Many ridge's monologue, in which these Kantian terms
nuts germinate slowly, or not at all, because of the were mumbled. Browning, whose name appears
thickness of the shell. Spiritual life is enveloped again and again, is accepted as “the sufficient rep-
by a tenacious religiosity which separates it from resentation of that power of genius which has filled
the vitalizing power of the present. We have a the world's literature with immortal creations of
liturgical year, and not God's year of fresh experi- men and women who are at once living individuals
ences — a world on the march. Many, like a timid and impressive types of the qualities and charac-
woodsman, are trying to find their way by studying teristics of humanity.” Yet the author's view in-
half-effaced, conflicting, and overgrown marks cludes reference to names covering the whole field
blazed on the trees; they fail to comprehend the of English literature, and he makes illuminating
cardinal points of the compass, the lay of the land, mention of one or two American writers. Some of
and the world that envelopes them. When will his quotations, like those from Matthew Arnold,
men believe that God's immediate word is as good show how very possible it is for good people to
as any word he has ever spoken, and, more than differ as to the value of poetical passages. A num-
any, pertinent to our wants! These two books dis- ber of topics are touched in a manner to open dis-
close the ease with which believers make a religion, cussion and stimulate thought. Indeed, the chief
infinitely more narrow than our present living faith, originality of the book, it would seem, lies in these
out of the mere shreds and waste experiences of incidental remarks. It is here that the author him-
previous generations.
John BASCOM. self appears. He is a stanch defender of literature
as one of the arts, holding it to be the most natural
and adequate means of human expression, perfect
and universal. And his book will serve both the
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
general reader and the teacher of literature by
showing in how many different ways the study of
Professor Crawshaw, in his “Liter-
literature may be profitably pursued.
revealing life.
ary Interpretation of Life” (Mac-
millan), shows that literature, as a
Christian
To those who know Dr. Thomas
natural outgrowth of life, also reveals life. This philosophy and
Chalmers simply as a great preacher,
revelation concerns the personality of the author,
and as the leader of that dramatic
the age in which he lives, his race, and his nation- secession from the Established Church which be-
ality in distinction from his race. It is also the came the Free Church of Scotland, his volume on
reflector of the broad traits of humanity. The influ-
"The Christian and Civic Economy of Large
ence of Taine is tolerably evident in the division of Towns” (Scribner) will be something of a surprise,
the subject-matter, and it must be said, as the au- revealing him as a vigorous writer on some of the
thor anticipates in his prefatory note, that in the most important economic and sociological questions
outlines of his course there is much that is reminis- of the present day, such as wages, trades-unions,
cent of the beaten track. Yet there are numerous pauperism, savings-banks, mechanic schools, etc.
passages of vivid suggestion, as, « When most sin- His treatment of these subjects is always from a
cere [literature) is less a desire to be heard than a practical and Christian standpoint, with the earnest
desire to speak”; and, “ If the absolute truth of life intention of improving the condition of the working
could ever be presented, then any particular phase classes. He is not an original authority in economic
might be treated once and for all. It is because theory; but he is an independent thinker and a
we can at best have only approximations to the powerful writer. His theories go hand in hand
truth that all artistic representations of life, even with earnest practical work in the slums of Edin-
though they should cover essentially the same burgh; and in the book can be felt the heart-throbs
ground, have importance and value.” The author
of a man who is in personal contact with the men
uses as tools, to dig out the details of his amplifi- and women to whose sufferings and struggles he is
cation, a few favorite topics. He recommends, attempting to apply the relief of Christian philos-
again and again, the chronological order of literary ophy. The social settlement and institutional
study, based on individual works and the complete church of our day find their antetype in Dr. Chal-
works of individual writers. This completeness is mers's later work, which called forth the admira-
to be extended to epochs, and to the synchronous tion of Carlyle: “What a wonderful old man
production of several races, suggesting the need of Chalmers is! When so many of us are wringing
more than one lifetime for the student. Contem- our hands in hopeless despair over the vileness and
porary history is to be carefully studied as well, in wretchedness of the large towns, there goes the old
order to reach the full revelation of literature, which man, shovel in hand, down into the dirtiest puddles
includes both the external aspects of man, like his of the West Port of Edinburgh, cleans them out,
manners, and also his inward life or character. and fills the sewers with living waters. It is a
The revelation may be direct or indirect, conscious beautiful sight.” The work of Dr. C. R. Hender-
or unconscious, " objective or subjective," — the last son, in abridging Dr. Chalmers's treatise, is admir-
set of terms being somewhat out of favor, one may
ably done.
In a volume of 350 pages, he has
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text, reproducing its exact words, but omitting repe- the “Restoration,” the “Monarchy of July,” the
titions and matters of local or temporary interest. “ Republic of '48,” etc., in this way emphasizing
Connecting the portions of the original work thus the phenomena of crises. To Louis XVIII. he
transcribed, are “ bracketed additions designed to gives the chief credit for whatever has been accom-
indicate the transitional thoughts or to explain some plished toward establishing a sound constitutional
point which might otherwise be left in obscurity.” system. And it was the prosperity which the re-
Dr. Henderson has also prefixed a valuable Intro- stored monarchy created that enabled Napoleon
duction, in which Dr. Chalmers's doctrines are III., in the early days of the Empire, to make
carefully examined and his contributions to mod- France the arbiter of Europe. Moreover, so soon
ern thought considered.
as the spectre of the June days ceased to terrify
the Bourgeoisie, the desire for a return to the con-
Hôtel de
Not infrequently the mention of the
stitutional system of the monarchy was difficult to
Rambouillet Hôtel de Rambouillet calls at once
resist, and the Empire became “liberal.” The
and the Précieuses. to the mind of the general reader of Third Republic, too, is in its governmental forms
French literature scenes in Les Précieuses Ridi-
hardly more than a revival of the same constitu-
cules, and he thinks of the first French salon only tional system. This is Baron de Coubertin's thesis,
as the hot-bed of absurd affectations of speech, which gradually becomes clearer as one moves
dress, and manners, which were epidemic in the
through his running commentary on Nineteenth
seventeenth century.
The world has joined so
Century France. The second half of the book is
heartily with Molière in the laugh at the expense stronger than the first, which abounds in strange,
of these faddists, who were only imitators of imi-
not to say untenable, views of the period from 1814
tators, that it has often failed to appreciate the
to 1848.
As has already been intimated, Baron
originators, the coterie which the Marquise de Ram-
de Coubertin has a high opinion of the statesman.
bouillet gathered about her for twoscore years. ship of Louis XVIII. and of “ his intense moral
The influence of this brilliant marquise was excep-
energy.” He has an equally unmeasured contempt
tional, even in France, where women as society for Thiers, who, he thinks, was the principal mis.
leaders have done so much. A misjudgment of the chief-maker in July, 1830. The Ordinances, he
Hôtel de Rambouillet means a misunderstanding of says, hardly constituted a coup d'état, adding that
some of the most important and characteristic fea-
it was only the absence of preparation for resist-
tures of France of the seventeenth century,– in.
ance that finally provoked the rioting. But the
deed, of France of all times; for what is more
most extraordinary assertion in the book explains
peculiarly French than its social genius? It is
that “the recognition of those Spanish colonies
worth while for us Anglo-Saxons, who many times which were already constituted separate States, to-
are keen for the vices and blind to the virtues of
gether with their commercial liberty,” was “secured
the French, to get a true conception of this salon, by our [sic] initiative.” One or two curious verbal
which, if it did contain the genius of affectation, blunders have crept into the text: “orthodoxes,"
threw its weight so unmistakably on the side of
referring to Greek Christians, and the “Chamber
purity and refinement. It is interesting also to
of Communes " for the House of Commons.
study the achievement of a woman who saw better
things for her associates than formality and attend-
To those who in these days of golf
Croquel,
ance on lectures and classes. A small library has properly
are scornful of the game which we
already been written on the subject; and the dif-
have heard called “Presbyterian
ficult task which Mr. Leon H. Vincent has per- billiards” we commend Mr. Arthur Lillie's “Cro-
formed in “Hôtel de Rambouillet and the Pré- quet up to Date” (Longmans). From that instruc-
)
cieuses” (Houghton) is to condense the chief facts tive treatise many things may be learned, and, as
within about a hundred pages. He promises only
not the least among them, respect for a game far
a résumé, but the bare bones show through but sel superior to either tennis or golf in the opportunities
dom. He has given an interesting as well as help- which it offers for strategy and finesse, and, indeed,
ful and suggestive narrative, which entices the for most other forms of skill which demand some-
reader into the wider fields opened by a valuable thing more than brute strength. The term “
cro-
bibliography of the subject, appended to the book. quet,” as here used, is of course something very
different from that childish parody of the sport
In his brief sketch of “ France Since
Persistent features
often practised upon American lawns, in which two
of the French 1814” (Macmillan), Baron Pierre shots are claimed for scoring two points at once, and
constitutional life. de Coubertin has sought to bring in which the player puts his foot upon
his own ball
clearly into view those elements in the political to keep it from following the ball that he is engaged
structure of France, which, though profoundly in croquetting. These strange vagaries, and others
shaken by the revolutions of 1830, 1848, and 1870, equally weird, are, we believe, still prevalent in this
have nevertheless been preserved or restored. He country, and are even countenanced by the “rules”
thinks that the persistence of these features of which the manufacturers of “ croquet sets” provide
French constitutional life has been obscured by the for innocent purchasers. That they disappeared
division of the whole period into sections, such as from the real game decades ago is a fact which all
so called.
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players know, of course, but which it seems about | ing; and his gentle ridicule of passing folly is of
as difficult to enforce
upon old-fashioned
persons as the stingless kind that cures. Let us add that Mr.
it is difficult to enforce the principles of modern Gregory will be better known to many under his
whist upon persons who deem the last word to have pen-name, “ An Idler.” He has “idled” to good
been said by the earlier Hoyle. Mr. Lillie's book purpose.
is full of interesting matter - openings, systems of
tactics, accounts of famous players, and suggestions
for revised rules. We recommend it to all devotees
BRIEFER MENTION.
of the unduly neglected game of skill with which it
deals, and particularly to such others as, knowing
Dr. Ernest F. Henderson's “Side Lights on English
nothing of the sport, have minds that are open to
History,” published by Messrs. Henry Holt & Co., is a
conviction upon the subject.
royal octavo volume of extracts from letters, papers,
and diaries of the past three centuries. It places in the
An interesting little manual in eccle-
hands of students a great amount of original material,
English abbeys
siastical architecture has been pre-
and is one of the most comprehensive and satisfactory
and cathedrals.
of the many source-books that have been published
pared by Dr. H. D. M. Spence, Dean
during recent years.
of Gloucester, under the title of “ The White Robe
Even more interesting than the
text is the series of sumptuous illustrations, eighty in
of Churches” (Scribner's importation). Living in number, with which it is provided. These are for the
Gloucester deanery, and in the very shadow of the most part full-page portraits from contemporary paint-
grand Cathedral, various questions have from time ings and engravings, and constitute such a series as
to time naturally suggested themselves to Dr. cannot be found in any other similar work.
Spence, such as, "At what special epoch, and under Mr. Henry W. Elson has just published, through the
what special circumstances, were these inimitable Messrs. Macmillan, a second volume of his readable and
mighty prayer-homes built? and what special inspi- entertaining “Side Lights on American History.” The
| is .
ration fired the builders' hearts? Was there any
ancient type after which these grand piles were de-
The author gets on delicate ground when he discusses
the recent war, and there is too much of the “ poor old
signed and finished? Who were the builders ?
Spain" idea about his writing to win the approval of
What of the vanished dwellers in these abbeys and sober readers. But teachers, and others, will welcome
cloisters? have they any special story?" It was this book as a whole, because of its intelligent account
in framing replies to these and kindred queries that of such things as the Alabama Claims, the impeachment
Dr. Spence's little book grew up. It is popular and of Johnson, and the Electoral Commission of 1876 —
entertaining, rather than drily technical, and writ- things about which it is not always easy to get definite
ten in a vein of pious enthusiasm that warms the
and compact information.
style and fixes the attention the reader. We
Mr. Robert Waters is the author, and the Edgar S.
know of no book of its scope in which the history
Werner Co. are the publishers, of a volume entitled
“ Flashes of Wit and Humor.” It is a pleasant little
and the main structural features of these grand and
book, full of anecdotes and witticisms of all degrees of
inspiring medieval edifices are more intelligently antiquity, collected into a series of chapters, to each of
and attractively set forth for the general reader
which the author gives a sort of unity by means of his
than this temptingly made and beautifully illus- own appreciative and genial commentary. He has a
trated one by Dean Spence. There are sixty-eight quick sense for the humorous phrase or situation, and a
plates, full-page and vignette, from photographs, wholesome instinct for the rejection of anything that
drawings, and standard books on architecture. approaches coarseness or vulgarity. We are glad to
say a word in commendation of this latest of “ Joe
Urbanity, a light satiric touch, and Millers."
A genial idler
seasonableness of theme, mark the “ North America ” is the subject of the second book
essays by Mr. Eliot Gregory which in the series of geographies prepared for the Macmillan
Co. by Professors Ralph S. Tarr and Frank M. Mc-
are grouped in a neat volume under the title “ The
Ways of Men” (Scribner). There are thirty-three reducing a school geography to the dimensions of an
Murry. These books certainly solve the problem of
papers in all, under such tempting captions as
ordinary book, which alone should prove a potent rec-
« Domestic Despots," “ Machine - Made Men,” ommendation. They are in other respects thoroughly
“Some American Husbands,” “The Grand Opera praiseworthy, being modern in scholarship and treat-
Fad,” “ The Genealogical Craze," “ Pre-palatialment, provided with all sorts of helpful suggestions for
Newport," 6. The Dinner and the Drama," etc. the work of teaching, as well as with illustrations in
Other papers, wherein the satirist of current follies unusual number and variety.
and fleeting social affectations is less apparent, are: A handsomely-printed catalogue of the exhibit of the
"Cyrano, Rostand, Coquelin " (substantially M.
Oxford University Press at the Paris Exposition is
Coquelin's own account, as given to Mr. Gregory,
issued by Mr. Henry Frowde. The catalogue is in
of his earlier acquaintance with M. Rostand and
three parts, devoted respectively to the Educational,
Binding, and Paper exhibits. The illustrations of
first production of "Cyrano "); “ Calvé at Cabri-
unique special bindings executed at the Oxford Press,
ères," “ Carolus” (Carolus-Duran), “Sardou at
and the description of the wonderful Oxford India paper,
Marly-le-Roy,” etc. As a satirist of manners, Mr. are the most noteworthy features of this altogether
Gregory knows how to be both sensible and amus- interesting catalogue.
among men.
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cause.
includes a good deal of historical and comparative
NOTES.
grammar, with references to Latin, Old English, and
the modern languages, which, of course, place it be-
Mr. G. Bernard Shaw's “ An Unsocial Socialist " has
yond the reach of elementary school children, and jus-
just been
lished in a satisfactory new edition by the
tifies its title. It seems an excellent book for its purpose.
Messrs. Brentano.
“ Robert's Primer of Parliamentary Law," by Mr.
A new monthly magazine is about to make its appear-
ance in London under the title of “ The New Liberal
Joseph Thomas Robert, is a recent publication of the
Review.” It will resemble most of the well-known
Doubleday & McClure Co.
English reviews in form and size, and will include arti.
Messrs. Sibley & Ducker publish a “ Practical Com-
cles on literary and general interest. In spite of its
position and Rhetoric,” the work of Messrs. William
E. Mead and Wilbur F. Gordy.
popular attractions, however, its principal aim is to be
the monthly organ of liberal imperialism, with particu-
Dr. Charles G. Herbermann has edited the « Bellum
lar attraction for the younger writers of the Liberal
Catilinæ" of Sallust for schools, and the book is pub-
The joint editors of the new venture will be
lished by Messrs. B. H. Sanborn & Co.
Messrs. Cecil and Hildebrand Harmsworth.
Volume XI. of the “ Larger Temple Shakespeare”
Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. publish “Specimens of the
(Dent-Macmillan) has just been published, leaving but
Forms of Discourse,” a text for schools edited by Dr.
one more volume to complete the edition.
E. H. Lewis. Criticism is illustrated, as well as the
“ A Term of Ovid,” by Mr. Clarence W. Gleason, is
four primary types of discourse, and there is a useful
a text which provides “ten stories from the Meta-
list of suggested exercises at the end of the volume.
morphoses' for girls and boys." It is published by the
The same publishers send us an edition of Tennyson's
American Book Co.
“ Princess,” prepared by Professor L. A. Sherman, and
" The Red Badge of Courage,” by Stephen Crane, is illustrating his peculiar methods of annotation and
”
republished by the Messrs. Appleton, this time accom- instruction. There is a sixty-page introduction upon
panied by a portrait, as well as by a biographical sketch poetic diction in general, full of solemn vagaries, and
which Mr. Ripley Hitchcock signs.
illustrated with remarkable diagrams. It is lucky that
A new volume in the attractive little“ Nugget Series,” the approach to literature is not often hedged about
published by Messrs. Fords, Howard & Hulbert, is a with such forbidding defences.
compilation of “Quaint Nuggets,” made up of selec-
The organization is announced, in New
York City, of
tions from various Elizabethan writers.
the American Publishers' Association, with Mr. Charles
“ Tom Jones,” in two volumes, edited by Mr. A. W. Scribner as President, Gen. A. C. McClurg and Mr.
Pollard, is the latest addition to the Library of En- George Mifflin as Vice-Presidents, Mr. George P. Brett
glish Classics” published by the Messrs. Macmillan. (of The Macmillan Co.) as Secretary, and Mr. G. B. M.
Mr. A. W. Pollard has edited the text, as in the case Harvey (of Harper & Brothers) as Treasurer. The
of the rest of the series.
promotion of the interests of publishers, authors, book-
“ Dreams of a Spirit-Seer, Illustrated by Dreams of sellers, book manufacturers, and bookbuyers is stated
Metaphysics” (Macmillan) is a translation from Kant, to be the general purpose of the association; while,
supplemented by correlative passages from Swedenborg. more specifically, an attempt will be made to secure
Mr. E. F. Goerwitz is the translator, and Mr. Frank greater uniformity of prices to the public and to pre-
Sewall the editor of this volume.
vent the “cutting" system which has proved so detri-
“ Some Problems of Lotze's Theory of Knowledge,” mental and demoralizing to the regular book trade.
discussed by Edwin Proctor Robins, is the first volume Readers of the American Economic Association's col.
in the series of "Cornell Studies in Philosophy," pub- lection of critical monographs on “ The Federal Census,"
lished by the Macmillan Co. The author of this mon- reviewed in THE DIAL a few months ago, will be inter-
ograph was a promising scholar who died about a year ested in a paper by Professor Walter F. Willcox, one
ago at the age of twenty-six.
of the chief statisticians of the Census Office in charge
The following numbers have just been added to the of the Division of Methods and Results, and a contrib-
Columbia series of studies in political science: “Colo- utor to the former discussion, entitled “ Plans for the
nial Immigration Laws," by Mr. E. E. Proper; “ His- Twelfth Census," and in an “Outline of the Plans for
tory of Military Pension Legislation in the United the Agricultural Census,” by Mr. H. T. Newcomb, also
States," by Dr. W. H. Glasson; and “ History of the of the Census Office. These papers were presented
Theory of Sovereignty since Rousseau,” by Dr. C. E. before the Economic Association at its Ithaca meeting
Merriam.
last winter, and have been printed in a separate pam-
The latest expression of the energy and good taste phlet, as well as in the proceedings of the association,
of the English firm of Messrs. J. M. Dent & Co. is the Together they give a very good idea of what the Census
series of " Illustrated English Poems.” Shelley's “The Office is doing and how it is doing it.
Sensitive Plant" and Cowper's “ John Gilpin " are the The following information about Professor Barrett
two widely different texts chosen to inaugurate the Wendell's forthcoming “Literary History of America,
series. In his spirited drawings for “ John Gilpin," from the London “ Athenæum," is of interest: “The
Mr. Brock proves himself the legitimate successor to author endeavours to define the points in which the
Randolph Caldecott. Mr. Housman's work is strongly nation, character, and thought of America have di-
suggestive of Pre-Raphaelite influences, and the mystic verged from those of England. Touching briefly on
quality of his drawings is well adapted to Shelley's lines. the seventeenth century, with a special chapter on Cotton
" A High School Grammar," by Dr. Brainard Kel- Mather, he discusses the eighteenth century at greater
logg and the late Alonzo Reed, with much helpful col- length, with special chapters on Jonathan Edwards,
laboration from Professor F. A. March, is a recent Benjamin Franklin, and the American Revolution. The
publication of Messrs. Maynard, Merrill & Co. It nineteenth century is treated more in detail, special
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chapters being assigned to Brockden Brown, Irving,
Cooper, Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Whittier, Longfellow,
Lowell, Holmes, and Walt Whitman. The chief em-
phasis is laid on the literature of New England and its
differences from that of the mother country.”
"
TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS.
August, 1900.
Afghanistan, Present Status of. Sultan Khan. Forum.
Alaskan Waters, Holidays in. John Burroughs. Century.
Art Exhibition, A National. W.0. Partridge. Rev. of Revs.
Bryan at Home. Review of Reviews.
Canada and Imperialism. John Charlton. Forum.
Child-Study. G. Stanley Hall. Forum.
China and Japan, Peace between, Charles Denby. Forum.
China, Our Rights in. M. B. Dunnell. Atlantic.
Chinese Revolution, The. Stephen Bonsal. Rev. of Revs.
Iowans, The. R. L. Hartt. Atlantic.
Italian Problems, Some. H. R. Whitehouse. Forum.
Kansas City Convention. Walter Wellman. Rev. of Reviews.
Labor and Politics in Great Britain. J. K. Hardie. Forum.
Loches. Ernest C. Peixotto. Scribner,
London, East, Riverside of. Walter Besant. Century.
Manners, Decadence of. Amelia G. Mason. Century.
Michigan Town, Embellishment of a. Review of Reviews.
Montgomery Race Conference, The. B. T. Washington. Cent.
Negro Problem in the South. C. H. Grosvenor. Forum.
New York Appellate Court-house, The New. Rev. of Reviews.
Now York Aquarium, Treasures of. C. L. Bristol. Century.
Order, The Price of. Talcott Williams. Atlantic.
Paris Exposition, Amusements of. Jean Schopfer. Century.
Philippines, Present and Future of. F. F. Hilder. Forum.
Political Education. A. T. Hadley. Atlantic.
Pretoria in War Time. R. H. Davis. Scribner.
Roosevelt, Theodore. Jacob A. Riis. Review of Reviews.
Roosevelt's Work as Governor. Review of Reviews.
Statesmen, Four American, Frederic Bancroft. Atlantic.
Submarine Signaling. Sylvester Baxter. Atlantic.
Texas, Past and Present. R. T. Hill. Forum.
Tolstoy's Russia. G. H. Perris. Forum.
United States as a World Power, C. A. Conant. Forum.
Volcanic Scenery of Northwest. R. E. Strahorn. Rev. of Revs.
Yosemite Park, Wild Gardens of. John Muir. Atlantic.
Numa Roumestan. By Alphonse Daudet; trans. by
Charles de Kay. With frontispiece, 12mo, gilt top, pp. 396.
Little, Brown, & Co. $1.50.
The Works of Shakespeare, “Larger Temple” edition.
Edited by Israel Gollancz. Vol. XI., Othello, Antony and
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[The following list, containing 37 titles, includes books
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Croquet Up to Date: Containing the Ideas and Teachings
of the Leading Players and Champions. Edited by Arthur
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new movement - Messrs. Verwey, van Deyssel,
CONTENTS.
van Eeden, Gorter, and Kloos - only one, the
first named, has published anything during the
A YEAR OF CONTINENTAL LITERATURE-II. 89
past year. The writer last named, however,
TWO GREAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF ENGLAND.
has made a “ literary” marriage which has at-
H. M. Stanley
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tracted as much attention as a new book from
A TRANSITION PERIOD IN AMERICAN
his pen would have done. His bride is Miss
HISTORY. Francis Wayland Shepardson 94
Jeanne Reyneke van Stuwe, whose first book,
STUDIES OF THE HUMAN SPECIES. Frederick
“ Hartstocht" (Passion), “ is a short novel in
Start
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which the author describes the life of one whom
RECENT BOOKS ON EDUCATION, B. A. Hins-
she thinks to be a man of passion, but who is
dale, A. S. Whitney .
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Smith's The Teaching of Elementary Mathematics.
really nothing of the kind, merely a base and
- Adams's Public Educational Work in Baltimore.
reckless rake.” The same young woman “ has
- Dewey's The School and Society. --Sheldon's also issued a collection of poems in praise of
a
The Ethical Sunday School. - Fitch's Educational
Aims and Methods.
I mean one
Mr. Kloos, which an outsider
- Sweet's American Public
Schools. - MacCunn's The Making of Character. - who is neither Mr. Kloos nor Miss Reyneke
Sarah L. Arnold's Reading. — Bolton's The Second-
cannot help finding rather monotonous.”
ary School System of Germany. -Seeley's History
of Education. — Welton's The Logical Basis of Edu-
The chief novels of the year are
" Als Kaf
cation. – Howe's Advanced Elementary Science. – voor den Wind” (As Chaff before the Wind),
Warner's The Nervous System of the Child.
by a pseudonymous lady; “Geloof” (Faith),
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS
100 by Miss de Savornin Lohman; “ Kameleon,"
Preservation of forest trees. - The bright side of the
by Mr. V. Loosjes; and “ Verborgen Bronnen”
story of Philadelphia. - The growth of Nationality.
- Readable, if apocryphal, memoirs. — A half- (Hidden Springs), by Miss Augusta de Wit.
century of naval architecture. - Melic poetry of the Mr. Couperus has turned to fairy-tales. His
Greeks. — Twenty years of consular experiences. —
Our foreign civil service. - The Nicaraguan canal
Fidessa,” “is both interesting in its story
and country.
and beautiful in the exquisite poetry of its
BRIEFER MENTION .
. 102 language.” The leading play of the year is
• Het Zevende Gebod (The Seventh Com-
NOTES
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mandment), by Mr. Heyermans. This “tragi-
comedy of love without marriage in a flat in
A YEAR OF CONTINENTAL the Quartier Latin of Amsterdam ” has proved
LITERATURE.
immensely successful as a stage production.
Mr. Leopold Katscher, writing from Hun.
It is now about twenty years, says Mr. C. K. gary, begins his article with mention of some
Elout, writing of the literary history of the works of serious scholarship. Among them
past twelvemonth in Holland, since “De are the “History of Greece” of the late Pro-
Nieuwe Gids" started a new intellectual and
fessor Schvarcz; a “ History of the Greeks,”
“
artistic movement.
by Professor G. Gyomlai; “The Life and
“The movement swept over the country like a huge Poetry of Imre Madách," by Mr. M. Palágyi;
wave, and caused an immense disturbance, for the bold
behaviour of the young authors, their courageous criti-
“Hungarian Music in the Nineteenth Cen-
cism of their predecessors, and especially their coinage tury," by Mr. Kornel Abranyi; “ The King-
of new and strange expressions, roused a storm of anger dom of Hungary,” by Mr. A. V. Matlekovits ;
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“ Studies in Social Politics,” by Mr. Mano in full swing, and the poet is periodically ex-
Somogyi; “ The Solution of the Peace Prob. pounded in Orsanmichele.
lem,” by Mr. Ferencz Kemény; and “Wo- “ Lectures on Dante and readings from his works have
man's Work," by Mr. Andor Máday. In been given everywhere this year, and the finest cantos
of the Commedia’have even been recited on the stage.
poetry, mention is made of Mr. Sandor Feleki's
6 Wandering Clouds,” “ a collection of nearly eloquence, not to say verbosity, of the Italians must
In fact, the poet has been all the rage, and the natural
a hundred pieces of genuine poetry of a dreamy have found utterance to the full in this enthusiasm."
sort, without a trace of artificiality.” In the The serious works upon Dante include " Dante
drama, there are “Mother Earth," by Mr.
and Heresy,” by Sig. Felice Tocco; “La Vita
István Géczy ; “Prince Unique,” a fairy piece e la Coltura Italiana al Tempo di Dante," by
by Mr. Elek Benedek; “Learned Professor
various writers, and a further instalment of the
Hatvani,” a comedy in verse by Mr. Emil
work entitled “ Poesie di Mille Autori intorno
Makai ; and “ Shakespeare,” by Mr. Arpád di Dante Allighieri,” which, intended to fill
Zigány. In fiction, mention is made of
twelve volumes, will be “a complete collection
“ Among Strangers,” by Mr. Ferencz Herczeg; of poems, including those written in imitation
Blue-Eyed Mrs. Dávidka,” by Mr. G. Gár- of Dante, in all languages.” Sig. Carlo del
donyi ; “The Last,” by Mr. Dezsö Malonyay; Balzo is the editor of this work. In literary
and the “Dying Gladiator,” by Mr. Arpád history, Sig. A. Belloni has written an account
Abonyi. Mr. Jokai's new book is the most of the seventeenth century, Sig. G. Fumagalli
important of all this fiction, and is character-
has compiled a “Parini Album," Sig. de
ized as “a highly fantastic romance, which Amicis has published “Memorie," and Sig.
created the more stir as the writer gave up Vittorio Pica has discussed recent French au-
widower's state last year in his seventy-fifth thors in a volume entitled “Letteratura d'Ec-
year to marry a young lady of twenty, and the
cezione.” An important life of Leopardi has
book is highly personal, though not autobio- been published, described as written by the
graphical. Love and old age are the subjects poet himself, but in reality compiled by the
round which the master's extraordinary imagi- | editor, Sig. G. Piergili, being a mosaic of ex-
nation revolves. He squanders a whole mine
tracts from Leopardi's writings. Sig. d’An.
of sarcasm, humor, self-mockery, bitter truth, nunzio's - Laudi del Cielo, del Mare, della
and romantic extravagance. This strange pro. Terra, e degli Eroi,” including a hymn in
duction reads like a fascinating mixture of praise of Dante, is a book “ full of images,
Boccaccio, Jules Verne, and E. T. A. Hoff-
visions, and thoughts of wonderful beauty, with
mann."
“ Aged but not Old” is the appro- a faint archaic perfume of Franciscan poetry.”
priate title of this characteristic work.
Other volumes of poetry are “Poemetti," by
In Italy, writes Sig. Guido Biagi, the greatest Sig. G. Pascoli; “Leggenda Eterna,” by Sig-
literary successes of the year have been two norina Aganoor; “Primavira Fiorentina," by
foreign productions — the “Quo Vadis” of Sig. Ferrari ; and “Canzoni,” by Sig. Antonio
Mr. Sienkiewicz, and the “Cyrano " of M. della Porta. The first place among novels be-
Rostand. The former, published in an author- longs to the “ Fuoco of Sig. d'Annunzio.
ized translation by Sig. F. Verdinois, has, owing Other novels are “L'Illusione,” by Sig. F. de
to a defect in the copyright laws, been also Roberto ; “ La Signorina,” by Sig. G. Rovetta ;
translated by several other hands, and thus « Il Giuoco dell' Amore,” by Sig. Ugo Ojetti;
pirated right and left. Its vogue, both as a “Sant'Elena," by Sig. G. Rossi; “Le Mili-
book and as a drama, has been something ex- taresse,” by Captain Ö. San Giacomo ; “ Un
traordinary, and has even led to the prepara- Duello," by Sig. F. Crispolti; and “A Rac-
tion of illustrated postcards, beyond which colta,” by Signorina A. Giacomelli. The one
popularity can no farther go. The past year, noteworthy theatrical success — Sig. Giacosa's
,
-"which in the history of the Catholic world will be “Come le foglie” —has already been men-
called the Anno Santo or year of jubilee — might in a tioned ; of theatrical interest are Sig. Rasi's
literary sense, as far as Italy is concerned, be called the
“I Comici Italiani,” a richly illustrated work,
Dantesque year, since in it coincide centenaries of
Dante's vision, and also of the year of his priorate
and the translation of Shelley's “ Cenci” made
(1300). . . . The cult of the hero as poet has taken at by Sig. A. de Bosis. This. tragedy will soon
the present day a form which would have pleased even be produced upon the Italian stage, which
Carlyle, since he is celebrated by the younger men, and should do something to put the poet's country-
becoming more and more popular.”
men to shame. Many works of historical in-
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umes of the “Rerum Italicarum Scriptores,” G. Heiberg;“Gammelholm," a "grand novel”
“La Fine d' un Regno," by Sig. R. de Cesare ; by Herr Peter Egge; “ Norges Dæmring," a
“Storia d'Italia Contemporanea,” by Sig. descriptive history of Norwegian literature
Paolo Orsi ; and “Il Centro di Firenze," a during the thirties, by Professor G. Gran; and
volume issued by the Commune of Florence. a biography of Welhaven, by Professor A.
The writer glances in conclusion at the scien- Löchen. The death of J. B. Halvorsen, who
tific output, remarking that the archæological had almost completed his “Norsk Forfatter
discoveries at Rome, the Stele arcaica, the Lexicon,” has deprived Norway of its greatest
Oriental Congress, the Congress of Christian authority on literary matters. Certain philo-
Archæology, the centenaries of Paulus Diac- logical publications have brought on
onus and Francesco Filelfo, the commemoration “ A renewed contest between the rival camps of Lands-
of the great legal writer Francesco Carrara, of maal and Rigsmaal, one side urging the substitution of
Lucca, and other events, have given rise to
an artificial aggregate of dialects for the usual Norwe-
gian written language, the other opposing any such inno-
many valuable publications." Senator D.
vation, the two representatives of the contending par-
Comparetti's monograph on the Stele arcaica ties being the poets Herr Björnson and Herr Garborg.'
is particularly noteworthy. Of philosophical
publications, the most important seem to be ing account of Polish belles lettres for the year.
Professor A. Belcikowski gives an interest-
* .
“ The Nestor of our novelists, Mr. T. T. Jez, a man
turi; “Rosmini-Spencer,” by Sig. G. Vidari ;
who has rendered many services to literature, has re-
“ Nord e Sud,” by Sig. F. S. Nitti; and “Il cently increased the number of valuable works which
Governo Locale Inglese e le Sue Relazioni con he has written by publishing a tale, . By the Waters of
la Vita Nazionale,” by Sig. Pietro Bertolini.
Babylon,' which describes the melancholy life led by
the Polish refugees in Paris. Madame E. Orzeszko, who
Mr. C. Brinchmann, writing of Norwegian also belongs to the older generation, still continues to
literature, naturally gives the first place to Dr. improve, so far, at least, as the artistic form of her fic-
Ibsen's “ When We Dead Awake,” and ac-
tion is concerned, and, in my opinion at any rate, her
cepts the sub-title, “ a dramatic epilogue,” as
latest romance, • The Argonauts,' is even more mature
than any of her previous efforts.”
meaning that this work “is to be the last link
in the chain of ideas that have occupied his other works of fiction are “ The Homeless
mind since · A Doll Home' appeared." Herr Race,” by Mr. S. Zeromski; “Risztau ” and
Jonas Lie, like Dr. Ibsen, has chosen an artist's
“ The Abyss of Misery,” by Mr. W. Sieros-
career for the subject of his this year's novel. zewski; “ The Eye of the Prophet,” by Mr.
“ Both writers seem to have drawn largely on per-
W. Lozinski ; " For a Million," by
“Mr. A.
sonal experience, their difference of temperament being Gruszecki; “Letters of a Madman,” by Mr.
made clearly evident. Where Dr. Ibsen's drama re- A. Niemojewski ; and “ The Forest,” by Mr.
veals concentrated self-consciousness coupled with much W. Zmudski. The leader of the moderns,
that is tender, Herr Jonas Lie's novel, Faste Forland,'
“ Mr. S. Przybyszewski, writes his poetry in prose, and
shows its author's frank disposition and absolute faith
in the eventual triumph of life's healthy instincts, as
continues the practice in his recent effusions, On the
Sea,'. In the Path of Souls,' and `Androgyne,' but ex-
clearly as when in his youth, after the usual fate of an
cept to the initiated he remains unintelligible; the
inexperienced financial promoter, the inevitable final
thought in his works loses itself in dreamy phantoms
shock only broke the chrysalis to send forth the novelist.
And all the best qualities of this delightful narrator
and apocalyptic phraseology. There is nothing of im-
portance in the way of drama. There are some new
show themselves once again in this his latest volume,
which would doubtless appeal favorably to many in the
farces and some plays by authors of no repute, who have
made no real addition to the literature of the stage."
country that love Dickens. On the other hand, English
readers more seriously inclined would value the later The recent celebration of the fifth centenary
books of Herr Arne Garborg for their clear reasoning of the University of Cracow led to the appear-
and fearless inquiries into life's realities, presented as
ance of several works in the history of Polish
they are with a masterly perfection of language and
imagery. His last Christmas production, Den Burt-
education. A “History of Polish Literature,"
komne Faderen,' is a clever narrative in monologue in six volumes, by Mr. P. Chmielowski, is "the
form about silenced doubts and fears, written with the first work of the kind which has afforded a
same purpose to fight the good fight and win back the
synthetic account of the whole of our litera-
belief in an all-good, almighty Ruler. In an article like
this it is only possible to point out how intelligent, think-
ture.” Other books are “ Literary Criticism
ing readers of Herr Garborg's book are charmed by the
in France,” by Mr. E. Przewoski; “The Devil
purer atmosphere into which he leads them, where no in Poetry," by Mr. J. Matuszewski; “St.
clash of arms resounds."
Francis of Assisi," by Mr. E. Porem bowicz;
Other works of interest are “ Harald Svan's and Studies and Sketches from the History
Mother,” an “ Aristophanic Comedy” by Herr of Art and Civilization,” by Mr. Sokolowski.
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and Peace. But in spite of all the fatiguing deficien- No one
, it may be assumed, will be surprised that
-
Mr. Constantine Balmont writes of literary ing Two-Thirds of the Nineteenth Century,'
Russia in somewhat pessimistic strain. Although by Mr. P. Boborikin ; and “The Struggle for
the past year witnessed the Pushkin centenary, Idealism,” by Mr. A. Volinski. Generally
“ There did not appear a single book or a single essay speaking, the writer thinks that
worthy of the great poet, and the historical date wbich
“The season just closed has shown more life than that
should have been the joyful festival of a great people which preceded it. The inevitable separation between
forms another ignominious page in literary chronicles.” · fathers and children 'raises the temperature of jour-
Count Tolstoy's “ Resurrection” has been the nalistic life. Unfortunately the opponents of all that is
one great work of the year.
new in literature, seeing almost a mortal sin in the crea-
“It presents a remarkably complicated picture, parts
tion of new forms of poetical production, appear to be
intellectually flaccid, and greet the constant struggle of
of which may produce a frigid impression upon the
ideas with a heap of interjections. But youth must be
spectator, or even shock his feelings, but it is, consid-
young, and no amount of sbrieks can prevent us from
ered as a whole, a magnificent fresco not to be forgot-
ten, and unique. It is impossible to express any deep
celebrating our poetical May."
regrets that Count Leo Tolstoi has not openly given
Last of all in the series of reports, we come
himself up to a purely artistic impulse, as he did in his to Don Rafael Altamira's account of Spanish
Homerically great novels • Anna Karenina 'and · War
literature.
cies of his improving and sermonizing manner, the new
novel shows that Tolstoi even now, when his life is
after the disastrous issue of the struggle in Cuba and
drawing to a close, may furnish us with types and
the Philippines the intellectual classes in Spain have felt
create effects with all the force of youth. The descrip-
the necessity of studying plans for national reorganiza-
tion, and have been led to consider the causes of our
tion of spring at the beginning of the novel; the de-
scription of the maison publique and the fallen women;
decline and our inferiority to other nations and the
the description of the malodorous prison, which de-
means of bringing about a new renascence. Clearly,
pressed even the attendants in it; the breaking up of
while they interest the nation more than any others,
the ice; the autumnal night when the heroine Katusha
books that deal with these questions offer to foreigners
runs after the train in which Nekhludov, who has de-
valuable sources of information regarding the actual
ceived her, is departing; the various scenes of convict
condition of our commonwealth, and the aspirations of
life — all these are pictures such as show an artist of
those among us who form, or may form, the governing
classes."
the first rank who understands how to be responsive to
the most varying demands.”
“El Problema Nacional,” by the late Macias
The work of next importance in the year’s lit- Picavea, makes
erature is “ Thomas Gordeyev," a novel by “ A truly scientific study of the Spanish people and the
Mr. Maxim Gorski.
problems before it, tracing the general outlines of its
innate peculiarities and their history, and analyzing the
“ This novel, which depicts the life of the tradesmen
influence of its physical condition, and especially the
who live about the Volga, is as complete and finished
causes of its decline and also the remedies for them, the
as a lyrical poem. The types are powerfully drawn
chief of which he considers to be popular education.”
with bold strokes, and the language of the tradesmen,
always picturesque and incisive, has for the first time
Other works in this field are “La Moral de la
in Russia found its artist."
Derrota,” by Señor Morote; “ Hácia otra
Mr. Merezbovski has written - The Resurrec-España,” by Señor Maeztu ; “Problemas del
“
tion of the Gods,” a romance having Leonardo
Dia," by Señor Silió; “Del Desastro Nacional
da Vinci for its hero.
y Sus Consecuencias,” by Señor Isern ; and
“A certain change is perceptible in the ordinary life “Los Desastres y la Regeneración de España,
of contemporary Russian singers, owing to the circum- by Señor Rodriguez Martinez. Addresses upon
stance that a poetical club has been established at St. this subject have also been made, and after-
Petersburg, founded by Mr. K. K. Sluchevski, the best
of living Russian
poets; and a company for the publi, article, by Señor Echegaray and by Señora
wards printed, by the author of the present
cation of books, called the • Scorpion,' has been started
at Moscow, around which the younger bards havo
Bazán. Works of erudition are mentioned in
grouped themselves.”
great numbers, the most conspicuous place
Important new editions of the poets Tiutcher being given to the Festschrift inscribed to
and Fet, and of the critic Bielinski, bave been Professor Menendez y Pelayo, and containing
published. Among works of scholarship the fifty-seven monographs by the most distin-
following should be mentioned : “ Village guished Spanish and foreign scholars. Fiction
Economy in Muscovy in the Sixteenth Cen- is illustrated by “Morsamor,” by Señor Valera;
tury," by Mr. N. Rozhkov; “ Aids to Lec- three new “ Episodios Nacionales," by Señor
tures on Russian History," by Mr. B. Kliu. Galdós; and a volume of stories by Señora
chevski; “ The Economic Development of Bazán. In poetry and the drama little work
Europe Till the Rise of Capitalism," by Mr. of any consequence has appeared during the
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themselves. Before his time the avowed object of the
The New Books.
public schools was to impart learning; systems and
discipline were subservient to this end, and though inci-
dentally they had other effects, their main object was to
Two GREAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS
render learning possible and effective; if this object was
OF ENGLAND.*
attained their work was done, and they were judged by
The term Public Schools, in English usage
their success or failure in this respect. Arnold took a
much broader view of the objects of education; while
as distinct from American usage, denotes boys' deeply impressed with the importance of learning, he
boarding-schools that fit for the universities. realized that it was only a part of education, and that
These schools are established upon private
the great end and aim of education was the formation of
foundations, and are made free only to a small
character. This was the great object which was to domi-
nate all others: to this end learning and everything else
number of day scholars, called “foundationers,"
must be subservient. The ideal which he set before
in the town in which they are situated. Thus, the himself was to train boys to become not merely scholars
public school is merely set off from the private but Christian gentlemen. . . . He accepted the two
tutor, as when Thomas Arnold writes that his great features of English public schools, the liberty
allowed to all, and the power exercised by the senior
experience “ seems to point out no one plan of
over the junior boys; but be bent all his energies to
education as decidedly the best; it only says bring it about that the liberty should not be mere
that public education is the best when it an- license, and that the power should be exercised for
swers. A very good private tutor would tempt good and not for evil, as had been too often the case.
one to try private education ; or a very good
Arnold's greatness and his success lay in the fact
that he did inspire a very large proportion of boys
public school, with connections with the boys at
placed in authority with something of his own spirit of
it, might induce one to venture upon public.” duty, and that in the minds even of boys who did not
The stories of two of these great English pub- come into personal contact with him he implanted a
lic schools — Rugby and Charterhouse — form
form feeling of their responsibility as members of a great
society. In this way he did succeed in showing what a
the subjects of two excellent volumes of a series
public school, in spite of its imperfections, "might,' to
which is to cover the whole system of the lead- use his own phrase, and ought to be.' He did succeed
ing public schools of England. Rugby is treated in rousing people to the fact that the aim of education
by the Assistant Master, Mr. H. C. Bradby, was not merely to stimulate the intellectual faculties
but the moral faculties as well, that the great object to
who has, while confessedly giving nothing new,
be pursued was the formation of character. In this he
compiled the main facts into a useful sketch.
was a pioneer, and his example soon had great results.”
Rugby School was founded in 1567, “ in ac-
The most noted men of letters who have
cordance with the will of Lawrence Sheriffe,
citizen and grocer of London," to be a free
come from Rugby are Walter Savage Landor,
school “ chiefly for the children of Rugby and
A. H. Clough, and Matthew Arnold. Landor's
Brownsover.” For the first century of its life it independent and fiery personality displayed
had but a precarious existence; but with Henry the head master knocked at his door, his only
itself at Rugby as in all his later life. When
Holyoake, who held the head mastership for
“
forty-three years, from 1687 to 1731, it began reply was, “ Get thee hence, Satan!” and it
a vigorous career. Thomas James, Henry
was for writing scurrillous verses in the head
master's album that that strange genius had
Ingles, and John Wooll were successors of
Landor's name is
note. Of the last named it is recorded that he finally to be removed.”
“ did not forget Solomon's precept, and we read
linked with Rugby by the lines on “ The Swift
of one occasion when in the extraordinarily short joining the Avon,” just as Arnold's is by his
Thomas
space of fifteen minutes he flogged the whole of great poem on “ Rugby Chapel.”
a form of thirty-eight boys, who had thought nation of the highest form of the British school,
Hughes, who has been described as “ the incar-
fit to put a stop to a lesson by the simple expe- boy, the best type of the character of the school
dient of going away.”
After this redoubtable flogger came the
which moulded him,” has immortalized Rugby
greatest of all masters, Thomas Arnold.
scenes in “ Tom Brown's Schooldays.”
“What Arnold did for public schools was to alter and
The second chapter of this book gives a
expand, to a degree which amounted to a revolution,
detailed description of the buildings and
the aims and objects which these institutions set before grounds. A large and well-equipped art mu-
* RUGBY, By H. C. Bradby, B.A. Illustrated. “Hand-
seum is an unusual feature in a boy's school,
books to the Great Public Schools." New York: The but it seems very serviceable at Rugby. The
Macmillan Co.
third chapter gives a brief account of the work
CHARTERHOUSE. By A. H. Tod, M.A. Illustrated.
of the school, while the fourth is devoted to
“Handbooks to the Great Public Schools." New York:
The Macmillan Co.
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monitorial system taught all, first how to obey, and
Charterhouse cannot count so distinguished a
to football, and we note that this
game
is “ manized in the last few decades ; legalized
pulsory for all below the Sixth who have not fighting and the worse forms of bullying have
got a medical certificate of unfitness.”
been suppressed, and the power of the monitor
Charterhouse, though not so familiar a name over the fag has been restricted. It is also
as Rugby, is one of the great and venerable notable that now in this school, where, as in
English public schools. It dates from 1609, other schools, athleticism has been dominant,
and was founded by Thomas Sutton, a banker “ intellectual pursuits are regarded with toler-
of London. The name Charterhouse is a cor- ance"; the scholarly boy is no longer subject
rupt form of “Chartreuse,” it being situated to constant persecution. Another change at
on the site of “L'Abbaye Chartreuse ” at Charterhouse is one which does not meet with
Smithfield ; and hence the name Charterhouse the unlimited approval of the author - namely,
is properly spelled as one word, and members
the mapping out of the boy's leisure time by
of the school are known as “ Carthusians." set games and entertainments, so that he no
By the Chantry Acts of Henry VIII. and longer has time fully to himself to act upon his
Edward VI., a large number of grammar own initiative.
schools where Latin had been taught were “ There does appear a distinct danger of public
done away with.
schools becoming more and more what they are some-
“Now Latin was then the universal language of in-
times said to be, the home of the commonplace.'
Hitherto their tradition has been to encourage manliness,
ternational commerce. Knowledge of Latin at that
time was as necessary for foreign commerce
self-, a ;
knowledge of French and German is now.
man of business in many lands, must have felt that his
afterwards how to command, while the unrestricted
countrymen, who were losing their Latin, were at a
life fostered originality and self-reliance. What will
disadvantage in commerce, -- just as boys who neglect
be the results of the present method, time must show."
modern languages are at the present time. So in These little hand books are compends of in-
founding a grammar school Sutton was founding the formation, and are presumably meant more to
equivalent of a modern technical school.”
be consulted than to be read. However, they
are clearly written and well illustrated, and
a line of masters as Rugby. One of the early will be of considerable interest to the general
masters, Robert Brooke, “was ejected for flog- reader, and of special interest to the educator,
,
ging boys who did not share his political the tourist, the alumnus, and the patron.
views.” Dr. Russell, who was head master in
H. M. STANLEY.
the early part of this century, abolished flog-
ging, and substituted fines, to the indignation
of the boys who regarded flogging “as very
A TRANSITION PERIOD IN
gentlemanly, but fines most ungentlemanly.”
AMERICAN HISTORY.*
The rebellion against fines was so fierce that
Dr. Russell re-adopted flogging, and one of the
The years which intervened between the
students of the times writes that on the day
second term of President Monroe and the tri.
when fines were abolished, “ when we ai umph of “the people" in the election of their
all
”
walked into school together, we found a per-
favorite Andrew Jackson were years marked by
fect forest of birch rods, and I should think many changes in the political, social, industrial,
that the whole school-time of two hours was
and intellectual life of the United States. The
expended in the use and application of them.” departure from the scene, with the passing of
.
The rod is now rarely used at Charterhouse. Monroe, of the generation which had been influ-
In the realm of letters, Thackeray was the
ential in the revolutionary movements, and the
most distinguished son of Charterhouse, and incoming of a new stock of voters, many of
a
he shows in his writings a devoted attachment
them born“ since the war,” were accompanied
to the school.
by a corresponding shifting of ideas which made
In 1872 Charterhouse was removed from
the "era of good feelings " notable for the nu-
London to new buildings at Godalming. Chap-
merous revolutions effected in thought and life.
The fifth volume of Mr. McMaster's “ His.
ter II. of the volume devoted to this school is
an illustrated description of the New Char- tory of the People of the United States ” is
“
terhouse." Chapters III.-VIII. give accounts
largely given to an examination of these revo-
of the varied life there, work, plays, discipline,
*A HISTORY OF THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES,
from the Revolution to the Civil War, By John Bach
manners, prizes, expenses, etc. Charterhouse,
McMaster. In seven volumes. Volume V., 1821-1830. New
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lutions. After some consideration of the pre- The same activity was indicated in business
liminary questions that later became important circles as in domestic.
in the settlement of the Texas and Oregon « Five hundred new mercantile houses were said to
problems, an extended chapter deals with the have been established in the city in the early months of
Monroe Doctrine, tracing its history up to the
1825, a statement well borne out by the crowded con-
dition of the mercantile newspapers. The.Gazette'in
time when it was formulated by the President
seven days contained 1,115 new advertisements, and in
whose name it bears, the occasion which called one issue, a week later, printed 213, and stated that 23
it forth being indicated at length. The history
others were left out for want of space.”
of the Holy Alliance is so related as to show The lack of preparation of the people for the
how
" meaningless pledge” of 1815, framed rapid changes can hardly be better indicated
in a moment of religious excitement, led the than by mention of a newspaper which would
allied rulers into a position where they were let twenty-three advertisements escape it be-
forced to oppose all popular government, until cause of “want of space. As another indica-
at Aix-la-Chapelle in 1818 they became organ- tion, it may be mentioned that of the three
ized into a mutual association for the insurance thousand dwellings reported as building in
of monarchy. This chapter is a fair type of 1825, it is related that, “ Most of these houses
.
the volume, which is largely taken up with were built by speculators, and were erected so
essays descriptive of the development of ideas cheaply and hastily that several fell down while
in the United States, essays on Socialistic and in course of construction; others were torn
Labor Reforms, on the Negro Problem, the down by order of the authorities."
Industrial Revolution, Early Literature, Brit- The attempts of the citizens to wrestle with
ish Criticism of the United States, the Com- the new problems of city life naturally were
mon School in the First Half Century, and extremely faulty. The cleaning of the streets,
Political Ideas in the First Half Century. the protection from fire and from evil doers,
These essays lead up to the surprisingly rapid the lighting of streets and houses, caused the
changes of the period under consideration, and residents of the new cities just as much trouble
in many instances the interplay of forces is as they do people of to-day, and, as presented
admirably, if perhaps unconsciously, indicated. by Mr. McMaster, stand in suggestive opposi-
The account is very interesting of the agitation tion to the difficulties of rural life, where vast
by laboring men for a shorter day, of the influ- sums were spent in schemes for the improve-
ence upon labor and society of the invention ment of transportation, and thousands of dollars
and introduction of labor-saving machinery, of were buried in connection with efforts to solve
the preaching of doctrines of social betterment problems in which highway and canal and rail-
with the accompaniment of the formation of road figured largely. The questions of the
communities for the working out of theories. city and the country differed materially, but in
Men are taught the wisdom of cutting loose each place the same characteristics marked the
from old party ties, and the attractiveness of period, — the temptation to deal in futures, a
the anti-masonic party is in a measure under- wild rush for speculation, an abundance of
stood as people look to see the new leader or cheap money, social distress, relief laws, then a
the most likely new theory.
gradual settling down on a firmer and steadier
The beginnings of the importance of urban basis.
life are noted in such striking paragraphs as this: The changes which were taking place in
“At New York, now the metropolis of the country, political ideas were as numerous and as marked
the growth of the city was astonishing to its own citi- as those in the field of social life. New and
zens. The population numbered one hundred and sixty-
more liberal constitutions were adopted, grant-
two thousand, an increase of forty thousand in five
years. To keep pace with such an inpouring of strang- ing a wider suffrage and more generous privi-
ers was hardly possible. More than three thousand leges. Ideas advanced in theory as part of
buildings were under way in 1825, yet such was the the revolutionary movement became realized in
press that not an unoccupied dwelling house existed in
fact. A number of perplexing and puzzling
.
the entire city, and it was quite common to see families
living in houses with unfinished floors, with windows problems presented themselves for solution,
destitute of sashes, and in which the carpenters had not
the status of the free negro, the quieting of
bung a single door. Nor was this an accident. Year
Year Indian titles (notably in Georgia), the ever
after year the same thing occurred, and on one first of important matter of slavery extension, the ac-
May — the great moving day'— three hundred home-
tual working of tariff provisions. Put these
less people gathered in the park with their household
goods and were lodged in the jail till the houses they
with an occasional diplomatic question, — the
bad rented were finished and made habitable.”
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puted Maine boundary, the future of Oregon, important books have appeared, Keane's “ Man,
the possibilities in the direction of Texas,- Past and Present,” Ripley's “ Races of Europe,'
and one has the panorama passing before him, and the book before us, Deniker's “Races of
which Mr. McMaster has successfully de- Man." The author is Librarian at the Museum
scribed.
of Natural History in Paris, and has long
The political history in the volume is com- been prominent in the anthropological work of
paratively unimportant. The discussion of the France.
problems mentioned everywhere dominates. The alternative title, “ An Outline of An.
But a word must be said of the account of the thropology and Ethnology,” gives a fair idea of
a
development of the “ Jackson men,” and the the scope of the work. The first seven chap-
attractiveness of the study of the machinery of ters study the characters investigated by an-
popular elections which was being formed in thropologists — the Somatic (Morphological,
opposition to the congressional caucus. Why Physiological, and Pathological), the Ethnic
it was that Jackson had such a hold upon the including Linguistic), and Sociological (Ma-
(
common people will certainly be clearer to terial Life, Psychic Life, Family Life, and
anyone after reading Mr. McMaster's story. Social Life) characters. Attention is then
In mechanical construction this volume, turned to Systematic Ethnology. In one chapter
which is the smallest of the five in the series, the matter of Classification of Races and Peo-
reveals the haste in which it was printed, a ples is presented. The method of defining races
haste which is apparent notwithstanding the by the synthesis of a few fundamental somato-
length of time of the publishers' preliminary logical characters, carefully examined and
announcements of “ ready soon and “in traced out through humanity, was first fully
press,” promises for whose fulfilment eager carried out by Topinard, who thus defined nine-
students waited long. Careful proof-reading teen original races. Deniker pursues the same
would have prevented such mistakes as “ Nile's method, but makes out and names twenty-nine
Register” (p. 7), “$3,720 dollars” (p. 24), races. These are succinctly described. In
“ Washinton” (p. 24),
(p. 24), “the French. grouping these in a table, the author considers
was about to invade and seize Cuba” (p. 53). the hair as a fundamental character for sub-
p.
A little care might have avoided anachronisms division purposes and recognizes six groups :
in maps, as in the one on page 121, where the (A) Woolly hair, broad nose (four types);
United States in 1826 is shown with one of the (B) Curly hair or wavy (four types); (C)
lines marked "confirmed by Mexico in 1828." Wavy brown or black hair, dark eyes (seven
The same map indicates the line of 54° 40' as types); (D) Fair, wavy or straight hair, light
being quite a distance north of the line of 55º. eyes (two types) ; (E) Straight or wavy hair,
Chicago and Milwaukee are given place, and dark, black eyes (four types) ; (F) Straight
some names of places important in early his- hair (eight types). These twenty-nine race-
tory are misspelled. In a number of pages the types, when grouped to show relationship, give
plates are faulty, especially in the foot-notes. rise to some seventeen new groups which are
FRANCIS WAYLAND SHEPARDSON. characterized and then rather unsatisfactorily
arranged in a two-dimension tabulation.
The author next examines the distribution of
these races and groups, taking up five great
STUDIES OF THE HUMAN SPECIES.*
world divisions in the following order: Europe,
For a long time no new books of serious Asia, Africa, Oceania, America. He is every-
character dealing with the Human Races were where exact and rigid, laying down hard and
printed in English. After the battle over
fast lines. There is no doubt or uncertainty in
monogenistic and polygenistic ideas, giving rise his statements, no controversies or difficulties.
to such books as Nott and Gliddon's works and Here we have such and such types, pure or
Knox' “On Race,” the only serviceable work unmixed; there we find such and such a com-
was Peschel's “ Races of Men.” The long bination. The author is undoubtedly too arbi-
silence was broken by Brinton's " Races and trary, yet some degree of arbitrariness is inher-
Peoples,” which was quickly followed by ent in the nature of such a treatise. It is best,
Keane's “ Ethnology.” Then Ratzel was given perhaps, to admit his assumptions; but we ought
an English dress, and recently three highly always to remember that all types have not yet
* THE RACES OF MAN. By J. Deniker. London: Walter
been finally marked out, and that many conclu-
Scott. (Imported by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.) sions here presented will surely be modified.
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It is fair to say, however, that the author has
RECENT BOOKS ON EDUCATION.*
read widely and has carefully weighed his
reading.
Perhaps the most significant of the recent an-
Interest naturally centres in Deniker's treat- nouncements of educational publications is that of
ment of the populations of Europe, a subject Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler and published by the
the “Teacher's Professional Library,” edited by
which has engaged his attention for years, and
Macmillan Company. The published list contains
upon which he is high authority. It will be
books on the various studies of the secondary schools,
remembered that Dr. Ripley, whose book we to be written by favorably known teachers. That the
recently noticed in these columns, claimed but
editor and publishers should venture on so extensive
three European types—Mediterranean, Alpine, an enterprise speaks well for the educational intelli-
Teutonic. It was a view ideally simple and gence and interest of the country, at least as these
attractive. Deniker recognizes six principal gentlemen view matters. They evidently expect
.
.
and four secondary races.
Two of his six
teachers and scholars to respond liberally to their
principal races are fair-haired, four are dark. enterprise, and it is to be hoped that they will do so.
haired. The six principal races
It fell to the lot of Dr. D. E. Smith, of the Brockport,
are the
N. Y., Normal School, to open the series, which he
Northern, Eastern, Ibero-insular, Western or
has done in a commendable way in his “ Teaching of
Cevenole, Littoral or Atlanto-Mediterranean,
Elementary Mathematics.” If the opinion which is
Adriatic or Dinaric. Each of these is described
held in some quarters to the effect that of late the
and the influence of each in the present popu- teaching of mathematics has suffered in the atten-
lations examined. On the whole, without tion that it has received in comparison with some
elaiming for it inerrancy, Deniker's classifica- other subjects, this volume will do something to re-
tion better suits us than Ripley's. In his dis-
dress the balance. Again, one of the serious educa-
cussion of each world district, the author first
tional questions of the time is, What parts of math-
presents an outline of the prehistoric evidence
ematics shall be taught in the elementary schools?
One of the merits of the book is that it will help to
regarding past populations, and then discusses
those of the present.
find a practical answer to this question. For ex-
ample, Dr. Smith's criticisms on the current arith-
We always read, with great satisfaction, the
metic and suggestions of reform are thoroughly
discussions, in these general treatises, of those sensible and judicious. The author considers bis
areas with which we are least familiar. It is three main subjects, arithmetic, algebra, and geom-
only when we read those dealing with ground etry, under the four asp cts : nature of the study,
most familiar to us that we become doubtful educational value, history, and method, handling
and hesitant. Where in the large list of Eu- them in a manner that the great majority of teach-
ropean writers have we a discussion of American * THE TEACHING OF ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS. By
ethnologic problems that is half-way satisfac-
David Eugene Smith, Principal of the State Normal School at
Brockport, N. Y. New York: The Macmillan Co.
tory? Peschel fell far short. Ratzel, Schmidt,
PUBLIC EDUCATIONAL WORK IN BALTIMORE. By H. B.
Keane, Nadaillac, always just fail to grasp re- Adams. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press.
lations and bearings. Deniker does little better. THE SCHOOL AND SOCIETY. By John Dewey, Professor of
The realization of this failure in the field we
Pedagogy in the University of Chicago. Supplemented by a
statement of the University Elementary School. The Uni-
best know always leaves a haunting dread lest versity of Chicago Press.
other fields may be as bad. Let us hope not.
THE ETHICAL SUNDAY SCHOOL: A Scheme for the Moral
A word of criticism must be made either of
Instruction of the Young. By Walter L. Sheldon. New York:
The Macmillan Co.
the translator or proof-reader of this book. EDUCATIONAL AIMS AND METHODS: Lectures and Ad.
The statement that there are but two thousand dresses. By Sir Joshua Fitch, New York: The Macmillan Co.
Livonians is almost as startling as that the
AMERICAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS: History and Pedagogics. By
John Sweet. Chicago: The American Book Co.
English lung capacity is 3.7 cubic metres. One
THE MAKING OF CHARACTER: Some Educational Aspects
of the best features of the book is its series of of Ethics. By John MacCunn, Professor of Philosophy in
tables of measurements; but unless their proof.
University College, Liverpool, New York: The Macmillan Co.
READING : How to Teach It. By Sarah Louise Arnold.
reading has been done with great care their Boston: Silver, Burdett & Co.
FREDERICK STARR.
THE SECONDARY SCHOOL SYSTEM OF GERMANY. By
Frederick E. Bolton. New York: D. Appleton & Co.
HISTORY OF EDUCATION. By Levi Seeley. Chicago: The
American Book Co.
SUBSCRIPTIONS are being collected throughout Poland
The LOGICAL BASIS OF EDUCATION. By J. Welton. New
for the presentation of a jubilee gift to Mr. Henryk York: The Macmillan Co.
Sienkiewicz. The presentation is to be made in Novem- ADVANCED ELEMENTARY SCIENCE. By Edward Howe.
ber next, and it is sanguinely expected that sufficient New York: D. Appleton & Co.
money will be subscribed to purchase a country estate THE NERVOUS SYSTEM OF THE CHILD. By Francis Warner.
for the famous novelist.
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erg for whom the book is intended cannot fail to not be effected on the lines of reconstructed scholas-
find illuminating and helpful. Our severest criti- ticism or a new course of study, but must be
cism of the book is that the author has not always accomplished on the lines of manual training, cook-
distributed his matter in as clear and logical a way ing, sewing, drawing, modelling, and the other “fads
as he might have done. The mechanical make-up and frills” which call down the wrath of educational
and appearance of the volume are excellent. conservatives. While no one can tell what the future
Professor H. B. Adams gives in “ Public Educa- of the University Elementary School may be, it does
tional Work in Baltimore " an interesting account not require much foresight to see that it can never
of such work done since 1876 by or under the aus- become the type of the public elementary school : its
pices of the Johns Hopkins University. It is a cost and the delicacy of the organization make this
good contribution to the literature of University impossible. But it would be a great mistake to
Extension, although the work that is treated has identify the fortunes of the book and the fortunes of
not always, or generally, borne that name. A be- the school. The book has virtue, no matter what
ginning was made before University Extension had the future of the school may be. It is to be hoped,
been introduced into the country; moreover, the therefore, that teachers will be more interested in
claim is made that the first conscious attempt to making some practical application of this virtue to the
introduce English university methods into this coun- schools of the country than in watching the develop-
try were made in 1887 by individuals connected with ment of the little institution in Chicago that was the
Johns Hopkins. The monograph closes with an inter- occasion of this virtue obtaining literary expression.
esting but rather strained attempt to find educational It was perfectly natural that the promoters of
meaning in Washington's relations to Baltimore. the Ethical Culture movement should impress the
When the first reports of the University Ele- Sunday school into their service, and that they
mentary School of Chicago reached the outside should begin to produce a Sunday School literature.
world, they were not taken seriously save by isolated Still, so far as we are aware, Mr. Sheldon's “ An
persons here and there. It was not anticipated by Ethical Sunday School” is the first essay in that
teachers and educators generally that the school direction. The book has, however, other sources of
would last long, or that it would teach any important interest. The distinction between the new type of
lessons, save one very old lesson that has been so school and the old one is thus expressed :
many times repeated that an additional repetition “We desire that all that sanctity which in the con-
can hardly make it more impressive. But to the ventional Sunday school has been connected with the
surprise of persons holding this view, the school has word.God’ should surround the thought of the Moral
lived on until it is now in its fourth year, and has Law. It is the Moral Law which should sanctify the
more eyes fixed upon it to-day, undoubtedly, than thought of God, rather than the thought of God which
any other elementary school in the country. This
should sanctify the Moral Law.”
fact must be admitted, but just what may be its We are told further that the aim is -
significance is a question that would call out a “ To associate the sentiments belonging to the Eternal,
diversity of answers. In our view its meaning will the Infinite, the Absolute, with the distinction between
be found in large part, but not wholly, in current right and wrong, with the thought of the Moral Law,
dissatisfaction with our conventional common school but not to use these words so that they shall become
education, and desire to find something better. hackneyed before the child-mind has begun to have any
Although considerable has been written about this
conception at all as to what these words stand for."
school, we have not had hitherto an authorized We do not propose to discuss the new ideal, or even
statement of its aims and methods. This lack is to give an account of the modus by which it is pro-
now supplied by Professor Dewey, the author of the posed to realize it. On the latter point, the author
school, in his book entitled “ The School and So- tells us that his book is a description of the system
ciety.” This volume consists of three lectures “sup- of Sunday School work that has been developed in
plemented by a statement of the University school,” an Ethical Sunday School in St. Louis. He has
the whole comprehending but one hundred and evidently devoted much time and thought to the
twenty-five pages. But small as it is, it is not subject, and his work may, in our opinion, be read
impossible that the book will come to hold some with advantage by the managers and teachers of
such prominence among the pedagogical books of conventional Sunday Schools. They may get from
the time as the school itself is now holding among it some useful ideas of method and of systematic
the schools of the country. The central ideas of instruction, if nothing more. For ourselves, we
the three lectures are that the school has entirely think there is a valuable suggestion in the statement:
failed to keep pace with social progress, and must “We undertake to develop certain tendencies of
be readjusted to society; that, owing in great part thought and feeling in the young, or to develop a cer-
to this failure, the school has fallen out of relation tain attitude of mind on the problems of life, rather than
to the life of the child and must in some way
be
to give the young a specific knowledge or to impart
definite beliefs or facts of scriptural history.”
brought back into such relation, and that, as a re-
sult of these two facts, there is now great waste in “ Educational Aims and Methods,” by the veteran
education going on. Furthermore, the readjust- English educator, Sir Joshua Fitch, will naturally
ment of the school to society and to child-life can- attract the attention of the better class of American
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teachers, to whom he is so favorably known. These presentation to pupils. The aim of the work, like
teachers will desire no other recommendation of the that of its fore-runner, is the cultivation of accurate
book than that it is, in a sense, supplementary to habits of observation, the acquirement of common
the author's well-known “ Lectures on Teaching," facts, and the establishment of proper apperception
which has been republished by more than one bases for future scientific instruction. It will be ex.
American house. The volume is composed of lec- ceedingly helpful to the great mass of teachers in this
tures and addresses that have been given at various field of work, and should receive a warm welcome.
times within the last few years before different “The Logical Bases of Education," by J. Welton,
audiences in England and America. These dis- Professor of Education in the Yorkshire College,
courses treat of miscellaneous subjects, so that the Victoria University, is well written, thoughtful, and
book has no distinct centre of unity. The subjects scholarly, and aims to point out a system of instruc-
dealt with lie in “the borderland” which separates tion whereby logical habits of thinking and study
the corporate life of the school from the larger life can best be developed. It is, however, too far be-
of the family and the community,” as Sir Joshua yond the grasp of the ordinary teacher to attract
puts it, and are all interesting and important. The serious attention, or to be of much value as an edu-
book contains fifteen lectures and addresses.
cational contribution. It could wisely be denomi-
That veteran educator of the Pacific Coast, Mr. nated a Logic, and placed in that particular field.
John Sweet, has made a useful contribution to the Mr. Seeley's “ A History of Education ” is de-
literature of the profession that he has honored, in signed especially for teachers preparing for exam-
“American Public Schools.” The peculiar feature ination. The book is not based on theory, has no
of the book is that it is made up in something like logical beginning or ending, makes no claim to
equal measure of history and pedagogics ; a combi- thoroughness, but aims to furnish plain, accurate
nation for which, in the case of the great majority material of sufficient comprehensiveness to meet the
of teachers, much can be said. To this class of demands of all reasonable examining boards.
persons the volume may be strongly recommended. Professor F. E. Bolton's “ Secondary School Sys-
Professor MacCunn's “ The Making of Charac- tem of Germany” is a very interesting volume.
ter" is a valuable addition to the literature of moral The book is the outcome of a year's residence de-
training. The book covers a wide field of topics, voted to an examination of the school system and
and covers it well and wisely. Incalculably more to a study of the underlying principles involved.
valuable than intellectual training, moral training, It treats in a very clear and concise manner of the
in its nature, processes, and methods, if not in its general organization and management of the schools,
results, is yet much less understood. There is, the status of the teacher, the course of study, the
indeed, an extensive literature of moral counsel and higher education of women, and of many other
exhortation, some of it of great value ; but there is topics of special interest and value to American
a great lack of a body of definite and practical teach-students. The author is especially happy in depict-
ing, or a moral pedagogy, that teachers can use. ing those very features of the system which the
This book is not just the book that is most needed, average educator is most anxious to know about.
but it will do something to supply that need. It The author is also unique in that he does not fall
abounds in quotable passages.
down and worship at the German educational shrine
“ Reading: How to Teach It,” by Sarah Louise as so many are wont to do, but is as quick to por-
Arnold, Supervisor of Schools of Boston, Mass., is tray their defects as their excellences. The book is
one of the most attractive and sensible books that a valuable contribution to the literature on this sub-
has appeared on the subject in many a day. In ject, and should be extensively read.
choice of matter and in method of presentation it is “The Nervous System of the Child,” by Francis
thoroughly practical and exceedingly suggestive, its Warner, M.D., author of “The Study of School
key-note being a setting forth of the best methods of Children and their Training," is clear, comprehen-
teaching a pupil how to read and what to read, and sive, and scientific, and is the result of long study
of creating within him a permanent love for choicest and practice as teacher and physician. It treats of
reading. Every page shows the masterful author the following topics: the brain and body in infancy.
and the experienced supervisor. It is a fine contri- and early childhood; the child at school ; observa-
bution to this important branch of learning, and tion, description, and classification of children in
should be welcomed by every teacher of reading. school; evolution of the child and his brain power;
We predict for it a large sale.
physical care of the child, hygiene and feeding; the
"Advanced Elementary Science” is the latest training and teaching of young children; advancing
volume in the “International Education Series.” school method and teaching; the nerve centres in
It is by Professor Edward Howe, author of Sys- infancy school life and adolescence, their health and
“
tematic Science Teaching,” and is intended to pro- training; and mental hygiene and voluntary mental
vide symmetrical outlines for grammar grades power. In view of the wide-spread interest in every-
similar to those therein provided for primary grades. thing that pertains to the welfare of the child, these
The book treats of the elements of botany, zoology, topics ought to prove of unusual interest to teachers
geology, mineralogy, and astronomy, and offers rich and to the public generally. B. A. HINSDALE.
suggestions and illustrations of the best methods of
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story of Forestry at home and abroad; and every
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
school that keeps Arbor Day should have it on the
It is more than half a generation school library shelves, as motive and reason for the
Preservation
since a few scientific men, to whom custom that Arbor Day is at last making a national
of forest trees.
the situation had become an increas- matter. The book is published by the Messrs.
ingly grave one, formed in Washington “The Putnam.
American Forestry Association,” which has long
“The Story of Philadelphia" (Amer-
labored under all the disadvantages pertaining to
The bright side
of the story of ican Book Co.), by Miss Lillian Ione
any movement the need of which is unrecognized Philadelphia.
Rhoades, is intended for use as a
by the people at large. When an American fron.
text-book in the public schools of that city, as an aid
tiersman sees a tree at any rate, on land over
to "the training of pupils to intelligent and virtu-
which he has
any control he cuts it down. That
ous citizenship.” The work is a good one for the
is part of the instinct of clearing the ground for
purpose, so far as it goes, but it seems to us to go
work. But the American lumberman has cleared
scarcely half way. It has apparently been prepared
it simply for profit, with no knowledge that thus he
on the theory that the training aimed at is to be
was creating inevitably not only arid lands, but dis-
got by the pupil through the contemplation of the
ease and other unpleasant conditions. Our forests
virtues and achievements of a historic past, without
have vanished not only before the axe and the gen-
study of the municipal needs, conditions, and short-
eral march of what we call civilization, but by the
comings of the immediate past and the present.
fires of yearly recurrence. Even now, as these
An ideal text-book of the kind for the
young
Phila-
words are written, the most glorious trees eye of
delphian would, we should think, display also the
man in this country has ever rested upon the
reverse side, so to speak, of the medal, and thus
redwoods of California are at the mercy of a
serve to foster not only a due sense of pride in the
lumber corporation, and the women of California glories of the remoter past, but a knowledge of
are cogitating what to do about it. In short, while
present-day abuses and deficiencies, and a deter-
the meaning of a tree is becoming a trifle clearer
mination to remedy them. A keen realization of
to the general mind, we need all the education that
the mortifying fact that the city of Penn and
can be given, in school and oat, to fix the fact that
Franklin, the Mecca of pilgrims to the shrine of
man cannot make a tree, and that its destruction
American independence, had sunk, through the
save for essential purposes is a crime. In good supineness of her citizens, into a notorious citadel
time, then, comes an admirable manual for just
of "bossism " and municipal corruption, might well
such ends, “ North American Forests and For-
prove even more useful in the arena of political
estry,” by an expert, Mr. Ernest Bruncken of the
action to the young Philadelphian than a thorough
Wisconsin Forestry Commission ; his German name
not only implying but insuring the patient, careful, familiarity with the historical springs of civic self-
indefatigable work that is evident in every page of
in the present volume. Indeed, to go farther, we
the volume. The twelve chapters, with their full
are inclined to think that American youth in gen-
table of contents and index, mean a book that
eral has lost not a little in point of political judg-
should be on the shelves of every lover of trees,
ment and efficiency through the vainglorious or un-
and no less on those of every householder in city or critical historical text-book, which, in drawing up
country, since to act as it directs is now a recog-
our national account, has unduly ignored the debit
nized duty of the citizen. Waste is an American
side of the ledger. Miss Rhoades's little book, how-
vice,- waste of food, of material in a thousand
ever, is, we repeat, good so far as it goes, and re-
ways, of life itself, in our hurry and rush. There
capitulates pleasantly, in a series of brief special
is no need of surprise, but there is surely need for
chapters, a story the chief features of which should
shame, as we read the story of our own wholesale
be familiar to every young American. Mr. Edward
to use as a
gift of nature, but never the right to waste oferecek Brooks
, Superintendent of the Philadelphia
public
schools, supplies a brief introduction, and there is
lessly destroy. The book pleads for general educa-
a liberal sprinkling of illustrations.
tion in this study, not alone for the personal knowl-
edge and its pleasure, but as a national necessity,
Dr. John Bascom has drawn, in his
and it makes all the reasons plain. Mr. Bruncken's
The growth of latest volume “Growth of Nation-
Nationality.
work is clear, definite, practical, above all in its
ality in the United States" (Pat-
definition of what Forestry really is, and the clear- nam), from a course of lectures on the Federal
est of statements as to what deforestation means in Constitution, some chapters illustrating the country's
the life of the people. The final chapter, “Forestry development under that Constitution out of scattered
as a Profession,” opens up a new place in life for colonies into a compact whole. Traces of prepara-
many a nature lover, and is as thoroughly common- tion for the class-room appear everywhere, with
sense as are other suggestions. The book is not a occasional infelicities of style; yet the reader can
technical manual, save as some technicalities are a easily overlook these, along with a general heavi-
necessary part of the presentation. It is a very ness in the treatment, if he is assisted to understand
live, very earnest statement of needs, as well as a such political phenomena as the willingness of John


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Jay, a century ago, to give up the unique office of with editorial matter, furnish the contents of the
Chief Justice of the United States in order to be present volume. Briefly told, the contents are as
Governor of New York. The tendency to nation- follows: The editor gives the Vorgeschichte of the
ality, in this “social study,” is accepted as inber- von Alvenslebens, an exemplary noble Prussian pair,
ent, only interrupted by obstacles which it in time who receive the Emigrée Baroness de Courtot into
overcame : diversity in origin of the different colo- their family; the Baroness on several succeeding
nies; distance in miles, in cost and time of com- days relates her story up-to-date, which her hostess
munication, with consequent scanty intercourse and immediately write down in the words of the nar-
diverging interests ; cessation of the need, with the rator in the red album; the Baroness resides eight
conclusion of peace, of anion for defense; rivalry years with the von Alvenslebens, the record of which
of States with one another, of States with the gen- is furnished by the album; she returns to France,
eral government, and between departments of gov. whence she writes seventeen long letters to her
ernment; and the social fusion of class and class. benefactors, which are translated in full. The en-
These obstacles give titles to successive chapters in tire book gives the impression of unreality. The
which progress toward union is noted, the steps marvellous rescue of the heroine from the guillotine
being marked mainly by decisions of the national by her lover; her recognition of Napoleon at their
Supreme Court in its slow but effective work of first interview as the pale-faced cadet who had once
establishing a closer Federal Union. It is under rescued her from a mad bull when she was walking
the last head, “Strife between Classes,” that the under the shade of a red parasol in the fields near
author will be most likely to meet with criticism ; Brienne, and whom she had afterwards crowned with
his pronounced views on the relation of the State to a wreath of laurel leaves at the distribution of prizes
corporations, on railroads and the Inter-State Com- at its Military College; the return of the supposedly
merce Commission, on “government by injunction,' dead lover as a famous soldier,- all this and much
and the income tax, being not only opposed to those more of the same kind bears the appearance of ro-
of many respected fellow-citizens, but chargeable mance. There is also a striking similarity of style
also with baving no close necessary logical relation in the parts supplied by the editor, the diary, and
with the development of his subject. On these the letters. If the letters and diary are not genuine,
points, however, he is fair and sincere : while the the intimate knowledge of millinery and housekeep-
motif of this chapter, “ The prosperity of a people ing displayed would preclude masculine authorship,
can no longer be defined in terms of wealth merely, nor would an author of the male sex people his
or civilization that attaches to classes; it must be pages with so many sweet friends, dear princesses,
defined in terms which express
the common social and dear old uncles and pastors. But however this
welfare, and run through the body of the nation,” may be, the book is a good one to add to the list
stands quite above criticism. The slavery contro- of light summer reading.
versy fills its due space in the history, its decision
resting on immutable decree: “ The impossibility A half-century
In its original form, when first pub-
of successfully compromising a moral question lies
of naval
lished ten years ago, Captain S.
in the fact that Ethical Law is a vital issue, inter-
Eardley-Wilmot's “Our Fleet To-
lacing all social facts,” etc. Not only is this the day” was a review in outline of the changes that
best of lessons for the instruction of a class of
had taken place in the principal fleets of the world
undergraduates, but it is one which many of the
during the preceding half-century, — mainly, of
nation's legislators might, now no less than fifty
course, in the navy of Great Britain. Naval archi-
years ago, be the better for taking to heart. Å
tecture develops apace, and maritime nations have
good analytical table of contents and a useful list of
during the past decade been adding with feverish
fifty-six “cases cited ” from the Supreme Court
haste to their strength. A new and powerful navy
reports are provided.
has arisen in the East, and America has recently
startled the world with an unexpected proof of the
“The Memoirs of the Baroness Cecile
Readable,
strength and efficiency of her rehabilitated fleet.
if apocryphal, de Courtot, Lady in Waiting to the The Chino-Japanese War and the Hispano-American
memoirs.
Princess de Lamballe, Compiled from War have furnished many subsidiary lessons in
the Letters of the Baroness to Frau von Alvensleben, equipment, structural details, and organization.
and the Diary of the latter by her great grandson, Captain Eardley-Wilmot has therefore seen fit to
Moritz von Kaisenberg," is the reading of the title revise and to a considerable extent recast his book,
page of an outwardly attractive book recently trang- with a view of bringing it up to date, and it is now
lated from the German and issued by Messrs. re-issued in attractive form with some important
Henry Holt & Co. In the preface the editor relates alterations and additions (Scribners' importation).
how he found one day, at the bottom of an an- In order to keep the volume within the space
limits
cient oak chest belonging to the heirlooms of his originally assigned to it, the chapters on foreign
family, a packet of letters tied with the usual blue navies are omitted from the new edition, which is
ribbon, and a red velvet album containing a diary generally restricted to a history of the development
which proved to be a veritable treasure trove, and of the British feet from 1840 to the present day, a
whose translation from the original French, together period which includes the radical changes from sail
architecture.
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to steam, wood to iron, and smooth-bore guns to Officers ; Consular Service Duties ; Diplo.
rifled ordnance, "quick firers," and torpedoes. Brief matic Service; Uncle Sam and Expansion. The
accounts of the wars between China and Japan, and Appendix contains a tabulated Synopsis of Com-
the United States and Spain, are added. The book mercial Treaties, and lists of places and their pres-
is compact, well written, and acceptably illustrated, ent incumbents in the two services. A slightly
and will be found to meet the wants of those in need humorous flavor pervades the text, which is further
of accurate general information on the subject. The popularized by a sprinkling of comic drawings
author is an officer in the Royal Navy.
by Mr. Clyde J. Newman; but serious instruc-
Professor Smyth's “Greek Melic
tion is the essential purpose of the book. Mr.
Melic poetry
Conner's views as to the needs and standards
Poets” (Macmillan) is marked by of our foreign civil service are sound, and clearly
of the Greeks.
the sure and abundant scholarship
and persuasively put.
which we expect from its author. The notes are
catholic in their range. Questions of text criticism,
An interesting description of Nica-
the dialects, metrical theory, and the obscure his-
The Nicaraguan
canal and country. ragua, its people, government, pro-
tory of Greek lyric forms, are treated with copious
ducts, industries, Aora and fauna,
erudition, while literary criticism and illustration etc., together with a brief history of the projected
are not neglected. Professor Smyth would have interoceanic waterway which promises in time to
made a more useful book for American teachers if
turn a main stream of the world's traffic through
he had insisted less rigidly on the scientific distinc- this now comparatively virgin country, is to be
tion between melic poetry and lyric poetry in gen- found in Mr. W. E. Simmons's “ The Nicaragua
eral. We need for the class-room a convenient
Canal ” (Harper). The book is mainly the fruit of
annotated edition of the Teubner Anthologia Lyrica personal observation, and is entertainingly written.
including both Iambic and Elegiac poets. Pro- Readers sharing the pretty common, but as we now
fessor Smyth could easily have found room for this learn mistaken, belief in the insalubrity of Nica-
additional text within his 564 pages by referring ragua, will be surprised to find Mr. Simmons apos-
the student to the histories of Greek literature for
trophizing the country as a “land of sunny skies
much of the historical material given in his intro- and sparkling lakes ; : . . of healthful and delight-
ductions. The proof-reading and printing have ful climate." “Fevers," he adds, “which in the
been done with care. “Ruffian Boreas ” is surely United States are supposed to be the curse of the
Shakespeare, not Chaucer. And Rossetti's “Combi-
country, are extremely rare, and it would be hard
nation from Sappho " should read “ Forgot it not, to find another land in which so little disease of
Nay! but got it not, for none could get it till now," any kind prevails.”
not " for they could not get it till now."
Twenty years
In his “Twenty Years in Europe"
of consular (Rand, McNally & Co.) Mr. S. H.M.
experiences.
Byers gives us the cream of his recol-
BRIEFER MENTION.
lections as a consular officer in Switzerland and
“ A History of Sanskrit Literature” (Appleton), by
Italy from August, 1869, to September, 1891.
Dr. Arthur A. MacDonell, has been added to the series
Mr. Byers's book is lively and entertaining, and
of “Literatures of the World.” It is the first history
contains many anecdotes of and letters from notable
of the subject that has been written in English, a fact
people, that are worth preserving. Among the which gives it a value quite apart from that which re-
letters are fifty from General Sherman, whose name sults from its great intrinsic merit. Heretofore, the
crops up frequently in the narrative. Mr. Byers English reader has had to remain content with Weber's
saw something of General Grant during the latter's volume, nearly half a century old, and with Professor
tour of Europe. Mr. Byers made many agreeable
Max Müller's history of the Vedic period. Since the
and noteworthy acquaintances while abroad, and
writer is a competent scholar in his chosen subject, and
gratified to the full a keen appetite for sight-seeing.
has made use of the results of the latest scholarship,
His experiences are pleasantly reflected in his book,
his volume makes a peculiarly acceptable addition to the
useful series for which it has been written.
which is based on a diary kept during the period
English readers have taken much interest in Russian
treated. There are a number of illustrations from
literature of late years, and much has been written
photographs.
upon the subject in a fragmentary way. But we have
Mr. J. E. Conner's “Uncle Sam had no good modern manual of the subject and are thus
Our foreign
Abroad” (Rand, McNally & Co.), prepared to welcome, in spite of certain shortcomings
furnishes in concise form and pop-
and defects in perspective, the “ History of Russian
ular style an elementary yet a fairly critical and
Literature” (Appleton), which has recently been pub-
comprehensive account of our consular and diplo-
lished by Mr. K. Waliszewski. The writer is rather
French than Russian in his standpoint, which makes bis
matic service. The text is cast in the form of five
book lose something in sympathetic insight, although it
lectures (supposed to be delivered by “ Professor
probably gains in interest of presentation. It appears
Loyal of the University of —”) on the several as a volume in the series entitled “Literatures of the
topics : The State Department; Consular Service World."
a
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memoirs, published at London within two years after
Madame Roland's death. It will be the first English
translation since the above very scarce English edi-
tion. The volume will contain a number of full-page
illustrations.
The University of Illinois has fallen into line with
many of its fellow institutions by inaugurating a series
of “University Studies,” which will appear at irregular
intervals. The first number of the series is by Dr.
D. K. Dodge, and has for its subject “ Abraham
Lincoln: The Evolution of His Literary Style" -- an
interesting subject, certainly, and treated with discern-
ment.
The science text-books of the late Joel Dorman
Steele, with their fourteen weeks to each subject, have
long been the synonym for everything that is pedagog-
ically and scientifically mischievous, and we doubt the
desirability of prolonging their life in any shape. But
it must be admitted that Mrs. Mabel Loomis Todd, in
rewriting the old Steele - Astronomy,” has produced a
book that is both scientific and interesting. This means,
of course, that she has produced what is practically a
new work; and we would have been better pleased had
she discarded the Steele idea altogether, for that is
more likely to hurt than to help her book. The volume
is published by the American Book Co.
Dr. John Clark Ridpath, the well-known American
historian, died in New York City July 31, at the age of
fifty-nine. His first book was an “ Academic History
of the United States" (1874-5), from which he abridged
his “ Grammar School History," long a standard text-
book. From 1869 to 1885 he was a professor in De
Pauw University. His biographical work included the
“Life and Work of Garfield,” the “ Life and Work of
James G. Blaine," and the “Life and Times of Glad-
stone.” In 1894 appeared his most comprehensive
work, entitled “Great Races of Mankind,” in four vol-
He was engaged for ten years in preparing the
material, and another four years in writing this work.
He was for a time editor of “The Arena” of Boston.
His monographs are numerous.
“ Milton's Minor Poems,"edited by Mr. E. S. Parsons,
is a recent English text published by Messrs. B. H.
Sanborn & Co.
“ Lawton: An Ode," by Mr. Clinton Scollard, was
read last June before the Phi Beta Kappa of Harvard,
and is now printed in a neat pamphlet.
“ To an English Sparrow" is the title of a copy of
verses, written by Mr. William S. Lord, Evanston, and
published by him as an artistic booklet.
Messrs. J. F. Taylor & Co. have in preparation a
popular edition of the works of Charles Kingsley, from
the same plates used in their subscription edition of
this author.
Messrs. McClure, Phillips & Co. announce a unique
volume claiming Abraham Lincoln as its author. It is
a scrap-book Lincoln made up for use in the campaign
of 1858, containing, as he said, everything he had ever
uttered on the subject of negro equality.
Messrs. D. C. Heath & Co. bave just sent us three
modern language texts: – Scribe's “ Le Verre d'Eau,"
edited by Dr. C. A. Eggert; Bendix's “ Nein," edited
by Mr. A. Werner-Spanhoofd; and Elz's “ Er Ist Nicht
Eifersüchtig,” edited by Dr. Benjamin W. Wells.
North's Plutarch's “ Alexander the Great," and
Ruskin's “Sesame and Lilies,” both with introductions
and other editorial matter furnished by Mr. H. E.
Scudder, have just been published by Messrs. Houghton,
Mifflin & Co. in the “ Riverside " series of school texts.
“ A List of Books in the Reading Room” of the John
Crerar Library, just published by the Directors of that
institution, makes a dignified pamphlet of two hundred
and fifty pages, and comprises about three thousand
volumes, which “may be used by the public without
any formality.”
The Library of Congress is now issuing a series of
bulletins of much bibliographical value. Among the
latest issues are lists relating to Trusts and to the Gov-
ernment of Dependencies. From the Copyright Office
we have an extremely useful compilation of Copyright
Enactments from 1783 to 1900.
“ Numa Roumestan,” translated by Mr. Charles
DeKay, and “The Little Parish Church,” translated by
Mr. George Burnham Ives, have just been sent us by
Messrs. Little, Brown, & Co. They are uniform with
the other volumes of Daudet issued by these publish-
ers, and have attractive frontispieces.
Messrs. Isaac Pitman & Sons have in press for early
publication “ Pitman's Twentieth Century Dictation
Book and Legal Forms,” being an American commer-
cial dictation book for schools, without reference to the
system of shorthand taught. The firm will also issue,
about September 15, “Robinson Crusoe,” in Isaac Pit-
man's phonography.
A “Logical Chart for Teaching and Learning the
French Conjugation,” by Mr. Stanislas LeRoy, is a re-
cent pamphlet publication of Mr. W. R. Jenkins. The
same publisher sends us two Spanish texts:—"Fortuna
y Otros Cuentos," by Señor R. Diez de la Cortina; and
Temprana y con Sol y Tres Otros Cuentos,” by Señora
Bazan, the latter edited by Señor de la Cortina.
“ The Private Memoirs of Madame Roland,” edited
by Mr. Edward Gilpin Johnson, will shortly be issued by
Messrs. A. C. McClurg & Co. The work is based upon
a translation made from Bosc's original edition of the
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whose intellectual perceptions do not nicely
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CONTENTS.
as we know, found it both a paradox and a
A QUESTION OF LITERARY CONSCIENCE. . 115 stumbling-block, and assailed it with the weav-
er's beam that he wielded with such redoubtable
“LA FORZA D'UN BEL VOLTO." (Sonnet after
Michael Angelo.) M. B. A.
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energy. But in spite of the attack of Macaulay,
and of other persons defective in their literary
A GREAT AMERICAN POLITICIAN. B. A.
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NATURE BY DOWN AND PAVE. Sara A.
has accepted their fundamental validity. It
Hubbard
120 will be remembered that Lamb's argument
THE ROMANTIC HISTORY OF TEXAS. Walter runs, in substance, to the effect that the writers
F. McCaleb.
122 whom he defends created a conventional world
RECENT FICTION. William Morton Payne
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124
Herrick's The Web of Life. – Mann's The Prelude govern, and properly should govern, human
and the Play. – Grant's Unleavened Bread. conduct, have no more application than the
Matthews's The Action and the Word. – Sage's
Robert Tournay. - Leys's The Black Terror. - rules of ordinary probability to the incidents
Mrs. Wharton's The Touchstone. — Mrs. Atherton's of a Grim Mährchen or an Arabian tale. Lamb
a
Senator North. – Watson's The Rebel. - Hayes's A
Kent Squire. — Pemberton's Féo. - Benson's The
declared himself “glad for a season to take an
Princess Sophia. — Crockett's Joan of the Sword airing beyond the diocese of the strict con-
Hand. - Crockett's The Isle of the Winds. - Mrs. science," and now and then “ for a dream-
Caffyn's The Miox. – Mrs. Dudeney's Folly Corner.
- Sienkiewicz's The Knights of the Cross. — Jokai's
while or so, to imagine a world with no
The Baron's Sons. Coloma's Currita. — Valdés's meddling restrictions.” The world of Congreve
The Joy of Captain Ribot.
and Wycherley “is altogether a speculative
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TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS.
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:
Are we
be
one that has now passed away from popular right moments, instead of floundering about in
,
interest, but another fashion has taken its act and speech as they doubtless would in the
place, concerning which Lamb's argument is haphazard actual world. In that world, as the
equally to the point. This is the fashion of
This is the fashion of poet reminds us, we get “never the time and
romantic fiction, toward which our strenuous the place and the loved one all together"; but
moralists are apt to assume a deprecatory atti- in the world which the romantic imagination
tude, upon much the same grounds that served creates we have a right to expect this conjunc-
as a basis for the condemnation of the earlier tion, and a reason for justifiable disappointment
fashion. Romantic fiction is essentially unreal, if it is missed.
.
we are told ; it does not reflect the conditions The romance of pure adventure appeals to
of actual life, it encourages us to dream instead some of our healthiest instincts. Both as boys
of setting us face to face with the problems of and as men, we like to follow the fortunes of
human existence, it dissipates our energies in- pirates, to read about shipwrecks and all other
stead of enlisting them in behalf of worthy sorts of forlorn hopes, and to applaud the deeds
social and intellectual causes. The charge is of heroes who slay their enemies right and left,
doubtless true, but is there no place for dreams and escape from the most desperate dangers by
in the economy of the spiritual life?
feats of improbable prowess and display of
to reject the ministry of every form of litera- indomitable if not superhuman valor. The
ture that takes us away from our surroundings, gentlest spirits as well as the most fiery delight
or is not closely related to our immediate
pur- in these things, and delight in them precisely
suits and interests ? Entertainment may not because they are so far removed from ordinary
be the highest mission of literature, but it is buman experience. They are the happenings
surely a legitimate object for a writer to set of a world which, at least when we have out-
before himself, and those writers who offer grown boyhood, we have no desire to make our
entertainment, in whatever fashion the hour own, a world which could not be our own if we
may approve, are not undeserving of the public wished it, a world which we frankly recognize
and will not find their efforts unrewarded. To as imagined for our diversion. We should ill
say that romantic fiction moves in an unreal requite those who purvey for us all this inno-
world of its own making should not be held a cent entertainment were we to arraign them
matter for reproach ; it should rather be recog.
. before the bar of science, to make stern inquiry
nized as the necessary condition of this form into the probability of their imaginings, and to
of art, and should make us grateful for the pronounce upon the conduct of their characters
refuge which it offers to the mind oppressed such severe judgments as would doubtless await
by the burden, at times so intolerable, of the such conduct in the courts of justice of our
actual world. The art of fiction depends upon prosaic world.
conventions quite as fully as does the dramatic Nevertheless, although we are fully per-
art. The action must be compressed far beyond suaded of the right of romantic fiction to exist
the limits of probability, and worked out with and of its heroes to perform acts which would
,
small regard for the many disturbing iuflu not bear the test of a prosaic and conventional
ences by which it would certainly be compli. morality, we are not without certain searchings
cated in real life. The villain must be foiled, of soul when we contemplate the enormous
the hero must triumph, and the lovers must be vogue enjoyed by this species of literature at
united, even if there are only a score of pages
in the present day. Of that vogue there can be
which to accomplish all these things. Whatever no question. It would be difficult to point to
the length of the story, these are its fundamental any earlier period in which popular fiction was
requirements; and to such ends all the means so largely made up of tales of adventure, tales
employed by the writer must be bent. Each whose interest centres upon exploits rather than
separate scene, moreover, must be heightened principles, upon the triumph of the individual
in effect far beyond anything that is likely to will rather than of the abstract ideal. There
occur in everyday life; two people seated side is an appalling amount of bloodshed in our
by side at a dinner-table must make their con- popular romance, and an almost unexampled
versation more brilliant than
any
that was ever degree of recklessness in the choice of means
actually heard upon such an occasion ; the for the desired end. One need not be a pro-
members of every group of persons brought fessional moralist to correlate this illustration
into contact for the purposes of the narrative of popular taste with the wave of brutality
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moral territory that has been reclaimed at so
The New Books.
great a cost of individual and collective effort.
For some reason or other, the finer instincts of A GREAT AMERICAN POLITICIAN.*
civilization seem of late years to have become Few Americans better deserve the appella-
dulled, and both individuals and nations are tion of " great politician ” than William H.
suffered without effective protest to commit Seward. Born in 1801, he was already a party
acts which should arouse the fiercest indignation leader in his county at the early age of 23, and
for their contravention of all the principles by he continued active or interested in politics
which nations achieve true greatness and indi- until his final retirement forty.five years after-
viduals bequeath to their descendants a beri.
wards at the age of 69. For much more than
tage of honorable fame. We should hardly half of this period he was in public office. He
include our popular literature among the active was State Senator, 1829-1833; Governor of
causes of this degenerative process, but it may his State, 1839-1843; United States Senator,
not be unfair to regard it as symptomatic. We 1849-1861 ; and Secretary of State, 1861-
may read with zest the popular literature which 1869,- making in all twenty-eight years of
glories in brute force, and we may get no harm official life. Moreover, during seventeen
from it as individuals ; but we must “view years of the forty-five years that he was out
with alarm," as the political platforms say, the of office he was not out of politics, for, as his
ever-increasing hold which this species of lit-
present biographer remarks, speaking of the
erature is gaining upon the popular mind. If period following his retirement from the State
such literature does not directly shape the ac- Senate, “ he always had time for profitable
tions of men, it certainly does to some extent politics, and he knew how to plan.” He some-
reflect their ideals, and its present prominence times wearied of political conflicts and party
is such as to confront the literary conscience strife; he sometimes spoke of his principal
with a serious question. Should we, because employment for so many years in the tone of
they afford us such admirable entertainment, disgust, painting at the same time “a fond
give our unqualified approval to these writings picture of retirement — his otium cum digni-
-
that glorify all the brutal passions, that move tate oceans of leisure in midst of shrubs and
in a world unswayed by the moral law, and flowers, as he jocosely translated it "; but there
that substitute for the Christian precepts a is less of this self-deluding sentiment in his
gospel whereof Carlyle and Nietzsche are the biography than is to be found in the biographies
evangelists? It is a serious question, whether of most public men of equal eminence. When
the ideals of public and private morality, as he retired from the State Senate in 1833 and
reflected in the popular literature of the day, returned to the “much-coveted quiet of his study
which this century is about to pass on to the and profession,” he wrote to his friend Weed
next, will bear a favorable comparison with rejoicing that he was " free from the wearying
those which the last century bequeathed to and unprofitable life' that he had been living
at Albany, and hoped that he was at home to
remain for a long time"; but he significantly
added : “Keep me informed upon political
« LA FORZA D'UN BEL VOLTO."
(After Michael Angelo.)
matters, and take care that you do not so far
get absorbed in professional occupations that
Skyward I'm drawn by light of thy fair face
you will cease to care for me as a politician.”
(Other delight on earth is left me none),
And of the spirits elect I count me one:
When a politician calls in his next friend in
Was ever granted mortal man such grace ?
such fashion as this, he is not very likely to
So well the Maker in thy form I trace
need his assistance.“ The world knows,” says
That, seeing Him, already earth I shun:
our author, in relating this incident, “ what the
And well for me, else were I all undone,
politician means when he says farewell.”
”
Such flame for thee doth heart and mind enlace.
Seward spoke his true nature when, at the same
W berefore, if
fixed
gaze
I turn
period of his life, he wrote:
From thy deep eyes, 't is that my bleeding feet
Learn from their blessed light the path divine;
“ I shall, from the force of constitutional bias, be
And if in happy martyrdom I burn,
found always mingling in the controversies wbich agi-
'Tis that the generous fire showeth sweet
tate the country. Enthusiasm for the right and ambi-
The joys that in the eternal heaven shine.
* THE LIFE OF WILLIAM H. SEWARD. By Frederick
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tion for personal distinction are passions of which I that made up political anti-masonry; he iden-
cannot divest myself, and while every day's experience tified himself with the Whig party at its form-
is teaching me that the former is the very agent which
must defeat the latter, I am far from believing that I
ation, and continued, not merely a Whig, but
should be most happy were I to withdraw altogether a prominent Whig leader, until the dissolution
from political action."
of the party; he cast in his lot with the Re-
The following addendum reveals that even publicans soon after the organization of that
then he was an adept in the genial optimistic party, rose to the highest place in its councils
philosophy which he so freely dispensed to but one, and, although he became widely sepa-
others and employed so soothingly in his own rated from many of his old colleagues after the
case in after life.
Civil War, he still favored the Republican
“I shall go on as always, adopting what my judg- | Presidential candidates in 1868 and 1872.
ment and my conscience approve. If my career ends Here is a great variety of topics of the highest
where it now is, I shall have enjoyed, if not all I de-
interest, and Mr. Bancroft has so handled them
served, as much of success as is my reasonable share.
If success comes as it hitherto has done, when I am
as to make perfectly clear what they are in
laboring in what seems to me the right cause, it will be
themselves and what were Mr. Seward's rela-
doubly gratifying, because it will bring no remorse.” tions to them. While we should have been
The fact is, William H. Seward's mind and pleased to see a little better sense of proportion
temper were thoroughly political, and he could in some parts of the work, we do not feel that we
no more keep out of politics than a fish can have serious cause for complaint. Our severest
keep out of water.
criticism would be that the last years of
The character of Mr. Seward's life naturally Seward's official life have been passed over too
determines the character of Mr. Bancroft's burriedly. Some events of Johnson's adminis-
book. Seward was, indeed, much more than tration, as his quarrel with Grant, may be re-
a politician. He was a man of large mental ferred to. It will be remembered that in the
and social cultivation; he delighted in nature celebrated issue of “ veracity” between the
and travel, and actually travelled far more than
President and the General, Seward, in a way,
most of his compeers in public life; he was a endorsed his chief ; but the incident is not
lawyer, and rose to a high place, although not mentioned in these pages.
to the highest place, in his profession. More- But, secondly, the crucial test comes on the
over, some of the author's most pleasing chap question of interpretation : what do the facts
ters deal with these interesting topics, such as mean? Mr. Bancroft has been severely criti-
“ Travels,” “Seward as a Lawyer,” “Some
,
cised for both the amount and the character of
Personal Traits and Characteristics,” the “Man the commentary that he has incorporated in his
and Senator”; but such themes altogether, history. He is continually interpolating, it is
including the first years and last years of life, charged, unnecessary and unjust explanations
fill fewer than 100 of the 1225 pages that
of Seward's utterances and acts, particularly in
make up the two volumes. The work is em- the first volume, which closed with the Presi-
phatically a political biography. Still, we do dential election of 1860. We have not space
not wish to imply that Seward was not states- to deal with this subject directly, farther than
man as well as politician.
to observe that this volume does not, on the
With all his tact and arts of conciliation, whole, leave on the mind a favorable impres-
a
traits in which he greatly excelled, Mr. Seward sion of Mr. Seward as a politician, but rather
sharply divided men in opinion while he was distinctly the contrary.
living; and it is inevitable that any writer who Indirectly, however, we wish to say that
deals with his history, if he attempts more than Mr. Seward constantly challenges discussion
a bald sketch, will divide his readers now that and provokes commentary. He was not a
Seward has long been dead.
man of simple but rather of complex mental
First, there is the selection from the mass of character; few of our eminent statesmen have
material of such matter as will, when properly been more so; he is constantly arousing the
presented, give a full and fair view of Seward's activity of the harmonist or of the critic; and
life and character. Here we think Mr. Ban. the biographer who should confine himself to
croft is deserving of commendation. He has the plain story, abjuring all attempts at inter-
studied his subject with evident thoroughness, pretation, would show a rare power of self-
and has shown good judgment in the selection abnegation. The principal questions are not
of his matter. Mr. Seward's entry into public only historically interesting but they are deeply
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Seward really mean by the “ higher law," the For one thing, he was slow to believe in the
irrepressible conflict,” the peace-in-sixty-days disruption of existing parties and the formation
prophecies, and by his proposal to Mr. Lincoln of new ones. At first he inclined to the Demo-
in the month of April, 1861, that war at home cratic Republican party that Jefferson had
should be averted, or an attempt be made to founded, to which his father was firmly at-
avert it, by wantonly getting up war abroad? | tached; but it was as impossible for him to
The biographer, especially if psychologically act with that party, in the long run, as it was
inclined, feels bound to make answer to these for him not to be a politician at all.
. He was
questions ; but to make answer is to provoke impelled toward the other school of political
disagreement. In complexity of character, thought by his mental character, as well as by
Mr. Seward reminds us of Jefferson, of whom his dislike of the Albany Regency ; so that it
one of the best known of American historians was predetermined, as far as such things are
says that he cannot be sketched in outline, but predetermined, that he should be first a Whig
must be painted “stroke by stroke.” We do and then a Republican. But first he toyed
not undertake to propound theories relative to with the Anti-Masonic party. Young as he
these interesting questions; but for us, how- was in those days, Seward could hardly have
ever it may be with others, Mr. Bancroft states
,
had any faith in this movement as Anti-Ma-
the substance of truth when he says that sonry, and must have been drawn to it, or
William H. Seward was two men in one, John driven to it, as the only effectual or practical
Quincy Adams and Thurlow Weed — "not less way of opposing the party then in power, and
eager to inherit the mantle of the one than to be of promoting certain objects in which he was
the beneficiary of the schemes and power of the interested that had become associated with the
other,” but equally sincere in both cases. Our Anti-Masonic movement. But with the Whigs,
author says, dealing with the Senatorial period: and later the Republicans, with their large
“ Seward continued to hear the two voices in fact,
national views, he was in his element.
he continued to act two distinct roles. It was John
Reverting to Seward's partial defect in po-
Quincy Adams Seward that uttered the telling phrases
litical prevision, one is surprised to find him
and made the severe arraignments and was the hope of
the radicals like Gerrit Smith, Theodore Parker, and, writing to Charles Sumner after the crushing
at times, of the Garrisonians. He usually favored defeat of the Whigs in 1852, when many lead-
what was boldest and most extreme if it stopped short ing men considered the defeat annihilation :
of violence. On the other hand, Thurlow Weed Seward
“ I answer that just now there is nothing to say, only
kept in close relations with the party organization; he
watched the plans of the politicians, changed the pro-
that recent events are what they were or might have
been foreseen, and that they do not disturb me in the
gramme to suit conditions, and tried to win all classes
least. No new party will arise, nor will any old one fall.
of men. Adams Seward was ardently anti-slavery and
The issue will not change. We shall go on much as
expected to live in bistory as a great philanthropist.
Weed Seward was determined to control the patronage
heretofore, I think, only that the last effort to convert
and to live in the White House. The one regarded
the Whig party to slavery has failed.”
himself as a martyr to a sacred cause, and wrote: I Two years after this, the New York Times,"
am alone, in the Senate and in Congress, and about in which reflected the sentiments of Seward and
the United States, alone. While adhering faithfully to
the Whigs, I dare to hold on the disallowed right of
Weed, repeatedly predicted both Seward's
disenfrancbised men and classes. I must stand in that
nomination as a Whig candidate for the Presi-
solitude and maintain it, or fall altogether.' The other dency, and bis election, in 1856. Seward did
was alone in deciding which principles and theories not look for the dissolution of the Whig party.
should be given prominence and which should be ig, Naturally, therefore, he took no part in the
pored or explained away. The result was that Seward
continued to be the political favorite of a large propor-
efforts made in 1854 to organize the Anti-
tion of the champions of freedom and of ardent youth Slavery forces of the country- - efforts that led
ful voters of the best impulses, as well as of the prac- to the formation of the Republican party, of
tical men and hard-headed politicians, calculating on which he was proud a little later to be the
tendencies and eager for office.”
great leader -- but rather discouraged them.
The meaning of all this is that Mr. Seward Naturally, too, Greeley wrote in “ The Trib-
was a thorough-going opportunist, but certainly une,” when the New York election was over:
not an opportunist of the baser sort. That he “Instead, however, of taking the position which cir-
often saw far into the future, and with perfect cumstances and his own antecedents seemed to require,
clearness, is true beyond question ; but then Mr. Seward, adhering to the vacated shell of Whiggery,
again, politician that he was, he sometimes
has stood aside and allowed the great movement of the
Free States to go forward without a word of bold and
showed himself wholly blind to impending po- hearty encouragement from its natural leader. The
.
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But Mr. Seward had a personal reason for Seward's hands- one can hardly fail to see
going slowly at this time. His senatorial term that the country had a fortunate escape from
would expire in 1855, and he did not wish to probable if not certain peril when the nomina-
fall between stools. Here was more oppor- tion went to the comparatively unknown can-
tunism. What is more, the hesitancy and in- didate from Illinois.
decision which marks men of speculative mind, It remains only to add that Mr. Bancroft
when the time comes for action, was no doubt has made a valuable contribution to a very im.
a factor in the problem, as it was in many portant part of our political history.
other problems in Mr. Seward's life. No
B. A. HINSDALE.
doubt, too, such hesitancy or indecision is a
part, of opportunism. It is natural that a poli-
tician should be slow to believe that a great
party that he has served and loved, and to NATURE BY DOWN AND PAVE.*
which he is looking for favors, should be mori-
In Mr. W. H. Hudson's large and handsome
bund; but Seward should have seen, at least
volume entitled “Nature in Downland,” the
after 1852, that such was the state of the
term “ Downland” is applied to the range of
Whigs.
low treeless hills popularly known as the South
Still, it was in those very days, perhaps, that
Downs, which run parallel with the line of the
Seward rendered his country the greatest ser-
sea-coast in the county of Sussex, England.
vice. This he did in the early, powerful, and
constant testimony that he bore against Slavery. rounded outlines and fluted sides, and are cov-
The bills are of chalk formation, with soft
Of politicians of high rank, he was the first to
ered with a thick fine turf which affords the
discern the true nature of the peculiar institu-
tion, to see where it was bearing the country; bearing the name of the hills on which they
best of pasturage for the famous breed of sheep
to oppose it stoutly on high moral and political
feed.
grounds, and to foretell what the end would be
To the average mind, these bare and monoto-
freedom victorious over slavery. Witness
nous elevations, as they are delineated by the
his speech to the Whigs of the Western Re-
author, and by the artist who assists him, are
serve, made at Cleveland in 1848. To be sure,
not particularly prepossessing; yet upon Mr.
there was much in his life that was inconsistent
with his lofty avowal of principle; but, poli- ing and persistent that for weeks and months
Hudson they exercised a fascination so absorb-
tician as he was, he did not believe that the
of the year 1899 he was rambling over them, a
ends which he sought could be gained without
the aid of a powerful political
party, and so he solitary but diligent student of their varying
clung to the Whigs even when it is hard to see
aspects and productions. Neither the heats of
midsummer nor the storm and gloom of winter
how any man of his clearness of vision could
had force to lessen his enthusiasm. In storm
discover any real soundness in the party.
With his defeat at Chicago in 1860, Mr.
or shine, in August or December, he was
Seward seems definitively to have abandoned pleased to be out in the open alone, quietly
his presidential ambition; and with such aban- noting the changes in earth and sky and in the
;
wild life that came under his observation.
donment, his political life, Mr. Bancroft holds,
ascended to a higher level. He accounts him the
It was a singular choice of pastime or indus-
,
greatest of American Secretaries of State, and try, judged by ordinary standards, but to him
,
believes that the estimation in which his great in a suit of grayish-brown tweeds, of the tint
the returns were ample in satisfaction. Clad
services in that office are held by the American
and texture best adapted to the purpose of the
people will increase rather than diminish as
the years go by. A man of generous feeling, the bird or beast his eye was fixed on,
field naturalist-that of approaching unnoticed
- he
who agrees in the main with Seward's political
ideas, can hardly fail to sympathize with him prolonged his daily tramp for ten or twelve
hours together. For food when hungry and for
in the great disappointment of his life; but
when we recall Seward's opportunism, and
shelter at nightfall, he depended upon the hos-
especially the manifestations of his opportun- pitality of the cottagers whose humble habita-
ism in the period between the election of Mr. * NATURE IN DowNLAND. By W. H. Hudson. New York:
Lincoln and the conclusive joining of the issue
Longmans, Green, & Co.
in the succeeding year — reflecting upon the
FlowERS IN THE PAVE. By Charles M. Skinner. With
Illustrations by Elizabeth Shippen Green and Edward Stratton
uncertainty of the result, if it had been left in
Holloway. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company.
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tions are found at long intervals in the desert- It is a happy temperament which Mr. Skinner
like region.
possesses, the æsthetic temperament with its gift
He carried no weapon of offense or defense, for seeing the pictures and hearing the music
his intent being kindly toward every living of the universe. He is aware of these moving
creature, but he was never without one invari- sights and sounds in the city streets, the back
able companion, a powerful binocular, of all yards, the alleys even, and they appeal to him
man's inventions that which to him 66 the with persuasive joy by night as by day. Such
most like a divine gift.” Nothing was too small spirits among us bave a mission to fulfil. It
or too mean to engage his attention with the is to awaken others to a sense of the delights
help of this valuable aid to the vision. For which are common to all, which are as cheap
hours he could gaze on the thistle-down filling as the daylight, and as much at our command
the air, and he made it the subject of pages of as the air we breathe. Mr. Skinner appreciates
reminiscent and original comment. The plants the obligation which his gift lays upon him,
underfoot, the insects in the air, “ the little and faithfully endeavors to communicate his
winged men and women called birds," the ani- pleasure in the beauty with which Nature sur-
mals clothed in scales or in fur, the clouds in rounds us even in the densest cities' confines.
the sky, all that is included in Nature, was the In a characteristic passage, he says:
subject of his careful and minute consideration. “ There is always the sky; the stars are lighted after
He had the fine instinct wbich enables one to dark; some yards boast a spear or two of grass; dis-
discern the beauty inherent in everything, “ the
tance will not be cheated of its magic, nor wholly shut
off by buildings; there is even a tree now and again;
beauty and grace and sweetness and melody"
and birds, dogs, cats, and children bring a touch of free
that exist everywhere. It was this that made
life to the scene. . . . Some of the best hours in a
“every hour of the day and every step of the man's life are those when he is beholden to nothing and
way,” during his months of solitary sauntering nobody, when he simply looks at the sky or the woods
on the South Downs, a keen and pure delight clean and rare delight.”
or the hills, or from his window gazes into tree-tops,-
such as the world dreams not of.
Mr. Hudson has heretofore made valuable The foregoing passage is taken from the
contributions to the facts of natural bistory. first and longest piece in the book. Next to
His youth was spent on the plains of the Argen. this in our favor is the final essay, which is a
tine Republic, and at this early period of life grateful exposition of “The Kindness of Na-
be developed a talent for searching and accu-
ture.” We bear so much now-a-days of the
rate inquiry into the secrets of the wild life cruelty of our earth-mother that a testimony to
about bim, and an equal ability for reporting her loving intent toward her children comes
the discoveries that resulted. During his later with peculiar graciousness. We make room
sojourn in England he has continued in the
for a bit of this to show the force of the au-
same line of study, and his work has a value
thor's argument :
justly esteemed by the fellows of his craft. “ For one who is crushed beneath a falling tree are
The present volume is a comprehensive survey
there not a hundred thousand who eat its fruit, who re-
of the structure, the surface, the specialties of joice in its shade, who breathe a purified air about it
,
who bask in its heat when it gives back its store of
the pastoral region of Sussex, not excluding its sunshine in our fireplace on a winter night? For one
human characteristics. The narrative is in who succeeds in filling himself with malaria, through
harmony with the subject, serene and unevent-
careless living, think how many find only health and
ful. A series of expressive illustrations accom-
beauty and food and business in the fields. . . . In the
perfect order of Nature we read a kindness that is
pany the letter-press.
deeper than our ability to adjust ourselves to it. Man
Mr. Charles M. Skinner has made his mark is more abusive than the earth. He slays for gain, he
as a clever writer, always spirited and amusing, slays for sport, he fells the woods, he blasts the hills,
and at times brilliant. His name attached to
he dries the streams, he mars loveliness, he lives un-
a volume is therefore a definite recommenda-
beautifully, until he gets intelligence and sees that the
rest of creation thrives by opposite conduct, when he
tion. In the one now before us, “ Flowers in
begins to act with modesty and to harmonize his actions
the Pave,” he has brought together eleven short to those of the rest of the world.”
sketches, most of which relate to his experi-
Mr. Skinner is an optimist as well as a na-
ences in contact with Nature. It is from the ture-lover, and preaches bis glad gospel at
point of view of a nature-lover that he chiefly every proper opening.
discourses, and many a bright, poetical, tender, bim say:
every proper opening. It is enlivening to hear
and pathetic thing does he say to us in this “I believe that the human type is bettering all the
amiable character.
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other unexcellent places, where they seem to be sinking Anglo-Americans, owning the sovereignty of
back from the standard."
Mexico, entered that region as colonists. The
And again :
time was short, however, after their coming
“Do away with occasion for gloom. It is well with until the province was in a state of insurrec-
the rest of the world, so, why not with us? Let 's be
tion; an insurrection which led to war and
glad we were born, instead of sorry that other folks
The hospitable state of mind is best, because it | independence. The republic which was set up,
is most like nature."
after a decade, became a member of the Union ;
We will make one more extract, because of
but when the great rupture of the States came,
its pungent suggestion ;
Texas cast her lot with the South. Since that
time she has made wonderful progress both in
“In my days of solitude in the fields the city weight
falls off and I spring erect like a pine released after material development and in the wider influ-
long bending. I live. I find myself. God forgive me ence exerted on national affairs.
for selling so much of my life for wages.".
From this bare outline it must be perceived
It is a sane and wholesome soul that can that the field of Texas history is broad and
speak like this. Mr. Skinner reveres his in- inviting. It is therefore with pleasure that we
stincts, and cherishes them; therefore it is note the recent issue of what the publisher well
that amidst the cark and care that business in pronounces an Encyclopædia of Texas History.
a city inevitably imposes, there is still much The text is made up in the first part of Yoa-
saving music and song” in his daily life. kum's “ History of Texas” with some “sup-
'
After the examples we have given of the plemental " chapters; in the second, of “a
dash and humor and charm in Mr. Skinner's complete history of the State of Texas from
essays, we are forced to express the conviction 1845 to 1897”; and in the third, of a series of
that he could do much better if he desired, and articles covering such topics as the " Indian
that we ought really to demand a higher order Tribes of Texas,” etc. Tbe republication of
of writing from a man with his pronounced Yoakum's History, of which only a limited edi-
and versatile talents. It is easy to imagine the tion ever appeared (1855), is an important
finished work he might produce with delibera- feature of the work. So far as the student of
tion and care and with the righteous ambition history is concerned, however, much of the
which should be a part of the equipment of value of this republication is lost in the failure
every writer who asks the ear of the public. to reprint the notes and citations of the orig-
SARA A. HUBBARD. inal author. To aggravate this, new notes are
occasionally added by F. W.Johnson, from his
MS. History of Texas, which frequently take
Yoakum to task without indicating any other
THE ROMANTIC HISTORY OF TEXAS.* authority than Mr. Johnson. This is always
There is, perhaps, no State in the Union unfortunate, for the student has no clue whereby
which possesses so individual, so striking, so
he may continue the search in the endeavor to
Six different
arrive at the truth.
picturesque a past as Texas.
sovereignties have in turn claimed her alle- The sixteenth century, during which time
giance. Discovered and traversed by the ad Grijalva, Pineda, Cabeza de Vaca, Guzman,
venturous Spaniards in the sixteenth century, Coronado, and others, explored parts of the
no contestant appeared until La Salle, the ex-
State, receives only passing notice in this work.
plorer of the Mississippi, landed by mischance The history proper begins with the landing of
on the shores of the Espiritu Santo, in 1685,
La Salle on the coast of the Espiritu Santo in
where he planted his short-lived colony. Then February, 1685. Sieur de La Salle sailed to
.
began the dispute over the possession of the plant a colony on the Mississippi, then known
territory, which ended only with the Mexican as Rio del Espiritu Santo; but failing in his
War. The coming of the French caused the calculations, he entered a bay on the coast of
Spaniards to occupy the country, their first Texas, since known as Matagorda. La Salle
establishment dating from 1690, many years
was slain, and the colony came to an end a few
before the hardy pioneers of the Atlantic States
months after through Indian attacks and inter-
had crept past the barrier of the Alleghanies. nal dissensions. But the Spaniards in Mexico
More than a hundred years elapsed ere the
had heard of the expedition, and soon a small
army was on the soil of Texas. Precarious
*A COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY OF TEXAS. Edited by
Dudley G. Wooten. In two volumes. Dallas, Texas: Pub-
settlements were made as the Spaniards became
lished by William G. Scarff.
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minions. The State and Church marched hand 5,000 slaves, 3,000 Mexicans, and 14,000 In-
in band in forming missions : the territory dians. During the period of the Republic,
would be preserved and the Indians converted. which lasted from 1836 to 1845, the popula-
The mission-founding began in 1690, and con- tion grew at a tremendous rate. The story of
tinued irregularly for almost a century. Nine- the annexation is well told in these volumes,
teen distinct establishments were made in the in an essay by General Sam Bell Maxey. The
territory known as Texas. This most unique struggle in the State itself is contrasted with
and interesting epoch — the Mission period - the larger controversy which was precipitated
–
has received too little attention.
When we
in the Union over the question of the annexa-
consider that this régime lasted until the com- tion. The full import of the accession of
ing of the American colonists, and tbat it Texas on the politics of the time, on the slavery
affected in no small measure the social, political, agitation, on the aggressive spirit of the nation,
and economic development of the State, it must is not brought out satisfactorily. Indeed, thus
become apparent that the subject is worthy of
that the subject is worthy of far the subject of the Mexican War has received
more extended treatment than that which Yoa- no adequate or competent treatment. The
kum gave it fifty years ago.
causes which gave rise to it were not all of
The period of American colonization began recent growth ; some of them dated from the
with Moses Austin, who went to Mexico in Louisiana Purchase, some earlier, some later.
,
1820, during the troublous times of the revo- The immediate cause of the Mexican War
lution, and secured a grant of land lying in the the annexation of Texas — has been allowed
rich valley of the Colorado river. This colony to obscure all others.
to obscure all others. The Mexican govern-
became the nucleus of the present State, whic ment, at that time rent by faction and revo-
now ranks seventh in population in the Union.lution, inherited the odium which had been
The Austin MSS., printed in articles contrib- originally Spain's -- and suffered in conse-
uted by Gay M. Bryan, throw much light on
n quence. In another sense, the Mexican War
the development of the colonies which were was a manifestation of the predatory tendencies
rapidly filled with emigrants from the “over- of the Anglo-Saxon race.
crowded ” States.
From the Mexican War to 1895 the history
The result of the occupation of Texas might is narrated by ex-Governor Oran M. Roberts,
have been forecast. Two peoples, with such recently deceased. It is a concise, praiseworthy
distinct customs and ideas as the Americans discussion, which, however, deals primarily
and their Mexican rulers, could not hope to wi
with political aspects. The history of the
dwell in peace. By the year 1835 contentions growth of parties in the State is not so well
and usurpations led to insurrection and war; told elsewhere. Naturally, having played a
1836 found Santa Anna, the despot of Mexico, part in the proceedings himself, some allow-
in the hands of the Texans as a result of the ance must occasionally be made for the per-
great victory of San Jacinto. In March of sonal element. The exciting years which pre-
.
that year independence was declared. Such a ceded the Civil War are well presented. The
state of affairs had been brought about, not by division of the people over the question of
the slavery party of the South, as many anti-
secession is notable; the contest was bitterly
slavery writers have indicated, but chiefly by waged, but, once committed to a policy, the
the original colonists, who fought for their State stood manfully by its position.
rights in the first place with no idea of imme. The more recent events, as well as many of
diate freedom. This is clearly established by the essays, have interest only for those vitally
documentary evidence which must be consid- concerned with the history of the State. How-
ered by future students of the question of ever, some of the special articles are noteworthy
slavery. However, there remains much to be contributions to the history of the Southwest.
done in the way of writing the complete history Examples are “ The Fredonian War,” « Official
of the sharp and bloody revolution which gave Documents, Laws, Decrees, and Regulations
Texas her independence. The Mexican version Pertaining to Austin's Colonies,” “ The Indian
of the matter, with the political history of the Tribes of Texas," "Spanish and Mexican Titles
colonies during the conflict and through the to Land in Texas, their Origin and History,
period of independent existence, offer tempting 1691–1835.” The last contribution, “ The
inducements to the investigator.
Results of Fifty Years of Progress in Texas,"
At the time of the revolution, Texas was is a fitting close to the history.
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have been varied a little with profit ; but lack weigh very much against the admirable accomplish-
of unity, from the nature of the case, could
ment of the book. The hero is a young man of
not have been avoided. The failure to cite,
The failure to cite, fine impulses set in the midst of a sordid society,
from page to page, the authorities and sources
and revolting with his whole soul against the gross
and selfish ideals that surround him on every hand.
drawn upon, detracts much from the worth of
His revolt is so extreme that he casts aside what are
the History. It must be said, too, that a few
monly considered “opportunities " for advance-
of the contributions are hardly more than
ment, and goes so far as to defy all the conventions
memoirs — but memoirs of much import. An by living without the customary legal sanctions in
ample index adds much to the convenience of company with the woman whom he loves. The
the reader. The two thousand pages of the story of his struggle for a living under these condi-
two volumes, with their three hundred and tions, and of the heroic act by which the woman, at
sixty-four illustrations, exbibit a neatness and last grown conscious that she is ruining his career,
finish which would do credit to any publishing
sacrifices her own life to set him free, is told with
house. In fine, the work as a whole marks
directness and simple pathos. He has learned at
last how hard it is to kick against the pricks, and is
an epoch in the making of Texas history.
ready to take up the life of external conformity
WALTER F. McCALEB.
without any abandonment of internal principle.
The scene is laid in Chicago, concerning which com-
munity the writer finds occasion to utter many
truths unpalatable to its inhabitants. That they
RECENT FICTION.*
are truths is undeniable to any disinterested ob-
When Mr. Robert Herrick published “ The Gos-
server; perhaps it is fair to say that they are not
pel of Freedom," a year or two ago, he gave evidence
sufficiently relieved by other truths of the more
of a degree of constructive skill and artistic sincerity
agreeable sort. Somehow the book leaves the impres-
that augured well for whatever future work he
sion of a society in which there is no such thing as
might produce. Up to that time his work had been purity of motive or elevation of soul; it is, as we
tentative and confined within narrow limits; he had
said before, the book of an impatient idealist, of a
undertaken nothing of really ambitious design. But
writer whose indignation has got the better of his
“The Gospel of Freedom at once gave him an
sympathies. We expect that Mr. Herrick will fall
assured place among our serious novelists, and sug.
into a mellower vein after a time, and thereby gain
a wider influence than he can expect to exert through
gested even finer powers than it exhibited. Of his
new novel, “ The Web of Life,” we are not justified a book like “The Web of Life,” with all its serious
in saying that it exhibits an advance upon the earlier
sincerity of purpose.
work, but it is safe to say that there has been no “ The Prelude and the Play,” by Mr. Rufus
retrogression. It is a strongly conceived domestic Mann, is a novel that may be coupled with the one
story, filled with earnestness and fine idealism. just now under discussion, although it is far inferior
Possibly the idealism is somewhat too impatient, in execution. The style is pretentious and affected;
and the earnestness too unrelieved by those lighter the elaboration of motive and analysis is greatly
touches that writers of more experience, however overdone. This novel also has its scene in Chicago
serious their ultimate purpose, usually contrive to at least in large part — and it also presents the
add; but these defects if such they be — do not contrast — although not so sharply — between the
*THE WEB OF LIFE. By Robert Herrick. New York: THE PRINCESS SOPHIA, A Novel. By E. F. Benson.
The Macmillan Co.
New York: Harper & Brothers.
THE PRELUDE AND THE PLAY. By Rufus Mann. Boston: JOAN OF THE SWORD HAND. By S. R. Crockett. New
Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
York: Dodd, Mead & Co.
UNLEAVENED BREAD. By Robert Grant. New York:
The ISLE OF THE WINDs. An Adventurons Romance. By
Charles Scribner's Sons,
S. R. Crockett. New York: Doubleday & McClure Co.
THE ACTION AND THE WORD. By Brander Matthews.
The Minx. By Mrs. Mannington Caffyn. New York:
New York: Harper & Brothers.
Frederick A. Stokes Co.
ROBERT TOURNAY. A Romance of the French Revolution.
By William Sage. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
FOLLY CORNER. By Mrs. Henry Dudeney. New York:
Henry Holt & Co.
THE BLACK TERROR. A Romance of Russia. By John A.
Leys. Boston: L. C. Page & Co.
THE KNIGHTS OF THE Cross. By Henryk Sienkiewicz,
THE TOUCHSTONE. By Edith Wharton. New York:
Second Volume. Translated by Jeremiah Curtin. Boston:
Little, Brown, & Co.
Charles Scribner's Sons.
SENATOR NORTH. By Gertrude Atherton. New York:
THE BARON's Sons. By Maurus Jokai. Translated by
John Lane.
Percy Favor Bicknell. Boston: L. C. Page & Co.
THE REBEL. By H. B. Marriott Watson. New York: CURRITA, COUNTESS OF ALBORNOZ. A Novel of Madrid
Harper & Brothers.
Society. By Luis Coloma. Translated by Estelle Huyck
A Kent SQUIRE. By Frederick W. Hayes. New York:
Atwell. Boston: Little, Brown, & Co.
The F. M. Lupton Publishing Co.
THE JOY OF CAPTAIN RIBOT. By A. Palacio Valdés.
Féo. A Romance. By Max Pemberton. New York: Translated by Minna Caroline Smith. New York: Bren-
Dodd, Mead & Co.
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ideal plane of life and the lower material plane. wbom all the interest centres, and who is 80 marked
“ These men here would n't be half bad if they an embodiment of the crudities, the self-deceptions,
could only forget their principles," is a remark made and the ill-directed aims that are characteristic of
by one of the characters, and we feel like applying many of our men and women alike, is a figure
it to the author himself. He is so intent upon prin- drawn with extraordinary intellectual detachment,
ciples that he altogether fails to give us character. and, it must be admitted, has little of the flesh and
ization, and there is not a figure in his book that blood that are needed to make such a figure really
seems really alive. A pretty enough sentiment vital. We follow her career with curious interest,
takes the place of passion, and the characters are but we feel all the time that she is a puppet, with
moved about like pawns on a chessboard ; we never the strings always in the author's hand. The vital
feel that they are moving themselves. We should characters of fiction do not leave us with this
add that it is dangerous to use French and Italian impression; they seem in a way to pass beyond the
words without knowing the languages. An Italian control of the writer, and to act of their own mo-
who said “non, signora” would be a curiosity, a tion. In this respect Mr. Grant's heroine is a failure,
woman cannot be épris, and there is no such mon- his book is a failure in this sense also, but it is
ster as a bête noir known to syntax.
nevertheless a remarkable piece of workmanship,
It is a far cry from " The Confessions of a Frivo- relatively speaking, and judged with reference to
“
lous Girl," a youthful indiscretion which Mr. Robert its limitations.
Grant now doubtless wishes were forgotten, to One of the many morals of Mr. Grant's novel is
“Unleavened Bread,” his latest work of fiction. It is that a man knows very little about his wife until
not so far a cry from his more recent chapters on they have been married for a considerable length
“ The Art of Living,” but even in this latter com- of time. This rather trite observation is enforced
parison the distance is considerable, being the dis- in Uoleavened Bread” with so much impressive-
tance between a light and superficial social philoso- ness that it gains a deeper meaning than it is wont
phy and a dissection of society that probes far to have. In “The Action and the Word,” the
beneath the surface and lays bare the nerves and latest novel of Mr. Brander Matthews, the idea is
arteries. “ Unleavened Bread,” considered as a again illustrated, although in this case it affords
story, is an account of the career of one ambitious matter for comedy rather than for tragedy, or even
woman; all of its other characters are of minor for serious dramatic effect. We have here the story
importance, and have little interest for us. Con- of a New York architect and his wife. The wife
sidered as a social study, the book is a quiet and is a charming woman with a marked aptitude for
effective satire upon American democracy, that is, amateur theatricals. Her acting wins such applause
upon the pretensions of the democratic spirit to that her head is almost turned, and she seems upon
reach valid conclusions by the aid of its own un- the point of abandoning domestic life for the ex.
tutored instincts, upon its tendency to substitute citements of the stage. Happily, her better judg- .
catchwords for ideas, and to be deceived by its own ment triumphs and she gives up the notion, but her
phrases. The satire is effective precisely because husband has been startled out of his complacency,
it is both quiet and restrained ; the writer is too and the novelist has been provided with the ma-
conscientious an artist to put violent colors upon his terial for a pretty story. The story is not deep,
Among the special subjects of his satire certainly, but it exhibits keen insight and deft work-
are the notions of art and of education, of society manship. It proves exceptionally entertaining,
and of politics, that prevail in our middle-class which is probably all that the writer expected of it.
American life. The notions of art, for example, “ Robert Tournay,” by Mr. William Sage, is a
that make our large cities a medley of incongruous conventional romance of the French Revolution, one
architectural styles and that erect grotesque statues of the many books that find their prototype in
in our public places ; the notions of education that “ Mademoiselle de la Seiglière.” There is the usual
place our schools in the hands of ignorant men and noble family, with its selfish aristocratic prejudices,
fill them with untrained teachers; the notions of and the usual fair daughter, who has a heart as
society that exalt showiness above refinement, and well as a title. There is also the usual man of the
extravagance above simplicity; the notions of poli-people, who dares to love the daughter of his aris-
tics that make sincerity an almost impossible virtue tocratic master, and to whom the Revolution brings
in public life and that blunt both the intellect and the usual opportunities for protecting the woman
the moral sense. This seems a rather heavy pro- whom he loves from her enemies, and for rescuing
gramme for a work of fiction, and the book itself, her from imminent death. As is usually the case
if not exactly heavy, certainly does not come within in novels of this sort, we are told about the destruc-
the category of light reading. It opens in a man- tion of the Bastile, the burning of a chateau, and
ner somewhat suggestive of such a book as the the horrors of a Republican noyade on the Loire.
“Modern Instance” of Mr. Howells, then it seems
We have also the familiar story of Republican vic-
to suggest something of the moralizing atmosphere tories on the frontier, and of the Terror in Paris.
of Mr. Warner's group of three novels, but in the Robespierre and Danton are both here, likewise the
final impression it stands out as a work of distinc- Conciergerie and the tumbrils and the guillotine.
tively original type. The ambitious woman about We have read it all many times before, but its in-
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terest seems perennial, and we have no fault to find cept this moral regeneration as a fact, and to for-
with the author for inviting us to read it again. give the offender as his own deceived wife forgives
When we are confronted with such a title as him in the end. In a word, the substance of this
“ The Black Terror: A Romance of Russia,” we at book is of a kind to repel rather than to attract ;
once know what to expect. There will be nihilists what does attract, and even fascinate, is the delicacy
and dungeons and conspiracies and reprisals and of texture and the distinction of style which the
brutal governors and sinister officers of the Third work exhibits.
Section. There will also be a lovely heroine who Whatever we may think of Mrs. Atherton's
will aid the hero in some hairbreadth escape. In “Senator North,” it would never occur to us to ac-
the case of the present novel, the work of Mr. John cord it the attributes of delicacy and distinction.
K. Leys, we are not disappointed in any of these In the place of the one it has a sort of rude energy ;
expectations, and we have besides the story of an in the place of the other it has a form of expression
ingenious plot, successfully carried out, to kidnap which is rough in sound and crude in coloring,
the Tsar, and keep him in close confinement until which is positively repellant to a refined sense.
he grants to his subjects the desired Constitution. is a sentence fairly representative of its style.
Mrs. Edith Wharton's second book of fiction is “In ordinary conditions politics are barely men-
not a collection of stories, like “ The Greater Incli- tioned when the most political city in the world is
nation,” but a single novel. Yet “ The Touchstone,” in evening dress, but war is a microbe.” The in-
although we must call it a novel, has really no more eptitude of that metaphor would be hard to match.
substance than one of the briefer sketches. It is Mrs. Atherton's novel deals with the social and po-
the story of a single incident, and of its iufluence litical life of Washington at the present day. The
upon the lives of a man and his wife. It is a story heroine is a young woman of aristocratic breeding,
that might easily have been told in fifty pages ; the who becomes weary of the whole empty round of the
hundred additional pages that are given us merely life of a self-styled “society," and who makes up her
serve to permit of a more detailed analysis of the mind to go in for politics. To the horror of her
situation created by a single thoughtless act. Yet family, she actually cultivates the acquaintance of
we would not spare from the story a single page, Representatives and Senators, and starts a sort of
for the writer's art is so exquisite that no one of salon for the furtherance of her new-found inter-
her pages seems superfluous, or fails in its contribu- ests. The one conspicuous result of this activity is
tion to the deep impressiveness of her psychological the fact that she falls in love with Senator North, a
study. If the book has a defect, that defect inust statesman of sixty, who has an invalid wife. This
be sought in the central conception, and not in the unnatural passion is reciprocated, and neither of
treatment. The hero has in his possession a great the two parties concerned seems to have any par-
many letters, of the most intimate character, written ticularly conscientious scruples, although both have
to him by a woman who had loved him all her life, a lively sense of the desirability of escaping dis-
but whom he had been incapable of loving in re- covery. In the end, the invalid wife opportunely
turn. That woman had become a famous writer, dies, and conventional morality is spared any further
and, after her death, anything that could throw outrage. Incidentally, the story makes much of two
light upon her personality was eagerly demanded matters of social and political interest. The former
by the public. The recipient of the letters, learning is the ostracism placed by American prejudice upon
of this demand, and for lack of money unable to any woman who has a drop of negro blood in her
marry the woman he loves, actually sells this sacred veing. This matter is dealt with in the most mor-
correspondence to a publisher, suppressing his own bid and sensational manner possible. The latter is
name, and thereby removes the obstacle to his mar- the state of affairs which led to our recent war with
riage. When he realizes what he has done he be- Spain, and in her treatment of this subject the
comes remorseful, and Mrs. Wharton's purpose is writer displays an unexpected sanity, and exhibits
to direct our attention to the workings of his con- a rather remarkable intellectual grasp of the situa-
science, to excite our sympathies for his sufferings. tion. Both the unreasoning frenzy which precipi- .
In this she is imperfectly successful, for it would tated that war, and the dangerous sequelae of its
tax the powers of the greatest novelist that ever conclusion, are set forth with an ethical perception
lived to be entirely successful in such a task. The that is entirely just, and that contrasts strikingly
act in question is so despicable that no motive with the other ethical ideals of the book.
would seem adequate for its justification, no cir- Mr. H. B. Marriott Watson's latest novel, “ The
cumstances could be found more than palliating in Rebel,” turns from the imaginary history wherein
the case of such an offense. Mrs. Wharton's treat- his invention has of late been exercised to the actual
ment of this theme is all that we might desire, but history of England in the time of Charles II. It
it cannot give us a genuinely sympathetic interest takes the form of a memoir of the fourth Earl of
in such a person as her hero. We cannot help feel- Cherwell, written by his cousin, and leading up to
ing that he deserves even more than he suffers, and an account of the rising at Taunton in 1684. The
we remain suspicious of any moral regeneration hero is a noble swashbuckler who has no hesitation
that is brought about by means of his remorse. Yet in setting the laws at defiance, and whose audacity
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well with the King, who has a certain admiration and no one will remember anything about it a year
for his recklessness, but he is the declared enemy afterwards.
of the Duke of York, whose shameful persecution of Mr. E. F. Benson, in “ The Princess Sophia,”
the heroine leaves him indeed no room for respect. again exhibits his versatility. The book may
be
The heroine is a gentle creature, who serves well described as standing midway between the frivolity
enough as a foil for her fiery and turbulent defender, of “ Dodo” and the seriousness of his two Greek
but who has otherwise slight claim upon our interest. novels. The new story is the next thing to being
It is needless to say that the Duke's villainy comes Greek itself, for it is about the principality of
to naught, and that the heroine is rescued from the Rhodope, which lies, “as everyone knows, on the
manifold perils that beset her. The plot of the wooded coast-line of Albania." It tells about the
narrative is at first confused and difficult to follow, politics of this extremely interesting imaginary
but the complications are gradually cleared away, State, and describes the attempt of Petros, the hus-
and it takes a straightforward course to the close. band of the Princess, acting as regent in ber ab-
The story is told forcibly and with brilliant ani- sence from the capital, to subvert the government,
mation.
and get secure possession of the reins of power.
Mr. Frederick W. Hayes is a new writer to us, The thwarting of this plot provides the story with
but he deserves well of the novel-reading public. a really thrilling climax, although the spirit of the
His “Kent Squire” is a historical romance of the book throughout is that of refined comedy rather
time of Queen Anne and the Duke of Marlborough. than of anything more serious. The interest of the
The latter personage figures prominently in the his- story is concentrated in the character of the Prin-
tory, and his duplicity is depicted with an unsparing cess, and her passion for gambling, which leads her
hand. French and Spanish political intrigue, as to the very brink of disaster, and which has a most
well as English, make up a large part of the his- demoralizing influence upon ber subjects.
torical substance of this highly exciting narrative.
Mr. S. R. Crockett has now close upon a score of
Indeed, the canvas is so crowded with figures and romances to his credit, and there is no reason why
dramatic situations that the reader becomes almost he should not make the number twoscore within a
dazed in his attempt to keep track of all the per- few years. He evidently writes with the ease of a
sonal and public interests at stake. That this task Dumas, and his invention never seems to flag. Two
proves too much for the writer himself is evident in of his books are now before us: one a romance of
the closing chapters, for with respect to some of its the fifteenth century, entitled “ Joan of the Sword
leading issues the story is not ended at all, it sim- Hand”; the other a more modern tale of his own
ply stops. Most of the incidents are legitimate Scotland and of the West Indies, entitled “The
enough for this sort of sensational romance, but Isle of the Winds.” Both stories abound in pic-
credulity is strained beyond the breaking-point when turesque incident and exciting adventure, both are
the hero reappears upon the scene after having been about as unreal as stories of the sort can possibly
hanged by the public executioner, and afterwards be, and both are fairly reeking with sentimentality.
,
suspended in chains upon the gibbet. So violent a The latter of the two has, we observe, been pre-
wrench to the feelings might have been spared us viously published with another title.
without serious difficulty, and we might also have In writing “ The Minx," Mrs. Mannington
been spared the apparition of the condemned man Caffyn has determined to be “smart” at any cost.
to his sweetheart some hundreds of miles away. Her epigrams bave the air of being profoundly
Aside from these two constructive defects, the story philosophical, and the conversation of her characters
is to be commended for both its invention and its fairly coruscates with in ctual brilliancy. She
acquaintance with the period in question. It is never permits one of them to express even a com.
evident that the writer has done a great deal of monplace idea without giving it a verbal turn that
"reading up" for his work, that he has delved into seems impressive until we look closely enough to
the memoirs of the age, instead of remaining content, detect its emptiness. In a word, the style of the
as most historical novelists do, with the superficial book is simply intolerable, and the story has not
knowledge of the text-books.
intrinsic interest enough to be worth disentangle-
Mr. Max Pemberton's “ Féo” is the romance of ment from all the verbiage which invests it. It is
a singer in French opera and an Austrian prince. about a young woman wbo takes life with intense
The heroine is the daughter of a decayed gentle- seriousness and does not know which of two lovers
man who cares for little save his own personal to accept. The one satisfies her intellectual ideals,
comfort, and is not above the meanness of trading but the other appeals to the just-awakening em
upon his daughter's beauty. The rank of the hero tional side of her nature. Eventually, the heart
naturally hedges him about with all sorts of barriers triumphs over the head, and her final choice rests
to the accomplishment of his wishes, and the story upon the warm-hearted fox-hunting country gentle-
tells us how he has his way in the end, in spite of all man whose whole way of looking at life stands in
the diplomatic locksmiths. It is a story of intrigues violent contrast to the abstract ideals which she has
and duels and abductions, a little melodramatic hitherto held sacred.
in manner, infused with sentiment, and sparkling A novel published last year by Mrs. Henry
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realism of the writer - both with respect to choice lated, and does not strain our credulity as much as
of subject and to treatment — in spite of the mani- some of its predecessors bave done.
fest power of the book. “ Folly Corner,” a second A few words about two recent translations from
story by the same writer, is less open to objection, the Spanish may be given in closing this review.
and it is possible for praise to balance blame, if not “Currita, Countess of Albornoz” is the work of a
actually to outweigh it. There is still much un- Jesuit priest, Señor Luis Coloma by name. It is a
necessary insistence upon unlovely and squalid novel of Madrid society about thirty years ago, and
details, and some unnecessary obtrusion of those is concerned with political intrigue as well as with
phases of life concerning which no writer can be the doings of the fashionable world. The author-
too reticent, but there is also a sombre power to ship of the work leads us to expect a strong infu-
envisage the tragical side of everyday life which sion of clericalism, in which we are not disappointed;
goes far to redeem the grossness of the writer's but the foremost aim of the novelist is to draw a
naturalism. We read this book with something of picture of social corruption rather than to play the
the feeling aroused by the later books of Mr. part of the avowed preacher, and he brings to this
Thomas Hardy, a feeling in which admiration for task the full equipment of an experienced observer
undeniable talent is all the time struggling with and a master of incisive and caustic speech. The
impatience of a perverse method. This suggestion work is rather shapeless as a whole, but it has much
of Mr. Hardy is no mere fancy, for he is certainly brilliant detail, and its moral lesson is made all the
the master whom Mrs. Dudeney would acknowledge sharper for being left rather implicit than out-
among the writers of to-day.
spoken. It is clear that we are all the time in con-
The second half of “Knights of the Cross," by tact with a richly cultured mind, and this gives so
Mr. Henryk Sienkiewicz, carries on the story of much satisfaction to the reader of discernment that
the struggle between Poland and the Teutonic the amateurish character of the artistic perform-
Knights, ending with the battle of Grünwald and ance may easily be overlooked. We could wish
the final overthrow of the Order. This climax is that a better English version of the work had been
not without impressiveness, yet its effect is far from given us. The translator seems to have a fair
equal to that of several episodes to be found in the knowledge of Spanish, but she is all at sea in the
author's earlier trilogy of Polish history. It does presence of the scholarly allusions and foreign
not begin to stir the blood as the siege of Chensto- proper names with which the novel is plentifully
hova, for example, stirs it. Nor does Zbyshko sprinkled.
make as satisfactory a hero as Kmita or Pan “ The Joy of Captain Ribot" is not only an in-
Michael. There is a great deal of fighting in the teresting novel, it is also a work of gracious and
book, but it grows rather monotonous, and is not exquisite art. Although it has for its theme the
diversified by such feats of individual prowess as love of a man for a woman already married, it is at
hold us spellbound in the romances of the earlier once so delicate and so noble in its treatment that
series. Nor is there any figure for a moment com- the author's own claim is justified when he calls it,
parable with that of Zagloba, which must stand as in a private letter, “a protest from the depths
the greatest of the author's creative triumphs. It against the eternal adultery of the French novel.”
is only in comparison with the author's own best For the "joy” of its hero is not so much in his
that the present romance suffers.
Were it our love as in the moral triumph which keeps that love
introduction to his genius, we should find it difficult unsullied, and rises victorious above every tempta-
to praise sufficiently the historical pageant which it tion. So clean and wholesome a work rarely comes
unfolds, its simple strong-souled figures swayed by to us from a novelist of Latin race; its idealism
primitive passions, its brilliant invention, and its makes not the slightest compromise with evil, and
racy humor.
But all of these things are exhibited in its spirituality there is no base admixture. Yet
to much better advantage in the great trilogy, and with all this exultation of sentiment, the story is
we fear that Mr. Sienkiewicz will not again reach convincingly real; it is a story of everyday people,
the level of that colossal work.
and of life unfalsified by rose-colored glasses. Mr.
Still another of Mr. Jokai's novels has been Howells is entirely right when he describes the
translated for us, the selection this time being “ The book as "a novel of manners, the modern manders
Baron's Sons," and the translator Mr. Percy Favor of provincial Spain ”; and when he adds that
Bicknell. Some abridgements have been made, for “while we were spoiling our prostrate foe, I wish
which a very lame excuse is offered, but otherwise we could have got some of these,” he expresses a
the translation is satisfactory. The story is con. feeling that must be stirring in many an American
cerned with the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, and conscience, now that we are starting on the painful
combines the use of historical material with domestic path of recovery from our national military de-
incidents in a happy and interesting fashion. The bauch. It is certainly difficult to find words ad-
thread of the narrative is a little difficult to follow, equate to express the admirable qualities of this
which is probably due in part to the liberties taken latest of the novels of Señor Valdés, or of the
by the translator. On the whole, the story is one genius of the nation that can boast the possession
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is the “ Outline History of English and American
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
Literature” (American Book Co.) written by Dr.
We have had, of recent years, some Charles F. Johnson. The writer's object has been
New text-books in
English literature.
fairly satisfactory text-books in En-
“to compress into this book the minimum of what
glish literature, but there is room
every young person should know of the literature
for improvement in the best of them, and we are of his own country and England, even if his educa-
glad to observe the appearance of several new com- tion is strictly scientific.” The author recognizes
petitors for the favor of educators. Among the ten periods in the history of English literature, but
many books upon this subject which we have exam-
preserves the sense of proportion in dealing with
ined, we are inclined to give the palm to the “History the writers of each of the periods. In spite of the
of English Literature” (American Book Co.) re- fact that he deals with both English and American
cently prepared by Mr. Reuben Post Halleck. For
literature in a single volume, he finds room for
selection and arrangement of material, for usefulness
numerous extracts, many of them of considerable
of pictorial illustration, and for its happy faculty of length. The book is remarkably well written, and
saying just the right thing about a given author or
will be welcomed by teachers who find their English
work, it would be difficult to improve upon this courses unduly limited by the pressure of other
text. It provides a continuous and interesting his subjects upon the curriculum.
tory of our literature, and contrives to keep a
middle course between the dry summary on the
John Adams, the New England
Memoirs of a
one hand, and the discursive essay on the other. New England schoolmaster, was a man of the old
The writer believes thoroughly in teaching the his-
schoolmaster.
school” both in character and educa.
tory of the subject as well as in taking up the study tional methods. Born in 1772 and dying in 1863,
of individual works. He justly says: “ Various his life touched the two greatest of our national
masterpieces seem like unconnected islands in an experiences, and covered the period of our estab-
unexplored ocean. There is no way of making lishment as an independent and united nation.
these masterpieces seem otherwise except by teach. Through his influence upon thousands of young men
ing the history and development of the literature of who, at Phillips Academy, at Andover, and other
which they form a part." The apparatus of this schools, were under his care, Mr. Adams bore an
book, with its directions for required and optional honorable part in the work of upbuilding the country.
reading and its suggestive questions and exercises, The list of prominent men trained at Andover dur-
is remarkably good. One feature of particular in- ing the twenty-two years he was its principal is a
terest is the literary map of England which serves long one. Oliver Wendell Holmes was one of them,
as a frontispiece. We take great pleasure in com- and has given in his verses many pictures of the
mending this work to the attention of teachers.—A life there. He refers to Mr. Adams in the well-
literary map also accompanies the “ History of known lines :
English Literature" (Sibley & Ducker) which “Uneasy lie the heads of all that rule,
Professor F. V. N. Painter has recently published.
His most of all whose kingdom is a school.”
This book is an expansion of the writer's earlier While Mr. Adams will be chiefly remembered as
“ Introduction,” and deals at length with nearly principal of Andover Academy, to many he is an
twice as many authors. Eight periods are recog-
Eight periods are recog- interesting figure as the father of the brilliant New
nized, and to each of them a considerable chapter York minister, Reverend William Adams; to others,
is devoted. The method employed is that of writing as a pioneer missionary of the S. S. Union in Illi-
an essay upon each period as a whole, and then nois ; to others still, as one of the original circle of
dealing in considerable detail with a few selected philanthropists from whose labors grew the Amer-
writers. Thirty-two authors altogether, from ican Tract Society and the Temperance movement.
Chaucer to Ruskin, are thus singled out for some- He was a man of profound religious convictions and
what elaborate treatment. This method has the a high sense of spiritual obligations. His character
obvious defect of giving other great writers much had no complexity or uncertainties. It was built
less than their due in the history of our literature. about one simple all-controlling quality, “ devoted-
We cannot entirely approve of a work that relegates ness to duty"; it had but one simple unchanging
Fielding in the Queen Anne period, Burke in the aim, to serve God and his generation. Contact
Johnsonian period, and Keats in the Romantic with such a nature, in life or in books, is refreshing.
period, to the position of minor writers. The au- In bringing before the reader this strong and useful
thor's style is too discursive to be in the best sense life, the authors of the well-written memoir of Mr.
practical. His essays make pleasant reading, but Adams recently published (Scribner) give also an
they do not make the most satisfactory sort of entertaining and valuable picture of the character.
teaching material. He is the kind of writer, more- istics and educational methods of a New England
over, who speaks of “female poets," and who calls academy. It is this portrayal, together with the in-
Byron" immoral.” Such infelicities of diction and teresting associations of his long life, that give to
characterization have a slightly jarring effect, and this memoir more than a private value. The book
do not commend the writer to persons of nice judg- is noticeably well printed and bound, and evinces
ment. — A third recent text-book upon this subject | good taste throughout.
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The volume of 6 Liberty Poems” ments having for their purpose the improvement of
Latter-day
Liberty poems.
(James H. West Co.), which has the condition of criminals and unfortunates, and in
been compiled in the interest of the this capacity he has been interested in National
anti-imperialist agitation, ought to prove an effective Congresses of Charities and Corrections, National
auxiliary in the cause of justice and public morality, Prison Congresses, and in many state movements.
now at stake as only once before in the history of The most valuable chapters in the volume are those
our country. It is a collection of about seventy-five which are taken up with discussions of these mat-
pieces of verse, written by various hands in various ters. For the most part, the life described is that
manners, and inspired by a common indignation at of the average man, who, as school-teacher, lawyer,
the attempted subversion of the fundamental prin. or soldier, plays well bis part in the social circles
ciples of our government. We wish it were possible of his home city, is bonored and respected by his
to say that all of these poems rose to the height of neighbors and friends, and by reason of years of
their great occasion. But most of them belong to faithful adherence to the principles of right living
the category of newspaper verse, hastily written by makes himself a place in his day and generation.
persons having no special aptitude for the poetic The story will, of course, have most interest for
art. If Lowell and Whittier and Emerson were those who bave known the author during his long
still alive, a very different collection would be and useful life.
possible ; for who could doubt that their voices
Summary of the
A summary, in chronological order,
would again be raised in behalf of human freedom, jurisprudence of the principal features of the juris-
as they were so effectively raised fifty years ago? of the world.
prudence of the leading peoples of
As it is, very few of the names signed to these the world, has been prepared by Professor Guy
pieces have any literary significance whatever. The Carleton Lee, of Johus Hopkins University, and
best poems in the collection are Mr. William Lloyd published under the title Historical Jurispru-
Garrison's thirteen sonnets, Mr. W. C. Gannett's dence” (Macmillan). Finding “the foundations
“At the Peace Congress," Miss Baskam's “ The of law” in the jurisprudence of Babylonia, Egypt,
Voice of the Lord,” and a selection from Mr. Israel, and India, the author exhibits “the develop-
William Vaughn Moody's noble “ Ode in Time of ment of jurisprudence” as displayed in the Roman
Hesitation.” We must find room for one quotation, systems of law, to which over a third of his less
and it shall be Mr. Garrison's tribute to Governor than two hundred pages are appropriately devoted.
Boutwell, that venerable and venerated statesman, The great work of Justinian is explained at some
the representative of à vanishing type, who has de- length, and the projections of the Roman Law into
clared himself with no uncertain voice to stand mediæval times are illustrated under the titles of
upon the side of Washington and Jefferson and the “Canon Law" and the “ Barbarian Codes."
Lincoln in the present crisis :
The survival of the elaborate Roman system in
“Not thine the sadness of an outlived fame,
modern times is traced into the laws of the western
Nor fate to lag superfluous on the stage :
continental states of Europe, and the laws of Scot-
Thou addest only strength to ripest age,
And lustre to a lifelong honored name.
land, in which it secured permanent position. The
In a degenerate day, when public shame
book closes with an account of the introduction of
And private avarice stain the nation's page,
the principles of the civil law into the jurisprudence
When sordid ends the growing youth engage, of England. From the evidences of customary law
Thy burning words are like a torch of flame.
New England glories in thy manhood rare,
furnished by the unearthed contract-tablets of Baby-
Which, breaking party shackles, stands erect
lonia, to the early commentaries on the law of
And breathing deeply of diviner air,-
England, runs the curriculum of this new study in
Enrolls thy name among the great elect.
jurisprudence, on the comparative historical plan.
Thy topmost boughs the richest leafage bear,
The book is full of meat, and though intended as
Thy latest fruit compels the world's respect."
"an introduction to the systematic study of the de-
The records of
One who is interested in genealogical velopment of law” (see title-page) it will prove of
much interest to all students of general history.
a long and investigations learns to avail himself
useful life.
of all sorts of scraps of information.
The memories of a man who has
He also has frequent occasion to express regret that
lived much and has the art of telling
of a busy life.
some individual who knew many facts of family
about it gracefully can hardly fail to
history died without leaving any record of them. be entertaining. Mr. H. Sutherland Edwards, in
It is not every genealogist, however, who is able to his “ Personal Recollections” (Cassell), bas given
write the story of his own life, in order that no fu- us the record of a long and rich experience, and has
ture family historian may have occasion to blame told the tale with an easy flow of narrative that
him for omitting to preserve details of possible in- takes one swiftly and pleasantly from story to story.
terest to descendants. The love of genealogy led Mr. Edwards has clearly enjoyed living, for other-
to the publication, by General Roeliff Brinkerhoff, wise the incidents that gave life form and color for
of Mansfield, Ohio, of his “ Recollections of a Life- him could not have impressed themselves upon
bis
time" (Robert Clarke Company). For years Mr. memory with such sure distinctness, they are so
Brinkerhoff has been a recognized leader of move- many and sometimes so slight. Occasionally a
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a
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a memorial.
For those who
sudden transition to the inconsequential gives the Spalding is no narrow churchman or pedant, and
reader an unpleasant sensation. “I have no doubt the breath of the larger needs of life and its larger
that the military type-setter was well paid. Herzen activities gives a bracing atmosphere to the volume.
In the opening essay, which gives its title to the
he had book, there is perhaps the finer flavor, a suggestion
himself a voice like a bell, musical and sonorous.” of Emerson in style and hardly less in the quality
But perhaps these things merely authenticate the of rapt prescience in the mysteries of life and its
record to something more than artificiality in the possibilities. There are eight chapters in all, rang-
glow of a fresh and lively remembrance. Mr. ing in theme from “ The University, A Nursery of
Edwards's memories, as he makes note of them, are the Higher Life” and “Goethe as Educator's to
largely of persons rather than events, — artists, “Empire or Republic.” This last address, and the
musicians, statesmen, Russian, and Italian revolu- one preceding it in the book, are words for the
tionaries, actors and managers. Tennyson and times to give us thoughtful pause; but for that
Browning figure in the pages, von Bülow, Wagner, reason, it may be, their literary charm is perhaps
Verdi, Macready, Lewes, Reade, Thackeray, and a less distinct and enjoyable. For its stimulus to the
host of lesser men of various abilities and more or living of the life that is worth while, for its clear
less interesting personalities. Douglas Jerrold's and wholesome doctrine of optimistic endeavor,
caustic wit and the more genial pleasantries of packed to almost epigrammatic fulness, the little
others known to fame brighten the pages abun- volume is well worth reading and well worth having
dantly, and the running comment on men and man- at hand for the idle moment when a page or two of
ners that makes up the thick volume has the sparkle kindly wisdom is a pleasing tonic.
of brilliant conversation, if it has also at times the
scrappiness into which such conversation may lapse.
The Catholic Apostolic movement has
There is in the book no serious dealing with the men
passed more and more into obscurity.
and women upon whose lives it touches, but in
It was one of the movements which
anecdote and in side-lights upon character it is dis-
never greatly appealed to the popular mind or
tiņctly rich and entertaining.
heart. But it appealed to many rare minds and
noble characters, of whom a memorial volume on
It was the “Father of Angling' William Watson Andrews (Putnam ) recalls one.
go a-fishing.
who long ago remarked on the diffi- William Watson Andrews was the Congregational
culty of teaching "the Art of Catch-
minister of Kent, Connecticut, when he came under
ing Fish, that is to say, how to make a Man that
the influence of the new teaching and found him-
was none, to be an Angler by a book.” Never- self in growing sympathy with it. He believed that
theless, Isaak Walton has left us a piscatorial it was the will of God to meet the needs of the
well as a literary classic. But the “Compleat time by a revival of the Apostolate. Nothing could
.
Angler” was written for other lands and days.
be of a finer spirit than the words in which he
Americans who love and practice this fascinating finally asked dismission from the church in which
form of recreation will find Mr. McCarthy's vol- he had been reared. The same spirit seemed only
ume on “ Familiar Fish” (Appleton) replete from to be heightened by the adversities and isolation
cover to cover with fisherman's lore from the pen which followed his entrance into the new fold. He
of one of their successful confreres. Mr. McCarthy never gained the ear of the public, nor was he
writes with the spirit of the true sportsman, and greatly successful in propagating the new creed, but
those who would learn the art will find in his book throughout his life his was a friendship prized by
a sympathetic account of the life and haunts of our
some of the foremost of our intellectual and spirit-
fresh-water game fish. Details of rods and tackle, ual leaders, and in that circle he was always a
and counsel as to fly-casting, with suggestions for power by reason of his personality, his learning,
outfits and for the conduct of camp-life, make the and his great spiritual gifts. The memorial volume
book a valuable one for all campers and sportsmen. is an interesting and valuable one.
The ichthyological references have been supervised
by President David Starr Jordan, whose facile pen
It is always a pleasure to record the
also contributes a prefatory note which discusses in Mr. Murray's appearance of the successive volumes
the raison d'étre of angling and the comparative
edition of Byron.
of Mr. Murray's excellent edition of
ethics of " hog-fishing” and piscatorial prevarica-Byron (Scribner). The volume before us, the third
“
tions.
of the poetry, contains the metrical tales which
The meditations of
It is a volume of sound and thought- confirmed Byron's fame after the great success of
a prelate and a ful
and addresses that Bishop “Childe Harold,” together with the miscellaneous
student of affairs. Spalding presents us under the gen. pieces of the same period. The numerous notes
eral title of “Opportunity, and Other Essays” gratifyingly confirm one's impression of the taste,
(McClurg). Showing on every page the marks of vigilance, and precision of Mr. Coleridge, who is
the scholar and the thinker, they are vitalized by earning the admiration of students and the grati-
the fine earnestness of a broad vision of life and a tude of the poet's lovers. This volume contains six
noble enthusiasm for the good it has to offer. Bishop | full-page illustrations, the most interesting of these
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"best book" in
6.
being a reproduction of Hayter's handsome drawing anxious queries that rise to the lips of the unpro-
of Mrs. Leigh (“ Augusta"). The qualities of this tected female tourist after she is fairly “in the
edition we have enlarged upon in preceding num- thick of it " are answered in advance in a most
bers of THE DIAL: they are such that it must practical and satisfactory way. As the author states
supersede all others, irrespective of the considerable it, the book is “ intended especially for the use of
amount of new material it contains. We wish Mr.
women, to suggest what they had better take with
Coleridge good speed in the great task of editing them in going abroad for the first time, and to tell
“Don Juan,” which he regards as Byron's "great- them how they can get about most comfortably
est work.” The illustration of a poem so wide- after landing.” Special chapters deal with travel
ranging and various must severely tax the resources in England, France, Germany, and Italy, respect-
of the most accomplished editor.
ively ; and there is a table of well-selected useful
foreign phrases. In short, the woman who has
King Alfred's
The coming year is the millenary of
mastered the contents of this little manual may
the death of King Alfred, and to its
modern English. celebration Mr. Walter John Sedge with a comparatively light heart.
venture on the unknown sea of European travel
field makes a highly acceptable contribution by
publishing, through the Oxford University Press, a
An account of
Spencer and Spencerism" (Double-
modern English translation of “ King Alfred's Herbert Spencer day, Page & Co.) is the title of a
Version of the Consolations of Boethius." Mr.
and his system. useful little volume of 233 pages,
Sedgefield has previously edited the Old English wherein Mr. Hector Macpherson essays not only
text of this “ best book” of the King of the West “to present to the general reader Spencerism in
Saxons, and his present work is thus a sort of sup-lucid, coherent shape,” but to convey in outline
plement to his earlier one. The alliterative verses some knowledge of the career and personality of
of the original are reproduced in Old English metre, the author of the system. The book was under-
and printed together at the end of the volume. In taken with Mr. Spencer's approval; and while it
the body of the text, the editor has distinguished by is, as it should be, the work of a disciple of his, it
means of italics the additions made by Alfred to the is not that of a slavish one. Mr. Macpherson is a
work of the Roman philosopher. This is a particu. good expositor, and something more than an ex-
larly interesting feature of the translation, for it positor, his work showing throughout a rather critical
enables us to follow the very workings of Alfred's bias --- a tendency to collate and classify philosoph-
mind as he labored for the instruction and moral ical ideas, as well as merely to elucidate them and
welfare of his subjects. The editor's introduction simplify the form of their original expression. As
is valuable, and includes specimen extracts from the an essay in Spencerism, the book is decidedly sug-
preceding English versions of Boethius.
gestive, and the general reader will find it helpful
Neroly ediled
Professor W. P. Ker has put all
on its expository side.
critical writings students of English literature, and
Educators will note with interest the
of John Dryden. especially of English criticism, in his
A pedagogue
of long ago.
appearance of a life of the late “ Joel
debt by editing the “ Essays of John Dryden" for
Dorman Steele” (Barnes), by Mrs.
the Oxford University Press. The work occupies George Archibald. Dr. Steele made his mark in
two volumes, and includes the bulk of Dryden's life as a popular instructor and successful adminis-
critical writings, together with a commentary and trator, as well as the author of a series of text-books
extensive notes. “ It is not meant to take the place upon the merits of which opinion is still divided.
of Scott or of Malone ; but may serve as a conven- Mrs. Archibald's life is the uncritical and affec-
ient book for reference, to be used especially by ionate tribute of an ex-pupil to a master to wbom
such readers as are interested in criticism and the she was personally much attached ; and it is pre-
history of criticism, and who may be glad to have fixed by an autobiographical fragment outlining its
Dryden's critical opinions put before them in a author's career down to about 1867. From the
form adapted for ready consultation and compari- book may be gathered passim passages indicating
son.” In all cases but one, the text has been col- Dr. Steele's somewhat original notions as to quelling
lated with the original editions ; but the editor has the “old Adam” and sowing the seeds of virtue
thought it best to modernize the spelling and give and knowledge in the youthful mind. “Pedagogue"
uniformity to the punctuation. The scholarship of is writ large (and somewhat repellantly) on the
the author of “ Epic and Romance” needs no cer- portrait which forms the frontispiece.
tificate, and it is a matter of course that he has
A translation from the German, by
done his editorial work in an admirable way.
of Judaism.
Henrietta Szold, of Volume I., which
For unprotected
The American woman going abroad
constitutes Part I., of “The Ethics
American toomen for the first time and without a man of Judaism,” by Professor M. Lazarus of the Uni-
going abroad.
to look after her will find the little versity of Berlin, is issued in presentable form by
book entitled “European Travel for Women” The Jewish Publication Society of America (Pbila-
(Macmillan), by Mary Cadwallader Jones, worth delphia). The remaining three volumes of the
,
its weight in gold. In it the thousand and one work are to be published at regular intervals. The
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present volume is divided into three chapters re-
NOTES.
spectively headed, “On the Sources of Jewish
Ethics," "The Principle of Jewish Ethics," "The Shakespeare's “ Julius Cæsar," edited by Dr. G. C. D.
Character of Jewish Ethics." Dr. Lazarus's treat- Odell, is an English text recently published by Messrs.
ment of his theme is strictly objective and scientific, Longmans, Green, & Co.
and his work bids fair to supply when completed,
“ An Epitome of the New Testament,” in the Greek
through its portrayal of the inner life of Judaism,
text, bas been prepared by Professor Nicholas J.
a needed supplement to the monumental History of
Stoffel, of Notre Dame University, and is issued from
Graetz.
the press of that institution.
Daudet's Kings in Exile,” translated by Miss
Katharine Prescott Wormeley, has been published by
Messrs. Little, Brown, & Co., in an edition uniform
BRIEFER MENTION.
with their other novels by this author.
The source extracts from American history, prepared
The first number of a little periodical to be called
by Professor Howard W. Caldwell, of the University of
“ Noon,” devoted to the reprinting of popular and
“ famous” poetry, will be issued early this month by
Nebraska, and published by Mr. J. H. Miller, have
Mr. William S. Lord of Evanston, Ill.
frequently received our commendation, and we are now
glad to have the entire collection bound up in a single
The Macmillan Co. have just sent us a new edition
volume. The volume includes two series of ten num-
of “Elizabeth and Her German Garden," containing
bers each, their respective subjects being “ A Survey of
something like fifty pages of new matter, and intended
American History” and “ American Territorial Devel-
by the writer to be the final form of the work.
opment.” The latter series comes down to the present
An historical essay on “ The Hiding of the Charter,"
year, and includes extracts from State papers and other
by Mr. Charles J. Hvadly, is announced as the second
sources bearing upon the inglorious war of subjugation
publication of the Acorn Club of New Haven, au asso-
in which the country of Washington and Lincoln is now
ciation organized for the purpose of issuing works bear-
engaged.
ing on the history and literature of Connecticut.
To most English readers, Joseph Glanvill is nothing
Volumes XI. and XII. of the “Cornell Studies in
more than a name, the name of an obscure English
Classical Philology" (Macmillan) have just been pub-
writer of the seventeenth century, from whom Matthew
lished. The former is an “ Index in Xenophontis
Arnold got the story of “The Scholar Gypsy." Those
Memorabilia,” prepared by Misses Catharine M. Gloth
who wish to make his further acquaintance may now
and Mary F. Kellogg; the latter is “ A Study of the
be directed to a monograph prepared by Dr. Ferris
Greek Pæan," the work of Dr. Arthur Fairbanks.
Greenslet in pursuance of his study for a degree at
“Rome: Its Rise and Fall," by Dr. Philip Van Ness
Columbia University. This monograph, published for Myers (Ginn), is an expansion of the author's smaller
the University by the Macmillan Co., is the first number text-book of Roman history into a volume of over five
in a new series of “Studies in English.” We cannot hundred pages, with many maps and other illustrations.
commend too highly the practice of this University in The success long since achieved by Dr. Myers as a
publishing these dissertations in the form of ordinary writer of text-books guarantees the scholarship and the
books. The present volume is thoroughly creditable to practical usefulness of tbis new work.
the department whence it issues, and a valuable contri- It is announced that the reorganization of the affairs
bution to the history of English literature.
of Messrs. D. Appleton & Co. is practically completed,
A moderate sized volume of “ Selected Writings of that all their obligations bave been or shortly will be
Isaac M. Wise,” prefixed by a hundred pages of biog-
met in full, and that their business will go on with the
rapby, the joint work of David Philipson and Louis old management and on an efficient financial basis.
Grossman, is published under the auspices of the Alum- This announcement will be gratifying to the friends of
nal Association of the Hebrew Union College, by the this old and honorable house, and to the American
Robert Clarke Co. Dr. Wise was for over half a cen. book trade generally.
tury a conspicuous figure in American Jewish life, and The “ International Catalogue of Scientific Litera-
the writings selected for the present volume may be ture" is now well under way, and publication will be-
pronounced as representative of their author's style and gin next year. Seventeen subjects will be comprised,
opinions, as they are thoughtful, public-spirited, and and a volume for each subject will be ready some time
earnest. There are half a dozen illustrations which during the year. The price of subscription is £17, and
acceptably crown this worthy memorial volume. the Smithsonian Institution will receive applications
Two new volumes in the “ Famous Scots Series " from this country. Three hundred sets must be sub-
(Scribner) are Mr. Edward Pennington's "Sir David scribed for in order to secure the production of this
Wilkie" and Mr. A. R. MacEwen's « The Erskines." work, and the forty-five sets allotted to the United
The particular Erskines treated of by Mr. MacEwen States should be taken up without delay.
were the brothers Ebenezer and Ralph, famous in the Mr. J. R. Tutin's “ Concordance" to FitzGerald's
annals of the Scotch church in the eighteenth century. translation of Omar, published by the Macmillan Co.,
The early history of the Secession church, of which seems to us to be the very acme of useless labor. A
Ebenezer Erskine was the founder, may be read in out- Concordance is a work which helps us to find a striking
line in Mr. MacEwen's scholarly little book. The life word or phrase in a voluminous writer, and we often
of Wilkie forms an interesting story in itself, as well as find such a work useful; but we cannot conceive of the
an important chapter in the history of British art; and existence of persons who will wish to know exactly how
Mr. Pennington tells it well and with due discrimina- many times, and in wbat places, FitzGerald used such
tion, quoting the critics pro and con, and holding the words as “and” and “the” in the several editions of
balance pretty fairly between them.
his slender sheaf of quatrains.
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Art Education for Men. C. N. Flagg. Atlantic.
Austria, Constitutional Crisis in. Maurice Baumfeld. Forum.
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