& Co. English Husbands” are as low as those of “The COMEDIES AND ERRORS. By Henry Harland. New York: Gospel of Freedom” are high, and while Mr. John Lane. Herrick's heroine is moulded of such fine clay that FROM THE OTHER SIDE. Stories of Transatlantic Travel. By Henry B. Fuller. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. she is attractive even when at fault, Mrs. Atherton's ARS ET VITA, and Other Stories. By T. R. Sullivan, New heroine is so badly spoiled by her training and en- York: Charles Scribner's Sons. vironment that she commands little sympathy in the : : 76 [Aug. 1, THE DIAL crisis of her fortunes. The book is in some respects cordant note. He was doubtless in a fix, and the brilliant, and displays much shrewd first-hand ob- author was in an equally obvious one. But the note servation, but there is a streak of vulgarity running of comedy is the fundamental note of the whole through it, and it moves upon a low moral plane. performance, and its abrupt displacement by the “ In Kings' Houses,” Mrs. Dorr's story of the note of tragedy produces a shock. If the writer days of Queen Anne, is a pretty story of the senti- had been wholly consistent, he would have made the mental sort, extremely mild in interest, but display- hero take his own life in satisfaction of his some- ing a close and even affectionate familiarity with wbat strained ideal of honorable conduct, instead of the history and customs of its period. The Queen having him taken off by what is hardly more than becomes a more gracious figure in Mrs. Dorris pages an accident. This would have been tragic also, but , and . historical personage whom the author attempts to few readers would have felt any real scruples in a a characterize seriously. Others flit across the scene, accepting him henceforth as the husband of Flavia but make no impression, unless we call a historical and the King of Ruritania. As for his pretty epi. personage the young Duke of Gloster, her son, taph, we need not have lost even that, for it would whose early death destroyed the last real hope of have served quite as well after ten or twenty years the Stuarts. Rather more than half of the book, in of beneficent rule and conjugal happiness. The fact, is given to the boyhood of this interesting lad, populace deserved the one, and Flavia was entitled and the last years of the great King and statesman to the other. who made secure for all time the liberties of the “ Kronstadt” is a sufficiently thrilling tale to war- English people. rant our approval, although the approval must be Mr. Clinton Ross has sought pastures new for somewhat closely qualified. As a serious social his latest excursions in romance. “ A Trooper of study, it is naught; as an entertaining narrative of the Empress " is a tale of South Africa, and tells adventure, with the guardian fortress of the Russian how a great territory was saved for England by the Empire for a stage-setting, and for a background the energetic daring of a more fortunate Dr. Jameson. vast and mysterious despotism of the Tsar, it is dis- 6 Bobbie McDuff” is a tale of gypsies and Russian tinctly successful. How an Englishwoman spied princes and mediæval strongholds, and tells us how upon the fortifications and sold their secrets to the the son of a great house learned of his origin, and English government, how she won the love of a came to his own after the most surprising and peri- Russian officer, and made him forget his duty in lous adventures. Both of these books are interest | Aeeing with her after the discovery of her treachery, ing, in spite of their jerkiness of manner, and their and how all their troubles came to a happy ending, trick of reducing a scene to its bare elements, leav- is what Mr. Pemberton has told us in this charming ing the reader's imagination to supply all the needed story, and his art is most apparent in the fact that details. both the man and the woman keep their hold upon When a sequel to some successful work of fiction our sympathies in spite of conduct which, calmly is promised, it is customary for sapient people to considered, is reprehensible. The escape from shake their heads, make irrelevant remarks about Kronstadt in a small boat is particularly well man- “Don Quijote” and “Wilhelm Meister” and “ Tar- aged, and although agony is piled upon agony, the tarin,” and prophesy a more or less dismal failure. line of sensationalism does not seem to be overpassed. These famous books illustrate, no doubt, the truth There are also some capital pages of descriptive that genius rarely reproduces or revivifies its hap-writing in the book, description that is forcible, piest inspirations, but to argue from this that the vivid, and yet restrained. popular novelist may not transfer his characters from The wars of the sixteenth century in the Nether- one book to another, and still another if he wish, | lands, and, more specifically, the siege of Leyden, with effect as pleasing as when they were first intro- constitute the theme of “Sons of Adversity,” a new duced to the public, is to employ a mistaken analogy. romance by Mr. L. Cope Cornford, whose • Master- To make "The Prisoner of Zenda,” for example, Beggars" we had the pleasure of commending a the text of such an argument, is to take that enter- year or more ago. We now have another story of taining book much too seriously. For our part, we much the same sort, a story of political intrigue, have no doubt that “ Anthony Hope" could write hazardous adventure, and successful love. It does “ Zenda” stories by the dozen, without any weak- not speak well for the author's accuracy to find, on ening of interest, for the charm of these stories is the first page, such a phrase as “the year of our in their invention alone, and invention has little or Lord 1574, being the fifteenth year of the glorious nothing to do with works of genius. Our chief regret, reign of Elizabeth,” but the story is none the less then, in reading " Rapert of Hentzau," is that the interesting for a few such slips. principal characters are all killed, thus making fur- Novels in which music is the element of chief ther volumes in the series at least improbable. The interest are apt to overflow into sentimentality, and new romance is quite as good as its predecessor, filled “ The Duenna of a Genius " is no exception to the quite as full of ingeniously planned situations and rule. The chapters of Mrs. Blundell’s story are all dramatic effects. We are bound to say, however, provided with phrases borrowed from the Italianate that the wanton slaying of the hero strikes a dis- | vocabulary of the art musical, and the changes are 66 1898.] 77 THE DIAL » 66 con atic stage. rung by means of such terms as “ staccato," alities more than once resulted in sending him to tristezza,” “appassionato subito," and "sempre the extreme of boldness and outspoken utterance. crescendo.” The “ finale con molto sentimento” not In “Evelyn Innes” he has produced a work that only describes the closing chapter, but the greater must be taken seriously, whatever one may think of number of the others as well. Still, the story is its purport. It is a strong and penetrating portrayal pretty enough, although its characterization is ex- of modern life, written with both mastery and knowl- tremely superficial, and its dramatic substance of edge. We always hesitate to pronounce a book im- the thinnest possible consistency. moral in tendency simply because some of its char. There is something less of the sentimental strain acters lead immoral lives. So superficial a view as in “ The Concert-Director,” and something more of that has no place in serious criticism, because the successful representation of character. The story real problem is so much deeper. We do not need is ingeniously planned, and tells how an unscrupu- to approve of Evelyn's conduct in calling her history lous adventurer sought the love of a famous singer an essentially moral one. She is simply a woman to secure for himself the rank and emoluments of of weak will, in whose temperament the artistic ele- a concert-manager. He is more successful than he ment outweighs for a time the sense for conduct, expected to be, and finds that he really loves her and leads her into a course that is no doubt shock- into the bargain. She, for her part, tires of him ing, but that is at the same time inevitable, given when she learns of his insincerity, and seeks for her character to begin with. It is equally inevit- happiness elsewhere. The story deals with musi- able that her conscience should become awakened cians and musical commercialism throughout, and in the end, and by precisely the means that are here shows close acquaintance with the types of character employed, and the renunciation of her sinful rela. , that are developed by the concert hall and the oper- tions with the two men who love her, and the sin- cerity of her atonement, seem to adjust the ethical The third musical novel on our list is much better balance of the work. The end of it all is not made than the other two; first, because it is not so effu- quite clear, but Evelyn is left in the path of spiritual sively sentimental, and second, because it has a well- purification, and it seems that the author would have constructed and almost original plot. Here, the us believe that her steps are not to be retraced, but chief character is a man of fine temper who marries are to carry her, however painfully, along the nar- a singer of shallow nature, because he has given a rower and better way that she has chosen. We have promise to his friend, her brother, who exacted it said nothing as yet of the musical part of the story. upon his death-bed. Granting this somewhat ques- In brief, Evelyn is the daughter of a man whose tionable point of honor, the after-events follow as whole life is devoted to a restoration of church natural consequences ; for to keep his promise the music to the austere simplicity and beauty of the hero sacrifices the woman whom he loves, and makes early centuries. The cult of Palestrina fills all her her life as well as his own one great renunciation. early life, yet she herself becomes a great dramatic The wife proves unworthy of him, although she singer and an interpreter of the characters created stops short of actually sinning against him, and by the genius of Wagner. The story of her career makes an escapade which comes near to resulting introduces much musical criticism, and the author's seriously, and which supplies material for the sub-analysis of the great Wagnerian dramas is extra- stance of the plot. The haunting strain of one of the ordinarily acute and subtle. Yet, with his evident immortal melodies of the world “ Che farò senza appreciation of these works, there flows along an Eurydice”- runs through the novel, and acquires undercurrent of the thought embodied in Count & symbolical significance from the relations into Tolstoï's " Kreutzer Sonata,” the thought that this which the characters fall. It is even introduced in great art is in the deepest sense immoral, full of musical notation over and over again, and provides a sinful promptings, and dangerous to the soul's wel- leit-motiv for the action. The book is nowise strong, fare. We feel bound to repudiate this conception but it is distinctly readable and interesting. as vehemently as we may, and to assert instead The fourth of our musical novels, and the last to that the mind in which it can arise is morbidly be considered, has nothing in common with the other the vision three, being the work of a master and not of an and truth. If we were to style Evelyn Innes ” an amateur. Mr. George Moore has had a somewhat immoral book, it would be upon this ground rather chequered career as a novelist, and his books have than that of the life led by the heroine. deeply stirred the waters of discussion upon more Mr. Crockett seems to have written himself than one occasion. Their power has always been nearly out. It is undeniable that his stories of the undeniable, and they have shown a fine instinct for struggle for the Covenant display both knowledge the best models of style and composition, but their and vigor, and, if he has diluted the vigor with subjects and manner of treatment have at times overmuch of modern sentimentalism, the product displayed a questionable morality and a conspicuous still has power to stir the blood, and help us to a lack of delicacy. The tradition which for so long vivid conception of the old rough life of seventeenth kept English fiction from sounding the deeps of life century Scotland. But he has told his tale as best in its passionate aspects affected Mr. Moore like a he knows how, and there is no reason why he should red rag, and his reaction against the convention- continue to tell it with slight variations. “The - 78 [Aug. 1, THE DIAL a crew. Standard Bearer” would interest us deeply were it “The Nigger of the Narcissus," by Mr. Joseph not the latest of a long line of romantic fictions ; Conrad, has been one of the most successful books being such, and the product of a narrowly limited of the year in England. For some utterly unac- imagination, we know just what is coming, and can countable reason, its American publishers have seen find no great zest in the reading. fit to rechristen it with the commonplace title “ The “ The Lake of Wine" is an exciting story of Children of the Sea,” a piece of foolishness matched England a hundred years ago, written in a most only by the substitution of “ Transformation” for pernicious style of the would-be Meredithian sort. “ The Marble Faun.” It is not a story in the ordi- The search for a great ruby (for the fanciful title nary sense, for it has no plot, no interplay of motive, means just that) in an out-of-the-way country house, no mystery deftly concealed until the proper mo- the crimes of the cutthroat who first stole it, and of ment for disclosure. It is simply the account of the scoundrel who sought to regain it after he had one voyage of a trading vessel from India to En- met his deserts on the gallows, provide the story gland, told by an inhabitant of the forecastle, and with its substance, and set in motion an ingeniously- made stirring by nothing more dramatic than a contrived plot. The story is interesting in spite of storm encountered in rounding the Cape, and an the perverse language in which it is written, and has abortive mutiny near the close of the voyage. Its the happy ending which readers of such stories power lies in its exposition of the psychology of the rightfully expect. mutiny, of the storm (if this metonymy be allowed), The very title of Mr. Gissing's new novel strikes and of certain typical characters among officers and the note of restlessness and dull cynicism by which In addition to power, it has style, a thing it is pervaded.“ The Whirlpool” is, of course, not adequately to be illustrated within this narrow modern society as it exists in London, or, for that space, but for which one brief passage, suggested by matter, any other great city. More, perhaps, than the sight of an unlettered seaman reading one of the author's earlier books, this one seeks to produce the garish early novels of Bulwer, may be allowed the impression that civilization is about played out. to stand. “ Are those beings who exist beyond the The programme is not inspiring, to say the least, pale of life stirred by his tales as by an enigmatical and there is a petulant quality to Mr. Gissing's disclosure of a resplendent world that exists within cynicism which makes its sincerity seem doubtful. the frontier of infamy and filth, within that border Imagine a Thackeray without humor, without ten- of dirt and hunger, of misery and dissipation, that derness, and without much real insight into human comes down on all sides to the water's edge of the nature, and you have the author of “The Whirl- incorruptible ocean, and is the only thing they know pool” and its fellows. The effect is dismal enough, of life, the only thing they see of surrounding land, when it is added that the author is committed to -those lifelong prisoners of the sea?” The book the austere theory of fiction that does not permit a contains many such things as this, passages of terse story to get anywhere in particular, or to offer any- and superb poetic vigor, passages that suggest the thing more than a random chapter from the annals magical utterance of a “Charles Egbert Craddock” of everyday life. or a “ Pierre Loti.” As for the psychological aspect Why should story-tellers be at the pains to invent of it, we doubt if a more searching study of seafar- plots when history offers them ready-made? Such ing life has ever been worked out. seems to have been the attitude of Messrs. Louis Mr. Conrad has been a fairly prolific writer since Becke and Walter Jeffery when, casting about in he made his first appearance, two or three years search of material for a new story of the southern ago, with "Almayer's Folly," and we now have from seas, they hit upon the tragical history of the Bounty him, at the same time with the longer work above and its mutineers. While heightening the dramatic described, a collection of five " Tales of Unrest.” effect of the story here and there, and giving it an Three of them are sketches of the Dutch and Span- artistic veneer of minor incident, the authors have ish Indies, a region which Mr. Conrad's imagination kept close to the main lines of the actual occurrences, has annexed to English literature almost as com- and shown that the history of the famous mutineer pletely as British India has been annexed by the colony of Pitcairn Island makes as thrilling a ro- imagination of Mr. Kipling, or the South Sea Islands mance as any that was ever imagined. These events by Stevenson and Mr. Stoddard. 6. Karain : a took place a full hundred years ago, but they seem Memory" and "An Outpost of Progress" are mas- only of yesterday when we read about them in these terly studies of the contact of civilization with the pages. The details are all provided — the brutality alien races of the East Indies. The product of a of Captain Bligh, the revolt of the men, the expul sombre temperament, which absorbs the prismatic sion of the captain and those who remained loyal colors of oriental life, reflecting the duller hues to him, the long voyage in search of a safe refuge, alone, it is clear that they show forth but one phase the final settlement upon Pitcairn Island, and the of an existence that must have many others; but bloody feuds that wiped out the greater number of this truth is so convincing that we are made to for- the colonists. It is all truth, yet certainly stranger get, while under their spell, that the world may be than most of what we call fiction. The authors are fair, and the skies blue, even to an English trader to be congratulated upon the skill with which they among the Malays. have worked this material into romantic form. Most readers who turn to Mr. Zangwill's“ Dream- 1898.] 79 THE DIAL > ers of the Ghetto” will find themselves compelled artistic feeling of Mr. Harland's recent work we find to revise their earlier estimate of the writer's abili- it almost impossible to recognize the pen that offered ties. Heretofore, he has stood as the embodiment us those crude efforts of melodramatic sensational- of a sort of commonplace cleverness, and most of ism. For these “Comedies and Errors " reveal the his work has been so ill-planned and diffuse as to instinct of the true artist, the sense of form, the be impossible from any artistic point of view. Even compression and restraint, the lightness of touch when he has dealt with the customs and character and the deft handling of incident that characterize of his own race, his view has seemed superficial, bis the short stories of the most famous practitioners. method to single out the grotesque and the acci- Mr. Harland bas not gone to the school of the best dental rather than the essential and permanent as- Frenchmen in vain, and has at last shown himself pects of Jewish life and tradition. Occasional capable of workmanship so delicate that we have flashes of insight have not, indeed, been wanting, not the heart to say aught but praise concerning it. but the most generous criticism could hardly have Mr. Henry Fuller is another of our younger story- found in them the promise of such a book as the writers whose artistic development has been steady one now before us. In this series of sketches and sure, although in his case the contrast is not so half story and half philosophical disquisition - we marked between his first book and his last. He have the very soul of the Jewry, the vital expression may well be proud of the achievement represented of its thought, its poetry, and its ideal aspirations. by the four stories entitled “ From the Other Side.” We have also a vast display of the lore that clusters Some if not all of them have previously appeared in about the Talmud and the Cabalah, and many epi. the magazines, but they deserve a reperusal. “The sodes from the dusty annals of the author's race Pilgrim Sons” is perbaps the happiest of the four, spring from the domain of chronicle into that of as embodying the most definite idea, although life at his command. Some of the characters chosen “ What Youth Can Do" stands as a close second. for study by Mr. Zangwill are familiar to the gen- Mr. Fuller has the gift of style, which is much, and , Heine, the gift , which is Uriel Acosta, "Othere are absolutely unknown to be Last of all upon our list comes the collection of Mit the everyday public. A few, again, are creations stories by Mr. T. R. Sullivan, properly enough en- of his own, and here we must mention the exquisite titled “Ars et Vita," although the part of " Ars” “ story of “ A Child of the Ghetto," with which the in them is small. They are bright sketches of collection opens, and the marvellous fantasy, “Chad European life, some of them grouped about the Gadya," with which it closes. The book is deeply , year 1870-71 and the happenings of the war period. significant, both as a richly sympathetic and imag- Their interest is rather sentimental than dramatic, inative interpretation of the Jewish ideal, and as an and they do not strike deep enough into life to leave altogether unexpected revelation of the powers hith- any very definite impression. They are, in a word, erto latent in its author. From now on, Mr. Zang- the sort of thing whose production is fostered by the will must be taken seriously. popular magazine, and they fulfil their function of Mr. Bret Harte's “ Tales of Trail and Town” is passing entertainment in a satisfactory fashion. shown by the publishers' Jist prefixed to the book to WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE. be the thirty-fourth volume of “novels and stories ” by this perennial writer. Incidentally, it makes one wonder, thinking also of Mr. Henry James and a host of others, whether London is not, after all, BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS, the chief of the American literary centres about which Mr. Howells has recently discoursed 80 Those who have learned their Scotch charmingly. There are seven stories in the new A figure for history entirely from Scott may not the novelist. volume, iye of them wholly American, the other remember Kirkaldy of Grange. We two of ikternational flavor. The author gratifies do not recollect that he is more than mentioned in his taste for sharp contrasts in the story of “ The the Waverley Novels, although two of them are de- Strange Experience of Alkali Dick,” a “ Booflobil ” voted to the time in which he played his part. In weary of the ways of civilization, who has a sur- the “ Abbot " he helps to rout the too-impetuous prising adventure in a French chateau on his way attack of the enthusiastic followers of Mary Queen to the seaport of Le Havre. “The Judgment of of Scots at Langside. There he is called " cele- Bolinas Plain ” will be recognized by many as the brated” and “the first soldier of Europe,” though original from which the play called “Sue” has been he was contemporary with Don John of Austria dramatized. The longest and most serious of these and Admiral Coligny. Sir William Kirkaldy was " remarkable study of . a Scott have Our fiction offers few examples of an evolution found his career attractive. He was one of that 80 remarkable as that illustrated by Mr. Henry band which assassinated Cardinal Beaton, and stood Harland. From “ As It Was Written” and “Mrs. siege in the castle of St. Andrews until driven out Peixada” to the “Comedies and Errors" of his by the French cannon. With John Knox and others latest volume is a progress indeed, and in the fine he was carried prisoner to France; and while Knox 66 stories in “The Ancestors of Peter Atherley," a a distinetly romantie figure is a romantic period, a 80 [Aug. 1, THE DIAL we “ Practical Ethics." was sent to the galleys, he was confined in Mont birth a Scotchman), Edinburgh, Newcastle, and St. Michel, whence he managed to escape. Return. London. He was on the staff of the “ Times” when ing to Scotland, he took part with those who thought he died; and it was said of him by a well-known to punish the murderers of Darnley; and to that writer that “ he was probably the most brilliant and end, after the fiasco of Carberry Hill, he pursued accomplished of all the men of genius who, by their Bothwell up to his earldom of Orkney and compelled modest but not unfruitful labors, have given the him to seek refuge in Norway. After the battle of • Times' the great place it now holds among the Langside, he held Edinburgh Castle against the newspapers of the world.” Mr. Macdonell bad a Regent Lenox, and against his successor, the Earl distinguished circle of friends (with him an acquaint- of Mar, but was brought to terms by the English ance usually meant a friend), and Dr. Nicoll has bombardment, taken, and finally executed. Here judiciously leavened his text with glimpses of and is certainly material for the romancer. Scott did chat about people of whom the world still wishes to not deal with it, nor did Stevenson. Of the two, know more. The letters, both of Mr. Macdonell should say it would have been more to the mind and his accomplished wife, written many of them of the latter. The cannon on the steeple of St. during holiday jaunts to the Continent, are pleasant Andrews' Church, the escape from Mont St. Michel reading, and of these there is good store. In short, over the waste of sand at low tide, the wild chase of Dr. Nicoll has produced one of the best and most the Earl of Bothwell among the Northern Islands, graceful biographical sketches (it is not too big) we and the wreck of the “Unicorn" in the rock-strewn have seen in a long while one that we heartily channel, these seem rather incidents in a novel of recommend as a model for writers with a similar Stevengon's than in one of Scott's. But even more work on their hands. American journalists will like Stevenson's material was the character of Kirk- find the book a profitable study of the career of a aldy himself. Stevenson would have been at home distinguished English member of their calling. in the portrayal of that “honorable man and brave There is a good portrait of Mr. Macdonell. patriot” who seemed in turn traitor to all. Mr. L. A. Barbe, who writes the life of Kirkaldy in the The latest addition to “The Ethical Sidgrick's “ Famous Scots” series (imported by Scribner), has Library” (Macmillan) is Professor for an aim rather to show the honesty of purpose Henry Sidgwick's volume called of the man than to exhibit the romantic elements “ Practical Ethics." It is a collection of serious in his career. We hope that his view is as well- and discriminating essays on matters of everyday founded as he makes appear, although that question life and conduct. Of special interest at the present would seem to be beyond all who are not especially moment is the chapter on “ The Morality of Strife,” versed in Scottish history. At any rate, the book showing that, from an ethical point of view, war is is an interesting record of a striking figure, and may not to be regarded as an unmixed evil, — that it is be read with pleasure even by those who never not a mere collision of passions and cupidities, but heard of its subject. a conflict in which usually each side conceives itself to be contending on behalf of legitimate interests, In March, 1879, died at an early age, Life and letters and is due, as a rule, to conflicting views of rights. of a distinguished and at the flood-tide of his powers Chapters on “ Luxury” and “ The Pursuit of Cul- English journalist. and influence, one of the foremost of ture" are full of suggestive thought on these living English journalists, Mr. James Macdonell, whose subjects, while the ones on “ The Ethics of Religious Life, by Dr. W. Robertson Nicoll, is now published Conformity” and Conformity" and on “Clerical Veracity,” may be by Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co. Dr. Nicoll has given heartily commended to the consideration of unor- us an excellent piece of biographical writing-terse, thodox persons in orthodox churches and pulpits. lively, warmly sympathetic yet not uncritical, what we take to be a true, as it is a most engaging, por- “In a sketchy sort of way," wrote A memorial of trait of a man who, all in all, seems to have been a Judge Rearden of his discussion of a man of culture. rarely perfect type of the higher order of journalist. Ballads and Lyrics, and of his essay Journalism can ill spare such men as James Mac- on Petrarch, not more “than a sketchy review, the donell — men who bring to their calling ripe and materials for which might be examined by anyone varied culture, a rare power of clear exposition, a in an hour's time spent in an ordinary public library.' lightness that has no savor of levity, and who en- Essays which can be so characterized depend much deavor to make of it a calling and a mission rather for interest upon charm of style and breadth of than a trade. For durable literary work Mr. Mac- culture on the part of their author. Judge Rearden, donell had no time, his life being occupied as a who died some years ago, was for many years one writer of “ leaders.” His popularity with the pro- of the foremost men of letters in San Francisco. fession was great, and it was said when he died that He did not write much, although some of his work had the train which carried his friends from London appeared in the early numbers, we believe, of “ The to Beckenham, where his funeral was held, been Overland Magazine." These essays (" Petrarch wrecked, Liberal journalism in London would mo- and Other Essays,” Doxey) are pleasant wander- mentarily have stopped. Mr. Macdonell worked at ings over familiar fields at least some of them his profession successively at Aberdeen (he was by are - and are full of a polished scholarship and a 1898.] 81 THE DIAL - 9 . genial temper. The essays on Klaus Groth and Anglo-Saxon in Oxford, his knowledge is used to Fritz Reuter offer something more and so something illuminate, not to dazzle, the treatment of the sub- less, — more, in that they will introduce most read- ject. But why should Numerals be erected into a ers to new ground, and less in that there is little of tenth Part of Speech? And, after writing in one that observation and familiar comment that makes place that “our language, which is more advanced the others agreeable. These essays are not definite toward simplicity and truth than any other language, treatises on their subjects; they are rather desul. has discarded this unmeaning Gender of Nouns," tory, except where biographical. But in such diva- and in another, “Gender cannot be said to survive gations one is always likely to find something to his anywhere in the English language except in the mind; almost everybody will pick out something Personal Pronoun of the Third Person Singular,” new and interesting. This volume seems to be a does Professor Earle give his nouns not merely a second edition, although the fact is not noted, nor possessive, but a dative, an accusative, and a voca- is any editor named. It is a pity that there was no tive case? Surely, though logical cases, like logical competent editor. Judge Rearden would have been gender, remain, grammatical cases have gone the vexed at being made to mention among Tennyson's way of the others in English, and “cannot be said poems, “ Brackett,” “ Nemuc,” “ Aenone." Of such to survive anywhere in the English language except slips, however, there are not very many, so that on in the . pronoun.” It is noteworthy that British the whole the volume is a fit memorial of a culti- use holds to forms like “ one and twenty," " " one and vated man. twentieth," while ranking “bidden,” “ drunken,” “stricken," and "gotten,” with " foughten,” “shot- ” With the seventh volume of Profes- “ The founding of the ten,” and the like; does away with the differences German Empire. sor von Sybel's “Founding of the German Empire by William I.” of person in the subjunctive use of “would” and (Crowell) this valuable work is completed. This “should,” and permits — shade of Richard Grant White ! - such a tense as the “Continuous Present volume gives the history not only of Germany, but Passive": “I am being taken, thou art being of France, and in a measure of Spain, Italy, and taken," etc. Austria, from the spring of 1868 to the outbreak of the great war in 1870. It is in part a continu- The second volume of Professor American ation of the topics treated in the preceding volume; history told by Hart's series of “ American History but it brings them to a most dramatic conclusion. contemporaries. Told by Contemporaries" (Macmil- The oft-told story is given clearly and interestingly, lan) is, in its essential features, a reproduction of of course from the German point of view, but fairly, the first volume, and fairly sustains the reputation and, as seems likely, largely as it will finally stand which that publication created. Perhaps some read- in history. Of timely interest is the description of ers will think the matter, on the whole, less valu- unhappy Spain and her efforts to secure a king after able; but such judgment, if given, will, not unlikely, her revolution. One prince after another put aside be influenced by the critic's greater interest in the the proffered crown with disdain, and Leopold only one period than in the other. Certainly some of the accepted it after thrice rejecting it, and then de- matter hardly seems worth reproducing. Chapter clined it again when France became so astonishingly XIV. on “Intellectual Life,” for example, strikes us excited. But the great topic is the steady progress as nothing less than poor. We do not see, either, of Germany under Bismarck's rule toward the uni- that the editor's notes are more abundant than in fication that had been the dream of her poets and the former volume, which was criticized on this patriots, and had seemed, until he appeared, so im- Professor Hart is one of the best of the possible of attainment. Along with this went the large number of men who are now cultivating Amer- desperate effort of France to maintain her old lead- ican history; he is rendering the cause good service ership in Europe, the failure of her policy in one in this series, but he distinctly impresses us as being attempt after another, the discrediting of the Em- a man who has too many irons in the fire. pire, and the popular desire for a war that should reduce the presumptuous Prussian to the position Professor Charles Noble's “Studies he had occupied after Jena and restore the glory of American in American Literature” (Macmil- France. The author seems to be successful in prov- lan) is a well-arranged text-book for ing that the war was not a diabolical scheme of academies and high schools. Books on this subject Bismarck to ruin France, but that France brought have been numerous of late ; the special aim of this her ruin upon her own head. one is to treat especially of form in its relation to literary expression, to furnish a method of analysis The grammar which shall combine the study of an author's man- Professor John Earle's “ Simple of English Grammar of English Now in Use” ner and method along with the interpretation of his now in use. (Putnam) is as interesting as a gram- content. Not the least of the merits of the volume mar can be, and, since it has to do with the language is its up-to-date character, dealing with the last as written and spoken in England to-day, is prob- twenty years and with living writers. The portraits ably more interesting to an American than to the of American writers are numerous and, for the most author's own countrymen. Though a professor in l part, excellent. ) score. Studies in > literature. a 82 [Aug. 1, THE DIAL " a Under the title “ Various Frag- Additional LITERARY NOTES. essays by ments” (Appleton), Mr. Herbert Mr. Spencer. Spencer publishes a collection of “ Poems Here at Home" is the title of Volume VIII. seventeen articles on topics more or less related to in the new edition of Mr. J. W. Riley's writings, now his usual themes. All of them have been previously in course of publication by the Messrs. Scribner. published, either in magazines, pamphlets, or as “ The Planter's Plea,” printed by William Jones, chapters in early editions of his books. Some date London, 1630, is the latest issue in Mr. George P. Humphrey's series of “ American Colonial Tracts.” back nearly half a century, and relate to dead issues ; The Dibdin Club will soon publish, in a small limited some are “rejoinders ” to his critics. Each has its edition, a work on “ Booktrade Bibliography in the special significance and value, and taken together United States in the Nineteenth Century,” by Mr. A. they strikingly illustrate the varied interests of one Growoll, of “The Publishers' Weekly." of the leading thinkers of our century. The book Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons have just sent us is uniform in style and binding with the volumes of Volume VII. of “ Frederick the Great," in their “Cen- the “Synthetic Philosophy,” and hence forms a part tenary” Carlyle, and “Rhoda Fleming” and “The of the complete edition of this epoch-making series. Egoist,” in their new library edition of Mr. George Meredith's novels. Messrs. William B. Hadley, of the New Amsterdam Book Co., and Mr. E. Roscoe Matbews, recently con- nected with Messrs. 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Advanced subscrip- rightly insisted upon as the basis of all sound historical tions of twenty dollars will secure the entire work. knowledge.” The documents given number nearly a Professor William Knight has recently presented to hundred, from the Declaration of Independence to the the trustees of Dove Cottage his important collection of Constitution of the Confederate States of America. Wordsworthiana, including editions, manuscripts, let- Some have been condensed, and many others “are in ters, portraits, and miscellaneous relics. The Rev. the form of significant extracts only,” thus bringing the Stopford Brooke, acknowledging this gift on behalf of entire series within the compass of less than five hundred the trustees, speaks in fitting terms of the donor's " frank pages. Each document is supplied with a brief intro- and magnificent generosity," and refers to Dove Cottage duction and select bibliography." as now “a goal of pilgrimage second only to Stratford- The “Globe” edition of “ The Works of Geoffrey on-Avon " in the minds of lovers of literature. Chaucer" (Macmillan) is a welcome publication, albeit John Moses, who died in Chicago early last month the one-volume edition of the “ Oxford" Chaucer some- was the author of “ Illinois, Historical and Statistical," what forestalled the welcome that bas long awaited the and was for many years librarian of the Chicago His- later volume. Projected over thirty years ago, the torical Society. He also collaborated with the late work has at last been completed under the editorial Joseph Kirkland in writing a “History of Chicago.” supervision of Mr. Alfred W. Pollard, assisted by Born in Canada in 1825, he came to Illinois when a Messrs. H. Frank Heath, Mark H. Liddell, and W. 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THE DIAL A Semi-Monthly Journal of Literary Criticism, Discussion, and Enformation. PAGB . . . · 102 . . ascence. . No. 292. AUGUST 16, 1898. Vol. XXV. and religious veneration made the subject of dramatic liberties and too vivid actual presentation. On this ac- count the performance of this tragedy in Berlin was CONTENTS. postponed until January 14th, 1898, although it had been ready some time previously, and then it was not the Court stage of the royal Schauspielhaus, but the A YEAR OF CONTINENTAL LITERATURE, II. 93 private stage of the Deutsches Theatre, that witnessed the performance." COMMUNICATION . 96 Historical dramas in a stricter sense are still Where Are the Poets of the Cuban War? W.R. K. written in Germany in considerable numbers, THE CENTURY ATLAS. Melville B. Anderson . . 97 although the public interest in them seems to NATURE FOR NATURE'S SAKE. Henry C. be on the wane.“ Alarich, Koenig der West- Payne 100 gothen,” by Herr Verdy du Vernois, and Herr Domanig's Tyrolese trilogy of Andreas Hofer, "BATTLES LONG AGO." Josiah Renick Smith are the most remarkable examples of this spe- A NEW VIEW OF “BLOODY" JEFFREYS. Percy cies. In general, we are told that “at the Favor Bicknell. 103 present time the stage is held by coarse popular RECENT ESSAYS IN ECCLESIASTICAL HIS- plays, farces, bourgeois drama, dramatized TORY. A. H. Noll 104 stories, and of late fairy tales, with all the cus- Crooker's The Growth of Christianity.- Crooks's tomary musical and optical effects.” The plays The Story of the Christian Church.- Dryer's History discussed most fully in the present article are of the Christian Church, Vol. II. - Wells's The Age of Charlemagne. - Van Dyke's The Age of the Ren- “ Neigung,” by Herr J. J. David ; “ Agnes Clark's The Anglican Reformation. - Jordan,” by Herr Georg Hirschfeld; Mutter McConnell's History of the American Episcopal Erde,” by Herr Max Halbe, and an unnamed Church.- Bacon's History of American Christianity. love drama by Herr Heyse, with Vanina Vanini, BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS 106 for a heroine, and based upon the Italian con- The latest and best of Nelson books. – From spiracies of the early part of this century. "middy" to admiral. — Biography of a playwright and painter.- A pudding stuffed with plums.- From Herr Heyse has also published a collection of Arkansaw to the Rockies in 1821-1822.- The legend- “ Neue Gedichte und Jugendlieder," and re- ary Hamlet of the Norsemen. mains Germany's most brilliant poet in the BRIEFER MENTION . 109 classical manner. The modern German short story, which derives also from Herr Heyse, is LITERARY NOTES 105 illustrated this year by the volumes “ Aus Alter LIST OF NEW BOOKS. Schule," by Frau von Ebner. Eschenbach ; “Tiefe Wasser," by Herr von Wildenbruch; and “Novellen aus Oesterreich," by Herr von A YEAR OF CONTINENTAL Saar. “Amid the deluge of novels, ‘Arachne,' by LITERATURE. Dr. Georg Ebers, and · Ebroin,' by Herr Felix Dahn, are remarkable rather for the names of In Germany at present the drama dominates their authors than the novelty of their contents. all the other literary forms, and to it three- We have a sort of impression of having read fifths of the year's summary is devoted. The them both before, although we know well enough names of Herr Sudermann and Herr Haupt- that this can only have been among the works mann stand foremost among the dramatists, of the same authors." The former takes us and, since the latter has produced no new play back to the Alexandrian epoch and the latter , of late, the “ Johannes” of the former is un. to the period of the Völkerwanderung. Other questionably the book of the twelvemonth. Of works of fiction are Herr Guido List's Car- the circumstances attending the stage-produc- nuntum and “ Ossip Schubin's ” “ Wenn's tion of this work, we are informed as follows: Nur Schon Winter Wär!” both Austrian ro- “ A Christian state, such as Prussia still is officially, mances, the one of ancient, the other of modern even though it does not use the term, cannot be blamed times. Works of serious scholarship include for objecting to see personages hallowed by tradition the following: “Bismarck und der Bundes- > . . . · 110 II. > > 94 [Aug. 16, THE DIAL a 6 a rath,” by Herr von Poschinger; “Goethe's more than three centuries and a half, has lately Königslieutenant,” by Herr Schubart; “ Neue published a book called "Helvedesfjender' (The Beiträge zur Culturgeschichte,” by Dr. Her- Enemies of Hell) to demonstrate that those mann Grimm; “ Geschichte des Untergangs who now so passionately attack the dogma of ; der Antiken Welt,” by Herr Otto Seek; “Ges- hell use this pretence only as a mask for their chichte der Weltliteratur,” by Herr Alexander hostility to Christianity itself. It is the sharp- Baumgärtner;" Dante und Dessen Verhältniss est weapon that has been used against the ene- zu Kunst und Politik,” by Herr Franz Xaver mies of the Church, and as a general defence Kraus; and “ Erinnerunger au Brahms,” by of religious feeling it is eloquent and convinc- Herr J. Victor Widmann. ing.” Herr Einar Christiansen “bas written We are told of Denmark: a great drama called •Cosmus,' in which he “ The literary movement which commenced some treats of modern social questions from a new twenty-five years ago with the lectures of Dr. Georg standpoint. Each standpoint. Each man, he says, has his place Brandes is now ebbing fast. By some it was styled and his duties in his generation through his realism, by others Brandesianism. Dr. Brandes him- self called it naturalism. ... What he meant by nat- family. In fidelity towards his own kin and uralism was a theory strictly opposed to clericalism or the duties it lays upon him he fulfils his duties any form of clericalism, a culture of nature in the widest towards humanity in general. In other words, sense of the word, it being strictly understood that we cannot all have the same social aims, but there is no room for elements of orthodox and revealed each of us must find his duties for himself in religion or morals in this system. He was not an inno- vator in the same sense as Grundtvig, the author of connection with his special position in life.” novel ideas which would never have appeared if he had Herr Drachmann“ published last year no fewer not given them life; but he was the spokesman of new than three dramas or melodramas, a form he thoughts and feelings which were just then in vogue in has introduced in our literature. But brilliant the great centres of civilization, but had not as yet reached us. Our literary criticisms were still abstract and powerful as he is when he is at his best, he and rested on the terminology of Hegel. Brandes intro- is empty and vaporous when he is at his worst; duced the realistic methods of Taine and Sainte-Beuve, and his · Brav Karl' (Good Fellow) is indeed based on the philosophy of Comte and others. But at one of his unsuccessful efforts. Even the songs the same time it must be acknowledged that he was something more than a literary critic in the general sense introduced are not of his best. Dramatic he, of the word: he was an enthusiastic and sympathetic on the whole, is not, and in this field he has not interpreter of the great poets of all times and countries, produced anything of more than ephemeral a man who knew the charm of his own language, and interest; only the lyrics occurring in some of mastered it as an artist, a fervent and fertile genius. his dramas retain a certain value." Other books A literary movement which commenced its career as a hymn to the beauty and glory of natural life when worth mentioning are Herr Nyrop's “ Kysset liberated from Christianity and other moral and polit- og ets Historie" (The Kiss and Its Story), a ical restrictions has already changed into its own oppo- beautiful and most learned piece of pleasantry site, and confesses the inevitable and irredeemable mis- which really ought to be adapted and laid be- ery of human life, not on account of social prejudices and encumbrances, but on account of the conditions of fore English readers,” a second part of Herr life in themselves.” Schandorph's “Memoirs,” Herr C. Ewald's Herr Edvard Brandes, a brother of the critic, “James Singleton's Store Udenlands Rejse illustrates this transformation in his “ Lykkens (James Singleton's Great Journey Abroad), Blændværk” (The Delusion of Happiness), as and the monograph on “ Henrik Ibsen," pub- pessimistic a book as is often seen. “En Kri. lished by Dr. Brandes on the occasion of the tisk Tid” (A Critical Time), by Herr Jacob seventieth birthday of the great Norwegian Hansen, “ deals with the striking problem how poet and dramatist. theoretical rejection of the freedom of the will “In Norway, the past twelve months have may be realized in practice. The hero of this not produced any book of special importance,” book (improperly termed so) is an interesting but they have witnessed the celebration of Dr. example of a human being in whom there is no Ibsen's seventieth birthday, which calls for feeling, no will, no conscience, only a series of mention. The dramatist even made a brief reflections, almost mechanical. Yet there lies speech now and then, upon banquets and other behind them a world of subdued feelings — festive occasions. subdued because they would kill the person “The chief information he vouchsafed was that this with remorse if they were set free.” Herr Christmas the usual new play by him must not be looked Johannes Jörgensen, “who from an advanced for, though hitherto every other year such has been the case. It would seem that for the present Ibsen is occu- standpoint went back to the Roman Church, pied with compiling his memoirs, a work which is nat- which is here in Denmark a retrogression of 1 turally looked forward to with the greatest interest. He 1898.] 95 THE DIAL > is also seeing through the press a fresh edition of his myths and legends of Sicily. This book has placed her collected works in the original as well as in a German at a bound in the front rank of Sweden's female authors. translation. It caused no little sensation when, at a Another book by a woman, but in quite a different style, festive meeting of an Advanced Woman's Club, he dis- is • Den Nya Verlden,' by Miss Hilma Angerod Strand- tinctly disclaimed that from his creation of Nora'any berg, which gives us an impressive and gloomy picture inference should be drawn of his having headed the of the sufferings which a family of emigrants to America ranks of the supporters of women's emancipation. On has to endure in the cruel struggle for existence." the contrary, he asserted woman's true place in the In poetry, there are new volumes by Herr social scale to be as wife and mother, to lay the founda- tion of morality and culture for the next generation.” Snoilsky and Herr C. D. af Wirsén. The fol- lowing interesting note concerns one of the The drama is at present the most vital form of most notorious, if not one of the greatest, of literature in Norway, and, although its two living Swedish writers : great exponents have produced no play during “Herr August Strindberg, the realist and Nihilist, the year, no less than seven dramatic works of has undergone a peculiar, if not altogether unexpected unusual merit are described by the writer. metamorphosis, inasmuch as he has stuck fast in an They are “Lindelin," by Herr Jonas Lie; almost crazy mysticism and self-introspection. His “ The National Assembly,” by Herr Gunnar • Inferno' and · Legender’are the diaries of a sick soul, Heiberg ; “Johanne,” by Herr Björnson fils ; in which a sick man's thoughts and visions are treated as the most important events in the universe, and in “Godfather's Gift,” by Herr Peter Egge; which he alternately calls down the anathemas of heaven “Evening Red,” by Herr Knut Harnsun; upon wasted lives and elevates his own particular ego “Drops of Red,” by Herr Sigbjörn Obstfelder; into a centre around which everything is to revolve and and “Between the Processions,” by Herr Hans to which everything is to be referred. But such books Kinck. Under the heads of poetry and fiction scarce belong to literature at all, though they may inter- est hospital physicians." we find nothing of any significance chronicled. Works of scholarship are “Our Younger Con- A comment upon Nobel's “magnificent donation temporary Poets,” by Herr Carl Nærup; a study literary activities. to humanity” closes the summary of Swedish . of Welhaven, by Dr. Arne Löchen; “ Keiser Hadrian,” by Dr. A. Ræder; and two supple- Contemporary Russian literature, we are told, mentary accounts of Dr. Nansen's expedition, produced some great names which have gained a world- « is in a condition of decay and stagnation. Having by Herr Nordahl and Lieutenant Johansen. wide celebrity, Russian genius has for a time as it were In Sweden, “ the past year has been remark- exhausted itself. The heroic period of artistic produc- able for the revival of the national feeling in tion is ended, and the literary activity of contemporary every department of literature. Even belles- Russia produces on the observer the same impression as is produced by dull, everyday life after a brilliant and lettres have been influenced by this national noisy festival. Out of the number of books which have movement. Whereas formerly the romance appeared during the past twelve months, only two or mainly looked to everyday life for its subjects, three are worthy of attention, to wit, the Tales' of Mr. • striving after a photographic reproduction of Anton Chekhov;.The Mirrors,'a collection of stories and a poems by Mrs. Zenaida Gippius; Shadows,' a collection facts, authors nowadays prefer to return to the of tales and poems by Mr. Th. Sologub; and the second past history of the Swedish people, and paint volume of the poems of Mrs. Lokhvitskaya, a young pictures of the life and culture of bygone times. writer whose verses are always barmonious and devoted The historical story and romance bave almost exclusively to the two eternal subjects, love and death. In them we feel the inexhaustible efflorescence revived in a much improved form, inasmuch as of youth, the splendid luxury of a spring morning with they are founded upon more serious and thor- its abundance of sound, colour, and fragrance." ough researches into the history of the times A good deal of attention has been given of late they delineate, and therefore, as a rule, present to translations from other modern literatures, truer and more impressive pictures.” The chief and a new version of our own Poe has increased illustrations of this thesis are “ Pictures of the circle of his friends in Russia. Sweden from the Sixteenth Century,” by Herr “During the past year in St. Petersburg there ap- Elof Tegner ; “ The Days of Gustaf III.,” by peared a collection of the works of Dr. Henrik Ibsen in a Herr 0. Levertin ; “ A Knight of Fortune, a Russian translation. The works of Byron, Shelley, by Herr H. Molander; and stories from the nyson, and Burns have been translated afresh, and time of Charles XII., by Herr Verner von again find readers. It is by familiarizing itself with the Heidenstamm. great models of European poetry, and the careful study of them, that Russian literature will escape its contem- · Miss Selma Lagerlöf, who a few years ago excited porary barrenness, and take to itself original forms." considerable and well-merited attention by her romantic "Gösta Berlings Saga,' written in a strongly individual Two items of scholarly interest are the work on style, has this year published · Antikrists Mirakler,' “ Russian Poetry,” by Mr. S. Vengerow, and where, in the most charming manner, she relates the the continuation of the same author's “Critico- a " a 66 6 96 [Aug. 16, THE DIAL Biographical Dictionary of Russian Writers historians. Of the numerous publications which are to and Scholars," " which promises to be of gigan. appear on this occasion, the most valuable for the knowl- tic dimensions." edge of this best of Bohemia's sons will be several vol- umes of his correspondence, which are to appear at the « The Polish nation celebrates this year the centenary expense of the Academy of Science, and an essay which of the greatest poet that she in particular, and the whole is being based on new matter due to the original re- race of Slavs in general, has seen, Adam Mickiewicz. search of Professor Goll." In all parts of old Poland this unusual occasion for fes- tival is being watched with a wide and deep interest, In belles-lettres, mention is made of an edition which must, however, in the different provinces take of Havlicek's poetical works, of Vrchlicky's the form that local political conditions impose. The new narrative poem “ Bar-Kochba,” of two books and pamphlets suitable to the occasion — pop- other volumes of poems by the same author, ular biographies, papers on the meaning of the poet and and of Rohac na Sione," a historical poem by his works, historical memoirs, cantatas, pictures, etc.- have already appeared or will do so in great numbers. Svatopluk Cech. In fiction, there are Jirasek's National collections will also provide for two great “U Nas,” Zeyer's “ In the Dawn of the Gods” monuments of Mickiewicz in Cracow and Warsaw, to and “ The House of the Drowning Star,” and be unveiled this year; the town of Lemberg is planning Kosmak's posthumous tale, “A Poisoned A in the immediate future a third. Poland honours in Mickiewicz not only the first of her poets, but also a Rose.” The drama has received a new impulse great patriot and spiritual leader." this year, “in consequence, perhaps, of the Among the publications of the year, the fol- lively interest awakened by the attempt to es- lowing are the most important: “The Way to tablish a second Bohemian theatre in Prague.” Luck," a story by Mr. T. T. Jez; “ The Angel a The chief plays mentioned are Hilbert's pro- of Death,” by Mr. K. Tetmajer ; “ Rust,” by hibited • For God,” Zeyer's fairy-piece “Raduz Mr. A. Krechowiecki; “ The Leader of the a Mahulena,” Vrchlicky's comedy from King Dance," by Mrs. G. Zapolska; “ Baczmaha,” Arthur's times,“ Arthur's times, “ King and Fowler,” and by Mr. M. Pawlikowski; and “ The Life and Kapil's “ Princess Dandelion.” Thoughts of Sigismund Podfilipski,” by Mr. J. Weyssenhoff. These are all works of fiction. A number of successful plays are also men- COMMUNICATION. tioned, including “Malka Schwarzenkopf ' and “ He,” both by Mrs. Zapolska. The WHERE ARE THE POETS OF THE CUBAN WAR? “ Dramas and Comedies" of Mr. Adam Belci. (To the Editor of The DIAL.) kowski, the writer of the article, have been Will some reader of The Dial kindly essay an ex- published in five volumes. Three important planation of the curious and rather mortifying fact that publications in literary history are the “ Adam tioning ? America is prolific of poets to say nothing Mickiewicz" of Mr. J. Kallenbach, the two- of poetasters; but as yet no Tyrtæan strain born of the volume work “Our Dramatic Literature," of occasion has fired the heart of the American soldier, and Mr. P. Chmielowski, and the first volume of the heroic deeds of Manila and Santiago remain unsung. Not even a half-way respectable “ war-song" of the Mr. H. Biegeleisen's “ Illustrated History of “ Marching Through Georgia” type has appeared. Polish Literature." 66 A few months since What has become of all the ladies and gentlemen who, Polish literature sustained a loss that can never in the piping times of peace, marvellously produce such be repaired, in the death of two of her most floods of pretty magazine verse, albeit driven to themes as hackneyed as the Advent of Spring and as slight as important poets in modern times, Kornel the Death of a Canary Bird ? Why are they so strangely Ujejski and Adam Asnyk." Mr. Sienkiewicz mute, now that the air is charged with the most potent has published nothing during the year, but we forces of poetic inspiration, and while topics as tempt- learn from other sources that he is engaged ing as ever fired a patriotic pen are going a-begging ? Is the valor of American soldiers and sailors to miss the upon a historical romance to be entitled « The meed of song? Think how eagerly Mr. Alfred Austin Knights of the Cross." (who found it in him to celebrate even the abortive The most important fact in the literary ac- “ride” and summary thrasbing of “ Doctor Jim") tivity of Bohemia appears to be would have improved the occasion had it been “ Tommy “ the approaching hundredth anniversary of the birth of Atkins” who won El Caney and stormed the heights of Bohemia's most celebrated historian, whose fame, even San Juan! Perhaps our poets are incubating things in his lifetime, spread far beyond the boundaries of his poetic that will appear and dazzle us in the fulness of native land - Francis Palacky. His genius placed him time. But to your correspondent the dearth of spon- taneous verse of the kind indicated verse with a true above all bis contemporaries; his researches into the annals of his country were profound, systematic, and native ring and breath of militant patriotism in it, such impartial; and the outcome of his life's labour, the vol. as our Civil War called forth in plenty, seems as dis- uminous . History of the Bohemian Nation,' gained for appointing as remarkable. W. R. K. him a position among the most celebrated of European Pittsfield, Mass., August 10, 1898. 1 6 1898.] 97 THE DIAL scale of eleven miles to the inch; Connecticut The New Books. and Rhode Island on the scale of nine miles to the inch; while the excellent map of Eastern THE CENTURY ATLAS.* Massachusetts (also transversely) is drawn to the scale of six and one-half miles to the inch. The great “Century Atlas,” uniform in size There are numerous inset maps on an even and shape with “ The Century Dictionary” and larger scale; of these, the maps of Greater Cyclopedia of Names,” is a completing and a New York, Jersey City and Vicinity, Buffalo companion volume to those important works. and the Niagara Frontier, Boston, Baltimore, It contains no less than 117 double-page mod- Washington, Pittsburg, Savannah, and their ern maps, together with a still larger number respective vicinities, all on the scale of four of “ corner or inset" maps. There are, more- miles to the inch, are handsome examples. over, two charts of the Heavens, a dozen or Charleston and its vicinity is finely exhibited more pages of historical maps, and an ingen- on a considerably larger scale ; the more com- ious "Index Chart” showing the number and prehensive map of San Francisco and her Bay extent of every map. Extensive indexes is drawn to the scale of seven miles to the inch; containing, it is said, the enormous number of those of Richmond and Norfolk, and their vicin- 170,000 names serve as keys to the exact ities, to the scale of eight miles; that of Gal- location of every place upon the maps, and also, veston and Houston to the scale of ten miles ; in some sort, as a gazetteer, inasmuch as the and the scales of the maps of New Orleans and population of every land, district, and town is Chattanooga are not given. The little map of given, wherever ascertainable. These indexes Minneapolis and St. Paul, on the petty scale of . are one of the most valuable features of the eight miles to the inch, is scarcely calculated to work. Especial features of the maps are the satisfy either the pride of their citizens or the contour.lines (lines of equal elevation above the curiosity of others. It is a pity that the capital sea), which are printed in olive or brown; and plan of showing the vicinities of large towns on the admirable device of printing the lines of a uniform scale of four miles to the inch was railroad in red, so as to distinguish them at a departed from in this case. In this way the glance from the numerous lines traced in black. greater compactness of European cities, and the These maps do not exhibit topographical details enormous superficial areas covered by the newer 80 minutely as the carefully engraved and ar- cities of the Mississippi Valley are shown at a tistic maps of Stieler's celebrated Hand-Atlas; glance. Vienna, with its million and a third but they appear on the whole, at least to the of ik habitants, appears to cover, on the scale of American eye, somewhat clearer and easier of four miles to the inch, barely as much ground reference than the maps in Stieler. The editor as is covered by Minneapolis on the scale of states that all the maps have been based upon eight miles._Liverpool would go twice into “ the latest and best official information, with a Cleveland ; Brussels and Amsterdam are of comparison of the results of recent explora- contemptible size in comparison with Omaba; tions." Such tests as I have been able to make Hamburg and Altona, as figured here on the have tended to confirm this statement. scale of two miles to the inch, bulk scarcely In attempting to form an opinion of the accu- bigger than the two Kansas Cities on the scale racy and completeness of this Atlas, one natu- of four miles; while circular London might, by rally turns to the maps of those states with a process of violent distortion, be packed into which one chances to be especially familiar. In the North and South Sides of Chicago, leaving the maps of the smaller states, which can be plenty of room on the West Side to slip Paris in figured on these quarto pages on relatively large without disturbing its oval symmetry. As fig- scales, there is little to complain of as regards ured here on the scale of four miles to the inch, , detail. Thus, Vermont and New Hampshire Paris is about the size and shape of a walnut, a are shown together transversely across the London of an enormous peach, Boston proper of double page (i. e., so that the book must be a small strawberry, New York proper of a large turned), on the scale of thirteen miles to the peapod, Chicago of no known vegetable product, inch ; New Jersey (also transversely) on the unless it be a generous slice of bread, irregu- * THE CENTURY ATLAS OF THE WORLD. Prepared under larly cut and inequitably buttered, and appar- the superintendence of Benjamin E. Smith, A.M., Managing ently nibbled away on one side. Editor of the Century Dictionary, Editor of the Century Cyclo- pedia of Names, Fellow of the American Geographical Society, By the scales permitted by the size of this sto. New York: The Century Co. Atlas, the great states of the Middle West, the 98 [Aug. 16, THE DIAL topography of which is for the most part so comparable to the well-known Yosemite Valley. monotonous, can be shown with some detail. These mountains are doubtless still rich in con- Thus, Indiana, with its area of 36,350 square cealed mineral resources ; they are already miles (somewhat larger than Ireland) can be traversed by wagon-roads and stage-routes in shown on a single map at a scale of nineteen many places, and are even penetrated by more miles to the inch. The state of New York (47,- than one railway. In the not distant future 620 square miles, somewhat smaller than they are destined to serve for Americans as a England) is shown on the scale of sixteen miles summer playground quite equal in all kinds of to the inch, three maps being necessary, - opportunities for seekers of health or healthful giving room, however, for the large inset maps pleasure to the distant, tourist-haunted Alps. of New York, Buffalo, etc. It is convenient, Taking account of her mountains, California by the way, to bear in mind that the combined can boast of a greater variety of climates and areas of New York and Indiana are but a little products than can be found along the Atlantic greater than the combined areas of England coast from Maine to Florida. In every respect and Ireland, so that for purposes of comparison save that of great population, California is they can be regarded as the same. second in interest and importance (from the The still larger state of Illinois (56,650 standpoint, at least, of the student of geog- square miles) is exhibited on two of these sheets raphy) to no state in the Union. Yet the ed- at a scale of eighteen miles to the inch. Inas-itor of this Atlas has crowded her eight hun- much as little is to be shown on the map of dred miles of length and two hundred miles of Illinois save the position and names of the breadth into a portion of two of these small towns, the names and boundaries of the coun- sheets, and has adopted the scale of thirty-six ties; the frequent railways, and the infrequent miles to the inch,— just half that adopted for streams, the scale adopted is quite unnecessar- Illinois. On this relatively minute scale it has ily large; an even smaller scale would, indeed, been impossible for the map-maker to do jus- have permitted the insertion of interesting fea- tice to this vast region of configuration so tures of the landscape, such, for example, as varied. The map lacks the clearness which is, Starved Rock and Deer Park. On the map of in general, characteristic of this Atlas, and Northern Illinois I discover but two contour leaves much to be desired in point of detail. lines; one running down both sides of the The multitudinous contour-lines are extremely Mississippi from Keokuk, the other running confused, - it is difficult to follow them even down both sides of the Illinois from Seneca, with a magnifying glass. One would gladly the rest of the country, including the Lake, sacrifice all these puzzling lines for indica- being at an elevation of more than five hundred tions of the principal stage-routes and other feet above the sea. wagon-roads. Important post-routes in the The great state of California, on the other United States are indicated, I believe, only on hand,-presenting, as it does, every topograph. the maps of Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, ical feature that can be shown upon a map, Utah, and Western Texas. Utah, and Western Texas. Why not also in would require for even tolerable representation California, where the wagon-routes are so nu- at least as large a scale as that here adopted merous, economically so important, and scen- for Illinois. And California is as eminently ically so interesting ? worthy of detailed treatment in an American In general throughout the Atlas the plan Atlas as any state. California is said to have seems to be to indicate wagon-roads chiefly in an area of 158,360 square miles, —- 80 that it regions where there are no railroads. so . As has would cut up into three and a half states of the been already shown, this plan is not consistently size of New York, leaving a remnant more than carried out. On the map of Scotland, where large enough to form Rhode Island. It is the highways are perhaps more systematically about equal in extent to the four kingdoms of shown than in the case of any other European Italy, Greece, Belgium, and the Netherlands. country, they generally disappear before the The map of California must exhibit a state of railway, but in two or three instances the high- far more diversified topographical configura- way is shown running amicably alongside the tion than any other. It must show intricate railway. In England, Wales, and Ireland, there mountain-systems, with lofty, snow-clad sum- are, to judge from these maps, no wagon-roads mits and ridges, giving rise to important streams at all. Even in the case of the otherwise so which, in cutting their way to the Pacific Ocean, satisfactory map of Central England, on the have formed a number of cañons and gorges scale of nine miles to the inch, not a highway - a 4 0 1898.] 99 THE DIAL - is shown. Still worse, in the cases of several kand as the terminus, but announces the begin- of the special inset maps on larger scales than ning of a continuation. On the map of Asia the accompanying main maps, there are no - which, we are kindly informed, has “special highways. Examples are the maps of San reference to Siberia and Central Asia" i. e., Francisco and vicinity, of the Hudson River to Russia in Asia) - this important railway is country from Kingston to Yonkers, of the not given. On the map of Russia in Europe French Mediterranean coast from Narbonne to the branch of the Trans-Siberian Railway from Mentone. On the map of Southern France Cheliabinsk to Ekaterinburg (150 miles), said but one highway through the Pyrenees is shown; in the “Statesman's Year-Book” to have been on that of Spain, although on a much minuter opened in 1896, is figured as merely “pro- scale, four or five are shown; but on neither is posed "'; while the proposed railroad of more there a road to the Republic of Andorra. In than 600 miles from Perm to Vyatka and thence Iceland, as in Ireland, the chapter on roads northward to the junction of the Dvina and the would be like the famous chapter on snakes ; Vichegda - the purpose of which is to give and the same would apply to the whole vast Western Siberia a seaport at Archangel — is Dominion of Canada, with the sole exception, not figured at all. Considering the vast scope if I mistake not, of the Yukon and the Fraser and untold significance of Russian railway un- River regions. On the map of Switzerland dertakings, these seem grave shortcomings in (drawn to the scale of fourteen miles to the an Atlas of such pretensions. inch) the great stage routes are indicated with As concerns the United States, the foreign some approach to system, although even here student of this American Atlas might fairly one misses, among others, the important roads draw from it the inference that we have sur. from the Splügen Pass and the Engadine Val- rendered unconditionally to the railroad. In ley to Lake Como. On the maps of Africa these days when the universal use of the bicycle and South America important roads or caravan is making the importance of good highways so routes are shown more clearly than in any other strongly felt, the system here adopted of ignor- parts of the world, being printed in red, and yet ing their existence seems a reactionary proceed- plainly distinguishable from the railways by ing. After all, when in search of accurate the double lines. This is so excellent a device information touching railway lines, it is not to that one is puzzled by its non-adoption else- an atlas that we look, but to the railway guides where, especially for the Russian and the Chi. which are distributed gratuitously at every sta- nese Empires. It is adopted just once, appar- tion and hotel in the land. There is in this ently by accident, on one of the American Atlas a convenient “ Travel-Map” of Central (leaving inset maps out of account), to show Europe. Why not give us a similar travel-map one of the roads running into the Yellowstone of the United States, and on other maps replace National Park. It is also adopted for the Rus- the railway by the bighway? Why not pursue sian caravan routes on the map of the Chinese this plan universally for railway-ridden lands ? Empire. But this would not be a necessary condition of On the whole, this Atlas might fairly and the restoration of the highway. On such maps without satirical intention be called a railway as those of the New England States, for exam- atlas of the world. Its indications of railways ple, and of France, there is ample room for seem to be, for the most part, full, accurate, the insertion of the most important highways and “ up-to-date." To this statement there are without displacing a single present feature of some noteworthy exceptions. On the map of the Chinese Empire a great portion of the However, I venture to think that the Atlas Trans-Siberian Railway is indicated by a red of the Future will relegate the railway to a dotted line as “ under construction"; on the special map, will restore the slow and dignified map of Asia the same portion (Lake Baikal highway to something of its ancient importance, east for hundreds of miles to Stryetensk) is and will lay down mountain roads and trails indicated by a continuous black line, as if com- distinguished mainly for their scenical interest. pleted. On Map 103 the Trans-Caspian Rail. In this way a map gets charged with appeals to way is made to run beyond Samarkand to the the imagination, and allures the student to much limit of the map; it would be interesting to fascinating fireside travel. Few things are more know how much farther it is completed in that poetic than a wagon-road can be at its best, just direction. The last volume of « The States- as few things are more prosaic than a railroad. man's Year-Book” (1897) mentions Samar- | There is one map in this Atlas which is charm- merican maps those maps. 100 [Aug. 16, THE DIAL - - - 9 ing, and, but for the red spider-web of railways of Christianity, nor of Mohammedanism and that overlays it, would be poetical. I refer to the Saracen Empire, nor of the Crusades. the fine map of the Vicinity of London,-really Quite disproportionate attention is given to a ,- map of Central England as far west as Salis- Poland, — as much as to England or to France, bury and Warwick. It is upon the generous the whole of one of these thirteen precious scale of nine miles to the inch, showing all the pages being devoted to her provincial history. parks in green and all the county and munici- It is generally supposed by historical students pal boroughs in brown. I need not say what a that the French Revolution and the Napoleonic boon such a map is to the student of history wars, or the Rise of Prussia, or the Formation and the reader of literature. The Philistine of the German Empire, or the Unification of who made this beautiful map just missed being Italy, — to mention no other great movement a poet. Had he only been moved to leave out left unnoticed here, -- is of more worldwide his beloved, but in this case useless and mean- significance than the lamentable story of the ingless, railways, and to put in the roads and partition of Poland. lanes! For what have railways to do with I have dwelt upon what seem to me the short- green English parks ? comings of this Atlas, because it is worthy of Several of the maps are of especial present serious criticism. Its genuine value will com- interest. That of South Africa shows railways mend it to so many buyers that its energetic running from half a dozen points on the coast publishers will be moved to revise it. The to the gold fields of the Transvaal, as well as faults I have indicated are none of them vital. the long railway line of more than 1500 miles A considerable number of additional maps could from Cape Town to Bulawayo. A number of be added without rendering the bulk of the battlefields are marked, the latest being that of volume either excessive or out of proportion Krugersdorp. The map of Central Africa, with the other volumes of the great work which although on a much smaller scale, is not less it worthily completes. Possessors of those vol- interesting. It presents an almost startling umes should make haste to add this one to the picture of the march of colonization and of the set; they will not find it the least useful. international race for territory in the heart of MELVILLE B. ANDERSON. the Dark Continent. The map of the Greater Antilles is on the scale of forty-eight miles to the inch,—too small to show in detail the daily movements of the opposing forces in Cuba. NATURE FOR NATURE'S SAKE.* Australia is too meagerly treated on a scale of When life is cheapened, as it is in these days, two hundred miles to the inch; and the map of to the standards of a narrowly conceived utility, the East Indian Islands, including the Philip-impressions of beauty are not easily received. pines, on the same scale, is rather tantalizing Yet all around us, every day and hour, it waits to the student of the present war. Of especial in all the loveliness of perfection, urgent to historical interest are the more comprehensive Life, by reason of our wilful ways maps, — e.g., those of Africa, of the West and the restraints we have put upon it, has Indies, and of the Region around the North found itself nowhere free to work out its own Pole, — by means of which the routes of dis- design. It thus shows everywhere incomplete, coverers can be traced from the time of Co- blurred and weakened in outline and in form. lumbus to the time of Nansen. The historical Thus, that aureole of beauty which rests upon maps proper are good as far as they go, but all perfection hovers nowhere about it, and no claim for completeness can be made for only as art has reconstructed its types in their them. Aside from the map of Britain and the ideal forms does it show glorious. With na- two maps of Saxon England, there is no map ture it is not so. No wilfulness has blurred the exhibiting the political condition of the world lines here; nowhere have its forms been con- during the six centuries and a half from the strained to feebleness, or left unfinished. Its beginning of the reign of Hadrian to the begin- face, whether it smiles or frowns, is sad or gay, ning of the reign of Charlemagne. Aside from is always perfect in its own way. It would the map of England and the maps of France, , seem, then, that we could not miss this beauty there is no map illustrating the state of Europe so constant in its expression, even when lack- at any time during the seven centuries between * NATURE FOR ITS OWN SAKE. First Studies in Natural Charlemagne and the Reformation. Nothing Appearances. By John C. Van Dyke. New York: Charles is given in illustration of the rise and spread Scribner's Sons. come in. - 1898.] 101 THE DIAL ours. ing its ministry of art; yet somehow we do, it which is especially the painter's reason, it perhaps because it is so constant, and so freely may be said that Mr. Van Dyke has seen nature Hence, it is well that someone should as it is and without prejudice,” and that his point out to us the value of this our “untaxed book shows throughout a rare justness of ob- heritage," and show us how rich we are. servation, and a mind open to all impressions In "Nature for Its Own Sake,” Prof. John of natural beauty. He gives us a series of pic- C. Van Dyke has accomplished such a task. tures of earth and sky that, both in detail and The purpose suggested in the title of his book mass, are vividly impressive and true. First he is more explicitly stated as follows: shows us the beauty and significance of light, “In treating of this nature I have not considered it discriminating finely the effects produced by as the classic or romantic background of human story, its different degrees and kinds, whether broken nor regarded man as an essential factor in it. Nature is considered as sufficient unto itself. The forms or shaded, pure or reflected. He then shows and colors of this earth need no association with man- us the sky, as we knew it of old, when it touched kind to make them beautiful.” our horizon, and we had no more thoughts about Beauty in its last analysis is, of course, a thing it than had the rivers and the seas and the grass of the mind, a certain kind of delightful impres blades and the flower petals, and answered to sion left upon it, and not something to be arbi- it as obediently as they. Clouds and cloud- trarily affirmed of that which leaves this impres- forms are next treated, and though here, as in sion ; nor is there any implication in Mr. Van the following chapter on rain and snow, consid- Dyke's book that this is not so. His object is erable attention is given to the causes of the simply to show how much of such delight that various appearances and effects described, the beauty gives, and may be ours if we will only impression is always more of what things seem look about us. than of what they are, and we are constantly Could we compare them, we should find that persuaded that it is better to look at them than the impressions we now receive from earth and to know about them. And this is always felt sky are very different from our childish ones. to be so; for, although there is considerable Yet it is the child who really sees nature as it analysis of the scientific kind in all of the chap- is, and the mind, when present with its expe- ters, it is the perception of beauty, and never rience and its reasons, only darkens perception. the spirit of inquiry, that is quickened in us. But this self-forgetfulness upon which all the For purposes of orderly arrangement, the truth of objective impressions depends is no earth and its appearances and effects, as dis- condition of any constructive work by which we tinguished from the sky and its phases, make seek to impart them to others. In doing this, up the subject-matter of the remaining chapters. we must remember what we had forgotten; we We are never, however, permitted to lose sight must use our knowledge of our subject, and of what is above, por do we ever fail to realize exercise our maturer right to ask the reason that the pitch and key of the whole harmony why. Mr. Van Dyke has thus found it neces- is given there. The sea illustrates this best of sary to include in his treatment of nature's all. Some accident, as of depth or density, or effects some of that science which accounts for character of its shore, are seen to enter into the them to the mind. In a word-picture of nature, impression of color it gives, but this impression there are two special limitations : it can give us is found to be mainly determined by the color only the idea of a scene, whereas a painting or and light of the sky. Mr. Van Dyke gives us the scene itself gives us a sensation of it; and a beautiful series of sea effects, closely and it must present the scene in a succession of lovingly observed. He then takes us to still images. We shall thus miss all of that great lakes bosoming their shores, and down rivers charm derived from the instant impression of that sweep in long curves of beauty to the ocean. its ensemble of color and form. Other terms We e see streams and rivulets and brooklets rip- than their own are incompetent to convey effects pling to the breeze and dancing to the sunlight. of color, for the reason that these, unlike the Then he shows us the mountains and the hills, forms that mediate them, have no existence at the plains and the lowlands, and finally their all except for the eye; and even could words covering of grass and bush and tree,- all with be found to define the exact tints upon which fine analysis, and a never failing sense of the the impression of harmony in nature depends, essential beauty in the effect or scene described. they would still be found a very poor substitute But why, it may be asked, is such a book writ- for the tints themselves. ten? Why draw up such an extended category With this suggestion of the indescribable in of colors and effects which we may all see for our- 102 [Aug. 16, THE DIAL . a - as selves? It is because we do not see them, be- fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries; cause we have fallen upon days of reflection,” Volume IV., the eighteenth century, including and instead of looking without, our eyes are the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars down turned within while walking the new Garden to Waterloo. From 500 B. C. to 1815 A. D. of Hesperides.” It must be remembered, fur- is a wide sweep; and as man may be defined as thermore, that the book is offered as an outline a fighting animal, the mass of available mate- of something to be filled out later on, and does rial might well threaten to overwhelm both the not purport to be in any respect a full treatment historian and his bravest readers. But the of its subject; it must also be remembered that author carefully explains in his preface that the instruction, more than entertainment or literary history of the art of war “ does not purport to effect, is the aim of the work. Mr. Van Dyke give the complete military annals of the civil- has the gift of imparting his ideas pleasantly, ized world. Each section deals with the char- and we may go to school to him without fear acteristic tactics, strategy, and military organ- that our interest will be overtaxed. We shall | ization of a period, and illustrates them by welcome that fuller treatment of his subject detailed accounts of typical campaigns and which is promised for the future. battles. There are also chapters dealing with HENRY C. PAYNE. the siegecraft and fortification, the arms and the armor, of each age.” Thus defined, the subject assumes proportion and becomes attrac- tive. “ BATTLES LONG AGO.”* It will be observed that the present volume If timeliness – which is said to be the chief is the second in the series as planned ; and it - merit of good newspaper articles, and has been may safely be assumed that Mr. Oman wrote the only merit of many a poor one it first as covering the fields with which he has do may much for a book, then Mr. Oman's bulky vol- been especially familiar. Beginning with the ume on “The Art of War," in spite of its last days of the legion, he describes the reor- 667 pages, ought to find 'many readers in ganization of the Roman army by Diocletian America outside of the professional students of and Constantine, and traces the growing im- the art of war: for just now there are some portance of cavalry. The end of this transi- fifty million amateurs among us pursuing this tional period, after which the supremacy of branch of study. cavalry was not questioned, he fixes at the year The author has long been known as an inde. 378, and that bloody day on the plains of fatigable and successful worker in mediæval Adrianople when the Roman army met its most history, as his standard history of the Byzantine crushing defeat since Cannæ, and a Roman Empire abundantly proved him to be ; but in emperor, with forty thousand of his legionaries, “ . the present undertaking he has begun what is lay dead upon the field of battle. “The mili- evidently intended to be his magnum opus. If tary importance of Adrianople,” says Mr. ” . Oman, “was unmistakable ; it was a victory of the other promised volumes take as much time and toil as have gone to the making of this, we cavalry over infantry. The imperial army had can only admire the serene courage of a scholar developed its attack on the great laager in a which the Goths lay encamped, arrayed in the who toils at the foundation of a monument time-honored formation of Roman hosts with whose cap-stone he may reasonably doubt of ever seeing. For our own sake, we will wish the legions and cohorts in the centre, and the for Mr. Oman the fortune of a Ranke rather squadrons on the wings. The fight was raging . than of a Buckle. hotly all along the barricade of wagons, when His field is nothing less than the history of suddenly a great body of horsemen charged in the art of war, from Greek and Roman times the Roman left. It was the main strength upon down to the beginning of the nineteenth century. of the Gothic cavalry, which had been foraging The work is planned as follows: Volume I., at a distance ; receiving news of the fight, it had ridden straight for the field of battle, and classical antiquity ; Volume II. (the one before us), from the downfall of the Roman Empire the Roman Empire host." The tremendous impact wedged legions fell upon the exposed flank of the imperial to the fourteenth century; Volume III., the and cohorts into one indistinguishable mass : *A HISTORY OF THE ART OF WAR. The Middle Ages, they could neither fight nor fly, and were cut from the Fourth to the Fourteenth Century. By Charles Oman, M.A., F.S.A., Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. down where they stood. “Probably to his own New York: G. P. Putnam's Song. surprise, the Goth found that his stout lance а 1898.] 103 THE DIAL > - - and good steed would carry him through the A NEW VIEW OF "BLOODY" JEFFREYS.* serried ranks of the imperial infantry. He had become the arbiter of war, the lineal ancestor We commonly conceive of Judge Jeffreys as of all the knights of the Middle Ages, the the monster of bloodthirsty cruelty, blasphe- inaugurator of that ascendancy of the horseman mous rage, and brutish intemperance, which which was to endure for a thousand years." Macaulay represents him to have been. The The early Middle Ages are then examined, popular historian's persuasive rhetoric easily a chapter being devoted to the arms and tactics carries the willing reader with him in his de- of the Franks, Visigoths, and Lombards, and scription of the man whose depravity has passed another to those of the Anglo-Saxons. Book into a proverb. Even to-day the assertion of a III., in seven chapters, covers the period be. Macaulay's contemporary is not without a tween 768 and 1066 - dates which readers will - measure of truth, that one has to agree with recognize as standing for Charles the Great and Tom Macaulay in the end, and it is easier to do William the Conqueror. Book IV. traces the so at once. Yet it must be borne in mind that development of the Byzantine army. Book V. his picture of Jeffreys's personality, graphic and is a deeply interesting discussion of the strat- masterly though it is, draws its colors chiefly egy, both grand and special, of the Crusades. from two prejudiced sources. Further char- The remaining three books treat of the art of acteristic of the uncritical nature of his work war in Western Europe in the days when the is his commendation of Campbell's “Lives of long-bow was so effective in attack, and the the Chief Justices.” “I scarcely need," he castle so supreme in defense. Then came gun- says, “ advise every reader to consult Lord powder - and exploded, among other things, Campbell's excellent book.” the whole fabric of military science and tactics. It is interesting to conjecture in what light But that is another story. Jeffreys's character and career would have been All these changes are fully set forth in de handed down to us had the Tories instead of tailed accounts of battles, — not necessarily the the Whigs prevailed in 1688. The maledic- politically “decisive” ones, but those which are tions of exultant foes might not — indeed, could regarded as typical by the military historian ; not — have been displaced by the eulogies of though some, like Hastings and Crecy, are of friends, for warm friends he had none; but at both kinds. In most cases, the author describes least a more accurate estimate of such abilities and criticizes the strategy of both armies. His as he must have possessed would have found descriptions are graphic and almost always record. clear; his style is never monotonous, though Mr. Irving's “Life of Judge Jeffreys” is a the subject lies dangerously that way. Though creditable attempt to attain historical accuracy a scientific treatise, his work never would find in tracing the life of a most remarkable and, place in Lamb's catalogue of biblia a-biblia: despite his infamy, most interesting man. it is, throughout, for the reader as well as the Hardly a single source of information, however student. The book is well supplied with care- unimportant, seems to have been overlooked in fully prepared maps and plans, which leave the this exhaustive study of nearly four hundred reader in no doubt as to the topography or ar- pages in length; and the writer has treated his rangement. It is printed on paper which is sources with that cautious discrimination, the provokingly thin; and appropriately bound in importance of which has been so well empha- the flaming British scarlet of her Majesty's sized by Freeman. The official reports of state uniform. JOSIAH RENICK SMITH. trials are given the prominence which their authenticity as contemporary evidence merits. “ BARRY LYNDON,” “ The Fitz-Boodle Papers,” The successive stages in the evolution of “Catherine,” and other miscellaneous writings, make Jeffreys's peculiar genius of turpitude are care- , up the contents of the fourth volume in the new edition fully traced. His early domestic life seems to of Thackeray now being published by Messrs. Harper & Brothers. Mrs. Ritchie's introduction is of great interest, have been not discreditable, to say the least, and would yield many nuggets had we room for them. and we are told that in return for that impul- One must suffice from a letter by FitzGerald. “ “ My sive act of generosity which led him, at nineteen sisters and brother-in-law spoke with grave praises of years, into a matrimonial alliance with a poor your • Yellowplush' the other day, not knowing who clergyman's daughter, the latter "proved a good had written it, so I had the satisfaction of insinuating, with an air of indifference, that I knew the author well. * THE LIFE OF JUDGE JEFFREYS. By H. B. Irving, M.A. They are also not quite certain but that I wrote it my- Oxon. With three portraits. New York: Longmans, Green, self, so that I gain every way." & Co. - 9 > 104 [Aug. 16, THE DIAL wife, and repaid her husband's generous act by has given us a work moderate in tone and care- constant affection and six children.” The intox- fully considered in its views; and while it can ication of early success and popularity, and the hardly be expected to modify greatly the ac- insidious influences brought to bear on one who cepted estimate of Judge Jeffreys's character, easily made himself a favorite at court, could not yet it deserves a thoughtful perusal and cannot fail to act injuriously upon the young Welsh- fail to meet with favor from students of English man, possessing as he did all the excitability history. It certainly strikes a new note in the and instability of the true Celt that he was. treatment of its theme, where others have been Jeffreys's character has been judged by suc- content to ring the familiar changes on the sub- ceeding generations without due reference to ject of Jeffreys’s iniquities. Even Mr. Gar. the corruption of the age in which he lived, the diner, probably the foremost English historian profligacy of the court which he served, and of the present day, appears not to question the the faulty and, to us, iniquitous, judicial sys- correctness of the accepted opinion in the mat- tem which he was called upon to administer. ter. “ It is true,” he says, “ that the law which Even Jeffreys himself — and it is a circum- he had to administer was cruel, but Jeffreys stance worth noting in his favor, though Mr. gained peculiar obloquy by delighting in its Irving makes no mention of it — exclaimed, at cruelty, and by sneering at its unhappy vic- the trial of the Rev. Thomas Rosewell, a dis tims." Mr. Leslie Stephen, in writing of the senting minister, that it was “ a hard case that State Trials, says of Jeffreys, “ He was, I dare a man should have a counsel to defend him for say, as bad as he is painted.” It is this unan- a twopenny trespass, and his witnesses exam. imity, on the part of writers treating of that ined upon oath; but if he steal, commit murder period of English history, in accepting without or felony, nay, high treason, where life, estate, question the popular estimate of Jeffreys's de- honour, and all are concerned, he shall neither gree of turpitude — for base he certainly was- have counsel nor his witnesses examined upon that makes the present study of his career by oath.” To be sure, the abuse and insults heaped Mr. Irving a valuable contribution to history. upon helpless prisoners by Judge Jeffreys, The three portraits in the volume, after Knel- from his seat on the bench, pass all limits of ler's paintings, show, if at all true to life, that moderation and decency; but he was only Jeffreys was, to our surprise, a man of singu- adopting the usage of his times. Even Sir | larly handsome and prepossessing appearance. Matthew Hale, self-contained and dignified PERCY FAVOR BICKNELL. though he was, “ thought nothing of calling a man, whose perjuries had excited his indigna- tion, a devil.'”. Moreover, it is probable that RECENT ESSAYS IN ECCLESIASTICAL Jeffreys, in his character of Lord Chief Justice, HISTORY.* has been handled with somewhat excessive se- verity by historians. Lord Campbell's frequent together upon the reviewer's table as recent emana- Eight volumes of ecclesiastical history, gathered inspiration” is properly censured by him. He signifying a popular interest in subjects hitherto tions from the press, might reasonably be taken as reserved for the attention of a limited number of “ It is, of course, striking from the point of view of * THE GROWTH OF CHRISTIANITY. By Joseph Henry the popular historian to represent Jeffreys as a youthful Crooker. Chicago: Western Unitarian Sunday-School Society. Mephistopheles urging poor mortals to damnation by THE STORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. By George R. insidious counsels and lying hopes. But so much has Crooks, D.D., LL.D., late Professor of Church History in been done in this way with Jeffreys that it may be Drew Theological Seminary. Cincinnati : Curts & Jennings. equally interesting to reduce him to his natural propor- HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. By George H. tions again. And these, physically and morally, are Dryer, D.D. Volume II., The Preparation for Modern Times, more comely than has been popularly supposed. The 600–1517 A. D. Cincinnati: Curts & Jennings. quotations so far given from his public utterances are TEN EPOCHS OF CHURCH HISTORY. Volume IV., The Age quite undeserving of the beated language that has been of Charlemagne, by Charles L. Wells, Ph.D., Professor of bestowed indiscriminately on all portions of his career, History in the University of Minnesota. Volume VII., The and hardly justify the historical misrepresentations it Age of the Renascence, by Paul Van Dyke. Volume X., The Anglican Reformation, by William Clark, M.A. (Oxon.) Hon. has been his privilege to enjoy from the lavish hands of LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S.C. New York: Christian Literature a successor, whose historical injustice has not even that Company. sense of humour which lightens the darkest passages of HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN EPISCOPAL CHURCH. By S. D. his predecessor's misdoing.” McConnell, D.D., D.C.L. Seventh Edition, revised and en- Despite a few exhibitions of something ap- larged. New York: Thomas Whittaker. A HISTORY OF AMERICAN CHRISTIANITY. By Leonard proaching to warmth, as in the above, the writer Woolsey Bacon. New York: Christian Literature Company. further says: 1 1898.] 105 THE DIAL - students. And such an inference might be regarded in a class of readers for whom he writes. For this a as strengthened by observing that the Christian class of readers he has prepared a bibliography of Literature Company exists for the purpose of sup- the period that is complete. plying a popular demand for reading of this class. Of an effort to cover the field of ecclesiastical How this phase of the popular literary taste is to be history in monographs upon its chief epochs, we accounted for, or how it is to be reconciled with have before us three of ten resulting volumes. seemingly contrary signs of the times, we shall not Others have been already noticed in these columns. at present stop to consider. They all exhibit difficulties in the way of such a The books before us illustrate what seems even treatment of Church history. To tell what was more remarkable,- namely, the diversity of treat- required of them, Dr. Wells and Dr. Clark have ment of which ecclesiastical history is capable. This each taken a hundred pages more than any of the is nowhere more apparent than by a comparison of earlier writers in the series, and two hundred more “The Growth of Christianity” by Mr. Crooker than some of them. The development of the Papacy with “ The Story of the Christian Church " by the was the chief characteristic of the Age of Charle- late Dr. Crooks. It might be supposed from these magne. It is treated by Dr. Wells less dramatically titles that the two authors were attempting to cover than by Dr. Dryer, but with greater attention to the same historical ground. But to Mr. Crooker, detail ; and as a consequence we bave a more spe- Christianity is merely one of the great religions of cific account of the famous forged documents than the world, perhaps superior in many ways to the is to be found elsewhere in books intended for gen- others, yet growing out of the historic conditions eral reading. To the history of the Renascence by and unfolding by the same general laws and forces Mr. Paul Van Dyke, the Rev. Henry Van Dyke adds which had operated in the production of Judaism, an introduction, explaining why the work was passed Islam, and Buddhism. It was evolved from the over to another after having been assigned to him. teaching of Jesus of Nazareth. That teaching has Had another hundred pages been added to this vol- never been understood and has been but partially ume, the reader might have been supplied with more applied. The teacher’s resurrection from the dead facts regarding the development of University life is by implication, and his claim to Divinity is ex- and some references to the artistic revival which pressly denied. Hence, Christianity has grown up was one of the chief features of that period. As it upon mistakes which were made or deceptions which is, the book furnishes an outline sketch of the His- were practiced in the early ages regarding these two tory of the Papacy from the return from Avignon to fandamental points. But why call it Christianity? the Sack of Rome (1377-1527). Mr. Van Dyke's To the mind of Dr. Crooks, on the other hand, treatment of this period is naturally brought into Christianity was organized in the world, and its comparison with that of Dr. Dryer. It has all the organization is the Church. The Church is an ex- dramatic movement of the latter, but Mr. Van Dyke ternal, visible body; a Divine institution, having a appears to have derived his style and choice of terms Divine Founder, Jesus Christ ; a Divine life, derived partly from the journalistic literature of the day, from the Holy Spirit; a Divine body of truth, the which is not a style suitable for historical literature. Gospel. The events related by Dr. Crooks as per- In the “ Anglican Reformation,” we find the pur- taining to such an organization are set forth as tend- poses of the entire series of Epoch Histories revealed. ing generally to advance the determinate destiny Wise choice was made of Dr. Clark for this work. thereof, which is to overspread the world. His sympathies are well known and are by no means In the period covered by the second volume of disguised. It was necessary, in order to write intel- Dr. Dryer's "History of the Christian Church," the ligibly of the English Reformation, for him to re- difference between his work and that of Dr. Crooks view the entire religious history of England; but he ! is chiefly one of style. Dr. Crooks is by no means has done this so concisely as to retard but little the deficient in that regard, though his book is the re- progress of the work. The Anglican Reformation vision and enlargement of lectures delivered by him was, on the part of those who participated in the work at Drew Theological Seminary, and it is hardly to of bringing it about, the realization of an idea which be expected that a book could be prepared upon the had always, either explicitly or implicitly, been oper- basis of theological lectures that would justify the ative in the history of the English Church and peo- use of the title “ Story,” with its popular meaning. ple. For England never recognized the right of the Dr. Dryer, however, treats the period he has under Pope to interfere in the government of her National review with full regard to its picturesqueness and Church. It was only conditionally and within cer- wealth of dramatic action. In this respect his sec- tain restrictions that she had even allowed the mem- ond volume excels his first, which was reviewed bers of the Church to carry any appeal to Rome. some time ago in these columns. The period is one The claims of the Rome See were hardly heard of in which the growth of the Papacy is the centre of anywhere before the fourth century. Hence, the action, and this delicate subject is treated with great state of the British Church — that is, the Church fairness. The breadth of the author's reading is established in the British Isles probably in the sec- shown by the breadth of his treatment; and his ond or even in the first century, and which had portrayal of the ages of preparation for the modern three Bishops at the Council of Arles A. D. 314 - era is such as to awaken an interest in this subject has no relation to the controversies of the Reforma- 106 [Aug. 16 THE DIAL The latest > Nelson books. > tion. It was with the introduction of Christianity BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS. among the Anglo-Saxons that the influence of the Roman See in England began, and that influence Lord Charles Beresford and Mr. increased, but without at any time absolutely de- and best of H. W. Wilson, both authorities on priving the Church of England of its independent naval topics, have jointly written a existence. Naturally one purpose of an Anglican spirited popular account of “Nelson and his Times" Churchman in writing of the Anglican Reforma- (E. & J. B. Young & Co.), that forms, all in tion is to place Henry VIII. in his proper relation all, the best and freshest as well as the most out- thereto. The character of Henry is such as to re- wardly attractive contribution to the literature of quire an impartial historian to deal with it. This the Nelson revival, now ebbing, that has come to our Dr. Clark proves to be. “It is utterly absurd,” he notice. The volume is a spacious quarto, of lavish says, " to suppose that Henry's character reflects pictorial attractions, including a highly colored any disgrace or discredit upon the principles of the frontispiece showing, according to the artist's fancy, Reformation. He had no sympathy whatever with the great admiral landing at Copenhagen. The the reformation of doctrine, and though strongly plates, we are glad to say, serve for the most part anti-papal from self-interest, in bis religious convic- the end of instruction rather than mere embellish- tions (and we must credit him with having such in ment. They have been selected and annotated by accord with the spirit of the age in which he lived) Mr. Edward H. Fitchew, and form a useful and he was medieval and Roman.” But the book sets suggestive pictorial commentary on the text. The forth much that is not new by any means, but apt caricaturists, among them Gillray and Rowlandson, to be overlooked by superficial readers who would have been freely drawn on, and the profusion of dispose of the Anglican Reformation in a sentence portraits and cuts of Nelsonian relics serve to lend or a paragraph, - much that is essential to a right the work the character of a memorial volume. The understanding of that which is to the Anglo-Saxon cover design, exhibiting a female figure with wings race the crowning epoch of the Church's history. and a halo, and apparently pitching a laurel wreath In the “ History of the American Episcopal | like a quoit at the head of the unconscious admiral Church,” we find an old friend in a new dress. The below, is scarcely happy; but the material ensemble popularity which this work won for itself when it is pleasing on the whole, and the pictures are hand- first appeared eight years ago, and which it never somely reproduced. As to the raison d'être of the lost, is evidenced by the fact that it went through work, the authors disclaim any intention of compet- six editions before it yielded to a demand for a revi- | ing with the masterly and philosophical volumes of sion and an extension in order that it might include Captain Mahan recently published. They have events subsequent to the Civil War. This popu- written for the masses of their countrymen, to whom larity has been due to the captivating style of Dr. those volumes are largely inaccessible, -"for the McConnell. It has given to this book the advan- millions of the great British democracy for whose tage over two other histories of the American Epis- prosperity and freedom, as for that of generations copal Church which have appeared since his. To be yet unborn, Nelson fought and died.” The book hypercritical, the use of a wrong name in the added has by no means, however, the flimsy and superfi- chapters of this book may be pointed out, which cial character which too often impairs or even de- makes a noted minister of the Episcopal Church stroys the usefulness of designedly popular histor- Bishop of the Mexican Church, with which he prob- ical biographies. It is critical in spirit where ably has but little sympathy. criticism is called for; and the writers, while paint- Dr. McConnell's contribution to our American ing their hero in the glowing colors of patriotism religious historical literature is the outgrowth of a and British pride in British achievement, have not desire to write a history of American Christianity. failed to point out wherein and in what degree he Although there is a book before us bearing that showed himself fallible, nay, frail. The Lady title, it is but a preparatory and suggestive sketch Hamilton episode is treated tactfully yet candidly, of that subject, and but partially fulfils Dr. McCon- and the reader is finally adjured to forget the mis- nell's purpose. Mr. Bacon was evidently working takes and follies of the great seaman's career, “in upon an assignment and under the limitations of a the unbounded admiration, respect, and affection “space-filler.” To reduce to a volume of 420 octavo which are due to his glorious deeds.” But the inci- pages the history of all the influences of the Chris- dent nevertheless lends its inevitable touch of bathos tian religion in its many and varied forms in Amer- to every frankly-told tale of Nelson's life. Poster- ica, is no mean achievement. The author pricks an ity, glorying in Nelson's priceless services and occasional historical bubble, and puts his finger upon almost peerless valor, must be made marvel at the some weak spots in our religious systems; but he is sailor-like facility with which he walked into the generally free from the expression of prejudices, net so openly spread for him by this coarse Delilah, and of all the books before us this is the one that who, whatever she may have been in her youth breaks up ground wholly new. It is a useful and when Romney painted her, was grown latterly, when suggestive book, deserving of wide reading. Nelson met her at Naples, a somewhat gross and A. H. NOLL. bovine creature with "charms" suggestive of the 9) 1898.] 107 THE DIAL : 6 sirens of Portsmouth or Wapping. But how great the author, the one showing him as a trim midship- Nelson was, in plan as in action, professionally man of fifteen, the other as an admiral of fifty or viewed! Perhaps bis distinguishing trait as a sea- thereabouts, looking as taut as a backstay and as man was the swift judgment or prescience which “salt” as Captain Cuttle. enabled him on occasion when a subordinate to break or reverse the letter of a command in order to carry Biography of The biography of a modern play- out more surely and fully its spirit — conduct bril- a playwright wright - "W. G. Wills, Dramatist and painter. liantly justified at St. Vincent and Copenhagen, but and Painter” (Longmans) – pre- certainly not to be recommended to the service as sents the pathetic figure of a man who succeeded in a precedent. Nelson fought for victory and not for a secondary field, and failed in the work of his prize-money. Sir Charles Beresford remarks: “If choice. Though eminently fortunate in his dramas, he had devoted the same energy and forethought to Mr. Wills, it is said, would have given all his dra- acquiring prize-money as he did to destroying his matic laurels for one success in painting — or in that country's enemies, he would have become million- form of it which he elected. As an artist in pastel, aire.” For popular reading there is no better book he was successful, to the point of popularity and on Nelson than this. even to that of royal favor; but in oil-painting, which he believed to be his gift and his ultimate Prom Rear-Admiral Sir Victor A. Mon- career, he achieved nothing. “I am,” he said once, "middy" tague, a fine old sea-dog of a breed “a poor painter who writes plays for bread”; yet to admiral. now vanishing, who retired from the it was by his plays alone that he attained distinction, Royal Navy in 1886, has written from a rather though this will hardly reach the point of justify- retentive memory a lively account of his career ing the claim made for him by his biographer, Mr. as a “midshipmite," entitled “A Middy's Recollec- Freeman Wills, of the place of “poetic dramatist of tions” (Macmillan). Sir Victor joined the navy in the Victorian era.' .” He was the first among modern 1853, and his narrative takes us down to 1860. English playwrights to make familiar and popular His first ship (not technically) was the “ Princess such poetic work as his “ Charles I." and “Olivia”; Royal"; and his trials aboard this fine 91-gunner and it was because of his genius for such work that recall Smollett. The fare was execrable, and one he was commissioned by Mr. Irving to write the wonders how anybody could be expected to do any memorable " Lyceum · Faust?" - an adaptation fighting on it. A day's rations comprised " a pound which was awaited with much eagerness, received of very bad salt junk (beef), or of pork as salt as much praise and blame, and has been acted, we are Mrs. Lot, detestable tea, sugar to match, and a bis- told, a greater number of times than any modern cuit that was generally full of weevils, or well over- drama. Here and there in the book is given run by rats, or (in the hot climates) a choice retreat without especial awkwardness -- some noteworthy for the detestable cockroach.” Thus did thrifty old opinion of his plays, the most interesting being a England feed the chosen beroes of her national song criticism, by George Henry Lewes, upon “The Man and story the« Hearts of Oak ” who manned her i’ Airlie "_"a tragedy," the critic said, “ of which “ Wooden Walls”! No wonder that “ Jack” ran a great poet might be proud." The biographer, a-muck of the proprieties when he got ashore with though admirably candid, is at times diffuse and money in his pocket. On the “ Princess Royal” Sir at times sentimental; however, he has written a Victor was of course dreadfully hoaxed and bullied readable book, dealing with subjects unbackneyed by his salter messmates. But your young Briton, in the literary world, and showing the dramatist “middy” or public-school boy, submits to bullying and painter as a very fine and lovable personality. as naturally as he resorts to it when his own turn comes. It is part of a system supposed to foster the A pudding Mr. Squeers's rapturous ejaculation, sterner virtues ; and the old adage (pleasantly con- stuffed with “Here's richness !” aptly applies to troverted by Lamb) that “A bully is always a plums. the volume of “ Collections and Rec- coward” does not apply to Young England. Of ollections” (Harper), by an unnamed diarist and actual sea-fighting there is not much recorded in raconteur said by the reviewers who have been Admiral Montague's book, which is mainly a personal making free with his plums to be none other than record, off-band in style, though graphic and well- Mr. G. W. E. Russell. The book is a delightful written. We should very much like to see a similar as good as Greville or Lenox; and if there be record from the hand, say, of our own Captain “ Bob” a dull page we have certainly failed to hit it. Its Evans, who has recently shown, to the admiration contents are as multifarious as rich. The author's of the English press, that he can write almost as jottings range over a space of seventy-five years, well as he can fight. Admiral Montague saw some and consist partly of traditions and anecdotes gath- pretty exciting brushes, however, in the Crimea, in ered from people and books, partly of matter of China, and during the Mutiny. But his naval pas- personal recollection. There is a pleasant leaven sages seem mere pop-gun work beside the recent throughout of the shrewd, gently cynical philosophy terrible and dramatic doings at Manila and off of a good-tempered and still unjaded man of the Santiago. The book is neatly made and contains world. That the writer is a neat hand at a pen- several plates, among them a brace of portraits of portrait or a character study, the chapters on Lords - one - 108 [Aug. 16, THE DIAL Russell, Houghton, and Shaftesbury, and on Cardi- He was there when wild animals and wilder sav- nal Manning, especially attest. The slightly mali- ages were the only tenants of the wilderness.” The cious note on Mr. Lowell will interest the American editor points out the Major’s place in the history of reader. It was in 1872, before Mr. Lowell began the exploration of the vast region extending from his diplomatic career, that the author met him, in a the Missouri to the Rio Grande. “Wherever other company of tourists “ doing” Durham Castle, as it American trappers and traders may have gone or chanced. “ Though I was a devotee of the • Biglow the Arkansas, or even the Rio Grande, in those Papers,' I did not know their distinguished author days, Fowler was the first to forge another sound even by sight; and I was intensely amused by the link in the chain which already reached from Pike air of easy mastery, the calm and almost fatherly to Long.” This he did just before the Sante Fé patronage, with which this cultivated American Trail became plainly marked, both on the face of overrode the indignant show-woman; pointed out the country and in Southwestern history. The book for the general benefit of the admiring tourists the has a certain pedagogical value, as it shows that a gaps and lapses in her artistic, architectural, and man grossly ignorant of the language-arts can be a archæological knowledge; and made mullion and man of sound faculties and great practical talents. portcullis and armor and tapestry the pegs for a The poor character of Fowler's literary education is series of neat discourses on mediæval history, do- shown by every sentence in the book. If Dr. Coues mestic decoration, and the science of fortification.” had added to his introduction two or three pages The writer goes on to say that in later years he more, stating what was Fowler's equipment for his found that his oppressively well-informed volunteer "voige," and what was his object in making it, he cicerone of Durham Castle, “though an accom- would have done the reader a service, not leaving plished politician, a brilliant writer, and an admir- him to infer those things from the narrative itself. able after-dinner speaker, was, conversationally The editing and the mechanical execution of the considered, an inaccurate man with an accurate volume are those with which the reader of the ex- manner " — which is a rather neat characterization, cellent “ Lewis and Clark,” “ Pike,” and “Henry whatever one may think of its accuracy in the par- and Thompson” volumes is already familiar. ticular case. A good thing is recorded of Welling- ton. Mrs. Norton once requested permission to “ Hamlet in Iceland " is the attrac- The legendary Hamlet of dedicate a song to him, whereupon the alarmed war- tive title of a work prepared by the the Norsemen. rior refused, pleading that he had been obliged to industrious scholarship of Mr. Israel make it a rule to decline all dedications, “ because, Gollancz, and published by Mr. David Nutt as in his situation as Chancellor of Oxford University, Volume III. of the “ Northern Library.” The two he had been much exposed to authors.” Mr. Rus- preceding volumes of the series are Mr. Sephton's sell's book (if his it be) is one of the freshest and translation of “The Saga of King Olaf Tryggwasen" raciest of its kind. and Professor York Powell's translation of “ The Tale of Thrond of Gate.” All Shakespearian stu- From Arkansaw The latest example of the current dents know that the Hamlet story is to be found in vogue of Western history is furnished the twelfth-century chronicle of the Danish his- by the new series of “ American Ex- torian Saxo Grammaticus, but few are aware that plorers,” edited by Dr. Elliott Coues and published even in Saxo's time Hamlet had for centuries been a by Mr. Francis P. Harper, of wbich No. 1 is entitled, legendary hero of the Norsemen. The first trace of for short, “ The Journal of Jacob Fowler.” It nar- the name that we have come upon is preserved in rates an adventure, in 1821-22, from Arkansaw a fragment of verse quoted by Snorri, and attributed through the Indian Territory, Oklahoma, Kansas, to one Snæbjörn, who lived in the tenth century. Colorado, and New Mexico, to the sources of Rio Even in Saxo's time, a considerable mass of legend Grande del Norte. The editor, in his too short had grown up about the name of Hamlet, although introduction, tells us who Major Fowler was, and nothing of this intervening literature has been pre- recites the history of his manuscript, which he served. Saxo took up this material, and embodied entitled “ Merorandom of the Voige by land from it, with accretions from his readings in Livy, in the fort Smith to the Rockey Mountains.” On this point story with which all students of Shakespeare's it suffices to say that it belongs to the rich store “ Hamlet” are familiar. But in some less sophis- of Americana collected by Col. R. T. Durrett of ticated form the legend probably survived in the Louisville, Kentucky, the accomplished president of Icelandic consciousness down through the Middle the Filson Club. Major Fowler, born in New York Ages, for the seventeenth-century historian Tor- in 1765, came to Kentucky in early life to carry on fæus, in his “Series Regum Daniæ,” wrote of it as the profession of a surveyor, and made his home in follows: “As regards Saxos Amlethus, as a boy at the neighborhood of Covington. His reputation home in Iceland I frequently heard the story of was that of an accomplished surveyor, and he did Amlode told by wretched old crones, but I regarded much work in this line for the national government. it as merely an old wives' tale; later on, however, “ His surveying," says Colonel Darrett, “ extended when I came across Saxo's noble account of the to the great plains and mountains of the far west, hero, I abandoned my boyish notion, and thence- before civilization had reached those distant wilds. forth left my friends no peace, but worried them to to the Rockies in 1821-1822. 1 : 1898.] 109 THE DIAL 9 find out for me the old story I had once heard, yet LITERARY NOTES. without success. At last, a few years ago, they sent me a story of Amlode, but no sooner had I perused Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons send us · The Mon- it than I cast it aside, as altogether worthless and astery,” forming two volumes in the “Temple" edition quite modern. It actually makes Hamlet not a Dane of Scott's novels. but a Spaniard! It must have been composed after “St. Luke and St. Paul,” in two volumes, are issued the time of the Scythian Tamberlaine, for some of by the Macmillan Co. in “ The Modern Reader's Bible," the details are certainly derived from this history." edited by Mr. R. G. Moulton. The manuscript of which Torfæus thus slightingly “ The State," an address by Mr. L. T. Chamberlain before the Patria Club of New York, is published in speaks is preserved in Copenhagen, and is substan- booklet form by the Baker & Taylor Co. tially identical with the “ Ambales Saga” of which Volume VII. of “The Spectator,” in the pretty new text and translation form the principal contents of edition of Mr. G. Gregory Smith, has just been pub- the volume now before us. This work, dated circa lished by Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1600 is of great interest, and we are glad to have Mrs. Margaret Collier Graham, whose stories of Cali- it printed, as it now is, together with extracts from fornia life are of the best that have been produced, has a number of ballad-cycles and rhyming versions become associate editor of the “ Land of Sunshine," at obviously based upon it. Mr. Gollancz has done his Los Angeles. editorial work very thoroughly, providing not only a It is announced by Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons lengthy and learned introduction, but also a mass that the authorized « Life and Letters of Eugene Field.” of illustrative matter, such as the rhymed passages will be prepared by Mr. Slason Thompson, of Chicago, already mentioned, selections from several allied and published by that house. sagas, from Saxo in both Latin and Low German, Miss Mary Wright Plummer's “ Hints to Small Libra- and from the modern Icelandic translation of the ries ” is published in a revised edition by Messrs. Trus- love & Comba, New York. It is an excellent and useful “Hamlet” according to Shakespeare. book, even if it does slip now and then, as in calling THE DIAL a weekly publication. The Werner Co. publish a new and enlarged edition of Professor James A. Harrison's “Spain in History,” a BRIEFER MENTION. work that is historically valuable and written in the most attractive style. The closing chapter comes down In “ The Evolution of the College Student" (Cro- to the confinement of Admiral Cervera's fleet in the well), a booklet by President William DeWitt Hyde, harbor of Santiago de Cuba. we have “no dry essay or discussion of abstract princi- “ The Critic” makes a good start in its new career ples, but a study in the form of imaginative letters pass- ing between a living college student and his family and as a monthly magazine, with its issue for August. Pio- friends. The hero, Clarence Mansfield, opens his heart tures are evidently to be a chief feature; the “ Lounger" to his father and mother, and his friend and sweetheart department of literary chit-chat is extended, and put at Helen, at Willoughby College. Religious life at college, the front; and a good variety of other timely matter literary studies, thoughtless pranks, athletics, philos- makes up an attractive literary mélange. ophy, college settlements, choice of a profession, the “ George Eliot's ” “ Silas Marner,” edited by Miss relations of labor and capital, are the topics that the R. Adelaide Witham; Coleridge's “ Ancient Mariner," young man discusses from the varying standpoint of his edited by Mr. Lincoln R. Gibbs; and Milton's “ Para- onward growth.” dise Lost," Books I. and II., edited by Dr. Homer B. The following classical text-books are published by the Sprague, are the latest volumes in the “ Standard En- American Book Co.: “Latin Prose Composition," based glish Classics,” published by Messrs. Ginn & Co. on Cæsar, Nepos, and Cicero, by Messrs. Charles C. We regret exceedingly the demise, or at least the Dodge and Hiram A. Tuttle, Jr.; "M. Tullii Ciceronis suspension, of that admirable paper “ The Citizen," Lælius de Amicitia," edited by Professor John K. Lord; which has been published in Philadelphia for several “Greek Prose Composition,” by Mr. Henry C. Pearson; years past. Its aims were high, and it pursued them and “ Plato's Apology of Socrates and Crito, and a part with unfailing dignity and sobriety during the term of of the Phædo," edited by the Rev. C. L. Kitchel. its existence. It was a civilizing agency in the best Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons publish “ The Republic sense, and we trust that its resuscitation may yet prove of Plato with Studies for Teachers,” by Dr. William possible. Lowe Bryan and Miss Charlotte Lowe Bryan. The American School of Classical Studies in Rome will Mr. Calvin S. Brown, of the University of Tennessee, award three fellowships (of five hundred and six hundred has done a useful piece of work in editing, with suitable dollars each) for the year 1899–1900. These fellow- annotations, a volume of “ The Later English Drama" ships, and all the privileges of the School, are open to (A. S. Barnes & Co.). It bas been his object “to pre- women as well as to men. The examinations will be sent in convenient and accessible form what has been held next March, and copies of the circular of informa- done best in the English drama from the time of Gold- tion may be had from Professor Minton Warren, of the smith to the present.” Six plays are included in his Johns Hopkins University. plan, Sheridan's two comedies and Goldsmith's one, the The report that Mr. James Whitcomb Riley, in col- Virginius” of Sheridan Knowles, and the two peren- laboration with Mr. Paul Lawrence Dunbar, is engaged nial plays of Lord Lytton. We are particularly glad in writing a comio opera is entirely without foundation. to havo the text of " Richelieu” thus presented, for it The “Homestead ”ödition of Mr. Riley's works, in ton is better literature to read than most people suppose. volumes, which Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons publish » 110 (Aug. 16, THE DIAL a a among their subscription sets, will be complete with the LIST OF NEW BOOKS. volume issued in September. The Bowen-Merrill Com- pany, his regular publishers, will issue this fall « The [The following list, containing 67 titles, includes books Golden Year,” a volume of Riley selections, compiled received by The Dual since its last issue.] by Miss Clara E. Laughlin. A new edition, revised and enlarged, of Mr. Edgar BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIRS. Stanton Maclay's “ History of the United States Navy," Washington after the Revolution, 1784-1799. By William in two volumes, has just been published by Messrs. D. Spohn Baker. Large 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 416. J. B. Lippincott Co. $2.50. Appleton & Co. Our extended review of this work at The Life and Correspondence of Rufus King. Edited by the time of its first appearance makes unnecessary any his Grandson, Charles R. King, M.D. Vol. V., 1807-1816; further comment, beyond mention of the fact that the with portrait, large 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 563. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $5. history has been supplemented by several new chapters, and brought strictly down to date. HISTORY. Mr. Austin F. Apgar's “ Birds of the United States Europe in the Nineteenth century. By Harry Pratt Judson, LL.D. Illus., 12mo, pp. 342. Chautauqua East of the Rocky Mountains,” just published by the Reading Circle Literature.” Flood & Vincent. $1. American Book Co., is “a manual for the identification Twenty Centuries of English History. James Richard of species in hand or in the bush," and, in spite of the Joy. Illus., 12mo, pp. 318. “Chautauqua Reading Circle many excellent bird-books published during the past Literature.” Flood & Vincent. $1. few years, still finds a place waiting for it. The work Spain in History. By James A. Harrison ; with Introduo- tion by G. Mercer Adam. New edition, revised and on- is abundantly illustrated, and supplied with all the need- larged; 8vo, pp. 603. Werner Co. $1.80. ful keys, indexes, and description of ornithological terms. GENERAL LITERATURE. Messrs. Doubleday & McClure expect to have ready September 1, General Miles's book on “ Military Eu- What Is Art? By Leo Tolstoy; authorized translation from the Russian by Aylmer Maude, with author's last revi. rope," the result of his official visit abroad at the time sions. With portrait, 12mo, pp. 237. T. Y. Crowell & of the late Greek War. Books on war subjects and Co. $1. characters are likely to be a feature of the fall publica- From Chaucer to Tennyson. By Henry A. Beers. New tions, the same firm announcing, in addition to the above, edition; with portraits, 12mo, pp. 325. Chautauqua Reading Circle Literature." Flood & Vincent. $1. “Our Navy in the Philippines,” by Mr. John T. Mc- Men and Manners of the Eighteenth Century. 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(Poem.) Edith M. lectual gravity from the South to the North, Thomas 124 from the Latin races to those of Teutonic and COMMUNICATIONS 124 Slavonic origin. When Hugo and Renan were The Poetry of the Cuban War. W.R. K. living, to name no others, the balance was more An Affront to American Poets. Joseph P. Perkins. The Foreign-Language School in Japan. Ernest W. evenly held ; but now the great Italian poet Clement. alone stands in anything like the first rank, GENERAL MILES IN EUROPE. E. G. J. having for his peer no other Italian, no Span- 126 iard, and even no Frenchman. CHIPS FROM A CRITIC'S SHOULDER. Edward Returning, after this brief digression, to our E. Hale, Jr. 128 main subject, we feel bound to emphasize the THREE CHARACTERS FROM FRENCH HIS- opinion, often expressed in these pages, that TORY. Josiah Renick Smith Russian literature is adorned by one artistic AN AUTHORITATIVE BOOK ON MEXICO. personality even more important than that of Frederick Start 131 Count Tolstoy. In the work of Tourguénieff the art of fiction seems to have made its longest RECENT AMERICAN POETRY. William Morton Payne . 132 reach towards absolute supremacy of achieve- Roberts's New York Nocturnes. — Carman's By the ment. There is something almost despairing Aurelian Wall. - Cawein's Shapes and Shadows. – in the perfection, the finality, the triumph of Goetz's Poems.-Johnson's Where Beauty Is.-John- son's What Can I Do for Brady? – Koopman's the man who created “Spring Floods” and Morrow-Songs. — Rule's The Shrine of Love.- Mrs. “On the Eve.” From the structural point of Stetson's In This Our World.- Miss Coates's Poems. view, the best work of Count Tolstoy, rich as - Shields's The Reformer of Geneva. - Griffith's Trialogues. - Hall's When Love Laughs. — Shoe- it is in experience, in sympathy, in psycholog- maker's La Santa Yerba. ical truth and noble idealism, seems rude in BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS. 136 comparison with those masterpieces. The gen- A current estimate of Scott. Loose estimates of erous dying message of the elder novelist, en- French writers. - This summer's golf-book. -Glad- stone, the Man and the Publicist.–England's frontier joining the “great writer of our Russian land” warfare. - Sketches of old English life and manners. to return to his literary labors, must not blind us - The mistakes and miseries of war.- Franklin as a to the fact that an even greater writer sent the man of energy. message as he neared the close of his own career. BRIEFER MENTION . 139 LA As all the world knows, the plea was unheeded by its recipient; for the same year (1877) had LITERARY NOTES 139 marked the completion of both Tourguénieff's TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS. 140 Virgin Soil” and Count Tolstoy's “Anna LIST OF NEW BOOKS 140 Karénina,” – that is, of the last significant . • 130 . - - - . . . . - . 122 [Sept. 1, THE DIAL artistic production of each of the two great back upon a brilliant past, and determined writers concerned. The younger man refused henceforth to devote himself to the preaching to carry on the torch that was offered to his of ethical truth, and the betterment, by effective hand, seeking instead lights that seemed to him practical example, of his fellow-men. In the more trustworthy, but that were destined to case of Mr. Ruskin, as in that of Count Tolstoy, lead his steps far astray into the morasses of there was the same fervor of conviction, the mysticism. We trust that this expression may same prophetic fire, the same iconoclastic zeal, not seem too harsh to those of his disciples and, we are regretfully constrained to add, the whose lives have been lifted to a higher ethical same essential futility of the means by which plane by the example of his great renunciation ; the regeneration of society was to be accom- but we believe that art, with its implicit teach- plished. Neither the road-making of the one ing, acts more effectively upon conduct, in the nor the shoe-cobbling of the other could cause long run, than do any of the devices of formal more than a ripple upon the social waters that didacticism. needed to be so deeply stirred, and in both Discerning readers of “Anna Karenina” cases there was inculcated the false notion that could hardly escape the signs of a crisis in the because the simplest things are worth doing life of its author. While a very deep sort of well the rarest powers of genius are best em- penetrative insight was displayed in the delin- ployed in showing how these simple things eation of most of the characters of the novel, should be done. It is the earlier and not the , that of Levine — the most important ethically, later work of both men that will have the saner although not the most brilliant - seemed to and more enduring influence, because, while no exhibit a more complete sincerity than the less fine in spirit than the later work, it is also others; and it was evident that the story of his done upon the terms of art and is allied with restlessness, his perplexity, and his provisional the everlasting power of beauty. There is, solution of the difficult problem of existence, indeed, something almost blasphemous in the must be taken in some sense as the author's words with which both these men speak of the own spiritual autobiography. Levine's last great work of their earlier life, - in the lan- words are extremely significant. guage with which Mr. Ruskin scornfully char- “I shall probably continue to get out of temper with acterizes as “fine writing” those pages of his my coachman, to go into useless arguments, to air my own that first gave to so many readers the vis. ideas unseasonably. I shall always feel a barrier be- ion of the world of natural beauty, in the vehe- tween the sanctuary of my soul and the soul of other people, even that of my wife; I sball always be holding mence with which Count Tolstoy, in the very her responsible for my annoyances, and feeling sorry latest of his books, rejects the ministry of the for it directly afterwards. I shall continue to pray divinest forms of art that the ages have be- without being able to explain to myself why I pray; but queathed to us. my inner life has won its liberty; it will no longer be at the mercy of events, and every minute of my existence But, in spite of himself, and in spite of his will have a meaning sure and profound which it will be own condemnation of the work done by him in in my power to impress on every single one of my ac- the days that he now looks back upon as unre- tions, that of being good.” generate, Count Tolstoy has won a high place In giving these words to the character whose among the great writers of the nineteenth cen- inner life most clearly reflected his own, the tury, and won it by that work which now, en- author made only too evident the preoccupations gaged as he is in a futile religious and social that were even then absorbing the greater share propaganda, seems to his perverted vision so of his intellectual energies, and it was as a comparatively unimportant. When his living natural consequence of this state of mind that personality shall have passed from the view of he set about the production of that remarkable men, when his tracts and his parables and his series of religious writings — studies in applied religious polemics shall have taken their place socialism and simplified Christianity — that in the intellectual lumber-room which contains have been put forth during the past score of the vagaries of great souls gone astray, when years, and have attracted a wider, if less dis- his autobiographical writings shall be valued criminating, attention than was ever at the only as curious revelations of a mind out of command of his books that really belonged to joint, he will be remembered and admired and literature. extolled as the author of War and Peace," It was at the same age, and under similar that epic of the Russian people in the most conditions of mental and emotional stress, that tragic hour of its consciousness ; of “ Anna the greatest of living Englishmen turned his | Karénina,” that sincere and poignant portrayal 1898.] 123 THE DIAL. - of a group of intensely human souls ; by the consistent, must be instantaneously, rather than slighter and earlier sketches of the Crimean laboriously, creative. Even in the early part of the War and the Cossacks and the Caucasus that present century, it was the effort of the approving exhibit in some respects a finer art than the biographer to maintain that what his subject did he two colossal productions by which he is best not only did well but did rapidly. Bis dat qui cito dat was then a motto of universal acceptance. known. Recognition of the defects of these O'Connell's definition of oratory, as the faculty of works will, in the long run, be fairly balanced thinking on one's legs, is in the same vein. This by recognition of their power and their insight, cultus of the off-hand and inspirational naturally and upon the world-wide fame that they have had its dissenters; hard-headed, practical observers, won during the last ten or twelve years will who with half-closed eyes would remind the tyro be set the seal of the approving judgment of that there is “no excellence without great labor,”. posterity. Men will smile at the color-blindness or, more briefly still, that "easy writing is dd “ of his æsthetic writings, and at the pathetic hard reading." Still , youthful enthusiasm, even in lack of the historical sense so characteristic of a biographer, was not to be denied ; and the minds his social and religious philosopby, but they de Vega wrote one of his thousand plays in a single of our ancestors were fed with tales of how Lope will have only respect and wonder for his forenoon, and was found watering his flowers at achievements during the years before he set midday, declaring that this last exertion had tired about the hopeless task of reforming the world. him considerably! (This on the word of Prescott.) Even in the least permanently valuable work In earlier days, swift workmanship was part and of so masterful a spirit there is, however, matter parcel of the poet's equipment. Hence we are for reflection; and a uniform English edition, gravely told, on the highest authority, that Byron by competent translators, of the entire writings wrote “ The Corsair" at ten sittings, the entire time of Count Tolstoy, would be a desirable under- scarce occupying three weeks. Of like marvellous taking for some enterprising publisher. Al- celerity was the writing of "The Siege of Corinth," achieved while dressing for a ball. Of “ The Bride though most of his books have been put into English, the translations make a heterogeneous the poet wrote it in a single night, without once of Abydos,” disinterested biographers declared that collection, both in appearance and efficiency; mending his pen ; and, in proof thereof, that same their mechanical form at present too often un-mended pen was placed on exhibition in a glass arouses distaste, and their execution as trans- case, among other curios! Macaulay, to whom we lations too often excites the suspicion that ideas are indebted for these instances, goes on to remark have been inaccurately reproduced or omitted that swiftness of execution, while it by no means altogether. It would be very fortunate if the furnishes an excuse for that which is done badly, complete works of Count Tolstoy were made does certainly give an added interest to a master- accessible in an English form above reproach piece. When men attain notoriety, the public rushes to as to their external parts, and deserving of full confirm that notoriety. Tales of the marvellous in confidence as to their translation. illustration of the favorite's prowess pour in from every source; some from pure love of the subject, but most from absolute love of the marvellous for its own sake. Byron is only one of numerous instances TIME-GUAGE IN LETTERS. in which the assumption of a miraculous gift of speed was used to quicken interest in an author's Homer's Chapman (to reverse the phrase of Keats) work. In France the same influence was at work takes occasion, at the close of the Twelfth Book of at the same period, and it probably reached its acme the Odyssey, to remark, in the tongue most familiar in the stories of the wonderful fecundity of Alex- to him, Opus novem dierum. This comment we are ander Dumas. Not until suit was brought against to understand as a mild and justifiable boast of good the author of “Monte Cristo” by various real or work done quickly. The Elizabethan period, to pretended collaborators, did the public awake to which the author just cited belonged, has long been the fact of Dumas's composite authorship. It then accepted as the epoch of greatest mental activity became notorious that he kept a corps of authors to known to English literature. Yet throughout that work out his ideas. Thus, the author gained in rep- period, the affectation on the part of writers (ifutation for astuteness, for business sagacity - but affectation there were) was that of inspiration rather the marvel was no more. than of plodding - as though their motto had been This fad of superhuman velocity has had its reac- Currente Calamo. tion. Now-a-days, almost all interviews with cele- Of course, to primitive people there is something brated authors chronicle the fact that their subjects fascinating in the very fact of improvisation; to are hard-working men! In dealing with the latest them, in every man of genius not only is there an production of that most sensational and voluminous eye in a fine frenzy rolling, but the genius, to be of our authors, Mr. Hall Caine, publishers and " 124 [Sept. 1, THE DIAL of reviewers proclaimed not only the years of labor hours consumed in this discovery. Captain Barclay, which the work had consumed, but the fact that who walked one thousand miles in one thousand before being committed to the press the author had hours, thereby striding into immortality, did a less wholly rewritten the book, with painstaking correc- ignominious thing than did our scientist, when he tions and amendments. Had the fashion of Byron’s invented against time. day still prevailed, Mr. Hall Caine is just the man The powers that come direct from Heaven, and to have written the whole of it, under oath, in forty- cost us nothing, are alluded to as “gifts.” The eight hours ! word is a favorite one with Natty Bumpo, and (to The prefaces of works published half a century bring together extremes) we may also recall that ago almost always referred to the difficulties en- the great British orator, Edmund Burke, when he countered in their production by the author. Other wishes to offer the highest praise of chivalry, speaks avocations, political necessity, and even bereave- of its possession as the "unbought grace of life.” ment, were frequently cited as compelling a brief Is it from a commercial sense of equivalents that desultory period of industry, - as when Arthur our eulogists of labor value a work for what it has apologizes for his “Successful Merchant,” its short- cost in effort? But why should we rate the gifts of comings, even its etiology, by affirming a season of the gods as negotiable treasure? long involuntary leisure.” When Thomas Moore, S. R. ELLIOTT. in his preface to “ Lalla Rookh,” observed that in justice to his own industry he felt obliged to men- tion the long and laborious reading he undertook to CAPRICE OF THE MUSES. secure the necessary local color, the critics con- temptuously remarked that the poet had better keep Of old the Muses sat on high, such details to himself! Nowadays, the author's And heard and judged the songs of men; preface will usually give assurance of conscientious On one they smiled, who loitered by: toil in which no pains have been neglected to achieve Of toiling ten, they slighted ten. the requisite accuracy and finish. The minutiæ of “ They lightly serve who serve us best, the workshop are unflinchingly set forth in maga- Nor know they how the task was done; zines, often accompanied by pictures wherein the au- We Muses love a soul at rest, thors are represented as hard at work: Mr. Howells But violence and toil we shun.” glued to a desk driving his pen-with great redund- If men say true, the Muses now ancy of cuff; Mr. Barry, in brown study, stands Have changed their ancient habitude, with his hands in his pockets ; while Mr. Kipling And would be served with knitted brow, stares superciliously at us through the largest spec- And stress and toil each day renewed. tacles that ever ornamented presbyopic genius. So each one with the other vies, The author of former days said, in effect : "Look Of those who weave romance or song: at me. I pour forth my rhapsodies, from “On us, O Muse, bestow the prize, inspiration. And this is genius." The author of For we have striven well and long!” the present day seems to say (with an eye on the other): “Look at me. And yet methinks I hear the hest I pretend to no unusual Come murmuring down from Helicon: powers. To me, as to Lord Bacon, Genius is pa- “ They lightly serve who serve us best, tience; or, as another has put it, the art of taking Nor know they how the task was done!” pains.” Of these two extreme methods as regulated EDITH M. THOMAS. by the time-gauge, one is the affectation of aristoc- racy in letters ; the other is the claim of affiliation with the proletarian order. Fortunately, we are not compelled to the adoption of either method; but if COMMUNICATIONS. we were, our choice would light upon the man who trusts to results, does not make us partners of his THE POETRY OF THE CUBAN WAR. toil by a wearisome recital of past labors. The (To the Editor of THE DIAL.) "get-there stroke” of a winning though much de- I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt, through your rided crew suffices, be the time long or short. kindness, of the new battle-song by Mr. E. S. Willcox, A student displayed a thesis he had just finished, entitled “I Hear Afar the Rolling Drum,” sent pre- observing, " That ought to be good, for it cost me sumably by its author or publisher as a courteous but trouble enough!” Does not the remark embody the crushing rejoinder to my complaint (THE DIAL, Aug. 16) sentiment of those who would apotheosize literary of the lack of good Cuban-War poetry. Mr. Willcox's toil for its own sake? A further instance: An emi- production, though not perhaps of a sort to greatly up- nent scientific man, Marshall Hall, who enriched lift the soul, or to send a man rejoicing to the cannon's the world of physics by the notable discovery of mouth, is still fairly well rhymed and tuneful; and I shall certainly sing it myself and recommend it to my reflex action, did what he could to destroy some of friends. But I do not think it forms in itself a suffi- the fine dramatic effect of his work; for when he cient answer to the charge that the poets of America did fell beneath the blandishments of the interviewer, not rise to the occasion furnished by the late war. Some at last, he stated numerically the exact number of sparks of true lyric fire struck from the soul, say, of pure : > 9) 1898.] 125 THE DIAL a Mr. Stedman or Mr. Gilder, or even Mr. “Ironquill,” might reasonably have been expected. Certainly had Mr. Whittier been with us such deeds as Hobson's would not have gone unsung. It is argned that the war with Spain was not, like our Civil War, one sanctified by principle, but that it was a mere fight (dare I say "scrap”?) forced on the government by a morbid pop- ular craving for excitement; and that therefore our poets were not likely to find much inspiration in it. But the plea is hardly a valid one. Whatever one may think of the war with Spain in its origin, or as a whole, it undeniably had its episodes of heroism as fine as ever fired the soul of bard. Even Professor Norton must have felt at times like “dropping into poetry.” Then turn to the Crimean War - one which few humane and intelligent Englishmen favored at the time, and which no Englishman not a Jingo and a rabid Russophobe pre- tends to justify now. It was certainly not a war “sanc- tified by principle”; but it evoked the “Charge of the Light Brigade.” In reply to the statement in the press cutting you send me, that I either do not “read the newspapers or else have “set my poetry-gauge too high,” permit me to say that I do, of sad necessity, read (or skim) the newspapers regularly -- cords of them; and it was in the course of this pursuit that I was struck by the fact deplored in my first letter. As to “setting my poetry-gauge too high ” for the occasion, I may safely leave that question to readers of The Dial. At all events, if the late war evoked one poem as good, or half as good, as ( Barbara Frietche,” even, or one song as stirring as “ Marching Through Georgia," I have cer- tainly failed to see the one and to hear the other. W. R. K. Pittsfield, Mass., August 25, 1898. " but it seems to me to have a rude thrill in it, which is the great test of merit in productions of its class. The first stanza has in it a ring of Thomas Gray (vide“ The Bard”). JOSEPH P. PERKINS. Penobscott, Me., Aug. 21, 1898. [Without disparaging the poetic quality of our correspondent's sample stanzas, we may say that the strain is not just the one we would choose to march to death to, and something more will be needed to close the case in favor of the war-poets. — Editor THE DIAL] THE FOREIGN-LANGUAGE SCHOOL IN JAPAN. (To the Editor of THE DIAL.) I have already referred in your columns to the estab- lishment of a Foreign Language School in Tokyo for the purpose of advancing post-graduate study in certain foreign languages. The first year's work of this insti- tution has been very successful; and the prospects for its second year are most encouraging. Instruction has been given in seven foreign languages-English, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Chinese, and Korean. Each of these languages has not only a capable Japanese teacher of translation and grammar, but also a native teacher of conversation and composition. The director of this school is Naibu Kanda, a graduate of Amberst College in the class of '78 and now a prominent educator of this Empire. The principal Japanese teacher of English is Eiji Asada, who is a graduate of the Northwestern Uni- versity ('91), and also has the honor of having received the first degree (Ph.D.) granted by the (new) University of Chicago. If the other Japanese teachers are as well qualified as these two, the school is well equipped. I am informed that the faculty meetings of this school are very interesting, not only because they are cosmo- politan but also because they are rather Babel-like. The German understands no language except his own; the Korean is in the same condition; the Chinese under- stands only English, and the Frenchman only German; the Englishman understands French and a little German; the Spaniard understands French and English; while the Russian, the best scholar of all, understands French, German, and a little English. Each Japanese teacher generally understands only the one language which he is teaching. Hence, there is no common language, although French is said to be the most widely under- stood, with English and German next. An interesting story is told of the call which the director of this school made upon the German imme- diately after the arrival of the latter in Tokyo. Mr. Kanda could not use German, and tried both English and French in vain, but finally managed to make some communication by writing Latin! This foreign Language School is organically con- nected with the Higher Commercial School, which also boasts a very flourishing English-speaking Society. The annual exhibition of this society has just been held, and passed off very successfully. The native pupils ren- dered popular English songs, even negro melodies; gave recitations from Shakespeare, Dickens, Hood, Long- fellow, Webster, and Mark Twain; with an original debate in English, which was especially good. These things serve to illustrate the remarkable progress that has been made in a nation which fifty years ago was closed to the rest of the world. ERNEST W. CLEMENT. Tokyo, Aug. 8, 1898. a AN AFFRONT TO AMERICAN POETS. (To the Editor of THE DIAL.) It was with surprise as well as indignation that I read in your valued journal of last issue the querulous com- plaint of a correspondent who signs himself «W.R. K.," that the recent war has “evoked no poetry worth men- tioning.” “W.R. K." appears to be one of those book- ish and supercilious persons who wilfully ignore or belittle (for reasons best known to themselves) the sur- prising amount of really good poetical work done in our daily papers. Now I am glad to say I have seen some splendid and stirring poems on Cuban War subjects in the papers during the summer, and I have carefully preserved them. Two stanzas from one of these (enti- tled “ Maine To Her Sons") I subjoin, hoping they may meet the eye, and perhaps the approval, of “ W. R. K.": “Hark! o'er Katahdin's craggy head Columbia's eagle fiercely screams, And swift athwart the darkling sky (Like tail of comet hurtling by) His plumage proudly streams Aux Armes ! "Arise! Arise ! ye sons of sires Who distaff left to him who runs : None but the dastard stops to choose, So, heroes, stiffen up your thews, And limber up your guns — Aux Armes !" I shall not say here who wrote the above verses; but they appeared in a well-known Maine journal, a copy of which is at your service, should you care to print the poem entire — nine stanzas. Perhaps this “ war poem may not come up to “ W. R. K.'s" exalted standards; 126 [Sept. 1, THE DIAL and lo! of a sudden the name of our friends The New Books. oversea is legion. Foreign powers that, so long as the issue of our quarrel with Spain was com- GENERAL MILES IN EUROPE.* paratively doubtful, were cool toward us and In the summer of 1897, as will be remem- even hostile, now tender us the hand of amity, bered, General Nelson A. Miles, the Alcibiades and are not above assuring us confidentially and Commander-in-Chief of our now victorious that, though appearances were to the contrary, army, went abroad in a semi-official way mainly it was all along “ Codlin that was the friend, not Short." with the purpose of observing the Greco- Turkish war then in progress. The war ending But we are forgetting General Miles. Leav- shortly, he was called to London to represent ing Washington on May 4, 1897, he visited in us at the Queen's Jubilee, whence he crossed turn Constantinople, Athens, Lamia, where the over again to the Continent to attend the autumn contending armies were then facing each other, military manævres. We were all pleased at the London, St. Petersburg, Peterhof, where he time over General Miles's appointments, for we conversed with the Czar, Krasnoe-Selo for the felt that he was precisely the man who would Russian maneuvres, Berlin, Essen at Krupp's invitation, Homburg for the German, and St. appear well where appearances count for so much, and we reflected with secret satisfaction Quentin for the French, manæuvres. General that no matter how gorgeous the “ function” Miles was highly impressed with the good or how fine the assemblage at which he might qualities of the Turkish soldiers, finding them be officially called upon to assist, his figure and among the most effective in the world,” a fact equipment could not fail to win the approval of for which there are several reasons. First, the the critical . It is gratifying to learn now, from Turks are a strong race, used to hard labor, his lively and entertaining book, “ Military and hence are good raw material physically; Europe,” that the General not only had a pleas- secondly, their religion inculcates obedience, ant and profitable time while abroad, but also enforces simple and temperate habits, and guar- that he was received in high places everywhere antees immediate entry into the joys of a very with the consideration due to his exterior and conceivable paradise to the believer who dies in credentials. battle. The term of service, too, required in The question, however, here naturally arises Turkey is long (twenty years), and a great whether, in case General Miles should revisit deal of that service during the past century has Europe officially in the near future, the “con- been active. In fact, the Turk is now seen to sideration” with which he was received last be, in respect of his army at any rate, by no summer would not ripen into something a good leave of his neighbors and his estate. General means the Sick Man of Europe about to take deal more effusive, now that this country has shown that it can fight as well as trade, and has Miles formed a high opinion of the Turkish thereby signally upset a once current theory commanders, notably of Osman Pasha, who that, in the kind words of Mr. Kipling, America reminded him strongly of Grant: was a mere “ big, fat republic” wallowing in “He is a man about sixty-six years old, well built, of medium height, strong in physique, and intellectually dollars, and as easy a prey as China to the first the peer of any of the field-marshals I subsequently met European power (Spain not excepted) that in Europe. . . . In referring to the success of the army, might see fit to attack it. To the friend of true the rapidity with which it had been mobilized, and the progress it is saddening to note the signs (man- universal success in the series of battles just ended be- ifest, for instance, in the changed status of tween the Turks and Greeks, he made a significant remark. Persistency,' he said, “is the great secret of Japan, in the rehabilitation of Turkey, and in success in war. If an army is not successful one day, the new regard, since Majuba Hill and the de- tenacity of purpose and persistency will in the end bring feat of Jameson, for the rights of the little Boer victory. This was very characteristic of the man who republic) that, after all, Ability to Fight is the commanded the government forces in the latter part of our great civil war." one virtue that commands substantial and un- General Miles had an audience of the Sultan equivocal respect in Europe. Our own present case seems to be also one in point. We have in the Imperial Palace, where he was cordially unexpectedly beaten Spain with an ease and received by the Great Assassin, who led the conversation at once toward military topics: swiftness that would be comic were it not for the tragic plight and the bravery of the vanquished; and was thoroughly posted on the equipment of armies, “ He manifested great interest in military matters, * MILITARY EUROPE. By General Nelson A. Miles. Illus- the use and effect of modern appliances of war, the use trated. New York: Doubleday & McClure Co. of heavy machinery in the movements of the heaviest rue the 1898.] 127 THE DIAL high-power guns, as well as the most intricate mechan- General Miles's account of the military man. ism of small arms, and the use and effect of smokeless cuvres is interesting, and carries the weight of powder and high explosives. His small stature, sharp, dark eyes, prominent nose, of the Roman type, full expert opinion. He tactfully steers clear of beard, were not unlike the marked characteristics that odious comparisons of armies that, rivals in I have noticed in some men of our country.” point of efficiency and preparedness to-day, Arrived at Athens, General Miles found a may possibly be rivals on the battle-field to- very different state of affairs from that prevail- morrow. The Russian review at Krasnoe-Selo ing at the capital of the victorious Turks : he considers one of the finest military displays “ I came to a city exposed on every hand, deficient in he ever witnessed. Russian officers are 6 skilled military resources, its government dejected by defeat, and accomplished," and their men are “ well its people dissatisfied with their rulers and divided in disciplined and well-armed": their opinion of what had been done, or what course “ The Russian army is, I think, capable of greater should be pursued in the future. ... Many were defi- endurance in the field than any other in Europe. The ant, and loudly argued for fighting to the bitter end; others were hoping for an interposition of the powers, infantry and artillery are composed of strong, hardy men, and the cavalry are unexcelled. The Cossacks which, if it left their country humbled, still would pre- vent the Turks from appropriating it altogether." constitute perhaps the best of the mounted troops." The officers of the Greek army seemed to The author was much interested, while watch- General Miles to be an intelligent, patriotic ing the combats at the German manœuvres , in body of men, though then naturally much de- the effect of the smokeless powder : “One heard the sound of cannon and the rattle of pressed at the result of the campaign. The musketry, but saw nothing until the troops advanced or soldiers had endured hardship and disaster with retreated across the country within his line of vision. fortitude, but were greatly disheartened, their Thus one formerly valuable means of judging of the only hope being that something might occur to whereabouts of an enemy and of the progress of a battle end hostilities. There was a great want of is taken from a commanding officer by the use of smoke- less powder.” proper equipment and supplies, and the army General Miles, as we all know, was to have was badly demoralized, both by the lack of food and shelter, and by the presence of a multitude a better opportunity of judging of the value of of refugees, numbering 50,000 perhaps, who smokeless powder later on ; and he now doubt- had abandoned their homes carrying with them less coincides fully with Colonel Roosevelt’s what little of their scant belongings they could opinion in that matter — as well as in certain transport upon their backs, in carts, and upon other views of the plain-spoken Rough Rider's of a like general tenor and bearing. Black a few pack-animals. Clearly, the Greek army was doomed to certain disaster in the event of powder and Springfield rifles are now, we trust, , rated with “ Brown Bess” muskets and flint further fighting; and the Turk, reeking from his Armenian exploits, had won a new lease of locks, so far as our troops are concerned. General Miles was favorably impressed, as political life in Christian Europe. The author's account of the Jubilee is graphic, French troops; but his cautious estimates afford may be supposed, by both the German and but he tells us little that is new now in the his- little clew as to which of the two armies he tory of that splendid pageant which lent so powerful an impulse to the growing spirit of would pick for the winner should hostilities "Imperialism ” in Europe. Not since the days again break out. To the Italian army he pays of Rome had the beck of a single sceptre iceably and tastefully uniformed than most a the compliment of saying that it is more serv- brought together figuratively at an Imperial troops, and that, although it has seen some re- capital so imposing and motley an array of trib- utary peoples. The spectacle was not lost on verses of late, it is now “ in a very high order Russia, Germany, and France. General Miles of discipline, instruction, and equipment, and makes a creditable showing." attended the great naval review off Spithead, where, he notes, “ In the line of foreign vessels “During my stay in Rome there was a review by the King of Italy, accompanied by the King of Siam, of was a single warship of the United States, the some 12,000 of the best Italian troops. It would be • Brooklyn.' She was the only vessel in the hard to excel this body in uniform, military appearance, line painted white, and the irreverent tars called and general excellence of condition.” her the cement factory.'” Spain, we remem- General Miles's book, while its magazine ber, was represented by the “ Vizcaya,” a for- origin is evident throughout, is informing on midable looking craft that easily outranked in military matters, and will prove pleasant and foreign eyes the untried representative of our profitable reading. There are a number of “ brand new dollar navy.” But times change. I good illustrations. . E. G. J. - a 6 و و 128 [Sept. 1, THE DIAL were apt to find it difficult. Mr. Chapman's essay CHIPS FROM A CRITIC'S SHOULDER.* ought to put them in the right way; and this A distinguished writer for Literature," not is proof of its excellence in another direction, long ago, endeavored, in his own charming way, a direction in which Mr. Chapman was prob- to conceal from his readers the idea that there ably aiming, unconscious of the particular use was at present an opportunity in American let- which I have suggested. Mr. Chapman's idea ters for a critic. I do not know just how I was to show what had actually been the rela- managed to catch his idea myself ; possibly I tion of Browning to the middle of the nineteenth jumped at it because something of the sort had century. He is a critic who studies the fact crossed my own mind. What Mr. James with disinterestedness, not a diffuser of popular thinks of the already established authors of the culture. Still, if Mr. Chapman has arranged dozen or two volumes of essays on literary sub- the standpoint so that approachers of Browning jects which have appeared in the last twelve see everything in right perspective, it is prob- months or so, he does not say. It does not able that he has clearly in mind the way the seem to me that they occupy, certainly they do thing really was to contemporaries. So I ad- not fill up, that “room at the top” in which mire the essay on Browning, although it does the critic mentioned shall sit and consider the not say much of one element in Browning's works of the world beneath. I have wondered work which interests some people, — namely, why so few of them really fired the mind. the " literary side.” Mr. Chapman considers For these reasons, I turned to Mr. Chapman's the philosophical and historical aspects, and volume of essays with a feeling that here, per- also the diction and metre; and as these are haps, might be found the man who was sought. the things which are of interest to most people, Mr. James suggested the question, but left it he does well. I have an interest in the fact open. Certainly we have in these essays more that we have in Browning, as in any author, serious work than usually appears in such collec-life, emotion, passion, taking literary forms, tions,—serious, not thereby dull and tedious, but and in the circumstances attending metamor- worth considering. I should like to consider phoses. But these things do not occupy Mr. them all if there space. But the essays on Chapman's attention very much : I imagine he Emerson and Whitman had already been more thinks them rather trivial. or less discussed before the book was published ; The essay on Stevenson, like that on Brown- so that there will be reason enough for speaking ing, is an explanation of the nature of the man only of the essays on Browning and Stevenson. and of his “ relation to his time," or, practically, Of these, the first seems to me admirable. what he really has in him that is worth while. It takes rather a simple but a perfectly main- Here I cannot feel that Mr. Chapman repeats tainable view, and keeps it before the reader his success. It seems to me that he offers a clearly and well. It is a view which will open facile explanation born rather from his own Browning up to a good many people. To mind than from any especial knowledge of Browningites it may not bring much, not Stevenson's work. He thinks that Stevenson even pleasure. But not every body has read was devoted to Art, that he thought that the Browning yet; there are a good many who are way to write with art was to write as other only now beginning the experience. Mr. Chap- great men had written, that he therefore imi- man says that the great mass of Browning will tated all sorts of people, and that the things in future be rediscovered by “ belated sufferers written in this way looked so much like real from the philosophy of the nineteenth century.” literary things that people who did not know I imagine that there are large numbers of these any better were quite taken in by them. He belated sufferers now-a-days,—there are always thinks that Americans were well pleased with many such, — people in this case who are just Stevenson's stories and things, and were fas- awakening to the dangerous opinions of Renan cinated to see that what they liked had the and Strauss, are just becoming conscious of the characteristics which reminded them of stand- hypotheses of Darwin and Spencer, who have ard authors, and therefore seemed literary. lately been introduced to the paintings of Hence America urged Stevenson to write Burne-Jones, and the music of Wagner, and twenty thousand dollars' worth a year, and the writings of Ruskin. These people have to praised him to the skies. praised him to the skies. This process Mr. accommodate Browning somehow, and they are Chapman sums up under the genial epigram, EMERSON, AND OTHER Essays. By John Jay Chapman. " It is Chicago making culture hum." New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. It must be said at once that there may have - 1898.] 129 THE DIAL been something of this, though I cannot say is good should find in Stevenson anything worth that I think there was much. But, further, I while. suppose it must occur to most people that it is The things that I have said about these two rather a curious assumption that what the essays might also be said of the essays on American people as a whole recognized and Emerson and Whitman. That on Emerson is liked in Stevenson was style, and also that as good as the Browning essay, or even better, there could not have been anything else in his and in the same way, with the addition that work which the American people as a whole Emerson really was primarily a social force as (those crude, half-baked, distressing yearners Mr. Chapman considers him, whereas Brown- for culture) really did like, and perhaps with ing was primarily a poet. The essay on Whit- out recognizing it. Of course there were and man, however, is as wrong as the essay on are those who are always talking of style and Stevenson, and in just the same way, too; it Stevenson,— but I would bet a large apple that does not mention the main point, but devotes about nine-tenths of those who delight in Stev- itself to exaggeration of minor matters. The enson have no suspicion that he “ has style," reason for this rather peculiar matter is inter- and would regard it as a blemish if the notion esting. It lies partly in a circumstance and occurred to them. And on the other hand, partly in a characteristic of Mr. Chapman. where there is a perfectly obvious characteristic The Emerson and Browning cults are now of Stevenson, a thing peculiarly delightful to accepted : they are no longer annoying. It is the present time and peculiarly adapted to gain a matter of course that people will read Emer- affection and popularity, it seems curious not son and Browning if they want : nobody is sur- to mention it. prised any more than they are nowadays at As to the matter of style, I cannot say enough people smoking, or eating tomatoes. But the just here to present all the difficulties that I Whitman cult and the Stevenson cult are not seem to see in Mr. Chapman's work. I must accepted; they are still on the offensive, so far content myself with noting that I think he does as they are cults at all. The great bulk of not at all understand the attitude of a writer the reading public, which is satisfied to have to what he writes, nor the attitude of Stevenson Emerson and Browning classics, is also sat- to what he wrote; and also I cannot feel that isfied to leave Whitman unread and to regard he has any particular acquaintance with the Stevenson as a pleasant story-teller. So those way Stevenson did write. I mean he does not devoted to these writers must speak up. This seem to have read his books carefully with a they occasionally do in public or in private, view to style style – a matter which is of slight - but not very much, to tell the truth, and interest to him. certainly not enough to annoy seriously a nor. If I am right here, it is necessary that Mr. mal temper. Chapman should be wrong; and he does not One of Mr. Chapman's characteristics, how- get on better by misrepresenting various things, ever, seems to be that he is annoyed at such through negligence or what not. It would be things. He hates to have people blundering uninteresting to go over minor errors, but of round and saying foolish things about literature, , course a number of confident assertions of even in an unobtrusive manner; and so he be- things that are not so, even if they be not im- comes enraged with the Whitmaniacs and the portant, does much to weaken one's confidence Stevensonians. These two essays are really a in the foundation of a critic's views. little behind the times : as controversial docu- But not only is Mr. Chapman often wrong ments they are good ; as critical judgments, as to what he regards as the fact, but also he failures. Mr. Chapman is like Mr. Saunders neglects what seems to me the real reason why in “The New Republic,” who was crazy to people did like Stevenson, — the real thing shatter a faith no longer held by the company characteristic of the man and the time, which in which he found himself. in the case of Browning Mr. Chapman did get. This may seem a trivial thing to mention. If this were an essay on Stevenson, I would go It is really the most important thing to note into this matter in detail ; but as it is really about Mr. Chapman as a critic. Mr. Chapman about Mr. Chapman I must be content to say is too apt to be irritated at current popular that in this essay he has seized, distorted, and opinion and feeling, contemptuous of it, unsym- exaggerated a detail, and not mentioned the pathetic, uncomprehending. He is quite willing main point at all. He has not shown any espe- to utter the truth, and to have people take it or cial reason why people who really know what I leave it. But as for any real human interest : 130 (Sept. 1, THE DIAL - 1 in the people he is writing for, he has not a Huguenot and Catholic fought and plotted for cent's worth. He cannot think of the Amer- the supremacy ; when Terror was already, as in ican literary public with interest, or even with 1793, “ the order of the day"; and when, if equanimity; he cannot speak of it without ever, a man's foes were they of his own house- cold sarcasm. hold. It was this sixteenth century, with its Now all this is probably well enough. The Charles IX. and its Henri IV., its St. Bartholo- American people — Chicago making culture mew and its Edict of Nantes, that produced the hum, magazine editors ordering new Pulvis et three characters whom Mr. MacDowall has so Umbras, mill-hands and so on reading Long- brightly and so darkly set before us. fellow, the general reading public which kills His account of the Guise family, their tra- Poe and creates Bryant (to use Mr. Chapman's ditions, ambitions, and achievements, follows epigrams)— is rarely much influenced by such well-known historical lines, and is generally attitudes ; it is too apt to go on its way, often free from prepossessions and polemics. He without knowing that it is scorned. Mr. Chap- recognizes in Henry of Guise a master-spirit of man's way is probably not a good way to influ- his time, noble with its nobleness of soul, cruel ence America ; nor for himself, in the long run with its cruelty, superior in strength of char. at least, is the result likely to be good. In the acter to all his friends and most of his foes. first place, with his lack of feeling for his coun- The murder of Coligny is described at some trymen he will probably fail ever to say much length, as befits that bloody prelude to the that is important to them; and in the second, St. Bartholomew. We hear Guise's impatient with his own disposition he will often be irri- question to the assassin, “ Is it done?” — and tated by harmless fallacies or fancies into when, sixteen years later, Guise met from a ebullitions which will send him a long distance faithless king the same fate he had prepared from the right road. for the great Admiral, we are ready, with Mr. Still, it will be thought by no one that such MacDowall, to recognize that poetic justice was an element in a man's work is ineradicable. wrought. “ The King, hearing the sound of the It may be or may not be a permanent factor. fall, came fearfully to the door of the cabinet Mr. Chapman, as everyone is aware by this and looked out from under the curtain. Is it time, bas enough power to carry a good deal done ?” he asked ; and if the Duke's fine ear of weight. As has been often enough said, he w . were not yet deaf to every mortal sound, he is delicate, keen, strong, clever, and full of surely must have caught that faint, awful echo courage. The disposition which I have noted of his own voice, floating to him across the . may render a good deal of his work of slight space of sixteen troubled years." effect; on the other hand, he may find out how On the vexed question whether the St. Bar- to use it to good purpose, to make it telling. tholomew was a crime of impulse or premedi- Certainly for the time being, it makes his essays tation, Mr. MacDowall briefly states, without rather more amusing to people who do not get arguing, his own view, namely, that the mas- vexed at them. sacre was a desperate and sudden resolve of EDWARD E. HALE, JR. Catherine de' Medici, occasioned by the failure of the first attempt to kill Coligny. Guise's unexpected holding aloof from the massacre and his rescue of many Huguenots are attrib- THREE CHARACTERS FROM FRENCH uted by his biographer to primary motives of HISTORY.* humanity. Henry of Guise was naturally Mr. H. C. MacDowall's volume of biograph- as kindly as his father, and in a cruel age no ical essays presents portrait-studies of the great act of cold blooded cruelty is proved against Duke of Guise, Agrippa d'Aubigné, and Cath- him, either before or after the St. Barthol- erine of Navarre. The first of the three studies omew. In any case, the fact remains that when is the most elaborate, occupying more than half every way of escape was closed to the Hugue- of the volume; the last is little more than an nots, the doors of Guise's house stood open to episode. them." The dark and troublous centuries of French To Agrippa d'Aubigné, the soldier-poet, the history after St. Louis reached their romantic, devoted adherent of Henry of Navarre, the if not their political, climax in the days when grandfather of Mme. de Maintenon, are given about a hundred pages of graphic narrative, in *HENRY OF GUISE, and Other Portraits. By H. C. Mac- Dowall. New York: The Macmillan Co. which, as was inevitable, the complex character AMA . 1898.] 131 THE DIAL > a > of the King of Navarre receives about as much AN AUTHORITATIVE BOOK ON MEXICO.* attention as is bestowed upon the titular subject of the essay. In Henry's fascinating person- Senor Matias Romero, the author of “ Notes ality the chief defect was careless ingratitude on Mexico," is the Minister from Mexico to the toward the men who had given their lives and United States. Twice a cabinet member in his fortunes to his cause; his motto, " Je veux tout own country, he is thoroughly informed in re- pardonner, tout oublier," was bitterly inter- gard to Mexican affairs. The first part of the preted to mean that he forgave his enemies and book grew out of a talk given, by invitation, to forgot his friends. In this unkind fate d'Au- a travel club” in the city of Washington; “ bigné had full share ; he had loved much, and later, this talk was expanded into a paper read ; he was assuredly much forgotten. before the American Geographical Society of As an historian d'Aubigné is best remem- New York and published in its Bulletin ; this bered by his Histoire Universelle. Mr. Mac- in turn has been considerably increased for Dowall emphasizes his cool and impartial atti- publication in its present form. It is a plain, tude toward the burning issues of the times. straightforward statement of things Mexican- “He refuses to speak of the crimes committed Physical Features, Geology, Climate, Flora, by the Spaniards in America because I cannot Population, Condition. Everyone but the spe- enter upon this discourse in a spirit of modera- cialist will be likely to find here just about what tion'”; a statement which may find modern he wants to know regarding our sister republic. Part II. consists of Statistical Tables. It is very application to the flaming indictments drawn difficult to secure reliable Mexican statistics against the Spaniards of 1898. D'Aubigné takes his place among the poets in Mexico's national history, careful collec- extending over a long period. At many times as the author of the epic Les Tragiques. Begun tion and recording of facts has been impossible. when he was twenty-five, continued through What can be done Señor Romero has done; the many years of blood and fire, the poem de- scribes the miseries of the civil wars, and traces data he presents are the best that can be secured. The financial statistics for the last few their origin to the vices and follies of those in years are reliable, but the fluctuation in the value of authority. The apostrophe of Catherine de' Medici is worth quoting, even in translation, if the currency makes comparison difficult. The statistics given cover a wide range : revenues only for one impaling epithet. The poet imag- ines her a witch, performing her hideous incan. foreign trade, trade between Mexico and the and expenses, state and municipal finances, a tations and brewing her potions; and he bids her not to waste her strength in these painful, public debt, postoffice and telegraph service, United States, coinage, gold exports, railways, unnecessary rites. banks, public lands, education, manufacturing "Toil not to win the aid thou canst compel; interests, navigation, agricultural products, What need hast thou of charms? Within thy hand Thou holdst a spell more potent and more swift are all discussed. In an appendix, besides some Than all the drugs they bring thee from afar. geographical notes, are presented tables of alti- Oft have the demons triumphed by thy means, — Now is thine hour, triumph thou over them; tudes and a capital description of the great Vivandière of Hell, put forth thy power! engineering feat just completed in the works Recount what thou hast done, say what thou seest, for draining the Valley of Mexico. The victories of thy dark Florentine wiles ; Point to thy handiwork; show France in ruins ; Such is a brief outline of the work. One Show all the souls, depraved, despairing, damned, thought instantly strikes the mind of the reader Who curse their God and thee,- say 't was thy craft at all acquainted with Mexico : here is a book Which sent these legions marching down to Hell ;- It will suffice; at that imperious word in capital English written for English readers The infernal host shall move to do thy will." by a Mexican foreign Minister. How many for- a The third of these essays is a sketch of the eign Ministers has the United States ever sent unhappy Catherine of Navarre, whose life was to Mexico who could talk good Spanish, let spent in trying to avoid marriages arranged alone write books in that language ? Have we for her by her brother; a life which finally ever had one who could add a volume worth “ beat its music out,” after she had been forced reading to Mexican-Spanish literature? We into a union with the Duke of Bar, in steadfast have had some men in our diplomatic service refusal to be coerced from her faith for the sake in Mexico who could write books, e.g., Poinsett, of her husband and his family. Waddy Thompson, and Brantz Mayer, but * GEOGRAPHICAL AND STATISTICAL NOTES ON MEXICO. Josiah RENICK SMITH. By Matias Romero. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. - 132 [Sept. 1, THE DIAL none who ever wrote what would greatly profit and ever with a fortune accumulating. The American a Mexican readers. wants to cut a dash and so does the Englishman, else Señor Romero's book is crowded with valu- the English would have maintained their commercial supremacy in Mexico. They lost it to the more frugal able information. Very interesting are his con- and economical Germans.” cise notes regarding products of the country. FREDERICK STARR. Mexico can produce the plants of almost any land. Wheat, maize, coffee, india - rubber, sugar cane, ginger, and tobacco are among the most notable at present. The brief statements RECENT AMERICAN POETRY.* as to needs, opportunities, and methods of cul- More than a score of volumes of American verse tivation are practically important. One notices received during the past few months show that we with a smile that the United States takes the have as many poets as ever, if most of them are minor. bulk of the chicle crop. Our importation rose We have selected for brief comment about a dozen from the value of $156,402 to $1,527,838 be- of these thin volumes, and have sought, as usual, to tween the years 1885-1895. And what is represent each writer by at least one example of his chicle? The gum of a tree used for the making best work. The most conspicuous place on the list of chewing-gum. Señor Romero pleads for the clearly belongs to the two Canadians whom contin- ued residence in the United States permits us to planting of the mulberry and the raising of claim as at least half our own. Mr. Charles G. D. silk in Mexico, as if such culture were an expe- riment. It is not, however, so. Roberts, whose pure lyric note was first welcomed At times in by The Dial many years ago, has just published a the past silk culture was an important industry; collection of “New York Nocturnes, and Other and in one of his charming essays, the eminent Poems,” which is distinguished by both delicacy of Mexican historian, Señor Icazbalceta, fully dis- sentiment and unusual perfection of form. We think cusses it. Mexican resources are great; knowl. that Mr. Roberts is more poetical when he has Tan- edge of them is still but meagre ; important tramar for his theme rather than Manhattan, but discoveries are being constantly made. Thus, his nocturnes of the great city have little of what is recent as is Romero's book, and up-to-date, it called local color, and are really outpourings of a does not mention one of the greatest copper spirit oblivious to its surroundings except in their mining interests of America located in the state larger and more obvious aspects. There is a sug- of Guerrero and operated by a recently organ- gestion of New York, but no more, in such verses as these : ized French syndicate with an enormous capital. “The street is a grim cañon carved No writer can produce a book on Mexican In the eternal stone, progress which will be complete at the time it That knows no more the rushing stream It anciently has known. appears from the press. Señor Romero fully realizes the opportunities *NEW YORK NOCTURNES, and Other Poems. By Charles G. D. Roberts. Boston: Lamson, Wolffe, & Co. presented by his country to foreign settlers and BY THE AURELIAN WALL, and Other Elegies. By Bliss foreign capital. His book itself is calculated Carman. Boston: Lamson, Wolffe, & Co. to lure Americans to Mexico. There are many SHAPES AND SHADOW8. Poems by Madison Cawein. New York: R. H. Russell, opportunities for making wealth there, cer- POEMs. By Philip Becker Goetz. Boston: Richard G. tainly; but there are few Americans so consti- Badger & Co. tuted as to happily and profitably use them. WHERE BEAUTY Is, and Other Poems. By Henry Johnson, Of all foreigners in Mexico, in Central Amer. Brunswick, Me.: Byron Stevens. ica, and in South America to-day, the German WHAT CAN I DO FOR BRADY, and Other Verse. By Charles F. Johnson. New York: Thomas Whittaker. is the most successful, the most influential, and MORROW-Songs, 1880-1898. By Harry Lyman Koopman. the most at home. It is because he takes things Boston: H. D, Everett. as he finds them and does not try to make over THE SHRINE OF LOVE, and Other Poems. By Lucien V. Rule. Chicago : Herbert S. Stone & Co. the conditions around him. The English and . IN THIS OUR WORLD. By Charlotte Perkins Stetson. American must always do business in their own Boston: Small, Maynard, & Co. way, and insist upon others doing as they do. POEMS. By Florence Earle Coates. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. They do not adjust themselves. Señor Romero THE REFORMER OF GENEVA, An Historical Drama. By says: Charles Woodruff Shields. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. • It will be very difficult for the fun-loving, self- TRIALOGUES. By William Griffith. Kansas City, Mo.: indulgent, Anglo-Saxon Englishman of America to com- Hudson-Kimberly Publishing Co. pete with these self-denying Spaniards, capable of living WHEN LOVE Laughs. By Tom Hall. New York: E. R. with the nose to the grindstone twenty, twenty-five, or Herrick & Co. thirty years, eating always sparingly, drinking wine, LA SANTA YERBA. By William L. Shoemaker. Boston: but in moderation, spending no money, dressing poorly, Copeland & Day. 1898.] 133 THE DIAL a a "The emptying tide of life has drained ing volumes have made us familiar, lyrics of nature The iron channel dry. and love—a nature tropical rather than polar, a love Strange winds from the forgotten day sensuous rather than spiritual. Their lilt and their Draw down, and dream, and sigh. passion often carry the reader away, and yet there "The narrow heaven, the desolate moon Made wan with endless years, is a false note in many of them that mars the effect. Seem less immeasurably remote The sonnet “Can I Forget?” is one of the most Than laughter, love, or tears." nearly faultless of these pieces. Mr. Roberts is not completely himself until he gets “Can I forget how Love once led the ways into full communion with nature, and then be strikes Of our two lives together, joining them; How every hour was his anadem, the full chord of beauty, at once sensuous and spir- And every day a tablet in his praise ! itual, as in this all but perfect poem, " The Falling Can I forget how, in his garden place Leaves": Among the purple roses, stem to stem, "Lightly He blows, and at His breath they fall, We heard the rumour of his robe's bright hem, The perishing kindreds of the leaves; they drift, And saw the aureate radiance of his face ! Spent flames of scarlet, gold aerial, Though I behold my soul's high dreams down-hurled, Across the hollow year, noiseless and swift. And Falsehood sit where Truth once towered white, Lightly He blows, and countless as the falling And in Love's place, usurping lust and shame ... Of snow by night upon a solemn sea, Though flowers be dead within the winter world, The ages circle down beyond recalling, Are flowers not there ? and starless though the night, To strew the hollows of Eternity. Are stars not there, eternal and the same ?" He sees them drifting through the spaces dim, There is nothing distinctive about the “ Poems” And leaves and ages are as one to Him." of Mr. Philip Becker Goetz, nothing to set their The thin volumes of verse occasionally put forth writer apart from a hundred of his fellow devotees by Mr. Bliss Carman have a unity not often found of the minor muses. A favorable example is the in such collections. Each volume is a careful selec- poem called “ Religion." tion from a considerable mass of material, and "If you have built your soul upon a God brings together pieces of the same general class. Whose being starts to shade at skeptic breath Thus, “ By the Aurelian Wall” is a book of elegies, No halo of all saints who there have trod all in the same minor mood, and all filled with the Shall raise you higher than your body's clod. sense of man's kinship with nature, with the feeling "Some day, as hot your ardor leaps to song that to die is simply to be merged once more into Upon your choir chill Truth will stretch a hand, And riotous will burst a million strong the being of the Great Mother from whom we Through empty aisles and chancels Ruin's throng. draw the fleeting breath of individual life. These “Be then your God no god of yesterday, elegies are wind-blown songs rather than reflective And be your temple open to the air, and reminiscent utterances, and the vivid imagina- Fear not dark conflict, greet the doubtful fray; tion which fills and thrills them atones in large Not one sun but a host will light your way." measure for the defect of a lack of polish in the The chief faults of Mr. Goetz are unmelodiousness technical sense. Among their subjects are Keats, and the sort of semi-obscurity that comes from the Shelley, Blake, Stevenson, Lovelace, and Phillips failure to embody concepts in a logical framework Brooks. We quote two stanzas from the song before adorning them with the embroidery of verse. inscribed to Shelley's memory. Mr. Henry Johnson's pieces, collectively styled " Thou heart of all the hearts of men, Tameless and free, “Where Beauty Is,” run the familiar gamut of Art, And vague as that marsh-wandering fire, Nature, and Love. Since Art appears to be the Leading the world's out-worn desire tonic of this chord, we will make our selection from A night march down this ghostly fen From sea to sea! “ The Prayer of Pericles " upon the dedication of the Parthenon to Athene. Through this divided camp of dream Thy feet have passed, “We bring thee but ourselves; our mother's breast, As one who should set hand to rouse Our own Pentelicus, we wrought to enshroud His comrades from their heavy drowse; Thy majesty, nor deemed our eager crowd For only their own deeds redeem Unwelcome to the council of the blest. God's sons at last." “No longer our defiant citadel, We cannot help wondering why Mr. Carman should This hill be sacred to thine ordered peace, have failed to include in this elegiac sheaf the poem Throne of thy spirit where all murmurs cease, And beauty mirroring thy thought shall dwell." which seems to us, on the whole, the finest that he has ever written that “ Death in April ” which Mr. Johnson aims only at simple effects that are commemorates the passing of Matthew Arnold. It well within his powers, and thus achieves a measure has not, we believe, been included in any of his of relative success. The lesson is one that minor previously published volumes, and must still be bards might well take to heart. hunted out in the pages of “The Atlantic Monthly” In commenting upon Mr. C. F. Johnson's volume, where it first appeared. strangely entitled “What Can I Do for Brady, and Mr. Madison Cawein's "Shapes and Shadows" Other Verse,” we fear that we can say nothing more are lyrics of the sort with which his several preced. I encouraging than to repeat the criticism of the 134 [Sept. 1, THE DIAL ume. 6 writer's youthful son, who is quoted as having said that " papa's poetry was dethidedly amateurish.” Brady is a labor agitator and fanatic, his discourse being after the following fashion : .“ Again I'm forced to disagree. I've been on strike Five times as man, and twice as manager. First let me say, we do not lose more than We gain by strikes, whichever way it ends." Such glaring absurdities (from the standpoint of poetry) as these lines exhibit occur throughout Mr. Johnson's pages. Still, lest we do the author injus- tice, we are bound to represent him by his best as well as his worst, and such a sonnet as “ History and Poetry” is at least sober, thoughtful, and reg- ular in form. "Three men seem real as living men we know: The Florentine, whose face, careworn and dark, Rossetti drew; the Norman duke, .so stark Of arm that none but him might bend his bow'; And 'gentle Shakespeare,' though enshrouded so In his own thought, that some men cannot mark The soul his book reveals, as when a lark Sings from a cloud, unseen by all below. “But still more real than these seem other three Who never walked on earth : ‘Hamlet the Dane,' The 'noble Moor,' the cruel Scottish thane - Ambition's thrall. How strange that they should be, Though paught but figments of the poet's brain, Instinct with life, and yet more real than he." “Morrow-Songs" is numbered three among the volumes of Mr. Koopman's verse, published and unpublished. Mr. Koopman is best when he is briefest,—a remark which we make without satirical intention, and illustrate by “Appreciation." “We crowned with thorns the living hero's brow; But see, we deck his grave with roses now. Now, while the very stones from which bled Climb to a monument above his head." “ Two Poets," affords another illustration of the author's compact way of saying things. “He had a straight Greek brow, which sculptors loved, And clear and pure his classic measures rang. Men hailed him bard by all the gods approved, And snowy maids his star-cold numbers sang. “Look now on this face. Mark the bulging brow, The shapeless mouth, the torn and twisted ear, The seams of riot. Nay, who marks them now? He fired men's hearts to win our Golden Year." We should say that the bard had done better to suffer in silence. Mr. Rule's other poems are “ lyrics of love," and sonnets on current politics—Armenia, Crete, Cuba, and the like. We have come across many luckless misprints in our time, but none, we think, quite so unhappy as the following: “At last the lands have wakened ; freedom's cause Which seemed abandoned, cries aloud no more; And sweet the strains that from the classic snore (sic) Of Hellas come.” A note of indignant passion, a note almost of re- volt at the conditions of a life that our own supine acquiescence leaves as petty and sordid as we find it, thrills through the poems in Mrs. Stetson’s vol- “In This Our World” there is, indeed, much that might be bettered had men only the will to overcome their moral inertia, and realize the higher life of which most of them are content idly to dream. The expression is somewhat rough, but the energy is unmistakable, in such lines as these : “Why friends! God is not through! The universe is not complete in you. You 're just as bound to follow out his plan And sink yourself in ever-growing Man As ever were the earliest crudest eggs To grow to vertebrates with arms and legs. Society holds not its present height Merely that you may bring a child to light; But you and yours live only in the plan That's working out a higher kind of man; A higher kind of life, that shall let grow New powers and nobler duties than you know." Much better in form, and none the less energetic for that, are the lines called “ A Man Must Live." “A man must live. We justify Low shift and trick to treason high, A little vote for a little gold To a whole senate bought and sold, By that self-evident reply. “But is it so ? Pray tell me why Life at such cost you have to buy? In what religion were you told A man must live ? “There are times when a man must die. Imagine, for a battle-cry, From soldiers, with a sword to hold, From soldiers, with the flag unrolled, - This coward's whine, this liar's lie, - A man must live!" We wish that the large and scornful utterance of such a piece as this might be wedded to more me- lodious verse, and that it did not so often does when the gospels of socialism and the rights of women possess the consciousness of the speaker — turn shrill and into mere scolding. Mrs. Stetson comes nearest to writing poetry when she turns from man to nature, and writes of the West that she knows so well. Here, for example, is an etching that could not well be improved upon. It is called “ A Nevada Desert." “An aching, blinding, barren, endless plain; Corpse-colored with white mould of alkali, Hairy with sage-brush, shiny after rain, Burnt with the sky's hot scorn, and still again Sullenly burning back against the sky. a as it “ Love's Shrine,” by Mr. L. V. Rule, is a sonnet- sequence that might be styled the sentimental auto- biography of a prig. In wooden and commonplace measures we read the outpourings of one who loved not wisely but too well for his happiness, until a worthier idol took the place of the faithless one. The former maiden must have been much edified by the upbraidings of her whilom thrall, who addresses her through many pages in such scornful strains as these : “Thou hast no heart; So centred in thy petty self thou art, That 't is delight to thee to cast a slur At humbler ones whom thou shouldst bow before. Blue-blooded! Ah, the billows on the shore Are not more empty than thy boast." 1898.] 135 THE DIAL . “Dull green, dull brown, dull purple, and dull gray, the “ Fleet Street Eclogues” of Mr. John Davidson, The hard earth white with ages of despair, although both may doubtless point to an Elizabethan Slow-crawling, turbid streams where dead reeds sway, model. This is the sort of thing Mr. Griffith does, Low wall of sombre mountains far away, And sickly steam of geysers on the air." although not often as neatly as in the quoted passage. It is not cheerful, certainly, but it has the visible NORMAN. impress of truth. "Nay; come, pour out the ruddy ale, While foaming there the billow breaks : The “ Poems” of Miss Florence Earle Coates are GILES. reasonably correct in form and pleasing in expres- “And while the distant boscage shakes sion. Many of them deal with the abstractions of With long clear whistle of the quail. thought that young poets so dearly love; others If duty has been reckoned least, A song is nobler never sung. embody aspirations of the soul or simple experiences of contact with nature and the works of man. The NORMAN. * Right, comrade, rosaries are strung sonnet “India” is one of the best examples. For penitents as well as priest. "Silent amidst unbroken silence deep ALAN. Of dateless years, in loneliness supreme, “Delay me not! Tho' feeble speech She pondered patiently one mighty theme, May touch the story clumsily, And let the hours, uncounted, by her creep. Some brooding image follows me - The motionless Himalayas, the broad sweep Prodigious in its subtle reach. Of glacial cataracts, great Ganges' stream All these to her were but as things that seem, “I gaze from Heaven's lowest gate Doomed all to pass, like phantoms viewed in sleep. Adown Her vasty, starlit hall : Her history? She has none - scarce a name. I watch the nations rise and fall, The life she lived is lost in the profound Like shadows, at the whim of Fate. Of time, which she despised; but nothing mars “A moment near, a moment gone. The memory that, single, gives her fame- Beneath ten thousand watching eyes, She dreamed eternal dreams, and from the ground One thunderous rush rings out and dies – Still raised her yearning vision to the stars." And still the world moves on and on; Dr. Charles Woodruff Shields, of Princeton Uni- “While sweeping down each azure road With banners fading one by one, versity, has discerned in the history of Calvin and The cohorts pass and — here alone, Servetus the elements of a historical drama, and has I dream the solitude of God.” shaped the tragedy into a five-act play in blank The writer has also read Mr. William Watson's later verse, entitled “Tbe Reformer of Geneva." The constructive skill displayed by the work is consid- poems, a little too attentively, it would seem, when erable, and in its strictly historical aspect minute we come upon such phrases as “ those simple warrior lords” and “the ruined dream of Fontainebleau." accuracy has been observed. Of its diction, the best example is found in the last words spoken by Calvin Mention of two volumes of trifles may close this after Servetus has been disposed of, and the triumph review of recent American verse. Mr. Tom Hall's of the Reformation in Geneva is complete. “When Love Laughs" is made up of such things “Mingle no praise of man with this high work as “Going with Jack"- a typical product of comic ” Of God. Even Israel's law-giver, journalism. Because he smote the rock of Meriba "The dressmaker's late In sinful anger, could not enter Canaan, And she's going with Jack ! But only viewed it from far Pisgah's top Ah me! Such is Fate ! And died unhonored in its sepulchre. The dressmaker's late- So have ye seen like vehemence untam'd There's the gown at the gate ! In him ye call the leader of your cause. The smile has come back For this he craves forgiveness of you all, Though the dressmaker's late In sight of God, of angels, and of men. She is going with Jack." Millions for this may call him tyrant, who Shall owe to him their liberty; and though Of “Summer” Mr. Hall tells us, All Christian lands should be his monument, "It is the season, filled with joy, Let no man know his grave. When office boys' relations die; The glory is While he who doth his kind employ Not ours.- - We are but shadows that o'ercloud it Spends sleepless nights awondering why." This living scene, and all that it portends, The earth and sky around us, and the pomps If these are trifles light as air, those contained in Of rising morn and sinking eve, are but “La Santa Yerba,” by Mr. W. L. Shoemaker, are The pageantry of one Creative Mind, even lighter, for their substance is of the smoke of Upheld and moved by one Eternal Will — the “Great Plant.” For example : The glory give to One alone !" "In Shakespeare's plays I think you'll search in vain If the work were kept at this elevation of expression For any notice of tobacco ta'on, throughout, it might pass muster as poetry; unfor- When in the theatres 't was smoked, and when tunately, it is for the most part mere prose, cut up It had been praised by many learned men, into convenient lengths, and not even preserving And love of poets had begun to gain. mechanical regularity of form. “Did he the inspiring Indian weed disdain As impotent to aid his mighty brain ? In writing his “Trialogues" of the four seasons, Lo! all things else are spread before onr ken Mr. William Griffith has evidently been inspired by In Shakespeare's plays. 136 [Sept. 1, THE DIAL & A current estimate No one 'Perhaps in private he was of the train not bring us to a realization of her tumult of heart. Of great Nicotia, nor despised her reign: He tells us how Constance and Lucie looked and King James the herb thought sprung from hell's foul fen; To humor him was fain our player's pen ? — dressed, what they said and did, and so he does This strange enigma, Donnelly, pray explain, of Effie Deans, and Madge Wildfire, Clara Mow- In Shakespeare's plays." bray, Amy Robsart, Hugh Redgauntlet, Roland Mr. Shoemaker has not exactly the lyric gift, but the Graeme at Loch Leven Castle, and many, many heart of the smoker will warm to him none the less. others who, either tragic figures or merely human beings in situations of keen human interest, rarely WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE. do more than look and dress and say and do. They rarely feel,— or at least if they do we do not feel with them. Scott was great in his pictures of things BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS. that happen and places that we see, he had a won- Professor Saintsbury's "little book," derful power of appreciation and sympathy with as he calls it, on Walter Scott, in the humorous character, and sometimes even of the · of Scott. “ Famous Scots” series (imported by pathetic . But although he often conceived situations in which human nature must have been stirred to Scribners), is not different from what one would expect. It must have been rather a task to compress its depths, he rarely makes us realize the passion of that very full life into 150 fair-sized pages, but which he speaks. Now this realization of intensity of Professor Saintsbury is a veteran, and he has done life or of passion we have come to value greatly in his work with ease and even with a bit of room here the years between the “Waverleys” and ourselves. or there to turn himself about a little. Of course We have in many cases placed a value on absurd or grotesque manifestations of it. But at any rate it is the estimate of Scott's genius, or rather of his we have valued it, and have accustomed ourselves especial power, that is chiefly interesting. There is no denying that Scott has not of late quite held to it. It may not be the greatest thing in the world, but we like it; and when we read Scott we do not his literary position. Not that he is not read, that he has not been popular, that there have not been get it. It is perhaps too much to say that one is the looking at people from the outside, and the other is countless editions of the poems and the novels. But in the hundred years, almost, between Scott and feeling with them as they are within. ourselves there has come a change in poetry and in would entirely deny to Scott the power of sympathy novel writing, so that what we think of as the highest into their being at the moments of the crises of their with his creations; but certainly he did not enter poems and the greatest novels are very different fate,- or at least he does not make us feel them from Scott's poems and novels. The work of the thoroughly. We make a mistake if we allow this great men, of the Scotts and the Byrons of our own lack to discourage us in the presence of the other day, is very different, and hence many have felt wealth which Scott has, of incident, character, de- that Scott's work was not great work. Professor scription, humor, romance. These things are cer- Saintsbury recalls to mind many things that we shall remember, and suggests their importance. He is tainly the positive things about him, and Professor right in pointing out Scott's chief power: a large confining himself to them. Saintsbury is not wrong in his very limited space in and sane knowledge of people and of life, a wonder confining himself to them. ful feeling for character, for nature, a thorough “ French Literature of To-day” appreciation of humor and romance. In Scott's of French writers. (Houghton) was apparently designed poems and in his novels we are struck by the same by the author, Madame Yetta Blaze things : brilliant descriptions of scenery, remarkable de Bury, for persons not already much acquainted fulness and exuberance of character, hurrying ac- with the subject matter. This was wise on the tion and incident, romantic episodes; if we turn to whole. Others would find in the book a lack of the poems or the novels, we shall always find these several things that they might expect. We will things in any one of them. Professor Saintsbary, note a few points on the essay on Pierre Loti however, does not especially mention some of the chosen because it comes first in the book). His characteristics which Scott did not have, and one name is not Pierre Viaud ; his first book was not of these, it seems to us, was a thing which we have Mariage de Loti”; “ Les Pêcheurs d'Islande” is of late got to value a good deal: we mean the real- not the correct name of the novel discussed; he was ization of the human soul in a tragic or pathetic not elected to the Academy “in the full powers of situation. That was something that Scott rarely youth," but at the age of forty-one ; " Fleurs attempted. He often created the situations, but he d'Ennui” is not one of his last (sic) books, it is one rarely realized his character in them. Take Con- of the earlier ones. These are not important mat- stance de Beverley: the situation would give a won- ters, but they are sufficient to put Madame Blaze de derful chance to a modern, but Scott does not realize Bury out of the category of those who are thoroughly the character at all. Then, as it may not be fair acquainted with the subjects on which they write, or to take an example from a poem, take Lucie Ashton. who at least desire to present the matter as it really Again we have a powerful situation (in this case is rather than as it may well enough be. Such slips not invented by Scott), but here again Scott does prepare one for looseness, such as the description of Loose estimates 1898.] 137 THE DIAL resem- 0 . . à summer. the Man and the Publicist. Fatou-gaye's costume and coiffure, which, in spite who already plays a little will find a great deal that of the writes Loti,” is not accurate ; for the fancy will be useful to him. There are photographs of that Loti bears of Rarabu's death on returning to players in action, for one thing, - a dozen pictures , Papeete ; for the views ascribed to Gaud in thinking each of the ways half-a-dozen champions drive, of Yann which, in spite of the quotation-marks, instead of one picture of the way you ought to drive are very free recollections of the original. And this yourself. The teaching of the game is on the whole general mental attitude prepares one also to find at made simpler and more practical, and is better and the end of the essay, “ We pointed out more fully illustrated in this book than in any other blance between certain characteristics of his style we know. The history of the game in this country and that of Théophile Gautier," where what was and the sketch of amateur players abroad make said at the beginning was, “ The analogy between good chapters. Golfers, perhaps more than most Gautier and Loti, however, lies in the esthetical other kinds of “old gamesters,” are much given to temperament of both; in their common worship of the gossip and the history of the game; there are the sun,” which is not a characteristic of style. few sports so provocative of talk as golf. The chap- These trivial matters would amount to nothing in ter on laying out a course will be most easily made work of real power and critical insight, but of such available by any club which means to spend a million qualities we must confess we find here little trace. dollars a hole. Others will have to do a good deal There are plenty of “ modern ideas,” but all hazy, of contriving to make both ends meet. Still, there ” , vague, jumbled, and much as they might exist in is really nothing recommended that is not good, the mind of one who had heard of them but had though the book has perhaps a slightly discouraging never thought them. The other essays seem like effect on those who regard golf as a recreation this on Pierre Loti, and the book therefore comes rather than a highest duty. In fact, though it may down to being the easy prattle of a lady who has seem a work of impertinence to commend a work by read some of the French authors of the present day, the amateur champion, we shall presume to say that who has heard a great deal of talk about “modern golfers will here find the most useful book of the ideas," and who, somehow, has had opportunity to publish what she was inspired to write — for some at least of these papers appeared in the English Gladstone, “When a great man dies the nation reviews. The book is interesting, but sadly unsound. mourns "; and that section of it which The authors themselves are not accurately presented; writes and makes books for the rest the ideas which furnish the standpoint from which thriftily turns the occasion of mourning into one of they are viewed are not clearly conceived. We have profit. What we may term, we trust without dis- no doubt that many may like to read these essays, respect, the “Gladstone boom” is now on with a for they are written in a rather sprightly mood; vengeance; and among the more ephemeral and but we doubt seriously if those who know the writ- catch-penny manifestations of it is Mr. David Will- ers discussed will find their ideas at all modified, or iamson's “Gladstone the Man" (New York: M. F. if those will come to know them who are not at Mansfield). For the reader, if such there be, who present acquainted with them. knows nothing or next to nothing of Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Williamson's book may be said to contain a Each summer has its pet golf-book. fair amount of information of the superficial and This summer's First, it was the Badminton ; last personal order — which is, it is fair to add, all that golf-book. summer, Willy Park's book; and this its author proposes to furnish. “While other pens," summer we think Mr. Whigham's “How to Play he says, “ have been busy recording and criticising Golf” (H. S. Stone & Co.) has supplied the vade the political acts of Mr. Gladstone, mine will be the mecum, the book that lies on every golf-club table more grateful task of portraying him . . . as the and in the study of every enthusiast. It is true that man whose personal character is esteemed by polit- this summer, just as laws become silent in the midst ical friend and foe alike.” But the book, however of arms, so also has the golfer retired from the looked at, is a slight thing at best, bearing the ear- front of public interest in favor of the soldier. Even marks of hurry and scant preparation. There are Mr. Whigham himself, we have heard, put away a few illustrations, mainly from photographs that his clubs and went to see the fighting. But now have already done service in the pictorial journals. that the war is over, the turn of the golfer will -A solider book than Mr. Williamson's, though come again. The papers, no longer full of exciting still a biography of the merely descriptive and laud- war-news, will be more carefully searched for news atory sort, is the new edition, revised and brought of the links. And as autumn comes on — the real to date, of Mr. Walter Jerrold's “ W. E. Gladstone, golfing season with us — there will be more and England's Great Commoner (Revell). Unlike more persons who want a golf-book. To them Mr. Mr. Williamson, Mr. Jerrold deals for the most part Whigham's treatise may be commended, for it is as with Gladstone's public career - which is, of course, good as another, and in some respects it is rather the side of his life we are most concerned to know better. We do not think that anyone will be able about. Mr. Jerrold is extremely chary of venturing to “ learn the game” out of it much more easily an opinion of his own as to anything his hero did or than out of any other book. But the average man wrote 80 chary, indeed, that he may seem to the > 138 [Sept. 1, THE DIAL - reader to stick to mere recital from prudential mo- was the Caterina of “Mr. Gilfil's Love-Story.” The tives. We are likely, however, to have enough Arbury history was well-known in the Evans family, criticism and even depreciation of Mr. Gladstone for Robert Evans, the father of the novelist, was ere long, when the inevitable reaction against the bailiff on the estate, and his first wife - not George current flood of overcharged laudation and lamenta- Eliot's mother - had been a “ friend and servant tion sets in. Fortunately, we shall always have of the household. The bailiff's little daughter, accom- Mr. Bryce's fine study already noticed in our colpanying him on his business errands, had constant ( umns) to appeal to as a standard of appreciation. glimpses of the great house, and heard, doubtless, Mr. Jerrold's book contains a liberal sprinkling of much gossip of the great people ; what with recol- wood-cuts, and it may be read with profit and en- lection and with tradition, therefore, she possessed joyment by those in need of an elementary sketch ample material, in later years, for her charming and of “ England's Great Commoner.” pathetic story. The interest of the letters, however, lies not at all in their testimony to the novelist's It is much to be hoped, from the pop- . truth, but in the details which they give of eighteenth- England's frontier ular as well as the professional point century life and manners, and in their portrayal of warfare. of view, that some such works on the that sprightly and sensible woman, the writer. One various campaigns undertaken by the American may read here of London, Buxton, and Brighton, forces in the Spanish war shall be published as Mr. as they existed a hundred years ago; of English Lionel James's “ The Indian Frontier War, 1897" lodging-houses and inns and country roads of the (Scribner), and Mr. Winston L. Spencer Churchill's same period ; of long journeys by coach and of short · Malakand Field Force, 1897 ” (Longmans ). ones by chair; and of some characteristic dinners These books are to be taken together as furnishing and suppers, described in all leisure and simplicity. & complete and minately detailed account of the One may read also of a lady of quality, who takes operations of the British armies last year in India, the world with much wisdom and no little wit, who against the hill tribes, Pathans and others, during manages her affairs with a firm hand, and who their turbulence as a result of Moslem fanaticism. makes to Sir Roger a very tactful and comfortable The fact that the heathen were armed with modern wife. The book is edited by Lady Newdigate- rifles, in some respects inferior to those of their Newdegate, and the illustrations are from family more civilized foe, is in striking contradiction portraits, which number among them two Romneys to the relative positions of the Spanish and the and a Reynolds. For frontispiece there is the American volunteers ; but some exceedingly inter- fine figure of the old baronet - an English gentle- - esting parallels are to be drawn between such a man and scholar, to whom, we may suppose, the charge as that of the “Gay Gordons" at Dargai publication of these letters was an unimagined last October, and the storming and capture of El indignity. Caney and San Juan last July by the American regulars, black and white, and the rough riders." It is in complete accord with history Both must serve to assure Mr. H. W. Wilson that as we are accustomed to read it, that of war. his fears lest the fighting qualities of the race have Miss Katharine Prescott Wormeley deteriorated are unfounded. Now that the fighting should have republished her letters from the head- is fairly over, it will be worth while to study the quarters of the United States Sanitary Commission means by which Englishmen on the extreme frontier during the peninsular campaign in Virginia in 1862, of the Empire are provided for under the super- should have prefaced the work with a somewhat vision of trained officers and men,- it may keep detailed account of the beginnings of the Sanitary the United States from sending their 'men out with Commission and the good it did, and have placed some expectation that the deficiency in rations is to the whole at the disposal of her countrymen in time be made up by a superfluity in clothing. In any to be useful in the recent war with Spain, only to event, the frankness of Messrs. James and Churchill have the mistakes she would have taught them to in disclosing all the weaknesses developed during avoid repeated with such additions as incompetence the campaign, and the means taken to remedy them, could invent. It is this, and not the human charity is worthy our emulation, not less than the clearness and wholesome lack of morbidness in the book of the narratives. ("The Cruel Side of War," Roberts) that makes it such sorrowful reading. True, the fevers and In “ The Cheverels of Cheverel wounds of the War of the Rebellion were not the Sketches of old English Manor (Longmans ), we have a fevers and wounds of the war with Spain; but the life and manners. budget of eighteenth-century letters, means provided for the care of the sick and wounded written, for the most part, by Hester, Lady Newdi- in the former case would have saved many lives and gate, and addressed to Sir Roger Newdigate, of infinite suffering had there been the same awaken- Arbury in Warwickshire. The volume is so named | ing to the needs of the gallant men who have with- from the fact that in Arbury we may find the original held nothing from their duty to the country during of George Eliot's Cheverel Manor, Sir Roger and these last few months. Apparently, it is becoming his wife being the models for Sir Christopher and the settled policy of the nation to prepare those Lady Cheverel, while their protégé, Sally Shilton, I entering its service for the reception of pensions. The mistakes and miseries . 1898.] 139 THE DIAL The first volume of a new series of Franklin as a LITERARY NOTES. man of energy. biographies entitled “American Men of Energy”.(Putnam) is the life of "A Brief Course in Qualitative Analysis,” by Professor Benjamin Franklin, from the pen of Mr. Edward Ernest A. Congdon, is published by Messrs. Holt & Co. Robing. Excellent judgment is shown in the space “ The Story of the Mind," by Professor James Mark allotment for the different portions of Franklin's Baldwin, is an acceptable addition to the “Library of diversified career, and the treatment is both fair and Useful Stories ” published by Messrs. D. Appleton & Co. accurate. Although designedly a "popular" biog- Burke's " Letter to a Noble Lord," edited for school raphy, it has decidedly more merit than such books use by Professor Albert H. Smyth, is published by Messrs. Ginn & Co. in their series of “Standard En- commonly possess. The author knows his Franklin, glish Classics.” and he tells the facts forcefully, although at times A volume of « Selections from the Prose and Poetry in language a little frothy. The lessons to be derived of Walt Whitman” has been edited by Dr. Oscar L. from the Autobiography, — the only case in which Triggs, and published in very attractive style by Messrs. a self-made man has left us the recipe of his mak- Small, Maynard, & Co. ing, — are not overlooked in the summary of his The “Life and Administration of Sir Robert Eden," character. Franklin was an ideal“ man of energy,” governor of Maryland from 1768 to 1776, by Dr. and it is to be hoped his successors in the series may Bernard C. Steiner, is published as a “ University be as wisely chosen and as well handled. Study” by the Johns Hopkins Press. “ Armazindy," with other and shorter poems, may be found in Volume IX., just issued, of the uniform edi- tion of Mr. J. W. Riley's writings, now nearly com- pleted by Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons. BRIEFER MENTION. “ A Book of Verses for Children,” compiled by Mr. Edward Verrall Lucas, is a happy selection of classified The Chautauqua books for the coming year, five in poems and fragments, from a great variety of good au- number as usual, have just been sent out by Messrs. thors, published in exceedingly tasteful form by Messrs. Flood & Vincent, of Meadville. Two of them are new Henry Holt & Co. books, the other three are revised editions of earlier “Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie,” by Mr. Timothy publications. In the latter category come Alexander Holmes, and “ William Stokes: His Life and Work," Winchell's “Walks and Talks in the Geological Field,” by Mr. William Stokes, his son, are two additions to the revised by Professor Frederick Starr; “ Europe in the Nineteenth Century," by Professor Harry Pratt Judson; Longmans, Green, & Co. “ Masters of Medicine" series, published by Messrs. and “From Chaucer to Tennyson,” by Professor Henry A. Beers. The new books are Men and Manners of "A Mechanico-Physiological Theory of Organic Evo- the Eighteenth Century," by Miss Susan Hale, and lution” translated from the German of Herr Carl von “ Twenty Centuries of English History," by Mr. James Nägeli by Messrs. V. A. Clark and F. A. Waugh, is Richard Joy. issued by the Open Court Publishing Co. in their « Re- ligion of Science Library." Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. publish “ First Lessons in German,” by Mr. Sigmon M. Stern; “ First Lessons in The Macmillan Co. have bought the old established French,” by Messrs. Baptiste Méras and S. M. Stern; publishing business of Messrs. Richard Bentley & Son, Schiller's “Wilhelm Tell,” edited by Professor Arthur of London. All Messrs. Bentley's present publications, H. Palmer; and Musset's “ Histoire d'un Merle Blanc,” and those heretofore issued, will hereafter be published edited by Misses Agnès Cointat and H. Isabelle Will- by the Macmillan Co., in London and New York. iams. Other modern language text-books are About's Messrs. Luzac & Co. send us a translation of the “ Roi des Montagnes,” edited by Dr. Thomas Logie Singalese “ Ummagger Jataka” (The Story of the (Heath); Taine's "Introduction à l'Histoire de la Lit-Tunnel), made by Mr. T. B. Yatawara, a native Indian tératuré Anglaise,” edited by Mr. Irving Babbitt official. It is a fourteenth century work, rich in human (Heath); and “Un Peu de Tout” (Jenkins), a sort of interest, and presenting a vivid picture of the customs, phrase-book edited by M. F. Julien. manners, and institutions of a bygone age in India. · Romance and Realism of the Southern Gulf Coast," “ Cuba at a Glance" (R. H. Russell) is a pamphlet by Miss Minnie Walter Myers, is a very brief and pop- compilation, historical and descriptive, by Miss Emma ular history and description, published by Messrs. Robert Kauffman and Miss Anne O'Hagan, issued under the Clarke & Co. It contains much more romance than auspices of the Cuban Junta. It is a vehement and now realism in its sketches and stories of the Indians, the somewhat futile attack on Spanish rule. As appendix it explorers, the Creoles, the Acadians, of New Orleans has war maps of Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippines. and Beauvoir. Though scrappy and amateurish, the Portraits of Turguénieff and Herr Björnson appear book will probably interest many, especially those famil- as the respective frontispieces of two new volumes, iar with the scenes and characters described. Scandinavian and Russian in contents, of the series en- “ Applied Physiology,” by Dr. Frank Overton (Amer- titled “Stories by Foreign Authors,” published by ican Book Co.), is published in two parts, respectively Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons. Eight volumes of this intended for primary and intermediate grades. As is attractive series have now been published, and two more usual in books of this sort, an obtrusive amount of atten- will bring it to completion. tion is devoted to the effects of alcohol upon the human “ A Library Dictionary of the French and English system. As an example of the writer's style we make Languages," by Mr. Ferdinand E. A. Gasc, is published one quotation: “While alcohol is harming a man, it by Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. in a volume of nearly a makes him feel good.” thousand three-columned pages. It is the result of over " a 140 [Sept. 1, THE DIAL LIST OF NEW BOOKS. [The following list, containing 46 titles, includes books received by THE DIAL since its last issue.] " thirty years of labor, undertaken after a long period of collaboration with Dr. Spiers in the same line of work. Pronunciation is not indicated except in a few special cases, because the author considers it only a lure, and “entirely out of place in a serious and conscientious work like mine." The work is compactly but clearly printed, and may be recommended as one of the best of its kind. Under the general title of “ The Churchman's Library," the Macmillan Co. will publish a series of volumes, designed rather for the laity than for clerical readers, upon subjects “occupying the attention of church people at the present time." Over twenty vol- umes have already been arranged for, of which four are now almost ready for publication. “ Appletons' Dictionary of Greater New York” comes to us for 1898 with the revisions made necessary by the enlargement of the city with which it deals. he « dic- tionary” plan is probably better than any other for such a guide-book, and we wish that every large city in the country might be provided with so useful and conven- ient a book for the information of visitors. 9 * Johns . TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS. September, 1898. America, Spain, and France. Emile Ollivier. Century. Anglo-American Union, The. Sir C. W. Dilke. Pall Mall. 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