
^nce  active  young  literati  were  only  too  ready  to 
translate  into  the  Japanese  vernacular.  Kim  Vo 
Kun  was  banished  to  the  Bonin  Islands,  where 
he  now  remains  an  exile.  There  are  at  present 
nine  Coreans  in  the  United  Statei,  nearly  all  of 
^  whom  aie  young  men  preparing  for  college.  In 
September  of  this  year,  a  school  (aught  by  three 
American  teachers  was  opened  in  S^oul.  This 
is  the  nucleus  of  a  national  system  of  education. 
Western  books  arc  now  in  process  of  translation 
into  Corean. 

XI. 

JA^AN. 

The  activity  of  the  Japanese  in  the  Geld  of  lit- 
eralure  is  by  no  means  surpassed  by  the  spirit  of 
enterprise  and  progress  which  they  have  diS' 
played  in  commerce,  politics,  and  science.  Month 
after  month,  and  year  after  year,  books  of  all 
sorts  and  sizes  pour  forth  from  the  great  pablish- 
ing  bouses  of  T6ky3  and  Osaka. 

The  past  year  has  been  one  of  unusual  activity. 
Prom  January  1st  to  October  i8th,  the  number  of 
anAors  who  applied  to  the  Home  Department 
for  copyright  certificates  amounted  to  S33. 
From  this  list  of  authors  are  excluded  all  those 
who  have  published  books  under  orders  from 
other  Government  Departments,  as  well  as  those 
who,  from  modesty,  ignorance,  or  carelessness, 
have  not  applied  for  copyright  certificates. 
Every  Department  of  Government  is  perpetually 
publishing  books  which  bear,  gome  directly, 
others  indirectly,  on  its  owft  special  work.  In 
addition  to  this  there  is  a  large  amount  of  jour- 
nalistic activity.  The  five  great  dailies  of  the 
capital;  "The  Times,"  "The  Morning  Daily 
News,"  "  The  Post,"  "  The  Morning  and  Even- 
ing News,"  "The  T6k]'0  and  Yokohama  Daily 
News,"  all  representing  different  shades  of 
opinion,  contain  in  issue  after  issue  leading 
articles  which  discuss  intelligently  and  earnestly 
the  learning  question*  of  the  day.  Then  every 
sect  of  religion,  every  school  of  science  and  phi- 
losophy, every  set  of  reformers,  moral,  political, 
commercial,  or  socialistic,  has  its  organ.  To 
give  an  exhaustive  account  of  these  with  the 
■pedal  theories  advocated  and  the  general  line 
adopted  by  each  would,  however  interesting, 
occupy  loo  much  space  in  this  review.  We  shall 
content  ourselves,  therefore,  with  a  brief  classifi- 

There  are  three  monthly  magaanes,  which 
contain  articles  written  ptindpally  by  graduates 
or  teachers  of  the  University,  called:  "The 
Oriental  Journal  of  Science  and  Literature," 
"The  Central  Journal  of  Science  and  Litera- 
ture," and  "The  Eaiatent  and  the  Non-eiisient." 
Of  these  three,  the  first  is  the  best  supported. 
There  are  five  niagaiines  published  by  persons 
interested  in  the  science  of  education,  viz.. 
"Tbc  Japanese  Education  Society's  Journal," 
"  The  Edacational  Mews,"  "  The   Edncational 


Times,"  "The  Educational  Journal,"  and  "The 
Scholars'  Association  Hagaiine."  The  Bud- 
dhists have  their  "Buddhist  Philosophical  Jour- 
nal," and  their  "  Essays  on  the  Science  of 
Religion."  Christians  have  "The  Universe" 
and  "The  Christian."  Sanitarians,  "The  Sani- 
tary Maguine,"  politicians,  their  "  Political 
Economist  "  and  the  "People's  Journal."  Law- 
yers have  "  The  Science  of  Law,"  and  doctors, 
"Home  and  Foreign  Medical  News."  "The 
Roman  Letter  Maganne  "  and  "The  Alphabeti- 
cal Uagaiiue  "  represent  the  views  of  those  who 
aim  at  orthographical  reform.  The  "Journal  of 
the  Geographical  Society  "  is  full  of  matters  of 
interest  to  the  antiquarian  and  the  philologist. 
Two  journals  "  The  Independent "  and  "  The 
Student,"  published  in  English,  contain  ar- 
ticles written  by  Japanese,  as  well  as  by 
foreigners.  Both  are  of  recent  origin.  "The 
Anglo- Japanese  Review,"  a  third  journal  of  the 
same  kind,  but  inferior  in  style  and  general 
make-up,  has  met  with  the  fate  its  defectiveness 
merited  —  extinction. 

Among  the  books  that  have  appeared  during 
the  past  year,  a  very  large  number  have  been 
true  to  the  bent  of  the  Japanese  mind,  purely 
practical  in  their  subject-matter.  But  there  are 
some  noteworthy  exceptions,  the  more  important 
of  which  demand  a  brief  notice.  Mr,  NIshimTra's 
"Menial  Philosophy"  is  a  learned  and  well- 
written  book,  which  by  means  of  a  skillful  proc- 
ess of  eclecticism  presents  in  one  view  the 
results  of  the  psychological  investigations  of 
the  East  and  the  West.  Having  made  for  a 
life-time  a  special  study  of  mental  science  as 
explained  by  the  Chinese,  and  as  elaborated  in 
Western  treatises  on  the  subject,  the  author 
was  well  qualified  for  the  task  he  undertook, 
and  he  has  succeeded  in  producing  a  moat  useful 
book  which  is  no  less  interesting  to  the  foreign 
than  to  the  native  student.  Mr.  Ariga,  a  gradu- 
ate of  the  University  and  one  of  the  secretaries 
of  the  Senate,  has  published  a  series  of  lectures 
mental  scient^,  which  arc  altogether  Western 
ityle  and  arrangement.  The  same  writer  has 
been  engaged  for  two  years  in  preparing,  during 
his  leisure  hours,  a  translation  of  Professor 
Francis  Bowen's  "  Modern  Philosophy,"  more 
than  half  of  which  has  already  been  published' 
A  translation  of  Herbert  Spencer's  "  Data  of 
Ethics"  (not  the  first  chat  has  been  made)  has 
appeared  during  the  year.     Bain's  "Mental  Sci- 

"  is  also  in  process  of  publication  in  its 
Japanese  form.  Historical  research  has  re. 
ceived  a  new  impetus  from  the  West,  and  a 
general  feeling  of  dissatisfaction  with  the  dry 
records  of  antiquity  prevails.  This  has  led  to 
the  production  of  several  works  whose  authors 
have  aimed  at  writing  histories  of  Japan  which 
shall,  as  far  as  possible,  resemble  our  great 
standard  historical  works.  As  belonging  to 
this  class  of  literary  productions,  Mr.  Moznme's 
History  of  Civilization  "  (in  Japan]  calls  (or 
:ilice.  It  is  published  by  the  Imperial  House- 
hold Department,  and  contains  a  preface  written 
by  Count  Ito,  Che  President  of  the  Cabinet.  It 
aims  at  giving  a  history  of  the  people  as  well  as 
the  rulers,  of  science,  literature,  and  commerce, 
as  well  as  of  politic*.    The  design  is  an  excel- 

me,  the  only  defect  connected  with  it  being 
the  absence  of  the  critical  spirit  in  the  author. 

e  is  no  criticism  of  sources,  hence,  though 
the  work  is  likely  to  be  very  interesting,  it  is 
to  be  feared  that  in  matty  respects  it  will  tiot 


be  altogether  trustworthy.  Ur.  Miyake's  wtuk  on 
"The  ImporUnl  Events  of  History,"  which  has 
been  published  during  the  year,  is  writtm  on 
the  same  lines  as  the  forgoing. 

The  Education  Department  is  pubtishing  a 
number  of  new  Readers.  Some  are  written  in 
Japanese  and  others  in  English.  A  series  of 
six  English  Readers  called  "  The  High  School 
Series  "  is  now  going  through  the  press.  The 
subject-matter  of  these  volumes  consists  almoal 
exclusively  of  tales  and  historical  notices  culled 
from  ani^ent  Japanese  and  Chinese  books.  The 
Reader*  are  full  of  a  large  amount  of  interesting 
matter  which  has  never  yet  been  pablished  in 
any  European  language,  and  as  such  are  calcu- 
lated to  throw  light  on  numerous  phases  of  Jap- 
anese and  Chinese  life. 

Among  papers  which  during  the  present  yeatr 
have  caused  a  stir  in  the  literary  world,  we  tnaj 
mention  Professor  Toyama's  essays  on  "  Female 
Education  and  the  Spread  of  Christianity," 
"The  Reform  of  Japanese  Theaters,"  and  "The 
Connection  of  Christianity  and  Civilitatjon." 
Also  that  of  Mr.  Kato  Hiroyvki  on  "The  Im- 
provement of  the  Japanese  Race." 

A  great  deal  his  been  written  during  the  year 
in  both  native  and  foreign  journals  on  the  tranm- 
formations  which  the  Romanizing  of  the  Japan- 
ese language  is  likely  to  effect  in  the  literature  of 
the  future.  That  the  changes  aimed  at  by  the 
society  which  has  been  formed  in  this  country  to 
carry  out  the  work  of  Romanizing  the  JapancM 
language  would,  if  practicable,  prove  to  be  very 
beneficial  there  is  no  room  for  doubt.  At  the 
same  time,  it  is  questionable  whether  the  leaders 
of  the  movement  fully  estimate  the  difficulties 
which  they  have  to  overcome.  The  system  of 
transliteration  that  has  been  adopted  seems  too 
iniipodal  to  that  which  it  is  intended  toaupplanti 
o  admit  of  its  meeting  with  general  favor.  The 
nistake  that  is  being  made  consists  of  an  attempt 
o  replace  the  most  complicated  system  of  ideog- 
aphy  with  cbe  most  simple  alphabetical  signs  in 
>ne  generation  and  at  one  leap  tm'lAm/  rtiirrtii^ 
'e  any  inltrmediaii  aids  wkattvtr.  The  law  of  all 
such  reforms  as  the  one  proposed  makes  it  es- 

itial     ilut     there     shall     be    a     snccessive 

ies  of  steps  for  conducting  men  from  the  old 
to  the  new,  and  it  is  one  of  the  indispensable 
characteristics  of  these  steps  that  their  connec- 
tion with  the  old  shall  be  no  less  patent  than 
their  relation  to  the  new.  An  article  in  a  recent 
iber  of  an  infinential  native  journal  gives 
reasons  for  the  limited  amount  of  aucccss 
that  attends  the  efforts  of  the  Romanizing  Soci- 
ety, which,  briefly  stated,  are  as  follows :  I.  The 
Japanese  are  not  accustomed  to  Roman  charac- 
\t%,  and  therefore  do  not  care  tu  lead  anything 
ritten  in  them  oftenet  than  is  absolutely  neces- 
sary. II.  The  mode  of  transliteration  adopted 
by  the  society  being  very  imperfect,  there  is  great 
difficulty  in  comprehending  (he  meaning  of 
what  is  written  in  it.  III.  The  leading  members 
of  the  society  are  too  satisfied  with  their  present 
mode  of  transliteration  to  make  them  welcome 
proposals  for  further  improvement  of  the  same. 
IV.  The  writers  in  the  "Roman  Letter  Mag- 
azine "  are  ill  acquainted  with  Chat  style  of  Jap- 
anese composition  by  which  alone  thought  can 
be  clearly  expressed  without  the  aid  of  the  Chi-  "> 
nese  ideograph. 

That  the  ordinary  newspaper  style  of  Japanese 
composition  cannoC  be  intelligibly  transliterated 
by  means  of  Roman  characters  without  resorting 


i886.] 


THE  LITERARY  WORLR 


to  the  use  of  diacritiol  marks  is  admitted  by 
moat  of  our  scholar*  tmth  native  and  foreign.  If 
the  present  system  of  transl  iteration  is  to  suc- 
ceed tlKre  most  be,  not  only  a  reform  in  the 
mode  o(  writing  the  words  which  are  the  symboli 
of  ideas,  but  a  reform  in  the  words  themselves, 
as  far  as  tliia  is  possible.  As  long  as  the  lin- 
gaage  in  daily  use  consists  of  as  many  homonyms 
as  it  does  at  present,  no  such  simple  system  of 
transliteration  as  the  one  now  in  vogue  in  this 
country  can  ever  prove  anything  bot  a  most  in- 
appropriate and  inaccurate  way  of  aymljolizing 
thought. 

Whether  this  difficulty  will  be  surmounted 
and  all  the  chain  of  consequences  which  a  new 
orthographical  system,  if  introduced,  must  bring, 
will  follow,  cannot  possibly  at  this  early  stage  of 
the  development  of  the  movement,  be  predicted 
with  any  certainty. 

XII. 

UISCBLI.ANEOUS. 
Our  mdcn  mil  piinlon  lu  il  wu  iniBt  »t  Ihe  held  0 
the  concluding  chipler  of  Ihii  review  i  lew  lill««  Hist  h»Vi 
been  onutled  in  IheLr  proper  pl«M,  by  reuoo  either  o 
belDg  overlooked  «  Ihe  line  of  wriling,  w  of  Uw  l»le  puh 
lidiion  of  the  worla.  Such,  in  an,  «■  Stewnion'i  Inni 
lalion  of  Detaboide'i  "  Engnviog"  in  iu  oripn,  procow 
■nd  hlMorri  in  irehjeolDgJ,  •"  illmtraled  work  on  "Tli 
ByuntiD*  Peluxt  and  the  Buildicgt  ArDuDd  Tbunl"  ii 
iilerarj  Hndiei  Mr.  Lang"*  "  Book*  and  Bookmen,"  Uii 
BcDl'i  "Browning'i  Womeo/'  and  Un.  Griiwold' 
■'Home  Life  of  Greet  Aulhoiei  "  in  tuitoij  Uianne' 
pieiori»l"Freiidiwoin»nof  IheCenlory,"  Hell's  "SodtiT 
in  the  Elinbeihin  Period,"  Bliiri'«"Aic«»,"  end  Siubta'i 
aod  Fieenun's  ropedlie  "  Lecliuee  "  on  Hinoricil  Sludy  I 
DDdcr  viiioui  hcudi  of  (dcniiEc  and  legal  treauneiil,  Mr 
Bowker"!  "  Law  and  Literatnre  of  CopTri»hl,"  Schuyler"! 
"  American  Diplonucy,"  Comj»T«'»  "Pedigogy,"  Payne'i 
"  Sdenc«of  Education."  and  Han.  on  "Mannal  Training," 
mnalitinni  of  Blunlichli'i  "Theory  ol  Ihe  Siale"  and  ol 
Salkowiki'a  "  Initilutei  and  HittoTT  of  Roman  Private 
Law,"  and  Cmeber-i"  Roman  Law  oE  Damage  lo  Prop- 
erty;" in  bioraphy  Symood'a  "Sidney"  and  Kmght'i 
"Huroai"  in  philoHiphy  Dewey'i  "Peychologj"  and 
Cope'a enayi on  "The  Oiigio  of  [be  Filleal;"  in  poetry 

RohJIe'i  "RiHfi'e  Daughter;"  in  fiction  "Tchilchikoffi 
Joumeyi"  hy  Gogol,  Irandiled  by  Hapgood,  Manrice 
TbomiaoD'i  "Banker  of  Binkerville,"  C.  D,  Wainei'a 
"Their  Pilgrimage,"  and  ihe  anonymoua  " Demigixl ; "  in 
lefi^n  Dean  (ioulbum'B  "Meditalioni  upon  Ihe  Ijturgi- 
al  Goepelit"  and  in  travel  Ihe  Hon.  D.  A.  Wefli'e  au- 
thMiladvB  "Study  si  Meiicn." 


:anttaDdDop1e  a  TnAiih 
Poema  hai  appeared,  and  in  the  Tnrklih  provincei  a  tollee- 
m  of  folk-lore  tales  haa  made  Urge  progrva. 
A  general  view  of  Indian  literature  ve  have  not  the  epaca 
gire  Ihii  year,  but  we  may  mention  Ihat  a  Iniulalion  of 
■nnyion'i"Piinc«''  in  Maralhi  bai  recently  appeared 

We  oaghl  not  to  oloia  Ihii  lurny  withost  |nit  tonching 
I  the  nolahte  eveuli  of  the  year  in  ll»  litemy  wnrid  — 


if  iba  Horn 


Heidlebeig   Quincenlenary,   the 
Goethe  Sodely  at  W^marand  formal  in 
(Goethe  National  Museum,  lod  the  Mveoc 


XIII. 

HECKOLOoy  iS86. 


^!U4&ot,  Dr.  Johan  Piani,  Sweden,  May  ly,  > 

•dncidonal  icieDce.  

^mtt,  Sheldon,  England,  Jan.  — ;  1«b1  and  polilieal 

AnainH,  Hn.  Julia  Romans,  South  Boeton,  1 
March  <&  41  v.  i  poeL 

.IrwiAn,  Hugo  Iwir,  Stockholn,  Jan.  19,  61  y.  j  I 
and  editor  in  huuprudence, 

a 

BJiihtrim,  ^«rd,  Stockholm,  Sweden,  Feb.  ii, 

"^sJlUr,  uSei  L..  Minneapolia,  Feb.  j,  yi  y.i  joumaliai. 
Battr,  Sii  ThomM,  Manefaeuer,  Eng.,  April  1;,  ;{  J. ; 
-er  of  public  lihiaries. 


it/.  H.  Armand,  Veni 
I,  Mn.  Harriet  L.  V.,  F 


--,  p«l»gnpher 
laai.,  March  i; 


rii»'fo?^ildr<n. 

Bnntlimr,  Ned,  lee  Judeon.  „      ,      ,    , 

Sm-£iu,  Rev.  Henri.  Gla^ow,  Scotland,  Ji 

^wnu,  J.  Tom,  Leamington,  England,  O 
nurnariil  and  amiquajv. 
BMUr,  George  B.,  Waihinglon,  D.  C,  Mi 


uiihi 


set  bat  been  rather  larger  ar 
lection  ol  Mr.  Lowell'a  papera. 

id  Jul-     -- 


n  Hawi 


pre.enlyE.r'.ptod. 

ween  theie  notable 

ome-a  "Confeuioni 

■'  Eauye,"  Elweire 

and  Criliciiina,"  Junea  Vila  Blake'i 

"Fraterniiy  Papeta."  Wbiiing'a  "Ine  aaomerer, 

Richard  Temple'a  "  Cownopdilan  Easiya,"  and  Dai 

"Eulyl  in  Life  and  Lileiature."    Onl-oI-Door  Life  ii 

rtpteaenled  by  Buiroughi'i 

Oiford  Toior"!  "  Year  with  Ihe  Bird^"  Abboll'i  "Upland 

and  Meadow,"  Ediih  Thomat'i  "The  Round  Year,"  ai 

Potlel'l  "The  Road  and  the  Roadude,"  Ihe  latter  wi 

Unorieal  and  legal  bearingi.   Lolie'i  "  Outline*  of  £iLhi 

ic*,"  tranelaled  by  Ladd,  and  Perry'a  "  EToluIiou  of  the 

Snob,"  may  be  added  here. 

Eogliah  aerie*,  hai  collected  volomee  on  "  Raon 
" Steeplechaiing,"  and  "ShooUng;"  Sir  Payne-Galli 
ha*  pnbli*hed  "  The  Book  of  Duck  Decoy* ; "  Hallord 
wHUen  on  "Floating  FHe%  and  How  10  Dreai  Then 


lb*  Run 


Doloriool  Lady  C 
nning  Brook  and  of  Still 
ling  page*  on  £ah  and  fahing, 
lllb  work*.  To  them  may  be  I 
caa  Salmon  naberman,"  whii 


n  CampbeU  "A  B 


BraJiiaw,  Henry,  Cambridge,  England, 
Bnii^,  Eduard,  Giilwlu,  Amtiia.  Ji 


:«*,  Dr.  Jee 


Yorii,  Nov.  ilsyj.lbool 
Peter,  Chriatiania,  March  i],  6;  J. 
Richmond,  England,  July  — ,  1'  I- 


Fnuir,  Prof.  John,  Chicago,  April  1%  44  y-t  Eogliih 

Frtmmmitm,  ,  Jena,  Germany,  Jane  — ,  SS  y.J 

Ne>tor  ol  German  booUelleit." 

G. 

Garnet,  Feed.,  Worcener,  Uut.,  ApiQ  15,  yj  j.;  jonli- 

Giiun,  Jamei  Young,  Enghind,  Oct.  1,  fey.;  Cervaalta 

Giim,  Jamei,  Stialford-on-Avon,  July  10;  bibliognpber. 
GrmKl,  Daniel,  Edinburgh,  April  — ,  £j  y. ;  poet. 
Oram,  Charlei  G.,  Boston,  Sept.  17,  giy-;  wumalin. 
Gr^fitrt,    William   G.,  Hekiogfon,  March  - ;  ionr- 


Harrmftm,  Cslvio  S.,  Middlelown,  Conn.,  Jaa.  17, 
6oy,;  journal l*t and anihor of le3it-b«AH. 
km^  J.  1..,  En^d,  Sept.  ig,  rij- ;  aoog-wriier. 
Hv,  Maiy  Cecil,  Ea*i  Pierion,  England,  July  34, 41  y.| 

Hmmt,  Paul  H,,  near  Anguao,  Ga.,  July  6,  sjt,  ;  poet. 
H-aliKnt.  William  B.,  Baltimore,  Ud.,  Nov.  j,  jjT; 

HtiJii. ,  Karlskinaa,  Sweden,  Oct.  — ;  novelfat. 

HtlMil,  M.,  Pari*,  March  —;  pnbliiher,  known  a*  "J. 


ny,  May 


*J?T- 


"J^Ufyi 


theologian. 


Dr.  R.  Dennia,  England,  Aug.  -,  8}  y. ;  leiicoc 

,t  New  York,  in  London  (?),  May-; 

>,  Cologse,  SapL  — ;    noveliU   and 

:ry  Norman,  Cambridge,  Mas.,  Jan. 

Taiue  of  Ihe 


_.  J,  Richard  M., 
perlecter  of  printing 
H^mait,   Fndoli 

^M^,  Rev.  Ho 
iS,7i  y.  1  Shaheipei 

Htitl,  Coenrad  Builien,  Pant,  Mi 
Netberlandi, 

Humtkrtr.  Rev. ,  Londoi 


Jan.  - 


I. 


iKtltif,  Dr.  C.  H.,  England,  Sept.  i«;  Shakeepearian. 


SvaMTBikjii  ProL  J. 


J. 


CafiH,  Nalinm,  Dorcheiler,  Mait.,  Jan.  I,  Ra  y. ;  pnb- 

ciu^  'p'nleuoi  Pliny  Earle,  Haverford,  Penu.,  Dec.  17, 
a  V  :  FreHdenl>r«  U<*.  of  Iliveriord  College. 
iurk,,  Mn.  Mary  Bayard,  New  Berne,  N.  C,  April  -, 
cinwr,  George,  London,  Nov,  6;  printer  and  publiiber. 
Cfltfin,  Edvard,  Copenhagen,  April  11,  78  y.;  general 
r.ii^   Tir    a......u  ^Bchariai  of  Helsngborg,  Sweden, 

,  51  V- »  philolooiBL 

11)  Mortimer,  England,  Uanb  17; 

CcleUlt,  Rev.  Frederick  Leigh,  Boaroemoalh,  Englan 
ilarth  iS;  hiitorian  and  iMographer. 
C»fcr,  John  Ellen,  Viiginu,  Sept.  aj,  J6  y.  i  novehiL 
Cttyttan,  Mary  Kmily,  Oitord,  England,  Sept.  1, 141 

CBKrliiutf,  Fiaodi  Buidelt,  London,  March  is,  7S  y 

CrafiH,  Kn.  LouiuT.,  Bolton,  Oct. 


Davulsait,  Major  Nalbanael,  Waihinglon,  April  19,  6]  ) 

"£i«*^,  Mai,  Berlin,  , 

Dill,  Shoodii  Chundcr,  Caleul 
K 

EdMunuU,  Richard,  Plymonlh,  England 
*BJwirJi.  Edward,  Ilia  of  Wight,  Feb. 
"f^frll'X'^aii,' Stockholm,  April  is,  6a 


FtrrHim,  Sir  Simnel,  Howlh,  Ireland.  Aug.  9,  ji  y.  1 
'reiident  oflhe  Roval  Iriih  Academy,  Keeper  ol  the  Reo- 
ird*,  poel  and  traniialor. 


Jamutem,  Andrew  Pallon,  Scotland,  March  — , 

"yTwJRev.  John,  England.  Jan.  -,  Si  y, ;  Joum. 

yakmirn,  George  Wm,,  England,  Nov,  — ,  S4  y. 

^^rn,  gdward  Q.  C,  Slamford,  N.  Y.,  July  17 
"  Ned  Bunlline,"  aulhor  of  lea  itoriei. 
7n!r.  Prof,  B.,  Innibrtlck,  Anuria,  Aug.  14,61  y. 

TkU,  ,  Cbiiwick,  England,  April  y,  68  1 

Ulher  and  bDokiellp. 

K. 

/Cmit*r,  Dr.  ChriitiaD,  Denmirk,  Pib.  1, 9j  y. ;  1 
nd  Iheologian. 
Xnmbtn,  Han*.  Denmark,  Feb.   16,  yj  y.i 

KoMltrptf  Michael  Somenovich,  Rnaila,  June 


Z^o^uuw,  Manme,  Pane,  Aug.  id,  S9  y.;  engravet  and 
Lmm,  Jan,  Lvof,  Poland,  Aug.  1,  48  y. ;  noveliit  and 
J^u^u,  George  T,,  Philadelphia,  Feb.  j,  4j  y.;  tsar- 

ZiBu,  Dr.  Dio,  Yonken,  N.  Y,  Mayii, d y. :  hniew. 

ZiWnwaft,  Joshua  B.,  Fhiladelnfais,  Jan.  6 1  pubOAer. 
LUUU,  Sqoiet.  M.D.,  PhiladelF^,  July  4,  8)  7. ;  medi- 


Ltvttt  Sampeon,  London,  April  16 

M. 

MtJjhn.  Dr.  R.  R.,  Dublin,  Ir 
ipher. 

Majtr,  Joaeph,  LivarpooL  Jan,  — 
MMftuaU,  Dr.  C.  A.,  Berlin,  July 


.,  Dr.  Jofc 


1,  Princeton,  N,  J..  Aug.  It 
Ihe  College  of  New  Jeney. 
as,  Bonn,  Germany,  Sept.  - 


forrnerly  PreiideD' 
MtHMtl,  Dr.  Ar 
leolngian. 
m&r,  Bjnigne  Emmanuel  Clement,  Fiance,  aboni  Jan. 

WuilOd,  Fiance,  Sept.  41  magiiiniat  and  critic. 
MiHtm.  Charlea  A    New  York,  Aug.  8 ;  joumaliii. 
McKcititre,  Dr.,  Hamburg,  March  —.70  y.  1  theologian. 
J/>rvi^,  Charlei  b.,  BiliimoR,  Md.,  Feb.  7,  u  y.rVro. 
««rtn  inKn.  Hopkinr  II";-™«-  "SVJ   >       "- 


Jtarrii.  John,  EngUnd,  Ji 


MHUei,  Di 

philologut 
JiOZSr-,  Ado 


'w.,  Ene  Co'.'Pe 
rieima,  Auilrla,  S^t. 


.Jan. 


raluian.  Dr.  Henry  Alleyne,  Scotland,  Dec  9  [)),  41 


498 


THE  LITERARY  WORLD. 


[Dec.  25, 


~>iwiwjl>,  Eni«t,I.aadan,J».  Titer.;  Fiudi  hb. 

/•MV^Oisdlai  B.,  BoMoD,  11»  II,  63  J.  I  Innl. 
PfntiBi,  ChiriaC,  olBomn.UM.,  »  Wladur,  Vl, 

%i3r^' John  b.,  DuTOI,  Uu.,  Feb.  ],  U  f. ;  (iId- 

/■iH,  Dipt,  Badford  ClippHtoo,  LoBdon,  Oct.  — ,  te  j.; 
n«Ermpher  and  fiiplorer. 
PlalM,  Kail,  UiHfcmU,  Pnuu,  Scpc.  — ,  71  f.  i  bud- 


Jf*af,UapoUTOmBirllli,Mii7>],  917.1  bitUrnu. 

An',  Flier,  ScDtlaiid,  Feb.  tA  y. ;  JDunilijt. 

RUdrrUid,  Ctx\  Frednk,  LiokilpiD^  Swedes,  Au|.  ii, 
70 1. ;  Donliu,  dnmetiiL  and  iouitiilBl. 

jfiMv«»t  John,  LwtdoB,  Na>.  -,  74  j. ;  pubUihar. 

RmaiUi,  Mn.  Gebfiele,  LoDd<ni,AprU  S|  tj  7. ;  mMber 
of  Ibe  RsMeltii. 

Rmm^l,  Joe),  LoBdoB,  Jnae  14,  >o  7. :  booballer. 

Riti,   Atnim  J.,  Loiiltiille,  Ky.,    April  11,   46   7. : 
"  Father  Rtib,"  the  poet  prieu. 
S. 

ScktSM,  Vielot  TOO,  Gemeoy,  April  — ,  «o  7e»ra ;  poit. 

Sikimk,  LcopoU  hod,  Aiken,  S.  C.,  April  1,1  laamaUit. 

Sdarmr,  Wilbelm,  Berlin,  Aug.  4,  4s  r.  \  <^tic 

Sikirmtr,  A.,  Autria,  Feb,  — ;  noTdial. 

SckmUt,  Dr.  Julian,  Berlia,  Marcb  .7,  68  7. 1  Joarnalut 

SUtrmAM,  Rocet,  FUladallibll,  Aa(.  iS,  {|  7. ;  pobnabet. 
SmU,  John,  £dinbm1,  Auf.  11,  58  7.1  libranaB  and 

J«'**,  Mn.  Eminia  A.,  Jeney  City,  N.  J„  Jmep}-, 


of  them.  This  fint  namber,  In  iti  simple 
and  tMtetnl  cover,  a.nd  wftb  lU  one  hundred 
and  twenty-efght  pages  of  admirably  printed 
mailer,  has  nothing  of  ipecioul  brilliancy  to 
commend  it,  nothing  sensational,  nothing  in  the 
way  of  itartling  "featare«,"but  it  has  solid  and 
attractive  merit,  and  a  distinct  Individ oaliiy.     If 

re  to  predict  the  fulnre  of  this  new  comer 
from  the  contents  of  the  present  issue,  we  should 
say  that  it  will  be  quiet  and  refined  in  tone,  yet 
ing  and  able,  and  if  need  be  aggteuive,  in  its 
discuHion  of  the  topic*  of  the  day;  that  It  will 
treat  historical  subjects  in  a  popular  and  anlhori- 

i  manner ;  that  in  fiction  it  will  hold  to  a 
high  standard,  its  ihort  stories  in  particalar  being 
of  the  best ;  aod  that  its  illostrallons  will  be  sub- 
sidiary to  the  text,  plentiful  in  number,  drawn 
by  accomplished  ardsti,  and  honestly  engraved 
by  practiced  hands  —  in  a  word,  that  Scritner'i 
MagatiHt  will  appeal  to  readers  of  cultivated 
and  thereby  win  and  hold  a  large  share 
of  intellectual  patronage.  It  has  marked  out 
for  itself  a  spedsl  place  in  contemporary  period- 
ical literature,  and  we  believe  that  success  will 
justify  the  wisdom  of  its  projectors. 


^^'kZi 


folk-kira. 

Edward,  Entlaiid,  April  1,677. ; 


i  JoumaJiat- 

if.'AdDl[Ji,  Dgnmuk,  Sept.  lo,  ;d  y.  1  malbe- 

SUfktnt,  Mra,  AnB  So[due,  IftwpeR,  R.  I.,  Aof.  eo, 

"JlimM,  Henry,  LondoB,  Feb.  jS,  67  J-  i  b!bllo«npbef, 
,I(*Jir(,R.R,,Edinburili,  April —,j»y.  i  heraldry  asd 

'^im^,  DiTKl,  North  Berwick,  SeallaDd,  July 


J'<M«,CalriB  Bdw*tda,D,D.,HartfsTd, Cobb.,  Aug.! 


n  ^aahinfi 
T.'j.  U.,  JeckaoBiiHa,  Fli.,  Feb.  11, 
kxilU,  ftiia,  CouaUfltlnople,  Jan.  16,  7a  7.  l  atillatki 

T. 
Ttilttt,  ProL  Jobs,  Pitlafield,  Maai.,  Feb.  19,  7S  7. ;  a! 
Ibe  facnliy  of  Wllliama  Codege. 

n^Ur,  Sr  HeanF,  Earijind,  Marcb  17,  S6  7, ;  poM. 
T%^Um.  The  Hoii.TiOBel,  Aden,  Apn'l  »,  3I  7-i 

ThMtrhrTi  Tbomea  ADthaa7,  New  Haven,  Cobb,,  April 
7  71  T  i  PnlMaar  ol  Ulin  io  Yale  Collen. 

Hmr,  Rer,  Thomu  Baldwin,  D.D.,  Roibiiry,  Mul, 
Feb  11,  74  7-;  thaoleciin  andjcnimeliiL 

Tkit^ltm,   Prof.,    Minchesler,    England,    April  — i 

nn^M,,  Mn.  Willittn,  New  Yodt,  April  -,  aboni  40 

^  :n£wi^»>i,'Re»- WiB.  Hepworth,  D,D.,  Bb^uhI,  Oct. 
— ,j6y.i  tbaokmao  and  editor. 
fr^K  RevTTraMJ*  Ch«B4v«,  Huspahire,  Ei 

^^nK*,  Bichjrd  Chenerii,  Inlud,  Man*  — , 


VanJiri^,  Gtorft,  EBglend^  *■«•—'  r^^*L  ™^"i 
Viclajf,  ProEcuar  Heinneh,  Triac,  Gernuny,  Aog.  j.  Si 
, ;  hiilDriiB  and  traoiUlor, 


WiiU,  Prof-  G'l  Germany, 

■"■   "ry.  Dr.  Jamea  F.,  Lo 
U.,  Edwio  Penzy,  Be 
.  Edwin  D..  Naahua,  n.n,,  nmn  >•  1 
a,  Alexander  C,  Brooli1yn,N,  v..  Fab 


WMt,  Dr.  Jamea  F.,  London  Aug.  jo:  Joomalial., 
Wirty/^  Edwio  Peicy,  Boalonlun.  16,677.;  ™*T^- 
WhUt,  Edwin  D.,  Naahua,  N.  H,^March  11 ;  JeurBaliat. 


il.  Thomaa  J.,  Baltimore,  Md.,  Feb.  aS,  sB  ) 


i)l)r.  Leopold, March —,94  7- 1  Rabbinic •cbidu'. 


The  Literary  World. 

BOSTON,  DECEMBER  25,  1886. 


SOBIBHEB'S  IfASAZrm:. 

With  its  first  appearance   the  new  Seribner't 

Magatiitt  steps    modestly  into    the   frotit    rank 

of    the   periodicals  of   the   day,   and   manifests 

a  fixed  determination  to  hold  iu  own  with  the 


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aavera]  of  the  altnctiTc  twoka  of  the  year. 

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it,  and  of  Grandmother  herself,  at  last  fold. 
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the  sketches  are  reproduced  in  photograi 
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