ter :
value from the interspersed expressions of a ripe
“ Combat was the delight of his life, and there was
judgment on divers questions of art, literature,
no violence of assertion he did not love to employ if he
and the drama. A natural attachment to the thought that by no other means could he encourage an
approved standards of an earlier day declares opponent into the dangerous arena of controversy. As
itself in these carefully considered opinions.
a matter of fact, I do not think he was ever quite happy
Science, Mr. Carr admits, has made unexampled
unless one of these pretty little quarrels was on hand,
and whenever he suspected that any particular dispute
progress in the last few decades ; but that art
in which he was engaged showed signs of waning, he
in its later developments is necessarily more would, I think out of pure devilment, cast about to lay
excellent, he denies. He also questions the
the foundations of a new quarrel."
exclusive right of the specialist to pass judgment Traits and anecdotes of Tennyson, to whose
on matters of painting and sculpture, poetry friendship Mr. Carr was admitted, furnish some
and drama and music. Wide-ranging in his pages of agreeable reading. A well-known
interests and activities, and catholic in his tastes, characteristic of the poet and a suggestive
he has small sympathy with passing fads and observation thereon are thus recorded :
short-lived enthusiasms.
“At our last meeting he openly expressed his vexa-
His literary favorites are designated in his tion at an unfavorable article that had then recently
opening chapter, where he tells us that under appeared. He questioned me closely as to what I
the influence of Dr. Birkbeck Hill, to whom he
thought could have been the motive of the writer, who
for the rest was not of such a rank that his censure need
went to school, he acquired an early liking for have disturbed the poet's equanimity. What harm
•
Johnson that has continued unabated through have I ever done to him ?” he exclaimed, in tones that
life and is only equalled by his fondness for seemed to me at the time almost childlike in reproach.
Dickens. In terms of what might by the mali-
But it is, as I have come to think, a sure hall-mark of
cious be construed as a doubtful compliment,
genius that its weakness is very often frankly avowed.
It is a part of that inward candour that makes for
Mr. Carr writes that Boswell and Dickens are
greatness, the petty price that we have to pay for the
among the books kept within reach of his bed, larger and nobler revelation. Lesser spirits can often
and that to no other authors does he so con-
contrive to hide their littleness, but in the greatest it is
stantly turn when sleep is not easy to win. Early nearly always carelessly confessed.”
in his course as journalist, he enjoyed the stim-
The following comparison is worth quoting,
ulating companionship of the late J. Churton partly because it is the fruit of a personal expe-
Collins, of whom he says:
rience that, in some degree at least, many will
“ Our little circle on the staff of the Globe was later
find to be the direct opposite of their own :
joined by Churton Collins, now the Professor of English “ At the time when I first met Tennyson, I think
Literature at the University at Birmingham, then only Robert Browning had won my larger admiration. I
a boy fresh from Oxford, but a boy whose mind was thought him the greater poet of the two - I no longer
already stored with a knowledge of English literature think so now; and the very qualities which so strongly
such as I suppose few men of his generation boast. His attracted me as a youth have since proved in themselves
prodigious memory both in prose and poetry I certainly to be the source of my altered judgment. It seems like
have never encountered in another; and through many a paradox, but I believe it to be none the less true, that
an evening, when he dined quietly with us in our rooms it is the intellectual quality in verse that first most
in Great Russell Street, did we wonder and delight to strongly attracts the younger student of poetry. So at
listen to him as he passed from author to author, not least it was in my case. The complexity of thought,
* Some EMINENT VICTORIANS. Personal Recollections in the
even the obscurity of expression which marks so much
World of Art and Letters. By J. Comyns Carr. Illustrated. of Browning's work, had for me then the strongest
fascination. . . . And although the spell he then exer-
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cised over my imagination still in some degree survives, Mr. Carr enjoys the advantage of being able
I find myself now asking of poetry less and less for any
to write, in a book like this latest of his, from
ordered philosophy of life, and more and more for life
itself. . . . In every art the last word is simplicity.
what might be called a composite standpoint.
There is no phase of thought or feeling rightly admis-
Art, literature, the stage, and the realities of
sible into the domain of poetry that the might of genius many phases of life itself, contend in him for
may not force to simple utterance. It is this which
supremacy of interest. In him, too, is to be
constitutes the final triumph of all the greatest wizards
found that union of the journalist and the litté-
of our tongue, of Shakespeare as of Milton, of Words-
worth no less than of Keats. All of them found a way
rateur now becoming every day more rare as our
to wed the subtlest music with the simplest speech, newspapers confine themselves increasingly to
striving with ever-increasing severity for that chastened the sensational reporting of daily horrors and
perfection of form which stands as the last and the
other startling events. His long practice as
surest test of the presence of supreme poetic genius.”
writer for such journals as the Manchester
Browning, therefore, he in the end found want- “Guardian” and “The Saturday Review,”
ing in “ that faultless music which alone can “ The Art Journal ” and “ The Portfolio,”
give to verse its final right of survival.”
insures the quality of his work in the unfortu-
Actors and their idiosyncrasies yield matter nately over-crowded domain of autobiography
for many an interesting page in the book. On
and reminiscence. He writes with manifest
one occasion, when W. E. Henley had delivered
ease and rapidity, and such flaws as a critic
himself of an adverse criticism on Irving's imper- might detect in his pages are of a trivial nature.
sonation of Macbeth, the actor, after patiently
The clear type, appropriate illustrations
biding his time, at last caught his opponent off throughout, and generally attractive appearance
his guard and thus insinuated his rapier in the of the volume are not to be dismissed without a
other's vitals :
commendatory word. PERCY F. BICKNELL.
“I notice,' he said, speaking to Henley in that tone
of reverie which with him always concealed an immi-
nent blow, that you do not approve of my conception
of Macbeth. Tell me now, for I should be interested to
hear it, how would you play Macbeth if you were called
AMERICAN HISTORY IN AMERICAN
upon to present the character on the stage? What is
POETRY.*
your conception?' Henley was hardly prepared for such
From public and private records, letters, and
an invitation, and as we sat in expectation of what he
would have to say, it was easy to perceive that the critic's
other contemporaneous evidence, the student
destructive method, which at that time was uppermost arrives at one conception of history; from the
in him, could not suddenly readjust itself to the task of writings of the general historians he often arrives
offering any coherent appreciation of the character which
at another; while from the poetry of a period,
Irving, according to his allegation, had misinterpreted.” inspired by public events, he can often see the
The author's recollections of artist friends, emotions of a people at play, and may come to an
especially of Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Holman understanding of the spirit which has produced
Hunt, Millais, Leighton, and Frederick Walker, revolutions and wars such as is to be derived
are among the pleasantest in the book. The from no other source. It is of the first import-
history of English painting of that period is not ance, therefore, that the compiler of a poetical
wanting in incident, and Mr. Carr, as a promi- anthology so ambitious in scope as to cover
nent art critic of the time, is well equipped to the whole period of American history should
tell the story. Some rare and curious illustra- have an accurate understanding of the different
tions are reproduced to heighten the interest -
influences which have come into play in the
among them two comical drawings by Burne- development of the country, that his sectional
Jones, executed in a style to suit the supposed preferences and sympathies should be kept in
taste of the great British public.
66 But even
gubordination so that no underlying preconcep-
in these essays in the grotesque,” comments his tion or purpose shall be permitted to control or
friend, " and in the lighter and sometimes very direct his work, and that his view should be
graceful fancies which he would illustrate so as broad as the nation. A certain standard of
easily and so rapidly for our amusement, or for poetic excellence he must maintain, as a matter
the delight of our children, there was always an of course; but this being satisfied, he should use
unfailing sense of composition and design.” his material as it comes to his hand, letting it
There was a certain inevitable beauty in the 1 tell its own story,
tell its own story, — not shaping it by inclusion
ordered arrangement of line that could not de or exclusion so as to exalt one influence or
sert him even when, as he often delighted to do,
Edited by Burton E.
he undertook to caricature his own style.
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or
-
undervalue another. To the extent that he any other poet relating to the Revolutionary
yields to the temptation to do this latter, to that battlefields in South-eastern Pennsylvania
extent he fails in his task.
an omission which assumes greater significance
It was the yielding to such a temptation when it is recalled that of the nine battles in
which so largely destroyed the value of the late which Washington was in command of the
Edmund Clarence Stedman's “ American An- American troops engaged, seven of them were
thology." Stedman himself was already old and contests for the possession of Philadelphia, where
ill; but he seems to have permitted his assist- also Washington spent seven of the eight years
ants to be carried away with two ideas which during which he was President. Of Pastorius,
had a basis, partly commercial and partly sen- a recent writer has said that he was not coarse
timental, the one idea being that as little as like John Smith, uncouth like Peter Stuyvesant,
possible should be included which was hostile narrow like Cotton Mather. Professor
to England, and the other that there should be Learned's recent life of him, in showing the
excluded poetry which was hostile to the South. facility with which he used the German, English,
At the same time, sentiment which was entirely Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Latin, and Greek lan-
ladylike was permitted to give a tone to the guages, his training in the universities of Europe,
whole, not calculated to increase public respect and the wide range of topics which he discussed,
for the intellectual vigor of American verse. establishes his right to be called the most learned
Our poetical anthologies of less ambitious de- of America's colonists. His patriotic address
sign,—such as those which relate to the Revolu- to the posterity of the colony which he founded
tion, the war of 1812, or the war for the Union,– breathes a loftiness of spirit sadly lacking in
have been far more satisfactory, because there much of the unimaginative verses which have
was no instinctive or intentional interference on crowded his poetry out of the present volume,
the part of the compilers to prevent the main and which have thus been invited to assist in the
purpose from shaping the end.
commission of an historical sin that cannot be
Mr. Stevenson's compilation of poems relating condoned.
to American history begins with the discovery Mr. Stevenson's obvious motive in the elim-
of America by the Norsemen, Columbus, the ination of Pastorius has been to begin the anti-
Spaniards and their followers, carries on the slavery movement with Garrison, leading off
story of the settlement of the Colonies, the En- | with Whittier's tribute to Garrison in 1833.
glish in Virginia, the Dutch in New York, and The compiler's note to this poem says: “Finally,
after fifty-six pages reaches the coming of the in December 1833, the American Anti-Slavery
Pilgrims to New England, and thence comes Society was organized at Philadelphia.” His-
downward through the development of the coun- torically, of course, this is a thoroughly unscien-
try, its contests with England, the Mexican war, tific treatment of the theme. Important as was
the anti-slavery movement, the great civil strife Garrison's work, he was not a forerunner of the
between North and South, and the war with anti-slavery movement. Following the protest
Spain, to such recent occurrences as the San framed by Pastorius in 1688, the adoption of
Francisco earthquake and the death of Grover its principles by the Quakers, and their spread
Cleveland.
through the States, the first Abolition society
The most noticeable omission an omission was organized in Philadelphia in 1774. By
of more significance than Stedman's failure to 1794 there were enough Abolition societies
include in his Anthology any poem by that true throughout the States to justify a national organ-
New England poet Hiram Rich, or by the New ization, and delegates from Connecticut, New
York humorist John G. Saxe- is the absence
is the absence York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware,
of all poetry inspired by the civilization of and Maryland met in convention in Philadel-
Pennsylvania. As late as Whittier's time, the phia, where they met thereafter annually. Soon
New England poet could write of it that he Rhode Island, Virginia, and Tennessee sent
thought it was the highest civilization he had delegates. Massachusetts united in the move-
There is not a line from Francis ment long afterwards, in 1823, and the Under-
Daniel Pastorius, the author of America's first ground Railroad was in full operation at the
public protest against slavery; or from Whittier's time when it would appear from Mr. Stevenson's
fine poem on Pastorius, of which the poet him- anthology that the movement had only begun.
self wrote that it was a better poem than “Snow The development of the Abolition movement has
Bound,” but that the public would never find it been well described in William Birney's Life of
out. There is nothing from Bayard Taylor or
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masses.
- Keenan's says,
adequately reflected in Whittier's poem on as General George B. Meade. It is worth not-
Pastorius, the absence of which from these ing that the editor calls the Union troops
pages can hardly have been accidental.
" Federals," and he says of Longstreet's assault
How hard Mr. Stevenson's local predilections on the third day at Gettysburg that Pickett
have required him to strain the course of history and his Virginians were in the van, which is
is earlier shown by his inclusion of Longfellow's not correct. Pettigrew's division crossed the
“Hymn of the Moravian Nuns of Bethlehem” Emmilsburg road in line with Pickett's troops,
in a chapter headed “ The War in the South.” and with the troops of Trimble advanced to the
In good poetry, historical inaccuracy may be stone wall, stayed there as long as any other
overlooked. Whether Paul Revere carried the Confederate troops, and surrendered many
news of the British march, or his story was but fewer men than did Pickett. Historically, it is
an old man's confusion of events, or whether as erroneous to attribute this assault to Pickett
Barbara Frietchie actually waved a Union flag as it is to begin the anti-slavery movement
over the heads of Stonewall Jackson's troops with Garrison. D'Amici says that the Dutch
in Frederick, is perhaps not of supreme import- abhorred that form of apotheosis which attrib-
ance; but it is required of the compiler of so uted to the individual the virtues or vices of the
ambitious a work as the present one that his
Mr. Stevenson seems to be fond of it,
selections shall not pervert the orderly sequence and manifests his fondness once more in the
of history, that the poems shall be assigned to note on page 560, when he attributes the Recon-
their proper geographical locations, and that struction policy of the country to a “coterie”
the explanatory notes shall be accurate. in Congress. " The leader of this coterie," he
George Parsons Lathrop's ballad, “Keenan's 6 was Thaddeus Stevens." This statement
Charge,” is an example of a poem in which spirit, is a reflection of a view frequently asserted by
movement, and skill in construction go far to writers within the past few years, but it has its
excuse the wild vagaries of its statement. But origin in the feeling of the present day, not in
Mr. Stevenson's notes indorsing the romance the facts of the time, as anyone who will take
cannot be overlooked. He says, describing the trouble to read the news and newspaper edi-
Stonewall Jackson's flank attack upon Hooker's torials printed after the assassination of Lincoln
right at Chancellorsville:
may see for himself. The Reconstruction policy
“For a moment it seemed that all was lost; then was not the work of a coterie, but of a majority
Pleasanton hurled the Eighth Pennsylvania Cavalry of Congress. It reflected the attitude of the
under Major Keenan upon the Confederate flank. The
regiment was hurled back terribly shattered, but charged country outside of the Southern States. Whether
again and again until nearly all the men were dead or
it was a mistaken policy or not, it was a legit-
wounded. The Confederate advance was checked long imate outcome of a fierce war, and in part it
enough for Pleasanton to get his artillery into position." was prompted by the early attempts made in
This comment of the editor contains many errors. some of the Southern States to restore a modi-
It was not Keenan's charge, because the regi- fied form of slavery by local laws which would
ment was commanded by its colonel, Pennock have permitted the sale for certain terms of
Huey; Keenan was the Major, and rode with negroes convicted of minor offences. History
other regimental officers. No charge was in- can gain nothing for national unity by present-
tended, and Pleasonton did not order a charge. ing a false face. The largest tolerance concedes
Nor were repeated charges made. The regiment to North and South their radically different
in column, moving at a leisurely gait along a views, partly political, largely commercial, and
narrow woods road, suddenly encountered what accepts as a matter of course the acts springing
appeared to be a few Confederate troops. There naturally from the different positions.
was no thought that these were Stonewall In the consideration of a collection of his-
Jackson's corps. Colonel Huey ordered the torical poems the presentation of history takes
trot and gallop. No line was formed, or could precedence over the purely poetical quality of
be formed in that narrow road. The Union the product. Mr. Stevenson's standard has been
troopers rode through a part of the advancing an adjustable one. The well-known poems are
Confederate line, and discovering their mistake here. Some are preserved to-day merely because
rode back as best they could. Many were of their author. The supposed cleverness of
killed, among them Major Keenan. General Lowell's rhymes appealing to New Englanders
Pleasonton's name is misspelled Pleasanton. In not to enlist in the Mexican war seems to have
the note on Gettysburg (page 488) the name evaporated. Of the unfamiliar poetry which the
of the Commander of the Union army is given compiler has gathered with much industry, it is
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to be said that much of it is lacking in poetic man who fills it. Thus it is one thing at one
atmosphere. A number of diffuse ballads by time and something very different at another
Thomas Dunn English are bare of poetic spirit, time, depending on the man and on the circum-
but these appear the work of genius when con- stances under which he is called upon to govern.
trasted with the contemporary verse of the Some Presidents have deliberately refrained
colonial period. “ The Downfall of Piracy” from exercising the full power which they might
here attributed to Benjamin Franklin, “ New legally have done, either from conscientious
England's Annoyances” (unknown), “ Love- scruples or because they were theorists, holding
)
well's Fight," “Braddock's Fate," “ Brave
“
to the “ literary theory” of the Constitution and
Wolfe," "A New Song Called the Gaspee
,
acting as if they thought Pennsylvania Avenue
are a few examples of American verse brought should have been even longer than it really is,
to light that might well have been left buried; rather than practical statesmen conscious of
while “Can't," by Harriet Prescott Spofford, is power and fearless of responsibility. He esti-
a more modern specimen of the tolerance of the mates the importance of the office in its true
editor. He tells the reader that the material light, when he concludes that henceforth it must
gathered by him would fill four volumes of the be regarded as one of the greatest in the world,
size of the present one. If the quality was no and that the incumbent must be one of the
better than these dreary outpourings of the leading rulers of the earth, and not merely a
rustic muse, and others like them, no one will domestic officer as was once the case. He must
regret the absence of the other three volumes. stand always, says Mr. Wilson, at the front of
The conception of this volume was so excellent, our affairs ; and the office will be as big and as
so much of the formidable task has been accom- influential as the man who occupies it.
plished with patience and intelligence, and in Following English analogies further, Mr.
spite of its faults the outcome is so useful, that Wilson characterizes Congress as a "reformed
the errors of omission and commission noted are and properly regulated Parliament.” He dis-
viewed with regret. Isaac R. PENNYPACKER. cusses, somewhat in the manner of his earlier
work on Congressional Government, the legis-
lative methods of Congress as compared with
those of the British Parliament, showing how
COURTS, CONGRESS, AND EXECUTIVE.* Congress has nothing to do with the making or
President Woodrow Wilson's volume on the unmaking of “ governments,” yet how it takes
“
important subject of Constitutional Government
a leading part in the conduct of government
in the United States is made up of a series of eight its leaders in charge of it. Evidently Dr.
without assuming the responsibility of putting
lectures delivered by him at Columbia University Wilson considers the English method by which
last year. In his usual masterful style, President
the government (the ministry) — a body of
Wilson discusses some of the more salient fea-
tures of the American political system from a
experts on the practicability and necessity of
“fresh point of view and in the light of a fresh legislation — are associated with the legislature
analysis of the character and operation of con-
in the work of legislation, a distinct improvement
stitutional government." From a consideration
upon the American method according to which
of the meaning, essential elements, and distinc-
the separation of legislative and executive func-
tive institutions of a constitutional system, he
tions is strictly maintained. In its effort to
passes in review the constitutional development forin its function of legislation without assist-
make itself an instrument of business, to per-
and present character of the United States gov-
ernment. In a chapter on the Presidency he
ance or suggestion, to formulate its own bills,
digest its own measures, originate its own poli-
analyzes in a searching and logical manner the
office of President of our Republic, the incum- cies, Mr. Wilson declares the House of Repre-
sentatives has in effect silenced itself (p. 109).
bent of which he says was intended to be a
In his estimate of the Senate, the author shows
“reformed and standardized king, after the
Whig model.” He points out that it is easier
a spirit of fairness and insight too often lack-
to write of the President than of the presidency, Senate, in his opinion, has been too much mis-
ing in treatises on American government. The
since the office varies in character and import- understood and traduced and too little appre-
, ,
ance with the strength and personality of the
ciated. Those who criticize this body because
CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT IN THE UNITED STATES. By
in some cases it represents “ rotten boroughs
Woodrow Wilson. Columbia University Lectures, George
Blumenthal Foundation, 1907. New York: The Macmillan Co. instead of population, fail to grasp the real
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situation. The element of population is duly some of the recent tendencies toward Centrali-
represented in the Lower House ; while the zation. Of the Federal Child-Labor bill which
Senate is intended to represent regions of was before the last Congress, he observes that
country, or rather the political units of which if the power to regulate commerce between the
the nation is composed. It is no argument to States can be stretched to include the regulation
say that because these units are sparsely settled of labor in mills and factories, it can be made
they should be less represented than the older to embrace every particular of the industrial
and more populous regions. They have the organization and activities of the country.
same economic interest in the general policy of Doubtless it could ; and it might be better for
the government that the older regions have. the people, for whose welfare government is
Sections therefore, irrespective of population, created, if it did embrace some of them. But
especially in a country with such physical vari- as to this, there is a wide difference of opinion.
ety as ours, and consequently possessing such
JAMES WILFORD GARNER.
widely different social, economic, and even polit-
ical conditions, must be represented as well as
masses of population. As a body, moreover, the
Senate, in virtue of its peculiar construction,
THE NORTH WESTERN EMPIRE OF
THE FUR TRADER.*
fills a place and subserves a purpose unique
and indispensable.
Under the alluring title, “ The Conquest of
The discussion of the Senate and House of the Great Northwest,” Miss Agnes Laut tells the
Representatives is followed by a consideration dramatic story of the adventurers of England
of the Courts, which constitute the “ balance-trading into Hudson's Bay— commonly known
wheel of the whole constitutional system.” The as the Hudson's Bay Company. The story of
distinctive functions and methods of procedure the Hudson's Bay Company has been told before,
peculiar to the American judicial system are
but not in the same way.
The histories of Dr.
contrasted with those of England, and the merits George Bryce and Mr. Beckles Willson were
and demerits of each are analyzed. In discuss- based upon what was thought at the time to be
ing the efficiency of the American system, Mr. very full documentary material. Compared
Wilson raises the question whether our courts with the mass of original documents which Miss
are as available to the poor as to the rich, or
Laut has managed to unearth, by untiring per-
whether, in fa the poor are not excluded by severence, at Hudson's Bay House and in the
the cost and length of judicial processes. Thus, Public Records Office, the foundation of the
earlier histories appears meagre and inadequate.
“ The rich man can afford the cost of litigation; what From the tons of manuscript journals, minute
is of more consequence, he can afford the delays of trial books, letter books, and memorial books, in the
and appeal; he has a margin of resources which makes archives of the Hudson's Bay Company, as well
it possible for him to wait the months, it may be the
years, during which the process of adjudication will
as from the mass of hitherto unpublished mate-
drag on and during which the rights he is contesting
rial in the British Public Record Office bearing
will be suspended, the interests involved tied up. But on the history of the Company, Miss Laut
the poor man can afford neither the one nor the other. secured several thousand pages of transcripts.
He might afford the initial expense, if he could be secure
Upon these data — the narratives of the actors
against delays; but delays he cannot abide without ruin.
I fear that it must be admitted that our present pro-
themselves, told in their own words -- she has
cesses of adjudication lack both simplicity and prompt- built her story of the Great Company, a story
ness, that they are unnecessarily expensive, and that a which for romantic and dramatic interest will
rich litigant can almost always tire a poor one out and challenge comparison with that of any similar
readily cheat him of his rights by simply leading him
organization in the world's history. The new
through an endless maze of appeals and technical de-
lays" (page 153).
material brought to light, and woven into the
Most of us will agree with him that it is a
texture of Miss Laut's narrative, embraces not
shame and a reproach that we have not brought only a number of documents of which only frag-
our courts nearer to the needs of the poor man
ments were hitherto available, but also several-
than they are, and that the most pressing reform
such as the journals of Peter S. Ogden and the
invaluable letters of Colin Robertson - whose
of our system lies in this direction.
In two final chapters, President Wilson con-
very existence had not before been suspected.
siders the relation of the States to the Federal
The work, which is divided into two substan-
Government and the subject of Party Govern-
• The CONQUEST OF THE GREAT NORTHWEST. By Agnes C.
ment. Apparently he does not sympathize with Publishing Company.
he says:
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tial volumes of over eight hundred pages, opens “« In order to put an end to the Differences wh. exist
with an account of the four voyages of Henry
between the two Nations of the French & English
Hudson, culminating in his tragic end — sent
touching the Factory or Settlement made by Mesers.
Groseillers and Radisson at Hudson Bay, and to avoid
adrift by his mutinous crew on the waters of
the efusion of blood that may bappen between the
Hudson Bay. A brief description of the voy- sd. two nations, for the Preservation of that place, the
age made to the Bay by Jens Munck, the Dane, expedient wch. appeared most reasonable and advan-
closes this introductory part of the work -- the
tageous for the English company will, that the sd.
Messrs. De Groseillers and Radisson return to the sd.
story of the discovery of the gateway to the
Factory or habitation furnished with the passport of the
wide-flung territories of the Hudson's Bay English Company, importing that they shall withdraw
Company.
the French wh. are in garrison there with all the effects
In succeeding chapters are unfolded the ear-
belonging to them in the space of eighteen months to
liest beginnings of the Company itself, through they cannot goe and come from the place in one year.
be accounted from the day of their departure by reason
which runs the exceedingly dramatic story of
The said gentlemen shall restore to the English
Pierre Esprit Radisson, fur-trader, pathfinder, Company the Factory or Habitation by them settled in
prince of adventurers, and founder of the greatest
the sd. country to be thenceforward enjoyed by the
and most venerable of trading corporations. English company without molestation. As to the indem-
English for
Miss Laut has on more than one occasion
brought to Quebec ... that may be accomodated in
entered the lists on behalf of this much-maligned bringing back the said inventory & restoring the same
explorer, and she here brings together a mass of
effects or their value to the English Proprietors.'
entirely new material bearing upon his relations The dashing exploits of Pierre Le Moyne
toward France and New France on the one hand, d'Iberville, from Canada, against the Company's
and England and the great English Company posts on the Bay, form the subject of two very
on the other. Not the least interesting of many interesting chapters; and another is devoted to
points made clear in this portion of the narrative the last days of Radisson — new facts gathered
is that relating to Radisson's second desertion in London disclosing the final scenes in the life
of the French for the British flag, a desertion of the famous pathfinder. Another group of
hitherto regarded as his crowning piece of chapters tells the story of inland explorations
treachery. Radisson, after serving the Company from the Bay by men of the Hudson's Bay
for a time, had gone back to his native country, Company; Henry Kellsey's journey to the
had returned to the Bay, captured Port Nelson Saskatchewan ; the founding of Henley House ;
;
from the British fur-traders, carried away to Anthony Hendry's expedition to the country of
Canada a fortune in furs,—which were promptly the Blackfeet ; Samuel Hearne’s journey to the
confiscated by Governor De La Barre, - and mouth of the Coppermine river; the founding
was now in Paris seeking restoration of his of Cumberland House ; and the beginning of the
booty. Suddenly he disappears from Paris, long conflict between the Hudson's Bay and
and is found in London once more in the North West Companies for the control of the
service of the Hudson's Bay Company. Did he vast fur country of the West. In subsequent
go as a double traitor, or was there some more chapters are described the stirring adventures
creditable motive for his action ? Here is Miss and notable explorations of some of the men of
Laut's explanation, as gathered from state the Canadian company - David Thompson,
documents :
Alexander Mackenzie, Simon Fraser, and Daniel
“ He was sent for by the Department of the Marine, Williams Harmon. Through these narratives
and told that the French had quit all open pretentions runs always the underlying theme of bitter and
to the bay. He was commanded to cross to England
ever-increasing hostility between the two com-
at once and restore Port Nelson to the Hudson's Bay
Company.
panies, a conflict leading by inevitable degrees
“• Openly?' he might have asked.
to such intolerable conditions that only one way
Ah, that was different! Not openly, for an open
could be found out of the morass - the union
surrender of Port Nelson would forever dispose of of the two companies. Part and parcel of this
French claims to the bay. All Louis XIV now wanted
historic conflict, but holding an interest entirely
was to pacify the English court and maintain that secret
treaty. No, not openly; but he was commanded to go
its own, is the story of the coming of the col-
to England and restore Port Nelson as if it were of his onists — the founding of the Red River Settle-
own free will. He had captured it without a commission. ment. Here, as elsewhere, one is struck with
Let him restore it in the same way. But Radisson had the prevalence of Scottish names. The central
had enough of being a scapegoat for statecraft and
double dealing. He demanded written authority for
figure in the drama of Red River was a Scotch-
what he was to do, and the Department of Marine placed
Lord Selkirk. So also were the leaders
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and the “ Nor’Westers": M'Gillivrays and admiration which he affirms. There is no ques-
MacKenzies and McTavishes, M'Donells and tion of the writer's preference for Tennyson
Frasers, McLoughlins and Robertsons. Finally, and we have no quarrel with him over his enthu-
in a series of brilliant sketches, we have the story siasm for the last great Laureate ; but we pro-
of the united companies — the Nor'Westers test that this is not the place for the avowal of
now absorbed in the older Hudson's Bay Com- such discipleship. The comparison of Tennyson
pany-marching triumphantly across the conti- with Morris is overdone ; it recurs on page after
nent, and spreading the empire of the fur-trader page, until this particular theme almost supplants
north and south from the Russian dominions in the real theme of the essay, and reaches a climax
Alaska to the Spanish settlements in California. in the brief concluding chapter wherein the biog-
Here we read of the imperious rule of the auto-rapher of Morris devotes three full pages to the
cratio little Governor, Sir George Simpson ; of gratuitous exaltation of Tennyson as “the broad-
the dashing exploits of Ross of Okanogan ; of est and fullest voice of his own century.” This
the explorations of Ogden in the Southwest, the most of us have long since recognized ; just
throughout what are now the States of Idaho, now we are more interested in the achievement
Montana, Nevada, Utah, and California ; of the of the author of “ Jason,” “The Earthly Para-
transmontane empire of Dr. McLoughlin ; and dise,” and “Sigurd the Volsung.” Indeed, we
of the final merging of the dominion of the fur- would rather hear less of Morris's debt to Tenny-
trader in the era of settlement, and the dawn of son and more of his indebtedness to Chaucer
popular government.
of which Mr. Noyes has surprisingly little to say.
LAWRENCE J. BURPEE. Perhaps we should be less impatient with these
digressions had not the essayist expressed with
much vim his own impatience with Mr. Mackail
for certain suggestions which he deems “out of
A POET'S STUDY OF A POET.*
proportion except in a biography large enough
Mr. Alfred Noyes's volume on William
to estimate also the exact influence him
upon
Morris, just issued in the “ English Men of [Morris) of Bradshaw's Railway Guide.” We
Letters " series, will prove a disappointment to
wonder if Mr. Noyes's sense of proportion and
many readers. It is not an easy task, perhaps
of values is represented in the following bit of
it is impossible, to cover the multifarious activ description. He is speaking of the personal
ities of so many-sided a man within a book of
of appearance of Morris (page 106):
one hundred and fifty pages, the scope of which
“He was careless about his clothes; but it has been
said that he only looked really peculiar when in conven-
is definitely limited by the plan of this useful
tional attire. One of the most charming of his sayings
series ; but it is a pity that the vital facts in the is that which he made in perfect simplicity to a friend:
career of Morris should have to be so scanty,
• You see, one can't go about London in a top hat, it
and then be so blurred in presentation as to give
looks so devilish odd.""
little satisfaction to the reader. Mr. Noyes is Upon the technique of the poet Mr. Noyes
doubtless justified in his contention that the has a great deal to say that is illuminating;
essential factor in all these activities is the although we think that he strains some lines of
poetic spirit, and that the essential man is dis-criticism, as when he discusses the “ thin”
cernible “in the poetry which was the fullest
verses and the “ lower scale of values" in the
expression of his real self.” At all events the chapter on “ The Life and Death of Jason.”
author of the book has occupied himself mainly The error here, if there is an error, lies in the
with a rather elaborate analysis of Morris's suggestion that the verses quoted are adequately
compositions.
representative of the poem throughout. Another
Any study of a poet's work by one who is instance of this dangerous habit of generalizing
himself recognized as a not unworthy brother of is seen in the concluding sentence of this same
the guild cannot fail to be interesting whatever chapter (page 71): “ The cry of Medea, · Be
the limitations of its treatment, and it would be happy!' compresses into two words quite as
unfair to Mr. Noyes to deny him insight or much passion, anguish, and love as are con-
appreciation for his theme. At the same time it tained in whole pages of Browning."
must be stated frankly that his attitude toward We should, however, be doing Mr. Noyes a
his subject is sometimes puzzling, and one is grave injustice to conclude this review without
often in doubt regarding the sympathy and quoting some less debatable passage from his
book, and one which will more clearly show the
'English Men of
really appreciative position toward his subject
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Counsels on
peace and
which we are sure he would maintain. We ored doctrines; but that is true of every book
quote from pages 54-55 :
reflective of a marked individuality. A popular
“ This weaving-process with his thin verse-threads
book on health should set forth the point of view
Morris carried out with supreme success.
He threw from which health is a natural issue; it should sur-
away all ambition to achieve the kind of direct effects vey the factors upon which health depends ; it should
at which Tennyson and Wordsworth, and perhaps all state these in terms of human interest; it should
the greater English poets aimed, and in return he maintain a fair perspective of the little things and
gained an indefinable power of suggestion. In spite of
the great; and it should remember the sorts and
the vast bulk of his work, it gives the impression of
conditions of men and the diversity of human nature
great strength in reserve, and it has something of the
and human needs.
force which we usually associate with reticence. Never
Dr. Saleeby's book meets these
once do we feel that he is exerting himself or, to put it
conditions sufficiently well to warrant its admission
crudely, on his top-note. . . Never, perhaps, has there
to the select class of useful manuals of popular
been so successful an attempt to recapture the childlike hygiene. (Mitchell Kennerley.)
faith of the pagan world in their immortals as “The
Life and Death of Jason.' The gods in Morris have
Lord Avebury (Sir John Lubbock he
something of their old opaque symbolical significance,
will always be to many of us) has
happiness,
which we lose altogether on the spiritual plane of
added another to his already pub-
Wordsworth ur Tennyson. By reducing his whole lished volumes on the pleasures of life and the
world to the childlike and primitive scale of values of beauties of nature; but his title this time is " Peace
which we have spoken, he was able, alone among the and Happiness ” (Macmillan), and he closes with
moderns, really to
some very practical and pertinent remarks on inter-
'Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
national
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn."
and the reduction of our enormous
peace
military and naval establishments. The bankruptcy
W. E. SIMONDS.
and ruin sure to follow the development of present
tendencies are convincingly presented, as is likewise
the certainty of violent and destructive European
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
revolution, precipitated by the misery of the masses,
unless the increasing burden of armament is re-
It is an instructive paradox that duced. Jingoism and false patriotism find no friend
A sane manual
of hygiene.
health, like happiness, is best found in him. “We talk of foreign nations,” he says,
when not sought, -is most enjoyed “but in fact there are no really foreign countries.
when least the object of concern. In recognition The interests of nations are so interwoven, we are
whereof, many a cult has arisen proclaiming the bound together by such strong, if sometimes almost
bliss of ignorance and the yet more exalted bliss of invisible, threads, that if one suffers all suffer; if
denial. But a paradox has two sides; and the other one flourishes it is good for the rest.” Illustrative
side also has its share of recognition in the popular instances are added in proof. The present foolish
consciousness the side which holds that health is Anglo-Teutonic tension is touched
upon
in
a precious thing, and in these modern days is to be
sense way.
In a province more peculiarly his own,
maintained by large-minded public provisions and a the pleasures of nature-study, the author has this to
personal wisdom that is prudent but not fretful, say on the much-discussed question of intelligence
serious but not fanatical, careful but not worried. in animals : “ My own experiments and observations
It is well that popular books on hygiene suitable for have led me to the conclusion that they have a little
the readers that frequent public libraries should be dose of reason, though some good naturalists still
abundant, attractive, and authoritative. In such a deny it.” The "peace and happiness ” so agreeably
list the recent work by Dr. C. W. Saleeby of Edin- presented in these chapters are by no means the
burgh deserves a conspicuous place. It bears as its peace and happiness of idleness and cloistered medi-
title “ Health, Strength, and Happiness,” a worthy tation. “Our clear duty is to work in the world, to
triumvirate capable of wisely ruling the body and remain of the world, and yet to keep ourselves as
the mind. It is, in fact, a fair survey of the essen- far as possible unspotted by the world — though no
tials of personal hygiene, very forcibly written, doubt this is far from easy."
Health is necessary,
under a consistent perspective. The best thing about and “most people will keep fairly well if they eat
man is his mind, and a sound body is the mind's little, avoid alcohol and tobacco, take plenty of fresh
most indispensable implement. Dr. Saleeby's book air and exercise, keep the mind at work, and the
is full of good advice, and will not add to the conscience at rest.” As in the author's previous
prevalent hypochondria. Neither will it inculcate volumes on kindred subjects, there is here also an
indifference, or a go-as-you-please attitude. It may, abundance of quotation, especially from Shakespeare.
however, disappoint many who like their advice in The familiar six lines on ministering to a mind dis-
pill-like doses with instructions for quick taking. It eased are in deserved favor with him, so much so
presents both sides of debatable questions, and does that he quotes them twice, as he does also Scott's
not make mountains out of mole-hills. Here and well-known quatrain beginning, “ Like the dew on
there it errs on the side of indefiniteness, and else- the mountain.” The well-furnished note-book, one
where in strenuous enforcement of personally fav- cannot but imagine, lies ready at Lord Avebury's
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A volume of
nonsense.
and so on,
.
hand as he writes. The popularity of his work of we have the power to grow. Growth is differentia-
this sort is noteworthy: not far from a quarter- tion; and when this has reached its limit, the adult
million copies of the first part of “The Pleasures state is present. Yet in addition, the maintenance
of Life" are said to have been sold, while the second of this adult state is in turn conditioned by the rate
part is in its second hundred thousand, and “ The of change to which the cells are still subject. The
Beauties of Nature" lags not far behind. A curi- two elements in the vital unit, the nucleus and the
ous appearance is given to the title-page of his new protoplasm, in Professor Minot's view, play opposite
book by the nineteen lines (in fine print and mostly parts: rejuvenation depending upon the increase of
in abbreviations and initials) of titles and honors the nuclei, and senescence upon the increase of the
appended to the author's name a flourish not protoplasm. The problem once formulated, itself
exactly in harmony with our conception of his divides, like the progressive segmentation which it
character.
uses for illustration. The differentiation between
Ex nihilo nihil fit. Mr. Hilaire
lower and higher structures ; the determination of
pleasant Belloc chooses “nothing ” as the
the longer-lived and the shorter-lived species and
subject of a slender volume of
individuals; the conception of death as a biological
essays “On Nothing, and Kindred Subjects
penalty for richness of differentiation; the limit of
(Dutton) - and naturally produces nothing of much power as set by age-changes (the popular discussion
weight or importance. His essays are little longer aroused by Dr. Osler in citation of Trollope's fixed-
than Bacon's, and his whimsicalities of style have period notion); the curious anomalies of rejuvenation
now and then an antique turn that may, however
and reproduction of parts; the provision for the con-
remotely, suggest the great Elizabethan. More tinuance of life by the sequestration of cells in their
modern in its suggestion, however, is the occasional
young stages for transmission to the next generation,
yielding to the present strange fascination of the
these are the circumstances of which
paradoxical and the irrational; so that if Lord
we are the creatures, and in these terms must we
Bacon is brought to mind on one page, Mr. Chester-
learn to decipher the conditions of our fate so far as
ton is sure to greet us on turning the leaf. The
we are ready to profit by the biologist's attitude. Dr.
very title of the book is an absurdity, of course, and
Minot combines with the equipment of technique the
the dedicatory pages (addressed to Mr. Maurice philosophical power of its interpretation, and thus
Baring) which attempt to explain its selection and
offers to the studious a profitable and clear presenta-
application, fairly riot in pleasant nonsense. The
tion of the motives and methods of modern bio-
writer pretends to delight in what nature is supposed logical research. (Putnam.)
to abhor, a vacuum. It pleases his humor to say:
At first glance it might appear that
“ I never see a gallery of pictures now but I know
how the use of empty spaces makes a scheme, nor
Christian Rome. Professor Arthur L. Frothingham,
of Princeton University, in his new
do I ever go to a play but I see how silence is half
work entitled “The Monuments of Christian Rome"
the merit of acting, and hope some day for absence
(Macmillan), was but retracing the ground covered
and darkness as well upon the stage.” Among the
by Mr. Walter Lowrie's “Monuments of the Early
topics chosen for treatment as “kindred” to noth-
Church,” which came out about eight years ago.
ing are these : "On Ignorance," "On Advertise-
More deliberate investigation, however, reveals the
ment,” “ On a House,” « On a Dog and a Man also,
fact that, while the earlier book dealt with a period
“On Railways and Things," "On a Child who Died,” beginning with the end of the first century of the
“On the Departure of a Guest,” and “On Coming Christian era and ceasing with the development of
to an End.” The book is written in a fine spirit Byzantine Architecture before the end of the sixth
of carelessness and spontaneity; nevertheless the
century, Professor Frothingham treats of the period
author need not have pushed laxity to such an
from Constantine in the fourth century to the Renais-
extreme as in the following: “ As he had
sance early in the fifteenth. The historical sketch
walked faster than me so now I walked faster
contained in the first eight chapters is a history of
than him.”
the city, with the changes it underwent in the reigns
Problems of
An appreciation of the biologists of Constantine and his successors, after the Gothic
age, growth, attitude toward the problems of life invasion, under the Byzantine influence, as a Carlo-
and decay.
may be admirably acquired, though vingian city and in the Dark Age from the death of
at the usual cost of close attention, by a reading of Pope Formosus in 896 to the accession of Pope
Professor Charles Sedgwick Minot's Lowell lectures Leo IX. in 1049, by the fire of Robert Guiscard,
on the problems centering about the persistent ques- under the great mediæval Popes, and during the
tions of age, growth, and final dissolution. The Papal Exile. This survey of the city, derived from
painstaking minuteness of observation of the minutest a careful and exhaustive study of the documentary
units of the microscope seems at first sight remote history and from years of exploration in situ, enables
from the arts of regulation of life; but in such terms the author to present, in the second part of his vol-
are the secrets of nature to be deciphered. The ume, some fascinating chapters on Basilicas, Cam-
biological provisions for maturing become in another panili, Cloisters, Civil and Military Architecture,
aspect the signs of senescence. We grow old because Sculpture and Painting, with accounts of some of
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old Japan.
leadei's in
thought
:
the Roman artists and of art in the Roman Province on the history and technique of the various processes
and the Artistic Influence of Rome. It is in his by which prints are produced - etching, line engrav-
chapter on Painting that Professor Frothingham ing, stipple, mezzotint, aquatint, wood engraving,
discusses the personality of Pietro Cavallini, in the lithography, etc., upon which the most recent books
light of the recent theories advanced in opposition are nearly twenty years old, - he adds a chapter
to Vasari's statement that Cavallini was the pupil on the photo-mechanical processes which caused the
and assistant of Giotto. The more recent view suspension in the practice of the former methods of
makes Cavallini the partner, perhaps the predecessor, reproduction, and in the popular interest in prints
of Giotto in the revival of painting which goes and print collecting. These chapters are all sub-
by Giotto's name. Professor Frothingham gives servient to the real purpose of the book as implied
ample reasons for the acceptance of the new view. in the title ; and the appreciation of prints, with the
The book is of inestimable value as an archæological ways in which intelligent appreciation may be cul-
handbook. Although intended for use in the class tivated, is kept constantly in view.
.
No one can
room, its attractive style and wealth of illustration read this book without taking a more intelligent and
will make it scarcely less acceptable to the general discriminating interest in the arts which find their
reader.
expression in the work of the graver.
Mr. Richard Gordon Smith is an
Folk-tales and
New England From “ The Harvard Graduates'
legends of Englishman addicted to wandering.
For the last nine years he has spent
Magazine " are reprinted in book
and action. form eleven short sketches obit-
most of his time in Japan, ostensibly collecting ethno-
logical lore and objects of natural history for the
uary notices, and eulogistic rather than critical
of as many distinguished sons of that university who
British Museum, incidentally coming in contact with
have died within the last fifteen years.
« Sons of
the Japanese people, — fishermen, farmers, priests,
doctors, children, governors,
the Puritans: A Group of Brief Biographies " is the
entering into their
collective title, and the volume is published by the
modes of life and thought, and learning their stories
American Unitarian Association, whose president,
and legends. Some of these he has now transcribed
from notes made in his diaries; and a Japanese friend,
Dr. Samuel A. Eliot, contributes an Introduction.
Mr. Mo-No-Yuki, has elaborated the sketches accom-
The opening chapter is on the late Senator Hoar, a
panying the notes into beautiful color-plates. There typical Puritan of his generation, combining in a
are some sixty of these,
at least one for every
high degree those two excellent qualities, idealism
story, — and their mythical subjects and general
and a sense of responsibility. Mr. Francis C. Lowell
treatment give them much the effect of reproduc-
is the writer, and is followed by Mr. Henry P. Walcott
in a short account of Dr. Morrill Wyman, Mr. Ezra
tions of old color-prints. They lend to the volume,
R. Thayer on Judge Horace Gray, President Charles
which is entitled “ Ancient Tales and Folk-Lore of
Japan" (Macmillan), the decorative touch that seems
W. Eliot on Professor Charles Franklin Dunbar, Dr.
Charles Carroll Everett on Phillips Brooks, and,
to belong by right to everything Japanese, and add
finally (we omit a few of the titles), by Mr. George
appreciably to the interest and local coloring of the
tales. These latter are of miscellaneous subject- charity organization, and the promotion of education,
R. Nutter on that young leader in business enterprise,
matter,— stories of trees, flowers, mountains, the sea,
and historic places. We miss an introductory chapter,
the late William Henry Baldwin, Jr. Each chapter
which should discuss the origin of the tales, their
is accompanied by a good portrait of its subject, and
relation to western folk-lore, and their place in
the volume forms a worthy memorial of the eleven
men whose names adorn its pages.
modern Japanese life. In general they may be said
to have all the characteristic ingredients of the prim-
What Mr. Cyril Maude did for one
Annals of a
itive tale. Ghosts walk, tree-nymphs and mermaids
of the most famous of English play-
famous theatre.
marry mortals, beautiful gods steal the love of hapless
houses, the Haymarket Theatre, Mr.
maidens, low-born suitors outwit tyrannical fathers, Eugene Tompkins has done for one of the cradles
reincarnations and miracles puzzle simple folk. But of the drama in America, in his “History of the
the Japanese flavor gives novelty to the familiar Boston Theatre” (Houghton), compiled with the
combinations.
assistance of Mr. Quincy Kilby. It is a work which
It is cheering to learn that there has will interest historians, connoisseurs of old prints and
print-collectorum recently begun a revival of interest photographs, actors, and playgoers. Mr. Tompkins
in the art of etching, with its related points out that no other theatre in the world has
arts of mezzotint "scraping,” wood engraving, and ever sheltered so wide a range of celebrities, from
lithography; an interest which seems to have been tragedians and grand opera stars to negro minstrels
suspended but a few years ago, when the numerous and vaudeville performers, from statesmen and clergy-
photo-mechanical processes for the cheaper and more men to athletes and pugilists. It has been the recog-
rapid reproduction of pictures came into being. Mr. nized home of operatic representations of the highest
Frank Weitenkampf's manual entitled “How to order, of brilliant ballet spectacles, and of the most
Appreciate Prints " (Moffat, Yard & Co.), which realistic melodramatic productions. The author draws
gives us this assurance, is therefore a more timely upon his own recollections of twenty-three years as
volume than might at first appear. To its chapters / manager of the theatre of which he writes, as well
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NOTES.
connected with the Boston Theatre before him and
from whom he inherited a taste for theatrical mat- Mr. W. P. Thomson, for several years with Messrs.
ters; and, more fortunate than most chroniclers, he Doubleday, Page & Co., has joined forces with the
had at hand the bound volumes of its programmes,
Francis D. Tandy Company of New York, which firm
as well as the statement-books showing the receipts
will hereafter be known as the Tandy-Thomas Company.
From the Cambridge University Press (Putnam) we
at all performances. So voluminous was the data at
hand that one wonders how, in the limited space,
have Volume VI of Beaumont and Fletcher, as edited
by Mr. A. R. Waller; and an edition of “ The Posies” of
Mr. Tompkins has prevented his work from becoming George Gascoigne, edited by Professor John W. Cunliffe.
a mere catalogue; yet, in a sense, he has compiled
“ New Hampshire as a Royal Province," by Dr.
a vade mecum of the drama in America for the last
William Henry Fry, is a bulky monograph of over five
half century. The book is divided into practically hundred pages, published by Columbia University in the
fifty chapters, each chapter being devoted to a yearly series of “ Studies in History, Economics, and Public
As a work of reference it is invaluable Law."
because, in addition to its allusions to plays and
As their leading novel of the Spring season, the
players, it has been indexed with particular care
Houghton Mifflin Company will publish early this month
the index of portraits and illustrations approximating
“ The Story of Thyrza,” by Miss Alice Brown, whose
recent novel, “ Rose MacLeod,” has had such marked
some 1400 entries. It is a comprehensive record of
living and departed public idols; and it is easy to
“ The Rhetoric of Oratory,” by Professor Edwin
perceive that the compilation of the book has been a
DuBois Shurter, is a systematic treatise upon the form
labor of love to its author. Many of the illustrations of composition, with an appendix of specimen college
are from rare photographs, obtained through patient orations which students will find useful for practical
research, and now reproduced for the first time. guidance. The work is published by the Macmillan Co.
Mr. Clarence F. Birdseye will issue in the near future
through the Baker & Taylor Co. an important publication
entitled “The Reorganization of our Colleges.” Mr.
Birdseye will be remembered as the author of a recent
BRIEFER MENTION.
book entitled “Individual Training in our Colleges."
“ Early English Romances in Verse,” translated into
The sudden death of Will Lillibridge at his home at
modern prose by Miss Edith Rickert, gives us a collec-
Sioux Falls, South Dakota, was recently announced.
tion of eight famous love-stories, including “ Floris and
Mr. Lillibridge is best known for his story “ Ben Blair,"
Blanchefleur,” “Sir Orfeo,” “ The Earl of Toulouse,”
which was published by Messrs. A. C. McClurg & Co.
and “The Squire of Low Degree.” The book is included
four years ago, and had a wide success.
in the “ Mediæval Library," as is also the companion
Volume IV. of the “Storia do Mogor,” by the
volume of romances of friendship, which gives us Miss
Venetian Niccolas Manucci, as translated for the
Rickert's versions of “ Amis and Amiloun," « The Tale
« Indian Text Series" by Mr. William Irvine, is now
of Gamelyn," and four others of like character. Messrs. imported by Messrs. Dutton. This volume completes
Duffield & Co. are the publishers of these quaint volumes.
the work, which is a history of Mogul India during the
The “Musician's Library” of the Oliver Ditson Co.
last half of the seventeenth century.
is now notably enriched by two volumes of music by the
Herr C. Hulsen's handbook of “The Roman Forum,"
greatest of Norwegian composers. The “ Larger Piano
translated by Mr. Jesse Benedict Carter, is now pub-
Compositions of Edvard Grieg” is edited by Mrs. Bertha
lished in a second edition by Messrs. G. E. Stechert & Co.
Feiring Tapper, and “Fifty Songs by Edvard Grieg" It is an indispensable book for the tourist in Rome, and
is edited by Mr. Henry T. Finck. The former volume
of almost equal value for reference, since it embodies
includes a group of four“Humoresques,"three“Sketches
the latest results of excavation and interpretation.
of Norwegian Life," the suite “ From Holberg's Time,” The J. B. Lippincott Co. publish a revised edition,
the sonata in E minor, the ballade in G minor, and the with an introduction by Mr. Cyrus Elder, of Spurzheim's
concerto in A minor. Mr. Finck's volume illustrates the “Phrenology,” first given to the American public
entire
range of Grieg's lyrical composition, the dates of seventy-five years ago. Pseudo-science has an evident
the songs running from 1863 to 1900. The introductory advantage over science in the fact that its expositions
matter in both these volumes is judicious and interesting. do not easily become out-dated by the advance of
The late Amos G. Warner's excellent treatise on knowledge.
“ American Charities” (Crowell) is without question the
The widow of the late William Henry Drummond,
classic work on the subject, although some phases of the the poet of the Canadian habitant, has selected from his
field of charity have been treated more recently by other literary remains enough poems and sketches to make
writers. This book has great vitality, and its usefulness a sizable volume, called “The Great Fight,” now
has been prolonged by the admirable editorial service of published by Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons. Mrs.
Professor Coolidge, who has brought the statistics and Drummond writes a memoir, and Dr. S. Weir Mitchell
other materials up to date in a most careful manner.
provides a tributary poem.
The biography by Professor G. E. Howard is a welcome The first volume of a work to be called “ English
feature of this new edition. The contents of the original Literature in the Victorian Era: A Biographical and
volume are too familiar to require a survey at this time. Critical History,” by Dr. Robertson Nicolſ, will be pub-
The bibliography is a valuable aid in the further study lished in the autumn. The book will run to six volumes,
of the problem. The book can be recommended to stu- and it is hoped that they will be issued at the rate of
dents as one of highest value and importance.
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Dr. Nicoll has been engaged upon this task for many particularly valuable for reference in the case of words
years. His main purpose has been to estimate the value
which are in common use to-day, but which had in the
and influence of the writers and thinkers who have done sixteenth century a signification materially different
most to shape the direction of English thought during from that which we now give them. Such words are
the period treated.
the real pitfalls of Shakespeare, rather than those
The edition of Jane Austen's novels published by which we at once see to be old and strange.
Messrs. Duffield & Co. in the “ St. Martin's Illustrated “ Recollections of Seventy Years," by Mr. F. B.
Library of Standard Authors " is now completed by the Sanborn of Concord, is announced for publication this
addition of " Emma,” “Mansfield Park,” “ Northanger month. As editor of the Springfield Republican,"
Abbey,” and “ Persuasion," — six volumes, making ten the Boston “ Commonwealth," and the “ Journal of
altogether. Many charming illustrations in color make Social Science,” as the last of the founders of the
this a very desirable edition.
famous Concord School of Philosophy, and as the close
The first of a projected series of encyclopædias for friend of such men as Emerson, Thoreau, Alcott, and
the young, prepared by Professor Edwin J. Houston, John Brown, Mr. Sanborn occupies a unique position.
will be published this year by the American Baptist The work is divided into two volumes, one devoted to
Publication Society. The series will treat of the various his political and the other to his literary life.
substances and phenomena connected with such branches A treatise on “ Ethics,” the work of Professors John
of natural science as Physical Geography, Natural Philo- Dewey and James H. Tufts, has been added to the
sophy, Mineralogy, Electricity, Geology, and Chemistry. “ American Science Series " of Messrs. Henry Holt & Co.
Early this month Messrs. Duffield & Co. will make Its fundamental aim is “ to awaken a vital conviction of
the experiment of issuing a new book in paper covers, the genuine reality of moral problems and the value of
after the French manner. The volume, a collection of reflective thought in dealing with them.” Approaching
picturesque stories of Paris, by Helen Mackay (Mrs. their subject by the historical pathway, the authors pro-
Archibald K. Mackay), will copy precisely the French ceed to analyze the leading conceptions of ethical theory,
scheme of bookmaking in type and make-up, and the and then to apply them to a variety of political and econo-
binding will be of paper in place of the customary mic problems at present largely under discussion.
boards and cloth.
The Bibliophile Society, organized in Boston nine
William Mathews, author and educator, died on Feb- years ago for the purpose, among other ends, of pub-
ruary 14 at his home in Boston, Mass., in his ninety-first lishing artistic books and noteworthy manuscripts, will
year. Among his best-known books are “Getting On in soon issue Thoreau's “ Walden” as Thoreau wrote
the World,” « The Great Conversers, “Words, their it, unabridged and unchanged. The “Walden" now
Use and Abuse,” « Hours with Men and Books,” “Mon- known to the reading public lacks, according to Mr.
day Chats,” “Oratory and Orators,” “ Literary Style," Henry H. Harper, the Society's president, some twelve
“Men, Places, and Things," “ Wit and Humor," and thousand words that were cut out by Thoreau's publish-
“ Nugæ Litterariæ.”
ers from the author's manuscript, which, after devious
“ The Tempest” and “ The Merchant of Venice," wanderings, has fortunately come into the Society's
both edited by Dr. F. J. Furnivall, are recent additions
to the “Old - Spelling Shakespeare," published by Two new books by Mr. Arthur Symons are a welcome
Messrs. Duffield & Co. From the same source we feature of Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Co.'s Spring announce-
have “ An Evening with Shakespeare," by Mr. T. ment list. The first of these, “The Romantic Movement
Maskell Hardy, being a book of directions for a Shake- in English Poetry,” is an even more ambitious piece of
speare entertainment of readings, tableaux, and songs work than its title suggests, for instead of an essay or a
set to old-time music.
narrative, Mr. Symons gives separate and distinct appre-
Another book on Shakespeare which may be expected ciations of the personality and poetry of no less than
during the year is Mr. Theodore Watts-Dunton's essay, eighty-six romantic writers born in the last eighty years
“Shakespeare's Adequacy to the Coming Century." of the eighteenth century. The other volume is a new
Mr. Watts-Dunton seems to have quite a number of edition, practically re-written, of the well-known “Plays,
works approaching completion, among them “Rem- Acting, and Music.”
iniscences of D. G. Rossetti and William Morris at Russell Sturgis, well-known as an architect, art critic,
Kelmscott,” a critical account of the romantic move- and writer on architectural subjects, died at his home in
ment, to be entitled “ The Renascence of Wonder," New York City, on February 11. Mr. Sturgis was born
and a new novel.
in 1836. Of chief interest among his published writings
Among the foremost advocates of universal peace is are the following: “European Architecture,” « How to
the author of “Ground Arms !” the Baroness von Suttner, Judge Architecture,” « The Appreciation of Sculpture,”
who, at the age of sixty-five, has just written an account “ The Appreciation of Pictures,” and “ The Interdepend-
of her life, which has been published by the well-known ence of the Arts of Design.” At the time of his death
“ Deutsche Verlaganstalt” of Stuttgart and Leipzig. one volume of his principal work, a “ History of Archi-
Messrs. Ginn & Company have secured the rights to tecture,” had been issued, another was in the proofs, and
publish the “ Memorien von Bertha von Suttner” in all the third in manuscript.
English-speaking countries, and will shortly bring out The copyright office of the Library of Congress
an English edition.
reports for the last calendar year 118,386 entries, of
Mr. John Foster's “ A Shakespeare Word-Book,” which 30,954 were books, 23,022 periodicals (separate
published by Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Co., is not a numbers), and the remainder musical and dramatic
concordance, but a dictionary, with textual examples compositions, maps, engravings, chromos, photographs,
of Shakespeare's archaic forms and words of varied prints of various kinds, and objects of art. The largest
usage. Even with this limitation, the work extends to number of entries in one day was 3,532, and the smallest
upwards of seven hundred double-columned pages. It is | 177. The total copyright fees amounted to $82,045.25,
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while the salaries paid were $76,475.77, and the dis-
bursements for stationery and supplies, $1,142.30.
Figures given for the last eleven years show the office
to be handsomely self-supporting.
The American Unitarian Association is engaged in the
publication of a “Centenary Edition" of the writings
of Theodore Parker. Three of the volumes are now at
hand: “Sermons of Religion,” edited by Mr. Samuel A.
Eliot; “ The Transient and Permanent in Christianity,"
edited by Mr. George Willis Cooke; and “ Historic
Americans," a group of six lectures devoted to Franklin,
Washington, John Adams, Jefferson, John Quincy
Adams, and Daniel Webster. Good reading these
books are, and we are glad that their burning message
is thus presented to a new generation.
The Spring announcement list of the Macmillan Co.,
just issued, is an imposing and interesting list of books
containing no less than 100 titles. Of this number,
34 are classified as Educational, and 7 as Scientific or
Medical, the remainder of the list being distributed as
follows: Fiction, 7 titles; General Literature, Poetry,
and Drama, 6; Art, Archæology, and Music, 5; Books
of Travel and Description, 3; History, 6; Biography, 7;
Politics, Economics, and Sociology, 9; Religion and
Philosophy, 16. A list covering so wide a range of
topics would in itself constitute the nucleus of a good
general library.
The committee to which was assigned the decision
upon the merits of the papers contesting for prizes
offered by Messrs. Hart, Schaffner & Marx of Chicago,
for 1908, has unanimously agreed upon the following
award: The first prize, of $1000, to Professor Oscar
D. Skelton for a paper entitled “ The Case against
Socialism"; the second prize, of $500, to Mrs. Emily
Fogg Meade for a paper entitled “The Agricultural
Resources of the United States.” Among the contribu-
tions restricted to college undergraduates, the first
prize of $300 was won by Mr. A. E. Pinanski, Harvard
1908, for a paper entitled “ The Street Railway of
Metropolitan Boston,” and the second prize of $150 by
William Shea, Cornell 1909, for “The Case against
Socialism.” It is expected that two, and possibly more,
of these essays will be published this year by Houghton
Mifflin Co.
Child, Professor, A Day with. Francis Gummere. Atlantic.
Christianity and Temperance. C. F. Aked. Appleton.
Church, The, and the Republic. Cardinal Gibbons. No. Amer.
Cleveland's Second Campaign. G. F. Parker. McClure.
Coal as a Commercial Factor. C. Phelps. Metropolitan.
Consular Agents, Training. E. J. Brundage. World To-day.
Coquelin, The Personal. Stuart Henry. Bookman.
Cotton Trade, Our. Daniel J. Sully. Cosmopolitan.
Country Life, Possibilities of. World's Work.
Craftsmen, Mediæval. E. A. Batchelder. Craftsman.
Cuba, Home Rule in. C. N. de Durland. World To-day.
Democracy, The New American. Wm. Allen White. American.
Democratic Party's Future. W. J. Bryan. Munsey.
Desert, Reclaiming the -III. Forbes Lindsay. Craftsman.
Dramatic Technique, Evolution of. A. Henderson. No. Amer.
Dyeing Imitation Silk. C. E. Pellew. Craftsman.
Educational Revolution, An. H. E. Gorst. North American.
Embassies, Government Ownership of. Horace Porter. Century.
English Sport from an American Viewpoint. Scribner.
Faria, Abbé, The Real. Francis Miltoun. Bookman.
Ferdinand, Czar of Bulgaria. Theodore Schwarz. Munsey.
Fishing off California. C. F. Holder. World To-day..
Fleet, A Night with Our. Richard Barry. Cosmopolitan.
Fruit-Handling: New Methods. F.J. Dyer. Review of Reviews.
Fur Country, In the Agnes C. Laut. World's Work.
Fur Traders as Empire-Builders - I. C. M. Harvey. Atlantic.
German Art, Modern. M. I. MacDonald. Craftsman.
Germany in Transition. North American.
Hartzell, Bishop, in Africa. F. C. Inglehart. Review of Reviews.
Hayes in the White House. M. S. Gerry. Century.
Health, Value of. F. M. Björkman World's Work.
Herrick's Home in Devon. Edna B. Holman. Scribner.
Immigrants, Opportunities for. T. Bartlett. World's Work.
Immortals, The Forty. Brander Matthews. Munsey.
Indian Tribes in the Desert. E. S. Curtis. Scribner.
Infectious Diseases, Preventing. C. Torrey. Harper.
Innocence, The Heavy Cost of. World's Work.
Insurance, State Safeguards of. World's Work.
Ireland, The New -X. Sydney Brooks. North American.
Knox, Philander C. W. S. Bridgman. Munsey.
Lafayette Statue, Bartlett's. C. N. Flagg. Scribner,
Leipsic: Home of Faust. R. H. Schauffler. Century.
Life Insurance, Romance of -X. W.J.Graham. World To-day.
Lincoln, Abraham. Henry Watterson. Cosmopolitan.
Lincoln, My Reminiscences of. A.J. Conant. McClure.
Lion Country, Back to the. J. H. Patterson. World's Work.
Lowell, Professor A. Lawrence. Frederic A. Ogg. Munsey.
Lowell, Professor A. Lawrence. F. Rice. World To-day.
McKinley and Cuba. Henry S. Pritchett. North American.
McKinley at Antietam. John W. Russell. Munsey.
Man-hunting in Kentucky. R. W. Child. Everybody's.
Marriages, International. James L. Ford. Appleton.
Militarism, The Delusion of. C. E. Jefferson. Atlantic.
Mining, Eccentric. D. Pearson. World To-day.
Motor-boat, Uses of the. E. B. Moss. Metropolitan.
Motor Car, The, and Its Owner. E. R. Estep. Rev. of Reviews.
Muir, John, Three Days with. F. Strother. World's Work.
Music, Nationalism in. Reginald De Koven. North American.
Music, The American Idea in. David Bispham. Craftsman.
Negro Problem, Heart of the. Quincy Ewing. Atlantic.
New York City's Big Debt. Henry Bruére. Century.
Ocean Travel, Safe. T. S. Dayton. Munsey,
Ocean Travel, Safety of. E. A. Stevens. Review of Reviews.
Old Age. M. C. Carrington. Appleton.
Orchestras, Great American. C. E. Russell. Cosmopolitan.
Orinoco Delta, In the. C. W. and M. B. Beebe. Harper.
Pekin: The Forbidden City. I. T. Headland. Metropolitan.
Pennies, Counting the. Ida M. Tarbell. American.
Physical Life, Our. Wm. H. Thomson. Everybody's.
Physical Science of To-day. John Trowbridge. Atlantic.
Ponies, The Kirghiz. Charles L. Bull. Metropolitan.
Presidents, Changing. John T. McCutcheon. Appleton.
Presidents, Our. Out-of-Doors. Calvin D. Wilson. Century.
Press, The, and Professors. G. Stanley Hall. Appleton.
Profit and Usury. Alexander G. Bell. World's Work.
Prohibition and Public Morals. Henry Colman. No. American.
Prosperity-Sharing. Wm. H. Tolman, Century.
Railroads and Education. James O. Fagan. Atlantic.
Religio-Medical Movements, The. S. McComb. No. American.
Remington, Frederic, Art of. G. Edgerton. Craftsman.
Renaissance Pageant, A., in Chicago. World's Work.
Rockefeller, John D., Reminiscences of - VI. World's Work.
Roosevelt as President. M.G. Seckendorff. Munsey.
Roosevelt, Epoch of. C. Welliver. Review of Reviews.
Roosevelt, President. Bookman.
Roosevelt Regime. The. F. W. Shepardson. World To-day.
Roosevelt's Achievements as President. World's Work.
TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS.
March, 1909.
Africa, Into, with Roosevelt. E. B. Clark. Review of Reviews.
Africa in Transformation. C. C. Adams. Review of Reviews.
Africa that Roosevelt Will See. C. B. Taylor. Everybody's.
Africa: Where Roosevelt will Go. T. R. MacMechan. McClure.
Africa's Native Problem. Olive Schreiner. Review of Reviews.
Alcohol, Evidence against. M. A. Rosanoff. McClure.
American Concert of Powers, An. T. S. Woolsey. Scribner.
American Fleet and Australia. G. H. Reid. North American.
Anti-Japanese Legislation. S. MacClintock. World To-day.
Antony and Cleopatra, Romance of, L. Orr. Munsey.
Art and American Society. Mabelle G. Corey. Cosmopolitan.
Art in Every-day Life. R. C. Coxe. World's Work.
Austria-Hungary Situation. S. Tonjoroff. World To-day.
Baedeker, The New - VII., Trenton Falls, N. Y. Bookman,
Bank Issues vs. Government. J. L. Laughlin. Scribner.
Barnard, George G., Sculpture of. F. W. Coburn. World To-day.
Barry, Major-General Thos. H. E. Wildman. World To-day.
Battleship, Launching a. R. G. Skerrett. World To-day.
Book-Trade, The Disorganized. H. Münsterberg. Atlantic.
Bubonic Rats in Seattle. L. P. Zimmerman. World To-day.
Buildings, Foundations of High. F. W. Skinner. Century.
Burns, Poet of Democracy. Hamilton W. Mabie. No. American.
Caine, Hall, Autobiography of - VII. Appleton.
Cavour and Bismarck. Wm. R. Thayer Atlantic.
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Little People. By Richard Whiteing. With portrait, 12mo,
pp. 295. Cassell & Co. $1.50 net.
New Medieval Library. New vols.: Early English Ro-
mances of Love, Early English Romances of Friendship:
done into modern English, with Introduction and notes, by
Edith Rickert. Each illus. in photogravure, 16mo. Duffield
& Co. Per vol., $2, net.
An Indian Study of Love and Death. By the Sister Nivedita
of Ramakrishna-Vive-Rananda. 16mo, pp. 76. Longmans,
Green & Co. 75 cts. net.
Schools, Public, Plain Facts about. S. P. Orth. Atlantic.
Scientific Congress, The First Pan-American. World To-day.
Shakespeare's “ Henry VIII.” J. Churton Collins. Harper.
"Society." Rollin Lynde Hartt. Atlantic.
Stage, Our National. James L. Ford. McClure.
Stage, The Grip of the. Clara Morris. Munsey.
Steel, Making. William G. Beymer. Harper.
Street Railways, Corruption in. F. W. Whitridge. Century.
Swifts of Chicago, The. Emerson Hough. Cosmopolitan.
Taft, Turning Points in Career of. W. H. Taft. Century.
Taft, William H. George Fitch. American.
Taft, William H. James P. Brown. Everybody's.
Taft, Wm. H., as Administrator. J. A. Le Roy. Century.
Taft. William H., Personality of. Century.
Tariff Revision, Needed. T. H. Carter. North American.
Telephone, The, and Crime. H, Dickson. Appleton.
Theatres for Children. Laura Smith. World's Work.
Tramps, Colonizing. G. Myers. Review of Reviews.
Trolley Rehabilitation. Robert Sloss. Appleton.
Union, The New, of States. W. J. McGee. Review of Reviews.
Victoria, Queen, Impressions of. Sallie C. Stevenson. Century.
Wall Street " Killings." John Parr. Everybody's.
Welles, Gideon, The Diary of - II. Atlantic.
Woman's Position -III. Duchess of Marlborough. No. Amer.
Women, Work for – V. Wm. Hard. Everybody's.
Wood Carving, Value of. K. von Rydingsvärd. Craftsman.
Wrangell, Ascending Mount. Robert Dunn. Harper.
NEW EDITIONS OF STANDARD LITERATURE.
The Novels of Jane Austen. Edited by R. Brimley Johnson;
illus, in color by A. Wallis Mills. New vols. completing the
set: Emma, in 2 vols.; Mansfield Park, in 2 vols.; Persua-
sion, Northanger Abbey. Each 12mo. Duffield & Co. Per
vol., $1.25 net.
Works of Beaumont and Fletcher. Vol. VI., The Queen of
Corinth, Bonduca, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Loves
Pilgrimmage, The Double Marriage. Edited by A. R. Waller,
M.A. 12mo, pp. 420. Cambridge English Classics." G. P.
Putnam's Sons. $1.50 net.
The Republic of Plato. Trans., with Introduction, by A. D.
Lindsay, M.A. 12mo, pp. 370. E. P. Dutton & Co. $1.25 net.
The Complete Works of George Gascoigne. Vol. I., The
Posies. Edited by John W. Cunliffe, M.A., D.Lit. 12mo,
pp. 504. "Cambridge English Classics.” G. P. Putnam's
Song. $1.50 net.
The Old-Spelling Shakespeare. New vols.: The Merchant
LIST OF NEW BOOKS.
[The following list, containing 76 titles, includes books
received by THE DIAL since its last issue.]
of Venice, The Tempest; edited by F.J. Furnivall, Ph.D.,
with Introduction and notes by F. W. Clarke, M.A. Each,
12mo. Duffield & Co. Per vol., $1. net.
BIOGRAPHY.
The Ancestry of Abraham Lincoln. By J. Henry Lea
and J. R. Hutchinson. Illus. in photogravure, 4to, pp. 218.
Houghton Mifflin Co. $10. net.
The Life of a Fossil Hunter. By Charles H. Sternberg;
with Introduction by Henry Fairfield Osborn. Illus., 12mo,
PP. 286.
American Nature Series." Henry Holt & Co.
$1.60 net.
My Inner Life: Being a Chapter in Personal Evolution and
Autobiography. By John Beattie Crozier. New edition; in
2 vols., 8vo. Longmans, Green, & Co. $2.50 net.
The Apprenticeship of Washington, and Other Sketches
of Significant Colonial Personages. By George Hodges,
D.D., D.C.L. 12mo, pp. 232. Moffat, Yard & Co. $1.25 net.
The Lawrences of the Punjab. By Frederick P. Gibbon.
With portraits in photogravure, etc., 12mo, pp. 350. E. P.
Dutton & Co. $1.50 net.
DRAMA AND VERSE.
Salvage. By Owen Seaman. 16mo, pp. 149. Henry Holt & Co.
$1.25 net.
Ode on the Centenary of Abraham Lincoln. By Percy
Mackaye. 12mo, pp. 61. Macmillan Co. 75 cts. net.
Sisyphus : An Operatic Fable. By R. C. Trevelyan. 8vo, pp. 75.
Longmans, Green, & Co. $1.50 net.
Champlain: A Drama in Three Acts, with Introduction enti-
tled Twenty Years and After. By J. M. Harper. With frontis.
piece. 12mo, pp. 296. John Lane Co. $1.50.
The Blue and the Gray, and Other Verses. By Francis
M. Finch; with Introduction by Andrew D. White. With
portrait, 12mo, pp. 144. Henry Holt & Co. $1.30 net.
Abraham Lincoln: A Poem. By Lyman Whitney Allen.
Centennial (fourth) edition; 12mo, pp. 142. G. P. Putnam's
Sons. $1.25 net.
A Motley Jest: Shakespearean Diversons. 12mo, pp. 64.
Sherman, French & ('o. $1. net.
A Wine of Wizardry, and Other Poems. By George Stirling.
12mo, pp. 137. San Francisco: A. M. Robertson. $1.25 net.
HISTORY.
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and Its Expiation.
By David Miller Dewitt. 12mo, pp. 302. Macmillan Co.
$2.25 net.
Napoleon and America: An Outline of the Relations of the
United States to the Career and Downfall of Napoleon
Bonaparte. By Edward L. Andrews. With frontispiece,
8vo, pp. 89. Mitchell Kennerley. $2. net.
The Roman Forum: Its History and Its Monuments. By
Ch. Hülsen; trans. by Jesse Benedict Carter. Second edition,
revised and enlarged; illus., 12mo, pp. 271. G. E. Stechert
& Co. $1.75 net.
A History of the United States and Its People from Their
Earliest Records to the Present Time. By Elroy McKendree
Avery. Vol. V., illus. in color, 8vo, pp. 431. Cleveland:
Burrows Brothers Co.
Storia Do Mogor; or, Mogul India, 1653-1708. By Niccolas
Manucci; trans. by William Irvine. Vol. IV., illus., 8vo,
pp. 605.
Indian Text Series.” E.P. Dutton & Co. $3.75 net.
FICTION.
Araminta. By J. C. Snaith. 12mo, pp. 423. Moffat, Yard &
Co. $1.50.
The Three Brothers. By Eden Phillpotts. 12mo, pp. 480.
Macmillan Co. $1.50.
Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker. By Marguerite Bryant.
12mo, pp. 382. Duffield & Co. $1.50.
A Prince of Dreamers. By Flora Annie Steel. 12mo, pp. 348.
Doubleday, Page & Co. $1.25 net.
The Web of the Golden Spider. By Frederick Orin Bartlett.
Illus. in color, etc., 12mo, pp. 354. Small, Maynard & Co.
$1.50.
Rachel Lorian. By Mrs. Henry Dudeney. 12mo, pp. 346.
Duffield & Co. $1.50.
The Pilgrims' March. By H. H. Bashford. 12mo, pp. 320.
Henry Holt & Co. $1.50.
Aline of the Grand Woods : A Story of Louisiana. By Nevil
G. Henshaw. 12mo, pp. 491. Outing Publishing Co. $1.50.
The Bomb. By Frank Harris. 12mo, pp. 329. Mitchell
Kennerley. $1.50.
Bill Truetell: A Story of Theatrical Life. By George H.
Brennan; illus. in color, etc., by James Montgomery Flagg.
12mo, pp. 282. A. C. McClurg & Co. $1.50.
The Climbing Courvatels. By Edward W. Townsend. Illus.
in color, 12mo, pp. 290. Frederick A. Stokes Co. $1.50.
Whither Thou Goest: A Romance of the Clyde. By J.J.
Bell. 12mo, pp. 364. Fleming H. Revell Co. $1.20 net.
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GENERAL LITERATURE.
Peace and Happiness. By Lord Avebury. 12mo, pp. 386.
Macmillan Co. $1.50 net.
Johannes Brahms: The Herzogenberg Correspondence.
Edited by Max Kalbeck; trans. by Hannah Bryant. With
portrait, 8vo, pp. 425. E. P. Dutton & Co. $3. net.
Readings on the Paradiso of Dante, Chiefly Based on the
Commentary of Benevenuto Da Imola. By William Warren
Vernon; with Introduction by the Bishop of Ripon. Second
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The Lost Cabin Mine. By Frederick Niven. 12mo, pp. 312.
John Lane Co. $1.50.
Old Jim Case of South Hollow. By Edward I. Rice. With
frontispiece, 12mo, pp. 253. Doubleday, Page & Co. $1. net.
The Trailers. By Ruth Little Mason. 12mo, pp. 365. Fleming
H. Revell Co. $1.20 net.
In the Valley of the Shadows. By Thomas Lee Woolwine.
Illus. in color, 12mo, pp. 115. Doubleday, Page & Co. $1.
Unmasked at Last. By Headon Hill. With frontispiece,
12mo, pp. 314. R. F. Fenno & Co. $1. net.
Chatterton. By Alfred De Vigny; edited by E. Lauvrière.
With portrait, 12mo, pp. 134. "Oxford Higher French
Series." Oxford University Press.
High School Course in Latin Composition. By Charles
McCoy Baker and Alexander James Inglis, 12mo, pp. 464.
Macmillan Co. $1. net.
A Secondary Arithmetic, Commercial and Industrial, for
High, Industrial, Commercial, Normal Schools and Aca-
demies. By John C. Stone and James F. Millis. 12mo,
pp. 221. Benjamin H. Sanborn & Co. 75 cts. net.
TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION.
Tunis, Kairouan and Carthage. Described and painted by
Graham Petrie, R.I. 8vo, pp. 241. Doubleday, Page & Co.
$4.80 net.
From Ruwenzori to the Congo: A Naturalist's Journey
Across Africa. By A. F. R. Wollaston. Illus., 8vo, pp. 313.
E. P. Dutton & Co. $5. net.
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175
POETRY, TIME, AND EDWARD FITZGERALD.
Warren Barton Blake
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CASUAL COMMENT
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The function of the bookstore. -- A sure road to
the mad-house. — The living reality of the dead
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Gerald. — The late Carroll D. Wright. — President
Angell's resignation. — A defence of the signed
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The Encouragement of Literature in Libraries.
Asa Don Dickinson.
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Tout comprendre, c'ést tout pardonner, runs
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knows how many international disputes, to say
nothing of actual armed conflicts, have been
based upon misunderstandings rather than upon
irreconcilable antagonisms. Our own gre civil
conflict was the result of the failure of the two
sections to understand each other, and might
have been averted by a little more of the oil of
sweet reasonableness which Lincoln sought to
pour upon the troubled waters.
We now see
clearly enough that its ends might have been
.
THE MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON. H. E. Coblentz 184
CHAUCER AND HIS TIMES. Clark S. Northup 185
THE CAMPAIGN OF SANTIAGO DE CUBA.
James A. Le Roy.
186
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THE NEWEST FAUST. Ellen C. Hinsdale
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RECORDS OF AN INSPIRING LIFE. T. D. A.
Cockerell .
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BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS
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Our greatest musical genius.-A French translator
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The belated biography of a great preacher. -
Cradle-tales of Hinduism. — Student days at the
University of Virginia.
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NOTES
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gained at a fraction of the sacrifice which the the significance that a reading of Washington's
actual conflict entailed, and the victorious North Farewell would have for an American audience.
is now coming to realize that the conquered Yet such sparks as this are sometimes fanned
South acted in the sincerity of its conviction, into flame by ignorant patriotic zealots, and be-
and was informed by its own exalted ideals of come a serious menace to comity among nations.
conduct. We no longer think it a desecration The new phase of American relations with
to speak of Lee and Lincoln in the same breath, the Far East, which began with our subjugation
and we are proud to point to both as examples of the Filipinos a decade ago, and has since been
of the excellence which we hope is still potential accentuated by our participation in the Boxer
in American character.
rebellion and our friction with Japan on the sub-
That war was fratricidal in the narrower ject of Pacific coast immigration, brings with it
sense, as were also our earlier wars with the a responsibility which we must recognize if our
mother country. If strife can so easily arise oriental policies are not to be marked by blun-
between peoples who speak the same tongue, dering and a play at cross-purposes. It becomes
how much greater is the danger when the bar- | imperative that we should so familiarize our-
rier of language stands between two nations selves with oriental modes of thought as to
brought into rivalry by a common ambition, or reduce to a vanishing point the danger of misun-
set at odds by some passionate grievance. And derstanding that springs from sheer ignorance.
when, as in the case of our relations with the In other words, since thought and speech are
peoples of the orient, that barrier is so high as one, we must learn the languages of the oriental
to be unsurmountable by more than a few, how peoples with whom we are sure to be brought
vitally important it becomes that the few, at into closer and closer contact. This does not
least, should scale it, and bring report of what mean that we should set our schoolchildren to
lies on the further side. This is the plea urged studying Japanese and Chinese, but it does
by Mr. DeForest, who recalls to us the words mean that we should have students of those
of the Premier of the Shogunate, “ Nothing is languages in sufficient numbers to keep us in
worse than a barrier to the communication of intelligent touch with our transpacific neighbors.
thought,” when confronted with the necessity of Our government should always have at its
making some kind of a treaty with Commodore service a body of skilled interpreters, and our
Perry. In these days of reckless scare-mon- universities should take measures to produce
gering, when yellow newspapers and hot-headed oriental scholars in numbers sufficient to supply
politicians seem capable of any sort of inter- the needs of the press and to shape public opin-
national indecency, the Japanese statesman's
ion in the mould of accuracy.
What we have
words are driven home to us with special force. thus far done in this direction is pitifully little,
If to understand all is to forgive all, it is also and our linguistic helplessness is in striking
true that in many cases perfect comprehension contrast with the efficiency which the English
will make it clear that there is nothing to for- have had the good sense to acquire for the pur-
give, for the simple reason that there is no pose of dealing with their oriental difficulties.
offence to be dealt with. Our writer gives us an The number of English diplomatists and civil
instructive illustration of such a case. About a servants who know the languages of the peoples
year ago, an American newspaper correspondent with whom they have to deal sets us an example
in Hawaii attended a gathering of Japanese which we would be wise to follow, and the
upon one of their national holidays, and listened English wealth of private oriental scholarship
to the reading of an Imperial Rescript. He marks out a plain course for our institutions of
knew just enough of the language to get one the higher learning.
sentence : “In case of emergency give yourself
Our oriental relations are but one aspect of a
courageously to the State.” At once he sniffed problem that is world-wide. Mr. Asquith said
treasons and stratagems, and cabled to his office at the London Peace Congress of last summer :
that the Japanese in Hawaii had just received “ The main thing is that nations should get to
orders from the Emperor to be ready for any know and understand one another.” England
emergency, which of course meant that they and the United States now know one another so
were ordered to get ready for an attack on the well that a future war between them is almost
United States! As a matter of fact, the reading unthinkable ; our common speech and our com-
of this rescript was a bit of routine common to mon inheritance of historical glory put that dis-
all such gatherings, was nothing more than a aster fairly beyond the compassing of the most
homily upon political ethics, and had precisely sinister alliance of politicians and journalists.
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But wars between peoples that do not know each to me! One does not know whether one is sleeping
other's languages are still melancholy possibil- or waking. Time is but the space between our
ities. Our own unfortunate war with Spain memories ;. as soon as we cease to perceive this
might easily have been averted by a little more space, time has disappeared. . . . Life is the dream
of a shadow.” Thus Amiel, in his “ Journal.” We
of mutual sympathy and understanding. The
a
platform, the press, and the pulpit, all preju- that thing, or thought, which is intangible
(we know
have all of us felt the tyranny of time, at least,
diced because uninformed, brought it upon us,
it to be intangible), and which all the same persists
and upon the noble people whose arms we
in getting between us and our highest satisfactions.
might overcome, but whose honor we could not
The poets have ever made a little specialty of time-
stain. The Franco-Prussian war was a cause pieces. We know them — or some of them — well
of keen distress to all the clear spirits of both enough to do without quotation, or even so much as
nations concerned, but the comity of intelligence reading the bills by title. There is one line among
between Germans and Frenchmen was not close
them which all of us once memorized: it is about
enough, forty years ago, to spare them the clash. letting the dead past bury its dead.
In our own time, it is safe to say, a far more
That text might well be the starting-point either
of the loftiest sermon or of the most shameless
serious grievance would be required to occasion
appeal to our proclivities for pleasure. Besides, in
such a conflict. And every year that is added to
letting the dead past bury its dead, one may have
the tale of this twentieth century is making more
the present in mind, or the future, or both. Ordi-
remote the possibility of war between civilized
narily, however, both are too much. Musette,
peoples. Hague conferences, and international in Murger's " Vie de Bohême,” remarks: “To-
scientific organizations, and foreign travel, and morrow's a fatuity of the calendar; a daily pretext
ententes cordiales, and the development of that men have invented to get out of doing their
humanistic studies, and the invasion of litera- business to-day. To-morrow may be an earthquake.
ture by the cosmopolitan spirit, and many other To-day, God bless her, is terra firma.” Musette
agencies of mutual good-will, are steadily at
wins our gratitude by using no Greek roots to elu-
cidate her little philosophy of life.
What is more,
work, interpenetrating the very warp and woof
she never had the chance to read Hazlitt's essay
of the world's civilization, making the antics of
“Of the Past and the Future" before having her
the alarmist, and the rhetoric of the advocate
say. “I conceive," wrote Hazlitt," that the past is
of huge armaments, all the time more and more as real and substantial a part of our being, that it is
ridiculous. Peace, arbitration, disarmament,
,
as much a bona fide, undeniable consideration in the
world-federation, and other terms of like im- estimate of human life, as the future can possibly
port, are increasingly upon the lips of men ;
be... Nay, the one is even more imaginary, a
they are ceasing to be merely academic phrases, more fantastic creature of the brain than the other,
and are coming into use as the watchwords of
and the interest we take in it more shadowy and
practical men, enlisted for the holy war of the gratuitous ; for the future, on which we lay so much
future, the war upon warfare itself. And that
stress, may never come to pass at all.”
And now it is high time to see whether these
war will find its most efficient private recruits
paragraphs have any connection with the title set at
in the men who learn other languages than their
the head of our column, and what reference they may
own, and thus come to realize that men of alien
possibly bear to the name of Edward FitzGerald,
speech are, after all, their fellow-sharers in a
whose centenary occurs this year and month.
common humanity.
II.
First of all, FitzGerald was one of those to whom
POETRY, TIME, AND EDWARD
his own past and that of the race
FITZGERALD.
always appealed as the chief poetic inspiration.
This is one of the marks of the dreamer; a man
of stronger will is either more purely Epicurean
In an idle moment, a philosopher might do worse
(crowning the present moment), or looks more
than examine the poets in their attitude toward
boldly to the future. If the verses had only been
Time. I say, " in an idle moment,” for if the task
better, we could readily imagine FitzGerald, in one
were taken up in working hours, it would be bound
of his delightful letters which were never too
to result in something forbiddingly German, anno-
“ literary" to carry something of the human, friendly
tated in that heavy-handed manner which strikes
quality that endeared them to Carlyle — citing
terror to humble intelligences. _Amiel is mildly Letitia Elizabeth Landon's " Intimations of Previous
metaphysical on the subject. “Twenty-five years! Existence":
It seems to me a dream as far as I am concerned.
“Remembrance makes the poet: 'tis the past
How strange a thing to have lived, and to feel
Lingering within him, with a keener sense
myself so far from a past which is yet so present Than is upon the thoughts of common men."
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Certainly there is evidence enough of FitzGerald's der, an Anacreon blanc-bec! And fancy FitzGerald's
feeling in these matters. What wonder that he composing the “Meadows in Spring" so many years
came upon Omar with a sense of ownərship, as it before he read and Englished Calderon's lines, –
were ! The world was old to the one as to the * Well, each his way and humour; some to lie
other, sentient,” as Aldrich has written, “ with Like Nature's sickly children in her lap,
the dust of dead generations.” It is a conceit grown
While all the stronger brethren are at play," —
familiar, the potter figure to which one of Fitz- before he knew old Jámí, or felt Omar's spell,-
Gerald's Quatrains gives ultimate English form: passing it on to us!
“For I remember stopping by the way
To watch a Potter thumping his wet Clay:
And with its all-obliterated Tongue
“ In all the actions that a Man performs, some
It murmur'd, 'Gently, Brother, gently, pray
part of his Life passeth,” wrote Owen Felltham.
The East it is that has most deeply felt the great
“ Nay, though we do nothing, Time keeps its con-
age of our race, and those mysterious bonds of time stant pace, and flies as fast in idleness, as in employ-
and birth and re-birth that tie us down to destiny.
ment. Whether we play, or labour, or sleep, or
One read the lesson in such a tale of Lafcadio
dance, or study, THE SUNNE POSTETH, AND THE
may
Hearn's “The Mountain of Skulls,” which is far
SAND RUNNES.” FitzGerald paraphrased Felltham
more than a “fantasy-piece.” But, apart from the
in the humorous verses that he named “Chronomos”;
conviction that the world is very old, there is the
buried deep in his Suffolk, the Laird of Little-
sensibility of the poet to the past which is immedi- Grange (for so he liked to sign himself) could not
ately his own, the past of his present existence.
escape the Scythe-bearer,
- and turned the matter,
This, too, is the stuff of poetry. That FitzGerald therefore, to a pleasantry, Read his correspondence,
was not blind to it is nowise strange; it is remark-
and you will be surprised, not at any sameness in it,
able only that he should have felt it all so young.
but at the steadiness of the interests and sympathies
Valetudinary verse came to his pen-point when more
and occupations which it reflects. Part of all this
normally he should have been phrasing with exulta-
may be explained by the want of ambition in the
tion the joy of living.
man’s composition. One can imagine him reading
“ One Moment in Annihilation's Waste,
with approval Flaubert's youthful confession.
One Moment, of the Well of Life to taste
I long to be successful ?” the future novelist asked
The Stars are setting and the Caravan
himself, as student of the law. “Have I ambition,
Starts for the Dawn of Nothing — Oh, make haste!" like a boot-black, who aspires to be a shoe-maker;
So sang old Omar, or so FitzGerald, himself in like a driver, who would be a stud-groom ; like
middle life (it is to-day just fifty years since the footmen, that aim at being masters; your fellow with
first edition of the Quatrains), made Omar sing. a future, who would become deputy or minister,
But what of the youth who regrets the death of the
wear a ribbon or be a town-councillor ? All that
year in its very spring-time? It was almost as seems to me very dismal, and as unattractive as a
school-boy that FitzGerald wrote his “Old Beau,” four-penny dinner or a humanitarian lecture. But
with a ring to it that is Thackerayan, — Thackeray
,
it is, after all, everybody's mania: therefore, were
was of his circle, too. Perhaps it is hardly worth
it only to be singular, not necessarily from taste or
quoting ; certainly a line or two is enough, as the breeding, or even inclination, it is good to remain in
line wherein FitzGerald's Beau looks the young the crowd, and to leave ambition to the scum, who
ladies over and ungallantly sighs,
are forever pushing themselves, and swarm in every
"You're nothing to your mothers !"
street. As for us, let us remain at home, watching
or those that sum the whole piece up:
the public pass from the height of our balcony, -
“Out on the greybeard Time, Tom,
and if we are bored at times, well, we can spit on
He makes the best turned leg grow thinner;
their heads, and continue our conversation, and
He spares nor sex nor clime, Tom,
watch the sunset in the west.” Only, FitzGerald
- the old relentless sinner!”
would have left out one part of Flaubert's pro-
With this rather unfamiliar ballad of the “ Old
gramme, we hope. There is nothing so rude in the
Beau,” dug out of the “Keepsake of 1834" by an letter he once wrote to Charles Eliot Norton, refer-
industrious two-volume biographer, one would like ring to the translations which he made from time to
to trill the ringing stanzas of the “Old Song" with time, “partly as an amusement in a lonely life,”
which the young FitzGerald " hoaxed” the “ Athe- and which were published, he said, “ to make an
næum.” It is a beautiful lyric, — “exquisite poe- end of the matter."
try” which Lamb envied its author as he envied Fanny Kemble said of FitzGerald that he was
Montgomery his "Last Man,” because he felt he distinguished by the possession of rare intellectual
“could have done something like them.” We and artistic gifts ; she left it unsaid that he never
wonder less at the “ Meadows in Spring” (that is brought these gifts to their highest pitch. Poet,
the alternate title) for its wistful beauty, than for its musician, painter, and scholar, she called him; add-
being written by the boy of twenty-two who so lightly ing, "If he had not shunned notoriety as studiously
conveyed in the stanzas his sentiment of half-tearful, as most people seek it, he would have achieved a
half-smiling retrospection. Fancy, a young Menan- foremost place among the eminent men of his day."
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burtranslator
Socially, the poet never had all that was his due. It was the first adequate recognition that the anony-
This was perhaps well, since he would never have mous translator had won from the critics; and it
tolerated the petting of a “FitzGerald Society "; to stands the tests for sound criticism to-day as well as
say nothing of taking pleasure in such a trumpery in the happy hour when Norton wrote it out. Then
business, as Browning seemed to. Putting it baldly, there is an excellent review by Mr. Gosse. Most
FitzGerald was, besides, socially impossible. That of the rest is superfluous; the “Rubaiyát” speaks
was the impression of his unhappy wife (who in- for itself. And there's an end to the matter — and
sisted on making him as unhappy as she was, to the translator too, as translator alone.
while that was in her power), and it would be our
impression too, if we were not sentimental over alone, nor merely the sentimental gentleman who
persons who are dead, and honored dead to boot. went shares with “ Posh” (the bibulous boat-man
Poetically, FitzGerald was slighted in his own times ; whom we prefer to call “ Pish”), nor the lazy and
that is, his “ Rubáiyát” was slow to win its meederratic personage who spoke to a man one day and
of admiration. Popular approval came so late that cut him dead the next. It is our good fortune that
there was no time for the poet to do more than he was also a great letter-writer-one of the crispest
lengthen the body of the “ Rubáiyát” and to change and most pleasure-giving in all his century. His
the shape of the sleeves. But all that is handsomely effects seem less studied (a great consideration in
atoned for now. He has been duly overestimated, letter-writing) than Stevenson's; the personality is
and has had his Variorum and Definitive Edition, gentler than Carlyle's; the body of letters is larger
albeit there is little enough worth treasuring in and their range wider than Lamb's, which he so
those seven fine volumes but the “Rubáiyát” itself
loved. His letters are, then, worth everyone's reading.
and the “ Meadows in Spring” (vide any anthol- They make a fine bed-book, or an excellent birthday
ogy), and the description of the rowing-match and gift. They are warranted to contain a minimum of
Christ Church meadows in “Euphranor." His Tennyson anecdotes. Also, how fully have they the
earlier neglect has been atoned, as has been said ; smell of the soil, and the scent of the garden where
we are gone, in fine, to quite the opposite extreme. their writer pottered ; and how rich they are with
When were there school-girls lacking to recite, allusions — literary, personal, such as only a poet and
“I sometimes think that never blows so red
a wide (but dainty) reader knows how to úse! Every-
The Rose, as where some buried Cæsar bled,
where, too, is the reflection of that piquant person-
tears in their voices and holes in their handker- ality which never lost itself in the correspondent’s.
chiefs? There are Omar Khayyam Clubs, also,
It is on the letters that we would dwell; the bloom
which plant roses from Omar's grave on the grave
is on them yet. They form the man's most perfect
in an English churchyard ! FitzGerald was the monument, preserving, as they do, the record of his
first to deplore the exaggeration in it all, - the
- rare old friendships. It was in his friendships that
exaggeration of his merits “as Translator,” he was
he was least the dilletante. “ They are more like
careful to state, “not as Poet, of course.” And loves, I think,” was his own phrase for the enduring
he did not fail to observe that America was the bonds with Thackeray and Tennyson and Cowell and
chief sinner: even to the pirating of his translation.
the rest.
And the letters bring us back to the subject. They
were conditioned by that life FitzGerald led of the
But this is not a literary estimate of Edward lighter literary labors. The poet was little over
FitzGerald — not in
any
formal
sense,
that is. Were thirty when he wrote to Bernard Barton, from
it that, it would be one's duty once more to praise London, that he would like to live all the days of
his rendering of Omar's "desperate beauty," not-
his life in a small house just outside a pleasant
withstanding the silly overpraise of the poet by ten English town: making himself useful in a humble
thousand amateurs. The very manner in which he way, reading his books, and playing a rubber of whist
fought shy of publicity in his lifetime accentuates at night. “ Time will tell us,” he said ; and quoted :
the circumstance that since his death he has been
" Come what come may,
adulated, not merely as the man in a million who
Time and the Hour runs through the roughest day."
executed “the work of a poet inspired by a poet,"
“I also am
an Arcadian,” he wrote to Frederic
but even more, perhaps, as something of a hermit Tennyson, not many years later. “ Have been to
and
very
much of a bear, and altogether as one of
Exeter the coast of Devonshire - the Bristol
the really picturesque figures in our prosaic literary Channel --- and to visit a Parson in Dorsetshire. He
history. The “Omar” has been so often gushed wore cap and gown when I did at Cambridge --
over that there is to-day little gratefulness in the together did we roam the fields about Grandchester,
gushing. Instead of writing about it, however, there discuss all things, thought ourselves fine fellows, and
always remains the poem itself to be re-read; even that one day we should make a noise in the world.
though we know it by heart almost as well as we He is now a poor Rector in one of the most out-of.
know the numerous parodies. One may do worse, the-way villages in England -- has five children -
too, than read what Professor Norton wrote in the fats and kills his pig - smokes his pipe — loves his
“ North American Review” just forty years ago.
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it. I was much amused with his company; he much
CASUAL COMMENT.
pleased to see me: we had not met face to face for
fifteen
years
-- and now both of us such
very
sedate THE FUNCTION
BOOKSTORE is pro-
unambitious people!” “A little Bedfordshire - nounced by Professor Münsterberg to be not less
little Northamptonshire - a little more folding of important than that of the public library. In an
the hands — the same fields - the same thoughts article on "The Disorganization of the Book-Trade,"
occurring at the same turns of road this is all I published in the current “ Atlantic,” he points out
have to tell of; nothing at all added — but the some interesting though not encouraging facts, and
summer gone.” Not with impunity, as Mr. Benson suggests a way to revive the declining traffic in
has dared to say in his discriminating memoir of books. Whereas in any German city of one hun-
FitzGerald, does a man shirk the primal inheritance dred thousand inhabitants the visitor is sure to find
of labor. We cannot think FitzGerald's to have from twelve to twenty well-appointed bookstores,
been a very happy life. And yet, as one reads the and at least one such store in any but the very
letters, and as one reviews the life, with its pleasures smallest of German towns, in America even large
found in the making of translations (which he sent cities are often content to make the book-trade a
to his friends, and not to the reviews), and in the mere side-line in the department store or an incon-
reading of “large still books," one sees what Lowell spicuous branch of the stationery shop's business.
meant when he wrote: “ We are so hustled about European bookstores are increasing, ours are dying
by fortune, that I found solace as I read, in think- out; and there is a corresponding difference between
ing that here was a man who insisted on having life the publishing statistics of a country like Germany
to himself, and largely had it accordingly." and the United States. The former nation, with
we could well close our chapter with the verses that its sixty million inhabitants, issued last year 28,703
Lowell wrote in his Epistle to Curtis, some lines new books (including, we assume, new editions,
of which he might have written for this friend that which in Germany are as a rule much more than
lived and died in Suffolk, near the sea :
mere reprints), while the latter, with eighty million
“I love too well the pleasures of retreat
inhabitants, put forth only 8112 new works. This
Safe from the crowd and cloistered from the street, humiliating difference is traceable to various causes,
The fire that whispers its doniestic joy,
our devotion to our newspapers and magazines,
Flickering on walls that knew me still a boy
our neglect of the art of leisure, our addiction to the
Calm days that loiter with snow-silent tread,
Nor break my commune with the undying dead;
motor-car and the bridge-whist table, our lack of a
Truants of Time, to-morrow like to-day,
proper copyright law, and our wasteful and expen-
That come unbid, and claimless glide away
sive methods, in the publishing house no less than
By shelves that sun them in the indulgent past,
in the kitchen. The rehabilitation of the bookstore
Where Spanish castles, even, were built to last
in all our cities and villages would, thinks the
May those castles have proved an enduring refuge
writer, work a revival in the book-trade, and so in
for the poet! FitzGerald, with another than Lowell, the publishing industry; and, since conditions are
could have cried out, “Life is the dream of a
so forbidding to small capitalists, he suggests that
shadow. What is it which has always come be-
the great publishing houses themselves establish retail
tween real life and me?” Like the pensée writers, stores in as many places as possible. One comment,
more anxious about truths than Truth;
at least, is to be made on all this. Professor Mün-
more anxious, too, about satisfactions than true sat- sterberg hardly notes — he certainly does not dwell
-
isfaction. “A prisoner in Doubting-Castle,” is his upon — the difference of conditions obtaining in the
A
own characterization of himself. The curse of the two countries named by reason of the greater devel-
nineteenth century lay upon him
- upon him, who
opment of the public library, with all its varied but
thought himself out of the current of his times.
related activities, in this country. The free library
Daudet's poet in the story of "Jack" had the fore-
with its branches serves some of the ends of the
head of an “impotent Buddha"; one thinks of him
bookstore, and it also contributes no little toward
even as one admires the fine brows of FitzGerald. the support of the publisher.
There is the same reminiscence when one looks at
the pictures of Flaubert. “Oh, what a lot of money
A SURE ROAD TO THE MAD-HOUSE is entered,
I would give to be either more stupid or less intel-
opines Mr. Charles F. Lummis of the Los Angeles
lectual!” cried the boy Flaubert in a letter to his
Public Library, by the unwary mortal who essays to
comrade Chevalier. “Atheist or mystic! but at any
compile authoritative and useful comparative statis-
rate something complete and whole, an identity;
tics from the annual reports published by American
in a word, something.”
libraries.
We are waiting to be told
A mighty maze without a plan many of
what it was that doomed these men, these Flauberts
these reports certainly are; and more or less defective
and FitzGeralds, to an incompleteness that seems
they all seem to the person hunting in haste for some
almost failure. Does the expression, “ atrophy of
particular item of information. Mr. Lummis recom-
the will,” help to explain the riddle ?
mends that the A. I.. A. “provide a form to be
filled out by every librarian in the country” when
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things achieved and triumphs won. Under present famous company, nearer to us than before. In this
conditions, as our California friend well puts it, connection it is curious to think how very few old
"you don't know whether the total registration' women, joined hand to hand, it would need to con-
means the live borrowers, or whether it includes (as nect us with Shakespeare.
it does in the case of a good many public libraries,
and did here until this administration) all the people THE SECRET ENTHUSIASMS OF EDWARD FITZ-
since dead, wounded or missing, who have ever in GERALD simmered silently, as was proper, in his
the last half-century or so signed the more or less own breast. He held his emotions, his longings, his
inconvenient registration cards of the library in aspirations, well in hand, and had ever the air of
qnestion. You do not know whether the gain for expecting nothing of fortune, in order never to be
the year 'in registration’ is net gain, or is a con- disappointed by her. He was not one to give host-
tinuation of the obituary list — namely, a mere list ages to that fickle dame. Whether or not he feared
of the new registration." You do not know, he his fate too much, he certainly conveys the impres-
continues, what “ circulation” means — whether the sion of never daring to put it to the touch, to gain
issue of a book for home use, or, besides that, the or lose it all.” So much the more interesting,
casual opening of a volume in the library “ by any therefore, are those stray indications of unsmothered
patron incidentally thus detected “in flagrant de- enthusiasm discernible in the yellow pages of a little
light.' And so on, in varied vocabulary and old commonplace book in which he made miscella-
picturesque phrase. A uniform rule and method in
neous entries, mostly of quoted matter, between
the statistical section of library reports is indeed to 1831 and 1840. Dr. Robertson Nicoll and Mr.
be desired; but elsewhere the librarian may well Thomas J. Wise, in their “Literary Anecdotes of
be allowed some of that freedom of fancy which the Nineteenth Century," have printed a few sample
Mr. Lummis continues to enjoy — to the refreshment extracts from this “long, thin book, with marbled
of his readers. A prominent library tried for a cover, worn leather back, and time-stained pages,
while the dictionary plan for its annual report, and whose fortunate possessor ought some day to publish
the scheme was not a bad one; but for some reason the whole. The original owner, who was destined
it has now been abandoned. Only give our librarians to an all but solitary life, is found quoting the
time, however, and they will evolve the perfect “golden law ” from Montrose’s “ Song to his Lady”:
library report.
“True love begun shall never end;
Love one and love no more."
THE LIVING REALITY OF THE DEAD PAST is some-
times made very vivid by a current event of small
In full accord with his own sentiments are the lines
importance in itself to the great preoccupied world.
he quotes from Herrick, beginning :
The recent death in his ninetieth year of the En-
“Sweet country life, to such unknown,
Whose lives are others', ot their own."
glish portrait-painter, Lowes Dickinson, probably
attracted little attention beyond his circle of acquaint- The distinctive, the characteristic, the unhackneyed,
Yet to us it is a forcible reminder that such he is quick to seize upon; the conventional, the
a person as Charlotte Brontë once actually lived pompous, and the artificial, he dismisses with scorn.
and toiled and suffered, and then went the way
This little note-book might well, without fear of
all flesh. Mr. Dickinson married in 1857 the daugh- unwelcome revelations, be given to “old Fitz’s ”
ter of Richard Smith Williams, who was reader to
wide circle of admirers as a centennial memorial.
Smith, Elder & Co., the publishers, and who had
the discernment to recognize the genius of “Currer THE LATE CARROLL D. WRIGHT was a worker in
Bell.” Some of Miss Brontë's letters to Mr. Will- several fields, and he distinguished himself in each
iams are given in Mrs. Gaskell’s biography of her, of them. Some will remember him chiefly as an
and the discovery of a link connecting Currer Bell's economist, others as a statistician, others again as
correspondent with the now living and writing Mr. a social reformer, still others as a religious leader, a
G. Lowes Dickinson (son of the artist), is a pleasant few as an old soldier of the Civil War, where he
thing to readers of Mrs. Gaskell, the late death of rose to be colonel of a New Hampshire volunteer
whose daughter Julia (a favorite of Miss Brontë's regiment, while to his later acquaintance he will
and fondly mentioned in her letters ) is another be eminent as an educator as the head, for seven
melancholy but vivid reminder of Haworth days and years, of Clark College, and the advocate of a three-
Haworth people. Charlotte Brontë herself would years college course that shall, by eliminating inter-
not have to be of patriarchal age to be alive now collegiate athletics, accomplish all that has hitherto
a good seven years short of a century, - and been done in four years of undergraduate study.
yet, in a vague way, we are wont to associate her As an author, too, mainly in the fields of political
chronologically with Miss Austen, Miss Edgeworth, economy, practical sociology, and industrial evolu-
, ,
Fanny Burney, and other writers of the late eight- tion and statistics, he deserves to be remembered.
eenth or very early nineteenth century. The over- Among his best-known works are: “The Factory
lapping of Madame D'Arblay's life with Charlotte System of the United States," "The Relation of
Brontë's, and of hers with Dickinson's, cannot but Political Economy to the Labor Question,” “The
bring Dr. Johnson, Goldsmith, Burke, and all that Industrial Evolution of the United States," “ Outlines
ance.
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of Practical Sociology,” and “Battles of Labor.” of one man.” Times have changed since Sidney
Cut off in his sixty-ninth year, he was hoping, Smith and Jeffrey founded the “Edinburgh Review,”
when first he became conscious of decline, to live and in these days of free thought and a free press
long enough to accomplish two cherished objects, the critic's excuses for fighting under cover have
the completion of the “ Economic History of the long since disappeared. As for the advantages of
United States” that he was editing for the Carnegie a signature, we should be inclined to go even further
Institution, and the celebration of the tenth birthday than Mr. Shorter. Is there any sort of reviewing
of Clark College. Had he entered upon educational where “special knowledge," not necessarily of
work earlier, he could not have failed to achieve subject matter, but of form, style, literary effect and
-
noteworthy results, despite his lack of special train- finish, is not required? And granting that, what
ing for that work. Of sound judgment, of hopeful sort of literary criticism really loses anything by a
temperament, loyal to every obligation, and endowed declaration of its authority? The merely descrip-
with a healthy moral sense as his New England tive book-notice, too often confused in popular
birthright, he left a vacancy that cannot easily be discussion with the critical review, may reasonably
filled.
be left without signature ; it is valuable because it
PRESIDENT ANGELL'S RESIGNATION as head of
is impersonal. But in matters of taste and opinion
the University of Michigan, coming so soon after
if a man's word is worth anything, why should he
President Eliot's similar action at Cambridge, and
not father it ?
almost simultaneously with Carroll D. Wright's THE PERNICIOUS “MANUFACTURING CLAUSE" IN
termination of his work at Clark College, and also OUR COPYRIGHT LAWS is to receive an added element
at the time when Dartmouth is looking for a suc- of perniciousness, if the efforts of certain forces now
cessor to President Tucker, makes one acutely sen- at work prove successful. The bookbinders' unions,
sible of the transitoriness of things academical. The it
seems,
desire the clause amended so that to secure
old order does indeed change pretty rapidly; the copyright not only must a book be printed from
individual president withers, though the college plates inanufactured in this country, as is now the
itself is more and more. President Angell's thirty- requirement, but it must also be bound in this coun-
eight years' term of office, following upon other try. Such a proposal will doubtless be defeated by
successful activities both in education and in diplo- its own absurdity. Indeed, if justice and common
macy, cannot in brief space receive fitting apprecia- sense have their
way, it is likely that the “ manu-
tion ; but, in the words of one entitled to pass an facturing clause" will be wiped out altogether in the
opinion, his "position on the day of his retirement next revision of our copyright laws. In such a
will be one which men of far more spectacular glory revision there is ample room for strengthening and
His fame --- of whatever degree it extending the only legitimate function of copyright
proves is perfectly secure. The affectionate re- legislation, i. e., the protection of authors. Our
gard of two or three generations of citizens is his, “infant” book-manufacturing industries are still
past the possibility of decay. Dissenting voices are sufficiently “protected” by a tariff tax (levied on the
infrequent and weak. ... The teaching staff, which American bookbuyer) of twenty-five per cent ad
is of all best situated for passing judgment, throws valorem. To subsidize them still further, under
light on some unpleasant flaws. But the worst of cover of our copyright laws, is an incongruity that
these are shallow-based. As for the general inten- should no longer be endured, — and especially as
tion and effect of his work, and especially for the this concession defeats in many cases the direct
man himself, it is doubtful if Michigan has another purposes of copyright by making it impossible for
whom his worst enemies can load so little with all but the most affluent of British and foreign
reproach.”
authors to protect their work in this country.
A DEFENCE OF THE SIGNED REVIEW is made by
Mr. Clement K. Shorter in a recent issue of “ The THE COST OF CIRCULATING A LIBRARY BOOK,
Sphere." "I have seen the full iniquity of the computed by dividing the total of annual salaries
anonymous review," he says, "especially when it is by the number of volumes issued, has been the topic
written by the man who is persuaded that he is a of some recent writing and discussion. “ The Li-
great specialist on the subject. In all cases of brary World,” in its late outburst on the subject of
special knowledge the anonymous review is without
A
American library extravagance, assured us that
justification. ... While something may be said whereas in England the cost of circulation is three
for the anonymous critic so far as fiction and other farthings for each book, in this land of princely
,
large areas of book-reviewing are concerned, the salaries and lavish expenditure it is fivepence. Some
thing becomes an infamy where any special knowl- interesting comparisons under this head are to be
edge is required. . . . It [the signed review) would found in the current report of the Los Angeles
have the further advantage that it would make clear Public Library. It appears that in Boston it costs
to the public that a half-dozen reviews are all written almost seventeen cents to lend a book, in Chicago
by the same pen.
At present the innocent reader nine cents and one mill, in New York twenty-three
is apt to assume that these journals reflect six indi- cents and four mills, in Brooklyn eleven cents and
vidual views, whereas they are often the opinion | four mills, in Providence fourteen cents; but in
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was
thrifty Los Angeles only seven cents and five mills. CHAUCER AND THE “NEW THOUGHT”
Who will wonder that our British censor the first blush be deemed very widely separated
shocked (and the least bit touched with envy) at sundered, in fact, by some five centuries of time.
beholding the way we spend our public library Nevertheless, as it is a wholesome corrective of
funds ? If private circulating libraries can lend pride, whether spiritual or intellectual, to be re-
books at two cents a day each (the average loan minded every now and then of the antiquity and
being perhaps for six or eight days) and make staleness of our fancied up-to-dateness, it may be of
money at it, why should it cost a public library more benefit to turn to the 982d line of “The Romaunt
than two cents a day per volume, as it seems to in of the Rose," where we find that the fifth of the
some instances, to keep its books in circulation ? “fyve arowes of other gyse” held by the “ bachelere
ycleped Swete-Loking was named “the NEWE-
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY AS A BUREAU OF INFORM-
Thought.” It is to be regretted that the poet
ATION renders important service, whether or not
failed to enlarge on the nature and peculiarities of
strictly legitimate, to the community. The free
this “newe-thought,” but perhaps his very silence is
library of Cardiff is said to stand in the very fore-
a proof of its being too well-known to his contem-
front of progress in one respect: it has established
poraries to need description. The immediate con-
a telephone inquiry department, and, if one may
text, however, if any care to look up the passage,
credit the reports coming from the head librarian,
will be found to be rather significant and instructive.
the new departure has proved a great success. The
inquiries received cover a wide range of subjects,
conscription, cooperation, steam-boilers, hedge-hogs,
COMMUNICATION.
ladies' fans, old-age pensions, tailoring, and many
other more or less abstruse matters. Where the THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF LITERATURE
IN LIBRARIES.
question requires time for answering properly, the
questioner is rung up again, but many inquiries are
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
immediately answerable. Card-holders are enabled
I am sure that many working librarians have, like
myself, read with hearty approval the suggestion lately
to ascertain whether any desired book is available,
made in your journal, that beneficence toward libraries
and to order its reservation if it is at present out. might advantageously be directed toward the inside as
As sample questions the following are given : well as the outside of the institution; that the gift of
“ Number of Protestants and Roman Catholics in buildings might well be supplemented by occasional
Wales?” " What patents have been taken out for gifts of books that are worthy and desirable, but would
buffer springs ?” “Who wrote · Make new friends,
otherwise not be likely to be added to the collection.
but keep the old ?'" These were all answered. The
We already have many dignified library buildings
number of trivial and senseless questions that come
“ which are a credit to our fair city,” as the President
of the Board of Directors remarks on dedication day.
in over the wire is gratifyingly small.
But fuel and light and salaries cost a deal of money;
so do repairs and incidentals." The pitifully meagre
“
OF MAKING MANY BOOKS, we are told on high
residuum we may spend on books. First of all, we
must buy plenty of copies of the popular novels of the
authority, there is no end, and much study is a
day. They are often unobjectional and desirable, and
weariness of the flesh. The past year in the book
the taxpayer is justified in his clamor for them. But,
world has been one of energetic production and of alas! too often we have no money left with which to
comparatively languid demand for the product. “In purchase the Pennells' “ Whistler Lowell's “Gov-
my opinion," declares Mr. Gerald Duckworth, the ernment of England”; while that choice edition of
London publisher, “there are too many authors, too “Purchas his Pilgrimes” is simply out of the question,
many books published, and too
many publishers."
, evenhehomedet er en may bai hadat a great bargain
with
object of that splendid endowment,
avers another publisher, "and the public detected
Education Fund,” is “ to promote, systematize and make
effective the various forms of educational beneficence.”
the grinding of the machine.” Overproduction is,
On investigation the honorable gentlemen charged with
happily, a fault that tends to correct itself ; super- the disbursement of this fund might discover that many
fluous producers are crowded out, and only the fittest
a monumental public library is an institution rather
survive in the world of books as in that of shoes ineffective in the higher realms of culture. This is by
or pianos or any other necessities or luxuries. One no means the fault of librarians. Our expensive library
rather encouraging sign of the season, in London at machinery is in good working order. Librarians are
least, was the demand for a few books of worth and best pleased when it is working with the best of mate-
eminence— like Lord Morley's “Gladstone” in
rials. Most of us now refuse to deal with stuff that is
its less expensive edition and Queen Victoria's “Let positively shoddy. The popular demand is for goods
- works which are thought to have been at
of a passable quality, even if dyed in rather crude
any rate partly responsible for the lessened demand occasionally the more gracious silks and satins -- the
colors. Shall we not have an opportunity to handle
in other fields of literature. There might be a
finer and rarer products of literature ?
worse catastrophe than a falling-off in the desire for
Asa Don DICKINSON,
mechanical fiction and other machine-made books. Leavenworth, Kansas, March 3, 1909.
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tulee
later, Lieutenant Stairs, of Stanley's expedition,
The New Books.
attempted to ascend one of the great peaks, but
attained an altitude of only eleven thousand feet.
In 1905 some members of the British Museum
THE MOUNTAINS OF THE Moon.*
expedition reached a height of sixteen thousand
Commercial greed and political schemes no feet. It remained for the Duke of the Abruzzi,
longer play an important part in exploration. with a carefully prepared expedition, to ascend
The sand wastes of the Sahara, the rock wastes
the highest peaks, to map the configurations, to
of Tibet, the ice wastes around the Poles, the locate the watersheds which feed the Nile, to
jungles of Africa, and the vast expanses of determine the extent and the position of the
unexplored South America, offer very little glaciers, to note the fauna and the flora, and to
inducement to the mercenary spirit. But the lure dispel the mystery which had so long perplexed
of the unknown, the appeal of terra incognita, the makers of African geography.
the call of the wild, and the search for the curi.
A summary of the Duke's expedition might
ous, are as ever the strong determining factors lead the reader of this review to expect to find
that draw the venturesome to endure the perils the book replete with interesting, even thrilling,
and the hardships of the almost inconceivable details. This expectation will, however, be dis-
places on the earth. If the modern explorer appointed. Being engrossed with other affairs,
may draw a few new and definite geographical His Royal Highness was prevented from writing
lines, if he may determine the elevation of an the book, and turning over his journals to his
isolated mountain, and if happily he may dis- friend Cavaliere Fillipo de Filippi, he commis-
cover some new though worthless feature on the
sioned him to recount the affairs of the expedi-
globe, he is content. His mite of information tion. Hence the narrative comes to us at second
goes toward filling in some bare spots of geo- hand. Very unfortunately, too, Cavaliere de
graphical knowledge, though it brings no re- Filippi was not a member of the party, though
wards to the commercially minded or adds no he had on a former expedition been the Duke's
breadth to a king's domain.
companion. Had the explorer told his own
Such an explorer is Prince Luigi Amedeo of story, the book would no doubt have been more
Savoy, better known to fame and newspaper | lively in style and more vital in content. But
advertisement as H. R. H. the Duke of the
these unavoidable defects in the narrative by no
Abruzzi. As an explorer, his record includes
means disparage the intrinsic merit of the expedi-
the ascent of Mount St. Elias, the farthest north tion, which went forth, not for a story, but to
in Arctic exploration, and finally the actual discover and catalogue scientific data. And as
discovery of the mysterious legendary moun- a record of important scientific discovery, no
tains of Ptolemy - the Mountains of the Moon, possible fault can be found with the book.
in Equatorial Africa, upon the borders of Congo Setting out from Naples, on the sixteenth of
and Uganda. The account of this last expedi- April, 1906, the expedition began the African
tion is now given in the volume entitled “Ruwen- part of its journey at Mombasa in British East
zori,” the new name of the old mythical range | Africa, thence extended to Port Florence on
of mountains.
Lake Victoria, and finally arrived at Entebbe,
This mountain system holds a peculiar posi- the capital of Uganda. Fifteen days more of
tion in geographical history. Ptolemy, follow- travelling through equatorial swamps and jungles
ing the persistent native traditions, located the brought the party to the beginning of its work,
towering snowy range somewhere in the depths within sight of the icy peaks of Ruwenzori,
of central Africa. Generations of succeeding looming high above the tropic jungle and shed-
geographers have contented themselves with ding their glacial waters into the Nile. By
either accepting his shadowy statement or deny- September the object of the expedition had been
ing it. Stanley, in 1876, was the first white accomplished. The different peaks and glaciers
man to be near these mountains, but owing had been explored; the summits of two peaks,
to the fog and mist which almost perpetually each nearly seventeen thousand feet high, had
hang over them, he did not see the imposing been surmounted by the Duke, who planted an
sight. In 1888 Stanley saw the mountains, Italian flag on one of the peaks and an English
but made no exploration of them. One year flag on the other, and named them respectively
RUWENZORI. An Account of the Expedition of H. R. H.
Margherita and Alexandra, "in order that,
Prince Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of the Abruzzi. By Filippo under the auspices of these two royal ladies, the
de Filippi, F.R.G. S.; with Preface by H.R. H. the Duke of the
Abruzzi. Illustrated in color, etc. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. memories of the two nations may be handed down


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his poems.
to posterity — of Italy, whose name was the first sively critical about the facts of Chaucer's life,
,
to resound on these snows in a shout of victory, although he rejects Mr. Walter Rye's view that
and of England, which in its marvellous colonial Chaucer was a Norfolk man. At some points
expansion carries civilization to the slopes of these he draws freely upon his imagination — for ex-
remote mountains.”
ample in describing Chaucer's childhood ; yet
No reader of this book can possibly be dis- the result perhaps is plausible enough. Assum-
appointed with the many beautiful half-tone and ing that Chaucer was a perfectly normal boy,
photogravure plates made from photographs we may suppose that he did play games of ball,
taken by Cavaliere Vittorio Sella. We have bring his cock to fight in school on Shrove
never seen more remarkable panoramic pictures Tuesday, and indulge in football, “ leaping,
of mountain scenery than are here reproduced. dancing, shooting, wrestling, and casting the
H. E. COBLENTZ.
stone”; that he loitered along the busy Thames,
studying the sailors, and went in due time to a
grammar school, taking his turn under the rod
of the pedagogue. In the utter absence of facts,
CHAUCER AND HIS TIMES,*
this theory will answer well enough ; but we
In giving us a book on so inviting a theme
must bear in mind that it is only an a priori
as " Chaucer and his England,” Mr. Coulton theory. .
has attempted a most useful task, viz.: to fur-
In connection with Chaucer's married life,
nish some account of Chaucer the man, with
Mr. Coulton has some sensible if unromantic
very full description of the world in which he things to say about conjugal love in the four-
lived and some parts of which are reflected in
teenth century,
“ However apocryphal,” he
For two reasons a good book on
remarks, “ may be the alleged solemn verdict of
this subject is desirable. First, the measure of
a Court of Love that husband and wife had no
success attained by any literature or literary right to be in love with each other (why regard
work in interpreting life or a section of it can-
it as either apocryphal or solemn ?], the sentence
not be determined until the critic knows some-
was at least recognized as ben trovato; and
thing of the life presumably mirrored in the nobody who has closely studied mediæval society,
literature. Such a knowledge of the age of
either in romance or in chronicle, would suppose
Edward the Third is not easily accessible. With
that Chaucer blushed to feel a hopeless passion
many phases of the history of the period, the for another, or to write openly of it while he had
historians – Trevelyan, Oman, and others
a wife of his own." By implication, then, Mr.
have been busy; yet we know of no book of
Coulton assumes that the unrequited love which
similar compass from which one can learn so
had tortured Chaucer for eight years prior to
much of the private life of fourteenth-century 1366 (“Blaunche the Duchesse " 30 ff.) was an
England as one can from Mr. Coulton's. It is actual and not merely a conventional emotion.
well arranged; it is not overloaded with general
While this is possible, such an assumption, as
statements; the author .writes as a rule with Mr. Sypherd has shown, is by no means a safe
steady concentration, and is evidently much in-
one. Nor is the evidence" of unhappiness in
o
terested in his subject. His work, therefore, ,
his married life conclusive ; it would not be even
has not been done perfunctorily; his book is
if his literary allusions to wedded life were
fresh and stimulating.
uniformly (instead of “predominantly ") dis-
Secondly, even for those who read Chaucer respectful, for he was under no obligation to
not with a critical eye but merely for the sake
write autobiography, and even if he did allude
of knowledge or inspiration, a body of work
to actual unhappiness in his own life it may have
like his can be much better understood if studied been humorously exaggerated. Finally, are we
in connection with an informal running com-
warranted in taking the above lines as an allu-
mentary such as is afforded by this book. Mr. sion to a love experience, whether real or feigned?
Coulton has worked, of course, in a very different The poet himself puts it very vaguely; he can-
field from that of Dr. Root's “ Poetry of Chau-
not tell why he cannot sleep, etc. It is hard to
cer” or of Professor Tatlock's “ Development see why a real and actual experience should be
and Chronology of Chaucer's Works.” He has described in such vague terms. Did the poet
nothing to say of literary sources, theories of mean that the passage should be understood ?
authorship, or dates ; indeed, he is not exces-
Concerning the loss of Chaucer's position as
Clerk of the Works, in June, 1391, after a two-
year tenure of office, Mr. Coulton thinks it is
a
• CHAUCER AND HIS ENGLAND. By G. G. Coulton. Illus-
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a
difficult to resist the conviction that Chaucer for he smacks of all familiar comforts -- old friends, old
was by this time recognized as an unbusiness- books, old wine, and even, by a proleptic miracle, old
like person,” since at this time “we can find
cigars. “Here,'said Dryden,‘is God's plenty’;and Lowell
inscribed the first leaf of his Chaucer with that promise
nothing in the political situation to account for
which the poet himself set upon the enchanted gate of
the dismissal.” This is not impossible ; yet his · Parliament of Fowls'.
other alternatives suggest themselves. Until
** Through me men go into the blissful place
further evidence is forthcoming, Lounsbury's
Of the heart's heal and deadly woundës' cure;
Through me men go unto the well of Grace,
remarks ("Studies in Chaucer" i. 85 ff.) must
Where green and lusty May doth ever endure ;
suffice.
This is the way to all good aventure ;
We mention these points, not as of great
Be glad, thou Reader, and thy sorrow offcast,
All open am I, pass in, and speed thee fast.””;
importance in themselves, but as illustrating the
CLARK S. NORTHUP.
direction in which the book is weak. When the
author ventures far from the beaten path of
biography into the attractive by-ways of con-
jecture, he is not to be taken too seriously. The
THE CAMPAIGN OF SANTIAGO DE CUBA.*
chief value of the book lies in the fresh and
lifelike pictures it affords of society in town and
Colonel Herbert H. Sargent, of the United
country. . The streets of London, its environs, States Army, has told the story of the brief
its laws, the decay of the old chivalry and the campaign which speedily ended the war of 1898,
rise of an aristocracy of industry and wealth, accompanying his account, chapter by chapter,
child-marriages, the science of courtly love, the with the comments of a military critic. On the
Great War and the decline of knighthood, the practical side of military affairs, the author has
condition of the poor, the cost of books, the
seen twenty-five years of service, being now a
amusements of the time, the uncertainties of captain of cavalry in our regular establish-
justice, the corruption of the clergy, these ment, while in 1898 he was colonel of the Fifth
are among the topics vividly treated. The pic. Volunteer Infantry, and during 1899-1901 was
tures Mr. Coulton draws for us form capital lieutenant-colonel of the Twenty-ninth Volun-
backgrounds for the actions of Chaucer's poems.
teer Infantry which served in the Philippine
Moreover, they bring home to us how small a Islands. On the
theoretical side, he is a West
section of the life of his day is presented even
Point graduate who has always kept up special
in the whole body of Chaucer's works. His studies in military history, and is the author of
fundamental purpose in writing was to enter-
two volumes that have been favorably received
tain ; and however much he might sympathize both by military critics and readers in general,
with the poor and oppressed, their burden finds Napoleon Bonaparte's First Campaign " and
no record and elicits no outburst of sorrow or
“ The Campaign of Marengo.
indignation in his pages. For this we must go. The American public derived from the
to Langland (or the Langland group, if some
journalist-critics of 1898, and still retains, cer-
of our latest writers carry their point) and to tain general impressions as to the management
Gower. Yet Chaucer's limitations, consciously of our army during the brief war with Spain,
or unconsciously imposed, must not be men- and in particular as to the organization of the
tioned by way of reproach. Art is never super- Santiago expedition and the direction of that
fluous and ministers to humanity in one way as
little army in the field. These impressions were
charity does in another. If Chaucer chose to recorded in hasty but more permanent form in
restrict himself in his subject-matter, perhaps
a number of books turned out for popular con-
his work is in one sense ali the more valuable sumption immediately after the little war that
for this reason : his portrayal of a small section for a time made us feel so big. More recently
of life is all the more complete and perfect. they have been repeated, as if they were estab-
Mr. Coulton's concluding remarks may well be lished upon a sober historical basis, in Professor
repeated here:
Latané's volume on the decade 1897-1907
“ As it is, he stands the most Shakespearian figure in (“ America as a World Power") in the “ Amer-
English literature, after Shakespeare himself. Age can-
ican Nation" series. Now that ten years and
not wither him, nor custom stale his infinite variety. We more have passed, anyone who desires an unbi-
venerate him for his years, and he daily startles us with
ased verdict on the matter may be advised to
the eternal freshness of his youth. All springtide is here,
with its green leaves and singing-birds; aptly we read
consult Captain Sargent's work. Not that he
him stretched at length in the summer shade, yet almost
* THE CAMPAIGN OF SANTIAGO DE CUBA. By Herbert H. Sar.
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has constituted himself a defender of the War itself, are written in a clear and pleasing style,
Department as administered in 1898, or of and the work is an enjoyable one to read. The
General Shafter in Cuba. His is no “ official” twelve sketch-maps scattered throughout are
account of the war at all. But he apparently
But he apparently very useful, and there is an index which, as
believes that in the main the War Department regards the proper names involved, is good.
and the Army staff corps met the situation Volume III. also has a string of appendices,
about as well as could have been expected under most of them documents regarding the Spanish
all the circumstances, and that on the whole the troops in Cuba, obtained in the main from
land attack on Santiago was pretty well con- Spanish official sources. They are especially
ducted, considering the conditions that had to be interesting as revealing the small number of
met. Doubtless many who have given these Spaniards engaged in the combats at Caney
matters some study will feel that the note of and San Juan. Captain Sargent went to some
criticism is not sufficiently heard in Captain trouble in this respect; one wonders the more
Sargent's volumes; that he has been somewhat that he does not seem to have consulted Spanish
too complaisant both with the lack of preparation and other foreign unofficial sources on the war,
and with the actual conduct of the skirmishes of which a good number were published in 1898
outside of Santiago that have been called and the succeeding few years.
He does not
“ battles.” Conceding this to be the case, it append a bibliography, which is certainly de-
remains true that he has come much nearer to sirable in such a work; but from his footnotes
expressing the sober verdict of history upon and appendices it is apparent that he has trusted
these events than have the writers whose aim almost entirely to American sources official
was partisan or sensation-seeking, or who have reports and other writings. In several places
viewed them with entire lack or disregard of he has drawn from the Spanish officers, Gómez
perspective.
Núñez and Müller y Tejeiro, translations from
The engagements outside of Santiago have whose treatises were published in a government
been called “skirmishes" above; they would bulletin at Washington ; and in Appendix F he
have assumed the status of mere “outpost af- speaks of them as “the only accessible Spanish
fairs ” in any real battle, — quite as this little authorities on the subject.” To be sure, most
Santiago campaign would, in a great war, of the Spanish writings on the war in 1898 and
speedily have sunk to the level of mere incident. 1899 were put out for partisan purposes, or were
The defects due to lack of preparation, the mis- otherwise of a very sensational character. Yet
takes made, the complaints of soldiers as to even the most ephemeral of these pamphlets has
treatment and sickness during and after the some value as showing what was the state of
campaign, are to be considered in this light; affairs among the Spaniards; and no final his-
and Captain Sargent has the perspective of a tory can be written from one side alone. More-
student of military history. Just from the over, there are in Spanish and French several
standpoint of historical perspective, however, treatises on the war, which have some value.
one may offer a leading criticism, viz., that, con- Had he looked into the literature from that side,
sidering the relative unimportance (except in Captain Sargent would not have placed so much
results) of the events treated, this history of stress on the mere numerical force of the Spanish
them bulks unduly large. Not that the author army in Cuba as it appeared on paper. Lack
goes too much into minutiæ. The naval opera- of equipment and care, especially medical care,
tions, which really decided the war, occupy a corruption in regard to pay and supplies, like-
good deal of space, even apart from their direct wise the climate, had all played a part in making
connection with the Santiago campaign. A con- it, effectively, a force very inferior to the veteran
siderable part of the first volume is devoted to army he supposes to have been under Blanco's
the strategical problems as they appeared at the
orders. Nevertheless, the criticisms passed upon
outset of the war; and the - Comments," which the failure to concentrate more men at Santiago,
deal primarily with questions of strategy and
and to meet the situation with more energy and
tactics, sometimes are longer than the text of greater initiative, would hardly be modified in
the chapters to which they are appended. This their essentials. Indeed, such criticisms would
involves a good deal of duplication, sometimes in some respects be strengthened by reference
in connection with matter that seems either ele- to the Spanish sources, showing the conduct of
mentary or very obvious.
affairs in Cuba as it appeared from the inside.
Yet the author's comments, like the narration
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to have his way with some condensing and re-
THE NEWEST FAUST.*
arrangement, until after the Easter music,
When it was announced that Mr. Stephen when Faust, recalled from his suicidal attempt,
Phillips was at work on the Faust theme, read- remembers that seeking the light he has not yet
ers of Goethe wondered what the result would called upon darkness. He raises the sign of
be, — whether an original drama based on the the hexagon, speaks his formula ; a flame leaps
old legend, or Goethe's “Faust” adapted to the in the hollow of the chimney, followed by a
English stage. The book turns out to be neither. vapor from which emerges the form of his future
The joint authors (for Mr. Phillips has collabo- friend and tempter. The Easter walk and the
rated with Mr. J. Comyns Carr) state on the poodle are thus entirely dispensed with except
title-page that their work is “freely adapted a few lines which for their poetry's sake are
from Goethe's dramatic poem.' The extreme woven in here and there out of their original con-
freedom of the adaptation strikes the reader at nection. The compact is soon made, the student
first glance. After turning a few pages he re- is disposed of in a few lines, and, accompanied
calls Faust's sarcastic directions to Wagner for by a roll of thunder, the pair are whisked away
gaining the ear of the public : “Sitzt ihr nur to emerge in "a world of cloud and vapour.”
immer! Leimt zusammen, Braut ein Ragout von
When the clouds have disappeared, we do not
andrer Schmaus.” The ragout which has been find the two travellers in Auerbach's Keller or
brewed in the present instance is made of bits the Witches' Kitchen, but on a ledge of rock
taken here and there from both parts of the looking into a deep torn fissure in the earth, in
German original, stirred up with other bits pro- whose depths is the Witches' Cavern. In a
vided by the adapters.
neighboring hollow of the rock
The intention was obviously so to improve
“ 'Tis said that once ere Eden's lawns had flowered
upon Goethe's poem by rearrangement, omis-
The Mother of the Mother of the world
sions, and additions that the resulting " adapta-
Lay hidden."
tion” would make an effective stage play for Now it serves as background for “ a vision of a
Mr. Beerbohm Tree. No one can blame Mr. figure nearly nude and draped by the growth of
Tree for wishing to emulate Henry Irving by leaves about her form, in which she seems partly
adding a Mephisto to his achievements.
incorporate." Faust drinks the witches '
cup,
stage manager he has as many “ machines " and thunder crashes, there is a blinding flash of
“prospects” as Goethe's Director, and what lightning, after which the rejuvenated Faust
better use could he put them to than to make
stands forth clad in rich garments. Mephis-
them serve him as actor in the rôle of the Devil ? | topheles with a red glow upon his face, and the
Reports from London confirm that neither poet witch surrounded by her Attendant Apes,”
”
nor actor were mistaken in their estimate of a join in a wild dance, when the curtain falls.
new Faust as a theatrical success.
This analysis of the first act will serve to
A glance at the contents will show the method show the method of the adapters. Goethe has
employed. The prologue is retained, but the
been retained where he conforms with the end
scene is changed from the original heaven to in view; where not, new matter has been sub-
“a range of mountains between Heaven and
stituted. The purpose of the new “Faust” is
Earth.” Mephistopheles, as
the Satan of manifestly an attempt so to simplify and unify
Scripture, makes his wager, not with the Lord, the “Faust” of Goethe that it will not make
but with an angel “sent down from bliss.” The too great a demand upon the intelligence and
divine messenger assures Mephistopheles of the
culture of the theatre-going public of to-day.
futility of his attempts against Faust, who
To carry out this purpose, it was necessary to
“ through the woman-soul at last shall win,"
sacrifice the more subtle ideas of the poet's
prophecy clothed in the famous closing words philosophy; for what does the modern theatre-
of Part Second. At the end of the prologue goer care about the ethical content which the
the machines and prospects have a chance : great world-poet put into the foolish old legend ?
Mephistopheles, amid thunder and darkness,
It is the realism of the love story and the dia-
" with wings outspread swoops suddenly like
blerie which appeal to him. The Weltschmerz
lightning downwards to the earth.”
of Faust finds no echo within his breast. Hence
At the beginning of Act I. Goethe is allowed the soliloquies and other passages in which Faust
gives expression to his trouble have been either
omitted or greatly condensed. As a result the
By Stephen Phillips and J. Comyns Carr. New York: The
rôle of the hero has been so much reduced that
As a
Faust.
Freely Adapted from Goethe's Dramatic Poem.
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it serves for but little more than the occasion
RECORDS OF AN INSPIRING LIFE.*
for Margaret's love and Mephisto's magic.
The spectacular side of the adaptation can-
The ancients, far from asserting the essential
not fail to satisfy the most insatiable appetite equality of men, were ever prone to exalt and
for 6 thrills.' As the adapters had it in their even deify possessors of the strong arm or the
power to improve the unity of the action, one
Whether or not modern man
cunning brain.
would naturally expect a minimizing of the
is inherently more variable than his ancestors
a
Walpurgis-nacht. But no; here was too good of a few thousand years ago, may be a matter
an opportunity for carpentry and colored lights. for dispute ; but for practical purposes he is so,
The very stage directions make the reader social inheritance having placed in his hands
shudder. There is thunder and lightning and
the means of accentuating his peculiarities to an
a raging wind. On separate peaks witches are extraordinary degree. On the other hand, the
posted as sentinels, the crags and mountain tops spread of democracy and education, the mixing
are filled with shadowy forms whose voices echo of peoples and the diffusion of literature, have
across the gulf. Mephistopheles asks his compan-
had and are having an equalizing tendency
ion, “Would'st know my power ?” whereupon the value of which, for good or evil, cannot yet
“ the rocks have sundered and fallen. Uprooted be estimated. So far as human diversity has
trees have crashed into the abyss, and the moun-
hitherto depended upon inequality or even dif-
tain across the gulf has been so shattered as to
ference of opportunity or experience, it may be
leave a vast cavern in its side." Mephisto im- expected to decrease in the future; so far as
mediately finds use for the new-made cavern as a
it has depended upon inborn traits, it may be
Fitting stage whereon we 'll summon for thy amorous - expected to increase with the enlargement of
glance
the field of endeavor and the mass of material
From out their scattered tombs those Queens of Love ready to the hand of the worker. Of these two
Whom Time hath still left peerless.”
tendencies, the first cannot be regarded as an
Some young witches now draw Faust with unmixed blessing, for some of the finest fruits of
chains of flowers to a convenient spot for be-
the human mind are closely connected with the
holding the pageant of beauty produced for his concentrated effects of a limited environment;
benefit, Helen of Troy, Cleopatra preceded while the second may prove to be decreased by
by Egyptian dancing girls, and finally Messa-
the mixing of peoples and consequent diffusion
lina, “ passion’s ungrudging slave." Is Goethe's
of special traits, or spoiled by the combination of
6 etude in the uncanny and the gross” improved incongruous elements. The recognition of the
by this interpolation ?
fact that mankind is half-unconsciously entering
However much the lover of Goethe may
upon a gigantic experiment of uncertain outcome
resent these tamperings, he'must admit that the does not come from the pessimists, but from
work of Mr. Phillips and Mr. Carr has its those ultra-optimists who are quixotic enough
merits. The two collaborators have succeeded
to believe that he may be led to appreciate the
admirably with the blank verse which they have situation, and, with the aid of science, find a
,
substituted for the original metres. Many of
way to a successful solution.
the added lines, also, have undeniable beauty,
To those who have any measure of this faith
and a portion of the love tragedy has been ren- or hope, the life of Lord Kelvin cannot be other-
dered into prose which grips through its simple wise than inspiring. When ability and oppor-
pathos. But is a poet of Mr. Phillips's attain- tunity combine as they did in this instance, the
ments justified in laying violent hands upon one benefits to humanity may be enormous.
.
If the
of the world's masterpieces in order to provide complexity of our social relations is involving us
an ambitious actor-manager with a suitable in ever-increasing difficulties, we find here some
vehicle for his talents ? A sentence from a
reason to hope that Davids will be found to lay
German critic concerning a recent adaptation them low. The greatest danger is, no doubt,
of “Faust” for the stage is apropos :
66 Culture
also has its commandments, and one of these is services.
that we may not have the sense to accept their
respect. He who does not see it and will not
In the case of Lord Kelvin or William
see it helps to make art the helpless plaything Thomson, as he then was
Thomson, as he then was — recognition came
of artistic caprice, which is its destruction. All
early. The excellent little book before us, writ-
admirers of Goethe must regret that the cen-
ten by Kelvin's successor in the chair of Natural
tenary of his greatest work has been marked by Philosophy at Glasgow, cites numerous instances
no more significant result than this English
version.
* LORD Kelvin. By Andrew Gray. "English Men of Sci-
ELLEN C. HINSDALE.
ence" Series. With portraits. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.
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of the wonder and expectation aroused by his the experiments was often relegated to the last day or
early performances. When he took his degree,
two of the session. So after an hour's lecture Thomson
would say, • As this is the last day of the session, I will
one examiner remarked to the other (both being
go on for a little longer, after those who have to leave
distinguished men), “ You and I are just about
have gone to their classes. Then he would resume
fit to mend his pens.” At the age of twenty- after ten o'clock, and go on to eleven, when another
five he was appointed professor in the University opportunity would be given for students to leave, and
of Glasgow; we find in the book a portrait of
the lecture would be again resumed. Messengers would
be sent from his house, when he was wanted for busi-
him taken at this time, showing a face quite in
ness of different sorts, to find out what had become of
keeping with the most romantic ideals of genius. him, and the answer brought would be, hour after hour,
At that time it was customary to teach the prin- • He is still lecturing.' At last he would conclude about
ciples of dynamics and electricity, so far as they
one o'clock, and gently thank the small and devoted
were then understood, by means of lectures ; | prolonged attention.”
band who had remained to the end, for their kind and
but the idea of experimental work had scarcely
This is no place for a summary of Lord
dawned upon the minds of the authorities. The
Kelvin's achievements, nor is it worth while to
apparatus was scanty and ancient, and the avail-
describe more minutely the contents of Professor
able quarters wholly inadequate. It was not
Gray's book; but it may be recommended as an
without some alarm, evidently, that the com-
excellent condensed account of the life and labors
mittee of the faculty listened to the demands
of one of the most remarkable men of this or
of the young professor ; but he tried to be as
T. D. A. COCKERELL.
reasonable as he could, while they, even in their any other time.
official statement, could not forbear allusion to
their “anticipations of his future celebrity.”
The ardor with which Thomson carried on
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
his work was as remarkable as his genius in
planning it. Everyone about the place was
Musical biography is a difficult task.
Our greatest
called upon to help, even visiting scientists from musical genius.
To write technically about music is
other institutions. As an example of his methods
to render oneself unintelligible to all
under stress of circumstances we are given the
but musicians; to attempt descriptive writing about
musicians is to run the risk of rhapsodizing ; to try
following. It was a question of making and
what
may
be called the emotional analysis of music
testing certain newly invented batteries :
is often to challenge ridicule. In writing the Life
“A supply of sheet lead, minium, and woollen cloth of Edward MacDowell, Mr. Lawrence Gilman con-
was at once obtained, and the whole laboratory corps of fesses that, in his survey of one whose art is still of
students and staff were set to work to manufacture sec-
to-day, he has been keenly conscious of the fact that
ondary batteries. A small Siemens-Halske dynamo posterity has an inconvenient habit of reversing the
was telegraphed for to charge the cells, and the ventil-
ating steam-engine of the University was requisitioned judgments delivered upon creative artists by their
to drive the dynamo during the night. Thus the Uni-
contemporaries. It is needless to say that the crit-
versity stokers and engineer were put on double shifts;
ical estimates which he has offered have been set
the cells were charged during the night and the charging
down with deliberation. Edward Alexander Mac-
current and battery-potential measured at intervals. Dowell (he discarded the middle name toward the
Then the cells were run down during the day, and their end of his life), was born in New York, December
output measured in the same way. Just as this began, 18, 1861. His artistic tendencies were inherited
Thomson was laid up with an ailment which confined from his father, a man of genuine æsthetic instincts.
him to bed for a couple of weeks or so; but this led to
While but fifteen years of age he studied at the
no cessation of the laboratory activity. On the con-
Paris Conservatory, under Marmontel in piano and
trary, the laboratory corps was divided into two squads,
one for the night, the other for the day, and the work
under Savard in theory and composition, and later
of charging and discharging, and of measurement of
In 1896 his record
with Heymann at Frankfort.
expenditure and return of energy went on without inter- as a musician and composer was such that he was
mission. The results obtained during the day were offered the professorship of music at Columbia
taken to Thomson's bedside in the evening, and early in University, the committee who had the appointment
the morning he was ready to review those which had in charge announcing the consensus of their opinion
been obtained during the night and to suggest further to be that he was “the greatest musical genius that
questions to be answered without delay.”
America has produced.” MacDowell's ideals were
Another example is given in connection with lofty, and he dreamed of a relationship between
his lecture course.
university instruction and a liberal public culture
“The closing lecture of the ordinary course was
which was not to be realized in his time. Using
usually on light, and the subject which was generally the
the observation more as a definition than an enco-
last to be taken up - for as the days lengthened in mium, the author points out that throughout the
spring, it was possible sometimes to obtain sunlight for entire body of MacDowell's work he presents the
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men
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A French
translator
classics.
noteworthy spectacle of a radical without extrava- ited Sofia last year, how he succeeded in finding
gance, a musician at once in accord with and de- the Revolutionary Committee which had the direc-
tached from the dominant artistic movement of his tion of the insurrection in Macedonia, and in getting
day. As a corollary, Mr. Gilman says: “He had himself attached to one of the chetas - little bands
not the Promethean imagination, the magniloquent which make sallies far into the enemy's country,
,
passion, that are Strauss's; his art is far less elabo- and do duty as organizers, messengers, spies, fighters,
rate and subtle than that of such typical moderns as occasion demands. Mr. Smith was privileged to
as Debussy and d’Indy. But it has an order of help perform all the functions mentioned, to spend
beauty that is not theirs, an order of eloquence that some time in the company of Madame Tzveta Bojova,
is not theirs, a kind of poetry whose secrets they do the Bulgarian Joan of Arc, and to get a pretty clear
not know; and there speaks through it and out of it idea of the Balkan difficulty, or at least of the Bul-
an individuality that is persuasive, lovable, unique.” garian side of it. The little Bulgarian state, with
MacDowell died January 23, 1908, and his remains a population of 4,000,000, has an army of 400,000
are buried at his old home, Peterboro, New Hamp- - the best fighters in southeastern Europe –
shire. The biography is published by John Lane Co. and has succeeded in every one of her large enter-
A dissertation for the Doctor's degree prises thus far: has annexed Eastern Roumelia, has
forced Servia and Greece to keep their hands off,
of English
is not always eminently satisfactory
when judged from the point of view
has seized the Orient Railway, and has made herself
of the general reader, but Doctor Mary Gertrude entirely independent of Turkey. In the meantime,
Cushing's thesis on Pierre Le Tourneur, published
by garia, and for the most part of the same blood, has
Macedonia, of about the same population as Bul-
the Columbia University Press (Macmillan), is one
of the most readable contributions to literary history
wasted her energies in trying to throw off the Otto-
that have appeared recently. Pierre Le Tourneur
man yoke, and is in a pitiful state of misery and
unrest.
was one of the most useful of eighteenth-century
Mr. Smith found the Bulgars and Mace-
French writers, although he is pretty well forgotten friendly and sympathetic people (where the Turks,
donians a childlike, generous, and delightfully
now, in France as elsewhere. His versions of Young, Greeks, and Serbs are not concer
Hervey, Ossian, and Shakespeare were the best fruit
cerned), enthusiastic
of a movement that stirred literary France to a con-
admirers of America, and inclined to copy her in
sciousness of her great lack. French literature was
some directions where she is perhaps not the best of
models — in the matter of political activities, for
dead, and it required an infusion of foreign blood
to bring it to life. It is interesting to study the example. The story is elaborately illustrated with
methods of a translator of two hundred years ago
photographs, and supplemented with two excellent
through the spectacles of this brilliant young
maps, one showing the whole Balkan region, and
“Doctoress,” — his readiness to add, subtract, alter,
the other giving such a detailed view of eastern
Macedonia as can be found in no ordinary atlas.
his painstaking readjustment of parts, his calm con-
fidence in the value of his work though Voltaires
There is more of hardy adventure
vilified and La Harpes hooted, his patient devotion
and hair-breadth escape from thrill-
of a life to a rather thankless task, for there is animals. ing danger in “ The Life of a Fossil
truth as well as cleverness in Miss Cushing's adapta- Hunter " (Holt), by Mr. Charles H. Sternberg, than
tion, “The way of the translator is hard.” Le in many an account of live-animal hunting in tropi-
Tourneur's knowledge of English was far from cal jungle or amid northern snows; and the book
perfect, as is shown by his transformation of the also has a scientific, a paleontological, interest not
scientist Sparrman’s statement (in view of his possessed by the ordinary hunting narrative. Mr.
employment as tutor to a family who lived among Sternberg's is a name held in merited honor among
the Hollanders at the Cape), “ I had made shift to paleontologists. Professor Osborn of the American
pick up a little German on my journey from Museum of Natural History calls him “the oldest
Gottenburg,” into " Je m'étais attaché avec beaucoup living representative of this distinctively American
de peine un petit Allemand.” However, his judg- profession" of fossil-hunting although, it should
ment was better than his scholarship. He knew be added, he is not yet much beyond the half-
what Frenchmen would read, and if his Shakespeare century mark, and ought, with his enthusiastic devo-
is not ours he is at least a dilution that gave his tion to his calling, to make science still further his
countrymen a taste for something more vital and debtor than she is already. As it is the handi-
vigorous than their native writers had been furnish- capped that often win in the race of life, so we find
ing them.
Mr. Sternberg crippled by an unlucky fall in child-
Mr. Arthur D. Howden Smith has hood, and otherwise hampered by obstacles that
A crv from
given us an interesting account of would have dampened a less glowing ardor at the
his Macedonian experiences, under outset. It is the overcoming of these obstacles and
the title “Fighting the Turk in the Balkans" (Put the triumphing in spite of them that gives so human
nam). Discussion of the merits of the Near Eastern and absorbing an interest to his very real and event-
Question is secondary and incidental; Mr. Smith ful narrative. The details of excavations in the
has undertaken little more than to tell how he vis- chalk fields of Kansas, in the Bad Lands of the
A hunter
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Ibsen and
Upper Cretaceous region with Professor Cope, in portrait goes far toward atoning for its lateness of
the Oregon Desert, in the Red Beds of Texas, and appearance. The eloquent and lovable and thor-
elsewhere throughout the great West, are of interest oughly human teacher of the multitudes that used on
to the specialist and far from uninteresting to the Sundays to throng Central Music Hall in Chicago
general reader. By his imaginative power and his is most engagingly presented in the fair pages of
re-creative faculty the author makes the dead past this attractive octavo. The comparatively humble
of five million years ago live again, being furtherorigin of the man, his simple, almost Spartan-like
more aided in this by the excellent “restorations” upbringing, his determination to get an education in
that mingle with the abundant photographic repro- spite of insufficient means, his inward call to the
ductions of fossil specimens. Many visitors to ministry, a call obeyed with much diffidence and
museums have seen his name attached to specimens self-doubting, his growth in greatness of soul, and
and collections that owe their discovery and preser- his final bursting of the bonds of creed and the
vation to his industry. The honor of it all he rightly trammels of dogma, — all this, and more, is well
insists on enjoying, even at some sacrifice of pecu- recounted by Mr. Newton. As a characteristic
niary returns in many instances. In closing his utterance of Professor Swing's, and as defining his
book the author devoutly gives thanks that he has attitude in a certain great crisis of his life, let us
“raised up a race of fossil hunters” in sturdy sons quote these words from one of his sermons : “It
who will carry on his work after he is dead. has easily come to pass that the most useless and
forlorn men on earth have been the professional
The special merit of “Henrik Ibsen: heresy-hunters. Living for a certain assemblage of
his work.
The Man and his Plays” (Mitchell words, as a miser lives for his labeled bags of gold,
Kennerley), by Mr. Montrose J. they have always left their souls to go dressed in
Moses, is the thoroughness with which it reflects rags and to die of famine in sight of the land of
the recent literature of the subject. Mr. Moses has milk and honey." To readers of THE DIAL, at
availed himself of pretty nearly everything acces- least to its older readers, Swing as a writer is no
sible, and has drawn upon the vast mass of material stranger; some of his best essays, notably that on
with intelligent judgment, skilfully constructing for Dante, first appeared in its columns. The life and
us a portrait of Ibsen, as the man is revealed in the work of a man who, as his biographer observes, may
work of his previous biographers, in his own corre- fairly be classed with Beecher and Phillips Brooks,
spondence, and in his writings. The book is much cannot be lacking in human and spiritual interest.
füller and better than the sketchy production of Mr. Newton has well filled a gap in our biographical
Mr. Gosse, and it has, of course, an advantage over literature.
Jæger's standard biography in covering Ibsen's
We are told by Sister Nivedita (Miss
whole life, and in possessing the many facts that
of Hinduism.
Margaret E. Noble), the compiler
have come to light since his death. Ibsen is studied
and narrator of “Cradle-Tales of
throughout the work as a product of his environ- Hinduism " (Longmans), that we are here offered a
a
”
ment, and the plays are shown to be logically related collection of genuine Indian nursery tales, and that
to the conditions, both social and temperamental, in bringing them together she has preferred the
which preceded their composition.” Mr. Moses has story received by word of mouth to that found in
also a just sense of the relative values of Ibsen's the books." The stories are the old, old tales of
works, and knows perfectly well that “Brand” Hinduism -- those of the Mahabharata, the Bhagavat
and “ Peer Gynt" will be reckoned great literature Purana, and the Ramayana. Some come from less
when “Ghosts” and “A Doll Home ” are only lofty sources, and are really popular village tales.
curiosities of the history of culture. A very large All exhibit the wildest Indian fancy and reflect the
amount of bibliographical material is given, and Hindu psychology. A cycle of ten Krishna stories
hardly anything of importance, in the way of criti- perhaps represents the narrator at her best. Through
cism or of translation, seems to have been missed. all the stories there runs a strain of sadness and a
But the author has not discovered the very remark- certainty of impending doom. Figure after figure
able translations of Ibsen's poems by Mr. Percy comes upon the scene to play an automatic part only
Shedd. In connection with each of the plays, we to suffer a destined fate. Sister Nivedita is partic-
have not only a bibliographical note, but also the ularly impressible to this fatalistic note, and over-
chief facts about its first performance in several emphasizes it in her work — by selection, indeed,
— ,
countries. Altogether, Mr. Moses has made a useful rather than by magnification. The collection is
book, adequate in scholarship and sound in judgment. good and the stories are well narrated, though Sister
Nivedita continues ever on the same minor strain,
It is nearly fifteen years since David never rising to heights of passion or sinking to
biography of a Swing died in what should be the depths of despair. Notwithstanding her sympathy,
great preacher.
prime of a man's life, the age of her contact with the Indian life, and her native
sixty-four; and only to-day do we have his full and helpers, she never loses herself in the story; she is
formal biography. “David Swing: Poet-Preacher" always outside of it, conscious of the part of narrator,
(Unity Publishing Co.), from the pen of the Rev. always looking at her tale as a curio to be studied or
Joseph Fort Newton, by its excellence as a character a parable with a meaning.
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Dr. David M. R. Culbreth, an alum-
Student days at
Their subjects cover the chief fields of science, history,
the University nus of the University of Virginia, has and philosophy, and the treatment is made attractive
of Virginia.
written an interesting account of his
without too great a concession to the tastes of a popular
life as a student at the University, with sympathetic
audience. Among the more notable lectures are the
“ Mathematics ” of Professor Keyser, the “ Biology
personal sketches of the members of the faculty
of Professor Wilson, the “ History” of Professor Rob-
during the period of his attendance — 1872–7.
inson, the
Jurisprudence” of Professor Smith, the
The volume is published, with a number of illustra-
Philosophy” of President Butler, and the “ Sociology
tions, by the Neale Publishing Co., Washington, of Professor Giddings.
,
D. C. It is a good sign when a graduate of an A recent addition to the Messrs. Scribners' “ Draw-
institution of learning preserves so long his affection ings of the Great Masters” series illustrates the draughts-
and loyalty toward his alma mater. It is evident manship of Antoine Watteau. A critical foreword by
that the author of this book fully imbibed the spirit M. Octave Uzanne points out the masterly quality of
of the university, which has been tersely character- the drawings, besides characterizing the finished work
ized by one of its most distinguished alumni, the of this matchless painter of coquetry, frivolity, enchant-
late Bishop Dudley, as “thoroughness and honor.”
ment, — belonging half to eighteenth century France and
In these days of depreciation of an old-fashioned
half to fairyland. There are fifty full-page drawings,
chosen from the collection in the Louvre and the Brit-
collegiate education and the exaltation of material
ish museum, reproduced in tint.
pursuits, it is refreshing to turn back to these rec-
A unique supplementary reader is offered by the
ords of over a quarter of a century ago. The early
American Book Company, under the title “ Chinese Fa-
chapters give an account of the founding of the
bles and Folk Stories." Miss Mary Hayes Davis un-
university by Thomas Jefferson, whose “ lengthened earthed and translated the stories, with some assistance
shadow" is still seen in its organization, although from the Rev. Chow Leung; thereby upsetting the ac-
aliquantum mutatus ab illo. A series of such vol- cepted theory that the Chinese had no fables. An intro-
umes would give opportunity for a comparative duction by the professor of the Chinese language at
history of educational institutions, and would be a Chicago University attests to Miss Davis's right to the
valuable contribution to the history of education in
honor of having discovered the Chinese fable to the
this country
Western world.
Under the skilled editorship of Mr. A. T. Quiller-
Couch, the Oxford University Press has begun publi-
cation of a “Select English Classics" series, intended
BRIEFER MENTION.
primarily, we suppose, for school use. The first titles
to be issued, some twenty-five in number, range over
The Macmillan Co. publish “A Commentary on the the whole field of English literature, each book consist-
Holy Bible by Various Writers," under the editorship ing of thirty-two or forty-eight pages of selections from
of the Rev. J. R. Dummelow. This is a single-volume a single writer, with a brief introduction in which Mr.
work of more than a thousand pages, with an extensive Quiller-Couch
manages to
say the necessary things in an
list of contributors from both sides of the water. It interesting way, without intruding the obvious. Liter-
gives us a series of about thirty essays of a general ature in tabloid form was never made more attractive
character, which precede the commentary proper.
A than in this series.
few maps are furnished, but no other illustrations. This Charles Wells was born in London in the last
year
work is published at a very moderate price, and should of the eighteenth century. He died in 1879, at Mar-
prove widely useful to clergymen, teachers, and the seilles. At the age of twenty-four he wrote, and pub-
laity.
lished pseudonymously, a poem entitled “ Joseph and
“Utopian Papers," edited by Miss Dorothea Hollins,
his Brethren: A Scriptural Drama." This is not a
comes to us from Messrs. Masters & Co., London. It taking title, and it is not surprising that the public paid
is a collection of nine popular essays having for their slight attention to a book thus named. Many years
common purpose the discovery of “the resources of con- later, it was rediscovered by three men whose opinions
temporary science and literature, art and religion, avail- counted: namely, by Rossetti, Mr. Theodore Watts, and
able for the regeneration of our cities and their inhab- Mr. Swinburne. They insisted that it was a great poem,
itants." Among the titles are « Sir Thomas More and Mr. Swinburne wrote of it in terms of glowing
Redivivus,” “ Chelsea, Past and Present,” “Comte's praise in “ The Fortnightly Review” of 1875. The
View of the Future of Society,” “Goethe,” and “ Indian next year, the aged author had the satisfaction of see-
Thought.” The papers are really lectures given before ing his work in a new edition, with Mr. Swinburne's
“ the Utopians," a small group of ardent souls assembled essay. Somehow this edition found purchasers enough
in Chelsea.
to exhaust it, and of late years the book has been hard
Something over a year ago, a course of twenty-one to procure. The poem now comes to its own (whatever
public lectures was given by members of the faculty of that may prove to be) by reproduction as a volume of
Columbia University, each lecture being the effort of a the “World's Classics” of Mr. Henry Frowde. By
specialist to present in non-technical language the pres- way of prefatory matter, we are given Mr. Swinburne's
ent status and the outlook of his own department of essay, and some forty pages of mixed gossip and criti-
knowledge. These lectures were published separately cism, entitled “Rossetti and Charles Wells: A Remin-
in pamphlet form, and were thus given a considerable iscence of Kelmscott Manor," by Mr. Watts-Dunton.
circulation. A limited number of sets of these lectures All of these features, to say nothing of the poem itself,
have now been bound together, making an imposing certainly make a sufficiently generous shilling's worth
volume which should find its place in many libraries. ' of the book.
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verse.
torical manuscripts. His published works include « The
NOTES.
Continent of America: Its Discovery and Its Baptism,'
A new novel by " Frank Danby,” author of “The “Charlecote; or, The Trial of William Shakespeare,'
Heart of a Child” and “Pigs in Clover,” will be pub- “ Little Speeches,” “ The Cabotian Discovery,” “Chris-
lished next month by the Macmillan Co.
topher Columbus: His Life, His Work, His Remains,"
The “ Republic of Plato,” in a new translation by Mr.
and “Outlines of the French Revolution Told in Auto-
A. D. Lindsay, is published in an attractively-printed
graphs.”
edition by Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Co.
Dr. William Bradley Otis's critical study of Amer-
We are glad to note that the late Francis Thomp-
ican Verse, 1625-1807,” to be issued at once by Messrs.
son's eloquent essay on Shelley, originally published in
Moffat, Yard & Co., is based upon a careful investigation
“ The Dublin Review,” will be given permanent form in
of the original editions in all the older American libra-
a volume soon to be issued by the Messrs. Scribner.
ries, and much of its material bas never before been
A new volume of essays by Mr. James Huneker, to
mentioned in any history or bibliography of American
The book will contain an exhaustive bibliog-
be called “Egoists,” and to include studies of such men
as Huysman, Anatole France, Max Stirner, etc., is one
raphy and a careful index.
of the most interesting of Messrs. Scribners' an-
A volume entitled “Characters and Events of Roman
History,” by Professor Guglielmo Ferrero, is announced
nouncements.
by the Messrs. Putnam. The book consists of a series
“A Satchel Guide for the Vacation Tourist in Europe"
is known to all travellers. The edition for 1909, pub- and of critical moments and events in Roman history.
of studies of the great men and women of ancient Rome,
lished by the Houghton Mifflin Co., is the thirty-eighth
annual reincarnation of this useful book, edited of late
These studies were originally delivered as lectures at
the Lowell Institute in Boston, at Columbia University
years by Dr. W. J. Rolfe.
in New York, and at the University of Chicago.
An " Introduction to Poetry” for the use of schoools
James A. Le Roy, secretary to William H. Taft in
is announced by Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. The au-
thor is Professor Raymond M. Alden of Stanford Uni-
the Philippines, and later American consul at Durango,
Mexico, died February 28, in the military hospital at
versity, whose "Specimens of English Verse” has been
long and favorably known in our colleges.
Fort Bayard, New Mexico. Mr. Le Roy contributed
numerous articles to the periodical press on matters re-
The lectures which Professor J. P. Mahaffy deliv-
lating to the Philippines. He was an occasional con-
ered late in 1908 and early in 1909 at the Lowell In-
tributor to The DIAL, the present issue containing one
stitute in Boston have been brought together into a vol-
of the last products of his pen.
ume entitled “What Have the Greeks Done for Civili-
A rare old periodical, “ The Southern Literary Mes-
zation?" and will be published by Messrs. G. P. Putnam's
Sons shortly.
senger," which reflected the literary life of the South
from 1834 to 1864, has recently been added, in a com-
Dr. William Ellery Leonard has done a notable se
plete set, to the library of the University of Texas,
vice to classical literature by publishing “The Fragments
through the generosity of Mr. H. P. Hilliard of St. Louis.
of Empedocles" in acceptable English verse, accompa- Few libraries and still fewer book-dealers can now point
nied by the original text. He provides an introduction,
to a full set of this interesting old magazine on their
a bibliography, and some twenty-five pages of notes.
shelves, and the institution at Austin is justified in tak-
This work comes from the Open Court Publishing Co.
ing pride in this acquisition.
Besides the long-delayed volume on Geofroy Tory, Popular editions of Marlowe and Ben Jonson, uni-
the Houghton Mifflin Company plan to issue this Spring
form with “ The Shakespeare Apocrypha " which Mr.
in their “ Riverside Special Editions” a reprint of Wal-
C. F. Tucker Brooke recently edited, are announced by
ton's "Compleat Angler," embodying some unique fea-
the Oxford University Press. The “ Marlowe ” is being
tures, and a collection of contemporary records of the
edited by Mr. Tucker Brooke and Professor Walter
great Boston fire of 1872, to be edited by Mr. Harold
Raleigh, and the “ Jonson” (which will, of course, fill
Murdock.
more than one volume) by Mr. Percy Simpson. As
Mr. DeMorgan writes his publisher, Mr. Holt, that already known, a library edition of Ben Jonson's Works,
he is still busily at work on the manuscript of his new edited by Professor C. H. Herford and Mr. Percy Simp-
novel which has been announced as “Blind Jim," al- son, has been in preparation at Oxford for some time.
though he himself does not care for this title, and will
A recent English note announcing that Mr. John Mur-
probably change to “ It Never Can Happen Again.” Mr.
ray was to undertake a “ Life of the Honorable Mrs.
DeMorgan says it will be longer than “ Joseph Vance”
Norton,” by Miss Alice Perkins, is American news by
“ Somehow Good.”
way of London, for Miss Perkins is a New Yorker, and
"A Library Encyclopædia,” to be issued by subscrip- after she had offered this manuscript to Messrs. Henry
tion, will, if the plan meets with enough encouragement, Holt Co. they arranged to publish it jointly with Mr.
be edited by Mr. Alexander Philip of the Gravesend Murray. Mrs. Norton, the author of “Kathleen Mav-
(Èngland) Public Library. The various articles will ourneen,” was a granddaughter of Sheridan, and with her
be written by “only the foremost authorities,” it is an- sisters, Lady Dufferin and the Duchess of Somerset,
nounced; and if the prospectus proves to be sufficiently made up the “ three graces " of Georgian society.
inviting to the library world, the work will make its
The Committee in charge of the Lincoln Centenary
appearance at the end of this year.
Celebration in Chicago have arranged with Messrs.
John Boyd Thacher, formerly a member of the New A. C. McClurg & Co. to bring out immediately in book
York State Senate, and Mayor of Albany, died in that form the more important addresses delivered during
city February 25, at the age of sixty-one. He was born the Centenary Week. The material will be prepared
in Balston and was a graduate of Williams College. under the supervision of Mr. N. W. MacChesney,
He was a collector of autographs, rare books, and his- Chairman of the Lincoln Centenary Committee, and
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the volume will be illustrated with portraits of the
distinguished speakers, photographs of the Lincoln
Monuments in Chicago, and reproductions of the bronze
plaques placed in the Chicago schools in commemora-
tion of the Centenary. The book can hardly fail to
prove both interesting and valuable.
The Rev. Dr. Theodore Ledyard Cuyler, well-known
as a Presbyterian clergyman and as a writer, died on
February 26 at his Brooklyn home, in his eighty-eighth
year. He was a graduate of Princeton College and of
the Princeton Theological Seminary, and from 1860 to
1890 was pastor of the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian
Church in the city where he died. He was prominent
in public life, and, in 1856, helped to organize the
Republican party. He was an indefatigable contrib-
utor to the periodical press, and the author of a long
list of books.
The London “Spectator” was one of the earliest mag-
azines to carry general advertising, and the recent pur-
chase of a complete file by Harvard University has
enabled Mr. Lawrence Lewis to make an interesting
study of this advertising, in a book to be published by
Houghton Mifflin Company this Spring. The volume
is called “The Advertisements of the Spectator: Being
a study of the Literature, History and Manners of Queen
Anne's England as they are reflected therein, as well
as an illustration of the Origins of the Art of Adver-
tising, with an Appendix of representative Advertise-
ments now for the first time reprinted.”
ANNOUNCEMENTS OF SPRING BOOKS.
THE DIAL's annual list of books announced for Spring
publication, herewith presented, forms an interesting epitome
of American publishing activities for the present Spring and
coming Summer. All the books here listed are presumably
new books — new editions not being included unless having
new form or matter. The omission from the present list of
any prominent publishers in the regular trade is due solely to
the fact that such publishers failed to respond to our requests
for data regarding their Spring books.
Great Actors of the Eighteenth Century, by Karl Mant-
zius, illus., $3.50 net.- French Men of Letters series,
new vol. : Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, by George
McLean Harper, with portrait, $1.50 net. (J. B.
Lippincott Co.)
Robespierre and the French Revolution, by Charles F.
Warwick, illus. from rare engravings, $2.50 net.-
American Crisis Series, new vols. : Stonewall Jackson,
by Henry Alexander White; John Brown, by W. E.
Burghardt DuBois; each with frontispiece portrait,
$1.25 net. (George W. Jacobs & Co.)
Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian
Science, by Georgine Milmine, $2. net.- Little Master-
pieces of Autobiography, edited by George Iles, 6 vols.,
with photogravure frontispiece, $4.50 net. (Double-
day, Page & Co.)
Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, by Sir Otto Tre-
velyan, enlarged and complete edition, including Ma-
caulay's Marginal Notes, in 2 vols., $5. ; in one vol.,
$2. (Harper & Brothers.)
Memoir of George Howard Wilkinson, Bishop of St. An.
drews, by Arthur James Mason, 2 vols., with portrait.
-Historical Letters and Memoirs of Scottish Catho-
lics, 1625-1703, by W. Forbes Leith, 2 vols., illus.-
The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck, a scandal of the
XVIIth century, by the author of "The Life of Sir
Kenelm Digby.' (Longmans, Green, & Co.)
Fair Women at Fontainebleau, by Frank Hamel, with
portraits, $3.50 net.-Fresh Fields and Green Pas-
tures, by Mrs. Panton, $3.50 net.-Nietzsche, bis life
and work, by M. A. Mügge, with etched portrait, $3.
net. (Brentano's.)
Queen Anne and her Court, by_P. F. William Ryan, 2
vols., illus., $6. net. (E. P. Dutton & Co.)
Some Eminent Victorians, by J. Comyns Carr, illus., $3.50
net.-The Sisters of Napoleon, by W.R. H. Trowbridge,
illus., $3.75 net. (Charles Scribner's Sons.)
George Borrow, by R. A. J. Walling, with frontispiece,
$1.75 net. (Cassell & Co.)
Life of Lincoln, by Henry C. Whitney, edited by Marion
Mills Miller, 2 vols., with portraits, $2.50 net.
(Baker & Taylor Co.)
Grover Cleveland, the Man, by Jesse Lynch Williams,
illus., 50 cts. net. (Dodd, Mead & Co.)
HISTORY.
History of the City of New York, by Mrs. Schuyler Van
Rensselaer, 2 vols.-Statistical and Chronological
History of the United States Navy, by Robert W.
Neeser, 2 vols.--Stories from American History, new
vol.---The Story of the Great Lakes, by Edward Chan-
ning and Marion F. Lansing, illus., $1.50.--History
of the State of Washington, by Edmond S. Meany. -
Social Life at Rome in the Age of Cicero, by w.
Warde Fowler, with maps and plans.- The Roman
Assemblies, by George W. Botsford.—History of the
New Testament Times in Palestine, by Shailer Math.
ews, new revised edition. (Macmillan Co.)
Original Narratives of Early American History, new vol :
Narratives of New Netherland, edited by J. F. Jame-
son, with maps and fac-simile reproductions, $3. net.
A History of Egypt, by James Henry Breasted, new
edition revised and enlarged, illus. and with new and
improved maps, $5. net.-Siena, the story of a mediæ-
val commune, by Ferdinand Schevill, illus., $2.50 net,
-History of Centemporary Civilization, by Charles
Seignobos, trans. by A. H. Wilde, $1.25 net.-France
since Waterloo, by W. Grington' Berry, illus., $1.50
net. (Charles Scribner's Sons.)
New Light on Ancient Egypt, by G. Maspero, $4. net.
(D. Appleton & Co.)
The Story of New Netherland, by William Elliot Griffis,
illus., $1.25 net.-Our Naval War with France, by
Gardner W. Allen, Illus., $1.50 net. (Houghton Mif.
flin Co.)
The_Romance of American Expansion, by H. Addington
Bruce, illus., $1.50 net.—The Apprenticeship of Wash.
ington, by George Hodges, $1.25 net. (Moffat, Yard
& Co.)
Progressive Pennsylvania, by James M. Swank, $5. net.-
The Third French Republic, by Frederick Lawton,
illus., $3.50 net. (J. B. Lippincott Co.)
The Foundations of the Nineteenth century, by Houston
S. Chamberlain, trans. from the German by John
Lees, with introduction by Lord Redesdale, 2 vols.,
$8. net. (John Lane Co.)
The Huguenots, Catherine de Medici and Philip the Sec-
ond, 1559-76, by James Westfall Thompson. (Uni-
versity of Chicago Press.)
Romances of the French Revolution, by G. Lenotre, 2
vols., illus., $6. net. (Brentano's.)
The Statesmanship of Andrew Jackson, as shown in his
writings and speeches, collected and edited by Francis
Newton Thorpe, $2.50. (Tandy-Thomas Co.)
The Death of Lincoln, by Clara E. Laughlin, illus., $1.50
net. (Doubleday, Page & Co.)
BIOGRAPHY AND REMINISCENCES.
The Life of Joan of Arc,' by Anatole France, trans. by
Winifred Stephens, 2 vols., Illus., $8. net.—The Mak-
ing of Carlyle, by R. S. Craig, illus., $4. net.--Maria
Edgeworth and her Circle in the Days of Bonaparte
and Bourbon, by Constance Hill, illus., $6. net.-
Ladies Fair and Frail, sketches of the demi-monde
during the eighteenth century, by Horace Bleackley,
with portraits reproduced from contemporary sources,
$5. net.—The Love Affairs of Napoleon, by Joseph
Turquan, trans. from the French by James L. May,
illus., $5. net.-Thomas Hood, his life and times, by
Walter Jerrold, illus., $5. net.-A Sister of Prince
Rupert, Elizabeth Princess Palatine Abbess of Here-
ford, by Elizabeth Godfrey, illus., $4. net.-César
Franck, a study, trans. from the French of Vincent
d'Indy, with introduction by Rosa Newmarch, $2.50
net.-- The Life of St. Francis of Assisi, by Ciro Alvi,
trans, from the Italian, $1.50 net. (John Lane Co.)
Life of Edgar Allan Poe, including his correspondence
with men of letters, by George E. Woodberry, 2 vols.,
Illus., $5. net.--Autobiography of Nathaniel South-
gate Shaler, with a supplementary Memoir by his
wife, Illus.—Life, Letters, and Journals of George
Ticknor; new illustrated edition, with introduction
by Ferris Greenslet, 2 vols. (Houghton Mifin Co.)
Old Friends, by William Winter, illus., $3. net. (Moffat,
Yard & Co.)
Life and Times of Laurence Sterne, by Wilbur L. Cross,
illus.-English Men of Letters, American series, new
vol.: Walt Whitman, by George R. Carpenter, 75 cts.
net.-Robert Y. Hayne and his Times, by Theodore D.
Jervey, illus. (Macmillan Co.)
My Story, by Hall Caine, illus., $2. net.---The Princesse
de Lamballe, by B. C. Hardy, $3.50 net. (D. Apple-
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Political History of England, by various authors, under
editorship of William Hunt and Reginald Lane Poole,
12 vols., Vol. IX., 1702 to 1760, by I. S. Leadam,
with index and maps, $2.60 net. -- Ireland under_the
Stuarts and during the Interregnum, by Richard Bag.
well, Vols. 1. and II., 1603-1660, with maps. (Long-
mans, Green, & Co.)
.
GENERAL LITERATURE.
The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh,
edited by Alexander Carlyle, 2 vols., with portraits,
$8. net.—The Last Journals of Horace Walpole, being
his memoirs of the reign of George III. from 1771 to
1783, edited, with introduction, by A. Francis Steuart,
2 vols., with portraits reproduced from contemporary
pictures, $7. net.---The Journal of John Mayne during
a Tour on the Continent upon its Re-opening after the
Fall of Napoleon, 1814, edited by John Mayne Colles,
illus., $4.net.- William Shakespeare, player, play-
maker, and poet, a reply to George'Greenwood, by
H. C. Beeching, $1. net.--The Shakespeare Problem,
Canon Beeching answered, a rejoinder to Canon
Beeching and others, by George Greenwood, $1. net.
(John Lane Co.)
Some Acrostic Signatures of Francis Bacon, Baron Veru-
lam of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, together with
some others, now for the first time deciphered by
William Stone Booth, illus. with facsimiles and acros-
tic figures, $6. net.—The People at Play, by Rollin
Lynde Hartt, illus. and decorated by the author.-
My Cranford, a phase of the quiet life, by Arthur
Gilman, $1.25 net.-Shakespeare and his Critics, by
Charles F. Johnson, $1.50 net.—The Advertisements
of “The Spectator," by Lawrence Lewis, with intro-
duction by George L. Kittredge. (Houghton Mimin
Co.).
Piccadilly to Pall Mall, by Ralph Nevill and Charles E.
Jerningham, illus. in photogravure, $3.50 net.--Plays,
Acting, and Music, by Arthur Symons, new revised
edition, $2. net.- The Romantic Movement in English
Poetry, by Arthur Symons.-Wisdom of the East
series, new vol. : The Confessions of Al Ghazzali,
trans. from the Persian into English for the first
time by Claud Field, 40 cts. net.—English Library,
new vol. : Stories of Libraries and Book Collecting, by
Ernest A. Savage, 75 cts. net. (E. P. Dutton & Co.)
Shelley, by Francis Thompson, $1. pet.—Egoists, a book
of supermen, by James Huneker, $1.50 net. (Charles
Scribner's Sons.)
Peace and Happiness, by Lord Avebury, $1.50 net.-The
Playhouse and the Play, by Percy MacKaye.-The
Oldest English Epic, by Francis B. Gummere.- The
Ancient Greek Historians, by J. B. Bury. (Macmil-
lan Co.)
The Springs of Helicon, a study in the progress of En-
glish poetry from Chaucer to Milton, by J. W.
Mackall.--Prophecy and Poetry, studies in Isaiah
and Browning, by Arthur Rogers, $1.25 net. (Long-
mans, Green, & Co.)
Post-Augustan Poets, by H. E. Butler.--Earlier Latin
Poets, including the Augustans, by Nowell Smith.
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Studies in Several Literatures, by Harry Thurston Peck,
$1.20 net.—Culture by Self-Help, in a literary, aca-
demic, or an oratorical career, by Robert Waters,
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French Literature, by A. K. Konta, $2.net.-German
Literature, by Thomas Calvin, $1.75 net.—Essays, by
G. Stanley Hall, $1.50 net.---Our Village, by Joseph
C. Lincoln, $1.50 net. (D. Appleton & Co.)
American Verse, 1625-1807, by William Bradley Otis,
$1.75 net.-Nature's Help to Happiness, by John War-
ren Achorn, 50 cts. net. (Moffat, Yard & Co.)
The Paradise or Garden of the Holy Fathers, being his-
tories of the anchorites, recluses, coenobites, monks,
and ascetic fathers of the deserts of Egypt between
A. D. CCL, and A. D. CCCC., compiled by Athanasius,
Archbishop of Alexandria ; Palladius, Bishop of Hels
enopolis ; Saint Jerome and others; trans. out of the
Syriac, with notes and introduction, by Ernest A.
Wallis Budge, 2 vols., with frontispiece reproductions
from the Syriac MS., $4. net.-New Medieval Library,
new vols. : Early English Romances of Love, edited
in modern English, with introduction and notes, by
Edith Rickert ; Early English Romances of Friendship,
edited in modern English, with introduction and notes,
by Edith Rickert; each illus. by photogravures after
illuminations in contemporary Mss., per vol., $2.
net. (Duffield & Co.)
Three Plays of Shakespeare, by Algernon Charles Swin-
burne, 75 cts. net. (Harper & Brothers.)
Little People, by Richard Whiteing, $1.50 net. (Cassell
& Co.)
Making the Most of Ourselves, talks for young people,
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McClurg & Co.)
The Perfect Wagnerite, a commentary on the Ring of
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new introduction, $1.25.—The Wisdom Series, new
vols.: The Wisdom of Walt Whitman, edited by
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Why We Love Lincoln, by James Creelman, $1.25 net.
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The Poetry of Jesus, by Edwin Markham, $1.20 net.
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The Works of James Buchanan, collected and edited by
John Bassett Moore, 12 vols., Vol. VI., $5. net. (J.
B. Lippincott Co.)
POETRY AND THE DRAMA.
Artemis to Actæon, and other verse, by Edith Wharton,
$1. net.-Semiramis, and other plays, by Olive Tilford
Dargan, $1. net.-Ártemision, idylls and songs, by
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Vaughn Moody, $1. net.--The Faith Healer, by Will-
iam Vaughn Moody, $1. net. (Houghton Mimin Co.)
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millan Co.)
New Poems, by Richard Le Gallienne, $1.50.-Songs from
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The Admirable Bashville, a play founded on the author's
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Our Benny, by Mary E. Waller, $1. net. (Little, Brown,
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A Lincoln Conscript, by Homer Greene, illus., $1.50.
- Through Welsh Doorways, by Jeannette Marks,
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Wake of the Green Banner, by Eugene Paul Metour,
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non Blackwood, $1.25 net.--The Three Brothers, by
Eden Phillpotts, $1.50.-—The Straw, by Rina Ramsay,
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millan Co.)
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Heroes of American History." Harper & Brothers.
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