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TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS.
October, 1900.
Alcohol, Physiological Effects of. W. 0. Atwater. Harper.
Arctic Highlanders, The Walter A. Wyckoff. Scribner.
Atlantic Union, The. Sir Walter Besant, Forum.
British General Election, The. Henry W. Lucy. Forum.
Bryan and the Trusts. F.S. Monnett. Review of Reviews.
Bryan Policy for the Philippines. E.M. Shepard. Rev. of Revs.
Bryan's Financial Policy. Review of Reviews.
Campaign, Paramount Issues of. J. P. Dolliver. Forum.
China, Future of. Charles Denby. Forum.
China, The Crisis in. James B. Angell. Atlantic,
Chinese Resentment, The. H. H. Lowry. Harper.
Coal Supremacy of the U.S. E. S. Meade. Forum.
Cuba, Plea for the Annexation of.. "A Cuban," Forum.
Cuba, Why It Should be Independent. C. W. Currier. Forum.
Democratic Party, Significance of. A.D. Morse. International.
Dixie, Afloat in. Allan Hendricks. Lippincott.
Education, New, Old-Fashioned Doubts About. Atlantic.
Farming, Western, Seven Lean Years of. Atlantic.
First Dynasty Kings, Finding. H. D. Rawnsley. Atlantic.
Flowers of Fall. Eben E. Rexford. Lippincott.
Froebel, Friedrich, Philosophy of. Rudolf Eucken. Forum.
Geology, Recent Progress in. A. C. Lawson. International.
Golf in America, Rise of. Prince Collier. Rev. of Reviews.
Immigrants, Our, and Ourselves. Kate Claghorn. Atlantic.
Italy, The New. Salvatore Cortesi. International.
Jamaica as Lesson in Colonial Government. Rev. of Reviews.
Leiter, Mary Victoria. Virginia T. Peacock. Lippincott.
Maize Kitchen at Paris, Lesson of. Forum.
Martineau, Some Letters of. Atlantic,
Menpes, Mortimer, Chalmers Roberts. Harper.
Music, The Quest after. Mary B. Hinton, Atlantic.
Needlecraft, American, Plea for. Ada Sterling. Atlantic.
Negro Problem in the South. 0. W. Underwood. Forum.
New Zealand, Recent Events in. John Christie. Atlantic.
Odors, Autumnal. Charles C. Abbott. Lippincott.
Party Government, Need of. George F. Hoar. International.
Piazza Philosophy. Martha B. Dunn. Atlantic.
Pretoria, Last Days of. Richard H. Davis. Scribner.
Puerto Rico, Education in. Victor S. Clark. Forum.
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A New Study of the Sonnets of Shakespeare. By
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Gugliemo Shakespeare: Il Poeto e l'Uomo. Federico
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Essays on Nature and Culture. By Hamilton Wright
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Later Love Letters of a Musician. By Myrtle Reed,
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Heaven's Distant Lamps: Poems of Comfort and Hope.
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The Private Memoirs of Madame Roland. Edited, with
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Recollections of a Missionary in the Great West. By
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Napoleon III. at the Height of his Power, By Imbert
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OCTOBER 16, 1900. Vol. XXIX. Mr. Stedman a debt of deep gratitude for his
loyal devotion to the interests of the poetry of
CONTENTS.
our own time, and for the painstaking industry
which, having previously supplemented the
A CENTURY OF AMERICAN VERSE
. 257
« Victorian Poets with “ Victorian An.
thology,” has in like fashion supplemented the
MEMOIRS OF AN AMERICAN HISTORIAN.
E. G. J. .
“ Poets of America ” with the “ American An.
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thology” which is now, after much vexatious
A GREAT LADY OF NEW ENGLAND. Mary
delay, placed in our hands.
Augusta Scott
In this portly volume of close upon a thou-
THREE BOOKS ABOUT RUSKIN. William
sand pages we have a representation of the
Morton Payne
264
poetical activity of the national period of our
Mrs. Meynell's John Ruskin. — Spielmann's John
Ruskin.- De La Sizeranne's Ruskin and the Religion
history, beginning with the lyrics of Freneau,
of Beauty.
and ending with the work of certain of our
THE WORLD'S WHEAT PROBLEM. E. T. Peters 266
younger men - graduates of the last few years
for whom a single line constitutes the ap-
SOME RECENT BOOKS OF TRAVEL
267
pended biographical note. By actual count,
Cook's Through the First Antarctic Night. - Miss
Savory's A Sportswoman in India. – Wilcox's The
the number of writers whose work receives
Rockies of Canada. – Osborn's Greater Canada. – illustration is five hundred and seventy-one, of
Austin's Spring and Autumn in Ireland. - Miss Cad-
all degrees of majority and minority. No an-
dick's A White Woman in Central Africa. - Car-
penter's South America. - Fricker's The Antarctic thologist can hope to satisfy all of his critics,
Regions.
and in the present case some fifty or a hun-
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS
dred additional names might easily be sug-
270
Character and tendencies of world politics. — A doc- gested — by others than those who bear them
tor's discourse on Quackery. - Romance and history
— as worthy of inclusion ; but this easy sort
of Old Oregon. More of the conversations of
Bismarck. - An Epic Tragedy. - Humors of a hard
of fault-finding is no part of our purpose, and
apostolate. — The drama and theatre of Japan. we are quite sure that no other hand could
The problems of public finance. - A master printer
have performed Mr. Stedman's task with equal
on printing types.
skill, sympathy, and nice discernment, that no
BRIEFER MENTION.
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other mind could have been found so richly
NOTES
273 stored with the knowledge of the subject
requisite for the making of such a collection.
LIST OF NEW BOOKS .
273
If some small proportion of the contents seem
undeserving of the distinction here conferred
we shall do well to take heed of the editorial
A CENTURY OF AMERICAN VERSE.
hint that “humble bits, low in color, have
Among the publications of the present year, values of juxtaposition, and often bring out to
including those that have already seen the light full advantage bis more striking material.”
and those promised for the near future, there And the editor forestalls critics of the carping
is none of greater importance or more perma. type by himself quoting Nathaniel Ward's
nent value to the readers of this country than couplet - which might else be quoted against
—
the “ American Anthology” with which Mr. him to the effect that
Stedman has crowned his quarter-century's “Poetry's a gift wherein but few excel,
work for the appreciation and illustration of
He doth very ill that doth not passing well.”
the English poetry of our modern age. In the After much hesitation and tentative experi.
performance of that work, criticism and selec- ment, Mr. Stedman determined upon a chrono-
tion have gone hand in hand, and the insight logical rather than a classified arrangement
which bas produced the best systematic valua- for the present volume. The Victorian poets
tions of our nineteenth century verse has also “crystallize into groups, each animated by a
provided us with what are incomparably the master, or made distinct by the fraternization
best treasuries into which the finer effiorescence of poets with tastes in common.”
of that verse have been collected. We owe of America, on the other hand, do not lend
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themselves to such a system of grouping, ex- Browning, Arnold, Rossetti, Morris, and Mr.
cept in a few cases. There is, no doubt, a cer- Swinburne. The best dozen of our American
tain unity in the methods and the endeavor of poets are probably Bryant, Emerson, Holmes,
the academic group that we associate with the Longfellow, Lowell, Poe, Whitman, Whittier,
Cambridge and Concord and Boston of a gen- Lanier, Taylor, Mr. Aldrich, and Mr. Sted-
eration ago, and something of the same sort man. There is obviously little room for com-
may be claimed for the poets of the journalistic parison between the two groups. From the
and semi-Bohemian group that we associate standpoint of disinterested criticism it is hardly
with the New York of the corresponding period. too much to say that in absolute value every
But in the main, our poets have been charac- one of the English group outweighs the best
terized by individualism, by results that must of the Americans. It would require an excess
doubtless be described as derivative, but that of patriotic zeal to dispute a conclusion so
derive from the general English tradition rather obvious to the impartial observer. But with-
than from any strongly-marked interactions and out blinking this fact, we have no need to hide
obligations to special leadership. The only our diminished heads, for the poets of America
satisfactory order of arrangement thus appeared have done for us a work which the poets of
to be that of sequence in time.
the mother-country, Shakespeare and all, could
Mr. Stedman finds it convenient to divide not have done for us: they have kept the
our first poetical century into eight sections. torch of our national idealism aflame, and have
The first of them has something of the char. touched our national spirit to issues as fine as
acter of a prologue, and includes such names any that have engaged the consciousness of the
as Freneau, Paulding, Allston, Wilde, and peoples of the Old World. To do these things
Dana. Then follow three divisions, of about is the true service of poetry, and, knowing how
fifteen years each, constituting what is called well our own poets have done them for us, we
the “ First Lyrical Period.” In the first of may take a just pride in their achievements,
these divisions we find Halleck, Drake, Bryant, caring little for comparisons which, in a case
Sprague, Percival, and Pinckney. In the sec- like this, must be peculiarly in vidious.
ond we find Emerson, Willis, Hoffman, Long- When Mr. Stedman reached the conclusion
fellow, Whittier, Poe, and Holmes. In the " that if a native anthology must yield to the
third we find Lowell, Whitman, Parsons, foreign one in wealth of choice production, it
Boker, Taylor, and Stoddard. Then follows might prove to be, from an equally vital point
the “ Second Lyrical Period,” also in three of view, the more significant of the two,” he
divisions, each of about ten years. In the first occupied ground that was less paradoxical
we find Dr. Mitchell, Hayne, Mrs. Jackson, Mr. than it seemed. The significance of a corpus
Stedman, Mr. and Mrs. Piatt, Mrs. Moulton, of national song rests not so much upon
its
Mr. Winter, Mr. Aldrich, Mr. Harte, Sill, Mr. absolute artistic value as upon its power to
Miller, and Lanier. In the second we find Mr. mould the ideals of a people by giving expres-
Gilder, Miss Thomas, Miss Lazarus, Mr. Van sion to those higher instincts that are always
Dyke, and Mr. R. U. Johnson. In the third we groping toward the light, but that may fail of
find Mr. Wood berry, Bunner, Mrs. Deland, their purpose when the light is obscured.
Miss Cone, and Miss Guiney. Finally, we have This Republic was founded upon an idealism
a section that forms a sort of epilogue, and in- finer than ang hitherto known in the modern
cludes many names of our most recent writers, world, and it is to our poets, far more than to
among them being Mr. Robert Cameron Rog- our so-called practical men, that we owe the
ers, Miss Sophie Jewett, Richard Huvey, Mr. perpetuation of that idealism in our hearts.
Cawein, Miss Aldrich, Mr. E. A. Robinson, It is their teaching that has inspired us to
Miss Josephine Peabody, and Miss Helen Hay. hope in our darkest hour; it is a belief in the
It is evident enough that the poetical show- potency of their messages that still rebukes
ing of our first century has little significance our wavering faith in so momentous a crisis
from the cosmopolitan point of view, although, of our national life as that which we confront
as we shall urge a little further on, it bas much in this closing year of the century.
significance for us as a nation. Let us see how We may well ask, with the editor of the
it compares with the showing of the mother present collection, what constitutes the real
country. The twelve greatest English poets significance of the poetry of any nation. Is it
of the same period are Keats, Shelley, Byron, “the essential quality of its material as poetry,"
Wordsworth, Coleridge, Landor, Tennyson, or is it “its quality as an expression and in-
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terpretation of the time itself”? Mr. Stedman
declares for the latter of these alternatives,
The New Books.
and urges that view with much logical force.
“Our own poetry excels as a recognizable voice in MEMOIRS OF AN AMERICAN HISTORIAN.*
utterance of the emotions of a people. The storm and
Reckoning vividness of portraiture to be the
stress of youth have been upon us, and the nation bas
not lacked its lyric cry; meanwhile the typical senti- right aim of biography, we must consider Mr.
ments of piety, domesticity, freedom, have made our
Farnham's life of Francis Parkman a wholly
less impassioned verse at least sincere. One who un- admirable book. We have not for some time
derrates the significance of our literature, prose or had the pleasure of examining a work of its
verse, as both the expression and the stimulant of
class which so honestly and interestingly re-
national feeling, as of import in the past and to the
future of America, and therefore of the world, is de-
deems the promise of its title. Not for one
ficient in that critical insight wbic can judge even of moment throughout his 360 or so pages does
its own day unwarped by personal taste or deference the author, so far as we can detect, lose sight
to public impression. He shuts his eyes to the fact of the real business in hand, and go straying
that at times, notably throughout the years resulting off, after the manner of so many biographers,
in the Civil War, this literature has been a • force.' Its
verse until the dominance of prose fiction — well into into some lane or blind alley of extraneous
the seventies, let us say - - formed the staple of current disquisition, astride of a hobby of his own, and
reading ; and fortunate it was -- while pirated foreign quite forgetful of Goethe's admirable saying
writings, sold cheaply everywhere, handicapped the
about holding fast to one's subject.
evolution of a native prose school—that the books of the
elder American poets' lay on the centre-tables of our
At the outset of his task, Mr. Farnham
bousebolds, and were read with zest by young and old.” found himself confronted by a sort of moral
If our poets have not been great poets in
dilemma arising out of his respect for Park-
the world sense, they have accomplished great
man's extreme reserve and his own conviction
things for our spiritual life, and our feeling that such reserve must be ignored by the biog-
toward them is of gratitude and reverence
rapher. It is not unlikely that Parkman bim-
commingled. They have twined themselves
self would have preferred that no life of him
about our affections as no others could have
at all should be written. He liked retirement,
done, and bave become associated with our
and scorned display. He had, to put it mildly,
fondest recollections and our deepest aspira-
no great respect for that section of the public
tions. And our love is bestowed not only upon
which rejoices in the title of the “plain people,"
our Whittier and our Holmes, our Emerson
and which has fallen heir to the flattery that
and our Lowell, but also upon those of our
place-hunting politicians used to bestow upon
lesser singers who have touched some intimate kings and courtiers. He strongly denied that
chord of our consciousness and awakened the
the public has a right to pry into the private
responsive thrill. Here in this volume are five
life of a man because he is an artist; and in
or six hundred names, and who shall assert that
so far as such prying is prompted by vulgar
the least of those who bear them has not contrib- curiosity, or the hope of finding something
uted something of value to the general store, has
toothsome in the way of scandal or unforeseen
not proved himself worthy of his race and help revelations,” all should agree with bim. But,
ful of its spiritual advancement? What their
on the other hand, we agree with Mr. Farnham
collective endeavor has meant to us as a nation
that the public has great concern with and
is beyond the power of words to testify. But
even a certain right of expediency to pry into
it is at least suggested by the felicitous lines in
such facts in the life of an artist and such ele-
which Mr. Stedman himself describes his visionments in his personal character and conduct as
of “ the constellated matin choir” that "
“ sang
may lead to a better understanding of his
together in the dawn," and tells us how he
works. The matter also, as well as the style,
“Heard their stately hymning, saw their light
is in some degree the man.
It reflects the pur-
Resolve in flame that evil long inwrought
suits to which, on the whole, his tastes have
With what was else the goodliest domain
directed him; it is tinged by the prejudices
Of freedom warded by the ancient sea."
born of his experiences and condition in life.
Those to whom the sweep of that vision has
There are few obscurities of allusion or pecu-
been revealed can have no misgivings concern- liarities (let us add perversities) of view in the
ing the true worth of American poetry, for printed book that may not be explained by the
their feelings are merged in the one emotion
* LIFE OF FRANCIS PARKMAN. By Charles Haight Farn-
of swelling pride at thought of their sbare in
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knowledge of some incident or emergency in the nation, of the men of worth and cultivation
the life of the writer. Most of us would prob- who could direct the masses with wisdom, foil
ably be shocked to find how little pure reason with their aid the demagogue and the selfish
has helped us to what we call our convictions. capitalist, and set the national ideal above the
Parkman, no more than any other author, could level of material interests. His creed was short
elude the personal equation in his writings; and simple.
and as he was a perfectly frank man, and in “My political faith lies between two vicious ex-
general one with a rather unusually strong tremes, democracy and absolute authority, each of which
I detest the more because it tends to reach into the
conviction that his own ways and views were
other. I do not object to a good constitutional mon-
the right ones, that equation must in his case,
archy, but prefer a conservative republic, where intelli-
save where his treatment is purely pictorial and gence and character, and not numbers, hold the reins
objective, as it often is, be carefully reckoned of power."
with. His personality is stamped, clear-cut and Patriots were the historical figures whom
impressive, on his work; and thus, while there Parkman most admired; and his hero was
is much in the work that portrays and defines Washington. Second to Washington in his
the man, the work may be far more justly un- esteem came Hamilton. For Franklin, with
derstood and keenly enjoyed through such his “ Poor Richard " pbilosophy, he had scant
information as it is the biographer's province regard. Jefferson he disliked exceedingly for
to give.
his sentimental Rousseauism and his flattery
In figuring Parkman, people are apt to think of the mob. Lincoln's great qualities and high
of him as having something peculiarly and services he somewhat grudgingly admitted ;
essentially American in his make-up. The no- but he thought him generally overrated, and,
• tion, no doubt, arises from associating him with on the whole, “a man whose undeniable worth
the themes he elected to treat in his histories, and usefulness were due to circumstances more
and the enthusiasm he showed for them; and than to inherent ability.” To ascribe a man's
it is largely true. But he was far from sharing greatness to circumstances seems to us in gen-
some of the beliefs and convictions which
go
to eral a cheap, not to say a doubtful, explanation
the root of what is commonly called “ Ameri- of it. That Lincoln was not crushed rather
canism.” He was a contemptuous disbeliever, tban made – or, as we should prefer to say,
for instance, in the democratic principle of revealed — by those same “circumstances, '
equality. He wrote of it:
may seem to most of us the most remarkable
Vaguely and half unconsciously, but every day more thing about him.
and more, the masses hug the flattering illusion that Parkman appears to have been a good bater.
one man is essentially about as good as another. They
He disliked ministers, although he came him-
will not deny that there is a great difference in the
self of a long line of them; and he once ex-
quality of horses or dogs, but they refuse to see it in
their own genus.
And yet the essential difference pressed in writing the hope that a boy who had
between man and man is incomparably greater than been named after him would be brought up
that between horse and horse, or dog and dog. to some respectable calling and not allowed to
The history of the progress of mankind is the history
become a minister." Theologians he roundly
of its leading minds. The masses, left to themselves,
are bardly capable of progress, except material progress,
denounced as “vermin," describing them gen-
and even that imperfectly."
erally as “vague, gushing, soft, spoilt by
It must not be imagined that with Parkman
women's attentions, sentimental, unenergetic,
the upper classes meant in any sense the mon-
and insincere in their professions of faith.”
eyed classes. The vulgar rich man he disliked
There may bave been a vein of jocose exagger-
ation in all this; but there was certainly none
and distrusted quite as much as he did the
ignorant and turbulent poor man.
in his denunciations of the selfish politician.
Statesmanship he honored as the highest of
“ Two enemies, unknown before, have risen like
spirits of darkness on our social and political horizon -
callings ; but no words could express his scorn
an ignorant proletariat and a half-taught plutocracy and distrust of the “political reptile ” whose
.
Between lie the classes, happily still numerous and “statesmanship” is that of Mr. Platt and
strong, in whom rests our salvation."
whose political end is that of Mr. Croker.
But that salvation, Parkman held, and the sal. The spectacle of a great community theoreti- .
vation of every democracy, must come from cally free yet bound and gagged by the ma-
good leadership — from the recognition by the chine, and periodically led to the polls like
people of the superiority, and the consequent lambs to the slaughter, to choose between in-
right to guide and govern, of the real élite of competence and rascality on one side, and
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rascality and incompetence on the other, roused ship from bad, and deliver them from the rule
him to fury.
of the boss” and the wiles of the demagogue.
“Never, since history recorded the life of nations, Yet he did not see much hope for the schools
was such a people so led, or rather entangled in such a
so long as they too are within reach of the low
political mesh-work. We make no allusion to this party
politician.
or that. . . . As freemen and sovereigns we go to the
polls and cast our votes, not after our own judgment,
They demand the best intelligence and the best
but at the dictation of self-constituted knots and com-
conscience of the community; and yet their control rests,
binations of men whom we can neither esteem nor trust.
in the last resort, with legislatures and municipal bodies
... A many-beaded despotism is exercised in the name
representing in part that very public which needs edu-
of the largest liberty. . . . If to degrade public morals,
cation the most – wretched, wire-pulling demagogues,
sink the national reputation, weaken the national coun-
ignorant as the constituencies that chose them, reckless
cils, rout out the race of statesmen, and place pliant
of public duty, and without the faintest notion of what
incompetency in control of our destiny, — if these are
true education is."
the ends of government, then is our political manage- In the plan of his memoir, Mr. Farnham
ment a master-piece of wit.”
has departed from the usual method of making
Turning to the spectacle of the Civil War, biography, from cover to cover, a narration of
Parkman saw, in the great popular uprising, events in chronological order. “I have tried,”
the nation for once snapping like threads the
he says, "to simplify the reader's labor and
fiimsy shackles with which it had tamely sub- gain vividness of portraiture, by confining chro-
mitted to be bound, resuming the control of its nology chiefly to one chapter, thenceforth
destinies, and revealing democracy in its grand-viewing facts and experiences as bearing mainly
est aspect. Then, he adds :
on achievement and development.” The work
, or pretended to thus divides itself into three parts: (1) Park-
change their nature, and for a time the malarious air thus
was purged as by a thunder-storm. Peace brought a
man's preparation, (2) the reflection of his
change. ... The lion had had his turn, and now the personality in his works, and (3) the story of
fox, the jackal, and the wolf took theirs. Every sly his moral growth.
political trickster, whom the storm had awed into ob- Mr. Farnham's book is an eminently read-
scurity, now found his opportunity. The reptiles crawled
out again, multiplied, infested caucuses, conventions, able, as well as a searching and scholarly,
,
and Congress. But the people was the saddest spec-
account of the career, personality, and achieve-
tacle; the same people that had shown itself so heroic ment of this last of the trio of American his-
in the hour of military trial, were now perplexed, be- torians — Prescott, Motley, and Parkman —
wildered, tossed between sense and folly, right and
whose works so forcibly refute the curious no-
wrong, taking advice of mountebanks, and swallowing
tion that charm of style and picturesque narra-
their filthy nostrums. The head of Demos was as giddy
as his heart bad been strong."
tion are somehow incompatible with painstaking
Popular education, as conducted in this research and historical accuracy. The volume
country, Parkman did not believe to be an
is neatly made, and contains two portraits of
unmixed good.
Parkman, one taken in early manhood, the
“ It has produced an immense number of readers;
other the likeness with which most readers are
but wbat thinkers are to be found may be said to exist familiar.
E. G. J.
in spite of it. The public school has put money in
abundance in the pockets of the dealers in sensation
stories, sensation newspapers, and all the swarm of
trivial, sickly, and rascally literature. . . . In our lit- A GREAT LADY OF NEW ENGLAND.*
erary markets, educated tastes are completely outrid-
Mrs. Susan I. Lesley's " Recollections of
den by uneducated or half-educated tastes, and the
commodity is debased accordingly. Thus, the editor My Mother,” which has now come to a third
of a magazine may be a man of taste and talents; but edition, has deservedly won recognition beyond
his interests as a man of letters and his interests as a
sa the family circle for which it was written, for
man of business are not the same. Why don't you it is the memoir of a most interesting woman,
make your magazine what it ought to be ?' we once
asked a well-known editor. Because,' he replied it and it preserves from forgetfulness the best
•
we did we should lose four-fifths of our circulation.'” traditions of life in an interesting old New
Parkman's interest in the public schools was
England town.
intense, and it was largely to the possibility of
Anne Jean Robbins was born in Milton,
making them builders of character, instead of Mass., July 3, 1789. Her father, Edward
mere agents for brain.cramming, that he looked
*RECOLLECTIONS OF MY MOTHER. Mrs. Anne Jean
for the safety of democracy — for the develop Lyman, of Northampton. Being a Picture of Domestic and
Social Life in New England in the First Half of the Nine-
ment of those qualities in the masses which
teenth Century. By Susan I. Lesley. With portraits and
should enable them to distinguish good leader- other illustrations. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
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Hutchinson Robbins, a descendant of Anne Northampton in 1811 was a village of about
Hutchinson, was for nine years speaker of the four thousand inhabitants, and it had already
Massachusetts House of Representatives, and acquired that character which has become
afterwards lieutenant-governor of the State. more marked with the differentiation of the
Through her mother, Elizabeth Murray, she place as a college town. There were no very
was of Scotch descent, and cousin to John M. rich people and no very poor people, but many
Forbes, a man whose conception of citizenship persons of culture and refinement made their
was of the best type our country bas produced. homes in the village and enjoyed its beautiful
At sixteen, Anne Jean was graduated from scenery in ease and contentment. George Ban-
the Ladies' Academy of Dorchester. She had croft established there the Round Hill School
learned to write a plain, clear hand, and she for boys, which became famous all over the
could spell; for accomplishments, she had ac- country. The elder Dr. Flint was the village
quired the “use of the globes,” and a little doctor, and Dr. Austin Flint went from North-
French and Latin. During the next few years ampton to Buffalo, where in a few years his
we catch glimpses of the young girl, now as- studies in the pathology of typhoid fever gave
sisting in the housework of a large family on promise of his great medical career. The roll
her father's farm at Brush Hill, and now going of the professors and students of the North-
into society in Boston and New York, making ampton law school records the names of Sam-
her own party gowns.
An embroidered cam- uel Howe, Hooker Ashmun, George Tyng,
bric dress of exquisite fineness, and an India George S. Hillard, Russell Sturgis, and others
muslin for a change, worn with different colored equally well known. Every summer an influx
ribbons, were Anne Jean's party dresses of visitors came into the valley, for before
through several successive seasons. To please
To please the building of the railroad, in 1843, North-
the young men who liked to see fair hands ampton was on the high-road between Boston,
employed, the young ladies of those days em. the Berkshire Hills, and Saratoga Springs.
broidered samplers and mourning-pieces in Among the birds of passage that flit through
company. An anecdote records a couplet for Mrs. Lyman's letters, we are made acquainted
a mourning-piece, which is good enough to with “the great Mr. Wirt,” and Mrs. Wirt,
serve as a general epitaph for fancy work. not a lady of great mental attainments, but
Miss Robbins went to visit some friends of of much delicacy and refinement, and good
hers in Hingham, three quaint ladies who per- judgment, and of many showy accomplish-
sisted in remaining British subjects to the end ments." Daniel Webster listens absorbed in
of their lives, and who wore purple, Court Miss Flint's music for an hour and a half, and
mouroing, for George IV., fifty years after then rouses himself to compliment her with
the Declaration of Independence. A young stately gallantry. On September 13, 1835,
man calling on the ladies one day found them Mrs. Lyman writes to her son, " Then there
busy embroidering mourning-pieces, samplers has been a family of Longfellows from Port-
in which tall women in short waists and long land, very interesting, agreeable people. ”
skirts forever stand weeping by a monument. During the year 1824 Judge and Mrs.
They begged for a motto for their mourning. Lyman led the little band who "signed off”
piece, and instantly got this bit of wit : from the First Church, Jonathan Edwards's
“In useless labors all their hours are spent,
church, and founded the Unitarian society in
They murder time, then work his monument."
Northampton. The seceders engaged a liberal
In the autumn of 1811, Miss Robbins mar- minister to preach to them, and held services
ried Judge Joseph Lyman, of Northampton, in the town hall until they could build a church
Mass., who was twice her age, and a widower
of their own. After three years' work the
with five children. In spite of the disparity of health of the Unitarian minister broke down,
years, the marriage was a most happy one, and and his pulpit was supplied by preachers from
from that time on Mrs. Lyman lived with a Boston and the neighborhood, mostly young
fulness of life that was at once an inspiration
One day Mrs. Lyman heard that the
and a charm to all who knew her.
She was
minister's wife was expecting a young preacher
the moving spirit, not only in her own home to stay at her house for a fortnight. She
as the mother of a large family of children, knew that the lady was not well, so she sent
but in an ever-widening social sphere that word to her that she would entertain the
ultimately came to include many of the best- preacher. After he had gone, she wrote to
known people of her time.
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• a pious indigent,' but lo! an angel unawares!" well educated, when there was no endowment
The angel unawares was Ralph Waldo Emer- for the education of girls, and no public opinion
son, with whom Mrs. Lyman then formed a to demand it? Harriet Martineau raised a
friendship that lasted as long as she lived. voice in the wilderness, and Mrs. Lyman found
Many years later, when the death of her hus. it discordant, and refused to listen to it. Just
band and the marriage of her last remaining so, she was not stirred by the anti-slavery
child had left her alone in the large house in agitation, the one great question of her time.
the centre of the village, her diary records Lydia Maria Child, her neighbor and friend,
how Emerson came and spent two days with tells of the many lively encounters she had
her, how he went with her to visit a poor family with Mrs. Lyman on the subject, and how she
in whom she was interested, and how he left only succeeded in getting her on the fence and
behind him an afterglow of kind words and hoped she would jump in the right direction.
inspiring thought. Emerson's transcendental- Mrs. Lyman was an indefatigable reader,
ism never seemed to disturb her, although at and her letters are full of comments on books,
one time she fears that one of her children couched in the formal language of the last cen-
had gone over to “ those loose enders," mean- tury, and smacking for the most part of its
ing the transcendentalists. To one who could
She thought Wordsworth excelled in
not understand Emerson, she said, “Well, you the highest order of poetry, - in the moral
call that transcendental. I call it the pro-
I call it the pro- sublime,” but the poets she quotes are Aken-
foundest common sense.
side and Beattie. The opinion of a cultivated
Mrs. Lyman's appreciation of Emerson was woman reading the novels of Sir Walter Scott
after all more personal than intellectual, for as they came out might have been worth while.
though she had large views of men and things, Mrs. Lyman on Sir Walter is almost as amus-
her type of mind was essentially conservative. ing as she is disappointing. She was some-
Harriet Martineau visited her, and she was so what of an aristocrat in her likings, -" In
charmed with the English lady's “simple, un- reading, nothing is more fatiguing to me than
affected eloquence” and “delightful character” minute details of low people, with which I
that she began to read her books. The books think this book (the “ Pioneers "], like the
were not so delightful. “I would have excused “Spy,” is very much encumbered.” They
her for everything but her slander of the tell us nowadays that “minute details of low
women of our country, and her chapter on the people” is high art. One“ trumpery novel”
Rights of Women,' in no part of which do I did take her off her pedestal, and we have an
sympathize with her. I desire no increase of entertaining account of the perturbation it
power or responsibility.” Only a few years caused. "I have read .Jane Eyre,'” she
before this was written, the little Elizabeth writes to her daughter," and though it is in-
Cady was tearing out of her father's law books tensely interesting, I advise you not to read it,
all those laws whose injustice to women made for I think it has a most immoral tendency."
her young blood boil with indignation. Mrs.
Mrs. By the next post the daughter received a letter
Lyman had excellent ideas on education, for from a friend who was staying with her mother,
boys ; her only objection to Mr. Bancroft's saying: “Your mother has been completely
school was that not enough attention was paid carried away with •Jane Eyre.' She went out
to English studies, and she insisted that her yesterday and bought herself a pair of new
son at least should study English as well as shoes. After she came home she took
up
Latin, Greek, and French. Her own education • Jane' and read till tea-time; then she read
had depended on the accident of birth in a till bed-time. Then I retired, and she read
good family, on the possession of a good mind, till nearly morning, finding, when she went to
and a love of reading. But, as in the case of bed at last, that the toes of her new shoes were
women less happily circumstanced socially than fairly burnt through, over the dying embers.”
herself, it does not seem to bave occurred to Mrs. Lesley suggests that the loss of her shoes
ber that girls needed a sound mental training may have affected her opinion of Rochester,
as well as boys. “ It is rare," she writes, “to for she always became very indignant over
fiud well educated women who have grown up that part of the story where Jane, after leav-
in prosperity. If their minds are tolerably ing Rochester, forgot her little bundle of
cultivated, their hearts are perverted, their clothes. “ So shiftless of her,” she would ex-
objects of pursuit are shadows." How could claim, “ to go off without a change of linen.
women, in prosperity or in adversity, become I've no patience with her."
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The story well illustrates the local tradition
of Mrs. Lyman, a woman with an open, in-
THREE BOOKS ABOUT RUSKIN.*
quiring mind, and impulsive nature, full of We have learned with much regret of the
ideas, and possessing a fund of vigorous and decision reached by the literary executors of
picturesque English in which to express them. John Ruskin. They have concluded, it seems,
When she wrote she was painfully liable to that a definitive and authoritative biography
make the little fishes talk like whales, but she is not desirable, partly because of the existence
talked delightfully. She had a racy vocabulary of Mr. Collingwood's admirable book, and
of her own, full of bumor and fun. A certain partly, we presume, because their examination
blue print stuff, suggesting orphan asylums, of Ruskin's literary remains did not disclose
which she thought an excellent material for any considerable amount of material hitherto
her little girls' every day frocks, she called unpublished. While we are bound to defer
“ blue mortification,” because they detested it. to the judgment of Professor Norton and his
For people who backed down under difficulties, associates, we must confess to a certain disap-
“abdicated,” in her language, she had no use. pointment at their decision. Mr. Collingwood's
“ Don't abdicate,” she would say, in her large, biography is excellent as far as it goes, but it
helpful way, to a friend in a peck of trouble. seems to carry reticence a little too far, and
“ Gild your lot with contentment” was her certainly has not exhausted the treasures of
summing up of a complaining woman. She Ruskin's voluminous correspondence. Even
writes to her mother: “ What with the con. had his own “ Præterita” been completed, we
flicting claims of society and of children, I should still wish for the complete record, from
cannot compare my life this summer to any. an objective point of view, of that rich and
thing but living on the top of a high tree in a instructive life. Such a record may perhaps
great gale of wind, in which all one's efforts be given us in the future, but for the present
are bent to holding on." If only the students we must remain contented with what we have,
of Smith College would say things in that way! and with the many books about Ruskin, not
Mrs. Lyman would thoroughly have enjoyed primarily biographical in scope, which have
the new Northampton, with the thronging col- been written by his critics and his disciples.
lege girls going up and down the Main street, Three such books have appeared since his
where now a row of shops has displaced ber death, and to give some account of them is the
home. She would have taken them all into purpose of the present article.
her heart and mothered them. Play enough Mrs. Alice Meynell's “ John Ruskin ” is
they would have had, and discipline. Anne written for the series entitled "Modern English
Jean Lyman was not an advanced woman, but Writers." Its method, after a brief introduc-
she believed in making the most of opportunity. tory chapter, is to consider successively and
She did it herself, and she saw to it that every- | briefly Ruskin's principal works, devoting to
body else did who came within her influence. each book (and in the case of “ Modern Paint-
She died in 1867, before Smith College was ers,” each volume) a special chapter. Each of
founded, and her personality is vague to the these chapters sets forth the leading ideas of
students. But they all know her name, for the work considered, includes a few illustrative
they go down through the back campus to the extracts, and brings to the discussion a certain
college garden, where across the lane lies Para-element of the author's personal idiosyncrasy.
dise. And there in the garden are the Lyman The author is herself a writer of such distinc-
Plant Houses, the botanical foundation givention that this personal note always proves in-
to Smith College by the late E. H. R. Lyman, teresting, although it is sometimes irritating,
in memory of his mother.
and often excites to protest. Mrs. Meynell's
MARY AUGUSTA SCOTT. literary style, with its excessive desire to be
nice, does not always produce its effect without
A NEw edition (the third) of Mr. Ernest Rhys's
visible strain, and cannot be acquitted of some-
record of the life and work of Frederic Lord Leighton
John Ruskin. By Mrs. Meynell. New York: Dodd,
is published by the Macmillan Co. With the exception Mead & Co.
of a few alterations and corrections, and the addition
John RuskiN. A Sketch of His Life, His Work, and His
of a chapter on “Lord Leighton's House in 1900" by
Opinions, with Personal Reminiscence. By M. H. Spiel-
Mr. S. Pepys Cockerell, the text is identical with that mann. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co.
of the original quarto edition published five years ago. RUSKIN AND THE RELIGION OF BEAUTY. Translated from
The numerous illustrations include two reproductions the French of R. de La Sizeranne by the Countess of Gallo-
in photogravure.
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thing akin to preciosity. When she speaks a competent foreign student of our literature.
of Ruskin as baving got something of his dic- The suggestion of Taine just now made by us
tion from Gibbon, " who did more than any is more than fortuitous. The writer approaches
other to disorganize the English language,” and his subject very much as Taine would have
when she assumes an air of patronizing superi- approached it, and treats it with the same com-
ority toward Scott, she certainly gives us pause, bination of picturesqueness, vivacity, and philo-
and her critical judgment suffers severe dis- sophical analysis. He begins by telling us
credit. But ber criticism is, for the most part, how his attention was first called to Ruskin,
acute and delicate, the product of a finely when one day in Florence he came upon a
trained intellect, having just enough of per- party of English girls in Santa Maria Novella,
sodal idiosyncrasy to give it piquancy and to reading him in the presence of the frescoes as
make it provocative of thought, without be- a sort of liturgy. Another year, in London,
coming at any time fundamentally unsympa- he was the guest of a household in which the
thetic. In dealing with questions of the table linen of the family was a product of
technical art of painting, the writer makes it Langdale, and the host wore a coat of cloth
clear that she does not allow even Ruskin to made at St. George's Mill on the Isle of Man.
do her thinking for her, although she does not Again his attention was called to the man
seem to preserve her complete intellectual whose activities bad so singular a power of be-
poise in the discussion of Ruskin's social and coming reflected in unexpected ways, and he
economic vagaries.
determined to make an exhaustive study of the
Mr. M. H. Spielmann's "John Ruskin” is personality that bad so aroused, first his curi-
a sketch of the life, work, and opinions of its osity, then his interest, and finally his sym-
subject, put together in a scrappy sort of pathy. He determined to “retrace through
fashion, and not particularly noteworthy for Europe and through the history of .æsthetic'
style or critical insight. Mr. Spielmann writes the path the master bad trod.” How the writer
from the standpoint of a devoted friend and prepared himself for his task is told in the fol-
enthusiastic admirer, and brings many bits of lowing words: “In Switzerland, at Florence,
personal reminiscence and extracts from pri- at Venice, at Amiens, on the banks of the
vate letters into his book. The work is chiefly Rhine or of the Arno, everywhere where he
valuable for its illustrations, which include bad worked I too worked after him, sometimes
the series, practically complete, of the portraits sketching over again the sketches whence he
of Ruskin which readers of “The Magazine had drawn his theories and his examples, wait-
of Art” will remember as having appeared in ing for the same light he had waited for,
the pages of that periodical about fifteen years always seeking, as it were, on the eternal
ago. The later years of Ruskin's life at Con- monuments the fugitive shadows of his thought.
iston are rather fully sketched, and give us a Then for several years I delayed to write until
charming picture of the closing chapter of his system dawned upon me, no longer as a
his life.
delicious medley but as a harmony of great
M. de La Sizeranne's volume entitled " Rus- lines, like those Alpine mountains which he
kin and the Religion of Beauty” consists of loved so well.” A work undertaken in this
three essays which first appeared in the Revue spirit, and carried out with this thoroughness,
des Deux Mondes," and which were afterwards could hardly fail to prove an important addi-
collected into the book which the Countess of tion to the long list of books devoted to the
Galloway has now translated into English. It exposition of Ruskin's life and ideas. To the
forms one of the most noteworthy of the many non-English reader it must have been a revela-
recent works in which French critics have dealt tion, and to the English reader it comes as a
with English writers in a spirit of the most highly stimulating and suggestive treatise,
generous
appreciation, besides bringing to their although it does not hesitate to quote the pass-
task a capacity for painstaking investigation ages most familiar to him, and to characterize
that puts many of our own writers to shame. the teachings of Ruskin with much detail that
The pioneer work of Taine has borne rich fruit in the case of the English reader might be left
during the past score of years, and of this fruit for granted. We know of no single volume
the volume before us is a conspicuous example. better fitted to serve for an introduction to the
It is easily the weightiest of the three now thought of the great critic. It is clear in its
avder review, besides deriving peculiar interest exposition and unfailing in its sympathy; yet
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far from giving a slavish adherence to those vast additions to the supply of nitrogenous fer-
vagaries of temper which have doubtless les- tilizer. Conservation of sewage was referred to
sened Ruskin's influence, although they are in as one possible source of such fertilizer; but a
reality but as the spots upon the sun, barely method of fixing the free nitrogen of the
affecting his ethical fervor, and in nowise atmosphere at a cost sufficiently low to make
making dim the radiance of his resplendent | the resulting product commercially available
genius.
WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE.
was the one thing needful to place at the service
of mankind a practically unlimited supply.
This artificial production of nitrate, Sir Will-
iam regarded as clearly within view; and in
THE WORLD'S WHEAT PROBLEM.* this he
saw the means of bringing up the aver-
It will be remembered that Sir William age yield of wheat from 12.7 to 30 bushels per
Crookes, in his presidential address delivered
Thus would the date when demand shall
in 1898, at the Bristol meeting of the British
outrun supply be put so far ahead as to relieve
Association for the Advancement of Science,
the wheat-eaters of the present, and at least a
raised a voice of warning in respect to the inad-
few generations of their descendents, from all
equacy of present methods of cultivation to occasion for anxiety. As to a remoter future,
provide a supply of wheat large enough to
Sir William suggested that “instead of trust-
meet the continually increasing demand of the ing mainly to food-stuffs which flourish in
world's growing population of bread-eaters. temperate climates,” the nations now composed
He pointed out that the consumption of wheat
of bread-eaters will “ trust more and more to
per capita was increasing in almost all the the exuberant food stuffs of the tropics,” and
wheat-consuming countries and that the num-
cited a computation of Humboldt, that “ acre
ber of consumers is steadily growing. He
for acre, the food-productiveness of the banana
said : “ In 1871 the bread-eaters of the world
is 133 times that of wheat."
numbered 371,000,000. In 1881 the number
The address tbus summarized Sir William
rose to 416,000,000; in 1891 to 472,600.000;
has included in a volume entitled “ The W beat
and at the present time they number 516,500,- Problem,” in which he moreover replies to a
000.”
number of criticisms called out by his Bristol
Observing that the rate of increase appeared address on its original publication. He also
to be geometrical, he proceeded to inquire includes in it a chapter on “Our Present and
where were to be grown the additional supplies Prospective Food Supply,” by the well-known
necessary to provide for the additional millions agricultural writer, Mr. c. 'Wood Davis, of
of bread-eaters soon to come into being. After
Kansas; an article on “ America and the
glancing in succession at the wheat growing Wheat Problem,” by the Hon. John Hyde,
capabilities of the United States, Russia, India, Statistician of the United States Department
Australasia, Argentina, and various other of Agriculture ; and a chapter by Mr. Hyde
countries, he reached the conclusion that only
on “ Certain Fallacies of Mr. Edward Atkin-
about 100,000,000 acres in addition to the
in regard to the extent of the ability of
area already under wheat would be available
the United States to contribute to the world's
for the production of that grain. At present
wheat supply. Several short appendices and
rates of yield, this area, he estimated, would
an index occupy the last thirty of the 272
barely supply the wheat needed to feed 230, pages embraced in the volume.
000,000 additional bread-eaters, and this addi-
No detailed review can be attempted within
tional number, he calculated, would come into
the space available for the notice of this book,
being by 1931.
but the conviction may be recorded that Sir
Whence, then, were to come the supplies for
William's views, though somewhat too alarm-
the further additions to the number of bread.
ist in character, are nearer to the truth than
eaters to be made after that date, supposing pop-
those of some of the more optimistic of bis
ulation to continue increasing at the present
critics. We do not think there is any serious
rate ? Sir William's reply was that increased danger of a permanent wheat shortage occur-
production per acre could alone meet this addi- ring within the next thirty-one years, even in
tional demand. This, however, would require the absence of that unlimited supply of nitro-
genous fertilizer to which he looks as a means
* The Wheat PROBLEM. By Sir William Crookes, F.R.S.
"Questions of the Day" Series. New York. G. P. Put-
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than are now in use, in order to produce the North.” Captain Adrien de Gerlache, to whose
increased supply of food that will be required enterprise the expedition owes both its origin and its
if population shall continue to multiply as
successful issue, appears not to have been less suc-
rapidly as it has done for many decades past.
cessful than the Norwegian in accomplishing the
This would mean increased labor for a given objects for which the “ Belgica” was purchased and
result, unless the disadvantage named should equipped. Ten officers and men of science, and
be off-et, as it probably would be, by progress
nine common seamen, representing five different
nations, made up the personnel ; but Doctor Nan-
in agricultural knowledge and corresponding sen's happy freedom from illness and accident was
improvement in agricultural methods.
not theirs, one of the sailors being lost overboard,
One favorable circumstance is that the in- and the magnetician, Emile Danco, dying of the
crease of population which is to cause the in- anæmia which attacked them all in a greater or less
creased demand for wheat will probably occur degree. Dr. Cook reserves the consideration of the
chiefly in thinly settled regions in which there scientific aspect of this ailment for the more formal
is much land that will not pay for tillage if its presentation of the facts gathered by the ship’s
produce must find a market thousands of miles
force, and he expressly disclaims an intention of
away, but will become convertible into profit-
setting forth the daily life of the crew; yet it is
evident that there was a lack of that marvellous
able wheat fields as soon as the growth of pop- good-fellowship which characterized the life on the
ulation in its vicinity shall make that produce
“ Fram,” due in good part to a lack of choice and
marketable at next to no expense for transpordiscrimination in selecting officers and men, and to
tation. Moreover, the growth of population in the food, largely Norwegian in character, which
such regions, and of the domestic animals by was not relished by the members of the crew of
which population is accompanied in civilized
other nationalities.
communities, will tend to the utilization of fer. The expedition undoubtedly makes valuable con-
tilizing resources that are in great part wasted
tributions to the world's knowledge. It raises the
where consumers are thousands of miles from theory of an Antarctic continent to the dignity of
the fields where their subsistence is produced. bypothesis; it extends geographical certainties over
a vast area of problematical chartings made by
If Sir William Crookes had taken due account
former voyagers; it procures for the meteorologist
of such changes in the comparative availability hourly readings of the thermometer, barometer, and
of land for food production as the growth of other instruments through a full year; it establishes
population will itself bring with it, he would, the probability of a southern polar anticyclone; it
'in our opinion, have been able to take a con- moves the theoretical south magnetic pole about
siderably more hopeful view of the future of two hundred miles, — all in addition to the minor
the world's wheat supply, quite apart from his
contributions to zoology and kindred sciences.
expectation that chemistry will shortly enable
It appears from Dr. Cook's interesting and beau-
man to draw on the atmosphere for unlimited
tifully illustrated pages that Patagonia and Terra
del Fuego, still largely believed to be abodes of
supplies of nitrogen. Still, he has done a
desolation, are thriving and growing countries, with
useful work in arousing public interest in this
their former asperities to be ranked along with
question, and his book will well repay an atten- those of the “Great American Desert” of our boy.
tive perusal.
E. T. PETERS. hood's geographies. The trail of the gold-seeker
is over them both, and the discovery that sheep
thrive in the interior has led to the stocking of
enormous and exceedingly profitable ranches —
SOME RECENT BOOKS OF TRAVEL.*
and, incidentally, to the extermination of the na-
The only American on board the good ship tives. This leads Dr. Cook to remark that “ The
Belgica” in its two years' voyage to the Antarctic Anglo-Saxon is the ruling spirit, and in a very
regions was Dr. Frederick A. Cook, who accom- short time this long deserted no-man’s-land will be
panied the expedition as surgeon and anthropolog- a gilded paradise stocked with the healthy admix-
ist. “Through the First Antarctic Night," Doctor ture of northern races which has made the United
Cook's account of this long and successful exploit, States the most progressive of the new nations of
invites comparison with Doctor Nansen's " Farthest the world.”
* THROUGH THE FIRST ANTARCTIC Night, 1898–1899. By SPRING AND AUTUMN IN IRELAND. By Alfred Austin.
Frederick A. Cook, M.D. Illustrated. New York: The New York: The Macmillan Company.
Doubleday & McClure Company.
A WHITE WOMAN IN CENTRAL AFRICA. By Helen Cad-
A SPORTSWOMAN IN INDIA. By Isabel Savory. Illustrated. dick. Illustrated. New York: The Cassell Company.
Philadelphia : The J. B. Lippincott Company.
South AMERICA, SOCIAL, INDUSTRIAL, AND POLITICAL.
The ROCKIES OF CANADA. By Walter Dwight Wilcox. By Frank G. Carpenter. Illustrated. New York: The Saal-
Illustrated. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
field Publishing Company.
GREATER CANADA, By E. B. Osborn. New York: A. THE ANTARCTIC Regions. By Dr. Karl Fricker. Illus-
Wessels Company.
trated. New York: The Macmillan Company.
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The ruling spirit of Miss Isabel Savory's narra- The passion for mountain-climbing is a curious
tive of “ A Sportswoman in India” is also Anglo- evolution of our century. Why should man, with
Saxon, and the bandsome book, with its thrilling incredible hardship, climb to the barrenest, steepest,
pictures, affords the best possible opportunity for loftiest heights? He will not rest content till he
the psychological study of a modern Una who would has set foot on the topmost peaks and remotest
bave slain the lion as a common-sense precaution poles of this sphere, and thus rightly fulfils bis
before lying down beside it. History has abundance mission in subjugating the earth. This restless
of precedent for the modern Nimrod, and the phe- mountaineering spirit animates Mr. W. D. Wilcox's
nomenon of a comely British maiden going pig- book on “ The Rockies of Canada." The author
sticking, bear-hunting, and tiger-shooting is probably has spent several seasons exploring Nature's fast-
referable to Diana; yet it is a very modern variety nesses in the vicinity of Banff, particularly the Lake
of the goddess that is here presented, with breech- Louise region; and he gives us, in simple and lucid
loading and rapid-firing arms, and all thought of style, an account of his experiences. It is his
the moon omitted except as affording light for de opinion that “the Caucasus and Alps, especially the
struction after the sun has set. Mr. Kipling is latter, alone equal or surpass the Canadian Rock-
Miss Savory's poet of poets, but she has the habit of ies.” While the Rockies of Canada are not as high
quoting all her rhyme without using any marks to in- as those of Colorado, “their apparent grandeur is
dicate originality or indebtedness, leading us to sus- greater because the valleys are both deep and nar-
pect that some of the lines are her own. Here is an ex- row, richly forested, and frequently guarded by
ample of her vivacious mingling of prose and verse: cliffs which are precipitous for three, four, or even
“On came the pig straight for the Arab's shoulder five thousand feet.” The only paths in these Rockies
and forelegs — a gallant charge. Keeping her horse are the Indian trails ; and we do not know of a
going at best pace, M. leaned well down, intending to better description of the aboriginal road than the
lunge ber spear straight into him low down in the body,
one here given.
just behind the shoulder, directly he was within reach.
“ But when trails, either good or bad, penetrate it,
Her body swung forward as she made the effort -
there followed an instant of deadly sickness — Gracious
how can a country be unmapped or unknown? Perhaps
heavens! she missed him. It was but an instant;
in the same way that the natives have made foot-paths
bome went the pig's charge, and over went the Arab as
through the deserts of Australia and the jungles of
Africa, the Indians of the Northwest have made trails
though he had been a ninepin. M. was hurtled into the
through all the larger valleys of the Rockies. These
air, a vision of sky followed, and then stars. . . . She
did the only thing there was time to do — threw herself | oldest of human foot-paths, are used by the Indians on
trails, which, for angbt we know, represent some of the
flat on her face and lay still. In another second the pig their hunting expeditions. Before the coming of white
was cutting what remained of her habit into ribbons,
men, they were used as a means of communication be-
and she could feel sbarp gash after gash in the small
of her back as he tore at the body of his prostrate foe.
tween the Kootenay Indians and the tribes that inbabit
the plains, for the bartering of fur, game, and horses.
Then G.'s voice rang out, and never was woman more
glad. He speared the boar and drew him off M., who
So all the important valleys and passes have well-
marked trails, and the side valleys inferior ones, though
sat up once more, considerably bruised and battered,
but still with plenty of life. The last scenes in such a
it is not always easy to find them or stay on them when
found. A trail is subject to constant degeneration, for
contest would be sad and horrible, if they were not so
several reasons.
Avalanches and snow-slides sweep
full of danger and excitement.
over it, and sometimes cover a long stretch with broken
The pluck of the bull-dog does not beat
trees and great masses of rock. New areas of timber
The pluck of the gallant boar.
are burned over every year, and the charred trees, after
He was magnificent. Furious with rage, again and again standing a few years, begin to yield to the wind and
he literally hurled bimself upon the spears in his mad storms and fall across the trail. Rapid mountain
longing to get at S. and G., till at last he died, facing
streams often change their courses, cutting away new
his foes — splendid animal! It was quite grievous to banks and undermining many places where trails were
see him lying dead."
made. Even in the primeval forest, the underbrush
That last touch rises to the heights of the “ Walrus has a constant tendency to choke these path-ways, and
and the Carpenter." "I like the walrus best,' aged monarchs of the forest die and fall across them.
said Alice, because you see he was a little sorry
No one ever cuts a tree, if there is a way around, be.
for the poor oysters.' •He ate more than the
cause every one assumes, very selfishly, that he may
never come that way again. Thus the Indian trail is a
carpenter, though,' said Tweedledee.”
narrow pathway, worn with the hoofs of horses, clearly
Another boar was even more fun : After the
marked in open meadows or deep, mossy forests, but
bunt had aroused him, he “rolled over” one na- ever winding and retreating to avoid a multitude of
tive, “ tilted” another into a well, threw “two obstacles, and usually disappearing altogether when
wretched women, one after another
- both were
most needed, and some steep cliff or avalanche track or
badly cut,” — but he “put up a good fight.” Small burnt timber seems to block the way."
wonder that Miss Savory concludes in respect of The book contains a chapter on camping, also one
the British “sportswomen”: “ The trophies wbich on game, and one on the Stony Indians. The
decorate the walls of their sanctum sanctorum call volume is a handsome one, finely illustrated with
forth admiration and reverence, rather than con- photogravures, and beautifully printed. It may be
stitute mute witnesses of outraged womanhood.” cordially recommended to all lovers of nature.
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Another book on Canada is Mr. E. B. Osborn's Miss Helen Caddick was the first woman tourist
“Greater Canada." This work treats of British to make the trip to the African Lake Tanganyika,
Columbia, Alberta, etc., from the practical point of and she has described her experiences in a fresh
view of the farmer and miner; and it contains also and pleasant little book entitled " A White Woman
much historical material, not easily found else- in Central Africa.” Miss Caddick travelled alone,
where, on the fur trade. The author vindicates the transported in a machila — a kind of hammock -
great Northwest as a desirable place of residence. by natives, for more than a thousand miles.
“ Most people who have not visited the Northwest “ From Domasi I went to see a coffee plantation at
firmly believe that a long winter of arctic rigor pre- Songani. It seemed to me a rather amusing proceeding
vents all out-door work during a greater portion of the to take my machila and my seventeen men about with
Northwestern year, and forms an insurmountable ob- me wherever I went. At first I was troubled as to what
stacle to any such growth in the future. This fallacy would become of them when I stayed a few days at a
is a chief cause — perhaps the chief cause - of the station; but I found it was the custom, and no one ob-
preference shown by European emigrants for the States jected to my arriving with that number of men, and the
as a field for settlement ; and it is still worked for all men themselves were perfectly happy. They always
it is worth by Yankee emigration agents, whose tales took themselves off to the nearest native village, and
of Canadian climate bave caused many new arrivals in waited with the most absolute indifference just as long
Boston or New York to change their plans — and their as I wished. It was perfectly delightful to meet with
nationality - at the eleventh hour."
beings who had so much spare time.”
However, a page or two later he acknowledge Miss Caddick went by the customary routes, and
that a temperature of sixty degrees below zero saw only semi-Europeanized Africa ; but in a bright
does occur.
and amusing way she notes much that would escape
“At such times the vapor-laden breath from the the eye of the man traveller. The photographic
lungs freezes the moment it leaves the lips, and min- illustrations add to the interest of the book.
gles with the air, and, falling in the form of infinitesi-
mal snow-dust, produces a soft wbispering sound -
Mr. Frank G. Carpenter has reproduced in book
ghostly susurrus, once heard never forgotten.”
form, under the title - South America, Social, In-
The work contains a good map and useful appen-
dustrial, and Political,” the letters on South Amer-
dices, and is certainly a fresh and instructive
ica which have lately appeared in a Chicago news-
résumé.
paper.
While the author deals with social and
political life, he is largely concerned with the com-
Mr. Alfred Austin, Poet Laureate, gives us in
mercial aspect of affairs Bolivian gold and silver
“Spring and Autumn in Ireland”
mines, Chilian nitrate deposits, Argentine wheat
written, thoughtful, and altogethor charming ac-
fields, and Brazilian coffee plantations. In Monte-
count of two tours in the Emerald Isle. He finds
video, Uruguay, he found many curious sights.
nowhere more of natural beauty and human kind-
“Men go by us with loads on their heads or on their
ness, and his characterization of the Irish people is
backs. Here comes a milk peddier; he is of the same
very subtle, sympathetic, and suggestive.
style as those of the smaller cities of Argentine Repub-
“Of course, my experience was limited and imper- lic. He sits on his horse with his legs about its neck
fect; but I found myself remarking, no doubt with a and almost on top of the leather buckets that contain
touch of extravagance, that it must be a very dull his milk cans. Each one is corked with a round piece
Englishman who finds Irish people particularly lively. of wood wrapped in a dirty rag, and I doubt whether
Doubtless they are more amiable in the social sense; he changes the rag from one year's end to the other.
but I cannot put aside the impression that sadness is There he has stopped and gone into the house. His
the deepest note in the Irish character. They remind horse stands still, although there is no bitching-post or
one of what Madame de Stael said of herself, Je suis iron ring in sight. He has hobbled the front feet of
triste, mais gai.' Under provocation or stimulus they the animal with the whip. These men supply the city
become both loquacious and merry;
nor need the of more than 250,000 inhabitants with milk. They
provocation be very forcible. But they readily fall used to supply it with butter, which they made by gal-
back again into the minor key, and much of their wit | loping their horses so that the jolting did the churning.
springs from their sensibility to the tearfulness of Then, I am told, when you wanted butter the man
things. You can talk them into anything,' said one dipped his hands into one of the cans and squeezed up
of theniselves to me; and I think it is still more true a chunk. It is still the same outside the cities; little
that they can talk themselves into anything, for the butter is used by the common people, and there are
moment at least. They are sad, but not serious.". farmers with thousands of cows who eat dry bread.”
We gain from this booklet more real insight into Mr. Carpenter's book, though inevitably superficial,
Irish scenery and life than from many more pre- has a general value as a recent sketch of the South
tentious volumes. We notice one blemish in style American countries, and the illustrations are useful
that is quite ludicrous :
and often striking.
“ I could not gaze on the tender sinuousities of the
Wicklow Mountains, or turn to the Hill of Howth, Ire-
In the present state of interest in Antarctic dis-
land's Eye, and the more distant Lambay Island, with-
covery, the translation of Dr. Karl Fricker's book
out a sense of rising gladness that I was at last to set
on “The Antarctic Regions” ought to have attrac-
foot on a land that greets one with so fair and feminine
tion for the public. This work is a very careful
a face.”
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A doctor's
discourse on
for your
discovery, the geography and geology of the lands, characteristic of Germany, — and not a little of the
and chapters on climate, ice, fauna and flora, and United States, it might have been added. Issue
the future of Antarctic discovery. The illustrations could be taken with minor positions of the author,
are notable, being taken from books of travel and among others, with his notion that the common
giving correct views of Antarctic scenery. The endeavor of the Powers to solve the Far Eastern
pictures of icebergs are quite the best we have seen. problem may quiet European dissensions. This
The volume contains a valuable map and bibliog- does not seem plausible, if one recalls that a similar
raphy. On the whole, we have here a very reliable movement of expansion four hundred years ago had
handbook to the ultima Thule of modern explorers, no such result. On the whole, the book is perhaps
the vast and drear Antarctic.
the sanest discussion of the new Imperialism that
has appeared.
The medical quack, his nostrums and
methods, is handled, popularly speak-
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
Quackery.
ing, “ without gloves,” in Dr. Wm.
Dr. Paul S. Reinsch might have
B. Doherty's blunt and practical little book entitled
Characler and
“ You and Your Doctor” (Laird & Lee). Dr.
tendencies of chosen for his book on “ World Pol-
world politics. itics" (Macmillan) as a suggestive
Duherty appears to be not only a “regular ” physi-
cian but a sensible man in the bargain ; and his
sub-title these words : The Appetite and the Meal.
main aim is to define and specify the quack in all
In Part I., on “National Imperialism,” there are
set forth the rise and characteristics of the appetite ; just why quackery is either harmful or else quite
his noxious varieties, and to set forth in plain terms
and in Part II., on “ The Opening of China,” there
inoperative. The quack doctor may do you barm;
is a description of the meal. The discussion of the
he certainly will do you no good; and, in any event,
tendencies now to be observed in the policy of all
there is his 6 little bill ” to be considered
the great states toward aggrandizement at the ex-
quack doctor is emphatically “in medicine” for the
pense of less civilized or weaker peoples, is like a
fresh breeze coming at the end of a sultry day; politics.” Of the prevalent and direful custom
same reason that Mr. Croker of Tammany is " in
Instead of confusing the subject with sentimental
of self-medication, too, Dr. Doherty has some for-
platitudes about destiny, humanity, and the stren-
cible things to say ; and it must be admitted that a
uous tasks of duty, he looks at the facts with some-
man consciously turning quack at his own expense,
thing of the directness of a Machiavelli. Only by
and with no earthly prospect of a fee, presents a
such a method can the great change that has come
singularly fatuous spectacle. On its positive side
over the ambitions of Europe, and, in a measure, of
Dr. Doherty's book offers many useful suggestions
America, during the last decade or two, be intelli-
as to food, drink, exercise, and the cultivation of
gently defined. It is significant that the Powers
health generally; as to action in sudden emergen-
are seeking more carefully to obtain the utmost
cies of sickness or accident wben a physician is not
advantage out of those quasi-possessions upon which
within call, and so on. But, thinks Dr. Doherty,
they merely have a “lien." Dr. Reinsch has de-
the right thing to do when you are ailing is to con-
scribed in a particularly enlightening manner how
sult a doctor at once, and be sure that the one you
this works in China; how all the improvements in
one district are to be made with German capital,
consult is a regular practitioner, and not some twig
or other of the great and growing tree of the Quack
by German engineers, with the use of German ma-
family. This is, of course, all very plain and nat-
chinery, etc.; and how in another district all these
ural from the stand point of a physician; from that
things are to be French, in another Russian, and so
of a chronic sufferer who consults one doctor after
It apparently has again become necessary to
another with no appreciable result beyond the fur-
revise the Scriptures, so that a familiar passage
ther exhaustion of himself and his finances, the
may more truthfully declare, “the earth is the
matter is by no means so simple. We are not sure
white man's and the fulness thereof." The failure
that doctors themselves are wholly free from re-
of the black or brown or yellow man to dig all the
sponsibility for the existence of the quackery which
coal beneath the surface of his lands, to open his
they deplore. The volume is acceptably made, and
iron or copper or silver or gold mines, to buy
contains a number of pictures which may serve the
European and American goods, is henceforth rightly
purpose of impressing its moral more plainly upon
punishable with bombardment and annexation.
the popular mind.
But Dr. Reinsch prophetically warned against so
treating a great people like the Chinese that their
Romance and
Mrs. Eva Emery Dye calls her
slumbering sense of nationality should be awakened. history of
McLoughlin and Old Oregon
Old Oregon.
The recent troubles in China came as a startling
(A. C. McClurg & Co.) a chron-
confirmation of his foresight. Another significant icle.” Why not a romance? The book deals with
feature of the present movement is its effect in be- | important historical matters, but it is impossible in
littling important domestic political questions, and any strict sense of the word to call it history. In
in supporting the outcry against intelligent and proof of this we cite a single passage, which is,
legitimate dissent. This seems to be especially | however, we are bound to say, the most exaggerated
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one that we recall. It relates to the return of the own countrymen he said that they were still a race
gold-hunters from California to Oregon in the early of non-commissioned officers - “ everyone eager to
fifties : “So the Argonauts came home, bringing get the stripes.” Mr. Whitman's book is an excel-
the Golden Fleece, bags full, tea canisters full, lent one for those who wish to get, through as little
pockets full, of the beautiful shining dust. It was reading as may be, a fair notion of the quality of
weighed like wheat or bran, at $16 an ounce in trade. Bismarck's inimitable talk.
Men carried gold-dust in pails through the streets.
Women stored it away in coffee-pots and pickle-
The episode of Dido, in the Virgilian
An Epic
jars. Milk-pans full of it sat on the shelves. Home-
poem, needs only some rearrange-
Tragedy.
comers on horseback threw sacks of it over the
ment and the omission of explana-
fence into the tall grass to lie over night or until
tory and descriptive passages to convert it into a
they took a bite of supper.” But when once the play. Indeed, while Virgil is the chief epic poet
reader gets the proper point of view, which he will
on the Latin side, an excellent claim may be set up
soon do, he will find that the book presents a full
for him as the principal tragic poet of his country.
and graphic account of American beginnings in The story of Dido, with its singleness of theme and
Oregon. Parts of the narrative show real power.
its impetuous rush to its catastrophe, constitutes a
“ Whitman's ride " is made to do duty as a matter tragedy of the classical sort which the Greek writers
of course; but less is made of it in its bearing on
would have been glad to unfold. In the Virgilian
the territorial question than is sometimes done.epic it rises to a height of interest which perhaps
Webster's remark that the country owed it to Dr. no other part of the poem attains. Prof. Frank I.
Whitman and his associate missionaries that all the Miller and Mr. J. R. Nelson have presented this
territory west of the Rocky Mountains north of the part of the Æneid in an English version (Silver,
Columbia was not owned by England and held by Burdett & Co.), which will no doubt receive the
the Hudson Bay Company, if he ever made it, may
wide attention which it deserves. The translation
be true. But this is far from proving that the ride
is close, clear, and elegant, and has the advantage
had any particular significance so far as the result over the William Morris rendering that it is can-
reached is concerned. But we would ask, has not didly done into modern and not arcbaic English.
the time come when some competent historical
The long lines reproduce somewhat the effect of
scholar should subject the Whitman tradition to a
the hexameter, and preserve the dignity and ele-
thorough examination ?
gance of the original. The arrangement into scenes
has been done with care and skill, and we imagine
More of the
Mr. Sidney Whitman's “ Conversa-
that it should be effective in an actual performance.
Conversations tions with Prince Bismarck” (Har. Some portions have been set to music, for which,
of Bismarck.
per) have been discriminatingly we believe, Mr. Nelson is alone responsible. These
culled from the indefatigable Herr von Poschinger's settings are classical in their character, and are
vast (and still growing) accumulations of Bismarck- really worthy of the place in which they are found.
iana. For a man who did and thought so much, The volume will doubtless make its way into many
the great Chancellor certainly seems to have talked hands, and students and teachers of the poem will
a great deal — unlike his taciturn colleague Moltke,
, find it a valuable adjunct to the work of appre-
who, as the saying went, could hold his tongue ciating and understanding the poem of which it is
in seven languages." This toiling Geheimrat, von
so important a part.
Poschinger, has constituted himself a sort of post-
humous Boswell to the puissant if loquacious
The lights and shadows — and espe-
Humors of a
Chancellor, and has already put forth some half a
cially the lights — of missionary life
hard apostolate.
dozen thick volumes. It is from the latest of these
on the Western frontier are delight-
that Mr. Whitman has made bis selections. The fully illustrated in the Rev. Cyrus Townsend
contents of the volume range from
grave to gay, Brady's “ Recollections of a Missionary in the
and represent Bismarck at divers periods and in Great West” (Scribner). It is long since we have
various moods. Notable among his interlocutors seen so many good stories to the page as are to be
are Li Hung Chang, Thiers, Favre, Mr. John found in this cheery little repository of quaint
Booth (his neighbor at Friedrichsruh), Moltke, clerical experiences. In many of them, pathos and
Maurus Jokai, Bluntschli, and so on. Talking with fun mingle in pretty even proportions; and in not
Bluntschli (1868), Bismarck observed, apropos of a few of them children are the chief actors for
Chamberlain's course in South Africa, that while Mr. Brady, like all good men, loves little children.
the individual Briton was decent, respectable, and A quaint but telling reply was that of the little girl
trustworthy, the charge of lying being to him the out in Indian Territory — a tot of six whom Mr.
worst of all charges, English policy, on the other Brady had baptized — to her teasing schoolmates
hand, was the reverse of all that; “its dominant who wanted to know “what the man in the night-
characteristic was hypocrisy, and it employed every gown had done to her, and if she was now any dif.
method which the individual Briton despised.” The ferent from what she was before.” Her tbeology
Turks he rather paradoxically pronounced to be and her hard words exbausted, she dropped sud-
" the only gentlemen in the East”; while of his I denly into metaphor and the vernacular — with
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The drama
and Theatre
perfectly satisfactory results : “Well, I'll tell you.
“Plain Printing Types " is the sub-
I was a little maverick before, and the man put
A master printer ject of the first volume in a projected
on printing types.
Jesus's brand [the Cross] on my forehead, and
series of manuals on “ The Practice
when He sees me running wild on the prairie, He of Typography,” from the pen of Mr. Theodore L.
will know that I am His little girl.” Only now De Vinne. It is a compact and handsomely-printed
and then do the grim features of pain and hardship work, containing minute and detailed descriptions
peep from Mr. Brady's sunny pages. We can only of the tools, technical processes, and various systems
guess that his long struggle in the Far West was in of type-making; specimens and descriptions of all
the main a sharp and toilsome one; for in spirit standard sizes of book types ; exhibits of the more
his book throughout is an unconscious and cheery important type-faces now commonly in use; tables
homily on the useful theme, “ Making the best of it.” of prices of type here and abroad; and an im-
mense amount of similar information heretofore not
The latest of the charming "crêpe readily accessible. The matter selected for display-
paper” books published by Mr. T.
ing the various faces and sizes of type is of bardly
of Japan.
Hasegawa in Tokyo is a large octavo
less interest than the text proper, consisting as it
volume entitled “Scènes du Théâtre Japonais.”
does of short biographies of famous type-founders
The greater part of the text is devoted to the most
and designers, historical notes on the development
famous of the historical dramas of Japan, called
of printing in various countries, sketches of the
from the scene in which the action takes place,
genesis of well-known type faces, and other matter
“ Terakoya" (the village school). It is translated
equally pertinent and valuable. To all who have
into French by Dr. Karl Florenz, professor in the
to do with the production of books, Mr. De Vinne's
Imperial University of Tokyo, who also supplies a
little treatise must prove indispensable. The Cen-
brief historical introduction and, at the end of the
tury Co. are the publishers.
drama, a short account of the conventions of the
Japanese stage. The tragedy is in one act and thir-
teen scenes - in the continental sense of the word
- and is of an exactness and nicety which suggests
BRIEFER MENTION.'
that the English may go to the subjects of the Mi-
“ Love's Comedy" is the most important of Dr.
kado for instruction in the art of dramatic writing
Ibsen's plays that have hitherto remained untranslated,
no less than in the decorative arts in general. The
and we welcome Professor C. H. Herford's version, now
translation is from the Japanese into French, and published by the Charles H. Sergel Co., both on account
is excellently done, — it may be conjectured, the of the interest of the work and the excellence of the
affinity frequently remarked between the genius of translation. Those who have been fortunate enough to
Japan and France aiding Dr. Florenz in what is read Professor Herford's translation of “ Brand” will
evidently a labor of love. But the chief value of not need to be told that in the present instance he has
the book, nevertheless, may be said to lie in the
proved himself entirely competent to deal with the
metrical and intellectual difficulties of the earlier work.
beautiful drawings in color which have been made
for the work by Mr. Yoshimune Arai, giving it
Our obligation to him is still further increased by the
studied introduction that goes with the volume now at
charm distinctly its own, and doubling its merits in
hand.
other respects.
The collection of pretty white booklets called the
Professor Plehn has revised and
• What Is Worth While" series, and published for sev-
of public finance. enlarged” his “ Introduction to Pub-
eral years past by Messrs. T. Y. Crowell & Co., has
lic Finance” (Macmillan) by adding eleven new numbers for this season, and the covers
a somewhat timely chapter on the financial admin- have a more tasteful design than ever. Among the new
istration of war, illustrated by the experience of titles we note the following: “Spiritual Lessons from
the United States in the war with Spain. If the
the Brownings,” by Dr. Amory H. Bradford; “ Books
work has been revised in any other respect, the re-
That Nourish Us," by Mrs. Annie Russell Marble;
vision is of a kind which it would require an expert
“Some Ideals in the Education of Women," by Miss
Caroline Hazard; “ The Art of Optimism,” by President
proof-reader to discover; yet there are certain in-
James De Witt Hyde; “ The Problem of Duty,” by the
consistencies in the volume which might easily have Rev. Charles F. Dole; and “Good Manners and Suc-
been eliminated in a second edition. Professor
and “ The Hour of Opportunity,” both by Mr.
Plehn is evidently in substantial agreement with Orison Swett Marden.
Mr. Wells concerning the general property tax, for In “The Point of Contact in Teaching” (Dodd,
he remarks incidentally in his new chapter that Mead & Co.) the author, Mr. Patterson Du Bois, first
“the method of taxation by which most of the
states the main idea that his title suggests, and then
States raise their revenues . . is the worst in use
deals with the plane of experience," "applying the
in
civilized country.” Yet in another place he
principle," “missing the point,” and “the lesson ma-
any
terial.” All this is done with admirable clearness and
says that the universal condemnation of this tax
force.
“is not due to the defects in the tax itself, but
The book was written originally for Sunday
School teachers, but has now been enlarged in scope for
mainly to the fact that it is not properly supple- other teachers who work on the same level of child
mented by other taxes.” Barring some defects,
life. It contains more of the pith of teaching than
the work is a useful text book in its field.
many a volume far larger and more pretentious.
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Shoes” (which Goldsmith may have written), edited
by Mr. Charles Welsh. These publications are neat
“ Rasselas," with an introduction by the Rev. Will. pamphlets, illustrated, and are to appear semi-monthly.
iam West, is a “Gem Classic” published by Messrs. They are priced at ten and fifteen cents each.
James Pott & Co.
The small pamphlet of “ Songs for the City of God,"
The 1901 edition of Messrs. Laird & Lee's useful which Mr. David Nutt has just published, has a wider
little “ Vest-Pocket Diary and Time-Saver" has just scope than most sacred anthologies, and is made notable
made its appearance.
by the inclusion of poems by Tennyson, Clough, Morris,
Dr. Mitchell's “ Hugh Wynne,” in a
new edition
Mr. Henley, Mr. Kipling, and Mr. Swinburne. The
illustrated by Mr. Howard Pyle, is published by the judgment displayed in this selection is distinctly out of
Century Co., the two volumes of the original being the ordinary.
bound into one.
Messrs. T. Y. Crowell & Co. continue their work in
Messrs. Little, Brown, & Co. send us a new edition, the publication of serviceable and inexpensive editions
in two volumes, and published at a moderate price, of of the standard poets. Chaucer and Burns are now
Professor Edwin A. Grosvenor's important work, “Con- added to their list, each in a boxed two-volume set. The
stantinople,” wbich first appeared five years ago.
Chaucer has facsimiles, a glossary, and an introduction
The pocket edition of “Gulliver's Travels," bearing by Professor Lounsbury. The Burns is edited in sim-
the Dent-Macmillan imprint, is as pretty a book as one
ilar fashion by Mr. Natban Haskell Dole.
often sees, and is made exceptionally attractive by its The welcome announcement is made that the famous
series of a dozen illustrations, the work of Mr. A. “Easy Chair" department of “Harper's Magazine " is
· Rackham.
to be revived, with Mr. W. D. Howells as incumbent,
Two of the five volumes which are to contain Lock-
than whom it would be bard to suggest a more fitting
bart's “ Memoirs of Walter Scott" are published by successor to the genial “ Ik Marvel” and “Howadji,”
the Messrs. Macmillan, under the editorship of Mr.
whose writings bave made the “ Easy Chair” so mem-
A. W. Pollard, in their “ Library of English Classics.”
orable. At the same time will be restored the “Editor's
Mr. John Edward Courtenay Bodley's “ France” is Study,” to be conducted by Mr. Henry Mills Alden,
published by the Macmillan Co. in a new edition at a
present editor of the Magazine. In addition to his
reduced price. The two volumes are bound in one,
“ Easy Chair” duties, Mr. Howells will become a liter-
which thus contains an aggregate of nearly a thousand
ary adviser to the firm of Harper & Brothers, and will
also contribute a monthly article on contemporary lit-
pages.
Mr. William Stone Booth of the Macmillan Co. is
erary affairs to the “ North American Review." With
the compiler of a little manual of “Notes for the
his various other writings, and the occasional novels
Guidance of Authors," which will be found of great
which we hope Mr. Howells will continue to give us,
practical value by all who have occasion to prepare
there seems little probability of his becoming rusty.
manuscript for publication.
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LIST OF NEW BOOKS.
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It is an elementary account of animal ecology, abun-
(The following list, containing 200 titles, includes books
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Mr. Charles Eliot Norton, and Dr. S. Weir
Mitchell. With the last-named of these men
THE BEGINNINGS OF A GREAT SCHOOL,
Mr. Warner was exactly contemporary, hav-
B. A. Hinsdale
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ing 1829 for the year of his birth.
GIRLHOOD MEMORIES OF MADAME ROLAND.
Mr. Warner's long and busy career in-
Josiah Renick Smith ..
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cluded many things besides literature in its
THE LATEST BOOKS ON CHINA. Wallace Rice 305
activities, and for some time, at least, the pur-
Colquhoun's Russia against India. -Smyth's The
Crisis in China. -Speer's The Situation in China. –
suit of letters was rather an incidental occu-
Wildman's China's Open Door. – Hannah's A Brief pation than a chosen vocation. Born in
History of Eastern Asia.
Massachusetts, he was educated in New York,
RECENT FICTION. William Morton Payne
306 and was graduated from Hamilton in 1851.
Miss Potter's Uncanonized. - Miss Nixon's God, the
Meanwhile, he had been a druggist's assistant
King, My Brother. — Brady's The Grip of Honor.-
Stephens's Philip Winwood.-Altsheler's In Circling
and a post-office clerk, and was ambitious to
Camps. — Castle's Consequences. – Barrie's Tommy become a Congressman. He went to Missouri
and Grizel. - White's The West End. - Holland's
Marcelle of the Quarter.- Hamilton's The Dishonor
with a surveyor's party, returned to civilization
of Frank Scott. Sheehan's My New Curate.- to study law at the University of Pennsylva-
Besant's The Alabaster Box.
nia, and then practiced his profession in Chi-
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS
309 cago.
Just before the Civil War he was
Mr. Lang's history of Scotland. - Domestic life in invited to an editorial position by his friend,
New England in the eighteenth century.- An excel-
Mr. Joseph R. Hawley of the Hartford
lent biography of Paul Jones. — A serviceable refer-
ence book of Russian history.-New series of English “Press.” When Mr. Hawley took the field,
classics for school use. — The law in its relation to
his young assistant was left in charge of the
physicians. — Written from the Wall street point of
view. - Genesis of the hero of a popular novel.-
paper, which afterwards became merged in the
Short lives of great Americans.
Hartford “ Courant,” with Mr. Warner as one
BRIEFER MENTION.
This journalistic connection
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of the owners.
was continued through the rest of his life,
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although he freed himself from the routine
TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS.
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into literature may be said to date from the “ That Fortune," make up a sort of novel-
publication, in 1870, of “My Summer in a trilogy which will always have deep interest as
Garden.” This book consisted of sketches a set of social documents, and which comes
that had been written for the “Courant," and near to the high-water mark of American
which achieved instant success when they ap- fiction. There is in these books a riper thought
peared in book form. Even the English public and a deeper humanity than were wont to
was won, and the “ Quarterly Review” said of characterize the author's earlier writings; if
the book that “Charles Lamb might have they are lacking in the quality that goes to the
written it if he had had a garden.” This vol. making of the best class of novels, it is because
ume was
was soon followed by “Saunterings,” they are essentially the product of the critical
“ Backlog Studies,” “ Baddeck and That Sort
“ Baddeck and That Sort rather than of the creative intellect. But their
of Thing,” “ Being a Boy,” “ In the Wilder- mellow optimism, and their persistent exalta-
ness," "My Winter on the Nile," and “In the tion of ideals of conduct that have gone too
Levant,” all published during the seventies, much out of fashion of late years, give these
besides a share in the writing of “ The Gilded three novels a place all but the highest in our
Age.” The essay, descriptive or sentimental, fiction, and set a worthy crown upon the activ-
had become his favorite form of composition, ities of a long and helpful life.
and he infused into these books no small Mr. Warner was what is known as a public-
amount of genial humor and delicate criticism spirited man. His energies were enlisted in
of things and scenes, of men and books. At behalf of many good causes, from abolition to
a later period, his essay-writing was done prison reform, from the Egypt Exploration
chiefly for “ Harper's Magazine,” in whose Fund to the Park Commission of his adopted
pages he held monthly discourse for many city. Many topics of education and social
years — the sort of writing which we find in
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science engaged both his pen and his tongue,
his two small volumes, “As We Were Say. | for he was
for he was a ready public speaker, at once
ing” and “ As We Go." As editor of the genial and forcible in the presentation of what-
“ American Men of Letters " series, he dis- ever cause might have enlisted his convictions.
played good judgment in his selection of writ- The city of Chicago remembered him as a
ers, and himself undertook the biography of young lawyer in the fifties, and welcomed him
Irving, which is one of the most satisfactory upon his many subsequent visits. And the
volumes of the collection. He was the nom- Twentieth Century Club of this city is proud
inal editor of the “Library of the World's of the fact that he was the first speaker to
Best Literature," although his brother, Mr. address its members, when it was organized
George H. Warner, shouldered most of the eleven years ago. The place which his death
detail of this editorial undertaking. His for-
His for- has left vacant in our literary life will not
eign travels, illustrated by two titles already easily be filled, and the circles that may know
given, are still further recorded in the pages his living presence no more will long hold his
of “A Roundabout Journey," but, on the personality in affectionate remembrance.
whole, he preferred the investigation of his
own country to his European saunterings, and
his numerous trips through different regions
of the United States bore fruit in such books
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West.”
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Charming as are these many volumes of process of erection for several years, was formally
essays and impressions de voyage, we are in-opened for the use of students, and its dedication
clined to believe that Mr. Warner made his to the service of scholarship was signalized by fitting
most enduring contribution to literature when ceremonies, including a masterly address by Mr.
he wrote, during the last ten years of his life, Charles Francis Adams, the chosen guest of the
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second
group of library structures. It is not to be thinkers which for awhile conquered and possessed
compared for cost or dimensions with the Library the somewhat frozen waste of American life. He
of Congress, or with the Public Libraries of Boston was the last, or almost the last, of the men of im-
and Chicago, or with the great Public Library agination, and he survived on a good while into
a
which New York will have in due course of time. the time of the men of fact. In one or two of his
But among university libraries, its position is prob- latest essays, he seems in a rather puzzled way to
ably second only to the building which Columbia be trying to get his bearings in the new and alien
University owes to the munificence of its President. world around him. A few inheritors of the old
At all events, it is a noble structure, and its posses- faith remain – Mr. Stedman, Mr. Stoddard, Mr.
sion may well be a matter of civic pride to the Aldrich, and Mr. Gilder; but they have been unable
commonwealth which has borne the cost of its to make head against the powers that thrust even
erection.
Lowell into something like literary obscurity in his
The special note of the Madison dedication was
historical, and this emphasis is fully justified both In his essay on Gray, Lowell remarks that there
by the fact that the department of history is one of was a spiritual east-wind blowing in that writer's
the strongest in the University, and by the fact that time, under which no poet could flower. The last
the State Historical Society claims about two-thirds quarter-century in American literature is like a
of the collection of books now permanently housed. piece of the English eighteenth century dropped
We may say further that it was to American his- into ours. There is the same subsidence of passion,
tory, rather than to history in general, that the the same treatment of imagination as a sort of a
building was dedicated, and, if it be not invidious poor-relation whom it were dangerous to encourage,
to mention names, that it stands in some measure the same turning from philosophy to fact. The
as a monument to the distinguished services ren- English eighteenth century took long cooling
dered to this department of American scholarship draughts of skepticism and rational Theism, to
by Professor Frederick J. Turner of the University soothe the fever in its blood and lay the ghosts in
and President Reuben G. Thwaites of the Histor- its brain. We have had the anaconda feast of
ical Society. To these men, and to the scholars Evolution to make us lethargic and comfortable.
who, in other centres of learning, have for the past Both epochs are notable for the refusal to be
quarter-century been engaged in examining the bothered with the mysterious and unknown, and
materials of American history, much gratitude is for their cheerful facing of the workaday world.
due ; for they have bestowed upon their subject a For religion — the intense and possibly selfish
dignity in which it was previously lacking, and have passion for saving one's own soul — they both sub-
,
made it a new force in the educational and intel. stituted politics and philanthropy — the lively
lectual life of our nation.
interest in keeping alive and directing the bodies
of our neighbors. Solitude on the mountain heights
has seemed to both ages a little ridiculous, and
TENDENCIES OF AMERICAN LITERATURE
society in the cities more suited to their turn of
mind.
IN THE CLOSING QUARTER OF THE CENTURY.
The chief note in eighteenth century literature
Among those who lead the strenuous life was humor; and this is paralleled by our recent
which seems to mean strenuously blowing one's work. In neither case is it humor of the world-
own horn as it has never been done before, at least shaking sort, the humor which Socrates must have
not since the Jews toppled over the walls of a city had in mind when he said that the tragic and comic
with the sounding of their trumpets - among poet should be one. Rather it is the humor of
these it is easy to award the victor's crown. hearty good-sense, of gentle irony, or of almost
Saperior strenuousness tells instantly, and gets its apologetic satire. It has produced the books of
reward. But the contests of literature are not that Daily Life which FitzGerald found so insuf-
to be decided off-hand. Contemporary fame is ferable in practice. Pope and Johnson and Gold.
usually temporary fame; and a quarter-century is smith and Jane Austen are great apostles of the
too short a time for forming a safe opinion. The religion of common-sense - the doctrine of houses
contemporary critic, indeed, has a task not unlike with roofs to them, and clothes without holes in
that of Joan D'Arc, when she was brought into them, and a working code of morals; and 80,
the throng of kingly-attired courtiers and bidden allowing for differences of time and talent, are Mr.
distinguish the true king. One should be a prophet, Howells and Mr. James. The literature of common-
or inspired, to attempt the business. It is much sense is sound and wholesome enough — but it
easier to try to point out some of the tendencies of is a trifle obvious. We all know that we must
the literature under review, to show what material work or starve, and that we have got to be toler-
it has dealt with, and in what spirit.
ably good or the police will get us. Surely the
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intoxicate him, and make him forget the curse of reared monuments of industry and research as im-
Adam. We want to be taken out of ourselves posing in mass and extent as the pyramids or the
or, rather, we want to realize our better selves of Great Wall of China. I must frankly confess that
which we are conscious; and so we sympathize far I have only the slightest acquaintance with these
more with the exceptional than with the common- spacious and minute works. What knowledge I
place. This natural instinct has been sadly starved have of them leads me to think them chronicles
by our late literature. Mr. Howells bas exiled the rather than histories. Their authors give every:
Exceptional Character from bis novels, and pursued thing. None of them has the courage and cheerful
him with fury in his criticism. It is a striking tes- good heart of Gibbon, who was capable of saying,
timony to his force, that he has compelled us to “Nothing important happened in this century," or
accept the trivial and uninteresting as important. “The fourth, fifth, and sixth crusades were only
Partly the tendency of the times was with him, repetitions of the first, second, and third.” I am
partly his unceasing polemic compelled attention, willing to allow our historians every merit in the
and partly the ease and lightness of his work won world save that of felicity of subject. Two of
conviction. He is, indeed, the most easily read America's earlier historians, Prescott and Parkman,
author of the day. And Mr. James is the cleverest. fell heir to themes which must always thrill and
The mania of cleverness is in him more than in fascinate. That so much can be said for the re-
Mr. Meredith. For my part, I never realized that corders of our last hundred and fifty years, is more
human nature was so complex and subtle, that the than doubtful. America wears Benjamin Franklin
average citizen or ordinary baggage in muslin car. in her disposition; “ Poor Richard” has made a
ried about with them such immeasurable meaning. continent prosaic. It is not that we have lacked
After puzzling over Mr. James's hieroglyphics, great deeds and great men; on the contrary, it is
there is something to be said for the old black-and- because we have had a certain level prosperity of
white treatment of human nature.
luck in both, that single figures and actions are left
If these two novelists have been the Cabinet without relief. There is a story of a man who lost
Ministers of our recent literature, Mr. Bret Harte his shadow. America is in somewhat like case.
has been the Leader of the Opposition. Humor is his The want of any shading in the popular presenta-
characteristic, too; or else his delight in wild scenes tion of the protagonists of our history has long been
and characters, his ability to mould in the round felt. Professor McMaster a good while ago gave
his hunks of human nature and original sin, might Franklin a judicious touch of black, and recent
have lifted him to the heights of tragedy or romance. memoir writers have eagerly followed suit. The
Humor is of course the essence of Mr. Stockton's Real Franklin, the Real Penn, the Real Lafayette,
art, a humor of queer contorted common-sense. have been presented to us.
The authors of these
Mr. Cable is another humorist, and perhaps the studies have cut out and fitted to their heroes the
most artistic of all, unless Mr. Hopkinson Smith most artistic shadows in graduated tints. But
matches him. This last writer's “Colonel Carter" somehow they do not seem to succeed. One seems
is worthy of a place on the shelf with the “ Vicar still to see the old heroes going about in their pre-
of Wakefield.” Mr. Page is a humorist with pathos, vious ghost-like state, and anxiously inquiring of
and Mr. Joel Cbandler Harris a humorist with pro- each other, “Have you seen my shadow lately?”
fundity. Mr. Chambers is an artist-humorist of or, “Is my halo on straight?” Absolute uncon-
exquisite gifts. Humor which recurs so persistently scious delight in human nature in all its manifesta-
in all these writers has become a profession to a tions is the first law of creative art. Historians
legion of others whom it is needless to name. Their are mostly bad artists because they have to praise
work is almost the least satisfactory product of or blame. Possibly our new school of historic ro-
American energy. It is funny, it is grotesque, it mance is to do for American history what Shake-
is rib-tickling; but it is, after all, only the supreme speare and Scott did for England.
effort of the clown with the horse-collar. One feels Our recent period again resembles the eighteenth
that the dignity of human nature is violated by it. century in its interest in education. Cold epochs
A good deal of Mark Twain's earlier work was of always believe in education and training. When
this type, and in fact he might almost be credited men's blood is hot with passion, when their brains
with or accused of originating it. But the creator are flushed with poetry and their lives filled with
of the immortal "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry romance, they can educate themselves. The ten-
Finn” has soared far above his imitators, and given dency of our education has been toward the con-
us classics of pure delight.
crete, the real, the practical; we have shunned the
A second note of the eighteenth century was the abstract and the universal. There are not lacking
predominance of historical writing. The greatest signs that educators see they have gone too far,
history since the ancients, the best biography in the that they have been training parts of men rather
world, and some of the best memoirs, were the than complete ones, that instead of making each
product of that time. This historic activity is man a world in himself they are making him an
equalled in quantity, if not in quality, in recent insignificant part of the world without. We may
American literature. Dr. Fiske, Professor Mc- not get back to the humanities and the categories as
Master, Mr. Rhodes, Mr. Bancroft, and others, have a basis of education, but some synthesis will come.
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Another note of our literature has been disper- all the other affairs of life after them. They are
sion. I might say democracy, - but democracy is certainly not dominant now. We are industrial,
a queer thing, and comes out where it is least ex- we are commercial, but we are not religious or
pected, and is missed where it is most looked for. artistic. Yet we are very well satisfied with our
There was more democracy in the court of Louis civilization, and are wanting, with our English
XIV. than in the rich bourgeois circles of America. cousins, to impose it on the rest of the world. The
But dispersion — the lack of any central authority, rest of the world does not admire it as much as we
of any place of congregation for authors, or any do. The magnificent challenge of the Boers to the
permanent types of humanity for them to repre- British Empire, and the stand
of our own purchased
sent, - has been a very marked feature of our but recalcitrant Filipino subjects, show that our
time. Every nook of the land has been searched civilization of industrialism and commercialism is
for local color, every dialect has been phonographed, not satisfactory or desirable to those peoples. Our
and
many
of our writers have seemed to think that civilization of industrialism and commercialism will
all that was necessary for originality was a new probably prevail over them. It may prevail over
dislocation of language or a delineation of novel the whole of the world. But the end of its empire
crudity of human nature.
is ennui — such ennui as fell upon the Romans
Humor, historical study, education, and local when the few ideals of that prosaic race faded and
exploitation, — these seem to me the main lines our they were left with nothing but their conquests and
literature has followed for the last quarter century. their riches.
CHARLES LEONARD MOORE.
The note of great poetry has been unsounded, or
at least unheard. It may be that some of the many
claimants to the laurel crown will yet make good
their title. One of them, indeed, Sydney Lanier, has
COMMUNICATION.
friends who would place him with our best. I can-
not agree with this estimate. There are good lines
AMERICAN AND ENGLISH POETS.
in “The Marshes of Glynn," and some bird-like
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
movements in his lyrics, but nothing extraordinary,
In the current issue of THE DIAL the article based on
and I think it is safe to say that there are twenty
Mr. Stedman's “ American Anthology” evidences such
contemporary verse-writers who have done more
sane appreciation of the highest value of poetry, and
and better in poetry than Lanier. No phrase of
such true critical insight, that it seems worth while to
call attention to a statement that should not be allowed
his has passed into general circulation
-no poem
to go unchallenged. “The twelve greatest English
of his has haunted the mind of the world ; and he
poets,” the reviewer says, in dwelling on the last hun-
has had no imitators or parodists. He has been dred years of poetical activity, “are Keats, Shelley,
dead long enough for those phenomena which Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Landor, Tennyson,
follow great poetry to appear. They have not ap- Browning, Arnold, Rossetti, Morris, and Mr. Swin-
peared, and I must enter a caveat against his claim. burne. The best dozen of our American poets are
His book on “ The Science of English Verse” is probably Bryant, Emerson, Holmes, Longfellow, Lowell,
equally unsatisfactory. Music and the rhythm of
Poe, Whitman, Whittier, Lanier, Taylor, Mr. Aldrich,
verse are alike subject to the laws of motion or
and Mr. Stedman. There is obviously little room for
vibration — and so is everything else, as far as we
comparison between the two groups. From the stand-
point of disinterested criticism it is hardly too much to
can find out; but that poetry, the most comprehen- say that in absolute value every one of the English
sive of the arts, is a sub-species of music, as Lanier
group outweighs the best of the American. It would
would imply, is a far-fetched fancy. Rowland require an excess of patriotic zeal to dispute a conclu-
Sill's most melancholy and musical verse has great sion so obvious to the impartial observer.”
charm; and some of Emily Dickinson's rugged This is very positive language, but it is not convincing.
rhythms, with their gleams of profound insight and
That our best poets, taken as a class, cannot be com-
their revelation of a personality almost as strong
pared with this century's group of great Englishmen, is
indeed undeniable.
and strange as Emily Bronte's, are like to live.
Yet on what grounds does THE
Good and sound and of excellent workmanship
DIAL claim a higher place for Morris than for Poe? or
for Arnold than for Lowell? The writer makes manifest
is the great mass of recent American literature;
his appreciation of the value of the inspiring glow and
but as the idealist gazes on it he seems to see the the genial warmth to be found in the work of our poets
vision of a great strand whereon some tempest has who “warmed both hands before the fire of life," with-
driven a fleet of deeply-laden ships. Everything for out being willing to give forth only the cold beauty of
human needs is strewn about food and raiment, a Landor, or the narrow, passionate heat of a Swin-
and tools, and precious objects. And many of the burne; he shows clearly that in his statement which I
ships are seaworthy; but no flood comes and no
have quoted he is thinking of what may be called the
wind rises to waft them off the sand. The agitating " purely artistic” side of poetry: It seems difficult, in
power of poetry, the tempestuous stir of great ideas,
a question of “absolute value," to omit the worth of
the idealistic essence with its consequent power of
are wanting to make the fleet march again in tri-
effect, its thrill of inspiration; but granting the possi-
umph over the deep.
bility of critical appreciation that shall take into account
There have been times when the things of the only the “artistic” qualities of verse, the question still
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to Morris, or Lowell to Arnold? One might even add: more essentially, of his times and the spirit of
Does not Emerson, in his highest flights of lyric rhap- his times.
sody, reach heights to which neither of the English
poets whom I have mentioned ever attained?
Governor Roosevelt has plainly found in
The reviewer in The Dial states that bis conclusion Cromwell, as a remarkably strenuous char-
is obvious to the “impartial observer.” It may be that acter who entered public life at the head of
that rare and indefinite being, the “impartial observer,"
a corps of rough riders, a subject very much
whom writers so willingly invoke to attest the truth of
to his mind; and he has treated it with his
their statements, will agree to the suggestion that even
a thoughtful and excellent critic is at times led into un- usual vim and downrightness, and with as
witting depreciation of his country's poets, through the much independence of view as a theme already
fear (perhaps unconscious) of being misled by “patriotic so well canvassed admits of. Governor Roose-
GEORGE S. HELLMAN. velt, while seeing in the Puritanism of Crom.
New York, Oct. 23, 1900.
wellian times the dawn of the new order, rather
than the sunset of the old (the “last glimpse
[We can have no quarrel with so courteous a
critic, nor would we have any essential quarrel
of the Godlike vanishing from this England,'
were his position more bluntly maintained. By
as Carlyle mournfully put it), is nevertheless
selecting the least important of the twelve English not quite so sure nor, indeed, are we
poets for comparison with the most important of some are, that Oliver himself is to be regarded
the twelve Americans, our case is assailed at what as the shining herald and morning-star of those
is undoubtedly its weakest point. The judgment free institutions, under which we, in our more
in favor of the transatlantic poets was given delib-
sanguine moments, rejoice to think we are
erately, for it is a judgment to which we have held
living.
for years ; but the inclination of the balance is
Whether Cromwell personally did more to
slight, and in such a case the element of personal
opinion, which we always endeavor to exclude as
advance or to retard those institutions, is a
rigorously as possible, may possibly have been the question on both sides of which, as Sancho
determining factor. For the rest, in the two in- Panza used to say, “much may be said.” At
stances adduced by our critic the disparity in the the outset he stood manfully for government
volume of good work must be considered in any by discussion, as opposed to personal rule ; but
comparison of Morris with Poe; and, in a com- as his career advanced, and power came to
parison of Arnold with Lowell, the purer form and him, grave contradictions appeared ; and as a
the greater lucidity of expression that characterize
ruler the one thing that can with absolute cer-
the former poet. — EDRS. THE DIAL.]
tainty be said of him is that he had his own
way. Any discussion, parliamentary or other,
that happened for a moment to block that way
The New Books.
was promptly thrust out of it; and any Hamp-
den who " with dauntless breast” withstood
the proceeding as illegal, was, in effect,
MORLEY'S AND ROOSEVELT's CROMWELL.* promptly extinguished with a gruff « Leave off
The monographs on Oliver Cromwell writ- your fooling, aud come down, sir!” as was, in
ten for the Century and Scribner's magazines fact
, luckless Parson Hitch in his pulpit at
by Mr. John Morley and Governor Roosevelt, Ely. True, Cromwell beheaded a king, and
respectively, make their nearly simultaneous prevented Presbyterianism from playing Laud
appearance in book form, with all the original in the realm on its own account; but he also,
pictures. Mr. Morley's volume forms the
without show or pretense of legality, broke up
longer and more elaborate work of the two; Parliament after Parliament, and, in order to
and while its magazine origin is not unappar. get a Parliament to suit him, out-Tudored
ent throughout, it also bears throughout, we
the Tudors by setting up one composed of his
need hardly say, the unmistakable impress of
own dominees a conclave of “ saints” which
distinction inseparable from this fine writer's signed its own death-warrant the moment it
work. Like all Mr. Morley's essays in histor-
manifested a disposition to act on its own
ical biography (and where are better ones to
initiative, and without the sanction of its im-
be found ?), the life of Cromwell is a study not perious creator; he ground Ireland under the
only of the man, but also, and perhaps even
heel of a system as “Thorough” as Strafford's;
be hunted down Catholics because they were
* OLIVER CROMWELL. By John Morley, M.P. Illustrated.
Catholics ; he trampled on Scotch Presbytery ;
New York: The Century Co.
OLIVER CROMWELL. By Theodore Roosevelt. Illustrated.
he deprived English Episcopacy of its Prayer-
New York: Charles Scribner's Song.
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its cherished sacraments by stealth and in having vindicated Oliver, must needs see in
secret conventicles — a fair reprisal under the him not only the sincere man and patriotic
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lex talionis for the doings of Laud, perhaps, but statesman who strove unceasingly according
in no wise an instance of that policy of tolera- to bis lights for the glory of God and the good
tion which he professedly championed, and of his country, but the herald and originator
which he did in fact champion in behalf of of free institutions. Cromwell, who cut the
such sects as held a doctrine and practiced a knot of every constitutional difficulty with his
ritual which did not shade off too sharply from sword, who denounced a broad suffrage as
his own. Presbyterians, Anabaptists, Millen. “tending very much to anarchy,” who clapped
narians, Fifth Monarchy men, sectaries of the in the stocks or had shot those who prated of
wilder sorts, all found shelter under the ægis equality, who treated Parliament with con-
of Oliver's qualified and scrutinizing tolerance; tumely and its august emblem as a bauble,
but woe to the creed in whose ceremonial was whose rule, in short, represented in an extreme
to be found a taint of Popish practices - the form the popular bogey personal rule, is now
brand of the Scarlet Woman.
revered as the patron saint of English de-
It is customary to regard Cromwell as the mocracy.
great and triumphant foe of the theory of It is quite possible that, as a recent writer
“divine right”; and such, in a sense, he was. urges, Cromwell had a theoretical preference
But in place of the hereditary divine right of for a representative form of government, and
Charles Stuart he straightway set up the im- that bad he succeeded in getting a House of
mediate divine right of Oliver Cromwell - a Commons always in perfect accord with his
notion quite as fatal to popular liberties, gov- views and policy he would have worked
ernment by discussion, taxation by consent of smoothly with it, and lived and died to all
the taxables, and the rest of it, as the one it appearance no more than its first minister and
displaced. That he was God's chosen instru- mandatary. But this is hardly a safe argument
ment for the purification and uplifting of to advance in support of Oliver's alleged lean-
England, and that the inward promptings of ings to popular rule and government by dis-
what he took to be the voice of God had a cussion. To act with Parliament so long as it
warrant infinitely superior to any popular agreed with him, and to purge, pack, or dissolve
mandate that might reach bim through the Parliament the moment it disagreed with him,
medium of Parliament, was a conviction that was as cbaracteristic of Cromwell as it is in-
grew in intensity with every victory, from consistent with any just notion of a parlia-
Marston Moor to the “crowning mercy" of mentary ruler.
Worcester. “Now let God arise, and His The fact is it is idle to try to definitely label
enemies shall be scattered !” he ejaculated and appropriate Cromwell as the champion of
exultingly when the sun rose like a red portent this or that ideal theory of government. He
of slaughter over the North Sea at Dunbar; did not govern England according to some
and it was with the unsparing sword of the high-sailing maxims about the Rights of Man,
Lord of Hosts that he smote the Papists at but according to his own conclusions as to the
Drogheda and Wexford. To the fact that deserts and capacities of Englishmen as he saw
Cromwell's utterances, even on minor occas- them. He was no ideologist, but a great states-
ions, were full, and to the modern sense offen- man and soldier, who dealt with questions as
sively and suspiciously so, of this radical they arose, each on its own merits, and whose
conviction of his, is largely due the long sur. rule fluctuated in stringency with the needs of
vival of the Clarendonian conception of him the hour. Statesmanship was for him a prac-
as a canting rebel and usurper masking bis tical business, not a science constructed on the
ambitious designs in a cloak of sanctity. The mathematical plan. He held the power, and
thesis that a man whose speech was full of he used it for the ordering and advancement
Scripture, but whose deeds were full of blood of his country. He had, indeed, a programme,
and lawlessness, was a hypocrite, was too of a very practical sort, which he was convinced
plausible a one to be easily shaken down. was the right one, and the one agreeable in the
But it yielded at last to the genius and sight of God; and he was determined to carry
research of Carlyle and the sound sense and it out. To that end he seized autocratic power.
firm stroke of Macaulay. Nobody now doubts It may be that in the long run his ascendency
Cromwell's sincerity or bis patriotism. But made for free government and freedom of re-
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stood in the way of them; but that he kept most upright reformers that have ever lived. It is a
this ideal in view is doubtful. That he would chaste ambition if rightly placed, he said at his trial,
bave sanctioned a government wholly purged
to have as much power as may be, that there may be
power to do the more good in the place where a man
of theocracy, is more than doubtful. We may lives. . . . He was devoted to friends, never weary of
conjecture that were a second Cromwell to ap- taking pains for them, thinking nothing too dear for
pear in our time, the national imperialism of them. If he was extremely choleric and impatient, yet
the day would find in him a formidable and
it was in a large and imperious way. He had energy,
baldness,* unsparing industry and attention, long-sighted
effective chieftain. But the effort to define
continuity of thought and plan, lofty flight, and as true
and class him in the interest of some variety of a concern for order and the public service as Pym or
current opinion, or even of historical precision, Oliver or any of them.”
leads to endless debate and confusion. Most Of Charles's desertion of this faithful ser-
current views of him are defensible; none is vant in his hour of mortal danger, Mr. Morley
unchallengeable. As to the essential nature says: “ Time has stamped the abandonment
of the work he did, authorities differ radically. of Strafford with an ignominy that cannot be
He destroyed, but he could not build, says washed out.” As to Carlyle's dictum that the
one; he was great as a destroyer, but how act of the English regicides “did in effect
much greater as a builder! says another. His strike a damp-like death through the heart of
rule, at all events, was that of the sword. Yet Flunkyism universally in this world,” Mr.
English democracy sees in him its progenitor Morley observes :
and patron saint. Mr. Morley, for his part, “In fact the very contrary of Carlyle's proposition
has abstained from hard-and-fast generaliza- as to death and damp might more fairly be upheld.
tions ; for, he says,
For this at least is certain, that the execution of Charles
I. kindled and nursed for many generations a lasting
« The thirst after broad classifications works havoc with
flame of cant, flunkyism, or whatever else might be the
truth; and to insist upon long series of unqualified clench-
right name of spurious and unmanly sentimentalism,
ers in history and biography only ends in confusing ques-
tions that are separate, in distorting perspective, in
more lively than is associated with any other business
in our whole national history."
exaggerating proportions, and in falsifying the past for
the sake of some spurious edification of the present.'
Discussing the fate of Charles, Mr. Morley
Mr. Morley's essay is keyed above the tone
says in conclusion:
and spirit of controversy ; and surely the time
“ The two most sensible things to be said about the
trial and execution of Charles I. bave often been said
has gone by for wrangling over the cause, and
before. One is that the proceeding was an act of war,
weeping or rejoicing over the fate of the Stu- and was just as defensible or just as assailable, and on
arts. What is wanted now is the clear sight the same grounds, as the war itself
. The other remark
and the balanced judgment in order that we
is that the regicides treated Charles precisely as Charles,
may come at last to the right historic view of
if he had won the game, undoubtedly promised himself
with law or without law that he would treat them. The
that great drama and its actors. To this end,
.
author of the attempt upon the Five Members in 1642
Mr. Morley's cool and dispassionate pages give was not entitled to plead punctilious demurrers to the
valuable aid. The keynote of his treatment of
revolutionary jurisdiction. From the first it had been
the characters of the leaders on both sides is
My head or thy head, and Charles had lost."
indicated in the following paragraph:
Robespierre, in a rare moment of bard prac-
“ Just as the historic school has come to an end that
tical insight, at once defined and vindicated in
despatched Oliver Cromwell as a hypocrite, so we are a sentence the execution of Louis XVI. It
escaping from the other school that dismissed Charles was, he said, “ an act of political necessity”;
as a tyrant, Laud as a driveller and a bigot, and Went-
worth as an apostate."
and we know of no better apology than that
for the course of the earlier regicides wbo con-
Mr. Morley goes on to say:
trolled or composed Bradshaw's motley trib-
“ That Wentworth passed over from the popular to
unal. “Stone-dead hath no fellow," said Essex,
the royalist side, and that by the same act he improved
his fortunes and exalted his influence, is true. But there
in reply to the proposals for merely banishing
is no good reason to condemn him of shifting the found- Strafford; and as it was plain to all that there
ation of his views of national policy. He was never a could be no peace for England until Charles
Puritan, and never a partisan of the supremacy of Par-
was got rid of, it was perhaps for the best that
liament. By temperament and conviction he was a firm
believer in organized authority. . . . Wentworth's ideal
he was got rid of completely and beyond hope
was centered in a strong state, exerting power for the
of recall.
common good ; and the mainspring of a strong state Governor Roosevelt's book is a good, plain
must be a monarch, not Parliament. . . . That he as- narrative, stripped of confusing details, of
sociated the elevation of his own personality with the
Cromwell's career. Much space is given to
triumph of what he took for the right cause, is a weak-
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military matters, and the political side of the history will welcome the volume as a substan-
subject is dealt with far more fully than the tial contribution to our educational literature.
religious side. A striking peculiarity through- The institution that was first known as the
out is the frequency of allusion to compara- Public Academy of the City of Philadelphia,
tively modern names and topics of current or but is now called the University of Pennsylva-
recent interest. We think it regrettable that nia, was the greatest of the gifts that Benjamin
Governor Roosevelt has seen fit to interpolate Franklin made to the city and state of his
in bis narrative occasional rather spiteful adoption. It had its origin in certain “Pro-
flings at stock objects of his dislike — that posals Relating to the Education of Youth in
unfortunate “ cloistered type” of his fellow cit- Pensilvania, Philadelphia,” that he printed in
izens, for example, to which he has elsewhere his “Pennsylvania Gazette,” August 24, 1749.
so frequently and forcibly paid his compliments. That the time for such a movement was ripe
There are in every civilized community men of was shown by the ready reception that these
quiet tastes, who prefer to do what good they “ Proposals” met with, and the immediate
can in a quiet and inconspicuous way; and it steps that were taken to embody them in ac-
is hardly fair to berate them for leaving to tion. As a place of instruction, the Academy
others a field for which they feel themselves opened its doors on the first Monday of Jan-
unfitted. The student of public affairs, or the
The funds came at first from
“ closet philosopher,” to use Governor Roose- private subscriptions and the municipal gov-
velt's epithet, may very conceivably serve his ernment, principally the former ; but after-
country hardly less effectively than the actual wards material assistance was received from
participant in them.
collections made in England. The great finan-
Each of these desirable volumes is well made cial reliance, however, for the period here cov-
and sumptuously illustrated. E. G. J. ered was tuition fees paid by students. And
still there was a charity school in connection
with the Academy, an inheritance that came to
the Board of Trustees along with the property
THE BEGINNINGS OF A GREAT SCHOOL.*
on which their school was first established, and
There may be differences of opinion as to that constituted a legacy from Whitfield's
the ideal upon which Mr. Thomas Harrison evangelistic labors in Philadelphia. In 1756
Montgomery has constructed his “History of
a college organization was added to the Acad-
the University of Pennsylvania.” It would be emy, and nine years later the Medical School,
strange, for example, if some readers did not the first one in the country, was founded. Few
think that he might better have omitted some educational words have a fixed connotation,
of the material that he has introduced, as, for but the author has some reason on his side
instance, in his frequent biographical sketches. when he says that the commencement of 1771
It is hard to see that Franklin's electrical re-
is memorable "in witnessing the first public
searches need to be recounted, even in brief, claim by the Provost for the institution of the
in such a work. But there can be no such rank and place of a University, to which in
differences as to the painstaking and laborious fact it had attained in 1768, and which it
conscientiousness with which Mr. Montgomery has maintained with honor through varying
has done his work. None can dispute that, his changes and vicissitudes to the present time.”
plan once formed, he has prosecuted it with June 21 of that year is the date of the first
great zeal, intelligence, and success. The book medical commencement.
abounds in detail, the style of composition In the order of time, Philadelphia was the
tends to the ponderous, and the narrative is so sixth of the nine colleges founded in the Thir-
heavily weighted with quotations from docu- teen Colonies before the Revolutionary War.
ments that no one who tries to read it will It was marked off from those that preceded
think the book easy reading. It is to a con- and those that succeeded it by characters that
siderable extent a collection of original mate- were peculiarly its own and gave it a special
rials. Still, the style is not ill adapted to the interest as a feature of our collegiate history.
matter, and the student of our educational Three such marks may be noted.
* A HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, For one thing, Philadelphia was wholly free
from its foundation to A.D. 1770. Including Biographical from direct ecclesiastical control. It bore, of
Sketches of the Trustees, Faculty, the first Alumni, and
Others. By Thomas Harrison Montgomery. Philadelphia :
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but it was in no sense subject to church dom. at present great want of Persons so qualified in the
ination. The Board of Trustees and Faculty
several counties of this Province. And this is the more
were meeting places for the leading denomina-
necessary now to be provided for by the English bere,
as vast numbers of For gners are yearly imported
tions of the city; but for some reason, which among us, totally ignorant of our Laws, Customs and
Mr. Montgomery might have explained more Language. Tbat a Number of the poorer Sort will
fully, the Episcopalians were more numerous
bereby be qualified to act as Schoolmasters in the
than any other, especially in the Board. As
County, to teach Children Reading, Writing, Arith-
Franklin wrote at the time to a correspondent,
metic, and the Grammar of their Mother Tongue;
the County suffering at present very much for want of
who was himself an Episcopalian clergyman, good School masters. . . . It is thought that a good
“ The Trustees of the Academy are three- Academy erected in Philadelphia, a healthy place where
fourths of them members of the Church of Provisions are plenty, situated in the Center of the Col-
England, and the rest men of moderate prin boring Provinces, who must spend considerable Sums
onies, may draw Numbers of Students from the neigh-
ciples.” Still, the property on which the school
yearly among us, in Payment for their Lodging, Diet,
was first established, for historical reasons,
Apparel, &c."
carried a creed in the title deed :
Nothing could well be more secular and prac-
“ We do also give our assent to the 9th, 10th, 11th,
tical than this. Every word shows the influence
12th, 13th, and 17th articles of the Church of England,
of the author's mind. Franklin was indeed of
as explained by the Calvinists in their Literal and
grammatical sence without any equivocation whatso-
Puritan blood, but this is not Puritan language
ever. We mention these in particular because they are a or the Puritan conception of a school of higher
summary of the foregoing articles. We believe all that learning. To be more definite, while many of the
are sound in faith agree in these whatever other points
students of the Academy and College became
they may differ in."
ministers of the Gospel, the preparation of young
Here it may not be amiss to remark that two
men for that calling does not appear to have been
questions which the History of Pennsylvania a conscious purpose of those who founded it.
suggest bave never, to our knowledge, been
The third point is the very modern character
satisfactorily resolved. One is the powerful of the institution.
of the institution. No doubt this feature is
hold that the Church of England early got in closely connected with those already mentioned,
the colony, and particularly in Philadelphia, but it deserves separate notice. The early
and the other the extraordinary ease and documents lay stress upon the modern lan-
smoothness with which Friends passed into
guages, and especially the English language.
that communion. In view of the origin of the
The " constitutions” of 1749 describe the
colony, and especially in view of what the Academy as a school for teaching the Latin
Friends had suffered from the Establishment and Greek languages, the English tongue gram,
in England, both of these facts seem surpris- matically, and as a language, the most useful
ing. There can, however, be no doubt that living foreign languages, French, German, and
the leading members of that communion, rein- Spanish, etc.” The Trustees were commanded
forced by the one-fourth of “men of moderate
with all convenient speed to endeavor to en-
principles” of whom Franklin was easily the
gage persons capable of teaching the French,
first, were the fittest managers of the new
Spanish, and German languages," as wel
school that the colony could furnish. The
other branches of learning. Franklin had ideas
Quakers, for example, were at the time wholly
as to the way in which English should be taught,
incompetent to found or to take the oversight ideas that grew out of his own instructive ex-
of a school of liberal learning.
perience. He wrote in his “ Proposals ":
The second mark of the new institution was
“The English Language might be taught by Gram-
an outgrowth of the first one. It was less
mar, in which some of our best Writers, as Tillotson,
ecclesiastical and more secular than any other Addison, Pope, Algernon Sidney, Cato's Letters, &c.,
&
anti-revolutionary college. In a paper laid
should be classicks : The Stiles principally to be culti-
before the Common Council in 1750, Franklin
vated, being the clear and the concise. Reading should
thus stated the benefits that were expected to
also be taught, and pronouncing, properly, distinctly,
emphatically ; not with an even Tone, which under-
flow from the establishment of the school:
does, nor a theatrical, which over-does Nature.
“ The Benefits expected from this Institution are: “ To form their Stile, they should be put on Writing
That the youth of Pennsylvania may have an opportu- Letters to each other, making Abstracts of what they
nity of receiving a good Education at home, and be read ; or writing the same Things in their own Words ;
under no necessity of going abroad for it. ... That a telling or writing Stories lately read, in their own Ex-
Number of Natives will hereby be qualified to be our pressions. All to be revised and corrected by the
Magistracies, and execute other public offices of Trust, Tutor, who should give his Reasons, explain the Tone
with Reputation to themselves and Country; there being and Import of Words, &c.
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« To form their Pronunciation, they may be put on
making Declamations, repeating Speeches, delivering
GIRLHOOD MEMORIES OF MADAME
Orations, &c. The Tutors assisting at the Rehearsals,
ROLAND.*
teaching, advising, correcting their Accent, &c."
The French Revolution, among its other
How far this was in advance of the times is surprises, conferred immortality on a host of
well known to students of our colonial educa-
rather commonplace men and women, headed
tional history. Franklin was no doubt the by Louis XVI. Of these it might be said that
only man in the country at the time who could nothing in their life became them like the
have conceived such a programme. Indeed, leaving it.” Dragged into the fierce light that
the programme was too advanced even for
beat about the scaffold, they were converted from
Philadelphia; and the failure to realize it, advocates, physicians, or provincial abbés, into
especially in respect to English teaching, was
heroes, patriots, martyrs, of whom their world
one of the griefs of Franklin's old age.
was not worthy. That many high qualities
In 1756, Dr. Smith, the Provost, brought in posse were thus developed, which under
out, in connection with the organization of the
other circumstances might have won for their
College, the scheme or plan of education that
possessors a respectable degree of eminence, is
was to be furnished in the schools comprising not questioned; but surely it is the bitter in-
the College and Academy together. Our au- iquity of their fate and the exalted courage
thor finds the source of this excellent formula
with which they met it that have saved their
in the curriculum of King's College, Aberdeen,
names for the reverent admiration of the gen-
where Provost Smith had been trained a decade
erations.
before. “ But whencever its origin or concep- It is at least an open question whether this
tion,” he says, “it is the first complete curricu- would have been true of her whom all men
lum for a college training which any American know as Madame Roland. She emerged into
and
will stand for all time as the forerunner in all public view as the wife of the citizen Minister,
and for a few troubled years shared and directed
advanced education on these shores." He de-
her husband's counsels. When her friends the
clares also that it was “unequalled in any Girondists succumbed to the Mountain, she
institution in this western country for its com-
too was arrested, on the first of June, 1793,
prehensiveness and thoroughness.” Those who and taken to the Abbaye. Released twenty-
hold briefs for some of the older colleges may
four days later, she was at once re-arrested and
possibly dispute this claim.
A nicer point, confined in Sainte Pélagie. Here she wrote
however, is the extent to which Smith's scheme her « Historical Notes and her “Private
" ”
was actually carried out. One who reads the
Memoirs." On November first she was re-
document, which Mr. Montgomery prints in
moved to the Conciergerie, and on the eighth
full, is puzzled to see how a faculty so small as
she was “ tried," sentenced, and led out to ex-
that at Philadelphia could have taught all the ecution. As they bound her to the plank, her
.
subjects that the scheme embraced ; and the
eyes fell on the colossal statue of Liberty, and
sceptical will probably think that in some parts
she murmured, “O liberté, comme on t'a jouée
this course of study existed merely on paper. (or the more popular variant, “O liberté, com-
Students of educational history will regret bien de crimes on a commis en ton nom”).
that in closing this work the author lays down These are the dramatic facts of her closing
his pen not expecting to resume it, and also
years, aud are known to every body; and for
will join with him in the hope that another
the Anglo-Saxon reader they have generally
author" may carry on the history of this Uni-
sufficed.
versity family, illustrating its varying misfor-
In the beautiful little volume before
us,
Mr.
tunes during the Revolutionary struggle, its
Johnson has turned the page back to the girl-
quiet life through the first seventy years of this
hood memories of Marie Jeanne Phlipon. The
century, and portraying with loving strokes its translation which is here reprinted in a revised
enlarged and influential work of the present form was made from Bosc's original edition of
generation under the strong stimulus of which
the Memoirs, and was published at London in
it is prepared to enter upon its great career in 1795, two years after Madame Roland's death
the twentieth century.” It is to be hoped, how. by the guillotine. For many years now these
”
.
ever, that Mr. Montgomery's successor will di memoirs, which form a favorite French classic,
.
,
vide his book into regular chapters with appro-
* THE PRIVATE MEMOIRS OF MADAME ROLAND. Edited,
priate headings, and that he will also furnish
with an Introduction, by Edward Gilpin Johnson. Chicago:
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nary mind
have not been procurable in an English ver- Far and faint indeed seems the
cry
from this
sion ; it was high time, therefore, for a new student of her mirror to " Plutarch's woman,"
edition.
“the Egeria of the Girondins."
Nothing in these reminiscences is so im- Her father, Gatien Phlipon, an engraver
pressive as the circumstances under which they by occupation, is described with no filial illu-
were written. In Mr. Johnson's words,
sions :
“ The writer was a prisoner, and under no illusions “Strong and healthy, active and vain, he loved his
as to her impending fate. Across her path lay in un- wife, and was fond of dress. Without learning, he had
mistakable outlines the shadow of the guillotine. Her that degree of taste and knowledge which the fine arts
husband and her friends were outlaws, tracked from give superficially, in whatever branch they are prac-
hiding-place to hiding-place by men in whose eyes tised. . . . He led a regular life, while his ambition
clemency was a political crime. The trumped-up charge was not unbridled, or had experienced no disappoint-
of her own infamy was ringing in the ears of all Paris. ments. He could not be said to be a virtuous man,
... Her day was done. Her stately Plutarchian re- but he had a great deal of what is called honor."
public of wisdom and virtue was sunk in blood and On the other hand, her mother's presence,
mire."
ever gentle and sympathetic, pervades the
Thus thrown back on her own thoughts, she
whole narrative; and we can readily realize
took
up
her
.pen to recount the story of her
the passionate devotion with which this proud
life; and gradually losing herself in the visions
and high-strung girl clung to the parent who
of her happy tranquil youth, she described its
seemed to understand her. This was her trib-
events with an eager minuteness which repro-
ute to her mother's
memory :
duced whole conversations and protracted medi-
“ Thus was taken from the world one of the gentlest,
tations from the shadowy past. The flow of most lovable beings that ever graced it. Her qualities
reminiscence is at times checked by interrup. were not brilliant, but they were such as won and re-
tions which would seem appalling to an ordi-
tained the love of all who knew her. Naturally pure
as thus:
and just, her virtues were the fruit of impulse, not
effort. Prudent and self-poised, tender without passion,
“ September 5. I cut the sheet to inclose what I
her tranquil spirit lived its days as flows some quiet
have written in the little box; for when I see a revolu-
stream that laves with equal complaisance the rock
tionary army decreed, new tribunals formed for shed-
that holds it captive and the valley it embellishes."
ding innocent blood, famine threatened, and the tyrants
The little Marie's impressible nature was
at bay, I augur that they must have new victims, and
conclude that no one is secure of living another day.” deeply affected by her first communion ; but
Or this :
soon her faith began to disintegrate, under
“ They interrupt, to inform me that I am compre-
doubts as to eternal damnation and the infal-
hended in Brissot's act of accusation, along with many libility of the Church ; and she, with thousands
other deputies recently arrested. The tyrants are at of others, was left in philosophic recognition
bay; they think to fill up the pit open before them, by
precipitating worthy people into it; but they themselves
of a First Cause, a Supreme Intelligence, to
will fall in afterwards. . .. I shall send away this whom she could address this petition, in which
section of my memoir, and prepare to proceed on an- we find something more than philosophy:
other, if I am permitted."
“O Thou who hast placed me on the earth, enable
It is certainly no common young French- me to fill my destination in the manner most conform-
woman that looks out upon us from these pages.
able to Thy divine will, and most beneficial to the
welfare of my brethren of mankind."
With engaging candor, and a self-consciousness
As she grew to womanhood, this fair young
scarce reached again in print until Marie Bash-
kirtseff, she casts up the account of her youth bourgeoise with the dark and eloquent eyes
ful charms of person and intellect, and finds
was pestered by almost as many suitors as the
the sum-total “all very good ":
discreet Penelope ; and the tracing of their
successive advances and dismissals must have
“ As to my face, there was nothing in it specially
striking of itself, save perbaps the fresh color, the
brought a faint smile even to those prison-
tenderness and expression. To go into details, · Where,' blanched lips in Sainte Pélagie. It is with
it may be asked, is the beauty ?' Not a feature is considerable humor that she tells how she
regular, but all please. The mouth is rather large-
managed to escape a butcher, an advocate, a
thousand that are prettier; but where is
there a smile more sweet and engaging ? The
physician, and several other dim wooers men-
is
eye
scarcely large enough, and its iris is of a grayish hue; tioned only en bloc. At length, in 1779, at
but, though somewhat prominently set, it is frank, the age of twenty-five, she accepted the hand
lively, and tender, crowned by delicately penciled brown of M. Roland de la Platière, who was forty-
eyebrows (the color of my hair), and its expression
seven, From this time till her death her life
varies with the changing emotions of the soul whose
activity it reflects; grave and haughty, at times it im-
was more or less a public one, and she became
poses; but it charms oftener, and is always animated.”
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Mr. Johnson has edited the book with good know little about America, and care less; and
taste and literary skill. In an introduction of this indifference is heartily reciprocated.
some twenty pages, he rounds out the story of Lack of common interests is the chief cause
Madame Roland's life by tracing in outline of this. Neither country realizes that both are
her public career, imprisonment, and execution ; democracies, with a strong tendency toward
and adds a well-written and impartial estimate something different in the high places, — de-
of her character. He admits that she was mocracies with the people heavily taxed for
“No stranger to the sentiments of her class. How the maintenance of an office-holding class which
keenly she resented the distinctions of birth that
is usually held in contempt, and democracies
blocked the path and galled the pride of the educated
with the teachings of the religion of the country
and prosperous commoner of the eighteenth century,
her memoirs too bitterly attest. To this alloy of
at open variance with its performance. These
jaundiced class feeling, joined to a certain native hard- common national tendencies may be traced in
ness and implacability of temper, must be ascribed the small library of books which have been
what is palpably impolitic and ungenerous in the con- rushed into print to give the English-speaking
duct of Madame Roland.”
people some much needed and highly bewilder-
Per contra, he adds :
ing information concerning the Chinese people.
“ But whatever her blemishes may have been,
It is also manifest — though none of the various
Madame Roland is still the heroine of the Revolution.
It is to her that the eye instinctively turns for a type
writers has taken pains to call attention to it
and symbol of the earlier and finer characteristics of that the utter lack of real comprehension of
that movement, — its quasi-religious enthusiasm, its the yellow race by the white implies and in-
broad philanthropy, its passion for liberty and social cludes an utter lack of real comprehension of
justice, its faith in the original goodness and ultimate
high destiny of man."
the white race by the yellow. A realization
The book is creditably printed, and contains of the fact that everything which we think
about a dozen interesting portraits ; together and civilization stands for a precisely similar
about the Chinese unfavorable to their morals
with pictures of the Abbaye, the Conciergerie,
the parks of Meudon and Versailles, etc. The thought in the Chinese intellect in respect to
our morals and civilization, would do marvels
abiding interest of the subject and the attrac-
tiveness with which it is presented should
toward making the situation comprehensible
make this translation a permanently-useful among the Caucasians. Nor do they suffer
one whit more by the comparison in our eyes
addition to the literature of the Revolution.
than do we in theirs.
JOSIAH RENICK SMITH.
Half the despatches from China and Europe,
since the present fighting-peace or peaceful-
war began, inform the American people that
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Russia has annexed, is annexing, or is about
Signs point to a lack of present interest to annex, Manchuria. Yet Mr. Archibald R.
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our armies in the Orient. No one would pre- says that Manchuria fell into Russian hands
tend that the war in the Philippines is a pop- long before the Boxers began using their fists.
ular war, and events in China fall easily into For the most part, his book is taken up, not
the background of our attention. The real with the menace to British influence in China
interests of our national life lie elsewhere, and by Russian aggression and the advancement of
the pride taken in our army and navy is pride her frontier, but with the menace to the peace
in their past rather than in their present of India and so of all Europe which lies back
achievements. Probably no nation in the world, of Russia's advance in central Asia. Besides
with the possible exception of China, is more describing the peoples now coming under the
desirous of being permitted to mind its own rule of the Tsar, Mr. Colquhoun points out
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and makes plain that the fault lies largely with troduction, from which may be gleaned the
the European governments, which treat the knowledge that here is almost, if not quite,
Chinese government, now as civilized and now the greatest book ever written by anyone on
as barbarian, with neither consistency nor any subject. Mr. Wildman writes within his
justice. Europe, by placing missions and mer- knowledge respecting trade and certain events
chants on equal terms in their diplomatic deal- in recent history; but the attempt to tell too
ings with Chinese officials, does incalculable much within the space defeats itself. A habit
harm to the Christian cause. Yet he states of dogmatic assertion and utter lack of sym-
that much of “the spirit of our Western pathy for the Chinese are serious faults run-
peoples . . . as displayed in dealings with ning through its pages, and the tone of the
Oriental Nations from Turkey to Cbina, is as a book is low. An index is lacking.
foul stench in our nostrils.” The corollary of In less than three hundred pages, Mr. I. C.
this would seem to be that Christendom might Hannah undertakes to tell the “ History of
.
better be christianizing itself than seeking to Eastern Asia” – all that part of the continent,
christianize a people to whom its practices are that is, which is not immediately concerned in
hopelessly irreconcilable with its professions: European history. The work deals more with
.
Germany, for example, gobbling a province in the past than the present, and the amount of
China because two followers of Jesus have space covered leaves it an unsatisfactory achieve-
there been crowned with the palm of mar- ment. Yet the book contains an astonishing
tyrdom.
amount of information, and takes a place of its
“ The Crisis in China" is a symposium from own as an abridgement of the more ponderous
the “ North American Review” put into book histories preceding it. WALLACE RICE.
form. It contains as many authoritative state-
ments of the different phases of the general
subject of China as could be gathered together
in the time permitted, all of them pertinent
RECENT FICTION.*
and some of them worthy of careful study. “Uncanonized," by Miss Margaret Horton Potter,
Mr. Colquhoun appears again, in a paper on is a historical romance of the time of King John.
the crisis, curiously frank, and certain to throw The hero is a natural son of Hubert Walter, Arch-
light on many things besides his subject. He bishop of Canterbury, driven from his knightly
shows that such a democracy as England and
career into the monastic life by the imperious will
the United States possess is of little signifi-
of his father, who seeks his own salvation by this
cance when the question of land-grabbing in
vicarious form of atonement. Having taken the
China comes up, in spite of their land-grab- spirit remains rebellious, and,
although an external
irrevocable vows, he is faithful to them, but his
bing exploits when free from international freedom is beyond his grasp, he asserts for himself
competition. " While the rulers of Russia,
* UNCANONIZED. A Romance of English Monachism. By
Germany, France, and even Belgium, have
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been heading national crusades of productive GOD, THE KING, MY BROTHER. By Mary F. Nixon.
enterprise in China, the governments of Great Boston: L. C. Page & Co.
Britain and the United States have held aloof,
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American Revolution. By Cyrus Townsend Brady. New
and allowed rights and claims to be established York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
to their perpetual exclusion and detriment.” PHILIP WINWOOD. By Robert Neilson Stephens. Boston:
This is the proof of his statement that “we
L. C. Page & Co.
IN CIRCLING CAMPg. By Joseph A. Altsheler. New York:
have seen the superiority, in certain spheres
D. Appleton & Co.
of competition, of governments which lead CONSEQUENCES. A Novel. By Egerton Castle. New
their people, over those of people who lead York: Frederick A. Stokes Co.
TOMMY AND GRIZEL.
their governments." So true is it that En-
By J. M. Barrie. New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons.
gland and America have been taken up into
THE WEST END. A Novel. By Percy White. New York:
the high places of the earth and shown the Harper & Brothers.
kingdoms thereof. Space does not avail even MARCELLE OF THE QUARTER. By Clive Holland. New
York: Frederick A. Stokes Co.
for a specification of the articles in the book,
THE DISHONOR OF FRANK Scott. By M. Hamilton.
but its value is manifest at the present time. New York: Harper & Brothers.
Mr. Rounsevelle Wildman, our consul gen- My NEW CURATE. A Story Gathered from the Stray
eral at Hong Kong, has prepared a book on
Leaves of an Old Diary. By the Rev. P. A. Sheehan, P.P.
“China's Open Door."
Boston: Marlier, Callanan & Co.
Mr. Charles Denby,
THE ALABASTER Box. By Sir Walter Besant. New
formerly our minister to China, writes an in- York: Dodd, Mead & Co.
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an intellectual freedom which impels him to reject with the other book. But it does display the story-
the dogmatism of the official theology, and leads teller's gift, and does not constantly disappoint us
him to martyrdom in the end. Many historical when we approach what bids fair to be a climax.
characters besides that of the King move in these For the rest, it is a tale of the Court of Castile in
pages, the most conspicuous among them being the the fourteenth century, the time of Pedro the Cruel
captive Princess Eleanor of Brittany, to whom the and the Black Prince. There is a persecuted
hero becomes father-confessor, friend, and unavowed maiden, a Spanish villain, and two English squires
lover. The most noteworthy feature of this work who thwart the villain and rescue the heroine.
is found in the writer's conception of John, and in There are duels and ambuscades and perilous ad-
her view of the struggle between King and Pope ventures in rapid succession, and there is not a
which placed England under the Interdict, and led trace of the true historical atmosphere.
to the submission of the royal to the papal will. John Paul Jones is an excellent hero to use for
Miss Potter is not without some warrant for her the purposes of historical fiction, but we fear that
view, although the majority of historical scholars Dr. Brady is in danger of working him too hard.
still incline to the traditional opinion. That John “The Grip of Honor” is the third of this
talented
was such a monster as to defile hell itself with his writer's books, and has the wholesome manliness of
presence may perhaps be taken as the exaggeration tone which distinguished its two predecessors. But
of a vindictive monkish chronicler, but it is never- it is so closely like them in other respects as well
theless a little startling to have him presented to us that we have read it with some sense of disappoint-
as the champion of English liberties, and, on the ment. The author's vein of mingled patriotism and
other band, to have Stephen Langton presented to romantic sentiment seems to be a thin one, although
us as the base tool of an unscrupulous foreign op-
the ore is genuine. The description of the fight be-
pressor. •Miss Potter has not been content with tween the Bonhomme Richard and the Serapis is
the superficial preparation that most writers of his- | certainly thrilling enough to repay the reader for
torical fiction think sufficient for their purpose; she any annoyance by the way.
has instead made a careful and minute study of The romance of the American Revolution seems
her period, and accumulated a really remarkable to be in great favor at the present time, and we
store of information respecting the political history are glad that Mr. R. N. Stephens has taken a hand
of the time, its manners and customs, and particu- in it. His “ Philip Winwood,” while not a work of
larly the conditions of monastic life. The chief the finish or breadth of view that we find in such
defect of “Uncanonized " is that this material is
books as
Hugh Wynne” and “ Richard Carvel”
too much in evidence, for many passages of the and "Janice Meredith," is nevertheless a thoroughly
book are out of place in a work of fiction, however pleasing performance, graceful in diction and in
admirably they would serve the purposes of an sentiment. It is the biography of an American
essay. She has got possession of the facts in great soldier written by a royalist friend, and touches
quantity, she has even arranged them until they upon the whole course of the war, although its in-
are seen in their proper perspective, but she has not terest is primarily domestic.
succeeded in rejecting those that are irrelevant to Mr. Joseph A. Altsheler's "In Circling Camps”
her design. We note this with regret, for her book is a story of the Civil War much above the average.
is in many respects far superior to the run of this The author has shown his skill in dealing with our
sort of fiction; it is serious work, and deserves to two wars with England, and it does not desert him
be treated seriously. The simple truth is that the when he comes down into the modern period of
narrative is so clogged by extraneous matter that our history. From a military point of view, the
there is no freedom of motion left it. As a romance, story has for its climax the fight at Gettysburg,
it drags, and does not reach effective dramatic cli- which is described in the most vivid colors. Equal
If the writer could have devised a few in its way is the earlier description of the defeat,
striking situations, and infused more external ex- afterwards turned into a victory, of Shiloh. The
citement into her work, she would have made it private interest is supplied by a young woman for
one of the most remarkable romances of its kind. whose hand two officers - one Federal and one
As it is, she has produced a book that commands Confederate are rivals. How the former wins
respect, and that gives much promise for the future. her, and escapes with her from under the very nose
What we have just said about Miss Potber's ro- of his enemy, is a story told with much ingenuity.
mance may be illustrated by contrasting the work The sympathies of the book, while turning in favor
with such a romance as Miss Nixon's "God, the of the North, do not a little to make us understand
King, My Brother," which has precisely the element and admire the devotion and the heroism that did
of action in which “ Uncanonized is deficient. such desperate deeds in behalf of the cause that
Here is a story that we remember— for a while, at was foredoomed from the outset.
least - as a story, and yet it is thin and superficial
-a
As a master of the novel in which romantic or
in every important respect. It is not the product sentimental incident forms the chief source of inter-
of one-tenth the thought and industrious study that est, Mr. Egerton Castle is probably unsurpassed by
have gone to the making of “ Uncanonized ”; it any of his contemporaries. And if we set aside
seems the merest romantic trifling when compared | Mr. Hardy and Mr. Meredith, as being obviously
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hors concours, we should hesitate to designate as his contrives to tell a story of real human interest.
superior any other living English writer of fiction. The narrative is in the first person, the narrator
.
It is only a few years since this brilliant novelist being a dependent relative of the wealthy parvenu
appeared upon the horizon, and already his work whose family affairs provide the subject matter.
challenges comparison with all but the best we have. Installed in this household as a sort of private sec-
His new novel, entitled “Consequences," although retary, his shrewd intelligence makes him indispens-
less romantic in setting than “ The Light of Scar- able to the several members of the family, and his
they," is fully as interesting, and readers will be diplomacy is successful in dealing with one critical
glad to know that it is also fully as long. The plot situation after another. His inquisitiveness and
is somewhat threadbare, being that of the man who, double-dealing are not altogether admirable from
becoming involved in a tangle of difficulties, finds the stand point of the strictest ethics, but he keeps
a way out by means of a pretended suicide, and in the good graces of all concerned, and brings to a
begins life over again under a new name. As is satisfactory issue the matters with which be is mixed
usually the case, the consequences of this act pur- up. The light satirical touch of the author enlivens
sue the actor, and in the present instance prove so many a chapter of the book, and is slightly suggestive
fateful that the author could have found no better of the manner of Cherbuliez. We have thought of
title for his book than that one word. But Mr. “Le Secret du Précepteur ” more than once during
Castle's stories, as such, are not.particularly remark- the perusal, which is no mean praise for this enter-
able; what is remarkable about his books is the taining story.
charm of their diction, the richly observant mind Mr. Clive Holland's “Marcelle of the Quarter"
which they reveal, the fine sense of relations and
relations and is a slight story of the Pays latin and the life of
proportions which they illustrate, and the true ring models and studios. The charming heroine is a
of their sympathies. In all these respects, “Con- child left an orphan by the death of the model who
sequences" is a noteworthy novel, and, for readers gave her birth, and adopted by a rising young
intent upon entertainment, will prove a source of English artist. She grows up to be a beautiful
unalloyed pleasure.
woman, and her protector discovers that he loves
Those who followed the boyhood years of “Sen- her otherwise than as an adopted father. The
timental Tommy” with delight in the conception usual young man then appears upon the scene, and
of his character, and amusement at the inventions seeks to win her, but in this case, contrary to the
of his precocious imagination, have been awaiting usual pathetic tradition, she prefers to cling to her
with considerable eagerness the story of his later elderly lover, with whom she is in the end happily
career as a famous writer. Some, impatient of the married. The story is pleasingly told, and is free
delay, have had resort to the last device of the des- from the impure suggestiveness we are apt to asso-
perate impatient, and have been taking “ Tommy ciate with the sort of life which it describes.
and Grizel” on the plan of monthly instalments. “ The Dishonor of Frank Scott," by Miss M.
'We, having awaited the book itself, must now con- Hamilton, is a story told in so winning a fashion
fess to the disappointment which it has occasioned that we are half inclined to excuse the disagreeable,
us. It opens attractively enough, and for a few if not impossible, character of its theme. A hero
chapters seems to promise a sustention of the old in whom there is nothing that can possibly be ad-
charm; but after awhile the writer's invention fails mired is a pretty serious handicap to a work of
him, he resorts to more and more questionable fiction, and it takes some art to interest us in such
expedients to keep the story going, and — we are a person at all. We certainly do get interested in
loath to make the statement — Tommy becomes Frank Scott, although he becomes a bigamist with
distinctly tiresome. We do not mourn his demise his eyes open, bringing shame and misery upon the
when the author gets through with his biography, two women who are attracted by his worthless per-
and are inclined to congratulate Grizel upon having son, and, were his crime any less despicable than it
made a good riddance. The simple fact is that is, we might feel a certain sympathy for him. The
Tommy's imagination assumes a development that writer clearly intends that we should, which consti-
is positively diseased, and the balance of faculty tutes the fatal blot upon her work. The scene is
that we naturally expected would come to him with laid in British India, and shows some familiarity
maturity is nowise attained. Considered even as a with local conditions as far as they affect the life
child of genius he does things that are inexplicable of the English resident.
upon any rational theory, and his vagaries, ceasing The story of “My New Curate,” by the Rev.
to illustrate any consistent conception of character, P. A. Sheehan, has little of the ordinary interest
become as whimsical as those in which Mr. of a work of fiction, but it is better worth reading
Stockton, for example, finds his account. The book than nine novels out of ten. There is no love-story,
is a melancholy illustration of the danger that lies except for an episode of subordinate inportance,
in writing sequels.
and there is nothing in the way of plot, or intrigue,
“ The West End,” by Mr. Percy White, is a or adventure. Just the humble annals of an Irish
novel of English society, written by one who is sea-coast hamlet, related by the parish priest, and
thoroughly conversant with the life of the classes," concerned with the simple incidents of his daily
but who does not take that life too seriously, and ministrations— these, and nothing more, are offered
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us by this unpretentious book. Its appeal is made their romantic past. The volume is nevertheless
to us by force of sheer humanity, and by the grace history in its best sense, written with all the sym-
of the writer's gentle and unaffected piety. Our pathy of an enthusiast, with all the thoroughness of
sympathies are enlisted from the start, and we fol. a scholar, and with the truthful impartiality of the
low with unflagging interest the fortunes of this historian. Indeed, while the book bears evidence
servant of God, this genial old-fashioned scholar of careful investigation into ancient documents and
and priest, as, with the aid of his impetuous and manuscripts, the reader's most lasting impression is
enthusiastic “new curate," he labors for the spirit of Mr. Lang's desire to be absolutely fair and just
ual welfare of his flock. There is something too in his conclusions. Of course there are many times
much of ceremonial and of theological disputation when the historian's careful examination shatters
for the best interests of the book, but this we are some ideal of Scottish romance, yet with apparent
willing to accept for the sake of its humor, its unwillingness and regret. The truth will out, how-
steadfast devotion to the life of the spirit, and its ever, - as when the author finds himself compelled
human characterization. It is the sort of book that to state the barbarities of Wallace, or the many
leaves a pleasant taste, and is closed with reluctance. treacheries of Robert Bruce in his earlier days.
There is something of the same element of simple | The book is by no means easy reading. This does
humanity, of sympathy for our humble fellow-men, not arise from any mustiness of ideas or of facts,
and of the disposition to discern the soul of good but rather because of the multiplicity of details in-
in things evil, about “The Alabaster Box,” Sir corporated into the history. Yet as one reads on
Walter Besant's latest novel. Here we have for and becomes accustomed to the method pursued,
our scene, not an Irish parish, but a London slum,
this difficulty gradually disappears. In spite of the
and for a theme the work of one of those philan- detailed method of statement, there has been created
thropic settlements that have already done so much for the Scottish people, and for each period, an
toward pointing the way for an effective social re- atmosphere in which men and events are seen with
form. The title of the story is symbolical of the true and clear vision. This is the best feature of
devotion that is satisfied with nothing less than the the book, and one attempted by most historians
gift of self
not merely of one's time or means only in the form of separate and didactic statement.
to the cause of suffering humanity. Nothing can Here it is not stated at all, but it is woven, with fine
be too precious for that sacrifice, any more than the technique, into the web of story. Details soon pass
scriptural box of ointment was too precious for its from the memory; but a knowledge of the temper
predestined purpose. This simple story, which is and characteristics of the Scottish people will re-
like the one previously mentioned in its entire lack main to all readers of this history. Volume I.
of the elements from which ordinary fiction derives covers the period from the Roman occupation to
its interest, is concerned wholly with the determi- the murder of Cardinal Beaton.
nation of a young man, the heir of an ill-gotten
fortune, to atone for the wrongs by which that for- Domestic life in
The popularity of a certain order of
tune had been amassed, and restore to society what
New England in books on our colonial period reflects
the 18th century.
bad been wrested from it by the cunning and harsh
the craving of a new nation for a
practices of his father. There is no touch of
historic past. Wealth and power, and the prestige
maudlin sentimentality about the treatment of this
that belong to them, we have beyond dispute. We
theme; the problem is dealt with in a manly and
like, also, to think that we have a remote heroic
courageous fashion, and the outcome is ethically age peculiarly our own and the source of our na-
satisfactory
tional traits and virtues. So, somewhat to the
WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE.
amusement of an old world, with its hoary tradi-
tions of feudal and mediæval times when even
royalty was an innovator, we point proudly to the
day before yesterday as to our golden antiquity,
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
among the relics and muniments of which antiqua-
It is perhaps not unusual for a man rians and geologists may delve. The researches of
MTs cang's history of letters to be tempted from his genealogy have, in particular, been richly rewarded
of Scotland.
accustomed domain into historical of late ; and the American of English descent, and
writing. Like Carlyle, Macaulay, and many others, with a liking for "blood," who cannot boast of a
Mr. Andrew Lang has shown his versatility in a colonial or Revolutionary ancestor or two is poor
new light by bringing out a volume of serious his- indeed. Carping foreigners and satirical citizens
tory. The first volume of his “History of Scot- at home make merry over our new aristocracy of
land” (Dodd, Mead & Co.) has not the excuse of
birth, and meanly point out, among other things,
passionate inspiration which explained Carlyle's that the modern amended passenger list of the
account of the French Revolution ; neither is it, “Mayflower ” would rather tax the carrying ca-
nor is it intended to be, the masterpiece of literary pacity of the “Great Eastern." But we are a great
history which Macaulay's laborious effort resulted nation, and must have all the appanages of greatness,
in. The raison d'être can only be found in Mr. a class of Eupatrids among the rest. Not a few
Lang's love for his home people, and his interest in of the books of which we started out to speak are


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Paul Jones.
-
largely the expression, however, of the scholarly the house in the sixteenth century, is given with a
instinct, and are of no little real value in bringing true appreciation of important events, and with a
to light and preserving records of bygone days clear method. The history of this period has evi-
which future historians must paint. The little vol. dently been studied with thoroughness in such few
ume before us entitled “The Salt-Box House
sources as are available, and other authorities have
(Baker & Taylor Co.), by Mrs. Jane de Forest been freely consulted. Thus the book becomes a
Shelton, is one of these books; and its purpose is
valuable addition to a working library on history,
to portray domestic life in a typical western New or, rather, it would be so were it not for the in.
England town of the eighteenth century. The completeness of the aforementioned index. A
narrative is compiled largely from private papers, masterpiece of historical writing the book is not,
,
and is tinged with a tender and regretful sentiment either in style, or in characterization of races and
for the past, which is evidently genuine. The scene epochs. The style is not bad, it is merely medi-
is laid in the portion of the old Connecticut town ocre, reminding one of the dry dust-and-bones
of Stratford, wbich was once called Ripton ; and writings of pedagogical historians, save only when
the family whose fortunes are chronicled and whose the author has attempted to enliven his narrative
home life is painted belonged to the better class of by humorous comment,— and then the impression
the day and district. The ménage of the “Salt- received is decidedly unfavorable, for such witti-
Box House" was certainly simple enough.
cisms only rob the writing of its dignity without
improving its general tone in the least. That
An excellent
A glamor of mystery bas long en- luminous picture of peoples and of epochs, ex.
biography of shrouded the figure of Paul Jones. pected in these days from writers of general his-
The sketches and biographies of him
tories, is entirely lacking in Mr. Munro's book,-
that have hitherto appeared, leaving much to con- unless, indeed, an exception be made in favor of
jecture, have served to intensify rather than to
the portrayal of Russian political disorder and tur-
dispel it; and thus we have come to picture this moil. This failure is, however, not the fault of the
intrepid and gifted free-lance of the ocean, not so author, but of his subject; for surely it would be
much as a perfectly realizable and relatively mod- difficult for the most gifted historian to evolve any
ern historical character, as a heroic half-mythical exact and clear-cut characterizations from the
figure fixed on the quarter-deck of the “ Ranger” chaotic jumble of Russian politics, rulers, and races,
or the “ Bon Homme Richard,” wrapped in the in their earlier history. The author closes his
smoke of battle. Material enough, however, has account just when the Russian nation begins to
always existed for an authentic and fairly circum- assume a definite entity, and so denies himself the
stantial life of Jones, that should leave untouched
opportunity of showing his ability in dealing with
no essential phase of his strangely varied and roman- a period where the subject people are better known,
tic though somewhat brief career. But the material
and the policy of rulers is more clearly defined.
has been scattered, and much of it not easy of ac- As a whole, the “Rise of the Russian Empire”
cess; and the use that has heretofore been made of is a serviceable book of reference, but it is not a
it bas been most unsatisfactory, wherever an effort
great history.
was made, or ostensibly made, to blend the facts it
conserved into a biographical whole. That a sat-
The Globe School Book Co. signal-
New series of
isfactory life of Jones, which should remove him English classics izes its entrance into the educational
for school use.
from cloud-land and show him to posterity as his
field by issuing ten volumes in a new
American and European contemporaries knew him,
"Star Series of English Classics.” They are de-
awaited only the advent of a writer competent to
voted to the required texts for college entrance, as
undertake it, is amply proved by Mr. A. C. Buell's
follows: Burke on “Conciliation,” edited by Miss
spirited work in two volumes entitled “ Paul Jones, Mary A. Jordan; Coleridge's “ Ancient Mariner,"
Founder of the American Navy” (Scribner). Mr.
edited by Mr. Carlton E. Noyes ; Cooper's “ Last
Buell has ransacked the records, private and official,
of the Mohicans," edited by Dr. William Strunk,
and consulted and collated the authorities, English Jr.; George Eliot’s “Silas Marner,” edited by Dr.
and foreign. The book is really the fruit of pains- Arthur H. Quinn; Goldsmith's “ Vicar of Wake-
taking research and extended effort; and no student field,” edited by Professor William Hand Browne;
of our maritime history can afford to neglect it. It Milton's shorter poems, edited by Professor Edward
is neatly gotten up, and contains two portraits (one E. Hale, Jr.; Scott's “ Ivanhoe,” edited by Pro-
in colors) of Jones, and a few other cute.
fessor Carroll L. Maxey; Shakespeare's "Macbeth,"
edited by Professor Wilbur L. Cross; Shakespeare's
A serviceable
Mr. Hector H. Munro's account of “Merchant of Venice,” edited by Miss Helen Gray
reference-book of - The Rise of the Russian Empire Cone; and Tennyson's " The Princess,” edited by
Russian history. (L. C. Page & Co.) would be an Miss Mary Bowen. Great pains have been taken
excellent reference-book if it were supplied with a to supply these editions with trustworthy texts, and
good index. The statement of the rise of the the editorial apparatus includes, in several cases
Rurikovitch dynasty, from the time of the first at least, a considerable amount of special pedagog-
Russ-Varongian invaders in 862 to the extinction of ical material in the shape of questions, rhetorical
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its relation
exercises, and suggestions for study. The volumes know about, the original of the homespun hero of
all have illustrations, rather elaborate introductions, Mr. Westcott's widely-read novel. This original,
and notes, the latter appearing at the end. The we learn, was one David Hannum, a quaint village
series seems to us an altogether admirable one, and character of northern New York, whom a former
augurs well for the future activity of the new firm neighbor describes as “an ordinary sort of an amus-
of publishers.
ing cuss,” a characterization which Mr. Vance's
The law in
What is variously known as medical
pages rather serve to bear out. Mr. Westcott must
jurisprudence, or forensic medicine,
be credited with having turned a most unpromising
to physicians.
is taught in the law schools of the subject to good account in his novel. The book is
United States by lawyers and in the medical schools copiously illustrated from photographs.
by physicians. It was suggested, some years ago,
A volume on Stonewall Jackson by
that the latter institutions of learning would be bene- Short Lives of
Mr. Carl Hovey, and one on Sam
fitted in no small degree by hearing lawyers discu88 great Americans.
he problems arising on the confines of law and of
Houston by Mrs. Sarah Barnwell
medicine as well, presenting another point of view,
Elliott, are pleasant as well as profitable little vol-
and that the one invariably held when medicine is
umes in the “ Beacon Biographies” series (Small,
called in to assist in the determination of litigation, Maynard & Co.): Young readers particularly will
.
be delighted with these crisp, vivid, and direct lit-
whether civil or criminal. As a text-book to this
end, in part, is to be considered “The Law in its
tle narratives, the former of which is of especial
value by reason of the formative impression it gives
Relation to Physicians” (Appleton), by Mr. Arthur
of a high and steadfast, if severely simple, character.
N. Taylor, LL.B., of the New York bar. Mr.
No story of frontier adventure yields in interest
Taylor has embodied in a duodecimo of rather
to the true tale of the life of Sam Houston; and
more than five hundred pages a mass of adjudi-
Mrs. Elliott tells it well. Both authors seem to
cated cases which should serve as a complete guide
to the medical practitioner, so far as his legal re-
have made good use of the authorities ; and ample
references are supplied for those who care to pursue
sponsibilities for his professional contact with his
the subject further in fuller and weightier works.
patients is concerned, with such lessons drawn from
Each volume has its portrait.
them as can be naturally inferred in a science so
inexact as the law. The work covers all matters on
both the civil and criminal sides of medical juris-
prudence, and is enlivened by many curious and
BRIEFER MENTION.
entertaining incidents.
The library edition of the writings of Alphonse
Daudet, for some time in course of publication by
Written from
Mr. Henry Clews's book entitled
Messrs. Little, Brown, & Co., should now, we imagine,
the Wall street “ The Wall Street Point of View"
although we have lost the count, be well on the way
point of view.
(Silver, Burdett & Co.) is the clear- toward completion. The two volumes just added to
cut and incisive statement of the opinions on cur- the set contain the three “ Tarascon " novels, besides a
rent questions, political, financial, and commercial, collection of sketches and short stories called “Studies
of a keen and prosperous man of business who has and Landscapes.” Those volumes have been translated
“succeeded in life,” and is therefore pretty generally by Miss Wormeley with her customary skill, and no
satisfied with things as he found them. In point slight addition to their attractiveness is made by the
of ideals, Mr. Clews does not, as Emerson phrased
special introductory essays which Professor W. P. Trent
contributes. The first two “ Tartarin ”books have a
it, exactly “bitch his wagon to a star”; but his book
volume together ; the other volume contains “ Port
is full of hard sense if not of high thinking. Among Tarascon and the miscellany already noted.
the topics treated are the Railroad Question, Trusts
Among the latest issues in the “ Temple Classics"
and Corporations, Panics and their Indications,
(Dent-Macmillan), chief interest attaches to the first
Speculation and Business, the Cleveland Adminis- volume in what will eventually form a complete English
tration, the Masses and the Classes, the Nation's translation of the old thirteenth-century allegory of
Credit, etc. There is a leaven of illustrative anec- “ The Romance of the Rose.” The translator who has
dote throughout, and the style is easy and colloquial.
undertaken this formidable task is Mr. F. S. Ellis,
The “ business man” will find Mr. Clews's book whose previous work in the same field will be gratefully
pleasant and satisfying reading, and an arsenal of
remembered. The inclusion of this important literary
useful " points."
undertaking in such a series as the “ Temple Classics
reflects no little credit on the enterprise of the publish-
Such difficult readers as feel that
Other recent volumes in the same series include
Genesis of
the hero of a they would like to know more of
“Tully's Offices," in the English of Roger L'Estrange;
popular novel.
“David Harum” than can be got
Areopagitica, and Other Tracts," by John Milton ;
Vols. III. to V. in the ten-volume edition of Caxton's
from the popular novel of that name, may find
version of “ The Golden Legend ”; the first of five vol-
their account in the little book called “ The Real
umes containing the Essays of Lord Macaulay; and
David Harum” (Baker & Taylor Co.), by Mr. William Hazlitt's “ Essays on the English Comic Wri-
Arthur T. Vance, who tells us all about, or quite as ters." The last-named volume has the additional recom-
much as the most exacting reader ought to want to mendation of Mr. Austin Dobson's editorial supervision.
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which cover the whole course of English history, even
NOTES.
including the war in South Africa. Documentary and
A “Grammar School Arithmetic,” by Mr. A. R.
descriptive or narrative material are provided in about
Hornbrook, has just been published by the American equal parts, and a valuable bibliography greatly en-
Book Co.
hances the usefulness of the work.
“ A Christmas Sermon,” by Robert Louis Stevenson,
The Jewish Publication Society of America, encour-
is a charming booklet publication of Messrs. Charles aged by the success of the “ American Jewish Year
Scribner's Sons.
Book," published last year, have issued a second vol-
Messrs. Ginn & Co. publish “The Foundations of
ume for the year just ended, and expect to make the
French,” a text-book by Messrs. Fred D. Aldrich and publication a regular annual undertaking. The work
Irving L. Foster.
is greatly increased in size and consequently in useful-
Messrs. B. H. Sanborn & Co. send us “ A Beginner's
ness for reference.
Book in Latin," the work of Messrs. Hiram Tuell and
The Valois romances of Alexandre Dumas have been
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two farces by Mr. W. D. Howells, now published in
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Dr. Lyman C. Newell's “ Experimental Chemistry"
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recent educational publication of the American Book Co.
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work upon the subject, and is published by the Amer-
consideration.
ican Book Co.
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editing so acceptably, seem to have justified their ex-
istence from the publishers' point of view, since every
tary to the one offered in a previous volume by the
year brings a new volume to the series. Mrs. Brown-
same author.
ing is the poet now presented, with the accompaniment
Mr. Frederic Harrison's “The Meaning of History of a graceful introductory essay, and a few pages of
and Other Historical Pieces," which is one of the most useful notes.
interesting volumes of essays that late years have pro-
Two " Temple Primers,” in addition to those pre-
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viously noticed by us, are “ The Human Frame and the
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Laws of Health,” by Drs. Rebmann and Seiler ; and
Thackeray's “English Humourists," edited with
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much interesting apparatus by Professor W. L. Phelps, They are published by the Macmillan Co. The same
is the newest volume in the series of “ English Read-
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ings” which have been in course of publication by the “ Letters of Matthew Arnold,” edited by Mr.
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Scott's “ Ivanhoe,” edited by Mr. A. M. Hitchcock ; ated stress upon alcohol and tobacco, although the
Carlyle's essay on Burns, edited by Mr. Willard c.
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edited by Mrs. Margaret J. Frick, are three new this sort.
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Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Co. are the American
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of late years, and both now reappear in new and cheap- monthlies, bespeak the favorable consideration of the
ened editions from the press of the J. B. Lippincott Co. most intelligent class of readers. An editorial section
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Nothing is more gratifying to those actively interested a feature which we trust will be continued. In appear-
in the teaching of history than the recent multiplication ance, the new review distances all its rivals. Its dig-
of books and pamphlets containing source-material in nity and beauty of type, page, and cover, place the
easily accessible form. The latest publication of this periodical in a class of its own, and set a standard which
description is the “Source-Book of English History" others would do well to imitate. Finally, we mention
(Holt) prepared by Dr. Guy Carleton Lee. It is a the fact that there are illustrations which really illus-
thick volume of six hundred pages, containing extracts trate.
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books of Interest to Thoughtful Readers
9
.
MCLOUGHLIN AND OLD PRIVATE MEMOIRS OF
OREGON
MADAME ROLAND
A Chronicle
Edited, with an Introduction
By EVA EMERY DYE
By EDWARD GILPIN JOHNSON
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A Romance of
erty, and her condemnation to
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the guillotine, are here set
ENGLISH MONACHISM
crammed with incidents that it
forth in her own words in the
reads like a frontier romance.
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MEMOIRS
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OF
OF THE
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