ary Italian traveller exploits the humors of his fellow-
assistance. But the artist does suggest the delicate passengers on the “Galileo” in a very amusing way,
beauty of the allegory.
and introduces to his American readers some very
An odd little book that is likely to arrest the unfamiliar, not to say grotesque, types. The des-
attention of those in quest of a simple gift for a criptions are so graphic that the reader begins to
young friend is Mr. H. J. Burlingame's “ Herrmann feel after a chapter or 80 quite as if he were “on
the Magician” (Laird & Lee). Besides a lively blue water” himself, and listening to the chat of this
sketch of the two Herrmanns, Carl and Alexander, most delightful of literary compagnons du voyage.
and a well written introductory chapter on the One of the most substantial of the season's books
“Psychology of the Art of Conjuring,” it contains is “ Bird Neighbors ” (Doubleday & McClure Co.),
a clear explanation, with cuts, of the best tricks per- by Miss Neltje Blanchan. It is furnished with an
formed by the Herrmanns and some other noted introduction by Mr. John Burroughs, who vouches
“wizards.” As the author of this portion of the for the accuracy of the work in this science in which
book is himself an inventor and maker of conjuring his word is final. The author has not attempted a
apparatus, he may be presumed to know intimately profound study of the subject; her object is rather
whereof he speaks. It may be noted that while to furnish a guide for the uninitiated and the ama-
some of the feats described are very difficult and teur. She writes of one hundred and fifty of our
only to be accomplished with the aid of expensive most frequent feathery visitors, classifying them first
and cumbersome apparatus, there are many others by color, and describing clearly and briefly their
that, while astounding enough to spectators, are
tricks and manners. Her talk about them has
comparatively easy of execution and therefore suited vivacity and charm, and shows that she knows her
to parlor entertainments. The explanations of world not only with the head, but with the heart.
such famous stage illusions as the “Rabbit Trick," To each little life she gives character and individu-
the "Vanishing Lady," the “Magi's Wand," the ality. The value of the book is greatly heightened
“Decapitation Trick” and so on, should prove in- by the colored plates, many of which are surpris-
teresting to the thousands who have been mystified ingly beautiful. With their help it would be easy to
by them. The sketch of the Herrmanns, especially identify most of the flying creatures we see about us.
of Alexander Herrmann, whose Mephistophelian To a friend of pronounced "bibliomaniacal” ten-
look greatly belied his genial and singularly chari- dencies, no Christmas gift could be more acceptable
table beart, is very racy and well leavened with than a copy of Mr. Irving Browne's “In the Track
stories of the half-impromptu tricks which the con- of the Book-Worm," published by the Roycroft
jurers were so fond of playing off at odd times and Printing Shop, of East Aurora, N. Y. Mr. Browne
places at the expense of all sorts of people. The is a veteran book.collector and extra-illustrator, and
book is prettily bound in canary-colored Holliston his pleasantly-written volume of “thoughts, fancies,
cloth, and contains a number of plates, including a and gentle gibes on collecting and collectors" makes
late portrait of Alexander Herrmann.
interesting reading. The numerous verses on "book-
In his “Gondola Days" (Houghton), Mr. F. ish" subjects scattered throughout the volume are
Hopkinson Smith rhapsodizes acceptably, albeit especially good. Like all previous products of the
,
much in the old familar vein, about Venice and the Roycroft Press, the volume is mechanically a beauti-
Venetians. If the somewhat passée Queen of the ful specimen of book-making, and we predict that
Adriatic showed herself to Mr. Smith precisely as the limited edition in which it is issued will soon be
he depicts her, he is certainly an enviable travel- exhausted.
ler. To own a pair of eyes like bis, capable of A new edition of “ Irish Idylls ” (Dodd) is illus-
transforming so much squalor into splendor, of see- trated with many reproductions of photographs and
ing a worthy relative of the “tuneful gondolier” drawings by Mr. Clifton Johnson, which serve to
of yore in the swart tatterdemalion who nowadays prove the accuracy of Miss Jane Barlow's descrip-
sculls you about in his aquatic hearse, and so on, tions of the desolate life of the Connemara boglands.
would be worth while. Mr. Smith makes no attempt The pictures have some of the quaint charm of the
to review the glories of Venetian history or to probe stories, and they give definiteness to our ideas of the
present problems. His treatment of his theme is bogs and the villages — that “ forbidding environ-
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ment” of an unhappy people, which has yet a beauty cloth, stamped with a good design in gold; and the
of its own.
The cover, by Mr. George Wharton illustrations and delicate initials by Mr. Alfred Par-
Edwards, is good, though the names of the separate sons are charming. The selections are from the
stories seem an unnecessary and unimaginative shorter and more familiar of the poems,— the most
adornment.
spontaneous and least didactic of the poet's work.
There is also a well-printed new edition of “The The introduction emphasizes the fact that “what is
Maiden and Married Life of Mary Powell ” (after- truly great in his poetry is independent of his theory,
wards Mistress Milton), and the sequel thereto, and may almost be called independent of his con-
“Deborah's Diary” (imported by Scribner). The scious reasoning self.”
scious reasoning self.” The editor's attitude is not
volume is prettily illustrated by Mr. John Jellicoe one of sympathy with his author's theories, nor even
and Mr. Herbert Railton, and the drawings give tolerance of them, but this does not blind him to the
charming glimpses of the picturesqueness of old beauty of some of his work.—“The Lovers' Shak-
London. An introduction by the Rev. W. H. Hutton, spere” (McClurg), compiled by Mrs. Chloe Blake-
B.D., tells something about the personality of Miss man Jones, is what the title indicates, a collection
Manning, who wrote the book, and reviews briefly of quotations pertaining to the various phases of
the historical facts upon which it is based. Mr. love. They are carefully selected, adroitly grouped,
Hutton would have been wiser to confine himself to and daintily decorated.— Mrs. Helen Kendrick
such facts, for when he launches into criticism he Johnson has collected some “Short Sayings of
compares Milton as a religious poet, much to his Famous Men” and published them in two small
disadvantage, with Christina Rossetti. The novel volumes (Putnam). The sayings are grouped in
itself is a plausible and charming explanation of the a rather hap-hazard fashion under various head-
vagaries of the poet's domestic life.
ings. The title of one of these sections, “Wis-
Another attractive reprint is “ Pomona's Travels" dom,” is scarcely complimentary to the authors of
(Scribner), by Mr. Frank R. Stockton, whose name selections outside of it. — “The Ayrshire Homes
alone carries a laugh with it. There is humor, also, and Haunts of Burns" (Putnam), by Mr. Henry
in the delightful pictures by Mr. A. B. Frost, which C. Shelley, is bound in a charming thistle-deco-
have almost as much character as the story. The rated cover, and contains a number of interesting
cover, in buff and green, relieved with a touch of photographic illustrations. There is also the “Ian
black, is very attractive; and as the work itself is Maclaren Year-Book” (Dodd), with a quotation for
one of the happiest things that even Mr. Stockton's each day in the year, thus giving one a fine oppor-
fancy has conceived, everything makes for its success. tunity to duly consider and repent of any undue
A popular addition of “The Adventures of Mr. fondness for this Scotchman. — “The Chatelaine"
Verdant Green, an Oxford Freshman” (Little, (Peter Paul Book Co.), by G. E. X., is a collection
Brown, & Co.), by Mr. Cuthbert Bede, B.À., will of small observations upon large topics, printed
appeal to collegians of the past and the future. each upon a separate page; but even in this rivulet
There are innumerable illustrations by the author, of text, words are more plentiful than ideas. One
badly drawn but clever and amusing nevertheless feels too much the struggle for an originality which
They are colloquial, like the text, and very English. is achieved neither in thought nor expression. -
Miss Anna Fuller's “ Pratt Portraits" (Putnam) "An Alphabet" (R. H. Russell), by Mr. William
is also given a new setting. It is characterized by Nicholson, is too original and too clover to be given
wide margins, good paper and print, a common- up entirely to children, much as they will enjoy it.
place cover, and a series of portrait drawings by It is a series of delightful character-studies, drawn
Mr. George Sloane, which show some cleverness and in masses of black on light brown, with an occasional
much appreciation of the significance of the text. dash of color. The artist expresses a great deal
Other reprints are two in the pretty “ Thumb-Nail with very few and very broad strokes of the brush;
Series ” (Century Co.) — Cicero's “ De Amicitia,” and a grim sort of humor is everywhere evident.
translated by Benjamin E. Smith, and Dickens's A number of calendars have been issued for the
“Christmas Carol,” — each well bound in stamped coming year. The “Frederic Remington Calendar"
leather and illustrated with a good frontispiece in tint; (Russell) is made up of a few selections, less care-
and one of an essay by Mrs. Anna Robertson Brown, fully printed, from a book already reviewed.—“A
-"What is Worth While?" (Crowell), effectively Coon Calendar" (Russell) contains some of Mr.
printed in heavy black type on excellent paper. Kemble's clever drawings of pickaninnies, printed
Music lovers and students will be interested in in color. — The Sports and Seasons Calendar"
“The Story of the Harp” (Lyon & Healy, Chicago), (Russell) also printed in color, illustrates golfing,
which gives a history of that instrument from an- driving, and kindred subjects, with a good deal of
cient times to the present, illustrated with pictures cleverness. - In addition, we find & Shakespeare
a “
of the harp at the various stages of its development, Kalendar" (Dudd), printed on large sheets with a
and with half-tone portraits of famous harpists. quotation for every day, “Ian Maclaren Calen-
Several books of selections are on the holiday dar” (Dodd) for those who wish to be sentimental
tables, and the finest of them is emphatically the all the year round, and a pretty “Calendar of
volume of Wordsworth edited by Mr. Andrew Purple Flowers" (Stokes), from designs by Paul
Lang (Longmans). It is neatly bound in blue de Longpré.
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I.
Such stories are among the most useful and interesting,
BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.
though the writers too often confound fact with trath.
The composition of a fine true story requires as much
The supply of children's books shows no diminution imagination as the writing of fiction. And in the one
from year to year, and the quality of them changes but case, as in the other, the real value depends upon the
little. Occasionally there is an encouraging sign of way it is done. Nevertheless, an inferior historical tale
progress in the direction of wholesomeness and vigor, is more tolerable than a weak invented one. Among
but it does not conceal the many evidences of weakness, these books, dealing more or less directly with history,
of snobbishness, of the worship of false gods. The fate there are some very good stories. « The Century Book
of the little children who have to walk through a world of the American Revolution” (Century Co.), by Mr.
so commonplace or so perverted is enough to excite Elbridge S. Brooks, adopts an ingenious method of con-
sympathy. The joy of filling out the incomplete old necting the events of other days with our own life. Mr.
nursery rhymes, of dreaming over the labyrinthine Brooks carries a party of boys and girls over the ground
paths to fairyland, is never theirs. Out of these scores made historic by the great war, telling the noble story
of books, barely half a dozen give the imagination a of its conflicts almost entirely in dialogue. It is not an
chance to grow. Most of them ignore the existence of easy task to keep freedom and sparkle and crispness
such a quality of the mind. There is a mad search for through such conversation between a friendly and well-
facts, when impossibilities, if they have but a spark of informed uncle and several lively boys and girls. And
humanity in them, are much more beneficial. Facts, as Mr. Brooks succeeds in it fairly well. Occasionally the
they are dressed up for children, are apt to be entirely talk is stiff and unnatural, but he manages to give it
false. Stories of good little school-girls and bad little variety and light-heartedness and to save the uncle from
boys who run away and join the Indians cannot make up pedantry. The plan enables him also to tell many of the
for the absence of the good old fairy tales, which con- intimate little stories of the war, which would come in
tain something true and genuine, something which has less naturally in a more ambitious narrative. And he
answered to the needs of generations of happy children. awakens a keen interest in the places where the battles
Mr. Harry Thurston Peck, in a recent essay, looks for- were fought and their character and development. It
ward to a “ Renaissance of the Natural, when they will brings one in touch a little with the ideas and emotions
no more be fed with formulas and made to learn so many which served to arouse a nation. The book is illustrated
improving things." We are not in need of formulas with innumerable drawings and photographs wbich
here in America; even brought up as we have been on greatly increase its value. It is not the only one which
“ Jack and the Beanstalk," and the others, an excess of deals with the Revolution. “Washington's Young Aids"
fancy is not one of our faults. So that if we are given (W. A. Wilde & Co.), by Mr. Everett T. Tomlinson,
only practical commonplaces to digest, the imagination centres in the New Jersey campaign. It is the story of
is in danger of death from inanition.
two boys who render effective service as scouts and mes-
The Juvenile book of the year, one of the most original sengers. The author tries to be accurate, but the prob-
and beautiful of many years, is that in which M. Boutet abilities are not always considered. It is not the brains
de Monvel, in a series of colored pictures, gives his con- of his heroes which help them out of their adventures.
ception of the personality of “Joan of Arc" (Century It is a tame recital of stirring events; and the author
Co.) The text is a brief and simple story of the life of has so little knowledge of character that one seems to be
this « bumble peasant girl who is the Patroness of France, looking
on at a puppet-play.-" The Boys of Fort Schuy-
who is the Saint of her country as she was its Martyr.” ler” (Estes), by Mr. James Otis, is the same kind of
It is told without flourishes, which could only injure tale about a different part of the same war; but the
its exalted beauty. But the pictures are eloquent of workmanship is much better. Here too, bowever, the
the child's simplicity, her singleness of purpose, her situations are not always convincing, and commanders
self-sacrificing devotion and loyalty, and the purity of seem to take foolish and unnecessary risks. But there
her exaltation. With all these qualities the artist is some spirit in the book, and the characters are indi-
shows the most exquisite and tender sympathy. From vidualized and differentiated. The young hero carries
the first drawing, where she is merely the simple, ignor- important messages through the enemy's lines and issues
ant, industrious peasant-girl, to that one where she triumphant from many a dangerous exploit. His is
stands, clear-sighted and ennobled, the accuser of her courage in a good cause, and will be stimulating to the
worldly judges, he understands her and he makes us boys of our quieter days. The pictures are mediocre,
understand her. The simplicity and spirituality of this but the cover has originality.— The same writer is res-
slender little creature, as we see her in these pictures, ponsible for a story of Boston during the siege, which is
are never open to question. Around her, the color and called “ The Signal Boys of '75” (Estes). In this he
movement are shown with rare and wonderful art. has a more unusual subject, and one in which the work
Every line, every harmony of tint, is made to help in of boys seems more appropriate. It is a simple little
the expression of the emotion of the moment. The story of terror and treachery contrasted with bravery
color reaches its climax of brilliancy in the sumptuous and devotion, and the writer has told it without flourishes
scene of the coronation, and darkens into sombreness or unnecessary ornamentation. He makes one feel the
as the tragedy advances. There is fine decorative beauty of the stanch little characters. The pictures also
feeling in the arrangement of line and color, and the have individuality.- More stirring, more full of action,
characterization is admirable. It would be difficult to is the contribution to the story of the Revolution made
say too much in praise of these beautiful drawings, by Mr. William O. Stoddard, one of the most interest-
which the artists at the last Salon of the Champs de ing of the writers for boys. Its title, “The Red Patriot,”
Mars were wise enough to honor with a separate room. (Appleton), indicates the important part played by an
For this Christmas, the department of history receives Indian in the thrilling drama. But the real heroes are,
more than the usual attention, and the prevailing res- nevertheless, a boy and a horse. The one is as brave as
pect for facts requires that it be given due consideration. the other, and together they do good service for the



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great cause. Better than that, too, they are both very
much alive; we are made to believe in them and sym-
pathize with them. The story moves and the interest is
skilfully maintained. A boy who carries important des-
patches through ominous dangers, and yet abhors shoes
and stockings, will not appeal in vain to the heart of the
American youth.
Mr. James Barnes carries one down to the War of
1812, in his latest book. Its hero is “Commodore
Bainbridge” (Appleton), and the author has had special
opportunities of learning the facts of this commander's
successful career. He tells the spirited story with dash
and brilliancy, vivifying the personality of a vigorous
and able seaman and a born commander. His is a suc-
cess won by fearlessness, readiness, and persistence,
a success in which character meant even more than
ability. The story has variety, morever, and pictur-
esqueness, for the Commodore's adventures are of many
kinds and his ships sail in many waters.
The War of the Rebellion is also given a share of
attention by our historians for the young. With this
conflict as a basis, Mr. William Henry Shelton devises
a curious plot in “ The Last Three Soldiers” (Century
Co.). This remnant of the great army is a signal-corps
stationed at the top of a lonely mountain. The next
signal-station is captured by the Confederates, who send
false messages about the defeat of the Union forces.
Deceived by this information, the three soldiers volun-
tarily exile themselves in their retreat, and for seven
years they remain in ignorance of the issue of the war.
Their life is not without incident, however, and bears
and precipices and buried gold are conspicuous factors
in the story. Impossible situations are given a certain
color of probability, but the author goes far to seek his
adventure. He has no imagination to give it life and
cbarm.- Mr. W. J. Henderson shows rather more of
this quality in “The Last Cruise of the Mohawk”
(Scribner), enough to give bis seamen a little individu-
ality. But the school-life at the beginning is most un-
promising, and there is more than a touch of absurdity
in the strained and obvious characterization. The vil.
lains have a curious tendency to reform in the last
chapter. Some of the descriptions of sea-fights with
Farragut, however, move swiftly and excitedly.— The
same subject and period are dealt with in “Midshipman
Jack” (W. A. Wilde & Co.), by Mr. Charles Ledyard
Norton; and the same battle, where Admiral Farragut
dauntlessly led his ships over the terrible torpedo line,
forms the centre and climax of the story. It is told more
soberly, but more clearly, than the last. There is less
fighting in this book than in the other, and it drags
more.
Mr. William 0. Stoddard has gone back to the begin-
ning of the conflict with Mexico for his war-story, “The
Lost Gold of the Montezumas” (Lippincott); and he
could hardly find a more picturesque subject than the
defense of the Alamo. The story has Davy Crockett
and Colonel Bowie for its heroes, and the fall of the
Alamo, so superbly defended, for its climax. The
writer does not make the most of his fine opportunity;
be does not make the siege a real, living, vital, stir-
ring thing. But even a part of such a truth is worth
ject carefully, and the picture of this life, extinct ye.
still blood of our blood and bone of our bone, has un-
usual interest. The work is well done, with many de-
tails which increase its vividness, and it makes one rejoice
that the difficulties and fears of the rigid little Puritans
are not bothering the children of to-day.—Mr. Hezekiah
Butterworth’s new book, “ True to his Home" (Apple-
ton), is also founded on colonial life. It relates
to the boyhood of Franklin, and carries on the story
of his life to the end. It is a great life, in its sim-
plicity and sincerity as well as in its achievements, and
it is a good thing for the American youth to know of
it. In Mr. Butterworth's way of describing it, there is
nothing pedantic or labored, and the moralizing is not
too much in evidence. He has made it interesting to
boys and girls, this story which is so much quieter and
so much finer than that of warriors.
Only four of these semi-bistorical books deal with
other countries, which indicates the extent of patriotism
among our youth. Two of these relate to England, one
to Germany, and the other goes back to the fall of Carth-
age. The Rev. Alfred J. Church writes the latter, and
calls it “ Lords of the World" (Scribner). The author's
style is rather stiff, and the story does not move with
the swiftness which seems necessary to the subject. Yet
it is handled with dignity and with some ingenuity, and
the narrative is interesting enough to overcome some
heaviness in the method. No history is more romantic
than that of Carthage, and one only wishes that the im-
agination which can resurrect dead cities and peoples
could also vivify them. The illustrations, by Ralph
Peacock, are good.— The German story is one of Mr.
Henty's, and is called “With Frederick the Great"
(Scribner). Mr. Henty is the one of these writers who
best understands bis world, and can handle his material
in such a way as to keep the absorbed attention of his
boys. His descriptions of battles have spontaneity and
dash about them, which bring his readers into the fight-
ing army. In this book he tries to give an impression
of the course of the Seven Years' War, and his youthful
hero rises, through many distinguished exploits, to the
rank of colonel in the service of Frederick the Great.
-Another story of war (on the sea this
time, and the sea
seems to be popular this year) is “The Golden Gal-
leon” (Scribner), by Mr. Robert Leighton. In his pre-
face the author says that he has “tried to represent some
of the conditions of life ashore and afloat in the glorions
days of Queen Elizabeth.” His historical basis is Lord
Thomas Howard's expedition against the West Indian
treasure-ships, and upon it he builds a lively and exciting
story. Mr. Leighton has a good and spirited style, which
does not allow the story to grow tame or the interest to
flag. Drusilla's letter is a pretty bit of courtly writing.
The other English book deals with “The Knights of the
Round Table" (Scribner), a subject always attractive
and romantic. This version is written by Mr. William
Henry Frost, who professes himself an admirer of Ma-
lory, and yet does not hesitate to reduce Malory's tales
to dull prose. Any boy intelligent enough to enjoy these
tales at all would like them infinitely better as Malory
tells them; and the idea that such stories must be speci-
ally written out in a b c language to suit the childish
taste is nonsense. Children have as much feeling for
the beauty of words as their elders; and Malory's rhyth-
mic, sonorous phrases appeal to their imagination. Such
sumptuous raiment is necessary to clothe these stately
tales, and an appreciation of its appropriateness is not
reserved for us alone. We believe too little in the in-
having
Two other American history books antedate the Revo-
lution. “The Young Puritans of Old Hadley” (Roberts),
by Mrs. Mary P. Wells Smith, is an attempt to describe
the life of Puritan children in one of the early Massa-
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ness.
telligence of children, and we continue too long giving fit of illness falls off the deck of an ocean liner. He is
them food for babes.
picked up by one of the crew of the fishing schooner
Those are quieter stories which Mr. W. H. Rideing “ We're Here"; and on that little boat he receives his
has to offer in the new edition of “The Boyhood of first lessons in hard work and in manliness. His stories
Famous Authors" (Crowell). But it must be confessed about his father's drags and private cars are looked upon
that the little he bas found to say about the boyhood of as fairy tales, and for several months during the fishing
such men as Holmes, Trowbridge, Howells and Whittier on the banks he is one of the crew. He adjusts himself
makes rather dull reading. Aldrich and Stevenson have to the situation with boyish alacrity and a boyish love
told their own stories with infinitely better effect, as Mr. of novelty, and it gives him a new attitude towards life.
Rideing would be the first to recognize. Stockton and It is easy to justify Mr. Kipling in his theory that such
Stedman, Boyesen and Kipling, furnish some picturesque a revolutionary experience would be a permanently
material; but if their entire lives were embraced in the healthful influence in a boy's career. He fell in with good
sketches, even children would find them more interesting. fellows, he worked hard, and he came into close contact
Two good examples of the bappy use of the historic with the elements: three things that make for righteous-
imagination in re-creating the life of a by-gone time Yet the hero is his least successful character,-
are Miss Imogen Clark's “Will Shakespeare's Little much less alive than the fishermen, whose life is pre-
Lad” (Scribner) and Mr. John Bennett's “ Master Sky- sented with extraordinary vividness. The breath of
lark" (Century Co.). The « little lad” of Miss Clark's the sea is in the book, and the men who live upon it
аге
story is of course Shakespeare's son Hamnet, twin individualized sharply, but on simple lines, without in-
brother of the Judith whose delightful picture has been tricacy or subtlety. We know them through and through,
given us by Mr. William Black in his « Judith Shakes- as we listen with a kind of amused unconcern to their
peare," one of the best historical novels ever written. idle talk. We lose sight at once of the author; he seems
Although this story of Hamnet is designed for younger to be no part of his book, so completely do the characters
readers, and the author's art is inferior to the older act out their own story. It is a remarkable imagination
writer's, it is nevertheless a pleasant “all feigned though that can so absorb itself in unfamiliar surroundings.
true” representation of the home life of the Arden, Yet the story drags at times; and at the end, though the
Hathaway, and Shakespeare families. Master Skylark author is wise enough to keep the millionaire from act-
of Mr. Bennett's story is a Stratford boy of the six- ing as special providence when he finds his son, there is
teenth century, who, falling upon hard places in London, rather too much talk about money and the things that
seeks the aid of his fellow-townsman, and finds him money can do. If it were not for the latter defect,
true to Ben Jonson's description, the “gentle Shakes- however, we would miss the fine description of the race
peare." Books of this nature are enjoyable in propor- of the “ lightning special " across the continent, and the
tion to previous knowledge of the atmosphere and interesting commentary upon the American man of
situation; hence the elders of the household will in affairs. This sketch indicates that Mr. Kipling should
some cases like them even more than the children, while give us a more serious and complete picture of this type,
the illustrations of both volumes are artistic enough to that “story of the New West, whose story is yet to be
attract eyes of whatever age.
written.” There are brilliant, illuminating phrases and
Among the writers of pure fiction for children, there paragraphs here and there in the book, but they make
is one who has only to speak to be eagerly and affection- one wish that the author would spend his time upon less
ately listened to. “Once the White-Haired Master" transitory work.
in his latest book “said to Little Crochet, • They all love A new edition of Mr. Charles Dudley Warner's
you because you are good, my son.' But Little Crotchet Being a Boy” (Houghton) is welcome for the holi-
was quick to reply: Oh, no, father; it isn't that. It's days, though it is the kind of book which boys enjoy
because I am fond of them!!" And this is also the ex- most after they are grown. It is half reminiscence and
planation Mr. Joel Chandler Harris's hold upon the half biography, but it is wholly charming. It represents
children. For every living thing he has a kindness, and the life of the New England boy before the middle of
his sympathy is intuitive and exquisitely delicate. One the century, his pleasures and troubles being very much
feels it from the first page to the last of “ Aaron in the like those of the boy of to-day. It leaves one with the
Wildwoods" (Houghton),- this deep understanding of impression that the life of a country boy is a singularly
life, and the deeper reverence for its beauty and even happy one, in spite of the fact that he must “ work for
for its imperfections. In him the love of things fine his independence.” Mr. Warner carries one into this
and noble never implies harshness or cruelty to those life with a delightful sympathy. He is still a boy at
creatures that are themselves harsh and cruel. Nothing heart, and can still chuckle over his natural shortcom-
is uninteresting to him; no character is too trivial for ings and subterfuges. He good-naturedly lets one into
him to illuminate it. His books are too fine to be re- the secrets of his life, but they are not very wicked
served entirely for children, yet they are never raised secrets, and it might make the sternest parent more
above a child's intelligence. It is only that their sim- tolerant to read of them. This new edition after twenty
plicity is subtle and their subtlety is given the color of years is illustrated with many charming realistic photo-
simplicity. This latest book tells us the story of Aaron graphs by Mr. Clifton Johnson,– photographs that
the runaway negro and Little Crochet, the cripple who show the real boy, wholesome and happy, at work and
dashes through the woods and swamps on his Gray Pony. at play.
We can afford to throw aside the histories for a time In The Young Mountaineers" (Houghton), by
for the sake of the good honest truth and beauty which Charles Egbert Craddock, there is a good deal of human
lie deep in the heart of such a book as this.
nature. But here, too, it is of the kind that appeals to
In "Captains Courageous" (Century Co.), Mr. Rud- adults rather than to the young. The fact that “ Old
yard Kipling has written a fresh, breezy, bracing sort Daddy" rode three miles on a bad horse to tell his
of story of the Grand Banks. Its hero is the spoiled and cronies of the great achievement of his son in seeing a
conceited son of a California millionaire, who in a sudden “ harnt" is delightful to us who are more or less sophisti-


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cated, but it would have no special charm for boys. And a story of mining. In this, the hero and it is cura
the clever analysis of boy-nature in “ Among the Cliffs' that heroes always should be born fortunate) discovers,
is open to the same criticism. Yet this story is so through the chance of an accidental fall, a rich vein of
original and so amusing that one does not care whether gold. Like all heroes, he at once appreciates the value
the boys like it or not. • Way Down in Poor Valley of his discovery, and knows how to make the most of it
is less convincing, and its bero seems unnaturally and and defend it from his enemies. He ultimately secures
too consciously heroic. The book bas caught something bis millions, travels around the world, and lives happily
of the spirit of the mountains, though some of the de- ever after. The constant, complete, and overwhelming
scriptions are a little strident.
success of heroes becomes, however, a somewhat painful
Ground even more unfamiliar is covered by Mr. Hez- mystery after one has read a score or more of children's
ekiah Butterworth in “Over the Andes" (Wilde). The books. One begins to long for an unlucky and improvi-
author takes two boys and a girl, guided by the inevita- dent hero, and to understand why boys should take to
ble uncle, to Buenos Ayres, and then across country and smoke and girls to tempers in order to escape the deadly
over the Andes to the western coast. It is a fine oppor. monotony.
tunity to describe a rich and beautiful region, which, to It is rather a relief to come upon the quieter adven-
the American youth, is much less familiar than the tures of « The ing of the Park” (Crowell), by Mr.
nations of Europe. The place is a mine of romantic Marsball Saunders. The action takes place in civilized
material, but Mr. Butterworth only suggests its possi- Boston, and “King Boozy” is a cat. The conspicuous
bilities. The beauty of the region and its poetry are place in the story, however, is occupied by a French
beyond his stilted style. Yet there is much information boy, who is an interesting little aristocrat. The study
that may make the boys realize that the great countries of his character is neither consistent nor profound, but
to the south of us are not to be ignored. And the nar- it is effective nevertheless, and it has some originality.
rative is given variety by introducing certain stories Democratic ideas are developed in his obstinate little
connected with the history and heroes of Brazil and head at last, but his French notions produce some curi-
Peru.
ous situations. And the scene in which he demands the
“ Paul Travers's Adventures ” (Way & Williams), by hand of a playmate from her father is amusing even if
Mr. Sam T. Clover, embrace even a larger territory. it is false.
In his search for experience, the boy-hero of the story There is a suggestion of Little Lord Fauntleroy about
starts off on a journey around the world, determined to the book just named, as there is also in “ A Little House
pay
his
way. It is a story of the kind of pluck that in Pimlico" (McClurg), by Miss Marguerite Bouvet.
is regarded as peculiarly American, but the boy's meth- But in spite of this, the latter is an attractive little story,
ods of securing money and transportation do not always very daintily written. The characters are exaggerated,
indicate the highest sense of bonor. He is a cheery, sentimentalized a little; the mother and son are almost
generous fellow, however, and his story is told crisply too good and gentle, and the uncle is much too crotch-
and in a vigorous style. The shipwreck, especially, is etty. But there is a certain delicate grace in the man-
well done.
ner of telling the simple story, which has its charm.
There is a similar scene in “ The Beach Patrol" The leading character of the book is Beckie the maid,
(Wilde), by Mr. William Drysdale, but it is written who bas a good deal of individuality. The pictures, by
from the point of view of a boy in the life-saving ser- Miss Helen Maitland Armstrong, are excellent.
vice instead of one on the wreck. The rescue of the The hero of “The Wreck of the Circus ” (Crowell),
passengers makes an exciting narrative, and gives one by Mr. James Otis, is not a model of goodness, but he
an insight into the dangers of the service and the dar- is heavily punished for his faults. His parents, how-
ing required to meet them. The story has a dash and ever, are not punished at all for their inconsiderate
swing that will hold the attention of all boys who love cruelty in ordering a healthy boy to stay at home and
courage.
take care of the baby on the one day when the circus
One is not encouraged to read a book for its style on is in possession of the town. His revolt is as natural
learning in the opening sentence that “one of the most as the terror which assails him when he thinks the baby
wonderful landscapes of the world was outspread in crushed under the fallen tent. The narrative is well
every direction.” Nevertheless, a description of “The handled, and has a wholesome moral for boys and for the
Painted Desert” (Harper) is no easy thing to write, motbers of boys.
and when Mr. Kirk Munroe gets beyond this and fairly Mrs. Elizabeth W. Champney has written a delightful
into his story, his style improves. Todd Chalmers, bis little French story in “ Pierre and his Poodle" (Dodd,
hero, accompanies a scientific expedition into Arizona, Mead & Co.). Its heroes are two French poodles, one
and in the course of a deer-hunt loses his companions of whom is an aristocrat and the other the property of
and finds himself alone in the Painted Desert. His en- a travelling show-wagon. But love levels all ranks,
counter there with some Quaker hermits, and their and the two join forces and pass through many interest-
subsequent exposure of two swindlers who attempt to ing adventures together. Incidentally the life of the
“salt” the valley with diamonds, form the basis of a vig- travelling showman is depicted, with many a French
orous and interesting story. The background, which is custom, strange to us. There is an exciting scene where
always kept in evidence, has a charm of its own; and Pierre rescues Popotte as they are about to feed ber to
Mr. Lungren's admirable drawings make it vivid where the serpent, and is himself almost killed in the effort.
Mr. Munroe's descriptions do not. We have a glimpse, Mrs. Champney has written many children's stories,
though, of curious Indian customs, like the snake-dance. but none so good as this. She has given individuality
The work is cleverly constructed, and the author is and charm to her characters, including her dogs. The
ingenious in devising original and striking situations. pictures, by Mr. F. D. Steele, are as clever as the
Life in the far west attracts the authors of two other story.
books. «The Big-Horn Treasure” (McClurg), by Cap- “ Derick" (Dodd, Mead & Co.), by Miss Barbara
tain John F. Cargill, goes to the Rocky Mountains for Yechton, is a pretty story, - rather too pretty. It con-


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tains a good deal of superfluous talk about dress, and the
LITERARY NOTES.
city life it describes is not particularly bracing. But
Derick's purchase of a silver butter-dish surmounted by
Mrs. Isabella Bird Bishop's “ Korea and Her Neigh-
a resplendent cow, and his presentation of it to his rich bors," a work resulting from two years' recent residence
friend, is a clever bit of description.
in Korea, is about to be published by the Fleming H.
It would require a self-sacrificing boy to withstand
Revell Co.
80 alluring a title-page as that of “The Rover's Quest”
Two volumes of the “University Tutorial Series"
(Lippincott), by Mr. Hugh St. Leger. It is described
(Hinds & Noble) just sent us are " The Tutorial Trigo
as “a story of foam, fire, and fight," and the author
does his best to live up to this thrilling characteriza-
nometry,” by Messrs. William Briggs and G. H. Bryan,
and “Euclid, Books I-IV,” by Mr. Rupert Deakin.
tion.
A new edition of two of the perennial Rollo books,
Texts of Plato's “ Philebas” and “The Republic,”
“Rollo at Work" and “ Rollo at Play” (Crowell), is
edited respectively by Mr. Robert Gregg Bury and
published, after forty years since their first
James Adam, are recent publications of the Cambridge
appearance,
and they are supplied with a preface in which parents
University Press, and are sent us by the Macmillan Co.
are informed that the books will do good service in Miss Alice Longfellow desires to have impressed on
“cultivating the thinking powers, in promoting the the public” the fact that “He-awa-tha" was the pro-
progress of children, and in cultivating the amiable and nunciation given by her father to the hero of his Indian
gentle qualities of the heart.” With such advantages epic. The accented “a was like the vowel sound in
it would be a stony-hearted parent who could resist
" mar."
the inclination to put these favorites of his own youth “ The War of the Theatres,” by Professor Josiah H.
into the hands of his boys and girls.
Penniman, is a publication of the University of Pennsyl-
A new translation of “Cuore," by Edmondo de Ami- vania. It is a study of the group of Elizabethan plays
cis, is publisbed under the title of “ The Heart of a associated with the famous quarrel between Jonson and
Boy" (Laird & Lee). The translation is the work of Marston.
Prof. G. Mantellini, and is well done in spite of occa- The Macmillan Co. are the publishers of “ A History
sional roughnesses. The book deserves to be as well of Rome for Beginners,” by Mr. Evelyn S. Schuckburgh,
known in America as in Italy, for there is nothing and of an “ Elementary Latin-English Dictionary,"
special or exceptional in its application. It goes to the prepared by Mr. G. H. Nall, and designed for use in
root of things, touching the fundamental emotions of secondary schools.
youth. And though it is a quiet story of school-life, it « Un Drama Nuevo," by “ Don Joaquin Estébanez”
has an absorbing interest, and is in many ways one of (the pseudonym of Don Manuel Tamayo y Baus), bas
the best books that have ever been written for boys.
been edited for school use by Dr. John E. Matzke, and
Three new volumes in the “Bound to Win” series
is published by Mr. W. R. Jenkins as a number of his
(W. L. Allison Co.) tell of different kinds of adven-
“ Teatro Español ” series.
ture. In “ Poor but Plucky,” by Arthur M. Winfield,
The Percy Turnbull lectures for next spring are to have
the hero finds his enemies in floods and robbers and
for their subject “ The Poetry of India," and Professor
conspirators. But he lives up to the title with remark-
Lanman,
of Harvard University, has been invited to give
able and rather amusing consistency.—The same author's
them. They will constitute the seventh series of lec-
“Schooldays of Fred Harley” is occupied with games
tures upon the Turnbull foundation.
rather than with books, baseball being especially prom-
inent. The nature of the adventures and the way they
The Open Court Publishing Co. have issued a third
edition of Dr. Paul Carus's little story of early Budd-
are described are rather different from the fine serenity
of de Amicis' school-life.- Hunting is the special fea-esting and artistic bit of book-making, having been
bism entitled “ Karma." This new edition is an inter-
ture of “Gun and Sled,” by Captain Ralph Bonehill,
printed and illustrated in Japan, in the native style.
and it enables him to tell many a hair-raising story of
fights with wild-cats and wolves, which even a boy could
Mr. R. M. Wenley, of the University of Michigan,
hardly take very seriously.
has prepared an introductory outline of Kant's “Critique
Two stories by "Oliver Optic” are contributed to
of Pure Reason," designed to make as easy as possible
the holiday pleasures of boys. “At the Front” (Lee
the approach to the study of that great work. Messrs.
& Shepard) is the fifth of the land series of " The Blue
Henry Holt & Co. are the publishers of this small
and the Gray,” the battle of Stone River being its cen-
volume.
tre and climax.- _“ Pacific Shores " is the last volume Dr. William Edward Mead bas edited a volume of
of the “All-over-the-World Library” (Lee & Shepard).
“Selections from Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur”
The voyage includes Japan, Australia, New Zealand,
for the “ Athenæum Press” series, and the work is now
and the Fiji Islands, and brings the boy traveller home published by Messrs. Ginn & Co. in a volume of three
a "model hero."
hundred and fifty pages, of which the text constitutes
The Rev. Louis Albert Banks in his “An Oregon
about two-thirds.
Boyhood " (Lee & Shepard), tells a story of western “The Epic of Sounds" (Lippincott), by Miss Freda
pioneering. He does it rather heavily, but his book Winworth, is described as “an elementary interpretation
contains much interesting information regarding the of Wagner's Nibelungen Ring.'” It provides a care-
life of the adventurous men who first crossed the conti- ful analysis of the great tetralogy, and gives the lead-
nent.— The same publishers reprint in the small books ing motives in staff notation. It is an admirable little
of the “ Hearthstone series " three good stories for work, and has our heartiest commendation.
boys, “ The Man who Stole a Meeting House," by The American Branch of the Egypt Exploration Fund,
J. T. Trowbridge; “Getting an Indorser," by Oliver through the Rev. W. C. Winslow, appeals for contribu-
Optic; and “Exiled from Two Lands,” by E. T. Tom- tions to be applied to the publication of the Oxyrhyncus
linson.
papyri, as well as to conduct further explorations. All
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The Shakespeare Calendar for 1898. Compiled by
Louella C. Poole and Andrea Jonsson. Illus., large 4to.
Dodd, Mead & Co. Boxed, $1.00.
"
a
subscribers to the amount of five dollars or upwards
will receive the publications of the fund. Contribu-
tions should be sent to Mr. Francis C. Foster, 59 Temple
street, Boston.
Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons are the American pub-
lishers of “The Mathematical Psychology of Gratry and
Boole,” a “ translation" into the language of elementary
geometry of the doctrines stated in terms of the calculus
by the great mathematicians named in the title. This
little book is the work of Mrs. Mary Everest Boole.
The Macmillan Co. have published “The Torrents
of Spring,” together with “ First Love” and “Mumu,"
forming Volume XI. in their new edition of Tourgué-
nieff, and “Captain Mansana” coupled with “ Mother's
Hands,” forming Volume VII. in their edition of the
novels of Herr Björnsen. “Mother's Hands” is here for
the first time translated into English.
Mr. Albert A. Hopkins's large and handsomely illus-
trated volume entitled “ Magic: Stage Illusions and
Scientific Diversions, including Trick Photography ”
(Munn & Co.) is the most complete and exhaustive
work on the subjects which it covers that has yet ap-
peared. An historical Introduction and a full Biblio-
graphy add to the value and interest of the volume.
The Lowell Memorial, which is to be a portion of
the Elmwood estate converted into a public park, re-
quires the sum of $35,000 for its realization in accord-
ance with the plans of the committee in charge. Of
this sum, nearly $20,000 has already been pledged, and
subscriptions for the remainder are invited. The treas-
urer of the fund is Mr. W. A. Bullard, First National
Bank, Cambridge, Mass.
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(The following list, containing 181 titles, includes books
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An Emperor's Doom; or, The Patriots of Mexico. By
Herbert Hayens. Illus., 12mo, pp. 432. Thomas Nelson
& Sons. $1.50.
“Sister”: A Chronicle of Fair Haven. By E. Everett-Green.
Illus., 12mo, pp. 422. Thomas Nelson & Sons. $1.50.
The Exploits of Myles Standish. By Henry Johnson
(Muirhead Robinson). Illus., 12mo, pp. 278. D. Apple-
ton & Co. $1.50.
The Lost Gold of the Montezumas: A Story of the
Alamo. By William O. Stoddard. Illus., 12mo, pp. 309.
J. B. Lippincott Co. $1.50.
Paul Travers' Adventures: Being the Narrative of a
Boy's Journey around the World. By_Sam T. Clover.
Illus., 12mo, gilt top, uncat, pp. 368. Way & Williams.
$1.50.
Guarding the Border; or, The Boys of the Great Lakes.
By Everett T. Tomlinson. Illus., 12mo, pp. 365. Lee &
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Little Hearts. By Florence K. Upton ; words by Bertha
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Routledge & Sons. $1.50.
Little-Folk Lyrics. By Frank Dempster Sherman ; illus.
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The Blackberries and their Adventures. By Edward W.
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The Children at Sherburne House. By Amanda M.
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Three Pretty Maids. By Amy E. Blanchard. Illus., 12mo,
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More Beasts (For Worse Children). Verses by H. B.;
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The Island of Gold: A Sailor's Yarn. By Gordon Stables,
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Three Margarets. By Laura E. Richards. Illus., 12mo,
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Soldiers of the Legion: A Tale of the Carlist War. By
Herbert Hayens. Illus., 12mo, pp. 413. Thomas Nelson
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Parables for School and Home. By Wendell P. Garrison.
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The “Rover's" Quest: A Story of Foam, Fire, and Fight.
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Ten Little Comedies: Tales of the Troubles of Ten Little
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Meg Langbolme; or, The Day after To-Morrow. By Mrs.
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A Girl's Ordeal. By Mrs. Lucy C. Lillie. Illus., 12mo,
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Chatterbox for 1897. Edited by J. Erskine Clarke, M.A.
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Blown Away: A Nonsensical Narrative without Rhyme or
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Autobiography of a Monkey. Found and pictured by
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The Young Puritans of Old Hadley. By Mary P. Wells
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Miss Mouse and her Boys. By Mrs. Molesworth. Illus.,
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Prince Uno: Uncle Frank's Visit to Fairy-Land. Illus.,
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The Vanished Yacht. By E. Harcourt Burrage. Illus.,
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"Quo Vadis." By Henryk Sienkiewicz ; trans. by Jeremiah
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Walden ; or, Life in the Woods. By Henry David Thoreau.
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“All Hands": Pictures of Life in the United States Navy.
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The Critical Period of American History, 1783-1789. By
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Tennyson's In Memoriam. With Preface by Henry Van
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Some Colonial Homesteads and their stories. By Marion
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The Spinning Wheel at Rest: Poems. By Edward Augas-
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The Dumpies. Discovered and drawn by Frank Verbeck;
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R. H. Russell. $1.25.
The Heart of a Boy (Cuore). By Edmondo de Amicis ;
trans. from the Italian by Prof. G. Mantellini. Illus.,
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Bound to Win Series. New vols.: Schooldays of Fred
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Gun and Sled, or The Young Hunters of Snow-Top Island,
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Arthur M. Winfield. Each illus.,
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The Muses up to Date: A Series of Plays for Children.
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Sermon Stories for Boys and Girls. By Rev. Louis
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A Dear Little Girl. By Amy E. Blanchard. Illas., 12mo,
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Queer Janet. By Grace Le Baron. Illus., 16mo, pp. 187.
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The Worst Boy in the School. By Michael J. A. McCaf-
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The War of Greek Independence, 1821 to 1833. By W.
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A Semis Monthly Journal of Literary Criticism, Discussion, and Information.
No. 276. DECEMBER 16, 1897. Vol. XXIII.
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.
CONTENTS - Books for the Young - Continued.
PAGB
dren.- Mansfield's Blown Away.-Ver-Beck and Paine's The
Dumpies. – Miss Hall's Adventures in Toyland. - Kemble's
The Blackberries. - Miss Praeger's Adventures of Three Bold
Babes. — Miss Humphrey's Little Grown-Ups. Mrs. Dodge's
A New Baby World. – Miss Upton's Little Hearts. - Chatter-
box for 1897. - Sunday Reading for the Young for 1898. – Mrs.
Pierson's Among the Meadow People. — Mrs. Brown's The
Plant Baby. - Mrs. Richards's Three Margarets. – Miss De-
land's Alan Rapsford. – Miss Deland's A Successful Venture.
- Miss Smith's Ten Little Comedies. - Miss Baylor's Miss
Nina Barrow. — “Marion Harland's" An Old-Field School-
Girl. – Miss Douglas's The Children at Sherburne House.
Miss Douglas's Her Place in the World. - Miss Douglas's
Hannah And. - Mrs. Molesworth's Miss Mouse and her Boys.
– Mrs. Molesworth's Meg Langholme.-Miss Yonge's Founded
on Paper. – Mrs. Champney's Witch Winnie in Venice. —
Miss Raymond's The Little Red Schoolhouse. - Mrs. Vaile's
Sue Orcutt. - Miss LeBaron's Queer Janet. – Miss Webster's
Rich Enough. - Miss Plympton's Wanolasset. – Mrs. Lillie's
A Girl's Ordeal. - Migs Wyllarde's A Lonely Little Lady. –
Mrs. Everett-Green's Sister. – Mrs. Ide's Little Homespun.
Miss Blanchard's A Dear Little Girl. - Ingersoll's Wild
Neighbors. – - Miss Harraden's Untold Tales of the Past.
Gomme's The King's Story Book. - Hayens's An Emperor's
Doom. - Hayens's Soldiers of the Legion. - Mrs. Everett-
Green's A Clerk of Oxford. - Johnson's The Exploits of Myles
Standish. – Drake's On Plymouth Rock. – Miss Lincoln's An
Unwilling Maid. — Tomlinson's Guarding the Border. –
Barnes's Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors. – Mrs. Seawell's
Twelve Naval Captains. – Burrage's The Vanished Yacht. -
Stables's The Island of Gold. — Crockett's Sir Toady Lion. -
Lummis's The Enchanted Burro. — Lummis's The King of
the Broncos.
-
LITERARY NOTES
403
.
.
LIST OF NEW BOOKS
404
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.
CONTENTS.
PAGL
THE ACADEMY GAME
. 381
ENGLISH CORRESPONDENCE. Temple Scott 383
ART IN A SORDID AGE. (Poem.) Edith M. Thomas 384
LIFE AND LETTERS OF MRS. STOWE. E.J.G. 384
AN EX-PRESIDENT'S VIEWS OF HIS COUNTRY.
Harry Pratt Judson
386
MR. ANDREW LANG'S BOUT WITH PROF. MAX
MULLER. Frederick Start .
388
THE PRE-SHAKESPEARIAN DRAMA.
Albert H. Tolman.
389
RECENT FICTION. William Morton Payne
389
Besant's A Fountain Sealed. - Blackmore's Dariel.
- Wells's The Invisible Man. – Mason's Lawrence
Clavering. — Bloundelle - Burton's The Clash of
Arms. - Merriman's In Kedar's Tents. - Benham's
The Fourth Napoleon. - Marchmont's By Right of
Sword.- Pemberton's Queen of the Jesters.-Allen's
An African Millionaire.
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS—II.
392
Vuillier's A History of Dancing.–Gibson's London.
- Longfellow's Evangeline, holiday edition. -Spen-
ser's The Shepheard's Calendar, illus. by Crane.
Inman's The Santa Fé Trail. – McCarthy's Life of
Gladstone. — Miss Hurll's The Madonna in Art. —
Nicholson's Almanac of Twelve Sports. - Elliot's
The Gallinaceous Game Birds of North America.
Parkhurst's Song Birds and Water Fowl. - Drum-
mond's The Habitant. - Williamson's Portrait Minia-
tures. - Thomas B. Mosher's Publications for 1897.
-Rossetti's The White Ship. - Mrs. Sherman's
Dante's Vision of God. – Old English Love Songs,
illas. by Edwards. - Huntington's A Note-Book in
Northern Spain. - Prang's New Christmas Cards and
Calendars. — Corbin's School Boy Life in England. -
Page's Social Life in Old Virginia. - Miss Guerber's
Stories of Famous Operas. — Miss Phillips's Reminis-
cences of William Wetmore Story. - Life's Comedy,
second series. — Flying Leaves. — Hubbard's Little
Journeys to the Homes of Famous Women.- Atwell's
Pensées of Joubert, new edition: - Mrs. Palmer's
Oriental Days. --Shakespeare's Hamlet, illus. by H. C.
Christy. - Owen Meredith's Lucile, illus. by Made
leine Lemaire.-Sterne's Sentimental Journey, illus.
THE ACADEMY GAME.
When subjects of a timely or sensational
nature fail him, the resourceful literary editor
always has the satisfaction of knowing that he
can fall back upon a discussion of some such
well-worn subject as the ten greatest poems, or
the hundred best books, or the forty living
writers most deserving of academic immortality.
These diversions characterize the “silly season
of literary journalism, and always provide both
amusement and edification to the philosophical
student of critical opinion. The last of the
subjects above mentioned is the one just now
upon the tapis, and the ball of discussion has
been set rolling, with a fair amount of impetus,
by our English contemporary, “The Academy,”
in a praiseworthy effort to live up to the obli-
gations of its name.
The thing is done in the old familiar way.
A list of forty names is printed, and the public
is invited to take a hand in the mêlée, while
participation is further stimulated by the per-
sonal appeal of the editor to as many well-
known writers as he thinks are likely to fall
by T. H. Robinson. - Central Berkshire Illustrated.
BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG - II. ..
398
Asbjörnsen's Fairy Tales from the Far North. - Lang's The
Pink Fairy Book. — Sullivan's The Flame-Flower. — Sullivan's
Here They Are! - Prince Uno. — Munkittrick's The Slam-
angaree. - Pyke's The Adventures of Mabel. — Farrow's
The Missing Prince. - The Cruikshank Fairy-Book. - Haw-
thome's Tanglewood Tales, and Tales from Hans Andersen,
now editions. - Mr. and Mrs. Field's The Muses up to Date.
- Miss Chapin's The Story of the Rhinegold. — Miss Alger's
In Indian Tents. - The Stevenson Song-Book. - Bunner's
Three Operettas. - Mrs. Coonley's Singing Verses for Child-
Sherman's Little-Folk Lyrics, new edition. — - Hendry's
Red Apple and Silver Bells. — Field's Lullaby-Land. - Baum's
Mother Goose in Prose. — Miss Upton's The Vege-Men's Re-
venge.- Paine and Mayer's Autobiography of a Monkey.--The
Bad Child's Book of Beaste. - More Beasts for Worse Chil-
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a
victim to his wiles. Here is the initial list: his other question : “Why does the Duke of
John Ruskin.
W. E. H. Lecky.
Argyll always figure in this sort of thing?” It
W. E. Gladstone. S. R. Gardiner.
is a little puzzling to find Mr. Henry James in
Herbert Spencer. Bishop Creighton.
this galley, and if his name be not promptly
Duke of Argyll.
Bishop Stubbs.
A. C. Swinburne.
Rev. Aidan Gasquet.
withdrawn we shall insist upon making Mr.
George Meredith.
W. E. Henley.
Rudyard Kipling a member of the American
John Morley.
Andrew Lang.
academy as soon as we get around to the organ- .
Thomas Hardy.
William Archer.
ization of that equally-to-be-desired body. A
James Bryce.
H. D. Traill.
Sir G.O. Trevelyan.
fair exchange is no robbery. And it is surely
Edmund Gosse.
Leslie Stephen.
Mrs. Meynell.
unkind to ask, as one correspondent does, “If
George Macdonald.
Mrs. Humphry Ward. you admit an American (in the person of Mr.
R. D. Blackmore. Francis Thompson. Henry James), why not admit Captain Mahan,
Rudyard Kipling W. B. Yeats.
and so exhaust American literature?” Ex-
Aubrey de Vere.
Henry James.
R. C. Jebb.
Austin Dobson.
haust, indeed! Such sayings do not further
Dr. Salmon.
J. M. Barrie.
the great cause of international amenity. Have
W. W. Skeat.
A. W. Pinero.
we not recently produced a “ Library of the
Dr. J. A. H. Murray. W. S. Gilbert.
World's Best Literature" in which, upon our
W. P. Ker.
« Lewis Carroll."
own showing, there may be found American
Furthermore, to give the discussion an air of immortals to the number of several times the
seriousness, it is proposed to “crown two beggarly forty of our English contemporary?
“ books of signal merit" chosen from among A few of the comments made
upon
the
the publications of each year. But this pre- “ Academy" list are too interesting to be
tence of seriousness does not seem to have im- missed. Sir Herbert Maxwell writes: “I have
posed upon anyone except Mr. Swinburne, who no confidence whatever in Mr. W. E. Glad.
comments upon the plan with his customary stone's literary judgment; he is omnivorous,
suavity. “The notion of an English academy and writes as enthusiastically about The Chris-
is too seriously stupid for a farce, and too es- tian' as about The Odyssey. Greatly as I
sentially vulgar for a comedy,” he remarks, admire his faculties in his own sphere, he is no
and adds: “It seems to me that the full and
more than a peregrine in literature.” The same
proper definition of so preposterous an imper-writer futher remarks: “I am sorry that I can-
tinence must be left to others than the bearer not restrain a shudder at the prospect of Mr.
of a name selected for the adulation of such an Meredith having a hand in moulding style.”
insult.” Mr. Swinburne always gets excited Perhaps the boldest of the correspondents is the
about things that he doesn't like, and his sense
one who carps at the two women on the list;
but
of humor, elsewhere so richly displayed, deserts his misogyny is counterbalanced by the other
him upon such occasions. Most of the con- writer who sends a list of forty women proposed
tributors to the “ Academy” symposium, how- for a parallel academy of the downtrodden sex.
ever, write in a vein of good humor, and their
Some names included in the “ Academy ”
opinions, although couched in sober terms, are
forty are certainly astonishing, when we consider
mostly suggestive of a suppressed chuckle. It
the names that do not appear. Here are a score
is only a game, after all, and the object of
of candidates for the “forty-first armchair."
games is to provide entertainment for those
James Martineau.
Henry Sidgwick.
who participate in them. We cannot resist Sir Frederick Pollock. Robert Bridges.
the temptation to take a hand ourselves, and Lord Acton.
Professor Mabaffy.
trust that our observations, however serious they
Theodore Watts-Danton. J. H. Shorthouse.
Professor Dowden. Edward Caird.
may seem, will not be taken as expressing the
Sir Walter Besant.
William Watson.
opinion that an English academy, thus created
Goldwin Smith.
Stopford Brooke.
de novo, is either desirable or even possible. Max Müller.
Lloyd Morgan.
The list presented is not a bad one, as such Frederick Harrison. Professor Tyrrell.
A. J. Balfour.
lists go, and the names are all of people whose
Augustus Jessopp.
intellectual standing is such as to justify their A list that leaves out the best of these, and yet
consideration -- all, that is, except the Rev. finds places for Mr. J. M. Barrie, Mr. W. S.
Aidan Gasquet, of whose achievements we are Gilbert, Mr. William Archer, and Mr. W. B.
bound to confess entire ignorance. • Who is Yeats, is certainly not a list controlled by the
the Rev. Aidan Gasquet?” asks Mr. H. G. sort of critical judgment that commands re-
Wells, and we cannot refrain from adding spect. Take Mr. Watts-Danton, for example,
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of whom Dr. Nicoll writes as follows: He " is but what was not anticipated was the unstinted praise
undoubtedly the first of living critics, and per-
it has obtained as a piece of literary biography. Apart
from the subject matter of the two volumes, it seems
haps the first of all English critics. No one
that we must accept the « Life of Tennyson” as among
in our country has handled books as he has
the few great biographies in our language; otherwise,
done with a knowledge of the literature of the the critics must be wrong. Of course, that critics should
whole world.” Hardly less glaring is the lack
err, cannot for a moment be granted; since the mark of
of discernment which sets Sir G. O. Trevelyan
the modern critic is his capacity for anticipating the
verdict of posterity. Fortunately, however, for this
above Mr. Goldwin Smith, of Professor Ker
“Life," it has not been appraised by the common or
above Professor Dowden, or Mr. Francis
garden” critic; so that we may take the opinion passed
Thompson above Mr. Robert Bridges, or Mr. as the outcome of judicious thinking and scholarly ap-
H. D. Traill above Lord Acton.
preciation. At any rate, it has sold remarkably well; so
But we are getting serious ourselves, which
well, indeed, that the English publisher who said, "the
selling power of a book is in inverse ratio to its intrinsic
is not at all what we intended. So we forego value," must surely now remodel his law.
the temptation to quote from Matthew Arnold Our English critics have, for some time now, been
on “The Literary Influence of Academies," having a bad time of it. It all began with Marie Corelli,
or even from Mr. Gosse's “ An Election at the
when she stopped sending them her novels for review,
and so deprived them of a legitimate source of income.
English Academy,” and conclude with a couple
In all probability, we shall now hear of another lady
of letters printed in “ Punch," although we do novelist emulating Miss Corelli in this respect. The
not vouch for their authenticity.
reviewer of Mrs. Sarah Grand's “The Beth Book," in
the London “Daily Telegraph,” had occasion, after
Care of Clio, Parnassus.
praising the first part of that good dame's story, to
DEAR MR. PUNCH: I am glad to observe my name animadvert on the “sexuality" of the second part. The
among The Forty. I do not, however, altogether sub-
animadversion bas evidently touched Mrs. Grand, for
scribe to the other thirty-nine articles. Yours skep-
she writes the following letter to the “Telegraph." I
tically,
W. E. H. L-CKY. give it in extenso, as illustrating how to write “in the
The Morgue, Paris.
grand manner.” The lady writes from the Pyrenees.
SIR PUNCH, MISTER: Hope deferred
“SIR,— My distance from home makes the receipt of papers
- as one says
a somewhat fitful event, and this must be my excuse for the
- makes the core bilious. Here they will not have me
delay in answering your delicate apostrophe to me. That you
at no price, try all I will. But you, you have the nose
should insult Scott and Thackeray and Dickens with your
fine for merit. Albeit, in effect, not of Anglo-Saxon
approval prins me but little, since they will never hear of it;
provenance, I am traveller. I have made the grand that you are so much cleverer than I am I must modestly
voyage of the Sleeve. See there, then, I speak the accept your word for; that you strain yourself to be facetious
English. O yes! Alright. Agree, etc.
and but prove yourself a dunce, I must attribute to your acad-
EM-L-Z-L-. emic degree, and a course of the blighting wit of the common-
room; that you should attack me with base misrepresentation,
Our own opinion is that M. Zola stands as I get down to some rag of chivalry that still clings to you ; that
fair a chance as any Englishman mentioned you are of ancient lineage I am willing to admit, since your
of adorning a chair in the proposed English mine shows you infected with the blood of Ananias; that you
putting into my mouth words and sentiments which are not
Academy.
should take yourself as a serious judge of art is a crime for
which it is painful to think you must one day settle between
you and your God; but that you should write yourself down
an admirer of mine is the ugliest blow that my art has dealt
me, and I take this opportunity to publicly apologise for it.
ENGLISH CORRESPONDENCE. -Believe me, yours in sorrow for your insincerity,
SARAH GRAND."
LONDON, Dec. 5, 1897. All this does not mean that the lady is angry; quite the
The rush and stress of the publishing season of 1897 contrary. She is just her sweetly angelical self, even
is over, and publishers as well as authors are breathing as one of her heavenly twins would be. Let the
a space, or speculating as to how the public will receive « Academy" note, and fail not to give its £100 reward
the many tbings, good and bad, which have been pre- to the fortunate and discriminating judge who sball
pared for it. Meanwhile, all the work falls on the choose Mrs. Sarah Grand as one whom a possible
shoulders of the hard-worked and ill-paid bookseller, “ Academy” would delight to honor. Well may
who is just now groaning that he can't make a " living “ Punch” make her say, “I have written the beth
wage." Much bas been argued, more written, and more book in the world; I know no better.”
will be written, on this everlasting question — the rela- Our new great literary weekly” is progressing
tions of the publisher, bookseller, and author; but of apace. From all that one hears, and by all that one
this, another time.
may judge, “Literature" is likely to become an im-
Without a doubt, the success of the season has been portant influence in the development of those conditions
Lord Tennyson's “Life" of his father. On all sides, which make literature possible. Its reviews and articles
from high and low, from great and small, the work has are distinguished by original thought and scholarly
been accorded welcome quite unique in the annals of treatment. We are hoping, sincerely, that it may never
the past ten years of literature. That it would receive descend to academic “dryasdustery,” and that it will
a cordial greeting was expected, for the “Life” of give us just a little more for our money.
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a
to exist. Its last publication is to be a “ Note,” by the
late Mr. William Morris, on his aims in starting the
The New Books.
Press. The type is to remain in the hands of the trus-
tees “for future use,” but the “special ornament will
be discontinued, and the wood-blocks deposited in the
LIFE AND LETTERS OF MRS. STOWE.*
British Museum." This is as it should be. However
Mrs. Fields's succinct Life of Mrs. Stowe
excellently well intentioned the trustees and their help-
ers may have been, it must, long ago, bave been made
contains so much that came originally from the
evident to them that the Press without Mr. Morris lips or the pen of the heroine herself that it
was, after all, not the same thing as the Press with Mr. may not unfairly be termed an autobiography.
Morris. Some day, this will be better appreciated, when The narrative of her early life is given mainly
we find collectors confining their purchases to those books
only which had the benefit of the supervision and orna-
as she gave it to her son and biographer, the
Rev. C. E. Stowe; while her full and very
mentation of the printer himself.
Much is in the air as to future publications. The novel- frank letters to her friends supply the ground-
ists are always busy, and we are to have, next year, work and substance of the rest of the story.
stories by Mr. Conan Doyle, Mr. Henry Seton Merri. Mrs. Fields's task has thus been mainly edi-
man, Mr. Stanley Weyman, Mr. Anthony Hope, Mr.
torial. · Her book is essentially and professedly
Crockett, and Mr. Grant Allen, in addition to a shoal
from the smaller fry. Mr. Doyle's book will be issued a compilation of biographical material, rather
in February, and is the story which ran as a serial in than a biography proper ; but it is a compact
the “Strand Magazine.” Its title is to be “ The Tragedy and workmanlike production, full of pith and
of the Korosko." I believe it will be issued, in America,
by the J. B. Lippincott Co. Mr. Merriman's tale has guiltless of padding; and these are no small
serial course in Cornbill,”
merits in a day when the mistaken liberality
with the title
, « Roden's Corner"; while Mr. Weyman's of most biographers insists upon giving us two
“Shrewsbury" is already being passed through the press fat volumes when one lean one would have
by the house of Longmans. Mr. Grant Allen's story is sufficed.
to be called “ The Incidental Bishop,"and Mr. Crockett's
It is in the letters that the interest of Mrs.
« The Standard Bearer.” This last is half way towards
completion in the columns of a popular religious “ week- Fields's book chiefly lies, and it is to them that
ly.” Mr. Hope's book has, as yet, no title, and it will we shall confine our quotations. The later ones
not be ready before next autumn. Publications in other indicate clearly how genuine and deep-seated
departments of literature must wait further develop-
was Mrs. Stowe's devotion to the great cause
ments. The novelist generally arranges his work several
years ahead, and one hears of it everywhere.
with which her name is inseparably connected.
I do not know if you have heard of the new illustrated
The embers of the old wrath against the oppres-
edition-de-luxe of the novels of Charles Lever; it is a sor smouldered to the last. In a letter from
sumptuous publication, and when completed in its thirty- Boston in 1882 to her married daughter the
seven volumes, octavo, shonld transfigure the walls of a
flame leaps up again.
library. It is printed by Messrs. Constable & Co., of
Edinburgh, on hand-made paper, and contains repro-
“... It [the Diary of John Quincy Adams] is a
ductions of all the original illustrations by “ Phiz” history of our own country through all the period of
and Cruikshank. Apparently, the publishers, Messrs. slavery usurpation that led to the war. The industry
Downey & Co., have followed the style of the “ Edin- of the man in writing is wonderful. Every day's doings
burgh” Stevenson; certainly they deserve the success
in the House are faithfully daguerreotyped, — all the
which attended that publication.
mean tricks, contrivances of the slave-power, and the
We have been amused here by the statement made pusillanimity of the Northern members from day to
by the London correspondent of the New York « Book day recorded. Calhoun was then Secretary of State.
Buyer" that the editor of the “ Athenæum” was Mr.
Under bis connivance even the United States census
Theodore Watts-Dunton. Of course, as everyone knows,
was falsified, to prove that freedom was bad for negroes.
the editor is Mr. McColl; but the amusement comes
Records of deaf, dumb, and blind, and insane colored
home to the regular reader of the “ Athenæum who people, were distributed in the Northern States, and in
would be prepared to admit, from internal evidence, places where John Quincy Adams had means of proving
that Mr. Bullock is not far out. If Mr. Bullock
there were no negroes.
When he found that these fal-
intended a joke, he made an excellent hit.
sified figures had been used with the English ambassador
TEMPLE SCOTT.
as reasons for admitting Texas as slave State, the old
man called on Calhoun, and showed him the indus-
triously collected proofs of the falsity of this census.
He says: "He writhed like a trodden rattlesnake, but
said the census was full of mistakes; but one part bal-
ART IN A SORDID AGE.
anced another - it was not worth while to correct them.'
His whole life was an incessant warfare with the rapidly
As one who strives a pittance to amass,
advancing spirit of slavery, that was coiling like a ser-
Vending some trifle that none keeps nor seeks, pent around everything. I cannot but love the
So in a sordid age is Art, alas!
And all she wins, of veiled pity speaks.
* THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF HARRIET BEECHER STOWE.
Edited by Annie Fields. With portrait. Boston: Houghton,
EDITH M. THOMAS. Miffin & Co.
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old man.
He died without even seeing the dawn of also to be a popular, widely circulated book, the power
liberty which God has brought; but ob ! I am sure he over the social wind for any good is, after all, due to its
sees it from above. He died in the Capitol, in the reception by a few appreciative natures, and is the slow
midst of his labors, and the last words he said were, result of radiation from that narrow circle. I mean that
• This is the last of earth; I am content.'
And now, I
you can affect a few souls, and that each of these in turn
trust, he is with God. ... All, all are gone. All that may affect a few more, but that no exquisite book tells
raged; all that threatened; all the cowards that yielded; properly and directly on a multitude, however largely it
truckled, sold their country for a mess of pottage; all may be spread by type and paper. Witness the things the
the men that stood and bore infamy and scorn for the multitude will say about it, if one is so unhappy as to be
truth; all are silent in dust; the fight is over, but eter- obliged to hear their sayings. I do not write this cyn-
nity will never efface from their souls whether they did ically, but in pure sadness and pity. Both travelling
well or ill whether they fought bravely or failed like abroad and staying at home among our English sights
cowards. In a sense, our lives are irreparable. If we and sports, one must continually feel how slowly the
shrink, if we fail, if we choose the fleeting instead of centuries work toward the moral good of man, and that
the eternal, God may forgive us; but there must be an thought lies very close to what you say concerning my
eternal regret! This man lived for humanity when religious point of view. I believe that religion, too, bas
bardest bestead; for truth when truth was unpopular; to be modified according to the dominant phases; that
for Christ when Christ stood chained and scourged in a religion more perfect than any yet prevalent must
the person of the slave.”
express less care of personal consolation, and the more
A letter to Dr. Holmes in 1876 gives us an
deeply awing sense of responsibility to man springing
from sympathy with that which of all things is most cer-
inkling of Mrs. Stowe's later views on spiritual- tainly known to us, – the difficulty of the human lot.”
ism - a subject upon which, as her closer
An amusing note to George Eliot from Mrs.
friends knew, she had at one time bestowed
Stowe, in 1872, contains a veiled personal allu-
much thought.
sion that may set the reader a-guessing.
“... I remember a remark you once made on
"... Yesterday we were both out of our senses with
spiritualism. I cannot recall the words, but you spoke
mingled pity and indignation at that dreadful stick of a
of it as modifying the sharp angles of Calvinistic belief,
Casaubon, - and think of poor Dorothea dashing like a
as a fog does those of a landscape. I would like to talk
with you some time on spiritualism, and show you a col-
warm, sunny wave against so cold and repulsive a rock!
·lection of very curious facts that I have acquired through
He is a little too dreadful for anything; there does not
mediums not professional. I have long since come to
seem to be a drop of warm blood in him, and so, as it
is his misfortune and not his fault to be cold blooded,
the conclusion that the marvels of spiritualism are natural,
and not supernatural, phenomena,-an uncommon work-
one must not get angry with him. It is the scene in the
garden, after the interview with the doctor, that rests
ing of natural laws. I believe that the door between
those in the body and those out has never in any age
on our mind at this present. There was such a man as
been entirely closed, and that occasional perceptions
he over in Boston, high in literary circles, but I fancy
his wife was n't like Dorothea, and a vastly proper time
within the veil are a part of the course of nature, and
therefore not miraculous."
they had of it, treating each other with mutual rever-
ence, like two Chinese mandarins."
A letter to Dr. Holmes of earlier date than
James Russell Lowell's ardent admiration of
the foregoing one refers interestingly to “Elsie
Mrs. Stowe's work is eloquently expressed in a
Venner,” which was then running its course in
letter to her in regard to "The Minister's W00-
the “ Atlantic."
ing":
“... I know not what others may think of it, since
“... Let your moral take care of itself, and remem-
I have seen nobody since my return; but to me it is of
ber that an author's writing-desk is something infinitely
deeper and broader interest than anything you have done
higher than a pulpit. What I call care of itself' is
yet, and I feel an intense curiosity concerning that
shown in that noble passage in the February number
underworld of thought from which like bubbles your
about the ladder up to heaven. That is grand preach-
incidents and remarks often seem to burst up. The
ing and in the right way. I am sure that «The Minister's
foundations of moral responsibility, the interlacing laws
Wooing' is going to be the best of your products bith-
of nature and spirit, and their relation to us here and here-
erto, and I am sure of it because you show so thorough
after, are topics which I ponder more and more, and on
a mastery of your material, so true a perception of re-
which only one medically educated can write well."
alities, without which the ideality is impossible.
A letter of Mrs. Stowe's to George Eliot, in Woman charms a higher faculty in us than reason, God
which she seems to have expressed some mis-
be praised, and nothing has delighted me more in your
givings as to the reception of Oldtown Folks”
new story than the happy instinct with which you develop
this incapacity of the lover's logic in your female char-
in England, elicited the following reply :
acters. Go on just as you have begun, and make it ap-
“ I have good hopes that your fears are groundless pear in as many ways as you like that, whatever creed
as to the obstacles your new book may find here from may be true, it is not true, and never will be, that man
its thorough American character. Most readers who are can be saved by machinery, I can speak with some
likely to be really influenced by writing above the com- chance of being right, for I confess a deep sympathy
mon order will find that special aspect an added reason with many parts of Calvanistic theology, and, ... for
for interest and study; and I dare say you have long one thing believe in hell with all my might, and in the
seen, as I am beginning to see with new clearness, that goodness of God for all that ... I have not said any.
if a book which has any sort of exquisiteness happens thing. What could I say? One might as well advise


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a mother about the child she still bears under her heart, those who waged it for humanity's sake, because
and say, Give it these and those qualities, as an author of that book, there is no doubt. Through its
about a work yet in her brain. Ouly this I will say, winged words and moving pictures it keyed
that I am honestly delighted with • The Minister's Woo-
ing'; that reading it has been one of my few editorial men's minds up to the heroic pitch and steeled
pleasures; that no one appreciates your genius more the long-faltering heart of the North for the
highly than I, or hopes more fervently that you will let irrepressible conflict.
irrepressible conflict. As long as the history
yourself go without regard to this, that, or t'other.
of our country continues to be read, the name
Do n't read any criticisms on your story; believe that
you know better than any of us, and be sure that every-
of the author of “Uncle Tom's Cabin” will re-
body likes it.
That I know. There is not, and never main one that all high spirits delight to honor.
was, any body so competent to write a true New England Mrs. Stowe's life was not lacking in the
poem as yourself, and bave no doubt that you are doing elements of storm and stress, and at one period
it. The native sod sends up the best inspiration to the
of it she had more than a passing acquaintance
brain, and you are as sure of immortality as we all are
of dying, — if you only go on with entire faith in your-
with something very like poverty. But the
self.”
end was tranquil — a serene and slowly waping
Mrs. Fields's little book is brimful of good eventide of rest, after the toil and bustle of the
reading, and we earnestly recommend it to the day. Her pen, once so restlessly busy, was
younger generation especially, to whom the au- laid aside latterly, save for a brief, exceptional
thor of “Uncle Tom's Cabin” is already an his- note to her closer friends. These missives are
toric figure and fading into the shadow-land often tinged with a pathetic consciousness of
of the nation's storied past. It contains the failing powers and fading interests. Toward
essence of a life-story that every American
the end she wrote to Mrs. Howard :
should be familiar with; for the name of Harriet “... My mind wanders like a running brook, and
Beecher Stowe is writ large and bright on that
I do not think of my friends as I used to, unless they
recall themselves to me by some kind action. ... I
page of our bistory of which we as a nation have
think I am in something of the condition of the silk-
the clearest reason to be proud. In our gratitude worm who has spun out all his silk, and can spin no-
to the statesmen and soldiers of that great day more, unless he has some fresh mulberry leaves. When
let us not forget the part this fragile New En- I reach the golden shures' where grow the trees of
gland woman bore in erasing from our national
life, there I may be able to renew the happy friendships-
with those who have gone before and may come after
scutcheon its chief blot. Of all the moral forces
me to that happy land. . . . My sun has set. The time
that made for the right when the issue of slav- of work for me is over. I have written all my words
ery or no slavery was still a living one, there and thought all my thoughts, and now I rest me in the
was certainly none more potent than her great fuckering light of the dying embers, in a rest so profound
that the voice of an old friend arouses me but momen-
book — great in that it so marvellously wrung
tarily, and I drop back again into repose."
the heart and stung the conscience of a genera-
Mrs. Fields has not thought fit to weave into
tion grown apathetic in the sight of wrong, and
because it carried with it from our shores a tidal
the narrative much in the way of historical fact
or comment, or of literary exposition and ap--
wave of human feeling and loving-kindness, of
sympathy with the oppressed and wrath against inspiring book, rich in biographical essentials,
preciation. She has given us a delightful and
the oppressor, that rolled around the world. Har.
riet Beecher Stowe was indubitably of the stuff
and it is likely to hold its place as the standard
“Life” of Mrs. Stowe, until the time comes
of which the world's moral beroes are made. She
loved the truth for its own sake, and clung to it
when a really critical and definitive one can be
written.
E. G. J.
the more when she found it unpopular; she pro-
claimed it to all the world from the house tops, at
a time when even to whisper it in secret places
AN EX-PRESIDENT'S VIEWS OF HIS
meant obloquy. It is related that when Mrs.
COUNTRY.*
Stowe first called upon President Lincoln, in
It is interesting to learn what it is that an
1862, he seized her hand, saying, “ Is this the ex-president of the United States regards as
little woman who made this great war?” That
“This Country of Ours.” An inspection of
was, of course, a kindly and half-playful exag.
Mr. Harrison's volume bearing that title shows
geration of the truth. Mrs. Stowe did not
that he considers it to be substantially the
make the war; the social wrong it righted and
Executive branch of the Federal Government.
the constitutional question it settled made it,
He devotes 16 pages to the Constitution, 51.
and it must have come in the fulness of time
had her bouk never been written. But that it
* Tois COUNTRY OF OURs. By Benjamin Harrison, Es-
President of the United States. New York: Charles Sorib-
came the sooner, and was the more welcome to ner's Sons.
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pages to Congress, 232 pages to the Executive,
,
to the Executive, fitness of the appointment. That being satisfactorily
31 pages to the Judiciary, and no pages to
established, the public interests are saved, for the choice
between fit men is not very important. If there is any
state or municipal institutions.
objection to the appointment, growing out of the char-
Of course this is hardly a balanced scheme, acter or babits of the applicant, it is pretty sure to be
or one that gives an adequate view of the polit brought out; and on the wbole, considering the number
ical life of the Republic. Congress and the of appointments the President is required to make with-
courts play a larger part in the national drama
out any personal knowledge of the appointees, the public
service is well and honestly conducted.
than would appear from Mr. Harrison's sketch.
“ The Civil Service Law bas removed a large number
Under our dual system of government, po ac- of minor offices in the departments at Washington, and
count is complete which omits the States. With in the postal and other services, from the scramble of
the present tendencies of social development, politics, and has given the President, the Cabinet officers,
any treatment is defective which omits muni.
and the Members of Congress great relief; but it still
remains true that in the power of appointment to office
cipal structure and problems. So “ This Coun-
the President finds the most exacting, unrelenting, and
try of Ours" turns out to be a fragment. distracting of his duties. In the nature of things he
Perhaps an instructive collaboration would
would begins to make enemies from the start, and has no way
combine Ex-President Harrison, Speaker Reed,
of escape - it is fate; and to a sensitive man involves
much distress of mind. His only support is in the good
Justice Field, Ex-Governor Grover Cleveland, opinion of those who chiefly care that the public busi-
and Ex-Mayor Seth Low. Each of these could ness shall be well done, and are not disturbed by the
speak from wide knowledge, large views of consideration whether this man or that man is doing it;
things, unquestioned patriotism, and profound
but be hears very little directly from this class. No
President can conduct a successful administration with-
public confidence. A book which they would
out the support of Congress, and this matter of appoint-
make would be a most unique and valuable ments, do what he will, often weakens that support. It
contribution to political science.
is for him always a sort of compromise between his
But if Mr. Harrison's little book is a frag- ideal and the best attainable thing” (pp. 109 899.).
ment, nevertheless it is an interesting one. It is clear that the independence of depart-
Besides being clear and accurate in its presen- ments, which was the dream of the framers,
tation of facts, it is interspersed with striking does not exist while the appointing power is
comments on the actual workings of govern- in practice joint and not exclusive. There
ment comments especially worthy of atten- have been times when the President has been
tion as coming from one who knows, and whose able to use his appointments as a strong lever
judgment is so sane as is that of Mr. Harrison. for good legislation, as was the case in the extra
A few of these comments may as well be quoted session of 1893. Indeed, the prevailing ten-
bodily.
dency on the part of the people to trust the
“The close of the Congress and the beginning of the President more than the Congress, seems per-
President's term should be changed to May 4. This haps a sufficient reason for the fact that there
would make the short session 'available for something
besides the appropriation bills, would diminish the
is any substantial opposition to civil service
chances of a Vice-Presidential succession, and save many
reform. Many who have no liking for the
useful lives for I do not doubt that the exposure and spoils system are yet reluctant to deprive the
suffering endured by the parading organizations and by President of an important means of control.
the spectators in 1881, 1889, and 1893, carried many
On page 32, Mr. Harrison calls attention to
people to premature graves ” (page 94).
another defect in the Federal Constitution,
This suggestion has been frequently made. It whereby the President is unable to veto items
would seem eminently sensible and unobjec in an appropriation bill. Should such power
tionable. Senator Mason of Illinois is inter: be given, as has been done in several States,
ested in the reform of Senate procedure. Will legislative log-rolling would at once disappear.
he undertake this reform also ?
The Ex-President's comments on the ap-
It is not to be expected that a reform like this
could be carried easily. It is the converse of
pointing power are worthy of note.
the President's means of controlling Congress-
“ There can be no doubt that the participation of the
men by means of the appointing power, and
Senate in the matter of appointments is larger than the
Constitution contemplates. But
the President can,
Congress would not readily abandon it. But
in the nature of things, know but little about the appli- the Constitution ought to be amended in this
cants for local offices, and must depend upon someone
better informed than he to give him the necessary in-
formation, it is quite natural that he should give weight 226. Our means of national defense have
A very suggestive remark is made on page
to the advice of the Senator or Representative. It
ought, however, to be admitted that as the responsibility
been discussed. Mr. Harrison then adds :
rests upon the President he must be satisfied of the “ All these preparations and conditions will promote
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66
arbitration, and, better still, the direct adjustment of self makes an occasional attack. Thus, in the
international differences. What is won in a lawsuit is
Introduction, he says:
neither given with grace nor accepted with gratitude.
A voluntary surrender of the brutal privilege of killing
In agreement with Curtius and many other scholars,
pregnant and nursing seals for their skins would be a
we very sincerely doubt almost all etymologies of old
better evidence of good-will than the most touching
proper names, even in Greek or Sanskrit. We find
banquet utterances."
among philologists, as a rule, the widest discrepancies
of interpretation. Moreover, every name must mean
The remark is commended to Great Britain.
something. Now, whatever the meaning of a name (sup-
Mr. Harrison's book does not rank with that posing it to be really ascertained), very little ingenuity
of Mr. James Bryce - it is much simpler in
is needed to make it indicate one or other aspect of
Dawn or Night, of Lightning or Storm, just as the
scope. But it is a useful discussion, in a brief
philologist pleases. Then he explains the divine or
way, of matters which are worth discussing in
heroic being denoted by the name-as Dawn or Storm,
many ways and from many points of view. or Fire or Night, or Twilight or Wind — in accordance
HARRY PRATT JUDSON.
with his private taste, easily accommodating the facts
of the myth, whatever they may be, to his favorite
solution. We rebel against this kind of logic, and per-
sist in studying the myth in itself and in comparison
with analogous myths in every accessible language.”
The topics of our author's chapters are nat-
MR. ANDREW LANG'S BOUT WITH
PROF. MAX MÜLLER.*
urally diverse. “Recent Mythology,” “The
Story of Daphne,” “The Question of Allies,"
In Professor Max Müller's “ Contributions
•Mannhardt," " Philology and Demeter Erin-
to the Science of Mythology” (reviewed in
nys,” “ Totemism," “ The Validity of Anthro-
THE DIAL for June 1, 1897), the great Ox-
ford scholar made defense of the Etymologi- | in Anthropology,"
pological Evidence," "The Philological Method
in Anthropology," “Criticism of Fetichism,"
cal school of study, and battled against the
“ The Riddle Theory,” “ Artemis,” — these are
Ethnopsychical or Anthropological school.
all directed to meet Professor Müller's criti-
While keeping his temper fairly well, the old
cisms and arguments. They take up, and in
man eloquent was polemic in attitude and made
most cases satisfactorily deal with, the objec-
many thrusts at his enemies. His book has
tions. Two other chapters — “The Fire Walk"
drawn out a reply in the volume before us
and “ Origin of Death” — are apparently in-
“ Modern Mythology,” by Mr. Andrew Lang. serted as illustrations of the Anthropological
Mr. Lang himself says of his book that it
method. Both have appeared, at least in part,
is “wandering and desultory," for Mr. Max
as essays in reviews. “ The Fire Walk"
pre
Müller's “ attack is of a skirmishing character.
sents some particularly interesting material,
Through more than eight hundred pages the though the treatment leads to no definite or
learned author keeps up an irregular fire at clear result. The fire rite of the Hirpi on
the ideas and methods of the Anthropological Mount Soracte is described. Striking parallels
school of mythologists. The reply must follow
the lines of attack.” The attitude of the An- Bulgaria, Trinidad, and in India. These also
to it are found in Fiji, Malabar, New Zealand,
thropological school is well known. It studies
are described with some detail. In all these
the mythologies of modern peoples, either lower
cases, human beings deliberately walk through
races or the peasantry in higher peoples, in
fire, unharmed, usually with the purpose of se-
:
ology of ancient nations. In a sense, we find curing some desired result. Cariously, Mr.
Lang has overlooked one of the clearest and
mythology in the making, among savages, bar-
most striking cases of the Fire Walk
barians, and peasants. Customs and survivals
occurs in Japan, admirably described by Mr.
may cast much light upon the past. Mr. Lang Percival Lowell.
FREDERICK STARR.
brings forth a good deal of argument in favor
of the material, methods, and conclusions of
the Anthropological school. It is incoherent Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. have just issued
to a degree, because the book is a “ reply.” single « Cambridge” volume, uniform with the Long-
The plan pursued is to select those passages of single "Cambridge,” volume, uniform with the Long-
his opponent wherein direct assault is made, to umes heretofore published in that extremely compact
present them, and then to answer them. Not and satisfactory edition. It is practically the “Cen-
content with a simple defense, Mr. Lang him- tenary” Burns of Messrs. Henley and Henderson, boiled
down into a single volume, but retaining the whole of
MODERN MYTHOLOGY. By Andrew Lang. New York: Mr. Henley's introductory essay, and as many of the
Longmans, Green, & Co.
notes as possible.
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THE PRE-SHAKESPEARIAN DRAMA.*
the only traces that have been found of the ver-
nacular liturgical plays which existed within the
Perhaps the most important literary monu-
churches in England while the Scripture cycles
ments of mediæval England, outside of Chau-
cer, are the ballads and the religious and moral cycle of these guild plays is given by combining
of the guilds flourished without. A miniature
plays. Professor Gummere's admirable vol.
specimen scenes from all the extant cycles and
ume of “Old English Ballads,” in the “ Athen-
the best of the isolated plays. This is a wise
æum Press Series," is by far the best handbook
for the study of the ballads; though one might is so important in medieval religious thought,
device. It is to be regretted, however, since it
wish that the Appendices had been made into
that “The Harrowing of Hell” has been en-
an Introduction and the present learned Intro-
tirely omitted. One play here given, the
duction into an Appendix. The existing manual
“Morality of Mankind," has never before been
for the study of the English religious drama, printed ; and several others have been either
Professor Pollard's “ English Miracle Plays,” | little known or practically inaccessible. Stu-
was not a satisfactory book when it first ap-
dents will feel especially grateful for “ The
peared, in spite of its valuable prefatory essay; Play of the Sacrament.”
while the work of a number of investigators
Volume I. ends with “ The Four P's," by
during the past seven years, and especially the
John Heywood, and Bale's “ King John.” Vol.
publication of Band I. of Creizenach's "Ges-
Gorbo-
chichte des Neueren Dramas ” (Halle, 1893), duc,” and some later predecessors of the plays
ume II. contains “Roister Doister,
have made a more adequate survey of the older
of Shakespeare. The editor prefers to discuss
English drama a necessity.
emendations in foot-notes, and not to admit
The “Specimens of the Pre-Shaksperean
them into the text; and he never looks upon
Drama,” edited by Professor John M. Manly, himself as a " literary adviser to the authors.”
of Brown University, Volumes I. and II. of
All who are interested in the early history of
which have just appeared in the “ Athenæum
the English drama will hope for the speedy
Press Series,” will therefore have no rival as a
appearance of Volume III.
guide to the study of the early English drama.
ALBERT H. TOLMAN.
The general Introduction and the Notes and
Glossary are reserved for Volume III.; but no
one can note the wise system that has governed
RECENT FICTION.*
the selection of the texts in the present volumes,
and read Professor Manly's careful Preface, “If you write about love, talk little of other
without feeling convinced that the work is to be matters. Let your discourse be always of love.
a most scholarly and an adequate presentation Speak not of affairs of State : keep the lover always
and interpretation of the beginnings of the En before your readers. Let them have the voice of
glish drama. “The Introduction will trace the length upon your previous history or your later bis-
love and see the eyes of love. Do not dwell at
History of the drama on the Continent as well torg, or anything except what is necessary to show
as in England from the beginning of the tenth
how he fell in love with you, and why.” Thus runs
century to the formation of the Scripture cy- the advice given to the heroine of “A Fountain
cles, and then in England alone from that time
* A FOUNTAIN SEALED. A Novel. By Sir Walter Besant.
to the end of the sixteenth century.”
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co.
Volume I., which contains about 650 pages, DARIEL. A Romance of Surrey. By R. D. Blackmore.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.
begins with certain liturgical plays in Latin.
THE INVISIBLE MAN. A Grotesque Romance. By H. G.
These were presented in English churches dur- Wells. New York : Edward Arnold.
ing the tenth century, although the accepted LAWRENCE CLAVERING. By A. E. W. Mason. New York:
text-books are ignorant of the fact. With these
Dodd, Mead & Co.
THE CLASH OF ARMS. A Romance. By John Bloundelle-
are associated some fragments in English, with
Burton. New York: D. Appleton & Co.
occasional bits of Latin, first published by Pro- IN KEDAR'S TENTS. By Henry Seton Merriman. New
fessor Skeat in 1890. That scholar conjectured York: Dodd, Mead & Co.
that these scraps are a part of the lost Beverley ham. Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Co.
THE FOURTH NAPOLEON. A Romance. By Charles Ben-
cycle of biblical plays; but Professor Manly is BY RIGHT OF SWORD. By Arthur W. Marchmont. New
the first person to declare that they are some- York: New Amsterdam Book Co.
thing far more precious : he believes them to be QUEEN OF THE JESTERS, and Her Strange Adventures in
Old Paris. By Max Pemberton. New York: Dodd, Mead
* SPECIMENS OF THE PRE-SHAKSPEREAN DRAMA. By & Co.
John Matthews Manly. Volumes I. and II. (The Athenæum An AFRICAN MILLIONAIRE. By Grant Allen. New York:
Press Series). Boston: Ginn & Co.
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Sealed " in the prologue which introduces the story. The peculiar vain of fantastic romance based
The advice is accepted, and the heroine proceeds to upon scientific conceptions, which has been cultiva-
tell her story, all in the first person, and a story of ted of late so successfully by Mr. H. G. Wells,
strange and absorbing interest it turns out to be reaches what is perhaps a climax of daring in his
one of the best, in fact, that Sir Walter Besant has story of “The Invisible Man." The idea of the
ever given us. Viewed in the retrospect of twenty story is by no means new, but the treatment is dis-
years, the story of the heroine's life or rather of tinctly novel, for Mr. Wells's hero is no magician
the few weeks of happiness that seem to her the with the gift of fernseed, but a practical student of
whole of her life — loses something of its tragic physics and physiology, who bas hit upon a course
aspect in the soft embrace of a memory that has of treatment whereby the refractive index of the
kept the tenderness rather than the pity of it all. human tissues may be equalized with that of the
For she tells us, speaking in the year 1780, how atmosphere, thus making the body invisible, just as
twenty years before she had been wooed and won certain jelly-fishes are practically invisible in the
by a youth who was all gentleness and devotion, medium which they inhabit. Mr. Wells has not
and how the cup of happiness was snatched from hesitated to think out his problem, and to face
her on the wedding morn. For the youth was no squarely all the minor details incident to this fan-
other than the Prince of Wales (albeit his rank had tastic conception, which makes his treatment totally
remained unknown to her), and the death of his different from the hazy method of his predecessors
grandfather called him to a throne that he would who have attempted the same subject. For example,
gladly have renounced for her sake, had it been his invisible man must eat, and the food remains
possible. To accept this story at all, we must, of grotesquely visible until it is assimilated, thus neces-
course, accept all the necessary attendant improba- sitating his retirement from the neighborhood of men
bilities. That the lover should have concealed his for some hours after a meal.
Again, his blood,
rank from his sweetheart when it was known to all although invisible when in vital circulation, turns
the world about her, and that George III. was ever red when it is spilt and allowed to coagulate, as his
such a youth as is here depicted, are things that entire body becomes visible at the end after he has
strain the credulity, and will doubtless make earnest been hunted down and killed. For the hero of this
realists sniff with indignation. But the true lover story is a monster as devoid of moral sentiment
of romance cares little for such considerations, and as the one created by Frankenstein, and he robs
will be satisfied to find the story sweet in sentiment and slays without compunction until his career is
and skilfully contrived to sustain his interest. And rudely brought to an end. The whole thing is ex-
then there undoubtedly is a certain amount of realism tremely well managed, and all the probability
of the best sort in the book (for Sir Walter knows possible is given to a situation which is inherently
his eighteenth century England as few others know impossible.
it), and there is much verisimiltude in the details Mr. A. E. W. Mason, having recently made a
of the narrative, however improbable be the central rather unsuccessful venture in the fiction of modern
situation.
English society, in “Lawrence Clavering" returns
Mr. Blackmore's new novel is described as to the historical romance of his first love. The
romance of Surrey,” but a just sense of proportion element of historical fact is somewhat slighter in
would have made the description run “a romance
this book than in most of its class, but we have
of Surrey and Daghestan." For the author has sketches, such as they are, of such men as the Old
introduced into the peaceful vales of the English Pretender, Bolingbroke, and Lord Derwentwater,
county an exiled Caucasian chieftain and bis train for the story is of the year 1715, that witnessed the
(including one fair daughter), and about half the Stuart rising in England and the death of the Great
book is an account of the intrigues and blood-feuds Monarch in France. When, however, the author
of these wild tribesmen of the Caucasus, whether reaches the one historical occurrence that belongs to
carried on in England or in their native mountains. the immediate scheme of his narrative, the battle of
We do not think that Mr. Blackmore has been well- Preston, he balks at the description, and leaves his
advised in his choice of so fantastic a motive for readers to furbish it up for themselves.
his story, and have no idea that he really knows has a most adorable heroine, but a hero who takes
anything about Daghestan and its inhabitants. so morbid and unnatural a view of his own conduct
Neither the old chieftain nor his daughter is pre- that he belongs rather to the introspective modern
sented with anything like convincing art, and the age than to the stirring period of Jacobite plot and
honest English squire who falls in love with Dariel | intrigue in which he is set. Indeed, the "sin" for
seems much out of place in that galley. In the which he suffers such remorse and makes so great a
delineation of his English figures, of course, and in sacrifice exists so wholly in his own imagination
his descriptions of English country life, Mr. Black- that the reader is a good deal puzzled to understand
more is here, as always, unsurpassable for shrewd- what all the fuss is about, and the bewilderment
ness and accuracy of observation, while it need remains to the end of the novel.
hardly be added that his style has a “body” which The by-ways of history afford so many oppor-
is grateful to the educated literary palate, for it is tunities for the practitioner of historical romance
both rich and distinctive.
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centrated upon a few favorite themes. Mr. Bloun- there is nothing in it that ever happened or would
delle-Burton, at least, in his new novel, “ The Clash be likely to happen to anybody. It is, moreover, a
of Arms,” has got so far away from the beaten piece of sensational melodrama, with the crudest of
track as to write of the early campaigns of Marl- coloring, and founded upon an impersonation so
borough and Turenne and of the French conquest utterly impossible that such stories as “The Pris-
of Lorraine. The romance is one of sustained oner of Zenda” become absolutely convincing in
and singular interest, ingeniously planned, and well- the comparison. It is just a story, designed to en-
proportioned in all its parts. It is one of the best tertain and not to instruct, and it accomplishes its
books of its sort that we have read of recent years, purpose with more than reasonable completeness.
and should do much to help its writer to the kind of Queen of the Jesters” is the title given by Mr.
popularity enjoyed by Mr. Stanley Weyman and Dr. Max Pemberton to a collection of eight imaginary
Conan Doyle.
episodes in the career of one Mademoiselle de Mon-
There is something suggestive of good cabinet tesson, described as a famous figure in the Paris
workmanship in the novels of Mr. Henry Seton of Louis XV.” She was, we are told, a beautiful
Merriman. The nice adjustment of their parts, and and accomplished woman who “established herself
the general polish of the works as wholes, are praise- in an old house in Rue St. Paul, and there, sur-
worthy qualities, and go far to atone for the lack rounded by a little band of wits, scientists, and ad-
of anything like deep feeling or the vital delineation venturers, she made it her ambition to become
of character. These novels have, moreover, as a acquainted with the dens of the city. To which end
basis some carefully studied phase of recent history she practised a generous charity, and rescued more
or social development that contributes considerably than one notorious rogue from the gibbet.” Mr.
to their interest. “In Kedar's Tents,” for example, Pemberton's stories introduce to our acquaintance
has for its main theme the first Carlist rebellion in a number of most engaging scoundrels, but they
Spain, and incidentally, and by way of prologue, the take us so very far into the region of the extrava-
Chartist agitation in England. It is a story that / tak
gant that they lose almost all semblance of contact
holds the attention, and is worked out to a satisfac- with actual life, and prove but mildly exciting after
tory conclusion, although the exigencies of a pre- all.
liminary serial publication forced a certain jerkiness Ingenuity is the most striking characteristic of
into its development.
Mr. Grant Allen's “An African Millionaire," which
Some time ago we reviewed a story of an imagin- might almost be described as an inverted series of
ary fourth French empire, by a writer who evidently Sherlock Holmes stories. In other words, the in-
supposed that France had already lived through genuity in this case is that displayed by a scamp
three actual empires. A variation upon this theme who devises various ways of swindling a wealthy
is now provided by Mr. Charles Benham's bulky English speculator, instead of being the detective
and prolix romance entitled “The Fourth Napo- ingenuity displayed by the professional tracker of
leon.” We approached this book with pleasurable criminals.
criminals. In consequence, the several episodes of
anticipations. It seemed attractive in appearance this narration, although distinct stories, derive a
and theme, besides being of soul-satisfying length. certain unity from the rascal who figures in every
But it turned out a very dull story after all, writ- one of them, just as the Sherlock Holmes episodes
ten in execrable English and with hardly a trace derived their unity from their detective hero. The
of the verisimilitude that must be the first and Colonel Clay of this sheaf of stories is certainly a
the last thing demanded of any such prospective most attractive swindler, although it taxes the imag-
exercise of the historical imagination. Besides, we ination to accept the various disguises in which he
have a right to expect a “fourth Napoleon” to operates, and although the probabilities are severely
accomplish stirring things and be a good deal of a strained in more ways than one. What we should
hero in a cheap melodramatic way, instead of being like to read now would be a story in which Colonel
the unspeakable cad and incredibly abject coward Clay should be pitted against Sherlock Holmes in
here presented to us. One might imagine a really a desperate struggle of wits, and we confess that
thrilling story of the coup d'état of some imperialist we do not know which of the two would come out
pretender, and of a war for the restoration of the ahead, which is perhaps the best tribute we can pay
lost French provinces, but Mr. Benham's story is to the entertaining qualities of Mr. Allen's book.
incapable of producing a thrill, and meanders from
WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE.
episode to episode without display of dramatic en-
ergy or grasp of any of the brilliant possibilities in-
volved in such a plot as he has framed.
A selection of “Poems by William Wordsworth,"
“ By Right of Sword” is just a story. It has no
edited by Professor Edward Dowden, is one of the
psychology, no pretence of delineative art, no waste
latest issues of the “ Athenæum Press " series, published
of rhetoric upon descriptive setting, no subtlety of
by Messrs. Ginn & Co. The volume is a substantial
one, containing one bundred pages of introduction,
repartee, and hardly a tincture of historical basis.
three hundred and fifty of text, and over one hundred
It is a story about Nihilist intrigue, bat beyond the
and fifty of notes. The text used is that of Mr. Thomas
fact that it includes the assassination of a chief of Hutchinson, “the most learned and accurate of Words-
police and an attempt upon the life of the Tsar, worth scholars."


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drawn upon.
his street characters have, in the same way, a differ-
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS.
entiating savor of Phil May. But his pictures are
nevertheless as delightful and entertaining as ever,
From the novelty of its subject and its genuine and show that Mr. Gibson has lost none of his
importance to the experience of the race, “ A His- peculiar charm and verve. They are classified
tory of Dancing” (Appleton), is the most notable of under such heads as “ London Streets," " Parks,"
our Holiday books; as, from its mechanical form and “ Audiences,” “Salons" and so on ; and they show
the variety and beauty of its illustrations, it is the us in a very graphic and spirited way at least the
most sumptuous. The text is translated from the artist's impressions and fancies of contemporary
French of Gaston Vuillier, and covers the subject life — let us say London life “ Gibsonized.” And
that
is
begins with the dances of the Egyptians and Hebrews, expecting. The volume is well made, and is easily
illustrating them from old reliefs and the conceptions one of the most striking of the season's publications.
of modern painters, and ends with Loie Fuller and The fiftieth year of Longfellow's “ Evangeline”
“
the modern ballet. In the Greek and Roman vases, is fitly signalized by the appearance of an extremely
reliefs, and figurines, and in the comments of con- pretty and attractive edition of the poem (Hough-
temporaneous writers, the author finds ample mate- ton), with an introduction by Miss Alice Longfellow,
rial for his descriptions. It is a history of grace and pictures and decorations by Migs Jessie Wilcox
which we follow, and the variety and charm of its Smith and Miss Violet Oakley. One wishes the
manifestations increase as the book proceeds. The poet himself could see this captivating little volume,
Middle Ages and the Renaissance were prolific of than which there is no more dainty or artistic gift-
ingenious devices to enhance the beauty of the dance, book on our list. The illustrations comprise ten
and many old manuscripts and engravings are full-page drawings in color, and a generous number
There are descriptions of the Volte, of quaintly fancied headpieces in red and black.
the Parane, and the grand ballets in which Louis The artists are pupils of Mr. Howard Pyle, who
XIV. himself took part; and these too are copiously has good reason to plume himself on their work,
and admirably illustrated. It is France that is con- and does so in a brief introductory note. It is a
sidered most carefully; although the pastoral dances long time since we have seen anything prettier in
take one often to the land of Teniers, and the im- | its way than Miss Smith's drawing of Evangeline,
portance and influence of the Spanish dances is in the frontispiece illustrative of the line, “ Fair in
readily acknowledged. A chapter is given to these sooth was the maiden.” The delicate face suggests
fascinating, langorous, seductive figures of Spain, a miniature on ivory, and the very slightly conven-
a chapter epitomized in the reproduction of Sar- tionalized landscape has a pleasingly poetical effect.
gent's commanding and irresistible “ Carmencita.” No less meritorious artistically is the final plate
Modern Greek dances, the Italian Tarantella, and showing Evangeline as a Sister of Mercy kneeling
the movement of the Bayadères, are each described at the bedside of the dying Gabriel. The entire
in turn. The American Indian, even, is not entirely pictorial series leaves an agreeable impression of
neglected, though little is made of his curious rites. feminine delicacy and refinement, and one does not
But the dances of civilization are primarily the regret the absence of realism or the striving after
theme of the book. The modern dances of society the literal fact in the treatment. Mr. Longfellow's
and of the theatre occupy much space, and are illus. Evangeline and Gabriel are certainly not French-
trated in the most alluring manner by such men as Canadian rustics or “ Habitant" farm-folks as we
Whistler, Degas, Carrier-Bellense, Renouard, and know them; and we see no good reason why his
Chéret. In addition to those mentioned, there are illustrators should give us plain prose where he has
plates in the book after Carpeaux, Aimé, Morot, given us poetry. Miss Oakley's headpieces are
Watteau, Roybet, Stewart, and others; and near the nicely done, and are unmistakably in the manner
beginning it is pleasant to find the little MacMonnies of Mr. Pyle without being mere imitations. In her
Bacchante. The volume as a whole has infinite foreword, Miss Longfellow sketches the history of
variety and inexhaustible charm.
the poem, and chats pleasantly of her father. The
cover is in dark-green and gold - scarcely delicate
as Seen by Charles Dana Gibson ” (Scribner) strikes enough in design, we think, to match harmoniously
us as in one respect a little disappointing. A Lon- the pictorial ensemble.
don flavor the book certainly has, but not a very Mr. Walter Crane's graceful pencil has been em-
pronounced one. Perhaps Mr. Gibson was not ployed to advantage in the lavish decoration of
long enough within the sound of Bow Bells to quite Messrs. Harper & Brothers' dainty Holiday edition
catch the true note either of “Mayfair” or the of Spenser's “The Shepheard's Calender.” There
parlieu8 ; perhaps his peculiar manner has so fixed are twelve quaint full-page plates, one to each “ Aeg-
and stereotyped itself that he cannot vary it mate- logue”; and the text on each page is set in a frame
rially. At any rate, his London " types” show no of conventionalized vines and foliage gracefully in-
marked departure from his familiar American ones. tertwined. Besides the Eclogues, the volume con-
His London “gwell” is his New York one, save for tains E. K.'s Epistle to Gabriel Harvey, the “Gen-
a slight Da Maurieresque touch superadded; while eral Argument,” two pages of Notes, and a Glossary.
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The text is printed on rather thick hand-made paper ally useful and acceptable gift to a well-grown boy.
just touched with a creamy parchment tint that We venture to say that he will read it and re-read
strengthens the pleasantly archaic impression of the it, and acquire thereby an indelible impression of
whole. The cover is of sea-green linen stamped an important phase of his country's history.
with a charming design in colors, that shows us some The rich exterior, liberal pictorial attractions,
"vacant shepherd of the dale" piping to his flock, and universally engaging theme of Mr. Justin Mc-
while his dog stands at his side and a pair of white Carthy's “Life of Gladstone" (Macmillan) have
doves are cooing and courting in the branches over- led us to include it in the present category, though
head. Mr. Crane's designs are instinct with the it calls for much fuller treatment than can be ac-
spirit of the sweet and quaint old verses, and his corded it here. To our thinking, Mr. McCarthy's
“Cuddies” and “Perigots” and “Colin Clouts”
are
facile pen has never been employed better than in
true shepherds of the ancient pastoral, and such as this engaging volume. The theme was eminently
old Spenser himself might have conceived. The little one to his taste, and one that he was in some respects
volume is in flawless taste throughout, and has all the exceptionally qualified to handle. He had studied
essentials of the specific gift-book.
Mr. Gladstone's career as it progressed, step by step,
In a handsome volume of 490 pages, Colonel ever since he was old enough to take an interest in
Henry Inman, a veteran officer of our Regular public affairs ; he had sat by his side in the House
Army, tells the story of “ The Old Santa Fé Trail” of Commons for many years; he had borne an active
(Macmillan). It can scarcely fail to occur to the part in some of the great parliamentary battles with
thoughtful reader of this engrossing book that the which Mr. Gladstone's name is most intimately asso-
current conception of American history, as gained ciated; he had advised with him frequently, and
from the text-books and manuals in common use, been admitted to his friendship. To those who have
is singularly narrow and one-sided. The story of read Mr. McCarthy's histories of our own times, we
the magnificent pioneering exploits of the Spaniards, may say that his life of Gladstone is very similar
and of our own subsequent conquest and develop- in treatment to those pleasantly informing books.
ment of the vast Western and Southwestern territory There is the same rapid yet discriminating touch,
which they were the first to enter and to settle, has the same reminiscential, almost chatty, tone. The
been curiously neglected. There is no chapter in book is rich in brief and pithy characterizations of
this story that is richer in the essential elements of men and measures, and abounds in those striking
romance, or of greater and more absorbing interest turns of thought and phrase that fix the attention
to the American reader, than the one contained in and stamp themselves on the memory. We heartily
Colonel Inman's book. The Old Santa Fé Trail commend this spirited account of the greatest En-
was once the great highway from the lower Mis- glish statesman - perhaps one may say Englishman
souri River to New Mexico. The first European of Victorian times to those in quest of a gift-
to traverse it was De Vaca, a Spanish explorer of book of the more substantial sort. There are a
the sixteenth century. De Vaca was the precursor great variety of portraits and other illustrations,
of the later caravans of pack-mules and prairie- full-page and vignette.
schooners,” which in their turn gave way to the swift “The Madonna in Art” (L. C. Page & Co.), by
trains of the great Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé Miss Estelle M. Hurll, is a condensed review of the
Railway, which now spans the continent, and for varying methods of treating this enduring subject.
nigh a thousand miles of its romantic course par- The work does not pretend to be either critical or
allels and often coincides with the Old Trail. Thus technical ; it is merely a popular treatise on a pop-
the tourist who is whirled in a palace car over this ular subject. The material is interesting and the
route is traversing storied ground, where nearly author is well-informed, — these are the merits of
every stream and hill and dale has its tale of peril the book ; but if she had the courage of her opin-
or adventure. The thrilling story of the Old Trail ions it would have more individuality. In a way,
and its doughty heroes, “ Kit ” Carson, Beckwourth, everything is reduced to a level; and the conven-
Wooton, Maxwell, etc., is told sympathetically and tional and traditional judgments are the ones usually
in full detail by Colonel Inman. His book has a expressed. It is not a subject which easily calls
distinct historical value, and it is as readable as a forth originality, yet it has been 80 profoundly
romance of Scott or Stevenson. It is a book wherein studied that a new consideration of it needs to be
American patriotism and national pride may find justified by a very personal point of view. The
true nourishment; and therefore it is a book that author's classification of the pictures is curious and
every American youth ought to read. Print and a little distracting. Instead of grouping them by
paper are notably good, and the eight full-page periods or by schools, she divides them by certain
photogravure plates from drawings by Mr. Frederick characteristics of the pictures themselves, devoting
Remington are in some respects the best work that one chapter to the Madonna enthroned, another to
we have seen from his truth-telling pencil. Besides the pastoral Madonna, and grouping the others by
these plates there are many illustrative initials and similar schemes. In the second part of the book,
tail-pieces by Mr. Thomson Willing. A good map the classification is a little more spiritual. But it
of the Old Trail greatly aids the imagination of the is a confusing system, which leaves one with no very
reader. We heartily commend this book as a speci- | definite impression of anything. The book is not a


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study, it is familiar description; and some of it is plumage and of choral voice," who is content to
well written. It is illustrated with
many
inferior follow them with an opera-glass instead of a fowling-
reproductions of masterpieces, and adorned with a piece, will experience a shock of surprise that one
cover in the Virgin's colors.
who has known them long and intimately can pre-
Mr. William Nicholson is to the fore this year, fer such a fall before the gun to those that delight the
following up rapidly the great success of his jubilee artistic sense alone with their grace of bearing and
portrait of the Queen. In addition to his clever
charm of song:
Dr. Elliot treats his theme in an
“ Alphabet” mentioned in our last issue, he pub- easy, masterful manner, keeping it at every point
lishes - An Almanac" (Russell), with words by Mr. within the comprehension of the average reader.
Rudyard Kipling. The twelve drawings are bril- Eight full-page drawings by Mr. Louis Agassiz
liantly individual, for Mr. Nicholson's style is all Fuertes, the artist who seems to be a genuine suc-
bis own; the character in his figures is expressed cessor to Audubon in the use of the pencil, embel-
as no one else would express it. They are drawn lish the series of studies made by Mr. H. E. Park.
in broad sweeps of the brush, with a bit of color to hurst of “Song Birds and Water Fowl" (Scribner).
enliven the blacks and browns, but with few lines, The author has been a persistent and keen observer
and those very expressive. The personality is be- of bird-life, as this work and his “ Birds' Calendar,"
fore one, convincingly, vividly, - the impression of produced several years ago, attest. Several chap-
it, within as well as without. You are made to ters in the present work are devoted to water birds;
understand what manner of man is before you. one is occupied with birds' nests, another with “Mis-
There is action in the figures, or the repose after tress Cuckoo," and one with a big “ bouquet of song
action, and the dogs and horses are alive and in birds."
full cry. The originality of the work is extraordi- Fresh and racy in flavor, and deftly rhymed, are
nary and delightful. Mr. Kipling's verses are, the verses in the pretty book entitled “The Habit-
most of them, pleasant nonsense, but the one on ant, and Other French-Canadian Poems" (Putnam),
“ Boxing " goes deeper.
by Dr. Henry Drummond. Our readers are not
“Read here the Moral roundly writ
unfamiliar with the pleasant qualities of Dr. Drum-
For him that into battle goes
mond's verse and the selections in the present vol-
Each soul that, hitting hard and hit,
ume show him at his best. The queer French-
Encounters gross or ghostly foes: -
Canadian dialect is capitally reproduced, with an
Prince, blown by many overthrows
Half blind with shame, half choked with dirt
effect sometimes comic and sometimes extremely
Man cannot tell but Allah knows
pleasing and poetical, owing mainly, perhaps, to the
How much the other side was hurt!"
frequent use of pretty French words in place of
A fitting gift-book for a friend of sportsmanlike their harsher English equivalents. The following
proclivities may be found in “The Gallinaceous stanzas, descriptive of Spring, may serve as samples
Game Birds of North America ” (Francis P. Har. of Dr. Drummond's verse, and of “ English as she
per). Forty-four species are included, beginning is spoke" by the “ Habitants " in the lower Province:
with “ Bob White" and ending with the wild turkey; “ Dat is very nice tam for wake upon de morning
and each is illustrated in an admirable engraving An' lissen de rossignol sing ev'ry place,
executed by Mr. Edwin Sheppard. A color-chart
Fal sout' win' a-blowin' see clover a-growin'
An' all de worl' laughin' itself on de face.
and a key for the identification of the species are
"Mos' ev'ry raf' it is pass on de rapide
also given. The text is by Dr. Daniel G. Elliot, and
De voyageurs singin' some ole chanson
is all that we might expect from the hand of one 'Bout girl down de reever – too bad dey mus' leave her,
distinguished by a lifetime of wide and careful re- But comin' back soon wit' beaucoup d'argent."
search in various departments of ornithology. It The volume contains an Introduction by Mr. Louis
is intended primarily for the advantage of the Frechette, the French-Canadian poet-laureate; and
sportsman, and the author writes with keen enthu- the eleven full-page plates in photogravure and
siasm of the qualities that constitute a noble
game-
illustrative vignettes, one for each poem, serve to
bird. Chiefly on account of the traits which give rank it well up among the prettier gift-books of the
zest to the pastime of the hunter, Dr. Elliot assigns
to the gallinaceous birds the first and most import- A careful work upon “ Portrait Miniatures”
ant place among the feathered tribes. None can (Macmillan) is written by Mr. George C. William-
dispute their value in the history of mankind. Dr. son, Litt.D. The subject is studied from the time
Coues lends credence to the statement that “ the of Holbein, 1531, to that of Sir William Ross, 1860.
total output of the poultry industry, in the shape of Yet the author does not pretend to compete with
hens' eggs alone, exceeds annually that of all the Dr. Propert's work on the same subject, but appeals
mines of gold, silver, and other precious metals.” to a class for which the latter is too sumptuous to
The annual crop of feathers derived from the gal- be accessible. Without pretending to be final or
linaceous birds forms no inconsiderable item in the infallible, he has prepared his treatise carefully on
commerce of the world. The race can boast like- a basis of sound knowledge and wide experience.
wise of varied and extreme beauty of attire, and of It is addressed to the collector who is still something
many intelligent and attractive characteristics; and of a novice, and it contains much special and even
yet the genuine lover of the "tribes of burning- technical information which he would find invalua-
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ble. It has an attraction, too, even for the indif- known to all readers of “ Marius the Epicurean,”
ferent, and the unwary may be led into temptation and particularly deserving of this detachment from
by a perusal of its absorbing pages, in which nothing its setting The second is “ The Story without an
is of so much importance as the correct identifica- End,” translated from the German of F. W. Carove
tion of a miniature. It is largely a history of English by Sarah Austin, and first published in London in
miniaturists, only one brief chapter being devoted to 1834. The third is a translation, by Miss Lucie
continental painters. But the author's researches Page, of the two famous prose poems, “The
have been so extensive that some new material has Centaur and “The Bacchante,” by Maurice de
been brought to light, and he is able to give in- Guérin.— The last of Mr. Mosher's publications to
teresting descriptions of the careers of the early be mentioned is the most important of all. It begins
painters. We find that the successful miniaturist of a new series called “ Reprints of Privately Printed
the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was a man Books," and gives us the nine essays in literary
of mark who held his own with the distinguished criticism contributed anonymously by Walter Pater
men of the day. Not only the great ladies of the to “ The Guardian." These were rescued about a
land, but the courtiers and statesmen, sat for Rich- year ago from the files of the periodical for which they
ard Cosway and Andrew Plimer. Their studios were written, and, at the instance of Mr. Gosse, were
were filled with the importunate great, and the for- printed in a private edition of one hundred copies.
tunes they gained enabled them to live in luxury. Mr. Mosher's present reprint of the book is as close
Cosway, however, in spite of bis success, was much a facsimile as it is possible to produce without the
ridiculed by the wits of the day because of “his aid of photography. It is an exquisite book, and
luxurious habits, his dandified and elaborate costume, will be cherished by all who are fortunate enough
and his fondness for wearing a sword.” Mr. Wil- to secure it.
liamson tells these stories gaily, and his clear simple Mr. W. G. Colesworthy, a Boston publisher, has
style is excellent. The work of the different paint followed rather closely the example set by Mr.
ers is differentiated with lucidity and justice. We Mosber, and put forth a very pretty volume of
feel that be knows his subject and is impatient of
poems by Rossetti.
“ The White Ship: A Little
any degradation. The book is illustrated with in- Book of Poems” is the title of this charming pub-
numerable reproductions of miniatures in the most lication, which is printed in italic type on hand-
famous collections,-a still more tangible suggestion made
paper, and bound in boards with white back
of the beauty and delicacy of this exquisite art. and blue sides. The margins are wider than those
There are doubtless more sumptuous books for affected by Mr. Mosher, but the book is otherwise
the holidays than those published by Mr. Thomas very similar to the familiar “ Bibelot” and “Old
B. Mosher, of Portland, but assuredly there are none World” publications.
that are in the strictest sense more choice, more What could be more appropriate for a Christmas
satisfactory to the instincts of refined lovers of books, book than a study of the great epic of the Christian
or more ideally adapted for use as Christmas remem- life? Such a study is offered us in “ Dante's Vision
brances. Mr. Mosher's list for the present season of God" (Scott, Foresman & Co.), an essay by Mrs.
includes ten new numbers. The “Old World ” series Caroline K. Sherman, published in a pretty brochure,
is represented by the sonnets of Michael Angelo, in the with an exquisitely designed rose for adornment of
translation of the late John Addington Symonds; the board cover.
Mrs. Sherman's paper is a sym-
Mr. Andrew Lang's “ Helen of Troy," including the pathetic and gracefully-written interpretative study
author's essay on the myth of Helen, omitted from of that revelation of the divine which Dante clothed
the earlier American reprint; Mr. Swinburne's with such splendor of imaginative and harmonious
“ Atalanta in Calydon,” which needs no word of diction, and which is essentially one with the ulti-
comment or praise ; and the “Sonnets from the mate message of all the great philosophers, from
Portuguese," of which we cannot bave too many Plato to Spinoza. “ Blessed are the pure in heart
editions. Mr. Gosse's essay, reprinted from " Critical for they shall see God," so runs the deepest of the
Kit-Kats," serves as a preface to this edition of Mrs. Beatitudes, and the “Paradiso" sbows us what the
Browning's sonnets.— To the “ Bibelot” series, two promise meant to that poet whose intensity of spir-
additions are made. One of them is the “ Long itual vision has never been equalled in literature.
Ago” of the two ladies who write under the name of From the consideration of this "vision," the writer
“ Michael Field.” This exquisite book, heretofore
This exquisite book, heretofore is led, in conclusion, to a five statement of the mes-
printed in an edition limited to one hundred copies, sage which Dante bas for all ages, and most of all
is an attempt to extend the Sapphic fragments into for our own. " It is the message of an age, poor
complete lyrics: a bold undertaking, certainly, but in science, but wonderfully rich in spiritual worth,
pot without a certain measure of relative success in to an age rich in science, but too often forgetful of
the performance. The other “ Bibelot" is “ An the fact that material good has its highest value only
Italian Garden," a book of lyrics by Madame James as it is transmuted into spiritual power.” The illus-
Darmesteter (A. Mary F. Robinson).-- In the trative extracts included in this booklet are taken
“ Brocade series, we have three new booklets from Cary and Longfellow, and (for the original)
printed on Japan vellum. The first is Walter Pater's from what is essentially the text of the Oxford
version of the
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ing of Virgil with an “e," a vagary against which Among the latter may be mentioned, as especially
we always feel bound to protest. There are a few pleasing," Dream Roses," designed by Miss Laura
vexatious misprints in the Italian text.
C. Hills; “ Daisies Dear," “ Dream Pansies," and
“ A Book of Old English Love Songs" (Mac- "Forget-me-not,” by Miss Bessie Gray; and “Queenly
millan) is one of the more artistic and charming of Roses," « The Sea Shore Calendar,” and “My Lady
the holiday gift-books. It is enriched with an Pansy,” by various other artists. It is interesting
ornate gilt cover and many decorative drawings by to note that all of Messrs. Prang & Co.'s publica-
Mr. George Wharton Edwards. They have grace tions are designed, lithographed, and printed in this
and beauty, these designs, and they adjust them- | country.
selves admirably to the rich and exquisite loveliness Mr. John Corbin's articles in “ Harper's Round
of the fine old songs. The familiar ones are printed Table” on “School Boy Life in England” are now
from Shakespeare, Jonson, Waller, Herrick, and issued by the same firm in book form. Mr. Corbin
others, and they are the more welcome because we describes in an interesting way life at the great public
know them. The list includes also some songs less schools of Winchester, Eton, and Rugby, and draws
familiar, but too fine to merit our forgetfulness. some instructive comparisons between the English
Mr. Hamilton Wright Mabie has written a grace- system and our own. A public school in England
ful introduction.
is not, of course, as with us, a school to which any.
The elegantly ornate setting bestowed by its pub- one is free to go without paying. Such a school is
lishers on Mr. Archer M. Huntington's "A Note- there termed a national school, our own nearest
Book in Northern Spain” (Putnam) seems to war- equivalent to the English public school being the big
rant the inclusion of the work in the present cate- preparatory school, such as Andover, Exeter, St.
gory. Mr. Huntington is a good observer, and his Paul's, Groton, etc. Mr. Corbin prepared himself
book rises in style as well as substance above the for his task by going to live for a short period at
average of its class. His view of Spain is tinged Winchester, Eton, and Rugby, where he lost no
with sentiment, and is rather favorable on the whole. opportunity of associating and conversing with the
Her decline from her ancient high estate to her pres- masters and boys and of getting as near to their
sent low rating among European nations he attrib- actual life as possible. The book deals less with the
utes to her lack of the trading spirit. For seven strictly scholastic than with the social side of this
centuries she was a battlefield, employing the flower life; and we need scarcely say that the formative
of her manhood and draining her resources in bar- influence of the latter side upon the character of the
ring the gate of the Christian fold against the Mo- English public-school boy is as potent as that of the
hammedan wolf. While she was fighting, the more former. Dr. Arnold of Rugby saw this fact very
fortunately situated nations to the north of her were clearly; and it was in the “houses and on the
trading and intermingling and gradually evolving playground, even more than in the class-room, that
the modern form of industrial civilization, with its his gracious and elevating influence was felt. Besides
corollaries, political freedom, tolerance, a recogni- giving us the fruit of his own observations, Mr.
tion of the dignity and worth of labor. Spain fell Corbin bas consulted the authorities ; and he has
far bebind in the race of national development; and revised and somewhat enlarged his “Round Table"
she stands to-day a belated mediæval figure strangely articles to fit them for book form. His treat-
tricked out in certain ill-worn odds and ends of mod. ment is critical as well as descriptive; and his little
ern political bravery, rich in nothing save in that book should interest and amuse young readers as
inextinguishable pride
well as adults. It is tastefully gotten up, and the
- which she to all the earth
eighteen photographic plates are well chosen and
May largely give, nor fear herself a dearth."
well made.
Up to the beginning of present Cuban war, as In “ Social Life in Old Virginia " (Scribner),
Mr. Huntington thinks, a somewhat better condition Mr. Thomas Nelson Page has tried to give a picture
of things seemed likely to prevail. A tendency to of the lovely side of the Southern civilization before
develope on certain modern lines was growingly the War.
the War. His preface deplores the fact that so
manifest; and even now, in perhaps the darkest hour much of our conception of the South at that time
that Spain has known, there is that in the essential is derived from Mrs. Stowe; and the descriptions
character of her people that fosters a faith in her that follow are naturally far more genial. It is
ultimate progress. The volume is clearly printed well to have this plantation life which has passed
on calendered paper, and contains one hundred illus- away — the most picturesque and courtly that our
trations of good quality.
country has ever known thus portrayed for us
One of the interesting features of the Holiday by one who was born to its traditions. The illus-
publishing season for many years has been the an- trations, by the Misses Cowles, admirably suggest
nual selection of Christmas cards and calendars the grace and beauty of the Southern life and its
issued by Messrs. L. Prang & Co. of Boston. Their strange contrasts.
productions for this season are even more attractive Miss H. A. Guerber, author of the popular little
than usual, consisting of about a score of new Christ- book on the “Stories of the Wagner Opera,” now
mas cards, each with appropriate floral design in offers a kindred one entitled “Stories of Famous
colors, and an equal number of artistic calendars. Operas” (Dodd, Mead & Co.), briefly outlining the
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plots of the favorite French, German, and Italian Josephine, and other famous women; and to each
operas. The narratives are taken from the orig- paper is prefixed a portrait of its heroine. These
inal librettos, and are so written as to enable the portraits are well made and interesting - especially
reader to follow in fancy the action of the piece in those in the quaint plate showing Charles and Mary
all its details precisely as it is given on the stage.
Lamb. Besides the local descriptions, the papers
The titles comprise Faust, Carmen, Aida, The contain much pleasant biographical chat and anec-
Huguenots, Don Giovanni, Fidelio, Mignon, Le dote, and literary and general criticisms.
Cid, Martha, Norma, Cavalleria Rusticana, etc. The Stokes Company publish a second and
Besides outlining the dramatic action, the author modified edition of Professor Atwell's selected
gives a few leading facts as to composers. The “ Pensées of Joubert.” This time the original
publishers have mounted the book attractively, the French is omitted, and the volume is reduced in
illustrations comprising portraits, striking dramatic size to a pocketable booklet of 135 tiny pages, ex-
scenes, views of famous theatres, etc. The volume clusive of the brief biographical and appreciative
is pleasantly written, and its uses are obvious. Introduction. It has a portrait and an index. The
Miss Mary E. Phillips has prepared a volume of dainty pages fairly sparkle with felicities of thought
“Reminiscences of William Wetmore Story” (Rand, and diction, and amply warrant the saying of Mr.
McNally & Co.) which, without pretending to be a Ludlow, who introduced the author to English read-
biography, provides an outline sketch of the life of ers, that “to glance over Joubert's Pensées is like
the famous sculptor and man of letters. “Incidents uncovering a tray of diamonds."
and anecdotes chronologically arranged,” is the Mrs. Lucia A. Palmer's “Oriental Days" (Baker
author's modest description of her work. The let- and Taylor Co.) is a book of travels in Egypt and
ters and reminiscences of Story's contemporaries, the Holy Land, wherein the writer recounts her
both published and unpublished, have been liberally own rather slender experiences, and ekes out the
drawn upon for material, and both Browning and recital with various remnants of information, histor-
Lowell figure conspicuously among the friends upon ical, political, and archæological, culled from various
whom tribute is levied. The book is handsomely authorities. The volume is a royal octavo, well
illustrated, and made attractive both by its mechan- printed and ornately bound, and enriched with full-
ical execution and the loyalty of friendship that page photographic plates.
informs its contents.
Mr. H. C. Christy has been ambitious enough to
We have testified more than once to the merits illustrate “ Hamlet”
(Dodd), but he has nothing
of New York's sprightly little periodical, “ Life,” new to say upon the subject. The drawings are
which is, in this country certainly, without a rival not without cleverness, but they are not Hamlet.
in its peculiar field. Its pictures are artistic, and And one shrinks from the touch of any but the
often charming; its tone is refined; it bubbles over greatest hands upon that masterpiece. The Ophelia
with fun that is never coarse or offensive; in short, of this artist is almost ludicrous, and the Prince
it is a paper that ladies and gentlemen may read, nearly as bad. It is much better to imagine them.
and no one need shun. It bears much the same rela- The King, in the frontispiece and on page 149, is
tion to its respectable London prototype, “Punch," conceived much more effectively.
that a glass of champagne does to a pot of rather It was a happy idea to have Madeleine Lemaire
flat porter. The Scribners now issue a “second illustrate “Lucile” (Stokes), - if the idea of re-
series" of selected pictures from “Life," under the printing the poem can be said to be happy,- for
title “Life's Comedy.” There are 150 pictures in her pretty sentimentality is well adapted to the
all, and they are divided into four groups, — “Belles false emotions and sing-song rhythm of Owen
and Beaux,” “In Cupid's Realm,” “Fads and Fan- Meredith's great effort. The water-colors are well
cies," "Out of Doors." They are worthy of their reproduced in color, and the drawings in black-and-
new setting; and the comely volume containing white, by Mr. C. McCormick Rogers, are fairly
them forms a capital means of enlivening an even- good.
ing and diverting a group of one's friends.
A new edition of Sterne's “Sentimental Journey"
“Flying Leaves" (E. R. Herrick & Co.) is the (Longmans) is decorated with many clever designs
title of a thin oblong quarto volume containing char-by Mr. T. H. Robinson, which are almost as charm-
acteristic selections from that sometimes really artist- ingly beguiling as the text. This edition will doubt-
ic and usually excruciatingly funny German weekly, less prove a favorite with the lovers of this genial
Fliegende Blaetter.” The specimens given are classic. It is fastidiously printed, and has the
fairly representative ones, but they are rather coarse- bibliographical merit of being an exact reprint of
ly reproduced. The volume will form an acceptable the first edition (that of 1768, in two volumes), the
present for those who enjoy the humorous side of only changes or alterations being the correction of a
things.
few obvious errors of the printer.
Mr. Elbert Hubbard's “Little Journeys to the A book of photographic views of “ Central Berk-
Homes of Famous Women” (Putnam) give some shire" (Pittsfield: George Blatchford) gives an
interesting accounts of the homes of Mrs. Brown- idea of the beauty of these Massachusetts hills and
ing, Jane Austen, Miss Martineau, Mary Lamb, villages. The pictures are admirably taken, and
Christina Rossetti, Madame de Staël, Empress suggest the peaceful loveliness of that rare country.
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meets, the adventures in which he participates, are de-
BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.
scribed simply and gracefully; and it is a pleasant, happy,
gay little place he makes of it. The story was told orig-
The fairies are sadly neglected by this year's writers, inally to help a small boy through the critical stage of
who should therefore live in fear of their revenge. For an illness, and one follows it with a kind of eager inter-
the fairies can endure neglect much better than the est in its power of diverting the invalid. This makes
writers can; they are perennial, they are eternally lov- one impatient when it drags, and happy when it is gay
able, while the poor author is but the creature of a day. and entertaining. The cover and illustrations, by Mr.
If he wishes to lengthen his short span of life, he must
W. D. Stevens, are daintily pretty.
invoke their aid, he must ingratiate bimself with them. The first story in “The Slambangaree and Other
Yet only a few out of the crowd have been wise enough
Stories" (Russell) is literally a nightmare, for it relates
to appreciate this truth. The real thing reaches us this the experiences of a little boy who ate too much plum-
year from the far north, as it did once before when pudding and saw strange things in consequence. It is
Andersen led the enchanted children into a beautiful written by Mr. R. K. Munkittrick, who has a lively
new country. These “ Fairy Tales from the Far North " fancy and a quaint sense of humor. The other stories
(A. C. Armstrong & Son) were written by P. C. Asbjörn- are much less terrifying, as they bave no connection with
sen, and translated from the Norwegian by Mr. H. L. plum-pudding; and they contain a good deal of human
Brakstad, who has given us other folk-stories by this nature, pleasantly disguised as impossibility. The in-
writer. The original illustrations by Sinding and Weren- genuity of the plots is as extraordinary as the delight-
skiold are reproduced, and they translate the spirit of fully direct manner in which they are elaborated. “The
the stories much more sympathetically than foreigners Peasant King” is an artistic tale, but it is not the only
could have done. The ever-present troll would have charming one in the clever little book.
- been a difficult subject to one who was not familiar with “ The Adventures of Mabel ” (Dodd), by Mr. Raf-
him from childhood. The author's invention never flags; ford Pyke, are chiefly with animals. The green lizard
his plots are extraordinarily rich in incident, too varied gives her a charm with wbich she can intimidate the
sometimes, too abrupt in their changes. Yet they do fiercest wild creature and make him her friend. The
not allow one's interest to pate, and they are told with originality lies in Mabel's oddly familiar intercourse
unusual vivacity. Though they have some of the delight- with beasts and giants that would make other little
ful old characters common to all folk-lore, they are in- girls tremble. The pictures by Miss M. E. Norton are
tensely, almost aggressively, original. Children would be in broad masses of blacks and white, and have a good
continually diverted by their surprises. Their directness deal of cbaracter.
is sometimes harsh and their simplicity curt, yet it is Mr. G. E. Farrow, the author of “The Wallypug of
extraordinary work. We know of nothing quite like it. Why," published last year, is less fortunate in the title
There is much humor, sometimes rather grim, in the of this year's book, though anything would seem com-
tales, but they have not the tenderness of Andersen's, monplace after such an inspiration. "The Missing
nor his occasional sentimentality, nor his large-hearted Prince" (Dodd) begins with a toy wedding and ends
human sympathy.
with an experiment in flying; and there are all sorts of
« The Pink Fairy Book" (Longmans), edited by the idiosyncracies in between. One of the drollest charac-
indefatigable Mr. Andrew Lang, bas a pretty cover, and ters is the Advertiser-General, whose original ideas in
excellent illustrations by Mr. H.J. Ford. The Japanese his profession may be commended to those who are in-
stories in the book are a new and pleasant element, and terested. There is plenty of fun, too, in the verses of
there are many Sicilian tales and some from the Spanish, the Public Rhymster; and the entire book shows a large
the Danish, and the French. Mr. Lang draws also upon fund of ingenuity and bumor. The drawings, by Mr.
Andersen and the brothers Grimm; and he makes a very Harry Furniss, fully carry out the drollery of the
readable book.
story.
“ The Flame-Flower, and other Stories" (Dent-Lip- “The Cruikshank Fairy-Book” (Putnam) ought to
pincott) is attractive at first glance, because of the orig- be one of the most popular of the year, for it contains
inality, the humor, and the decorative ingenuity of the four of the good old stories told in the good old way.
illustrations. And as the artist, Mr. James F. Sullivan, is “ Puss in Boots," “ Jack and the Beanstalk," " Hop-o'-
also the writer, one looks for the same qualities in the my-Thumb," and “Cinderella” are always new; and
stories -- and finds them. Their presence makes the when the fine old Cruikshank illustrations are printed
strange tales even more interesting to adults than to with them, they become irresistible. The drawings
children, but there is much in them also to appeal to have a delightful amount of action and character, and
the latter. Even though it would be difficult to make yet they are adroitly kept in harmony with the tales.
the story of “Bob Robinson's Baby" as clever as its This is much the most important of the year's reprints.
illustrations, it will delight them. The parody of Mr. - Two others are Hawthorne's “ Tanglewood Tales"
H. G. Wells will be funny only to maturer children, per- and “ Tales from Hans Andersen " (Crowell), each with
haps, but everyone can appreciate the cleverness of “The a colored frontispiece and several illustrations.
Lost Idea," if not its delicate satire.— “Here They Are!" “ The Muses up to Date" (Way & Williams), a series
(Longmans), by the same author, is less captivating, but of whimsical and actable plays for children by Mrs.
no less ingenious. The story of “The Blue Thing with Henrietta Dexter Field and Mr. Roswell Martin Field,
White Dots," from Noah's Ark, is particularly funny in might also be called a fairy-book. The plays are written
its description of the wooden Noah's perplexity in re- partly in verse, and are designed to afford many oppor-
gard to his own identity. And the history of “Snit,"
t,” the tunities for artistic effects in costuming and grouping.
mouse, together with the drawings for it, is delightful. Tableaux and dances are frequently introduced, and
In - Prince Uno" (Doubleday & MoClure), Uncle some of the situations would require very dexterous
Frank, who is only an ordinary mortal, takes a journey management. In the first play the Muses, discontented
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come desperately modern, too vulgarly modern, in fact. delightful thing about the book is Mrs. Tyler's decora-
The talk is slangy and very ridiculous, but except for tion in color. The pictures are simple, but they are also
the originality of the situation, its gay airiness is not imaginative, and they show an exquisite understanding
particularly clever. The other plays are more interest- of child life. In addition, they are the work of an
ing. The story of Cinderella is made into a charming artist, so that in color and design they are admirable.
drama, and later the same story is turned topsy turvy The decorative borders for the music are even lovelier
in an absurd little way, and our dear lady of the cinders than the pictures. The designs for the sunshine, wind,
made most disagreeable. There are clever things in and dancing songs, for “My Pegasus” and “ Clouds,”
“ Trouble in the Garden,” which would make a pretty are particularly happy. And there is character in all of
series of pictures. The book is well printed and rejoices them, and beauty.
in a charming cover by Mrs. Alice Kellogg Tyler. Mr. Frank Dempster Sherman's “Little-Folk Lyrics”
There are two books still which have some connec- (Houghton) are not set to music, though some of them
tion with fairyland. “ The Story of the Rhinegold sing themselves naturally. The “Lullaby," with its
(Harper) is told for young people by Miss Anna Alice pretty refrain, is exquisitely musical, and others besides
Chapin. It is Wagner's version which she narrates, and this have a pleasant lilt and melody. A delicate fancy
she connects it directly with the operas by printing the has woven pretty conceits in their meshes, yet they
chief musical motifs. The style is good, and though rarely have the simplicity and spontaneity necessary to
the story is a little intricate for very young children, it an effective appeal to childhood. “ The Shadows,"
is admirably adapted for the initiation of older ones into “ Wizard Frost," « Clouds,” « The Dewdrop,” and “In
the Wagnerian mysteries. The cover and illustrations the Orchard ” are the most
charming in the imaginative
have a dignity in keeping with the majesty of the stories. freshness of their ideas. The present edition is decor-
-"In Indian Tents” (Roberts) contains stories collected ated with drawings by Misses Maude and Genevieve
by Miss Abby L. Alger, from the Penobscot, Passama- Cowles, which greatly enrich it. They are both original
quoddy, and Micmac Indians. As stories they will in- and artistic, and have a delightful imaginative grace.
terest children, and as folk-lore they will delight adults. Some of the drawings, like the fine frontispiece, show a
They have peculiar quaintness and originality and direct- rare tenderness.
ness. They have even a certain majesty. There is The verses in “Red Apple and Silver Bells" (Put-
something superbly elemental about “The Creation," nam), by Mr. Hamish Hendry, are more childish; they
and in all of them we go back to nature and to the have a more spontaneous naiveté. Children might have
emotions common to all humanity.
conceived them; they might almost have written them.
Many good picture-books will enliven the holiday Yet their conceits are often forced, and sometimes bad
tables this year; and of these, three are musical. “The grammar is made to take the place of inspiration. A bit
Stevenson Song-Book ” (Scribner) is a little outside of of genuine truth is dropped down into some of them, as
that category, as it is decorated with pretty convention- in the verses called “Friendship”; and others, like
alized designs in black and white, and a charming cover “ White Horses," are richly imaginative. Many of them
in delicate colors. The poems are selected from the have a lyrical swing, and their ideas are of the kind that
“Child's Garden of Verses," and the music is written by children like. The illustrations, by Miss Alice B. Wood-
such well-known composers as Mr. G. W. Chadwick, ward, are thoroughly charming, as fresh and fanciful
Mr. Arthur Foote, Mr. Reginald de Koven, Mr. W. W. as the poems, and more artistic.
Gilchrist, and Dr. C. Villiers Stanford. The simple It is odd to have a book of Eugene Field's come to us
lyrical verses are the most charming things that ever a from England. But the selections for "Lullaby-Land”
child could sing.
(Scribner) were made by Mr. Kenneth Grahame and
The late H. Č. Bunner's “ Three Operettas" (Harper) the pictures by Mr. Charles Robinson. Mr. Grahame
contains gay little musical plays, designed to be acted writes also, in his exquisite imaginative way, an appre-
and sung by children. "The Three Little Kittens of ciative preface. The illustrations, except in the case of
the Land of Pie” relates ingeniously the adventures of “Little Boy Blue," are also sympathetic. They are charm-
those unfortunate pussies who lost their mittens and ing, often decorative, often cleverly pictorial. And the
therefore could have no pie. It is bright and amusing diminutive figures which serve as head and tail pieces
and would be pretty in action. The plot is absurd, but are delightful. The poems themselves are above our
not too absurd to be diverting. And the verses in this, approbation. They are the real thing, they belong to
as in the others, have a decided swing to them. The little the great company. This poet is one of the few to whom
songs are gay and catchy. “ Bobby Shaftoe” is the Nonsense-Land is true and visible. “ As soon as he set
centre of one of the operettas, and the third weaves an himself to narrate the goings-on there," says Mr. Gra-
ingenious plot around “The Seven Old Ladies of Laven- hame, and no one knows this country better than he,
der Town.” The music is by Mr. Oscar Weil, and the “ those of us who had been tourists in by-gone days, but
illustrations are drawn by Mr. C. D. Weldon and Mr. had lost our return-tickets, pricked up our ears, and
C. J. Taylor. The cover is strikingly clever.
listened, and remembered, and knew. The Dinkey-Bird,
“ Singing Verses for Children” (Macmillan) is a we recollected at once, had been singing the day we left,
product of Chicago, as the simple pretty verses were in the amfalula-tree; and there, of course, he must have
written by Mrs. Lydia Avery Coonley, the music by Miss been singing ever since, only we had forgotten the way
Eleanor Smith, Miss Jessie L. Gaynor, Mr. Frederic W. to listen. Eugene Field gently reminded us, and the
Root, and Mr. Frank H. Atkinson, Jr.; and the illustra- Dinkey-Bird was vocal once more, to be silent never
tions are the work of Mrs. Alice Kellogg Tyler. It again."
is easy to see that the entire book is made by lovers Perhaps the most alluring of the picture-books, one
of children, so gentle and sweet is the conception, so that will go to the very heart of the children, is “ Mother
tenderly sympathetic the execution. Some of the verses Goose in Prose” (Way & Williams), by Mr. L. Frank
are charmingly naïve, and the composers have tried to Baum. Here they will find the old familiar favorites
maintain the spirit of fresh simplicity. But the most set forth in new and diverting guise; here they can fol-
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low the author in weaving strange fancies into the old is infinite variety, and the variety is infinitely diverting.
rhymes, or the artist in imagining new figures to fit the As the author says in his preface, “it relates no story.
immortal descriptions. The pictures, by Mr. Maxfield It has no point, policy, or purpose." It is merely fun,
Parrish, are brilliant in their originality, their fitness, unadulterated fun, and the man who could read a page
their expressiveness, and their decorative adjustment of of it without laughing would be hardened indeed. It is
lines and masses. They are intensely individual, the the most delicious thing of the kind that has been
expression of a peculiar personality; yet they are adapted printed since “ Alice in Wonderland." The illustrations
with sympathetic art to the subject in hand. From a are also delightful, those by Miss Margaret Jones being
decorative standpoint the most successful drawings are very pretty, and those by the author extremely ludicrons.
for Little Boy Blue, the Black Sheep, Humpty Dumpty, The cover is unfortunately so bad as to be prejudicial
and Tom the Piper's Son. In these and in some others to the book's success.
Mr. Parrish artfully leads the imagination down wind- “ The Dumpies” (Russell) were discovered by Mr.
ing paths and trailing into fascinating villages and such Frank Ver-Beck, and their strange bistory is now nar-
turretted castles as the fancy yearns to play about. In rated by Mr. Albert Bigelow Paine. They are very
this he shows that he understands children and can fol- short and fat, the Dumpies, and King Dumpling is the
low them to the enchanted lands they love. Some of shortest and fattest of them all; and all the beasts of the
the same comprehension is shown by the author, who field who inhabit their country become like unto them.
makes charming stories out of the old lines. He is not Their history is nonsense, rather prolonged and dry, but
too definite nor too exact, and he does not prevent the their pictures are clever and will captivate the little
child from spinning his own tales. He uses the verses people who like little things.—Miss Alice B. Woodward
merely as a text for delightful little stories, and he has illustrated “ Adventures in Toyland” (Scribner), by
would be a very practical and stony-hearted child indeed Miss Edith King Hall; and the toys become animated
who could not enjoy them.
and emotional without in the least losing their character
Several of the picture-books take to poetry this year. as toys. The drawings are very ingenious, and the
In “The Vege-Men's Revenge” (Longmans) the verses stories told by a marionette are cleverly contrived to
are written by Miss Bertha Upton, and form a non- show that the lives of these apparently quiet toys are
sensical but rather heavy accompaniment to the pictures really full of exciting incident. — The story of “The
by Miss Florence K. Upton. They are printed in color, Blackberries and their Adventures" (Russell) is told
and give character and varied emotions to a number of and pictured by Mr. E. W. Kemble, who makes his
our commonest and least sensitive vegetables. Potatoes, amusing pickaninnies indulge in various sports.— Miss.
tomatoes, and carrots take on a new interest and excite S. Rosamond Praeger is both author and illustrator
a new sympathy. The work is therefore cleverly done. of « The Adventures of the Three Bold Babes-”,
—“The Autobiography of a Monkey” (Russell) tells (Longnians). It is an absurd little story, which, with
in fluent verse, by Mr. Albert Bigelow Paine, the story the aid of its absurd big pictures, may amuse very lit-
of a beast who passes from the jungle to the bands of tle people. But it is decidedly a book of an hour only..
an organ-grinder and through many
subsequent adven- Miss Maud Humphrey's sentimental, over-dressed
tures in the role of a man. He returns at last to the “ Little Grown-Ups" (Stokes) will be popular doubt--
jungle to teach his race that “man did not spring from less, as this particular doll-like prettiness finds too ready
the monkey, but monkey descended from man!" The
a welcome. The decorative borders, by Miss E. S.
pictures, by Mr. Hy. Mayer, are clever and amusing, Tucker, are better, but the text has as little character
and combine the characters of monkey and man with as the colored pictures.-"A New Baby World" (Century
grim adroitness.For unadulterated fun one must turn Co.) is a collection of stories, rhymes, and pictures for
to “ The Bad Child's Book of Beasts” (Arnold), with little folks, compiled from the pages of “St. Nicholas"
verses by H. B. and pictures by B. T. B. Author and by Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge. They are of all kinds,
artist have happily combined to make a book of de- from gay to pathetic, and any child's mood might be
lightful nonsense. One comes upon such unexpected satisfied here. The cover is charming in color.-
rhymes as this:
“Little Hearts” (Routledge) appeals to the same au-
"The Whale that wanders round the pole
dience. The verses, by Miss Bertha Upton, are rather
Is not a table fish.
insipid, but the pictures, by Miss Florence K. Upton,
You cannot bake or boil him whole,
have a good deal of character.— “Chatterbox” (Estes)
Nor serve him in a dish.'
makes its annual appearance, but both pictures and text:
And the pictures contain as many surprises as the text. are pretty far behind the times. The same thing might
The amount of character which the artist manages to
be said of Sunday Reading for the Young" (Young),
put into the learned fish, the elephant, and even the though some of the pictures here are much better.
callous hippopotamus will please children of all ages.-- Two nature books are in the children's list. And
The same authors publish “ More Beasts for Worse the stories in “ Among the Meadow People” (Dutton),
Children” (Arnold), but they make it much less quaintly by Mrs. Clara Dillingham Pierson, are as fascinating
diverting than the smaller book. It has its points as fairy-tales. They are fairy-tales, in fact, for the
though, and its surprises.
insects talk to the flowers of the field and the flowers
: A good book of nonsense is as difficult to write as it graciously reply. They are prettily told, with the de-
is delightful to read. And “Blown Away" (L.C. Page sign of fixing the habits of these little creatures in the
& Co.) is a veritable triumph which Mr. Richard Mans- child's memory; and to that end the writer gives them
field has achieved in a new art. It is pure nonsense, life and individuality. The drawings, by Mr. F. C.
absurdly inconsequent nonsense, but it will provoke Gordon, help to make this one of the most useful and
more laughter than any amount of rhyme or reason. delightful books of the year. — “The Plant Baby and
The author rattles on, jumping in the most surprising its Friends” (Silver, Burdett, & Co.), by Mrs. Kate
way from one subject to another, and never for a Louise Brown, is in the form of a reader for small
moment losing his hold upon his audience. The book children. It aims to teach the first principles of botany
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in a gay and attractive story-telling manner. But the believe in. And the moral lectures and good examples
dialogue is often forced and the stories are not imag- are too obvious and extended to be interesting to the
inative enough. The illustrations are good.
normal girl.
Fortunately for the girls of the present generation, “Marion Harland has written an attractive and
they do not confine themselves to the books ostensibly human story of the life of a girl fifty years ago, hen
written for them, for if they did we might rear a weak the schoolmaster had the power to be a master indeed.
and flabby set of women. Of the least of the boys' As set forth in “An Old-Field School-Girl" (Scribner),
books a certain vigor is required, which raises them Flea's experience with such an instructor is a particularly
above inanity. And it is much easier to endure their unhappy one. But it is told vigorously and sympatheti-
defects than the species of snobbishness and sentiment- cally, and without sentimentality. The girl is very
ality so familiar in the books for girls. There are only much alive, and she has intelligence and spirit, qualities
a few which escape these snags; there are only a few, in which the characters in girls' books are too often
in fact, which try to escape them. But, happily, the conspicuously lacking. There is a charm, too, about the
girl of the present day is fast growing away from such Virginia life of the middle-century, and the pictures,
reading; her out-of-door games make her too healthy partly from photographs, help to make it vivid.
in body and mind to care for trash.
Miss Amanda M. Douglas has been industrious
“ Three Margarets” (Estes), by Mrs. Laura E. enough to write three girls' books this season. The first
Richards, is conceived on a new plan. The Margarets of them, “ The Children at Sherburne House" (Dodd),
are three cousins of the same name,--one from the East, continues the series familiar to her readers. The story
one from a ranch in the West, and one from a Cuban is very mature, and ends, in the approved fashion, with
plantation, who come together for a summer's visit to wedding-bells. The girl who is old enough to read it is
an uncle whom they have never seen. There is here old enongh to read something much better. — Upon
an opportunity for contrast in character, which Mrs. “Her Place in the World" (Lee & Shepard), it is neces-
Richards skilfully, but somewhat melodramatically, im- sary to make the same comment, for the sort of love-
proves. It is on the whole a charming little story, making it contains is not particularly edifying.-" Han-
with a good deal of human nature in it; but it has not nah Ann" (Dodd) is a sequel to " A Little Girl in Old
the beauty which the author herself achieved in “
Cap-
New York” and begins in 1846. Its subject therefore
tain January.” The pictures, by Miss Ethelred B. has an interest of its own in the contrast in manners
Barry, are pretty, though a trifle insipid, and the cover and customs. Miss Douglas's style is flexible, and her
is clever.
stories are sweet and unaffected.
Two books by Miss Ellen Douglas Deland appear in In reading “ Miss Mouse and her Boys” (Macmillan),
the holiday list. In spite of its masculine title, “ Alan one can understand the perennial charm which Mrs.
Ransford” (Harper) is distinctly of the type called Molesworth has for the young, and rejoice that it is a
feminine. It has more cleverness and virility than wholesome one. Her gentleness, her sympathy, her
most of the books of its kind, but a love-story with an real knowledge of child-life, are all in evidence, and
excess of sentiment in it is not the most healthful read- there is quiet forcefulness in the book which is pleasant
ing for growing girls. For that kind of thing, however, to encounter. The illustrations, by Miss L. Leslie,
it is exceptionally well done.-“ A Successful Venture" Brooke, are clever. — The charm is much less evident
(W. A. Wilde & Co.) is more sane, but this also is in this author's book for older girls, “ Meg Langholme"
(Lippincott). Here the style grows stilted and takes
is the story of a family of girls, who, to avoid living on the faults which young women are supposed to ad-
with an aunt they do not like, start in to make their mire. Still, there is heartiness in the descriptions, and
own way in the world. They succeed in spite of dis- a certain vigor in the exciting but unnatural situations.
appointments, and have a good deal of pleasure in the Miss Yonge's girls' book for the season is called
process. Miss Deland's style is good, and her dialogue “ Founded on Paper" (Thomas Whittaker), and begins
is generally free and natural. The pictures, by Mrs. with one of Queen Victoria's jubilees, and ends with,
Alice Barber Stephens, are excellent.
the other. It contains a little excitement and a good
The “ Ten Little Comedies" (Little, Brown, & Co.), deal of preaching, which would be more effective if it.
by Miss Gertrude Smith, author of the “ Arabella and were more condensed. It is a rather goody-goody little
Araminta Stories,” are not written in the form of come- book, but Miss Yonge's admirers know what to expect.
dies. They are described as “tales of the troubles of Mrs. Champney's “Witcb Winnie in Venice” (Dodd)
ten little girls whose tears were turned into smiles "; is quite different from her charming story of « Pierre,
and they are pretty, healthful, graceful little stories of and his Poodle." It is too instructive to be artistic,
the sorrows and joys which are so important in the but it contains a large amount of information put up in
lives of children. There is no eccentricity in them, but sugar. Mrs. Champney writes briskly and well, and she
they have some character and a good deal of human mixes history and biography and romance in a bright and
nature. The moral tone is excellent, though the lessons effective way. Many photographs illustrate the book.
are not all one way, and the author's heart is obviously Miss Evelyn Raymond presents a study of country
with the children. The plots have originality, and they schools and country boys and girls in “ The Little Red
are handled with a kind of delicate tact.
Schoolhouse” (Roberts). She has done it cleverly, too,
There is moral enough and to spare in the story of and has given an interesting picture of school-boy pranks
“ Miss Nina Barrow” (Century Co.), by Miss Frances and failures and successes. And there is a touch of
Courtenay Baylor. The girl who is its centre and cir- school-boy devotion and self-sacrifice and heroism. The
cumference is a disagreeable, spoiled, self-willed child, points are occasionally strained, but they have some
who is supposed to be entirely changed by the influence human nature in them, nevertheless. The pictures are
of a thoughtful cousin and contact with a well-regulated wooden.
English family where the children are not tyrants. The It is hardly possible to do much more than enumerate
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cutt” (Wilde), by Mrs. Charlotte M. Vaile, is a sequel
to « The Orcutt Girls.” It carries Sue on through the
training she had so ardently desired, and shows how,
after the academy was left behind, she worked her way
through college. -"Queer Janet” (Lee & Shepard)
has for its heroine a girl who has the commoner fault
(in books) of being too good. Miss Grace Le Baron is
the author.—“Rich Enough" (Roberts), by Miss Leigh
Webster, is a story for older girls. Its theme is found
in the removal to the country of a family which is too
poor to maintain its social position in town. The change
proves fortunate, and everything winds up in happiness.
- In “Wanolasset, The Little-One-Who-Laughs"
(Roberts), Miss A. G. Plympton goes back to Puritan
days. The story bas a sweet and gentle flavor; it is
prettily written, and prettily illustrated by the author.
-“ A Girl's Ordeal” (Coates), by Mrs. Lucy C. Lillie,
is of the nature of a novel, and much too sensational for
either young or old.— The “ Hearthstone Series” (Lee
& Shepard) contains a story by Miss Sophie May called
“ The Campion Diamonde," and one by Ellen H. Cooley
called “The Boom of a Western City.”- Miss Martha
Finlay continues the “ Elsie books” (Dodd) with « Elsie
At Home"; and “Penn Shirley” adds “ The Happy
Six” to the “Silver Gate Series” (Lee & Shepard).-
“Three Pretty Maids” (Lippincott), by Miss Amy E.
Blanchard, contains some good illustrations by Alice
Barber Stephens.—“ A Lonely Little Lady” (Dodd), by
Miss Dolf Wyllarde, is also enriched with clever draw-
ings. But in addition it is enriched too much with fine
feathers and love-making to be wholesome. — Miss E.
Everett-Green makes a contribution to girls' literature
in “Sister" (Nelson). This too is rather sentimental
for young readers, and rather old and complicated.—A
pretty, graceful tale, with a bit of the negro element
in it, is “ Little Homespun" (Stokes), by Ruth Ogden
(Mrs. Charles W. Ide). It is a sequel to “Courage,”
which has already achieved some popularity.—" A Dear
Little Girl" (Jacobs), written and illustrated by Miss
Amy E. Blanchard, is a pleasant little story for pleasant
little girls.
We hail it as a healthy sign that so many popular
books on outdoor subjects are now appearing. Certainly
one of the best of these is“Wild Neighbors” (Macmillan),
by the well-known writer, Ernest Ingersoll. This
book consists of very pleasantly written sketches of such
common American mammals as the woodchuck, porcu-
pine, raccoon, gray squirrel, and skunk, and also chap-
ters on the puma, the coyote, the badger, and on animal
intelligence. The homelier the theme, the happier seems
to be the author's vein; and the masterpiece of the vol-
ume is the chapter entitled “ The Skunk Calmly Con-
sidered,” which is an extremely pleasant and interesting
account of that mephitic being. While his work is
mainly a skilful compilation from such writers as
Thoreau, Burroughs, Abbott, and others, Mr. Ingersoll
yet records many of his own observations and conclusions.
Some of these latter the reader may well question, as
that the gray squirrel smells nuts bidden under several
feet of snow. The illustrations in this book are not well
selected nor of a high order of merit. The numerous
pictures of bones have little meaning in a work of this
kind. But the volume as a whole is a capital one for
boys, and for all of larger growth who have or should
have a real interest in animals.
Several historical books must be added to the long
list given in our last number. Miss Beatrice Harraden
contributes one called “ Untold Tales of the Past"
(Dodd). They are slight, forgotten episodes which she
describes and elaborates. She does it prettily but with
a certain air of condescension, writing down unnecessa-
rily to the children's level. Joan of Arc, Caxton, Cæsar,
and Phidias are some of the heroes who form the centres
of these stories, which show them always in contact
with the young. There is a tendency to sentimentality
in the author's method. The drawings by Mr. H. R.
Millar are variable, but some of them are excellent.
“ The King's Story Book " (Longmans) is constructed
after an entirely new pattern by Mr. George Laurence
Gomme. It contains a series of historical studies deal-
ing with English kings from the Conquest to the reign
of William IV.; but these are extracted entirely from
romantic literature. Shakespeare furnishes the accounts
of John, Henry IV., Prince Hal, and Edward V.; Sir
Walter Scott those of Henry II., Richard of the Lion
Heart, Edward I., James I., Charles I., and the Com-
monwealth; Thackeray supplies those of Anne and
George IV.; Dickens that of George III.; and Lord
Lytton, Charlotte Bronte, and Leigh Hunt are among
the others drawn upon. It will readily be seen that the
book is readable for young and old. The drawings by
Harrison Miller are only tolerable. - The title of “ An
Emperor's Doom” (Nelson), by Mr. Herbert Hayens,
refers to Maximilian of Mexico. His is a tragic story,
but well worth the telling, and the book gives one some
idea of the mistakes that were made and the pitifulness
of it all. The author's style is good, and the story
moves swiftly and excitedly. The cover and illustra-
tions are excellent. — The same author is responsible for
“ Soldiers of the Legion " (Nelson). This too is a
story of conspiracy and war, but the scene is changed to
Spain, and the Carlists are the principal actors. There
is a briskness about Mr. Hayens's style which will appeal
to boys. - Mrs. E. Everett-Green writes of “ A Clerk of
Oxford” (Nelson) and tells of his adventures in the
Barons' War. The archaic English of the dialogue is
rather forced, and the style throughout the book a little
heavy, so that the long and complicated story is not
carried off with spirit.
America is treated bountifully this year, as several
additional books will testify. “The Exploits of Myles
Standish” (Appleton) are narrated by Mr. Henry
Johnson (Muirhead Robertson). His material for the
first thirty-six years is avowedly imaginary, but after
the Mayflower set sail the story is based upon the records.
It is vigorously told, but the author cannot make his
characters live. And the description of the famous
Standish courtship is stiff and unconvincing. — The same
period, picturesque in contrasts, in character and cour-
age, is treated in “On Plymouth Rock” (Lee &
Shepard), by Mr. Samuel Adams Drake. His is a sim-
ple, straightforward account, written primarily for
schools, of the manners and customs of the early Puri-
tans. The style is good and the little book is interest-
ing and valuable. - The Revolution, however, is still in
the lead, for the most charming of these books is “An
Unwilling Maid” (Houghton), in which Miss Jeanie
Gould Lincoln tells a graceful story in a graceful way.
There is something refreshingly attractive about the
book, and the characters have individuality and charm.
Betty is human and alive, and her little sister Moppet
is a true child and delightful.-Dr. Everett T. Tomlinson
contributes another book to the story of 1812. The
scene of action in “Guarding the Border” (Lee &
Shepard) is largely the Great Lakes, and the author
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ing to make it effective. General Scott makes an ap-
pearance in this book.
- Mr. James Barnes also makes
LITERARY NOTES.
another contribution to the history of this war in “Yan-
Mr. W. R. Jenkins has just published “A Brief
kee Ships and Yankee Sailors” (Macmillan). Mr.
Italian Grammar with Exercises," the work of Dr.
Barnes's style is admirable, and the stories he has taken
Hjalmar Edgren, favorably known as the author of
from history and tradition are stirring narratives of
elementary French and Spanish grammars.
valiant deeds. Many of them are of the kind which
The tenth annual meeting of the American Economic
the new navy and the new system of warfare have made
Association will be held Decomber 29-31, at Cleveland,
impossible, and it is well to preserve thus the memory
Ohio. Professors F. H. Giddings, Carroll D. Wright,
of them to our boys and girls. The illustrations by
Zogbaum and Chapman are excellent. — Mrs. Molly
Arthur T. Hadley, Richmond Mayo-Smith, F. W. Taus-
sig, and J. L. Laughlin, and Secretary Gage are among
Elliot Seawell also deals with the water in “ Twelve
Naval Captains” (Scribner). Her style is more care-
the speakers announced.
less than were her investigations, for she gives accurate
Mrs. Alice Wellington Rollins, a member of the little
and interesting biographies of the most important of our
colony of artists and literary folk who live in Lawrence
early commanders. The book is illustrated with repro-
Park, Bronxville, a few miles out of New York, died on
ductions of old portraits.
the fifth of this month. She was born in Boston about
In taking up ^ The Vanished Yacht” (Nelson), one
fifty years ago, and was well known as a writer of poetry,
leaves the region of history, but remains with the sea.
criticism, and sketches of travel.
Mr. E. Harcourt Burrage has written a spirited and
We have received the first numbers of “ L'Echo de la
exciting tale with a most unusual plot, and he makes the Semaine," a weekly “revue littéraire et mondaine "
extraordinary incidents seem real. Its theme is the
published in Boston. It is an eight-page sheet, agree-
cbase of a yacht stolen by a Spanish adventurer, and
ably diversified in contents, and promises, among other
its capture after many difficulties are surmounted. The
things, to reprint M. Brunetière's impressions of America
illustrations are good, and the style of the narrative is
au fur et à mesure qu'elles paraîront.
well calculated to sustain interest. — “The Island of The Central Division of the Modern Language Asso-
Gold” (Nelson) is another “sailor's yarn,” written this ciation of America will hold its third annual meeting at
time by Dr. Gordon Stables of the Royal Navy. It des- the Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, the
cribes many dangers, but always some miraculous release last two days of this year and the first of the next.
from them. The improbabilities are rather too numer-
Papers are announced by many well-known philologists,
ous even for a boy's ivsatiable appetite, and the men among them being Professors D. K. Dodge, Julius
and women who figure in them have no independent life.
Goebel, C. F. McClumpha, J. E. Matzke, Georg Hempl,
A few good illustrations are by Allan Stewart. — Mr. J. T. Hatfield, and Ewald Fluegel.
S. R. Crockett appears as the narrator of “The Surpris- Messrs. Scott, Foresman & Co. are the publishers of
ing Adventures of Sir Toady Lion” (Stokes), and de- “ Principles of Vocal Expression,” by Messrs. W. B.
scribes it as “an improving history for old boys, young Chamberlain and S. H. Clark. It is a practical treatise,
boys, good boys, bad boys, big boys, little boys, cow-boys, the outcome of classroom work, upon “the rhetoric of
and tom-boys." The story is charming, thoroughly vocal expression” and “ mental technique and literary
fresh and childish and natural, and enlivened with interpretation.” The same publishers send us Dr. W.L.
a whimsical, delightful humor. There is a bit of Burdick's “ Topical Outlines of Roman History," a
sentiment in it, but it is not unwholesome sentiment. small book for preparatory students.
Mr. Gordon Browne's pictures are a fit accompaniment, A proposition to levy tribute upon authors and pub-
for they have character, too. — “The Enchanted Burro” lishers for the benefit of libraries would seem too absurd
(Way & Williams) and “ The King of the Broncos” to be treated seriously, and yet we are advised that a
(Scribner), both by Mr. Charles F. Lummis, are not ex- bill for this purpose is actually to be introduced into the
clusively books for boys, yet they will derive much instruc- Senate of the United States, the doubtful honor falling
tion and entertainment from them. They contain stories to Senator Perkins of California, in which State the
of New Mexico and South America, countries too little movement appears to have originated. By this bill,
known to our youth, written by a man who is familiar four copies of the best edition ” of every copyright
with every foot of the ground. His style, too, pictur- book published in the United States (in addition to the
esquely suits his subject, and reveals some of the charm two copies required to be sent to the Librarian of Con-
of the Spanish and Indian mixture of races. There are gress) are to be distributed among certain libraries
rather too many Spanish phrases, with superfluous expla- designated, at San Francisco, Denver, Chicago, and
nations of them in the notes, but it is not these which New Orleans. Publishers of “every subsequent edition"
gives us the spirit of this strange civilization. In the having “any substantial changes are to be similarly
first-mentioned book the pictures by Charles Abel Corwin mulcted. It is urged, by the Committee of California
are capital, and the very original cover suggests the Librarians having the plan in charge, that “there is a
mystery of the Southwestern plains.
widespread feeling that copies of copyrighted works
It should be possible to satisfy the most exacting should be available, so far as possible, for general
child from this long list, for though the struggle for reference," and that this applies especially to residents
novelty is often too evident and many fall by the way. of the Pacific Coast. But why not buy the books that
side, some of these writers understand their world and are so much to be desired ? Or, they can be got
can adjust the desirable to the acceptable. Their books without buying, simply by Act of Congress, why limit
will last longer than the season, for children are quick the number of involuntary donations to four copies ?
to know their friends; but one wonders where the bad Why not make it fourteen, or forty, copies, and thus
books go to, whether there is a special heaven and extend the benefits of the act to other deserving regions
hell for the hundreds of volumes that die before the where there is a widespread feeling that books “should
year is out.
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LIST OF NEW BOOKS.
(The following list, containing 86 titles, includes books
received by THE DIAL since its last issue.]
BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIRS.
The Life and Letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edited
by Annie Fields. With portrait, 12mo, gilt top, uncut,
pp. 406. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $2.
The Story of Gladstone's Life. By Justin McCarthy.
Illus., large 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 436. Macmillan Co. $6.
Forty-six Years in the Army. By Lieutenant-General
John M. Schofield. With portrait, large 8vo, gilt top, uncut,
pp. 577. Century Co. $3.
Pictures from the Life of Nelson. By W. Clark Russell.
Illus., 12mo, pp. 301. Dodd, Mead & Co. $1.50.
The Life of Philip Schaff, in part Autobiographical. By
David S. Schaff, D.D. With portraits, 8vo, gilt top, uncut,
pp. 526. Charles Scribner's Sons. $3.
The Story of Marie-Antoinette. By Anna L. Bicknell.
Illus., large 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 334. Century Co. $3.
St. Francis of Assisi: His Times, Life, and Work. By
W. J. Knox Little, M.A. With portrait, 8vo, gilt top,
uncut, pp. 328. Thomas Whittaker. $2.50.
The Sacrifice of a Throne: Being an Account of the Life of
Amadeus, Duke of Aosta, Sometime King of Spain. By
H. Remsen Whitehouse. Illus., 12mo, gilt top, uncut,
pp. 328. Bonnell, Silver & Co. $1.50.
Charles the Great. By Thomas Hodgkin, D.C.L. 12mo,
pp. 253. “Foreign Statesmen." Macmillan Co. 75 cts.
Kirkcaldy of Grange. By Louis A. Barbé. 12mo, pp. 157.
" Famous Scots." Charles Scribner's Sons. 75 cts.
HISTORY.
The History of our Navy, from its Origin to the Present
Day, 1775-1897. By John R. Spears. In 4 vols., illus.,
12mo, gilt tops, uncut. Charles Scribner's Song. $8.
GENERAL LITERATURE.
The Quest of Happiness. By Philip Gilbert Hamerton.
12mo, pp. 187. Roberts Brothers. $2.
Nineteenth Century Questions. By James Freeman
Clarke. 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 368. Houghton, Miffin
& Co. $1.50.
Petrarch, and Other Essays. By Timothy H. Rearden.
12mo, pp. 202. William Doxey. $1.50.
The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics.
Edited by Frederic Lawrence Knowles. With frontispiece,
16mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 319. L. C. Page & Co. $1.25.
Idle Hours in a Library. By William Henry Hudson.
16mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 238. William Doxey. $1.25.
The Workers: An Experiment in Reality. By Walter A.
Wyckoff. First series, The East. Illus., 12mo, pp. 270.
Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.25.
NEW EDITIONS OF STANDARD LITERATURE.
Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns.
bridge” edition; with portrait and engraved title-page,
8vo, gilt top, pp. 397. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $2.
“Temple” Edition of the Waverley Novels. First vols.:
Waverley-in 2 vols. With frontispieces, 24mo, gilt tops.
Charles Scribner's Sons. Per vol., 80 cts.
Works of Molière. Trans. by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.
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