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FREDERICK MAX MÜLLER
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SHAKESPEARE OR BALZAC : WHICH IS
GREATER? Hiram M. Stanley
347
348
COMMUNICATION .
Mr. Warner as an Editor. L.
EVOLUTION.
THE GREAT APOSTLE OF
Charles A. Kofoid
349
.
THE RULERS OF SOUTHERN ITALY. Josiah
Renick Smith
352
FREDERICK MAX MÜLLER.
The death of Max Müller brings up again
the old question concerning the importance of
the popularizer as an agent for the advance-
ment of science, and sets once more in sharp
contrast the attitudes respectively assumed
toward such a man by the reading public and
the body of quiet scientific workers. Max
Müller, like Renan, Froude, Huxley and Tyn-
dall — to name only a few of his famous con-
temporaries — had in preëminent degree the
gift of style, the charm of graceful literary
art, and the power to interest ordinary minds
in subjects not easily forced upon their atten-
tion. This was at once his bane as a scbolar
and the secret of his popular success. Trans-
ferring our attention for a moment from the
individual to the group which he so typically
illustrated, we must say that the attitude to-
ward such men of those critics who stand for
the methods of pure science is apt to be very
upgracious, being compounded of no small
amount of intellectual arrogance, and even of
envy, mingled with the more legitimate ele-
ments that derive from the sense of superior
knowledge and firmer hold upon the facts. In
the view
of the extremer devotees of pure sci-
ence, it becomes a misdemeanor to write attrac-
tively, and a felony to achieve popularity with
the laity. Sometimes, as was notably true in
the case of Renan, the offence is reckoned so
great that the offender receives only the most
grudging sort of recognition from his fellow-
workers in the same field, although in their
hearts they are conscious that he stands abreast
of the strongest of them, even when judged by
the most exacting standards. He has ventured
to be popular, and the fact that he has re-
mained rigorously scientific does not remove
the stigma in the eyes of these self-constituted
guardians of scholarship.
Max Müller was far from being a philolo-
gist and a student of comparative religion in
the sense in which Renan was both, and his
intellectual armor was doubtless vulnerable at
many points ; nevertheless, it is unquestionably
}
true that he accomplished much work of solid
value, and deserved well of science for his
services. That science, especially as repre-
A CHILD OF MANIFEST DESTINY. Edward E.
Hale, Jr.
354
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a
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357
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NOTES
362
LIST OF NEW BOOKS
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sented by the younger school of men trained publication of his books, and the honors be-
at the German universities, has done him stowed upon him by potentates and by learned
something less than justice, is a fact that must societies. Strange to say, this life-long stu-
be admitted by the impartial observer. If he dent of Indian thought and language never
failed in accuracy of knowledge, if he could visited the land which engaged so large a
not overcome certain intellectual prejudices, share of his attention. He was one of the
if he did not keep abreast of the scholarship most famous of Orientalists, but he never set
of his time, his was still a larger personality foot in an Oriental country.
than that of many a critic who assailed him, Müller rode his hobbies very hard, and per-
and who, without one-tenth of his actual ac- haps the hardest ridden of them all was his
complishment, affected to hold his authority way of accounting for mythology as a disease
beneath serious consideration.
of language. Finding the names of the Greek
Max Müller was born in Dessau in 1823, and Hindu deities to be words traceable to
and was a son of the poet Wilhelm Müller. the phenomena of nature — the sun, the sky,
The artistic temperament which was thus his and the clouds — he theorized to the effect
birthright came near to making of him a that all mythology resulted from primitive
musician instead of a scholar, and resulted in descriptions of natural objects, the sense in
at least one piece of purely literary compo- which the words were used gradually becom-
sition, the “ Deutsche Liebe" of his youth, ing modified into metaphorical meanings, until
an exquisite bit of refined sentimentalism long the literal signification of the terms had been
familiar to English readers in the translation quite forgotten. This seemed to be a key
entitled Memories." He studied Sanskrit at that would fit almost any of the locks of folk-
Leipzig, and translated the “Hitopadesa” at lore and popular theology, and with it be
the age of twenty-one. Continuing his Sans-sought to reveal the innermost secrets of the
krit studies under Bopp and Burnouf, he went classical and Oriental cosmogonies. It was a
to England in 1846 for the purpose of editing very popular theory a generation ago, and had
,
the 66
Rig Veda,” a commission given him by things its own way with the general public.
the East India Company. This great under- It was so easy, and at the same time so pleas-
taking, which was, however, in large part pering to the poetic sense, to reduce every primi-
formed by another hand, occupied him largely tive belief to some variation of the omnipres.
for nearly thirty years, the last of the six ent solar myth that readers were quite capti-
volumes being dated as late as 1874. He vated by the notion. But
But the thing was
made his home at Oxford, and became succes- overdone, and a sense of humor began to exert
sively a member, a fellow, a sub-librarian, and its corrosive action upon this too pleasing
a professor of the University. In 1875, he theory, until solar myths lost their favor, and
practically resigned his chair, and gave his few are now so poor to do them reverence.
chief attention to the work of editing “The Müller had many quarrels and controver-
Sacred Books of the East," a series that event- sies in his special field of Sanskrit, and in the
,
ually numbered thirty or forty volumes. wider field of comparative philology, but these
Among the almost innumerable publications need not concern us here. His one great
of his busy half-century of writing, mention quarrel with modern scientific thought was
,
should be made of his “ Lectures on the Sci- based upon his view of the origin of human
ence of Language,” his “Chips from a German speech. During the sixties and seventies,
Workshop,” his “History of Sanskrit Liter- when Darwinism was having pretty much its
ature," his Hibbert lectures on “ The Origin own way with most classes of thinkers, from
and Growth of Religions," and his “Science naturalists to philosophers, it encountered what
of Thought.” Nor should we fail to include seemed to be a very ugly snag in the oppo-
a
in this list the translation of Kant's “ Kritik sition of Müller, based upon strictly philo-
der Reinen Vernunft,” which he made upon logical grounds.
logical grounds. The theory of evolution
the occasion of the centenary of that great seemed to offer no way of accounting for the
work, and which is so significant of his con- beginning of intelligible speech, and, although
stant adherence to the Kantian system and Darwinians were convinced that this difficulty
the Kantian method of envisaging philosoph. could not be a real one, they were nevertheless
ical problems. His fifty and more years of put to their wits' ends to deal with it as it was
Oxford life have been comparatively unevent- presented in Müller's cogent argument. The
ful, save for the delivery of his lectures, the process of development, he said, could readily


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a
.
enough be traced back to the roots of a lan-writer for these pages, stiffened to the end the
guage, but there it seemed to stick. The intellectual processes of the brilliant scholar
Aryan roots were perfectly definite symbols whose death we now deplore, and impeded their
for definite concepts, and they seemed to have free and natural operation. There is no re-
no reasonably imaginable antecedents. “There proach in this, but there is some occasion for
they are, gentlemen,” he said in substance, regret that a thinker of Müller's capacity should
6 and what are you going to do about it? have been kept many years behind his age by
The “bow.wow” theory, which ascribed to the trammels of a system that had long since
them an onomatopoetic character, was too accomplished its work.
childish for serious consideration, and the
“pooh-pooh” theory, which sought to explain
them as the primitive symbols of emotional
conditions, was quite inadequate to account
SHAKESPEARE OR BALZAC: WHICH
for them. During his later years, Müller
IS GREATER?
himself seemed to feel that bis negative atti- The most notable apparition in the world of let-
tude toward the most pregnant conception of ters since Goethe is Balzac. In the last half-century
modern philosophy was hardly becoming a Balzac has gained immensely in the esteem of both
man of science, and he came to realize that the people and the critics, until of late it is being
the mere lack of a reasonable theory of the proclaimed, “ A greater than Shakespeare is here."
If we would compare
the greatest
of dramatists
origin of language was not enough to make
men believe that it had no rational origin. His
with the greatest of novelists, we might well set
own view became considerably modified by the
over against each other such masterpieces as “ King
Lear” and “Old Goriot.” Which of these tragedies
speculations of Professor Noiié, and be ac-
of base filial ingratitude affects us the more power-
cepted the “yo-heave-ho” theory, which ac-
*-
fully? Neither Lear nor Goriot are heroic figures.
counted for the mysterious roots as a product of Lear is full of a teasing petulance, is full of com-
the clamor concomitans of men engaged in plaints and curses against his ungrateful daughters,
common labor as providing at least a provis- and insists to selfishly and importunately upon his
ional method for the solution of the problem. paternal rights to verbal and actual gratitude that
As a matter of fact, this problem, as well as our sympathy is chilled. He frets and fumes too
the allied problem of accounting for thought
much to be a convincing hero. As against this,
without language, no longer seems as formidable
the uncomplaining devotion and ceaseless sacrifice
of Goriot are perfect. Lear bestows merely his
as it did a generation ago. The doctrine of
;
evolution carries with it the absolute
necessity kingdom, and clamors for gratitude; Goriot be.
stows everything, to life itself; and utters no bitter,
for the evolution of speech by some natural reproaching word. Yet Goriot is so petty and weak
process, and the exact nature of that process is
and narrow and sordid that the heroic vanishes,
a matter of detail that science may safely be and we see merely a display of stupid instinct.
trusted to make clear. As for Müller's con- Neither Lear nor Goriot evince real magnanimity;
tention that thought is impossible without lan- both are ignoble. And Lear, as an unreasonable,
guage, it may be said that Whitney's acute querulous dotard, leads us to somewhat excuse his
polemic assailed it with considerable success a
daughters. Indeed, Lear himself in his sanest mo-
generation ago, and that the natural psychology
ment practically acknowledges that their conduct is
not groundless, when he says that he is “more
of the past score of years, as contrasted with
sinned against than sinning.' His daughters show
the artificial psychology of an earlier period, consideration, and even more, when Regan says :
has made it evident that thought and language “For his particular, I'll receive him gladly,
are parallel developments, to neither of which
But not one follower."
can any absolute priority be assigned. Perhaps The sentiment is echoed by Goneril. But Goriot,
the clearest exposition of this scientific view is ever patient and humble, gives not the slightest
that made by Romanes about fifteen years ago. pretext for the immeasurable heartlessness of his
In this, as in many other matters, Müller's frivolous daughters. If, then, the object of tragedy
intellect never quite escaped from the meta-
is to awaken pity in the beholder, Goriot is the
physical stage of development, a fact wbich is
more convincing figure of the two, is much the
best illustrated by his thorougbgoing accept-
finer and completer creation.
We might go on to point out that Eugenie Gran-
ance of the Kantian philosophy as the final
det is in some ways superior to Juliet, and Nanon to
expression of metaphysical thought. “That Juliet's nurse, and certainly Grandet is superior to
last infirmity of the philosophic mind,” as the Shylock. As an analyst of the bourgeoisie, Balzac
“Kantian superstition ” is styled by a recent is incomparable; he knows them to the finger-tips,
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for he is one of them. In depicting the passion for we must grant that Balzac does not offend us with
pelf, he far outdistances Shakespeare and all com- the Zolaistic coarseness of Shakespeare. Balzac
petitors. Further, a quality which adds much to gives us Leonardesque portraits, drawn, framed,
our enjoyment of Balzac's works is the sympathy and embellished with infinite and loving care; while
for his creations which we imbibe from Balzac him- Shakespeare presents rough Rembrantesque etchings
self. That is, in Balzac we find a fascinating lyric which tell the whole story in a few powerful lines.
tone quite lacking to the serene and cold dramatic And we need not enlarge upon the obvious fact that
objectivity of Shakespeare. With what a rare gusto Shakespeare has in the highest degree those very
Balzac enters into the life of his Comedie Hu. important elements in which Balzac is entirely
maine! With what a vital intensity he feels for lacking,
lacking, - namely, humor and poetry. In short,
the living and breathing people of his real world! Shakespeare is the greater genius; yet just because
He enlists our sympathy not only by the general he is playwright and his mise en scène archaic, we
tone of his narrative, but by definite appeals; as read him out of a sense of duty, but Balzac out of
when he says of Nanon, “At twenty-two years of delight.
HIRAM M. STANLEY.
age the poor girl had been unable to find a situa-
tion, 80 repulsive was her face to almost everyone.”
But Shakespeare never makes such an impression
COMMUNICATION.
upon our feelings; we cannot conceive that he
laughed or wept with his creations.
MR. WARNER AS AN EDITOR.
Another advantage that Balzac has over Shake-
(To the Editor of TAE DIAL.)
speare is that he belongs not to the age of spectators,
but of readers. The demands of stagecraft and of
In your appreciative farewell to Charles Dudley
Warner, in your last issue, occur these words: “He
a vulgar audience so hamper Shakespeare in the
was the nominal editor of the Library of the World's
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we think it a thousand pities that he had not en- sizes, in an especially misleading fashion, the impres-
joyed the scope and freedom of the novel. As sion that the real burden of that work fell upon other
appealing to the spectator and the hearer, rather shoulders.
than to the reader, Shakespeare uses broad and
Many circumstances combine to urge prompt and
striking effects, almost neglecting the half-tones.
earnest protest against this erroneous statement. One
Since the novelist's art is greater and more signifi-
of the chief temptations at present besetting our suo-
cant than the dramatist's, we can never cease
cessful literary workers is the opportunity to sell their
names, as a means of advertising work which is not in
regretting that Shakespeare was not a novelist
the full sense their own. That some well-known men
from whom also we could have had a Comedie
have actually yielded to such golden baits, seems certain.
Humaine, which might be dramatized with sur- Against all such commercialism, degrading to the artist
passing force. For the future, certainly, the drama and to our national life generally, Mr. Warner has pro-
tends to base itself in the higher art of the novel. tested often in ringing words. His recent series of
But if we regret that Shakepeare was a play-
romances was perhaps marred, as a work of art, by too
writer, we regret still more that he followed the
strenuous insistance upon just such notes of warping.
fashion of his time and gave his characters the
The cynics will rejoice to accept any intimation that
he himself drifted with the current.
mediæval setting of courts and kings. Old Goriot
A leading editorial writer of THE DIAL contributed
is vastly nearer to us than King Lear; that Lear
more signed articles to Mr. Warner's “ “ Library than
cannot have a retainer more or less, is a motif of any other contributor. That writer's well-earned repute
as little interest to us as the lack of
proper
funeral for fairness, accuracy, and caution, added as it inevita-
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speare is that, despite the setting of lords and un- itself, will render this statement hard indeed to contro-
derlings, the vitality of a common humanity still vert. Yet it would probably have been felt by Mr.
touches the modern mind. But Balzac is absolutely
Warner as the most injurious and misleading assertion
modern and democratic; we breathe not the at-
that could have been made concerning him. Certainly
mosphere of courts but of shops ; we see and recog-
the present writer is unable to characterize it in softer
nize a life which pulsates in myriad forms around us.
terms. The circumstances, then, justify frankness.
The classical field was doubtless the one large historic
But it may be said, and rightly, that Shakespeare, demesne of literature in which Mr. Warner felt least
although a playwright depicting an outgrown type willing to trust bis own knowledge and judgment. In
of society, is infinitely above Balzac in universality this department, and no other, he states in his final note
and grasp. The characters of Shakespeare bave that one of his assistants “bad charge." The present
a wholeness of creation, are many-sided, many-
letter is based on fullest knowledge of that department
motived real men and women ; while Balzac's char-
during the issue of twenty-two out of the thirty vol.
acters are too often puppets pulled by a single string.
Mr. Warner in every case decided whether an
Shakespeare gives us the condensed perfect essence
author should appear at all, and how much space should
be allotted him. His test was, invariably, Can one or
of reality -- the ideal of realism and the realism of
the ideal. Moreover, Shakespeare achieves reality
more quoted passages be presented, of interest and
value to readers at the present day? If not, no mere
in a single stroke ; the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet
name could assure admission. No assignment of the
is as real in one page as Nanon in fifty — though biographical essay was authorized, without careful in-
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as we
quiry as to the literary capacity and taste of the pro- reflect in any way upon the literary integrity of the
posed writer. Not one such essay, even from Miss late Mr. Warner, we can only say that nothing
Preston or Professor Shorey, was sent to the printer could have been farther from our thought. As far
until Mr. Warner had given it at least one careful
as our experience went during the publication of
uninterrupted critical perusal. The galley and page
proofs also received his unremitting scrutiny. Essays
the work, it seemed to show that a very large share
by eminent scholars, though paid for in full, were cast
of the correspondence and other editorial functions
aside because they did not satisfy Mr. Warner's demand
was assumed by Mr. George H. Warner, although
for intrinsic interest and literary form. So able an of course under the general direction of his bro-
essayist as the late Thomas Davidson recast every page ther. As a'mere matter of the days and hours
of his paper on Sappho, under strictures from the given to the work, we supposed it fair to say that
editor-in-chief.
the larger credit should be given to Mr. George
I am assured by those who know best, that every
Warner; but we had no intention of implying that
page in the thirty volumes of the “Library” received
the editor-in-chief did not hold the reins in his
the same conscientious attention. We may well believe
hands all the time, or that he was the mere figure-
that a work so extensive was never prepared, in so brief
a time, more fully under one alert eye, and informed
head that our use of the word “ nominal ” might,
by the spirit of one man. It is true that every worker
now see, be taken to indicate. On the
felt encouraged to use all his capacities with the largest whole, the protest of our correspondent takes the
freedom; but that freedom was precisely one of the form of a statement so interesting that we are not
qualities brought to the task by Mr. Warner's genial sorry to have been its innocent provoking cause.
open-minded catholic nature. He never tolerated the Edrs. THE DIAL.]
mere scissors-and-paste work so dismally familiar in
too many big books. The group of younger writers
gathered about him in those days can never cease to be
grateful for his inspiration, his searcbing and stimulat-
The New Books.
ing criticism, his unflagging sympathy. If any other
shoulders lightened the editorial load, it was Mrs.
Runkle's. The volume of brief lyrics, in particular,
THE GREAT APOSTLE OF EVOLUTION.*
was actually edited by her. But she often declared,
as did Mr. Warner himself, that she was first called in
As Professor Huxley, on his memorable
precisely because, through many years of professional visit to America in 1876, entered New York
comradeship, she had come to know Mr. Warner's harbor on the steamer “Germanic," he was
literary ideals and methods as well as he did himself. greatly interested in the tug-boats which tore
As to the rest of us, let me still take space for one
typical illustration, at my own expense. Mr. Warner
fiercely up and down and across the bay. He
had read in early life, and recalled with delight, the
looked long at them, and finally turned to Mr.
lives of the philosophers by “ Diogenes Laertius." He Smalley and said : “If I were not a man I think
insisted that the sketch of Socrates, in particular, must I should like to be a tug.” This casual remark
go in. After a week or two spent in repairing his own
not only exbibited his delight in the restless
blank ignorance, the classical editor reported with em-
phasis, “ It is a medley of misstatements in the original, energy which he saw displayed, but in a very
and made doubly idiotic by the atrocious Bohn perver-
true sense also reflects the spirit and the life-
sion." " Very well, then, make your own translation.” work of the man who uttered it. Evolutionist,
“ But Diogenes himself is a bewildered plagiarist, an agnostic, biologist, controversialist, reformer,
egregious ass.”. “Very likely; say so as bluntly as you essayist, philosopher, investigator, and teacher,
please, in half-page I ,
and I want him in. A lot of him, too !” And eventu-
he was always and everywhere the practical
ally Diogenes got his fourteen pages, over which the
man in affairs but not of them, carrying an
great editor renewed his youthful glee. Lysias, exempli Atlas load of the world's work, and tirelessly
gratia, and his precious old olive-stump, are alike un-
seeking to move, to guide, and to control the
mentioned, for converse reasons. The “Library,” like
every large book, has flaws and uneven places; but the
thought of his age in the shifting tide of public
face of Mr. Warner shines out from every page.
opinion. The restless activity of this versatile
I am sure all who know the truth will be eager to leader is evident on every page of the “ Life
state it more strongly than has been possible in this and Letters " edited by his son, Mr. Leonard
letter. Certainly no one, here unnamed, has a right
Huxley.
to sbare, in any appreciable degree, the real editorial
responsibility for the “ Library." Its form and its It is quite impossible to summarize these
spirit express, more than all else, the unwearying
letters to the brilliant galaxy of correspondents,
energy, devotion, wisdom, and taste of Charles Dudley men eminent in science, in philosophy, in poli-
Warner.
L.
tics, in education, and in literature. Foremost,
Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 3, 1900.
as might be expected, are the names of Darwin,
[We cheerfully acknowledge that our correspond Spencer, Tyndall, Hooker, Haeckel, Romanes,
ent had better opportunities than our own to know
* LIFE AND LETTERS OF THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY. By
just how the great " Library” was edited, and if his son, Leonard Huxley. In two volumes. With Portraits
what we wrote upon the subject has been taken to and Illustrations. New York : D. Appleton & Co.
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Clifford, Clodd, and others who shared in the have been variously reported. We learn that
battle for Evolution. To these must be added the most accurate account is that of Mr. J. R.
the names of many prominent biologists in Green, as follows:
England and on the Continent, and a few from “I asserted — and I repeat — that a man has no
America. In literary circles, Huxley corres-
reason to be ashamed of having an ape for bis grand-
ponded with Charles Kingsley, Matthew
father. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel
shame in recalling it would rather be a man — a man
Arnold, Jowett, Lecky, John Morley, and
of restless and versatile intellect — who, not content
Tennyson. The wealth of scientific, philosophic, with an equivocal † success in his own sphere of activ-
and literary lore in these two volumes of letters ity, plunges into scientific questions with which he has
may
be inferred from this choice list of corres-
no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless
rhetoric, and distract the attention of his bearers from
pondents, but this gives no hint of the inimit-
the real point at issue by eloquent digressions and
able style in which Huxley wrote what for us skilled appeals to religious prejudice."
is a running comment on the topics of his times.
No doubt Huxley enjoyed a good fight. In
And they were momentous times. The corres-
1859 he wrote Darwin, “I am sharpening
pondence covers the period from 1850 to 1895,
years which saw the promulgation and elabora-
up my claws and beak in readiness.” Again,
“ .
tion of the Theory of Organic Evolution and the writing to Haeckel à propos of his " Morphol
ogie," he says:
accumulation of evidence in its support ; the
“With respect to the polemic excursus,
of course, I
extension of this idea into the fields of philoso- chuckle over them most sympathetically, and then say
phy and religion, though not without a long, how naughty they are ! I have done too much of the
a
vigorous, and often bitter conflict with the same sort of thing not to sympathize entirely with you ;
established forms of thought; the multiplica- and I am much inclined to think that it is a good thing
tion of educational agencies, and the enlarge public war-dance against all sorts of humbug and im-
for a man, once at any rate in his life, to perform a
ment of educational ideals by the development posture.”
of scientific and technical instruction at the
To John Morley concerning one of his critics :
great centres of culture ; and lastly, though not “Controversy is as abhorrent to me as gin to a
yet fully accomplished, the revision of theo- reclaimed drunkard ; but oh dear! it would be so nice
l
logical dogma. In all of these changes,
to squelch tbat pompous impostor.”
Huxley played no small part. His services to His persistency in following up his attacks
Evolution are evidenced by his published appears in a letter to his son in regard to his
works, more than a third of the eighty-seven opposition to “General” Booth's financial
-
essays listed in the appendix being devoted to project for the relief of London's poor :
this theme. He was also the platform expo- “ Attacking the Salvation Army may look like the
nent of the Evolutionary propaganda, and well advance of a forlorn hope, but this old dog has never
deserves the title of the “Great Apostle of
yet go
after fixing his teeth into anything or any-
body, and he is not going to begin now. And it is only
Evolution,” though he himself thus modestly
a question of holding on.
estimates his services in a letter to the Bishop The following lines from his private journal,
of Ripon :
written at the birth of his eldest son in 1856,
“ As for me, in part from force of circumstance and
in part from a conviction I could be of most use in that
reveal the sincerity of Huxley's motives, his
way, I have played the part of something between love of truth as he saw it, and hatred of a lie:
maid-of-all-work and gladiator-general for Science, « To smite all humbugs, however big ; to give a
and deserve no such prominence as your kindness bas nobler tone to science ; to set an example of abstinence
assigned to me."
from petty personal controversies, and of toleration
His matchless skill in controversy undoubt for everything but lying ; to be indifferent as to whether
edly won for Huxley his widest renown.
His the work is recognized as mine or not, so long as it is
done :- are these my aims ? 1860 will show."
famous bon mot at the Oxford meeting of the
British Association in 1860, where he helped The same spirit breathes in a courteous letter
to extort a fair hearing for Darwin's ideas,
to Rev. E. McLure, written in 1891 :
will long be remembered. In the course of
“So far as I know myself, after making due deduc-
tion for the ambition of youth and a fiery temper,
the discussion, Bishop Wilberforce rallied
which ought to (but unfortunately does not) get cooler
Huxley on his descent from a monkey. The
with age, my sole motive is to get at the truth in all
tactical advantage which this descent to per- things. I do not care one straw about fame, present or
sonalities gave was instantly grasped by Hux-
posthumous, and I loathe notoriety, but I do care to
have that desire manifest and recognized.”
ley, who, turning to his neighbor, said, “The
Lord hath delivered him into my hands ! ”
Huxley's scientific achievements were soon
The exact words used in this impromptu reply tHuxley had no recollection of using the word "equivocal."
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recognized by memberships in learned societies
called it peace.
Trustees have sometimes made a pal-
conferred upon him at home and abroad. At
ace and called it a university.”
the time of his death he was connected with In the preface to the American edition of
more than seventy-five such organizations. His these letters, Mr. Leonard Huxley calls atten-
leadership was also acknowledged in England tion to the cordial reception accorded to his
by election to positions of responsibility in father's writings and lectures in this country,
various scientific bodies, the most notable be- and his reciprocal feeling toward us.
ing the Presidency of the Royal Society. The “ His own interest in the present problems of the
government also availed itself of his services country and the possibilities of its future was always
on a number of important commissions which keen, not merely as touching the development of a
vast political force one of the dominant factors of
dealt with the Fisheries, Vivisection, Con.
the near future – but far more as touching the char-
tagious Diseases, Medical Acts, Educational
acter of its approaching greatness. Huge territories
Institutions for Ireland, the Universities of and vast resources were of small interest to him in
Scotland, Scientific Instruction, and the Ad comparison with the use to which they should be put.
vancement of Science.
None felt more vividly than he that the true greatness
of a nation would depend upon the spirit of the princi-
His services to education cover the whole ples it adopted, upon the character of the individuals
field from the kindergarten to the most ad- who make up the nation and shape the channels in
vanced university instruction. For many years
which the currents of its being will hereafter flow. ...
he acted as Examiner for the Science and Art
This was the note he struck in the appeal for intellect-
ual sincerity and clearness which he made at the end
department, while his service on the London
of his New York Lectures on Evolution.' ... The
School Board, though brief, was of far-reaching interest with which he followed the later development
importance. As chairman of the committee of social problems need not be dwelt on here, except
which revised the school curriculum, he exerted
to say tbat he watched their earlier maturity in America
as an indication of the problems which would after-
his influence strongly in favor of practical in- wards call for a solution in his own country.”
struction in the sciences, technical instruction
in household arts for girls, the introduction of
His feeling about our Civil War was like
systematic instruction in drawing, while above
that of many Englishmen; his sympathies were
all he insisted upon the importance of the
with the South, though he recognized the
adequate teaching of morals. It was at this
cause and approved the outcome of the con-
time that he surprised his Liberal friends by
flict. Writing to his sister, at Nashville, in
1864, he says:
his outspoken advocacy of Bible instruction in
“ I am in the condition of most thoughtful English-
the public schools :
My heart goes with the South, and my head
“ As English literature, as world-old history, as moral with the North. I have no love for the Yankees, and
teaching, as the Magna Charta of the poor and of the I delight in the energy and self-sacrifice of your people;
oppressed, the most democratic book in the world, he but for all that, I cannot doubt that whether you beat
could not spare it. • I do not say,' he adds, 'that even the Yankees or not, you are struggling to uphold a
the highest biblical ideal is exclusive of others or needs system which must, sooner or later, break down. I
no supplement. But I do believe that the human race have not the smallest sentimental sympathy with the
is not yet, possibly may never be, in a position to dis- negro; don't believe in him at all, in short. But it is
clear to me that slavery means, for the white man, bad
His own letters abound in Biblical allusions re-
political economy; bad social morality; bad internal
political organization, and a bad influence upon free
vealing his remarkable familiarity with Sacred
labour and freedom all over the world. For the sake
Writ.
of the white man, therefore, for your children and
Huxley's ideals of university education are grandchildren, directly, and for mine, indirectly, I
well known. Two American incidents illustrate
wish to see this system ended. Would that the South
had bad the wisdom to initiate that end without this
his feeling with regard to the use of educational
miserable war!”.
endowments. He declined to be shown about
the buildings at Yale, saying to Professor revealing the passionate sincerity of the man
The letters of Huxley are intensely human,
and his interest not merely in the Book of
of them; I can see plenty of bricks and mortar
Nature, in pare knowledge, and in the problems
in my own country. Commenting upon the
liberal provision for research at Johns Hopkins of existence
, but also in the practical affairs of
human life. His missives to his friends are
University, he remarked :
not studied literary efforts, as were his essays,
“ It has been my fate to see great educational funds
which he confesses he re-wrote five or six times.
fossilize into mere bricks and mortar in the petrifying
springs of architecture, with nothing left to work them. They are full of the dash and spirit of the im.
A great warrior is said to have made a desert and promptu, wbile with magnificent abandon he
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revels in allusion, jest, and pun, in his own and down into my boy's grave my sorrow was full of sub-
mission and without bitterness, it is because these
foreign tongues ancient and modern. Many a
agencies have worked upon me, and not because I have
keen thrust does he give his adversaries - and
ever cared whether my poor personality shall remain
his friends too. The charming bonhomie which distinct for ever from the all from whence it came
pervades his letters is unsurpassed in any cor-
and whither it goes.
respondence which has come to light in recent “And thus, my dear Kingsley, you will understand
what my position is. I may be quite wrong, and in
years. Listen to his invitation to his good
that case I know I shall have to pay the penalty for
friend, Dr. Anton Dohrn, of the Naples Marine being wrong. But I can only say with Luther, Gott
Station :
helfe mir, Ich kann nichts anders.'"
“I await the Prophecies of the Holy Antonius' The editor's work has been done excellently,
anxiously. Like the Jews of old, I come of an unbe-
and Huxley's “Life and Letters” is destined
lieving generation, and need a sign. The bread and the
oil, also the chamber in the wall, shall not fail the
to take high rank among epistolary autobiog-
prophet when he comes in August: nor Donner und raphies.
CHARLES A. KOFOID.
Blitzen either. ... And, oh my Diogenes, happy in a
tub of arthropodous Entwickelungsgeschichte, despise
not beefsteaks, nor wives either. They also are good.”
And this word of encouragement to a fellow- THE RULERS OF SOUTHERN ITALY.*
Philistine :
“MY DEAR JOHNNY – You are certainly improving.
It is two years since Mr. Crawford pub-
As a practitioner in the use of cold steel myself, I have
lished that great vision of Rome called “ Ave
read your letter in to-day's Nature, mit Ehrfurcht und Roma Immortalis,” which fairly established
Bewunderung.'
.. God be with thee, my son, and his reputation as a romantic historian. In
strengthen the contents of thy gall-bladder! – Ever
the work entitled " The Rulers of the South”
thine,
T. H. HUXLEY."
his observation takes a more extensive view;
By far the most notable and interesting of and the plan is chronological rather than topo-
his correspondence is that with his honored graphical. Briefly, it is a rapid survey of the
friend Charles Kingsley. Replying to a letter tides of conquest which swept over Magna
of sympathy at the death of his eldest son,
Græcia (as the Romans called the Southern
Huxley reveals the very depths of his religious provinces of the Italian mainland) and Sicily;
convictions :
Malta is merely glanced at, and hardly de-
“My convictions, positive and negative, on all the
serves a place in the title. Mr. Crawford's
matters of which you speak, are of long and slow
termini are the earliest legends on the one
growth, and are firmly rooted. But the great blow
which fell upon me seemed to stir them to their foun-
band, and on the other the contest between
dation, and bad I lived a couple of centuries earlier I
Francis I. and Charles V. for the possession
could have fancied a devil scoffing at me and them - of Sicily. This range of over two thousand
and asking me what profit it was to bave stripped
years is traversed with alert step and upflag-
myself of the hopes and consolations of the mass of
mankind ? To which my only reply was and is— Oh ging enthusiasm. The author's qualifications
devil! truth is better than much profit. I have searched for his great task are peculiar, and almost too
over the grounds of my belief, and if wife and child well-known to need recapitulation. No living
and name and fame were all to be lost to me one after foreigner knows Italy — dialects, prejudices,
the other as the penalty, still I will not lie. . .
Kicked into the
world a boy without guide or training, village life, superstitions, and all — so inti-
Kicked into the world a boy without guide of training: mately as Mr. Marion Crawford ; and cer-
-
or with worse than none, I confess to my shame that
few men have drunk deeper of all kinds of sin than I. tainly no living man of letters could have
Happily, my course was arrested in time — before I handled his materials with greater skill or
had earned absolute destruction — and for long years distilled them with more certainty into a fluent
I have been slowly and painfully climbing, with many
a fall, towards better things. And when I look back,
and fascinating narrative.
what do I find to have been the agents of my redemp-
In the first volume, after a graceful group-
tion? The hope of immortality or of future reward? | ing of the myths in whose half-light all the
I can honestly say that for these fourteen years such a Mediterranean lands are steeped, Mr. Craw-
consideration has not entered my head. No, I can tell ford rapidly summarizes the history of Sicily
you exactly what has been at work. Sartor Resartus
led me to know that a deep sense of religion was com-
and Southern Italy through their successive
patible with the entire absence of theology. Secondly, possession by Sicelians, Phænicians, Greeks ;
science and her methods gave me a resting-place in-
*THE RULERS OF THE SOUTH: SICILY, CALABRIA, AND
dependent of authority and tradition. Thirdly, love
Malta. By F. Marion Crawford. Illustrated by twenty-
opened up to me a view of the sanctity of human na- eight photogravures and ninety-one illustrations in the text
ture, and impressed me with a deep sense of responsi- by Henry Brokman. In two volumes. New York: The
bility. . . . If in the supreme moment when I looked Macmillan Co.
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Romans, Byzantines, Goths, and Arabs ; Nor- tion as he was of devoting his whole energies to money-
mans, German Emperors and French ; Span-
making ; he was a free lance rather than a trained sol-
iards of Aragon and of Bourbon, and Savoy.
dier ; an artist, not a middle-class citizen ; a man of
genius, not a banker. In the heat of enthusiasm there
ard Kings of Italy. He sharply fixes our were few feats which he could not accomplish, and his
attention on one great difference between the restless blood could not brook the daily round of a
Italian South and all other countries bordering bumdrum existence. In war he loved the brilliant
on the Mediterranean.
pageant, the bigh pæan song, the splendid arms, the
woven garlands, the air of triumph before the battle,
“ It has lacked strength of its own from the begin-
and the trophy and the sacrifice after the fight. When
ning, it has lacked the genius without which strength
peace followed war, he craved the excitement of the
breeds monsters ; it has been wanting in the original
great Greek games, the emotions of the almost impos-
character which bears modification but resists extirpa-
sibly beautiful in art, the heart-beating of the reckless
tion; it has produced no race which another has not
player throwing for high stakes, the physical intoxica-
been able to enslave ; one people after another has
tion of wine, and the intellectual intoxication of the
taken possession of it, each amalgamating in some
theatre ; and when these palled, he lost patience with
degree with the last, but the welding of races has not
become a great race, nor has any first element out-
peace and became the most gratuitously quarrelsome
of human beings, taking offense at the hue of his
lasted and outruled the others. It has been the prize
neighbor's cloak, attacking a friend for an imaginary
of contending warriors, it has been the playground of
attack upon the least of his innumerable vanities, and
magnificent civilizations, but it has neither acted the
making war about nothing, with the fine oonviction of
part of conqueror itself, nor has it ever produced a
a thoroughly ill-tempered child, that smashes its new
civilization of its own. In the balance of the
doll to atoms rather than be good for five minutes.
world's forces Sicily has been feminine and reproduc-
tive rather than masculine and creative ; endowed with
“ As the Greek was individually, so were the Greeks
in a body, wherever they established themselves, in the
supreme natural beauty, she has been loved by all, she
has favored many, and she has borne sons to a few,
fertile plains and undulating hills of Asia Minor, in the
sons such as Archimedes and Theocritus, Dionysins and
wild mountains and isolated valleys of their own
Agathocles, King Roger and Frederick Second of
Greece, and that greater Hellas with which this story
Hohenstaufen, of Greek, Norman, and Norman-German
has been concerned. They were always at odds with
blood. But if we ask for a great man whom we may
each other, and they rarely fought a foreign foe with-
call a Sicilian, we must ask what Sicilians were, and
out seeing the faces of their born countrymen in tbe
we shall receive different answers in different ages,
ranks that opposed them; they were alike incapable of
Greeks, Arabs, Normans, Spaniards and Italians have
submitting without a murmur to the rule of a single
all beep Sicilians at one time or another."
master, and of governing themselves as one whole by
the orderly judgment of the many. Wherever they
Mr. Crawford's account of the Greek periods appeared they excited admiration and they often in-
of domination in Sicily is both connected and
spired terror ; wherever they dwelt, even for a brief
luminous ; and the space he devotes to it is
term of years, they left behind them works of lasting
beauty ; but whereas, as artists, as poets, and as philos-
quite in proportion to its supreme importance ophers, they created a standard that has made rivalry
in the history of the island. In general, he impossible and imitation ridiculous, their government
follows and agrees with Adolf Holm (whose
has left no trace in the lands they once inhabited, and
Geschichte Siciliens still remains untrans-
their laws have bad less influence upon the subsequent
lated); but his judgment, especially in ques-
law-givers of mankind than those of the Chinese or
;
the Aztecs. In their arts and in their literature they
tions of geography and topography, is evi- worked for all time ; in their government they were
dently based on his own knowledge, which is opportunists and intriguers, when they were not vision-
both comprehensive and accurate. The narra-
aries, and the type of their race having disappeared
tive is interspersed with passages of episodical from the world, the conditions under which it lived are
beyond the comprehension of other civilized peoples."
brilliancy, as, for example, the description of
the disastrous Athenian expedition a theme
After the Greek came the Roman; and into
which never fails to stir profoundly all tellers something over a hundred pages is condensed
of the tragic tale, from Thucydides down. The
the stirring story of Roman domination, from
portraits of the Græco-Sicilian worthies, too,
the First Punic war to the downfall of the
are vivid and convincing: all readers will Western Empire, 476 A.D. ; seven hundred
carry away from these pages a fresh and last- years of rule and misrule, in which the gigan-
ing impression of Gelon, Hiero, the Dionysii,
tic robberies of Verres make other oppressions
Dion, Hermocrates, and Timoleon.
seem but petty annoyances. With the brief
The Greek character, both individual and ineffectual episode of Goths and Vandals, the
as a race, has often been judged as Mr. Craw- first volume closes.
ford judges it; but the verdict has seldom
Volume II. opens with the Byzantine period,
been so eloquently pronounced as in his words :
followed in rapid succession by the Saracen
“ He [the Greek] was as incapable of sinking his
invasions and the rise of Palermo as a Mo-
highly original personality in the ranks of an organiza- hammedan capital, the appearance and domi-


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nation of the Normans, the fierce struggle need the protection of a dozen mounted car-
a
with the Angevins, the bloody Sicilian Ves- bineers.”
pers, and the varying successes of French The style throughout alternates between
King and Holy Roman Emperor. All these straightforward nervous narrative and a certain
contests, whatever their other issue, had one quaint artlessness, with plenty of introductory
unvarying result: they drenched the devoted “ands," quite in the manner of some monkish
island with blood — "quicquid delirant reges,
chronicler. The author has been reasonably
plectuntur Achivi.” The immense recuper- careful in statements of fact; but it certainly
ative power of the land is thus depicted by the seems too strong to say (à propos of Hiero's
author :
ship with twenty banks of oars) that “nothing
“ Those who know Sicily even superficially must
whatever is known as to the arrangement of
easily realize that its conditions of prosperity could the banks, even in the ordinary trireme”; and
change with surprising quickness in the alternations of
that Breusing's researches have “completely
peace and war. It was an altogether agricultural coun-
try, but it was, and still is, the richest in the Mediterra- destroyed the old-fashioned belief of scholars
nean. I will compare it, in its different states, to a
that three banks of oars situated one above
great foundry or manufactory. Everything required the other could under any circumstances be
for the production of valuable merchandise is present, pulled at the same time” (Vol. I., p. 243).
waiting to be smelted, cast, turned, and finished. Fur-
The statement, too, on p. 82 of Vol. I., that
paces glow, hammers ring, lathes move silently and
quickly, a thousand artisans are at work, and wealth is
"nothing that Bacchylides wrote has come
created hourly and instantly by sure and industrious
down to us,
was at no time exactly true ; and
hands. Presently comes the check; there is war, and surely should be revised in the light of the
the enemy is at hand, or the men strike and go away
recent discoveries.
in a body. The place is the same, and yet it is all at
The volumes are handsomely printed, in
once a dreary wilderness, the fires are gone out, the
wind howls through the vast deserted sheds, the ma-
uniform style with the “Ave Roma Immor-
chinery rusts in the silence, and it all looks as if only a talis "; and the beautiful photogravures and
miracle could bring back the extinguished life. Yet drawings by Brokman (the latter scattered
.
all things are ready for the making of wealth, as they through the text in rather haphazard fashion)
)
were before. The enemy retires, or the strike is over,
and in a day the factory is once again in the roar and
illuminate the narrative at every turn.
blast of production, alive and awake.
JOSIAH RENICK SMITH.
“ Thus also Sicily lay waste from time to time, and
awoke again to instant riches at the golden touch of
peace. There is not a valley in the whole island where
men have not lain in ambush to kill other men, nor a
A CHILD OF MANIFEST DESTINY.*
field that has not been dyed crimson, nor a lovely defile
of the mountains whose rivulet has not run red. Within When a man first does something very fine
the narrow seagirt space, six hundred miles round, indeed, he may well fear - or at least his
Greeks and Phænicians, Carthaginians and Romans,
friends may well fear for him that he will
Byzantines, Goths, Saracens, Normans, Frenchmen,
Catalans, freemen and slaves fought almost unceasingly
not be able to do something else worthy to be
for more than two thousand years ; and in every
inter- compared with it. Until we get used to it,
val of rest the rich soil brought forth its fruit an bun- genius so often seems accident. There must
dred fold, the blood-stained meadows blossomed again, be some high wave which no other wave will
and the battlefield of many nations was again the gar-
reach. When M. Rostand had surprised the
den of the world.”
world with “Cyrano de Bergerac," it was not
After his historical work is done, Mr.
unnatural that the world should think that his
Crawford refreshes himself with a chapter of
next play could not sustain the effect.
modern description devoted to the Camorra of
Nor did the advance reports entirely reas-
Naples and the Mafia of Sicily, about which
sure the doubting. A play written especially
Americans know very little beyond their names. for someone seems to lack spontaneity, even
The Mafia, in particular, seems to have an
though the someone be Mme. Bernhardt. That
elastic but thoroughly efficient organization great actress was to impersonate the unfor-
which Tammany might envy, and whose powers
tunate, but still the slight, the weak little
of terrorism will not invite travellers, in spite King of Rome. It was a Napoleonic play, -
of the author's comforting assurance that, ex-
a part of that strange revival of an old en-
cept in a few dangerous localities, the traveller
thusiasm that was interesting but ephemeral
who has no vested interests in the islands "may
*L'AIGLON: A Play in Six Acts. By Edmond Rostand.
go with safety where a Sicilian nobleman or a
Adapted into English by Louis N. Parker. New York:
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And it was a play of our own century, almost we may still compare the great figure of Eng.
our own time; it might be brilliant, clever, lish romanticism in its heyday with this later
emotional, but it could hardly have the true figure of French romance. It is perhaps sin-
atmosphere of romance. Even the accounts of gular that in an age preëminent for exuberant
the play's success in Paris were not convincing conception and fulfilled achievement, the great-
.
Such misgivings, such doubts, were set at est creation of literature should have been the
rest when the book itself was read, -- doubly man who thought too closely on the event, and
buried when the play was seen. The book kept on living to say, This thing's to do, until
may now be read by anyone. The play will circumstances took the matter out of his hands.
doubtless be widely acted, if less widely than Not less singular is it -- if either be singular
Cyrano de Bergerac,” not because it is less at all — that at the end of a century of unri-
great as a play but because it is greater. M. valled material achievement should come this
Rostand has even bettered his first masterpiece. prince who strove to realize his fancies of the
This tragedy, with its poor, weak little hero, truth, and failed.
with all its frivolity, all its decadent circum- If M. Rostand gives us no true ending to
stance, makes a stronger effect than its wonder- the play, — for surely mere failure, mere
,
ful predecessor,--stronger even if less obvious. death, though no doubt in this case historical
—
Perhaps as one sees it in New York, — not enough, is still in its wider application rather
—
a French play given by French actors for a too simple a solution, — it is not, as we might
French audience, but simply a play like any think, because he is morbid, pessimistic,
other, — perhaps one gains something which French. No less sane and optimistic a person
will go to make up for what is certainly lost. than a poet laureate of England gave no better
We in America cannot read or see it with the an ending to his embodiment of Soul at war
feelings of those who are themselves, almost, with Sense. King Arthur, wounded to death
part actors in the tragedy. We lose all that. amid the wreck of his great imaginings and
But losing that, we can see better the wider the ruin of his Round Table, leaving the
application, the broader humanity, that is in world his mind all clouded with a doubt, is no
the piece, and by that be stirred and moved more reassuring a figure than this little prince
to an emotion, not more genuine than the of fairy-land who crawls back from his first
half-patriotic feeling of the Frenchman, but real brush with facts, to die with reminiscence
wider in its appeal. For in this young man of the trailing clouds of glory with which he
yearning after that great inheritance which he was born. Neither satisfies one whose heart
hears, which he feels, is his, imagining it in all has been aroused to sympathy with the aspira-
sorts of glittering and deceptive circumstance, tion and with the struggle. It is a pity, cer-
treasuring scraps of others' reminiscence, gain- tainly. Were Shakespeare at hand to-day,
ing hope from misinterpreted detail, indulging perhaps he would kindly show us how the thing
his fancy with aimless triviality, daring in ill- should have been done.
advised effort for he hardly knows just what, Still, the figure is immensely interesting. As
failing and surrendering himself to the inevi. for the play, — for the character does not
–
table hold of current life and even death, necessarily make the play, one must wait till
he is not, for us, particularly the young Napo- the glamor of a first reading, a first seeing,
leon, he is merely what he essentially is, shall have worn away before we can feel at all
namely, a poignant instance of the fate that decided as to how permanent or how great
stands ready for all humanity. He makes, to
But the prospect is encourag-
us, an appeal which, having lost the power of ing, and fills one with the anticipation of
a particular patriotism, has the breadth of reassured pleasure.
human nature. He becomes one of the great
EDWARD E. HALE, JR.
characters of literature.
Most of those who saw “L'Aiglon” in New
We have long thought that a large illustrated history
of English literature, of the type familiar upon the
York during the last month had seen not long
Continent, was a desideratum, and have noted with
before a new presentation of “ Hamlet.” Even
pleasure the recent suggestions to this effect made by
had they not, they would naturally have Professor Dowden and Sir Walter Besant. Mr. Heine-
thought of the Prince of Denmark in his suit mann now writes to the “ Athenæum "to say that he
of sable, while looking upon the French prince
bas for some time had such a work in preparation, under
in his Austrian white.
the joint authorship of Dr. Richard Garnett and Mr.
Without the pretense Edmund Gosse. The first volume is expected to be
of comparing M. Rostand with Shakespeare, ready during the coming year.
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staple, is in its highest grade so much superior
Two SOUTH AMERICAN REPUBLICS.*
to that used in the United States, that “ we do
The title selected by Mr. Scruggs for his not know what a cup of real coffee is until we
recent volume, The Colombian and Venezue- visit our neighbors across the Caribbean," says
lan Republics,” must not be understood to im. Mr. Scruggs. Tobacco is a native plant; in
ply a political or constitutional disquisition. Bogota and other towns it is universally
The book is principally descriptive, with suffi. smoked, but not chewed ; and the quality is so
!
cient historical narrative to make clear the fine that much of this product is shipped to
description. It combines in agreeable form Cuba and there manufactured into “ clear
the most interesting features of a gazetteer Havanas.” The potato also is indigenous. The
with the entertainment of a guide book. The oxen in the Andes are gigantic, and the native
author aims to place before his North Ameri- horses cannot be made to trot. The mild and
can readers precisely the elements and char. equable climate of the elevated plains in the
acteristics of scenery, climate, products, people, mountains is exhilarating, and at first seems
and modes of life, which those readers would perfect, but it develops its own peculiar ail-
most naturally seek to read or learn about in
ments, among which are an early deterioration
the two South American republics named. of the normal faculties of the inhabitants, caus-
This object has been well accomplished. For ing short lives as a rule, and accompanied by
it, Mr. Scruggs had the exceptionally fine op- a marvellous precocity in the youth. The pe-
portunity of a prolonged residence as American culiar and well-known characteristics of the
minister to these states. The book evidences higher classes among the Spanish-American
his special qualifications for such a task, in peoples are in part due to climatic conditions,
the keen observation which has taken note of, but are largely racial. In these States, as in
the shrewdness which has grasped, and the Central America, miscegenation, practiced for
memory which has retained and reproduced centuries between whites, Indians, and negroes,
the conspicuous features of South American has produced several mixed races, which form
life, society, and manners, and the capacity to so large a proportion of the population as to
portray vividly what has been seen and remem- predominate in some of these States, and to
bered. It is plain that Mr. Scruggs is an aver- indicate to our author that out of them all is
age American, who has interested himself in
yet to grow an entirely new “ South Amer.
and has here written down those items of gen- ican race.
eralinformation which are most likely to attract A flavor of political science is imparted to
the attention and enlist the curiosity of his the book by the interesting and valuable chap-
countrymen at home. Few books of this class
ters on the Monroe Doctrine and its operations
come to us marked with more of the credentials in South America, the Musquito Coast diffi-
of a sympathetic prevision of the subjects which culty, International Arbitration in general and
are best calculated to suit readers in general. the Arbitration of 1899 in particular, Democ-
So whether it be the topography and scenery racy in South America, Spanish-American
of the country; or its natural advantages, its revolutions, and the Rights of Foreigners in
soil and indigenous products, its flora and South America. The peculiar characteristic
fauna; or the extent of improvements in the of the inhabitants which leads them into their
way of roads, highways, bridges, landscape gar- frequent “revolutions” is diagnosed by Mr.
dening, or cultivation; or the style and character Scruggs as an excess of egoistic devotion to
of its cities, towns, villages, and plantations ; individual rights, which depreciates the value
or the characteristics, habits, tastes, manners, of stability in government and promotes com-
customs, and occupations of its people, as to petitive attempts at individual control. Bolivar
which the inquisitive American seeks further believed in government, no less than in civil
information,- Mr. Scruggs is ready to respond rights. But Bolivar was apparently one hun-
to the requisition.
dred years in advance of his fellows, and not
Many of the facts emphasized by our author yet are there a sufficient number of Spanish-
are unfamiliar, and often they run counter to Americans who share in this cardinal view as to
old traditions even if they do not surprise us. the essentials of government to make it certain
The Colombian and Venezuelan coffee, a great that any “ constitution," even the best, can
”
THE COLOMBIAN AND VENEZUELAN REPUBLICS. By
permanently succeed in any South American
William L. Scruggs. Boston: Little, Brown, & Co.
State.
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Jesus " appeared in its first edition in 1896.
NEW TOOLS FOR BIBLE STUDENTS.*
Its adaptation to the needs of students of the
The three volumes noticed under this caption Scriptures has already required the issuance of
are popular presentations intended to em body in a third edition. The most technical and schol.
systematic and simple form the best results of arly portion of the earlier editions, the Intro-
investigations in their respective fields up to the
duction on the Sources of the Life of Jesus, is
current year. Professor Riggs's work begins here very properly transferred to the end of
with one of the most tragic periods of Jewish
the volume under the heading “ Appendix.”
history. The Maccabean struggle arouses the
The author has carefully distinguished between
patriotic instincts of a reader as almost no other matter that is distinctly biographical and that
event in all history. Our author has carefully which is doctrinal only. By a wise use of titled
sifted the sources, and discussed with
very
fair
paragraphs, he has set before the reader an
judgment the specific value which is to be at- admirable analysis of each of his seventeen
tached to each separate document of that age. chapters. These paragraphs are models of
The estimate of the literature and the system expression and of statement of the case as re-
atization of the facts gathered therefrom give quired for students. The text is full of refer-
this volume a place quite in advance of Moss's ences to the New Testament Gospels, and the
“ From Malachi to Matthew," or of Fair. footnotes disclose the fact that the author is
weather's “ From the Exile to the Advent."
familiar with the literature of his broad theme.
The treatment of New Testament times, while Ample indices, both topical and textual, put
fresh and clear, carries the reader over ground the book at the ready command of the student.
that is more familiar and consequently not so
A couple of maps would add very much to the
novel and attractive. The author's narrative
vividness of the narrative of chapters VI.-
shows that he was familiar with the literature XII. Professor Gilbert is fully abreast of the
of his subject, and that he had the rare gifts of
times in progressive New Testament research,
being able to weigh in his own mind, and to and gives us here as complete a popular state-
state in good plain popular English, the results
ment of the case at the close of the nineteenth
of his processes.
The imagination is also century as can be found anywhere.
brought into play, though not unduly, for ex-
Professor Rhees's “Life of Jesus of Nazar-
ample, in his description of the so-called ele-
eth” is another contribution to the more valu-
mentary schools of Christ's day (pp. 132 and able discussions of the “Son of Man.” The
238). Josephus's writings are accorded their
work covers substantially the same ground as
full meed of praise ; and the Roman literature the one just noticed. Its method, however, is
of New Testament times is made to contribute somewhat different, and its discussion of the
its share to the better understanding of Pales-
literature of the theme is a very valuable feat-
tine in the first century. The whole plan and ure. The point of view of the author is shown
arrangement of the book is at one with the in the fact that he brings before his readers
Kent series — to which it belongs. It is sup-
the Man Jesus as revealed in the reading of
plied with maps and a chart, and contains the gospels. The incarnation was the revela.
ample topical and text indices. These neces- tion of the divine through human life, and not
sary appurtenances of a usable book, added to through " a series of propositions which formu.
the admirable candor and clear narrative of late truth." This was the method by which
”
the body of the work, commend this as one of the apostles and evangelists arrived at the con-
the very best popular discussions of these two
clusion that Jesus was the divine Redeemer.
centuries of history.
This method of the author has its manifest
Professor Gilbert's “Student's Life of advantages, chief among which is the constantly
growing idea of the value and importance of
* HISTORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE, during the Maccabean
and Roman Periods (including New Testament Times). By
the truth and the supernatural character of the
James Stevenson Riggs, D.D., Professor of Biblical Criticism, new Teacher. Professor Rhees's presentation
Auburn Theological Seminary. New York: Charles Scrib- of his theme according to this principle is
ner's Sons.
highly successful, and leads the reader by a
THE STUDENT'S LIFE OF JESUS. By George Holley Gil-
bert, Ph.D., D.D. Third edition, revised and enlarged. New very natural ascent from the child at Nazareth
York: The Macmillan Co.
through the various stages of advance, until he,
THE LIFE OF JESUS OF NAZARETH, A Study. By Rush sees the risen Man pass from Olivet's heights
Rhees, Professor of New Testament Interpretation in the
Newton Theological Institution. New York: Charles Scrib-
into the heavens. This volume is so attrac-
ner's Song.
tively written and so richly suggestive of a
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wider field of research, that many readers will that Great Britain, instead of relying upon any
eagerly turn to the apt remarks in the “ Ap-supposed superiority of her sons, and instead of
pendix” on “ Books of Reference on the Life trusting to find a Nelson when he is needed, should
of Jesus," and select some works for more ex-
take care always to have the bigger battalions on
tended study. A fine map adds to the value
her side. With the bigger battalions, and with officers
of the book.
and men as good as those of any other nations, she
IRA M. PRICE.
may count on holding her own.” Such sober and
practical words as these are timely at a period of
restless militarism and boundless aggression, when
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
it may be said almost without challenge that
every considerable power, save perhaps two, and
Volume V. of the comprehensive his certainly one, would regard with satisfaction En-
England's naval
struggle with
tory of “The Royal Navy” (Little, gland's definitive humiliation and relegation to the
Napoleon.
Brown, & Co.), by Mr. Wm. Laird
second rank - a contingency which no thoughtful
Clowes and his able co-laborers, is now ready, and
American of English blood can bear to contemplate
is distinguished from its predecessors by a certain
seriously for a moment. Mr. Clowes' volume is an
unity of content and treatment, since it is wholly
unusually interesting number of the work, and its
devoted to the record of the naval struggle with
illustrations are up to the usual high standard.
Napoleon from 1803 to 1815, and is entirely from
the pen of Mr. Clowes, Mr. W. H. Wilson having been
Bingraphy of
Seldom is a biographer so favored
prevented from furnishing his allotment, namely, Henry George, as Henry George, Jr., has been in
the story of the minor operations of the war. Gov-
by his son.
preparing the life of his distin-
ernor Roosevelt's promised account of the American guished father. That there should have been jour-
war is reserved for the opening section of the forth. nals left containing much material, that letters and
coming and final volume of the work. The central newspaper clippings should abound, that friends
episode of the present volume is of course the cam- should be many and admirers and followers a host,
paign of Trafalgar, and in his observations upon are of minor consequence when the fact of the
this momentous action Mr. Clowes has some plain younger Mr. George's profound sympathy and
truths and sobering reflections to present for the con- intimacy with the career that promises so much
sideration of bis countrymen, which we trust will for humanity is taken into full account. It is rare
not be lost
upon
them. Recent events have doubt. that two succeeding generations attain such loving
less had their effect in disabusing the minds of such and intellectual companionship.
Almost rarer is
Englishmen as are capable of taking a rational the feeling prevailing through the book, which has
view of themselves, of the childish notion that one scorned concealment of a hundred little things that
Briton is a match for three or four foreigners. En- go to show how intensely human were all of Henry
gland has just succeeded in mastering, by sheer George's characteristics, foibles, and aspirations
,
superiority of numbers, a miniature community alike. Born in Philadelphia on September 2,
which could not be seriously reckoned a power at 1839, dying in New York City in the most
all. Mr. Clowes now calmly tells his readers: dramatic manner, still vividly in the public mind,
“Most of our great victories have been gained by on October 29, 1897, Henry George lived a most
superiority of numbers"; and he goes on to say that human life, as we see it painted here. No attempt
the victory of Trafalgar was due, not to superior is made in this biography to hide the trifling
foresight or strategy or bravery, but to the pres- follies of youth, the more serious mistakes of
ence with the British fleet of a sailor of genius, manhood. On the contrary, the steps by which
whose like England will probably not see again. the elder George came to a full comprehension of
Mr. Roosevelt's forthcoming account of the naval his relations to his fellows is depicted in great de-
actions of the war of 1812 – which account we tail, enabling the reader to pass with him from the
sincerely trust will be free from the spirit of boast- common American indifference to everything but
fulness must also set forth some salutary facts worldly success into that better knowledge which
for British contemplation. _No intelligent person, makes the deprivation of a single citizen the con-
of course, will question English valor, since its cern of the entire Republic. The birth and growth
praise is written in all true history, and its traces of the idea which was known later as the “ Single
are manifest in all parts of the globe. But it is Tax," and the singular receptiveness of its re-dis-
time for England to put away the silly notion that coverer to the claims of priority on the part of
foreigners, qua foreigners, are comparative weak- others, are intensely interesting and interpretative
lings whom she has always beaten and can always as told in the younger Mr. George's pages. Food
beat in equal fight. The conceit is ridiculous, for reflection, too, is given by the attitude toward
Chinese, and retarding; and it has certainly con- university training, which the economist thought
tributed to recent humiliation (in the end no bad almost fatal to independence in investigation. The
thing, perhaps) and defeat. The lesson of Trafal- style of the biography is simple and clear, with-
gar, thinks Mr. Clowes, is (since England cannot out enjoying any particular distinction, and the
hope to have a Nelson for each hour of emergency) | biographer's self-effacement is to be highly com-
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as shown in Art.
Ins and outs of
mended. Alike for its subject and its treatment, of our Civil War, strengthened through the lapsing
“ The Life of Henry George” (Doubleday & years by many other indications of hospitality and
McClure Co.) is a welcome contribution to biog- friendship. The rising in the United States of a
raphy.
party confessedly Anglophilic in these later days
makes it the more needful that the truth should be
With technical art criticism, Arch-
The Life of Christi
deacon Farrar's scholarly work on
told, to allay the assertions of partisans on both
sides. This is Mr. Noble's task, and he has ac-
“The Life of Christ as Represented quitted himself well
. In its newness, America has
in Art” (Macmillan) has admittedly little to do.
The theme is treated from the religious and his-
many things in common with Russia, and more
than one change in our recent governmental policies
torical view-point, and the aim of the author is in
has had the Russian flavor. Both nations, as we
the main to enable his readers to understand and
feel the power of those mighty sermons preached
see clearly in these pages, have all the world before
them in which to choose, with Russia committed to
by the great religious painters to men of their own
a policy which has already outstripped her present
generation, and which to the great mass of men of
ours are locked in an unknown tongue. In these
powers of assimilation, benevolent or otherwise.
grand works of a devout and believing age lie
The Russia of Count Tolstoy's recent novel, the
Russia of Mr. George Kennan, are to be seen in
sources of enduring delight and consolation to all
Mr. Noble's book beside the land of intense patriot-
who can look upon them with the seeing eye; and
it is in the hope of increasing the number of those
ism and self-seeking which is contesting with Great
Britain for the supremacy of the world. The book
capable of this high and improving pleasure that
is to be highly commended to those seeking truth
Dean Farrar has written. He has also endeavored
to indicate how the worth and dignity of religious
rather than a confirmation of existing prejudices.
painting has fluctuated with the varying sincerity
Books relating to the stage are grow-
of the periods of its production — for Art cannot
ing more in demand each year.
deceive, but invariably betrays herself when at-
theatrical life.
due perhaps to the fact that the
tempting to express emotions that she does not feel.
natural curiosity of the play-loving public has usu-
Dean Farrar's book is the record mainly of his own
ally been incited by fancies rather than satisfied by
impressions and reflections, and while not always facts. The Theatre and Its People" (Doubleday,
convincing in its defense of the thesis that the
Page & Co.) is in many respects unlike any other
worth of a painting varies directly with the depth book, and may be regarded as a sort of theatrical
of the religious sentiment of its producer (a propo- vade-mecum. Mr. Franklin Fyles, the author, is
sition which seems to leave too far out of the count
dramatic critic of the New York “Sun," and him-
the supreme importance of mastery of technique), self a dramatist of no mean skill. His information,
it is a most valuable aid to the enjoyment of the
therefore, comes from the inside ; and to those who
more spiritual qualities of the masterpieces it de-
are unfamiliar with stage life — unfamiliar with
scribes. The illustrations, consisting of twenty- the theatrical business and profession as pursued in
three full-page plates and a great number of well.
America to-day — the volume will prove interesting
chosen and instructive drawings in the text, are and valuable. It treats such subjects as the mak-
largely taken from the great Italians of the four-
ing of actors, theatrical managers, the writing of
teenth and fifteenth centuries, the Dutch, Germans, plays, authors' gains and losses, rehearsals, first
and Flemings being less fully represented, and the nights, stage fright, life behind the scenes, etc., in
Spaniards, except Velasquez, scarcely at all. A few
such a way as to convey a specific knowledge of the
examples from modern painters — Rossetti, Hunt,
subject - to convey the truth plainly, rather than
Burne-Jones, Millais, etc.
are included. The
to create illusions or destroy them. When we con-
volume is an attractive one outwardly, and will be sider that there are five thousand theatres in the
especially valued by those who incline to study art
United States counting all kinds, that not less than
from the author's point of view.
one and one-half million persons sit in these theatres
each week-day night in a season of at least eight
Impartial views
Impartiality which is rightly to be
months, that seventy-five millions of dollars (a con-
of Russia and called judicial characterizes Mr. servative estimate) are paid by Americans each year
Edmund Noble’s “ Russia and the for theatrical amusement, we realize the scope and
Russians" (Houghton, Mfflin & Co.). In no other
interest of Mr. Fyles's treatise. The volume con-
book on this vexed topic do we remember noting tains many appropriate illustrations.
80 complete a mingling of the good and bad, leaving
the reader with a sense of reality and humanity as
It has been pointed out that musical
The biography of a
assuring as it is unusual. By far the greater part Russian musician. biography labors under two conspicu-
of the American nation regards the great empire of
ous disadvantages: the customary
the Tsar with frank good will, tempered by a knowl- absence of interesting details in the lives of eminent
edge of its despotism and illiberality toward political musicians, and the lack of biographers who have
thought. This sentiment probably had its origin in sufficient literary resources to enable them to use to
the kindly action of Russia during the Trent episode the best advantage such materials as their subjects
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an
Friends in Fur
afford. Miss Rosa Newmarch, in her biography of
The most useful
It is difficult to realize that “ Web-
Tchaikovsky (John Lane), traces the life of the
single volume
ster's International Dictionary
melancholy Russian musician whose emotional and English dictionary. (Merriam) is already ten years old.
romantic despair seemed to belong to other times We are reminded of that fact by the appearance of
and other lands—to echo Chateaubriand and Byron a new edition, printed from new plates throughout,
rather than Gogol and Tourguénief — in a manner and embodying a great quantity of entirely new
highly commendable. The volume is entertaining, matter. Although we have always objected seri-
notwithstanding the axiom that to write technically ously to the Websterian orthograpby, it has no
about music is to render one's self unintelligible to doubt become largely mitigated by its many later
all but musicians. Though the best known among concessions to an enlightened taste, and some of its
Russian composers, Tchaikovsky was by no means vagaries have become in a way mellowed by usage.
the greatest. It is true that he was “a poet of one And there can be no doubt that the famous “ Dic-
mood in all his lays,” but he was not, like Glinka, tionary” is still, as it has remained for many years,
or in a less degree like Rimsky-Korsakov, conse- the most useful one-volume work of its kind in the
crated to the service of nationality; as a result of language. The chief special feature of this latest
this, his works are popular with the English audi- revision of the work is provided by the Supplement
ence, and his death, which occurred six years ago, of 238 pages, which is bound in at the end of the
is to be lamented. As a musical critic he was well volume, in addition to the upwards of two thousand
known in his own country; those extracts from his pages which preserve the general arrangement and
writings which are reproduced in this volume are contents of the earlier edition. This additional
chiefly valuable because they throw some light upon section, which has been prepared under the direc-
his personal tastes and the tendencies wbich influ- tion of Dr. William T. Harris, gives us a new
enced his music. The “Diary of My Tour Abroad vocabulary of about twenty-five thousand words,
in 1888," a modest record of concerts given and which have been treated by a numerous committee
operas conducted by Tchaikovsky, closes the vol-
of the most competent specialists in the several
One thing is omitted — which invariably departments of knowledge concerned. Here we
proves convenient in any lengthy biography find not only technical, dialectical, and exotic
index.
words, in great numbers, but also many hitherto
Denizens of our woods and fields obsolete words that have been given renewed cur-
and Feathers.
find a worthy advocate in Mr. John rency by our modern writers. In short, the new
Burroughs, who, in his “Squirrels “ Webster” is even more indispensable than ever
and other Fur-bearers” (Houghton), recounts his among the furnishings of the office, the library,
experiences with them and their cunning ways. the school, and the home.
His simple tales lend something of a human inter-
est to the lives of these humble creatures, and it is
The well printed, generously illus-
to be hoped that the influence of this book will
trated book entitled Historic Towns
of the South.
tend to abate the fierce and bloody warfare of ex-
of the Southern States ” (Putnam)
termination which man so relentlessly wages upon completes the triad of volumes on American His-
them with trap and gun. Indeed, every reader toric Towns, and crowns an enterprise which can-
should become a friend of all squirrels and chip- not be too highly commended by all who have at
munks, of the rabbit and the hare, of the fox and heart the interests of American history and histor-
the mink, and even of the little brown mice. The ical research. If it is possible to pick out flaws
book is limited in scope, in large part, to the per-
and inadequacies in this useful little series (which
sonal observations of the author on the smaller and we should like to see extended), it is, on the other
better known mammals of the forests of the eastern hand, easy to point out merits in it; and publishers,
part of the United States. But this limit affords editors, and contributors are on the whole to be
room enough for a very interesting and most read congratulated on the outcome of their efforts.
able book. Fifteen plates after Audubon, and an The present volume, which opens with a compre-
original frontispiece, all in color, adorn the work. hensive Introduction by Professor W. P. Trent,
- In these days of many bird books, novelty either treats of eighteen of the older Southern towns
in subject or treatment is a matter of prime im- Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, Charleston,
portance. The birds of English gardens and moors Savannah, Mobile, New Orleans, Vicksburg, Nash-
and meadows have been the theme of many writers, ville, St. Augustine, etc., and is enriched with
but none, perhaps, has dealt with the subject in so many illustrations selected rather for their historical
original and fresh a manner as Miss Pollard in her value than for their quality as embellishments.
“ Birds of My Parish” (John Lane). This is a book
Each article is the work of a specially qualified
of avian small talk, in which the birds themselves writer — Miss Grace King contributing the one on
do the most of the chattering with a wholesome New Orleans, Mr. Frank A. Vanderlip that on
disregard of the conventionalities of all well-ordered Washington, Mr. George R. Fairbanks that on
ornithologies. A deal of information about English St. Augustine, and so forth. Professor Trent's
birds and their habits is here presented in a very essay is, of course, thoughtful and suggestive; and
entertaining manner.
the work of the several contributors is creditable
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"in
in the main, due allowances being made. The Hadley of sociology, economics, and politics ;
elegant form and pictorial attractions of this useful Professor Brander Matthews of fiction ; Professor
series make it a suitable object of attention for the Bliss Perry of poetry; and Mr. H. W. Mabie of
seeker of gift books of the more substantial sort. essay and criticism. Thus various points of view
In “A Woman Tenderfoot” (Double- always agree, but the discussion is throughout
are presented, and the conclusions reached do not
Adventures of
day, Page & Co.) Mrs. Grace Gal.
Rocky Mountains. latin Seton-Thompson_tells with
urbane, scholarly, and deserving of respect. Mr.
feminine vivacity and a touch of Far-Western
Perry's paper on poetry seems to us particularly
deserving of praise, for so much sound doctrine
“breezine88" the story of her adventures while on a
combined with pleasant writing is not often packed
trip with her husband, the well-known artist-author,
within the limits of a single hour's discourse. We
in the Rocky Mountains of the United States and
should not neglect to add a word of praise for the
Canada. Mrs. Seton-Thompson, it must be under-
preface, contributed to the volume by Dr. Henry
stood, was not towed along ingloriously as a passive
Van Dyke.
spectator in the wake of her adventure-loving com-
panion, but took an active share in the proceedings-
The title of Mr. Cyrus Townsend
camping, shooting, mountaineering, "cow.punch- by land and sea.
Brady's spirited collection of war
ing,” or whatever else chanced to be the sport or
stories, "American Fights and Fight-
enterprise of the hour. The journey was the note-
ers” (McClure, Phillips & Co.), makes a strong bid
worthy one during which Mr. Seton-Thompson
for popular favor at a time when wars and ru-
gathered material for his popular work, “Wild
mors of wars are many, and the man of peace, with
Animals I Have Known”; so that in the present
his old-fashioned notions and New Testament
book we get the woman's side of that capital story.
prejudices, is almost looked upon as out of date.
Mrs. Seton-Thompson has written, she says,
The clergy have caught the common infection ;
the hope that some going-to-Europe-in-the-summer
and even tbe kindly Mr. Brady, the author of our
woman may be tempted to go West instead "; and
present volume, lends his pen rather to painting the
80, for the benefit of such members of her sex as
romantic and heroic side of war than to pointing
may be allured into following her example, she
the stern if unwelcome moral that “ War is hell."
supplies a chapter of practical directions as to outfit,
But it would be hardly fair to find fault with Mr.
dress, etc. The book is a taking one externally, Brady for not turning into peace sermons his ring-
and contains many drawings, full-page and vignette, ing tales of the exploits of Jones, Decatur, Barney,
of the right “outing" flavor.
and Truxton, of Greene, Putnam, Morgan, Stark,
Wayne, and Jackson. The contents of the book
Napoleon III.
The unflagging M. Imbert de Saint- are divided into five main sections, Part I. dealing
at the height Amand still pursues the even tenor of with the War of the Revolution, Part II. with the
of his power.
his way with his series of studies in Indian war in the Northwest, Part III. with the
historical biography, the volume this time treating War with France, Part IV. with the War with
of “ Napoleon III. at the Height of his Power” Tripoli, and Part V. with the War of 1812. The
(Scribner). The book is, like the others, attrac. book is meant for popular reading, and is well cal-
tively written, and there are many well-drawn por- culated to stimulate patriotism of the sort it appeals
traits and interesting extracts from contemporary to. There are a number of illustrations, mainly
writings, official and private. The period covered from old prints.
begins with the year 1860, or the close of the
Close upon the heels of Mr. Buell's
Franco-Austrian war over the Italian question, and
noteworthy two-volume life of Paul
closes with the signing of the Treaty of Pekin at
Commander."
Jones follows Mr. Cyrus Townsend
the end of the year.
There are four portraits Brady's “ Commodore Paul Jones," a desirable
Pius IX., General de Lamoricière, Francis II. of volume in the useful “Great Commanders Series"
Naples, and Garibaldi. The good work of the com- (Appleton). Mr. Brady's spirited book evinces
petent translator, Mrs. Elizabeth Gilbert Martin, care in preparation, and covers satisfactorily the
calls for a further word of praise.
main events of Jones's public career. It is written
Good cnunsel
“ Counsel upon the Reading of
from the view.point of an ardent admirer; but the
author has satisfied himself through due examina-
upon the reading Books” (Houghton) is the title of a
of books.
pleasant little volume that we take
tion of the records that his praises are well bestowed.
pleasure in commending. It is the outcome of a
Mr. Brady's animated style and exuberant patriot-
ism makes his book an attractive one for young
course of Extension lectures given in Philadelphia
readers. The volume contains a frontispiece por-
two years ago, and differs from most books about
reading in combining specific recommendations
trait and several explanatory cuts.
with its general advice. Six subjects are discussed,
Some time ago we acknowledged the receipt of two
in as many lectures, by specialists who know how
volumes in the edition of Lockbart's “Life of Scott,"
to make their pleas both practical and eloquent.
published by the Macmillan Co. in their “ Library of
Professor Morse Stephens writes of history; Miss English Classics.” Three more volumes, completing
Repplier of memoirs and biographies; President the work, are now at hand.
Paul Jones
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BRIEFER MENTION.
NOTES.
Two new editions of Borrow will bring joy to the
The American Book Co. publish an “Intermediate
hearts of Borrovians. The edition published by the
Arithmetic" by Dr. William J. Milne.
Messrs. Putnam occupies four stout volumes, rather
Mr. Austin Dobson's memoir of Henry Fielding is
too bulky for comfortable reading, but making a dig- | published in a revised and enlarged edition by Messrs.
nified showing on the library shelf. The editing pur- Dodd, Mead & Co.
ports to be by Professor Knapp, although in the case “ An Elementary History of the United States," by
of one volume, “ The Bible in Spain,” we see no signs Mr. Allen C. Thomas, is a recent school publication of
of his work. The other titles are “ Lavengro," " The Messrs. D. C. Heath & Co.
Romany Rye,” and “The Gypsies of Spain.” Mr. John Messrs. E. & J. B. Young & Co. send us a “ New
Lane's edition is in five much smaller volumes, not ac- Pocket Dictionary of the Spanish and English Lan-
credited to any editorial band, and seeming to be simple guages," by Mr. G. F. Barwick.
reprints. “Wild Wales” provides the contents of the “ The Charmides, Laches, and Lysis of Plato," edited
fifth volume.
by Dr. Barker Newhall, is a recent Greek text pub-
We have already had more than one occasion to praise lished by tbe American Book Co.
that exhaustive guide-book and rich repository of old “Memories of the Tennysons " is the title of a little
memories, Mr. Samuel Adams Drake's “Old Land-
book by Canon Rawnsley which the Macmillan Co.
marks and Historic Personages of Boston ” (Little, announce for immediate publication.
Brown, & Co.). For the reader who wishes to get at The Macmillan Co. send us a volume of “ Selections
second-hand a view of historic and storied Boston, and
from Plato " (in Greek), for college use, as edited by
for the tourist who wants a guide to wbat cultivated Dr. Lewis L. Forman of Cornell University.
people think best worth seeing in Boston, Mr. Drake's
The American edition of Mr. Stephen Phillips's new
is distinctly the indispensable book. A new and revised
edition of the work is now issued, containing all the
play, “ Herod,” recently produced in London by Mr.
old cuts and a number of new ones.
Beerbohm Tree, will be published immediately by John
Lane.
Boxed together as a set come the five initial volumes
Mr. Charles H. Ham's " Mind and Hand,” published
in the “ Riverside Aldine Classics" (Houghton), by the American Book Co., is a third and revised
namely, “ Evangeline," « The One Hoss Shay," “Snow-
edition of the author's earlier work entitled “ Manual
Bound,” “Sir Launfal," and Hawthorne's " Legend of
Training."
Province House.” This neat, well-printed, inexpensive
“Northern Germany" and "London" are the two
series is intended to include examples of the best
latest Baedekers to appear in revised editions. The
American prose and verse. Special attention is paid
Messrs. Scribner import these volumes, as well as the
to form and typography, the design being to follow the
others of the series.
models and abide by the traditions of the older presses
A tasteful edition in pocket form of Mr. Hamilton
whose names stand for sound workmanship and quiet Wright Mabie's “ Essays on Nature and Culture,” with
elegance. Each volume contains a frontispiece. a photogravure portrait of the author, is published by
The following text-books in German have just been Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co.
published: “A German Reader for Beginners," Professor J. P. Gordy’s « History of Political Parties
(Heath), by Professor H. C. O. Huss ; “German Lyrics in the United States” is being republished in a revised
and Ballads” (Heath), selected by Professor James four-volume edition by Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. The
Taft Hatfield ; “ Der Prozess" (Heatb), by Roderick first volume bas just been issued.
Bendix, edited by Dr. B. W. Wells ; “ Der Assistent” “Outlines of Social Economics,” by Messrs. George
and other stories (American Book Co.), by Fraülein Gunton and Hayes Robbins, is a recent publication of
Frida Scbauz, edited by Mr. A. Beinhorn ; “ Der
Messrs. D. Appleton & Co. The work is designed for
Meister von Palmyra” (American Book Co.), by Herr high schools and debating societies.
Adolf Wilbrandt, edited by Professor Theodore Henck-
George Dolby, manager for Charles Dickens on his
els ; Schiller's “ Maria Stuart” (Ginn), edited by reading tours, and the author of a well-known book of
Fraülein Margarethe Müller and Carla Wenckebach ; recollections of the novelist entitled - Charles Dickens
and “ The Elements of German" (Holt), by Dr. H.C. as I Knew Him,” recently died in an English infirmary,
Bierworth.
in circumstances of extreme poverty.
The American Book Co. publish “ A Brief Course in Messrs. Dana Estes & Co. republish in handsome
General Physics,” by Professor George A. Hoadley. illustrated form the original editions of Herman
It is a text-book of the conventional modern type, Melville's four books : Typee,” “Omoo,” “.
Moby
with full provision for such individual work and labo- Dick," and “ White Jacket," Mr. Artbur Stedman
ratory exercises as are within the reach of secondary contributes a general introduction to the edition.
students. The “ Elements of Physics," prepared by Messrs. D. Č. Heath & Co. publish Studies of Animal
Dr. C. Hanford Henderson and Dr. John F. Woodbull Life," a small volume of laboratory exercises for sec-
for the “Twentieth Century” series of the Messrs. ondary schools, the work of Messrs. H. E. Walter,
Appleton is, on the other hand, somewhat unconven- W. Whitney, and F. C. Lucas, three instructors in the
tional in treatment, and prefers to relegate laboratory high schools of Chicago.
work to a special volume. We welcome particularly Messrs. L. C. Page & Co. have issued a new and re-
such departures from custom as the insertion of a series vised edition, enriched with an essay by Mr. Joseph
of full-page portraits with biographical sketches. Nor Jacobs, of Miss Louisa Laura Costello's popular little
is the history of the science neglected, but receives book of selections from the Persian poets, entitled
attention at many points. We commend also the “ The Rose Garden of Persia.” The volume is a notably
special chapter on music at the close of the volume.
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ental designs and colors being effective and harmonious. distinctive feature, the remarks on Omar made by Mr.
The text is handsomely printed on rather thick paper H. H. Asquith two years ago at a dinner of the famous
of fine quality.
London Club which annually drinks red wine and wears
“ Shakespeare's Predecessors in the English Drama," red roses in the memory of the pbilosopher-poet of
by John Addington Symonds, has long been out of Naishapur.
print, and the new edition of the work which the Messrs. The annual report for 1898 of the Smithsonian
Macmillan have just issued will be peculiarly welcome Institution is a volume of over thirteen hundred pages,
to teachers and students of English literature.
and devoted almost wholly to a single monograph, by
“ Wit and Wisdom of the Talmud," a little book of
the late Edward D. Cope, upon “ The Crocodilians,
extracts edited by the Rev. Madison C. Peters, and Lizards, and Snakes of North America.” So important
prefaced by Rabbi H. Pereira Mendes, has just been a work as this has not often been found even in the
published in attractive form by the Baker & Taylor Co. publications of the Institute, and naturalists will wel.
The wit is somewhat far to seek, but of the wisdom come such an addition to the fundamental literature of
there can be no question.
their subject.
The A. Wessels Co. are the American publishers of Among the new books about to be issued from the
an English series of small books of popular science, Oxford University Press are “ The Oxford Book of
two of which have just been sent us. “ A Story of English Verse, 1250-1900," poems chosen and edited
Bird-Life" is the work of Mr. W. P. Pycraft, and by Mr. A. T. Quiller-Couch ; “ An English Miscellupy,"
“ The Story of the Wanderings of Atoms” is written presented to Dr. Furnivall in honor of his seventy-fifth
by Mr. M. M. Pattison Muir.
birthday, and contributed to by some fifty authorities
The famous " Characteristics” of the Earl of on philology and early English literature; and “Studies
Shaftesbury, edited by Mr. John M. Robertson, are in Foreign Literature," being the Taylorian lectures,
published in a handsome library edition by Messrs. 1889–1899, delivered by Messrs. S. Mallarmé, W. Pater,
E. P. Dutton & Co. This is the first reprint of the W. P. Ker, H. Brown, A. Morel Fatio, E. Dowden,
work for over a century, and should serve to revive F. W. Rolleston, W. M. Rossetti, P. Bourget, C. H.
interest in a worthy but somewhat neglected English Herford, and H. Butler Clarke.
The “Century Classics," a new series of reprints
The “ Representative British Orations," as edited in begun by the Century Co., are in every way digoified
three volumes by President C. K. Adams, are now and attractive in execution. Each volume has a por-
published in a new edition by the Messrs. Putnam, trait frontispiece and an iotroductory essay by a good
together with an additional volume edited by Mr. John critical authority. The volumes are smaller than those
Alden. The new volume includes examples from of the Macmillan series of similar scope, and the price
O'Connell, Palmerston, Lowe, Mr. Chamberlain, and is lower. The six volumes thus far issued, and their
Lord Rosebery.
editors, are as follows: Bacon's Essays, by Professor
· The Supernatural," by Dr. Lyman Abbott ; G. E. Woodberry ; Herrick's Poems, by Mr. T. B.
“Salvation from Sin,” by the same author; “Straight
Aldrich ; " The Pilgrim's Progress," by Bishop Potter ;
Shots at Young Men,” by the Rev. Washington Gladden; Defoe's Plague Journal, by Sir Walter Besant ; “ The
and “ Loving My Neighbor," by Dr. J. R. Miller, are Vicar of Wakefield,” by Mr. Henry James ; and King-
four volumes in the “ What is Worth While" series lake's “Eothen," by Mr. James Bryce.
of booklets, in addition to those noted by us
Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons, in conjunction with
weeks ago. Messrs. T. Y. Crowell & Co. are the pub- Messrs. Methuen & Co., have begun the publication of a
lishers.
« ," volumes of
prose classic.
9
»
some
he writing in English,” a school-book of composition, Library of Starband
. Literature Excely poem
66
is the work of Superintendent W. H. Maxwell and Dr. of Alfred Lord Tennyson," edited by Mr. J. Churton
George J. Smith, published by the American Book Co. Collins ; “The History of the Life of Thomas Ellwood,”
The Messrs. Appleton publish “ The Art of Writing edited by Mr. C. G. Crump; Gibbons' "Memoirs,"
English," a book of more advanced grade than the one edited by Dr. G. Birkbeck Hill; and an Italian text of
previously mentioned, the work of Professor J. M. D. “ The Divine Comedy,” edited by Mr. Paget Toynbee.
Meiklejohn. “ The Essentials of the English Sen- Something like forty more volumes are already an-
tence,” by Mr. Elias J. MacEwan, is a publication of nounced for this series, which is likely to prove a seri-
Messrs. D. C. Heath & Co.
ous rival to the Macmillan “Library of Eoglish
The dainty “ Flowers of Parnassus series, lately Classics" and the “Century Classics.”
inaugurated by Mr. John Lane, makes rapid progress. Still another school history of American Literature
Four new volumes have just appeared, comprising: has come to our desk, the work of Professor Walter C.
Browning's “ The Statue and the Bust” and Mr. Bronson, published by Messrs. D. C. Heath & Co.
Stephen Phillips's “ Marpessa," each illustrated by Mr. While no better and no worse than two or three others
Philip Connard; Rossetti's “ The Blessed Damosel,” that might be named, this book has a certain individ-
illustrated by Mr. Percy Bulcock; an Tennyson's uality, based in part upon the author's first-hand study
« The Day-Dream,” with illustrations by Miss Amelia of the earlier period, with all the advantages offered
Bauerle.
by the Harris collection at Brown University. His
Editions of Omar still multiply. We now have discussion keeps in touch with social conditions and the
from Messrs. Little, Brown, & Co. a handsome volume general intellectual movement of the century, which is
containing the verse translations of FitzGerald and à commendable feature. The method is that of the
Whinfield, together with Mr. J. H. McCarthy's prose essay, with biographies and bibliographies relegated to
version, the whole edited by Miss Jessie B. Ritten- the position of foot-notes. An appendix gives some
house. The A. Wessels Co. publish a charming book- highly interesting excerpts from Colonial and Revolu-
let containing the FitzGerald quatrains, and, for a tionary writings.


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LIST OF NEW BOOKS.
(The following list, containing 175 titles, includes books
received by THE DIAL since its last issue.]
pp. 297.
pp. 290.
1
BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIRS.
William Shakespeare, Poet, Dramatist, and Man. By
Hamilton Wright Mabie. Illus. in photogravure, etc.,
large 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 421. Macmillan Co. $6.
Napoleon: The Last Phase. By Lord Rosebery. 8vo, gilt
top, uncut, pp. 283. Harper & Brothers. $3.
Oliver Cromwell, bis Life and Character. By Arthur
Paterson. With photogravure portraits, large 8vo, gilt
top, uncut, pp. 315. F. A. Stokes Co. $3.
Daniel O'Connell, and the Revival of National Life in
Ireland. By Robert Dunlop, M.A. Illus., 12mo, pp. 393,
“Heroes of the Nations." G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.50.
Roger Ludlow, the Colonial Lawmaker. By Jobn M.
Taylor. 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 166. G. P. Putnam's
Sons. $1.50.
Thomas Henry Huxley: A Sketch of bis Life and Work.
By P. Chalmers Mitchell, M.A. With portrait, 12mo,
" Leaders in Science." G. P. Putnam's Sons.
$i.
Sir Stamford Raffles, and England in the Far East. By
Hugh Edward Egerton, M.A. With portrait, 12mo,
" Builders of Greater Britain.' Longmans,
Green, & Co. $1.50.
Dames and Daughters of Colonial Days. By Geraldine
Brooks. Illus., 8vo, pp. 284. T. Y. Crowell & Co.
$1.50.
Henry Fielding: A Memoir. By Austin Dobson. Revised
and enlarged edition; with portrait, 16mo, gilt top, uncut,
pp. 315. Dodd, Mead & Co. $1.25.
HISTORY.
The Rulers of the South: Sicily, Calabria, Malta. By
Francis Marion Crawford ; illus. in photogravure, etc.,
by Henry Brokman. In 2 vols., 8vo, gilt tops, uncut.
Macmillan Co. $6. net.
The War in South Africa: A Narrative of the Anglo-Boer
War from the Beginning of Hostilities to the Fall of Pre-
toria. By Captain A. T. Mahan; with Introduction by
Sir John G. Bourinot, K.C.M.G. Illus. in colors, etc.,
oblong folio, pp. 208. New York: P. F. Collier & Son.
$5.
With Both Armies in South Africa. By Richard
Harding Davis, F.R.G.S. Illus., 12mo, pp. 237. Charles
Scribner's Sons. $1.50.
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THE OLD GENTLEMAN OF THE BLACK STOCK
By THOMAS NELSON PAGE
Illustrated in colors by Howard Chandler Christy.
A
NEW and extremely beautiful edition of Thomas Nelson Page’s exquisite romance. The
author has taken advantage of the opportunity to enlarge somewhat the sketches of the
Old Gentleman and of Elizabeth Dale, the charming heroine of the romance.
Two more
delightful characters it would be hard to find in recent fiction than this odd gentleman, with
his old-fashioned manners and his memories of bygone, sweet days, and his strong opinions on
the Essayists, and the gracious, dignified, lovely daughter of his favorite Betsey. — Boston Journal.
(12mo, $1.50.)
Mr. Page's other book, “SANTA CLAUS'S PARTNER”
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says: “It is a lovely story, beautiful in conception, and beautiful in execution; and the
publishers have made a charming, old-fashioned book of it.” (12mo, $1.50.)
ITALIAN CITIES
By E. H. and E. W. BLASHFIELD
Editors of “Vasari's Lives of the Painters.” 2 vols. 12mo, $4.00.
THE
'HE wealth of history, poetry, romance, and art in which the cities of Italy are unique,
receives fresh emphasis from these brilliant and scholarly volumes. The Italy of the
present day appears in picturesque relief against its wonderful historic background. Long
Italian residence and recent travel and research have made the authors intimately familiar
with both the past and the present of the cities they characterize - Ravenna, Siena, Florence,
,
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on the literature and plastic art, which is a main part of their subject, is at once authoritative
and extremely personal.
“A perfect biography of the famous sea-fighter.” – New YORK TRIBUNE.
PAUL JONES: Founder of the American Navy. A History
By AUGUSTUS C. BUELL
With portraits, maps, and plans. Second edition. 2 vols. 12mo, $3.00.
SECRETARY LONG, in a letter to the publishers, says: “I have read Mr. Buell's
"Life of Paul Jones.' It is a most interesting book. There is hardly a finer record of
disinterested, efficient, and brilliant public service, and Mr. Buell has set it out admirably. I
regard it as a valuable contribution to naval literature.”
THE
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form a perfect biography of the famous sea-fighter, a work which should secure at once,
and indefinitely maintain, a high position in the literature of its subject.”
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WITH BOTH ARMIES IN SOUTH AFRICA
By RICHARD HARDING DAVIS
Profusely illustrated from photographs. 12mo, $1.50.
IN
N the beginning Mr. Davis throws himself with so much zeal into the graphic telling of his
story that the reader finds himself in full sympathy with Tommy and his officers. After-
ward the freshness, ingenuousness and picturesqueness of his recital of his experiences with
the simple-minded Boers quite carries the reader along with him into a momentary sympathy,
at least, with these bravely but not at all intelligently struggling people. And Mr. Davis,
after the flood of South African books has spent its fury, really shows us some significant
things that no one else had shown us, and teaches us what no one else had taught. .. There
is no finer picture in recent literature than Mr. Davis's of the collapse of the Boer power.
- Boston Transcript.
THE FRIENDLY YEAR
Selections in Prose and Verse for Every Day in the Year, from the Works of Henry van Dyke.
With photogravure portrait. 12mo, $1.25.
VOLUME of selections which emphasizes the extent
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companionable and helpful.
Each, Crown 8vo, $2.00.
OVERHEARD IN A GARDEN
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By OLIVER HERFORD
Author of “ The Bashful Earthquake,” etc. With illustrations by the author.
12mo, $1.25.
« HE IS WORTHY-
OF THE TRADITIONS OF EDWARD
LEAR AND LEWIS CARROLL. His NONSENSE IS IN SYMPATHY WITH THEIR NONSENSE.”
- New York Tribune.
NOTHER of Mr. Herford's inimitable collections, including many verses and drawings
never elsewhere published. The whole exhibits this delightful artist and versifier's fancy
at its best. The cover-design and illustrations are done with characteristic cleverness.
- AND THIS IS SAYING MUCH
THE AMERICAN SLAVE-TRADE
AN ACCOUNT OF ITS ORIGIN, GROWTH, AND SUPPRESSION
By John R. SPEARS
Illustrated by Walter Appleton Clark. 8vo, $2.50.
S interesting as a tale of daring adventure, and as knowledgful as a history. .. . Once
begun, the book will be read with avidity, and the pleasure of reading is enhanced by the
excellence of Walter Appleton Clark's illustrations. — Newark Advertiser.
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ORIENTAL RUGS
By JOHN KIMBERLY MUMFORD
With 32 full-page illustrations (16 in colors), reproduced from selected rugs.
Large 8vo, 8x11] inches, $7.50 net.
MR
R. MUMFORD treats of this novel subject in an interesting and authoritative way. The
special topics discussed are HISTORY; The Rug; WEAVING PEOPLES; MATERIALS;
DYERs and DYES; DESIGN; WEAVING; CAUCASIAN; TURKISH; PERSIAN; TURKOMAN or
TARTARIAN; KHILIMS; INDIANS. The reproductions in color of rich examples of Oriental
rugs from private and other collections form an important feature of the book.
OLIVER CROMWELL
By THEODORE ROOSEVELT
With 40 illustrations, portraits, facsimiles, and documents. Crown 8vo, $2.00.
IT
T is a thoughtful and condensed study of Cromwell's character and times from an American
standpoint. It is clear, forcible, original, and full of the sterling good sense that marks all
Mr. Roosevelt's thinking. — Chicago Tribune.
MILITARY REMINISCENCES OF THE CIVIL WAR
By JACOB DOLSON Cox, A.M., LL.D.
PR
ROBABLY the most notable authoritative work of those that yet remained to be written
about the Civil War. General Cox figured largely in the contest as a participator, being
one of the generals on whom Sherman, his immediate chief, most relied. His book is full of
new data as well as new views. (With portraits and maps. 2 vols., 8vo, $6.00.)
NAPOLEON III. AT THE HEIGHT OF HIS POWER
By IMBERT DE SAINT-AMAND
With portraits.. 12mo, $1.50.
M. DE SAINT-AMAND'S numerous writings on modern French history are now
generally accepted as authoritative for the period that they cover. This book, like its
predecessors, deals with persons and events in the bright, crisp, and distinctively French manner
which makes the whole series so much more attractive than any English works covering the
same ground. — Review of Reviews.
THE REFERENDUM IN AMERICA A HISTORY OF EDUCATION
By Ellis P. OBERHOLTZER
By Thomas Davidson
His discussion of the various phases of the STUDENTS of the history of education
IS
subject in the light of the most recent
developments, is exceedingly timely and in- son's one of singular interest and value. —
structive. — Review of Reviews. (8vo, $2.) Chicago Tribune. (12mo, $1.00 net.)
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THE AMERICAN ANIMAL BOOK
MOOSWA
AND OTHERS OF THE BOUNDARIES
By W. A. FRASER. Illustrated by Arthur Heming. Crown 8vo, $2.00.
M"
R. FRASER, in his long nights in the snow-bound camps of the trappers in Far North-
western Canada, has heard more in the trappers' tales than they ever heard, has seen
more in the woods about him than the frontiersmen ever saw, and now he gives us share in
the spirit of poesy that was borne in upon him with the love of nature that grew with intimate
knowledge. — Louisville Courier-Journal.
NOW
WILD ANIMALS I HAVE KNOWN
IN ITS
By ERNEST SETON-THOMPSON
71st
With 200 illustrations by the author. Square 8vo, $2.00.
1,000
“ It should be put with Kipling and Hans Christian Andersen as a classic.”
-The Athenæum.
*** Also by ERNEST Seton-THOMPSON, “THE TRAIL OF THE SANDHILL
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With numer-
ous illustrations by the author. Square 8vo, $1.50.
SHARPS AND FLATS
By EUGENE FIELD
Two Volumes of Selections of Prose and Verse. Collated by Slason Thompson.
Each, 12mo, $1.25.
TWO
WO new volumes of sketches and verse originally published under the heading “Sharps
and Flats" in the Chicago Daily News and not included in Mr. Field's other books. The
selections have been made with care, and reveal more of the exhaustless gayety of Eugene
Field's daily life than does any other volume of his collected works.
THE GIRL AND THE GUARDSMAN
By ALEXANDER BLACK
With 20 full-page illustrations. 12mo, $1.50.
A
NOVEL with a strongly marked dramatic quality. The plot deals with both love and
war, the hero being a National guardsman who sees service in the Philippines. The
tale is told with vivacity and interest.
A STUDY OF CHRISTIAN MISSIONS
By W. N. CLARKE, D.D.,
Author of “An Outline of Christian Theology.” 12mo, $1.25.
THIS
HIS book is intended to set forth the fundamental principles of the missionary enterprise.
It touches upon motives, methods, and existing conditions, and calls attention to the
significance of the present difficulties growing out of the situation in China, and claims for
missions a place among the activities of the new age upon which the world is entering.
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A LITERARY HISTORY OF AMERICA
By BARRETT WENDELL
Professor of English at Harvard University. 8vo, $3.00.
THE
HE author endeavors to define the way in which the native character and thought of
America have diverged from those of England. Touching briefly on the seventeenth
century, with a special chapter on Cotton Mather, he discusses the eighteenth century at greater
length, with special chapters on Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, and the American
Revolution. The nineteenth century is treated in more detail, with special chapters on
Brockden Brown, Irving, Cooper, Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Whittier, Longfellow, Lowell,
Holmes, and Walt Whitman.
A MISSIONARY IN THE GREAT WEST
With portrait.
By CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY
12mo, $1.25.
The lively humor and good humor that characterize these delightful recollections make
them one of the most delightful books that have come to our table for a long time.
- The Churchman.
It is long since we have seen so many good stories to the page as are to be found in this
cheery little repository of clerical experiences. — The Dial.
THE WAYS OF MEN
A GARDEN OF SIMPLES
By Eliot GREGORY By Martha Bockée Flint. A collection of sketches and
This volume continues
essays in a fresh and novel quarter of the great field of nature.
the series of delightfully The legendary and other lore of plants and Aowers furnishes
cynical sketches begun by
matter for a series of entertaining dissertations. (12mo, $1.50.)
Mr. Gregory's Worldly
A CHRISTMAS SERMON
Ways and Byways.' All of By Robert Louis Stevenson. “The most charming of
the essays are witty, inter- holiday books. . . . In itself calculated to send everybody into
esting, and suggestive.” whose hands it falls back to another reading of Stevenson's
- Outlook. 12mo, $1.50. books.”— New York Evening Sun. (10mo, 50 cents.)
SONGS AND SONG WRITERS
By HENRY T. FINCK
(The Music Lover's Library.) With 8 portraits. 12mo, $1.25 net.
ERETOFORE there has been no book to guide amateurs and professionals in the choice
of the best songs. Mr. Finck's new book not only does this, but gives a bird's-eye view
of the whole field of song in the countries of Europe as well as in America. The volume is
especially rich in anecdotes.
SONGS OF TWO
AFTERGLOW
By ARTHUR SHERBURNE HARDY. Certain Later poems by Julia C. R. Dorr, author
poems that for several years have attracted of “ Afternoon Songs,” etc. The Interior says:
attention in their individual publication for "We
pronounce
Mrs. Dorr the sweetest
qualities as remarkable as the author's poetic singer among American women.” (12mo,
prose.
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TOMMY AND GRIZEL
both Thousand.
By J. M. BARRIE
12mo, $1.50.
IT
T is one of the few, the very few, books of this decade that have within them a promise of
lasting life.
We wonder if Mr. Barrie has not placed himself at the head of his
craft; no, we scarcely wonder. He may be hailed as the greatest living master of the delicate
art of fiction.— New York Mail and Express.
THE
HE book is very well written, in the vein of quiet, ironical humor that Mr. Barrie has made
his own. His sentences rarely close without an illuminating touch — rarely, too, without
a dexterous stab. The man grows before us with each successive stroke. There are one or
two pieces in the book of exquisite prose. Read the love-scene on page 159 and the follow-
ing pages,
and
you shall find the true successor to the man who wrote that song of love in
“ Richard Feverel”—or, say, the man who might have written a pendant to that exquisite
chapter, could he have withheld himself from the delights of over-refinement.”
Literature (London).
THE HOUSE OF EGREMONT
By MOLLY ELLIOT SEAWELL. Illustrated. 12m0, $1.50.
“THE House of Egremont” will be read with much pleasure by all who love a well-
”
told and stirring tale. . . . It is a genuinely good and artistic story, tripping lightly over
its historic paths, enlivened by humor, and made radiant by romance, filled with the two great
qualities of loyalty and love. — New York Times Saturday Review.
•
CRITTENDEN
A Kentucky Story of Love and War.
By John Fox, JR. 12m0, $1.25.
С RITTENDEN” is a fine story, a stirring story; a story that will make every Southern
man who reads it feel like taking the hand of John Fox in a grip that means more than
words; a story that will make every Northern man who reads it understand the South a little
better than he ever did before.—Louisville Courier-Journal.
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PECCAVI
By E. W. HORNUNG, Author of " The Amateur Cracksman,” etc. 12mo, $1.50.
MR.
R. E. W. Hornung has written his best book in “Peccavi.” It is a story, first, last, and
all the time. . . : Mr. Hornung's versatility is remarkable. To write a book like this
as a successor to “The Amateur Cracksman” was a feat indeed. This novelist has gone up
many pegs within the last year. — Evening Sun (New York).
UNTIL THE DAY BREAK
40th Thousand
By Robert Burns Wilson.
UNLEAVENED
12mo, $1.50.
BREAD
The plot is intricate and ingenious, the character well sus-
By ROBERT Grant
tained, and the style poetic. — New York Times Saturday Review.
12mo, $1.50.
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“There is nothing better in light literature than Mr. Stockton's amusing tales." -- LIFE.
AFIELD AND AFLOAT
Illustrated
By FRANK R. STOCKTON
12mo, $1.50.
IKE all that he has written, they are pervaded with his delightful and whimsical humor.
He is the very Genius of the Unexpected. Whether he touches upon love or war, upon
adventures by land or water, or upon the mystic realm of ghosts, he is alike charming, which
is but another way of saying that he is always himself.- New York Times Saturday Review.
THE QUEEN VERSUS BILLY and Other Stories
By LLOYD OSBOURNE. 12mo, $1.50.
“THE
HE Queen versus Billy,” by Lloyd Osbourne, is a collection of nine stories, each
”
of which is not much more than a sketch, but so clearly and artistically outlined, with such
sharply delineated characterizations, that one finds them charming.–St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
OLD FIRES AND PROFITABLE GHOSTS
By A. T. QUILLER-COUCH (“Q”), Author of “The Ship of Stars,” etc. 12m0, $1.50.
BET
ETWEEN the first tale and the last, we have the “Q” we used to know, the inventor
of splendid situations and of living characters, the skillful painter of the atmosphere of
time and place and circumstances, the sound realist of vivid imagination — one of the best of
living short story writers. . . . Such tales as “The Lady of the Ship” and “Frozen Margit”
are the best of their kind, the best that Mr. Quiller-Couch can give us.
- New York Mail and Express.
DOMESTIC DRAMAS
By PAUL BOURGET. 12mo, $1.50.
BUT
UT a mere recounting of the outline of these stories does little to impart the literary
charm, the analytical skill, and the human interest of which M. Bourget has so long been
an acknowledged master. The style and atmosphere have been ably preserved by Mr.
Marchant, whose careful and literary translation is more satisfactory to nine out of ten Eng-
lish readers.- New York Commercial Advertiser.
THE MONK AND THE THE GIRL AND THE GOVERNOR
DANCER
By CHARLES WARREN
By Arthur CossLETT SMITH
1 2mo, $1.50.
12mo, $1.50.
The book is a good one because it gives the fruits of
All that short stories should be keen observation of political life, but it is good also be-
- pithy, original, scintillating.– cause Mr. Warren has the narrator's gift, knows how to
Chicago Tribune.
give dramatic interest to his work.— New York Tribune.
SHORT RAILS
STORY-TELL LIB
By CY WARMAN
By ANNIE TRUMBULL SLOSSON
A collection of the author's railway stories Seven quaint, touching parables. It is a very
which will delight Mr. Warman's many admir- pathetic little book, but full of sweet hope
ers. There is no author to-day who can rival and strong encouragement.-- Boston Beacon.
Mr.Warman in his chosen field. 12mo, $1.25. (16mo, 50 cents.)
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A MAGNIFICENT ART WORK
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS
By Sir WALTER ARMSTRONG
Author of “ The Life of Gainsborough”
With 70 photogravures and 6 lithographs in colors in one volume.
Folio, $25.00 net.
IN this magnificent work Sir Walter Armstrong has produced a biography of the first President
of the Royal Academy in which Sir Joshua's life is sketched in sufficient, though by no
means exhaustive, detail, more attention being paid to the characteristics of the man himself
than to the more or less accidental events in which he was concerned. To this the author has
added a careful critical estimate of Sir Joshua's art and of his influence both on the English
school and on modern painting in general.
In selecting the pictures for reproduction, care has been taken to choose those which most
fully illustrate Reynolds's development, and to prefer, where possible, less known and less
readily accessible examples to those in public galleries. The unstinted praise given to the
author's “ Life of Gainsborough” — both as far as scholarship is concerned and also on account
of its exquisite manufacture — cannot be denied in an equal measure to his “Life of Sir Joshua
Reynolds,” which is equally liberally illustrated and sumptuously printed.
A SUPERB ART BIOGRAPHY
PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD
By ANDREW LANG
Profusely illustrated with photogravures from original sources. (Limited to 1500
copies, 250 only of which are for America.) Royal 4to, $20.00 net.
T is, we believe, as the biographer of Prince Charles Edward rather than as the historian of
.
to write this fascinating book, whose "get-up” is as superb as that of its five predecessors on
Mary Stuart, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Victoria, Charles I., and Oliver Cromwell. But the
great delight of the book is the text. Every page shows the author's deep knowledge and keen
intelligence; on almost every one of them there is something novel in the way of fact, explan-
ation, or illustration. The Athenæum.
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THE SIEGE IN PEKING
China Against the World
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CHINA'S ONLY HOPE
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LIFE OF MRS. BOOTH
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A Semi-fMonthly Journal of Literary Criticism, Discussion, and Information.
No. 347.
DEC. 1, 1900.
Vol. XXIX.
CONTENTS - Continued.
CONTENTS.
THE GENTLE READER
PAGE
413
.
RECORDS OF COLONIAL TIMES AND MAN-
NERS. E. G. J.
415
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BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG-I. .
432
Stories of European History. — American History
before the Revolution. - Tales of the Revolution.-
From the Revolution to the Civil War. — From the
Civil War to the Philippines. — The War in South
Africa. - Stories of the Indian. - Travel and explo-
ration. – Practical and imaginative. – Various sorts
of heroes. — About girls and for them. — Fairy tales
and fables. — Impossible realities. — Books about
animals. – Old authors made new,- New editions
of old favorites. - Books for the whole family.
For younger readers. — Picture books in plenty.
For youngest readers. – Mainly musical.
NOTES
439
TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICAIS.
440
LIST OF NEW BOOKS.
440
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HONORE DE BALZAC. Louis J. Block
417
THE PEACE CONFERENCE AT THE HAGUE.
Franklin H. Head
420
THE DEVELOPMENT OF ROMAN ART. Edward
E. Hale, Jr.
421
THE PHILIPPINE QUESTION PER SE. Wallace
Rice
422
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS - I.
424
Lang's Prince Charles Edward. - Malan's More
Famous Homes of Great Britain. - Mrs. Jackson's
Ramona, illus. by Henry Sandham. - Whiteing's
Paris of To-Day. - Gibson's Americans. – Dickens's
Works, “Temple” edition. – Douglas's Fra An-
gelico. - Miss Cary's The Rossettis. – Mrs. Wiggin's
Penelope's English Experiences and Penelope's Prog-
ress, illus. by C. E. Brock. – Mrs. Ward's Eleanor,
illustrated edition. - FitzGerald's Stories of Famous
Songs. - Shakespeare's As You Like It, illus. by
Will H. Low.-Mrs. Earle's Stage-Coach and Tavern
Days. — Westcott's David Harum, illustrated edi.
tion. — Irving's Knickerbocker History of New
York, illus. by Maxfield Parrish. - Robins's Twelve
Great Actors and Twelve Great Actresses. — Dith-
mar's John Drew, - Scott's Ellen Terry. - James's
A Little Tour in France, illus. by Joseph Pennell. -
Ford's Wanted, a Matchmaker. - Dickens's Christ-
mas Carol and The Cricket on the Hearth, illus. by
F. S. Coburn. - The Lover's Library. - Rowlands's
Among the Great Masters in Music and Literature.
– Johnson's Along French Byways. — Fields's Yes-
terdays with Authors. — Tennyson's In Memoriam,
“Bankside Press” edition. — Marion Harland's Lit-
erary Hearthstones, second series. – Markham's The
Man with the Hoe, illus. by Howard Pyle. – Park-
man's Oregon Trail, illus. by Frederic Remington.
- Carter's The Wedding Day in Literature and Art.
- Morris's Pre-Raphaelite Ballads, decorated by
H. M. O'Kane. Wolfe's LiteraryRambles at
Home and Abroad. - Blackmore's Lorna Doone,
illus. by Clifton Johnson. – Mrs. Clement's Heroines
of the Bible in Art. – New volumes in the
Thumb - Nail series. · Eickmeyer's Down South.
- The Book of Omar and Rubaiyát. – Op-
dyke's The World's Best Proverbs. – Page's The
Old Gentleman in the Black Stock. - Miss Wil-
liams's Through the Year with Birds and Poets. —-
Miss La Fontaine's The Four Evangelists in Classic
Art. - Knackfuss's Albrecht Dürer. – Carus's Eros
and Psyche. — Reade's The Cloister and the Hearth,
illus, by W. M. Johnson. - Ivanhoe and John Hali-
fax, Gentleman, in the “ Illustrated Romances”.
series. — Johnson's Rasselas, Gem Classic" edi-
tion. - Mrs. Goodwin's The Head of a Hundred,
illustrated edition. — Elizabeth and her German
Garden, and The Solitary Summer, illustrated
editions. – Miss Weeden's Songs of the Old South. -
Mrs. Goulston's Loving Imprints. — Miss Harts-
horne's In the Sweetness of Childhood. – Black
Rock and The Sky Pilot, illustrated editions. – Miss
Porter's Scottish Chiefs, illus. by T. H. Robinson.
THE GENTLE READER.
Among the many agreeable features of the
holiday season, now so swiftly approaching,
there is none more pleasant than the making
of gifts. The truly human being, who feels
himself no isolated unit in the total of con-
scious existence, but rather a creature linked
to his fellows by the countless ties of sympa-
thetic association, takes a greater delight in
preparing holiday surprises for those who are
dear to him than he does in the anticipation
of the satisfactions that may reasonably be
expected to accrue to his own existence. It is
pleasant to dwell in thought upon the coming
days of relaxation, with their good cheer for
mind and body alike, but it is even more pleas-
ant to make little plans for the happiness of
others, and to select for them those small
mementoes which mean so much for the tastes
and the affections, however slight may be the
estimate set upon them in the market-place.
Among these remembrances, the tokens by
which we express ourselves far more effectively
than by means of any words, there are none
more important than books, for there are none
that are possessed of so much of the spiritual
or symbolic value that we should always seek
to embody in our gifts. However limited
may be our resources, they are sufficient to
compass the procuring of the richest treasures
of the spirit as it is revealed in literary art.
Nor is there need to be ashamed of the setting
provided for these jewels, for the arts that be-
long to bookmaking, as distinguished from
the art of the writer of books, have grown in-
creasingly worthy of their task, and so cun.
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at to
ningly fit the page to the margin, so tastefully testifies to the fact that the gentle reader is in-
.
fit the cover to the pages, so harmoniously fit sisting that his interests shall not be neglected.
the decoration to the covers, that all the We had just got fairly started upon this
æsthetic sensibilities are gratified at once, and train of reflection when we came across
we marvel that it should be possible to offer analysis of the tastes and the temper of the
so much of the product of refined taste at so gentle reader so genial and so sympathetic
absurdly small a price.
that we were tempted to make a forced loan
The majority of books, of course, do not
for the relief of our own poverty of expres-
meet these conditions, being strictly commer- sion. This temptation overcome, we must at
cial products for the consumption of Philis- least make a reference to the article by the
tines; but the wonder remains that so many Rev. Mr. Crothers in the November “ Atlan-
books should meet them so successfully; for to tic,” which reveals to the gentle reader his
the book-lover of nice discrimination, after own true self, and explains the workings of
putting aside the countless impossible objects his mind so delightfully that even the reader
in the guise of books that are everywhere of another sort may come to understand some-
thrust upon his attention, there still remains thing of it, and experience yearnings to be
the embarrassment of choice among the really himself numbered among the gentle. But if
desirable editions that offer him so much more we may not borrow from Mr. Crothers, we
than mere muslin and paper and print. Would will at least borrow from the Rev. Henry
he purchase a Shakespeare or a Dickens, a Van Dyke, who has recently paid his compli-
a
Walton or a Boswell, or even so modern a ments to the gentle reader. After dismissing
classic as a 6. Marius or an “Omar," he is the “simple reader” and the “intelligent
fairly bewildered by the charms of at least reader” as obviously hopeless, this writer sets
three or four editions, each of which seems at forth the characteristics of the gentle reader so
the moment of examination more wholly desir- charmingly and with such insight that we at
able than any other. And when the choice is once feel sure that he knows whereof he speaks.
reluctantly made, his memory lingers regret- “ The gentle reader,” he says, “is the person who
fully over the claims of the rejected rivals for wants to grow, and who turns to books as a means of
his favor, leaving him not quite sure that he purifying his tastes, deepening his feelings, broadening
his sympathies, and enhancing his joy in life. Litera-
has chosen wisely after all.
ture he loves because it is the most humane of the arts.
In making these remarks, we have had in
Its forms and processes interest him as expressions of
mind, as chiefly deserving of consideration, the the human striving towards clearness of thought, pur-
type of book-lover whom it was once the cus-
ity of emotion, and harmony of action with the ideal.”
tom to designate as “the gentle reader.” The But better than any characterization of the
type is an old-fashioned one, but it happily gentle reader -- better even than Dr. Van
remains persistent, although seemingly crowded Dyke's analysis, is the concrete example offered
aside by the enormous recent expansion of the by many a man of letters who has taken the
reading public as a whole. The gentle reader public into his intimacy, and helped us to feel
is essentially a reader of good old books rather and to share his delight in good literature.
than of ephemeral new ones. He is apt to look Emerson and Lowell, Lamb and FitzGerald,
with suspicion upon the celebrities that are were gentle readers of the most typical sort,
exploited by publishers and newspapers day and their success in the vocation was complete.
after day, and to give thanks that he has When Mr. James Lane Allen interrupts the
learned to eschew the counsel of these o blind course of a novel to bring in whole pages
of
mouths,” that he has long since found his way Malory, we instantly know him for a gentle
to the perennial sources of literary enjoyment. reader. Others, again, seem to have the desire
He is still with us, for his tastes are still con- to be gentle readers, but the true vocation is
sulted by our purveyors of books, and the very lacking. Mr. Ruskin was too intolerant of
publishers who strive eagerly with one another opinions not his own to become one, and Mr.
for the acquisition of the latest novels by the Frederic Harrison, try as hard as he may to
latest notorieties take also good heed to provide get in, is kept outside the sanctuary by what
their lists with reprints of the old established inay be called the strenuosity of his positivism.
favorites. The many libraries of standard lit- He makes a valiant plea for all good books,
erature which are so characteristic a feature of but we feel while he is making it that they
publishing at the present time surely answer to have appealed to his intelligence, and in-
a genuine demand, and that demand as surely directly, by virtue of their significance for the


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a
history of culture, and not directly by virtue
of their quality of deep buman sympathy.
The New Books.
On the other hand, we know FitzGerald as
a genuine member of the guild from almost
RECORDS OF COLONIAL TIMES AND
any random page of his familiar correspon-
MANNERS.*
dence. By way of bonnes bouches, and as the
Books on Colonial times continue to appear,
best possible illustration of our text, let us
,
close by extracting a passage or two from the
and of such good ones as Miss Helen Evertson
Smith's “ Colonial Days and Ways," now be-
letters in which his quality as a bookman is
most clearly exhibited.
fore us, there can hardly be too many. Readers
I am now a good deal about in a new Boat I have of Marion Harland's popular “ Colonial Home-
built, and thought (as Johnson took Cocker's Arithmetic
steads ” may remember her account of the rich
with him on travel, because he should n't exhaust it) accumulation of family papers, “hampers,
so I would take Dante and Homer with me, instead of corded boxes, and trunks full of them,” stored
Mudie's Books, which I read through directly. I took
away for generations in the spacious garret of
Dante by way of slow Digestion: not having looked at
him for some years: but I am glad to find I relish
a certain old mansion, the Smith homestead,
him as much as ever: he atones with the Sea; as you
at Sharon, Connecticut. These papers, includ- .
know does the Odyssey — these are the Men !" ing many thousands of letters, with diaries,
“I wonder whether old Seneca was indeed such a legal writings, account-books, and so on, form
humbug as people now say he was: he is really a fine
a ramifying chronicle covering the years ex-
writer. About three hundred years ago, or less, our
divines and writers called him the divine Seneca; and tending from the landings of the earlier immi-
old Bacon is full of him. One sees in him the upshot grants in Massachusetts and Connecticut, down
of all the Greek philosophy, how it stood in Nero's to the middle of the present century. In ex-
time, when the Gods had worn out a good deal. I ploiting these documents, some of which turn
do n't think old Seneca believed he should live again.
out to be of rather exceptional historical or
Death is his great resource. Think of the rococosity of
a gentleman studying Seneca in the middle of February pictorial value, Miss Smith has lent her pen,
1844 in a remarkably damp cottage.”
not merely to the naturally congenial task of
“I cannot get on with Books about the Daily Life compiling the annals of the Sharon branch of
which I find rather insufferable in practice about me. the extensive house of Smith, but also to the
I never could read Miss Austen, nor (later) the famous
more weighty and useful one of constructing,
George Eliot. Give me People, Places, and Things,
which I don't and can't see; Antiquaries, Jeanie Deans,
on the ex pede Herculem principle, from the
Dalgettys, &c. As to Thackeray's, they are terrible; memorials of a representative family a general
I really look at them on the shelf, and am half afraid picture of the domestic
economy
of
to touch them. He, you know, could go deeper into the class of Colonial society to which the family
the Springs of Common Action than these Ladies:
wonderful he is, but not Delightful, which one thirsts belonged. Nor has Miss Smith been content,
for as one gets old and dry.”
like some of her predecessors, with merely
“Of course the Man must be a Man of Genius to skimming the cream of her material, and mak-
take his Ease: but, if he be, let him take it. I suppose ing a book of extracts.
that such as Dante, and Milton, and my Daddy, took it
Coming of composite English-Dutch-Hugue-
far from easy: well, they dwell apart in the Empyrean;
but for Human Delight, Shakespeare, Cervantes,
not stock, the author's ancestral papers reflect
Boccaccio, and Scott.”
by turns something of the ways of each of
these three components of our early popula-
It is worth while to be able to read books in tion, and not of the Puritan element alone.
the spirit of the writer of these passages, worth
The narrative proper begins with Chapter
while even at the expense of a few crotchets
III., mainly an account of a pioneer pastor of
and a certain amount of irrationality. And it
Wethersfield, Connecticut, and containing, as
is also worth while to learn the lesson of
FitzGerald's absolute sincerity in stating his tions, a letter written in 1698, descriptive of
the pièce de résistance in the way of quota-
likes and dislikes. If our personal judgments early days in Wethersfield. The father of the
are in line with the established verdict of
writer was a non-conforming clergyman who
criticism, well and good ; but if they are not,
there is no virtue in pretending to the contrary. Laud and ye Black Tom Tyrante
left England in 1636 to escape "ye infamous
” (Went-
The gentle reader, at least, whatever his faults,
knows the things he likes, and they are pretty
*COLONIAL DAYS AND WAYS. As Gathered from Family
apt to be the things that the world has agreed With Decorations by T. Guernsey Moore. New York: The
Papers, by Helen Evertson Smith, of Sharon, Connecticut.
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worth). Trying times awaited the good man Chapters VII., VIII., and IX., describing
in his new pastorate. His son writes :
the Huguenot settlers in New Rochelle, are
“Concerning of ye earlie days, I can remember but among the best in the book. The writer is
little save Hardship: My Parents had broughte bothe plainly touched by the tale of the plaintive
Men Servants and Maid Servants from England, but
ye Maids tarried not but till they got married, ye wch
fortunes of these exiles, who bore a hard fate
was shortly, for there was great scarcity of Women in
with a gayety and a fertility of resource
ye Colonies. . . . Ye firste Meetinge House was solid peculiarly their own. A letter of 1704 gives
mayde to withstande ye wicked onsaults of ye
Red
a touching picture of a band of these pious
Skins. Its Foundations was laide in ye feare of ye Lord,
refugees on their way to church in New York,
but its Walls was truly laide in ye feare of ye Indians,
for many & grate was ye Terrors of em. I do mind
twenty miles away — for it was twenty years
-
me y't alle ye able-bodyed Men did work thereat, & ye after the coming of the first Huguenot set-
olde and feeble did watch in turns to espie if any Salv- tlers to New Rochelle, before the colony could
ages was in bidinge neare & every Man keept his Musket
spare the money for a church and pastor of
nighe to his hande. My Father ever declardt
there would not be so much to feare if ye Red Skins
was treated with such mixture of Justice and Authority “ Every week I see the Huguenots pass the house in
as they cld understand, but iff he was living now he troops on their way to church in the city. As they pass
must see that wee can do naught but fight em & that here all have lunch bags or baskets and also their shoes
right heavily. After ye Red Skins ye grate Terror of our
on their arms. Yet they are not bare-footed, for they
lives at Weathersfield & for many yeares after we had
are all provided with wooden shoes, such as the peas-
moved to Hadley to live, was ye Wolves. Catamounts ants wear in France and in the Low Countries. When
was bad eno' & 80 was ye Beares, but it was ye Wolves they reach a stream not far from the church where
yt was ye worst."
they have erected a shed, they all stop and such of
The writer artlessly concludes that the younge
them as have other shoes change them before going on ;
the others wash their feet and their wooden shoes and
hatred rising in my Bloode" in later years of
put them on again. They are all very plainly dressed,
Red Skins, catamounts, wolves, and so on, “ is but some of them are very elegant looking persons
not a Sin because God mayde em to be hated.” with most charming manners. As they pass they are
In Chapter IV. the author turns to the rec-
singing some of their psalms, that is, the psalms of
David, translated into the French. Some of the airs
ord of the voyage of the “ Abigail,” a slow-
are very grand and spirit-stirring, but many of them
sailing craft which followed in the wake of the
are as sad as dirges, and why should they not be ? For
“ Mayflower,” bringing several passengers of surely this people have suffered much. Still they are
distinction, among them the second John nearly always smiling and happy. But to think of
Winthrop. With Winthrop came his wife's
walking forty miles in going to and from church every
Lord's Day! I am afraid my
elder sister, Mrs. Margaret Lake; and it is
Christianity would never
be equal to that."
mainly to the fortunes of Mrs. Lake and her
immediate descendants, the Gallups of New
An outcast from his native land, and not,
London County, that this chapter, headed “A
like most of his neighbors, a voluntary colonist,
Pioneer Home in Connecticut," is devoted.
the Huguenot willingly cut the ties that bound
In Chapters V. and VI. the author turns to
him to the Old World, transferring gratefully
the records of the comparatively easy and
to the land of his adoption the in born and
prosperous life of the honest Dutch burghers long-tried loyalty of his nature, and ceasing
of New Amsterdam in 1698. Two notable
to speak his own language as speedily as pos-
old houses of New Amsterdam are minutely
sible. French names, Christian names and
described, on the authority of a witness who surnames, became in many cases fearfully and
bad been familiar with them in his youth; and
wonderfully changed. The musical De la
Chapter VI. tells in detail and most entertain-
Vergne, for instance, was presently written as
ingly of the “Cares of the Huysvrow
one word, and pronounced Dillyvarje; while
notable person, be it said, who carried on under the elegant and chivalrous Bonne Passe, after
her own roof-tree a sort of complex plant or
passing through the uncouth forms of Bunpas
manufactory for the making of nearly every-
and Bumpus, was finally degraded into Bump!
thing needed by the family and its retinue of The children of the Huguenot settlers, it is
retainers and colaborers. Says Miss Smith: pleasant to note,
pleasant to note, were treated with a gentleness
“When reading, as one occasionally does in our day,
and indulgence then hardly known among
of some wonderful woman' who superintends a fac- families of English or even of Dutch descent.
tory, or carries on some other line of equally active
Innocent sports and amusements were encour-
business, we should remember that very likely her
grandmother once had as much responsibility, and
aged, gayety of heart and lightness of deport-
filled it as well, without baving to go beyond the bounds
ment were fostered, and “the graces
of her own house to do so."
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toisie, one of which, called “La Loi des Bais- “ did not rise from the Table” until after
ers," our author pleasantly describes.
dark (one wonders how they were able to rise
“ In this game only girls were allowed to play. One at all), and that the sole drawback to the
of them stood in the centre of a room, and round her feast was the arrival of the oranges (brought
passed a decorous procession of little women, each one
in saddle-bags) in a frozen and quite untropi-
of whom bowed and courtesied low before the gracious
cal condition. “ We soaked the frost out in
reigning lady,' kissing her extended hand and chanting
'La main! La main, Jolie ! Petite !
cold water," says the writer, “but I guess
Pour les amis. Pour les amis.'
they wasn't as good as they should have been.”
To each the small lady in the centre courtesied with Probably not.
more or less of grace, and responded, the friends in
But we must now desist from our perbaps
this case being supposed to be of the opposite sex:
*Merci, merci ; mes bons amis.'
too liberal poachings on Miss Smith's enter-
At the next round the reigning lady' presented her taining and instructive pages. The book is
brow to be kissed by all in turn, while the chant now ran: distinctly one that the student of Colonial
'Le front! Le front ! Le noble front!
manners should read, and the publishers have
Pour les pères, et les frères.'
done their best to make it outwardly attrac-
To this the response was a lower courtesy and the
words:
tive. The frontispiece is a pretty drawing of
Mon cher papa ! Mes frères chéris.'
the Sharon homestead, and the decorations,
At the third turn of the procession the small lady pre- by Mr. T. Guernsey Moore, are tasteful and
sented both her hands and her cheeks, while the chanted not cumbersome.
E. G. J.
words were:
'La joue ! La joue ! La rougeante joue !
Pour les douces scurs, et les mères.'
In this the kissing was mutual, and on both cheeks,
without further words. At the fourth round the reign-
HONORÉ DE BALZAC.*
ing lady' was seated, demurely placing one small finger
. The illustrious writer whose name appears
on her arcbly pouting lips, while the others passed by,
each with bali-averted face and one hand raised as if at the head of this article was born in the city
probibiting a nearer approach, while chanting: of Tours, France, in the year 1799, and died
'La bouche ! La bouche, si ravissante !
at the comparatively early age of fifty-one.
Pour les maris ! Mais seulement les maris !'"
He belongs to the splendid group of great
Outwardly less cheerful than his Huguenot
men who made the beginning and first half of
co-religionists, the Puritan colonist had, as we
the nineteenth century memorable in a way
know, his seasons of large indulgences in the
that only few half-centuries can rival. In
good things of life — witness the following Germany, Gøthe was completing the work
extract from a letter of 1779 describing a
which has taken its place with the greatest
Thanksgiving dinner. The arrangements were
work done by any man or in any time; in
on a Gargantuan scale.
England, Walter Scott, Byron, Wordsworth,
“ All the baking of pies and cakes was done at our
house & we had the big oven heated and filled twice Shelley, and Coleridge, were giving expression
each day for three days before it was all done, & to the new spirit which was transforming the
everything was good, though we did have to do without literature of their country; in his own land,
some things that ought to be used. . . . Of course we
Balzac enjoyed the friendship of Victor Hugo
could have no Roast Beef. None of us have tasted Beef
and George Sand. He was himself one of
this three years back, as it all must go to the Army, &
too little they get, poor fellows. But, Nayquittymaw's those great laborers in his chosen
field, whose
Hunters were able to get us a fine red Deer, so that we full measure is not taken by the generation
bad a good Haunch of Venisson on each table. These that produces them, but whose adequate appre-
were balanced by huge Chines of Roast Pork at the
ciation belongs to later times which can see
other ends of the Tables. Then there was on one a
big Roast Turkey & on the other a Goose, & two big
them aright.
Pigeon Pasties. Then there was an abundance of good
The family of Balzac was in comfortable
Vegetables of all the old sorts & one wbich I do not circumstances, and in a fair way to do for him
believe you have yet seen. It is called Sellery & whatever was needed for his best development.
you eat it without cooking. Our Mince Pies were
good. ... The Pumpkin Pies, Apple Tarts & big student at the school to which he was sent,
He does not appear to have been a model
Indian Puddings lacked for nothing save Appetite by
the time we had got round to them. There was no and his clerical preceptors seem to have suc-
Plumb Pudding, but a boiled Suet Pudding, stirred ceeded but ill with the young boy, for he
thick with dried Plumbs and Cherries, was called by
the old Name & answered the purpose. . . . It was
*THE WORKS OF HONORÉ DE BALZAC. Edited by Prof.
extraordinary good.”
W. P. Trent, of Columbia University. Popular edition, in
16 volumes, with illustrations. New York: Thomas Y.
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cessors.
returned to his home in a state of complete not find it necessary to become familiar. These
nervous exhaustion. He had read extensively were, however, years of growth and develop-
in the books that pleased him, and showed ment, and helped to lay the foundations of the
considerable precocity of mind and heart, real achievements which were to come; and
since he wrote, at this early age, a “Treatise finally, in the year 1829, appeared the
on the Will,” which one of his teachers incon- “Chouans," which brought him success, and
tinently threw into the fire. Balzac, in his his apprenticeship was fairly over.
Balzac
novel of “Louis Lambert,” gives a curious was on the way to the profound study of man
exposition of his mental and moral condition and the society in which he has his being, that
at this time. Under the judicious care of his gives character and quality to the mature
mother, his health was restored, and his ambi- novels, and has in it the elements of a realism
tions were greatly stirred by the removal of fitted to bear remarkable fruit among his suc-
the family to Paris in 1814. There he listened
to the instruction of Guizot, Villemain, and He had, during these years, entered upon
,
Cousin, and the public libraries and book- business enterprises, which appeared to him
stalls found in him an ardent visitor and devo promising but left him with a burden of debt,
tee. He was intended for the law, pursued heavy and harassing. He found his way to
the necessary studies, and passed the regular many and various friendships with the great
examinations. At twenty-one he was a singu- of his time. His displayed the contradictory
larly promising young man, from the ordinary characteristics which are not absent from the
practical point of view. His father now wished men of his period and nation. He was a good
him to enter upon the real exercise of his pro- hater as well as lover, desired the possession
fession; but after much consideration he was of wealth, which he made wild attempts to
allowed the privilege of making a trial of his secure by commercial enterprise or specula-
powers in the way of literature. He was tion, became a collector of pictures and curios,
ensconced in an attic in Paris, given a meagre traveled extensively, and touched life at all
income, and permitted to go on his way undis- points. Near the close of his career he married
turbed. He wrote a tragedy called “ Crom- Madame Hanska, with whom he had long
well,” which his family, and a certain professor been acquainted, and who became known to
called in to assist at the reading, condemned him through a correspondence which she
forthwith. He was taken back home; but the opened with some inquiries about his book,
freedom of the life which he had led, and the «Le Peau de Chagrin." Romanticist and
“
absence of a favorite sister, who was realist, sensuous and spiritual-minded, dreamer
Madame Surville, made him long for the attic and scientific observer, indefatigable and in.
which he had abandoned. He shortly left temperate toiler, Balzac truly lived only in the
home for good, and definitely undertook the creation of those stories which were separate
career which gave the world his “Human chapters in the great work which he had
Comedy” and him a place in literary history planned, and which indeed took all bumanity
which has become more and more distinguished for its province.
with the passage of the years.
The history of these writings is one of con-
Balzac's earlier work fell in that period of stantly increasing vogue and appreciation, not
intense romanticism which swept every writer only in his own country but in all lands.
into its irresistible current. The eighteenth Translation on translation has made its ap-
century had been an age of reason, an imper-pearance in English, although the difficulty of
sonal search for truth, social and political
. a satisfactory rendering might well give the
With Rousseau came the reaction, the assertion most courageous pause. Some twenty years
of individuality in all regions of thought and ago, Miss Katharine Prescott Wormley made
life. Foreign literatures brought their con- a beginning in this country, and she has found
tributions to this great stream which bore it necessary practically to go through the entire
older structures to apparent ruin in its tumult- list. Other translations have appeared, in En-
uous rush, - Spain with her ballads, England gland, and now we have the present American
with her historical novels, Germany with her edition, with copious introductions under the
heroes of revolt. Balzac brought his slender editorship of Prof. W. P. Trent of Columbia
offering of sensational romances. They are University. It may be said that twenty years
stories which he was afterwards glad to ignore, ago the name of Balzac outside of France
and with which even his warmest admirers do awoke but a feeble echo of surprise and won-
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derment; to-day his is no longer a reputation achievement, which, in the Preface to the
confided to the fostering care of scholars and Human Comedy," he has announced as his
eager students of literatures other than their main endeavor, and which Professor Trent
He has entered into his kingdom, and calls “ the principal of coördination in fiction.”
made captive readers in all lands and climes. These personages were to be seen in organic
The opinions about him are in the nature of relation with each other, in vital connection
the case widely different. Professor Dowden with the social environment which so profoundly
says of him: “There is something gross in acted upon them. This is a very different affair
Balzac's genius; he has little wit, little deli- from the reappearance in a later book of men
cacy, no sense of measure, no fine self-criticism; and women who have had their entrance in an
be piles sentence on sentence, hard and earlier one. It is a study of society as a whole,
heavy as the accumulated stones of a cairn. of the evolution of character in the milieu
Did he love his art for its own sake? It must which has so much to do with its formation; it
have been so; but he esteemed it also as an is a bold anticipation of views and doctrines
implement of power, as the means of pushing that have had their authoritative exposition
towards fame and grasping gold.” On the elsewhere and later. It is perhaps not out of
other hand, Taine places him with Shakes place here to give a quotation from Balzac's
peare; in a recent article Professor Harry preface to his " Human Comedy” in which he
“
Thurston Peck has said that " at the last his
sums up his intentions :
name will be placed higher still than Shake- “ It was no small task to depict the two or three
speare's, at the very apex of the pinnacle of thousand conspicuous types of a period; for this is, in
fame”; and Professor Trent gives him a posi-
fact, the number presented to us by each generation,
tion but little below this.
and which the Human Comedy' will require. This
crowd of actors, of characters, this multitude of lives,
Balzac's literary production, during his brief need a setting – if I may be pardoned the expression,
twenty years of real activity, was most extraor- a gallery. Hence the very natural division, as already
dinary. It is impossible here even to mention known, into Scenes of Private Life, of Provincial Life, of
his undisputed masterpieces, but such books as
Parisian, Political, Military, and Country Life.* Under
these six beads are classified all the studies of manners,
“Le Père Goriot,” “Eugénie Grandet,” “César
which form the history of society at large, of all its faits
Birotteau,” “ Le Cousin Pons,” “ La Cousine
et gestes, as our ancestors would have said. These six
Bette,” « La Duchesse de Langeais,” “ Le Peau
» '
classes correspond, indeed, to familiar conceptions.
de Chagrin,” “ La Recherche de L'Absolu,"
6
Each has its own sense and meaning, and answers to an
“Seraphita," “Le Médicin de Campagne,"
epoch in the life of man. . . .. My work has its geog-
raphy as it has its genealogy and its families, its places
come immediately into one's consciousness.
and things, its persons and their deeds; as it has its
They seem to span the entire field of human heraldry, its nobles and its commonalty, its artisans and
life, to penetrate its depths, to ascend its peasants, its politicians and dandies, its army, - in
a
heights, to give a reproduction singularly like short, a whole world of its own.”
the original. The characters that people the What is to be said finally of this immense
world which has arisen under this Prospero's work? Has the author succeeded in his en-
wand have a reality that is wonderful; the ex- deavor ? To bave made the effort and conceived
periences through which they move have a the plan are in themselves remarkable achieve-
vividness that is as remarkable; the catas- ments. To have in his day vigorously placed
trophes that ensue through their weaknesses himself side by side with the famous Geoffry
and misadventures, which are seen in full pro- Saint Hilaire, espoused the cause of evolution,
portion and consequence in the strong light and illustrated it in his stories, is a high thing
that is one of the romancer's chief gifts, are for any man to have done. But are these figures
appalling. He has the naturalist's power of genuine types of human thought and aspiration,
burying himself in the individual whom he is universally recognized and recognizable, as
studying; he analyzes his subjects with an as- Ulysses unquestionably is, as Hamlet and Faust
surance that leaves nothing undiscovered. He
* The “Human Comedy" (an appellation which of course
has the impartiality which a creator must have; suggests the “ Divine Comedy") is divided into three main
these men and women grow and move and live; sections, viz.: The “Studies of Manners” (* Etudes de
they are observed with keen accuracy as they phiques"), the “ Analytical Studies” (* Etudes Analy.
Meurs”), the “Philosophical Studies" ("Etudes Philoso-
plan and act and develop; they pursue their tiques”). These are respectively the moral, metaphysical,
own ends, and are confronted by the destinies psychological sections of the work. The divisions in the text
are divisions of the “Studies of Manners." No translation
which they have woven for themselves.
of the "Analytical Studies" is given in the present edition -
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are ? Is this the world of free humanity, high, devoted mostly to two topics, Arbitration and
pure, and simple, which we find in the best International Law, and in each of these direc-
art that is known to us? Let the genera- tions sufficient was accomplished to make the
tions of readers who are in store for Balzac meeting one of the great landmarks in the his-
answer.
tory of mankind, and one of the events which
The present edition, which includes all Bal- will make the century illustrious.
zac's novels that are worthy of preservation,
International Arbitration has not heretofore
has the advantage of the editorial supervision been a judicial proceeding, and the findings of
of Professor Trent, who furnishes a long and arbitrators have oftentimes carried but little
scholarly biography of Balzac, a suggestive weight. The reason is plain. The arbitrators
,
plan for reading the interconnected stories, a were chosen by the disagreeing powers as attor-
bibliography, and a special introduction to each neys rather than judges. Each arbitrator strove
volume. Professor Trent has never done work to obtain all possible advantages for the nation
which more deserves the appreciation of his
that he represented.
readers. The volumes are tastefully printed Under the method of procedure fixed by the
and bound, the illustrations are admirable, and Conference each nation may appoint four of
the edition ought greatly to increase the inter- its citizens as permanent judges of the High
est in Balzac and enlarge the number of his Court of Arbitration, and the appointments
audience.
will be made from among its most eminent
Louis J. BLOCK.
men. From these judges the litigant nations
will select such number as may be agreed upon
to hear and determine the questions at issue.
This tribunal will be the most august in the
THE PEACE CONFERENCE AT THE HAGUE.*
history of the nations; from its entire impar-
One of the most able and influential of the tiality its decisions will command universal
delegates to the Peace Conference at the respect and no sympathy could be expected
Hague, Dr. Frederick W. Holls, has just toward any nation ignoring its awards.
published an interesting and valuable history
International Law, a much used term, prior
of the proceedings of the Conference. Twenty: in reality been nothing more than “ a miscel-
to the assembling of the Hague Conference had
six nations sent delegates and each nation sent
a
as its representatives its ablest diplomats, laneous collection of moral precepts and rules
statesmen, and publicists. The questions
of intercourse.” From Grotius to our own
debated were weighty and momentous. А time many able writers have expounded it, but
foundation was laid, as never before, for the in time of war any nation felt itself free to
adjustment of differences between nations by disregard such precepts as seemed to conflict
peaceful arbitration ; and in case war came, it
with its own immediate interests. By the ac-
was sought to deprive it of some of its horrors
tion of the Conference the chief principles of
and to safeguard the life and property of neu-
International Law have been embodied in a
trals and property not contraband of war upon
treaty which has since been ratified by and be-
the high seas.
tween the twenty-six nations represented, and
The rescript of the Emperor of Russia call- thus is the most widely approved and binding
statute enacted in the history of the world.
the civilized nations, mentioned especially the As the author states it, this action is the Magna
limiting of the increase of armies and of the
Charta of International Law. It will be the
use of new and improved machines for the de- starting point for all development and com-
struction of human life. It soon became evi- mentary hereafter.
dent, however, from positions taken by various The proceedings of diplomatic conferences
delegates of the larger powers, that nothing
are usually secret, but in the readable story as
could be effected in the direction of disarma- told by Dr. Holls, the curtain is lifted and
ment— the matter which evidently the Em- many interesting debates are opened to the
peror of Russia had especially in mind. The reader. The proceedings were at all times
date for this radical departure has not come.
conducted with dignity and decorum as became
The time of the Conference was therefore
the gravity of the occasion and of the subjects
discussed : subjects having a momentous bear-
*THE PEACE CONFERENCE AT THE HAGUE, and its Bear-
ing upon the progress and even the life of
ings on International Law and Policy. By Frederick W.
Holls, D.C.L. New York: The Macmillan Co.
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men.
-
be named than that between the wrangling and art, and the other a person who knew about it.
hurly-burly of an ordinary Parliamentary de- It would be useful to have that distinction
bate and the finished orations on this occasion still. Artists can attend to themselves; they
of the diplomats whose every word was weighed need not care what people call them. And
and considered before it was uttered, — the critics, too, need not be troubled at the names
lofty and serene courtesy in the bearing of the (and epigrams) which they receive. But the
delegates, each to the other, and the stately general run of educated men and women, now,
and gracious method of conducting all pro-
have also an interest in art of one kind or an.
ceedings, as became an assemblage of gentle- other. Mr. Marshall, some years ago, spoke
of the ordinary person interested in art as the
Among the eminent diplomats, members of “ observer”; but he must have been thinking
the Conference, may be named Prince Münster chiefly of painting, for one can hardly be said
Derneburg and Privy Councillor Zorn of Ger- to observe music or poetry. And even were
many; Andrew D. White, Seth Low, and the name more inclusive, it does not indicate
Frederick W. Holls of the United States ; the distinction between those who are content
Heinrich Lammasch of Austria ; Chevalier to love beautiful things and art, and those
Deschamps of Belgium ; Leon Bourgeois and who wish to know about them. And that
Baron d'Estournelles de Constant of France; distinction is an interesting one.
Sir Julian Pauncefote of England; Baron de In almost any field of art you will find these
Stael and Privy Councillor de Martens of two sets. You may observe the difference
Russia; and Baron de Bildt of Sweden and strongly marked by the attitude that people
Norway.
take on what they hear of the art criticism of
Dr. Holls's volume will be a necessity to all | Morelli, or of Mr. Berenson, who seems to
who would keep in touch with one of the loftiest be one of the chief perpetuators of his doc-
achievements since the meeting of the Barons trines.
But
you
will see the difference most
with King John, and an achievement which it strongly in the field of ancient art. Read an
is hoped through its High Arbitration Tribu- essay of Pater's — say that on the Athletic
nal may be a factor in the settlement of the Prizemen
Prizemen -- and then turn to Furtwängler's
“ tremendous problem in the Far East which treatment of Polycestus, not precisely the
is darkening the horizon of all commercial same subject but pretty near it, in the “ Mas-
nations."
terpieces of Greek Sculpture.” You seem
FRANKLIN H. HEAD.
almost in two different worlds.
Greek art is a wonder field, nowadays, for
those who know. The person of cultivated
taste who liked to look at the Venus of Melos
THE DEVELOPMENT OF ROMAN ART.*
in the Louvre, and always felt more pleasantly
To be interested in art, if one be neither in going up-stairs on account of the Winged
artist nor critic, is now a deed without a name. Victory, hardly knows what to make of a
Those good old words “connoisseur” and “dil- recent book on Greek Sculpture. There are
ettante”
are but seldom heard. Who could many strange, fragmentary, amorphous
wish to be called either now? They belong figures, all so important, and so few of the
to that bygone period when Mr. Burchell con- Greek statues that one remembers (most of
demned “the tame, correct paintings of the them, indeed, very late and treated generally
Flemish school,” in favor of “the erroneous with a civil neglect), that it seems quite a
but sublime animations of the Roman pencil,” different world from that we used to hear
and George Primrose learned how much repu.
about.
tation might be gained by praising the works
It is a different world, without a doubt, and
of Pietro Perugino. Goethe put the Dilettante an extraordinarily interesting one, too. It
out of existence (or should have), and the does seem a pity, of course, not to be content
same fate has befallen the connoisseur. Yet to love and to appreciate quite genuinely and
there was good in the names, even if no more
simply the few remains that one knows of
than this : that one indicated (vaguely, per-
real Greek work, until one gets the true
haps, but etymologically) a person who loved Greek spirit, without all this paraphernalia of
comparison between all sorts of mutilated
*ROMAN ART. By Franz Wickhoff. Translated and
edited by Mrs. S. Arthur Strong, LL.D. New York: The
work of later copyists. But there is still
Macmillan Co.
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work, by which out of the Roman copies the
THE PHILIPPINE QUESTION PER SE*
German scholar actually re-creates for you the
types of the Greek master, and in appreciating
Now that the Philippine question bas partly
the true artistic feeling required as well as the disappeared as a mere factor in partisan war-
literary and archæological knowledge. There fare, or at least as a campaign issue, there will
is interest, too, in reading the classic histor-
doubtless be a more general disposition to
ians, in going over the text of Pliny and
consider it on its merits, to arrive at a knowl-
seeing how, by careful comparison of passages edge of the facts, and to reach some rational
from authors as well as of examples of artists,
conclusion as to what is best to do about it.
there arises before one some conception of the
After the heat of contest, when “the shouting
history of art in Greece and Rome.
and the tumult dies," comes the time for reflec-
This is a long introduction to Mrs. Strong's tion and deliberation.
translation of Dr. Wickhoff's work on Roman
“Great captains, with their guns and drums,
Disturb our judgment for the hour,
Art,” but it has given the standpoint from
But at last silence comes."
which the general reader will regard the work. And in this silence, with judgments undis-
It is a book on the history of art, on a very turbed by factional strife and passion, is to be
perplexed period, — a book of knowledge and
a book of knowledge and worked out the practical solution of the prob-
scholarship. Yet it will have a sort of fasci- lems that confront Americans in their new and
nation even to the art-lover. Mrs. Strong is not altogether happy relations with their 80-
already well kpown from the English edition called “island possessions." First of all, it is
of Furtwängler's “Masterpieces and from
"
evident that full knowledge of the facts is
the commentary and introduction to the trans- essential; and to this end these recently pub-
lation of Pliny's "Chapters on the History lished books contribute in no small degree.
of Art" by Miss Lex. Blake. These two The translation, by Dr. David J. Doherty,
works lead, in a way, to this third. They, of the brochure of Professor Ferdinand Blum-
however, were on Greek art. This present entritt is to be welcomed at this time as shed-
book is on Roman art, - one might almost say ding the pure light of scientific investigation
it creates Roman art, so far as concerns any on a subject that partisan prejudice has clouded
independent existence. It is an extremely
over. Herr Blumentritt is the professor of
interesting story ; with a good deal conjectural, ethnology in the scientific school of Leitmeritz,
doubtless, with a good deal disputed, of course. Bohemia, a member of the Berlin Society of
Dr. Wickhoff succeeds in tracing out a Roman Ethnology, and was for years a resident of
development of art from the Greek workmen
the Philippines, where he was widely known as
of the time of Augustus down to the earliest the intimate friend of the patriot-martyr Rizal
Christian manuscript-painters of the fifth cen- during his later life. He is therefore pos-
tury. An immensely curious book, — one sessed of information which is absolutely need-
would gladly say more of it, although real ful to an understanding of the case of the
criticism of such a theory belongs to more Filipino people. The first part of his paper
special scholars and more technical journals ; is taken up with ethnological considerations.
a book for those who like to know about art, He shows that the coast Malays were already
and yet with its interest for the others too. enjoying a civilization of no mean kind when
Indeed, one cannot follow out the careful
the Spanish discovered the islands. Coming
appreciation of so many sources (very fully just in time to combat the spreading doctrines
illustrated, by the way) of Greek copies and of Islam, Christianity gradually extended over
Roman portraits, of bas-reliefs on the Altar the greater part of the archipelago, limiting
of Peace and the Axle of Titus, of painting on the Moslems to the southern or Sulu islands.
the walls of Pompeii and the few Roman rem- Of these coast Malays who accepted Christi-
nants, down to that beautiful purple manu- anity, there are several tribes, representing
script that gave rise to the whole discussion, slightly varying ancestral tendencies; but for
one cannot follow it all carefully through
* THE PHILIPPINES : THEIR PEOPLE AND POLITICAL
without feeling that the distinction we have CONDITIONS. By Ferdinand Blumentritt. Translated by
spoken of may be after all an illusion, and David J. Doherty, A.M., M.D. Chicago: Donahue Bro-
that in truth one cannot know much about art
THE OTHER Man's COUNTRY. By Herbert Welsh. Phil-
without a genuine love for it.
adelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company.
LIBERTY, INDEPENDENCE, AND SELF-GOVERNMENT. By
EDWARD E. HALE, JR. Everett Guy Ballard. Chicago: E. G. Ballard.
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all practical purposes they are a homogeneous On the contrary, most of the officers in the
people, professing one faith and speaking a islands under the American flag, in both hem.
common tongue, with common aspirations and ispheres, have been selected from a class of
no small degree of culture. Herr Blumentritt men which the nation holds in profound dis-
calls attention to the fact that a larger per- trust, that of the professional officeholders,
centage of them are able to read and write political heelers and strikers, the men of “pull”
than in certain self-governing European coun- and “inflooence.” Despite the terrible warn-
tries, notably Italy, Spain, and some of the ing of " carpet-bag" rule in the South, under
eastern States like Roumania and Montenegro conditions which make for added terrors by
— and, he might have added, some of the way of a censored press, vast distance from the
States of the American Union. This Chris- centres of national thought, lack of constitu-
tian population is variously estimated, but tional restraints, and differences in race, color,
constitutes an enormous majority of the inhab- religion, and civilization, the identical policy
itants, probably exceeding six and a half mil- has been permitted to take root and thrive.
lions and possibly more than eight millions. The regular army alone stands for discipline
The rest of the people are the Moslems or and such morality as a state of war connotes.
Moros, with about half a million souls; the Mr. Welsh has done wisely in calling our at-
heathen bill tribes, numbering about a million ; tention at this time to the facts in the case.
and the aborigines or negritos, who do not Only by taking note of the errors already
exceed twenty thousand all told and are rap- made can the American people hope to find
idly becoming extinct. The pamphlet will be
The pamphlet will be wisdom for future guidance in dealing with
found full of similarly useful information, the most vexatious of questions, and those
being particularly valuable in showing the which our political institutions hinder us,
relations borne by the American authorities peculiar manner, from handling calmly and in-
to the clergy of the religious orders in the telligently. He has done wisely, too, in setting
Philippines.
before our eyes the example of Sir Andrew
Mr. Herbert Welsh, the author of "The Clark in the Malayan peninsula ; since the
Other Man's Country,” has had to do with the plain alternatives seem to be either an adoption
North American aborigines through many of his most satisfactory methods, the crowning
years without imputation of selfishness or dis- results of Great Britain's colonial experiments
honesty, and has gained no slight knowledge through several centuries, at once and with
of what Americans call inferior races. Thor- thoroughness ; or a treading of the same bar-
oughly aware of the hideous immoralities and barous and bloody path by which Great Britain
criminal blunders that may be found detailed won such eminence as she now maintains
in Mrs. Helen Hunt Jackson’s “ A Century through another series of grieving centuries.
of Dishonor," and in various other works, the Taken in connection with the writings or biog-
author here enters a plea for a sense of respon- raphies of those who have demonstrated the
sibility and an enlightened conscience which advantages of British advice in the far East,
will prevent a repetition of these domestic ca- it is evident from “The Other Man's Country
lamities in the international arena. More than that the American authorities have disregarded
all, he holds in mind the awful price paid by every lesson taught by English colonization
the United States for its enslavement of the and administration among peoples of another
African, and hopes by sober counsel to avoid language, including those to be gleaned from
the exaction of a similar penalty for a similar the war in South Africa. An examination
offense against Asiatics. The first of the into Russian methods would show that a study
American commissions sent to the Philippines of these has been equally neglected. Yet Rus-
made a study, imperfect but convincing, of sia possesses an ideal government for adminis-
British influence in the Malay States — the tration among alien peoples, by reason of a
brightest stars in the crown of Great Britain's fixed and centralized policy, far above the will
imperialism and the least imperialistic. As a of a fickle democracy, republic, or constitutional
result an earnest recommendation of a civil monarchy dependent upon the suffrages of an
service similar to that used by England in intelligent and mutable population.
Malaya was made to the government of the Mr. Everett Guy Ballard performs a service
United States. Unfortunately, there has been not unlike that of Mr. Welsh, in his " Liberty,
little disposition shown to use any of the re- Independence, and Self-Government,” a pam-
straints of a properly constituted civil service. / phlet sufficiently described by its sub-title as
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containing “ Extracts from Speeches, Writings to be wondered at that Mr. Lang finds cause to
and Letters of the Fathers and Defenders of complain that he is “ censured as a Jacobite and a
this Government, with Comment by the Editor; Whig.” Having no prejudices of our own either
also Important Papers Relating to the Philips way, we are inclined to believe that Mr. Lang has
pines.” The last division, comprising the latter
painted a true portrait, and one that will remain
for all time the standard presentment of the man
half of the book, is made up of excerpts from
Prince Charles Edward. His book is based mainly
the official records of the United States. The
on the Stuart Papers at Windsor Castle; but no
intelligent selection, from the published works
original and trustworthy source of information has
of Otis, Hawley, Samuel Adams, Henry, been left unexplored. "In printed books," he says,
“
Franklin, Paine, Jefferson, Washington, Mon- “ I have read, I think, most that has been pub-
roe, Webster, Clay, Corwin, Everett, Parker, lished.” Let us add that Mr. Lang has told this
Mann, Sumner, Lincoln, and Beecher, of ideas fascinating story in a pure, flexible, steadily flowing,
applicable to the present experiment, though and limpid style that is so good that the reader is
given a partisan aspect by the appended edito-
not conscious, except upon reflection, how very
rial comment, should serve for the instruction
good it is. The chronicler's veracity joined to the
narrator's art is an ideal difficult of attainment; yet
and guidance of Americans at the present day.
Mr. Lang approaches it nearly. The book is the
WALLACE RICE. best, and should prove the most enduring, thing he
has done. The volume has received every embel-
lishment of the book-maker's and the engraver's
art. The frontispiece, a beautifully colored plate,
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS.
and quite the finest piece of color-printing that we
remember to have seen, is a portrait of the Prince,
Andrew Lang's monumental life of Prince Charles after Largillière's painting in the National Portrait
Edward (Scribner) is an important and carefully Gallery. This noble plate serves as an earnest of
wrought work in historical biography which de- a wealth of portraits and other illustrations which
serves fuller and more critical treatment than can must be examined to be appreciated. Among the
be accorded it here. The rich and elaborate setting subjects are Prince James Francis Stuart, Princes
bestowed upon it by the publishers has, however, Sobieska, Prince Henry Stuart, Marquis D'Argen-
tempted us to call attention to it under the category son, Lord Elcho, Jenny Cameron of Lochiel, the
of Holiday publications, and in this class it, in point Duke of Cumberland, Keith the Earl Marischal,
, ,
of sumptuousness, easily heads the season's list. Flora Macdonald (2), and the Duchess of Albany.
The volume is a truly splendid one - a princely Hogarth's famous plates, “ Lord Lovat Counting
literary and pictorial memorial of a lost cause, the Clans," and the “March to Finchley,” are
which many a Jacobite of the old type (and we be handsomely reproduced. But we must refer the
lieve there are still a few fantastic survivals of it) reader to the volume itself for a further view of its
might have consented to beggar himself to possess.
attractions.
We do not mean to ascribe to Mr. Lang — who We are glad to note that the beautiful volume on
has written with the greatest fairness and impar- “ Famous Homes of Great Britain,” which we had
tiality, though a Scot and a “romantic”
- any
occasion to praise last season, met with a success
undue degree of bias in favor of the cause or the that warrants the issue this year of a kindred and
personality of the gallant and picturesque, though companion volume entitled More Famous Homes
“
relatively not altogether worthy, adventurer who of Great Britain, and Their Stories ” (Putnam),
set Britain ablaze in “ Forty Five,” and whose also edited by Mr. A. H. Malan. In England, with
memory was cherished long after in hearts far the wealthier class, the town-house has always been
nobler and purer than his own. Mr. Lang began & rather unimportant accessory - a sort of tem-
his task, as we infer, with a certain romantic pre- porary shelter or convenience for use during “the
dilection for his hero; but as his researches pro- season,” while the country-house has been the real
gressed he was fain to admit that the Jacobite idol inalienable home and abiding-place, the centre of
was not all that the perfervid Jacobite fancy painted family treasures and traditions, the storied cradle
him that he was, though in many respects an
of the race. The English ancestral country home
amiable and well-meaning young man, not at all
is invested with the dignity of a national institution,
the “very perfect gentle knight” of song and story. which finds but a faint and imperfect counterpart
“ His figure,” says Mr. Lang, " is beheld in a lustre in other countries. The present volume describes
not its own: in the splendor of the love and loyalty
in sufficient detail the beauties and treasures of a
that gave themselves ungrudgingly for him and for dozen of the more noteworthy country seats of En-
his cause, that cherished his memory, and even now gland and Scotland, the articles being in many
hold it a kind of treason to tell the truth as far as instances from the pens of the respective owners of
the truth can be known.” Having written thus in the places described. The volume is richly illas-
the spirit of the historian, and having endeavored trated with photographic plates, showing the seats
to walk in the light of the records alone, it is not described and their surroundings, historic rooms,
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art treasures, family portraits, choice architectural marked personal equation to be eliminated if we
details, etc. The book forms as good a substitute are to get at the strict truth as told by the solar
as can be got for a sight-seeing jaunt to these pencil, for instance. Of course, since Mr. Gibson
cynosural spots of rural England.
devotes himself to drawing “types ” he must gen-
Messrs. Little, Brown, & Co. publish a new and eralize; but there is danger in cultivating a man-
elaborate two-volume edition of Helen Hunt Jack- nerism which tends to fix and stereotype itself in
son's popular “ Ramona,” that tender and romantic the end. The present volunte is the fifth in the
picture of old-Californian life which American read- familiar series of Mr. Gibson's published drawings,
ers should know and cherish as one of the few dis- and is as clever in execution and as entertaining in
tinctively native novels in which a degree of real theme as its popular predecessors. It contains
imaginative power is shown. Though over sixteen eighty-four cartoons.
years have elapsed since the death of Mrs. Jackson, To praise the “Temple" editions of standard
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little is generally known of her life, and therefore authors is now almost superfluous. These choice
the publishers of the present edition have done little volumes are, as everybody knows, gems of
well in prefixing to it a biographical sketch of the dainty and artistic book-manufacture. To the series
author from the sympathetic pen of Miss Susan is now added the Temple Dickens,” in which the
Coolidge. Mr. Henry Sandham, the illustrator, publishers (Messrs. Dent in London and Doubleday-
furnishes a note in which he tells how his original McClure Co. in the United States) have added cer-
sketches for “Ramona ” were made. The volumes tain special features which make the set rather sur-
are tastefully bound, and contain all of Mr. Sand-
pass its predecessors in attractiveness. Each of
bam’s admirable illustrations, reproduced in photo- the forty volumes contains, for example, a daintily
gravure.
colored frontispiece, from original drawings by
A clean-cut and trenchant style, and the frequent various artists. The bindings are of flexible dark-
marks of real nicety of perception and of the babit green lambskin, prepared by a special process; and
of looking somewhat below the surface of things, they do not, we are glad to note, “curl up” in the
lend to Mr. Richard Whiteing's “ Paris of To-Day exasperating way which usually makes the soft
(Century Co.) a certain distinction among books cover a nuisance. This special edition is limited
of its generally ephemeral class. Mr. Whiteing is to a thousand numbered copies, and these are the
at once artist and analyst; and one cannot glance first impressions from absolutely new plates. The
through his pages, however casually, without feel- happy owner of a set of the “ Temple Dickens” is
ing that, for all their glow of color and hurly-burly to be congratulated on possessing what, in the not
of movement, they are the work of a man who has distant future, will in all likelihood be rated among
seriously tried to understand the men and manners the objects of bibliophilistic longing, not to say
he paints. Mr. Whiteing's book, furthermore, is a envy.
good deal more than the record of the impressions In his scholarly and severely critical study of
of an intelligent and thoughtful visitor to the “Fra Angelico” (Macmillan), Mr. Langton Doug-
French capital, inasmuch as it is freighted with las gives our commonly cherished preconception of
the general observations of the student on topics of Fra Angelico as the mere mystical painter of
art, literature, and politics, and is thus in no small dreams and visions a somewhat rude but perhaps
measure a work of criticism, and a delightful one salutary shock. Relying strictly upon evidence
in its kind; and of this the reader may easily con- furnished by the artist's paintings and drawings,
vince himself by turning to the chapters on “ The Mr. Douglas labors with much erudition and con-
Governmental Machine and “ Artistic Paris." siderable success to show that Fra Angelico was
So good a book deserves an inviting setting, and a not only the saint and the rapt dreamer of poetico-
somewhat sumptuous one has been accorded it by religious dreams, but the humanist and scholar, the
the publishers. The volume is an ample octavo student of the antique, and the ardent cultivator
(10 x 7 inches) of 250 pages, bound in dark-blue of the dry technique, the handicraftmanship, of
cloth richly stamped with the municipal arms in bis art. “In him,” says Mr. Douglas, “the artist
red, white, and gold. The graphic force of Mr. and the saint, the devout Catholic and the man of
Whiteing's vivid descriptions is enhanced by the the Renaissance, were in perfect harmony.” Mr.
numerous drawings of André Castaigne, whose Douglas's handling of his theme is fresh and
merits as an illustrator need not now be pointed out. scholarly, and his book may be commended without
All in all, the book, pictorially and otherwise, is the stint to the student desiring to examine the purely
best one on Paris, contemporary Paris, that we artistic side of Fra Angelico's art, and to detect
remember to have seen for a decade.
the traces of learning, archæological and other, that
The “Gibson girl” is copiously and attractively unquestionably lurk therein. The volume is care-
represented this year in Mr. Gibson's " Americans"
in Mr. Gibson's “Americans” | fully prepared, and contains much in the way of
(R. H. Russell), but not to the total exclusion of other reference and bibliography for which the studious
types of Gibsonized natives. We say “Gibsonized” reader will be thankful. Print, paper, etc., are
because, while Mr. Gibson to a considerable degree unexceptionable, and the long list of beautiful
holds up the mirror to nature in his pictures, illustrations enriches a work that forms one of the
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08.
Rossettians will thank Miss Elisabeth Luther Cary and is entitled to much fuller and more critical
for her monograph on “The Rossettis, Dante treatment than can be accorded it in the present
Gabriel and Christina" (Patnam), with its photograv. article. Our necessarily somewhat hurried pre-
ure reproductions of the characteristic examples of liminary inspection of it has left us with the im-
Rossetti's work which form the priceless collection pression that it is more the result of a purely
of Mr. Samuel Bancroft, Jr., of Wilmington, Dela- artistic aim than anything Mrs. Ward has yet given
In Mr. Bancroft's house hang the "Lady The book is one which readers of current
Lilith," the “Found,” the “ Magdalen,” the “Water literature must not leave unread, and it may be
Willow," the “Rath Herbert” study in gold and read to the best advantage in this notably enticing
umber, the portrait in colored chalks of Mr. F. R. Holiday edition.
Leyland, and an early study of still-life a collec-
Much breath is wasted in debates over the origin
tion exemplifying every period and style of Ros- and authorship of older popular and national songs,
setti's art. The present volume contains repro- by disputants with whom race sentiment and loy-
ductions of all these works save the last two, alty to a name take the place of evidence to the
together with one drawn by Frederick Shields of fact. There has long been need of an authority to
Rossetti after death, a sketch also in Mr. Bancroft's turn to for a rational settlement of such contro-
collection. While it is these pictures that lend to versies; and the two comely duodecimo volumes
Miss Cary's book its peculiar charm and value, her now before us, “Stories of Famous Songs" (Lip-
well-balanced study of Dante Gabriel bears the pincott), seem to go a considerable way toward
impress of sanity of view and cool discrimination, supplying it. Mr. S. J. Adair Fitz-Gerald, the
and serves to correct and modify current distorted editor of the work, has spent some fifteen years in
impressions of this somewhat fantastic and not the agreeable task of running to earth, so to speak,
altogether amiable genius. Of critical value also such famous songs as are of doubtful origin, and in
are Miss Cary's two chapters on Christina Rossetti. gathering facts and reminiscences about such songs
On the whole, the work is a sound and scholarly as were written under romantic, pathetic, or enter-
production, and one not devoid of literary charm. taining circumstances. Every available source
The volume is handsomely made, and of marked biographies, histories, reviews, old MSS., etc.
attractiveness pictorially.
has been ransacked for evidence; and the result is
Mr. Charles E. Brock's capital and copious a work that is decidedly entertaining, and, we
drawings form a sufficient pretext for the reissue should think, trustworthy. Almost all the favorite
of Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggin's two entertaining songs whose story is at all worth retelling figure
books entitled “Penelope's English Experiences" more or less conspicuously in Mr. Fitz-Gerald's
and “Penelope's Progress ” (Houghton). Each bright and readable work. The volumes are given
volume contains fifty odd pictures which duly reflect a tasteful Holiday dress, and contain several suit-
the vivacious humor of the text. Of narratives of able illustrations in photogravure and half-tone.
the foreign experiences of the American female Of that always refined and graceful illustrator,
tourist, we have bad not a few of late ; but we do Mr. Will H. Low, it may fairly be said that he
not recall any of these that for refined humor, sting. touches nothing that he does not adorn and beautify.
less and therefore agreeable satire, and general Mr. Low's pencil is charmingly in evidence this
charm of style, are worthy to be compared with year in Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co.'s edition of
these popular stories (for such they are in form)
one of the half-dozen most
of Mrs. Wiggins. They may be read to the best artistic and alluring of the season's publications.
advantage, or re-read with an added zest, in this Mr. Low's drawings are a joy to the eye, and really
pictorial Holiday edition, in which the two volumes enhance one's enjoyment of the text: and how often
are boxed together as a set.
one is compelled to say the reverse where the
Messrs. Harper & Brothers' extra Holiday illustrators of Shakespeare are in question! Print,
edition, in two volumes, of Mrs. Humphry Ward's paper, and binding are of flawless quality, and the
new novel, “ Eleanor,” is at once elegant and in- semi-illustrative marginal decoration or border in
expensive, and makes a strong bid for popularity red is pleasing and does not overload the page.
with the Christmas book-buyer. The Italian set- The Macmillan Co. bring out in lavishly-
ting of the story and the outward grace and charm illustrated Holiday form Mrs. Alice Morse Earle's
of its leading actors offer a tempting field for the capital book on “Stage-Coach and Tavern Days.”
illustrator, and Mr. Albert Sterner has exploited it The author is thoroughly at home in dealing with
acceptably in his fourteen full page plates which the picturesque days of primitive travel, and her
form the pictorial feature of the edition. Mr. delightful pages form as vivid a presentment of the
Sterner draws well, and he has evidently taken subject as anybody is likely to ask for. The illus-
pains to come at a definite conception of the people trations are profuse and well-executed, giving just
80 delightfully limned by his author before put- the aid needed to a thorough appreciation and
ting his own pencil to paper.
The result is a har- enjoyment of the text. There are pictures of old
mony between text and pictures which is most inns, old coaches, old sign-boards, old tap-rooms,
grateful to the reader.
Mrs. Ward's book is per- old turn-pikes, toll-gates, sleighs, milestones, all
haps the most important of the season's novels, sorts of odds and ends of tavern furnishings and
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tap-room utensils — pitcbers, punch-bowls, ladles, the Booths, Sothern, Wallack, the Woffington, the
platters, flip-glasses, toddy-sticks, nutmeg-holders, Bracegirdle, Rachel, Miss Cushman, Miss Neilson,
and what not, together with some interesting cuts Ristori, and so on. Mr. Robins's books are read-
after contemporary prints that mirror faithfully able, full of piquant anecdote, and chatty as books
the ways and woes and comforts and hardships of about the stage should be; and the publishers have
the traveller in what some of us are pleased to call issued them in tempting form, with liberal illustra-
“the good old times." Those who wish to trans- tions.
port themselves in fancy to the phase of them in Lovers of books about the stage should not over-
question cannot do better than procure a copy of look, while on their Christmas-gift-hunting peri-
the beautiful pictorial edition of Mrs. Earle's grinations this season, the two natty little volumes
scholarly work. The buckram cover shows a quaint presented by the F. A. Stokes Co., containing
design, in red and green, stamped in the centre sketches of Mr. John Drew and Miss Ellen Terry,
with a cut of an old inn sign.
the first named production by Mr. Edward A.
Admirers of “ David Harum," and their name is Dithmar, the second by Mr. Clement Scott. Mr.
legion, will be glad to know that the Messrs. Dithmar's book, in particular, strikes us as a rather
Appleton have issued a well-made pictorial edition superior bit of work in its way — capital as a bio-
of the book, a copy of which will answer nicely for graphical study and critical in tone. Mr. Clement
a Holiday gift. "The drawings are mainly by Mr. Scott is — well, what he always is ; that is to say,
B. West Clinedinst, a very capable illustrator, we the entertaining purveyor of stage chat and more
need hardly say, who has thoroughly grasped the or less sentimental reminiscences of his own earlier
humor of Mr. Westcott's quaint hero. A desirableplay.going days. He tells us, in the present vol-
feature of the new edition is an Introduction, by ume, a good deal about Miss Terry (whose adorer
Mr. Forbes Heermans, embodying a sketch of Mr. he has been since he first saw her away back in the
Westcott, of whom, also, a portrait is supplied. -ties); and he also tells us a good deal, more
The illustrations consist of nine full-page plates and suo, about Mr. Scott. The volumes are neatly
a generous sprinkling of text cuts, part of which are bound and finely printed, and each contains a
to be credited to Mr. C. D. Farrand. The pictures generous array of photographic plates showing its
serve to enhance the graphic quality of the text hero, or heroine, in favorite parts.
(if that were needed) and are enjoyable in them- Mr. Henry James's “ Little Tour in France”
selves.
(Houghton) makes its welcome reappearance rein-
“ Diedrich Knickerbocker’s” ever delectable forced at last by the belated drawings of Mr. Joseph
History of New York” is issued in novel form Pennell, without which, for some reason not ex-
from the press of Mr. R. H. Russell. The volume plained, it was originally issued. Says Mr. James,
is a substantial buckram-backed folio, of ample size, in his new Preface : " The little book thus goes
yet alluring to the fancy of the reader who wants forth finally as the picture-book it was intended to
to read comfortably and at his leisure - in short, be." We need not again praise, nor characterize
to the reader looking forward to that perhaps most in detail, these pleasant travel-papers, which have
satisfactory and durable of earthly enjoyments, a 80 easily won their way without pictorial aid ; but,
winter's evening at the home fireside with an agree- of course, in buying the book, & copy with Mr.
able book as a companion. The touch of archaism Pennell's lovely drawings is the one to choose. The
(too strong a word here, perhaps) in the make-up binding shows a bold and suggestive cover-design,
of the volume in no wise detracts from its inviting and the volume throughout is a model of neatness.
appearance. The pictorial feature is eight full-page But we should prefer a type of somewhat stronger
drawings of rich humor and good technical quality, face, the print striking us as a little pale and
which fully attest that the artist, Mr. Maxfield indistinct.
Parrish, knows his Knickerbocker as a New Yorker Mr. Paul Leicester Ford's sentimental tale,
should. Mr. Parrish's Dutchmen are irresistible, “Wanted, A Match-Maker” (Dodd, Mead & Co.),
and we wish Irving might have seen them.
has its improbabilities of a psychological sort, and
The player has advanced in repute (and we fancy a cynical critic might carp at its “situations.” But
in behavior) since the day wben pious Bishop Grin. it is touching enough and interesting enough as one
dal called the Thespians an “idle sort of people, reads it. In it, a daughter of New York's Four
which have been infamous to all good common- Hundred (aristocratic and ornamental, but with a
wealths.” “Society” has opened its doors to him, heart) is brought into collision with a hospital doc-
and books unnumbered are written in his honor. tor (useful and durable, but plebeian,) through an
We have now before us a brace of rather sumptu-
accident to a newsboy (pathetic, but preternaturally
ous volumes, entitled severally “ Twelve Great “slangy,”) who has been providentially run over
Actors” and “Twelve Great Actresses" (Putnam), (Cor. Fifth Ave. and 420 St.) by the daughter of
wherein Mr. Edward Robins sketches briefly and the F. H.'s brougham, and who turns out, of course,
entertainingly, and with the gusto of a confirmed to be the Match-Maker wanted. The book has
“ first-nighter,” the stage careers of such notable been beautifully gotten up by the publishers, and is,
players (most of them stars now passed from the indeed, in point of decorations (mainly fanciful
play house firmament) as Garrick, Macready, Kean, I marginal borders in light-green and black), which
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are by Miss Margaret Armstrong, one of the Schiller, Goethe, etc. The text is intelligently
marked artistic successes of the season.
There are
written, and forms largely a running commentary
also five full-plate illustrations by Mr. Howard on the illustrations, of which there are thirty-two
Chandler Christy, who has done well from the art- to the volume - a very liberal allotment, it must
istic point of view, but has, we think, erred as an be admitted. These little books are flawlessly
illustrator in portraying the plain and serviceable made, and should easily make their way.
doctor as an immaculate "swell” of the Gibson Mr. Clifton Johnson, who will be pleasantly re-
variety — which is (according to Mr. Ford, who called by many as the author and illustrator of a
ought to know,) precisely what he was not. But pretty book of last season entitled " Among English
otherwise Mr. Christy's pictures are charming - Hedgerows," now puts forth a similar and equally
notably the one facing page 62, which is really a attractive volume, recounting through text and pic-
gem in its way. The cover-design is particularly tures his experiences as a not unsentimental stroller
good in pattern and color, and should tempt many “ Along French Byways ” (Macmillan). The illus-
a one to open and inspect this pretty book.
trations, of which there are many, are mainly from
Those twin old-time favorites, Dickens's “ Christ- photographs taken en route by Mr Johnson, who is
mas Carol” and “ The Cricket on the Hearth,” an expert with the camera. They represent a va
which have brightened so many a Christmastide riety of passing scenes and incidents illustrative of
and taught so many the human value and signifi- French rural and village life, and form a pleasant
cance of Christmas cheer, come to us this year from running accompaniment to the text, in which the
Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons, in dainty dress bright author tells in a chatty and informal way the story
with the green and red of holly, and enriched with of his rambles. The book is attractively bound,
many sympathetic and appreciative drawings by and forms a suitable shelf-companion for its pop-
Mr. Frederick Simpson Coburn, who has done ular predecessor.
artistic and imaginative justice to those old favor- The late James T. Fields's “Yesterdays with
ites, Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim, John Peery- Authors” (Houghton), a charming book which
bingle, Tackleton, Caleb Plummer, and the rest. needs no introduction to our readers, makes its
The little volumes are irreproachable in make-up, reappearance in Holiday dress, with a noble array
and we have nothing but praise for Mr. Coburn's of portraits and some letters in facsimile heretofore
delightful pictures, which lend quite an air of new- unpublished. The binding shows an elaborate de-
ness to these treasured old friends.
sign in green and gold, and altogether the volume
“The Lover's Library" (John Lane) is a series, is one of the most suitable in our list as a gift to a
now current, of tiny volumes in which it is meant to friend of literary tastes.
include all that the great British poets have written A chaste edition of Tennyson's " In Memoriam,"
about love, together with an occasional volume of of elegant yet severely simple make, and distin-
prose on the same interesting subject, or one of guished in particular by a typography that is a
modern verse which may be deemed worthy of in- veritable joy to the sense, is published by the
clusion. We have now before us three volumes of Bankside Press of London, and sold in America
the series, Browning's “Love Poems" and by M. F. Mansfield of New York. The page em-
Shelley's, and Edmond Holmes's “The Silence of bellishments are confined to the rubricated initials,
Love” – a dainty trio of pocketable booklets
-- fr
from the excellent designs of Miss Blanche
which any discriminating lover might be glad to McManus; and the binding is of cream-white
possess. Their advantages as gift-books from a buckram of medium weave, delicately stamped in
lover to the object of his “attentions are too ob-
vious to be stated, and they certainly seem expressly ventionalized outline. The material throughout is
got up for this purpose, with their general material of high quality, and, for our part, we are inclined
suggestion of a bunch of Spring violets (floriated to pronounce the volume an ideal one for the real
marginal designs in violet color, green lettering,
lover of this noble poem.
and so on). The editor's name is not given, but “ Literary Hearthstones,” the collective title of
we presume a correct text has been aimed at. Marion Harland's deservedly popular series of bio-
In the exquisite settings of the brace of little graphical studies (Patnam), seems a trifle far-
companion volumes entitled “ Among the Great fetched when we examine the volumes to discover
Masters in Music "and “Among the Great Masters the special characteristic it is meant to suggest.
in Literature," both by Mr. Walter Rowlands, Perhaps in the two numbers of the series now
Messrs. Dana Estes & Co. have fairly distinguished before us, on John Knox and Hannah More, and
themselves. In the volume first-named Mr. Row. especially in the first named of them, Mrs. Terbune
lands tells entertainingly of scenes in the lives of has perforce drifted away from the special treat-
St. Cecilia, Lulli, Stradivarius, Bach, Mozart, ment of her themes which she proposed to her-
Linley, Haydn, Beethoven, Rouget de Lisle, self at the outstart. At all events, her sketch of
Paganini, Chopin, Wagner, Liszt, and others; in Knox is a good biographical study of the usual
the second a like treatment is accorded Homer, type, outlining the career of its hero without special
Sappho, Dante, Tasso, Chaucer, Shakespeare, effort to set before us the domestic or “home fire-
Walton, Pope, Sterne, Johnson, Molière, Voltaire, side" phase of it. In Hannah More, Mrs. Terhune


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has found a theme well suited to her
pen,
which Carter's table of contents are too numerous to be
runs on with cheery feminine vivacity in a field so even exemplified here ; but why was the wedding of
well strewn with anecdote and chat about interest- Mr. Pip's legal friend Mr. Wemmick (surely one
ing people. Mrs. Terbune, it may be added, has of the most unique events of the kind in literature)
not been content with merely skimming the cream omitted? The pictures are well chosen and well
from the older narratives — an easy process and a reproduced, and the volume, with its notably grace-
royal road to readability. Her studies evince
.
ful cover-design, should make a strong bid for pop-
research and reflection ; and there is always the ular favor.
suggestion of a certain individuality of view. The Four of the Pre-Raphaelite Ballads” of William
volumes (boxed in sets of two) are fully illustrated, Morris have been selected for decorative treatment
and rank among the most tempting and desirable by Mr. H. M. O'Kane, and the resulting publica-
of the Holiday publications of the less ephemeraltion, which bears the imprint of the A. Wessels Co.,
sort.
is a small volume so charming that we linger over
Mr. Howard Pyle's clever and imaginative draw- its pages with unalloyed satisfaction. The illus-
ings add an element of strength to the comely vol- trative material consists of borders, full-page draw-
ume containing Mr. Markham’s “ The Man withings, and rubricated initials, all in keeping with the
the Hoe, and Other Poems" (Doubleday & McClure Kelmscott type and the old-world feeling of the
Co.). Mr. Pyle's frontispiece is a notably fine bit text. The book is in boards with a linen back, and
of pictorial allegory from the artistic point of the edition is limited.
view albeit the American farmer, at least, will A most engaging and prettily made little volume
hardly thank Mr. Pyle for the unflattering intima- of diversified literary chat is Dr. Theodore F.
tions therein contained. Besides Mr. Pyle's frontis. Wolfe’s “Literary Rambles at Home and Abroad
piece, the volume contains a reproduction of the (Lippincott). The book is complete in itself, but
painting by Millet which inspired Mr. Markham's the author nevertheless wishes it to be appraised in
somewhat doleful production. Mr. Pyle's head connection with the preceding volumes to which it
and tail pieces are cleverly done and duly sug- is related. Dr. Wolfe has derived the material
gestive.
for the present volume from sojourns in the
For those who have not yet read, and for those places described, and from conversations or corre-
who want to re-read, Parkman's ever-delightful spondence with the authors mentioned or their
“Oregon Trail” a copy of Messrs. Little, Brown, & surviving friends.
surviving friends. In his opening chapters Dr.
Co.'s edition of it, with Mr. Frederic Remington's Wolfe chats pleasantly of Poe, Audubon, Irving,
drawings, is decidedly the book to get. Mr. Reming. Willis, Mr. Stedman, Stephen Crane, Mr. Stockton,
ton is of course the ideal illustrator for Parkman's Walt Whitman, Cooper, and others ; then, passing
classic work. He knows the Far West as it was over sea,
iews the memories and asso ations
when his author journeyed through it in the later that enwrap Stratford-on-Avon, Harrow, the Ayr.
forties; and the text, graphic and picturesque as it shire Burnsland, and the Lake Country. The pages
is, finds a powerful help in these spirited draw- on Byron are unusually interesting. The volume
ings, whose merit lies mainly in the fact that they is charmingly illustrated, and is one of the best
are strictly and literally true.
There are seventy-
and daintiest of the Christmas books.
five of them, including numerous full-page plates. That fine perennial, “ Lorna Doone,” blooms
A comely volume bearing the irresistible title again with new outward attractions as regularly as
“ The Wedding Day in Literature and Art” (Dodd, the Holiday season rolls round. Those who have
Mead & Co.) binds together in one delectable gar- not yet read this strong novel will do well to procure
land the best descriptions of weddings from the a copy of Harpers' new one-volume edition of it,
works of the world's leading novelists and poets," enriched with drawings by Mr. W. Small and with
together with reproductions of famous paintings of views of the Doone country from the photographs
incidents of the nuptial day. The young man who taken expressly for the purpose by Mr. Clifton
has “ serious intentions” need surely look no far- Johnson, whose name is a warrant for the excellence
ther than this book for an acceptable gift for the of his work. The volume contains 560 close-printed
object of them, and for a delicate preliminary inti- pages, and its quality is surprisingly good consider-
mation that he has arrived at the state of mind so ing the moderate price asked for it.
tersely described by Mr. Barkis. The compiler of Mrs. Clara Erskine Clement's acceptable little
the book, Mr. C. F. Carter, is clearly a man of monograph on “Heroines of the Bible in Art”
charitable mind; for he states that his work has (L. C. Page & Co.), with its thirty odd illustrations
been done partly "in order that those who cannot after famous painters, ancient and modern, forms
or will not marry may at least contemplate the a pretty gift-book which is timely in theme and
conjugal felicity of others from as many points of sufficiently decorative in make-up. The dainty
view as possible.” This is kind, and attests more- cover in light blue with symbolical design in white
over Mr. Carter's faith in that sweetness of temper and gold calls for a word of praise.
and capacity for contemplating ungrudgingly the Three new volumes in the familiar “ Thumb
bliss of others for which old bachelors are justly Nail Series ” (The Century Co.) present respect-
famous the world over. The authors named in Mr. | ively a sheaf of selections from Epictetus, edited
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