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These, at least, may properly be singled out from the mass for BOOKS OF THE COMING YEAR 137 special notice, and with them a few others that, IN A VOLUME OF LOWELL'S LETTERS. either from the standing of their authors or on (Sonnet.) Frederic L. Luqueer . 138 account of the inherent importance of their WHAT IS " "AMERICAN STYLE"? Edmund subject-matter, seem to deserve a word of at- Kemper Broadus 139 tention in advance of their publication. But COMMUNICATIONS there will doubtless be many others, of no less 140 Some Questions of German Translation. Camillo importance, that we shall fail to mention, and von Klenze. the coming months will doubtless bring the A Japanese Magazine of Foreign Languages. usual number of surprises in the shape of im- Ernest W. Clement. The Lack of Scientific Work in Rhetoric. Selden portant publications that will come to our table F. Smyser. unheralded. “PATRINS." (Poem.) Emily Huntington Miller . . 141 It is not difficult, upon this occasion, to name the work which will unquestionably stand A PENDANT TO BOSWELL. E. G. J. 142 as - the book of the year.' The biography THE LITERARY HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN of Lord Tennyson, to which the son of the poet REVOLUTION. B. A. Hinsdale . 143 has devoted five years of pious toil, will appear NOTHING BUT LEAVES. Edward E. Hale, Jr. on October 6, the anniversary of Tennyson's death. It will be a handsomely-illustrated LEGENDS AND MUSIC OF THE NAVAJOS. work in two volumes. We cannot help regret- Frederick Starr 146 ting the rather noticeable tendency of publish- FAITH INSTINCTIVE. John Bascom 148 ers, during recent years, to produce works of Gladstone's Later Gleanings. — Craufurd's Christian Instincts and Modern Doubt. - Smyth's The Place such universal interest as this in so expensive of Death in Evolution. - Tyler's Bases of Religious a form as to place them beyond the reach of Belief. – Whitney's The Open Mystery. - Hillis's purchasers with modestly-lined purses. The Foretokens of Immortality.-Hodges's In the Present World.-Staffer's Jesus Christ.-Christian Worship. authoritative life of Tennyson is a work that -Walker's Religious Life of New England. every reader will wish to possess, but that few BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS will be able to acquire on account of the cost. 149 A volume of essays by Professor James. - Two por- Most book-lovers and literary students will traits of Cromwell.- General Grant.-Inside of Mam- have to go without it until the publishers see moth Cave. — The baptism of Roger Williams.- Organic Education. fit to prepare a popular edition. In this case, and in such others, say, as those of Dr. Nan- BRIEFER MENTION . 151 sen's book, Lowell's letters, and the life of ANNOUNCEMENTS OF FALL BOOKS 152 J. A. Symonds, it seems ill-advised, even from (A classified list of over 1100 books announced for the business standpoint, to produce them in a publication during the coming season.) style that makes necessary a price that is almost LITERARY NOTES 161 prohibitive. Another case in point is that of • . .. . • 145 138 [Sept. 16, THE DIAL 8 the most important book upon Richard Wag- ling ; “ Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker,” by Dr. ner yet produced in English. Mr. H. S. S. Weir Mitchell ; “ The Days of Jeanne Chamberlain's forthcoming biography of the d'Arc," by Mrs. M. H. Catherwood; “ Cor- great composer is a work so necessary for the leone, leone,” by Mr. Marion Crawford ; “ Paris,” by library of both the musical student and the M. Zola (completing the trilogy of Lourdes, general reader that many hearts will be made Rome, Paris); “ Dariel, A Romance of Sur- heavy by the price that is set upon it. In this rey,” by Mr. R. D. Blackmore; “ The Jug- case, bowever, our complaint is perhaps not gler,” by Miss Mary N. Murfree; “ The Story wholly reasonable, for the value of the work of an Untold Love,” by Mr. Paul Leicester (as we can testify from inspection of an ad- | Ford ; and Ford; and “Three Partners; or, The Big vance copy) depends largely upon the illustra- Strike on Heavy-Tree Hill,” by Mr. Bret tions, and such plates are expensive things to Harte. prepare. The book will certainly be cheap at From the numerous titles belonging to its price, although the fact will hardly console books of the more solid and erudite classes the many who cannot afford to place it upon we hardly know what to choose. In history, their shelves. there are, besides some important continua- · After naming the above two works of pre- tions, such works as “Old Virginia and Her eminent importance, we may call attention to Neighbors,” by Professor John Fiske; “The a few others in the department of literary Westward Movement,” by Mr. Justin Win- . biography, history, and criticism. We are sor; “ France under Louis XV.," by Mr. promised the life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, by James Breck Perkins ; “ The Evolution of Mrs. James T. Fields; the recollections of Mr. the Aryan,” by Rudolph von Ihering; and Aubrey de Vere; and a volume upon Thomas “ Sea Power and the Future of the United and Matthew Arnold as educators, by Sir J.G. States," by Captain A. T. Mahan. There is Fitch. We are also to have, at last, Mr. to be a sumptuous illustrated translation of Archer's translation of the important Shakes- Pausanias, and several volumes in an import- pearian work of Dr. Georg Brandes. The let- ant series of “ Handbooks of Archæology and ters of Mrs. Browning and a second series of Antiquities.' “ The English Stage," by the letters by Victor Hugo are among the most in- acute and ingenious French critic, M. Augus- teresting of our announcements. We must also tin Filon, will be a very interesting book. mention Professor Palgrave's new “Golden "The Meaning of Education, and Other Es- Treasury” of modern English poetry, Dr. says," by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, will Skeat's “Chaucerian and Other Pieces" (a deserve and get the attention of all educators. volume supplementary to the Oxford Chaucer), Mr. Oscar Fay Adams's “ Mr. Oscar Fay Adams's “ Dictionary of Am- Professor Dowden's “ French Literature," Mr. erican Authors,” an entirely new work, will David Hannay's volume on "The Later Re- be a valuable aid to the bibliographer, as will naissance," and President C. W. Eliot's col- also the third supplement (1892–96 inclusive) lection of essays and addresses entitled “Amer- to Poole's “ Index to Periodical Literature." ican Contributions to Civilization.” Mr. Mosher's charming reprints will appear, as heretofore, just before Christmas, and will add ten choice numbers to his catalogue. IN A VOLUME OF LOWELL'S LETTERS. In the domain of pure literature, mention must first be made of « The Water of the Lowell, I never met thee while on earth ; Wondrous Isles,” one of the two romances left Yet thou so livest in these words of thine by William Morris for posthumous publica- That thy rich nature friendly seemeth mine tion. No announcement of the other, “ The While musing on their golden-freighted worth Sundering Flood," is made as yet. American In these thou speakest, and my heart's deep dearth Is springing with sweet flowers, and new wine song will be worthily represented by Mr. E. C. Of Cyprus gladdens, while o'erhead entwine Stedman's “ Poems Now First Collected." Leafy traceries 'gainst the blue ; and mirth The output of fiction promises to be of great Draws smiles that soften into deeper look, and varied interest. Among the more import- As closer breathes thy soul's most dear aspiring For life beloved and finely truthful art. ant titles are the following: “St. Ives,” by Thou yearnedst after love : grateful I took R. L. Stevenson; “ Light Shineth Through the The hand thou openedst here, silent desiring Darkness," by Mr. Henryk Sienkiewicz; " Thou knewest the winning of thy reader's heart. Captains Courageous,” by Mr. Rudyard Kip- FREDERIC L. LUQUEER. Cala а a > 1897.] 139 THE DIAL - but not the whole truth. If by the man we mean WHAT IS “AMERICAN STYLE”? the character of the man,— and what else could we In attempting dispassionately to analyze our lit. mean? character and style are not always in ac- erary characteristics, we are met at the threshold cord. The gross sensuality sometimes displayed by a difficult and fundamental question — What is by Poe, the man, is strangely out of tune with the style ? Style is as difficult to define as it is easy to refined delicacy of “Anabel Lee.” The weakness recognize; but only by getting a conception of it, at and immorality of Jean Jacques Rousseau, the man, least approximately clear, can we intelligently dis- make the subtle eloquence of Jean Jacques Rous- cu88 a distinctively national style. seau, the author, hard to explain. And first let us see what it is not. Style is fre- A man's style is frequently not what he is, but quently confused, to a degree at least, with subject- what he thinks he is. He may reverse Robert Louis matter; for example, it is thought that Whittier, Stevenson's description, and by a sparkling goblet having written much concerning the subject of of imagination, become temporarily a Dr. Jekyl in Slavery, would therefore possess a distinctively what he writes, but in character be still Mr. Hyde. American style. Such an opinion, however, is too Nor are thoughts ever the "self" alone. “Ideas easily susceptible of a reductio ad absurdum to be cannot go about naked," said Bulwer Lytton. They tenable. Keats's fruitless attempt to enter into the must wear the apparel of the national clothing- spirit of the majestic Greek myths; Corneille's in- house, so to speak,- the garments of Race, Sur- ability to put into the mouth of Horace or his two roundings, and Epoch. brothers other than XVII. century Frenchisms, and It is evident, then, that style is the man, yet other examples innumerable, demonstrate the im- more than the man; it is the dynamic of the ma- possibility of reproducing the style of an author or chine, whose parts are the material characteristics a period by mere skilful use of subject matter. It is into which language can be analyzed. true that subject matter, in proportion as it is trivial From another point of view, Lowell defines it or ennobling, weakens or elevates the style; but, in charmingly, but in a fashion too poetic to be scien- jest or earnest, the same distinctive qualities inhere. tifically exact, as “that exquisite something called Nor is style dialect - a proposition by no means Style, which makes itself felt by the skill with 80 self-evident as the first. For we are accustomed which it effaces itself, and masters us at last with to determine a writer's style, more or less, by his a sense of indefinable completeness.” phraseology and trick of expression; not only by Having attempted to reach some comprehension his accustomed sequence of words, but by his of what style is, viewed from the standpoint of the methods of constructing the words themselves; that scientist and of the poet, we are next led to inquire is, by his “form of language,” or dialect. But dia- what, if there be such a thing, is a national style? lect is, essentially, local spoken language or patois; This has been defined as “an average style de written dialect being therefore only an attempt to duced from the examination of many or most of a reproduce that external form, the shell, rather than nation's authors "; but such a definition is super- its internal essence, or kernel. This kernel, the ficial. If a style is personal, it partakes of the true style, is what we are seeking to examine. There- character of the person, as evidenced in his daily fore, to say that the “Yankeeisms” of Lowell's life. If a style is national, it partakes of the “ Biglow Papers,” or the military jargon of Kip- character of the nation as evidenced in its daily ling's soldier-ballads, constitutes the one American life. In other words, it is not the “average of the or the other English national style, is to stigmatize best styles" which constitutes a national style, but our language as volgar and ridiculous. it is rather the style of those who, be they great It is true that the ideal style is said to be “the or small, most truly voice the national character. speech of the people in the mouth of the scholar,” There is as much individuality in a nation as but it must be the rough pig-iron of the people's there is in an individual. If we can analyze these speech worked into the tempered steel of the schol- national characteristics, and, taking them as a test, ar's pen, not pedantic but symmetrically simple. try the writers of a nation by them, we shall arrive Mr. Brander Matthews struck the key-note when thus, and only thus, at a true conception of the lit- he called this “the wild flowers of speech plucked erary style of that nation. betimes with the dew still on them.” Let us take the French as an example. For a But if style is neither matter nor dialect, is it just, even though a French, analysis of their psy- then grammar and rhetoric? Plainly not; a man chological process, let us turn to Taine: “When may be minutely accurate in grammar, and struc- the Frenchman conceives an event or an object, turally perfect in phrase, yet lack the individuality he conceives quickly and distinctly. : : . At once of thought and facility of expression which stamp and without effort he seizes upon his idea. But he the hall-mark of “self” upon every sentence of an seizes that alone. . . . He is only moved super- Emerson or a Carlyle. Clearly, then, we must go ficially; he is without large sympathy; he does not deeper than matter or dialect, grammar or rhetoric, perceive an object as it is, complex and combined, down to the man himself. “Le style, c'est l'homme,” but in part, with a discursive and superficial knowl- said Buffon. This definition, 80 terse, 80 strike edge.” ing, so famous, is, like most epigrams, the truth, The style that could be called “distinctively 8 . . . O 8 140 [Sept. 16, THE DIAL - French” would be, speaking broadly, that possess- ing the characteristics described above. COMMUNICATIONS. So, in solving the problem of a distinctively SOME QUESTIONS OF GERMAN TRANSLATION. American style, we would first ask ourselves (To the Editor of THE DIAL.) whether there is a distinctively American charac- In your issue of July 16, Mr. Thomas Common of ter, and if so what are its essentials. That there Glasgow, whose translation of Nietzsche's Works I re- is, universal opinion attests. From England to viewed in an earlier issue, claims that my criticism of Japan, from Norway to the Cape of Good Hope, his translation is altogether unfair; that I dealt out my none is so easily recognizable as the American type. blame of it“ in a great hurry"; that the errors I adduce Though Englishmen, at least sensible Englishmen, are no errors at all “ except in the imagination of a per- have ceased to expect the typical American to pass son in a flurried state of mind." It hence becomes my his waking hours — and, for that matter, most of unpleasant duty to show why I was bound to regard this translation as a bad throughout, and in parts igno- his sleeping hours - with trousers in boots and minious." pistols in belt, Jonathan has still every whit as First, as regards the four errors I quoted. I, for one, much individuality as John. am offended by a construction like “in his art there is What are the forces whose resultant is this indi- mixed . . . the things,” etc. I am, however, willing to viduality? In so far as I can analyze them, they are: yield to higher authority, and admit that on that point 1. The youthfulness of the national life. From I was over-severe. But to translate “ Die Romane Dog- this youthfulness comes, naturally enough, a cer- toiewsky's” (Vol. VIII., p. 48 of the German edition) tain intensity and rush of life, characteristic of all by “the romances of Dostoiewsky" shows a lack of youth, which tends to make us lacking in precision, linguistic sensitiveness. Dostoiewsky's works are not romances, they are distinctly novels. No one ever careless of detail, somewhat superficial in reasoning, spoke of Flaubert's « Madame Borary” or Zola's “La quick to grasp but weak to hold. Terre" as “romances,” though he might apply that term 2. Democracy. Our intensely democratic feel- to “Guy Mannering” or to Mérimée's “Colomba.” ing engenders self-respect and self-sufficiency; a Similarly, to translate sich verbieten” (p. 38) by “pro- breadth, though not a depth, of view; independ- hibit oneself” is awkward. All these translations are, ence and disrespect for old institutions; and a lack however, excusable compared with Mr. Common's ren- of that conservatism which should subordinate the dering of “ ich weiss nicht aus noch ein” (p. 217) by “I do warm heart to the cool head. not know out or in.” Mr. Common naively calls this 3. Heterogeneity. We are a hybrid nation, and “ a metaphor," and says: “I am blamed for preserving though pride of birth is sometimes a correcting and a metaphor by translating it literally, though not ob- scurely. Besides preserving the metaphor, the literal restraining influence, the consciousness of our some- rendering seems best suited to the context.” “ Ich weiss what hazy lineage tends to destroy prejudice and nicht aus noch ein " is an idiomatic phrase which every render us cosmopolitan and broad. German understands. “I know not out or in " is no 4. Natural variety. No other people on the face English at all, and is totally unintelligible. of the globe can see greater contrasts of scenery, These last three passages are, however, not the only greater extremes of climate, or greater varieties of ones open to criticism. The book is freckled with bits products, than those who dwell between the Great of bad translation. I subjoin a list, which, for lack of Lakes and the Rio Grande, the Atlantic and the space, cannot lay claim to completeness. I Pacific oceans. Page 61. “I have my readers everywhere. This engenders a bold, free, broad have not them in Germany." conception of nature, an intense appreciation of Page 73. “A God who is quite specially a God for the her various moods, and an expression of those sick." This to me is an exceedingly awkward rendering moods excelling that of any other nation in its un- of the German “ganz eigentlich ein Gott,” etc. trammelled artlessness. Here, nature is young, as Page 73. “Understandableness” (“begriffliche Ver- well as we; sometimes she is stately and grand, with ständlichkeit"). all the self-conscious dignity of young womanhood ; Page 74. “Where Wagner belongs to.” (If that sometimes she is impetuous, effervescent, sparkling, phrase can be proved correct on the authority of some and free, with the memory of her childhood, un- " higher grammar," then we may be justified in asking touched by human artificiality, still vivid; but in “Where are we ar ?"). whatever mood she be, we have had and still have Page 101. “The trodden worm turns himself” (for “writhes”; “krümmt sich"). poets to appreciate and express her. Page 145. “The distinguished Germanics” (the These, then, are the forces, these the effects, original is die vornehmen Germanen.” « Germanics" observable in our national character. If there be signifies the study of German language and literature, any other nation having these same characteristics, but not the people of Germany, and does not correspond and writers to express them, distinctively American to “ Germanen over against “ Deutsche '). style is an impossibility. But it needs no argu- Page 189. “Ring of the chain” for “ link in the ment to show that no other nation is the resultant chain” (“Ring der Kette"). of such forces in such proportions. Wherever, there- Page 210. “The Siberian convicts, in whose midst he fore, we can find within our borders prose or poetry lived." Let us hope he lived among them, and not “in their midst,” for that might have injured them more having such characteristics as have been enumerated, we shall have found a distinctively American style. than all the hardships of convict life. Of course, the translator was misled by the German “ in deren Mitte.” EDMUND KEMPER BROADUS. Page 350. “Healthiness.” « Health” would have • . . 1897.] 141 THE DIAL been the more natural word, especially as it is grouped in race and individual, and in perfected methods of with a beauty." investigation. The science of rhetoric is fifty to a These samples of Mr. Common's method of transla- hundred years behind economics and psychology, and tion will suffice to show that he must have worked care- in many respects its present condition is like the ear- lessly and in haste, and that he lacks literary sense. lier stages of these and other sciences. The work Furthermore, he seems not sufficiently to master German of each writer is generally unadvantageously individ. to understand thoroughly idiomatic constructions. ual in some respects — each author usually attempt- CAMILLO VON KLENZE. ing to cover the whole field of the subject. There University of Chicago, Sept. 2, 1897. also is much less division of labor and intelligent co- operation than in a highly developed science. Such is A JAPANESE MAGAZINE OF FOREIGN the necessary result of the comparative absence of scien- LANGUAGES. tific methods — methods capable of being accurately (To the Editor of THE DIAL.) described and criticised, thus rendering the results verifiable and making it possible rationally to estimate I beg leave to call your attention to one more manifestation of the broad spirit which now prevails in their value. The broader generalizations from which each author makes his deductions, as in the abstract this empire with reference to the necessity of a better economics and the old psychology, are reached by pro- knowledge of foreign things. Another magazine has just been launched on the crowded sea of journalism ; cesses of which the authors themselves are not clearly it is called Gwaikoku Gogaku Zasshi,” or “ Foreign logy stand ready to make contributions of methods and conscious. Although philology, sociology, and psycho- Language Magazine." Its object is to assist students conclusions, students of rhetoric have been much slower to acquire English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, and Korean. The first number con- than students of more progressive sciences to avail them- selves of such aid. How many college text-books treat tains exactly 200 pages in the body of the work ; the table of contents, printed in each of these languages, general principles at all adequately? In how many pop- ular texts do we find expositions of the real nature of occupies eight pages ; and there are several pages of advertisements in both Japanese and English. It is language power, its relation to mental development and to ultimate aims in life, and of its value to human published by the Hakubunkwan, Tokyo, and sells at 25 society? The broader ethi æsthetic, and social im- sen a copy, or 2.70 yen per year. The first edition of 6,000 was exhausted at once ; and a second edition is in ports of the power of verbal expression are generally ; ignored. An occasional reference to commercial utility, print. A cursory examination of the English portion and appeals to class pride or ambition, are frequently reveals comparatively few mistakes or misprints, and the only references to any rational aim in the science. indicates that, in general, the work has been well done. Notwithstanding various merits of some recent works, The English section takes up more than half the issue ; the German section occupies one-fifth ; the and that some are in part to be excepted from these French section not quite one-tenth ; the Russian, criticisms, there is a very real need of a science of Italian and Spanish sections four pages each ; and the rhetoric employing the methods of modern sciences. SELDEN F. SMYSER. Chinese and Korean sections six pages each. The con- tents include lessons, conversations, letters, news items, Mattoon, Ill., September 10, 1897. current events, extracts from literature, essays, poems, etc. Each language is taught under such headings as the following: « Pronunciation, conversation, gram- “ PATRINS.” mar, composition, translation, reading matter, current notes, etc.” There are also illustrations, including one ["Patrins " (the title of Miss Louise Imogen Guiney's charming book) is a word signifying the trails of Gypsies, who scatter handfuls of Queen Victoria. The editor-in-chief is Mr. S. of leaves or grass along their path to show the way to those who follow.] Ohashi, who is assisted in each department by a special- ist (a Japanese) in that language. The Spanish sec- This way she went, with Iris for her guide, tion, however, is under the supervision of Prof. Emilio Through beds of mint along the meadow-side; Binda. The publisher's note speaks of “the import- The scattered sprigs, dropt idly from her palm, With their bruised leaves fill all the air with balm. ance to our people of all these languages, whether considered from political, educational, commercial, or Here lies her track upon the uplands dun, any other point of view"; and also says that, “ as Where the wild berries ripen in the sun; mixed residence will soon be a matter of reality," " the The brown bees follow, drinking at their will study of foreign languages is, therefore, of urgent From brimming cups that half their nectar spill. necessity.” ERNEST W. CLEMENT. This way she passed, for at the crossing see Tokyo, August 20, 1897. A messenger, new come from Arcady, Leading an elfin troop that wait to dine THE LACK OF SCIENTIFIC WORK IN RHETORIC. On cates and honey at the thistle's sign. (To the Editor of THE DIAL.) Here was her camp-fire: from its embers gray The inadequacy of recent books on rhetoric, and the A faint blue smoke steals upwards and away; generally feeble and unscientific way in which the sub- Here with great Pan in converse gay she stood, ject is at present taught in our schools and colleges, And strolled with Dian through the scented wood. seem to me to call for comment and for protest. If we may judge from their writings, many authors of O happy vagrant, singing as you pass, text-books on this subject neither conceive the pos- Drop still your trail of bloom across the grass; sibility nor appreciate the desirability of a Rhetoric Pitch your white tent, and in some cool retreat having its basis in definitely known psychological Wait with a welcome for our slower feet. principles, studies of development of language power EMILY HUNTINGTON MILLER. > 142 [Sept. 16, THE DIAL The New Books. ing been entrusted, to that end, with the MSS., by their present owner, Lady Colomb, a de- scendant of Sir Joshua's sister, Mary. Some letters which Croker had not seen or had passed over are now printed for the first time, as well as the corrections made by the Doctor in A PENDANT TO BOSWELL.* In the preface to his edition of the Letters of Samuel Johnson "Dr. George Birkbeck Hill expresses the hope that he may live to complete “Renny's" verses when he “ mended some bad us the main work of his life as a scholar by a new rhymes.” To the rich collection of “Johnson- edition of the Lives of the Poets." From iana” owned by Mr. Robert B. Adam, of this projected task he has been turned aside, Buffalo, N. Y., Dr. Hill warmly expresses his temporarily, as we trust, by a suggestion from indebtedness. Several hitherto unpublished Mr. Leslie Stephen to edit all those writ- letters to and from Dr. Johnson are added ings which have long been included under the through the kindness of the owners of the ral title of “ Johnsoniana.” The fruit of originals.* Mr. Stephen's happy proposal now lies before Dr. Hill's opening volume is devoted to the - two beautiful volumes, at all points such longer pieces, including the “ Prayers and as the nice judgment of their lamented pro- Meditations,” printed with George Strahan's moter would have approved of, elucidated and Preface to his first edition, of 1785 ; Dr. John- enriched editorially as only Dr. Birkbeck Hillson's “ Annals” of his life up to his eleventh could have done it. The work contains nearly year; Mrs. Piozzi's “ Anecdotes "; and Arthur everything worth reading (outside of Boswell) Murphy's Murphy's “Essays on Johnson's Life and that has been written about, or that is trust- Genius.” Volume II. forms a rich storehouse worthily recorded as having been said about, of Johnsonian miscellany. There is a great the Sage of Bolt Court by people who knew array of “ Anecdotes," and a collection of let- him in life, besides certain matter of an auto- ters most of which are now printed for the first biographical character or interest from the time; there are Apophthegms from Hawkins's hand of the great man himself. Dr. Hill has edition of Johnson, Extracts from Boswell's not, of course, been able to offer much that is Letters to Malone, and the “Recollections " of new or even tolerably unfamiliar in the way of Miss Reynolds; there are Hoole's and Wind- Johnsonian lore ; but he has put the old in the ham's narratives of Johnson's closing days ; best possible shape for reading or for reference. there is the Biographical Sketch by Tyers ; The main omission is Madame D'Arblay's there are two papers by Reynolds, on Johnson's Diary,” from which he had at first thought “ Character" and on his “ Influence,” together of giving extracts, but which, he concluded with the genial painter's two capital “ Dia- after reflection, “ is too good a piece of work logues in Imitation of Johnson’s Style of Con- to be hacked in pieces.” Readers, therefore, Readers, therefore, versation.”. Among the letters given we note who would fain know “gay Sam, agreeable an interesting one (from the collection of Mr. Sam, pleasant Sam,” as contra-distinguished Adam) setting forth Dr. Johnson's views on from the more familiar brusque Sam, overbear. literary property. It is dated March 7,1774, ing Sam, Sam of the dingy linen and the sting- and was written, as Dr. Hill surmises, to ing retort discourteous, must still turn mainly William Strahan. to “ Burney's” sprightly pages. Miss Seward's “Sir: I will tell you in a few words, what is, in my “Letters ” have been passed over by Dr. Hill opinion, the most desirable state of Copyright or literary Property. The Authour has a natural and peculiar right as untrustworthy. Some slight additions have to the profits of his own work. But as every Man who been made to the hitherto general stock of claims the protection of Society, must purchase it by Johnsoniana. By collating the text of " Prayers resigning some part of his natural right, the authour and Meditations,” with the original manuscript must recede from so much of his claim as shall be preserved at Pembroke College, Dr. Hill has deemed injurious or inconvenient to Society. It is incon- venient to Society that an useful book should become been enabled to make some corrections and to perpetual and exclusive property. The Judgement of supply some omissions. Certain defects and the Lords † was therefore legally and politically right. omissions in Croker's edition of Miss Rey. But the authour's enjoyment of his natural right might nolds's “ Recollections of Dr. Johnson " have * Messrs. J. Pearson & Co., of 5 Pall Mall Place, London. also been rectified and supplied, Dr. Hill hav- | Reversing the verdict of the Court of King's Bench against one Donaldson, a Scotch bookseller, who, Boswell relates, * JOHNSONIAN MISCELLANIES. Arranged and edited by “had for some years opened a shop in London, and sold his George Birkbeck Hill, D.C.L. In two volumes. New York: cheap editions of the most popular English books, in defiance Harper & Brothers. of the supposed common-law right of Literary Property." 1897.] 143 THE DIAL without any inconvenience be protracted beyond the mated with a faculty of anticipating reasonable term settled by the Statute. And it is, I think, to be doubts and queries and an honest zeal to clear desired (1) That an Authour should retain during his life the sole right of printing and selling his work. This the path of the reader. The work is a rarely is agreeable to moral right, and not inconvenient to the rich and diversified one a book of intensest publick, for who will be so diligent as the authour to human interest, that one opens at random with improve the book, and who can know so well how to the assurance that the eye will be caught and improve it? (2) That the authour be allowed, as by the attention fixed by some word, wise or witty the present act [8th of Queen Anne], to alienate his right only for fourteen years. A shorter time would or vividly pictorial. For all considerable libra- not procure a sufficient price, and a longer would cut ries, it forms the indispensable pendant to off all hope of future profit, and consequently all solici- Boswell's indispensable book. E. G. J. tude for correction or addition. (3) That when after fourteen years the copy shall revert to the authour, he be allowed to alienate it again only for seven years at a time. After fourteen years the value of the work will THE LITERARY HISTORY OF THE be known, and it will be no longer bought at hazard. AMERICAN REVOLUTION.* Seven years of possession will therefore have an assign- able price. It is proper that the authour be always incited to polish and improve his work, by that prospect History of American Literature,” Professor In the work that he originally entitled “The of accruing interest which those shorter periods of alien- ation will afford. (4) That after the authour's death Moses Coit Tyler undertook “to examine the his work should continue an exclusive property capable entire mass of American writings during the of bequest and inheritance, and of conveyance by gift Colonial period so far as they now exist in the or sale for thirty years. By these regulations a book public and private libraries of the country," may continue the property of the authour, or of those who claim from him, about fifty years, a term sufficient “ even to the extent of making an appropriate to reward the writer without any loss to the publick. In mention of every one of our early authors whose fifty years far the greater number of books are forgotten writings, whether many or few, have any appre- and annihilated, and it is for the advantage of learning ciable literary merit, or throw any helpful light that those which fifty years have not destroyed should become bona communia, to be used by every Scholar as upon the evolution of thought and style during he shall think best. In fifty years every book begins to those flourishing and indispensable days”; and require notes either to explain forgotten allusions and to present all the valuable fruits of his exami- obsolete words; or to subjoin those discoveries which nation in such literary form as would commend have been made by the gradual advancement of knowl- them to the public favor. How well he succeeded edge; or to correct those mistakes which time may have discovered. Such Notes cannot be written to any useful in this arduous undertaking is shown by the purpose without the text, and the text will frequently place that the work has steadily held during be refused while it is any man's property.” the almost score of years that have elapsed One of the more unfamiliar anecdotes, tell- since its publication. Professor Tyler, how- ing of an amusing rencontre between the Doctor ever, did not abandon the child of his study at and Gilbert Stuart, the American painter, at its birth, but has continued to watch over it, that time studying under Benjamin West, is remedying its defects as he discovered them or taken from Stuart's “ History of the Rise of they were pointed out to him, until he has now the Arts of Design in the United States." presented us with a revised and improved edi- “ Dr. Johnson called one morning on Mr. West to tion, bearing a title somewhat changed. But, converse with him on American affairs. After some time what is more to our present purpose, he also Mr. West said that he had a young American (Gilbert gives us the first volume of a new work,- or Stuart) living with him, from whom he might derive perhaps it would be better to say an extension some information, and introduced Stuart. The conver- of the old one; for his original scheme, as he sation continued (Stuart being thus invited to take a part in it), when the Doctor observed to Mr. West that first described it, embraced the history of the young man spoke very good English; and turning American literature from the earliest English to Stuart rudely asked him where he had learned it. settlements in this country down to the present Stuart very promptly replied, “Sir, I can better tell you time.” The language of this avowal suggests where I did not learn it - it was not from your diction- ary.' Johnson seemed aware of his own abruptness, and a still greater literary scheme, the author of was not offended." * THE LITERARY HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLU- Dr. Birkbeck Hill has, as usual, enriched his TION, 1763-1783. By Moses Coit Tyler, Professor of American History in Cornell University. Volume I., 1763-1766. New margins with a mass of notes that are often as York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. good reading as the text and rarely fail to A HISTORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE DURING THE COLO- NIAL TIME. Volume I., 1607-1776; Volume II., 1676–1763. requite the added bulk of volume they entail. By Moses Coit Tyler, Professor of American History in Cornell His encyclopædic knowledge of his theme is University. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 66 to You 144 [Sept. 16, THE DIAL : - which never lived to complete it; but we may lows: Correspondence, State papers, oral ad- hope that to Professor Tyler will be accorded dresses, secular and sacred, political essays, a happier lot. political satires in verse, popular lyric poetry, In "The Literary History of the American minor literary facetiæ, dramatic compositions, Revolution " Professor Tyler attempts a thing prose narratives of actual experiences, indi- before unattempted, so far as we are aware, to vidual or collective. This classification, how- say nothing of performance. It will be well to ever, does not impose upon him his method of let him state the case in his own words : treatment, for he chiefly holds to historical se- « There would, perhaps, be no injustice in describing quence, the very "order of time whenever they this book as the product of a new method, at least of a severally came into life, and wrought their work method never before so fully applied in the critical in the world, - thus permitting the principal treatment of the American Revolution. The outward history of that famous procedure has been many times members of those different groups of literature written, and is now, by a new breed of American scholars, to appear upon these pages and to unfold their being freshly rewritten in the light of larger evidence, message to us somewhat as they actually made and under the direction of a more disinterested and a their first appearance in the succe sive scenes more judicial spirit. In the present work, for the first of that great transaction in which they were so time in a systematic and a fairly complete way, is set forth the inward history of our Revolution — the his- significant a part.” Again, his purpose is not tory of its ideas, its spiritual moods, its motives, its pas- so much to call attention to the independent sions, even of its sportive caprices and its whims, as artistic value of these writings as to their hu- these uttered themselves at the time, whether con- manistic and historic value. sciously or not, in the various writings of the two parties These are the main lines of the work, and of Americans who promoted or resisted that great surely it is necessary only to draw them to indi- movement. “ The plan of the author has been to let both parties cate at least the great value of a well-educated in the controversy - the Whigs and the Tories, the work that should ollow them out. Professor Revolutionists and the Loyalists — tell their own story Tyler has given us the first volume of such a freely in their own way, and without either of them being liable, at our hands, to posthumous outrage in the work, in more than five hundred with a pages, shape of partisan imputations on their sincerity, their promise of a companion volume that shall bring magnanimity, their patriotism, or their courage. More- the story down to the close of the war. over, for the purpose of historic interpretation, the au- The new work has the qualities of the earlier thor has recognized the value of the lighter, as well as of the graver, forms of literature, and consequently has one: thorough research, judicious handling of here given full room to the lyrical, the humorous, and materials, and a clear, vigorous, pleasing style, the satirical aspects of our Revolutionary record its dashed with plenty of the writer's personality. songs, ballads, sarcasms, its literary facetiæ. The entire As in the earlier work, it is not always easy to body of American writings, from 1763 to 1783, whether see in a writer or in a writing all that Professor serious or mirthful, in prose or in verse, is here deline- ated in its most characteristic examples, for the purpose Tyler sees in it. But this fact gives us no of exhibiting the several stages of thought and emotion offence. This is a case where an author is not through which the American people passed during the only permitted but expected to imitate the good two decades of the struggle which resulted in our na- bishop in magnifying his office. In other words, tional Independence.” an enthusiasm born of the fach is required in The older writers dealt almost wholly with the order to see and write the history of American political and military aspects of the Revolu- literature down to 1783 as large as Professor tion; some of the younger ones have widened Tyler sees and writes it. the view, taking in economical, social, and other The work offers many interesting points for factors; but it remained for Professor Tyler to discussion, and we shall draw attention to one conceive and execute a work that is exclusively of them. It does full justice to the Loyalists, devoted to the subjective or spiritual factors of both in the amount of space that is devoted to the period as they are expressed in literature. them — five full chapters, to say nothing of Professor Tyler first teaches us to “distin- frequent occasional mention,— and in the view “ guish between those writings which were the re- that is taken of their attitude toward the great sult of certain general intellectual interests and questions of the period. At the close of one of tendencies, apart from the Revolutionary move- these chapters the writer corrects what he cal ment; and, secondly, those writings which were “ three grave errors closely connected with the the result of intellectual interests and activities whole subject, and still prevalent in popular directly awakened and sustained by that move- American expositions of it.” These errors are ment.” The writings of the second class, which (1) “ to represent the Tories of the American give the period its character, he divides as fol- Revolution as a party of mere negation and a 1897.] 145 THE DIAL obstruction"; (2) to represent them “as a divided the younger of these peoples into two party opposed either to any reform in the rela- not very unequal and altogether implacable tions of the colonies with the mother country, factions, ending in the complete suppression or to the extension of human rights and liber- or extirpation of the weaker one. When one ties here or elsewhere”; (3) to represent them witnesses the qualities of mind, culture, and “as composed of Americans lacking in love for character that the American Loyalists show in their native country, or in zeal for its liberty, Professor Tyler's History, and contemplates the or in unwillingness to labor or fight, or even prosperous communities they established in the to die, for what they conceived to be its inter-great nation to the north of us, he recalls the ests.” While it is impossible for any man curse that William of Orange, as he beheld in holding the traditionary view to accept this battle the splendid valor of the Irish regiments criticism, historical investigation is neverthe- in the French army, pronounced upon the less leading us to it slowly but irresistibly. cruel fate that had denied to him the services Professor Tyler goes so far, as we understand of such soldiers. B. A. HINSDALE. him, as to yield the old contention that the course pursued by the British Parliament in taxing America contravened the ancient prin- ciple of no taxation without representation. At NOTHING BUT LEAVES.* the same time, we understand him to be a good “ Patrins" are bunches of leaves by which American patriot and a believer in the Amer- Miss Guiney shows the path she has taken. On ican Revolution. What is by no means uni- the whole, however, it is a pity that she should versal now among American scholars and his- not have marked her path with great sign- torians, he maintains that the two central charges of the Declaration of Independence boards, so that it might be avoided. It is a were true, namely, that the ministerial policy, den it in safety, but there have been many and : which was the royal policy, evinced a design to reduce the Americans under absolute despot- without success. To speak directly, we dissent there will be many who have tried to follow it ism, and had as its direct object the establish- from the attitude in life commended by Miss ment of an absolute tyranny over them. In Guiney. fact, his view of the Declaration is altogether For instance, the scholar, to her mind, is one more enthusiastic than the one we sometimes who knows already all he wants to, and goes find American historical scholars upholding about smilingly diffusing the scorn of education, How, then, does Professor Tyler reconcile his high estimate both of the Loyalists and of the sout-of-doorling” does not do anything while “conversing consumedly about the weather"; Thomas Jefferson ? he is out-of-doors, but “simply moves or sits in This question brings us to what we consider, eternal amalgamation with the eternal.” Now, logically speaking, the greatest defect of the though everyone knows that there is some sense book. This is the failure anywhere to present, in the attitude which Miss Guiney has in mind, so far as we have observed, a consistent general it must also be plain that for one who can attain statement of the author's own theory of the Revolution. No doubt he has such a theory above, there will be a thousand Miss Nancies, a sensible state to be humorously described as Perhaps, too, the well-read student will be able to extract this theory from scattered passages Willieboys, and absolutely imbecile chumps, who are rejoiced at such an opportunity for in the volume; but this student should not mere blatant assumption. And these nonenti- have been put to this labor, or the less well- ties, who hope that they will be thought some- equipped reader exposed to the hazard of mis- , conceiving the author's meaning, as is now the thing of by dint of doing nothing, are an awful bore of which we have already too many. case. Perhaps Professor Tyler holds in reserve " The oddest and choicest of social attitudes, a statement of the lines of argument on which he vindicates the Revolution. We sincerely indifference. For heaven's sake, do n't strive says Miss Guiney, is an attitude of sacred hope such is the case. or cry, do n't think anything or do anything In one view, the American Revolution was (it's so easy to be commonplace), keep your- one of the tragedies of history. As though it were not enough to put asunder two peoples of - * PATRINS: To which is added an Inquirendo into the Wit and Other Good Parts of His Late Majesty King Charles the a common origin that had many reasons for Second. By Louise Imogen Guiney. Boston: Copeland & working out their destiny together, it ruthlessly Day. 146 [Sept. 16, THE DIAL self out of the stupid turmoil of life. It is true Each essay is based on a fancy, not on an idea. you must n't fall into anything so foolish as the Each sentence is set down with tender solici- “ cheap indifferentism so called ; the sickness tude as to how it will look, rather than with a of sophomores”: you must be something more compelling desire that it shall mean something. distinguished, something like Lucius Cary, This is a pity. Miss Guiney could do some- Viscount Falkland. Now, of course, there is thing, perhaps, if she would give up the idea a fine indifference to foolish things, as well as that there was nothing worth her doing. a foolish indifference to fine things and foolish We have spoken of Miss Guiney's style, and things alike. And equally, of course, Miss it is best to be more particular on the subject. Guiney has somewhere in mind the hope that Miss Guiney's style is a combination of meti- she has really got the right article. But, not culated Emersonianism and effeminate imita- to be personal, we do not think she has. Her tion of Stevenson. It takes for fundamental essays not only have no backbone and no other principle the theory that an essay is a string of bones, but they have no vitals and no breath of aphorisms, a sequence of declarative sentences, life. It may be more vulgar, but we should without formal connection. This crude and prefer a man who, if a scholar, would always unrhythmical kind of prose is adorned with an gladly learn and gladly teach, and who knew enormous accumulation of figures of speech and what was worth learning and teaching and painfully selected adverbs and adjectives. To what was not; we prefer a man who, if he loves what is original is added an equal amount of out-of-doors, loves to do things out-of-doors, quotation. The whole is stuck over with such even if it be to shoot deer or catch salmon ; we expressions as “marry” and “methinks ” and prefer a man who says something when he opens all the syntactic affectations adopted by those his mouth, even if it be not always the best who have rediscovered the Elizabethans. Such and choicest remark possible, to one who smiles a style we have no hesitation in pronouncing and can think of nothing worth saying. It's bad, no matter how clever. a good thing to be willing to commit yourself. For clever this book of essays undoubtedly Miss Guiney likes to think of London as is, clever and charming "as well. But certain being a quiet place; we prefer to think of it as things will have been taken for granted about noisy and hustling and full of people, cads as Miss Guiney's work, so we have thought it well as others. Miss Guiney likes to think of worth while to allude to some others. domestic animals conquered by man and curb- EDWARD E. HALE, JR. ing their great power to the melancholy superi- ority of unfeeling intellect; we prefer leviathans which we can't hook and bulls in somebody else's) china-shop. Miss Guiney thinks that LEGENDS AND MUSIC OF THE NAVAJOS.* art is made of seemly abstinences : some art Few native tribes of America are more inter- may be, — but to an art made of seemly absti- esting than the Navajo; no one is more compe- nences and nothing else, we prefer an art made tent to describe them or to discuss their folk-lore of unseemly affirmations. At bottom, doubt- than Dr. Matthews, who was for many years, less, it does n't really matter what you do, and as U. S. Army Surgeon, located near them. it does n't really matter whether or not you do Dr. Matthews is a diligent worker in the field anything ; but this fundamental principle must of American Ethnography. Years ago, his book be kept well out of sight, unless you are willing “ The Ethnography and Philology of the to go still-born to the grave. Hidatsa Indians” appeared. Since then he has Historically speaking, this indifferentism is been stationed in the Southwest, and has pub- partly a reaction against the violence of Car- lished nearly a score of important papers about Tyle and partly a conventional imitation of the the Navajo, among which “ Navajo Silver- descendants of the French-romantic reaction smiths,” “Navajo Weavers,” and “ The Moun- against conventionalism. It has manifested tain Chant” have most attracted popular atten- itself in fine forms, and, more often, in forms tion. He has also made useful contributions like the present. We think, on the whole, it to Physical Anthropology. is a sort of dry-rot in art. We will bet a big In - Navaho Legends” (when we quote the red apple that anyone who reads " Patrins title we must spell the name as the author now can see what the effect of such an attitude has * NayaHO LEGENDS. By Washington Matthews. Memoirs been on Miss Guiney. It has deprived her of of the American Folk-Lore Society, No. V. Boston: Hough- the power of thought and the power of style. ton, Mifflin & Co. on 1897.] 147 THE DIAL to move. does, notwithstanding our disapproval of the nies. One or two passages taken quite at ran- innovation) Dr. Matthews presents us, first, dom will illustrate the style and content. Sec- brief but valuable picture of Navajo ethnog. tion 163 describes the making of First Man raphy; second, three interesting legends, copi- and First Woman. “ The people ” mentioned ously annotated; third, a study of Navajo were not truly human beings : music by Prof. John Comfort Fillmore of “ The gods laid one buckskin on the ground with the Pomona College. The Navajo are the most head to the west; on this they placed two ears of corn, advanced tribe of the great Athapascan family with their tips to the east, and over the corn they spread of Indians. Their linguistic relatives are usually white ear they put the feather of a white eagle, under the other buckskin with its head to the east; under the of the wilder, and in some respects least attrac- the yellow ear the feather of a yellow eagle. Then they tive, tribes of the continent. The Apaches, told the people to stand at a distance and allow the wind Montagnais, Slaves, are among their speech to enter. The white wind blew from the east, and the kindred. The people are not, however, pure of yellow wind blew from the west, between the skins. While the wind was blowing, eight of the Mirage Peo- blood, but are much mixed with their neighbors, ple came and walked around the objects on the ground , notably with various Pueblo and Shoshonean four times, and as they walked the eagle feathers, whose peoples. They have borrowed much from con- tips protruded from between the buckskins, were seen tact, and, being energetic, they have often im- When the Mirage People had finished their walk the upper buckskin was lifted — the ears of corn proved their borrowings. Possibly they learned had disappeared; a man and a woman lay there in their smithing and weaving of the Pueblos ; but if stead.” so, they now surpass their teachers. Their daily Sometimes the incidents narrated contain a life and arts, their houses and industries, tales hint at real happenings in the tribal history. and religion, all have been profoundly influ- Thus, it is likely that the Navajo first got maize, enced by the arid environment in which they or corn, from the Pueblos or Kisáni, as is sug- live. The ethnographic sketch given by Dr. gested.by section 189. Matthews well prepares the reader for an intel- “ After this it was told around that the Kisáni, who ligent study of the legends. were in camp at a little distance from the others, had Three classes of legends are preëminent brought with them from the lower world an ear of corn for seed. Some of the unruly ones proposed to go to among the stories of our Indian tribes — the origin or cosmogonic legend, the migration them; but others, of better counsel, said that this would the camp of the Kisáni and take the corn away from legend, the culture hero legend. Sometimes the be wrong, that the Kisáni had had as much trouble as three are clearly separated; sometimes one story the rest, and if they had more foresight they had a right presents one element overshadowing the rest; to profit by it. In spite of these words, some of the sometimes the three are inextricably combined. young men went and demanded the corn of the Kisáni. The latter said, after some angry talk on both sides, It is the origin legend of the Navajo that occu- We will break the ear in two and give you whichever pies the chief place in this book. In it are half you choose.' The young men agreed to this bar- included elements of migration and culture-hero gain, and the woman who owned the ear broke it in the stories. The legend is long and detailed. It is middle and laid the pieces down for the others to choose. subdivided into four sections, headed “The The young men looked at the pieces, and were consid- ering which they would take, when Coyote, getting story of the Emergence,” “Early events in the impatient, picked up the tip end of the ear and made Fifth World," "The War-Gods," "The Growth off with it. The Kisáni kept the butt, and this is the of the Navajo Nation.” The people have come reason the Pueblo Indians have to-day better crops of up from one after another of four previous corn than the Navajos. But the Pueblos had become alarmed at the threats and angry language of their worlds into this present stage of existence — the neighbors and moved away from them, and this is why fifth world. Each of the worlds has its own the Navajos and the Pueblos now live apart from one characteristics; in each, the people had strange another." experiences. Nothing has happened without Throughout the legends, of course, are items significance, and the impress of the past is upon of belief, tribal practices, religious customs, the present, and the songs and ceremonials of either described or incidentally mentioned. In this time are the result, and in some cases the explanation of these, Dr. Matthews's notes and dramatization, of those ancient happenings. pictures are most valuable. All things around that need explanation are Professor Fillmore's discussion of the Navajo dealt with in this native philosophy. Dr. Mat- music is both interesting and valuable. It is thews has translated the legends simply and based upon a considerable collection of phono- with directness. On the whole, the Navajo graphic records. While Navajo music presents Origin Legend appears more consistent and perhaps little that is truly characteristic, it definite than most American Indian cosmogo- | fairly represents American Indian music gen- 6 148 [Sept. 16, THE DIAL erally. In the words, figurative language main a vast amount of mystery and darkness unre- especially metaphor and simile - abounds. Of solved. rhetorical forms, antithesis, synecdoche, and The books under criticism enforce this relation climax are not uncommon. Those peculiarly between the clear and the obscure in faith. “ Later favorite devices among savage and barbarous Gleanings,” by Mr. Gladstone, occupies itself chiefly in putting limitations on the quick skepticism of our races, repetition and refrain are everywhere. time. It is congenial to the mind of a statesman to Rhyme is rare. The words of a number of the give great force to the familiar renderings of belief, songs are given with interlinear translation into to the conceptions which, over large surfaces and English, and the melodies of ten are written for long periods, have governed men's thoughts and out in ordinary musical notation. actions. The volume is especially valuable as en- All in all, the volume is an important con- countering the feeling that the old beliefs must give tribution to American Ethnography. It is the way at once to the attacks of modern criticism. only one of the later Memoirs of the American The work is made up of thirteen essays, most of Folk-Lore Society — good as they all are them occupied with a presentation and qualified that is really to be placed alongside of No. I., Colonel Ingersoll, Mrs. Humphry Ward, and Pro- defence of current topics of religious discussion. Chatelain's “ Folk-Tales of Angola.” fessor Huxley come under consideration. The vol- FREDERICK STARR. ume also contains several historical essays on the early history of the Church of England. The volume on “ Christian Instincts and Modern Doubt” contains five essays. The one entitled “The Present State of Religious Thought in Great Brit- FAITH INSTINCTIVE.* ain” comprises most of the volume. The author We may accept reason as our proper guide when- shows much insight. While feeling the force of ever it is present, but there are many times when it current criticism, he is in hearty sympathy with the does not cover the ground. We are bringing reason faith-tendency which idealizes the world and makes very freely to the task of correcting religious belief; it primarily the realm of mind. He does not set and yet much of that belief rests, and must continue himself the task of a systematic defence, but ex- for a long time to rest, on instinctive tendencies, poses sharply in many ways the spiritual barrenness and on the force of events only partially amenable of the assaults that come from a physical rendering to reason. Religion has not arisen primarily as the of the world. Emerson, Browning, and Martineau product of reason, but as the result of feelings and are discussed with considerable fulness and much of instinctive influences, inevitable in their action, sympathy. Among the secondary essays is one and capable only of the slowest correction by later entitled “ The Unwisdom of Secularism.” The inquiry. “The heart has its reasonings which the volume arises from a sense of the ruling force of reason knoweth nothing of.” A hasty application spiritual intuitions, and yet of the many ways in of reason results in increasing the unreason already which they still need reconciliation in our thoughts present in these obscure fields of thought in which with the facts and events which envelope us. so many impulses contend with each other. If one 6. The Place of Death in Evolution" involves a explores a mountain range by torchlight, he may still deeper conviction of the spiritual thread of life reach a few certain conclusions, but there will re- appearing but obscurely and slowly in the physical * LATER GLEANINGS. By the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone. history of the world, and at length separating itself New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. out in an adequate revelation of its own higher nature. CHRISTIAN INSTINCTS AND MODERN DOUBT. By Rev. The book is well conceived, but the thought is atten- A. H. Craufurd, M.A. New York: Thomas Whittaker. uated, and receives more emphasis than it will easily TAE PLACE OF DEATH IN EVOLUTION. By Newman Smyth. bear. If the physical relations of death had been New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. treated as incidental to its moral relations, the pro- BASES OF RELIGIOUS BELIEF, Historic and Ideal. By Charles Mellen Tyler, A.M., D.D. New York: G. P. Put- portion of parts would have been better preserved, nam's Sons. and the resources of the author been more fairly THE OPEN MYSTERY. By A. D. T. Whitney. Boston: dealt with. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. “Bases of Religious Belief, Historic and Ideal,” FORETOKENS OF IMMORTALITY. By Newell Dwight Hillis. is a work of scholarship and insight. It rests on Chicago: Fleming H. Revell Co. the intuitional philosophy applied with reason and IN THIS PRESENT WORLD. By George Hodges. New York: Thomas Whittaker. correction. It is made up of two parts. The first JESUS CHRIST, DURING HIS MINISTRY. By Edmond treats of the religious questionings which have Staffer. Translated by Louise Seymour Houghton. New arisen in connection with historic and scientific crit- York: Charles Scribner's Sons. icism; and the second, of the belief in an imma- CHRISTIAN WORSHIP. Ten Lectures Delivered in the Union Theological Seminary. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. nent intelligence, as urged on metaphysical, ethical, SOME ASPECTS OF THE RELIGIOUS LIFE OF NEW ENGLAND. æsthetical, and spiritual grounds. The author says Lectures before Hartford Theological Seminary. By George in the preface that he has aimed to give simply Leon Walker, D.D. New York: Silver, Burdett & Co. a résumé of the conclusions of modern thought. 1897.) 149 THE DIAL a as a This is more apparent in the first than in the Churches. The reader is thus put in pretty full second part. The result is some want of firm possession of what is current in forms of Worship, direction in the thought. It is neither definitely and of the feeling which underlies liturgical worship. historical nor critical. In the second part, the “Some Aspects of the Religious Life of New author gives more freedom to his own mind. The England” is a book quite in order, and interesting. result is a well-balanced and careful statement of The purpose of the author is to give “the religious the grounds of belief. We are disposed to criticise life itself—its dominating motives, its characteriz- such expressions as “the God-consciousness” ing experiences, its manifestations of spiritual power inaccurate and misleading, even when the under- in the careers of the men and women of the nine lying idea is unobjectionable. The word, con- generations that have dwelt upon New England soil sciousness, is slipping very much away from its since the landing of the Pilgrims." This task he direct and needed use. Consciousness can no more has accomplished with insight, fairness, and con- be made to stand for the elements involved in siderable fulness. The volume serves to emphasize consciousness than the sunlit, rippling surface of in still another way the force of events in determin- the ocean for the obscure depths hidden under it. ing the current tendency of religious thought. The “ The Open Mystery" can hardly be pronounced reason busies itself narrowly with the particular a successful volume. It is a re-cast of the early his- phase of work the circumstances assign it. The toric parts of the Old Testament. The author chapter on the present period is especially interest- assigned herself a difficult task, and had neither the ing; a period in which the sense of sin is widening insight nor the critical power necessary to make its out into that of ethical law, in which doctrine is execution interesting to the well-informed reader. displaced by social theory, and the general welfare “Foretokens of Immortality” is not an unpleas- is substituted for personal piety. Religious devel- ing rendering of the familiar convictions on immor- opment is cyclic, with actions and reactions; a tality. It will soothe and assure the thoughts of thorough recognition of the fact makes us at once those predisposed to belief. It is doubtless a result more charitable, more peaceful, and more useful. of the shifting form of religious beliefs that so John BASCOM. many are turning to the doctrine of immortality, struggling to give it a firmer and more vital hold. An exhortation to courage quickens the courageous, but makes slight appeal to the timid. So is it with BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS. the proofs of a future life. “ In this Present World” is a volume of sermons A volume of In one of his recently-published let- of a plain, practical, and somewhat penetrative essays by ters, the late Master of Balliol wrote order. It is a good specimen of the prolific species Professor James. as follows: “I feel very deeply to which it belongs. that one cannot live without religion, and that “ Jesus Christ Daring His Ministry” is an inter- in proportion as we believe less, that little, if it mediate volume between two others, -“Jesus Christ be only an aweful feeling about existence, must be Before His Ministry,” and “The Death and Resur- more constantly present with us; as faith loses rection of Jesus Christ,” which is to follow. The in extent it must gain in intensity, if we do not author expresses his aims in these words : “I pro- mean to shipwreck altogether.” This passage pose, in fact, to speak above all things of Jesus would serve very well as a text for the “ Essays in himself, to ask what he thought, what he proposed Popular Philosophy” (Longmans) that Professor to do, what he professed to be, and, as my general William James has brought together into a volume title says, what he said of his person, what authority made up from his occasional addresses and con- he claimed, and what work he desired to do.” The tributions to periodicals during the past score of book deserves warm commendation. The thought years. This choice of a text is chiefly justified by is clear, penetrative, and free from prolixity. It the first four of the essays, “ which are largely con- helps to a more realistic grasp of the life and char- cerned with defending the legitimacy of religious acter of Christ, and of the circumstances of his faith.” The essential position of the author might ministry. almost be illustrated by Shelley's “ Prometheus," “ Christian Worship is composed of a series of wherein we are exhorted lectures, given in Union Theological Seminary, on "To hope till hope creates Liturgies, by leading men of different forms of faith. From its own wreck the thing it contemplates." The introductory lecture, by Dr. Charles Cuthbert There are cases, says Professor James, “where a Hall, is on " The Principles of Christian Worship"; fact cannot come at all unless a preliminary faith the closing lecture, by Dr. Thomas S. Hastings, is exists in its coming.” Now while this is unde- on “The Ideal of Christian Worship.” The eight niable as a general proposition, it is a dangerous intervening lectures present Primitive Christian principle to be taken as a guide by the untrained Liturgies, The Greek Liturgies, Roman Liturgies, seeker after religious and philosophical truth. It Lutheran Liturgies, The Liturgies of the Reformed is doubtless sometimes true, as in the case of the Church, The Book of Common Prayer, The Book mountain-climber who can save his life only by a of Common Order, Worship in Non-Liturgical dangerous and terrible leap, that "faith before- > 150 [Sept. 16, THE DIAL a hand in an uncertified result is the only thing that and devoted purpose as to allay all differences be- makes the result come true," but this is not quitetween him and those who may not agree with him. the same thing as saying that faith in the cardinal Young men, and older ones, too, will receive a gen- doctrines of religion is the condition upon which uine inspiration to nobler action in the reading of their realization depends in any other than a sub- this book. — Dr. S. R. Gardiner delivered six lec- jective sense. Professor James might retort that tures at the University of Oxford on “ Oliver Crom- this is, after all, only an ingenious way of begging well's Place in History” which now form a neat the question, and that the subjective sense is the little volume of 120 pages (Longmans). These one most important to be considered in these high discourses do not deal with the biography of the matters. But the defense that he actually does hero, but “ estimate his relation to the political and bring forward is made from a very different point ecclesiastical movements of his time.” Dr. Gardiner of vantage, being substantially that his book is not embodies his lectures in a wonderfully lucid, clear, addressed to a popular audience, exposed to the clean-cut, and forcible tongue. His estimate of dangers of over-credulity, but rather to an aca- Cromwell is well-balanced, and eminently just, demic audience suffering from a “mental weakness though not identical with some other writers. Crom- brought about by the notion, carefully instilled, well, he says, “was for that which has been the that there is something called scientific evidence characteristic feature in English political history, by waiting upon which they shall escape all danger the policy of bit-by-bit reform” (p. 41). Cromwell's of shipwreck in regard to death.” There is some- settlement of Ireland was simply the beating down thing in this, to be sure, but not quite as much as of everything opposed to British supremacy, while the author would have us think, and the opposed the constructive work was left to others (p. 57). view of such men as Clifford, for example, seems Cromwell was not constructive, he was rather a to us supported by a closer-knit logical cogency. mediator, a moderator (p. 81), embodying within It is all a question of degree, and the author's himself elements of championship for liberty, of a chapter on "Psychical Research " affords evidence crusher of free institutions, of a defender of op- that he carries his own principle of believing the pressed peoples, and of an asserter of the country's things that we want to believe a little farther than right to dominion” (p. 114). “It is time for us to most clear-sighted thinkers are willing to carry it. regard him as he really was, with all his physical But there is no escaping the fascination of the and moral audacity, with all his tenderness and author's exposition of his characteristic views, and spiritual yearnings, in the world of action what , the reader is ready to say more than once: “Al- Shakespeare was in the world of thought, the great- most thou persuadest me to set in abeyance the est, because the most typical, Englishman. This, in thinking part of myself, and to let the heart dictate the most enduring sense, is Cromwell's place in his- where the reason has held sway hitherto.” The tory” (p. 116). felicity of expression, the charm of manner, and the sympathetic hold upon life that are so richly General James Grant Wilson, in displayed in these pages, make them remarkable his study of General Grant in the among recent contributions to philosophical thought. “Great Commanders Series” (D. Were the reader to reject in toto the fundamental | Appleton & Co.), necessarily devotes most of his teachings of this book, he still could not fail to attention to the period of the Civil War. A brief profit by it, for it is the product of a rich and acute sketch is given of the points of interest in the life mind, which adorns every subject that it touches. of Grant both before and after that period, but it is for the most part written in a perfunctory man- The uncrowned monarch of the seven- On the other hand, the story of the great Two portraits teenth century is in this latter age campaigns is told with enthusiasm and with clear- uj Cromwell. beginning to stand forth in all his ness, though it is possible that, to a non-military moral and political grandeur. Dr. R. F. Horton reader, the detailed accounts of the movements of has made a study of him as a religionist, and has this or that brigade or regiment may be somewhat embodied his results in “Oliver Cromwell: a Study confusing. These details will, no doubt, be of great in Personal Religion ” (Thomas Whittaker). The interest to the old soldier who took part in the trend of his study is shown in his portrayal of the battles described, or to one who desires to make a staunch, unbending, constant, moral and religious careful study of them. But the majority of the , , force of the almost invincible Cromwell. This re- readers of this book will not have had any military ligion was not a side issue of the great hero, but it training, and therefore will not be able to estimate, was the hero himself. In each civil strife, in his from mere detailed battle accounts, the genius of clashes with monarchy, in his appeals for the people, the man who commanded in battle. What is needed sturdy, eternal, and uncompromising religious prin- is either broader and less technical descriptions of ciples controlled his action. His devotion to the battles and campaigns, with more of the personality cause of humanity is but the fruit of an inward life of Grant thrown into and illuminating them, or divinely planted and nourished. To exhibit these explanatory notes to indicate wherein such and such traits the author recites many of the pivotal points a movement or march gave evidence of great mili- in his active career, but does it with such a sincere tary ability. In fact, after having followed Grant, General Grant. ner. 1897.] 151 THE DIAL - in this book, from his first command in Illinois to Baptist Church of Providence, Williams's stamping his final victory over Lee in Virginia, the impres- ground, promptly calls down the Southern Seminary sion is left upon the mind of the reader that all President, and, if argument and evidence settle the that has been learned about General Grant's great case, states and makes his point with clearness and genius in war is that he was aggressive, courageous, precision, that Roger Williams was baptised by and always confident of the ultimate success of his immersion. cause. By far the most interesting portion of the work is to be found in the letters to the Hon. E. For several years Miss Hattie M. Organic B. Washburne, for in these General Grant revealed Scott has been trying an educational Education. to his friend sentiments and opinions not often experiment in one of the ward shown even to his intimates. The concluding chap- instruction. The results of this experiment, and schools of Detroit which is full of suggestion and ter, also, upon Grant's last days and death, is writ- the theory which directed the teachers, are now ten with a delicacy and an affection which evince the author's love for his hero. presented in a book of 289 pages, which deserves the attention of teachers. Part I. “ Embodies the That labyrinthian crystal Palace of philosophical interpretation of the plan. It pre- Inside of Kentucky, concealed from the light sents not the starting point — for that was purely Mammoth Cave. of the sun, is attracting more and practical — but the apparent meaning of that which more the attention of the scientific, the literary, and has been done. Part II. is a detailed statement of the travelling public. Messrs. Hovey and Call have the methods actually pursued and of the materials now put themselves on record, in a small manual actually employed.” Some of the features of Pro- (John P. Morton & Co., Louisville), as explorers fessor Dewey's remarkable school in Chicago are and guides to that great net-work of caverns called found in Miss Scott's book. The volume is pub- Mammoth Cave. They present a history of its dis- lished by Messrs. J. V. Sheehan & Co., Ann Arbor. coveries from Hutchins's legendary Bear chase, down to the last map whose cavernous contortions almost bewilder the innocent reader sitting in his easy study chair. After a somewhat elaborate sketch BRIEFER MENTION, of that section of Kentucky, the guides lead off to Happy is the library that can undertake the publica- the route of pits and domes. Such exquisite forma- tion of such costly bibliographical works as the one tions ! Such splendid palatial domes, and awful recently sent us from the Boston Atheneum. It is a pits! Adjectives lose their force and the visitor “ Catalogue of the Washington Collection” in that insti- stands or moves about, lost in wonder and in praise. tution, compiled and annotated by Mr. Appleton P. C. “The chief city and fairy grotto," then “the river Griffin, and provided with an important Appendix by route" follow in order. Many questions of the Mr. William C. Lane. It makes a sumptuous volume of nearly six hundred pages, illustrated by facsimile visitor are answered by the well-prepared chapter title-pages, a vignette of the interior of the Athensum, on “the natural history of the cavern.” The book- and an engraving of the Stuart portrait. The Wash- let is illustrated by a large number of beautiful half- | ington collection of books was begun in 1848, when a tone cuts of some of the most pleasing and startling number of citizens subscribed to a fund for the purchase views in the cavern. The reading of this manual is of books from the Mount Vernon library of George a good preparation for a visit to that underground Washington. The present catalogue includes all of the art-gallery of nature. books then purchased, besides many others relating to Washington in various ways. It is a bibliographical A little book of 145 pages entitled work of the highest value, as well as an interesting The baptism of Roger Williams. “The Baptism of Roger Williams memorial of the first President of the Republic. (Providence: Preston & Rounds Co.) The latest text-books for teachers of the modern is one link in a chain of controversy, begun, as far languages include the following: Part Third of “The back as 1880, by some articles published anony- Study and Practice of French in School,” by Miss Louise C. Boname (Philadelphia: The Author); “L'Abbé mously in “ The Independent." In 1893, President Constantin” (the comedy), edited by Mr. V. E. François Whitsitt of the Southern Baptist Theological Sem- (American Book Co.); “L'Oncle et le Neveu," by inary published two articles in Johnson's Universal About, edited by Mr. G. Castegnier (Jenkins); “ Fra le Cyclopædia" on “Anabaptists” and “ Baptista" in Corde di un Contrabasso," a story by Signor S. Farina, which he held that the evidence at hand does not edited by Professor T. E. Comba (Jenkins). Warrant one in asserting that the English Baptists Dr. Albert F. Blaisdell is the author of " A Practical practised immersion as baptism prior to 1641. In Physiology" (Ginn) for high schools, which is well- the Cyclopædia Dr. Whitsitt says regarding the arranged, and provided with the sort of helps that baptism of Roger Williams: “The ceremony was young students most need. Our main criticism upon the work is that it makes too great concessions to the most likely performed by sprinkling; the Baptists “ temperance” and anti-tobacco extremists who have of England had not yet adopted immersion, and succeeded in getting a good deal of pernicious educa- there is no reason which renders it probable that tional legislation adopted in the several States. Al- Williams was in advance of them in that regard." cohol has thirty-three entries in the index, and tobacco The venerable pastor, Dr. H. M. King, of the First I twelve, thus leading all the other subjects. 99 : 152 [Sept. 16, THE DIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS OF FALL BOOKS. Dew THE DIAL's list of books announced for Fall issue by American publishers, which has become an important annual feature of the paper, is this year very much the largest ever given. It contains over 1100 titles, against 900 last year; and represents sixty houses, nine more than last year. The feeling of encouragement and general improvement that marks the business world at present has evidently reached the publishers, and the showing made by them in the following List reflects the greatest credit on their activity and energy. The outlook for a prosperous season is certainly good, and the American publishing trade is to be congratulated on its alertness to take advantage of the “ turn in the tide.” The classification of the books into departments adds greatly to the usefulness and interest of the List, and furnishes the basis of some analysis and comment in the leading editorial article of this issue. The department of Juveniles is deferred until our next number. All the books here given are presumably new books—new editions not being included unless having new form or matter; and the List does not include Fall books already issued and entered in our regular List of New Books. BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIRS. 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Lippincott Co.) “Builders of Greater Britain,” edited by H. F. Wilson, M.A., first vols.: Sir Walter Raleigh, by Martin A. S. Hume; Sir Thomas Maitland, by Walter Frowen Lord; John Cabot and his Sons; Lord Clive, by Sir A. J. Arbuthnot; Edward Gibbon Wakefield, by R. Garnett, C.B. ; Rajah Brooke, by Sir Spenser St. John; Admiral Philip, by Louis Becke and Walter Jeffrey; and Sir Stamford Raf- fles, by the editor; each with portrait and map: - The Life of Stonewall Jackson, by Lieut.-Col. G. F. Hen- derson, 2 vols., illus. - Life of Edward Bouverie Pusey, D.D., by Henry Parry Liddon, D.D., Vol. IV., com- pleting the work, illus. - The Life of Francis Place, by Graham Wallas. — The Life of Chauncy Maples, D.D., bishop of Likoma, British Central Africa, by his sister, Ellen Maples, with portrait. (Longmans, Green, & Co.) Recollections of Aubrey de Vere, with portrait, $4. – Auto- biography and Letters of the Rt. Hon. John Arthur Roebuck, Q. 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PAGE . o . . . . No. 271. OCTOBER 1, 1897. Vol. XXIII. “ Atlantic" always been bound up with those of literature in the best sense. Not only has a CONTENTS. large part of what we all recognize as the per- manent literature of the nation first seen the A LITERARY ANNIVERSARY 173 | light in the pages of this magazine, but it has LITERARY VALUES. Charles Leonard Moore 175 also occupied from the start, and with no lapse COMMUNICATION from its high aims, the unique position ex- 177 fro "An Inquirendo into the Wit and Other Good Parts" pressed by its constant purpose “to hold liter. of Certain Writers. Emily Huntington Miller. ature above all other human interests, and to “THE INCOMMUNICABLE TREES." (Poem.) John suffer no confusion of its ideals." In describ- Vance Cheney 178 ing the position of the “ Atlantic” as unique, SIR HARRY JOHNSTON IN BRITISH CENTRAL we have no intention of disparaging the work AFRICA. E. G. J. 178 done by the illustrated monthlies, which have placed so much wholesome and instructive ART AND LIFE. Edward E. Hale, Jr. 181 reading in the hands of the public, which have RECENT POETRY. William Morton Payne 183 contributed so notably to the development of Van Dyke's The Builders. — Gilder's For the Country: -Selections from the Poems of Timothy popular artistic taste, and which have offered Otis Paine.- Piatt's Odes in Ohio. - Buckham's The so generous an encouragement to the profes- Heart of Life. -Urmy's A Vintage of Song.–Stock- sion of letters by providing a satisfactory mar- ard's Fugitive Lines.-Chambers's With the Band. - Mifflin's At the Gates of Song. - Hay's Trumpets ket for all sorts of good work. But the fact and Shawms.- Lesser's Echoes of Haloyon Days.- remains that the great success of the “ Atlan- Mrs. Spofford's In Titian's Garden. - Miss Law- tic" has been achieved and maintained without rence's Colonial Verses. - Thomson's Estabelle.- Poyen-Bellisle's Journées d'Avril. - Watts - Dun- the adventitious aid of pictures, that the time- ton's Jubilee Greeting at Spithead. — Thompson's liness of a theme or the notoriety of a writer New Poems. – Watson's The Year of Shame. Housman's A Shropshire Lad. — Benson's Lord have never alone been sufficient to secure ad- Vyet. - Belloc's Verses and Sonnets. — Fletcher's mission to its pages, and that it has not been Ballads of Revolt. willing to attack the social and political abuses BRIEFS ON NE BOOKS 189 of the time unless it might enlist the grace of Ap Englishman's instructive studies of America. - literary form as an efficient ally in the crusade. The Waldenses. - Books on Dickens and his work. - A manual of our common wild flowers. - Road- The temptation to pursue ideals somewhat side sketches with pen and pencil. - The Dungeons less severe than these must sometimes have been of Old Paris, very great. The illustrated monthlies have BRIEFER MENTION. 191 grown up and flourished like green bay trees LITERARY NOTES (although we would not have the simile of the 191 Psalmist carried to its logical conclusion in all THE SEASON'S BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG . 192 their cases), while the “Atlantic" has enjoyed LIST OF NEW BOOKS 194 its modest prosperity in unen vious self-respect. It has seen some of its contemporaries broaden their circulation to an extent tenfold that of its A LITERARY. ANNIVERSARY. own without swerving from the lines which it The October number of “The Atlantic originally marked out. It has viewed with equa- Monthly,” which celebrates the fortieth anni. nimity their successful exploitation of one popu lar theme after another, and has refrained from issue of a magazine as has ever appeared in following their example, so alluring from the this country, and is at the same time sugges-standpoint of the counting-room, because their tive of a good many reflections concerning the methods savored necessarily of journalism. It history of American literature, both periodical bas stood calmly aside while the lions of the and general. In this case, indeed, the ordi- hour have been captured and placed on exhib- nary distinction between these two kinds of ition by other magazines, because its editors literature, together with the implied notion have always demanded something more than that one is inferior to the other, very nearly the ephemeral interest that attaches to men vanishes, so closely have the interests of the and subjects that are but the fashion of the . 174 [Oct. 1, THE DIAL day. It has eschewed the pictorial appeal to of them are living to-day. A few of the famous popularity because of its abiding faith in the poems written for the “ Atlantic” are “ Paul virtue of a singleness of aim, and because it has Revere's Ride,” “ The Wonderful One-Hoss recognized the fact that illustrations cannot be Shay,” “The Chambered Nautilus,” “ Barbara associated with literature without some lower- Frietchie," "The Commemoration Ode,” “Friar ing of the technical standards of the latter art. Jerome's Beautiful Book,” “The Fool's Prayer,” And for the exercise of this threefold restraint, and “ Prospice.” We name only poems so gen- if it has fallen behind in the race for commer- erally familiar that the names of their authors cial success, it has won the respect and the come to the mind at once. In fiction, besides loyalty of all who can fitly appreciate a fine the many serials, there are such stories as ideal constantly pursued, of all for whom the “ Marjorie Daw” and “ The Man Without a dignity of the literary calling is a matter of Country.” In sober scholarship there are such deep personal concern. “Holding fast to the writings as Clarke's “ Ten Great Religions, faith of its founders,” such is its proud and well- and the scientific papers of Agassiz. In short, warranted boast, “ that literature is one of the there is no department of American literature, most serious concerns of men, and that the high- whether creative or scholarly, that would not est service to our national life is the encour- be much the poorer were it without the works agement and the production of literature, the that have represented it in the “Atlantic · Atlantic' has never had owner or editor who Monthly.” was tempted to change its steadfast course by For forty years, then, this magazine has been reason of any changing fashion.” devoted to "literature, science, art, and politics The names of the owners and editors who (80 runs the cover-title), and “ literature” bas have thus handed down the magazine whose rarely been missing even from the treatment of record is so enviable are inscribed upon a roll the other major themes. The editor draws a of honor in the minds of the generation that parallel between the contents of the magazine has grown up with the life of the “ Atlantic.” for its first and its fortieth years which well Of the publishers there are Phillips, Sampson shows how steadfastly the same intellectual aims & Co., Ticknor and Fields, and the successors have been pursued. Rather than repeat this of the latter down to the present firm of Messrs. comparison, we prefer to suggest certain con- Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Of the editors there trasts between the contents of the anniversary are Lowell, (1859-61), Fields (1861-71), Mr. issue now before us and any possible issue of Howells (1871-80), Mr. Aldrich (1880.90), the magazine forty years ago. The proverb and Mr. Scudder (1890-97). Nor must we omit that men and their interests change with the the name of Mr. Walter H. Page, who became changing times could not receive a better illus- associated with Mr. Scudder in 1895, and tration. Mr. James Lane Allen's “ Two Prin- whose vigorous editorial policy has given new ciples in Recent American Fiction” requires life and strength to the magazine during the for its inductions a literature of some matur- past two years. Some of the recent numbers, ity, and such a paper could hardly have been indeed, have contained groups of articles so written in 1857. M. Brunetière's contribution solid in content and so dignified in form as to stands for our modern cosmopolitanism, and challenge a favorable comparison with the best an essay by a foreign critic would have been issues of the old days, when the contributors to a strange phenomenon indeed in the provin- the magazine included the half dozen greatest cial days of the “ Atlantic.” Almost equally men in American literature. strange would have been an essay upon a young A list of the famous productions that first contemporary Italian novelist, and such a nov- saw the light in the “ Atlantic” would be too elist — could he have been discovered -- as Sig- lengthy to find a place in these notes, and only nor d'Annunzio. “A Russian Experiment in a few may be even mentioned. At the very Self-Government,” by Mr. Kennan, embodies а start, Lowell insisted that Dr. Holmes should whole range of ideas that forty years ago had be engaged as the first contributor,” and to hardly found their way into the consciousness that insistence we owe the fact that the first of writers upon political and sociological prob- number contained the beginning of the “ Auto- lems. In fact, there was no "sociology” in crat” papers. Emerson's “ Brahma” also ap- those days, and political science scorned those peared in that first number, and proved “caviare studies in primitive organization that are now to the general.” There were a dozen other prin- its very life-blood. “The Old View of Child- cipal contributors besides these two, and three hood and the New" presents a contrast that 1897.] 175 THE DIAL could hardly have been imagined at a time nent facts of nature, and the emotions, thoughts, and when all views of childhood were indistin. actions of our unchanging humanity. An author guishably old, and when pedagogy had not yet who tries to create a literature out of his own head reared its head among the arts. As for a story may be modern, but he is not like to become immor- of “Twenty-five Years' Progress in Equatorial tal. Even the decalogue promises long life to those who honor their fathers and their mothers. Africa,” if told at all in 1857, it would have There are authors like Spinoza and Kant, who been either like the story of “a cycle of have, of course, no concern with the concrete mani- Cathay,” or a bold essay in romantic fiction. festations of character, and who might as well ex- At that time there were no “ Recent Discov. press themselves in algebraic symbols as in common eries Respecting the Origin of the Universe," language for all they have to do with style, yet who, for the instrument was unknown that should nevertheless, have that in their thought which lifts first make such discoveries possible; and there their works out of the category of the mere litera- could not have been any discussion of “The ture of knowledge, the dull domain of facts, and Upward Movement in Chicago,” for there was places them among the proud imaginations of man- no Chicago worth viewing from such a stand- kind. There are authors, like Le Sage and Dumas point. Finally, we may remark that the very backs, and no more style than is needed to tell a and Jane Austen, who have hardly an idea to their interesting article entitled “Forty Years of the story rapidly and plainly, yet whose creative force Atlantic Monthly” could hardly have had a power over essential human nature — is so pro- prototype even of the prospective sort, in the digious that “Gil Blas” and “The Three Guards- first year of the magazine's history, for no men” and “ Pride and Prejudice are like to last prophetic vision could have foreseen that the as long as men read. And of course there are au- problem offered by the material subduing of thors, like Gray, who coin the commonplaces of the a new continent was to be succeeded by the world into words of gold. infinitely more difficult problem of subduing Style is not single but complex. It is hard to its rapidly expanding population to the decen catch it in the act, to fix this Cynthnia of the min- cies and the amenities of civilized life, or that ute in any one toilet. As far as prose is concerned, style seems to be a vivid realization of all that can the “ Atlantic Monthly ” would become so po- be said on a subject and an apt selection of the most tent an agency in the performance of that latter telling points. It certainly does not consist in hunt- gigantic task. ing for fine words. Mr. Pater, in his essay on Style, concentrates his attention on a single writer - Gustave Flaubert; and lovingly describes his LITERARY VALUES. agonies of composition. A greater master of ex- pression than Flaubert, John Keats, says of poetry A few years ago it was widely conceded that that if it did not come easily it had better not come Robert Louis Stevenson had invented style, that at all. Keats, in the old phrase, corrected his Tolstoi had discovered human nature, and that verses with care, but he made no fuss about it. We Herbert Spencer had said the last word about the do not correct our verse or prose to-day; we strive problem of the universe. Dissentients there were, for the “ultimate word,” the “ chiseled phrase,” the indeed, who held that Flaubert was really the first “ enamelled expression,” and record our struggles writer who had ever properly expressed himself, that with complacency, as if the contortions of the the Goncourts had dug up those“human documents” Sybil were of more importance than the oracle she we have heard so much about, and that Renan had has to utter. Still speaking of prose, the more we given the final thrust to theology and philosophy regard style the more it resolves itself into mental with his dagger of ironical condescension. endowments, thought, imagination and so forth. I It has always been so, I suppose. In the forties open a story of Mr. Stevenson's — who, if not the they were wondering where Macaulay “got that first of writers, is a very good one “ Mark- style,” and had little doubt that Dickens had super- heim” or “ The Pavilion on the Links,” and what seded Shakespeare. It is with literature as with do I find ? An original and audacious way of look- the weather our memories are short, and every ing at things, and much richness of experience and season is the hottest or the wettest we have known. imagination. He has plenty of the bank-notes of Now, however, that we are nearing our century's thought in his pocket, and does not have to make end, there is noticeable a pause, a lull in our lauda- one idea do the work of ten. Mere terseness and tion of ourselves. We are beginning to wonder happiness of language follow as naturally as the day how our time will appear at the roll-call of the ages. A great deal of modern prose, however, Modernity in literature is a taking bait. People is given up to the attempt to do more than exhibit have a natural prejudice for reading about them- what the author has inside him. It tries to rival selves and their song-in-law. They like to see in painting in rendering nature, and music in repro- print familiar names and places. But after all, the ducing sound, and is so delicate of scent that, as main things we have to write about are the perma- Catullus says, you wish you were all one nose. the sun. - I open 176 [Oct. 1, THE DIAL Marini and Gongora and the Précieuses of Moliere looks upon another human being from a superior are re-born in every generation. There are styles to- point of view, and hails him as a " type,” he ceases day which can only be understood through the pores. to have any power over him. The old method of Poetry is on quite another footing in regard to “ humors practiced by Ben Johnson bad a better style. It is a formal art. Something sensuous is reason in it, though of course it was quite false. added to the idea. It is its business to be beautiful, Of all the amazing methods of creation, however, its right to be adorned. Prose ought to go straight that produced by Victor Hugo was the queerest. to the mark; it is the paradox of poetry that in it He went by recipe so many ingredients to such a a curved line is the shortest distance between two result. Some of his explanations as to how he made points. Perhaps every poem which has got itself his characters read like directions for compounding remembered has a certain movement which dis- an omelette or a sauce! Character in analysis is tinguishes it from all other verse. It is in this the last infirmity of minds which are almost genu- matter that poetry has its triumph over prose. inely creative. It is so near life, it betrays as a rule Prose may be, though it seldom is, as concentrated such knowledge of human nature, that one is tempted a8 verse; thought and creative force may express to take it for what it seems. But in the main it is themselves as well in one as in the other, but the a puzzle put together only to be taken apart. returns, the correspondences, the accelerations, the Invention is not enough, observation is not retardations, the discords, and the harmonies of enough. Great as Hawthorne is, there is a quality verse give it a power to express life itself. It is of cold curiosity in his dealings with some of his motion made apparent. creatures which is as repellant in effect as a surgical Both in poetry and prose, style seems to demand operation. Enthusiasm and admiration are neces- an indescribable union of personality and the past. sary even in satire. One half of Dryden's charac- One must be individual, or as a stylist one does not ters of Rochester and Shaftesbury, and of Pope's exist; one must be universal, or as a stylist one dies. Addison and Villiers, are superb and unmeasured Many can model themselves on the masters, but eulogy. What the poet or novelist needs to do is they will fail of style for a lack of that freedom and to draw his creation into his soul- live in it-and freshness which can only come from some inward feel for it the love that mothers bear for their chil. fount. Many may have a native daring, strength, dren, whether they are good or evil. This method and originality, yet fail of style for want of mod. has the one disadvantage that it stamps something eration and measure. It is necessary to fight for of the creator's personality upon the creation, 80 one's own hand, yet to follow a flag which has led that all Shakespeare's men are poets and all Mo the generations. Dr. Johnson, in the mass of his Dr. Johnson, in the mass of his liere's wits. The fact that an author has enjoyed work, tried to write Latin prose in English, and a character is one test of its reality. Jane Austen achieved no style. Carlyle, in “Sartor Resartus," evidently delighted in her curates, whereas Char- threw aside all reasonable restraints of language, lotte Brontë half hated and wholly dispised hers. and achieved no style. It is a narrow bridge to The difference is felt. There is hardly anyone in walk, and there is an aby88 on either hand. Shakespeare's world - villains, criminals, or fools To have style is to be of equal validity with nat- included — whom he did not evidently love, hardly ural things, to be as strong as winds and tides and any one against whom he would have been willing sunbeams; to have creative power is to be as a god. to draw an indictment. It is an uncalculable thing to create a real human It is curious, indeed, that wickedness and weak- being, and to create a world is more than to con- ness force themselves to the front as the protago- quer one. An appearance of the gift is common nists of almost every drama. Great literature is the enough. Mimicry and observation will do the trick. | biography of criminals and fools. Average moral- Readers are quite ready to make believe; and as ity and average intelligence are not the stuff out of children christen a stick or a rag, and read into it which to create characters that will interest. Evil, all the qualities of a living baby, so grown folk indeed, seems to be the energetic force of the uni- accept from their novelists or their historians—who verse, and is the cause of the obstacles and collig- are only novelists who plagiarize their plots and do ions from which events spring. Every great cre- not have to invent names for their characters — ative poet is a Manichaean. In spite of himself, labelled dummies, and for the instant think that Milton was forced to make the devil his hero; and they are alive. But a genuine creation is a different Richardson was shocked to discover that his Love- thing. It is a magnet of tremendous strength, and lace was a most attractive monster. The populace tends to draw all minds to it and make them like are willing to pay for crime. Nothing sells a news itself. Achilles created Greece in his own image, paper like a murder. Even in the natural world, and Hamlet has almost absorbed Germany. those lurid villians of nature's melodrama, the light- bad ways of creating character. ning and the storm, get infinitely more spectators Our contemporary trick of dialect and local color than the milder and beneficent agencies of sunlight must have been the invention of a lazy writer who and dew. Goethe said that he had learned from Poly- wished to make other people write his books for gnotus that our business on this earth was to enact him. The exploitation of what is called a "type hell. Except Poe and Hawthorne, no American is another feeble method. The moment an author writer has ever had any suspicion of this fact. Ever There are many 1897.] 177 THE DIAL since that adventure in Boston Harbor, there has perfection and greatness, measured by which the been a favor of tea in all New England literature. world stands condemned? The world knows very One test of a creation is to note whether it is per. well how to protect itself from its disgusted great fectly clear and understandable. If it is, it prob- men. Homer and Dante were compelled to be little ably is a bad piece of work, a puppet moved by better than tramps ; Shakespeare and Moliere were, wheels and pulleys, and warranted to do the same by the law of the land, vagabonds, and in a day thing whenever wound up. About the greatest fig- when they hanged that sort of people — in order, I ures in fiction, there is something of mystery, some suppose, to give them some visible means of support. possibilities of the unexpected. We do not under- But the ideal and standard of the poet always ends stand them thoroughly, any more than we under- in prevailing, in being accepted — though never in stand our neighbors or ourselves. Goethe's Hamlet being realized. CHARLES LEONARD MOORE. is the real one,—but so is Coleridge's, and Hazlitt's, and Kean's, and Booth's, and Irving's, and yours and mine. However diverse and contradictory these different impressions are, they are all aspects of the one mighty and mysterious figure which is forever COMMUNICATION. veiled from full view. Thought and thinkers have gone a good deal out "AN INQUIRENDO INTO THE WIT AND OTHER of favor of late. We have acquired a practical GOOD PARTS" OF CERTAIN WRITERS. turn of mind, and our crowned contemporaries are (To the Editor of The DIAL.) Is it too late for another word about “ Patrins"? Mr. not metaphysicians or preachers, but electricians Hale, in his article on the book and its author in THE and the like. Poe, who was a great critic in his DIAL of September 16, seems to agree with Wetherell's own lines, conducted a life-long polemic against criticism of the Inquirendo: “It is well, lopsided; and didacticism and metaphysics. It is curious to note, 80 mortal serious you know," but may we not quite fairly though, that he is perhaps the most metaphysical add his conclusion: "Not that it isn't great fun, too. poet in the whole range of literature. The concepts You will carry the audience." of Time and Space, Birth and Decay, Being and Mr. William Dean Howells argues quite convincingly Non-Being, wander up and down his works like that it is not within the province of the critic to decide ghosts in a deserted house. Herein lies his superi- whether a story is worth telling, but whether it is well told : he is to say whether it is good of its kind, not ority to Hawthorne, whose speculations were theo- whether the kind is to his personal liking. Therefore, logical, and exercised mainly on the question of sin if a man deliberately announces, “I go a-gypseying," and redemption, hardly touching the wider prob- we need not apply strictly commercial tests to his lem of Evil. However it has come about, the pro- gleanings, or insist that he bring back with him a bag found subjects that have engaged literature for all of wheat, threshed and winnowed of chaff. Rather ages are tabooed to it, and writers are bidden to does not the declaration stir something within us to seek lighter and more objective themes. And why? respond, “We also go with thee,” as when your favorite The abstract is not the didactic. To think in poetry playmate used to say, “C'm on : le's go somewhere." does not imply that you are going to turn Adam Life has other staples than wheat, and there is both value and delight in mint and bramble-berries, and that Smith into rhyme. Abstractions lie at the root of nondescript plunder with which Nature entices her chil- life, and we cannot produce the flower without dren into the “Great Playground.” planting the slip in the ground. Man must think, We never outgrow the idyllic delights of sauntering, or sink to the level of the animals. He is fighting of simply going somewhere outside of beaten paths; cut- in the dark, thrusting and parrying against an ob- ting switches for the pleasant feel of the smooth bark; scure opponent, and he does not know whether it is watching the minnows at the footbridge, and leaning named Annihilation or Immortality. Granted that with delicious tremors over the deep hole by the hem- the problems that rise about us are insoluable by lock; turning aside for sweet-flag and choke-cherries, any system of speculation, yet by facing them man browsing on spicy birch twigs, sprouting beech-mast, will at least realize his soul, which by forgetting slippery-elm bark, or whatever wild delicacy may be in them will die out of him. Does any man grow up properly who never filled a torn bat with small, russetty sugar-sweetings and Arnold, in his essay on Wordsworth, condemns lay blissfully in the warm stubble to munch them and the poetry of revolt. But what great literature is fling the cores at a grey spot on the gnarled trunk? there which is not the literature of revolt? Ideal “Going somewhere," with no thought of arriving; “do- poetry and satire spring alike from one root- a pro- ing nothing out of doors” but healthily busy in fellow- found dissatisfaction with ordinary life. Job com- ship with the great universe of things that are leisurely plains, and Achilles sulks in anger, and Prometheus ripening, and soaking full of sweetness and sunshine. rebels, and Faust makes pact with the Enemy, and There is need of plowing and sowing and gathering into Alceste in proud honesty wishes to leave the world, barns, but this is the legitimate “ return of the native” and Don Juan, with indomitable will, wishes to ruin to the patrimony inherited from Eden before the trouble- some specification about “the sweat of thy brow," was it. Everywhere there is revolt and upheaval. What inserted in the title-deeds. is the secret of those proud and melancholy souls, Miss Guiney is at her best when she invites us to the great poets, which so embitters them with life? these excursions, discoursing meanwhile in such wbim- Is it not that they carry within them a standard of sical fashion that the veriest plodder must smile season. 178 [Oct. 1, THE DIAL + indulgently as he turns from his task to listen, even though she mocks at his ambition and reviles his The New Books. assumptions. He need not take her altogether in earn- est or insist that the stone she throws at pretentious learning is really aimed at kindly wisdom, insensibly SIR HARRY JOHNSTON IN BRITISH diffusing its atmosphere of peace. To be able to carry CENTRAL AFRICA.* the “patrimony of liberal education along with one as a sure and inseparable treasure," without “feeling it The region somewhat pretentiously styled any burden or incumbrance”- this surely is not to turn British Central Africa lies north of the Zambesi traitor to one's opportunities or be disqualified for good and in the South Central part of the continent, citizenship, and if we confess that Miss Guiney's "lib- and is bounded on the north by Lake Tangan- eral education" in the wit and wisdom of the Eliza- bethans is sometimes an incumbrance to her talk, we yika and the Congo Free State, on the north- need not deny her the “power of thought and the power east by German East Africa, and on the east, of style.” Is this really a trifling age in which men are south-east, and west by Portuguese posses- in danger of turning aside at every tempting stile to sions. Politically the country is divided into stroll in flowery meadows when they should be girding Sphere of Influence and Protectorate - the up their loins and addressing themselves seriously to their journey ? Are there not more than enough serious former division being administered under the books, considering that we ourselves do not wish to charter of the British South Africa Company, read them, but only feel that their perusal would benefit the latter under the Imperial Government di- our neighbors ? « The Great Playground” never seemed rectly. The Sphere of Influence is much so attractive; the “ Harmless Scholar " is infinitely fas- cinating, and we feel sure it was he who, in some happy larger than the actual Protectorate, which is moment, dreamed out the true “ Ethics of Descent." chiefly confined to the districts bordering on Is “ Quiet London " a misnomer? But who knows Lon- Lake Nyasa and on the river Shire. The chief don if not Mr. Henry James, and has he not declared agent in bringing this region under British that in London alone one may find a typical and abso- control was Sir Harry H. Johnston, the accom- lutely perfect rural walk, over such velvet turf, under such majestic trees, that he longs to be a department plished and versatile author of the volume now clerk, compelled to traverse its delightful way morning before us. The ambitious title “ British Cen- and evening tral Africa was, it seems, prospectively (and, as it turned out, prematurely) conferred by Sir acquaintances, worthy to be named in the same category with many a literary politician; certainly they do not Harry, who hoped at the time that it would discredit “ His Late Majesty” by their manners cover a larger and, politically, a much more im- morals. We even prefer their companionship to that portant district than it now does. As he says: of royalty, and could wish that Miss Guiney in her gyp- “On the principle that it is disastrous to a dog's in- seying had gone oftener afield through the green lanes terest to give him a bad name, it should be equally true frequented by such unpatented nobility, leaving King that much is gained at the outset of any enterprise by Charles to his parks and pleasure grounds, but even so bestowing on it a promising title. I therefore chose we feel she is quite sure to “ carry the audience." that of British Central Africa' because I hoped the EMILY HUNTINGTON MILLER. new sphere of British influence might include much of Evanston, IU., September 24, 1897. Central Africa where, at the time these deeds were done, the territories of foreign powers were in a state of flux, no hard and fast boundaries baving been determined ; therefore by fair means Great Britain's sbare north of « THE INCOMMUNICABLE TREES.” the Zambesi might be made to connect her Protectorate on the Upper Nile with her Empire south of the Zam- We hear the ocean's open roar, besi." The burdened surging; aye the sea Uplifts his passion, mightily Eventually, however, the well-laid schemes It wakes, the round of his great shore. of the author and his political chiefs looking to The loud sky shouts ber secrecy, continuity of British possessions went“ a-gley," The bill makes moan, rock-ribbed and hoar; the boundaries of German East Africa and of Sea, sky, and hill — far forth these three the Congo Free State becoming conterminous Pour out their souls forevermore. With us, with us, it is not so. in the district north of Tanganyika, an arrange- To brooding music move our leaves, ment which interposed a strip of foreign terri- In purl and murmur on and on tory between British Central Africa and the Flow subtile numbers, lulling, low, English Protectorate to the north of it. En- Half-beard, scarce come ere they are gone; A mystic stir forever weaves, gland secured from Germany a right of way The Presence passes to and fro, across the intervening strip - a mere easement The yearning stillness joys and grieves; * BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA: An Attempt to Give Some Ac- But our high calm strive not to hear, count of a Portion of the Territories under British Influence This our deep peace hope not to know. North of the Zambezi, By Sir Harry H. Johnston, K.C.B. JOHN VANCE CHENEY. Illustrated in photogravure, etc. New York: Edward Arnold. or - 1897.] 179 THE DIAL - granted by the terms of the Anglo-German enterprises is coupled with an artist's sense of Convention. Similarly the Belgian agents were the beauties of nature and an artist's delight able to establish their claims to the country in depicting them. This dualism of tempera- west and southwest of Tanganyika ; so that ment, if we may so style it, lends his book its pe- British Central Africa, so far from attaining culiar character. The volume reveals by turns the territorial limits and relations to which its the man of sensibility, and the man of hard founder originally aspired, is now a compara- facts. It seems as if Sir Harry were possessed tively isolated inland country having free ac- alternately of the spirit of Michelet, and the cess to the sea only by a navigable river under spirit of “Mr. Gradgrind.” Of his pictorial international control, and forming a nearly style a set scene or two from his opening pano- exact geographical parallel to the State of Para- rama of Central African scenery may serve as guay in South America. examples. The present work deals only with that east- “ A steadily flowing river. In the middle of the ern portion of British Central Africa which stream an islet of very green grass, so lush and so thick came within the author's personal experience, simply a great splodge of rich green in the middle of that there are no bright lights or sharp shadows that is to say it is mainly confined to the reg. the shining water which reflects principally the whitish- ions bordering on Lakes Tanganyika and the blue of the sky; though this general tint becomes opal- Shire river. Of these comparatively little ine and lovely as mother-of-pearl, owing to the swirling kpown regions it gives by far the fullest, weight- of the current and the red-gold color of the concealed iest, and most entertaining account that has yet sand-banks which in shallow places permeates the reflec- tions. Near to the right side of the grass islet separ- appeared. The narrative and descriptive por- ated only by a narrow mauve-tinted band of water is a tions of the work are as a whole admirably sand-bank that has been uncovered, and on this stands a done — they are so well done, indeed, that one flock of perbaps three dozen small white egrets closely regrets the more a certain rather trifling or packed, momentarily immoveable, and all stiffly regard- aut of the approaching steamer, each bird with a gen- flippant note that crops out in them occasion. eral similarity of outline almost Egyptian in its monot- ally, and tends to lower the tune of a scholarly onous repetition. The steamer approaches a little and in some respects even brilliant book. It nearer, and the birds rise from the sand-bank with a will prove something of a shock, for instance, loose Alapping flight and strew themselves over the land- to the serious reader to find an eminent natur- scape like a shower of large wbite petals. ... The afternoon is well advanced, and in the eastern sky, which alist and geographer suddenly dropping the is a warm pinkish blue, the full moon has already risen thread of his recital to refresh himself with a and bangs there a yellow-white shield with no radiance. quite irrelevant scrap of doggerel, such as this : On the opposite bank of the river to the palm trees is a “ There are all sorts of girls, there is every kind of girl, clump of tropical forest of the richest green with purple There are some that are foolish, and many that are wise ; shadows, lovely and seductive in its warm tints under You can trust them all, no doubt, but be careful to look out the rays of the late afternoon sun. . Tiny king- For the harmless little girlie with the downcast eyes." fishers of purple-blue and chestnut-orange flit through No book is the worse for humor; but humor, the dark net-work of goarled trunks, and deep in this like Sir Harry Johnston's "girls," has its sorts recess of shade small night-herons and bitterns stand bolt upright, so confident of their invisibility against a and kinds. back-grouud of brown and grey that they do not move The author has treated his theme with ency- even when the steamer passes so close by them as to clopædic fulness, as a glance at the table of brush against the tangle of convolvulas and knock down contents indicates. Chapter I. tells us, by sycamore figs from the glossy-leaved, many-rooted fig trees.” means of a vividly picturesque series of typical set scenes and panoramas, " What the Country The following transports us to the moon-lit Looks Like.” The succeeding eleven chapters depths of a Hyphæne palm forest. discuss severally the “ Physical Geography of “. . . Each palm is surmounted by a graceful crown the Country", its “ History” (which really mass, radiating from the summit as from a centre. The of fan-shaped leaves in an almost symmetrical oval ; begins with Livingstone, though the author fruit which is clustered thickly on racemes is — seen by hazards some interesting conjectures as to its daylight -a - a bright chestnut brown and the size of a remote past, based on researches into language, Jaffa orange. This brown husk covering an ivory nut examination of racial types, traditions, etc.); the is faiutly sweet to the taste and is adored by elephants. It is on that account that I have brought you here to “Slave Trade”; “ European Settlers"; " Mis- see with the eye of the spirit a herd of these survivors sionaries ”; “ Botany"; -* Zölogy”; “ The Na- . of past geological epocbs. Somehow or other it seems tives "; " Languages.” Much detailed infor- more fitting that we should see the wild elephant by mation, mainly scientific, is contained in the moonlight-- at this present day. He is like a ghost revisiting the glimpses of the moon — this buge grey Appendices to the several chapters. The au- bulk, wrinkled even in babyhood, with his monstrous thor's turn for scientific pursuits and political | nose, his monstrous ears and his extravagant incisor 180 [Oct. 1, THE DIAL - teeth. . . . Now you hear the noise they make an fames, British Central Africa appears to hold occasional reverberating rattle through the proboscis as out (as yet) no especially glittering bait. they examine objects on the ground balf seriously, half playfully ; and the swishing they make as they pass “In the Marimba and Central Angoniland districts, through the herbage; or the rustle of branches which also in the mountains of the West Nyasa coast region, are being plucked to be eaten. But they are chiefly bent and in parts of the Shire Highlands, a gold-bearing on the ginger-bread nuts of the palms and to attain quartz exists. Alluvial gold is reported to exist on the these, where they hang out of reach, they will pause Northern Angoni plateau, in the West Nyasa district, occasionally to butt the palm trees with their flattened and at the head-waters of the River Bua, just within foreheads. The dried stems and the dead fronds crash the Protectorate. In the valleys of the rivers flowing down before this jarring blow. The elepbants pause south to the Zambesi (in Mpezeui's country) gold really every now and then in their feasting, the mothers to does exist, and was worked at Misale by the half-caste suckle their little ones, a huge bull to caress a young Portugese in the last, and in part of the present cent- female with his twining trunk, or the childless cows to ury. Although there are many reports that payable make semblance of fighting, and the balf-grown young gold has been found in the rock, which only needs the to chase each other with shrill trumpetings. Before the requisite machinery to crush out, at anything from 10 first pale pink light of early dawn the moonlight seems dwts. to 1 oz. per ton, no conclusive evidence has yet an unreality. In a few minutes the moon is no more been offered to support these statements by specimens luminous than a round of dirty paper and with the yel- which can be submitted to analysis.” low radiance of day the elephants cease their gambol- In the interesting chapter on “Missionaries” lings and feasting, form into line, and swing into one of the author discusses in a very candid, and, as he those long marches which will carry them over sixty miles of forest, plain and mountain to the next balting- claims, impartial way the character and value place in their seeming-purposeful journey." of missionary work in Central Africa. Im- British Central Africa is a well-wooded coun- primis he declares that “No person who desires try, especially in the Nyasa province, though to make a truthful statement would deny the here and there on the line of water parting in that country. This good appears to bim, great good effected by missionary enterprise” between the river systems there are compara- tively barren spots, where the trees are poor as we gather, to be mainly of the secular and and scrubby and the plants grow in scattered practical kind — the essentially religious re- tufts. There is nowhere any large unbroken sults of missionary labor (as indicated by the area of the dense tropical forest characteristic numbers of real converts made) being rela- of Western Africa ; but in the moister districts tively small. Hence, it seems probable to Sir there are occasional patches of woodland quite Harry that when the history of the great Afri- West-African in character, and containing the early missionary will figure therein prim- , can states of the future comes to be written moreover, certain trees, birds, and mammals hitherto believed to be peculiar to that region. arily as the temporal, rather than the spiritual , From this and other facts the author is led to guide of the natives, and as the bearer of use- surmise that “the whole of Africa was once ful European arts and handicrafts to a be- covered with more or less dense forest, but that nighted continent. nighted continent. All of which, one may the climate in the eastern half being drier than suggest in passing, will depend largely upon in the west, the ravages of the bush fires started the mental attitude of the future historian and by man have made greater headway than the bis generation toward the general question in- reparatory influence of nature.” The geology volved. Says the author : of the country seems to be relatively simple. “The pioneering propagandist will assume [in fu- The commonest formation is a mixture of met- ture history] somewhat of the character of a Quetzal- coatl — one of those strange half-mythical personal- amorphic rocks, grauwacke, clay-slates, gneissities which figure in the legends of old American - and schists. The principal mountain ranges empires; the beneficent being who introduced arts and are mostly granite. In the stream valleys and manufactures, implements of husbandry, edible fruits, depressions, especially in the Nyasaland prov. medical drugs, cereals, domestic animals. . . . It is inces, is found the black cotton” soil (a taught the natives carpentry, joinery, masonry, tailor- they (the missionaries) too who in many cases have first deposit of the shells of molluscs mixed with ing, cobbling, engineering, bookkeeping, printing, and black vegetable earth), so highly valued in European cookery; to say nothing of reading, writing, India, and which is usually extremely rich for arithmetic, and a smattering of general knowledge. cultivation. In the sandstone formation of the At the Government press at Zomba there is but one European superintendent - all the other printers being West Shire district and round the northern mission-trained natives. Most of the telegraph stations half of Nyasa, coal is found — a little shaley are entirely worked by negro telegraph clerks also de- on the surface, but probably overlying good rived from the missions." combustible coal. As to gold, to the Anglo- We are to conclude, then, that the verdict Saxon adventurer driven by the auri sacra of the impartial observer of missionary work a 1897.] 181 THE DIAL ar- in Central Africa must be almost wholly in its sons, and Barnatos. What dreams of future favor. The author finds, nevertheless, that theocratic states in Africa the more ambitious there exists in some quarters a bitter prejudice missionaries may not unreasonably have cher- against the missionaries, and a tendency to deny ished before the tide of European invasion set or to disparage their services. The causes of in, we do not know; but there is evidently still this feeling, he concludes, are two : a clasb of aims and ideals between the mis. “ (1) The Cant which, by some unaccountable fatal- sionaries and the political agents who are ity, seems to be inseparably connected with missionary wrangling over and parcelling out the land work, and (2) the arrogant demeanor often assumed and, incidentally, shoving aside or shooting by missionaries toward men who are not of their man- ner of thought and practice, though not necessarily men down the original holders of it. Even the of evil life.” godly Boer, trusting in providence and his rifle, Sir Harry's charges as to “cant” and “ treats the black man as a mere beast of burden. rogant demeanor” are doubtless not altogether In fine, to the missionary Africa is primarily ill-founded in a certain proportion of individual the Lord's vineyard where the Lord's work cases ; but it will probably be objected that is to be done; to almost every body else who in thus broadly explaining the existence of the goes out there it is a vast field for political and prejudice in question he takes account only of commercial exploitation, where a good deal of the ways and character of those who are the even devil's work may be done, if only the use- objects of it, without at all troubling himself ful end is likely to be secured thereby. The to look into the ways and character of those African must, and should, give way before the who harbor it; and that an explanation thus 6 Africander.' But it is in the meantime grouoded is at best only half an explanation. rather hard for the missionary to see his once To. fully understand why the Central African special province overrun and his pious toil missionaries are disliked in some quarters,” among the heathen threatened with undoing and to decide fairly just how much or how by industrial civilization's advance guard of little they are themselves to blame for it, we largely graceless adventurers, who have little of must first know who it is that dislikes them. civilization to bestow upon the black man save Certain incidental admissions of our author's the contagion of its vices. seem to throw a little light on this point. He The volume is an exceptionally handsome remarks, à propos of the alleged “ arrogant de- one, profusely and beautifully illustrated from meanor ” of the missionaries, that the average drawings by the author and from photographs. European (lay) pioneers are not "very credit. Sir Harry's experiences of things African is able specimens of mankind. perhaps more thorough and many-sided than “ They are aggressively ungodly, they put no check that of any other living authority; and the on their lusts; released from the restraints of civiliza- reader who is interested in things African is tion and the terror of what people may say,' they are not likely to find a dull or an uninstructive capable of almost any degree of wickedness.” page in his book. E. G. J. Such being the character of a large contin- gent of the white population of British Central Africa, the prejudice there against missionaries ART AND LIFE.* seems explicable on other grounds than those given by Sir Harry. The missionary is not The relation of literature to life or, one likely to be a universally popular man in a might as well say, of art to life — is a very community largely made up of aggressively important question. A question it has been ungodly” people, to whom his presence is a since Aristotle, and a question it will remain restraint and his ways are a rebuke — and to until someone has either genius enough to whom, moreover, all profession of piety is divine the adequate answer or scholarship “cant,” and who would naturally resent a decent enough to work the answer out. And it is attitude of official aloofness from loose ways important, because nowadays art is becoming and loose company as savoring of. “ arrogant a very great possibility in life, a possibility demeanor” and the spiritual conceit of the which if rightly used may amount to much. “ unco guid.” In point of fact, there is, as it. As the young American grows up, one of seems to us, a fundamental rivalry between the *THE RELATION OF LITERATURE TO LIFE. By Charles African missionaries and the army of self-seek. Dudley Warner. New York: Harper & Brothers. BOOK AND HEART: ESSAYS ON LITERATURE AND LIFE. ing or merely nomadic adventurers now stream- By Thomas Wentworth Higginson. New York: Harper & ing thither in the wake of the Rhodeses, Jame- - Brothers. 182 [Oct. 1, THE DIAL the great circumstances which comes some- he is, whose students cannot escape from the how to his notice is infallibly Art. Religion, consciousness that literature may be the breath Learning, Science, Politics, Society, Work, of life to the spirit ? Athletics, each one of these, of varying kind We think that Americans are, as a people, and in varying degree, is one of the things that practical enough to make some use of litera- go to make up the surrounding of circumstance ture, if they see that it can be of use in the wherein he developes. Each may help him to everyday solutions of the problems of living. make of himself what he does make of himself. We think that literature is nothing to them Art of some kind is as universal as these other because they have no idea of what it may be. circumstances, and is said by many to be as We think it the duty of our chief literary useful, if one can avail oneself of it. An enor- critics to tell them the truth on this subject. mous literature is at every body's command ; The three great English critics of our gen- the theatre is open to very many; music is only eration, Matthew Arnold, Walter Pater, John a little less accessible, and in some forms is Ruskin, had each his theory on this matter, even more accessible; pictures are not so uni- definite enough to be understood without great versal, but still are not uncommon; statues difficulty. Even the critics of secondary rank, may be found by the earnest seeker, and here John Addington Symonds, Vernon Lee, Fred- . and there one sees architecture. Nobody can eric Harrison, are continually revolving the entirely avoid art, and nobody tries to do so. question. Being men of letters and not scien- Every body has some dealings with art. How tists, they do not always go about the business many make it a thing of real good to them? in the most direct and systematic manner; still, How many are really influenced by it? they go about it seriously in ways of their own. The novel is at present the most omnipresent It is a fault of American criticism that it form of literature. It is a prevalent opinion has not as yet had very much to say upon the that novel-reading may have bad results. But subject. But now we have two volumes by two except in one direction, few seem to imagine of our best-known essayists, which at first sight that novel-reading may have good results. would seem to deal with the matter. That one direction points toward direct teach- It may be by percritical to remark, first, that ing conveyed by fiction. Without discussing neither of the books does deal very fully with the real value of novels with a purpose, we the matter. Mr. Warner's volume is a colleo- may ask, Are there many novel-readers who tion of essays named from the first essay: the are aware that they may be influenced, if they others have been selected for their general “ choose, by the novel as literature? relation to the theme of the title essay, that is There are in our country numerous literary to say, the connection between our literary, edu- clubs. In how many of them is literature re- cational, and social progress." Colonel Hig- garded as a moulding power, and in how many ginson's collection is not a collection of " Essays is it conceived as a repository of facts? Some on Literature and Life," but of some essays on literary clubs make literature a much more literature and other essays on life or some as- interesting and amusing thing than it was be- pect of it. fore; some show that it will reward the earnest “ The Relation of Literature to Life," student with a delightful form of mental exer- although we have spoken of it as a question, is cise; and we hope that there are some that really a very vague matter, and may include give their members the idea that literature almost anything. Literature may be an effect may, if they choose, be a matter of vital and of Life: so Taine regarded it. It may also be eternal service to them. regarded as a cause, or an influence that is Our colleges and universities, without ex- the view that we have spoken of above, and ception, maintain professors of literature. that is the point Mr. Warner considers in his Some of these professors have succeeded in first essay and elsewhere. His conclusion making it clear that modern literature contains bardly satisfies us. Literature, he points out, as many matters which may be made the sub- is wrongly regarded by the multitude as a ject of scholarly research as do the classics. thing apart from life (p. 19); it is really, how- Others have succeeded in arousing in their ever (p. 22), a thing of immense value to students a sort of high-pitched idealism which everyone. So far, there is nothing to dispute ; is fascinating in college, although sometimes but why is poetry, literature, art, of value to forgotten when once out of it. Is there more everyone? Because, says Mr. Warner, it is , than one, most unacademic of professors that “not merely the comfort of the refined and 1897.] 183 THE DIAL a the delight of the educated; it is the alleviator like to read the book, and that no one will gain of poverty, the pleasure-ground of the igno- from it many ideas on the connection between rant, the bright spot in the most dreary pil- literature and life. grimage” (p. 28): it is a matter of present It is a pity, but neither of these books really enjoyment” (p. 49) or of future, its main ob- addresses itself to what is an important matter, ject is to entertain (p. 151), to lift the burdens and a matter which they seem to affect to deal of life by taking us for a time out of our hum- with. They bring us no farther on the way. drum and perhaps sordid condition : it is the They will be read with interest, and soon for- help and solace of the many (p. 117). This gotten; for though each is the work of a man seems to be Mr. Warner's main opinion : as of great talent, neither is a book to be taken will be noticed, it is expressed in several places. seriously. seriously. Being lightly written, they will be We regard it as rather a commonplace idea ; lightly read. EDWARD E. HALE, JR. it has long been familiar, and it does not in itself settle anything. For the fact is that some people enjoy good literature and more enjoy bad literature. What is really needed is RECENT POETRY.* something that will show why good literature A shelf of somewhat ample dimensions, groan- is a better solace than bad. But if art be a ing beneath the weight of recent song, reminds us solace in the hardships of life, how can we be that it is several months since THE DIAL made its satisfied to say that the value of any genuine last survey of the poetical product of England and piece of literature is in the enlargement of America. Of the numerous volumes that have “ the mind to a conception of the life and devel- *THE BUILDERS, AND OTHER POEMs. By Henry Van opment of the race (p. 293)? Is “enlarge- Dyke. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. ment of the mind” pecessarily “a solace” FOR THE COUNTRY. By Richard Watson Gilder. New York: The Century Co. amid the hardships of life? Is it not the next SELECTIONS FROM THE POEMS OF TIMOTHY Otis PAINE. step which is the step really worth while ? Why New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. not get at the real difficulty ? Why content ODES IN OHIO AND OTHER POEMs. By John James Piatt. Cincinnati : The Robert Clarke Co. oneself with illustrating views that have already THE HEART OF LIFE. By James Buckham. Boston: been often illustrated? We do not think that Copeland & Day. Mr. Warner solves the question when he ad- A VINTAGE OF VERSE. By Clarence Urmy. San Fran• cisco: William Doxey. vises that a taste for good literature be incul- FUGITIVE LINES. By Henry Jerome Stockard. New cated in the common schools. The trouble is York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. that the youthful mind does not always take WITH THE BAND. By Robert W. Chambers. New York: naturally to good literature, and the average Stone & Kimball. AT THE GATES OF Song. Sonnets by Lloyd Mifflin. common-school teacher is not always able to Boston: Estes & Lauriat. show that good literature is something really to TRUMPETS AND SHAWMS. By Henry Hanby Hay. Phila- be desired. Take it all in all, although we delphia: Arnold & Co. have only touched the central point, Mr. War- ECHOES OF HALCYON DAYS. By Maximus A. Lesser. Hartford : T. J. Spencer. ner does not do much toward making clear In Titian's GARDEN, AND OTHER POEMS. By Harriet what part literature must have in life: what he Prescott Spofford. Boston: Copeland & Day. says has been said before, and does not touch COLONIAL VERSES (Mount Vernon). By Ruth Lawrence. New York: Brentano's. the really difficult point. ESTABELLE, AND OTHER VERSE. By John Stuart Thom- Colonel Higginson does not give us even as son. Toronto: William Briggs. much help as Mr. Warner, the reason being, as JOURNÉES D'AVRIL. Poésies par René de Poyen-Bellisle, Ph.D. Baltimore : Cie Friedenwald. we have indicated, that he has not anywhere JUBILEE GREETING AT SPITHEAD TO THE MEN OF made any effort to deal with the subject indi. GREATER BRITAIN. By Theodore Watts-Danton. New cated by the title of his book. He has merely York: John Lane, collected a number of his recent essays and New POEMs. By Francis Thompson. Boston: Copeland & Day. given them a title which seemed to include THE YEAR OF SHAME. By William Watson. New York: them all, — as it would include almost every- - John Lane. thing else. The essays are rather like good John Lane. A SHROPSHIRE LAD. By A. E. Housman. New York: mellow winter apples; and we have enjoyed LORD VYET, AND OTHER POEMS. By Arthur Christopher them. We disagree with Colonel Higginson's Benson. New York: John Lane. apparent view that literature is chiefly valuable VERSES AND SONNETS. By Hilaire Belloc. London: Ward & Downey. as a mine of unfamiliar quotations; but that is BALLADS OF REVOLT. By J. S. Fletcher. New York: a minor detail. We think that every body will John Lane. 184 [Oct. 1, THE DIAL since accumulated, many must be passed over with forgetful of his native land is evidenced by these out mention, but there remain a score or more that verses from “A Winter Twilight in Provence," a shall receive some attention. By virtue of both poem written at the beginning of last year. its subject and its excellence, “The Builders and “Dear country mine! far in that viewless west, Other Poems," by the Rev. Henry Van Dyke, is And ocean-warded, strife thou too hast known; entitled to the first place in the American section But may thy sun hereafter bloodless shine, of the present survey. Mr. Van Dyke can lay no And may thy way be onward without wrath, And upward on no carcase of the slain; claim to great distinction among the host of our And if thou smitest, let it be for peace minor poets, but a great occasion sometimes lifts a And justice — not in hate, or pride, or lust man above his natural height, and the sesquicen- Of empire. Mayst thou ever be, O land ! tennial celebration of Princeton University proved Noble and pure as thou art free and strong: So shalt thou lift a light for all the world such an occasion for this sincere and large-souled And for all time, and bring the Age of Peace." divine. The “Ode" which he recited upon that It is not difficult to read between the lines of this occasion is a fine example of this academic sort of poem dated just at the time of the amazing out- composition, and has a considerable inherent value. burst of jingoism that seemed for a moment to One of its noblest passages is the following: threaten a fratricidal war between the two nations “Softly, my harp, and let me lay the touch that, of all nations in the world, have the deepest Of silence on these rudely clanging strings ; For he who sings reasons for living in amity and in the common Even of noble conflicts overmuch, possession of a great historical past. Loses the inward sense of better things ; The widow of the late Timothy Otis Paine has And he who makes a boast Of knowledge, darkens that which counts the most, — published a thin volume of selections from his The insight of a wise humility poems which, by their unaffected simplicity and That reverently adores what none can see. their closeness to the heart of nature, at once dis- The glory of our life below arm criticism and make to their readers an appeal Comes not from what we do, or what we know, There But dwells forevermore in what we are. of which more elaborate verse often fails. There is an architecture grander far is something very winsome about this description Than all the fortresses of war, of “The Evening Primrose," for example. More inextinguishably bright "The primrose blooms at eventide, Than learning's lonely towers of light, And, where I go, the highway side Framing its walls of faith and hope and love It lights up with its yellow blow: In deathless souls of men, it lifts above What else it does I do not know, - The frailty of our earthly home Except, all day, and, until blowed, An everlasting dome; The bud is gray, with slight perfume, The sanctuary of the human host, Till eve unfold a clean sweet bloom." The living triumph of the Holy Ghost." That keenness of observation which, as the prefa- The publication of this poem has given the author occasion also to collect some half-hundred pages tory memoir tells us, “caught the reflection of a violet in the clear eyes of a grazing cow,” is re- of random verse, obviously written with no set pur- pose of becoming a poet, but merely as the expres- vealed in many a pretty versicle of this collection. We are sometimes reminded of Emily Dickinson, sion of some insistent mood or striking phase of natural beauty. It is all very pleasing and in perfect as in the two quatrains called “Good Work.” “Who praised when sun, moon, star, good taste, although it never becomes particularly Great earth, and sea spread far impressive. It is such verse as almost any cultured Were made ? But yet what worth thinker of sincere life and high ideals may pro- From laboring sun, sea, earth! duce from time to time, and for which life is at “Put work enough in all least none the worse, either for the writer or his Thou doest, great or small, audience. And let the ages tell How much thou didst, and well." Mr. Gilder's new volume is entitled “ For the Country," and includes poems (some old and some Still more frequent are the suggestions of Emer- new) written for patriotic occasions and in memory son, with whom the author had no slight spiritual of our great soldiers. It “is devoted to the idea kinship on the mystical or “transcendental” side. of a vital nationality, and a citizenship as self- His life was that of a Swedenborgian minister and a scholar in the ancient tongues. sacrificing and courageous in peace as in war.” The study of The American public knows well how unflinchingly Solomon's Temple and the Egyptian “ Book of the Mr. Gilder has stood for these civic ideals, and his Dead” were to him more serious preoccupations verse is the refined expression of a life that has than the phenomena of modern life could afford, been in the best sense one of service. We some- and he once wrote that if he knew anything, it was times wish that Mr. Gilder's metres were less un- “ Ezekiel's heart." He was born in 1824, lived his tamed, and that he would not try so many experi- adult life as a pastor in East Bridgewater, Massa- ments in stanzaic form, but he always has some- chusetts, and died a year or two ago. thing to say, and his voice is urged by a genuine Mr. John James Piatt’s volume of verse, mostly lyrical impulse. That when far from home he is not occasional, bas for its leading features two odes, 1897.] 185 THE DIAL 9) a one for the Cleveland Centennial, the other for the Mr. Robert W. Chambers has written some rol- dedication of the Cincinnati Music Hall. We make licking songs “ With the Band,” so suggestive of an extract from the latter : Mr. Kipling's barrack-room echoes that the reader “Look, what high guests attend our happy rito, did not need to be reminded of the source of inspi- With earth-woven wreaths but sphere-enchanted faces, – ration by a piece directly inscribed to the English The Masters of Delight! - poet. First he, of the elder days, Since this piece is one of the best in the Whom the great organ owns volume, we must quote from it. With its vast-bosomed, earth shaking, heaven-reaching tones “May that blessed day come early, (Let the proud servant throb his loftiest praise !). Tommy A., Next he, who built the mighty symphonies, When the British nation learns One for each muse, who, chaunting joy and peace, That it's silly to be surly. Thrills us with awe and yearning infinite, Not a Boy in Blue but yearns, Picturing divine repose, love's world embracing height ! Tommy A., Then he, whose noblest strain Tommy A., Brings Orpheus back to quicken earth again, For the good old family fashion, — To conquer darkness and the dread under-powers, Arm in arm, for all in age; Charming lost love from the deep doors of hell, And if others want a thrashin', And lo, the choral master, highest in fame Why we'd never say 'em nay ; - (A thousand voices lift to greet him well), With our helmets on our head, Who breathes sure faith through these frail hearts of ours ! An' our tunics, blue or red, And many another well-beloved name, An' our jolly bugles playin' Ay, many another, comes with these, All the way from New York bay to Bombay!- Star-like, with spheral harmonies : So- Welcome each and all, Go it ! you are game. To our festal Hall, Tommy A., Long be its music-lifted dome Tommy A., For their abiding souls the transient home." For our pride is in your fame, Tommy A. Mr. Buckham's “ The Heart of Life" is a volume Half a million Boys in Blue of the tasteful “ Oaten Stops” series. It is a collec- Drink a health, my lad, to you, tion of simple lyrics of nature, and of the everyday An' they 'll cheer you from Bombay to Mandelay, moods of life, pretty and facile, but not striking. Tommy A. Half a million Boys in Blue The following is a favorable example: Stand to back you through and through, "Out of the bosom of God comes the day,- An' perhaps they 'll prove it too, Flood of the tenderness nothing can stay; If there ever comes a day Love that up-springing sets the world singing, When a brother needs a brother for to help him on his way, Steeples a-shine and the silver bells ringing. Anywhere betwixt Berlin an' Mandelay, Infinite motion of infinito ocean, Tommy A." Light but the symbol that broadens for aye, Out of the bosom of God comes the day.” Other pieces are more suggestive of Mr. Bret Harte (from whom Mr. Kipling himself really derives), The above remarks may be repeated in the case and the famous ballad of the “ Heathen Chinee” is of Mr. Urmy's “ Vintage of Verse," except that his provided with a not unworthy counterpart in the tale a nature-lyrics are given the local coloring of the of “A Man from Noo York,” who was about as Pacific coast. One stanza will do as well as a score. guileless as Ah Sin. "The sun has set, and evening skies “Sa-ay, Begin, like rosebuds, to unfold, He said that he did n't know poker, While on the distant mountain-tops An' he swore that he did n't drink rum; Still linger faint, stray gleams of gold, Whicb, stranger, I'll state I'm no soaker,- Like kisses pressed by angel lips Or touches of God's finger-tips." Leastways, I'm no all-around-bum. An' he said that he did n't like ladies, There is no offense in such verse, and likewise no Yet I seen him smile twice at my Anne ; strength. It is merely the echo of a great voice He was young - so he said - and afraid his reflected a hundred times or more. Simplicity shocked me!-Oh, damn! An'he feared some nefarious man There is some measure of strength, albeit fitfully Might play him a game of Alim-flam, displayed, and some command of the deeper harmo- If he pushed the door, An' walked on the floor, nies of rythmical utterance in the poems modestly Where the wicked men rush the can." entitled “ Fugitive Lines,” by Mr. Henry Jerome Stockard. The finer qualities of his verse are dis- The rest of this moving tale may easily be imagined. We should like to quote from "The Texas Rangers," played in the sonnets, as well as in such a lyric as “ Pallida Mors,” from which we quote a stanza. which is in the same vein, but space forbids. “The Visit to West Point” gives a barrack-room view of “For thou dost come a friend, Or if thou shudder in with cerements stoled, the meddlesome legislator much like the inside views Or sweep swart as a Memphian King, or bend of Parliamentary commissions which Mr. Kipling An angel fair as Titian e'er did feign,- has given us with such telling effect. A second sec- For thou dost come a friend, since thou wilt hold tion of this volume is more serious, and has touches Nepenthe for life's pain Unto my lips, and round me fold, of an art not unlike Mr. Dobson's. Its prevailing Like some rich garment, peace that shall not end, note, however, is less restrained, being well illus- While days and months and years be onward rolled.” trated by the stanzas entitled “The Worm Turns.” 186 [Oct. 1, THE DIAL ( “While I'm tugging my mustache, imaginative vision ; its ideas have long been stereo Leaning on the window-sash, typed ; and its phrasing rarely escapes from the In the garden, you, below, conventional mould. Decked in ribbon, lace, and bow, Promenade, - six men in tow. Mr. Henry Hanby Hay, whose “Created Gold,” “Men who hang upon your lips, published some time ago, we were able to greet with Bend above your finger-tips; a qualified kind of praise, now approaches the Each his humble tribute pays, Litts to you his ardent gaze, public with a new volume,“ Trumpets and Shawms." Turning your small head with praise. Trumpets we know, but we are a little uncertain “You are pleased to treat with scorn about shawms. The author calls them “dulcet," Men, as though beneath you born. and compares them with gentle bells and tinkling You believe it when we say: rills. We have not found much that is dulcet in Man is born but to obey ! the volume, but the blaring quality is very evident. . You are made of finer clay.' Mr. Hay is a Manxman, it seems, and has persuaded "Man is built from common dirt, that other Manxman, Mr. Hall Caine, to write an Scarcely fit to touch your skirt ! Woman is his better half, introduction for the volume. We are told that the Better angel! - queen! - his staff !' poet “has given us the very color and scent of our Pray excuse me while I laugh. lovely and beloved little island.” A judgment “If we call you 'angel,' 'queen,' passed by so competent an authority must be allowed, Take it simply that we mean although the Manx influence is less noticeable than WE are KINGS! Oh, don't you know, You're not really angels though, the influence of the man Robert Browning, who has Till Saint Peter tells you so ?” evidently been Mr. Hay's model. Sometimes he “At the Gates of Song," by Mr. Lloyd Miffin, succeeds in giving us a very fair imitation of the sort of dramatic idyl or monologue that Browning is a collection of one hundred and fifty sonnets, produced so readily. “The Court Awards It," selected, so the author tells us, from about twice that number. Mr. Miffin is evidently a facile ver- being Shylock's soliloquy the day after the trial, is sifier, for the present volume is accompanied by a a case in point. “Oh, dog! the opportunity was thine notice of three other books of poems“now in course To face the crowd, which, though it hated, feared ; of publication.” Although these sonnets bear a And take the guilty flesh with even hand, modest title, it is evident that their author takes And show their justice what their justice is! himself very seriously. He presents the public with Wail not for that, but rather tell thyself The cavilling court bad birthed one cavil more, his portrait as well as his poems, and, after remark- A hundred hands had plucked away thy steel; ing upon the difficulties of the sonnet-form, adds Thou might'st not. Never Jew found Christian just. that “he is proud in the consciousness that if he has Oh, bad I dared to dash the court aside, added nothing to the lustre of that narrow and Under the fifth rib strike, and end it all! intricate domain of literature, at least he has not And do as they do, - say the man was cursed, And then proceed to execute the curse." tarnished it with anything indecorous and unseemly." Both of the foregoing claims may well enough be Mr. Hay's qualities, and their defects, may be well allowed, for the sonnets (except for an occasional illustrated by the closing lines of " A Vestal.” The liberty taken of set purpose with the structure) are climax of the gladiatorial combat has been reached, conspicuously correct in form, well-balanced, smooth- and, “ Dread stillness the horror entrances, sounding, and each the expression of a definite All pause for the signal of death, thought. But with all this technical correctness, While a Vestal, with dead, pallid glances they are somehow lacking in the power to thrill or Looks down and indraws her calm breath: even deeply to stir the reader. A good typical ex- Death broods o'er the ebony ocean, ample is “ Build Thou Thy Temples." Men gazing and fearing, but dumb; Till the Vestal, sans warmth or emotion, “Reward lies in the work, not in the eye Points down to the earth with her thumb. Nor voice of critic. Whether in the mart, All are gone (and the carcass is somewhere), Or on the Heliconian hills apart, The Cæsar to revel and shame, Toil at thy temples builded in the sky. While the Virgin, slow pallid and dumb fair, Dreams are, in sooth, the only verity. Preserves the perpetual flame." The world with scorn may lacerate thy heart- Insult with praise too late. . . . Delve at thine Art: Mr. Lesser's “Echoes of Halcyon Days," we Beauty shall never unremembered die. learn, date from ten or more years ago, when the “The sculptor, unillustrious and alone, author, too, dwelt in Arcadia. Their belated pub- Pent in the still seclusion of his room, lication is influenced “partly by the promptings of Carves, through the vexed vicissitude of years, Some marvel in Carrara, but the stone perhaps over-zealous friends, partly by the author's Men heed not till it stand above his tomb - parental desire to congregate the mental offspring The cold commemoration of his tears." of a period antedating his embarkation on the One may find no fault with such work as this. It bubble, toil, and trouble’of a professional career.” is truly noble in sentiment, and excellently put. That career, he takes pains to inform us, has borne Only — and this is the feeling with which we have * literary fruit in the form of a treatise on "The read Mr. Mifflin's work throughout - it lacks the Historical Development of the Jury System.'” We 1 1897.] 187 THE DIAL do not know that treatise, but we trust that it is “On velvet turf by green hedge-row lucid and worthy of its high theme. The “ Echoes,” I picture statesman, scholar, beau, however, have been wafted to our ears, and the And dainty damsel fair of face, Beneath the trees. author's confession of " long addiction to the philos- ophy of stoicism" emboldens us to say that they “The rays upon the dial show How swift the deepening shadows grow. are not remarkable. We quote from the touching The noble fathers of our race and tragic tale of “ Lucian and Lydia.” Are gone, with all their wit and grace, "As his blood was ebbing fast and faster, They laid their ashes long ago Lucian oped his glazing eyes once more, Beneath the trees." Turned a mute curse on the cruel master In Mr. John Stuart Thomson, we must welcome Angels to the seat of judgment bore : - Then one long look on his loving maiden - a worthy accession to the growing choir of Cana- Of eternal hope that one look said: dian singers. His “ Estabelle and Other Verse” is And his soul, of earthly woes unladen, a noteworthy production, and gives him an un- From his mangled body upward fled.” doubted right to a place in the group of poets headed If any more "echoes of balcyon days " yet linger by Professor Roberts, Mr. Lampmann, and Mr. in Mr. Lesser's memory, we trust that he will sup- W. W. Campbell. Our extract may be no more than press them. The law is an excellent profession, a single stanza - the closing one - from the long and, without knowing anything of Mr. Lesser’s and beautiful Ode Written in Autumn." professional career, we have no hesitation in saying “Strange suns begin to light the shorter days; that his chances of shining as a legal luminary are The Indian summer and the harvest moon Give way before the banks of purple haze ; considerably greater than his chances of success in Cicadas pipe at eve their shrilly tune, wooing the fickle muse. Bucolics of the melancholy time; – We get back into the domain of true poetry when The mower now surveys the low-laid grain, And picks a last beluted berry red ; we turn to the exquisite volume which bears the The corn-ricks' shadows lengthen on the plain; honored name of Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford. Soft on the breeze I hear a distant chime Here is imagination and to spare; here also are Tolling a requiem for th' untimely dead." chastened thought and melodious utterance. We It is remarkable how close to the heart of nature should like to quote at length from the varied con- these young Canadian poets contrive to keep. tents of this collection, but must remain content They have the faculty of observation - minute, with a single sonnet. accurate, and at the same time sympathetic — in a “When in the dark of some despairing dream degree quite extraordinary even to-day, and almost Sorrow has all her will with me, and ease unknown in English poetry before Tennyson opened Is full forgotten, through her dear degrees Steals Music, beckoning with a hand supremo our eyes. Mr. Thomson's poems are nearly all lyrics For me to follow. Straight I see the gleam of nature, and many of them strike a note of pure Where the winds dip them in the far bright seas and singular beauty. That roll and break about the Hebrides, See white wings flash and hear the sea-birds scream, By way of interlude between the American and the English section of this survey, we may at this “Or it may be in palace gardens falls The moonlight on white roses, where the swell point say a word about a modest booklet of French Of one great lover's heart in passion calls verse, written by M. René de Poyen-Bellisle, of the To deeps in other hearts. And, listening, well University of Chicago, and entitled “Journées I know, while sink my slow dissolving walls, d' Avril.” So Music lured Eurydice from hell." “Je n'écris plus de vers," This poem is peculiarly typical of Mrs. Spofford's says the author, work, because it is one of several that show her to Ce sont mes pêches de jeunesse, Que pour rechauffer mes hivers be no stranger to the message that music bears to En vieux grand père je caresse.' the soul. Her apprehension of the divinest of the arts is something deeper than the merely conven- We take the liberty of doubting the exact truth of this observation, and hope to read many more tional appreciation of most poets. They use musical terminology as a rhetorical adornment merely; the verses by M. de Poyen-Bellisle before he reaches present writer seeks to give it a real verbal inter grandfatherly years. There are some charming things in the present collection, cameos in the man- pretation. ner of Gautier, musings in the manner of Musset, Miss Ruth Lawrence's sheaf of « Colonial and sonnets of skilful construction. One of the Verses” consists of short poems written to accom- shorter pieces is this “Enigme." pany a series of photographs taken at Mount Ver- "Il avait épuisé tout le possible humain ; non. The verses are correct and pretty, embodying Les Empires s'étaient ébranlés sons sa main, a graceful sentiment, but in no way remarkable. L'Art s'était enrichi de ses efforts utiles; “Beneath the Trees" is a good example. Grâce à lui les déserts étaient beaux et fertiles ; Mais il restait toujours petit et mécontent; “Beneath the trees at even-glow I wander, meditative, slow, Et sans pouvoir trouver, cherchait; sombre, baletant ! Where courtiers brave with gold and lace - Puis un jour il comprit ! et courbant bas la tête, Befitting well the stately place, Joyeux il murmura : Ta volonté soit faite'!" Once gayly sauntered to and fro. One of the best things to be found in this volume is a 11 a 188 [Oct. 1, THE DIAL the really remarkable translation of Shakespeare's And all the springs are flash-lights of one Spring. “When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes.” Then leaf, and flower, and falless fruit Shall hang together on the unyellowing bough; The closing verses are as follows: And silence shall be Music mute “Soudain je pense à toi ; tout rit dans ma pensée For her surcharged heart." Et comme l'alouette au ciel bleu s'blançant Chante un hymne d'amour avec le jour naissant; But to reach this passage he must make his way J'ai bientôt oublié ma misère passée, through a “discinct nature," and over coerule C'est que, je t'aime tant, que quand je pense à toi pampas of the heavens," where “reel the swift Je ne changerai pas mon sort avec un roi !" spheres intemperably," besides witnessing many Of all the verse evoked by the jubilee of Queen other strange sights and sounds. Victoria, Mr. Kipling's " Recessional" has made the Mr. Watson's “ The Year of Shame" has been deepest impression, and best deserves to be long remembered. Probably next in importance to that on our shelves so long that it has lost something of noble poem is the "Jubilee Greeting at Spithead to its timeliness. It consists mainly of sonnets on the the Men of Greater Britain," written by Mr. Theo- Armenian question, including those previously pub- dore Watts-Dunton. This work, albeit only a thin lished in “ The Purple East.” The Bishop of Here- ford contributes an introduction, in which he assures pamphlet, is also noteworthy as being the first pub- us that “it is the spirit of Isaiah that is represented lication of its author in anything that may be called book form. The foremost of living English critics, in this book of poems." This is flattering to Mr. and one of the most notable of living English poets, Watson, if not to the prophet. But the poet has suf- fered before this from the praises of his injudicious Mr. Watts-Dunton has thus far been content with admirers. There is real fire in his work, although the suffrages of the few who have found him out, it blazes up with too furious a rhetoric to produce who have learned to detect his personality in un- the deepest impression. For example, he calls the signed pages of “The Athenæum,” or who have treasured up in scrap-book his furtively-appearing have let it go at that, but Mr. Watson's wrath is Sultan “ Abdul the Damned.” Most poets would Bonnets. A volume of his “ Poems” has now been unsatisfied, and he continues : promised us for more than two years past, but we shall not believe in it until it actually lies upon our “In a world where cruel deeds abound, The merely damned are legion : with such souls table. The “ Jubilee Greeting” now published is a Is not each hollow and cranny of Tophet crammed ? poem in twenty-two stanzas, one of which we have Thou with the brightest of hell's aureoles selected, not without difficulty, as representative of Dost shine supreme, incomparably crowned, the whole. Immortally, beyond all mortals, damned." "They fought with England long ago; This is the mere impotence of wrath. Compare They strove with her whose gate the billows koop; these “Dire" with those of Mr. Swinburne, for On Channel chalk they sleep below- In caverns of the great North Sea they sleep. example, and one gets the difference between froth Thus soldier, priest, and mariner,' and freshet, between fire and flame. “ So soon is He said, - our guardian angel said,-shall perish; dead indifference come?” asks Mr. Watson. Yes, My deeps have still a sepulchre and with indifference to the theme of his out- For all whom envy or hate shall stir To strike across them - strike at England, her pourings a greatly abated interest in the sonnets The billows cherish.'" themselves. Vehemence is one thing, and deep- The grave austere note of the above excerpt char- seated indignation another. Mr. Watson may have acterizes this fine poem throughout. The work is had the latter, but he has put only the former into his verse. fittingly dedicated to our great contemporary He has written neither Swinburnian “ Dire" nor · Châtiments" after the manner of writer of patriotic poetry, Algernon Charles Swin- burne.” Hugo, but merely a set of targid and overwrought sonnets. We should not speak so severely were Mr. Francis Thompson's volume of “New Poems” is, like its two predecessors, a very Klondike for Mr. Watson a poet of less pretensions, but he has the gold-hunters of song, and its treasures are almost been so clamorously belauded that it becomes the as difficult of access. evident duty of criticism to speak the exact truth The public is fairly well informed by this time of Mr. Thompson's distressing standards than those usually set for minor poets, about his work. He must be measured by higher mannerisms, verbal perversities, and wanton obscu- rities of thought. It knows also that whoever is lenged, if not by him, at least for him by his friends since comparison with the greatest has been chal- prepared to brave hardships in the quest of beauty and admirers. may often find it, imbedded nugget-like in the rough matrix of Mr. Thompson's verse. Here, for exam- “A Shropshire Lad,” by Mr. A. E. Housman, is ple, is treasure-trove such as shall reward the dili- a collection of short poems, extremely simple in gent seeker. diction, which strike a thin but pure lyric note. “Happiness is the shadow of things past, Here is one of them : Which fools still take for that which is to be! “From far, from eve and morning And not all foolishly: And yon twelve-winded sky, For all the past, read true, is prophecy, The stuff of life to knit me And all the firsts are hauntings of some Last, Blew hither: here am I. ) 1897.] 189 THE DIAL “Now - for a breath I tarry BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS. Nor yet disperse apart, Take my hand quick and tell me, What have you in your heart. We have read Mr. G. W. Steevens's An Englishman's instructive studies little book entitled “The Land of Speak now, and I will answer ; of America. How shall I help you, say ; the Dollar” (Dudd) with pleasure Ere to the wind's twelve quarters and, we trust, some profit. The author is a wide- I take my endless way." awake, open-minded Englishman who visited our Almost equally simple, but now more animated, shores during the progress of the recent president- now informed with a deeper passion, are the poems ial campaign, and his book is a reprint of letters contained in Mr. A. C. Benson's new volume. Here written by him while on the wing through the the author shall be his own critic, and a part of his States, to the London “Daily Mail.” The mental “Envoi" at once illustrate and describe his verse. attitude of the average English traveller to America "I cannot sing as sings the nightingale is one of amused curiosity. He comes to America Frenzied with rapture, big with rich delight, predisposed first of all to laugh; and he usually Till lovers lean together, passion-pale, laughs his fill — at least so long as he remains on And chide the awestruck silence of the night. this side of the line that divides us from Canada. "I cannot sing as sings the brooding dove, At windless poon, in her high towers of green, Mr. Steevens brought to our shores an abundant A song of deep content, untroubled love, stock of curiosity, and a sense of humor by no means With many a meditative pause between. deficient. But as a traveller he is not primarily “But I can sing as sings the prudent bee, the man who laughs. His liking for “ Max O’Rell As hour by patient hour he goes and comes, is evident; but he can hardly be said to have taken Bearing the golden dust from tree to tree, Labours in hope, and as he labours, hums." the Frenchman as his model. He came to this Mr. Benson's poetry is very genuine, and impresses country chiefly to study us at close range during the bustle of an exciting political campaign. To the reader with its sincerity and artistic restraint. this end he attended conventions, large and small, Mr. Hilaire Belloc's “ Verses and Sonnets are local and general; be watched miles upon miles of by turns quaint, musical, and passionate. The son- political parades, and endured hours upon hours of nets exhibit his best work, although some of them political oratory; he heard both candidates speak; take great liberties with the form. We quote the be saw the arrival at Canton of one of those aston- sestet from “ The Poor of London,” an invocation ishing “delegations” — this time one from Portage to the justice of God. County, “the finest county in the country,” as Mr. "The Poor of Jesus Christ whom no man hears McKinley took care to point out with great force in Have called upon your vengeanco much too long. his address; he witnessed the placarding of the Wipe out not tears but blood - our eyes bleed tears: Come, smito our damped sophistries so strong, returns, and the subsequent frenzied jubilation of That thy rude hammer battering this rude wrong the victors. Mr. Steevens describes all this with Ring down the abyss of twice ten thousand years." some humor, but with an ever-present sense of the Mr. J. S. Fletcher's “Ballads of Revolt real gravity and dignity of the main situation. He in number, and make up a very small book indeed. endeavors to outline clearly for the benefit of his They mark with deep irony the contrast between English readers the trend of the looming political, what life really is and what the idealist would have social, and economical issues which must from now it to be, between the mechanical observance of on, even at the best of times, baunt the consciousness religion and its innermost spirit. Perhaps the of the people of this country, and which it only needs most impressive of the ballads is “ The Scapegoat," a period of “hard times” like the one now waning which has for its theme the life of Christ. to bring to light with startling distinctness. “Good "Then woke the world with sudden stir, times” are now setting in; and we shall probably (Whence came this power our hearts to draw ? go on in the old way for another decade or so mak. Call ye this man a carpenter?. ing bay prosperously while the sun shines and He is a God!) they cried in awe. taking little or no thought for the morrow. But “Ah me, it was no god they hailed, 6 hard times” will recur; discontent will recur; the No arbiter of life and death, But a poor man who dared and failed, cry for change will recur. There will again be A carpenter of Nazareth. (who can doubt it?) the ominous confrontation at Failed? Aye, for still the nations bend the polls of candidates representing respectively To their false gods a servile knee, the class whose interest it is to conserve, and the And still the scapegoat finds his end On the dark heights of Calvary. class whose only seeming chance of salvation it is “But here and there upon the sun to pull down. The crisis may again be tided over; Some man still fixes dauntless eyes, but, speaking in the light of current indications, And says 'Amen! It is begun; one may fairly say that he would be an optimistic Let the new life in me arise!'" prophet indeed who should predict that it will be The similarity of this work to that of Mr. John averted or its asperities softened by the wise antic- Davidson is obvious, and it may be said that Mr. ipatory reforms and concessions of those now in a Fletcher does not suffer in the comparison. position to make them. Mr. Steevens is no such WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE. prophet, nor indeed does he venture much into are six 190 [Oct. 1, THE DIAL our common (A. S. direct vaticination. His view of our national future and unpretentious account of the home life of the is not on the whole a sombre one — that is, of our great novelist, written by his youngest daughter. ultimate juture. If there are storms ahead for us, No attempt is made at an elaborate or connected they will at least purify the air. Growing class an. biography, and little that is not already known may tagonisms, and a widespread conviction that to get be found in the volume. But these few slight dollars is the one end of life -- these, Mr. Steevens sketches give us such a charming and intimate pic- concludes, are the twin sources of our national peril. ture of Dickens the man that the lover of his works The lighter topics usually touched upon by the who does not read the little book will have missed tourist are not neglected in the volume, which is, a distinct pleasure. all in all, much the best of its kind that has come to our notice of late. To those who wish to become ac- A manual of quainted with our common flowers wild flowers. Sophia V. Bompiani's brief “ His- by an easier method than that pre- The Waldenses. tory of the Waldenses sented in the ordinary text books of botany, the vol- Barnes & Co.) is an excellent essay ume by Mrs. Caroline A. Creevy, entitled “ Flowers upon the characteristics, chief personages, and of Field, Hill, and Swamp" (Harpers), may be cor- events in the history of that most ancient body of dially commended. The author is an adept in the religious reformers whose descendants to-day oc- science she illustrates, and while devising a simple cupy a small part, not more than three hundred way by whieh lovers of wild flowers may learn their square miles, of the Cottian Alps. Historians have names and relationships, she has not neglected to usually ascribed the organization and faith of the dignify her work with an array of curious and well- Waldenses to Peter Waldo, a distinguished preach-digested information. The plants are classed in er of the twelfth century, but the author accepts groups according to their habitat in low meadows, rather the traditions of the people themselves, dry fields, cool woods, or in and near the water. quoting many authorities in support of a much About a thousand species belonging to the Atlantic earlier origin. It is shown that when the Paul- States from New England to Florida, and for the icians of Armenia, fleeing from the persecutions most part to the Middle States also, are described. of the eastern emperors, emigrated to France in The volume is a pleasant supplement to the man- the eighth century, and there established the sect uals of Grey, Bessey, and others of their rank. known as the Albigenses, they found in the Wal- denses, just across the Italian border, a people of Roadside sketches Mr. F. Schuyler Mathews's “Fa- similar religious beliefs. The traditions of the miliar Features of the Roadside" and pencil. Waldenses assert that they were driven from (Appleton) is a volume made doubly southern Italy, in the time of the second and attractive by its wealth of illustrations, the work of third centuries, to the Alpine valleys, where they the author's clever hand. The chapters describe have since lived. About one-third of the book is the varied wild life to be met with in tramps along devoted to this contention for the antiquity of the a country road, including flowers, birds, insects, and people, while the remainder, written with unfailing amphibions. The author appears to be interested interest, treats of their innumerable persecutions in the different tribes alike, and to be equally appre- by the Papacy, their ministers, their heroes, their ciative of their respective traits. In treating the martyrs, and their final attainment of religious birds, he makes an attempt to reduce their songs freedom in 1848. within the limits of our musical scale. Such at- tempts are interesting, but as a rule not entirely In “The Novels of Charles Dickens,” satisfactory. As each bird has some peculiar fashion Books on Dickens recently issued in the “ Book-Lover's and his works. in the delivery of his song, so each listener seems Library” (Armstrong), Mr. Fred- to bave a peculiar experience in hearing it. For eric G. Kitton has collected a fund of interesting example, on page 119 Mr. Mathews states that the and valuable information concerning the works of phæbe's strain comprises only two notes, and he a writer whose wonderful popularity seems ever on writes them with a falling inflection. Every phebe the increase. The growth and development of each which we have ever heard lisped his several notes of the great novels, the circumstances under which with both rising and falling inflection, and his song it was produced, the terms of publication, facts re- is so described by most authorities. lating to the illustrators and to famous prototypes of characters in the novels, present whereabouts Mr. Tighe Hopkins has given us, in of the original MSS., present value of first editions, The Dungeons a presentably made volume of 265 of old Paris. all this and much more is here set forth in a fresh pages, a rather interesting account, and entertaining way. The work is interesting alike interspersed with more or less familiar historical to the book.collector and to the lover of Dickens, episodes in point, of “The Dungeons of Old and forms a welcome addition to Mr. Kitton's nu- Paris" (Putnam). His endeavor has been to restore merous volumes of Dickensiana. — My Father as I to such storied edifices as the Prison d'Etat, the Recall Him." by Miss Mamie Dickens (Westmin. Conciergerie, the Maison de Justice, etc., their ster, England: The Roxburghe Press), is a simple special and distinctive character at the most import- with pen - 1897.] 191 THE DIAL ant dates in their respective careers, and thus to LITERARY NOTES. bring home to the reader the full force and signifi- cance of the old French proverb, “ Triste comme Gautier's ever-delightful “Captain Fracasse," trans- les portes d'une prison." The autho: seems to be lated by Miss Ellen Murray Beam, is published in an somewhat of an enthusiast on his dismal subject - attractive illustrated edition by Messrs. L. C. Page & Co. an amateur of historic prisons, as it were; and he Mr. Henri Pène du Bois bas made a translation of goes into the barrowing details of the architecture Prosper Merimée's “ Letters to an Unknown," and the of his favorite edifices with evident zest and no work is published by the Messrs. Brentano in very little learning. “I have undone,” he assures us, tasteful and pleasing form. “the bolts of nearly all the more celebrated pris- The 1897 volume of “ The Pageant,” a literary and ons of historic Paris, few of which are standing at art annual, will be published shortly by Mr. M. F. Mans- field of New York, and will contain contributions from this day.” Vincennes, the Temple, the Concier- many of the best-known writers and artists of the day. gerie, the Abbaye, Sainte-Pelagie, the Bastille- A translation of Diderot's immortal “ Rameau's these are certainly names around which cluster Nephew," made by Miss Sylvia Margaret Hill, is pub- memories of dramatic scenes and striking figures. lished by Messrs. Longmans, Green, & Co. The trans- Of the narrative and romantic possibilities of his lation is from the autographic text of the author, undis- theme Mr. Hopkins makes fair use. The book is covered until 1890. liberally sprinkled with illustrations, some of them A new edition of the Waverley novels, in forty-eight after curious old plates. volumes, and similar in form and make-up to the popu- lar « Temple Classics,” will be published in this country by Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons, in connection with Messrs. J. M. Dent & Co. of London. “Clever Tales,” selected and edited by Miss Char- BRIEFER MENTION. lotte Porter and Miss Helen A. Clarke, is a volume of The seventh edition of Mr. George Haven Putnam's translations from Villiers de l'Isle Adam, Strindberg, " Authors and Publishers” presents a revised text and Halévy, Garshin, Kielland, and Arbes, most if not all of considerable additional material. For those not already the tales baving previously appeared in “ Poet-Lore." familiar with this useful book, we quote from the title- Messrs. Copeland & Day are the publishers. page a description of the contents of this “ manual of “ A Manual of Physical Drill,” by Lieut. Edmund L. suggestions for beginners in literature.” The work Butts, is published by Messrs. D. Appleton & Co. The comprises, in brief, "a description of publishing meth- object of the work is to systematize physical training in ods and arrangements, directions for the prepara- the army, and to furnish a practical guide that will en- tion of MSS. for the press, explanations of the details able any officer to give regular and beneficial instruction of book-manufacturing, instructions for proof-reading, to his command. The volume is well illustrated with specimens of typography, the text of the United States reproductions of photographs. copyright law, and information concerning interna- The Doubleday & McClure Co., a new publishing firm, tional copyrights, together with general bints for au- have sent us some interesting announcements which thors." This handsomely printed volume is published reached us too late for inclusion in the “ List of Fall by Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons. Announcements” in our last issue. Among the titles Among the many attractive editions of standard on their list may be mentioned Mark Twain's new book, English literature published this season by Messrs. Following the Equator"; "The Open Boat, and Other T. Y. Crowell & Co., we note with particular approval Tales of Adventure,” by Mr. Stephen Crane; an eighteen- the reprints of Matthew Arnold's poems and Brown- volume edition of Shakespeare, edited by Prof. Henry ing 's “The Ring and the Book.” The Arnold volume Morley; “ Tales from McClure's,” in three volumes; includes a number of early poems bitherto uncollected, “ Bird Neighbors," with fifty colored illustrations; a and has an introduction by Mr. Nathan Haskell Dole. volume by Colonel Waring, of the New York street- But wby, ob why, does Mr. Dole say that Arnold con- cleaning department; and a half-dozen other equally demned the American people as a race that knew not interesting books. Obermann, " as a knowledge of Obermann was in his Mr. Richard Holt Hutton, who died on the 10th of eyes a test of civilization”? The special features of the September, was best known to the world as the editor Browning volume are the biography, introduction, and of the “Spectator." His personality was so merged explanatory notes contributed by the editors, Miss Char- in that review that he found little opportunity for out- lotte Porter and Miss Helen A. Clarke, whose zeal for side literary work, and the list of his books is a brief their chosen poet is well known to readers of “Poet- one, including only the “Scott" in the “ English Men Lore," and whose fitness for the present task no one of Letters" and a few volumes of miscellaneous essays may question. in criticism. He was a strong and serious writer (if The Works of François Rabelais,” in the famous anything over-serious), and the chief bent of bis mind old translation of Urquhart and Motteux, are republished was in the direction of religious and philosopbical prob- in a tasteful five-volume edition by Messrs. Gibbings lems. His temper was conservative, the concessions & Co. of London. The J. B. Lippincott Co. are the to liberalism that he could not help making in this age American agents for this work. Mr. Alfred Wallis of the world were made grudgingly, and he did not has revised the text and provided an introduction, and always display the candor that we had the right to ex- the volumes are charmingly illustrated by photogravure pect of a writer occupying his position. His best crit- reproductions of the plates in Picart's Amsterdam ical writing is probably to be found in his essays on edition of 1741. Arnold and Newman. a 66 192 [Oct. 1, THE DIAL THE SEASON'S BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG. In continuation of our Announcement List of Fall Books, in the last issue of The Dial, we give the fol- lowing List of forthcoming Books for the Young. Will Sh speare's Little Lad, by Imogen Clark, illus., $1.50.-Child Poems, by Eugene Field, with introduction by Kenneth Grahame, illus. by Charles Robinson, $1.50. - The Stevenson Song Book, verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, music by various composers, $2.-New uni- form edition of Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett's stories for children, 5 vols., illus., per vol., $1.25.-An Old-Field School Girl, by Marion Harland, illus., $1.25. - The Knights of the Round Table, by W. H. Frost, illus., $1.50. -Heroes of our Navy, by Molly Elliot Seawell, illus. With Crocket and Bowie, a tule of Texas, by Kirk Mun- roe, illus., $1.25.— The Last Cruise of the Mokawk, by W. J. Henderson, illus., $1.25.-New books by G. A. Henty: With Frederick the Great, a tale of the Seven Years' War; A Murch on London, a story of Wat Ty- ler's rising; and With Moore at Corunna, a story of the Peninsula War; each illus., $1.50.- Lords of the World, a story of the fall of Carthage and Corinth, by Alfred J. Church, illus., $1.50.- The Golden Galleon, a story of Queen Elizabeth's times, by Robert Leighton, illus., $i.50. Adventures in Toyland, by Edith King Hall, illus. in colors, etc., $2.- The King of the Broncos, and other tales of New Mexico, by Charles F. Lummis, illus., $1.25. - The Border Wars of New England, by Samuel Adams Drake, illus., $1.50. (Chas. Scribner's Sons.) Aaron in the Wildwoods, by Joel Chandler Harris, illus., $2.—The Young Mountaineers, by Charles Egbert Crad- dock, illus., $1.50. — Being a Boy, by Charles Dudley Warner, new edition, with introduction and illustrations by Clifton Johnson, $2.- Stories and Sketches for the Young, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, new holiday edition, $1.50. - Little Folk Lyrics, by Frank Dempster Sherman, new enlarged edition, illus. - The Revolt of a Daughter, by Ellen Olney Kirk, $1.25. - An Unwilling Maid, by Jeanie Gould Lincoln, $1.25. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.) Elsie Dinsmore, by Martha Finley, now edition, illus. by H. C. Christy, $1.50.- Elsie at Home, by Martha Finley, $1.25. - The Children's Christmas Book, by Beatrice Har raden, illus., $1.50.-The Adventures of Mabel, by Raf. ford Pyke, illus., $1.75. - Naval History of the United States, by Willis J. Abbot, illus., $3.75. - Children at Sherburne House, by Amanda M. Douglas, $1.50.- Nan, by Amanda M. Douglas, illus.. $1.50.- Gypsy's Year at the Golden Crescent, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, new illustrated edition, $1.50. — Witch Winnie in Venice, by Elizabeth W. Champney, illus., $1.50. — The Missing Prince, by G. E. Farrow, illus., $1.50.-Pierre and his Poodle, by Elizabeth W. Champney, illus., $1. - Derick, by Barbara Yechton, $1.50. – Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, new edition, illus., $2. — Brownie, a story told from a child's point of view, illus., $1.25. (Dodd, Mead & Co.) The Pink Fairy Book, edited by Andrew Lang, illus., $2.- The Vege-Men's Revenge, words by Bertha Upton, pict- ures in colors by Florence K. Upton, $2.–The Professor's Children, by Edith H. Fowler, illus. – Here They Are ! more stories, written and illus. by James F. Sullivan. - The Adventures of Three Bold Babes, a story in pictures, printed in colors, $1.50. (Longmans, Green, & Co.) Century Book of the American Revolution, by Elbridge S. Brooks, with preface by Chauncey M. Depew, illus., $1.50. — Joan of Arc, by M. Boutet de Monvel, illus. in colors by the author, $3.- Master Skylark, by John Bennett, illus., $1.50. — The Last Three Soldiers, by William H. Shelton, illus., $1.50. – Fighting a Fire, by Charles Thaxter Hill, illas., $1.50.- Miss Nina Barrow, by Frances Courtney Baylor, with frontispiece, $1.25. A New Baby World, edited by Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge, illus., $1.50. – Bound volumes of St. Nicholas for 1897, 2 vols., illus., $4. (Century Co.) Boyhood of Famous Authors, by William H. Rideing, new revised edition, $1.25. - The King of the Park, by Mar- shall Saunders, illus., $1.25.-Sunshine Library for Young People, new vols.: The Gold Thread, by Norman McLeod, D.D.; and The Wreck of the Circus, by James Otis; each illas., 50 cts. - Children's Favorite Classics, new vols.: Andersen's Fairy Tales ; Rollo at Work, by Jacob Abbott; Rollo at Play, by Jacob Abbott; and Tanglewood Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne ; illus, in colors, etc., per vol., $1. (T. Y. Crowell & Co.) Camp and Trail, a story of the Maine woods, by Isabel Hornibrook, illus., $1.50.- The Ready Rangers, a story of bicycles, boats, and boys, by Kirk Munroe, illas., $1.25. - Modern Fairyland, by Eley Burnham, illus., $1.25.- Phronsie Pepper, the last of the “ Five Little Peppers," by Margaret Sidney, illus., $1.50. — The True Story of U.S. Grant, the American soldier, by Elbridge S. Brooks, illus. $1.50.—His First Charge, by Faye Huntington, illus., $1.25. - Once Upon a Time, and other child verses, by Mary E. Wilkins, illus., $1. - Overruled, by Mrs. G. R. Alden (Pansy), illus., $1.50. — The Great Island, or Cast away on New Guinea. by Willis Boyd Allen, illus., 75 cts. -Tom Pickering of 'Scutney, his experiences and perplex: ities, by Sophie Swett, illus., $1.25.' (Lothrop Pub'g Co.) True to his Home, by Hezekiah Butterworth, illus., $1.50.- Commodore Bainbridge, by James Barnes, illus., $1.50. - The Red Patriot, by W. 0. Stoddard, illus., $1.50.- The Exploits of Myles Standish, by Henry Johnson, illus., $1.50.--Home-Reading Books, new vols.: Curious Homes and their Tenants, by J. Carter Beard; Harold's Discov- eries, by J. F. Troeger; The Hall of Shells, by A. $. Hardy; Crusoe's Island, by F. A. Ober; Uncle Sam's Secrets, by O. P. Austin; and Uncle Robert's Visit, by Nellie L. Helm and Francis W. Parker; each illus., per vol., 65 cts. (D. Appleton & Co.) Three Operettas, by H. C. Bunner, music by Oscar Weil, illus., $2.50. – The Painted Desert, a story of northern Arizona, by Kirk Munroe, illus., $1.25. - The Rock of the Lion, by Molly Elliot Seawell, illus. — School-Boy Life in England, by John Corbin, illus.- Alan Ransford, by Ellen Douglas Deland, illus. (Harper & Bros.) Three Pretty Maids, by Amy E. Blanchard, illus., $1.25.- Meg Langholme, by Mrs. Molesworth, illus., $1.25.- The Lost Gold of the Montezumas, by W. 0. Stoddard, illus., $1.50.- The Flame Flower, and other stories, written and illus. by Jas. F. Sullivan, $1.50. - A New Alice in the Old Wonderland, by A. M. Richards, Sr., new edition, illus., $1. – Fag to Monitor, by Andrew Home, illus., $1.25. - Rover's Quest, by Hugh St. Leger, illas., $1.25.- Hunted through Fiji, $1.25. (J. B. Lippincott Co.) A Norway Summer, by Laura D. Nichols, illas., $1.25.- The Golden Crocodile, a story of mining life, by F. Mortimer Trimmer. $1.50.- The Young Puritans of Old Hadley, by Mary P. Wells Smith, $1.25.- The Little Red Schoolhouse, by Evelyn Raymond, illus., $1.25. - The Resolute Mr. Pansy, an electrical story, by Prof. John Trowbridge, $1.25.— The Secret of the Black Butte, or The Mysterious Mine, a tale of the Big Horn, by William Shattuck, illus., $1.50. — Wanolasset, by A. G. Plympton, illus., $1.25.- Torpeannts the Tomboy, by Lily F. Wesselhoeft, illus., $1.25. - Rich Enough, by Leigh Webster, illus., $1.25.- Nan in the City, or Nan's Winter with the Girls, by Myra Sawyer Hamlin, illus., $1.25. (Roberts Bros.) Singing Verses for Children, words by Lydia Avery Coonley, music by various composers, illus. in color.- Wild Neigh- bors, a book on animals, by Ernest Ingersoll, illus.- Jack the Giant Killer, illus. in colors by Hugh Thomson.- The Story of a Red Deer, by Hon. J. W. Fortescue. — Miss Mouse and her Boys, by Mrs. Molesworth, illus. (Mao- millan Co.) A Little House in Pinilies, by Marguerite Bouvet, illus., $1.50. (A. C. McClurg & Co.) The Cruikshank Fairy Book, illus. by George Cruikshank. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.) The Bad Child's Book of Beasts, by H. B. and B.T.B., illus., $1. (Edward Arnold.) Paul Travers' Adventures, by Sam T. Clover. illus., $1.25.- Mother Goose in Prose, by L. Frank Baum, illus. by Maxfield Parrish, $2.- The Enchanted Burro, by Charles F. 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