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PAGB
THE ABUSE OF QUOTATIONS
. 327
CASUAL COMMENT
329
A tendency to relapse into barbarism. —- Mr. H. G.
Wells’s reproof of Boston. — The expulsion of the
crucifixes. — Pedigrees made to order. The uni-
versality of the best literature. — The Hispanic
Society of America. - The latest literary wrangle.
-The right paper and light for reading.—Thomas
Traherne's poems. — Literary leisure in the civil
service. -- An unappreciated public library. - The
yellow-backed French novel. — Samuel Warren's
one hundredth birthday. — The death of “ Ian
Maclaren.”
scope
THE ABUSE OF QUOTATIONS.
The “ Academy” proposes a Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Quotations. It would
be an excellent idea, if only such a society could
be given the power to administer appropriate
punishments for the violation of its laws. The
penalties should be graded as to severity, the
heaviest being reserved for those blunders
against which the public has been warned so
repeatedly as to deprive the defence of igno-
rance of any possible justification. We would
suggest, as particularly deserving of heavy sen-
tences, those offenders who credit Walpole with
saying that “Every man has his price," Buffon
with asserting that “The style is the man," Lee
with relating that “ When Greek meets Greek,
then comes the tug of war,” and the Declaration
of Independence with claiming that men “ All
are born free and equal." The hardened crim-
inality which is capable of these offences, and
others of similar gravity, would seem to be out-
side the of
mercy,
and in their cases no
plea of extenuating circumstances should avail.
Not exactly to be classed as malefactors, yet
surely not to be acquitted of something verging
upon criminal negligence, are those who per-
petuate such misquotations as “ We are such
stuff as dreams are made of,” "“ More matter
and less art,” and “ There is a soul of goodness
in things evil.” In these cases, the misquota-
tion affects only a single insignificant word, and
therein may be found some shadow of excuse
for the errors, but a careful writer will take
pains not to make even these trivial slips. Some
sort of apology is also possible for the popular
misquotation whose motive is the pithiness re-
sulting from condensation. It is not a very
serious matter to speak of “a delusion and a
snare," for few have ever hunted down Lord
Denman's words in the British law reports, and
found them to be " a delusion, a mockery, and
Jefferson's famous saying about
office-holders is another example of this sort.
“ Few die, and none resign” is really an im-
provement upon “[Vacancies] by death are
few; by resignation, none.” And even Bulwer's
“ In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves
For a bright manhood, there is no such word
As Fail”
does not suffer from the common epigrammatio
.
WAR MEMOIRS OF A CONFEDERATE. Walter
L. Fleming :
332
THE RELIGIONS OF JAPAN. William Elliot
Griffis
335
CAT'S-CRADLE IN MANY LANDS.
Starr.
Frederick
. 336
THE HISTORY OF LITERARY CENSORSHIP.
Arthur Howard Noll
338
.
THE CATECHISM UP TO DATE.
Cockerell
T. D. A.
341
THE SPANISH DISCOVERY OF AMERICA. Anna
Heloise Abel
342
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a snare.
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS
343
Another book of the Benson type. — The British
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drawn imaginary portrait. — The story of a great
negro leader. — Among the cathedrals of Southern
France. — The wisdom of a modern Egeria. - A
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mostly mystical. - Brunetière on Balzac's art and
work. – A volume of Whistleriana.
NOTES
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misstatement, “ In the bright lexicon of youth nation's ballads is more influential than the
there's no such word as Fail," although the maker of its laws, and we wish that one Fletcher
violence done the original is serious and on the of Saltoun had succumbed in infancy to an ex-
whole inexcusable.
cess of oatmeal porridge. These are the expe-
There is one particular form of misquotation riences that make us realize how wise a man
that always excites our ire because of the sheer was Hobbes when he said — but we refrain.
wantonness of the inaccuracy which it embodies. “ Classical quotation,” observed Dr. Johnson,
It is the quotation in which a word is changedis the parole of literary men all over the
to make it fit the construction of the context. world.” But he by no means intended his re-
We frequently hear concerning some person mark to apply to those innocents who speak of
who seeks to escape the limitations of his en maintaining the “statu quo,” who remind us
vironment that “No pent-up Utica contracts upon every possible pretext that all Gaul is
his powers,' or are told in accents of scornful divided into three parts, and who, with a cynical
superiority about “ the mob of gentlemen who and sickly smile, murmur“ varium et mutabile"
write with ease." Now this substitution of whenever the subject of woman is under discus-
“his” for “your” and of “ write” for “wrote” sion.
sion. The shades of Horace and Virgil must
is a device legitimate enough in itself, but the experience a ghostly shudder when they com-
retention of the inverted commas is unpardon- pare notes about some“ upstart crow, beautified
able. It would be quite safe to leave them with our feathers," who makes pretentious use
out; no one would credit the writer with having of their words to conceal the poverty of his own
originated the phrase. There are many quota- thought. It is an easy trick, this thoughtless
tions that one should be ashamed to mark as employment of hackneyed tags from the classics,
such, so completely have they become a part of but it does not impose upon anyone whose opin-
the common consciousness of educated people. ion is worth considering. Admitting the truth
When a phrase has acquired this universal cur of Emerson's saying that “next to the origina-
rency, anyone should feel free to use it without tor of a good sentence is the first quoter of it,”
acknowledgment, and even to modify its ortho- what shall we say of the last quoter thereof, espe-
dox form. It is an over-meticulous habit that cially if the sentence is two thousand years old,
marks such tags of speech as “yeoman's ser and has been reduced by much use to a homæo-
vice" and “the ruling passion,” and “grind pathic attenuation of its original potency.
the faces of the poor,” for everybody knows Quotations from foreign languages form a
that they are older than the writers who use conspicuous feature of our more ephemeral
them. But we insist that if quotations are current literature, and their use is an abuse in
marked, they should be literally exact.
a great many cases. It would hardly be fair
This consideration leads us naturally to the to complain of the way in which a novel by
overworked quotation, from which there seems Du Maurier or Mr. Crawford is interlarded
to be no escape, short of turning hermit and with French or Italian phrases, because to those
eschewing the companionship of print. From the writers the foreign language in question is
black type of the newspaper headlines and from almost vernacular, and we may be sure that
the lips of after-dinner speakers called upon accuracy and artistic discrimination will char-
to make a few appropriate remarks, from the acterize whatever use is made of it. But it is
sophomorical essayist and from the garrulous different with the average young woman novelist
retailer of gossip or anecdote, it emerges who peppers her pages with foreign words (we
unabashed and extorts from reader or listener may not call them strange words because use
many an inward groan. It confronts us upon has made them distressingly familiar) for the
the printed page, and its deadly work of hebe- sake of supposed effect. Many are the pitfalls
tation is done ere we are aware; it is mingled that yawn for the writer of this venturesome
with the spoken word, and a conventional polite- sort, possessed of a smattering of the tongues,
ness makes such cowards of us all that re and into them she stumbles with unerring in-
sentment is restrained and the offender goes stinct. The pitfall of “double entendre"
unscathed - presumably
presumably to multiply kis offence numbers its hundreds, and the pitfall of “ bête
to the distress of countless future victims. We noir” its thousands of victims. Even if actual
are told for the thousandth time about the syntactical dangers are escaped, the parade of
dearth of snakes in Iceland (or Ireland) and linguistic attainment is more likely than not to
revile the memory of St. Patrick; we hear for be futile, either because it is clearly forced, or
the ten thousandth time that the maker of a because it contributes nothing to the thought.


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There are occasions when the foreign word or Eliot is guilty of euphuistically in the sense of euphemis-
phrase is inevitable, but in the majority of in- tically. The writers and speakers who any longer
stances it serves only the purpose of making
attempt to distinguish between proposition and proposal,
or indeed who use the shorter form at all, are exceed-
a pretentious show, and we can account for it ingly few. Not long ago, at a rather turbulent meet-
only upon the theory that its exploiter reckons ing of Harvard students, gathered to hear Mr. Stead
upon the carelessness or the ignorance of the on the subject of peace, the chairman, Professor Mün-
reader.
sterberg, who has the fine language-sense of a psychol-
It is certainly desirable that something should ogist and a scholar, had occasion to express himself
very nearly as follows : “Had I known this to be one
be done to direct the attention of reckless quo of the objects of the meeting I should not have con-
ters to the error of their ways. Writers who sented to preside"; whereupon a bumptious under-
can trust to memory for quotations other than
graduate from the audience called out, “I would not
those most familiar are rare indeed among the
have consented,” an unmannerly incorrection that was
approvingly greeted with laughter and applause. So
scribbling tribe. And every writer possessed of
diligent have we been, even at Cambridge in Massa-
a conscience knows that the only safe rule is chusetts, in eliminating our shalls and shoulds that now
to verify his quotations before making them. their correct use strikes the ear as a solecism. The
Every such writer, moreover, has a distinct and
Harvard manifestation of relapse toward barbarism
was one of speech and manners at the same time.
shuddering recollection of particular perils
Perhaps the one tends to beget the other.
which have in his own experience been averted
only by adherence to this salutary practice. MR. H. G. WELLS'S REPROOF OF Boston for hug-
The suggestion of a S. P. C. Q. is, of course, ging the memory of her glorious past is stoutly resented
whimsical. It gave us an opening for this dis-
by that alert and patriotic New Englander, Mr. Edwin
D. Mead, who refuses to believe with our English critic
cussion, but can hardly be expected to provide
that Boston no longer heads the procession of intellectual
a close. The proper training of the literary progress in America. Mr. Wells, it will be remembered,
conscience offers the only real remedy for the asserts that “ there broods over the real Boston an
evil, and that is a difficult matter. It all comes
immense effect of finality,” which became fixed about
back to the question of education, and we are
1875. In rejoinder, Mr. Mead pertinently points to the
“ Atlantic Monthly” as still in the lead among literary
inclined to believe that in science - the science
magazines; declares that, with Harvard just across the
which the artistic temperament finds unconge Charles, and Tufts over in Medford, and Boston Uni-
nial and affects to despise the true remedy is versity, and the Institute of Technology, and Simmons
to be found. This is the essential function of
College, and all the rest, within the city limits, Boston
science in our educational systems, to create the
is still the chief seat of the higher education in America,
as it is also a patron of the best music to be heard any-
habit of exactness in thought and speech, and where; and as for the modern intellectual movement,
the literary worker needs it in its most rigorous " there is not in London a centre of discussion where
form quite as much as the physician or the the burning questions of social reform are threshed out
engineer. Science alone provides the efficacious
so freely and thoroughly as in the Twentieth Century
Club's Saturday afternoons.” But Mr. Mead is as tired
means for controlling all the vices of slovenli-
as Emerson at last became of the foolishness of those
ness, and impressionism, and imaginative va who try to place Boston in “a theatrical attitude of
grancy to which human nature is
prone,
and virtue to which she is not entitled and which she cannot
which are responsible, not only for the abuse of keep.” He makes a good point in declaring that the
more we study our past and our great poets, the more
quotation, but also for many other kinds of
we live with and catch the spirit of these poets, the
even more serious mischief.
more clearly we shall see that in their day they formed
the mere “remnant," the “mugwumps,” the “ “antis,"
whom the ever-conservative mass of commonplace citi-
zens smiled at; and the more likely will the present
CASUAL COMMENT.
Boston be to bring to our contemporary problems
the radical and resolute spirit which they brought to
A TENDENCY TO RELAPSE INTO BARBARISM, in speech theirs." All this will of course be as so much Chaldee
as well as in manners, a disposition to obliterate in our or Assyrian to the intently forward-looking Englishman
use of language those finer distinctions and shades of who stoutly refused even to travel the few miles between
meaning that are the slow growth of thousands of cen Washington and Mt. Vernon for the sake of viewing
turies of evolution, and to return to the more meagre what is historically the most interesting spot in America.
and less specialized vocabulary of the savage, is ever
present among the civilized. Daily we awake to the THE EXPULSION OF THE CRUCIFIXES ! What a title
sense of some new loss due to our indolence and care for a drama! It is the subject of a long, learned, and
lessness. Useful words of ancient lineage lose their eloquent brochure by Señor José Enrique Rodó of Monte-
peculiar value by being allowed to become synonymous video. He writes in protest against the action of the
with other words which needed no new synonyms, and authorities of Buenos Ayres in removing the Crucifixes
we are forced to various shifts to make good our losses from the Hospitals of that country, which may mean
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is difficult to overstate what the Crucifix has been to its narrower sense. Our writers, thinks Mr. Spender,
the civilization of that continent. As the Southern should be encouraged to be less careful of their reputa-
Cross looks down upon Andean peaks and valleys, upon tions and more prodigal of their gifts. We are again
Amazonian sylvas, upon La Plata's plains, it sees every reminded that “every generation needs living writers
where in town or village or cluster of houses or single to interpret the present and even to re-interpret the
hacienda its similar work the carved or gilded Christ past in the light of the present.” The richer and fuller
dominating human habitations. These Crosses have literature for which this writer declares the public is
been thus planted in every remotest recess by the now ready and waiting will come, he is convinced, as
fiery yet disciplined and devoted sons of the Catholic soon as we “ banish the idea that popularity is necessa-
Church. And the native populations have been gathered rily a mean art to be eschewed by good writers, and
around them and tamed and trained and made useful restore the true doctrine that literature is neither a
to themselves and to society. While we of the North trade to be pursued by inferior writers nor a secret to
have been marching to conquest under the oriflamme be guarded by superior writers, but the appeal of the
of Poor Richard's Almanac, our neighbors to the best men to the greatest number of their fellow-
South have developed a richly picturesque and imag-countrymen." It is a much-discussed question -- our
inative life under the sign of the Cross. THE DIAL present literary needs and literary outlook that Mr.
has quoted before the answer made by the Padre of Spender touches on, and we welcome his honest expres-
a Bolivian Mission to an American traveller who asked sion of opinion. Nevertheless there will always be a
him what he taught the Indians in his charge. “Why, gifted few, in all branches of art, whose appeal cannot
Señor," he said in surprise, “ we teach them poetry by any possibility reach “ the greatest number of their
and theology.” And now the ideals of Franklin seem fellow-countrymen.” To how few of his fellow-
to be winning over the ideals held by this simple-minded countrymen did Milton appeal !
priest. We are afraid that it is inevitable, at least for
a time, – but it nevertheless seems a pity.
THE HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA, which Mr.
Archer M. Huntington has been so active and so gener-
PEDIGREES MADE TO ORDER for the American trade ous in organizing and endowing, is pushing the work
are often ridiculed, and justly, in the English ls.
of cataloguing its treasures of art and literature now
As an example, Mr. Cyrus K. Jonker, a plain citizen of gathered in the society's building at Audubon Park,
“the states," is represented as arriving in London,
New York City. There are at present in the library
where, with the help of the British Museum and a spe-
more than fifty thousand volumes in Spanish and Portu-
cialist in ancestry, he speedily becomes the happy pro-
guese, which the objects of historic and artistic interest
prietor of a prefix, being thereafter known as Cyrus K. in the museum help to illustrate and explain. A student
de Jonker, Esq. But why may not everyone who so reading in the library about fourteenth-century pottery,
desires lay fearless claim, even if not always in the for example, may go upstairs to the museum and there
direct male line, to royal or at least noble extraction ? see the very thing his author has described. In the
Think of it a moment: Each one of us has, or had, four
words of the society's secretary, Mr. Mansfield L.
grandparents, eight great-grandparents, sixteen great-
Hillhouse, “it is the intention of the society to make it
great-grandparents, and so on in geometrical progres-
possible here in New York to study the history, lan-
sion. We need go back only fifteen generations, or guage, literature and art of Spain and Portugal. At
about five centuries, to find ourselves blessed with the present time the Spanish and English peoples do
65,536 ancestors — diminished of course in some cases
not understand each other. It is our purpose to do
by the intermarriage of kin. Each one of this small away with this misunderstanding.” Our conflict with
army rejoiced in a like host of progenitors. Now what
Spain, brief and one-sided and not exactly glorious
likelihood is there that, out of the millions who within though it was, has at least done good in quickening
recorded time are collectively responsible for our exist-
our interest in the history and literature and life of a
ence, there was not some one or more in whose veins picturesque and fascinating people, some small part of
ran blue blood ? The lowly clodhopper is the heir of whose ancient prestige and prosperity seems now to be
all the ages; and the further back he has to go to find
returning to sweeten the bitter cup of defeat in war.
his regal or ducal ancestry, the greater the glory
Curious and significant is the vitality of a conquered
thereof. Let us all, then, without any foolish pedigree-
nation's language and literature. Its tongue and its
hunting, unblushingly assume a de or a von or a van, or
pen often prevail where its sword has proved least
its equivalent in whatsoever tongue we prefer, and in
effectual.
imagination dwell forever after with the titled and great. THE LATEST LITERARY WRANGLE (of an unacrimoni-
ous sort) reported from London, now that the Benson-
THE UNIVERSALITY OF THE BEST LITERATURE is Wright dispute over Pater is ancient history, is the
eloquently urged by Mr. J. Alfred Spender in a read disagreement between Mr. Sidney Lee and Professor
able and sensible contribution to “ The Nineteenth Cen Walter Raleigh over the latter's life of Shakespeare
tury.” Style, simplicity, profundity, human appeal, — just published in the « English Men of Letters” series.
these and other recognized qualities of good literature Especially does Mr. Lee take issue with his fellow
go naturally together, maintains Mr. Spender; and he biographer on the question whether Shakespeare's
adduces the writings of Stevenson, Carlyle, Ruskin, writings reveal the author; whether, as Mr. Raleigh
Thackeray, Dickens, Scott, and others of the immortals. contends, “Shakespeare is the only biographer of Shake-
“I confess,” says Carlyle, “ I have no notion of a truly speare," or, as Mr. Lee is said to maintain, the work
great man that could not be all sorts of men. The poet of so great a creative artist is essentially impersonal —
who could merely sit on a chair and compose stanzas which was the opinion of another great creative artist,
would never make a stanza worth much.” Matthew Robert Browning, as indicated in two of his poems. But
Arnold's influence, though he emphasized conduct and even though a man may very easily write in such wise
preached Hebraism, nevertheless made for culture in as to betray no secret of family history, is it after all


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possible to write impersonally? When a great author who spent a large part of his life in the office of the
appears to achieve this impersonality we call it artistic Minister of Finance, but did not allow the daily grind
detachment, and that itself, so far as it goes, is a self to check the flow of beautiful poems and fascinating
revelation. The lesser author, striving to leave self novels from his pen; and at his death a few weeks ago
behind and to attain the impersonal, becomes merely he left a long list of these works of the imagination to
artificial and unconvincing; and that likewise is a rev his credit, besides having enjoyed Academic honors for
elation of the writer a revelation, however, of his the last ten years of his life. But our British civil
limitations. In one word, a Bartlett pear tree cannot servant has no Academy of Immortals to which he can
bring forth crab apples, and men do not gather grapes hope to be elected, scribble he never so industriously.
of thorns or figs of thistles. Were our vision keen
enough we should always see the author in his works. AN UNAPPRECIATED PUBLIC LIBRARY is that located
at North Charleroi, Pa. At the recent twenty-third
THE RIGHT PAPER AND LIGHT FOR READING is a annual meeting of the North Charleroi Citizens' Library
matter that must always concern him to whom, as the Association the surprising announcement was made that
old Roman bookworm long ago expressed it, life with in the last year only one of the four or five hundred
out literature is death. Dr. George M. Gould has given inhabitants of the town had made use of the library,
us much earnest advice on the subject of eye-strain; which can boast a collection of five hundred and fifty
and now Dr. Louis Bell, in a paper read before the volumes wherewith to minister to the intellectual needs
American Academy of Arts and Scienoes, cautions us of the place. As one of the directors expressed it,
to beware of excessive light and of glazed paper. For “ North Charleroi seems to have found too many other
evening use the good old student lamp, easily adjustable, amusements, such as roller-skating, dancing, bowling,
readily shaded, and, even with Standard Oil paying and card-playing, to pay attention to good reading."
forty per cent. dividends, not costly to maintain, is rec The situation at North Charleroi very nearly realizes
ommended. The naked Welsbach mantle, a terror to the ideal fondly cherished by the Bodleian librarian
the rouged and faded beauty, is equally to be shunned who thought his position would be a very tolerable one
by the night reader. Electric lamps likewise, even the
if the visitors would only keep away.
incandescent, often err on the side of brilliance; while
the arc is only less objectionable than the pitiless lime-
THE YELLOW-BACKED FRENCH NOVEL IN SOBER DRESS
light. The shining paper so common in these days
is now to be seen in London, bearing the imprint of the
of half-tone illustrations, especially for magazine use,
well-known publisher, Mr. David Nutt. It is reported
dazzles the eyes of one forgetful that the angle of re to be this publisher's purpose to issue a series of French
flection is equal to the angle of incidence, and even
books in cloth covers, instead of the customary yellow
with the utmost care is trying to the vision. Two paper favored by the Paris trade. This innovation
authors of a recent work on hygiene, considerately re-
should appeal to the British reader, who is fond of
fusing to violate one of its important principles, insisted things solid and lasting. In this form French fiction
that their book should be printed on dull paper, although
will no longer have to be read on the sly, and thrown
at the sacrifice (grievous to the enterprising publishers)
into the closet at the sound of approaching footsteps.
of attractive process-print embellishments. Let us hope
This outward dignity, too, may help to work a change
that the era of glaze and glitter in bookmaking may soon
for the better in the inward worth of the French roman.
We have had the rehabilitated saloon; why not now
THOMAS TRAHERNE'S POEMS, in more accessible form
the rehabilitated French novel ?
than that of the first limited edition, ought to find their SAMUEL WARREN'S ONE HUNDREDTH BIRTHDAY, cel-
way to a considerable number of readers. In his now
ebrated last month, recalls the exuberant vanity of this
neglected essay on “Urn Burial,” Sir Thomas Browne
ambitious and successful author. Not content to await
asks, “Who knows whether the best of men be known,
the due meed of praise that would have come to him as
or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot
the acknowledged author of " Ten Thousand a Year,”
than any that stand remembered in the known account
he chose to issue the book anonymously, and then did
of time?” This query, though perhaps in other words,
his best to make the authorship leak out accidentally
is one that naturally occurs to the reader of Mr.
and to the astonishment of a world consumed with curi-
Dobell's preface to the poems. By a most curious
osity. His repeated asking of his friends if they had
chain of accidents, and after an oblivion of two and a
any idea who wrote the great novel at last wearied one
quarter centuries, Traherne was unearthed, and is now,
of them, who replied: “Yes, Sam, and I don't mind
it may be hoped, coming to his own, although his king- telling you if you won't let it go any farther. The fact
dom may not be of quite such splendor as his discoverer
is, I wrote the book myself.”
and editor would have us believe. But readers of Her-
bert and Vaughan, and readers of Blake, too, will find THE DEATH
« IAN MACLAREN” (Dr. John
much to enjoy in Traherne, and will be glad that he is Watson) removes one of the most attractive and lovable
to-day something more than a “mute inglorious Milton." and popular of authors and preachers. Eleven years
ago he first visited this country, but two years earlier
LITERARY LEISURE IN THE CIVIL SERVICE seems to he had made himself well known here as a writer of
be considerable among our British cousins. According most charming and delicate Scotch stories. His was
to “ The Academy," a large number of the manuscript another of those dual personalities that have adorned
novels received by London publishing houses are written British literature in the last few years. Hardly less
on expensive paper bearing the government stamp. The popular in their way than his pseudonymous works of
inference is even drawn that “ the whole strength of fiction were his more serious writings, on matters of
the Civil Service is engaged in the important work of religion and conduct. It was in the course of a second
literary production.” Possibly these would-be authors visit to America that he died, at Mount Pleasant, Iowa,
are emulating the example of the late André Theuriet, | early last month.
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lost;
our cause succeeded, divergent interests must have
The New Books.
soon further separated the States into groups, and this
continent would have been given over to divided
nationalities."
WAR MEMOIRS OF A CONFEDERATE
LEADER.*
Nearly all will agree that it was well that the
General Alexander's 66 Military Memoirs of
political theories for which the South fought were
but some will still maintain that the real
a Confederate" is remarkable for three reasons.
First, it is a critical account of which the object that is, the presence of the negro ; and that
cause of the war was not political but social
" is the criticism of each campaign as one would
while the South lost, as it ought to have lost,
criticise a game of chess, only to point out the
its contention for state sovereignty, it finally
good and bad plays on each side, and the moves
maintained, perhaps even too successfully, its
which have influenced the result.” As an artil-
lery officer the author had exceptional oppor. The fundamental cause of the war was negro
position in regard to the inequality of the races.
tunities for observing the battles of which he
slavery, and the fundamental outcome was the
vrites; his position also prevented him from
race problem. The South fought a long war
being involved in the controversies that arose
for its “ corner stone,” and then found that the
later among the leaders who exercised independ-
relative status of the races could be maintained
ent commands ; thus he has no course of his
own to defend, no theory to maintain. Second, easily give up the superficial political principle.
without slavery. So the ex-Confederates can
the work is noteworthy as a contribution
The narrative is confined to accounts of those
from the Lower South. Heretofore nearly all
battles and campaigns in which the author was
Southern accounts of the war have been from
engaged. The most important chapters are
the Virginia point of view,—and there is quite
a difference between the way the average Manassas, Seven Pines, the Seven Days, Cedar
those relating to the first and second battles of
Virginian looks upon the war and the point of
Mountain, South Mountain, Antietam, Freder-
view of a Georgian or a Texan. The Virginian
icksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Chick-
has always had that exalted opinion of himself,
The
his people, and his state that the New Englander
amauga, the Wilderness, and Petersburg.
has exhibited, and this feeling is faithfully re-
list shows that Alexander was a busy soldier.
The style is clear and simple; there is no strain-
flected in the post-bellum writings, — the rest
of the South must give precedence to Virginia.
ing for effect, no rhetorical outbursts. The
This book will tend to correct the Upper South
comments upon the principal military leaders
and their tactics and strategy will please the
notion that Lee, Jackson, and Virginia did it
soldier and the student, but not the average
all; the author, being a Georgian, feels no
reader or the hero-worshipper. For the scape-
compunction in criticising Virginia leaders.
Finally, it is the work of one who was a good goats, however, — McDowell, Huger, Long-
street, Porter, Howard, and Hooker, - General
soldier and is now a sound philosopher as to
Alexander has good words; for their failures,
the political results of the war, for like most
other Confederates he insists that the causes
he says, others were often to blame.
Naturally the weight of criticism falls upon
and results of the war were political. An
the Confederate leaders, since the author was
extract from the preface illustrates this.
best acquainted with the conditions under which
" As to the causes of the war, it will, of course, be
understood that every former Confederate repudiates
they operated. Upon Generals Joe Johnson
all accusations of treason or rebellion in the war, and
and Stonewall Jackson some severe judgments
even of fighting to preserve the institution of slavery. are passed. The latter is charged with shirking
... Our struggle (was) . . . for that right of self-
fight during the Seven Days battles in order to
government which the Englishman has claimed, and
save his men and to hold Sunday prayer meet-
fought for, as for nothing else, since the days of King
John. [But] ... the world has not stood still in the
ing, while Johnson is said to have saved the
years since we took up arms for what we deemed our fight for the Confederates by getting wounded
most invaluable right. .. We now enjoy the rare and thus out of command. Of McClellan,
privilege of seeing what we fought for in the retrospect.
whom he thinks was often of great assistance to
It no longer seems so desirable. It would now prove
only a curse. We have good cause to thank God for
the Confederacy, it is said :
our escape from it, not alone for our sake, but for that “He would have been an excellent chief of staff, but
of the whole country and even of the world. Had was unfit for the command of an army. He was as
* MILITARY MEMOIRS OF A CONFEDERATE.
utterly without audacity as Lee was full of it. His one
rative. By E. P. Alexander. With portrait and maps. New
fine quality was his ability to organize and discipline.
York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
He constructed a superb machine, which, being once
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for any
constructed, would fight a battle with skill and courage “ It is a fatal mistake that we failed to utilize the
if only let alone. McClellan, during the Seven Days,. single advantage in the game of war, which the Con-
let it alone, absenting himself as if by instinct. Never federacy enjoyed. .. We occupied the Interior
but at the battle of Sharpsburg was he present on any Lines,' and could reënforce from one flank to the other,
field, and his presence, by keeping Porter's corps out of across our country, more quickly than the enemy could
action, made a drawn fight of what would otherwise discover and follow our movements by roundabout
have been a Federal victory.”
routes. Only by such transfers of her armies could the
The Confederate plan of carrying the war
South ever hope to face her adversaries with superior,
north of the Potomac is condemned as useless.
or even with equal, numbers — by demanding double
duty of her regiments, fighting battles with them alter-
“ No army,” the author says, “ large enough to nately in the east and in the west. . . . Unfortunately
meet the Federal army, could support and no one but Longstreet seems to have appreciated this.”
supply itself by wagon-trains, .
Critical estimates are given of numerous other
length of time. Whenever, therefore, we crossed Federal and Confederate generals, but space
the Potomac going northward, we were as cer permits mention of but few. Of Confederates,
tain to have to recross it coming southward, in Early and Ewell are frequently found wanting,
a few weeks, as a stone thrown upward is cer as at Gettysburg and in the Wilderness. It is
tain to come down." Such criticism, it appears worthy of note that little or no fault is found
to the reviewer, fails to take political motives with President Davis for interfering in military
into consideration. Lee went to Sharpsburg affairs.
and to Gettysburg to win foreign recognition Of all the Federal leaders, General Alexander
for the Confederacy. But, as General Alexander has the highest professional respect for Grant.
shows, Lee's army at Antietam and at Gettys Some military critics have declared that Grant
burg was not well handled, nor were those fights possessed no ability as a strategist,– Mr. Rhodes,
well planned. In both places only the blunders for example, has criticised unfavorably his con-
of the Federals saved him. Of the Gettysburg duct of affairs in 1864; but our author takes
fight it is said :
issue with these. The real crisis of the war
“ The official reports are a painful record of insuffi came, he asserts, not at Gettysburg or in any
cient comprehension of orders and inefficient attempts
other battle, but just after the Wilderness
at execution, by officers each able to shift the blame of
failure upon other shoulders than his own. Between campaign, when for three days Lee was deceived
the lines the apparent absence of supervision excites
as to Grant's whereabouts. Meanwhile, the
constant wonder. But everywhere that the troops latter had safely gone before Petersburg, the
fought their conduct was admirable. It must ever back door to Richmond. - Thus the last, and
remain a grave reflection upon the Confederate conduct
of the battle that the weakest part of the Federal posi- perhaps the best, chances of Confederate suc-
tion was the only portion which was not attacked. .
cess were not lost in the repulse at Gettysburg,
Of the third day it must be said, as was said of the nor in any combat of arms. They were lost
charge of the Six Hundred at Balaklava, · Magnificent, during three days of lying in camp, believing
but not War!'"
that Grant was hemmed in by the broad part of
The Federal commander at Gettysburg is also the James below City Point, and had nowhere to
severely criticised.
go
but to come and attack us." At that time the
“ It must be ever held a colossal mistake that Meade
North was greatly depressed and almost ready
did not organize a counterstroke as soon as he discov-
ered that the Confederate attack had been repulsed.
to negotiate for peace. Had Lee reached Peters-
He lost here an opportunity as great as McClellan lost burg before Grant, the latter would have suf-
at Sharpsburg. Our ammunition was so low, and our fered a bloody repulse where, as it was, he was
diminished forces were, at the moment, so widely dis- only checked.
only checked. The North could not have en-
persed along our unwisely extended line, that an
dured another defeat. So Grant's manquvre
advance by a single fresh corps, the 6th for instance,
could have cut us in two. Meade might at least have
was strategy of the highest order.
felt that he had nothing to lose and everything to gain But in addition to criticism of the tactics and
by making the effort.”
strategy of the commanders, the book contains
It is the opinion of Alexander that instead of a mass of information and opinion relative to
going north of the Potomac in 1862 and 1863 general conditions on both sides. From no
the Virginia armies should have made use of other account can one get so clear an idea of the
“ interior lines” and relieved the Confederate weaknesses and the strength of the Confederate
armies in the West. This could have been done army. Up to the end of 1862, the author says,
with comparative ease and promised better suc it was not at all well organized, and its cavalry
cess. But here was illustrated the disregard of and artillery were not used to the best advantage
the Lower South and Southwest by the Upper until too late. Its strength lay in its good
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the Federal army had a splendid organization Here and there the personal reminiscences of
and fine men, but was badly led. However, as the author are sandwiched in between the ac-
he shows, it fought very well without leaders. counts of battles, but not nearly so many as we
Of the contrast between Northern and Southern should be glad to have. It is in this part that
troops in 1861, an interesting description is we find the significant little stories that so
given. Alexander had been out West when the illuminate a critical text. In telling of the way
news of war came, and after resigning his com the inferior Confederate artillery suffered at
mission he returned by way of New York. Antietam, he says: “As to how our artillery
Both sections were then arming. Of the ap fared in opposition, we may judge from a
pearance of the soldiers he says:
remark .made to me two months later by Col.
“ The camps near the principal Northern towns were S. D. Lee, ... • Pray that you may never see
all of regiments. Those of the South were mostly of a another Sharpsburg. Sharpsburg was Artillery
company each. The arms of the Northern troops were
Hell.'” And to illustrate the effect upon the
generally the long-range rifled muskets. Those of the
Southern troops were almost universally the old-
Confederates of the sight of the great numbers
fashioned smooth-bore muskets. The Northern troops of the Federals at Gettysburg, the following is
were always neatly uniformed in blue, their camps told: “To this day there survive stories showing
seemed well equipped, and there was generally some how the Confederates were impressed by this
visible show of military discipline about them. The
Confederate uniforms were blue, gray, or brown, and
tremendous display. One, still told by guides
sometimes uniforms were lacking. There was, too, a at Gettysburg, is that a cry was heard in the
noticeable contrast in the physical appearance of the Confederate ranks, · Have we got all creation
men, the Northern and Western men having more flesh to whip?' And another of the time was that
and better color. As physical machines, to withstand
the Federal commander was heard to give his
hardships, a casual observer would have pronounced
orders: Attention, Universe! Nations into
them superior to their antagonists. But I lived to see
that appearances may deceive."
line! By Kingdom ! - Right wheel.'” But
The Confederates, General Alexander thinks, not until the very last did the Confederates
were inclined to use too few men in assaults, to fully realize the great odds against them. The
fight too much and maneuvre too little; the following quotation will illustrate conditions in
Federals sometimes used too many men they the West as early as 1863 :
got in one another's way, as at the “ Bloody “ We were so deficient in horseshoes that on the
Angle ” and at the “ Crater.” Both sides lost advance to Knoxville we stripped the shoes and saved
the nails from all dead horses, killing for the purpose
much by making progressive, — that is, piece-
meal,- attacks, as at the Seven Days' fight, and those left behind by the enemy. During the siege,
all wounded and broken-down animals, both of our own
Gettysburg, Chickamauga, and Fredericksburg.
the river brought down a number of dead animals
Until Gettysburg, this had been mainly a Fed thrown in within the town. Our men were nearly as
eral failing, – hence the saying of Stonewall badly off for foot gear as our animals. I have seen
Jackson which became “ an article of our stead-
bloody stains left on frozen ground where our infantry
had passed. In the artillery we took the shoes from
fast faith : · We sometimes fail to drive the
the feet of the drivers to give to the cannoneers who
enemy from position, but they always fail to had to march. Our rations were also frequently not
drive us.'
even the reduced rations now issued to the whole army.
Throughout the entire work, the author mani Corn, unground, was often the only ration.”
fests disapproval of all “ grand-stand” move In everything, except leaders and courage,
ments ; such cavalry raids as those of Stuart, the Federals were superior from the beginning :
Pleasanton, and Sheridan did more good than all along the Confederates had ammunition and
harm, he says, to the enemy. From the many guns
inferior to the Federals'. before the Con-
military mistakes made during the war some federates got rid of flintlocks the Federals had
fundamental lessons must be learned : orders breech-loading magazine guns; the Federals also
must be definite, precise, and have no “ saving had war-balloons and engineer corps. Of the
clauses"; a good staff organization is a prime emptiness of the Confederate larder much less
necessity; the commander must go in person than usual is said, but it is amusing to note
and see that very important orders are obeyed; the appreciation exhibited even now by the
and there must be no confusion of authority. dignified general when he writes of the captured
The practical application of these principles is Federal eatables at Manassas, or of that side
shown in numerous instances. Every chapter of English bacon which he “ borrowed” and
is sprinkled with military maxims in the most carried on his saddle to Appomattox.
concise form. West Point might well use the Since General Alexander so frankly acknow-
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South contended ought to have been lost, it is from the neighboring mainland), we are not
interesting to have his opinion of just what surprised to find that the three strata of re-
good resulted from all the fighting, especially ligions in Japan are, by name, Shinto, Bud-
after there was no hope of independence. It dhism, and Confucianism, - that is, natural or
is the usual ex-Confederate view, now coming insular religion ; the great Aryan faith, which
to be somewhat better understood.
blended Hindoo and Mongol ideas; and, finally,
“ In every war there are two issues contended for. the Chinese system, which, first in its simpler
First, is the political principle involved; which with us form furnished rules of life, and then in its
was the right of secession. The second is prestige or
character as a people. Conceding our cause, did we
philosophical evolution gave a creed to the more
defend it worthily, history and posterity being the
cultured classes in Eastern Asia. Chronolog-
judges? We lost the first issue; and the more utterly ically, Shinto lived, grew, and finally suffered
it was lost, the better it has proved to be—for ourselves, deglutition, in the eighth century, becoming for
even more than for our adversaries. Without detract-
a thousand years a virtual Jonah in the Bud-
ing from their mèrit, but displaying and even enhancing dhist whale's belly. The “great fish” which
it, we have gained the second by a courage and con-
stancy which could only be fully developed and ex-
contained this precious treasure is known in
hibited under the extreme tests endured, and by the Japanese history as Riobu Shinto, - that is,
high types of men who became our leaders. Is not Mixed Shinto. It certainly became the undo-
that end worthy of the extreme price paid for it, even ing, in modern times, of many a supposedly
to the last drop of blood shed at Appomattox? I am
sure that to the army, any end but the last ditch would
learned European who accepted the phenomena
have seemed a breach of faith with the dead we had of a Buddhist dogmatic achievement for the
left upon every battlefield.”
real Way of the Gods. The English scholars,
WALTER L. FLEMING. Satow, Aston, and Chamberlain, by their re-
searches since 1870, have discredited the reports
of Kempfer and his copyists. How lively, in
1868, were the hacking by swords of the Bud-
THE RELIGIONS OF JAPAN.*
dhist deities in Tokio, that in the eyes of infur-
The series of “ Lectures on the History of iated patriots had so long defiled the idolless
Religions' is on the whole an excellent one, temples of the original Shinto ! How vigorous
although most of the volumes are by men who the purge, when the Riobu Shinto temples were
were under the disadvantage of being widely changed from art museums to Quaker-like
separated from their subjects in race, distance, meeting-houses ! These were emptied of their
and time. This, however, is not the case with Buddhistic emblems, including priceless works
the sixth volume of the series, on “ The De of art which were scattered throughout Europe.
velopment of Religion in Japan,” by Dr. While the dispossessed shavelings gnashed their
George William Knox of Union Theological teeth, the full-haired Shinto shrine-keepers came
Seminary. As Professor of Philosophy and into place and office. The escheated estates on
Ethics in the Imperial University of Tokio, which, for a millennium, Buddhist monks had
Dr. Knox lived long among the people of whose fattened, dropped into the public treasury to
thought he treats, was familiar with their char furnish and equip a public school system. Thus
acter and records, and enjoyed scholarly asso by a stroke of politics the ecclesiastical fraud
ciation with their learned men. Hence he was of a thousand years was rectified and pure
not, like the majority of the older writers on Shinto came back to power.
Japanese religions, liable to be misled by Dr. Knox, being a scholar and knowing these
erroneous and obsolete data, nor to be carried things, does not depend upon unrevised ency-
away by the currents of subjective fancy. At clopædias, or on the modern school of superficial
every step he has sought to verify his examina writers on Japan, or on hostile critics of pagan
tions and conclusions by careful research and faith. With the ease and poise of a trained
inquiry.
scholar, he shows us that the development of
Now that it is beyond dispute that the first religion in Japan was neither continuous nor
Japanese were straight-eyed, full-bearded by resident forces, and hence not by any of that
people who spoke an Aryan tongue, who later kind of “evolution ” which used to be dog-
were conquered and absorbed by some Malay matically taught us. Japanese religion, like its
or Continental race (themselves afterwards civilization, was caused in great measure by
mightily reinforced and civilized by people contact with foreign peoples and civilizations.
The early Japanese had no ancestor-worship,
nor did they possess those Chinese institutions
• THE DEVELOPMENT OF RELIGION IN JAPAN. By George
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which were afterward so liberally borrowed. more influential group sets forth a glorified
As with other races, neither organized family Bushido as the hope of salvation. Both schools
life nor modern gentleness of demeanor are recognize, however, that in the modern world
traceable in the records of their ancient days. the conditions do not obtain which made for
Shinto is simply the religion of nature. The those forms of religion in the past. A third
modern literary revival of Shinto, chiefly by a group, holding to the best in the past, would
few scholars of the eighteenth century, has combine it with the noblest truths of our modern
really nothing in common with the ancient life, science, philosophy, and religion. With Dr.
except as we justify Chauvinism, or the degra- Knox (after forty years' acquaintance with the
dation of religion into a political machine to Japanese mind and heart), we hold to the faith
secure national unity.
that these dreams are to be realized in some
When we leave the austere simplicity of better form than is yet conceived. By her blood,
Shinto in the Miya and pass into the Tera or her genius, her history, her ethnic inheritances,
Buddhist temple, we depart from a hut and and her geographical situation, Japan is the one
enter a palace of art. Here we find architecture, country in all the world best fitted to accom-
painting, carving, music, incense — all that is plish the final synthesis of the world's religions.
known of external decoration in the Southern
WILLIAM ELLIOT GRIFFIS.
forms of Christianity and the Northern devel-
opment of Buddhism. Properly speaking,
Shinto has no sacred book or ethical code, while
but to transport the Buddhist canons one would CAT'S-CRADLE IN MANY LANDS.*
need a camel train or freight cars. No wonder
The familiar
game
of " cat's-cradle " has long
they have never been translated into Japanese ! interested ethnographers and folk-lore students.
Dr. Knox well calls this Aryan religion “the
worship of the Absolute.” Buddhism in Japan in China, in Corea, and in Japan making the
Travellers have been surprised to find children
heightened and broadened the emotions stimu- identical strange figures with strings that they
lated by Shinto. What an amazing revelation
to the islanders was this Aryan religion! Kobo, has been a still greater surprise to find that
themselves knew when they were children.
It
perhaps Japan's mightiest intellect, proclaimed
many barbarous or
the ancient gods of Nippon to be incarnations
even savage peoples, in
widely separated regions, delight in making
of Buddha. Then the Aryan faith entered upon complicated figures with loops of string. Boas
a mighty missionary development. Once rooted
found the Eskimo in Baffinland doing so; Roth
in the whole Japanese empire, a new growth of
doctrinal evolution burst forth. It would be
figures a quantity of designs from Australian
blacks; Haddon found the practice wonderfully
hard indeed to say what phase of the human
mind, as expressed in the processes of the Greek developed in New Guinea, and Dr. Furness
encountered it among the Caroline Islanders ;
or Roman, or the reformed phases of Chris-
Culin has studied it among various American
tianity, is not to be matched in Japanese Bud-
Indians, and in Hawaii. In her great book on
dhism. Disestablished in 1868, its leaders lost
hope for a time; but now Japanese Buddhism
“ String Figures,” now before us, Mrs. Jayne
brings together the work of these and other
has adjusted itself to the new conditions.
students, and adds the results of her own dili-
With the same masterly hand, Dr. Knox
treats Confucianism, first as polity and ethics, of the harvest so far gathered, and the source
gent investigations. The book is a storehouse
and then as a world-system. We cannot go
into the historical details presented, except to
from which all further work and study in this
say that in China in the twelfth and in Japan directly an ethnographic study. In the preface,
field must proceed. It is not primarily and
in the seventeenth century Confucianism became
the author states her purpose in writing the
a philosophical creed and the Chinese
book to be two-fold - 66 to interest other stu-
theology” under Chu Hi attempted a synthesis dents in the subject, in order that additional
of all Asiatic thought. In its fresh form it
figures and their methods may be collected
became the religion of the learned, while Bud-
dhism was left for the comfort of the ignorant among various tribes and races; and to reach
a still larger public, that more people may share
and the lowly.
in the fascinations of the games themselves."
To-day, in Japan, one group of young men
would find the nation's future in a return to STRING FIGURES. A Study of Cat's-Cradle in Many Lands.
By Caroline Furness Jayne. Illustrated. New York: Charles
the worship of the Absolute; while another and
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Really, it is the latter side of the study, the the use of both hands a figure is formed to
practical side, that Mrs. Jayne develops most which the name " cat's-cradle" is given. It is
fully. It is not so much her purpose to make an attractive, rather simple, symmetrical pat-
known the finished patterns produced by vari tern, which does not even remotely suggest
ous peoples, as to enable all to reproduce them either a cat or a cradle. In removing this from
in the very way in which the natives produce the two hands of the maker, a second player
them. It is true that Dr. Haddon, of Cam- produces an entirely different design, which
bridge University, who has given much serious among us is usually nameless, but in some parts
study to the subject, has written an Introduction of Europe has a distinctive cognomen. The
to the work, in which he presents the ethnog- first player now removes this, producing a third
raphy of cat’s-cradle, and that Mrs. Jayne her pattern. F
Frequently the players can go no
self devotes a part of her first chapter to the further, but experts may continue up to an
same subject; but the bulk of the book is eighth pattern, although the final designs may
strictly practical, devoted to illustrated direc vary somewhat with different players. This
tions for making specific figures.
game is known to exist in Great Britain,
As some of these figures are complex and are France, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Neth-
constructed only through a series of complicated erlands, Germany, Austria, and Spain ; it
and somewhat difficult movements, ten or fifteen probably occurs in all other European countries.
stages being required at times, this description Mrs. Jayne calls the eight patterns "cradle,”
is by no means easy, and demands a special “soldier's bed,” “ candles," "manger," "dia-
technical vocabulary. Dr. Haddon and Mr. mond,” i cat's eye,
mond,” • cat's eye,” “ fish in a dish,” and
Rivers some time ago proposed a method of “ clock.” These forms, so widely known in
recording the making of such figures, and de- Europe, are also known and made in the same
veloped a scientific but difficult and repellant way in China, Japan, Corea, the Philippines,
nomenclature. Mrs. Jayne, appealing to her Borneo, and perhaps in Java, Celebes, and
larger public, simplifies both nomenclature and Australia. This series, with but a few patterns,
description, and becomes comprehensible to the requiring two players. who alternately remove
average intelligent reader. Her illustrative one pattern thereby producing a new one, is
cuts are clear, and are made from the point of believed by Dr. Haddon to have originated in
sight of the person constructing the pattern. Asia and to have travelled from there, in rela-
In each case, every stage in the development tively recent times, into Europe. He therefore
of the figure is illustrated. Thus, one who calls it the “ Asiatic type.”
desires to do so may by a little care and atten More curious, more varied, more widely dis-
tion really construct the ninety-seven different tributed, is his “ Oceanic type.” Here usually
patterns which are here described in detail one player works alone. Taking the string lood
and illustrated by upwards of eight hundred upon his hands, by various manipulations anp
figures.
movements he produces a final (named) pattern.
Turning now to the subject itself, we find This ends his task. If he chooses, he may
that string games may be roughly classed into remove the string and proceed to the construc-
“ figures, whereof the purpose is to form final tion, from the beginning, of another pattern, or
patterns, supposed to represent definite objects; still another. Sometimes not only the two hands
those which are tricks, wherein, after much but the mouth of the player, even his toes, feet,
complex manipulation of the strings, the entire or legs, may be needed for the construction ;
loop is, suddenly drawn from the hand by some occasionally the help of another person's hands
simple movement; and those which are catches, is needed. Figures of this Oceanic type are
wherein, when certain strings are pulled, the made in Australia, New Guinea, Melanesia and
hand or some of the fingers may be unexpect- Polynesia, and by Eskimo and many North
edly caught in a running noose. Mrs. Jayne American Indian tribes. The designs are often
presents all the examples of these three classes striking and attractive, and their construction
patterns, tricks, and catches — that she has
is complex. There is not a definite series of
found.
patterns, limited in number, found everywhere
A few weeks ago I would have assumed that through this vast area,
but here some, there
every American was acquainted with the good others, are found. The same final pattern may
old game of “cat’s-cradle "; to-day I know be produced in different ways; but usually, in
better, but shall assume that most readers at separated areas, the same method produces the
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bution ; others, so far as now known, may be child no matter how pretty and "cute"
limited to a single people and a small district. making barbarous “ lightning " patterns is not
Sometimes a story accompanies the making of the picture to form the frontispiece of such a
a figure or succession of figures, when the dif book.
FREDERICK STARR.
ferent patterns may be considered as the illus-
trations of the tale. It is possible that at times
religious associations connect themselves with
the game.
THE HISTORY OF LITERARY CENSORSHIP.*
Careful comparative study of the
patterns of the Oceanic type may yield inter As the art of writing came into existence in
esting results.
very early times, it was invested with such a
Two patterns of the Oceanic type are found degree of mystery that it was viewed with super-
among Europeans. One of them was made stitious awe by the uninitiated, even as it is by
for me recently by a student, under the name primitive peoples at the present time upon their
of “crow's-foot." Mrs. Jayne calls it “the
Mrs. Jayne calls it “the first coming into contact with it. The art was
leashing of Lochiel's dogs," and reports it from restricted to the sacerdotal classes, until the
Scotland, Ireland, England, France, Algeria, Phænicians got hold of it and used it for com-
and Australia, and says it is known to the mercial ends. Had it remained the monopoly
Ulungu of Africa and the Navajos and Chero- of the priests or of any other class, it would
kees of North America. It has the widest have continued to be an instrument of enslave-
known range of all string-patterns. . “ Tallow ment instead of becoming one for the liberation
dips” is also a European pattern, made by one
of mind and thought. It was natural, however,
player, with no expectation of conversion to a that the classes who at first held a monopoly of
new figure in removal by a second player. The the province of letters should be jealous of any
temporary patterns made during its construc intrusion upon their domain ; and their opposi-
tion have independent names, and a story is tion to such intrusion has opened up that long
told which they illustrate. These two patterns- chapter in the history of literature known as
“ crow's-foot” and “tallow dips” curious in Censorship. The ancient rulers, while recog-
themselves and interesting in distribution and nizing books as capable of great benefit to
accompaniment, raise questions deserving fur- society and to religion, also held them in sus-
ther study.
picion as powerful means of spreading ideas
Mrs. Jayne presents two figures procured
subversive of religion and of political govern-
from Otabenga — the “pygmy'
“pygmy”. from the ment. Augustus, who ordered the writings of
Kasai district — and refers to two or three other | Labienus publicly burned, is cited by Tacitus
African patterns. Dr. Haddon states that few as the first ruler who undertook to punish the
had been reported from the dark continent. written or spoken word ; and his example was
Since Mrs. Jayne's book was published, three followed by his successors upon the imperial
articles on African string-figures have appeared throne.
throne. The mind of the reader may go back
in the Journal of the Anthropological Institute. to another and not altogether unrelated inci-
During my recent visit to the Congo Free State, dent, which occurred in the winter house of a
I found two series, quite distinct. One of these King of Judah, when Jehudi cut and burned
was the regular Oceanic type of which more than the book of the prophet Jeremiah because it
sixty patterns were encountered; the other, quite contained prophecies against the king and his
unlike all yet reported, comprised at least fifty kingdom.
patterns. Details regarding both will be pub Christianity, as it developed, endeavored to
lished presently.
assume the supervision of literature so far as it
It will be seen that Mrs. Jayne's book is was able. The Apostolic Constitutions forbade
curiously interesting. It is issued in excellent Ch
Christians to read any books of the Gentiles;
form. Besides the many cuts illustrating the and a synod of Bishops in Asia Minor, about
figures and their modes of construction, there A. D. 150, condemned and prohibited the read-
are many full-page plates of natives making ing of the Acta Pauli. In the centuries follow-
string-figures, or who have made such. Many ing, a number of similar edicts or mandates were
of these are interesting, but not all. The
* THE CENSORSHIP OF THE CHURCH OF ROME, and its Influ-
frontispiece is pretty; it not only has no raison ence upon the Production and Distribution of Literature. A
Study of the History of Prohibitory and Expurgatory Indexes,
d'être, but is out of place. A true “cat’s-
together with some consideration of the Effects of Protestant
cradle picture” of white children would have Censorship and of Censorship by the State. By George Haven
Putnam, Litt.D. In two volumes. New York: G. P. Putnam's
been appropriate; but a picture of a white
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.
published by councils, by individual ecclesiastics, issued just ten years previously. From this time
or by civil officers acting under the influence on to the time of the Council of Trent, the com-
of the Church, cautioning the faithful against pilers of the Roman Indexes based their work
certain literary productions, and threatening upon Indexes which originated in Spain or the
penalties ranging from confiscation of property Netherlands. In 1559, being the time of Paul
to imprisonment, excommunication, and death. IV., the responsibility for the censorship of
About the year 365, a canon of scripture was books was assumed by the Papal authority, and
adopted by a provincial synod in Laodicæa, the first of a series of Papal Indexes was pub-
which was afterwards revised and adopted by a lished under the title of Index Auctorum et
General Council. This action on the part of
Librorum Prohibitorum. Twelve years later,
the Church was the exercise of a certain amount under Paul V., the Congregation of the Index
of discrimination in regard to other literatures, was organized and the task of compiling the
even though the other literatures might be Index was committed to that body. The con-
Christian in character and thoroughly orthodox, gregation still exists and carries on its work.
and was of the nature of ecclesiastical censor In 1564 the Tridentine Index was published
ship. The Church's supervision of literature under the authority of Pope Pius IV. and the
was so far developed and organized in the time Council of Trent, and marked an epoch in the
of Justinian that certain bishops were deposed history of Censorship. Its list was more com-
for laxity of supervision of the literature circu- prehensive than any that had preceded it, and
lated in their various sees.
formed the basis of all subsequent Indexes. But
As the Roman Church developed into the its chief importance was in its formulation for
ecclesiastical headship of the world, as a matter the first time of definite censorship rules to be
of course its claim as the legitimate successors followed by future censors and compilers. And
of the imperial authority was asserted ; and as from that time on, the authority of the Papacy,
long as authors were for the most part of the acting through the Congregation of the Index,
clergy, and the universities were under the con for retaining the general direction and control of
trol of the Church, the task of the ecclesiastical Censorship, was generally recognized through-
authorities in keeping a watch upon
the litera out the Catholic world, excepting in Spain,
ture produced was comparatively easy, although where the Inquisition held sway and was jealous
Disraeli tells us that “the monks had a part of any interference with its powers.
of their libraries called the inferno, which was The Index of Benedict XIV., issued in 1758,
not the part least visited, for it contained or marked a decided change in the policy of Cen-
hid all the prohibited books which could be sorship, inasmuch as it was the last attempt
smuggled into it.” The invention of printing, made by the Papal authorities to maintain a
however, while it was at first hailed by the general censorship of the world's literature.
ecclesiastical authorities as a means of spread The compilers of later Indexes, down to the
ing the pure gospel and the instruction of the latest (1900), have contented themselves with
Church, was soon discovered to be a two-edged repeating the general rules or principles by
sword, and more to be feared than courted ; and which the faithful are to be governed ; while
the task of censuring books calculated to do the lists are limited almost exclusively to works
harm to the religion or the morals of the faith of a doctrinal character, the teachings of which
ful was made a thousand times more difficult are found to be in one respect or another open
because of the fleetness of the wings provided by to condemnation. The number of books abso-
the printing-press for the thoughts of heretics. lutely prohibited becomes smaller, the greater
The Inquisition, dating from the Council of number of books cited being placed upon the
Toulouse in 1229, was reorganized in 1542, list of libros expurgandos, the reading of which
under a Bull of Paul III.; and in the following was forbidden only until certain corrections or
year the Inquisitor-General issued an edict for eliminations had been made ; and there was no
the suppression of heretical literature and of attempt to condemn (except under general rules
books written by heretics. This was followed by and principles) the increasing number of Pro-
Papal bulls and Inquisitorial edicts extending testant books.
into the seventeenth century. What is usually There are, therefore, in the history of the
regarded as the first of the long series of Roman Indexes, three periods of interest and import-
Indexes was compiled by the theological faculty ance. In the first (from 1559 and the Inde.
of the University of Louvain, in 1546, under the Auctorum et Librorum down to the final ap-
authority of the famous bull Coena Domini | pendices to the Tridentine Index) almost the


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as
;
only subject-matters considered were the great by commissions of ecclesiastics acting under the
questions raised by the Reformation. In the
In the direct authority of the crown ; while in Spain
second period, extending to the Index of Bene the Inquisition carried on an independent sys-
dict XIV. (1758), the character of the works tem of literary censorship and repression, and
placed on the lists indicated questions of doctrine, lists of books condemned by the Spanish In-
opinion, and conduct, arising within the Church, quisitors do not accord with those of Rome. In
the condemned writers being for the most part some countries where the prohibitory indexes
ecclesiastics. The third is the modern period were ineffectual, great publishing houses grew
in which censorship of literature has taken the up, as in the case of Elzevir in Leyden.
form of statements of general principles to be In Mr. Putnam's work we find not only the
followed, rather than that of lists of condemned most complete schedule of the Prohibitory and
books; and the attempt to characterize the mass Expurgatory Indexes that has yet been compiled,
of the world's literature has been abandoned. but also a detailed account of most of them.
In his “ History of Literary Censorship There are many interesting instances in which
revealed in the Prohibitory and Expurgatory the history of authorship and publishing comes
Indexes, Dr. George Haven Putnam has found in close touch with general history.
Such, for
a large field for his scholarly investigation, and example, was in connection with the Index of
one that bears a close relation to that in which Pope Clement VIII. (1596), and the Concordat
he has previously delved in his works on “ Au- agreed upon between the Pope and the Venetian
thors and their Public in Ancient Times” and Senate in regard thereto. For a century and a
“ Books and their Makers during the Middle half, under the Concordat, the Venetian Repub-
Ages." A history of literature that does not lic persistently refused to authorize the publi-
give due consideration to the subject of Censor- cation within its territory of any augmentation
ship and its influence upon the production and of the Clementine Index. It was while this
the distribution of books is incomplete ; and Dr. prolonged struggle was in its acute stages that
Putnam's exhaustive treatise, in two volumes Fra Paola Sarpi came into prominence, and
aggregating between eight and nine hundred Paul the Friar prevailed against Paul the Pope
pages, leaves little to be desired by the student in the contest for the maintenance of the liber-
of the subject. From his long established posi- ties of the press in Venice.
tion in the world of books, it is but natural that Dr. Putnam considers the Thirty Years' War
the author should be most attracted to that in Germany (1618-1648) an extreme applica-
phase of his subject which has to do with the tion of the principle of Censorship. “The
distribution of literature ; but this phase is pur- power of the Emperor, and that of the Catholic
sued without neglect of the others. The arrange- princes who associated themselves with him, was
ment of material according to the cyclopædic directed to the suppression of Protestantism in
method, with the expectation that the work will Germany, and with this, to the control, under
be chiefly used for purposes of reference, has the direction of the Roman Church, of German
necessitated considerable repetition, for which thought and of German intellectual develop-
the author apologizes in his preface. It may ment. . . . And the control and restrictions of
be remarked in passing, however, that the value the operations of the printers constituted an
of the work as a book of reference might have essential part of the purpose of the Pope, the
been enhanced by the provision of a more com- Emperor, and their allies, the Jesuits and
plete general index.
Dominicans.” The long trial of Galileo by the
The results of the author's investigations of Inquisition, during the first half of the seven-
the influence of censorship on the undertakings teenth century, resulted in the presentation of
of authors, publishers, and booksellers, in the his condemnation in the Index of 1664; and it
several European states, could not be adequately was not until 1835 that the names of Galileo,
summarized here. The effect of the censorship Copernicus, and Keplar were finally omitted
was not everywhere the same. For the Papal from the Index.
Indexes, while in form binding on the entire The Index lists, as Dr. Putnam points out,
Church and throughout all the states classed as are marvels of bibliographical inaccuracy, and
Catholic, were actually in force in the several present some amusing reading. To select at
states only when accepted and confirmed by the random some of these curiosities of literature :
respective rulers; and a number of them were One Index enters “ Franc Baconus” and
never so accepted in France or in Spain. In “ Franc Verulam "as two distinct authors, and
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name, Baron Verulam, appear. The name of stated at the outset, it is an attempt to bind
Anne Askew is entered as “ Anne a Skeue” in the mind, to produce a body of dogma which
the Index of 1590, and in the Index of 1597 as will resist free thought in later years. To most
" A. S. Keuue."
people, religious or irreligious, a period of men-
In conclusion it should be said that Dr. tal ossification comes at last; but Heaven pre-
Putnam has pursued his investigations in a serve us from proposals to make the young
wholly impartial spirit. In his final chapter he prematurely old, and thereby, according to a
presents a summary of the opinions formed in respectable authority, less eligible to the King-
regard to the present literary policy of the dom!
Church of Rome by certain representative Probably this sad result would not readily
persons within that fold ; and everywhere he come about, from the fact that most of the
evinces a spirit of fairness which cannot fail to catechism would fall as on deaf ears. The
commend itself to the intelligent adherents of music of the following would probably be less
that faith.
ARTHUR HOWARD Noll. audible to the young than that of the spheres,
and certainly no more pleasing:
6 What caused and what maintains existence ? Of
our own knowledge we are unable to realize the mean-
THE CATECHISM UP TO DATE.*
ing of origination or of maintenance; all that we our-
selves can accomplish in the physical world is to move
There is an old saying that “
Except ye
things into desired positions, and leave them to act on
become as little children, ye shall in nowise each other. Nevertheless, our effective movements are
enter the Kingdom of Heaven.” The teaching all inspired by thought, and so we conceive that there
of Sir Oliver Lodge would seem to indicate,
must be some intelligence immanent in all the processes
of nature, for they are not random or purposeless, but
contrariwise, that “ Except little children be-
organized and beautiful.”
come as elderly philosophers, they shall in
Incidentally it may be remarked, that while
nowise," etc. In his preface, to the new cate-
the words random and purposeless have no
chism, he justly observes that all who have to
do with children must feel the difficulty of
meaning in a monistic philosophy, they do rep-
resent empirical realities, which are part of the
instructing them in the details of religious
faith, without leaving them open to the assaults
processes of nature. It is absurd to infer any-
of doubt hereafter, when they encounter the
thing because the universe is not what it could
results of scientific enquiry. They must
not be according to the fundamental postulate ;
indeed ; but exactly the same is true of any
actually, no positive or negative statement can
be made about the totality of things, the “pro-
instruction whatsoever. Can I so instruct my
cesses of nature as a whole. Again, our
students in the details of the Darwinian faith
author says:
that they will be immune to the assaults of all
“ Is man helped in his struggle upward ? There is
subsequent investigators ? The very thought is a Power in the Universe vastly beyond our compre-
enough to make Darwin turn in his
grave.
Sir hension; and we trust and believe that it is a Good
Oliver Lodge is justly esteemed as an eminent and Loving Power, able and willing to help us and all
physicist, and one who has not been in the least creatures, and to guide us wisely, without detriment to
immune to the “ results of scientific enquiry."
our incipient freedom," etc.
Why, then, should he desire in the religious
We are inclined to prefer the frank paganism
field that which he would be the first to depre- of the Old Testament, and the persuasive ethics
cate in the scientific ?
of Jesus - so rich in human imagery, so elo-
Presumably he would
say,
if confronted with quent of the “ Ahness of Things," as Lafcadio
the above, that it was not quite fair,
that if
Hearn called it.
one would carefully read his book he would find While protesting against the Catechism
it full of uncertainties, questions, and doubts, and the tide of our protest has risen higher
of indications of the imperfections of our knowl- every time we have returned to the book — we
edge and of references to the better light to be must recognize the fundamental excellence of
expected in later days. All this is true ; and its author's general aim, and the probability
yet the formulation of a catechism or creed is indeed, certainty that he will accomplish
against the spirit of science, and as formulated much good by his crusade against the more un-
it seems to me of doubtful value to young or
scientific elements of current religious dogma.
old. Even if the fact had not been so boldly We cannot fail to sympathize heartily with his
desire that in the destruction of the ancient
* THE SUBSTANCE OF FAITH ALLIED WITH SCIENCE. By Sir
Oliver Lodge. New York: Harper & Brothers.
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a
destroyed. We can hardly doubt that even Mr. Young himself has written, and which it
his Catechism, when preached by himself, is might well do since the two accounts duplicate
interesting and profitable ; but we venture to all secondary ideas) but to the Appendix. Placed
suggest that if he seems to find it practically a as it is near the end of the second volume, and
source of inspiration, that is because any man yet not within the Appendix where it would be
so combining learning and good-will is worth convenient for enumeration, its presence is
listening to, whatever his topic.
likely to be overlooked and its very great im-
T. D. A. COCKERELL. portance minimized.
The early part of Mr. Young's work (the
summary of biographical data) has been referred
to as an original description ; but it is hardly
THE SPANISH DISCOVERY OF AMERICA.*
that, or at least it is so only in the matter of
Mr. Filson Young's account of “ Christopher rhetorical form, since it is in the main an almost
Columbus and the New World of his Discov- wholesale adoption of Vignaud's theories and
ery” is — as is frankly announced in its preface conclusions. In point of fact, Mr. Young's
and clearly betrayed in its pages -- mainly absolute dependence upon this indefatigable
popular in character. Yet it is well worth our scholar is very evident, and never more so,
careful consideration. The writer makes no presumably, than in the case of his reflections
pretense at original research, and much of the upon the character of Columbus. Those reflec-
matter in the two interesting volumes is a mere
tions and they are numerous,
and trifle
adaptation (often careless in small particulars) light in tone -- are nothing more or less than
of early narratives, especially of such as are an expansion of Vignaud's letter to Mr. White-
given in Thacher's work on Columbus. Indeed, law Reid.
Mr. Young's indebtedness to Thacher is every-
For Harrisse, for Major, and for Winsor,
where apparent, even in the peculiar wording Mr. Young manifests a great respect; but he
of a chapter heading ; but, in the arrangement is unjustly critical of Washington Irving.
of material, he has greatly improved upon that Note, for example, his contemptuous allusion
author's voluminous and heterogeneous work. to Irving's work, an allusion that will un-
For instance, after giving us an original de- doubtedly arouse a certain resentment in many
scription of the birth-place, antecedents, and
a reader's mind. Irving wrote at a time when
life of Columbus, down to the time of the
the modern method of historical criticism was
equipment of the expedition of 1492, he has still in its infancy, yet he conformed to its
followed the course of each successive expedi- principles as far as his professional knowledge
tion ; but, instead of introducing all the extant extended and his opportunities allowed. More-
documents bearing upon the same event, he has over, his attitude toward this particular work
collated them, or, perhaps more frequently, has
was certainly that of the honest investigator;
taken some one of them
say an epitome of a and, although since his day specialists have
lost journal, a letter like that of Dr. Chanca, pronounced his characterizations of the great
or an independent account like that of Porras — Admiral to be more or less ideal, and have
and has used it almost in its entirety. The lowered the personal estimate, corrected statis-
result is, not a confused mass of original sources
tics, and added many new facts to
put in for purposes of minute comparison, but knowledge of the incidents of the discovery,
a sustained narrative that never flags in interest. nevertheless the biography of Columbus that so
In one respect only can an exception be taken
charmed the readers of the middle nineteenth
to the general commendation implied in the century is admittedly the most famous that has
preceding paragraph. Mr. Young's arrange ever appeared, and is still one of the best. At
ment of material is often faulty, and decidedly all events, there is nothing in it that can be
so in the matter of the Earl of Dunraven's stigmatized as “profoundly dull.”
Irving
note. This note applies to the first voyage, and
never descended to mere twaddle, and never
is technically of inestimable value ; but it pro
prop-
found it
necessary,
in order to make his hero
erly belongs, not to the body of the text (unless, live again, to be suggestively coarse, disgust-
indeed, it take the place of several pages that ingly flippant, or ridiculously common.
He
was always the man of exquisite literary taste,
COVERY. By Filson Young. With a Note on the Navigation of
of refined and gentlemanly instincts.
Here let us consider the one great and glar-
volumes, illustrated in photogravure, etc. Philadelphia: J. B.
Lippincott Co.
ing defect of Mr. Young's work. It lies in the
our
* CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS AND THE NEW WORLD OF HIS Dis-
Columbus's First Voyage, by the Earl of Dunraven. In two


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spirit of levity that more or less pervades it. common sense and a saving remnant of self-respect,
Advances in knowledge that have cost years of
wearies of the Platonic trifling, and the letters
Much
exhausting labor are made light of; and this abruptly cease. space is given to talk about
the real student of history, himself serious of
literature as a jealous mistress to whom the letter-
writer has dedicated hi If, and who will brook
purpose and earnest in endeavor, can scarcely
no rival.
He speaks of himself as intensely pre-
be expected to forgive. He may admire the
writer's easy flow of language, his vast fund of occupied with his work, and adds : “ If you know
how haunted I am by cadences, phrases, words,
information, and the structural perfection of the colour of language, methods of expression, you
his work; but he will never be convinced that would think I had no time for anything else.” Yet
it is necessary to be frivolous in order to be he carelessly uses the superlative degree of com-
interesting. He
may
realize that his own abili- | parison where the merest rudiments of grammar
ties, controlled as they perforce must be by the call for the comparative, and twice writes “if one
destructive tendencies of the age, are inadequate was," instead of “if one were,” to denote a sup-
for popularized construction ; yet he will shrink position contrary to fact. But perhaps his emotional
disorder had unbalanced his grammatical judgment.
from having noble truths placed in a trivial set-
As a tour de force in the portrayal of love-madness
ting. The incongruity will be too much for
at the summit of its absurdity, the little book is a
his magnanimity, and incline him impatiently to
sort of curiosity. The author, be he Mr. Benson
ignore redeeming qualities and forget that the or a close imitator of his manner, has the cleverness
world has waited long for an accurate account of a practised writer of introspective habits. Such
of the Spanish discovery of America, and that love as he depicts, if one may call it love, is not
Mr. Young's production is pioneer in its nature, impossible to the fastidiously artistic temperament;
somewhat lacking in dignity no doubt, but none
but is its minute and prolonged inspection worth
the less admirable.
ANNA HELOISE ABEL.
our while? It is a little curious, finally, that this
book and “ Beside Still Waters” (of acknowledged
Bensonian authorship), both issued simultaneously
by the same publishing house, have each a reference
to the odor of syringa blossoms as associated with
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
a memorable event in early life; each, too, has an
Mr. Arthur Christopher Benson has
apt allusion to “Through the Looking-Glass"; and
Another book of made us pleasantly familiar with
each pictures that fastidiousness of the sensitive
what is now known as the Benson
artistic temperament that makes, or seems to make,
wedded happiness impossible. These small coin-
book, a book written ostensibly by a bachelor, or
cidences, taken in connection with the striking like-
perhaps by a widower - preferably of delicate
constitution — who rides a bicycle and has a store
ness of style, establish almost beyond a doubt the
of beautiful thoughts and high ideals that press for
identity of authorship.
utterance, although the utterer (who writes in the
Modern colonial government has no
first person and usually signs only his initials) pro-
more instructive chapter in its his-
in Malaya.
fesses a noble indifference whether his writings
tory than the story of the evolution
shall ever be published, since he writes merely be of British administration in the Malay states.
cause it is a necessity of his nature, like breathing. Previous to 1874 the various Malay states were in
“The Letters of One: A Study in Limitations; by continual warfare with one another. Quarrels and
Charles Hare Plunkett ” (Putnam) bears, the un feuds, revolution and lawlessness, marked the ordi-
mistakable Benson stamp, in conception and execu nary course of affairs. In 1874 the native chiefs
tion. A poor bachelor of fine literary taste and of Perak, admitting their inability to cope with
slender achievement is in love, or thinks he is, with these difficulties, made a treaty at Pangkor, and
a rich and refined woman a little older than he, asked for a British resident official “whose advice
who would marry him if he could bring himself to must be asked and acted upon in all cases other
exchange an ideally beautiful relation for a practi than those touching Malay religion and custom.”
cally useful one. But his dreamy, artistic tempera A short time after this treaty the other Malay states
ment recoils at the thought of close and constant made similar agreements with the British govern-
intimacy with his beloved ; and his letters to her, ment. Another step in the evolution was made in
which compose the book, refine upon and attempt 1895, when the states of Perak, Selangor, Pahang,
to explain the curious fact that just because he and Negri Sambilan agreed to a treaty of federa-
loves her and wishes always to love her he cannot tion, and formed what is now known as the Fede-
ask her to marry him. Through five long months rated Malay States. Under this system the various
and something like 170 pages of print this uncom British resident officials of the several states are
fortable and ineffectual person makes love in his responsible to a resident-general, who in turn is
anæmic fashion a sort of negative courtship responsible to the governor of the Straits Settle-
until the lady, evidently a woman of some sound ments, the British High Commissioner. Such an
the Benson type.
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evolution in colonial administration, among such modern pronunciation are treated with unusual
people as the Malays, marks a distinct feature in fulness. The concluding chapter, on “The Study
British government. To tell the story of this evolu- of Present-day English,” ought to be read and
tion truthfully and judiciously requires a level head digested by everyone who is interested in encour-
and an intimate knowledge of the Malay people, aging good habits of speech, and especially by those
their customs, and their peculiar psychology. More- | persons who, with all good intentions, have helped
over, whoever attempts to tell the story should be give birth to that curious species known as “school-
close to the centre of the system of administration. ma'am English.” Mr. Wyld rightly insists upon a
All these conditions are amply and happily fulfilled careful distinction between written or literary and
by Sir Frank Swettenham, late Governor of the standard spoken English. Two or three notes fol-
Straits Settlements and High Commissioner for the low: p. 64, 1. 2, American usage would prefer
Federated Malay States. Sir Frank went out to were ; pp. 65, 411, read Logeman; p. 74, 1. 21, we
the Malays in 1874, and has therefore seen the have never heard in America this pronunciation of
evolution of the government in Malay almost from rather ; chapter vii. might well include a reference
its very beginning. To give a sufficient background to Wheeler's “ Analogy and the Scope of its Appli-
for his able discussion of the development of British cation in Language,” Ithaca, N. Y., 1887; p. 222,
paternalism in the Malay states, the author deals 1.3, read Alfred ; p. 258, 1. 24, p. 410, 1. 38, full ref-
with the early history of Malacca, and of those erence, March 15, 1890. There is some inconsist-
Settlements forming the British colony of which the ency in italicization. The indexes, prepared by Miss
capital is Singapore. Only one chapter is given to Irene Williams, are admirably thorough and full..
the Malay: his customs, prejudices, arts, language,
After the order of Pater's imaginary
and literature. The rest of the volume is devoted A beautifully-
drawn imag-
to the political history we have outlined. As a
portraits is Mr. Arthur Christopher
inary portrait. Benson's “Beside Still Waters"
study in colonial government it is characterized by
a just balance: the author is proud of the efforts of .(Putnam). But it is far from being purely imag-
England in those states, yet he holds his enthusiasm inary, since one feels that the author is giving gen-
in check by his sound political judgment. His erously of his own deepest experiences and inmost
volume, which is entitled “ British Malaya” (John convictions, in the form of reflections on questions
Lane Co.), may well rank as a masterpiece among
of religion, education, literature, art, music, and
the host of similar books written by the servants of philosophy. In mere externals, too, the life of
the British Government.
“Hugh Neville” and that of his creator largely
coincide, even to points of detail. Both are sons of
Professor Henry Cecil Wyld's "His a high church dignitary, both pass from public school
The study
torical Study of the Mother Tongue” to Cambridge, thence to a post of not wholly con-
of English.
(Dutton) is a book such as has long genial routine work, and finally back to Cambridge,
been needed by teachers both in Great Britain and to a fellowship and a literary life. Middle age
in America. There are already several good ele- (the author's age) is depicted as the most desirable
mentary manuals of the history of English with period of life, with prospects of increasing richness
which teachers can manage to get on very well ; of experience and ripeness of powers as the years
but between the study of these books and that of the accumulate. But in the lives of both Hugh and his
difficult monographs which the advanced student biographer the reader is vaguely conscious of a cer-
must attack there has hitherto been an unbridged tain hardness and bareness, the result of excessive
gap. We know of none of the younger English | self-concentration : the celibate literary life, how-
scholars better qualified to write such a book than ever full of high ideals and artistic enthusiasms, is
Mr. Wyld, already well known for his investiga- not after all made to appear the most attractive sort
tions in the palatalization of consonants. An enthu- of existence. Roundness and fulness, tenderness
siastic disciple of Sweet, he has had admirable train and warmth, are certainly lacking to it. The sacred
ing, of which every page of the book gives evidence. authority of the inner voice is well insisted on, but
The first eight chapters deal with such general sub- with an iteration that tends at last to breed a little
jects as the aims of linguistic study, sounds and distrust of its infallibility. Hugh Neville is an ardent
their changes, how speech is acquired and trans seeker for and interpreter of the beautiful and the
mitted, the working of analogy in language. Con true as he sees them - that is, as the author sees
stantly the fact is emphasized that language is a them. The detachment of the creative artist is
living organism and that language processes of the not Mr. Benson's: a delightful essayist of carefully
remote past do not differ essentially from those reasoned ethical and literary convictions he is and
which may be found in existence to-day. Then will remain. As was to be expected, the style and
follow chapters on the Aryan mother-tongue and the finish of his book are exquisite, despite a few mis-
Germanic family; and the student is now ready for prints, and one closes the volume with a sense of
the five remaining chapters on English. The treat- having enjoyed a rare treat. A mild surprise, how-
ment of sound-changes in Old, Middle, and Modern ever, is felt at finding so correct a writer sanctioning
English is amply illustrated and, so far as we have the current questionable use of " fierce.” Refer-
observed, wholly clear. The problems of early ence is made to the notion entertained by some


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that “Christ enforced upon men a fierce ideal of of the South one must immediately abandon the
mortification and self-denial.” Notwithstanding a popular ideals of size, majesty, and architectural
tendency to repetition and undue elaboration – a importance. In the South the cathedral is simply
conspicuous lack of epigrammatic terseness, – this the bishop's church, sometimes large and imposing,
book is the ripest, thoughtfullest, best piece of work in which case it is generally modern and ugly,
its author has yet produced.
but much oftener small, modest, badly restored,
half ruined, or inartistically complicated in design
The story
The negro race may well be proud by the warring ideas of many builders. But if the
of a great
of the two men whose names appear architecture is seldom interesting except in frag-
negro leader.
on the title-page of. Mr. Booker T.
ments or from the point of view of a painstaking
Washington's volume on Frederick Douglass in student of transition periods, the romantic legends,
the "American Crisis Biographies," published by curious traditions, and often no less curious history
George W. Jacobs & Co. The story of the slave of the Southern cathedrals go far to offset the bad
who rose to be the Moses to lead his race out of taste of their builders, and consequently to lighten
bondage is very appropriately told by that other
and diversify Miss Rose's study. She writes im-
slave boy who has risen to be the Joshua who is personally but informally, employs few technicalities,
leading the race into the promised land of real and describes and criticises in a general way rather
independence through practical education and in than in detail. Her method is neither so terse nor
telligent labor. And the story is well told, with so orderly as the traveller, with less ample leisure
enthusiasm and admiration of the hero, but with than her own, may wish. For the stay-at-home
self-repression, dignity, and a high degree of ability reader also these volumes will prove somewhat too
as a biographer. In this book Mr. Washington has diffuse to hold his interest, although the unusual
shown that he can write well on other subjects than beauty of the illustrations will do a great deal
the education of the negro. In the portrayal of the towards keeping him in touch with the text.
character of Douglass and of others who come into
the story, in the description of the many striking
In thirteen short, crisp chapters of
The wisdom
scenes and of the development of the remarkable of a modern conversational give and take, Mrs.
Egeria.
life of the great negro agitator, orator, and race-
Wilson Woodrow makes us acquaint-
leader, in the history of slavery in America and of ed with Egeria, the Judge, the Poet, Castilia, the
the movements for its abolition north and south,
Bishop, the Financier, the Editor, and the Common-
and in the judgments of public men on both sides
place Man. _“The Bird of Time: being Conversa-
of the slavery question, we see insight, breadth of
tions with Egeria” (McClure, Phillips & Co.) is
view, and excellent power of discrimination as well
the title of the book in which these characters have
as of literary expression. The book is interesting
their exits and their entrances. Egeria, clever and
as a general treatment of the slavery question and
intellectual, of course, like her namesake of old,
as the biography of a man of power, and it is of says more good things than anyone else in the
book.
permanent value as an account of the Abolition
Comforting to men as well as women is this
movement from the point of view of a member of
dictum of hers : “There need be no long, cold
the negro race. The general chapters on “The
winter. There is no longer, thank goodness! any
Genesis of the Anti-Slavery Agitation,” “ The Fugi-
definite line marking the boundary between youth
tive Slave Law,” “ The Underground Railway,”
Why, the woman who to-day is cele-
“ The Enlistment of Colored Troops," “ Reconstruc-
brated for distinctive charm and beauty, ripe views,
tion,” and other topics of a similar nature, have been disciplined intellect, cultivated and manifold gifts,
introduced to bring the work within the plan and pur-
would, forty years ago, have been relegated to the
pose of the series of which it forms a worthy part.
heavy ranks of the dowagers and grandmothers ;
forced by the stern conventions of prevailing opin-
Among the Miss Elise Whitlock Rose's work ion to retire from the game just as she had gained
cathedrals of
entitled “Cathedrals and Cloisters of a mastery of the rules.” Frequent and apt are
Southern
France. the South of France” (Putnam) is Egeria's quotations, but once she goes a little astray
a careful and conscientious study, in two volumes, in trying to cite Pascal's famous saying as to what
of the ecclesiastical architecture of Provence, Lan would have happened had Cleopatra's nose been
guedoc, and Gascony, with some account of the shorter; she makes the subsequent history of the
historical conditions that gave it birth and develop world turn on the presence or absence of a front
ment. The text is fully and finely illustrated from tooth in the seductive Egyptian's mouth. At the end
photographs made expressly for the purpose by of the book, after Castilia has married the Judge,
Miss Vida Hunt Francis. Much of the territory Egeria, with no lack of admirers to choose from,
that the artist and author have explored together gives her hand to
- whom does the reader guess ?
is quite off the track of the ordinary tourist, and a Of the six men named above, the very last the
complete guide in English to its architectural interests brilliant woman would have been expected to choose.
probably does not exist, whereas the authoritative But he had loved her more years than he could
French works are either very long or very technical. count, and he alone knew the secret of her age -
Miss Rose explains that in studying the cathedrals that she was fifty.
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ness.
The English translation of Dr. Fr. sentimental school of naturalists, but to the strictly
A handbook
of etching Lippmann's "Engraving and Etch scientific it will be foolishness. The essays on our
and engraving. ing" (imported by Scribner) should social duty and our anxious morality, themes of
be welcomed by all who are interested in the sub- practical import surely, are not exactly remarkable
jects of which it treats. Though the literature of for poise and precision. On the other hand, the
engraving is very abundant, there is no other work remarks “In Praise of the Fist ” are unexpectedly
in English that so thoroughly covers the ground good and to the point.
traversed by this excellent handbook. The history
of the art is traced from the beginning in the mid-
The sense of loss so widely felt at
Brunetière
dle of the fifteenth century to the opening years of
on Balzac's the death of Ferdinand Brunetière
art and work.
the nineteenth. All the engravers of note and many
last autumn is revived by the recent
of the minor men are dealt with, and the character publication of his volume on Balzac in the “French
istics of their work set forth with admirable clearness, Men of Letters” series (Lippincott). Even reserved
the letter-press , being supplemented by numerous
admirers of Balzac will easily concur with Brunetière
illustrations which are wisely made of the exact
in placing the great novelist with Sainte-Beuve,
size of the originals though in many instances Hugo, Comte, and two or three savants, as the
this necessitated the reproduction of a detail instead writers who have exerted the greatest influence upon
of the entire print. The author, who was the keeper nineteenth-century France. They may also agree
of the print room in the Royal Museum, Berlin, had that his work formed a point of departure for the
unsurpassed opportunities for thorough and minute modern novel. But this great critic goes further:
study. That he made good use of these the wealth
“ Balzac is the novel,” he tells us; his power of
of information packed into this volume bears wit- drawing genre pictures makes his novels of tremen-
Its compactness is not the least of its merits. dous historical and social value; he gives, for the
The chapter on the technique of engraving tells in first time, an exact representation of life, and treat-
a few words just the things every collector needs to ing life thus faithfully he evades the stigma of
understand. The collector, it is true, will not find “immorality ”; he “created” the novel-form, trans-
in it all he may wish to know, as for instance, lists formed the drama, and even changed the manners
of the authentic works of any of the engravers; but
and customs of life. Brunetière insists that in
the inclusion of such matter would be far beyond judging Balzac one should consider his work in its
the compass of a handbook. This edition has been entirety - the Human Comedy as a whole. His
carefully revised by Dr. Max Lehrs, Dr. Lippmann's originality lay in his universal conception of life
successor in the print room of the Berlin Museum. coupled with his realism. Balzac's art, for this
The translation, by Mr. Martin Hardie of the very reason, comprised no power of selection, and
Victoria and Albert Museum in London, is all that was in no way self-conscious; he wrote without any
could be desired.
theory of art, since the mere representation of life
was his aim. Brunetière's entire treatment of his
Musings,
Suggestiveness is the most valuable subject, being a study of Balzac's work and in no
mostly
quality of M. Maeterlinck's essays sense a biography, tends to stimulate investigation
mystical.
on all sorts of subjects. He widens
and discussion, and can hardly be disregarded in
wonderfully the mental horizon of his readers.
any study of Balzac's literary art.
“The Measure of the Hours ” (Dodd, Mead &
Co.), named from the opening chapter on time-
The volume entitled “ Whistler :
measuring devices, is his latest volume of collected
A volume of
Notes and Footnotes and other
Whistleriana.
pieces, all of them admirably translated, so far as
Memoranda," in which Mr. Albert
one may judge without comparing the French, by E. Gallatin has reprinted some fifteen reviews and
Mr. Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, and many of other fugitive articles contributed to various period-
them offering something novel and worthy of more icals, is made notable by the inclusion of reproduc-
than a moment's pondering. His tentative theory
His tentative theory tions of two hitherto unpublished drawings by
that life after death may mean an exchange of Whistler in the author's possession, and of one
mortal powers for a new kind of consciousness, a of his drawings for the catalogue of Sir Henry
sort of sixth sense whereof we can no more form Thompson's collection of “ Blue and White.” The
a conception at present than a man born blind can charming water-color, “Symphony in Gray - the
conceive of color, is well presented, but of course Thames at Dusk,” that forms the frontispiece to
not new. James Hinton, to name no others, has the book, is excellently reproduced and will be of
somewhere elaborated an ingenious argument to the interest to admirers of the master's work. It is a
same effect. The one literary essay in the collec- pity that the size of the original is not stated. The
tion, that on “ King Lear," attributes the preëmi “ Studies of Poppies” (sic) done in pastel, has
nence of this tragedy to the fact that the madness not come out so well ; the grain of the half-tone
of the aged king enables him, in his very human block is rather painfully in evidence and results
and appealing distress, to be grandly lyrical and in an effect too mechanical to be satisfactory. Of
passionate without running into bombast. The the other plates in the volume, the grotesques
chapter on intelligence in plants will please the by Leonardo da Vinci, from the originals in the


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an
66
Academy in Venice, are worthy of mention. The from the “Histoire Générale” of Mme. Lavisse and
book is handsomely printed on hand-made paper, Rambaud, and is entitled “Emancipation of the Medi-
and in nearly all the details of fine book-making is
æval Towns." The authors of the chapter are Mme.
impeccable. Mr. Gallatin's notes are thoughtful A. Giry and A. Réville, and the translators are Messrs.
F. G. Bates and P. E. Titsworth.
and suggestive, and have the merit of brevity.
The sale of the book in England is reported to
“A Bird's-Eye View of American History," by Mr.
have been enjoined by Mr. Whistler's executrix, a
Leon C. Prince, is published by Messrs. Charles Scrib-
ner's Sons. It is difficult to see for whom this work is
basis for the action having been found in the print-
designed It is not a text-book, for it lacks the neces-
ing of facsimiles of Whistler's “butterfly" signature
sary apparatus, and it is written in too dry and con-
upon the cover and title-page. (The Collector and densed a style to attract the general reader. It is,
Art Critic Co.)
moreover, far from impeccable as regards accuracy and
soundness of judgment.
A volume by the honorable John Bigelow, entitled
“ Peace Given as the World Giveth; or, The Ports-
NOTES.
mouth Treaty and its First Year's Fruits," will be
Another of Mr. Clyde Fitch's plays appears in book
issued at once by the Baker & Taylor Co. It purposes
form. It is “ Her Own Way," and is published by the
to furnish the evidence that thousands more of lives and
Macmillan Co.
millions more of property have been destroyed during
A new edition, with revisions, of Mr. James Rhoades's
the first year of that peace than could have been antici-
blank verse translation of the “ Æneid” is published by
pated had the war continued until now.
Messrs. Longmans, Green, & Co.
The Oliver Ditson Co. have just added to their
A new “Art Primer” published by Messrs. Double-
« Musicians' Library Anthology of French Piano
day, Page & Co. is the work of Dr. Edwin Atlee
Music,” in two volumes, edited by M. Isidor Philipp.
Barber, and has for its subject “ Tin Enamelled
Each volume has a frontispiece group of portraits and
Pottery."
an introduction, chiefly in the form of condensed bio-
“ The Johannine Literature and The Acts of the
graphies. These introductions are printed in both
Apostles,'' by Dr. Henry Prentiss Forbes, is published
French and English. Upwards of fifty composers in all
by the Messrs. Putnam in their series of " International
are represented, from Chambonnières and Lully of the
Handbooks to the New Testament."
seventeenth century to such utlra-moderns as Pierné
Experimental and Theoretical Applications of
and Debussy of the twentieth. It makes an interesting
Thermodynamics to Chemistry,” by Dr. Walther
collection, and one only wishes that its showing of
Nernst, is a volume of Silliman lectures, given last year
technical excellence were matched by its musical inspi-
ration.
at Yale, and now published by the Messrs. Scribner.
A series of guide-books for students of Spanish art,
Four new volumes, making eight in all, are now
edited by Mr. Albert F. Calvert, is in course of publi-
added by the Messrs. Scribner to their new edition of
Tourguénieff. The new volumes are “Smoke," « Vir-
cation by the John Lane Co. Three volumes now at
gin Soil,” “Memoirs of a Sportsman,” and “The Jew,
hand are devoted, respectively, to “Murillo," “ The
and Other Stories.”
Prado,” and “ The Escorial.” The special feature of
these volumes is found in the unusual number of paint-
In his “ History of the American Whale Fishery," ings which are reproduced by photographic process.
Mr. Walter S. Tower has made an economic study of
The volume on the Escorial, for example, contains
an extremely interesting subject, dealing with it more nearly three hundred full-page plates. The very mod-
systematically and comprehensively than any one before
erate price at which these books are published makes
him. This monograph is a University of Pennsylvania
publication.
them highly acceptable. Of allied interest is Miss
Edith Harwood's “Notable Pictures in Rome," pub-
Mr. John Ellerton Lodge wrote the musical settings lished by Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Co. In this volume
for the odes and lyrics of the “ Agamemnon” as re also the illustrations, although not of full-page size,
cently performed under the auspices of the Greek
are very numerous and correspondingly helpful to the
Department of Harvard University. These composi- student.
tions (score and text) are now published by Messrs.
C. W. Thompson & Co.
A group of modern language text-books that have
been recently published includes the following: “Faust:
A second edition of Professor Douglas Houghton Erster Theil ” (Holt), edited by Dr. Julius Goebel; a
Campbell's “ University Text-Book of Botany” is pub « German Lesson Grammar" (Heath), by Professors
lished by the Macmillan Co. The work has been
E S. Joynes and E. C. Wesselhoeft; “A German
revised and corrected in many particulars, although to Graminar for Schools and Colleges (Heath), by Dr.
the casual observer it would seem to be much the same
Francis Kingsley Ball; “ Das Peterle von Nürnberg
as when first published five years ago.
(Heath), by Herr Viktor Blüthgen, edited by Dr.
Professors John Hays Gardiner and George Lyman Wilhelm Bernhardt; Corneille's “Le Cid," " Horace,"
Kittredge, with the assistance of Miss Sarah Louise and “Polyeucte” (Holt), edited in one volume by
Arnold, have prepared a “Manual of Composition and Professor W. A. Nitze; Balzac's “Le Père Goriot”
Rhetoric,” which is an extension and rearrangement of (Heath), edited by Professor R. L. Sanderson; “Quel-
their earlier « Elements of English Composition," and ques Contes des Romanciers Naturalistes” (Heath),
is now published by Messrs. Ginn & Co.
edited by Professors Louis H. Dow and Prescott O.
Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. are the publishers of a Skinner; “A Progressive Spanish Reader (Heath),
pamphlet " Historical Miscellany," edited by Mr. Earle by Dr. Carlos Bransby; and a selection of “Cuentos
W. Dow, of which three numbers have already ap Alegres ” (Heath), by Luis Taboada, edited by Mr.
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Vol. XLI.
CONTENTS.
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THE BREATH OF ROMANCE. Percy F. Bicknell 359
CASUAL COMMENT
361
The eighty-eighth birthday of an old New En-
glander. — Emerson as judged by his classmates.
Stories of extraordinary thefts. - The longevity of
a good joke. --- The irritability of poets. — “ Pho-
nographic canned tongue.” — Encouragement to
dullards. — A grievance of English authorship.
The amenities of literary criticism. - Sixteenth-
century drama on a twentieth-century stage.
A
posthumous work of John Stuart Mill. — A gener-
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THE WILD FLOWERS OF ENGLAND. Sara
Andrew Shafer
364
STUDIES IN ANIMAL LIFE. Charles Atwood
Kofoid
365
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Craftsmen. - Cornish's Animal Artisans.
BOOKS FOR GARDEN-LOVERS. Edith Granger . 367
Robinson's The Garden Beautiful. — Rexford's
Four Seasons in the Garden. - Mrs. Sedgwick's
The Garden Month by Month.
DRAMAS OF THE WILD. May Estelle Cook . . 369
Roberts's Haunters of the Silences. - Madden's
Forest Friends. — McGaffey's Outdoors.
TRAVELS FAR AND NEAR. H. E. Coblentz . . 371
Miss Bell's The Desert and the Sown. - Penfield's
East of Suez.- Landon's Under the Sun.- Low's
A Vision of India. — Lloyd's Uganda to Khartoum.
- Maugham's Portuguese East Africa. — Shoe-
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RECENT FICTION. William Morton Payne. 375
De Morgan's Alice-for-Short. · Phillpotts's The
Whirlwind. Mason's Running Water. – Oxen-
ham's The Long Road. —Quiller-Couch's Poison
Lsland. — Pemberton's The Diamond Ship. — Mrs.
Sidgwick's The Kinsman. -- Miss Brooke's Sir
Elyot of the Woods. — Lovett's A Winged Victory.
-Smith's Prisoners of Fortune. — Lefèvre's Samp-
son Rock of Wall Street. – Barclay's The King-
makers. — Marchmont's In the Cause of Freedom.
Whitson's The Castle of Doubt. --- Miss Stanley's
A Modern Madonna. - Mrs. Davis's The Price of
Silence.
NOTES
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THE BREATH OF ROMANCE.
The breath of romance bloweth where it
listeth, but we know not whence it cometh nor
whither it goeth. So indefinable is its nameless
charm that we hardly know even what to call
it. Try to give a definition of romance, and
you are baffled ; analyze it, and it disappears ;
put your finger on it, and it is not there. One
might as well chase the rainbow or reach out
for the sunset radiance. It is of the nature of
poetry; it is sometimes akin to religion ; it
always has in some measure the element of won-
der; in first love it is a potent presence ;
and
we may question whether it entirely leaves us
except with the breath of life itself. At times
we feel that it is life, that with the complete
fading away (were such a thing possible) of the
vision of its unrealized, its ever-to-be-desired
beauty and excellence, there would die also the
very soul within us.
And yet one feels that it is utterly different
from self. Nothing is more emphatically the
not-self. To attain the romantic, we long to be
where we are not, to do what we are not now
doing. If in Syracuse, N. Y., we would be in
Syracuse, Sicily; from Paris we turn eyes of
desire toward Rome; gliding down the Rhine,
we wish to exchange our steamboat for a gon-
dola, the river for a canal in Venice. Anywhere
but here, — any time but now! Anything to
escape from self!
We are filled with a divine
unrest. The
savage
has been defined as a be-
ing who has no past and no future; and so we
at least until we have attained the peace
that
passeth understanding - refuse to find perfect
content in the here and now. We race through
one novel only to take up another, and if pos-
sible a better; delight our souls with Keats,
and then leave him for Chaucer; follow breath-
less the rapid story of Benvenuto Cellini's
eventful life, and straightway ask for Amiel's
Journal. The remote in time and place are
romantic only so long as they are remote.
ship,” says Emerson, “ is a romantic object to
those who behold it from the shore, not to those
on board." To honest Nick Bottom in good
old England the African lion is an object of
shuddering fascination, “ for there is not a more
fearful wild-fowl than your lion, living.”
The imperious craving for the ideal and the
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romantic is never more strongly upon us than you awoke bitterly betrayed and deceived, still
when we are in love. John Newton, sea-captain, give thanks to God that you have had one
slave-trader, hard and severe divine, and not glimpse of heaven. The door now shut will
too sympathetic friend of Cowper, had his expe- open again.”
rience of this, for he was once most desperately But the romance of love and friendship is, as
in love; and in that golden time he used to go already intimated, only a part, though the most
all the way (on foot, we may suppose) from important and interesting part, of romance as a
London to Shooter's Hill, wherever that may whole. Goethe has said that nothing is more
be, simply to look toward the quarter where significant of a man's character than what he
dwelt the future Mrs. Newton. Not that he finds laughable. More significant even than
could catch the faintest glimpse of gable-end or the amusing or ridiculous is that wherein a man
chimney-pot to mark the sacred spot, for she finds charm, wonder, poetry, romance.
There
lived far beyond the range of his vision even is a romance of science, of natural history, of
after he had travelled all those miles and astronomy, of pure mathematics even, and of
climbed to the top of the hill ; but it gratified metaphysics, as truly as there is a romance
the lover, as he afterward assured a friend, to of love and of friendship. Jenkin on “ Bridge
be able merely to look in her direction ; and Construction,” or Crehore on “The Mechanics
this pleasure he indulged in regularly once a of the Girder,"or Stoney's “Theory of Stresses,"
week, and sometimes twice. What drove New may not contain so much poetry or romance for
ton to seek the summit of Shooter's Hill must
you or me as for the artificer in wood and iron
have been the “ pricking pain” of which Plato and stone. Ruskin's “ Seven Lamps of Archi-
“Man's soul, in a former state," he tecture
has far more.
Archimedes, in his
says, “ was winged, and soared among the gods; dream of a fulcrum firm enough and a lever
and so it comes to pass that, in this life, when long enough to enable him to tumble the earth
the soul, by the power of music or poetry, or about in space, betrayed the romantic tempera-
the sight of beauty, hath her remembrance
ment.
The romance of an epoch expresses
quickened, forthwith there is a struggling and itself through its typical genius. The chapters
a pricking pain as of wings trying to come of Alexander's romance were military cam-
forth, - even as children in teething."
paigns; the Gracchi wrote theirs in terms of
Romance is not a thing made by novelists agrarian laws; Demosthenes has left his in the
and poets, as the matter-of-fact man asserts, form of orations. All the world has read or
any more than the peach is made by its bloom, has heard about Darwin's epoch-making ro-
the brook by the babble of its waters, or the mance ; for that the theory of evolution is, in
volcano by its crater. Against any such theory certain aspects, a splendid romance, cannot be
the romancer himself protests. “Let us look denied. Its author comes no nearer to absolute
up in fear and reverence,” exclaims Mrs. Stowe proof of his conclusions in “The Origin of
in glowing phrase in “The Minister's Wooing,” Species” and “ The Descent of Man” than does
“ and say, 'God is the great maker of romance. Cervantes to proof of the essential beauty and
HE, from whose hand came man and woman, dignity and sanity of his hero's character.
HE, who strung the great harp of Existence Romance did not die in 1832 with Scott and
with all its wild and wonderful and manifold Goethe, but it presently assumed new form
chords, and attuned them to one another, — HE in Darwin's pages, flashed a new light in his dis-
is the great Poet of life.' . . . The scoffing coveries, and took possession of a new domain.
spirit that laughs at romance is an apple of the The product of the “scientific imagination
Devil's own handing from the bitter tree of was for a period, for an interim, to serve as
knowledge ; it opens the eyes only to see eternal food for the romance-hunger of the English-
nakedness. If ever you have had a romantic, speaking world. But it was a scientific imagi-
uncalculating friendship, a boundless worship nation held well in hand ; not even Poe's “ Fall
and belief in some hero of your soul, — if ever of the House of Usher” being more circum-
you have so loved that all cold prudence, all stantial. It dealt in fullest detail with the
selfish worldly considerations, have gone down actual, thus meeting the demands of an age
like driftwood before a river flooded with new somewhat surfeited with romance of the old-
rain from heaven, so that you even forgot your fashioned kind, an age that had outgrown the
self, and were ready to cast your whole being instinct that in childhood asks for what cannot
into the chasm of existence, as an offering before be (the fairy tale), and in manhood demands what
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of religious devotion). Such an age no longer of the reflected fame she still enjoys as widow of
wishes, in Hazlitt's words, to be what it is not Dr. Samuel G. Howe, whose ardent participation in
and to do what it cannot, but still craves, even
the Greek war for independence now lies more than
in the actually existent, some glimpse of the yet three-quarters of a century in the past, but has very
unattained, some glamour of romance, some
recently been vividly recalled to memory by his
subject-matter for wonder. In ripe maturity diaries. As reviving memories of a much later war,
daughter's publication of the young surgeon-soldier's
as in callow infancy, man hungers for the ideal, let us quote a few words from Mrs. Howe's account
the unrealized, and (he is driven to confess it) of the writing of her famous “ Battle Hymn.” She
the unrealizable. A realizable ideal would be
was returning from a parade of Federal troops, and
intolerable. The more and more nearly ap “to pass the time away we sang "John Brown's
proachable, but never quite attainable, can Body. Some of the marching regiments took it up,
alone charm us.
and it was passed along the road until the echoes
Romance, no more than religion, has any.
reverberated for miles. My pastor asked me why
thing to fear from science. The more extended
I did not put the spirit of 'John Brown's Body
the sphere of the known shall become through and expressive words. I told him I had tried. One
Lies a-Mouldering in the Grave' into some graceful
scientific research, just so much larger a surface
will it present to the circumjacent unknowable; daylight, and the lines I wanted were vaguely run-
morning soon after that I awoke suddenly about
and in this latter reside the wonderful, the ning through my mind. I arose and wrote them down,
romantic, the poetic, the ideal. What Matthew They were published in the Atlantic Monthly, and
Arnold said twenty-seven years ago about the the editor (Lowell] named them. The Battle Hymn
hopeful future of poetry is no less true of of the Republic.?
each other. This promising Patuceret bly wint Emerson AS JUDGED BY HIS CLASSMATES and his
teachers at college passed for neither very studious
we may, borrowing from Wordsworth, call the
nor very brilliant, but most amiable, winning, and
breath and finer spirit of all knowledge,” is modest, and given to blushing on small provocation.
limitless. To close with Arnold's words, its Some of his fellows even thought him dull, and very
future“ is immense, because in poetry (and in few predicted for him a distinguished future. Mr.
romance in the large sense], where it is worthy Frank B. Sanborn touched on this interesting matter
of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on,
at the celebration of Emerson's 104th birthday, and
will find an ever surer and surer stay. There
adduced also the judgment of another contemporary,
is not a creed which is not shaken, not an
Alcott, who wrote (about 1838) of his not then
famous fellow-townsman : “The day shall come
accredited dogma which is not shown to be
when this man's genius shall shine beyond the circle
questionable, not a received tradition which
of his own city and nation ; it shall flash across the
does not threaten to dissolve. Our religion has
wide water, and receive the homage of other peoples.
materialized itself in the fact, in the supposed Emerson is destined to be the high literary name of
fact; it has attached its emotion to the fact, this age. Other men we have who ply small trade
and now the fact is failing it. But for poetry
But for poetry in the nooks and corners of this wide sea, and whose
[and romance) the idea is everything ; the rest wares are pedled at this place and that; but this
is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry man’s genius is cosmopolitan, and shall be in demand
attaches its emotion to the idea ; the idea is the wherever man has risen above the mere mechanics
fact. The strongest part of our religion to-day and utilities of life.” Theodore Parker, after a
is its unconscious poetry.”
dozen years' acquaintance with Emerson, spoke of
PERCY F. BICKNELL.
his culture in a way that, as Mr. Sanborn intimates,
contrasts strangely with Mr. Woodberry's later pro-
nouncement. Parker wrote: “Emerson's literary
culture is of him, and not merely on him. His
CASUAL COMMENT.
learning appears not in his quotations, but in his
THE EIGHTY-EIGHTH BIRTHDAY OF AN OLD NEW- talk. His reading gives a certain richness to his
ENGLANDER whom many outside of little old New style, which is more literary than that of any
Amer-
England delight to honor was celebrated a few ican writer; as much so as Jeremy Taylor's." The
weeks
ago, when Mrs. Julia Ward Howe completed later critic assures us that “his reading was strange
four-score and eight years. Father Knickerbocker but not learned." Yet who shall assert that Parker,
proudly claims her as his child, for she was born in whose reading was both strange and learned, was
New York, in Marketfield Street, near the present no good judge of literary culture? The failure of
Produce Exchange, where a few ancient brick Emerson's young associates to discern the embryo
houses of that time (1819) are still to be seen. The sage need not cause surprise. Schoolboys are pro-
tribute of a bowl of roses from the Greeks of Boston verbially quick to take the measure of a man, but
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turies ago.
we
STORIES OF EXTRAORDINARY THEFTS have done a tale told to me, for example, about Miss X., who
much to enliven the pages of literature; and they still lives and decorates society.
"I find that yarn
also at times relieve the humdrum monotony of life, first in Grammont's Memoirs,' I say; it has a
though not to the equal satisfaction of all parties traceable pedigree of more than two centuries.”
concerned. In prose fiction, Mark Twain has given A story has recently been told of one of our college
us “The Stolen White Elephant.' In the drama, professors who is said to be so absent-minded that,
Susannah Centlivre amused London play-goers a after leaving his house and posting on the door the
generation ago with the comedy of "The Stolen hour of his expected return, if he comes back before
Heiress,” and Paul Merritt entertained them with the advertised time he sits down and waits for him-
“Stolen Kisses” (not the most extraordinary kind self to come and open the door. Soon after hearing
of stealing, it must be admitted), while patrons of this anecdote we chanced upon the
very same story
the present-day stage have enjoyed the complications told of a certain bishop of Copenhagen some cen-
of “The Stolen Story.” The rich plunder of the
Forty Thieves made glad the heart and plethoric
the pocket of the poor Persian woodcutter Ali Baba ;
THE IRRITABILITY OF POETS is proverbial, as
and a far different kind of theft brought sorrow
are often reminded by the well-worn Latin
to the hearts of many pious members of a New
phrase. An amusing instance is now reported in
England community in much more recent times, as
which not even death, reconciler of foes, availed to
'fifty years ago and entitled, “ Stolen! From Many believe that at a recent spiritistic séance in Rome
may be read in a slender pamphlet printed about mitigate the irascibility of one poet toward another.
Rumor, ever fertile in invention, would have us
Citizens in Cambridge, on the 4th Instant, the Rest
and Quiet of the Holy Sabbath Day”- by reason
a table violently hurled itself at Signore Gabriele
d'Annunzio and chased him with fell intent around
of the unpuritanical determination of the Union
Railway Company to run its cars on Sunday.
the room; and this astonishing display of ferocity
Finally, it was but yesterday, so to speak, that some
on the table's part is attributed to the lately deceased
energetic Japanese patriots - vandals, the indig- poet Carducci as instigator and prime mover, the
nant Koreans would call them carried off the
lamented bard being known to have cherished very
unfriendly feelings toward his junior fellow-poet.
massive wbite marble pagoda of P’ung-duk from the
environs of Seoul, which one would have supposed
But there is more to tell. Not content with phy-
to be as improbable a bit of souvenir-collecting as
sical violence, the quadrupedal agent of Carducci's
the purloining, if we can imagine it, of our Wash-
animosity proceeded to rap out some very uncom-
ington Monument by the English, or the pocketing plimentary opinions of the hated one's literary pro-
of Grant's tomb at Riverside Park by (let us say)
some nephew or grandson of Jefferson Davis. But apprehensive of what may occur if a certain famous
it has long been a subject of remark that truth is
actress, with whom he is at variance, crosses the bar
stranger than fiction. What invention of the fancy
before him. Combining their forces, his two enemies
could rival that remarkable larceny of a weit might easily toss a grand piano at him in an un-
belonging to Abraham, which, as we read in
we read in guarded moment, or give him his quietus with one
“Genesis,”. Abimelech's servants violently carried
of the ample wardrobes in which he keeps his
away?
ninety-nine changes of raiment. The prospect is
full of terror. If dead authors and artists are to
THE LONGEVITY OF A GOOD JOKE is a matter of enjoy post-mortem privileges in wreaking vengeance
common knowledge. A juicy joke of pronounced
on living foes, who will have the courage to pass
human flavor enjoys — to quote from one of Lamb's unprejudiced judgment on their works?
long-forgotten sonnets more days than went to
make the gem
that crowned the white top of Methu- “PHONOGRAPHIC CANNED TONGUE,
as records
salem.” Mr. Andrew Lang has lately written a good of the human voice are expressively called, has a
but almost too erudite account of certain transfers value that will increase with the passage of time -
and transmissions and re-applications and (if one being in this respect quite unlike the literal tinned
may say so) reincarnations of tried and tested beef. What would we not give to hear the nervous
stories. His unusual familiarity with Scotch history accents, the ipsissima vox, so to speak, of Frederick
and legend furnishes him with abundant illustration the Great, as future ages will listen to the august ut-
of the imperishability of a tale that contains elements terance of his great-great-great-grand-nephew,
of ur sal appeal. He even goes so far as to William the Sudden! Think of having at our
assert that " an Egyptian myth of a sort only quot command one of Shakespeare's sonnets recited by
able in scientific circles is current among the most himself, as our descendants will have (let us say) a
untutored Australian black fellows, whose ancestors poem
of Mr. Alfred Austin's in the laureate's very
may have heard Ham narrate it in the Ark. Ghost tones. How glorious to be thrilled by the em-
stories are just as old.” He frankly confesses in balmed eloquence of Demosthenes on the Crown (if
regard to himself: “ Among other ways of amassing our Attic Greek were not getting a little rusty) as an
unpopularity, I have the odious habit of criticising audience of the forty-second century may be electri-
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pro-
fied by the impassioned periods of Mr. William J. disgrace to English scholarship.” This command
Bryan on monopoly and trusts! And with a vita-
of invective is no more than might have been
scope attachment, the orator will be seen as well as expected in an ex-editor of a certain London literary
heard. What possibilities, too, are opened up for review issued on the last day of each week; and
the conservation of pronunciation in its pristine the fact that Mr. Harris once wrote a book himself
purity! Radical and reasonless change will have on “The Man Shakespeare” probably gives him
opposed to it the inflexible conservatism of the in this instance additional confidence and freedom
phonographic record. Like the standard metre in ventilating his vocabulary. It may be, however,
preserved at Paris, we might have a standard that he, no more than his victim, looks upon this
nunciation stored in a fire-proof vault of the British kind of smartly-picturesque denunciation as serious
Museum or the Congressional Library. It is an criticism; nay, more, it is very possible that, in the
inexhaustibly suggestive theme.
kindness of his heart, he is printing this array of
unusual adjectives and nouns as the surest means
ENCOURAGEMENT TO DULLARDS AT SCHOOL is
of advertising an excellent book.
found, now as always, in the unbrilliant traits of
many a youngster who afterward achieved fame. SIXTEENTH-CENTURY DRAMA ON A TWENTIETH-
Some one ought to collect statistics to determine CENTURY STAGE is a spectacle so rare (if we leave
whether more smart scholars have turned out fools, out of account such of Shakespeare's plays as fall
or vice versa, and whether most great men were within that century) that it deserves to be noted.
industrious or idle, bright or dull, in the school Marlowe's “ Dr. Faustus” was produced last month
room. It is now told of Sir Hiram Maxim that he by the English Department of Princeton Univer-
believes himself to have been the stupidest and also sity, all the parts being taken by undergraduates.
the best-behaved pupil at his first school; and in This was the first presentation of the play on an
proof of his youthful stupidity he relates the story American stage, we believe, and it was received
of the leather medal he won on a certain memor with favor by a large audience. It was not long
able day. It was the last day of the term, a proud ago that Udall's “ Ralph Royster Doyster" enjoyed
day for Hiram's younger sister, for to her was a similar success at the hands of Harvard students;
awarded the first prize. Other prizes were also and a little earlier still Greene's “ Friar Bacon and
bestowed, and then the teacher said: “I will now Friar Bungay” was very creditably rendered at the
give a leather medal to the most stupid scholar in University of Illinois. In university circles at any
the school.” “I looked about me,” says Sir Hiram, rate the English drama might be in worse case than
"and I was quite certain it must be Kimm Casley, it is today.
the double-thumbed boy. But no; the teacher
selected Hiram Maxim. I went forward and was
A POSTHUMOUS WORK OF JOHN STUART MILL,
given the only medal I have ever received in my
entitled “On Social Freedom, or the Necessary
life for anything relating to education.”
Limits of Individual Freedom Arising out of the
Conditions of our Social Life,” is announced for
publication this month in the first number of the
A GRIEVANCE OF ENGLISH AUTHORSHIP is due to triannual “Oxford and Cambridge Review.” The
the income tax, from which Americans, literate and manuscript was found among Mill's effects in the
illiterate, are exempt. The question was recently house at Avignon where he died, and was designed
raised in the House of Commons whether royalties to be merely the introduction to a detailed treatment
on books should be regarded as earned or unearned of the same subject. Interest in social questions is
income; the tax on unearned income - income now at its height, but it may well be doubted whether
from investments — being fourpence in the pound an essay written a third of a century ago in the
higher than on earned income, or salaries.
retirement of Avignon will greatly further the solu-
decided by the Chancellor of the Exchequer that tion of present-day problems. However, as a sequel
this question must be determined by the circum to his treatise “ On Liberty” it must at least appeal
stances of each case, separately considered. And to curiosity.
so the indignant, if not indigent, author is likely to
find himself mulcted for not selling his wares out-
A GENEROUS OFFER GENEROUSLY DECLINED was
right instead of patiently waiting year after year
that of three-quarters of a million dollars from Mr.
for the uncertain royalties that constitute his preca-
Carnegie to the city of Detroit for a new public
rious revenue.
library building. By a majority of seventy-seven
the voters indicated their unwillingness to be
THE AMENITIES OF LITERARY CRITICISM are indebted to outside help in this matter; and by a
amusingly illustrated by Mr. Frank Harris's majority of eleven hundred they further voted to
condemnatory comments on Professor Raleigh's provide for the new building by the issue of muni-
“Shakespeare,” which he calls, among other things, cipal bonds to the amount of their would-be bene-
“an old housewife's rag-bag,” “a stew," "feeble- factor's offer. This double manifestation of civic
foolish,” “ fulsome-dishonest,” and altogether “a pride and independence is noteworthy.
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of grouping and massing, the value of wide
plantings of single species, or the infinite fore-
thought for succession, been better understood;
THE WILD FLOWERS OF ENGLAND.* and still more rarely has a book been so filled
One of the recurrent joys of our latter-
with an ever-present sense of the relations of
each tiniest moss with the universe of life.
day springs is the forthputting of the many
books which may be broadly classed as garden-
To give a taste of the quality of the book,
books, since they have to do with flowers in
we quote a passage on English grass-fields in
June.
somebody's gardens, either man's or Nature's.
For the sake of the almost limitless power and
“ When each and all of the Nature Gardens are so
lovely in their own particular way, it is unwise to show
range of their suggestion, it is easily forgiven partiality; and yet there is something dangerously like
the writers of many of these essays into well it, if I say that the gardens of the grass-fields in June
known or unknown fields that they handicap seem to hold the largest possibilities of any. ... The
their work with recitals of the sayings and do-
corn-fields have their very definite beauty, but there is
ings of all sorts and conditions of men, women,
not the variety of plants growing among the corn that
the grass can muster.
and even babies ; but it is always a far greater
“It seems such a perfectly content and satisfactory
pleasure to find that the writer has trusted to family, studding the green with all colours: white and
the growing green things themselves for the yellow, orange, blue and pink of many shades. And
interest of the book, and has left out the sug-
there are not the obvious signs of struggle; so many
of the species stand in an orderly height with each
gestions of human presence save an occasional other – all can drink up the moisture below, and sway
modest - I.” It is thus with the beautiful vol in the warm air freely; a garden of much beatitude.
ume entitled “ Nature's Own Garden," which As the weeks of June add together, the flowers' strength
has come to us from over-seas, from wbich it and the strength of the grass seem to rise and swell into
the fullest tide of the flowers' year.
will be so great a pleasure to quote that only a
« The woods are busy, and the hedges showing all
thin thread of comment is needed to hold the
their strength of beautiful things; but the heart of June
excerpts together.
seems in the grass-fields standing for hay. One watches
The keynote of Mrs. Clarke's work is struck the growing magnificence with a joy that becomes fret-
in the words of Richard Jefferies which stand
ted with a fear for there will be a sudden turning of
that tide, not at the hand of Nature, for her proceedings
in the place of the dedication that should have
are never sudden, but at the hand of man.”
been offered to his beloved memory, so full is
the book of the spirit that came into the world
Here is a pretty picture of the Harebell :
with Thoreau and found its highest exemplar
“ There is a distinctive thinness and lightness in the
in the author of “The Story of My Heart.
Harebell flowers that suggest the surround of the wind;
It
the flower that living on high land is evolved during
would hardly have been possible to write “ Na months of ceaseless wind-rush. Utterly unlike the
ture's Own Garden” had not Jefferies shared Orchid of the woods, constructed of moisture-laden
with us the wonderful and beautiful thoughts cells, the Harebells have been formed under circum-
stances when moisture was at a minimum. The winds
born of his close friendship with English fields
dry off all evaporation rapidly when the Harebell is
and commons, English lanes and hedgerows, blooming, and July and August sunshine beats down
English copses and woodlands, and the banks
upon the land extracting the value of 'every thunder
of English brooks and rivers. The dear un shower. It is as if the pale blue-bells were stretched
praised growths which Nature has always loved,
to the attenuation of parchment by constant adaptation
to the wind-rush — constant gift to the demand of cir-
and to which he gave the devotion of his too-
cumstance, yet nothing painfully, for all is orderly in
short life, but which men often call common or
the slow steps by which sensation is expressed in char-
even unclean, by his earnest disciple are treated acteristic form. Being perfected as wind-flowers, they
with the sympathy and justice with which he bend to it with ease in all ways; sudden gusts or fierce
ever won the secret of the weed's plain heart.” onslaughts when September catches the flower with
storms, are met by the Harebell's wiriness of growth
Eyes hungering for beauty are again, as in
as accustomed events; it is equal to them as a natural
Jefferies's enchanting pages, persuaded to look contact of surrounding."
at things that are near and common, and to find
Heather has seldom been better portrayed
it there ; and herein lies the value of this book.
than in this extract :
Rarely has attention been more clearly called
“ This is the garden-ground proper for the Heather,
to the decorative possibilities of many obscure
where there is wide space for it, and the slopes and
water-loving plants ; rarely have nature's ways hollows, down to the bed of the peaty streams where
the sundew thrives and catches all its need of the great
• NATURE'S OWN GARDEN. Written and illustrated, in line
and colour, by Maud Umfreville Clarke. New York: E. P. insect-humming world that dances over the purple sea.
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under the sun; all the run of light and shadow over it;
all the bum and song above it; and the life of the tribes
STUDIES IN ANIMAL LIFE.*
in Nature that creep and burrow and tunnel out their
The latest volume in the - Nature Series"
homes deep in the Heather roots — this is the glory of
one of Nature's best gardens. And where the land is
of illustrated works dealing with various phases
the Heather's own, it makes and names the place so in
of the living world is concerned with a group of
its own language of pure colour: crimson that is deep animals that bring to the minds of most read-
where the sprays tuft in shadow, and crimson that,
ers only a shudder of horror. Seekers for
catching the blue of the sky on all the myriad of little
thrills will not find in the pages of Mr. Ditmars's
bells, turns a softer and bluer note on the upper swells
of the land, and on into the long distance where the
“ Reptile Book much exciting literature,
haze wraps blue and crimson together as one, and in all though they may run across some good snake-
of it the glory of the Heather sings in the silences. stories, and can readily satisfy the most morbid
The heat beats down upon it, and brings out the aromatic appetite for a chilly feeling down the back or
scent powerfully, something pungent and yet sweet, as
for that undesirable tension of the scalp that
baffling to close scrutiny as the shifting of colour-lines
to the eye; the division-lines of partitions are not there;
most of us experience at the rustle of a snake
in both these is the weaving to and fro of much com in the grass. One has only to scan the many
plexity that defies decision.
photographs of serpents in various attitudes of
« But the moors Summer are not for decisions, but
action and repose, which the author has very
for the receiving of matters that are given in breadth
and place; songs sung through great chords. ... It is cleverly collected, to appreciate how effective à
the crescendo pitch: the apex of the great arch that temperance tract he has unwittingly prepared !
slants toward dusk, when the purple is sapped slowly If, however, the reader turns from a casual
away by grey mist, and the hollows get darker and
inspection of the book to a careful perusal of
darker into wonderful violet-browns that pass again
its
into nothing but the soft dark of earth on
pages,
he very soon finds that all reptiles are
night.”
not as black as they are painted, -that, indeed,
It is like being “ in England now that April's they may even become exceedingly interest-
is white with May,” ing; Turtles, alligators, lizards, and even some
to turn these pages, in which are blossoming snakes, make tractable and interesting pets,
the flowers that began to blossom for Chaucer
learn to eat from their keeper's hand, and, if
and that still look up into all eyes akin to his. properly kept, thrive in captivity. It is high
Many of the wide margins bear pen-drawings
time that man as a rational being should stop
for the comfort of the reader who does not
his indiscriminate bruising of serpents' heads
know what borage looks like or what stitchwort
and limit the action of his heel to those that
is. Many other large colored plates are due to actually do menace human life. Some species —
the clever brush-work of the author ; but here
as, for example, the gopher snakes — are bene-
is to be felt something of the disappointment ficial to the farmer by their destruction of ro-
that always accompanies the eager glance which dents, and most of the common species are at
first greets any effort to express the meaning least innocuous. Let us hope that Mr. Ditmars's
of flowers in a
One cannot always
book may do something toward increasing the
recognize the flowers of the text in the plates,
number of advocates of the rights of even snakes
they are often too broad in treatment and too
to life, liberty, and the pursuit of such vermin
vague in color ; but they add greatly to our
as they need.
pleasure by a certain stimulating quality which The author, as Keeper of Reptiles in the New
unites the plant to the landscape in a very
York Zoological Gardens, has had exceptional
delightful way.
opportunities to study this interesting but much
SARA ANDREW SHAFER.
neglected group under ideal conditions. His
photographs are most excellent, and are very
life-like with a few exceptions where preserved
THE DOME OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM READING-ROOM
is thought to be in danger of collapse; hence the room
material
appears
to have been used.
is to be closed for repairs during the summer and fall,
* THE REPTILE Book. A Comprehensive Popularized Work
special accommodation being provided elsewhere in on the Structure and Habits of Turtles, Tortoises, Crocodilians.
the building for those engaged in literary research of Lizards, and Snakes which inhabit the United States and
exceptional importance. It has been conjectured that
Northern Mexico. By Raymond L. Ditmars, With eight plates
in color and more than four hundred photographs from life.
the only reason why the dome has not long since fallen
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co.
on the studious heads beneath is that the density of NATURE'S CRAFTSMEN. Popular Studies of Ants and other
the atmosphere, which has caused so many of those Insects. By Henry Christopher McCook. With portraits and
heads to ache, upheld the structure and so saved
illustrations from nature. New York: Harper & Brothers.
them from what might have made them ache still
ANIMAL ARTISANS, and Other Studies of Birds and Beasts.
By C. J. Cornish, M.A., F.Z.S. With portraits, and twelve
worse, or have even put an end to their capacity for drawings by Patten Wilson. New York: Longmans, Green,
aching at all.
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“My camera has worked hard and faithfully, and “Let one walk in the fields on a warm October day
the details of structure have been fully portrayed; but when a soft breeze is blowing. If he will stoop low and
in a work like this colour value in the pattern is of great glance along the meadow, his eye will catch the sheen
importance, and here the camera has its limitations, of myriads of fine silken filaments. They float from
though assisted by the ray-filter and colour-sensitive every elevated spot. They fringe fence-posts and hedges.
plates. A great amount of work was done upon the They stream like pennants from tall weeds. They
negatives themselves, and in this the use of restraining interlace the foliage of bushes with delicate meshes, or
dyes formed an important part; some of the developed flutter like ribbons from their tops. These are the ropes
plates were put through a half-dozen processes before and netting of ballooning spiders.
they passed a satisfactory test. Those illustrations of “If, now, one will glance upward, he will be apt to
snakes that are blotched or ringed with scarlet (a diffi see long, white, sinuous filaments drifting through the
cult problem for the camera) are good examples of the air, over tree-tops, across streams, far aloft, or perhaps
final result."
low enough to be within reach. If he will grasp one of
The author exhibits a fine scorn for details of
these threads he may find in his hand a small spider;
but not always, for many drifting filaments are simply
nomenclature, and for anatomical and structural
trial threads, or loose bits of the drag-lines which spi-
features, especially internal characters not easily ders are apt to throw out as anchors when they walk.
seen by the careless observer. It is very evident, His captive will be a flying-spider, arrested in aëronautic
however, that more care on his part to insure the flight, and the silken filament is, in fact, her balloon.”
correct terminology would have added greatly Dr. McCook's work is popular in the sense
to the permanent value of his work, and fur- that it deals with " phases of natural life that
thermore that its general usefulness would have come most easily into common thought and in-
been greatly enhanced by a more generous in- terest,” but its spirit is scientific and its literary
clusion of pertinent anatomical, physiological, form is excellent. The character of the con-
and ecological detail. It is to be presumed that tents, the interesting nature of the observations
the general reader would be quite as much in related, and the clearness and grace of the
terested in the structure of the poison glands author's style, all combine to place the book in
and fangs of the rattlesnake, or in the peculiar the first rank of popular natural histories.
pineal eye
of lizards, or in the relations of color While the author of “ The Reptile Book” has
changes in reptiles to heat and cold, as in ex- yielded to the English, or perhaps entomologi-
tended accounts of the superficial markings of cal, habit of appending a common name to each
various species. This narrow approach to the species, in almost all cases coined directly from
subject has somewhat marred the proportions the Latin scientific name, Dr. McCook has
of an otherwise valuable treatise.
wisely presumed that the intelligence of his
readers is sufficient to justify the use of the
A series of popular essays on the natural scientific name without the accompanying vul-
history of ants and other insects that exhibit gar patronymic.
highly developed instincts and habits are in-
cluded in a volume entitled “ Nature's Crafts Mr. Charles John Cornish, the author of
men,” from the pen of the veteran entomologist “ Animal Artisans," was an English school-
and student of insect activities, Dr. Henry C. master at St. Paul's School, London, an Oxford
McCook. The score of chapters are, for the man, and a contributor for many years to “ The
most part, revisions or expansions of recent Spectator” and “ Country Life” (English) of
magazine articles, supplemented by considerable essays on natural-history subjects. This volume
new material, and all are abundantly illustrated. of
essays, edited by his wife, is to the American
They are largely drawn from the field of the reader an interesting revelation of the attitude
author's specialty, the study of ants and spiders, of the educated Englishman toward natural
with a number of original studies of wild bees, history. The range of topics discussed is indeed
water spiders, caddis flies, wasps, and ant-lions. a wide one, reaching from the “Fauna of the
The various chapters deal with such subjects as Railroad” to “Canary Culture," and from The
the life of the queen ant, the dispersal of ant Simple Life” to “ Animals and their Clothes.”
colonies, the aphid herds and the habits of ants Running through the nearly two-score chapters
in the care of their aphid flocks, the personal is a great deal of clever field observation upon
hygiene of ants and methods of emmet sanita the ways of animals, — observations such as a
tion, the slave-making forays and the relations sportsman-naturalist, imbued with a love of
between captor and vassal, the so-called agri- nature, and endowed with a keen eye for sig-
cultural ants, and the curious honey ants of the nificant, interesting, or unusual phenomena,
far West. Not the least interesting chapter is might make. These observations are recorded
that which deals with aëronautic spiders. in excellent form, and, as might be expected,


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with abundant literary and historical allusion, tended chiefly for English readers, has hardly
as in the following example:
less interest for garden-makers in this country,
“Whence the legend of the swan-song came is not especially those who would plant or improve
very certain. It was one of the tales of the ancients; woodland. The secondary title of the book,
but, like most other fables concerning birds and beasts,
“ Home Woods, Home Landscape," suggests
was very early questioned. Even Pliny, in his great
reservoir of nonsense about animals, doubted it; and so
its character; and although Mr. Robinson has
did Athenæus and others. Sir Thomas Browne noted several chapters on other aspects of garden-
it among his 'vulgar errors. But the call of the hooper making, it is the larger effects and methods
swan, as it flies, is very striking, and when uttered by
that he here makes prominent. In the begin-
night may well have given rise to the story.”
ning, he fulminates with something of the same
One receives the impression that the natural
sort of indignation Ruskin shows against false
history here recorded is the outcome of an avo ideas of beauty, and he is a sharp critic of pre-
cation. It lacks the tension, and the critical
tenders and pretentious writers. He himself is
point of view, of the trained scientist. It a serious and earnest worker in landscape gar-
reveals a temper of mind fostered by and dening (he scorns the expression “ landscape
perhaps expressed in the many British natural
architect,” which he considers a contradiction
history field-clubs, a diversion akin to the
in terms), and he illustrates his principles with
Briton's love of sport, but with added intel-
numerous examples of work already carried
lectual and ästhetic elements. How rarely, out. Some of the specific subjects considered
indeed, in the rush of our American life, do
are flowering shrubs and trees, climbers, rock
we find time or occasion to cultivate this con and wall gardens, the wild garden, the aspects
templative temper of mind toward nature! In of the flower garden in different seasons, the
the rivalry of our vocations have we not too
“new” rose garden, marsh, bog, and water
much neglected the contribution which this gardens, fragrance, the orchard beautiful, lawns,
avocation might make to the sanity and health
and playgrounds. Nearly half the book is de-
of our intellectual life?
voted to the home woods — the woodland gar-
CHARLES ATWOOD KOFOID. den, the large trees of the northern forests,
evergreen covert, underwoods, mixed woods,
waste in planting, fencing for woodland, and
other branches of the subject. The author has
BOOKS FOR GARDEN-LOVERS.*
a final chapter defending his use of common
Although it is comparatively but few years English names of plants and trees; and here
since Americans began to take a vital interest
we must differ with him. He is doubtless right
in gardening, and in beautifying the surround in his contention that the Latin names, which
ings of their homes, the number of writers on are subject to change at the hands of scientists,
the subject has grown so rapidly that one is are frequently confusing or misleading to the
tempted to vary the words of Solomon to read, amateur ; but since the popular English names
“Of making many garden books there is no are not always common to all English-speaking
end." Yet so long as they contain something countries, a glossary that would furnish a com-
novel either in matter or form, there can hardly valuable. There is a fairly good index, and the
mon meeting-ground would make the book more
be too many of them. Besides giving welcome
to the increasing number of works from our book is dignified in appearance, without illus-
own side of the water, we are glad to have the
trations.
attractive and interesting volumes from older
Mr. Eben E. Rexford, whose name is found
countries where gardening has so long been a
in the tables of contents of many popular mag-
joy and where beautiful gardens are as famous
azines as an authority on gardening topics, has
as storied castles.
brought some of these papers together in a vol-
Mr. W. Robinson, a well-known writer on
ume entitled “ Four Seasons in the Garden."
English gardens, has given us a work entitled The title is an arbitrary one, for the chapters,
“ The Garden Beautiful,” which, although in- while they include such titles as Spring in
the Garden," "The Garden in Summer," "The
* THE GARDEN BEAUTIFUL. Home Woods, Home Landscape.
By W. Robinson. New York: Imported by Charles Scribner's
Flowers of Fall," " Fall Work in the Garden,”
and “The Winter Window-Garden," embrace
FOUR SEASONS IN THE GARDEN. By Eben E. Rexford. Illus-
trated. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co.
others that come under none of these headings
THE GARDEN MONTH BY MONTH. By Mabel Cabot Sedgwick.
and are apparently in no special order of
Assisted by Robert Cameron, Gardener of the Harvard Botanical
Gardens. Illustrated. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co. arrangement; nor is winter in the out-door
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garden considered at all, save very incidentally. catalogues and to readers of books that abound
In other words, the book is not what its title in unfamiliar names. The inclusion of a color-
might indicate — a guide to the seasons in their
a guide to the seasons in their chart is a new feature, and shows that the author
order. It is likely to be most serviceable to justly considers color effects the most important
beginners in garden-making. The author's thing to be considered when planning a garden.
language is simple, his style is popular, and he Another distinctive feature of the book is that
gives facts and instruction in an easily under- it confines itself to hardy perennials (and a few
stood form. Especially on such subjects as tender ones), the annuals having been omitted
lawns, flower-beds, back-yard gardens, windows because of their varying season of bloom. Never-
boxes, the growing of bulbs, etc., the book theless, if the supplementary list of fifty desir-
will be helpful and suggestive. The chapter able annuals had been classified according to
on “A Garden of Native Plants " suggests color also, it would be of undoubted assistance
some of the lovely shrubs, vines, and plants that to the beginner who takes this book as a guide.
can be secured to beautify even the smallest The color-chart is so painstaking, with so many
garden. To many city dwellers, accustomed to minute gradations, that it is worthy of special
make a garden only of bedding-plants, these mention ; inasmuch as the listed flowers, as
hints will come as a revelation. Possibly an stated in the preface, have nearly all been
undue share of attention is given to in-door carefully verified by the chart. The author
gardening, but the chapters on - The Culture modestly disclaims perfection in this feature,
and Care of Palms” and “The Use of Growing while feeling that her chart is probably as
Plants for Table Decoration” will no doubt accurate as any that can be made. This is
prove very useful in helping to provide floral doubtless the case ; but it only goes to show
decorations for the table. Two chapters on anew that color resides in the eye of the
“Rural and Village Improvement Societies,” beholder, for several instances could be cited
which should be read by men as well as women,
where the color-sense of the author and that of
close the book. There is a colored frontispiece, the reviewer do not quite agree. The illus-
also twenty-six other illustrations from photo- trations, as has been said, are intended for ser-
graphs; and the volume is presented in some vice rather than for beauty merely, and many
thing of a gift-book form, by means of decorated of them really fulfil this purpose, yet there are
end-papers and title-pages, embellished with a number that are not of sufficiently sharp out-
numerous excerpts from the poets. There is line to enable one unfamiliar with the flower
also a good index.
to picture it plainly to himself. The tabular
A wholly different type of work, - in fact, arrangement is by color (which includes the
so far as we know, something really new, in popular description and a numbered reference
this now wide field, — is Mrs. Mabel Cabot to the chart), by English 'name, botanical name
Sedgwick's “ The Garden Month by Month." and synonyms, description (with hints on cul-
This really does take up, not garden work, tivation, etc.), height, situation, and time of
but the garden denizens, according to each bloom. The appendix includes, besides the
month in which they appear in the greater part lists mentioned on the title-page, bog-garden
of the United States. The floral year, taking or marsh plants, plants conspicuous for their
the vicinity of Boston as the standard, is made foliage, a few of the best ferns, and some minor
to begin with March and end with September. supplementary lists. The index is full and
The scope of the information is denoted on the carefully made. Altogether, this is a most
title-page as describing the appearance, color, valuable book for the shelves devoted to one's
dates of bloom, and cultivation, of all desirable garden library, in a location handy for reference.
hardy plants for the formal or wild garden,
EDITH GRANGER.
with additional lists of aquatics, vines, etc."
This is not distinctively a reading book, to be
enjoyed in an easy-chair while the imaginative
MR. FERRIS GREENSLET is now collecting letters and
gardener plans his next year's accomplishments, which he hopes to have ready for publication by Messrs.
material for a Memoir of Thomas Bailey Aldrich,
or dreams of a paradise that he may never Houghton, Mifflin & Co. in the fall of 1908. The book
have, - rather, it is a reference book, present will be written with the sanction and cooperation of Mr.
ing much information in tabular form, with Aldrich's family and friends. The same publishers have
illustrations intended as an assistance to the in preparation the “Ponkapog Edition” of Aldrich's
complete works, in nine volumes, handsomely illus-
text, whose
pages will be a guide to those who
trated, and issued in the same form as their recent
might be misled by florists and seedmen's
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*
bear that he is a masterly swimmer and diver?)
DRAMAS OF THE WILD.*
There is no escaping sympathy for such heroic
The opening summer, with all its other failures as those of the drake whose flight is cut
allurements, offers us an absorbing drama of short by the “terror of the air," or of the king
wild life, if we will but place ourselves in the salmon whose repeated efforts to leap the falls
audience of the discerning. To do this is not leave him torn and bleeding on the rocks below.
difficult, since the stage is everywhere except Mr. Roberts has a sense of the continuity of the
on city streets, and the conditions of seeing struggle which is almost new, and which some-
some part of the play are only a little time, times carries these plays into a third or fourth
patience, and desire.
But the drama grows in
act. The shrew-mole (for the dramatis persona
intensity as it draws farther away from centres are not all of large proportions) that kills the
of human life, and the conditions of witnessing black snake is himself killed by the fox, and
it become less easy of fulfilment, so that even
the mink that catches mice is caught by an
if our desire is great most of us miss the su eagle. Man appears sometimes as the benefi-
premely thrilling scenes and must learn of them ciary of this chain of fate, sometimes as himself
by hearsay.
the deus salvator. A mariner is imprisoned on
It is impossible not to envy Mr. Charles G.D. his wrecked boat by a shark, and is unable to
Roberts the freedom of this out-door theatre dive even for a pole to hoist his signal of
which years of devoted attendance have given distress, until a sword-fish mercifully — for
him ; but the envy gives place to gratitude, the man cuts the shark in two. And, most
after all, for the competence with which he tremendous and grewsome of all, a diver caught
makes us see what we could not have seen for in the toils of a devil-fish in the dark caverns
ourselves. His collection of stories just now of the sea, "a colossal, swollen, leprous-
published under the fascinating title “ The looking bulk, spotted and pallid,” with huge
Haunters of the Silences” reports with skill tentacles that seem to grow with every cut
and vividness dramas of wild life beyond the given them, — is saved by the providential
range of ordinary observation, where the prim- intervention of a killer whale. Stories of
itive instincts of the brute play their tragedy horses, deer, bear, lynx, and beaver, and a
against a spacious and lonely background which most delicious tale of an ant imprisoned in a
tremendously enhances the significance of every pitcher-plant, complete the volume. The end-
action. “ In the ancient wild,” he writes, “ there ing is not always tragedy. Even man, who is
were three great silences which held their habi too likely to play the part of the villain when
tation unassailed. They were the silence of the an animal is the hero, is shown to be capable
deep of the lake, the silence of the dark heart of pity and of justice. A more satisfactory
of the cedar swamp, and the silence of the upper resolution of the conflict between human and
air, high above the splintered peak of the sub-human interests has seldom been given than
mountain." There is the silence, too, of the in the story of the hunter who traps a lynx, but
far frozen north, and the darkness and silence later is obliged to accept the lynx’s help against
of the sea, whose depth Mr. Roberts confesses a pack of wolves, and so gives the animal his
he has not penetrated, but whose secrets he at well-earned liberty. For this large-minded
least cleverly approximates.
fairness, as well as for the other reasons sug-
Wrapped in the mystery of such surround- gested, the book belongs to the small but
ings, even hunger and bestial hate and lust of fortunately growing class of the best nature
blood become tolerable dramatic forces, admissi- story-books. It is praise enough of Mr. Bull's
ble for their very grimness and power. One re- spirited illustrations that they help rather than
sponds in spite of himself to the glory of combat hinder the imagination, even with the most
when the polar bear feels the slash of the wal- difficult subjects.
rus's mighty tusks, or in the deep-sea battles for In contrast to the vigorous movement of these
life with the narwhal. (Is it not, by the way,
(Is it not, by the way, pieces, Dr. Madden's “ Forest Friends fur-
an addition to ordinary knowledge of the polar nishes a good example of the static drama. It
* THE HAUNTERS OF THE SILENCES. A Book of Animal Life.
fills a real need in supplying a record of the
By Charles G. D. Roberts. With illustrations and decorations animal life of regions near at hand in the early
by Charles Livingston Bull. Boston: L. C. Page & Co.
days of man's occupation. A boy of seven, the
Pioneer. By John Madden, M.D. With frontispiece. Chicago: author settled with his parents on the shores of
Lake Michigan in the time of the “uncleared
OUTDOORS. A Book of the Woods, Fields, and Marghlands.
By Ernest McGaffey. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. forest, the unbroken soil,” and set about mak-
FOREST FRIENDS.
The Woodland Adventures of a Boy
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ing friends with the forest itself, and with the unfortunately the newspaper sketches which
gentler classes of its inhabitants. He was soon, compose the book present the man with the
with no other stimulus than his natural bent, in gun as the hero of most of these dramas, and
" thorough sympathy with nature, a sympathy game birds and the lesser animals as the victims.
which makes living worth so much more, and The writer is capable of better things; for in
which always furnishes a happy relaxation from speaking of the winter woods he says : “ The
the more sordid, hard, material cares of life.” philosophy and inner revealments of snow-
A deer runway near the pioneer's cabin was the enveloped woods are not to be enjoyed with a
most potent factor in this sympathetic educa gun. If you bring the gun along the hunter's
tion, and the young nature-lover soon began to instinct will urge you on, and some things will
feel that “ a day upon which a deer is seen is escape you.” Why not apply this discovery to
better than another day,” and to do what he other seasons in the year, when the preponder-
could to save the beautiful creatures from being ance of things to see over those of winter is
run into the lake by a brutal dog and there certainly as great as the preponderance of temp-
murdered (there was no other word) by the tations to shoot? The advice to sportsmen
dog's more brutal master. Foxes, squirrels, which the book contains is not full enough or
rabbits, birds, and even bears, came in for their new enough to compensate for the disappoint-
share of the boy's friendly curiosity; while ment this point of view causes the nature-lover.
wolf, lynx, and on one memorable night a pan- Nevertheless, Mr. McGaffey's appreciation of
ther, supplied the element of fear. If Mr. the background of these naturalistic plays in
Madden does not attempt to enhance the situa one act is so delicate and often so poetically
tion with
any tense exercise of dramatic art, he worded as to gain him grateful acknowledg-
at least catches the significance of what he sees, ment. The marshes in April are to him an
and sets forth interesting facts. For example, epitome of the year's loneliness, where “ above
of the osprey he writes :
the reeds there is a level sea of silence,” broken
“ The gentlest of all birds of prey is the osprey
occasionally when a lone teal scurries past,
fisherman. The most timid and least capable of self “the very sense of music in his flight, the least
protection among the song birds did not fear him, spar possible crisping of the air to mark his sym-
rows, warblers, and other small birds alighting on his
metrical course. An equally delicate sense of
very nest when he was at home, and sitting on the
same branch with him when he rested after a hard task action against this background leads him to say
at fishing."
of the flight of common birds that “observation
And for Chicagoans these statistics bear a moral:
and experience will give one the power to read
« The immense numbers of birds (passenger pigeons]
the channels and winding aisles of light and
destroyed here were killed and captured for shipment
air as a book's pages may be scanned,” and
to Chicago. . . . During this time [from March to that “ bird-flight is the warp and woof of the
August] there were sent to Chicago on an average seasons, spun in the wind's looms, visible as it
12,500 dead birds daily, making a total of 1,500,000
for the whole summer and 80,352 live birds shipped by quick sense of character, too, which promises
passes, yet fading as it is seen.” There is a
rail alone. Add to these figures the numbers that were
disposed of otherwise, the numbers of young which
well for what Mr. McGaffey will do when he
rotted in their nests, the parents having been caught ceases to write, as it were, gun in hand.
and killed, and the total could not have been less than From the woman who fishes “in a bewilder-
1,000,000,000.”
ingly attractive costume that ought to reconcile
Again the reader is conscious of a pang of envy the fish to their fate," to the woodchuck who
for a life so free and eventful as that once sits on his burrow" ruminating on the perfidy
near us, and is ready to echo Thoreau's wish of man," each actor that passes over the stage
that his “neighbors were wilder.” Suppose has suggestive possibilities.
there were still a place within easy reach where The three books in our present group strik-
any day one might see "a big bear, a panther, ingly bring out the fact, pertinent to some cur-
a lynx, a wild cat, a hungry wolf, or several of rent newspaper discussion, that the man who
them," how much city folks might vary and goes to the woods to learn gets more permanent
enrich their lives, and “nature-alize” themselves value, both for himself and others, than the man
by visits to such a spot!
who goes to hunt. The steel-cold click of the
Mr. McGaffey's little volume, “ Outdoors," hunter's gun sounds in all his facts, because he
brings some comfort in the fact that there are has shown disrespect for the greatest fact of all
still dramas in miniature played near at hand life. Even a little romancing is preferable to
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either, when men like Professor Roberts write As Miss Bell has an acute knowledge of the people
from life-long intimate knowledge, taking pains, and of their language, “the fine and subtle tongue,
as Mr. Roberts says he does, “ to make the
the Modern Syriac Arabic," obtained by previous
stories accord, as far as the facts of natural his-
travel and experience in the Moslem East, her book
tory are concerned, with the latest scientific
is more than the note-book of the casual traveller.
information."
She is not unmindful of the political conditions
MAY ESTELLE COOK.
existing there under Turkish rule, and, being En-
glish, very serenely suggests that were Syria under
British protection political matters there would be
vastly bettered. Such, too, seems to be the opinion
TRAVELS FAR AND NEAR.*
of the hard-pressed native. But interesting as the
“With Fancy unfurled, I can go round the world political gossip was to Miss Bell, she is manifestly
by the old Marlboro road,” boastfully sang Thoreau.
more interested in the people, the sons of the desert,
With more truth the reader of books of travel can
whom she met at their lowly occupations, at the
assert that he, with Fancy unfurled, with the spirit market-place, and in their natural unspoilt diver-
of the wandering foot and the devouring eye, can
sions. To her, a camel-driver, an old sheikh, a
go round the world at his own fireside. In his
water-seller, a market-place, a little-known temple,
imagination he may go out of his country and out
a far-from-the-path convent, a fragment of an entab-
of himself; he may climb mountains, cross deserts, lature, an exchange of talk between herself and a
visit Prester John's country, meet strange people,
native about some half-forgotten lore or ancient
hunt savage animals, and saunter amid bewitching
tradition of the desert, are more attractive than the
scenes, - do all these things without the discom-
affairs of nations, and even more enticing than
forts and inconveniences that may weary the flesh
the better-known places — Damascus, for instance,
in much actual travelling. For such travellers our
which she treats as a passing phase of desert travel
present group of books offers an unusually attractive
less interesting than a native village. Page after
invitation to travel across four continents, to meet page in the book offers tempting bits for quotation,
all sorts and conditions of men, and to see how the
some little scene that brings the heart of the desert
world wags beyond their own hearthstones. All of
home to the reader, such a scene, for example,
the volumes aim to combine entertainment with their
as a deal in corn between natives, where, “ but for
varied store of information, and all have the added
my incongruous presence, and the lapse of a few
charm of illustrations.
thousand years, they might have been the sons of
One of the most fascinating books of travel which
Jacob come down into Egypt to bicker over the
we have read in several years is entitled “The weight of sacks with their brother Joseph.” Or,
Desert and the Sown.” The author, Miss Gertrude
what is probably more uniquely pleasing in the
Lowthian Bell, made the trip through Syria, from
book, we should like to quote, did our space permit,
Jerusalem to Alexandretta, and up into Asia Minor, many pages of lively conversation held with the
alone save for her Arab attendants. Her volume natives, pages that reveal the speaking Arab, such
recounts, however, only that part of her journey to
talk as one seldom finds in books of travel.
Alexandretta along the
on the whole Miss Bell's book is too uniformly good
“Strip of herbage strown
to reveal much in a quotation; it must be read in
That just divides the desert from the sown.”
its entirety to be appreciated. The author has made
a distinct contribution to the literature of travel,
* THE DESERT AND THE Sown. By Gertrude Lowthian Bell.
and has put her name far up on the list of women
EAST OF SUEZ. By Frederic Courtland Penfield. Illustrated. who have written good travel-books.
New York: The Century Co.
Mr. Frederic Courtland Penfield's volume en-
UNDER THE SUN. By Perceval Landon. Illustrated. New
York: Doubleday, Page & Co.
titled “ East of Suez," with the auxiliary notation,
A VISION OF INDIA. By Sidney Low. Illustrated. New York: “Ceylon, India, China, and Japan,” is a book of
detached sketches, which treat of such varied
UGANDA TO KHARTOUM, By Albert B. Lloyd. Illustrated.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.
topics as the Suez Canal, Pearl Fishing in the Gulf
PORTUGUESE EAST AFRICA. By R. C. F. Maugham. Illus of Manar, Bombay, a visit to the palace of the
trated. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.
Maharajah of Jeypore, a description of the Taj
WINGED WHEELS IN FRANCE. By Michael Myers Shoemaker.
Illustrated. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
Mahal, Benares, Calcutta, Penang (the portal which
THE ITALIAN LAKES. By W. D. McCracken. Illustrated. separates “The East” from “The Far East”),
Boston: L. C. Page & Co.
Singapore, Hong Kong, Canton (“the most satis-
THROUGH PORTUGAL. By Martin Hume. Illustrated in color,
etc. New York: McClure, Phillips & Co.
fying, fascinating, and puzzling city in the Orient,
ON THE MEXICAN HIGHLANDS. By William Seymour Edwards. if not in the whole world”), Macao (the tiny Por-
Illustrated. Cincinnati: Jennings & Graham.
tuguese colony which plays the part of an Oriental
ON THE GREAT AMERICAN PLATEAU. By T. Mitchell Prudden.
Illustrated. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
Monte Carlo), Japan's Commercial Future, and the
THROUGH SAVAGE EUROPE. By Harry De Windt, F.R.G.S. Kaiser's play for Chinese trade. These topics Mr.
Illustrated. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co.
Penfield treats in a most entertaining manner; for
THE LONG LABRADOR TRAIL. By Dillon Wallace. Illustrated
in color, etc. New York: Outing Publishing Co.
he is gifted to an unusual degree with a discerning
But
Illustrated. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.
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eye, and has the happy faculty of enlivening his “ the most remarkable character in all India,” are
descriptions with a quickening humor and a sym of thrilling interest. The volume is handsomely
pathetic spirit. But the author prides himself more illustrated and attractively printed.
on the fact that his volume is a “purpose” book of A reader of Mr. Landon's book who fails to get
travels, a “book of journeyings loaded with gentle a correct orientation of India and of its complex
preachment.” The gist of his purpose lies in his life may readily find his bearings by reading Mr.
plea for a judicious and systematic campaign on the Sidney Low’s “Vision of India.” Mr. Low gathered
part of our government and our commercial giants his materials during the progress of the Prince and
for a larger share in the trade of the world, for by the Princess of Wales through India, on which occa-
this only can we hope to compete successfully with sion he was the special correspondent of a London
Germany and Japan for Oriental commerce, and, journal. “ It has been my aim,” says Mr. Low,
incidentally, to make our Panama Canal a formida- “to reproduce something of the impression which
ble competitor with the Suez Canal.
our vast and varied dominion of the East - almost
“What the American, zigzagging up and down and across a world in itself — leaves on the mind, in its
that boundless region spoken of as 'East Suez,' fails to see splendour and its contradictions, its colour and its
is the product of Uncle Sam's mills, workshops, mines, and
farms. From the moment he passes the Suez Canal to his
mystery, its wealth and its poverty, its medley of
arrival at Hong Kong or Yokohama, the Stars and Stripes classes, creeds, and peoples : to hint at a few of the
are discovered in no harbor nor upon any sea; and maybe he absorbing problems suggested by the contemplation
sees the emblem of the great republic not once in the transit of this strange and fascinating amalgam." The
of the Pacific. And the products of our marvellous country
are met but seldom, if at all, where the American wanders in
volume is a study in the contrasts between the Old
the East. He is rewarded by finding that the light of Asia
and the New India — the India of the Native and
is American petroleum, but that is about the only Western of the English; of gold and rags; of places, sacred
commodity he is sure of encountering in months of travel."
and profane; of the virtuous and the unvirtuous
This indictment, if it may be so called, is to be Maharajahs ; of the old gods and the new spirit;
met, Mr. Penfield insists, by a radical liberalizing of of Siva and the locomotive engine ; of Kali and
our marine law; that is, our government must sub- modern electricity, and of the conflict between
sidize our merchant marine coincidently with the modern inventions in general and the ancient social
building of the Panama Canal. Then, and not until and religious customs of the country. Out of this
then, shall we be able to compete with the Kaiser, abundant material Mr. Low has written a book so
whom the author not infelicitously styles “ Trade- | profitably full and accurate, so acute in observation,
Lord William.” Lack of space precludes our giving and so enlivening, that it may be called a remark-
an adequate discussion of the many excellent fea- ably illuminating book about India. That it has
tures of this notable book. Few books of travel received commendatory notice from such high
lately written in this country excel it, and we pre authorities as Lord Curzon and Mr. John Morley
dict it will be more than a book of an hour.
speaks much for the author's qualities as
Mr. Perceval Landon's “ Under the Sun,” al observer and writer.
though a book about India, is by no means one of Mr. Albert B. Lloyd has labored as a missionary
bald facts about that country. The author does not for ten years in the northern and the western parts
give a summary of mere historical data about the of the Uganda Protectorate in Africa, during which
diverse social, political, and religious activities of time he has had two furloughs to England, and on
India; he does not give the statistics of deaths the occasion of each visit he has published a volume
from starvation, snake bites, and the ravages of wild bearing on his life and work in Africa. His recent
animals; he makes no adventitious arguments con residence of five years was, for the most part, in
cerning the conflicts between the native and the the remote and little known Acholi country; and it
English governments ; he does not concern himself is of this region that his volume entitled Uganda
unduly with the peculiar religious beliefs of the to Khartoum" has to do. Although Mr. Lloyd's
natives ; and, finally, he boldly asserts that his book primary interest in Africa was his missionary work,
is not a record of the late tour of the Prince of an interest which is manifest everywhere in his
Wales, nor is it in any sense a guide-book. It is writings, that feature does not overburden his vol-
intended rather for those who have already travelled ume. He is a missionary who takes out a big-game
in India, or who know India through an extended hunter's license, and who, moreover, bags his full
course of reading. Mr. Landon, whose knowledge quota of game both big and small, in order to feed
of that country is based on a series of “anuual the natives and to reduce his expense account as
wanderings" through it, purposes to indicate the well. Few books describing sport in Africa contain
widely different local colour that distinguishes one more thrilling tales than this one. On his return
Indian city from another,” to make an impression- trip to England, Mr. Lloyd passed down the Nile,
istic picture of Indian life and travel which will a distance of 1150 miles, through the great marshes
supplement the usual books of description and that drain the life-giving waters before they reach
information. Many of his narratives of famous per the Soudan Sir William Gerstin's scheme of con-
sons and events — like that which gives the hitherto serving the water by moving the whole of the Nile
incomplete story of Nana Sahib and the great Indian bed fifty or sixty miles to the east, to an entirely
mutiny of just a half-century ago, and of Scindia, new channel more than two hundred miles long,
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thereby turning the main stream away from the Col de la Schlucht to Freiburg, to the Black Forest,
great sudd-covered marshes, will, according to Mr. thence into Switzerland, to Geneva, and finally to
Lloyd, make the Soudan a veritable garden-spot. Aix-les-Bains, where we finish our delightful but
Alike for readers interested in missionary work in breath-taking journey with Mr. Shoemaker. He
Africa, and for those interested in it as a land of is always interesting and entertaining in his books,
adventure, Mr. Lloyd's book will be satisfactory. but we prefer him when he travels at more leisure
The book on “ Portuguese East Africa," by Mr. than the motor-car permits. The volume is pleas-
R. C. F. Maugham, H. B. M. Consul for the dis antly written and admirably illustrated.
tricts of Mosambique and Zambesia, and for the A very readable and not unprofitable book is
territory of Manica and Sofala, sketches in an Mr. W. D. McCrackan's “ The Italian Lakes."
unusually entertaining and instructive way the his The author informs us, in his sub-title, that his
tory, scenery, big-game hunting, and native life, in volume is the “record of pilgrimages to familar
the supposed legendary land of Ophir, the treasure and unfamiliar places of the lakes of azure,
lakes
land of King Solomon. The opening chapters deal of leisure,' together with a description of their quaint
with the history of Portuguese colonization in East towns and villa gardens and the treasures of their
Africa and with the establishment of colonial gov art and history.” He takes us in leisurely fashion
ernment there under the guidance of the Mosam from Pallanza to Solferino and among the famous
bique Company - two items of interest that have lakes, sketching the varied scenery of Lake Como,
hitherto received inadequate attention from writers the seclusion of the lake of Iseo, the charms of
on Africa. But the greater part of the book is con Maggiore, the emerald recesses of Lugano, and the
cerned with big-game hunting in that district. As special attractions of all the sub-Alpine lakes both
that part of Africa, before the disastrous visitation large and small. In the background of his sketches
of the rinderpest in 1896, had more varieties and the author traces the human interest which has
greater abundance of big game than did almost any enlivened the history of the region ; we feel the
other region, Mr. Maugham was fortunate in being presences of Virgil, Dante, Catullus, Garibaldi,
able to explore it and hunt through it in its earlier Mazzini, Cavour, Goethe, Lady Mary Wortley
state. As far as the natives are concerned, the Montagu, Ruskin, Manzoni, Stoppani, Donizetti,
author
agrees
with the local government in deplor and other famous personages whose names are
ing the efforts of zealous Europeans to educate them associated with the Italian lakes. To some of the
above their rank. “The negro,” argues the writer, commoner and more modern themes, — such as the
was sent into the world for an end, and for one quaint costumes of the Brianza peasant women, the
end only - namely, manual labor.” It must be a silk-worm culture, lemon culture, etc., the author
satisfaction to be thus in the Creator's confidence. gives due consideration. While in no sense a guide-
Of the country itself, the author is of the opinion book, this little volume will be very acceptable to
that when the demon of malaria is checked by travellers intending to visit any of the Italian lakes.
making Europeans immune to its evil effects, then After taking many incurious glances at Portugal
Portuguese East Africa, an exquisite fairy-like land, on his various flittings through that country, Mr.
will offer one long round of interest and delight to Martin Hume determined to overcome his ingrained
visiting Europeans. As Mr. Maugham has more prejudices against the “Garden by the Sea " by
than ordinary skill in narration and description, his seeking a more intimate knowledge of the land and
book will interest the casual as well as the confirmed of the people. His volume entitled “Through
reader of records of travel.
Portugal ” is, he tells us, “ a self-prescribed penance
In his trips to various corners of the earth, Mr. for my former injustice toward the most beautiful
Michael Myers Shoemaker has been accustomed to country and the most unspoilt and courteous peas-
travelling in a rather leisurely manner; but in his antry in Southern Europe "; and his sojourn in the
latest book, “Winged Wheels in France,” he whisks land of which he writes was “a continual and un-
us through a five thousand mile journey in a twenty- adulterated delight from beginning to end, bringing
four horse-power motor-car at the rate of forty-five refreshment and renewed vigor of soul, mind, and
miles an hour. We begin our trip with him at body, opening to my eyes, though they had seen
Nice, and go through Provence to Aix, where we much of the world, prospects of beauty unsurpassed
catch a glimpse of the castle and the story of in my experience, and revealing objects of antiqua-
King René, thence to Arles, Narbonne, Carcassonne, rian and artistic interest unsuspected by those to
Lourdes (the city of miracles), Pau, and on to whom the attractions of the regular round of Euro-
restful Birratz before we go speeding into Spain. pean travel have grown flat and familiar.” What-
From Spain we run into central France in search ever Mr. Hume describes in and about Oporto,
of the unique and the fantastic. Touraine, Anjou, Bussaco, Coimbra, Alcobaça, Cintra, Lisbon, or
Brittany, Normandy, Picardy, come in quick suc places of lesser note, is done with a well-considered
cession; and finally Paris is reached, a city where and creditable enthusiasm, and in an unusually
an automobile is more of a necessity than a luxury graceful style. The publishers have added to the
for one who wishes to explore the environs of the writer's stimulating descriptions a goodly number of
city. We glide from France through the moun pleasing color-prints that contribute much to the
tains of the Vosges into the Rhine Valley, over the attractiveness of the volume.


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ume.
Mr. William Seymour Edwards, in his book en book ends with his trip into Russia, where he saw
titled "In the Mexican Highlands," tells about his the red flag of anarchy wave in the riot at Odessa.
trip into the mountain regions of Mexico, and also The distinctive merit of this book lies in the fact
gives flashlight glimpses of New Orleans, Vera Cruz, that the author visited these same countries a gener-
and Havana. His book is enlivened with pictures ation ago, and consequently is competent to gauge
of wayside scenes, theatres, cafés, a bull-fight, a the various lines of progress made in these ever-
trip to the Mexican mines, and other odds and ends changing hot-beds of European discord.
in the life of our neighbors over the southern border No story in the history of modern exploration is
and in Cuba. The Mexicans struck him as intelli-
more pathetic than that of the death of Leonidas
gent and progressive, both in affairs of government Hubbard, Jr., in the forsaken and dead land of Lab-
and business. The Cubans impressed him as being rador. In the summer of 1903 an expedition led by
over-zealous in their desire for liberty, — in fact, as Hubbard attempted to reach Lake Michikamau by
somewhat revolutionary in disposition against our ascending the Nascaupee River, but, missing their
paternal government.
route, the party wandered about for two months
Few regions of the world have more wonderfully without reaching the lake. On the return journey,
picturesque and romantic scenery to offer to the Hubbard died of starvation, leaving his two compan-
traveller than has the southwestern part of the ions, Mr. Dillon Wallace and a half-breed Indian,
United States, in the vicinity of the Grand Canyon to struggle back to civilization. Of that disastrous
of the Colorado. It is of this region, with its expedition Mr. Wallace has written in another vol-
matchless vision of natural beauty, its prehistoric
In his present book, entitled “The Long
ruins, and its unique present-day cliff-dwellers, that Labrador Trail,” Mr. Wallace tells how he fulfilled
Dr. T. Mitchell Prudden writes in his readable little the compact with Hubbard “ that in case one of us
volume entitled “On the Great American Plateau." fall the other would carry to completion the explo-
As befits such a land, Dr. Prudden's methods of ratory work that he had planned and begun." To
travelling are of the leisurely sort, — with his own trace Mr. Wallace’s route through the waste lands
pack-train and camp equipment. Incidentally in of Labrador would serve but in a small way to indi-
his book he makes a vigorous plea for the protection cate the valuable account of his heroic endeavor to
of the natives, for the careful gathering of their fulfil the wish of his friend. His party reached the
legends, and for the stopping of the unbridled sought-for lake, where, on account of the short food
vandalism which is fast devastating the ruins of supply, all of its members save the author and a
the ancient cliff-dwellers. Only too soon, the author companion returned home; the advance party, how-
assures us, will the natives cease sending messages ever, penetrated Labrador, reaching Fort Chimo,
to the gods by rattlesnakes, if some adequate pro and finally returned in mid-winter to Hamilton
tection is not provided against the onslaught of semi- Inlet, after a journey with dogs, komatik, and snow-
civilization with its attendant evils. Dr. Prudden's shoes, of two thousand miles. Few readers of Mr.
style is notably vigorous and enthusiastic.
Wallace's volume will be interested in the scientific
Mr. Harry De Windt, the experienced traveller data gathered by the party, but none can fail to
and well-known author of many readable books of enjoy the author's account of his expedition, and to
travel, journeyed as a newspaper correspondent applaud the noble incentive that led him to return
through Montenegro, Herzegovina, Bosnia, Servia, to bleak Labrador to carry out the plans of his
Bulgaria, Roumania, Southern Russia, and the Cau former companion.
H. E. COBLENTZ.
casus, in the order named. He recounts his trip
and records his observations in the volume entitled
“ Through Savage Europe," the title accurately MR. ANDREW LANG’s praise of Professor Raleigh is
describing the "wild and lawless countries between whole-hearted, and in striking contrast with certain
the Adriatic and Black Seas.” Montenegro, says
other critics' dispraise of the accomplished author of the
the author, has the advantage of a good ruler in
latest Shakespeare biography and study. “This work,"
Prince Nicholas; Herzegovina and Bosnia prosper
writes Mr. Lang, “is one of the series of English Men
of Letters, but it shines among the others like the moon
under Austrian rule; Servia, to which a major part
among the stars.
Mr. Raleigh has little to say about
of the book is devoted, attempts to rule itself with
Sidney Lee, nothing about Miss Corelli, nothing about
but little success.
Mr. De Windt takes particular the gifted Bacon. His theme is the poet Shakespeare;
pains to have the reader understand that King Peter the poet rather than the man, though the man, too, is
of Servia should be back in Paris playing the part happily adumbrated, on the evidence of his works, and
of a boulevardier rather than attempting to fill the of tradition. The book is a delightful treatise on poetry,
throne of Servia, and that the murdered King Alex-
with no pryings about Mr. W. H., and no pedantries
ander was a man competent to rule so volatile
about anything. Mr. Raleigh must be an unique
a people. For the regicides –
Few indeed are the
the author unknow-
professor of English literature !
teachers of English literature who are so peculiarly
ingly was entertained by one of them - he has the
fitted for their task (though task is the wrong word) as
utmost contempt. Bulgaria, which Mr. De Windt
to deserve no part of the censure implied in Leslie
well calls “ the land of unrest,” impressed him as Stephen's ascription of his early interest in his country's
a factor to be weighed when considering Balkan classics to the fact that, in his college days, English
matters. Very fittingly, Mr. De Windt's interesting studies had not gained admission to the curriculum.


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to the attention of the “first floor," who has hitherto
RECENT FICTION.*
ignored both her existence and that of the “exten-
When “Joseph Vance” swam into the ken of
sive basement with cellarage,” which is her home.
novel-readers a few months
ago
there were many of
In other words, she drops the jug of beer which
us who felt that we could realize for the first time she is fetching from the public house, and is con-
in our own experience what it was to have lived in soled in her plight by Mr. Charles Heath, amateur
the days of “ Pickwick” and “Pendennis.” It was
artist, who inhabits a “studio” in the Soho house
far and away the best novel of the year, and of The young man in question (and this is much to
many years ; its excellence, moreover, was of the the point) is the son of well-to-do parents who live
specific sort that is associated with the Mid-Victorian in Hyde Park Gardens, and who, contrary to all
age of fiction rather than of the sort to which the traditions, countenance and even encourage their
popular modern novelist aspires. It was evident that son in his misguided ambition. Presently, the
the author was a man steeped in the best traditions
child's parents engage in a drunken quarrel which
of the older fiction, though none the less a man now
ends disastrously to both. The man deals his wife
living in the twentieth century and responsive to
a murderous blow with the first convenient imple-
the currents of its thought. His advanced age
ment (which chances to be a hammer), and then,
was sufficient to account for this phenomenon ; but realizing what he has done, ends his own life with
nothing short of native genius could account for
a dose of cyanide. This makes an orphan of Alice,
the rich geniality of this first product of a septua- and her“ first floor” friend and protector sees noth-
genarian. Mr. De Morgan's second novel, now
ing for it but to take the child to his own home and
following fast upon the heels of its predecessor,
turn her over to his adored and adorable sister. In
proves to be a work no less remarkable, and one
her new environment, the child occupies a tentative
equally productive of almost unalloyed delight. It status for a while, but proves so winning that she
is also a work of the same soul-satisfying length, soon becomes a permanent fixture in the household.
and the reader who has acquired in self-defence the During the ensuing two years, the adorable sister
habit of rapid reading is hereby warned that if he meets and weds a rising young physician, and her
skims “ Alice-for-Short” it will be to his own serious brother, enticed into the web of a young woman
loss. To emphasize the metaphor, we will say that
of dubious extraction (just then serving him as a
the cream reaches to the dregs, and is not the super-model), rashly makes her his wife. At this junc-
imposed covering of a sub-stratum of watery fluid. ture, sixteen years are permitted to elapse, and when
We make the acquaintance of Alice at the age of
we have recovered from the bewilderment occasioned
six, and her story, in one sense, is of the simplest. by the leap, we learn that the young physician has
The child of a drunken couple, caretakers of a
become a famous alienist and a leader of his pro-
decayed Soho house that was once a mansion and
fession, that Charles has discovered his mistake and
now provides quarters for artist folk and tradesmen,
divorced his faithless wife, and that Alice has grown
she makes her entry upon the scene as the central
up to be just what we have a right to expect — one
figure in a cruche cassée episode, which brings her
of the most lovable creatures to whom a novelist
ever gave the breath of life. Of course Charles
* ALICE-FOR-SHORT. A Dichronism. By William De Morgan.
and Alice are meant for one another, but each is
New York: Henry Holt & Co.
THE WHIRLWIND. By Eden Phillpotts. New York: McClure,
so absurdly afraid that the other's motive would be
Phillips & Co.
self-sacrifice rather than the love that ought to bind
RUNNING WATER. By A. E. W. Mason. New York: The husband and wife that it is a long while before the
Century Co.
critical moment is reached when their mutual devo-
By John Oxenham. New York: The
tion of friendship is discovered to be inadequate,
Poison ISLAND. By A. T. Quiller-Couch. New York: Charles and their relation becomes what it should have
Scribner's Sons.
THE DIAMOND SHIP. By Max Pemberton.
Thus the story, after much delay
been long before.
Appleton & Co.
(against which protest would be ungrateful indeed),
THE KINSMAN. By Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick, New York: The ends happily. But although the above is its essen-
Macmillan Co.
SIR ELYOT OF THE WOODS. By Emma Brooke. New York:
tial outline, a good half of the story is as yet
Duffield & Co.
unsketched. The title-page describes it as “ a
A WINGED VICTORY. By R. M. Lovett. New York: Duffield dichronism," and thereby hangs another aspect of
the tale. The old Soho house has a past, a past
PRISONERS OF FORTUNE. By Ruel Perley Smith. Boston:
L. C. Page & Co.
compounded of love and hatred and grim tragedy,
SAMPSON ROCK OF WALL STREET. By Edwin Lefèvre. New and remotely related to Alice herself. Glimpses
York: Harper & Brothers.
of this past are vouchsafed us during the years of
THE KINGMAKERS. By Armiger Barclay. Boston: Small,
Maynard & Co.
Alice's childhood. A mysterious jewelled ring is
IN THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM. By Arthur W. Marchmont. New discovered, some old portraits offer elusive hints,
York: Frederick A. Stokes Co.
several ghosts make casual appearances in the house,
THE CASTLE OF DOUBT. By John H. Whitson.
Little, Brown & Co.
and the skeleton of a murdered woman is disinterred
A MODERN MADONNA. By Caroline Abbott Stanley. New in the cellar. No solution of these mysteries is
York: The Century Co.
offered until many years afterwards, when they are
By M. E. M. Davis. Boston:
Houghton, Miffin & Co.
half-forgotten, and then, by means of recovered
THE LONG ROAD.
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Boston:
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documents, and particularly by the revelations of wit of the Dartmoor peasantry. It is a story that
an old woman, restored to sanity by an operation more than ever makes us feel that Mr. Hardy has
after sixty years of aphasia as an inmate of Bedlam, found a worthy successor.
the whole complication is pieced together, and we Sylvia Thesiger was born in an English country
get a fairly connected history, stretching back as town, and the liquid music of the neighboring mill
far as the early eighteenth century, and involving stream was so wrought into the consciousness of
the fortunes of Alice's forbears.
It makes a story
her childhood that she ever afterwards dreamed of
of extraordinary interest, although its demands upon running water. This pretty fancy suggested to Mr.
the constructive imagination are severe.
And we
A. E. W. Mason a title for his story of Sylvia's life,
cannot quite forgive the author for his ghosts, and so he named the book “Running Water.” Her
which are not really needed, and which are left father bad been a famous Alpinist in his younger
unrationalized — just ghosts and nothing more. A
A days, but eertain unfortunate happenings had forced
carping critic might possibly find further causes him, long before the story opens, to abandon his
for offence in the overplus of sentimentality which favorite pastime, and even to change his name.
marks the book, and in the garrulity of its narra He had, in short, been convicted of crime, and was
tion, for the writer, after the manner of his com doomed to a term of imprisonment. Thereupon his
peers from Fielding to Thackeray, cares little for wife, a selfish and frivolous person, had left him,
the details of construction, and makes any kind of taking with her the child Sylvia, who has grown up
an excursus whenever he pleases, discoursing easily with no knowledge of her father beyond a shadowy
upon art and human nature to the impediment of notion that he is living somewhere in London. The
all orderly progress. But only a crabbed partisan passion for the mountains is in her blood, and we
of the formal could place his hand upon his heart make her acquaintance at Chamounix, where her
and sincerely aver that he would willingly spare mother's nomadic life has brought her, and where
any of these irrelevancies. They add salt and she is about to make her first ascent. This expedi-
savour to a novel which even without them would tion brings her into contact with a young English-
be reckoned a remarkable example of the art of man, also a lover of the Alps, and a seasoned
fiction at its noblest. Finally, we may make a sug climber. The combined influences of the man and
gestion that has delightful possibilities. “ Joseph the mountain bring upon her an emotional crisis,
Vance” and “ Alice-for-Short are novels contain and she forms a great resolution. A continuance of
ing each something like a quarter of a million the life she has been leading becomes intolerable,
words. Such books are in one sense the products and she determines to leave her mother, and seek a
of a lifetime, and even in the most literal sense are home with her unknown father. After joining him
not written in a day or a year. May it not be that in his London house, and incidentally taking him
their author has been writing books of this kind for greatly by surprise, she discovers him to be a very
longer than we fancy, and that he has stores of shady character, who makes a precarious living by
accumulated manuscript that may yet see the light? his wits at the expense of whatever gullible victims
After his luckless collaborative excursion into the come within his reach. The developments of the
fields of detective mystery and treasure-seeking, narrative from this point are very ingenious and
Mr. Phillpotts has found his way back to his native interesting. She finds herself at times in positions
heath or rather moor and once more gives us both questionable and dangerous, but with the aid
a tale of the rustics whom he knows so well. “The of the Englishman who has befriended her in the
Whirlwind” is a tragedy of elemental passion, opening chapters, and who becomes her declared
worked out in the lives of a man and a woman of lover, she averts the perils that threaten her, and
primitive instincts. Both are of lowly birth and even exerts a softening influence upon her father's
without education; the man is in addition a sort of criminal character. The story ends, as it began,
religious fanatic. The tragedy is of the David and in the Alps, with an exciting expedition over a dan-
Uriah type, the part of David being taken by the gerous pass, and a semi-tragic situation that keeps
farmer who employs Daniel Brendon and his wife. us in breathless suspense for a time. These ele-
His sin is soon followed by repentance, and even ments of human and natural interest combine to
by religious conversion, but knowledge of the make a tale of singular fascination, over which the
woman's lapse from virtue has accidentally come mountain glamour is cast with such compelling
into the possession of a former suitor for her hand, effect that it acts as a shaping influence upon the
who bides his time, and plans a dramatic revenge. lives of all the persons chiefly concerned.
When Daniel's eyes are opened at last, he
A sad and simple story of bleak Siberia, almost
red,” and starts on the warpath. His vengeance is unbearable in the intensity of its tragic pathos, is
balked by the natural death of the betrayer and the called “The Long Road,” and is the work of Mr.
suicide of the faithless wife. He then joins the John Oxenham. It
opens with the long march of a
Salvation Army, and the story ends. It is a story band of exiles, and deals with the fortunes of Stepan
told with all the sombre power which we are wont Iline — a child when the tale begins, but soon there-
to expect of its author, and the severity of its after a man, sober and thrifty of life, happily mar-
tragic outline is somewhat softened by the scenes ried, and blessed with children. In an evil hour,
which portray the homely psychology and the rustic Stepan incurs the enmity of the brutal governor of
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the province, who devises for him a punishment contrived. It is about a gang of international
of ingenious cruelty. Expelled from the province thieves, who make jewels their specialty, and who
of Irkutsk, this victim of tyranny is permitted to have for their rendezvous a pirate ship drifting idly
travel elsewhere in Siberia at his will, but is for about the South Atlantic, far from the track of travel.
bidden to remain longer than ten days in any one A determined Englishman, with the aid of an agree-
place. Thus driven from his home, Stepan constructs ably exaggerated Irishman, conceives it to be his
a sort of house-wagon, and, taking with him wife and special mission to destroy this band of outlaws, and
children, becomes an itinerant peddler. To the hard put the " diamond ship” out of commission. He
ships of this existence are sacrificed one by one his is spurred to his best efforts by the fact that they
wife and his two children, leaving him with nothing have a young woman, with whom he has fallen in
to live for but the burning hope of revenge upon the love, in their clutches. Before the dénouement is
wanton author of his miseries. For years he seeks reached, there is abundant action, on sea and shore,
the opportunity to strike, and at last his enemy lies and exciting adventures follow one another fast
within his power. But the sight of his enemy's enough to keep the most practised reader breathless
child, a little girl strangely like the one he himself in his endeavor to keep up with them.
mourns, softens his heart, and by an almost super Roger Blois is a young Australian of wealth and
human effort he foregoes his cherished revenge. cultivation, who comes to England to make the
The rest of the book recounts endless wanderings, acquaintance of his kinsfolk. He is the prospective
and the gradual thawing in his breast of feelings heir of Colonel Blois, an English country gentleman,
long congealed; he finds in service to his fellows a whose daughter he is destined to marry. Soon after
kind of solace for the grief that ever grows older, his arrival, and before he has introduced himself to
and dies beloved by the simple folk whom he has his relatives, he is brought accidentally into con-
helped during the closing years of his pilgrimage. tact with one Herbert Gammage (also a relative,
The story is deeply moving, and is related with although a distant one), whose exact counterpart
knowledge of the life depicted and a rare degree of he is in form and feature. The resemblance is
artistic restraint.
only superficial, for Gammage is a flabby and vulgar
“ Poison Island” is a romance compounded of creature, just then very much down on his luck.
familiar ingredients. In a general way, it strongly This acquaintance is formed at a sea-coast village,
suggests “Treasure Island,” while, to be more and Roger goes out for a swim. An hour or two
specific, Mr. Quiller-Couch has permitted himself later, Gammage discovers his clothes, hastily infers
the employment of certain devices that he has used that he is drowned, and has the brilliant inspiration
before to humorous effect — the elderly dame who to don the garments, leaving his own in exchange.
writes atrocious verses, and the strangely assorted The next step is to take possession of Roger's belong-
company who set out upon the expedition which is ings at the hotel, examine his papers, and fit himself
the raison d'être of the story. The scene is Fal for his new part. Learning from a letter of invita-
mouth and its neighborhood, and the time that of tion that Colonel Blois expects his Australian kins-
the closing period of the Napoleonic wars. There man in a few days, the imposter presents himself
is, of course, an ancient mariner with a mysterious at the appointed time, and his manners, which are
past, and equally of course, a chart to indicate the very surprising indeed, are charitably accounted for
location of the treasure. The actual expedition in by his Australian upbringing. In the meantime,
search thereof occupies only about a third of the Roger, who has been rescued in a somewhat bat-
narrative, being preceded by an account of the tered condition, is taken to the neighboring farm-
youthful hero's schooldays, and by various fantastic house which Gammage has been visiting, and there,
happenings. The author's happy faculty for sketch- despite his protestations, he is held to be Gammage
ing eccentric types of character is exhibited at his in fact, and his notion that he is someone else is
best, and we thoroughly enjoy the quaint company treated as a phenomenon of the mental derangement
that he provides for us. When the island is reached from which he is supposed to be suffering. This
(in the Bay of Honduras), it is found to be inhab complication ties him up for some time, which
ited by a singular old gentleman whose chief delight gives the imposter so much leeway. In the end,
is in the reception of treasure-seekers. He has the of course, Roger escapes, establishes his identity,
amiable habit of luring them on by smooth words, startles Gammage by his reappearance, and marries
and of poisoning them just as their quest is about the young woman. All of which makes Mrs. Alfred
to be crowned with success. In the present case,
Sidgwick's story of “The Kinsman” an excep-
however, he relents, and concludes to poison himself tionally bright and entertaining work of fiction.
instead, leaving the treasure-seekers in possession. Sir Elyot Ingall, upon his father's death, finds
“The Diamond Ship” is just the sort of story
himself the heir to a distinguished name, a large
we expect from Mr. Max Pemberton, but is rather county estate, and a burden of debt so heavy that
above the average of his later work. It escapes his title and manor seem little more than a mockery.
besetting tendency to be over-fantastic, and tells a But the young man has stuff in him, and at once
reasonably straightforward tale of villainy unearthed plans for himself a life of industry and economy
and virtue rewarded. It is, of course, cheaply melo that, he has reason to hope, will clear the estate in
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his necessities by selling his timber, but he has a woman and a Fabian socialist, who has been writing
passionate love for the ancient woods that have novels for a dozen years or more, but is compara-
become his property, and a deep conviction that a tively unknown to American readers.
possession of this sort is a sacred trust rather than Mr. Robert Morss Lovett's second novel, “A
a merely personal appanage. Even more than his Winged Victory,” is the story of a self-sacrificing
own trees, he loves the Dower Woods, a neighboring girl, in whom the desire to be serviceable is instinc-
forest (once a part of the ancestral estate), now in tive, and who, under conditions that would have been
the ownership of a neighbor who shares to the full discouraging to anyone less stout of heart and cheer-
his feeling concerning such possessions. At this ful of soul, shapes for herself a successful career of
point of our outline, the heroine must be introduced. usefulness. Her devotion is lavished successively
She is the oldest of seven children, whose parents upon a baby brother, who dies at an early age, a sel-
have some pretensions to gentility, but who lead a fish and worldly sister, who is adopted by a wealthy
poverty-stricken existence in a cheap house on the relative, and upon a somewhat disreputable father,
fringe of the metropolis. Her beauty is of the who is distinguished by a bent for philosophical con-
appealing sort, even to the cold blooded reader; in versation and a disinclination to work for an honest
Sir Elyot, when chance (aided by design) brings living. When the heroine goes to college, which a
them together, she awakens the deepest of romantic lucky windfall enables her to do, she finds a new
passions. Their engagement follows, although there object of devotion in a fellow-student who poses as
is no prospect of anything more than an engage an unrecognized genius, and who is in reality a cub,
ment for many years. Meanwhile the owner of the weak, selfish, and conceited. The two are thrown
Dower Woods determines to leave it to his young together both in school and in settlement work, and
friend, in whose hands he knows it will be safe from the girl finally marries him, mistaking for love her
the axe. But he has been so charmed by the heroine pity for his weakness. This leads to much wretch-
that he is half inclined to leave it to her instead of edness, but he has the grace to end his existence
to her prospective husband. In his indecision, he after a while, leaving his widow free to marry the
prepares two wills, but, being persuaded by his man who was obviously destined for her. The story
lawyer that it would be unwise to make the bequest is, for the most part, one of college life, the college
in that indirect fashion, is about to destroy the will in question being a sort of composite of the three
drawn in favor of the heroine, when he dies unex situated in and near Chicago. The story is inter-
pectedly. After his death, this will alone is found, esting and cleverly wrought, but is marred by a vein
and of the other no trace can be discovered. Then of the sort of sentimentalism that affects the modern
Sir Elyot, knowing nothing of either will, goes to amateur sociologist, and by a false sense of values
America to remain two or three years. During his in the social life of the college community. The
absence, his betrothed is informed of her ownership author seems also to be deficient in the power of
of the Dower Woods, and her essentially shallow consistent characterization, and leaves us consider-
and pleasure-loving nature can see in this accession ably in doubt as to what he would have us think of
of fortune nothing more than the opportunity of most of the persons who figure in his novel.
gratifying her longings for luxury. She secretly A good old-fashioned story of Massachusetts Bay
arranges to have the timber cut, and with the pro in the days of Cotton Mather, a story told with the
ceeds enters upon the career of a woman of fashion. affected garrulity of reminiscent old age, may
be
When Elyot returns, he discovers with horror the found in Mr. Ruel Perley Smith's “ Prisoners of
devastation, and later, with far greater horror, that Fortune.” It is mainly a story about pirates and
the woman he has loved is the one who has dealt hidden treasure, for pirates were very real in those
him this blow. The shock of the discovery kills his days, and they undoubtedly hid a good deal of
love for her, and almost kills him in the literal treasure, although for the most part so effectively
The other will turns up after a while, and that no one has been able to find it since. But the
the hideous work of the axeman is stopped, but only Boston lad who is the hero of this romance finds
after irreparable injury has been done to one of the the private hoard as a matter of course, and rescues
most beautiful bits of woodland nature in England. the distressed heroine — who is a sort of New
The story closes with the heroine's marriage to a England Lorna Doone
from the villainous gang
“ bounder” who has pursued her for years, with who have held her in durance.
the rehabilitation of Elyot's fortunes and his union Virginia Central is the subject of focal interest
with the vicar's daughter (whom we have known in Mr. Lefèvre's “Sampson Rock of Wall Street.”
all the time to be the right woman), and with their The name, as may be surmised, is that of a railway
joint resolution to dev the rest of their lives to and not of a young woman.
T
re is a young
restoring, as far as may be possible, the ravaged woman concealed somewhere within the intricate
forest. On its merely human side, this is a singu- mesh of the narrative, but she is not a real person,
larly impressive and well-managed story; to the and hence does n't count. Sampson Rock is a mag-
lovers of trees, who can share in Elyot's passion, it nate who has acquired millions by manipulation of
is an inexpressibly poignant tragedy. It is entitled the stock market. He plans to acquire further
“Sir Elyot of the Woods.” The author, Miss millions by depressing V. C. stock, buying control
Emma Frances Brooke, is a Newnham College at bargain prices, and then selling the road to
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another which he already controls.
The ingenious Louis Armitage, an instructor in a Philadelphia
and subtle procedure whereby he expects to accom-
school, is in New York for a vacation, and is taking
plish his purpose is explained with much particu- the air in Central Park. He is suddenly hailed by
larity, and the reader is never taken for very long a young woman in a passing carriage, who calls him
or very far from the sound of the ticker. Now | Julian, and insists upon his coming home with her.
Sampson Rock has a son, his namesake, familiarly During the drive, he is informed that he is her long-
known as Sammy, and this hopeful youth, having lost husband, supposed to be dead. Denial proves
made the grand tour, returns to New York and useless, and the situation proves so pleasant to the
enters his father's office. When he learns of the man, especially when he discovers the luxurious
buccaneering enterprise directed against Virginia nature of his new existence, that after some feeble
Central, he evolves an ingenious little scheme of searchings of conscience, he falls into the part that
his own, which is no other than that of acquiring a bizarre fate seems to have assigned him, and
the control for himself. Presently, the old man plays it for all it is worth. He is especially inspired
discovers that some unknown operator is putting a to persist when he discovers that the woman who
spoke in his wheel, and in consequence thereof the claims him (and with whom by this time he is wildly
stock rises at the wrong time. This very nearly
in love) has fallen into the clutches of an unscrupu-
brings Sampson face to face with ruin, when Sammy lous lawyer, who is enriching himself at her expense.
shows his hand, and the father's feelings are divided At least, he will countenance the deception until he
between chagrin at his own discomforture and admir has unmasked the villain. But the villain has a
ation of the unsuspected “business” capacities of little unmasking game of his own, for he soon sus-
the son.
It makes a fairly interesting story upon pects Louis to be an impostor, and takes measures
a subject that is essentially devoid of any vital for his arrest. Then follows a hasty flight from New
human interest. No question of morality ever seems York, in company with his recently acquired wife,
to enter the head of any of the persons concerned. on their private yacht. Detectives pursue them,
No review of a season's fiction would be complete and finally the wife seems to be convinced that the
without mention of at least one romance of the man is not Julian after all, whereupon she leaves
“ Zenda” sort. Our present instance is “ The King- him stranded. This is a great shock to him, so great,
makers," by Mr. Armiger Barclay. The Kingdom | indeed, that it suddenly awakens dormant memories,
of Sergia is, like all the others, torn by dynastic and he realizes that he is Julian in fact, and that
intrigue, and in danger of falling prey to the as Louis he has simply been a sufferer from dual
Russian bear. When the rightful sovereign has personality. Moreover, his wife (who is really his
won his kingdom, he should by rights have been wife) had been sure of it all the time, and had
wedded to his royal cousin, but has already pledged planned the shock (under the advice of an alienist)
himself to an English girl, while the cousin has given for the express purpose of reviving his lapsed
her heart to an Irish suitor.
At this juncture, a
memory. It is not often that a novel has as unex-
bit of folk-lore is very neatly worked in, and the pected a denouement as this, and the writer has
Sergians are reconciled to the acceptance of a foreign displayed no little ingenuity in sustaining the mys-
queen because she seems to realize the fulfillment of tification until he is ready to clear it away.
an omen which means much to their superstitious Castle of Doubt ” is the name of this entertaining fab-
natures. This smoothes away the difficulties that rication, which is the work of Mr. John H. Whitson.
beset the other pair of perplexed lovers, and senti Miss Stanley's “ A Modern Madonna” is, in its
ment receives the full measure of its dues. This outline, the familiar story of the woman who marries
romance is differentiated from others of its class by a man for his showy qualities and social position,
the fact that the action, until very near the end, without any seriou effort to sound his character,
takes place in England, where the whole plot is and who soon thereafter learns that his love is a
hatched, and the sinews of war are provided. As superficial and evanescent affair. When she dis-
long as invention can produce stories as good as this, covers, early in the narrative, that he is no more
we shall not greatly object to them on the score of than a shallow and impulsive creature, and faithless
being mere variants upon a well-worn theme. into the bargain, she separates herself from him.
A dashing story of adventure in the Empire of The scene of the novel is Washington, and the
the Tsar is given us by Mr. Arthur W. Marchmont, rejected husband, taking advantage of a law that
with “In the Cause of Freedom” for a title. A formerly disgraced the statute-book of the District,
travelling Englishman comes upon a Polish maiden, makes a will removing their child from the custody
in the company of a notorious conspirator, both pur of the mother, and placing it in the hands of his
sued by the police, in a village of Russian Poland. elder brother, a soured person who disapproved of
The conspirator is dispatched early in the game, the marriage, and who regards all women with sus-
and the maiden is left on the Englishman's hands. picion. Presently the husband is murdered by a
Being high-spirited and impressionable, the English woman whom he has betrayed, and the circum-
man is nothing loth to accept the charge, and the stances of the crime are such as to make the brother
pair lead the police a merry chase all the way
to believe that the wife is the guilty person. Acting
Warsaw, where the action culminates in street riots upon this conviction, he insists upon taking posses-
and other forms of excitement.
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favor, the mother is forced to take flight with her
NOTES.
offspring. For several years she eludes pursuit, but
finally the detectives discover her hiding-place, seize Some pages choisies from the “Caractères ” of La
the child, and put it in the hands of its lawful
Bruyère, with a preface by M. Augustin Filon, is pub-
guardian. In the end, the truth of the murder comes
lished by the Messrs. Putnam in their charming series
out, the fact of the mother's innocence is established
of “Classiques Français."
in the mind of the only man who has ever doubted
The manuscript of Mr. George Willis Cooke's Bibli-
ography of Ralph Waldo Emerson has been received
it, and the outcome of the whole complication is that by Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., and will be issued
the mother marries the man whom she has hitherto
by them in the fall as one of their series of bibliographies
most hated, while he, filled with remorse for the of American authors.
consequences of his error, seeks, by the depth of Two more volumes of the “ Men of the Kingdom ”
his newly-awakened love, to atone for the wrong he biographies have been sent us by Messrs. Jennings &
has done the suffering woman. A large section of Graham. Mr. George S. Innis writes of “Wycliffe:
the story is devoted to an account of a political
The Morning Star,” and Mr. William H. Crawford of
agitation for the repeal of the statute which has in
“ Savonarola: The Prophet.”
this instance abetted so wicked a wrong. In this
Mr. Frank Mathew's volume on Ireland, published
aspect, the book degenerates into a piece of pam-
two years ago in Macmillan's “color book” series, is
phleteering, and suffers correspondingly as a work
now reissued in cheaper form, with thirty-two of Mr.
Francis S. Walker's beautiful illustrations in color re-
of art. But it is, on the whole, a strong novel,
tained out of seventy-nine in the original edition.
exhibiting variety of incident, depth of feeling,
“A Book of the Pyrenees," by Mr. S. Baring-Gould,
and a genuine gift of characterization.
is essentially a guide-book, but one that is readable as
A delightful story of the South, a story of com well as practically helpful. It combines much history
paratively recent years, although rooted in an and geography with its detailed information for tourist
episode of the Federal occupation of New Orleans use, and has twenty-five photographic views by way of
during the Civil War, is told in “The Price of illustration.
Silence," from the accomplished pen of Mrs. M. E.
The William R. Jenkins Co. have been of late years
M. Davis. The heroine belongs to an exclusive old
the publishers of “ The Complete Pocket-Guide to
family of the French Quarter, but there is a sup-
Europe," a small manual originally planned by Messrs.
posed blot upon her birth. A document is in exist-
E. C. and T. L. Stedman, and long favorably known to
tourists. It now comes to us in its new annual edition,
ence which seems to indicate that the most terrible
carefully revised to date.
of all disgraces (from the distorted Southern point
A timely and attractive publication of Mr. Robert
of view) is hers; in other words, that there is a
Grier Cooke is the quarto volume containing reproduc-
slight infusion of negro blood in her veins. This tions of twenty-four drawings in color by Miss Rosina
document is stolen by Butler's provost officer in the C. Boardman depicting some interesting members of the
sixties, and in the eighties, when the story proper lily and orchid families. Brief descriptions, untechnical
begins, is in the possession of a son of that officer, in form, of the species shown in the plates and a num-
an unscrupulous scoundrel who has somehow secured ber of others are included by way of text.
an entrance into New Orleans society, and who uses
“ A Source Book of Greek History,” by Dr. Fred
his knowledge to blackmail the girl's family, and
Morrow Fling, is published by Messrs. D. C. Heath
to force the girl herself into marriage with him.
& Co. It covers the period from the Homeric age to
the Achæan League, and is provided with many illus-
Meanwhile, the right sort of hero makes his appear-
trations. Each chapter has a useful set of suggestive
ance, foils the villain, disproves the dark imputation questions and exercises. Altogether, it is a work of a
upon the girl's lineage, does pretty nearly every helpful and needed sort, particularly well edited.
thing else that a truly devoted hero ought to do, The latest series of standard works in convenient
and at last wins the heroine. The story is told form is the “ Pocket Library” of Messrs. Longmans,
with unfailing animation, and pictures with great Green & Co. Four volumes have so far reached us,
fidelity the traits of the old French society now comprising Cardinal Newman's “ Apologia pro Vita
rapidly passing from view as a distinctive element Sua,” Jefferies' “Story of My Heart," Mr. J. W. Mac-
in the life of the ancient city of Bienville.
kail's “Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology,"
WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE.
and the first series of F. Anstey's inimitable “Voces
Populi.” The form of the volumes is both pretty and
serviceable.
THE “ Pocket Book of Poems and Songs for the Open A group of related essays from the pen of Miss
Air” (Dutton), compiled by Mr. Edward Thomas, is Margaret W. Morley on the natural history of grass-
one of those anthologies, so numerous of late, which hoppers, locusts, crickets, katydids, walking-sticks, and
find their pattern in Mr. Lucas's “The Open Road.” other common insects is published under the title
The inclusion of some sixty old English songs and bal “Grasshopper Land” (McClurg). The book is a well-
lads, with the original musical scores, is a unique feature executed piece of sugar-coated science, intended for
of considerable interest. Colored end-papers, showing children or amateur naturalists, and is couched in lit-
inside and outside views of the “Red Lion " inn, are erary rather than scientific form. It abounds in classical
supplied by Mr. William Hyde. The wayfarer in whose and historical references, and its anatomical and ento-
wallet this pretty volume finds place will not lack for mological data are trustworthy. The author's style is
entertainment along the road.
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greater particularity, is Miss Elizabeth Otis Williams's
“Sojourning, Shopping, and Studying in Paris," pre-
pared for the uses of womankind, and published by
Messrs. A. C. McClurg & Co. The book has a good
map.
An excellent guide to the common wild flowers, for
the use of young nature-lovers, is provided by Miss
Edith Dunham in the volume entitled “Fifty Flower
Friends with Familiar Faces (Lothrop). A brief per-
sonal sketch of each flower is given, with illustration
and exact description, and twelve species are depicted
in colored plates by Mr. W. I. Beecroft. A number of
appropriate flower poems, by various writers, are inter-
spersed throughout the pages. The boy or girl into
whose hands this book is placed can hardly fail to
acquire a real and lasting interest in our every-day
wild flowers.
A volume highly useful to students of the history of
literature, and one which represents a great deal of work
on the part of the compiler, is “ A Summary of the
Literatures of Modern Europe,” by Miss Marian Ed-
wardes, now published by Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Co.
The period is from the origins to the close of the four-
teenth century, and the literatures treated are those of
England, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. The
work is essentially an annotated and classified bibliog-
raphy, with references to the most authoritative schol-
arly discussions of the writings included. It presents
an immense mass of historical and critical information
in a form that is both compact and convenient for use.
Forthcoming volumes in the “ Belles-Lettres Series,”
published by Messrs. D. C. Heath & Co., will include the
following: “ The Fair Penitent and Jane Shore," edited
by Professor Sophie Chantal Hart, of Wellesley Col-
lege; Chapman's “ All Fool's and The Gentleman Usher,"
edited by Professor T. M. Parrott, of Princeton Univer-
sity; “The Spanish Gypsy and All's Lost by Lust,"
edited by Professor E. P. Morris, of Syracuse Univer-
sity; “ Exodus and Daniel in West Saxon,” edited by
Professor F. A. Blackburn, of the University of Chicago;
“ The Owl and the Nightingale,” edited by Professor
John E. Wells, of Hiram College; “Select Poems
of Alfred Tennyson,” edited by Professor Archibald
MacMachan, of Dalhousie College.
Dr. Paul Carus has given much attention of recent
years to the study of the Chinese character as expressed
in language, literature, and philosophy. Two of his
books, just issued by the Open Court Publishing Co.,
deal respectively with Chinese Thought " and Chinese
Life and Customs." The former is a continuation of
his earlier essay on “Chinese Philosophy.” Both books
have many illustrations. Abundantly illustrated also
are two other books by Dr. Carus, which still further
attest his scholarly industry. “The Rise of Man ” is
a series of chapters upon the evolution of the human
species, written in untechnical language, and embodying
the most modern ideas of the anthropologists. “The
Story of Samson " is an extremely interesting popular
study in comparative mythology, with a tendency to
treat the story as a solar legend, although not denying
the possibility of some historical basis.
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ADAMS, ANDY. Reed Anthony, Cowman. With frontispiece.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.50.
As the author's previous book, "The Log of a Cowboy,"
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country, this one deals with the business side of cattle-raising.
ADE, GEORGE. The Slim Princess. Illustrated. Bobbs-Merrill
Co. $1.50.
An up-to-date yarn of an American youth and the Turkish
princess who wouldn't be fat, by the author of “Fables in
Slang.”
ARNHIM, COUNTESS Von. Fraulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther.
Illustrated. Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.50.
A story bright with humorous descriptions of life and
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BOWEN, MARJORIE. The Master of Stair. McClure, Phillips &
Co. $1.50.
The plot of this new story by the author of "The Viper of
Milan" is woven about the historic Massacre of Glencoe.
BOWER, B. M. The Range Dwellers. Illustrated in color.
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A tale of the Montana cattle country, by the author of
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BOYLES, KATE and VIRGIL D. Langford of the Three Bars.
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$1.50.
A story about South Dakota in the days when the rust-
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BUTLER, ELLIS PARKER. Confessions of a Daddy. Illustrated.
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A new humorous tale by the author of "Pigs is Pigs,"
telling of a couple who tried to believe themselves happier
without children than their neighbors were with little ones.
CARR, SARAH PRATT. The Iron Way: A Tale of the Builders of
the West. Illustrated. A. C. McClurg & Co. $1.50.
Events connected with the completion of the Central
Pacific railroad in 1867 form the background for this Western
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COLESTOOK, HENRY THOMAS. The Ministry of David Baldwin.
Illustrated. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. $1.50.
Deals with the life struggle of a young clergyman who
could not suppress the truth, in which is outlined the conflict
between old school theologians and modern critics.
CORBIN, John. The Cave Man. Illustrated. D. Appleton &
Co. $1.50.
A romance of fashionable New York life, the background
of which is furnished by the promotion of a trust in automo-
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CRADDOCK, CHARLES EGBERT. The Windfall. Duffield & Co.
$1.50.
In this new novel Miss Murfree returns to the field in which
she made her greatest success — the life of the Southern
mountaineers.
CROSS, VICTORIA. Life's Shop Window. Mitchell Kennerley.
$1.50.
A vivid presentment of the varying phases of a woman's
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DAVIS, MRS. M. E. M. The Price of Silence. Illustrated.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.50.
A romance of modern New Orleans, with an exciting plot
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old established society of the city.
Davis, NORAH. The World's Warrant. With frontispiece in
color. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.50.
This love story of an Alabama girl has abundant incident
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Davis, RICHARD HARDING. The Scarlet Car. Illustrated.
Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.25.
Narrates the adventures that befell the Scarlet Car in its
wanderings with the man who owned the car, the girl, her
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DAVIS, WILLIAM STEARNS. The Victor of Salamis. Macmillan
Co. $1.50.
The story of a young Grecian winner in the Isthmian
games, who is outlawed as a traitor, but who later becomes
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DE MORGAN, WILLIAM. Alice-for-Short. Henry Holt and Co.
$1.75.
A new novel by the author of "Joseph Vance," one of the
most successful of last season's publications. The scene is
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Dix, EDWIN Asa. Prophet's Landing. Charles Scribner's Song.
$1.50.
The story of the growth of an able man in a small New
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ELDRIDGE, WILLIAM TILLINGHAST. Hilma. With frontispiece.
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Hilma is the princess of a little kingdom in Austria. A
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This volume completes “The Trilogy of Rome," of which
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A tale of Italian love and hate, by the author of "The
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A tale of mystery in modern American life, by the author
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Continues the adventures of the character made familiar
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HALL, ELIZA CALVERT. Aunt Jane of Kentucky. Illustrated.
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A picture of rural Kentucky life. Aunt Jane is a philos-
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HARDING, ELLISON. The Demetrian. Brentano's. $1.50.
A story in which the author suggests a solution of the
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HEMING, ARTHUR. Spirit Lake. Illustrated by the author.
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HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN. Through the Eye of the Needle.
Harper & Brothers. $1.50.
A traveller from Altruria falls in love with and marries a
charming American woman, takes her to Altruria, where she
has an interesting time learning how to live in a country
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working three hours a day.
JACOBS, W. W, Short Cruises. Illustrated. Charles Scribner's
Sons. $1.50.
Stories of seafaring men and 'longshoremen, their wives,
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KAUFMAN, HERBERT, and FISK, MAY ISABEL. The Stolen
Throne. Illustrated in color, etc. Moffat, Yard & Co. $1.50.
Narrates the adventures of a young Englishman in an
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KELLY, MYRA. The Isle of Dreams. D. Appleton & Co. $1.25.
The story of a young girl whose life is filled by her
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LAUGHLIN, CLARA E. Felicity: The Making of a Comedienne.
Illustrated in color by Alice Barber Stephens. Charles
Scribner's Sons. $1.50.
The story of the career of a successful American actress,
and her struggle for personal happiness which her own fame
jeopardizes.
LIGHTON, WILLIAM R. The Shadow of a Great Rock. With
frontispiece in color. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.50.
A typical American story of pioneer life in the West,
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LINCOLN, JOSEPH C. The Old Home House. Illustrated. A.S.
Barnes & Co. $1.25.
A collection of eleven short stories by the author of "Cap-
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LAWSON, THOMAS W. Friday the 13th. With frontispiece in
color. Doubleday, Page & Co. $1.50.
The hero is a daring young broker who retrieves the for-
tunes of the family of the woman he loves (they have been
victims of the "System") with the greatest "coup " in the
history of Wall Street.
LOVETT, R. M. A Winged Victory. Duffield & Co. $1.50.
The story of what one woman did with her life, with scenes
laid in the West of the present day.
MOCUTCHEON, GEORGE BARR. The Flyers. Illustrated in color
by Harrison Fisher. Dodd, Mead & Co. $1.25.
An exciting tale of a double elopement, by the author of
"Graustark," "Jane Cable," etc.
MARCHMONT, ARTHUR W. In the cause of Freedom. With
frontispiece in color. Frederick A. Stokes Co. $1.50.
Describes the complications of love and politics into which
a young English tourist finds himself thrown on a visit to
Russia.
MULFORD, CLARENCE E. Bar 20. Illustrated. Outing Publishing
Co. $1.50.
The doings of the famous outfit of Bar 20, an old-time
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“Hopalong Cassidy" and his boon companions.
NEIHARDT, JOHN G. The Lonesome Trail. With frontispiece.
John Lane Co. $1.50.
A story of Western life in which the author paints the
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OLDMEADOW, ERNEST. Susan. With frontispiece in color. John
W. Luce & Co. $1.50.
A mistress writes love letters for her maid to a suitor in
her own social position, becomes interested on her own ac-
count and attracts the lover to herself by the revelation of
her own personality.
OXENHAM, JOHN. The Long Road. With frontispiece. Macmil.
lan Co. $1.50.
A story of the adventure and pathos of Russian life, the
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Russia, to Irkurtsk in Siberia.
PATERNOSTER, G. 8. The Lady of the Blue Motor. With fron-
tispiece in color. L. C. Page & Co. $1.50.
A series of adventures in England and France, involving a
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PATERSON, ARTHUR. John Glynn. Henry Holt & Co. $1.50.
A novel with dramatic episodes centering around "settle-
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PETERSON, HENRY. Dulcibel. Illustrated in color by Howard
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The heroine of this tale of Salem in the witchcraft days is
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PHILLPOTTS, EDEN. The Whirlwind. Illustrated, McClure,
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PIERCE, ERNEST FREDERIC. The Traveller's Joy. E. P. Dutton
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"The Traveller's Joy" is a South-of-England country inn,
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fancy, and there in the course of the story finds the joy of his
life.
POTTER, MARGARET. The Princess. Harper & Brothers. $1.50.
A novel of present-day Russia, wherein the Czar and
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MoCARTHY, JUSTIN HUNTLY. Needles and Pins. Harper &
Brothers. $1.50.
François Villon, the leading character of “If I Were
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RICKERT, EDITH. The Golden Hawk. Illustrated. Baker &
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ROBERTS, MORLEY. Painted Rock. J. B. Lippincott Co. $1.50.
"Painted Rock" is a town in South Pan-Handle, Texas,
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SAGE, WILLIAM. By Right Divine. With frontispiece in color.
Little, Brown & Co. $1.50.
A romance of love and politics of the present day. The
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Senator and a young Governor for political supremacy in
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ROBERTS, MORLEY. The Flying Cloud. With portrait. L. C.
Page & Co. $1.50.
Describes the voyage of a well-to-do English youth from
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SCOTT, JOHN REED. Beatrix of Clare. Illustrated in color. J. B.
Lippincott Co. $1.50.
The scene of this new romance by the author of "The
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of Richard the Third.
SHEPPARD, ALFRED T. Running Horse Inn. Illustrated in
color. J. B. Lippincott Co. $1.50.
A novel centering about an inn located in a small town in
the south of England. The period is just after the close of
the Napoleonic Wars.
SMITH, RUEL PERLY. Prisoners of Fortune: A Tale of the
Massachusetts Bay Colony. With frontispiece in color.
L. C. Page & Co. $1.50.
A romance of life in the bold days at the beginning of the
18th century, dealing with the love story of Philip Campbell,
the hardy Colonist, and sweet Mary Vane, the adopted
daughter of the Pirate " Black Dan” Baldwin.
STEWART, CHARLES D. Partners of Providence. Illustrated.
Century Co. $1.50.
The rolling-stone, happy-go-lucky life of the Missouri
River and the Missouri steamboats sketched in the adven-
tures of the "partners," Sam and his dog.
STRINGER, ARTHUR. Phantom Wires. Illustrated. Little,
Brown & Co. $1.50.
Continues the adventures of the leading characters in
"The Wire Tappers," the author's popular novel published
last fall.
THURSTON, KATHERINE CECIL. The Mystics. Illustrated.
Harper & Brothers. $1.25.
The story of a young man who, to win a fortune which he
believes rightfully his, falsely assumes the leadership of a
mystic order.
TRAVERS, GRAHAM. Growth. Henry Holt & Co. $1.50.
The story of the intellectual and spiritual development of
an Edinburgh student that shows, particularly, the dominant
effect of the strong personalities with whom he comes in
contact.
VANCE, LOUIS JOSEPH. The Brass Bowl. Illustrated. Bobbs-
Merrill Co. $1.50.
A story of incident and mystery in New York, the entire
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WATANNA, ONOTO. The Diary of Delia. Illustrated. Double-
day, Page & Co. $1.25.
A love story of modern life in New York, told in the
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WATSON, GILBERT. A Caddie of St. Andrews. With frontis
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The hero, "Skipper,” is an old caddie on the St. Andrews
golf links, with a humorous turn of speech and a passion for
travel and adventure.
Watson, H. B. MARRIOTT. The Privateers. Illustrated. Double-
day, Page & Co. $1.50.
A story of the fight between two unscrupulous stock
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unknown to herself, is the heiress to the controlling interest
in an American railroad.
WEBSTER, JEAN. Jerry Junior. Illustrated. Century Co. $1.50.
Jerry" is a clever American chap who finds himself
stranded in a little village in northern Italy. He meets an
American girl, disguises himself as a picturesque donkey-
driver, and thereupon a battle royal of wit and wiles ensues.
WHITSON, JOHN H. The Castle of Doubt. With frontispiece in
color. Little, Brown & Co. $1.50.
The story of a man who finds himself identified as the
husband of a beautiful woman whom he has never before
seen. Social position, wealth, and the woman he loves are
three of the temptations which his strange predicament
holds out to him.
WIGGIN, KATE Douglas. New Chronicles of Rebecca. Illus-
trated. Houghton, Miffin & Co. $1.25.
Additional episodes in the girlhood of the delightful
heroine of "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm."
WILLIAMSON, C. N. and A. M. The Princess Virginia. Ilus-
trated. McClure, Phillips & Co. $1.50.
A romance of love and court life, of the loves of a rebel.
lious Princess and an Emperor, by the authors of The
Lightning Conductor."
ZANGWILL, ISRAEL. Ghetto Comedies. Macmillan Co. $1.50.
Stories of life in the Jewish quarter of London, told in
Mr. Zangwill's characteristic vein.
NATURE AND OUT-DOOR LIFE.
ANGIER, BELLE SUMNER. The Garden Book of California. Illus-
trated. Paul Elder & Co. $2.net.
A practical handbook on gardening in California, cover-
ing the subject in a thorough and interesting way.
BOARDMAN, ROSINA C. Lilies and Orchids. Robert Grier Cooke.
$2.50 net.
A series of drawings in color of some of the more inter-
esting and beautiful species of the lily and orchid families,
together with descriptive text.
CHAPMAN, FRANK M. The Warblers of North America. Illus-
trated in color, etc. D. Appleton & Co. $3. net.
A book by one of the foremost American ornithologists,
about our most beautiful, most abundant, and least known
birds.
CLARKE, MAUD U. Nature's Own Gardens. Illustrated in
color, etc., by the author. E. P. Dutton & Co. $6. net.
Nature's wild flowers throughout the year charmingly
described and beautifully pictured in color and line.
CORNISH, C. J. Animal Artisans, and Other Studies of Birds
and Beasts. Illustrated. Longmans, Green, & Co. $2.50 net.
Studies of the habits and activities of birds and beasts,
originally contributed to “Country Life" and other English
periodicals.
DITMARS, RAYMOND L. The Reptile Book. Illustrated in
color, etc. Doubleday, Page & Co. $A. net.
A complete and up-to-date work on North American
reptiles, with an illustration of almost every species of the
North American poisonous serpent.
DUNHAM, EDITH. Fifty Flower Friends with Familiar Faces.
Illustrated in color, etc. Lothrop, Lee & Shephard Co. $1.50.
The nature and haunts of fifty widely distributed common
flowering plants are described, and pictured in color by
W. I. Beecroft.
FRENCH, ALLEN. The Book of Vegetables and Garden Herbs.
Illustrated. Macmilan Co. $1.75 net.
An illustrated handbook for the professional and the
amateur gardener. The book is the result of the author's
own experiences.
HALL, BOLTON. Three Acres and Liberty. Illustrated. Mac-
millan Co. $1.75 net.
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back to the country, and offers a practical solution.
HAWKES, CLARENCE. Tenants of the Trees. Illustrated in
color, etc. L. C. Page & Co. $1.50.
A series of nature biographies, dealing more particularly
with birds and the smaller woodland animals.
INGERSOLL, ERNEST. The Life of Animals: Mammals. Illus-
trated in color, etc. Macmillan Co. $2. net.
A second and enlarged edition of a work published last
year. It pictures and describes various mammals according
to their scientific classification.
KEELER, CHARLES. Bird Notes Afield. New edition; illus-
trated. Paul Elder & Co. $2. net.
A nature-lover's observations of bird-life on the Pacific
coast, with a convenient check list for field work.
KEPHART, HORACE, The Book of Camping and Woodcraft.
Illustrated. Outing Publishing Co. $1.50.
Of practical service to those who seek rest or sport in the
wilderness, with suggestions on outfitting, camping, forest,
backwoods handicrafts, etc.
KIRBY, A. M. Daffodils and Narcissus, and How to Grow
Them. Illustrated. Doubleday, Page & Co. $1.10 net.
A handbook of practical information regarding the culture
of these interesting flowers.
LONG, WILLIAM J. Wayeeses the White Wolf. Ginn & Co.
A reprint of that portion of the author's book entitled
“Northern Trails" which has aroused the present contro-
versy with President Roosevelt.
MADDEN, JOHN. Forest Friends. With frontispiece. A. C.
McClurg & Co. $1.25.
The author spent his boyhood days in the woods of Mich-
igan, where wild animals were so plentiful in the '70's. His
book is of especial interest at this time, when the advance
of civilization is so rapidly divesting the once wild places of
their animal life.
MARSHALL, Nina L. Mosses and Lichens. Illustrated in color,
etc. Doubleday, Page & Co. $4. net.
This exhaustive yet popular study of two fascinating
plant forms is the latest volume in the “Nature Library.”
MARTIN, MARTHA EVANS. The Friendly Stars. With Introduc-
tory Note by Harold Jacoby, Ph.D. Illustrated. Harper &
Brothers. $1.25 net.
Brings the stars into friendly and familiar acquaintance,
telling how to make them a charming nature study and how
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