equally deserved. in worth and rights of all men. To any one inter-
ested in the larger aspects of contemporary
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in Rome.
national and interracial relations, Dr. Gulick's
That the drama does not occupy
Chapters on
little book must commend itself as a valuable contemporary
anything like its rightful position
piece of work. While in no way profound, it is
dramatists. in modern English literature, that
rich in novel and suggestive points of view. It it is not in England or America a vital intellect-
contains one of the best statements of the real ual force as it is in France, and Germany, and
causes of the war with Russia yet published, and even in the lesser European countries, is a fact
gives an interpretation of the Japanese attitude so obvious that it hardly calls for statement.
toward the conflict that is agreeably clear, con- The remedy for an evil is apt to follow a close
cise, and illuminating.
realization of its existence, and the wider our
acquaintance with what the Continental stage is
Glimpses of
Of society's polished horde, but
doing for literature, the nearer we shall come to
high life not in this instance the bores and
the rehabilitation of a branch of letters in which
the bored, Madame Mary King
England once set a shining example for the rest
Waddington's second instalment of letters, of the world. For this reason, if for no other,
Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Wife' (Scrib-
we should welcome such books as Mr. James
ner), gives many a pleasing glimpse. As seen
Huneker's 'Iconoclasts' (Scribner) and Professor
through her eyes the men and women she meets
Edward Everett Hale's ‘Dramatists of To-day'
are all interesting and interested. Three months
(Holt). But both books deserve a welcome on their
а.
-February, March, April, 1880-were spent by
her and her husband in Italy, chiefly in Rome.
own account, for they are noteworthy examples
of literary criticism in one of the most interesting
M. Waddington had just resigned the French pre-
of literary fields. Mr. Huneker's book discusses
miership, and the two were off on a vacation. no less than twelve contemporary dramatists,
Eugene Schuyler, who had married a sister of
while Mr. Hale's book considers four of the same
Mme. Waddington, was then consul-general at
list, and adds three others. The writers discussed
Rome, and of the Schuylers and numerous other in both books are Herr Hauptmann, Herr Suder-
King and Waddington friends and connections
we hear much in the course of the book. The
mann, M. Maeterlinck, and Mr. Shaw; Mr. Hale's
high official and social station of our tourists
list is completed by M. Rostand, Mr. Pinero, and
secured them the most cordial reception in the
Mr. Phillips, and Mr. Huneker's by Dr. Ibsen,
highest quarters. At an audience with the Pope,
Herr Strindberg, MM. Becque and Hervieu,
his Holiness advanced to meet them so hospitably
Villiers de l'Isle Adam, Princess Mathilde, Sig.
that the regulation curtseys were impossible; and
d'Annunzio, and Mr. Gorky. The two books
he even made them sit down, one on each side of
together are thus seen to provide a varied menu
of the most interesting character, although its
him, and they had a really interesting three-
quarters-of-an-hour talk. As Mme. Waddington
thorough digestion by English stomachs (not
speaks of having some years before 'approached'
wholly used to such strong meat) may be a matter
Pope Pius IX., and as she afterward describes
of some difficulty. Mr. Huneker's manner of
an audience with the present pontiff, the reader
writing is pointed and almost brilliant, but the
journalistic origin of his essays is too apparent.
incidentally acquires some little familiarity with He is sometimes violent in his way of saying
papal receptions. Audiences with King Hum-
things, as if he were determined, writing about
bert, with Queen Margherita, a dinner at the Ger-
'iconoclasts,' to show that he could, an he would,
man Embassy with Crown Princess Frederick,
balls and other functions at the different embas-
do a pretty stunt' at image-breaking himself.
sies, and a succession of less important society
He gives us many epigrams, some his own,
others felicitously borrowed for the occasion. His
events, furnish ample matter for the letters Mme.
Waddington so dutifully and
longest paper is upon Dr. Ibsen, and is useful for
so frequently its summaries of plots, besides being stimulating
despatched to her mother in America and to other
members of the family. Twenty-four years later,
in its suggestiveness. Professor Hale's book has
in the same three months of February, March,
a naïveté of style that is engaging, and he estab-
lishes confidential relations with the reader from
and April, she revisited Italy, this time a widow,
and took up the old round of sight-seeing and
the start. But his impressionistic method and
social functions. The book as a whole, though
conversational manner do not preclude the exhibi-
entertaining, hardly equals its predecessor in
tion of very definite opinions, clearly reasoned
interest. It has no cornation of a Czar, for one
and amply fortified by example. Besides the
discussions of his seven chosen dramatists, he
thing; and perhaps the scenes described are too
familiar to arouse and sustain the keenest curi-
gives us a ‘Note on Standards of Criticism', and
an essay on 'Our Idea of Tragedy'. An appendix
osity. One queries, too, whether here and there
a letter has not been 'doctored' for the press, as
presents a useful table of plays, with the dates
and places of their first productions. A certain
for example the one containing a long reminis-
portion of the contents of this book will be recog-
cent passage (more than twenty pages) describ-
nized by our readers as having been reprinted
ing an ascent of Vesuvius and other events that
from THE DIAL, but they will find it well worth
occurred in 1867. A delightfully human touch is
reading a second time.
Queen Elena's chat about her children and how
they prized above their other playthings a rag The story
Recently, on a ramble through the
doll given them by the wife of the American of a famous island of Guernsey, Mr. Henry
Ambassador. Numerous illustrations accompany
love affair. Wellington Wack came across
the text, but most of the portraits are disappoint- bundle of papers that had been thrown out as
ing.
valueless by the occupants of Hauteville House
a
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after Victor Hugo's death. An examination niscence is supplemented by much criticism,
showed them to comprise a fragment of a journal original and quoted, and by a little controversy.
and some letters addressed to the poet. The The chapters supplying the latter element deal
journal seems to be a small part of the journal with Lord Rosebery as an amateur critic, and
of François Hugo described by M. Octave Uzanne with Mr. Gosse as an authority on the subject of
in 'Scribner's Magazine' in 1892. It contains the history of the 'Treasure Island' manu-
nothing of importance. Of the letters, two are script. The criticism is largely of the familiar
from a young woman who writes in an ecstacy of appreciative order; and since so few dissentient
admiration and devotion to arrange further voices are admitted to the chorus of praise, it
secret interviews with her sublime poet'; they seems a pity to give so much prominence to Mr.
were written during the fall of 1851. The others, Henley's unfortunate utterance. There can be
about forty in number, are from ‘Juliette,' the little need to-day of lengthy quotation from this
beautiful Princess Negroni of the first represen- article, even for the sake of refutation. Dr.
tations of ‘Lucrèce Borgia,' who, as everybody Japp gives Stevenson's dramatic attempts a
knows, was destined to play in the drama of Vic- decidedly fuller share of consideration than they
tor Hugo's life, as Madame Drouet, a part infi- have hitherto received from most critics. Accord-
nitely more important than any that her meagre ing to him, the chief flaw of these compositions
histrionic talents permitted her to aspire to in is lack of ethical purpose,-a failure to believe
the mimic actions of the stage. These letters, that 'goodness and self-sacrifice and surrender
with one exception, are also from 1851. The are the only strength in the universe.' The
other, from 1836, is the only one of real interest admission might seem to render untenable the
in connection with the history of the poet. These position in the ranks of the optimists that, curi-
letters exhibit the attitude of Madame Drouet ously enough, seems to have been awarded Stev-
towards Hugo, but not for the first time. They enson to-day by almost universal consent. But
but repeat the expressions of letters that had Dr. Japp qualifies his criticism by ascribing Stev-
already been published. And though this repe- enson's immoral and consequently undramatic
tition was doubtless sweet to the object of belief that 'badheartedness was strength' to
Madame Drouet's devotion, and perhaps did not
the influence of Mr. Henley. It seems as though
cease to be so through all the thousands of mis- a phrase in a passage quoted from M. Marcel
sives (six thousand are still preserved) of that Schwob might go further towards explaining
long correspondence, it is not particularly illu- Stevenson's weakness as a dramatist, as well as
mining to the student of Victor Hugo's life or his failure in other respects, with all his mar-
interesting to the general reader. These letters vellous attainments, to reach the highest level.
are, however, now made the occasion for the pub- In speaking of Stevenson's characters, M.
lication of a book of one hundred and fifty pages Schwob says: ‘Ce sont des fantômes de la vérité;
of wide-spaced lines and open print, of which the hallucinants comme de vrais fantômes.' And to
letters fill about fifty pages. Twenty pages are those readers who, loving Stevenson the man no
given to an introductory notice by M. François less than the writer, are yet able to see him with-
Coppée, in which personal reminiscences and anec- out the glamor through which some of his wor-
dotes of Hugo, not always new, are told with a
shippers delight to gaze at their idol, the criti-
charm that suffers sometimes at the hands of the cism may seem to have application to the life of
translator, and not without a sly thrust at its subject as well as to his work. In the dedi-
Hugo's republicanism in a reference to the pres- cation of 'David Balfour,' written shortly before
ent republic's use of exile as a mode of dealing his death, Stevenson said that he bowed his head
with political opponents. The rest of the book is before the romance of destiny.' Destiny had in
mainly taken up with a rather scrappy account of truth given him a life full of the romance that
Hugo's life and home surroundings at Haute- he loved, but in so doing set him something
ville House, in the course of which Mr. Wack apart from the rest of us, to whom losses and
betrays the fact that he is no authority on mat- gains come more dully. And if the life he gave
ters of Hugo biography. Less than twenty pages his characters seems more unreal than that which
are devoted to the story of the ‘Romance of Vic- belongs to the work of less skilful artists, what
tor Hugo and Juliette Drouet' that the title wonder?
promises; and these pages are but a rather unsat-
The life and
The notion that artists are the fit-
isfactory summary of an article by M. Léon
work of
test persons to write understand-
Séché in the “Revue de Paris' for February 15,
ingly about art and artists would
1903. There was in Mr. Wack's treasure-trove be truer were discernment always matched by
hardly the excuse for a short magazine article. power of verbal expression. Mr. T. Sturge
His book is quite without adequate raison d' être. Moore's volume on Albert Dürer, which is the
(Putnam.)
latest addition to the ‘Library of Art' (Scrib-
Dr. Alexander H. Japp, who found
ner), is an instance of an excellent book marred
Another book
by an involved and slipshod style. This, together
a publisher for “Treasure Island'
and a public for its author, has a
with the rambling treatment and frequent use of
better warrant than most to write about Steven-
metaphor, makes it somewhat difficult to read.
son. Of this, he has taken advantage in his
Three sentences from the first of the biographi-
recently-published volume entitled “Robert Louis
cal chapters may be cited as characteristic.
It is perhaps impossible to place oneself in the centre
Stevenson: A Record, an Estimate, and a Mem-
of that horizon which was of necessity his and belonged
orial' (Scribner), in which some personal remi- to his day, a vast circle from which men could no more
Albert Durer.
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escape than we from ours; this cage of iron ignorance the comprehension of the abnormal and in many
[sic] in which every human soul is trapped, and to widen
ways inexplicable psychology of its author.
and enlarge which every heroic soul lives and dies. This
Wilde confesses to nothing more than a sense of
cage appeared to his eyes very different from what it does
to ours; yet it has always been a cage, and is only lost outrage upon finding himself reduced to the sorry
sight of at times when the light from within seems to flow lot of a common felon, confirming the impression
forth, and with its radiant sapphire heaven of buoyancy
that he was quite without sense of guilt. It can-
and desire to veil the eternal bars. It is well to remind
ourselves that ignorance was the most momentous, the
not be said that at any point in his narrative
most cruel condition of his life, as of our own; and that does remorse for his crime manifest itself; he is
the effort to relieve himself of its pressure, either by the content with reprobation of the general hedonism
pursuit of knowledge, or by giving spur and bridle to the
by which he governed his destiny; contrition and
imagination that it might course round him dragging the
great woof of illusion and tent him in the ethereal dream repentance in the theological sense are unknown
of the soul's desire, was the constant effort and resource to him. Nor is it clear that a more refined sort
of his days.'
of hedonism does not persist. Most interesting
Comment is supplied by the author himself when of all the questions raised by a reading of the
he says, though in another connection, that 'it is narrative is the writer's attitude toward Christ,
easier to bob to such phrases than to understand whose character Wilde believes himself to com-
them.' The book does not claim to embody any prehend better than others. But he nevertheless
new research. In form it is an elaborate essay, regards the gospel account as chiefly wonderful
or sequence of essays, on Dürer's life and work, for its complete and rounded literary charm,-
considered in relation to certain general ideas the æsthetic aspect is still all-important. The
which are rather vaguely set forth in the first end arrived at by Wilde appears to be a species
section. In deference, no doubt, to Dürer's of Nature worship. 'I am conscious now,' he
search for a canon of proportion for the human writes in conclusion, that behind all this beauty,
figure, the opening chapter deals with various satisfying though it may be, there is some spirit
truisms under the caption of “The Idea of Pro- hidden of which the painted forms and shapes
portion,' as the author calls it, though 'composi- are but modes of manifestation, and it is with
tion' is the usual term for what he has in mind. this spirit that I desire to become in harmony.
This is followed by a chapter on the influence of I have grown tired of the articulate utterances
religion on the creative impulse, which Mr. Moore of men and things. ··· Society, as we have
holds to be the vital force that prevents its per- constituted it, will have no place for me, has none
version or exhaustion. The really valuable parts to offer, but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on
of the book are those that deal with Dürer's life unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks
in relation to his times, and with his work as a where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose
creator. The chapters on the former subject silence I may weep undisturbed.'
have been drawn chiefly from Sir Martin Con-
way's 'Literary Remains of Albrecht Dürer' and Daring deeds in Dr. Gardner W. Allen has dealt
Professor Thausing's Life of Dürer. So far as
the early days
with a brilliant and hitherto neg-
of our navy.
possible the story is told in the artist's own words,
lected chapter in the naval annals
through extracts from his letters and diary, and
of the United States in his volume on ‘Our Navy
is of great interest. In his estimate of Dürer as
and the Barbary Corsairs' (Houghton, Mifflin &
an artist Mr. Moore is eminently sound and dis-
Co.). The book covers the entire ground of our
criminating. Here he is on sure ground, and his
official dealings with Algeria, Tripoli, Morocco,
words may be taken without the grain of salt
and Tunis from the recognition of our nationality
that is needed in reading other parts of his work.
by Great Britain down to the extirpation of
He sees clearly in what the greatness of Dürer
piracy by the treaty with Algiers in December,
consists,- that he was a marvellous draughts-
1816. Several naval expeditions reflecting the
man, an engraver of unsurpassed skill, a designer highest credit upon the service, the nation, and
of the very first rank, but not a painter born, in
the best interests of the world at large, were un-
the sense that Titian and Correggio and Rem-
dertaken during this period, and aside from the
brandt were, or the equal of these masters as a
direct results accomplished were of great im-
colourist. The author's æsthetic judgments are
portance as affording a training school for that
made more intelligible by the abundant illustra- gallant race of captains who so effectually dis-
tions, many of them from drawings and the less appointed the British on the sea in the War of
well-known works of the artist. These are ac-
1812. The operations included two deeds of the
ceptably reproduced; and through the courtesy finest courage - the cutting out of the Phila-
of the Dürer Society four of their photogravures delphia,' which the incomparable Nelson himself
of copperplate engravings are included.
called “the most daring act of the age,' and the
entry into the port of Tripoli of Richard Somers,
Mr. Robert Ross, to whose care the Henry Wadsworth (the maternal uncle of Long-
Oscar Wilde's
manuscript confided, has fellow, from whom the poet was named), and
last volume.
edited Oscar Wilde's posthumous Joseph Israel. Besides the operations at sea,
work “De Profundis' (Putnam), written during there was a land expedition almost unrecorded in
the unhappy man's imprisonment and preceding our annals, since it does not come within the
in point of time the composition of 'The Ballad scope of our naval history and was not officered
of Reading Gaol.' The essay has, as might be by any member of the regular arıy. Dr. Allen
expected, great literary charm, and possesses un- has made his work thorough and authoritative,
questioned authenticity as a contribution toward but betrays a needless distrust of his own de-
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an
scriptive powers, leaving the more dramatic
events to be described almost entirely in the
words of eye-witnesses. The book is supplied
with portraits and maps of value and interest.
A Frenchman's
The present is a time for interna-
impressions of tional interpretations, and Vicomte
Greater Britain. Robert d'Humières shows great
good nature, much wit, and the point of view we
characterize as French in his book entitled
* Through Isle and Empire' (Doubleday, Page &
Co.), which Mr. Alexander Teixera de Mattos has
admirably translated into English. The author
often reverts in his writings to Mr. Rudyard
Kipling as the typical Englishman, and Mr. Kip-
ling returns the compliment in a prefatory letter,
polite enough, but differing from the author in
several respects. The Vicomte seems to have had
a pleasant time in his sojourn under the British
flag, beginning with London during the corona-
tion and passing through England and thence to
India, and he writes of it all with ease and
vivacity. He exhibits the usual failure to under-
stand any aspect of English puritanism, and that
inexplicable attitude of the Frenchman toward
the Frenchwoman which is not the least of the
reasons for the world's misunderstanding her.
As a rule (though this is denied in the introduc-
tion) nothing but good is said of the English,
their goings out and comings in, their sports and
pastimes, and their normal attitude toward life.
It is in India that the Vicomte shines chiefly;
there of all places is the opportunity given for a
man of southern race to tell the story of a race
more southern, more religious, more ancient, and
more subtle. Especially to be commended are
the discourses upon Indian and Moslem art.
e
A 'History of the United States from 986 to 1905'
(Harper), by Messrs. Thomas Wentworth Higginson
and William Macdonald, turns out to be Colonel
Higginson’s ‘History of the United States of Amer.
ica,' with some revisions of the original text, and
continued from Jackson's administration down to
the present date. It has a new set of illustrations
and maps, and is one of the most readable histories
of this country ever written.
The fifth edition of 'A Dictionary of American
Authors,' by Mr. Oscar Fay Adams, is published by
Messrs. Houghton, Miffin & Co. The text of the
preceding edition is reproduced with comparatively
few alterations, the new matter being relegated to
a supplement, which contains 1325 new names. The
work is thus made much more useful than before,
although the inconvenience of searching through two
alphabets must be regarded as unfortunate
feature.
*Ethical Addresses' (1305 Arch St., Philadelphia)
has been published in enlarged form since last Sep-
tember, and each of the monthly issues is now an
attractively printed pamphlet of about forty pages,
containing two or three papers or lectures. Anong
the papers recently printed are 'Is Life Worth
Living?' by Professor William James; 'Ethics in
the Schools,' by Mr. W. M. Salter; 'What It Means
to Work for a Cause,' by Mr. Walter L. Sheldon;
and 'Shall Ostracism Be Used by Religious Socie.
ties in the Struggle against Public Iniquity?' by
Professor Felix Adler. We wish that this admirable
publication might have (to put it moderately) one-
tenth the circulation that it deserves. The combina.
tion of earnestness with high intellectual quality
possessed by most of the papers included should com.
mend them to all thoughtful readers.
Two volumes of Letters complete the handsome
library edition of 'The Works of Charles and Mary
Lamb,' as edited by Mr. E. V. Lucas, which the
Messrs. Putnam have for some time been engaged in
publishing. The letters of Mary Lamb are now for
the first time included in such an edition, while
about seventy of Charles's letters are now printed
for the first time. Unfortunately, the present col.
lection is not complete, because many other letters
are still under copyright, and will remain so for
some two score years to come. To obtain a complete
set of the letters now in print means the purchase
of nine works in many more volumes), while new
letters are all the time coming to light. American
autograph collectors, Mr. Lucas notes, have been
particularly disobliging in their unwillingness to
permit their treasures to be drawn upon for the
present publication.
Translations of German Poetry in American
Magazines, 1741-1810,' by Dr. Edward Ziegler Davis,
is an interesting volume published at Philadelphia
by the Americana Germanica Press. The author
has ransacked very thoroughly the magazines of
the seventy years covered by his investigation, and
has listed all the articles giving information about
Germany and other Teutonic countries. The poems
are in most cases reprinted in full, the names
occurring most frequently being those of Gellert,
Gessner, Bürger, and Goethe. Bürger's 'Lenore'
inspired many American versifiers to translation or
imitation, and the number of compositions inspired
by Werther' is really remarkable. Most of this
matter is poor enough stuff as literature, but some
of the parodies are noteworthy, showing the Amer-
ican humorist to have been very much alive in the
later eighteenth century. One burlesque (p. 143)
of the German ballad may be commended to the
attention of anthologists as well worth preserving.
>
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a
BRIEFER MENTION.
Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Co. are the publishers of
a third edition (not apparently differing from the
second) of Amelia B. Edwards 'g ' Untrodden Peaks
and Unfrequented Valleys.' This description of the
Dolomite country has kept its interest remarkably
well for the past thirty years and more, and we are
glad to welcome it in its most recent garb.
Copyright Office Bulletin No. 8 of the Library of
Congress is a very valuable work indeed. It is a
volume of more than four hundred pages, bearing
the title 'Copyright in Congress, 1789-1904,' and
gives us ' a bibliography and chronological record
of all proceedings in Congress in relation to copy.
right,' during the entire period of our national his-
tory. Mr. Thorvald Solberg is the compiler of the
work.
Mr. Charles Sprague Sargent's 'Manual of the
Trees of North America' (exclusive of Mexico)
presents in compact form for the use of students the
immense mass of information upon its subject gath-
ered by the author during thirty years of investiga.
tion, and already presented in his ‘Silva of North
America' in monumental form. The volume is one
of about eight hundred pages, describing over six
hundred species, the descriptions being accompanied
by about the same number of illustrations. Nessrs.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. are the publishers of this
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NOTES.
It has been found necessary to postpone until next
autumn the publication of the collection of Ibsen
Letters previously announced by Messrs. Fox, Duf-
field & Co.
The next novel by Mr. Rider Haggard will be pub-
lished in this country by Messrs. Doubleday, Page
& Co. 'Ayesha,' as the new book is called, forms a
sequel to Mr. Haggard's most famous story, 'She.'
A new novel by Mrs. Hugh Fraser, entitled ' A
Maid of Japan,' will be published this month by
Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. The same firm has also
in press a story of Kentucky life called “The Venus
of Cadiz.'
An excellent blank verse translation of Oehlen.
schläger's ' Hakon Jarl,' the work of Mr. James
Christian Lindberg, is to be found in the January
number of the University Studies' published by
the University of Nebraska.
The famous 'Rowfant' library of the late Fred-
erick Locker-Lampson, one of the richest private
collections ever brought together, has recently been
acquired by Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co., who will
offer it for sale to American collectors.
Baedeker's ' Northern France, including the
country from the Channel to the Loire, is published
in its fourth English edition, and imported for the
American market by Messrs. Charles Scribner's
Sons. There are thirteen maps and forty plans.
"The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti,' in
the rhymed translation of John Addington Symonds,
has reached a second edition, which is imported by
the Messrs. Scribner. It will be remembered that
this book gives us the Italian text, each sonnet fac-
ing its translation.
A revised edition of the 'Medieval and Modern
History' of Professor Philip Van Ness Myers is
published by Messrs. Ginn & Co. It is a work of
over seven hundred pages, with rich illustrative
equipment, and exemplifies to a notable degree the
modern art of text-book-making.
*The van Dyke Book,' edited by Dr. Edward
Mims, and published by the Messrs. Scribner, is a
volume of selections from the writings of the Rev.
Henry van Dyke, prepared for child readers both in
and out of school. Miss Brooke van Dyke supplies
a biographical sketch of her father.
A volume of 'Reminiscences of G. F. Watts, R.A.,'
will be published in about a month by the Macmil.
lan Co. Mrs. Russell Barrington, the author of the
book, was a most intimate friend of Watts during
the last forty-five years of his life. The volume
will be illustrated with reproductions of Watts's
paintings.
The latest of the special Riverside Press Editions
is a reprint of 'A Consolatorie Letter' written by
Plutarch ‘unto his owne wife as touching the death
of her and his daughter.' This letter forms one of
the less-known chapters in the 'Morals,' and is here
given in Philemon Holland's translation. Judging
from the specimen that we have seen, the typog.
raphy is distinctive and appropriate. The book
is presented almost entirely without ornament.
Messrs. A. C. McClurg & Co. will publish this
month Mr. Russell Sturgis's "The Interdependence
of the Arts of Design,' a series of lectures delivered
at The Art Institute of Chicago; another of Mr.
Sherwin Cody's useful compilations, “A Selection
from the Great English Poets'; and 'Iowa: The
First Free State in the Louisiana Purchase,' from
its earliest discovery to the admission of the state
into the Union, by Dr. William Salter.
The Summer School of Library Economy con-
ducted at Amhurst College for many years past by
Mr. William I. Fletcher, will hold its fifteenth ses-
sion this summer from July 3 to August 11, a term
of six weeks. There are no special requirements
(beyond an ordinary high-school education) for ad-
mission to this course.
Mr. William Alexander's volume on 'The Life In.
surance Company,' to be published this month in
Messrs. Appletons'' Business Series,' will have an
especial timeliness just now. The book is a general
treatise on the history, aims, and accomplishment of
life insurance, written from thorough practical
knowledge and experience.
A uniform edition of the dramatic works of Hen-
rik Ibsen, to be sold singly or in sets at a reasonable
price, is announced for early publication by Messrs.
Charles Scribner's Sons. The edition will consist of
seven or eight volumes, and will be made up in the
main of the authorized Archer translations. The
biographical, bibliographical, and critical apparatus,
including introductions to the plays, notes, etc., will
be unusually full and should prove of much service
to the student of the Norwegian dramatist.
The extended list of books relating to the Philip-
pine Islands will receive an important and authori.
tative addition in the volume on 'Our Philippine
Problem,' by Professor H. Parker Willis of Wash-
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Some Press Comments on The Dial's Twenty-fifth Anniversary
The Dial, that excellent literary periodical which is With its current issue The Dial enters its second
published in Chicago, celebrates on May 1 its twenty- quarter century. Outside of bookish circles this fact will
fifth anniversary. Mr. Francis F. Browne, who edited not seem as worthy of note as it will within. But where-
the first number, still directs the policy of the paper, and ever in America the is any care for the maintenance or
to him and his colleagues the warmest congratulations are development of sound and disinterested literary criticism
to be offered on the rounding out of a quarter of a century there will be gratification that The Dial has not only
of useful and successful work. The leading editorial in survived so long “the tumult and the shouting," but
the current number is written in a modest strain. The enters auspiciously upon a fresh stage of its career of
editor contents himself with saying that the effort of his usefulness. : . It is pleasant to consider that the only
paper has been “to achieve distinction through consist- magazine wholly given to literary criticism and quite
ency and persistency; to be itself, with its own standards independent of any publishing concern was founded in
and character; to have its ideals and live up to them.” Chicago, and has been maintained here for twenty-five
But to the many readers of The Dial, and especially to years. During that period it has made its way wherever
those laboring in the same field which has benefited by its competent and disinterested criticism is sought.
activities, it must be a pleasure to testify to the valuable (From a column article in Chicago Evening Post.)
services rendered by this sturdy publication; it has been not
only consistent and persistent in the cause of high literary
Twenty-five years ago, on the first day of May, THE
Dial was founded in Chicago, and now it is celebrating
standards. It has brought judgment, taste, enthusiasm,
to the execution of its task.
its Quarter Century. The editorial on the occasion speaks
If it has been active in the
with becoming pride of the career of the paper. Indeed,
dissemination of sound opinions, it has also done invaluable
that a purely literary magazine should remain for so long
work in helping to create in the West that atmosphere
which means not so much the making of opinion, but the
a time under the management of the man who created it,
development of a feeling for literary interests generally.
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Not alone in Chicago, but throughout a wide territory,
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honorable as it is rare. New York Evening Post.
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good will of everyone concerned in the welfare of literary of May 1. Throughout the last quarter of a century this
journalism.
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purely critical literary magazine, published in the intensely
commercial city of Chicago, has steadfastly held to the
During all these years The Dial has been an inde- high aim with which it was founded, gaining for itself an
pendent critical journal among many “ literary organs” undisputed place among the best critical journals in the
whose tune has almost always been in harmony with the world.
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literature published by the house which simultaneously
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Of more than passing note among newspaper jubilees
It is refreshing to
kng that this, the only journal in America given up
is the quarter century attained on May Day by The Dial,
the journal of literary criticism whose place of publication
exclusively to the criticism of current literature, and the
is Chicago, but whose reading public is scattered over the
only literary periodical not owned or controlled by a
length and breadth of the land, and also across the seas
book publishing house or a newspaper, has its home in
in other lands than our own. Curiously enough, to
Chicago. That a paper like The Dial should be printed
this day The Dial is the only paper in the United States
for a quarter of a century, continually sending forth its
clean pages of well balanced criticism, is surely cause for
devoted exclusively to literary criticism. Furthermore,
felicitation. Its existence must prove stimulating to good
it is the only literary periodical in the country which is
taste and a love of good literature. May it live long to
not owned or controlled by a book publishing house.
record the sunny hours of prosperity and progress.
Therefore it stands on an eminence of dignified solitude
that has always helped to give to its judgments the excep-
THE STANDARD (Chicago).
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With its issue dated April 16, The Dial completes a
all in touch with American literature. .. We extend
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as has been rendered by no other periodical. This does pletion of a full quarter century of honorable service.
not mean that there has been no other competent literary May the hands of The Dial always keep steadily moving,
criticism in the United States -- though the sum total of
may it continue to ring out the hours of literary achieve-
that worth any consideration has been slight indeed by
ment with resonant chime, and may the wheels behind
comparison. But The Dial has been the only journal to
the clock face be always well oiled, as heretofore, with
set for itself as an exclusive task to weigh, to measure,
the unguents of sound wisdom, clear discernment, and
in some degree to interpret, and to pronounce judgment
sober judgment.
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with which it was founded twenty-five years ago, and to
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No. 455.
JUNE 1, 1905.
Vol. XXXVIII.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
A PUBLISHER'S CONFESSIONS.
375
THE DECAY OF THE GHOST IN FICTION.
Olivia Howard Dunbar .
377
IN GARDEN AND ORCHARD. Edith Granger 380
Miss Waterfield's Garden Colour. — Mrs. Ely's
Another Hardy Garden Book. - Powell's The
Orchard and Fruit Garden.—Mrs. Fullerton's How
to Make a Vegetable Garden.— Mrs. Brooks's A
Garden with House Attached.
WANDERERS IN MANY LANDS. Wallace Rice 382
Treves's The Other Side of the Lantern. - Mr. and
Mrs. Workman's Through Town and Jungle. –
Hadji Khan and Sparroy's With the Pilgrims
to Mecca. Miss Durham's The Burden of the
Balkans. - Candler's The Unveiling of Lhasa.
Gissing's By the Ionian Sea. – McLain's Alaska
and the Klondike.— Barton's A Year's Wanderings
in Bible Lands.
Confession is good for the soul, as the old
saying has it, and whoever first formulated that
familiar dictum doubtless meant that the soul
of the confessor was the one to get the benefit.
But the writer of 'A Publisher's Confession,
an entertaining little book recently published,
knows a trick worth two of that, and his con-
fessions turn out to be counsels for the admo-
nition of others rather than the humble setting
forth of his own shortcomings. To chasten
many souls with the same rod is obviously a
worthier object of endeavor than selfishly to con-
fine the discipline to the simple case of the
writer himself.
The first concern of the book is with the
greedy souls of those authors who undermine the
financial foundations of the publishing business
by their unscrupulous demands for large royal-
ties. The number of these inconsiderate scrib-
blers who refuse to accept with due gratitude
the traditional ten per cent is yearly increasing,
and there is a progressive augmentation in the
audacity of their stipulations. The average
author has always found it difficult to under-
stand the equity of leaving the other ninety per
cent in the hands of his publisher. This ninety
per cent is, of course, a purely imaginary quan-
tity (since nearly half of it disappears in the cus-
tomary discount exacted from the publisher by
the bookseller). There remains then, on the
basis of the ten per cent royalty, rather less than
fifty per cent for all the preliminary expenses of
type-setting, stereotyping, and advertising, and
for all the continuous expenses of manufacture
and marketing. It is obvious enough that a
book must sell to the extent of something like
two thousand copies to pay expenses alone, and
that if the publisher is to get any profit at all,
it must come from the sale of a large edition.
The writer of the present confession presents
these elementary facts in a convincing manner,
and his argument needs no strengthening.
There are, however, a few points to be made
on the author's behalf, which this argument
ignores. For the book of moderate sale, respect-
ably manufactured and properly advertised, the
ten per cent royalty is undoubtedly a fair bar-
gain for the author. But for the book of very
large sale, a twenty per cent royalty would not
be unfair to the publisher and not unduly gen-
erous to the author. The problem is, of course,
BIRDS AND OTHER FOLK. May Estelle Cook · 386
Miall's House, Garden, and Field. - Smith's Bird
Life and Bird Lore.— Thompson-Seton's Woodmyth
and Fable.—Mr. and Mrs. Peckham's Wasps, Social
and Solitary.—Job's Wild Wings.
RECENT FICTION. William Morton Payne . . . 388
Hichens's The Garden of Allah.— Watson's Hurri-
cane Island. – Mr. and Mrs. Castle's Rose of the
World. - Mr. and Mrs. Williamson's The Princess
Passes. — Mrs. Ward's The Marriage of William
Ashe.—Miss Glyn's The Vicissitudes of Evangeline.
- Phillpotts's The Secret Woman. — Locke's The
Morals of Marcus Ordeyne. — Bennet's For the
White Christ. — Brady's The Two Captains. —
Gardenhire's The Silence of Mrs. Harrold.
Altsheler's The Candidate.
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NOTES ON NEW NOVELS.
. 395
A HUNDRED BOOKS FOR SUMMER READING 394
(A select list of some recent publications.)
NOTES
396
TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS
397
LIST OF NEW BOOKS
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his The plea of our anonymous author for the
to form some idea before a book is published is demoralization and commercialization with a
of the sale that may reasonably be expected for
vengeance. But it is the sin of the authors.'
it. In our opinion, the sliding scale of royalties Here is an issue squarely presented, and it
offers the most practically equitable way of deal- is one of the greatest importance. Shall pub-
ing with this uncertain element in a publishing lishers underbid each other in the effort to add
venture. The speculative element in most such popular names to their lists? Shall authors
ventures cannot be eliminated, and it is only hawk their wares from house to house for the
fitting that the benefits of an unexpected suc- purpose of getting a number of offers and
should inure to both parties. The accepting the highest of them? If we change the
fact that the publisher finds it unwise, terms of these questions, substituting 'physi-
and even ruinous, to contract for large royalty cian' or 'lawyer' in the one case, and 'patient'
payments before the salability of a book has been or client' in the other, they will be very
tested does not conflict with the other fact that promptly answered in the negative. It
it is unjust to an author to limit his rewards by seems to us that insistence upon a profes-
a forecast that the event may show to have been sional relation between publisher and author is
unnecessarily conservative.
absolutely necessary if the complex process of
A matter of minor importance, but not one
writing and uttering books is to be kept upon a
to be neglected altogether, is found in the sales, dignified plane, and the best intellectual inter-
not inconsiderable in amount, which every pub- ests of the country are to be served.
lisher makes direct to the individual book-buyer. Commercial methods may do well enough for
The profit resulting from these sales must the publication of the cheap rubbish that still,
widen materially the narrow margin upon which as in all past time, is produced for the infection
his business with the trade is admittedly done.
of the public taste- just as the department
One other point we have emphasized upon sev-
store is a fitting place for its sale - but books
eral former occasions. It is that books published that have anything to do with literature or with
under the 'net' system call for a special rule the advancement of knowledge should not be
on the subject of royalty. To give the author of subjected to such degrading conditions of pro-
a 'net' book the traditional ten per cent is
duction.
equivalent to depriving him of one-fifth of his
legitimate reward. But we have seen no evi- ethics of professionalism in the publishing busi-
dence since the inauguration of 'net' prices for ness is so reasonable and so convincingly urged
books that authors' royalties upon these publi- that little ground is left for any opposing argu-
cations have been advanced as they should have ment. And yet there runs through this little
been. Not to make this advance spontaneously book a line of thought, perhaps rather a line of
and as a matter of the barest justice is to take suggestion, that is strikingly at variance with
an underhanded advantage of a class of persons the main tenor of the discourse. 'We refer to the
not as a rule well equipped for business dealings. slighting and even contemptuous language with
One of the most salient features of our little which the writer speaks of those who apply
book of confessions is the emphasis which it
critical standards to literature. A few quota-
places upon professional, as distinguished from tions will illustrate this curious bias, the ex-
commercial, publication. The root of this impor-pression of which is almost tantamount to the
tant matter is found in the following passage: rejection of the fine ideals for which the writer
'It was once a matter of honor that one pub-
elsewhere seems to stand. At an early oppor-
lisher should respect the relation established be- tunity, he takes occasion to make the reckless
tween another publisher and a writer, as a physician pronouncement: ‘I, for one, and I know no
respects the relation established between another
physician and a patient. Three or four of the best
publisher who holds a different opinion, care
publishing houses still live and work by this code.
nothing for the judgment of the professional
And they have the respect of all the book world. literary class. ' Later on, we find such sayings
Authors and readers, who do not know definitely as these: The one thing that is certain is that
why they hold them in esteem, discern a high
the critical crew and the academic faculty are
sense of honor and conduct in them. Character
makes its way from any man who has it down a
sure not to recognize literature at first sight.'
long line — everybody who touches a sterling char- ‘Most publishers' readers are literary folk, pure
acter comes at last to feel it both in conduct and
and simple. ' If you have a book to publish,
in product. The very best traditions of publishing
first find out who conducts the business of the
are yet a part of the practice of the best American
publishing houses, which are conducted by men of
publisher you have in mind. 'If it is conducted
real character. But there are others — others who by a lot of hired literary men, avoid it. They
keep "literary drummers,'' men who go to see are, most of them, men who have failed at
popular writers and solicit books. The authors of
authorship; they read and advise for salaries;
very popular books themselves also -
some of them
at least — put themselves up at auction, going from
and most of them know nothing about the
publisher to publisher or threatening to go. This houses that they serve.'
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Expressions like these betray a curious lack dignified institutions are conducted with as little
of balance; they suggest the man with a griev. | history has become a part of English literature,
degrading commercialism as the old houses whose
ance, who lets his temper get the better of his
and I believe that they are conducted with more
judgment. And the animus becomes still more ability. Centainly not one of them has made a
marked when any reference is made to the liter- colossal fortune. Certainly not one of them ever
ary journals.' We are told that when some
failed to recognize or to encourage a high literary
worthless novel is made ephemerally popular by
purpose if it were sanely directed. Every one of
them every year invests in books and authors that
the 'brass band method of the sensational puv- they know cannot yield a direct or immediate profit,
lisher, these journals 'forthwith fall to gossip- and they make these investments because they feel
ing, and keep up a chatter about great sellers,
consoled by trying to do a service to literature.'
and bewail commercialization in literature. Fur- We have little doubt that an investigation into
thermore, we read of 'nonsense such as review- the motives and guiding principles of the houses
ers write in the literary magazines, and of our thus held up to honor would disclose the fact
shallow gabble called reviews.' We are also that their very genuine success has resulted from
gravely assured that publishers rarely waste their a constant deference to those very literary stand-
time in reading the reviews of their own pub-ards that are made the object of our writer's
lications, and that periodicals which 'go only to ill-advised and unmerited scorn.
the literary class are to a degree superfluous'
for advertising purposes. There is no mistaking
the spirit of such words as these; it is the spirit
of the very commercialism which the writer else-
THE DECAY OF THE GHOST IN
where deprecates, and it serves to weaken his
FICTION.
main plea immeasurably. If all ‘literary' opin-
For one, I cannot purge my mind of that forlora
ion is to be held thus in contempt, what sort of faith.'-ANDREW LANG.
opinion, we ask in our bewilderment, does our For approximately a generation, the ghost
confessing publisher consider deserving of has been missing from fiction; after a disappear-
respect? If the judgment of expert criticism is ance so sudden and of such far-reaching implica-
to go unheeded, what judgment is there left for tions that it is a matter of some amazement that
his guidance, save that of the philistine with those who profess to concern themselves with
his commercial aims and his worship of mere the phenomena of imaginative literature should
success? The dilemma is thus squarely pre- have paid so little attention to it. It is a com-
sented, but our writer seems to seize first one monplace that ever since literature began, as well
horn and then the other, instead of boldly mak- as considerably before that interesting period,
ing his choice once for all.
what we call the supernatural' has been a
For our own part, there is no difficulty at all staple material of the tellers of tales. As there
in making the choice. The publisher who does has always been a literature of love, so there has
not rest his ventures upon a sound basis of always been a literature of fear; and until the
literary judgment, and with whom the approval development of the present narrow and timorous
of expert opinion does not count for more than popular taste, one had perhaps as strong an
the gains resulting from a meretricious popu- appeal as the other. Ghosts in their most literal
larity, is not a publisher at all in the higher acceptation — not as the more or less imper-
sense of the term. He is at the best a trades- sonal shades we have sometimes indifferently
man, at the worst a “quack' or a ‘shyster.' He pictured them
pictured them - have always been held an essen-
can probably make more money by catering to tial complement of tangible everyday life, inex-
vulgarized tastes than by appealing to refined tricably bound up with religion, with love for
intelligences, but in adopting this course, he sac- the dead, with hunger for the unknown, with
rifices every claim to the respect of those whose many of the most intimate and profound emo-
respect is worth having. That the writer of the tions; and their literary use has seemed, to the
little book now under our consideration is to greater public, not only no less, but even more
be reckoned among those who would justify this realistic,' than the modern exploitation of the
sordid type of publishing by the magnitude of commonplace.
its unholy rewards we do not for a moment sup- Twenty-five years ago, even, the reader of
pose. But we cannot help feeling that he has magazine fiction was still able to shudder to his
allowed himself to indulge in certain vagaries heart's content. Spectres glided with the pre-
of expression that, logically developed, would cision of long-established custom through the
lead to so unfortunate a conclusion. His real pages of the more conventional compendiums of
ideal, however, we believe to be contained in the light literature. The familiar paraphernalia of
following passage:
supernatural incident, — draughty chambers,
,-
,
“Ag nearly as I can make out the publishing tempestuous nights, blood-stains, wan-faced
houses in the United States that are conducted as women,- were still in constant and elaborate
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requisition. And while there was a discreet drib-mittee,' appointed and maintained by the fore-
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bling of phantoms from week to week or from most society for the promotion of ghosts, and
month to month, a magnificent convocation of this for the express purpose of encouraging the
the spectral tribe occurred annually. That is presence of the shyer and less aggressive spectres
to say, a curious association of ideas connected in what seem their appropriate habitations,-
the maximum of ghostly prevalence with Christ- of making them, as it were, feel at home. We
mas, the season of popular rejoicing; and by believe in ghosts as sincerely as we believe in
way of making sure of these dismal but doubt- the very poor; and in similar fashion we en-
less salutary companions, it was customary, as deavor to live among them, establish a cordial
Mr. Anstey once remarked, 'to commission a understanding, and write about them in
band of ingenious littérateurs to turn out our notebooks. Nor do we believe in them
batches of ready-made spectres for the Christ- the less because, when
learned
mas annuals. The business of chilling the behavior, we may refer to them as ‘phan-
popular spine was taken with due seriousness tasmogenetic agencies.' Not believe in ghosts?
and was all the more effectually brought about They are our fetish. Let it never be imagined
in that the magazine ghost,' as this source of that ghost-stories have suffered decline because
popular refreshment was termed, was as stereo- of our indifference to their subject-matter,
typed and conventional as the old-fashioned material though our age is commonly held to
novel-heroine. Its looks, manner, haunts, com- be. By our very zest in their pursuit, we have
panions, and alleged errands were those long possibly proved the reverse of Scott's mistaken
since laid down by tradition; it evinced no sen- theory that to see ghosts it is only necessary to
sational modern unexpectedness.
believe in them,- to wish to see. Much truer is
But suddenly, and it must surely have seemed the proposition that the seer of ghosts commonly
mysteriously, the magazine ghost vanished; nor does not premeditate his vision; that spectres
were its eerie footprints traced. Whether by a manifest themselves by preference to ‘unimag-
concerted action of magazine editors, or by a inative people in perfect health.'
swift and complete paralysis of the contributors' No small share of the fascination exerted by
imaginations, or by a profound alteration of the ancient and outgrown ghost of fiction was
popular sentiment, or by the operation of a prin- due to its invariable and satisfactory conformity
ciple presently to be suggested, the literature of to type. However frequent its intrusion, or how-
the supernatural ceased to be produced. Can ever familiar, it was never suffered to deviate
this have happened without protest, without from its character, so deeply rooted in human
comment, even? The subject is rich in its pos- consciousness, as a source of dread. It was the
sibilities of speculation. For if the acceptance function of the ghost to be consistently unpleas-
and enjoyment of ghost-lore imply a childish ant, and that function was relentlessly fulfilled.
quality of mind, as one sometimes hears supe- No one personal characteristic of the ghost as
rior persons assert, then our rejection of them we know it in song or story or as we learn from
would argue that we are the wisest generation the unimpeachable testimony of our friends'
that ever lived. If, again, the reading or writ- friends, can explain its unequalled power to
ing of such tales demand a freshness of imagina- arouse the emotion of fear. Distasteful as is the
tion that in our little day has become desiccated, ghostly habit of reducing its unfleshly essence
then our plight is pitiable indeed.
to a threadlike, infinitely ductile filament — like
There is at hand, of course, an easy
but super-
a bit of transsubstantial chewing-gum - in
ficial explanation to the effect that a prevalence order sneakily to penetrate keyholes; disturbing
of ghost stories must depend upon a stout popu-
as is its fashion of upsetting our gravely accepted
lar belief in ghosts; and that having lost the one, laws of nature'; intolerable as is its lack of vocal
we must forego the other. The slightest reflec- organs (for phantoms,with few exceptions, can-
tion shows that this position is untenable. Not not or will not speak) ;-neither one nor all of
believe in ghosts? We believe in them with all these undesirable characteristics can completely
our hearts. Never before, since spectral feet solve the interesting riddle of its fear-compelling
first crossed a man-made threshold, have ghosts power. And it is undoubtedly almost as remark-
been so squarely, openly, and enthusiastically able that having for centuries, in and out of
believed in, so assiduously cultivated, as now. fiction, maintained this consistent and extreme-
We have raised ghost-lore to the dusty dignity of ly prevalent personality, the ghost should have
a science. The invocation of the spirits of the dropped out of literature altogether. Now, how
dead, far from having its former suggestion of can this have been ?
vulgar mystery, is one of the most reputable of To go as far back as the early English folk-
practices, which men of learning carry on pub- tales and ballads, when the wherefore of phan-
licly, with stenographers conveniently at hand. toms was even better understood than now, and
There even flourishes a ‘Haunted House Com- when fiction more essentially took its origin
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from life, ghost-tales gained their grim effective- During the later years of the ghost's popu-
ness from the accuracy with which they reflected larity in literature, it will readily be seen that
popular belief. The audiences of that simple the greater number of the earliest ghost-motives
day had not attained a sufficient refinement of were outgrown. It is some time, for instance,
imagination to delight in vague, casual, inco- since the motive of recovering buried treasure
herent spectres; every ghost had a name and through supernatural aid has been able to
date. What is more important is that there was carry,' the custom of burying treasure having
no ghost that had not a reason for being. The itself somewhat tamely died out. Far more in-
ingenious notion that the spirits of the dead re- congruous, even, came to seem the supernatural
turn from an allegedly peaceful Elysium simply reunion of lovers, as in the familiar case where
to make themselves disagreeable, by way of eas- the posthumous suitor reappears to bear his still
ing their minds, had not yet suggested itself. living sweetheart back to the grave with him.
On the contrary, the animistic trend of popular Ghosts that are to be understood as the projec-
thought, which of course greatly favored the ap- tions of the spirit at the moment of death have
pearance of ghosts in general, assigned them always been popular, it is true, but this motive
likewise adequate and intelligible motives, is not in itself strong or picturesque enough to
among the chief of which were: to reveal treas- serve as the backbone of a corporate section of
ure, to reunite happy lovers, to avenge a crime, imaginative literature.
and to serve as ' a primitive telegraphic service In short, the only ghost-motive that retained
for the conveyance of bad news.' Ghosts were its strength, plausibility, and appeal to the
therefore not only the recognizable shades of Anglo-Saxon mind was the retribution-motive,
the familiarly known dead; they were sinister the idea that the ghost's function was to re-
symbols of crime, remorse, vengeance. If you call, expiate, or avenge a crime. This was im-
shuddered at sight of them, it was for a better pressive; it was terrifying; it had moral and
reason than weak nerves. Horror was not piled religious significance; it was not subtle; it was
on horror, in early ghost-tales, merely to satisfy susceptible of indefinitely repeated adjustment to
the artist's own sense of cumulative effect. Each time and place. It was the perfect, perhaps the
detail had a powerful conventional significance, only perfect, ghost-motive for English literature.
and the consequent power to arouse a strong So valorous is the Anglo-Saxon temper that it
primitive emotion. This system not only lent scorns or is ashamed to tremble at mere empty
an artistic strength and symmetry to the early shadow-tales. It demands not only to be im-
literature; it was intensely satisfactory to the pressed; there must be an adequate basis for the
Anglo-Saxon mind.
impression. The clue to the whole matter is
But inevitably, when the motives and the that the ghost must not be a wanton and irre-
language of literature became more complex, the sponsible power. It must be a moral agent.
rationale of ghost-lore became affected.' Phan- Unfortunately, the realization of this simple
toms began to lose their original force, fell into truth has never been complete. Only subcon-
the habit of haunting from motives relatively sciously has the public known what it wanted.
unworthy. Evidences multiplied of their degen- As for the tellers of tales, they seem, in those
eration into a morbid and meddlesome tribe, latter days of the ghost's literary existence, to
with a sadly diminished sense of the fitting and have remained in criminal ignorance of the vital
the picturesque. Their visits were even con- principle of their business. The decay of the
cerned with the payment of debts, of strictly ghost in fiction occurred, not through any loss
mortal contraction; and they lamentably lost of human interest in the spectral world, but
caste by exhibiting themselves as the victims, through an indolent misapprehension, on the
rather than as the scourge, of conscience. part of the story-tellers, of the real character of
ghost has been known to go to the trouble of the ghost as we Anglo-Saxons have conceived it.
haunting a house for the mere purpose of ensur- Thus it came about that the ghost, previous to
ing the payment of a shilling, -an episode that its subsidence, was, as Mr. Lang truly observed,
might well permanently compromise the dig- 'a purposeless creature. He appears, nobody
nity of the entire spectral tribe. Likewise when knows why; he has no message to deliver, no
they acquired the intrusive habit of giving evi- secret crime to conceal, no appointment to keep,
dence in trials, the original and forceful idea that no treasure to disclose, no commissions to be
ghosts were agents of retribution became se- executed, and, as an almost invariable rule, he
riously coarsened. Legally, the fact that the does not speak, even if you speak to him.' And
issue of many an actual trial has hinged on he adds that inquirers have therefore concluded
ghostly testimony is of extraordinary interest. that the ghost, generically, is 'not all there,' -
So far as imaginative terror-literature is con- a dreary result of scepticism, indeed! At the
cerned, however, the introduction of this matter same time, what direct and utilitarian folk could
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even for the creepy fascination of shuddering at
his phantom footfall? And could there be, on
The New Books.
the whole, a more perfect example of the opera-
tion of natural selection in art than that, the
ghost of fiction becoming unmoral, superficial,
IN GARDEN AND ORCHARD. *
and flabby, it was its pitilessly appropriate More and more do our amateur gardeners
penalty to be dropped and apparently forgotten?
commit to paper what they have learned by
· A small group of kindred volumes, which
experience, observation, and reading, and what
have appeared during the past year or so, now they have dreamed as they worked. They are
for the first time indicate that a perception of
the true nature of the literary ghost is returning themselves found in similar works of other writ-
moved possibly by the joy and help they have
to the absent-minded craft. Stevenson had, it
ers, or perhaps they are stirred by that renais-
is true, an admirable perception of the terror-
inspiring, and he did not make the mistake of
sance of garden literature in recent years which
has been accompanied by a truer knowledge of
being vague; but his was not the temperament gardening as a science and a keener insight into
a
that produces the perfect ghost-story. Mr. its possibilities as an art. The earlier books
Henry James, in that masterpiece, 'The Turn
of the Screw,' has shown that he can convey a
were nearly all English, although scattered pub-
lications like Celia Thaxter's charming little
sense of mystery and terror more skilfully than
any of his contemporaries ; but his work is prob- not all the gardening done on this side was of the
volume, ‘An Island Garden, go to show that
ably too esoteric to stand as typical, and it re-
mains true that the pattern ghost-tale must be
' bedding plants’ variety that has lately received
writ large and obvious. If,as now appears, a half-
so many hard words, and that not all the
dozen of the ablest writers of the day are realiz- hired man' for cultivation and decoration.
owners of garden plots turned them over to the
ing this, there is hope for the renaissance of the
Now, indeed, the books on this justly popular
literary ghost. It has already been proved that
subject come so thick and fast that beginners
the problem of its readjustment to our literature
hardly know where to turn, and even the experi-
is not insuperable, - that the chambers of our
untenanted imaginations stand ready and wait- choosing,— whether they are looking for practi-
enced are embarrassed by the riches for their
ing to be haunted by wraiths that our logic can
cal advice or for the sympathetic ramblings of
approve. There may indeed develop with time
other garden lovers like themselves. But the
a regenerated ghost-literature well worth ac-
true gardener is not to be deterred by quantity,
quaintance; for, as an essayist of other times has
somewhat grandiloquently observed, “Our in-
or even by quality; for it is a fact that no mat-
born proneness to a love of the marvellous and
ter how simple or commonplace or amateurish
unimaginable, which has originated in our im-
a garden book may be, there is rarely one that
does not contain some interesting facts or com-
perfect acquaintance with the laws of nature and
our own being, does not appear to suffer diminu-
ments before unthought-of by the reader. More-
tion as education and culture advance; for it is
over, the true gardener is just as eager to read
and criticise the latest advice and comments
found to coexist with the highest intellectual
development and the most refined critical tein-
about the plants he knows by heart as he is to
per.'
study the annual seed-catalogues when they first
OLIVIA HOWARD DUNBAR.
appear
- and the latter state of mind is pro-
verbial.
Nehemiah How, a native of Massachusetts, was
Most imposing of the garden books that have
captured by the Indians in 1745, near the site of lately appeared is an English collaborated pro-
Putney, Vermont, and was carried to Quebec, where duction entitled Garden Colour.' This is one
he was imprisoned with many other British colon-
of the large octavo volumes, with colored repro-
ists captured during the course of King George's
War. After an imprisonment of eight months, he
ductions from paintings, that have been
died of a contagious fever, which also carried off imported from England to so considerable an
many of his fellow-prisoners. The diary which extent during the past year or two. Its thick
How kept while a prisoner of war was printed in
1748, but has long since disappeared from circula: • GARDEN COLOUR. By Mrs. C. W. Earle, ‘E. V. B.,'
tion. It is now reproduced by the Burrows Brothers
Rose Kingsley, the Hon. Vicary Gibbs, and others.
Co. of Cleveland as one of a commendable list of
notes and water color sketches by Margaret Waterfield.
American reprints, with an introduction and notes
ANOTHER HARDY GARDEN BOOK. By Helena Rutherfurd
by Mr. Victor Hugo Paltsits. It throws light on
Ely.
New York: The Macmillan Co.
the alliance between French and Indians during the
THE ORCHARD AND FRUIT GARDEN. By E. P. Powell.
American colonial wars and on the official life of
Illustrated. New York: McClure, Phillips & Co.
the French at Quebec, the capital of New France.
HOW TO MAKE A VEGETABLE GARDEN. By Edith Loring
The setting given the narrative in its new appear- Fullerton. Illustrated. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co.
ance is of the same excellence as the other volumes A GARDEN WITH HOUSE ATTACHED. By Sarah Warner
in this series of reprints.
Brooks. Illustrated. Boston : Richard G. Badger.
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With
New York : E. P. Dutton & Co.
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paper, broad margins, and fifty-one colored inquire with a strong note of interest about the
plates seem to mark it as a book for ornament vegetable garden. She remarks, besides, that
'
only; but the contents are extremely practical, on the woman's part 'the raising of vegetables
and nearly every picture illustrates some point is often a propitiatory offering to the other mem-
in the text. These pictures, which are from bers of the family. However, after the prac-
water-colors by Miss Margaret Waterfield (who tical-minded man has read the chapters on vege-
also supplies the greater part of the text), tables, fruits, and trees, there still remains for
require a few words of caution. To one seeking the woman who gardens only for beauty about
for the beauties of individual flowers they will half the book, giving additional suggestions in
prove only disappointing, for that it is neither regard to perennials and other flowers, 'A Gar-
their purpose nor their effect to depict. They den of Lilies and Iris,' and special spring and
'
were painted to show what combinations of autumn work in the flower garden. Mrs. Ely
color will make the garden itself a series of is always interesting because of the close per-
pictures, and as such they are a success. They sonal note in what she writes. Yet she does not
should not be viewed at too close a range, or by overdo this note: her books are far from being
an artificial light. But one who has considered sentimental, but are infused with a very vigor-
the subject only casually will certainly get some ous personality, and with occasional touches of
inspiring suggestions from both pictures and humor that prove she is not taking herself too
text. A few of the most attractive of the plates seriously. She seldom pauses to rhapsodize,
are the frontispiece, showing purple Clematis being more concerned with the possibility of
climbing over an open iron gate, with Tritoma helping others to get as much joy from a life
and Michaelmas Daisies in the foreground; those out-of-doors as she does herself. Nor does she
of Anemone Blanda and Daffodil Cernuus, of forget that the greater number of home gardens
Oriental Poppy and Lupin, of Delphiniums, are on a much smaller scale than hers, and so
Lilies, and Poppies, of Cluster Rose, of Fox- gives her advice in such a way that it is easily
gloves and Rose Euphrosyne, of a border of adaptable to other places and circumstances.
annuals, of Tropæollum Speciosum, and of Mi- Still more utilitarian than Mrs. Ely's book is
chaelmas Daisies alone. Many of these were Mr. E. P. Powell's ' Orchard and Fruit Garden,'
painted from the artist's own garden at Nack- which appears in the new Country Home
ington, Canterbury. Miss Waterfield herself | Library.'
Library.' Mr. Powell's purpose is to instruct,
writes the garden notes for the various months, not to amuse; he is deeply in earnest, and seeks
giving advice in regard to cultivation only inci- to make possible delicious food and financial
dentally, but chiefly in regard to artistic success for the men and women whom he has
arrangement, - those methods of planting in a previous volume so ardently urged to make
whereby each plant or shrub shows its own beau- a home, however small, in the country. The
ties to best advantage, while at the same time greater part of the book is taken up by advice
enhancing those of its neighbors. It is true that as to the best varieties of fruit to plant, ranging
most English books are of little practical use to from apples to small fruits and including some
American gardeners, but the very lack of cul- little-grown fruits and some nut-trees. The
tural directions makes this volume an exception usual order is reversed here, for after this long
to the rule. For it is the principles rather than dissertation on kinds of fruit, there follow a
the actual facts that the various writers wish few chapters on culture, training, packing, and
in this case to enforce. Miss Waterfield's col- marketing. Our chief criticism on Mr. Powell's
laborators include Mrs. C. W. Earle, Miss Rose book would be that in these last sections he gives
Kingsley, and other well-known English garden ear to too many other advisers. For beginners,
lovers and writers.
as so many of his readers will be, this is sure to
Mrs. Helena Rutherfurd Ely won so many prove confusing. One method, forcibly put, is
friends two years ago by her volume entitled worth a half-dozen from which to choose, even
‘A Woman's Hardy Garden,' which united in though they all have their value. In the main,
a most delightful manner the serious and the however, it is evident that Mr. Powell knows his
pleasant sides of garden work and lore, that it subject, as indeed we might expect, since it is
is no surprise to find she has been encouraged understood that he is a prize fruit-grower of
to prepare a sequel, which we now have in ‘An- New York state, and has had orchard experience
other Hardy Garden Book. In the later book, in Michigan and Missouri as well. This latter
however, Mrs. Ely has not confined herself to fact insures the reader against that onesided-
the flower garden, but has rather laid emphasis ness which is so exasperating in many of those
upon the material side of the subject, -perhaps writers who deal only with the northeastern
with a view to reaching masculine readers, for United States. The chief charm of Mr. Powell's
she says: 'I do not remember a single instance book, soberly written as it is, is the author's
of showing the flowers to a man who failed to manifest enthusiasm, his deep absorption in his


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subject. He is at once conservative and pro- in Massachusetts that furnished the founda-
gressive, and has given us a book valuable to tion for Mrs. Brooks's experiments and improve-
have at hand. A serious defect, however, is the ments, mingling the old with the new, destroy-
lack of an index; few indeed are the books that ing or adding, as the spirit moved her. It was a
can keep rank nowadays without a good index. gracious task, and one from which she evidently
Altogether bright and clever is Mrs. Edith reaped much joy. So there we will leave her,
Loring Fullerton's 'How to Make a Vegetable with the feeling we all should have in a garden
Garden. The writer has managed to avoid
'
of beauty, ‘attuned to the blessed influences of
everything dull and prosy, without omitting the hour, at peace with all mankind.'
anything essential, and so readable is the book
EDITH GRANGER.
that the veriest ignoramus cannot fail to under-
stand and the most hardened opposer of garden
labor must be tempted to have a try. And
the illustrations ! — truly, they illustrate
WANDERERS IN MANY LANDS.*
everything from seedlings and tools to the aspect
of the garden in winter. Mrs. Fullerton does
"The Other Side of the Lantern,' by Sir Free
not relegate the vegetable garden to the tender
erick Treves, Sergeant-Surgeon to H. B. M.
mercies of men,- at least not all parts of it.
Edward VII., more than justifies its sub-title
She is as much at home there as in the flower
as being an account of a commonplace tour
garden, and as fully determined to make it beau-
round the world. The route was usual enough
tiful. Indeed, she constantly recurs to the idea
the Mediterranean, the Suez Canal, the Red
of the 'vegetable flower garden,' and describes
Sea, and India, British China, and Japan. The
particularly a Japanese radial vegetable garden,
return was across the Pacific Ocean and the
which combines use and beauty. She is fertile
American continent, but Sir Frederick found
Hawaii — he calls it the Sandwich Islands, with
in helpful devices for all purposes, and her book
fine British conservatism — and the Yosemite
is likely therefore to be a boon to the amateur.
After several chapters of general advice, she
Valley and the Grand Cañon of the Colorado the
devotes herself to special vegetables, telling not
only scenes under the American flag worthy of
his
only how to grow and keep them, but how to
pen.
But the point of view is that of a cul-
tivated man of the world who is able to set his
serve them as well, thereby earning the special impressions down in excellent English, and the
gratitude of the housewife. She has included
the small fruits generally raised in a home gar-
result is thoroughly readable. India was gor-
den, and has capped her beneficences by a com-
geously resplendent to the eye of this traveller,
plete and very helpful planting-table. Those
but it is Japan that holds his attention longest.
who are readers of 'Country Life in America'
The following story relates to a scene at the
and The Garden Magazine' will recognize
shrine of Bunzuru, the Japanese god of healing:
'A wizened peasant from the country
some portions of this book; but its value is by
seemed to have travelled far, for there was a dazed
no means decreased thereby, and at any rate look in his face. He led by the hand a boy, whom
the most entertaining parts are new.
I supposed to be his grandson, and who was suffer-
The last book on our list, Mrs. Sarah Warner
ing from wide-spread ringworm of the scalp. It is
Brooks's 'A Garden with House Attached,' is a * THE OTHER SIDE OF THE LANTERN. An Account of a
rather thin volume of reminiscence, meditations,
Commonplace Tour round the World. By Sir Frederick
Treves, Bart. Illustrated from photographs by the author.
and garnered scraps of information about
New York: Cassell & Co., Limited.
flowers, mingled with garden lore gained by THROUGH
JUNGLE. Fourteen Thousand
personal experience. The writer is not alto-
Miles A-Wheel among the Temples and People of the
By William Hunter Workman, M.A., and
gether modern in her tastes, and the chapters Fanny Bullock Workman. Illustrated from photographs
have an old-time flavor in spite of their evident
by the authors. New York: Imported by Charles Scrib-
current knowledge. The style is somewhat dif-
WITH THE PILGRIMS TO MECCA. The Great Pilgrimage
fuse and parenthetical, except where direct ad- of A. H. 1319, A. D. 1902. By Hadji Khan, M.R.A.S.,
and Wilfrid Sparroy. With an introduction by Professor
vice is given, in which case it is clear enough.
A. Vambéry. Illustrated.
The practical portion includes a chapter on house THE BURDEN OF THE BALKANS. By M. Edith Durham.
plants (a paper delivered before the Cambridge With illustrations by the author. New York: Imported
by Longmans, Green & Co.
Plant Club' and published in "The American
THE UNVEILING OF LHASA, By Edmund Candler. Illus-
Garden'), chapters on perennials, roses, bulbs, trated. New York: Longmans, Green & Co.
annuals, climbers, and herbs. An interesting
BY THE IONIAN SEA. Notes of a Ramble in Southern
Italy. By George Gissing.
chapter consists of gathered items on the cere-
Imported by Charles Scribner's Sons.
bral processes of plants as shown in their move- ALASKA AND THE KLONDIKE. By John Scudder McLain.
ments toward light, food, and support, - a sub-
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co.
A YEAR'S WANDERINGS IN BIBLE LANDS. By George
ject of charm and mystery concerning which we
Aaron Barton, Ph.D. Illustrated from photographs by
yet have much to learn. It was an old garden
6
TOWN
AND
Indian Plain.
ner's Sons.
New York: John Lane.
Illustrated.
New
York:
Illustrated.
a
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Philadelphia: Ferris & Leach.
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probable that the learned in the village had erally for specimens of Indian architecture,
wrought their best upon the lad's head, but with-
Buddhist, Brahman, Jain, and Moslem. After
out effect, for the malady is obstinate. The old
man had evidently journeyed to Kyoto to seek the
accumulating several hundred photographs of
aid of the famous healer of Kiyomizu. He rubbed temple and village scenes, a flood left them as
the bare wood on Binzuru's head vigorously, and poor as before, and most of the journey was
then he rubbed the boy's head until he giggled.
He repeated this ritual many times, and then left
made over again in order to replace, at least in
with great faith in his heart.
part, their lost negatives. Java and Ceylon,
“The next applicant was a worried woman bring though not portrayed in this large volume, the
ing with her a bald-headed boy who was evidently authors had explored thoroughly in the architec-
mentally deficient. I think she hoped to convey tural sense some time before, and the learning
to her son's brain some of that bright sense and
that power of learning which dwelt beneath the
thus acquired is constantly placed at the read-
brow of the patient divinity. She rubbed the two er's disposal. Yet, in spite of all the descrip-
heads, one after the other-with even more ardor tions and discussions of the text and the hun-
than the peasant had displayed. The boy laughed
dreds of reproduced photographs, the reader's
uproariously, but the mother was very grave.
Whether in the course of days a brighter intelli-
resulting impression regarding the Indian art of
gence dawned in the lad's dull eyes I know not; building is confusion itself, the value of the vast
but I have little doubt that in its appointed time mass of unrelated facts being lost through lack
ringworm appeared upon his scalp. Women are
patient; still there is trouble in the learning that
of systematic setting forth. The series of tours
the growth of a parasite outside the skull is no
are put down in chronological and geographical
cure for a lack of activity within.'
order, quite regardless of the particular class of
Sir Frederick was privileged to meet two
architecture, and it is made evident that there
rulers on his journey, the Mikado of Japan and
is vastly more remaining than has been seen.
the President of the United States. Though far
Nor can it be said that the recital of experiences
too long to be reproduced here, his contrasted among the natives adds to our knowledge of that
impressions of these two men are assuredly vast congeries of human souls, exceeding the
worth careful reading. Especially valuable at population of the United States fivefold. The
this moment is the following statement regard- | inhabitants of higher caste of course declined all
ing one of the vital questions of the day:
intercourse with the wayfarers, and the rest were
"The visitor to China is likely to make early
too oppressed by the weight of taxation and over-
enquiry from prominent European residents in the population to be of service in most cases. Such
matter of the "Yellow Peril'). It will be with religious observances as were seen have been
some disappointment that he learns that the
fully described by others. There were no adven-
"Yellow Peril” does not exist. The Chinese have
no desire to spread themselves over foreign lands
tures except the most prosaic. European con-
in devastating hordes like the Goths and the Huns.
vention excludes reproduction of many of the
They are fired by no desire for conquest, nor for most interesting photographs. In fine, the book
new territory. The wish dearest to their hearts is quite the dullest that has come from Dr. and
is to be let alone. The cry of the people is “China
Mrs. Workman's hands. On the other hand, it
for the Chinese'', and the extreme bitterness of
this cry has led from time to time to trouble, in the
would be most unfair to deny the value of the
form of risings, riots, and indiscriminate murder. material, both textual and pictorial, here gath-
On each of these occasions the Chinese worm has ered together, however unsystematized, or the
turned, and turned unpleasantly.
The
fact that no other recent work on India gives
prayer of the Chinaman is for peace, not for power
to run riot over the earth; for remunerative work,
any such general impression of the Indian peo-
and not for the privilege of filling the dramatic ples and architectures. And certainly the list
part of a Peril, yellow or otherwise.'
of minor difficulties surmounted is sufficiently
The author's photographs taken on the journey appalling, taken in the mass, to make it unlikely
have been reproduced by his publishers with un- that any one less devoted than this congenial
usual delicacy.
couple will feel inclined to emulate their tour.
It is difficult to do justice to such a book as Nor should the suggestions to Western architects
Dr. and Mrs. William Hunter Workman's regarding the almost virgin field of the Indian
* Through Town and Jungle.' At the cost of art be dismissed lightly by those to whom it is
great self-sacrifice the writers forsook their fav- chiefly addressed.
orite pastime of mountain climbing amidst Mecca and the details of the orthodox pil-
eternal snows and descended to the Indian plain, grimage enjoined upon devout Mohammedans
probably the hottest portion of the thickly popu- have been made known to the Kaffir world
lated earth. On heavily laden bicycles, which through the courage and self-devotion of many
occasionally had to be pushed by hand over long Europeans, notably Englishmen; but never be-
stretches of sand, they visited not only all the fore has there been an account written from the
ordinary show places of the peninsula but num- point of view of a follower of the Prophet, how-
erous out-of-the-way spots heretofore unknown ever sceptical the Persian author of "With the
to readers of travel books, their quest being gen- | Pilgrims to Mecca’ may be. The interest of his
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account is further heightened by the magnitude the realms of the Sultan. She was brought into
of the pilgrimage three years ago, when a quar- intimate contact with the little known races that
ter of a million souls from all quarters of the inhabit (and infest) those regions, and she views
Eastern world visited the holy city in one vast them here, not merely with sympathy, but with
mass. The author, whose name is composed an ability to laugh at every annoyance they
entirely of terms of dignity, is a putative devotee caused her. The earlier chapters are given up
in a sect unbeloved of the orthodox, and has to a consideration of racial problems, in which
been brought by an English education to a fine contempt is shown for the artificialities of
thoughts still further remote from orthodoxy; those European statesmen who seek to partition
but he did not fail to renew the devotional feel- the land with little or no relation to the Slavo,
ings of his youth when brought into contact with Bulgars, Serbs, Greeks, Vlahs (Wallachians),
such myriads of his co-religionaries, and his Albanians, and others, who constitute essentially
state of mind when passing through the intricate different peoples, with varying traditions, his-
and prolonged ritual was as fervent and unques- tories, tongues, beliefs, and political aspirations
tioning as could be desired. He describes the and ideals.
most sacred object in Mecca thus:
"At present we have a free Servia, a free Bul-
'At first the Stone was whiter than milk, but it
garia, a free Greece, a but half ruled and wholly
grew to be black, either by the touch of a certain disaffected Albania with no Eastern frontier, and
class of woman, by the sins of mankind, or by the a no man's land of mixed population, which each
kisses of the pilgrims. All believers, whatever may
race hopes ultimately to possess, and over which the
be the cause to which they attribute the change Porte has yearly less and less control. The Turk's
of color, agree that the defilement is purely super-
death is now considered so imminent that the chief
ficial, the inside of the Stone being still as white concern of each race is how to keep him alive until
as the driven snow. Let us hope that the same each has made its own claim clear to Europe.'
thing can be said of the hearts of the Faithful, The conditions are mediæval throughout these
whose lips are supposed to have wrought on this
lodestone of theirs a transformation so miraculous.
lands, but Miss Durham takes pains to remind
The silver box wherein it lies is about twenty inches those who complain of the lack of twentieth cen-
square, and is raised a little more than five tury refinement in the Balkans that Human-
feet from the ground. A round window having ity” was not invented even in England till the
a diameter of some nine inches is kept open on
purpose to enable the pilgrims to kiss or to touch
beginning of the nineteenth century,' following
the treasure within, which is known as “the right this with another pregnant statement of fact:
hand of God on earth'. This year the act of oscu- When a Moslem kills a Moslem it does not count;
lation was not performed by more than ten pilgrims when a Christian kills a Moslem it is a righteous
out of every hundred that attempted it, the crowd act; when a Christian kills a Christian it is an
being utterly undisciplined in its zeal. It must be
error of judgment better not talked about; it is
confessed that I owed my good fortune to main only when a Moslem kills a Christian that we arrive
strength, for I shoved my way through the excited at a full blown "atrocity''.
mob and examined the Stone curiously while kiss.
ing it. In color it is a shining black; in shape,
While working in the Ochrida hospital Miss
hollow like a saucer, presumably the result of the Durham became thoroughly familiar with
pressure of devoted lips. A pilgrim, if he fail in
human nature as it exists in those parts, and she
touching the Stone, must make a reverential salam
leaves this amusing record of her native assist-
before it, and then pass on. Certain prayers are
also said.'
ants :
The entire ceremonial is exceedingly impressive, always had to tell them that they must not”.
'If I dropped in at an unexpected hour, I almost
and to many who look upon Islam in the conven- Then they said, first, that they had not been doing
tional Western manner the elevation of its it; secondly, that it was what they always did;
thought and ethics will come as a surprise. It thirdly, that the doctor had told them to; fourthly,
is the ability to sympathize with these religious lastly, that they had been just about to carry out
that they did not do what had been ordered; and,
essentials that gives the book its chief value,
the orders when I had arrived. Then we all
since it is a real interpretation of perhaps the laughed, for they did not in the least mind being
greatest of all the world's existing rituals in the found out, and the original order was fulfilled in
number of its devotees and in the effect it has
the end.'
upon them and their fellows. No portion of the
It would be pleasant to quote further incidents
book lacks interest for the curiously inclined,
of similar vein from this most instructive and
and it is admirably and graphically written. amusing book, did space avail. At least a part-
а
Miss Edith Durham's book, "The Burden of ing tribute must be paid to Miss Durham's nerv-
the Balkans,' would, single-handed, redeem her
ous and idiomatic English, characteristically
sex from the accusation of a lacking sense of
that of an educated and refined woman, un-
humor. The author's wanderings took her spoiled by grammars.
through Montenegro and the Albanian provinces As correspondent for the London ‘Daily
of Turkey in Europe, part of the time in fur- Mail,' Mr. Edmund Candler was attached to
thering the relief work the British had set on Colonel Younghusband's column in its invasion
foot, the remainder in a veritable dash through l of Tibet, and he has preserved an account of the
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journey in his volume called 'The Unveiling of up the tale where it was interrupted by the bar-
Lhasa. No small part of the book deals with barian centuries ago. He did not always find
politics, the events leading up to the expedition local appreciation, as when he sought the an-
—
and the events likely to follow it, and here Mr. cient home of Cassiodorius at Coscia di Stalletti.
Candler seems to be flatly apologetic and not 'I had just begun to explain my interest in the
always consistent. He characterizes Great locality, and I mentioned the name of Cassiodorius.
Britain's attitude previous to this expedition as
As it passed my lips the jovial fellow (a local
'weak and abortive,' meaning thereby that Tibet
guide] burst into a roar of laughter. "Cassiodorio!
Ha, ha! Cassiodorio! Ha, ha, ha!” I asked him what
was allowed to mind its own business and com- he meant, and found that he was merely delighted
pelled the British to mind theirs. All the dis- to hear a stranger utter a name in familiar local
putes arose through Tibetan unwillingness to
use. He ran out from the cave, and pointed up the
establish commercial relations, and it once more
valley; yonder was a fountain which bore the name,
“Fontana di Cassiodorio”. Thereupon, I tried to
appears that the rights of a race in regard to discover whether any traditions cling to the name,
dealing with foreigners are based upon no prin- but these informants had only
vague idea that
ciple of justice that a stronger nation is obliged
Cassiodorius was a man of times long gone by.'
to respect. Something is said of Russian in- Illness, bad food, occasional extortion, and vast
fluence, but the book fails to reveal anything of ignorance were not permitted to outweigh the
the sort,- though why the Tibetans should not delight Mr. Gissing found in localities conse-
have the same right to deal voluntarily with crated by age and association with happier times,
Russia as with Great Britain under compulsion and he has conveyed his enjoyment to his readers
is not apparent to the non-British mind. For with undiminished force. The volume contains
.
the rest, the story is surprisingly tame. Mr. some wood engravings by way of pictures, a
Candler bears forced tribute to the bravery of welcome departure from the almost universal
the natives with whom the superior arms of the half-tone.
British engaged; but he nowhere succeeds in in- Many books have been written of our far
vesting his accounts of the fighting with any northern possessions, and from them it might be
vividness or sense of reality. Lhasa itself was possible to obtain most of the information
profoundly uninteresting in the main, though brought together by Mr. J. S. McLain in his
the religious rites were not without elements of volume entitled 'Alaska and the Klondike.' But
awe, as is made evident in the following extract Mr. McLain resorted to no such device of com-
from an account of the services in the great Jok- pilation, obtaining his knowledge at first hand
hang, or cathedral:
in company with a sub-committee of United
'Service is being held before the great Buddhas States Senators, who searched the country to
as we enter, and a thunderous harmony like an learn its needs and report thereon to their col-
organ peal breaks the interval for meditation. The
Abbot, who is in the center, leans forward from his leagues. Every advantage was offered, there-
chair and takes a bundle of peacock-feathers from
fore, to see both the dark and bright side of life
a vase by his side. As he points it to the earth on the edge of and within the arctic zone, and
there is a clashing of cymbals, a beating of drums, the result is a most informing volume. Some
and a blowing of trumpets and conch shells. Then
novel impressions will be gained by the reader,
the music dies away like the reverberation of
cannon in the hills. The Abbot begins the chant,
as when the author says:
and the monks, facing each other like singing-men 'I do not care to be regarded as a believer in
in a choir, repeat the litany. They have extraor- large agricultural possibilities for Alaska, but I
dinary deep, devotional voices, at once unnatural am impressed with the probability that in the
and impressive. The deepest bass of the West does interior of that remote country, where food supplies
not approach it, and their sense of time is perfect.' from the States must always be expensive, it will
One does not gather from Mr. Candler's pages
be practicable and profitable to produce meat and
that the Tibetans are in any sense barbarians,
dairy and poultry and garden products in such
quantity and at such prices as to solve the problem
and their religion has certainly preserved them of development of large areas of gold-bearing
from development of the warlike spirit and con- gravel.'
sequent acts of foreign aggression.
Nearly every part of Alaska was visited, and the
So charming are the late George Gissing's book should serve for a long time
as books go
anecdotes and reminiscences of travel on the in these rapid days — in the capacity of an
–
eastern coast of southern Italy, collected under authoritative reference work.
the alluring title of ' By the Ionian Sea,' that it Dr. George Aaron Barton's 'A Year's Wander-
is respectfully suggested that more novelists be ing in Bible Lands' is an unpretentious work
persuaded to travel in little known corners of made up of letters written home during the
Europe and bring back a sheaf of realities. Mr. author's journey through England, Germany,
Gissing is in love with antiquity, and Latin and Austria, Turkey, Palestine, and Egypt. What
Greek are still real to him. It is in the full with picking blackberries on the site of the great
classical and historical spirit that he wanders temple of Diana at Ephesus and eating ice-
from the beaten path of modern days and takes cream frozen with the snows of Lebanon, the
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sojourner in distant lands seems to have enjoyed to teach their pupils to observe nature, it is
himself. After seeing the dancing dervishes in admirably fitted. It is packed with scientific
Constantinople, this member of the Society of facts, with clear and practical suggestions for
Friends writes, 'One comes away with a new class room and study club, and with eye-opening
sense of the kinship of humanity, and, if he has and thought-stimulating questions. The draw-
any sympathy with mysticism, he departs with ings are accurate and easily comprehensible.
the feeling that, strange as are the practices of There is no avoiding the query whether the cause
these people, it is possible to understand the root of science is advanced by an arrangement which
from which they spring. There is a charm in places in succession chapters on the rock-barn-
such self-revelations as these that redeem the acle, rats and mice, natural history clubs, the
book from commonness.
purple saxifrage, water lilies, and house flies.
WALLACE RICE. But no arrangement or lack of arrangement can
destroy the value of the good sense and clarity
with which these and all the other subjects are
treated. The chapters on grasses, wood sorrel,
BIRDS AND OTHER FOLK.*
and the house cricket are especially interesting.
It is interesting to notice that there is little
Another English book, "Bird Life and Bird
blurring of the line between the bird books and
Lore,' by the scholarly historian Mr. R. Bos-
the other nature books of this season. The all-
worth Smith, is full of delight for all bird-lov-
round nature lover who writes of the general
ers. Mr. Smith loves the lore almost as well as
fascination of out-of-doors, and embroiders his
he loves the birds themselves, and it is scarcely
theme with a little bird-lore, has for the time
too much to say that he knows everything that
betaken himself to silence. So far as this fact
has been said in literature about his favorites,
proves the absence of new volumes from Mr.
since the creation. However, he does not thrust
John Burroughs and Mr. Bradford Torrey and
the greatness of his knowledge upon you, but
others of their class — if there are others of the
uses it only to enforce his opinions of his winged
same class - it is wholly lamentable. So far
friends. It seems curious at first that his favor-
as it proves a growing modesty on the part of
ites should be the owl and the raven; but his
amateurs it may not be very deplorable. Per-
preferences are justified by his experience. For
haps the time is already at hand when a mere
the owl he pleads that it is not destructive,
love of the wild and the things of the wild does
except of pests, and that other birds mob it
not so greatly distinguish the lover from his
because as a bird of night, quite unlike them-
fellows as to justify him in publishing his
selves, it is a stranger to them. The owl's dig-
thoughts. It may be that like the famous White nity he holds in great admiration, saying of his
Company, we have all stepped forward. Or it
visit to the eagle owls in the keep of Arundel
may be that instead of becoming more universal,
Castle that 'as you entered you felt somewhat
the love of nature is taking deeper hold of those
as the rude Gaul or as the envoy of Pyrrhus felt,
who profess it, and inspiring in them thoughts when he entered the Roman Senate, that it was
that do lie too deep for books. In either event
an assemblage, if not of gods, at least of kings.'
we are not the losers by the fact that the new
The raven, his next best friend, he insists was
writings come to us from specialists, and are
belied by the representative Noah sent forth
either bird-books or not bird-books, with no
from the ark, for he is faithful, intelligent, and
mixed up' class between.
companionable, although mischievous and
Of the two characteristically English books on
greedy. The author celebrates many other Eng-
our present list, one is distinctly devoted to
lish birds with almost equal affection. The book
birds, the other as distinctly to the general study
is one to be on permanently good terms with,
of nature. Mr. Miall’s ‘House, Garden, and
for its genuine love of all feathered folk, its
Field' is not a book one would take on a sum-
hatred of cruelty — and Mr. Smith's influence
mer vacation for entertainment it is both too
has been potent in abolishing the pole-trap and
good and too dull for that. For its purpose,
other villainies,-its delicate humor, and its
which is to teach teachers to observe nature and
poetical perspective.
Mr. Thompson-Seton's little volume, Wood-
* HOUSE, GARDEN, AND FIELD. By L. C. Miall.
New York: Longmans, Green & Co.
myth and Fable,' was not intended very seri-
BIRD LIFE AND BIRD LORE.
ously, and is all the more delicious in conse-
New York : E. P. Dutton & Co.
quence. It is a series of chips from the work-
By Ernest Thompson-Seton.
New York: The Century Co.
shop of a man who does larger things, the
WASPS, SOCIAL AND SOLITARY. By George W. and Eliza-
brilliant joking of a thinker off duty. Yet not
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin
wholly off duty either, for the jokes are too
By
keenly pointed — appreciably the picture of the
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
father porcupine spanking his baby and remark-
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trated.
By R. Bosworth Smith.
Illustrated.
WOOD MYTH
Illustrated.
AND FABLE.
Illustrated.
beth G. Peckham.
& Co.
WILD WINGS.
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romance.
ing 'It hurts me far more than it does you.' session of a dwelling place, and they all live to-
The land-crab who died climbing telegraph
gether for a time before starting out independently
to seek their fortunes. On the fifth of August we
poles because he would not move an inch out of
discovered on the island a happy family of this
his accustomed path, the little antelope who for kind, consisting of three brothers and four sisters,
his discontent was transformed into a giraffe, the females, with their bright yellow faces and
the grasshopper that made a river valley,— all
mandibles, being handsomer than the males. They
seemed to be on the most amicable terms with each
these have things to say not unbecoming a wise
other, their only trouble being that while they
man to hear. And while the wise man listens
were all fond of looking out, the doorway was too
he will be delighted in eye and refreshed in soul small to hold more than one at a time. The nest
by the illustrations, which are the very bub-
was opened in the morning at about nine o'clock,
bling-over of the author's genius.
and during the next thirty or forty minutes their
comical little faces would appear, one after another,
Admirable fooling as this book of Mr. Thomp- each wasp enjoying the view for a few minutes with
son-Seton's is, it whets rather than blunts the many twitchings of the head, and then retreating
reader's appetite for two books of very different
to make way for another, perhaps in response to
some hint from behind.'
type, which will for time to come mark the
present season as one of notable accomplishment.
No less care and devotion, and much more
The first of these is the work of Mr. and Mrs.
travel, has gone to the making of Mr. Job's
George W. Peckham on ‘Wasps, Social and Soli-
'Wild Wings,' a bird book that will be a lasting
tary.' Mr. John Burroughs in his introduction i joy to everyone who has a heart for life in the
to the volume calls this the most charming open. From the Magdalen Islands to the Flor-
“
monograph in any department of our natural ida Keys, Mr. Job has hunted with his camera
history that I have read in many a year,' and
the wild, hardy birds of the sea, whose strong
adds:
wings make them masters of the elements.' He
'It is a wonderful record of patient, exact, and
has had the grace, moreover, to tell the story of
loving observation, which has all the interest of a his conflicts and victories in a simple, straight-
It opens up a world of Lilliput right at forward way. However firm the ordinary bird
our feet, wherein the little people amuse and delight
seeker may be in his affection for thrush, bobo-
us with their curious human foibles and whimsi.
calities, and surprise us with their intelligence
link, and other land birds, he cannot but own the
and individuality. Here I had been saying in print greater daring and romance of Mr. Job's quest
that I looked upon insects as perfect automata, for pelican and ibis, spoonbill and kittiwake, or
and all of the same class as nearly alike as the withhold his admiration for the wild and often
leaves of the trees or the sands upon the beach.
I had not reckoned with the Peckhams and their
grotesque beauty of the pictures Mr. Jab brings
Solitary wasps. The solitary ways of these in-
home. For the securing of these pictures the
sects seem to bring out their individual traits, anil ardent ‘hunter' is impervious to all creature
they differ one from another, more than any other
wild creatures known to me.
discomforts, standing regardless for hours in
The book is written so untechnically that a
swamp water, or lying prone on a sand beach in
the broiling sun, or cramping himself into a
reader who does not know a wasp from a bee basket which his friends let down over a rock.
can understand and enjoy it. The first chapter Often he fastens his camera in a tree above
records a series of experiments which prove that a nest, and shutter-string in hand, hides in a
wasps detect differences in color, and are
thicket beneath until the wary bird comes home.
affected by smells more than sounds; the last, He has work for his wits also, as in this con-
which is devoted to the difference between
quest of a small oyster catcher:
instinct and intelligence, shows that the wasp's
"The young rascal never moved a feather while
sense of direction is due to a careful study of the it was being photographed. But when I thought
geography of her nest, and not to a mysterious to take it standing, we had a long, hard tussle.
sense of location. The intervening pages describe
Finally I conquered by sheer persistence, putting
my cap over it and removing it suddenly, to snap.
some score of wasps,— their nest-building and
When I let it go, it was comical to see those long
house-keeping, their killing and conveying of stout legs measure off the rods over that sand io.
their
prey, their care of their eggs. The authors ward its fond parents, apparently shouting,-in
are so careful and minute in their observation gesture if not in voice,-“Mamma, Mamma, here's
that they can sometimes correct and amend the
your little oyster catcher coming like a good one.
great authority Fabre himself. They say, for Mr. Job’s grammar is not always as shaky as
instance, of Philanthus punctatus:
in this case, but his struggles are always equally
“This is a pretty little yellow-banded species much
successful. No such collection of 'portraits can
resembling Cerceris in appearance. The nest con- be found anywhere else, of kittiwakes and gan-
sists of a main gallery with pockets leading from it, nets wheeling and tumbling, of unfledged peli-
each pocket being stored with one egg and enough
bees to nourish a single larva.
When the wasps
cans and herons gawking in their nests, of
emerge from the cocoon they find themselves in
jaegers and petrels skimming the waves, of a
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noddies brooding their young, and (most won- supreme self-sacrifice, both man and woman
derful of all) of a great horned owl caressing achieve a serener peace than that which they
her owlet. It is a collection that would put any had before vainly sought in the desert. The
exhibit of the portraits of mere people to hope story is one of poignant appeal to the spiritual
less shame.
MAY ESTELLE Cook.
sense, and the grave beauty of the tragedy finds
fitting language for its expression. There is a
far greater variety of interest than would be
imagined from the foregoing outline, and the
RECENT FICTION.*
author has achieved a brilliant success in his
picturesque effects. Neither the desert nor its
The merits of 'The Garden of Allah' are
such as to place it distinctly at the head of its
denizens seem to have any secrets from him,
and he records for us the soul of both with pen-
author's works. Mr. Hichens has hitherto been
etrating observation and subtle phrase. In all
rather unfortunate both in his themes and in
the three essentials of invention, style, and
their treatment, showing a tendency to portray thought, this performance is highly commend-
morbid types of character and to indulge in
much unpleasant detail in the working-out of able, and entitles Mr. Hichens to more serious
consideration than ever before.
his situations. This tendency he has nearly over-
“Hurricane Island' is a romance of adventure
come in the present instance, and he has, also,
found a theme that permits of poetic treatment,
of the good old-fashioned sort, dear to the hearts
besides lending itself to a strikingly dramatic
of boys of all ages, and written, withal, in a
purpose. A man and a woman are thrown style that commends it to the judicious reader.
There is a notable villain, a charming heroine,
together in an oasis on the edge of the Sahara,
and the imagined peace which both have sought and an acceptable hero, all' thrown together upon
in repairing to this outpost of civilization shipboard for a while, and then cast upon a
becomes real in the joy of their mutual love. The
desert island. The villain leads a mutiny to
joy is not lasting however, for when the man's
gain possession of the treasure on board, and
secret is revealed, it appears that he is a Trappist flict. Meanwhile, the ship, having touched at
there follows a desperate and protracted con-
monk, who has broken his vows, and escaped into
the world in quest of that knowledge of life
Rio and Buenos Ayres, proceeds through the
which the monastery walls had hidden from him
Straits of Magellan into the Pacific, and runs
for a score of years. But the consciousness of int
into Hurricane Island (invented for this pur-
sin still gnaws at his soul, and finally forces
pose). There the chief villain dies, riddled with
him to the agony of confession. In this spiritual bullets, and those of the lesser villains who do
crisis, the wife proves herself the stronger of the
not share his fate are marooned upon the island,
two, for it is she who shows to him the path of
while the ship sails off with triumphant virtue
duty — which is the path of renunciation and
at the helm. By this time the heroine, a princess
expiation — leading him back, at first reluc-
by birth, is sufficiently subdued, and the hero
tantly, then willingly, and in the end almost
(the ship's doctor) has won the ship, the treas-
gladly, to his living tomb. And by virtue of this
ure, and the maiden all at once. This is a very
stirring story, and is almost as good as Robert
By Robert Hichens. New
Louis Stevenson could have made it.
HURRICANE ISLAND. By H. B. Marriott Watson. New
The novels of Mr. and Mrs. Castle have a
York: Doubleday, Page & Co.
charm that almost puts them in a class by them-
By Agnes and Egerton Castle.
selves, a charm which is as manifest as ever in
their latest joint production, ‘Rose of the
By C. N. and A. M.
New York: Henry World. The charm is essentially one of style,
By Mrs. Humphry
for the plot is not remarkable, and the situations
New York: Harper & Brothers.
verge upon the melodramatic. But the style
By Elinor Glyn. invests the whole affair with a sort of magical
New York: Harper & Brothers.
THE SECRET WOMAN. By Eden Phillpotts. New York:
glow, and the romantic sentiment of the story
The Macmillan Co.
is admirably sustained. Beginning in India,
OF MARCUS ORDEYNE.
it ends in England, after a series of successful
assaults
A Story of the Days of
upon our emotions, and one situation so
Charlemagne. By Robert Ames Bennet.
startling as to be difficult for even romance to
McClurg & Co.
justify. That the first husband of the heroine,
A Romance of Bonaparte and
By Cyrus Townsend Brady.
mourned for dead, should have been able to
become a member of her household in the dis-
THE SILENCE OF MRS. HARROLD. By Samuel M. Gar-
guise of an Afghan, and remain unsuspected
New York: Harper & Brothers.
By Joseph A. Altsheler.
until he declared himself, involves a severe strain
Harper & Brothers,
upon the credulities. But such things do happen
.
• THE GARDEN OF ALLAH.
York: Frederick A. Stokes Co.
a
ROSE OF THE WORLD.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co.
THE PRINCESS PASSES. A Romance of a Motor-Car.
Williamson.
Holt & Co.
THE MARRIAGE OF WILLIAM ASHE.
Ward.
THE VICISSITUDES OF EVANGELINE.
By William J.
THE MORALS
Locke. New York: John Lane.
FOR THE WHITE CHRIST.
Chicago: A. C.
THE Two CAPTAINS.
Nelson.
Macmillan Co.
New York: The
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(in romance), and when they happen to such he seems far too good for this wicked world.
striking dramatic purpose as in the present The interest of the work is sustained, rising to
instance, we should not grumble very fiercely an effective dramatic climax, and subsiding into
over their improbability. There is humor in the the pathos of a closing scene of deathbed repent-
book, too, and of a subtle kind, supplied chiefly ance and forgiveness.
by the travelling Frenchman who psychologizes "The Vicissitudes of Evangeline,' by Mrs.
about the people he meets, and frames the most Elinor Glyn, is the sprightly story, told in the
charmingly plausible theories to account for first person, of a young woman with red hair
their actions. He is nearly, if not quite, the and green eyes, who lives and moves and has her
most delightful figure in the story.
being in the smart set of English society. She
We can find no fault with the fashion of is an irresponsible little creature, not to be com-
collaboration as long as it continues to give us mended for either grammar or behavior, and her
such charming work as 'Rose of the World,' or subsequent career, were it unfolded to us, would
the motor-car novels of C. N. and A. M. Wil probably not be unlike that of Mrs. Ward's
liamson. 'The Lightning Conductor' of these heroine. Mrs. Glyn gives us a minx in the mak-
vivacious writers proved so entertaining that all ing, while Mrs. Ward describes the finished
who read it will be eager to get possession of product. This is the author's third book in
"The Princess Passes,' its worthy successor.
similar vein, and it has the whipped-cream con-
Here are picturesque travel, humorous incident, sistency of its predecessors. It is mildly
and tender passion all in one, skilfully com-
amusing.
mingled in just the right proportions. It is Dartmoor, for many years the undisputed
not altogether a tale of motoring, for mechanical literary province of the late Mr. Blackmore, has
means of locomotion give place in the Alps, and
now fallen under the rule of Mr. Eden Phill-
at a certain exciting juncture, to the primitive potts, who holds sway therein by the same divine
and picturesque donkey. This story is so delight- right of genius. To his lengthening list of
ful that we are not disposed to carp overmuch novels with a Dartmoor setting Mr. Phillpotts
at the impossibility of its central situation - has recently added 'The Secret Woman, the
that of a man travelling for some weeks with a strongest and the most sombre of all these fic-
girl in boy's disguise, and not discovering the tions. The gloom of impending tragedy shad-
imposition.
ows the book from the very outset, and the
Mrs. Humphry Ward's new novel, The Mar-
breaking of the storm is direful in its fury. At
riage of William Ashe,' is having its full share
the very close there comes a gleam of light to
of critical attention, as was made inevitable by
soften the tragic effect of what has gone before,
the great and solid reputation of its accomp-
but the impression has been too deep to be thus
lished author. Mrs. Ward is one of the few
effaced, and the memory long lingers of the sin
novelists who take their art with entire serious-
which has wrought all this ruin, and of its
ness, and is hence deserving of the most respect- dreadful consequences. We are tempted to find
ful attention. There is nothing particularly
for this book a motto in Mr. Meredith's familiar
lines:
striking about the new book. It moves in the
* In tragic life, God wot,
circles of English society with which the author
Passions spin the plot :
has already made us acquainted by many other
We are betrayed by what is false within.'
novels; it has an Italian setting for some of the So in 'The Secret Woman' there is no cheap
most striking chapters; it again borrows some effect of downright villainy, but there is instead
of its material from the lives of actual historical a subtle study of impulsive sin and its corroding
persons as recorded in the memoirs of a past effects a study that rivals The Scarlet Let-
age; and it presents an intricate problem of
ter' in earnestness and psychological pene-
conduct for our investigation. All these things tration. What relief the story offers may be
it does admirably, with the firmness of handling found in the sayings and doings of the rustic
which Mrs. Ward has taught us to expect from types which fill the canvas, grouped around the
her, and its ethical plane is high throughout. central figures. In the delineation of these
The author dearly loves a lord, and her hero in types the author fairly rivals Mr. Hardy, making
this instance is a very paragon of his class. the indigenous population of Dartmoor as real
Infatuated by a ing woman of doubtful ante- to us as that of Wessex.
cedents, a young woman who may fairly be "The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne,' as por-
described as a minx, he makes her his wife, and trayed by Mr. William J. Locke in the novel
accepts all the consequences of the act. These which he has thus named, constitute a curious
turn out to be rather serious, for her escapades departure from what is conventionally approved,
involve both his political career and his per- yet, considered essentially, they may fairly
sonal honor; but he bravely meets them all, and
escape censure. He is a scholar, almost a
is so preposterously magnanimous about it that recluse, by habit, yet he maintains sentimental
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relations with two women which so flout the is to amuse the high gods with our histrionics.
accepted observances of society that his conduct
The earth itself is the stage, and the starry ether
the infinite auditorium.'
is under grave and not unnatural suspicion.
Really, these relations are strictly decorous, but
From this despair, none the less deep because it
they illustrate almost tragically the danger of
has reached the philosophical stage, our unpre-
playing with fire. One of the women he has pared actor slowly works his way out. Finally,
befriended after her desertion by a blackguard the child whose departure had so torn his heart-
husband, and has been held to her through many
years by a strong bond of intellectual sympathy. lover, and developed into womanhood by the
Thinking himself passionless, he does not realize
bitterness of her experience. The broken
that she has loved him passionately all the time.
threads of life are picked up one by one, and the
This particular entanglement is broken by the
end is a real though chastened happiness for
both man and woman. We have outlined this
appearance of the errant husband, in the guise
of the repentant sinner — the unctuous guise of
the unctuous guise of plot at some length, because a briefer abstract
Dr. Ibsen's Einar,—and the wife renounces love
would have been worse than useless. It remains
for duty, devoting the remainder of her life to
to say that the story is intensely interesting from
the ordering of his irresponsible footsteps. first to last, besides being rich in the sort of liter-
.
Meanwhile, the other woman has appeared upon strongly to the cultivated mind. Mr. Locke has
ary and scholarly allusiveness that appeals most
the scene.
a
child in disposition and hardly more than a
given us excellent work before, but this is by far
child in years,-half Oriental in her parentage,
the best thing he has done, and we give it an
escaped from a Syrian harem where she was
ungrudging welcome.
reserved for marriage with an objectionable old In the matters of typography, illustration,
person named Mustapha, and found homeless and decorative detail, Mr. Robert Ames Bennet's
and disconsolate by Marcus Ordeyne in a Lon-
For the White Christ' is a companion volume
don park. He takes her to his home, treats her to Miss Liljencrantz's two tales of Viking days
like the untutored child that she is, and seeks
and deeds. In theme, also, the work is similar,
to fashion her into some sort of conformity with
for it is a romance of the days when Karl the
the ways of the Western world. Gradually he Great was engaged in the most difficult part of
finds himself taking more interest in his his task of empire-building, and its hem is a
strangely-acquired ward than in his studies, and Norseman who becomes pledged to the great
the projected History of Renaissance Morals' ruler and who eventually marries his daughter.
gets less and less of his attention as the weeks The canvas of the work is very large indeed,
pass. Just as he discovers that he loves the girl, and includes battle-fields all the way from the
and is about to make her his wife, she elopes Pyrenees to the Baltic, and the hosts of the
with a dare-devil fellow who has been impru- Dane, the Frank, the Saxon, and the Moor. All
dently admitted to the intimacy of his house this portentous historical material, blended with
hold, and Marcus finds himself the prey of much intrigue and passion, together with some
emotions which he had never dreamed would
of the gentler elements of romance, is skilfully
touch his equable life. After the misery has brought into a tale of much action and dramatic
become a little less poignant, he sums up his vigor, couched in language that makes a fair
experiences in a passage which we may quote.
pretence of archaism (of the conventional type,
'In the days gone by I was the victim of a
naturally), and brought to a satisfactory issue.
singular hallucination. Í flattered myself on being The story of Roland at Roncesval is but one of
the one individual in the world not summoned to the many episodes which ornament this ambi-
play his part in the comedy of Life. I sat alone
tious historical portrayal. Various verse-frag-
in the great auditorium like the mad king of
Bavaria, watching with little zest what seemed
ments from mediæval saga and epic serve as
but a sorry spectacle. I thought myself secure in chapter-headings, and add not a little to the
my solitary stall. But I had not counted on the poetical effectiveness of the book. But we know
high gods who crowd shadowy into the silent seats
not ‘Gummerle,' who is cited as one of the
and are jealous of a mortal in their midst. With-
author's authorities.
out warning was I wrested from my place, hurled
onto the stage, and before my dazzled eyes could Mr. Cyrus Townsend Brady's latest romantic
accustom themselves to the footlights, I found my- production is called 'The Two Captains,' and
self enmeshed in intolerable drama.
I was
prepared. I knew my part imperfectly. I missed
consists of two parts — a preface and a histor-
my cues. I had the blighting self-consciousness of
ical tale. The latter is a narrative of the duel
the amateur. And yet the idiot mummery was between Napoleon and Nelson, ending with the
intensely real. Amid the laughter of the silent Battle of the Nile, and introducing many pic-
shadowy gods I sought to flee from the stage.
turesque incidents and figures. The love-inter-
I came to Verona and find I am still acting my
part. I have always been acting. I have been
est is provided by an Irish Captain under
acting since I was born. The reason of our being Nelson's command and the fair daughter
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of a royalist emigré and ci-devant admiral in the that make us think of Mr. Bryan rather than of
royal navy of France. The figure of this gentle- any other recent leader. But the author has
man is drawn with fine sympathy, and makes skilfully avoided anything like precision of
those of the two great historical protagonists characterization, seeking to project into the
seem like lay figures in comparison. Mr. Brady future the imagination of his readers, although
gets up his history very carefully, and is almost necessarily drawing his essential material from
over-technical in his description of sea-fighting experience of the past. In the ordinary mean-
His preface, although brief, is quite as interest-ing of construction, there is very little to be
ing as his romance, being aimed at the critic for found in this story. It is a chronicle of the
the purpose of guiding aright the footsteps of doings, the haps and mishaps, of a presidential
.
that miserable person. He is enjoined to discuss candidate from the time of his nomination to the
the book itself, and to refrain from discussing night of his triumph. He seems to be the nomi-
the personality of the author, or his literary nee of the Democratic party, although even that
fecundity,-in short, to refrain from minding point is left in uncertainty, for all that ·
the author at all. We have sought, with diffi- may be positively averred is that he is a West-
culty, to follow this admirable counsel, but feel erner, filled with a righteous hatred of Wall
bound to observe that the pages which contain it Street, and for that reason opposed by the influ-
have a pungency which make them no less in- ential Eastern minority of his party. When he
teresting (as well as instructive) than any of takes a decided stand against the iniquities of
those that follow.
the tariff, that opposition becomes virulent, but
Mr. Samuel M. Gardenhire has written, in the very boldness of the step brings him enough
The Silence of Mrs. Harrold,' a novel of strong new support from unexpected quarters to bear
and complex interest. It is one of those novels him on to victory. It is not exactly easy to
that begin in half a dozen places, and keep the reconcile one's imagination to an election in
reader puzzling over the possible relations of
which tariff reform carries the State of Penn-
the persons and incidents introduced, until sylvania; but that is the situation which meets
gradually order is evolved out of the seeming
us in the closing chapter. The interest of the
chaos, and all these disjecta membra are per-
story is largely provided by certain episodes
ceived to be parts of a single organic whole. It dragged into the narrative by force, as it were,
is a dangerous method to employ, and is more
in which the candidate acts as a deus ex machina
likely than not to lack adequate justification in straightening out private difficulties. Some-
when the complete pattern of the plot is dis- thing of this sort was necessary for the sake of
closed, but in the present case we are bound to
variety, but the book is made thereby a very
admit that the writer has done his work skil- disjointed affair. The newspaper reporter who
fully enough to escape serious censure. The has already figured in one of Mr. Altsheler's
weakness of the book is in the fact that the
earlier stories is the secondary hero of the pres-
reasons for Mrs. Harrold's silence (and the
ent work. He is the close friend of the candi-
agony following thereupon) prove to have been date, and accompanies him throughout the cam-
less cogent than we had a right to expect, and paign. He also falls in love with the candidate's
regarded in this light, the book is rather disap- niece, which provides a pretty element of
pointing. But there is no denying its power to
romance. The author often descends to carica-
hold the attention. The story is essentially one
ture of a kind too broad to be really effective,
of modern life (mainly in New York),
and it particularly in the case of one correspondent of
makes a special feature of exploiting the ways
à New York newspaper. There can be little
of the unscrupulous syndicate that has of late
doubt as to what particular journal is meant,
years fastened itself upon our dramatic activity.
and none whatever of the malicious animus with
Thus, various types of actors and managers
which it is assailed. Mr. Altsheler has given us
divide our interest with the other characters, a thoroughly readable story, written in the
millionaires, lawyers, and inventors—to say
breezy journalistic manner for which his expe-
nothing of the women — who people these pages.
rience has fitted him; it is a story, moreover,
It is certainly a novel of the better sort, and
which reveals an intimate acquaintance with
deserves respectful consideration.
our political life, and a well-developed moral
The dramatic incidents and the humors of a sense of its underlying issues.
presidential campaign provide a theme for 'The
WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE.
Candidate,' Mr. Altsheler's new novel. The
campaign described is an eclectic affair, not to 'Jews in Many Lands,' by Mr. Elkan Nathan
be identified with any particular campaign in Adler, is a recent issue of the Jewish Publication
our recent history, but borrowing features from
Society of America. It is an illustrated series of
pictures of travel, mainly in the Far East, the
more than one, while in the personality of the
work of a trained observer, and rich in curious inter-
candidate there are certain suggestions, at least, est for both Jews and Gentiles.
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NOTES ON NEW NOVELS.
a
It is a curious coincidence that in Mr. Frank
Lewis Nason's “The Vision of Elijah Berl' and Mr.
John H. Whitson's 'Justin ingate, Ranchman,'
both published by Messrs. Little, Brown & Co., the
theme should be taken from the visions of two
religionaries, the former book bearing out the proph.
ecy of a Californian valley made softly green and
luxuriant with orange trees grown by irrigation, the
latter doing the same thing with a valley in Colo-
rado brought into fruitfulness through the small
farms that supplant the older cattle ranches when
irrigation is introduced. Here, however, resem:
blances cease. Mr. Nason, himself an engineer,
accords the place of hero to the man who dams the
rivers, tunnels the mountains, and brings into being
the dream of the visionary Berl; while Mr. Whitson,
experienced in newspaper work and life in the West,
shows how a little foundling lad grows up into whole-
someness in spite of sordid surroundings, owing to
the teachings of a good man and the love of a bright
and worthy girl. Mr. Nason introduces a theme of
practical honesty and commercial integrity, showing
how the almost fanatic Calvinist, sure of his own
election, is too easily persuaded into rank betrayal
of trust and actual felony, his moral delinquency
being accentuated by his discarding the love of
his adoring and colorless wife for the unreturned
love of a thoroughly capable Californian woman
of business. Justin Wingate's temptations come
to him while he is a member of the Colorado legis-
lature, but he keeps his soul and body clean even
while those most closely connected with him suc-
ceed in turning the monopoly of the cattlemen into
the monopoly of water following the introduction
of irrigation.
An episode in Boston society is portrayed by an
anonymous hand in The Opal' (Houghton, Mifflin
& Co.), the book taking its title from the soubriquet
of the girl who plays the leading part. She has
been so reared that she takes on the color of the
company she chances to be with, and is married to
a man whose nature requires constant bolstering.
The result is not fortunate, each intensifying the
lack of the other. Another girl confesses her love
for the husband when she is on the point of sub-
mitting to an operation which promises to be fatal.
She survives, the wife eventually dies, and after
a considerable time needed to convince the girl
that she is not being proposed to merely because
she had been too confiding, there is a second mar-
riage and the curtain falls. It will be seen that
the argument is unusual, and it is strikingly pre-
sented. It seems, however, to be a theme too ex-
tensive for treatment so brief, and there are other
evidences, slight but convincing, of lack of crafts-
manship. There can be little doubt, for all that,
of the accuracy of the picture it presents of a
certain phase of Boston social life, and its interest
is unfailing.
Mr. Alfred Henry Lewis, as the interpreter of life
in a cattle town of the Southwest, is able to com-
bine fact and fancy into a convincing whole, and
“The Sunset Trail' (Barnes) follows the 'Wolfville'
stories in logical succession. Just as an earlier vol-
ume related the more or less apocryphal deeds and
sayings of Colonel William Greene Sterett, so this
is written around Mr. William Barclay (“Bat') Mas.
terson, informing the world of that worthy's cool-
headed and unquestioning courage and sureness of
aim while sheriff of a Texas county. The quaint
and expressive vocabulary of those parts dominates
all the conversations, and Mr. Lewis's keen wit and
almost hypertrophied sense of the ridiculous makes
the volume intensely interesting to those who have
any well developed humor of their own enough,
say, to keep them from being shocked at a code of
morals sufficiently practical for the time and place
but coinciding at few points with that of our more
usual civilization. Dodge City, the very crown of
the cattle region, is the scene of this tale of the
simple life as lived in Texas a generation ago.
The difficulties that lie between the idealism of
a woman's college and the finding of one's self in
the greater practical world, when that self has a
Latin temperament and is forced to dwell in
America, are set forth by Miss Anna Robeson
Brown in 'The Wine Press' (Appleton), a study of
character of much worth. The heroine is the
daughter of a New England mother and an Italian
poet who has abandoned his family for the love of
a great actress. To the college where Giovanna is
struggling with a conventional education comes the
actress and her daughter. Giovanna takes charge
of the irresponsible little girl, her half sister, fol.
lows her to New York, and is with her when she
comes to an end that Giovanna thinks morally
culpable. Thence Giovanna goes as governess to
the daughter of a distinguished painter, a man
quite devoid of morals, fleeing thence to the house
in northern New England in which her mother was
born. A physician is the hero of the tale, a fine
fellow who holds the reader's sympathies. The
book is unconventional in its interest, and above
the average of contemporary fiction.
Notwithstanding the flood of Revolutionary
romances during the past few years, there is still
room for so true a tale of love and adventure as
Miss Theodora Peck recounts in 'Hester of the
Grants: A Romance of Old Bennington' (Fox, Duf.
field & Co.). The reference in the main title is to
the New Hampshire Grants out of which the state of
Vermont came into independent being. The border
warfare of the period, culminating in the vividly
and convincingly described battle of Bennington,
the part played by the scouts and spies of the oppos-
ing armies, the varying fortunes of war by which
the captor of to-day becomes the prisoner of to-
morrow, the strife of three or four men of different
aspirations and widely variant character for the
love of the beautiful and patriotic Hester, the intro-
duction of Ethan Allen, Colonel Stark, Ira Allen,
and other historic characters, — all these elements
combine to form a panorama of the times which
deserves careful reading and much commendation.
In 'Psyche: A Romance of the Reign of Tibe-
rius? (Little, Brown & Co.), Mr. Walter S. Cramp
has done an ambitious and gratifying bit of inter-
pretation, portraying on one side the simple and
satisfying family life of humbly situated Greeks in
exile at Rome and on the other the inconceivably
corrupt practices of the imperial Roman court. It
is Psyche, the dancing girl, and Gyges, the chariot-
eer, who are heroine and hero of the little romance
that runs through the story, but the writer's chief
concern is with Tiberius himself and with the infa-
mous Ælius Sejanus, whose rise from prefect of the
Prætorian Guard to the consulship by the most
infamous means and whose sudden downfall just as
he expected to grasp the reins of power are vividly
set forth,- in spite of the literary conventions
which stand between the modern reader and a com-
plete account of heathendom at its worst. The lead-
ing figures of Roman palace life appear, Agrippina,
widow of Germanicus, chief among them, to show
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Mr. William Dana Orcutt's “The Flower of Des- heroines of contemporary fiction. The scene is
tiny' (McClurg) contains the full story of the love laid in Pennsylvania just before and during the
between Mademoiselle de Montijo and Prince Louis Civil War. The girl is beloved by a fine young
Napoleon, from the moment of their meeting at man of her own creed, but a worldly brother an.
Lady Blessington's in London to the striking scene sister from the South come into the lives of the
at Compiègne when the newly crowned emperor of almost betrothed pair with serious results. An ele-
the French introduces the beautiful girl to his ment of humor is supplied by the wife of an Epis-
brilliant court as the future Empress Eugénie. The copalian rector, a character almost worthy of being
book opens with the coming of Louis to the British mentioned with Anthony Trollope's famous Mrs.
capital just ofter his escape from the fortress of Pronty. Some admirable descriptions add to the
Ham, and he is permitted to tell in his own words interest of the book, and there is a chapter con-
the well-planned release from imprisonment. The cerned with the battle of Gettysburg, as it was seen
sincerity of the affection which rises in the princely by the inhabitants of the region, which gives a
adventurer's heart at his first introduction to the vivid conception of the horrors of war.
lovely Spaniard, the hold it takes and keeps upon The transition stage between the Quaker civiliza-
him, Eugénie's disinterested willingness to with- tion and that of the world's people in Pennsylvania
draw that her lover may wed according to his before the Civil War, more especially as illustrated
station, and the manner in which her last objection in the single career of the firmly drawn character
is removed form a romance that was well worth the
whose name is that of the book, is the central
interesting treatment Mr. Orcutt has given it. A theme of Mr. Edward Uffington Valentine's new
word should be said for the physical beauty of the novel, 'Hecla Sandwith' (Bobbs-Merrill). The
book, its inset illustrations and violet decorations story is a long one, and not firmly knit together,
for every page being, as appropriate as they are but it has much to do with the development of the
artistic.
spiritual side of a girl whose education has taken
At last the American fireman has had something her far from the simplicity of the Friends. An Eng.
like justice done him in our literature, Mr. Harvey lish mining engineer prevails upon Hecla to marry
J. O'Higgins's “The Smoke-Eaters' (Century Co.) him while her heart is still in the keeping of her
being an interrelated series of tales of the New York cousin, the latter being effectually barred from
fire department, - more particularly of one of the her by the prejudice of the Quaker against the mar-
companies in it, its captain and its members. Mr. riage of cousins. The conclusion, wherein the hus-
O'Higgins, in fine contrast to many of his fellow- band wins at last the real affection and respect of
writers, has paid his readers the compliment of his recalcitrant wife, is the best written portion of
carefully revising his work so that it presents itself a book that preserves with almost photographic
as a homogeneous whole without repetitions; he fidelity the manners and customs of a time fully
has also confined himself to the heroic deeds and departed.
curious idiosyncrasies of his characters without at- The four stories of varying length that Mr.
tempting to thrust any love of woman into the Maurice Hewlett brings together under the title of
narrative. With one exception all the characters are 'Fond Adventures' (Harper) will be something of
Irishmen, who seem to have a general qualifica- a disappointment to nearly all of the large circle
tion for the cool-headed courage which makes mod- of admirers who have followed this writer's work
ern successful fire-fighting possible. When these from the beginning. The brief tale of love, min.
heroes of peace are not actually engaged in saving strelsy, and rapine that opens the volume leaves
lives and extinguishing flames, they are rather more anything but an impress of artistic sincerity, while
human than lovable, as Mr. O'Higgins depicts then, its successor, a revival of the 'Captain Brazenhead'
though the writer never lets any sympathy for his of a former volume, is spun out until it is nothing
characters be lost.
less than dull. The third story, setting forth the
Miss F. F. Montrésor borrows the title for her ruthlessness with which a lover is murdered by his
latest novel, “The Celestial Surgeon' (Longmans, opponents in the Florence of renaissance days, has
Green & Co.), directly from Stevenson's poem, but a climax striking for its exhibition of this quality
she fails rather palpably to convince her readers of ruthlessness, and in that is fully up to the stan-
that the title is fully applicable. A baby girl, dard Mr. Hewlett has set for himself in work pra-
the unblest offspring of an Englishman of family viously published. The last of the four stories,
and a Frenchwoman of education, is taken for “The Love Chase,' is the longest, but is more con-
adoption by an English spinster whose estates adjoin spicuous for manner than for matter. Taken as a
those of her father's people, the latter property whole, the impression remains that the book is made
being now in possession of a retired tradesman who up of work done early in Mr. Hewlett's literary
is writing the family history. The spinster marries career, and denied publication until now.
a discredited physician, and the girl goes to the Romance of the fourteenth century fills the pages
kindly natured neighbor in consequence. The end of Mr. C. E. D. Phelps's “The Accolade' (Lippin.
does not come with her eventual marriage to him, cott). The hero, son of a worthy Englishman, being
but is delayed until after his death, the birth of a kidnapped into France by a ship's captain, betakes
posthumous child, and the reconciliation not only himself to Italy, wins a knighthood through gallant.
of the girl and her mother, but of the mother's ry, and returns to his native England with wealth
husband. This sounds somewhat confused, but the and honor just in time to prevent his sweetheart
book itself has a diversity of interests which do from entering a convent for lack of him. The poets
not admit of succinct statement. The theme, as are reverenced in the persons of Chaucer and Pe-
suggested in the title, lies in the gradual awaken- trarch, and it is from a careful study of the writ-
ing to charitable thought of the heroine, keeping ings of the former that the rather difficult and mul.
pace with her increased knowledge of life.
tifarious dialects of Mr. Phelps's book are con-
Nothing previously written by Mr. Charles Heber structed, even the ordinary narrative being loaded
Clark - Max Adeler'- has given promise of a story with archaisms. The book shows the most careful
so creditable as that of “The Quakeress' (John C. study and great painstaking, and abounds in varied
Winston Co.), the charming and ill-fated heroine of adventure. The rudeness of the England of the
which stands out clearly among the multitudinous period and the refinement of Italy serve as foils,


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rative. The other volume, ‘Enchantment,' con-
tains five tales, most of them having to do with
some little turn of destiny rather remote from the
ordinary course of human existence. The scenes of
four are in the United States, and deal severally
with politics, polite adventure, and love; the other
takes place at Monte Carlo. Without being in any
way remarkable, both books will provide amuse-
ment and entertainment, and were not written with
any other end in view.
It is the glamour of the artistic temperament
that leads Mrs. Willa Sibert Cather to name her
collection of short stories 'The Troll Garden' (Me-
Clure, Phillips & Co.). Seven truly entertaining
studies of somewhat abnormal human nature fill
the little book, and leave abundant food for re-
flection. The first possesses subtlety, being an
account of a woman who runs after celebrities ci
various sorts, is grossly insulted by one of them,
and yet persists in blundering on, a subject for mirth
to her enemies and of pity to her friends. "The
Sculptor's Funeral,' which follows, is quite as
vivid in its abruptness of contrast, the bringing
home to a sordid little western village of the body
of a distinguished artist affording the opportunity
for contrasting noble artistic ideals and the crass-
est commercialism.
Taken as
a whole, the book
indicates more than usual talent for close delinea-
tion.
-
ONE IIUNDRED BOOKS FOR SUMMER
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A SELECT LIST OF SOME RECENT PUBLICATIONS.
each for the other, and the whole tale is in the
nature of a treasure house for the student of
customs,
Cape Cod is in a sense the heart of that New
England which remains untouched and unassimil-
ated by modernity. There Mr. Joseph C. Lincoln
places all the action of his latest story, ‘Partners
of the Tide' (Barnes), and to the book many an
exiled man and woman of our northeastern states
can turn for joyful recollection of earlier days. A
small boy is adopted on the death of his parents
by two maiden kinswomen, goes to school, and falls
under the influence of the captain of a vessel in
the coasting trade. After some years on board his
ship, the dishonesty of their employers forces them
back upon their own resources and they become the
joint owners of a wrecking schooner. The interest
of the story is pretty well divided between the
young fellow's love for a neighbor and schoolmate
and his business success, but it is in the sketches
of New England character threaded upon the nar-
rative that its chief attractiveness lies. Dry Yan-
kee wit, shrewdness, and common sense are scat-
tered through the pages in a way to delight lovers
of the sea and of New England.
* The Belted Seas' (Holt), by Mr. Arthur Colton,
is both picaresque and nautical, being made up of
the varied adventures on sea and shore — with a sin.
gle excursion inla due to tidal wave- - of one
Captain Thomas Buckingham, a New Jerseyman, in
company with a select assortment of down-east'
Yankees, South Americans, savages from the Pacific
Islands, Central Americans, Chinese, Burmese, and
others, the whole culminating in an elopement after
the doughty captain had abandoned the sea for
the comparatively prosaic occupation of hotel-keep-
ing along Long Island Sound. The captain himself
tells the story of his thirty years' wanderings with
a humor characteristically American, interspersing
his narrative with reflections upon the conduct of
life in general which sum up no small part of the
wisdom of the ages. Some of his turns of thought
are provocative of the heartiest laughter, and he
never permits his auditors an instant of boredom.
The charming art shown by Mrs. Sara Andrew
Shafer in her second book, 'Beyond Chance of
Change' (Macmillan), has a certain resemblance
to that of the actor. The life of children not yet
in their 'teens, inhabitants of a little city of the
middle West at a time soon after the Civil War,
is set forth in a manner that will recall his own
childhood to every grown person into whose hands
the book may fall. It is a little girl who holds
the center of the stage, and girls and women are
accorded practically all the realism of the tales,
the men and boys being—from a masculine point
of view, at least-considerably idealized. No small
part of the charm of the narrative lies in its re-
moval from the strenuosities of modern city life,
while for the little people there is the most careful
inculcation of a pure morality which never degen-
erates into cant.
Mr. Harold MacGrath contributes two volumes to
"The Pocket Books' (Bobbs-Merrill). "The Prin
cess Elopes' is a brief tale of that eastern Europe
which lies near the Bohemian coasts, wherein a
young American college man of great wealth and
attractiveness succeeds in winning the heiress to
a little throne, it being discovered in the process
of this adventure that he is the long lost heir to
a throne adjoining. The story would be much
more interesting if its outcome were less clearly
foreshadowed, though it is difficult to see how this
could be avoided in the space accorded the nar-
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Quiller-Couch, A. T. 'Shining Ferry.' Charles Scribner's
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Von Hutten, Bettina.
• Pam.'
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Ward, Mrs. Humphry. The Marriage of William Ashe.'
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Wayne, Charles Stokes. A Prince to Order.' John
Lane. $1.50.
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Boraston, J. Maclair. 'Birds by Land and Sea.' John
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NOTES.
A translation of Bielschowsky's well-known Life
of Goethe is being made by Professor W. A. Cooper
of Leland Stanford University, and will be published
later in the year by the Messrs. Putnam.
An important forthcoming art book is “The Pre-
Raphaelite Brotherhood' by W. Holman-Hunt. It
will contain numerous illustrations in photogravure,
and will be published by the Macmillan Co.
‘A Short History of Russia,' by Miss Mary Platt
Parmele, is published by Messrs. Charles Scribner's
Sons. It is the seventh volume in the series of
brief historical sketches to which it belongs.
In the early autumn Mr. Henry James will pub-
lish through Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. a
book of travel sketches entitled 'English Hours,'
with numerous illustrations by Mr. Joseph Pennell.
The Young Folks' Cyclopædia of Natural His.
tory,' by Mr. John Denison Champlin and Mr. Fred-
eric A. Lucas, published by Messrs. Henry Holt &
Co., is a new volume (the fifth) in Mr. Champlin's
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The material for this work, with its eight hundred of Alexander I. and Nicholas I. The same firm has
illustrations, is drawn from the best recent author- also in preparation a volume of letters by Count
ities and is presented in untechnical language. Paul Hatyfeldt, late German Ambassador to Eng-
A timely book for the wide circle of workers in land, written during the period of the Franco-
the delightful field of nature-photography will be
German War from the headquarters of the King of
published at once by the A. Wessels Co. in Mr.
Prussia.
F. C. Snell's "The Camera in the Field.'
A book called “The Confessions of Lord Byron,'
A new volume of essays by Dr. William Osler,
in the form of a collection of the chief personal
who recently sailed for England to take up the
and literary discussions in the poet's Letters and
duties of Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford,
Journals, will be published shortly by the Messrs.
will be published early next fall by Messrs. Hough-
Scribner. The material has been so selected and
ton, Miffin & Co.
arranged by Mr. W. A. Lewis Bettany that the
reader can trace from month to month and from
Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co. publish a new edition,
in a single volume, of 'A History of Ancient Sculp-
year to year the development of Byron's most inti-
mate opinions.
ture' by Miss Lucy M. Mitchell. We see no evi-
dence of changes in the text, although the work is
Mr. J. Fitzmaurice-Kelly in his paper on 'Cer-
now over twenty years old.
vantes in England' points out that‘England was the
The annual Summer Classes for the Study of Eng.
first foreign country to mention “Don Quixote,"
the first to translate the book, the first country in
lish conducted by Mrs. H. A. Davidson will be held
this year at Cambridge, Mass., from July 11 to Aug.
Europe to present it decently garbed in its native
ust 17. The classes are designed to afford personal
tongue, the first to indicate the birthplace of the
author, the first to provide a biography of him, the
guidance and instruction in the study of literature,
first to publish a commentary on Don Quixote,”:
literary art, the English language, and composition.
and the first to issue a critical edition of the text.'
A new novel by Mr. S. R. Crockett, entitled
The Messrs. Harpers announce that the second
May Margaret,' will be published at once hy
Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co.
set of five volumes in the important series of “The
This firm has also
in preparation an elaborate volume on "The Cathe-
American Nation' will not be published all at one
drals of England,' the special feature of which
time, as were the first five. Instead, the volumes
will be a series of sixty illustrations in full color.
will appear at the rate of one a month during the
coming summer. The next in the series, Vol. VI.,
Volumes II. and III. of the 'Journals of the Conti.
will probably be issued in June. It is written by
mental Congress,' edited by Mr. Worthington C. Professor Evarts B. Greene, of the Illinois State
Ford, have appeared from the Government Printing University, and bears the title of “Provincial
Office. The year 1775 is the period covered by this America.
instalment of what is perhaps the most important
In his introduction to the recent facsimile repro-
work thus far undertaken by the Library of Con-
duction of the First Folio of Chaucer (1532) the
gress.
Rev. Professor Skeat points out that copies of this
Trusts, Pools, and Corporations,' edited by Dr. famous book are even rarer than the First Folio of
William Z. Ripley, and published by Messrs. Ginn Shakespeare and that in the case of both Chaucer
& Co., is a volume of discussions of typical cases. and Shakespeare there are four Folio editions.
The eighteen chapters are the work of many hands, Thynne's edition of Chaucer, the only one of
and in each chapter some combination of recent value, has been reproduced by collotype at the
years is analyzed, explained, and commented upon Oxford University Press, the British Museum copy
at length.
having been used for the purpose.
Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons publish a new and Mr. Francis Hobart Herrick's interesting book
enlarged edition of Mr. W. C. Brownell's subtle and
on bird study and photography entitled “The Home
discriminating essays on ‘French Art: Classic and Life of Wild Birds,' first published in 1901, is
Contemporary, Painting and Sculpture.' The new now issued in a revised edition by the Messrs.
matter is a chapter on 'Rodin and the Institute,' Putnam, The text has been largely rewritten,
aside from which the text is identical with that of there are several new chapters, and forty-eight new
the illustrated edition of 1901.
illustrations have been added in place of a smaller
“Tides of the Spirit,' published by the American number omitted. The author has made long and
Unitarian Association, is a volume of selections intimate study of a fascinating subject, and his
from the writings of James Martineau. The book is book will prove a delight to every nature-lover.
edited by the Rev. Alfred Lazenby, who contributes A supplement to the abridged edition of 'Poole's
a sympathetic introduction - an essay on the mas. Index to Periodical Literature,' edited as usual by
ter who first opened mine eyes to the spiritual re- Mr. William I. Fletcher and Miss Mary Poole,
alities of life and taught me to see the divine with the coöperation of the American Library As-
within the human.'
sociation, will be published next month by Messrs.
The American branch of Mr. John Lane's publishi. | Houghton, Mifflin & Co. This supplement indexes,
ing business has lately been incorporated as The after the approved method of the Poole series,
John Lane Company, with Mr. Lane as president thirty-seven leading periodicals for the five years
and Mr. Rutger B. Jewett as vice-president and 1900-1904. The list of periodicals covered is the
business manager. It is the purpose of the corpo-
as in the original abridged edition, except
ration to occupy more fully the American field, and that 'Everybody's Magazine' and 'The World's
to develop the American section of Mr. Lane's Work' are substituted for two older magazines no
magazine, The International Studio.'
longer published.
Two interesting biographies soon to be issued A new edition of Swan Sonnenschein's well-
by Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Co. are 'A Pietist of known work, The Best Books,' with its supple-
the Napoleonic Wars,' an account of the eventful ment, “The Reader's Guide to Contemporary Lit-
life of the Countess Reden, and Mrs. Colquhoun erature,' is definitely announced for early publica-
Grant's 'A Mother of Czars,' a sketch of the life tion. The first book, which classified and described
of Marie Feodorowna, wife of Paul I, and mother the best 50,000' books current at that date, was
same


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published in 1887, and reprinted in an enlarged and
improved form; and “The Reader's Guide,' issued
in 1895, brought the literature down to the end of
1894. The new work will contain in a single vol.
ume all that is worth preserving of the two previ.
ous books, with additional bibliographies, refer.
ences, notes and characterizations up to the middle
of the year 1905.
TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS.
June, 1905.
Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot. Juliet Robb. No. American,
Atlantic Fisheries Question. Rev. of Reviews.
Baler Church, Defense of. Horace M. Reeve. Century.
Chateaux of Touraine. Richard Whiteing. Century.
Chicago's Street Railway War. World's Work.
Church-Union Movement in Canada. Rev. of Reviews.
Civil War, What a Boy Saw of the. Century.
Closed Shop vs. Open. John Bascom. No. American.
College, Apology for Going to. Helen Keller. McClure.
College Athlete, The. Henry B. Needbam. McClure,
Consciousness, Problem of. C. W. Saleeby. Harper.
Convent Stage, The. Agnes Repplier. Atlantic.
Crete, Island of. Blanche E. Wheeler. Scribner,
Diplomatic Representation. Julien Gordon. No. American.
Dogs in War, Use of. Charles N. Barney. Scribner.
Early, Jubal, Recollections of. Century.
Elizabethan Flower-Gardens. Edmund Gosse. Harper.
Emigration in Europe. J. D. Whelpley. No, American,
Everetts in England, The. Scribner.
Federal Rate Regulation. Ray Morris. Atlantic.
France, The Year in. Alvan F. Sanborn. Atlantic,
Gay Plumes and Dull. John Burroughs. Atlantic.
Generosity and Corruption. G. W. Alger. Atlantic.
Insurance, Cost of Our. S. S. Pratt. World's Work.
Inventing. The Modern Profession of. World's Work.
Jackson, “Stonewall,' A Pupil's Recollections of. Century.
Japan's Closing of the Open Door. World's Work.
Japan's Success, Menace of. J.H. Hammond. World's Work.
Japanese Painting, Aspects of. W. M. Cabot. Atlantic.
Jefferson, Joseph. James Huneker. World's Work.
Jefferson, Joseph, Joseph B. Gilder. Rev. of Reviews.
London in Summer. W. D. Howells. Harper.
Marquette, Pere, Pleasant Life of. H. L. Nelson. Harper.
Mental Types in Our Schools. Arthur T. Hadley. Harper.
Mexico, What People Read in. Rev. of Reviews.
Morocco and the French Intervention. Rev. of Reviews.
Municipal Ownership in Chicago. E.F.Dunne. World's Work.
Mural Decorations, Miss Oakley's. H. S. Morris. Century.
Nations, Purses of. Arthur Harris. World's Work.
New England Small Town, A. R. L. Hartt. World's Work.
New Outlook for the U. S. W. G. Brown. Atlantic.
News-gathering as a Business. M. E. Stone. Century.
Oxford, American ‘Rhodes Scholars' at. Rev. of Reviews.
* Philadelphia,' Finding the. Charles W. Furlong. Harper.
Philadelphia's Civic Outlook. J. M. Rogers. Rev. of Revs.
Pictures, Spurious, Traffic in. No. American.
Prairies, Foresting the. Charles M. Harger. World's Work.
Quantock Hills, Among the. Henry van Dyke. Scribner.
Railroad Power, The Newest. C. M. Keys. World's Work.
Rome, American Academy in. F. D. Millet. Rev. of Revs.
Russia, Church Blight on. Perceval Gibbon. World's Work.
Russian Court, The. Herbert J. Hagerman. Century.
San Domingo Question. F. G. Newlands. No. American.
Science and Immortality. J. S. Christison. No. American.
Scott. George Edward Woodbury. McClure.
Simplon Tunnel, Piercing the. Deshler Welch. Century.
South Africa, A White. F. G. Stone. No. American.
South America, Adventures in. Charles J. Post. Harper.
So. American Revolutions. G. A. Chamberlain. Atlantic.
Stendhal. Count Lützow. No. American,
Storm and Flood, Heralds of. G, H. Grosvenor. Century.
Suez and Panama. Frederic C. Penfield. No. American.
Technic, Apology for. Brander Matthews. No. American,
Togo's Larger Problem. Adachi Kinnosuké. Rev. of Revs.
Typhoid : An Unnecessary Evil. S. H. Adams. McClure.
Union Army, Boys in the. G. L. Kilmer. Century.
Usage, Standard of. Thomas R. Lounsbury. Harper.
Victoria Falls. Theodore F. Van Wagenen. Century.
Village Improvement. Frederick Law Olmsted. Atlantic.
Washington on the Eve of War. G. P. Fisher. Scribner.
LIST OF NEW BOOKS.
[The following list, containing 100 titles, includes books
received by THE DIAL since its last issue.]
BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIRS.
THE KING IN EXILE: The Wanderings of Charles II. from
June 1646 to July 1654. By Eva Scott. Illus. in
photogravure, etc., large 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 524.
E. P. Dutton & Co. $3.50 net.
EDWIN MCMASTERS STANTON : The Autocrat of Rebellion,
Emancipation, and Reconstruction. By Frank Abial
Flower. Illus., large 8vo, pp. 450. Saalfield Publish-
ing Co. $3.
CATHERINE DE MEDICI AND THE FRENCH REFORMATION. By
Edith Sichel. Illus. in photogravure, etc., large 8vo,
gilt top, uncut, pp. 320. E. P. Dutton & Co. $3. net.
THE COURTSHIPS OF CATHERINE THE GREAT. By Philip W.
Sergeant, B.A. Illus, in photogravure, etc., large 8vo,
gilt top, uncut, pp. 337. J. B. Lippincott Co. $2.50 net.
MIRABEAU and the French Revolution.
Charles F.
Warwick. Illus., 8vo, gilt top, pp. 483. J. B. Lippin-
cott Co. $2.50 net.
REMINISCENCES OF A RADICAL PARSON. By Rev. W. Tuck-
well, M.A. With photogravure portrait, 8vo, gilt top,
PP. 268.
Cassell & Co., Ltd. $2.
WILLIAM HICKLING PRESCOTT. By Harry Thurston Peck.
12mo, gilt top, pp. 186. "English Men of Letters."
Macmillan Co. 75 cts. net.
MY OWN STORY. By Caleb Powers. Illus., 12mo, pp. 490.
Bobbs-Merrill Co. $1.50.
PRINCE OR CREOLE: The Mystery of Louis XVII. By Pub-
lius V. Lawson. Illlus., 12mo, pp. 310. Menasha,
Wis. : Geo. Banta Publishing Co. $1.50.
HISTORY.
SHAKESPEARE'S LONDON. By Henry Thew Stephenson.
Illus., 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 357. Henry Holt & Co.
$2. net.
EARLY WESTERN TRAVELS, 1748-1846. Edited by Reuben
Gold Thwaites, LL.D. Vol. XV., containing Part II.
of James's Account of S. H. Long's Expedition, 1819-
20. Large 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 356. Arthur H.
Clark Co. $4. net.
DISUNION SENTIMENT IN CONGRESS in 1794 : A Confiden-
tial Memorandum, hitherto Unpublished, Written by
John Taylor of Caroline for James Madison. Edited
by Gaillard Hunt. 4to, pp. 25. Washington: W. H.
Lowdermilk & Co. Paper.
THE HISTORIC ROLE OF FRANCE among the Nations : An
Address. By Charles Victor Langlois. 16mo, pp. 45.
University of Chicago Press. Paper.
GENERAL LITERATURE.
SHELBURNE Essays. By Paul Elmer More. Second series ;
12mo, pp. 253. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.25 net.
REDE AUF SCHILLER. Von Jakob Grimm. Mit dem Bild-
niss Schillers von Gerhard von Kügelgen.
With por-
trait, . 8vo, pp. 30. Hamburg: Gutenberg-Verlag Dr.
Ernst Schultze.
TALKS IN A LIBRARY WITH LAURENCE HUTTON. Recorded
by Isabel Moore. Illus, in photogravure, etc., 8vo,
gilt top, uncut, pp. 458. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $2.50 net.
THE DREAM OF THE ROOD: An Old English Poem attrib-
uted to Cynewulf. Edited by Albert S. Cook. 16mo,
Oxford University Press. 90 cts. net.
THE HERBERT SPENCER LECTURE. Delivered at Oxford,
March 9, 1905, by Frederic Harrison, M.A. Large 8vo,
uncut, pp. 35. Oxford University Press. Paper.
SHAKESPEARE, THE MAN AND HIS WORKS: Being All the
Subject Matter about Shakespeare contained in Moul-
ton's Library of Literary Criticism.' With portrait.
16mo, pp. 366. Sibley & Co.
DEUTSCHE DICHTER-ABENDE. Eine Sammlung von Vor-
trägen über neuerer deutsche Literatur. Von Dr. J.
Loewenberg. With portrait, 8vo, pp. 198. Hamburg:
Gutenberg-Verlag Dr. Ernst Schultze.
TOLD IN THE GARDENS OF ARABY. By Izora Chandler and
Mary W. Montgomery. 12mo, gilt top, pp. 230. Eaton
& Mains. 75 cts. net.
NEW EDITIONS OF STANDARD LITERATURE.
WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, ‘Biographical' edi.
tion. With introductions by Mrs. Stevenson. First
vols. : Kidnapped, David Balfour, and The New Ara-
bian Nights. 16mo, gilt tops. Charles Scribner's
Sons. Per vol., $1.
SPECIMENS OF THE ELIZABETHAN DRAMA, from Lyly to
Shirley, 1580-1642. Edited by W. H. Williams, M.A.
12mo, uncut, pp. 576. Oxford University Press. $1.90
net,
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. Edited by Wil-
liam Macdonald. Illus. in photogravure, etc., 12mo,
gilt top, uncut, pp. 314. * Temple Autobiographies.'
E. P. Dutton & Co. $1.25 net.
AUSWAHL AUS DEN KLEINEN SCHRIFTEN VON JAKOB GRIMM.
Mit einem Bildniss Jakob Grimm. With portrait, 8vo,
PP. 286. Hamburg: Gutenberg-Verlag Dr. Ernst
Schultze.
WALTHARI-LIED, Der arme Heinrich, Lieder der alten
Edda. Uebersetz von den Brüdern Grimm; mit Buch-
schmuck von Ernst Liebermann. Large 8vo, pp. 180.
Hamburg: Gutenberg-Verlag Dr. Ernst Schultze.
DAS MAIFEST DER BENEDIKTINER, und andere Erzählungen.
Von Karl Rick. 12mo, gilt edges, pp. 329. Hamburg:
Gutenberg-Verlag Dr. Ernst Schultze.
BOOKS OF VERSE.
THE FLEEING NYMPH, and Other Verse. By Lloyd Mif-
flin. 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 91. Small, Maynard
& Co. $1. net.
SONGS AND POEMS. By Lizzie Twigg; with introduction
by Very Rev. Canon Sheehan, D.D. 16mo, pp. 74.
Longmans, Green, & Co. 60 cts.
THE CHARM OF YOUTH. By Alexander Jessup. 12mo, gilt
top, uncut, pp. 95. Herbert B. Turner & Co. $1. net.
THE NORSK NIGHTINGALE : Being the Lyrics of a Lum-
beryack. By William F. Kirk. Illus., 16mo, pp. 66.
Small, Maynard & Co. 75 cts. net.
FICTION.
THE SUNSET TRAIL. By Alfred Henry Lewis. Illus., 12mo,
pp. 393.
A. S. Barnes & Co. $1.50.
STURMSEE: Man and Man. By the author of 'Calmire.'
12mo, pp. 682. Macmillan Co. $1.50.
THE BREATH OF THE Gods. By Sidney McCall. 12mo, pp.
431. Little, Brown & Co. $1.50.
THE TYRANNY OF THE DARK. By Hamlin Garland. Illus.,
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SERENA By Virginia Frazer Boyle. With frontispiece in
color, 12mo, pp. 378. A. S. Barnes & Co. $1.50.
THE WINE-PRESS. By Anna Robeson Brown. 12mo, pp.
390. D. Appleton & Co. $1.50.
ON THE FIRING LINE : A Romance of South Africa. By
Anna Chapin Ray and Hamilton Brock Fuller. 12mo,
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Little, Brown & Co. $1.50.
A COURIER OF FORTUNE. By Arthur W. Marchmont. Illus.,
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THE WEIRD PICTURE. By John R. Carling. Illus., 12mo,
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THE ACCOMPLICE. By Frederick Trevor Hill. 12mo, pp.
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THE WALKING DELEGATE. By Leroy Scott. With frontis-
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A KNOT OF BLUE. By William R. A. Wilson. Illus., 12mo,
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HESTER OF THE GRANTS: A Romance of Old Bennington.
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PARTNERS OF THE TIDE. By Joseph C. Lincoln. Illus.,
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AS THE WORLD Goes By. By Elisabeth W. Brooks. 12mo,
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AT THE FOOT OF THE ROCKIES. By Carter Goodloe. Illus.,
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CURLY: A Tale of the Arizona Desert. By Roger Po-
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ON TYBEE KNOLL: A Story of the Georgia Coast. By
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THE BISHOP'S NIECE. By George B. Picard. With frontis-
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AN EMBARRASSING ORPHAN. By W. E. Norris. Illus.,
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CHARLES THE CHAUFFEUR. By S. E. Kiser. Illus., 16mo,
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THB LUNATIC AT LARGE. By J. Storer Clouston. Author-
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THE MOTORMANIACS. By Lloyd Osbourne. With frontis-
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Merrill Co. 75 cts.
BEATING SEA AND CHANGELESS BAR. By Jacob Lazarre.
12mo, pp. 133. Jewish Publication Society.
ELIZABETH. By Capt. James T. Elliott. Illus., 12mo, pp.
281. Chicago : International Press Association.
"THE FOUR ORPHANS. By H. W. Mangold and 0. Lund.
12mo, pp. 237. Appeal to Reason Press. Paper, 50 cts.
THE GARDEN OF A COMMUTER'S WIFE. Recorded by the
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THE SPIRIT OF THE SERVICE. By Edith Elmer Wood. New
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TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION.
THE ST. LAWRENCE RIVER: Historical, Legendary, Pic-
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PORT ARTHUR: A Monster Heroism. By Richard Barry.
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RUSSIA AS IT REALLY Is. By Carl Joubert. New edition ;
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Different as were the circumstances environ-
ing the lives of Schiller and Mazzini, different
No. 456.
JUNE 16, 1905. Vol. XXXVIII.
not only in their personal bearings, but also in
all those broader aspects whereby the eighteenth
century was separated from the nineteenth, we
CONTENTS.
must recognize nevertheless that the two men
THE MAZZINI CENTENARY. .
.. 407
were inspired by one and the same patriotic
impulse, one and the same gospel of human
MR. LANG'S LITERARY LOITERINGS. Percy F.
brotherhood, one and the same austere ethics of
Bicknell.
409
devotion and self-sacrifice. Each in his own
THE TROUBLED TALE OF ERIN. Laurence M. way all his life long fought the good fight;
Larson
411 each was a true knight of the spirit in thought
BALZAC'S LATEST BIOGRAPHER. Annie Russell and deed; and the memory of each remains to
Marble
413 us as a shining example of fortitude in adver-
SCIENCE AND PERSONALITY. T. D. A. Cockerell 415
sity, of hopefulness in discouragement, and of
faith in an ideal whose light was dimmed for
ECHOES FROM THE EASTERN STRUGGLE. duller visions by the sullen mists of cynicism,
Wallace Rice.
416
and indifferentism, and selfishness. All honor
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS
418 to these souls, and to all kindred souls whose
The story of American nationality.- Last of the keen sight, purged as with euphrasy and rue,
'Notes from a Diary.'-A plea for the appreciation is fixed steadfastly upon goals too far-set to
of music.—Bright essays by a Westerner.-Sydney be discerned by the commonalty, yet surely es-
Smith, reformer and wit. — Dr. Mahaffy's lectures tablished as the ultimate aims of human aspira-
on Hellenism. — An album of Schiller tributes.-
tion.
A group of recent German publications. — Short
Mazzini was not without his meed of sympa-
cuts to health and strength.—A painter's essays
on art. — Chapters for the meditative fisherman.- thy and fitting appreciation during his lifetime,
New volumes in the 'Musician's Library.'
and to few men have such tributes been paid as
were bestowed upon him in his later years, and
BRIEFER MENTION
423
have continued to be bestowed, by the noblest
NOTES
423 spirits of the age, since his death. All honor
LIST OF NEW BOOKS
424
to thee, thou noble Mazzini,' said Clough, writ-
ing from Rome in the last days of the Trium-
virate, when from Janiculan heights thundered
THE MAZZINI CENTENARY.
the cannon of France. Carlyle, usually grudg-
ing of praise, called him 'a man of genius and
Worshippers of the ideal who found last virtue, a man of sterling veracity, humanity,
month chiefly noteworthy because it rounded and nobleness of mind.' The Master of Balliol
the first hundred years since the death of Schil- said of him that he had a genius beyond that
ler
may find the present month mainly memor- of most ordinary statesmen,' and Mr. John
able as marking the first centennial of Mazzini's Morley pronounced him “probably the highest
birth. A believer in the doctrine of metempsy- moral genius of the century.' Imaginative
chosis might well be impressed with the fact writers, too, have glorified him in verse and
that some six weeks after the German poet prose: he is exalted in Mr. Meredith’s ‘Vit-
yielded up his breath the apostle of Italian toria,' and Mr. Swinburne has constituted
unity became a living soul, and entered upon a himself panegyrist-in-chief of him whose ad-
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vent is thus prophesied in ‘Marino Faliero': The message of Mazzini, like the message of
· Men that hear
Schiller, is one of which our own age is
His name far off shall yearn at heart, and thank peculiarly in need.
Divested of its temporal
God that they hear, and live: but they that see, accidents, it stands revealed as the quintes-
They that touch hands with heaven and him, that
sence of Christian ethics, restated in the terms
feed
With light from his their eyes, and fill their ears
of modern social conditions. It is summed up
With godlike speech of lips whereon the smile in one pregnant phrase, the duties of man, not
Is promise of more perfect manhood, born
conflicting with, but merely complementing,
Of happier days than his that knew not him,
that other phrase, the rights of man, to which
And equal-hearted with the sun in heaven
the French Revolution gave such ringing utter-
From rising even to setting, they shall know
By type and present likeness of a man
ance.
Here is the doctrine, embodied in a
What, if truth be, truth is, and what, if God,
definition of the religious idea:
God.'
"That idea elevates and purifies he individual;
These are English tributes only, but they are dries up the springs of egotism, by changing,
the most effective for our purpose because of and removing outside himself the centre of activ-
the witness they bear to the fact that Mazzini's
ity. It creates for man that theory of duty which
is the mother of self-sacrifice, which ever was,
teaching and example far transcend the limits
and ever will be, the inspirer of great and noble
of his own country and the hearing of his own things; a sublime theory, that draws man near
compatriots.
to God, borrows from the divine nature a spark
In spite, however, of the praise thus accorded of omnipotence, crosses at one leap all obstacles,
makes the martyr's scaffold a ladder to victory,
Mazzini by those who know,' we may still find
and is as superior to the narrow, imperfect theory
here and there traces of the undercurrent of
of rights as the law is superior to one of its
unsympathetic or antagonistic sentiment which corollaries.''
during his lifetime sought to asperse his mo-
What a clearing of the moral atmosphere would
tives and belittle his achievements. Those who
result from an infusion of this spirit into
sat in the seats of the mighty found his ardent
the social conflicts of to-day, with their sordid
propaganda of republicanism — with its direct
-
selfishness of motive, their petty and ignoble
and vital appeal to the spiritual aspect of hu-
aims. To the belief thus formulated at the age
man nature a force far more difficult to
of thirty, Mazzini adhered throughout his long
combat than the efforts of ordinary revolution-
life, never perturbed by passion, but calm in
ists, and they did their best to create the legend
the faith that the fundamental rule of human
which pictured him as a criminal conspirator
conduct was to be found in this acceptance of
against the established order. Other critics were
the claims of duty as paramount.
found in those who sought by more direct
Mine is not the work of a writer,' he said
means and practical methods to restore Italy
in Faith and the Future, it is the stern and
to its proper place among the nations, and who,
fearless mission of an apostle.' But if it were
with their partisans, endeavored to exalt those
means and methods as the only ones really
not for Mazzini's writings we should find it
worth considering, oblivious of the truth that
difficult to understand his immense influence,
the moral regeneration which was the object of
and wellnigh impossible to realize the loftiness
of his character. These writings are, indeed,
Mazzini's apostolate was the underlying cause of
all that the Risorgimento accomplished — that
a precious legacy from the age of political tur-
without this renewal of the spirit neither arms
moil that gave them shape, and their value has
nor diplomacy would have been of serious avail by no means lapsed with the historical occasion
for so great a task. Such critics, in their zeal
of their production. More enduring than the
for the glory of Cavour and Victor Emmanuel
monument at Genoa those fervent appeals to
and Garibaldi, have particularly sought to min-
the highest instincts of our nature are likely
imize the influence of the man whose silent
to prove, and the Italian government has done
labors prepared the soil for their harvest, and
itself honor in planning a national edition of
alone made possible the success which crowned
his complete works. If any further excuse than
their efforts. But all this 'cloud of detractions
this were needed for speaking of him in the
rude' has wellnigh spent its obscuring effect, pages of a literary journal
, it might easily be
and as the years that knew Mazzini recede from
found in those of his writings which belong to
our immediate gaze, we may with more and
literature pure and simple, in the keen and
more confidence echo the words of his poet:
graceful essays which he devotes to Byron and
Goethe, to Hugo and Lamennais, to Carlyle and
*Life and the clouds have vanished; hate and fear
Have had their span
Renan, and to the great poet of his own race
Of time to hurt, and are not: he is here,
whose genius overtops all but the half dozen
The sunlike man.'
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Thé New Books.
phrased at every turn, that we are incapable, at
maturity, of appreciating its worth, spiritual
and literary. Mr. Lang thinks it is much the
same with Tennyson's poems: use has made
MR. LANG'S LITERARY LOITERINGS.*
them too familiar. To the boy Andrew, turning
* Young men, especially in America,' says in weariness from Tupper's Proverbial Phil-
Mr. Lang, 'write to me and ask me to recom- osophy,' the poet of the Table Round dawned as
mend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course a new light; 'a new music was audibile, a new
of reading! People who really care for books god came into my medley of a Pantheon, a god
read all of them. There is no other course. never to be dethroned. Concerning our first
Let this be a reply. No other answer shall loves in books, the writer says some true things.
they get from me, the inquiring young men.' 'People talk, in novels, about the delights of a
If the writer of these words does not convey the
first love. One may venture to doubt whether
impression of having himself read quite all lit-
everybody exactly knows which was his, or her,
first love, of men or women, but about our first
erature, he at least has a way of giving one a loves in books there can be no mistake. They
sense of the splendid vastness and infinite vari- were, and remain, the dearest of all; after boy.
ety of the literary realm. Contrast with his
hood the bloom is off the literary rye.
As
tone the soinewhat peevish note in an utterance
long as we live we hope to read, but we “never can
recapture the first fine, careless rapture.” Besides,
of his fellow-countryman Hume. Writing to
one begins to write, and that is fatal. My own
Gilbert Elliot in 1757, Hume says, referring to first essays were composed at school — for other
his ‘History,'—'I undertook this work because boys. Not long ago the gentleman who was then
our English master wrote to me, informing me he
I was tired of idleness and found reading alone,
was my earliest public, and that he had never
after I had perused all good books (which I
credited my younger brother with the essays which
think is soon done), a somewhat languid occu- that unscrupulous lad (“I speak of him but
pation.' But poor Hume was writing a hun- brotherly'') was accustomed to present for his con-
sideration.'
dred years before the public-library movement
had well started, and a century and a half be-
Mr. Lang's recollections of Stevenson are
fore Mr. Carnegie's generosity had endeared him
among the best things in his book. Although
to the Anglo-Saxon world of readers. Instead
not of Stevenson's closest friends, he was inti-
of lamenting now that all good books can be mate enough to feel the full charm of his bril-
so soon read, one becomes increasingly and de-
liant junior. Here is his impression of the
spairingly conscious how many books in how young man as he first saw him in 1873:
many languages are always waiting, indeed 'He looked as, in my eyes, he always did look,
clamoring, to be read. Reading is likened by
more like a lass than a lad, with a rather long,
smooth oval face, brown hair worn at greater
Mr. Lang to opium-eating: it unlocks to us
length than is common, large, lucid eyes, but
artificial paradises. The comparison might
The comparison might whether blue or brown I cannot remember, if brown,
have been carried further, in that the daily dose
certainly light brown. On appealing to the author-
has to be steadily increased to satisfy the crav-
ity of a lady, I learn that brown was the hue. His
colour was à trifle hectic, as is not unusual at
ing of the true lover of reading, who is a very Mentone, but he seemed, under his big blue cloak,
different creature from the mere book-lover, or to be of slender, yet agile frame. He was like
book-collector, with whom reading is often the nobody else whom I ever met. There was a sort
last use to which books are to be put. A pas-
of uncommon celerity in changing expression, in
thought and speech.
sage depicting some of the charms of reading
may be quoted from the opening chapter of our
And yet this smooth-faced, girlish-looking
author's ‘Adventures among Books.'
He is youngster was brimful of pluck. In Paris at
speaking of the ancient classics.
a café,' narrates Mr. Lang, 'I remember that
Mr. Stevenson heard a Frenchman say the Eng-
"There is a charm in finding ourselves -
common humanity, our puzzles, our cares, our joys,
lish were cowards. He got up and slapped the
in the writings of men severed from us by race, man's face. “ Monsieur, vous m'avez frappé,"
religion, speech, and half the gulf of historical
said the Gaul. “A ce qu'il parait,” said the
time — which no other literary pleasure can equal.
Then there is to be added, as the university
Scot, and there it ended.' To Stevenson life
preacher observed, “the pleasure of despising our
was a drama, 'and he delighted, like his own
fellow creatures who do not know Greek. Doubt- British admirals, to do things with a certain
less in that there is great consolation.'
air. He was possessed with the inextinguish- .
The regret is often expressed that the Bible able childish passion for making believe, and
has been from our earliest years so often read it remained with him to the end. 'I have a
to us and by us, so regularly dinned into our theory,' says Mr. Lang, “that all children pos-
ears from the pulpit, and so quoted and para- sess genius, and that it dies out in the general-
ity of mortals, abiding only with people whose
• ADVENTURES AMONG BOOKS. By Andrew Lang. With
portrait.
Longmans, Green, & Co.
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Stevenson illustrates, and perhaps partly sug-
'It is curious to mark Hawthorne's attempts to
gested, this private philosophy of mine.' But
break away from himself — from the man that
the theory is by no means so private a posses-
heredity, and circumstance, and the divine gift of
genius had made him. He naturally “haunts the
sion as the author seems to think.
mouldering lodges of the past''; but when he
Of American writers, Holmes and Hawthorne came to England (where such lodges are abundant),
are deemed worthy of a chapter apiece. With
he was ill-pleased and cross-grained. He knew that
somewhat superfluous particularity Mr. Lang
a long past, with mysteries, dark places, malisons,
curses, historic wrongs, was the proper atmosphere
explains why he cannot reckon Dr. Holmes
of his art. But a kind of conscientious desire to
among the very great authors. No one pre- be something other than himself - something more
sumes so to estimate him, and the Scotch critic
ordinary and popular made him thank Heaven
that his chosen atmosphere was rare in his native
does him ample honor in classing him with Dr.
land. He grumbled at it, when he was in the
Thomas Browne, Dr. John Brown, and Dr. S. midst of it; he grumbled in England; and how he
Weir Mitchell, as representing 'the physician grumbled in Rome! He permitted the American
in humane letters. In this essay the writer in-
Eagle to make her nest in his bosom, “with the
cidentally refers to the witch-burning, periwig- this unhappy fowl," as he says in his essay, “The
customary infirmity of temper that characterises
hating, doctrinal Judge Sewall. The epithet Custom House." ;
'witch-burning' might be suffered to pass as a
conventional and convenient fashion of speak- is worth quoting.
A trenchant criticism on 'The Scarlet Letter"
ing; but in the later chapter on Hawthorne Mr.
Lang's evil genius has made him write of those
"The persons in an allegory may be real enough,
as Bunyan has proved by examples. But that cul-
judges who burned witches and persecuted
pable clergyman, Mr. Arthur Dimmesdale, with his
Quakers.' It must be that our learned author, large, white brow, his melancholy eyes, his hand
on mature reflection, will remember that witch- on his heart, and his general resemblance to the
burning was never a New England pastime, or
High Church' Curate in Thackeray's “Our Street,"
is he real? To me he seems very unworthy to be
crime. The utmost limit to which the Salem
Hester's lover, for she is a beautiful woman of
frenzy went was the hanging of certain persons flesh and blood. Mr. Dimmesdale was not only
for alleged undue familiarity with the powers
immoral; he was unsportsmanlike. He had no more
of darkness. Nineteen unfortunates thus met
pluck than a church-mouse. His miserable passion
was degraded by its brevity; how could he see this
their fate on Gallows Hill, and a twentieth, old
woman's disgrace for seven long years, and never
Giles Corey, was pressed to death for refusing to pluck up heart either to share her shame or pec-
plead. Toward the end of this interesting paper care fortiter? He is a lay figure, very cleverly but
on Holmes, the author appears to be guilty of
somewhat conventionally made and painted. The
vengeful husband of Hester, Roger Chillingworth,
something akin to the putting on of erudite is a Mr. Casaubon stung into jealous anger.
airs with no sufficient cause. He says of the The person of Roger Chillingworth and his conduct
Doctor, 'How far he maintained his scholar- a little too melodramatic for Hawthorne's
ship, I am not certain; but it is odd that, in genius.'
his preface to “The Guardian Angel,” he
A considerable number of excellent plots for
should quote from “ Jonathan Edwards the novels and tales are unthriftily given to the
younger” a story for which he might have cited public in this book--because of the plot-maker's
—
Aristotle.' Has not that a very impressive ap- constitutional inability (so he thinks) to write
pearance of superior learning, of an enviable fiction. “Unluckily, he sadly confesses, 'my
''
familiarity with the writings of the Stagirite ? brain is not capable of this æsthetic malady, and
But turn to the preface in question, and there to save my life, or to “milk a fine warm cow
you will find a footnote duly explaining that rain,” as the Zulus say, I could not write a
the original version of this often-repeated novel, or even a short story. And again, 'As
'
story (which the author has just told] may be Mr. Stevenson says, a man must view “his very
found in Aristotle's Ethics, Book 7th, Chapter trifling enterprise with a gravity that would be-
7th. However, it is not beyond the limits of fit the cares of empire, and think the smallest
possibility that this note was lacking in the copy improvement worth accomplishing at any ex-
of the book read by Mr. Lang, or that it was pense of time and industry. The book, the
overlooked by him, or that he recorded its sub-statue, the sonata, must be gone upon with
stance and afterward, in a moment of forgetful- the unreasoning good faith and the unflagging
ness, credited the item to his own critical acu- spirit of children at their play.” This is true;
men, or finally that he read and remembered that is the worst of it. The man, the writer,
the note and yet wrote with no intention to over whom the irresistible desire to mock at
deceive." He is at liberty to retort, if he wishes, himself, his work, his puppets and their for-
with an honi soit qui mal y pense.'
tune, has power, will never be a novelist. The
Mr. Lang's relish for Hawthorne is notewor- novelist must “make believe very much ”; he
thy and commendable; but he perhaps does him must be in earnest with his characters. But how
a little injustice in the following passage: to be in earnest, how to keep the note of dis-
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THE TROUBLED TALE OF ERIN.*
Ah, there is the difficulty, but it is a difficulty
of which many authors appear to be insensible. The persistence of Irish nationality is one of
Perhaps they suffer from no such temptations. the marvels of history. Wave after wave of
One author, however, who could mock at his invasion has rolled over the island from legend-
puppets and yet write successful novels, will ary times to recent centuries, yet after each in-
probably occur to the reader. The very charm vasion the country and people were still pre-
of 'Vanity Fair' is partly due to Thackeray's dominantly Irish. Internal warfare decimated
refusal to take himself too seriously.
its population in the middle ages; thousands
Last and among the best of Mr. Lang's essays perished later in the vain effort to dislodge the
is one on ‘The Boy. For awful examples of English conqueror; half a million Irish exiles
priggish precocity we are referred to the boy- fell on Continental battle-fields in the eight-
hood of John Stuart Mill, and to that of Bishop eenth century; hundreds of thousands died
Thirlwall, who 'at four read Greek with an yearly in the terrible period of famine in the
ease and fluency which astonished all who heard early part of Queen Victoria's reign; several
him, at seven wrote an essay “On the Uncer- millions found homes in our own country; and
tainty of Human Life,' and at eleven published yet, after all these ages of national discourage-
a volume of ‘Primitiæ' which went through ment, Ireland is still Irish and the Celtic spirit
three editions in two years. His infant ser- seems as vigorous and defiant as ever.
mons, thirty-nine in number—the same as the It is only natural that in a country like ours,
Articles occupy most of this small volume. where the Hibernian element is so numerous,
Listen to the little preacher of ten as he piously there should be a demand for some reliable
deplores the latter-day desecration of the Sab- popular account of the Irish past. Two new
bath. 'I confess,' he sighs, when I look upon histories have recently been offered to the pub-
the present and past state of our public morals, lic, both of which aim to supply such a narra-
and when I contrast our present luxury, dissi- tive. Mr. Charles Johnston and Miss Carita
pation, and depravity, with past frugality and Spencer have written 'Ireland's Story' in a
virtue, I feel not merely a sensation of regret
, volume of four hundred pages. Mr. John F.
but also of terror for the result of the change. Finerty has given us a 'People's History of
One marvels that such a child survived his in- Ireland,' in two volumes of nearly five hun-
fancy. Other chapters of ' Adventures,' which dred pages each. Both histories are properly
can here be little more than named, have to do bound in green.
with “Rab's Friends,' 'Mr. Morris's Poems'- At first sight the volume entitled 'Ireland's
especially the earlier ones, which Mr. Lang. Story' gives the impression of having been
thinks the best,—Mrs. Radcliffe's Novels," *Ă written for text-book purposes; and no doubt
Scottish Romanticist of 1830'-to wit, Thomas it will be extensively used in schools having an
T. Stoddart, angler and poet,—The Confes- Irish Catholic patronage. It is well provided
sions of Saint Augustine'-wherein a curious with portraits and illustrations, nearly all of
parallel is drawn between Augustine and Catul; wh
which have historic value; it has maps, mar-
lus,-Smollett,' "The Paradise of Poets,' ginal notes, summaries, and an excellent index,
'
Paris and Helen,' 'Enchanted Cigarettes'- —in fact, practically all the pedagogical helps
literary projects that one dreams over but never that one expects to find in the more recent text-
executes,
-The Supernatural in Fiction,' and books. But the book will also interest the gen-
'An Old Scottish Psychical Researcher,' discov- eral reader. Written in a quiet, almost gentle
ered in the person of George Sinclair, profes- style, the narrative moves calmly forward and
sor of philosophy at Glasgow in the latter half is easily followed. The authors make no effort
of the seventeenth century.
to conceal the fact that they have looked at
Those who have a taste for books about books events from a Catholic view-point; still, the
will hunt long before they will find one more treatment is sufficiently fair and charitable to
tickling to the palate than Mr. Lang's Adven- satisfy any reader in whom the virtue of tol-
tures among Books.' These chapters, it is true, erance is properly developed. It seems, how-
are reprints of magazine articles, but mostly of ever, that in their selection of facts to be pre-
a date sufficiently remote to make their reap- sented they have studiously avoided almost
pearance practically equivalent to a fresh ap- everything that would tend to discredit the
pearance. The fine frontispiece portrait in pho- Church. No reference whatever is made to the
togravure is after a painting by Sir William papal bull that authorized Henry II. to seize
Richmond, R.A., which, we are told, 'was done Ireland. Certain writers have, it is true, ar-
about the time when most of the Essays were
By Charles Johnston and Carita
written and that was not yesterday.'
Spencer.
Houghton, Mimin & Co.
PERCY F. BICKNELL.
Dodd, Mead & Co.
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gued that this is a matter of slight importance, The narrative is punctuated at regular inter-
as the pope had no authority to transfer the vals with sharp explosions of the author's anger
Green Isle to Henry or to any other king. It and indignation. In speaking of the corrupt
is well known, however, that the current doc- methods used by the English in dealing with
trine in the twelfth century as regards papal the Anglo-Irish toward the close of Elizabeth's
supremacy was totally different.
reign, he says:
No one can make the history of Ireland a “The bait took as might have been expected
joyous tale. With so much of treachery, mis- for every good cause has its Iscariots — and we
ery, and injustice that must be related, the nar-
soon hear of jealous kinsmen of the patriot chiefs
rative is likely to be a gloomy one. Yet our
coming over to" the queen's interest and doing
their uttermost — the heartless scoundrels - to
authors have succeeded in telling a fairly cheer- divide and distract the strength of their country,
ful story after all. Their purpose is not to engaged in a deadly struggle for her rights and
dwell on what Ireland has endured, but on what
liberty. These despicable wretches are foul blotches
she has accomplished. The legendary age and
on the pages of Ireland's history.'
the early mediæval period — the period of saints
In the same fashion he characterizes Queen
and scholars and missionaries, of Patrick and
Anne, “the unnatural creature she was,' and
Bridget and warlike Columba-are treated tells of George I. whose black career termi-
with a fulness that is almost disproportionate.
nated in 1742,' and how 'a weight of horror
On the other hand, the eighteenth century, a
was lifted from Ireland's heart when the wel-
time when the Irish Catholic was deprived of
come news of his death spread rapidly, far and
almost every opportunity and right but the bare
wide, over the persecuted country. In sim-
permission to exist, is treated with all possible ilar language he expresses his admiration for
brevity. The book closes with four interesting George III., Lord Castlereagh, the Duke of
chapters in which are reviewed the achieve- Wellington, and many others. In fact, if an
ments of the Irish race in America, in England, artist were to draw imaginary portraits of Eng-
and on the Continent, and also what has been land's public men from Henry II. to Edward
accomplished in the Irish home land in the VII., using Mr. Finerty's descriptions and
literary field.
characterizations as his only guides, we should
When the reader turns from this finished have a gallery of monstrous caricatures the
product of the Riverside Press to the more ex-
sight of which would strike John Bull speech-
tensive ' People's History of Ireland,' the im-
less.
pression received is not the most favorable. The But when our author introduces the great
print and the paper are not of the best; the worthies of Irish history, the O'Neills, the
time-honored preface and the index are want- O'Connells, and the O'Briens, with Grattan,
ing; aside from frontispiece portraits of O'Con- Emmet, Moore, and the rest, he uses a wholly
nell and Parnell, there are no illustrations; a different vocabulary. But here, too, we must
solitary map of modern Ireland is all that is be cautious in accepting his estimates, as en-
offered on the geographical side, the map being thusiastic praise is not always evidence of calm
good but inadequate.
judgment. He quotes the orator Walter Burgh
But after reading a few pages one discovers as declaring that 'England has sown her laws
that this is not the dry book it seems to be. as dragons' teeth and they have sprung up
The author has had a varied literary experi- armed men.' Of this tattered metaphor our
ence as editor, lecturer, author, and spell- author says: This magnificent allusion to the
binder, and when writing on the subject of his rise and progress of the Irish volunteer move-
native country Mr. Finerty is utterly incapablement is one of the finest passages in the oratory
of being dull. It will not do to say that his of ancient and modern times.' It is state-
style is everywhere excellent; in places the lan- ments such as this that make the reader sus-
guage gives evidence of loose and hasty writ- picious.
ing; some of the expressions used are sadly It is generally believed that a writer of his-
worn, while others lack in point of delicacy; tory should approach his subject with an open
but the sentences have fire and vigor, and the and unprejudiced mind; that he should take
author employs a great variety of expedients the position of a judge whose duty and desire
to rouse and impress his readers. Melodious are to ascertain the truth in the given case.
lines from Thomas Moore, tender stanzas from Such a historian Mr. Finerty is never likely to
Thomas Davis, frequent anecdotes illustrative become. He, the Irish radical who has urged
of Irish humor and genial wit, occasional cita- Irish independence in season and out of sea-
tions from what is best in Irish oratory, — all son, whose published utterances of thirty years
these and other forms of embellishment are bear the stamp of an unweakening radicalism,
freely used and give a distinctly Celtic coloring who heads a great organization of Irishmen the
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he of all men would seem by nature unfitted to functory and spiritless manner. It seems pos-
write a trustworthy history of his native land. sible that justice could be accorded England
He is not a judge, he is an advocate, a bril- without in any way diminishing the glory of
liant, forceful, relentless advocate; but what Ireland. If Mr. Finerty had studied the his-
the world wants is not a plea but a calm judicial tory of his native land in the light of European
statement of a complicated case.
events, the policies of England would have be-
In the preparation of his history Mr. Fin- come intelligible to him, and the People's His-
erty seems to have used secondary accounts very tory of Ireland' would have been a far more
largely; in the first volume there is, indeed, trustworthy work. LAURENCE M. LARSON.
little evidence that the sources have been used.
The author does not, however, show an absorb-
ing interest in the earlier period; he is at-
tracted by the great political and parliamentary
BALZAC'S LATEST BIOGRAPHER.*
struggle with England that began in the eight-
eenth century and continued down to the close If a reader were to make a mental catalogue
of Parnell's career. Of this struggle he gives of the most romantic and startling fiction that
an extended and readable account, the entire has been written in modern times, it is doubtful
second volume being devoted to the century fol- if he could name a single tale more dramatic,
lowing the commercial emancipation of Ireland more improbable if judged by severe standards,
in 1780. Of the two volumes this is the more than the actual career of Honoré de Balzac.
valuable. It tells what Ireland suffered The life of this man was a summary of the
throughout the nineteenth century, what her many strange personalities and incidents that
people strove for, and what they accomplished; are found in his partially recorded Comédie
and as Mr. Finerty has for years been in close Humaine.' He seemed to justify his own state-
touch with all the various movements in Ire- ment that genius is never quite sane, for few
land, a measure of authority is added to his would question either Balzac's possession of
statements which the reader is compelled to genius or his lack of poise. With an exaggera-
respect. It is to be regretted that this thor- tion that has much of truth at its root, he
ough presentation has not been continued analyzed his own character for the Duchesse
down to date. The last thirty-five years of d'Abrantès.
Irish history—the period of the Land League 'I possess, shut up in my five foot eight inches,
and the Home Rule movement—are summed up all the incoherences, all the contrasts possible; and
in a single chapter of seventeen pages.
those who think me vain, extravagant, obstinate,
high-minded, without connection in my ideas, - a
Bound up closely with the history of Ire-
fop, negligent, idle, without application, without
land is that of England; and on the English reflection, without any constancy; a chatterbox,
side of his work Mr. Finerty has failed to be
without tact, badly brought up, impolite, whimsical,
accurate and just. We are told, for instance,
unequal in temper, --- are quite as right as those
who perhaps say that I am economical, modest,
that Thomas Cromwell was a churchman, and
courageous, stingy, energetic, a worker, constant,
that Praise-God Barebone presided over the silent, full of delicacy, polite, always gay. Does
parliament that bears his name. Trifling this kaleidoscope exist, because in the soul of
though such errors are, they show that the au-
those who claim to paint all the affections of the
thor has not read his English history so care-
human heart, chance throws all these affections
themselves, so that they may be able, by the force
fully as he should have done. Attention has of their imagination, to feel what they paint P”
already been called to his estimates of Eng-
In Miss Mary F. Sandars's newly-published
land's great statesmen; in much the same way
life of the prince of realists are recorded many
does he treat the nation at large. It must be
phases, intimate and varied, of this complex
conceded that England's record in Ireland is
character. Though the author has had access to
not altogether lovely, and it is not surprising
some unpublished bits of personalia, especially
that strong terms are used in discussing it.
such as have come into the possession of M. de
And yet England is not wholly to blame for
Spoelberch de Lovenjoul, and though she has
what Ireland has suffered. If there had been
used freely and with good taste the later letters
any national spirit, any broad patriotism, in the to Mme. Hanska, the volume fails in many re-
Celtic people in the middle ages, the Conqueror spects to equal the excellent Memoir by Miss
might have been repulsed. If the Irishman of
Wormeley. The reader, challenged by the
modern times had not listened too eagerly to
words in Miss Sandars's preface that Miss
every disturber of the world's peace, his lot
Wormeley's book was written at a time when
would have been more endurable. It is true
that Mr. Finerty does find an occasional oppor-
little was known about the great novelist,' and
tunity to say a good word for some English-
men, but it is too frequently done in a per-
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reviewing this exhaustive Memoir which intro- | by these two novels, but later accepted the de-
duced many of us to the true Balzac, finds much cree of his critical friends, — an estimate which
to admire anew in the earlier biographer's wise the later decades have verified.
and scholarly treatment, her careful quotations Just as Balzac had gained this lofty rank as
from many original sources, and her skilfully author, just as he seemed about to free himself
condensed sentences of analysis. At the same from the hounds of poverty and debt which had
time, this new contribution to Balzac study is haunted his life thus far, he committed two
interesting and valuable. Its form is attractive, errors of judgment which proved disastrous
its illustrations are good, and its sympathetic both to fame and fortune. We are reminded
tone is alluring and generally well-balanced. of Fenimore Cooper and his quarrels with the
There are exhaustive details of the novelist's un- press, as the biographer cites Balzac's contro-
successful monetary ventures. The last portion versies with both printers and editors. The
of the work is excellent in its interest and se- second folly was the visionary extravagance of
quence. The acknowledged gaps and mysterious Les Jardies, the residence erected with lofty
lapses in the narrative, impossible for any biog- | ideas and unsupported walls. At this crisis he
rapher to fill during the periods of Balzac's turned yet again to the plan cherished for many
obscure retirements, show how much he needed years, to write a great drama which should
a Boswell to record his vagaries.
retrieve his fortunes and establish his fame.
To the sister of Balzac, Laure Surville, who Of late, critics have found no little merit in
deserves a high place in that list of sisters some of Balzac's dramas, especially Vautrin'
whose influences have been vital on so many and ‘Pamela Giraud.' The amusing tale of his
authors, we are deeply indebted for reminis- efforts to waken the unfit collaborator, Lassailly,
cences and anecdotes of family traits, and for out of a sound sleep to give him tragic situa-
many a secret episode in the boyhood and ma- tions, until the youth was almost driven mad,
turity of the novelist. Miss Sandars has well justifies Miss Sandars's comment on the wide
emphasized the sane affection and guidance of gulf which separates Balzac the writer, with
this sister. Throughout the brother's life her psychological powers which almost amounted to
devotion was often his salvation from financial second sight, and Balzac in ordinary life, many
and mental disaster. His nervous mother found of whose misfortunes had their origin in an
this son, so truly inheritor of many of her own apparent want of knowledge of human nature,
faults of temper, a constant source of irritation. which caused him to make deplorable mistakes
With new realization of their importance, we in choosing his associates.'
read here of the influences exerted on Balzac's Much space is given to the lesser-known years
life and writings by many women-friends of of Balzac's life, the pathetic ending when he
varying types. At the homes of Mme. de Berny, waited patiently but desperately for Mme.
Mme. Carraud, and the famous Delphine Girar- Hanska's consent to marriage, his health fast
din, he gained not alone social pleasure but also failing and his will concentrated on the later
literary stimulus and material, especially for works of marvellous power, ‘Les Paysans,' 'La
his settings of higher social life. His flirtation Cousine Bette,' and 'Le Cousin Pons.' It was
with the coy Mme. de Castries developed his the natural revenge of abused nature that ended
emotional faculty into unwonted vigor, and gave this turbulent life at its prime. The records of
theme for fictional plot and character-drawing those thirty years of industry, productive of
in ‘La Duchesse de Langeais,' 'Le Médecin de more than four-score novels with numberless
Campagne,' and other novels.
The woman,
other writings, furnish their own comment.
Mme. Hanska, who was to bear his name after Though Miss Sandars's book is confessedly a
years of courtship and passionate longing on his study of personality, with meagre attempt at
part, by her cold heart in her later relations with literary or critical estimate, in the final pages
her lover arouses our indignation; but she was she considers, with discrimination, Balzac's rank
his good angel when in 1832 she wrote him as realist, compared especially with Flaubert and
urging with feeling that he should recall him- Zola. There is resemblance to Shakespeare in
self from the pruriency and extravagance of his his recognized power to create strong types that
latest work and keep steadily in mind the pur- are also individuals. He had the gift of see-
ity as well as the strength of his best writings. ing vividly—as under a dazzling light-to the
The years immediately following this new in- very kernel of the object stripped of supernu-
fluence are associated in memory with two of merary circumstance, yet he was kin of the
Balzac's most perfect and popular novels, ' Eu- Romanticists' in his feeling for the beauty of
génie Grandet' and 'Le Père Goriot.' At first atmospheric effects.'
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SCIENCE AND PERSONALITY.*
true historian sees rather the play of will upon
Both by resemblance and by contrast, Profes- will, each compelling acknowledgment, demand-
sor Münsterberg's essay reminds us of the dia- ing agreement or disagreement, obedience or
logue in the church in Morris's “ Dream of combat. The resulting phenomena are arranged
John Ball. It is the record of a supposed con- by science in a time-series, but the wills them-
versation between two friends, who have just selves are the expression of judgments which
returned from burying the body of a third. A are independent of time. If you insist on
conversation, I call it, but one of them does all metaphors, I should liken our will to a circle;
the talking, while the other offers silent but a circle has no beginning and it has no end; it
clearly expressed comment. It is written in a is endless, infinite.' What, then, is the value of
charming manner, and is really a description of such a will-life? Its value consists in itself and
the author's philosophy.
the ends it recognizes, which are absolute, not
The argument is this: Science is a method relative. Thus, ' truth
does not allow any
of interpreting experiences so that they stand further question as to whether or not it is
in a definite relation toward one another, the useful for something else, but it is itself the
conceptions of time and space, cause and effect, end of all questioning. Only that which is such
being necessary to bring order out of what would an ultimate end for us is really a value. Our
otherwise be chaos. The scientist connects the goal is not endless duration, but complete re-
things of this chaotic world in an orderly sys- pose in the perfect satisfaction which the will
tem of causes and effects which follow one an- finds when it has reached the significance, the in-
other; and, as he can do his work only if he fluence, and the value at which it is aiming.'
takes for granted that the end can be reached, However, each one of us is more than merely an
he considers the world of objects as a system individual, and the ultiniate realization of our
in which everything must be understood as the aims can be found only in the totality of wills,
effect of causes.' In reality, science can say the over-individual consciousness, the over-
nothing about ourselves, who make the sciences; soul.' 'If we were to substitute for that empty
but it is possible, and for some purposes neces- thought of a continuation of time the deeper
sary, to regard ourselves in a purely objective thought of an endless personal influence of will
,
manner, and then, 'all the ideas and imagina- endless not in time but endless in personal rela-
tions, feelings and emotions, go on in the brain tions, it would seem as if we had really ex-
just as it rains and snows in the outer world, pressed an ultimate goal.'
pressed an ultimate goal.' Yet to realize the
and our own will is a necessary product of its totality of this process would be to destroy the
foregoing causes. Such consistency is admirable very thing which makes our individual person-
in its realm, but it must not make us forget that ality, and the impossibility of complete achieve-
its realm is determined by our own decision, ment gives meaning to our striving. This con-
yes, that it is our own free will which decides trast between what is aimed at in our attitude
for a certain purpose to conceive ourselves as and what is reached in our influence is indeed
bound, our will as a causal process. Time and full of pathos, yet inexhaustible in its eternal
space relate not to personality, but merely ex- value.'
press attitudes of personality towards its objects. So much by way of description. For myself,
The real personality no more occupies time than the Münsterbergian philosophy seems to con-
space; 'my real life as a system of interrelated tain much that is of value, and yet in its totality
will-attitudes has nothing before or after, be- to be strangely meaningless. It is quite possible
cause it is beyond time.' Regarding existence as to regard time and space as merely modes of
a mere series of phenomena in time, it could not extension, independent of duration. . At any
have any value for anyone. Time is a system moment of time, things are varied only in
in which the reality of one moment excludes space; at any point in space, things are varied
the reality of all others; only the present exists, only in time. Thus the universe may be per-
the past is irrevocably gone, the future is not manent in all its features, and our personalities
yet. Personality is not thus self-devouring, and the only things capable of change, and that by
extension in time would have no more value the succession of experiences due to motion
than extension in space: “a mere expansion, through phenomena. If this motion were on a
'
a more and more of phenomena in space and certain plane always in one direction, or along
time, is a valueless amassing of indifferent and the arc of a circle, the effect would be that of
purposeless material History may be con- time, with its succession of events said to be
ceived as the description of a great causal related as cause to effect. Are not things in
mechanism, in which everything follows of space always similarly related? The physicist
recognizes that every atom is influenced by every
By Hugo Münsterberg.
ton: Houghton, Miffin & Co.
other, and is in fact held in its place by the
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ECHOES FROM THE EASTERN STRUGGLE.*
exactly as binding as between successive events.
At each moment, things have to be what they Two grievances gleam wearily through the
are; and in ultimate analysis we find ourselves pages of the volume entitled 'Following the
simply saying, 'What is, is.'
Sun-Flag,' by Mr. John Fox, Jr. These are
According to such a view, our personality that the author was not permitted to see any,
might be thought of as independent of time and thing of the actual fighting in the earlier land
space in the sense that it moved irrespective of battles of the Russo-Japanese war, leaving Liao-
them; and yet finding its being in the reality Yang just as the heavy fighting was beginning;
of experiences understandable only as based on and that the Mikado's officers did not tell him
projected phenomena. One could postulate a the truth, according to any occidental notions of
latent personality, like latent energy, losing all what it is that constitutes verity. Deprived of
power of motion through phenomena, aud con-
opportunity for accomplishing the purposes
sequently of receiving successive experiences; which took him to the East, denied all chance of
but such latency would be pure dormancy, and informing the world of the actual struggle which
if permanent extinction. The complete attain- he went to see, he has been compelled to con-
ment of the desired experiences would naturally tent himself with describing, in his own vivid
result in such a cessation of motion, were it per- and picturesque manner, the details of his five
manent, since any departure from the point months' tedious waiting in Tokio and as many
gained would be detrimental. Thus the Bud-
weeks with his fellow-correspondents from
dhist idea of Nirvana would be the logical out- America, England, France, and Italy, on the
come of such a theory, as also the idea of the trail of the Japanese armies in Manchuria. He
necessity for continued search while attainment has made the work interesting by the sketchy,
remained incomplete. The very conception of breezy manner in which it is written, although
God's life in Christ depends upon the thought it is imbued with that fine race prejudice against
that experience is only purchased at the expense men of darker skin which is the heritage of the
of imperfection of attainment, though not neces- Anglo-Saxon in general and of the Southern-
sarily imperfection of aim. Here is the neces- born American in particular. Of the spirit of
sary pathos which Professor Münsterberg de- the Japanese people in their heroic struggle,
scribes in his closing words.
Mr. Fox has much to say.
The fault I find with Professor Münsterberg's
The women let their hair go undressed once a
philosophy is really this: that it pretends to get month, that they may contribute the price of the
rid of time and space in considering personal- dressing - five sen. A gentleman discovered that
ity, and yet does not do so, and cannot, in the
every servant in his household, from butler down,
nature of things. Our mental make-up is 2
was contributing a certain amount of his wages
each month, and in consequence offered to raise
totality which cannot be divided in the way wages just the amount each servant was giving
proposed, and while we must necessarily recog- away. The answer was, “Sir, we cannot allow that;
nize the truth of much that he urges, we seem,
it is an honor for us to give, and it would be you
who would be doing our duty for us to Japan."
in the attempt to grasp his complete meaning, ‘A Japanese lady apologized profusely for being
to be lost in a mere maze of words. Who can late to dinner. She had been to the station to see
speak of 'the eternal life,' and get away from her son off for the front, where there were already
the thought of time? Who can think of 'an
three of her sons. Said another straightway, “How
endless personal influence of will,' and get away
fortunate to be able to give four sons to Japan!”
'Hundreds and thousands of families are deny-
from time and space? There may be truths ing themselves one meal a day that they may give
which we cannot grasp, but the psychologist more to their country. And one rich merchant,
should be the last to suggest the practicability
who has already given 100,000 yen, has himself cut
of building a philosophy independent of the one
off one meal, and declares that he will if necessary
live on one the rest of his life for the sake of
element which gives phenomena their reality Japan.'
T. D. A. COCKERELL.
Describing a pretty little girl in one of the
The Library of Congress has published, in
houses where he lodged, Mr. Fox says:
a sumptuous form altogether unlike the generality Among the thousands of applications, many of
of the productions of that institution, a Catalog them written in blood, which the war office has
of the Gardiner Greene Hubbard Collection of received from men who are anxious to go to the
Engravings' compiled by Mr. Arthur Jeffrey Par- front, is one from just such a girl. In her letter
This collection, which was presented to the
she said that she was the last of an old Samurai
Library of Congress by Mrs. Hubbard, contains
A Vain Pursuit through
2,707 prints, representing many schools, the French,
By John Fox, Jr. New York: Charles Scrib-
German, English, Dutch, and Italian examples mak-
ing up about nine-tenths of the whole. Besides the
By Richard
catalogue proper, the volume contains a sketch of Barry. Illustrated. New York: Moffat, Yard & Co.
the donor, a series of ten plates, and elaborate THE YELLOW WAP. By '0.' Illustrated.
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family. Her father was killed in the war with joints and in that mighty jowl shaded by the gray.
China; her only brother died during the Boxer brown beard.'
troubles. She begged to be allowed to take her
place in the ranks which had always belonged to
The following passage tells of a successful
her family. She could shoot, she said, and ride; attack upon one of the forts, and is a sample
and it would be a lasting disgrace if her family of pages of similar writing.
name should be missing from the rolls, where it
'At half-past four in the afternoon, Tereda orders
has had an honored place for centuries, now that
her country and her Emperor are in such sore need.'
the final charge. Three cheers go up — Banzai!
Banzai! Banzai! With bayonets fixed, the squads
Mr. Richard Barry was more fortunate than deploying as before, the khaki-covered spots begin
Mr. Fox. Representing a number of periodicals
to move. In advance the men crawl hand over
in England and America, from the pages of
hand, helped by blessed waraji (straw sandals).
Twenty feet from the parapet they pause and fling
which the materials for his book on Port something that leaps through the air like balls from
Arthur have been taken, Mr. Barry saw all the catcher to second base. These hand-grenades of gun-
later fighting before Port Arthur, and was a wit- cotton explode on and in the parapet. The brilliant
ness to its surrender. The heroism of both Rus-
bursts play off the fast setting evening, as the
khaki-covered ones go in, Tereda pausing and peer-
sians and Japanese is freely attested, although ing with his glass. The entire battalion tumbles
it is in the latter that he finds the larger share, over the parapet. Then the reserves begin climbing
since he was their guest and within their lines.
from the base.
"Silence. All is over.
This book is that of an eye-witness profoundly Five, ten minutes pass, then the firing recommences,
What has happened?
and sympathetically impressed, still young but now the object is changed; all the Japanese
enough to have every impression deep and clear, shrapnel is playing over the road leading to the
and old enough to set it down justly and vividly: Chair fort, and all the Russian fire is directed
He, like Mr. Fox, has the skill of seizing upon
against Namicoyama. The Russians are retreating,
throwing away their rifles as they run. Over Nami.
illustrative episodes, of which we take a few
coyama floats the white flag with the red sun in
examples.
the centre.'
The Russians made a sortie into the plain, parad- Mr. Barry went forward to the limit of the
ing for several hundred yards in front of the Two
Dragons. That was before the lines were as closely
trenches, within a few score yards of the enemy's
drawn as they are now, and the Japanese looked outworks, where he saw grewsome sights. It is
with amusement on the show-off. At the head small wonder, with the breastworks constructed
marched two bands, brassing a brilliant march. in no small part of their own slain, the interval
Then came the colors flashing in the sun. The
officers were dashingly decorated, and the troops
between thronged with corpses, that Mr. Fred-
wore colored caps. It was a rare treat for the
eric Villiers, present in seventeen campaigns,
Japanese, for they had never seen anything like should have expressed himself thus, as reported
that in their own army. Like a boy bewildered at by Mr. Barry:
the gay plumage of a bird he might not otherwise
Scientific warfare! Let me tell you the facts
catch, the simple and curious Japanese let the foe
vaingloriously march back into the town.'
about science. Archibald Forbes predicted twenty
years ago that the time would come when armies
Of the commander of the Mikado's forces dur- would no longer be able to take their wounded from
ing the siege, much is said by Mr. Barry.
the field of battle. That day has come. We are
living in it. Wounded have existed — how, God
"We expected to meet a man of iron,- for Nogi
alone knows! - on that field out there, without
is the general whose eldest son, a lieutenant in the
Second Army, was killed at Nanshan; who has
help, for twelve days, while shell and bullets rained
above them, and if a comrade had dared to como
under his command a second son, a lieutenant; and
to their assistance his would have been a useless
who wrote home after the first disaster, “Hold the
funeral rites until Hoten and I return, when you
suicide. The searchlight, the enginery of scientific
trenches, machine guns, rifles point-blank at 200
can bury three at once.
yards with a range of 2,000 — these things havé
"The General received us in his garden. He was
helped to make warfare more terrible now than ever
at a small table, under a willow, working with a before in history.'
magnifying glass over a map. He wore an undress
blue uniform with the three stars and three stripes
The book entitled The Yellow War' for
of a full general on the sleeve, no other decora- which the initial 'O' is responsible as author,
tion, though once before I had seen him wearing is of another sort, though dealing with similar
the first-class order of the Rising Sun. His parch-
ment-krinkled face, brown like chocolate with a
material. It is, as the brief 'Foreword' avers,
summer's torrid suns, beamed kindly on us. His
the work of one intimate with the war for a
smile and manner were fatherly. It was impossible year, and an eye-witness of most that is
to think that any complicated problem troubled his described. It is concerned with fighting on sea
mind. A resemblance in facial contour to General
Sherman arrested us,
with beard gray,
as well as on land, and is more discriminating
shaded back to brown where it met the skin, so
in its choice of incidents and of language than
that he seemed a monotone in sepia, with eyes either of the foregoing books. There is much
small and wide apart, perfect teeth, tiny, regular idealization rather than a precise report, and
nose, and a beautiful dome of a head flaring out
from the temples in tender and eloquent curves.
the result is an impression even more veritable
He stands five feet ten, unusually tall for a Japan-
than the others have been able to convey, not-
ese, showing the loose power of a master in his withstanding a certain sense of the fiction that
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me.
is truer than mere fact. An example of the superintending the shipping of the after steering-
quality of this book may be found in the fol-
gear, and reported the paralyzing intelligence. For
lowing graphic passage, which purports to give
a moment the commander looked at him blankly.
He was bleeding from a skin wound in the neck,
the details of the fighting on the Russian flag- and such of his uniform not stained yellow was
ship of the Pacific squadron in its last naval scarlet with blood.
engagement, but which can be held as equally
"“Good!” he ejaculated; "she is steering again.
descriptive of the more recent fighting in the
Full steam ahead! Make a fleet signal. Make the
Corean Straits.
signal, The Admiral transfers the command.”
‘The great ship quivered - then quivered again. books, setting forth the rigors of war with a
The sympathies of the writers of these three
For a moment the flag-lieutenant thought that a
torpedo had struck her. His nervous system remem- Verestchagin-like fidelity, adequately represent
bered that first torpedo under Golden Hill. It was the feelings of the English-speaking world,
only the twelve-inch guns. But they made the con-
ning-tower rock. The Japanese had maneuvred,
English and Americans being quoted with
and were now standing in on the starboard beam: impartiality. All rejoice at Russia's downfall,
: |
The Russian Admiral changed his course. Great as a menace to the more peaceful nations of the
projectiles were ricochetting overhead, and raising earth well removed. But what of the religions
geysers of salt spray all round them. But for the
of Christ and Buddha, apostles both of peace
present the flagship could answer shot for shot, and
one of the hostile battleships — the shikishima it
and life? Little of their spirit and influence is
looked like — had drawn out of the fighting line.
to be found in the hideous scenes and incidents
"The Admiral clenched the handrail. His face set forth in works like these.
was still pale, but the fighting light was in his eyes.
WALLACE RICE.
For a moment his gaze turned from the Mikasa,
with her black hull flashing yellow up and down its
lean length. The mist was up again in the south-
west, and the sea was rapidly getting up.
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
"Make the fleet signal, ‘Close up — follow
Then he turned to the officer at the navigating tube:
The story
Professor Edwin E. Sparks's latest
“For the promontory!”
of American work, ‘The United States of Amer-
nationality.
‘At the same moment there was a deafening
ica,' constitutes a valuable addition
report, and the vessel swung so that every one in
to the 'Story of the Nations' series (Putnam).
the conning-tower was thrown against the walls. It is a pleasant variation from our usual expe-
""What was that —mined"
rience to find a work which out of some eight
"The dread of mine and torpedo was by this time hundred pages devotes but twenty-two pages to
firmly ingrained in every Russian sailor, and as the events of the years 1861-1865, and in these
the flag-lieutenant sprang down the ladder the hor- refers to but one battle. The space thus gained
rible nightmare of the Petropavlovsk leaped up
before his mental vision. It was nothing. A deck
by eliminating drum and trumpet history,' Pro-
officer, who seemed as unconcerned as if he were at
fessor Sparks employs to good advantage in
manæuvres, came hurrying forward. He reported
explaining the political and social growth of the
that a large shell had hit the after 12-inch turret,
United States, and the economic changes and
glanced, and in bursting wrecked the top above. currents of public opinion which characterized
"The vessel staggered from two terrific blows the first century of our national existence. The
forward. The flag-lieutenant stumbled ahead, draw. tone of the work is fair, and the author avoids
ing his hands mechanically to his ears, while the unkind epithets and biassed partisan feeling.
torn fragments of iron and splinter soughed past Yet one can hardly call the work a history in
him. Biting, stinging smoke blinded him, while
the truest sense; it is rather a prose epic of
the force of the concussion flattened him against
a ventilator. The first sight he saw was the man-
American nationality. It is frankly centralistic
gled frame of his comrade. The top of the poor
and expansionist. "To apply to America,' says
wretch's head was gone; a half-burned cigarette
the author in conclusion, 'the term "the States,"
was still between the clenched teeth. He threw his as in the custom in foreign lands, is to ignore
glance upwards, — the forward smoke-stack was both past history and present tendency. It is to
rent from top to bottom, and the flame and smoke think of units instead of a whole. Historically
were licking round its base. The 12-inch guns in
and prophetically, the United States as a fed-
the forward battery solemnly fired, and the ear-
eration of States have ceased to exist and the
splitting discharge brought the youth to his senses.
United States as a centralized Republic has
He made for the ladder. Great God! the conning-
tower and forward bridge were but torn, smoking,
taken the place.' To this thesis the whole work
and twisted wreck. A man jumped to the deck.
A spade is called a spade, and no
His face was as black as an Ethiopian's, his uni- vain idealism is permitted to distort our vision.
form and beard torn and discolored to a filthy Thus, speaking of American ideals, Professor
yellow; his left arm severed at the biceps, was dang- Sparks gives us neither the old-fashioned eagle
ling by a sinew.
screaming nor the modern cry of helpless
""All are killed, the Admiral, — all!” the figure negation and obstruction. Instead, his comment
gasped, as it reeled and sank fainting to the deck.
is this:
Then the port gung fired. The flag-lieutenant
'America is not what many hoped it would be. What-
realized that the ship was not steering — she was
ever social equality was construed into the Declaration
veering round. He dashed to the after-bridge, past
of Independence by enthusiasts and reformers has been
the quick-firer crews lying prostrate, amid the
abandoned. It is now applied to equality of political
wreckage and the corpses. He found the commander rights, the only kind which self-government is author-
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ized to promise. Freedom of speech has been curtailed to mously, but was none the less desirous to have
freedom of sensible and unobjectionable speech. A dis-
its authorship known, introducing the subject
interested patriotism as an impulse has lost much of the
confidence formerly placed in it. That men naturally
in season and out of season. Waiting for a
place country above their own interests is a maxim train with Sergeant Ballantine, he asked him if
of former days, which is still proclaimed, but few
he had any idea who wrote the book. 'Well,
believe or demonstrate by their actions. The individual
was once considered apart from the mass. That is no
Warren,' was the reply, there are not many
longer possible. Government was once said to proceed
to whom I would entrust the secret; but it is
from the consent of all the governed. Now we are satis- safe to do so to you. The truth is, I wrote it
fied to say that it proceeds from a majority of the goy-
myself!' Another story, less credible, is also
erned, and are even willing to coerce the minority into
submission. America was once said to be a refuge for
good and short. Horace Smith, at the christen-
the poor of all nations; but self protection has placed ing of a daughter, was asked by the clergyman
many barriers before the doors. American simplicity both for the name to be given to the child. “Rosa-
at home and abroad was once thought to be a special
lind,' answered Smith. ‘Rosalind, Rosalind,'
virtue. At present the ambition is to make as good a
showing as your neighbor in order not to be conspic-
repeated the clergyman in perplexity, 'I never
uous or an object of ridicule. Large wealth was once
heard such a name. How do you spell it?' 'Oh,
considered as indicative of an aristocracy and prophetic as you like it,' was the ready rejoinder. For
of nobility. Now it is acknowledged to be a most desir-
some occult reason, or for no reason, the author
able adjunct to a useful and happy life. Government was
formerly declared to be instituted in America for the gives the name of Fanny Kemble's husband as
direct benefit of the individual. It now seeks this ben- Piers Butler; otherwise his pages seem to be
efit indirectly through fostering the interests which fur-
admirably free from noticeable errors.
nish him with a livelihood. In other words, it is diffi-
cult to create a new order of mankind even by placing
man in a new environment unless the old inheritance is A plea for the Dr. Henry G. Hanchett's book on
sorted out' (vol. II., pp. 373, 374).
appreciation "The Art of the Musician' (Mac-
Of really unique worth are the illustrations, of
of music.
millan) is addressed to all students
which there is barely one without historic value. of music, whether performers or not, and is
Many are reproductions of early political car- 'designed to emphasize the distinction between
toons, which the general reader would rarely the real study of music and the study of the
come across. Excellent press work and careful arts of playing and singing which has so long
revision make the text pleasant reading, and the been mistaken for it.' The author's chief plea
rarity of such obvious slips as `Macon of Geor- is for the understanding of music as an art-
gia' (vol. II., p. 74), only shows the general the understanding of the rhythms, harmonies,
accuracy of the work.
melodies, and motives which composers have
used, and their aims, purposes, and methods in
Last of the
'Books of jokes are proverbially using them. With this object in view, Dr. Han-
'Notes from
dull,' says Sir Mountstuart E.
chett has made a unique and useful book, and
a Diary.' Grant Duff in his Notes from a one which goes far to demonstrate his theory
Diary, 1896-1901' (Dutton). These volumes, the that music can be thoroughly and usefully
thirteenth and fourteenth of a series reaching taught without teaching the art of performance.
back, in date of items selected, to 1851, are He insists that the true æsthetic delight to be
largely devoted to pleasantries, heard or read or derived from the art of the musician is some-
uttered by the writer, and though by no means thing widely different from and far above the
dull reading are a little cloying if taken in
mere sensuous charms of musical sounds, how-
course and at a sitting. They form, we are told ever luscious,' and agrees with St. Paul that he
in a prefatory note, the final instalment of the 'would rather speak five words with his under-
series; but is it not just possible, and indeed standing than ten thousand words in an unknown
rather to be hoped, that the diarist, like many tongue. Thorough and scholarly understanding
another celebrity before him, will change his he himself has, combined with a rare clearness
mind and make one or more further farewell of statement and keenness of analysis. He calls
appearances? The English Who's Who' records rhythm the life of music, harmony its soul,
as our author's recreations, fencing, botanizing, melody and phrasing its beauty, and motives its
travelling, and conversation; and one who con- germ. Not everyone may incline to the changes
verses so well and has a knack of hearing so he suggests in musical phraseology-'meter' for
many good things said, ought to let his light time,' clause' for 'phrase' (except when all
shine. His manner, it is to be inferred, is not the notes under one slur are meant), mozarta'
exactly that of a Johnson, who delighted to lay for 'sonata-form.' But everyone can learn much
mind to mind in an intellectual wrestling match, from the examples of music he gives with mark-
or still better to fold his legs and have his talk ings which point unmistakably to the art used
out in monologue; it is rather the light fencing in their composition,-studies of rhythm from
and graceful repartee of a Chesterfield. He Bach, Chopin, and Schumann, of melodies from
refers with evident satisfaction to a perfect Rheinberger and Schubert, of theme-develop-
debauch of interesting talk' in which he took ment from Beethoven, and so on through a wide-
part on one occasion. It is curious to note his ly varied list. Technically, this latter is the
repeated references to Mrs. Craven and her most valuable part of the volume. In the clos-
‘Récit d'une Sæur.' Here, as in former volumes, ing chapters on Interpretation and Musical
she is evidently on his mind. A good story about Education Dr. Hanchett maintains, with pointed
Samuel Warren is short enough to quote. War- good sense, his thesis that “What we need is
ren published his 'Ten Thousand a Year' anony- education in music; not more professors, but
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more amateurs; not more concerts, but more common usage arrest the eye in Miss Stephens's
intelligent interest in those we have; not more pages, as fool for foolish, pertain .for obtain or
compositions, but more comprehension; not more prevail, and longanimity for the shorter and
vocal culture, but and larger choral equally expressive patience. Her 'summa sum-
societies; not more technic, but more interpreta- marium' it is safe to take for a mere misprint.
tion.' In spite of his faith that one may be a
cultivated musician without being a performer, Sydney Smith, Mr. G. W. E. Russell contributes
Dr. Hanchett gives the final praise to the inter-
reformer to the 'English Men of Letters'
and wit.
preter--the artist who absorbs the composer's
series (Macmillan) a biography of
thought, and gives to compositions their crowning Sydney Smith, which will be opened with much
touch by interpreting their beauties to the eagerness, and laid aside with some disappoint-
world.
ment, by the admirers-still sufficiently numer-
- of the robust, manly, witty parson who
Brisk and breezy, we will not say brightened the literature of the early nineteenth
Bright essays
fresh and frisky, but certainly
by a Westerner.
century. It is not that the book is ill done-
instinct with the indescribable and
quite the contrary; but that Mr. Russell, who
unmistakable buoyancy and vitality of the great
is an expert maker of biographies, has been
West, combined with something of the rich working, as he says, 'in a harvest field where
scholarship more often associated with the older a succession of diligent gleaners had preceded'
East, Miss Kate Stephens's 'American Thumb-
him; and has not added very much to what was
Prints' (Lippincott) deserves more than cursory previously known. It is just fifty years since
notice at the reviewer's hands. The first chapter, Sydney Smith's daughter Saba, Lady Holland,
'Puritans of the West,' presents some striking issued a volume of her father's memoirs, on
peculiarities of the writer's fellow-Kansans. The which she had been engaged for ten years suc-
matter with Kansas appears to be too many ceeding his death in 1845; and to this was soon
'isms. Chapter two, “The University of Hes- added a volume of extracts from his letters, com-
perus', which is, being interpreted, the Univer-
piled by Mrs. Austin. In 1856, Mr. Evert A.
sity of Kansas discusses with the wisdom of
Duyckinck published (through the forgotten
bitter experience some of the evils afflicting a house of J. S. Redfield, New York), a work enti-
state university. The woman professor dismissed tled 'Sydney Smith's Wit and Wisdom,' quar-
from the Greek chair much on the rotation-in-
ried largely from the collected 'Works,' the
office principle, one surmises to have been Miss
Lady Holland "Memoirs,' and the Austin 'Let-
Stephens herself. At any rate, her abundant
ters.' Mr. Duyckinck's book remains the best
allusions to and quotations from Hellenic litera- compilation extant on Sydney Smith; and Mr.
ture go to show her ability to fill such a chair. Russell's smaller work, good though it is, has
The St. Louis and the New England types of only sent us back (on the Emersonian principle)
men and women are treated at some length. with renewed zest to the larger collection. Mr.
The parting hit at the distorted morality and Russell's chief merit, then, consists, not in new
debilitating religion' to which the writer says material discovered, or in any specially clever
Yankee women (and men, too, we infer) have exploitation of the existing material, but in the
been subjected, is, to say the least, a rather shrewd and kindly criticism which he bestows
harsh way of expressing oneself. Like Mr. Paul upon Sydney Smith's energy, goodness, wit, and
Elmer More, Miss Stephens makes Christian occasional foibles. His battles for Catholic eman-
Science a direct descendant of New England cipation, his keen satires on the weaknesses of
transcendentalism. "The idealism of Emerson
Anglicanism, his complete failure to do justice
foreran the dollar-gathering idealism of Mrs. to Dissent, his imperfect sympathies (as Lamb
Mary Baker Eddy as the lark of spring foreruns would have called them) with art and music;
the maple worm. Lack of space forbids argu- and over, in, and through all, the bubbling
ment or protest here. A retrospective and pros- perennial fountain of a wit that was as sponta-
pective treatise on cookery, displaying scholarly neous as Schubert's music-all these are 'tasted'
research, forms the seventh essay; and a decid- for us by Mr. Russell with much intelligent
edly informing and original presentation of
relish. His book will properly hold its place
Franklin as a plagiarist closes the book. A word in the series, and serve as an adequate intro-
in conclusion on Miss Stephens's style. Pos- duction to the study of Sydney Smith.
sessing as she does a command of excellent Eng-
lish, she does not need to write in polyglot. A
Dr. Mahaffy's
Students of Classical history and
lavish sprinkling of foreign words and phrases, lectures on civilization will be interested in a
Hellenism.
undistinguished by italics or quotation marks,
little volume on "The Progress of
may delight the philologist, but it annoys the Hellenism' (University of Chicago Press) by
unlearned reader. The translation, too, is often Professor J. P. Mahaffy of Dublin. The learned
quite as effective, even to a scholar, as the orig- / author has written much on Greek subjects, and
inal. “Unextinguishable laughter' will be rec- in this book he sums up the conclusions that he
ognized by the Homeric student as readily as its has reached after years of study of Greek civi-
Greek equivalent, and will bewilder no one. Too lization as developed at Athens and Antioch and
frequent quotation, in any language, is the trick Alexandria. Six lectures delivered at the Uni-
of one whose learning sits not quite easily on the versity of Chicago in the summer of 1904 make
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Hellenism,' whom he views as a somewhat cos- lations. The fine sonnet of Professor Calvin
mopolitan Greek, one of larger tastes and Thomas may be given by way of illustration.
broader views than those possessed by the aver- He kept the faith. The ardent poet-soul,
age cultured Athenian. Through his extensive
Once thrilled to madness by the fiery gleam.
travels he had come in contact with Oriental ciy-
of Freedom glimpsed afar in youthful dream,
Henceforth was true as needle to the pole.
ilization, of which he had absorbed a great deal, The vision he had caught remained the goal
at the same time losing certain characteristics
Of manhood's aspiration and the theme
and surrendering certain opinions that would be of those high luminous musings that redeem
Our souls from bondage to the general dole
classed as distinctly Greek or Athenian. The
of trivial existence, Calm and free,
development of Athenian culture after it had
He faced the Sphinx, nor ever knew dismay,
been transplanted to Macedon, Syria, and Egypt Nor bowed he to extremities the knee
Nor took a guerdon from the fleeting day,
is the subject of the following three lectures,
But dwelt on earth in that eternity
The author does not find that Hellenism was the
Where Truth and Beauty shine with blended ray.'
formal and sterile thing that it is reputed to
The publication contains, besides this interest-
be: it produced a literature that inspired Virgil
ing autograph material, complete programmes of
and served as a model for the writers of the
the Chicago exercises, the prize poems (in Eng-
Christian gospels; it gave us the Victory of
lish and German) written for the occasion, and
Samothrace and the Venus of Melos; it left us
series of illustrations-portraits,
the Corinthian style of architecture. Of par-
pictorial
scenes, and reproduced title-pages. Taken alto-
ticular interest is the closing lecture in which
gether, it is a creditable production.
the author discusses Hellenic influences
Christianity. A deeper meaning is given to the
A group of
We have received from the Guten-
trite statement that Greek was the language of
recent German berg-Verlag of Dr. Ernst Schultze,
the apostolic missionaries. The author holds publications.
of Hamburg, a group of interest-
‘that the peculiar modernness, the high intellec- ing publications, of which a few notes may be
tual standard of Christianity, as we find it in made. "Das Maifest der Benediktiner und An-
the New Testament, is caused by its contact dere Erzählungen,' by the late Karl Rick, is the
with Greek culture.' The doctrine of the logos third edition of the three stories comprised with-
as presented in the gospel of St. John is, he
in the volume. The stories are pictures from the
believes, "a purely Hellenistic conception derived
life of the Catholic clergy, and are remarkable
ultimately from Plato.' In St. Paul's epistles for their psychological insight as well as for
Professor Mahaffy finds much of the phrase- their intimate acquaintance with the themes pre-
ology of Stoicism, and also some peculiarly sented. Rick (1815-1881) was an Austrian poet
Stoic doctrines, notably the doctrines of the and novelist of distinction, and the present
unity of the human race, the value of the human
volume has an introduction by his son, Herr
soul, the active nature of human virtue, and the Wofgang Rick. "Wunder und Wissenschaft,' by
necessity of complete reform of each individual Dr. Richard Hennig, is a book of popular science,
life, or what may be called conversion. In a dealing with the 'occult phenomena of hypnotic
lecture the author cannot, of course, present suggestion, the sub-liminal consciousness, and
much evidence; but the subject is of too great
telepathy. The treatment is not unscientific,
interest to be disposed of in a few pages, and
although it seems to us to go too far in the
we trust Professor Mahaffy will discuss it more direction of credulity, or of willingness to accept
fully in his promised work on 'Greek Life from
as thinkable certain alleged happenings which to
Polybius to Plutarch.'
most well-balanced minds are flatly impossible.
It must be admitted that Dr. Hennig is not with-
A pleasant souvenir of the remark- out good company in his conclusions. Dr. J.
of Schiller ably successful Schiller celebration Loewenberg's 'Deutsche Dichterabende' is
tributes.
held in Chicago last month takes volume of studies in modern German literature.
the shape of a quarto volume, ‘Zur Würdigung Among the subjects of the essays are Lenau,
Schiller's in Amerika,' published by Messrs.
Frau von Ebner-Eschenbach, Herr Detlev von
Koelling & Klappenbach, Chicago. The princi- Liliencron, Herr Gustav Frenssen, and Herr
pal contents of this volume consist of about Hauptmann. Athin volume reprints the 'Rede
eighty tributes and appreciations, contributed auf Schiller' of Jakob Grimm, an address given
by both Germans and Americans, and here in Berlin in 1859, and very timely in this year of
reproduced in autograph facsimile. 'The Presi- Schiller celebrations. An Auswahl aus den
dent of the United States and the King of Kleinen Schriften von Jakob Grimm,' with an
Würtemberg lead off in this symposium, and are introduction by Dr. Schultze, gives us Grimm's
followed by such notabilities as Presidents Gil- 'Selbstbiographie,' his Schiller address, his
man, Hadley, and Wheeler, Professors Carruth, address upon the death of his brother, and his
Cutting, Goebel, Hatfield, von Klenze, Learned, paper upon his dismissal from Göttingen in 1837.
Matthews, Münsterberg, and Thomas, and Messrs. This latter is a document of great importance in
Paul Carus, Heinrich Conried, W. T. Harris, the history of the German struggle for intellec-
T. W. Higginson, Henry Holt, W. S. Schley, and tual freedom. Several brief philological papers
Carl Schurz. The contributions of these gentle- are also included. Finally, this group of publi.
men and others are varied, including poems, per- cations reprints in a handsome volume the trans-
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hard's 'Walthari-lied,' of 'Der Arme Heinrich,' revision, so that the more youthful essays con-
and of the songs from the Elder Edda.
tain no expressions which the author does not
still hold. He points out that art in the past
From ancestors whose work in the
has been traditional, national, and homogeneous;
field and shop would have made
and strength.
art in our day has been individual, international,
anything in the nature of addi-
and chaotic. Modern means of communication
tional exercise' appear preposterous, the mod-
and modern methods of reproduction have
ern American has come to be a person who sits
brought the ends of the earth together, and
at a desk throughout the hours of sun and seeks
placed the art of all times and countries at the
to make up the resulting inevitable physical
disposal of every artist. While in no sense a
deficiencies by spasmodic movements of one sort systematic history of art, Mr. Cox has so har-
and another in the privacy of his apartment. As monized his colors, and weaved them into a sym-
a result he is accumulating at a rapid rate a
metrical whole, that his work will appeal not
library on the art of keeping well by devoting a
only to the artist and scholar, but to the ordi-
few minutes to real muscular labor while spend-
nary lay reader of intelligence,
ing many hours in doing his best to fall ill.
Two contributions of this sort appear nearly
Chapters for
Polite learning of a delightful sort
simultaneously: Mr. George Elliot Flint's 'Power
pervades the pages of the anony-
and Health through Progressive Exercise' (Ba- fisherman.
volume entitled 'Super
ker & Taylor Co.), and Mr. H. Irving Hancock's
Flumina: Angling Observations of a Coarse
"The Physical Culture Life: A Guide for All
Fisherman' (John Lane)-the word 'coarse' in
Who Seek the Simple Laws of Abounding
the sub-title referring to the quality of the fish
Health’ (Putnam). Mr. Flint's book is devoted
caught and not at all to the angler himself. The
to proof that the way to get strong is to take
book might be summarized briefly as a modern
those exercises, chiefly by the use of parallel
and more erudite revival of Izaak Walton, so
bars and heavy weights, that make the utmost
gentle and humane is its attitude towards the
demand upon the muscles,- a proposition that
finny tribe, so liberal and comprehensive its
would be self-evident to the least intelligent if learning. In this latter respect, and in its
there had not arisen a curious school which caters
knowledge of human nature, ancient and modern,
to the physically slothful by making them believe
it is reminiscent also of Montaigne. These things
that great strength can be produced through
must indicate that it is a very good book indeed.
trifling exertion. It is pleasant to find Mr. Flint
There is a chapter of more than ordinary humor
not so wholly committed to his ideas that he is
'In Dispraise of the Latins,' inspired by the dis-
unwilling to concede to swimming the palm for
respectful attitude of the Romans toward fish
being the best and most wholesome of all forms
in any other aspect than as a means of human
of physical effort. Mr. Hancock is in sub-
sustenance. The Greeks gain the author's appro-
stantial agreement with Mr. Flint on the main
bation, because they were so much more of
question raised, and takes it rather for granted.
the gentleman and so much less of the pot
He improves, we believe, on Mr. Flint's pre-
fisherman. Several chapters are devoted to
scriptions by introducing a number of exercises
in which tắe element of play and of rivalry perch, and chub, and these are shown to have
specific 'coarse' fish, such as the pike, dace,
enters, passe-temps à deux so to speak. A brief
virtues and characteristics quite at odds with
introduction to Mr. Flint's book, written by his
the adjective used to describe the quality of
father, Dr. Austin Flint, confirms the son's
their flesh. But there is a deal of practical
opinions, and the work is illustrated by photo-
learning also, and a plea for rational economy
graphs of the author in action. Mr. Hancock
in the use of rods, reels, and flies. No better
uses pictures of others, and he has much to say gift for an ingrained fisherman who preserves
about hygiene in all its aspects. Both books
the meditative tradition could be found in re-
should act as stimulants to the slothful and
cent literature.
those whose waist line is growing unduly.
New volumes in A volume of 'Selections from the
With keen insight and a peculiar the 'Musician's Music Dramas of Richard Wagner,'
A painter's
warmth of description, Mr. Ken- Library.' arranged for the piano by Mr. Otto
yon Cox has given us, in 'Old
Singer, is a recent addition to the Musician's
Masters and New' (Fox, Duffield & Co.), Library' of Messrs. Oliver Ditson & Co. The
series of appreciations of individual masters of transcriptions are not too difficult for the ordi-
art-a sort of vade mecum presenting, in a gen- nary amateur, and illustrate the eleven dramas
eral way, the course of painting since the six- from 'Rienzi' to 'Parsifal.' There are twenty-
teenth century. The author states that his book four numbers in all. A portrait of Wagner, a
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painter, seeing with his own eyes and not and an introductory essay by Mr. Richard Aldrich,
bound by authority; it expresses the feeling and are the accessory features of this singularly wel.
the judgments of one who practices, with credit, come volume. Another addition to this series
one of the arts of which he writes. Much of the is a book of 'Twenty-four Negro Melodies', tran-
material used has appeared at different times scribed for the piano by Mr. Š. Coleridge-Taylor.
during the past twenty years in various peri- This is an extremely interesting work. The com-
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Dvorak, and Grieg. Each number is prefaced by Mr. Samuel Lloyd, and given ecclesiastical ap-
by the original melody in motto form, and con-
proval in a preface contributed by the Bishop of
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Durham, is published by Messrs. G. P. Putnam's
Sons.
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that it gives us not only American plantation
Clarendon Press the Old English poem “The Dream
songs (which are to some degree sophisticated)
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