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Yet now, in par- “Fallen at the front." Where public ticular, he can hardly refrain from making his expenditure brings the greatest returns.- profession of faith. Three of the criticisms Half a century a dramatic critic.- The that have of late been most frequently brought geographical classification of fiction. The overworked superlative.— An anecdote about against the novelist concern the lack of action Carmen Sylva.- Bookbinders' trials and in his narratives, his moral tone and purpose, tribulations.- Nutshell criticism.- A public and his later prose style. library with a distinctive name.— A hopeful view of the book business.- Nauseating pre- The paucity of striking events in the novels scriptions.- Preparation (not “prepared- is, as has often been said, a necessary con- ness”).- An averted paper-famine.-- A day sequence of the author's conception of prose at the telephone of a municipal reference fiction. James's plan for a novel is something library.- Room for improvement. like this: to take a few interesting but usually COMMUNICATIONS 323 not freakish or eccentric characters; to place The Homeric Hymn to the God of Battles. them in a setting where they may be seen John L. Hervey. from different angles, or at least viewed in a “An Almost Forgotten English Writer." Helen Minturn Seymour. particular character chosen as a "reflector”; The Shakespeare Tercentenaries of 1916 and to show them in situations which lead to com- 1864. Emily F. Brown. plicated mental experiences; and to trace this One Reader's Reactions to “Spoon River." inner experience through a course of exter- Orvis B. Irwin. nal action; the whole being bound, fused, A MANY-GIFTED WOMAN. Percy F. Bicknell 326 unified for no one figure quite expresses the ANNALS OF A FAMOUS INDIAN TRIBE. process—into an artistic whole. The tone of Frederick Starr . such a composition is naturally subdued, and A MONUMENTAL HISTORY OF ARCHITEC- the action and the portrayal of character are TURE. Irving K. Pond 329 presented by means of small suggestive inci- dents rather than by large dramatic ones. “It RECENT POETRY. Raymond M. Alden 330 is an incident,” says the author, in "The Art RECENT FICTION. Edward E. Hale . 336 of Fiction," "for a woman to stand up with BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS 338 her hand resting on a table and look out on European diplomacy prior to the war. The you in a certain way." It is by means of little evolution of human society in the South Seas. things, in themselves almost as trivial as the - The public school system of Cleveland.- Jefferson and the Virginia state capitol.- one he mentions, that his narrative proceeds; Disguise in the Elizabethan drama.-Norman and for this reason the movement is slow. history and influence.- Two views of the Even the passages that seem most charged Negro.— Seven years of Ford Hall. - The with dramatic significance are quiet and sub- languages of Africa.- A student's manual.- Chapters of anecdotal biography. dued as far from violence and shrieks and weeping as we have found most weighty BRIEFER MENTION 343 moments in our own lives. There are many NOTES 345 of these scenes that one remembers long, each TOPICS IN APRIL PERIODICALS 346 perfect in its tone, its quiet impressive atmos- LIST OF NEW BOOKS 346 | phere, and its calm vividness. Such, in “The $6 . - new . . 314 March 30 THE DIAL > American, ” is the death of Valentin, after the he has introduced wickedness, not for its own duel in the little village across the Swiss sake, but as the cause, condition, or accom- frontier. A comparison of this scene with paniment of something else. Adultery con- Dickens's death of Little Nell, and another stitutes a great part of the stock in trade of with a death scene from some vivid naturalist, recent novelists, even of English and Ameri- might afford a short and convenient test of a can novelists. It may be condemned—though reader's probable enjoyment of James. There this treatment is now considered weak and are those who want to be brought to tears by old-fashioned, -or it may be made attractive a compelling pathos, and these will condemn in the particular instance, and used as the the author of "The American,” as he has so basis of theories on the reorganization of often been condemned, for having nothing to society. James follows neither of these plans, do with the heart. There are others who but uses it incidentally in his situations. It would get the full terror of death, and feel is not the wickedness itself that forms the the physical pangs with which body and spirit story of “What Maisie Knew,” or “The are torn apart, and perhaps gather a little Golden Bowl,” or “The Ambassadors,” but pathological information on the side. These the existence of the wickedness makes the are they who complain that the author knows story possible. This acceptance of evil as a nothing of elemental human life, but wastes natural and expected phenomenon of modern his time on mere conventional existence. life, like illness or bankruptcy, seems to some Meanwhile Valentin dies like a gentleman readers cynical, and far more shocking than and a brave man, as most of us probably hope a frank defence of two guilty but interesting to die, and his friends talk cheerfully as they parties. breakfast in the sunny inn parlor, and await It is another source of complaint that he the event with genuine but sensible decorum, presents this sin by implication. No doubt just as we hope our friends will do when the most of us have found—to make again the end comes for us. And those who find that trite appeal to our own experience—that in this latter scene touches with greatest cer- ordinary circles of society the existence of this tainty the springs of their emotions, and leaves particular offence against the social order is them with the most perfect realization of what usually inferred, rarely known from explicit life and death means, will probably become proof. All of us have been so unfortunate true Jacobites. as to know of suspected sinners, and perhaps Unforgettable pictures are found in the to feel certain of their guilt, yet perhaps few earlier work_“The Portrait of a Lady” has of us have ever had definite knowledge that several of them, and they are even more ad- would carry weight in a court of law. But mirable in the later novels. Two of the finest English and American novelists, acting with are in “The Wings of the Dove”-- both scenes the frankness natural to an Anglo-Saxon between Milly Theale and Lord Mark, one when he treats a questionable subject at all, before the portrait in the English country- have generally put their readers in full pos- house, the other in the Venetian palace. In session of the facts. James's usual method «The Golden Bowl” is another, more a-tingle is to give much the same sort of circumstantial with suppressed tragedy, and even more alive evidence that might be apparent in real life. with the air and manners of to-day,—that in The reader, unaccustomed to such a treat- which the Princess looks in through the open ment in literature, hardly knows how to window during her moonlight walk on the terrace, and sees the others at their game of interpret the vague indications, and is hor- rified at his own uncertainty. More than bridge. one critic, afraid, perhaps, of being judged Henry James's moral tendencies have come in for a full measure of discussion. His ear- by the formula, “evil to him who evil lier work kept clear of questionable topics, thinks,” has hesitated over the question and the worst fault that the puritanically whether Mrs. Verver and the Prince or minded could find was that it did not point Merton Densher and Kate Croy really sinned an obvious moral. In his later novels he has or not; and it is those who in their puzzled been much more free in his choice of subjects. innocence have inclined to answer the ques- Part of the bewilderment which this has tion in the negative that have most blamed the brought to his critics is due to the fact that author for his suggestiveness. G > 1916] 315 THE DIAL . soon. It is with something of fear and trembling wanted to say to her and were only - consciously, that one approaches even for the briefest con- yet not awkwardly, just delicately – hanging fire. sideration the matter of Henry James's later At the same time it was as if the thing had prac- tically been said by the moment they came in sight prose style. Nobody now would be so rash of the picture; since what it appeared to amount as to deny that, in the descriptive and auto- to was “Do let a fellow who isn't a fool take care biographical works at least, it is often obscure, of you a little.” The thing somehow, with the aid and few of the author's most ardent admirers of the Bronzino, was done; it hadn't seemed to matter to her before if he were a fool or no; but will say that it is always wholly pleasurable. now, just where they were, she liked his not being; But like other peculiarities that grow out of and it was all moreover none the worse for coming a friend's personality, it has something that back to something of the same sound as Mrs. may be said in its defence. For it does, For it does, Lowder's recent reminder. She too wished to take clearly, grow out of the personality of the care of her and wasn't it what all the people with the kind eyes were wishing? Once more man. Only the most superficial commenta- things melted together — the beauty and the his- tors will accuse him, as Browning was some- tory and the facility and the splendid midsummer times accused, of puzzling his readers for the glow: it was a sort of magnificent maximum, the mere fun of the thing. Certainly he was pink dawn of an apotheosis coming so curiously genuine in feeling and action after August, What in fact befell was that, as she after- ward made out, it was Lord Mark who said 1914, and the last place where he would wil- nothing in particular - it was she herself who said fully have been obscure is in his writings on all. She couldn't help that - it came; and the the war; yet it was amusingly pathetic to note reason it came was that she found herself, for the the perplexity of the English press, which first moment, looking at the mysterious portrait seemed anxious to pay full respect to his through tears. Perhaps it was her tears that made it just then so strange and fair as wonderful as utterances, but troubled to know just what he had said: The face of a young woman, all they meant. splendidly drawn, down to the hands, and splen- None of the theories to account for the didly dressed; a face almost livid in hue, yet handsome in sadness and crowned with a mass of change in style is wholly satisfactory. It has hair, rolled back and high, that must, before been ascribed to the author's habit of dictat- fading with time, have had a family resemblance ing his later work; and in support of this is to her own. The lady in question, at all events, offered testimony that his lectures, not the with her slightly Michael-angelesque squareness, her eyes of other days, her full lips, her long neck, easiest of reading, seemed to those who heard her recorded jewels, her brocaded and wasted reds, them perfectly lucid. But this explanation was a very great personage — only unaccompanied hardly holds. A dictated style might be sup- | by a joy. And she was dead, dead, dead. Milly posed to be a natural spoken style, to run on, recognized her exactly in words that had nothing and to be bewildering, if at all, because of to do with her. “I shall never be better than this.” undue looseness. These sentences are highly With the habit of occasional obscurity came organized, carefully and artificially wrought. They differ from normal written English in the power to write prose like this. Even in the most confusing sentences, the vocabulary just the opposite way from that in which con- versation differs. It is this sentence structure, is often almost as simple. Now a writer's not the diction, which is the most striking of mind, and the growth in the complexity of sentence structure is indicative of his habit peculiarity of the later prose. With advanc- ing years the author came, if anything, to sentences may come from the growth of a depend more and more on the brief and simple tendency to see a subject in all its subtle word. Take the well-known passage from relations, and to present all these relations at “The Wings of the Dove,” in which Lord one stroke. This is a difficult matter in an Mark brings Milly Theale to the Bronzino, uninflected language, which must show the which all say that she resembles : connection of ideas chiefly by the position of words. She got with her companion into the house; When there are so many conditions they brushed, beneficently, past all their accidents. and modifications and exceptions to each prin- The Bronzino was, it appeared, deep within, and cipal idea, the phrases which express them the long afternoon light lingered for them on cannot be placed in close juxtaposition to the patches of old color and waylaid them, as they central term. A sentence so involved seems went, in nooks and opening vistas. clear when delivered orally, because the voice It was all the while for Milly as if Lord Mark had really had something other than this spoken shows grammatical relationships, as the word- pretext in view; as if there were something he endings do in an inflected language. In the > 316 March 30 THE DIAL a G essay on Flaubert occurs one of the few presentation more and more. The narrative passages in which the author allowed himself passages that impress us most, like the death to speak disrespectfully of his mother tongue: of Valentin, or the scene just quoted from What would have become of him and what of “The Wings of the Dove,” owe much of their his wrought residuum, had he been condemned to charm to what has come to be called "atmos- deal with a form of speech consisting, like ours, phere.” This atmosphere is not created by as to one part, of "that” and “which"; as to a the mere enumeration of objects; objects, like second part, of the blest “it,” which an English sentence may repeat in three or four opposed ref- the characters themselves, are seen in erences without in the least losing caste; as to a "reflector” chosen by the author. The English third face of all the “tos" of the infinitive and afternoon, the country-house, the Bronzino, ” the preposition; as to a fourth of our precious are presented not as a camera might have auxiliaries “be," and "do"; and as to a fifth, of whatever survives in the language for the precious portrayed them, but as they seem to Milly art of pleasing? Theale; and for such a presentation no mere This outbreak may be significant. Would list of substantives would suffice. A teacher the author be as obscure if he worked in a of composition whose most frequent advice is different medium ! This suggestion surely “Use fewer adjectives,” hesitates long over a does not explain all the phenomena of the sentence like this from the lecture on “The later style; but certainly the basis of these Novel in The Ring and the Book”: phenomena is psychological. It is chiefly in Greatest of all the spirits exhibited, however, the essays that perplexities are to be found. is that of the more than octogenarian Pope, at whose brooding, pondering, solitary vigil, by the Passages in the novels that trouble an atten- end of a hard grey winter day in the great bleak tive reader are relatively few, and occur not waiting Vatican,—“in the plain closet where he in the narrative, but in passages of expository does such work”- we assist as intimately as at analysis. every other step of the case, and on whose grand meditation we heavily hang. The use of pet words and phrases--of Yet it is plain that every one of these modi- “wonderful,”” and “beautifully,” and “There fiers was chosen with care, and was meant to . you are,” is only a mannerism, to be half do its individual work. When all is said, it enjoyed and half regretted, as a friend's man- must be admitted that most readers find nerisms usually are. More significant is the greatest pleasure in the style of the earlier, great use of adjectives and adverbs, not say the early middle, period; but there are thrown at random after the manner of the amateur who hopes that one of many may hit many passages in the later prose which the the mark, but each chosen with careful pre- younger man, even at his best, could not have equalled. cision. This use of modifiers undoubtedly WILLIAM B. CAIRNS. comes from the feeling that greatest signifi- cance attaches, not to bare objects and actions, LITERARY AFFAIRS IN LONDON. but to the light in which we see these, the associations they have for us, their subtle HENRY JAMES, AND HIS UNFINISHED WORK.- suggestiveness. Whether this is the proper POSTHUMOUS VOLUMES BY YOUNG ENGLISH view, whether it is the primrose by the river's SOLDIERS.- SOME IMAGIST VERSE.- MR. WAL- brim in its yellow and four-petalled self or POLE'S NEW NOVEL.— FATHER MARTINDALE'S something less tangible that is the important BIOGRAPHY OF MONSIGNOR BENSON. thing, whether the habit of looking at any- (Special Correspondence of THE DIAL.) thing but the essential object does not lead to It is difficult to write about the ordinary vaporing and foolishness,--these questions are current topics when Henry James has just too fundamental to discuss. It is certain that died. It would be impertinent to send an James has always made much of the emotional estimate of him to the country which had the significance of wind and weather, of light and honor of producing him; but one cannot help shade, of color and temperature, and still more dwelling on him a little, for he was ours as of the differences of mood and manner in well,— like (to lapse into a grotesque simili- tude to which he would not have objected) human action. His early productions abound the Atlantic Cable. As an interpreter his in descriptions which, though realistic, make position had long been unique; and lately we the feeling greater than the object, and in his have also been tempted to imagine and hope later work he has refined on this emotional him a symbol of a process which is bringing 1916) 317 THE DIAL can 2 : the home of his immediate ancestors and that assessed in France and England in the of his remoter ones to realize the immensity seventies, eighties, and nineties. The Gon- . of that which they have and feel and think court Journal would have been superficial and in common when set against their local idio- scrappy beside it. But men, and especially syncrasies. men of creative power, usually (and for sey- Henry James — excepting Mr. Hardy, one eral comprehensible reasons) postpone work scarcely think of another modern of this kind until too late. example — was one of those extraordinary Mr. James left also an unfinished novel. men whose powers go on strengthening in old His latest published work is his introduction age. The "young old man” whose enthusi- to Rupert Brooke's prose which has just asms remain active, who preserves his vivacity appeared under the title of "Letters from and eagerness to learn, is comparatively America.” You will already, I suppose, have common: Samuel Butler would have still seen the book on your side. The earlier of been an undergraduate had he lived to a rooke's own letters betray, more in the hundred. But there is almost always a choice of words than in constructions, a strong diminution of intensity. Henry James not James influence: in this, and in the charming merely remained young in the ordinary sense, manner of Mr. James's tribute, one has some but at seventy his attention to life was unre- indication of the relation in which the novel. laxed, he was still refining his perceptions, ist stood to many of the younger English adding to his accumulations of experience, writers. The most enthusiastic of his devotees and adapting his instrument to new purposes. were to be found amongst his fellow-artists; With all his unique sensibility and curiosity, and it is significant that the poets in particu- he could not have done the work he did at the lar read him. A wide public he did not reach. last without something still more remarkable: It appears likely that his early “Daisy Miller” a prodigious will-power. Though he did not had a larger circulation than any of his other socially play the hermit, he was as much a works. The indifference with which some of Monk of Literature as Flaubert, a self- a self- them were received might have depressed a dedicated artist who deliberately chose to man less certain of his ability to do well a regard his genius as a wonderful thing held thing well worth doing; one of the most im- in trust; and the last fruits of his self-dis- portant of his later books sold, I believe, fewer cipline were astonishingly unlike the usual than a thousand copies in England and exercises of the superannuated great writer. America. Many who should have been were “The Golden Bowl” at sixty; at sixty-six “The not familiar with that large body of fine - American Scene," one of the greatest things literature, so rich in beautiful detail, so full he ever did; and at the end some of his best of revelations concerning the human mind criticisms and the two perfect autobiographical and heart, and, one may add (for it is some- volumes: the collected product of this last times missed), of an implicit moral nobility. period compares favorably with that of any Yet, in a sense, in his later years his greatness other period of his career. was recognized here. He slipped quietly, What it is impossible not to regret is the characteristically quietly, into an “established unfinished state of the memoirs, of which a position"; and the Order of Merit which was third, half-written, volume remains in manu- given him on his death-bed was bestowed as script. They were begun as a memorial to a his natural due and not at all as a mere com dead brother; they were growing into some-pliment in return for the fine compliment he thing more. In his retrospect Mr. James had paid the country of his domicile when he just reached, I believe, the stage at which he became a naturalized British subject. His began to make the acquaintance of Europeans, books, in spite of his alleged obscurity,- and particularly Frenchmen, of eminence. It which, where it exists, is always the defect of makes one think of what we have missed. The his unique qualities,— may safely be commit- record of actual events and actual personages ted to Posterity. is usually left to second-rate authors. Even Rupert Brooke's posthumous volume is the finest biographies and books of “reminis- being followed by a good many other collec- cences” that we have are mostly written by tions of the “remains" of young soldiers who men who, whatever their merits, have not have died in the field. They are mostly, how- great minds and are not artists of the first ever, of interest mainly as memorials of rank. What an extraordinary book we might promise (not necessarily poetic) cut short. have seen if James's memoirs had run on into Though there is naturally a temptation to see six or eight volumes,— if that “visiting signs of unmatured genius in every volume mind," that scrutinous eye, had made per- of the sort, candor must confess that no artis- manent their impressions of all they saw and tic creation of permanent value has as yet 6 318 March 30 THE DIAL > a name I come to light in these collections. Most of sketches in it, particularly two of Euripides the other verse that is appearing bears on the and Simonides in the throes of composition. war; and as a whole the effusions, however His style inclines rather to the precious; but sound in doctrine and humane in feeling, of his best passages almost reconcile one to Fine those who are inspired (if that is the word) Writing. J. C. SQUIRE. by a sense of the bestiality and futility of London, March 15, 1916. the military view of life are neither better nor worse than the screeds of those who, from the seclusion of Hampstead and Bayswater, sing CASUAL COMMENT. the Glories of the Flag and urge their com- batant compatriots to give the Hun what he A YEAR'S WORK OF OUR GREATEST PUBLIC deserves. The only interesting volumes of LIBRARY, as reduced to figures and statistically poems to appear recently have been two small exhibited on the opening page of Director ones by F. S. Flint and Richard Aldington. Edwin H. Anderson's “Report of the New These young writers belong to the Anglo-York Public Library for 1915,” is impres- American coterie which, for some reason best sive. With a central building and forty-three known to itself, describes itself as “Imagist." branches engaged in supplying the literary It is no more a school than I am: the only needs of our largest city, the record of attend- thing its members have in common is a revul- ance, of books circulated, of books used in sion against the conventional stanza. Mr. reference rooms and reading rooms, and of Flint carries his reaction against the tradi- other like activities, must be of no insignifi- tional to excess. Like the gentleman in cant proportions. “During the year 1915," Molière, he often talks prose without knowing we read, “there entered the Central Building it. But he works hard with his brain, and of the Library 2,558,717 persons" - many of ” frequently makes one feel that he may do them “repeaters,” undoubtedly, and great something good. “Imagism” as number mere sight-seers; but there are still originated, I think, with your entertaining left hundreds of thousands who made written export, Mr. Ezra Pound. Mr. Pound's muse application for books, and probably other appears to be rather inactive nowadays ; but hundreds of thousands who consulted refer- he has just written a memoir of his friend ence works that required no written applica- Gaudier-Brzeska, the young Franco-Polish tion. In plain figures, “827,664 readers in sculptor who was killed last year at Neuville the Central Building called for books," and St Vaast. the volumes thus called for numbered 2,289,- The spring novels have not been very excit- 436. Meanwhile the branches were busily ing, though a number of authors of some lending their books for home use, to the num- repute have gone through their paces. The ber of 10,384,579, an increase of more than only one who has sprung a genuine surprise 860,000 over the preceding year. “At the is Mr. Hugh Walpole, whose book “The Dark end of 1915 there were 996,574 books and Forest,” the fruit of his emotions at the front 312,853 pamphlets in the Reference Depart- in the Eastern Theatre, is by universal admis- ment (Central Building), in all 1,309,427 sion easily the best thing he has written. It pieces. There were 1,100,952 volumes in the is hardly credible that it comes from the same Circulation Department. The total number pen as his previous book, a stream of most of pieces in the whole Library was, therefore, viscous sentiment about children. Nothing 2,410,379. The number of employes at the much is announced for the near future, but a close of the year was 1248." It is safe to large public will be interested to know that surmise that the office of Director of this vast the official life of the late Robert Hugh Benson system, any one of the branches being equal is ready for publication. It has been written to an average city library, to say nothing of by Father C. C. Martindale, S. J., who has the magnitude of the central establishment, is no sinecure. several peculiar qualifications for the work. The most critical period in Monsignor Benson's life will certainly have been sym- “FALLEN AT THE FRONT” comes back, more or less tardily, the last sad word concerning pathetically described; for, like him, Father Martindale (as a too impetuous speaker once many a young writer of promise who has dropped the pen for the sword or rifle and put it) “renounced the errors of the Church hastened to the defence of his country or, of England for those of the Church of Rome.' enlisting in the Foreign Legion, has entered Father Martindale is himself the author of the trenches for the love of fair France with- several books. The last, “The Goddess of out owing her the allegiance of a son. The Ghosts," has some extremely effective classical “Bulletin des Ecrivains," published monthly > 66 1916) 319 THE DIAL . in Paris and sent gratuitously to all writers ity. The spirit in which service is rendered in the French service, brings us the sad tidings by the library is well illustrated by the fact - of the death in battle, last June, of Mr. Ken- | tersely entered in the Financial Report- neth Weeks, a New England volunteer in the that the Sunday-afternoon attendance re- Legion that has covered itself with glory and quired of somebody in order that the working suffered losses amounting almost to extinc-class may enjoy the library privileges to tion. Mr. Weeks was in the First Regiment, which this portion of the citizens is entitled, and in an attack somewhere north of Arras, is given without pay by the librarian and her on the seventeenth of June, he fell. When assistants. For the entire year except two last seen, he was running forward, face to the months in the summer the doors are opened foe. His obituary, by Mr. Theodore Stanton, three hours on Sunday afternoon. appears on the front page of the February expert library service from a librarian and “Bulletin,” with other similar tributes to two assistants less than two thousand dollars writers who have given their lives for France. a year is expended. Surely, the satisfactions From Mr. Stanton's notice we learn that Ken- of the profession are not to be found in its neth Weeks was born in New England in tangible emoluments. 1889, travelled much in France in his youth, and early conceived a warm affection for that country. His first book, significantly named HALF A CENTURY A DRAMATIC CRITIC, and "La Victoire de Sedan,” Mr. Stanton speaks still uttering in vigorous terms his opinions of as "a little curtain-raiser,” whether liter- on affairs of the stage, Mr. William Winter ally or figuratively, and says it was full of received on the fourteenth of this month a fervent admiration for France. It was pub- testimonial of regard and esteem at the Cen- lished when its author was but seventeen tury Theatre, New York, from members of years old. In 1911 Mr. Weeks took up his the craft which he has made his lifelong study. abode in Paris for the purpose of continuing The celebration was in anticipation of his his architectural studies already begun in entrance upon his eighty-first year, which will America; but these he gradually dropped in not take place until next July - a season less favor of literature. In 1912 he issued a vol- convenient for such an observance than the ume of sketches and essays, but his most ambi- present. Fifty-one years ago he became tious work, and also his last, "Science, Senti- dramatic critic of the New York “Tribune,' ments, and Senses,” he was not destined to a position held by him until seven years ago, see in print, though it was going through the or, rather, still held by him as critic emeritus, press when the war broke out. He was of an to borrow an academic term. His works in old and distinguished family, and his loss is prose and verse form an imposing list, and widely mourned. the list is still lengthening. His stage remin- iscences of late years have revealed the wealth WHERE PUBLIC EXPENDITURE BRINGS THE of his experience as a critical student of the GREATEST RETURNS has for some time been acted drama and as the friend and confidant recognized by the intelligent and fair-minded of eminent actors; they also illustrate the observer to be the public library. No other retentiveness of his memory and the firmness municipal department can compare with this of his adherence to the best traditions of the in extent and value of service rendered and dramatic art. Little use and small esteem has smallness of cost to the tax-payer. On this he for the frivolities and innovations of the head the librarian of the Mankato (Minn.) passing hour. All his friends and readers Public Library gives some striking facts and must wish him continued health and strength figures in her current Report -- a document to finish the series of reminiscent volumes on that comes to us in typewritten form, perhaps actors and acting which he is now writing. in further illustration of careful economy on the library's part. Mankato library service THE GEOGRAPHICAL CLASSIFICATION OF FIC- cost last year not quite four and one-third TION, such as is attempted in theory by the cents per capita, the public schools requiring Dewey decimal system, but is seldom carried in the same period an outlay of $4.14 per out in practice, can never hope to attain scien- capita, the fire department $1.05, the police tific accuracy or to be of much use in library department five cents and seven mills, and the service. How, for example, would one geo- public parks five cents and nine mills. The graphically classify the novels of Maarten two last-named departments make a good Maartens, of Henry James, of F. Marion showing in respect to moderate expenditure, Crawford? The country of an author's birth, but the service of neither is comparable with breeding, and citizenship, that of his later that of the library in either quantity or qualresidence, that to which his scenes and char- - 320 [March 30 THE DIAL ܕ > c acters belong, and that whose language he whole book it will not once be needed are a uses in writing, may all be different from one thousand to one. And if this be so in regard another, to the confusion of any attempted to legitimate superlatives, what shall be said geographical classification. A somewhat simi- of those false superlatives, those absurd for- lar difficulty confronts one in endeavoring to mations, like most unique,” “most singular, name the distinctively national novel of sur- “most perfect,” “most correct,” "most com- passing merit in any country's literature. plete," and those less absurd but still illogical In the current issue of “Branch Library forms, "most satisfactory," “most adequate,” News”. (New York) the editor speaks to the “most truthful,” “most convincing,” and the point in discussing “The Great American like? We squander our verbal wealth when Novel," showing the absurdity of expecting we indulge in exaggerative or meaningless any such impossible book to be produced. superlatives, and even the most careful of us Even countries smaller and more nearly ho need to be cautioned against heedlessness in mogeneous than ours, he says, have brought this particular. We are all poor miserable forth no similar creation of the novelist 's art; sinners, in a linguistic if not also in a moral how, then, can our broad land with its mul- sense, and cannot (to change the metaphor) tifarious and often mutually repellent ele- afford to throw stones. It is not the intention ments serve as fit soil for the germination and here to cast even the tiniest (the superlative growth of anything worthy of being called is here used advisedly) pebble, but rather to the great American novel, as distinguished call attention to Mr. Arthur Waugh's little from all other American novels ? Still it essay on “The Abuse of the Superlative," in must be admitted that some of the older coun- his latest book, "Reticence in Literature." tries do have each its outstanding master- piece of prose fiction. “Don Quixote,” “I Promessi Sposi,” “Les Misérables," "Wil trating the extent and variety of her literary AN ANECDOTE ABOUT CARMEN SYLVA, illus- helm Meister,” enjoy a repute, whether enjoy whether always deserved or not, that remains, on the accomplishments, is told by Pierre Loti in the whole, undisputed in each instance. But with volume of sketches bearing her name as its chief title. At the castle of Sinaia, where the us some half dozen or more novels jostle one French author seems to have been a welcome another for preëminence in the sense indicated by the heading of Mr. Pearson's essay. And and favored guest, he had the pleasure of may it not be a piece of good fortune that hearing the Roumanian Queen read both from no one “great American novel” is possible, After a brief reference to “a heart-rending her own writings and from those of others. since for that reason there is th more room little tale, written with rare dramatic for many great American novels ? power, and read from one of her own books by Carmen Sylva in a manner that thrilled the THE OVERWORKED SUPERLATIVE has long hearer with emotion, he describes her read- been clamoring for better terms from its ing something else to her attendant maids employers — for less exhausting and unceas- of honor - her "daughters” he called them, - ing demands upon its services, and for more though her one and only child had long been generous recognition of its true value and of dead. He continues : "I was sufficiently close its dignity in the vocabulary of every-day to Her Majesty to see the words of the book speech and of printed prose and poetry. Never as she turned over the pages, and great was has the temptation to excess of vehemence my surprise_to discover that what she was been stronger than in these passionate times; reading in French was written in German. and never, therefore, has there been greater It would have been impossible to guess it, need of caution and restraint in both speech for there was not the slightest hesitation in and writing. Edward Everett Hale's advice to her charming diction; even the phrases she young writers, to strike out their adjectives improvised were always harmonious. . . On and adverbs and let their nouns and verbs do another occasion I heard her perform the the fighting, is a counsel of perfection which same wonderful feat in translating from the his own printed page would show to be hardly Roumanian. She was reading aloud an old practicable; but it is possible, without loss mountain ballad, transposing it right off into of either strength or grace, to prune one's rhythmical, poetical French. It would appear sentences of their superlatives. Theoretically as though it were a matter of indiffer- there is but one best or worst, largest or small- ence to her which language she used as the est, most beautiful or most hideous, object of vehicle of her thoughts. In this respect she any given kind; and consequently the occa- resembles those accomplished musicians who sions demanding the use of the superlative are play a piece of music in any key with like extremely rare, and the chances that in a facility and intensity of feeling.” In the same . 1916] 321 THE DIAL A chapter he says: “Carmen Sylva, reading her Utter trash.” This is from Mrs. Howe's biog- own works, is the only person who ever stirred raphy by her daughters, more formally dis- me, with fiction, to the point of making me cussed on a later page. Of the same club and weep; perhaps this is the strongest praise of its “delicious fooling," and Mrs. Howe's part her talent that I can give, for even at the in that fooling, the book adds further details. theatre, where men are so frequently moved “Merrymaking was her safety-valve. Brain to tears, I am never affected in the slightest fag and nervous prostration were practically degree.” unknown to her. When she had worked to the point of exhaustion, she turned to play. BOOKBINDERS' TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS in Fun and frolic went along with labor and these days of unavoidable curtailment of prayer; the power of combining these kept supplies from abroad are 'exemplified in the her steadily at her task till the end of her following record of experience at the bindery life. The last time she left her house, six days attached to the Newberry Library of this city. before her death, it was to preside at the Dr. Carlton, the Librarian, writes in his cur- Papeterie, where she was as usual the life of rent Report: "Owing to conditions arising out the meeting! The club still lives, and, like of the Great War, we have been unable to the New England Woman's Club, seems still replenish certain portions of our stock of leath- pervaded by her spirit.” In no man or woman ers and cloth used in binding. Our stock of of genius has the imperishable child, with all imported English imperial cloth is nearly its frank and free fun and playfulness, more exhausted in the red, maroon, and brown col- delightfully or more lastingly shown itself ors, and the manufacturers cannot at present than in this ever-youthful woman. fill orders for the material in these colors. Consequently we are using a high-grade A PUBLIC LIBRARY WITH DISTINCTIVE Holliston library buckram to match sets previ- NAME — something less common than the ously bound in the imported cloth. The first Smithville Free Library, or the Tompkins quality morocco leather which we have been Memorial Library of Jonesborough, or the accustomed to import from Germany is of Carnegie Library of Johnson Centre, or even course no longer obtainable. Our stock of Our stock of the Littlefield Athenæum the Littlefield Athenæum — is a rarity that this maroon color is entirely exhausted and we commends itself if only by reason of its unusu- are using cloth of a corresponding color in alness. . Such an institution has recently binding current volumes of sets previously opened its doors on Niagara Street in Buffalo. bound in leather. We endeavored, but with. It is called the Jubilee Library, surely a name out success, to secure a Turkey morocco in the of glad omen. It is a branch of the city's maroon color; the other colors do not match main library, but seems to be a completely our former stock.” In other particulars, too, equipped establishment in itself. From the this annual record of notable library work Buffalo librarian's Nineteenth Annual Report reveals the injurious effect of the war; but we learn that “the Jubilee spring on Delaware the substitution of honest buckram for other Avenue was for many years the water supply and perhaps less durable material ought not of the village of Black Rock, now a part of to furnish cause for unqualified regret. the city of Buffalo, and was used more or less by the residents of that section (known as the NUTSHELL CRITICISM, criticism carried to Parrish Tract) until the service was ordered the extreme of pithy brevity, formed one of discontinued in the year 1898. A bill was the diversions of the Papeterie Club to which passed by the State Legislature in that year Mrs. Julia Ward Howe belonged in later life, which provided for the sale of the property and of which she was the animating spirit. It of the Jubilee Water Works, and for the erec- was jocosely known as “Mrs. Howe's Vaude- tion of a branch library building. In 1912 ville," and the system of literary criticism this bill was amended to provide for a build- credited to its inventive genius one suspects ing which could be used for other purposes, in addition to the Library.” It was built to have been the offspring of Mrs. Howe's under the direction of the Jubilee Water clever brain. Here are some of the symbols Commissioners, has an auditorium in the base- used to commend or condemn the “paper ment, a gymnasium in an annex, and devotes novels" (whence the name of the club) read its main floor to library purposes. It is a and passed around among the club mem- community centre, stands in a thickly-settled - bers: “B.P.- By the pound; M. A. S.- May district, serves a considerable Polish and Hun- amuse somebody; P. B.-Pot-boiler; F. W. garian population, maintains a collection of B.— For waste-basket; U. I.- Uplifting in Polish and one of Hungarian books, has an fluence; W.D.- Wholly delightful; U.T.— assistant who speaks the language of Kosci- 7 322 [March 30 THE DIAL uszko, and doubtless lives up to its name by for this reason. As with growing children spreading gladness among its patrons, old and who so often clamor the loudest for the food young they have been forbidden to eat, so with young readers a little innocent wile has more A HOPEFUL VIEW OF THE BOOK BUSINESS, of than once been found effective in whetting its fortunes after the war, and of the general the appetite for wholesome diet. But rules to attitude toward literature in this country, is this end are as futile as all cut-and-dried taken by one of our oldest and best-informed instructions for winning the confidence and publishers, Mr. George Haven Putnam, in a affection of young people. Personal influence thoughtful article contributed by request to alone can achieve the desired result. “The New York Times Review of Books.” An improvement in the American book trade PREPARATION (NOT “PREPAREDNESS”) FOR he already sees as compared with conditions 1919, a centennial year not incomparable, in in 1914 and the first half of 1915, and this the literary world, with the wonderful year recuperation he thinks will continue, with a 1909, may perhaps with profit be preached drawing together, in mutual understanding and in literary sympathies, of the three great while to glance down the list of great names, even thus early. At any rate, it may be worth democratic nations of the earth as soon as the and of some less great, that will be conspic- present absorption in warfare shall have given uous in public print three years from now, place to revived interest in the pursuits of especially as it is our own country that fur- peace. England, France, and the United nishes the greater number of these illustrious States will find themselves cherishing ideals and aims in common and producing works of they should be mentioned is open to dispute, names. Since the order of greatness in which literature that will appeal to readers in all let us follow the order of their birthdays, three countries. Nearer, too, shall we be thus: Ruskin, Feb. 8; Lowell, Feb. 22; Julia drawn in our sympathies to the Latin-Ameri- Ward Howe, May 27'; Walt Whitman, May can republics, he prophesies, and this also will 31; George Eliot, Nov. 22. Among the minor have a stimulating effect on our literature and literary celebrities born in 1819 are found the on theirs. In fact, it is a note of optimism, following, which are here named with no intelligent optimism, that Mr. Putnam strikes attempt at chronological or any other order: in his well-informed utterance on the literary Clough, Kingsley, E. P. Whipple, J. G. Hol- outlook. land, Herman Melville, Susan Warner, W. W. Story, Gottfried Keller, Theodore Fontane, NAUSEATING PRESCRIPTIONS not the and Wilhelm Jordan. These for the present monopoly of those who administer pills and will be enough for us to read up in anticipa- powders, ipecac and rhubarb, cod-liver oil tion of the day when we shall be glad and and sulphur and molasses. Prescribed read- proud to be able to talk fluently and intelli- ing has a way of exciting distaste on the part gently about them and their works. Already of the intended reader, whereas a forbidden the centenary biography of Mrs. Howe - a , book possesses a charm beyond the power of complete, authoritative, and remarkably inter- words to express. “Greater diplomacy is esting account of her life, by her daughters, needed in presenting a literary masterpiece Mrs. Richards and Mrs. Elliott — has ap- acceptably to children of high-school age, peared, and is reviewed elsewhere in this issue. wisely observed Miss Alice M. Jordan, of the children's department of the Boston Public Library, at a late meeting of the Massachusetts AN AVERTED PAPER-FAMINE must be the Library Club. “Bearing with them the list heading to this paragraph, which itself will of outside reading prepared by the school to serve as a sequel to the recent announcement stimulate their reading habits and develop in these columns of a threatened shortage in their tastes, these boys and girls say to you: England of the indispensable raw material ‘I want one book to read for school and one of books, magazines, and newspapers. The good book for myself.' Propose to them to British government seems (or seem, as our look at the reading list and they reply: 'If English cousins prefer to say, not liking to it's good, it isn't on the list.' We are still think of the ruling power as a mere unit, an in the place where literature and interesting insignificant singular number) - the British books are far asunder in the minds of many government seem to have repented themselves young people. One principal tells us that his of their purpose to bar out importations of experience proves that lists do not encourage wood-pulp and other paper-making material reading.' In his school, a large technical for the sake of cutting down the tonnage school, they have ceased to use reading lists of imports in these days of hazardous seafar- are 6 1916] 323 THE DIAL a ing. At any rate, word now comes that the wauk; fliing, flying; endyuer, endeur, licwid, scare among paper-makers, printers, publish- likwid; cil, kil, salyut, saleut,” and twice as ers, and (to some extent) authors, has passed many more, which do seem to show, on the like a fleeting cloud on a summer day; for the whole, a move in the right direction. “It is prohibition is to be but partial, one-third of kleer, then," continues the writer, “that the the usual tonnage, the other two-thirds being reesent chainjez ar much mor reedabel than admitted, and this is held to be quite enough the oalder S. S. formz, and the thaut aryzez in a season of restricted activity among the if a stil ferther improovment kud be maid. users of paper. The preponderance of influ- Yes, easily. Continue the return to recognized ential sentiment against the threatened meas- orthography already begun in such words as ure, in its full severity, has evidently pro- "flying” (an improvement on the earlier duced an effect. But the sad fact still remains “fliing''), and in course of time the spelling that paper and all the materials that go to of our fathers, the spelling we learned in our its making and finishing and to the produc-childhood, and the spelling which we hope will tion of printed matter generally are abnor-cheer our bespectacled eyes in old age, will be mally scarce and consequently high in price safely and, it is to be hoped, permanently throughout a great part of the civilized world, reached. our own country not excepted. COMMUNICATIONS. 6 . A DAY AT THE TELEPHONE OF A MUNICIPAL THE HOMERIC HYMN TO THE GOD REFERENCE LIBRARY in a city of considerable OF BATTLES. size is likely to subject the listener to a string (To the Editor of THE DIAL.) of questions as varied and bewildering as The latest volume issued in the “Loeb Classical those embalmed in the sprightly and amusing Library," that series whose sponsor is placing the verses that have gone the round of the library literary world so irredeemably in his debt, is that publications and some other periodicals, with devoted to “Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and and without acknowledgment to the author, Homerica," and contains, in conformance with the Mr. Edmund Lester Pearson. At the Munici- previous volumes of the Library, the original texts, pal Reference Library of New York City some with parallel translations, the latter by Hugh G. of these questions by telephone in a single Evelyn-White, M.A., sometime scholar of Wadham day were as follows: Do you know of any College, Oxford. I leave the task of adequate publication entitled “New York City”. What appreciation of the manner in which the translator ? is the best book on hospital construction? has acquitted himself to your reviewer, but wish Who are the new members of the Board of to call attention to the following transcript of his Aldermen? How many miles of paved and follows: version of the Eighth of the Homeric Hymns, as unpaved streets are there in New York City ! TO ARES. What can you tell me about the Chapin Home ARES, exceeding in strength, chariot-rider, golden- for the Aged and Infirm? What is the busi- helmed, doughty in heart, shield-bearer, Saviour of cities, harnessed in bronze, strong of arm, unwearying, ness address of Justice Samuel Greenbaum ? mighty with the spear, o defence of Olympus, father In order to secure a marriage license does one of warlike Victory, ally of Themis, stern governor of need to take a birth certificate to the Marriage the rebellious, leader of righteous men, sceptered King License Bureau ? When is the next civil sery- of manliness, who whirl your fiery sphere among the ice examination for stenographer to be held, planets in their sevenfold courses through the aether wherein your blazing steeds ever bear you above and what speed is required? These and other the third firmament of heaven; hear me, helper of miscellaneous inquiries are printed in the cur- men, giver of dauntless youth! Shed down a kindly rent Report of the New York Public Library, ray from above upon my life, and strength of war, a fat pamphlet of 118 variously interesting that I may be able to drive away bitter cowardice and instructive pages. from my head and crush down the deceitful impulses of my soul. Restrain also the keen fury of my heart, which provokes me to tread the ways of blood-curdling strife. Rather, O blessed one, give you me boldness to ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT, broad acres of it, abide within the harmless laws of peace, avoiding still remains — is our answer to the follow- strife and hatred and the violent fiends of death. ing from “The Pyoneer ov Simplifyd Spel- As to the literary beauty of this version, there ing” :-“The seupreem test ov eni sistemov can be no argument, nor as to its fidelity to the simplifyd speling iz its reedabiliti at syt. The original. But that of which I wish to speak is the chainjez ov speling reesentli adopted in The beautiful spirit which it breathes. There are many PYONEER hav imensli inkreest its reedabelnes depicted as careering wildly over the field of passages in the Greek writers in which Ares is in komparison with that in eus sum thre yeerz battle, rioting in slaughter and drenched with gore. ago. Kompair the foloing egzampelz." These In the “Iliad” itself he is exhibited in the light of include such forms as "tauc, tauk; wauc, a barbarously cruel divinity. But in this Hymn 324 [March 30 THE DIAL what a different conception is presented—and it people whose literary loves did not count; but we is worth while to remember that it is the only took heart, remembering that Mr. Kipling, whose one to Ares among the thirty-three different invo- literary judgments are a deal steadier than his cations of the gods in the Homeric catalogue. As politics, had set the mark of his approval on “Six we know, the Homeric Hymns were not written to Sixteen.” And anyhow, it is always a pleasure by the author of the “Iliad.” That they are of to give testimony in favor of an old friend. later date seems certain. The Ares of the “Iliad” Shall we ever see rose-colored tulips without we may regard as the conception of a popular thinking of John Broom's progress down the long minstrel, who, in his depiction, was presenting a walk, or the yellow May marshes without a fellow figure calculated to dovetail into his epic scheme. feeling for Timothy? (For kingcups shine as On the contrary, the Ares of the Hymn is, unmis bright in our New England meadows under the takably, a religious conception, and it a strik- name of cowslips, or marsh marigolds, as in a ing fact, pointed out by Mr. Evelyn-White in his Yorkshire bog.) And how often have we checked Introduction, that of the entire corpus of thirty- one another in the pleasant occupation of castle- three Homeric hymns, that to Ares is the only one building with the comment of the Weeding which can be regarded as truly devotional or litur- | Woman,-“ It don't become 'ee to forecast au- gical. Greek scholarship concludes that the others tumns." were composed for recitation at religious cere- Mrs. Ewing is always classed as a writer for monies by rhapsodes, etc. children. To be sure, most children are said to At this juncture, when the world's greatest war care little for her. It is hardly likely that a young- is dragging its slow length toward its third year, ster who has been fed with the works of Miss and all the great powers of Europe are arrayed Nina Rhodes, for example, would find any interest against each other, sacrificing million after million in an author who never talks down to her small of their most priceless manhood in an insensate audience. Yet Hans Andersen might be proud to struggle, their clergies are invoking the Christian claim “Timothy's Shoes,” “Amelia and the Dwarfs," God, to whom they one and all at least hypo- and that whimsically pathetic “ Land of Lost thetically bow down, with prayers and adjurations, Toys"; while “ Benjy in Beastland” stands hardly - how different from that addressed to this pagan second to “ Black Beauty as a plea for kindness war-god of an era antedating the birth of Christ to animals. If Mrs. Ewing does not always escape by many centuries! They pray for the success the charge of too often pointing a moral, it can of their arms, for the power to so successfully be said that, like her “Aunt Penelope," she wraps prosecute the slaughter in which they are engaged it like a Christmas motto in plenty of bright paper. that their enemies may be brought defenceless into She entirely avoids another pitfall which our own the dust before them. For greater strength to Miss Alcott, with all her humor and common sense, slay is their constant prayer. "But what asks the does not escape: Mrs. Ewing's young folks are pagan of his battle-deity "Strength of war" he too busy with their lessons, their dogs, their gar- supplicates, but for this purpose — "that I may – dens, and their sketches to bother their heads over be able to drive away bitter cowardice from my precocious love affairs. head and crush down the deceitful impulses of my And what nice young people most of them are! soul.” Not for fury with which to prosecute the Cattishness, super-piety, a tendency to advise their task of blood-shed, but for force to “Restrain elders, are at a discount. In “ Mary's Meadow" :: the keen fury of my heart, which provokes the little heroine takes her mother's place, and me to tread the ways of blood-curdling strife. carries a difficult task to a triumphal end; but Rather, O blessed one, give you me boldness to the girl never seems disagreeably virtuous, in spite abide within the harmless laws of peace, avoiding bookish, flower-loving Mary, the Arkwrights, Jan This strife and hatred." What a lesson in humanism! What a rebuke, the descendant of Dutch painters,— these are a to a supposedly civilized and Christianized world, few that come to mind; but best of all is large- from a supposedly semi-barbarous and pagan headed, notional Chris, a veritable masterpiece of one! What a powerful presentation of the truth child portraiture. And when Mr. Merwin wrote that from the most ancient of the classics, which his essay on “ Dogs and Men" why did he not modernity so scornfully flouts, we may derive mention Mrs. Ewing among the writers who knew concepts and precepts of a nobility which moder- dogs? We beg him to begin at once and make nity, apparently, knows no more. the acquaintance of Saxon and Rubens and the rest. JOHN L. HERVEY. Chicago, March 21, 1916. Yet when all is said, the very best of her work falls into the class which includes “ The Golden Age" and our own Little Jane and Me," — books "AN ALMOST FORGOTTEN ENGLISH about rather than for children. There is no WRITER.” earthly reason why at least two of her stories, (To the Editor of THE DIAL.) “Daddy Darwin's Dovecot” and “Lob-lie-by-the- “Good wine needs no bush," but when a recent Fire,” should not take their place among the little volume of “Everyman's Library was mentioned masterpieces of English. as being “by Juliana Horatia Ewing, an almost For Mrs. Ewing is a master of English style. forgotten English writer of fiction," we gazed Read the description of the midsummer evening in incredulously at one another across “ The Boston “Lob-lie-by-the-Fire." Read the opening pages Transcript.” We knew we were inconspicuous of “Daddy Darwin's Dovecot,” or the passage 9 66 - 1916) 325 THE DIAL - 66 66 where Jack Marsh listens to the choir, and you will “warring aliens” in “her holy task” of keeping find an effortless perfection which makes this "her two-fold Saint's-day": woman the little sister of the great writers of O land of Shakespeare! ours with all thy past, English. Till these last years that make the sea so wide, Perhaps the contempt for “south of England” Think not the jar of battle's trumpet-blast "softness" which Mrs. Ewing attributes to one Has dulled our aching sense to joyous pride of her characters was part of the nature whose In every noble word thy sons bequeathed The air our fathers breathed! sympathies seem to have turned to the country of Jean Eliot and Lady Nairn. Certainly, “ soft War-wasted, haggard, panting from the strife, she never is. Pathos she has in plenty, but her We turn to other days and far-off lands, shrewd common sense, her humor, and her reti- Live o'er in dreams the poet's faded life, cence keep her from sentimentality. The treat- Come with fresh lilies in our fevered hands ment of a death scene is a fair test of an author's To wreath his bust, and scatter purple flowers, freedom from mawkishness. In the dying of Mc- Not his the need, but ours! Alister, Mrs. Ewing has written one such scene which comes nearer than most to the chapter in In this dread hour of Nature's utmost need, which Colonel Newcome says "Adsum.” Thanks for these unstained drops of freshening dew! Two little English books given long ago are O, while our martyrs fall, our heroes bleed, among our most cherished possessions. They are Keep us to every sweet remembrance true, thin, card-bound little books,—“Daddy Darwin” Till from this blood-red sunset springs new-born and “Lob,” and “Mary's Meadow.” Mrs. Ewing Our Nation's second morn! had the good fortune to find a most sympathetic Now that the tables are turned, so that it is illustrator for "Jackanapes" and the Yorkshire | England and not America that must answer the tales in Randolph Caldecott. Who could have bet- challenge, this recognition by a war-convulsed tered such sketches as that of the baby John nation of the need of the master-mind of a presenting the tulips to Miss Betty, or that of the Shakespeare seems as appropriate for England nankeen rears of Jackanapes and Tony as they now as it was for America then. indulged in their first dissipation? But in the col- EMILY F. BROWN. lected edition the picture for “Lob-lie-by-the- Milwaukee-Downer College, Fire" is by Cruikshank, and never was a more March 18, 1916. unfortunate choice. Those loose-lipped squat women, who have stepped out of one of the artist's comic almanacs, are no more like her little ladies ONE READER'S REACTIONS TO " than I to Hercules." 'SPOON RIVER.” Mrs. Ewing never wrote a novel. Probably she (To the Editor of THE DIAL.) was not master of the variety which could people For perhaps the tenth time I have just closed a large stage. Though she had an innate sense of that orgie of verse-prose, the “Spoon River form, plot must always have been a secondary Anthology.' Anthology." The first reading was the horrible matter to her. No doubt she wrote her north experience of a nightmare. I rubbed my bewil- country stories just for the sake of drawing the dered eyes, and asked the four walls of my study, landscape and characters she loved. When her “Is this poetry?” After the second reading I firmly little tales were told, she left them with no desire concluded, “No, this is not poetry, nor is it prose; for a larger canvass. Perhaps, because like her but it is life.” Last night I was certain that peasant she was no ways presuming," her work “Spoon River is not life,- it is death." To- will outlive many more ambitious productions. morrow I shall reread parts of the book, and I may HELEN MINTURN SEYMOUR. not know whether it is life or death. Troy, N. Y., March 22, 1916. But this I do know: Great poetry must not merely reflect life,- it must breath the air of a high idealism. It must present life truly, but THE SHAKESPEARE TERCENTENARIES OF wholesomely. This work does not satisfy the 1916 AND 1864. demands of the poetic nature. It is too earthy. (To the Editor of THE DIAL.) It creeps like a reptile through slime and evil. The approaching Shakespeare tercentenary We cannot turn to the pages of this book and celebration by our branch of the English-speaking become inspired by that “high seriousness” that race, to whom must fall the large share of the dignifies the masters of verse, nor find the whole- commemoration on account of England's pre- some tone that graces the work of those who sit occupation with war, suggests the reversed circum- on the mid-slopes of Parnassus. Rather, we are stances of these two great nations in 1864, on the depressed; our imagination is destroyed, and we occasion of the tercentenary of Shakespeare's close the book with a disgust for its vulgarity. , war, while England was free to celebrate the we will. It contains none of the “noble and pro- victories of peace, not the least renowned of which found application of ideas to life,” — rather, a was the production of her greatest genius. description of life as naked and analytic as we In a tribute from America to Shakespeare might find between the covers of a work on sexual offered on that occasion, Oliver Wendell Holmes psychology ORVIS B. IRWIN. answers England's challenge to the share of Loudonville, Ohio, March 23, 1916. ) 9 326 March 30 THE DIAL was to do so The New Books. a thankless office, involving public ridicule and private avoidance." To this impressive list of achievements she A MANY-GIFTED WOMAN.* might have added others hardly less memor- In closing her “Reminiscences” of eighty four or five modern languages, and had a able. She spoke with fluency and correctness years, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe very modestly scholar's acquaintance with Greek and Latin. acknowledged what she called her failures, She was successful, even brilliant, in many and with equal modesty summed up what she forms of literary composition, and if she had regarded as her chief successes. “It was a been contented to confine her abundant ener- great distinction for me," she noted first of gies to poetry or fiction or the drama she all, “when the foremost philanthropist of the might have made her name still more illus- age chose me for his wife. It was a great trious than it is in American literature. In success for me when, having been born and music, both instrumental and vocal, she early bred in New York City, I found myself able developed talents that won for her high praise to enter into the intellectual life of Boston, from those whose praise was more than empty and to appreciate the ‘high thinking' of its flattery. And, not least of all, her beauty choice spirits. I have sat at the feet of the and grace and charm marked her from the masters of literature, art, and science, and first as one destined to shine in society and to have been graciously admitted into their felimpress by her endowments of person as well lowship. I have been chosen poet of several as by her gifts of mind and heart. high festivals, to wit, the celebration of Such was the woman whose “complete Bryant's seventieth birthday, the commemora- and authoritative and intensely interesting tion of the centenary of his birth, and the biography,” as the publishers announce with- unveiling of the statue of Columbus in Cen- out overstepping the bounds of truth, is now tral Park, New York, in the Columbian year, so called. I have been the founder of a club viving daughters. Its two volumes of about offered to the reading public by her three sur- of young girls, which has exercised a salutary four hundred pages each are largely made up influence upon the growing womanhood of my of extracts from Mrs. Howe's letters and adopted city, and has won for itself an honor- diaries, so that the total effect is almost that able place in the community, serving also as a model for similar associations in other cities. in the "Reminiscences” are here, with much of an autobiography, and the years surveyed . “ I have been for many years the president of greater detail, many variations of emphasis, the New England Woman's Club, and of the additions having to do with the last decade Association for the Advancement of Women. of her life, and not a little that could hardly I have been heard at the great Prison Con- be admitted by Mrs. Howe into her own story gress in England, at Mrs. Butler's convention of herself, again passed in review. de moralité publique in Geneva, Switzerland, manner not fully illustrated in the earlier and at more than one convention in Paris. I work the precocity, one might almost say the have been welcomed in Faneuil Hall, when ominously alarming precocity, of the child I have stood there to rehearse the merits of Julia is made evident by her faithful biog- public men, and later to plead the cause of raphers. From the solemn priggishness of an oppressed Greece and murdered Armenia. I early letter to her cousin Henry Ward she have written one poem which, although com- happily recovered in good season. In that posed in the stress and strain of the civil war, letter, written at eight years of age, she had is now sung South and North by the cham- said: “I hear with regret that you are sick, pions of a free government. I have been and it is as necessary as ever that you should accounted worthy to listen and to speak at the trust in God; love Him, dear Henry, and you Boston Radical Club and at the Concord will see Death approaching with joy. Oh, School of Philosophy. I have been exalted to what are earthly things, which we must all lose occupy the pulpit of my dear church and that when we dieto our immortal souls which of others, without regard to denominational never die!” A manuscript volume of original limits. Lastly and chiefly, I have had the verse dedicated to her father by the twelve- honor of pleading for the slave when he was year-old poet has been preserved. This is the a slave, of helping to initiate the woman's dedication : movement in many States of the Union, and To Samuel Ward. Beloved father, expect not to of standing with the illustrious champions of find in these juvenile productions the delicacy and justice and freedom, for woman suffrage, when grace which pervaded the writings of that dear parent who is now in glory. I am indeed conscious * JULIA WARD Howe, 1819-1910. By Laura E. Richards of the many faults they contain, but my object in and Maud Howe Elliott, assisted by Florence Howe Hall. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. presenting you with these (original) poems, has been In a In two volumes. Illustrated. 1916] 327 THE DIAL to give you a little memorial of my early life, and for his real good taste, and shows that if not a I entreat you to remember that they were written gentleman born and bred, he is at least a man, every in the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth years of my inch of him. life. Your loving daughter Julia. From those early visits to Boston dates her What merriment in after years must have spiritual growth, we are told; for those visits been aroused in Mrs. Howe by the remem- were not "given wholly to gayety, even in the brance of that exhortation to her cousin (who days when she wrote, after a ball: 'I have had a good half-century of life before him) to been through the burning, fiery furnace, and view with joy the approach of Death, and it is Sad-rake, Me-sick, and Abed-no-go!' The how she must have relished the intense serious- friends she made, both men and women, were ness of her dedicatory letter to her father! people alive and awake, seeking new light, Not in every respect was the child the mother and finding it on every hand.” It was in of the woman in her case. A keener sense of Boston, naturally, that she first met Dr. humor was seldom shown by man or woman, Howe, and, as her biography adds, "at her a greater freedom from pose and from the side was now one of the torch-bearers of tendency to take oneself too seriously, than humanity, a spirit burning with a clear flame by this same Julia Ward of maturer years. of fervor and resolve, lighting the dark places The traditional theology of such childish of the earth. Her mind, under the stimulus effusions as her solemn entreaty to her cousin of these influences, opened like a flower; she Henry fell away and gave place to a reasoned too became one of the seekers for light, and in faith of quite another complexion. Her her turn one of the light-bringers." In this father, whom she fairly idolized, but who kept connection her first meeting with Emerson her under rather severe restraint at home, died must be related in the words of the book : when she was twenty-one, and thenceforth On every hand she met people, who like herself she was free to expand and develop as the were pressing forward, seeking new light. She heard wholesome promptings of her nature dictated. Channing preach, heard him say that God loves bad men as well as good; another window opened in her Brothers and sisters, cousins and uncles and soul. Again, on a journey to Boston, she met Ralph aunts, with other relatives and friends Waldo Emerson. The train being delayed at a way. innumerable, formed no unimportant part of side station, she saw the Transcendentalist , whom her environment; masters of music and she had pictured as hardly human, carrying on his shoulder the child of a poor and weary woman; her dancing and the languages contributed to the heart warmed to him, and they soon made acquaint- training and developing of her natural apti- ance. She, with the ardor of youth, gave him at some tudes; and the pleasures of society, indulged length the religious views which she still held in the in with moderation and discrimination, were a main, and with which she felt he would not agree. further factor in ripening her powers. Long. She enlarged upon the personal presence of Satan on this earth, on his power over man. Mr. Emerson fellow, Sumner, Hillard, Horace Mann, Mar- replied with gentle courtesy, “Surely the Angel must garet Fuller, Emerson and others of note, be stronger than the Demon!” She never forgot were her friends, in some instances her close these words; another window opened, and a wide one. friends. With Dickens she became acquainted Illustrating the buoyancy and optimism that even before her wedding journey took her to seemed to grow in strength with Mrs. Howe London and introduced her to the best Eng- as she advanced in years, this little anecdote lish society. A significant reference to “Boz" is told of her by her daughters : occurs in a Boston letter of hers, written to Our mother was once present at a meeting where her sisters in 1842. She says: there was talk of ancestry and heredity. One of the Last night I went to a party at Miss Shaw's, speakers dwelt largely upon the sins of the fathers. given to Boz and me, at least, I was invited before He drew stern pictures of the vice, the barbarism, he came here, so think that I will only give him an the heathenism of the “good old times,” and ended equal share of the honor. I danced a good deal with by saying with emphasis that he felt himself, "bowed very agreeable partners, and talked with down beneath the burden of the sins of his ancestors." Summer, Hillard, Longo [Longfellow), etc. I was Our mother was on her feet in a flash. "Mr. quite pleased that Boz recognized Fanny Appleton So-and-So,” she said, “is bowed down by the sins of and myself, and gave us a smile and bow en passant. his ancestors. I wish to say that all my life I have He could do no more, being almost torn to pieces by been buoyed up and lifted on by the remembrance of the crowd which throngs his footsteps, wherever he the virtues of mine!” goes. I like to look at him, he has a bright and Fortunate in her birth, happy in her mar- most speaking countenance, and his face is all riage, blessed in her children, Mrs. Howe is wrinkled with the lines, not of care, but of laughter. His manners are very free and cordial, and he seems now once more smiled upon by fortune in to be as capital a fellow as one would suppose from having as her biographers daughters so his writings. He circulates as universally as small accomplished and in every way so fitted for change, and he understands the art of gratifying the work as Mrs. Richards, Mrs. Elliott, and others without troubling himself, of letting himself be Mrs. Hall. seen without displaying himself - now this speaks PERCY F. BICKNELL. 9 some 328 March 30 THE DIAL ANNALS OF A FAMOUS INDIAN TRIBE.* and Comanches; with the two last tribes they ultimately formed peace, and the three peoples No one is better qualified to write of the in their later war history were often fighting American Indians than Mr. George Bird side by side as friends; the Arapahoes were Grinnell. He has known many tribes inti- usually their friends; the Sioux, in their later mately through the years. His “Blackfoot wars, were often with them, but were not Lodge Tales” and his “Pawnee Hero-Stories always reliable or helpful allies; through and Folk-Tales” are standard contributions practically the whole history of their contact, to the best ethnological literature that Amer- the Pawnees were their foes, and during their ica has produced; his “Indians of Today” is wars with American white troops the Pawnee one of the best popular presentations ever scouts who accompanied and aided our sol- given of our aborigines. In “The Fighting diers showed themselves implacable enemies. Cheyennes,” he makes a serious contribution To the war contact between ourselves and the to Indian history. Cheyennes, Mr. Grinnell devotes the major Few realize that under the name American part of his book. Dealings with whites, some- Indian great diversity exists. There are pro- times friendly, sometimes not, extended over digious differences in character and tempera- the period from 1832, when Gantt carried ment between different tribes. There are whiskey to them, up to the council of 1856 at tribes that are noble, brave, progressive; there Fort Pierre, when Colonel Harney recom- are others that are ignoble, cowardly, stag. mended that an expedition should be sent nant. Among the finest of our Plains tribes against them. The first real collision came in were the Cheyennes. They were rather the summer campaign of 1857. From that sharply divided into Northern and Southern time on until 1879 battles took place fre- Cheyennes; and while Mr. Grinnell deals quently between United States soldiers and with both, his book is mainly the story of the Cheyennes. Most of these engagements were northern branch. They are here considered inglorious affairs for us, although generally specifically as fighters. They were actually victory was ours. Most of these troubles among the bravest and most fearless of war- might have been avoided : many of them were ring Indians. The story of their fighting is due to our aggressions; some of them were traced from the old days of their natural life acts of flagrant injustice on our part. The down to their final battles of little more than Indians were usually fighting in legitimate twenty-five years ago. The story is told from defence of their rights, natural or guaranteed. the Indian standpoint, and as received from The story is an interesting, though often a the mouths of the Indians themselves par- sad one. Such an event as the Sand Creek ticipants and witnesses of the events. Massacre (1864) is a lasting disgrace to any The story covers three well marked phases people. The most interesting chapters in the or periods: that of inter-tribal wars with book are undoubtedly those entitled “Little Indian enemies — neighbors, rivals, trespas- Wolf and Dull Knife, 1876-1879" and "The sers on the buffalo-range; that of the strug- Fort Robinson Outbreak, 1879.” A remnant gle against white encroachment — against set of the Cheyennes had been sent south to the - tlers, path-finders, and soldiers of the United Indian Territory. States; that of the fighting for us and with They had come from the high dry country of us, as scouts during the time when we were Montana and North Dakota to the hot and humid trying to bring about quiet and security in Indian Territory. They had come from a country the northwest. Mr. Grinnell says: “The where buffalo and other game were still plenty to a country where the game had been exterminated. old time Cheyennes possessed in high degree Immediately on their arrival they were attacked by the savage virtues of honesty, trustworthiness, fever and ague, a disease wholly new to them. Food and bravery in the men, and of courage, devo- was scanty and they began to starve. The tion, and chastity in the women. Of the older Indians endured this for about a year, and then their patience gave out. They left the agency to which people who took part in the fighting with the they had been sent and started north. Though troops white troops some are still living and to-day were camped close to them, they attempted no con- are the only sources of original information cealment of their purpose. Instead, they announced concerning the former ways of the wild Chey- that they intended to return to their own country. ennes, the old free life of the Western plains.” | Percés' march under Chief Joseph, but little is We have heard much in past years of the Nez In his book, he first presents a sketch of “ the remembered of the Dull Knife outbreak, and the ways of warriors " by a few selected cases. march to the north, led by Little Wolf. This march During their first fighting days, as we know was over an open country, where there was no oppor- them, their enemies were the Crows, Kiaways, tunity to avoid pursuers or to hide from them so as to get a little rest and respite. The story of the * THE FIGHTING CHEYENNES. By George Bird Grinnell. journey has not been told; but in the traditions of Illustrated. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. the old army this campaign was notable, and men - . . 1916] 329 THE DIAL - - - be who were stationed on the plains forty years ago are A MONUMENTAL HISTORY OF likely to tell you — if you ask them — that there ARCHITECTURE* never was such another journey since the Greeks marched to the sea. It devolved upon the present writer to Troops sent after them from Fort Reno overtook the little band before it had gone a hundred miles. review for THE DIAL (March 1, 1907) the first The Indians were ordered to return to the agency. volume of a proposed three-volume “History They refused to do so, and a fight took place. The of Architecture,' by Mr. Russell Sturgis, the troops left them, and the Indians went on. The second and third instalments of which were fugitives pressed constantly northward, while orders were flying over the wires and special trains were to be immediately forthcoming. A little over carrying men and horses, cavalry and infantry, to three years later the second volume appeared. cut them off at all probable points on the different Before the proof-reading on this volume had railway lines they must cross. Of the three hundred Indians, sixty or seventy were fighting men. been completed, even, I believe, before all The rest were old men, children, women and boys. An the material had been made ready for the army officer once told me that thirteen thousand printers, the man who had undertaken the troops were hurrying over the country to capture or gigantic task of writing this History passed kill these few people who had left the fever-stricken into the beyond, and the work of completing south, and in the face of every obstacle were steadily marching northward. that volume fell to his son. It was then The War Department set in operation against announced that Mr. Arthur L. Frothingham, them all its resources, but they kept on. If troops who had assisted the younger Sturgis, would attacked them, they stopped and fought until they undertake the preparation of the third volume had driven off the soldiers, and then started north and, from Mr. Russell Sturgis's existing notes again. Sometimes they did not even stop, but marched along, fighting as they marched. For the most part and data, complete the History. And now, they tried — and with success - to avoid conflicts at last, the third volume appears, accompanied and had but four real hard fights, in which they lost | by a fourth, mad necessary in rder tha the half a dozen men killed, and about as many wounded ground be covered fully and the end be made Mr. Grinnell gives the full details of this consistent with the beginnings. remarkable affair. The fugitives reached the Mr. Frothingham's task has been no ordi- north and divided into two bands. Nothing nary one. To write a monumental history is could be more different than the fates these difficult enough when the writer has a clear met. Little Wolf and his people chanced to field to survey, and is permitted to lay down have to deal with Lieutenant W. P. Clark and the base lines himself. But when another has General Miles, men of heart and men of brain, laid down the lines and determined the direc- and were won to our cause; Dull Knife and tions, the task of carrying the work along his band were so unlucky as to deal with Cap- harmoniously and consistently is indeed a tain Wessels, and the result was the Fort heavy one. But Mr. Frothingham has accom- Robinson outbreak. The event is only second plished this task, and the entire effect is one to the Sand Creek Massacre, and its stain is of unity, although fortunately he has not indelible. altogether eliminated his own personal predi- The "fighting Cheyennes” are a thing of lections or yielded entirely his own point of view. the past, but it is well that they have found their chronicler. An interesting thing about Readers of the History will remember that the chronicle is the fact that when an official Mr. Sturgis, in his preface to the second vol- report or an army record comes into conflict ume, attempted to explain why architectural with the simple story as told by the red-man, social, and psychological standpoints, which , it is found that truth regularly lies with the THE DIAL's review of the first volume had sug- latter. gested as a most interesting method of attack FREDERICK STARR. and one employed by modern writers of history in other fields. Mr. Frothingham is very evidently of the same mind as the writer Rich in facsimiles and in printed extracts is of the review referred to, for he states clearly the second part, as was also the first, of Messrs. in his interesting introduction to the final vol- J. Pearson & Company's catalogue of holograph umes that were he starting with a free rein letters and other manuscripts from “the world's he would proceed along the lines referred to. most eminent actors, actresses, artists, authors, And although in the interests of unity and composers, poets, poetesses, scientists, soldiers and consistency he has conformed to the plan statesmen. Illustrious names fairly monopolize the pages of this attractive catalogue, and make * A HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE. By Russell Sturgis, Ph.D., and A. L. Frothingham, Volume III, Gothic in Italy, of it a volume that book-lovers will wish to pre- France, and Northern Europe, by A. L. Frothingham; Volume serve for its literary interest, apart from any other IV, Gothio in Great Britain, The Renaissance, Modern Architecture, by A. L. Frothingham. Illustrated. New York: considerations. Doubleday, Page & Co. 330 [March 30 THE DIAL established for him by Mr. Sturgis, yet be- and spirited history of architecture from the neath it all one feels the pulsing of the deeper standpoint of ethnics and racial psychology? running under-current. Such a work would not compete with the This is particularly noticeable in the dis- present History, and would find a warm quisitions upon the Gothic. One could wish welcome in many quarters. that it were equally apparent in the treat- IRVING K. POND. ment of the Renaissance, especially in the initial chapter. The Renaissance began in Italy and marked, among other things, a revul- RECENT POETRY.* sion in favor of art, as against what the more or less decoratively inclined Southern people The verse of Mr. Alfred Noyes differs in considered science. The art of the Gothic several respects from that most characteristic really was art, and did not serve to cover up of the present hour. For one thing, it is the science but to adorn it. The art of the soundly and steadily rhythmical. And for South was sufficient if it covered up the real another, it is largely objective even when and basic thing,—or so it would seem. The lyrical—whatever the theorists say; the sub- feeling for the horizontal, as against the ver- ject is rarely, if ever, Mr. Alfred Noyes and tical, was ingrained in the Latin peoples, and his highly personal reactions upon life. an application of classic forms so near to Again, it moves with a kind of colloquial their hearts ministered more readily to an freedom, not giving the impression of being æsthetic expression of that feeling than could wrought by one who seeks chiefly to be a any further development of the Gothic prin- maker of either images or phrases. And ciple, however it might be modified by the lastly, much of it is frankly moral and bands and string-courses or any means of hori. religious, and does not balk or boggle at the zontal accentuation. The Italians never had common traditions of the English race. Those been able to express themselves in Northern who have heard Mr. Noyes read it before an Gothic terms, nor could they reconcile them- audience are better aware than others can be selves to the forms which the Southern Gothic of the meaning of these qualities: they have assumed. Therefore, the Renaissance in Italy, perceived the directness, the sturdiness, and and the reason for its slow spread toward the simplicity of the writer, his frank joy in the North. his own melodies and musings, yet with abso- These final volumes, which enlarge the bulk lute freedom from self-exploitation or pose, and enhance the value of the History beyond whether it be a sermon or a story that he has the first design, deal with the Gothic and to communicate. For myself, I like all these Renaissance and Modern periods. As to the characteristics, and am glad to have another origin of the Gothic, which he sets forth very book animated by them. Yet I must admit fully, Mr. Frothingham is in accord with that they show their drawbacks. When one most students except those who ascribe a has a very strong liking for simple rhythms, Teutonic origin to everything continental, in- a ready flow of words, and plenty to say, with cluding even the cultural spirit of the Renais- no marked disposition to pause and ponder sance in Italy! The story of the development the more complex nuances either of thought of the styles in the various localities is instinct or phrasing, we all know what is likely to with life, and is fascinating to one interested happen. And with Mr. Noyes it does happen. in ethnic and social evolution. Sometimes the rhythm seems to be running From Mr. Sturgis's pen we might have ex- away with writer, reader, and all, -not an pected a well-nigh unabridged study of unpleasant sensation altogether, but not quite modern expression, for he was alive to the The LORD OF MISRULE, and Other Poems. By Alfred newer movements. But it is perhaps just as Noyes. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co. well that Mr. Frothingham concluded to deal By Irene Rutherford McLeod. New York: B. W. Huebsch. with modern architecture in a few swift The Rocky Road TO DUBLIN. By James Stephens. New York: The Macmillan Co. strokes,—for after all, we are too much in the AFTERNOONS OF APRIL. By Grace Hazard Conkling. Boston: picture to recognize its true perspective value, Houghton Mifflin Co. STILLWATER PASTORALS, and Other Poems. By Paul Shivell. and the things we can be sure of placing Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. properly can be so placed because we rec RIVERS TO THE SEA. By Sara Teasdale. New York: The Macmillan Co. ognize their relation to some fixed point in The SONG OF HUGH Glass. By John G. Neihardt. New the past. York: The Macmillan Co. THE FACTORIES, with Other Lyrics. By Margaret Widdemer. And now that Mr. Frothingham has accom- Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co. plished this task so successfully and accept- By Lincoln Colcord. New York: The Macmillan Co. ably, is it too much to ask of him that he ANTHOLOGY OF MAGAZINE VERSE FOR 1915, and Year Book undertake the further task of writing a short of American Poetry. Edited by William Stanley Braithwaite. New York: Gommé & Marshall. SONGS TO SAVE A SOUL. VISION OF WAR. 1916) 331 THE DIAL the pace for getting anywhere. I dare to Till the stars grow young, till the hills grow hope much as I have enjoyed it in times young, 0, Love, we shall walk through Time, past—that Mr. Noyes will write a whole new Till we round the world at last, volume without an instance of that garrulous And the future be the past, repetitive effect of which he is so fond- And the winds of Eden greet us from the When like a sun-lit sea-wave, prime. A green and crimson sea-wave,- I do not know whose soul Miss Irene and the like, with its limitless possibilities for McLeod's volume was designed to save; for it saying a little more than is needful. I also scarcely shows sufficient unity of purpose to venture to hope that he will consider more accomplish that high end for either author or curiously the values of concentration, of work- reader. But it is none the worse reading on manship more closely wrought, which it is that account; it is, indeed, the poet's versatil- hardly thinkable that he should ever overdo. | ity of mood and style which attracts one's There are some signs, in the present volume. attention almost at first glance. A part of of a desire to give larger place to poetic think the contents seems distinctly youthful, espe- ing, as compared with the charm of story and cially in a tendency to use words for the sake song; but the results are not altogether happy, of quaint or odd effects, and to shock either because either of insufficient emphasis on taste or attention by trifling impudences; and structure and form, or of a lack of concern some, on the other hand, show a mature for the values of single lines, sentences, and simplicity which wins the attention by its images. My meaning may be made clearer by intrinsic worth. Since I find nothing tempt- a reference to Coleridge's rather unmanage- ing to discussion in the collection as a whole, able definition of poetry as an art which I shall take space for representing two of Miss proposes "such delight from the whole as is McLeod's poems, which give honest pleasure compatible with a distinct gratification from in very different ways. Here is surely a fine each component part.” Almost every poem little study of both rhythm and temperament, of Mr. Noyes's is excellent in its leading called “Lone Dog": idea; almost never does he fashion a truly I'm a lean dog, a keen dog, a wild dog, and lone; memorable line - except in the haunting - except in the haunting I'm a rough dog, a tough dog, hunting on my own; I'm a bad dog, a mad dog, teasing silly sheep; simplicity of purely songlike utterance such I love to sit and bay the moon, to keep fat souls from as the much-loved “Come down to Kew in lilac sleep. time.” The most pretentious poem in the present volume is that read before the Har- I'll never be a lap dog, licking dirty feet, A sleek dog, a meek dog, cringing for my meat, vard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, and it well Not for me the fireside, the well-filled plate, exemplifies what I have said; for though noble But shut door, and sharp stone, and cuff, and kick, in conception and spirit, it is singularly lack- and hate. ing both in firmness of structure and charm of detail. Even a patient Phi Beta Kappa Some have run a short while, but none of them would Not for me the other dogs, running by my side, audience must have found it taxing. But with bide. all this by way of caveat, the book is a good O mine is still the lone trail, the hard trail, the best, and pleasant thing. The title poem is another Wide wind, and wild stars, and the hunger of the of Mr. Noyes's studies in the folk-spirit of the quest! Elizabethan age, and combines, in his familiar And here are the closing lines, only, from manner, both narrative and lyrical zest. War- "Mother to Son”: . “ themes have their place in other pages, and Think you that life can give you pain, are treated with dignity and sincerity. For Which does not stab in me again reasons which I have tried to state, it is not Think you that life can give you pleasure easy to represent this poet's work by brief Which is not my undying treasure selections; choosing rather at random, let me Think you that life can give you shame quote these caroling verses from a little song Which does not make my pride go lame called “Older than the Hills" : And you can do no evil thing Which sears not me with poisoned sting. Older than the sea, older than the moon, Because of all that I have done, Older than the heart of the May, Remember me in life, O son! What is this blind refrain Keep that proud body fine and fair, Of a song that shall remain When the singer is long gone away? My love is monumented there. For my love make no woman weep, Older than the moon, older than the stars, For my love hold no woman cheap, Older than the wind in the night, — And see you give no woman scorn Though the young dews are sweet For that dark night when you were born. On the heather at our feet Beloved, all my years belong And the blue hills laughing back the light,- To you-go thread them for a song. 332 [March 30 THE DIAL : Being a faithful admirer of Mr. James Or, reversing the process,- on the Mexican Stephens's writings, I record with regret my nightingale: suspicion that his publishers set aside for him Clarin, from what glens of air more white paper than he has matter to fill. Chime your cameo-colored bells ? At any rate, “The Rocky Road to Dublin" When they ring, I know them rare, Fluted like the lips of shells is not the first book of his which seems to have For the tone to ripple down, drawn on every last scrap to be found in his Honey-pale or amber-brown. current portfolio; and in this case it would It is certain that Mrs. Conkling's technical re- be quite safe to skip the larger half of the sources, for such purposes as this, are notably contents. From time to time, however, one is rich and are dexterously used; and if her rewarded by his familiar elf-like humor, sensuous joys and unconcealed revelling in peering by preference into the ways of clouds, the arts of fine phrasing tend to pall on the winds, children, old folks, and other irregular taste, and to make one cry out for a bit more creatures. Perhaps most characteristic, of the of thinking, it is easy to lay the book aside Irish sketches in the present collection, is this and come back to it another day. After all, meditation called “Dunphy's Corner”: it is still permitted to enjoy what is merely Pacing slowly down the road beautiful. Black horses go, with load on load Quite otherwise is it with Mr. Paul Shivell's Of Dublin people dead, and they Will be covered up in clay. “Stillwater Pastorals." One of these is ad- dressed "To a Crooked Stick," whose mean- Ere their friends go home, each man derings in the stream are taken as symbolic Will shake his head, and drain a can of the drifting but predestined ways of human To Dublin people we will meet Not again in Grafton street. life; and there is no danger that we shall be lulled by this volume to merely sensuous (Query: is the uncertainty concerning "will" pleasure. Witness this cacophonous opening and “shall,” which Mr. W. R. Thayer has of a sonnet addressed to a photographer: lately observed is found in the western and Never hard light full on thy subject streaming southern portions of this country, also trouble- Our carnal cruelty exaggerates; some in Dublin?) But nothing in the book is But as a painter with himself debates, so pretty as the little prologue on the Cherry And chooseth values by instinctive scheming. Tree, with its odd echo of Elizabethan But throughout the volume there is the direct naïveté: recording of a sound and winsome personality. Come from your bed, my drowsy gentleman! The pastoral element is rendered in the And you, fair lady, rise and braid your hair, manner of Cowper or Wordsworth,—that is, And let the children wash, if wash they can; not by literary inheritance, but through the If not, assist you them, and make them fair As is the morning and the morning sky, reappearance of their desire to celebrate the And every tree and bush and bird in air. homely joys of sober and simple living. On a Of American verse I note first two addi- winter morning- tional volumes in the “New Poetry Series." Ere yet these grounds and buildings loom from night, Or when by the waning moon kept visible Mrs. Grace Hazard Conkling has brought Earth seems to anticipate the winter dawn, together for “Afternoons in April” some fifty And cocks are crowing near and far, I wake, . lyrics, of which by far the greater number Enter the house, light lamp, build fire, strip, bathe, are attempts to reproduce the pleasure she Dashing my body with water fresh from the spring; and after I have swallowed has felt in sound and color. She is rather A few deep drafts of water I light my lantern curiously disposed to describe the one type And go out under the stars, in the dim moon, of experience in terms of the other, as if one Or through black darkness, while the frozen world were to seek to communicate the beauty of a Is very still. poppy to the blind or that of a song to the One can imagine the amazement, not to say deaf. Thus- the amusement, with which lines like these are likely to be read in quarters where pleasures If form could waken into lyric sound, This flock of irises like poising birds or pains of a more thrilling sort seem essential Would feel song at their slender feathered to poetic feeling. It was so with Words- throats, worth's ballads and with Millet's peasant And pour into a gray-winged aria Their wrinkled silver finger-marked with pearl. pictures. And I admit that, taking the col- This flight of ivory roses high along lection as a whole, I cannot quite share the The airy azure of the larkspur spires enthusiasm of Mr. Bliss Perry, who introduces Would be a fugue to puzzle nightingales it, for the poet's art; it is restricted, some- With too evasive rapture, phrase on phrase. times tamely didactic, far from unerring in Where the hibiscus flares would cymbals clash, And the black cypress like a deep bassoon technical taste. Yet at times it is singularly Would hum a clouded amber melody. rewarding, not merely in simple transcripts 1916] 333 THE DIAL of life like the one just quoted, but even under may, on the other hand, never give us the such rigorous formal demands as those of the special pleasure stirred by the extended and sonnet. Witness this serene and noble resounding narratives (say) of Mr. Noyes. example: It is to narrative poetry that we return in What if my strength prevail not: is our flesh the next volume, Mr. Neihardt's "Song of All there is of us? Have I fallen quite Is nothing yet reserved to my delight Hugh Glass," where "song" is intended to be Of all I once enjoyed? Still cool and fresh reminiscent of the Song of Roland and the I feel the dew that never vanisheth epic mood. A very interesting experiment From Love's green hills where youthful poets this, to treat the adventures of an early write; And still at evening as at morning light trapper of the American Northwest with I'll flute and listen and await my death. something of epic largeness and against the Fair in high noon out on the purple seas wide background of the plains and the Mis- Majestic argosies and clouds I watch souri Valley. The story is one of friendship And marvel at their glory, like a boy of man and boy, presented with a fine sense Dreaming, who never tires of mysteries, But feels upon his hair his father's touch, of romance and pathos blending with the And in his heart shareth his father's joy. rugged virility of the hero, and I at least seem Of all the volumes on our list, Miss Sara to have been moved by it as the writer wished Teasdale's “Rivers to the Sea” represents his readers to be. The Missouri River, he tells the closest approach to technical perfection. us in his preface, was to his own boyhood This poet knows the value of concentration; something like what the sea must have been to she knows the nature of a lyric—that in order Greek boys of antiquity, and "as I grew older to seem poignantly personal it need not assume and came to possess more of my inheritance, an air of shameless self-exposure; and she I began to see that what had enthralled me knows how to use the imagination as a means was, in fact, of the stuff of sagas, a genuine of thinking, not merely of feeling. All these epic cycle in the rough." It is no easy task things deserve wider dissemination. Here is to fit a style to such a purpose as this of Mr. a typical little lyric which unpretentiously Neihardt's, maintaining the dignity of his exemplifies all three: larger conception together with veracity of Strephon kissed me in the spring, homely detail, and I cannot say that he seems Robin in the fall, always to have succeeded wholly; there are But Colin only looked at me And never kissed at all. incidents and descriptions which somehow seem to have been enswathed, half muffled, Strephon's kiss was lost in jest, in the conventional literary phrasing and the Robin's lost in play, But the kiss in Colin's eyes couplet verse. A little more of Mr. Masefield's Haunts me night and day. daring directness may have been needed. But And here one of tragic import, called “The these instances are not many. And the natural Poor-House" : setting is sketched in with skill, all the more Hope went by and Peace went by notable because of its comparative flatness and And would not enter in; Youth went by and Health went by want of color. Thus- And Love that is their kin. Snorting, a-haunch above a breakneck hill, The horse stopped short; then Jamie was aware Those within the house shed tears Of lonesome flatlands fading skyward there On their bitter bread; Beneath him, and, zigzag on either hand, Some were old, and some were mad, A purple haze denoted how the Grand And some were sick a-bed. Forked wide 'twixt sunset and the polar star. (Is this a reminiscence of the ancient Oxus, Gray Death saw the wretched house And even he passed by- that "flowed right for the polar star”?) And “They have never lived," he said, here is the reign of winter in the north “They can wait to die." country: I wish, too, that I might take space to quote 'Twas warmer now; the sky grew overcast; the delightful little allegory of “The Star,” And as Hugh strode southwestward, all the vast who counted a wooded pool more profound And multitudinary whisperings Gray void seemed suddenly astir with wings than the restless sea, because it reflected her The muffled sibilance of tumbling snow. face more steadily; until It seemed no more might living waters flow, out of the woods as night grew cool Moon gleam, star glint, dawn smoulder through, bird A brown pig came to the little pool; sing, It grunted and splashed and waded in, Or ever any fair familiar thing And the deepest place but reached its chin. Be so again. The outworn winds were furled, Weird weavers of the twilight of a world But I restrain myself. It is the quality of Wrought, thread on kissing thread, the web of doom. verse like this to be quotable, while its author | Grown insubstantial in the knitted gloom, 334 [March 30 THE DIAL The bluffs loomed eerie, and the scanty trees The papers, of course, are run to make money, like Were dwindled to remote dream-traceries, everything else; That never might be green or shield a nest. But the trouble is, their income is not derived from The central achievement of the whole volume, their public support; This is the day of advertising—the advertisement is however, is its portrait of Hugh Glass, at once master, not servant, of news; typical of the winners of the West and highly | The advertisers are friendly with the financial crowd- individual in the episode that makes this of course we have to cut out what they don't poem; and none of this can be represented by Most of the papers are owned, one way or another, by like; extracts. the financial crowd; Miss Widdemer's “The Factories” takes us It raises the devil with the whole idea. from the plains to the heart of the city, and is I have deliberately, though not maliciously, concerned with child labor and other social chosen for this first specimen of Mr. Colcord's sores. It is also devoted in some degree to verse as unbeautiful a passage as I could easily the new womanhood of this age, which is inter- find, in order to represent the frankly exposi- preted with genuine imaginative insight. tory, not to say didactic, nature of his work. I who labored beside my mates when the work of the He is not at all afraid of preaching—and world began, The watch I kept while my children slept I will keep neither am I; but in the days when it did to-day by Man: not take so much courage to regard poetry I have crouched too long by the little hearths at the as somewhat different from prose, one might bidding of Man my mate have had misgivings. At times, however, this I go to kindle the hearth of the world, that Man has book is genuinely imaginative, as well as made desolate! marked by a sturdy eloquence which may cap- This is Miss Widdemer's version of the new tivate the reader against his will. Thus, for sex potential tragedy-as voiced, for instance, by instance, is the finer aspect of war defended: There no illusions about the body, no sorrowing or “The Modern Woman to her Lover": regret; I shall not drag at your bridle-rein The body seen in its true place, and given its just due. Knee pressed to knee shall we ride the hill; (Hustle it off, bury it quick, dig a shallow hole; I shall not lie to you ever again- Dust to dust-it will help the next year's crops; Will you love me still? No time for foolish ceremonies, no ammunition to It would be easy to cavil at the art of these spare for a parting volley; It is only death—the man is done with his body now- poems,—to remark the strongly editorial it is no more use to him or any one else; character of some, and the obvious and ques- It was never very important-not half so important tionable effort to stir up pathos by others; it as he himself imagined; would be not unreasonable to suggest that Miss Now it is the least important thing in the world.) Widdemer depend less largely, for her effects, There no mistakes about the spirit; upon rhetorical refrains in italic type. But The spirit alone esteemed, the man appraised by his the earnestness of her purpose to call poetry spirit; to the service of a great movement, sometimes All trappings, treasures, accruements, cleared away. with unquestionable success, rebukes such a Despite the crudity of style and the over-loud response. And, as if to show us that, if we tone, I find more of poetry here, because more wish more traditional themes of verse, they of idealism, than in the insignificant dabbling can be furnished, she adds a number of lyrics in sensations of some of the Imagists or the in the more conventional manner,-poems of morbid naturalism of the “Spoon River love, youth, and death, which are in some Anthology." Mr. Colcord, as I have just danger of being neglected because they seem hinted, talks too loud. John Stuart Mill once almost to be the work of another author than said that the difference between poetry and her of the title poems. One of the best of eloquence is that the latter is meant to be them is the last, called "Wind-Litany,” clos- heard, the former overheard. It is impossible ing thus : to think of Mr. Colcord's utterances as being God, when all of earth shall lie merely "overheard." He has the dogmatism “ Stripped and new beneath Thine eye, of orator, editor, and poet oddly mixed, and And Thy gold stars fall unstrung, And Thy curtain-sky down-flung, the mixture is not a sound one, for while all And Thy seas are lifted up three are rightly dogmatic, they are dogmatic Whole from out their empty cup, on totally different grounds. But his talk Grant me still, in Heaven's place, seems to me worth hearing; he sets one think- Sweet swift winds across my face! ing, in a gusty fashion; and his vers libre is, Contemporary America is again very much I believe, better adapted to his grotesque to the fore in Mr. Lincoln Colcord’s “Vision blend of meditation, editorial, and harangue of War.” It is also disapproved quite as than it is to lyrical utterances, which one may strongly as by Miss Widdemer. rightly wish to find under control. Both his 1916) 335 THE DIAL verse and his spirit have more of Whitman in The rhymers are still mumbling, them than have any of Whitman's imitators And invoking Euterpe. that I know, and he presents a nobly spiritual “This is not poetry, nor is it prose." Art must be shapely, gemmed-a reliquary! concept of Americanism which is akin to Mr. Life must be tuneful, like a caged canary! Bynner's in "The New World." And what of Truth? In the last place we come to Mr. Braith- This is an extremely significant expression of waite's American Anthology for 1915,-- a a certain point of view, and especially of a book which may now be said to have become certain complete misapprehension of the atti- an institution. Mr. Braithwaite has amply tude of those who seek to test new poetical proved himself gifted as an anthologist; and phenomena by principles which have been any man who is willing to read seven hundred acquired in the past. But I have no space to and seventy-two pieces of magazine verse in discuss it here, and therefore leave Mr. the year, and to say with definiteness that Glaenzer to speak for himself, without grudg- three hundred and ten of them are poems of ing his joy in Spoon River, but humbly wish- distinction, must command our respect, if not ing that he may hereafter climb Darien peaks something akin to awe. A minor matter con- that look further into the “pure serene." cerning these statistics is revealed in the Returning to Mr. Braithwaite, I might cite present volume, namely, that the poems in him as a very positive witness in behalf of “The Atlantic Monthly" are not included in an assertion which I made in these columns the count because the editor refuses Mr. some months since, that the present state of Braithwaite complimentary copies. Mr. poetry is far from discouraging. His enthu- Braithwaite, however, magnanimously reads siasm for the living poets of America is at least an occasional number, to which he has inspiriting; I only wish that it were coupled access-presumably-in library or club, and with more critical discretion. It is good to includes some of the contents among his selec- err on the side of praise, but Mr. Braithwaite's tions; for the first one in the book before me judgments, as found in his collected reviews is Judge Stafford's noble national hymn, of current poetry at the close of the Anthol- “Invocation.” To review the contents of the ogy, are so lyrically generous that the coinage Anthology would be to repeat the editor's task of his praise must inevitably depreciate. Mr. without his industry or equipment; I shall Colcord's poetry, we are told, reveals “a Pen- therefore only say that I doubt if any of us tecostal tongue of fire”; Mr. W. S. Johnson's “touch is always sure”; Mr. Thomas Jones's who might question his principles of selection verse "comes to the reader as the essence of would prove able to do it better. Mr. Braith- a spiritual experience which quickens the waite's taste is catholic, and he includes some pulse to realization”; in Miss McLeod's "is poems for which I could hardly find a place the echoes (grammar to the contrary) of a among the elect,—just as Miss Monroe could mystery that troubled the dreams of the earli- find no place for Bryant in the magazine, est of authentic singers"; "pure lyricism was “Poetry. But we of more fastidious tastes never more perfectly wrought in our day" should learn to be liberal; and because I wish than in the poems of Mr. O'Sheel; and "on to practise this teaching in all sincerity, I the topmost peak” of American poetry "the choose for special notice here a poem which I place is occupied by the silent and lordly confess I should not call out for an anthology, figure of this singer”-viz., Mr. Arlington but which is distinctly interesting to students Robinson. (What it is to be a silent singer . of current poetry. It is by one Mr. Richard Mr. Robinson himself has perhaps desired to Glaenzer, is addressed to Mr. Masters on the know.) It is hard to say whether the matter subject of his poems about Spoon River, and or the style of these dicta is the more sopho- moric. was published in the same periodical in which The Anthology, which is beyond the latter first appeared. Mr. Glaenzer tells question a useful book and a notable labor of a that Spoon River came to him as Chapman's love, would be much better off with much less of its editor's critical prose. Homer came to Keats, and, so feeling, he turns All of which leads one to wonder what upon the critics who, like the present writer, posterity, our only court of appeal, will say spoke unappreciatively of it because of liter- to all these men and things. As to how it will ary prejudices: they judge our poets I do not even presume to are still squinting, guess; but I am perfectly certain that it will And humming and hawing. "Is this poetry, or is it prose?”! find cause for many a merry smile in our Life must be branded-for the market! poetic criticism—both Mr. Braithwaite's and Art must be labelled like a mummy! mine. And what of Truth ... RAYMOND M. ALDEN. 66 336 March 30 THE DIAL > > us. RECENT FICTION.* much of a story; what it has is imagined to sustain the thesis. Its chief characters are not The reader who is beginning on the new very good; the people are too much like the novels this spring may sigh just a little on abstractions needed for the situation. It has finding that Mr. Basil King's new book is some charming atmosphere or setting, prob- about a husband and wife who could not getably because here Mr. King felt unconstrained on with each other. So was Mr. Webster's and could express freely and sincerely his “The Great Adventure”; so was Miss Glas- true and delicate feeling for the beautiful gow's “Life and Gabriella”; so was Mrs. things of nature. Its idea, or rather one of Atherton's “Mrs. Balfame," except that there its ideas,— that real goodness will in course the husband disappeared early in the business. of time have more effect on a man than a So was Mr. George's "The Strangers' Wed pretty face,- is sound and very generally ding," for it would seem that such matters known and agreed to. attract attention in England as well as with I should say that Mr. Basil King, going The novelists of the moment are giving from his idea to the life which shall present deep thought to the great question is it so it, does not sufficiently realize his subject. especially characteristic of our time?) of how There is too much “telling” in the author's to be unhappy though married. The results method. The people appear before us saying of their speculation are in one respect the and doing the things they would naturally say same; in each case it is the woman who does and do, but the author apparently has to tell something about it. Mr. Webster has the wife us the important things about them. We vanish away, make a career, and come back; learn that Thor held beauty in some scorn, Miss Glasgow's wife, released from an un- that Len Willoughby could see he was not faithful husband, also makes a career, and wanted in the banking-house, that Mrs. Mas- finds a more suitable mate; Mrs. Atherton's terton was a person of ostensible native refine- lady plans to murder her husband, but is ment, that in Rosie's mind Claude stood for saved the trouble by a kind friend; Mr. rest, that Claude loved Rosie for her pretty George's Sue merely can't stand it, and goes face only (“of nothing else was he able to take back to an earlier young man. Mr. Basil cognizance"); and other such matters. Per- King's heroine (if she be one) waits around haps the author could show reason for all such till her husband, having gone through the bits of information ; but such things seem to mills of the gods, recognizes her excellence. be a reason for the lack of reality in the Such flippant and would-be smart mention book,— and if in the book, of the idea too. (I wish I could do it better) may seem a very The things in the book that are good — and unworthy way to speak of so much sincere there are a number of them come rather by effort spent in handling so serious a matter. the way. The old minister, for instance, is But really, so much of the same sort of thing exactly right. He may not come directly out is not serious, but almost ridiculous. A novel of life, but Mr. King would seem to have so of this sort carries little conviction unless it true an idea of what real religion may be in is clearly a first-hand impression of life, a very life that he is quite safe in trusting to his intense appreciation of some of the conditions imagination. It seems as if his main concep- that make such things necessary. Why other- tion were not so well-assured. wise should a novelist's view of anything be “The Accolade" offers a considerable con- more worth considering than yours or mine? trast to such books as have been mentioned. If it be only that he has an idea, and con- Miss Sidgwick is possessed by no abstract ceives his plot and people to express it, he is generalization, that is, by no obvious one. but availing himself of people's willingness One has, of course, a sort of sinking of heart to read a novel to give publicity to whatever on beginning a book called “The Accolade", ideas, notions, views, fancies, or what not he but one recovers at once on finding oneself has picked up by reading or thinking, just as safe in that inner ring, that better-than-aris- any one of us may pick up such ideas. Mr. tocratic society, that idle moneyed world, Basil King's book is as good a peg for a dis- which has rarely been better presented than in course like the above as any other, for it has this book and its predecessors. On the face less character as a novel than his earlier work; of it, the book is a story of people who spend and people will like it or not as they may or their time doing nothing in particular; but may not be taken by the idea. It has not actually, there is much more to it than the * The Side Of The Angels. By Basil King. New York: clever observation of an indulgent satirist. Harper & Brothers. ACCOLADE. By Ethel Sidgwick. There may undoubtedly be some idea, ques- Small, tion, view of life implicit in the story, but it is GOSSAMER, By G. A. Birmingham (Canon Hannay). New York: George H. Doran Co. there as it is in life itself, and comes to us TнE Maynard & Co. Boston: 1916) 337 THE DIAL with the authority not of the author's general- of thing is merely the putting into rather ization, but of our own. Life, as Miss Sidg- conventional form of one of the well-known wick sees it, mostly goes on with good houses, facts of life. We none of us can talk well servants, clothes, and so forth, with dinners about what we deem most important; of course , and dances in the season and breakfasts and people do have "long and serious talks” with walks in the country, everybody having as each other, but they must be chiefly had for good a time as possible in a light-minded way, the pleasure of talking, which is great; life talking more or less cleverly all the time but goes on without much regard to them. And never saying anything of much importance. so it is, naturally enough, in some fiction. Occasionally, however, life offers a clash of clash of Some novelists want to tell us everything, great "sentiments" - Miss Sidgwick curi- and that may be a very good thing for people - ously says (curiously, because in speaking of who need to have everything told. But for John she tells us that the Ingestres “had people in general it is better for the novelist violent passions but were not sentimental”). not to tell us everything. If he presents Then there is a blaze of the real thing, and phases of life that make us appreciate its that is worth while, redeeming ages of rag- poignancy, its delights, its tragedies, its , , ging and idle talk and writing memoirs about cynicisms, its other things, he is doing all he one's ancestors and going to concerts and to need do; there is no call for him to stand by theatres. Or else — for sometimes it seems with a pointer delivering a lecture on the different - at other times life is only a cyni. subject, like Browning in “Sordello.” cal (not to say brutal) but disguised battle Indeed, the general idea about Miss Sidg- between men and women,- constant decep- wick is probably not that she does not tell us tion, constant cruelty, constant pain in which enough, but that, like Mr. King, she tells us now and then (O wonderful and immortal too much. John Ingestre, an artistic, brutal, gift of otherwise iron gods!) a man and a clever, young clever, young Englishman, married to a woman sometimes really love. stupid, respectable; and selfish wife, spends Such varying views Miss Sidgwick may per- most of the time they are together in bally- haps have on life; but if so, she rarely ragging her. After he has done so for some explains her opinions to the reader. She ten years, Miss Sidgwick tells us that he has naturally enough belongs “to her own class," an eager and simple desire to have children. and uses its language, of which the main Now either this is not so, or else it is a matter principle is that the one thing never to be of no importance, or else we somehow should mentioned is the thing that one is talking have found it out before the book was half about. Not that her feeling in the matter is over. We are told other things about John,- simply the English assurance that it isn't that as time went on he knew better and done. Of course it isn't done, and she doesn't better what he wanted even though he knew do it; but the fact is quite in keeping with it was foolish, that he was not one who lived what I conceive (modestly and at a distance) by reason, that he charged himself to blast all are her conceptions of the novel-writer's art. obstacles to his heart's desire, and other such Miss Sidgwick's people are the natural things about him. Here again if such im- product of an old and limited culture, and portant things are true, we should not need to as a result they have a perfectly astound- be told, and if we are told it is because Miss ing knowledge of their own civilization, Sidgwick has not presented her man suffi- astounding, that is, to outsiders. They ciently from the first. know people at a glance, or indeed without Such little flaws, however, in a piece of a glance; such and such kinds of people (army refined and exquisite work need not be people, for instance) are stupid, others not; insisted upon; they are, indeed, only an such and such people are perfectly obvious uncouth way of disguising one's more usual types; such and such social customs, having pleasure. Life itself (when we get a good acolytes and that sort of thing, are perfectly look at it) is so amusing, absorbing, delight- understood; everybody can be put in some ful, exciting, stirring, thrilling, in fact so class or other. That makes it unnecessary to beautiful, that one must be immensely the say anything that conveys information, for debtor to anybody who is willing to give it to all is naturally known beforehand, by all at us by itself without the accompaniment of least who do know. Hence conversation is whatever theories, opinions, ideas, solutions likely to be merely idle entertainment. It is of problems, convictions may happen to have not one of the necessities in the transactions resulted as a by-product of one's appreciation. of life, but one of its embellishments. Canon Hannay's “Gossamer" knocks all All this. (which is little exaggerated) is not the foregoing disquisition on methods in as absurd as it may appear to many; that sort fiction into a cocked-up hat, so far, at least, 338 [March 30 THE DIAL - to the war. as he is concerned himself. He is intent in the least what the figures were supposed on pursuing his own object in his own way; to be saying or doing. It was sufficient for and as he has a very especial gift, the reader me that they were there." is easily charmed into allowing and desiring It would probably be ill-advised and cer- him to follow his own object in whatever way tainly impossible to state in a few words he sees fit to use. His publishers give us the what Canon Hannay has taken a book to say. information that this book is more serious It is better to follow the example of the than his earlier stories, and add that it is the favorite landscape of Mr. Ascher, who chose author's purpose to present the financial sys- for his picture “the moment while the mys- tem of the world which spreads from one tery of dawn endured." It must be enough royal financier to another like a web of just here to say that "Gossamer" is the book gossamer threads in an autumn field. Doubt- of a man who has thought and felt deeply less Canon Hannay had this idea in mind on many matters besides high finance — per- when he wrote page 135, though he probably haps even beyond it,- and who has devised a had uite a different one when he wrote page singularly perfect way to suggest to us his 280. At one time or another he was presum- thinking and his feeling. ably possessed by the enormous purpose of EDWARD E. HALE. rendering plausible the conception that the immense system of finance by which the world gets along may be really fine, admirable, and BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS. beneficial. He at least succeeds in making us feel, now and then, what is meant by such a Among the already large num- European conception. But one can hardly believe that diplomacy prior ber of books dealing with the his thoughts did not branch out far beyond diplomatic history of Europe this rather academic view. He seems to have immediately prior to the outbreak of the been impressed by something even more im- present war, Mr. Arthur Bullard's “The portant (to most of us), and fundamental. Diplomacy of the Great War” (Macmillan) To present this important and fundamental is easily the most interesting and in some something, he chooses a very absurd combina- respects the most valuable. It is the work tion of very characteristic people, who become of a widely-trained and remarkably well- involved first in the promotion of a new and informed man, one who is not only familiar improved cash register, then in a new develop with the extensive literature of European ment of the moving picture, and finally in foreign policy (an excellent bibliography of the war. An Irish gentleman, a member of which forms not the least valuable part of his Parliament, a financier, his artistic wife, an treatise), but who is a keen observer of inventor,- what will one imagine from so political affairs in Europe and who has known jumbled a combination ? Canon Hannay personally many of those who have had a appears to use them to present what might share in the conduct of the foreign policies of even be called a criticism of life. Europe. As a starting point, Mr. Bullard This criticism is expressed in various ways. begins with the Congress of Berlin of 1878, Sometimes it is stated, perhaps very simply, which he characterizes as a body having been as when the politician remarks wisely: “Won-composed largely of incompetents; and he derful thing, life, keeps going on. Don't reviews in turn Bismarck's foreign policy, know why it should but it does. Nothing which brought Austria and Italy into alliance seems to make any difference.” Sometimes it with Germany, the recovery of France from is put very wonderfully, as when the wife of the effects of the war of 1870-71, the growth the financier (in bidding good-night) says: of Anglo-German antipathy, the origin and “There is a spirit which moves the multitudi- history of the Entente Cordiale between nous blind gropings of humanity. It moves England and France, the Franco-Russian alli- all unseen and unknown by men, guiding their ance, the Algeciras crisis, the Agadir and pitiful endeavors to the Great End. That Cassablanca incidents, the diplomatic results End is Duty. That Spirit is Art. To rec- of the Turko-Italian and Balkan wars, and ognize it is Faith.” It takes a great humorist the other events which ultimately created a to make such utterances appear even for a situation needing only the touching of a match moment to be significant of deep truths. But to start the tremendous conflagration which Canon Hannay is not satisfied with any such is now sweeping over Europe. The point of independent statements. We might almost view of the author is singularly fair and say of his people, as Sir James said of the judicial. It is not difficult to discover where exhibition of Tim's new cinematograph, “I his sympathies lie in the present conflict, yet do not know and at the time I did not care he has endeavored to be just in his conclu- 1916] 339 THE DIAL sions, and he has not hesitated to criticize discussion of their significance. The author's both sides where criticism is clearly justified. main thesis is that social progress results from He blames the Germans for pursuing their the inter-action of peoples,—that migrations "grandiose ideal” of Deutschtum to the point not only bring new factors and new features of wishing to Germanize Europe when the rest into the material culture, and new elements of Europe did not want to be Germanized; into the social organization, but that the con- he accuses the English of jealously disputing tact and inter-action of the peoples themselves Germany's ambition to become a maritime, have furnished the starting points for all the colonial, and commercial rival of Britannia; great movements in human history which we he charges France with treating the Algeciras are accustomed to regard as Progress. He convention as a “scrap of paper" and of con- does not, however, consider individuals as tinuing "blithely as they had been doing in mere automata for the transmission and the the past undermining the authority of the recombinations of ancestral types of culture, Sultan [of Morocco), fostering a kind of dis- but suggests that contributions may also turbance which would give a pretext for spring directly from the ideas, beliefs, emo- armed intervention, and by all sorts of dis- tions, and sentiments which serve as motives creditable tricks trying to drive out their for the actions of man. These do not belong commercial rivals." Mr. Bullard thinks that to any one culture, but are natural to man- from 1913 on the rulers of Germany were kind. The author finds Melanesian culture planning for war in defense of Deutschtum, complex, but derivable from three sources, but he believes it was largely intended as a primitive society of dual organization con- bluff, and that they hoped to get what they sisting of two exogenous moieties with matri- wanted without fighting. Their criticism of lineal descent, upon which two successive British sea power, he thinks, would be unan- waves of immigration from the Malay Archi- swerable if there were any reason to believe pelago engrafted many of the characteristic that they objected to any such arbitrary institutions of Melanesia. The intricacies of power per se. the systems of human family relationships of Melanesia are traced to the social adjust- The evolution of The ethnographic results of the ments consequent upon these migrations. The human society in Percy Sladen Trust Expedition study of these still persisting primitive cul- the South Seas. in the “Southern Cross” to the tures, surviving to our day because of their islands of Melanesia, principally to the Banks, isolation, is destined in the opinion of the Torres, New Hebrides, Santa Cruz, and Solo- author to be not only of greatest value in mon Islands, with supplementary visits to the ethnography of the South Seas, but also Fiji, Tikopea, Tonga, Samoan and Hawaiian of fundamental significance in studying the Islands, are set forth for the expert and for origins of human culture in Eurasia. The the general student of sociology and of social advance of civilization, and the migrations of evolution in Mr. W. H. R. Rivers's "History laborers from these islands to and from Aus- of Melanesian Society" (Putnam). Each of tralia, bid fair to destroy forever all trace of the two substantial volumes treats of a differ- these savage societies; hence our author's ent aspect of the problem. The first is a plea for prompt and searching investigation detailed account of the survey work of the to rescue these evidences of the origins of author in Melanesia and elsewhere in Oceania. human culture ere they vanish. The treat- This was directed especially toward the accu- ment is comprehensive, scholarly, candid, and mulation of data regarding kinship, mar- logical. The work is well illustrated and well riage, and descent, and regarding other social indexed, and both in method and in content institutions which would assist in their analy- forms an important contribution to the scien- sis. This was based upon the belief that we tific literature of human social origins. have in systems of relationship, which in Melanesia are far more complex and utterly The function of the survey - The public different from those of Occidental civiliza- not the old-fashioned sort, with tion, like fossils, the hidden indications of theodolite and measuring-chain, ancient social institutions, and that their but the modern process so designated — is in- study is essential to the solution of problems creasing every year in range and importance, in prehistoric sociology. They offer trust- so that now not only have we municipal sur- worthy objective data incapable of modifica- veys, educational surveys, industrial surveys, tion by the collector's bias or preconceived economic surveys, and innumerable others, but hypotheses, and are therefore trustworthy. there is also a widely circulated periodical The second volume contains an analysis of bearing the name of this wonder-working the data thus assembled, and a theoretical operation. Not the least of the surveys at of Cleveland. school system 340 [March 30 THE DIAL present in process is that in which the city of asked, by the Committee in charge of the Cleveland is engaged for the purpose of learn- Capitol, to obtain a design for the building, ing all about its educational system and then, and that he consulted with the French archi- if possible, making it better, or, in the words tect, Clérisseau, there have been until lately of the Survey Committee, "to create a strong, no data on which it was possible to base an well informed public opinion in support of an intelligent opinion as to the probable propor- adequate school policy.” A company of ex- tion of influence of the two men on the perts captained by Dr. Leonard P. Ayres is character of the design. Through the dis- studying each a different subdivision of the covery of some autograph drawings and great educational problem, and the results are memoranda, clearly by Jefferson, one is now to be presented in twenty-five small volumes able to trace with reasonable certainty the published a week apart by, and obtainable influences which combined to bring about the from, the Survey Committee of the Cleveland final result. Unfortunately the drawings Foundation. The first few numbers are al- made by Clérisseau's assistants were sent to ready out, and they make a favorable im- Washington for the use of L’Enfant in pre- pression by their business-like brevity and paring a plan for the National Capitol. As directness. Opening at random one of these L'Enfant fell out with the authorities, and treatises, that entitled “What the Schools retained all the drawings for the plan of the Teach and Might Teach,” by Professor Frank-city of Washington, the strong presumption lin Bobbitt, we chance upon the following: is that he kept the plans for the Virginia “How one reads has received an undue amount Capitol as well. These drawings — the final of attention; what one reads in the school link in the chain — have not so far been found. courses must and will receive an increasingly However, a minute comparison of Jefferson's large share of time and thought, in the new drawings with the completed building would evaluation.” Again, in “Health Work in the seem to show, beyond reasonable doubt, that Public Schools,” by Dr. Ayres and Mrs. (or the building, and consequently Clérisseau's Miss) May Ayres, this sentence arrests atten- drawings, followed very closely the original tion: "Dr. William Osler, the distinguished studies by Jefferson. Mr. Kimball has made English physician, is credited with saying, 'If a careful study of subsequent monuments to I were asked to say whether more physical determine the historical influence of this first deterioration was produced by alcohol or by building of the Classic Revival — first not defective teeth, I should say unhesitatingly, only in America but, an attempt at least, at defective teeth.'' One other volume, “Child a closer following of Classical precedent than Accounting in the Public Schools,” by Dr. had yet been attempted abroad. This work, Ayres, is at hand. On the whole, and to an which is a detailed study of one monument, inexpert outsider, this Cleveland educational is but a part of a comprehensive study of survey promises well. Jefferson's work as an architect by the same author, soon to appear, which will serve to The study of the history of clarify the history of a period of American Jefferson and architecture which has hitherto been very American architecture may still state capitol. obscure. The chief significance of the mono- be said to be in its infancy. graph lies in the fact that it is one of several Hitherto it has been left either in the hands similar studies of early American buildings, of amateurs or in those of otherwise busy in which scholarly methods have been used, practising architects. In neither case has and from which authoritative results may be the close study of documents and the systema- expected. tic search for new sources of evidence been given to the subject, so essential to arriving Disguise in the The most significant of the points at definitive results. In "Thomas Jefferson developed in Dr. Victor 0. Free- and the First Monument of the Classic Revival burg's “Disguise Plots in Eliza- in America,” Mr. Fiske Kimball has not only bethan Drama” (Columbia University Press) subjected the known material relating to is that the use of disguise may serve as a Jefferson's work as an architect, and more criterion for judging the technique of a play, especially to the authorship and design of as well as for fixing its place in the develop- the Virginia state Capitol, to the methods of ment of the drama. ment of the drama. The modern demand for modern scholarship, but he has succeeded in realism, which forbids the easy methods of the deciphering a mass of documentary evidence, Elizabethan playwright in transforming a the importance of which had not been sus- character from one sex to the other, or from pected. While it has long been known that one station or function in life to another, is when he was Minister to France, Jefferson was such that the device has virtually gone out of the Virginia 66 Elizabethan drama, > 1916] 341 THE DIAL use, except in the surprising disguise that this interesting people as a distinct unit. appears, for example, in “ The Servant in the From time to time during the past decade House," or the very different "Seven Keys there has appeared in various historical pub- to Baldpate.” And this does not come under lications a notable series of articles dealing the definition of Dr. Freeburg, who limits his with important problems in Norman history, theme to "a change in personal appearance written by Professor Charles H. Haskins, which leads to mistaken identity,” and who dean of the Harvard graduate school, who is also excludes such disguise as that of the also dean of American mediævalists. In twins in the “Comedy of Errors" or of Vol- February, 1915, Dean Haskins presented the pone in Jonson's comedy. In his chapter on more important results of his Norman studies technique the author shows that even within in the form of a series of lectures deliv- the comparatively narrow period down to ered before the Lowell Institute. These lec- 1616 treated in this book, there was an ad- tures have now been published in a volume vance in the desire for realism. In the morali- bearing the title, " The Normans in European ties it was enough to change the name, and History" (Houghton). In eight brilliant the audience imagined the rest; later an at- chapters, Dean Haskins tells how the Norman tempt was made to produce as complete an race came into existence, what it achieved in illusion as possible to eye and ear. With the two centuries of its greatest activity and boys or men playing the parts of women, it importance, and what impress it has left on was easy for the Elizabethans to accept the the history of Europe. Beginning with a dis- supposed transformation from one sex to the cussion of the Norman land and people, Dean other, the one change which we to-day find Haskins tells briefly of the coming of the most difficult; and with its abundant oppor- Northmen to the Seine valley in the tenth tunities for serious and amusing complica- century, and then proceeds to trace the activi- tions, it is not surprising that it should be the ties of the new Norman-French people outside most frequent of all the disguises. Dr. Free- the French kingdom, in the British Isles, in burg considers it especially in its manifesta- Naples and Sicily, and in the Orient. An tions of the girl masquerading as a page and interesting and highly informing chapter the boy as a bride; the former for romantic deals with Norman life and culture, and with purposes, the latter for the sake of a joke or the extant monuments of Norman civilization. extortion. The other most frequent manifes- In one important respect Dean Haskins has tations were those of the spy and the lover, introduced a change in historical terminology: both of which might also make use of the sex what in the past has been called the "Angevin disguise as a means to an end. The technical empire," from the controlling dynasty, he development of the device is seen in the rela- calls the “Norman empire," from the con- tion which complication bears to resolution, trolling race. It is likely that this suggestion some plays never revealing the disguise, others will be accepted. The volume possesses cer- using the revelation as the means of resolving tain excellences of literary style which are all the complication. Signs of decay in the too rare in historical writing. drama are seen in such sensational extensions as the retro-disguise, or the disguise of the disguised; and the disguise concealed from The American Negro continues Two views of the audience till the close of the play, when it the Negro. to be an object of peculiar inter- comes as a complete surprise. Shakespeare est to the traveller from abroad. avoids this latter device, which Jonson uses in Mr. Maurice S. Evans's “Black and White in “ Epicane," and he lets character truly and the Southern States” (Longmans) is the work inevitably reveal itself through all its trap- of one who from long residence in South pings and assumptions. Rosalind and Portia Africa has become vitally interested in race never cease to be women for all their doublet problems. Realizing fully the pitfalls that and hose. A bibliography of authorities and beset the path of the hasty observer, he has of plays, novels, romances, ballads, etc., is labored earnestly to make no deductions that appended to Dr. Freeburg's volume. are not warranted by his data. On the whole, he seems to have succeeded fairly well, and has considered every phase of the problem. The history of the Normans and Among the more interesting chapters are Norman history their great achievements in those on “Negro Organization Church and and influence. mediæval Europe has been told Lodge,” “The Negro before the Court,” and many times as a part of the history of France, one at the end entitled “For South Africa,” ' of England, and of Italy; but not until re- which is intended primarily to give the cently has a serious effort been made to study author's old acquaintances some suggestion - 342 [March 30 THE DIAL > for the solution of their difficulties in the light W. Coleman, to whose inspiration and un- of his American experience, and which, selfish zeal these meetings owe their origin simply because it shows the writer on ground and continuance, has planned, compiled, and of which he has real command, is likely to be edited "a symposium" having as its title of more interest to American readers than “Democracy in the Making” (Little, Brown some of the other chapters. Mr. Evans shows & Co.), and sub-titled, “Ford Hall and the a decided leaning toward the practical and Open Forum Movement.” Its purpose is "to opportunist school of Negro thought, and for give the facts about Ford Hall, to set forth this reason (as in such a chapter as that its spirit, and make plain its mission, in the headed “The Two Schools”) he finds it hard hope that others will undertake the establish- to be fair to those who are more idealistic in ment of similar meetings elsewhere." The their thinking. Sometimes, too, we could wish four parts into which the book is divided that he had continued his investigations a “tell in turn how the work is done, what is little further before making his conclusions. thought of it, who are in the audience, and On the whole, the book contains little that is what is the character of the addresses deliv- new. Such a volume as Mr. Evans's falls all ered there." The various chapters are volun- too easily into a consideration of the Negro as tary contributions from persons prominent in a problem rather than as a human being. Just Ford Hall activities, notably Miss Mary here is the point that distinguishes from it Caroline Crawford, Executive Secretary of such a book as Dr. C. V. Roman's “American the meetings, who gives a breezy sketch of Civilization and the Negro" (Philadelphia: "dramatic incidents” and an interesting “roll F. A. Davis Co.), a work somewhat below of personalities.” Profits from the sale of the it in literary form, though neither is especially book will go to the Ford Hall Foundation. strong in that quality. At least one feels here that in large measure the soul of a man has Africa as the battle-ground of gone into his book. Dr. Roman is a physician The languages living languages in the making of Africa. of standing in Nashville, and he very frankly is the fascinating picture one makes a plea, to some extent along biological gets from Professor Carl Meinhof's “Intro- lines, for his people. His book, we are told duction to the Study of African Languages (p. 377), is "a brief, not a credo; primarily (Dutton), recently translated by Dr. A. it is a summary and an analysis of the testi- Werner. An accompanying map by Bern- mony of others,” being only incidentally an hard Struck exhibits the following astounding expression of the author's personal opinions linguistic resources of the continent: Semitic, and beliefs. As in Mr. Evans's work, there 10 languages and 12 dialects; Hamitic, 47 lan- are frequent quotation marks, and sometimes guages and 71 dialects; Bantu, 182 languages one wonders if the numerous citations of his- and 119 dialects; Sudanic, 264 languages and tory and literature are really relevant or 114 dialects; Bushman, 11 languages and 3 necessary. However, because the author has dialects; besides Hottentot, which investiga- lived with the things of which he writes, and tion has barely touched. The book is an because his work has evidently taken its own elementary and profoundly significant con- time in maturing, his book somehow furnishes tribution to the science of comparative lan- endless food for thought. It shows, moreover, guage study. As such it will be of prime an excellent acquaintance with the literature interest to every student of any language, of the subject, and is well illustrated. whether or not he has the slightest direct concern with African tongues. The author Ford Hall, named for and owing at primitive languages has to deal with much stoutly maintains that “the linguist working Seven years its existence to the late Daniel better and more trustworthy materials than of Ford Hall. Sharp Ford, of “Youth's Com- the ordinary philologist.” The discussion of panion” fame, has been aptly called by one well known linguistic phenomena, such as of the constant attendants at its Sunday even- ing meetings, "the cradle of fraternity, Grimm's Law, Ablaut, the i umlaut, as well as the general remarks on Phonetics, Grammar, just as Faneuil Hall in the same city was long ago styled "the cradle of liberty.” The and Morphology, are of absorbing interest. fraternal weekly gatherings at Ford Hall, to To the amateur, the most remarkable feature listen to some speaker with a message to the of these strange agglutinative tongues is the people, have for eight years been attracting part which melody or pitch plays in word wider and wider attention, until now the meanings. Even more important than accent Ford Hall idea and open forum movement are to us is pitch to the Bantu peoples. For in- known throughout the country. Mr. George stance, in Ewe, the two words ele afi may be > 1916] 343 THE DIAL 66 a intoned to mean either “he is here,” or “he in the book treat of Diana Bosville's “Book rubbed himself with ashes," or "he caught a of Extracts," an old-fashioned scrap-book of mouse." The present reviewer, reading from the Georgian era; her son William Bosville, the angle of a student of Old English, finds a introduced to us as “A Friend of Freedom”; number of curious resemblances to primitive the autocratic William Anne Keppel, second phenomena in that tongue; and no doubt stu- Earl of Albemarle; the beautiful Elizabeth dents in other fields would note similar coinci- Patterson, afterward Madame Bonaparte, “A dences. The author's honest zeal is shown by Dupe of Destiny," as she is called in the " the fact that he has studied the Bantu lan- chapter-heading; her even more beautiful guages for twenty-five years, and has so far sister-in-law, Mrs. Robert Patterson (Mary refrained from writing his contemplated Caton), “A Favorite of Destiny"; the eminent “Comparative Grammar." He has published painter of horses and other animals, John only the “Outlines” (Grundzüge, Berlin, Frederick Herring, “A Painter of Realities" ; 1906). It is noteworthy that during the pres- and the artist who, as "a painter of dreams," ent suspension of scholarly work in Europe, supplies the book with its title. More truly lectures by a German can still be translated descriptive of the volume would have been the by one connected with an English University, heading to its first chapter, “A Georgian and published by an English house. However, Scrap-Book,” but Mrs. Sterling ably defends nothing could be more dispassionate and neu- her choice of a title, and surely she has a right tral than comparative philology. to christen the offspring of her brain. It is an entertaining and often amusing book. A por- “How to Study and What to tion of its contents has already found favor A new student's Study” (Heath), by Mr. Rich- with the editor and the readers of a leading manual. ard L. Sandwick, principal of English review. English review. Fifteen full-page illustra- the Deerfield-Shields High School, Highland tions are inserted. Park, Illinois, is a well written volume the perusal of which will stimulate and otherwise improve the average reader of high school BRIEFER MENTION. or college age. A few of the elder generation will be reminded by it of the Rev. John Todd's “ The American Whitaker Almanac and Ency- “Student's Manual” of thirty years ago, a clopedia " is published in a new edition for 1916, work characterized by deep and effective with its nearly six hundred pages of indexed facts moral earnestness. Mr. Sandwick's manual is regarding the United States and the other coun- directed solely toward intellectual ends. The tries of the world brought thoroughly up to date. A useful summary of events in the great war, from first part, entitled "The Principles of Effec- the beginning to the present time, is appended. tive Study,” treats of such subjects as study- “ The American Whitaker” promises to become as ing aloud, the value of a synopsis, when and indispensable in this country as its English proto- how to read rapidly, and study and fatigue. type has long been abroad. The Macmillan Co. The second part, on “What to Study and publishes the volume. How,” is not, as might be supposed, devoted An attractive volume with the captivating title, to a plea for any particular course or branch “Legends of Gods and Ghosts,” is published by of study, but presents concisely, and probably Messrs. G. H. Ellis & Co. The author, Mr. W. D. as impartially as possible, the ordinarily ac- Westervelt, who is also the author of " Legends of cepted reasons for the study of the branches Old Honolulu," has lived for many years in the usual in the high school, including chapters Hawaiian Islands, and this interpretation of on the vocational studies and the older pro- Hawaiian mythology shows a depth of sympathy commensurable with that of Lafcadio Hearn for fessions. Methods of study are also recom- the Japanese. Some of the stories, as for example mended. The author bases his work on thirty the last in the volume, “The Bride from the pedagogical works cited in the preface. Its Under-World,” are told with spirit and charm. prevailing tone is nevertheless that of reality The details of newspaper desk-work, especially and common sense. copy-reading, and after that headline-writing, proof-reading, make-up, and what are known as Mrs. A. M. W. Stirling's re- re-write and follow-up” stories," with Chapters of anecdotal searches among musty memoirs chapters on printing mach chapters on printing machinery and processes and biography. have borne fruit in a collection “small publication work,” will be found in the of anecdotal biographies the reverse of musty, compact and attractive manual entitled “ News- entitled "A Painter of Dreams, and Other paper Editing (Appleton), by Mr. Grant Milnor Biographical Studies” (Lane). The painter daily, and now instructor in journalism at the Hyde, formerly on the staff of a New York City referred to is the late Roddam Spencer Stan- University of Wisconsin. The book supplements hope, uncle of the author. The seven studies the same author's “ Newspaper Reporting and 6 > 344 [March 30 THE DIAL 66 Correspondence," and gives to editorial and other Distinctly inferior in quality to certain of its desk-work a careful attention that is found in predecessors is Mr. Eric Fisher Wood's plea for few of any previous handbooks for the use of greater defences, entitled “The Writing on the prospective journalists. A useful chronology of Wall” (Century Co.). It is not less modest, how- the printing art and of newspaper development is ever, in its views of what constitutes adequate appended, also a style sheet," with general direc- defence, for it declares that unless we secure our tions for the preparation of copy. A good index coasts by a navy virtually twice as large and closes the book. effective as that of any other nation, we need a Mr. Ernest A. Dench’s “Making the Movies " minimum of 2,500,000 men to defend our territory (Macmillan) is a crisply written and neatly printed against invasion by any single great power. These little book of forty diminutive chapters on such estimates might well have been suspected to be subjects as: Putting on a Photoplay, Do the those of military men, without Mr. Wood's Players Drink Intoxicants in Motion Pictures, acknowledgment to that effect. They rest upon a Movie Stars Who Risk Their Lives, Motion Picture comparison of our military establishment with Making Towns and Estates, How Railroad Photo- those of potential adversaries; it is like comparing plays Are Made, Aviation in the Movies, Filming the fists or teeth of two persons, and from these Earthquakes, Floriculture by Motion Pictures, determining their relative strength. Happily, Making Films under the Sea, In a Film Factory. there are things besides teeth and fists that make As the forty chapters amount to only one hundred for strength; and in such our rating is not hopeless. and seventy-six pages, whose content is besides, A curiosity in limited editions is Mr. Charles N. after the manner of stage talk, somewhat gossipy, Elliott's “Walt Whitman as Man, Poet and the reader who is led by the title and chapter- Friend” (Badger), being the result of nearly headings to expect detailed and thorough informa- twenty years of occasional letter writing to Whit- tion should not be surprised to find the book dis- man's friends and admirers, soliciting some auto- appointingly slight. graph reminiscence or anecdote of the poet or To their excellent “Musicians Library,” the some tribute to his genius. More than two-score merits of which must by this time be well known replies are here reproduced in facsimile, with to every music lover, Messrs. Ditson have lately appropriate quotations, prose and verse, from added a two-volume collection of “Modern Rus- Whitman himself, from Mr. Horace Traubel, and sian Piano Music” edited by Constantin von from other Whitman-lovers. Inevitably the fac- Sternberg, and a book of “Sixty Irish Songs" simile plan of the book has involved the printing selected and edited by Mr. William Arms Fisher. of much atrocious handwriting, while there is (in- The present Russian renascence makes the first-evitably also) no great amount of really valuable named work particularly timely and welcome. Pro- new literature on the man, poet, and friend, duced in similar form and equally irreproachable Whitman; but the whole forms a pleasing and ; in external details, though not part of the same uncommon souvenir of the imperishable Walt," series, are two other recent publications of Messrs. its constituent parts signed by men so diverse in Ditson —“My Favorite French Songs," selected by character and tastes as Andrew Carnegie and Madame Calvé, and “My Favorite Songs,” selected John Vance Cheney, Whitelaw Reid and Peter by Miss Julia Culp. Each of these collections is Doyle, Professor Dowden and Elbert Hubbard. in two volumes, and together they provide the Of chief interest among the latest additions to soprano singer with infinite musical riches in a “ Everyman's Library” (Dutton) is a two-volume little room. edition of Green's "Short History of England," Notwithstanding heavy difficulties which the war edited and revised by Mr. L. Cecil Jane, with an must impose upon its editors and publishers, the appendix by Dr. R. P. Farley continuing the his- “Loeb Classical Library (Macmillan) continues tory from Waterloo (where Green left it) to 1914. to make steady and satisfactory progress. The Welcome, also, is a volume of William Penn's latest instalment of half a dozen volumes is evenly collected writings, leading off with the “ Essay divided between the Greek and Latin sections. In toward the Present and Future Peace of Europe, the former, we have “ The Odes of Pindar," trans- by the Establishment of an European Parliament, lated by Sir John Sandys;. the second volume of or Estates," as timely to-day as when it first ap- Lucian, in the translation by Professor Harmon of peared in 1693. Two volumes of Mrs. Ewing's Princeton; and Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and stories ought to do something toward reawakening Homerica, comprising in a single volume prac- the spell which that writer exercised upon youthful tically all that remains of the post-Homeric and readers of an earlier generation, particularly when pre-academic epic poetry, translated by Dr. Hugh “Jackanapes" is given the added charm of Ran- G. Evelyn-White. For the two additions to the dolph Caldecott's illustrations. In addition to Latin section, the editors have wisely had recourse these volumes, we have Balzac's “ Ursule Mirouët”; (not, however, without considerable redaction) to George Macdonald's “Phantastes"; Ibsen's “ Lady translations which have become as classic in their Inger," “ The League of Youth," and “ Love's way as the originals,— that of William Melmoth Comedy,” in a single volume; Cardinal Newman's for the two-volume edition of Pliny's Letters, and Scope and Nature of University Education"; that of W. Adlington for “ The Golden Ass” of Dickens's “ Edwin Drood ” and “Master Humph- Apuleius. The support and encouragement of this rey's Clock,” in one volume, with a preface by splendid series on the part of scholarly readers Mr. Chesterton; and the Duchess of Newcastle's cannot be too often or insistently urged. writings. « > > 1916) 343 THE DIAL 19 NOTES. Under the title of “Charles Frohman: Manager and Man," the authorized life of the great theatri- “David Blaize” is the title of a forthcoming cal magnate, by Messrs. Isaac F. Marcosson and novel by Mr. E. F. Benson. Daniel Frohman, will be brought out in book form A new volume by Mr. Edward Carpenter is an- early in the autumn by Messrs. Harper. A nounced under the title of “My Days and Dreams. portion of this biographical material is now “The American Plan of Government," by Mr. appearing in serịal form. Charles W. Bacon, will be issued by Messrs. A work by Professor R. A. Gregory entitled Putnam late next month. “Discovery: Or the Spirit and Service of Science," Mr. E. V. Lucas is writing a new book entitled is announced by Messrs. Macmillan. The author's “London Re-visited,” to be published in due course purpose is to show that scientific research has not by Messrs. Macmillan in their “Wanderer” series. only added to material welfare and increased the A volume of “Songs and Satires" by Mr. Edgar comforts of life, but has also inspired the highest Lee Masters, author of the “Spoon River Anthol- ethical thought and action. ogy,” is soon to be published by Messrs. Macmillan. “Present-Day China: A Narrative of a Nation's The collection of short stories by Sir Rabin- Advance," being a short study of the problems, dranath Tagore, soon to be published by the the achievements, and the prospects of the Chinese Macmillan Co., will present a new phase of this Republic, by Mr. Gardner L. Harding, is soon to versatile writer's genius. be issued by the Century Co. Mr. Harding won the friendship of many leaders of the New China "The Life and Letters of Theodore Watts- and enjoyed unusual advantages for observation Dunton," by Messrs. Thomas Hake and Arthur and study. Compton Rickett, is an interesting item among the Within the next few weeks the Century Co. will spring announcements of London publishers. “Golden Lads," by Mr. Arthur Gleason, being Professor John S. P. Tatlock, of Leland Stanford publish "Principal English Plays," edited by a series of sketches and observations of an Ameri- University, and Mr. Robert G. Martin, of North- can stretcher-bearer in the Belgian army, is an- nounced for early publication by the Century Co. collection of about twenty-five representative plays, western University. The volume will contain a A volume on Abdul Hamid, by Sir Edwin Pears, showing the development of the drama from ear- whose "Forty Years in Constantinople" appeared liest times to the present day. a few months ago, will soon be added to Messrs. Holt's new “Makers of the Nineteenth Century” Illustrative of Shakespeare's Personality,” by Mr. "Shakespeare the Player and Other Papers series. Alexander Cargill, will be published in time for The Shakespeare memorial masque, “Caliban: the forthcoming tercentenary celebrations. The By the Yellow Sands," devised and written by Mr. author has gathered all the accredited facts relating Percy MacKaye for the tercentenary celebration, to Shakesp are's career as a player, and endeav- will be published immediately by Messrs. Double- ored to discern something of his form and day, Page & Co. personality from the evidence of his contem- The influence of the war upon marriage and poraries. the birth-rate, and the general position of mar- Among other forthcoming publications of the riage in modern life, are discussed by Mr. Walter University of Chicago Press are: “Essays in Gallichan in a work entitled “The Great Unmar- ried,” to be published this spring. Experimental Logic,” by Professor John Dewey; “Principles of Money and Banking, Developed in A study of “Samuel Butler, author of "Ere- a Series of Readings,” edited by Mr. Harold G. whon': The Man and His Work," by Mr. J. F. Moulton; “The Story of the New Testament," by Harris, is in press for early issue. A complete | Dr. Edgar Johnson Goodspeed; and “The Nulli- bibliography and a portrait of Butler taken shortly fication Controversy in South Carolina," by Mr. before his death, will be included. Clarence S. Boucher. “A Vagabond's Odyssey: Further Reminiscences For nearly three years Mr. Fremont Rider, of a Wandering Sailor-Troubadour in Many editor of “The Publishers' Weekly," has been Lands," by Mr. A. Safroni Middleton, continuing supervising the preparation of an entirely new the recollections begun by the same author in series of guide books, which aim to do for “Sailor and Beachcomber," is announced. America (the United States in particular) what An anthology of poetry by Chicago writers, past the Baedeker guides have done for Europe. In and present, is in preparation for publication form they will resemble Baedeker, and will con- during the present year by the Roadside Press, tain no illustrations other than maps and plans. Postal Building, Chicago. The secretary of the The first volume, “Rider's New York City," is Press, Miss Minna Mathison, will be grateful for now in press. Messrs. Holt are the publishers of suggestions regarding material to be included, etc. the series. A novel by Mr. Vance Thompson, entitled “The A correspondent of the London “Times” sends Carnival of Destiny," is soon to be published by to that journal the following note on the funeral Messrs. Moffat, Yard & Co. The theme is the of Henry James: “Many besides Mr. Gosse of reappearance of an extraordinary and vivid per- those who on Friday paid their last tribute to sonality in the persons of women living in times Henry James must have been penetrated with the ranging from the Stone Age to the nineteenth extraordinary appropriateness of the setting to century. the occasion. Nothing could have been more con- 6 346 [March 30 THE DIAL sonant with his own feeling and genius than this wonderful old London church, by_some miracle probably the most unspoilt in all England, from whose aisles and monuments a thousand associa- tions rise like incense, and whose speaking silence seems to teach in all its deep humanity, compunc- tion, and understanding the very lesson of the Master.' The green wreath lay on the pall, but there was an irresistible conviction that the ardu- ous spirit was persistent and communicant in the very air. A rash suggestion had been somewhere put forward that the funeral of Henry James should be celebrated in the Abbey. How thankful those who most reverence his memory must be that we have been spared any discussion or differ- ence on such a point, and that in Chelsea Old Church all voices and all thoughts have been in unison, nothing but well and fair, and the last scene so felicitous and worthy of its hero." In connection with the Shakespeare Tercenten- ary the Oxford University Press will publish, in two volumes, a work entitled “ The England of Shakespeare,” containing an elaborate account of the life, society, customs, institutions, and recrea- tions of the Elizabethan age, the materials for which have been collected, with the assistance of many collaborators, by Sir Sidney Lee. Thus Dr. Henry Bradley deals with Shakespeare's English, Sir E. Maunde Thompson with hand- writing, Sir Walter Raleigh with the Elizabethan age, Mr. J. W. Fortescue with the chase, Sir W. 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CASUAL COMMENT . . 366 The wherefore of free verse. - Wells to Mrs. Humphry Ward. Mr. Wells - President and his disciples are supposed to stand par- Angell's breadth of culture.— Problems in bookselling.- A collegian's diary.- Irving- ticularly for this new kind of thing. They ton's infant library.— The alliance of the are not simply story-tellers; they have a Americas.-The best way to celebrate the larger function. When they sit down to write Shakespeare tercentenary.—The reading with novels, it is a pretty serious business. Not the most relish.– A mutual information that they pull a long face over it: motley society.- Coöperation between library and is their wear. But it is not, so to speak, their police.- Mr. Howells in characteristic vein. underwear; that article we take to be stout - The Chapin Library at Williams College. buckram or chain-mail. For these are war- COMMUNICATIONS 369 riors of the mind. Their real affair is not to Somo Recently Discovered Poems by Walt entertain people, but to propagate the faith; Whitman. R. Emory Holloway. and their weapon is the “idea." The Sources of William Vaughn Moody's Unluckily, it is rather hard in practice to “Thammuz." William Chislett, Jr. tell an idea from an abstract theory, or a "Free Verse" Defined. Robert J. Shores. personal prejudice, or a poetic fancy, or a THE POETRY OF LIONEL JOHNSON. fact recorded, or a platform, or a mere notion. Charles H. A. Wager . . 371 But, as far as we can detach them, most of the serious ideas in current fiction seem to be RETROSPECTS OF AN ENGLISH JOURNAL- based on reaction. This, of course, is the IST. Percy F. Bicknell . 375 natural thing. Every age has its modernism, A CENTURY AND A HALF OF AMERICAN and modernism is always first of all a revolt DIPLOMACY. Isaac Joslin Cox . 376 against the smug and orderly past, - a search WAR AND RELIGION. Vida D. Scudder for reality, a "return to nature." Therefore RECENT FICTION. Edward E. Hale . the current novel of ideas is anti-Victorian 383 or anti-Georgian first, and (perhaps) some- BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS. 385 thing else next. Often our champions of the A posthumous volume by Sister Nivedita.- present find it hard to turn away from the The book of the homeless.— Humorous aspects of the lecturer's lot.–European pleasantest and easiest part of their task — history, 1806-1914.—The methods and aims gunning for the past. The ridicule of of great writers.— A disciple of Walt ancestors is now almost as obligatory among Whitman.- An epic of mediæval Russia.- Western peoples as their worship is in China. Socrates as a guide in the conduct of life.- The unpardonable sin is regard for conven- Chapters of self-revelation.— Records of tion: we must be jolted out of that before travel in ancient Egypt.— A history of the anything can really be done for us. And the Jews in Russia and Poland. - Mind cures once more.—The Bible as a work of litera- novel, with its fulcrum of the story, its ture. (inherited) pretence of entertainment, is as handy a tool as may be,- unless you are BRIEFER MENTION. 390 among the lucky ones, the Shaws (if twain NOTES 391 there be), who have somehow got a thumb LIST OF NEW BOOKS . 392 upon the theatre. Yet these new novelists of 379 “ . . . . . 360 [April 13 THE DIAL - - - ours, with the ideas, cannot be disposed of ories, fantastic theories, dreams, forecasts. as mere pretenders. Most of them display One mood—or, if you choose, idea prevails. undeniable quality as story-tellers. They Mr. Wells is a prophet, and his glorious - have the technique of the art at their fingers' future, like most glorious futures, hangs upon ends, are entirely at home upon those high a demolished past. Things are wrong, levels of workmanship which are the peculiar smash them! Then we'll see about building vaunt of our time. They can do what they up again. The "mind of the race” exists, like with their material as far as the but half-enslaved: it is bound to express limits of their talent and the nature of their itself fully when once it has made sure of its material let them. freedom. How pitifully, after all the centu- One of Henry James's last critical excur- ries, we are tied to empty forms! Religion,- sions led him into this bailiwick of the "new" how ineffectual; government,- how clumsy; — novel. He found there great talent (always the attitude of age towards youth,— how a little short of genius), expressing “an appe- futile; marriage,- how deadly in its possi- tite for a closer notation, a sharper specifica- bilities! The whole question of sex,- how ! tion of the signs of life, of consciousness, of crucial, how absorbing, how absorbent of all the human scene and the human subject in other questions that exist under the canopy! general, than the three or four generations Revolt, progress, "new" movements,—when before us had been at all moved to insist on." have they not centred in an attempted read- He found there also an “inordinate posses-justment of the sex-affair? You may tinker sion" of concrete materials, a knack of with other established human relations, but "saturation," and of subsequent expression not too rudely, if you really expect a serious as you express the water from a full sponge hearing. Society, after all, depends on some or the juice from a ripe orange. And along- sort of government for its safety. Men will side of such saturations with scene or type as always be cajoling themselves with some kind that of Mr. Bennett with the Five Towns and of religion. But the marriage-tie, the fetich the middle-class provincialism they embody, of sex-morality regulated by code,- here, at he observes certain other saturations of less least, is a convention we can rid ourselves of material sort,-- as that of Mr. Hugh Walpole comfortably. It is a nuisance to begin with,- with the spirit of youth, or that of Mr. Wells and the existence of the race by no means with his own ideas. Mr. Wells, he says, is hangs upon it. Here, therefore, is the place “a novelist very much as Lord Bacon was to strike in, when we set about disposing of a philosopher,” and is satisfied to “turn out the old lumber piled around us by the mud- his mind and its contents upon us by any dling past. dling past. Mr. Wells (to return to our free familiar gesture and as from a high example) is concerned with many other window forever open.” Mr. Wells did not themes, and yet he can never get away, in a relish this view of him, and retorted upon sense he can never quite afford to get away, his critic with a lively caricature in the from this one. For it is the theme which “Boon” volume. But there is more than a brings him closest to his audience. His little truth in it, if not the whole truth, as splendid childlike dreams of the future, of a applied, I think, not only to Mr. Wells, but world governed by the “mind of the race" as to some of the younger men whose saturation embodied in a natural and veritable aristoc- Mr. James refers to the material plane. racy, remain dreams after all. They have Unluckily, as with Mr. Wells, their inordinate possession of facts is almost inextricably corpuscles; and yet they are pretty remote, involved with their inordinate possession by ideas. we secretly feel, from the real business of What then, their realistic method of story- life as life lives us. On the other hand, when telling apart, are the ideas these "new" nov- he displays the frailty of the family tie, the elists present? Alas, what is an idea! Usage discomforts of the marriage relation, when he gives us choice of a dozen meanings. Mr. assures us that we may fitly and even nobly Wells turns out for our examination, at one cast off a lot of the burdens we have been time or another, pretty much every kind of taught to smile under — it is then that he is mental exhibit that the term can possibly most warmly read and talked of. Where the include,— prejudices, enthusiasms, grave the prophet has captured his thousands of hear- 1916] 361 THE DIAL : ers, the iconoclast has captured his tens of lectual ideas are bound to be present. In a thousands. sense, there never was a story without such an I suspect it might be more instructive than idea, however feebly conceived, behind it. But edifying if some inspired statistician were to in the higher orders it stays behind; at least, tabulate for us the part played by sexual however unmistakably it may inspire or curiosity and incitement in the public patron-inform the story, it does not prod and bully age of novels possessing genuine literary it, does not skip about upon the surface, and merit which have been produced during the sacrifice true action and true characterization past decade or two. Surely, more than one to its own vanity. What interests me when author of serious purpose must have been I take up a new book calling itself a serious humiliated by a sense of the meretricious novel, is whether I am going to find a gar- nature of a sudden popularity due to excep- nished idea, or an interpretation of life tional frankness upon the perennial theme. through character and action, - a document, The pursuit of "realism” has involved special or a true story. risk of this sort. “The real facts of life" is I find the first thing far oftener than the a phrase which seems too often, as I was say- | second: that is to be expected. But what ing the other day, to be nothing better than ought not to be quite so much a matter of an euphemism for the risky or dreary side of course is that half the time the writer has not sex. There are, after all, so many other things really tried to tell a true story. He means in the world !— decency among them. Heaven to report a case or to expound a theory, or defend us from a return to the prudery of at the best to build a fable, — and he must the Victorian regime! The nineteenth century straightway botch his job by idling with the was deplorably fond of playing ostrich. But machinery of action and of character! The there are less decent birds,— the parakeet, mongrel product we proceed to classify and say. I for one believe that reticence, in life dignify under the name of novel! And indeed and in art, is a less corrupting influence than it is often hard enough to judge of such loose babbling. By all means let us tell our books. In a larger sense there is sure to be children all we can, as simply as we can, about some idea or system of ideas — some working the essential facts of sex. But it does not philosophy, as the phrase goes — behind the follow that we need introduce them into labor of every novelist who is anything more brothels, or even into our own bedchambers. than the slave of his mechanism. It may be Let us by all means, as adults, get rid of the the idea of man's brutality, or of his angelic smoking-room leer and the boudoir giggle, possibilities; of the conditions of his domestic and speak as men and women, when occasion happiness or his usefulness in the world. arises, of matters which concern us. We may Such an idea is always likely to crop up to still be chary of saddling our physiology and the surface and get in the way of the artist's pathology upon the novel or any other form effort, when it should be content to underlie of art. and fructify it. On the other hand, not a few We may, to take larger ground, be chary writers who have set out with the vile inten- of imperiling the true ends of art for the sake tion of using fiction as a sugar-coating for of any other ends whatever. It is all very their lectures or their sermons have builded well to say that there is nothing sacred about better than they knew better than they knew — have been insensibly art, that life is far more important, and that seduced into something at least approaching if you can "put across” a working idea under true invention and characterization. They the color of art, so much the better for life. are rather ashamed of that. The argument is especially plausible in regard Here is a pretty good example of the new to the novel, partly because it is the loosest novelist and his nonchalant ways. One of and most flexible of all forms of art, and the most brilliant of the younger English partly because story-telling starts with fable group gives an account of his entrance into and parable, with instilling ideas and pointing fiction. He had been for some years a student morals. Fable and parable are distinct and of serious matters, and had published the intelligible forms, still fit for noble uses, -as results of his study through formal channels. William Morris, or more recently Mr. Henry He had no wish to be a literary artist, but he Newbolt, has shown. In the more complex saw that the novel offered a popular medium: orders of story-telling also, moral and intel- | “I saw that nobody takes a theory seriously - : 362 [April 13 THE DIAL > if you say it in a serious book. I saw that the front. So this letter should furnish not I had wasted years on housing and municipal only some bibliographical data and perhaps a milk; I hurled my blue-books down the base- few critical reflections, but may reveal here ment stairs, and in delicious fury wrote “The and there the underlying moral features of the - This, in short, was a novel with an tremendous contest, especially on the admir- idea or purpose frankly displayed from the able French side, where the eyes of the world first page.” have been so often centred since the autumn It was, the author goes on to of 1914. confess, “the hot controversial production of In the first place, it should be noted that a young mind, anxious to strike a blow for woman, to make society swallow the fact that many of these writers bear in silence a heavy burden of personal sorrow in addition to their under present conditions woman is driven into more public weight of grief as citizens of a abominable trade, to make society ashamed.” suffering country. This spirit of solemn earn- This is all very well; but the pamphleteer had estness has penetrated their whole work, as the story-telling instinct, and duly produced you readily perceive when you chance to learn the inevitable hybrid -- and succeeded in of the existence of this burden, and gives to making a portion of society curious if not this work a deep and touching imprint. Let ashamed. He had dealt freely, that is, with me offer one or two signal instances of this certain "facts of life," aided by a glamour which have recently come under my own eye. of art; and he did not care greatly whether Professor Paul Stapfer, dean emeritus of Bordeaux University, is now seventy-six years that was a false glamour or not. In his later books the story-teller has gained upon the old, but is still vigorous intellectually and pamphleteer; but, an avowed feminist, he still adding new volumes to the more than continues to make a rather shameful thing of thirty which he has published during a long and active life. When a young man fresh sex, and it is little less than pitiful to find from college, he was the tutor, of the grand- him still crowing over his ability to shock. It children of Guizot, and a little later, while is so easy to be shocking, and so little to the teacher of French at the Royal Elizabeth purpose for any man who has it in him to be College at Guernsey, he became very well about the great affirmative business of art. acquainted with Victor Hugo. His doctor's I have been speaking of the newer English thesis was on Laurence Sterne. He was sus- novelists: our own current fiction shows the pended for six months from his duties as dean same confusion of motive and effect. Muck- because of his open support of Dreyfus. Such, raking, social and economic problems, sex briefly told, is the past of the noble scholar who handed me quietly the other day a pathology, can we never get them out of the pamphlet, “Douze Sermons sur la Guerre" foreground? Is the novel so poor a thing as (Paris: Fischbacher, 1 fr. 50) containing a this —- a vehicle for theories, for reports, for dozen sermons preached last autumn in a arguments and rebuttals, for garbage of one country parish in the Gironde. The incum- sort or another? Or may we rightfully look bent was at the front, and Professor Stapfer, to it, when it is really itself, as an embodi- though not himself of the cloth, was asked ment, through the interpretation of human to fill the vacant pulpit. These circumstances in themselves would have sufficed to give a character in action, of the great ideas which certain touch of solemnity to the pamphlet, underlie them,- of truth? but when I reached my hotel and glanced at H. W. BOYNTON. the first page, I read this dedication : "To my grandnephews who have died for our coun- try,” — six in all are mentioned, three bearing LITERARY AFFAIRS IN PARIS. the great Protestant name of Monod; a fourth, (Special Correspondence of THE DIAL.) by the way, also a grandnephew of M. Stapfer, From the great mass of war books published having fallen since the pamphlet was pub- during the past year and a half among the lished, — "to those who have disappeared and French-speaking nations, I have selected for to those still living.” brief notice those which follow mainly because The case of Raoul Allier is very similar. they best illustrate in some way the more Professor at the Paris Theological Seminary, spiritual aspects of the present conflict, their and a clergyman by profession, M. Allier was authors standing for what is more high-invited by the Protestant boys of the capital, minded or characteristic of the finer part of to-day too young to go to the front but who our poor human nature, whether displayed may be called there to-morrow, to deliver at the fireside at home or in the trenches at before them a series of sermons or lectures 1916] 363 THE DIAL > are both (Paris: "Foi et Vie,” 30 centimes each). In In ployed by the Germans. In this propaganda work the letter asking for the sermons, I inquired savants, historians, sociologists, jurists, etc. Our purs we remain to-day what we were in time of peace,- after M. Allier's fine son, an Alpinist, whom pose has been to fix certain aspects of the war by I have seen grow up from boyhood, and whom giving to our work all the objectivity of which we are the people in the streets would turn and ad- capable. There were subjects which we decided not to mire as he went by in his jaunty uniform touch upon, though the newspapers do not hesitate to treat them, because it seemed to us that we could well set off by a graceful carriage and superb not establish objectively the wrong-doings of the physique. The father sent me the lectures, Germans in these particular cases. But we still had and then added simply, at the very end of left a sufficient number of subjects for treatment! his letter: "As for Roger, he disappeared on And now, after having scattered a hundred August 27, 1914, and we have had no news thousand of these pamphlets, translated into from him since.” One may imagine the soul a half dozen modern tongues, in all parts of put into these addresses delivered before the world, this same committee is turning youths but a little younger than his own boy, its attention “to home propaganda, our object many of whom are destined to “disappear” at present being to give our French people a in a similar manner if this dreadful holocaust true picture of the military and economic continues another year. situation of the belligerents, again leaving And the same note of suppressed anguish to one side the purely political events of the is breathed in the Belgian war books, only day.” These "Lettres à Tous les Français,” two of which, however, I can find room to furnished gratis by Colin, the publisher just mention here. “En Italie avant la Guerre” mentioned, embrace “Patience, Effort, Con- (Paris et Bruxelles — note this second city on fidence,” by Professor Durkheim ; “La Paix the title-page -- Van Oest, 2 frs. 50), and que les Allemands Voudraient Faire," by "Les Socialistes et la Guerre Européenne" Professor Ernest Lavisse, the historian and the same publisher and price, and the title head of the Superior Normal School ; and “Le sufficiently describes the contents Bloc des Alliances,” by Professor Ernest by a distinguished Belgian orator and socialist Denis, of the Paris University. deputy, M. Jules Destrée. This is the dedica- Other university professors who contribute tion of the first of these volumes: “To M. conspicuous books, pamphlets, or essays to the Lorand, Liberal Deputy of Viton, and M. question of the hour are M. Jacques Flach, Mélot, Catholic Deputy of Namur, their the French jurist who has written much on socialist colleague of Charleroi, in memory of Cujas and Jonathan Swift, and who is a mem- a time when party distinctions disappear ber of the Institute and professor at the before the common desire to defend the out- College of France, — “Le Droit de la Force et raged Commonwealth.” Nor should this state- la Force du Droit” (Paris: Recueil Sirey, 1 ment in Maeterlinck's preface to the volume | fr. 50); a high-keyed lecture delivered in one be overlooked,- that the landlords of the of the Paris Protestant churches; M. Léon hotel where the poet and the orator ("a Pollier, professor at the Toulouse Law School, formidable orator," the former styles the -“Les Forces de la France d'Hier et de latter) put up during their tour stating the Demain” (Paris: Recueil Sirey, 3 frs.), six Belgian case and, indirectly, discreetly push- lectures delivered last April at Madrid, thè ing Italy towards hostilities, all refused pay, author's chief aim being to combat the idea and even the servants declined the traditional prevailing abroad that this war has brought pourboire, a good example of that indescrib- out a new France, whereas we simply see able and often unexpected sentimentality of the old France to which foreigners had shut the Latins. their eyes”; M. Eugène d'Eichthal, member The Paris university world has also been of the Institute and director of the well doing some excellent work in influencing known school in the Rue Saint Guillaume, foreign public opinion, by editing and issuing “Kant et la Guerre,” “Des Evaluations du a very able series of pamphlets under the Coût de la Guerre,” and “Après Douze Mois general title of “Etudes et Documents sur de Guerre” (Paris : Alcan, 50 centimes each), la Guerre” (Paris: Colin, 50 centimes each). three essays which are worthy of particular The aim and spirit of these nine or ten opus- attention because of the subjects treated and cules is well set forth in this extract from a because of the high position of the author in letter of the secretary of the committee of the economic and educational circles of Paris ; professors who have the work in charge,- M. Paul Seippel, professor at the Zurich Professor Emile Durkheim, who fills the chair Polytechnic School, -—“La Défense de notre of philosophy at the Sorbonne: Indépendance Intellectuelle” (Zurich: Orell Our purpose has been to counteract the propaganda of the Germans among the neutral nations, but by Füssli, 25 centimes), an excellent presentation employing a method quite different from that em- by an able neutral of the difficult position of . > 364 (April 13 THE DIAL - a man - troubled Switzerland in the present conflict; speaking again. In the meantime I observe and work and M. Joseph Barthélemy, professor at in silence. As regards books which judge from an the Paris Law School,— “Les Institutions ing to the passions of the day, I practically know none, elevated standpoint the present crisis, without yield- Politiques de l'Allemagne Contemporaine" except they be in manuscript, for at present it is (Paris: Alcan, 3 frs. 50). The author of almost impossible to get printed in the belligerent this last-named book should not be con- states, except in England perhaps, anything which runs counter to the current of public opinion. Here founded, as often happens, with Professor and there some good article appears, and now and Henri Berthélemy, also of the Paris Univer- then a book of audacious verse slips through — the sity and who also writes on questions of poets seem to be regarded as rather inoffensive - and public law. As young Joseph among these last is Jouve's volume. Barthélemy studied at Bonn, Heidelberg, and The book referred to, by the poet P. J. Jouve, Berlin. “I was especially attracted by “Vous êtes des Hommes” (Paris : Nouvelle Professor Jellinek,” he once said to me, "and Revue Française, 2 frs. 50), is a little collec- I think I know well enough German political tion of vigorous poems suggested by the war science to enjoy the right of not having to and presented in free verse. The author is admire it." The aim of the book is to show interesting to Americans in more ways than that real political liberty is unknown in Ger- one. He is about thirty years old, and belongs many - "the accentuation of the anti-parlia- to a group of young French poets, consisting mentary régime under Herr von Bethmann- of Vildrac, Bazalgette, Jean Richard Bloch, Hollweg cannot be questioned”-- and hence and others, who have been strongly influenced the cause of danger to the rest of the world. by Walt Whitman. “This circle," writes I may add, by the way, that perhaps no other Rolland, “has best preserved during the war writer has been so often “crowned” by the a spirit of equity and large humanity.” Even Institute, M. Barthélemy having been six Walt's inclination towards nursing the sol- times a "laureate" of the Academy of Moral diers of our own Civil War seems to have and Political Sciences. found imitation on the part of his French Mention of Professor Seippel and of Zurich disciple. Jouve's health was so bad that the reminds me of the splendid part which the military authorities pronounced him unfit for Swiss people in general has been playing in active service, and he might have remained this terrible catastrophe. A single example quietly at home with wife and boy. But he will suffice. “Le Passage des Rapatriés volunteered twice for duty in the hospitals, Français à Zurich" (Bale: Nouvelle Librairie worked there for a year, twice fell ill, and is Littérarie, 3 frs.) is a collection of photo- now at “La Fenière," a villa at Montana, graphs of those forlorn French men, women, Switzerland, trying to restore his shattered and children who, torn from the invaded nerves. regions of France by the Germans, are now, A couple of volumes of reprints from the provisions becoming scarce, sent back to their editorial pages of two important paris reviews desolate homes, where they should have been deserve attention for several reasons. These left in the first place. There are fifty pages are “La Guerre de 1914 vue en son Cours of these photographs, generally four to the chaque Semaine” (Paris : Delagrave, 3 frs. page, taken by different members of the 50), by M. Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, the learned “Comité des Rapatriés,” one of the many French political economist, editor of the spontaneously constituted Swiss groups that weekly paper, “L’Economiste Français”; and have done so much to alleviate the sufferings “L'Allemagne contre l'Europe" (Paris : of their unfortunate neighbors. At the end of Perrin, 3 frs. 50), by the late Francis the volume, the Rev. William Cuendet, presi- Charmes. The publisher of this last-named dent of the committee, explains in a few volume informs me that it will be followed pathetic pages what he and his friends have by a second which will continue the reprint accomplished. It is one of the tenderest epi- of M. Charmes's chroniques of the “Revue sodes of the present war, and it does marked des Deux Mondes” down to the day of his credit to warm and generous Swiss philan- death. M. Leroy-Beaulieu's volume extends thropy. from August, 1914, to July, 1915. In the From Switzerland also comes this rather first article he said that he thought the war, melancholy and outspoken note from Romain then just begun, “could not end in less than Rolland: three months; it may, like that of 1870, last Freedom of speech is too limited in France just half a year”! The author tells me that the now and passions are too excited to make it possible second volume will appear some time toward or useful to try and make heard an independent the end of next summer, and thereupon he thought. I have said in my published articles all that I can say, for the moment, as a good Frenchman adds: who will not, however, surrender his own reason. I It is not likely that the war will then be finished; will now wait for a more favorable hour before so I will have a third volume devoted to the third > 1916] 365 THE DIAL 9 > - year of the hostilities, as the armistice and the nego- Salomon Reinach's "Voix Américaines"; "Les tiations will also doubtless occur in this year, and Poètes de la Guerre,” giving verses by Jean lead up to the peace, which it will take much time to bring about, on account of the number of belligerents Aicard, François Fabié, Paul Fort, Rostand, and the enormity of the interests concerned. etc.; "Les Volontaires Etrangers," where our Another publication which covers the whole American young men who have taken up period of the war down to a recent date is the arms for France receive due praise; and “Histoire de la Guerre par le Bulletin des “Chants de Soldat" (1525-1915), including Armées" (Paris: Hachette, two volumes, 3 frs. the national airs of the allies. each). This is a reprint of the “Bulletin des But a more important volume devoted to Armées de la République” how this title soldiers' songs is “Chansons pour les Poilus" savors of the heroic days of the First Repub- (Nancy: Berger-Levrault, 2 frs. 50), written lic!- the little semi-weekly journal issued by by M. André Alexandre, poet, dramatist the Minister of War and sent to the trenches, “Madame Chrysanthème” is his work — and often the only reading matter received there prolific song-writer. In a preface to the vol- for weeks at a time. The paper is not on sale, is not on sale, ume, the well known Paris lawyer, M. Henri and this reprint is made to satisfy public Robert, deservedly praises both these songs curiosity to have a set of this official and yet and their author. popularly edited periodical, an interesting Nor does the attention of the French Gov- evidence of the fact that republican France ernment and French writers and artists for considers the intellectual condition of her the well-being of their soldiers stop with intel- troops of the first importance. lectual and more material comforts. “Conseils Very different is the series of volumes edited au Soldat pour sa Santé" (Paris : Wellhoff & by the veteran Paris journalist, M. Gaston Roche, 50 centimes) is a pamphlet issued by Jollivet (Paris: Hachette, 3 frs. 50 each) — the Health Bureau of the War Office and two have already appeared and three or four intended as a sanitary guide for the common are to follow, - a sort of brief running soldier. It is an admirable little publication, , account of the operations from day to day, and must be doing a world of good in the which are a very good supplement to M. ranks. Joseph Reinach's "Les Commentaires de Even the élite directories reflect the prevail- Polybe” (Paris: Fasquelle, 4 volumes, 3 frs. ing spirit. One of the oldest of these - it 50 each). It will be remembered that the has been appearing for over thirty years - Greek historian Polybius, who lived some two and one of the best, “Tout Paris” (Paris : 55 hundred years before our era, was a model Chaussée d'Antin, 12 frs.), prints in heavy- of conciseness. “I have always had a great faced type the names of the young men and liking for this historian,” says the versatile officers of Paris fashionable life who have author of these modern commentaries in his fallen in battle. The roll is a long one, and preface, “who shows that in politics as in war, the grandest families of historic, literary, and however much of the success may be attributed artistic France are represented in it. At the to good luck, coherency in plan and per- end of the volume is a list with the caption, severance in resolution count for something, “Honneur et Patrie,” giving not only the ‘often producing finer effects than rashness names of those "mentioned in dispatches" or and hazard,' says the old Greek writer, thus decorated, but printing the official statement predicting, it might seem, the Joffre of of why they were so honored. Here again the to-day." The appendix to the fourth volume catalogue is lengthy and brilliant. contains some important statements concern- ing Ferdinand and the Bulgarians which are Perhaps the best collection in France of very timely at this hour. everything pertaining to the present war — In this same category of books belongs books, maps, reviews, pamphlets, newspaper- “Pages d'Histoire" (Nancy : Berger-Levrault, clippings, etc., - is to be found in prices varying from 30 to 90 centimes accord? “Bibliothèque de la Guerre” of the Lyons ing to the size of the pamphlet). This col- Public Library. The librarian writes me that lection, which now numbers over a hundred they have correspondents in all parts of the separate pamphlets, is edited by M. Robert world, exclusive of the diplomatic and con- Steinheil, of the firm which publishes it, and sular representatives of France, who are also is sent in large quantities to the front. "Here helping. A special catalogue is now being will be found the remarkable article by M. drawn up. Senator Herriot, the mayor of Emile Boutroux, on the perversion of the Lyons, a man of much intellectual and literary grand soul of the old Germany which we all polish, is the soul of the whole enterprise. loved and admired, which article first ap- THEODORE STANTON. peared in the "Revue des Deux Mondes”; M. Paris, March 25, 1916. 366 [April 13 THE DIAL > CASUAL COMMENT. University of Vermont, and had held a profes- sorship at Brown University, of which he was THE WHEREFORE OF FREE VERSE is set forth a graduate. He had also been United States with some ingenuity, even if not with entire Minister to China, had received the appoint- persuasiveness, by Mr. Edward Storer in "The ment to a like post at Constantinople, but had “ New Republic." He holds that "a poet who soon resigned, had served on two important wishes to give expression to realities in national commissions, had been a member of modern life will find in practice that he is the board of regents of the Smithsonian Insti- confined for his literary expression to the two tution, and had, earlier in life, edited the media of prose and free verse”; and the Providence “Journal” for six or seven years. reason of this is that the regular, rhythmical Agricultural experience on the home farm, form in which so much of poetic feeling in the studies abroad, the exercise of his pen in past has found expression owes its being to authorship, and of his voice on the public plat- the religious impulse. As these older metrical form, with a number of other activities, had schemes “lost the primitive force that created contributed in their several ways to his devel- them, they also lost their meaning, or a part opment. In literature his most generally of their meaning,” and it is now "impossible interesting work is his modest volume of in using them to produce more than a “Reminiscences,” published four years ago, theatrical effect.” They may still serve the while his more scholarly side is shown in his purposes of amusement, of dilettante literary earlier works, “Progress in International exercises; but for the adequate utterance of Law” and “The Higher Education.” Maga- “modern truths, there are the great formless- zine articles, lectures, and other short pieces nesses, the dissipating molten matter of have come from his pen in some abundance. speech, the possibilities of language.” So far, His story of his own life, above referred to, Mr. Storer. In reply one might ask whether has many a genial touch. No good and per- the religious impulse no longer stirs in human tinent anecdote comes amiss with its author. breasts, whether the emotion of awe and He illustrates the German love of thorough- reverence in the face of the mystery of ness, the Deutsche Gründlichkeit, by a brief existence and the wonders of creation has reference to the literary methods of an author become a thing of the past. And what has and antiquary with whom he had become poetry, any more than any other art, to do acquainted in Braunschweig. This man made with "formlessnesses” except to reduce them a study of the coats-of-arms of the Brunswick to form ? The poet, etymologically and in chimneys, and wrote a book about them, a the common understanding of the word, is a “History of the Chimneys of Brunswick,” in maker, a fashioner, not a dealer in "great which, for the sake of thoroughness, he first formlessnesses” or “molten matter." One need went back to the chimneys of ancient Greece go no further than the nursery to learn, from and Rome, but became convinced, after pains- the instinctive use of rhyme and metre there, taking research, that the Greeks and Romans that these regular rhythms, believed by Mr. had no chimneys; accordingly the first part Storer to belong to a past age, are as much of of his treatise turned out to be a laborious the present time as is the measured beat of dissertation on the nonexistent chimneys of a our pulse, or the regular alternation of inhala- chimneyless people. This autobiography of tion and exhalation. The ripple of the ocean the late James Burrill Angell is, in its way, a waves, the breaking of the surf on the sea- notable little book, and a highly readable one. shore, the swing of the planets in their orbits - these and countless other examples of the rhythm that pervades all nature refute the PROBLEMS IN BOOKSELLING have from the first exercised the wits of those engaged in doctrine that the day of regular rhythms has this trade. As early as 1471 certain printers passed. of the Latin classics in Rome found themselves so embarrassed by the difficulty of getting PRESIDENT ANGELL'S BREADTH OF CULTURE their wares into the hands of those for whom was the natural result, the earned reward, of they were intended, and who unquestionably his labors in many fields, educational, literary, desired them, that these printers appealed to journalistic, editorial, administrative, and and the Pope for assistance. It was the same diplomatic. At his death on the first day of problem that still perplexes, how to bring this month, in his eighty-eighth year, he had the book and its buyer most expeditiously and been for more than six years president unfailingly together, at a minimum expense. emeritus of the University of Michigan, after Probably not even papal infallibility was holding the presidency thirty-eight years, equal to the exigencies of the case. This inci- before which he had been president of the dent is referred to by Mr. Joseph Shaylor, a 7 - 1916) 367 THE DIAL > veteran of the English bookselling trade, in He made a long introduction to the matter in “Some Thoughts on Bookselling," published hand very flowery and bombastic indeed, in a recent issue of “The Publishers' Circu- which appeared to me very much out of taste. lar” (London), though originally prepared I believe, however, that it was entirely extem- for oral presentation before a convention of poraneous and that he was carried away by the Associated Booksellers that failed to con- the current of his thoughts. In fact, he vene by reason of disorganization caused by appears to say just what comes uppermost. the war. He writes at some length and with The regular translation and explanation part complete understanding of the questions dis- of the lecture was very good.' A later entry cussed. In a concluding summary he em- records the writer's decision not to attend the phasizes three of these questions: first, he lectures on the second part of Faust, a volun- believes that books by untried authors, works tary course. “The lectures are tolerably in the purchase of which the dealer incurs interesting, but not enough so to compensate more than the ordinary risk, should be return- for the time taken up by them." Still later he able to the publishers within six months; "went to Professor Longfellow's introductory secondly, the publisher should make a plain lecture on Dante. Much to my delight, he distinction between books in which he is finan- rather advised those who had not finished the cially concerned and those which he issues at Ital. course not to attend till next year, the author's expense; and thirdly, he should which advice I shall follow.” There is record always fix his terms and adhere to them with of an "exhibition,” in which, says the diarist, both wholesale and retail dealer, and the rates “I liked Jim Lowell's part better than any of of discount to these dealers should be per- the others.” Interesting, in a different man. manently established and strictly observed by ner from these jottings, is the facsimile of all publishers, acting in harmony. In general, student Hale's college bill for one term. it is organization and coöperation that are Tuition is $25.00; rent and care of room, lacking among publishers the world over. $5.00; special repairs, $0.57; fuel, $2.75; How to effect these is a great problem, and board, $28.60. Total, $61.92. its magnitude becomes apparent when one bears in mind that the world's annual output IRVINGTON'S INFANT LIBRARY has passed its of books amounts to nearly 175,000 separate first birthday (or should one say its second, works, or did before the present relapse into counting the day on which it was born as its barbarism. first ?) and issued its "First Annual Report.” A COLLEGIAN'S DIARY that gives glimpses of It is Irvington, New Jersey, not Irvington-on- , Longfellow as lecturer, of Lowell as student, Hudson, that is here meant. The New Jersey of Pierce and Felton and E. T. Channing in Irvington is much the larger of the two, their several chairs of instruction, and of having nearly or quite twelve thousand other notables of the time and place, is likely inhabitants, and the wonder is that it has not to be interesting reading; and when the this may be partly explained by its proximity sooner acquired a public library. Perhaps diarist himself chances to be no less a per- to the excellent institution that has made sonage than the author of "The Man without a Country,” this likelihood becomes a virtual Newark famous in the library world. At any certainty. Professor Edward E. Hale has rate, it now has “a live, growing collection of edited for the April number of “Harper's books” of its own, numbering 3,569 at last Monthly” some selections from his father's accounts, presumably a building in which to journal of Harvard life in the thirties of last keep them, and certainly a librarian, Miss century. The first entry bears date of Janu: May E. Baillet, to promote their usefulness ary, 1837, when the writer was half-way and report upon their circulation, growth, and through his sophomore year, though not yet board of seven trustees, including a mayor other kindred matters. Moreover, it has a quite fifteen years old. Here is a passage, unintentionally smile-provoking at the end: of Glorieux. Under lucky auspices does the who answers to the fortunately ominous name “We recited in German for the first time to Professor Longfellow. The recitation, or Irvington (N. J.) Public Library enter upon rather the exercise, for we had no lesson set its second year of existence. before, was very easy. I think we shall like the study very much.” Some months later: THE ALLIANCE OF THE AMERICAS seems to “At 11 A. M. went to Professor Longfellow's hang in the balance for the moment, awaiting first lecture on Goethe's Faust. The lectures the action of Congress in the Colombia matter, are to be extemporaneous translations of the and the outcome of our military expedition German with explanations; as he called it into Mexico. Meanwhile, it is perhaps worth recitations in which he recites and we hear. I while to draw attention to an interesting arti- > 368 [April 13 THE DIAL 7 а cle in the "Review Cuba Contemporánea," on that basis you can meet him directly and entitled “The Races in America.” It is writ- on your own ground. If you have been ten by Dr. José Ingenieros, but sets forth the through the world's mill to any purpose you views of the distinguished Argentine sociol- may get more out of him, and be able to tell ogist, Señor Domingo F. Sarmiento. The more about him, than even the most learned paper's aim may be summed up in one sen- and cloistered commentator.” A good play to tence of the article: to construct, with all the select for this reading, and one that has not poor and weak nations of South America, a yet been read and “studied” to death, would grand and strong modern nation, after the be “Richard II.,” by some critics pronounced type of that of the North, their constant superior to "Richard III.,” which has tended model. Such a generous tribute from such to eclipse it; at any rate, it has merits enough a source shows that the two races and two of its own to fear no comparison with its continents are approaching each other. On fellows. neither side does “ignorance make a barren THE READING WITH THE MOST RELISH is waste of all beyond itself.” Another article in the same review, on “The Spirit of Liberty in likely to be that which has been secured with the Poetry of Dominicana," will be a revela- effort and after long waiting. Lamb's ecsta- tion to those who might have been in doubt sies over an old and rare book, long coveted and at last obtained only after strict economy, whether either liberty or poetry existed in that island. In Cuba itself there is certainly town of Swanton, Vermont, there has lately are well known to readers of Elia. In the an intellectual revival. We hope that this been finished a library building that owes may be in some measure due to the action of its existence to no millionaire benefactor, nor the United States in interfering to secure its freedom. From Santiago de Cuba comes a even to any appropriation from the public funds. A writer in the “Bulletin of the Ver- stout volume as a memorial of the foundation mont Free Public Library Commission” and first year of “El Ateneo," an association of writers and artists of various kinds, appar- announces with pride that “the peculiar ently somewhat after the order of the old distinction of the Swanton library resides Italian Academy. Its purpose is to promote in the fact that it is in the completest sense community possession." King's the arts, judge works, award prizes, and so forth. It has an imposing list of committees Daughters, churches and schools, boys and for the various sections, — Literature, Philos- girls, men and women, all have worked , ophy, Music, Plastic Arts, and many others. together to make the library, long a desirabil- That its work is well done may be attested by feel a peculiar sense of proprietorship, which ity, an actuality; and now they one and all a volume of addresses on Schumann, Chopin, augurs well for the future usefulness of this and Grieg, put forth by its Director, the poet work of their hands. The lot of land on which and critic, Max Henriquez Ureña. the building stands was originally granted by George III, “to his loving subjects of New THE BEST WAY TO CELEBRATE THE SHAKE- Hampshire,” and its subsequent changes of SPEARE TERCENTENARY, or one of the best ownership, down to the benefactor who gave ways, is pointed out by Mr. Charles D. it to the town for its present use, have been Stewart in the “Wisconsin Library Bulletin” | traced. for March, a Shakespeare number in certain of its features. Mr. Stewart's wise and prac- A MUTUAL INFORMATION SOCIETY is now in ticable suggestion is that we observe this process of organization under the direction three-hundredth recurrence of Shakespeare's McPike. It is to be called the International (in America, at least) of Mr. Eugene F. death-day (our word, not Mr. Stewart's) by Society for Intercommunication, and is to be reading one or two of his plays and trying to “devoted to the promotion of ways and means become really acquainted with him. “Take a play that has not been staled by everyday tion.” An official organ” will be published to facilitate the interchange of useful informa- quotation and which has not been made tire monthly and will be sent to all members, the . declaring your independence of all scholars members themselves to constitute the staff of and commentators, and throwing aside all contributors. With the magazine will go a list help except an occasional reference to the of members, with their addresses and an indi- glossary, sit down to get out of his work the cation of their individual pursuits or chosen one great thing that is in it — namely human departments of study. Thus every member nature. Aside from his wonderful power of will be brought, if he wishes it, into ready expression, which will take care of itself, this communication with every other member is the thing which makes Shakespeare; and interested in the same topics or researches as 66 a 1916) 369 THE DIAL himself. “The American Committee," we with the cow-like gait which her swirling skirt learn from the prospectus, "will be composed gave her," and we find her more minutely of residents of the United States, Canada, and depicted as "a young woman unkempt as to other portions of North America where the the pale hair which escaped from the knot at English language is used and understood." her neck and stuck out there and dangled Passive membership, as well as active, will be about her face in spite of the attempts made permitted, and those simply desiring to for- to gather it under the control of the high horn ward the good cause in a material sense may comb holding its main strands together. The pay their annual fee and remain anonymous lankness of her long figure showed in the on the list of members. But of course it is calico wrapper which seemed her sole gar- hoped that most participants in the enterprise ment; and her large features were respectively will be information-seekers and information- lank in their way, nose and chin and high givers, enlarging the bounds of human knowl-cheek-bones; her eyes wabbled in their edge and diminishing the scope of human sockets with the sort of inquiring laughter ignorance. The fee for membership is three that spread her wide, loose mouth. She was dollars a year, or half that amount for six barefooted, like Reverdy, . The unfold- months, and is payable to Mr. Eugene F. ing of this tale and the development of these McPike, Acting Secretary and Treasurer of characters, Sally Reverdy not least of all, will the American Committee, 1200 Michigan be followed with eager attention by those who Avenue, Chicago. enjoy the unsparing realism of which a sample has here been displayed. COÖPERATION BETWEEN LIBRARY AND POLICE has for some time been attempted in a novel THE CHAPIN LIBRARY AT WILLIAMS COL- way and apparently with good results in one of the cities of the state whose public-library LEGE, the collection of rare books lately given system is the most nearly complete of any to his alma mater by the Hon. Alfred C. in America. Only one town in Massachusetts Chapin, '69, a wealthy New York lawyer and is without its public library, and this town bibliophile, will soon have a special building (Newbury) enjoys the use of a neighboring hand that bestowed the books. At the time of its own, provided by the same generous library - for a proper consideration. But to return to our starting-point: in the city of of Mr. Chapin's benefaction, last May, it was Somerville, a suburb of Boston, boy offenders noted in these columns, and the inadequacy placed on probation by the police court are of the present college library building was required to report at stated times to the pro- pointed out. Now it is proposed to erect a bation officer at the library, not, as heretofore, structure that will both serve the needs of the at the police court. Every such youthful fine Chapin collection and lend itself to in- offender is made to draw from the library a corporation with a larger general library book with a story bearing on the offence of building when the needed funds for such which he is guilty and pointing a moral, and, building shall be provided; and their provi- what is more, the boy is subsequently called sion ought to be and is likely to be hastened upon for proof that he has read the prescribed by the present action of Mr. Chapin, by no matter. Close coöperation between the court, means his first addition to the group of col- the police, and the library is producing what lege halls. He crowns his latest munificence seem to be encouraging results. Here, then, by providing for the maintenance of what is one more to add to the increasing list of will doubtless commonly be known as the coöperative activities engaged in by the public Chapin Library. library. > MR. HOWELLS IN CHARACTERISTIC VEIN opens COMMUNICATIONS. his story of “The Leatherwood God” in the current “Century." The Middle West, which SOME RECENTLY DISCOVERED POEMS he learned to know as boy and youth, is the BY WALT WHITMAN. scene of the tale, and its characters are Middle (To the Editor of THE DIAL.) Westerners of unspoiled rusticity. In the very May I be allowed space in your columns to first chapter we make the acquaintance of four announce, for the benefit of students of the poetry of these characters, with the ease and quick- ber of his early poems? Of all the verse which of Walt Whitman, the recent discovery of a num. ness that go with freedom from those con- Whitman must have written before he produced, ventions that more or less hamper urban at the age of thirty-six, that prodigy of poetry, society. For example, we meet with Sally the First Edition of "Leaves of Grass," he has Reverdy, or, in more respectful terms, Mrs. preserved but four poems, and the diligence of Abel Reverdy; we see her run "up the road his biographers has unearthed only as many more. 370 [April 13 THE DIAL * To this paper In the "Brooklyn Daily Eagle" there appeared Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood in 1846, when Whitman was editor of the paper, Of Thammuz yearly wounded: the love-tale two poems: "The Play-Ground," a descriptive Infected Sion's daughters with like heat, poem, and an “Ode — to be sung on Fort Greene; Whose wanton passions in the sacred porch 4th of July, 1846.” Ten others have been found Ezekiel saw, when, by the vision led, His eye surveyed the dark idolatries in an imperfect file of the “Long Island Demo- Of alienated Judah. crat,” recently rescued from an old garret. In his edition of Milton's poems (“Cambridge It appears that in the year 1840, Whitman was teaching school in, or near, Jamaica, Long Island, Edition,” 1899), page 395, Moody has the follow- a village which has since been incorporated in the ing note on Milton's “Thammuz": “An important Borough of Queens, New York City. He boarded, figure in Phænician mythology. He was slain by for over a year, with a certain James J. Brenton, a boar in Lebanon, but comes to life each spring, who afterwards (1850) included in his “Voices his death and resuscitation symbolizing the destruc- from the Press” one of Whitman's early sketches tive forces of winter and the quickening forces called “Tomb Blossoms." Mr. Brenton was the of spring. When the river Adonis became red- editor and publisher of the "Long Island Demo- dened by the mud brought down from Lebanon crat,” in the office of which, after school hours, by the spring torrents, it was believed to be the Whitman worked as a compositor. flowing afresh of Thammuz's wounds which caused Whitman contributed, with fair regularity, one the change of color." piece of verse each month. In Moody's “Thammuz" the god is represented The tone of most of these poems is meditative, as killed by frenzied women. This conception is if not morbid, a common theme being the vanity not innate in the Thammuz-Adonis myth, so Moody of life and the peacefulness of death. Even one effected a combination of the Orpheus story, in which love-maddened nymphs slay the hapless which is ostensibly a continuation of the well known ballad, “Father Grimes," soon loses the jest singer, and of the “Bacchae” of Euripides, in in the sermon. But all show conscientious experi- which women crazed by Dionysus tear Pentheus mentation in various verse forms, and indicate an to pieces. increasing mastery of form and phrasing. A list I now venture to quote “Thammuz" entire: of the titles will give some idea of what the youth Daughters, daughters, do ye grieve? Crimson dark the freshes flow! of twenty or so was meditating about in the days Were ye violent at eve? when his only readers were the subscribers to a Crimson stains where the rushes grow! village paper: “Young Grimes,” “Fame's Van- What is this that I must know ity" (the original form of the autobiographical “Ambition”), “My Departure". (the original of Mourners by the dark red waters, “Death of Nature Lover”), “The Inca's Met ye Thammuz at his play? Daughter," "The Love that is Hereafter," "We “ Was your mood upon you, daughters ? Shall Rest at Last” (the original of “Each Has Had ye drunken? O how grey His Grief”), “The Spanish Lady,” “The End of Looks your hair in the rising day! All,” “The Columbian's Song" (a patriotic ode), Mourners, mourn not overmuch and “The Winding-Up” (a revision of “The End That ye slew your lovely one. of All”). Such ye are; and be ye such! When a more scientific study of Whitman's early Lift your heads; the waters run life and writings than has hitherto been possible Ruby bright in the climbing sun. is made, these accidentally preserved "efforts" will prove of considerable importance. Raven hair and hair of gold, R. EMORY HOLLOWAY. Look who bendeth over you! This is not the shepherd old; Adelphi College, Brooklyn, April 5, 1916. This is Thammuz, whom ye slew, Radiant Thammuz, risen anew! THE SOURCES OF WILLIAM VAUGHN WILLIAM CHISLETT, JR. MOODY'S “THAMMUZ.” Stanford University, Cal., April 4, 1916. (To the Editor of THE DIAL.) I daresay that most readers of William Vaughn Moody's poetry are puzzled by his “Thammuz.” “FREE VERSE" DEFINED. In four stanzas the poet embodies his conception (To the Editor of THE DIAL.) of life as a fusion of religious mysticism and Members of the Poetry Society of America have pagan joy. His sources are the Bible, Milton, the been much concerned of late because nobody could myth of Orpheus, and Euripides. seem to hit upon a satisfactory definition of vers In his ode “On the Morning of Christ's libre or free verse. Nativity," Milton writes (line 204): Having observed this contest for some time, and In vain the Tyrian maids their Thammuz mourn. noted the anguish of mind into which this question while at line 460 of "Paradise Lost” he expands has thrown some of our temperamental singers, I “Ezekiel" VIII, 14, as follows: can no longer bear to let them suffer, and hence Thammuz came next behind, come forward to suggest the following: “Free Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured verse is verse which cannot be sold and which The Syrian damsels to lament his fate must, therefore, be given away. In amorous ditties all a summer's day, ROBERT J. SHORES. While smooth Adonis from his native rock New York, April 1, 1916. a 1916] 371 THE DIAL The New Books. even aim. While the piercing tenderness and pathos of the elder poet are almost never found in the younger-Arnold's "sad lucid- THE POETRY OF LIONEL JOHNSON.* ity of soul” is, of course, quite beyond him, yet the melody of his verse, its subtle ordering We have all been reading lately the verse of vowel and consonant, its delicate adjust- and travel letters of a young English poet ment of pause, its lingering beauty of cadence whom death has set apart from his fellows and anticipated in his favor the verdict of happiest moments. The following stanzas are are not to be found in Arnold except in his posterity. It is startling to reflect how long of his twentieth year and show that in the he might have waited for the fame which is technique of meditative verse, at all events, he now his, and rightly his, had not death had little to learn: silenced him forever. Yet it seems clear, as Ahl fair lips hushed in death! clear as such things can ever be, that the Now their glad breath verdict is a just one, and that Rupert Brooke's Breathes not upon our air niche in the House of Fame is secure. Be- Music, that saith tween him and Lionel Johnson a comparison Love only, and things fair. is all but inevitable. Both were public school Ah! lost brother! Ah! sweet and university men, representing, therefore, Still hands and feet! much the same social and literary tradition; May those feet haste to reach, Those hands to greet both early gave proof of a notable poetic gift; Us where love needs no speech. and the fame of both rests solely upon the first fruits of their genius; for, though John- The curiously effective pause upon the first son lived to be thirty-five, the greater part of syllables of certain lines is highly character- his verse was written, like Brooke's, before he istic; the short line, too, is a favorite with was twenty-six. Their very portraits invite him, and some of his most admirable verse- comparison and, at the same time, suggest the forms are built upon it. He may well have essential difference in their poetic quality. got a hint of its possibilities from Arnold, Brooke is the spirit of adventure incarnate, though he uses it in so different a way and with every sense alert for what life may offer; produces with it effects so different. At all while in Johnson's steady eyes and quiet events such stanzas as the following sound mouth there is the look of one to whom the pleasantly upon the ear of the lover of Arnold's verse: world is not a pageant but a problem, the solution of which he does not expect to find in I, living with delight This rich autumnal day, what he hears and sees. The one face is vivid, Mark the gulls' curving flight winning, richly human; the other is grave, Across the black-girt bay. reflective, even a little chilling, notwithstand- Winds rush and waters roll: ing its youthful charm. And this contrast is Their strength, their beauty brings more than superficial. In Johnson we miss Into mine heart the whole the richness, the vehemence, the triumphant Magnificence of things. accent of the young soldier-poet's utterance; It is not Arnold's music, yet in imagery, mood, the will to live is less clamorous in his verse. and melody the poem from which these lines On the other hand, there is a meditative are taken is subtly reminiscent of“Obermann." a teries of life, that the younger poet, in his Probably it is the poet's spiritual kinship with , Arnold more than the movement of his verse haste to be about the business of living, did that reminds us of him. Certainly there are not pause to achieve. There are, of course, diversities of poetic as truly as of spiritual poems in this volume that both for substance gifts, but "the one Spirit's plastic stress" is stanzas from “Lucretius” bear witness : urgent in them all. Thou knowest now, that life and death Of the genuineness of Lionel Johnson's gift Are wondrous intervals : there can be no doubt. His technique—to The fortunes of a fitful breath, speak first of its external aspect—is well-nigh Within the flaming walls. flawless. He sometimes reminds us of Arnold, Without them, an eternal plan, whom he sincerely admired and perhaps imi- Which life and death obey: tated; but at his best and dealing with a Divinity, that fashions man, sympathetic theme, he often reaches a degree Its high, immortal way. and kind of beauty at which Arnold did not It is evident that such verse as this might not improperly be called “academic,” if by * Poetical Works Of LIONEL JOHNSON. With portrait. New York: The Macmillan Co. academic we mean verse that is marked by fin- 372 [April 13 THE DIAL a ish rather than fire, that has no touch in it of to the Supplanter of the elder gods. It is the “feverish rhetoric” of a Swinburne-the quite unlike Leopardi's bitter nihilism. It is, phrase is Johnson's; that aims not so much at of course, minor poetry-minor in a sense that — expressiveness as at pure and tranquil beauty. Arnold's is not. It is negative, acquiescent. And this remark is as true of its substance as Indeed, on occasion, except for its exquisite of its form. It is academic even in the narrow form, it might not unjustly be called plaintive, sense; that is to say, it is the verse of a man and Arnold is never that. Nor is Leopardi. who is by training and temper a scholar, who There is a passionate vitality in both that in has the scholar's love of quiet, of old ways and the one case has overcome and in the other old places, the scholar's scrupulous sense of seems certain to overcome the withering effect the becoming, the scholar's reticence and ten- of the years. Finished as it is and congenial dency to hide his life. It is even, at times, to the spirit of its day, one can not be quite . bookish verse. The poet delights to express sure that Johnson's verse will do so. his gratitude to his favorites in the world of Academic his verse is in still another sense. literature,—Plato, Virgil, Lucretius, Arnold, Its dominant note is meditation, not passion. Lamb, Newman, the Brontës, to whose hold It is not poetry that stirs the pulses; its upon him many a page of his prose bears ardors are intellectual. It is a little remote; witness. He loved Oxford and Winchester it is often severe; it leaves one, at first reading, with a son's devotion, and nothing could be somewhat cold. But as one reads, the quiet more admirable in its way than the poem felicity of the imagery, the meditative charm called “Oxford Nights,” a descant upon the of the thought, the grave beauty of the phras- great books that had made those nights immor- ing gradually take possession of the reader's tal in his memory a modern, Oxford varia- mind and rule it. Such verse is not an incan- tion on the theme of “Il Penseroso." It is an tation; it weaves no spell, unless its power, exquisite though unconscious picture that he continually exerted and continually renewed, draws, there and elsewhere, of a boyhood and upon the reader's reluctance, be a spell of the youth spent among books, rich in friendship most magical sort. One feels its beauty, as and abounding in natural and normal plea- Pater says of Wordsworth, only at the price sure, but touched profoundly by its inter- of certain adjustments and renunciations ; but course with the things of the mind and the the beauty is there, and one's admiration of it soul. He is especially eloquent and convinc- is the more durable for not being easily ing, as an Oxford man should be, when he yielded. Little of it is devoted to the passion draws his subject from classical antiquity. of love, in spite of the poet's youth, and that “Julian at Eleusis," composed in his twentieth little, almost without exception, is dedicated year, is an admirably sympathetic study of the to a love that is spiritualized by distance or great apostate, written in a blank verse that by death. There is, indeed, almost no "human is more reminiscent, perhaps, of Tennyson interest” in these poems, not even that which than of Milton, but that has a suave and centres in the poet himself, for he effaces stately beauty of its own. The subject is himself as completely as it is possible to do in highly characteristic, for Julian represents verse so entirely subjective. It is upon the the imaginative appeal of the finer aspects of emotion, the imagery, that our attention is Greek religion—its lofty symbolism, its eso- fixed, not upon the poet who feels and sees. teric significance—which has been felt by He seems to have no passions but the passion the scholar in every age. To a poet of the for Ireland and the passion for nature, and generation of Arnold, such a theme would be those are subject to obvious limitations. He especially attractive. Unable, yet, to yield writes with something like passion of the love himself to the consolations of Christianity, of friends, but again it is a love that is sancti- but feeling, nevertheless, the need of a faith, fied by death or merged in the larger love of an aspiration, to fill up the void of life, he God. He is at his best in threnody, as might looked back a little wistfully, like Arnold be expected of one in whom the care for himself, to a religion that did not demand of ancient things, the memory of past joys, the man what man could not give, and that still piety of loved places are the food upon which did not ignore or evade, like the shallow phil- his meditation lives. osophies of the day, the soul's necessities. It is The passionate remembrances, true that in five years he was to become a That wake at bidding of the air: loyal and devout Catholic, yet much of his Fancies, and dreams, and fragrances, early verse is tinged with the reluctant skep- That charmed us, when they were, ticism that characterizes the school of Arnold. these determine the atmosphere of all his It is a quite different thing from the immiti- poetry. Even his feeling for nature, keen as it gable hostility of a Swinburne or a Carducci it, is not the characteristic poet's rapture in 1916] 373 THE DIAL > a form and color and odor. It is rather the He reflects how fair must be the City of God sense, so natural to the cultivated mind, of if “man shall not miss the stars, nor mourn nature's age-long intercourse with man. By the sea. It may almost be said of him that his love of her he is linked with all the genera- from the depths of his sombre musings he tions, and at no time does he feel more inti- comes forth, like Dante, "to behold the stars.' mately his kinship with humanity than when Though a man of books, his chief teacher his pulses stir to beauty: has been Earth, the common mother, “her Beside the tremulous, blue sea, memories, her splendors, her desires”; but Clear at sunset, they love to be: it is "Earth whom the vast stars crown" that And they are rarely sad, but then. For sorrow touches them, as men, has taught him most. Looking upon the calm of things, The spell which night and starlight lay upon That pass, and wake rememberings the spirit is almost the only one which his Of holy and of ancient awe; verse is quite certain to render adequately. The charm of immemorial Law: His poetical gifts are many, but among them What we see now, the great dead saw ! is not that of commanding the reader's mood. Here his divergence from Arnold is com- He can not, with a phrase or a tine, color all plete; for the elder poet sought in nature the the world for us, pierce us with a strange pain calmness, the order, the acceptance of prevail- or a strange joy, or make us feel the spirit of ing law, which the life of man denied him. a place, as Wordsworth and Arnold frequently It is a high, austere doctrine, the gospel of do. The reader is always expecting this nature as Arnold teaches it, —a bracing and salutary discipline. To Johnson, Nature offers change of mood, and there is no evident reason more ordinary consolations : the brooding why it does not happen. Certainly, it is not an affair of many words. There are stanzas quiet of a summer day, the "golden music' of the corn as it ripples in the autumn wind, instance, that produce it inevitably. Perhaps of a few syllables in Verlaine's “Sagesse,” for the driving mists of mountain gorges, the the reason for the lack of this gift in Johnson wild exhilaration of "the chivalries of air." Above all, in the peace and the ineffable lack of a better word, his reticence. In all is to be found in what may be called, for the expansion of night and the stars he finds him that he writes, not merely in his utterances self most at home; they are best suited to his concerning the deeper things of life, but in his mood of sober questioning. It is not that his portrayal of a mood, in his account of some day distracts him, and only in the night, that momentary effect of sea or sky upon his spirit , “ one feels a certain detachment, a refusal or strange and solemn thing," does he command an inability to tell the whole story, that pre- them. vents the reader from seeing with the poet's Yet when the city sleeps; When all the cries are still: eyes and feeling with the poet's heart, and The stars and heavenly deeps produces in him also an objective attitude that Work out a perfect will. is fatal to the thrill of poetry. Horace's These lines, among the most perfect that he admonition may be pressed further than he wrote, suggest the nature of Johnson's gift; in himself cared to press it. If the poet wishes spirit he walks alone, under the friendly us to weep, he must not only first have wept stars. It is curiously revealing, the recur- himself, but he must also not conceal from us rence of stellar imagery in his verse. “The too successfully the traces of his tears. John- sad stars wheel,” “the calm still stars wane,' son was not of those who "publish their wist- the twilight is “starred,” “the clear stars shake fulness abroad"; and while his reticence, in a within the gleaming sea, shake and abide.” day when reticence is not, gives to his verse a The "starry music, starry fire, high above all touch of severity that is an added charm, it our voice and glare,” are symbols of Plato's does prevent that contagion of the poet's mood thought. “When sad night draws down, when which is, after all, one of the pleasures that the austere stars burn," he is mindful of his we have a right to expect from literature. lost friend. Charles, “the fair and fatal Even his religious verse is marked by this king,” rides forever at Charing Cross at- curious impression of something withheld. It tended by stars. is never perfunctory, except perhaps in the Night hath fierce loveliness: clouds race Latin poems, as to which one's judgment may Past star and still unconquered star, easily go astray. They certainly have not the to herald the dawn of revolution. The life of ardor and the poignancy of the best of the the Brontës, “children of fire,” reminds him great Breviary hymns; they are too obviously that "composed,” too evidently and laboriously put From the tempest and the gloom, together, like bits of clever joinery. But the The stars, the fires of God, steal forth. English verse has an unmistakable fervor and 374 [April 13 THE DIAL passion; it is vital with religious as well as another world that lies upon them, their native poetic inspiration. This, of course, applies to hospitality to dreams. But the Celtic spirit the poems written after his reception into the has another side, and in this, too, the poet Catholic Church. Before that, his verse has shares. “They went forth to war, but they the note of uncertainty, of wistfulness, of always fell,” says an Irish bard of the heroes desire for a faith beyond his reach, which is of his race. It is of the glory and sadness of the voice of his generation; but the Catholic lost causes that such poets as Johnson most poems are resonant with faith and tender with care to sing ; but the fighting came first, and devotion. Nevertheless, they are not reveal- | in Johnson, too, beneath all his pensive brood- ing; there is not in them that ring of anguish, ing upon things that were, there was the stuff of personal need, of mystical rapture that of a fighter. Certainly "The Coming of War” arrests us in the poetry of Francis Thompson. and "Dawn of Revolution" are martial and Only three or four times in all the volume is resonant enough to satisfy his countrymen, there an expression that strikes us as a verita- even at this hour. In words that curiously ble cry from the depths; for the rest, the anticipate Brooke's well-known lines, he ac- lovely imagery, the exquisite music, seem to knowledges his debt to the earth that bore draw a veil between the poet's innermost mind him and welcomes the opportunity to pay it: and ours. Earth cried to us, that all her laboured store The same objection may be made to the Was ours: that she had more to give, and more: verses on Irish subjects. They lack the note For nothing, did we deem of intensity for which we listen in poetry We give her back the glory of this hour dedicated to the hopes and sorrows of an O sun and earth! O strength and beauty! unhappy people. The poem entitled “Ire- . We use you now, we thank you now: our duty We stand to do, mailed in your power. land” is especially disconcerting to one whose standard in such matters is determined by the It is difficult to account, in verse so personal fashion in which Swinburne, for example, as Johnson's, for the reader's curious sense of sings the woes of Italy. It is an admirable something wanting, for the lack of that thrill poem, full of noble imagery, of touching asso- of intensity which one often feels in the work ciations, and of subtle music; but the heart is of poets much less gifted. Why, when the not wrung by it, nor is the pulse quickened. fuel is heaped so skilfully upon the altar, Johnson himself may possibly have felt this does the fire from heaven not descend to kindle lack in his verse, for in an essay on “Poetry it? Is the verse a little cold and remote be- and Patriotism in Ireland,” he genially re- cause the poet did not really feel intensely; bukes those who maintain that the sincerity or is it because his fear of undue expansive- of patriotic verse must be measured by its ness forbade him to speak out? Or, finally, emotion and especially by its neglect of form. is it the result of an instinct that told him that “Melancholy, and sorrow, and the cry of pain, man prizes most highly, in literature as else- it has been said by some, are more poetical where, those satisfactions which have not been than serenity and ardor: for my part I do not gained without much effort, in which he has I believe it.” Whatever may be said of the been obliged to coöperate? Notwithstanding "ardor” of Johnson's patriotic verse, its Wordsworth's doctrine of “ f “emotion recol- serenity and its perfection of form are not to lected in tranquility,” is it quite certain that be denied. , And, in fact, the ardor also is emotion which can be hoarded and meditated unquestionable. Not only in the Irish poems, and transmuted was ever very keen? Such but elsewhere, there is many a phrase and emotion, no doubt, is more lasting than the half-line which shows that his heart is "still intenser sort. It is often productive of a in the far, fair Gaelic places,” that the voice high order of beauty; but we miss in it always the exaltation and the lyric rapture of more of "desolate Cornwall, desolate Brittany" is spontaneous poetry, and we miss them because ever in his ears. they were never felt. After all, the enigma Lovely and loved, O passionate land! of Lionel Johnson's verse is the enigma of his Dear Celtic land, unconquered still! Thy mountain strength prevails: personality. One of his friends wrote of him Thy winds have all their will. after his death: "In earlier days he had a wide circle of friends in spite of a certain They have no care for meaner things, reserve and aloofness of manner, which rarely They have no scorn for brooding dreams: A spirit in them sings, left him. Under the mask of irony, coldness, A light about them beams. and even perversity, which he bore in personal Here is the immortal charm of Celtic lands to intercourse, lay a passionate spirit destined every man who is capable of imagination- never to find complete utterance.” their unconquerable poetry, the light of CHARLES H. A. WAGER. : 1916] 375 THE DIAL > RETROSPECTS OF AN ENGLISH Street and in Vinegar Yard under the lee of the Drury Lane Theatre... Sometimes I merely dipped JOURNALIST.* into the Pierian spring, well knowing I could never afford to pay for my drink. " 'Ow's business, Joe?” It is chiefly his long and richly varied asked a neighboring dealer of a colleague, as I was experience as a roving newspaper writer that once engaged in this way. “Quiet,” was the answer; the author of “No. 5 John Street” draws "all readers an' no buyers to-night.” I dropped the volume and vanished into the fog to hide my shame. upon for the material of his reminiscent I was like the monkey with the nuts in the fable. volume, "My Harvest.” This experience, be- I could withdraw nothing from the vase of scholar- ginning in the sixties, when the writer was in ship because I wanted to grasp all. his twenties, has involved the visiting of many Far into the night he pushed his reading of lands, including our own, and the meeting such hard-won books as he possessed, some- with innumerable persons of note, whose times kneeling at his literary devotions to recorded sayings and doings help to enliven keep himself from falling asleep in his chair. the pages of this genially discursive retro- Like John Muir at a rather earlier date, he spect. Incidentally the author's philosophy invented and used a device for awakening him of life, the motives that have actuated him, to his studies at the dawn of day. It worked the ends he has striven for, the ideals he has to admiration, but aroused the whole house- cherished, are with some definiteness brought hold as well as the inventor. “Given a into view. certain temperament, and I had it,” he re- A sort of haphazard and rather misfit edu- marks at the conclusion of this episode, "all cation, with some years of manual training this portended book-writing or crime - per- in the engraving of seals and other diminutive haps both in a way. I made up my mind to objects, seems to have been imposed upon the be a writer, and to slip the collar of the other motherless and half-neglected boy who was art as soon as I could." destined to make his mark with freer stroke Carried by a lucky chance to Paris, as than that taught to him by Benjamin Wyon, above indicated, several years before the Chief Engraver of Her Majesty's Seals. | downfall of the Second Empire, Mr. Whiteing Evenings at the Working Men's College under found himself, as he says, “in touch with the the teaching of Maurice, Ruskin, Ludlow, little band who were quietly engineering” Furnivall, and Hughes, relieved for a while that impending collapse. With the Reclus the cramp of the irksome days, and a for- brothers, especially, one of whom nearly paid tunate mission to Paris in the interests of a proposed Working Class Exhibition, to be with his life for the part he took in this enter: participated in by the sons of toil of the prise, he was on terms of intimacy. A pass- two countries, England and France, went ing pen-portrait of the less famous of the two, far toward completing the emancipation. It with a brief characterization of the pair in is of interest to note how the radical prin- their dominant traits, is worth reproducing. ciples inevitably imbibed by the young man The elder, Elie, was the perfect thing in fanaticism, cold and self-contained. He might have sat for the amid those associates and surroundings be- portrait of a Covenanter. Spiritually he reminded came the conservative views of his maturer me of those animals whose jaws lock in what they years. One has only to adhere long enough to bite. Heredity may have had something to do with almost any doctrine of radical reforın to find it: the father was a Swiss pastor of the Calvinistic type. The pair, I imagine, had long since parted with it in the end accepted and established in all their Christianity to put philosophic Anarchy in its respectability. It was a spirit of eager in place . With old Blanqui, another notable figure of quiry in many directions that made it impos- the time, they were for ni Dieu, ni maître, the abso- sible for the young engraver to settle down lute freedom of the individual to walk by his own light, with nothing but his conscience for guide and stolidly to his task, as was expected of him law. I came most in contact with Elie because by his father, and to accept unquestioningly his English was better. The only soft spot in him and contentedly the lot in life whereunto that was his love of literature: he usually carried a volume father believed him to have been born. In of Hugo in his pocket, perhaps as the best expression the following passage we see some of his striv. Yet, inconsistently enough, he was disposed, as a of the current revolt for freedom, in that domain. ings for larger things: Frenchman, to make a reservation here in favour of 'I did not remain long at the College. I hardly order and law. Our easy-going independence of these know why -I think because I suffered then, as at things in English letters was hateful to him. "The other times in my life, from a most plentiful lack of negroid dialects,” he once remarked to me in his icy cash. It may have been because I thought I knew way, “have the same simplicity of structure." a better way: I did not, but I had to find that out. Mr. Whiteing's winning of a place in jour- So I bobbed about from one thing to another and nalism came after only a brief agony of mastered none. I bought my books for myself at the old second-hand bookshops, then extant in Holywell desperate effort and semi-destitution. It was luck, again, so far as there is any such thing, By Richard Whiteing. New York: Dodd, that brought to him the suggestion of his • MY HARVEST. Mead & Co. 376 (April 13 THE DIAL - " things.” > first “hit," a humorous-satirical sketch en- Emerson as “the most abiding influence on titled "A Night in Belgrave Square — by a my life," and pays tribute to Irving, Cooper, Costermonger.” This was a sort of reply or Holmes, Lowell, Whitman, Mark Twain, and offset to a like performance that had set the Henry James, finding in many of these and town talking, namely, "A Night in a Work- other writers of this new land an agreeable house — by an Amateur Casual.” “The Pall note of kinship with those of the mother Mall Gazette" had published this latter, to its country, considerable profit; and “The Evening Star” Generous in his praise of great authors, was glad to score an equal success with the Mr. Whiteing can also be liberal in sarcastic companion piece offered by an untried disapproval of some whom he regards as less genius, who was afterward not unwilling to great. An ardent lover of Shakespeare, he go on with his Costermonger "and make him a necessarily finds himself at odds with Mr. character the Coster here, there and every- Shaw in the latter's outspoken dispraise of where in a survey of the whole scheme of the great poet. Ibsen, too, fails to kindle his Finally a book was made of him, enthusiasm. In a paragraph toward the end which has served its ends, had its day, and of his final chapter, a chapter which he passed into obscurity. Its author says in entitles “Threshing Out,” the author in a regard to this fortunate stumbling upon the sane and conservative fashion gives his out- theme that then best suited him, after con- look for the future. He says: siderable wasted energy and ink: “The one Blessedness, the sweet of adversity for the building thing I had never thought of writing about up of character, self-control, self-denial, the old beati- was the thing that was nearest to my heart. tudes, no matter what their theological setting, the old new birth of the spirit into its real self-hood, in The shyness of the pen is sometimes the most one word, all that differentiates the finished article invincible of all." from the mere mistakes of the potter, these, I think, Of journalistic openings to the author of in their struggle for the recovery of the old ethical these costermongerings there seems to have pattern, are going to be the note of a new time. been an unfailing abundance; or that is the May the prophecy come true! There is impression conveyed by the narrative, though much else that is sane and of wholesome in- what disappointed hopes and weary waitings fluence in the book thus brought to a close. there may have been interspersed, and wisely It will repay careful reading. left to forgetfulness, who can say? Justin PERCY F. BICKNELL. McCarthy, prominent in those days as a ver- satile and accomplished journalist, historian, novelist, and miscellaneous writer, was one of A CENTURY AND A HALF OF AMERICAN the many literary craftsmen with whom this DIPLOMACY,* auspiciously beginning journalist was brought into friendly contact; and the picture pre- Professor Fish tells us. “Diplomacy is dynamite with a soft voice," “The American sented of the optimistic and genial and wonderfully resourceful author of "A His type,” he might have added, "is often used That our hap- tory of Our Own Times” is well drawn and with amazing carelessness." pleasing. His literary style is pointed out hazard practice of the art, inspired as often as the one exception to the rule that easy by ignorance as by design, has not resulted writing makes hard reading; but the author more disastrously is another evidence of the weakens the effect by recording later instances special Providence that guards the destinies of the same exceptionality, as for instance affords positive proof that public opinion in of the American people. At the same time it Andrew Lang, a marvellously ready and rapid writer whom to read is far from being minded.” This is one purpose that inspires America needs to become "internationally a task. Among the leading newspapers that at one time or another enlisted the services of the present volume, and a careful perusal of its Mr. Whiteing, may be named the New York leads us to believe that the author pages “World” and “Tribune” and the Manchester will measurably achieve it. “Guardian." To Geneva to report the In one sense American diplomacy begins Alabama arbitration he was sent by the first- with the famous Papal Bulls of 1493, but there named, and to Madrid to observe Spain in are comparatively few other manifestations revolution, just after the abdication of until the eighteenth century. The Treaty of Amadeus, he went in the service of the Utrecht, in 1713, followed a half century later "Tribune.” Later missions of a similar char- by the Treaty of Paris and the Royal Procla- acter took him to Russia, to Germany, to mation of 1763, affords the proper basis for France more than once, and to our own AMERICAN DIPLOMACY, By Carl Russell Fish, Professor of History in the University of Wisconsin. New York: country. Among American authors he names Henry Holt & Co. 1916) 377 THE DIAL we an > later American territorial diplomacy. thereafter a prominent place in our Latin- struggle for political independence involved American negotiations, and were ultimately the task of obtaining continental recognition to bear the brunt of our “manifest destiny.” and of re-arranging commercial relations with This same catchword was used to strengthen the former Mother Country. Both France and our territorial claim to the Pacific Northwest; England were inclined to regard the new where, however, were finally led to nation merely as a convenient protectorate, acknowledge the co-existent claim of Great to be tolerated or bullied as best served their Britain. In the mid-century, Asiatic exclu- financial and commercial needs. siveness was forced to yield to commercial This attitude persisted long after the forma expansion and in turn to feel the effects of tion of a “more perfect Union,” and was fed our own racial antipathy. The Civil War by foreign predilections that long continued renewed the problems of blockade and neutral to determine domestic partisanship. The commerce, but with our nation in the rôle of situation was complicated by the wars arising belligerent. This internecine strife likewise from the French Revolution and the advent of provoked in Mexico the most serious test of Napoleon Bonaparte. In the ensuing general the Monroe Doctrine, and inspired the most struggle, the United States appeared then, as virulent threats against continued British now, the most conspicuous champion of the domination in Canada. rights of neutral commerce, with diplomacy as For more than half a century the fisheries, its most potent weapon. At the same time, commercial claims, and Isthmian transit the desire to navigate the great interior water- served to put an edge on our diplomatic deal- ways and round out the national domain ings with Great Britain. Tying our own encountered obstinate resistance from hands with the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, we Spain, reluctant to jeopardize her colonies. avoided a clash over the last-named issue, but This reluctance naturally evoked an equally we did not thereby improve our relations with strong determination, favored by the situa- the Caribbean powers. Finally a boundary tion abroad, to assist these colonies in gaining dispute in Venezuela gave the opportunity to their independence. Thus commercial needs, proclaim that the fiat of the United States was territorial ambition, and political idealism law upon the American continent. The at- combined to influence the four decades of tempt to force from Great Britain a recogni. American diplomacy preceding the formal tion of this principle almost precipitated announcement of the Monroe Doctrine. hostilities between the two countries, but it To the diplomatic problems of that day the also marked the beginning of a new era in Americans brought some experience derived American diplomacy. from Indian councils, early colonial agency, Seward, Evarts, Blaine, and Olney exhibited and the halls of Continental Congress. With a vigorous American spirit that rivalled the this slender training they surprised contem- earlier manifestation of Clay, Calhoun, Web- poraries and gratified posterity by the measure ster, and Cass, but fell far short of the of success that crowned their efforts. If, in standard set by our earliest diplomats. Web- many instances, good fortune rather than good ster and Seward, the latter aided by a third management brought about this result, they member of the Adams family, were alone suffered but little in comparison with their worthy to rank with the generation that pro- opponents. Occasionally more astute than the duced John Jay and John Quincy Adams. latter, they uniformly surpassed them in But Seward's acquisition of Alaska was a far directness and persistence. Their diplomacy, less notable act than the Florida Treaty; and often amateurish in method and at times dis- Webster's vigorous rejoinder to Hülseman porting itself in "shirt sleeves," depended was far more grandiloquent than the dignified less on "bluff” than simplicity and patience expression of American policy that preceded to gain its ends. No American need be the Monroe Doctrine. After Seward and ashamed of our foreign service when Frank- Evarts, not even Blaine and Olney could lift lin, Jay, the Pinckneys, Gallatin, and the American diplomacy from the slough of petty “brace of Adamses" graced its rolls. and personal interests into which it had fallen. Following the Napoleonic wars, nearly a But events were working for a speedy score of years were necessary to settle the change in our foreign policy. The interven- questions arising from that series of conflicts, tion in Cuba established the hegemony of the to establish relations with our southern neigh- United States in the Caribbean and made pos- bors, and to announce with them a common sible the construction of an Isthmian canal separateness from Europe. New Granada, wholly under American auspices. The occu- subsequently Colombia, in South America, pation of the Philippines planted the Ameri- and Mexico on our borders, occupied then and can flag as a challenge on the coast of Asia, - 378 [April 13 THE DIAL and marked the way thither by scattered relish these references to their hero, but we outposts in the Pacific. The expansion that might expect them from a student of Ameri- occurred at the end of the nineteenth century can civil service. Elsewhere he does full fulfilled some of the prophecies uttered at the justice to Blaine's permanent contributions. beginning, but it did not closely correspond His interpretations and inferences are specific, to its earlier counterpart. Its purposes were well placed, and give a clear idea of the con- more clearly protective and altruistic, but its nection between a particular event and the methods were distinctly imperialistic. The establishment of a precedent based upon it. “open door” policy of John Hay, the abroga- The various steps in the development of the tion of the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty that he Monroe Doctrine are especially well treated. secured, the dismemberment of Colombia that As a text book for college classes, the work he sanctioned, and the protectorate that his should prove particularly valuable. It has a successors have virtually established over good complement of maps, although the one Santo Domingo, Nicaragua, and Hayti, mark relating to the Floridas will bear considerable successive steps in this new American im- revision, and one or two others should be perialism. subjected to slight changes. The sequence of Benevolent guidance rather than assimila- | events leading to the Louisiana Purchase is tion constituted its chief motive, although it not clearly observed. There are far too many could not wholly erase the mark of “dollar minor slips in dates and other minutiæ, and diplomacy,” and has conspicuously failed to numerous instances of careless proof-reading. exorcise racial antipathy. A new “Pan These will doubtless be corrected in the later Americanism” has come into being, alongside edition which this work should call forth. the earlier exclusive Monroe Doctrine. The author's treatment of the series of diplo- “Watchful waiting” has blocked the intangi-matic problems affecting our whole southern ble alliance between foreign concessionaires frontier, is, in the present reviewer's judg- and our State Department. The issues of ment, hardly adequate; but it is far easier neutrality are with us in greater measure than to say this than to point out specific improve- ever before; while the promising development ments in the same space, especially in view of of international arbitration, in which our part the wide field the author attempts to cover. was so conspicuous, must await the outcome The treatment of the Indian, and of western of the present cataclysm. Our national influ- topics in general, is gratifying. The book is ence is greater than ever; our responsibilities well proportioned, with a minimum of direct have increased in proportionate degree; but quotation, illustrative rather than definitive in the majority of our population, hyphenated character. Some readers may prefer a or otherwise, is not fully aware of either fact. strict adherence to the topical method than Professor Fish's soft-speaking but dynamic Professor Fish has followed. But a good volume ought to arouse a fair measure of teacher can remedy this defect, if such it be; interest in his subject. It is timely. Its while most will agree that the chronological popular figures, well-turned phrases, apt treatment, with numerous chapters and para- characterizations, clever summaries, and vigor. graph indentations, adds to the usefulness of ous descriptions, in which even the illuminat- the book as a text. One misses a formal ing utterances of Mr. Dooley have their part, bibliography. The rather infrequent foot- should be welcome to the general reader. He notes, giving references to monographs, presents a connected and well-proportioned collections of personal and general corre- summary of our diplomatic history at a time spondence, and the better known scholarly when diplomacy has an unexpected meaning magazines, suggest material for further study for the average thoughtful citizen. But one rather than afford citations to support the does not have to belong to this class, even, to text. The index is ample, and evidently appreciate the vivid sketches of past worthies reasonably accurate. in that field or to contrast their elevated Professor Fish has not produced a treatise responsibilities with the strivings for social like Trescott's. This is but another way of prestige that but yesterday marked the service. saying that his work is not based on personal The author has not hesitated to express his experience, and that it does not embody the opinion, whether he decries the War of 1812 traditions of an earlier age. Nor does he and our war with Spain, approves the course exhibit the cautious judgment and predilec- of John Adams in 1799, or characterizestion for system that mark the books of Blaine as "charlatan and genius," whose ex-Secretary Foster. But his pages reveal a superficial imitation of Clay made compari- purpose, easily perceptible to student and son with the latter odious. The few surviving casual reader. American diplomacy, with all admirers of the “Plumed Knight” may not its faults, has been characterized by simplicity, more 1916) 379 THE DIAL liberality, and directness. Personality, too, recognize a stimulating power in the world- has played its part, but not in a way to catastrophe, and to see in it not only judgment obscure the true features of democracy. Our but opportunity. author wishes us to see these facts, and suc- France, England, America, and Russia are ceeds in making us see them. For this, his represented here. There are, as it happens, work deserves hearty commendation, no books from Germany or Italy; but no one ISAAC JOSLIN Cox. doubts that in these countries also are minds that rise with Romain Rolland "above the battle.” Perhaps a writer in the "Christliche WAR AND RELIGION.* Welt" expressed other Germans besides him- self awhile ago, when he demanded that a The Christian mind has never been so stag- moratorium be proclaimed on Christianity till gered as by the Great War. This shows the the war is over. The Pope is thinking, - lack of logic in the Christian mind; for the though nobody dare pretend to read his mind. hidden sins that eat placidly, poisonously, Not all of these books are directly concerned continuously, into the life of society give the with the issues of the present war. Indeed, lie to Christianity quite as much as war does. the most striking of the group, Solovyof's The death-rate among babies in a congested “War and Christianity," was published in city is as devilish a fact as the slaughter of 1900, and the author died the following year. men by shrapnel and bayonets; indeed it is His thought is occupied with a general inquiry worse in a way, for fewer idealistic pretexts into the relations of Christianity to warfare can be found for indirect murder than for and incidentally to all earthly life. The result modern war. The helplessness of the churches is rather an extraordinary book. It shows the to stop that death-rate has long been cause of habitual Russian blend of realism with mys- scoffing to radicals, and Christian men had as ticism, of sardonic irony with naive and fervid much reason to be ashamed of themselves in faith. It is inconclusive, but it searches deep. 1913 as they have now. The form is that of imaginary conversations. Yet the visible is the effective. For drama. They are breezy, full of wit, as clever and tic horror, this breaking loose of Hell in a modern as they are Russian. The speakers seemingly secure and refined civilization is include a fine old General, erect-minded, without parallel. We all know it, - witness religious, who is plunged in distress because our restless days and haunted nights. Chris- modern peace-propaganda is undermining the tians know it perhaps best of all, and they are devout faith in the nobility of war, necessary unhappy people these days. Their unhappi- to the maintenance of military ideals; a poli- ness, their perplexity, and, better, their tician, a good disputant, who entertains as he attempts at constructive thinking, are re- says the usual enlightened European point of flected in numerous books, a few of which are view; a lady who plays the part of hostess; dealt with in this review. When first the war a young Prince, follower of Tolstoy, aglow broke out, men could utter little beyond a cry with pacifist, socialist, humanitarian views; of pain. As it goes on, the power of thought and a mysterious Mr. z., who stays in the awakens. The race must keep on living, and background, cracking an occasional joke or it must find out how. Religious minds ought briefly exposing a fallacy, till he emerges in to have some solution to offer; and the chief the last dialogue as the uncompromising thing that strikes one in glancing over this Christian mystic, and bears off the honors. group of books is that people are beginning to It would be difficult to defend war better WAR AND CHRISTIANITY. By Vladimir Solovyof. Trans- than the General does. Able statesmanship, lated from the Russian, with Introduction, by Stephen fatuous and worldly, is capitally expressed by Published for the League the politician. Culture and civilization are his London: Headley Brothers. shibboleths, and he has an international mind. By Felix Adler. War was a necessity while Europe was evolv- THE GREAT SACRIFICE. By John Adams, B.D. New York: ing order from barbarism, but it is becoming Charles Scribner's Sons. LETTRES D'UN FRANCAIS Á UN ITALIEN. Par Paul Sabatier. obsolete. In a society which possesses in com- THE WAR AND RELIGION, By Alfred Loisy. Translated mon Shakespeare and Goethe and the great from the French by Arthur Galton. New York: Longmans, geniuses of France and Russia, any war would Green, & Co. THE MAZE OF THE NATIONS AND THE WAY OUT. By Gaius henceforth be civil war and is unlikely to New York: Fleming H. Revell Co. happen. The pacifists meet his approval, for Edward Jefferson. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co. they are helping to dispel any slight danger THE FIGHT FOR PEACE. By Sidney L. Gulick, New York: Fleming H. Revell Co. that remains. The politician is an old man, London: Headley Brothers. and he talks at the end of the last century, so CHURCH AND NATION. Paddock Lectures, 1915. By William Temple. New York: The Macmillan Co. one may hope that he died happy. > Graham. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. TOWARDS ULTIMATE HARMONY. of Peace and Freedom. THE WORLD CRISIS AND ITS MEANING. New York: D. Appleton & Co. Paris. Glenn Atkins. CHRISTIANITY AND INTERNATIONAL PEACE. By Charles CHRIST AND PEACE. 380 [April 13 THE DIAL loom." war. The portrait of the Prince is the most inter- keen and brave ideas. It is probably the esting. He is the aversion of Solovyof, who Prince who speaks also through Dr. Adler's , was the determined opponent of Tolstoyan “The World Crisis and Its Meaning,” but he ideas. The choicest modern phrases concern- has gained insight and it is hard to cavil at ing fraternity, social welfare, neo-Christianity him. The book is cogent and constructive. that eliminates Christ, the kingdom of God on Dr. Adler is not a peace-at-any-price man. earth, run glibly off his lips. But there is He holds that war may be just, even in self- something queer about him. The talk in time defence, — that is, “in defence of the human- strikes into religious lines. Of a sudden, Mr. ity resident in your own person.” Yet he is Z. challenges the reality of progress, and the clear that its moral assets are either temporary stark question emerges whether Christianity or by-products, and that "the fierce stimulant justifies faith in social redemption on earth, of war” is not necessary to nerve us to escape or whether it points to a catastrophic end of the evils of commercial sin. Dr. Adler is like history. Anti-Christ is mentioned; the Prince Solovyof in at least one respect: he sees that slips abruptly away. But when he returns, the militarism is merely a symptom, which can not a , distasteful subject is still under discussion. be attacked directly. “Militarism is the gun, In the pleasant Riviera villa where the friends but the power behind the gun is commercial- are gathered it is noted that the atmosphere ism, industrialism, imperialism.” “The ma- has slightly darkened. Mr. Z. now leads the chine gun is the counterpart of the machine conversation. It is he who raised that ques- Thus the human race has run into a tion about progress, he who stresses the sort of an impasse both in industry and in antithesis between a religion centred in a Resurrection, and the travesty — as he thinks - How to get out of it? Dr. Adler shows - concerned only with kindliness and social relentlessly the weakness of most of the safe- - welfare. The hint why the Prince ran away guards urged. The mainsprings of the peace . is not pursued; only Mr. Z. closes the talk by movement, -- "the appeal to sentiment and reading a manuscript written by a monk, his the appeal to pecuniary self-interest,” — have friend. It is the prophecy of a world in which proved helpless. Religion and socialism are war has ceased and the ideals of the Prince broken reeds. Little faith can be placed in prevail under the sway of Anti-Christ in Hague tribunals, international courts, or the person,- till the End of History arrives. abolition of secret diplomacy. Nationalism, This last section may seem a mere fantasia, based on the need for commercial expansion, like Hugh Benson's "Lord of the World,” culminating in rival imperialisms, and using “ which it curiously resembles. But somehow, militarism for its tool, is stronger than them again and again the book strikes to the quick. all. But in the purification of nationalism In the pacifist and humanitarian ideal, can be found the slow way out. Mere cosmo- Solovyof sees only a subtle form of material- politan ideals are useless; but "a world-wide ism, to be viewed with contemptuous dread. ethical movement inspired by an enlightened Should this ideal be fully realized, men will sense of varied national types is called for." continue to live not in a Kingdom of God but A contribution to just such a sense is offered in a Kingdom of Death, unless they accept the in an interesting and partially fresh chapter revelation of immortality in the Risen Christ. on American, German, and English ideals. The cessation of war, social justice, all tem- German Pflicht und Schuldigkeit plus a mys- poral improvements, are either temptations or tic impulse are set against the aristocratic trivialities. Nothing matters except the English watchword "noblesse oblige,” with its “ power of humanity to maintain faith in the conception of government from the top down, eternal soul. In the assumption that belief in and the American reverence for the uncom- earthly progress and in supernatural Chris- mon quality latent in the common man. tianity are incompatible,