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Hinsdale fate that might be suggested by our introduo- tory trope, since the large endowments already ENGLISH CORRESPONDENCE. Temple Scott 253 in hand, and the further endowments almost COMMUNICATIONS 254 sure to follow, insure for the institution a place The Founding of Free Government in America. among the fixed stars. But its most serious Alexander Brown. friends have more than once had occasion to The Transformation of the Orient. 0. C. Mookerjee. question some of the extensions of its activity, and to feel that even its great store of reserve AFTER THE SONNETS OF SHAKESPEARE. (Sonnet.) Melville B. Anderson energy might be taxed too heavily; that by 255 reaching out in too many directions at once, by BISMARCK AND HIS BOSWELL. E. G.J. . . 266 lending itself to educational experiments in 255 FIRST OF THE WAR HISTORIES. Wallace Rice 258 such great variety, by seeking to exert its influ- ence in so many fields of intellectual activity, ORIENTALIST, TRAVELLER, AND DIPLOMAT. it might incur the danger to which the higher Percy Favor Bicknell 259 education in a democratic age and country is RECENT PEDAGOGICAL LITERATURE. B. A. peculiarly exposed — the danger of cheapening Hinsdale. 261 the ideals that should always be associated with Harris's Psychologio Foundations of Education. - the name of University, of stooping too low to Davidson's Rousseau and Education. — Butler's The Meaning of Education. — Progress in Women's Edu- conquer a kind of success that is not worth cation in the British Empire. – Cadet's Port Royal conquering at such a cost, and that may well be Education. — Eliot's Educational Reform. — Miss Millper's Herbart's Application of Psychology to left to such popular agencies as “ Chautauqua Education. – Taylor's The Study of the Child.- assemblies and “ Cosmopolitan” enterprises. Bryan's The Republic of Plato. Oppenheim's The An examination of the “ Annual Register Development of the Child.- Mosher's Child Culture in the Home. - Miss Hogan's A Study of a Child. of the University of Chicago reveals the exist- ence of a system of educational machinery 80 BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS 265 complex as to bewilder the reader, and fill him A model classical text-book. - Mr. Remington as artist and author. - History of a famous literary en- with a kind of awe at the spectacle of so varied dowment. - Luther, the hero and man. - What it is an exhibition of miscellaneous activities. Be- we should know about musio. - Studies of animal sides the work proper to a university, there are intelligence. — The problem of sex-control. - Early letters of G. W. Curtis. - The American book trade such developments as extension lectures, and of this century.- Homeric women misplaced. - An class - study exercises, and correspondence appreciation of Eugene Field. courses, and experimental schools, and affiliated BRIEFER MENTION 268 schools, and coöperating schools not affiliated, and what not. All of these things demand LITERARY NOTES 268 much time and energy, and all, however useful LIST OF NEW BOOKS 269 they may be absolutely, do not seem to com- . . - 27 - . . -- . . . . 250 [Oct. 16, THE DIAL a mend themselves as adjuncts of university work. sizes the fact that education of the academic Directly or indirectly leading up to degrees, as type is the real preparation for successful teach- most of these ingenious devices do, one cannot ing, and not the sort of training that is so sadly escape the suspicion that they somehow lower overdone, and so largely futile, in the so-called the price that should be paid for university normal schools. In the second place, it honors, and give encouragement to the notion brings instruction of the good type within reach that the higher education is not so serious a of a host of young women comparatively few of matter after all. There is no harm in sugar- whom have had any real education of the higher coating the pill, but there is harm - and grave sort. There are something like five thousand harm — in making its contents of homeopathic women engaged as teachers in the public weakness. We doubt very much if the uni- schools of Chicago, most of whom ended their versity credit obtained by students in these col- own life as students when they left the high or lateral ways represents anything like the equiv- normal school, and some of whom did not so alent of the credit to be got by attendance upon much as complete a high-school course. Of regular university courses. this number, many, no doubt, have by their Whether the newest experiment of the Uni- own efforts gained a discipline quite as good as versity will prove an unmixed blessing to edu- that to be got from college work, and to them cation in Chicago, is something that remains the cachet of a college degree would now be the to be seen. But the originality of the plan most meaningless of honors. But there must justifies us in giving some account of it, and, remain many others to whom the new oppor- pending the declaration of results, for which tunity will prove a real boon, and it cannot be we must wait patiently for some years, in per- doubted that this latest educational departure mitting ourselves a few a priori reflections. A of the University was well worth the making. private benefaction, coupled with an appropri- On the other hand, there are a few obtrusive ation by the University itself, has made it pos- considerations that cannot be ignored in the sible to establish in the heart of Chicago a discussion of this subject, and that must serve college designed expressly for the education of to temper in some degree the outburst of en- such teachers in the public schools as may feel thusiasm and sanguine forecast with which the the need of carrying on their scholastic work new College was dedicated to the public on the without an interruption of their teaching. The first of this month. There are the fees, for one faculty of this College for Teachers is selected thing, which must be a serious matter for the , from the faculty of the University proper, and teachers whom the work will most benefit. For includes a number of its ablest men. To meet it is the younger teachers, whose stipends are the special needs of its clientèle of public-school the smallest, that are chiefly in need of this teachers, the hours of instruction are arranged supplementary education ; the older ones, for for the whole of Saturday and the afternoons the most part, have either gained the offered and evenings of the other week-days. The work discipline in other ways, or have lost the plas- of this College is planned to fill six months of ticity of mind which must be brought to the the year, and leads to the baccalaureate degree work of academic education to make it worth of the University. The unit of work is what undertaking. We are inclined to think that it is technically known as a “major,” and con- would be proper for the Board of Education to sists of four hours a week for three months. defray the tuition fees of such of the younger Thirty-six of these “ majors" are taken as the teachers as may wish to do this work of self- equivalent of the four years of regular univer- improvement, provided always that this might sity work. Thus, two hours of work daily, be done without prejudice to the interests of continued for six years, will make the student those who feel that they have got, or are get- a graduate of the University, and permit him ting, in other ways the same sort of educational to write after his name the magical letters that development. This is a delicate question, for may mean so little or so much, according to there are many paths to culture and mental the spirit in which his work has been performed. discipline, and the one that leads through the A slight reduction from the regular university college may be more direct, but it is no more fees is made to teachers who avail themselves certain of its goal, than the others. What we of these new opportunities. may call the arrogance of the degree is one of The experiment thus outlined is one of great the worst forms of intellectual snobbery. interest, and the underlying idea of the plan is The consideration which does the most, how- wholly admirable. In the first place, it empha- I ever, to make us discount the promise of this 1 1 1 1 1898.] 251 THE DIAL experiment, is based upon the fact that neither CITY SCHOOL SYSTEMS. faculty nor students can be expected to do their best work under such conditions as are alone This heading may be understood in two ways. It may mean the organization of studies, books, possible in the new College for Teachers. Col- lege work of the best type requires freshness of teaching, and discipline found in one of our cities, or the organization of political functions and agents mind on the part of instructor and instructed : that stand behind these educational powers and make and this is just what it is impossible to secure them possible. The one view brings before us the under the proposed conditions. The teachers The teachers superintendent and his teachers, the other the board will be men who are already doing full work in of education and its administrative organs. The the University, and their energies cannot fail first view will find no recognition in this article, to flag when it comes to supplementing that except that we shall not lose sight of the fact that the work by the peculiarly exigent task of con- system in the educational sense is the end for which ducting extended class-exercises in the after- the system in the political or institutional sense ex- ists. We might at once say city boards of educa- noon and evening. To say this is merely to tion, only that we wish to take a broader view of recognize the essential limitations of human the subject than this language would suggest. strength. Still more must this consideration It will be admitted that our subject is now prom- be taken into account with the students, who inently before the public. The constant criticism will come to their studies jaded with five hours of existing systems that one hears, and the many of the most exacting brain labor, labor that changes that are made or proposed, point unmistak- makes such a demand upon the mental energies ably to the strong unrest of the public mind. Crit- that it leaves a man and much more a woman icisms and plans may differ, but they all lead up to - completely fagged out, and incapable of the the same fact. No deep insight is required to enable one to per- sort of alert attention and reaction to intellec- tual stimulus that is required for college work if indeed generally, see their way clearly. They ceive that these critics and reformers do not always, of anything but an inferior type. This rule wish to improve the schools, and they see clearly is bound to obtain in the majority of cases, enough that to accomplish this end the business although there will doubtless be some excep- organization must be reformed. So they resort, tions. Bearing these things in mind, then, it or propose to resort, to the legislature to get the is useless to hope that the work done by teacher- system changed, assuming that the evil to be rem- students in the new College will be the real edied will be removed by substituting a new board equivalent of work done under the proper of education for the old one. But what is the use academic conditions. No amount of earnest- of taking trouble to get rid of the present board, if ness and good will can make the sluggish mind things are left in such shape that in a few years, if - not indeed at once, the new board will turn out to respond as it should to the efforts of the be as bad as the old one? It cannot be too strongly instructor, and even these efforts must be made asserted that the immediate trouble, where there is sluggish by a similar cause. We believe, in trouble, is with the men who constitute the board. short, that the type of education represented by If the board consists of good men, you are pretty the average university extension entertainment sure in the long run of good administration, regard- will tend to be approached in the new institu- less of the system. Not that one system is as good tion; and this, useful as it may be, is not the as another, or that the organization is unimportant. sort of thing aimed at, and not the sort of thing This rather is the idea : a system is practically good that the too sanguine forecast of the University or bad according as it tends to bring the right kind authorities appears to expect. We do not wish of men into the public service and keep them there. There may be an exception now and then, here or to be thought of as throwing any colder water there, but in general this is a safe rule to follow. than is necessary upon an enterprise planned Accordingly, the first question for the reformer to with so admirable a purpose; but the funda- ask, as he scans a reform scheme, is not whether mental facts of human nature have to be faced, it is theoretically perfect, or logically consistent and they seem to have been at least partly throughout, but whether, under the conditions ex- ignored in the optimistic deliverances with isting, the scheme will probably accomplish the end which the work of the new College has just been just stated. Will it bring to the service of the inaugurated. The experiment is, nevertheless, schools competent men? of the greatest interest; and if its promise has Having emphasized this point sufficiently, we been somewhat magnified, we still hope for it shall next consider the business involved in carrying Ob- a considerable measure of success, and shall be on a system of schools in an American city. viously, there are three functions to be performed, happily disappointed if the results exceed our - one legislative, one executive, and one judicial. anticipation. It would be hard to say whether the legislative - 252 [Oct. 16, THE DIAL function or the executive function is the more im- and employees; but, generally speaking, this latter, portant of the two; but experience shows conclu- function cuts no great figure. sively that more evil originates in the organization The first vice of this scheme is the vesting of the and relations of these two powers than in all other legislative and administrative functions in the same parts of the educational machinery put together. hands. To be sure, in large cities the board has Let us look into the nature of the mechanism. been compelled to divest itself in a considerable The germ of the American city school board is degree of the administrative work. This it has done, found in the Massachusetts town or township board rather reluctantly, by creating executive depart- called the Selectmen, which is as old as the Com- ments or offices, as those of finance, instruction, and monwealth. This board originally carried on the supplies. Now let it be noted, first, that these de- town schools just as it carried on the other parts of partments or offices are the sole creation of the the town government, subject, of course, to the ac- board ; and, secondly, that the incumbents are ap- tion of the General Court and the Town Meeting pointed by the board and are wholly dependent upon . This board built the schoolhouses, examined and it. The board can abolish or change departments employed the teachers, and, together with the min- and remove officers at any time. The same may be ister of the parish, supervised the schools. In the said, for the most part, of the superintendent of course of time there appeared in the board a com- instruction. Save in a few cities, he has no status mittee on schools, as there appeared committees on in the school law; his office exists at the pleasure other subjects ; and this committee, still further on, of the board, and he is elected by the board. The became detached from the board and assumed a only advantage that the superintendent enjoys is that separate place in the government of the town. he is commonly elected for the term of a year, some- Sometimes the members were appointed by the times for a longer period, and so cannot be turned Selectmen, and sometimes elected by the Town out of office over-night. This is bad enough, but it Meeting. Sometimes the committee was dependent is not the worst. Not only has the board imme- upon the Selectmen for funds, and sometimes diate oversight of the executive department, but it directly upon the freemen. But the main fact is continues to retain a large body of administrative this : This committee now carried on the schools, powers in its own hands. These powers it exercises just as the selectmen has been in the habit of doing. directly through its committees. How numerous It was at once a legislative, executive, and judicial these committees are, a glance into the common body. Such, in substance, is the local school sys- board manual will show. Generally, there are at tem to-day in the towns and townships where the least enough committees to give every member of town system of school organization prevails. the board a chairmanship, no matter whether there The Massachusetts town school committee, in its This system is essential features, became the city school board, or / 18 anything for the committees to do or not. open to two or three serious ob- board of education, and is still generally found in jections. One is, that the board of education, by cities without material modification. This committee its very nature and organization, is about as fit to was well enough in the town, and with little change do the administrative business of a large system of it answered the purposes of the city while the city schools as the State legislature or city council is to remained small; but when the city became large do the executive work of the State or the city. A some changes in the organization were found to be second objection is that the blending of the legisla- absolutely necessary. One change was the employ- tive and executive duties opens the door to numer- ment of a professional superintendent of the city ous abuses. Practiced observers of such matters schools, to relieve the board of that responsible know that this is the source of much of the corrup- duty. This proved to be such a decided advantage tion found in school boards. Such observers know that the small cities and the villages soon followed how eagerly the memberships, and especially the the example. Another change, and this one on the chairmanships, of certain committees are sought for business side, was the employment of a salaried by a certain class of board members ; for example, clerk or secretary, who was not a member of the the committees on construction, repairs, books, and board, to keep the records of the board and to per- supplies. And finally, the system is not in accord form other similar business. Sometimes other minor with the American principle and usage, that large changes have been made, but in general the essen- legislative and executive powers should not be thus tial features of the old organization still remain in mixed together. most of our cities. The board of education is a What shall be done to mend matters? The first legislative, executive, and judicial body, all in one. thing to be done is to effect a much greater degree First, subject to the State law, the board legislates of separation than at present between the legislative on a variety of subjects, as courses of study, rules and administrative powers of the system. The princi- for governing the schools, revenues and appropria- pal function of the board should be to legislate, while tions. Secondly, its field of administration is equally administration should be confided, as far as possible, large. It appoints teachers, its own clerk and other to independent administrative officers. The board's employees, chooses books, provides supplies, builds hands should be taken off from a multitude of things and repairs schoolhouses, and the like. Thirdly, it that they are now on. The executive officers should exercises disciplinary powers over pupils, teachers, make reports to the board, furnishing it with infor- 1898.] 253 THE DIAL 9 9 mation and making recommendations; they should be amenable to the board in some process equiva- ENGLISH CORRESPONDENCE. lent to impeachment, but they should derive their London, October 5, 1898. powers from another source and be responsible in The autumn lists of the publishers are at last prac- another quarter. These remarks of course have no tically completed. Of them all, that issued by Mr. reference to the clerk or secretary of the board. At Heinemann looks the most imposing; but whether he the very least, the law should throw around all the will publish all he announces this season, is a pertinent executive officers of the school system, on both sides, question. First in this list comes Mr. Savage Landor's safeguards that will protect them against the en- much-discussed journey in Tibet, which is to be called croachments of the board. This is the first step that now “In the Forbidden Land.” It is to be ready by the time this letter reaches you, and will be handsomely needs to be taken in the direction of thoroughgoing produced, with all the necessary accessories of illustra- reform. The new board will have committees, of tions, maps, and plans. Its price, however, is to be course, but they will be legislative not executive pretty high, and this must be put down to the large committees. amount paid to the author for his manuscript. A novel Nothing that has been said touches the question title for an old-fashioned series is that given by Mr. of method. How shall the step just described be Heinemann, or its editor, Mr. H. J. Mackinder, to the taken? This question is an important one, and by twelve volumes which are to deal with the various im- no means free from difficulty. It is not the purpose portant divisions of the world. It is to be called “ A View of the World in 1900," and will consist of the of this article, however, to enter into details, but to following works: “ Britain and the North Atlantic," by insist that school reform in the cities, to be worth the editor; “Scandinavia and the Arctic Ocean," by much or to last long, must be much more thorough Sir C. R. Markham; “ The Mediterranean and France," than simply to produce a new scheme for electing by M. Elisée Reclus; “ Central Europe,” by Dr. Joseph board members. Other questions that arise are, Partsch; “ Africa,” by Dr. J. Scott Keltie; “ The Near How large should the board be? How should the East,” by D. G. Hogarth; “ The Russian Empire," by members be elected ? How long should they hold Prince Kropotkin; “ The Far East,” by Mr. Archibald their offices ? etc. We have not here space for their Little; “ India,” by Col. Sir Thomas Holdich; “ Aus- consideration. tralasia and Antarctica,” by Dr. H. O. Forbes; and “ North and South America,” by authorities from your The question will be asked, How will the plan side of the water. Of the “ Literatures of the World” outlined work to bring better men to the service of series you have already beard last season; and the same the schools? The question is a fair one, and the may be said for the “Great Educators.” In fiction, answer obvious. we are proinised « The Two Magics," by Mr. Henry In the first place, a rational business-like plan is James; “ Tony Drum,” by Mr. Edwin Pugh; “Gloria far more attractive to business-like men than an Mundi,” by Mr. Harold Frederic; “Red Rock,” by Mr. irrational and absurd one. In the second place, if T. N. Page; “ The Widower," by Mr. W. E. Norris; the work of the board were practically confined to and new stories by Mr. Stephen Crane, Mrs. F. A. Steel, legislation the meetings of the board might be much and Mr. Robert Hichens. An important announcement is the translations of all Gabriele d'Annunzio's novels. less frequent than they are now, and the amount of The series of articles which the editor of « The Satur- business to be done reduced in volume. As a result, day Review” has, during the past few months, been the demands upon the members' time would be re- writing for his journal, are to be included in a volume, duced and the kind of work to be done be made and published with the title “ The Man William Shake- more congenial. Nothing is more likely to disgust speare." a real business man than an unbusiness-like pro- You may already have had almost enough of the cedure; and if anything is unbusiness-like it is the newspaper talk of Captain Dreyfus and his “affaire," setting of a city board of education to perform ad- and the supposed part M. le Commandant Esterhazy ministrative duties, small in themselves but import- has played in it. But all that you have heard is nothing ant in the aggregate, that proper executive depart- to what you will read in Esterhazy's own account which ments can perform much better. Mr. Grant Richards will publish here on the first of Nov- ember. I need hardly tell you that what has already Still, it must be said that no system of itself will bring good men into the service ; no matter how appeared in print is largely made up of conjecture; and I speak from personal acquaintance with the syllabus of good the system may be, bad men will get hold of contents of the coming story, when I tell you that it will it if they are allowed to do so; but one system ex. be well worth reading. An American publisher has cels another in tending to produce good men and already secured the copyright for the States, and the exclude bad ones. B. A. HINSDALE. work will be published simultaneously here and on your side. A considerable number of the “announced” books The three prizes in the “Century" competition for have already appeared. Dr. Busch's ponderous tomes on a story, a poem, and an essay, open to college graduates Bismarck, which were ushered in with a mighty pother of 1897, have all been awarded to young women, although of advertisements and newspaper reviews, are settling more men than women entered the competition. Vassar themselves quietly on the shelves of our subscription contributed two of the prize winners, and Smith the libraries. Those who care for Bismarck and his doings other. These prizes (of $250 each) are to be continued, will now look for his personal “ Reflections and Recol- and awarded annually by “The Century Co.” lections " which the Cotta publishing house of Stuttgart " 254 [Oct. 16, THE DIAL a prose, to the writing of literary criticisms and critical essays. The new edition of “ Pepys' Diary," upon which Mr. H. B. Wheatley has been engaged for so long a time, is to be finally completed in January next by the addition of a ninth volume of Index, and a tenth entitled “ Pepys- iana.” This last volume is to contain notes and illus- trations of Pepys' life and Diary, and various appendices explanatory of the man and his times. The new edition of Carlyle's “ Sartor Resartus," with illustrations, to the number of over one hundred, by Mr. E. J. Sullivan, will, I am sure, prove a very agree able surprise. The pictures are the cleverest things I have seen for many a day. The book will not be ready before the end of the month. TEMPLE SCOTT. COMMUNICATIONS. . is preparing. The manuscript of this work, I under- stand, was corrected by Bismarck himself; but it is to be issued under the care of Dr. Horst Khol, and the first part will be ready in November. In Germany, Dr. Busch's work has been condemned, not so much for any indiscreet revelations he made as for the actual histor- ical value of what he said. Mr. Merriman's “ Roden's Corner" is another of the expected which has arrived. It is proving but a succès d'estime, and critics are agreed in considering it a falling-off from that writer's previous work. On the other hand, Mr. Neil Munro's “ John Splendid " is likely to be the novel of the year. Another story which is attracting very much attention is “ Phases of an Inferior Planet,” by Ellen Glasgow; it is an exceed- ingly striking book. If you want to enjoy an excellent piece of biographical study, you should read Mr. Augustine Birrell's sketch of Sir Frank Lockwood. It is full of good things and most racily told. Before I forget it, let me mention that Mr. S. R. Crockett will be again to the fore, on October 17, with • The Red Axe"- another of his regulation yarns. So will be Mr. Stanley Weyman with “ The Castle Inn," a story which has been running its serial course in “The Cornhill Magazine.” Mr. Weyman's book, however, will not be published until the first of November. Mr. Kipling's new volume of short stories will already be out by the time this letter reaches you; I understand that it will also form the thirteenth volume of the édition de luxe of his collected works. Shelleyites have for many years searched in vain for a volume of “Original Poetry, by Victor and Cazire.” Since 1860, when Dr. Richard Garnett first informed the world that such a volume was once printed, collect- ors have searched high and low for it. Now, at last, a copy has turned up, and a facsimile reprint of it will be issued by Mr. John Lane. It was in last October that Mr. Lane received a letter from Mr. V. E. G. Hussey, of Dorchester, asking him if he would be inclined to undertake “ the republication of some early original poems by Shelley, of which my mother, Mrs. J. F. Hussey, is in possession. . . . The work in question is entitled Original Poetry, by Victor and Cazire, the production of P. B. Shelley and an anonymous collab- orator. The book was published at Horsham in 1810, and consists of about sixty octavo pages.” In Dr. Gar- nett's opinion the collaborator was Elizabeth, Shelley's sister. It is interesting to learn that Mrs. Hussey's father was the Rev. Charles Henry Grove, brother to Harriet Grove, Shelley's first sweetheart. Of the work itself, not much is expected; but everybody interested in English poetry will be curious to know its contents. It seems that Shelley, in order to extricate himself from the Horsham printer's debt, went to Stockdale, a dealer in “remainders," and arranged with him to take over the remaining copies, 1480 in number, in liquidation of the sum owing. This was done, but Stockdale afterwards found a poem in the collection which he knew to be by “ Monk ” Lewis, and wrote to Shelley about it. Shelley, according to Stockdale's own account of the matter, ex- pressed the “warmest resentment at the imposition practiced upon him by his coadjutor, and entreated me to destroy all the copies, of which about one hundred had been put in circulation.” This was in 1810, and now the only copy known is this of Mrs. Hussey's. I hear that Mr. William Watson is about to change his publishers once again — his collected works are to be issued in two volumes by Messrs. Macmillan & Co., - and that for the present he is to devote himself to THE FOUNDING OF FREE GOVERNMENT IN AMERICA. (To the Editor of THE DIAL.) Professor B. A. Hinsdale, in his very kind review of my work, “ The First Republic in America,” in THE DIAL, Sept. 16, 1898, says: "Mr. Brown's theory is that Smith and the King were vir tually in collusion ; that his accounts of things in Virginia forwarded the royal purpose; while the destruction of one part of the Company's record and the long concealment of another part left Smith's accounts mainly unchallenged. On this point we are bound to think the author has been some- what carried away by his enthusiasm for the Company and his detestation of Smith." James I. allowed the royal portraits to be engraved on the title-page of Smith's history, and permitted the author to present him with a copy of his history through the hands of the Duchess of Richmond and Lenox, who was then aspiring to the hand of the King (pp. 635, 636). I do not believe that such royal endorsements as these acts imply would have been made if the account as written had not forwarded the royal purpose; but, further than this, I have no theory of collusion between the King and Smith, and I am sorry to have produced such an impression. The matter is of too great historic importance to be misunderstood, and I wish to state the facts of the case more clearly. I. The press was under the control of the Crown. If any history had contained an account of anything in Virginia which did not forward the King's purpose, the item or items would have been censored and erased before the book could have been licensed. Smith's his- tory as licensed and published contains no such matter; it conforms in all important particulars to the royal pur- pose as outlined in the verdict of the royal commission- ers (pp. 541, 542). II. The Company records were taken possession of by order of the Crown, and were so completely concealed forever thereafter that, so far as I can learn, not a single one of them has ever been found. Save for the forethought of Arthur Wodenoth, John Ferrar, Nicholas Ferrar, Sir John Danvers, and a few other patriots (who feared that the records would be destroyed), and save for the providential preservation of sundry extras and copies of documents — in Spain, France, the Neth- erlands, and in several private collections — the truth as to the founding of a more free government in Amer- ica, the origin of this nation, would have been consigned - 1898. 255 THE DIAL by the advocates of a royal monarchy forever to oblivion. That James I. endeavored to suppress the true his- The New Books. tory of the great popular movement which gave birth to this nation is as well established as such a fact could well be. That the Crown concealed the Company rec- BISMARCK AND HIS BOSWELL.* ords, and had accounts published which conveyed false ideas, is certain; and it is of the greatest historic import- Bismarck probably had, as he often professed ance that this fact should be well understood. to have, a sovereign contempt for newspapers. ALEXANDER BROWN. In fact, there would seem to have been few things Norwood, Va., Oct. 5, 1898. or men in the world he moved in for which or THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE ORIENT. for whom he had not more or less contempt. (To the Editor of THE DIAL.) But he was always cynically indifferent as to the The reviewer of Mr. Colquhoun's "China in Trans- general character of the tools he used, provided formation," in your issue of Sept. 16, placidly assumes that to transform Cathay into a vast hive of multifari- only they were useful; and it is now clear that ous industry” through the process of making it “covet” in point of fact no statesman of his time a thousand things of which it now knows nothing, and “worked the press ” more assiduously or less which the few attain through the toil and enslavement of scrupulously than did this professed despiser of the many, is to bestow upon it an unmixed blessing. Permit me to say that we Orientals think otherwise. journalism. When the full history of his great We dread the contagion of your unrest. We love that political achievement comes to be written it will “Sleep of Centuries” from which you desire to awaken be seen that a third ingredient, printers' ink, us, for its dreams are sweet and its pillow is content- will have to be added to his celebrated formula ment. We abhor that idol of progress which you would of Blood and Iron ” in order to make it a roll through our ancient civilizations like a Juggernaut; for progress means change, and the parent of change is true summary of the means employed in the discontent, and discontent is the negation of happiness. carrying through of the Bismarckian policy in Your view of the world as a mere workshop, and of the Germany. It is hardly too much to say, as a elements of the universe as primarily the raw material recent competent witness † has shown, that the of the “ wealth" of traffic, we do not understand. We reverence what you despise — the old; and our ears are great Chancellor was himself in effect a jour- open to the oracles of sages who spoke in the dawn of nalist - a virtual member of the fraternity he days, and closed to the passing babble of venders of used to style in his pleasant way, “quill-cattle." novelties. Your mania of improvement” is a puzzle He was a busy writer of political leaders long to us. How well and wisely, to our view, spoke that before he went prominently into administrative deputation of senators to the great Napoleon, after the fever of revolution had burned itself out in the veins of office. His journalistic career was in full swing exhausted France: “Sire, the worst malady that can in 1848, and it lasted with scarcely a break to torment the human race is the desire of perfection.” | the day of his death a half-century later. Dur- We are the East, you are the West. Our view is not ing the twenty odd years of his chancellorship your view, for our eyes are not your eyes. The life of the Orient, which to you seems a stagnant pool choked he virtually “ran " the influential press of Ger- with weeds and foul with the rotting growth of centuries, many. His monopoly of official news, his com- seems to us a broad and tranquil river, starred with the mand of the “ reptile fund,” and his organized lotos, and flowing into the slumbrous sea of eternity. corps of press writers and “workers," enabled 0. C. MOOKERJEE him to do this. His dismissal from office in (formerly of Cutwa, Bengal). 1890 by no means checked his journalistic ac- New Haven, Conn, Oct. 3, 1898. tivity, though it materially narrowed its area. Of the five hundred “ organs ” which he con- trolled while in power, one only, the Ham- AFTER THE SONNETS OF SHAKESPEARE. burger Nachrichten, stood by him after his Thus wrote the master, so prefiguring fall; and a great portion of his not very dig. The constant service of one faithful heart: Her silent lay let lyric Shakespeare sing, nified retirement at Friedrichsruhe was spent in Nor deem my love less tuneful than his art. concocting well-spiced matter for this faithful Nay, think of him but as the interpreter sheet. Usually the Bismarckian articles in the Of the sacred hieroglyphics of the soul, Hamburg paper were of the “inspired” variety, Love's Druid, with his runic staves writ o'er With mystic legends that all hearts control. discreetly softened and diluted to the degree His songs are dateless, after as before: dictated by editorial prudence. But sometimes They register the passions that rejoice * BISMARCK: Some Secret Pages of his History. Being a Or plague men ever; they are music's score, Diary kept by Dr. Moritz Busch during Twenty-five Years' Waiting the player's hand, the singer's voice. Official and Private Intercourse with the Great Chancellor, Love's voice and band, sweet Love, amend the song, In two volumes. With portraits. New York: The Mac- Lest even his singing love's sweet music wrong. millan Co. MELVILLE B. ANDERSON. † Dr. Henry W. Fischer, in "The Bookman" for October. 256 [Oct. 16, THE DIAL a > the angry old Junker seized the pen himself; to do with the business of politics "; and that and then the soul of Editor Hofmann trembled. this axiom was with him no mere hardy flour- The Press Bureau in the Wilhelmstrasse is ish of cynical paradox, the tale of his relations an important and recognized branch of the with journalism, as told by his literary facto- German Foreign Office, and under Bismarck tum, amply shows. We cannot enter into the especially it became a potent engine for manip- tortuous details of this story here. The nar- ulating public opinion. Of the well-organized rator tells it apparently with the most naive corps of salaried scribes and emissaries em. unconsciousness that he is degrading for all ployed on the Bureau in Bismarck's time, there time the memory of the man he worshipped. was no member who more fully enjoyed the In this regard Dr. Busch is unique among confidence of his chief than Dr. Moritz Busch, biographers. His blindness to the ludicrous dis- the author of the two remarkable volumes now crepancy between his idolatrous attitude toward before us. Dr. Busch entered the Bureau in his hero, and the squalid truths he tells of him, February, 1870, and he soon displayed such is not the least remarkable thing about his shining aptitude for its duties that his advance- book. He is like the lover who mingled rap- ment in favor was rapid. He followed the turous apostrophes to his mistress with a start- Chancellor to the war in August, and was with ling catalogue of her personal defects. Perhaps him at Metz, Sedan, and Versailles. After Dr. Busch means to prove the depth and sin- peace was concluded he returned with him to cerity of his devotion by showing us the obsta- Berlin, and resumed his round of journalistic cles it could overcome; but at all events, his ; duties, acting as the Chancellor's special liter- readers cannot fail to wonder at him as he goes ary henchman and man-of-all-work up to the on placidly enumerating instance after instance date of his patron's dismissal from office in of his hero's duplicity and brutality, and then 1890. After that date his intercourse with unctuously tells how he used to address him to Bismarck was more desultory; but he was up his face as “ Mein Heiland" (my Savior) and to the last a frequent and favored visitor at “My Messiah.” Once he is not ashamed to Friedrichsruhe, and his really Boswellian ac- compare the unscrupulous old minister, looking count of these visits and of his confidential back on his political achievements, to “God chats with the deposed statesman, whose natural the Father on the seventh day regarding the venom towards the objects of his dislike or world he had made"! jealousy increased with ripening years, forms Naturally, the course of Dr. Busch's devo- not the least racy and interesting portion of his tion to Bismarck did not always run smoothly. book. Sometimes he was roughly snubbed by the big Of Dr. Busch's unsparing, let us add fatal, man -- for instance, at the battle of Sedan, veracity there can be no question. That is his when, a movement of the troops being under crowning, and, under the circumstances, singu- discussion, he rashly ventured a mild strate- lar merit. “Once I am dead,” Bismarck said gical suggestion of his own. But in general to him in 1879, "you can tell everything you he was decently and even civilly treated; and like, absolutely everything you know "'; and the to his credit be it said that he clung to the Doctor took him at his word in a way that heels of his imperious master with dog-like must have made even the Iron Chancellor fidelity, through sunshine and shade, till the wince, could he have seen the result. As we end. Occasional scraps of gruff praise that were have already shown, Dr. Busch's official rela- tossed to him he received with joy and records tions with Bismarck were such as to enable him with pride. “Büschlein” (little Busch) was the to unveil completely the least creditable phase friendly diminutive the Chancellor latterly of his patron's statecraft - his dealings with came to call him by. When the big man was the press. His was usually the hand employed angry, “Büschlein's " attitude was humble and to let fly the poisoned shaft shot in the dark- conciliatory — as we judge, like that of Sterne's ness; he was the trusted go-between who se- donkey, whose look seemed to say, “Don't beat cured for an occasion the veral columns of the me, but if you will you may.” That this meek- , influential but unofficial journal; or who, when ness of bearing toward his Chief was not due the work in hand was too dirty or dangerous to a lack of spirit, or of personal courage in for a decent paper to touch, hired the services general, is plain. Dr. Busch shows himself in of “some obscure, disreputable sheet" ("irgend his book the fearless and outspoken partisan ein entferntes Schandblatt"). “Morality,” Bis- of Bismarck; and if we are not much mistaken marck used to say, “has absolutely nothing there is more than one passage in the closing , - 1898.] 257 THE DIAL O a a chapters, wherein he grows warm over the griev- of, outrageous ! Humboldt threw himself back in morose ances of the exile of Friedrichsruhe, that may meditation over the ingratitude of mankind, and shortly afterwards left." yet cost him dear — say a twelvemonth in jail Dr. Busch records many uncomplimentary for Majestätsbeleidigung. Once, in a transport of nettled partisanship, he does not scruple to things said by Bismarck of foreigners, espe- sneer pointedly and on his own account at the cially the French and the English. To Amer. “ parrow and mediocre mind” of the Conse- icans he was partial — thanks, perhaps, to his crated One himself ! We tremble for Dr. intimacy with Motley. Bancroft, too, he par- Busch. ticularly esteemed, pronouncing him a model As was to be expected, the book abounds in diplomat. Napoleon III. he fatly styled “a muddle-headed fellow," and he had a poor quotable passages — is made up of them, one may almost say. To convey here by examples he ironically styled him. France, he observed opinion of Gladstone—“Professor Gladstone," anything like a fair notion of its richness in this regard is out of the question. A good story in 1870," is a nation of ciphers - a mere herd.” “ The French are wealthy and elegant, but they have illustrative of the Chancellor's rather malicious no individuality, no consciousness as individuals, but humor, and of his habit of poking fun at qual only as a mass. They are like thirty million obedient ities he was pleased to term “professorial,” is Kaffirs, each one of whom is in himself featureless and that told by him of Humboldt. Bismarck said : worthless, not fit to be compared with Russians and “ Under the late King I was the sole victim when Italians, to say nothing of ourselves. You can give a Humboldt chose to entertain the company in his own Frenchman twenty-five lashes, and if you only make a style. He usually read, often for hours at a time, the fair speech to him about the freedom and dignity of biography of some French savant or architect in whom man of which those lashes are the expression, and at the nobody in the world but himself took the slightest inter- same time strike a fitting attitude, he will persuade himself that he is not being thrashed. He stood by the lamp holding the paper close to est. If you peel the light, and occasionally paused to make some learned the white hide off a Gaul you will find a Turco under it." observation. Although nobody listened to him, he had Comparing the Latin with the Germanic the ear of the house. The Queen was all the time at races, in 1871, Bismarck was drawn into some work on a piece of tapestry, and certainly did not under- interesting general observations. stand a word of what he said. The King looked through « • The Germanic race is, so to speak, the male prin- his portfolio of engravings, turning them over as noisily as possible, evidently with the intention of not hearing ciple throughout Europe - the fructifying principle. - him. The young people in the background enjoyed The Celtic and Slav peoples represent the female sex. themselves without the least restraint, so that their That principle extends as far as the North Sea and then cackling and giggling actually drowned his reading, across to England.' I ventured to add [says Dr. Busch], and also as far as America and the Western States of which, however, rippled on without break or stop, like a brook. Gerlach, who was usually present, sat on his the Union, where some of our people form the best part small round chair, which could barely accommodate his of the population and influence the manners of the rest. voluminous person, and slept so soundly that he snored. • Yes,' he replied, those are their children, the fruit they bear. That was to be seen in France while the The King was once obliged to wake him, and said, Pray, Franks still had the upper band. The Revolution of Gerlach, do n't snore so loud !' I was Humboldt's only 1789 was the overthrow of the Germanic element by the listener, that is to say, I sat still and pretended to listen, Celtic. And what have we seen since then ? And this at the same time following my own thoughts, until at length cold cake and white wine were served. It put held good in Spain so long as the Gothic blood pre- dominated. And also in Italy, when in the north the the old gentleman in very bad humor not to have all the talk to himself. I remember once there was somebody Germans also played a leading part. When that ele- there who managed to monopolize the conversation ment exhausted itself, there was nothing decent left.” quite paturally, it is true, as he was a clever raconteur Dr. Busch's pages are well salted with pithy and spoke about things that interested everybody. Hum- and characteristic Bismarckiana. “I am of boldt was beside himself. In a peevish, surly temper, opinion," he once said, “that to prevent mis- be piled his plate so high [pointing with his hand) with [” chief the Jews will have to be rendered innoc- pâté de foie gras, fat eels, lobsters' tails, and other indi- gestible stuff — a real mountain - it was astounding uous by cross-breeding." Discussing projects that an old man could put it all away. At last his pa- for State aid to the poor, he asked : “ Why tience was exhausted, and he could not stand it any should those who have in battle become inca- longer. So he tried to interrupt the speaker. On the pable of earning a livelihood be entitled to a peak of Popocatapetl,' he began, - but the other went on with his story. On the peak of Popocatapetl, seven pension, and not also the rank and file of the thousand fathoms above,'— but he again failed to make army of labor ?” “The kindlier affections," ” any impression and the narrative of the other maintained he averred, “bave as little place in the calcu- its easy flow. On the peak of Popocatapetl, seven thou- lations of politics as in those of trade.” sand fathoms above the level of the sea,' he exclaimed But we must take leave of Dr. Busch's ex- in a loud and excited tone, but with as little success as before. The talker talked on, and the company had tremely interesting memoir. Its basis, it should no ears for anybody else. That was something unheard be added, is a diary ranging over the twenty 6 > - 6 258 [Oct. 16, THE DIAL odd years of photographs Mr. . marck, the conversational portions of which Hearst, bat neither of them quite suited for - E. G. J. were in most cases jotted down within an hour serious history. So much for manner. after the words recorded were spoken. That A digression may be pardoned in respect of Bismarck was aware of his Boswell, and ap- the original sources of information which have proved of his proceedings, is clear. “Büsch. been at the historian's disposal here. Aside lein," he remarked in 1891,"will one day long from the official reports, many of them avail- after my death write the secret history of our able through the daily press, the war corre- time from the best sources of information.” spondents themselves seem to speak with the Dr. Busch's " secret history,” as we now have highest authority, due to their having been eye it, does not tend to enhance our admiration, witnesses of nearly all the facts to be chronicled. still less our liking, for the puissant Chancellor. And for this we are largely indebted to the 80- But its author has rendered a great service to called “yellow journals." Whatever else these the cause of impartial truth. His book is, in deleterious adjuncts of our civilization may be, its class, of the very first importance - the one they are not parsimonious in their expenditures book of the season that the student of our cen- for news. When their arrangements for giving tury's political history should read, whatever the people of the United States the last infor- else be neglected. The volumes are handsomely mation from the seat of hostilities had been made and they contain some striking and well completed, it was found that they had sent to executed portraits ; but we must complain of the front men of approved skill as writers and the very insufficient index. . pictorial artists in such profusion that all the papers, whether daily or weekly and whatever their color, must engage themselves in similar extravagance or be hopelessly behind in the FIRST OF THE WAR HISTORIES.* purveying of news. This has made the war one The first of the war histories, the leaves of of correspondents in good part; and there is which are soon to be as those of Vallambrosa no doubt that there were so many of them that for multitude, is upon us in the form of advance they would have become an insufferable nui- sheets of “ The Fall of Santiago.” This record sance had they not developed the most versatile flows from the facile pen of Mr. Thomas J. talents as warriors, scouts, nurses, and every- Vivian, whom his title-page announces as the thing else that brave men can be. What news- author of " With Dewey at Manilla." It pays paper men have long known has now been “ ” the penalty of its timeliness by cumulative evi- demonstrated to the world at large: that the dences of haste in letter-press, illustrations, and papers are able to command a service which for proof-reading. It also appears to be rather the absolute devotion to the duty before them ranks raw material of history than history itself. next to that called forth by patriotism. Possibly the first thought which the book But, owing to the censorship, this service was induces is one of satiety. We are desperately uneven. Up to the fall of Santiago, which covers tired of the war and its malarial atmosphere; the entire time allotted to the book in hand, the and, after all the praise poured upon us by telegraphed reports were not particularly full critics of more or less competence for our fight or satisfactory in any respect, while all their ing, and the dispraise we seem to be heaping deficiencies were more than made up, except in upon ourselves for nearly everything else, it point of mere timeliness, by long and well- , requires something strong, either by way of written letters transmitted through the mails flattery or objurgation, to rouse our jaded intel- for the purpose of avoiding the censorship. lects. Such being the fact, the faults of this After the fall of Santiago, especially during the book are doubtless more prominent than they operations in Puerto Rico (the official spelling, will appear to be in the ensuing years. A style and a deplorable one), the censor was dismissed, which is as of that of the newspapers, though and in consequence the telegraphic reports were without the advantage these possess of careful much more detailed and were not supplemented copy-reading before publication, is the most by the still better letters of the weeks before. apparent of these. Next come the pictures, Another source, which could have been de- some of them the ordinary process cuts of mod-pended upon in former wars to a much greater ern journals, others half-tone reproductions of extent, is found in private letters written by *THE FALL OF SANTIAGO. By Thomas J. Vivian. New the soldiers and sailors. These overflowed the York: R. F. Fenno & Co. papers, and have proved to be curiously un. > a 1898.] 259 THE DIAL > - trustworthy in many instances. One of these ple rules of accent are indicated. “N” with may be cited from the book before us, where and “n” without the circumflex are different the credit of being first to descry the approach letters. Here, not even the cedilla is used for of Cervera's squadron when opening the battle the "c" soft before “a," “0," and “u.” Surely “ 60” of July the third off Santiago is awarded to a it is not asking too much of the linotype to have young man whose chief claim to the honor lies these additional types provided. What is chiefly in the fact that he wrote home and told them commendable in the book is a certain pictur- there that he did it: at least, a letter addressed esqueness and vehemence that carry the narra- to his captain, Evans, of the Iowa, elicited the tive over many discouragements; while the reply that neither he nor anyone else on board facts are in the main closely adhered to, as we the battleship had been awarded the prize men- understand them. WALLACE RICE. tioned for his alleged vigilance, that no such prize had been offered, and that the article of discovery was in any event rather joint than several. A number of similar incidents might ORIENTALIST, TRAVELLER, AND DIPLOMAT.* be given here if they were of any applicability. It will be observed that all these sources are Besides the interest which every scholar must exclusively American, and that history, like so feel in Sir Henry Rawlinson as the Champol- many other things, has two sides to it. In the lion of cuneiform decipherment, the general book now written by Mr. Vivian this lack is reader cannot fail to find entertainment as well quite apparent. Some of the messages of the as instruction in Canon Rawlinson's account of Spanish generals appear in the wonderful trans- his brother's long life — covering the years lations that lead a reader to infer that the from 1810 to 1895 – which was devoted as United States had no Spanish scholars in all much to travel, adventure, and military and their broad domain. The log-book of the diplomatic service, as to philological and geo- “Colon” has been drawn upon, with excellent graphical research. results. But, generally speaking, the Spanish He seems to have been a second, or rather are not given the credit they deserve for their an earlier, Sir Richard Burton, in his love of courage in the fighting about Santiago, though adventure spiced with danger, and in the facil- it is to be feared it was the miserable slanders ity with which he acquired the languages of respecting American cruelty rather than char- the East. The sacred city of Kum and the acter which sustained them. Other defects renowned shrine of Fatima, said never to have follow from lack of information from the ene- been entered by a European, possessed attrac- my's camp tions for him, when he was serving as a young There is a commendable frankness in Mr. lieutenant in Persia, too great to be resisted. Vivian's account of the taking of Santiago which Instant death menaced the audacious infidel we trust will prevent the annals of the Hispano- who should be discovered intruding upon the American war being disfigured with the gross holy precincts, and it was only by assuming inaccuracies that characterize the histories of the disguise of a Persian Pilgrim that the young the land operations during the War of 1812. Englishman gained admission to the temple. The larger it is writ that politics is not suited “The guardian gave him the customary form of words, to field operations, and that, however necessary and he repeated them; but shortly afterwards his eye was attracted by some magnificent suits of steel armour trained soldiers may be found in times of peace, which hung upon the walls, and be found with a thrill they are still more essential in periods of war, of alarm, that while curiously contemplating them and the surer the nation will be enabled to avoid speculating upon their age and origin, he had almost the drubbing otherwise in store for it at the turned his back upon the sacred spot where the saint hands of some enemy in future. However Fortunately for him, his lapse was not remarked – it lay — the cynosure of all the eyes of true believers.' mortifying to our sense of pride, the truth will had been little more than momentary - otherwise, in make us free : an observation which makes an all probability, a promising career would then and there appeal to statesmen, and none whatever to mere have been cut short, and a light lost to philological, politicians. geographical, and diplomatic science with which they could ill have afforded to dispense.' Among minor defects in Mr. Vivian's work, the use of types which lack the Spanish diacrit- A full account in Sir Henry's own words of ical marks is most annoying. The Spanish *A MEMOIR OF MAJOR-GENERAL SIR HENRY CRESWICKE RAWLINSON, Bart. By George Rawlinson, M.A. With an spelling is more nearly orthoë pic than any other Introduction by Field-Marshall Lord Roberts of Kandahar, in Europe. Any deviations from the two sim- V.C. Illustrated. New York: Longmans, Green, & Co. 260 [Oct. 16, THE DIAL a he - a novel road race ridden by him in India in have been mastered by one of a less adventur- 1832 shows still farther the spirit and nerve ous and daring nature. The Journals of the of the young man. He rode, with an occasional Royal Asiatic Society and of the Royal Geo- change of mounts, from Poonah to Panwell, graphical Society, of fifty and sixty years ago, seventy-two miles, for a stake of one hundred bear record of the young explorer's achieve- pounds. The wager required him, in order to ments. win, to cover the distance in four hours one The zenith of Rawlinson's career as a dip- hundred rupees to be forfeited by him for every lomat was reached in 1859, when he was ap- minute over that time, and the same amount to pointed Ambassador to the Persian court. His be paid to him for every minute saved. After long residence in Persia, his personal friend. several mishaps and hairbreadth escapes, the ship with the Shah, and his familiarity with rider reached his goal, fifty-three minutes ahead the language and customs of the country, made of time! In this connection two other instances his nomination a happy one, although events of narrow escape from death may be noted. . On beyond his control caused him to resign his one occasion he was descending the Tigris on a office only six months after entering upon it. raft, when he and his attendants were attacked The remainder of his life was passed in En- by a band of Arabs, who opened fire on them gland, as a member of Parliament, a student — from the bank. Rawlinson chanced to be writ- of and writer on cuneiform inscriptions and ing at the time, and was holding the ink bottle oriental antiquities, a trustee of the British in his left hand, when a bullet struck it from Museum, a life member of the India Council, between his fingers. One of his escort was member and president of the Royal Geograph- killed, and he only prevented farther loss by ical Society, and contributor of scientific and landing with a few men and driving off the political articles to various publications. It is assailants. Some years later, during his resi- interesting to learn that his favorite poem, and , dence at Candahar as political agent, at the one which he often repeated in later life, was time of the great Affghan War, he barely es- Longfellow's “ The Day is Done"; and also caped assassination by a lucky accident. For that as early as 1857 he was given the degree three successive days he was detained in the of LL.D. by Dartmouth College. courthouse dispensing justice to all complain- The life of this distinguished Orientalist, as ants, much beyond his usual hour of leaving, told by his younger brother and ardent admirer, and was thus prevented from taking his cus- certainly loses nothing in the telling. It is tomary evening ride. A fanatic - one of a sympathetic, and inspires the reader with some- band of forty who had sworn on the Koran to thing of its author's love of his theme. But accomplish the assassination of the Great Fer- why must the Canon drag his favorite Hero- inghee, as Rawlinson was called — lay in wait dotus into the body of his text, untranslated at for him for three evenings where he was wont to that however brief the quotation ? And is mount his horse, having pledged himself neither it not a bit of unnecessary pedantry to use the to eat nor drink until he had done the deed. verb desiderate instead of desire or want? The On the third evening, as the Great Feringhee chapter on personal characteristics, by the still failed to appear and the would-be murderer present Sir Henry Rawlinson, adds much to was nearly crazed with thirst, he was forced to the warm human interest of the book, but content himself with stabbing the secretary of tains one note jarring to American ears. In his intended victim, whereupon he was imme- referring to his father's scrupulous care, as a diately arrested and taken before the latter to public servant of her Majesty, to avoid en- receive sentence of death. gaging in any commercial enterprise or even Such indications of a hardy and daring tem- lending his name to the promotion of such enter- perament gain an added significance when we prise, the writer says: “We have been drifting turn to consider Rawlinson's achievements as lately nearer, perhaps too near, to the system of a geographical explorer and a discoverer of financial morality prevalent on the other side cuneiform inscriptions. The trilingual inscrip- of the Atlantic.” However, we may be allowed tion on the great rock of Behistun the to take our revenge in a harmless smile at Sir Rosetta Stone of cuneiform decipherment - Henry's mixing of metaphors when he adds : would never have yielded up its secret to a man “ Let us hope that our drifting of less physical activity and persistency of pur- long be turned into the straight and upright pose. Nor could the geography of certain dis- channel." tricts of interior Asia, over which he travelled, PERCY FAVOR BICKNELL. - con- : may ere 1898.] 261 THE DIAL 9 9 to apply to it the stock expression, that its appear- RECENT PEDAGOGICAL LITERATURE.* ance is the “event of the year.” For a third of a century Dr. W. T. Harris has The space at our disposal forbids the more been contributing generously to the growing educa- lengthy notice that the book deserves and that we tional literature of the country — addresses, articles, should be glad to give. There are plenty of points papers, lectures, prefaces, introductions, reports, that attract the reviewer's attention. The scheme “discussions,” etc.,—contributions rich in the fruits adopted, going over the principal matters consid- of reading, thought, and experience. Still, until ered twice - once unsystematically in the chapters now there has been no one work that could be said bearing the general title “ Psychologic Method,” to present in one view the essential features of his and then systematically in another series entitled system of educational thought. To arrive at such " Psychologic System” – has its points of both ad- a view, the student must consult many scattered vantage and disadvantage. The book is not one for publications and make a synthesis of his own. This novices and amateurs ; even trained pedagogists will situation was the more remarkable because Dr. not always find it easy reading. Dr. Harris is so Harris has stood for years, by common consent, as completely at home in the pale land of philosophical the foremost pedagogical thinker and the highest abstractions, that he does not always make sufficient educational authority of the country. The Psy- allowance for the infirmity of the ordinary reader; “ chologic Foundations of Education” at once puts an we mean the ordinary reader of solid pedagogical end to this state of things, and meets the desire, works. We are well aware that such a mind as his often expressed and still oftener felt by the fore- cannot pour out all its riches in a duodecimo vol- most teachers, educators, and thinkers of the coun- ume of four hundred pages, but there are some try, that Dr. Harris should embody his system in a points that we think he should have treated more single treatise. It would be only belittling the work fully. Such a page as the following one, however, * PSYCHOLOGIC FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION. An Attempt leaves nothing to be desired on the score of clearness. to Show the Genesis of the Higher Faculties of the Mind. By “We have omitted any notice of the fields of labour W. T. Harris. New York: D. Appleton & Co. now diligently worked in the psycho-physiological labora- ROUSSEAU AND EDUCATION ACCORDING TO NATURE. By tories of America and Europe — namely, the ascertain- Thomas Davidson. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. ment of exact quantitative experiments of the velocity THE MEANING OF EDUCATION, and Other Essays and Ad- and intensity of nerve-currents to the brain from vari- dresses. By Nicholas Murray Butler, Professor of Philosophy ous organs, or outwardly from the former to the latter. and Education in Columbia University. New York: The All quantitative measurement is useful in the process of Macmillan Co. inventorying Nature, and there is no doubt that the PROGRESS IN WOMEN'S EDUCATION IN THE BRITISH EM- PIRE. Being the Report of the Education Section, Victorian devotees of psycho-physics' will discover much that is valuable on their road. De Soto and others went in Era Exhibition. Edited by the Countess of Warwick, New York: Longmans, Green, & Co. search of the · Fountain of Youth' and discovered vast PORT ROYAL EDUCATION. Saint-Cyran ; Arnauld ; Lance- rivers and the details of the continent, though the ob- lot; Nicole; De Saci; Guyot; Coustel ; Fontaine ; Jacqueline ject of their expeditions was a figment of the imagina- Pascal. Extracts, with an Introduction. By Felix Cadet, tion. Saul, the son of Kish, went out to find his father's Instructor-General of Public Instruction. Translated, with asses, but found a kingdom.' Many people have done an Index, by Adnab D. Jones. New York: Charles Scribner's the reverse of this, and men of average capacity are Sons. usually well satisfied if in their search for kingdoms they EDUCATIONAL REFORM. Essays and Addresses. By Charles are rewarded by finding useful beasts of burden. In the William Eliot, LL.D., President of Harvard University. New laboratories of the students of psychology no metaphys- York: The Century Co. THE APPLICATION OF PSYCHOLOGY TO THE SCIENCE OF ical results, nor results in pure psychology of a positive EDUCATION. By Johann Friedrich Herbart. Translated and character, will be arrived at, it is safe enough to say. Edited, with Notes and an Introduction to the Study of Her- But it is equally safe to expect very useful discoveries bart, by Beatrice C. Milliner, B.A., Lond., Lecturer at the relating to the proper care and nurture of our nervous Ladies' College, Cheltenham. With a Preface by Dorothea system — in short, a stock of pathological and educa- Beale, Principal of the Ladies' College, Cheltenham. New tional knowledge and scientific insight into the relation York : Charles Scribner's Sons. of man to other animals, and to his own historic evo- THE STUDY OF THE CHILD. A Brief Treatise on the Psy- lution.” chology of the Child, with Suggestions for Teachers, Students, and Parents. By A. R. Taylor, Ph.D., President of the State Perhaps no writer has subjected the educational Normal School, Emporia, Kansas. New York: D. Appleton system of Rousseau to a more searching examination & Co. than bas Mr. Davidson in his work on « Rousseau THE REPUBLIC OF PLATO. With Studies for Teachers. and Education According to Nature.” Beginning By William Lowe Bryan, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University, and Charlotte Lowe Bryan, A.M. New with the ideas and aspirations current in Rousseau's York: Charles Scribner's Sons. time, and that filled his atmosphere, the author pro- THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHILD. By Nathan Oppen- ceeds to relate the material facts of Rousseau's life, heim, Attending Physician to the Children's Department of to expound his educational theories, and sum up his Mt. Sipai Hospital Dispensary. New York: The Macmillan Co. influence, in a volume that, for its size, leaves noth- CHILD CULTURE IN THE Home. A Book for Mothers. By ing to be desired in respect to fulness, clearness, or Martha B. Mosher. Chicago: Fleming H. Revell Co. A STUDY OF A CHILD. By Louise E. Hogan. Illustrated general correctness. As he suggests in his preface, with over 500 original drawings by the child. New York: the Rousseau" stands at the opposite pole of thought Harper & Brothers. to his “ Aristotle "; that work gave an account of а 1. 262 [Oct. 16, THE DIAL а ancient, classical, and social education, while the the hollow of His hand,” leaves us inquiring what present one deals with modern, romantic, and un- this knowledge is ; but by turning back to the pre- social education. The chapter on Rousseau's influ. ceding address we find at least the practical answer. ence gives a brief but comprehensive and firm view There is no part of the book that college and uni- of the extent and nature of the effects that he pro- versity men can read to more advantage than the duced on politics, religion, literature, art, and edu- third one: “Is there a New Education?” Dr. cation. Under the last head, Mr. Davidson finds Butler here declares that as respects the application that most of the good work which he did was merely of psychological knowledge to teaching, the ele- negative. He says: mentary teacher, especially in the Western States, “In so far as Rousseau laid bare the defects and abuses is far in advance of all other teachers. And he sets of the society and education of his time, and demanded forth in strong language the ignorance of the prin- reforms in the direction of truth and simplicity, he did ciples of pedagogy and of education shown by a excellent work; but when he came to tell how such re- large number of teachers in the higher schools. forms were to be accomplished, he propounded a system “ Here and there a secondary school master, and which, from a social and moral point of view, has hardly one redeeming feature, and which is frequently in glar- here and there a college president or professor, takes ing contradiction with itself.” a genuine and intelligent interest in education for its own sake; but the vast majority know nothing Still, he says Rousseau's influence has been power- of it and are but little affected by it.” He might ful beyond measure, and calls him the father of have added that, as a rule, the farther these teach- modern pedagogy, even despite the fact that most ers have followed their own lines of specialized of his positive teachings had to be rejected. He study,--the more thoroughly Germanized they have calls him, too, the father of democracy, which sug- become, the less they know and the less they care gests to us the principal criticism that we have to about education as such. make on the book. We do not find in it an ade- quate recognition of the prodigious influence that The Countess of Warwick thus explains, in her modern democracy has had on modern education. brief preface, the genesis of the book on Women's The author's final estimate of his subject appears to Education in Great Britain, for which she stands be a late one; at least, he says in his preface : "If my a sponsor: estimate of Rousseau's value as an educator proves “ Amongst the multifarious sights of the Jubilee year of our Gracious Queen's reign, perhaps none gave disappointing to those who believe in his doctrines, greater occasion for thoughtful interest than the Wo- I can only say, in excuse, that I am more disap- men's Work Section of the Victorian Era Exhibition pointed than they are." at Earl's Court; and of these the sub-section · Education' It is not always, or perhaps often, that a definite was a striking object lesson of a movement essentially centre of unity and interest can be discovered in a belonging to the past sixty years. In addition to the permanent exhibit in the Education Section, a series of book which is made up of the author's miscellaneous Saturday Conferences and a three days' Education Con- addresses and essays covering a period of fifteen gress were arranged. The Conferences dealt with vari- years, even when they relate to the same general ous sides of women's work, professional and educational; subject. This may, however, be fairly claimed for the Congress with what might be called the Imperial Dr. Butler's new volume, “ The Meaning of Educa- aspect of Education." tion,” the reason being that his thinking on educa- The volume contains the addresses, papers, and dis- tion is controlled by a consistent general view of cussions that were offered in these Saturday Con- the whole field; a view formed, he expressly tells ferences, together with some prefatory and introduc- us, from the evolutionary standpoint. His utter- tory matter. It is a book of facts rather than of ances on educational subjects, he also assures us, ideas,- an attempt to show what, in the Jubilee have been controlled by the following convictions : Year, the British Empire was doing for the educa- “First, that education, in the broad sense in which I tion of women. Those who are seeking information use the term, is the most important of human interests, concerning this many-sided subject will find it here. since it deals with the preservation of the culture and If we could have a volume giving a similar view of efficiency that we have inherited and with their exten- sion and development; second, that this common interest women's education in the year that the Gracious can and should be studied in a scientific spirit and by a Queen ascended the throne, the two books would scientific method; and, third, that in a democracy at offer about as striking an educational contrast, con- least an education is a failure that does not relate itself sidering the interval of time, as could well be shown. to the duties and opportunities of citizenship." “ Port-Poyal Education” will be a welcome addi- The book is not a treatise, and does not profess to tion to pedagogical libraries in the United States. be; still, questions that are raised in one address The group of great teachers, able teachers and writ- or essay are sometimes answered in another. Thus, and noble men and women for whom the name the author's statement at the close of the second stands is not as well known among us as it should address, that “that knowledge is of most worth be. The book is mainly composed of extracts, but which stands in closest relation to the highest forms the editor has supplied an historical and critical of the activity of that spirit which is created in the introduction of sixty-seven pages. For this country image of Him who holds nature and man alike in this introduction, while a good one in itself, might ers, > а a 1898.] 263 THE DIAL have been better; a more detailed and elementary logical, and the first paper is the inaugural address, account of Port Royal and of what the name signi- delivered in October, 1869. The author says that fies, would have added interest to the book. The almost all the reforms advocated in the later papers extracts are the best of the Port Royal pedagogy, are distinctly, though slightly, outlined in this ad- and they show the depth, weight, and seriousness of dress ; possibly, however, some of his readers will all that the famous solitaires wrote and did. It is not be able to see them all there as distinctly as he well to read such classics, if for no other purpose than sees them. The papers are marked by that breadth to show how much that is now thought new is really of view, virility of thought and expression, and old. Might we not now accept Nicole's definition courage which have contributed so much to the suc- of the most essential quality in the preceptor of a cess of President Eliot's administration at Harvard, prince as a good definition of the essential quality and without which it would have been impossible. in the teacher ? We find him saying in the inaugural: “In spite of “It cannot be better explained than by saying that it the familiar picture of the moral dangers which en- is that quality which makes a man always blame wbat is viron the student, there is no place so safe as a good blameworthy, praise what is praise worthy, disparage college during the critical passage from boyhood to what is low, impress with a sense of what is great, judge manhood.” If he can persuade the public of this everything wisely and equitably, and express his judg. ments in an agreeable manner, suitable to those to whom truth, he will at once assuage the anxieties of some breasts that are now troubled, and stimulate attend- he speaks, and, in fine, makes him direct the mind of his pupils to the truth in everything." ance upon colleges. The papers are eighteen in And then, how modern are these paragraphs from number, and they touch the whole range of educa- tion, from lowest to highest, professional schools the same writer : included. “ The aim of instruction is to carry our minds to the highest point they are capable of attaining." Herbart's “ Application of Psychology to the “ It does not give memory, imagination, nor intelli- Science of Education" is, so far as we are aware, gence, but it cultivates them all. By strengthening the fourth of this writer's educational works to be them one by another, the judgment is aided by the presented in an English dress. Translations of memory, and the memory is assisted by the imagination the “ Text-book in Psychology,” the “Science of and the judgment." Education,” and the “ Æsthetic Revelation of the “When some of these parts are absent they should be supplied by others. Thus, the tact of a master is shown World," the two last in one volume, came out some in setting his scholars to things for which they have a years ago. The “Application” was a late pro- natural liking. Some children should be instructed duct of Herbart's pen; it appeared in the form of almost solely with what depends on memory, because short letters, was meant to be supplementary to the their memories are strong, but their judgment weak; and “Science of Education,” and was never completed. others should at first be set to things regarding judg- Miss Millner has rendered students of pedagogy, ment, because they have more judgment than memory." and especially Herbartians, a service by her trans- “ It is not properly the teachers nor extraneous lation and her "Introduction to the Study of Her- instruction that cause things to be understood; at most bart.” The frequent translation of Herbart's books, they only expose them to the interior light of the mind, by which alone they are accompanied; so that when this to say nothing of the large secondary literature, shows how much interest the Herbartian pedagogy light is not found, instruction is as useless as wishing to show pictures during the night." has awakened. This interest cannot be indefinitely No matter whether they agree or not with the maintained, relatively speaking, and it is not desir- able that it should be ; but it will not ebb until the opinion expressed not long ago that President Eliot more valuable Herbartian ideas have become incor- is the greatest constructive force that has acted upon American education in recent years, the better teach- porated into our general stock of pedagogical ers and educators of the country will heartily wel- thought, such as the ethical ideal, apperception, and interest. We do not remember a better brief char- come the volume of essays and addresses to which acterization of Herbart than the one that Mr. David- he has given the name of “ Educational Reform.” He explains, in his preface, that the papers con- son gives in the work noticed above : tained in the volume have been selected from a much “Ideas are treated as forces which may be com- pounded, and whose mechanical relations and resultants larger number, on the ground that they set forth may be stated in mathematical formulas. With such with clearness and sufficient amplitude the various notions he could, of course, arrive at no conception of a educational reforms that he bas been trying to pro- free will or any true morality. To have will is nothing mote during the last thirty years. The title well more than the mechanical resultant of his idea-forces. expresses the character of the work, as “ educational But in spite of these serious drawbacks, which tend to reformer” would well express the character of its make education a mere mechanical matter, Herbart's author. We notice the absence from the collection contributions to the science of pedagogy were most val- of the articles on "The New Education ” published uable and lasting.” in “The Atlantic Monthly,” which first drew gen- President Taylor's “Study of the Child” is some- eral attention to Dr. Eliot, and had much to do, as thing quite different from the conventional book on was then understood, with making him President child-study. It is not an inventory of child-actions, of Harvard University. The arrangement is chrono- child-words, and child-ideas and feelings, nicely ex- 9 a > 264 [Oct. 16, THE DIAL - “ A young a pressed in tables and summaries and left with little is one step of immense importance, one stride in the attempt at interpretation or synthesis—a monument right direction ; still, he contends that the young to their author's interest in facts, — but it is just man enters much more fully into the enjoyment of what the secondary title expresses, a brief treatise on the new education than the young woman, even if the psychology of the child. It is strongly marked her education is described as “higher.” by the method and spirit of the objective psychology, man's training,” he tells us, “ is designed to further and could not have been written without the new his ability to accomplish definite work in the world; insight from that quarter, but it also recognizes the his sister's is still arranged on the plan of making fact that, at bottom, psychology is an introspective her appear better cared for, more advantageously science. The matter of the book is well chosen, the placed, better apparelled in mental garments than plan easy and natural, and the style clear, while the her neighbors." It is quite safe to say that a ma- more abstract parts are well set off by concrete jority of the young women now in colleges and uni- examples. versities will not take kindly to this view of the Professor and Mrs. Bryan’s “ Republic of Plato" matter. has been prepared with a view of bringing the ideas, In her attractive volume, “Child Culture in the methods, and spirit of that great master to bear Home,” Mrs. Mosher addresses to mothers, in a more directly upon the teaching and education of pleasant style, much sound instruction that they need the country. The object is a commendable one. to know and lay to heart. There are sixteen chap- The “ Studies for Teachers” consist of careful ters, all bearing such practical titles as “ The Emo- analyses of the several books of the “ Republic”- tions," “ The Moral Sense,” “The Training of the what it was once the fashion to call “ arguments.” Will,” “ Manners,” “ Domestic Economy,” and These studies those who use the book will find very “ Civic Duties." We have not discovered fresh or helpful. Following them is a general introduction, novel ideas in the book, but its old lessons, shaped historical and critical in character. The editors anew and fitted to new conditions, will never go out have taken a hint from the current Sunday School of fashion, because they are essential to sound child- Lesson Leaf: “In the Studies some golden sayings culture, and, in great degree, to the best interests of have been quoted in full, in the hope of making them buman life. current coin among us. The motif in the preparation of “A Study of a Dr. Oppenheim's “ Development of the Child” is Child,” as stated by the author, “is the interest made up of a series of well-considered studies, writ- awakened in America and Europe by the child-study ten solely from the modern objective or strictly sci- movement, the fascination that lies in the sayings entific point of view. We interpret the book to and the doings of children, and especially the ex- mean that the author took up for discussion a class pressed desire of psychologists, physicians, and of subjects that he thought very important and also teachers for opportunity to study individual child very much neglected, and not that it expresses records, both normal and abnormal.' The book the full range of his pedagogical thought. His opens with an argumentative chapter, “ Reasons for method and spirit are well shown by the chapter Child-Study in the Home," and then proceeds with devoted to the value of the child as a witness in the “record ” which “is given exactly as it was suits at law. After showing that the old writers on originally written, with a few additional explanatory evidence placed the stress on the religious element remarks concerning the course taken to produce the involved in the sanctity of an oath, he proceeds to results recorded." These “ results are a large show that it should rather be placed on the child's collection of facts observed by an intelligent observer ability to understand the facts involved in his testi- in the first eight years of the development of an mony and correctly to report them. His argument individual child, that is endorsed as healthy, happy, is perfectly conclusive, but we fear that a majority and intelligent, care being taken to interfere as little of jurists and lawyers have not the scientific train- as possible with his spontaneity. They have slight ing to appreciate its force. The subject has obvious connection, or rather none except what is furnished practical difficulties, and we are by no means sure by chronological sequence. The large number of that the dictum, “The only safeguard that can original drawings add to the value of the book. effectually preserve the common interest is the with- The foregoing list of books suggest two or three drawal of such child-evidence from courts of law as things that are worth noting. One is the activity a well-informed man must, a priori, doubt,” would of the pedagogical mind of the country. These remove them. Dr. Oppenheim finds in the profes- works all bear the date 1898, and are the accumu- sion of maternity the highest activity of woman, but lation of three or four months. It is not so very he does not find that the new education provided long ago that, to make up an equal list, one would for women in any way fits them the better for the have been compelled to run over a series of years, performance of this activity. But this opinion is and then the books would have been only relatively less discouraging than the old one, which was that as good. It is only within a few years that books it tended directly to unfit them. He holds that a of as high a character as several of these began to careful and exact preparation for the work in hand be written in the country. Again, the list shows, , has to a certain extent received recognition, that it very happily, the range that our pedagogical litera- a 1) 1898.] 265 THE DIAL as artist and author. A model 66 ture is taking. The three great fields are all covered in the face of all that has been given, the editor more or less fully — the science, the art, and the remarks, truthfully enough : “It would not have history of education. Unless all signs fail, the ed- been difficult to add indefinitely to the quotations Qcation of the country must be steadily improving. from English poetry, and the task of selection was B. A. HINSDALE. not easy." Mr. Remington Home-keeping folks of steady habits may find Mr. Frederic Remington's bouquet of wild-life sketches, entitled BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS. “Crooked Trails ” (Harper), rather dangerous read- Professor Shorey's edition of the ing. Mr. Remington's enthusiasm for the scenes he classical Odes and Epodes of Horace, recently paints is infectious enough to tempt a sedentary tert-book. published in “ The Students' Series man into exchanging the trusty arm-chair for the of Latin Classics (Benj. H. Sanborn & Co.), is a plunging bronco or the fickle canoe as did the text-book of such unusual value that it must be given misguided attorney who figures as a sort of Tartarin more than the perfunctory mention usually accorded in one of the present sketches. With the work of to publications of this description. There are an- Mr. Remington the artist we are all more or less notated editions of Horace without number for col- familiar. He is the delineator par excellence of lege use, and it would seem at first thought that to the Indian, the cavalryman, the cowboy, and the add another to the number was about as unnecessary “greaser," and the sharp realism of his pictures will a task as a scholar could attempt. But an examina- make them of positive historical value to future tion of this new edition not only justifies its exist- generations, when the types and phases of Amer- ence, but sets a new standard of excellence for works ican character he chooses to portray have disap- of the class to which it belongs. To put the matter peared from the shifting stage of our national life. briefly, we doubt if there has ever before been With Mr. Remington the author we are not so brought to the preparation of a classical text for familiar; but the present volume shows that Mr. school use so complete a knowledge of the literature Remington can write — if not nearly so well as he of all ages and so great a wealth of illustrative ma- can draw — still fairly well. His book is not free terial as are condensed into the four hundred pages from expressions of (to put it mildly) questionable of Dr. Shorey's introduction and notes. There is taste, such as “ Nature had slobbered all over Car- such a thing, no doubt, as over-annotation, but this ter Johnson,” and the like. These outbreaks are criticism does not apply to the apparatus with which clearly efforts on Mr. Remington's part to seem the present volume is provided, and an examination “breezy” and off-hand; but they are clumsy and evi- of these notes, extensive as they are, reveals the dently forced. How well he can write when he is con- fact that, so far from being padded, or eked out by tent to be himself, the following pretty bit of word- the admission of pedantic trivialities, they illustrate painting shows : “The colors play upon the senses the extreme of compactness, and that they contain - the reddish-yellow of the birch-barks, the blue of nothing the scholar would willingly miss. The the water, and the silver sheen as it parts at the average college student, of course, could get along bows of the canoes ; the dark evergreens, the steely with much less help than is here offered, but for rocks with their lichens, the white trunks of the him the remedy is obvious enough, and the book birches, their Auffy tops so greeny green, and over has the great merit of providing the student in or all the gold of a summer day.” All in all, Mr. out of college) who is not of the average type with Remington's book is a delightful one. Of course a richer treasury of comment, parallel passages, and the pictures are the best part of it. There are forty- Horatian echoes in modern poetry, than has pre- nine of them in all, and they are to the text what viously been brought within the covers of one vol- the gem is to the setting. The volume is a comely Let us quote one note, taken almost at ran- one, and it will make a tempting gift-book when the dom, by way of illustration. The subject is from Holiday season comes again. Ode IV., XIV., 31. “Metendo: cf. on 4, 11, 30. For image, cf. Il., 11, 67, 19, History of a Miss Harriett Wright Smith's “His- 223; Catull., 64, 353-355 ; Verg., Æn., 10, 513; Æschyl., famous literary tory of the Lowell Institute” (Lam- Suppl., 637 ; Gray, The Bard, 'And thro' the kindred squad- son, Wolffe, & Co.) describes an edu- rons mow their way'; Macaulay, Regillus, 23, 'Like corn cational endowment, simply planned and effectively before the sickle | The stout Lavinians fell’; Swinburne, administered, which stands almost without a parallel. Erechtheas, ‘Sickles of man-slaughtering edge | Ground for no hopeful harvest of ripe grain'; Shaks., Tro. and Cress., 5, 5, John Lowell, third of the name, was the son of * And there the strawy Greeks ripe for his edge | Fall down Francis Cabot Lowell, who introduced cotton spin- before him like the mower's swath.'" ning into New England and for whom the city of When one has hundreds of pages of this sort of Lowell was named, and was cousin to James Rus- thing, it becomes impressive. We may add that sell Lowell, the poet-professor. Dying in Bombay the quotations given in the notes are taken not only in 1836, while yet a young man, he left $250.000, from Greek, Latin, and English literature, but also, the half of his fortune, to the care of a single trustee although somewhat more sparingly, from the clas- who should have power to name his successor, always sical writers of France, Germany, and Italy. Yet, to be a member of the Lowell family, if one worthy : ume. endoroment. 266 [Oct. 16, THE DIAL 9 66 > the hero and man. - animal of the trust could be found. The income of the of thumb, and without reference to any ascertain- fund thus provided, except one-tenth which should able canon of taste. Complaint has also been made be regularly added to the principal, should be ex- by many and many a critic recently, that a book pended in providing free public lectures to be given showing some real knowledge of the technique and in the city of Boston by distinguished scholars of history of the musical art, Evelyn Innes" for ex- “ the highest attainments. The first lecture was de- ample, is quite beyond the reach of readers (mean- livered on December 31, 1839, by Edward Everett. ing the critics), and should be reconstructed on more Since then, more than fifty-four hundred lectures popular grounds. Now comes Miss Hannah Smith have been given by three hundred and fifty-two to the rescue with “Music, How it came to Be lecturers. The list of subjects includes the most What It Is" (Scribner), which is a simple, attrac- important topics known to human philosophy, dis- tive, and wholly comprehensible presentation of cussed by the most advanced thinkers of the age, of precisely what it is that every person of culture whom Agassiz, Guyot, Tyndall, Drummond, Rogers, should know regarding the fundamental facts of Eliot, and Walker are worthy examples. The bene- music, serving also to point out to them the Cim- ficial results of this endowment in the development merian darkness of their ignorance in a startling of the culture of Boston cannot be estimated. Many number of cases. Almost everyone sets himself up epoch-marking books have been first presented to as a literary or dramatic critic with at least some the public as Lowell Lectures. While the honora- notion of the laws of construction in literature and riums paid to the lecturers have been generously the drama ; this book will prove that critic upon adequate to the service, the finances have been so critic of music assumes for himself a knowledge of skilfully administered that the original endowment musical construction by mere instinct. Miss Smith's has been about doubled. work is commendable in every respect save one: she should have gone to anthropology instead of A well-balanced history of Martin Luther, literary tradition for her account of the beginnings Luther is certainly one of the most of the art she does so much to make comprehensible difficult things in the world to write. in its later developments. Himself a man of intense personality,— a sort of theological Bismarck, - his memory rejoices itself Studies of Professor Wesley Mills, of McGill with devoted friends and laughs at impotent ene- University, has collected, in a volume intelligence. mies; the calm dispassion which should characterize entitled “The Nature and Develop the biographer being a world's length from both. ment of Animal Intelligence" (Macmillan), sundry Dr. Henry Eyster Jacobs, author of the life of memoirs, addresses, and discussions on animal psy- Luther, which makes the first volume of a series to chology After some general remarks he treats of be known as “ Heroes of the Reformation” (Put- feigning among squirrels, of hibernation among nam), is Dean of the Evangelical Lutheran Semi- various animals, of psychic development of young nary in Philadelphia and Professor of Systematic animals, and closes with a discussion on instinct. Theology therein — matters which array him among The most valuable part of the book is the diaries the great innovators followers and admirers. Yet showing the growth, physical and psychical, of dogs, it is surely more humane to let the friends rather cats, rabbits, guinea-pigs, pigeons, and chickens. than the adversaries of any given person set forth While this work cannot be accounted a thorough- his qualities, appreciatively and not without rev- going connected monograph, it contains much good erence, as in the case before us. Dr. Jacobs has and suggestive observation, and opens up a fascin- been careful to keep on solid ground. The myths ating field of study. The candid, cautious, thought- which have done much to obscure the real entity ful spirit of the author is to be greatly commended behind them are cleared away, and the triumphs in this age of rash generalization. Like all who and trials of a very human personality disclosed. seriously study animals, Professor Mills finds in Some of the more important documents on the them an unsuspected mental complexity, a force and other side are given in full, a welcome concession amount of psychic life, which is far beyond what the to impartiality. Nor is the book too voluminous, public grant them. He confirms the common belief while its interest is heightened by many illustrations. that the woodchuck is a predicter of storms. What it has done for its famous subject may be summarized thus : Leaving him still the hero, it The effect of food, both in its nature The problem of affords us a portrait of the man. and quantity, upon the determination of the sex of developing organisms What it is we Complaint has been rightly made by has often been the subject of experiment by the those best entitled to be heard in the biologist, though not always with accordant results. about Music. premises, that modern fiction in gen- Dr. Schenk, director of the Embryological Institute eral deals with the art of music as if it were some- of the University of Vienna, has propounded a thing to be learned without painstaking — not an theory which has been much exploited of late in the art with a science and history and literature of its daily press ; this has now been given to the expec. own, but something of which it can be affirmed, tant public in an “authorized translation" (Schenk's “This is good that is bad,” empirically, by rule | Theory, the Determination of Sex; Werner). Fol- ser-control. should know 1898.] 267 THE DIAL - Homer's women lowing the suggestions of previous theories and ex- bibliographic field, taking in the interesting careers periments, the author finds a partial solution of the of men as widely known as Charles B. Norton, problem in a regulated diet. The experimental Henry Stevens, Nicolas Trübner, Joseph Sabin, and , and statistical data given in support of his views, Frederick Leypoldt. Then, by way of climax to though interesting and perhaps suggestive to the this list of treasures, there is appended the full text physiologist, do not advance the theory beyond the of the “Catalogue of all the Books Printed in the experimental stage, nor are they adequate to com- United States. Published by the Booksellers mand its wide acceptance in scientific circles, and in Boston, January, 1804.” The whole has been are quite insufficient, in the present state of the prepared by Mr. A. Growall, the managing editor question, to justify a popular faith in its efficacy. of the “ Publishers' Weekly," and is in excellent The greater part of the book is made up of an un- taste throughout, both in matter and manner. Al organized repetition and confused jumble of the this information has its value heightened, charac- various crude and conflicting theories advanced teristically, by the announcement that a hundred upon this subject since the days of Aristotle. There copies and no more are printed for the non-members is neither a table of contents nor an index to guide of the Dibdin Club in America. Possibly the weight- the reader through this maze of rubbish. The trans- iest thing in a book which contains nothing unim- lation is none too well done, and, as in the case of portant is the story of the life of the late Henry the original, no semblance of a bibliography of the Stevens. This really eminent American was forced, subject appears. against his will and strong desire, to purvey to the The “Early Letters of George Will-libraries of Europe, that of the British Museum in Early letters of G. W. Curtis. iam Curtis to John S. Dwight” particular, numbers of works pertaining to America (Harper ), edited by Mr. George The persons responsible for this apathy, which has which are not to be found in this country at all. Willis Cooke, have all the elusive charm one of many — which attaches to an overheard telephonic placed the finest existing collection of Americana in London rather than Washington, are, of course, conversation. The references to what the other fellow says are not eliminated, and a delightful the members of past American Congresses. opportunity to guess what the missing links might A curious discrepancy between aim be ensues, most gratifying to Yankee inquisitiveness. Cartis was a boy in the Brook Farm School, sent and execution keeps “The Women misplaced. of Homer" (Dodd), prepared by there because it was probably the best secondary school in the country at that time. Curtis and the Mr. Walter Copland Perry, from being a work of Farm being what they were, the resulting tale is real delight. His subject and the age are alike not only a literary treat -- which, considering the auspiciously chosen - something like Mr. George -- lapse of it years, P. Upton's “Woman in Music” should result: old well might not have been very but a charming picture, replete with good humor, facts made new by artistic juxtaposition and an illu- of departed ambrosial days. This latter aspect the minating intelligence. The intention is, of course, , editor has judiciously preserved by rescuing - to to wrest Homer's women from one literary setting be chronistic - a daguerreotype or two of the time, and place them in another; the fact stands before as when he quotes from Mrs. Kirby to show 18 the us in a scrappy, almost hasty, book, without an index, youthful Curtis “as Fanny Ellsler, in a low-necked, inconsecutive and illogical. Search may be made in vain for the first of the Homeric women, that short-sleeved, book-muslin dress, and a tiny ruffled apron, making courtesies and pirouetting down the dainty, fleeting impression of the pretty maiden re- turned to her old father's arms, path.” There are, besides, a number of later letters “ from the same to the same,” wbich round out the “Many another bard some maiden sings- Dearer to me Chryseis on the sands value and worth of a very pleasant little book to Ages ago, read and to own. and the insistent dwelling upon the goddesses rather The American A number of those things, technical than the flesh-and-blood personages of the two epics Book Trade and otherwise, in which collectors is, after all, disappointing. So the work stands : : of this contury. of books rejoice have been gathered too replete with Greek quotations and specialized together in the beautiful little volume printed for Homeric knowledge for enjoyment by the many, the Dibdin Club of New York, under the title too insistently written down to the many in other “Book-Trade Bibliography in the United States in respects to make an appeal to the few. the XIXth Century.” It contains full accounts of early booksellers' associations, of the conditions sur. The time is not ripe for an adequate rounding the book-trade in its beginnings in Amer- An appreciation attempt to place the works of Eugene of Eugene Field. ica, of the first “helps " which became catalogues Field in the canon of English litera- and journals in later years, of the succeeding bib- ture; but his friends are doing all that lies in them liographies which makes the book something very to make his position as a classic secure when the near that long songht for thing, a bibliography of authoritative critique is finally prepared. Mr. bibliographies; and, in addition, it holds excellent Francis Wilson, comedian and bibliophile, is the biographies of the men who attained fame in the last to lend himself to an exploitation of Field's 268 (Oct. 16, THE DIAL » various excellences, personal and otherwise, and LITERARY NOTES. “ The Eugene Field I Knew” (Scribner) is a very attractive person indeed. What the little book con- The Macmillan Co. have added “ Doctor Pascal,” in tains, however, is rather the raw material of the Mrs. Serrano's translation, to their growing edition of biographer than the finished product. We are some- M. Zola's novels. what at a loss to understand the reasons for includ- An edition of the “ Alcestis” of Euripides, prepared ing the facetious epitaph in the closing pages of the by Dr. Herman W. Hayley, has just been published by Messrs. Ginn & Co. book. As a rule, Field's friends have been careful to keep all the work he did of this sort from the Messrs. D. C. Heath & Co. publish a pretty school ears of the public, though not a few competent edition of “The Vicar of Wakefield,” edited by Pro- fessor William Henry Hudson. judges have held that it is here that his fame The forthcoming life of the Rev. Dr. Newman Hall such as it may turn out to be is most secure. of London will be published in an American edition by Messrs. T. Y. Crowell & Co. The Century Co. have just published a new edition of Dr. Weir Mitchell's “ Far in the Forest," an admirable BRIEFER MENTION. story first issued nearly ten years ago. “ The Gospel, Epistles, and Revelation of St. John," The Roycroft Press, situate in the little town of edited by Professor R. G. Moulton for the “Modern East Aurora, N. Y., is turning out from time to time Reader's Bible,” is published by the Macmillan Co. some choicely-printed volumes which lovers of artistic The next publication of the “ Brothers of the Book," bookmaking should not overlook. Their latest product of Gouverneur, N. Y., will be a volume of verse by is a comely volume, bound in gray boards with back of Mr. Claude Fayette Bragdon entitled “The Golden rough green leather, entitled « Hand and Brain.” It is Person in the Heart." made up of six essays on socialism, written by William Dr. Ferdinand Schwill, of the University of Chicago, Morris, Grant Allen, George Bernard Shaw, Henry S. has written a text-book of the “ History of Modern Salt, Alfred Russel Wallace, and Edward Carpenter. Europe,” "which work has just been published by Messrs. The pames of these writers alone are a sufficient indica- Charles Scribner's Song. tion of the literary quality of the essays, and they are given a mechanical setting which is fully up to the pre- “Wireless Telegraphy Popularly Explained," by Mr. Richard Kerr, is a very small volume just imported by vious high standards of the Roycrofters. Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons, and provided with a The sixth volume in the new biographical edition of preface by Mr. W. H. Preece. Thackeray (Harper) contain the “Contributions to Selections from Macaulay, Carlyle, and Mr. Raskin • Punch,' ," which include “ The Book of Snobs,” the make up the respective contents of three small books in “ Novels by Eminent Hands," the “ History of the Next the series of “Little Masterpieces," now published by French Revolution," and many other matters. The the Doubleday & McClure Co. connection with “ Punch ” lasted for about ten years, and was discontinued because Thackeray could not Two important books of travel to be issued shortly by agree with the position taken by the paper toward Prince Messrs. Rand, McNally & Co. are “ A Cruise under the Albert, Lord Palmerston, and Louis Napoleon. It is Crescent” by Mr. Charles Warren Stoddard, and “Along interesting to read that it was Thackeray's intention to the Bosphorus" by Mrs. Lew Wallace. include the “Novels by Eminent Hands” with parodies The G. W. Dillingham Co. have just put forth a of Dickens and himself, but that the publishers were revised edition of “The Complete Works of Artemus not willing to have Dickens thus caricatured. Mrs. Ward," in a single handsome volume, with a portrait, Ritchie says: “We read the Prize Novelists' for real numerous illustrations, and an introductory sketch. stories, and longed for them to be finished, instead of « The Classics for the Million," being “an epitome in always breaking off at the most interesting point.” English of the works of the principal Greek and Latin Preceded by a careful essay upon the various versions authors," by Mr. Henry Grey, is a book that describes of the Rov. S. R. Driver's psalms of David which have itself. It is an English production, and Messrs. Put- nam's Sons publish it in this country. appeared in English from the time of Wycliffe, “ Par- allel Psalter” (Oxford Press) is a conscientious attempt « The Individual in Relation to Law and Institutions," to bring new readings to the better comprehension of being Part I. of a monograph on “ The Individual and these ancient songs. The work does not seem to be one his Relation to Society as Reflected in British Ethics," that is destined for popularity, though this is unques- by Professor J. H. Tufts and Miss Helen B. Thompson, tionably its intention. The Prayer-Book version of the has just been issued in pamphlet form by the University Psalter stands on one page, with Dr. Driver's version of Chicago Press. over against it, — this latter showing every proof of a “Great Words from Great Americans," edited by ripe and thoughtful scholarship, which has refused to Mr. Paul Leicester Ford, is a pretty volume containing sacrifice accuracy to literary attractiveness. the fundamental documents of our constitutional history, The “European History Studies," edited by Dr. F.M. besides the most famous addresses of Washington and Fling, which have been coming periodically to our table Lincoln. It is a well-illustrated volume published by during the past year, are now sent out in a small vol. Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons. ume by Mr. J. H. Miller, Lincoln, Nebraska. The The most remarkable of recent literary finds is one studies are ten in number, deal with Greek and Roman which we first saw mentioned a few days ago, although history, and are to be warmly commended to teachers it is stated that the discovery itself was made in June. who understand the value of getting at the sources, even It is nothing less than a copy of the “Original Poetry for the purposes of elementary work. by Victor and Cazire," of which every student of 6 9 the 1 1 + 1 4 1 1 - 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1898.] 269 THE DIAL 9 Tower," “Guenn," " Aunt Serena,” « The Open Door," and several other volumes of fiction. For the last twenty years or more she has lived in Germany, where she was married to Dr. von Teuffel in 1890. His subsequent insanity brought a tragedy into her life, and she wrote little during the last few years of her life. Her novels have an unfailing charm, and some of the elements of enduring value. LIST OF NEW BOOKS, (The following list, containing 135 titles, includes books received by TAE DIAL since its last issue.] : Shelley has dreamed that he might be the possible dis- coverer, but which few have supposed would be brought to light in the waking world. The book is dated Hors- ham, 1810, contains sixty pages, and will be reprinted at once by Mr. John Lane. It has no absolute value as poetry, of course, but is historically of the same interest and importance as the equally famous “ Poems by Two Brothers." A valuable little book for those intending to take the Civil Service or other competitive examinations is “The Automatic Instructor,” published by the St. Paul Book & Stationery Co. It is the work of a United States army officer, who attributes his success in a difficult competitive examination to the use of the system out- lined in his book. We are glad to note that “ The Artist” of London has begun the publication of an American edition with a special supplement devoted to American art affairs. “The Artist” is one of the best of the English art journals, and this new departure should prove a success. Messrs. Truslove & Comba of New York are the publishers of the American edition. Messrs. Ginn & Co. publish a revised edition of Pro- fessor James M. Taylor's “ Elements of the Differential and Integral Calculus with Examples and Applications.” The same firm has just issued a revised edition of Dr. A. P. Gage's “ Elements of Physics," one of the best text-books of the subject that have ever been prepared for secondary schools. In an artistic booklet of twenty-five pages, the trus- tees of the Kelmscott Press have published, through Messrs. Longmans & Co., “ An Address delivered by William Morris at the distribution of prizes to students of the Birmingham Municipal School of Art, on Feb- ruary 21, 1894.” The lecture is printed in the “Golden” type and will be followed by others in the same form. A “school edition" of the “Latin Grammar" of Professors Gildersleeve and Lodge has just been issued by the University Publishing Co. It has about three- fifths the volume of the work of 1894, a condensation made possible by omitting a certain amount of historical detail and grammatical exposition intended for advanced students, but without any sacrifice of scientific exactness. A beautiful edition of Mrs. Browning's “Sonnets from the Portuguese " is published by Messrs. George Bell & Sons of London, and imported by the Macmillan Co. In typography and decoration the volume is very similar to the edition recently issued by Messrs. Copeland & Day in their “ English Love-Sonnet" series. Messrs. Bell's edition, however, is much smaller in form and sold at a cheaper price. An excellent summary, the more interesting as ema- nating from a Catholic source, is the “ Jerome Savona- rola, a Sketch,” prepared by the Rev. J. L. O'Neil, O.P., of New York. The writer is an enthusiastic supporter of the great preacher's orthodoxy, and makes out a very strong case against those who see in him a rebel against the anthority of the Holy See. Fra Bartolom- meo's portrait is used by way of frontispiece, and the work, which has received the approval of Father O'Neil's ecclesiastical superiors, is given an excellent presentation by Marlier, Callanan & Co. The death of Mrs. Blanche Willis Howard von Teuffel is reported as having taken place in Munich on the seventh of this month. She was born in 1847, in Maine. Her first success was obtained with the bright novel, “One Summer," which was followed by “ Aulnay BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIRS. Bismarck : Some Secret Pages of his History. 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SPECIAL RATES TO CLUBS and Henley, England, on the nineteenth of October. for subscriptions with other publications will be sent on application; His reputation as a novelist was hardly more and SAMPLE COPY on receipt of 10 cents. ADVERTISING RATES furnished than ten years old, but it was firmly fixed, and on application. All communications should be addressed to THE DIAL, 315 Wabash Ave., Chicago. we had come to think of him as one of our foremost story-tellers, as one to the growth of No. 297. NOVEMBER 1, 1898. Vol. XXV. whose powers there was no readily assignable limit. That he should have been taken away CONTENTS. in the very prime of life — for he had only com- HAROLD FREDERIC 289 pleted his forty-second year — is of itself a happening sufficiently tragic, and the tragedy THE BYGONE LYCEUM. Mark Lee Luther 291 becomes heightened by what is reported of the COMMUNICATIONS 293 circumstances under which he died, for the "Would Better” for “Had Better." Edward A. Allen. despatches state that he had fallen into the The Muses and the Cuban War. W. H. Johnson. hands of those fanatics who deny the efficacy National Pride and Historical Accuracy. W.R. K. of the scientific treatment of disease, and that OUR RESPONSIBILITY, NATIONAL AND IN- he was refused the medical attendance which TERNATIONAL. John J. Halsey 295 might, it is claimed, have averted the disaster A LATTER-DAY NOVELIST ON DICKENS. of his early death. If this be true, a heavy Edward E. Hale, Jr. 297 indictment lies against those who were respon- THE SUPREMACY OF THE ANGLO-SAXON. sible for the neglect, and they stand condemned Wallace Rice 299 morally even if they are beyond the reach of THE NEW SCIENCE OF ETHICS. Edward the civil law. Howard Griggs 300 Harold Frederic was born on a farm in cen- RECENT FICTION. William Morton Payne 301 tral New York, August 19, 1856, of an ancestry Swift's The Destroyer. – Lo Queux's Scribes and in which English, French, and Dutch elements Pharisees. — Ridge's By Order of the Magistrate. — Henty's The Queen's Cup.- Boothby's The Last of were commingled. His childhood was familiar Hate. - Sherard's The Iron Cro88. – Russell's The with poverty, and his schooling ended with his Romance of a Midshipman.-Rhoscomyl's The Lady fourteenth year. Forced thus to become a self- of Castell March. – Balfour's To Arms! - Buchan's John Burnet of Barns. — Waite's Cross Trails. - educated man, his subsequent career gave evi- Hyne's Adventures of Captain Kettle.- Miss John- dence once more of the truth — which some ston's Prisoners of Hope. - Miss Davis's A Romance seek to minimise or even to deny that educa. of Summer Seas. – Miss Mackie's Ye Lyttle Salem Maide. - Miss Saunders's Rose à Charlitte. - Mrs. tion is none the less education because a man Harrison's Good Americans. – Mrs. Atherton's The gets it by his own unaided efforts that the Californians.-Payne's The Money Captain.-Bates's The Puritans. — Janvier's In the Sargasso Sea. - education gained in this strenuous way may be Lee's Four for a Fortune. - Farmer's The Grenadier. of a more solid kind than that attested by a - Tracy's The Lost Provinces. parchment certificate. After a few years of BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS 306 employment, first as office-boy, then as draughts- Experiments or whims ? — Curiosities of native litera- man, then as retoucher of photographic nega- ture fifty years ago. - Colonial expansion on English models. The journalistic temper in Dickens. tives, Frederic found himself landed in journal- “Democracy in America" in new setting.–Essays on ism, and speedily made his way to the front. literary art. — The rainbow Leviticus. The claims of long descent. -Saintsbury's English literature. At twenty-four, he was one of the editors of the Utica “ Observer,” at twenty-six, he became BRIEFER MENTION 309 editor of the Albany “ Evening Journal,” at LITERARY NOTES 309 twenty-eight, he was engaged by the New York TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS. . 310 “ Times,' and sent to London, as correspond. LIST OF NEW BOOKS 310 ent for that newspaper. Since 1884, then, his - - - - - - . . . . . . . 290 [Nov. 1, THE DIAL on career has been public property, and we are entitled “The New Exodus: A Study of Israel now left sadly wondering at the position he in Russia." created for himself during the last fourteen This work, and the newspaper correspondence years of his life, and at the amount of serious which he carried on for fourteen years, gave Mr. work that he had accomplished before he died. Frederic considerable prominence as a student It was, we believe, in this first year of his of public affairs, and his firm grasp of political English life, that we first saw the name Harold problems made him something of an authority Frederic in print. It was signed to a short upon contemporary history. All this work, paper in the “Pall Mall Gazette," written however, is of a sort soon to be inevitably for- " by an American in London,” and devoted to gotten because essentially ephemeral. But Mr. an account of the condition of literary affairs Frederic's fiction is not ephemeral, and has won in the United States. We well remember ask- for him a high place among American novelists. ing ourselves who this man could be, whose Eight volumes of that fiction have already been name was wholly unfamiliar, yet who wrote with published, and two more will make the list com- so much assurance and intelligent grasp of his plete. Ten volumes in ten years is not a bad subject. It was not until some three years later record, when we consider that their author was that the name again attracted our attention, by vocation a journalist, and a man of letters only when it was attached to a striking story called by avocation, especially when we consider that “Seth's Brother's Wife," which began to appear the ten volumes are of a far higher character serially in one of the magazines. From this time than the work of most journalists, that they are - which amounts to saying for the past ten reasonably free from those touches of crudeness years — the name has been well known to all and vulgarity that few journalists are able to American readers, and has come to stand for exclude from their attempts to produce literature good literary work, conscientiously performed, of the serious sort. in whatever field of activity its owner might The ten volumes are these: "Seth's Broth- choose to engage. er's Wife” (1887), “The Lawton Girl” (1890), As a correspondent, Mr. Frederic's work has “In the Valley” (1890), “The Return of * become very widely known indeed during recent the O'Mahony” (1892), “The Copperhead” years. His London letters, printed in a number (1894), “ Marsena, and Other Stories of the of our leading newspapers, have been the most War" (1895), “The Damnation of Theron interesting of their kind, full of energy and ideas, Ware" (1896), “March Hares” (1896), bringing a trained mind to bear upon cur- “Gloria Mundi” (1898), and “The Market rent questions of politics, society, and art, and Place,” promised for publication next year. embodying as much of style as could reasonably of the eight volumes that are already contained Of be expected of a writer who used the Atlantic between covers, “ March Hares and “The cable for his instrument. Moreover, on at least Return of the O'Mahony” are extravaganzas, two notable occasions, Mr. Frederic was not con- and stand apart from the rest. Neither of them tent with providing for his American public the would we willingly miss, for they display a richly news supplied to his hand in London, but set out humorous side of the author's fancy, the exist- to obtain news of his own by direct investigation.ence of which would hardly be suspected by read- It was in 1884, at the outset of his career as ers of his other novels. The second of the two a newspaper correspondent, that he made a per- just named, in particular, has never enjoyed half sonal inspection of the cholera-infected districts the popularity it deserves ; for exuberant vital- of Southern France and Italy. He visited Marity it outranks the others, although this char- seilles and Toulon in the days when the popu- acter is doubtless gained at the expense of more lation of those cities was panic-stricken, and his artistic qualities. From the other six novels letters upon the subject were an important con- that stand on the shelf, “ In the Valley" stands tribution to our knowledge of the epidemic at apart as a work of historical fiction, in the sense a time when it was feared that even our own that it deals with a bygone period. We make country was threatened with invasion by the this distinction because all of the six are histori- . dreaded plague. The second of the occasions cal in a wide but very genuine sense of the term. referred to was in 1891, when the recrudescence Of “In the Valley," which deals with the Revo- of Jew-baiting in Russia was made the subject lutionary period of our history, and with the of a personal investigation by Mr. Frederic, the events that prepared the way for an American result of his observations being published the victory at Saratoga, we do not hesitate to say following year in a graphic and impressive work that it is one of the best historical novels that 2) 1898.] 291 THE DIAL a . we have, a strong and vivid portrayal of one than's lecturing machinery was still a “foreign “ of the most stirring and pregnant periods in our devil” to John Bull, for America, which led the way national annals. in establishing an organized system, has all along Five books remain for a few words of char- retained pretty much what a furnisher would call an exclusive design. acterization. They all deal with the region and The unit of the system in its completeness was the period that the author knew so well, the central New York of the sixties, seventies, and the Lyceum, the idea of which is now concrete only to the old and middle-aged, and whose rise, decline, eighties. They accomplish for that region and and fall have yet to find their historian. In a gen- that period the work of analysis and portraiture eral way, the term denotes the various organizations that so many of our writers are doing for other which, flourishing or languishing as the local ther- regions and contemporary periods. Two of them mometers of " culture "registered high or low, once reproduce for us the feeling with which the old existed in city and village alike throughout the North- North viewed the Civil War, and show us the ern States, with the improvement of the community cross-currents of sentiment and the conflicting as their especial aim, and the delectable exhibition, in passions that divided non-combatants as well courses of lectures covering the winter months, of the intellectual lions of the day as a corollary. as combatants. Two others are more strictly difficult for the present generation to realize the im- It is domestic in their interest. The fifth, by com- portance of this institution ; the weekly lecture was mon consent Mr. Frederic's most successful the social event before which all other engagements novel, has for its theme the warfare waged by must needs give way, and it often stood in lieu of the two religious ideals in the battle field of a man's inaccessible theatre or the forbidden dance. soul; but even this powerful work is at the same The history of popular lecturing in this country time a richly observant study of provincial would seem to fall into three periods : the first, American society. We may perhaps be per- roughly bounded, ends with the Civil War; the mitted to quote, in closing, a few words that we second, some twelve years ago ; while the third is wrote of this powerful fiction at the time of its still with us. Of the early days, and Emerson's first Boston lectures, we have a sympathetic picture. appearance two years ago : “Mr. Frederic has “Who that saw the audience," says Lowell , “will aimed to produce a great and typical picture ever forget it, where everyone still capable of fire, of American life, and an unerring instinct has or longing to renew in himself the half-forgotten taught him that such a picture must be con- sense of it, was gathered? Those faces, young and cerned with the life of a small community rather old, agleam with pale intellectual light, eager with than with the more attractive but also more pleased attention, flash upon me once more from sophisticated civilization of the great cities. the deep recesses of the years with an exquisite It is in the small community that the main pathos. ... I hear again that rustle of sensation, springs of a nation's strength are to be felt most as they turned to exchange glances over some pithier distinctly and the elements of its weakness most thought, some keener flash of that humor which always played about the horizon of his mind like clearly discerned ; it is here that its fundamen- heat-lightning, and it seems now like the sad whisper tal ideals are most naively offered to the view." of the autumn leaves that are whirling around me.” Other men of letters followed Emerson, and lec- of Theron Ware,” but their application extends turing began to grow in favor. It paid but meagrely to the greater number of Mr. Frederic's novels, at first. Holmes tells a story of “ Emerson's coming and for this reason they are here reproduced. to my house to know if I could fill his place at a cer- tain Lyceum so that he might accept a very advan- tageous invitation in another direction. I told him that I was engaged for the evening mentioned. He THE BYGONE LYCEUM. smiled serenely, saying that then he supposed he must give up the new stove for that season.” By When, in the early thirties, Emerson, cut adrift the time of the war, the lecturing field was crowded from his church and his livelihood, began his forty and the Lyceum system widespread. There is in years of platform work, the American lecturing sys- the possession of the writer a bundle of old letters to tem may be said to have its most definite beginnings. whose yellowed paper and faded ink the signatures It is the old story of the mustard seed: there has of men famous in literature and public affairs lend sprung up a great tree, and the European celebrities a revitalizing touch. They all pertain to lecturing, come and lodge in the branches. Its like has existed and were written during the Civil War to the sec- nowhere else in quite such luxuriance. When retary of a Lyceum in a town of western New York. Archibald Forbes thought of a lecturing tour in Here are letters from statesmen, judges, bishops, England, after the Russo-Turkish war, he had no war correspondents, editors, men of letters, mer. precedents, and was forced to barnstorm the country chants, lawyers, philanthropists, orators, and trav- under the guidance of a theatrical manager. Jona- ellers; from politicians who were too busy to lec- of 292 [Nov. 1, THE DIAL : ture and politicians who had little else to do, poets open These men, however, with the exception of to persuasion and a poet who could not be lured, Phillips, were hardly "regulars” in the lecturing a man who had been president and men who were phalanx which Emerson indisputably led. Among ambitious to be president; and, not the least interest- the professional lecturers, few were more sought ing, letters from the Lyceum secretaries who talked after than John B. Gough and Henry Ward of the great ones for whom they were angling as Beecher. Gough's agent announces by circular that though they were commodities to be bought and sold. he is booked for months to come; and one of the Those were the days of the giants, but the giants Lyceum secretaries states on the eve of Beecher's had their host of pygmy imitators, and in perusing return from his memorable trip to England : “ There these old letters no point is more striking than the is a pile of letters a foot high waiting his arrival, present comparative unfamiliarity of the names of all of which relate to lectures." most of their authors. What, for example, do the Another favorite was the comedian James H. names of MacGowan, Edwin James, Murdoch, or Hackett, the Falstaff of his generation, who found even the once celebrated E. H. Chapin, now mean time outside his theatrical work for occasional read- to us? What legacy has been left us by Richards, ings. He was much in demand, but difficult to pin who used to sugar-coat science for the crowd, and down to a definite date, and there are in my pile whose popularity permitted matinees for children? several letters in his nervous, old-fashioned hand, Where, outside the annals of journalism, do we anent one of the attempts to secure him. He makes meet with the names of W. C. Prime, Manton an interesting confession as to his professional re- Marble, or Benjamin F. Taylor? Yet all had their wards. He had received an offer of $100 from vogue, and this one sentence of Taylor's, “My pro- | Albany, a compensation which, he asserts, “ap- tracted absence with the Army of the Cumberland proached nearer to such as I can obtain by four has served to confuse my lecturing arrangements,' .nights acting upon the stage.” is indicative that there were those among them who Naturally, in a collection like this there are letters stood near the pulse of the stirring life of the time. from such platform celebrities as Curtis, Holmes, Bishops Clark and Simpson, good men both, the Holland, Bayard Taylor, and Anna Dickinson ; but latter the man whom Lincoln regarded as the great- their correspondence contains but little of general est orator he had heard, are shadowy figures; and interest. Curtis was then in the thick of that strug- to how many to-day comes as a familiar sound the gle to liquidate a publishing-house debt which he name of “ Edmund Kirke,” the pen-name of J. R. might have legally avoided, but which, like Scott, Gilmore, who was at one time entrusted with what he chose to shoulder. The five letters in his hand, proved a bootlegs mission to the Confederacy ? trifling though they are, reflect everywhere the What memories of defunct issues that once were “heart of courtesy” which this first gentleman of live are stirred by this voice from the past: “My America so markedly possessed. Holmes's letters, subject,” he writes, “ will be “The Southern Whites: like everything he touched, bear the imprint of his ir characteristics, and their relation to the future personality. This is rather a model declination: of the Union. It will, naturally, be largely de- “I have got tripped up at starting," he says, in scriptive and humorous, but while it will contain breaking an engagement by reason of sickness. “I nothing to offend the abolitionist or anti-abolitionist, hate to disappoint an audience as much as any lec- it will give the Vallandigham school of Copperheads turer can. I have strong personal motives for car- · Hail Columbia. I wish this distinctly understood rying out my plan for that lecturing trip during that and assented to by you, as, like a certain old lady of vacation. Nothing but necessity would have forced everybody's acquaintance, I like to have my say.'" me to relinquish it, and that I am sure will prove a This was the season of 1863–4, and the men of sufficient apology.” This same Lyceum also made affairs found other wine-presses to tread. Thus, an attempt to entice Longfellow. In a dainty mon- Seward, writing from Washington, pleads in ex- ogrammed note from Nabant the poet replied: “It cuse that “my engagements obliged so early a re- would give me great pleasure to accept your invita- turn to this place.” “I shall be required at Wash- tion if I ever appeared in the character of lecturer. ington," writes Fernando Wood; and Washington As I do not, I must decline.” again claims the presence of Holt, the Judge- The drama of the present was at that period too Advocate General. Henry Winter Davis's duties absorbing for interest in things literary or philo- are too engrossing.” “With my present engage- sophic, and the subjects proposed in these letters ments," says Charles Sumner, “I dare not promise are, with rare exceptions, pertinent to the struggle myself.” Reverdy Johnson's outlook is certain “to then in progress. Thus, we have “The Southern keep me in work”; Edward Everett has “not ac- Whites," " The State of the Country,” “ The Prob- cepted any invitations to speak the ensuing season ”; able Issues of the War,” “The Way of Peace," ex-President Franklin Pierce declines without ex- “ The National Heart,” and “The Crisis of the planations; and Wendell Phillips, in a scrawl that Nation.” Politics, hitherto tabooed from the Ly- speaks of haste more than his assertion of the fact ceum, began to overshadow all else. at the close, with a half promise, thrusts the whole From the point of view of our day, when the best- consideration of the matter months forward into known lecturers receive from three to five hundred the uncertain future. dollars a night, and Stanley toured the country at & 1898.] 293 THE DIAL - - the rate of a hundred and ten thousand dollars for fail where the Ian MacLarens prosper; our own a hundred and ten lectures, the prices paid these men of letters still lecture, but in the main before men seem paltry. A hundred dollars was then con- some convention, or at some civic, reform, or liberal sidered munificent hire for a Lyceum lecture, and club dinner. The old-time Lyceum audience whose equally so, it is likely, in many instances by the average portrait the “ Autocrat” has drawn so well lecturers themselves. Both Gough and Beecher no longer gathers. “ Front seats: a few old folks,- could ask and easily get a hundred and fifty dollars ; shiny-headed, slant up best ear towards the Holmes, Agassiz, Phillips, Butler, and Everett speaker,— drop off asleep after a while, when the air valued their services at one hundred dollars ; Bayard begins to get a little narcotic with carbonic acid. Taylor was satisfied with sixty; and George William Bright women's faces, young and middle-aged, a Curtis, with a modesty that is characteristic, rated little behind these, but toward the front, (pick himself in the fifty-dollar category with Manton out the best and lecture mainly to that). Here and Marble, Benjamin F. Taylor, Bishop Clark, and there a countenance sharp and scholarlike, and a Charles Carleton Coffin. dozen pretty female ones sprinkled about. An After the war, conditions changed. Up to this indefinite number of pairs of young people, - happy, time the lecturers had been largely their own busi- but not always very attentive. Boys in the back- ness managers, and dependent upon the invitations ground, more or less quiet. Dull faces, here, there, they might receive. A tendency toward centraliza- - in how many places! I do n't say dull people, tion of management now set in. The Lyceums of but faces without a ray of sympathy or a movement the West pooled their interests in the securing of of expression. They are what kill the lecturer. . prominent lecturers from the East, and suggested, These negative faces, with their vacuous eyes and it is likely, by this came the establishment of bu- stony lineaments, pump and suck the warm soul out reaus for the supply of the Lyceums and the intro- of him; that is the chief reason why lecturers" duction of the methods which have been stigmatized grow so pale before the season is over." 28 “ lecture brokerage.” Prices rose, and by the The lapse of four decades precludes the gathering early seventies, and the coming of Major Pond - again of that audience. The fact that we are now the Warwick of the modern lecture-world, who intellectually almost one country, and not several infased a new spirit into the business — the organ- differing provinces, has stripped the lecturer of ized machine got fairly under way. Illustrative of something of the glamor attached to that which is the change which came about, it may be said that foreign. His message has preceded him. « When Curtis latterly received from two hundred to three all can read, and books are plentiful, lectures are hundred and fifty dollars a lecture, and Gough's unnecessary,” is the dictum of Dr. Johnson, which annual income from this source exceeded thirty Miss Repplier tellingly quotes in her “Gentle Warn- thousand dollars. ing to Lecturers," and it perhaps best explains why In the changed conditions, however, were the the real Lyceum belongs to the past, and what beginnings of the downfall of the Lyceum. The makes improbable a true renaissance. For although rise in prices brought a natural influx of mediocrity the University Extension movement is a legitimate. into the field, which cheapened the abler men and child of the Lyceum, the revival of lecture courses degraded the Lyceum system into what Dr. Holland brought about by its influence is a thing apart. characterized as "a string of entertainments that The good which the Lyceum wrought it is impos- have no earnest purpose, and minister to no manly sible to estimate. A “general toleration of all men and womanly want." As early as 1868, Colonel and all opinions," " the education of the public taste “ Higginson noted a change of tone and the passing in intellectual amusements,” a higher “standard of of the orthodox Lyceum lecture. “The scholar," excellence in English and its utterance,” and the he wrote, “recedes from sight, and the impassioned untiring championship of “universal liberty," — orator takes his place." By 1874 the decline of the these Dr. Holland regarded as foremost among the Lyceum itself had obviously begun. The platform quickening influences of the popular lecture while was losing its former leaders the men who bad the Lyceum was yet undegenerate. given America a literature, who had made the Ly- MARK LEE LUTHER. ceum's existence possible, who had denounced slav- ery, and who had taught the liberty of conscience,- and the public was offered the stimulus of music and operatic effects to relieve the tedium of its lec- COMMUNICATIONS. tures. Popular interest flagged more and more, "WOULD BETTER" FOR “HAD BETTER.” until now, although “there are more lectures given (To the Editor of THE DIAL.) than ever before," as Major Pond said in a recent letter to the writer, “a regular Lyceum course is In this part of the English-speaking world there has known only in the memory of the people past mid- sprung up of late years a form of expression that is becoming wide-spread, at least in colloquial, newspaper, dle life.” and schoolmaster English; it has not been used by any There has succeeded the period of “stars.” For good writer that I know of. Attention has never been eign invaders, with high hopes of plunder, are ever called to it, so far as I have observed, and I bring it up among us with varying fortunes; the Conan Doyles | merely to find out to what extent the usage is becoming 9 & 294 [Nov. 1, THE DIAL 3 general. I refer to the use of “would better” for the any other condition than that of a great people swayed idiomatic “ had better " in such sentences as these: by the deep feeling which it expresses. And this gives “ You would better see about it yourself.” “The man us a key to the problem of Cuban War lyrics which who meditates throwing out of the convention some of your correspondents have recently raised. If would better put on asbestos gloves before trying it." the masses were pervaded by a deep, unified, and well- The origin of such an unidiomatic, illogical locution defined moral sentiment in the recent struggle, then the may be due to the schoolmaster's diagram, which in friends of the muses have reason for serious concern general tends to level the idioms of our speech to the over the failure of that struggle to produce even one weak, insipid English more easily analysed by the lyric which could be put by the side of such work as diagram-formulæ, - a passing fad in English instruc- Mrs. Howe's “ Battle-Hymn" without betraying at once tion, at least here in the West, that has done more harm its utter lack of the qualities necessary to really great than its advocates are aware of. I know nothing more war verse. We say failure without any hesitation; a destructive of idiomatic, and hence effective, English war lyric of the higher type will sing itself into the speech than the popular school methods of parsing and hearts of the people at once, without waiting to be diagramming hunted up and introduced by the students of literature. Another explanation I offer is, that “would better' If, then, this unified moral feeling was present and could for “ had better” may have arisen in the common speech not find utterance, poetical ability must be at a very by analogy with “would rather” for “had rather,” both low ebb among us. If, however, (we make the sugges- of which are in good use. It seems more likely, how- tion with fear and trembling) there was no unification ever, to be a conscious effort on the part of the purist, of moral sentiment; if any chance group of citizens who regardless of idiom, to put his speech in accord with his met together took about as many different views of the notions of grammatical correctness. war as there were individuals present; if the less intel- “You had better” is, in the process of evolution, ligent classes were confessedly following the yellow from an earlier “ You were better" (Anglo-Saxon Eow journals; if the thinking classes were either wholly con- waere betere), meaning “It were (would be] better for vinced, or even strongly suspicious, that there would you.” You, originally a dative, came, in time, to be have been no war except for these same journals and mistaken, on account of its position, for a nominative, the baser element in Congress; if even those who were as in “ If you please," and the usage then became ex- hearty believers in the war for its declared purpose fore- tended, as in Shakespeare's “She were better love a saw the inevitable movement to carry it far beyond that dream” (T. N., 2. 2), “I were better to be eaten to purpose, and into regions of doubtful expediency and death” (2 Hen. IV., 1. 2), with which compare in Ba- morality, — then we may easily take the most hopeful con's Essays, “ For certainly, you were better take for view of current poetical ability in America, and still Businesse a Man somewhat Absurd than over Formall” feel no surprise that the verse of the struggle rose no (“Of Seeming Wise"), and “ In a word, a Man were higher than strained rhetoric about the eagle and the better relate himself to a Statua, or Picture, then to suffer flag, ingenious quips about bottling fleets, etc. These his Thoughts to pass in smother” (“Of Friendship ”). alternatives are sincerely believed by the writer to cover “ You were better” became in time "you had better," the entire ground: “ The lady or the tiger ? " Let each probably by analogy with such forms as “had come,' reader decide for himself. W. H. JOHNSON. “had gone,” for earlier “ were come, were gone, Granville, Ohio, Oct. 25, 1898, according to the prevailing rule for the conjugation of intransitive verbs, as in modern German. But no man with Anglo-Saxon instincts, or with red NATIONAL PRIDE AND HISTORICAL ACCURACY. blood in his veins, is going to use“ would better" either (To the Editor of The DIAL.) in speaking or in writing. It is unhistorical, unidio- Spanish historians may be trusted to give a good ac- matic, and defies all logical analysis. count of themselves when the time comes for them to EDWARD A. ALLEN. chronicle the naval events of the late war in a way as University of Missouri, Oct. 22, 1898. little mortifying as possible to the pride of posterity. Much ingenuity and perhaps some lying may be looked for. But in the art of extracting balm, and even mat- THE MUSES AND THE CUBAN WAR. ter of gratification, from a tale of national disaster, the (To the Editor of THE DIAL.) Spaniards can hardly hope to outdo the average British Students of early poetry have heard more or less of the historian of the naval actions of the war of 1812. The theory of “communal authorship,” according to which latest considerable British writer to distinguish himself primitive poetry just grew, without having any author in this respect is Mr. Charles Oman. In his for the at all in the modern sense of the term. However much most part capital little “ History of England,” Mr. Oman, truth or falsehood there may be in this view, there is a after cautiously admitting that “on three successive sense in which certain kinds of verse have a communal occasions " in 1812, the English frigates engaged had genesis. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe was to all practical possibly a shade the worst of it, goes on cheerfully to intents and purposes the author of that soul-stirring war say that “ In course of time the American vessels were lyric, hunted down and destroyed by our squadrons”! This “Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord, belated bit of “war news” ought to prove as agreeable He is trampling out his vintage where the grapes of wrath a surprise to most of Mr. Oman's countrymen as did are stored," Mr. Cunningham Grahame's discovery that Dewey's but she was something more than its individual author; victory at Manila was won by British gunners. Seri- and that is, the point at which the electrical force of a ously, it is a comfort to know that such preposterous Nation's deep and unified moral feeling was discharged. slips as the one cited above are extremely rare in Mr. Granted the highest possible poetic genius, and yet she Oman's widely used histories. W. R. K. could never have produced that particular poem under Pittsfield, Mass., Oct. 20, 1898. 9 1898.] 295 THE DIAL on indefatigible fellow-countrymen to “go in and The New Books. possess the land,” he anxiously directed their attention along the line of least resistance - OUR RESPONSIBILITY, NATIONAL AND toward the interior of their own continent. But INTERNATIONAL.* the bounds that Washington's dying gaze rested The essays gathered together by Professor were too strait; and within four years, Woolsey have already been separately given to Jefferson, the strict constructionist, voicing the the public in recent years as contributions to American mind, first tested the elasticity of the periodicals, and bear the marks of their original Constitution in the annexation of Louisiana destination in an occasional sketchiness and a land of alien race and alien institutions, and some repetition. They deal with the Cuban as far away from the banks of the Potomac as Question, the future of Hawaii and the Philip- are the Philippines to-day. Again in 1848, pines, the Interoceanic Canal, the Fisheries by force and the sword, we entered upon the Question, the Arbitration Treaty of 1897, and possessions of another alien race — possessions “The President's Monroe Doctrine.” Although which were removed from our borders by sup- a number of the questions here discussed have posed deserts, more difficult of passage than a reached stages of development hardly to be fore- Pacific Ocean. So too, in 1866, we bought told when these essays were written, the book is an outlying domain, far from our centres of to be welcomed by those who now seek the true population, and not to be reached across Amer- solutions. The same deliberate and judicial | ican soil . Thus a trend of national expansion, mind that marked the elder Woolsey appears in regardless of alien race and institutions, or of all these pages, and they must appeal to a very physical barriers, has been set up, which recent large class of thoughtful men, not because they events, according to Mr. Powers, but further say anything unexpected, but because they ap- express,- although he emphasizes the fact that peal to and fortify a kindred habit of mind. now for the first time this trend brings us face to Mr. Powers, on the other hand, in a most face with races beyond our powers of assimila- remarkable and able paper, goes deeper, and tion, with climates beyond our powers of adapta- breaks new ground for thought. He asks the tion, with neighbors fully as strong as ourselves. question, why it is that the American people, If to-day we ask for the reasons in favor of in the course of one brief year, seem to have the forward policy which the Spanish War has changed so radically their attitude with refer- made attractive to so many minds, we are fur- ence to foreign policy. Before this recent war nished with a goodly number, each with its came upon us, the great mass of Americans special group of advocates. We are told by were content to say “ America for the Ameri- some that the glorious Star-spangled Banner cans," and to leave the Old World to its own should never recede from any spot on which it areas and its own devices. To-day the same has been planted, and this for mere sentiment's great majority contemplate with jocund serenity sake, regardless of the right or wrong that the annexation of Porto Rico perchance of placed it there. Others speak of our “mis- Cuba — and, going far overseas, of Hawaii and sion," as the most intelligent and most devel- the Philippines. A second question follows: oped of the nations, to carry our civilization Does this change betoken a revolution in Amer- and our institutions into less favored lands, and ican national purposes, or is it merely a revela- thus to preach liberty, fraternity, equality. tion - a revelation of a hitherto unrecognized Many ambitious masters of industry see the stream of tendency ? Mr. Powers decides for commercial fields of the oldest East lying ripe the latter, and proceeds most forcibly to illus- for a grand harvest, and desire to take posses- trate his thesis. Washington's advice, in his sion of them for Yankee exploitation. From farewell address, when he urged avoidance of not a few of the religious newspapers and as- political entanglements with the Old World, semblies comes a similar idea as regards the and pointed the gaze westward upon our great great field of heathenism, which offers them an undeveloped continent, was a warning. Rec- adundant opportunity, once covered by our ognizing already the rising tendencies of his national flag. More thoughtful men than any * AMERICA'S FOREIGN POLICY. Essays and Addresses, by of these tell us that in virtue of a situation Theodore S. Woolsey, Professor of International Law in the which is new, yet into which we as a nation Yale Law School. New York: The Century Co. have drifted, a new responsibility now exists as THE WAR AS A SUGGESTION OF MANIFEST DESTINY. By H. H. Powers. Philadelphia: Annals American Academy a fact, whether we like it or not. Others, again, of Political and Social Science. concede the strangeness and the risk of all that - 296 [Nov. 1, THE DIAL > now seems impending, but console themselves cialized and made efficient and expert by more and us with the proposition that this coming than a century of experience with its warning touch with the larger world of international failures and its stimulating successes. Such a affairs will sober and steady us as a nation, system must grow on each soil; it cannot be banish “shirt-sleeve diplomacy” from our ser- borrowed or imitated. vice, and enable us to stand among the peoples The advocate of “the old ways" concedes of the earth respecting and respected. and accepts Mr. Powers's fruitful thought Those who think differently cannot afford to that we stand but on the highest point of a ris- brush all these arguments aside with impatience, ing wave: that natural law has expressed itself as they safely may do with the first. They must in a century's trend. But he also suggests that rather give reasons for the faith that is in them, the natural law in the social sphere is but the and present their counter-plea. They ask, then, resultant of multitudinous forces, and of these in the name of consistency, what was the pro- every man's opinion is one. For thirty years, claimed purpose of this war, and how the Amer-nearly, before the Civil War, the whole trend ican people can stand before the gaze of the in the North seemed to be toward abstention world, and especially of our neighbor republics from any meddling with the “peculiar institu- to the southward, if a war of liberation and tion"; yet a few “inspired fools," from Garrison humanity is diverted into a land-grabbing ex- to Sumner and Mrs. Stowe, set up a small ploit. They emphasize with prolonged empha-movement which finally mastered and changed sis the home needs of this nation, and ask if all the trend and made a stream as wide as the its surplus energy is not demanded to solve the North, on which were borne the Emancipation weighty problems — political, financial, and Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment. social that to-day confront us. They point To-day a class of thoughtful minds, scattered to the machine," overshadowing and imper- throughout the land, seek to sway and master illing all our free institutions; they note the the trend. They point the American people to arrested development in the whole matter of their true mission, consecrated by a hundred currency reform, where the prospect seemed so years of historic existence. It is to present to bright less than a year ago ; they suggest that the warring Old World a continent over which the claims of organized labor and the peril of the Pax Americana holds sway; throughout organized capital need the full attention of all which a great people have come to realize that our minds, if catastrophe is to be averted from the arts of peace are nobler than those of war. the republic. Again, they assure us that while | It is to continue to hold ever before Old World it is true that the annexations of Louisiana, of faces the best model of a free government; one Texas, of the farther West, of Alaska, mark a which helped to make the Revolutions of 1789 century's trend and were made through con- and 1848, and has brought every nation in quest not only of alien institutions, but also of Europe but Russia and Turkey to constitutional obstacles of remoteness and inaccessibility, the government. It is to find in the intense indi- present situation lures us to a sphere of empire vidualism of American life its greatest leverage differing in kind from all that preceded it. on the world at large, rather than in any group They dwell with eloquent words on the barriers action. They cite the experience of the past of race, of climate, of Old World cabals and and of the ever-living present to assure the armaments. But the argument culminates in trader and the churchman that American goods the thesis that democratic government and and American apostles equally are in the fore colonial administration for inferior races are frd front of every market and every mission, re- essentially antagonistic. Democracy in its very gardless of national boundaries, that indus- essentials offers to the world not only freedom trial alertness and missionary ardor are more but equality ; it knows no dependent classes, no ; potent than even “old Glory." They ask a clients; it dare not withhold from anyone a nation with such an historic mission and such share in the disposal of his own destiny.national characteristics to set their faces calmly Colonial government, on the other hand, is the against the pleadings of the new imperialism; to work of a benevolent despotism, and is best set their allies in Cuba and in the Philippines administered by an autocracy or an aristocracy on their feet; to give them the chance that our re- - witness the colonial history of Great Britain moteness fully as much as our prowess gave us in and of Holland. Moreover, it is the work, the days of our Revolution; and to make them when not characterized by maladministration, a part of these United States only when by their of a trained civil service which has been spe- own act they seek it. JOHN J. HALSEY. - 1898.] 297 THE DIAL This is not the case with Dickens or with A LATTER-DAY NOVELIST ON DICKENS.* Mr. Gissing. Each of these goes, or tries to go, I have labored of late, but without striking flatfooted down into his world with his photo- success, to establish a parallel between the three graph and phonograph. It is true that they are chief novelists of fifty years ago and the three men of very different gifts : Dickens's gift of chief novelists of to-day, or, at least, English humor alone is enough to separate him from Mr. novelists. Of course there is no very good Gissing in most minds, as well as from any body reason why eminent masters of fiction should else. But what is their aim ? Dickens's aim was appear by groups of three (nor, indeed, do certainly not merely to be funny: he had some they), nor why, when they do so appear, they other aim than that. If it turn out to be the should represent homologous tendencies. Still, same as Mr. Gissing's, there is good reason for Mr. Meredith and Thackeray are on the whole hoping that the latter will see sympathetically more alike in general spirit and intention than the strong points of his great predecessor. This either is like Mr. George Moore. And Mr. is what we want. Dickens's weak points we George Moore and George Eliot are more alike, are painfully aware of. We are so aware of as concerns the topics that preoccupy them, than them that we can hardly read his books nowa- they are like Mr. Gissing. And Mr. Gissing days on account of finding nothing to make up is much like Dickens, of whom he has written to us for the tediousness of his extravagances. a book which is naturally very interesting. Yet the average reader, perhaps, would say I admit that there are differences between that no one could understand Dickens less than the author of “ Middlemarch” and the author the sad-faced and sad-minded Mr. Gissing. I of “ Evelyn Innes.” Both are realists, it is call him sad-faced, because all the pictures I true; but then, so are many other people. The have seen of him (mostly on the outside of real point of contact is that both are absorbed paper editions of his novels) are sad-faced ; and in questions of conscience. Mr. George Moore's I call him sad-minded because I have met many I books are often thought to be immoral, and who thought his novels very sad. I think it George Eliot's are, on the other hand, very was the “ New York Times” which, in review- improving. But both authors are chiefly inter- ing “The Whirlpool,” could find no more ested in the conscience as such ; they consider cheerful expressions in which to characterize it their characters chiefly as moral agents, and than “dreary," "uncourageous pessimism, that is not a very usual point of interest. Few pitifully shabby," " no attempt at humor,' novelists are natural historians of the con- “sluggishness of circulation.” “ His mind," science : Hawthorne was, but there are not says this appreciation, " is possessed by images “ many others. George Eliot stood alone in that of hopeless misery.” How very different from absorption in her time, just as Mr. George Dickens, who delighted to fill his mind with Moore does to-day. A case of conscience is imaginations of the most sanguine cheerfulness. enough to interest either of them, without any- Yet no one regards Dickens as merely a cheer- thing else. Now this is not so with Thackeray, ful humorist. He thought of himself certainly nor with Mr. Meredith. Neither of these fancy as much more, and so do we when we read his that the world is merely a moral opportunity. books. And as a novelist he certainly had dis- The world to them is more complex, has many tinct aims. Nothing would have induced him other factors beside the moral factor, other fac- to write like Disraeli. He could not have un- tors quite as interesting ; its people do things derstood the desire to write like Thackeray. He without knowing whether they are right or had his own field. wrong, and without our knowing, either. Such “We must dig deeper, get to untouched as the world is, they intellectualize it; they see social strata,” says one of Mr. Gissing's char- it, or rather they make us see it, in a medium, acters in an early novel. “ Dickens felt this, their medium, of style and way of thought as but he had not the courage to face his subjects ; well; they exhibit it as indulgent critics or as his monthly numbers had to lie on the family friendly impresarios ; they stand by you as you tea-table." are absorbed by the comedy, and sometimes We shall probably have our doubts as to the whisper epigrammatic comment on the inside latter part here: it was not so much that history of the green-room, or they explain why Dickens was afraid to present Nancy as she the scenery creaks. really was, as that he habitually thought of her *CHARLES DICKENS: A Critical Study. By George Gissing. as other than she was. But the first part seems Now York: Dodd, Mead & Co. to me excellent. Dickens labored in untouched 298 (Nov. 1, THE DIAL mor. social strata ; he had love and sympathy for an understanding of Dickens, we come to his book. immense world which had been conceived un- What will he have to say on one who was not literary save in ignorant caricatures. And so long ago “ the most popular novelist of the herein he resembles Mr. Gissing, and this gives century, one of the greatest humorists that Mr. Gissing an advantage in thinking over England has produced ” ? As might be imag- Dickens's work. ined, he speaks chiefly of Dickens's characters. Of course, in another way Mr. Gissing stands The reason for this is that Mr. Gissing is quite apart from Dickens. He is an Artist in mightily interested in people and in the way to the current sense of the word ; and Dickens is present them in novels. He is also interested not, precisely. Dickens wrote with much con- in the construction of a story; but he sees at a sideration, certainly, and remarkably well, too. glance that Dickens's stories are not well con- But he, like Scott, regarded himself rather structed. He is interested in social questions ; . more as one whose office it was to entertain and but he sees that Dickens's sociology was too amuse the public than as a servant of the rigor- conservative to be now illuminating. He is not ous mistress raised up by the poets and painters much of a humorist himself, and he does not, of our day. Dickens wrote his novels part by therefore, have much to say of Dickens's hu- part: he kept his finger on the public pulse to He is not a great man for style, and he see whether they were popular. If the public does not, therefore, have much to say of Dick- was dissatisfied, he made a change. There is eps's style. These four matters he does deal a kind of novel that one meets with now and with to some extent, but to them all together he then (Mr. Gissing has written one or two) in gives rather less attention than to the study of which the first three hundred pages serve chiefly character, and of Realism, which goes along as an introduction to the last chapter. These with it. All that he says cannot be here re- pages are often not very interesting in them- viewed and estimated : one thing must be selves, sometimes they are even rather dull. enough, — the great question, indeed, as to But they are necessary; they make the effect Dickens, - Did he approach Nature in his of the last chapter tremendous ; you could n't characterization ? Here Mr. Gissing's views get such an effect without. Of this kind, for are interesting instance, are apt to be the novels of Guy de Mr. Gissing, whose own methods of charac- Maupassant. This may be called an artistic terization are very different, thinks that Dick- form : such an effect is to be produced, and it ens's figures are not caricatures but idealiza- must be produced in a certain way. But it is tions; and this idealization he approves. “In not a conciliatory form of fiction. Imagine this idealized portraiture, we have essential such a novel coming out, as Dickens's novels truth,” says he, speaking of Mr. Micawber,- did, in parts. The first nineteen parts would or, rather, of the pre-Australian Micawber. wear out the populace; they never would get To one who recollects that this essential truth to the twentieth, for which all was preparatory. is commonly roseate, this view of the “pessi- Such is rather an exaggerated example of mistic” Mr. Gissing should be a revelation. the difference of feeling between the novelist of Dickens sometimes presents unfavorable ideal- to-day and the novelist of fifty or sixty years izations - like Mr. Pecksniff; but commonly ago. Dickens, like Scott twenty years before his idealizations are a compliment to the human him, looked on the public from the standpoint race, or at least to the masculine half of it, of an “artificer of their pleasures,” considered from one of the keenest of observers. For himself as one “catering for public amusement." Dickens was on the better side ; " he embodied Mr. Gissing would seem to have little regard the better dreams of ordinary men.” And this, for the pleasures of the public or their amuse- I suppose, was the reason why he needed the ment; his books are to some tedious, to some sympathy of his audience, so that he always painful, to others true, to others powerful. But kept them in mind and so often refined his Mr. Gissing, to judge from the general tone of ideas in order to humor them. It is a pleasant his work, seems to have been influenced very conception, and, I think, sound. I little by public desire : he writes what he calls Still, I do not think that people are very a good novel, and if the public does not like it, fond of this kind of idealization just at the they can do the other thing. Mr. Gissing present time. present time. Neither does Mr. Gissing, I himself is a devoted to his art. imagine, though he does not say so. What he With these considerations pro and con as to does say is that “so great a change has come Mr. Gissing's especial qualifications for the over the theory and practise of fiction ... way. But it is to >> . 1898.] 299 THE DIAL - that we must treat of Dickens as in many which are occupying the earth to the exclusion respects antiquated." This states boldly what of all others, it is an easy matter to prove that many people will never have thought of. Yet socialism is the easy descent to Avernus, and I do not suppose that Dickens is very much individualism a royal road to all manner of read now; most people have already read his prosperity. Real prosperity, in the sense of novels, generally as children, but they do not high national character and righteousness, are read them now. Mr. Gissing, however, has not touched upon other than incidentally. evidently read Dickens thoroughly and often. Throughout the book, the welfare of the body This book shows a familiarity with Dickens's is taken as the standard of success. Religious works which either indicates severe study or differences are rigidly excluded from the dis- pretty constant re-reading. Mr. Gissing doubt- cussion. It is a matter of sociology and the less has gained something from Dickens, - social instinct. although probably not in the way of technique. To those sincere individualists among the We cannot really comment on Mr. Gissing's Anglo-Saxons in England and America who criticisms; it must be enough to indicate the really hold with the fundamental proposition general interest of his book. Personally, I advanced by M. Demolins, the work reads un- think it more interesting for the light it throws commonly like a satire. The French book was on Mr. Gissing's own books than for that written and published before the Spanish war which it throws on its especial subject. But and the Dreyfus incident, both of them adding most people, I suppose, will be more interested weight to its contentions, since one makes for on account of Dickens. And such will read Anglo-Saxon predominance and the other for the book with pleasure, and probably have a Gallic decadence. But if it is true that the higher opinion of Dickens when they finish Anglo-Saxon stands higher in the world to-day than they had when they began. than ever before, is it not also true that the EDWARD E. HALE, JR. principles of socialism have obtained a footing in the two great English-speaking nations un- known before ? M. Demolins takes no account of a host of facts. He estimates the growth of THE SUPREMACY OF THE ANGLO-SAXON.* socialism in England by the success waiting upon the efforts of William Morris and his The appendix to M. Edmond Demolins's associates. But what of Lord Salisbury's dic- Anglo-Saxon Superiority” suffices to show the extent of the hubbub this sensational work something more than a generalization – it is a tum,“ We are all Socialists now"? which is a created in Paris upon the occasion of its first confession. And what of the London County . appearance, in April, 1897. Having attained Council, and Glasgow, and this city and that, a tenth edition in France, it is now translated with board schools, labor legislation, and the into English by M. Louis Bert. Lavigne. The like? And why is the voice of Mr. Herbert work is a polemic, devoted to the maintenance of the thesis that individuality means success in Spencer raised in a protest against the bland- ishments of collectivism? Is it not because temporal affairs, and collectivity failure, when English contemporaneous history in lawmaking viewed as national characteristics. France is reads like a ballade with the refrain, a nation which teaches its people to be inde- “And where are the heroes of laissez faire ?" pendent in nothing, but rather to look to the This being the state of affairs in Britain, state for the most desirable because the most what of the United States ? From the begin- permanent of careers ; while England encour- ages its subjects to think and act for themselves, ning of the republic there had been a political and America follows the same course, even to party devoted to the principles of individualism as elementarily needful to the safety of the turning the management of its affairs over to nation. What has become of that party? foreigners, so averse is the Anglo-Saxon ele. Opposed to it, under one name or another, was , ment in the nation to profiting by governmental a combination of opportunists who held out opportunities. Then, France being a nation more government and more as fundamental to which is falling behind in the struggle for ex- permanence in American domestic affairs. So istence, and the English-speaking nations those successful has this organization been in its * ANGLO-SAXON SUPERIORITY: To What It Is Due. By propaganda of governmental aid, rather than Edmond Demolins; translated from the tenth French edition by Louis Bert. Lavigne. New York: Imported by Charles self-help, that its tenets have been somewhat Scribner's Sons. expanded and adopted by its former adversary. E 300 [Nov. 1, THE DIAL a a - - а Instead of a conservative party devoted to the But the great importance of ethical problems Jeffersonian dictum that “that nation governs makes such an attitude necessarily transient. best which governs least,” opposed by a liberal Ethics regains something of the central import- party which stood for Federal aggrandizement ance which was given it in the Greek world, at the expense of the States, we have now a and various attempts are made to determine its party devoted to such radical tenets as national sphere and function as a modern science. expansion at the expense of other peoples on These attempts have been seriously ham- the globe, as taxation for taxation's sake in the pered by the distorted perspective in which matter of the tariff, as a permanent public debt, human problems are seen. The lower biological as an increased standing army and all the con- world has been widely and deeply studied, while comitants of militarism, and pledged to a score the higher human life has received little scien- of mentionable minor matters which would have tific investigation. Thus we are inclined to appalled the Fathers of the Constitution ; while view human problems largely from the stand- over against this body of radicals stands an- point of forces and tendencies whose main ex- other who seek such a revision of the Federal pression is in lower forms of life. Yet the laws Constitution as can be called nothing short of which are most important in any sphere of life revolutionary, even though it be within the are precisely those which are found only in that limits of the written law that it intends to make sphere. To attempt the explanation of biolog- its efforts felt. The entire tendency of the ical problems by the application of the princi- Republican party since the death of Lincoln ples of the inorganic world would be no more has been socialistic; the sole purpose of the he absurd than to try to interpret human life by Democratic Party since its capture by the Popu- applying the more universal biological laws. lists the “ Republicans gone to seed” of Mr. Carrying over generalizations from one field to Bourke Cockran — has been socialistic to a has been socialistic to a another, without an independent study of the point almost ridiculous. And the only indi- facts in the new sphere, is as remote from the vidualists left in the land, to all appearances, true method of science as theological specula- are comprised in a little band of “ Jeffersonian tion is from the inductive study of nature. anarchists,” “ voices howling in a wilderness, ' Nowhere is this distortion of view more pre- pastors without a flock, teachers without pupils, valent or more harmful than in ethics. The politicians without a party, almost patriots problems in this field are so peculiarly human without a country. What, then, becomes of that the first requisite to any understanding of M. Edmond Demolins and his explanation that them is an independent study of the facts in the really explained? We fear that Anglo-Saxons history of the human spirit. are successful in spite of socialism, and French | Professor Wundt's work is not entirely free men are not: a reduction of his thesis to an from this faulty perspective, though there is absurdity, if ever there was one. less of it here than in other recent attempts to WALLACE RICE. make ethics scientific. The two volumes which are here admirably translated survey respect- ively the facts of the moral life, and the data of ethical reflection as represented in philosoph- THE NEW SCIENCE OF ETHICS.* ical systems of ethics. Such a descriptive sur- The study of ethics has been carried on very vey is certainly an indispensable preliminary to largely by men whose interest was in some all theoretical discussion of ethical problems. form of social utility rather than in science; Yet Professor Wundt begins his survey from hence, the influence of the modern spirit has the point of view that ethics is a "normative” transformed other humanistic studies before science, and so entirely differentiated from being felt in the sphere of distinctly ethical positive sciences that limit themselves to the problems. The result is that many who are discovery of natural laws. He shows how the interested in carrying scientific methods into idea of a norm has passed from ethics over into the study of humanity have been inclined to other sciences and has modified them. At the regard ethics as a mere pathological study. same time he regards this transference as gen- * THE FACTS OF THE MORAL LIFE. By Wilhelm Wundt, erally questionable, and holds ethics to be the Professor of Philosophy in the University of Leipsig. Trans- one truly normative science. Yet he realizes lated by Julia Gulliver and Edward Bradford Titchener. New that ethics has its positive aspects ; and, indeed, York: The Macmillan Co. ETHICAL SYSTEMS. By Wilhelm Wundt. Translated by he approaches its problems now from the one Margaret Floy Washburn. New York: The Macmillan Co. and now from the other point of view, without at 1898.] 301 THE DIAL any time integrating the two. The question One closes the book with a very mingled suggested by this discussion is whether the nor- feeling: the admiration for its suggestiveness mative idea in ethics is not a mere inheritance and occasional largeness of view is accompanied from the speculative period, a tradition from with regret that the author, having gone so far which we find it hard to free ourselves precisely in emancipating himself from the traditional because ethics is the last of the sciences to feel view of ethics and in lifting it to the plane of a the modern impetus. Ethics leads immediately science, should not have gone one step further. to the art of living - the most important of EDWARD HOWARD GRIGGS. the fine arts ; but it is a question whether the pure science of ethics is concerned with a norm for conduct in any other sense than the pure science of physics is occupied with furnishing RECENT FICTION.* norms to the mechanical arts, or than the sci- The author of “The Destroyer” holds the reader ence of botany is concerned with giving laws to “ with his glittering eye” while he tells his grow- horticulture. some tale. The horrors with which he deals are not The effect of the point of view which Pro- 80 much physical as moral, and their effect is im- fessor Wundt assumes is less important in these mensely heightened by the impassive manner of the two volumes than in the third portion of the narrator. His scalpel is merciless in its dissection German work in which the statement of his own of motive, and impulse, and morbid passion, and view is given. Yet his fundamental attitude the surgeon for whom all this pathology is so much cannot fail to modify his account of the data *THE DESTROYER. By Benjamin Swift. New York: of the moral life as well as his discussion of the Frederick A. Stokes Co. history of ethical theory. On the other hand, SCRIBES AND PHARISEES: A Story of Literary London. By William Le Queux. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. he has the merit of uniting with severe scien- BY ORDER OF THE MAGISTRATE. By W. Pett Ridge. tific training the reflective insight that comes New York: Harper & Brothers. from a deep study of the history of philosophy THE QUEEN'S CUP. A Novel. By G. A. Henty. New York: and particularly from thorough familiarity with D. Appleton & Co. THE LUST OF HATE. By Guy Boothby. New York: Kant. If this may partially account for the D. Appleton & Co. prejudicing of his point of view, it makes him THE IRON CROSS. A Story. By Robert H. Sherard. New more open to peculiarly human facts and prob- York: M. F. Mansfield. lems than is true of most efforts to make ethics THE ROMANCE OF A MIDSHIPMAN. By W. Clark Russell. New York: R. F. Fenno & Co. scientific. Again, it enables him to see over THE LADY OF CASTELL MARCH. By Owen Rhoscomyl. the more superficial utilitarian views which New York: Doubleday & McClure Co. To ARMS! By Andrew Balfour. Boston: L. C. Page & Co. have accompanied the modern development of John BURNET OF BARNS. A Romance. By John Buchan. English ethics. New York: John Lane. The chief value of the anthropological vol- CROSS TRAILS. By Victor Waite. Boston: L. C. Page & Co. ume is in the range of facts cited. There is ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN KETTLE. By Cutcliffe Hyne. New York: Doubleday & McClure Co. but little effort or ability to focus the facts and PRISONERS OF HOPE. A Tale of Colonial Virginia. By indicate their significance. The main idea Mary Johnston. Boston: Houghton, Miflin & Co. which prevails throughout is that of the early A ROMANCE OF SUMMER SEAs, A Novel. By Varina Anne dependence of moral facts upon religion, and Jefferson-Davis. New York: Harper & Brothers. YE LYTTLE SALEM MAIDE. A Story of Witchcraft. By their slow differentiation from the latter. The Pauline Bradford Mackie. Boston: Lamson, Wolffo & Co. wealth of anthropological illustration grows ROSE A CHARLITTE. An Acadian Romance. By Marshall rather tiresome from the absence of artistic Saunders. Boston: L. C. Page & Co. GOOD AMERICANS. By Mrs. Burton Harrison. New York: power in its presentation. The Century Co. The second volume furnishes a very readable THE CALIFORNIANS. By Gertrude Atherton. New York: review of the progress of ethical philosophy. John Lane. The point of view, differing so substantially THE MONEY CAPTAIN. By Will Payne. Chicago: H. S. Stone & Co. from that present in English books discussing THE PURITANS. By Arlo Bates. Boston: Houghton, the same material, gives a peculiar freshness Mifflin & Co. and suggestiveness to the treatment. As the IN THE SARGASSO SEA. A Novel. By Thomas A. Janvier. New York: Harper & Brothers. clue to the author's own view is given in the FOUR FOR A FORTUNE. A Tale. By Albert Lee. New first volume through the introductory chapter, York: Harper & Brothers. so in the second volume it is the concluding THE GRENADIER. A Story of the Empire. By James Eugene Farmer. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. general criticism of ethical systems which has THE LOST PROVINCES. By Louis Tracy, New York: G. P. greatest interest. Putnam's Sons. 9 : 302 [Nov. 1, THE DIAL ence. matter for experimentation betrays no feeling in the those very qualities of simplicity and directness that presence of all these quivering nerves. The De have made bim so successful a writer for the young stroyer is Love, working upon a group of unbal- appear to excellent advantage, and make us wish anced natures, and bringing one life after another that others of our novelists might have the advant- to shipwreck. A book at once so unpleasant and so age of a similar discipline. Perhaps the t's are powerful is not often met with, although “The Tor- crossed a trifle more carefully than they need be, mentor" in a measure prepared us for it. Mr. but straightforwardness and lucidity are of the prime Swift's style is Meredithian in its turn of phrase, virtues of fiction, and we would rather have them but less tortuously involved than that of his master. in exaggerated form than miss them altogether. One would like to forget his books after reading There is little to say of “ The Last of Hate” be- them, but the thing is impossible. yond mentioning the fact that our old friend Dr. “Scribes and Pharisees " purports to be “ a story Nikola figures once more, quite as mysterious a vil- a of literary London,” but the description is hardly lain as ever, and that the story begins in Australia, justified. The hero, it is true, after a career in the ends in South Africa, and has a shipwreck and Latin Quarter of Paris, returns home across the desert island episode by way of interlude. It is Channel, and works his way through provincial jour- | ingeniously contrived, and quite as melodramatic nalism into some sort of repute as a man of letters, as Mr. Boothby's earlier novels. but the story is really that of the miserable failure In “ The Iron Cross,” by Mr. Robert H. Sberard, of his own private life rather than of the typical we have a story of considerable originality and suc- conditions of the literary life, in London or else- cess in the narrating. A young Englishman sojourn- where. Its text may be taken from the book itself. ing in the Landes, comes upon the track of a king- “ To the pressman, as to many others, the life of man who has fought in the Peninsular War, and the writer of fiction is believed to be an ideal exist- into possession of a much-venerated relic which he In a few cases, perhaps it is, but in the had stolen from a Spanish church and concealed in majority, even the popular novelist, whose name is the village where he had taken refuge and died. on everyone's lips, and whose doings and sayings How the young Englishman falls in love with a fair are chronicled in every newspaper up and down the Spanish maiden, how he obtains possession of the Kingdom, has his skeleton in the cupboard.” From relic and learns of its value, and how, in restoring this sentence it will be seen that Mr. Le Queux has it to Carmela, he restores her own happiness at the no style worth mentioning; it may also be inferred cost of his own - all these things are set forth that he has become somewhat embittered by the most attractively in this distinctly interesting story. aceidents of his calling. There is not much of “ The Romance of a Midshipman” is welcome to “ literary London " in his book, but there is a good lovers of wholesome sea stories, as, indeed, are all deal of life in its more clouded aspects, besides an the many books of Mr. W. Clark Russell. He does infusion of melodrama. not seem to write himself out, in spite of his indus- “By Order of the Magistrate " is the story of a try, and somehow finds fresh material, at least in girl called Mordemly. She is a product of the Lon-part, for every new story. The material is far fetched don slums, and the mystery of her name is not solved at times, a fact witnessed by the story now before until we have given up puzzling over it. When us, which, besides the familiar incidents of storm we learn that it is merely a corruption of Maud and shipwreck, desolate reef and providential rescue, Emily we rather resent the intrusion of the conven- provides us with at least two novelties - a derelict tional cognomen, 80 accustomed have we grown to ship with a cargo of wild beasts, and a floating island the phonetic spelling. As a rule, slum stories are of driftwood in the midst of which is imbedded a depressing, if not flatly unreadable. This one is yacht in prime condition, all supplied with fresh neither the one nor the other, because, in the first provisions. The “Romance" begins in France, on place, it does not single out sensational incidents “the coast betwixt Brest and placid old Calais," for treatment, and, in the second, it tells a frank where the hero was born of English parents, where tale of the development of wholesome character he goes to school, and whence he runs off to sea. under unfavorable circumstances. Mordemly is so This boyish part of his life is quite as interesting as vital a figure that she has our sympathetic interest what comes afterwards, and suggests a comparison from the start, and even her dialect is acceptable, with the school and the schoolboy of Du Maurier's since we feel that her story is not told for its sake, “ Martian.” The hero is, however, hardly more but that it is merely one of the conditions necessary than a boy when we take leave of him, romantically for the delineation of her character. The book is a and happily married, and having wisely resolved to faithful study of a phase of low life; the author's exchange the sailor's life for the landsman’s. It is eye is constantly fixed upon his object, and the re- hinted by the publishers that Mr. Russell has put sult, while not in any way startling, has the effect not a little autobiography into this interesting book, of a piece of work carefully and faithfully done. which again suggests the comparison with “ The In writing “ The Queen's Cup,” Mr. G. A. Henty | Martian," as far as the early chapters are concerned. has, for the moment, turned aside from his audience Mr. Owen Rhoscomyl, in “The Lady of Castell of boys to address their elders. He has produced | March,” gives the following directions for under- an entertaining story of love and adventure in which I standing the historical environment of the period a > 1898.] 303 THE DIAL a & a of which he writes: “Let (the reader] take all that in the familiar reminiscent fashion, a harmless affect- he has read about the Highlands under the clanation, albeit one that has been employed quite system, about the Scottish Borders in the old days enough. of the Raiders, and about the Ireland of the Pale. Mr. Victor Waite's “Cross Trails" is a story To these add something which outdid them all as of adventure pure and simple, being quite inno- fostering turbulence; namely, the Welsh Lordships cent of style and devoid of literary architecture. Marcher' which for centuries wielded the chief influ- Half of it is in South America, and the other ence over the English crown on the one hand and the half in New Zealand. The hero is a despicable fortunes of Ireland on the other; making always creature, but his adventures are exciting enough, for the profit of the strong hand. Shake all these in all conscience, and they follow thick and fast together into inextricable confusion and the result one upon another. The mainspring of the action will give some idea of the Wales of Tudor times.” is the hackneyed device of an ancient manuscript There is no doubt about the "inextricable confusion," giving indications of a hidden Spanish treasure, at least, and we must make complaint of this, as of Mr. but we do not have even the mild satisfaction Rhoscomyl's two earlier novels, that the confusion of unearthing the treasure at the end, which is a sad has passed over from the history, where it belongs, disappointment. The author seems to know the two to the work of art based upon these materials, countries of which he writes, and this is something where it undoubtedly does not belong. We defy to his credit. the most careful reader to get a clear notion of the “ The Adventures of Captain Kettle' are epis- complicated relationships of this romance, or to fix odical stories united into a sort of novel by the the scenes of its wild fighting and hairbreadth personality of their hero, and by the occasional escapes in the mental vision. All that can be reappearance of a few other people. The doughty won by the most patient effort is the spectacle Captain of these adventures is a carefully studied of a phantasmagoria of turbulence, from which type of the sea hero, most of the time “down on his shadowy figures emerge from time to time, but which lack" and consequently ready for all sorts of desper- is merely bewildering in general effect. The skele- ate ventures, bold and resourceful in emergencies, ton of the romance is of a familiar sort. There and given to writing poetry for a diversion, unscru- is a stout and youthful hero, scorned by the high- pulous at sea, and a model husband and chapel-goer born maiden whose knight he becomes, yet who per- at home. His adventures are in many parts of the sists in encountering great perils in her service. world, from Cuba to Japan, and there is no reason He is, of course, rewarded at last, and her maiden why the writer should not have many more of them pride melts into submission when it is time for the to tell, as we sincerely hope he has. story to end. But there is no psychological ground “ Prisoners of Hope" is an engaging title for for her conduct, and she is even less of a rational a romance, and awakens a pleasurable anticipation being than is usual with heroines of her type. in the approach. It does not take long for the The story is exciting enough, even if it carries reader to find his anticipations more than realized, Celtic vagueness to an extreme, and its archaism for, as the story develops, it rises so far above its of manner is skilfully consistent. class as to occupy an almost unique position. We “ To Arms !” by Mr. Andrew Balfour, is a semi- have had many romances of colonial Virginia, and historical romance of the eighteenth century, having the chief impression produced by them has been that & young Scotch surgeon for hero, and Edinburgh for hero, and Edinburgh of wonder at their inadequate use of the rich material and Paris for chief scenes of action. From the available. It would seem that the example of Thack- borderland farmstead where the boy is reared to the eray should have established a standard toward Bastille whither his strange adventures lead him which at least some approach might be made by is a far cry, and the way is filled with surprising those following in his footsteps. But “The Virgin- adventures. John Law is the only historical char- ians” has had no successor, until the story now before acter of whom anything like a full-length portrait us, that has not seemed pitifully bare and inadequate. is attempted. The story is long drawn out, and We have no intention of ranking the present pro- almost wearisome in parts, 80 garrulous does the duction with “ The Virginians,” but we do not hesi- narrator grow, but the interest quickens every now tate to assert that no previous romance of American and then, and helps the reader to persevere through origin dealing with the subject has equalled it in the nearly six hundred pages. firmness of handling, in literary and constructive art, “John Burnet of Barns" is a story of romantic or in romantic interest of the finer sort. The adventure in Scotland and Holland during the years “prisoners of hope" are the “redemptioners” of just preceding the English Revolution. There is the Restoration, that strange commingling of felons à moderate amount of Scots in the language em- with high-minded gentlemen sold into temporary ployed, but it is not broad enough to make reading slavery upon the Plantations. Jail-birds from New- difficult, and the narrative flows with even current gate were shipped to Virginia in company with to a satisfactory ending. There is a scholarly flavor austere and fanatical Cromwellians and victims about this book which sets it upon a higher plane than of the Act of Uniformity, and all were subjected most of its kind. Yet there is also no lack of exciting to the same harsh treatment at the hands of their incidents and bloody encounters. The story is told masters. Miss Johnston has taken for her hero > 304 [Nov. 1, THE DIAL a a young soldier of the Commonwealth, condemned relations with one another has both variety and to servitude for a crime of which he is innocent, animation. who becomes the leader in an uprising which has “Ye Lyttle Salem Maide” is a prettily artificial for its object the establishment of a new Common- story of the witchcraft terror in Massachusetts. As wealth in the New World. The revolt is made a novel it has little to recommend it, for it is weak futile through treachery, but the hero is placed in both plot and characterization. But it is written in a position to perform striking acts of heroism 80 charmingly, and has so winsome a childish hero- for his master, and to win his respect and gratitude ine, that its reading brings a certain pleasure, aside in the face of fearful adverse presumptions. More from the instruction afforded. While making no than this, he wins the love of his master's daughter, pretensions to historical scholarship, it does display for he rescues her from deadly peril upon more a close study of Puritan manners and modes of liv- than one occasion, and finally wrests her from Indian ing, and brings before us in a rather impressive way captivity ander circumstances as thrilling as any that the figure of the young Cotton Mather, besides were imagined by Cooper. The story of the long giving thumb-nail sketches of Judge Sewall and Sir search for the captive girl, and the still longer William Phipps. journey with her through the wilderness and back Miss Marshall Saunders, in her Acadian story to civilization, is one of the most effective things entitled “Rose à Charlitte," has chosen a track of the sort with which we are acquainted, and the almost unbeaten by the novelist, and given us a final tragic separation of the lovers, necessary though faithfully-studied and charming picture of the Land it be from the artistic standpoint, comes as near of Evangeline and its people. She tells of a young to being heart-breaking in its pathos as any thing Bostonian, who goes to Acadia in the hope of right- that is often met with in romance. It is Cooper over ing a wrong done by one of his forefathers to a again as to adventure, and has, besides, a literary victim of the expulsion, and who not only accom- grace that was beyond Cooper's reach. The minor plishes his purpose, as far as that is humanly possi- characters are also admirably portrayed - the Vir- ble, but finds his own happiness, although long- - ginian planter, the court gallant who wooes his daugh- delayed, as well. Rose Charlitte is one of the à ter and turns out a finer gentleman than his affected most gracious women who are often met with in foppishness would seem to indicate, the stern Olive- romance, a creature of ideal purity and charm, un- rians and the Muggletonian fanatics — all are deline- touched by the stain of the modern world, whose ated with a skill that comes near to being masterly, placid soul, made even more beautiful by the chast- while the figure of Governor Berkeley is for the first ening of adversity, is sharply contrasted with the time made actually to live in a work of fiction nervous and anæmic types of womanhood who figure a feat often attempted, but never, to our recollection, as the heroines of most of our recent novels. The before accomplished. Miss Johnston is, as far as we story exhibits but little constructive art, and its know, a new writer, and if this be indeed her first texture is almost as décousu as the speech of the book, it is a performance that is remarkable in itself, simple Acadian folk who people its pages, but it and that promises much for the future of American pictures a race and a mode of life that are almost historical fiction. unknown to us, although so easy of access, and the "A Romance of Summer Seas," the second work final impression left by it is one of sweetness in the of fiction published by Miss Varina Davis, is a dis- sentiment and conscientiousness in the portrayal. tinctly interesting and almost strong piece of work. In naming her latest novel “Good Americans," The action occurs on a P. and 0. steamer, and in Mrs. Burton Harrison doubtless wished to convey a Hong Kong and Yokohama. The heroine is a slip mildly satirical suggestion, since only one of her of a girl, the daughter of an Englishman living in characters can be taken as literally answering to Penang, sent on a voyage in search of health under that description. The others are of the useless and the protection of an old friend of the family. She aimless class of those whose lives are a mockery of is hardly more than a child, and both she and her every worthy American ideal, the class that styles protector are too innocent to imagine that anyone itself society" in our larger cities, and brings con- will think evil of their innocent relationship. But tempt upon the American character. But Mrs. they reckon without the evil tongues of a scandal- Harrison is of too kindly a nature to be satirical loving ship’s company, and before the voyage is otherwise than by suggestion, and it is to be feared many days old, they find themselves objects of sus- that the doings of the fashionable world are taken picion, and very ugly complications follow. Later Later by her rather too seriously, in spite of her sympathy on, there is a duel, and the story ends with the mar- for what is simple and good in human nature. Her riage of the girl and her guardian. So much for book has the grace that comes from long practise in the story proper, but the book is more than a story. entertaining writing, and she moves easily about in It is a delineation of life, made possible by a gen- the world of dining, and yachting, and foreign uine gift for characterization and made vivid by travelling, and pleasure-seeking which she knows so many deft touches based upon actual experience of intimately. Now this world of petty ambitions and the scenes and situations described. There is no empty occupations cannot possibly have other than doubt of the individuality of each of the half dozen an artificial interest for any earnest person, and, persons chiefly concerned, and the account of their consequently, such a novel as this cannot be any- a 1898.] 305 THE DIAL seems a - thing but trivial and superficial. It is the best inheritance the secret of the spiritual stress that tribute to Mrs. Harrison's skill to say that she does makes his young men take life so very hard, and her work so well that fair entertainment is made even of the intellectual restlessness that drives his out of these unpromising materials. other Bostonians to such forms of debauchery as “The Californians is a book that attracts, spiritualism, and “Christian science,” and interest although it is disfigured by cynicism, melodrama, in Oriental cults. As a study of certain types of New and various valgarities in both thought and expres- England society, and even of certain undercurrents sion. Mrs. Atherton is not likely ever to acquire in New England thought, the book is a conscientiously a refined style, and such phrases as “Helena was put together piece of workmanship, but the breath back ” and “His soul grinned ” will continue to set of life is not in it, and the author's ambition has so her readers' teeth on edge, no matter how many more clearly gone beyond his achievement that the final books she may write. But she imparts to her narra- word of our criticism must be failure — that is, the tive a sense of the exuberant spirit and crude civiliza- relative failure that does not preclude a considerable tion of the Pacific Coast, and her Californians are measure of thoughtful writing and literary skill. studied from the life. They are not a very agree- We shall be much surprised if Mr. Janvier's able lot, and the Spanish-American girl Magdalena story, “In the Sargasso Sea," does not at once leap is the only one that appears to be delineated with real into boyish favor, and win a place among the books insight. Still, such books are documents in the of adventure best beloved by the young. It history of culture, and have the value of all writing to us almost as good as “Treasure Island," and ” that is done with the eye upon the object. good in the same way, for both old and young. It We might make much the same sort of general gives us adventure pure and simple, without admix- comment upon “The Money Captain,” only we ture of love or other adventitious sentiment, and should be constrained to add that the writer has a true deals wholly with the strange experiences of the one sense of the demands of style, and, if he does not character who tells the story. How he embarks for frequently achieve ease and grace, is evidently striv. Africa upon a slaver, is thrown overboard because ing after these qualities, and may discover their secret he knows too much, is picked up by an English in time. This is but the second novel of an unques- steamer, is wrecked in the Sargasso Sea, finds refuge tionably talented writer, and is, we think, an improve among the derelicts that cluster there, works his ment upon his first, although he has not yet realized way from hulk to hulk until he finds a Spanish his artistic consciousness. It is a storyof a very sordid | treasure-galleon, and then, laden with precious kind of life, the life that centres about stockbrokers stones, makes his way back to civilization, — all and speculators and fortunes both made and used these things, and many more, are related in a way unscrupulously. The “money captain " 80 merci- at once matter-of-fact and romantic, calculated to lessly delineated in these pages is a figure only too delight boys of all ages and win a host of devoted familiar to our American life in its larger aggrega- readers. The Sargasso Sea is almost a new field for tions, and readers in New York or Philadelphia will the imagination of the story-writer, although some find it quite as easy as readers in Chicago (where the older readers will remember Mr. Theodore Tilton's scene is laid) find it to fit the description to some “ Tempest Tossed,” published a quarter of a century notorious corrupter of men and manipulator of com- ago, and embodying the same general situation. mercial forces. Mr. Payne displays in his story the Another story of adventure in which boys will instinct of the practised journalist rather than that delight is called “ Four for a Fortune,” and tells of of the writer whose aim is above all else artistic ; the discovery of a treasure-hoard upon the French this fact, taken together with his inherently disagree island of St. Pierre. There is the usual chart, mys- able theme, prevents “The Money Captain ” from teriously brought to light and deciphered with diffi- being a pleasant story to read, in spite of its shrewd-culty, there are the usual obstacles in the way of the ness of observation and skilfully-managed plot. search, and there is the usual villain who attempts The politics of an episcopal election, and the soul- to murder his companions and gain the booty all for stirrings of two young men who discover, after vow- himself. But we cannot become reconciled to the ing themselves to the religious life, that the fluid in subsequent sinking of the boat that bears away the their veins is blood and not water, are the chief gold so hardly won, and the return of the finders themes of Mr. Arlo Bates in his latest novel. The empty-hadded to New York. matter is not very exciting at best, and outsiders « The Grenadier" is a story of the Napoleonic cannot be expected to take more than a languid inter- wars from the Peninsula to Waterloo, and bas for est in the factional differences to be found within the its hero a soldier of the Old Guard who typifies the limits of one of the Christian sects, or even in the old-fashioned sort of hero-worship of which the question of clerical celibacy, burning as that question Corsican brigand was so long the object. This atti- becomes to the two young men here concerned. One tude toward the Emperor is a good deal belated, of them breaks from the theological tangle altogether now that a rich collection of memoirs and other his- and becomes a natural man before it is too late ; torical material is accessible to everybody, making the other perseveres in his mysticism and carries it clear enough to all but the wilfully blind how essen- to the only logical conclusion. Mr. Bates calls this tially despicable was the character of Napoleon and book “The Puritans,” because he finds in the puritan | how unprincipled were his ambitions. For the rest, 306 [Nov. 1, THE DIAL 66 Mr. Farmer's romance is interestingly written, speculations. And M. Maeterlinck conceives his ideas although it is overloaded with a large amount of in the form of people as obviously as M. Rostand con- strategic military detail that might well be spared ceives his people in idealistic form. Now we cannot from a work designed for entertainment. think that Mr. Block does conceive his ideas in per- The author of The Final War” and “An Amer- sonal form: we think he has the ideas himself first, ican Emperor" has just made a third appearance in and then thinks of people who are to have them. the field of anticipatory historical fiction with “The Take, for instance, the four well-distinguished types Lost Provinces,” which is a sequel to the second of of thought in “Myriad-Minded Man." There are the books above named. France is again plunged four philosophies, but no philosophers at all. Or take into war by the provocation of the German Em- Faust between Raphael and Mephistopheles : one peror, and the puppet King Henry V. calls upon thinks, perhaps, of “Manfred," but if so, what Vansittart for help. This resourceful American a difference in character. In short, Mr. Block had promptly responds to the appeal, takes command of here a fancy, a caprice; he thought he would try his the French armies, and, on the very ground of the hand at a new form. This is the right of a man who battles of 1870, reverses the tragedy of Sedan, win- has already won the consideration of his readers. ning back for France both her prestige and her But we rather regret the experiment, for we think provinces. At the same time a new Commune arises that much high thought and feeling has here gone into and has to be suppressed, to which task also the ingen an uncongenial form with an unsatisfactory result, ious Vansittart is easily equal. The story makes no which might have delighted us were it more naturally pretensions to literary form, and is rather disjointed and therefore more harmoniously expressed. in structure, but of its absorbing interest there can be no doubt. In its way, it is almost brilliant at times, Curiosities of Replete with matters of the first liter- native literature and one or two of its episodes are worthy of the arch- ary importance to Americans, and bar- fifty years ago. magician of historical romance who created Monte ren of literary form to a point almost Cristo and Artagnan. incredible, are the "Passages from the Correspond- WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE. ence and other Papers of Rufus W. Griswold,” edited, annotated, and published by his son, Mr. William M. Griswold. From one cover to the other the work abounds in the most fascinating revelations of the per- BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS. sonalities which made up the American world of let- ters in the 'forties and 'fifties ; letters, notes, auto- Anything which naturally calls up biographies, confessions, self-laudations, wails of , Experiments general discussion is apt to lose a little despairing and neglected geniuses now forgotten, - in intrinsic interest. Such is the for- in brief, all the curiosities of literature which the fore- tune, with us, of Mr. Louis J. Block’s “ Capriccios most critical writer of an interesting period might be (Putnam). Mr. Block has here chosen dramatic form, expected to accumulate during his life-time. Not let- has written prose dialogues — imaginary conversa- ters alone but the early journalism is given us in what tions we might call them, although the first is of con- scientists call “preparations” innumerable, notes siderable length and in several scenes. Now the from Greeley and Raymond, and correspondence dramatic form is apt to arouse the worst passions with half the magazine editors in the country, the of some people, and even with ourselves it induces whole forming a collection quite without parallel. a disputatious mood foreign to the enjoyment of high There is, inevitably, a belated revival of the contro- poetry. We do not, it is true, think it a crime to use versy over Poe which we hoped had been settled long dramatic form for matters which can never see the ago. The younger Griswold is not satisfied with stage. We think that Browning did well to write leaving his father in the right so far as truthfulness monologues, that Landor did well to write conver- is concerned, but wishes the literary reputation of sations, and that M. Maeterlinck, in writing plays Poe revised to suit the life he lived without his art. , that can never succeed on our stage, did as well as Can it not be learned that the worse Poe is made to M. Rostand did in writing a play that can succeed. appear as a man the more he entitles himself to our So we do not think that Mr. Block is blameworthy charitable sympathy as an artist? This is the worst in seeking to convey his philosophy and his poetry blot on Mr. Griswold's work in matters of taste. But in dramatic form, even though his scenes were never in matters of form the editor has adopted the exas- meant to be acted. No, we question the form for perating plan of commenting on the text of the let- another reason. We have seen different opinions as ters preliminary to quoting from them, which keeps to the meaning of the word “dramatic.” We have the reader somersaulting throughout the book, habit ours, which need not be mentioned here; in it, as in insisting upon connecting the comment with the let- all other such opinions, there is recognition of the ter preceding rather than following. And the dia- necessity of characters, actors, persons. Browning, critical marks imposed upon the unfortunate letter in “My Last Duchess," must have had an almost “0,” with other typographical and orthographical visual realization of the Duke ; Landor, in present- vagaries, are maddening, nothing less. Mr. Griswold , ing Dr. Johnson and Horne Tooke, had the antago- forgot, apparently, that the book was to be read by nists in mind quite as much as the antique philological I others. a - or whims! ) 2) 1898.] 307 THE DIAL limited space. Colonial Thoughtful Americans, still halting sequent journalistic work the recently published erpansion between two opinions as to the great on English “Old Lamps for New Ones” (New Amsterdam models. question of the hour touching our Book Co.), edited by Frederick G. Kitton, gives policy in regard to possible future transmarine excellent example. It contains about half a hundred possessions or dependencies, will find much to interest "essays, reviews, and other papers, here collected for them in Mr. Benjamin Kidd's essay on “The Control the first time." These papers are from many sources, of the Tropics" (Macmillan). Besides the essay from the “Examiner” and the “ Daily News” and the which the little book takes its title, the tenth chapter “Morning Chronicle,” the magazines that Dickens of the author's widely read work on “Social Evolu- edited himself, and other places. We think it extra- tion” is given, the whole forming a booklet of one ordinary that the editor did not note concerning each hundred pages. Mr. Kidd's argument is somewhat article the paper or magazine in which it appeared. . elaborate, and justice cannot be done to it in our But he did not do so, and the value of the book is His main conclusion is that as it is thus very seriously impaired; for it comes down to the manifest destiny of the tropics to be eventually the intrinsic value of the productions in question, and controlled and administered from the temperate the fact that they were written by Charles Dickens. regions, it is hence the manifest duty of the English- Intrinsically some of these papers are extremely speaking peoples to so act now (“with clear purpose good, some not so valuable. But they are most and with courage”) that this eventual control and significant as being by Dickens ; they are capital administration shall conform to English rather than examples of Dickens's journalistic temper applied continental standards of colonial policy. Tropical to the ordinary topics of journalism. Thus, the countries, he argues, should be held in the future as article which gives title to the collection, written at a trust for civilization, and not, as they usually have the acme of Dickens's power, holds the Preraphae- been in the past, as estates or “plantations” to be lites up to ridicule with the same sympathy with worked for the exclusive profit of their custodians. current feeling on the subject that the most ephem- England's administration of India and Egypt is eral penny-a-liner would have had. Not that Dickens plainly the model Mr. Kidd would hold up for gen- slavishly followed popular taste (or that journalists eral imitation. To American minds of the " expan- do either, for that matter); he has the same percep- sive" type, Mr. Kidd's pamphlet will probably open tion of popular feeling when he writes of something out an alluring vision of the future paramountcy that is not popular, - as, for instance, Capital Pun- of this country in the tropical regions of Central and ishment or Ragged Schools. We think that the book South America, which are now parcelled out into makes us understand Dickens better. From this purely nominal “republics,” and whose vast resour- point of view it is extremely interesting; but how ces are running to waste in hands incapable of develop- much more interesting it would have been (and use- ing them. But will protectionist America, in that ful to the student) if Mr. Kitton had assumed more great day, suddenly awaken to the broader advan- of the duties of an editor. tages of “the open door "? “Democracy The need of a new English edition In 1865, at a Newspaper Press Fund of De Tocqueville's “ Democracy in The journalistic Dinner, Dickens said that though he in new setting. America” has been well supplied by temper in Dickens. bad left the reporter's gallery thirty the Century Co. Reeve's translation, as revised and years before, he had never “forgotten the fascina- annotated from the author's last edition, has been tion of the old pursuit.” That this should have been used, and President Daniel C. Gilman, of Johns 80 was most natural; in some important respects Hopkins University, is the editor. De Tocqueville's Dickens was essentially a journalist from the begin speech foretelling the Revolution of 1848, his essay ning of his life to the end of it. Not because his on Swiss Democracy, and Dr. Bowen's biographical books were generally published periodically, nor sketch have been retained. There is a portrait of the because he spent much time in editing “Household author, a Bibliographical Note, and, we are glad to Words” and “All The Year Round," nor because say, a good Index. The helpful Introduction by throughout his life he had some connection with the President Gilman lends the requisite element of com- press. Rather because his literary disposition was pleteness to this well planned edition. Social and that of the journalist. He felt the need of being political conditions in this country have changed in close to his public, of keeping in touch with those some important respects since De Tocqueville wrote; for whom he wrote, of feeling their mood, their but the value of his treatise is in the main unim- temper. This was one of the reasons why he liked paired. It is, and will remain, one of the great to publish his novels in parts. He could see how they classics of political philosophy,- for it is philosophy went. This was one of the reasons why he was so rather than description that De Tocqueville gives us. strongly and so fatally drawn to his Readings. This Herein he differs from Mr. Bryce, and hereby, is the reason why, in his development of story and we venture to say, his work is likely to outlive of character, he so constantly considers how it will that excellent and as yet indispensable account of seem to his readers. Most of Dickens's actual jour- our existing institutions and current characteristics, nalism was the work of a shorthand reporter, and “ The American Commonwealth." De Tocqueville's left nothing original as a result. But of his sub- book bears the impress of a mind of a peculiar in America" 308 [Nov. 1, THE DIAL - The rainbow Leviticus. cast, of a unique talent, a rare individuality. In while all the epithalamia are omitted from consider- a word, it is a work of genius. The best that is in ation, strangely enough. Nor does the statement that it is something other and rarer than the fruit of toil " we look in vain for it (the true lyric love-note) in and scholarship, of close observation and temperate any measure in Robert Browning" seem well con- judgment, — though in the marks of these useful sidered in the face of “Summum Bonum,” “One qualities, too, it is eminently rich. Another Bryce, Pearl, One Girl," and a number of longer songs of another Bodley, perhaps another Lecky, we can perfect charm. Still, these are minor matters. readily imagine coming on occasion to the aid of the student of political institutions. A second Montes- The Polychrome Bible (Dodd, Mead quieu, a second De Tocqueville, the world is not & Co.) is called to our attention again likely to see. Of De Tocqueville's “America" by the appearance of Leviticus, the Professor Blackie said: “Next to Aristotle's Poli- fourth volume issued. This part is edited by Prof. tics, I account this the most valuable political book S. R. Driver, of Oxford, assisted by the Rev. H. A. in my library”; and this judgment fairly indicates White. The general features are the same as of those the rank of the book in literature. In reprinting volumes already noticed (THE DIAL, Feb. 16, '98). it in the form needed by students of to-day, the pub The employment of three colors marks the docu- lishers have rendered a public service. No intelli- ments as follows: (1) The Law of Holiness, occu- gent American can rise from its perusal without being pying chapters 17-26, is distinguished by yellow; a sounder patriot, a wiser citizen, and a firmer (2) the main body of the priestly narrative and laws believer in the doctrine that government by the is marked by a white background; and (3) a few people for the people, under whatever outward form laws regarded as later than the priestly narrative or manifestation, is the government of civilization are on a brown background. The analysis is very that came in with civilization and will perish only simple, and accords with the views of the school of with civilization. Dismal speculations now current Dr. Driver. The notes contain considerable mate- 28 to the duration of popular government seem futile rial of real value. The illustrations are on a par with enough. It will endure, under one form or other, those of the earlier volumes. Scholars and Bible stu- as long as Western civilization endures. It is not dents will greet this part as another scale upon which possible to seriously imagine a people of high aver- to measure the present status of criticism in Leviticus. age intelligence living permanently under a polity Another evidence of the research which denied them the controlling voice in the The claims of conduct of their public as well as private affairs. long descent. which is going to make Americans Democracy is a phase of human development. the most thoroughly ancestried people in the world appears in the private printing of Readers of THE DIAL are familiar “ The Vestry Book and Register of Bristol Parish, Essays on with the critical writings of Mr. Virginia, 1720-1789." This interesting manuscript literary art. Hiram M. Stanley, and will wel. has been recently brought to light in the library come the appearance of them in book form under the of a gentleman who had kept it immured there for title of “Essays on Literary Art” (Swan Sonnen- a round half-century, and is now given to the world schein & Co., London). The wide reading, the fine in print through the indefatigable labors of Mr. discernment, the accurate scholarship with which Churchill Gibson Chamberlayne (Richmond, Va., Mr. Stanley has successfully associated his name, published by the editor). The book is brimful of may here be seen and enjoyed. Especially sugges- quaint old facts, some of them of value to anyone, tive is the concluding paper on “The Secret of Style,” historian or novelist, seeking to recreate the atmos- which adds the weight of literary authority to the phere of a departed and fascinating age. And it is scientific analysis of Mr. Herbert Spencer, though we also a record of importance to all who set the slightest should have liked to see something specific of Robert value upon descent, and find the names of their for- Louis Stevenson's essay on style. We detect a nod bears recorded here in respect of the three great of the critic in the “Thoughts on English Love Song" facts of life facts of life – birth, marriage, and death. where he says: : “It is a long leap from the Eliza- bethans to Mrs. Browning, but the interim contains Saintsbury's It was preordained that Mr. Saints- no love sonnet of any great merit, with the possi- English bury should write a complete history ble exception of Hartley Coleridge's "To a Lofty literature. of English literature-complete, that Beauty'". Surely we are, then, to read Jacobeans is, in the sense of summarizing the entire course of for Elizabethans, or disregard the beauties of Drum- that literature from “ Widsith” and “ Beowulf” mond of Hawthorden; while Keats's “The day is down to the most recently departed poet. Mr. Ruskin gone, and all its sweets are gone,” is but one of several is the only living writer considered, an exception to which suggest themselves in preference to Hartley the general rule that finds some justification. What- Coleridge's, which, after all, is chiefly suggestive of ever we may think of the eccentricities of the author's filial love. Notably neglected is “ The Traveller style or the vagaries of his judgment, he has never and his Wife's Ringlet” of (Tennyson, Turner, - yet produced an uninteresting book, and his new ) and the charming "Love's Anniversary” of Habing- “Short History of English Literature” (Macmillan) " ton as well, which our critic rates much too low; is thoroughly readable from first to last, even the sec- a 6 1898.] 309 THE DIAL " ) ) " » tions that are perforce closely packed with names, LITERARY NOTES. titles, and other bits of bare fact. And we always feel sure that the judgments expressed are Mr. Saints- The beautiful Dent-Scribner edition of Scott has just bury's own, for his practice of reading any literature been extended by six volumes, two each of “ Kenilworth,” whereof he discourses is well known. Indeed, there “The Abbot,” and “ The Pirate." are probably few men living who have read, with criti- “ Evan Harrington” and “Short Stories ” are the two cal eye, so much modern literature, in the English and newest volumes in the revised edition of Mr. George Meredith's novels. The Messrs. Scribner are the pub- other languages. This qualification, combined with lishers. unusual retentiveness of impressions, gives to Mr. “Maria Felicia," translated from the Bohemian of Saintsbury's writing a solidity beyond that of most Carolina Svetla, is about to be added to the popular series current criticism, and makes this latest book of his of “Tales from Foreign Lands,” published by Messrs. peculiarly welcome. The only novelty in its plan is A. C. McClarg & Co. provided by the series of ten brief "interchapters “Red and Black," just published by Brentano's, is an that summarize in their more general aspects the English translation, made by Mr. Charles Tergie, of that periods just surveyed. The history is not so very famous masterpiece of realistic fiction, “ Le Rouge et le "short," either, for it extends to some eight hundred Noir," by Henri Beyle. pages of about five hundred words each. It takes Volume VIII. of “ Frederick the Great,” completing a great deal of industry to prepare such a work, and the work, and “Latter-Day Pamphlets” are the latest we are not disposed to carp at its minor defects. issues in the “Centenary” edition of Carlyle, imported by Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons. The Century Co. have just issued a new illustrated edition of that ever-popular story, “ The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine (including « The BRIEFER MENTION. Dusantes ") by Mr. Frank R. Stockton. Professor W. J. Alexander has edited the “Select “The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mrs. Poems of Shelley" for the “ Athenæum Press " series, Delaney,” as revised from Lady Llanover's edition, and published by Messrs. Ginn & Co. The usual elaborate edited by Miss Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, has just been introductory essay is provided, an essay not as entirely reissued (two volumes bound in one) by Messrs. Little, in sympathy with its subject as we could have wished, Brown, & Co. but still interesting and concise. The longer poems President Schurman's address of last June, upon the included are “ Alastor," “ Adonaïs," “ Epipsychidion,” occasion of the thirtieth annual Commencement of Cor- and “ Prometheus Unbound”; the shorter ones embrace nell University, has just been published in pamphlet form most of the best lyrics. The notes are carefully chosen by the Messrs. Putnam, and given“ A Generation of Cor- and valuable, and the total impression made by the vol- nell" for a title. ume is one of scholarly neatness and a conscientious A second series of “ Chap-Book Stories ” has just been endeavor to embody the heart of the poet's mystery published by Messrs. Herbert S. Stone & Co., thus adding in a series of suitable critical formulæ. another volume to the several that have already been A melancholy interest attaches to the late Professor furnished forth by the files of the little magazine that Lane's “ Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges ” won so many friends during its brief career. (Harper). He had been engaged upon it for nearly Mr. A. Flanagan, Chicago, publishes an arrangement thirty years, and brought it near completion, only to die of “ Hiawatha,” in twelve scenes, for reading-classes and before he could give it to the public. The task of finish- school entertainments. The pamphlet is prepared by ing the work thus left was entrusted to Professors Miss Minnie M. George, and gives full directions con- Morgan, Allen, and Smith, but again death intervened, cerning costumes, music, and other adjuncts of such an and classical scholarship had to mourn the loss of Prom entertainment. fessor Allen. Then Professor Smith left America to take charge of the American School of Classical Studies Mr. Frederick W. Morton, whose compilations entitled “Woman in Epigram ” and “Man in Epigram” have in Rome, and Professor Morgan alone was left. Under his direction the work has been carried through the found much favor with a certain class of readers, has now prepared “Love in Epigram," a third collection of the press, and is now issued in a volume of nearly six hun- same general character, published, like the others, by a reference work for advanced scholars Messrs. A. C. McClurg & Co. rather than a college text-book, and a monument to the minute and industrious scholarship of George Martin Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. bave just published“ A Con- Lane. cise Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities," based “ From Chaucer to Arnold," edited by Mr. Andrew on Smith's larger work, and edited by Vice-Provost J. George, is a volume of " types of literary art in prose F. Warre Cornish, of Eton College. There are over eight and verse,” intended for use as a secondary school text- hundred pages and more than a thousand illustrations, book in English literature. It is essentially a volume of all of which are provided at a moderate price. texts, as there are more than six hundred pages of them, The charming reprint of “The Spectator," edited by selected with the skill of an experienced teacher and critic. The use of such a book gives, at least, some Scribner's Sons, to which we have referred from time sense of the development and continuity of our litera- to time, is now completed by the publication of the eighth ture, which is more than can be said of the method which volume, which has indexes to the entire work. A more restricts a year's reading to three or four random clas- presentable set of books has not often been devised. sics. Mr. George's book is one of the best of its sort, Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons announce that they and we are glad to commend it to teachers. (Macmillan.) have purchased the publications of the Christian Liter- » a ) a dred pages 310 [Nov. 1, THE DIAL ature Co. These include editions of the Ante-Nicene Christian Fathers, the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, the works of St. Augustine and St. Chrysostom, the “ American Church History Series," and the “ Ten Epochs of Church History." Messrs. Bell & Co., publishers of the “ Bohn Library," have acquired the copyright of Burton's famous “Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah,” and bave issued the work in a new two-volume edition, with an introduction by Mr. Stanley Lane-Poole. There are many illustrations, and the edition is in every way an acceptable one. It is published in this country by the Macmillan Co. Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons import for the Ameri- can market a new edition (the third) of “The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti,” by the late John Addington Symonds. Published as they are at a moderate price, the two volumes of this edition are brought within the reach of a new circle of purchasers, who will, we doubt not, heartily welcome the opportunity now offered to place them upon the shelf. As the end of the century comes nearer and nearer, we may expect a great production of works, singly and in series, which undertake to sum up the progress of the hundred years, or present a conspectus of human knowl- edge at the time when we pass into the twentieth century. Such books are not strictly due until 1901, but eagerness to be early in the field will anticipate that date in many cases, and announcements are already beginning to appear. An essentially geographical series, entitled “ A View of the World in 1900," edited by Professor J. H. Mackinder, is already well under way in England, and will include twelve volumes, such, for example, as “ Britain and the North Atlantic,” by the editor; “ Scandinavia and the Arctic Ocean,” by Sir Clements Markham; “France and the Mediterranean," by M. Elisée Réclus; “ Africa,” by Dr. J. Scott Keltie; and “The Rus- sian Empire," by Prince Kropotkin. Oriental Stage-Craft. Lippincott. Pacific Seaboard Islands, Our. John E. Bennett. Harper, Paris, The Woman's. Ada Cone. Scribner. Porto Rican Campaign, The. R. H. Davis. Scribner. Psychology and Art. Hugo Münsterberg. Atlantic. Reign of Terror, The. T. Arnold Haultain. Self Culture. Renaissance Girlhood, Art and Romance of. Mag. of Art. Santiago, My Experiences at. James Creelman. Rev.of Rev. School Superintendents, Confessions of Three Atlantic. Settlers of Middle America, The Original. Popular Science. Shaw, Byam. Alfred Lys Baldry. Magazine of Art. Soldiers' Songs. W. W. Crane. Lippincott. Spain, Lowell's Impressions of. Century. Spain's New World Colonies. M. B. Jordan. Self Culture. Switzerland, Torrents of. E. R. Dawson. Popular Science. Thackeray, Some Aspects of. H. D. Sedgwick, Jr. Atlantic. Torpedo-Boat Service. Lieut. J. C. Fremont. Harper. Torpedo Boats in the War. J. R. Spears. Scribner. Unconventional, Craze for the. Jane E. Joy. Lippincott. U.S. and Far Eastern Question. F. B. White. Self Culture. Ute Funeral, A. Paul Ward Beck. Lippincott. War, Fanciful Predictions of. W. W. Crane. Lippincott. Warren Hastings Controversy. G. Mercer Adam, Self Culture. West, Intellectual Movement in the. H. W. Mabie. Atlantic. World's Fair, The French. P. de Coubertin. Century. Yosemite, Animals of the. John Muir, Atlantic. LIST OF NEW BOOKS. [The following list, containing 169 titles, includes books received by The Dial since its last issue.] TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS. November, 1898. Alaska, Colonial Lessons of. D. S. Jordan. Atlantic. Alexander the Great. B. I. Wheeler. Century. Architectural Forms in Nature. Popular Science. Army and Navy “Y. M. C. A.” Albert Shaw. Rev. of Rev. Bismarck. Sidney Whitman. Harper. Carlyle as a Letter Writer. C. T. Copeland. Atlantic. Dance, George, and his Portraits. W. Roberts. Mag. of Art. Eastward Expansion of the U.S. A. R. Colquhoun. Harper. Explorations, Recent. J. Scott Keltie. Harper. Fiber Industries, Possible, of the U.S. C. R. Dodge. Pop. Sci. Fifth Army Corps, With the. Frederic Remington. Harper. Franklin, The Many-Sided. P. L. Ford. Century. George, Henry. T. G. Shearman. Self Culture. Horse in Folk-Lore. J. F. O'Donnell. Lippincott. Imagination. J. K. Wetherill. Lippincott. Italy, Modern. Giovanni Vecchia. Review of Reviews. Italy, Modern, An Impeachment of. “Ouida." Rev. of Rev. Magna Charta, American Interest in. F. A. Roe. Self Culture. * Maine,” Personal Narrative of the. C. D. Sigsbee. Century. Manila, Why We Won at. B. A. Fiske. Century. Mark Twain in California. Noah Brooks. Century. 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