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dictum is now a household word) it was pre-
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144 was so good a biographer. The absurdity of
Montaigne and Italian Music. Grace Norton.
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MEMORIALS OF AN ENGLISH PAINTER. Edith unlikelihood that a man of Johnson's vigorous
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have not merely tolerated, but actually enter-
THE PHILOSOPHY OF AMERICANISM. Joseph tained a warm affection for, a person so devoid of
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all claim to his esteem. With the master himself
we may laugh at the comicalities of his disciple,
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but it would be taking an unfair advantage of
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the man's frank portrayal of his own absurdities
to deny him any higher qualities than flatulent
THE POETRY OF MR. SWINBURNE. William
conceit and abject sycophaney.
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Let us, if we choose, credit all that has been
STRUGGLES IN THE WORLD OF SUFFERING.
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described his worshipful attention whenever the
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a faithful but obtrusive spaniel. In his desire
old furniture.
to form his mind after the Johnsonian model,
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he went so far at times as to out-Johnson the
original. His assumption of a more than John-
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in another world. That is too ambitious,' he
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plained to Davies of Garrick's refusing him an
said. “We might as well desire to be equal with order to the theatre for old Miss Williams, Bos-
the angels. Even the Johnsonese idiom he suc- well, watching for a chance to join in the con-
ceeded to some extent in making his own. When versation, exclaimed, “Oh, sir, I cannot think
a distinction was drawn between moral and Mr. Garrick would grudge such a trifle to you.'
physical necessity, Boswell thus expounded the “Sir,' replied the other, with a stern look, ‘I
matter,-'Alas, sir, they come both to the same have known David Garrick longer than you
thing. You may be as hard bound by chains have done, and I know no right you have to
when covered by leather as when the iron ap- talk with me on the subject.' But in a day or
pears. It was an odd freak of his that once two Boswell was on friendly terms with John-
made him refrain from writing to Johnson for son. ‘Poh, poh!' said the Doctor, with a com-
a long time, to see whether his correspondent placent smile, on being reminded of what had
would finally be induced to write first. The passed at the first meeting, 'never mind these
older man grew uneasy at this strange silence, things. Come to me as often as you can. I
though he shrewdly suspected its cause, and shall be glad to see you.' Balm to his wounded
upon Boswell's confession gave him a piece of vanity it was not in Boswell's nature to refuse,
his mind. “Remember that all tricks are knav- although, after one especially outrageous affront,
ish or childish, and that it is as foolish to make we find him protesting, in terms that won the
experiments upon the constancy of a friend as master's admiration for their happy picturesque-
upon the chastity of a wife.' A comical aping ness, “I don't care how often or how high John-
of his master's exemplary morality reveals itself son tosses me when only friends are present,
now and then. While suffering grievous prick- for then I fall on soft ground; but I do not
ings of conscience for what he admits to have like falling on stones, which is the case when
been highly reprehensible conduct, he allays enemies are present.' The Doctor's commenda-
the smart by summoning up pictures of his tion of this image sufficed to atone for the rude-
future blameless deportment. Viewing himself ness that had evoked it; and though he allowed
as already reformed for the rest of his days, he himself to toss and gore his follower, he in-
glows with prospective virtue and thus rhap- sisted that others should treat him well. It was
sodizes in a letter to his friend Temple, who had Johnson's command that effected the Scotch-
sent him a bit of excellent advice, — My warm man's election to the Club, the dictator having
imagination looks forward with great com- made it known that until Boswell was admitted
placency on the sobriety, the healthfulness, and no other new member should be added.
worth of my future life.' The pious platitudes Leslie Stephen, in his admirable life of John-
that sprinkle his pages are highly amusing, son, long ago pointed out some of the qualities
and so is his frank record of Johnson's whole- that made Boswell “a prince of interviewers'
some advice that he should 'clear his mind of before the interviewer as we know him was so
cant.'
much as dreamt of. A few of these personal
Recognizing all that is laughable and all that traits it may be not unprofitable or uninterest-
is indicative of weakness and vanity in such ing to recall
. 'Perhaps,' says Stephen, 'the
revelations as the foregoing, we may yet find fundamental quality in Boswell's character was
much that is admirable in Boswell both as a his intense capacity for enjoyment. He was, as
man and as a writer, both as a faithful friend Mr. Carlyle puts it, “gluttonously fond of what-
and as a keen observer. However often he may ever would yield him a little solacement, were
have disregarded, merely from excess of animal it only of a stomachic character.”) Like his
spirits, the apostolic injunction to give no idol, he frankly enjoyed the pleasures of the
offense, he certainly showed an exemplary un- table. “For my part, was Johnson's declara-
willingness to take offense. The harsh rebuffs tion, 'I mind my belly very studiously and very
he received from Johnson at the very outset carefully; for I look upon it that he who does
I
would have alienated a man possessed of that not mind his belly will hardly mind anything
smallness of mind and that petty vanity so else.' In somewhat the same vein Boswell ac-
generally ascribed to our undaunted biographer. knowledges, 'I am myself a lover of wine, and
Drawn like iron to the magnet, he was stoutly therefore curious to hear whatever is remarkable
determined not to mind a rude repulse of his concerning drinking'; and he was always de-
first awkward overtures. It was at Davies's lighted when he could induce Johnson to discuss
bookshop, a place thenceforth sanctified to Bos- the matter ethically, statistically, and phil-
well, that the two first met. Davies announced osophically. Now it is this curiosity that seems
the great man's aweful approach,' and Boswell to me the “ fundamental quality of Boswell the
nerved himself for the ordeal. An unfortunate biographer. It was a prime essential to the
apology for his Scotch birth brought him snub production of his marvellously speaking 'like-
number one. Then, when Johnson had com- ness of the master. ' A generous and elevated
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mind,' he quotes from the oracle, “is distin- would be ungrateful and unfair to censure him
guished by nothing more certainly than an emi- too severely. Burke paid his amiable qualities
nent degree of curiosity,' - a sentiment, it may a curious compliment when he said of him that
be noted, that reappears in various form in the he had so much good-humor naturally it was
pages of the 'Rambler.' We are, then, to credit scarcely a virtue. Most vain persons are vain of
our much-ridiculed Boswell with a hunger of fancied endowments; Boswell takes innocent
the mind corresponding to his less praiseworthy delight in his real peculiarities, and thinks him-
animal appetite. It was an insatiable curiosity, self so charming an object as to need no dis-
often degenerating into a childish inquisitive- guise. There is no false shame, no pompous
ness, and at times it provoked its chief object to regard for imagined dignity, but as cheerful a
an impatient outburst of protest. 'I will not readiness to join in a laugh at himself as at
be baited with what and why,' exclaimed poor his neighbor. Though the joke be at his own
Johnson one day in desperation. Why is a expense, it is none the less worth relating. 'I
cow's tail long? Why is a fox's tail bushy?' owned to Johnson,' he tells us, in a frank dis-
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after the master had been badgered beyond sionally troubled with a fit of narrowness.'
endurance by his affectionate disciple, — My Why, sir,' was the reply, ‘so am I. But I do
regard for you is greater almost than I have not tell it.' The excellence of the implied
words to express; but I do not choose to be advice, we may gratefully note, was lost on our
always repeating it. Write it down in the first amusing Bozzy. Other pleasantries of this sort
leaf of your pocket-book, and never doubt it are easily turned up in Boswell's pages. Music,
again. At another time, when Boswell was he once confided to Johnson, affected him in-
cross-examining a third person about Johnson | tensely, producing alternate sensations of
in his presence,—Sir,' he cried, in petulant pathetic dejection, so that I was ready to shed
remonstrance, you have but two subjects, your- tears, and of daring resolution so that I was
self and me. I am sick of both. But Boswell inclined to rush into the thickest of the battle,
was irrepressible. Once when the two were - a battle, of course, that was purely hypothet-
querying how best to induce a friend to leave ical. "Sir, replied the other, I should never
London, Johnson said in revenge for some pre- hear it, if it made me such a fool.' On another
vious offense, “Nay, sir, we'll send you to him. occasion Boswell expressed a wish to fly to the
If your presence doesn't drive a man out of his woods or retire into a desert, a disposition
house, nothing will.' Yet the unspeakable promptly checked by one of Johnson's custom-
Scot' stuck to his victim like a leech, and ary gibes at the considerable extent of easily
continued to pry into the minutest details of accessible desert in Scotland.
the great man's habits and peculiarities, even According to Johnson, Boswell was the best
pushing his investigations as far as the subject travelling companion in the world. Imperturb-
of nightcaps and begging to know why his idol able good-humor and an unfailing ingenuity
never wore one. It seems to have been a subject and resourcefulness in making talk — and con-
of absorbing interest to him. He also noted,
He also noted, versation was to Johnson the worthiest occupa-
with painstaking accuracy, that though John- tion of a rational being - combined to make
son abstained from milk one fast-day, he did the lively Scotchman a very acceptable comrade
not reject it when put into his cup. The lex- for the older man. “If, sir, you were shut up
icographer's whistlings and puffings, and his in a castle and a new-born baby with you, what
way of saying 'too-too-too,' were all conscien- would you do?' was one of Boswell's silence-
tiously recorded; and on one memorable occa-
breakers — ludicrous and well-night witless, no
sion persistence surpassed itself and won a bet doubt, but still welcome to one whose greatest
by hazarding the inquiry of Johnson what he horror was the undisturbed companionship of
did with certain scraped bits of orange-peel that his own thoughts. Any remark, however trivial,
he had been observed to treasure for
purposes any expedient however absurd, was justifiable
unknown. Curiosity in this instance was not if it could but serve to draw Johnson out; and
gratified, but it certainly was carried to an it is with something of Shakespeare's art that
extent that would have made its possessor inval- our biographer has contrived to make his hero
uable to the modern newspaper as an inter- paint his own portrait. In his report of others'
viewer.
conversation Boswell never misses
the point of a
To be sure, there is much that is unattractive story, but never thrusts it on our notice. The
in this eagerness for information, in season and gist of one dialogue after another is deftly
out of season; but it was accompanied by such noted, and there are few irrelevances in his
innocence of offense, such unfeigned good-rapidly moving narrative. Just the stroke
humor, and, above all, has resulted so greatly needed to indicate character or to make clear
to the advantage of Boswell's readers, that it a possible obscurity is adroitly put in, and we
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pass to something else. The story is so naturally ual at whose cost we now enjoy ourselves, per-
told that we almost imagine it to have told itself, haps has done us a greater service than can be
the writer serving as little more than a phono- specially attributed to more than two or three.'
graph to be spoken into by his various charac-
PERCY F. BICKNELL.
ters. It is the art that conceals art. If any one
questions this, let him, as Leslie Stephen sug-
gests, try to put into writing, within the same
COMMUNICATION.
compass, the pith of a brilliant conversation.
Not only the humble offices of memory, but the
MONTAIGNE AND ITALIAN MUSIC.
higher qualities of artistic selection and repre-
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
sentation went into those paragraphs of club
In her article on Montaigne in the issue of
talk and coffee-house discussion. Those who
THE DIAL for February 1, Dr. Mary Augusta
Scott has accepted in one instance (and possibly
regard the chronicler of these conversations as
nothing but a toady, an echo, a blind worshipper
in two) a mistake in Mr. Waters's translation of
Montaigne's Journal of travel, which is perhaps
of his idol, should read again what he says of worth correcting. She quotes Montaigne (using
Johnson's anonymous pamphlet, written at the the words of Mr. Waters's translation) as saying
request of the government from which he re- that near Florence 'the peasants have lutes in
ceived his pension, on Taxation no Tyranny;
their hands, and the pastoral songs of Ariosto on
an Answer to the Resolutions and Address of
their lips.' What Montaigne wrote (he was then
writing in Italian) was that he was struck with
the American Congress. Of this perform-
three things: one being 'di veder questi contadini
ance,' declares the biographer, I avoided to
il liuto in mano, e fin alle pastorelle (the shep-
talk with him; for I had now formed a clear and herdesses] l'Ariosto in bocco.' There are
settled opinion, that the people of America were 'pastoral songs' ascribed to Ariosto.
well warranted to resist a claim that their fel- The other error is more difficult to clear away.
low-subjects in the mother-country should have Montaigne says: 'Les instrumans sont en toutes
the entire command of their fortunes, by taxing
les boutiques jusques aus ravaudurs des carre-
fours des rues.'
them without their own consent.
Pos-
Mr. Waters translates these
words as follows: "There is a musical instrument
itive assertion, sarcastical severity, and extrava-
in every shop, even in the stocking-darner's at
gant ridicule, which he himself reprobated as the corner of the street.' It is hardly conceiv-
a test of truth, were united in this rhapsody.' able that Montaigne wrote of shops' of the stock-
Boswell was the first biographer in his kind, ing-darners, and described such shops as being
and he remains so far the greatest that, as
at the corners of streets.' 'Ravaudeur' has
Macaulay says, no one has yet successfully com-
other meanings beside that of mender of clothes
peted for second place. But for him, moreover,
or darner of stockings. Nicot, in his Dictionary,
after defining it by 'Sarcinator,' adds: “Et par
it is possible that we might never have had, in
metaphore Ravaudeur est dit celuy qui ne sçait
anything like their present form, such works
ce qu'il die, le propos duquel est tout rappetassé,
as Lockhart's Scott, and Trevelyan's Macaulay,
et celuy qui ne fait rien à droict ni à propos.
and Froude's elaborate though not wholly judi- And Cotgrave essentially translates this by, 'A
cious attempt to picture the prophet of Cheyne Botcher; also an idle or ignorant speaker, one
Row. Not merely a remarkable degree of self- that either confounds or understands not what
subordination, but also a stanch adherence to
he says; or one that neither does nor says ought
rightly.
truth, regardless of remonstrances, went to the
In this, or in a kindred sense, Montaigne seems
production of our great biography. 'I will not
to use the word in his essay “De la Phisionomie':
make my tiger a cat to please anybody,' declared
'Sans peine et sans suffisance, ayant mille volumes
Boswell when Hannah More entreated him to
de livres autour de moy
j'emprunteray
soften some of the burly Doctor's asperities. presentement s'il me plaist, d'une douzaine de
Toning down, he instinctively felt, would tels ravaudeurs, gens que je ne feuillette guiere,
depress the lights as well as the shadows. We dequoy enrichir le traicté de la Phisionomie.'
should not be so deeply affected by Johnson's
It is in this sense, which continued in use in
the next century, and is defined by Littré as
kinder qualities did we not see them often
'Celui qui ne dit que des balivernes,' that the
masked by an irritability that meant only a
word in Montaigne's journal is perhaps to be
manly nature's unwillingness to reveal the interpreted, and the passage - which follows a
underlying tenderness of heart. And all this notice of 'improvisatori’-may be translated:
· we owe to one who, in writing his life of the 'Instruments are in all the shops and even [in
· master, counted it time well spent “ to run half the hands of] the idle talkers at the street cor-
over London in order to fix a date correctly ’;
ners.'
But if the simple significance of darners be pre-
one who, in Carlyle's words, 'out of the fifteen
· millions that then lived and had bed and board
ferred, we may be reminded of the 'old and plain?
in the British islands
song of the spinsters and the knitters in the
has provided us
GRACE NORTON.
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challenge to life to show forth the best that
is in it, their fine achievements of friendship
with men and books,- once Lady Burne-Jones
MEMORIALS OF AN ENGLISH PAINTER.*
begins upon Oxford, the reader's interest is
quickened.
And it never
wanes until the
A life of Sir Edward Burne-Jones, written second volume is finished; although the later
by his widow, bids fair, on theoretical grounds, years, crowded with vast undertakings and pan-
to be a performance of doubtful value. The oramic with famous personages, lack the special
Pre-Raphaelite painters have already been thor- charm of the earlier days. Then Ruskin was a
oughly exploited by skilful hands. The career god to be worshipped from afar, Rossetti a
of either Rossetti or Morris furnishes a far more giant, Morris a hero, the world a place to sketch
dramatic point of departure than the less eccen- in, and a sketch the absorbing work of a life-
tric and less varied one of Burne-Jones. There time.
is, too, the danger of sentimentality and of At Oxford Burne-Jones saw much of a tal-
rhapsodical criticism, as well as of more dis- ented set of Pembroke college men from his
agreeable disclosures about Rossetti, and more home town of Birmingham, but his sun rose
irritation over Ruskin's peculiar methods of and set by William Morris. Both men came to
making and unmaking friendships. On the the university with the definite purpose of enter-
other hand, we may expect from Lady Burne- ing the church. Both were bitterly disap-
Jones intimate knowledge and sympathetic pointed in the religious life of their college and
understanding, which, if good judgment and the state of the episcopacy. Both loved art and
skilful manipulation are added, should produce poetry, and together they discovered the ‘ Morte
a delightful memorial of a fascinating coterie. d'Arthur,' fell under the spell of Poe's mys-
It is only fair to Lady Burne-Jones to say ticism, dabbled in mesmerism and church
at once that she has avoided every pitfall that polemics, and read Tennyson, Thackeray,
lay along her path, and has made the most of Kingsley, Chaucer, and above all Ruskin.
every pleasure that the excursion afforded. She One morning Morris brought Ruskin's newly-
has transcribed all the joy of living and work- published 'Edinburgh
published Edinburgh Lectures' to Burne-
ing, the buoyant enthusiasm, and the vivid, Jones's rooms, and then, to quote from the lat-
many-sided interest in men and things, which ter,
were characteristic of her husband and 'his ‘Everything was put aside until he read it all
friends. She has been reserved where reserve through to me. And there we first saw about the
was desirable; and her partiality for her sub-
Pre-Raphaelites, and there I first saw the name of
Rossetti. So for many a day after tha we talked
ject has never led her into bathos. As for the
of little else but paintings which we had never
little touch of affectation in the account of her
seen, and saddened the lives of our Pembroke
first acquaintance with her husband and the friends.'
early days of their marriage, it only adds a bit | Shortly afterwards, some of the work of Millais
of quaintness to the narrative. She thoroughly
was shown at Oxford, and then,' Burne.
appreciates the vivacity and color of her hus-
Jones says, 'we knew.' During his first years
band's conversation and letters, and uses his
at the university he had cherished the notion of
notes and correspondence, and those of his old forming a clerical Brotherhood, composed of
acquaintances, to brighten and vivify her own himself, Morris, and the Pembroke set, which
by no means unpleasing style. So one's doubts
should live and work in the heart of the London
are speedily dissipated, and supplanted by thor- slums. But when he decided that painting
ough enjoyment of a remarkable piece of biog- was his destined career, and Morris made choice
raphy.
of architecture, the idea of the Brotherhood
The memorial is in two copiously-illustrated was gradually abandoned; or rather it was
volumes, of which the first contains at once the modified, taking shape in such projects as the
best and the worst of Lady Burne-Jones's work. joint editorship of the Oxford and Cambridge
The account of Burne-Jones's family, and of his Magazine,' and later in the partnership decorat-
childhood and school-life, is too long. It has ing of the walls of the Oxford Union, or in the
the interest that belongs to any close study of firm of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Co.
alert, open-minded boyhood; further than that
And its mission was not to save men's souls, but
it is commonplace, and a large part of the space to mend their minds, by giving them new ideals
accorded to it could have been spent to better of truth and beauty.
advantage on later and more unique experiences. In 1855 both Morris and Burne-Jones left
But once the Oxford days are reached, with Oxford, the latter without waiting to get his
their splendid enthusiasms, their almost defiant | degree. The next year (1856) Lady Burne-
* MEMORIALS OF EDWARD BURNE-JONES.
Jones styles ‘Annus Mirabilis.' Early in its
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Ruskin. This is Burne-Jones's account, con- manufactory of all things needed in household
tained in a note to a friend :
decoration took its rise.
'I'm not Ted any longer, I'm not E. C. B. Jones By the end of 1856 Ruskin had become a
now-I've dropped my personality—I'm a patron and a dear friend. _ Today we are to go
spondent with RUSKIN, and my future title is
"the man who wrote to Ruskin and got an answer
and see Ruskin,' Burne-Jones writes to Miss
by return.' I can better draw my feelings than
Sampson, his father's housekeeper. And after
describe them, and better symbolize them than their return he goes on:
either.'
"Just come back from being with our hero for
And below is a drawing of himself prostrate four hours – so happy we've been: he is so kind to
before an aureoled figure intended for Ruskin.
us, calls us his dear boys and makes us feel like
such old friends. Tonight he comes down to our
A little later came the meeting with Rossetti.
rooms to carry off my drawing and show it to lots
Wishing to know how the man looked who had of people; tomorrow night he comes again, and
drawn the ‘Maids of Elfenmere' and written every Thursday night the same isn't that like
The Blessed Damozel,' Burne-Jones went to a
a dream? Think of knowing Ruskin like an equal
lecture at the Working Men's College, and by
and being called his dear boys. Oh! he is so good
and kind — better than his books, which are the
the good-fellowship prevailing there secured not best books in the world.'
only the sight he coveted, but an introduction
The painting of the walls of the Oxford
also, and following that an invitation to Ros-
setti's studio by Blackfriars Bridge. Writing Burne-Jones, Morris, Arthur Hughes, Alex-
Union was Rossetti's project. In it he enlisted
to a friend shortly after this visit; Rossetti
ander Munro, the sculptor, Valentine Prinsep,
speaks of a certain youthful Jones, one of the
who was studying with Watts, and half a dozen
nicest young fellows in — Dreamland.' His
others, each of whom promptly abandoned what-
liking rapidly ripened into intimacy. Morris
ever he was doing and went down to Oxford,
and Burne-Jones drew and painted and watched
because their adored Rossetti wished it. Mr.
the master paint in Rossetti's studio, and went
Prinsep gives a very vivid account of dining
with him to see the Brownings, and the Prin-
with Rossetti on the evening of his arrival.
seps of Little Holland House, with whom Watts
"There I found Rossetti in a plum-coloured frock-
was then living, and frequently to the theatre.
coat, and a short, square man with spectacles and
But if the play did not suit Rossetti, they were a vast mop of dark hair. I was cordially received.
dragged summarily away, 'which through wor- “Top,” cried Rossetti, “let me introduce Val
Prinsep.'
ship of him we always assented to obediently,
the
(Topsy was name by which
Morris —that unnaturally and unnecessarily curly
though much wanting to know how the story being”- was known among his intimates.)
ended. And sometimes we roamed the streets "Glad, I'm sure," answered the man in spec.
and sometimes went back to Blackfriars to tacles, nodding his head, and then he resumed his
Gabriel's rooms and sat till three or four in the
reading of a large quarto. This was William
Morris. Soon after, the door opened, and before
morning, reading and talking.'
it was half opened in glided Burne-Jones. “Ned,”
- Rossetti was very encouraging about Burne- said Rossetti, who had been absently humming to
Jones's work. After having seen his drawings, himself, "I think you know Prinsep.” The shy
he refused to allow the younger artist to spend
figure darted forward, the shy face lit up, and I
was received with the kindly effusion which was
his time in learning the mechanical art of wood-
natural to him.
engraving; and he insisted that Morris also “When dinner was over, Rossetti, humming to
should abandon architecture and take up paint himself, as was his wont, rose from the table and
ing, as the best medium for expressing the
proceeded to curl himself up on the sofa. “Top,'
he said, “read us one of your grinds." "No,
poetry he had in him. Poetry, Rossetti declared, Gabriel," answered Morris, 'you have heard them
had almost run its course in England, but paint- all." "Never mind,' said Rossetti, “here's
ing was still an unknown art there, and the Prinsep, who has never heard them, and besides,
next Keats ought to be a painter.
they are devilish good.” “Very well, old chap,'
growled Morris, and having got his book he began
So Morris painted, but his versatile genius to read in a sing-song chant some of the poems
also turned to wood-carving, and it was at this afterwards published in his first volume. . .
time too that he began designing furniture.
this day, forty years after, I can still recall the
When the two friends moved into their famous
scene: Rossetti on the sofa, with large, melancholy
eyes fixed on Morris, the poet at the table reading
apartment at Red Lion Square, the chairs and
and ever fidgetting with his watch-chain, and
tables were made after Morris's designs, and Burne-Jones working at a pen-and-ink drawing.
painted by him and Burne-Jones and Rossetti • "Gold on her head and gold on her feet,
with knights and ladies from Malory — 'perfect
And gold where the hems of her kirtle meet,
And a golden girdle round my sweet,
marvels,' Burne-Jones calls them. Some four Ah! qu'elle est belle La Marguerite,"
years later the Morrises moved into Red House, still
to haunt
I confess I
and it was from the necessity of furnishing and
returned to the Mitre with my brain in a whirl.'
decorating this house, and the impossibility of In later years a great wall of melancholy
buying any furniture or hangings that Morris surrounded Rossetti and shut him away from
could endure to live with, that the idea of a his friends, but they never lost their admira-
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but pity for the wreck he had made of his life.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF AMERICANISM.*
As time went on Ruskin also dropped away; Professor Muensterberg remarks that his book
but Morris never failed, and other friends portraying “The Americans' might appropri-
came in to fill the vacant places,- the Glad-ately have been given the title that heads the
stones, Du Maurier, Lady Leighton, Charles
present review. Such philosophy is presented
Eliot Norton and his family, and many more, under four heads, to which are referred the
besides the host of young artists to whom Burne- inspiring motives that direct the interests,
Jones never refused his advice and sympathy. ideals, occupations, institutions, and character
And the pictures went on in never-ending suc- of the Americans, individually and collectively.
cession. So, while the later years have less These are the Spirit of Self-direction, the
brilliancy and enthusiasm than the earlier ones, Spirit of Self-Realization or Initiative,' the
they are happy, ambitious, full of work and
Spirit of Self-Perfection, and the ‘Spirit of
new hopes and new interests. As Burne-Jones's
Self-Assertion. With symmetrical consistency
personality strengthened and he became more
these fourfold inspirations serve as the introduc-
and more the centre of his own world, instead
tory chapters to the fourfold phases of Ameri-
of Rossetti's satellite or Morris's friend, the
can life, - Political, Economic, Intellectual,
stream of the biography narrows and deepens, Social. The justification of this philosophical
to show more of his character and of his per- schedule, and the necessary harmonizing thereof
sonal aims and methods of work.
with the course of events and with the present
Undoubtedly the most valuable thing about status of affairs in our puzzling democracy, give
Lady Burne-Jones's work is the pleasant light form and substance to the six hundred pages
it casts across the whole Pre-Raphaelite move- the volume. Equally influential as a motive to
ment. Memoirs of Rossetti have tended to
the author's initiative is his frequently uttered
emphasize the sordid element in the lives of the conviction that of all peoples, the Americans
circle, and the unbalanced element in their
and the Germans need to understand one
work. Biographies of Morris naturally em-
another, should contribute coöperatively and
phasize their socialistic leanings, and the Arts sympathetically to the growth of culture, and
and Crafts side of the movement. Burne-Jones's should mutually receive and offer benefit on the
work was confined to the narrower field of basis of their distinctive civilizations.
His
painting, and he was even more closely asso- labors are thus sustained by the conviction that
ciated with Rossetti than was Morris. Like they are to serve as a step toward this interna-
Rossetti and most of the others of the circle, tional consummation. Practically, the most effi-
he was a poor man, harassed by the necessity cient motive in shaping the volume has been
for petty economies, as well as by continual ill-
the desire to furnish the German reader with a
health, - privations of which Morris knew
suitable account of the real nature of the Amer-
nothing, - yet there is nothing sordid in Lady ican people, of their institutions, their prob-
Burne-Jones's outlook upon life. She tells a lems, their mode of life, their interests, their
cheerful story, and makes her readers realize
culture. The work was written by the author in
that it was the best, and not the worst, of Ros- German for the Germans; just as his book enti-
setti,- his greatness, not his eccentricity,- tled 'American Traits' was written in English
that his friends cared for; that there was noth- for home consumption. The two treatises, we
ing necessarily morbid or decadent in their
are informed, bear the complementary relation
love of beauty; and that if they did not attain of a pair of stereoscopic pictures: the difference
to all they hoped for, they were the better for
of their points of view resulting in an added
the aspiration. It is well for this view to be
realism of their combined effect. Apparently
emphasized, particularly when it is done as
with some reluctance, the English translation
convincingly as Lady Burne-Jones has man-
has been authorized, and with some omissions
aged to do it. There is no doubt about her notably, and regrettably, the chapter on Ger-
sincerity; every page of her writing rings true. man-Americans, upon which topic the author's
Lady Burne-Jones wisely refrains from any
views would have received special consideration
attempt at criticizing her husband's work. In
on the part of American readers - substan-
consonance with this decision, it is only suit- tially reproduces the two volumes of the orig-
able that the illustrations contained in the two inal. It is likewise to be regretted that the
volumes should consist of portraits of the translator has felt his obligations to the original
family and their friends, and reproductions
so literally as to force upon the English con-
of sketches or early drawings. Thus the illus-
struction types of expression, orders of phrase-
trations partake of the intimate character of
the memoir, and add decidedly to its interest.
By Hugo Muensterberg, Professor of
Psychology at Harvard University. Translated by Edwin
EDITH KELLOGG DUNTON.
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co.
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ology, and modes of approach to statements, tendencies as have survived the onslaught of
which the American's keen sense of form — a our iconoclastic democracy.
trait noted by the German-American author By plan, selection of topics, and perspective
finds peculiarly irritating.
of presentation, the work seems measurably
Although the author sets forth that his suited to its objective purpose, that of carrying
concern is with the lasting forces and tenden- enlightenment to the many highways and by-
cies of American life,' and not with the prob- ways of Germany, where conceptions of what
lems of the day, the distribution of the pre- really goes on in our midst, and notably of the
'
sentations themselves hardly supports this motives and temper of the participants in the
emphasis. Viewed objectively, the account of drama, are such as to cry out lustily for some
the political organization is most amply pre- vigorous corrective. On this score English read-
sented. The pervasive power of political par- ers are prepared to make proper allowances,
ties, the functions of the executive, the mode of bearing in mind that much of what is familiar
procedure and temper of Congress, the status and obvious is yet not superfluous when ad-
of the judiciary, the complex relations of State dressed to a foreign public. They cannot avoid,
and City to the Federal Government, form the however, ca!ling to mind the far more vigorous, ,
natural components of American polities. With discerning, and, to the Americans themselves,
them are considered our internal and external instructive account which Mr. Bryce has given,
political problems,— the dominance of the though in larger proportions, of the institutions
former and (until recently the slight hold of of the American commonwealth. The compari.
the latter upon the political interest being son is provoked by the equally ambitious char-
sharply contrasted, -- and also the special social acter of the present volume, and emphasizes how
and ethnological problems of our variously essentially the value of such an undertaking is
assorted population. A particularly incisive dependent upon the temper of the artist, as well
aocount of the indirect but effective way in as upon his particular metier and technique.
which public opinion enters to make or mar the
Viewed on its informational side, and yet
political game deserves honorable mention. The regarding the critical discernment and vigor
comprehensive and intensive absorption of the without which such presentation is stale and
American people in industry and commerce flat though possibly profitable, Mr. Bryce's work
must in every account constitute vast assumes a value to all readers, and ranks as an
and impressive aggregate. Statistics that im- independent contribution; while to Professor
press and bewilder by their magnitude testify Muensterberg's work must be assigned the more
the more strikingly to latter-day strenuosity, humble virtue of a fair suitability to German
hy aid of the historical comparisons of the consumption.
curve of progression through which the In this aspect, however, although the author's
present status has been reached. As typical talents and position make his conclusions worthy
and important problems of our econoinic of distinct consideration, the volume does not
life the silver question, which has already demand, and is not likely to receive, a widely
acquired something of a bygone flavor, and extended notice. The distinctive note thereof
those ominous realities, the tariff, the trusts, and and the contention which it is certain to arouse
the labor unions, are presented primarily in have as yet been indicated in part only. The
terms suited to Teutonic assimilation. With issue arises in regard to the pertinence of the
these obligations realized, Professor Muenster- philosophical key that is presented as unlocking
berg proceeds with a notably freer handling and the secret power-house of American thought and
more congenial manner, to set forth our status activity, and with regard to the judicial deci-
in regard to education, high and low, public and sions which permeate through and through
private, good and bad. A rather bare chapter every topic considered in the several chapters.
on the achievements of science in America gives So much is this the case that the sensitive Amer-
way to a far more sympathetic account of our ican reader leaves the volume with the feeling
literary tendencies, successes, and failures. The of having been unexpectedly liberated from the
manner in which Americans express themselves prisoner's stand; while the publishers (doubtless
in art, and live and move in religious tenets and with no adequate authority) see fit to herald
activities, occupy chapters proportionate to these the volume as a vivisection of the American
factors in American culture. Our social life is people so incisive, true, and interesting that
the most briefly disposed of; the introductory every American will enjoy reading it.' As an
chapter requiring supplementing only by that offset, the author raises the query whether such
most characteristic feature of Americanism, writ a eulogy of Americanism before the Americans'
large in other than the society column, but here will not unduly stimulate the spirit of self-
ungallantly entitled “the self-assertion of satisfaction which may likewise be an American
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and vivisection are equally out of place. The make-up and wastefulness of our direction of
question is not whether a critical estimate of the educational machinery, and has in pleasant
American ways and contributions is a legitimate memory his memorable article in ‘The Atlantic
or desirable matter, but wholly whether the par- Monthly'on ‘School Reform.' When he points
ticular form of holding things in the balance, out the obvious feebleness of the American
which dominates this volume, can or does result drama, and is compelled to admit that it reflects
in any useful or helpful service. That it inter- little of that striving for self-perfection which
feres essentially with the successful ministra- pervades Americanism, we again respond with
tion to the several functions which the book was à chastened 'Amen.' When he indicates the
planned to serve, seems clear enough. While dangers of a too rapidly established dominance
the positing of a philosophic Americanism and of feminine ways of thinking, he finds a public
the persistent application of the odium of com- that appreciates without distorting his caution,
parison are in themselves questionable proceed- even as it questions the need of it. When he
ings, equally in regard to the purposes of the indicates
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author and to the convictions of the reader, the one of the serious shortcomings of our
main issue is as to the intrinsic value of such aggressive democracy, the tendency to overlook
philosophy and of such judicial findings as are really great men and to magnify complacent
here handed down. The philosophy helps the bourgeois leaders, we realize that a vital weak-
reader little, if at all, and certainly weakens, ness has been laid bare. This type of criticism
when it seriously affects, the presentation. For- so far as it is sympathetically and fairly pre-
tunately it frequently does little more than fur- sented — and on this score little fault is to be
nish the author with a series of categories by found is sure to meet with a fair reception,
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means of which dominant American traits even when the manner of indicating these weak-
the significance of which at times lies in other nesses is not particularly acceptable to the
directions are referred back to one or other American type of receptivity. These are in the
of the fourfold motives. If one drops the phi-main fairly definite questions in regard to the
losophy, and plainly sets forth the variety of nature of the cultural tendencies which we col-
characteristic ways, pleasant and unpleasant, in lectively exhibit, and which the observant
which the fundamental American independence stranger in our midst is likely to note.
of thought and action disports itself, the same The type of judgment, the fault of omission
end'is accomplished and nothing lost. That cer- and commission, which is distinctively more
tain traits and tendencies are expressible in certain to arouse protest and antagonism is not
terms of these categories, the author has shown;
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so easy to indicate. The change becomes appar-
but that these have in themselves any explana- ent when the discussion shifts from the indica-
tory or illuminating power does certainly not tions of objective failings to subjective motives,
appear. Yet this objection could be ignored, from what we do and how we do it to that inner
did not Professor Muensterberg insist that in perspective of considerations that eventually
the potency of these four arch-characters of determines action. It is in these attempts to
homo Americanus lies all hope of identifying read back of the tendencies and behind the rec-
and comprehending this interesting new-world ords what is bred in the bone and graven in the
specimen.
heart of the American that the author's foreign
If the philosophy may be dismissed as of spectacles — even though refitted in America
slight efficiency, yet not detracting from the and accustomed to the vagaries of our atmos-
merits of the work except through its needless phere — render inefficient his psychological
obtrusiveness, the same leniency of judgment astuteness. It is on this score that the candid
cannot be extended to the array of positive pro- critic, however favorably disposed towards Pro-
nouncements in which the work abounds. That fessor Muensterberg's able and good-tempered
certain, indeed that many, of the positions effort, cannot avoid the responsibility of indi-
taken are in their salient features sound, and cating that, from the American point of view,
that real distinctions are shrewdly observed, the the distinctive features of the volume carry but
acumen of the author guarantees. The idealism little of conviction or enlightenment. This ver-
of American life is particularly well noticed ; dict conveys with it no intimation of deficiency
though even here love of contrast carries the on the part of the author, except in regard to
point into quite inappropriate fields. One feels, temperamental and hereditary traits. A less able
too, a greater confidence in those judgments man might well have written a book of richer
that repeat the verdict of the author's previous insight: for it is notably true that this art of
volume .American Traits'. and bring with national delineation demands qualities of tem-
them no necessity of speaking pro to one public perament even more than of training. The con-
and con to another. One is grateful when Pro- trast of attitude may be illustrated by referring
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the present exposition finds its guidance. In point would bear elaboration. In spite of
the Teutonic mind this fourfold partitioning the many variations, the intrinsically English
of American traits and its apparent fitness to temper of our civilization is most effective. Had
the situation arouses distinct gratification. In this trait been appreciated, there would have
the American as in the English mind, it merely appeared as ample reason to provide for a chap-
arouses suspicion; and the American writer, ter on self-restraint as for any of the four other
finding himself inclined to fall in love with these types of self-conditioned motives. American
categorical muses, becomes scrupulously cau- self-restraint is not English self-restraint; but
tious to prevent any unseemly subservience to it serves as a common differentium when the
so symmetrically perfect an ideal. The German American is to be contrasted with the German
writer points the finger of emphasis to it in his or the Frenchman. The same insistence on this
preface; the American writer would use the factor of good form and of propriety in the
same space to explain or apologize for his hesi- conduct of affairs, the same prominence of the
tant willingness to use the scheme at all.
ideals of a 'gentleman,' pervade American and
It is but fair that further instances should be English life; and—as a single instance-make
indicated of the failure of the author's tempera- impossible those frequent relations of personal
mentally guided insight to lead him aright hostility that mar the high regard that Amer-
through the mazes of the American character. icans cherish for the German academician.
Any transition from an objective description of These traits are deep-seated; they are difficult to
institutions to a subjective delineation of char- bring to the surface. But it is their omission
acter is particularly difficult in America on that imparts the unreality to the portrait. And,
account of the many varieties of typical Ameri- once more, there is a failure to understand that
cans. Professor Muensterberg tells us that he the American is facile in importing and graft-
is presenting a study of the Americans as the ing foreign products to native growths, but has
'
best of them are, and as the others should wish no intention of absorbing these into his mode of
to be.' As a matter of fact he is frequently life. What we borrow is so vastly different in
describing types that are not suggested by this its effect upon the national temperament from
characterization. And yet he misses the inner what we inherit and what we develop. Ameri-
significance of this very variety itself, - a vari- can ladies import their finery from Paris, but
ety that will not lend itself to the type of form- without thereby becoming in the least Gallic in
ula here regarded as dominant. It is quite the appearance or in outlook on things in general.
same tendency that leads him to posit Washing- The leaders of the intellectual life and in the
ton as the political capital, New York as the world of commerce make use of ideas and
commercial, and Boston as the intellectual. processes that are made in Germany, but they
Apart from the inevitable concentration of show nothing Teutonic in their intellectual
national politics at the capital, these differenti- make-up.
. The expert may recognize the for-
ations are misleading. If America were Euro-eign traits in the transplanted fruit, but the
,
peanised, we would of necessity have commer- soil by which the tree grows is thoroughly Amer-
cial and intellectual capitals. The significant ican. .
fact about us is that these things are not cen- It is for like reasons that Professor Muen-
tralised; and the insistence of the intellectual sterberg's practical mission seems equally hope-
superiority of Boston, like the recurrent glorifi- less of result. The German and the American
cation of the members of the Harvard faculty, are likely to continue to feel such measure of
cannot but arouse a smile where it does not call attraction and repulsion for one another as they
up a less charitable emotion. For the type of now cherish; and no indication, however justi-
national portraiture that is here attempted, the fied and adequate, of their community of inter-
American simply will not — though possibly he ests and ideals, will alter the effectiveness of
should — obey the rules of the game. The result those temperamental qualities that one may
is that the diversity of American character is acknowledge with regret — do form a consid-
slighted, and that the type held up as dominant erable obstacle between the mutual understand-
to the inquisitive German is distinctively mis-ing of German and American. In this estrange-
leading. It carries with it little of the quality ment and national incompatability, the Ameri-
of a portrait from the living model, but rather nds nself not alone; but often discov-
the conventionalised academic grouping of fea- ers with surprise how the same feeling, though
tures that has its source in a prejudiced mental differently motivated, is shared by so many
photograph.
other of the dominant nations of Europe.
Specifically does it fail by lack of compre- While acknowledging gratefully and admir-
hension of the underlying sterling English | ingly the objective service which this volume is
group of ideas and modes of reaction which to perform in the German community, the self-
still constitute the core of Americanism. The assertive American cannot refrain from express-
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ex-
ing with regret but with conviction his inability and partition, the United States has acquired
to endorse the judicial pronouncements or the foreign territory on about a dozen different
philosophic standpoint of Professor Muenster- occasions. Usually (the cases of Texas and
berg's The Americans. It is possible that we
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Hawaii being the main exceptions) territory
lack the gift to see ourselves as others see us; acquired in any of these ways has been com-
but we cannot candidly laud the lifelikeness of pelled to pass through a transition stage inter-
the portrait when we are introduced into its vening between the occupation of it by the
presence.
JOSEPH JASTROW.
officials and troops of the United States and
the definite organization of it into territories'
in the technical sense. During this transition
stage, when the authority of previous owners
MILITARY RULE AND NATIONAL
and claimants had been cut off and that of the
EXPANSION.*
United States could be asserted only through
temporary agents, such annexed domains have
From the organization of the Northwest Ter-
been held under what is commonly known as
ritory in the days of the Confederation, to the Military Government. What Dr. Thomas set
events of the past few years resulting from the
out to do, and what he may be said to have
Spanish war, the United States has pursued a done with a good degree of success, was to
fairly consistent, though not arbi-
start with Louisiana in 1803 and make a sur-
trarily designed, course of territorial
vey of all our annexations of territory with
pansion. With an energetic and growing
population, and with vast stretches of produc respect to the theory and practice of military
government as applied during this preparatory
tive lands ever just across the borders, this stage by the executive power of the United
aspect of our national history has been clearly States. The result, therefore, is not a history
inevitable. It may well be questioned whether we
of American expansion in general, or of Ameri-
have need to acquire landed possessions across
can military government in general, but a
the seas; but that we have, or soon shall have, pointed presentation of the part which military
a real use for all the territories contiguous with
government has played in the intervals, usually
our own which we have annexed during the
brief, between the stationing of commandants
past hundred years, will hardly be disputed by by the President in annexed territories and the
anyone, even though methods employed, as in
placing of these territories on a civil basis by
the case of the Mexican cessions, may not be action of Congress. The task of preparing such
regarded as always distinctly creditable.
a study, as the author conceived it, involved not
It is a curious fact that in the mass of lit-
only a consideration of the legal status of new
erature, more or less worthy, that has grown territory and the legal basis for military gov-
up about the subject of American expansion, ernment and its various administrative activ-
one very important phase of the process has ities, but also a description of the actual
until recently been almost totally neglected. management of new acquisitions from the time
The political, the constitutional, the diplomatic, of occupation until the organization of terri-
and the commercial aspects of territorial acqui- torial or state governments.
sition have been pretty well worked out, but The fullest and most valuable part of the
as a rule the strictly administrative policies and book is that dealing with the four great acqui-
principles involved have been dealt with by sitions of Louisiana, Florida, New Mexico, and
writers only incidentally, or at least with refer. California. The preliminary governments of a
ence merely to single cases of annexation. There military character established in these regions
has been no well-grounded attempt at sys- are discussed with a very satisfactory apprecia-
tematic treatment of the subject as a whole. tion of existing conditions and with a clear
The need for such a piece of work is now in part conception of the larger political and constitu-
supplied by Dr. David Y. Thomas's 'History tional bearings of the system. The treatment
of Military Government in newly acquired Ter- of military rule in other annexed territories,
ritory of the United States,' a doctoral dis- | Alaska, Hawaii, the Philippines, Porto Rico,
sertation of rather unusual merit recently Samoa, and the Panama Canal zone,—is much
submitted to the Faculty of Political Science briefer, and on the whole less satisfactory. The
of Columbia University.
author tells us that regarding these he deems
The proposed scope of Dr. Thomas's mono-
it' unnecessary, not to say improper, to go into
graph should be made clear before judgment details upon the same scale,' and that ‘for the
,
is passed. By purchase, conquest, occupation, most part they must be left to the reader's
A HISTORY OF
GOVERNMENT IN NEWLY memory of partisan accounts, or to the
ACQUIRED TERRITORY OF THE UNITED STATES.
researches of a later historian when the air
Yancey Thomas, Ph.D. (Columbia University Studies in
History, Economics, and Public Law, Vol. XX.).
shall have cleared and the evidence shall be
complete and accessible.' Notwithstanding the
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spirit of scholarly caution here displayed, it theus ’), but those works are to follow in a
would seem that more than two pages might series of five more volumes.
profitably have been given to Alaska, and more The sixteen volumes now reprinted include
than one to Hawaii. It is fair to say, however, the two Greek dramas, the three series of
that there is probably nowhere in print a bet- 'Poems and Ballads,' the two volumes of Arthu-
ter summary of military government in the rian narratives, . Songs before Sunrise,” « Songs
Philippines and Porto Rico than that given of Two Nations,' 'Songs of the Springtides,
us by Dr. Thomas.
Studies in Song,' 'A Midsummer Holiday,'
The work throughout is based on the best "A Century of Roundels,' 'Astrophel,' 'A
of documentary materials, and these are Channel Passage, and the ‘ Heptalogia. The
referred to in the foot-notes with a fair degree last-named collection of parodies is now first
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of frequency. One cannot repress the feeling, acknowledged by Mr. Swinburne, although its
however, that so elaborate a treatise on a subject authorship has been an open secret from the
of such general interest ought never to be pub- time of its publication a quarter of a century
lished unaccompanied by a full and systematic ago. All these volumes are reprinted with prac-
bibliography. The index to the work, too, istically no changes. Mr. Swinburne is evidently
rather inadequate. FREDERIC AUSTIN OGG.
of the opinion that the product of the creative
hour had better be left to speak for itself, that
any subsequent tinkering is more likely to mar
than to mend the original. For an artist of
THE POETRY OF MR. SWINBURNE.*
Mr. Swinburne's type, whose verses are forged
at white heat, although with no scamping of the
Singer last born of all the starry race
workmanship, this appears to be a just instinct,
Whose names make bright the heaven of Eng. although it is possible that artists of other types
With words that should not do thee wholly
may be well-advised in making amendments at
wrong
the dictate of the reflective years that super-
We fain would praise and thank thee for the grace
The question is one that admits of no
Bestowed of all thy gifts, were not the space
Of our slight verse too narrow for the throng
general rule of practice, although a recollection
Of grateful memories and emotions strong
of the improvements that some great poets
That cluster round thy name to find a place. have made upon their originals incline us to
But we will bring thee tribute of our love,
believe that the labor limæ so frequently lauded
Because thy song has ever set above
is more likely than not to be a work of futility.
All things most cherished since the world began Mr. Swinburne, at least, has had no doubts
The priceless thing which gives to life its worth, as far as his own work is concerned, and beyond
Most sacred of the sacred things of earth,-
The freedom of the body and soul of man.
a few trifling corrections of the most obvious
sort, and a few lines added to the 'Heptalogia,'
It is a great satisfaction to have at last the has altered nothing. Allied to the instinct
complete poetical works of Mr. Swinburne in which has held him to this course is that which
a uniform library edition. The foremost of liv- has impelled him to reprint everything con-
ing poets has long been held from his own in tained in the volumes as first published. He
the estimate of the larger reading public by the
says of the ‘Notes' that accompanied and de-
fact that it has hitherto been almost impossible fended the famous first volume of 'Poems and
to view his work as a whole. The numerous Ballads' that he has nothing to retract from
and multiform books which have contained it them, and this statement at least implies that
have been difficult to obtain and almost prohibi- he has nothing to retract from the poems them-
tive in price. The author says: It is nothing selves, or from any of the poems that have fol-
to me that what I write should find immediate lowed them during nearly forty years. Even
or general acceptance, and the sincerity of the the poems inspired by political passions that
statement is beyond question. But it is much now seem remote to us are all scrupulously
to all lovers of poetry that the only surviving reproduced, from the curses heaped upon the
exemplar of the great Victorian age of song
third Napoleon and the ninth Pius in the sixties
should be easily accessible to them, and such to the denunciation in the eighties of the hoary
access is now measurably facilitated by the six henchman of the gang' who, in the opinion of
volumes into which the contents of the earlier the poet, sought the undoing of England for the
sixteen have been brought together. Even this
furtherance of his political ambitions. Even if
collection does not include the dramatic works the years have lessened the vehemence of some
(with the exception of 'Atalanta ' and ' Erech-
of these old animosities, they were genuine
enough at the time of their expression, and the
With portrait. New York: Harper & Broth-
poet probably feels that to delete them from his
work would denote a lack of intellectual integ-
In
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us.
and
very God.
when the fieet
Bound
wake to greet
shores of Crete.'
rity. Litera scripta manet, and these things are of poems inspired by political passion, and
a part of the historical record from which the poems of a personal or memorial nature. In
final judgment pronounced upon nineteenth- the first of these categories comes“ A Word for
century men and affairs will be made up. the Navy' (which is an old poem not hitherto
In our last issue, something was said of the reprinted), The Commonweal," "The Question,
deeply interesting retrospect which prefaces the and ‘Apostasy' (which date from the home
first volume of this collected edition. The pur- rule controversy of the eighties), the poems on
pose of the present review is mainly to discuss recent happenings in Russia, Greece, and Crete,
the contents of 'A Channel Passage and Other and a group of pieces occasioned by the war in
Poems,' published in England as a separate new South Africa. The poems of this group are
volume, but in this country (thus far at least) greatly inferior to Mr. Swinburne's earlier work
only as the final section of the sixth volume of of similar character, and need not long detain
the complete poems. A few of Mr. Swinburne's The ode to Russia achieved a certain noto-
later poems have seemed to us, as they have riety because of the line
appeared from time to time in the reviews, to * Night hath none but one red star-Tyrannicide,'
be unworthy of his genius. Although all these which cost the author many a hard journalistic
pieces are now reprinted, they are in the com- rap. The verses · For Greece and Crete' yield
pany of so many others to which the most cap- these noble lines, which may, however, be over-
tious critic would find it difficult to take excep- matched a dozen times by passages in ‘Athens.'
tion, that the impression made by the volume as
Greece, where only men whose manhood was as godhead
a whole is that it adds materially to the poet's ever trod,
fame. It maintains as high an average level as
Bears the blind world witness yet of light wherewith her
feet are shod :
is reached by most of the preceding volumes, Freedom, armed of Greece, was always very man
and it fairly outweighs one or two of them.
Its publication is then, absolutely considered, an * Now the winds of old that filled her sails with triumph,
event of the first importance, or at least of
for death from Asia fled before them stricken,
greater importance than could possibly attach
to the publication of a new collection by any Ships full-winged again for freedom toward the sacred
other known English singer.
The titular poem is accompanied by a date
The memorial poems now collected include
(1855) which would indicate that it was half a
pieces inscribed to Shakespeare, Cromwell, Nel-
century old. But this date must refer to the
son, Burns, Rabelais, Voltaire, and Dumas, be-
experience described rather than to the com- sides personal tributes to Christina Rossetti,
position of the verses, for ' A Channel Passage'
Mrs. Lynn Linton, Lord Leighton, G. F. Watts,
is clearly written in the poet's matured style,
President Carnot, and Aurelio Saffi. There is
and it is inconceivable that it should really have
also a tender dedication (in the familiar stanza
been produced by a boy of eighteen - even by
which the poet has made his own for such pur-
as marvellous a boy as he who wrote Hesperia' poses) to the memory of William Morris and
A few lines will make this fact sufficiently evi-
Edward Burne-Jones. These poems have ‘the
dent.
redeeming quality of entire and absolute sin-
'Far eastward, clear of the covering of cloud, the sky
cerity' which the author claims for them, be-
laughed out into light
sides many other admirable qualities concerning
From the rims of the storm to the sea's dark edge with
which his own voice is silent, but which the
The leaping and luminous blossoms of live sheet lightning
critic is bound also to claim for them. The
that laugh as they fade
most important of these poems is the ode to
From the cloud's black base to the black waves' brim
rejoiced in the light they made.
Burns, from which we take the closing stanzas.
Far westward, throned in a silent sky, where life was in
lustrous tune,
* But never, since bright earth was born
Shone, sweeter and surer than morning or evening, the
In rapture of the enkindling morn,
steadfast smile of the moon.
Might godlike wrath and sunlike scorn
The limitless heaven that enshrined them was lovelier
than dreams may bebold, and deep
As life or as death, revealed and transfigured, may shine
on the soul through sleep.
. Above the rude and radiant earth
That heaves and glows from firth to firth
'A Channel Passage’ is but one of the nature-
In vale and mountain, bright in dearth
poems which are scattered with lavish hand
And warm in wealth,
Which gave his flery glory birth
throughout this volume. Others of great beauty
By chance and stealth,
are The Lake of Gaube,' Hawthorn Tide,
Above the storms of praise and blame
and 'The High Oaks.'
That blow with mist his lustrous name,
The remaining contents of the collection
His thunderous laughter went and came,
And lives and flies ;
(with one notable exception, to be discussed
The roar that follows on the flame
hereafter) fall chiefly within the two categories
When lightning dies.
flames that were flowerlike and white.
That was and is
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Earth, and the snow-dimmed heights of air,
Then, soft as the dews of night,
And water winding soft and fair
As the stars of the sundown bright,
Through still sweet places, bright and bare,
As the heart of the sea's hymn deep,
By bent and byre,
And sweet as the balm of sleep,
Taught him what hearts within them were:
Arose on the world a light
But his was fire.'
Too pure for the skies to keep.'
A word of praise should also be given to the A beautiful tribute to St. Theresa occupies a
Rabelais roundel, the Carnot sonnet, and the conspicuous place in the poem, and fairly
verses in memory of Mrs. Linton, in the simple matches the glorification of St. Catherine in
form of the verses written to the glory of Lan- the 'Siena' of 'Songs before Sunrise.' Then
dor forty years ago.
comes the tale of the gradual undoing of the
Among the miscellaneous features of this vol-
ecclesiastical perversions of Christianity, with
ume may be noted an ode to ‘Music,' some ex- mention of Bruno and Rabelais, and much
quisite new songs of childhood, a translation of praise of Shakespeare.
the Delphic Hymn to Apollo, some lines ' At a
• In him all truth and the glory thereof and the power
Dog's Grave,' and a group of 'Prologues' for
and the pride,
certain of the more famous Elizabethan plays.
The song of the soul and her story, bore witness that
These poems supplement the earlier series of All hope, all wonder, all trust, all doubt that knows not
of fear,
sonnets on the old English dramatists, of which
The love of the body, the lust of the spirit to see and to
the author says: 'I can hardly remember any
hear,
task that I ever took more delight in discharg- All womanhood, fairer than love could conceive or desire
or adore,
ing than I felt in the inadequate and partial
All manhood, radiant above all heights that it held of
payment of a lifelong debt to the marvellous
Lived by the life of his breath, with the speech of his
and matchless succession of poets who made the soul's will spake,
glory of our country incomparable for ever by And the light lit darkness to death whence never the
dead shall wake.'
the work they did between the joyful date of
the rout of the Armada and the woeful date of The final section of the poem ends as follows:
the outbreak of the civil war.' The ‘Prologues' All the names wherein the incarnate Lord lived his day
and died
may be taken as a further instalment toward
Fade from suns to stars, from stars into darkness undes-
the payment of the debt thus acknowledged.
cried.
They and the volume are closed by “The After-
Christ the man lives yet, remembered of man as dreams
that leave
glow of Shakespeare,' -
Light on eyes that wake and know not if memory bid
* Alone of all whose doom is death and birth,
them grieve.
Shakespeare is lord of souls alive on earth.'
Fire sublime as lightning shines, and exalts in thunder
yet,
We have left for the close of this review our
Where the battle wields the
and the sword of
consideration of the poem which is the crown-
Mahomet.
Far above all wars and gospels, all ebb and flow of time,
ing glory of the present volume. "The Altar
Lives the soul that speaks in silence, and makes mute
of Righteousness' is so great a poem that any
earth sublime.
words of praise would do it but scant justice.
Still for her, though years and ages be blinded and
bedinned,
It may be briefly described as a companion to
Mazed with lightnings, crazed with thunders, life rides
the Hymn of Man,' and as the final summing-
and guides the wind.
Death may live or death may die, and the truth be light
up of the poet's philosophy, the last word in his
or night,
confession of religious faith. The contrast be- Not for gain of heaven may man put away the rule of
tween the shifting forms of superstition and the
right.'
veiled central object of all true religious emo- With this strain of majestic music in our ears,
tion is embodied in the following passage:
we close the volume, our gratitude to the poet
* Of cloud and of change is the form of the fashion that
for his many past gifts strengthened and re-
man may behold of it wrought:
newed, our thankfulness deepened for his con-
of iron and truth is the mystic mid altar, where wor-
ship is none but of thought.
tinued presence in the world of living men.
No prayers may go up to it, climbing as incense of glad-
WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE.
ness or sorrow may climb :
No rapture of music may ruffle the silence that guards
it, and hears not of time.
As the winds of the wild blind ages alternate in passion
'An American Primer,' by Walt Whitman, edited
of light and of cloud,
by Mr. Horace Traubel, is published by Messrs.
So changes the shape of the veil that enshrouds it with Small, Maynard & Co. This manuscript of notes
darkness and light for a shroud.
for a projected lecture dates from before the Civil
And the winds and the clouds and the stars fall silent, War, but has never before been put into print. It
and fade out of hearing or sight,
is a very important addition to the library of Whit-
And the shrine stands fast and is changed not, whose
mania, and the form of publication is most attract-
likeness was changed as a cloud in the night.'
ive. The same publishers send us, in similar form,
The body of this poem offers a sort of historical Walt Whitman's Diary in Canada,' with extracts
survey of the religious instinct groping its way
from other of his diaries and literary note-books,
edited by Mr. William Sloane Kennedy. Each vol-
upward to the light. To the advent of Chris-
ume has a portrait, and the former has some fac-
tianity this lovely tribute is paid :
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trates the rights and wrongs of the trade union.
STRUGGLES IN THE WORLD OF SUFFERING.*
Rev. Francis G. Peabody reminds us that the
In the volume sent forth from the busy great public is a party in controversy whose
office of the secretary of the New York Charity interests are paramount and which ultimately
Organization Society, those who are interested holds final power of decision and control. Al-
in benevolent work will find a most instructive together, the discussion, while rather an inter-
and stimulating discussion of The Principles pretation of our situation than the report of
“
of Relief.' The standpoint is that of one who primary investigation, is a sane and sensible
is most familiar with the heroic efforts of statement of many of the most essential con-
private charity to mitigate the sufferings of clusions of impartial and competent students.
dependent families. Its author, Mr. Edward Along the path of thought made familiar
T. Devine, is optimistic, and indicates the con- by the Socialists, the author of Mass and
ditions under which relief may help without Class, a Survey of Social Divisions, conducts
pauperizing. But he comes to the practical us to the inevitable conclusion, the coöperative
conclusion that all direct measures will fail commonwealth. And if the terrible facts cited
unless larger social policies are fostered. The
from reliable sources stood alone; if they rep-
book will help us to give a quantitative value resented the main tendency of capitalistic
to our vague notions about the standard of management; if it should prove true that the
living and the minimum wage; and no writer
traders cannot be honest and cannot even con-
has applied this definite standard to the struct a moral code; if their domination makes
methods of poor relief more thoroughly. Espe- falsehood and oppression necessary,— then the
cially valuable to a student is the analysis of people would greet almost any change, save
typical relief problems, which enables one to
revolution. Our President has a mind to tame
arrive at principles of relief much as a study
the traders, and make an experiment with con-
of court decisions takes one to the heart of stitutional and legal regulation. If his method
legal principles. A brief historical survey of fail, Mr. Ghent's thorough scheme would have
English and American poor laws and methods several millions of attentive readers. Mean-
furnishes a background for the generalizations,
time, the nation puts the prophet on the upper
and the deductions from the experiments made shelf, and awaits with some patience the trial
in connection with such disasters as the Chi-
of less heroic remedies.
cago Fire, and industrial distress in periods Mr. Robert Hunter, in his work on ' Poverty,
of crisis, are of permanent value. The field of disclaims any pretensions to original investiga-
vision is chiefly that of a charity organiza-
tions and novel contributions to knowledge.
tionist, and some important topics,- as state
His materials might be found in the documents
and town relief, child-saving work, care of
and treatises which are cited in his bibliography.
defectives, and others,— are lightly Yet it is fair to say that he has coined the
touched. The work will be recognized as one
crude metal into current form and stamped it
of the chief contributions on this vital subject. with his own personal quality. He has, as
Dr. Washington Gladden has written a grace-
agent of charity organizations and settlements,
ful sketch of the historical development of
been driven by what he witnessed and expe-
industrial organizations of society and the ten-
rienced to the discovery that individual effort
dency to improvement in the lot of wage-
and philanthropic agencies are utterly inade-
carners, in the volume entitled Organized quate to prevent the increase of misery in the
'
Labor and Capital.' Mr. Talcott Williams absence of a national policy. His descriptions
analyzes with wealth of legal learning the origin
of extreme distress have the vivid color and
of corporations and the ethical and legal prin- sharp outline which comes only with direct
ciples which regulate appropriate treatment of
observation. His statistics of pauperism are
them. Dr. George Hodges defines and illus- confessedly incomplete, and his estimates may
be exaggerated; but he has clearly demonstrated
* THE PRINCIPLES OF RELIEF. By Edward T. Devine, the necessity for more thorough investigations
ORGANIZED LABOR AND CAPITAL. The William T. Bull
by the government than we have yet had. It
Lectures for
By Washington Gladden, Talcott seems incredible that any human being can
Williams, George Hodges, and Francis G. Peabody. Phila- read this volume without fixing his purpose to
delphia: George W. Jacobs & Co.
MASS AND CLASS. A Survey of Social Divisions. By
work for a more rational method of dealing
W. J. Ghent.
with the immigration of defectives, the insur-
POVERTY. By Robert Hunter. New York: The Mac- ance of unskilled workingmen, the municipal
millan Co.
By Charles Sprague
provision for playgrounds, and the other sane
Smith. New York: A. Wessels Co.
and practical measures which promise at least
OUT OF WORK. A Study of Employment Agencies. By
some degree of relief. The argument for legal
Frances A. Kellor.
SEVEN YEARS' HARD. By Richard Free.
prohibition of child-labor in urban industries
E. P. Dutton & Co.
is sound and vibrant with patriotic and humane
some
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Ph.D.
New York: The Macmillan Co.
1904.
New York: The Macmillan Co.
WORKING
WITH
THE
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nor
sympathy. Those who simply neglect to read employers, debased by drink and ignorance, and
such discussions become participants in the indifferent to art, science, history, morals, and
national injustice which threatens our civiliza- religion. The author is not without his theories
tion with a new invasion, a veritable deluge of of reform, he would have all land owned by
barbarism. It will little avail to promote government; all churches united and free from
science, art, and literature, unless adequate dissension and soup-house bribery; while culti-
measures are taken to select the breeding stock vated people from the West End should reside
for the nation. At present the tendency is to in the East End and leaven the obdurate lump.
select the unfit; and the author shows that In his view, ordinary philanthropy is mockery,
race suicide' is an inevitable consequence of a homeopathic pill diluted in a sea of misery;
unregulated immigration. His argument on
.
for the gift without the giver is bare.'
this point deserves special attention.
CHARLES RICHMOND HENDERSON.
The director of the People's Institute in New
York, which conducts educational work chiefly
in the Cooper Union, describes his experiments
and sets down certain generalizations in his
book entitled Working with the People.'
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
Workingmen are deeply interested in those
From "The Academy' and 'Litera-
social problems that are concerned with the
ture' are gathered together the
distribution of wealth; but the Classes' up-
book-chats written by E. G. O.,'
town will not spend time listening to lectures the collection bearing the title “Egomet (John
on such subjects, for they are the happy pos- Lane), . A more thorough-going, one might
sessors. Workingmen like discussions rather almost say incorrigible, bookman than ‘E. G. 0.'
than sermons, and their interests are wide
it would be hard to imagine. Literature, how-
enough to include music, history, literature,
ever, is not his calling, as he tells us that he
earns his bread somewhere in commercial Lon-
drama, and some religion. Sectarianism in a
don, working from ten in the morning until late
mixed audience is not tolerated, but a man who in the afternoon, with two weeks of vacation in
can show how the immanent forces of the uni-
the summer; but reading is his one passion, and
verse are related to right and happiness on this it is reading for pleasure solely. In a declara-
earth may gain a hearing. Socialism is wel- tion neither voicing the loftiest ideals
come in such gatherings, because it gives the
clothed in immaculate English, he frankly says,
“ Masses some chance to control the social “Life is given us for enjoyment, so I read what
machinery which masters their lives. Municipal
I believe I will enjoy.' But his manifest sin-
ownership of public utilities is favored by these
cerity in all his literary judgments, and his
abounding enthusiasm for a wide range of good
books make his chapters delightful reading.
Miss Frances A. Kellor, in her book entitled
Qualities and preferences, it is true, he very hon-
Out of Work,' has brought together a body of estly reveals, that one might wish to be other-
first-hand information about the devices and wise. For instance, that roaring despot, Dr.
mysterious ways of employment-agencies and Johnson,' he likes not at all. But as he repeat-
intelligence-offices, which throws much light on
edly sings the praises of The Pilgrim's Prog-
the perplexities of housekeepers. Ultimately
ress' and 'Robinson Crusoe,' and as the way to
this investigation will doubtless aid in the
his heart is through his favorite books, perhaps
amelioration of conditions. The method of
he will let us call his attention to two familiar
anecdotes that ought to soften him toward the
securing the facts was one which a detective will
a
worthy Doctor. One day, as Croker tells us,
admire and which the man of science will Johnson took Bishop Percy's little girl on his
commend, for it was marked by shrewdness and knee and asked her what she thought of "The
exactness. The campaign in which this plucky Pilgrim's Progress.' The child replied that she
student is a pioneer will carry terror to the
had not read it. “No!' returned the Doctor;
unscrupulous and will help the honest and use-
'then I would not give one farthing for you.
ful men and women whose function it is to
Thereupon he set her down and took no further
notice of her. Mrs. Piozzi records in her
market the commodity of surplus and misplaced
Anecdotes’ a saying of Johnson's that should
labor.
delight our book-lover. “Was there ever yet
In the volume entitled 'Seven Years' Hard,' anything written by mere man,' he asks, 'that
a young clergyman of the Church of England was wished longer by its readers, excepting
tells in fragments of anecdote, with a hint of “Don Quixote," "Robinson Crusoe,” and “The
social philosophy and a little of clerical bias,
Pilgrim's Progress"'?' 'E. G. O.' is an old
some of his experiences in a poverty-cursed
bachelor, dried and seasoned, a lover of his pipe
region of East London. It is not a story and it
and his fire-side, and perhaps in some danger of
is not a system of sociology, but a series of snap
forgetting that life is more than literature, and
that man does not live by books alone. Yet as
shots of the life of people ground to earth by are judging him from data furnished by
audiences.
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himself for our entertainment, we must be fancy. It is by no means every writer who will
lenient. We believe him to have
yield results worth while either to desultory or
human heart, and to be at bottom a right good to careful reading, but we think Mr. Boynton
fellow, whose real name we should like to learn, has attained to that good fortune.
and whose acquaintance we should like to make. on 'Journalism and Literature,' from which the
volume takes its title, attempts no rigid dis-
The birthplace
The city of Ferrara, at one time tinction between the two, but admits a great
of Savonarola.
one of the great centres of Italian deal of inter-penetration along the lower mar-
culture, at present holds a position gin of the latter and the upper margin of the
of relative unimportance, and so little is heard former. The ruthless demands of daily jour-
of it that but few have a definite idea even nalism could not keep a Godkin confined wholly
of its location. But the city that was the within its narrow limits, and on the other hand
birthplace of Savonarola, the home of Ariosto, the many who reach the higher walks of litera-
and the refuge of Tasso, will never be wholly ture through the avenue of journalism are not
forgotten. Interest in this old Lombard town always successful in leaving the dust of the road
will doubtless be stimulated by the recently pub- wholly behind them. The two functions in their
lished 'Story of Ferrara,' written by Miss Ella normal development, however, are quite distinct.
Noyes and included in the Mediæval Towns' Literature, properly so called, requires the cre-
series (Dent-Macmillan). The author devotes ative faculty and presents a personal interpreta-
about two-thirds of her book to the history of tion of life; the business of journalism is to
the city, and recounts its troubles and triumphs record events and to comment upon them from a
from its earliest emergence in the seventh cen- more or less rigidly pre-determined point of
tury to its great eclipse at the close of the six- view. The originality that is the prime condi-
teenth. The whole account centres about the tion of success in pure literature is not needed
ruling family of Este, which came into undis-
in journalism, and may even be a stumbling
puted control of the city in 1208. To this
block. On the whole, we like the paper on
remarkable line of rulers, typical despots of the
• American Humor' better than anything else in
wonderful age of the Renaissance, Ferrara owes
Mr. Boynton's volume. The author's power
her greatness and her fame. The story of the
of packing a great deal of truth in a few words
various reigns is, as a rule, told in a sympathetic
shows to good effect in his adjudication of cer-
tain claims to a seat on the bench of humor.
manner; still, the author is not blind to the
strange weakness and grossness that seem to
For instance: "The true humorist cannot help
have formed a part of the character and culture
concerning himself with some sort of interpreta-
of the period and tries to present a true picture
tion of life: Mr. Bangs can.'
of Estensi despotism. Her work seems to have
this defect, however,-that too much is said of
The supplying of materials for the
regiment in
the court and too little of the masses that strove
future great history of the Civil
to supply the splendor that is described so well.
War goes on unceasingly; and one
In the last third of the book we are given a
of the most popular forms taken is that of regi-
descriptive view of the city, its palaces, pictures, mental records. These, like the family genealo-
streets, churches, and abbeys. In forming an
gies and town annals of New England, while not
idea of what remains of Ferrara's greatness, the
exactly history, are indispensable to the histo-
reader is aided by a number of interesting illus-
rian; and the story of a regiment's war achieve-
trations drawn by Miss Dora Voyes. The work
ments has at least symmetrical form,-a true be-
is written in easy, dignified English, the narra-
ginning, middle, and end. Those who peruse
tive is interesting, and the historian displays
it with breathless interest are the survivors and
good taste and judgment both in her choice and
their families; the 'general reader' will go
her rejection of materials. The book is well
through it as he does through the flag-rooms and
supplied with poetical quotations from the great
relic-rooms in the State-house,- with his hat off
Italian masters; but as these are frequently not
and his attention only occasionally roused by the
mention of a famous name. One of the best
translated, their presence often detracts from
the general interest of the work.
recent books in this kind is entitled “Trials and
Triumphs; or, the Record of the Fifty-fifth Ohio
l'ithy essays
To say that the substance of Mr. Volunteer Infantry' (McClurg); and its prin-
on literary H. W. Boynton's volume entitled cipal author is Captain Hartwell Osborn, who
subjects. ‘Journalism and Literature' served honorably with the regiment throughout
(Houghton) has appeared, for the most part, in
the war. The Fifty-fifth Ohio was recruited in
“The Atlantic Monthly' is enough to indicate Huron County (of which Norwalk is the county-
that it is made up of serious and suggestive seat), after the reverses at Bull Run had stirred
work, though the narrow limits within which the North to greater efforts; it had its full share
the separate essays are confined suggest rather of the campaigns in Virginia, Tennessee, and
the 'by-product' of literary effort than its Georgia, and of the terrible work at Chancellors-
main purpose. There is a touch here and there ville and Gettysburg. This is related with clear-
in Mr. Boynton's work that reminds one of ness and graphic power by Captain Osborn; and,
Miss Repplier, and one might very successfully besides the narrative, the book is unusually com-
pick up his book for 'dozy hour' reading, fol- plete in regimental statistics, sketches of officers
lowing the by-paths of thought which his sen- and citizens, and personal notes and recollections
tences open up or letting them drop to suit the of soldiers. Photographs, both wartime' and
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modern, have been reproduced in profusion, to the Town and Province of Bordeaux.' His liter-
recall the features of many a comrade; and the ary output seems to have met with consider-
work is in every way a real contribution to the able favor, as several editions of the ‘Mémoires'
literature of the great struggle.
appeared in his lifetime. Mr. Horsley names
Brussels, 1737, as the place and date of the first
A scientific Professor Holtzmann's ‘Life of publication of this work; but we find record of
biography Jesus,' published in Germany in an earlier edition, apparently the first one,
of Jesus.
1901, now appears in an English issued at Frankfort in 1730. The book is pre-
translation (Macmillan). The book represents an eminently for military men, being devoted to
effort to present the trustworthy picture of the the details of battles and sieges, of marches and
life of Jesus that it is felt historical science counter-marches. Other readers will find it
is under obligation to provide, and the point of tiresomely prolix. Both translator and printer
view is therefore strictly that of scientific crit- appear to have done their work well. Portraits,
icism. The work exhibits thorough acquaintance plans of battles, and a copious index are duly
with the sources, Jewish as well as Christian, provided.
and with the literature of the subject. More-
over, the writer possesses to a good degree the
The problems In the preface to Mr. Frank L.
of Modern
sympathy and insight necessary for such a task.
McVey's Modern Industrialism'
Industrialism.
As sources for the life of Jesus, he recognizes
(Appleton), the author confesses
the Synoptic Gospels, or rather their sources,
that it were indeed a bold task to consider such
the Gospel of Mark and Matthew's collection
an inclusive subject within a single volume. He
of sayings which was used by all three Synop-
confines himself, therefore, to showing, first, the
tics. The first and best source is always the
essential elements of the industrial history in the
Collection of Discourses; the next best is the
United States, Great Britain, and Germany; sec-
Gospel of Mark' (p. 32). The 'Gospel accord-
ond, to pointing out some of their complications;
ing to the Hebrews' is reckoned one of the
and, third, to discussing certain consequent prob-
primary sources we possess for the life af
lems of administration. The reader is initiated
Jesus' (p. 52). While Professor Briggs is found-
into the discussion through a survey of the sub-
ing his chronology of Jesus's ministry upon
ject, a general comparison of the methods of pro-
John's references to various feasts, Professor
duction at various times and in different places.
Holtzmann is dismissing the fourth Gospel as a
He is then shown particularly the industrial
mere work of art, and describing the sorry tat-
changes which have taken place within the three
ters that we possess of the lost 'Gospel accord-
countries which the author purposes to consider.
ing to the Hebrews' as 'certainly equal as a
Thence he is led through a more detailed and
source to the Johannine Gospel in value' (p.
extremely interesting account of present indus-
46). Surely the truth lies between these posi-
trial conditions, and the institutions which are
tions. Holtzmann's Greek feeling is clearly at
the outcome of them. Logically, questions arise
fault when appeals to the saying of alome as to the correction of certain evils, and solutions
in the lost 'Gospel according to the Egyptians,' are clearly and concisely offered from the point
Then have I done well in that I have not borne of view of State interference, regulation, and
children,' for the words may as well be read government ownership. Mr. McVey's conclusion
"Then had I done well not to bear children?' as to present conditions, especially in the United
The contradiction between this fragment and
States, are somewhai ominous; and yet his out-
the Synoptic tradition as to Salome (Mt. 27:56, look for the future can be considered in no way
Mk. 15:40) is factitious.
pessimistic. His book, on account of its fairness
and balance, deserves to be widely read; and it
Memoirs of
To those interested in that some- can hardly fail to create in its readers a livelier
what perplexing conflict known as interest in industrial conditions.
dragoon officer. the War of the Spanish Succes-
sion, Mr. Walter C. Horsley's translation of a
Mr. Charles A. Eastman's 'Red
Animal stories
now_little-known French work, which he styles
Hunters and the Animal People'
by an Indian.
in English The Chronicles of an Old Cam-
(Harper) is likely at first to be a
paigner, 1692-1717' (Dutton), will be welcome. little disappointing, it is so plain, so lacking in
The author of these ‘Mémoires,' he tells us, is art or artifice. After Mr. Long and Mr. Thomp-
M. de la Colonie, and nowhere in the book have son-Seton, it is like bread-and-butter after des-
we come upon his full name, which from other sert. But it nearly, if not quite, justifies the
sources we learn to be Jean-Martin de la Colonie. simile, for if the reader sustains his interest
He was a native of Bordeaux, and early entered long enough his taste will approve the rather
the service of Maximilian Edward, Elector of homely fare. Mr. Eastman, as is well known,
Bavaria, and ally of France in the war that is an educated Sioux Indian, but he does not
resulted in seating Philip of Anjou on the Span- pose, even upon that vantage-ground. That it is
ish throne. La Colonie afterward became field- a vantage-ground, however, is sufficiently clear.
marshal and distinguished himself under Prince Familiarity with the wild tribes has doubtless
Eugene at the siege of Belgrade. Returning to bred in him some coolness with regard to crack-
Bordeaux and to private life after the stirring | ing bones and flowing blood; but it has not bred
events of this chronicle, he devoted himself to cruelty. The Indian-at least the good Indian-
historical studies and published, besides the believes that he should not kill unless he needs
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adventures.
have some
common feeling,' and he is not ian, Dutch, and particularly English. Mr. Litch-
ashamed to go to the beaver and the wild-cat, field offers numerous hints, cautions, and sugges-
the bear and the deer, to consider their ways tions, calculated to put the reader on his guard
and be wise. He shares his catch with the wolf and assist him in making intelligent choice in
that has pointed out the prey, and spares the purchasing; and a glossary of technical terms
mountain ewe and her lamb. He remains friends used in connection with furniture will enable him
with the eagle that has saved his life, and for to consult catalogues and written descriptions of
the sake of that friendship he never kills one old furniture intelligently. The numerous cuts
of the eagle-folk. He smokes the pipe of peace are with a few exceptions from photographs of
over his fallen enemy the grizzly, and leaves examples to be found in the Victoria and Albert
handfuls of cut tobacco beside the two elk who Museum.
have fought to the finish, 'returning to camp
empty-handed out of respect for the brave
dead.' 'And who is the grandfather of these
silent people?' he asks. "Is it not the Great
NOTES.
Mystery ? For they know the laws of their life
so well! They must have for their Maker our
A selection of representative editorials from the
files of the New York 'Sun' during the past twenty
Maker. Then they are our brothers !' This
years will be published shortly by Mr. Robert Grier
spirit of understanding and of awe lifts Mr.
Cooke in a volume entitled 'Casual Essays of The
Eastman's stories, plain as they are, far above Sun.'
the ordinary in interest and significance.
"Cambridge Sketches' is the title of a forth-
coming volume by Mr. Frank Preston Stearns, made
An English 'The Adventures of King James II. up of essays dealing with life and character in the
monarch's of England' (Longmans) is the famous New England university town. The J. B.
title of a work by an unnamed Lippincott Co. will publish the book this spring.
author, but with an introduction by the Right The English ‘Who's Who' for 1905, published by
Rev. F. A. Gasquet, D.D. The work is slightly the Messrs. Macmillan, is the fifty-seventh annual
tinged with a Catholic bias, but is on the whole
issue of that important book of reference. The
volume is now eighteen hundred pages thick, plus
very fair in its statement of events and impartial,
if sometimes original, in its judgment of men.
another hundred pages of prefatory and advertising
matter.
The life of James II., heretofore little known
A new collection of Mr. Owen Seaman's inimi-
save for the three years he was King, furnishes
table parodies will be published shortly by Messrs.
many striking situations, and of these the author
Henry Holt & Co. 'A Harvest of Chaff' is the title
has made the most, placing special emphasis on of the book, and among Mr. Seaman's victims are
James's adventures in the armies of Turenne and Wordsworth, Browning, Byron, Morris, Richard
Condé, his services as head of the English navy, Wagner, and Mr. Austin.
and his genuine religious conviction, centred at 'Seven Lamps for the Teacher's Way,' published
first in allegiance to the established church, later by Messrs. Ginn & Co., is a reprint of an address
to Catholicism. The customary judgment of his- given not long before his death by the late Frank
tory that James II. had much less real ability A. Hill. In response to a considerable demand it
than his brother as a ruler, is here denied, and
has now been produced in booklet form, with a
in fact Charles II. is throughout regarded as a
biographical sketch written by Mr. Ray Greene
trifler, swept unresistingly along by the current.
Huling.
The book is in no sense a history, but is rather a
Three new volumes in the charming 'Caxton Thin
characterization, the reader's knowledge of lead-
Paper Classics,' imported by the Messrs. Scribner,
are the following: Swift's 'Journal to Stella,' with
ing political events being taken for granted. This
other writings relating to Stella and Vanessa; "The
is in some slight degree confusing at times, but
Travels of Marco Polo the Venetian,' in Marsden's
the fault is more than compensated for by a translation, revised by Thomas Wright; and Ros-
wealth of intimate anecdote not permissible in a setti's 'Early Italian Poets,' including the Vita
more formal history. The value of the book is Nuova' of Dante.
much increased by the inclusion of several beau- “The Holy Roman Empire,' by Mr. James Bryce,
tiful portraits.
is republished by the Macmillan Co. in a
edition, enlarged and revised throughout, with a
Facts for the
In his book entitled 'How to Col-
chronological table of events, and three maps. It
collector of lect Old Furniture' (Macmillan) is now forty years since the first appearance of
old furniture. Mr. Frederick Litchfield has sup- this work, and its qualities of sterling historical
plemented his more exhaustive and theoretical judgment and masterly philosophical condensation
history of antique furniture with a practical seem likely to keep it a standard work for at least
appendix treating only the comparatively mod-
another forty years.
ern kinds of old furniture, such as the collector "The Napoleon Myth,' by Mr. Henry Ridgely
of ordinary means might wish to identify or to Evans, is described as an occult study,' and is
purchase. This limitation excludes everything
a curious contribution to the history of the Napo-
leonic legend.
earlier than the sixteenth century, as well as
It is accompanied by a translation
the magnificent pieces of later periods in which
of the Grand Erratum,' in which Jean-Baptiste
Pérès, writing in 1827, disproved the existence of
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ENTERED AT THE CHICAGO POSTOFFICE AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER,
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impregnations, but the present age knows him
not. Paley’s ‘Moral Philosophy and the
CONTENTS.
Histories of Flavius Josephus (that learned
Jew)' may possibly still fill nooks in the
A GENTLEMAN'S LIBRARY. .
185 libraries of modern gentlemen,' but they are
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187 there as corporeal hereditaments, not as pur-
Shakespeare's 'Second Best Bed.' R.
chases made of purpose prepense. “Scientific
Treatises' are to be found in great numbers,
THACKERAY IN AMERICA. M. F.
187
to be sure, but how different a matter is their
A COOPERATIVE HISTORY OF AMERICA.
science from that comprised in the term as
St. George L. Sioussat
190
Elia understood it! As for the miscellaneous
A SHAKESPEARIAN MISCELLANY. Charles
items in Lamb's catalogue - Court Calendars,
H. A. Wager
194
Directories, Pocket-Books, Draught Boards,
THE RAILWAY PROBLEM. John J. Halsey 196 bound and lettered on the back, Almanacs,
RECENT AMERICAN POETRY. William Morton
Statutes at Large '--they have their modern
Payne . .
197 analogues, no doubt, for the type they represent
Van Dyke's Music and Other Poems. - Russell's is persistent. A revised version of the essay-
The Twin Immortalities. — Knowles's Love Tri-
ist's list, adapted to our own American day and
umphant. — Carryl's The Garden of Years. — Scol-
lard's Lyrics and Legends of Christmas-Tide.-
generation, might run somewhat as follows:
Sherman's Lyrics of Joy. — Goetz's Interludes. Blue Books, City Ordinances, Automobile Cata-
Loveman's Songs from a Georgia Garden. - Mrs.
logues, and Club Registers, the 'works of Bal-
Higginson's The Playmate Hours. – Mrs. Coates's
Mine and Thine.-Miss Thomas's Cassia and Other
zac, Washington, Corelli, and Tolstoy (in uni-
Verse.-Miss Hawthorne's Poems.
form library sets), the Messages of the Presi-
dents, Ben Hur, the Best Literature of the Uni-
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS
201
India in its physical aspects. — Essays in literary
verse (sold by subscription), and the writings
topography. — The story of Art through the ages. of Jr. Andrew Carnegie. And of such a list
- A study in the principles of personality. — The the book-lover might say as Lamb said of his
story of our Indian wars. The marvels of modern
own: With these exceptions, I can read
industry. — New facts concerning Mont Pelee.-
An aid to the study of the New Testament. -A
almost anything. I bless my stars for a taste
year-book for the whole Christian Church. - The so catholic, so unexcluding:
history of a Southern commonwealth. — The quest
The things in books' clothing that perch
of “big game' in America. — A book of famous
mysteries. — Memoirs of a Continental officer. - A
upon our modern shelves offer a variety of vac-
'true' biography of Henry Clay. - An outline of uity and a hollowness of pretension of which
the French Revolution.
Lamb could hardly have dreamed. We were
NOTES
205 speaking not long ago of the ingenuity of sub-
scription publishers in inventing new sorts of
ANNOUNCEMENTS OF SPRING BOOKS
206
Libraries' — oratory, sermons, poetry, wit and
A complete classified list of books to be issued by
American publishers during the Spring of 1905.
humor, elegant extracts, and what not and
LIST OF NEW BOOKS
of the skill of their agents in foisting these
214
choice products of the printer's trade upon
unwary or easily gullible victims. The nefari-
4 GENTLEMAN'S LIBRARY.
ous business goes merrily on, and the commer-
cial energy which prosecutes it shows no signs
Charles Lamb's reckoning of the books ‘no of abatement. What a legacy is being prepared
gentleman's library should be without” would for the inheritors of these showy stores of
require some modifications to fit with our mod- literary lumber! What a time the child in
ern notions. Gibbon would still occupy a place the house’ is going to have as he grows up;
in that supposititious collection, and possibly and the roots of his young life strike blindly
Hume. But we have our doubts about Robert- through this mould in their search for nutri-
son, Beattie, and Soame Jenyns. The last-
ment! We have often reflected upon the
named person may have been, as Burke said melancholy fortune of that luckless child. His
of him, one of those who wrote the purest predecessor of a generation or two ago (con-
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cerning whom the literature of biography has sack, is so small that the child in the house,'
revealed so many interesting particulars) had even if his healthy natural instincts have es-
access to no great store of books, but, however caped perversion at the hands of his pedagogues,
restricted the pasture afforded for his brows- has small chance of finding the wholesome
ings, there was a fair chance that it would nourishment that the family bookshelves would
yield a 'Gulliver,' or a 'Tom Jones,' or a ‘Rob- still probably afford if put to the right uses.
inson Crusoe,' and very likely all three of them. Moreover, the very idea of literature is cheap-
A Pilgrim's Progress,' an‘Arabian Nights,' ened and vulgarized by the quantity of printed
and a Fox's 'Martyrs' were pretty sure to be matter thus easily to be got at. How can books
found in cupboard or garret, clothed in respect- be precious things if multiplied in this reck-
able ancient garb, redolent of mystery and less fashion, and thrust upon a child's atten-
romance. The battered Shakespeare and the tion from all sides ? And how can any mere
few old Waverleys' that rarely failed to be book in covers hope to compete with the glories
discovered somewhere offered a passport to the of the Sunday newspaper with its colored comic
whole realm of the imagination, and were fed supplements ?
upon as manna from heaven. With such The gentleman's library of Lamb's detes-
incitements, the instinct of youth was wont tation was not, we shrewdly suspect, a source
to grope its way toward the light of literature, of great literary satisfaction to its possessor.
and to build up wholesome tastes upon the most It was the mark of respectability, of station in
solid of foundations.
life, and perhaps of affluence. Its modern
How different is the fate of the modern prototype is the mark of all these things, dis-
youth! To begin with, he is sent to the school played with an exaggeration of pretension that
of our new mechanical fashion, and scientific comports with the other aspects of modern
pedagogy wreaks its will upon him. He is
extravagance. It is apt to be viewed by its
taught "literature - Heaven save the mark!
owner as so much fumiture bought by the yard,
by means of manuals and ingeniously-chosen as so much binding made to match the other
texts, and his soul revolts. That this particu- upholstery. It may be safely averred that the
larly obnoxious form of worriment should have books it contains are not read.
In some cases,
any real relation to life, let alone to pleasur- the notion of their being read is flouted by
able experience, is the last idea that ever enters their very appearance. We recall certain edi-
his mind. Left to his own devices he might tions of Dickens and George Eliot and Shake-
have found his way into many a treasure-house speare designed for the very purpose of making
or pleasance of letters, but once having learned
it impossible to read them. Such books are
to look upon authors and their work as ticketed architecture, not literature; the amateurs of
and classified objects of study, he relegates lit- éditions de luxe may describe them as 'noble
erature to the list of disagreeable things that tomes,' and take pride in their possession, but
the tyranny of his elders forces him to endure the lover of books (in the warm human sense)
for a season, but that no rational boy or girl would not have them as a gift.
would think of counting among the pleasures But whether physically readable or not, these
of life. With much toilsome constraint of his
collections of authors' stand on the shelf
tender childish faculties he has been taught unhandled, and grow from year to year with
to read, and then he is given literary apples the incapacity of their owners to enjoy the
of Sodom for the reward of his labors and the bounty which literature so liberally offers to
disenchantment of his sense. Later in life, its elect. Like the schoolboy of whom it was
when the pressure of his environment forces said that much classical study had given him
him to find something to read, he wastes him-
no acquaintance with Greek and Latin, but
self upon inanities; the vulgarity of the news- only the firm conviction that those languages
paper becomes his intellectual pabulum, the existed, so the 'gentleman' whose library we
triviality of the popular magazine his means of
are now discussing may be said to have a firm
mental recreation.
conviction that the authors' exist, but no
Meanwhile, books (of a sort) have been all notion whatever of the reason for their exist-
around him. If his lot has been cast among ence. Thus is education justified of her chil-
the well-to-do, he has had within his reach the dren; thus, in other words, does the mechani-
gentleman's library of our theme. If not, cal teaching of facts about literature bear fruit
he has had its humbler analogue, the bookcase in the mechanical acquisition of 'standard
filled with spoil of the department store and sets, for the encouragement of the sharp-
the bargain sale. Now the trouble with this sighted manufacturer of books and the faithful
gentleman's library' (and its cheap substi- editorial hacks whom he employs. That our
tute) is that it is woefully undiscriminating. modern multiplication of editions is the index
The proportion of wheat to chaff, of bread to to a corresponding increase in literary culture
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and appreciation is about the last hypothesis
that would be framed by a philosopher seeking
to account for the gentleman's library' as it
exists in our day and generation.
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James Grant Wilson's 'Thackeray in the United
refers to the clause in Shakespeare's will by States' are books of quite exceptional interest.
which he left to his wife his second best bed'; a As to the first, it may be with a somewhat
clause that has been often mentioned as indicat-
uneasy gratitude that we accept what is offered
ing that the poet 'nad but little affection for his
us. The old question of our right to such a gift
partner in life and the mother of his children.
arises with peculiar insistence in the case of
I have never seen in print any explanation of a
Thackeray, whom we know to have shrunk from
testamentary disposition that was not uncom-
mon, I believe, in wills of that period; but there
all that biography and its accompaniments im-
is an explanation which, I think, is perfectly plied to him.
plied to him. It would decidedly simplify this
satisfactory, and which relieves the poet of the and similar problems for us, and help besides to
imputation of maving put a slight on his wife. dispose of one of the most troublesome points of
The question has often been asked, If Shakes- literary ethics, if we could be given some oppor-
peare really entertained affection for his wife, tunity of proving our fitness for the privilege
why did he not leave her his best bed? The
we enjoy. There would doubtless be some diffi-
answer is that under an existing custom which
had the force of law he had no power to do so,
culties in the way of devising a suitable plan for
the establishment of our qualifications, as well
the best bed of a land-owner being an heirloom,
a species of personal property which upon the
as in the selection of those entrusted with the
death of the proprietor goes along with the land duty of applying the test. Even an authorized
to the heir, and of which the heir cannot be de- biographer—as in the case of Carlyle, for ex-
prived by a last will and testament.
ample---might not give universal satisfaction if
"The term heirloom,' according to Bouvier's appointed as a judge of candidates; nor would
Law Dictionary, 'is applied to those chattels all the advantages of intimacy and collaboration
which are considered as annexed and necessary have rendered Henley entirely acceptable to all
to the enjoyment of the inheritance.' It in-
cludes title papers to lands, together with the
Stevensonians. The suggestion, it must be ad-
chest in which they are contained, the keys of
mitted, is not very practicable. Our reading of
house, fish in a pond, deer in a park, family tomb- letters will probably continue unlicensed, and
stones and monuments, family portraits, pews in
those of us who have importunate consciences
churches, etc.
can, as Sir Leslie Stephen puts it in his discus-
In Shakespeare's time the best bed of a land- sion of the Browning Letters, atone for our en-
owner was an heirloom by custom recognized as joyment of contraband goods by vigorously abus-
law in many parts of England. Thus Sir Edward
ing the smuggler. Yet in some cases that
Coke, who was a contemporary of Shakespeare, atonement fails to be complete. In reading
says: “And note that in some places chattels
as heirlooms (as the best bed, table, pot, pan,
Thackeray's letters we should be the better sat-
cart and other dead chattels movable) may go to
isfied for some definite warrant for considering
the heire and the heire in tnat case may have
ourselves other than mere curious impertinents;
an action for them at the common law' (Coke
and lacking such warrant, it is with a half-
on Littleton, 18 a, 18 b, L. I. C. Sec. 12).
guilty pleasure that we welcome the new vol-
Blackstone gives in quaint language the reason ume.
why heirlooms cannot be bequeathed by will. He It is not far from a score of years since the
says: 'Yet they [heirlooms] being at his [the publication of the Brookfield Letters left little
testator's] death instantly vested in the heir, the
room for further revelation of Thackeray's per-
devise (which is subsequent and not to take effect
till after his death) shall be postponed to the
sonality. Since that time, and with the addi-
custom whereby they have already descended'
tional evidence of the portrait given us by Mrs.
(4 Blackstone's Commentaries, p. 429).
Ritchie in the 'Biographical Edition, the old
That this custom was regarded in drawing the
• THACKERAY'S LETTERS
FAMILY.
will of Shakespeare, and that the will does not With introduction by Lucy W. Baxter.
in the least tend to show that he was wanting in
York: The Century Co.
natural affection for his wife, would seem to be
By General James
obvious.
R.
With bibliography by Frederick S. Dick-
New York: Dodd,
Little Rock, Ark., March 6, 1905.
TO
AN
AMERICAN
Illustrated.
New
THACKERAY IN THE UNITED STATES.
Grant Wilson.
son. In two volumes. Illustrated.
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charge of cynicism has been silenced, or men- mained “incurably friendly to America,' and we
tioned only to be indignantly disproved. In- have Ethel Newcome, the heroine into whom
deed, some of us have been so anxious to free he translated his American Beatrix, and much
the creator of Colonel Newcome and of Helen of “The Virginians,' to remind us of Thack-
Pendennis from the unpleasant connotations of eray's visit to the country that hardly more
the word 'cynic' that we have been quite ready than a decade earlier had served to suggest Eden
to forget what text it was he loved to treat on, and Elijah Pogram, Hannibal Chollop and Jef-
and will have it that Charlotte Brontë's ‘lion ferson Brick to Dickens.
that came out of Judah' roared us very gently The letters, as was to be expected from the
indeed. And yet the recollection of Mr. Den- nature of Thackeray's relations to his corre-
ceace and Lady Griffin, of Catherine and her spondents, chronicle for the most part little but
Galgenstein, no less than of Colonel Newcome the moods of the writer. There are character-
and the Lamberts, belongs to a real apprecia- istic comments upon The Newcomes and
'
tion of the letters. The possibilities of the sæva * The Virginians' during the time of their
indignatio of the satirist bring into higher relief publication.
the tenderness that was always part of the man. 'I'm in low spirits about the Newcomes. It's
The recently-published ‘Letters to an Amer- not good. It's stupid. It haunts me like a great
ican Family' cover the period from 1852, the
stupid ghost. It says, why do you go on writing
this rubbish? You are old, you have no more inven-
date of Thackeray's first visit to America, to
tion, etc. Write sober books, books of history;
within a year of his death. Writing to Mrs. leave novels to younger folks.'
Brookfield early in 1853, he says:
And of 'The Virginians,' he says:
'Have you heard that I have found Beatrix at “The book's clever but stupid; that's the fact.
New York? I have basked in her bright eyes; but I hate story-making,- incidents, surprises, love.
ah me! I don't care for her, and shall hear of her
making, etc.,-more and more every day; and here
marrying a New York buck with the greatest pleas- is a third of a great story done
and noth-
She is really as like Beatrix as that fellow
ing actually has happened except that a young gen.
William and I met was like Costigan. She has a tleman has come from America to England. I wish
dear woman of a mother, upwards of fifty-five, an elderly one could do t'other thing. The
whom I like the best and think the handsomest,-
public does not care about the story, nor about the
a sweet lady.'
Virginians; nor I about either.'
The bright eyes belonged to Miss Sally Bax- More plainly in these letters than in any other
ter, and the Baxter home at Second Avenue and
records, we can see how strangely soon Thack-
Eighteenth Street soon became to him the eray became old. Always, as a writer, removed
Brown House,' the place he had ‘learned to love from youth by a far greater distance than his
best in New York.' A few weeks after his re- years would warrant, he seems to find himself
turn he writes from Kensington:
an old man at a time when his contemporaries
'I hope, please God, that the love and friendship are scarcely yielding to middle-age.
I have had in your family may even go so far as 'I used to have some reminiscences and feelings
to do some public benefit,-- the remembrance of
of youth left when I was 42; now I am near 43,
you all sanctifies your country in my eyes. When
and no grandfather can be more glum. I sleep like
people speak here sneeringly, as Londoners will
a monk, with a death 's-head in my room. “Come,'.'
talk, I break out indignantly and tell them how
says the cheerful monitor, “rouse yourself. Finish
much good and worth and love and good-breeding Newcomes. Get a few thousand pounds more, my
there is in the country of which they talk so flip-
man, for those daughters of yours. For your time
pantly. And I pray Heaven it may be my chance,
is short, and the sexton wants you. You have been
as it will be my endeavor, to be a peacemaker in this world long enough. You have had enough
between us and you, and to speak good-will toward
champagne and feasting-travelling, novel-reading,
you.'
novel-writing, yawning, grumbling, falling in love,
In a letter written after his second visit, he and the like. You are too old for these amuse-
ments, and what other occupation are you fit for?
says:
Get 200 £ a year apiece for your girls and their
'I felt glad, somehow, to contribute to a thread
poor mother, and then come to me.
that shall tie our two countries together; for though
I don't love America, I love Americans with all
What may have been something of an assump-
my heart, and I dare say you know what family tion in earlier days had grown into a reality
taught me to love them.'
long before his death. In all but brain, he had
It was the press which provoked the qualifica- become prematurely old. Dickens, looking at
tion from him; the newspapers had 'man- him as he lay in his coffin, noted that his hands
aged to offend and insult the most friendly were like those of a man of eighty.
stranger that ever entered our country or quit- As to that which gives the letters their great-
ted it.' But the journalistic offences, happily est value to Thackera yans,— the intimately per-
forgotten now, were not publicly resented, ex- sonal tone of many of the passages - comment,
cept perhaps in the tone of a few sentences in as in the case of the Brookfield Letters, seems
the Roundabout paper, ‘Half a Loaf.' The at- almost an impertinence. There are letters
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appreciative criticism of Thackeray's letter- latter containing the curious error of a substitu-
writing style. The Bernstein's letter to Madam tion of ‘Lothair' for · Coningsby' in a refer-
Esmond Warrington in "The Virginians, ence to Thackeray's burlesque of Disraeli.
Madame de Florac's letter to Colonel Newcome, Both of Thackeray's visits to America were
the Amiens letter that makes Philip Fir- | quite uneventful, so that their chief history,
min's Charlotte, so hopelessly tiresome at apart from the lectures ( which were successful,
other times, really endurable when she writes though not sensationally so), is the record of
it, are all perfect of their kind, and might suc- the pleasant relations established between the
cessfully be used to illustrate the dictum that novelist and our countrymen. He was fortunate
Thackeray was at his best as a letter-writer. in his associations. He saw only the best of
But the discussion of the charm of these letters, us, — the best side even of slavery. A letter to
written in grateful affection to his friends, is Miss Perry and her sisters, published for the
another matter. And to that it seems most first time, gives us an attractive glimpse of him
fitting to bring the remembrance of a phrase at Baltimore, and a bit of Emersonian criticism
of Thackeray's own, uttered by the not unduly
as well.
sentimental critic Michael Angelo Titmarsh,- 'I have done pretty well at Baltimore, and am
' A great clapping of hands is but a coarse sort much affected by the kindness of a provincial
of sympathy.'
Warrington there, who has done all his might to
make me happy and is pleased to regard me with
kindness -I was going to say admiration,
General Wilson's long-expected volumes are which some folks will not be angry with him for
the outcome of his articles on Thackeray in the feeling.
The spectacles
moistened
United States,' published some years ago in
somehow by his goodness and attachment - a fel-
low of remarkable reading, too.
He thought
* The Century Magazine.' In them he has
so well of us that I was quite frightened, and felt
brought together much interesting material a Domine non sum dignus. Bon Dieu - how I
which has heretofore been scattered throughout should like to be as good as that fellow thinks me
scores of memoirs and recollections, besides a
to be! He gave me Emerson's Essays, which I had
considerable number of unpublished letters and
never read - have you? They are very wise and
benevolent,- they come to very like conclusions to
drawings. For the very beautiful form of these
those which the Worldling who writes these pres-
volumes, the publishers deserve the gratitude of ents to you teaches sometimes and as I read
every lover of artistically-made books; and honest Emerson I fancy I have known it all before.'
the contents will be appreciated by every Thack- Though the ‘Brown House in the Second
erayan, in spite of the fact that the pleas- Avenue' found no rival, the greatest number
ant discursiveness of reminiscence reminds of friendships seems to have been formed with
us of Lowell's suggestion for an imaginary the Philadelphians. There was talk of a con-
biography of Thackeray, modelled on Professor sulship in Philadelphia; and in a letter to Mr.
Masson's Milton, and to be entitled 'A Life of W. B. Reed, Thackeray comments upon the sug-
Thackeray, or Who was Who in England, gestion.
.
France and Germany during the Second Quarter “There are half a dozen houses I already know in
of the Nineteenth Century.'
Philadelphia where I could find very pleasant
friends and company, and that good old library
A noteworthy feature of the many excellent
would give me plenty of acquaintances more. But,
illustrations is the number of portraits, from home among my parents there, and some few friends
the bust of Thackeray as a boy in 1822 (the I have made in the last twenty-five years, and a
singular resemblance of which to the later ke- tolerably fair prospect of an honest livelihood, on
the familiar London flagstones, and the library at
nesses in contour and expression must strike
the Athenæum, and the ride in the Park, and the
every one who has seen the replica in the pleasant society afterwards, and a trip to Paris
National Portrait Gallery), to the posthumous now and again, and to Switzerland and Italy in
Gilbert portrait belonging to the Reform Club.
the summer, — these are little temptations which
make me not discontented with my lot, about which
Among the drawings reproduced, perhaps none
I grumble only for pastime, and because it is an
is more distinctly Thackerayan than the page- Englishman's privilege. Own, now, that all theso
ful of caps drawn for Mrs. Lowell on board the recreations here enumerated have a pleasant sound.'
• Canada' in 1852, — they were fortunate trav- The consulship, like the wished-for position
ellers on that voyage who had Thackeray, as the artist of Pickwick' after Seymour's
Lowell, and Clough for fellow-passengers ! death in 1837, and like the seat for Oxford
There are a couple of passengers' caps, thor- that Mr. Cardwell filled, twenty years later, is
oughly individualized; Captain Byles, his one of the possibilities of Thackeray's career
hat;' the familiar spectacled Titmarsh in his that set us to wondering how much we should
high round cap; and under the pointed bell- have lost or gained by their realization.
topped headgear in the corner the characteristic
Students of comparative popularity will be
legend ‘ Everybody's cap.' There is a very full able to find material for valuable statistics in
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compiler of the bibliography in this volume. where we learn that assistance has been received
When the ghost of the Reverend Laurence from various historical societies, notably those
Sterne, appearing to the writer of the Round- of Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Virginia, and
about Papers at Dessein's Hôtel in 1862, put the Texas. The selection of the authors of the
question. How many authors of your present individual volumes (of which there are to be
time will last till the next century?' we have no twenty-six in all, with one volume of index
way of being sure how Thackeray answered the and one of maps ) seems to have been entirely
query as far as his own writings were concerned. the editor's function, and most of the choices
In his estimate of his work there was always a made are happy. The whole series is divided
curious mixture of self-distrust and recognition into five groups, each of which deals with an
of his powers which makes it difficult to guess important epoch in American history. The
how long a lease of fame he would have given division into groups, volumes, and chapters
himself. The question, as most questions will makes in itself a topical analysis of no small
do, has answered itself. There are mentioned value.
in the list referred to not far from fifteen hun- As would be expected, each volume contains
dred articles in American periodicals dealing an author's preface; besides this, however, to
with Thackeray. The interest of readers, if each volume the editor contributes another intro-
the number of such articles is anything of a duction. Here in a pleasant manner Professor
guide, appears to show no signs of lessening, Hart tells the reader what he will find in the
but to increase almost yearly; and Thackeray- volume, how important this is, how the author
ans may be well content with the place assigned has emphasized this or that point, and how the
to their author.
M. F.
matters discussed in this volume are to be
linked' to those treated elsewhere. This part
of the work may be serviceable to many readers
who share the prevailing hunger for predi-
A COOPERATIVE HISTORY OF AMERICA.* gested food; the same idea is followed out in
Anyone who reads, with due attention, the
another coöperative history of America now in
Editor's Introduction to the Series' prefixed
course of publication. It does not seem, how-
to the first volume of 'The American Nation,'
ever, to be a characteristic of the best of those
will agree that therein these truths are held to
European collaborations which in other respects
be self-evident: that a new history of the
have been models to the editor of 'The Ameri-
United States, extending from the discovery
can Nation.'
down to the present time, is needed; that no
From the general plan outlined by the editor
such comprehensive work by a competent writer
we turn to the individual volumes. Somewhat
is now in existence; that, for an intelligent
in the nature of a prelude is Professor Chey-
summarizing of the present knowledge of ney's 'European Background of American His-
tory, 1300-1600. The author of this volume
American history by trained specialists, and
for a complete work written in untechnical style ably. It is his part to tell, without too much
has had a difficult task, and has done it admir-
which shall serve for the instruction and enter-
tainment of the general reader, there is but one
detail, a story already familiar and covering a
number of widely different subjects. This he
method, the coöperative; that previous efforts
of this sort have not been altogether happy;
must do without impairing the accuracy of his
that this series is to avoid such unfortunate
work or losing the reader's interest. Beginning
difficulties as were evident in previous ven-
with the later mediæval period, he traces the
tures; that every volume in this series must
growth of commerce, exploration, and discov-
stand the double test of accuracy and readable-
ery, the work of Portugal and of Spain, and
ness; and that it is the editor's function to see
the political institutions of the great states of
that the links of the chain are adjusted to each
Europe that later were the chief colonizers.
other, end to end, and that no considerable
Then follows a fresh and succinct discussion of
subjects are omitted.
the rise and influence of commercial and col-
All these bold statements of fact and inten-
onizing companies. After this, the narrative
tion we find in the editor's introduction. Else-
returns to the European centre, and sketches
briefly the course of the Reformation on the
A History. From original Continent and in England. The last part of
sources by associated scholars. Edited by Albert Bush-
the volume deals with the constitution, and
nell Hart, Ph.D. First section, in five volumes.
The European Background of American History, by E. especially with the local government, civil and
P. Cheney ; Vol. II., Basis of American History, by Liv-
ecclesiastical, of England, the necessary pro-
ingston Farrand; Vol. III., Spain in America, by E. G.
Bourne; Vol. IV., England in America, by Lyon G. Tyler; legomena to the constitutional history of the
Vol. V., Colonial Self-Government, by Charles M. Andrews.
English colonies in America.
With frontispieces and maps.
Harper &
From the very nature of Professor Chey-
lam
THE AMERICAN NATION.
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ney's work, it is not to be expected that all action, which begins with Professor Bourne's
parts of it shall be equally the results of per- volume on 'Spain in America. A few pages
.'
sonal investigation, or based upon other than of prolegomena lead us at once to the life of
secondary materials. The story is told delight- Columbus. The author holds the recent attack
fully and with care; but the necessity for com- of Vignaud upon the genuineness of Tosca-
pression causes occasionally a lack of clearness. nelli's letters to Columbus to have been unsuc-
For example, with reference to the constitu- cessful, but believes that, if genuine, the letters
tion of the London Company under the charter did not give Columbus much information,
of 1609, the author states:
at most, they only turned his mind to the
“The form of government of the Company in problem.
problem. The story of his long endeavor to
England received much attention in the charter, gain the support of the Spanish monarchs is
as well it might after the failure of the arrange- abbreviated, and we are soon brought to the
ments of the former charter. The membership,
eve of the great voyage.
quarterly assemblies of the general body of the
members, more frequent meetings of a governing
“The son of the humble woollen-weaver of Genoa
council of fifty-three officers, and their duties, were
has gone far in twenty years. He is now a noble,
all minutely formulated' (pp. 151-2).
and a high official in an ancient monarchy, and
intrusted with a unique mission. Yet all depends
As a matter of fact, the provision for the upon the chances of the voyage whether these
quarterly courts was included in the third honors shall fade away in the mists of the Sea of
charter, that of 1612, which is not mentioned
Darkness, leaving the mere shadow of a name, like
Ugolino de Vivaldi, in some such record as 'this:
by Professor Cheyney at all.
Christopher Colonus, a Ligurian, proposed to pass
We are now ready for the play to begin; but over to the Indies by way of the west. After
must wait, for here follows Professor Far- he left the Canary Islands, no news was heard of
rand's volume upon The Basis of American
him,' or whether his name shall have eternal
celebrity as the discoverer of the New World. No
History. This inevitably breaks the conti-
ever faced chances of fortune so extreme.
nuity of the narrative. We pass from English On the other hand, no sovereign ever secured
history and institutions to the physical imperial domain at so slight a sacrifice as Isabella
of Castile. Her venture was small -
- a few thousand
features, flora and fauna, prehistoric inhab-
dollars and presumably empty honors to an impor-
itants, and Indian tribes of America. The tunate visionary whose utterances seemed mere
author himself informs us that his task has “fables" (pp. 18-19).
been one of condensation, and the results are This is a fair sample of the many striking
especially evident in the first third of the vol- summaries of events and characterizations of
ume, which is somewhat below the general aver- individuals which one finds throughout the
age of interest. For example, the statistics
book. Of similar impressiveness is the author's
upon pp. 48-53 do not gain by being printed final estimate of Columbus (pp. 82-83), the
out instead of being tabulated in figures. The comparison of Columbus with Magellan (pp.
chief service of this portion of the book will 127-128), the outline of the new conditions
be its suggestiveness and the references in Pro-
that confronted the explorer in Yucatan
fessor Farrand's excellent bibliography.
(p. 151), the conclusions as to Amerigo Ves-
As to the much-vexed questions of American pucci (p. 103), and the résumé of the results
anthropology and ethnology, — the genuineness attained after three generations of conquest
—
of human remains in tertiary deposits, the evi- (ch. xiii).
dences of pre-glacial man, the identity of the The narrative of exploration takes up,
mound-builders, and the origin of the Ameri- roughly, two-thirds of the
of the volume; the
can Indian, Professor Farrand takes a con- remainder is devoted to an account of Spanish
servative position, and approves the prevailing colonial policy, and of its results as worked
skepticism. Likewise, in his chapters upon the out in Spanish America, which is even more an
Indians, he controverts many popular generali- original contribution to American history than
zations, such as the exaggerated estimate of the first part of the work. Professor Bourne's
.
the power of the chief, the idea of the complete discussion of the Race Elements and Social
subjection of the squaw, the misunderstanding Conditions in Spanish America, and his chap-
of the Indian's 'stoicism' with respect to pain. ter on Spanish Experience with Negro Slaves,
These are examples of a widespread misinfor- possess, in addition to their value as history, a
mation; and in the relations of the whites to peculiar usefulness for those citizens of the
the Indians, and especially in the policy of the United States today who wish to gain insight
Federal Government, the mistakes of history into the psychology of the Spanish-speaking
are seen to have been due to ignorance and peoples recently added to our territorial popu-
folly rather than to deliberate ill-intent.
lation, or into the character of those states with
Having listened to the prelude and scrutin- which commercial relations will henceforth
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Professor Bourne shows that the badly freshness of scholarship that characterizes Pro-
administered justice and the financial corrup- fessor Bourne's work. The author gives us
tion found throughout Spanish America were no detailed study of institutional growth, but
in direct violation of the efforts and intentions a general narrative. Here one inevitably com-
of the government. He gives us a keen criti- pares President Tyler's work with that of the
cism of the traditional view of Las Casas and late Mr. Fiske, with results not at all to the
the Spanish enslaving of Indians. Las Casas disadvantage of President Tyler,
he calls the Lloyd Garrison of Indian rights.' Captain John Smith's deeds are told at some
'It is as one-sided to depict the Spanish Indian length, and President Tyler finds time to make
policy primarily from his pages as it would be to a plea for the Pocahontas story. The progress
write a history of the American negro question
of Virginia after 1624 is made more clear than
exclusively from the files of the “Liberator,”
after a century of American rule in the Philip-
is usually the case. The chapter upon Mary-
pines to judge it solely from the anti-imperialistic land and the thorny questions of religion
tracts of the last few years' (p. 257).
exhibits admirable calmness of judgment. The
Not only did Spain begin negro slavery in
account of New England shows no lack of
the New World; she also furnished the first appreciation of the sterling qualities of the
abolitionist. Before either the Pennsylvania Puritan society, though the tone is by no means
Quakers or Judge Sewall had made their pro- that of the 'hagiology' of Massachusetts his-
tests, the Jesuit Alphonso Sandoval in the
torians. There is little room for detailed dis-
beginning of the seventeenth century attacked cussions, so we find still “ The introduction of
both the institution and the trade in his work negro slavery' in 1619, with no reference here
‘ De Instauranda Aethiopum Salute.'
or in the bibliography to Dr. Ballagh's strong
The last chapter gives a sketch of the trans- argument that this was not slavery' in the
mission of Spanish culture to the New World,
later sense of the term. Again, to the struggle
and leads to this conclusion:
of Lord Baltimore with the Jesuits is devoted
'If we compare Spanish America with the United
a single sentence, and Professor Dennis's val-
States a hundred years ago, we must recognize that
uable article on this subject is unnoticed. The
while in the North there was a sounder party
account of the Fundamental Orders of Con-
politic, a purer social life, and a more general necticut is the traditional one, with which it is
dissemination of elementary education, yet in
Spanish America there were both vastly greater
helpful to compare that of Professor Osgood
wealth and greater poverty, more imposing monu-
in his book on The American Colonies.'
ments of civilization, such as public buildings, Into a single chapter entitled 'Colonial
institutions of learning, and hospitals, more popu- Neighbors' is compressed all that is said by
lous and richer cities, a higher attainment in certain
branches of science. No one can read Humboldt's
President Tyler about the beginning of New
account of the City of Mexico and its establish- France and of New Netherland. In the case of
ments for the promotion of science and the fine New France, we are promised a separate vol-
arts without realizing that, whatever may be the
ume, France in America,' by Professor
superiority of the United States in these respects,
they have been mostly the gains of the age of
Thwaites; but that just five pages should be
steam' (pp. 315-316).
devoted to the narrative of Dutch colonization
“The Spanish American peoples have lacked the seems to show a lack of proportion. Unfor-
inspiration of united action, and their resources tunately, even this condensation is not very
and powers have been frittered away in intestine
successful, for several omissions and inaccuracies
quarrels. If the formidable apparition of the ever
extending United States draws them together for
are found. Hudson receives very meagre treat-
mutual defense; if the construction of railroads ment; William Usselincx's name is not men-
sufficiently overcomes the great geographical impedi- tioned except in connection with Gustavus
ments to unity; if the Monroe Doctrine shall serve
Adolphus; the story of the English protest to
the temporary purpose of protecting them from
foreign attack during this period of mutual
the States General, in 1621, and of the answer
approach — there may yet arise a great Spanish-
of the Dutch Government to this protest, is
American federal State, the counterpart of the not wholly correct; the charter to the West
United States, to become a wholesome check on the
indefinite absorption of alien lands and peoples to
India Company did not give ‘ only an exclusive
the south, and the home of a great people which
right to trade,' for, as Professor Cheyney
with the infusion of new blood will free itself from points out, it distinctly permitted colonization.
the evils of its earlier life while preserving the Peter Minuit did not in 1626 succeed May, but
best of the heritage from Spain' (pp. 317-318).
Verhulst, who held the directorship after May.
In the volume on 'England in America,' The charter of privileges and exemptions was
President Lyon G. Tyler has given us a scrupu- granted by the company to the patroons, with
lously fair and a very interesting work. The the approval of the government: hence it is
field is one in which there have been many | hardly correct to speak of the company'obtain-
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there is very decided need of linking 'between subject, Professor Andrews seems to ignore the
the account of New Netherland where Presi- | former's conclusions as to education in the
dent Tyler leaves it, and the story where Pro- southern colonies, and to stick fast to Gov-
fessor Andrews takes it up.
ernor Berkeley's well-worn thanksgivings over
The fifth volume and the last of this group
the non-existence of free schools in Virginia.
is an account of Colonial Self-Government
Again the account given of the commercial
by Prof. C. McL. Andrews, which continues legislation, which is so helpful in its outline of
through 1689 the story begun by President the purpose of these laws and of their history,
Tyler. This is very certainly the best general is less satisfactory when it comes to telling just
account of this period that has yet appeared. how they worked in the different groups of
One feels that the author not only has intimate colonies.
acquaintance with the old sources, but also has We have tried thus to sum up briefly the
been fortunate enough to reach considerable general plan of the work and what we may call
new material. This appears especially in the the individuality of each volume. For the out-
clear account of the commercial code of Great ward dress of the books we have only praise.
Britain and of the organs of administration The volumes are excellently printed, and ser-
that were developed; in the description of the viceably bound.
A very few typographical
successive councils that led up to the perma- errors have escaped the editor's watchful eye.
nent Board of Trade and Plantations estab- We find in Volume I. the word "Geschicte,' p.;
lished in 1696, and of the plans for the control 37, note, has lost anh'; while Wilhelmi
of the colonies and for their union for defensive p. 291, note 1, has added a spurious ‘i. In
purposes. Professor Andrews is especially to Volume IV. p. 83, line 2, 'or’ should be ' to'
be congratulated upon the catholic view of and on p. 332, ‘Vestusta 'should be · Vetusta.'
colonial history that he presents to us.
In Volume V., p. 353, ‘F. E. Sharp' might
As successful as his descriptions of institu- effectively hide the identity of 'F. E. Sparks,'
tions is the author's delineation of personality.
which is the correct name. We must not omit
In the story of Pennsylvania, for example, Wil- commendation of the bibliographical matter
liam Penn's own intentions and acts are kept appended to each volume.
to the front, yet without any suggestion of If we may be permitted a word of criticism
hero-worship. Penn, we learn, was morally of the series as a whole, we feel sure that, by
justified in his boundary controversy with the serious students of history, “The American
Baltimores, but Professor Andrews's concession Nation' will be rated not as a whole, but vol-
that 'the technical right lay with Baltimore, ume by volume according to the worth of each.
and we cannot admire Penn's inclination to Some will hardly be relied upon for reference;
ignore it' (p. 247) evidences his desire to be but volumes like that of Professor Bourne will
absolutely impartial. Again, the traditional take their place as standard works. For the
picture of Andros, drawn largely from New general reader, if he is not deterred by the
England sources, is subjected to sharp criti- enormous amount of matter, by the separate
cism, and we are told that “as compared with authorship, and by the gaps that to some extent
many other colonial governors, he was upright, defy linking,' the work will prove a mine of
sympathetic and faithful' (p. 93).
information interestingly told, well arranged,
Professor Andrews finishes his narrative with and attractively published. Yet even the gen-
the story of the Revolution of 1689 as it devel- eral reader may be very willing to adopt as his
oped in Massachusetts, Maryland, and New final opinion these words of Professor Jameson,
York. Of Massachusetts he states, in conclu- uttered several years ago :
sion : When in 1691 a revised charter was ‘Stretched upon the Procrustean bed of uniform
granted, it created a government of the type requirements in respect to extensiveness and general
of New York or New Jersey, instead of the old method of treatment, the authors can present only
those things which they have in common abun.
popular government' (p. 279). A discussion
dant and correct information and acute historical
of this charter does not belong to this volume, criticism. Many of the finer qualities of the indi.
and still less to the present review, but cer- vidual mind are apt to evaporate in the process,
much of what is most valuable in individual views
tainly there were very marked differences
and conceptions of history will find no place for
between the government of Massachusetts under
itself. No one who appreciates these will readily
it, and that of New York.
assent to the assertion in the prospectus to the
The description of the social, economic, and “Narrative and Critical History' that, "when the
religious conditions within, the colonies is here superiority of the coöperative method is fully under.
stood, the individual historian, if he ventures forth
and there hardly so carefully worked out as
at all, will be read for entertainment rather than
the study of governmental institutions. Though
for profit.";
he refers to President Tyler's chapter on the
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A SHAKESPEARIAN MISCELLANY.*
cause of the awkward handling of material.
A similar criticism applies, though in a less
The late Charles Isaac Elton's volume en- degree, to the argument for the regularity of
titled “William Shakespeare, his Family and the poet's marriage. Compared with Mr. Lee's
Friends' consists of a series of disconnected discussion of the same subject (Life of Shakes-
and occasionally unfinished papers, evidently peare, pp. 18-24), it is far from convincing.
intended to be the nucleus of an exhaustive Time was very pressing,' Mr. Elton says
work upon Shakespeare,' collected after the
(p. 35), in explanation of an unusual clause in
death of the distinguished historian and anti- the marriage-license; and again, though the
quary, and published under the editorial super- absence of the bridegroom's father is a plain
vision of Mr. A. Hamilton Thompson, with a suggestion that the marriage was irregular, he
memoir of the author by Mr. Andrew Lang. It asserts (p. 35) that one of the two friends
includes chapters on Facts and Traditions would doubtless produce a letter or document
relating to Shakespeare's Early Life’; the anti- bearing John Shakespeare's signature or at-
quities of Stratford and its neighboring towns, tested mark. These two statements obviously
of the road from Stratford to London in beg the question. Whatever the truth may be,
Shakespeare's time, and of London itself; on could ironical Fate have played an unkinder
* Midland Agriculture and Natural History trick on literary historians, or have offered a
in Shakespeare's Plays ’; on Shakespeare's greater temptation to romantic biographers,
family and descendants; on Illustrations of than to send two William Shakespeares to the
'
Shakespeare in the Seventeenth Century' from Registry of the Bishop of Worcester, on two
Howell's Letters, Ward's Diary, and Dowdall's successive days, to arrange a technically irregu-
and Aubrey's notes; and on The Production
lar marriage with a lady named Anne? Mr.
of The Tempest,' containing disquisitions on Elton appears to hold a brief, more or less, for
Hunter's theories of the sources of the play, on the respectability of Shakespeare's character.
the plays and pageantry connected with the The poaching story he scouts : about a hundred
marriages of the Earl of Essex and of the Prin- years after Shakespeare left Stratford for Lon-
cess Elizabeth, and on the history of the Black-don, someone invented the story of his robbing
friars Theatre and its boy actors.
a park. The park, in process of time,
The book is a mine of curious and valuable was identified with Charlecot, and the owner
information. Much of it, to be sure, has al- with Sir Thomas Lucy' (p. 38). Nor does he
ready found its way into annotated editions of seem convinced that Sir Thomas is referred to
the plays, but Mr. Elton gives not only his con- in the Merry Wives and in 2 Henry IV. On
clusions on doubtful points, but the arguments the contrary he devotes himself to proving
that led to them, enriched with illustration (pp. 43-45) that ' Shakespeare showed a certain
drawn from the most out-of-the-way sources. respect for the Lucys and such persons bearing
Indeed, so much material is furnished, and the their names as he met with in the English
learned antiquary ranges so very far afield, that chronicles,' — for example, the Lady Lucy men-
the drift of his argument is not seldom ob- tioned in Richard III., 3.7.5, and the Sir Wil-
scured. Occasionally, also, the process is out liam Lucy of 1 Henry VI., Act. 4, Scenes 3, 4.
of all proportion to the result; for example, Like all careful students of Shakespeare's biog-
the author devotes a chapter of thirty-four raphy, as distinguished from the Brandes
pages to the history of the Blackfriars Theatre school of romancers, he is in general not wise
'
and the boy actors because The Tempest pos-above that which is written.' We have become
sibly may have been produced at Blackfriars so familiarized with the Shakespeare legend
during the boys' tenancy of the theatre' that we are hardly aware, until the facts are
(p. 479). One is far from complaining of the stated succinctly and without hypothetical em-
wealth of facts, however meagre the inference; bellishment, how very little we know of Shake-
only, the volume is hardly one to be read con- speare's life. It is somewhat startling, even to
secutively. The former criticism, however, that a professed student of Shakespeare, to read
the argument is not always clear, seems im- (p. 26): The Christian name of his wife
"
portant, especially when we consider the legal and her age
are known only by the
training of the author. An example may be inscription on her tomb. Yet, so insidious is
found in the discussion of the date of Shakes- the temptation to romance on this ever-fasci-
peare's birth (pp. 22-25), which is neither nating topic, that Mr. Elton, somewhat to our
clear nor cogent, partly, we venture to think, amusement, writes (p. 38):
. 'It may be as-
because of incorrect reasoning, and partly be- sumed that the young couple lived with Mr.
John Shakespeare, and that Anne Shakespeare
Edited by A. Hamilton
helped in the housework, while her husband
Thompson.
found something to do, either in teaching school
>
* WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, HIS FAMILY AND
FRIENDS
By the late Charles Isaac Elton.
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or copying papers in a lawyer's office.' Again, larly confused, and the examples given in Halli-
he appears to be somewhat incautious in as- well-Phillipps' Outlines (II., p. 184) show
suming (p. 218) that the William Shakespeare conclusively that they actually were. The book,
who appealed against paying his share of the however, abounds in the best kind of biographi-
St. Helen's assessment in 1598 was the poet. cal material; for instance, the carefully docu-
Mr. Lee, more careful, says (p. 38), “it is not mented descriptions of the farmer's condition
certain that this taxpayer was the dramatist.' in the sixteenth century, the appalling duties
The facts given by Mr. Elton himself would of the women of his family, and the inventory
seem to render such a doubt reasonable, though of the household goods of Robert Arden
probably the wealthy man's device of swearing- (pp. 114, 117, 121), all of which enable us,
'
(
off taxes' was not discovered yesterday. In without baseless assumptions, to reproduce
1598, the poet had recently bought New Place, imaginatively the life of the day.
he was a large owner of grain, he was in a posi- Not only will the student of Shakespeare's
tion to be asked by Richard Quiney for a loan biography find his account in these papers, but
of thirty pounds, and he was the author of at the student of the text as well. From the most
least eighteen successful plays. 'If the diffi- remote quarters, light is shed on obscure or
culty can be explained at all,' says Mr. Elton debated passages. Mr. Elton's researches into
(p. 219), “it will probably be found that the agricultural antiquities, for example (pp. 140-
poet had quite recently fallen into debt, lawful 147), enable him to explain such technical
debt, which in truth and conscience he intended words as “land’ (Ven. and Adon., Ded.), head-
to pay'! In one interesting particular, the land' (2 Hen. IV., 5.1.16), 'furlongs '
author corrects Mr. Lee's implication (p. 4) (Temp., 1.1.68), 'several' (L. L. L., 2.1.223;
that John Shakespeare combined farming with Son., 137, 1.9), 'pioned and twilled' (Temp.,
the trades of butcher and glover. He says 4.1.64), words which Schmidt quite fails to
(p. 349) :
explain with precision, and which the recently-
People have talked of John Shakespeare's mul published reprint of Dyce's Glossary does not
'
tifarious pursuits, suggesting that he farmed in the even mention. In the interesting discussion of
common-field at Asbies, and made up the wool and
butchered the stock at Stratford; but, in fact, the
Shakespeare's accurate use of hunting terms
farm was under lease to a tenant, and he would
(pp. 166-176), we are incidentally reminded,
never have been allowed in any case to join such by a reference to All's Well, 3.6.111, that the
incongruous trades as those of a butcher and a verb of the maxim, 'First catch your hare,'
glover. He could not keep a regular meat-shop while
trading in skins, and no one has seriously suggested
should probably be case' (i. e., flay). In this
that he worked about as a slaughterman, though
connection it
doubtful that 'fore-
such people were classed among butchers.
stalled' (Haml., 3.3.49), and dislodged' (Cor.,
The killing of calves was the subject of constant 5.4.44), are used with any sense of their signifi-
restrictions, and it is certain that the inspectors
would put a stop to anything that might injure
cance as hunting terms (p. 167). One may
the veal; it is almost inconceivable, indeed, that
question, also, whether “ reels' (Haml., 1.4.9)
a boy would be allowed to play such pranks in is a verb (p. 283), and whether knocks up the
the shambles as the gossips described.'
curtain' (Span. Trag., 4.3, stage direction) is
The last sentence is an amusing reference to rightly understood (p. 460). We should have
Aubrey's statement that when he kill'd a calfe expected Mr. Elton to explain the interesting
'
he would doe it in a high style, and make a
history of 'nagares' in the Arden inventory,
speech. Halliwell-Phillipps is probably the
but he merely adds, 'or augers, as they are prop-
source of Mr. Lee's error, if error it is (Out- erly called' (p. 121). It is surely unnecessary
lines, I., p. 30, II., p. 329). Now and then, on (p. 119) to see in Lucrece, 11.1199-1205, a
the other hand, the author is perhaps unduly reference to the will of Robert Arden because of
cautious. It is generally known that on the
the bequest of the soul to God and the body to
identity of the names Agnes, Annes, and Anne the ground, and the use of the term 'oversee.'
in the sixteenth century, depends the validity The wills of Agnes Arden, Richard Hathaway
of the inference that the Agnes of Richard of Shottery, Bartholemew Hathaway, Richard
Hathaway's will was Shakespeare's wife, Anne. Hathaway of Warwick, and Shakespeare him-
Mr. Elton's scepticism as to the identity of the self all employ the same terms.
names seems to us unwarranted. The will of The great stores of information contained in
Robert Arden, which refers to his wife, Annes, the book are placed at the ready disposal of the
and that of his widow, who calls herself Agnes, reader by a full and, so far as we have exam-
would almost be sufficient. The very fact, cited ined, accurate index. It is a work of the very
by Mr. Elton (p. 29), that early law had greatest value to the student of Shakespeare.
decreed the distinction of the names Anne and Not the least interesting and attractive pages
Agnes would seem to prove that they were popu- are those devoted by Mr. Lang to the author
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himself. They contain a portrait of a gentle- enlightened public opinion it will probably
man and a scholar, that type of peculiar charm attempt not to shackle, but to direct. The
in which the annals of English learning are older methods that threatened to kill the goose
richer, perhaps, than those of any other modern that laid the golden egg' will not be repeated.
land.
Writers such as Professor Newcomb have so
CHARLES II. A. WAGER.
clearly shown how the ton-mile rate has stead-
ily declined to a inere fraction, that the charge
of wholesale robbery cannot longer be gravely
maintained. Discrimination, under the pressure
THE RAILWAY PROBLEM.*
of great shippers, to whom the Standard Oil
No other subject more fully occupies the managers notably showed the way, is the evil
attention of the public today than the railway.
of today. But it cannot be handled for abate-
This great network, including in its meshes ment from the side solely of the railway, and
every community, and carrying to every door its
Mr. Garfield's suggestion of federal incorpora-
services, has not needed the criticism of the tion points the way to a possible solution.
Interstate Commerce Commission, or even the A happy sign of an improving public
statements in a recent presidential message, to opinion in regard to control of these great
fix upon it an absorbing public interest. The public utilities is the appearance in the
Northern Securities episode, begun on Wall last two three
years of literature
Street and now continuing in the Federal devoted to the railway problem. THE DIAL
courts, the spectacular performances in Rock had occasion a year ago to review several of
Island of the Moore brothers, the recent absorp- the best of these vohumes. One of the latest
tion one after another of great roads, until contributions is from the hand of Mr. Frank
now some twenty great combinations control. H. Spearman, who like his distinguished pro-
200,000 miles of line; the manipulation of the totype Frank Norris knows how to bring fiction
coal roads by the coal barons, the present con-
to aid the cause of truth in this field of
troversy over private cars, the latest rate war research. The author of The Daughter of a
between the trunk lines to the Atlantic coast Magnate,' in his latest work, presents a series
and the grangers that serve the Gulf, — all of industrial pictures of the Vanderbilt, the
these events are but a few of the phenomena Pennsylvania, the Harriman, the Hill
, the
of the railway world of today.
Gould, and the old granger' lines, and also
A great change in public opinion as regards glances at Rock Island, Santa Fe, and Alton.
the railways has come about since the enact- He closes with an account of the building of
ment of the contradictory Interstate Commerce the line from Omaha to San Francisco. He
Act in 1886, and especially since the unex- writes with a familiarity with his subject that
pected application of the Sherman Anti-Trust enlightens, and with a style that entertains and
Act to the railroads by the Supreme Court in
fascinates. One can hardly say that he holds
1897. The thinking public has come to see
a brief for the railways, but he frequently puts
that, while the railroad business, like all other the telescope to his blind eye. as when he
businesses, is open to the conduct of its affairs says, speaking of Mr. Cassatt:
in antagonism to the best interests of the whole 'He determined that rate discrimination in the
community, the race of railroad managers has
United States, the impoverishment of the investor,
grown with the growth of the country. It is
the ruin of the honest shipper, and the cause of
so many railroad receiverships, should cease, and
no longer possible to find great wreckers in
to the task of putting it down he and his associates
control of these semi-public services, and the addressed themselves; and after public prints and
railroad presidents of today are, in the main, public speakers had shouted themselves hoarse;
the very cream of the business ability of the
after congress had failed in solving the problem, as
it has always failed; after the courts of the United
nation. Presidents Cassatt, Hughitt, Hill, and
States had failed, as they have always failed, this
Fish are of the best, but they are representa- railroad man and his associates took the abuse in
tive. These men handle their properties not
hand and stamped it out of American railroading.'
merely for dividends. They recognize the One can only deny the conclusion. But the
solidarity of the business interests of the whole magnificent business ability that has covered
country, and Mr. Hill, distinctively, has been this land with roads of steel, has outfitted thene
the builder, not only of a road, but of a whole with the most perfect railroad appliances in
industrial empire in the 'new northwest.'
6.
the world, and has not only squeezed out most
If there is to be more state regulation, and of the water of earlier days, but has given,
that seems likely, in deference to a
year by year, a cheaper service hand in hand
* THE STRATEGY OF GREAT RAILROADS By Frank H.
with a better service, is given ample credit in
Spearman.
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upon the palpable facts that are here recorded which opens his latest volume of verse. The
and wish for any legislation that shall arrest following quotation illustrates the method of
or discourage such splendid builders of our this writer:
industrial, commercial, and political empire. 'Light to the eye and Music to the ear,-
One can only sigh and wish that the method of These are the builders of the bridge that springs
From earth's dim shore of half-remembered things
* railroading' might not be applied to one of To reach the spirits' home, the heavenly sphere
the most important subjects before the people
Where nothing silent is and nothing dark.
So when I see the rainbow's are
in the last days of an indolent Congress. He
Spanning the showery sky, far-off I hear
must wish rather that the more rational meth- Music, and every colour sings :
And while the symphony builds up its round
ods of an English parliament might apply, and
Full sweep of architectural harmony
these important measures be prepared by a Above the tide of Time, far, far away I see
commission of wisdom and expert knowledge
A bow of colour in the bow of sound.'
combined for a legislature humble enough to Thus far, the poetic imagination is put to
be guided by something more than its own strictly legitimate uses, but we have some doubt
esoteric self-conceit.
JOHN J. HALSEY.
concerning the legitimacy of the analysis that
follows.
'Red as the dawn the trumpet rings,
Imperial purple from the trombone flows,
The mellow horn melts into evening rose
RECENT AMERICAN POETRY,*
Blue as the sky, the choir of strings
Darkens in double-bass to ocean's hue,
Many a time and oft has the poet essayed
Rises in violins to noon-tide's blue,
With threads of quivering light shot through and
to put into words the inexpressible soul of
through.
music. For the poet who is also a lover of
music the temptation is wellnigh irresistible,
This is a little too suggestive of the French-
man's fantastical ascription of a definite color
for he cannot fail to recognize that the musi-
cian's art is closely related to his own, and com-
to each of the vowels. Analogies of this sort are
too individually subjective to find any response
plements it in many subtle ways. If it be
in the common consciousness; and their valid-
true, as Pater claims, that all art tends to
approach the condition of music, and achieves
ity is consequently questionable. The remain-
ing poems in Mr. Van Dyke's volume take
a success measured by the degree in which it
nears this ideal end, then it must seem to the
many forms and handle many themes. There
poet more than to other artistic workers a mat-
are odes, sonnets, legends, lyrics, and bits of
ter of urgency that he possess himself of the
personal verse. They are delicate and graceful
musician's secret and penetrate to the sources
in workmanship, the expression of a refined and
of the musician's inspiration. There are vari-
sensitive poetic instinct rather than the out-
pourings of a creative mood.
ous ways of making music the theme of poetry;
the way most generally accessible is that of Several poems included in "The Twin
recording the emotions awakened by a musical Immortalities,' by Mr. Charles E. Russell,
performance, and pressing into the service such attempt the interpretation of music in a far
imagery and parallelisms as it suggests. This more intimate way than does the ode above
is the way of Mr. Henry van Dyke, in the ode mentioned. Three of these poems, devoted
respectively to certain compositions by Volk-
* MUSIC, and Other Poems. By Henry van Dyke.
New York : Charles Scribner's Sons.
mann, Rubinstein, and Beethoven, simply seek
IMMORTALITIES, and Other Poems. By to find words for the train of feelings and fan-
Charles E. Russell. Chicago : The Hammersmark Pub-
lishing Co.
cies evoked by the music. The following, for
LOVE TRIUMPHANT. A Book of Poems. By Frederic
example, from Volkmann's Serenade in D
Lawrence Knowles. Boston : Dana Estes & Co.
Minor, is very charming:
THE GARDEN OF YEARS, and Other Poems. By Guy
Wetmore Carryl. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
White silent depths of moonlight on whose breast
LYRICS AND LEGENDS OF CHRISTMAS-TIDE. By Clin-
ton Scollard. Clinton, N. Y.: G. W. Browning.
Float like dim argosies at dreamy rest
LYRICS OF JOY,
On stirless seas;
By Frank Dempster Sherman. Bos-
ton: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
So still that when the moon sails high
The song she sings in that vast sky
INTERLUDES. By Philip Becker Goetz. Boston: Rich-
ard G. Badger.
Seems breathed afar on fairy flutes :
So still that when her faint strains die
SONGS FROM A GEORGIA GARDEN, and Echoes from the
Across the depths dim echoes fly
Gates of Silence. By Robert Loveman. Philadelphia:
Star-touched on throbbing lutes.'
The J. B. Lippincott Co.
THE PLAYMATE HOURS. By Mary Thacher Higgin- But it is not in verse of this sort, which
Boston : Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
many others have done equally well, that Mr.
MINE AND THINE. By Florence Earle Coates. Bos-
Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
Russell's deepest appreciation of music may be
CASSIA, and Other Verse. By Edith M. Thomas. Bos- found. It is rather in the two compositions,
ton: Richard G. Badger.
* Graubünden' and 'Pegli,' actually written in
POEMS. By Hildegarde Hawthorne. Boston: Richard
G. Badger.
the classical form of the sonata, that we find
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we;
music and poetry brought into the closest pos- Sings a quiet song for their safe-keeping.
sible relations. One naturally thinks, reading
Bend, O mother, with thy smile above them,
Peace in thy mild eyes and with no weeping;
these poems, of 'Master Hughes of Saxe- Thou and we have one great cause to love them.'
Gotha,' and ' A Toccata of Galuppi's,' but it is
chiefly to realize that Mr. Russell has attempted
But we must not give the impression that Mr.
a more difficult task than Browning's, and with merely, or that æsthetic considerations alone are
Russell stands for experimental expression
surprising success. Where Browning gives us
a masterly technical description, our present social creed, which all his art is bent to enforce.
raised by his verse. He has a very definite
author does not describe at all, but simply It is the creed of democracy, not in the sense
writes in conformity with the severe rule of the
of a political shibboleth, but in that of the
composer. Taking 'Graubünden' for examina-
brotherhood of man, which his book maintains
tion, we find, first of all, that it is a poem in
from first to last. His work is dedicated to
the orthodox four movements. Taking the
President Loubet, the foremost democrat of
second of these movements, the adagio, Mr.
Russell's own words may be quoted by way of
these times, and the passion of that faith finds
exalted expression in such poems as 'Adam's
exposition. The first stanza announces the
Sons' and the Coronation Ode.' We must
first theme. Then follows a development group
of four stanzas leading to the episode in stanza
quote from both of these poems, choosing in
four. The first theme is repeated in stanza
each case the final stanza. This is the ending
of 'Adam's Sons':
five, and the next development group leads to
• We have one goal together, you and I:
the second theme in stanza ten. The material
We hear one echo of a wailing cry
of the second theme — Force and Time — is Incessant raised by sundered soul from soul
then worked out to the eighteenth stanza, when
Left lonely here
And if a land beyond the clouds that roll
there is a recapitulation of the first theme and
Or only sleep and dreamless rest there be
a stanza as a coda.' So much for the form of We know not, O my brother! but the dark
Lightens a little with this only spark
this poem; its subject is provided by the heroic
That with clasped hands and hearts we go as one
and successful struggle for freedom of the Grau- When through the dusk we hear the dim bell toll
bündners in the fifteenth century.
We can
The day is done.'
quote but briefly, not at a length sufficient to And this is the close of the Coronation Ode':
show how admirably the musical form is imi-
No more of Kings: this is the age of man!
tated, but sufficient to make it clear that the For you the night is dark, the day means naught;
Wasted for you your heroes' blood that ran
poetry does not suffer from having been writ-
And lost the labor of their hands that wrought.
ten under these exacting conditions. Here is The world goes on and leaves you on your knees
the first theme:
Mumbling and mouthing to such gauds as these.
The marchers' chorus swells;
. Winds that waft the dead sprays in and out,
You hear no hint of all it tells.
Winds before whose breath the faint stars shiver,
Voice after voice the burden sings
Coldly glimpsed through wild clouds blown about,
Sturdy and strong:
Now when leaves float brown upon the river,
We tread the wrecks of sceptre and of throne,
Shorn and shot by bolts from out thy quiver,
Our feet crush out old faiths of fraud and wrong,
Tell me in what dust thy wrath has blown
We have no crown but liberty alone-
Up and down the weary earth forever
Labor and love are Kings!
Any name or fame of theirs is known.'
It is difficult to end the pleasant task of illus-
Here is a stanza taken from the working-out of trating this rich and varied volume of verse.
the second theme:
One more extract, at least, shall be given, a
* Even she, our lady, in whose name
stanza from the poet's beautiful tribute to the
Faith takes heart again, and, starward turning,
artist of La Bella Simonetta.'
Hope in sweetest eyes casts back the flame
Ever in her torch uplifted burning,
"Shall not men's mightiest as their lightest deeds
She to whom men turn with that old yearning,
Be sown beyond us in Time's field for seeds,
Sun and star and goddess, Liberty,
And every word or work be rooted there
Beautiful beyond all lore or learning,
To make earth red with roses, waste with weeds?
Sweet as sunrise on the heaving sea.'
What man has died then ? Ah, all earth and air
Are roseate as with shadow of a flame
And here we have the recapitulation of the first
For him; the fields are bright with leaf and bloom
theme with the coda:
Sprung from his time of sorrow and grey gloom,
And men that see the flowerage of his fame
• Wind that blows the cloud-flags far about,
Twine chaplets wet with tears that keep them fair
Wind that makes the huge storm-trumpets shiver,
Round Botticelli's name.'
Wind before whose stern triumphant shout
Men are bowed in awe and mountains quiver,
This conception of immortality recurs again
Give us one great strain of sea or river,
and again in Mr. Russell's work, and is the
Fit to sing their praise whose deeds are known,
Round and round the radiant world forever,
keynote of the titular poem. We hardly
Grandest strain of all thy lips have blown.
need the actual tribute paid to the greatest
Mother Earth, that seest all sons of thine,
poet now living in the world to remind us that
Wind thy tender arms about them sleeping;
the influence of Mr. Swinburne is manifest
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Mr. Frederic Lawrence Knowles, in one of which may be illustrated by the following lines:
the pieces which he has collected into a volume
The faithful unto death, their sleeping-places over
entitled “Love Triumphant,' makes a demand The torn and trampled clover to braver beauty blows;
Of all their grim campaigning no sight nor sound remain-
for
ing,
None of the old tunes, poet!'
The memory of them mutely to greater glory grows.'
It cannot be said that Mr. Knowles has hark-
This volume is peculiarly fortunate in having
ened to his own precept, for he gives us many an introduction by Mr. E. C. Stedman, who
of the old tunes, as well as eclectic echoes of in a few felicitous words pays both personal
many of the old ideas. At one time it is Keats, and critical tribute to the author's memory.
at another Arnold, at still another Christina
Rossetti, but what is your poor poet to do when
'Lyrics and Legends of Christmas-Tide' is
the latest of the little books of verse that Mr.
all the forms and the thoughts have been
pressed into service by those who have gone
Clinton Scollard puts forth from time to time
before? The titular poem in this volume will
in limited editions. There are something like
give a very fair idea of Mr. Knowles's graceful thirty songs in this collection, unpretentiously
workmanship.
charming, and filled with the spirit of the sea-
son they celebrate. Our quotation shall be one
'Helen's lips are drifting dust;
Ilion is consumed with rust;
of the four stanzas on 'Nazareth Town.'
All the galleons of Greece
Nazareth town in Galilee !
Drink the ocean's dreamless peace;
Strumming a desert melody,
Lost was Solomon's purple show
The Bedouin minstrel trolls in the street ;
Restless centuries ago;
At the Well of the Virgins the maidens meet;
Stately empires wax and wane
The cactus-hedges crimson to flower,
Babylon, Barbary and Spain ;-
And the olives silver hour by hour
Only one thing, undefaced,
As through the branches the south wind steals,
Lasts, though all the worlds lie waste
A clear bell peals, and a vulture wheels
And the heavens are overturned.
Over the crest where the wild crags be ;-
-Dear, how long ago we learned !
Nazareth town in Galilee !'
* There's a sight that blinds the sun,
Sound that lives when sounds are done,
The small volume which contains Mr. Frank
Music that rebukes the birds,
Dempster Sherman's 'Lyrics of Joy' may be
Language lovelier than words,
fairly represented by the exquisite poem called
Hue and scent that shame the rose,
Wine no earthly vineyard knows,
Winter Dreams.'
Silence stiller than the shore
Swept by Charon's stealthy oar,
* Deep lies the snow on wood and field;
Ocean more divinely free
Gray stretches overhead the sky;
Than Pacific's boundless sea, --
The streams, their lips of laughter sealed,
Ye who love have learn'd it true.
In silence wander slowly by.
-Dear, how long ago we knew !'
'Earth slumbers, and her dreams,—who knows
But they may sometimes be like ours?
During his brief life, Guy Wetmore Carryl
Lyrics of spring in winter's prose
was chiefly known
to readers at large as a
That sing of buds and leaves and flowers;
writer of trifles in verse and prose, and it is * Dreams of that day when from the South
only since his lamented death that his more
Comes April, as at first she came,
To hold the bare twig to her mouth
serious qualities have been fully revealed. The
And blow it into fragrant flame.'
posthumous collection of his verse, entitled
· The Garden of Years and Other Poems,' is in
Long practice has given Mr. Sherman a highly-
spirit far indeed removed from his Grimm
finished technique, and the pieces in this col-
Tales Made Gay,' and his ‘Fables for the
lection have the art of true simplicity, or the
Frivolous. It is a volume of manly sentiment simplicity of true art—the phrase fits which-
'
embodied in facile and vigorous measures. The
ever way it is taken.
long poem which supplies the title is a con- Somewhat weightier in matter than the
fession of love in many stanzas, combined with poems in the two collections just mentioned
reminiscences of his Wanderjahre. We quote a or at least more elaborate in plan
are the
specimen stanza.
‘Interludes' of Mr. Philip Becker Goetz. These
• 'Twas in the garden, phantom-trod, of those
poems are written in blank verse which is some-
My younger years, when life before me lay,
what lacking in lyrical quality, but has vigor
That first I saw the flower of Love unclose
and a tang that gives zest to the taste.
From fancy's folded bud. Youth only knows
How tenderly I longed to pluck it! Nay,
* Astray' is possibly not so characteristic a
I would not waken those dead hours to-day :
specimen as might have been chosen, but it is
For Time's consuming fire, with lambent lip,
Has kissed my fair frail flower, and so I may the appealing embodiment of a thought that
Not touch with the most careful finger-tip
must often arise in serious minds.
Its ashes, perfect as the unburnt rose.
'I marvel not that sadder grows the world,
Next in importance to this long poem is the For men have lost the love of simple things,
With eloquence of Nature's music mute,
group of five patriotic ballads which follow it,
With speed of waterways made bond to trade,
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With flowers forced untimely into bloom,-
A book of sincere and unaffected expression,
What is there honest, free, and fair remaining?
We stifle in our towns of prisoned air
having childhood, religion, and nature for its
And happy with a rare glance from the earth
themes, is put forth by Mrs. Mary Thacher
We see a square of blue or curdled cloud,
Higginson, and entitled The Playmate Hours.'
Or niggard stretch of moonlight through a street.
At manners of the hill-bound kind we scoff,
We select 'The Strength of the Hills' for one
Although we know not what those hills have taught
of our illustrations.
Of dumb and deep contempt for city's towers.
And in these keeps of pain, disease, and sin,
'A midnight hush pervades the air,
These wards of grief whose keys are our own eyes,
No birdling chirps, no leaflet stirs ;
With blanched regard we tell ourselves we live.
Midsummer heat is everywhere,
O mother of us all, from whom we went
Even among the firs.
As early as our tender steps were free,
Whose near outstretch of arm we put aside
• What far-off sound grows on the ear?
To hurry from thy verdant aisles of peace,
Through wild ravines it sweeps along,
Take us again, us sick with thought or craft,
As if some swift-winged bird drew
And lull us with thy choirs of careless birds;
To wake the night with song.
And if there be more tragedy beneath
A rustle fills the birches tall;
The swell of thy serene, sweet mother breasts,
A sudden coolness fans the cheek:
Preserve thy silence and thy smile of old,
Monadnock's breath bears life to all
Make merry with thy children as we glance,
Beneath its rugged peak.
Let perfume charm and wonder awe once more
As, leaning to thy heart our tired desires,
'For here each day is born anew
We feel the oblivious beat of speechless love.'
A chaste Diana, fresh and fair,
Whose arrows, dipped in forest dew,
This may be called belated Wordsworthianism,
Transfix each worldly care.'
but the message is even more insistent now
Our other illustration shall be this fine sonnet
than it was a century ago. Besides the ‘Inter-
called “Ghost-Flowers,' by which is meant the
ludes,' of which one has been quoted, Mr.
Goetz's little volume contains ballads, songs,
Monotropa, or Indian pipe:
In shining groups, each stem a pearly ray,
and sonnets, many of them striking in phrase
Weird flecks of light within the shadowed wood,
and musical in measure. We cannot refrain They dwell aloof, a spotless sisterhood.
No Angelus, except the wild bird's lay,
from quoting the sonnet on Virgil.
Awakes these forest nuns; yet night and day
*A mere pale boy, who, watching docile sheep
Their heads are bent, as if in prayerful mood.
On mead and easy upland o'er and o'er,
A touch will mar their snow, and tempests rude
Wove many songs with young Sicilian lore
Defile; but in the mist fresh blossoms stray
The while his spirit with increasing sweep
From spirit-gardens just beyond our ken.
Longed to be where seven hills in starry sleep
Each year we seek their virgin haunts to look
Saw done the dauntless deeds, saw spent the gore,
Upon new loveliness, and watch again
Saw drop the vanward bird and sink who bore,
Their shy devotions near the singing brook ;
Until one master stemmed the battle's heap
Then, mingling in the dizzy stir of man,
And reigned a prince of peace, -the higb renown
Forget the vows made in that cloistered nook.'
That mother-city of all cities born
To celebrate and rumor through all time
There are not many of these poems, and the
With the grand pathos of her bright, dead prime writing of what few there are has been scat-
Was that pale boy's, whose very glories mourn
As if they knew immortal rides no crown.'
tered over many years. At their best, as has
There can be no doubt that this is poetry, and
been shown, they are exquisite in feeling and
of unusual distinction. The author sometimes
finish, and none of them falls far short of this
best.
strains a little for effect, but the average qual-
Mine and Thine,' by Mrs. Florence Earle
ity of his work is singularly high.
Coates, is a volume made up chiefly of occa-
Mr. Robert Loveman's new volume is his
sional verse, if we extend that term to include
fourth, and, like the other three, is made up personal tributes and pieces called forth by
of brief and simple lyrics. These rhymes upon
some incidental impression. Thus, the author
‘Abelard and Heloise' have particularly taken
pays her respects to Mr. Stedman, Mr. Yeats,
our fancy:
Madame Bernhardt, and Helen Keller, among
Abelard and Heloise,
the living, and to Beethoven, Picquart, Whist-
Ne'er were lovers like to these ;
Flying in the face of fate,
ler, E. N. Westcott, Stevenson, Millet, and
Ground beneath the heel of hate
Joan of Are, among the dead. She also
Constant to the latest breath,
With a faith defying death,
inscribes verses to England, Paris, and Buffalo,
Deeper than unsounded seas,
and to the 'War for the Liberation of Cuba.'
Abelard and Heloise.
Her sonnet 'To William Butler Yeats seems
' Abelard and Heloise,
to us to represent her work upon its highest
Drained Love's chalice to the lees;
Joyed and sorrowed, laughed and wept,
level.
Tempest-torn and passion-swept;
Tell us of beauty! Touch thy silver lyre
Now they dream away the days
And bid thy Muse unfold her shining wings!
In the peaceful Père-la-Chaise,
Tell us of joy of those unaging things
Sleeping there beneath the trees,
Which wither not, nor are consumed by fire,
Abelard and Heloise.'
Things unto which the souls of all aspire !
Sing us the mystic song thine Erin sings,
Few poets can say as much as JIr. Loveman
Her poignant dreams, her weird imaginings,
can within the compass of a pair of stanzas.
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"Let others hate! — from lips not thine be hurled
For, lo ! did not Deucalion at the flood
Reproaches; since all hate at last must prove
Behind him Aling us stones – and men we grew ?
Abortive, though it triumph for a while.
With limbs we moved abroad, with lips we spake!
The gospels that indeed have won the world
And hast not thou, with grief, seen flesh-and-blood
Laid their foundation on the strength of love.
Become to thee as stones, that Pity's dew
Sing thou, a lover, of thy wave-washed Isle !'
Could never melt, nor yet thine anger break?")
Of the excellence of Mrs. Coates's senti- From Miss Hildegarde Hawthorne's little
ments there can be no doubt; her nature is volume of delicate ‘Poems we select ' A Song'
warmly responsive to whatever is worthy in for our example.
life or beautiful in art. But her expression Sing me a sweet, low song of night
does not often exhibit spontaneity or achieve
Before the moon is risen,
A song that tells of the stars' delight
distinction.
Escaped from day's bright prison ;
A song that
with the cricket's voice
Spontaneity has never been a marked char-
That sleeps with the shadowed trees,
acteristic of the verse of Miss Edith M. A song that shall bid my heart rejoice
At its tender mysteries !
Thomas, who is too reflective a singer for the
higher sort of lyrical utterance, but there are
And then when the song is ended, love,
Bend down your head unto me;
touches of distinction upon nearly everything Whisper the word that was born above
she writes. Plainness of speech and subtlety
Ere the moon had swayed the sea;
Ere the brightest stars began to shine
of thought mark her work, and make it very
Or the farthest sun to burn,
precious to lovers of the graver kind of verse. The oldest of words, O heart of mine,
Yet newest, and sweet to learn!'
This writer has been silent for so long that her
new volume, ‘Cassia, and Other Verse,' is We could hardly wish for a prettier close to
doubly welcome. Here is a typical selection, the series of extracts which have been strung
called 'A Peu Près':
together in this review.
* Thy palace walls were founded well,
WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE.
And well its courses thou didst lay;
One tower defied the genie's spell
And stands a ruin to this day.
The land of flowers thou didst attain,
And see the spring's immortal jet ;
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
Thy staff-worn hand was reached in vain
Thy lips that crystal never wet!
India in
Geographically, India is a conti-
* With pains the altar thou didst dress,
its physical nent, a little less than half as
And the burnt sacrifice prepare,
aspects.
large as Europe, but characterized
And call upon the God to bless —
All but the fire from Heaven was there!
by the same symmetry and proportions, the same
rich variety of physical features and climate,
'Thou shak'st thy lance on hard-fought field,
Thou sleep'st, the tingling stars above;
as Europe. It is more populous than Europe,
Pity and praise sweet eyes can yield,
having more than one hundred and forty inhab-
But ne'er vouchsafe the Light of 'Love!'
itants to the square mile, while Europe has less
. What dost thou lack? 'Tis almost naught
than one hundred. And though usually spoken
That parts thee from thy Heart's Desire,
of as a political entity, it is a conglomeration of
A step — a span — an airy thought :
A pulse-beat more, thou didst require!'
distinct kingdoms and peoples, and the concrete
term 'Indian' may be applied to what is in the
Miss Thomas's gift for moralizing impressively abstract a heterogeneous, polyglot combination
but not obstrusively upon a single theme is well of individuals, who belong to a dozen different
illustrated by this poem. That she has the nationalities, speak a Babel of tongues, and live
right feeling about poetic opportunity is shown in a variety of countries the physical features of
by such lines as these:
which differ as much as their climatic conditions.
• Thine the fault,
Its ethnography must take note of peoples of
If nothing near thee moves thy breast to song: Aryan, Scythian, Arab, Tartar, Dravidian, and
Thy mornings are new-lit, thine evenings starred, Mongolian stocks, speaking more than seventy
Thy wind-blown forests are with joy exalt,
different languages. Its geographical history be-
Thy threshold birds are singing all day long-
Not thou dost lack a Theme, but these a Bard.'
gan with the invasion by Alexander the Great
about the year 327 B. C.,—the first scientifically-
This volume includes upwards of two score conducted military expedition in the world's his-
sonnets, most of which are of richly imagina-tory. . Though for more than a century Eng-
tive beauty. It is with much hesitation that land has held the dominant position in this vast
we have chosen 'From Lips of Stone' to stand territory, and official reports to the British gov-
for the entire group.
ernment abound in information respecting its
political and economic geography, yet a compre-
• Amid a waste and solitary field,
hensive geography of the country was much to
Upon the twilight boundary of the day,
be desired. Wise choice was made of Col. Sir
Upspake the timeless flintstone huge and gray:
" Why should my counsel be forever sealed ?
Thomas Hungerford Holdich, K.C.I.E., C.P.,
To thee an ancient truth shall be revealed
P.E., late Superintendent of the Frontier Sur-
To thee, a wavering mortal, brief of stay :-
Something of kin, thou piece of passioned clay,
veys, to supply tnis desideratum for “Appletons'
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will rank high with the other volumes of the barely adequate for mere statistics. But the
series. Five chapters are devoted to the physical scholarship and brilliancy of M. S. Reinach,
features of the various regions that compose the member of the Institute of France, have achieved
vast continent. A chapter on the people of the apparently impossible and produced a book
India takes due account of the religions upon both critical and fascinating. This is partly be-
which the main divisions of the inhabitants are cause Monsieur Reinach is such a master of the
based. It is not surprising that the author, who phrase; he condenses into a sentence an analysis
has been engaged in the British public service in or a criticism which others would spread through
India for more than twenty years, should give pages. How admirably, for example, is the char-
his chief attention to economic geography in acterization of Andrea del Sarto the technician,
chapters on Agriculture and Revenue, on Min- - commonplace as a thinker, great as a paint-
erals, and on Climate. And inasmuch as twenty- er'; and this, in speaking of Millet and our
five thousand miles of railway have been built in nineteenth-century spirit, - 'The tender and fra-
India since 1870, and as these railways are the ternal sentiment that breathes from Millet's can-
most crowded with passenger traffic of any in vases reveals that sympathy with the poor and
the world, it is well that we should have a chap- humble which has been the honor and the tor-
ter on Railways. So great is the position that ment of the nineteenth century.' Impressionism
India now occupies in the world's affairs that the is defined as a “pictorial stenography, disdainful
appearance of such a book as this is especially of details which rapid and sympathetic vision
opportune.
cannot seize. Whoever wishes to pursue the
subjects into their details will find at the end
Essays in
Twelve essays by Mr. William of each chapter an exhaustive bibliography, mak-
literary
Sharp, published at intervals dur-
ing the work especially desirable as a reference
topography.
ing the past two years in the ‘Pall book covering the whole field of artistic expres-
Mall Magazine,' dealing with certain regions in
sion. The translation, by Miss Florence Sim-
.connection with their literary associations, are monds, is admirably done; and the volume is
now collectively published under the title 'Liter-
imported by Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons.
ary Geography' (imported by Charles Scribner's
Sons). Of the topographical literature now so
imuch in vogue, this book is one of the best exam-
A study in It is from somewhat of a novel
ples. It is full of interesting matter, is well writ-
the principles view-point that Mr. William . De-
of personality. Witt Hyde treats certain phases of
ten, and the authors selected for description
(mostly novelists) are those about whom every-
Greek philosophy and Christianity in his latest
one likes to know; the illustrations, often made
work, From Epicurus to Christ' (Macmillan).
from special photographs, are numerous and un-
He takes, as a point of departure, such elements
commonly beautiful. The 'country' of an author
of personality as rise above the threshold of
consciousness and are reducible to philosophical
may mean either where he has spent his time
and which he has commemorated in his writings, principles. It is with a view to discovering and
or it may mean the lands or regions brought pointing out these elements that he consults the
under the sway of his imagination, as Provence
doctrines of Epicurus, of the Stoics, of Plato, of
and Palestine by Scott in 'Quentin Durward' and
Aristotle, and lastly of Christ. His method is
*The Talisman,' as Samoa or Silverado or Fon- to quote, or to state simply in his own words, the
tainebleau in the instance of Stevenson; or it
gist of each master's teaching, then to comment
may mean the actual country of birth and up-
upon it and show wherein lies its truth or its
bringing and residence. Sometimes these coincide,
error. The study may be said to be in the form
as in the instance of George Eliot, whose own
of an evolution-the best of the earlier systems
country and whose most enduring country of the
being faithfully retained to aggrandize, as it
imagination are practically identical. In gen-
were, the highest expression of personality, Christ.
eral, what our author means by the country' of
The Christian view of life, combined with the
a great writer, like Scott or Carlyle or the Bron-
elements of truth in the earlier systems, Mr.
tës, is that region where life first unfolded and
Hyde regards as a really Catholic Christianity
where its roots are,-the country that the heart
for which the present time is ripe. Although the
enshrines. These are the things of which one is
author does not explicitly state the fact, the
always eager to hear, hoping, although well know- reader is left with the impression that such a
ing how vain the hope, to find some clue to that
religion is ultimate. An extremely interesting
mysterious and incommunicable secret which we
presentation of old principles in a new setting,
call genius.
together with keen suggestions of their modern
exponents, tend to convince the reader that Mr.,
The story of
To tell 'The Story of Art Hyde himself is far from lacking in certain prin-!
Art through throughout the Ages' in three ciples of personality.
hundred pages, at the same time
yielding space for an average of two illustrations
The story
Mr. Cyrus Townsend Brady fur-
on each page, would seem to imply treatment of of our
nishes another volume for the
the most superficial kind. Beginning with the
‘American Fights and Fighters'
crude attempts at art in the quaternary period, series (McClure, Phillips & Co.), this covering
continuing through Egypt, Chaldea, Persia, the field from 1866 to 1876, and bearing the title
Greece, Rome, and the modern European and of 'Indian Fights and Fighters: The Soldier and
American states, the space would seem to be the Sioux.' The book, like its three predecessors,
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as
is fairly authentic history, and every endeavor New facts
An important contribution to our
has been made to set down the facts without fear concerning knowledge of the ways of volca-
or favor. The four greater episodes in the book
noes is made by Mr. Angelo Heil-
are the massacre at Fort Phil Kearney, Colonel prin, F.R.G.S., in his latest work, The Tower
Forsyth's fight on the Arikaree (Beecher's of Pelée: New Studies of the Great Volcano of
Island), General Miles's winter campaign against Martinique' (Lippincott). It is the result of a
the Sioux, and the Custer massacre (the battle series of visits to the island, during which a
of the Little Big Horn). Such events as these, number of photographs were taken, and these
when coupled with knowledge of the provocation photographs, with comment upon them, constitute
given the Indians by Americans in no way re- the present thin quarto. While more than one
sponsible to the military, who nevertheless have phase of the activities of Pelée is taken into ac-
had to bear the burden of the misdeeds of others, count, the book deals chiefly with the wonderful
cannot fail to interest all who admire splendid tower, believed to be the solidified core remaining
courage, marked resourcefulness, and everything in the vent of a prehistoric crater, which came
that goes to make up the accomplished soldier. first into view during the great eruption of 1902,
Mr. Brady has not been satisfied with the official and was destroyed in the cataclysm of August
and other reports of the time, but as far as pos- in that year. It began to emerge anew soon
sible has supplemented them with such additional after, growing in height for days together at the
knowledge as he has been able to extract from rate of seventy feet a day, but crumbling at its
those having direct relation with the events set top as it arose owing to fissures which served for
forth. His anxiety, for example, to set straight the transmission of explosive vapors. It attained
the question as to whether or not General Cus- a maximum height of 800 feet or more, and was
ter disobeyed orders in advancing upon the Sioux, supported by a general rise of a supporting base
and so bringing himself and his command to of even greater elevation, the point of the tower
dreadful death, has resulted in a voluminous reaching an altitude of 5,200 feet above sea level.
correspondence which requires an appendix and The tower disappeared more rapidly than it
yet leaves the question not fully settled. Mr. came, and now remains only in the photographs,
Brady himself, however, seems to hold that there of extraordinary fidelity and impressiveness, that
was no technical disobedience. The book is illus- were taken of it. The book is written with more
trated by many pencils, some of them in the care than preceding volumes from the same hand,
hands of artists of distinction; the effect as a and will be read with intense interest.
whole is somewhat heterogenous, effective
each picture is, taken by itself.
A year-book
'Saints and Festivals of the Chris-
for the whole tian Church' (Stokes), by Mr. H.
Christian Church Pomeroy Brewster, is an unusually
The marvels Probably no single volume yet
of modern published gives so clear an idea of
terse and at the same time comprehensive church
industry. the advances made in recent years
year-book, in which is told the origin, history, and
in all the various fields of practical human en-
present status of each of the chief festivals of
the entire church, as well as of many local feasts
deavor as Mr. Charles H. Cochrane's Modern
Industrial Progress' (Lippincott). Abundantly
and festivals which obtain in certain parts of
Europe. The greatest merits of the work are its
and pertinently illustrated, it takes up in suc-
entire freedom from denominational bias, and
cession no fewer than forty-two major and a
the wide knowledge which it shows of profane
number of minor topics. The chief interest obvi-
and ecclesiastical history and canon law. The
ously lies in the directions of electricity and
record begins with Advent Sunday, and proceeds
steel, but there are various other advances made
through the year, giving the date, fixed or approx-
possible by reason of these, such as the excava-
imate, for each festival, and finding some fes-
tion of great canals through enormous and com-
tival for every day. It is of course impossible,
plicated mechanisms built of steel, and rapid
vehicles made possible through electricity. The
even within the limits of five hundred closely-
printed pages, to tell the story of all the canon-
towering buildings which lend a Babel-like effect
ized saints of the church, so a few of the most
to our cities, the great ordnance carried by our
noted have been chosen for each day, and their
leviathans upon the seas, flying machines already
lives briefly sketched. An alphabetical index
past the stage of experiment, the mechanisms
gives a much more comprehensive list of saints,
that lend themselves to stage use and deceptions,
with the proper 'saint-day' for each, and there
machine-making, and the differences between the
is also a chronological list of all the Bishops and
American method with uniform and interchange- Popes since the death of St. Peter, and a copious
able parts and the European idea of building to
general index. The book is copiously illustrated
suit special occasions and needs, all the appar- with a number of small cuts showing pictures of
atus that takes standing grain from the field
the saints or of the quaint symbols that the old
and ends with it in barrels of flour, glass-mak-
church calendars employed to represent them.
ing, paper and its new uses, boot and shoe man-
ufactures, weaving and spinning in power looms,
Professor Jülicher's 'Introduction
clay and its newer uses,- these and scores of study of the to the New Testament,' in the
other topics here find exemplification and com-
New Testament. original German, has
for ten
prehensive no less than succinct treatment. The years been familiar to New Testament students,
book is well written, with directness and sim- and has gained a high place among such works.
plicity of style.
In the English translation issued by Messrs.
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Putnam's Sons, made from the second (the some experiences in shooting it, generally those
so-called “third and fourth') German edition of of Mr. Huntington himself, set forth in a man-
1901, it will reach and benefit a much wider cir- ner intended to be of assistance to others in sim-
cle, and New Testament study will be the
ilar quests.
There is also a preliminary dis-
gainer thereby. The translation exhibits, in the cussion of arms and ammunition. The book is
main, the ease and fidelity and clearness that illustrated by reproduced photographs from life,
are indispensable in such work. More attention showing the animals as they have appeared in
to finish would have relieved the pages of some their native wilds.
German survivals, such as Muratorianum, Sozo-
menos, Theodoretus, Elzevier, and Leit-motiv.
A book
Mr. Andrew Lang has put to-
Memphian (for Memphitic), Pergamus (for of famous gether in a volume called 'His-
Pergamum), Nizan (for Nisan, passim), are not mysteries. torical Mysteries' (Longmans),
improvements; and we should not have called a fourteen short sketches, previously printed in
water-plant like papyrus a 'shrub' (p. 568). It various periodicals, all of which have the interest
is amusing to see “Tendenz' soberly exhibited in
of uncertainty, and some of which have a genu-
parentheses after every clause in which the Ger-
ine historical bearing. Among the latter are
man has it; clearly it is with some still an 'The Cardinal's Necklace,' 'The Gowrie Con-
objecti of worship. A parenthesis misplaced spiracy,' "The Case of Allan Breck,' and others,
(p. 613) has thrown a series of valuable notes while mysteries not really historical, in the sense
into confusion; and Mr. Gwilliam of Oxford is
of having any relation to important incidents in
hardly recognizable in G. William (ibid). Cer-
history, but rather famous for the contemporane-
tain Greek spellings and certain English capi- ous interest excited in them, are “The Case of
talizations offend the reviewer's eye; but with
Elizabeth Canning,' and 'The Strange Case of
all its fallibility this English form of Jülicher's
Daniel Dunglas Home.' In the last-mentioned
work will be useful and welcome.
essay, Mr. Lang's own interest in spiritualistic
manifestations is made evident. But each of
The history of
A half century ago there ap- these is much more a study than a sketch, for
a Southern peared "A History of Maryland' the evidence is given, and being carefully weighed
commonwealth.
by James McSherry. It presented with a true historical sense, some conclusion is
à fairly adequate description of the founding
reached, the whole being presented in a form at
of the colony, of the Puritan conquest, and of the once suggestive and convincing. Thus the vol-
Revolutionary War, from the Roman Catholic ume is both valuable as a bit of careful research
point of view -- although not radically so. This
and entertaining as a collection of stories.
work has now been revised and supplemented
by Prof. Bartlett Burleigh James, of the West-
Memoirs of
Major General William Heath, a
ern Maryland College, and is published by the
a Continental native of Roxbury, Massachusetts,
Baltimore Book Co. The reviser has restrained
officer.
served in the Continental forces
the fulsomeness of McSherry, and has completed
of the Revolutionary War during the entire eight
the story of Maryland from the close of the Rev-
years of that memorable contest between the
olution to the end of the nineteenth century.
colonists and England. In 1798 he published his
The Civil War is presented from an unbiased
Memoirs, consisting of a daily journal which he
view, as is the Reconstruction period following.
had kept during the war, supplemented by recol-
A few incorrect spellings,--such Charles
lections of other participants. The book has been
* Thompson,' Secretary of the Continental Con-
out of print for many years, but is now restored
gress, and the case of 'Sprigg' instead of Prigg
in an attractive form as one of a series of
vs. Pennsylvania,-are to be noted. The polit-
'Source-Books of American History' (A. Wes-
ical history has not been allowed to crowd out
sels Company). Heath was unfortunate in de-.
the industrial and economic development of the
laying an attack upon Fort Independence, with
state, and the work as now presented is a val-
which he was entrusted in January, 1777,-a de-
uable addition to the rather scanty material linquency that brought upon him the wrath of
available for Maryland's history.
the Commander-in-Chief and probably prevented
him from being entrusted with another important
The quest of
Mr. Dwight M. Huntington's man- command during the war. He makes a mild de-
big game' ner in ‘Our Big Game, a Book for fense of his conduct in his Memoirs. The book
in America.
Sportsmen and Nature-Lovers,' is of value also for its accounts of the disposi-
(Scribner) can best be described as intimate, tion of Burgoyne after his surrender, of Arnold's
leaving a feeling of good-fellowship and cam- treason, and of the surrender of Cornwallis.
araderie as a characteristic among those who go
a-shooting. The animals discussed are those
A 'true'
One of the most readable of recent
specified as 'big game' by the Boone and Crock- biography of biographies is that by Mr. Joseph
ett Club, and include wapiti, moose, mule-deer,
Henry Clay.
M. Rogers, entitled "The True
black-tail-deer, Virginia deer, the two sorts of Henry Clay' (Lippincott). Following the plan
caribou, bison, musk-oxen, big-horns, mountain of the series of which it is a part, Clay's life
goats, antelope, grizzly, polar, black, and big and work are taken up topically, each of the
,
brown bears, pumas, and lynxes. Each of these twenty-seven chapters giving one of their many
beasts forms the subject of a chapter, in which interesting aspects. This method involves, of
its habits are described, its haunts given, and course, more or less repetition, but it adds to
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new
the completeness and interest of the work. As
Clay was a leader in public affairs for nearly
fifty years after taking his seat as senator dur-
ing Jefferson's administration, there is necessa-
rily much about politics in the book; but the
emphasis is on the personal side. The author is
an admirer of Clay, yet he tells the truth about
him, not glossing over his defects and frailties
or attempting to cover his blunders. The book
contains twenty-four excellent illustrations, and
is put forth in the attractive dress of the series
to which it belongs.
An outline of
The second volume of a brief
the French work on the French Revolution,
Revolution.
by Miss Sophia H. MacLehose,
is entitled 'From the Monarchy to the Repub-
lic in France' (Macmillan). As in the preceding
volume, the author presents very briefly an out-
line of the events of the period, citing numerous
references, and giving a long list of authorities,
for neither of which is there any necessity in a
work of this elementary character. Yet the out-
line in itself is good, and it is possible that read-
ers may, as the author hopes, be attracted to a
study of longer histories, by the interest cre-
ated in incidents here only summarized. The
numerous reproductions of old cuts and engrav-
ings furnish one distinctly valuable feature of
the book.
NOTES.
Napoleon and his Times' is the title of the next
volume to appear in the Cambridge Modern His.
tory. It follows in the series the volume on The
French Revolution' published last spring.
The series of "Twelve English Statesmen' is to
be brought to a conclusion shortly by Mr. Frederic
Harrison's biography of Chatham, which the Mac-
millan Co. announce for publication this month.
The University of Chicago Press will shortly
issue “The Progress of Hellenism in Alexander's
Empire,' by Prof. John P. Mahaffy, a compendium
of the long and brilliant development of human
culture under Greek influence.
The series of six lectures delivered last fall at
the Art Institute of Chicago by Mr. Russell Sturgis
will be published next month by Messrs. A. C.
McClurg & Co. in a profusely-illustrated volume
entitled “The Interdependence of the Arts.'
One of the most interesting biographical works
of the present season will undoubtedly be found
in the Hon. Andrew D. White's Autobiography and
Reminiscences, to be published this month by the
Century Co. Some portions of the book have
already appeared in recent issues of 'The Century
Magazine.
Two books of timely interest in connection with
the approaching Lewis and Clark Exposition are
announced by Messrs. A. C. McClurg & Co. for
publication within a few weeks. From the West
to the West,' by Abigail Scott Duniway, is an
account in fiction form of a journey across the
plains to Oregon, giving a picture of the perils and
hardships, as well as the romantic incidents, of
travel fifty years ago.
The other book, 'Letters
from an Oregon Ranch,' tells of an attempt to
create a home in the Western wilderness.
Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co. will follow up their
attractive edition of the Barsetshire and Parlia-
mentary novels of Anthony Trollope with a
series to be called the Manor House novels. 'Orley
Farm' is announced as the first volume.
Messrs. Laird & Lee send us their library edition
of Webster's New Standard Dictionary of the
Englsh Language,' as compiled by Mr. E. T. Roe.
It makes a volume of nearly eight hundred pages,
illustrated and indexed, is leather-bound, and
enclosed in a box.
‘Der Herzog von Mailand,' being a free transla-
tion of Massinger's "The Duke of Milan,' maile
by Herr Hermann Conrad, is published in the
Greiner and Pfeiffer (Stuttgart) series of 'Bücher
der Weisheit und Schönheit,' obtainable in this
country from Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons.
Besides the regular single-volume edition of Mrs.
Humphry Ward's brilliant novel, The Marriage
of William Ashe,' just published by the Messrs.
Harper, there will be a special edition in two vol-
umes, limited to one thousand sets, each copy of
which will bear the autograph of the author.
A cheerful little book on "The Funeral: Its Con-
duct and Proprieties,' by Mr. Joseph N. Greene, is
published by Messrs. Jennings Graham. Under
the four heads of the undertaker, the minister, the
bereaved, and the friends, the etiquette of the
subject is discussed, and many useful suggestions
are made.
The Messrs. Putnam have just begun the publi-
cation of a new and uniform edition of the late
Leslie Stephen's essays. The edition is to comprise
eleven volumes, of which four, containing the
‘Hours in a Library,' are now at hand. We need
hardly say at this late day that these are all but
the most delightful literary essays in the English
language, and that their present convenient repub-
lication deserves the warmest sort of a welcome.
'A List of Arabic Manuscripts in Princeton Uni-
versity Library,' compiled by Dr. Enno Littmann
and published by the University, makes public the
contents of an important collection which has
recently been deposited in the Princeton library by
Mr. Robert Garrett. This is a supplement to the
Houtsma catalogue, the two together making up
what is probably the richest collection of Oriental
manuscripts to be found in any American library.
A new series devoted to matters of present-day
religion and morals is to be begun shortly by Messrs.
A. S. Barnes & Co. It will present books by men
of such distinction as Rev. Dr. Charles Cuthbert
Hall, President of the Union Theological Semi-
nary, Rev. Dr. Washington Gladden, Rev. Dr.
William C. Bitting, and Rev. Dr. Wm. Douglas
Mackenzie, President of the Hartford Theological
Seminary. The editor of the series, Dr. Henry A.
Stimson, has written the first volume, which is
entitled “The Right Life.'
*The Forms of Public Address,' edited by Prof.
George P. Baker, and published by Messrs. Henry
Holt & Co., is an adjunct to rhetorical instruction
which college teachers of the subject will find
extremely useful. It is essentially an annotated
volume of examples, with an introduction. Among
the species of composition illustrated are letters,
editorials, eulogies, dedications, after - dinner
speeches, and addresses of various sorts. Thus the
editorial section gives us sixteen examples of this
form of writing, reprinted from such journals as
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ANNOUNCEMENTS OF SPRING BOOKS.
Herewith is presented THE DIAL's annual list of
books announced for Spring publication, containing
this year over seven hundred titles. All the books
here given are presumably new books--new editions
not being included unless having new form or mat-
ter. The list is compiled from authentic data espe-
cially secured for this purpose, and presents a
trustworthy survey of the Spring books of 1905.
BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIRS.
Theodore Thomas, a musical autobiography, edited by
George P. Upton, 2 vols., illus. in photogravure, etc.,
$6. net; limited large paper edition, $25. net. (A. C. Mc-
Clurg & Co.)
Autobiography of Andrew D. White, 2 vols., with photo-
gravure portraits, $7.50 net. (Century Co.)
Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin, by Albert H.
Smyth, 10 vols., illus.-Life of Florence Nightingale, by
Sarah A. Tooley, illus.-English Men of Letters series,
new vols.: William Cullen Bryant, by William Aspen-
wall Bradley; William Hickling Prescott, by Harry
Thurston Peck Ph.D.; Thomas Moore, by Stephen
Gwynn; Sydney Smith,. by George W. E. Russell; per
vol., 75 cts. net.-English Men of Action series, new vol.:
Sir Walter Raleigh, by Sir Rennell Rodd.-Twelve Eng-
lish Statesmen series, new vol.: Chatham, by Frederic
Harrison.--Eversley Series, new vol.: Oliver Cromwell,
by John Morley, new edition, (Macmillan Co.)
Life and Letters of Robert Stephen Hawker, sometime
Vicar of Morwenstow, by his son-in-law, C. E. Byles,
illus., $5. net.-Life of Miguel de Cervantes,' by Albert
F. Calvert, illus., $1. net.-Memoirs of a Royal Chaplain,
1729-1763, edited and annotated by Albert Hartshorne,
illus., $4. net.-Life of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, by his
brother, Modeste Tchaikovsky, edited and abridged by
Rosa Newmarch, illus., $4. net. - The Duke of Reichstadt,
by Edward Von Wertheimer, illus., $4. net.-The Young
Napoleon, 1760-1793, by Oscar Browning, with portraits,
$2.net.--Crown Library, new vols.: Memoirs of Lady
Fanshawe, new edition, edited by Beatrice Marshall;
Jane Austen, her homes and her friends, by Constance
Hill, new edition; illus., per vol., $1.50 net. (John Lane.)
Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Wife, by Mary King Wad-
dington, illus., $2.50 net. – Life of the Marquis. of Duf-
ferin and Ava, by Sir Alfred Lyall, P.C., 2 vols., with
portraits, $7.50 net.- John of Gaunt, by Sydney, Armitage-
Smith, illus., $4.50 net. — Robert Louis Stevenson, a
record, an estimate, and a memorial, by Alexander H.
Japp, LL.D., illus., $1.50 net. (Charles Scribner's Sons.)
Life of Honoré de Balzac, by Mary F. Sandars, illus., $3.
net.-Modern English Writers, new vol.: Browning, by
Charles Harold Herford, $1. net. (Dodd, Mead & Co.)
My Memory of Gladstone, by Goldwin Smith, with por-
trait, 75 cts. net.--Harry Furniss at Home, by himself,
illus., $4. net.--Irish Memoirs, by R. Barry O'Brien, with
plans, $1.50 net.--Lady Jean, the romance of the great
Douglas cause, by Percy Fitzgerald, with portraits, $3.60
net, (A. Wessels Co.)
The Wives of Henry VIII., by Martin Hume, with por-
traits, $3.50 net. (McClure, Phillips & Co.)
Mirabeau and the French Revolution, by Hon. Charles F.
· Warwick, illus., $2.50 net.-French Men of Letters series,
first vol.: Montaigne, by Edward Dowden, with frontis-
piece, $1.50 net.-Life of Benjamin Franklin, by Hon.
John Bigelow, new edition, revised and enlarged, 3 vols.,
illus., $6. (J. B. Lippincott Co.)
James Watt, by Andrew Carnegie, $1.40 net. (Doubleday,
Page & Co.)
Alessandro Scarlatti, his life and works, by Edward J.
Dent, with portrait, $3.50 net. (Longmans, Green, & Co.)
Memoirs of a Great Detective, incidents in the life of
John Wilson Murray, by Victor H. Speer, with frontis-
: piece, $2. net.-My Mamie Rose, the story of my regenera-
tion, by Owen Kildare, new and cheaper edition, illus.,
$1. (Baker & Taylor Co.)
Memorials of a Warwickshire Family, by Rev. Bridgeman
Boughton-Leigh, M.A., with prefatory note by Sir Hugh
Gilzeau-Reid, LL.D. (Oxford University Press.)
Temple Biographies, new vol.: Thomas Harrison, regicide
and major-general, by C. H. Simpkinson, M.A., illus.,
$1.50 net. (E. P. Dutton & Co.)
A Diary from Dixie, being the diary of Mary Boykin Ches-
nut from November, 1861, to August, 1865, edited by Isa-
bella D. Martin and Myrta Lockett Avary, $2.50 net.
(D. Appleton & Co.)
My Own Story, by Caleb Powers, illus., $1.50. (Bobbs-
Merrill Co.)
Lives of Great Writers series, new vol. : In the Days of
Milton, by Tudor Jenks, $1. net. (A. S. Barnes & Co.)
Memoirs of Rose Eytinge, 80 cts. net. (Frederick A.
Stokes Co.)
HISTORY.
A History of the United States, by Edward Channing,
LL.D., 8 vols., Vol. I., The Planting of a Nation in the
New World.-History of the United States since the Civil
War, by William Garrott Brown, 2 vols., Vol. I. to appear
this spring.-Cambridge Modern History, planned by the
late Lord Acton, Vol. III., The Wars of Religion, $4. net.
-A. History of Modern England, by Herbert Paul, Vols.
III. and IV.-Western Europe in the Fifth Century, an
aftermath, by E. A. Freeman, M.A.--Western Europe
in the Eighth Century and Onward, an aftermath, by E.
A. Freeman, M.A.-Roman Society from Nero to Mar-
cus Aurelius, by Samuel Dill, M.A.-A Short History of
Venice, by William Roscoe Thayer.-What is History?
five lectures on the modern science of history, by Karl
Lamprecht, Ph.D., trans. from the German by E. A.
Andrews. (Macmillan Co.)
The American Nation, edited by Albert Bushnell Hart,
LL.D., new vols.: Provincial America, by Evarts B.
Greene; France in America, by Reuben Gold Thwaites;
Preliminaries of the Revolution, by George Elliott How-
ard; History of the American Revolution, by Claude
Halstead Van Tyne; The Confederation and the Con-
stitution, by Andrew C. McLaughlin; per set of 5 vols.,
$9. net.-History of the United States, by Thomas Went-
worth Higginson and William MacDonald, illus., $2.-
The German Struggle for Liberty, by Poultney Bigelow,
Vol. IV., 1844-48, with portraits, $2.25 net. (Harper &
Brothers.)
Lahontan's New Voyages to North America, an exact re-
print of the English edition of 1703, edited by Reuben
Gold Thwaites, with bibliography by Victor H. Paltsits,
2 vols., illus., $7.50 net; limited large paper edition, $18.
net.-Iowa, the first free state of the Louisiana Purchase,
by William Salter, illus., $1.20 net. (A. C. McClurg
& Co.)
Our Navy and the Barbary Corsairs, by Gardner W. Allen,
with maps, $1.50 net.-American Commonwealths series,
new vol.: Indiana, by J. P. Dunn, revised and enlarged
edition, with map, $1.25. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.)
Life in the Seventeenth Century, by George Cary Eggles-
ton, illus.-Trail Makers series, new vol.: The Journey
of Cabeza de Vaca, trans. by Fanny Bandelier, edited
by Ad. F. Bandelier, $1. net. (A. S. Barnes & Co.)
Source Books of American History, new title: Memoirs
of the American Revolution, by William Moultrie, 2
vols., $4. net.-A Sketch of Chinese History, by Rev. F.
L. Hawks Pott, D.D., $1.80 net.-Wellington's Operations
in the Peninsula, 1808-1814, by Capt. Lewis Butler, 2
vols., with maps, $9.60 net.-In the Pathless West, with
soldiers, pioneers, miners, and savages, by Frances E.
Herring, illus., $1.80 net.-The Hungry Forties, an ac-
count of life under the Bread Tax from the letters of
living witnesses, $1.50. (A. Wessels Co.)
Documents relating to the French Revolution, May, 1789,
to September, 1791, edited by L. G. Wickham Legg,
M.A., 2 vols. (Oxford University Press.)
Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, a series of annotated
reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary
volumes of travel, descriptive of the aborigines and
social and economic conditions in the middle and far
West, during the period of early American settlement,
edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites, to be complete in 31
vols., illus., Vols. XII to XVII, to appear this spring, per
vol., $4. net.— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, edited and
annotated by Emma Helen Blair, A.M., and James Alex-
ander Robertson, Ph. B., with introduction and additional
notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne, Vols. XXII. to
XXVIX. to appear this spring, illus., per vol. $4. net.-
Historic Highways of America, by Archer Butler Hul-
bert, Vol. XVI., Index to Series, concluding the work,
$2.50 net. (Arthur H. Clark Co.)
The Crisis of the Confederacy, a history of Gettysburg
and the Wilderness, by Cecil Battine, with maps. (Long-
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Good Things and Graces, by Isabel Goodhue, with decora-
tions, 50 cts.-Blue Monday Quotations, optimistic quo-
tations to cheer each blue Monday of the year, compiled
by Jennie Day Haines, with decorations, 75 cts.-Love,
a 'mosaic essay,' with frontispiece, 50 cts. (Paul Elder
& Co.)
A History of Rome during the Later Republic and Early
Principate, by A. H. J. Greenidge, M.A., Vol. I., B. C.
133-104, with maps, $3.50 net. -The Ancient World, out-
lines of ancient history, by E. M. Wilmot-Buxton, illus.,
$1. net.-Makers of Europe, outlines of European history,
by E. M. Wilmot-Buxton, with maps, $1. net.
(E. P.
Dutton & Co.)
Original Journals of Lewis and Clark, edited by Reuben
Gold Thwaites, Vols. V. to VII., completing the work,
illus., per set, $60. net; large paper edition, $150. net;
edition de luxe, $375. net.-A History of Ireland, by John
F. Finerty, 2 vols., $2.50 net. (Dodd, Mead & Co.)
The Conquest of the Southwest, by Cyrus Townsend Brady,
illus., $1.50 net. (D. Appleton & Co.)
Elizabethan London, by Henry Thew Stephenson, illus.
(Henry Holt & Co.)
POETRY.
Nero, a poetic drama, by Stephen Phillips.-The First
Wardens, by William J. Neidig. (Macmillan Co.)
New Poems, by Arthur Christopher Benson, $1.25.-Col-
lected Poems of Ernest Dowson, illus. by Aubrey Beards-
ley, $1.50 net.-Poems of William Watson, edited and
arranged by J. A. Spender, 2 vols., with portrait, $2.50
net. (John Lane.)
Later Poems, by John White Chadwick, with portrait.
The Shoes that Danced, and other poems, by Anna Hemp-
stead Branch. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.)
A Harvest of Chaff, a book of parodies, by Owen Seaman,
$1.25 net. (Henry Holt & Co.)
Seléné, by Amélie Rives (Princess Troubetzkoy), $1.20 net.
(Harper & Brothers.)
A new volume of poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar, $1.
net.
(Dodd, Mead & Co.)
As Wild Birds Sing, by - Mary Randall Shippey, with por-
trait, $1. (Robert Grier Cooke.)
Poems, by Alexander Jessup. (Herbert B. Turner & Co.)
GENERAL LITERATURE.
Heretics, by Gilbert K. Chesterton.--Books and Personali-
ties, by H. W. Nevinson, $1.25 net.-Otia, by Armine
Thomas Kent, with portraits, $1.25 net.-The Women of
Shakespeare's Family, by Mary Rose, illus., 50 cts. net.
(John Lane.)
Lectures and Essays, by the late Rev. Alfred Ainger,
M.A.-Shakespearean Tragedy, a series of lectures, by
A. C. Bradley, M.A.-Harvard Lectures on Greek Sub-
jects, by S. H. Butcher, Litt.D.-Plays by Henry Arthur
Jones, comprising: The Maneuvres of Jane, Mrs.
Dane's Defence, and The Case of Rebellious Susan; each
in 1 vol.-The Versification of the Cuaderna Via, as
found in Berceo's Vida de Santo Domingo de Silos,'
by John D. Fitzgerald, with facsimiles. (Macmillan
Co.)
Letters of Henrik Ibsen, trans. by John Nilson Laurvik,
$2.50 net. (Fox, Duffeld & Co.)
Adventures among Books, by Andrew Lang, with photo-
gravure portrait.-Letters to ‘Ivy' from the First Earl
of Dudley, 1781-1833, edited by Samuel H. Romilly, illus.
-The Birth of Parsival, a drama, by R. C. Trevelyan,
$1.20 net. (Longmans, Green, & Co.)
The Progress of Hellenism in Alexander's Empire, by John
P. Mahaffy.-The Idle Actor in Aeschylus, by Frank W.
Dignan.—The Higher Life of Chicago, by Thomas James
Riley, Ph.D. (University of Chicago Press.)
The Dream of the Rood, edited from MSS. by Albert S.
Cook, Ph.D.-The Minor Caroline Poets, edited by
George Saintsbury, M.A., 2 vols.-Specimens of the
Elizabethan Drama from Lyly to Shirley, 1580-1642,
edited by W. H. Williams, M.A. (Oxford University
Press.)
Iconoclasts, a book of dramatists, by James Huneker, $1.50
net.- The School of Life, by Henry van Dyke, 50 cts.
net. - Songs of the Valiant Voivods, and other folklore
of the Roumanian peasants, by Helene Vacaresco, $2.50
net. Miss Civilization, a comedy in one act, by Rich-
ard Harding Davis, 50 cts. net. (Charles Scribner's
Sons.)
Russian Literature, by Prince Kropotkin, $2.50 net.-My
Appeal to America, by Charles Wagner, 50 cts. net.
(McClure, Phillips & Co.)
A new volume of essays by Hamilton Wright Mabie, net
$1.-Essays, by Marie Corelli, $1.20 net. (Dodd, Mead
& Co.)
Essays in Puritanism, by Andrew MacPhail, $1.50 net.-
The Hawthorne Centenary at the Wayside, Concord,
Mass., July 4-7, 1904, illus., $1.25 net. (Houghton, Mifflin
& Co.)
American Thumb-prints, by Miss Kate Stephen, $1.50 net.
-Cambridge Sketches, by Frank P. Stearns, illus., $1.50
net. (J. B. Lippincott Co.)
Dramatists of the Day, by Edward Everett Hale, Jr.
(Henry Holt & Co.)
Religion and Art, and other essays, by Rt. Rev. J. L.
Spalding, $1.-A Selection from the Great English Poets,
compiled and edited by Sherwin Cody, $1. net. – The
Athlete's Garland, an anthology of the poetry of sport,
compiled by Wallace Rice, 80 cts. net. (A. C. McClurg
& Co.)
Casual Essays of the Sun, selected editorials from the
New York Sun, $1.50. (Robert Grier Cooke.)
The Outlook Beautiful, by Lilian Whiting, $1. net.-The
Freedom of Life, by Annie Payson Call, $1.25 net. (Lit-
tle, Brown & Co.)
Lterary Influence on British History, by Hon. A. S. G.
Canning, $2.25 net. (A. Wessels Co.)
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