" is, as the title implies,
Eternal Centre, and “Guesses at the Riddle of
an expression of this interest. Most of the ad.
Existence,” by Goldwin Smith, at the apogee as dresses which compose it turn, directly or indirectly,
farthest off, we see how vast and how eccentric the
on the duties of the Church and State in reference
orbit of faith has become. Here, the light and heat
to each other. “For the sake of the world, the
80 stream in as to bathe the spirit and become the
Church must be in close contact with life, and must
one productive power of the world; there they face the living issues of the day.” This is the un-
dwindle and fade till they are no more than the derlying sentiment of the entire volume. It finds
insensible beams of a remote star, caught sight of full and forceful expression in the address entitled
at rare intervals in the shifty night. We are trav-
“ The Church and the Age,” delivered in Baltimore
ersing immense spaces, seeking anew the construc-
at an anniversary of the episcopal consecration of
tive forces of creation.
Cardinal Gibbong. It was spoken to a large repre-
The work of Cardinal Gibbons cannot fail to
sentative assembly of Catholic clergy, and is full of
impress the earnest spirit with its simplicity, direct-
the fire of profound conviction. The style is clear
ness, and devotion. We can easily believe that the
and direct, and charged everywhere with the ruling
hope of the author will be fulfilled, and that it will idea. Such simplicity and dignity of purpose and
animate the clergy with renewed ardor in the culti-
such moral force are sure to carry his words to the
vation of piety and science. There is a very appre- hearts of men. He apologizes for not treating the
ciative recognition in the preface of the genius of labor movement in this volume. He felt it to be too
American institutions, and of the American people. large a subject for the space he could assign it.
This is the more observable, because we have just | Leo XIII. receives ardent commendation for his
been suffering from one of those blind furries of sympathy with social development. There is an
popular hatred to Popery which have so long been outspoken address on “Intemperance and Law,".
indigenous in the English race. The volume is rich
and an equally direct paper on “ The Church and
in the current coin of piety which has been in inter-
the Saloon.” Archbishop Ireland, in two addresses,
change for thousands of years between the wisest defines the attitude of the Church in reference to
and the best of men. It is rather an earnest and
our public-school system. It is an attitude in no way
reiterative enforcement of truth, sincerity, charity, hostile. The Church wholly concurs with the public-
chastity, diligence, knowledge, than any new and school system of the United States. It is simply
THE AMBASSADOR OF CHRIST. By James Cardinal Gib- not willing to yield the right of religious instruction.
bons. Baltimore: John Murphy & Co.
The Archbishop claims, what has long seemed to
THE CHURCH AND MODERN SOCIETY. By the Most Rev- us undeniable justice, that the public should dis-
erend John Ireland, Archbishop of St. Paul. Chicago:
D. H. McBride & Co.
criminate between secular and religious education;
CONTEMPORARY THEOLOGY AND THEISM. By R. M.
should support the one and tolerate the other. This
Wenley. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
is a moral elevation to which the American people
IMMORTALITY AND THE NEW THEODICY. By George A. have not yet attained. The addresses are replete
Gordon. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
with patriotism ; and if the reader wishes to meet
GUESSES AT THE RIDDLE OF EXISTENCE. By Goldwin
a strong mind fired with large and generous pur-
Smith, D.C.L. New York: The Macmillan Co.
THE KNOWLEDGE OF LIFE. By H.J. Harald. New York:
poses, he will find it in this volume.
G. P. Patnam's Sons.
“Contemporary Theology and Theism," by Prof.
THE SHADOW CHRIST. By Gerald Stanley Lee. New York: R. M. Wenley, is a work of unusual power.
The Century Co.
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and large suggestion. The intuitive line of thought the other two must follow" (page 46). “A uni-
prevails. Those who remember Professor Morris verse that defeats his best life, that contradicts his
with affection will rejoice that Professor Wenley is deepest thought, cannot be considered by man at
associated with the University of Michigan. The least as the expression of Supreme Reason ” (page
book is made up of three parts. The first part con- 57). “ The appeal in behalf of the permanence of
siders historically and critically what the author man is ultimately away from all matters of physical
terms the “Speculative Theology" of the present, organization, to the heart of the universe, to the
the theology that rests back on the powerful render. Absolute conscience and pity that are believed to
ing of history and theology by Hegel — the most have dominion over all things” (page 59). Immor.
vigorous remedy that has ever been administered tality resolves itself into faith, and faith resolves
to the ill-digestion of pure empiricism. The author itself into the force of our spiritual powers.
The
finds that this movement, while disappearing in its volume is full of inspiration to the concurrent mind.
formal elements, has left a large remainder of insight. Mr. Goldwin Smith's “Guesses at the Riddle of
The second part is occupied with Ritschlian theol. Existence " is made up of five essays. The first
ogy. This has arisen in antagonism both to the essay gives the title to the book. The remaining
extreme empirical and extreme speculative tendency. | four are: “The Church and the Old Testament,"
Christ is considered in his character and teachings “Is There Another Life?” “ The Miraculous Ele-
simply as an ethical, spiritual force. His words are ment in Christianity," "Morality and Theism.”
of supreme moment to men because of the hold they The astute, incisive character of the author's literary
have on men's thoughts. Here are undoubted inner work is too well known to call for any comment.
phenomena, not to be surpassed in their actual The first essay is a criticism on Professor Drum-
power over human life. Feeling and accepting these mond, Mr. Kidd, and Mr. Balfour. Much of it is
words of truth, we are made superior to scientific, telling and true. While, however, we do not com-
historical, and speculative criticism. We have our plain of the temper of the book as especially faulty,
own facts of their own order. The criticism of the we cannot think it of the best. Destructive criti-
author at this point seems to us a little severe. We cism is not often either wholly kindly or just. One
may accept this attitude of Ritschl as at least a cannot trim a tree without knowing equally well
provisional one. The third part of this work takes what is to be retained and what is to be cut away.
up more independently the “Theistic Problem.” It The bull that worries and tears an evergreen shrub
undertakes, at the same time, a philosophical and with its horns is not trimming it. Mr. Smith ful-
a religious construction of the world. It affirms fils his purpose in breaking down and pulling to
that theology brings to the problem of being terms pieces. He feels no disposition to save and restore.
that may, indeed, make it more complex, but also This is not making one's work a part of the con-
make it more intelligible. All deep questions are structive labor of humanity. Why should one paint
answered together, or not well answered. We com- again the picture of life, as in the article on immor-
mend the volume to lovers of philosophical religious ality, in all its darkest colors, simply because he has
thought.
a trick of hand in these dismal, distressing shades?
“Immortality and the New Theodicy,” like the The plea of truth hardly avails. It is not true to
previous volume, grew out of a lecture. In this case, analyze out and heap up the evil of the world, and
the lecture was given in Harvard University under offer it as the world. It is not the world; it is only
the Ingersoll bequest. In the former case, the ad- its distressful, distorted shadow. It is both stale
dress was given to the Glasgow University Theolog- criticism and shallow criticism to decry the phi-
ical Society. The effort is "to carry the question losophy of the world. Most of the subsoiling of the
of the immortality of man to the moral conception human mind has been done, and is still done, in
of the universe for determination." The ardent this very region of philosophy - metaphysics, if you
spiritual temperament of Dr. Gordon fits him to will. Mr. Smith assumes as accepted truth what is
affirm the force and integrity of the moral idea. not accepted, and is at best only a metaphysical ren-
When it is the sword of the spirit by which a man dering of facts. “We know ... that what he calls
seeks to live, he should ask no happier fate than to the soul is but the higher and finer activity of our
die by it.” There is a noble enthusiasm pervading general frame." If Mr. Smith knows that, he might
the words of Dr. Gordon. To us, at least, they seem certainly have saved himself the labor of casting up
to arise from a true insight into the spiritual rela- again the doubts of immortality. Mr. Smith treats
tions of the world. The doctrine of immortality is unfairly the enthusiasm of Professor Drummond.
so dependent on our sense of the inner character of The love of the mother for her child is altruistic,
the world that we cannot handle it, any more than though not a very pure example of altruism. There
we can handle a point of æsthetical criticism, aside is in it natural affection, but there is also the germ
from the feelings involved in it. “The three grand of spiritual affection. Altruism is not, as Mr.
positions from which faith in a hereafter for man Smith seems to imply, doing good to others with no
would seem to follow are the moral perfection of reference to ourselves ; it is finding our highest
the Creator, the reasonableness of the universe, and pleasure in doing good to others. It is enclosing
the worth of human life. The three are at heart others in the tissue of our spiritual lives. There is,
one;
for if the first is true, if God is absolutely good, I in the way that many have of casting, in the name
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of science, dark shadows on the world, great exag- traveled, to reach this unhesitating phase of faith,
geration. These persons stand between the light to which all skepticism is the melancholy moan of
and the world, and then draw attention to the gloom a dying year. The spirit of the author is an eolian
they have occasioned. A highly organized being, harp which needs only the winds. What matters it
full of intense and morbid feelings, physical and that this or that harpist is ailing or is gone, the
intellectual, reads his own degrees and moods of music of the world is still in it. It is to tbis we
suffering into the world, and then pronounces upon
listen.
JOHN BASCOM.
it. The world is to be rendered from its own centre
as a happy-go-lucky product, and so rendered is far
more enjoyable than the sharp critic of good, and
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
the diligent delineator of evil, make it out to be.
“ The Knowledge of Life,” by Mr. H. J. Harald,
A book on the theory of Beauty may
stands for the speculations of a single person. Ob-
The theory
of Beauty.
be a treatise in psychology with Sully,
jectionable as the dogmatism of the believer may be,
in psycho-physics with Fechner, in
it is not as objectionable as the dogmatism of the physiology with Grant Allen, in metaphysics with
unbeliever. The first is consistent with its own Hegel, in history with Taine,- from the title, you
principles, and is supported by more or less concur- can never guess what kind of a book it is going to
rent belief. The second is scornful of belief, and be. Of one thing, however, the general reader may
yet has nothing but the belief of one person to offer usually feel assured, namely, that it will not be
in its place. It is as if a man should deny the exist interesting, nor even such as he can comprehend.
ence of any road, and yet claim that his own half- To this latter rule there have been notable excep-
effaced tracks across a waste of drifting snows was tions; and Mr. George Santayana has added a new
the king's highway. “Great religions have taken one to the worthy few by his book on “The Sense of
their rise in this mystery - the mystery of life -
-
Beauty" (Scribner). For a technical treatise we
professing to expound it; but despite all, we are think the book singularly well adapted to general
little if any nearer the solution to-day.” Now, reading. The style is easy, the exposition clear, the
under these trying circumstances, our author buckles illustration effective. A technical treatise it is ; but
on his armor--better, slips on his snow-shoes,—and we think that many beside psychologists and stu-
takes the lead. Religion is the aim of life; the der
depts of scientific æsthetics will be interested in it.
aim of life is evolution. Immortality is the con- It is an example of the best form of popular sci-
tinuity of evolution. The amoeba has his religion, ence: the statement by a student of matters special
though of a somewhat attenuated order. “Religion to his particular studies, in terms and in form such
may be called the hand-rail to the path of life, that anyone who is really interested in the matter
to life as a sensuous experience. 6 The God of can readily comprehend it. No book on ästhetics
every man is the spirit within him.” To this, his can be really light reading; and this book is not,
prayers are addressed. As the expression of a shal- though it comes even dangerously near it. One
low, empirical self-confidence, this volume is rarely would infer from the title that the standpoint is
surpassed. It is impossible to elaborate anything psychological; and, indeed, the author says as much.
which we are content to call religion out of simple It is, however, not rigidly psychological, according
quasi-mechanical evolution. Mr. Herbert Spencer to our idea : it certainly tends rather to the specu-
has given us such a prodigious volume of philosophy, lative than to the psycho-physical. To our minds,
in which facts looked on as necessary are made the the chief value of Mr. Santayana's book lies in
causes of themselves, that he puts everyone who his definition of Beauty and in his discussion of
follows him in the same field to disadvantage. Yet, Form. We do not find any very satisfactory solu-
if anyone has a curiosity to see sunbeams extracted tion of the problem of the origin of beauty, although
from cucumbers, this is the book which will interest the author seems to regard it as necessary to his
him. The style is perspicuous, and the volume ad- treatment (p. 5). Nor do we find anything with
mirable in form. A slight redemptive touch is found which we can rest satisfied as a criterion of degree
in the discussion of the true position of woman. (p. 130). These are two important æsthetic prob-
“ The Shadow Christ” is a prose poem of much lems, and we do not find that Mr. Santayana says
delicacy of feeling and scope of thought. It should very much that helps us. On the points noted above,
be read, as it was written, with snatches of insight. however, we think him excellent: his discrimination
Its motive seems to be that religion must be inter- between æsthetics and ethics, between æsthetics
preted from within; that, like every phase of life, again and hedonics, the æsthetic differentia, his final
it must be grasped as a mastery of its own condi- definition,-all these we regard as admirable. The
tion. We cannot render the faith of the world reflec- idea of the definition itself we have met with before;
tively, across long periods, with no sense of the but the development of idea in reaching it seems to
instant, urgent problem involved in it. Religion us a considerable achievement. We also admire
is ever an incarnation, “An empty Bible, in an Mr. Santayana's dealings with Form. Without feel-
empty universe, in an empty life,—to him who dares ing that the last word has been said, we do feel that
to read a Bible by itself.” It is refreshing, after a number of things have been made clearer. We
the somewhat weary, speculative road we have just like also some of the results, — indeed, are influ-
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away much.
:
>
enced, perhaps, in our judgment of the theory by capabilities of that form as a form. But we did not
the neatness of some of the explanations. This we mean to make a new poet the subject of a technical
confess is unscientific,— and yet we could not help disquisition ; that shows a pedantic and doctrinaire
a thrill of conclusiveness at Mr. Santayana's expla- spirit that should be far from one who is fortunate
nation of the preference of our time for suggestion enough to have to do with a new poet. We find
over form (p. 96) or of the superadded charm of the quality of Yone Noguchi pleasing, and we wish
associated expressiveness, which is 80 common now- he did not feel so terribly lonely.
adays (p. 85), a feeling which was, we fear, more
realized than our assent to the progress of his argu- Our pleasant
The forty-sixth volume of the “Story
of the Nations" series (Putnam),
ment. The book is one which the specialist will
neighbors.
study carefully, and from which anybody may carry
with its beautiful illustrations, is the
most interesting of all to the American reader,
since it tells a tale of our own times and of our
Doctor Johnson, while listening to most closely connected neighbor. The story-teller
“Monologues of a
Homeless Snail."
some music that rather bored him, is Mr. J. G. Bourinot, Clerk of the Canadian House
was assured that the piece was inor of Commons, and pleasantly known by his partici-
dinately difficult: he wished it had been impossible. pation in our societies of learning and his coöpera-
Such will be the harsh judgment of some concerning tion in the different plans of research and bibli-
Yone Noguchi's “Seen and Unseen” (Gelett Bur- ography in the two countries from time to time.
gess and Porter Garnett); but from such inhospi- The task of condensing four centuries 6 from the
tality we hasten to dissent. True, we do not agree day the Breton sailor ascended the St. Lawrence
with Mr. Gelett Burgess, who thinks that this young to Hochelaga, until the formation of the Confeder-
Japanese “ has discovered fresh beauties and unex- ation which united the people of two distinct nation-
pected charms in our speech.” But then, Mr. Gelett alities” – into less than four hundred pages must
Burgess is known to be a consummate wag: we appear peculiarly formidable to so intensive a stu-
almost believe that he has written these
poems
him. dent and so minute an investigator. Yet the work
self, to rival Mrs. Browning and Prosper Mérimée. has been most skilfully done, and the last hundred
We do see fresh beauties and charms certainly un- pages have thus been reserved for modern Canada
expected in these poems, but they are such as we the part of the book to which the American
perceive in any broken English in the mouth of a reader will turn first, to ascertain the views of so
pretty woman or a clever man. Nor do we think authoritative a writer upon the future of Canada
that Yone Noguchi has “honoured our tongue by and her relations to the United States. Of the Cana-
his writings ”: in this view of his, Mr. Gelett Bur- dian future, Mr. Bourinot is justly sanguine. “All
gess shows himself inappreciative of those things classes now agree as to preserving the federal sys-
which really are the honor and glory of the English tem in its entirety, since it ensures better than any
language. Nothing is gained by taking the matter other system of government the rights and interests
too seriously; it is needless to affirm that Noguchi of the French Canadian population. No French
is the greatest poet since Maeterlinck. Let us be Canadian writer or politician of weight now urges
content with the actual facts; he has written some so impossible or suicidal a scheme as the foundation
reveries full of delicate wanderings of sentiment, of of an independent French nationality on the banks
charming vagaries of the imagination. As such we of the St. Lawrence.” In common with later Cana-
poems surely give to ; writers, Mr.
-
a
we think that not a few will turn in sympathetic to colonial interests which England displayed in
a
a
affection to “The Homeless Snail” whose attract- adjusting her southern boundary line.
By “the
ive face appears on his frontispiece. We have here persistency of American statesmen,” the State of
the simple and naive utterances of one whose mind Maine now presses like a huge wedge into the prov-
works in a manner quite strange to our ordinary inces of New Brunswick and Quebec, and a Canadian
modes of thought; and that is something that many railway is obliged to pass over American territory,
will appreciate. We have also many quaint and which many Canadians still believe ought to be a part
delicate flowers of a fancy quite different from our of the Canadian Dominion.” Likewise the author
fancy; that also has its charm. To find really does not fail to contrast “ how honourably her [Can-
great thought or really beautiful expression would, ada's] government discharged its duties of a neutral
to say the least, require determination or profound between the belligerents "in our Civil War, and how
study. We ourselves think the work particularly at the time of the Fenian raids the United States
interesting, because, without having in any way the authorities calmly looked on while all the prepa-
spirit of Walt Whitman, it has to a great extent rations for these raids were in progress; how the
possessed itself of his form : not simply the rhyme- President discontinued the prosecutions on request
less, unrhythmical line, but the less obvious points of the House of Representatives; and “for all the
,
;
- the exclamation and apostrophe, the anaphora losses Canada sustained through these invasions of
and repetition, the absolute constructions and the her territory, she has never received any compensa-
parentheses, the neologisms, and so on. And this tion whatever.” Truly, these last hundred pages
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men who are wont to picture the Dominion sitting It will be remembered that the first volume was
out in the cold and piteously begging to be allowed published in parts, but this feature of the plan was
a humble seat by the Yankee fireside.
abandoned upon the completion of that volume, and
we now get all at once the 848 pages that take us
The name of Severn Teackle Wallis
An old-time
from F to M inclusive. A third volume will com-
author of
is an unfamiliar one to readers of our
plete the work. It is difficult to do justice in a few
day, though known to the last gen- words to this much-needed and admirably-planned
eration as that of an eminent lawyer, an able public Dictionary.” The bulk of the matter is enormous,
speaker, and a graceful writer of both verse and and the art of condensation has been so skilfully
prose. Mr. Wallis was educated at Baltimore, and
exercised as to produce a work of reference in the
there entered on the practice of his profession, and best sense.
Both the historical and the theoretical
soon was highly esteemed for his ability, integrity, aspects of economic science are fully presented, and
public spirit, and scholarly attainments. The most
we note with peculiar satisfaction the justice done
noticeable incident in his life was his arrest among by the editor to the various Continental schools,
the “Maryland suspects" in 1861, and his imprison past and present, of economic thought. A rather
ment for more than a year as a Southern sympa- minute subdivision of subject-matter, resulting in
thizer. He died in Baltimore in 1894, at an ad-
many short articles rather than in a few elaborate
vanced age. Soon after his death, some of his friends
essays, has been an essential feature of the editor's
formed the Wallis Memorial Association; and
plan, and the work is thus differentiated from the
through the efforts of this association a handsome
“Cyclopedia" of Mr. Lalor, in which it often takes
library edition of Mr. Wallis's selected works, in much time and patience to run down a desired fact.
four well printed volumes, has appeared with the
There are, of course, some elaborate articles, such
imprint of Messrs. John Murphy & Co., Baltimore.
as Finances (20 pages), and Insurance (14 pages),
The first volume includes several addresses which
but the average is about half a page. The articles
well exhibit Mr. Wallis's oratorical powers; per- are written by a great number of scholars, European
haps the most impressive of these is the discourse
and American, and are all signed. This makes
on the life and character of George Peabody. This inevitable a certain unevenness, which, however, the
volume includes also the author's poems, which skill of the editor has done much to smooth away.
show taste and scholarship; one of them is the stir-
Still, as he says of the articles : “Some are the
ring lyric of “The Guerrillas ” (beginning “Awake labours of practised scholars with a perfect command
and to horse, my brothers "), which is not unknown
of the vocabulary they employ, enforcing the broad
to collectors of the poetry of the Civil War. The
views which wider experience enables them to ex-
second volume consists of miscellaneous reviews
press," while “ others have been the jottings down
and political documents, and the third is a reprint of hard-working but comparatively uneducated men,
of “Glimpses of Spain,” which was first published full of practical common sense and of shrewd ob-
by Messrs. Harper & Brothers in 1849. Mr. Wallis
servation, but sometimes exhibiting a deficiency in
had early become a proficient in Spanish literature
dialectic skill which prevents them from setting
and history, and in 1847, being in ill health, he
forth the truths they desire to inculcate to fullest
made a journey through Spain, and later published advantage.” All students of economics will join in
this modest volume. It contains much just and congratulating Professor Palgrave upon his two-
careful description which would answer almost as
thirds completed work, and be impatient for the
well for the Spain of to-day as that of a half-century time when they may place the final volume with the
ago, written in a mild and genial vein, somewhat in
two others upon their shelves.
the manner of Washington Irving. The fourth vol-
ume is the result of a second visit to Spain, in 1849,
The Elizabethan Age is as fertile a
A bracing volume
made at the instance of the Secretary of the Interior,
field for the historian as for the stu-
of history sketches.
with the object of studying certain Spanish grants
dent of literature. Major Hume, in
which had reference to Florida lands. This was “ The Year after the Armada, and Other Historical
originally published under the title, “Spain, Her Studies ” (Macmillan), has brought together a num-
Institutions, Politics, and Public Men," and is a ber of essays dwelling upon this time of knight and
reliable summary of the Spain of that time. While naval hero. Most of these essays deal with the history
these volumes chiefly appeal to the people of Balti- of the Armada. But in reading them, if one would
more and Maryland, yet they have a general inter- get the continuity of the story he should read them
est and value which entitles them at least to a place in reverse order. As arranged, the reader embarks
in our larger libraries.
at once with the “ Counter Armada of 1589”-an
English attempt to capture Lisbon. The conflicting
After a considerable delay, although policies and the intricate problems of European
A Dictionary of
not an unreasonable one when we
Political Economy.
politics revolving mainly around England, France,
consider the magnitude of the under- and Spain, with accessory complications caused by
taking, the publishers of Professor Palgrave’s “Dic- the Reformation in France, Scotland, and the Neth-
tionary of Political Economy" (Macmillan) have erlands; the gradual widening of the breach with
put forth the second volume of that valuable work. | Spain ; the rising religious and national sense of the
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English; the work of the privateers; the open rup- portrait of Burton, showing a strong, rugged head,
ture with Spain in 1584, and the grand sea struggle surmounting the massive neck of an athlete. There
of 1588, are told in the articles upon “ The Coming is an appended list of his works, and the lack of
of Philip the Prudent” and “The Evolution of the an index is partially supplied by a copious table of
Armada.” Perhaps nothing in the whole course of contents.
the book will arrest the reader's attention more than
The series of papers embraced in
the author's estimate of Philip II., not “a murderous
disciple of the little volume entitled “ Adeline,
ogre, guiltily and silently plotting the enslavement
Countess Schimmelmann" (Dodd,
of England for thirty years before the great catas- Mead & Co.) present a fairly complete picture of
trophe which reduced his vast Empire to the rank the life of a remarkable and, to our thinking, some-
of a harmless second-rate power,” but “ a laborious, what erratic lady whose name, we learn, is “a house-
narrow-minded, morbidly conscientious man, pa-
hold word” in Germany and Scandinavia. Count-
tient, distrustful, and timid; a sincere lover of
ess Schimmelmann's story is indeed a singular one,
peace and hater of all sorts of innovations.” Mr.
and not lacking in the essentials of melodrama. The
Hume's ability in character-sketching is remarkable.
papers, which, with one exception, are from the pen
The descriptions of Charles II. and of Philip IV.,
of the Countess herself, contain, in the editor's
those queer sprigs of the House of Hapsburg, are
rather question-begging phrase, “the record of her
further examples. And when Mr. Hume quits the offense against conventional custom, in forsaking
sea and takes to land with “ Julian Romero, Swash- the brilliant circles of fashion for obscure toil among
buckler," or with “ Richard Bere,” sometime En-
neglected fishermen, and in attempting the task, so
glish gentleman and adventurer in petty scrapes, he often deemed impracticable, of living in literal obe-
is no less entertaining. Indeed, for a healthy and
dience to the precepts of Christ." Stated otherwise,
wholesome book, tingling with the old-English spirit, Countess Schimmelmann's tale is that of a Danish
smelling of the salt-sea air, and as entertaining as
lady of rank whose natural pietism, early manifested
Smollett, we commend the pages of “The Year
in good works and a reasonable degree of self-
after the Armada.”
abnegation, resulted eventually in a form of relig-
“ The True Life of Captain Sir Rich-
ious and humanitarian monomania that threatened
The new Life of
ard Burton" (Appleton ), by his
her own impoverishment, produced divers eccentric-
Captain Burton
niece, Georgiana M. Stisted, is a ities of conduct and opinion, and so scandalized her
compact, popularly-written book that affords a very
relatives that they confined her in a private asylum
satisfactory general view of the unique career of the
for the insane, whence she was released through
great explorer and Arabist. The dryest pen could parliamentary interference. We do not venture to
scarcely make a dull tale of the life of Sir Richard pronounce upon the merits of Countess Schimmel-
Burton; and Miss Stisted writes crisply, graphically,
mann's case which has attained the dignity of a
and to the point. Her description of Burton's re-
cause célèbre in her own country, and of which her
markable pilgrimage to Mecca and El-Medinah is
own side only is stated in the present volume; but
especially good, and she does fair justice to the
it must be apparent to the practical mind that “obe-
African and South American journeys, the tour in
dience to the precepts of Christ”
may very conceiv.
the States, and so on. The opening chapters, details ably be carried to a literal and suicidal degree war-
ing Burton's somewhat erratic and unpromising ranting the intervention of friends and relatives and
early career, are extremely readable. Miss Stisted the issuance of a writ de lunatico. To literally
a
goes a little out of her way, as we think, to air some
pluck out and cast away an offending right eye, for
unpleasant family secrets, and her strictures on instance, is not a commendable deed, nor one com-
Lady Burton seem rather illiberal—one might almost patible with the sanity of the doer. The volume
say spiteful. Lady Burton was a Romanist, and
contains some fairly interesting passages relating to
naturally made some attempts to divert her husband
the author's life at the court of Berlin, to her Baltic
from paths which she doubtless believed led to per-
missions, to her experiences with Berlin socialists
dition and eternal torments of a very material and
narchists, and to what she terms her“ persecu-
humanly realizable kind. The poor lady's frantic
tion and prison.” There are two portraits of Countess
efforts, when Burton was on his death-bed, to effect
Schimmelmann.
a tardy conversion, and her despairing petition to
Mr. Frank S. Child's “ The Colonial
A study of
the priest to administer Extreme Unction even when
Parson of New England” (The
the body lay cold and stark, and, to the calmer eye,
Baker & Taylor Co.) is generally
plainly inanimate (there might, she thought, be a similar in matter and treatment to the books of
lingering spark of life to sustain the saving efficacy Mrs. Alice Morse Earle, who has worked with such
of the sacrament), are ascribed by the author to a happy results in this Colonial field. Mr. Child has
Jesuitical desire on the part of Lady Burton “ of gleaned pretty freely from Mrs. Earle, Colonel Hig-
glorifying her church.” Perhaps had the author ginson, and Mr. Bliss, and claims to have gone to
made a little kindly effort to attain to Lady Burton's some extent to original sources. His book is pleas-
point of view, her closing chapter would have had a antly written, and affords some amusing and instruc-
more charitable ring. The book contains a striking I tive glimpses of Colonial parsons in general (omit-
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ting, we note, that choice specimen of the cloth, the and on the continent, was greater than any other ever
“ Maryland Parson "), as well as parsons specific -- thrown open to women in the course of modern history.
the parson political, the parson agricultural, the par-
Abilities might raise the nun to the rank of abbess, a
son as a scholar, a preacher, an ancestor, and so
position of substantial authority. In a Kentish charter,
the names of the abbesses as representatives of religion
forth. A chapter on “ The Parson's Ordination”
follow those of the bishops."
is calculated to dispel most effectually a not uncom-
mon delusion that the New England Puritan was
Volumes 7 and 8 of the uniform subscription edition
of Mr. Barrie's writings have just been published by the
ascetic in the matter of strong drink. Here, e. g.,
Messrs. Scribner, and the set is now complete. The
is a bill for an ordination in 1785:-“30 Bowles
closing volume brings “ My Lady Nicotine " and “Mar-
of Punch before the People went to Meeting ; 44 garet Ogilvy ” within one pair of covers—a rather incon-
Bowles of Punch at dinner; 18 Bottles of Wine; gruous association, it must be admitted. The volumes
8 Bowles of Brandy; Cherry Rum” (quantity not are exceedingly attractive in form, and the set makes a
mentioned). It cost the taxpayers of Woburn worthy companion for the Field and Stevenson sets for
(1729), to launch the Rev. Edwin Jackson on his which we are indebted to the enterprise of the same
clerical career, six and one-half barrels of cider, publishers.
twenty-five gallons of wine, two gallons of brandy,
Volumes 3 and 4 of “ American Orations,” complet-
four gallons of rum; while the diary of one Thomas
ing the set, have just been published by Messrs. G. P.
Putnam's Sons. This work, it will be remembered, was
Smith, describing the ordination of the Rev. Samuel
first edited by Alexander Johnston, and, in its present
Foxcroft at New Gloucester, concludes : “We had
revised form, is due to the scholarly labors of Professor
a pleasant journey home. . . . A jolly ordination.
James A. Woodburn. Volume 3 continues the subject
We lost sight of decorum." To properly “raise"
of the anti-slavery struggle down to the actual secession
a meeting-house, an incredible amount of strong of the Southern States; Volume 4 deals with reconstruc-
liquor was required — almost enough to float the tion, free trade and protection, finance, and the reform
edifice when raised. Mr. Child's book is a capital of the civil service.
one of its kind.
Mr. Herbert Small's “ Handbook of the New Library
In these days when a comparatively timely pamphlet. In addition to Mr. Small's detailed
of Congress” (Curtis & Cameron) is an attractive and
The training
few citizens, ashamed of the past description of the new building, there is an essay on the
of criminals.
treatment of dependent and per- “ Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting” of the Library,
verted children, are seeking to improve our laws by Mr. Charles Caffin, and a paper on “ The Function
and institutions, Mr. W. D. Morrison's book on of a National Library," by Mr. A. R. Spofford. The
“Juvenile Offenders” (Appleton) appears to be
pamphlet is well provided with illustrations, and will be
timely and valuable. It is a book which should be
a welcome guide to the many visitors with whom the
read by every resident of Chicago and every other
capital is thronged during this eventful month.
city whose great and growing “ dangerous classes "
We need not characterize the comely volume entitled
are being trained to crime in sweatshops, stores,
“ Undercurrents of the Second Empire" (Putnam) fur-
ther than to say that it is a liberal aftermath of Paris
factories, jail, and bridewell. The only form of
gossip reaped from the seemingly exhaustless memory
compulsory education we have in Illinois is given of Mr. Albert E. Vandam, author of “ An Englishman
where the associations are such as to minify the best
in Paris.” So far as we can see, Mr. Vandam's pen
influences of superintendents. Few men in the
shows no signs of flagging. No man certainly ever had
world are so well equipped for writing a book on a better memory for trifles; and readers whose appetites
this subject as the talented and gracious chaplain of are not already dulled by his well-seasoned plats should
Wordsworth Prison, London. The fact that the
find his latest book quite as entertaining as his first one.
book was written on English soil does not make it Messrs. Longmans, Green, & Co. issue a volume of
less valuable for American students, because the essays by George John Romanes, edited by Principal
principles of social treatment are essentially the
Lloyd, of Bristol, England. The essays, ten in number,
same for all countries, and because the author has
are reprinted from “ The Nineteenth Century" and
made himself acquainted with the methods of our
similar periodicals. With a few exceptions they discuss
corollaries to the main propositions of natural selection
institutions in the United States.
and the survival of the fittest, as applied to the devel-
opment of instinct and reason in man and animals. They
illustrate the versatility of thought and the breadth of
view of this well-known supporter of Darwin.
BRIEFER MENTION.
Professor Herbert A. Howe's “ Elements of Descrip-
Miss Eckenstein's “ Women Under Monasticism" tive Astronomy” (Silver, Burdett & Co.) is a text-book
(Macmillan) is a good contribution to culture-history, for high-school use. It is attractively printed, and illus-
within limits which are not expressed in the title. The trated far more handsomely than such text-books are
subject has to deal almost entirely with convent life in wont to be, but its study can hardly have the disciplin-
England in the Middle Ages. The author brings to bear ary results to be obtained from such a book as Professor
upon her work sympathy, training, and industry. There Young's, for example. The author seems all the time
is not a little irony in the paragraph upon the political to be afraid of expecting too much mathematics or
influence of an abbess, because of the unconscious reflec- physics from his students; in other words, he aims to
tion upon a Madame du Barry or Pompadour: “ The make astronomy as easy as possible, which is not exactly
career open to the inmates of convents, both in England the aim that such a text should have in view.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS OF SPRING BOOKS.
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THE DIAL takes pleasure in presenting to its readers
the annual list of books announced for Spring publica-
tion, and believes it will be found as comprehensive and
full of interest to book-buyers of all classes as any yet
prepared for these columns. The list contains about
500 titles, from 41 publishers, an average of an even
dozen of books to each firm - which is certainly an en-
couraging showing for the American publishing trade
after the recent period of general financial depression.
The list does not contain books already issued and en-
tered in our regular book-list.
HISTORY.
France ander Louis XV., by James Breck Perkins, 2 vols.,
$4.-The Story of the Pilgrim Fathers, 1602–1624, A. D.,
as told by themselves, their friends, and their enemies,
edited from the original texts by Edward Arber, F.S.A.,
$2.- A Bird's-Eye View of our Civil War, by Theodore
A. Dodge, new revised edition, $1 net. (Houghton, Mifflin
& Co.)
New Light on the Early History of the Greater North West,
being the journals of Alexander Henry, partner of the
Northwest Company, collated with the unpublished MSS.
of David Thompson, explorer and geographor of the North-
west Company, edited by Dr. Elliott Coues, 3 vols., with
maps, $10. (Francis P. Harper.)
Cromwell's Place in History, founded on six lectures delivered
at Oxford, by S. R. Gardiner, D.C.L. (Longmans, Green,
& Co.)
American History Told by Contemporaries, edited by Albert
Bushnell Hart, in 4 vols.; Vol. I., Era of Colonization,
1492–1699; Vol. II., Building of the Republic, 1689–1783.
-The National Movement in the
Reign of Henry III. and
its Culmination in the Barons' War, by Oliver H. Rich-
ardson, $1.50. (Macmillan Co.)
The Flight
of the King, an account of the escape of his Most
Sacred Majesty King Charles II. after the battle of Wor-
cester, illus. in photogravure eto., $7.50. (John Lane.)
The Middle Period,
by Prof. John W. Burgess, “ American
History Series," $1.75.- A History of China, by S. Wells
Williams, LL.D., $2. (Charles Scribner's Sons.)
Social England, a history of social life in England, by various
writers, edited by H. D. Traill, D.C.L., in 6 vols.;
Vol.
VI., from the Battle of Waterloo to the General Election
of 1885, $3.50. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.)
Evolution of France under the Third Republic, by Baron
Pierre de Coubertin, trans. by Isabel F. Hapgood, with
introduction by Dr. Albert Shaw, $3.-Von Sybel's Found-
ing of the German Empire, concluding vols. (T. Y. Crowell
& Co.)
The British Mercantile Marine, a short historical review, by
Edward Blackmore, $1.50. (J. B. Lippincott Co.)
A Smaller History of Greece, by William Smith, LL.D., re-
vised, enlarged, and in part re-written, by Carleton L.
Brownson, illus. (Harper & Bros.)
The French Revolution as seen by the Americans of the
Eighteenth Century, by Prof. C. D. Hazen. (Johns Hopkins
Press.)
The Story of the Indian Mutiny, by Ascott R. Hope, illus., $1.
(F. Warne & Co.)
The Annals of Switzerland, by Miss Julia M. Colton, illus.-
The History of the Waldenses, by Mme. Sophia Bompiani.
(A. S. Barnes & Co.)
BIOGRAPHY.
Memoirs of Baron Lejeune, aide-de-camp to Marshals Ber-
thier, Davout, and Oudinot, trans, and edited by Mrs.
Arthur Bell (N. D'Anvers), with preface by Major-General
Maurice, C.B., 2 vols.-The Life and Times of Cardinal
Wiseman, by Wilfrid Ward, 2 vols.-Memories and Ideals,
by Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson, M.D., F.R.S. - Will-
iam Shakespeare, Sportsman, notes from the diary of Mas-
ter William Silence of Gray's Inn. (Longmans, Groen,
& Co.)
Memories of Hawthorne, by his daughter, Rose Hawthorne
Lathrop, with portrait, $2.- John Hopkins Morison, a
memoir, by his children. - Reminiscences and Letters of
Caroline C. Briggs, edited by George S. Merriam. (Hough-
ton, Mifflin & Co.)
The Life of Nelson, the embodiment of the sea power of Great
Britain, by Captain A. T. Mahan, D.C.L., United States
Navy, 2 vols., illus. in photogravure, etc., $8. (Little,
Brown, & Co.)
“Heroes of the Nations," new vols.: Robert the Bruce and
the Struggle for Scottish Independence, by Sir Herbert
Maxwell, Bart.; Hannibal, Soldier, Statesman, Patriot,
and the Struggle between Carthage and Rome, by William
O'Connor Morris ; The Cid Campeador and the Waning of
the Crescent in the West, by W. Butler Clarke ; each
illus., $1.50.- Life of Abby Hopper Gibbons, told chiefly
through her correspondence, edited by her daughter, Sarah
Hopper Emerson, 2 vols., illus., $3.- Life and Correspond-
ence of Rufus King, edited by his grandson, Charles R.
King, M.D., in 5 vols., Vol.IV., $5. - A Young Scholar's
Letters, being a memoir of Byron Caldwell Smith, edited
by D. 0. Kellogg, with portrait. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.)
Cyprian, his life, his times, his work, by Edward White Ben-
son, D.D., late Archbishop of Canterbury, with introduc-
tion by Right Rev. Henry C. Potter, with maps. (D. Apple-
ton & Co.)
Louis Napoleon and Mademoiselle de Montijo, by M. Imbert
de Saint-Amand, $1.50. - Martha Washington, by Anne
Hollingsworth Wharton, "Women of Colonial and Revo-
lutionary Times," with portrait, $1.25.-Philip of Macedon
and Alexander the Great, by D. G. Hogarth, illus. (Charles
Scribner's Sons.)
A series of " Lives of the Great Explorers," by well-known
writers. (Henry Holt & Co.)
Southern Statesmen of the Old Régime, by William P. Trent,
M.A., $2.—The Boyhood of Famous Authors, by William
H. Rideing, new edition, with additions, with portraits.
(T. Y. Crowell & Co.)
William the Silent, by Frederic Harrison, “Foreign States-
men Series," 75 cents. (Macmillan Co.)
Memories of the Months, by Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart.,
editor of the “Sportsman's Library,” illus. in photograv-
ure, $2. (Edward Arnold.)
An Epistle to Posterity, being rambling recollections of many
years of my life, by M. E. W.Sherwood. (Harper & Bros.)
GENERAL LITERATURE.
William Shakespeare, a critical study, by Georg Brandes,
trans. by William Archer, 2 vols. - Biblical Quotations
in Old English Prose Writers, by Albert S. Cook, Ph.D.,
Part I.-Aucassin and Nicolete, an old French love story,
trans. by Francis William Bourdillon.- Epic and Romance,
essays, by W.C. Ker, M.A.-Letters and Remains of L. R.
Nettleship, edited, with memoir, by Prof. Andrew Brad-
loy, 2 vols., with portraits. - Landscape in Poetry from
Homer to Tennyson, with illustrative examples, by Francis
Turner Palgrave. - Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, edited
by Alexander Tille; Vol. X.,
A Genealogy of Morals, trans.
by William A. Haussmann, Ph.D.; Vol. IX., Beyond Good
and Evil: Poems, trang. by Helen Zimmern; Vol. VI.,
Dawn of the Day, trans. by Johanna Volz. (Macmillan Co.)
The Unpublished Works of Edward Gibbon, including six
autobiographies, correspondence, etc., edited by John
Murray and Rowland E. Prothero, with introduction by
the Earl of Sheffield, 3 vols., with portraits, $13.50.-
American Lands and Letters, by Donald G. Mitchell, illus.,
$2.50. (Charles Scribner's Sons.)
The Literary Movement in France during the Nineteenth
Century, by Georges Pellissier, trans. by Anne G. Brinton.
- The Literary History of the American Revolution, 1673-
1783, by Moses Coit Tyler, 2 vols., each $3.- A History of
American Literature during the Colonial Time, 1607-1765,
by Moses Coit Tyler, new edition, revised, 2 vols., each
$2.50.– Authors and Publishers, a manual of suggestions
for beginners in literature, by George Haven Putnam, sev-
enth edition, re-written, with new material. (G. P. Put-
nam's Sons.)
Letters of Victor Hugo, edited by Paul Meurice, second series,
$3. – A Dictionary of American Authors, by Oscar Fay
Adams.- English
and Scottish Popular Ballads,
edited by
Prof. Francis J. Child, édition de luxe, in ten parts; Part
X., with biographical sketch of Professor. Child by George
L. Kittredge, with portrait, $5. net. (Houghton, Mifflin
& Co.)
A new volume of Essays by Alice Meynell, $1.25. — Essays
Toward Critical Interpretation, by John M. Robertson,
$1.50.-
The Poems of Edward Cracroft Lefroy, with me-
moir by W. A. Gill, and a reprint of J. A. Symonds's “Crit-
ical Essay on Echoes from Theocritus," $1.50.- Marriage
Questions in Modern Fiction, by Elizabeth Rachel Chap-
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“Contemporary Essayists," new vols.: Book and Heart,
essays on literature and life, by Thomas Wentworth Hig-
ginson; and, How to Tell a Story, and other essays, by
Mark Twain; each $1.50. (Harper & Bros.)
Seventeenth-Century Studies, by Edmund Gosse, $1.50.- The
Literary Year-Book, 1897, edited by Frederick G. Aflado,
F.R.G.S., illus., $1.50. (Dodd, Mead & Co.)
Letters of Canova the Sculptor and Madame Recamier, trans.
from the original MSS. by W. A. Laing, M.A., with intro-
duction by Prof. W. H. Hudson, limited edition, illus. in
photogravure, $5. - The Lark, book second, illus., $3.
(William Doxey.)
Ancient Greek Literature, by Gilbert G. A. Murray, M.A.,
first vol. in a series of "Literatures of the World," edited
by Edmund Gosse, M.A. (D. Appleton & Co.)
Patrins, a volume of essays, by Louis Imogen Guiney, $1.
(Copeland & Day.)
Pictures of Russian History and Russian Literature, the
Lowell lectures, by Prince Serge Wolkonsky, $2. (Lamson,
Wolffe, & Co.)
The Chances of Death, and other essays, by Karl Pearson,
M.A., 2 vols., illus. Treatment of Nature in Dante's
"Divina Commedia," by L. Oscar Kahns, M.A., $1.50.
(Edward Arnold.)
Modern Poet Prophets, essays critical and interpretative, by
William Norman Guthrie, $2. (Robt. Clarke Co.)
The Evergreen, a northern seasonal, 4 vols. in a box, $8.
(J. B. Lippincott Co.)
Some Questions of Good English Examined, by R. O. Williams.
(Henry Holt & Co.)
Latin Manuscripts, and elementary introduction to the use of
critical editions, by Harold W. Johnston, Ph.D., illus.,
$2.25. (Scott, Foresman & Co.)
NEW EDITIONS OF STANDARD LITERATURE.
The Works of Lord Macaulay, “ Edinburgh" edition, edited
by his sister, Lady Trevelyan, 8 vols., $15. (Longmans,
Green, & Co.)
Poems of Thomas Hood, edited, with prefatory memoir, by
Alfred Ainger, 2 vols., "Eversley Series." - The Misfor-
tunes of Elfin, and Rhododaphne, by Thomas Love Pea-
cock, with introduction by George Saintsbury, "Illustrated
Standard Novels." Pepys' Diary, with Lord Bray-
brooke's notes, edited, with additions, by Henry B. Wheat-
ley, F.S.A., 9 vols., édition de luxe, limited to 250 numbered
sets, illus.—“ Temple Dramatists,” new vols.: Fletcher's
Faithful Shepherdess, edited by Prof. H. J. C. Grierson;
Edward III. (pseudo-Shakespearean), edited by Prof. G.C.
Moore-Smith; Shakespeare and Fletcher's The Two Noble
Kingmen, edited by Prof. C. H. Herford, Litt.D.;
Beau-
mont and Fletcher's Philaster, edited by Dr. F. Heath;
and, The Merry Devil of Edmonton, edited by Prof. H.
Walker; per vol., 45 cts. "Temple Classics," new vols.:
Malory's Morto Darthur, Vol. II., and Florio's Montaigne,
Vol. I.; per vol., 50 cts.-Works of William Wordsworth,
edited by Prof. Knight, new vols.: Poetical Works, Vol.
VIII. (conclusion), and Prose Works, 2 vols. (Macmil-
lan Co.)
Walton and Cotton's Compleat Angler, with introduction by
Richard Le Gallienne, and 250 illustrations by Edmund H.
New, $6. (John Lane.)
Cary's version of Dante's “ Divina Commedia," new edition;
revised, with Rossetti's translation of the “Vita Nuova,'
edited by Prof. L. Oscar Kuhns, illus. (T. Y. Crowell & Co.)
“The Illustrated English Library," new vols.: Ivanhoe, by
Sir Walter Scott, illus. by C. E. Brock; and, The Last of
the Barons, by Lord Lytton, illus. by Fred. Pegram; per
vol., $1. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.)
The American Claimant, and other
stories and sketches, by
Mark Twain, illus. (Harper & Bros.)
Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, by Mary Woll-
stonecraft Shelley, $1.25. (J. B. Lippincott Co.)
POETRY.
Odes and Otber Poems, by Francis Thompson, $1.50.-
Lyrics, by John B. Tabb, $1. – In Titian's Garden, by
Harriet Prescott Spofford, $1.25.--- The Heart of Life, by
James Buckham, "Oaten Stop Series,” 75 cts. (Copeland
& Day.)
London Poems, by Richard Le Gallienne, $1.50.- A new vol-
ume of poems by Alice Meynell, $1.25.-A new volume of
poems by "A. E.," author of "Homeward Songs by the
Way," $1.50. (John Lane.)
“For the Country," poems on patriotic subjects, by Richard
Watson Gilder, $1. (Century Co.)
Selected Poems of James Clarence Mangan, edited, with a
critical study, by Louise Imogen Guiney, with portrait,
$1.50.- Ballads of Lost Haven, a book of lyrics, by Bliss
Carman, $1.25.-Skenandoa, a poem, by Clinton Scollard,
new edition, $1. (Lamson, Wolffe, & Co.)
A Vintage of Verse, by Clarence Urmy, $1.25. (William
Doxey.)
The Builders, and other poems, by Henry Van Dyke, $1.50.
(Charles Scribner's Sons.)
Selections from the Poems of Timothy Otis Paine.- Echoes,
by Josephine Curtis Woodbury, illus. by Eric Pape.
(G. P. Putnam's Sons.)
Easter Bells, by Margaret E. Sangster, illus. (Harper & Bros.)
Odes in Ohio, and other poems, by John James Piatt, $1.
(Robt. Clarke Co.)
FICTION.
Lad's Love, by S. R. Crockett, illus. — Uncle Bernac, a ro-
mance of the Empire, by A. Conan Doyle, illus.—The Third
Violet, by Stephen Crane. Barbara Blomberg, by Georg
Ebers. Wayside Courtships, by Hamlin Garland.- Per-
fection City, by Mrs. Orpen. – A Spotless Reputation, by
D. Gerard. - A Galahad of the Creeks, by S. Lovett
Yeats. – Marietta's Marriage, by W. E. Norris. - Dear
Faustina, by Rhoda Broughton. - The Beautiful Miss
Brooke, by " Z. Z."- The Sun of Saratoga, by Joseph A.
Altsheler. - The Youth of the Great Elector, and The
Reign of the Great Elector, by Louisa Mühlbach. – New
editions of A Member of the Third House, A Spoil of
Office, and Jason Edwards, by Hamlin Garland (D.
Appleton & Co.)
The Well-Beloved, by Thos. Hardy, with frontispiece, $1.50.
- The Landlord at Lion's Head, by W. D. Howells, illus.,
$1.75.- The Missionary Sheriff, being incidents in the life
of a plain man who tried to do his duty, by Octave Thanet,
illus. - The Green Book, or Freedom under the Snow, by
Maurus Jókai, trans. by Mrs. Waugh, "Odd Number Se-
ries.”—Leonora of the Yawmish, by Francis Dana.-The
Mistress of the Ranch, by Frederick Thickston Clark,
$1.25. - Saint Eva, by Amelia Pain (Mrs. Barry Pain),
with frontispiece.-The Voyage of the Rattletrap, by Hay-
den Carruth, illus., $1.25.- The Descendant, $1.25. (Har
per & Bros.)
Hilda Strafford, a California story, by Beatrice Harraden,
illus., $1.25. - The Great K. and A. Train Robbery, by
Paul Leicester Ford, $1.25.--Christine of the Hills, by Max
Pemberton, $1.25.--Charity Chance, by Walter Raymond,
$1.25. - The Dominant Note, and other stories, by Mrs.
W. K. Clifford, $1.25.-In Golden Shackles, by " Alien,"
$1.25. The Sign of the Spider, by Bertram Mitford,
$1.25. - Chun Ti-Kung, his life and adventures, by C. A.
Rees, $1.25. - A Pearl of the Realm, a story of Nonsuch
Palace in the Reign of Charles I., by Anna L. Glynn, $1.25.
(Dodd, Mead & Co.)
A Transatlantic Chatelaine, by Helen Choate Prince, $1.25.
- Miss Archer Archer, by Clara Louise Burnham, $1.25.
-The Spirit of an Illinois Town, and The Little Renault,
by Mary Hartwell Catherwood, $1.25. - Three Partners,
or The Big Strike on Heavy-Tree Hill, by Bret Harte,
$1.25.- The Burglar who Moved Paradise, by Herbert D.
Ward, illus. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.)
A Story-Teller's Pack, a collection of short stories, by Frank
R. Stockton, illus., $1.50.- In the Sixties, short stories, by
Harold Frederic, $1.50. — Novels and Stories by Harold
Frederic, new uniform edition, 4 vols., $6.-" The Ivory
Series," new vols.: The Man who Wins, by Robert Her-
and, An Inheritance, by Harriet Prescott Spofford;
per vol., 75 cts. (Charles Scribner's Sons.)
Patience Sparhawk and her Times, by Gertrude Atherton,
$1.50.-Broken Away, by Beatrice Ethel Grimshaw, $1.50.
--Derelicts, by W.J. Locke, $1.50.- Middle Greyness, by
A.J. Dawson, $1.50.-Gods and their Makers, by Laurence
Housman, $1.25.- Max, by Julian Croskey, $1.25.- Sym-
phonies, by George Egerton, $1.25.- Poor Human Nature,
by Ella Darcey, $1. (John Lane.)
The Pomp of the Lavitelles, by Gilbert Parker, $1.25.-The
Merry Maid of Arcady, His Lordship, and other stories,
by Mrs. Burton Harrison, illus., $1.50.-A Hero in Home-
spun, a tale of the loyal South, by Wm. E. Barton, D.D.,
$1.50. — At the Queen's Mercy, a tale of adventure, by
Mabel Fuller Blodgett, $1.50.-Zuleka, by Clinton Ross,
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Vickery's Renan's Caliban. - Thacher's Charlecote.
- Reed's Bacon vs. Shakespeare. - Boswell-Stone's
Shakespeare's Holinshed.
THE PROPOSED TAX ON
CIVILIZATION.
Upon the specious pretext of "clearing up the free
list," the Committee on Ways and Means of the
House of Representatives, headed by a graduate of
an honored Eastern college, embodied in the re-
cently framed tariff bill a provision that for sheer
brutality and wanton disregard of all the things that
make for the welfare of a nation was absolutely
unparalleled in the legislation of countries that make
the least pretence to civilization, a provision 80
atrocious and so utterly indefensible that we would
not have believed it possible for the policy that it
represents to be entertained seriously by any person
of intelligence. This provision, to state it briefly,
was that hereafter all books of all kinds, and for all
uses whatsoever, shall pay a duty of twenty-five per
centum before being passed through the custom-
houses of the United States. We have had many
sorts of tariff laws during the century of our na-
tional existence, laws good and bad, reasonable
tariffs and “tariffs of abominations,” but such a
villainy as this was never before even contemplated.
It has heretofore been taken for granted that uni-
versities and public libraries were proper objects of
government encouragement, as far as it was possible
for legislation to encourage them, and the notion of
treating them, for purposes of taxation, as we treat
those things that minister to the tastes of the luxu-
rious and the vicious, never before, within our knowl-
edge, found a place in any draft of a proposed leg-
islative measure.
It will be remembered that our tariffs have always
provided for the free entry of all books imported
for the use of colleges and libraries, and of all books
over twenty years old even for the use of private
purchasers. Up to the Act of 1890, however, books
less than twenty years old, when imported by indi-
viduals, had been taxed at a rate of twenty-five per
centum. The Act of 1890, reactionary as it was in
80 many respects, had at least the saving grace of
adding all books in foreign languages to the free
list, and thereby lessening the affront
to intelligence
that is implied by any taxation of books whatsoever.
When the Act of 1894 was framed, it was discov-
ered, with great regret, that its enlargement of the
free list had not been liberal enough to wipe away
the disgraceful tax on new English books, which
were still kept among dutiable articles, proclaiming
to the world the hollowness of our national preten-
sions to enlightenment. For it must not be forgotten
that the Copyright Act of 1891, with its absolute
prohibition of the importation of books copyrighted
in this country, had removed what slight pretext
there had been for considering a tax on books as a
.
THE LATEST GREAT HISTORY OF GREECE.
Josiah Renick Smith .
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THE CORRESPONDENCE OF A FAMOUS
MUSICIAN. Tuley Francis Huntington
218
CENTRED ON BIBLE 'UDY. Ira M. Price . 220
The Bible as Literature. – Caverno's A Narrow Ax
in Biblical Criticism.- Bible Illustrations.-Wright's
The Illustrated Bible Treasury. - Kent's A History
of the Hebrew People.
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS
221
Life and letters of a distinguished American edu-
cator.- The United States and the Nicaragua Canal
project. - Semi-journalistic literary studies. - More
memoirs of the time of the Commune. – European
prehistoric archæology. – Lord Leighton and his
addresses.- Darmesteter's “English Studies."- An
eminent Colonial blue-stocking. - Forms of land-
holding in India.
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BRIEFER MENTION .
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LITERARY NOTES
225
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TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS.
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LIST OF NEW BOOKS
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protective measure. In spite of the irrational char- say nothing of English books, new and old - and
acter of this tax, and of the petitions for its aboli- who are the last persons in the world that should be
tion, circulated by THE DIAL, and signed by great singled out by any enlightened government for this
nymbers of the most representative Americans irre- special and peculiarly oppressive form of taxation.
spective of party affiliations, it remained a feature The reasons advanced in support of this benighted
of the Act of 1894, a law which made but one slight measure are too puerile for serious consideration.
concession to civilization in the shape of a provision The paragraph relative to free books for libraries,
for the admission, duty free, of books embodying we are told,“ has proved to be wonderfully elastic,"
the results of original scientific investigation. which is nothing less than a charge that our libraries
We have now outlined the situation up to the have been engaged in importing new English books
other day, when the publication of the proposed new for the benefit of private individuals. Since this
tariff law dealt to every friend of education so un- charge is nothing less than one of perjury, it will
expected and so brutal a blow in the face. It took hardly be believed unless it is substantiated by the
some time for the public to discover what had really most unimpeachable testimony. The privilege of
been attempted, since the nefarious plan for taxing importing “ books of scientific research," first
intelligence was carefully concealed. But the full allowed under the Act of 1894, has been abused,
import of the provisions concerning books gradually we are informed. If so, the fault is surely with the
leaked out, and it was also discovered that the ma- Treasury regulations or the laxity of customs offi.
lign influences which were seeking to discourage ed- cials, and by no means calls for the drastic remedy
ucation by the taxation of readers had planned to proposed. It is further said that new English books
discourage art by restoring the old barbarous tax have been prepared in special editions, with falsely-
on painting or sculpture, and to discourage science dated title-pages, for the purpose of evading the
by taxing, for the first time in our history, all ap- duty. Here, again, no evidence is offered for so
paratus imported for the use of schools and colleges. astonishing a charge; and here, likewise, the means
,
When these facts became generally known, they proposed to do away with the abuse are so out of
were bound to call forth a protest, and we are proportion with it that they suggest the Chinese
happy to say that the libraries, and the universities, method of getting roast pig. These arguments are,
and the more enlightened newspapers of the country as we have said, merely puerile; the argument for
have been prompt in the expression of their indig- reimposing the tax on books in foreign languages is
nation. During the two or three weeks that fol- absolutely unique in its absurdity. “We publish an
lowed the discovery, petitions and remonstrances abundance ” of such books ourselves, says the report
came pouring in to Washington in such numbers of the Committee, and airily dismisses the whole
that the framers of the proposed tax were forced to subject.
recede, in a measure, from their earlier position, Those who are most firmly wedded to a belief in
although the amendment adopted by them is so un- the principle of protection need only clear their
satisfactory that nearly as much as ever before still minds of cant to perceive that the protective prin-
remains to be worked for.
ciple is not involved in a tax upon books. Our
It is upon this amended form of the provision copyright legislation provides the only protection
relating to books and scientific apparatus that the that is possible under the circumstances, and the
struggle must now be made, and the paragraph is question of taxing uncopyrighted books is purely a
so ingeniously worded that a close scrutiny is needed question of revenue. The amount of revenue to be
to fathom its deceptive intent. It exempts colleges obtained from such a tax is, of course, insignificant;
and libraries from the payment of duty upon “sci- but were it ten times what it is, the real question
entific apparatus, instruments, books, charts, and would remain that of deciding whether books (to
chemicals, such as are not published or made in the say nothing of scientific apparatus and works of art)
United States.” This reads well at the first glance, are a legitimate subject for the imposition of a
but it means almost nothing. Latet anguis in herbâ. purely revenue tax. The question is no sooner
A strict construction of the words “such as are not stated than it answers itself. A revenue tax is justi-
published or made in the United States " would take fiable on one of two grounds, and of two only. Either
away with one hand nearly all that is given by the it aims to reach the mass of the people (who would
other. Microscopes, for example, are made in the else escape national taxation altogether) by falling
United States ; consequently no college may import on some article of practically universal consumption,
German microscopes without paying the tax. or it aims to strike the wealthy through their habits
glish dictionaries and editions of Shakespeare are of luxurious, or possibly vicious, expenditure. But
published in the United States ; consequently no a tax on books accomplishes neither of these objects.
public library may import the Cambridge Shake- It strikes instead, for the most part, a comparatively
speare or the Oxford Dictionary without
tribute to small class of consumers, few of whom are wealthy,
the Treasury. As far as it pretends to concede any. and nearly all of whom deserve every encourage-
thing, the paragraph is a mere “blind,” while it ment that it is possible to give them by such indi-
does not even assume to do anything for the student rect means as tariff legislation. They are, as a class,
and the scholar, who are absolutely dependent upon the men whom the nation should honor beyond all
books in the languages of Continental Europe - to others, for their life is one of patriotic service in the
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masses.
highest sense. They are doing more than any other
class to make the name of America respected abroad,
and the country a place in which a civilized man,
whether native or foreign-born, may feel at home.
One word more, and our protest is ended. Aside
from all considerations of principle, and of civiliza-
tion, and even of decency, a tax upon books is so
wanton an affront to intelligent men, that the lower
grounds of expediency are sufficient upon which to
condemn it. The class of men who are outraged
by the proposition is not large, considered numer-
ically, but no other class in the Republic is so influ-
ential in the moulding of opinion. During the com-
ing months of tariff discussion, we shall doubtless
hear a great deal about wool and iron, about lumber
and coal, and comparatively little about books and
pictures; but we firmly believe that in the end this
measure, 80 seemingly unimportant in the public
eye, will do more, if persisted in, to injure the polit-
ical party now in power, than any other feature of
their proposed reconstruction of the tariff.
mere matter of party tactics, it is a deplorable
blunder, for the sake of a million or two of addi-
tional revenue, to irritate and antagonize every edu-
cated man and every friend of education in the
entire country.
As a
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RESULTS AND PROSPECTS OF
UNIVERSITY EXTENSION.
The pioneers of University Extension in this
country, as in England, were missionaries and en-
thusiasts. They dreamed of a system of popular
education which should promote culture among the
Lectures on Greek tragedy have not be-
come popular among working men and women,
not because of the limitations of the social law of
culture, nor for lack of zeal among the apostles of
culture, but because leisure is as necessary for intel.
lectual progress as previous training. The present
conditions of industry and knowledge in this country
make it difficult for the average middle-class citizen
to appreciate University Extension lectures, to say
nothing of artisans and domestics.
The University Extension staff, in the early days
when every institution was offering lectures, was
composed of volunteer professors and instructors
from the several colleges, who offered makeshift
courses and learned University Extension methods
while experimenting on the unsuspecting public.
University ension had come in response to the
undoubted lack in the lives of many people of a
fit use of leisure. The first attempts were expe-
rimental, but they proved advantageous both to
the communities and to the universities which were
to undertake the work more seriously as they grew
wiser.
One of the first lessons of experience was the
necessity of a special University Extension faculty.
The existing faculties of the various institutions were
already overworked. So far from having time for
courses of lectures away from the campus, they had
not even leisure for personal development. Lack of
leisure was accompanied by deficient ability. It
was at first supposed that any able university man
could deliver Extension lectures; it was soon found,
however, that the Extension lecturer of even mod.
erate attainments was rarer than the really compe-
tent university professor. Not only were there few
university men who could lecture, but the best lec-
turers among them, when they lacked either the
time or the will to adopt Extension methods, by their
very ability hindered the work of popular education.
They not only merely entertained the people, but
made it more difficult for the University Extension
man subsequently to accomplish any serious educa-
tional work. There was often abundant enthusiasm
among the pioneers, but it did not last unless they
came fully into harmony with the University Ex.
tension scheme. Enthusiasm has been a large fac-
tor in all efforts for popular education, and this is
peculiarly true of University Extension. These de-
ficiencies in the average university man, leisure,
ability, enthusiasm, necessitated a University Ex.
tension faculty. The members of this faculty need
not necessarily give their entire time to Extension
work, but they must, at least for a short period each
year, give to it their undivided energies.
THE NEW APHRODITE.
Out of the deep sea-stream,
Into the light and the air,
Rose like a gracious dream
Vepus the fair.
How much of sorrow and rue,
How much of joy and peace,
Sprang that day from the blue
Waters of Greece !
Oh, from a Cyclad's verge,
Or swift galley's prow, to have seen
Her, the world's wonder, emerge,
Veiled in the sheen
Of her glorious sea-dripping locks,
Buoyant of limb, and as bright
As the sole star that leads out the flooks
Of the shepherdess Night!
But what avails it to sigh
For a glimpse of that day withdrawn ?
Not for long in the sky
Stays the fair dawn.
Ours the nobler lot
Under the broad noon-tide,
Gazing, to falter not,
Till from the wide
Ocean of life we behold
Rising in splendor and might,
Fairer than Venus of old,
Calmer than Night,
Purer than Dawn, or the blue
Depths of ether untrod,
Nature, the only, the true
Daughter of God.
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Such a faculty could not be established without can more easily overcome the latter evil than the
good financial backing. The only educational insti- former. No member of society has been made to
tution in this country which has seriously undertaken feel the bane of modern commercialism more em-
University Extension and continued the work to the phatically than the Extension lecturer. It makes it
present time has had a deficit in this department of difficult to get an audience for anything but amuse-
thousands of dollars each year. It is quite possiblement, to secure attention to controversial topics, and,
in the development of University Extension, by sac- above all, to interest men. A not insignificant diffi-
cessful division of labor, by the coordination of culty confronting the lecturer has been the long and
College, University, and University Extension work, uncomfortable railway journey, ending in bad accom-
to make such an investment economical wben judgedmodations at the typical American hotel, where even
by the standards of higher education. These finan- “all the modern improvements” will not compen-
cial requirements have, however, excluded the aver- sate for the bad meals.
age institution from the field.
Some advantages, however, have been discovered
Another necessity requiring both money and which more than make amends for the difficulties.
machinery was that of organization. The haphazard The first is the nucleus of ambitious intellectual
appeals to the various communities by some univer- people in every sizable community; the second is
sity professors, designated temporarily for that work, the body of progressive school teachers so often
were inadequate for the building up of an educational found ; the third is the modern woman's club, which,
system. Yet, if University Extension is to become with all its dilletantism, is one of the most hopeful
permanent, the various centres must feel themselves of contemporary organizations to the educator; the
a part of a great system.
fourth efficient aid is the public library, often the
While University Extension is still far from be- most satisfactory means of culture in the American
ing well organized anywhere in America, much has city.
been done in the last five years in Illinois and neigh- In the endeavor of the universities to grapple with
boring States. A large number of towns have their these problems of popular education, what can be
permanent committees which plan in the Spring for said to be the results attained or attainable? There
one or two or more lectures during the following has been, at least on the part of one institution, a
season; they have, in many cases, their well organ- differentiation of method to meet the different
ized study clubs which cooperate with the centre. classes of students and hearers. The University of
Some of the already existing literary and other clubs Chicago offers lecture-studies in courses of six or
coordinate their work with that of the centre; and twelve, with accompanying syllabi, libraries, and
much, though not enough, has already been done in classes, designed to reach promiscuous audiences
organizing circuits of three to six towns, for their which are held together by the organized efforts of
economy and the convenience of the lecturer. the local committees and the attractiveness of the
Conferences are held in different places, attended lectures ; class study-courses of twenty-four hours,
by the University Extension representatives in the attracting teachers, clergymen, business men and
neighborhood, which tend to bring the centres into women, and others, constituting a University Minor,
contact with each other and into closer relations and duplicating university work; correspondence
with the university. By means of regularly organ-study-courses, giving to individual students in any
ized class and correspondence study, many students part of the world twenty or forty lessons that enable
come into very intimate relations with the univer- them also to accomplish university work. With the
sity, taking annually examinations which will ulti- better organization of centres and a growing confi-
mately count in the securing of a degree.
dence in the university, it has been possible to extend
There have not been merely difficulties xperi- the range of subjects offered to the centres. It is
enced because of the limitations of the universities, found, too, that University Extension is proving a de-
but there were also discovered to be serious defi. cided stimulus to the intellectual life of the commu-
ciencies on the part of the people. Only a limited nities that undertake it. The clubs, the schools, the
range of subjects was found to be adapted to the churches, even the newspapers, have been aroused
average community. It is not possible to establish to greater intellectual activity. A minor but gen-
what may properly be called an educational system uine impetus has been given to the intellectual life
where people demand a continuous cycle of history, of the university by the introduction of Extension
literature, and sociology. Such restricted demands methods into its work, and by the enthusiasm which
do not encourage the universities, and they impose comes from contact with the people. A valuable
heavy burdens on the local committees that desire result has been the promotion of good feeling be-
to promote culture in their constituencies. The tween town and gown. The university and the
University Extension lecturer meets no more serious public are drawn closer together by University Ex-
obstacle than the bad habits of thought and inade- tension than by any other means; one evidence of
quate methods of observation which are almost uni- this being found in the number of students who are
versal. There is little cure for these evils in the attracted to the university by their University Exten-
very common pedantry and carelessness of the uni- sion experiences.
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become a part of our educational system wherever us too ignorant and indolent to joust ought no doubt, as
a university fairly meets the difficulties suggested in occasion serves, to try to throw in a fresh bone of con-
this article. Not so much is now expected as was
tention. “Upon this hint I speak."
hoped five years ago; but there is a basis for the
A few days ago, a class reading Plato's Protagoras
stumbled over the colloquial idiom, whereby an eager
present expectation. The process of selection which
proposal—of course really future—is thrown into a past
has gone on, both among the lecturers and the
tense (negatived), as if in protest that the thing is not
Extension centres, together with the lessons of expe- already done: “Why did n't you tell us,” i. e., "Pray
rience, have limited the scope of University Exten- tell us,” etc.
sion and made moderate ideals attainable.
Casting about for an illustrative English idiom, we
CHARLES ZEUBLIN. chanced on a usage which leaves open the time — and
The University of Chicago.
nearly everything else: “Why not tell us "; " Why not
call Prodicus." What mood is call or tell? Our first
appeal was to the copula, as the only verb in English
with a distinct form for the infinitive. E. g., “Why not
be quiet.” That gave us little comfort. In fact, the
COMMUNICATIONS.
more we study this puckery idiom the more we feel like
calling on our neighbor Ajax the Omniscient.
THE USE OF “LEARN" FOR “TEACH."
Is it an infinitive? Some ellipsis, like “Why [is it]
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
not (well to] be quiet," seems to be supported by the
In regard to Mr. John Albee's citation of Tennyson's German Warum nicht ruhig sein? etc.
use of " learn” for “teach,” permit me to suggest that
Is it a dislocated imperative ? -"Be quiet: — why
Tennyson's admiration for the English of the King
not?” There are uses of the Greek verb which seem
James version of the Bible, and the Book of Common to make this plausible.
Prayer of the English Church, was well known. He Is it a potential, with omitted subject, like Quare non
frequently expressed the opinion that those two books sitio tranquilli ?
contained the best English extant. The use of “ learn" for Lastly, may it not be a plain indicative? There are
“ teach” appears repeatedly in the Psalter; e. g., " Lead plenty of encroachments of the “bhu” root there also.
me forth in Thy truth and learn me” (Ps. XXV., 4). Not only ich, bin, du, bist, or provincial“ be'st a fool,” but
“ They will not be learned ” (Ps. LXXXV., 5). “O Shakespeare's “Everything that pretty bin,” “Ye be no
learn me true understanding” (Ps. CXIX., 66). The friends of mine," etc., came readily to mind.
Psalms in the Book of Common Prayer follow the trans- Here the scholar's Hamlet-like paralysis of the will
lation of the Great Bible of 1539. The German word befell us, and we were utterly unable to choose at all.
lehren is “ to teach.” And we call a man who has been Perhaps a four-sided inter-collegiate debate might be
well taught a “learned man.” That the use of “ learn ” arranged about the problem. Perhaps — nay, probably
for teach is now a vulgarism is due to causes which even the bastiest glimpse into a historical English
Tennyson may not have recognized as sufficient to change syntax would have enlightened us. But we are moving,
the English language of the sixteenth century.
our Mätzner is packed, — and, lastly, we leave the query
A. H. N. unanswered by preference, to wing the dilettante's part-
Collierville, Tenn., March 18, 1897.
ing shaft, viz.: With a vernacular bristling full of such
thorny puzzles, can we fairly expect or desire school-
ENLARGE THE CIRCLE OF DEMOCRATIC children to analyze and classify every subjunctive in the
SCIENCES.
Pro Archia, or every an in the Anabasis ? W. C. L.
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
Brooklyn, N. Y., March 15, 1897.
Apropos of a recent communication in your columns
concerning Whitman, the question arises why the words
TENNYSON'S FONDNESS FOR ARCHAIC WORDS.
“democracy” and “ democratic" should be so narrowly
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
limited in their application. It is obviously unfair.
Now that we bask in the full radiance of a democratic
Your correspondent's citation of the use of “ learn”
literary criticism, by all means let the circle of dem-
for “teach" by Tennyson simply illustrates the poet's
fondness for old forms. He was not an absolute parist.
ocratic sciences be extended to include a democratic
At least three of the words in my list of “ Dialectal Sur-
botany, and zoology, and geology, and astronomy, and
physics, and geometry. Above all, let us have a demo-
vivals," in THE DIAL for March 1, might have been
illustrated from him.
cratic psychology; for unless all signs fail, as they are
• Holp” for “helped” he uses
said to do in a dry season, a democratic psychology could
often; as, for instance, in “The Princess," I., 198:
show some fearful and wonderful results.
"He brought it, and himself, a sight to shake
E. V. ROBINSON.
The midriff of despair with laughter, holp
Muskegon, Mich., March 22, 1897.
To lace us up."
Little John (« The Foresters," I., I.) uses the playful
THE PUZZLE OF VERNACULAR FORMS.
word circumbendibus, just as Tony Lumpkin did.
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
Tennyson and a friend were driving in Derbyshire,
when some rooks flew by. The friend asked, “Why do
An amusing, and perhaps profitable, diversion of ex-
act scholars - a sport not unknown, indeed, to your own
you make a crow lead the rookery?” (Locksley Hall,
columns – consists in proving each other ignorant, per-
68.) The poet replied, « Ask the driver what he calls
those birds."
verse, and inconsistent in the use of the most familiar
The use of “learn” for “teach" is certainly ap
vernacular forms: infinitives, for instance, the future
archaism.
auxiliary, etc. All the world loves a fighter; yet even
CALVIN S. BROWN.
Homeric strife grows at times monotonous, and those of Nashville, Tenn., March 18, 1897.
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tion Dr. Nansen necessarily reserves for fu-
The New Books.
ture publication. “The scientific observations
.
brought back are,” he says, “ so varied and
NANSEN'S STORY OF HIS VOYAGE.*
voluminous that it will be some time before
Having signalized his name and time by an they can be dealt with by specialists, and be-
achievement that ranks, when regarded abso-fore any general estimate of their significance
lutely and apart from social and political con-
can be formed." With this exception the rec-
siderations, with the exploits of Columbus, Da ord before us is singularly complete. Broadly
Gama, and Magellan, Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, the speaking, it comprises : The record of the pe-
latest of the long line of Norse explorers whose riod of some twenty months (July, 1893, to
annals run back to the days of Leif and Eric March, 1895) during which Nansen remained
the Red, now recounts his adventures in a book on board the “ Fram,” and prior to his leaving
that for wealth of detail and animation of style her for his sledge journey northward with
is at least unsurpassed in the literature of Johansen ; the story of this subsidiary sledge
Arctic exploration. Lit and vivified by its won- expedition of fifteen months, from the “ Fram,
derful array of pictures, the story is one to lend at 84° 4' north latitude and 102° east longitude,
wings to the feeblest fancy. Engrossed with
Engrossed with northward to 86° 13.6' north latitude (the
the Defoe-like pages, the sympathetic reader northernmost point reached), and thence south-
embarks with Dr. Nansen on the “ Fram," and ward to the point where Nansen and Johansen
with him watches the headlands of Norway were met by the English party encamped on
wane and fade in the fog, as the sturdy little Cape Flora ; the story of the trip homeward on
vessel, braced for her long grapple with the the “ Windward,” and of the arrival at Nor-
ice-giant, works her way seaward; he drifts way. The account of the Fram's "adventures
with him, locked in the grip of the ice-floe, into
after Nansen left her is well told in the Appen-
the heart of the Polar Sea; he journeys with dix, by Captain Otto Sverdrup. The opening
him by sledge and kayak over the untrodden chapters give full details as to the inception of
wastes of ice and snow; he endures with him, the undertaking, the designing and building of
housed in a den or lair compared with which the “ Fram,” the personnel of her crew, and so
a Lapland hut were luxury, the dragging on.
In his Introduction the author briefly
months of the Arctic winter; he welcomes with summarizes the history of previous Arctic ex-
him the pale beams of the languid polar Spring peditions, and outlines his theory as to the ex-
--chill and flowerless, but unlocking nature for
istence of a current across the Polar Sea.
the final stage, southward and homeward, of What, according to Dr. Nansen, are the chief
the long journey; he shares with him the tri- results of the Norwegian Polar Expedition ? In
umphs of the return to civilization. National the first place, it has been demonstrated that
enthusiasm in Norway is very intelligibly and
the circumpolar sea is a deep basin, which is a
justifiably at a white heat over Dr. Nansen and continuation of the channel extending from the
his hardy companions; and it may be that a
Atlantic northward between Spitzbergen and
Norse Homer will arise to sing the voyage of Greenland. The extent of this deep sea is not
the “ Fram” and the deeds of these latter-day now certainly known; but we can safely say
Vikings who travelled the “swan-road " of their that it stretches a long way north of Franz
ancestors, not like them to slay and ravage, but Josef Land, and eastward to the New Siberian
to assist in widening man's intellectual domain.
Islands. That it extends still further east than
The theme is a worthy one - intrinsically far this is fairly inferable from the “ Jeannette
worthier and larger, we may believe, than the party's observations. Dr. Nansen is led to be-
adventure that inspired the singer of the wan-
lieve that in a northerly direction also this deep
derings of the home-faring Ithacan. But until sea is of considerable extent. Nothing was noted,
the advent of such not impossible Norse bard, either during the drift of the “ Fram” or dur-
Dr. Nansen is likely to remain the sole saga ing the sledge journey, that indicated the prox-
man of his great enterprise.
imity of any considerable expanse of land
the
The detailed scientific results of the expedi- floe seeming to drift unimpeded, especially in
* FARTHEST NORTH: Being the Record of a Voyage of
a northerly course. Any large body of land
Exploration of the Ship“ Fram," 1893–96, and of a Fifteen to the north would certainly have checked the
Months' Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen. movement of the ice in that direction. The
By Dr. Fridtjof Nansen; with Appendix by Otto Sverdrup,
captain of the “Fram.” In two volumes, illustrated in colors,
large quantity of drift-ice carried southward
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Greenland also points to the above conclusion. tion is the working with and not against the
“ Such extensive ice-fields must have a still forces of nature; (2) he has reached the north-
larger breadth of sea to come from than that ernmost point yet touched by man. To the inev- .
through which we drifted.” A tolerably clear itable cavil that after all Nansen did not reach
"
idea may now be formed of the way in which the Pole,” the Doctor's indignant friends and
the drift-ice is continually shifting from one countrymen have replied in a way satisfying
side of the polar basin north of Bering Strait, enough perhaps to practical, scientific minds.
across the basin and out towards the Atlantic. But the fact asserted remains. The North
Where geographers once located a solid ice- Pole, the goal of so many gallant adventurers,
mantle, massive and impenetrable, sheathing is still to be discovered. " Who is destined
the northern extremity of our globe, we now to be the hero, the winner of deathless renown,
find a shifting expanse of drifting ice. The who shall first succeed in planting his country's
motion of this ice is mainly due to the winds flag at that cynosural point? Fridtjof Nansen,
- the prevailing ones, in the sea north of Si. we trust; since he has, of all who have grap-
beria, being southeasterly. A slow current in pled with the northern problem, done most to
the water acts as a coöperating force. It will be point the way and ease the path thither. Nor
.
some time, Dr. Nansen adds, before his investi- can we easily conceive that Dr. Nansen is or
gations as to these points can be satisfactorily was in reality quite so indifferent to the éclat
calculated and checked.
of the exploit-to the fame, or notoriety if you
The hydrographic observations made furnish will, of succeeding where Franklin, McClin-
some curious data.
tock, Parry, Nares, De Long, Peary, failed —
“Thus, for instance, it was customary to look upon as he would apparently fain have us believe,
the polar basin as being filled with cold water, the tem- and as he has himself doubtless succeeded in
perature of which stood somewhere about — 1.5° C.
Consequently our observations
showing that under the believing. To such men as Nansen fame (the
temperature as high as +1° C., were surprising. Again, ventures) is never a mere bubble, the vacant
,
this water was more briny than the water of the polar echo of an empty name; and it is doubtless
basin has been assumed to be. This warmer and more
well for humanity that the pseudo-philosophical
strongly saline water must originate from the warmer
maxims as to the worthlessness of fame have
current of the Atlantic Ocean (the Gulf Stream), flow-
ing in a north and northeasterly direction off Novaya
never been taken seriously by those able to
Zemlya and along the west coast of Spitzbergen, and achieve it. We are inclined to think that the
then driving under the colder, but lighter and less briny, hope of reaching the Pole was seldom absent
water of the Polar Sea, and filling up the depths of the
from and was usually uppermost in Nansen's
polar basin."
mind so long as the exploit seemed feasible.
Concluding his summary of the results of One finds in his journal such tell-tale jottings
Nansen observes that, while many problems as
“Our aim, as I have so often tried to make clear, is
to the polar area are still unsolved, much has
not so much to reach the point in which the earth's axis
been done to lift the veil of mystery that has terminates, as to traverse and explore the unknown
so long shrouded those regions. We have been
Polar Sea;
and yet I should like to get to the Pole, too,
put in a position to form a tolerably just idea of and hope that it will be possible to do so, if only we can
them ; " and should we in the near future get a
reach 84° or 85° by March.”
bird's-eye view of the regions around the Pole Eighty-four degrees was, as we learn later,
as seen from a balloon, all the most material reached in March ; and it was from that point
features will be familiar to us." Still, he admits, that Nansen and Johansen, leaving the “Fram,”
a new drift, like that of the “ Fram," is most started north by sledge. Can we doubt what
desirable ; and should such an expedition be was their real goal ? or can we doubt as to their
undertaken (say, through Bering Strait and bitter chagrin when they were forced to turn
thence northward, or perhaps slightly to the back, baffled, at 86° 13.6'? To argue that, in
northeast) Dr. Nansen is of opinion that the failing to reach the Pole, Nansen missed what
observations made will prove of greater scope was to have been the crown and glory of his
and importance than his own.
journey, is not to detract from the merit of his
Broadly and popularly speaking, Dr. Nan- actual achievement. To argue that the reach-
sen may be said mainly to have accomplished ing of the Pole was a matter of small moment
two things: (1) He has proved his grand the- to him, and that had he reached it his expedi.
orem that the true method of Arctic explora- tion would have gained little lustre save in the
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apprehension of the vulgar, seems rather futile. Greely party at no time loomed into view.
The voyage of the “ Fram” eclipsed all pre- Latterly, seal's flesh became plenty.
vious Arctic ventures. It remains to outdo the “This meat, in our eyes, is as good as meat can be.
voyage of the “ Fram."
We had it yesterday for breakfast, in the shape of meat
Dr. Nansen's narrative is happily lacking in
and soup served with raw blubber. For dinner I served
the harrowing features that sadden the records
a highly successful steak, not to be surpassed by the
«Grand' (Hotel), though a good seidel of bock-beer
of so many polar expeditions. Privations were would have been a welcome addition. For supper I
endured, of course, and there was no lack of made blood-pancakes fried in blubber instead of butter,
perils and even hair-breadth 'scapes; but the
and they were a success, inasmuch as Johansen pro-
nounced them first-class,' to say nothing of my own
party was never in serious straits from hunger
sentiments."
and exposure.
The dogs were the great suf-
ferers; and the tale of these unhappy brutes -
The earliest report of the Norwegian Polar
dumbly toiling in the service of man through a
Expedition was written by Nansen in the spring
brief life that to them meant little save ice,
of 1896, when he and Johansen broke up their
hunger, and stripes - is one to wring the heart.
winter camp for the final trip south. The paper,
Says the author (much to his own credit):
which was enclosed in a brass tube and hung
to the roof of the hut, ran as follows:
" It was undeniable cruelty to the poor animals from
first to last, and one must often look back on it with
“ Tuesday, May 19, 1896. We were frozen in north
horror. It makes me shudder even now when I think
of Kotelnoi at about 78° 43' north latitude, September
of how we beat them mercilessly with thick ash sticks
22, 1893. Drifted northwestward during the following
when, hardly able to move, they stopped from sheer year, as we had expected to do. Johansen and I left
exhaustion. - It made one's heart bleed to see them, but
the · Fram’March 14, 1895, at about 84° 4' north late
we turned our eyes away and hardened ourselves. It itude and 103° east longitude, to push on northward.
was necessary; forward we must go, and to this end
The command of the remainder of the expedition was
everything else must give place. It is the sad part of
given to Sverdrup. Found no land northward. On
expeditions of this kind that one systematically kills all
April 6, 1895, we had to turn back at 86° 14' north lat-
better feelings, until only hard-hearted egoism remains.
itude and 95° east longitude, the ice having become
When I think of all those splendid animals, toiling for
impassable. Shaped our course for Cape Fligely; but
us without a murmur, as long as they could strain a
our watches having stopped, we did not know our longi-
muscle, never getting any thanks or even so much as a
tude with certainty, and arrived on August 6, 1895, at
kind word, daily writhing under the lash until the time
four glacier-covered islands to the north of this line of
came when they could do no more and death freed them
islands, at about 81° 30' north latitude, and about 7°
from their pangs — when I think of how they were left
E. of this place. Reached this place August 26, 1895,
behind, one by one, up there on those desolate ice-fields, and thought it safest to winter here. Lived on bear's
which had been a witness to their faithfulness and devo-
flesh. Are starting to-day southwestward along the
tion, I have moments of bitter self-reproach."
land, intending to cross over to Spitzbergen at the near-
est point. We conjecture that we are on Gillies Land.
The sledge journey was, for men as well as
FRIDTJOF NANSEN."
dogs, a dreary business enough. The supreme
A month after the date of this report, oc-
moments of it, those which were “ looked for-
ward to the whole day long," were the evenings, Englishman Jackson, near the latter's station
curred the meeting between Nansen and the
when the supper was cooked and portioned out,
We shall allow ourselves a
and the two travellers, stiff and numb, crept fragmentary extract from the author's account
at Cape Flora.
into their sleeping bags to enjoy it, and thaw
themselves into a faint returning sense of man's
of this dramatic finale of his journey.
“... Suddenly I thought I heard a shout from a hu-
capacity for something other than pain.
man voice, a strange voice, the first for three years. How
“ But sometimes we were so weary that our eyes my heart beat and the blood rushed to my brain as I ran
closed, and we fell asleep with the food on its way to
up on to a hummock and ballooed with all the strength of
our mouths. Our hands would fall back inanimate with
my lungs! Behind that one human voice in the midst of
the spoons in them, and the food would fly out on the
the icy desert this one message from life-stood home
bag. : . . But even in our dreams we went on cease-
and she who was waiting there; and I saw nothing else as.
lessly, grinding at the sledges and driving the dogs,
I made my way between bergs and ice-ridges. . . . We
always northward, and I was often awakened by hear-
approached one another quickly. I waved my bat; he
ing Johansen shouting in his sleep to · Pan,' or · Barra-
did the same. I heard bim speak to his dog, and I lis-
as,'or • Klapperslangen': Get on, you devil, you! Go
tened. It was English, and as I drew nearer I thought
on, you brutes! Sass, sass ! * Now the whole thing is
I recognized Mr. Jackson, whom I remembered once to
going over!'- and execrations less fit for reproduction,
have seen. I raised my hat; we extended a hand to one-
until I went to sleep again.”
another, with a hearty. How do you do?' . . . On one
Food was never seriously lacking during the side the civilized European in an English check suit and
sledge journey ; and the possibility of being high rubber water-boots
, well shaved, well groomed,
driven to the hideous dernier ressort of the bringing with him a perfume of scented soap, percept-
ible to the wild man's sharpened senses; on the other
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with long uncombed hair and shaggy beard, black with to this catholic sense of the relativity of human
smoke, with a face in which the natural fair complexion knowledge is to be guilty of a crudity of judg-
could not possibly be discerned through the thick layer
of fat and soot which a winter's endeavors with warm
ment quite at variance with the spirit of a
water, moss, rags, and at last a knife, had sought in vain
thinker whose mind is the most delicate of
to remove. No one suspected who he was or whence he instruments of precision.
Jackson: I'm immensely glad to see you.' Renan's “ Caliban” is a work which might
Thank you; I also.' • Have you a ship here?' No;
my ship is not here. «How many are there of you?! | appropriately figure in the list of the publica-
• I have one companion at the ice-edge.' ... Suddenly
tions of an American Shakespeare Society.
he stopped, looked me full in the face, and said, quickly: The great difficulty would lie in finding a com-
• Aren't you Nansen?' Yes, I am.' • By Jove ! I petent translator. The least of the translator's
am glad to see you!' And he seized my hand and
qualifications for such a task would be a sound
shook it again, while his whole face became one smile
of welcome, and delight at the unexpected meeting knowledge of both languages. Even a trans-
beamed from
dark eyes.”
lator as skilful and refined as Mr. Henry James
We need not enlarge on the importance of might fail to preserve the exquisite bouquet of
this pictorially and typographically superb Renan's style. In default of such a translator,
work. It is emphatically the book, as its author why did not "The Shakespeare Society of New
is the man, of the hour; and book and man
York” simply reprint the drama in the French ?
seem destined to long outlast the span of the To say that the translator selected by the So-
proverbial "nine days' wonder."
“'
ciety has not a single qualification for the task,
E. G. J.
is to say too little. The translation is so gro-
tesquely inaccurate as to become a literary curi-
osity. The publication would be discreditable
NEW ILLUSTRATIONS OF SHAKESPEARE.*
to any literary club in an Arkansas village.
This version resembles the original about as
A few years ago one of the most eminent
writers of modern times wrote, upon the basis
much as the face which Rip Van Winkle bebeld
of Shakespeare's “ Tempest,” a philosophical hotel resembled the face of Washington.
upon the sign-board of Jonathan Doolittle's
drama entitled “ Caliban.” Whatever may
Abundant justification of this sweeping con-
thought of this drama as a continuation of
demnation is furnished by every page of this
“ The Tempest,” few readers but must be sen-
sible of its pervasive charm. It is the product below the standard of viva voce construing that
of a mind of a range little short of Shake-
spearian. The hopeless jangle of modern opin any respectable teacher would set in the class-
The translator and her introducer are
ion has never been illustrated at once so vari.
ously and so concisely. If second to Ibsen
not even acquainted with the name of their
in dramatic vigor, Renan as far surpasses him
author, which they everywhere misprint “ Ré-
nan."
What the author expresses tersely in
in catholicity of thought as in grace of style.
Renan is the
most insinuating of writers: while twenty words, the translator bungles in thirty.
There is space here for but an example or two
admiring his grace, you are insensibly over-
mastered by his power. His special note is a
of the quality of the work. The following
certain smiling yet not irreverent skepticism, a
recalls “ English as She is Spoke":
“Whom didst thou say is the Grand Citizen ? "
quality so original that the French have been
forced to coin a word for it, l'ironisme. Indeed,
This question of the polished Prospero, thus
to apply the much-abused term “skepticism
rendered by the translator, reappears in the
Introduction mended as follows:
* CALIBAN. A Philosophical Drama, continuing “The
“Whom didst thou say was the Grand Citizen ?”
Tempest” of William Shakespeare. Translated from the
French of Ernest Renan (sic), Member of the French Insti- Caliban's reference to "ces diablotins qui me
tute, by Eleanor Grant Vickery; with an Introduction by faisaient tomber dans des fondrières
Willis Vickery, LL.B. (Boston University). Number of
the Publications of the Shakespeare Society. New York:
imps that made me pitch i' the mire), is ren-
The Shakespeare Press.
dered:
CHARLECOTE ; or, The Trial of William Shakespeare. By « Those little devils which made me fall into fits in
John Boyd Thacher. Illustrated by Charles Louis Hinton,
the thunder."
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.
BACON vs. SHAKSPERE. Brief for Plaintiff. By Edwin Reed,
Ariel, who is about to be resolved into the
Member of the Shakespeare Society of New York. Seventh elements whence Prospero had summoned him,
Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Boston: Joseph Knight Co. in the course of his exquisite final speech, says:
SHAKSPERE'S HOLINSHED. The Chronicle and the His-
torical Plays Compared. By W. G. Boswell-Stone. New
“ D'autres parties iront se perdre dans la chev-
York: Longmans, Green, & Co.
elure des algues, qui se mirent sur le sable
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zébré par les flots” (Other portions will become spective weight. He overwhelms the reader
lost in the hair of the seaweeds which are mir- with obiter dicta of literary critics, whom he
rored upon the wave-marked sand). This is regards in the light of so many judges on the
transmuted into the following mystic strain : bench. Unfortunately, he sometimes resorts to
“ The old elements will lose themselves in the long devices upon which a pleader could not safely
tresses of the seaweed which mirror themselves upon venture. One cannot always trust his citations.
the shining sides of the sable zebra as he stands silent by For example, Lowell remarks that certain
the waves."
things prove of Shakespeare that, whatever
Students of French in search of a book to
the extent of his learning, the range and accu-
drive away the blues (s'épanouir la rate) will racy of his knowledge were beyond precedent
find their account in this ninth publication of or later parallel.” Omitting the important
“The Shakespeare Society of New York."
qualifying clause, “whatever the extent of his
learning,” Mr. Reed prints only the latter part
Mr. John Boyd Thacher's "Charlecote, or of the sentence. Inasmuch as he is aiming to
the Trial of William Shakespeare” is a really win his case rather than to bring out the truth,
charming little book. Luxuriously and fault- he deems it his cue to suppress the distinction
lessly printed upon “ Imperial Japan paper, between knowledge and learning, – a distinc-
with illustrations always decorative and in one tion so plainly emphasized by Lowell. This
or two instances something more, it is delight- habit of mind deprives the book of much of the
ful to hand and eye. Moreover, it pleasantly cogency and value which it might have had.
recalls agreeable associations, being a free dra- The pleader assumes an antecedent improb-
matization of Landor's “ Citation of William ability that the plays in question were written
Shakespeare." In some respects Mr. Thacher by William Shakespeare, “ for he was unedu-
follows closely in the footsteps of Landor, not cated ”; and asserts that nearly all authorities
hesitating to reproduce his points and some- concede their author to have been a man of
times his very language. In return he adds a broad and varied scholarship.” On the contrary,
good deal of legal jocosity from his own stores. it is pretty generally agreed that the kind of
Împroving a hint of Landor's, he introduces a knowledge exhibited in these marvellous dramas
new character
Hathaway, is not the kind which is properly to be called
makes the poet's love for her the central inter- scholarship. Their author, whoever he may be,
est of the play. He omits Landor's long dis- is, in the student's sense, almost as uncritical
cussion upon divinity between the good justice as the author of the book before us. William
and the culprit, and introduces a scene between Shakespeare (supposing him to be the author
the lovers. The author's humble acknowledg- of the plays) was evidently better versed in
ment of his indebtedness to Landor makes un. “the books, the arts, the academes” which he
kind criticism impossible. “If the reader shall
• If the reader shall found in woman's eyes than in the severely
withhold from us all acknowledgment of orig- limited curriculum of the grammar school at
inality, let him at least at our instance turn Stratford. And it is well for him and for us
again to Landor's work and refresh himself that this is so. Of the larger and humaner
with his inimitable fancy.” To draw readers to humanities which so far transcend mere schol-
Landor may indeed be the chief service of this arship, and of which the great scholar is likely
elegant book; and it will be a worthy service. to be more ignorant than the unlettered, there
One could scarcely aspire to a better reward was never a more accomplished master. That,
than to be remembered with the author of the without great knowledge of books, it is possible
“ Imaginary Conversations."
to be deeply read in human nature, is no more
antecedently impossible in the case of Shake-
The “ Brief for Plaintiff” in the case of speare than in that of Burns,— or in that of
“ Bacon vs. Shakspere” is held by Mr. Edwin Homer, who perhaps did not know the alpha-
Reed, another member of the “Shakespeare So- bet. Nor is there anything miraculous in the
.
ciety of New York.” It was said of Francis of art of such a poet: it is simply a consummate
Verulam, “ He writes philosophy like a Lord adaptation of means to an end, and depends
Chancellor.” Of his counsel” in the present upon personal qualities which cannot be com-
case it may be said, “ He writes literary criti-municated. “The art itself is nature," — learn-
cism like a special pleader.” Mr. Reed has the ing cannot make it, though learning might, con-
lawyer's faith in the virtue of authorities, but ceivably, mar it.
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has a certain interest. To gather and group in No better illustration could be desired of the
the form of a legal brief all the arguments and difference between the method of the sound
evidence in favor of the Baconian authorship scholar and that of the easy-going sciolist than
-
of the plays was a happy conception, and it has is furnished by contrasting the book just con-
been carried out with a good deal of brightness sidered with Mr. Boswell-Stone's “Shakspere's
and plausibility. The book is the product of Holinshed.” This is a work of great utility,
some industry, - chiefly, perhaps, of the scis- which can be unreservedly commended both as
sors-and-paste variety. If, however, the author to conception and as to execution. In this noble
had always used the scissors, he might have quarto of 532 pages, all the passages in the
better deserved our confidence. When he par- Chronicles which Shakespeare has made use of
aphrases he is prone to inaccuracy, especially are reprinted in the original spelling with
when (as is usually the case) a point is to be scrupulous exactitude. The parallel passages
nade. The example already cited is not the in the plays are either quoted or referred to.
only one in which Lowell fares badly at his In cases like the archbishop's exposition of the
hands. He makes Lowell guilty of the follow- title of Henry V. to the crown of France, the
ing nonsense : “ It is only in the whine of passages from the play and the chronicle are
poets' that the outward world was cold to printed in parallel columns. Illustrations from
him.'” For what Lowell really said, see the other chroniclers, corrections due to the re
last sentence of his "Shakespeare Once More." searches of modern historians (including Mri
Mr. Reed never thinks of doubting his au- Boswell-Stone himself), are plentifully fur
thorities, nor of verifying their statements. nished in the footnotes. The book is provided
Disraeli, in his “ Curiosities of Literature," had with an impressive list of authorities referred
said : “ Coke was exhibited on the stage for his to " and with a thorough index. The racy and
ill usage of Rawleigh, as was suggested by fascinating old book to which Shakespeare owed
Theobald in a note on Twelfth Night.” Mr. most of his knowledge of English history, and
Reed garbles this in quoting it, omitting the upon which he makes boot so freely, is now
reference to Theobald, and placing that refer- placed within the reach of every student.
ence in a footnote, so as to make it appear to
For the illustration it affords of Shake-
be the result of his own research. In the trial speare's literary methods, this reprint of Hol- .
of Raleigh, Coke had abusively said to the inshed is of course immensely interesting ; hor
accused : “ Thou viper! for I thou thee, thou is it by any means devoid of interest in and
traitor!” Sir Toby Belch, in his instructions for itself. No reader who loses himself in the
to Sir Andrew about the challenge, remarks : quaint narrative of Holinshed will marvel at
“ If thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not the fascination the Chronicles exercised upon
be amiss." Neither Theobald nor Disraeli had the mind of the youthful Shakespeare. But no
remarked that, as we know from Manningham's reader can regard with any feeling short of
Diary, “ Twelfth Night” had been acted nearly amazement these prosaic materials, in compari-
two years before Raleigh's trial. Of course son with the magnificent creations the dramatist
Mr. Reed could not have been expected to look contrived to evoke from them. To read Hol-
this fact up, for it is adverse to his theory that inshed and Shakespeare together is like assist-
Bacon introduces this expression into Sir Toby's ing at the erection of Pandemonium:
speech in covert satire of his rival, Coke.
“ Anon out of the earth a fabric huge
These examples of the carelessness and dis-
Rose like an exhalation."
ingenuousness of this author must suffice. After The spectacle is more than instructive: it is
all, what else is to be expected of a book that exhilarating !
exhilarating! It shows how sufficient to the
is, on its face, a special plea? It has the merit creative imagination are the commonest stuffs
of condensing the whole argument for the Ba- that life presents, and how simple are the meth-
conian authorship, and of putting all the points
ods of genius. The question is often asked,
,
clearly and succinctly. But it will certainly
“ What do we know of Shakespeare ?” This
mislead those who lack time and patience to book admits us into his workshop, and enables
verify references. The reckless method of the
us to form as clear a notion of the way he
pleader is prima facie evidence that his cause worked as we have of the methods of Scott, of
is bad. It may be confidently recommended
Goethe, of Tennyson, of Browning. In com-
to any careful reader who is unsettled in mind parison with such knowledge of him as this, the
about the subject with which it deals, as tend- Tost facts of his biography would be of small
ing to confirm him in the orthodox faith. significance.
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us.
THE LATEST GREAT HISTORY OF GREECE.*
“ Dionysus” (1., 372), Polities as “Politics” (i.,
185) - an error noticed by J. B. Bury in The
When George Eliot, as a young woman re- Classical Review - Greece as “Greek” (ii.,
coiling from the Evangelicalism of her girlhood, 3), Phrynichus as “ Phrynicus” (ii., 11), Cor-
translated Strauss's “Leben Jesu," she urged, as
onea as “ Chaeronea” (ii., 194), Gylippus as
a justifying motive, the conviction that Strauss
“Cylippus” (ii., 415), ally as “alley” (ii,
.
“ required to be read in England.” We may 268). Megapolitans” seems an unfortunate
assume that a similar conviction has induced shortening of Megalopolitans ; and a reference
certain scholars to produce an English version
to Them. i., 93” (ii., 36) should obviously read
of Adolf Holm's Griechische Geschichte,'
Thuc, i, 93.
the first three volumes of which now lie before
There are a few slips in grammar. “Neither
There was room in the English-speaking Diodorus ... nor Plutarch are of importance
world for a new presentment of the story of (ii., 74) escaped the proof-reader's eye, as per-
Hellas. Of the classic triumvirate, Mitford, haps did also a who can we prefer to him?" (ii.,
Thirlwall, and Grote, the first two loom more 325); and the following disjointed sentences,
and more dim; and even Grote's great work while grammatical, rattle like marbles in a bag :
has passed its half-century, the first volumes
“ Hippocrates, who had been successful in many things,
having been issued in March, 1846. The artis- did not succeed in the undertaking wbich he looked [sic]
tic narrative of Curtius retains its high place as to bring him the greatest profit. He wished to take
" the standard of fine feeling for the problems Syracuse. He actually defeated the Syracusans on the
river Helorus, but could not take the city, owing to the
of Kulturgeschichte”; Dr. Evelyn Abbott's
interference of Corinth and Corcyra, who were united
history is a perspicuous account of the main
on this occasion. He obtained only the Syracusan col-
streams of events; and of monographs bearing ony of Camarina. He was killed in 491 B.C., in a war
He was followed as ruler
on limited epochs there is no end, either in against the Sikelian Hybla.
Germany or England. But here is an attempt great undertaking without even resorting to force”
of Gela by his best general, Gelon, who succeeded in the
to condense into four moderate volumes a com-
(ii., 79).
pendious treatment of the whole field, and more,
We may add that in style and in freedom from
covered in the ten volumes of Mitford, the eight such slips as those noted above, the third vol-
of Thirlwall, and the twelve of Grote.
ume is a great improvement on its predecessors.
It
may be said at once that the translation
In the examination of these volumes, the
seems an excellent one. There are few traces
of German idiom discernible; and what may the final volume will supply this temporary
absence of an index is keenly felt; but of course
be called perfunctory English is rare. In the
want. A graver deficiency is the absence of
orthography of Greek proper names, the at-
maps and charts, a form of help which Grote
tempt to follow the traditional English spelling did not disdain, and which the best informed
has been attended with some inconsistencies of readers would welcome. The lack of these
which recall Grote's “ Socrates” and “Thucy- essential aids to the understanding of such
dides.” In the matter of the Lesbian capital, events as, e.g., the Sicilian campaign of 415–
the translators have apparently tried to play 413 B.C., is a distinct drawback to the working
fair, giving it now " Mitylene,” with the ma-
value of the book.
jority of MSS., and again “ Mytilene,” with the
We have taken time and space to call atten-
coins; in the third volume the latter spelling tion to defects which are, many of them, tri-
has become fixed. Agrigentum (i., 360) and Aing enough, and which can readily be cor-
Akragas (i., 363), Selinus (ii., 166) and Se- rected in a second edition, but time and space
linunto (ii., 167), Polycletus (ii., 168) and
are not at our command to praise adequately
Polyclitus (ii., 273), Halonessus (iii., 227), the merits of Professor Holm's work. His
Halonnessus (iii., 265), and De Halonneso
“Geschichte Siciliens" (1874) was an exbaus-
(iii., 275), Tisamenus (i., 138), and Tisa-
tive and scholarly book, which has not been
menes (i., 139), are confusions rather than
compromises. We note some vexatious mis superseded by the freshness and vigor of a
Freeman; and those who had learned to rely
prints: a misplaced comma after “Amphion
"
on its winnowed learning and dispassionate
(i., 46) makes havoc of the sense ; Zethus ap- judgments could with confidence expect equally
pears as “Lethus” (i., 97), Dionysius as
satisfactory results in the larger field of Hel-
THE HISTORY OF GREECE, from its Commencement to lenic civilization. It is now eleven years since
.
the Close of the Independence of the Greek Nation. By
Adolf Holm. Translated from the German. In four volumes.
the first volume of Holm's “ Griechische Ges-
Volumes I., II., and III. New York: The Macmillan Co. chichte” was issued by Calvary of Berlin. It
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won recognition among scholars for its full writer is not in the least shaken” (ii., 325).
possession and command of all the results of He finds in Xenophon's Hellenica“ no trace of
the latest investigations, its cool and indepen. bias against the democracy” (ii., 508), though
dent estimates of measures and men, its fresh on page 534 he characterizes the concluding
and original handling of venerable cruxes, and words of Book II., as "the more honorable a
its compact and symmetrical grouping of the testimony to the Athenian democrats the far-
great epochs. This admiration was deepened ther removed the writer himself is from the
by the succeeding volumes, in the last of which democratic standpoint."
the author pushed the terminus of Greek his. In his lofty estimate of Alexander (whom
tory from the usual date, 146 B.C., to the tri- be calls “a Greek in the fullest sense of the
umph of Octavian over Antony at Actium, 31 word"), and his worst- possible view of De-
B.C. The three volumes thus far translated mosthenes, Professor Holm inevitably reminds
bring the narrative down to the death of Alex- us of the Cæsar and Cicero of Mommsen's
ander the Great.
great History; though Holm's condemnation
A striking feature of Holm's work is its of Demosthenes lacks that unhistorische Ge-
interrogative note. He cleaves skilfully through reiztkeit with which Mommsen's treatment of
a mixture of historical truth and traditional Cicero has been justly reproached.
accretions with a series of posing questions In contrast to the prominence usually as-
which leave the known and the unknown on signed to the racial characteristics of the Dori-
different sides. An example of the result of ans and Ionians, Holm offers an ingenious sug-
this treatment is his criticism (i., chap. 3) of gestion (ii., 456 ff), which is, that " at least six
Grote's “ more or less detailed account of events different intellectual tendencies, which had been
in Greece before the Dorian migration, on the long in preparation, may be discerned among
authority of the hero-myths and certain later the Greeks of the three last decades of the fifth
traditions, to which a scientific value is century : some of them just come in contact
ascribed.” Starting with the preliminary ques. with one another, others are blended, and each
tion, “ Is this method justifiable ?” Holm proceeds from a distinct geographical centre.'
shows that in the absence of written records, These are (we can only enumerate them here)
oral tradition must misstate facts, and that this the old Ionic culture, the Æolic, the Thracian,
misstatement must increase with time. Homer the Italian, the Sicilian, and the Attic.
he places not much before 800 B. C., and re- “The first of these is marked by a spirit of curious
gards it as questionable whether these poems inquiry; the second possesses depths of thought and feel-
“really contain the traditions and recollections ing; the third is scientific; the fourth touches the ex-
tremes of self-indulgence and self-renunciation; the fifth
of the past which we have to consider as the
is acute and satirical. Athens assimilated something
basis of earliest Greek history.” So with cere- from each of them, but least of all from that of Lower
monial traditions :
Italy."
“ The light thrown upon the migrations of Greek Touches of a grim humor are not wanting; as,
races by the method of statistics and analysis of forms
for instance (referring to Philip's succession) :
of worship has a larger amount of subjectivity than is
“ It is true that Perdiccas' son, Amyntas, ought really
desirable in history. But in truth every history is sub-
to have taken over the government; but Philip was pow-
jective which has any life in it and is not a mere col-
erful, and his rival still a child, and in families of this
lection of names; and the history of remote ages is the
most subjective of all. The reader even demands sub-
kind they were never so very particular about such mat-
jectivity because he demands life. But he will also
ters. It was a great deal that Philip did not put his
nephew to death. The omission was corrected by his
feel grateful to those who say: this little do we know,
beyond it lies the region of possibility.”
son Alexander after his accession to the throne.”
Here is an allusion (iii., 179) which might
Professor Holm recognizes in Herodotus
better have been omitted :
« A consummate artist, who took such pains to de: « The meetings of the [Athenian] Assembly were by
scribe the East accurately that his contemporaries might
no means so disorderly as to invite comparison with the
know what it was like; it never entered his head to de-
sittings of certain modern Chambers of Deputies.”
scribe the Greeks in the same fashion, for they of course
were acquainted with their own ways. In Herodotus
The elaborate bibliographical notes at the
Greek life is indirectly revealed to the reader by means end of each chapter are a striking evidence of
of the contrast it presents to the East” (ii., 287). the wide learning and controversial powers of
He
opposes the unfavorable view of Thucydides the author, and form an apparatus which
held by such scholars as Christ and Müller-doubles the immediate usefulness of the book
Strübing, and concludes that “on the whole, to all students of Greek history.
the old view that Thucydides is a truthful
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extraordinary leaps in all directions in what I write. It
THE CORRESPONDENCE OF A FAMOUS
is all very well for me to determine to write a proper
MUSICIAN.*
letter; in the most favourable case it only results in a
larger and more careless note. I can't fix my mind on
“ The Early Correspondence of Hans von
a continuous chain of thought, and wander about in a
Bülow" is a selection and translation, made by sort of anarchical way, from innate propensity.”
Constance Bache, from an edition which the
musician's widow, Marie von Bülow, brought likes to find in a letter, because then the play
But this is just the sort of carelessness one
out something over a year ago in Germany. To
of thought is as free as it is in conversation.
be precise, the present edition contains one
And a letter is, after all, only a little talk set
hundred and twenty letters, or just half the
down on paper. Thus the varied play of the
number in the German edition; and of these,
one hundred and four are by Bülow himself, Bülow's interesting personality. His thought
emotions reveals with extraordinary clearness
while the remaining sixteen are from the pens
is always in a glow, and he himself is always
of his father and mother, and the musicians
in extremes. “At one time tremendously cour-
Liszt, Wagner, and Berlioz. The translator
urges that this selection was approved by Marie thetic and dejected.” But although the depths
ageous,” he writes, “ at another endlessly apa-
von Bülow; that the letters omitted, “whilst in-
which he sounds sometimes seem dark with de-
teresting to Bülow's fellow-countrymen, would spair, there is always a ray of humor to light
hardly appeal to the general English reader,"
up the gloom of his surroundings. The ray is
and that “at the same time nothing has been
often a dull, imprisoned” one, and the humor
omitted that is of vital interest or importance is often of the Jacques order; but their presence
in enabling us to understand the sequence of
is undeniable. Then at the least change of cir.
events which moulded Bülow's youthful life and
cumstance he rises to where all is light, showing
decided his career.” But these numerous omis-
that by nature he was cheerful and enthusiastic.
sions limit the usefulness of the book, since the
At such times his letters are not infrequently
careful student will still be obliged to consult
filled with noble and lofty sentiments.
the complete German edition, and since even
But no matter what be the mood of the mo.
the general reader in many cases prefers to
ment, there is everywhere traceable in Bülow's
make his own selection. Otherwise the book
letters an absolute allegiance to art. It was this
is well planned, and even in this incomplete devotion to art which made him flee from his
form it constitutes an invaluable autobiography father's home at Otlishausen and undertake
of Bülow down to the beginning of his twenty that journey to Wagner at Zurich, in order to
sixth year, when he had begun his remarkable
test whether he had “ the energy to do that
career as a virtuoso.
piece on foot in the most awful weather, amid
In reading this selection, then, one may start ceaseless rain and storm," and later on write
with the presumption that one is reading Bülow
these resolute words to his father :
:
at his best, and it may not be denied that this
“I have become a man by my own energetic act. I
best is exceedingly good. The letters seem to bave a conscience and a conviction, upon which I con-
have been written straight off on the spur of sistently act, and I think these ought to be respected by
the moment, and are therefore entirely free
everyone. I am a musician, and intend to remain one."
from the faults usually found in letters written The flight from Otlishausen may be called the
with the thought of publication in mind. For turning-point in his career, for by this action
once, one is freed from the nightmare of nine- he cast off the fetters of a profession which was
teenth century letter-writing ; there was no im- in every way distasteful to him, and chose one
patient publisher standing behind Bülow and for which he was in every way fitted, beginning
darkening his page. It is true that Bülow
. It is true that Bülow at the same time a friendship that was as last-
sometimes sacrificed form to spontaneity, but ing as it was beneficial in his subsequent career
of this he himself was fully conscious. He said : as a musician.
“ Amongst other things, I have the bad babit of hop- That the friendship thus begun between
ping about from one thing to another in my letters; and Wagner and Bülow was mutual, and that the
because my pen cannot catch up my thoughts, in which former regarded his youthful follower with sin-
there is occasionally a dearth, owing to a musical idea
coming into my head between-times, I make the most
cere love and respect, may be seen from the
candid and plain-spoken letter sent to Bülow's
*THE EARLY CORRESPONDENCE OF Hans von Bulow.
mother for the purpose of reconciling her to
Edited by his Widow. Selected and translated into En-
glish by Constance Bache. With two portraits. New York:
her son's choice of a profession. On the other
D. Appleton & Co.
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the one
the master of Baireuth, that most abused and ordinarily faithful embodiment of the spiritual. Noth-
least understood of musicians. His letters are
ing is further from him than calculated effects; his
filled with warm expressions of love for the
genius as an artist consists chiefly in his certainty of the
effect he gives so brilliantly at every performance. This
man and admiration for the musician. His
point in Liszt seems to me the most worthy because the
early success as a conductor, for which he even most possible of imitation, and I have tried for some
then showed an undeniable talent, was directly
time, and not without result, to copy him somewhat in
this.'
due to Wagner's instruction. But another phase
of Wagner's potent influence soon began to ap-
And at the end of his stay at Weimar, which
pear. As early as January, 1851, Bülow wrote had been considerably prolonged, Bülow had so
to his sister of his great respect for Wagner.
caught the spirit of Liszt's methods of execu-
“I do not know if you can understand it, but it is
tion that Liszt wrote of him : « Je le reconnais
through this respect, which necessitates also an under- comme mon successeur légitime, comme mon hé-
standing of his works, that I really came to my right self. ritier de par la grâce de Dieu et de son talent.”
I have become more and more conscious that this esteem,
this understanding, is the best germ in me,
But even such unqualified praise as this was
not sufficient to bring at once to the young
by means of which, if properly fostered by me, I shall
become a man who fills a distinct place in the world,
musician the success which Liszt had predicted
and in humanity."
and which he certainly deserved. His early
Here, then, was the birth of the idea by whose concerts were rather costly experiments from a
expression Bülow meant to show his fellow-men financial standpoint, and nearly all of them left
that he had a distinct mission to fulfil, to which him extremely depressed in both spirit and
he devoted the best powers of his mind and the purse.
But while the letters of the time are
best years of his life, thus drawing down upon filled with expressions of bitter discontent, he
himself much of the abuse that had been heaped never quite forgot the humor of his situation.
upon Wagner.
What time he could he spent in reading Balzac
Bülow, however, was not the first to enter - in order, as he says, “ to take the bitter edge
the lists in defence of Wagner's work, for the off irony, and to settle all its elements of fer-
great Liszt had preceded him. And perhaps
And perhaps mentation down into a non-effervescent hu-
the friendship between Liszt and Bülow was mour.” Finally, however, criticism changed to
even more intimate than that between Wagner enthusiasm ; and one of his well-earned rewards
and Bülow, though it was not of so rapid a was an appointment, early in 1855, as principle
growth. That it was a real friendship, in spite teacher of pianoforte at Stern and Marx's Con-
of differences in age and attainment, is proven
servatorium in Berlin.
by the many incidents of their companionship Shortly after this event the correspondence
which these letters record. During his stay at
comes to a close. While the story told is a
Weimar, Bülow gave himself over completely short one, the years which it covers are in some
to Liszt's direction, and allowed bimself to be respects the most important, as they are with-
“be-Weimared," as he expressed it. Indeed, out doubt the most interesting, of Bülow's life.
so inseparable were the two that a caricature of It was during this period that his character was
the time represented Liszt as Don Quixote and formed, and to a considerable extent developed ;
Bülow as Sancho Panza. It would be impos-
It would be impos- and in his early correspondence, therefore, one
sible to overestimate the influence which Liszt may see foreshadowed many of the eccentrici-
as a musician exerted on Bülow, because he did ties that characterized the later life of a man
for him as a pianist even more than Wagner whom many chose to receive with contempt and
had done for him as a conductor. Liszt's plan derision. TULEY FRANCIS HUNTINGTON.
was to bave Bülow remain at Weimar for one
year and prepare an extensive répertoire for
PROF. MICHAEL BERNAYS, formerly of Munich, and
his concert tours, since his immediate career
one of the greatest interpreters of German classical poe-
was to depend on his executive talent. He was try, died in Karlsruhe on the 25th of February. He was
also to learn to write for the piano. What
a scholar of fine literary sensitiveness, and was endowed
Bülow saw and imitated in Liszt's method is
with remarkable histrionic gifts and with a memory
little short of marvellous. Because of this phenomenal
suggested in a letter to his father in May, 1852.
memory, Bernay's knowledge of facts was astounding,
“The great mastership of Liszt - apart from his and he was a veritable encyclopædia of knowledge on
individual appearance and personality — rests princi- universal literature. The weight of this erudition
pally on his marvellously expansive and manifold power seemed be a burden upon his productive powers, and
of expressing outwardly what he feels inwardly; not he seemed ever to be absorbing rather than creating.
merely in the perception and grasp of a musical work, He has, however, given to the world several works of
but in the way he can reproduce it outwardly, the extra- considerable literary value and importance.
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University. Though this is becoming a fash-
CENTRED ON BIBLE STUDY.*
ionable method of making books, we greatly
The market is overloaded with stock for the doubt its real value to the thoughtful public.
Bible student; and the products are easily
It is distinctly appetizing to find a writer who
assortable into several classes. To a general leaves the beaten paths of theory and practice
class belongs the somewhat miscellaneous work in the making of books on special themes.
entitled - The Bible as Literature.” Professor
Dr. Caverno has indeed a very narrow ax,”
Moulton's popularity as a lecturer, and his new and it cuts deep into the vitals of biblical criti.
series “The Modern Reader's Bible," have cism. The microscopic nicety and the theoretic
begun to reveal to some people the fact that presumptions of many modern biblical critics
the Bible is not simply a religious book, but are cuffed about by a man who takes large and
that it is full of masterpieces of literature. The comprehensive views of literature and interpre-
fact that it has been hedged in by reverence
tation. It is evident that the author has not
has been by some enthusiastic though narrow
kept posted on the latest literature on the topics
religionists sufficient ground for excluding it touched; but this works no ill for his methods
from the common field of literature. This sym- of interpretation. They are generally sound to
posium — for such it is - on different themes, the core, laid on broad principles, and carried
books, and sections of the Bible, is a direct out on common-sense plans. Facts not theories,
campaign against such a “ hands-off” spirit. It literary not hypothetical principles, must un-
purports to discuss the Bible as literature pure derlie all criticism which anticipates reaching
and simple. Professor Moulton leads off with the truth. This is a keen, spicy, original book,
a keen and discriminative article on the title of with some degree of usefulness ahead of it.
the book. Nineteen chapters by eighteen au-
The aids to Teacher's Bibles, which formerly
thors make up the body of the book; and the could easily be bound in the same covers with
closing article, on “the influence of biblical the Bible, have so increased in bulk as to de-
upon modern English literature,” is by Pro-mand their own covers. “ Bible Illustrations”
fessor A. S. Cook of Yale. The discussions, is a handy volume, made up entirely of 124
by some of the leading professors and Bible plates with descriptive text. These plates are
scholars of America, touch several degrees of largely new, and are each full-page. They give
worth, some even running quite wide of the us beautiful facsimiles and reproductions from
general purpose of the book, and possessing photographs of famous Bible manuscripts of the
little real value. On the Old Testament, two
On the Old Testament, two Old Testament and the New, of all the import-
treatments, " The Book of Job as Literature," ant versions in which it has been handed down
by Professor Genung of Amherst College, and to us. Then sample pages of early English ver-
“ The Love-song of the Bible,” by Dr. W. E. sions are of peculiar interest to every student
Griffis, are masterly condensations of what of the Bible. The religion of the Egyptians
could be said of the literary beauty and value is illustrated by several pages of cuts from the
of the respective books. Of the six articles on land of the Nile. Egyptian life and customs are
the New Testament, special attention may be also quite tastefully pictured. The great civ-
called to that on" the epistles of Paul as literilizations of Assyria and Babylonia contribute
ature" by Professor George B. Stevens of Yale portraits of some of the kings whose shocks of
battle shook Israel and her land.
Roman em-
* THE BIBLE AS LITERATURE. By Professor Richard G.
Moulton, Ph.D., the Rev. John P. Peters, D.D., the Rev. perors
also stare at us from some of the later
A. B. Bruce, D.D., and others. With an Introduction by the plates.
plates. The whole volume is commendable in
Rev. Lyman Abbott, D.D. New York: T. Y. Crowell & Co.
form, substance, and method of presentation.
A NARROW AX IN BIBLICAL CRITICISM. By the Rev.
Charles Caverno, A.M., LL.D. Chicago: C. H. Kerr & Co.
The new “ Illustrated Bible Treasury
BIBLE ILLUSTRATIONS: Being an Appendix to the Oxford reaches the acme in the field of Bible students'
Bible for Teachers. New York: Henry Frowde.
helps. Dr. Wright had the assistance of twenty-
THE ILLUSTRATED BIBLE TREASURY, and a new Concord-
eight British and nine American scholars, many
ance to the Authorized and Revised Versions, combined with
a subject-index and pronouncing dictionary of Scripture
of them eminent specialists in the particular
proper-names; with upwards of 350 illustrations and a new
themes upon which they wrote. Among these
indexed Bible atlas. Edited by William Wright, D.D. New
York: Thomas Nelson & Sons.
we may mention Professors A. B. Davidson,
A HISTORY OF THE HEBREW PEOPLE; from the Division
Marcus Dods, J. Rendel Harris, W. M. Ram-
of the Kingdom to the Fall of Jerusalem in 586 B.C. By say, and J. F. McCurdy, Dr. Ed. Naville, Dr.
Charles Foster Kent, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biblical
Literature and History in Brown University. Volume II.,
A. H. Sayce, Dr. George Adam Smith, Canon
with Maps and Chart. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Tristram, and Dr. B. B. Warfield. The cata-


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Life and letters
a
logue of themes treated and the compactness
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
and lucidity of the articles are a delight to the
reader. The wealth of illustrations of the best
The two handsome volumes contain-
sort - not old worn-out cuts - adds greatly of a distinguished, ing the “Life and Letters of William
American educator. Barton Rogers,” edited by his wife
to the beauty and completeness of the articles.
The natural history sections are especially fine
and published by Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.,
present two distinct claims upon our interest. First,
in matter and make-up. The Concordance is
it brings us into sympathetic communion with a
the most complete yet produced, being adapted remarkable group of brothers, who, about the mid-
both to the Authorized and to the Revised Ver.
dle of this century, occupied an important position
sions, and containing also proper names. We as teachers and scientists. The four sons of Pat-
also find incorporated in it several themes which, rick Kerr Rogers, a professor in William and Mary's
in other helps, are found merely in separate College in Virginia, all graduates thereof, were long
sections under the dry uninteresting form of
notable in educational circles as the Rogers brothers.
tables. Some of these are Messianic Prophecy, James was professor of chemistry in the University
of
Parables in the Old Testament, Quotations in
as
the New Testament for the Old. This feature
of the geological survey of Pennsylvania, and was
afterwards professor of natural history at Glasgow;
simplifies the Bible student's task. The full
Robert succeeded James in the chair of chemistry
dozen of new up-to-date maps, fully colored and
in the University of Pennsylvania, and held a sim-
indexed, are superb. The entire book, printed ilar place in the Jefferson Medical College in Phil-
on thin paper, so that it is less than one inch adelphia ; while William Barton is the central fig-
thick, is elegantly bound in leather, with red ure in this portrayal. He was born in Philadelphia
under gold edges, and is nearest the ideal Bible in 1804 ; succeeded his father as professor of nat-
student's manual of any publication in its field. ural philosophy in William and Mary's College in
The histories of Israel are legion, and he is
1828; was appointed to the conduct of the geolog-
a rare man indeed who thinks that he can
ical survey of Virginia in 1835; and in the same year
was transferred to the chair of natural philosophy in
improve upon his predecessors. The second
the University of Virginia. This position he re-
volume of Dr. Kent's “ History of the Hebrew signed in 1853, removing to Boston, where his
People" is a small book printed in large type, brother Henry was already lecturing. This closed
severely condensed and rigorously modern in the first period of his professional career, in which
views and treatment. Its raison d'être seems his reputation as an investigator and an instructor
to be its use of the latest utterances of special had been fully established. Were the records here
ists on the vital points and periods of Israel's closed, and the estimate of his character, ability,
history and literature. The author is quite free
and success made up, his place would have been
to state without qualification results which can
found in the first class of American physicists. But
— and here arises the second and largest claim upon
be said to be as yet mere theories (cf. for ex-
our interest — his removal to Boston was the en-
ample sections 23, 24 latter part, 164, 167,
168, 171, 188). He is in full sympathy with eclipse his preceding achievements. From now on,
trance upon a new phase of labor whose results quite
such writers as Driver and his school. The
his memoir is an account of the inception, the de-
blocking-out of the material seems to be fittingly velopment, and the early success of the Massachu-
done; and the separate-section method of dis- setts Institute of Technology. As early as 1846,
cussion gives a kind of continuity to the story.
the brothers William and Henry sketched a plan of
While the work has marks of value, it is open
a school of technology, to be located in Boston ; but
to criticism at one essential point. It is appar-
the conditions were not then favorable, and the
scheme lay in abeyance until 1859. By this time
ently intended for the beginning student's use ;
the State had filled the basin of shallow water near
but for such it is too condensed. It must be
Boston known as the Back Bay, and Governor Banks
supplemented by larger and more complete had intimated in his annual message that the oppor-
works. It should contain references to such, tunity was favorable for some important educational
in some accessible place. Again, it is not what enterprise to be benefited by the proceeds. In the
scholars, to whom all of its facts are familiar, sequel, several scientific associations were made ben-
need. Its material yields no new facts. But eficiaries ; but doubtless the most notable result was
the one class to which it may be of value is the founding of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
that of the Bible student reasonably familiar nology, of which it may be said that, while its plan
with the Old Testament, who desires to ascer-
was largely original, its nearest prototype was the
tain the standing ground of the modern advance
famous Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, in Paris.
school of criticism as touching the history of the
The organization was made with wise deliberation,
Hebrew people.
in which the broad views entertained by Professor
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The United States
serious opposition. In February, 1865, the first penditure of 200 millions of dollars. The Nicaragua
class was assembled in temporary quarters; in Nov- plan proposes to utilize the lake of that name, the
ember of the same year, Dr. Rogers was formally level of whose waters is 110 feet above that of the
made president; and in 1866 a commodious and oceans, and is to be reached by four locks on each
costly building was occupied. In 1868 he retired side. About eighteen miles of canal are to be con-
from the presidency because of ill health ; he re- structed upon the Pacific side, and thirty-one miles
turned temporarily at the resignation of Doctor on the Atlantic side. The total distance, including
Runkle, in 1878, pending the election of a successor, lake navigation, is 174 miles. The estimated cost
who was found in 1881 in the person of General is 133 millions of dollars. In view of the sums used
Francis A. Walker. On Tuesday, May 30, 1882, in the grand enterprises which the United States
while Dr. Rogers was speaking at the graduating has already brought to successful issue, this amount,
exercises of the Institute, he wavered for an instant, though large, is not prohibitory. The chief obstacle
then fell to the platform, dead. As to time, place, to immediate progress in this well-perfected scheme
and circumstance, he could not have wished a more seems to be the involved diplomacy which invests
fitting departure. In the foundation of the Insti- the attempt, hardly yet to be deemed successful, to
tute by President Rogers, three fundamental prin- | bring the enterprise under the protection of the
ciples were never lost sight of : First, it should not United States behind the ægis of the Monroe Doc-
be affiliated with any other institution ; second, its trine. The history of this controversy, as outlined
instruction should be adapted not to boys but men; by Professor Keasbey too fully to be briefly epi-
third, its equipments should be of the fittest and its tomized, shows how often the Monroe Doctrine has
teachers of the largest calibre. In its development been put forward, and how often it has been per-
the Institute has been fortunate in securing adequate mitted silently to retire under the pressure of shrewd
funds as needed, without being hampered by the diplomacy or vigorous protest, leaving it now doubt-
name or the fancies of any person. As a result it ful whether concessions, weakly or ignorantly made,
has secured the commanding position it now enjoys, have not committed the nation beyond the oppor-
without a peer in this country or a superior in any. tunity of honorable retraction. Professor Keasbey's
volume is timely, and indicates thorough and con-
In “The Nicaragua Canal and the
scientious investigation.
and the Nicaragua Monroe Doctrine” (Patnam), Pro-
Canal project.
fessor Keasbey, of Bryn Mawr Col-
The first four of Mr. Joseph Jacobs's
lege, describes the plans for crossing the narrow but
Semi-journalistic
“Literary Studies" (Scribner) ap-
literary studies.
elevated ridge which unites the two Americas, and
peared in an earlier volume, while
shows the tangled web of diplomacy woven about all of them were originally published in either “The
the claims of the United States regarding an enter- Athenæum " or "The Academy," being in the na-
prise of such momentous import. Ever since Bal- ture of obituaries “ written within the two or three
boa's astonished gaze descried from an isthmian cor- days that elapsed between the death of their sub-
dillera the sheen of the southern sea, explorers and jects and the appearance of the ensuing issue" of
engineers have dreamed of finding some depression the paper to which they were contributed. The
through which the barrier could be passed, so that longest and best of the studies is the first, which is
Pacific ports could be reached more directly than by an appreciative review of George Eliot's works.
the long circuit of the southern cape. By as many That the author of “ Daniel Deronda” and “ The
as eight different routes, supposed to be feasible by Spanish Gypsy "should have appealed with peculiar
canal or railway, and by more than twenty variants, 1 power to the writer of “An Inquiry into the Sources
solutions of the problem have been proposed, among of the History of the Jews in Spain" is not difficult
”
which only the Panama railway has been completed. to understand. Essays on Matthew Arnold, Brown-
The wish has been to find transit for fully-laden ing, and Newman make up the remainder of the
ocean steamships, and the hope was for such transit first edition of this little book, and are already
at the sea level, as in the Suez Canal. Of all the familiar to many readers. The last three chapters
various schemes, but two have survived for present are new, in book form, and are devoted to Tennyson,
discussion. One, the Panama Canal, was to have R. L. Stevenson, and Sir John Seeley. Tennyson's
been finished by now, after the removal of 176 supremacy in lyric poetry and his limitations in epic
millions of cubic yards of material, at a cost of 120 and dramatic composition — limitations arising
millions of dollars. After six years of labor, two- chiefly from his secluded mode of life and the aris-
fifths of the work was done at a cost of 262 mil- tocratic reserve of his nature- are clearly set forth;
lions of dollars, of which it has been said “one third but the writer is unduly severe in his criticism of
was used legitimately, one third was squandered, the “ Idylls of the King.” This epic, which Mr.
and one third was stolen,” followed by a ruin of Stedman has called “ Tennyson’s master-work ...
reputations without a parallel in modern times. But suffused with the Tennysonian glamour of golden
.
the Panama scheme has not been abandoned. For mist,” Mr. Jacobs regards as little better than a
the open tide-water channel, first proposed, it now failure, and claims that for epic poetry Tennyson's
substitutes at the summit a high level to be reached powers, “great as they were, were inadequate. He
by locks. It is estimated to require an added ex- was not an epic poet.” His strictures upon the
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dramas will meet with less dissent than will his treat- less. There was one who obtained only six francs.
ment of the “ Idylls" and what he calls their “ His labor had been considered very insufficient. It
what namby-pamby chivalry." The essay has some was a horrible spectacle to see those wretches argu-
keen analysis, and explains well the reasons of Ten- ing which of them had done the most butchery....
nyson's being both the people's and the poets' poet. I saw also a woman, who must have been whelped
The article on Stevenson is only eleven pages long, in hell, insult a corpse. She was astride of it, and
but is good. That it is highly eulogistic, goes with-
out saying; for who that has written about Steven- One regrets that Rousseau did not live to see his
son has not written in his praise? Mr. Jacobs's precious “ sovereign ”exercising its prerogative and
strong preference for what he calls the novelists of demonstrating its " virtues." The book is furnished
out-of-door life to the other school of “Howells and with a rather profuse editorial apparatus of notes,
James young men,” is very apparent. Yet we may introduction, appended documents, etc., and there is
question whether the verdict of coming decades and a frontispiece portrait of the author.
centuries will agree with this critic in placing“ Dr.
Jekyll ” beside the “ Pilgrim's Progress” and “Gul-
A general work upon European pre-
European
liver's Travels," "as one of the three great allego-
prehistoric historic archæology, which shall tell
archæology.
ries in English.” Mr. Jacobs's volume is an attrac-
simply and well, not only what was
tive one, and is worthy of a place perhaps beside
well told a dozen years ago, but also the discoveries
Mr. Lang's “Essays in Little” and Mr. Hutton's,
of recent years, is a desideratum. Such a book must,
Mr. Henley's, and Mr. Woodberry’s literary studies.
of course, be abundantly and well illustrated. We
can hardly say of Mr. H. N. Hutchinson’s “ Pre-
The recently published “ Memoirs of historic Man and Beast” (Appleton) that it meets
of the time of Mgr. de Salamon," an historical doc- the need described. It is fairly interesting, but con-
the Commune.
ument that has awakened the liveliest tains little that is new, even in British archæology,
interest in France, now appears in an English ver- and that little is badly told. After presenting the
sion (Little, Brown, & Co.). The author of the already pretty well known facts regarding palæo-
Memoirs was a clerical counsellor in the Paris Par. lithic man — of the gravels and of the caverns — the
lement, a position which he owed to his appointment author wastes sixty pages in a tirade against extreme
by Pius VI. as Internuncio at Paris in 1790; and ideas in glacial geology, which have not needed to be
his narrative extends from that date to 1801. The combated for a decade of years. The author is care-
Memoir is divided into three parts. The first part less and repetitive. Thus, he twice touchingly refers
treats of the narrator's imprisonment at the Abbaye in identical terms to “ Prof. T. McKenny Hughes,
during the September massacres, and of his narrow from whom we learned much at Cambridge”; again,
escape from the butchery of which he was an eye- he three times (pp. 17, 46, 138 ) suggests that
witness. No similar narrative of these events that some biblical chronology claims that the world is
we know of exceeds that of the Abbé in realistic 4000 years old — a very strange idea. The author's
force and unmistakable literal truth of detail. The statements are often discordant, as - (p. 97) “ Pro-
second portion deals with the Chambre des Vaca- fessor James Geikie in his . Great Ice Age' (1894)
tions, of which the Abbé de Salamon was a member, gives a coloured map showing its huge dimensions
and before which suits were brought in the interval according to his theory”; (p. 86) “ Professor James
created by the suppression of the Parlements. Dar- Geikie has now (1889) abandoned his theory.” In
ing this period the author was proscribed by Robes- his list of works of reference, Mr. Hutchinson omits
pierre's satellites, and the chapters he devotes to his de Mortillet's, Le Prehistorique, perhaps the most
pursuit and escape afford a vivid impression of the important popular work upon his subject; other
conditions under the Terror. Portion three relates nearly as bad omissions might be named. There
to events under the Directory,— Mgr. de Salamon's are ten full- page plates in the book before us,
correspondence with the Pope leading to his arrest, intended to reconstruct the life of prehistoric men,
trial, and final acquittal. The Abbé's recital is tell- which, were they not saddening, would be amusing.
ingly simple and naively circumstantial, manifestly The author's attitude toward the illustrations may
exact as to fact, but colored, of course, as to esti- be shown by two quotations. His frontispiece rep-
mates of men and events with the writer's personal resents a “happy family" composed of a sabre-tooth
and official prejudices. He adds his mite to the tiger, a cave-bear, and hyenas, advancing to attack
now pretty conclusive mass of evidence that the a cave-dwelling family. Mr. Hutchinson admits the
September massacres were the work, planned, paid, incongruity of such a combination of forces, but
and systematically carried out, of the Commune. naively remarks: “It makes a more interesting
On leaving the prison, after the butchery was picture, and scientific accuracy may in some cases be
finished, the Abbé saw through a window a member pushed too far. Artistic effect has also to be consid-
of that body, in his tricolor scarf, with some bags of ered.” Again, in mentioning the picture representing
money beside him, engaged in paying the assassins. the building of Stonehenge, he congratulates himself
“The wages of those who had worked well,' that is upon a new hint as to method of moving the great
to say, 'massacred well,' was from thirty to thirty-five stones supplied by Mr. Read in these words : “We
francs. A certain number had to be content with are greatly obliged for this excellent suggestion, es-
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and his addresses.
as
)
An eminent
Colonial
pecially as a long embankment” (demanded by the Darmesteter contain one of the most delicate and
other suggested method of work) « would spoil the charming characterizations that we have ever read;
composition of the picture.” With entirely kindly third, because Darmesteter never wrote anything
feeling toward the author, we cannot say that Mr. that was not interesting. Having said thus much in
Hutchinson's book is a valuable contribution to its praise of the volume, it is permissible to add that
field.
these “ English Studies" are among the slighter
The publication of Lord Leighton's things of the author's literary output, and that, charm.
Lord Leighton
“Royal Academy Addresses” (Long- ing as they are, one can get from them no adequate
mans) will not alter the general esti-
idea of Darmesteter's scholarship or of his powers
mate of his character. They were delivered bien-
as a thinker. The “Studies" deal with such themes
nially as President of the Royal Academy, during
“ Joan of Arc in England,”
,” The French Rev.
the last twenty years; and although a compara-
olution and Wordsworth,” George Eliot, Mary. Rob-
tively small number ever heard or read them, yet inson, and Irish poetry. Three oriental studies are
their general character trickled out, as it were, into
appended, one of them being a somewhat lengthy
the wider constituency that knew or admired Lord
paper on “Calcutta.” It need hardly be added that
Leighton. The president of an academy holds a
the translator has done about all that art can do to
singularly difficult position. By the very nature of preserve the aroma of Darmesteter's style. But we
the case, be can hardly be other than conservative: cannot quite forgive her for her frequent use of the
and conservatism in art has more attraction for
affectations “'t was” and “'t is."
prigs and sycophants and weaklings than for such
as really need it. It is also difficult to avoid the
Miss Alice Brown's “ Mercy War-
temptation to become merely ornamental: and
ren,” forming the fourth volume in
blue-stocking.
artists
, although they love beauty, are apt to decry lutionary Times" series (Scribner),
is a readable
the “ Women of Colonial and Revo-
the most exquisite figure-heads if found in their own
,
profession. Lord Leighton was somewhat conserv-
and instructive sketch of a noted blue-stocking of
ative, and singularly ornamental : he was by nature
the period. Mercy Warren, by her maiden name
a P.R.A. In life, therefore, he was peculiarly open
Mercy Otis, was the sister of James Otis, the wife
to the shafts of satire; nor will this volume in any
of James Warren of Plymouth (a sound patriot,
respect serve as a buckler. Lord Leighton's ad-
of the excellent stock of the “Mayflower” War.
dresses have called forth much unkind criticism; rens), and the friend and corr
rrespondent of John
they have been called rigmarole, opulent disquisi- Adams and other notabilities of the day. Mrs.
tions, and what not, and certainly, as one now
Warren was a rather voluminous writer, prolix,
reads them over, they offer a certain reason for such
stilted, and pedantic. Her magnum opus was, of
terms. But such abuse shows one side only. Lord
course, her “ History of the Revolution.” Her pen
Leighton was not a creative power, a moulding occasionally stooped to humor, and she was the au-
force, an artistic influence : admit so much, and you
thor of an acting farce entitled “The Group." Of
are free to recognize what he was — namely, a man
the deadly properties of Mrs. Warren's lighter vein
of broad culture and learning, of remarkable gifts
we get an inkling in a letter of hers “playfully'
in many lines, and of many accomplishments, even
hinting that certain overdue letters, may have been
a man of devotion to artistic ideals, and if not great
lost at sea : " But if most of them as is probable are
as an artist, certainly great as a connoisseur and a Devoted to the Oozy Nymphs who attend the Watry
lover of art. His addresses will be compared with
God below it may serve as an Interlude amidst the
those of Sir Joshua Reynolds ; and the comparison variety of political packages consigned to their
is of interest. Sir Joshua discussed general ideas, perusal in these Days of danger and uncertainty."
and what he said may still be read with profit.
Of Mrs. Warren's literary ventures the present au-
Lord Leighton deals chiefly with the history of art,
thor gives an interesting account that forms a very
-- and wisely, for he was as learned as he was bril suggestive episode in the annals of early American
liant. His work certainly lacks some things that we
literature. Miss Brown's little book is pleasantly
should value, but it has at least that quality which
written and deftly put together, and forms perhaps
comes from the assured handling of a great and
the most solidly instructive volume thus far of the
inspiring subject.
capital little series to which it belongs.
A volume of English Studies " by
Darmesteter's
Forms of
The common view among writers on
the late James Darmesteter, trans- land-holding
social institutions is that the joint-
“English Studies."
lated into English by his devoted
village" is the prevalent type through-
widow (who signs herself “Mary James Darmes- out India, and that “ land held in common” is the
teter” for her French public, but whom English rule. Mr. Baden-Powell's book on “ The Indian
poetry knows as Miss Mary Robinson), has recently Village-Community” (Longmans) is a vast accumu-
been published by Mr. Fisher Unwin. The volume lation of facts regarding Indian villages, gathered
is a delightful one for a number of reasons. First, from every source, and marshalled in such a way as
because it gives us a portrait of the author; second, to indicate that the joint-village with common hold-
because the prefatory pages contributed by Madame ling of land (except where the latter is the result of
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LITERARY NOTES.
among the superior tenures of the Hindu Aryans
and the later tribes who settled in northern or upper Messrs. Maynard, Merrill, & Co. publish a selected
India. The author claims that in the great majority
volume of Hawthorne's « Twice-Told Tales " for use as
of cases the so-called joint-village followed rather
a school text.
than preceded the village of separate holdings. He
Mr. J. Fred Smith is the author of a new « School
goes little into arguments or conclusions : to pre-
Geometry,” inductive in plan, published by Messrs.
sent the facts is his chief aim. After a brief state-
Scott, Foresman & Co.
ment regarding the Indian village and its forms in
Dr. Fridtjof Nansen has been engaged by the Red-
general, two chapters are devoted to the “ Physi- path Lyceum Bureau for a series of lectures to be given
next
ography of India" in its relations to land tenure,
Mr. W. I. Fletcher will conduct a school of library
and to " Ethnographic Considerations." The re-
economy at Amherst this summer. The course will last
maining chapters discuss forms of land-holding in six weeks beginning July 5.
different parts of India. The author finds nine
An“Old English Grammar and Exercise Book,” by
varieties of villages, each with some peculiarity in Dr. C. A. Smith, is published by Messrs. Allyn & Bacon.
tenure.
It is a book of the most elementary sort, designed for
beginners only.
About Catherine de' Medici " is the latest volume of
BRIEFER MENTION.
Balzac published in the Dent-Macmillan edition. Mrs.
Bell is the translator, and Mr. Saintsbury writes the
The new “Cambridge” edition of “ The Complete usual introduction.
Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell,” published by
Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., leaves nothing to be
According to the “Vossische Zeitung” of Berlin,
Ambassador Uhl, in his address upon the occasion of the
desired. It is uniform with the other single-volume
Lowell birthday celebration, alluded to our poet as the
“Cambridge” editions of our chief American poets, and
extends to nearly five hundred double-column pages.
successor of Longfellow and Thakeray at Haward Uni-
versity.
The portrait is a singularly attractive one, and Mr.
Horace E. Scudder's “ Biographical Sketch” is a model
Messrs. Longmans, Green, & Co. have just published
volumes 3 and 4 of “ The Life and Works of Robert
composition of its sort. The notes are Lowell's own,
as found in the earlier editions, or as extracted from Mr.
Burns,” edited by Robert Chambers and revised by Mr.
Norton's edition of Lowell's “ Letters." The text com-
"William Wallace. The work is now complete in four
volumes.
prises that contained in the four volumes of the « Riv-
erside " edition, and in the thin volume of “ Last Poems”
Mr. Henry Altemus, of Philadelphia, is the publisher
edited by Mr. Norton.
of Mrs. Florence M. Kingsley's new book entitled “Paul,
a Herald of the Cross,” which bids fair to enjoy as great
Miss Agnes Godfrey Gay has compiled for American
a popularity as her two previous books, " Titus " and
children a volume of “Chansons, Poésies, et Jeux Fran-
“ Stephen.”
çais” (Jenkins) that we take pleasure in commending,
although we cannot pardon the error of judgment that
The Peter Paul Book Company, of Buffalo, will soon
has led to the suppression of mute syllables in the songs
issue a volume of the collected poems of the Rev. Dom-
that are set to music. The book contains many singing
inic Brennan, C.P., which have appeared in various pub-
games, besides such classical pieces as Adam's “ Noël”
lications under the pen-names of " D.O'Kelly Branden”
and « Harlow Howe."
and “La Marseillaise,” and provides also a number of
poems for children, ranging all the way from nonsense
The American Library Association has planned an
jingles to Hugo's “ Dieu est toujours là."
excursion to England this summer for the purpose of
Dr. Smith's “Smaller History of Greece” (Harper),
taking part in the international conference of librarians
which has been deservedly popular in American schools
to be held in London July 13-16. The party will leave
for over thirty years, is now republished in a revised
Boston June 26, and is due to return August 22.
edition, prepared by Mr. Carleton L. Brownson. There
is no change in the fundamental plan of the work,
statue which Venosa (the ancient Venusia) in Apulia
although the text has been largely rewritten, and ex- has erected to the memory of Horace will take place
tended by about twenty per cent. There are new maps,
next September, on which occasion a grand popular fes-
plans, and pictures, and new chapters on the constitu-
tival will be held which is to extend over several days.
tional history, topography, and monuments of Athens. A Catalogue of the Library of the Browning Society
The full treatment of the two centuries following Chæro- of Boston ” has reached us, and its nearly fifty pages of
nea is a noteworthy feature of the work in its present form. entries testify to the zeal of that organization in collect-
Professor Tarr of Cornell University has just pub- ing books, pictures, and magazine articles bearing upon
lished, through the Macmillan Co., an “ Elementary the life of the poet, or rather of the poets, since Mrs.
Geology” which forms a worthy companion book to his Browning shares the attention of the Society equally
earlier « Elementary Physical Geography," and which
with her husband.
we take pleasure in recommending to school authorities Messrs. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. have completed
as one of the very best texts to be had. Almost for the arrangements with Dean Farrar for the publication in
first time, we have here a book in which the strate- the United States and Canada of his forthcoming book,
graphic branch of the subject is not given two or three entitled “Men I Have Known.” The volume will be
times the attention that it relatively deserves. The made up of Dean Farrar's reminiscences of Browning,
book is beautifully made, and its illustrations are as Tennyson, Arnold, Stanley, Darwin, Tyndal, Lowell,
fresh and attractive as any we have seen for many a day. | Whittier, Holmes, and many other famous men of En-
Continental papers announce that the unveiling of the
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sit down to dinner, the Omar Khayyam Club in London
(of which I am the president) will be doing the same,
and one of our pleasant duties will be to drink the health
of Richard Henry Stoddard over our Persian cups."
Mr. Stoddard's part in the exercises of the evening con-
sisted in the reading of “ A Curtain Call," written for the
occasion, from which we make the following extract:
"A long, unbroken line is ours;
It has outlived whole lines of kings,
Seen mighty empires rise and fall,
And nations pass away like flowers -
Ruin and darkness cover all!
Nothing withstands the stress and strain,
The endless ebb and flow of things,
The rush of Time's resistless wings!
Nothing? One thing, and not in vain,
One thing remains : Letters remain !
Your art and mine, yours more than mine,
Good fellows of the lettered line,
To whom I owe this Curtain Call,
I thank you all, I greet you all.
Noblesse oblige! But while I may,
Another word, my last, may be:
When this life-play of mine is ended,
And the black curtain has descended,
Think kindly as you can of me,
And say, for you may truly say,
* This dead player, living, loved his part,
And made it noble as he could,
Not for his own poor personal good,
But for the glory of his art!'"
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gland and America. The work will be issued in hand-
some form, and will contain several portraits and fac-
simile letters.
Messrs. D. Appleton & Co. announce a new work by
Mr. Edward Bellamy — the first that he has published
since “ Looking Backward.” This new book, to be en-
titled “Equality," will present the same characters made
familiar to us in the earlier work, and the time and
scene of action will be the same. The volume will prob-
ably appear in the latter part of April, and publication
will be simultaneous in all the important countries of
the world. The same house has now added Mr. Hamlin
Garland to its list of authors, and will soon issue a new
volume of his stories with the title “Wayside Court-
ships,” besides new uniform editions of three of his best-
known novels, “ A Member of the Third House,” “ A
Spoil of Office,” and “Jason Edwards."
Upon the day when this issue of THE DIAL appears,
the John Crerar Library of Chicago is opened to the
public. It occupies rented quarters in the Marshall
Field business building, in the heart of the city, and
expects to remain in them from five to ten years, when
the accumulated income from the endowment will pro-
vide a building without any impairment of the capital
of two and a half millions. Natural, physical, and social
science, with their applications, constitute the special
field of this Library, and about fifteen thousand volumes
are now ready for use. The number of periodicals
already taken is eight hundred, and four hundred more
will soon be added. By the end of 1898, it is expected
that the shelves will contain forty thousand volumes.
Mr. Clement W. Andrews, formerly of the Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology, is the librarian, and is to
be congratulated upon the work of organization and
collection that he has accomplished.
Baron Pierre de Coubertin contributes an interesting
article on “L'Amérique Universitaire" to the March
number of “ Cosmopolis,” but perhaps the most striking
thing about it is the evidence it offers of the difficulty
that foreign observers find in understanding the real
spirit of American institutions. The following is a
shining example of the sort of thing to which we allude:
“ Princeton, which has just celebrated its hundred and
fiftieth anniversary, has freed itself of everything that,
in the presbyterianism of its creators, would no longer
prove compatible with the age and might have retarded
the
progress of a modern university. But the University
of Chicago, born the other day, is impregnated with the
Baptist spirit, the money which supports it is Baptist
money, and no one expects to hear enunciated in its
lecture-rooms the principles of that broad and pure
Christianity of which Senator Leland Stanford gave the
formula when he laid the corner stone of Palo Alto."
The suggestion that Chicago is more orthodox than
Princeton is amusing, no less than the notion that the
late Senator Stanford first provided an American uni-
versity refuge for “ broad and pure Christianity."
The dinner given to Mr. Richard Henry Stoddard by
the Author's Club of New York, on the twenty-fifth of
last month, was a noteworthy event, and brought together
at the Hotel Savoy about as distinguished a body of
men as are often assembled about a banquet table.
Mr. Edmund Clarence Stedman presided, and delivered
the principal address of the evening. Many letters of
regret were read, including European tributes from
“ Maarten Maartens,” Mr. Austin Dobson, Dr. Conan
Doyle, Dr. Richard Garnett, and Mr. Edmund Gosse.
The latter wrote: “At the very moment at which you
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TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS.
April, 1897.
Africa, Central, New Conditions in. E. J. Glave. Century.
Anglo-Saxon Expansion, Century of. G. B. Adams. Atlantic,
Animal Cannoneers and Sharpshooters. J. Weir, Jr. Lip'cott.
Ants as Guests of Plants. M. Heim. Popular Science.
Arbitration as Solution to Financial Problem. Forum.
Arithmetic in Rural and Village Schools. Educational Rev.
Art and Literature in Schools. W. T. Harris. Ed. Review.
Barnard, George Grey. William A. Coffin. Century.
Belgium. Clare de Graffenried. Harper.
Bible Study, Recent Books on. I.M. Price. Dial.
Bird-Pictures. W. E. D. Scott. Scribner.
Bryant, William Cullen. H. D. Sedgwick, Jr. Atlantic.
Buddhism, Mythology of. Paul Carus. Monist.
Bülow, Hans von, Letters of. T. F. Huntington. Dial.
Chinese Funerals. Beulah C. Gronlund. Lippincott.
College Honors. Lucy M. Salmon. Educational Review.
Crime, Language of. A. F. B. Crofton. Popular Science,
Decorative Art in the U.S. Will H. Low. McClure.
Diaz, President, of Mexico. C. F. Lummis. Harper.
Dramatic Critic, The. E. A. Dithmar. Forum.
Educational Forces in Community, Correlation of. Ed. Rev.
Emerson and Thoreau. F. B. Sanborn. Forum.
Evil, Poetic Personifications of. A. F. Agard. Poet-Lore.
French Universities, The New. G. Compayre. Ed. Review.
Fur Seal, The. D. S. Jordan and G. A. Clark. Forum.
Game, Our, A Plea for. F. C. Mathews. Lippincott.
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ficient to arouse in the breast of that hardened
offender against decency the remorseful twinges
of conscience. If the average American jour-
CONTENTS.
nalist ever had such a thing as a conscience, it
was killed long ago, and its place taken by a
THE DECAY OF AMERICAN JOURNALISM . 237 simulacrum of hypocritical accent and leering
THE PRESERVATION OF HISTORICAL MA-
mien. This effective modern substitute for a
TERIAL IN THE MIDDLE WEST. Edwin
conscience in journalism has discovered the se-
E. Sparks
239 cret of preaching virtue in such a manner that
it nowise interferes with the practice of vice.
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Tennyson's Use of Archaic Forms. Margaret C.
It will, for example, devote one editorial col-
McGiffert.
umn to deploring the brutal tendencies of the
A Question of Literary Art A. H. N.
age, and fill twenty columns of the same issue
Japan Times." Ernest W. Clement.
with a highly-colored account, from all possible
points of view, of the latest event in the annals
NELSON AS A FORCE IN HISTORY. E. G. J. 242
of the prize - ring. It will take high moral
THE CLASSICS OF CRITICISM. Edward E. ground upon the evils of partisanship, and at
Hale, Jr..
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the same time gloss over the corruption of the
ONE OF THE FATHERS OF THE CONSTITU-
party in whose interests its own are wrapped
TION. Charles H. Cooper
246 up. It will profess to regret - oh, so deeply
ob
that the dear public has developed so insatiate
THE MODERN “ETHICAL MOVEMENT.” Joseph
Henry Crooker ....
an appetite for scandalous sensations and vul-
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gar personalities, and will at the same time fur-
AN AMERICAN IN EAST AFRICA. Hiram M.
nish a large staff of young men with muck-rakes
Stanley
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of the most approved pattern, and direct them
EVOLUTION AS A POPULAR CREED. Edward to gather in as many sensations and personali-
Howard Griggs
250 ties as they can discover or invent, in order that
Tyler's The Whence and the Whither of Man.-
the aforesaid dear public may not be deprived
Zahm's Evolution and Dogma.- Cope's The Primary
Factors of Organic Evolution. – Life and Letters of
of its customary diet, and the sales of its fav-
George John Romanes.
orite family newspaper show no symptoms of a
decline.
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Revolutions in taste and in the standards of
Mr. Barrie's memoirs of his mother. - An irruption
of psychology. – The history of elementary mathe-
public decency are no more to be made with
matics. – An interesting volume on the Thackerays.
rose-water than are revolutions in sterner fields
- George Meredith on comedy. – Great skeptical thus to be accomplished. Nothing short of the
dramas. Retrospections of a Scotch editor. — The energetic measures of a Hercules will suffice to
life of an African explorer. - Italy in the 19th century.
cleanse the Augean stables of the “new jour-
BRIEFER MENTION.
256 nalism,” and we can fancy something of the
derision with which the rose-water phrases of
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making the American newspaper so great a are published anywhere in the country. Some-
national calamity. “We appeal to you, as Ed- times a movement like this, once started, grows
itors,” so runs the “ Letter” from the good wo- far more rapidly than might be anticipated,
men of the Baltimore Meeting, “ for a reticence just as crystallization takes place in an over-
in the detail of crime and scandal, — that the saturated solution when some rallying-point is
purely sensational shall be excluded, that pic offered for the aggregation of the ready mole-
tures and advertisements, both personal and cules. That some such crystallization of senti-
medical, which so insidiously lead the innocent ment on the subject of American journalism, its
and unsuspecting from the path of virtue, shall duties and its responsibilities, may soon take
find no place in your columns. We especially place is the deep desire of every thinking per-
ask your influence in raising the moral tone of son who has the interests of this country at
the edition issued as the Sunday paper,' till it heart.
becomes a power for good among the people.” Just as every people has, on the whole, the
This appeal is reiterated, with some variation government that it deserves, so it must be ad-
of phrase, in a “Report” which accompanies mitted that every city is responsible for the
the “ Letter," and the pleasant hope is ex- newspapers that it supports, and deserves noth-
pressed that in our journalism henceforthing better until it is prepared actively to re-
“fairer, lovelier paths be traced, leading to pudiate the sheets by which it is represented.
virtue and to hope.”
It will not do merely to claim that it is mis-
We fear that all the ears that such an appeal represented by them, deploring their dishonesty,
as this seeks to reach will be found deaf to its their vulgarity of tone, and their pernicious
gentle pleadings. The foul sheets at which it sensationalism, while at the same time giving
aims will continue to do lip-service to whatso- them the encouragement of subscriptions and
ever things are good and pure, while disregard advertising contracts. Nor are any protests
ing in practice every consideration of decency. likely to avail so long as the man who has ac-
The effective arguments for purified journalism quired wealth in the pursuit of disreputable
will be of a very different sort, and indications journalism is permitted to associate with gen-
are not wanting that such arguments are about tlemen, to figure as a leading citizen at public
to be employed. The ringing words of the late gatherings, to enjoy the freedom of the club
Governor of Illinois, setting forth the impera- and the communion of the church. When the
tive demand for legislation that will really pro- public conscience is sufficiently quickened to
tect men from wanton assaults upon their char-recognize the fact that such a man is a moral
acter by practically irresponsible editors, found outcast, that his newspaper pollutes the home,
an echo in many minds, and the bills recently that to purchase it upon the street-corner is a
introduced into the law-making bodies of Illinois direct encouragement of its vicious practices,
and New York, making it an offence to publish and that to use its columns for advertising pur-
portraits without the consent of the persons por-poses is to pay too great a price for commercial
trayed, have taken a step in the right direction. gain, when these things come to be recognized
Even the recent New York bill proposing a not as counsels of perfection but as working
press-censorship, while unwise in principle, has maxims for the conduct of daily life — we may
made a good many people seriously ask them- hope for a return to the more dignified and
selves whether an excessive measure of restric- decent journalistic methods of the past genera-
tion might not be preferable to the excess of tion, and for the assimilation of our press to
license which now characterizes the conduct of the ethical standards that are upheld as a matter
our newspapers. “Freedom of the press” has of course in most other parts of the civilized
always been, and ought always to remain, a world.
watchword of much meaning to any liberty- If the time ever comes when those standards
loving people, but its force may be greatly shall obtain in American journalism, our news-
weakened by such abuses of that freedom as paper press will have found its real mission,
are daily illustrated by the newspapers of our and may become what it certainly is not now,
chief cities. Still more significant than the a potent agency of enlightenment and a pillar
attempts at legislation to which reference has for the support of republican institutions. Intel-
been made is the recent action of a number of ligent citizens everywhere would be only too
public libraries and clubs in Eastern cities, ex- glad to look to the newspaper for both light
cluding from their reading-rooms the two most and leading; at present, instead of shedding
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knowledge, and instead of leading opinion, it is
THE PRESERVATION OF HISTORICAL
prone to follow the uncertain guidance of every
MATERIAL IN THE MIDDLE WEST.
blind popular prejudice and every brutal fanati-
cism that sways the masses of its readers. Its
Among the many phases of American history
once considerable influence has so waned that awaiting local investigation and record, few present
80 broad a field with such varying aspects, and thus
its boasts of power excite only the derision of
far so little occupied, as the intermigration of the
the well-informed ; its pretended statements of
American people, the contributions of different race
fact are so untrustworthy that few people place elements to various communities, and the evolution
any confidence in them ; its opinions are not of existing government and society from them. In
taken seriously because nobody supposes that less than two and a half centuries, of which period
they are reached by a process of serious rea- over one century was consumed in crossing the Alle-
soning. If a newspaper of the typical sort gheny mountains, the people have traversed the
perchance champion a good cause, few will be
three thousand miles of the continent, have swept
found to believe in the sincerity of its attitude,
three civilizations from their path, have carried with
them always the image of the old home to be repro-
for its championship of bad causes has long
duced in the new, have invented forms of transpor-
since made it an object of suspicion, if not of
tation and manufacture as necessity or opportunity
contempt.
offered, and have constantly evolved law and orderly
The darkest hour is that which just precedes self-government from the rude and jostling frag-
the dawn, and perhaps the dawn of a purified ments of empire. Like "a deluge of men driven
journalism is nearer at hand than we suppose.
by the hand of God,” wave after wave came on, in
The legal maxim that wherever there is a regular order; the Indian-fighter, the trapper and
grievance there is a remedy may prove valid in
hunter, the trader, the fugitive and half-breed, the
the wider ethical field wherein this foe must be claim-jumper and squatter, the poor shiftless farmer,
the moderate home-maker, the prosperous agricul-
grappled with. Whether the remedy come from
turist, the small artisan, the exploiteur and capital-
within or without, whether it be an organic ist, the mill and factory army, and, last of all
, the
process of regeneration or a surgical operation varied population of the great city, with its educated
does not matter so much ; what does matter is
and professional classes, its wealth, and its prole-
the undeniable fact that most of the newspapers tariat.
published in our large cities are so devoid of But however picturesque this shifting panorama
principle that they constitute a perpetual men- may be, it begins to have national weight and na-
ace to every genuine interest of our civilization. tional interest only after its cycle is complete. Es-
We need not single out those journals that pecially is this true from the standpoint of the inves-
stand as honorable exceptions to this general tigating student. Sufficient time must elapse to
allow the attendant circumstances to crystallize and
statement, nor those other journals that are
the results to be manifest before investigation be-
kept from the state of grace by weakness rather
than by will; their editors and their friends student must be the last, and, indeed, must await
comes profitable. Hence the wave which bears the
,
will know that these remarks are not meant for
its own peculiar agencies. Although it is a worthy
them. But no words of condemnation can be boast of the emigrant that he went “to plant the
too strong for the newspapers that subordinate common schools on distant prairie swells,” yet inten-
all other aims to the aim of enlarging their sive education comes only
with the library, the col-
circulation and their advertising patronage, lege, and the university. For the Middle West, the
that care nothing for the truth and only enough cycle seems now complete. The colonization from
.
the Eastern section is finished; the uncouthness of
for decency to keep out of the clutches of the
criminal law. There is no more important
the West exists almost solely in the belated wit of
work to be done for our civilization to-day than
the newspaper paragrapher; and the Universities of
Chicago, of Wisconsin, of Kansas, are as much real-
that of shaming such newspapers either out of ities as those of Harvard and of Yale. But the work
existence or into amended lives, and the respon- accomplished in the two regions cannot bear a com-
sibility for that work is shared by all alike. parison. Nearly every phase of self-government,
the different phenomena of industrial development,
the relative values of various social organizations,
the evolution of national feeling from local preju-
AFTER an existence of two years, “ The Lark," of San
Francisco, will cease publication with its April issue.
dice,—all these have been thoroughly examined and
This little periodical, founded and edited by Mr.
the results recorded in the region lying east of the
queer
Gelett Burgess and published by Mr.
William Doxey, Alleghenies. West of that line the field is largely
was quite the brightest and oddest of its kind, such suc- untouched. The older universities have long lists
cess as it had being due chiefly to the nonsense verses
of historical studies ” and “ annals"; in the newer
and pictures contributed to its pages by Mr. Burgess. ones the work has scarcely begun.


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Obviously, the possibility of research work is in what has thus far escaped, is a practical problem
direct ratio to the material which has been preserved that may well engage the attention of historical
for it. The settlers in the older States, proud of teachers and students in the Middle West. One
their individuality, before the levelling “union” often hears stories of the unconcerned destruction
idea and larger means of transportation had done of manuscripts, pamphlets, and papers, of priceless
so much to efface sectional lines, possessing largely value. The writer was once just too late to save a
an agreement of tastes and motives, were more file of Richmond papers published during the trial
likely to preserve memorials and tokens of their of Aaron Burr. In another instance, a file of a
daily lives than the more heterogeneous West, the Chicago daily from 1860 to 1880 was used grad-
product of all races and all ideas. Local pride was ually to kindle fires,— and this in face of the fact
more easily aroused and material more easily pre- that to-day there is not open to the student in the
served where the birth of civilization was the result city of Chicago a complete file of a Chicago daily
of a religious or æsthetic principle, rather than crude paper back of the destructive year of 1871. The
materialism ; where the nucleus of a village or city librarian of the Public Library at Keokuk, Iowa,
was a beautiful site or picturesque water-power, has collected and bound a number of valuable pam-
rather than a large industrial plant, the mouth of a phlets, largely Kansas-Nebraska and "abolition ";
mine, or that perfect type of uncouth materialism, a but the case is 80 unusual as to demand special notice.
« boom” town.
Although praiseworthy, the collection is pitifully
Yet to a certain extent the newer region will meagre compared with similar ones to be found in
profit by the example of the older. The necessity
The necessity almost any large library in the older States. There
of greater effort in the future for preserving this is pressing need of work to be done in collecting and
historical material will be more appreciated, its edu- preserving the material out of which students and
cational value better understood, and more effort historians are to describe the making of the West.
made by institutions of learning to collect and prop- If it be true that each generation creates afresh its
erly care for it. For forty years the Wisconsin beroes and idealizes a new territory, it would seem
Historical Society has been engaged in such labor, that the time has fully come when the political
with the result that Madison is now the Mecca for emancipation of the Mississippi region is sufficiently
local investigators who can afford to travel. Yet advanced to warrant its intelligent
study in the light
the rarity of the case but proves how much more of the men who have accomplished its development.
might be done if other agencies would bring similar The renewed interest in Lincoln as a man and a
influence to bear on their constituencies; and it also statesman, and the reflected light on his not un-
calls attention to the necessity of employing every worthy foeman, Douglas, the present regard of Cass,
means, as that society has done, to bring people to of Benton, and of other leaders, foretell the coming
a realization of the value of this material and so pre political investigation as clearly as the new study of
vent its further destruction. People are commonly internal improvements, the consequent migration of
willing to place their possessions at the disposal of people, and the origin and growth of towns and
students; but, naturally, they have no means of local government, foretells the future lines of indus-
knowing respective values. A gentleman near the trial and social inquiry. Some systematic method
Mississippi carefully preserved a bound volume of must be devised by which the material for such
some religious periodical of the last century (because studies shall be preserved. EDWIN E. SPARKS.
of its date), and threw away a large and hence val.
The University of Chicago.
uable collection of anti-slavery pamphlets which he
had accumulated during his connection with that
movement. The popular idea of historical material
clusters about the word “relic." Nearly all the
libraries of the Ohio and the Mississippi valleys
COMMUNICATIONS.
have museums of varying size and value; but, em-
TENNYSON'S USE OF ARCHAIC FORMS.
bodying as they do articles nearest the affections
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
and the curiosity of the people, their treasures con-
Each of the communications published in your col-
sist largely of spinning-wheels, old furniture, Indian
umns, in regard to Tennyson's use of “learn" for
curiosities, and portraits of first settlers. Pamphlets “ teach,” has, it seems to me, failed to consider Tenny-
and newspaper files are not so well known as are
son's purpose. The first writer intimates that Tennyson's
samplers and stone arrow-heads. Illustrations of use of “ learn” for “ teach "inMerlin and the Gleam"
the development of political and industrial life — makes it doubtful whether or not it is right to say that
broadsides, posters, medals, badges, campaign song-
« learn " in the sense of “ teach" is a dialectal survival.
books, ballots, banners, paper money, account books,
The second writer alludes to Tennyson's admiration for
photographs of historic events, public letters of
the King James version of the Bible, and for the Book
prominent men, proclamations, such things as
of Common Prayer of the Church of England, and sug-
gests that Tennyson may not have recognized sufficient
these are rarely considered of sufficient value to find
cause for the change of attitude toward the verb « learn.'
a place in a museum.
Professor Brown says that Tennyson's use of “ learn ”
How to bring this matter to the attention of the for “ teach " simply illustrates his fondness for old
general public, and thus insure the preservation of forms; that he was not an absolute purist, and that the


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use of " learn” for “teach " is certainly an archaism. England provincialisms in a Norwegian story. But the
Tennyson had undoubtedly a fondness for old forms questions bave often been in my mind,- could the au-
as a means of producing the effect which he desired. thor have succeeded so well in differentiating his char-
But imagine the surprise of the educated public if he acters without the use of some such dialect? And wbat
had used « learn” for “teach” in conversation, or in should this dialect be,- one manufactured for the pur-
“ Locksley Hall," “ Maud,” or “ In Memoriam”The pose, or one found ready-made and in use by a people
truth is that Tennyson had mastered the art of using the corresponding in their ordinary characteristics with the
right word in the right place. If an archaism was needed Norse peasantry; something that brings with it the salt-
to produce an archaic effect, he used it as naturally as air suggestion of the rocky coast of the North Sea? I
he would have used a match to light a fire. That the am not sure which of these Professor Boyesen did. The
archaic effect is a necessary element in the charm of question is of little practical value to American writers,
“Merlin and the Gleam,” no one who reads it carefully who are not likely to attempt to compete with Professor
can doubt. Tennyson was a nineteenth-century poet Boyesen in the field where he won such distinguished
writing for nineteenth-century readers, and therefore
But the question of literary art which is in-
obliged to write in language intelligible in the nineteenth volved may not be devoid of interest; and if I am right
century. But the suggestion of Old English, without in my view, this one of the “ Vagabond Tales " will show
which there could be no really poetic treatment of Professor Boyesen to have been a greater master in this
Merlin and Magic, is given to the poem by its form, by field than he is even now held to have been.
the use of archaic words and phrases, « learned" for
A. H. N.
"taught,"
,"" landskip” for “ landscape," “ I can ” in the
Colliersville, Tenn., April 10, 1897.
sense of “I am able,” — and by the careful selection of
pure Saxon words. Most of all, the poem owes its atmos-
“JAPAN TIMES."
phere to the use of that one word “ learned ”; we read
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
it, and we are at once in an older England.
This caption is the appellation of a new journalistic
Mighty the Wizard
enterprise soon to be started in Tokyo. It will include
Who found me at sunrise
both a daily and a weekly newspaper, and printing and
Sleeping, and woke me
lithographing of every description, in English. The chief
And learn'd me Magic."
proprietor of the paper is a Mr. Yamada, ex-director of
Magic, in Merlin's meaning of the word, has never been à branch office of the Japan Mail Steamship Company,
“ taught.” The magic that is “ taught” is that of the and a man, it is said, of considerable means. The chief
sleight-of-hand performer or of the professor of clair- editor is Mr. Zumoto, once translator for the “ Japan
voyance."
Mail” and lately Secretary of Marquis Ito, when the
It seemed worth while to suggest that Tennyson's latter was Premier. His assistant is Mr. Takenoba, for
choice of the word “learned ” is simply one of the several years translator of the “Japan Mail.” Both of
numberless touches that indicate the great artist. these gentlemen write English excellently; but they will
MARGARET C. McGIFFERT. also have a foreigner, Mr. Cowen, as supervisory editor,
Duluth, Minn., April 6, 1897.
and several foreign contributors. The daily is to be
issued from March 15; and it is advertised to give the
A QUESTION OF LITERARY ART.
“ latest and most reliable news on all matters of interest
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
at home and abroad; special attention given to the po-
Several years ago I was called upon to write a review
litical, social, industrial, and economic development of
of “Vagabond Tales,” by the late Professor Boyesen. Japan.” It also promises to issue illustrated supple-
,
In that review I said: “It is difficult to decide whether
ments and original notes dealing with the national insti-
the translation of the peasant dialect of Norway into a
tutions, old and new, manners and customs, traditions,
North-of-England dialect (as in Crooked John,' the
etc.” It claims to be “ assured of a large circulation
first of the tales) be a fault in literary workmanship or
among the Japanese public," and will be widely dis-
a mark of genius. We incline to the latter opinion.
tributed “all over the world." It promises to be “per-
It certainly aids the imagination to differentiate the sev-
fectly independent.” All this is to be supplied for 10
eral classes of persons brought to the reader's notice;
yen (just about $5 U. S. gold) per year, whether in
and the correspondence between the Norse peasant dia-
daily or in weekly issues in Japan.
lect and that of the North-of-England is a natural one."
I make mention of this enterprise for two reasons:
The dialect introduced into the story referred to was
first, because it is another evidence of the increasing
in the words of the old “Granny.” The following will
popularity of the English language in Japan; and again
serve as a specimen:
because it is a Japanese, and not a foreign, enterprise.
"Shame on thee, lassie, shame! If he dinna care for thee,
It is true that foreigners are to be connected with it,
dost tha think he would ha workit himself to death to give
but the responsibility in all ways rests upon Japanese.
thee thy sight back again ? . . . Dinna be so workit up about
It remains to be seen, of course, whether it will have
it, lassie; wait till tha hast seen him."
only a temporary, or a permanent, career; whether or
Now, the old granny could not have been represented as
not it can gain sufficient support, from Japanese prin-
using the correct and refined language of the other char-
cipally, to continue its existence; and whether it can
acters in the story; and the words the author puts into
even compete with and, perhaps, drive out the English
her mouth have a picturesqueness that adds much to
papers, published and edited by foreigners. Some of
the effect of his delineation of her character. They
these can well be spared; and they may be supplanted
seem so natural, furthermore, that they might easily
by this new-comer in the journalistic field. At any rate,
have escaped the attention of the casual and uncritical
the inception of the “ Japan Times” is, in many ways,
reader.
a good illustration of the present trend of affairs in
It happened somewhat later that Professor Boyesen
Young Japan.
ERNEST W. CLEMENT.
was blamed by another reviewer for introducing New Tokyo, March 22, 1897.
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The New Books.
bodied the greatness of the possibilities which
Sea Power comprehends,—“the man for whom
genius and opportunity worked together, to
NELSON AS A FORCE IN HISTORY.*
make him the personification of the Navy of
The Life of Nelson has been written often and Great Britain, the dominant factor in the pe-
sympathetically, and the theme is preëminently riods hitherto treated.”
one to engage and inspire the British pen. It Nelson's page in history is as brief as it is
has remained, however, for an American author, brilliant, covering a little more than twelve
Captain A. T. Mahan, to do full and final jus- years, from February, 1793, to October, 1805.
tice to the hero of Trafalgar. Rivals in point Its opening coincides with the Reign of Terror
of style, in glow and vivacity of narration, — with those dark days of disillusionment for
Captain Mahan perhaps has among Nelson's liberal Europe, when men saw springing from
many biographers; but in breadth and calm- the bosom of that democracy whose advent had
ness of view, and in historical grasp and insight, been hailed as the dawn of a new and splendid
the accomplished author of “The Influence of era for the race an iron despotism with claims
Sea Power upon History "easily surpasses the more sweeping and methods more drastic than
best of his predecessors. Readers may still con-
those of the Grand Monarch himself. Louis
ceivably elect to consult the lives by Southey XIV. in the plenitude of his power would have
and Laughton, or even Barker's, for the more
shrunk from measures which with men like
graphic and familiar qualities of portraiture ; Saint Just, Billaud, Robespierre, and Hébert
but henceforth the student who desires prima were commonplaces of government. The sceptre
rily to understand the great Admiral's signifi- of his successors was an unfelt bauble compared
cance as an historical factor will turn as a with the leaden mace with which the great Com-
matter of course to Captain Mahan's thought-mittee crushed out all semblance of opposition
ful and comprehensive pages. We do not mean to its decrees. Anarchy quelled and criticism
to imply that Captain Mahan's predilection for stifled at home, the Revolution was at last free
history and disquisition has led him to neglect to indulge its innate propagandist tendencies
the biographer's first duty of painting the por abroad ; for the gospel of Jean-Jacques was
trait of his hero. This duty he has performed essentially a message, not to Frenchmen alone,
in his own painstaking and methodical way,
but to Man, “ born free” yet “everywhere in
basing his conception largely on careful study chains.” Abroad, as in France, the preliminary
and analysis of Nelson's copious correspond work of the apostles of the new light was work
ence; and the finished result probably gains in
of destruction. Bastilles must be razed and
accuracy what it naturally loses in brilliancy tyrants dethroned in order that the enslaved
and verve.
peoples might profit, as Frenchmen had prof-
History has been defined as “ the essence of ited, by the glad tidings of the century. It is
innumerable biographies.” Captain Mahan, not always clearly understood that France, not
fresh from the considerations embodied in his feudal and reactionary Europe, was primarily
magnum opus on Sea Power, and writing biog- the aggressor in the wars of the Revolution.
raphy largely from the historian's point of She would have made war or provoked it had
view, has given us a Life of Nelson consisting there been no Declaration of Pilnitz, po Bruns-
in an unusual measure of that “
which wick's Manifesto. The motives of the states-
goes to the making of history. He has painted men who preponderated in her councils at the
his hero as a man; he has also defined him as outset of hostilities, while not unalloyed by
a historical and political force. His book may
considerations of party expediency, were in the
be regarded as in a sense supplementary to his main generous, if chimerical. But the crusade
masterly discussion of the Influence of Sea of liberty preached by the eloquent Girondists
Power. It is essential, he thinks, to the com- and decried by the Jacobins was destined in
pleteness of that discussion that a study be time to degenerate into a war of conquest waged
presented, from the point of view therein taken, by the ruthless ambition of Bonaparte. And
of the man who in himself summed
up
from first to last, from Longwy to Waterloo,
* THE LIFE OF Nelson: The Embodiment of the Sea Power
France was really the aggressor. For twenty-
of Great Britain. By Captain A. T. Mahan, D.C.L., U.S.N. three years she shook and menaced the estab-
In two volumes, illustrated. Boston: Little, Brown, & Co. lished order of Europe. To beat back this
NELSON AND H18 COMPANIONS IN ARMs. By John Knox
Laughton, M.A. Illustrated. New York : Longmans,