aired reader green with envy of the mate solution of the main problems. On the
younger generation, which may live until time business side, the more efficient and less cen-
shall unseal even the most intimate of the tralized management of the “movies” and
private diary entries which the career of the vaudeville is teaching its lesson to the heads of
Rough-Rider has doubtless inspired.
the theatre “trusts." Sporadic repertory
W. H. JOHNSON. theatres and independent producing societies
are doing much to encourage both actors and
authors; while the growing tendency to read
THE NEW DRAMA IN ENGLISH.*
and study plays, and the reviving interest in
out-of-door theatricals and pageants, are edu-
It would seem the irony of fate that while cating popular taste. It is accordingly on the
literary discussion in this country has recently leavening possibilities of these forces rather
centred around the drama, it is our poets and than on the influence of any individual or
not our playwrights who have pleasantly sur- group of individuals that Professor Dickinson
prised us by finding themselves. Can it be rests his case for the American drama. Thus
that the movement for a better stage has suf- our stage is to work out its own salvation,
fered from self-consciousness? At any rate, and eventually we are to arrive at the form of
to neither its workers nor its patrons have repertory theatre best adapted to our national
most of the prophetic utterances about it temper and traditions. Just what this form
proved of practical value. To these utter- will be, the author does not undertake to say.
ances, Professor Dickinson's “The Case of
He does, however, show clearly and concisely
American Drama " presents a wholesome con- what we have to build on in the experience of
trast. It is a sober and thoughtful analysis the short-lived New Theatre of New York and
of the underlying problems of our contempo- that of the typical repertory theatres of
rary theatre,- such, for example, as the ten-
France and Germany. For the completeness
dency toward centralization, which, while of the picture, and also because it touches
increasing the financial returns for manager, more nearly our own problems, some account
author, and actor alike, has resulted in disas- of the recent renaissance of the repertory
ter for the art that is in the last analysis al theatre in England might well have been in-
the life of the stage. Unlike most writers on cluded here.
the subject, the author does not attack the syn- It is proof of the emphasis that the author
dicate system of theatre management in itself, desires to lay on the significance of the open-
finding it on the whole " a necessary outgrowth air play and pageant that he treats these
of the spirit and methods of the time." It is
from the practical as well as from the theo-
the entrance into this system of “the theory retical side. And the general reader will per-
of monopoly and absentee managerial con- haps find his chapters on the construction of
trol” which he deplores, and the consequent the theatre in the open and on the production
organization of "the entire country as tribu- of pageants — both happily free from techni-
tary to one city." Working on this basis, he
Working on this basis, he cal terms — among the freshest and most
points out that the system has not only alien- stimulating of the book.
ated the audience for good plays, caused the The lack of an index, or at least a detailed
table of contents, will be felt by those who
By Thomas H. Dickin-
wish to use the volume for reference, particu-
larly as the reasons for the arrangement of
for Their Study. By Barrett H. Clark. New York: Henry
the material are not always apparent. And
* THE CASE OF AMERICAN DRAMA.
son. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.
THE BRITISH AND AMERICAN DRAMA OF TO-DAY.
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here and there, an unqualified statement in- not agree with the general conclusions, he will
vites challenge. Such is the assertion with find Mr. Clark's exposition of the stagecraft of
regard to the ancient Greek theatre that "it dramatists like Augustus Thomas and Clyde
was really of little importance that the audi- Fitch instructive. Yet it is chiefly for its sug-
ence was seated in the open,” and “in every gestive reading lists, and its body of informa-
essential respect the performance might as tion, conveniently arranged and indexed for
well have taken place behind closed doors." purposes of reference, that the volume may be
Yet, in the main, the book is distinguished for recommended.
HELEN MCAFEE.
its sound sense, its thorough understanding,
and its vigorous presentation of the status quo
of American drama.
CASSANDRA-VOICES OF PREPAREDNESS."*
For the practical guidance of the many who
by reading plays are, as Professor Dickinson Preparedness is the topic of the hour. The
suggests, making straight the way for our press is filled with it, organizations are pro-
stage, Mr. Clark's “British and American moting it, military training camps are teach-
Drama of To-day” is designed. Its advan- ing it, and politicians are carefully surveying
tages as a play-reader's or a play-goer's hand- it as a possible political issue. Naturally, the
book must be obvious at a glance. Here may
publishers are not behindhand, but have pro-
be found brief biographies of the foremost vided books for those who wish to read.
modern writers of drama in English, with a
The volumes to be considered in the present
concise statement of the consensus of opinion review vary greatly in quality and purpose.
regarding their chief works, chronological Professor Johnston's "Arms and the Race
lists of stage productions, and bibliographies exhibits a much broader and more philosophi-
that include even articles in the magazines. cal view of human relations than any of the
For definitive studies of the dramatists men- others. It alone of these books shows that its
tioned, the reader must still go elsewhere. author views society as an evolving organism
Indeed, the benefit he derives from the book which forever goes on to other things; hence
will depend largely upon the background of he alone has some idea of the philosophy which.
knowledge he brings to it, and the use he underlies anti-militarism, and considers the
makes of the excellent bibliographies. In cer- international mind worth some discussion.
tain cases these should have been made still Like most of those persons who really know
fuller by the inclusion of works in other lan- the past, he is not disposed to rest his case on
guages than English. To the list of criticisms it; and so, unlike the other authors here noted,
of Bernard Shaw, for example, might well he does not consider statements of Washing-
have been added such works as those by Cestre ton as final proof that we need a greater army
and Hamon in French and by Julius Bab in to-day. He also recognizes that to get any.
German. Some mention, also, of the Conti-
where one should rest one's case on facts
nental productions of Shaw's plays was to be instead of on opinions. Contending that the
expected, especially in view of their remark- nationalizing of armies with the adoption of
able popularity on the German stage.
popular sovereignty has removed the danger
Mr. Clark shows a wide acquaintance with of armies being agents of tyranny, the author
modern plays of all nations, and his facility continues with the view that the United States
of reference is well-nigh bewildering. Never- alone has not perceived that the modern army
theless, in several instances he allows himself is not to be feared, and has consequently fallen
to be betrayed into hasty generalizations. behind other nations in its armaments. For
Many will be quite unable to subscribe to such
this reason he holds that we need a greater
a dictum regarding contemporary American military establishment. He favors strength-
drama as this: “The dialogue is usually good, ening the navy primarily, and the army sec-
idiomatic, and clever”; or to this astonishing ondarily, but making less than we are doing
statement: “ The only criticism to be made of coast defense.
against such plays as 'On Trial' is that their
Better known is Mr. Hudson Maxim's “De-
very novelty is soon outworn, and that it is fenseless America,” which has been drama-
above all useless.” Indeed, throughout his
By R. M. Johnston. New York:
book Mr. Clark puts a far more favorable con-
struction on what our dramatists have already Hearst's International Library Co.
achieved than does Professor Dickinson or
By W. H. Carter. Indianapolis :
The Bobbs-Merrill Co.
than the facts of the case would seem to war-
By R. W. Neeser New
York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
rant. Of this the American reader will fortu-
New York:
nately be able to judge for himself. It should Dodd, Mead & Co.
(Anonymous.)
be stated that even though such a reader may
* ARMS AND THE RACE.
The Century Co.
DEFENSELESS AMERICA.
By Hudson Maxim.
New York:
THE AMERICAN ARMY.
OUR NAVY AND THE NEXT WAR.
AMERICA FALLEN !
By J. Bernard Walker.
New
York:
STULTITIA.
Stokes Co.
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tized for the “ movies” under the title, “ The author's opinions and wishes, without an ade-
Battle Cry of Peace.” The book is clever and quate presentation of his reasons for those
entertaining, and in parts gives evidence of opinions, and therefore cannot expect to con-
having been written in collaboration with men vince its readers.
in our army and navy. It is prepared dis- "America Fallen!" by Mr. J. Bernard
tinctly with one idea,- to arouse the Amer-Walker, editor of “ The Scientific American,”
ican people to provide greater defenses. Its is the account of an imaginary invasion of the
author does not, probably cannot, grasp the United States by Germany, one month after
fundamentals of anti-militarism. No better the end of the European War. There are some
illustration than this book could be found of difficulties in making the thing reasonable, but
what Mr. Norman Angell has called “one- the author surmounts these with the same
sided aberration," - the process of trying to superhuman skill that his Germans show in
solve questions involving many nations by their attack on us. Mr. Walker is pro-Ally,
considering only one of them. Mr. Maxim hence Germany must be and is defeated in the
thinks that all will be well if we but get “ade- present war. But for the sake of alarming us
quate preparation," — whatever that means.
about our defenses, we must have an invasion.
He neglects to state what effect our getting Of course England wouldn't think of this;
that preparation will have on other nations, - hence it must be the Germans, even though de-
which is a strange oversight; for if his course feated. However, England, vexed at our con-
for us is the highest wisdom, why should not duct during the Great War, does agree not to
rival nations continue to act on it? It is need. hinder Germany. The attack is planned and
less to state that Mr. Maxim says nothing about executed without a hitch of any consequence.
the final issue of the armament race between The Germans get across the sea without any-
nations, beyond quoting ex-Secretary Meyer to body, even the British seemingly, getting word
the effect that we are rich enough to match of it. They attack Boston, New York, Wash-
dollars for national defense with any other ington (having slipped by the coast forts un-
nation in the world." So the ultimate triumph noticed), and the Atlantic end of the Panama
is to be with dollars! It does sound truer to Canal on the same night, and with practically
experience to say that “dollars make right.” no difficulty or mistake. Two Germans cap-
It also contributes to make clear why Mr. ture a ferry boat with its crew; the German
Maxim should call the area within two hun. submarines, having sneaked in at night, sink
dred miles around New York the “heart of
or destroy every warship in Norfolk yards and
America,” though the reason which he ad- in the yards of the Newport News Shipbuild-
vances is that in this district lie most of the ing Company. Even Nature favors the Ger-
factories of armaments and war materials, and mans, for the fatal night is “unusually dark”;
the coal beds for their use. After the fore-
the sea at Boston is “calm and clear”; and at
going one need not be surprised at a certain Coney Island, where the pleasure-seeking Ger-
vein of prophecy and also finality in these mans land a force, there is a “scarcely per-
a
pages. “It is a fact, which I absolutely know ceptible surf.” Need it be added that, in the
as certainly as anything can be known in hu- face of these supermen, we Americans prove
man affairs, that we . are sitting to-day on
to be plain fools, showing not a single bit of
a powder magazine with the train lighted,” the initiative or ability about which we ordi-
etc. To announce as a fact what cannot pos- narily boast? Nobody in the whole “heart of
sibly be other than an opinion of course ends America” thinks of destroying the New York
all discussion.
Central tracks leading to Albany, of which the
Major Carter's book on “ The American Germans take possession as they might take
Army” is the straightforward and unpreten- another glass of beer. (It is pertinent to note
tious work of a professional man. The writer here that Professor Johnston believes that
sticks to his specialty and to fact, and there Germany does not constitute a great danger to
fore his book, though not entertaining read- us at the present time; and that New York
ing, has real merit.
could probably be defended with complete
Not so with Mr. Neeser's“Our Navy and the success against a sea raid.) The effect of this
Next War," the title of which indicates that it book is questionable; it may be pernicious, as
has to do with things yet to come, rather than others of its kind have been. So eager is it
those that we know about. The book is free and to insure its effect on Americans that it alto
easy with opinions and generalizations that gether forgets the effect it will have on the
are announced as though they were axioms. nation it represents as our foe. “The Battle
It does not stick to its topic of the navy, but of Dorking,” which told of a similar invasion
rambles considerably, and therefore repeats of England by Germany in 1875, increased
itself. Altogether, it is a compilation of the instead of diminishing apprehension on both
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sides. Can we not secure adequate prepared where - except in Germany - regarded as
-
ness without goading our possible rivals into the arch-priest of militarism.
resentment and accelerated action?
That the coming session of Congress will
The anonymous author of “Stultitia," who deal with the subject of preparedness is evi-
is “a former government official,” employs dent, and as it should be. We want reasonable
the dramatic form to awaken us from our preparedness, but we ought to go about it
defenselessness. The book is melodramatic, rationally and not hysterically. Unhappily,
appeals to blind emotion, makes the average some of the books here reviewed tend to cloud
congressman unpatriotic and shifty and the reason, and thus to benumb the very faculty
military man the real patriot. It, too, imag- which should give the country what it really
ines a war which sets everybody right about needs.
EDWARD KREHBIEL.
preparation. It has not, to our present knowl-
edge, been staged.
Taken together these books show certain in-
teresting similarities and divergencies. They
PETRARCH AGAIN.*
all contend that we are unprepared. They In the Harvard copy of Professor Norton's
offer programmes which differ in detail and catalogue of the Fiske Petrarch Collection in
exactness; but space forbids a discussion of the library of Cornell University, there is
these. All show a disposition to prophesy that preserved a letter from the late Professor
we are to have a rude awakening unless we Fiske. Norton had offered Fiske his copy of
change our policy. They are unanimous in the Venetian folio of Petrarch - Bevilaqua's
condemning the pacifist; but the prize for - of 1503. Pardonable satisfaction may be
picturesqueness of vituperation must go to detected in his reply: “I already possess an
Mr. Maxim. Civilian control of the army and excellent copy.” The possessor of folios is
navy comes in for a good deal of condemna-
not unfamiliar with this note of satisfaction;
tion; Congress is freely blamed for sacrificing
owner or not, one feels a stirring of pride in
defense to politics; and the people are charged
the knowledge that there are folios in the
with incompetence. Our authors agree in the country, should one care to study them.
,
main that national defense ought not to be
The letter continues: “The Villa Forini
•
made a matter of politics.
[he was about to sail for Italy and Florence
Certain tendencies of other recent writers
in July, 1883] will at least not lose its Scan-
on preparedness reappear in these books. They dinavian attractions, as I also take with me
rebuke our historians for making our past
my Icelandic collection, the gathering of
wars glorious, when in fact they were badly which, instead of being, as is my Petrarch
managed and unnecessarily drawn out. It is collection, a whimsey of my old age, has been
contended that the Monroe Doctrine has hith-
the work of many years. I hope to do some
erto endured chiefly because Great Britain
work with both these collections, but the
protected it for us, but that she may refuse to
danger is that I may fall between two very
do this any longer.
attractive stools."
All of the writers, so far as they express
themselves on militarism, declare they are op-
The letter is a poignant reminder of fruit-
ful days at the Villa Forini. Professor Fiske
posed to it. Yet one cannot help but observe
gathered about him students and professors,
à certain admiration for the success of the
silent scribes and talkative counts.
He ar-
German methods. Mr. Neeser would ve uni.
ranged comforts for his American guests at
versal military service. Mr. Maxim thinks
which Browning might have cavilled as being
conscription in Germany produces excellent
un-Italian. But no change was made in the
results, and states that it is not an unreasona-
ble conclusion that militarism is responsible old-fashioned frescoes in the slender strips of
smoking-room at the top of the house. There
for the German culture of efficiency, since
wall were left undisturbed and undiscerned
German militarism is the greatest school of
between open spaces of purple haze beyond
economics that the world has ever seen. Else-
Fiesole. Ashes of American cigars might fall
where he says: “We must play the game as
unheeded on the cement floor, where painted
a World Power, and as other nations are play-
lizards flattened on painted stones. - Char-
ing the game. To get fair play we must pro-
treuse from without the Porta Romana gave
vide ourselves with the weapons with which
they are providing themselves.” Mr. Maxim pungency to talk about folios and manu-
script, or, long remembered, mingled in flavor
says he is opposed to militarism, and is urging with the story of how Professor Rendell Har-
preparedness against war"; yet his words
just quoted are not very different from the
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Translated and anno-
tated, with a Biographical Introduction, by William Dudley
utterances of Bernhardi, who is now every- Foulke, LL.D. New York: Oxford University Press.
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ris, in an eastern monastery, secured the rare And like a pilgrim to thy new abode
Codex over “another glass of Rosoglio.”
Rise all unburdened. Thou canst clearly see
Fears that the Icelandic and Italian Col-
How all things move to death. Well may we
lections would be left in Europe were finally
pray
dispelled; and now the catalogues of the
The soul go light upon its perilous way."
Fiske-Cornell libraries may be had, and the
Yet the technique of the English sonnet,
books are available within twenty-four hours,
so challenging since Milton and Wordsworth,
more or less. If we have appropriated so
invites no tricks of the translator. The verse
much of Italy, we are now also assimilating
is never careless, nor is it mechanical or
it. Petrarch's Latin works refuse to stay in labored. With the diction Saxon and idioma-
folios: Columbia and the University of Chi- tic, and the style simple and severe, the
cago have revealed, most readably, some of reader will not be surprised to find lines of
the treasures first used in English by Chau- dignity and elevation, less Asiatic than
cer. Yale has given us the Concordance to
Petrarch, less Italianate than older English
the Italian poems. Sooner or later we may
translations. The introductory sonnet to
learn all that Petrarch himself wished us to
Petrarch betrays restraint, and an artistic
know, without changing spectacles over the
sense of the sonnet's limitations. It is grati-
solid printed page, or halting to expand the fying to record the classical spirit of this
Latin of incunabula.
little volume when romantic, not to say untu-
No labor is involved in reading the latest tored, freedom in verse invites public favor.
American book about Petrarch. In “Some
A judicious Introduction and biographical
Love Songs of Petrarch," Dr. William Dud-
sketch informs the reader without obtruding
ley Foulke continues the long tradition of
the quarrels of critics, French and Italian.
the English poets. If Chaucer made no son-
An appendix, reviewing the attempts made
net of his “ Song of Troilus,” he showed that
to identify Laura, will stir the dullest of stu-
Italian verse may be fitted to English. Yet
dents or the most unliterary of psychologists.
even he, with his wealth of rhyme, most of it The “Epistle to Posterity” is printed, and a
now lost to us, felt that it was impracticable convenient list of Petrarch's works. The
to attempt complete imitation of Italian
book must be welcome to all whose care it is
rhymes, every one of which had a feminine to make a revue of literature stimulating, and
ending. Five masculine rhymes come first in
devote a few precious hours to Petrarch and
his influence. The general reader will be
the “Song of Troilus.” then seven feminines, his influence.
then_masculines until the final couplet. In grateful for a fresh appraisement of the poet
Dr. Foulke's version feminine rhymes appear
and the man. It is a useful complement to
now and then, oftener in other forms than
Professor Robinson's version of the "Letters"
the sonnet. Shakespearean are forty-six of
and his volume on Petrarch. Dr. Foulke, it
his sonnets, and a Petrarchan sestette ap-
may be urged, should not confine his verse
pears in each of the other five. The object,
to translation.
then, has been to render the substance faith-
One note - to return to the folios — may
be added. The “six folio editions of his
fully in the more flexible English form; and
in the cases selected for comparison this has Epistles and other prose works - printed at
been effectively done. Petrarch's en jambe-
Basle and Venice between 1494 and 1500.”
ments are at times preserved; in the four- (p. 121) have not all been identified. Fiske
teenth ode and in the “Hymn to the Virgin
thought that the Deventer of 1494, the Basle
of 1494 and 5, and the Venetian of 1496
one is reminded of the melody of Dryden.
Monosyllables, the bane of the translator,
never existed.
W. P. REEVES.
have been avoided where possible. How
could one escape them in turning such a
rugged sestette as this?
THE AMATEUR GARDENER.*
“Poi che se' sgombro della maggior salma
Miss Gertrude Jekyll, in her preface to
L'altre puoi giuso agrevolmente porre,
Mrs. King's “The Well-Considered Garden,"
Salendo quasi un pellegrino scarco.
Ben vedi omai siccome a morte corre
remarks on the rapidly increasing interest in
gardening throughout the land, and the conse-
Ogni cosa creata, e quanto all' alma
Bisogna ir leve al periglioso varco.”
quent opportunity for writers of good garden
books: One thinks of a great and fertile
This is translated, with a courageous sub-
* THE WELL-CONSIDERED GARDEN. By Mrs. Francis King.
junctive, as follows:
Illustrated. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
By Mrs. Theodore Thomas (Rose
For, when delivered of thy heaviest load
-
*
66
Fay). Second edition. Illustrated. New York: E. P. Dut.
From what remains thou canst be quickly free,
OUR MOUNTAIN GARDEN.
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ers.
field ready ploughed and sown, and only exists. There is a story of a French author,
waiting for genial warmth and moisture to who was visited by a friend who was about
make it burst forth into life and eventual to journey around the world. Said the au-
abundance.” Gardens are of various kinds, thor: “I cannot leave my home; but while
but the developing interest referred to is that you go around the world, I will go round my
in flower gardens, kept by amateurs for the garden.” This he did, and wrote a charming
love of natural beauty. We have heard it book about the things he saw; but he who
said by those who ministered to the broken circumnavigated the globe left nothing for
down and criminal classes in London, that posterity. Mrs. Thomas, in the same spirit,
men who seemed to have lost almost every can stay at home and enjoy the drama of life,
good feeling would still respond to the beauty which never becomes stale.
of flowers. In the mining camps of Colorado,
Mrs. King writes a more ambitious book, in
where there has long been such bitter discon- which she discusses, with the judgment born
tent with the conditions of life, the little rows
of experience, the planning of a somewhat
of box-like houses stand in barren desolation, elaborate garden. Much is said about color
without the gardens which would make them
harmony and the grouping of plants, — mat-
at least resemble normal homes. Miners and
ters which the beginner is too likely to over-
owners alike would doubtless laugh at the
look, either from ignorance or indifference.
suggestion that the lack of flowers was one of Mrs. King writes:
the things most seriously the matter with the
“I have a new profession to propose, a profes-
whole situation; yet the idea is by no means
sion of specialists: it should be called that of the
wholly grotesque, nor is it altogether false to
garden colorist. The office shall be distinct from
say that the development of flower-gardens is that of the landscape architect, distinct indeed
a fair index to the civilization of a neighbor- from those whose office it already is to prescribe
hood. In England, when the “Garden Cit- the plants for the garden. The garden colorist
ies" were first established, the factory hands, shall be qualified to plant beautifully, according to
moved suddenly into rural surroundings, did color, the best-planned gardens of our best design-
not altogether like the change. What were
It shall be his duty, first, to possess a true
gardens compared with the "movies," and all
color instinct; second, to have had much expe-
the excitement of city life? In a year or two, growing of varieties in form and color; third, so
rience in the growing of flowers, notably in the
however, they learned to appreciate their new
to make his planting plans that there shall be
opportunities, and settled down to a really successive pictures of loveliness melting into each
normal life, which we hope will in course of other with successive months; and last, he must
time everywhere replace the distorting en- pay, if possible, a weekly visit to his gardens, for
vironment of crowded towns. Thus in all no eye but his discerning one will see in them the
schemes for human betterment, the garden evil and the good.”
necessarily has a large part, and floriculture Finally, it is suggested that “he" will usu-
becomes an intensely vital thing for the whole ally be a woman. This is not exactly the
community, instead of a mere amusement for "home-made" idea of Mrs. Thomas, who also
the rich.
appears to know nothing of “that man who
Mrs. Theodore Thomas writes of her "home- must be constantly in sight of those who
made” garden on a New Hampshire moun- garden, the gardener, the paid, the earnest,
tain as a thing beloved; growing under her and almost always the friendly, assistant in
hands and that of the “Meister,'' to whom we our labors with flowers."
may well believe that flowers and music Mrs. King's garden is not the back-yard of
seemed to have a certain kinship, in the imme- a cottage, nor are her plans those of a small
diacy of their appeal to the higher human clerk in a grocery store. We confess to a
emotions. Very charmingly are we led preference for the genuinely amateur point
through the history of the garden's develop- of view, which can make something worth
ment, seeing almost with the author's eyes while out of a window-box, and will under no
the many interesting little happenings, some circumstances abandon the control of things
triumphant, others quite the reverse. The to a "discerning one” who will alone see this
combination of pure delight with innumerable or that. Yet, after all, Mrs. King's main con-
little practical suggestions will appeal to all tention, set forth with such a wealth of exam-
those who are growing flowers, although the ples and illustrations, is entirely wise and
exact circumstances will not be duplicated sound. It is, that gardens, like houses, large
elsewhere. Then there is the keen interest in or small, should be regarded in their entirety,
all that lives, in the birds and animals, all of and so planned that the parts harmonize.
which belong to the scheme of things and are Furthermore, as in music, so in color and
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some organization with power to standardize i
can and should be cultivated. By ignoring like every other Englishman worth his salt;
these things, we not only fail to develop some but he seems to be able to disregard that hor-
of our best faculties, but shut ourselves out of ror, at least in his thinking. Mr. Wells's
much of the pleasure of life. Thus “ The thoughts are prone to run ahead of the actual
Well-Considered Garden” has its mission event: in The World Set Free” he said
even for those who have only a few yards of what he had to say of the war before people
earth at their command; while its larger had much of an idea that there was to be one.
ideas may be carried out in public parks, Now his ideas have got back to the regular
under the stimulation of citizens who have line,— he does not write as though the war
been converted to the newer point of view. were over, but rather as though there had
To those of us who are old enough to remem- been no war; he is going ahead on the road
ber the ribbon-like arrangement of flower. whereon he was moving before.
beds in the seventies of the last century, the Several of Mr. Wells's books have been stud-
tremendous advance in æsthetic feeling repre- ies of society from the general standpoint;
sented by modern gardening is astonishing, as but in some of his later stories, such as The
is the increasing variety of plants cultivated. New Macchiavelli” and “The Passionate
Among the minor' matters which we are led Friends," he has been more interested in
to consider, is the not unimportant one of thinking of what the individual life could do
We greatly need, in this country, in and for society. His latest book, “The
Research Magnificent,” is the story of a man
the names of garden varieties, or at least to who, being unlimited by minor matters, set
prevent each dealer from giving new names to himself to find some 'theory of his work and
old things, with the implication that what he duty in the world, a plan of the world's
offers is different from that sold by his com- future that should give a rule to his life.”
petitors. We would even suggest that short "A world-state sustained by an aristocracy
latinized names would sound better than
of noble men,” – that idea or theory is not
some of the designations now in use. One
new to a reader of Wells; but here will be
can get used to anything, perhaps; but does found someone who tried to work out some
it not sound a little queer to read in an practical way in the matter. “Not a novel,'
orchid catalogue of “The Duke of Marlbor-
one may readily say,— just as White, the
ough, parentage unknown," or to be informed
literary man who was called to look over Ben-
that Mrs. W. T. Ware is badly blighted? ham's papers, said, when the magnificent
Professor Francis Darwin, the eminent bota- search had come to an end. It is not unlike
nist, is a living reality to us, and we do not those autobiographical novels that (as Mr.
altogether like to be told that his “tones are
Wells once wrote) “were popular throughout
Rouge fraise No. 2 within the petals, Vin de the third and fourth decades of the twentieth
Bordeaux No. 2 outside." Were the tulip century.” It is the work of a novelist, of
named Darwini, there could be no offence,
course, a story by a man who feels things
and the name would be less cumbersome. keenly, a man who is sensitive, appreciative,
T. D. A. COCKERELL. humorous, whimsical. But it is chiefly a mat-
ter of record, valuable for the results it has
in it.
RECENT FICTION.
The main thing from this standpoint is that
now Mr. Wells has his eye on the limitations
Mr. H. G. Wells is the chief figure in En-
of the finer life. What is it that prevents
glish letters nowadays. Mr. Arnold Bennett
.
those who desire from being the aristocrats of
may rival him when the story of Clayhanger the newer world? Benham, with the keenest
and Hilda Lessways is finished. Mr. Bernard
desire, finds himself continually hindered,
Shaw seems under a cloud, and Mr. Chester-
limited, “cribbed, cabined, and confined,"
ton spends much time on the Lethe-wharf of stopped from something here, held back from
journalism. But Mr. Wells continues to think something there. Mr. Wells has settled in his
indefatigably, and to write almost as by in- own mind the four great limitations of life:
stinct. He is, of course, deeply concerned fear, sex, jealousy, prejudice; and he presents
with the day-to-day anxieties of the war, the experience of Benham with each. These
are individual limitations, it will be seen, not
• THE RESEARCH MAGNIFICENT. By H. G. Wells. New
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caused by social life.
THE “ GENIUS." By Theodore Dreiser. New York: John All that is stimulating,- especially to
ELTHAM HOUSE. By Mrs. Humphry Ward. New York: those who have other limitations, also, which
Hearst's International Library Co.
Benham had not: income, education or lack
The High PRIESTESS. By Robert Grant. New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons.
of it, “circumstances," and so forth. But one
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must confess that Benham, whatever he liked at any given time. “He loved beauty,-
learned or found out or decided for himself, not a plan in life,"— that is what Mr. Dreiser
seems actually “not to live but know," or, if says of him. That may be the real difference
not to know, to strive for knowledge. The between artist and scientist : Benham had a
search for knowledge is a fascinating thing, - plan. But Witla's love of beauty (as of course
one of the most fascinating things in the one will guess brought about a great deal
world, if it be not the finest. But in this that would make any plan of life look rather
book it weighs on the reader somehow that mean.
Benham brings nothing to pass, and does not Whatever kind of man he was — and let us
even try. And that rather impoverishes the be glad of a chance not to take him for a
novel though it may thereby be more like life. typical American, great artist or not- Mr.
Benham was a pioneer. Perhaps now that he Dreiser presents him with his usual remarka-
has lived his life with less accomplishment | ble vitality. He seems to do this by a multi-
than knowledge, others may put his inven- tude of details that flow from his pen as
tions to everyday use. However that may be, readily as ideas come from Mr. Wells, and
this is one of Mr. Wells's interesting books, much more voluminously. This is a good
full of things wholly in his especial way, like thing; it gives confidence. Compare Mr.
the experiences in the Balkans, and aimed at Dreiser in this respect with another American
a high ideal, bringing into a definite form novelist: Mr. Winston Churchill at a critical
many fine ideas that one has met with else- point of his hero's career tells us that his
where in Mr. Wells's work.
religious beliefs underwent a change, caused
Mr. Theodore Dreiser does not hold the by three months reading in books furnished
commanding position in letters that Mr. by the head of the public library. What were
Wells does, but his work is always worth the particular ideas and what were the par-
while, for he has certain fine possessions, one ticular books we are, with a few exceptions,
of which is a vast amount of knowledge of left to guess. But Mr. Dreiser, when (rather
,
the thing he is writing about, which is joined by the way) Witla becomes reconciled to some
to an unrestricted willingness and great abil. sort of religious feeling, tells us exactly what
ity to impart whatever he knows. Eugene ideas he had and exactly what books he read.
Witla, the chief figure of his new novel, In half a dozen pages he puts a great mass of
“The 'Genius,'” is not in the least like Ben- detail; it may be good or bad, sound thinking
ham, but his very unlikeness suggests much. or not, but there it is. If it is worth while
Mr. Wells's man, like Mr. Wells himself, was you can look it up and see what it is all about.
intent on knowledge,- in a large way a scien- You do not have to take it on trust. That is
tist, a person who wanted to know. Mr. the way with Mr. Dreiser, as a rule. He is
Dreiser's character is an artist. Whether Mr. generally “there with the goods," as they say.
Dreiser means that he is a great artist, or Many do not care for what he offers, but at
only that people think he is, may be doubtful. least he does offer it. And that is a great
The quotation-marks in the title imply a thing. It means an original imagination.
query which becomes more insistent as one We do not have a big figure struck out in
reads the book. Certainly Mr. Dreiser con- outline from a set of ideas actually or conven-
veys no notion of a great artist that is ade- tionally held. We have a figure definitely
quate to ordinary conceptions; he presents a conceived, doing this and that, thinking and
man of "artistic temperament” who has no feeling this and that; but in all his thinking.
ideas or feelings that are not shared by many. feeling, and doing, quite definite, real, and
His ideas of art seem ordinary, such as would vital, - except in the one point mentioned,
come from a reading of the magazines. Here where perhaps Mr. Dreiser meant that his
Mr. Dreiser seems deficient. He gives chap-
,
genius " was not definite, real, and vital, and
ter and verse for most of Witla's acts and therefore necessitated the quotation-marks.
ideas; but for his artistic aims and accom- In “Eltham House” Mrs. Humphry Ward
plishments, even so far as they go, he depends had a subject which was certainly, as she con-
usually on what seem rather bare common- ceived it, an immensely good one. She
places. Perhaps he means to do so. What-
thought of the case of Lord Holland, who in
ever he means, he has depicted a man very 1796 ran away with the wife of Sir Godfrey
unlike Mr. Wells's creation. Benham was a Webster, and subsequently became a great
man of average abilities who was led to a fine figure in English social and political life: and
life by mere determination; Witla was a man in meditating on the questions involved, she
of great abilities who passed through strug- thought of presenting the same case to-day.
gle, success, failure, without any definite mo- Would the twentieth century endure a man
tive or idea, except that of doing just as he whom the nineteenth century had honored?
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What sort of change in manners and morals in the fiction of our day,— namely, power of
would the experiment bring forth? It will construction: ability so to order one's mate-
be no surprise that Lord Wing, when he tries rial as to make the most telling effect on those
to enter politics, finds that his alliance with who read. That is one of the great things of
a charming and able woman who had left her fiction,- Mr. James has it preëminently, and
,
husband for him, constitutes an insuperable Mrs. Wharton and some others of our day. .
obstacle, in spite of divorce and marriage. Any of the above books would be better with
Most people would agree with Mrs. Ward in it, if they lost nothing else thereby.
her estimate of current feeling. Her book is
EDWARD E. HALE.
rather disappointing, however, in that it does
not really deal with the subject presented.
Mrs. Ward does not seem to try to give an
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
adequate idea of how people at large feel
about such matters. Lord Wing fails, almost
If proof were required of the
by an accident, on the arousing of a senti- Religious ideals
obvious fact that the intellec-
and idealism.
ment against him, which Mrs. Ward presents
tual and spiritual development
in the main as narrow and prejudiced, if not of the human mind is taking place at present
mean. That may have been just what she chiefly along the feminine side, it may be
meant to do. If she did, one would think that found in the number of first-rate contribu-
she misread public feeling; if she did not, she tions to the study of religious psychology
hardly carried out her first idea. More prob- that are being offered by women writers.
ably, however, Mrs. Ward really gave little Following upon the excellent triad of books
attention to the larger, the social, aspects of on Mysticism by Miss Evelyn Underhill, we
the case; for most of her effort is given, and welcome Miss Annie Lyman Sears's “The
that successfully, to a presentation of the Drama of the Spiritual Life” (Macmillan).
position of Lady Wing. The novel is really The Introduction by Professor Josiah Royce
very little of a social document, but rather adds much to the interest of the work; and
the picture of a personal experience.
though any conscious or intentional direction
This is true, also, some will say, of Judge of Miss Sears's arguments and conclusions is
Grant's new book, “The High Priestess.” It generously disavowed by Professor Royce, it
.
is the story of a woman of our day, a woman is not difficult for anyone who is acquainted
of ability and character, who is presented as with “The Problem of Christianity” and
having misunderstood the true direction of The Philosophy of Loyalty” to trace the
woman's progress and as only reaching a true influence of the master on the pupil. Nor
valuation of her own great powers after much need this be regarded as in any sense a dero-
trouble and difficulty. Here readers will dif- gation from the claim to originality on the
fer as to whether we have a particular story part of the writer. We are all in large part
or a general case. I think the former, but the what our teachers have made us, and the
fact is one of sociology or current history highest service any writer can perform is to
rather than of literature.
' interpret" the truth and focus the light
It is more than a generation, now, that generated through the spiritual experiences
Mr. Grant has been an observer of society and under which his own mind has been formed.
a maker of books, and in that time his eye has In the opening chapter, Miss Sears deals with
not grown dim or his hand lost its cunning. religious idealism in a particularly satisfying
He began as something of a satirist in a manner, and reveals the distinguishing char-
lighter way, and he has never quite lost the acteristic of Man as a creature who "looks
satirical touch. He continued in life in a before and after," who creates ideals and is
profession that is almost of necessity mindful unhappy because of his inability to attain to
of general laws and regular precedents. Such them. How the ideal which is “not his actual
a combination of influences, one might think, self but beyond his present self” becomes
would render impossible either the exuberant sublimated into the concept of God, and this
ideality of Mr. Wells or the elaborate imagi- in turn “becomes moralized and spiritualized
nation of Mr. Dreiser or the personal sym- into the Absolute Self,” is discussed in a way
pathy of Mrs. Ward. But it gives other that does no violence to the thought that the
things quite as interesting, - all sorts of pic law of continuous evolution has ordered the
tures of manners and character; so that the course of spiritual as well as physical devel-
book is good reading even to those who do not opment. The consciousness of sin becoming
care for its thesis. But it does not succeed in ever more keen as ideals of perfection rise
giving something which is lacking in the oth- higher, is seen to be a natural corollary to
ers as well, and which is very often lacking growth in grace; and its ultimate develop-


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ment into that consciousness of moral re- work more efficiently through collective effort
sponsibility for the sins and oppressions of than through individual effort. Whether the
society which so strikingly characterizes mod- war will enhance the principle of representa-
ern times, is shown to be what it is, a step tive government depends in a large degree,
toward the ultimate end of all religion, he thinks, upon the success of republican
union with the beloved community. Very France and democratic England. Finally, he
timely, however, is the warning that “the asserts that there are certain lessons which
emphasis on the social experience easily tends
we in America can learn from European ex-
to the external and mechanical, and yet the perience during the war, especially in regard
conscious goal of the modern social movement
to organization for defence. Professor Selig.
is not an external and mechanical one. It is
man of Columbia undertakes the more diffi-
in part brotherhood, but not merely broth-
cult task of discovering the origins of the
erhood. It is in part an emphasis on the
war in economic rather than in political
enhancement of life, that is, on a value which
causes. His economic interpretation of the
is æsthetic and individual as well as social."
war shows originality and insight, but his
"Shall we not,” our author asks,“ behold a theory of causes is not entirely convincing.
new type of rebel? The rebellion of the new Professor Giddings, also of Columbia, deals
day will come, I believe, not from the rebels with the social aspects and results of the war.
,
against established religion, but from the with particular reference to their bearing
idealists, the artists and poets,- for it is
upon the future birth rate and the character
these who to-day suffer under the authority of the offspring begotten by those left behind
of scientific-materialism and of social prac and the physically enfeebled who return. His
tical life.” If it does not seem ungracious to
conclusions are less pessimistic than those
say so of a book that is good in every page, popularly held; indeed, he is skeptical enough
we could have wished it had been considera-
to doubt whether war greatly affects the
bly shorter. When so much claims our atten-
course of natural selection. Professor Wil.
tion, it makes too great a draft upon time and loughby of Johns Hopkins University, in an
thought to face nearly five hundred pages of
essay on “The Individual and the State,"
closely printed matter of a kind that forbids
contrasts the German theory of state control
“judicious skipping.” With this qualifica with that which prevails in England and the
tion, we estimate "The Drama of the Spir- United States. The German doctrine, which
itual Life” as among the most valuable of largely sacrifices the individual to the State,
recent contributions to the subject dealt with.
possesses, he admits, elements of lofty ideal-
ism, but it rests on a false assumption and
Although the end of the great demands sacrifices for which no real return
Problems of
readjustment European war is not yet in is made. He agrees with Professor Hart that
after the war.
sight, discussion of the probable if the extraordinary extension of state func-
results, economic, social, and political, and of tions produces good results the régime will
the problems of reconstruction that must be in many instances be continued after peace
faced by Europe after the conclusion of peace, is established. Professor Wilson of Harvard
has already begun. In a collection of essays reviews the conduct of the belligerents in
entitled “The Problems of Readjustment respect to their observance or non-observance
after the War" (Appleton), a group of dis- of the laws of war, and points out possi-
tinguished American professors has under- ble modifications in the existing rules that
taken to forecast certain of these results, and may be necessary on account of the new
to point out the problems of readjustment agencies and methods of warfare. One of
Professor Hart of Harvard, who is the editor the most valuable essays in the volume is
of the volume, discusses some of the political that by Professor Emory R. Johnson of the
transformations that have already occurred, University of Pennsylvania, who considers
particularly in respect to democracy, and the financial and commercial aspects of the
some that are likely to take place in conse- war and the probable results on international
quence of the war. He points out that the trade, the rate of interest, investments, credit,
measures to which some of the belligerent etc. Professor Johnson thinks the interest
governments have been compelled to resort rate will undoubtedly be higher, that there
have given a marked stimulus to Socialism, will be an abnormal inflation of credit, that
which as a principle has never before in the the American supply of gold will be greatly
history of mankind won such a victory. The reduced, that a period of business depression
method of the war, he tells us, has given the will in all likelihood follow the war, and that
Socialists ammunition for half a century to there will probably be a marked rise in the
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From Waterloo
Platitudes
student.
The fourth and concluding vol- another on page 460 to the effect that Presi-
ume of Mr. Arthur D. Innes's dent Cleveland's attitude in the Canadian
to Liège.
“History of England and the Fisheries Treaty and the Venezuelan dispute
British Empire" (Macmillan) covers the full "was an electioneering move," and that Lord
and intensely interesting period from 1802 to Salisbury's management of the affair was un-
1914, and has been finished since the beginning influenced “by the blatancy of the presiden-
of the "Æschylean drama " now being enacted tial appeal,” is too journalistic for historical
upon the stage of Europe. Thus the writing purposes. Mr. Innes's volume is rendered
of this volume has laid upon the author the still more useful by the addition of an ab-
task of opening and closing his narrative with stract of a recently issued report of the
the circumstance of a general European war.
British Admiralty stating in detail the tac-
His treatment, at the outset, of the Napoleonie tics employed by Nelson and Collingwood at
struggle has the advantage of a century of Trafalgar. The abstract is accompanied by
historical perspective; the volume ends with
a good diagram exhibiting the relative posi-
a nine-page epilogue which outlines the well
tions of the French and English at the point
known events from 1911 to the outbreak of
of attack, as well as the relative parts played
hostilities among the protagonists of the pres- by the two English commanders in the battle.
ent war. The account of the military and
economic conditions leading to the Peace of
Dr. Charles W. Eliot's “The
Amiens, which opens the first of the eleven for the college Training for an Effective Life
chapters of the book, shows very clearly that
(Houghton) is a compact little
England's re-entrance into the continental volume containing seven lectures or addresses
upheaval was self-defensive. Napoleon's pur- to students. When one recalls some of the
pose to absorb the small states of Holland classic utterances to students by Emerson,
and Switzerland, as well as the little princi- Carlyle, and others, one realizes all that such
palities of Germany, involved the presump- exhortations to the higher life by a veteran
tion that the affairs of the continent were no scholar might be, and one regrets the more
concern of England's. This imperial attitude that such exhortations should contain any-
led to the conflict that ended at Waterloo. thing that savors of the merely platitudinous.
As the student of this period reads again, in In few sentences does Dr. Eliot's book rise
Mr. Innes's well written account, the story of above the level of Samuel Smiles's “Self-
Napoleon's attempt at imperial expansion by Help.” The Englishman's heaven of "Getting
conquest, he will find himself reflecting upon " is too persistently held before the mind
how far the French and German positions of of the reader. One is forced to recall Ruskin's
a century ago have changed places, and to scathing satire on that idea of "advancement
what extent the political principle on which in life" which means having a visitor's and
insular England then fought France is re-
servant's bell at one's door, and his sugges-
asserting itself in the present “pentacost of tion that advancement in life conceived in
calamity.” Mr. Innes traces the story of such terms may mean literally "advancement
Britain's succession of great changes during in death"; or that the most pathetic life-
the century in politics, industry, and litera- failures are to be found among what the
ture. His treatment of persons and events is world calls the effective successes. We are
admirable in proportion, and his style is distressed, also, by one or two obvious slips
always free from obscurity and iteration. which amount almost to a descent into the
His judgments on the greater English writers grotesque. On page 5 the author defines an
are expressed with dignity and with insight, honorable man as one who never oppresses
and he speaks clearly and sympathetically or cheats a person that is weaker or poorer
throughout of the growth of democracy among than himself.” We had assumed that an
the English people. As he reaches the latter honorable man is equally scrupulous in his
half of his story, however, his comment at dealings with the powerful and rich. Again,
points becomes less satisfactory. This is par- the student is enjoined to "associate with
ticularly true of his treatment of foreign your superiors rather than with your infe-
affairs. His exposition, for example, of the riors; this is an excellent rule on which to
"Trent affair” is somewhat misleading. A select your friends." The obvious rejoinder
mere statement of facts without comment is that this may turn out to be rather hard
would have been better. There seems to be upon our superiors; and that the altruism
no real ground for the phrase that Lincoln's which Dr. Eliot assures his readers “is an
position in the matter, which averted war, important element in the enjoyment of most
was yielded, though with an ill grace kinds of work," might suggest seeking the
(page 303). This statement, as well as companionship of our inferiors for the infe-
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riors' sake if not for our own. Some one has of these sayings show a parallelism with the
said of Jesus that he not only loved the poor quotations from best-selling novels that Mr.
and outcast; he did more, he liked them, and Wister has adduced. Mr. George Lansing
preferred their company to that of the rich Raymond's books on æsthetic subjects have
and powerful. Perhaps Dr. Eliot intends his become so many, it seems, that a chrestomathy
injunction to point to our spiritual superiors, is necessary, to supplement the compendium
regardless of wealth, education, or social already issued. The congenial task of prepar-
status; but we fear that most readers of his ing it has fallen to his disciple, Mr. Marion
address entitled “The Character of a Gentle- Mills Miller, who shows the same appreciation
man” will hardly interpret his words in this as in his earlier four-hundred-page classified
way. On the whole, this little book does selection from Mr. Raymond's poetical works.
nothing to enhance the high estimate in which A semester under Theodor Vischer, which
Dr. Eliot is held, and for that reason we could convinced him that the basis of art is expres-
have wished it had not been published. sion, a sympathetic reading of Ruskin, an
astonishing accumulation of curious lore,
"A Book of Preferences in Lit-
Favorites
together with a sound piety of character, have
in poetry
erature (Dutton), by Mr. been Mr. Raymond's equipment in writing his
and fiction.
Eugene Mason, is well named. voluminous system of comparative æsthetics.
The author presents a few of his favorites in The Burlington “Hawkeye," "The Christian
poetry and fiction, and tells why they are his Register,” and “The Fireside,” with some
favorites. The list contains ten names: M. more sophisticated periodicals, have united in
Anatole France, Mr. Kipling, Guy de Mau- acclaiming the successive volumes, as the pub-
,
passant, José Maria de Heredia, Mr. W. B. lishers recite with pardonable gratification.
Yeats, Christina Rossetti, Paul Verlaine, For those who have not had the leisure to read
Francis Thompson, Walter Pater, and the them, we may quote the following statement
author of the “ Roman de Brut." The second by Mr. Miller of one of his author's most
and third names figure prominently in a chap- important fundamental propositions: “The
“
ter on “The Short Story," in which is traced primary and most universal endeavor of the
the development of that form of literary art imagination when influenced by the artistic
and it is asserted that England shares with tendency is to form an image that is made to
France the glory of having
revived the conte seem a unity by comparing and grouping
in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, together effects that, when seen or heard, are
with no slightest reference to America's nota- recognized to be wholly or partially alike."
ble contribution to this species of literature. Those who wish an inspiring and reverent
The author of “Sylvestre Bonnard” is made treatment of artistic topics incidental to the
to serve as an example of “the complete scep- main theme, cannot do better than refer to
tic," Heredia is "the poet as artist," Mr. the sections under such rubrics as “ Fads in
Yeats is “the poet as mystic," Christina Ros- Art,"
.” “Nude Art," and so on. As the Buf-
setti and Paul Verlaine appear as “two Chris- falo “Courier” says of the companion vol-
tian poets,” Francis Thompson as "a Catholic ume, "The compiler has done fine work."
poet," Walter Pater is exalted, as a master of
English, to an eminence not below that of
Dr. and Mrs. William Healy
Shakespeare, Lamb, and Newman, and Wace's The disease have written an interesting and
name heads a hitherto unpublished introduc-
of lying.
significant book under the title,
tion to the King Arthur portion of the “Pathological Lying, Accusation, and Swin-
Roman de Brut.” The atmosphere of the
dling," which forms the initial number of
little volume is that of refined taste and care- the “Criminal Science Monographs" (Little,
ful scholarship, and in its style the book is a
Brown & Co.). Of the nineteen cases of
refreshing oasis in the desert of arid medi-
"normal" mentality here dealt with, in which
ocrity of facile English. Admirably expres- at least the lying is the central symptom and
sive is the author's characterization of the
in some cases the total abnormality, all but
sonnet as viewed by the average reader. “I
one are young women (ages mostly sixteen to
believe,” he says, "the public considers the
nineteen.) Thus it will be seen that the mal-
sonnet a very hard boiled egg at best.”
ady is a strikingly feminine failing; which
means that the masculine counterpart of the
No one would think of applying kindred disorder takes a different form. One
The Harold
Bell Wright of Mr. Wister's playful metaphor girl comes with a pathetic story of family
art criticism.
of quackery to the kindly and tragedy; another is a mystery to herself and
venerable author of the sayings in "An Art friends; a third simulates illness and makes
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her father of immorality and also indulges in to lengthen the book somewhat, the author
shoplifting; a fifth confesses to her professor has published his sources, which comprise
that she has killed a man; a sixth indulges in about one-third of the volume. If these were
wild romancing about all sorts of exploits; a translated, their introduction might be of real
seventh iš plainly incorrigible and includes value; but there seems to be but little justifi-
lying among her bad habits; the eighth, ninth, cation for printing Latin documents in a book
tenth, and the rest range from mild falsifica- which is evidently intended for popular con-
tion, petty swindling, accusing self and others sumption. In his account of the preliminaries
of imaginary crimes with elaboration of de- of the battle of Chalons - which, by the way,
tails, to most serious criminal violations and was also fought on the Marne,- Mr. Hutton
charges. From beginning to end it is a tissue takes occasion to rebuke the Americans for
of lies, and, until the clue is found, a baffling their failure to assist the allies: “The Visi-
one. Many of these cases come forward in goths replied as America is doing to-day: 'It
the courts or in preliminary legal investiga- is not our business; see you to it.' Mr.
tion, when testimony is contradictory or scan- Hutton's history can have no value, and can
dal seems unfounded. Society has an interest serve no purpose except to stir up hatred; but
in such offenders; and the clear connection in unfortunately it is to be feared that in this
many cases with subnormal mentality estab- respect it will not differ from much of the
lishes the close relation of such vagaries with history to be written during the next decade.
mental deviation. Dr. Healy seems inclined
to limit the diagnosis of hysteria to cases
Rather unusual must be the cir-
As seen from
with marked major or bodily symptoms, and the editor's cumstances justifying the pub-
thus loses the chance to expand the hysterical
sanctum.
lication of a four-hundred-page
concept to precisely fit his cases. The self- volume of short editorials on questions of the
centred mentality, the alliance with the sex- day - that is, of the day on which they sev-
impulse, the desire for attention, interest, erally were written. But the publishers
sensation, the weak hold of the objective world, (George H. Doran Co.) of “National Flood-
the indulgence in romancing, make a classic marks: Week by Week Observations on
picture of the hysterical culture-bed.
American Life as Seen by Collier's" would
fact, his cases have simply carried the issue doubtless maintain that Collier's" is no
to a more dramatic conclusion. They ap- ordinary newspaper; and in fact the editor
proach the borderland, and some belong on of the book, Mr. Mark Sullivan, takes pains
the yonder side. The feminine quality of the to inform the reader that no perfunctory
complex is equally convincing, as is also the utterances have ever been allowed to deaden
occasional alliance with nervous symptoms the vivacity of that weekly's editorial col-
equally characteristic of the feminine liabil- umns. Each article is “the sincere expres-
ity. The collection of cases is valuable, and sion of either a conviction or a mood," and
the interpretation restrained and objective. not "written to order," he earnestly assures
The facts are available for some interesting These selected expressions of convictions
psychological and sociological conclusions. and moods run back over four years and are
grouped under twenty-three general headings,
It is reported that when the making a total of about three hundred more
History of Kaiser sent his soldiers to or less piquant paragraphs on topics not yet
dubious value.
China in the year of the Boxer of purely antiquarian interest. Admirers of
uprising, he counselled them to terrorize the Mr. Norman Hapgood's trenchant style might
Chinese as the Huns terrorized the people of wish the volume to have been extended so as
Europe in the fifth century. The story may to cover an even longer period. There is,
be mythical, but Englishmen find it very however, good reading in plenty, of the sort
credible just now and frequently refer to the here indicated, in the present collection.
German soldiers as Huns. In order to prove
that the appellation is not without its justifi-
Miss Margaret Prescott Mon-
True stories
cation, Mr. Edward Hutton has written a vol- of the deaf tague tells a number of pathetic
ume on "Attila and the Huns" (Dutton), in
and the blind.
and moving stories about
which Attila's policy of “frightfulness" is of the little deaf children and blind children
illustrated by the citing of recent events and whom she has learned to know as only a sym-
parallels. The author also accepts and con- pathetic teacher (next to a loving mother)
tends for the theory that the Prussians are of can know them. “Closed Doors" (Hough-
Finnic origin, and consequently of the same ton) she appropriately names this collection
race as the Huns. We do not know much of first-hand narratives from a certain State
about Attila's career, so his story is soon told; school for the deaf and blind. Touching in-


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deed is the story she tells of the little deaf
NOTES.
and dumb boy who heroically and successfully
struggled to articulate the one word that gave
An English edition of Mr. H. C. Chatfield-
Taylor's scholarly biography of Goldoni will be
ecstasies of rapture to his blind mother when
next she visited him at the school. Equally | London.
published at once by Messrs. Chatto & Windus of
moving is the account of the deaf boy threat-
ened with blindness and vainly trying to
A critical study of Mr. Kipling by Mr. John
Palmer will be added at once to the 66 Writers of
wipe away the darkness from his eyes. The
the Day" series, issued under the imprint of
pompous and unfeeling Mr. Prouty, head of Messrs. Holt.
the Board of Control and an astute politician,
“ The Psychology of Relaxation" by Mr. G. T.
is also well portrayed; one is glad to see, in
W. Patrick, announced for autumn publication by
the end, that the piteous sights before him do the Houghton Mifflin Co., has been postponed
finally move him to some show of feeling. until next spring.
Dr. Richard C. Cabot warmly commends the An additional title soon to appear in the “ New
book in an appreciative preface.
Poetry Series" is "Stillwater Pastorals, and Other
Poems by Mr. Paul Shivell, with a preface by
Professor Bliss Perry.
Three books of fiction, hitherto unannounced, to
BRIEFER MENTION.
be published this month by Messrs. Appleton are
Publication of the late Francis Fisher Browne's
" The Winged Victory" by Mme. Sarah Grand,
“Every-Day Life of Lincoln " has been taken over
“ Birds' Fountain" by Baroness von Hutten, and
by Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons, and the book is
“ Police!" by Mr. Robert W. Chambers.
now issued in a new and cheaper edition. Since A collection of stories and poems by Mr. H.
its first appearance, nearly thirty years ago, this Fielding-Hall is announced by Messrs. Houghton
work has gradually taken precedence in popular- Mifflin Co. The volume is inspired by the present
ity over all other biographies of Lincoln; and the situation in Europe, and more specifically by inci-
excellent form of this new edition, combined with dents and methods of recruiting in England.
the low price, will undoubtedly ensure for it a Many of the monuments and
other treasures
still wider circle of readers than it has hitherto shattered in the war are illustrated and described
had. A fine photogravure reproduction of Mar- in the new volume by Mrs. Elizabeth W. Champ-
shall's portrait of Lincoln is included as a frontis- ney, entitled “Romance of Old Belgium,” which
piece, and there are two other portraits in the Messrs. Putnam have nearly ready for publication.
volume.
Mr. Arnold Bennett's first-hand impressions of
One of the latest school texts in English history the war will be published by Messrs. Doran under
is the “ Short History of England and the British the title of “ Over There.” From the same house
Empire” (Holt), by Professor Laurence M. Lar- will come Mr. David Lloyd George's “ Through
son of the University of Illinois. This book covers Terror to Triumph," being a collection of war
the field adequately for secondary schools. It is speeches.
written in a clear and direct style, and constitutes 66 Wood and Stone" is the title of a forthcoming
one of the most readable texts in its class, at the novel by Mr. John Cowper Powys which will be
same time producing the impression of a scholarly published about the middle of this month by Mr.
acquaintance with the sources. The industrial and G. Arnold Shaw of New York. The book is
social facts, as well as the political, are dealt with. described as a dramatic answer to Nietzsche's
There are nearly seven hundred pages in the vol- philosophy.”
ume, and a number of illustrations are included. Mr. Conway Whittle Sams has written, and
As a text for high schools, it will doubtless meet Messrs. Putnam will publish, a series of books
with general favor.
describing “ The Conquest of Virginia." The first
The momentous events now transpiring in the volume, to appear this month, is entitled “ The
Far East make timely the new edition of Sir
Forest Primeval: An Account, based on Original
William Muir's “ The Caliphate: Its Rise, De-
Documents, of the Indians in that Portion of the
cline, and Fall.” First issued in 1883, the book
Continent in which was Established the First
at once became the standard treatment in English English Colony in America."
of its subject. Subsequent editions appeared in One of the few war books likely to serve
1891 and 1899, and now Mr. T. H. Weir has definitely constructive purpose is the forthcoming
given the work a thorough revision. Among the volume entitled “ Towards a Lasting Settlement,"
changes which he introduces are the adoption of
in which various fundamental problems relating
the system of Arabic transliteration followed by to the war and the future are discussed by Messrs.
the Royal Asiatic Society, the incorporation of G. Lowes Dickinson, H. N. Brailsford, J. A. Hob-
many observations from Wellhausen's “ Das Ara- son, Vernon Lee, Philip Snowden, M.P., and oth-
bische Reich und Sein Sturz," and the compilation
The book is edited by Mr. C. Roden Buxton.
of an up-to-date bibliography. The publisher, Some new light is thrown on the life of Sir
Mr. John Grant of Edinburgh, has given this new Philip Sidney in the forthcoming memoir by Pro-
edition a most attractive and workmanlike setting. fessor Malcolm W. Wallace, of University College,
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Toronto, who points out that Sidney's life pos- to them and to the Press in 1913. . . On the pub-
sesses a new interest for us to-day, “ for he, too, lication of the Gedichte the Press will be closed.”
died in the Netherlands in defence of ideals Another vacant chair in the French Academy is
strangely similar to those for which the British
now to be filled, owing to the death, on October 25,
nation is to-day engaged in a life-and-death of Paul Hervieu, novelist and playwright with a
struggle."
considerable list of successful works to his credit,
Dr. Albert Bushnell Hart, Professor of the though he was but in the prime of life when he
Science of Government in Harvard University, is died. Born at Neuilly, Sept. 2, 1857, he was edu-
the author of “ The Monroe Doctrine: An Inter- cated in Paris, chose the law as a profession, and
pretation," which Messrs. Little, Brown & Co. practised in the court of appeals for a short time;
will publish at once. The writer's aim is to set was also for a brief space a secretary of embassy;
forth what the Monroe Doctrine has meant at but by the time he was twenty-five found his true
different times in our history, what it means at the vocation, and had ever since been producing nov-
present time, and what are the difficulties in the els and plays with a facility that might have meant
way of making it work under present world condi- inferior work in one less gifted. A half-score of
tions.
works of prose fiction, with a dozen stage produc-
The history, aims, and achievements of Jewish tions, form the most notable product of his pen.
nationalism are dealt with by several writers in a
His fame, with his plays and novels, has gone
volume entitled, “ Zionism and the Jewish Future,”
abroad to other lands, including our own, where
which is to be published under the editorship of
he is known to theatre-goers and readers.
Mr. Albert H. Hyamson. The possibilities of the
Green's “ Short History of the English People"
movement are demonstrated in the story of what is to be included, in two volumes, in the next
has already been accomplished in Palestine in the
batch of twelve additions to " Everyman's Li-
way of founding colonies, schools, banks, and in brary.” The work has been edited for this pur-
general re-creating a Jewish national life in the pose, with an Introduction, by Mr. L. Cecil Jane,
ancient home of the Jewish people.
and will include an appendix by Mr. R. P. Farley,
The critical and biographical study of Words-
bringing the narrative to the beginning of the
worth by Professor George McLean Harper, al-
present war, and there will be maps in color and
black and white. Among the remaining volumes
ready announced for publication in England, will
appear in this country under the imprint of
which Messrs. Dutton are adding to the series are:
Messrs. Scribner. Among other forthcoming im-
“Edwin Drood,” with an Introduction by Mr.
portations of this house are: “ The Russian Cam-
G. K. Chesterton, completing the “Everyman
paign, April to August, 1915," by Mr. Stanley
edition of Dickens; Gogol's “ Dead Souls,” trans-
Washburn; “In Russian Turkestan," by Miss
lated by Mr. C. J. Hogarth; Balzac's “ Ursule
Annette M. B. Meakin; and “England's Guar-
Mirouët," with an Introduction by Dr. George
antee to Belgium and Luxemburg," by Messrs.
Saintsbury; Newman's “ On the Scope and Nature
C. P. Sanger and H. T. J. Norton.
of University Education” and “ Christianity and
Scientific Investigation," with an Introduction by
An extended work on “The Iconography of
Dr. Wilfrid Ward; and Ibsen's “Lady Inger of
Manhattan Island," in the preparation of which
Mr. I. N. Phelps Stokes has long been engaged, is
Ostraat,” “ Love's Comedy," and "The League of
Youth," translated by Mr. R. Farquharson Sharp.
announced for early issue. The work is to be pro-
fusely illustrated by reproductions of rare and
An immediately forthcoming volume (the
interesting paintings, drawings, prints, maps, and
twelfth) of “The Cambridge History of English
Literature” forms the first of three volumes deal-
documents in the public and private collections of
America and Europe which relate to the history ing with the literature of the nineteenth century,
and development of Manhattan Island, from the
which will bring the History to a close. The open-
earliest times down to the Hudson-Fulton celebra-
ing chapter is devoted to Sir Walter Scott, by
tion. The work will be published by Mr. Robert
Dr. T. F. Henderson. Professor F. W. Moorman
H. Dodd, of New York, who expects to issue the
contributes a chapter on Byron; Professor C. H.
first volume early in December. The edition will
Herford on Shelley, as well as another chapter on
be limited, with a small number of copies on
Keats; Dr. George Saintsbury has chapters on
Japan paper.
“Lesser Poets, 1790-1837," and “ The Landors,
Leigh Hunt, De Quincey”; Mr. Harold Child on
In announcing the publication this month of
“Lesser Novelists," and Jane Austen; Sir A. W.
his Doves Press edition of Wordsworth's “ The
Ward deals with Historians: Writers on An-
Prelude," Mr. Cobden-Sanderson makes the fol-
cient and Early Ecclesiastical History”; Profes-
lowing statement: “ This Book is the last which
sor W. D. Howe, of the University of Indiana,
will be published in English at The Doves Press.
has a chapter on Hazlitt; Mr. A. Hamilton
It will be followed by the final edition of The
Thompson on Lamb; the Hon. Arthur R. D.
Catalogue Raisonné of the Books published at the Elliot on “Reviews and Magazines in the Early
Press, and, if a sufficient number of subscribers Years of the Nineteenth Century"; the Ven.
be obtained, by the long promised collection of W. H. Hutton on “ The Oxford Movement”; the
Goethe's Gedichte, which I have already selected Rev. F. E. Hutchinson on “ The Growth of Liberal
and arranged. This I hope to publish and so bring Theology"; and Sir John E. Sandys a closing
to an end the scheme of Books which I had chapter on “Scholars, Antiquaries, and Bibliog-
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Stars, Evolution of. W. W. Campbell
Scientific
Suffrage, Woman
Unpopular
Survival, Fechner's Theory of. j. Arthur Hill Hibbert
Swiss Military System, The. F. Feyler
Century
Talent, Conservation of. John M. Gilette
Scientific
Taylor, Bayard, Romance of, Ralph Armstrong Bookman
Theology, The War and. L. P. Jacks
Hibbert
Thrift, Individual
Unpopular
United States as a world Power.' Arthur Bullard Century
Verlaine, Unpublished Letters of. Arthur Symons No. Amer.
Vocational Guidance
Unpopular
Wage Laws for Priests after the Black Death. Bertha H.
Putnam
Am. Hist.
Wage-Board, The Minimum
Unpopular
War, A German's View of the. G. Lowes Dickinson Hibbert
War, A Month of. Frank H. Simonds
Rev. of Reve.
War, A Quaker Apologia for the. J. W. Graham Hibbert
War, After the. Theodore H. Price
World's Work
War, American Phariseeism and the. J. D. Whelpley Century
War, Art and the. John Galsworthy
Atlantic
War, Business, and Insurance, D. S. Jordan Scientific
War, Facts and Questions of the. James Bryce Hibbert
War: How It Looked in Advance
Unpopular
War, Real Cause of the
Unpopular
War, The, and Higher Learning in America. C. F.
Thwing
Hibbert
War: Triumph and Tragedy. Hugh Walker
Hibbert
War, Weapons of. French Strother
World's Work
War Loans. John Bates Clark
Everybody's
Wayland the Feminist
Unpopular
Woman, Professionalizing of the Married. Elisabeth
Woodbridge
Atlantic
Woodchuck, Ways of the. 'Walter P. Eaton
Harper
" Yann Nibor": Bard of French Sailors. E. L.
Mattern
Bookman
Zeppelin Raids. Amos S. Hershey
Rev. of Reve.
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LIST OF NEW BOOKS.
(The following list, containing 155 titles, includes books
received by THE DIAL since its last issue.)
TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS.
November, 1915.
Advertising, The Psychology of — II.
Unpopular
Æsthetic Integrity
Unpopular
Africa, West, Letters from – 11.' Jean K. Mackenzie Atlantic
Alsace, Retaking of. E. Alexander Powell
Scribner
Aphorisms, American. Brander Matthews
Harper
Army, The, and Congress. J. S. Gregory
World's Work
Art, Two Schools of. William Walton
Scribner
Art in a Mechanical Society. C. R. Ashbee
Hibbert
Athletics, Intercollegiate. W. T. Foster
Atlantic
Bagdad: City of Kalifs. William Warfield
Harper
Business on the Upgrade. J. H. Fahey
Everybody's
City vs. Country Life. Jesse Lynch Williams Scribner
Comedy, High, in America. Clayton Hamilton Bookman
Crocker Land Expedition, The - II. D. B. Macmillan Harper
Davis, Jefferson, A Theory of. N. W. Stephenson Am. Hist.
Defence and Revenue. Albert B. Cummins Rev. of Revs.
Drink Reform in the United States. John Koren Atlantic
Earth, The, and a Butternut. A. C. Lane
Scientific
Education, Liberal. Samuel M. Crothers
Atlantic
Electrification, Contact. Fernando Sanford
Scientific
England and Belgium, Earlier Relations of. C. W.
Colby
Am. Hist.
Export Trade, Possibilities of. C. C. Chopp World's Work
Exporter, The Prospective. W. F. Wyman World's Work
France, In Northern. Edith Wharton
Scribner
French Objective in the American Revolution. E. S.
Corwin
Am. Hist.
Geddes, Garden of - II. Huntly Carter
Forum
George, David Lloyd. Lewis R. Freeman Rev. of Revs.
German War Literature, Recent. M. Epstein Hibbert
Germany's Military Plan. Munroe Smith
No. Amer.
Heteromatic Writing .
Unpopular
Ibsen's Treatment of Guilt. Principai Forsyth Hibbert
Illiteracy. Winthrop Talbot
Century
Immigration, Industry, and War. F. C. Howe Rev. of Revs.
Immigration after the War. F. C. Howe
Scribner
International Finance. G. E. Roberts
Everybody's
Japan and the Coronation. Martha L. Root
Rev. of Reve.
Jew, War-Cries of the. E. R. Lipsett
Century
Jones, Henry Arthur. Thomas H. Dickinson No. Amer.
Labor, Law, and Order
Unpopular
Lazarovich-Hrebelianovich, Princess, Reminiscences of
IV.
Century
Longfellow, Henry W. Gamaliel Bradford
Bookman
Magazine in America, The - IX. Algernon Tassin Bookman
Metropolitan Museum, Paintings of the. W. H. Wright Forum
Mexican Revolution, The. Carlo de Fornaro
Forum
Mexico, A Needed Government for. Alice D. McLaren Scribner
Michelangelo, The Physical. James F. Rogers Scientific
Military Training for German Youth. Alfred Graden-
witz
Rev. of Reve.
Military Training in Public Schools. L. M. Green Rev. of Revs.
Ministry, The Professional. Edward Lewis
Atlantic
Monroe Doctrine, The. Albert B. Hart
No. Amer.
Moral Ideals, Warfare of. E. B. M'Gilvary
Hibbert
Mount Olympus, Climbing. A, E. Phoutrides and F. P.
Farquhar
Scribner
Mysticism and Mahomedanism. E. C. Thwaytes Hibbert
Napoleon's Brother, An Interview with, J. K. Paulding Harper
Naval Principles. Bradley A. Fiske
No. Amer.
Navy, The, and Congress. George Marvin World's Work
Navy Department, Wasted Millions in the E. M.
Woolley
Everybody's
New York of the Novelists – i11. A. 'B. Maurice Bookman
Noguchi: Strategist of Bacteriology. Carl Snyder Everybody's
Nordau, The Case of. James Huneker
Forum
Ogden Memorial, An. Albert Shaw
Rev. of Revs.
One Hundred Years Hence. Alan Sullivan
Harper
Open-Air Schools for Normal Children. Hazel H.
Adler
Century
Pacifism and Preparedness. Agnes Repplier Atlantic
Papua: Where the Stone-Age Lingers. A. G. Mayer Scientific
Pig and Baby Beef Clubs. Stanley Johnson American
Plattsburg, What I Learned at. R. W. Page World's Work
Play, On Reading a
Unpopular
Portugal and Its Romarias. 'Ernest Peixotto Scribner
Precocity and Genius. Bailey Millard
Bookman
Preparedness, The Truth about. E. F. Wood Century
Preparedness and Congressional Leaders. James Mid-
dleton
World's Work
Prices according to Law. Arthur A. Ballantine Atlantic
Prohibition. L. Ames Brown
No. Amer.
Prohibition, National, and Representative Govern-
ment
Unpopular
Prohibition, National, and the Church
Unpopular
Resurrection, The Idea of. A. G. Widgery
Hibbert
School Plan, New, for New York. W. A. Prender-
gast
Rev. of Reve.
Scollard and the American Stage. H. J. O'Higgins Century
Sentimentalism Soft and Hard
Unpopular
Serbian Epic, The. Abraham Yarmolinsky
Bookman
Spencer's Over-Legislation." E. H. Gary
Forum
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BIOGRAPHY AND REMINISCENCES.
Vagrant Memories: Being Further Recollections of
Other Days. By William Winter. Illustrated in
photogravure, etc., 8vo, 524 pages. George H.
Doran Co. $3. net.
Memories and Anecdotes. By Kate Sanborn. Illus-
trated, 12mo, 219 pages. G. P. Putnam's Sons.
$1.75 net.
Camille Desmoulins: A Biography. By Violet Meth-
ley. Illustrated in photogravure, 8vo, 332 pages.
E. P. Dutton & Co. $5. net.
The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln: A Narra-
tive and Descriptive Biography, with Pen-Pic-
tures and Personal Recollections by Those Who
Knew Him. By Francis Fisher Browne. New
and cheaper edition; illustrated in photogravure,
etc., 8vo, 650 pages. G. P. Putnam's Sons.
$1.75 net.
Pleasures and Palaces: Memoirs. By Princess
Lazarovich-Hrebelianovich. Illustrated, 8vo, 360
pages. Century Co. $3. net.
Court Life from Within. By H. R. H. the Infanta
Eulalia of Spain. Illustrated, 12mo, 265 pages.
Dodd, Mead & Co. $2.50
Henry Codman Potter, Seventh Bishop of New
York. By George Hodges. Illustrated, 8vo, 386
pages. Macmillan Co. $3.50 net.
The Kaiser: His Personality and Career. By Joseph
McCabe. 12mo, 292 pages. T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd.
HISTORY.
The Fighting Cheyennes. By George Bird Grinnell,
Large 8vo, 431 pages. Charles Scribner's Sons.
$3.50 net.
Brissot de Warville: A Study in the History of the
French Revolution. By Eloise Ellery, Ph.D.
8vo, 528 pages.. "Vassar Semi-Centennial Series."
Houghton Mifflin Co. $1.75 net.
French Memories of Eighteenth-Century America.
By Charles H. Sherrill. Illustrated, 8vo, 335
pages. Charles Scribner's Sons. $2. net.
Genoa: Her History as Written in Her Buildings.
By E. A. Le Mesurier. 12mo, 215 pages. London:
T. Fisher Unwin,
A Short History of Japan. By Ernest Wilson
Clement. Illustrated, 12mo, 190 pages. Univer-
sity of Chicago Press. $1. net.
The Jews of Russia and Poland: A Bird's-eye View
of their History and Culture By Israel Fried-
laender, Ph.D. With map, 12mo, 214 pages. G. P.
Putnam's Sons. $1.25 net.
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The Letters of Washington Irving to Henry Bre-
voort. Edited, with introduction, by George S.
Hellman. In 2 volumes, with photogravure por-
traits, 8vo. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $10. net.
Interpretations of Literature. By Lafcadio Hearn;
selected and edited, with introduction, by John
Erskine, Ph.D. In 2 volumes, with portrait,
large Svo. Dodd, Mead & Co. $6. net.
L. There a Shakespeare Problem? With a Reply to
Mr. J. M. Robertson and Mr. Andrew Lang. By
G. G. Greenwood, M.P. Large 8vo, 611 pages.
John Lane Co. $4.50 net.
Papers on Acting. Comprising: The Illusion of the
First Time in Acting, by William Gillette, with
introduction by George Arliss; Art and the
Actor, by Constant Coquelin, translated by Abby
Langdon Alger, with introduction by Henry
James; Mrs. siddons as Lady Macbeth and as
Queen Katharine, by H. C. Fleeming Jenkin, with
introduction by Brander Matthews; Reflexions
on the Actor's Art, by Talma, with introduction
by Sir Henry Irving, and a review by H. C.
Fleeming Jenkin. Each 8vo. New York City:
Dramatic Museum of Columbia University.
Aristocracy and Justice. By Paul Elmer More.
12mo, 243 pages. " Shelburne Essays.” Houghton
Mifflin Co. $1.25 net.
Reticence in Literature, and Other Papers. By
Arthur Waugh. 12mo, 207 pages. E. P. Dutton
& Co. $1.25 net.
Robert Greene. By John Clark Jordan, Ph.D. 12mo,
231 pages. "Columbia University Studies in
English and Comparative Literature." New
York: Columbia University Press. $1.50 net.
A History of American Literature since 1870. By
Fred Lewis Pattee. 8vo, 449 pages. Century Co.
$2. net.
Back to Shakespeare. By Herbert Morse. 12mo,
304 pages.
E. P. Dutton & Co. $2. net.
Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy. By Stephen
Leacock. 12mo, 282
pages. John Lane
Co.
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VERSE AND DRAMA.
The Pilgrim Kings: Greco and Goya, and Other
Poems of Spain. By Thomas Walsh. 12mo, 130
pages. Macmillan Čo. $1.25 net.
Imperial Japanese Poems of the Meiji Era. Trans-
lated from the Japanese by Frank Alanson Lom-
bard. 12mo. Privately printed.
The Reciter's Treasury of Irish Verse and Prose.
Compiled and edited by Alfred Percival Graves
and Guy Pertwee. 8vo, 512 pages. E. P. Dutton
& Co. $1.50 net.
Four Plays. By Emile Augier: translated, with
introduction, by Barrett H. Clark and with pre-
face by E. Brieux. 12mo, 234 pages. Alfred A.
Knopf. $1.50 net.
The House That Was, and Other Poems. By Benja-
min R. C. Low. 12mo, 144 pages. John Lane Co.
$1.25 net.
Mount Minsi Fairies: A Fairy Story in Verse. By
Charles K. Meschter. Illustrated, 12mo, 38 pages.
Richard G. Badger. $1. net.
Babble o' Green Fields, and Other Poems. By Mark
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The Later Life. By Louis Couperus; translated by
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The Fatal Garland. By Mrs. Ghosal (Srimati Svarna
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The Precipice. Translated from the Russian of
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A Man's Hearth. By Eleanor M. Ingram. Illus-
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Co. $1.25 net.
Taras Bulba: A Tale of the Cossacks. Translated
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Dear Enemy. By Jean Webster. Illustrated, 12mo,
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Steve Yeager. By William MacLeod Raine. With
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Yvette, and Other Stories. By Guy de Maupassant;
translated by A. G. (Mrs. John Galsworthy);
with preface by Joseph Conrad. 12mo, 284 pages.
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Molly and I; or, The Silver Ring. By Frank R.
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Vol. LIX. NOVEMBER 25, 1915 No. 706
“JUST A NICE STORY."
The old-fashioned woman of a generation
CONTENTS.
ago used always to be looking for that isle of
"JUST A NICE STORY.” H. W. Boynton . 471 safety in the perilous thoroughfare of current
fiction which she called the "sweet pretty
LITERARY AFFAIRS IN FRANCE. (Special
Paris Correspondence.) Theodore Stanton 474
story." Her mother had escaped to it from
Maxim Gorky's Son, and Other Coming Euro-
unpleasant writers like Thackeray and George
pean Lecturers in America.- M. Jules Bois's Eliot. She herself sought refuge there from
New Novel.— The Late Remy de Gourmont. the deeper distresses of Thomas Hardy, the
CASUAL COMMENT
475
shocking young cynicism of Kipling, and
The dramatic renascence.- Better textbooks
those new importations from France and Rus-
at lower price.- Imagism and plagiarism.- sia of the strange thing called realism, which
The fascination of forbidden fiction.— The showed only too plainly what a dreadful state
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and yet not all her daughters have outgrown
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sands, look for relief to the white-and-gold
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479 volume with the red-haired girl on the cover ;
William Cullen Bryant Again. Harriet
and they pass it on, murmuring more or less
Monroe.
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The Librarian as Literary Critic. Bernard able to be innocent) that it is “just a nice
C. Steiner.
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CARLYLE REDIVIVUS. Alex. Mackendrick 483
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THE NEW PAINTING, Grant Showerman 486
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MEMORIALS OF A GREAT ASTRONOMER.
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Mabel Loomis Todd
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THE IRVING-BREVOORT LETTERS. William
B. Cairns.
491 critic, unless he is fairly frozen in among his
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LITERATURE AND HISTORY. Fred Morrow relenting moments. In these days, when
Fling ..
493
authoresses pride themselves upon being vir-
RECENT FICTION: Edward E. Hale
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Smith's Felix O'Day.- Mrs. Burnett's The soft impeachment of parlor romance, to taste
Lost Prince.- Parker's The Money Master - the lucent syrups of the sentimentalist.
Miss Cather's The Song of the Lark.
Granted that the "pretty” story is often
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497 sickish to a robust appetite; nevertheless has
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NOTES
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What is the genesis of the nice story? I
LIST OF NEW BOOKS
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to make a serious study of it (very serious it to kill a pair of lovers in each other's arms
must be, with tables and diagrams) for the (preferably by lightning) as to land them at
academic mart. Unless she were very ambi- the altar. But a little later in Victoria's reign
tious, she might make shift with a start in fashions changed, melancholy ceased to be a
Sanskrit or Pali literature. The tale of Ruth preferred pleasure; the kiss curtain, as they
would edge her along through the somewhat say in dramatic circles, came in once more.
grim Hebrew pages. Greece, handled with The light that never was on sea or land was
discretion, would respond more liberally to spotted upon the happy pair at that supreme
her coaxing hand. Rome, I fear, would hold instant of tableau when happiness has not
off a little; sweetness and prettiness were not begun to be menaced by the grocer, the cradle,
much in the Roman line. For the middle or the third member of the triangle. We saw
ages, the tale of Griselda hangs on the peril- them married, and we left it to them to be
ous edge of tragedy; but the lady is the real happy ever after. However dismally, in real
sort, and everything turns out right in the life, we might be bored by the young lady
end; Boccacio could be as pretty as you who has just struck a final balance between
please when he was not happening to be her skirts and her back hair, or the young
naughty. The days of Elizabeth were not too gentleman who has just “graduated,” we, or
spaciously masculine to produce several of the females of our species, were well content
the nicest stories in the world. Rosalind was to philander with them for a season, in print.
prototype of how many hundreds of virtuous For they are youth,- ourselves as we are,
daring heroines? Viola, her damask cheek have been, or might have been. Therefore the
not more than becomingly ravaged by con- silly and wonderful time that links adoles-
cealment, her humor (as Rosalind's is not) cence to the hour of mating is the one age of
always subject to her sentiment, is nearer man which is of universal interest.
the sweet pretty type, while Perdita and Hence the enormous and hardly yet dimin-
Miranda are perfect embodiments of it. There ishing popularity of “Little Women.” Here,
was not much chance in the days of Dry- if you like, is the nice story, the pretty story,
den and Congreve. The eighteenth century the story that leaves a pleasant taste in one's
trickled its damper sentiment through the mouth. If it is capable of furnishing mate-
channel of the so-called Eastern Tale, that rial, now and then, for "a good cry," and if
queer concoction of sickly sentiment and pre- its sentiment is unabashedly Victorian, it
posterous action, concerning persons with lived and still lives chiefly in an atmosphere
names which no longer figure in print except of harmless laughter. Miss Alcott's world is
on the covers of cigarette-boxes. And of an undergraduate world without cynicism, a
course there was “Paul and Virginia,” not flapper" world which somehow escapes silli-
too tragic in the end for the lachrymose taste ness, the world of immortal youth at some-
of the time.
thing approaching its best. That world has
This is all very sketchy and doubtless inac- its rightful limitation. When its young fig-
curate, and will, I fear, only suggest to our ures have passed in pairs up the church steps,
aspirant for academic honors the way in and we have lingered a moment to hear the
which the thing ought not to be done. Any. strains of Mendelssohn or “The Voice that
how, I am sure she will find more prettiness Breathed o'er Eden," we may well let the
and niceness in the nineteenth century than curtain fall. We have had the cream of life,
in all the others put together. Of course the never mind about the skimmed milk. For
lachrymose habit persisted in its earlier years our purposes, at least, the hero and heroine,
- yes, well into its middle. If you will look having discharged, with the act of mating,
into any of those quaint annuals which flour- the supreme function of youth, have rightly
ished in the forties and fifties,- the Tokens, ceased to be.
and Souvenirs, and Books of Gems, you will Against this view of life let the realists
observe that the happy ending as a requisite rage. Turning an ingenuous ear, we simply
of the nice story is a relatively modern affair. perceive that they are talking about some-
People loved to have Little Nell die by inches, thing else. Life happens to interest them
under a pink light. Poets were encouraged to chiefly in other phases. They are willing to
warble about their pleasing woe and their admit that puberty and the act of mating are
cherished despair. It was at least as popular episodes of physiological and racial import;


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but they find more absorbing themes in the Another popular variant of the pretty
physiology or psychology of marriage as a story owes its fascination to its activity in
state, in the devious conduct of the “ever pushing this same sentiment along in the
after” – if, indeed, they condescend to treat other direction. I recall a story hailed enthu-
life in themes rather than in slices or in siastically the other day by lovers of the
hunks!
sweet pretty. It was about an aged pair,
Well, there is no real matter for argument wed for many years, who call each other
here, is there? It all comes down to the old Pelleas and Etarre, and whose chief occupa-
brass tacks of preference. And one is not tion turns out to be making eyes at each other
invariably a silly ass because he fails to be a and otherwise going through the exercises
curmudgeon. Some people like to grit their proper to a normal and healthy calf-love. I
teeth and stare at things, others like to shut thought it rather indecent, myself — an ex-
their eyes and dream of them. It is a ques-
treme instance of the kind of thing which I
tion of mood, with a great many of us. The suppose represents a reaction against the sor-
sweet pretty story, reduced to its elements, is
did or squalid aspects of marriage as shown
merely a sort of easy and soothing substitute
up by the gloomier realists. The reaction is
for poetry, prepared for what used to be legitimate enough, up to a certain point. The
called the boudoir. It is a literature for the
natural way to see a thing is with the naked
emotional toilet, and very useful in restoring
eye. But if some people are going to use a
(for the moment at least) the bloom and glass, and to insist on looking through the
uncomplimentary end of it, there will natu-
perfume of life.
rally be other people to reverse the process.
In its purest form, I have said, it deals
If some people are going to be forever telling
with young love and its immediate conse-
us that all of the sweet sentiment of life van-
quences — the license, the ring, and the mar-
ishes during the honeymoon, other people are
riage-peal. This article is warranted to
sure to try to persuade us that none of it need
soothe the tenderest emotional cuticle. But
ever escape or be transmuted.
there are variants. One of them pushes the
There are a goodly number of writers now
action back into infancy, and represents the producing nice stories along this line, stories
little child (in a blue sash and gold ringlets) eagerly or wistfully piping the tune of domes-
leading them. Nowadays, to be sure, shetic sentiment. Were not we, after all, mis-
often leads them by the nose. The old theory taken in our readiness to bury romance at the
of her as an influence powerful through its altar? Has youth, in truth, such a monopoly
very weakness and innocence is exploded. of heart-interest? Do home and mother
She is now very much " in the know," the necessarily mean haircloth and a red shawl?
family oracle and censor ex officio. It is she By no means, cry these gospellers — any more
who persuades poor father to give up playing than they mean a bridge-table and a make-up.
auction for money which she can so ill afford; Look! here is happiness in your thirties and
it is she who reveals to dear mother that it is forties. Here is the kind of fiction in which
her own fault poor father is drifting away; tired and middle-aged women may find a
it is she who tells grandfather just what she sweet flattery, which let no man grudge them.
thinks of him for his treatment of big brother. Here is no pretty fancy out of the faded past,
And father and mother and grandfather are but a dream based upon real life as they
all tickled to pieces, when they come to think know it. It is a vision of humdrum colored
it over.
Or it is the fine manly little fellow by romance: themselves and their surround-
who, not yet in his teens, supports his wid- ings bathed in a rosy light of sentiment; the
owed mother and orphaned sisters, and stops everyday world of housewife and commuter
the runaway which is hurling the sash and blown upon by consciously wholesome airs of
ringlets to their last home, and they are the “idealism”; a world, in short, where being
daughter of the President of the Bank, and good is really being happy, and loving one's
everybody knows the rest. A queer cult of neighbor the popular sport.
precocious love-making is important in this Yes, it is easy enough for us to make fun
kind of yarn. It does not hesitate to extend of this kind of commodity -- it is not the lit-
the range of mating-sentiment clear below the erature upon which men's souls are fed. But
bounds of adolescence.
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upon the world as it is not, we may quite as fact is that he was on the point of starting on
profitably see it the color of a rosebank as the an American lecture tour on this subject when
color of a dunghill. After all, daydreams are
the war broke out. “But I may go over when
better medicine for tired hearts than night-
the peace comes," he said to me in Paris last
mares are. We may safely let mother have spring. M. Demblon is now in London nego-
her sweetmeat. Lord knows, we shall have tiating for an English translation of his
magnum opus, Lord Rutland est Shake-
plenty of stories left that are neither sweet
speare” and “L'Auteur d'Hamlet et son
nor pretty nor nice!
H. W. BOYNTON.
Monde," while engaged in seeing through the
press, also in English dress, his latest book,
La Guerre à Liège.” M. Demblon was in
the noble little city all through the memorable
LITERARY AFFAIRS IN FRANCE.
month of August of last year, and his family
Maxim GORKY'S SON, AND OTHER COMING EURO- is still hedged in there.
PEAN LECTURERS IN AMERICA.-—M. Jules Bois's And before I dismiss the subject of Euro-
NEW NOVEL.—THE LATE REMY DE GOURMONT. peans lecturing in America, I should add that
(Special Correspondence of THE DIAL.) M. Jules Bois is just back from a several
One day last summer when I came into one
months' sojourn in the United States, where
of the smaller wards of our American Ambu-
I understand he had a really remarkable suc-
lance at Neuilly, where I go afternoons to
cess on the platform and in drawing-rooms.
“I am going back shortly," he wrote me from
write letters for the wounded, I noticed a
little table alongside of that of the nurse,
Bordeaux on landing last month, which
heaped with books and writing materials. A
shows that he feels that he had a good time
few days later I found seated behind this esting afternoon with him, when he gave me
there. Since then I have spent a most inter-
table M. Zénovi Pechkoff, Gorky's son, a ner-
a résumé of his next novel, “The Woman
vous, energetic young man of perhaps twenty- who Killed," which Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co.
five, whose left arm had been amputated close
are to bring out this season in New York.
up at the shoulder, for he has been for many
months a soldier in the first regiment of the public and based largely on M. Bois's expe.
The book, written especially for the American
French Foreign Legion. Perhaps I may say riences on your side of the Atlantic, will, if
in passing that my own son is also a member
of this regiment,
which has seen some of the published in France, have quite another and
hardest fighting on the western front.
more commonplace title, “L'Impitoyable.”
M.
In fact it is in the United States that the
Pechkoff, who has been decorated for bravery volume will probably attract the most readers,
and has an honorable discharge from the
army, is now residing near Genoa, and is
and I venture to predict that the number will
engaged in delivering lectures in Italy on the
be large, for it is unquestionably a powerful
war and writing out for publication his im-
story, which will certainly provoke contro-
versy. The heroine, Mrs. Cynthia Maitland,
pressions and experiences at the front, these
"the type of the super-lady," as M. Bois
latter being of no ordinary nature. "I have
describes her, first appears on the scene as a
had an informal invitation,” he tells me, “to
nurse at the American Ambulance already
lecture in the United States; and if the offer
referred to. The two other chief characters
takes definite shape, I will go." I seized the
are Frenchmen,-Michel d'Aulnières, the
opportunity at one of our meetings to ask
hero of the tale, an officer who has invented a
M. Pechkoff if there was any truth in the
remarkable gun; and Lavisor, “a great mor-
rather surprising statement contained in
alist, who has become a sort of mystic because
“Who's Who” for the present year, that of the war." The development of the per-
Gorky had “enlisted in the Russian army," sonality of Mrs. Maitland is the feature of
and his reply was much what I expected, - the book; and though she certainly will not
'Gorky has not only not enlisted in the Rus- wholly please the New Woman, the New
sian army, but is hard at work at his usual Woman will find not a little comfort in the
literary occupations in a town in Finland." fact that it is the heroine who stands forth
Another possible early foreign lecturer in the stronger, and the hero the weaker, vessel.
America is the Belgian publicist, Professor Though the late Remy de Gourmont, who
Céléstin Demblon, who always writes proudly died at the very end of last month, never lec-
after his name, "Député de Liège." He will tured in America and never dreamed of doing
be remembered — perhaps less to his credit - so, he was, at a certain period of his life,
as the author of the theory that Lord Rutland quite “at home” in some of the drawing-
was the writer of the Shakespeare plays. The rooms of the Paris American Colony. During
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the last half of the eighties, he was par- galaxy of contemporary French authors,
ticularly assiduous at the house of a wealthy where he has become one of the most brilliant
American widow who had three or four very stylists of the present generation. His
pretty marriageable daughters. He there French is clear-cut and pure, and he was
sounded his title of Marquis for all that it always sure of himself. M. André Fontainas,
was worth, probably for more than it was however, said to me very truly as we left the
worth, and was even seen waltzing with the church after the funeral: “He was not an
hostess's girls. I will never forget this waltz- inventor of style, a finder of images, a turner
ing. Remy de Gourmont had a short, rather of happy phrases, which create new relations
stoutish body, was awkward in his move- between ideas by means of words.” Nor does
ments, wore clothes without any cut, always this delicate Belgian poet think that "because
had his trousers "up for high tide,” as a of its style would one, after reading a para-
young American said, and then went whirling graph of Remy de Gourmont, be likely to
around like a top, French fashion, without exclaim, "That's de Gourmont,' as one can
ever reversing.
say, 'That's Voltaire, or Renan, or Flaubert.'”
All these strange things, doubly strange in The social change that came over Remy de
the Remy de Gourmont whom we knew later, Gourmont when he rose to the rank of a lead-
happened before he was known as a writer; ing writer should also be pointed out.
and he was brought into this stylish circle by he stopped dancing in the American Colony,
his bonne amie of that day, who became his he shut his door on society and practically
faithful Egeria at the end, - a pleasant niece never" went out” again. The last time I saw
of the well-known French sculptor Clésinger him, several years ago, was when I called on
(1814-84), son-in-law of George Sand, and him in his plain, huddled-up, bachelor quar-
whose fine statue of his famous mother-in-law ters in the old Rue des Saints-Pères. The
is one of the art treasures of the foyer of the whole place looked like the pictures of those
Théâtre français. This very slight connection ancient astrologers, wrapped in big morning-
with Nohant and its group gave a dash of gowns something like Balzac in Falguière's
literary color to the early life of Remy de statue in the Avenue Friedland, and buried
Gourmont, even before he began himself to among their books and papers. And how his
write. But what suddenly made him a full- face had changed since the eighties!
fledged man of letters was one of his first victim of some skin disease, I believe, his
contributions to the “Mercure de France," of features had become really repulsive, and this
which, by the way, he was one of the eleven repulsiveness was increased by the remedy
founders, and where all his volumes have been that the doctors had had recourse to,- the
published, for the “Mercure” has a book- burning of the cheeks in such a way that they
publishing department, and where he wrote were covered with many ugly little scars.
almost uninterruptedly for twenty-five years, This physical state alone would have checked
the last article from his pen appearing there Remy de Gourmont from entering a drawing-
on the very day of his funeral. In 1891 he room again, even if he had wished to do so,-
there aired his views on Patriotism, and which, however, was not the case. While I of
boldly declared that he cared no more for course admire the intellectual Remy de Gour-
Alsace-Lorraine than for the ashes of his mont of the post National Library epoch, I
cigarette. Thereupon the ultra-patriotic li- have always felt a discreet preference for the
brarian of the National Library, where M. de modest, kindly, gentle, young Marquis de
Gourmont was one of the assistants, and Gourmont of the ante “Mercure de France"
where he might have continued down to the
period.
present day engaged in passing out books to
THEODORE STANTON.
the public, ruthlessly discharged him. Yet Paris, October 25, 1915.
Remy de Gourmont was at bottom a good
enough patriot, as is sufficiently proved by his
book, "Pendant l'Orage,” issued recently by
CASUAL COMMENT.
Champion. Furthermore, his article was
really a protest against the braggings of Paul THE DRAMATIC RENASCENCE is the subject
Déroulède and his group, who were always of a notable contribution to the current
bent on plunging France into a war with "North American Review" from Mr. Thomas
Germany, with what result we see only too H. Dickinson, who pays especial tribute to
clearly to-day.
Mr. Henry Arthur Jones as a prominent fig-
So, to use a vulgar but expressive phrase, ure in this encouraging development. Mr.
the over-zealous director of the National Li- Dickinson joyfully proclaims the rebirth as
brary kicked Remy de Gourmont up into the an accomplished fact, and continues: “Be-


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ginning with Matthew Arnold's respectful cost of materials and of workmanship in the
words written in 'The Nineteenth Century' making of this class of books. Competition in
for 1879 — the first respectful words spoken the business, combined with a wise insistence
for the modern English drama by an acknowl. upon the best quality on the part of teachers
edged critic of our day - the consideration of and other school authorities, must be re-
drama has grown more and more familiar garded as the cause of this gratifying devel-
under the pens of the learned. Augustine opment. But, as Professor Kittredge has
Birrell, H. D. Traill, W. L. Courtney, Ed- publicly declared, the genius of the late Edwin
mund Gosse, Professor Gilbert Murray are Ginn is not to be overlooked in any explana-
but a few of those who have turned from the tion of the present high standing and mod.
concerns of the scholar to the consideration of erate price of the American school textbook.
modern drama. Drama has entered the uni. The firm founded by Mr. Ginn in 1867 set up
versities of England and America, no longer and maintained a higher standard in text-
as a species of elocution, or a debased form of book-publishing than had been known to most
literary teaching, but as an art that is con- of us before that time, or to our fathers and
nected structurally and by content with the grandfathers if our memory goes not quite so
interests of our day. Moreover, drama is win- far back. Significant in this connection are
ning acceptance in the sisterhood of the arts. certain statistics lately published by the na-
Arthur Symons applies to the play the same tional Bureau of Education, showing that,
delicate criticism that he applies to music and contrary to the general impression, our an-
painting. Barrie gives up the novel for the nual expenditure for schoolbooks is no very
play. Even Meredith and Hardy and James, staggering sum. Seventy-eight and one-third
to mention those of an older generation, tried cents for each pupil will be found to cover the
their hands at dramatic composition, and bill and leave a little over; that is, about
Arnold Bennett and John Galsworthy of the seventeen million dollars, all told, for one
newer generation are almost as well known year, while in the same length of time twenty-
for their plays as for their novels. The fact five million dollars is spent for chewing-gum,
that the kindly recognition that is coming to one hundred and thirty-five million for candy,
drama is based no less on what drama is and three hundred twenty-five million for ice-
expected to do than on what has already been cream soda and similar liquid refreshments.
performed, quite as much on potential as Emphatic denial of the existence of any text-
actual achievements, does not diminish the book trust is given by the above-named firm.
significance of the standards of respect that Perhaps so comparatively small a market is
have been enforced for an hitherto despised not thought worth cornering.
art.” But there is no happy accident in all
this; it has come about by well-directed IMAGISM AND PLAGIARISM may be found in
effort; and among the zealous workers for the
rather surprising association in the October
good cause high honor is paid to Mr. William number of “Poetry: A Magazine of Verse."
Archer in England and Professor Brander The last piece in a group of what are de-
Matthews in our own country. A review of scribed in the contents list of this issue as
the history of the stage might incline one to three poems by T. S. Eliot " consists of some
name the present attitude of scholars and dull data concerning one Miss Nancy Ellicott,
writers toward the drama not a renascence, evidently a person of extraordinary physical
a rebirth, but a wholly new and unprece- if not intellectual weight, who “strode across
dented manifestation. Has the player's art the hills and broke them, riding to hounds
ever before been held in such esteem and
over the cow-pasture," and who “smoked and
made the subject of so much serious study? danced all the modern dances," while "her
aunts were not quite sure how they felt about
BETTER TEXTBOOKS AT LOWER PRICE has been it, but they knew that it was modern." (We
the trend for a quarter century or more in like those aunts, by the way.) This stuff,
the great domain of educational literature. with more of the same sort, is broken up into
It is pleasant to be able to name something lines of irregular length, each of which begins
that has not followed the general rule and with a capital letter. The old-fashioned
mounted skyward in price. One of the lead- reader to whom poetry is something more
ing publishing houses in this field (Messrs. than capitalized lines of irregular length, if
Ginn & Co.) issues a readable and instructive he finds sufficient entertainment in following
pamphlet, “Quality and Cost," in which it is this society item to the end, will be struck at
asserted that this steady decline in price since once by the closing line, - a phrase whose
1890 now amounts to more than ten per cent, genuine poetic quality stands out in vivid
notwithstanding a constant increase in the contrast with the prose wish-wash that pre-


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cedes it. “The army of unalterable law," Too long to be counted is his list of " distinc-
there is a familiar ring to that; and the old- tive” poems, five of which he prints in full
fashioned reader will probably not be long in as the five best of the lot. They are, in the
identifying it as the closing line, also, of assigned order of merit: “Patterns" by Miss
Meredith's fine sonnet, “Lucifer in Starlight.” Amy Lowell, “ The Adventurer" by Mr. Odell
It would be edifying to have Meredith's own Shepard, “Needle Travel " by Miss Margaret
comment on this incident, and his opinion of French Patton, "The Road not Taken" by
the company into which his fastidious muse Mr. Robert Frost, and “Peter Quince at the
had been forcibly introduced.
Clavier" by Mr. Wallace Stevens. Encour-
aging to poetry's well-wishers is this critic's
THE FASCINATION OF FORBIDDEN FICTION view of the year's product and his outlook
works often to the bookseller's advantage, in- toward the future. He sees "continued prog-
asmuch as books banned by the public library ress of the art [of poetry) in the magazines,
are likely to enjoy a "boom” at the books and notes with especial satisfaction the in-
shop. Conversely, the removal of previous crease of critical writing about contemporary
restrictions on novel-reading ought to take poets and poetry.” Of course every lover of
away also some part of the charm investing poetry likes to be and ought to be his own
the interdicted literature. And something of critic and guide, but the well-weighed opinion
this sort has been found to be the case where of the professed student of this form of art
limitations imposed on the circulation of fic- is always more or less interesting and of more
tion have been abolished. At the Pratt Insti- or less authority. Many will take issue with
tute Free Library, for example, the restriction Mr. Braithwaite in his bestowal of highest
of one novel at a time to a card-holder had, as honors upon the vers libre of the Imagist poet
almost everywhere else, been the rule until whose name stands first in the foregoing list;
five years ago, when two novels at a time and, fortunately, everyone is at liberty to
became the limit. No general demoralization draw up a list to suit himself, an exercise as
following, the bars were further lowered last harmless and as inconclusive as naming the
February and, except to borrowers under ten or twenty or hundred best books. Mr.
eighteen and also excepting the latest fiction, Braithwaite's researches are about to be pub-
as many novels as are desired have since then lished in full in book form,- "Anthology of
been at the borrower's disposal. One might Magazine Poetry and Year Book of American
have expected from the irksomeness of the one- Verse for 1915."
novel or the two-novel rule that its annul-
ment would have greatly increased the fiction A QUARTER-MILLENNIAL JUBILEE is in prepa-
circulation; but we learn from the librarian's ration at Newark (our chief city of that
report that no such increase has taken place, name), and “The Newarker” devotes its
even in the first few months when, if ever, it November issue to a proclamation of the great
ought to have been a dizzy delight to stagger event. Otherwise we might have forgotten
away with all the thrillers one could hold in
that next year a quarter of a millennium will
one's arms. Perhaps now that the charm of have passed since Robert Treat and his sturdy
novelty is rubbed off, the enlarged privilege little band of followers from Connecticut
may even beget a loathing for story-books. landed on the banks of the Passaic River and
The poster baby familiar to us all will cry
founded the city that was destined to have,
for the cake of soap just beyond his reach till
among other things, one of the most promi-
he gets it, and then he won't care for it.
nent, progressive, and aggressive public libra-
ries in all America. From May to October,
THE YEAR'S PERIODICAL POETRY receives at 1916, the people of Newark are expecting to
this time - a little earlier than in former indulge in pageantry, oratory, feasting, and
seasons – Mr. William Stanley Braithwaite's rejoicing of divers sorts—not uninterruptedly
expert review and criticism. For the twelve for six entire months, we assume, but more
months ending with September (not with or less spasmodically, though systematically
December as heretofore) he has examined and with befitting dignity. And now, as to
more than thirty publications, quarterly, the literary part of these elaborate prepara-
monthly, weekly, and daily, reading fifteen tions indicated by the appointment of many
hundred poems from five hundred and thirty kinds of committees and other preliminary
writers, and sifting the "poems of distinc- measures : Mr. John Cotton Dana reminds his
tion” from those of ordinary merit. His fellow-Newarkers that the rich store of books
results are published, as usual, in the Boston under his charge is there to be drawn upon
“Transcript," and show a generous and cor- for the better accomplishment of the end in
dia) attitude toward verse-writers of promise. ' view.
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"you must learn what kind of a celebration at present as in any degree comparable in
it is to be, and who is to run it and how it is scope with this Chinese work. The story goes
to be paid for, and where help is needed. that long ago a certain oriental potentate,
And all this you can learn at the library - filled with a desire to promote the welfare of
and can take away the information in print, his people, ordered the wise men of the land
and read it. And then you must learn about to prepare an exhaustive history of the hu-
Newark itself, unless you know it already, and man race. Accordingly these men of learning
the only man who knew it all has moved to formed themselves into an academy, elected
New York.” Until further notice, it appears, the proper officers, and set about the com-
Mr. Dana's enterprising monthly is to be used pilation of the desired work. After twenty-
for celebration purposes by the Committee of five years of unflagging industry they
One Hundred having charge of the great fes- appeared before their sovereign lord accom-
tival; and then the paper is to return to the panied by a train of camels bearing the
quieter walks of bibliothecal and kindred completed history in five hundred formidable
interests.
volumes. Terrified by its mere bulk, the
monarch ordered an abridgment. Fifteen
OUR DEBT TO THE PATIENT SCRIBE who has
years of labor ensued, after which the surviv-
subordinated himself to the fame of his mas-
ing academicians (a slender body by this
ter is beyond calculation. What should we time) appeared with a fifty-volume epitome
know of Johnson, the real, every-day Johnson, of their former work. But even this was too
had there been no Boswell? Lost to the world
much for their royal master to think of read-
would have been the wise sayings of Epicte-ing, and with tears in his aged eyes he begged
tus, had not his pupil Arrian preserved them them to abridge the abridgment. Five years
for us. Æsop seems to have left no book of passed, and then the sole surviving member
fables, written by his own hand; or at least of the academy presented himself, on crutches,
none has come down to us — only the frag- with one stout volume borne upon the back
mentary records of such versifiers as Babrius of an ass. But the king, himself on the edge of
and Phædrus. Socrates without a Plato to the grave, turned away in despair at sight of
report him to the world would have been all
the huge tome. Thereupon the academician,
but lost to posterity. In like manner, the seized with an inspiration, threw down the
latest and perhaps the best of Lafcadio rejected volume and cried to his moribund
Hearn's productions, his posthumous "Inter-
master: “Sire, the history of the human race
pretations of Literature," owes its being to the may be summed up in three words,- man is
faithful labors of his student hearers at the born, he suffers, he dies.” Might not the
University of Tokio, where these lectures were
11,100 volumes of encyclopædic learning have
delivered between 1896 and 1902, and where been advantageously subjected to some such
they were so fully taken down in the students' compression ?
notebooks from the lecturer's lips (he lectur-
ing without notes, but slowly, as befitted the SAFETY FIRST IN JUVENILE LITERATURE is the
needs of his Japanese audience) that the slogan with which all promoters of good read-
whole series was afterward reproduced in ing for the young folk are expected to make
proper shape for publication, and was pre- the welkin ring during the week beginning
sented to the beloved teacher's literary execu- Nov. 28. In other words, this is to be Safety
tor. Not many college classes in the western First Juvenile Book Week in the libraries and
world would have taken the pains that these other haunts of young readers, thus appointed
young men of Japan evidently took to pre- by the organization of Boy Scouts of America.
serve intact the lecturer's ipsissima verba. Precautionary measures for the protection of
the young from the dangers of deleterious lit-
THE MOST VOLUMINOUS REFERENCE WORK IN erature are urged upon librarians, booksellers,
THE WORLD was, before its destruction by fire editors, and others of influence in the book
in the Boxer Rebellion of 1900, the Chinese world; and attention is especially called to
Encyclopædia Maxima, in 11,100 volumes, the book-lists prepared by the Boy Scouts
housed in the Han-Lin College, which fell a association and furnished to all libraries
victim to Boxer fury. Last year two stray desiring them. These lists, headed “Books
fragments of this work that seem to have Boys Like," embrace about three hundred
escaped incineration made their appearance carefully selected works, with annotations,
in a London bookshop and were picked up for the selection being based upon reports re-
a trifle by someone who afterward lent them ceived from many librarians and booksellers
to the London Library. Only one other prod- throughout the country, and the titles grouped
uct of industrious scholarship comes to mind in the following three general classes of chief


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as
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interest to boys: 1, Stories of adventure;
COMMUNICATIONS.
2, Books on how to do things; 3, Books of
information. It all makes a pamphlet of
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT AGAIN.
thirty-two pages, and may be had in such
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
quantities as are needed by addressing the No one would be better pleased than I if your
National Headquarters, Boy Scouts of Amer correspondent, Mr. John L. Hervey, could per-
ica, 200 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
suade us that William Cullen Bryant remained,
throughout his long life, “true to his vision”
an artist and righteously jealous of his fame. But
“ANDROCLES AND THE LION IN GERMANY, I submit that Mr. Hervey's indignant defence of
acted by a company of interned British civil- the "mighty dead," as contained in your issue of
ians at Ruhleben on the outskirts of Berlin, is Oct. 28, does not establish his case.
described as a most entertaining and credita- Mr. Hervey asks, “Who was the very vague
ble performance. But what a curious mixture `publisher' who made the preposterous state-
of incongruous elements is presented by the
ment?” — that Bryant, during his later life, was
whole affair,- an old Roman legend, turned
known to “ the trade" “the great national
into a farce by an English playwright of tone-imparter,” because he was willing to sell his
Irish birth, acted by a chance assemblage of
name and portrait as the author of books he did
not write. Because my informant died last year
British subjects held in detention on German
I have been reluctant to mention his name, but
soil, with a stolid Prussian commandant as perhaps this reticence is a mistake. He was John
chief spectator, the scene of the strange enter- Denison Champlin, long in the employ of Charles
tainment being the grandstand of a disused Scribner's Sons, and the chief author, or_com-
racetrack, and the stage properties, costumes, piler, of their “ Cyclopedia of Painters and Paint-
etc., showing a marvellous exercise of ama- ings and “ Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians,"
teur ingenuity and resourcefulness on the and, I believe, other such works. Mr. Champlin's
part of the "scratch company engaged in
characterization of the poet as a tone-imparter,"
the difficult undertaking!
Full descriptions and the facts he related in support of it, were at
the time a great shock to my youthful mind. And
of this theatrical event have been slow in
I find nothing in Mr. Hervey's long letter to con-
making their way to the outside world, but
tradict the facts or allay the shock.
we are now assured that the success of the
Mr. Hervey presents absolutely nothing to dis-
performance was such as to elicit from the
prove the charge that the “Family Library of
above-named German officer a very polite Poetry and Song, Edited by William Cullen
"Danke Ihnen, meine Herren! Aeusserst Bryant,” which is popularly known as “ Bryant's
nett!” But this is by n means the first time Collection of Poetry and Song," was not actually
that Mr. Shaw's genius has evoked German edited by Bryant at all; or the other charge that
applause.
“Bryant's Popular History of the United States
was not actually written by Bryant.
On the con-
THE DECEITFULNESS OF APPEARANCES IN
trary, he admits the truth of the second charge,
BOOKS, to those unskilled in looking beneath
and tries to cover up the first in nearly a column
the surface, was well expressed at the late
of vague talk and personal denunciation of the
annual meeting of the New York Library
Let us study Bryant's own words. In the
Association by Dr. Slosson, editor of “The
“ Editor's Introduction to the “Library," the
Independent.” With epigrammatic pithiness poet naively writes: “At the request of the pub-
he told his hearers that “the least valuable
lishers I undertook to write an Introduction to the
volumes in the library are those with the present work, and in pursuance of this design I
finest bindings; the most valuable are those find that I have come into a somewhat closer per-
with no bindings at all.” To be sure, the sonal relation with the book." (Italics are mine.)
modern librarian is ever on the alert, dress-
A somewhat closer personal relation
with a
ing the ranks of his literary regiment and
book accredited to him on the title-page and sold
keeping their uniforms in good condition, so
by the authority of his fame! He then hastens to
that the most valuable book is now likely to be
explain: “ In its progress it has passed entirely
under my revision, and although not absolutely
the most recently rebound book; but the epic responsible for the compilation or its arrange-
gram deserves to stand as it is. Another
ment, I have, as requested, exercised a free hand
pregnant word from the same speaker was both in excluding and in adding matter according
this: The man who needs the library most to my judgment of what was best adapted to the
is the one who draws a book with as much purposes of the enterprise." This is first-hand
reluctance as he draws a revolver.” Never- testimony that the “Library" was neither com-
theless it remains true, epigram apart, that piled nor arranged by the poet
, that he merely
the man who most readily draws his revolver supervised its contents, and that he had to write
an Introduction in order to acquire a feeling of
is the very one who most needs the civilizing “somewhat closer personal relation” with the
influence of the library.
book! Mr. Hervey quotes a paragraph from the
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“Publisher's Preface" to the edition of 1878, Shakespeare: Complete Works, with Introduction
which states that the poet made a thorough
and Notes by W. C. Bryant (known as the Stratford
revision” of the work before he died. Is not Mr.
Edition), 1886. Edited by W. C. Bryant, assisted by
Hervey close enough to the inside of the publish- E. A. Duycinck.
ing business to know how stretchable is such a
États Unis et Canada d'Amérique du Nord Pittor-
esque — sous la direction de W. Cullen Bryant. A
phrase in an unsigned “ Publisher's Preface"?
Quantin, etc.: Paris, 1880.
Of the second charge Mr. Hervey writes: “This
history (aside from the lengthy signed historical
I regret that I am not yet able to change my
opinion that Bryant, highly gifted and full of fine
preface) was never claimed to have been written
ideals in his youth, yielded gradually to worldly
by Bryant.” This surprises me. It is true that
influences toward ease, comfort, and respectability,
everyone “ in the trade” knew that, as Mr. Cham-
to such a degree that his poetic inspiration, and
plin said, “ Bryant scarcely even read the proof-
even his moral sense, became dulled. As proof of
sheets." But what of the public who bought the
the dulling of his poetic inspiration I offer the
book? Let me copy the title-page — from the
facts that Bryant's best poem, the “ Thanatopsis,”
London edition of 1876 in the Newberry Library.
was written before he was twenty, and his next
This title-page, which faces a steel-engraving of
best, “ Lines to a Waterfowl,” only a few years
the poet, reads: "A Popular History of the
United States from the First Discovery of the
later; and that his later poems show a diminishing
sensitiveness to the true and permanent spiritual
Western Hemisphere by the Northmen to the End
values, along with increasing sentimentality and
of the First Century of the Union of the States :
conventional piety.
by William Cullen Bryant and Sydney Howard
Mr. Hervey, Mr. William Ellery Leonard, and
Gay." I leave it to your readers to decide what
all other admirers of Bryant, may of course give
sold this work, here and abroad - - the real author-
ship of Mr. Gay, or the pretended authorship of him, as a poet, whatever rank they think he
deserves. But in the interest of a saner, juster,
Mr. Bryant. Was it, or was it not, as I alleged, and more temperate criticism I submit that to
a case of Bryant's selling his name and venerable place this poet among the "mighty dead” is pre-
portrait as the author of a book which he did not
posterous.
write?
HARRIET MONROE.
As for Bryant's reputation as “the great
Chicago, Nov. 15, 1915.
national tone-imparter,” let us consult that valua-
ble bibliography, "American Authors, 1795-1895,"
THE LIBRARIAN AS LITERARY CRITIC.
compiled by P. K. Foley and printed in Boston in
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
1897. There we find that, while no other cases The function of the modern librarian is a multi-
were so flagrant as the “ Popular History of the form one. He must be an administrator, under-
United States," the poet spread his name pretty standing how to control subordinates and plan out
thin, as editor, or author of Prefaces, Introduc-
their work. He must be a practical man, who
tions, etc., over many title-pages; sometimes out knows how to build and repair the structures he
of mere good will, perhaps, but more often, proba- administers. He must be a man among men, hay-
bly, for a financial consideration. He appears,
ing that priceless knowledge of how to make
for example, as one of the editors of the Strat- friends among the people of the community where
ford Edition" of Shakespeare; but was it he, or
his work is carried on. He must possess those gifts
Mr. Duycinck, who actually did the work? I give
which would have made him a good salesman, able
the titles of some of these publications:
to meet the wishes of the public and to induce
them to use such of his wares as he wishes to put
Studies in Bryant: A Text-book by J. Alden, with
in their hands. But he must also be much more
Introduction by W. C. Bryant. Appleton, 1879.
than all this. The librarian must be a scholar,
Thoughts on the Religious Life, with Introduction
by W. Č. Bryant. Putnam, 1879.
knowing books, with ability to judge them, evalu-
The American Landscape: Engravings by A. B.
ate them, and appraise them at their true value.
Durand. Preface signed by w. c. Bryant. E. Bliss, In other words, he must be a literary critic. Many
New York, 1830.
of those who carry on library work are, in greater
The Green House as a Winter Garden: A Manual or less degree, possessed of such a character, which
for the Amateur by F. Field, with Preface by W. C. is after all the highest attribute of the true libra-
Bryant. Putnam, 1869.
rian. He is the mediator between the author who
Gifts of Genius: A Miscellany of Prose and Poetry has a message for men, and those to whom the
by American Authors, with Preface by W. C. Bryant.
message is designed. To librarians, these ideas are
A. C. Davenport: New York, 1859.
not new; but to the general public they are not
Picturesque America, or the Land We Live in. Ed.
so familiar. The average person is too likely to
ited by W. C. Bryant. New York, 1871-4.
forget this vitally important feature of the modern
Imperial Courts of France, England, Russia, Prus-
sia, Sardinia and Austria; by W. H. Bidwell, with
librarian's work.
Introduction by W. C. Bryant. Scribner, 1863.
Mr. Charles Miner Thompson, writing in “The
The Gospel in the Trades, by Alex. Clark. Intro-
Atlantic Monthly" for July, 1908, remarked:
duction by W. C. Bryant. Philadelphia, 1871.
“ There are five groups interested in literary criti-
The Floral Kingdom, its History, Sentiment, and cism: publishers of books, authors, publishers of
Poetry by C. H. Turner, with Introduction and Poem reviews, critics, and finally the reading public.”
by W. C. Bryant, together with an Autograph Letter. “No one can quarrel with this grouping," said
M. Warren, Chicago, 1874.
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July, 1914, “ although the more superstitious the back of a volume or the words on a title-page
among us may be inclined to assert that there is a can convey. Most of all, he must have an insatia-
sixth person present, namely, Literature herself.” ble thirst for reading and a love for the best in
Both of these writers ignore the librarian, and literature. He must have high ideals and stand-
for that reason I do not hesitate to quarrel with ards of life, along with an infectious enthusiasm,
their grouping as incomplete. When the literary for literature; and he must endeavor to kindle in
criticism of librarians is given to hundreds of his readers similar ideals and standards and a like
thousands of people who come to libraries for love for the written expression of man's highest
books, when the old and young of all grades of thoughts, hopes, yearnings, and disappointments.
education and all classes of society come to libra- With the multitudinous details of administration,
rians for suggestion and advice as to what books and the constant call of the day's routine, the
they should read, when the librarian is continually temptation comes to every librarian to relax in his
guiding those who borrow books from library duty as a literary critic. This temptation is some-
shelves,- is not he one of the most important of times yielded to, for librarians are but men and
literary critics? One may readily admit that some women. But, in any case, the librarian must per-
librarians are not as good literary critics as others, force be a critic, whether good or bad, and must
because of lack of education or taste or early do his share toward molding the literary taste of
culture; yet the fact remains that one of the most the community in which he lives. To perform
potent influences tending to form literary taste this duty aright, he must possess a love for his
in America is that proceeding from the contact of fellow-men and a desire to help them, a broad
the librarian with the book borrower. The bor- culture based upon a thorough and accurate educa-
rower realizes this, and often bears testimony to tional training, an ardent zeal to impart to others
the guidance he receives,- if it be only that mute that appreciation of good literature which he has
guidance which comes through the inclusion or gained for himself, and the knowledge of the
the exclusion of a book on the shelves, or on a books in which that good literature may be found.
reading list. The librarian realizes it, when an
BERNARD C. STEINER.
advanced student thanks him for the appraisal of
Enoch Pratt Free Library,
some unknown work, or when a child asks for
Baltimore, Md., Nov. 12, 1915.
another pretty book like the last one I had.” If
the library is to do its best work, however, the
general public must recognize the fact that, by the
THE LAW OF NECESSITY.
very nature of things, the librarian is forced to
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
become a literary critic; for only through such In your issue of October 28, the reviewer of
recognition can the people secure the greatest "The War Book of the German General Staff”
advantage they may expect from the library. attempts to defend himself against my charge of
We have said that the librarian, from the nature having misrepresented Germany by assuring your
of things, must be a literary critic. He must be readers that “the text of the War Book was repro-
more than this, however, for men and women duced literally” in his review. But I did not,
come to the library for many books which are not directly or indirectly, charge him with misquoting
literature. The librarian must be able to guide the the War Book. My charge was that he misrepre-
intending reader to satisfactory books on plumb- sented Germany by asserting that to the Germans
ing, the indoor cultivation of flowers, the care of military necessity takes precedence over interna-
infants, the keeping of bees. In other words, he tional law. I quoted from the American Naval
must take all knowledge for his province, and must War Code to show that with us, too, military
be a fingerpost to all roads to learning. None of necessity precedes international law.
Your re-
these roads are royal; but the librarian who is a viewer says, absolutely without warrant, that “the
good roadbuilder may be of at assistance to the regularly sanctioned usages of naval warfare
wayfaring person who may wish to walk in them. differ from those of land warfare in certain impor-
It follows, from the vastness of the world of tant respects.” I refer your reviewer and your
books, that the librarian must take much of his readers to any book on International Law for
criticism at second hand. He must know where proof that the law pertaining to non-combatants,
to look for the information that he lacks. This the only point now at issue, is the same on land
may be gained from an acquaintance who is versed and on sea.
This is an inevitable and necessary
in the subject on which advice is needed, or from corollary of the law of self-preservation, the first
some periodical of established reputation which principle of military law. (Cf. the text-book on
reviews books in that department of knowledge, or International Law by G. Davis, professor of his-
from some general guide like the “A. L. A. Book tory and law at West Point.) Your reviewer
List,” or from some such specialized evaluation of insists that the German principle of warfare re-
books as Larned's “Literature of American His- duces itself to "might makes right.” Let anyone
tory.” Even in the narrower field of the literature read Mr. Davis's book and he will be convinced
of power and of inspiration, one must know how that all international law is based on this principle.
to use the histories of literature. Then, too, the Every nation can decide for itself what it chooses
librarian must be an adept in the art of skimming to consider right if it has the might to enforce it.
over a work, of glancing through a series, of As to your reviewer's statements about my
browsing over a shelf of books; he soon learns tu quoque argument: I meant no more nor less,
what a deal of information even the lettering on and so your readers undoubtedly understood me,


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than that he who is not free from sin shall not ture. And it was the slavery issues raised by the
throw stones at his neighbor. Once this was good asking of this state for admission that resulted in
Christian doctrine, but now it is only a rhapsody the introduction of the Clay resolutions and the
of words.
S. A. TANNENBAUM.
“ Seventh of March Speech.” That speech was a
New York City, Nov. 12,
plea for temperate tongues and pens and loyalty
1915.
to the constitution. It failed of its object because
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
those in power considered that necessity knows no
law.
The reviewer of the German War Book quotes Daniel Webster died of a broken heart two years
We defied the Fugitive Slave Law, and
Dr. Tannenbaum in your issue of October 28:
“ Since when is the doctrine that necessity knows
later, -as pure a patriot as George Washington
or Abraham Lincoln, and the greatest statesman
no law a German doctrine?” And he attempts an
answer which he says is obvious. If the answer
this country has produced. But he stood unsuc-
cessfully for the idea that the Law must teach us
is not thoroughly British in its view-point, it is
patience and wisdom when it comes in conflict
obviously anti-German,— at least to one who is
with what we conceive to be our necessities.
thoroughly American, to the extent of eight gen-
C. M. STREET.
erations. This answer is that the doctrine dates
from "August 4, 1914, when the German Chancel-
St. Joseph, Mo., Nov. 16, 1915.
lor proclaimed it unqualifiedly in the Reichstag."
That proclamation referred to the invasion of
MR. BENSON AND AUTHORS' AGENCIES.
Belgium.
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
We cannot agree with the reviewer. We regret A “Casual Comment” paragraph in your issue
the invasion of Belgium. But we have not for- of October 14 deals with Mr. A. C. Benson's good-
gotten the pleas made in the United States Senate natured acceptance of the labor imposed upon him
in 1847, that necessity knows no law. The doc- by writers seeking criticism of and advice regard-
trine was applied to the continuance of an unneces- ing their work. Mr. Benson says that “nothing is
sary war against a country more unfortunate, and easier than to slip a manuscript into an envelope
therefore less influential, than Belgium. But the and to require an opinion from an author. I will
necessity was not one of self-preservation. It was confess that I very seldom refuse these requests."
not a case of fear for the invasion of one's own It would be interesting to know about Mr. Ben-
fatherland. The “necessity” was an imagined son's attitude toward the numerous commercial
need for "space." We fought the Mexicans for a critics and authors' agencies whose cards appear
year after they were ready for peace, because we so prominently in the advertising pages of our
needed their vast territory that would give us the literary periodicals. Why should he not slip his
Pacific Ocean as a protection from invasion on burden onto their willing shoulders? Are they too
the West. In the course of his noble speech oppos- strict in their criticisms to be acceptable to the
ing this policy, Daniel Webster spoke as follows: writers, or is it feared that their criticism will have
“Since I have lately heard so much about the dis- reference not to the merits of the work criticized
memberment of Mexico, I have looked back to see how, but to the prospect of further employment?
in the course of events which some call Providence, it
Doubtless the fact that an authors' agency must
has fared with other nations who have engaged in this
work of dismemberment. I see that in the latter half
naturally charge a fee for its services, whereas
of the eighteenth century, three powerful nations,-
Mr. Benson could not or at least would not ask
Russia, Austria, and Prussia,- united in the dismem- payment, has a great deal to do with the case.
berment of Poland. They said, too, as you say, 'It is
ROBERT H. EDES.
our destiny.' They 'wanted room.' Doubtless each of
these thought that with his share of Poland his power
Reading, Mass., Nov. 19, 1915.
was too strong ever to fear invasion or even insult.
One had his California, another his New Mexico, and
PRONUNCIATION AND POETRY.
the third his Vera Cruz. Did they remain untouched
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
and incapable of harm? Alas, no! Far, very far
from it! Retributive justice must fulfill its destiny'
Pronunciation has a profound effect upon
too. A very few years pass and we hear of a new poetry. Take, for example, those famous lines of
man, a Corsican lieutenant, a self-named 'armed sol- Whittier's:
dier of Democracy'-Napoleon. He ravages Austria, “Of all sad words of tongue or pen,
covers her land with blood, drives the Northern Cæsar The saddest are these: It might have been!'”
from his capital and sleeps in his palace. Austria
If this sentiment were expressed by an English
may now remember how her power trampled upon
Poland. Did she not pay dear, very dear, for her
poet, he would be forced to write:
California ?”
“Of all sad English words, I wean,
He who runs can read the retributive justice
The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'”
that has followed France and Russia since Napo-
And a poet of the Middle West would probably
leon's day. But how about Prussia? How about
have done it like this:
Mexico? One wonders what Mexico would be
“Sad words are sorrow, sickness, sin;
to-day with her California.
But sadder are these: It might have been!'”
Three years after Webster's speech, California Had Whittier bin a Middle Westerner, or had
asked for admission as a state, and the conflict he bean English, I should never have ben writing
was precipitated that resulted in a war compared
these lines.
ROBERT J. SHORES.
with which the Mexican War was a child's adven-
New York City, Nov. 18, 1915.


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eration of hurried and pre-occupied Americans to
The New Books.
look back steadily and wisely upon a great figure,
and to study that figure in the light of Carlyle's
own varied stimulating and magnificent utter-
CARLYLE REDIVIVUS. *
ances."
“Paul of Tarsus whom admiring men have That the present book will accomplish this
since named Saint," in writing to the Church high purpose we sincerely hope and confi-
at Corinth on the gift of tongues, declares: dently believe.
“There are, it may be, many kinds of voices Twenty years ago we should have said that
in the world, and not one of them is without another volume on the great Scottish seer was
significance. Therefore if I know not the unnecessary, that it would indeed have been a
meaning of the voice, I shall be to him that superfluity, and that the last word that need
speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh be said had already been spoken. But to-day
shall be a barbarian unto me.” Countrymen
Countrymen conditions have altered. A mighty change has
of the author of “Sartor Resartus” who owe come over the world and human life. A revo-
their spiritual awakening, or “Baphometic
"Baphometic lution has broken out in Europe, similar in
fire baptism,” to the spirit which animates that
character to, but immensely greater in volume
notable book, are apt to classify the human and significance and tragedy than, that which
race under the two categories of those who took hold of the imagination of Carlyle in his
have and those who have not a natural affinity youth and whirled it upwards in a tempestu-
for the Carlylean philosophy, the Carlylean ous flame of prophetic interpretation. In a
temper, and the Carlylean language. It is not
sense we may say that the French Revolution
easy for those who have rounded the corner of made Carlyle the kind of man be became, and
middle age, and who are conscious that the gave to his mind the peculiarly individual
whole direction of their life-currents and their quality by which we have known him. The
attitudes toward the mysteries and eternities
volcanic eruption that shook human society
have been determined by an early encounter to its foundations called for an artist-inter-
with the printed utterances of that incan- preter, and Thomas Carlyle appeared.
descent soul, to convey to the youth of this
Has Destiny a similar interpreter of the
generation any adequate impression of all that
course of human affairs under her wing for
Carlyle has meant for them. By what con-
us at present! Shall the time call in vain for
ceivable collocation of words is it possible to a seer who will tell us the meaning of present-
describe the enfranchisement of the spirit, the day happenings, and restore to us our faith
liberation of the imagination, the widened
in the eternal goodness and wisdom? Are our
horizon, and the breaking of the shackles that
great publishing houses expectantly looking
bind the natural man to the commonplace and for the advent of such a prophet; or are they,
conventional and make of him a mere atom in
while we write, rejecting the manuscripts of
the cosmic “dance of plastic circumstance"!
God-sent teachers,- as the Frasers and Long-
It cannot be done. Ruskin declared that he
mans and Murrays rejected the priceless
lamented not so much what men suffer as
Sartor Resartus” eighty years ago? These
what they lose, and the disciple of Carlyle
are questions it may be well that all should ask
may well deplore that many of his fellow-
themselves whose function in society it is to
men are deprived of one of the deepest joys of
stand at the outposts of thought and watch
the intellect through lack of affinity to the
for the coming of the interpreters. Doubtless
mind of that great John the Baptist of modern
spurious imitations will abound, as they al-
times.
ways do, but this only makes it the more
In the last paragraph of his book entitled imperative that we keep the feeling for real
“Carlyle: How to Know Him," Professor
greatness alive, that we may know what seer
Bliss Perry writes what might perhaps more and prophet is like, and be able to "sense
appropriately have appeared in the preface: him on his approach. For this reason it is well
“How many Americans, in this first quarter of that we should be recalled to a grateful re-
the twentieth century, may be fairly said to know membrance of the best gift of the gods to the
Carlyle's work? We read by scraps and patches. English-speaking people of the nineteenth
We recall phrases, we retain impressionistic
century. We therefore welcome Professor
glimpses of characteristic attitudes and gestures,
we hazard our facile American guess at the per-
Perry's book, and commend it to the attention
sonality of a Thomas Carlyle, as we do at a hun-
not only of those fortunate ones to whom the
dred others of yesterday's distinguished names.
words of Carlyle are already luminous, but
The intent [of this book] is to invite a new gen-
even to those others who may yet for the first
time come under his strange and magnetic
• THOMAS CARLYLE: HOW TO KNOW HIM. By Bliss Perry.
With portrait. Indianapolis : The Bobbs-Merrill Co.
influence.


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To rightly assess Carlyle's value to the may have an uneasy recollection of the fable
world, to accurately estimate his true propor- which tells of an ass braying at a dead lion,
tions, to determine the directions in which his and the smallest degree of modesty may deter
vision was sure and unerring and those in him from putting to himself just those ques-
which his limitations may be discovered,- tions which Professor Perry asks. Justice to
here is a task requiring not only knowledge, our great men, however, demands that we who
intellectual power and feeling, but unbounded stand upon their shoulders, and thereby enjoy
admiration and sympathy. For, notwithstand- an outlook which but for them would have
ing the popular maxim, Love is not blind. been impossible, should in all humility correct
Love is indeed the only human faculty that their reports in so far as our enlarged horizon
does see clearly, that can discern faults as well requires. To revert to the similitude contained
as virtues and limitations equally with tran- in the fable mentioned, we may admit our kin-
scendent powers. In the case of a glowing ship with the humbler creation, yet claim to
soul of many facets like that of Carlyle, only have a vision of a sharper focus though of a
the devout lover can be trusted as his judge, less wide range and a narrower angle than that
to determine the particular niche in the Tem- of our natural superiors. To abandon meta-
ple of Fame he must ultimately occupy. The phor, the plain man must recognize that just
mere lapse of time, too, makes this more pos- because he is a plain man the duty lies upon
sible. The dust of controversy has been finally him of interpreting life for himself,- of see-
laid; personal animosities and the “scrannel- ing the world not solely through the eyes of
piping of the night-birds and screech-owls of the prophet, but by his own vision, aided and
journalism ” have died down; the happenings clarified by what the prophet has told him.
of his time have fallen into their proper His critical understanding will thus revive,
perspective; and the titanic figure is revealed and he will realize, as he did not when under
to those who will lift their eyes, towering the influence of unreasoning devotion, the true
above the men of his age and generation. uses of great men in the world.
It can hardly be said that Professor Perry With these precautionary considerations,
has provided answers to the questions which
we may examine the questions that Professor
he sets forth as follows:
Perry presents for his reader's consideration.
“It may well be granted that Carlyle's eye and It will readily be granted that Carlyle's eye
hand are marvellous, but how about his mind? and hand were marvellous. His eye was that
What shall be said about his political views, his of a seer rather than of an onlooker at human
theory of the hero, his diagnosis of the Condition
life. His vision was like that of the artist to
of England, and the social remedies he proposes ?
whom the curtain has been lifted which (like
Has he trust in progress, in the education of the
race? Does he believe that a democracy develops
the blinkers on the restive horse) shuts out
leadership or promotes fellowship? With the
to ordinary mortals all that distracts atten-
word 'faith' so often on his lips, has he himself a
tion from the immediate and practical, and
living faith in Man and in God, and in the coöp- the lifting of which reveals the inner mean-
eration of man with God ?"
ings and hidden realities of things. And
These are among the insistent questions which here we touch upon one of the paradoxes
many a youthful Carlyle-worshipper of thirty- which we must accept as inseparable from
five years ago is now compelled to ask himself the history of those who are naturally eman-
after a working life-time of experience has en- cipated from the "foolish consistency ” which
riched the content of his mind and changed his is “the hob-goblin of little minds.” That man
angle of vision. For it is indeed a strange fact was created to work rather than to speculate
that the impassioned utterances of a poet-phi- or feel or dream was, as Professor Perry indi.
losopher frequently make a more direct appeal cates, the central maxim of Carlyle's philoso-
to the youthful mind before the experiences phy; yet his whole life's energies were spent
have arrived of which these utterances are the in feeling and dreaming and speculation, the
interpretation. And when these experiences do results of which are preserved for us in
come, with something of the power of original twenty-five octavo volumes. And if we love
reaction, it requires a strenuous mental effort him all the more for this fact, it is because we
to recall the teachings that had then seemed to demur to his maxim and believe that in his
be as a voice from Sinai, and to re-assess their inmost heart Carlyle knew that man was
value in the light of the wider horizon and made to speculate, and that his work (in the
enlarged vision that the years have brought. ordinary acceptation of the word) ought only
Such a one, if a true hero-worshipper, will to serve as a means for helping him to those
inevitably be haunted by self-accusations of higher elevations from which to scan the hori-
the sin of presumption. Even if endowed with zon of life and provide food for his dreams
a large measure of spiritual independence, he and speculations. What, indeed, are all his


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hero-worships, clothes philosophies, and his- trusted as a guide in the conduct of life. In
torical phantasmagorias but adventures in the regard, again, to the relation of the classes,
field of speculation, and attempts to draw the governing to the working, and the capi-
aside the veil which limits our vision to those talist to the laboring classes, could any utter-
things that pertain to our “work”! In all ance be more offensive both to the reason and
our attempts to define the intellectual limita- to the sentiment of a sane and high-souled
tions of Carlyle, or to estimate the value of modern democrat than the words: “Despotism
his guidance in the politics of the world, we is essential to most enterprises; and freedom
must accord him the highest place as an ad- too, this is indispensable, we must have it and
venturous speculator, as a seer and prophet. will have it. To reconcile despotism with
His instinct for the rightness and wrongness freedom ; — well, is that such a mystery? Do
of things as they are was accurate and un- you not already know the way! It is to make
erring. He gave the world an impetus in the your despotism just."
direction of righteousness such as no other It would be an ungrateful task to multiply
modern teacher has done. His name repre- quotations from the many that might be given
sents the greatest moral force that has moved of an intellectual attitude toward the prob-
Europe during the nineteenth century. His lem of social life which is becoming more
craftsmanship, too, was indeed marvellous. repugnant to good men every day. Nothing,
Never has an instrument been so perfectly indeed, but a lofty admiration combined with
adapted to its work as was the natural lan-
a sense of humor can protect a democratic
guage of Carlyle to the delivery of his mes- reader from a tendency to throw his “Past
sage. It is almost impossible in thought to and Present" out of window on coming upon
dissociate the two; and a translation of
passages like the one quoted. We must con-
“Sartor Resartus" into "classic" English tent ourselves with inquiring into the cause
,
would be nearly as unendurable as the ren- of this curious survival of mediævalism in the
dering into French of the poems of Burns mind of a modern prophet. Professor Perry
which we were recently privileged to peruse. remarks that “Carlyle's difficulty lay in his
Carlyle's command of his own language was distrust of humanity," and this brings us
that of the supreme artist over his chosen pretty near to the cause of all his intellectual
medium of expression,
tortuosities. If the first duty of a free and
But granting the seeing eye and the skilful independent soul is to escape from his ances-
hand, what about his mind,- as Professor tors, then Carlyle, in spite of his enormous
Perry asks! Were his intellectual percep- endowment of original force, failed to do this,
tions, his judgments on the correlations of for the theology of eighteenth century Scot-
causes and effects, his diagnosis of “the con- land held him firmly in its grasp till the close
dition of England question," trustworthy and of his life. "A Calvinist with the bottom fallen
of value for the guidance of poor stumbling out of his creed” is probably the most accu-
humanity! Regretfully we reply in the nega- rate description that has yet been given of
tive; and though Professor Perry makes no his emotional attitude toward human life and
very definite pronouncement of opinion, we destiny. His faith in God and in human
gather from his quotation of Mazzini in the depravity were equally profound. “Mostly
case for democracy that he too feels the time fools
fools" was no mere carelessly dropped expres-
has come when we must out of our very love sion in referring to his three million fellow-
for Carlyle recognize wherein his guidance Londoners, but represented his real estimate
has been untrustworthy. His attitude toward of average humanity. From such a view.
democracy becomes more and more intolera- point what could have been expected in the
ble in these latter days, when we are realizing way of sociological theory other than the hope
that the only hope for the permanent peace for a beneficent despotism to drive the "fools”
of the world lies in the direction of a still along the paths of pleasantness and peace by
more complete democracy than any we have the masterful hand?
yet known. Since Carlyle was laid to rest, Another explanation which a sincere dis-
Autocracy has been tried on a scale such as ciple may offer of Carlyle's reactionism in
Nero of Rome or Frederick of Prussia only social philosophy is his deeply rooted distrust
feebly foreshadowed; and, as a consequence, of the intellectual processes, his profound
Europe is now aflame. Autocracy has been contempt for logic-choppers and theory-
weighed in the balance and found wanting; grinders and for mere thinkers in general.
and the prophet who told us in words of Shortly after the death of Herbert Spencer a
thunder that our highest good lay in finding story bearing the marks of probability went
our strong man and putting our affairs the round of literary circles in London, and
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After the only known occasion on which Car- music”—an art expressing itself "with the
lyle and Spencer intersected one another's means alone inherent in that art, as music
orbits, Spencer wrote in his diary in his usual expresses itself by means of circumscribed
methodical manner: “Have just been intro- sound.” And the means alone inherent in
duced to Carlyle,- a poor creature lacking in painting is color. “Since Cézanne, painting
co-ordination of ideas both intellectual and means, not the art of tinting drawing or of
moral.” Carlyle, in a letter to a friend, wrote correctly imitating natural objects, but the
of the same interview: “I have just met art which expresses itself only with the me-
Spencer,- an immeasurable ass.' Apart dium inherent in it - colour."
from the grim humor of the story, it reveals This idea — that color alone is the concern
the limitations of genius in a pathetic man- of painting - is the thread that runs through
ner. That the great apostle of the understand- Mr. Wright's entire treatment. The reader
ing and the mightiest preacher of modern of psychological bent will feel like proposing
times should have utterly failed to obtain as a third title, — "The Adventures of an
even a glimpse of one another's souls, while Idea.” After a hundred years of misunder-
multitudes of plain men and women have standing and persecution, the Idea has hero-
been able to catch the light that flowed from ically arrived. Its final helpers up the rocky
the one and the heat that radiated from the steep have been the Cubists and the Synchro-
other, is a circumstance full of consolation mists. Its ultimate triumph in Synchromism
for mediocrity, and one that should go far to represents the "final purification," or, in the
justify the plain man in trusting his critical somewhat less elegant alternative term of Mr.
judgments.
Wright's, the “defecation," of painting.
It is, however, because we believe that There have been three epochs in painting.
after all the deductions which the discovery The first began with oil painting about 1400,
of his limitations demand, and when every
and terminated with Rubens in the attain-
possible allowance is made for his inherited
ment to the highest degree of compositional
prejudices and perversities, there will stand plasticity which was possible with the fixed
forth in the stronger relief the greatest spirit means of his period.” The second — a cycle
that has descended among men during a hun- of “research and analysis, of scientific ex-
dred years, and the force without which our perimentation and data gathering" — was
intellectual life would be immensely poorer, - ushered in by Turner, Constable, and Dela-
it is because we believe this that we welcome
croix. Courbet and Manet, in this epoch,
and commend Professor Perry's book.
“liberated the painter from set themes ”; the
ALEX. MACKENDRICK.
Impressionists followed; the Neo-Impression-
ists “went further afield with scientific ob-
servations; and finally Renoir, assimilating
THE NEW PAINTING.*
all the new discoveries, rejected the fallacies
A good alternative title for Mr. Willard
and co-ordinated the valuable conclusions."
Huntington Wright's book
“Modern
The third epoch resulted in the final purifi-
Painting” would be “The Purification of cation of painting. Cézanne was its primi-
tive.
Painting.”
Colour with him became for the first
This is the manner of its thought. “Paint-
time a functional element capable of produc-
Absolute freedom of subject
ing has been a bastard art - an agglomera- ing form.”
tion of literature, religion, photography and
selection was followed by absolute freedom
decoration.” A dead cargo of literature,
also in the treatment of subject. Unconven-
archæology and illustration " has kept it tionality of form went hand in hand with
Cézanne and
from functioning freely. “Those qualities in unconventionality of theme.
painting by which it is ordinarily judged are
Matisse, making distortion an æsthetic princi-
for the most part irrelevancies from the ple, led to Picasso and Cubism. Throughout
standpoint of pure æsthetics." “It is the
this epoch, abstraction was the aim — the
misfortune of painting that literary impuri- exclusion of recognizable objects, " the final
ties should have accompanied its development, elimination of natural objectivity,” the rele-
and it is the irony of serious endeavor that on
gation of the illustrative. “So long as recog.
nisable objects are presented,” art pure
account of these impurities there has been an
indefinite deferment of any genuine appre-
abstract form cannot be appreciated. “The
ciation of painting.”
Cubists, by breaking up a model into parts
But "painting should be as pure an art as
which separately bore little resemblance to
nature, proved that they not only recognised
• MODERN PAINTING. Its Tendency and Meaning. By Wil- the demands of pure organisation but that
lard Huntington Wright. Illustrated in color, etc. New York:
John Lane Co.
they knew those demands could never be met
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so long as there were recognisable objects in a a good deal of wild putting of things on
painting.” Synchromism took the final step canvas; but only once in a while an achieve-
in the elimination of the illustrative object. ment in itself worth while, even in Mr.
“Thus was brought about the final purifica- Wright's mind. Of the Vorticists, whose
tion of painting. Form was entirely divorced headquarters are in London, he says: Their
from any realistic consideration: and colour creed is an intelligent one, and is in direct
became an organic function. The methods of line with the current tendencies. As yet they
painting, being rationalized, reached their have produced no pictures which might be
highest degree of purity and creative capabil-called reflective of their principles, but have
ity.” “The evolution of painting from tinted kept before English artists the necessity of
illustration to an abstract art expressed eliminating the unessentials." The Cubists
wholly by the one element inherent in it- are already a thing of history. Even the
colour, was a natural and inevitable progress. Futurists are in the past tense. Besides, the
Music passed through the same development Futurists never did represent real advance.
from the imitation of natural sounds to har- They are "at bottom decadent, inasmuch as
monic abstraction." “Form and colour - they turn their art back to illustration.” The
the two permanent and inalienable qualities reader who wishes to know the extent of
of painting - have become synonymous. An- Futurist reversion to illustration may satisfy
cient painting sounded the depths of com- his curiosity by turning to Mr. Wright's two
position. Modern painting has sounded the reproductions, Severini's Hiéroglyphe Dynam-
depths of colour. Research is at an end. It ique du Bal Tabarin and Russolo's Dyna-
now remains only for artists to create. . . No misme d'une Auto. For specimens of the
more innovatory ‘movements' are possible. really unillustrative and objectively unrecog-
. . The era of pure creation begins with the nizable as it culminates in the Synchromists,
present day."
he should look at Russell's Synchromie Cos-
Upon reading the penultimate sentence at mique and Macdonald-Wright's “Arm Organi-
least, public and artists alike, of whatever sation in Blue-Green.'
sation in Blue-Green." The latter is impure,
æsthetic creed, will heave the traditional sigh however; we are bidden to look near the
of relief. No more innovatory movements centre for a "small and arbitrary interpreta-
are possible. “ The means have been per- tion of the constructional form of the human
fected: the laws of organisation have been arm.”
laid down." Painting has at length settled Mr. Wright is conscious of the disparity
to her task. The production of ineffably puri- between claims and achievement in the New
fied and unrecognizable masterpieces may Painting. Men and movements have con-
now be expected as a matter of course. tributed to theory and technique rather than
The clearness and sureness with which Mr. to art, to possibility rather than to possession.
Wright records the triumph of the Idea are He explains: “The new methods are so young
such as to prompt the lively hope that the that painters have not had time to acquire
experience of painting is symptomatic. It is that mastery of material without which the
a daring thought, but it may be that in mor- highest achievement is impossible. . . Mod-
als, in religion, in pedagogy, in civics, in ern art, having no tradition of means, has
social relations, in poetry, and in other fields sapped and dispersed the vitality of its expo-
where Ideas have been adventuring, as well as nents by imposing upon them the necessity
in painting, we are nearer than we suspect to for empirical research. It is for this reason
ultimate defecation and absolute unrecogniza- that we have no men in modern art who
bility. In these fields, too, we may live to see approximate as closely to perfection as did
the day when we can stop talking about things many of the older painters.'
and begin to do them.
And yet the gravity and assurance with
Yet it is with feelings of dismay that the which Mr. Wright presents and discusses his
lover of art contemplates the history of paint- illustrations leave no doubt in the reader's
ing as told in these pages. The path to per- mind as to his very favorable estimate of the
fection has been strewn with awful wreckage. actual achievement of modern painting.
One movement after another is proved by a Praise of the modern and disparagement of
quickly arriving successor to have been abor- the old go hand in hand. Courbet's Les Cas-
tive. Impressionists, Pointillists, Divisionists, seurs de Pierres is "far greater than any.
Chromo-luminarists, Neo-Impressionists, Cu- thing Millet has ever done, despite the vast
bists, Futurists, Intimists, Vorticists, Syn- popularity of such purely sentimental pic-
chromists — all have come and gone with ever tures as the Angelus and The Man with the
increasing swiftness. There has been endless Hoe. . . In Millet's best canvases one finds
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lesser pictures even this amateurish attempt often before been laughed at. The logic of
at organisation is lacking.”
this is simple. The critics fought Wagner,
In the light of so much assurance, it is and the critics were wrong; therefore the
interesting to examine the four subjects in critics are wrong in opposing the Synchro-
color and the twenty-four reproductions with mists. Genius has sometimes been resisted
which Mr. Wright has adorned his book. If and laughed at; therefore everything that is
they illustrate anything as a whole, it surely resisted and laughed at is genius. And yet
is that in proportion as the painting of the Mr. Wright himself says the Futurists are at
past century has ascended in the scale of bottom decadent. He does not laugh at them.
theory and technique it has descended in the The modernist is incapable of laughter at
scale of beauty, intelligibility, and emotional anything except what are foolishly called the
appeal. Of the twenty-eight illustrations as eternal verities.
they appear in this book, fifteen would be Mr. Wright's book is well written, and dis-
classed by any person except a modernist stu- plays a thorough familiarity with modern
dent or a devotee of the comic supplement as painting. Considering the content, it is writ-
either ugly, grotesque, or mystifying; and ten even with some restraint. It serves well
most of the fifteen fall within the period of the purpose of definition, and is for this rea-
nearest approach to "final purification.” son very welcome. But for most lovers of art
Nor is it clear how these qualities could fail it has a fundamental defect. They will deny
to be felt before the actual canvas, however - ignorantly and undefecatedly, of course —
perfect the color. It is significant, too, that the doctrines of unrecognizability and the all-
Mr. Wright's criticism is almost wholly con- sufficiency of color. We often speak of carry-
cerned with the Idea — the theory and the ing a thing to its logical conclusion, and it is
science of painting, rather than its apprecia- no very great compliment to logic that we
tion. Of enthusiasm for beauty there are usually balk at the carrying of things to their
comparatively few traces.
logical conclusions. Modern painting and its
Of course the answer to this is all ready. apologists have not balked. Ordinary earthly
The competence of the adverse critic is con- logic could ask no greater compliment than
sistently denied. “The ignorant and reac- the one they have paid it. But perhaps the
tionary may laugh and hurl philippics. For musical analogy is not perfect. Perhaps a
centuries painting has been reared on a false symphony itself is not absolutely uninvolved
foundation, and the criteria of æsthetic appre-
with illustration. It is to be doubted whether
ciation have been irrelevant.” “The lack of any art may or ought to be perfectly pure.
comprehension - and consequently the ridi. Perhaps painting must be, let us not say a
cule — which has met the efforts of modern bastard art, but a complex art. Perhaps the
painters, is attributable not alone to a misun- old masters, and the earlier of the new, were
derstanding of their seemingly extravagant not wholly illogical or incompetent in still
and eccentric mannerisms, but to an ignorance conceiving of color as instrument rather
of the basic postulates of all great art both than end. The old masters were undeniably
ancient and modern." Preferences for the geniuses, if only in a small way.
old masters, "if they are symptomatic of For the reader who desires to regard the
aught save the mere habit of mind immersed painter's art from a different angle, Kenyon
in tradition, indicate an immaturity of artis- Cox's solid and spirited “The Classic Point of
tic judgment which places prettiness above View” cannot be too strongly recommended.
beauty, and sentimentality and documentary
GRANT SHOWERMAN.
interest above subjectivity and emotion.
“An untechnical onlooker .. can never sound
the depths of art. . . Critics for the most part
MEMORIALS OF A GREAT ASTRONOMER. *
are writers whose admiration for art has been
born in front of the completed works of the
To those of us who knew Sir Robert Ball,
the volume of "Reminiscences and Letters,
great masters."
What this really means is that what the
now published under the editorship of his son,
modern painters say of themselves is true
is very satisfactory. A“big” book was neces-
because the modern painters say it is true. It sary for any complete account of the man and
is a denial of the right of even the cultivated
his career. Fortunately, Sir Robert had dic-
public to participate-a denial of the social tated many of his reminiscences some years
nature of art.
before his final illness, and the result makes
And of course we are reminded that criti.
a very engaging volume. The hiatus which
cism has a record by no means free from • REMINISCENCES AND LETTERS OF SIR ROBERT BALL. Edited
ور
by his son, W. Valentine Ball. Illustrated. Boston: Little,
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sometimes occurs in his recollections is admira- in the University of Dublin,-a double assign-
bly filled with his own letters, and also with ment which he held for eighteen years. Al-
those of his friends — of whom, indeed, there ways happy in himself, his work, and his
were an army.
friends, Sir Robert's sense of humor was
Sir Robert's account of his early years at kindly and never cynical, and this endeared
Trinity is a charming record of undergraduate him to all. At the Dunsink Observatory some
life; and his own efforts to perfect his charac- of his happiest hours were spent. He speaks
ter, as well as his scientific studies, are shown of the magnificent prospect from this site.
in the records of this period. In one of these Indeed, we remember well the extraordinary
he says: “I have not sufficiently practised view spread out on every side,— the sea and
(1) kindness, (2) moderation, (3) gentleness, the city of Dublin, Phoenix Park in front, and
(4) sufficient thought before speaking, (5) re- the beautiful range of mountains — including
pression of sarcastic habits."
Three Rock and Two Rock, and the Wicklow
His first position after leaving college was
mountains - behind.
that of tutor to Lord Rosse's three youngest
Sir Robert speaks in appreciative terms of
sons, a very congenial billet. Lord Rosse was his predecessors, among them Sir William
hospitably inclined toward the young tutor,
Rowan Hamilton and Dr. Brünnow. Dr.
who already felt a drawing to astronomy, and Copeland was assistant astronomer, but he was
permission to use the famous Rosse telescope absent when Ball first went to Dunsink, hav-
was his chief delight. This instrument was ing accompanied the famous expedition of
actually constructed by Lord Rosse; and al- Lord Lindsay (subsequently Earl of Craw-
though since removed to the Victoria and Al- ford) to observe the transit of Venus at Mau-
bert Museum at South Kensington, was at this ritius. The second of the pair of transits of
time in fine shape for use, particularly upon Venus, in December of 1882, Sir Robert ob-
the nebulæ. The young man was both tutor served himself. The sky was covered with
and astronomer, and some of his happiest days clouds during the day, but in the late after-
were during these two years. The morning noon it lightened almost miraculously, the
was spent with his pupils in the castle; and sun burst forth, and Sir Robert beheld the
aside from the games and recreation with globe of Venus standing out on the solar disc.
them afterward, he devoted his afternoons and It was extremely gratifying to him, and of
spare time to the workshops. Lord Rosse gave the utmost importance to the astronomers of
him carte blanche, also, to borrow any book
this and all other countries. Those who beheld
from his library. The use of the large tele- this spectacle in all its beauty will have no
scope must have been very laborious, as it took other opportunity until June, 2004, although
four assistants to make observations. On fine Venus in her frequent journeys around the
evenings Ball would go to the observatory as sun passes only a little above or a little below
soon as it was dark. It was here that he the disc each time.
witnessed the display of November meteors of In 1892, Sir Robert was appointed Lown-
1866, a magnificent occasion brilliantly de- dean Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge,
scribed by the author. The guest book at Par- in succession to John Couch Adams. He was
sonstown Observatory contains the names of also appointed Director of the Cambridge Ob-
many of the great astronomers. Ball speaks servatory. There is less in his reminiscences
of visiting Sir William Huggins, to whose concerning the life at Cambridge than of some
house Lord Rosse took him during some of other portions, but fortunately his many let-
their London trips, and to those of other scien- ters enable the chapter to be written largely
tific men.
from his own point of view. There are numer-
The seven years after Ball left Lord Rosse ous letters of congratulation on his appoint-
were full of work and achievement. He took ment, and his own letters are filled with his
a position in the Royal College of Science in reasons for making the change, — particularly
Dublin, as professor of applied mathematics the letter to Mrs. Adams, the widow of his
and mechanics. At Trinity he had devoted predecessor.
much attention to these subjects, and his hours In July, 1892, he was given a fellowship at
in Lord Rosse's workshop had given him a Kings College, Cambridge. In December of
deeper insight into mechanics, to which he the same year the degree of Master of Arts
devoted his first course of lectures. He con- was conferred on him at the Senate House at
tinued at the Royal College until 1874, when Cambridge.
Cambridge. The account of his reception
his friends urged him to apply for the position there, and the countless friends who made this
of Royal Astronomer of Ireland. He was ap- occasion noteworthy, takes up a large part of
pointed, finding himself Astronomer Royal of the chapter on Cambridge. Sir Joseph Lar-
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during the Cambridge years. Dr. A. A. Com-gations in magneto-electricity; and Profes-
mon, Sir William and Lady Huggins, Sir sor Tyndall's lectures had been subsequently
David Gill, and others of his friends give char- published in book form. Faraday himself had
acteristic pictures of this great man who was given a famous Christmas course on "The
nevertheless so delightfully human. In 1899 Chemistry of a Candle.” With some diffi-
the Cambridge University Press undertook the dence Sir Robert gave his first course of
publication of his treatise on the Theory of Christmas lectures, illustrating them by appa-
Screws, the most abstract and purely mathe- ratus which he had made himself. It is hardly
matical of Sir Robert's writings. His work on necessary to say that these lectures were very
‘Spherical Astronomy” is constantly referred popular. The audience comprised persons of
to, and his “Story of the Heavens” is widely all ages, from a child of eight years to Madame
popular.
Antoinette Sterling and the Lord Chancellor.
Sir Robert's mind appears to have been won-“The Universe in Motion was another of his
derfully versatile. His interest in botany was most popular lectures. Sir Robert's personal
very great, and one of the constant compan- notes and memoranda about his lectures were
ions on his travels was a copy of Bentham's very exacting; but when some one inquired if
“British Flora.” On his country walks of he did not weary of speaking night after
spring or early summer it was difficult to find night, his reply was: “When you have some
a plant which he could not name in English or skill in your art, the exercise of it is delight-
Latin. His copy of Bentham was especially ful.” He several times made lecture trips
interleaved, and on the blank pages he re- through the United States, and was every-
corded the place in which he found any par- where greeted with great affection and ac-
ticular plant. In wild animals, also, Sir Robert corded the closest attention. At home he gave
was not less interested. He was a member courses of lectures to his advanced students at
of the Council of the Dublin Zoological So- Cambridge on Screws, the Planetary Theory,
ciety, and he always actively engaged in its and other abstract subjects.
affairs.
In 1882 he was appointed Scientific Advisor
Ball's own account of the real beginning of to the Irish Lights Board, in succession to the
his career as a lecturer is contained largely in late Professor Tyndall. For several years he
some notes which he collected when planning enjoyed the annual cruise of the Inspecting
to write his reminiscences. His first lecture on Committee around the island on their yacht,
the public platform was in February, 1869, the “Princess Alexandra.” He went to Nor-
when at the Belfast Atheneum he spoke on way for the eclipse in 1896. All expeditions
Some Recent Astronomical Discoveries." of that year, save Nova Zembla, suffered de-
He records triumphantly: "I made 14 s. feat from clouds. The present reviewer was
This is the first sum I ever made by this in Yezo, and can testify that, as a spectacle,
method.” Later in the same year he gave other the eclipse will never be duplicated. The
scientific lectures, exhibiting even in those Astronomer Royal was on the south-east coast
early days that power of exposition which of Yezo, and we afterwards met and compared
afterwards rendered him facile princeps notes. Sir Robert gives a very delightful de-
among public lecturers. In 1881 he gave one scription of the north country.
of his most famous lectures, "A Glimpse In this charming biography, or autobiog-
through the Corridors of Time.” The vast raphy as it might almost be called, the interest
reach of tides was appreciated by mathemati- of its subject in human nature, as well as in
cians; but few in a large popular audience the wonders of the heavens, is all-pervasive.
could have known the part played by tidal The pictures which it gives of Sir Robert
evolution in molding earth, moon, and planets Ball's human and genial nature are beauti-
millions of years ago.
It was a singularly fully sketched, and one reads every word of
beautiful and instructive address. "A Night the memoir, from the first to the last. It is a
with Lord Rosse’s Telescope," "The Moon," delightful book about a delightful man whose
and “Krakatoa were some of the later sub- hands and head were always busy with some
jects. His lectures became more and more abstruse yet popular subject. It was in 1913
popular. He went on numerous tours, and that he died, when but seventy-three years
his accounts of his entertainment and the old, having filled those years to the full with
journeys in connection with these are espe- strenuous endeavor. The sentence from Car-
cially interesting to those of us who have done lyle which just before his death Sir Robert
similar work on a smaller scale.
chose for a motto well expresses the spirit of
Ball's lectures at the Royal Institution were his own life, - “Happy is the man who has
highly significant. Faraday had explained to found his work."
a delighted audience the results of his investi-
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THE IRVING-BREVOORT LETTERS. *
the History of New York by Diedrich Knicker-
bocker."
Washington Irving was frank and open in
The testimony of Irving's biographers is that
his relations with all men, yet it is doubtful if
in 1807, when Irving was a youth of twenty-
he ever revealed himself more fully than in
the letters to his life-long friend Henry Bre-
four, the “Knickerbocker History” was not
begun and probably not even thought of. The
voort. A considerable number of these letters
author himself says, in the "Apology” pre-
were known to Pierre M. Irving, who gave
fixed to later editions, that it was commenced
copious and on the whole well-chosen extracts
from them in his “Life and Letters of Wash- Irving, Esq.”; and according to the “Life and
in company with my brother, the late Peter
ington Irving," but it is a pleasure to have
Peter had returned from a year's
Letters,"
them in their completeness. They are now
absence in Europe just before the appearance
issued, as edited by Mr. George S. Hellman, in
an edition limited to 255 sets, beautifully 1808), and in conjunction . . the two broth-
of the last number (of “Salmagundi,” Jan. 25,
printed at the Knickerbocker Press, and taste-
fully bound. In a prefatory note, the publish- There is no evidence that Washington Irving
ers commenced the History of New York.”
ers speak of “the relations of close sympathy made any extended visit to Philadelphia in
and of personal friendship that existed
the autumn of 1807, and he surely published
through a long series of years between Wash-
no important work there. But let the letter
ington Irving and the late G. P. Putnam," and
speak for itself:
express their pleasure at being able to bring
forth this work of Irving's, much of which has
“I have been delayed in putting my work to
hitherto remained unpublished. The happy found in a Mss. in the Philad Library & which has
press by some minute & curious facts which I
tone of this note and the attractive appear- obliged me to make alterations in the first vol. but
ance of the volumes tend to make their appear- to-morrow I begin — by God.
Ι
ance a formal festive occasion, on which “I wish you would immediately forward me the
tributes may be paid to the genial American inscription on old P. Stuyvesant Tombstone -
and
author whose work is now rounding out a cen- get Jim as well as yourself to prepare some squibbs
tury of popularity, and congratulations offered &c to attract attention to the work when it comes
to the publishers whose name has been so long out.”
and so honorably linked with his.
It would be interesting to know how the
This being the spirit in which the reader editor interprets all this in the light of the
takes up Mr. Hellman's edition of the letters, date he assigns. Certainly the paragraphs
it may seem inappropriate to point out defects. quoted seem to place the letter in the autumn
But there are certain things which one has a of 1809, when Irving is known to have been
right to demand of any work, be it textbook, in Philadelphia for the purpose of bringing
standard edition, or volume de luxe; and it out the History. In the absence of the MS.,
must long be a cause of regret to students of it seems a reasonable conjecture that the
American literature that the editor's work in editor mis-read 1807 for 1809; that he failed
the present instance has not been better done. utterly to consider the contents of the letter ;
Intimate personal letters like these, full of and that instead of being printed as number
references to friends and relatives designated one, it should be number five.
by abbreviated and pet names, would be im- If the error is only in the year, the day of
mensely more valuable if accompanied by the month raises some interesting questions.
explanatory notes. It may be that the task of The “Life and Letters" states that
annotation has been left for a later edition;
“In the November succeeding, Mr. Irving repaired
but surely such editorial work as has here to Philadelphia to superintend the publication of
been done should be reasonably accurate and his History of New York. . . Though the author
intelligent.
had carried the manuscript in a complete state to
The letters are supposedly given in chrono- Philadelphia, yet he afterward made some addi-
logical order. The first is printed with the tions, as was not unusual with him, as the work was
date “Oct. 23d, 1807," and of this the editor going through the press. It was here that he wrote
the voyage of Peter Stuyvesant up the Hudson,
says:
and the enumeration of the army."
“And now, following the path of these letters,
let us accompany Irving down the stream of the
But if this letter were dated October 23, 1809,
years. We find him first a genial, light-hearted Irving went to Philadelphia before Novembe
youth of twenty-four, preparing the publication of and we have another of the many instances
that book which is more intimately associated than in which the earlier biographer is not impec-
any other with the name and traditions of our city cable in matters of detail. Moreover, the
* THE LETTERS OF WASHINGTON IRVING TO HENRY BREVOORT. mock advertisement announcing the disap-
Edited, with an Introduction, by George S. Hellman. In two
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Columbian Hotel in Mulberry Street appeared the world ceases to long after their treasures, they
in the “Evening Post” of October 26 (the seem the most ready to part with them, until they
“Life and Letters" seems to give the date at length seem ready to sacrifice them to the first
incorrectly as Oct. 25): Was this a prompt bidder, and even to importune you to take them off
their hands. This however I hope and believe will
response on the part of Brevoort to the
never be the case with the fair Maria, who, thanks
appeal for "squibbs” to call attention to the
to her cool temperament can still pass on' in maiden
work? And if so, is the credit for this in-
meditation fancy free.' (July 8, 1812.)
genious advertising to be given not to Irving, There is much of this sort of thing; but,
but to his friends who remained in New York ?
It is, however, unsatisfactory to base specula- it is not quite the real Irving.
though it would be too strong to call it pose,
tions on printed data that are clearly wrong
in one important point, and that may be
By far the greater number of the letters
wrong in others. Such looseness as this on
were written during Irving's long stay abroad
the first page of a work casts doubt on the
from 1815 to 1832. A marked, almost an
accuracy of any part.
abrupt, change seems to come over the man
If the reader loses his tone of urbanity
as he finds himself at Birmingham and Liver-
over the vagaries of the editor, he is helped pool, oppressed by the perplexities of busi-
to regain it when he comes to the writings of
ness, and anxious concerning the health of his
brother Peter. He never loses courage, and
Irving himself. Irving is urbane, with the
unfailing urbanity that comes from kindli-
in all his letters there is no trace of bitter-
ness of heart. The earlier letters are not
ness or cynicism; but he is never again the
wholly without a certain affectation that is petted and somewhat irresponsible younger
more representative of the time and the place 1817, when there was no hope of saving the
son, content only to enjoy life gaily. In July,
than of Irving. The "by God” of the letter
already quoted, the “Damme” with which
family fortunes, he wrote in a letter part of
another ends, and similar expressions, are
which was quoted in the “Life and Letters":
strange oaths which seem somehow to be “I have weighed every thing pro and con on the
swaggered forth with an embarrassed air. subject of returning home and have for the present
My affections would at once
Though there can be no doubt of Irving's abandoned the idea.
susceptibility, the references to women that
prompt me to return, but in doing so, would they
fill so large a space in the early letters imply contrary be productive of misery! I should find
insure me any happiness? Would they not on the
an attitude as man of the world that is not those I love & whom I had left prosperous strug-
quite natural.
gling with adversity without my being able to
“ The little Taylor has been here and passed some yield them comfort or assistance. Every scene of
time since your departure. She is a delightful past enjoyment would be a cause of regret and dis-
little creature, but alas, my dear Hal, she has not
content. I should have no immediate mode of sup-
the pewter, as the sage Peter says. As to beauty, port & should be perhaps a bother to my friends
what is it'but a flower!' Handsome is that hand- who have claims enough on their sympathy & exer-
some has,- is the modern maxim. Therefore, lit-
tions. No no. If I must scuffle with poverty let
tle Taylor, though thy little finger be armed in a me do it out of sight - where I am but little known
thimble, yet will I set thee at defiance. In a word,
- where I cannot even contrast present penury
she is like an ortolan, too rare and costly a dainty with former affluence. In this country I have a
for a poor man to afford, but were I a nabob, 'fore plan for immediate support — it may lead to some-
George, ortolans should be my only food.
thing better — at any rate it places me for a time
“As I rode into town the other day, I had nearly
above the horrors of destitution or the more galling
ran down the fair Maria M-
I immediately
mortifications of dependence."
thought of your sudden admiration for her, which To this same subject of returning to America,
seemed to spring up rather late in the season, like and to the pain caused by friends who mis-
strawberries in the fall when every other swain's
understood his motives for staying abroad, he
passion had died a natural & lingering death. The frequently recurs. To a question by Brevoort
fair Maria (for almighty truth will out) begins in
whether he intends to renounce his country
my eyes to look, as that venerable Frenchman Todd
D- d stringy. She has been act-
he writes, March 10, 1821, a spirited reply the
ing very much the part of the dog in the manger
best parts of which are given in the “Life
she cannot enjoy her own chastity but seems un-
and Letters," and need not be quoted here.
willing to let anybody else do it. There certainly The details of personal business affairs — of
—
is a selfish pleasure in possessing a thing which is embarrassments and drafts and loans -
exclusively our own and which we see everybody
which fill many pages are not in themselves
around us coveting. And this may be the reason
edifying, but they show how beset the author
why we sometimes behold very beautiful women
maintaining resolute possession of their charms
long was by financial difficulties, how trou-
and what makes me think this must be the reason is bled he was by them, and how anxious he was
that in proportion as these women grow old, and not to burden others or even to blame them
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when they were less considerate than they in matters of fact, and an easier, more gra-
might have been.
cious style." If we can believe this announce-
These volumes contain no great and strik- ment, Mr. Belloc has succeeded in reconciling
ing contribution to our knowledge of Irving's the legitimate demands of both history and
life, and they are not especially rich in pic literature,— has produced a book that is at
turesque detail. It seems as if the author the same time a work of science and a work of
wrote more objective description of sights and art.
scenes to other friends and relatives, and But has he succeeded? Has he given us a
kept for Brevoort his most intimate and per- sound piece of historical writing? If not,
sonal feelings. The letters do, therefore, help whatever else his book may be, it is not his-
us to a closer view of the man, and they do tory. Now truth is the first test of the value
nothing but add to the regard and respect of every historical work. If it be not true, it
which we already feel for him. Nor should matters not how "interesting" readable”
this notice close without reference to Henry a work may be,- it is not history. Even
Brevoort. Once a well known citizen of New Croce, who would classify history and litera-
York, a man of wealth and culture and public ture under art, defines literature as “knowl-
spirit, it is probably his fate henceforth to be edge of the ideally possible,” history as
remembered chiefly as the friend of Irving. “knowledge of what has actually happened.”
So is literary fame, if it be really fame, Literature appeals primarily to the emotions,
greater and more lasting than that won in history to the intellect. The task of the his-
most fields of endeavor. Of his writing no torian, — the truthful restoration of man's
word is given here; but a man may be judged unique social evolution,— is an arduous one,
by the letters he receives as well as by those and has little in common with the work of
he writes. The friend to whom Irving could the poet or of the novelist. To search labo-
so express himself was a kindly and manly riously for evidence, to criticize the evidence
person, and worthy of at least passing when found, to reconstruct the facts of the
remembrance.
WILLIAM B. CAIRNS. past by a comparison of the affirmations of
independent eye-witnesses, to combine these
facts into a complex and changing whole,
restraining the inclination of the imagination
LITERATURE AND HISTORY.*
to go beyond the evidence and state more than
Mr. Hilaire Belloc's new volume, resplen- the evidence would justify,- this is work for
dent in red and gold, with its many attractive a scientist, not for an artist. So true is this
illustrations, its double-leaded pages with that a man with a decidedly artistic tempera-
luxurious margins, its freedom from all scien- ment, with a strong subconscious imagination
tific apparatus in the form of maps, foot- fitting him for creative literary work, may be
notes, and bibliographies, and above all its utterly unfitted for scientific historical work.
dramatic title, “High Lights of the French It was said of Froude that he was “constitu-
Revolution,” displays all the outward signs of tionally inaccurate."
Everyone commits
history conceived in the literary vein, whose some errors .. the abnormal thing is to com-
avowed purpose is to entertain. An examina- mit many, to commit them constantly, in spite
tion of the contents of the volume only serves
of the most persevering efforts to be exact.
to strengthen the inference drawn from its
.. The involuntary imagination, taking a part
outward form. As the title suggests, Mr. in the intellectual operations, produces bad
Belloc makes no serious effort to describe the results. It fills in by conjecture gaps in the
revolution as a whole, but sketches in a light memory, it magnifies or attenuates the real
way a few of its dramatic episodes, and is facts, it confounds them with its pure inven-
far more concerned with literary effects than
tion.' Like Froude, Mr. Belloc - artistically
with historic truth. But it is not simply as a bi
brilliant -- is “constitutionally inaccurate,
piece of literature that Mr. Belloc's volume the victim of a too powerful subconscious
would be judged; it is history in the form of imagination that unfits him for scientific his-
literature, — the work, we are told, of "the
torical work. I made this observation some
ablest living writer on these themes. . . Pic- years ago in a review of his life of Robes-
turesque, vivid, minutely circumstantial, rush- pierre, All of his later work has simply
ing in interest. In literary qualities the strengthened this first impression,— most of
episodes are comparable to those of Carlyle, all the present volume on “High Lights of
and they have the added advantage of a less
the French Revolution."
prejudiced point of view, a greater precision
This criticism, if well founded, is a serious
one. It is the duty of the historian to pro-
* HIGH LIGHTS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. By Hilaire
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crown.
work. And against no modern writer dealing Marly, but does not mention any dates.
with historical subjects does the public stand Bacourt, his editor, reports in a note what he
more in need of protection than against Mr. had heard about a call of Talleyrand upon
Belloc. He literally invites confidence in his the Comte d'Artois on the night of July
seemingly exact scholarship. In the preface 15-16, and his account of that interview cor-
to his life of Robespierre he wrote:
responds exactly with Mr. Belloc's detailed
“ It will be discovered by my reader that con-
account of the interview of June 19 at Marly.
tinually throughout the following pages I have How could Mr. Belloc have made such a care-
introduced that kind of description which is ex- less blunder? The probable explanation does
pected rather in the evidence of an eye-witness or not increase one's confidence in his scholar-
in the creations of fiction. I know that such an ship. In only one other secondary work have
attempt at vivid presentation carries with it a cer- I ever found any reference to the presence of
tain suspicion when it is applied to history. I can
Talleyrand in Marly on the night of June 19;
only assure my readers that the details I have
that work is Lord Acton's “ Lectures on the
admitted can be proved to be true from the witness
of contemporaries or from the inference which
French Revolution." He uses the incident in
their descriptions and the public records of the the same way, making the same blunder about
time permit one to draw.”
the date that Mr. Belloc makes. Lord Acton
In the face of that statement, who of the
undoubtedly used Bacourt's note. A com-
many readers of Mr. Belloc's delightful vol- parison of the text of Lord Acton's lectures
ume even suspected that it swarmed with
with the text of Mr. Belloc's book makes clear
errors from cover to cover ? And to how
that Mr. Belloc got his information from
many of the readers of the present volume
Lord Acton's work, reproducing part of it
will he fail to communicate confidence in his verbally without quotation marks. The two
scholarship when he writes:
important things to note here are that the
“ Necker would have it in his memoirs that he
incident reported in detail by Mr. Belloc is
was overborne by Barentin and, as one may say,
not history, and that he did not take ordinary
by the queen's party; that his original compro-
pains to determine whether it was or not.
mise was made a little stronger in favor of the
The trained historian, encountering that inci-
To this charge, like the weak and false dent for the first time in Lord Acton's pages,
man he was, he would ascribe all the breakdown would "run it down” and discover that it
that followed. I do not believe him. I think he was not true. It evidently never occurred to
lied. We know how he made his fortune and we Mr. Belloc that the matter should be investi.
know how to contrast the whole being of a man gated.
like Necker with the whole being of a man like
Mr. Belloc blunders again when he repeats
Barentin. Read Barentin's notes on those same
two days and you will have little doubt that Necker
after Lord Acton that the delegation of the
lied."
clergy that went to Marly on the night of
The inference Mr. Belloc would have us draw
June 19 consisted of the archbishops of Paris
from this passage is that he has carefully
and of Rouen; the two sources I have before
investigated the matter of his book, and that
me say the Cardinal de la Rochefoucault and
we may put the utmost confidence in the cor-
the Archbishop of Paris.
rectness of his statements. To prove that this
The second example of “precision," and by
inference is unjustified is not difficult. The
far the worst bévue I have noticed, is found
examples are numerous; it is simply a ques-
in the chapter on "The Storming of the Tuile-
tion of choice. I shall limit myself to two.
ries.” Every schoolboy knows that on the
The first of Mr. Belloc's sketches deals with
morning of August 10 Louis XVI. left the
chateau for the assembly before the chateau
“ The Royal Seance” of June 23, 1789.
had been attacked by the people. Even Mr.
Somewhat unusual familiarity with the
Belloc must know this when he is not writing
sources of this period puts me in position to
literary history! And yet, after describing
judge of Mr. Belloc's methods of work and of
the murderous fire of the Swiss guards and
the trustworthiness of his results. The work
the retreat of the besiegers, he discovers Louis
impresses me as being of the most uncritical
"at his window, overlooking the still empty
and superficial character. In his account of
inclosure beneath him”! Roederer is by his
the events of May 19, Mr. Belloc describes a
side. “The Swiss guards still held the main
midnight visit of Talleyrand to Marly, where door of the Tuileries; the fire from its long
a long interview took place between Talley- tiers of windows was still well nourished; the
rand and the Comte d'Artois. The only evi- muskets in the hands of the half-trained popu-
dence bearing upon the matter is found, so lace were still regularly recharged and held
far as I am able to discover, in the Mémoires their own. It was in this moment of doubt
of Talleyrand. Talleyrand writes of going to that Roederer, the politician who stood by
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the king at his eastern window, said to Louis was also attacked as not being true enough
that it was the duty of a monarch not to risk to life. The last generation (like this) had
the state.” The king decided to leave the many who became irritated, or angry, or dis-
chateau and take refuge in the assembly. couraged, or perhaps merely disgusted or
Then follows the description of the famous tired, at having life presented as attractive,
crossing of the garden through the fallen sentimental, charming, and yet presented (so
leaves. It was so difficult to believe that “the it was urged) in a superficial way that always
ablest living writer on these themes” could avoided real truth. It might be true enough
blunder like the veriest novice in recounting on the surface, it was said, but it did not get
so well known an episode that I turned to the to the things that were important in the
sources to assure myself that the traditional actual life people lived. Real life, many peo-
order of facts is correct. There was no mistake ple felt, was so fine that anything in it,-
about it; Mr. Belloc's subconscious imagina- everything, in fact,- had its beauty, and was
tion was once more interfering with his intel- at least better than the touched-up conven-
lectual operations and falsifying the results. tionalities that one could get at any after-
It seems to me that examples like these - noon tea or sewing-circle. So there came in
and they are only specimens-justify my a kind of realism (encouraged by foreign
statement that Mr. Belloc is "constitutionally example), of which Mr. Hardy's “Jude the
inaccurate." How much confidence can be Obscure” is a good specimen. Mr. Hardy
placed in the historical work of a writer had made something of a sensation in select-
whose method is so bad, and who blunders so ing Tess as his type of “a good woman.” He
unconsciously in dealing with well-known now made a more vigorous sensation by the
facts? Would a cautious student venture to pig-killing episode and other things in “ Jude
use any fact” found in his work without the Obscure.
having first verified it! Mr. Belloc has not, This "reaction," as the histories of litera-
then, succeeded in producing a book that is ture would call it, produced many “realistic"
at the same time a work of science and a work books. It did not, however, do away with the
of art; he has not given us a sound piece of kind of book from which it differed. There
historical writing.
FRED MORROW FLING.
are many conventional “ domestic" novels to-
day of no especial importance; but there are
also a good many books which, without being
domestic, appear to take life according to its
RECENT FICTION.*
obvious, popular, external characteristics, and
Along in the eighties there was a general
some of them are worth noting.
arraignment of the fiction of the day. There The late Hopkinson Smith's "Felix O'Day
was not so much fiction then as now, but is a book similar to those which caused the
there was a good deal; and a large part of it, wrath of many a realist generations ago. It
chiefly English, was widely circulated in the is almost generations ago that Mr. Smith told
paper-covered editions of the so-called “libra- about Colonel Carter of Cartersville. That
ries.” There are many houses to-day where book and a number of others — “Peter" and
in the attic or in some closet you may still
"Kennedy Square" will be best remembered
find piles of novels by William Black, L. B. - presented with great sympathy and skill a
Walford, W. E. Norris, and many others.
"charming" view of life. So does “Felix
These novels were undoubtedly interesting, O'Day.” The story is quite impossible. The
but there arose a feeling that such stories – characters amount to little save as they are
they were likely to be stories of English so- quaint and eccentric. The real thing is the
ciety were rather tame. Then there set in atmosphere, - the general feeling of life.
a tide of tales of adventure, such as “The There in New York, along Fourth Avenue,
Wreck of the Grosvener, King Solomon's was a phase of life now passed away which
Mines,” “Treasure Island," and many more.
Mr. Smith knew and loved. He liked to give
People were delighted to read such things, pictures, sketches, impressions of places and
and liked the feeling that they were literary people that he thought charming, sometimes
At the same time that the everyday novel
in print, sometimes in paint. So he does here;
was attacked as not being romantic enough, it and just as people like his sketches of literary
or artistic bits of London or Venice, so they
By F. Hopkinson Smith. Illustrated.
will like his sketches of passing New York.
By Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Mrs. Burnett goes in for more than does
New York: The Century Co.
THE MONEY MASTER. By Gilbert Parker. Illustrated. New Mr. Smith. She never is absolutely domestic
York: Harper & Brothers.
any more than he,- indeed, in The Lost
THE SONG OF THE LARK. By Willa Sibert Cather. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Co.
Prince" she is not domestic at all. But like
• FELIX O'DAY.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
THE LOST PRINCE.
trated.
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:
Mr. Smith, she always gives us a view of life attention as we read, and then vanish, leav-
which the realist calls superficial, sentimental, ing a few pictures, one or two figures, which
conventional, and other such things. No one, will be interesting or attractive but in their
however, would call her work tame. A lit- turn will vanish too. But as one goes on, the
tle mountainous country somewhere beyond book takes more and more of a hold. Pic-
Vienna, a picturesque and turbulent people, tures of life or not, here is evidently some-
a rightful dynasty lost for centuries, a secret thing worth having in mind and heart. The
party (the most wonderful in the world) determination of the funny little philosopher-
devoted to the lost prince, a silent wanderer, farmer or philosopher-financier is fine. He
a military servant, a crippled street waif, a will be a philosopher,- he will take the right
noble-minded boy trained by hardship to ser- view of life. At first, doubtless, he was wrong
vice,- all this would certainly make a novel in thinking that one could get it from books, –
by Mr. E. Phillips Oppenheim, if there were that one could pack it all in one's head. But
only a few suppers at the Hotel Milan. Cer- in spite of misfortune, he is still a philoso-
tainly it is not tame; and yet to one who pher, “always, always, but in his heart, and
has read anything about Servia of late, or not with his tongue.” “His philosophy was
indeed to anyone else, how wholly different the bent of a mind with a capacity to feel
from real life!
things rather than to think them." He un-
Mrs. Burnett presumably would not for a derstands what the old Judge had meant
moment urge that she has given an unvar- when he said: “It is not vows that keep the
nished view of actuality in the Balkans or world right, but the prayer of a man's soul
anywhere else. That has rarely been her from day to day.”
way. But she has things to say: she thinks of So we read Sir Gilbert's book, and so it
characters, qualities, actions, that are real at seems a book worth reading. It has little to
bottom; and if she presents them in a rather do with the war on the surface; and yet who
decorative manner, -imaginative, somewhat can fail to see that England now, and the
conventionalized even,— why, that is the way whole world at any time, needs men and
with many forms of art. Take the part about women who feel to the bone that life is more
the Indian hermit. One may not be much than opinions and resolves and arguments -
impressed with the tale of the wanderings in that it is an affair of the soul? And to press
the Himalayas; but if the Indian Doctrine is that point in one's book as well as one's life
true, there you are! “There are a myriad seems something worth doing; realistic, ro-
worlds. There is but One Thought out of mantic, — these are but pedantic words if the
which they grew. Its Law is Order which thing be actually done.
cannot swerve." If that is so,- and one gets Miss Cather's “The Song of the Lark" is
the impression strongly in Mrs. Burnett's ver- something different. On the face of it, it
sion, so much the better. There you are:
appears to be one of the biographies — child-
if there is a real idea at bottom, how much hood, education, love-affair or affairs, what-
better than any number of other pictures of not else — of which there are not a few
actual realities which all together give no idea nowadays. This time it is the story of a singer,
of life,-give nothing but a desultory series as Mr. Beresford's latest book is the story of
of impressions!
a novelist, Mr. Dreiser's of a "genius
Sir Gilbert Parker's “The Money Master” painting, Mr. Maugham's of one who was not
has an idea at bottom, too. One might imag- a genius. But the form is not much,-in
ine that at such a time as this, when a man is fact, here it is not even a form (not even,
strained to the utmost to do as much for En- like Lógic, is it a dodge); it is hardly more
gland as man can do, one might imagine that than an excuse. Why tell us so much and no
a novel would be merely a sort of relief, -an more? Why not tell everything? Why ever
unbending in a way one can, when everything stop? Miss Cather or any other novelist
else is tense. But “The Money Master” is would tell us that there must be just so
not merely a picture of old French life in much, no more, no less. The theory has
Canada, though it is that too; it has more to been that such a book is to be the account of
it. It will be admitted that the “more” is life (or a life) just as it is. That gives rea-
not at first obvious; the general setting is of son for anything. But here is a book where
the “charming” order. The peace and plenty theories of form go for little. “It was a
of the Manor Chartier, the whimsical extrava- wondrous storm that drove me on
gance and practical business of Jean Jacques, title-page, doubtless with truth. Miss Cather
the secret passion of his Spanish wife, — all wants to give the soul of the artist, the sense
that seems as if we were to have little more of art, — that something so impossible and so
than a romantic story which would hold our inevitable, which never explains itself, never
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philosophizes, is perhaps never even conscious
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS.
of what it is. Here we have a fine realization
of the artist nature, a picture which stands
I.
for itself in its own way. Method and form
ART AND ARCHITECTURE.
are of little importance in so successful an Other poets before Longfellow have felt the
achievement.
poetry of bridges, and other painters before Mr.
So one need not say much about the realis-
Frank Brangwyn have discerned their artistic pos-
tic touch. To tell the truth, though there is
sibilities, though it has remained for the eminent
Royal Academician to devote a whole volume of
much record of picture and event, there is
generous proportions to their picturesque qualities
much also that is not in that manner at all.
as caught by the brush and in the soberer medium
Miss Cather explains a good deal. Often she of pen-and-ink. "A Book of Bridges” (Lane)
shows us life and lets us get the impression; contains thirty-five reproductions of paintings and
but often for some reason she does not do thirty-six black-and-white sketches, all by Mr.
that, but merely tells us what the impression Brangwyn and all representing historic or other-
should be. She not only analyses, as they
wise notable bridges in Europe. Mr. Shaw Spar-
used to say, but she explains, -as, for in-
row, known for his appreciative book on Mr.
stance, that Thea found faithful friends in
Brangwyn's art, supplies a descriptive and his-
torical commentary to the pictures, a literary fea-
these good women, and that no musician ever
ture that will appeal to many readers. Inevitably
had a better wife than Mrs. Harsanyi. There
one looks for certain favorite bridges of one's own
is much that is seen, but there is much that is
in this rich collection, and fails to find them.
not seen at all, and that with no apparent Even the Bridge of Sighs at Venice has failed to
reason. Sometimes it is one way, sometimes be favored with the artist's attentions; and the
another. One cannot understand the method. bridge spanning the Golden Horn and recently the
Why sometimes tell the fact and sometimes object of a hostile assault that might have proved
explain? Why sometimes skip and sometimes
memorable does not appear.
But the beautiful
not?
book has enough and more than enough to merit
hearty commendation.
In spite of all this, one must take the book
Methods of illustration have a certain interest
on trust, as far as I can see. One might per-
for everyone who reads or handles illustrated
haps understand these matters with more books or magazines; therefore such a work as
study, or with more appreciation. But un- Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pennell's “Lithography and
derstanding is likely to be the perfunctory Lithographers ” (Macmillan) must appeal to many
task of the critic. The first thing to do is to besides artists and craftsmen. In its historical
get the experience; and then understanding portion the book is based upon the similar work
and criticism, and so on, may be left to them-
by Mr. and Mrs. Pennell published in 1898 and
selves. And for anyone who will have it, entirely rewritten and corrected by Mrs. Pennell,
now long out of print, but this part has been
here is certainly an experience such as one
while the technical parts are the work of Mr. Pen-
has all too rarely,- even though there be
several hundred novels this year, and among
nell. Generous in its design and scope, this hand-
some volume, quarto in size, is enriched with
them a number that are excellent. Is it (as almost four-score notable examples of lithographio
hinted) the experience of an upland garden art, and that art itself is made the subject of
in the windy dawn when the world seems eighteen carefully written chapters, tracing its
young! I have never been in such a place, development from its invention in 1798 by Alois
nor have I ever heard the song of the lark - Senefelder to the present time. Concerning the
,-
.
at least not of the “unbodied joy whose race
“Graphic Art Series," to which the book belongs,
is just begun.” It is not so much the feeling
and which Mr. Pennell edits, he says in a brief
foreword:
of life that I get here, as the sense of some-
“ There are endless series of art books
and endless schools of art, endless lectures on
thing much less common than life: namely,
art and art criticism. But so far as I know there
art as it exists in life, a very curious and
are no series of books on the graphic arts, written
elusive thing, but so beautiful, when one gets
or edited by graphic artists. This series is in-
it, that one forgets all else.
tended to be a survey of the best work in the past
EDWARD E. HALE. the work that is admitted to be worth study-
ing - and a definite statement as to the best
methods of making drawings, prints, and engrav-
The forthcoming “Dictionary of Universal
ings, written in every case by those who have
Biography” compiled by Mr. Albert M. Hyamson passed their lives in making them.” Intelligibility,
will, according to the statement of its publishers,
even to a layman, is a notable characteristic of
Messrs. Dutton, “not only include far more names
the technical portions of the book.
than does any other in existence, but may claim How many persons can accurately describe the
without hesitation to deal with more individuals various types of colonial architecture still repre-
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on
eastern seaboard ? Those who cannot — and they volume, with its wide margins and its clear and
are sufficiently numerous will find means to uncrowded print, is entirely in harmony with its
repair their ignorance in “ The Architecture of theme.
Colonial America" (Little, Brown & Co.), by Who that has ever attended or even heard about
Mr. Harold Donaldson Eberlein, with lavish illus-
the old-fashioned quilting-bee, who that has ever
trations from photographs. First is considered the
slept under or seen an old-fashioned quilt, will
Dutch colonial type, then the New England colo-
refuse to cast a kindly eye on Miss Marie D.
nial, the pre-Georgian of the middle colonies, the
Webster's “Quilts: Their Story and How to
colonial architecture of the South, and so Make Them (Doubleday)? Back to ancient
through fourteen informing chapters. Like many Egypt and its relics of patchwork in colored goat-
other writers in this field, Mr. Eberlein deplores
skins she goes for the beginnings of quilt-making
the havoc wrought by modern“ improvers” of
and for the first illustration (after the frontis-
antique architecture, also "the relentless tide of
the relentless tide of piece) in her elaborately illustrated book. Mu-
mercantile progress," especially in New York City.
seums and ancestral chests have evidently been
Chapters on early American architects and their
ransacked for material with which to enrich her
resources, and on the “materials and textures
chapters, and it appears that she has gained
that played so important a part in our early unusual familiarity with her subject from dealing,
architecture, are added to the more customary in a business way, with the quilt-pattern-buying
topics of the book. It is a more scholarly, more public. Similar in design to Mrs. Eliza Calvert
systematic treatment of its theme than one often
Hall's admirable work, “A Book of Hand-woven
encounters.
Coverlets,” this treatise will please many of the
Melancholy associations necessarily link them- author's sex, if not also a few mere men. The
selves with Mr. Ralph Adams Cram's “ Heart of many handsome designs shown in color or in black-
Europe" (Scribner), a sympathetic review of the and-white are notably superior, in æsthetic qual-
former architectural glories of that war-scarred ity, to the stifly geometrical patterns so common
zone of northern Europe where no one yet knows in the bed-coverings of our grandparents. Some
with accuracy what small portions of the artist's conception of the possibilities of Miss Webster's
and craftsman's handiwork have been spared by theme may be gained from the mere fact that her
Mars, and still less what will in the end be found appended list of quilt names has nearly five
to have been spared. The frontispiece of the hundred entries.
book, showing the incomparable façade of the
Introducing " The Art Treasures of Great Brit-
Rheims cathedral, and later views of the Univer-
ain” (Dutton), Mr. C. H. Collins Baker, editor
sity of Louvain, the Cloth Hall of Ypres, the
of the handsome quarto, refers somewhat vaguely
Hôtel de Ville of Arras, and other masterpieces of to a series, of which this work seems to form a
the builder's hand, present in their beauty of form
part, though no number is assigned to it, and no
and richness of detail the strongest possible con-
series name appears on the title-page or else-
trast to their present ruinous aspect. But the
where. Also, in saying that “had circumstances
author's reflections are not all sombre, by any permitted the extension if not completion of this
means; and, even while admitting the irremedia-
publication other living masters would have been
ble consequences of the war, he prophesies a
represented," Mr. Baker implies in the same
nobler, a more sincere, a more consecrated art for
indefinite manner that his work is but a fragment
the future, with a new realization of the very
and that no continuation is contemplated. Both
nature and function of art. His book covers a
public and private collections are represented in
far wider range than that within which the ordi-
the fifty-six plates, mostly in "rotogravure," con-
nary writer on the war or any of its aspects con-
fines himself. The pictures, from photographs, lence of these reproductions is beyond dispute;
stituting the bulk of the volume, and the excel-
are many and good.
but the arrangement seems to be without system,
The splendid country places of California mil- periods and schools and subjects mingling in care-
lionaires — a round dozen of them
are pre-
less comradeship. A page of explanatory text
sented to the eye of imagination and to the eye accompanies each plate. The volume has much in
of sense in Mr. Porter Garnett's “ Stately Homes
it to delight an art-lover and to make him regret
of California” (Little, Brown & Co.), the book the non-completion of the series and the following
itself being a stately quarto of luxurious appoint- out of a plan more intelligible than any that is
ments, including twenty-five colored and uncolored discernible in the present work.
plates, the product of the camera combined with
Many persons of refined taste and peculiar
various processes known to mechanical art. Exte- force of character confess a fondness for restoring
rior and occasional interior views are given of
and refurbishing the old, in preference to con-
palatial mansions owned by Mr. James L. Flood, structing the new. The late Jacob A. Riis had
Mr. H. E. Huntington, Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst, this passion, and frankly acknowledged it. How
Mr. James D. Phelan, and others on whom for- far it has been carried in the fashioning of more
tune has visibly smiled. Both the author and his or less luxurious country residences may partly
sponsor (Mr. Bruce Porter, who contributes an be gathered from turning the leaves of Miss Mary
Introduction) reveal their passion for gardens, H. Northend's richly illustrated volume, “ Remod-
and there is much good garden-description in the eled Farmhouses” (Little, Brown & Co.), wherein
book, with a grace of style rather unusual in lit- more than a score of these modernized relics of a
erature of this sort. The spacious plan of the ruder age are elaborately presented to our inspec-


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tion. As in her earlier books devoted to domestic contains readable chapters on Millet, Corot, Diaz,
architecture, it is New England with its wealth of Dupré, Troyon, Rousseau, Daubigny, and Charles
interesting old houses that here claims the writer's Jacque, with many examples of each artist's style
attention. Some of her restored farmhouses are reproduced in sepia. Excepting Mr. David C.
wonders of up-to-date comfort and even luxury; Thomson's book on “The Barbizon School of
others retain more of their original simplicity; Painters," published twenty-five years ago and
but all are attractive. It is a valuable book for now out of print, there seems to be nothing in the
the home-maker of means and taste.
field to rival Mr. Hoeber's present volume, which
As Rome has been called the most religious city is a delight to the eye as well as a satisfaction to
in the world because of her many churches, so she
the inquiring reader.
might also be called the cleanest by reason of her A thirty-six years' residence in Mexico has
numerous fountains. With this remark Mrs. enabled Mrs. John Wesley Butler to familiarize
Charles MacVeagh opens her notable volume on herself with the more famous of the historic cathe-
“Fountains of Papal Rome (Scribner), in drals and other church buildings in that land so
which are told the stories of a score or more of rich in houses of worship and so poor in the condi-
these acceptable and beautiful gifts to the people. tion of most of the worshippers. “ Historic
“Pagan emperors and Christian popes alike," she Churches in Mexico " (Abingdon Press), which is
says, “ have found both profit and pleasure in add- the fruit of some of these visits to various parts of
ing another fountain or in making or repairing the country, devotes four of its twelve chapters
one more aqueduct to give a still greater supply to churches of Mexico City, and the remaining
of water to the Roman populace. No other peo- eight to those of other cities. The faithful camera
ple, with the possible exception of the Spanish furnishes nearly fifty good illustrations to help
Moors, have so appreciated the value and the out the descriptive matter. Noticeable in many of
beauty of abundant water." A pleasing departure these pictures is the almost barbaric wealth of
from the usual order is found in the wood engrav- ornament characteristic of Mexican church archi-
ings, by Mr. Rudolph Ruzicka, of most of the tecture. Present turbulent conditions beyond our
fountains described in the book. Appended in- southern border make such a book as Mrs. Butler's
scriptions, chronological tables, and alphabetical more welcome than a free excursion ticket to the
index of architects, sculptors, painters, and engrav- land of the Aztecs.
ers mentioned by Mrs. MacVeagh, add to the use- Five books that gain their peculiar interest
fulness of her carefully prepared work.
from the greater of the two Panama expositions
Mr. Joseph Pennell went to Greece in the come from the publishing house of Messrs. Paul
spring of 1913 for two reasons: first, to see the Elder & Co., San Francisco. The pleasing pattern
country and what remained of its ancient glory, of their artistic design stamps them at once as
to see whether “ the greatest work of the past” products of that establishment. Brown-tinted
would impress him as much as the greatest work paper, delicate illustrations in tint, beautiful
of the present and to find out which was the though simple bindings protected by wrappers of
greater"; and second, he says, “I went because corresponding hue, and, best of all, the clearest of
I was told by a Boston authority that I was noth- well-proportioned type — these are among the
ing but a ragtime sketcher, couldn't see Greek art commendable features that attract the eye at the
and couldn't draw it if I did.” Whether the very outset. “The Lure of San Francisco " is a
accusation was true or false the public is invited small volume by two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Gray
to judge after inspecting the handsome volume Potter and Miss Mabel Thayer Gray. Its object
that resulted from that visit. “Joseph Pennell's is to “aid in the general awaking of the dormant
Pictures in the Land of Temples" (Lippincott) love of every Californian for his possessions and
presents forty views of famous ruins, chiefly in be a suggestion to the casual visitor that we are
Greece, with some Greek ruins in Sicily and south- entitled to the dignity of age.” From beginning
ern Italy. Preliminary remarks and interspersed | to end it preserves the form of a dialogue between
brief notes from the artist's pen contribute to the the narrator and a visiting Bostonian, who finds
interest of the book. It is made quite plain by himself justly rebuked for saying “Frisco" by
Mr. Pennell that one need not be a Greek scholar hearing his own beloved city called “Bost," and
in order to appreciate Greek architecture and is in many other ways brought to a recognition of
reproduce something of its charm with the pencil. the dignity and historic importance of the scenes
In this country alone there are said to be thirty before him. The four chapters deal successively
thousand paintings bearing the signature of Corot,
with The Mission and its Romance, " " The Prae-
real or forged; and as he is believed to have pro- sidio, Past and Present," "The Plaza and its
duced not more than eight thousand pictures Echoes,” and “ Telegraph Hill of Unique Fame.”
(enough for one man, surely) in his half-century Eight appropriate drawings are interspersed. In
of activity, most of these thirty thousand alleged two somewhat larger volumes, well supplied with
Corots must be imitations. But in any event there full-page plates from photographs, the Panama-
ought to be wide-spread interest in this country in Pacific Exposition's appeal to the eye of the art-
Corot and his fellow-artists of the Barbizon lover is exemplified and commented upon. « The
School. To this interest ministers Mr. Arthur Art of the Exposition " presents
personal im-
Hoeber, Associate of the National Academy of pressions of the architecture, sculpture, mural
Design, in his well-planned and well-executed decorations, color scheme, and other æsthetic
work, “ The Barbizon Painters ” (Stokes), which
aspects” of the great exhibition; while The
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Galleries of the Exposition " gives "a critical
6 a
ration. It is not, however, personal experience
review of the paintings, statuary, and the graphic and first-hand narrative that fills the bulk of the
arts in the Palace of Fine Arts” at the same book. The historians and memoir-writers have
international show. Both books owe their being been called to his aid, and he avails himself of
to Professor Eugen Neubaus, teacher of decora- their assistance with skill and grace. His readable
tive design in the University of California, mem- chapters are generously and tastefully illustrated
ber of the exposition's jury of awards in the with line drawings by Mr. Lester G. Hornby. Not
department of fine arts, and chairman of the the least of the book's attractions is its inclusion
Western Advisory Committee. He speaks from of a goodly number of not too stale Lincoln anec-
fulness of knowledge, and has made a judicious dotes and allusions.
selection of objects to be illustrated in his hand- To visit with Mr. Norman Douglas the birth-
some volumes.- General and particular views of place of Horace (Venosa, the ancient Venusia), to
Panama Exposition architecture and landscape stroll with him amid Italian scenes made especially
gardening are presented in a volume prefaced by notable by memories of George Gissing, and to
Mr. Louis Christian Mullgardt, architect of the enjoy throughout these and other rambles in the
Court of Ages and member of the Architectural toe of Italy the conductor's rich fund of humorous
Commission of the exposition, and briefly anno- or learned allusion and reminiscence — this is the
tated by competent hands. The illustrations, pleasure offered to readers of Old Calabria
nearly one hundred beautiful examples of photo- (Houghton). The simplicity of the native Cala-
graphic art, occupy the right-hand pages, the brians, their childlike faith in matters of religion,
descriptive notes the left-hand. The title is “ The
is illustrated by anecdotes. One woman of the
Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the country took pains to explain to the benighted
Exposition.” — An æsthetically satisfying little visitor that the saints in heaven take their food
paper book, with stiff cover and wrapper, and exactly as do mortals on earth, and at the same
calling itself “ Palace of Fine Arts and Lagoon," hours. “ The same food ?" was the incredulous
gives a short description, by Mr. Bernard R. May- rejoinder. “Does the Madonna really eat beans?”
beck, of these two features of the exposition, with “ Beans? Not likely! But fried fish, and beef-
a three-page introduction by Mr. Frank Morton steaks of veal.” Unable to declare himself con-
Todd, and two illustrations. It is a pleasing vinced, Mr. Douglas suffered the humiliation of
souvenir of an unpretentious sort.
being considered a pagan. A notable chapter
TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION.
entitled “ Milton in Calabria" deserves more ex-
tended mention than is here possible. The book is
Mr. H. G. Dwight has “ as little patience as
full of readable and often unusual matter. Illus-
possible with the Gladstonian theory of the un-
trations from photographs abound.
speakable Turk," and is therefore in a frame of
mind (and heart) to write with sympathetic
Mrs. Hugh Fraser, like her late brother, F.
understanding of the native inhabitants. of Con-
Marion Crawford, loves her adopted Italy and
stantinople, where he has lived long enough to
is steeped in its lore. “Storied Italy" (Dodd),
acquire an intimate knowledge of that strange and
from her pen, is a collection of personal memories
little-known city. “Constantinople, Old and New”
and historical retrospects relating chiefly to Rome
(Scribner) is, as its title indicates, both historical
and more or less noted Romans. These reminis-
and descriptive, exhibiting the real, Turkish Stam-
cences and studies are to her, she says, a refuge
boul as few writers of western Europe are quali Accordingly she devotes four chapters of some
from the trouble and pain of the modern world.
fied to exhibit it, and bringing the narrative down
to the eventful and, to the Turk, humiliating days length to the holy life and charitable labors of
of the late Balkan wars.
Romana
A laudable desire to
St. Frances of Rome, whom she styles a
produce a book comparable with Mr. Howells's
di Roma," and the details of whose history are
“Venetian Life" has animated the author, though apparently drawn from the biography written with
much fulness by her father confessor immediately
he modestly admits the difficulty of its attainment.
after her death. Other parts of Mrs. Fraser's
As a matter of fact, his work is much more com-
book have more of her own vivid experiences, so
prehensive, much more imposing in its material
that the volume is saved from the danger of too
aspects, with its broad pages and innumerable
much mediæval or other ancient lore. It is well
illustrations (from photographs), and its equip- illustrated, with colored frontispiece and half-tone
ment of bibliography and index and chronological
plates on the whole a fitting supplement to the
table of rulers. It is a book of peculiar timeliness
same writer's “ Italian Yesterdays.
and also of enduring merits.
Mr. Stephen Gwynn, who has already testified
Mr. Francis E. Leupp has had every oppor- in print to his love of his native Ireland, gives
tunity to learn well the Washington that has been further vent to his enthusiasm for Old Erin in a
for many years his home and the scene of his offi-
series of chapters, historic and descriptive, on
cial and journalistic activities. Hence he writes “The Famous Cities of Ireland” (Macmillan).
with ease and a chatty familiarity in his “ Walks
Eleven familiar names, rich in manifold associa-
about Washington " (Little, Brown & Co.), a book tions, head these chapters, videlicet: Waterford,
of historic and perhaps also fabulous anecdote, Dundalk, Galway, Maynooth, Kilkenny, Derry,
such as the well-known features of one's own city Limerick, Dublin, Wexford, Cork, and Belfast. It
would call forth from any communicative pedes- was Galway that sent Mr. Gwynn to Parliament
trian of the requisite powers of memory and nar- in 1906, and it is therefore fitting enough that to
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Galway should be accorded more space than to wonders, the exploits of the native Australian
any of her sister cities except Dublin and Water- trackers are described, and we have a glimpse of
ford. Characteristic of this loyal Irishman is it the Papuan tree-dwellers, while here and there
that he should write.of.“ Derry," not of “ London- we make the acquaintance of some exceptionally
derry.” A frivolous seeker for amusement might remarkable “ aborigine," as the author has the
have wished that he had enlivened his Kilkenny courage to call him. The “sentimental” element
chapter with some allusion to the famous cats of promised on the title-page is nowhere conspicuous,
that town. Mr. Hugh Thomson vividly and one is not sorry to note. It is a brisk and varied
humorously illustrates the book, partly in color, narrative, well illustrated with both colored and
and even more enjoyably in his free and spirited plain pictures by Mr. George Harding.
pen-and-ink drawings.
As the best teacher of a foreign language is
Vacation in Europe is becoming next to impossi- often the outsider who appreciates from hard
ble for travelling Americans, and so their attention experience the peculiar difficulties of that lan-
is turned, more than ever before, to the vaca- guage, so the most illuminating commentator on a
tional possibilities at home. “In Vacation Amer- foreign country and its institutions likely to be
ica” (Harper), by Mr. Harrison Rhodes, with the observer from without who has won his way
pleasing illustrations in color by Mr. Howard with some effort to a true comprehension of his
Giles, is designed to furnish hints and useful theme. Professor Arthur Reade, Lecturer in
information to the sort of vacationers that would English at the University of Helsingfors, brings to
in happier times seek to lighten the burden of the writing of his book, " Finland and the Finns"
existence by going to Europe, unmindful of the (Dodd) the vivid impressions of a visitor and also
Horatian maxim that keeps the wise from chasing the more accurate knowledge of a dweller in the
happiness in foreign lands. Not at all in guide- land he undertakes to describe. His chapters, far
book style, but in familiar, chatty, anecdotal vein, from being descriptive of externalities, deal with
the author touches on some of the delights await- such important topics as the national movement,
ing the visitor to our coast and inland resorts, our the racial struggle, education, painting and music,
summer and winter scenes of holiday-making. It literary landmarks, the rights of women, political
is a small book, and good reading even for the parties, the first and second periods of Russianiza-
stay-at-home.
tion, and Finland's position in the Russian Empire.
Mr. Jack London's adventurous voyage in the The expected pictorial accompaniment, in color
Snark from San Francisco to Hawaii, and thence and in monotone, is not lacking. It is a timely
to the islands of the South Pacific Ocean, has book and, better still, a trustworthy one -
or so it
already been related in his characteristic manner impresses us.
in The Cruise of the Snark.” Now Mrs. Jack Long ago Stevenson made it plain to a host of
London (Charmian Kittredge London is the way delighted readers that there are unexhausted and
she signs her name) tells the same story in her inexhaustible possibilities of pleasure in a small
feminine and more voluble fashion under the sim- boat and a few accommodating rivers and canals.
ilar title of “The Log of the Snark” (Macmil. “An Inland Voyage” may have suggested to Mr.
lan), her narrative taking the form of a diary and Mrs. Lewis Chase their recent adventure in
covering the eighteen months from April, 1907, to "A Vagabond Voyage through Brittany” (Lip-
October, 1908. That the thrill of danger was not pincott), an aquatic saunter from St. Malo to
wanting to complete the charm of this eventful Rennes and thence to Brest, chiefly by canal, with
cruise is proved by concluding references to cer- two short stretches of river to complete the tour.
tain cannibal incidents in islands visited by the Mrs. Chase is the chronicler of the voyage, and she
Snark. “And, believe it or not,” are the writer's adorns her tale with sixty-four views from photo-
closing words, “ye of little faith in the joy that graphs, all interesting and some unusually pleas-
was ours on the voyage, our one ultimate hope of ing. One needs only to have read Blanche Willis
earthly bliss is to fit out another and larger boat, Howard's “ Guenn” to become convinced of the
and do it all over again, and more — and do it quaint attraction of Brittany; and this attraction
more leisurely, more wisely under the tropic sun.” loses none of its force in Mrs. Chase's handling of
Thus does Mrs. London show herself a fit mate her theme. It is a book to make one wish to dupli-
for her roving author-husband. The book is fully cate the author's experiences — when peace shall
illustrated from photographs.
have settled once more over the fair face of
Australia, New Guinea, Thursday Island, and France. A good map accompanying the narra-
sundry other regions, form the successive scenes tive points the way for any such emulous reader.
of the incidents and conversations related by Mr.
RECORDS OF THE PAST.
Norman Duncan in his “Australian Byways: The
Narrative of a Sentimental Traveler" (Harper).
How the Concord celebrities looked to their
Not the popular resorts, not the great cities or the
fellow-townsmen is entertainingly indicated in the
things set down in the guide-books, have attracted retrospective” portion of Mr. Allen French's
this wanderer, but rather the remote and out-of- Old Concord (Little, Brown & Co.), an intelli-
the-way places accessible only by the slower, more gently sympathetic treatment of a perennially
primitive modes of conveyance. Yet there is no interesting theme by a resident and lover of the
lack of human intercourse in the narrated expe- historic town. To Hawthorne's neighbors, we read,
riences; in fact, the pages are enlivened with the modestly reserved author was a queer man
conversation from beginning to end. Among other who " was becoming celebrated, so people heard,


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from his book about a scarlet letter; but he was known to the Romans as Britannia Secunda.
so unsocial that he took to the woods when people “ Wales, her Origins, Struggles, and Later His-
came to visit him. Did n't he use to stand in his tory, Institutions, and Manners" (Stokes), by
garden at the Manse and dream, in full sight of Mr. Gilbert Stone, presents, the history of this
the road, instead of working? The man lived in a romantic land of the Celts in a manner agreeably
dream!" When Emerson's little son showed him at variance with the conventional style of history-
some pictures of the public square of his own writing. Not the rulers and the wars they waged are
town, the dreamer actually asked what place it made the prominent features of the narrative, but
was, though he had passed through it hundreds of rather the people and their habits and institutions,
times. The remaining chapters of the book are with all that goes to make up the civilization (or
headed “Military Affairs," “Chiefly Literary," to mark the lack of it) of a nation strongly defined
and “The Burying Grounds." Thirty excellent in its distinguishing characteristics.
Even more
drawings are supplied by Mr. Lester G. Hornby. fully than J. R. Green in his “ History of the
Useful as a guide, but without the guide-book's English People,” Mr. Stone enters into the details
lack of literary charm, “ Old Concord” is a good of daily life, manners and customs and culture, of
book to own and, above all, to read.
the folk about whom he writes. From the dim
Zealous in promoting the good name and fame of
"origins" to the union with England the story of
his beloved State, Mr. Sherman Williams prefaces
this gallant nation is traced, with many good
his “New York's Part in History” (Appleton) illustrations to help out the text.
with some comparisons to prove that Massachu- How America impressed our French visitors in
setts and Bunker Hill and the Boston Massacre the last quarter of the eighteenth century, when
do not necessarily stand for bigger things than Lafayette and other less illustrious Frenchmen ob-
New York and Oriskany (where, he affirms, Bur- tained more than a bowing acquaintance with our
goyne's fate was really settled) and the so-called ancestors of that period, may be agreeably learned
Battle of Golden Hill (in which American patriots from Mr. Charles H. Sherrill's “ French Memories
and British soldiers ame to blows nearly two of Eighteenth-Century America” (Scribner). An
months before the historic “ massacre" in Boston). old mahogany sofa treasured by the Sherrill fam-
Other comparisons to the advantage of New York ily, a piece of furniture on which the above-
appear in the preface, and furnish matter for named general is said to have sat more than once,
more extended treatment in the body of the book. started the author on his study of French memoirs
In a word, the memorable achievements of this relating to early American life and manners; and
commonwealth in war and also in peace are ably hence the present book. Nearly_ninety names
and eloquently presented in seventeen stirring appear in his appended list of "French authori-
chapters, with abundant pictorial accompaniment ties consulted and records examined," and a respec-
and eight maps.
table array of "authorities in English” follows.
Puritanical Boston's famous old theatre under The book treats of such matters as costume, con-
another name (the Boston Museum and Gallery of versation, cards, etiquette, dancing, courtship and
Fine Arts) was for more than half a century a marriage, food and drink, city life and country
purveyor of innocent entertainment to good people life, education, newspapers, professions and indus-
who would have been shocked at the suggestion of tries, and, in fact, a remarkably wide range of
going to a regular playhouse. No stock company further subjects. Many illustrations from con-
in America has enjoyed for so long a period so temporary sources are inserted.
enviable a repute. But it was too good to last, Wellesley's memorable fire of last year awak-
and comparatively few of the present century have ened such an interest in the plucky little college
any personal knowledge of the Boston Museum
(no longer so little, however) as had never before
and its wholesome delights. To those few, and we been felt. The rapid recovery from this disaster
hope to many others, Miss Kate Ryan's “Old
gave evidence of Wellesley's vigorous vitality -
Boston Museum Days” (Little, Brown & Co.) the vitality of comparative youth, for the college
will be a treat. Miss Ryan (we follow the lead is but forty years old. These forty years, how-
of her title-page and give her the name by which
ever, contain a wealth of notable history, a chapter
she was known on the stage) joined the Museum of no little significance in the larger story of
company in 1872 and remained with it until its
female education; and this chapter is now written
disbandment in 1893, and thus is admirably quali- by a Wellesley graduate, Miss Florence Converse.
fied to write about the old playhouse in its well- “The Story of Wellesley" (Little, Brown & Co.)
matured prime. It is the personally reminiscent is embellished with graceful drawings by Mr. Nor-
character of her book that makes it so enjoyable. man Irving Black, which form a fit accompani-
Good stories, often amusing, as such anecdotes ment to Miss Converse's careful narrative. But it
commonly are, abound; and all the old favorites
is somewhat unexpected not to find in a work of
of the famous company live once more in her this kind a single portrait of past president or
pages. They are also presented in photo-engrav- beloved professor. Things, not persons - build-
ings. Not to be able to find enjoyment in such a ings, not the occupants of chairs in those buildings
book is to be an object of pity.
are chosen for illustration.
A volume of nearly five hundred closely printed Fitting enough is it that the present revival of
pages is added to the “Great Nations " series in the pageant should bring us books in which the
evidence of the magnitude, historical if not geo- attempt is made to present a pictorial and, as far
graphical, of that rugged corner of Great Britain as possible, a verbal pageant of the subjects


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It is,
measure.
treated. Dr. J. Edward Parrott's truly gorgeous impressions in which lived — aye, and to this day
volume, " The Pageant of British History” (Sully lives — the average Russian of this class."
& Kleinteich) is a rather conspicuous attraction however, about himself primarily that he writes,
of its sort this season. The narrative, covering the and he does so with astonishing frankness and
chief events in England's history from the earliest with the vivid force of a born artist in narration.
times to the close of Queen Victoria's reign, is in Revolting, though fascinating, many of his pages
the simple and attractive style of Dickens's sim- must in truth be styled. The following is a de-
ilar work for young readers; and the numerous scription of the writer's school costume: “I went
pictures are from famous artists, such as Turner, thither in mother's shoes, with a coat made out of
Alma-Tadema, Orchardson, and Maclise. Nothing a bodice belonging to grandmother, a yellow shirt,
short of splendid is the brilliant appearance of and trousers which had been lengthened. My
the colored plates; the black-and-white, if not attire immediately became an object of ridicule,
preferred by any large majority of readers, will and for the yellow shirt I received “The ace of
at least serve as a grateful relief to the eyes. A diamonds.'” His great pity and tenderness for
scant two pages is devoted to “Edward the Peace- all suffering, and a sense of fellowship with the
maker,” and the book closes with only the briefest sufferers, were first awakened by a cruel flogging
mention of his successor's accession.
from his inhuman grandfather. The reminiscences
BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIRS.
end with the death of the writer's mother and
his own going forth into the world. The transla-
“My labor, like my life, is drawing toward a
close. It has, from first to last, been devoted to
tion, a vigorous performance, is from an unnamed
hand, and an unnamed artist supplies illustrations.
one service,- to the Ministry of Beauty. That is
Facing the title-page is a portrait of the author,
the consummate agency of civilization, and that
from a photograph. All who like Russian realism
should be the supreme purpose of all art.” Thus
of an unflinching intensity will delight in this
writes Mr. William Winter, our dean of dramatic
book.
critics, our much loved poet and genial man of
letters, in his latest volume of reminiscences,
“ Court Life from Within ” (Dodd) is made up
“Vagrant Memories” (Doran). Naturally enough, of the chapters of bright and informal chat about
and very acceptably to the reader, these memories
royal and imperial personages and their surround-
are almost wholly of famous players, a baker's
ings that have in the last two years entertained
dozen of them, with a chapter on Augustin Daly, many magazine readers and inspired them with a
friend and patron of players, thrown in for good
decided liking for the frankly democratic royal
A fine tribute to William Warren, with
writer, the Infanta Eulalia of Spain. That a
the poem that Mr. Winter wrote and recited in his
member of the Bourbon and Hapsburg families,
honor on the occasion of his completing half a
and one reared amid the strict formalities of the
century on the stage, opens the book; a char-
Spanish court, should display such an understand-
acteristic and in every way admirable discourse
ing and appreciation of democratic ideals and cus-
on “ The Theatre and Morality” closes it; while
toms, is something not to be passed over without
between the two stand notable personal recollec-
remark even in the hastiest reading of her book.
tions and anecdotes of Laura Keene, Matilda
Again and again she holds up to good-natured
Heron, Lester Wallack, the Booths, Irving, and
ridicule the inane pomposities of court life, and
others, including three living representatives of
in the heaven-anointed German Kaiser especially
the stage. Though the author admits that praise
she finds food for her fun-making. His belief in
of the past and despondency over the present have
his divine right as sovereign, and his very con-
always been indulged in by men of advanced
spicuous “religiosity” evoke her caustic comment,
years, he believes this present day of ours pecu-
if one may apply so strong an adjective to her
liarly and exceptionally bad in many respects, and gracious and graceful manner of expression. The
especially in things theatrical - as if the same
book is ornately bound and well illustrated.
lament had not been raised ever since the first The Princess Lazarovich Hrebelianovich
theatre was built. But he regards the evil as a known before her marriage to the Serbian states-
passing aberration only, and optimistically looks man above-named as Miss Eleanor Calhoun — is
for better things in the future, which the typical not only the grand-niece of a famous man (John
croaker never does. Therefore his pages are to be
C. Calhoun) but also famous in her own right.
heartily commended as almost equally cheering Both London and Paris applauded and fêted her
and entertaining; they register the gold days, not as an actress when she left her native California
the gray, of the writer. The usual rich accom- and devoted her talents to the stage, chiefly in
paniment of illustrations, chiefly portraits, is to Shakespearean parts and with Sir Johnston
be found in this welcome addition to Mr. Winter's Forbes-Robertson, Mounet-Sully, and Coquelin.
works.
From the rich store of reminiscences that she has
Unsparingly, withholding no sordid or distress- put into writing, and of which some foretaste has
ing detail, Maxim Gorky (his real name is Alexei already been vouchsafed to the reading public,
Maximovitch Peshkof) tells the story of his early selected chapters now appear in book form under
years in “ My Childhood ” (Century Co.), and at the title, “ Pleasures and Palaces” (Century Co.),
the outset he defends his pitiless realism by say- giving her memories of European society as she
ing: “But truth is stronger than pity, and came to know it as a young American actress with
besides, I am writing not about myself but about keen perceptions and an eager desire to see as
that narrow, stifling environment of unpleasant much as possible of the great world. Representa-


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tives of royalty and nobility, of authorship and South Wind." The abundance of French memoirs
art, of statesmanship and diplomacy, crowd her and other published material relating to the event-
pages, which seem to contain not a dull para- ful period of Desmoulins's public activity makes
graph or line.
A notable chapter describes the it no difficult undertaking to produce a readable
writer's planning and execution of “the first for- account of the man, and authentic portraits of him
rest production,” as she calls it, of “As You Like by contemporary artists are not wanting for the
It," in Coombe Wood Grove, Surrey. Many pho- suitable illustration of such a book. In its appeal
tographs and drawings, the latter by Mr. John to the reader's sympathies this biography is skil-
Wolcott Adams, adorn the book.
fully written; it certainly catches and holds the
After the death of the Rev. Laurence Henry attention. David's painting of the young revolu-
Schwab, who was to have been the authorized tionist, with his wife and infant boy, is reproduced
biographer of the late Bishop Potter, the task in the frontispiece, and four other portraits of
was entrusted to Dean Hodges, of the Episcopal the man follow in the body of the book. Bibliog-
Theological School at Cambridge; and with Mr. raphy and index are added.
Schwab's accumulated material to help him, and
MISCELLANEOUS HOLIDAY BOOKS.
his own peculiar fitness for the work, it was a
virtual certainty that he would produce a worthy
Symptomatic of the western world's increasing
memorial of Dr. Potter and a notable piece of
interest in the Japanese stage, as well as in other
biographical writing. In the case of one whose
manifestations of Japanese culture, is the appear-
energies were so unreservedly devoted to the ance of a collection of condensed epic dramas of
church as were Henry Codman Potter's, the biog-
that island kingdom, edited and translated by
rapher's labors must concern themselves largely Professor Asataro Miyamori, revised by Professor
with the history of the church as interwoven with Stanley Hughes, and furnished with a commen-
the professional activities of the man. Thus we
datory foreword by the British Ambassador at
have in Dean Hodges's book not so much a per-
Tokio. “ Tales from Old Japanese Dramas
sonal portrait as a chapter from the annals of the
(Putnam) contains eight masterpieces in English
Protestant Episcopal Church, though it is a chap-
dress, necessarily much shortened - for the play
ter in which the personality of Bishop Potter
in Japan is an all-day performance and wisely
stands conspicuously forth. In his record of turned into narrative style, with division into
biographical details — a record not supremely chapters instead of acts and scenes. To "the
important, it is true — the writer_might have Shakespeare of Japan," Chikamatsu Monzayemon,
shown more scrupulous accuracy.
For instance,
is accorded the place of honor, at the end of the
on his second page he makes Alonzo Potter
volume, while seven lesser lights precede him.
(father of the subject of his book) marry Sarah Thirty pages of historical introduction prepare
Maria Nott in 1823; and on page ten he places the way for the “ tales," and a profusion of stage
this marriage in 1824. Portraits accompany, the
scenes and characters is presented in illustrations
text, and an index is appended. The book is
from photographs. The male actor in female
entitled “Henry Codman Potter, Seventh Bishop impersonation is notably present in these pictures,
of New York," and it is published by the Mac-
as actresses are not yet much more numerous in
millan Co.
Japan than they were in ancient Greece. The
The frail objects of royalty's errant affections English rendering throughout is highly creditable
have a strong attraction for Mr. H. Noel Williams,
to the translator.
who this season gives us some readable chapters on In compendious form and in a style of narra-
those court beauties of the Restoration, Nell Gwyn, tion suited to its subject, the heroic exploits of
Louise de Kérouaille, and Hortense Mancini the Antarctic explorer, Captain Scott, of glorious
“Rival Sultanas," as the book's title designates memory, are retold" by Mr. Charles Turley in
them. The Merry Monarch's fair favorites played a well-illustrated volume entitled The Voyages
so conspicuous a part in the social and political of Captain Scott” (Dodd). As is indicated on
life of their period as to invest them with a his- the title-page, free use has been made of “ The
toric importance not always possessed by king's Voyage of the 'Discovery'” and “Scott's Last
mistresses. Hence the ease with which Mr. Wil- Expedition," indispensable authorities to any later
liams spins out his tale to the extent of nearly chronicler of the great adventures to which this
four hundred pages.
Ten of Sir Peter Lely's intrepid explorer and true hero gave the best of
sleekly graceful productions in portraiture, with his energies and, finally, his very life. Sir James
fifteen similar works of art by Sir Godfrey Kneller M. Barrie, from his intimate acquaintance with
and others, have been made use of in illustrating Scott, contributes an introductory sketch of the
the book, which is offered to the American public man, showing him to have possessed a nobility of
by Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co.
character and a heroism in the wear and tear
The romance and tragedy of Camille Desmou- of every-day life unsuspected by many a reader of
lins's life and death, and the heroic bearing with his more conspicuous and dramatic achievements.
which his young wife followed her adored husband Pathetic in the extreme are those last pencilled
to the guillotine, are the subject of Miss Violet words of Scott's to the world he was leaving, and
Methley's “ Camille Desmoulins" (Dutton), a sub- the publishers have done well to insert a facsimile
stantial octavo
divided into four parts bearing the reproduction of that page from his diary. A good
somewhat fanciful headings, “ The North Wind," map is added. Four reproductions of water-color
“ The West Wind," “ The East Wind," and " The drawings are among the illustrations.


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From the collection of Serbian legends and bal- to the general enjoyment he will doubtless forgive
lads compiled by the self-taught Serbian peasant, the mistress of the exhibition.
Vouk Stephanovitch-Karadgitch, " the father of The story of the Bible, how it came to be writ-
modern Serbian literature,” Mr. Woislav M. ten and something about its subsequent history
Petrovitch has selected the specimens of folk-lore and the part it has played in the progress of the
contained in his stout volume of “ Hero Tales and
world, has an interest that with many readers
Legends of the Serbians” (Stokes). He is at exceeds that of the scriptures themselves. Mr.
present an attaché to the Serbian Legation in Harold B. Hunting tells once more
The Story
London, and shows an excellent command of our of Our Bible” (Scribner) and "how it grew to
language. A former Serbian Minister to England, be what it is,” in a richly illustrated volume of
Mr. Chedo Miyatovich, supplies a preface of no
nearly three hundred pages. Rather oddly he
perfunctory nature; and Mr. William Sewell and begins with the New Testament, because, as he
Mr. Gilbert James enliven the book with colored
explains, “it is easier to understand the conditions
illustrations in apparent harmony with the primi- | in which the New Testament arose, for the very
tive legends that they accompany. The inevitable reason that they are more like those of modern
and always interesting merging of early pagan in life." His attitude toward modern Bible inter-
later Christian myth and tradition is found here pretation is indicated by his concluding remarks,
as in the folk-lore of other European countries. among which he says:
« On the other hand, many
For example: “Our pagan ancestors used to more accepted these new ideas, and suddenly dis-
sacrifice a pig to their Sun-god, and in our day covered that to them the value of the Bible had
there is not a single house throughout Serbia in been extraordinarily increased. . . They have seen
which 'roast pork' is not served on Christmas that it is no less a divine book for being so thor-
Day as a matter of course." Three Serbian bal- oughly human." It is this human interest that
lads, in Sir John Bowring's version, to which is especially appeals to the reader in Mr. Hunting's
accorded high praise, help to give variety to the
pages.
book, which of course has just now an obvious
Animal stories, told with a sufficiently tight
timeliness in addition to its other merits.
curb on the imagination, are likely to be both
Mrs. T. P. O'Connor does not go so far as to pleasant and profitable reading, provided always
say that a long acquaintance with both men and the narrator knows his subject and has a good
dogs has led her to prefer dogs, but she does open command of language. These prerequisites are
her book of dog stories — which she calls Dog not wanting in Mr. John Coulson Tregarthen, who
Stars: Three Luminaries in the Dog World" also knows his Cornwall and its human types as
(Doran) — by quoting Mr. Yeats's lines on the one well as the beasts of the field that play the chief
man who loves “the pilgrim soul” in a woman, part in his companion volumes, “ The Story of a
and adding that “there is more than one woman Hare” and “The Life Story of an
Otter"
even a beautiful woman — who has never found
(Hearst). The camera has been adroitly handled
the man to love the pilgrim soul in her; and,
to supply pictures of the hare and otter in their
after passionate protestations and broken vows, native haunts, and one of the volumes contains a
old, disillusioned, sad, and deserted, she has re-
“ sketch-map of the scene of the story” from the
gained faith in love and fidelity through the devo- author's own hand a bit of Cornwall to increase
tion of a — dog.” The three canine heroes of her the verisimilitude of these Cornish animal tales.
book are most interesting and lovable creatures, The books are welcome additions to an unfailingly
and they could not have had a more sympathetic popular branch of literature.
biographer. The artist, too, Mr. Will Rannells,
Short stories, little tales or fables, so compressed
seems fairly to have been inspired in his excellent
sometimes as to be little more than epigrams, are
colored portraits of these intelligent animals.
peculiarly popular in Russia, where the long novel
Without pretence to greatness as literature, the
is no great favorite. Of these bits of sprightly
book is one of the very best of its kind.
fiction Fedor Sologub is a most successful and
Together with the little, amusing, affectionate
prolific writer, and he has so commended himself
bickerings of intimate domesticity, Mrs. Elisabeth
by his work to Mr. Stephen Graham that the lat-
Woodbridge Morris (whose pen-name omits the ter and his wife have collected, chiefly from Rus-
last element) gives us, in “More Jonathan Papers" sian newspapers, a score and a half (less one) of
(Houghton), some further acceptable chapters of his best pieces and translated them under the title,
outdoor life and outdoor recreation such as made “ The Sweet-Scented Name, and Other Fairy
her“ Jonathan Papers” so breezy and refreshing Tales, Fables, and Stories" (Putnam). Ranging
to the reader. In this second volume are depicted from half a page to thirty-three pages in length,
the joys of amateur maple-sugar-making, the these selections are very different from our con-
pleasures of gardening, the quiet delights of eve- ception of the short-story masterpiece as written
nings on the farm, which did not always prove to by a Poe or a Maupassant or an 0. Henry," but
be so quiet as expected, the satisfactions of row-
they are all novel and hence of considerable inter-
ing and fishing, and other kindred matters; and est. Mr. Graham's name is a sufficient voucher
through it all it is the engaging manner and per- for the faithfulness of the translation.
sonality of the chronicler that makes the unpreten- “My Growing Garden” (Macmillan) has rather
tious history so peculiarly enjoyable. Jonathan is unusual individuality, The pleasures of amateur
made to exhibit himself not always to his best horticulture have seldom been so alluringly de-
advantage, but as he thereby contributes no little picted as by Mr. J. Horace McFarland in this


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sexes.
chatty and familiar record of his own experience a decorative character abound. It should be added
on a modest urban, or perhaps we should say that the story is not unknown to magazine-readers
suburban, estate at Harrisburg, Pa. It is a natu- under the title, “ The Happy Man," but that fact
ral growth, this book of his, rather than a product is rather in its favor than otherwise.
of cold calculation. “I have written it,” he says, Advocates of woman suffrage, just now perhaps
“but my family have lived it with me, and the a little down-hearted from their recent setback at
print-shop which bears my name and enjoys my the polls, will find in Mr. Orison Swett Marden's
garden has made of the book much more than a “Woman and Home” (Crowell) a source of con-
perfunctory item of work. The publishers, too, solation and encouragement. He is an enthusiastic
have let down the bars, so that in a very special admirer of the 6 new woman and a vigorous
sense the book has been lived, written, designed, defender of her rights. His chapters discuss
illustrated, printed, and bound as the work of one
woman's opportunities and responsibilities, her
man and those about him.” Many pictures, four education, her home, woman as voter and as wife,
in color and thirty-two in sepia, accompany the
the divorce question, and many other topics of
reading matter.
interest to women,
and indeed to readers of both
Mr. FitzRoy Carrington, who has several times “Woman has never taken a step forward,"
acquitted himself with credit in similar tasks of he believes, that has not benefited the whole
poetic taste and selection, compiles this year a human race. Everything she has touched she has
small anthology which he calls “ The Quiet Hour" improved, elevated, purified.” This latest product
(Houghton), embracing choice bits of verse from of the writer's pen is likely to be bailed by many
English poets of the sixteenth and following cen- readers as one of his best utterances.
turies. These selections are grouped under the Mrs. Florence Hobart Perin regrets that “fam-
headings, Cradle Songs, Infancy, Childhood, Night, ily devotions have largely gone out of fashion,"
Sleep, Charms, and Dirges. An apt and graceful but derives some consolation from the thought that
dedicatory sonnet to his wife proves the compiler “families do still come together at the breakfast
to be a poet as well as a lover of poets. Eight table whether they live in country, village, or city,"
portraits are scattered through the book, which in and believes that “ a pause of three minutes
every aspect is a tasteful little production.
before starting the work of the day will give the
This year's pictorial re-interpretation of “A spiritual uplift which will enable us to do better
Christmas Carol comes from the skilful hand of work and fight a braver battle” — provided this
Mr. Arthur Rackham. Twelve colored and eight- / pause be put to the right use. “Sunlit Days,” a
een uncolored drawings enliven the immortal tale. collection of passages of verse and of prayer
Master of .the whimsical and grotesque, of the selected by her, furnishes the material for thus
humorous, and of that which makes a direct wisely filling the three minutes each morning. A
appeal to the human nature in us all, the artist
page is given to every day in the year, and the
has done his work well; and printer and binder writers quoted range from the famous to the
have seconded his efforts. The book is brought obscure. Good taste is shown by the compiler,
out in this country by the J. B. Lippincott Co.
whose two previous similar works have, she an-
Sound doctrine, expressed in homely terms, with nounces in her preface, begotten a widespread
a jingle to them, will be found in Mr. Walt desire for a third. (Little, Brown & Co.)
Mason's “ Horse Sense" (McClurg), an enter- “ The Shadow on the Dial” (Abingdon Press),
taining collection of his popular pieces of rhymed by Mr. Orton H. Carmichael, is a book of mystical
prose. The whimsical regret that “there'll never musings if one may attempt a brief characteri-
be such days as those when people wore no under-zation of it — strung together on the thread of
clothes ” recalls, by its faulty rhyme, the Words- Vera Meldrum's life and death and personality.
worth couplet introducing the Blind Highland Devotion and nature-study and philosophy and
Boy's nautical adventures on Loch Leven in “ poetry mingle throughout the successive chapters,
household Tub, like one of those which women use while some notably clean-cut and beautiful half-
to wash their clothes." But it should be added tones from the great book of nature, as spread
that the poet, “in deference to the opinion of a open at “ Elmwood” in western New York, help
Friend," afterward substituted a turtle-shell for in no small measure to emphasize the meaning of
the tub. To have reminded one of Wordsworth is the reading matter.
no despicable achievement. The frontispiece shows A new and enlarged edition of Mr. J. Walker
" the author as Zim' sees him."
McSpadden's “Opera Synopses" (Crowell) makes
Mr. Ralph Henry Barbour's annual contribu- its appearance.
Since its first issue, four years
tion to the season's fiction is this year entitled ago, there have been presented in this country a
“Heart's Content” (Lippincott), being, as the sufficient number of new operas and revivals of
name indicates, love story with a happy ending old ones to justify this extended reissue, which
altogether a cheery little romance for Christ- includes twenty-four operas not found in the ear-
mas or any other festive day. The hero, Allan lier work, and among them the ten-thousand-dollar
Shortland, asks the heroine, Beryl Vernon, whom prize production brought out at the Metropolitan
he has resolved to win, for congratulations on his Opera House in 1911-12. Thus, although of about
approaching marriage before securing her con-
the same size and general plan as the familiar
sent to play a leading part in that ceremony. Of work by Mr. George P. Upton in the same field,
bright dialogue and clever invention there is no this later handbook has the advantage of being
lack. Colored pictures and marginal sketches of more nearly up to date.
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THE SEASON'S BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.
The following is a list of all children's books
published during the present season and received
at the office of THE DIAL up to the time of going
to press with this issue. It is believed that this
classified list will commend itself to intending pur-
chasers as a convenient guide to the juvenile books
for the Holiday season of 1915.
Stories of Travel and Adventure.
IN CAMP ON BASS ISLAND: What Happened to Four
Classmates on the St. Lawrence. By Paul G. Tom-
lingon, Illustrated. Charles Scribner's Sons.
$1.25 net.
CHAINED LIGHTNING. By Ralph Graham Taber. The
heroes are telegraphers in Mexico. Illustrated.
Macmillan Co. $1.25 net.
THE FUR TRAIL ADVENTURERS: A Tale of Northern
Cana da. By Dillon Wallace. Illustrated. A. C.
McClurg & Co. $1.25 net.
AN ARMY BOY IN ALASKA. By Captain C. E. Kil-
bourne, U. S. A. Illustrated. Penn Publishing Co.
$1.25 net.
SMUGGLERS' ISLAND and the Devil Fires of San Moros.
By Clarissa A. Kneeland. Illustrated. Houghton
Mifflin Co. $1.25 net.
PARTNERS OF THE FOREST TRAIL: A Story of the
Great North Woods. By C. H. Claudy. Illustrated.
Robert M. McBride & Co. $1.25 net.
CLEARING THE SEAS: or, The Last of the Warships.
By Donal Hamilton Haines. Illustrated. Harper
& Brothers. $1.25 net.
Two AMERICAN BOYS IN THE WAR ZONE. By L.
Worthington Green. Illustrated. Houghton Mifflin
Co. $1. net.
TRENCH-MATES IN FRANCE: Adventures of Two Boys
in the Great War. By J. S. Zerbe. Illustrated.
Harper & Brothers. $1. net.
THE LAST DITCH: A Story of the Panama Canal.
By J. Raymond Elderdice. Illustrated. Rand, Mc-
Nally & Co. $1. net.
IN THE GREAT Wild NORTH: Adventures with In-
dians. By D. Lange. Ilustrated. Lothrop, Lee &
Shepard Co. $1. net.
Boys' Stories of Many Sorts.
DEAL WOODS. By Latta Griswold. Illustrated. Mac-
millan Co. $1.35 net.
THE BOY WITH THE U. S. LIFE-SAVERS. By Francis
Rolt-Wheeler. Illustrated. Lothrop, Lee & Shep-
ard Co. $1.50 net.
DANFORTH PLAYS THE GAME. By Ralph Henry Bar-
bour. Illustrated in color. D. Appleton & Co.
$1.25 net.
SANDSY'S PAL. By Gardner Hunting. Illustrated.
Harper & Brothers. $1.25 net.
DAVE PORTER AT BEAR CAMP; or, The Wild Man of
Mirror Lake. By Edward Stratemeyer. Illustrated.
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. $1.25 net.
MARK TIDD IN BUSINESS. By Clarence B. Kelland.
Illustrated. Harper & Brothers. $1. net.
BOB HUNT, SENIOR CAMPER. By George W. Orton,
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NOTES.
“ Columbine” is the title of an immediately
forthcoming novel by Miss Viola Meynell.
It is reported that the Nobel Prize for litera-
ture, for 1914, has been awarded to M. Romain
Rolland, the author of " Jean Christophe."
A new novel by Miss Marguerite Bryant, author
of “ Christopher Hibbault: Roadmaker," is an-
nounced by Messrs. Duffield. Its title is “ Felicity
Crofton."
Lovers of Tacitus will be glad to hear of a new
English translation of the Histories, made by Dr.
George Gilbery Ramsay, which Messrs. Dutton are
about to issue.
Mr. Ford Madox Hueffer has prepared an an-
swer to Mr. Bernard Shaw's views about the war,
which Messrs. Doran will issue at once under the
title of “Between St. Dennis and St. George."
A volume of “War Letters of an American
Woman," by Miss Marie Van Vorst, who has been
in Paris with the American Ambulance, and else-
where on the Western front, is soon to appear.
"Lodges in the Wilderness," by Mr. W. C.
Scully, which is announced for winter publication
by Messrs. Holt, is a record of impressions and
reminiscences by one who was for several years a
British Rural Magistrate in South Africa.
A biography of Dostoieffsky, by Eugenii Solo
viev, is being translated into English and will be
published shortly. In this study the author has
aimed to correct some popular misconceptions of
Dostoieffsky, and to supply a balanced view of
his life and influence.
Among the new volumes announced for publica-
tion by Messrs. Longmans before the end of the
present month are: “ The Capture of De Wet:
The South African Rebellion, 1914," by Mr. Philip
J. Sampson; “ Cuba Old and New," by Mr. A. G.
Robinson; and “An American Garland: Being a
Collection of Ballads Relating to America, 1563-
1759," edited, with Introduction and notes, by
Professor C. H. Firth.
An illustrated monograph entitled “Rudyard
Kipling: A Literary Appreciation," by Mr. R.
Thurston Hopkins, who gives an anecdotal history
of his hero's career as well as a critical review of
his works, will be published at once by Messrs.
Simpkin, Marshall & Co. of London. À bibliog-
raphy of criticisms and reviews is also included,
as well as parodies and a list of various portraits,
drawings, and caricatures.
Five new volumes in the “Oxford Garlands,"
edited by Mr. R. M. Leonard, making fifteen in
all, are about to be published by the Oxford Uni-
versity Press. Their subjects are "Elegies and
Epitaphs," Songs for Music,”
.” “ Poems on Ani-
mals,” “ Modern Lays and Ballads,” and “Epi-
grams." The Press will also publish before long
an anthology of Buddhist verse entitled “ The
Heart of Buddhism,” translated and edited by
Mr. K. T. Saunders; “A Book of Sorrow: An
Anthology of Poems," compiled by Mr. Andrew
Macphail; “ This England," an anthology of En-
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Edward Thomas; “ English Prose: Narrative, story of the Devonshire potteries, and is continued
Descriptive, and Dramatic," compiled by Mr. H. A. by “ Old Delabole," a tale of the Cornish slate
Treble; and "English Critical Essays (Nineteenth quarries, which has just appeared. This will be
Century)," selected and edited by Mr. Edmund D. followed in due course by “ Song o' the Hops,"
Jones, the last two volumes being additions to the which has just been completed in manuscript.
“ World's Classics."
Mr. Eden Phillpotts is also collecting in a volume
The “ Covent Garden Journal,” which Henry
his series on “The Human Boy and the War,"
Fielding, late in life, edited for about a year -
many of which have appeared serially.
the last of the periodicals to be edited by the Professor Frederick Starr, of the University of
novelist — has been ransacked for a volume under Chicago, has recently left for a six-months' expedi-
that title which is to be published by the Yale tion to Japan and Korea, where he plans to finish
University Press. The volume, which is edited by studies already begun, leaving himself free for
Dr. Gerard E. Jensen, with notes and an Intro- proposed labors in Siam and Cambodia. In
duction dealing with Fielding's varied activities, Japan, particular attention will be given to photo-
contains a reprint of all the leading articles - graphic work, the effort being made to finish out
seventy-two in number — and other contributions his already large series of negatives illustrating
clearly from Fielding's own pen.
the life and culture of the Island Empire; he will
Supplementing Mr. Rudyard Kipling's just- continue his study of Buddhist sects and will visit
published “ France at War," which includes his the more important Shinto shrines, so far as he
memorable poem, “France," there were to have has not seen them; he hopes also to complete his
come, it is said on good authority, further sketches investigation of Japanese symbolism, upon which
from the front, which the author was preparing to he has been engaged for several years. In Korea
visit again with special arrangements for seeing he plans pilgrimages to the more famous old
and recording things noteworthy in the war area. Buddhist monasteries, which abound in interesting
But this half-promised, half-projected book seems and almost unknown works of art; he hopes also
now, unfortunately, not likely to be forthcoming, to gather much material for a “ Manual of Korean
as word has been received that Mr. Kipling's son Ethnography" and to make the beginnings of an
is reported missing” and it is feared that he has ethnographic collection along lines which he has
been killed in action.
long had in mind; he will continue his collections
Dr. Walter Leaf's new work, on Homer and
of Korean riddles and proverbs, already of con-
History," which Messrs. Macmillan hope to have siderable extent; finally, he desires to study fur-
ready next month, is based in part on an undeliv-
ther the administrative work of the Japanese in
ered course of lectures on the Norman Wait Harris Korea, a work which he has watched with interest
foundation prepared by the author on the invita- ever since Japan began to exercise preponderant
tion of Northwestern University, Evanston, Illi-
influence in that land.
nois. Everything was arranged for Dr. Leaf's The following note regarding the late Sir James
journey to the United States when the outbreak of Murray appears in the latest section of the Oxford
war and imperative duties of another kind left Dictionary: “ Sir James Murray died on the
him no alternative but to cancel the engagements. 26th July, 1915. His great wish that he should
The Lecture Committee, however, has given its
live to finish the Dictionary on his eightieth birth-
permission for the publication of the book as one
day, in 1917, has not been fulfilled; the unceasing
of the series.
labour of three and thirty years has ended when
The National Council of the Independent Labour less than a tenth part of the work remains to be
Party will be responsible for an official biography done. Almost within a week of his death he was
of the late Mr. Keir Hardie. Some time since,
still hard at work, showing, as Dr. Bradley wrote
Mr. Hardie deposited at the head office of the of a visit made to him, 'not a little of the zest and
party a mass of his private correspondence and
mental lucidity that I remembered of old. In the
other papers; but, in order that the biography preceding months, while barely convalescent from
should be as complete as possible, an appeal is an illness that seemed to bring him to the gates of
made for the loan of letters or other documents, death, he had prepared, and at the appointed date
which should be sent to the General Secretary of
of July 1 published, his usual double section.'
the I. L. P., St. Bride's House, Salisbury-square, * The words contained in it,' Dr. Bradley says,
London, E.C. Care will be taken of all papers present an extraordinary number of difficult
sent, and they will be returned to the sender if
problems, which are handled with the editor's char-
desired. Reminiscences or accounts and impres-
acteristic sagacity and resource; the section is a
sions of personal contact with Mr. Hardie would piece of his work of which he might be proud.' It
also be much appreciated.
has always been the rule that each of the editors
Having completed his epic of Dartmoor in some should be exclusively responsible for the portions
twenty-five volumes, Mr. Eden Phillpotts is con- of the Dictionary issued under his name. The
templating a similar series of romances to be sections in the hands of Dr. Bradley, Dr. Craigie,
written round such English national industries as Mr. Onions, and their staffs, will not be affected.
seem to lend themselves to the scheme. This is an But Sir James Murray at the beginning laid the
old idea of Mr. Phillpotts's, begun long ago with lines and drew the plan; in the prosecution of the
his early stories of the Cornish fisheries, but work, when it became clear that it must be shared,
brushed aside by the Dartmoor series.
his amazing capacity for unremitting labour ena-
revived by Brunel's Tower," the author's recent bled him to take more than an equal part, and the
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volumes produced by himself show characteristic
excellences which cannot be exactly matched,
though they may be rivalled by merits of another
kind. He will not write the last pages, but more
than that of any other man his name will be asso-
ciated with the long and efficient working of the
great engine of research by which the Dictionary
has been produced.”
The leader of his race in America, in all that
makes for a better, richer, nobler, and more useful
life, has passed away and left no one to take his
place. So it seems, at any rate, in viewing the
vacancy left by the death of Booker T. Washing-
ton, educator of colored youth, uplifter of his
fellow-negroes, writer of notable books on his own
chosen work and on the peculiar problems that he
has wrestled with in his labors of five and thirty
years, public speaker of eloquence and force, and
loyal citizen of the country from which his people
can hardly feel that they have received nothing
but benefactions. Fourteen years of scantily
rewarded toil at Tuskegee preceded any general
recognition of his rare quality as an educator. It
was by his address at the opening of the Cotton
States Exposition at Atlanta, in 1895, that he first
attracted public attention. Since then his life has
been a part of the history of the South, or at least
of the colored race in the South. Our especial
concern with his achievements must here be limited
to his books, of which, in the midst of crowding
duties and engagements, he somehow found time
from Slavery," “ The of
Negro," “ Character Building,”. “ The Story of
My Life and Work," " Working with Hands,"
“Tuskegee and its People,” “ Putting the Most
into Life,” “Life of Frederick Douglass,”
Negro in Business," and “The Story of the
Negro.” In his autobiographic writings he was,
naturally enough, at his best; but in all that he
wrote there is directness and force that belong
only to records based on personal experience. His
published works form a worthy monument to his
memory.
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