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CONTENTS.
tration of honorable endeavor in a deserving
cause; and if that cause seem lost for the time
A THEATRICAL AUTOPSY
129
GIOSUÈ CARDUCCI
being, the outcome must be attributed to mis-
131
taken means and methods rather than to any
CASUAL COMMENT
133
inherent defect in the actuating motive. The
Books and the moral consciousness. - Browning
in Seattle. — The emoluments of authorship. enterprise was prompted by a fine sense of pub-
Shakespeare and Raleigh.-- Ninety-six novels from lic spirit, and an unselfish desire to contribute
the same pen. - Shakespeareana manufactured in
England for the American trade. - Irving's old
toward the redemption of our stage from its
home in New York.
present low estate ; those who were responsible
SOME FAMOUS LITERARY APOSTLES. Percy
for it, and who have seen their hopes rudely
F. Bicknell.
. 134 shattered, have at least the poet's consoling
A BOOK OF SPANISH PHANTASIES. George G. thought,
Brownell .
135
“ Not failure, but low aim, is crime,”
STURGIS'S HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE.
to cheer them in the retrospect.
Irving K. Pond
137
Readers of The Dial know how persistently
WASHINGTON LIFE IN EARLY DAYS. Sara
Andrew Shafer
139
it has always stood for the higher ideal of the
drama, both as literature, and, in its stage-
THE FLIGHT OF MARIE ANTOINETTE. Henry
E. Bourne
141 production, as an ethical agency. The aims of
RECENT FICTION. William Morton Payne 142
the New Theatre were so clearly in the right
Locke's The Beloved Vagabond.--Anthony Hope's direction, and its purpose so consonant with
Sophy of Kravonia. - Snaith's Henry Northcote. what we have urged for so many years,
Hichens's The Call of the Blood. -- Battersby's
The Avenging Hour. — Weyman's Chippinge Bor-
should not be misunderstood if, in analyzing
ough. - Quiller-Couch's Sir John Constantine. — the present case, we may seem to speak with
Eden Phillpotts and Arnold Bennett's Doubloons.
Crockett's The White Plume. McCarthy's
something like severity of the way in which the
The Illustrious O'Hagan.
enterprise has been conducted. All the way
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS
145
from start to finish, there were such evidences
Mosby's Rangers in the Civil War. - A-taster and of mismanagement, such an obvious lack of
relisher of the best literature. — Some studies of
intelligent direction, that failure was almost a
literary vagabonds. - Studies in the evolution of
- Pioneers of our national expansion. –
foregone conclusion with the impartial outside
“The longest scandal of the 19th century." Art observer. It is best not to mince matters in
of the ancient Greeks. — Sketches of the golden
dealing with this subject, because the experi-
period of Athenian life. — A volume of “trifling
reminiscences.”—“Psychology of Religious Be ment which has now failed is going to be tried
lief." - Rocks and their change into soils.
over again – perhaps many times, - and is
NOTES
eventually going to prove successful. And the
LIST OF NEW BOOKS
150 best
way
to hasten its success must be to under-
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It was
stand the causes of the previous failure, in order was all that was needed for success, that the
to avoid their repetition.
stamp of their approval would magnetize the
To begin with, there was an element of un undertaking. They made the fatal mistake of
due haste in the starting of the New Theatre. establishing a scale of prices that only an extra-
Eagerness to be first in the field (of which more ordinary attraction could justify, and the sup-
anon) was responsible for a lack of the neces port of the public even of that section of the
sary deliberation, and for putting into effect a public which had been in a receptive mood
plan that had not been carefully matured. This was forever lost. The opening night filled the
haste was manifested in the choice of both busi theatre with a brilliant audience; the night fol-
ness manager and dramatic director. In both lowing found it comparatively empty.
cases the selection made was unfortunate, an “endowed" theatre, so the playbills said.
although for different reasons. The business “ Very well,” replied the public, - those who
manager was too practical, and the dramatic have endowed it may keep it for their own play-
director was not practical enough. The associa- thing ; it does not interest us, and has no need
tions of the former were entirely with theatrical of our encouragement.
As for the claim of
affairs of the type to which the New Theatre “ endowment," it was of course unjustified ;
sought to stand in the sharpest possible con all it really meant was that a sufficient sum of
trast, which made his sympathetic furtherance money had been pledged to provide for a part
of its aims well-nigh impossible. The latter of a single season.
was a gentleman of remarkable knowledge and When the doors of the New Theatre were at
technical equipment, who nevertheless failed in last opened for the initial production, there were
comprehension of the immediate problem pro revealed a prettily-decorated hall, a stage of toy
vided for his solution. He offered the best of
He offered the best of dimensions, and a company of actors most of
reasons for the things he did, but they often whom had good records as individuals, but
proved to be the wrong things in spite of their whose collective performance was hopelessly
intellectual defence. And the men who stood mediocre and even amateurish. As for the
back of these two executive figures constituted opening bill, its character was such as to leave
an ill-assorted body. Their intentions were of fairly aghast all serious sympathizers with the
the best, but their ideas were illustrative either undertaking. Instead of selecting some strong
of an innocent helplessness or of an excess of and vital play of the sort for which the institu-
the academic spirit, which meant confusion of tion was supposed to exist, the director had
counsel and the inability to define their means patched up a programme by taking Gilbert's
as definitely as their ultimate purpose was de “ Engaged,” mutilating it almost beyond recog-
fined. There was thus inherent in its organiza- nition, and associating with it two small pieces,
tion such a lack of harmonious coördination one an insignificant trifle from the French, the
among its parts that the enterprise was fore other a character-sketch by a popular humorist
doomed, if not to absolute failure, at least to a of the day. The defence urged for this extra-
difficult course and the making of a blurred ordinary hodge-podge was that it enabled every
impression upon the public.
member of the company to have a part in the
Now the public has to be taken into account opening performance. We spoke a little while
very seriously in such an experiment as this ; ago of the director's gift of finding excellent
but the new venture was so untactfully heralded reasons for doing the wrong things; this is a
as to alienate the public at the outset, and to typical illustration of what we meant. Never
make it feel, all the time the experiment was did a mountain's labor bring forth a more
in progress, that its coöperation was not partic- ridiculous mouse. From that moment the fate
ularly desired. The idea got abroad that the of the enterprise was sealed.
new playhouse was the resort of a coterie, that During the four months of life for which it
it was a “society" affair, that visitors would was destined, the playhouse conducted a series
feel uncomfortable unless they wore evening of opportunist experiments which discovered no
clothes and diamonds. Its sponsors were largely trace of unity of purpose. A play a fortnight
of a class better known for the possession of was the rule, which was followed until near the
worldly goods than for other qualities, and their end. After the unfortunate first fortnight, a
names were advertised much more extensively really great play Señor Echegaray's
« El
than the names of the performers. They seemed Gran Galeoto” – was produced. Now this is
to think that the sanction of their presence exactly the kind of play for which the New


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Theatre was supposed to be created ; had it
GIOSUÈ CARDUCCI.
been boldly given at the start, or any other
One by one the stars go out in the poetical firma-
work of similar rank, the fortunes of the en-
ment; with each extinction the night grows more
terprise might have been vastly different. At
cheerless, and the pilgrim's track, no longer control-
the worst, its eventual failure would have led by its guiding skymark, is made less certain of
been dignified, had such a beginning been made
its goal.
This modern world of ours is not so rich
and such an ideal been consistently pursued. A in poets that it can mark the passing of one of them
few good plays were given during the follow without a pang, and when the voice that is stilled is
ing months such plays as Herr Fulda's
one of such authentic utterance as the voice which
“ Maskerade,” Augier's “ Poirier,” and Herne's spoke from the lips of Carducci, the news brings
“ Margaret Fleming ” — just such plays as
with it a sense of grievous and irretrievable loss. He
should have been given. The other productions
was one of the great poets of modern times; with
ranged from the passable through the barely greatest poet living in the world when the nineteenth
the single exception of Mr. Swinburne, he was the
admissible to the wholly inexcusable - the
century gave place to its successor. And now he is
lowest depth having been reached with a cheap dead, after reaching the scriptural limit of man's
melodrama (an adaptation of “ The Spoilers ”); years, and the whole world joins in paying reverent
which was not " playing the game," although
although tribute to his memory.
the house was packed for the first and only The association of Carducci's name with that of
fortnight during its career.
his great English contemporary (less than a year
Further analysis of the case is unnecessary.
his junior) is more than fortuitous. The two poets
The mistakes already catalogued are enough free Italy, for the years of their early manhood
are linked by their common devotion to the cause of
to account for the failure many times over.
were those in which that ideal became realized, the
It provides one more example of disinterested
years of what Frederic Myers calls “ the last great
devotion made futile by hasty effort and faulty struggle where all chivalrous sympathies could range
judgment. The experience has been profitable themselves undoubtingly on one side.” And they
for correction, and the next enterprise of the are also linked by certain fundamental principles
kind will know many definite things to avoid, common to both, by their hatred of all forms of
although likely enough to make new mistakes of tyranny, their efforts to bring poetry back to its
That next enterprise is already much
classical modes of expression, their intimate feeling
more than a dream. It is an effort that has
for nature, the high seriousness of their thought, and
the sustained elevation of their poetical flight.
been deliberately nurtured for several years,
Giosuè Carducci was born in 1836, a Tuscan of
that has evolved a comprehensive plan covering ancient and distinguished lineage. His father was
both the administrative and the artistic aspects
a physician by profession and a Manzonian by intel-
of the undertaking, and that is now announced, lectual affinity, which meant that the romantic spirit
with considerable show of definiteness, for in- sought to claim the youth for its own. But the in-
auguration next autumn. It has for its respon fluence of that spirit, at least in its mediævalizing and
sible backing the Chicago Woman's Club, a very catholicizing aspects, was already far spent in Italy,
large and influential organization with many good and the boy's idealism slowly groped its way from
works to its credit, that usually accomplishes
Giusti and Manzoni back to Leopardi, then to Dante,
what it undertakes. The plan would probably however, in any pedantic or servile sense, but in the
and then to the Romans, where it took refuge, not,
have been put into practical effect last year,
sense that the freedom and sanity of the classical spirit
had not the New Theatre cut the wind out of
were instinctively felt by the youthful poet, when he
its sails, for its course was charted long before
came into close contact with them, to be his soul's
that misadventure was conceived. Its friends
own birthright. Meanwhile, his country was prepar-
would not have begrudged the success of the ing for its resurrection. The leaven of Mazzini's
rival enterprise, had that been possible; but gospel was spiritualizing the life of young Italy, and
since it has proved impossible, they expect to
the first shock of the upheaval had come with the
benefit by the lesson the failure has taught great year of revolution, the memorable year of
them. We are optimistic enough to hope that
1848, which brought only immediate disaster, yet
nevertheless thrilled the whole world with hope. It
a year from the present date we may be able to
left the boy of twelve an ardent republican, urging
report the proposed Players' Theatre as an or-
upon the petty political leader of his village the
ganization in active existence, perhaps not over-
duty of raising the war-cry, “ Abasso tutti i re: viva
prosperous, but at least assured of continuance
la republica !” And a republican in spirit he re-
through the season and through other seasons mained all his life, serving his country as such, in
to follow.
both houses of the legislature, although unwilling
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year after
to assume the intransigeant attitude of Mazzini, and The note of uncompromising defiance sounded in
accepting the constitutional monarchy of the Re Gal these closing stanzas found an echo in all ardent
antuomo as a working compromise in the country's and generous souls, and the advance guard of liberal
political progress to its predestined ultimate good. thought throughout Italy turned instinctively toward
His academic career (for he was a professor more its new leader and rallied about his standard. The
continuously and steadfastly than he was a poet) poet was vilified, of course, misrepresented, and mis-
began at the early age of twenty-three, when he was understood. He became the storm centre of a fierce
appointed to the University of Pisa. In 1861 he conflict which is even yet something more than a
entered upon his duties at the University of Bologna, memory. Time has softened the earlier asperities
which remained the scene of his academic activities of that struggle, and now even those who are the
for upwards of forty years -- practically the rest poet's intellectual opponents are willing to recog-
of his life. There he lectured
year,
im nize the sufficiently obvious fact that the hymn is
pressing upon the fortunate youth of new Italy the by no means a glorification of evil, but merely the
stamp of his rugged and austere personality, incul expression of a firm determination to march with
cating upon their minds his own hatred of shams “the avenging force of reason" upon the intrench-
and love of truth, his feeling for all that was worthy ments of superstition.
in the traditions of the race, his devotion to the The volume of Carducci's poetry is very con-
noblest ideals of art and thought and conduct. And siderable. It includes the “Rime of 1857, the
there, as he grew gray in the service of his nation, “Levia Gravia" of 1867, the “Decennalia,” “Nuove
he drew upon himself, by the might of genius, the Poesie,” and “Giambi ed Epodi" of the next decade,
eyes of Italy and the world, until the Italian people and the three volumes of "Odi Barbare” published
came to realize that his modest dwelling in the from 1877 to 1889. These titles represent the
ancient towered city of Bologna housed their greatest landmarks in his poetical career ; but the biblio-
man, and united in paying tribute to his fame. graphy of the subject is very complicated, owing
That fame was, of course, for the world at large, to many republications and rearrangements. The
primarily the fame of the poet; yet those who knew “ Odi Barbare," which occasioned as much con-
the poet also as teacher and as friend must have troversy (although in different circles) as the polit-
felt that theirs was a doubly rich possession, for ical and philosophical poems, represented a highly
there is much testimony to indicate that the mortals interesting attempt to write modern Italian verse in
thus favored were hardly able to tell whether it was classical metres alcaics, sapphics, and elegiacs.
for Carducci the poet or Carducci the man that they This subject would need a volume for its discussion;
felt the greater reverence. And it is well for the but we may reproduce Carducci's statement that he
millions of his lovers who never saw him in the called the
poems “ barbarous,” for the reason that
flesh to be assured that, had they known him in “ they would so sound to the ears and judgment of
person, or been acquainted with the more intimate the Greeks and Romans, although I have wished to
aspects of his life, their ideal would have suffered compose them in the metrical forms belonging to
no impairment. He was, like our own Milton and the lyrical poetry of those nations; and because they
Tennyson, one of the poets who order their lives with will, too truly, so sound to very many Italians,
“ Close heed
although they are composed and harmonized in
Lest, having spent for the work's sake
Italian verses and accents.” The experiments thus
Six days, the man be left to make.”
characterized have certainly borne the practical test
He once wrote that “the poet should express him of public approval ; many of the poems written in
self and his moral and artistic convictions with all
these “barbarous” measures are among his best-
the sincerity, the clearness, the resolution in his beloved productions.
power; the rest is no concern of his.” If we read
The majority of Carducci's poems have not been
this passage with a heavy emphasis on the word
translated into English; many of them it would be
" himself,” it will be an exact statement of the sum
unwise to attempt to translate. Now and then his
of Carducci's poetical activity.
English readers have found the temptation irresist-
There was certainly no lack of sincerity, clear ible, and thus a number of the poems may be read
ness, or resolution in the famous “ Hymn to Satan,” in creditable English versions. The best of these
the
poem which first made him a national figure. versions with which we are acquainted have been
It was written at a single sitting in 1863, and ap made by Mr. Frank Sewall, Mr. G. A. Greene, and
pearing in print two years later was hurled like a Mr. M. W. Arms. We regret that Mr. Howells
bombshell into the camp of reaction and obscurantism. and Mr. William Everett did not come down as
“Salute, o Satana,
far as Carducci in their books on modern Italian
O ribellione,
poetry. There is still an excellent choice renain-
O forza vindice
De la ragione!
ing for the judicious and competent translator.
And of Carducci's prose, which is of large volume
“Sacri a te salgono
Gl'incensi e i voti,
and great intellectual significance, there is no rea-
Hai vinto il Geova
son why we should not have an adequate English
De i sacerdoti."
translation.


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CASUAL COMMENT.
THE EMOLUMENTS OF AUTHORSHIP have rarely been
large, but have always furnished a theme for curious
BOOKS AND THE MORAL CONSCIOUSNESS have inter-
discussion. Some statistics recently collected con-
relations of more kinds than one. The acquisition of
cerning the savings of authors show that seven eminent
coveted volumes by methods other than purchase or
writers, lately deceased, including Edwin Arnold,
gift has long been held a venial sin, a mere peccadillo, George Gissing, and William Sharp, left estates that
in fact, that should no more cause prickings of con-
together amounted to about $65,000, or an average of
science than do similar modes of acquiring umbrellas.
$9,285 apiece — not a princely fortune, surely. But
The open-shelf system now gaining favor with public-
they have their reward, we must believe, even if it be
not in the coin of the realm. And of those writers
library managers and patrons offers extraordinary
temptations to book-lovers of an easy conscience. The
whose works are produced solely with a view to mon-
librarian of the Oakland (Cal.) Public Library reports
etary returns, we can truly say that “they have their
reward” also. The modern saw that “ to die rich is to
1808 books missing at the annual inventory -- a sad
testimony to the innate depravity of human nature.
die disgraced ” has a measure of truth for others besides
Comfort, however, may be derived from his confidence
ironmasters. At any rate, the books that have sold by
that these hundreds of volumes are not all lost to the
the hundred thousand copies, and have filled the authors'
library, but that most of them will come back with the
pockets, are often not the books to look back upon with
unmixed satisfaction.
same informality that marked their exit. Yet the least
abuse of a valuable privilege is to be deplored. Do SHAKESPEARE AND RALEIGH are two illustrious
open shelves breed contempt for the rights of literary Elizabethan names that are again to be associated in
property? A return to chained books would perhaps the forthcoming life of the bard of Avon for the « English
awaken the culprits to a proper sense of the benefits Men of Letters” series by Professor Walter Raleigh.
they now so lightly esteem. But there are cheering Strange enough is it that the greatest name in English
signs in other quarters that not all book-reading com literature or in all literature, for that matter has
munities are so lax in bibliothecal ethics. The Trenton so long been conspicuous by its absence on this roll of
(N. J.) Public Library, for example, allows its patrons honor, headed, twenty-nine years ago, by Leslie
unparalleled privileges: they have free access to a large Stephen's life of Johnson. Is it that some dim sense of
selection of books and may take home as many as they the absurdity of calling Shakespeare a “man of letters"
wish - first having them properly charged, of course – has hitherto deterred the publishers from adding his
except that in fiction a borrower must solace himself name to their list? Or has the difficulty lain in finding a
with only one work at one time. We have, too, the biographer of the exceptional qualities requisite for the
librarian's personal assurance that this generosity is not task in hand? Except perhaps Mr. Sidney Lee, no one
abused. And this from the state of New Jersey, almost is better fitted to write the projected volume than
from that palace of political iniquity the New Jersey Professor Raleigh.
state capitol !
NINETY-SIX NOVELS FROM THE SAME PEN is a remark-
BROWNING IN SEATTLE has as queer a sound as
able record, but that is the number now credited to
“ Cicero in Maine," the book-title with which Mrs.
“ John Strange Winter,” or Mrs. Stannard, as she is
Martha Baker Dunn startled her readers two years
known in the world of fact. Other work, too, has come
ago. But that the city on Puget Sound is not so Klon-
from her busy hand and brain; and now she confesses
dike-crazy, so Alaska-mad, so exposition-eager, as not
that she is “ tired of writing novels,” but that "it does
to see charms in “ Paracelsus ” and “ The Ring and the
not do to be tired of earning one's living.” She has
Book,” all may convince themselves by reading, in the
certainly earned the right to be weary of novel-writing.
February “Cornhill,” the interesting article on “ Brown-
There are those who would be excessively wearied if
ing out West” which is contributed by Professor
they had even to read ninety-six novels, not to speak of
Frederick Morgan Padelford at the instance of Dr.
writing them.
Furnivall. Mr. Padelford's unexpected and highly-
gratifying success in conducting a Browning elective at
SHAKESPEAREANA MANUFACTURED IN ENGLAND FOR
the state university of Washington is agreeably narrated
THE AMERICAX TRADE are now said to lure the dollars
by him. Browning, he believes, more than any other
from the pockets of unwary book-collecting American
English poet, appeals to the American love of strenuous millionaires visiting England - a neat reprisal for our
endeavor, to the inquisitive American interest in charac heartless carrying off of so many literary treasures from
ter-unravelling, the national aggressiveness, curiosity,
that country, notably and very recently the Shelley
bent for psychological analysis, and fondness for so-
notebooks which our English cousins may well have
ciological problems. While the English university ideal grieved to lose. An ostrich appetite for costly rarities
is culture, and the German university ideal is scholar can hardly be attended with an Epicurean nicety and dis-
ship of the Dryasdust brand), the writer holds that
crimination in picking and choosing.
the American university ideal is public service, the
betterment of society. The younger generation wishes IRVING'S OLD HOME IN NEW YORK, at the corner of
to become men and women who do things, not who have Irving Place and Seventeenth Street, is in danger of
things; and these young men and women find their being destroyed to make way for modern improvements,
creed worthily formulated in Browning, in his philo- and a project is now under discussion for its preserva-
sophy of life and his clarion call to spiritual conflict and tion, and its conversion into a museum that shall serve
ultimate spiritual triumph. Even his harshness and as a perpetual reminder of the good old days of literary
roughness (artistically considered) would seem to work New York. It was this house that Irving occupied
for and not against him; at any rate they do not repel when his fame was at its height, and the historic struc-
his stalwart disciples of the far Northwest as they tend ture is hallowed by many associations dear to lovers of
to repel readers in whom the artistic sense predominates. our literature in its early prime.
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Books.
117
example, concerning an estimable man who
The New
was said to be of exemplary modesty, someone
ventured to ask, " What has he done to be
SOME FAMOUS LITERARY APOSTLES.*
modest of?” This pleased Brookfield, as also
did Douglas Jerrold's saying, after reading
Mrs. Charles Brookfield, who with her hus-
Harriet Martineau, “ There is no God - and
band recently gave us a very pleasant account
Harriet is his prophet.” We can imagine him
of “Mrs. Brookfield and her Circle," has sup- enjoying such Elian absurdities as the famous
plemented this with another volume of the same
question put to the man carrying home a rodent
readable, literary-gossipy sort, containing still
of the genus lepus, “Is that
your own hare or
further reminiscences of her father-in-law, Will-
a wig?” In short, one surmises that Brook-
iam Henry Brookfield, and his friends — chiefly field's wit had that delicately subtle and deli-
those whose friendship dated back to the golden
ciously unexpected quality that often expresses
age” at Cambridge and his student days at Trin- itself largely in gesture and facial expression
ity College. The “
The “ Apostles," as is well known, and tone of voice, and that depends for its
were certain bright young men, poetic in tem-
thorough enjoyment on atmosphere and associa-
tion
fearless, who formed an association called the
a competent authority, says: "In irresistible hu-
“ Cambridge Conversazione Society," at whose
mor none of the Apostles' rivalled Brookfield.”
meetings essays and poems were read, and un-
" He had infinite humor," says Kinglake, “ but
tramelled discussion was carried on concerning humor resulting - like Shakespeare's — from
all things in heaven and earth, and a few other
matters besides. Minutes of these meetings any love of mere shallow, mindless drollery. . .
mastering of human characters, and not from
were never published, if indeed they were reg-
I never heard him say a bitter thing.”
ularly kept; and whether or not the club was
a hot-bed of radicalism, atheism, and worse,
Besides Brookfield, whose biography has been
was left to the anxious or amused conjecture of
fully given in “ Mrs. Brookfield and her Circle,"
the “ Apostles " selected for notice, each in a
university authorities and others. Its vigorous
prime covered the
separate chapter, are Blakesley, Buller, Hallam
1824-1840, and it was
years
(of “In Memoriam"), Kemble, Lushington,
in this period that, as Trinity was observed to
Maurice, Milnes, Spedding, Sterling, Tennyson,
contribute the main support of the society, its
Trench, and Venables. Some excerpts are now
meetings came to be held in that college ; and
in order ; first one about the “ Apostles” col-
as its membership was limited to twelve, it ac-
lectively.
quired the jocose nickname of “ Apostles.”
“ But trivial assaults the • Apostles' could afford to
Of those who were members of the society in
ignore, for if they had detractors they had also admirers
its golden prime, Mrs. Brookfield gives sketches and imitators. W. E. Gladstone founded an Essay Club
and letters and traditions of thirteen, her father at Oxford on the model of the Apostles' and boasted
in-law (who, however, another authority de-
of it -- though he owned it never quite satisfied him.
clares, was not a member at all) claiming first
• The Apostles,' he said, “are a much more general soci-
ety.' Blakesley leaves it recorded that it was Arthur
place and having more space accorded him than Hallam who founded this Club, and he probably thought
anyone else. A bright light he undoubtedly was, this because Hallam had given Gladstone help in the
being a popular preacher, a wit whose presence drawing up of its rules. • The Sterling' was certainly
enlivened any company, a Shakespearean reader inspired by the Apostles,' as were numerous other
hardly excelled by the Kembles, father or daugh- tution of an entirely different kind, grew out of it.”
societies; and, indirectly, the London Library, an insti-
ter, and a thoroughly good-hearted, high-minded,
Thackeray, who, though intimate with mem-
pleasant-tempered gentleman. But the distinc-
bers of the society, appears never to have be-
tive quality of his wit seems to have been untrans-
ferable to the printed page: we are repeatedly
longed to it, was a warm friend and admirer of
Brookfield, if one may judge from the following:
assured of its delicate and delectable flavor, but
Thackeray admired Brook eld with the ardour of
somehow never quite succeed in getting a tooth-
a generous nature; he loved to hear him talk, and
some morsel into our mouth. Other men's good would unweariedly listen to him a whole night through.
things, which he was fond of repeating, are He went to hear his sermons and his readings whenever
offered us in some abundance, and these help he could; he loved his wit and took it up and used it
one to judge of his taste in such matters. For
and illustrated it; as also, by the way, did Leech.”
Thackeray has immortalized Brookfield as
• THE CAMBRIDGE APOSTLES.” By Frances M. Brookfield.
With portraits. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
“Frank Whitestock” in “ The Curate's Walk.'
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.
And all this warmth of regard was reciprocated playfully dubbed him “ Jeames Spending ” and
by its object, even to the extent of disliking the “that aged and most subtile serpent." Sped-
novels of Dickens. “Unredeemed trash,” is his ding's early baldness, and the gentle raillery
verdict on "The Old Curiosity Shop.” Of Brook evoked thereby, he took with philosophic amia-
field as a pulpit orator it may be worth while bility. It is pleasant to read FitzGerald's
to cite Lord Lyttleton's assertion that he had friendly and admiring allusions to the Baco-
“ never heard anyone so easy, almost colloquial, nian's lofty and depilated brow, which he some-
insomuch that there was a sort of temptation to where likens to Shakespeare's. Says Mrs.
forget that it was preaching, and get up and Brookfield :
answer him.” Greville records in his diary: “Spedding was a favorite subject for his friend
“ A magnificent sermon from Brookfield. He FitzGerald's banter. He writes for instance, Spedding
is one of the few preachers whose sermons
is all the same as ever, not to be improved, one of the
best sights in London. When he went to America with
never weary me, however long, and the
Lord Ashburnham, FitzGerald said: "Of course you
elocution perfect.'
have read the account of Spedding's forehead landing
George Stovin Venables is perhaps best in America; English sailors hailed it in the Channel
known as the man who in boyhood, on the mistaking for Beachy Head.' And later on in this
Charterhouse playground, met his schoolmate
visit he mentions that he begins to feel sure that Sped-
ding would be safe in America, because • to scalp such
Thackeray in fistic combat, in response to the a forehead was beyond any
Indian's
power.'”
other's challenge, and did such execution that
the embryo novelist came out of the engagement
Except Henry Lushington, each of the
Apostles” sketched by the author's pen is
with a broken nose and also a lasting affec-
also presented in pictorial likeness, the half-tone
tion for the breaker, an affection that was
warmly returned. Venables, barrister and after-
reproductions being from paintings or drawings.
ward judge, contributed to the literature of his Spedding's portrait is drawn by his own hand.
day chiefly in the form of anonymous journal; made, with clear type, good paper, and an
The book, like its predecessor, is handsomely
ism. The “Saturday Review” and the “ Times,”
index, whose five pages, however, do not con-
among
other papers, profitted by his scholarly tain all the entries one might have occasion to
attainments. That he had a ready wit, in addi-
look for - not even all the names of persons
tion to his other accomplishments, is made
mentioned in the work. If the book has still
pleasantly apparent.
« Once when Venables was leaving a dinner party thought to be an unduly generous inclusion of
another fault, it may by the more serious be
where Sir Frederick Pollock also had been he took up
his hat in the hall, saying, Here's my Castor-
pleasant trivialities. However, they entertain
where's Pollock's?' Always a favoured guest at the or, if not, they may be skipped.
Grange, he said at a time when he and the world in
PERCY F. BICKNELL.
general were much excited over inland travellers, that
Mr. Parkyns' book on Africa was the most successful
attempt on record of a man being able to reduce himself
to the savage state.”
A BOOK OF SPANISH PHANTASIES.*
Concerning Hallam, that youth of rare prom-
ise who died at twenty-two, on the eve of wed To the lover of Spain, every new book de-
ding Emily Tennyson, it must here suffice to scriptive of the country comes as a fresh delight.
quote Gladstone's enthusiastic encomium. “ The Cities of Spain,” by Mr. Edward Hut-
“ There was nothing in the region of the mind which
ton, is one of the last and outwardly one of the
he might not have accomplished. I mourn in him, for most attractive of last year's large output.
myself, my earliest near friend; for my fellow-creatures, Twenty-four full-page illustrations in color by
one who would have adorned his age and country, a Mr. A. Wallace Rimington, together with a
mind full of beauty and of power, attaining almost to
that ideal standard of which it is presumption to expect nearly equal number of photographic copies of
an example. When shall I see his like?”
paintings from the Prado gallery, make the
None of the baker's dozen of attractive per-
volume well worth possessing. This affords
sonalities portrayed in Mrs. Brookfield's
some comfort to the purchaser who, upon open-
pages
is more attractive and more lovable than James ing the book, reads the following statement of
the author :
Spedding, the man who wasted his best energies
“ It is the art of Literature that I practice, and by my
(as many thought) in whitewashing Bacon. To
achievement or failure in this art I am to be judged.
Brookfield he was “Spedding the Sublime”;
Spedding the Sublime”; Therefore, if I prefer not to speak of Spain at all within
FitzGerald called him “old Jem Spedding
and “my Sheet-Anchor "; while Thackeray tions in color and photogravure. New York: The Macmillan Co.
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he says:
the chapters of my book, it is that I do not wish facts together beside the rivers, and the wind is blowing over
to become of too much importance there, of more im the sea; and I was weary because I was so far away.”
portance, that is, than I, the artist, choose, and because
I will not speak of what I have loved without knowledge."
The book, then, is subjective throughout. It
records Mr. Hutton's sentiments and impres-
Of course if Mr. Hutton prefers not to speak
sions, when he is weary, or frightened, or merely
of Spain because of insufficient knowledge, well
and good ; but why, then, label his work « The
sorry.” Burgos he finds to be the first city
he has seen “that verily believes in Christ.
Cities of Spain"? After reading the book, the
“She is an image of Faith, of Exaltation in a
reviewer suggests, as a more fitting title, “Span-
world that is overheated and full of lies and
ish Phantasies” or, “ Sobs of the Desert."
greatly desirous.” Avila is “the visible image
In his practice of the art of literature, the
of the word Amen.” In the Mosque of Cór-
author tells us that the country about Toledo
dova he “ remembered only beautiful things
is “fulfilled with an immense energy, the en-
and joy.” “I lost myself in a new contempla-
ergy of silence.” Speaking of a chapel in the
tion; I kissed the old voluptuous marbles; I
cathedral at Burgos, he says : “ To pray in such
touched the strange, precious inscriptions, and
a place if one were sorry might seem impossible,
with my finger I traced the name of God.”
and if one were glad one would go to the hills.”
In order better to receive the message that
He gazes upon the “ tawny passionate land-
Spain has for him, Mr. Hutton frequently
scape," and the “ latent groinings of the hills.''
travelled on horseback. In approaching Avila,
He loves the very look and sound of the words
“ desert," "sun," and “ stars," and sprinkles
“ What she means to those who come to her by rail-
his pages with them until they resemble a chart
way, I know not, who saw her like a mirage in the
of the starry firmament itself. "For while
desert after many days. Lost in the infinite silence,
some have loved women and others have sought under the sun and the sky, I had longed for her as of
for fame, and others have flung everything old men longed for the Holy City, and when I found
for
away
mule over
her at last, I came to her on foot leading my
,” he
money,'
66 it is the sun that
says,
the stones."
I have loved, the sun which is the smile of God.”
Spain, through this medium, makes an especial
Let those disposed to pity Mr. Hutton for the
appeal to Mr. Hutton, who thus further ex-
hardships that he must have endured upon such
presses himself :
a trip read the following passage from his Intro-
duction:
“ And, though for no other cause, yet for this I find
Spain the most beautiful country of Europe: that with
“Night fell a night of large, few stars ---- and cov-
her abide the mountains and the desert and over all the
ered us with her coolness; even yet we were far from
. . Now, therefore, let us rejoice together, that
any city. And at last I could go no further, and told
there remains to us a land where these things are; for
my guide so, who without any expression of surprise
there the wind blows on the mountains, and in the de-
lifted me from my beast, laid me under a great rock,
sert there is silence, and at dawn and at noon and at
covered me with my rug, tethered the mules and began
evening we may behold the sun.
to prepare supper. I shall not forget the beauty of that
night, nor the silence under those desert stars."
There come times, however, when our author
After comforts like these in the open, is it any
finds the sun so hot that he is “afraid”; but we
wonder that the failure of the electric light in
feel less concerned about him when we read
that he is also sometimes frightened at the lack
the hotel at Valladolid fairly unmans him? He
Upon his return to his London home,
speaks thus of this fearful experience:
he writes :
“ The horror of the toilet, in an unknown room, the
search for the bed with the help of a match, I will not
“ And a sort of twilight everywhere in this city of
describe.”
mean streets continually makes me afraid and is heavy
upon me, and there is no sun.
It is surprising to note, in a book with the
In other respects he seems an uneasy, restless
title “ The Cities of Spain" and containing 324
body. When in England, he yearns to escape pages, the amount of space allotted to each city.
from the trumpery cities" to the land of the The chapter dealing with Cadiz numbers two
sun and the desert,” where “the very boulders
and one-half pages ; that which treats of Jerez,
are writhing in agony to find expression." In
one and one-half pages by the author, together
Spain, however, he longs for England. At the
with a wholly irrelevant quotation from an En-
Escorial, after wandering through the immense glish diary of the seventeenth century. Four
corridors, he says:
pages are given to Cordova, and four to the
Escorial, nearly one-half of which is quoted.
“I was thinking of the spring far far away in the
world where the peach-blossoms Autter over the gar-
The description of the Alhambra is reprinted
dens like pink butterflies, and the willows are laughing from Swinburne's eighteenth century account,
sun.
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while eight of the fourteen pages on Madrid are « anomalous modern conditions, with an expla-
taken from James Howell who wrote in 1622. nation of the failure of the nineteenth century
There is a chapter of about sixty pages on the in architecture while it was succeeding in paint-
Prado Gallery, and another shorter one enti- ing and in sculpture, and with constant effort
tled “Early Spanish Paintings.” The art to disentangle the serious attempts at original
criticism here is vague and unsatisfying, with design from the mass of building which is un-
somewhat long historical digressions.
disguisedly copied from earlier styles, and which
As an excellent example of Mr. Hutton's is wholly commercial in its inspiration.” The
style and subject-matter, we quote his closing record is brought down to the time of those
paragraph :
innovations in building which now foreshadow
“For me, at least, Spain remains as a sort of refuge, complete changes in all architectural style,"
a land of sun and desert. If that be the obscure need
which last, probably, instead of " changes
of your spirit, go to her and she will heal you. For in
the sun everything is true, all we have hoped and be-
means the development or evolution of a new
lieved and at last forgone, all the beautiful things of
architectural style.
old time when Aphrodite at noon loved Adon, and The publishers of the work explain that “ in
Demeter sought for Persephone, and in the woods and all this long inquiry the domestic architecture
on the mountains the women, stained with the juice of
of each period is kept in view as offering a
grapes, followed Dionysos; when, in the dusty ways of
the city, Christ gave sight to the blind, and in the heat
necessary corrective of conclusions which the
of the day when the almond trees were shedding their grandiose architecture of the temple and the
blossoms He went by the stony ways to Golgotha. church, taken by itself, would suggest. This is
And we, too, shall be weary at evening, for he made the especially the case in more recent times, when
stars also.”
it is often found that the design of the dwelling-
GEORGE G. BROWNELL.
house is more nearly akin to refined and noble
art than is that of the larger and more notice-
able buildings." This last is a saving clause,
STURGIS'S HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE.* for it is only in very modern times that domestic
The first volume of Mr. Russell Sturgis's architecture and monumental architecture have
History of Architecture” is at hand, and the
failed to develop harmoniously in all essential
characteristics, and this harmonious develop-
two volumes remaining to complete the work
are scheduled for the present year. The work
ment very probably runs back to the earliest
is large in scope, as a brief summary of the
times; though the author regrets his inability,
through insufficient data, to write critically of
contents will serve to show.
Volume I. treats of those epochs and styles well-known civilizations as those of Egypt and
the domestic architecture of such comparatively
which are only half known to the modern stu-
of Greece, fearing to trench upon the domain of
dent—the Egyptian, Babylonian and Assyrian,
historical
and later Western Asiatic styles ; Greek art
Architecture is itself a history
a record of
down to the final conquest by Rome; the earlier
human desire and activity, of race movement
Italian art in its various forms; the Roman
and achievement; and a history of architecture
Imperial architecture.
Volume II. treats of the architecture of India,
may be one or the other of two things, or a
China, Japan, and other oriental nations, and blending of them. It may be an interpretation
of the art and a determination of its relation to
includes also that Mohammedan architecture
which arose out of the Byzantine styles.
the life and philosophy of the race, showing the
A
effect of modes of life and thought upon the
treatment of the great Gothic school of Central
ideals of the race as expressed in building in
and Northern Europe brings the history down
to the fifteenth century.
the abstract; or it may be a record of technical
Volume III. deals with the fifteenth century
achievement, made forceful by a comparison of
concrete examples. If it be a judicious blend-
remodelling of the art of Europe, the French
ing of the two, it will hold more of human
florid Gothic, the English Tudor style, and as
interest and be more effective as an educational
contemporary with these the beginnings of the
factor in the general evolution of a sympathetic
classical revival in Italy, followed by the Euro-
knowledge of art.
pean styles of the revived classic or neo-classic.
Mr. Russell Sturgis, author, critic, and one-
Finally, in this volume will be studied the
time architect, comes well equipped for his task
*A HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE. By Russell Sturgis, A.M. of formulating critical and comparative judg-
Volume I., Antiquity. Illustrated in photogravure, etc. New
York: Baker & Taylor Co.
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announce
the basis of a great descriptive history of archi- possible ; that the column was not a column, but
tecture. His great knowledge and infinite an everlasting support, -that a lintel was not a
patience, his keen observation and care for de- lintel, but an everlasting roof. A study of the
tails even to the counting and recording of the mind of Greece will show in the changing di-
number and disposition of brick or stone courses mensions of column and lintel not only a develop-.
in a monumental structure, his capacity for bal ment of architectural form but the birth of an
ancing part against part and whole against idea which becomes clear and clean-cut and is
whole, render his judgment as a connoisseur evolved to its logical limit. A study of the
highly to be respected. As a record of archi Roman temperament will show how it was re-
tectural events, this history, as evidenced by the flected in an overpowering architecture in which
volume in hand, leaves nothing to be desired. the undeveloped idea of the arch and the fully
The work so far is an admirable example of developed idea of the lintel were hopelessly con-
the second form which a history of architecture fused and endlessly entangled. Not all of this
may take, as above stated. Whether the com is set forth in the present volume as fully or as
pleted work will express that most desirable vividly as the student could desire. Such treat-
blending of human life with technical achieve ment does not necessarily take history into the
ment which constitutes art, remains to be seen. domain of romance. A history of architecture
In the absence of the remaining volumes, the which is based on the philosophy of life will ex-
publishers statement on this point may be given. plain how, when Greece bowed to Egypt, the
“ The History of Architecture which we
exploiters of Roman classic art could have car-
will discriminate closely between the natural artistic re ried their wares into the presence of the great
sults of construction and those methods of design which temples of the north and not have been humbled
are quite apart from construction and are the result of
abstract thinking and of the pure sense of form
into inactivity. This and kindred matters of
- or,
in a few cases, of color. An architectural design of any
race psychology should find treatment in the
kind may have been conceived much as a piece of sculp- final volume. It is needless at this time to
ture is conceived, that is, as a piece of pure form; and anticipate this treatment further than to suggest
it is in this way that much of Greek architecture took
shape – the simple requirements of the building of the
that perhaps painting and sculpture in general
time having but little influence upon it. On the other
have not in the nineteenth century reached a
hand, with an energetic race of builders like the French comparatively much higher plane than has ar-
of the twelfth century, a race not gifted with the sense chitecture. Mr. Sturgis's appreciation of sculp-
of form to anything like the degree in which it was pos ture, as evidenced in the first volume, is very
sessed by the Greeks, the merit of a design would na-
turally be found in the extraordinary logic and in the sympathetic ; and its treatment is on the side of
sincerity of the work, the placing of each stone helping
the relation of this art to architecture. The
at once the artistic results and the construction. Those present day has made it a thing apart, which is
are the extremes. Between them is the wide field of not necessarily elevating it to a higher plane.
styles in which both influences are at work.”
Conditions which now surround architecture are
The two extremes thus indicated may be denom very different from those of Egypt, Greece, and
inated broadly the architecture of “form" and France of the twelfth century; but that does
the architecture of “feeling,” the architec not necessarily relegate to a lower plane that
ture of the intellect and the architecture of the architecture which characteristically sums up
emotions. The volume before us is dominated these conditions. But in point of fact, we pro-
by the classic ideal, and the emotions have little duce no great architecture of form, for our in-
play. The architecture of Egypt which reaches tellects are devoted to the development of the
emotional depths is treated with too formal a sciences ; nor do we produce great architecture
touch, and it is only from the illustrations that of feeling, because our emotions are swamped
one can fully understand why Greek art stopped in the strenuous hustle of the commercial life.
at the threshold of Egypt, nor sought to com Our intellects do not any longer imagine forms,
pete with the intellect against the passions. they simply remember; our emotions no longer
A history of architecture which is based on throb passionately, they merely flutter. And
race psychology will explain why the pyramids what applies to art applies with more or less
express the soul of Egypt and of no other equal force to the making of books and even
country; will explain not only that the columns the writing of history.
were of magnificent proportions and the lin The specimen pages sent out in advance do
telled roofs were massive, but also that the dom not fairly represent the work. With these in
inating thought in the mind of the race made mind, one first opens the book with misgivings.
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self-contained and much in the author's earlier session to be grateful for, we must acknowledge
manner. The task of collating and arranging our obligations to Mr. Gaillard Hunt for his
the great mass of detail has been heavy, and careful editing of the correspondence and note-
the outcome is a work of great value and a mat books of Mrs. Samuel Harrison Smith in the
ter of congratulation to both author and pub- volume which he calls “ The First Forty Years
lisher. In general make-up, the work is very of Washington Society.” To Mrs. Harrison
attractive. The letter-press is well-nigh perfect; Smith's grandson, Mr. J. Henley Smith, we owe
while the illustrations, which number more than a prefatory note in which he tells us that in the
four hundred in the first volume, are well chosen autumn of the year 1800 Samuel Harrison
and extremely well reproduced. The full-page Smith of Philadelphia, the son of Col. Jonathan
plates are carbongravures, while the illustrations Bayard Smith of the Continental Congress and
in the text are half-tones from photographs and the Continental Army, and a signer of the
photo-etchings from line drawings and engrav Articles of Confederation, married his cousin
ings, but so harmonized in scale and so well Margaret Bayard, whose father, Colonel John
placed that the effect of the whole is pleasing Bayard, had had a public record almost parallel
to an extent that is not always the case when in importance with that of Colonel Smith.
varied means of reproduction are employed. The young pair proceeded at once to Washing-
The most serious mechanical slip seems to be in ton, where Mr. Smith founded and for many
the inversion of the first half-tone plate in the years conducted the “ National Intelligencer,
chapter on the Corinthian style. Beyond this a journal of national circulation which acquired
to
the care which has entered into the artistic he was for a short time Secretary of the Treas-
make-up of the initial volume, and which it is ury; he was the first Commissioner of the
to be hoped sets a standard to be followed in Revenue of the Treasury, and was for many
the remaining ones. IRVING K. POND. years president of important banks. It was
but natural that his wife should take her place
among the great ladies of the young capital;
and as she had some talent for writing, she be-
WASHINGTON LIFE IN EARLY DAYS.*
came (anonymously, as befitted the taste of the
It has been said that we are all gossips at day) a contributor to several journals. She
heart, no matter how we try to conceal our in also wrote a two-volume novel called “ A Winter
terest in our fellows. Even if not belonging in Washington, “' now exceedingly rare, which
to a class that likes to listen to gossip over a is valuable because of its faithful study of
back fence, we may still be of those who wel. Thomas Jefferson.
come a fresh bit of scandal - about Queen Eliza Such meagre outlines can easily be filled in
beth." And if history be, as Carlyle avers, with light, color, and movement, if one recalls
merely the biographies of great men, is it a that in the Washington of those days there were
thing to blush for that we are glad of any new peculiarly favorable opportunities for delight-
light upon their daily lives?
ful social intercourse and intimate friendships
The best biographers and diarists have been between people of refinement and intelligence,
men ; but when it comes to letter-writing, the such as are no longer possible in the beautiful
honors between men and women are more nearly city seething with politics and slowly but surely
equal. What an array of bright spirits is evoked coming under the benumbing influence of the
when we call the roll of women whose letters modern commercial spirit.
have been given to the world to tell us some Our story opens (to use a favorite phrase of
what of the precious old days that were before the Lady's Book age of American letters) with
Leisure died. It is a sorrowful thought that a description of the visits paid to the young
regards these writers as having no present suc wife, whose guests were “ treated to my wed-
cessors; forecasting a barren future for the his- ding cake." In the next sentence we learn
torian who is to come after this prosaic day of that “ Mrs. B(ell) brought us a large basket of
telephone, telegram, type-writer, and picture- sweet potatoes, and some fine cabbages,”—an
postal.
astonishing compliment, surely, to a bride! In
Since a volume of good old letters is a pos- returning the visit paid by Thomas Law
(brother to Lord Ellinborough) and his wife (a
Letters and Journals of Mrs. Samuel Harrison Smith (Margaret descendant of Lord Baltimore, and a grand-
Bayard). Edited by Gaillard Hunt. Illustrated. New York:
daughter of Mrs. Washington) Mr. and Mrs.
* THE FIRST FORTY YEARS OF WASHINGTON SOCIETY. From the
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see
a
-
Smith were persuaded to remain " and dine off Senate had adjourned in order to hear Mr. Clay; all
a fine turkey"; and they were conducted to the
the foreign ministers and suites, and many strangers,
kitchen to
admitted on the floor in addition to the members, ren-
called
“ contrivance”
der'd the House crowded. The gallery was full of
“ Ranger” on which the fowl had been roasted.
ladies, gentlemen, and men to a degree that endanger'd
A few days later, a modest gentleman called to it. Even the outer entries were thronged, and yet such
arrange about the publication of a MS. “ as silence prevailed that tho' at a considerable distance
legible as printing," which turned out to be
I did not lose a word. Mr. Clay was not only eloquent
but amusing, and more than once made the whole
the work known as “Jefferson's Manual,” the
House laugh. . . . Every person had expected him to
modest gentleman who brought it discovering be very severe on the President, and seemed rather
himself to be its author. Thus are we brought disappointed by his moderation. When Mr. Clay fin-
face to face with the real hero of Mrs. Smith's ished he came into the lobby for air and refreshment.
The members crowded around him, and I imagine by
writings. Her intimate personal study of Jef-
his countenance that what they whispered must have
ferson covers many years, and was conducted
been very agreeable. When he saw me he came and
in many places and through many scenes, but sat a few minutes by me.
I told him I had come pre-
always with a loyalty and sincerity which are pared to sit till evening, and was disappointed at his
creditable alike to both.
speech being so short: he said he had intended to have
spoken longer, but his voice had given out; he had
Following the inauguration of 1801, the
begun too loud and had exhausted himself. ... The
President's house was presided over by his gentlemen are grown very gallant and attentive, and
daughters, Mrs. Randolph and Mrs. Eppes, as it was impossible to reach the ladies through the
with the grace and dignity that have given them gallery, a new mode was invented of supplying them
an enviable position among the great ladies of
with oranges, etc They tied them up in handkerchiefs
to which was fixed a note indicating for whom it was
American society. The dinners which were fre designd, and then fastened to a long pole. This was
quently given by Jefferson were laid on a round taken to the floor of the house, and handed up to the
table at which twelve guests were seated ; and
ladies who sat in the front of the gallery. I imagine
the letters are filled with the sayings and doings
there were near 100 ladies there. So these presenta-
of the brilliant men who were making history midst of Mr. C.'s speech. "I saw the ladies near me
tions were frequent and quite amusing even in the
with every sentence they uttered and every were more accessible, and were more than supplied with
page they wrote, men upon whom we have oranges, cakes, etc. We divided what was brought with
come to look as the giants and ancients of our
each other, and were as social as if acquainted.”
own younger and smaller day. Like a thread No less quotable are passages describing the
of bright embroidery worked about the historic family life of William Wirt; the excitement
tapestry the men were weaving, are the names over the defeat of the now-forgotten Crawford ;
of the women who created the society in which the social upheaval which has passed into his-
they shone, - Mrs. Madison, Mrs. Cutts, Mrs. tory as the Peggy O'Neil incident; and the
Monroe, Mrs. Adams, Mrs. Wirt, Mrs. Clay, entertainments given in honor of Miss Marti-
Mrs. Calhoun. Like a panorama, we behold neau. Upon the deeper character and influence
the charming home-life of the Jeffersons at of the many notable men about her, Mrs.
Monticello and the Madisons at Montpelier ; Smith's comments are of no great value. A
the burning of the Capitol and other public woman's views of men and affairs are at best
buildings by the British, and the flight of the but a woman's views. But a clever woman is
terrified Washingtonians. We smile at Mrs. often able to see and portray the peculiar
Smith's alarm, which leads her to say: “I do
“ I do characteristics of an individual or an event in
not suppose Government will ever return to a way that is illuminating and valuable. It is
Washington. All those whose property was this quality in the letters of Margaret Bayarh
invested in the place will be reduced to poverty.” Smith that makes their publication well wortd
Smiles are called forth also by her lively por-
while.
SARA ANDREW SHAFER.
trayal of the scenes during Mr. Clay's Con-
gressional speech on the Seminole War, which
THE DRAMATIC AWAKENING AT OBERLIN, which has
is here partly reproduced.
marked its current college year, gives fresh evidence
• When I reached the Hall it was so crowded that it of itself in an announcement, from the classical depart-
was impossible to join my party, and after much hesi ment, of a projected performance of Aristophanes's
tation I consented to allow Mr. Taylor to take me on “ Clouds” toward the end of the spring term. This
the floor of the House, where he told me some ladies will be the first presentation of a Greek play in English
already were. In the House, or rather lobby of the translation that Oberlin has seen. (How many plays in
House, I found four ladies whom I had never before the original Greek Oberlin has given, we are not told.)
seen, all genteel and fashionable, and under the pro It is claimed, too, that this will be “ almost the first
tection of Mr. Mercer, who shook hands with me. The performance of “ The Clouds” in any American college.


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of the Carrousel and the groups of people moving in
THE FLIGHT OF MARIE ANTOINETTE.*
the court. The Queen looked out for a moment, and
An English translation of M. Lenotre's Le then hid herself once more in the gloom. . Under the
cold insensibility affected by the legal documents, one
Drame de Varennes appears with the title
can guess at the anguish that must have wrung the
“ The Flight of Marie Antoinette.” From the
heart of Marie Thérèse's daughter at this fatal hour.”
bookselling point of view, there is a certain
But she went out, saw the children safely in
utility in the change of title ; but the words
the carriage, and was again in her apartments
“ Drama of Varennes ” suggest more adequately by a quarter to eleven. The king's coucher
the spirit in which M. Lenotre has treated one
began at eleven. Lafayette arrived fifteen
of the most startling and tragic situations of the
minutes later. The king talked with him, but
French Revolution. Moreover, in his narrative
seemed preoccupied and went several times to
the queen is not the principal figure, although the window to observe the weather. The mo-
she is inevitably the heroine. The interest is
ment given the king for his escape was while
fixed, from beginning to end, upon the way in his valet was undressing in an adjoining room,
which every successive obstacle is passed by or
after he had assisted the king into bed and had
broken through, until, upon the very threshold drawn the curtains of the bedstead. When the
of security, the royal family is entangled in the
attendant returned, he fastened to his arm a
meshes of new difficulties, which are in part cord the other end of which was suspended on
simply the débris of previous obstacles swept the curtain near the king's hand as he supposed.
along in the flight. In one sense, the English He then lay down on his own cot,“ with his
title is more exactly descriptive than the French; customary care lest he should awake his master.”
for no account is given of the making of the
The further adventures of the family before
plot, the theme is the denouement and the final they were installed in the berline are better
catastrophe, including the humiliating return to
known.
Paris.
If one were inquiring about the dangers of
Those who are acquainted with M. Lenotre's historical rhetoric, it would be instructive, after
other work need not be reminded that he has finishing M. Lenotre's story, to read Carlyle’s
used the historical method as severely in deter-
account. Carlyle's positive errors have already
mining each detail of the story as if he were
been pointed out by Mr. Oscar Browning, or
engaged on a far duller task.
He refers to his by the recent editors of the “ French Revolu-
specifically, and is not afraid to
tion,” Mr. Fletcher and Mr. Rose; but the
insert an occasional long foot-note. But this
trouble is not in these errors so much as in the
method should not alarm the general reader.
total impression from the narrative, which is
The fulness and exactness of the author's in-
that we have here almost a comedy or farce,
formation has not impaired his sense for the rather than a drama which is deeply pathetic.
requirements of the story. The foot-notes are
Among the results of M. Lenotre's special
merely pertinent asides, to which the reader investigations is his conclusion about the recog-
may refuse to listen.
nition of the king. He discredits Drouet's tale,
The escape from the Tuileries is perhaps the showing from the official report of the muni-
most interesting group of incidents in the story, cipality of Ste. Ménehould that Drouet only
though not the most unfamiliar, because a single suspected the possible presence of the king and
false step might have defeated the design at did not think of communicating his suspicions
the outset; and yet the different members of
to the municipality until the carriage was gone
the party, in spite of minor mischances, suc-
an hour and a half. The king had already been
cessfully carried out the rôles assigned to them. recognized much earlier at Chaintrix, where the
The situation was rendered more hazardous by carriage arrived at half-past two in the after-
the necessity that the royal children be taken
The royal family took no pains to deny
to Count Fersen's carriage before the coucher.
their identity, and received the homage of the
The queen personally attended them, with
postmaster and his daughters. They were re-
Madame de Tourzel, passing through unused cognized again at Chalons, and M. Lenotre be-
rooms down toward the brilliantly lighted court lieves that from “ this time forward the news
yard, where she might be recognized.
of the fugitives' approach preceded them.” At
“They paused at the end of an empty room; through Ste. Ménehould, a barmaid spread the rumor
the huge glazed door they saw the glimmering lights
that the king was going to pass ; “everywhere
*THE FLIGHT OF MARIE ANTOINETTE. From the French of the inhabitants gave signs of being already in
G. Lenotre. By Mrs. Rodolph Stawell. Illustrated. Phila-
delphia : J. B. Lippincott Co.
an anxious and over-excited state, everywhere
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they crowded along the route of the berline." altogether delightful blend of invention and humor
It was this situation, every moment growing and bookishness and tender pathos and subtly iron-
more ominous, which aggravated the difficulty ical philosophy. The Vagabond is a masterpiece of
of keeping the dragoons at the place where
characterization. Once known to respectability as
Bouillé had ordered them to await the coming Gaston de Nérac, he has long since sloughed off the
of the royal carriage.
integuments of convention, and become a joyous
Bohemian, an oracle of the café, a peripatetic phi-
In one of his supplementary chapters, “ The
Case of Monsieur Léonard," M. Lenotre seems
losopher who can adapt himself to any environment
that does not mean the submission to artificial
hardly consistent with himself. He intimates
He intimates restraints. The manner of his emancipation was
that the alarmist reports spread by Léonard ac this : in his early days of respectability he was be-
count for the failure of the post horses to be at trothed to an English girl, having won her from his
their station in Varennes. In the general nar rival, a French nobleman whose wealth was equalled
rative, however, he says that the young officers
officers by his depravity. Her father being threatened with
in charge of the horses were waiting at the hotel disgrace, Gaston had made a quixotic bargain with
Grand Monarque, watching at the open windows
his rival, whereby the father was to be saved, and
for the approach of the couriers who should
the self-sacrificing lover was to disappear, apparently
tell them that the carriage was nearing the town.
deserting his betrothed. All this took place many
years ago. When the story opens, we find the hero
This statement gives the impression that there
in a London garret, and in the act of adopting a
was a misunderstanding; for Valory, acting as small boy of the slums, in whose breast he has de-
courier, did not enter the town, although he tected a spark of genius. This boy joins his fortunes
reached it a quarter of an hour before the ber- with those of his benefactor, receives a surprising
line arrived.
education from this companionship, and becomes the
In the supplementary chapters may be found chronicler of all that follows. The dull streets of
examples of the sort of work in M. Lenotre's London are soon exchanged for the friendly boule-
previous books, including four volumes on
vards of Paris and the sunny highways of France.
Revolutionary Paris. For the lovers of a good picaresque nature, interspersed with expositions of
There follow many adventures of a more or less
story, as well as for those who wish to study the vagabond philosophy. Toward the close, there
side-lights on the Revolution, and who may not
is an interlude, occasioned by the death of the
be able to read French, it would be fortunate
French nobleman, and his widow's discovery of the
were a selection made from these volumes for
truth about her old-time lover. She seeks him out,
translation.
HENRY E. BOURNE. their love is declared anew, and he makes a des-
perate effort to become respectable once more. The
experiment might have worked had it been con-
ducted in Paris, but a brief sojourn in an English
RECENT FICTION.*
provincial town proves fatal to its success. The
Those who are acquainted with the fascinating vagabond tries vainly to submit to the regimen of
history of Marcus Ordeyne his morals will need no
clothes and cleanliness, of abstinence and decorum,
word of commendation for “ The Beloved Vaga-
and makes a pathetic attempt to fit his conversation
bond.” Mere announcement of the fact that Mr. to the vacuous thought of his new associates. After
Locke has produced another novel will be sufficient a few weeks of silent martyrdom, he can endure it
to set them on its trail. And they will not be dis-
no longer, and bolts for his beloved Paris, where he
appointed, for the new story is no whit inferior to
relieves his pent-up feelings in a glorious spree and
its predecessor, which means that it offers the same
the congenial companionship of some amazingly
abandoned rascals. Having thus restored his equi-
* THE BELOVÈD VAGABOND. By William J. Locke. New
librium, he weds a buxom peasant damsel, and
York: John Lane Co.
SOPHY OF KRAVONIA. By Anthony Hope. New York: Harper
prepares to end his days on a small farm which he
is just able to purchase with what remains of his
HENRY NORTHCOTE. By John Collis Snaith. Boston: Herbert
capital. Il faut cultiver notre jardin becomes his
THE CALL OF THE BLOOD. By Robert Hichens. New York:
watchword, Voltaire replacing Rabelais. What we
have written may do well enough for an outline of
THE AVENGING HOUR. By H. F. Prevost Battersby. New
the story, but it can convey no notion whatever of
York: D. Appleton & Co.
CHIPPINGE BOROUGH. By Stanley J. Weyman. New York:
the character of the hero, who is one of the most
McClure, Phillips & Co.
genial and human figures ever encountered within
SIR JOHN CONSTANTINE. By A. T. Quiller-Couch. New York: the pages of a book. It would take a very stern
Charles Scribner's Sons.
moralist indeed to find him, despite his obvious
DOUBLOONS. By Eden Phillpotts and Arnold Bennett. New
York: McClure, Phillips & Co.
faults, anything but sympathetic and lovable in all
THE WHITE PLUME. By S. R. Crockett. New York: Dodd, the phases even the most sordid — of his pictur-
THE ILLUSTRIOUS O'HAGAN. By Justin Huntly McCarthy.
esque and eccentric career.
New York: Harper & Brothers.
Kravonia is a principality to be sought on the
& Brothers.
B. Turner & Co.
Harper & Brothers,
Mead & Co.


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map somewhere in the vicinity of Zenda, and is, but the former has a strain of Italian blood in his
like most of the states of the mythical group to veins, and it runs riot when he takes his bride to
which it belongs, the sport of diplomatic intrigue. Sicily for the honeymoon. Instincts awake in him
Its prince is sorely beset by enemies, but when he that might never have declared themselves under
acquires a princess, in the shape of a beautiful En the gray English skies, and he enters into the joy-
glish maiden transformed from a lowly maid ous existence of the island peasants and fisher-folk
servant into a captivating adventuress – his for with results that prove disastrous. The cause of
tunes change, and he gives his foes a run for their his undoing, and of the wreck of the bride's happi-
money. Unhappily, he is killed just when triumph ness, is a girl of the people, whose unsophisticated
is at hand, and his princess goes into exile cherish charm stirs his dormant passions, and finally lures
ing the memory of the glorious weeks of the con him to death. For this inevitable outcome every
flict. Mr. Hope's hand has lost little of its cunning chapter and episode of the book help to prepare
since the days when he invented Zenda, and his the way, and the author, with a fine artistic mar-
“Sophy of Kravonia” is a capital story, albeit the shalling of his materials, brings the long-impending
type is now somewhat worn.
tragedy to its appropriate climax. In respect of
Mr. John Collis Snaith is a writer comparatively scene-painting, dramatic construction, and emotional
new to fame, but his “Henry Northcote ” is a book force alike, the book deserves unusual praise.
to be reckoned with. It is a tragedy of ambition, Owen Davenant, the hero of Mr. H. F. Prevost
sombre in its coloring and questionable in its mor Battersby's “The Avenging Hour," is on his way
ality, but possessed of a compelling force that is far from London to South Wales, where Lord St. Osyth,
out of the common. The hero is a penniless bar the aged kinsman from whom he expects to inherit,
rister who must be described as a megalomaniac. lives in a remote castle with the young wife who has
He is fairly bursting with the consciousness of his recently accepted the offer of his hand and what
power to become a leader of men, if only oppor remained of his heart. The only other occupant of
tunity may
be granted him, but is meanwhile starv the railway carriage in which Davenant travels is a
ing in a garret. In the lowest deep of misery, the woman of such alluring charm that he cultivates her
coveted opportunity comes to him in the form of a acquaintance as speedily as the circumstances will
brief, which charges him with the defence of a de- allow, and is aided therein by certain fortuitous hap-
praved woman, a murderess whose crime is beyond penings, chief among which is an accident to the
the shadow of a doubt. He conducts the defence, line which considerably lengthens the journey. To
and secures her acquittal by an appeal of dæmonic put the matter bluntly, he has accomplished her se-
eloquence to the jury. The tragedy of the situa duction before the journey's end, and then learns, to
tion is psychological, for he knows in his heart that his consternation, that they have the same destina-
his plea is sophistical and that his motive is sheer tion, and that she is no other than the wife of the
personal ambition. This consciousness turns the kinsman whom he is about to visit. This is a start-
victory to dust and ashes in his mouth, and he is ling situation indeed, yet a situation managed with
almost at the point of renouncing the brilliant posi so much delicacy and literary art as to seem far
tion which his forensic triumph has won for him. less shocking than it ought to seem, and of course
But with a mighty resolve, he casts all scruples to
The next move in the game is to intro-
the winds, murders the woman whose life he has duce the aged husband, and to represent him as a
just saved, destroys the evidence of his crime by very vulgar and disagreeable person, thereby creat-
burning the building in which her body lies, and ing a distinct prepossession in favor of his erring
faces the future without feeling, as far as we are wife. This is deftly done, but even then Davenant's
permitted to perceive, a tinge of remorse. This does decent instincts (for he has them) make his stay
not make a pleasant story, but its grip is undeniable. under that roof intolerable, and he departs on a
It is also remarkable for the way in which it pre- military expedition to Africa, where he takes long
serves the classical unities, for the entire action chances, leads forlorn hopes, and escapes unscathed
covers only a period of three days. We may
add in accordance with the accepted conventions of this
that no one who begins to read it will be likely to sort of melodrama. While thus far away news
delay as long as that in reaching the closing page. comes to him that St. Osyth is dead, but that illict
The “Call of the Blood” is a worthy successor to love has borne its fruit, and that, by the strictest
“ The Garden of Allah,” hitherto the masterpiece of poetic justice, his sin has become the instrument of
Mr. Robert Hichens. It offers the same combination his undoing, for the posthumous child is the legal
of glowing color, picturesque setting, and psycholo- inheritor of the estate. Still later, the child dies,
gical interest. The scene is Sicily, which is suffi which somehow seems to make it possible for the
ciently tropical a country to justify the warmth of lovers to come together, and the whole miserable
treatment which characterized the African romance business is patched up after the fashion which was
first named. Mr. Hichens works up his material to be expected at least by the confirmed reader
with great thoroughness, and in this case, as in the of modern sex-fiction. The teller of this story dis-
other, has submitted himself to the influences of guises its essential repulsiveness by a skilful use of
the environment until he has become saturated with the casuistry of sentiment and the grace of literary
its spirit. His hero and heroine are both English, I composition those insidious devices by which the
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modern novelist contrives to blur every principle the invasion of Corsica, the expulsion of the Genoese,
he pleases, and make almost any atrocious act seein and the establishment of Prosper upon the throne
ethically plausible.
an easy matter, in the estimation of our modern
“ Chippinge Borough,” Mr. Weyman's new novel, Don Quixote. The army of invasion (numbering
is not unprovided with those elements of per seven in all) is collected, and sails merrily for the
sonal and sentimental interest that go to the making Mediterranean. A skirmish with Barbary pirates
of popular fiction, but it is essentially a novel of threatens to imperil the expedition, which, however,
political history, and the Reform Bill is its real in somewhat battered condition finally lands upon
subject. The hazardous fortunes of that measure, the Corsican shores. Hardly has this haven been
and its ultimate triumph, are matters of such tre- reached, when Prosper falls into the hands of
mendous importance so vividly set forth that by brigands, who turn out to be under the leadership
comparison the fortunes of the rather colorless hero of a young man and woman, brother and sister, who
and heroine seem unexciting. It is not that these are the legitimate children of Theodore and Emilia,
figures, and the others subsidiary to them, are badly and consequently the real heirs to whatever titles
done, for Mr. Weyman is too skilled a story-teller and dignities those royal personages have the power
to give us puppets for human beings; but they to transmit. But even these young people are with-
somehow tend to become accessories to an action out honor in their native country, for suspicion
which has issues far more fateful than those which attaches to their past, and meanwhile the Paolis are
concern any of the individuals involved. Chippinge rallying the patriotic forces of the island to their
is one of the rotten boroughs menaced by the Bill, own standard. So we have the situation of the
and barely escapes being wiped off the political map. legitimate heirs to the kingdom fugitives in the
Its two seats have hitherto been the undisputed macchia, and the innocent English pretender a
property of one Robert Vermuyden, who is a most captive in their hands. The plot works out by disclos-
uncompromising Tory. His kinsman and putative ing the despicable and treacherous character of the
heir is a young man who becomes infected with Prince, and the passionate and high-hearted temper
radical notions, and is daring enough to oppose the of the Princess. The obvious solution (since his-
Vermuyden interest by joining with the reformers. torical fact does not permit either Prince or Princess
He is also sentimental enough to fall in love with a or Pretender to achieve a throne) is for Prosper
demure schoolmistress, which complicates matters
and the Princess to fall in love with one another
a good deal, since the young woman turns out to be (which they do in course of time) and in the end to
old Vermuyden's daughter, long mourned for dead. sail away together from the distracted island. As for
The tangle is straightened out, as a matter of course, Sir John, he dies fighting the Genoese, and his end
the Bill passes the Lords, and one of Chippinge’s is no less heroic than the rest of his career. The
seats is saved from the wreck.
Among historical other figures in the romance awaken our interest;
figures, Brougham figures strikingly in the story; he alone commands our love.
and among historical happenings, there is a fine
picture of the Bristol riots. On the whole, we must Arnold Bennett appear conjointly upon the title-
congratulate the author upon what is very nearly if page of " Doubloons.” Reading the story, we find
not quite the best of all his novels.
it to be the tale of a mysterious crime in London
Corsica in the middle of the eighteenth century, followed by a mysterious expedition to the Carib-
struggling under Paoli to escape from Genoese rule, bean in search of buried Spanish gold. This com-
offers a fine field for historical romance, and Mr. bination of “Sherlock Holmes and “ Treasure
Quiller-Couch has made the most of it in his “ Sir Island” is pleasing in its simple fashion, but what is
John Constantine.” But Paoli is not the hero of this Mr. Phillpotts doing in that galley? We refuse to
tale, for invention has come to the aid of history, associate him with so preposterous a yarn, and in-
and supplied more legitimate claimants for the sist that his literary partner must be held chiefly
Corsican throne in the offspring of one King Theo- responsible. The London part of the story is bet-
dore, an adventurer of somewhat shady character, ter than its sequel, and provides a thrill for every
but, according to the novelist's scheme, of unques- chapter. After a while, the complication becomes
tionably royal authenticity. Brought to the degra so great that there is nothing for it but to cut loose
dation of a debtor's prison in London, this exalted and take refuge in foreign parts. Meanwhile, all
scapegrace obtains succor from an Englishman, Sir sorts of loose ends are left hanging, and some of
John Constantine, an old-time lover of the woman them are not gathered up at all.
who, by marriage with Theodore, had become for “The White Plume," by Mr. S. R. Crockett,
a brief period Queen Emilia of Corsica. He is a once more drags long-suffering Henry into the lime-
quixotic old gentleman with an only son, for whom light. Among those who surround him upon the
he has conceived great ambitions. Between the stage are his easy-going consort, the wicked Queen-
exiled king and the Englishman a bargain is struck. mother with her flying squadron, the other and
Theodore declares that he has no children living weaker Henry who is King of France, and the sin-
(although he knows that he has) and, in considera ister Guise. Far off in Spain, the spider Philip is
tion of certain moneys, makes over to Prosper, Sir seen in his web in the Escorial, spinning the threads
John's son, the royal title. There now remain only 1 of intrigue. A prologue to the tale gives us St.
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as
Bartholomew and the murder of Coligny. Given “Mosby's Guerrillas.” The regular troops of
these materials, a historical romance of the conven the Confederacy thought that too many privileges
tional type makes itself, and the considerable interest were given to Mosby and his men; the Federal
of the present example must be attributed in part commanders thought that the Rangers ought to be
only to the ingenuity of its fabricator. Still, Mr. hanged, and they did hang some of them, but
Crockett has put his historical facts (duly supple- | Mosby retaliated, and since he could hang about a
mented by sentimental inventions) to skilful use, hundred to one, he thus stopped that plan of deal-
and made the old story quite readable again. ing with his men. Mr. Munson, the author of this
“ The Illustrious O'Hagan” is the title of Mr. book, joined the Rangers when seventeen years of
Justin Huntly McCarthy's new novel, and the age and served until the final surrender. Judging
Illustrious O'Hagan is its hero. The first thing to from the tone of his book, he was much in love with
be explained about this hero is that there are two of the life of the Rangers. Most of his narrative is
him — twins so closely alike that their friends can about what he himself saw and took part in. He
hardly tell them apart. He (or they) became
He (or they) became informs us that the chief object of Mosby, who
“ illustrious” by fighting under the French king at operated within the Federal lines, was to secure
Fontenoy. Afterwards, one of him goes to the Morea information for Lee and Stuart, to protect Southern
and gets killed. The other, resting on his laurels in sympathizers outside of the Confederate lines, to
Paris, is summoned to a little German principality capture supplies, and to “
capture supplies, and to "annoy the enemy.' In
to rescue a sweetheart of his youth from her brute the latter purpose General Grant complained that
of a husband. He starts blithely on the adventure, it took 17,000 of his men to look after Mosby's
and is soon followed by his brother, who is conve four hundred. The region in which the Rangers
niently resuscitated at this juncture, being needed operated embraced Fauquier and Loudoun counties,
in the novelist's business. The scene is henceforth about a hundred and fifty miles from Richmond,
in Schlafingen, where the maiden is in sore distress, near the Blue Ridge Mountains. This was called
and where we learn that her princely husband is “Mosby's Confederacy,” and of Mosby's rule here
even more of a brute than we had ventured to the author says: “ During the war all local govern-
anticipate. Since the O'Hagan is now doubled - ment in that country was suspended. . . . The
a fact unknown to anyone but himself
he is ena-
people looked to Mosby to make the necessary laws
bled to work for her rescue in two places at once, and to execute them; and no country before, during,
which gives him a decided advantage in the game. or since the war, was ever better governed. Mosby
Of course the rescue is effected, and then the super would not permit a man to commit a crime in
fluous O'Hagan and the brutal prince kill each other his domain. One of his men, in a spirit of deviltry,
in a welter of gore, which is just as well for both once turned over an old Quaker farmer's milk cans,
parties, since one of them is not fit to live, and the and when Mosby heard of it he ordered me to take
other is badly wanted (for a hanging matter) in the man over .. to General Early with the mes-
England. Here ends our entertainment, a romantic sage that such a man was not fit to be a Guerilla.”
one withal, and a merry.
It was a rare body of reckless young fighters whose
WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE. exploits are chronicled in this volume. With the
help of this description of the possibilities of guerrilla
warfare, we may gain a conception of the service
rendered to both South and North by General Lee
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
when he refused to countenance such a method of
prolonging the contest. The recent statements of
Something unique in the way of war
Mosby's Rangers recollections is Mr. J. W. Munson's
Mr. Charles Francis Adams on this point have an
in the Civil War.
added force when one thinks of the conditions that
Reminiscences of a Mosby Guer-
would have followed had there been hundreds of
rilla" (Moffat, Yard & Co.). Heretofore the public
has known little of the real life of that famous war
such organizations in the remote districts of the
South.
band commanded by John S. Mosby, who in 1864
General Grant tried to capture and hang, who in
The non-professional critic is likely
1872 was a political lieutenant of President Grant, relisher of the
to be fresher and more inspiring in
and in 1907 is said to be one of the advisers of best literature.
relating his adventures among books
President Roosevelt on Southern affairs. This book than is the practised writer on the same themes,
throws much light upon the character of the com with all his critical apparatus of gauges and stand-
mand -- its leader, the members, and its methods of ards and measurements and tests, his stereotyped
warfare. There is not a word about constitutional phrases, and the approved cant and jargon of his
theories, nothing about State Rights, no latter-day calling. Mr. Bradford Torrey, like his fellow na-
historical philosophizing, no description of conditions turalist, Mr. John Burroughs, can chat to us as
in the South during and after the war, nothing, in pleasantly about books as about birds. His “ Friends
short, except a lively account of the fighting life of on the Shelf” (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.) is chiefly
the Forty-third Virginia Battalion of Partisan a reprint of “Atlantic" essays on literary subjects,
Rangers, commonly known in both North and South taking its title from FitzGerald's words in one of
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are !
his letters, “I must get back to my
friends on the Confessions” – as if ingenuous simplicity could
shelf.” He treats of Hazlitt, FitzGerald, Thoreau anywhere be found in the rhetorical De Quincey, -
(most admirably, of course), Stevenson, Keats, M. but later admits that “the difference between the
Anatole France, sundry matters of style, travellers' editions of De Quincey's 'Opium Eater' is sufficient
notebooks, and our alleged lack of a national litera to show how the dreams have expanded under
ture. An enamored reader, he writes with a charm- popular approbation.” Of the writing of essays on
ing disclaimer of being anything but a taster and Thoreau there is no end in sight. A little search
relisher. But "self-dispraise goes little ways," as discovers half a hundred by authors of more or less
the essayist himself admits, and “the good critic is repute in English and American books and maga-
he who narrates the adventures of his own mind in zines, besides the increasing number of formal bio-
its intercourse with masterpieces,” says M. Anatole graphies. In this field Mr. Rickett says nothing
France, as quoted by Mr. Torrey. Some little mat- strikingly new, but he says enough to betray his
ters to quarrel over might easily be singled out. For own unfamiliarity with Thoreau's haunts, if not
instance, when the writer declares that FitzGerald even with his books. We read that « Thoreau turned
“meant to be obscure,” is he indisputably in the his back on civilization, and found a new joy of
right? We all know that our English Omar cared living in the woods at Maine.” The three brief
not for “rank and office and title, and all the excursions into Maine, as related in “The Maine
solemn plausibilities of the world "; but in recalling Woods,” are apparently confused with the sojourn
his repeated self-depreciation and his frequent hu- at Walden. The expression, “the woods at Maine,"
morous references to the great world's disregard occurs again later. Perhaps Maine is thought to be
of his literary and critical endowments, one should the town in which Walden Pond lies. Even gram-
also remember that (to quote Mr. Torrey in another matical slips occur in this unfortunate essay, as
connection) “the more considerable a man's gifts, “The riotous growth of eccentricities and idiosyn-
the more likely he is to speak disparagingly of crasies are picturesque enough"; and, with a reck-
them.” A keen sense of the mocking irony of fate less piling up of perfect tenses, “ But one would
in snatching from our reach the very prize we most have liked to have heard much more about them."
covet and seem to ourselves (in secret) most to Borrow is “six foot three” in height. These agree-
deserve, is not exactly the same as a deliberate re able essays are not epoch-making — how few books
solve never to win that prize. In his blunt bidding
but they offer many a page of good reading,
of his friends to do no more than acknowledge the none the worse for being on well-worn themes.
receipt of his little books, unless they found some-
The publishers of Professor W. I.
thing to censure, may be detected FitzGerald's rec-
the evolution
Thomas's volume of studies in the
ognition of the perilous sweetness of praise. The
of Woman.
naturalist peeps forth, welcomely, in many a passage Society” (University of Chicago Press), have
social psychology of sex, "Sex and
of Mr. Torrey's, as for example" – a good quotation thought it desirable to issue with it a statement that
to end with “If a man is not greater than the
greatest thing he does, the less said about him and
the press notices commenting upon its concluding
them the better. His work should drop from him
chapter (which appeared earlier in periodical form)
like fruit from a tree. Henceforth let the world
have caused it to be misinterpreted in the direction
look after it, if it is worth looking after. The tree
of an ungallant appraisal of the mentality of the
should have other business."
gentler and more sensitive sex. It is most unfortu-
nate that the insatiable reporter should have seized
What constitutes the vagabond poet
Some studies
upon this material for plying his sensational trade;
of literary or essayist or story-writer? In his but since he has done so it is pertinent to state that
vagabonds.
book, “The Vagabond in Literature" Professor Thomas's volume is a sober and for the
(Dutton), Mr. Arthur Rickett declares the charac most part objective study of the influences shaping
teristic qualities to be restlessness, a passion for the the life of woman, particularly among primitive
earth, and constitutional reserve; and the writers peoples in the longer reaches of uncivilized man-
whom he finds especially marked by these attributes kind. So far as deductions go, the conclusion is at
are Hazlitt, De Quincey, Borrow, Thoreau, Stevenson, least equally direct that with the removal of these
Jefferies, and Whitman. He distinguishes between "anthropological” disabilities the mental powers of
bohemianism and vagabondage, and though some of the feminine mind will be released to a freer and
his distinctions and definitions seem strained, and fuller expression of its capabilities. Apart from
many of his opinions are expressed with the finality this concluding chapter, which is indeed open to
and certainty of scientific truths, the essays on his criticism as maintained upon a less consistent plan
chosen seven authors are good as literary apprecia- of exposition than pervades the others, the volume
tions from a particular point of view, and are likely consists of a group of carefully elaborated and well
to send more than one reader back again to the sustained essays upon the organic differences of the
imperishable pages
of the writers discussed. Mr. sexes, the rôle of sex in primitive social control,
Rickett now and then splits hairs, as in calling De social feeling, industry, morality, family life, and
Quincey “ a simple nature and a complex tempera the evolution of modesty; while the trend of the
ment.” He speaks of “the frank confidence of his argument is best brought to a focus in the very in-
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teresting chapter upon the adventitious character of
woman. In these delicate fields, among mooted data
and conspicuous temptations to hasty inference and
convenient though misleading formulæ, Professor
Thomas moves with an expert discernment, discloses
many a shortcoming in prevalent doctrine, and builds
up a consistent objective picture of woman's socio-
logical status. Sociology is a new science, and by
its invasion of a field in which all who run may
read, and all who read may write or argue, is beset
with peculiar liability to misinterpretation which
may take the shape of ridicule. Professor Thomas
should not be held responsible for the vagaries com-
mitted under the name of his science, nor for the
popular distortion to which his views and his subject-
matter lend themselves.
under the title, “ A Queen of Indiscretions.” Lives
of Queen Caroline, ill-starred consort of George IV.,
there were already in abundance; but it appears
that Signor Clerici has had access to hitherto unused
“Italian records, both in public departments and in
private owne
nership.” Consequently his pages pre-
sent fresh incidents that may modify opinion as to
the guilt or innocence of the indiscreet lady who so
narrowly escaped conviction of something worse
than indiscretion. The Italian author's severity of
judgment is balanced by the English editor's lenity;
and between the two Caroline comes off rather as
frivolous and frail than as deliberately profligate
and licentious. The poor foolishly-reared girl was
by no means a Messalina of wickedness. The mys-
tery of her early separation from her royal spouse
remains a mystery still, though the author attempts
an explanation by comparing George IV. in certain
emotional and physiological respects to Rousseau,
and by finding in both (as he thinks) a congenital
defect incapacitating them for marriage. Even the
Princess Charlotte's alleged resemblance to her sup-
posed father is not allowed to invalidate this fanciful
theory. The English reader well versed in his naval
history will note the vague reference to Admiral
Sir William Sidney Smith as “a certain Sydney
Smith.” The index calls him "Captain Sir Sydney
Smith ”; but under his portrait the name is correctly
given. The index, by the way, is evidently not the
work of an expert, its entries being unwisely chosen
and grouped, and the page references inexact. Under
Pergami, Bartolomeo,” for instance, at least four
page numbers lead one astray. There is a lack, too,
throughout the narrative, of definite acknowledg-
ment of sources; the reader follows his author
blindly. Fifty-seven portraits and portrait-groups
are interspersed.
Again Mr. H. B. Walters comes be-
Art of the
fore the reading world with a book
Greeks.
that ought to be highly valuable, and
again that world has good reason to be disappointed.
In “The Art of the Greeks,” no less than in his
“ History of Ancient Pottery,” the author falls far
short of his opportunity. The best of the books in
the same field is now a decade old, and a decade
makes great changes in the facts and theories of
archæology in such an excavating age as ours.
The new work is far more imposing than the older
one, more handsome and ambitious; but it takes
no account of the Kaufmann head in discussing
the Cnidian Aphrodite of Praxiteles. It dismisses
Furtwängler's monumental work at Aegina with
the: remark, “A few additions have been made
from the recent excavations, but nothing of special
importance.” It says of the Farnese Bull, that
" It was removed to Rome and there preserved to
this day,” when even the most casual visitor to the
Naples Museum any time these eighty years must
have seen that conspicuous group, whatever else
may have escaped him. Such faults are hard to
excuse; but the numerous and handsome illustra-
Pioneers of
The Westward movement, which in
our national spite of its preeminent importance
expansion.
has only recently begun to receive
the attention that it should have from students of
the history of our country, is narrated in a pleasant
popular manner by Mr. Archer Butler Hulbert in
his “ Pilots of the Republic: The Romance of the
Pioneer Promoter in the Middle West” (McClurg).
As the title indicates, this movement of our popu-
lation and institutions across the Alleghanies and
into the farther West is characterized and described
through accounts, which may originally have been
popular lectures, of some of the leading promoters
of these various expeditions or enterprises, - those
heroes and patriots who personally led these pioneer
undertakings and endured their toils and dangers,
or those who, hardly less heroes and no less patriots,
inspired others to undertake the forward movement
of our national expansion and to suffer in many
cases the fate of pioneers. These men are well
worth reading about, and any book that can make
them live again for us of a quieter and less adventur-
ous time is a useful one. The “promoters” whom
Mr. Hulbert includes are: Washington, the story of
whose life-long interest in the West and untiring
efforts to open it to settlement and commerce make
the most interesting chapter in the book ; Richard
Henderson, the founder of Transylvania, that first
invasion of the red men's country west of the
Alleghany mountains ; Rufus Putnam, the father of
Ohio; David Zeisberger, the devoted missionary ;
George Rogers Clark; Henry Clay, the promoter of
the Cumberland Road; Morris and Clinton, fathers
of the Erie Canal; Thomas and Mercer, rival pro-
moters of railway and canal farther south; Lewis
and Clark; Astor, the promoter of Astoria ; and
Marcus Whitman of Oregon. Sixteen portraits add
value and interest to the book.
66
ancient
Professor Graziano Paolo Clerici's
* The longest
scandal of the "Il più Lungo Scandalo del Secolo
19th century." XIX.,” which appeared about three
years ago in Italy, has been translated and supple-
mented by Mr. Frederic Chapman, and handsomely
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tions do what they can by way of compensation. she, woman-like, omits to record when she was born;
They are of unusual value, both because of their nor does she present anything like a full account of
excellence and their variety, and because they repro her life, but touches lightly and pleasantly, some-
duce many subjects not otherwise easily accessible times wittily, on persons and events that have in-
to the general public. Among such old-time favor terested her. Among her favorite pursuits are to
ites as the Aphrodite from Melos, the Laocoon, and be noted the collecting of old hand-made buttons,
the victory from Samothrace, are pictures less often and the practice of horticulture, wood-carving, and
seen. Reproductions of vases and of such bronzes book-illumination. Well-disposed toward America
as the charioteer from Delphi, the youth dredged because she has always found American visitors
up near the island of Cythera, and Mr. Pierpont "courteous, clever, and altogether most attractive,"
Morgan's Eros, are so rare except in books designed she yet cannot forgive us for luring Sir Purdon
for specialists that it is gratifying to find so many Clarke over to New York to preside over the
and such good ones in this work of more popular Metropolitan Museum. A clever characterization
character. The type is in its way as pleasing to the of the Greville Memoirs is quoted by her: “ It is as
eye as the pictures are in theirs. The publishers if Judas Iscariot wrote the lives of the twelve
(Macmillan) have produced such a charming book Apostles”; also Sir William Harcourt's comment on
in all external respects that it seems a pity it should his son's marriage: “I have but one objection-
not be equally satisfying to the mind of the classical that I could not marry the bride myself.” The
scholar.
writer thinks the purchasing power of money
“ Life in Ancient Athens,” by Doctor greater now than in her youth which, if it be
Sketches of the
golden period T. G. Tucker, Professor of Classical true, cannot long remain so with prices advancing
of Athenian life. Philology in the University of Mel-
at the present rate. Of a very tall custodian at the
bourne, is the latest of the Macmillan “Handbooks
Munich Glyptothek she says, “ He might, indeed,
of Archaeology and Antiquities.” The volume
have been a soldier in the great Frederick’s famous
is a treatise on Athenian life at its most attract regiment of giants !” It was the great Frederick's
ive period - that is, roughly speaking, the cen-
father, Frederick William, who collected giants ; the
tury beginning with 440 B. C. — and is presented
son attached more value to brain than brawn. A
in an easy, readable “footnoteless form for the
portrait of Lady Dorothy, from a crayon drawing,
general reader, although the author endeavors to is provided as frontispiece.
incorporate the results of even the most recent in-
It is no idle use of the term as ap-
vestigations. The first sixteen chapters treat of
" Psychology
of Religious plied to Professor Pratt's study of
such subjects as Public Buildings, Citizens, Out Belief." religious belief, to say that it pre-
landers, Slaves, Women, Social Day of a Typical
sents a very sane attitude toward the complex data
Citizen, Army and Navy, Festivals, and the Thea-
involved. Its sanity consists of a wholesome and
tre. The seventeenth chapter deals with the Modern-
equally a discerning determination to view the facts
ness of the Athenians. The eighty-five illustrations
as they are, and as finding an illumination in the
are generally well chosen and modern, although not
teachings of modern psychology as embodied in the
a few of them are pretty familiar the restoration
modern man. The sustaining position of the thesis
of the Acropolis, for instance, being our old friend
from Schreiber's Atlas. The general style may be
is that religious belief, conformably to the status of
belief as a psychological product, presents itself in
characterized in the author's words as the
oppo three forms which are concisely formulated as the
site of pedantic, utilizing any vivacities of method
religion of primitive credulity, the religion of
which are consistent with truth of fact”; and it must
thought, and the religion of feeling. The psycho-
be admitted that these vivacities are sometimes of
logical foundation of the former is reached in the
inevitable ananalysed attitude of the psychic novice,
achieves its modest aim, which at once disarms the child or the savage,
that of acceptance, of
criticism; but it rather suffers from the inevitable
reaction in a positive and simple manner to the
comparison with some of the other members of the
situations of life. Among these are beliefs as well
same series, as Professor Ernest Gardner's admir-
as customs ; and thus tradition and the religion of
able “ Handbook of Greek Sculpture,” or Professor
primitive credulity are formed and preserved. With
A. H.J. Greenidge's concise presentation of Roman
experience comes reason, analysis, and doubt; and
Public Life.”
in the positive religious field, dogma and theology.
Lady Dorothy Fanny (Walpole)
A volume
Yet underlying all is the true motive that makes
of " trifling Nevill, daughter of the third Earl of mystics of some, brings conversion to others, and
reminiscences."
Orford (second creation), and widow engenders prayer, devotion, and the sensitiveness to
of the late Reginald Nevill, has published her the eternal mysteries. These phases are exemplified
“Reminiscences” (Longmans) — “this volume of in the great historical religions, as well as in the
trifling reminiscence" she modestly styles the book unfoldment of every thoughtful life. They are rein-
in her dedication to the Marquis of Abergavenny forced in a somewhat novel manner in the present
- and her son, Mr. Ralph Nevill, has acted as her volume by an analysis of the responses to a religious
editor. Though she begins her book with her birth, “questionaire.” The author believes strongly in the
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Rocks and
into soils.
temperamental and emotional nature of the religious a very interesting and suggestive book, and we particu-
experience, which in a measure has thus an organic larly recommend to the teachers into whose hands it
foundation in the subconscious mode of reaction to falls the chapter which tells how Blake's “Tiger” was
the elemental psychic stimuli. As a simple and direct
brought by the author within the comprehension of a
presentation of religious-mindedness, the essay is to
boy of eight. We have rarely seen as sensible a book
be commended.' (Macmillan.)
upon the subject with which it deals.
The April issue of “ Putnam's Monthly” will contain
That a new edition of Dr. George the opening chapters of a three-part serial by Mr.
their change P. Merrill's “Rocks, Rock Weather Maurice Hewlett, author of “ The Forest Lovers,"
ing, and Soils” is called for speaks
“ Little Novels of Italy,” etc. It is a romance entitled
for the continued usefulness of this well-known
“ The Countess of Picpus,” and records the stirring
The present edition (Macmillan) follows
adventures of Captain Brazenhead in a picturesque
closely the plan of the first one published in 1897. period of French history.
As before, the work is essentially a compilation.
Commander Peary's complete story of his great Arc-
tic expedition which made a new world's record and
There has been very little attempt to harmonize planted the Stars and Stripes “ farthest north,” will
conflicting views, and almost none at independent be published by Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Company
interpretation. The pages devoted to rocks and this month under the title of « Nearest the Pole."
to soils reflect current views rather than suggest There will be an introduction by President Roosevelt,
new ones. The chapters devoted to rock-weathering and the work will be adequately illustrated from the
are the best in the book, and constitute in the collection of 1,200 photographs taken by Commander
aggregate our most authoritative treatise on this Peary.
subject. In them Dr. Merrill gives the results of
In addition to E. Phillips Oppenheim's new book,
personal investigations, and is at his best. His con-
“The Malefactor,” Messrs. Little, Brown & Co.'s early
clusions are interesting and suggestive, but subject
publications include novels by George Frederic Turner,
to all the doubt incident to the necessity of making Wire Tappers "; Anna Chapin Ray, whose romances of
an English author; Arthur Stringer, who wrote “The
in each case a first assumption as to the stability modern Quebec are well known; Eliza Calvert Hall,
of some one element in the rock. The fact that
a Kentucky writer; John H. Whitson, who has forsaken
the element chosen differs with each rock indicates Western scenes for the East; Ellis Meredith, a Colorado
that there is no great certainty as to this assump-
author; and Lucy M. Thurston, who wrote “ A Girl of
tion. The book is especially useful to readers who
Virginia."
desire a knowledge of the general facts and princi-
Mr. M. S. Levussove's monograph upon the work of
ples involved in the study of rocks and their change
E. M. Lilien, published by Mr. B. W. Huebsch, will en-
into soils.
able the reader to comprehend the motive of an artist
inspired by the national renascence of the Jews as
expressed in the modern Zionistic movement. - Four-
teen reproductions from the black and white designs of
NOTES.
this artist, whose manner reflects that of the Munich
“ Secessionists,” bear witness to a symbolism at once
Mr. Booker T. Washington's biography of Frederick
lucid and forcible, and to the optimistic confidence for
Douglass, promised last year by Messrs. George W.
the future of the Jews as an agricultural race in Pales-
Jacobs & Co. for the “ American Crisis Biographies,”
tine. The work will appeal alike to those who have an
but unavoidably delayed, is to be issued this month.
interest in the rejuvenation of an ancient race, and to
Professor W. H. Crawshaw has prepared a new work those who will be attracted by a technique suggestive
entitled “ The Making of English Literature,” which of the skill of Japanese decorators and of the European
Messrs. D. C. Heath & Co. will soon publish. The vol masters of line-work.
ume covers the whole field chronologically, but gives a
Longfellow's inaugural address at Bowdoin College,
greater part of its space to the more significant authors,
delivered by him, September 2, 1830, as professor of
who are appreciatively interpreted.
modern languages, has just been published by the Bow-
The success of Mr. Arthur Christopher Benson's
doin College Library in a limited edition of 250 copies,
Upton Letters," “ From a College Window," and and may be obtained from Librarian George T. Little,
other books, has led to the reprinting of some of his Brunswick, Maine, for two dollars (cloth-bound) or
earlier work. An entirely new book by Mr. Benson, three dollars (in full flexible leather). This address,
entitled “Beside Still Waters," will be published this
Origin and Growth of the Languages of
month by Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons.
Southern Europe and of their Literature," was given
Professor Charles E. Garman, who died last month, soon after the young Longfellow's return from abroad,
completed last June twenty-five years' service as teacher where he had been fitting himself for the chair estab-
of philosophy in Amherst College. In commemora lished for him at his college. It was his first extended
tion of that occasion, thirteen of his former pupils essay in prose, it offers a comprehensive survey of its
presented him with a book entitled “ Studies in Philos subject, and it also illustrates the writer's attitude
ophy and Psychology," which they prepared and pub toward literature and poetry. Brief extracts appeared
lished through Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. in the well-known biography of the poet by his brother,
Two years ago, Mr. Arlo Bates gave at the Univer but this is the first publication of the address in full.
sity of Illinois a series of “Talks on Teaching Litera Printed from the autograph manuscript, it makes a
ture.” The book now published with that title by Messrs. volume of 130 pages, four inches by seven. It is a
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. contains the substance of those book that should appeal to collectors as well as to
“ Talks,” considerably elaborated for publication. It is Longfellow lovers.
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LIST OF NEW BOOKS.
[The following list, containing 48 titles, includes books
received by THE DIAL since its last issue.]
BIOGRAPHY AND REMINISCENCES.
The Life of the Empress Eugenie. By Jane T. Stoddart.
Third edition : with photogravure portraits, large 8vo, uncut,
pp. 311. E. P. Dutton & Co. $3. net.
Heroines of French Society, in the Court, the Revolution,
the Empire, and the Restoration. By Mrs. Bearne. Illus.,
large 8vo, gilt top, pp. 485. E. P. Dutton & Co. $3. net.
My Life as an Indian: The Story of a Red Woman and a
White Man in the Lodges of the Blackfeet. By J. W. Schultz,
Illus., 12mo, pp. 426. Doubleday, Page & Co. $1.50 net.
Quintin Hogg: A Biography. By Ethel M. Hogg ; with Pre-
face by the Duke of Argyll. Popular edition; with portrait,
8vo, pp. 419. E. P. Dutton & Co. $1.50 net.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : A Sketch of his Life. By
Charles Eliot Norton. Together with Longfellow's Chief
Autobiographical Poems. With portrait, 12mo, pp. 121.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 75 cts. net.
Amerigo Vespucci. By Frederick A. Ober. With portraits,
12mo, pp. 258. "Heroes of American History.” Harper &
Brothers. $1. net.
HISTORY.
The Rise and Decline of the Netherlands : A Political and
Economic History and a Study in Practical Statesmanship.
By J. Ellis Barker. Large 8vo, gilt top, pp. 478. E. P. Dutton
& Co. $3.50 net.
Outcome of the Civil War, 1863-1865. By James Kendall
Hosmer, LL.D. With portrait and maps, 8vo, gilt top.
American Nation.” Harper & Brothers. $2. net.
GENERAL LITERATURE.
The Heart of Hamlet's Mystery. Trans. from the German
of Karl Werder by Elizabeth Wilder; with Introduction by
W. J. Rolfe. 12mo, gilt top, pp. 223. G. P. Putnam's Sons.
$1.50 net.
Letters to Young and old. By Mrs. C. W. Earle. 8vo,
pp. 384. E. P. Dutton & Co. $2.50 net.
The Steps of Life: Further Essays on Happiness. By Carl
Hilty; trans. by Melvin Brandow, with Introduction by
Francis G. Peabody. 12mo, gilt top, pp. 264. Macmillan Co.
$1.25 net.
The Ancestry of Chaucer: A Dissertation. By Alfred Allan
Kern. Large 8vo, pp. 163. Baltimore: Lord Baltimore Press.
Paper.
The Rhetoric of John Donne’s Verse :, A Dissertation. By
Wightman Fletcher Melton. Large 8vo, pp. 209. Baltimore:
J. H. Furst Co. Paper.
BOOKS OF VERSE.
Poems. By Allan Brant. 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 30. Gorham
Press. $1.
The Processional: A Pean. By George Gordon. 12mo. Gor-
ham Press. $1.
The Jewels of King Art. By James Connolly. 12mo, pp. 59.
Gorham Press. $1.25.
The Dream of Hell. By G. Wilson Duley. 12mo, pp. 32. Gor-
ham Press. $1.
FIOTION.
The Kinsman. By Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick. 12mo, gilt top,
pp. 384. Macmillan Co. $1.50.
Prisoners of Fortune: A Tale of the Massachusetts Bay
Colony. By Ruel Perley Smith. With frontispiece, 12mo,
pp. 392. L. C. Page & Co. $1.50.
The Dust of Conflict. By Harold Bindloss. Illus. in color,
12mo, pp. 321. Frederick A. Stokes Co. $1.50.
The Sweetest Solace. By John Randal. 12mo, pp. 381. E. P.
Dutton & Co. $1.50.
The Cage. By Charlotte Teller. 12mo, pp. 340. D. Appleton
& Co. $1.50.
The Issue: A Story of the River Thames. By Edward Noble.
12mo, pp. 407. Doubleday, Page & Co. $1.50.
A Draught of the Blue, together with An Essence of the
Dusk. Trans. from the Original Manuscripts by F. W. Bain.
Illus., 8vo, gilt top, pp. 239. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.50.
Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B.A., of Trinity College,
Cambridge. By Arthur Christopher Benson. New edition;
12mo, gilt top. pp. 226. Henry Holt & Co. $1.25.
Where the Rainbow Touches the Ground. By John
Henderson Miller. With frontispiece, 12mo, pp. 253. Funk
& Wagnalls Co. $1.
TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION.
The American Scene. By Henry James. 8vo, gilt top, pp.
443. Harper & Brothers. $3. net.
The Desert and the Sown. By Gertrude Lowthian Bell.
Illus. in color, etc., large 8vo, uncut, pp. 340. E. P. Dutton &
Co. $5. net.
ART AND MUSIC.
Van Dyck. By Lionel Cust, M. V.0. Illus. in photogravure,
etc., 12 mo, gilt top, pp. 152. “Great Masters in Painting and
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171 which we cannot reasonably complain, since we
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WEND LL PHILLIPS GARRISON.
173
submit to the theatre hat, and the tipping sys-
CASUAL COMMENT
173
tem, and the vulgar newspaper, not indeed
A poets' trade-uniơn. — Guardians for superan-
nuated authors. The uses of fiction. -- The new
without a murmur, but without any overt act of
literary movement among the Spanish-American protest indicative of the courage of conviction.
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Being in this supine and craven state, it may
A national Dickens library. - The popularization of
the best literature. - The death of "Th. Bentzon."
be worth our while to heed the lesson of a
A Hebraization of Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat. recent happening in a Texas town. Upon the
COMMUNICATION .
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occasion in question, an opera company gave a
On Reading the Magazines. S. P. Delany.
performance of “Il Barbiere di Siviglia.”
HOME IMPRESSIONS OF AN EXPATRIATED
Confiding in the proverbial simplicity of back-
AMERICAN. Percy F. Bicknell
woodsmen, the director of the company short-
ened the performance by omitting one act of
THE BURNEYS IN ST. MARTIN'S STREET.
the work. But he reckoned without his host.
Edith Kellogg Dunton
177
Culture is abroad in these days, and it hums
STIRRING CHAPTERS OF AMERICAN HISTORY.
even in darkest Texas. This artistic affront
David Y. Thomas
179
caused the worm to turn, and the Texas audi-
THE LETTERS OF OWEN MEREDITH. Charles
ence expressed its resentment with characteristic
H. A. Wager
182
frontier strenuosity. Riot was incipient; and
IN THE LAND OF SNOW AND ICE. H. E.
without mincing words, these Texas champions
Coblentz.
185
of the artistic ideal expressed themselves with
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS
187 point and emphasis, concluding with a demand
Life and manners of the third Italy.” - A cham-
for the return of the money that had been be-
pion of liberty and philanthropy. Essays on
happiness. — A handful of colored beads loosely guiled from their pockets by a delusive prospect.
strung.-- A group of 18th century comedy queens. The Texas way of dealing with such offences
– European international relations. — The diver-
sions of an Ex-President with rod and gun. —- The
may be rough, but it is sharply effective, and
public addresses of John Hay.—John Sherman as other communities should profit by the example.
an American statesman. Twelve volumes of
The same opera company was guilty of the same
Lincoln's works.
offence in Chicago a fortnight earlier, and also
BRIEFER MENTION
190
of a similar offence in the presentation of still
NOTES
191
We are not particularly con-
cerned to exalt “ Les Huguenots” as a musical
ANNOUNCEMENTS OF SPRING BOOKS
191
A complete classified list of books to be issued by masterpiece, but when its performance is an-
American publishers during the Spring of 1907. nounced, and when the playbills describe it
LIST OF NEW BOOKS
199 | truthfully, as “ an opera in five acts," there is, to
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put the matter mildly, a good deal of bad faith, if | rehensible. It is an act of sheer dishonesty
not actual dishonesty, in omitting the fifth act to advertise a play that already belongs to lit-
altogether. This is the trick that was played erature, and present something quite different.
upon the Chicago audience; and there is no de If the play has been changed in any material way,
fence in saying that others have played the same the public is entitled to be told beforehand just
trick before. Even a Meyerbeer opera deserves what the changes are, and not left to discover
more respectful treatment than that; whatever them during the course of the performance.
artistic quality “ Les Huguenots” may have is If dramatic literature suffers severely from
utterly destroyed by abruptly ending the per the sort of treatment here described, those other
formance before it reaches its dramatic climax species of literature that make their appeal to
in the tragedy of the street scene. It is high us solely from the printed page suffer in a far
time for the long-suffering opera-loving public greater proportion simply because their volume
to express its resentment at the false pretenses is so much the greater. To catalogue the sins
(of which the above is one out of many instances) of editors and publishers in this respect would
that have gone practically unrebuked for as be an undertaking calculated to stagger the
many years as we can remember.
most industrious. But we trust that all such
Changing slightly the venue of this discus- sinners are finally brought together in Male-
sion, we may recall the fact mentioned in our bolge. They include, among others, the anthol-
last issue, when, speaking of the causes which ogists who reprint mutilated forms of famous
led to the failure of the New Theatre, we spoke poems, without indicating where omissions have
of the director's unconscionable mutilation of been made ; the editors of school and college
certain of the plays he undertook to produce. texts, who slash their originals right and
This was a particularly wanton proceeding, for left, with no word of warning for unwary
it was done, not because he thought the plays students; the publishers who offer complete
improved by abridgment, but for the inartistic works,” knowing them to be incomplete, and
purpose of making room on the programme for who reprint early editions which they know to
curtain-raisers, - which simply means taking a have been superseded, but without vouchsafing
step away from legitimate theatrical enterprise a hint of this important fact. The expurgators
in the direction of vaudeville. The chapter of constitute a peculiarly vicious class of these
theatrical offences of this sort is a long one, and criminals, since their sins are so cunningly con-
every frequenter of the playhouse has suffered cealed as to be almost impossible of detection.
from them many times. The crimes that have Does it never occur to these gentlemen that their
been committed against Shakespeare alone would zeal for the suppression of the merely verbal
require a volume to recount. From Nahum forms of literary offence results in a form of
Tate and Colley Cibber to Mr. Mansfield and dishonesty that is far more subtly mischievous
Mr. Sothern, almost every actor or manager
than the evil (often illusory) which they are
who has undertaken Shakespearian productions seeking to minimize ?
has felt perfectly free to make any rearrange The more we think of the Texas
way
of deal-
ments he might wish, to distort and mutilate ing with artistic misrepresentations and false
at his will in accordance with his own crude no pretences, the more we are inclined to applaud
tions of theatrical effect. We may admit, in There may be other and better ways, but
this case, that the conditions of our stage are so any way is better than none. We should like
different from those of the Elizabethan stage to see every perverter and falsifier of a work of
that some changes are necessary for a modern art or literature made thoroughly uncomfort-
production ; but to say this is by no means to able, until the lesson had been so repeatedly
condone such perversions as Tate's “Lear” and enforced as to be no longer needed. This is far
Mr. Mansfield's "Henry the Fifth.” Altera- from saying that such works should never be
tions made in a reverent spirit, with a sense of altered for any purpose whatever, but it is say-
the sanctity of the masterpiece dealt with, may ing that they should not be tampered with by
be allowed ; alterations made as concessions to incompetent bunglers, and it is also saying that
sentiment or sensationalism, for spectacular pur- in the cases which really call for some judicious
poses or the gratification of an actor's personal reshaping or abridgment, the public is entitled,
vanity, should be censured in the strongest as a matter of common honesty, to be exactly
terms. And in the case of a modern play, informed of the nature of whatever changes
which has no need of being fitted to modern have been made, or whatever liberties taken,
stage conditions, any kind of tinkering is rep with the original of the work.
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experiment where previous knowledge was not pos-
WENDELL PHILLIPS GARRISON. sible, enabling him thus to pick men who shared his
own high ideals and sincerely believed in the funda-
The causes of sane literary progress and intelli-
mental principles on which those ideals were based,
gent citizenship have seldom had a more faithful
that
gave the literary criticisms of “The Nation”
devotee than Mr. Wendell Phillips Garrison, whose
a unity and steadiness of tone rarely if ever sur-
death occurred on the 27th of last month. Casting passed in the history of critical journalism. A foe
in his lot with the late Edwin Lawrence Godkin,
to all sham, insincerity, and corruption, in letters or
at twenty-five years of age, he gave his strength and
in life, he stood as unflinchingly for his ideals as his
talents to “The Nation” with a zeal that knew no
father before him had stood for the correction of the
break until failing health forced upon him the un-
great wrong of human slavery, and at bottom both
welcome necessity of laying the burden down with
were fighting against the same enemies ignor-
the close of the eighty-second volume, a little more
ance, preconceived error, and selfish personal in-
than eight months ago. As the known author of
terests. Whatever other token friends may wish
the keenest and most effective political criticism ever
to establish in his memory, those eighty-two vol-
developed in the history of American journalism, umes of “The Nation” into which his virtues and
Mr. Godkin's personality could never be merged in
energies were so unstintingly poured, with their
that of his
paper. To many, therefore, « The
steady appeal to that enlightened intelligence and
Nation” meant Mr. Godkin, and they never knew
morality upon which the progress of civilization
that there sat at his side a colleague whose labors
must always depend, constitute a monument the
from the very start were as vital to the character
fitness of which can never be excelled.
and success of the paper as those of the brilliant
political critic himself. Of course Mr. Godkin
realized the worth of his coadjutor, and the recogni-
tion which Mr. Garrison's impenetrable modesty
CASUAL COMMENT.
would not permit to be granted in any public way
was always most amply bestowed in their private
A POETS' TRADE-UNION has been formed in England,
intercourse and correspondence. Mr. Garrison's
or so we are told by Mr. Andrew Lang in a pleasant
preēminent service to "The Nation," and through
little article contributed to the London “ Chronicle"; and
when Parliament shall have passed the bill draughted
it to the causes for which it has stood, lay in the
by the union's secretary, Mr. Baunder, “a gentleman of
remarkable insight displayed in making up his large
prosperous aspect, with a strong German accent,” En-
body of reviewers and contributors, and the success gland will speedily become a veritable “nest of singing
with which he held them together. As an illustra birds.” By the provisions of this bill every citizen will
tion of this we need only mention that Mr. Goldwin be forced to buy annually a new volume of poetry -
Smith, Dr. Daniel C. Gilman, and Prof. Charles or, rather, a volume of new poetry – for every twenty
Eliot Norton have been contributors from the very
pounds of income that he has over three hundred
first year, a nucleus for forty years of literary pounds a year. Thus a prosperous merchant, or soap-
criticism which would have done honor to any criti-
boiler, or tallow chandler, with an income of two thou-
sand pounds, let us say, will purchase eight hundred and
cal journal ever published in the English tongue.
fifty poetry books of the latest make every twelve
During the summer of 1905, when some two hun-
months, at a uniform statute price of six shillings net.
dred of his collaborators united in presenting him This protection to poets is considered necessary because
with a beautiful silver vase, as a token of their per poetry is at present so much less popular than, for
sonal esteem no less than their admiration for his instance, history, archæology, and ethics; whereby it
editorial ability, the general public learned just how has come about that, as Herr Baunder affirms, " the
far and how carefully Mr. Garrison had been ac poets are remorselessly sweated; thousands of them
customed to search for the right man for any par-
cannot earn any wage at all, not to speak of living
ticular line of review work or correspondence which
A guinea for a sonnet; what do you think of
he desired.
that?” Shameful, in good sooth, and we hope for the
And the marvel lies not merely in the
early passage of the Baunder Bill — but with an impor-
fact that the list contained so many names of known tant additional clause. It should provide for pass exam-
eminence in the world of letters and science, but inations to be undergone by all purchasers of poetry, to
even more in the substantial unity of tone which ensure that such poetry is read as well as bought. Not
steadily marked the body of criticism coming from only must the horse be led to water, but he must be
this numerous, widely separated, differently edu made to drink, and drink deeply, at the Pierian spring,
cated and differently circumstanced body of men.
under penalty of a heavy fine, or lingering incarceration,
Of course this unity was no forcible creation of the
or both.
How else infuse in the people a true and
corrective editorial pencil, although no editor ever
lasting love of divine poetry ?
knew better how to wield that pencil, within legiti-
GUARDIANS FOR SUPERANNUATED AUTHORS may be
mate limits. Mr. Garrison would have scorned
thought desirable if certain tendencies now discernible
to make a contributor say what he did not think,
nor would he have wanted any contributor willing strongly developed. Mr. Maurice Maeterlinck, in com-
among some of our veterans of the pen should become
to continue as such on that basis. It was his wide
ing to the defense of Shakespeare and in accusing
knowledge of men, coupled with extremely careful Count Tolstoi of taking unfair advantage of European
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As a
dense ignorance of the poet, puts the query why the reform or change
than do their Northern compeers.
venerable Russian has not been prevented by those They are avid of the elemental human passions.
around him from making an unedifying display of him result, their work has a certain beauty and splendor,
self, and suggests that some friend or relative should where that of Ibsen and Tolstoi and Turgenieff and the
take steps to spare him the humilation that must attend German dramatists is homely if not ugly. On the
a further exhibition of the decay now undermining his other hand, the best work of the North has a mystic
mental powers.
Another great writer, Mr. George glamour which the South knows nothing of. Noche
Meredith, who has just passed his eightieth milestone, Tragica is a good example of the school we have been
is thought by many to have his impulses of unwisdom. describing. It is a tale which Mérimée would have
His prose output, ceasing to take the form of fiction - liked. Fate, in it, is masked in flowers, but marches
his last novel came out twelve years ago — has of late onward with implacable tread. All of Señor de Carri-
appeared in the shape of rather excited political utter carte’s pieces have a sombre soul beneath a bright ex-
ances, and of a sensational and much-discussed sug terior. In some of the prose-poems he shows an acute
gestion as to the expediency of probationary wedlock. sensibility to natural phenomena — like a Maurice de
That an author who toiled so strenuously in early man Guérin translated to the tropics. According to a cus-
hood — spending his last guinea on one occasion for a tom more observed on the Continent of Europe than in
sack of oatmeal, on which he subsisted while writing a England or America, there is prefaced to this little
book — and who has done so much good work and book a long essay by Señor Ricardo del Monte, the
raised himself to rank as one of the very foremost of most brilliant of Cuban critics. This discourse is a keen
living English prose writers, and as no mean poet, examination of modern thought and literary creation.
should now be suffered to do anything that may, even It is always instructive to get at a different view-point
temporarily, dim the lustre of his renown, is to be de from our own. Señor Del Monte is at the centre of a
plored. Few are the writers that can wield the pen, as horizon quite other than ours. The stars of modern
did Dr. Martineau and Mrs. Somerville and Alexander literature arrange themselves to his eyes in a different
von Humboldt, with even more power at eighty and way than they show in our sky. The constellations
over than at forty or fifty.
of France since 1830 blaze overhead. Single Italian
or Spanish or German stars mount or descend. But
THE USES OF FICTION, recently referred to in these only a few English suns peer above the horizon,
columns under the heading “ Fiction as a Rest Cure,” and the Russian and Scandinavian and American hosts
should have included “ Fiction as an Advertising Me of light are invisible.
dium.” The fiction-writer of the future, in order to be
pecuniarily successful, may have to specialize as rigor THE LAST PHOTOGRAPH OF LONGFELLOW, not in fin-
ously as does the historian or the scientist of to-day. At ished form, but in the negative — from which no posi-
any rate, this is the opinion which such advertisements tive had ever been printed — has been accidentally
as the following might incline one to form. The first is discovered by a young lad in South Boston, a photo-
from a London literary review of the highest standing.grapher's assistant. The story of this forgotten photo-
"THE EDITOR of the TALKING MACHINE News requires STORIES graph is interesting. In late February, 1882, the poet
(1,500 to 2,500) with a Talking Machine motif. Technical ac-
was walking along Brattle street, Cambridge, when he
curacy essential. Suitable articles would also be entertained.
Specimen copy on application."
was accosted by a friend, a Mr. Allen, photographer,
The second is from a great city daily of equally high
who asked him to sit for his likeness before a new lens
rank.
that he, Allen, had just bought for his camera. Long-
fellow refused to visit the studio, but at last consented
"$75 PRIZE STORIES. We want a short story of about 3000
words covering, in a catchy, readable way, the facts outlined in to pose on his own veranda; and there, only a month
our booklet, 'Some Shoe Reforms.' Address," etc.
before his death, he sat for what proved to be his last
Many an artist, trained in the schools of Paris or portrait. The negative, filed away and lost sight of,
Munich, has come at last to turn his back on “art for passed with the rest of the photographer's outfit into
art's sake,” and now earns a comfortable, sometimes a other hands, and in a subsequent removal of the busi-
more than comfortable, livelihood as a designer of ness to its present location the precious piece of clouded
posters, anonymous works of art that are never rejected glass was trundled along with a pile of other un-
by an examining committee, and if they are elevated to considered negatives. Pulled forth very recently by
the skies are all the more conspicuous. Who knows chance, and held up to the light by an apprentice in a
how many zealous and gifted followers of Scott and moment of idle curiosity, it was fortunately recognized
Dickens and Thackeray may be glad some day to by him; and now its owner would not part with it for
answer just such advertisements as the foregoing ? love or money. Coming to view twenty-five years after
Fortunately or unfortunately, the crowding of the pro it was taken, and a hundred years after the poet was
fessions is making such things increasingly possible. born, it is a remarkable bit of treasure trove.
THE NEW LITERARY MOVEMENT AMONG THE SPANISH A NATIONAL DICKENS LIBRARY is getting itself estab-
AMERICAN PEOPLES has for one of its first fruits a lished in London, in the heat of the Dickens enthusiasm
little volume of tales and prose poems, Noche Tragica, aroused by the ninety-fifth anniversary, last month, of
by the Cuban poet, Señor Arturo R. de Carricarte. It the great novelist's birthday. A room in the Guildhall
is noteworthy how much of the strong, tragic work of Library will be set apart for this collection, the nucleus
the day is coming from Southern sources. Out of the of which has been already formed out of the first
sunshine, out of the flowers, out of the gay life of editions of all the novels, with noteworthy American
the semi-tropic lands, come books as terrible and soul and other reprints and translations, and miscellaneous
shaking as their earthquakes and eruptions. The Dickensiana of sundry sorts. The widow of the late
French and Italian tragedians deal less with the outward F. G. Kitton, offers to the library his valuable Dickens
conditions of life - sociological probleins, questions of collection for the moderate sum of £300, and sub-


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years distant.
scriptions for its purchase are solicited by the editor enjoying a few moments of leisure which they wish to
of “T. P.'s Weekly” (which itself gives £25) at 5 spend as pleasurably and comfortably as possible. A
Tavistock Street, W.C. A flourishing periodical, “ The man may be leaning back in his seat on the train, smok-
Dickensian,” published once a week by the Dickens ing a cigar, and rejoicing that he is to have a short respite
Fellowship, attests the English determination not to from the harassing cares of business; or he may be puffing
forget their immortal “Boz.” At the same time, let it his pipe beside a grate fire, under a green-shaded lamp,
be gently hinted, there be those to whose delicate senses relaxing cosily after a day's hard work, and taking up
the air of a Thackeray Library would more sweetly a magazine for diversion. I do not know so much about
recommend itself. But patience ! - 1911 is only four feminine ways, but I should fancy a woman might be
reclining for her siesta, and open a magazine for a little
THE POPULARIZATION OF THE BEST LITERATURE is to
mental relaxation and composure before she closes her
be attempted, with a display of childlike confidence
eyes.
that is nothing short of touching, by a new magazine,
Now I maintain that most of our magazines are not
whose prospectus does not hesitate to declare that “the
adapted to such a frame of mind. This is not because
very highest class and most valuable branches of litera-
their contents are too serious, but simply because the
ture can readily be made fully as interesting, attractive,
magazines are so constructed mechanically that it is a
and even fascinating to all classes, even to the morbid-
physical effort to read them. In plain English, it tires
minded and degenerate, as is now the prevailing
the thumbs. Why do publishers put their magazines
low order of the great bulk of sensational, exciting,
together so that they will not lie open on the lap? How
stirring so-called literature,' so bounteously scat-
is a man to smoke his pipe as he reads, when he must
tered broadcast in its corrupting and demoralizing
hold the magazine open by all the strength of both
blight upon mankind.” One would like to know the
hands? I know of only one or two magazines that are
magic formula for rendering, let us say, Matthew
properly bound with thread and glue, instead of those
Arnold or John Ruskin as irresistible to the multitude
irritating wire clasps. No doubt the clasps are cheaper,
as the latest murder mystery or sensational romance
or they would not be used. That is the explanation of
or lurid detective story. We wait to learn this, but
most of the impositions on a long-suffering public. But
not, alas! in a spirit of confidence that is altogether
I believe any magazine publisher could increase his
childlike.
circulation by abolishing the clasps. The other day I
closed my subscription to a magazine I had taken for
THE DEATH OF “TH. BENTZON," or Mme. Thérèse
years, and ordered another in its place, chiefly for the
de Solms Blanc, as her friends knew her, will be noted
reason that one would not lie open on the table and the
with regret by many outside her native France, and other would. The wire clasps were a doubtful economy,
especially by her American readers. Always friendly surely, in that case.
toward this country and its literary workers, she has
Another reason why many magazines are unsuitable
published, chiefly in the pages of the Revue des Deux
for leisurely reading is that they are too heavy and
Mondes, many commendatory reviews of American
bulky with advertisements. I am aware that there
books, eulogistic studies of American authors, and must be advertisements to make the magazine pay. I
pleasant reminiscences of American travel. That she
would even go further, and maintain that most of our
wrote also between thirty and forty novels comes as a magazines are conducted primarily in the interest of the
surprise to most of us, who have commonly thought of advertising department, and that the literary matter is
her in connection with her more serious work, on which sandwiched in merely to get people to read the adver-
her fame as a writer will probably rest.
tisements. But why in that case should this not unwor-
thy commercial end be defeated by making the magazine
A HEBRAIZATION OF OMAR KHAYYAM's RUBAIYAT
so heavy and forbidding that not even the advertise-
has been undertaken by Mr. Joseph Massel of Man ments will be read ? Other things being at all equal,
chester, England; his version being based on Fitz-
I always buy the magazines that contain the fewest
Gerald's first edition, by many considered the best of advertisements. When I must read a magazine that is
the four. These haunting quatrains seem to have, in so thick with advertisements that I cannot hold it
open,
some sort, an affinity with the Wisdom books of the Old
I tear off the cover, extract the wire clasps, detach the
Testament, and a good Hebrew translation ought to advertising pages in front and back, and then restore
prove, not perhaps the best-selling book in the Ghetto,
the clasps to their places. I thus have a light and
but a tolerable literary success. Yet supposing the easily handled collection of reading matter, while the
Hebrew version of FitzGerald's stanzas to be faithfully
detached pages make excellent material for starting
turned back into Persian, would old Omar know himself
fires in my grate. A handy mechanical device for per-
at the end of this lingual hocus-pocus ?
forming this separation quickly and easily would find
speedy favor with the magazine reading public; indeed,
I should not be surprised to learn that one has already
been invented. It would not be the first instance of
COMMUNICATION.
greed over-reaching itself and defeating its own ends.
With all their faults, the magazines of to-day contain
ON READING THE MAGAZINES.
a great deal of good literature. While there is much
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
in them that is worthless or of merely temporary inter-
Few publishers of magazines seem to realize the est, there is also much of value, which intelligent people
frame of mind most people are in when they pick up a
can ill afford to miss. Publishers certainly owe it to
magazine. I say most people, because there are a few their readers, as well as to their own interests, to make
who read the magazines religiously, as they might read the contents of their magazines as accessible and as
the Bible, regardless of comfort or convenience. But as conveniently read as possible. S. P. DELANY.
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proved against me that my opportunity had found me
The New Books.
incapable of information, incapable alike of receiving
and of imparting it; for then, and then only, would it
be clearly enough attested that I had cared and under-
stood.”
HOME IMPRESSIONS OF AN EXPATRIATED
AMERICAN.*
Mr. James has been, as he says, all his days
" artistically concerned with the human subject";
It was of course to be expected that Mr.
Henry James, in recording his impressions of
and hence it is his impressions of American men
the land from which he long ago expatriated and women that form the most characteristic
himself, and which he lately revisited after nearly portion of his volume, and that furnish the best
twenty-five years, would give us not so much his passages for quoting. Of our men and women
direct impressions (supposing a mind so subtile
in general he says:
to be capable of direct and simple impressions) visitor of the United States as that of the overwhelming
“No impression so promptly assaults the arriving
as his impressions of his impressions, his con-
preponderance, wherever he turns and twists, of the
ception of what, in the æsthetic and artistic unmitigated business-man’ face, ranging through its
fitness of things, his impressions ought to be, various possibilities, its extraordinary actualities, of
and occasionally a side-glance at those impres- sion alone, leaving out of account the questions of voice,
intensity. And I speak here of facial cast and expres-
sions as he conceives they may impress his
tone, utterance and attitude, the chorus of which would
reader, - all intertwisted and interwoven and
vastly swell the testimony, and in which I seem to dis-
wrought out in a pattern of that labyrinthine cern, for these remarks at large, a treasure of illus-
intricacy that is at once the despair and the
tration to come. Nothing, meanwhile, is more concom-
delight of him who would thread, the Dædalian itantly striking than the fact that the women, over the
land — allowing for every element of exception -- ap-
mazes of this author's wonderful prose. Even
pear to be of a markedly finer texture than the men,
as Mr. James drives from the wharf in New and that one of the liveliest signs of this difference is
York, on landing, the extreme difficulty of the precisely in their less narrowly specialized, their less
task before him presents itself as somewhat commercialized, distinctly more generalized, physiog-
nomic character. The superiority thus noted, and
terrifying
which is quite another matter from the universal fact
Yes; I could remind myself, as I went, that Naples, of the mere usual female femininity, is far from con-
that Tangiers or Constantinople, has probably nothing stituting absolute distinction, but it constitutes relative,
braver to flaunt, and mingle with excited recognition and it is a circumstance at which interested observation
the still finer throb of seeing in advance, seeing even to snatches, from the first, with an immense sense of its
alarm, many of the responsibilities lying in wait for the portée.”
habit of headlong critical or fanciful reaction, many of This distinction he regards as the feature of
the inconsistencies in which it would probably have, at
the best, more or less defiantly to drape itself.
the social scene, and uncommonly fruitful of
Nothing was left, for the rest of the episode, but a kind possibilities. In all this there is cheer and hope
of fluidity of appreciation -- a mild, warm wave that for those who are inclined to deplore, as too
broke over the succession of aspects and objects accord- obtrusively prevalent among us, the business-
ing to some odd inward rhythm, and often, no doubt, with
a violence that there was little in the phenomena them-
woman type, the new woman, and the bachelor
selves flagrantly to justify. It floated me, my wave, all
maid.
that day and the next; so that I still think tenderly — Any attempt to epitomize Mr. James, or to
for the short backward view is already a distance with reproduce him in other than his own words,
• tone' — of the service it rendered me and the various
would be rashly presumptuous and inevitably
perceptive penetrations, charming coves of still blue
water, that carried me up into the subject, so to speak,
unsuccessful. This must be the excuse, if excuse
and enabled me to step ashore.”
were needed, for introducing another consider-
Already in the preface to “ The American
able passage, one that was inspired by a visit
The reader will bear
writer's deep sense of the weighty responsibility children of Israel. He will not need to be told
Scene” the reader has been made aware of the to New York's Ghetto.
resting on him as a recorder of impressions, and children of Israel. He will not need to be told
of his brave resolve to face the situation, formi-
to admire the skill of the literary artist in the
dable though it be, with a noble courage.
following word-picture :
“There is no swarming like that of Israel when once
6. There would be a thousand matters
Israel has got a start, and the scene here bristled, at
already the theme of prodigious reports and statistics
every step, with the signs and sounds, immitigable, un-
as to which I should have no sense whatever, and as to
mistakable, of a Jewry that had burst all bounds.
information about which my record would accordingly
It was as if we had been thus, in the crowded, hustled
stand naked and unashamed. It should unfailingly be
roadway where multiplication, multiplication of every-
New York:
thing, was the dominant note, at the bottom of some
Harper & Brothers.
vast sallow aquarium in which innumerable fish of over-
matters
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on the
developed proboscis, were to bump together, forever, one to read in at length, if not to read through,
amid heaped spoils of the sea. The children swarmed
and cannot be presented by the reviewer in a
above all — here was multiplication with a vengeance;
and the number of very old persons, of either sex, was
nutshell. Its pages are strewn with the happiest
almost equally remarkable; the very old persons being phrases and turns of expression. They teem
in equal vague occupation of the doorstep, pavement, with passages of exquisite artistry, which, with-
curbstone, gutter, roadway, and every one alike using out reference to the scenes and objects so deli-
the street for overflow. ... There are small, strange cately depicted, are a joy to the lover of the
animals, known to natural history, snakes or worms,
believe, who, when cut into pieces, wriggle away con- gracefully elaborate, the subtilely expressive
tentedly and live in the snippet as completely as in the and still more subtilely suggestive, in English
whole. So the denizens of the New York Ghetto, heaped prose. Those readers whom the end of the vol-
as thick as the splinters on the table of a glass-blower,
ume shall leave unsatisfied may take comfort in
had each, like the fine glass particle, his or her indi-
the concluding words of the preface, where the
vidual share of the whole hard glitter of Israel.”
Of Baltimore, with its bone-racking cobble-
author says he has not found his subject matter
stone pavements, its alternate dust and mud, further chapters to be told ere his story is done
scant or simple, and intimates that there are still
and its unsightly and unfragrant surface drain-
age-an ensemble not attractive to most visitors, deal with the Pacific coast, as these earlier ones
chapters, as he elsewhere hints, that shall
nor by any means inclining them to picture the
have treated the Atlantic.
city in retrospect as an almost unnaturally
PERCY F. BICKNELL.
good child” sitting
green apron
of its
nurse, with no concomitant crease or crumple
- the author, after some playful disparagement
of the fine Washington monument, is moved to
exclaim :
THE BURNEYS IN ST. MARTIN'S STREET.*
« Wonderful little Baltimore, in which, whether when It is impossible not to agree with Miss Con-
perched on a noble eminence or passing from one seat stance Hill, when she speaks, in the preface
of the humanities, one seat of hospitality, to another —
to her new book, " The House in St. Martin's
a process mainly consisting indeed, as it seemed to me,
of prompt drives through romantic parks and wood-
Street,” of the perennial interest that attaches
lands that were all suburban yet all Arcadian — I caught
to the letters — and she might have added, to
no glimpse of traffic, however mild, nor spied anything the diaries — of the eighteenth century. It is
• tall’ at the end of any vista. This was in itself really this fact that gives validity to Miss Hill's rather
a benediction, since I had nowhere, from the first, been
infatuated with tallness; I was infatuated only with the
slender excuse for writing another book about
question of manners, in their largest sense to the finer the Burney family, whose lively correspondence
essence of which tallness had already defined itself to and voluminous journals, themselves easily acces-
me as positively abhorrent. . . . Admirable I found
sible, have already been copiously drawn upon
them, the Maryland boroughs, and so immediately dis-
posed about the fortunate town, by parkside and lonely
by present-day chroniclers.
lane, by trackless hillside and tangled copse, that the
In “ Juniper Hall " Miss Hill has already
depth of rural effect becomes at once bewildering. You given a detailed account of one period in Fanny
wonder at the absent transitions, you look in vain for Burney's life.
Burney's life. The title of her new book limits
the shabby fringes or at least, under my spell, I did; its material to the events of the years
between
you have never seen, on the lap of nature, so large a
burden so neatly accommodated.”
1774 and 1783, the period which the Burneys
No traffic however mild, no shabby fringes! spent in the last of their several London
residences. It was during this time that both
Surely, our traveller must have passed his time
- Evelina ” and “ Cecilia were written, and
in grove-embowered villas in the city's most
favored suburbs, if it has any such.
that their girlish author was discovered and
initiated into the charmed circle at whose centre
learn from his own narrative that he did not do
this. The best of health and spirits, then, must
sat Mrs. Thrale and Dr. Johnson. Frequent
have been his during the Baltimore sojourn.
journeys from London took Fanny Burney to
The author's itinerary included, in an autumn
Chessington to see her dearest friend - Daddy
and winter progress from New England to
Crisp,” and to Streatham and Bath to stay with
Florida, the intervening cities of Philadelphia, Thrale. Miss Hill does not consider it beyond
her fond but decidedly exacting patroness Mrs.
Washington, Richmond, and Charleston, be-
sides New York and Baltimore. Boston, it need
her province to detail anecdotes of these visits,
as well as of the musical and literary gatherings
hardly be added, was not overlooked, nor were
Concord and Salem and Newport, and other
• THE HOUSE IN ST. MARTIN'S STREET. Being Chronicles of
the Burney Family. By Constance Hill. Illustrated in photo-
interesting parts of New England. The book is
gravure, etc. New York: John Lane Co.
>
Yet we


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66
in St. Martin's Street, the plottings over the have thought of urging her to consider a match
secret publication of “ Evelina " that went on so manifestly unsuitable. It was, however, small
there, and all the merry and not in the least wonder if Miss Burney found even the man of
momentous daily doings of the little circle whose
average talents without charm, when she com-
private life was so famous for its harmony and pared him with Dr. Burney and his brilliant
serene happiness that somebody has called them friends. Every one of these seems to have shown
the “ most amiable and affectionate of clever his best side to her. Even the gruff and iras-
families."
cible Dr. Johnson grows actually lamb-like when
For novelty of material Miss Hill depends she appears, and treats her with an unfailing
upon a very complete description of the St. consideration that he showed to no one else.
Martin's Street residence, and upon some un Fanny comments on this in a letter written in
published MSS., chiefly a diary kept by Char 1782 to her father, while she was staying in
lotte Burney through part of the year 1781, Brighton with Mrs. Thrale.
some letters of Susan to her favorite sister “Our dear Dr. Johnson keeps his health amazingly,
Fanny, and a few family letters from Mr. Crisp, and with me his good humor; but to own the truth, with
Mrs. Thrale, and other friends. Most notable
scarce anybody else. I am quite sorry to see how
of all is the MS. of Fanny's unpublished play such a general alarm that he is now omitted in all cards
unmercifully he attacks and riots people. He has raised
called “ The Witlings,” which is apparently of invitation sent to the rest of us.”
newly available, since Mr. Austin Dobson had
But of all the visitors to St. Martin's street,
not seen it when he published his life of Miss
Garrick was the favorite with the Burney sis-
Burney in 1903. None of these items is in itself
ters. A call from him sent them into raptures,
of any particular importance. Together, and
and his friendship they justly considered a
pieced out from the familiar sources the
great honor. As Charlotte Burney, the youngest
Early Diaries,” Madame d'Arblay's “ Diary daughter, puts it, more forcibly than elegantly,
and Letters," and her “ Memoirs of Dr. Bur- in her journal,
in her journal, “ Split me if I'd not a hun-
ney,” — they make the basis for a decidedly dred times rather be spoken to by Garrick in
entertaining narrative of over three hundred public than by His Majesty, God bless him !”
pages.
It was at the house of Garrick's genial friend
The St. Martin's Street house is still stand-
Sir Joshua Reynolds that the subject of “The
ing, and not altered beyond recognition. It is Witlings” was first broached. Sheridan was
easy, Miss Hill tells us, to identify the drawing one of the guests, and, beginning by praising
room, though its “ prodigiously painted and
“ Evelina,” he insisted that its author ought to
ornamented” ceiling, in which the Burneys try her hand at a play. Reynolds heartily ap-
gloried, has long since disappeared ; the library, proved the plan. So did Johnson, Mrs. Thrale,
which was also their music-room ; and the cheer- and the rest of Fanny's friends, when they
ful 66 dining parlour” where the delightfully heard of it, save only Mr. Crisp, who was
informal tea-drinkings took place. Only the doubtful if his “ Fannikin" had the tempera-
quaint observatory, once Sir Isaac Newton's
ment of a playwright, and who feared for her
study and later Fanny's favorite retreat, has the results of a possible failure or a partial suc-
vanished. Miss Ellen G. Hill has made many
Six months later the play was finished
interesting sketches of the characteristic features
and sent down to Chessington by Susan and
of this house, and of other houses and scenes
Dr. Burney, with a request for an absolutely
connected with the narrative. These, with vari- candid opinion. A letter from Susan tells how
ous reproductions of portraits, form a valuable
Dr. Burney read it aloud, to the great delight
pictorial adjunct to the text.
of his small audience. Nevertheless, both he
It is perhaps natural that a feminine chron- and Mr. Crisp decided that in spite of its clever
icler, and particularly one who has already characterization and spirited dialogue the play
given us a detailed account of Miss Burney's would better be suppressed. Fanny, who always
real romance, should make a good deal of the
set the approval of her dearest friends far above
brief but persistent wooing of her earlier lover, the praise or blame of the public, did not ques-
Mr. Barlow. Miss Hill quotes from Fanny's tion the judgment. She writes in gay good
journal for 1775, and from a letter sent her by humor to Mr. Crisp, in answer to what she calls
the enamored gentleman ; and these leave no
doubt in the reader's mind that Fanny's family letter concluding thus :
his “hissing, groaning, cat-calling epistle,” a
had an exaggerated horror of her dying an "old
“ I won't be mortified and I won't be downed; but I
maid," — for otherwise they surely would not will be proud to find I have, out of my own family, as
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well as in it, a friend who loves me well enough to
speak the plain truth to me.”
STIRRING CHAPTERS OF AMERICAN
HISTORY.*
Miss Hill prints the fourth act of the play, the
one, according to Susan, which “ seemed least Two important additions have recently been
to exhilarate, or interest, the audience.” It is made to American historical literature by writ-
an amusing satire on the affectation of learning, ers who are masters in their chosen fields. In
so prevalent among the fine ladies of Fanny's his sixth volume Professor McMaster brings his
day when learning itself was in fashion. But “History of the People of the United States”
it lacks plot interest and dramatic movement.
from the accession of Andrew Jackson in 1829
We can doubtless estimate, far more easily than to the veto of the Whig Bank bills by Tyler in
Fanny's contemporaries, the width of the chasm 1841. In volumes six and seven Dr. Rhodes
between the majestic progress of the “ three completes his monumental“ History of the
volume romance and the sprightly compact- United States,” which covers the period from
ness of the stage comedy. Nevertheless, -- The 1850 to 1877. In these two works may be found
Witlings” has, at the least, a documentary in- perhaps the best accounts yet written of the
terest that fully justifies the lengthy citation. developments of the American people from the
Dr. Johnson once complained that “ the little close of the Revolutionary War to the restora-
Burney” would not "prattle,” though he was tion of home-rule in the Southern States.
sure that she could do it well. But she and all The object of Professor Mc Master through-
her family prattle without reserve on paper,
out his work has been to write the history of
and they justify the Doctor's suspicion by doing our people, and not simply that of a set of poli-
it extremely well, making us acquainted with ticians or even statesmen. If the present vol-
themselves and their friends in phrases as artless ume seems to make a departure from this plan,
as they are deft and telling. Susan's letters
Susan's letters since very little space is given to matters not
are as lively as possible, and Charlotte's frag- connected directly or indirectly with politics, it
mentary journal reads as if it might have been finds its justification in the fact that the people
written yesterday by some bright girl of twenty. were at last playing at the political game. The
“ He is a genteel-looking man, and full of rattle
advent of Jackson, though neither preceded nor
— and I like rattles,” she says of a certain very followed by any immediate and remarkable
unpopular Captain Williamson. She repeats
She repeats extension of the suffrage, is commonly looked
many epigrams and lively bits of repartee, calls upon as the real beginning of the democratiza-
Boswell " a sweet creature," apparently because
tion of the nation. Jackson came fresh from
he made a bon mot about her, and complains of the democratic West, where the fight against
a certain Mr. Humphrey on the very tenable savage
foes and wild beasts for a home and sus-
ground that all he ever said to her was, “ Pray tenance in the forest left little room for the class
how do all your brothers and sisters do?” distinctions and privileges which were charac-
Little touches like these give reality to the
teristic of older societies. As the representative,
chronicle of the life that went on so merrily in
the very embodiment, of such a democracy, it
St. Martin's Street.
was altogether natural that he should be on the
Miss Hill does not attempt criticism or inter lookout for everything which smacked of privi-
pretation. She acts merely in the capacity of lege. In his eyes, the National Bank was a star
showman, marshalling her documents and letting case of privilege battening on the people ; con-
them tell their own story. Granted the limi- sequently he sounded a note of warning at this
tations of her method and of her present oppor- accession, though there was practically no com-
tunity, she deserves nothing but praise for her plaint against the bank at that time. Nothing
conscientious and capable investigation of the daunted at the general indifference, Jackson,
resources at her command, and for her judicious ably seconded by Senator Benton, kept up the
selection and arrangement of her well-chosen fight, first to arouse the people to a sense of
material.
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wrong and then to right the wrong. In the end
he compassed the destruction of the bank. The
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wild schemes of State banks, are matters of division. Naturally, South Carolina was de-
common historical knowledge. These facts are sirous to know the attitude of her sister states.
all set forth by Professor McMaster in an enter In Virginia, it seems, the most that could be
taining manner; but in speaking of the work of counted on was the neutrality of the eastern
destruction, he follows the not uncommon habit section, while the western section was sure to
of using a slightly misleading term when he stand by the nation. Even more striking is a
speaks of “removing the deposits" instead of letter written by Jackson to Buchanan, explain-
“ceasing to make deposits.” Though not so ing how he had consigned “nullification and
replete with dramatic interest as the story of the doctrine of secession to the tomb from
wild-cat banking in Michigan, the banking which they would never rise again.
experience of Florida, at that time practically It seems now like an anachronism to read of
new territory and a sort of ward of the nation, a movement in the United States, as late as the
certainly is deserving of notice, though it re fourth decade of the nineteenth century, to abo-
ceives none.
In addition to numerous small lish imprisonment for debt, or to wipe out
banks, three were chartered with large capital feudalism as preserved in New York in certain
stock. There being no money in the territory remnants of the patroon system. Abolitionism,
with which to pay for the stock, the device was suppression of the right of petition, immigra-
hit
upon of borrowing the capital by the sale tion, and other social and economic questions,
of bonds. The Territory itself issued three receive due attention. Strange to say, how-
millions of dollars of bonds for the Union Bank ever, certain anti-democratic tendencies in this
at Tallahassee, where the population within its age of democratization receive no notice what-
reach probably did not exceed fifteen thousand ever. Some of the states began to lay restric-
whites and blacks, and guaranteed the bonds of tions on the right of suffrage, North Carolina
two other banks to the extent of nine hundred and Pennsylvania disfranchising free negroes
thousand dollars. The laws under which these about the same time.
schemes were put through attracted little atten The present volume announces that the series
tion at Washington until the banks were on the is to close with one more. If
so,
Professor
road to ruin and the bondholders were getting McMaster will cover more years than he has
uneasy. A few of the bonds were redeemed by done in any previous volume, and that, too, in
the banks, but many of them were left outstand a period more stormy and significant than some
ing, and for these the Territory refused to pro- of those already covered. The politics of the
vide payment.
period are ample enough for extended treat-
In dealing with the question of Nullification, ment, and the social conditions will demand
it is doubtful if Professor McMaster has laid much fuller treatment than is given to this sub-
sufficient emphasis on the personal equation inject in the present volume.
ject in the present volume. A really great
the matter. Jackson hated Calhoun, and there- opportunity lies before the author, though he
fore Nullification in South Carolina was treason. will be covering in part a period already well
On the abstract question of States' Rights, it handled by Dr. Rhodes, and it is to be hoped
would be hard to say just where Jackson stood. that he will not cramp himself by too narrow
His attitude toward the bank was the natural limitations in space.
If two volumes are ne-
one of the particularist; in the matter of the cessary, let us have them.
Indians he stood complacently by and saw a
State nullify a decree of the Federal Supreme Giving up a promising business career and
Court. In neither case, however, was he stand devoting oneself to the writing of history is an
ing for any abstract principle, but simply for occurrence not common in this so-called com-
what he believed to be right in each case. The mercial age. Such, in brief, has been the life
bank charter he believed unconstitutional; he of Dr. James Ford Rhodes, who has devoted
had fought too many Indians to have much nineteen years of the best part of his life to a
sympathy with them. The tariff was a different period of our history but little more extended
matter. While not at heart a high-tariff man,
in time. The loss to the business world has
he believed the tariff act constitutional and that been one of immense gain to the world of his-
his arch-enemy Calhoun was at the bottom of torical literature. The word “ literature” is
the effort to nullify it.
used designedly here. Possibly Dr. Rhodes's
One of the most interesting things brought works may not stand a rigid application of all
out by the author in this connection is the atti the tests invented by the schoolmen to deter-
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the stamp of verisimilitude and have the force came not simply in leaving him in the hands of
necessary to lure the reader on and invite him designing men, but in actually forcing him to
to return. Whether describing the scattering look to them for guidance. Wickedness and
of fresh firebrands by the repeal of the Mis- barbarism cannot rule forever over virtue and
souri Compromise, or depicting social condi- intelligence. The ten years' orgy had created
tions in the fifties, bringing into vivid play once a distrust of the negro, and when his rule was
more those tumultuous emotions which swept overthrown he was thrust under foot as unworthy
men hither and thither in the closing days of of political rights. And now, forty years after
one administration and the beginning of another, his nominal enfranchisement, he must begin at
or setting the stage for the full tragedy of the the bottom and first prove himself worthy of
Civil War, there is in all and over all the deep these rights.
breath of human interest.
Shameless misgovernment in the South re-
- Sordid ” and “mean are terms that have acted
upon the whole country and contaminated
been applied in contempt to American history. public life everywhere. If some of the Northern
The blunder-crime of secession was atoned for politicians were above the carpet-baggers in
with a mighty effusion of human blood ; but it order of ability, they were not a whit better in
gave to the world examples of heroic daring, point of morality. Concerning Benjamin F.
patriotic devotion, and pathetic self-sacrifice, of Butler, Dr. Rhodes quotes with approval Weed's
statesmanship and military genius, that have estimate that he was the most influential man
seldom if ever been surpassed, and, last of all, in Congress (1873), and the worst. One of the
freedom to a branch of the human race. There strangest things in all our history is that the
was nothing sordid or mean here.
intelligent and virtuous state of Massachusetts
But the aftermath of war, that blunder-crime should have honored this man so often and so
against civilization strangely misnamed Recon- highly. His love of pelf and power has been
struction, was that not sordid and mean? The pointed out by Dr. Rhodes in previous volumes.
answer may be found in the last two volumes Why speak of Oakes Ames and the Credit
of Dr. Rhodes's history. Not that he has at- Mobilier, of Babcock and the Whiskey Ring,
tempted to reveal the base, — rather that, in and of Belknap and the Indian-trade frauds, the
his fidelity to the truth, he has been unable to last two of whom were protected by President
conceal it. Seldom in all history has a nation Grant? After reading the complete exposure
been confronted with such momentous problems of the character of Blaine, one shudders to think
and presented with such magnificent possibilities how narrowly he missed the Presidency twenty
in their solution, and more seldom still do we years later. Summing up the story of shame,
find a more miserable failure. Statesmanship Dr. Rhodes says: “ The high-water mark of
seems to have died, and selfish political parti- corruption in national affairs was reached dur-
sanship at once arose from the corpse. The ing Grant's two administrations." Grant him-
generals of the
army
had bound the wounds self is cleared of all personal guilt, in spite of
of the prostrate foe; the politicians opened them Butler's boast that he had a hold over him; but
again and bound them up with vitriol. The his career as President has beclouded somewhat
measures for the re-making of the Union appear the glory won by the sword. The notorious
to have been conceived in hate and born in a Tweed Ring had no official connection with
lust for pelf and power. The really great op national corruption, but the story of its riot
portunity which lay before Congress was to fit and ruin is given as a part of the corruption of
the wards of the nation, the freedmen, for citi-
zenship, and to help them in adjusting their In connection with the Tweed exposure, Dr.
relations with their former masters. Instead of Rhodes makes a most interesting digression on
doing this they thrust the ballot into the negro's the suffrage. Tweed had maintained himself
hand and turned him and the carpet-bagger by the vote of ignorant men who had no ma-
loose for one of the most shameless orgies of terial interest in the community. The way to
political plunder the world has ever seen. Great prevent such corruption, says Dr. Rhodes, is
was the injustice to the intelligent and to restrict the suffrage by educational and prop-
property-owning classes of the South, it was
erty tests.
But no such restriction was put
perhaps even greater to the negro.
This is an
in the New York charter, because at that time
age of democracy; at first blush the enfran “ the country was bowed down in adoration of
chisement of the negro might seem to have been the theory that voting was a right, not a priv-
a part of this movement. The injustice to him ilege.” The author thinks that possibly all
up
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men should be allowed to vote for President ultimate victor in that life-and-death struggle.
and members of Congress, but that state and The recent achievement of Dr. Rhodes seems
city government is more distinctly a matter of to indicate that the writer may prove a false
business, and in these the rule of an intelligent prophet. Several Southern men have produced
minority is preferable to that of an unintelligent excellent monographs on this subject, but the
democracy. It is not surprising that one who man who surpasses him will accomplish a note-
has spent a long time in the study of this worthy feat. However, in dealing with these
period should turn from it with his confidence two periods there is this difference, which gives
in democracy shaken. Rightly understood, how the Southern man no advantage: Men may
ever, it only emphasizes the truth that democ still debate about the war and its causes, but
racy must base its hope of ultimate success on there is only one side to Reconstruction. Here
intelligence and virtue.
the vanquished, the inventors and supporters of
The character of Tilden suffers slightly at Congressional Reconstruction, are universally
the hands of Dr. Rhodes. There was no taint condemned and cast into outer darkness.
of corruption, not even to secure the Presidency
DAVID Y. THOMAS.
in 1877; on the contrary, he was honest, be-
cause honesty is the best policy, though he did
dodge the income tax, but he was lacking in the
physical and moral courage necessary for lead THE LETTERS OF OWEN MEREDITH.*
ership in turbulent times and so vacillating of
“My estimate of what Lord Lytton's rank
purpose as to destroy his party's enthusiasm.
As for Hayes, “ left to himself, he would have
will be is that, as a lyric poet, the position given
been capable of refusing the high office if not
him will be next among his contemporaries after
Tennyson, Swinburne, and Rossetti." So wrote
honestly obtained, and had he declined to ac-
Mr. Wilfrid Blunt in 1892. To a generation
cept it before the Louisana Returning-Board
that knows Owen Meredith only as the author
made their return, though he would never have
of “Lucile," this estimate is sufficiently sur-
been President, he would have been one of the
world's heroes. As it actually turned out, how-
prising. We e are not concerned at the moment,
ever, he saw with Sherman's
which were
however, to attack or to confirm it, but only to
eyes,
those of a stubborn partisan.” It is the author's
gain, if possible, an accurate impression of the
man himself from the two volumes of his
opinion that “he ought to have stopped the
action in his favor of the Louisiana Returning-
" Personal and Literary Letters” now before
Board, but after swallowing this much he stood
They contain a record of unusual inter-
as the avowed representative of his party ; and
est, — the story of a defeated poet, an exquisite
. . he had no choice but to take the place.”
amateur of letters, whom circumstances and
From this the reader will infer at once that Dr. temperament kept on the lower slopes of
Parnassus. They convince us, not that Lord
Rhodes does not think that Hayes was elected.
He says expressly that Tilden should have
Lytton's public career prevented him from
had the vote of Louisiana and possibly that becoming a great poet, but that his success as
of Florida. His account of this memorable diplomatist and administrator was possible be-
contest is clear and remarkably well condensed,
cause his poetic inspiration, though genuine, was
fitful and limited.
though it does not appear to add anything new.
He recognized this quite
However, it is not likely that anything new will clearly himself. “I have at least half a dozen
be added until someone investigates thoroughly
different persons in me," he wrote in 1890,
the frauds at their sources, if it can be done at
“ each utterly unlike the other
all pulling
this late day.
different ways and continually getting in each
A few years ago, in an article published else-
other's way” (vol. ii., p. 395). And in a more
where, the present writer, quoting Professor
serious vein, he wrote to his daughter a few
months before his death :
Burgess's statement that the “ final” history of
reflect that if I had acted more selfishly — I don't
the Civil War would have to be written by a
mean in the bad but the best sense of the word, with
Northern man, because the North was in the
more of that self-assertion which springs from a man's
right and because the victor is always more confidence in the best of his own nature, and is the dis-
generous than the vanquished, undertook to tinguishing mark of genius – I should have resolutely
say that for this very reason the “final” history * PERSONAL AND LITERARY LETTERS OF ROBERT, FIRST EARL
of Reconstruction would have to be written by
OF LYTTON. Edited by Lady Betty Balfour. In two volumes,
with photogravure portraits. New York: Longmans, Green,
a Southern man because the South was the
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In my
a
eschewed a number of good things not suitable to my “« Art requires the whole man.' Ah, how well I know
nature, and should have bent the circumstances of my that! how bitterly I feel it. But why do you say it to
life into conformity with the natural direction of the me who am doomed to be a Dilettante for life? If
faculties best fitted to render life fruitful.
there is a word of truth in what we are always saying,
inability to do this I recognize the absence of that mis and admitting when said, about the dignity of poetry
sion without which the imaginative faculty is a will-'o as an art, its high tax on the faculties of the poet, and
the-wisp " (ii., 426).
its sublime benefits to mankind, why in Heaven's name
This letter is in pathetic contrast with one
should we say that the devotion of the poet to his art,
seriously, earnestly, exclusively : . as a profession
written to his father in 1854, when he was
and a most honorable one, is a waste of time ...,
twenty-two years old, and had been for four
sleep in a garden of roses ? ” (i., 80).
years following the profession of diplomacy This last is an allusion to a warning received
which his father had marked out for him.
from his father two years before. And to his
“I certainly feel and own that I have hitherto not father he wrote in 1860 :
done justice to myself in the profession, and I see
many men getting before me to the top of the ladder
“ There can be no doubt about real genius. It is sure
whom I really feel to be not more light of foot or
of the world, and the world is sure of it. And this is
steady of hand than myself, so that if I continue to
what dismays me on my own account. I am too clever,
follow the career, certainly my amour propre is con-
at least have too great a sympathy with intellect, to be
cerned in advancement; but I feel that all those great
quite content to eat the fruit of the earth as an ordi-
and brilliant prizes which allure others, would, even
nary young man, and yet not clever enough to be ever
were I to obtain them, greatly diminish rather than
a great man, so that I remain like Mahomet's coffin
increase my happiness: each step forward would be a
suspended between heaven and earth, missing the hap-
step further from my own ideal, and would have to
piness of both. . . . A little more or a little less of
be trodden over some relinquished dream, or some
whatever ability I inherit from you would have made
strangled interest. . . . Even Uncle Henry, despite his
me a complete and more cheerful man ” (ii., 82).
many noble achievements and his costly successes, and There is the formula of dilettantism, of that
his great position and reputation, the praise of the gifted mediocrity which lacks the final efficiency
public press, the confidence of ministers, the envy of all
his colleagues, and the Grand Cross of the Bath, is an
without which the greatest gifts are sterile.
example that makes me shudder. I would rather, for
His father had long before warned him of
my part, have been Burns at the Scotch alehouse, than the danger that besets a young man of fortune,
Uncle Harry in a ship of war, going out to his post good looks, and popularity ; but by dilettantism
with the red ribbon on. As I once said to you when
the elder Lytton meant “ writing only what
we walked along the streets of London by night, and
you made me proud and happy by asking me the ques-
pleases yourself," instead of writing with an eye
tion, my ambition has ever been for fame rather than single to popular approval. In fact, the suc-
power. . . . I have no fear myself of becoming a mere cessful novelist’s admonitions to the young poet
literary dilettante” (i., 59).
are an amusing compound of admirable good
This youthful prophecy was fulfilled. The sense and crass Philistinism.
“great and brilliant prizes" which he obtained “One thing I would say, in spite of all you urge about
-the viceroyalty of India, the Paris embassy being content with a small audience and your own ap-
did not, if we may trust these letters, bring proval. That is not the right ambition of a poet who
him happiness. Political activity was so far
means to influence his age. It is not worth the sacrifice
of all other thought and career for. He should aspire
from absorbing him that it never really com-
to reach a wide public. This is one reason why I de-
manded his respect. “ The debates of the House plore the paramount effect that poets who only please
of Lords," on his return from India, “ appeared a few have on your line and manner. Praised as they
to him.dreamlike and devoid of real life’;
are by critics, Keats and Shelley are very little read by
those of the House of Commons, one vast in-
the public, and absolutely unknown out of England.
. . Now take Charles Mackay's poems. They are
sane display of wasted power and passion mis-
little praised by critics, no idols of the refining few, but
applied ’” (ii., 232). He would certainly have they sell immensely with the multitude - it is worth
accepted John Morley's characterization of studying why” (1., 55).
politics, widely as his political · views differed Though this is contemptible enough, many of
from those of the distinguished Liberal : “ Poli the elder Lytton's criticisms of his son's work
tics are a field where action is one long second are thoroughly sound. He pointed out the re-
best, and where the choice constantly lies dundance and decoration, the absence of “
between two blunders.”
culine severity of taste," the fondness for detail
On the other hand, Lord Lytton was, in the rather than proportion, that characterized the
strict sense, “a mere literary dilettante ” all his young poet's work, at the same time admitting
days. And this he himself early recognized. its genius. He thought, however, rather too well
Writing to Mrs. Browning when he was twenty- of “ Lucile.” “ I can remember no work of such
four, he said :
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mas-


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of the vocabulary reminds me of Goethe himself with a young poet. Suppose someone had
in his best days of poetry. You may rely on
silenced Keats for two years! The supposition
fame for the poem” (i., 99). The author's is, of course, absurd; for Keats could not have
own view of it, we may say in passing, was more
been silenced. This act of obedience is suffi-
just. “A trashy poem that seems to have be- cient evidence of the slightness of the poet's
come very popular in America ” (i., 93) was his gift. For such a nature, it would probably
best word for it.
have been the part of wisdom to put into his
One aspect of the father's relation to the son, profession the spirit and energy that were in-
however, is less amusing than painful. From sufficient for his art, and to cease to look with
his boyhood, the younger Lytton's craving for longing at heights which he could not climb.
his father's love and respect is almost pathetic. In middle life, he apparently came round to
At the age of eighteen he wrote:
his father's opinion that the poet is not injured
“I have just heard from my father. What an in but improved by being combined with the man
tense pleasure it gives me to receive a letter of kind-
of affairs, though the following letter, in which
ness from him, I cannot tell you. My position and my
feelings are so strange, my heart is so full of love for
he expresses this conviction, must be contrasted
him, full to overflowing, but it is darkened and choked
with the one already quoted in which he lament-
with the most fearful and constant doubts, the most ed that his poetical aim had not been single:
painful suspicions, the most bitter feelings ” (i., 24). “ For any man of robust moral fibre and unlimited
This is an allusion to the estrangement be intellectual receptivity, I am convinced that occasional
tween his father and mother, and the jealousy close contact with (or immersion in) the central move-
and distrust with which each viewed the son's
ment of that world, mean and shallow though it be, is
intercourse with the other. At a later period, adjustment of his faculties.
essential, not perhaps to the development, but to the
My belief is that all
the young poet's desire for his father's literary first-class genius has in it an element of vulgarity,
approval was no less keen than his craving for if you will — but certainly of amalgamation with the
his father's love. In reply to the elder Lytton's
common sense, and common experience and sentiment,
praise of Clytemnestra,” he wrote:
of commonplace human beings — a fulcrum for its indi-
viduality in what is generally appreciable. Shakespeare
“ The best thanks I can give you back, my beloved had it; Milton, too, in spite of all the narrowness of
father, for the great heartful of gladness you have his sublimity; Dante, in spite of all his egotism; and
given me must be the assurance of that gladness, and Byron and Goethe and Voltaire — and this constitutes
how it surpasses all other kinds of happiness, so that I their immeasurable superiority in the hierarchy of
could wish that my life should stop here lest anything genius over such geniuses as Keats and Shelley and
less should follow. My heart seems to open under Wordsworth and Tennyson and Rousseau" (i., 330).
each kind word of yours; all things seem easy to do,
and pain even light to bear” (1., 54).
We have given so much attention to a single
Yet the father to whom these words were ad-
interesting phase of Lord Lytton's life that we
dressed was capable of writing a letter that con-
have little space to devote to many other phases
victs him of cruel suspicion, if not of unnatural
of perhaps greater intrinsic importance. The
letters seem to us conclusive evidence of his
jealousy.
“I don't think, whatever your merit, the world would
diplomatic ability, and of the wisdom and
allow two of the same name to have both a permanent
tact of his Indian administration, complicated
reputation in literature. You would soon come to though it was by the perplexities of the Afghan
grudge me my life, and feel a guilty thrill every time I War. The letters from India, indeed, are so
was ill. . . . No. Stick close to your profession, take
full of color and incident, and throw so clear a
every occasion to rise in it, plenty of time is left to culti-
vate the mind and write verse or prose at due intervals.
light on the problems of colonial administration,
As to your allowance, I should never increase it till you that they surpass in interest and value those of
get a step. I help the man who helps himself” (i., 60). any other period. On his return to England,
To this the son replied:
it became necessary for him to take part in
“ What you have said is quite enough. I shall only a debate of the Lords which was virtually a
recur in thought to those suggestions for the future with defense of the Government in its conduct of
regret that they were ever made. I renounce them. . .
Afghan affairs. Lord Lytton never spoke
I am quite willing to abide in the profession and work
as well and as cheerfully as I can in it” (i., 61).
readily, and had therefore carefully prepared
But this was followed by a still more amazing ing it, Lord Beaconsfield begged him to change
his speech, when, within a few hours of deliver-
renunciation. At his father's request he prom- his line of argument. He writes :
ised not to write at all for two years. Possibly
the son's poetical career, his incurable dilet-
“ There was a full House, the galleries thronged,
royalties and peeresses who had staid in town to hear
tantism, justify the father's severity. But for
me; the bar and the places behind the throne were also
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from the Commons to hear me out of curiosity. I felt
very nervous when I got up, and the cheers from my
IN THE LAND OF SNOW AND ICE.*
own side seemed to me rather faint. But after ten
When the late Mr. William Zeigler's first
minutes I felt that I had the House well in hand, and
when I sat down I felt that the speech had been a de-
expedition to the Polar region failed to attain
cided oratorical success. Lord Beaconsfield was un any high degree of north latitude, he was not
stinted in his commendations of what he called its disheartened, but immeditely fitted out another
• remarkable Parliamentary tact.' The result was, I
expedition and sent it northward under the
think, a great relief to him, for his last words as he
left the House with me were: •You made a great effect
command of Mr. Anthony Fiala of Brooklyn.
without one injudicious word. As for myself, I feel as
Mr. Fiala had been the photographer of the first
if I had won the Derby. I backed you heavily, and
you expedition ; he had shown exceptional skill as
have won my stakes for me easily. As for you, you an explorer, and had the experience necessary
have established your own Parliamentary position in
the front rank. From this time forward you may do
to overcome difficulties encountered by the first
or say anything you please in Parliament. Your posi- ill-fated party. Yet the well-laid schemes of
tion is assured, and you have won it by a single speech'” both promoter and explorer went agley. Their
(ii., 228).
vessel, America," was crushed in the ice the
It is in the same letter that he remarks, “ The first winter; the unusual climatic conditions of
more I see of public life in England, the less I the following summer prevented any serious
like it, and the less I respect the actors in it”! advance toward the desired spot; the relief ship
We can merely refer to the bits of literary failed to appear at the end of the summer ; and,
criticism of his contemporaries -- often sound finally, many of the men became disaffected, -
and always suggestive — that are scattered up a list of insurmountable difficulties which com-
and down these volumes, and to the fragments pelled the explorer to relinquish his efforts and
of literary theory, which are as stimulating as to return without having achieved the object of
those that delight us in the letters of Stevenson.
his quest.
We must also confine ourselves to mentioning In a minor way, however, the Fiala-Ziegler
the names of some of the distinguished persons expedition was successful.
expedition was successful. Charts were made
to whom Lord Lytton wrote with the utmost of previously unexplored portions of Franz
freedom and intimacy, - John Morley, John Josef Archipelago, and magnetic and meteoro-
Forster, Lord Salisbury, the Brownings, the logical observations were recorded by Messrs.
Queen.
W. J. Peters and R. W. Porter, the scientists
So far as Lord Lytton's personality is con of the expedition. The most important result
cerned, we gain from these letters an impression of the expedition, however, is the publication
of an unworldly and poetic capacity for friend of the account of it by Mr. Fiala. His book,
ship, of almost irresistible social gifts, of an “ Fighting the Polar Ice,” is doubtless the most
entire sincerity of nature, utterly loyal and free interesting story of Polar exploration yet written
from subterfuge, and beneath all the charm of
in this country. Although it is the record of
manner and the gayety of the man of the world, a a failure, it is likely to be remembered longer
profound and permanent melancholy. He was than many accounts of more fortunate explorers.
evidently the most delightful and sympathetic Mr. Fiala's expedition left Trondhjem, Nor-
of fathers, and his daughter writes of him with way, June 23, 1903, and on July 13 struck
a mixture of the reverence due to his talents the ice-field in Barentz Sea. This sea, lying
and position and the tenderness called forth by between Norway and Franz Josef Archipelago,
his fundamental unhappiness. In editing the has been crossed by many expeditions in less
letters, she has done her work with admirable than a week's time, but it took Fiala's ship, the
reticence and skill. It is a far more touching “ America,” over a month to buck and hammer
and interesting record than the biography of its way to Cape Flora, the most southern point
many a greater man.
of the archipelago. On August 8, by almost
CHARLES H. A. WAGER. miraculous good fortune, the ship escaped from
the ice pack, “ steaming between two enormous
GEN. OLIVER Otis HOWARD has written his autobi blocks of ice, and escaping just in time, as the
ography, which the Baker and Taylor Co. will publish fields crashed together with tremendous force
in the Fall. The General's experiences while in the behind us.” On August 12 the expedition
Civil War, his services as head of the Freedman's Bu-
reached Cape Flora, famous in the annals of
reau during the Reconstruction period and afterwards
as Peace Commissioner to the hostile Indians, and his
Polar exploration as the place where Jackson
work and influence as an educator, all combine to make
* FIGHTING THE POLAR ICE. By Anthony Fiala. Illustrated.
this a book of the first importance.
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and Nansen had their dramatic meeting, and, the circle of ice know better than others the weakness
of vastly more importance to Fiala, where the
of human nature and their own insufficiencies.”
Duke of the Abruzzi cached a great supply of
Could Fiala have had a company of privates
provisions. Desiring to winter farther north, like his side companion, the Irishman Duffy, he
however, Commander Fiala set out to fight the might have accomplished more, even in the face
ice of the British Channel toward Cape Dillon. of the difficulties offered by Nature.
After a sturdy contest, the expedition made The second northward attempt was of even
anchor in Teplitz Bay, where the Duke of the shorter duration than the first. The party left
Abruzzi wintered in 1899 and 1900, and whence camp on March 25, reached Cape Fligely the
Captain Cagni of that expedition started on his same evening, but on account of disastrous ac-
trip nearest the pole of any explorer until Peary's cidents to the sledges they returned on the
recent achievement broke the record.
second day. Out of thirty-nine men in camp,
From this time Fiala's account is a cata twenty-five elected to go south to Cape Flora
logue of troubles. The “ America," seemingly to meet the relief ship. Again disappointment
a “fatal and perfidious bark,” broke loose from was to be theirs. Barentz Sea was dead and
her moorings in a storm, and went adrift in the white, with a sullen sheet of rugged ice, so that
awful darkness of an Arctic night. Hardly had no ship could come to the cape. All hopes of
she been made fast again when she was locked relief that year were soon abandoned. Provi-
in the ice, and was finally wrecked in the ice- dentially, however, the lives of the party were
pressure late in December.
saved by the abundant stores cached at Cape
One little incident which lightens this dark Flora by the Duke of the Abruzzi, and by the
story we may here transcribe.
discovery of a vein of coal found up the steep
“ The night of disaster was tinged with some flashes talus.
of humor, stories of which reached me later. While
On September 27, Commander Fiala left
the crew were passing the bags over the side of the
ship, the cook, who was of an excitable nature, suddenly
Cape Flora to march north again to Camp
appeared at the rail with a large bag which he heaved
Abruzzi. For fifty-four days Fiala and his heroic
over with all his strength. It struck the ice below with comrades staggered from ice-pack to ice-pack,
a sounding crash; causing several of the sailors to from island to island, across the archipelago.
exclaim, • Hello, Cook, what was that?' Oh, that's all
It was on this awful return that he and Steward
right!' he answered; it's lamp chimneys and flat irons.'”
After the loss of the ship, the party had to
Spencer met with the most exciting adventure
recorded in the book. While walking ahead of
accommodate itself to the house which had been
the sledges, the snow gave way beneath Fiala's
built on shore at Camp Abruzzi. Then followed
feet, and with Spencer, who was trying help
the long night of preparation for the trial fur-
him, he fell into a glacial crevasse, a distance
ther northward. On March 7, 1904, twenty-
of seventy feet, where the two were wedged into
six men, with sixteen pony-sledges and thirteen
dog-sledges, set out for the great North apex. thrilling one.
a narrow abyss. The story of the rescue is a
In five days the party returned to camp, sorely
“ At last I saw above me the end of a rope, which
tried in spirit, and with a chilled enthusiasm.
gradually neared as I shouted directions to those out of
Five men had become disabled, the cookers had sight above who were lowering the line, our only hope
proved inadequate, a snow-storm had proved
too much for the party, and complaints were so
“My right arm was free, and at last the precious
line was in my hand. I painfully made a bowline in the
general among the men that Fiala decided to
end of the rope, the fingers of my left hand being for-
return to camp to refit, and to reduce the num tunately free. Slipping the noose over my right foot,
ber of men for another attempt.
I called to those above to haul away. Soon I was swing-
This first attempt northward revealed the ing like a pendulum in free space.
I called to them
I
most serious defect in Fiala's appointments.
to move the rope to the right and then lower me.
swung around in the black chasm and felt the icy walls,
Some of his men were of the stuff heroes are
but could not discover the Steward.
made of, but
many
of them were of commoner “In desperation, as I felt myself growing weaker, I
clay and not fitted to endure the hardships of called to him, . Look up and try to see me against the
such rigorous work as Polar exploration de- light above!' He obeyed, saw my suspended form,
mands. The author, who by no means has a
and directed my movements. In answer to my shouts,
the men above moved the rope along the edge of the
complaining nature, fittingly says:
crevasse and lowered me to where I could reach the
“In Arctic research as in all undertakings Steward, though I could not rescue him on account of
Christian character is the chief desideratum. The a projection of ice that interfered. But I could pass him
Polar field is a great testing ground. Those who pass a foot and a hand, and lift him from his prone position,
through winters of darkness and days of trial above and help him to stand on the cake of ice that had broken
.
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But now
off when he fell and had jammed, saving him from partitioned among strangers, or involved in inter-
death. Unable to give the Steward further help, I told necine warfare. Books about the past of Italy are
him it would be best for the men to haul me up and
legion; there are no lack of guides to her towns,
send the rope down for him. He agreed, and I was
her lovely landscapes, her art treasures.
drawn to the surface, -- just in time, as I fainted on
arises a new need
reaching the top. The Steward was hauled up next.”
- to watch the Italy that is now
in the making, the Italy renewed and re-born in art,
Again in the fateful month of March, 1905,
literature, statecraft, in every manifestation of men-
Fiala made his third trial, but reached only tal life. Fortunately, almost the first attempt to
eighty-two degrees north latitude -— his farthest supply this need is a very successful one. It comes
point north. Although he thought it possible in the shape of a handsome volume by Miss Helen
that he and Duffy might exceed Cagni's record, Zimmern, bearing the title “Italy of the Italians”
he felt that the party which had wintered at the (Scribner). The author's residence of twenty years
South Camp might need his guidance in event
in this land of her adoption has provided her with the
that the relief ship failed to come the second
adequate point of view ; her equipment as a scholar
and writer on many subjects, artistic, philosophic, and
year; so, sinking personal ambitions, he returned.
literary, has given her a power of condensed gen-
On July 30, 1905, the relief ship was sighted.
eralization which enables her to treat such subjects
Although failure marked the attempt of Mr.
as “The Press,” “Literature,” “The Painters,”
Fiala to reach the North Pole, that word cannot “Sculpture and Architecture,” “Science and Inven-
. be applied to his book. In many respects it is tions," " Playhouses, Players and Plays," each in a
a most notable book of exploration. First of single chapter. Some of these show how little we
all, it is eminently readable: it does not cata know of modern Italian life, and how easy it is for
logue its author's heroic efforts, but it describes the casual tourist to be mistaken in his hasty deduc-
them with an imaginative fervor somewhat rare
tions. For example, we who are accustomed to
in books of this kind. Such sustained descrip-
bulky newspapers are likely to look with contempt
upon Italy's small news sheet of four pages; but
tive passages as his account of the grinding of
the “ America " in the ice, the long march of
scorn turns to praise when we learn of the wholesome
editorial restrictions that govern the publication.
two hundred miles in the Arctic night from No news calculated to disturb the world's peace is
Camp Ziegler to Camp Abruzzi, and the story allowed to be manufactured in the office; the polit-
of the descent into the crevasse at Hooker Island, ical leaders are, as a rule, well-argued, well-studied,
can hardly be matched among books of Polar well-informed, and terse in expression ; the standard
exploration. Another feature that gives zest to of literary and dramatic criticism is really elevated.
this book is the author's photographs. No
The sanctity of the home is jealously respected. No
amount of reading can convey an idea of the
marriages or births are announced in the Italian
terrible ice-packs, the tremendous ice-pressures, papers, only deaths. There are no interviews except
and the hummocks over which the sledges of
such as concern politics, no man's house is described,
no society ladies figure; there is no lifting of the
Arctic explorers have to travel, so satisfactorily
veils of privacy. A respectable Italian would be
as do the panoramic pictures in this volume.
pained and scandalized if the picture of his wife or
Fiala's pictures reveal to us for the first time mother or sister occupied a full page in a public
just what those difficulties are. The publishers journal. The stock phrase with which the tourist
of the excellent 66 Geographical Library” in comes to Italy, “ There is no modern Italian art,”
which series this book appears, are to be con-
is also effectually silenced by a succinct survey
gratulated on producing so picturesque and
showing the existence of an active and noteworthy
meritorious a volume. It will compare favorably
Italian art, especially in landscape, where the old
art was weakest. That so many
« Old Masters"
with any book describing travel and exploration
in the Polar region.
are continually being made proves the skill, if not
H. E. COBLENTZ.
the honesty, of the modern painter. Some of these
are so splendidly executed, so exactly reproduce the
spirit and character of the time and the artist whose
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
title they assume, that experts are continually de-
ceived. The thirty-one full-page illustrations in Miss
Life and
The recent death of Giosuè Carducci
Zimmern's volume are up-to-date and some of them
"the third
serves to remind us how much of the
are entirely new, increasing the attractions of this
Italy.”
present literary revival in Italy is due
highly interesting book.
to him. That very apt phrase "the third Italy'
was coined by Carducci to convey the idea of a free
The several biographies of Dr. Samuel
A champion of
Italy proceeding on her path toward happier desti liberty and G. Howe, as well as the more in-
nies, in distinction from the first Italy which gave
philanthropy. formal memories of him evoked by
birth to the grandeur of ancient Rome, and the the centennial celebration of his birthday less than
second Italy, overrun and subdued by barbarians, six years ago, have made tolerably familiar his
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colored beads
philanthropic, not to say heroic, life on two conti Christian faith these are his steps leading up the
nents ; but his diaries and correspondence are now
arduous ladder of life. Many striking passages in
for the first time published, in part at least, under his book evoke cordial assent, and some, equally
the editorship of his daughter, Mrs. Laura E. Rich-striking, call forth the opposite. He affirms that
ards, in an octavo of four hundred pages entitled “the most trustworthy friendships are those which
“ Letters and Journals of Samuel Gridley Howe” have sprung from a previous enmity, or have been
(Dana Estes & Co.), to which Mr. Frank B. San once (but not twice) broken off ;" also, that “women
born has contributed a short historical introduction are in general more easy to understand than men”;
on the Greek Revolution of 1821-30, and to which and that “polyglot speech is, as a rule, a mark
also Whittier's noble
poem
" The Hero" is appro neither of genius nor of character.” Like most
priately prefixed. This volume, with its sub-title writings on the simple life” and allied themes,
“ The Greek Revolution,” its closing “End of Vol- these pages are not free from reiteration ; but that
ume I.,” and its lack of index, seems to promise is not always a blemish in hortatory discourse. The
most hopefully a continuation of the work beyond translation is smooth, but has a few unidiomatic
the
year
1832 at which it pauses. Better than any or awkward expressions, and at least one slip in
attempt of our own to characterize these interesting grammar.
“ Financial” is used for “ pecuniary,"
extracts from diaries and letters that breathe the “delusion” where “illusion” would have been
energy and ardor of youthful hope and courage and better, more easy” for the shorter and preferable
self-devotion, is the final paragraph of Mr. San * easier," and, in one instance, “they” (German
born's introduction. “Every reader,” he says, “must man) where a passive construction would have been
be impressed, as I have been, with the genius, re neater.
source, good sense, and chivalry of this
young
Bos-
Fresh and bright and eminently
A handful of
tonian, in the varied and exacting services which
readable are most of the little essays
he could render to the cause of liberty and philan loosely strung. in Miss Katharine Burrill's “ Loose
thropy in the eight years covered by these journals Beads” (Dutton).
(Dutton). Every-day matters, and some
and letters. His diction is not always classical, others, are treated with good sense, cheerful philos-
his knowledge not always exact; but his head is ophy, and literary skill. The happy quotation and
clear and his heart in the right place, - his hands allusion are abundantly in evidence, and the fact
skilful always to do what is needful at the time. As that two of the chapters had already found favor
Thoreau said of Osawatomie Brown, “He would with the readers of “ Chambers's Journal” is a sort
have left a Greek accent slanted the wrong way, of recommendation for the entire volume. In her
and righted up a fallen man.' And the effect of the amusing paper on “Innocence and Ink,” the writer
whole is that of a romance of knighthood.” Mrs. takes occasion to say: “I am quite sure there are
Richards's prefatory and interspersed notes add no many days when grappling with a swarm of bees
little to the value and completeness of the book as seems a light and easy task compared to grappling
a detailed account of her father's eventful young with words and sentences that refuse to swarm as
manhood. A photogravure portrait of the youthful you wish them to — that are ever incorrigibly wrong
Howe, from the painting by Jane Stuart, daughter and will never never come right.” But her words and
of Gilbert Stuart, faces the title-page. He was a sentences, as a rule, marshal themselves in excellent
strikingly handsome subject for any artist.
order, although a fussy critic might object to her
Again under the auspices of Dr.
split infinitives, her “as if there was,” her “moiré
Essays on Francis G. Peabody, who contributes criminate use of “nice,” her Scottish shyness (she
Francis G. Peabody, who contributes antique” (with its superfluous accent), her indis-
happiness.
an introduction, Professor Carl Hilty
appeals to his English-speaking audience in a second
declares herself a Scotchwoman, else we should have
written
“happiness" volume, – “The Steps of Life: Fur-
“ her skittish shyness”) of “shall ” and
ther Essays on Happiness" (Macmillan), trans-
“should,” and other peccadilloes that need trouble
lated by the Rev. Melvin Brandow. These chapters only the purist. The book is most attractively
from the pen, not of a professed religious teacher, printed and bound.
but of “a spiritually-minded man of the world”
Occasionally in dramatic as well as
A group of
to use Laurence Oliphant's phrase, as quoted by 18th century literary criticism we find an author
Mr. Peabody are in the vein of his earlier
comedy queens.
essays,
of strong and vigorous utterance —
but are (a glad surprise) even better and wiser and one who is nothing if not iconoclastic, and hews
stronger. Professor Hilty teaches constitutional law down and builds up idols regardless of conventions
in the University of Bern, but has a firm belief in and creeds. Mr. John Fyvie's “Comedy Queens of
truths of a more spiritual quality than those on the Georgian Era” (Dutton) is a series of sketches
the pages of the statute-book. A defender of the of some of the most prominent English comedy
Christian faith in its fundamental principles, he has actresses of the period. Colley Cibber lamented that
already proved himself an ethical and religious the animated graces of the player could live no
teacher of real helpfulness. The wrestling with longer than the instant breath and motion that
sin, the bearing of sorrow, the pursuit of culture, presents them ”; when the curtain falls and the play
the cultivation of charity and courage and a simple is played, all “ the youth, the grace, the charm, the


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glow” pass into oblivion. But behind the mask
But behind the mask topics. As a history of Europe mainly from the
there is always a human being, and the lives of few point of view of international relations, Mr. Hill's
women exhibit such vicissitudes as do those of work possesses conspicuous merits; but it has only
actresses. The present author has given us sketches a very limited value for the student of diplomacy.
of a dozen women who in the eighteenth century
attained to eminence in the only profession open to
Piscator, Venator, and Auceps will
The diversions of
their sex. He points out that we are likely to form an ex-President all three find entertainment and wise
an erroneous, estimate of the characters of those
with rod and gun.counsel in ex-President Cleveland's
whose romantic careers form the subject of his vol collected papers entitled “Fishing and Shooting
ume if we fail to bear in mind the great difference Sketches," which very appropriately bear the imprint
between the social positions of actors and actresses
of the Outing Publishing Co. The plain Viator also,
in the present day and their status in the eighteenth if not strictly on business bent, will derive pleasure
century; they had then by no means emerged from from these short and unpretentious chapters, writ-
ten
degradation. Furthermore, these actresses had to with an occasional touch of humor in its specific
encounter the tradition of immorality attaching to sense, and a delightful prevalence of good-humor
them in consequence of the notoriously scandalous throughout. A strong plea is made for out-door
lives of earlier English actresses in the profligate diversions in general, and for fishing and fowling
days of Charles II. The author has painted pictures in particular, with one brief chapter on rabbit-shoot-
of Charlotte Clarke, Margaret Woffington, Catherine ing; and every page breathes a sturdy and manly
Clive, Lavinia Fenton, Frances Abington, Dora (not to say gentlemanly) protest against unsports-
Jordan, and their contemporaries, as they were, and manlike sport. The writer professes himself a
left the reader to do his own moralizing wherever warm friend to all members of the fish and game
necessary. There is wit and genial humor and phi-tribe, although so ardent in their pursuit. His
losophy, with occasional cynicism, in these jottings, book makes for the ennoblement of his favorite
which are miscellaneous in character, — critical, pastimes, and for their perpetuation. The illustra-
biographical, anecdotal, descriptive, according to tions, by Mr. Henry S. Watson, are numerous, ap-
the mood or the circumstance. Eight photogravures propriate, and daintily executed. A frontispiece
embellish the volume.
photographic print of Mr. Cleveland, and also draw-
ings of him in less formal attire, with rod in hand,
The second volume of Mr. David J.
European
add interest to this very inviting little volume.
international Hill's “History of European Diplo-
relations..
macy” (Longmans) brings his nar-
Few are the books that possess the
The public
rative down to the treaty of Westphalia in 1648. addresses of charm, apart from their contents, of
The period covered by the present volume marks John Hay. the recently published “Addresses
the transition from the Middle Ages, with their of John Hay” (Century Co.). The volume contains
almost chaotic political systems, to the modern twenty-four addresses ; many of them are brief re-
period during which the permanent traditions of
sponses to toasts, or remarks on other formal occa-
Europe took shape, national states succeeded to petty sions, each containing an appropriate thought or
principalities, and modern diplomacy had its rise. sentiment finely worked out and gracefully phrased.
In reality, Mr. Hill's work is not a history of diplo- But some of them are more elaborate productions.
macy as the title indicates, but a political history | The one entitled “Franklin in France” is perhaps
with special reference to European international the finest, with its broad sweep over the historical
relations during the period covered. Primarily, it conditions that produced the Revolution, and its
is a review of the relations of France, Spain, Ger- presentation of the manner in which Franklin took
many, and England to Italy, and particularly the advantage of those conditions to accomplish his mis-
long struggle of France and Germany for prepon sion. Another elaborate address is that on President
derance in the affairs of the Italian peninsula and McKinley, delivered in the Capitol at the invitation
the resulting effect upon the Papacy and upon of Congress. It is, as was to be expected, wholly
European political morality. The ascendency of laudatory, but the praise is not without discrimina-
the House of Hapsburg, the international influence tion, and it is a noteworthy, example of the formal
of the Reformation, and the development of the idea eulogy. Others are “ Fifty Years of the Republican
of a sovereign state system, are other topics treated Party,” “America's Love of Peace,” « The Press and
by Mr. Hill. It may be doubted, however, whether Modern Progress,” and “ American Diplomacy."
they properly have a place in a history of diplomacy.
The truth is that Mr. Hill has given us little on the
The career of John Sherman was
subject of diplomacy during the period covered by as an American notable for the length of his public
his volume. We look in vain for any discussion of
service in very prominent positions,
the methods and agencies of diplomatic intercourse and for the influence that he exerted upon the set-
during the Middle Ages, the rights and privileges tlement of the great questions of the period from
of ambassadors, diplomatic usages, the conception 1855 to 1898. Within a month after he took his
and character of mediæval diplomacy, and similar seat in Congress he was in the public eye, and there
.
John Sherman
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he remained for more than forty years.
His in-
fluence arose not so much from his oratory, though
he, spoke often and well, but from his efficiency
in doing things. There was hardly an important
measure before Congress in all that time that he
did not have a hand in shaping, and in much of the
legislation he was the central figure. This con-
spicuous career has been set forth by Congressman
Theodore E. Burton in his volume on Sherman
in the second series of “ American Statesmen”
(Houghton, Mifflin & Co.). The book is rather hard
reading for the ordinary person who has no great
liking for figures and financial history; there was
not much in Mr. Sherman's personality or career to
give a biographer opportunity to enliven his book
with anecdote or incident. But it gives a good
account of a real statesman, and a history of several
important phases of our national development during
the last half century.
With the publication of volumes
Twelve volumes
of Lincoln's
eleven and twelve we have in com-
works.
pleted form the beautiful and com-
prehensive “Gettysburg edition ” of the “Complete
Works, of Abraham Lincoln” (Francis D. Tandy
Company). With its thorough gleaning of the writ-
ings of Lincoln, adding one-fifth to the contents of
the former edition, the essays, addresses, and poems
about him, and the many fine portraits of him and
the men of his period, it impresses us anew in its
completed form as a work of great value for the
student and the reader of our history and of litera-
ture. Volume XI. contains an address by James
A. Garfield, the remainder of the writings down to
the last hour of his life, with forty pages of new
gleanings, and an elaborate and complete bibliogra-
phy of Lincoln literature covering two hundred and
forty pages made by Judge Daniel Fish of Minne-
apolis. Volume XII. contains an anthology of Lin-
coln's pithy sayings, a chronological index, and a
general index covering more than two hundred pages.
“ English Grammar," edited by Mr. H. L. Stephen.
Although, as the editor points out, this work is now of
interest mainly from a literary point of view, it still
holds a certain reputation and authority of its own
among grammars; and this prettily-made reprint is on
all accounts to be welcomed.
A study of the “ Sources and Analogues of The
Flower and the Leaf,'” by Mr. George L. Marsh, is a
doctoral dissertation prepared for the department of
English in the University of Chicago. Taking for its
starting-point the now fairly-settled assumption that
the poem is not the work of Chaucer, the author of this
monograph proceeds upon the theory that it was written
by some imitator of the poet during the first half of
the fifteenth century. The general conclusion is that
the poem is an eclectic composition, to which both En-
glish and French influences contributed.
The day of Mendelssohn is pretty well past, but we
may not grudge him a place in such a collection as the
Musicians' Library" of the Oliver Ditson Co. The
volume of “ Thirty Piano Compositions,” now edited by
Dr. Percy Goetschius, includes those writings of the
class in question which have shown the greatest vitality
-- a group of the “Songs without Words," the Sonata
in E major, the Rondo Capriccioso, and a score or more
of other compositions. The collection has a preface by
Mr. Daniel Gregory Mason, besides the usual portrait
and bibliography.
We are all loyally prejudiced in favor of any pro-
nouncement from the venerable and amiable man of
letters who has made American humor famous. It is
with natural regret that one feels it necessary to record
that Mark Twain's curiously tempered appraisal of
Christian Science (Harper) adds nothing to the fame
of the author. The colloquial and typically American
admonition à propos of bibulous occasions that advises
against the mixing of potations applies with due allow-
ance to the mingling of caricature and sober attack. It
makes it trying to determine under which mask the
part is going forward. At all events, the story of the
remarkable movement with which the book is con-
cerned is receiving in these reportorial and historical
days a sufficiently objective and circumstantial examina-
tion to satisfy the most critically inquiring student of
the future.
Mr. Thomas Nelson Page has now come to the dig-
nity of " collected works." The Messrs. Scribner have
brought together, in the twelve volumes of their “ Plan-
tation ” edition (published by subscription) the various
writings of this versatile and accomplished gentleman.
We may be in substantial agreement with the publishers
in saying that “Mr. Page has for twenty-five years rep-
resented all that is best in the literature of the old
South and the new.” That period of a quarter-century
is approximately what stretches between Marse Chan”
and “Gordon Keith," and the twelve volumes before
us make a creditable showing of literary activity. Cer-
tainly no one has written better short stories of old
Virginia, and there is no better novel of the reconstruc-
tion period than “Red Rock.” That novel, and “Gor-
don Keith,' fill each two volumes of the new edition,
another gives us Mr. Page’s essays on “The Old South,”
and still another of his poems. The remaining six are
made up of short stories. The volumes are beautifully
printed, and each of them contains three illustrations
printed in colors. We trust that Mr. Page will live to
give us another full dozen of volumes.
BRIEFER MENTION.
“ The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen," as edited
(and in large measure translated) by Mr. William
Archer, is in course of publication by Messrs. Charles
Scribner's Sons. There are to be eleven volumes in
all, each with its special introduction. Four of the
set are now at hand, and give us Brand, 66 The
League of Youth,
“ Pillars of Society,
- The Vik-
“ The Pretenders,” “A Doll's House, and
“Ghosts.' There are fourteen other plays for the re-
maining seven volumes.
An anthology of “Sea Songs and Ballads” has been
made by Mr. Christopher Stone for the “Oxford Library
of Prose and Poetry,” published by Mr. Henry Frowde.
The selections range from the earliest songs to Dibdin,
and are largely chosen from sources not accessible to
the casual reader. Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge contri-
butes an interesting introduction to the book. – Another
volume in the same series is a new edition of Cobbett's
ings,”


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NOTES.
ANNOUNCEMENTS OF SPRING BOOKS.
Herewith is presented THE DIAL's annual list of
books announced for Spring publication, containing this
year upwards of eight hundred titles. All the books
here given are presumably new books — new editions
not being included unless having new form or matter.
The list is compiled from authentic data especially
secured for this purpose, and presents a trustworthy
survey of the Spring publishing season of 1907.
A new volume by Joaquin Miller, consisting of a long
narrative poem entitled “Light,” will be published
within a few weeks by Messrs. Herbert B. Turner & Co.
New and interesting material about Daniel O'Connell
will doubtless be contained in his “ Early Life and
Journal,” to be published in April by the Baker and
Taylor Co. Mr. Arthur Houston, K. C., LL. D., edits
the Journal, which has never before heen published.
There are several new stories of a humorous nature, an
account of O'Connell's parentage, early education, read-
ing and earnings at the Bar, etc.
Dr. Horace Howard Furness is hard at work seeing
through the press the fifteenth volume of his monu-
mental “ New Variorum Edition” of Shakespeare. The
play treated in this volume will be “ Antony and Cleo-
patra,” upon which Dr. Furness has devoted his entire
time since the publication of his edition of “Love's
Labour's Lost” more than two years ago. The J. B.
Lippincott Company will probably have the book ready
during the spring
The list of fine editions of foreign classics translated
into English which the J. B. Lippincott Company has
been issuing now includes ten titles, each title made up
of from two to five volumes. The works included are
Montesquieu's “ Persian Letters,” Margaret of Na-
varre's “ Heptameron,” Cervantes’ « Don Quixote ” and
Exemplary Novels,” Boccaccio's “ Decameron,” Rabe-
lais' Works, Rousseau's “Confessions,” Lesage's “Gil
Blas," the “Arabian Nights,” and Sainte-Beuve's Essays.
The demise of « Temple Bar” brings regret, espe-
cially to readers of the magazine in its earlier days,
when Thackeray and Miss Braddon and other famous
writers contributed to its entertaining pages. It was
started in 1860, and has thus enjoyed a term of life
far beyond the average of periodical ventures; but of
late its air and complexion have been sadly altered.
Aud thus has fallen another victim to the too-triumph-
ant ten-cent (or sixpenny) illustrated monthly magazine
that stares us so unbashfully in the face on every
news-stand.
• Leading Americans ” is the title of a new series of
biographies announced by Messrs. Henry Holt & Co.,
to appear under the general editorship of Professor
W. P. Trent. The first volume, “ Leading American
Soldiers," by Mr. R. M. Johnston, is now ready; and
among the future volumes arranged for are “ Leading
American Scientists by Dr. David Starr Jordan,
Leading American Historians” by Professor William
P. Trent, “ Leading American Lawyers ” by Mr. Henry
C. Merwin, “ Leading American Poets” by Dr. Curtis
Hidden Page, and “ Leading American Novelists" by
Mr. John Erskine.
Details are now announced of « The Student's Series
of Historical and Comparative Grammars,” edited by
Joseph Wright, Professor of Comparative Philology in
the University of Oxford. The object of this series is
to furnish students interested in historical and com-
parative grammar with handy volumes on the subject.
The General Editor has already secured the coöperation
of the leading philologists in England, Germany, and
America, and it is confidently expected that during the
present year authors will have been secured for the
whole series, consisting of about twenty-five volumes.
The series will be printed at the Oxford University
Press, and published by Mr. Henry Frowde.
BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIRS.
The Life of Walter Pater, by Thomas Wright, 2 vols.,
illus.—The Life of Goethe, by Albert Bielschowsky,
authorized translation from the German by William
A. Cooper, in 3 vols., Vol. II., From the Italian Jour-
ney to the Wars of Liberation, 1788-1815, illus., $3.50
net.-Jean Jacques Rousseau, by Frederika Macdonald,
2 vols., illus., $6.50 net.—The Friends of Voltaire, by
S. G. Tallentyre, with portraits, $2.50 net. (G. P.
Putnam's Sons.)
Life and Letters of Edwin Lawrence Godkin, edited by
Rollo Ogden, 2 vols.-English Men of Letters series,
new vols. : Mrs. Gaskell, by Clement Shorter; Charles
Kingsley, by G. K. Chesterton; Shakespeare, by Wal-
ter Raleigh; per vol., 75 cts. net. (Macmillan Co.)
Life and Letters of Charles Russell Lowell, by Edward
Waldo Emerson, illus. in photogravure, etc., $2 net.
The Life and Times of Stephen Higginson, by Thomas
Wentworth Higginson, illus.-Sixty-Five Years in the
Life of a Teacher, 1841-1906, by Edward Hicks Magill,
illus., $1.50 net.—The Story of a Pathfinder, by P.
Deming, $1.25 net. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.)
The Life of Charles A. Dana, by James Harrison Wilson,
with portraits, $3 net. —Heroes of American History
series, new vol. : Ferdinand Magellan, by Frederick
A. Ober, illus., $1 net. (Harper & Brothers.)
Military Memoirs of a Confederate, a critical narrative,
by Gen. E. P. Alexander, with portrait and maps, $4 net.
-Auguste Rodin, by Frederick Lawton, $3.75 net.
(Charles Scribner's Sons.)
The Life of Isabella Bird Bishop, by Anna M. Stoddard.
-George Crabbe, by René Huchon.-Mrs. Montagu and
Her Friends, by René Huchon.-Moltke in His Home,
by Friedrich August Dressler, authorized translation
by Mrs. Charles Edward Barrett-Leonard, with por-
traits. (E. P. Dutton & Co.)
Women of the Second Empire, chronicles of the Court
of Napoleon III., by Frederic Loliee, trans. by Alice
Ivimy, with portraits in photogravure, etc., $7 net. —
The Fall of Napoleon, by Oscar Browning, illus., $5
net.-Stars of the Stage, edited by J. T. Grein, first
vol.: Ellen Terry, by Christopher St. John, illus., $1
net. (John Lane Co.)
Memories, by Major-Gen. Sir Owen Tudor Burne, illus.,
$4.20 net.— "Our Sister Beatrice," being a memoir of
Beatrice Julian Allen, with her letters from Japan
written during the late war and the nine years imme-
diately preceding it, by Grace Grier.-Essays in Ec-
clesiastical Biography, by Rt. Hon. Sir James Stephen,
new edition, in 2 vols., $2.50. (Longmans, Green &
Co.)
“True Biographies," new vol. : The True Patrick Henry,
by George Morgan, illus., $2 net.-French Men of
Letters series, new vol. : François Rabelais, by Arthur
Tilley, M.A., with portrait and bibliography, $1.50
net.—Heroes of the Navy in America, by Charles Mor-
ris, illus., $1.25 net. (J. B. Lippincott Co.)
The Many-sided Roosevelt, an anecdotal biography, by
George William Douglas, $1 net.—Modern English
Writers, new vol. : George Eliot, by A. T. Quiller-
Couch, $1 net.—Recollections of Men and Horses, by
Hamilton Busbey, illus., $2.50 net. (Dodd, Mead & Co.)
The Real Louis XV., by Lieut.-Col. Andrew C. P. Hag-
gard, in 2 vols., illus. in photogravure, etc., $5 net.-
Talleyrand, the biography of a great diplomat, by
Joseph McCabe, illus., $3 net. (D. Appleton & Co.)
The Life of Jay Cooke, by Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer,
Ph. D., 2 vols., illus.-American Crisis Biographies, new
vols. : Judah P. Benjamin, by Pierce Butler; Freder-
ick Douglass, by Booker T. Washington ; per vol.,
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The
Leading Americans, edited by W. P. Trent, first vol.:
Leading American Soldiers, by R. M. Johnston, with
portraits, $1.75 net.-Julie de Lespinasse, by Marquis
de Ségur, trans. by P. H. Lee-Warner, with frontis-
piece, $2.50 net. (Henry Holt & Co.)
Daniel O'Connell, his early life and journal, 1795-1802,
by Arthur Houston, illus. in photogravure, $3.25 net.
(Baker & Taylor Co.)
Lives of Great Writers series, new vol. : In the Days
of Goldsmith, by Tudor Jenks, with frontispiece, $1
net. (A. S. Barnes & Co.)
HISTORY.
A History of the United States, by Edward Channing,
Vol. II., A Century of Colonial History, 1600-1760.-
Cambridge Modern History, planned by Lord Acton,
edited by A. W. Ward, George W. Prothero, and Stan-
ley Leathes; Vol. X., Restoration and Reaction, $4 net.
-A History of the Inquisition of Spain, by Henry
Charles Lea, in 4 vols. ; Vol. III., $2.50 net.--The
American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, by Her-
bert L. Osgood ; Vol. III., $2.50 net.--The Birth of
the Nation, Jamestown 1607, by Mrs. Roger A. Pryor.
-Travels, by Captain John Smith, new and complete
edition, 2 vols.—History of Rome in the Middle Ages,
by F. Marion Crawford and Giuseppe Tomassetti.-
Vancouver's Discovery of Puget Sound, by Edmond s.
Meany.---Life in the Homeric Age, by Thomas Day
Seymour. (Macmillan Co.)
Original Narratives of Early American History, edited
by J. Franklin Jameson, Ph. D., new vols. : The Voy-
ages of Samuel de Champlain, edited by W. L. Grant ;
Narratives of Early Virginia, edited by L. G. Tyler ;
Bradford's History of Plymouth Plantation, edited by
W. T. Davis; Winthrop's Journal, edited by J. K.
Hosmer; Johnson's Wonder-Working Providence of
Sion's Savior in New England, edited by J. F. Jame-
son ; Narratives of Early Maryland; Narratives of
New Netherland; per vol., $3.50 net.-A Bird's-Eye
View of American History, by Leon C. Prince, $1.25
net.—The History of Mediæval and of Modern Civili-
zation to the End of the Seventeenth Century, by
Charles Seignobos, trans. and edited, with introduc-
tion, by James Alton James, $1.25 net.-A Short
History of the American Navy, by John R. Spears,
illus., 50 cts. net. (Charles Scribner's Sons.)
A History of England, from the earliest times down to
the year 1815, edited by C. W. C. Oman, in 6 vols.;
Vol. I., From the Beginning to 1066, by C. W. C.
Oman; Vol. III., from 1272-1485, by Owen Edwards;
Vol. VI., from 1714-1815, by C. Grant Robertson ;
per vol., $3 net.–Story of the Nations series, new
vol. : Chaldea, from the earliest times to the rise of
Assyria, by Zenaide A. Ragozin, revised and in part
rewritten, $1.35 net.-The Hoosac Valley, its legends
and its history, by Grace G. Niles, illus., $3.50 net.
(G. P. Putnam's Sons.)
The American Nation, a history from original sources,
edited by Albert Bushnell Hart, new vols. : Vol. XXII.,
Reconstruction, Political and Economic, 1866-1877, by
William A. Dunning; Vol. XXIII., National Develop-
ment, 1877-1885, by Edwin Erle Sparks; with portrait
frontispieces, per vol., $2 net. (Harper & Brothers.)
Documentary History of Reconstruction, political, mili-
tary, social, and industrial, 1865 to the present time,
edited by Walter L. Fleming, Vol. II., concluding the
work, illus.-Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, edited
by Reuben Gold Thwaites, concluding vol., with analy-
tical index, illus., $4 net. — The Philippine Islands,
1493-1898, trans. from contemporary books and MSS.,
edited by Emma Helen Blair, A. M., and James Alexan-
der Robertson, Ph. D., with introduction and additional
notes by Edward G. Bourne, Vols. XLVII. to XLIX.-
Discovery, Conquest, and Early History of the Philip-
pine Islands, by Edward G. Bourne.--Antonio De
Morga's History of the Philippine Islands, edited by
J.: A. Robertson, (Arthur H. Clark Co.)
The Princes of Achaia and the Chronicles of Morea, a
study of Greece in the middle ages, by Sir Rennell
Rodd, 2 vols., illus., $7 net.- Outlines of European
History, by A. J. Grant, illus.—International Docu-
ments, a collection of conventions and other interna-
tional acts of a law-making kind, edited, with intro-
duction and notes, by E. A. Whittuck.-His Grace the
Steward and the Trial of Peers, by L. W. Vernon-
Harcourt. (Longmans, Green & Co.)
The May-Flower and Her Log, by Azel Ames, new edi.
tion, enlarged and revised, with maps, $5 net.
American Commonwealths series, new vol. : Kansas,
by Leverett W. Spring, new edition, revised and en-
larged, $1.25. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.)
History of Venice, by Pompeo Molmenti, trans. from the
Italian by Horatio F. Brown, in 6 vols., second part:
Venice in the Golden Age, illus., $5 net. (A. C. Mc-
Clurg & Co.)
A History of Scotland, by Andrew Lang, Vol. IV., con-
cluding the work, $3.50 net. (Dodd, Mead & Co.)
A Short History of Social England, by M. B. Synge, $1.50
net.-A Brief History of Chemung County, N. Y., by
Ausburn Towner, $1.50 net. (A. S. Barnes & Co.)
Ancient Italy, historical and geographical investiga-
tions, by Ettore Pais, trans. by C. Densmore Curtis.-
General Civil and Military Administration of
Noricum and Raetia, by Mary Bradford Peaks. (Uni-
versity of Chicago Press.)
Napoleon's Conquest of Prussia, 1806, by F. Loraine
Petre, with introduction of Field-Marshal Earl Rob-
erts, illus., $5 net. (John Lane Co.)
Dampier's Voyages, edited by John Masefield, new edi-
tion, 2 vols. (E. P. Dutton & Co.)
The Samaritans, the earliest Jewish sect, by James Alan
Montgomery, illus., $2 net. (John C. Winston Co.)
The Greatest Fact in Modern History, by Whitelaw Reid,
with photogravure portrait, 75 cts net. (Thomas Y.
Crowell & Co.)
German Religious Life in Colonial Times, by Lucy Forney
Bittinger, $1 net. (J. B. Lippincott Co.)
Studies in the Constitutional History of Tennessee, by
Joshua W. Caldwell, second edition, revised and en-
larged, $2 net. (Robert Clarke Co.)
From Trail to Railway through the Appalachians, by
Albert Perry Brigham, illus., 60 cts. net. (Ginn &
Co.)
GENERAL LITERATURE.
Some Unpublished Correspondence of David Garrick,
edited by George P. Baker, special limited edition,
illus., $7.50 net.-Types of English Literature series,
edited by William A. Neilson, first vols. : The Popu-
lar Ballad, by Francis B. Gummere; The Literature
of Roguery, by Frank W. Chandler.-The Arthur of
the English Poets, by Howard Maynadier, $1.50 net.
-German Ideals of To-day, and other essays on Ger-
man culture, by Kuno Francke, with frontispiece.-
The Young in Heart, by Arthur Stanwood Pier.-
Three Phi Beta Kappa Addresses, by Charles Francis
Adams, $1 net.—Henry W. Longfellow, by Charles
Eliot Norton, with his chief autobiographical poems,
with portraits, 75 cts. net; large paper edition, $3
net. —Los Pastores, an hitherto unedited Mexican
miracle play, with English translation, introduction,
and notes by Mrs. 0. B. Cole, illus., $4. net.-Lee's
Centennial, by Charles Francis Adams, paper, 25 cts.
(Houghton, Mifflin & Co.)
The Essays of Sir Leslie Stephen, literary and critical,
authorized American edition, to be complete in 10
vols., printed from new type, new vols. : Studies of a
Biographer, 4 vols., $6 net; English Literature in the
Eighteenth Century, 1 vol., $1.50 net.—The Censor-
ship of the Church of Rome and its Influences upon
the Production and the Distribution of Literature, a
study of the history of the prohibitory and expurgatory
indexes, together with some consideration of the el-
fects of state censorship and of censorship by Protes-
tants, by George Haven Putnam, Vol. II., completing
the work, $5 net.-A Literary History of the English
People, from the earliest times to the present day,
by J. J. Jusserand, to be complete in 3 vols.; Vol.
II., Part II., From the Renaissance to the Civil War.
-A History of Comparative Literature, by Frédérick
Loliée, authorized translation by M. D. Power, $1.75.
-The Epic of Paradise Lost, twelve essays, by
Marianna Woodhill, $1.50 net.-The Lost Art of Read-
ing, by Gerald Stanley Lee, Mount Tom edition, com-
prising: The Child and the Book, and The Lost Art of
Reading, $2.70.--Beside Still Waters, by Arthur C.
Benson, $1.25 net. - The Kingdom of Light, by George
Record Peck. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.)
Some Clerical Types, by John Kendal, illus., $1 net.-
The Maxims of a Queen (Christina of Sweden, 1629.
89), trans. by Una Birch, 50 cts. net. (John Lane
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man
Hawaiian Folk Tales, by Thomas G. Thrum, illus., $1.75
net.-Fingerposts to Children's Reading, by Walter
Taylor Field, $1 net.-Literature of Libraries, seven-
teenth and eighteenth centuries, edited by John Cotton
Dana and Henry W. Kent, concluding vols. : De Biblio-
thecis Syntagma, by Justus Lipsius; News from
France, or A Description of the Library of Cardinal
Mazarini, by Gabriel Naudé; per set of 6 vols., $12
net. (A. C. McClurg & Co.)
England and the English, an interpretation, by Ford
Madox Hueffer, illus., $2 net.-From King to King,
by G. Lowes Dickinson, $1 net.-The Bird of Time,
being the conversations of Egeria, by Mrs. Wilson
Woodrow, $1. (McClure, Phillips & Co.)
The Interpretation of Italy during tue Last Two Cen-
turies, a contribution to Goethe's "Italienische Reise,”
by Camillo von Klenze.-Dramatic Traditions in the
Dark Ages, by Joseph S. Tunison. (University of
Chicago Press.)
Seeing and Hearing, by G. W. E. Russell.-The Old
Country, by Henry Newbolt.-Fireside and Sunshine,
by E. V. Lucas. (E. P. Dutton & Co.)
Literary Forgeries, by J. A. Farrer, with introduction
by Andrew Lang, $2.25.-- Papers of a Pariah, by Rob-
ert Hugh Benson. (Longmans, Green & Co.)
The Ministry of Beauty, by Stanton Davis Kirkham.-
Where Dwells the Soul Serene, by Stanton Davis
Kirkham, new edition.—The Philosophy of Hope, by
David Starr Jordan, new edition. (Paul Elder & Co.)
Lords of the Ghostland, a history of the ideal, by Edgar
Saltus, $1.25 net.—Letters to a Daughter, by Hubert
Bland, with frontispiece, $1.25 net. (Mitchell Ken-
nerley.)
The Measure of the Hours, by Maurice Maeterlinck, $1.40
net. (Dodd, Mead & Co.)
The Development of Shakespeare as a Dramatist, by
George P. Baker, illus. (Macmillan Co.)
A Question of Honor, a play, by Max Nordau, authorized
translation by Mary J. Safford, $1. net. (John W.
Luce & Co.)
Choice Readings from Standard and Popular Authors,
selected by Robert I. Fulton and Thomas C. True-
blood, $1.80 net.-Masterpiece of Modern Oratory, by
Edwin Dubois Shurter, $1.20 net. (Ginn & Co.)
POETRY AND THE DRAMA.
Lyrical and Dramatic Poems, by W. B. Yeats, collected
library edition in 2 vol Vol. II.,
$1.75 net.-A
Flower of Old Japan, and other poems, by Alfred
Noyes.--Sappho and Phaon, by Percy Mackaye.--Her
Own Way, and The Girl and the Judge, by Clyde
Fitch, each 75 cts. (Macmillan Co.)
The Poems of Maria Lowell, limited edition, $4. net.-
The Goddess of Reason, a poetic drama, by Mary
Johnston. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.)
The Book of Job, a study of the argument, by Francis
Coutts, illus., $2. net.-King Arthur, by Francis
Coutts, . $1.50 net.-Woven of Dreams, by Blanche
Shoemaker, $1.25 net. (John Lane Co.)
The Book of Elizabethan Verse, second edition with bi-
ographical index of authors.—Light, by Joaquin Mil-
ler, illus. in photogravure, $1.20 net. (Herbert B.
Turner & Co.)
New York Nocturnes, by Charles G. D. Roberts, new
edition, leather, $1.25.---The Golden Treasury of
American Songs and Lyrics, edited by Frederic Law-
rence Knowles, pocket edition, leather, $1.50. (L. C.
Page & Co.)
Nineveh, and other poems, by George Sylvester Viereck,
$1.20 net. (Moffat, Yard & Co.)
The Heart of a Woman, by Almon Hensley, $1.50. (G.
P. Putnam's Sons.)
Joyzelle, and Monna Vanna, two plays, by Maurice
Maeterlinck, $1.20 net. (Dodd, Mead & Co.)
Hannele, by Gerhart Hauptman, English version
Charles Henry Meltzer, $1. net. (Doubleday, Page
& Co.)
The Weaving of Life's Fabric, by Agnes Greene Foster.
(Paul Elder & Co.)
Abelard and Hélöise, by Ridgely Torrence, $1.25 net.
(Charles Scribner's Sons.)
A Night in Avignon, by Cale Young Rice, 50 cts. net.
(McClure, Phillips & Co.)
The Happy Princess, by Arthur Davison Ficke.—Quips
and Quiddits, by John B. Tabb, illus. (Small, May-
nard & Co.)
English Poetry, 1170-1892, selected by John Matthews
Manly. (Ginn & Co.)
From Early Morn, and other poems, with notes, by
Ella Clementine Rodgers, illus., $1.20 net.—The Old
Schloss, by Margaret L Corlies, illus. in color, etc.,
$1. net. -For Your Sweet Sak by James E. McGirt,
$1. net.--Poems of Life and Light, by Jennie Harri-
son, with preface by Floyd W. Tomkins, 75 cts. net.
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One Hundred Great Poems, edited by R. J. Cross, $1.25
net. (Henry Holt & Co.)
Heart Melodies, edited by Mary Allette Ayer, $1. net.
(Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.)
The Lord's Prayer, a sonnet sequence, by Francis How-
ard Williams, 35 cts. net. (George W. Jacobs & Co.)
Sweethearts Always, compiled by Janet Madison, new
edition, illus. by Fred S. Manning, $2. (Reilly &
Britton Co.)
FICTION.
Through the Eye of the Needle, by William Dean How-
ells, $1.50.—The Giant's Strength, by Basil King,
$1.50.—The Cruise of the “Shining Light," by Nor-
Duncan, with frontispiece, $1.50.-Santa Fe
Charley, by Thomas A. Janvier, illus., $1.50.-To the
Credit of the Sea, by Lawrence Mott, illus., $1.50.-
Katherine, by E. Temple Thurston, $1.50.--The Prin-
cess, by Margaret Potter, $1.50.-Tiberius Smith, by
Hugh Pendexter, $1.50.--The Invader, by Margaret
L. Woods, $1.50.-A Woman's War, by Warwick
Deeping, $1.50.-Bud, by Neil Munro, $1.50.-The
Princess and the Ploughman, by Florence Morse
Kingsley, $1.25.-Martin Hewitt, Investigator, by
Arthur Morrison, illus., $1.25.—The Mystic, by Kath-
erine Cecil Thurston, illus., $1.25.-The Talking
Woman, by May Isabel Fisk, $1.25. (Harper &
Brothers.)
Madame de Treymes, by Edith Wharton, illus. in color
by Alonzo Kimball, $1.–The Scarlet Car, by Richard
Harding Davis.---Fraülein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther,
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men and women, by F. Hopkinson Smith, illus.,
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Felicity, the making of a comédienne, by Clara E.
Laughlin, illus. in color by Alice Barber Stephens,
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by Winfield Scott Moody, illus., $1.50.-A Volume of
Stories, by W. W. acobs, illu $1.50.-PI t's
Landing, by Edwin Asa Dix, $1.50.-The Spider, and
other tales, trans, from the Danish of Carl Ewald
by A. Teixeira de Mattos, $1. (Charles Scribner's
Sons.)
Before Adam, by Jack London, illus. in color, $1.50.-
Poppea of the Post Office, by Mabel Osgood Wright.-
A Simple Spelling Bee, by Owen Wister, illus.—Prima-
Donna, by F. Marion Crawford, $1.50.-The Loves of
Pelleas and Ettarre, by Zona Gale, $1.50.-A Victor
of Salamis, by William Stearns Davis, $1.50.--Love
of Life, by Jack London, $1.50.—Spirit Lake, by
Arthur Heming, illus.—The Gulf, by John Luther
Long, $1.50.-Family Secrets, by Marion Foster
Washburne.-Ghetto Comedies, by Israel Zangwill,
$1.50.-Ghetto Tragedies, by Israel Zangwill, new
edition, $1.50. (Macmillan Co.)
The Princess Virginia, by C. N. and A. M. Williamson,
illus., $1.50.—The Leopard and the Lily, by Marjorie
Bowen, $1.50.—The Whirlwind, by Eden Phillpotts,
illus., $1.50.-Fanshawe of the Fifth, by Ashton Hil-
liers, $1.50.-The Smiths, a comedy without a plot,
by Keble Howard, $1.50.—The Silent Door, by Flor-
ence' Wilkinson, $1.50.—His Courtship. by Helen R.
Martin, illus., $1.50.-The Siamese Cat, by Henry
Milner Rideout, illus., $1.25.-The Trimmed Lamp,
and other stories of the four million, by O. Henry,
with frontispiece, $1.—He Knew Lincoln, by Ida M.
Tarbell, illus. in color, etc., 75 cts. net.—The Great
American Pie Company, by Ellis Parker Butler, illus.,
50 cts.—The Croxley Master, by A. Conan Doyle, with
frontispiece in color, 50 cts. (McClure, Phillips &
Co.)
Langford of the Three Bars, by Kate and Virgil D.
Boyles, illus. in color by N. C. Wyeth, $1.50.—The
Iron Way, by Sarah Pratt Carr, illus., $1.50.—The
Story of Bawn, by Katharine Tynan, with frontispiece,
$1.25.--Indian Love Letters, by Marah Ellis Ryan,
$1. net. (A. C. McClurg & Co.)
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The Traitor, by Thomas Dixon, Jr., illus., $1.50.-Fri-
day, the 13th, by Thomas W. Lawson, with frontis-
piece in color, $1.50.-An Experiment in Perfection,
by Marion T. D. Barton, illus., $1.50.--The Book of
Juliana, by Katherine Holland Brown, illus., $1.50.-
The First Claim, by M. Hamilton, $1.50.--The Lone
Star, by Eugene P. Lyle, Jr., illus., $1.50.--Car-
michael, by Anison North, illus., $1.50.-Juliet in
England, by Grace s. Richmond, illus., $1.50.-The
Highest Price, by Leroy Scott, $1.50.—Nicholas
Worth, a story of life in the South since the Civil
War, by Richard Wardlaw, $1.50. (Doubleday, Page
& Co.)
The Isle of Dreams, by Myra Kelly, $1.25.-Mother,
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